Blair, Asa, 1784-1823.

B.A., Yale, 1810; studied theology with Rev. Ebenezer Porter of Washington, Ct. and was licensed to preach in 1811; ordained and installed as pastor of the Congregational Church in Kent, Ct. in 1813, where he served until 1822.

B.A., Yale, 1810; studied theology with Rev. Ebenezer Porter of Washington, Ct. and was licensed to preach in 1811; ordained and installed as pastor of the Congregational Church in Kent, Ct., in 1813, where he served until 1822.

Asa Blair, the second son of Captain Asa and Mehitable (Carnahan) Blair, of Blandford, Massachusetts, and grandson of Deacon Robert and Hannah (Thompson) Blair, of Western (now Warren) and Blandford, was born on May 12, 1784. He did not enter Yale until the Senior year. After graduation he studied theology with the Rev. Ebenezer Porter (Dartmouth Coll. 1791), of Washington, Connecticut, and was licensed to preach in 1811 by the Litchfield South Association of Ministers. On May 26, 1813, he was ordained and installed as pastor of the Congregational Church in Kent, in the immediate vicinity of Washington, where he exercised a useful ministry for about nine years. He received one hundred and seventy members to the church. Failing health led him on the approach of winter in 1822 to seek a Southern climate; and he died, on January 13, 1823, in Georgetown, South Carolina, in his 39th year, from typhus fever, after nineteen days' illness. He married Myra [sic] Ann, daughter of Dr. John Raymond, of Kent, who survived him with one son. Mr. Blair was a studious and devoted pastor, and won universal love and respect.

Authorities: Atwater, Hist. of Kent, 52. Centennial of Litchfield County Consociations, 118-19. Gibbs, Hist. Address at Blandford, 58. Leavitt, Blair Family, 61, 76. Religious Intelligencer. Vii, 576, 636-37.

From Dexter's Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale's College.