Ralph Williston

Ralph Williston; began as a Methodist minister; then became a Lutheran minister; while pastor at Zion Church, Mott St., NYC, he changed to the Episcopal Church and brought the whole congregation along with him; when that church burned he travelled to Upper Marlborough, Md. and then to Wilmington, Del. where he was pastor of the Old Swedes Episcopal Church; after the death of his wife in 1825 he went to Tallahassee, Fl., then to Ithaca, N.Y., Jersey City, N.J., Belleville, N.J., and then to Patterson, N.J. where he was pastor of St. Paul Church for several years; moved to Baltimore, Md., then to Williamsburgh (L.I.), N.Y., and finally to Little Neck (L.I.), N.Y., where he was pastor of Zion Church; b. West Springfield, Mass. Apr. 11, 1775; m. Ann Magdalen Resler; d. Hempstead Harbor, N.Y. Dec. 29, 1839)

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