Haynes, Lemuel, 1753-1833 (Personal Name)

Newman, R. Lemuel Haynes, 1984: CIP t.p. (Lemuel Haynes)

LC data base, 10/31/83 (hdg.: Haynes, Lemuel, 1753-1833)

African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Haynes, Lemuel; Lemuel B. Haynes; congregational clergyperson, patriot (American Revolution); born 18 July 1753 in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States; signed up as a minuteman in 1774 and joined militia troops at Roxbury, Massachusetts, following the Lexington alarm; joined the Continental army in 1776, marched to Ticonderoga, New York; member of the secretive Washington Benevolent Society; turned down an opportunity to attend Dartmouth College and instead studied privately with local ministers; licensed to preach in 1780, served the Granville, Connecticut church, ordained to the Congregational ministry on 9 November 1785 by the Association of Ministers in Litchfield County; in 1788 became minister of the west parish in Rutland, Vermont; in 1822, served the Granville church, New York; died 28 September 1833 in Granville, New York, United States)