Tyler, John, 1742-1823

John Tyler was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, on August 15, 1742, the son of John Tyler and Mary Doolittle. After graduating from Yale College in 1765, he received an ad eundem bachelor's degree (1767) and master's degree (1769) from King's College (now Columbia University). Tyler traveled to England in 1768, where he was ordained as a deacon and priest of the Church of England. He moved to Norwich, Connecticut, that November, and served as the pastor of a church in the city's Chelsea neighborhood for the rest of his life, with a hiatus from April-November 1778. He and his wife, Hannah Tracy (d. 1826), were married on May 6, 1770, and had one surviving son. John Tyler died on January 20, 1823.

From the guide to the John Tyler sermons, Tyler, John sermons, 1763-1787, ca. 1800, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)

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