Burr, Aaron, a distinguished Presbyterian divine and father of the Vice-president of the same name, was born in Fairfield, Conn., Jan. 4, 171G, graduated at Yale College in 1735, and received license to preach in the following year. Having labored eleven years in Hanover and Newark, he became president of the College of New Jersey in 1747. He discharged the duties of both president and pastor until 1755, when the pastoral relation was dissolved, and he gave his whole lime to the service of the college. In 1752 he married a daughter of Jonathan Edwards, who sur
never vigorous, failed, and in 1855 he took a super- annuated relation. In the same year be was elected president of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College, in which office he remained until his health failed in Feb- ruary, 1856. He resigned and returned to Ithaca, where he died in May, 1856. "As a preacher he was able and eloquent, but peculiarly fervent and self-sac- rificing."— Minutt s of Conferences, vi, 93 ; Peck, Early Methodism (N. V. I860, 12mo).
Burrough, Edward, a persecuted Quaker, was born at Kendal, Westmoreland, in K>:'4, and was edu- cated in the Church of England, but became first a Presbyterian and afterward a Quaker. He devoted himself earnestly to the propagation of the principles of the Friends, and was imprisoned in 1G54. On re- gaining his liberty, he went to Ireland and labored there, and afterward returned to London. During Cromwell's time, though he did not spare the Protect- or, he was unmolested ; but the government of Charles II, as is usual witli monarchical governments, was less generous, and Burrough was put into Newgate, and kept there till his death. His writings, including The Trumpet of the Lord, and numerous controversial tracts, were collected in 1672 (1 vol. fob). — Kose, New Biographical Dictionary.
Burroughes, Jekemiah, a learned Puritan divine, was born 1599, and educated at Cambridge, whence he was ejected for nonconformity. In 1631 he was made rector of Titshall, but was deprived in 1036, when he went to Rotterdam, and became pastor of an English congregation there. Returning to England, he be- came pastor of two of the most important independent congregations in London. He died 1646. His chief work is Exposition of Rosea (Lond. 1643-51, 4 vols. 4to; new ed. Lond. 1842, imp. 8vo). Besides this he published Sermons on Christian Contentment (Lond. 1650, 4to) :— The Choice of Moses (Lond. 1650, 4to) :— Gospel Reconciliation (Lond. 1657, 4ti.) : — 'Sermons on Gospel Worship (Lond. 1658, 4to) : — Gospel fit mission. (Lond. 1654, 4to): — The Saint's Happiness, Lectures <-n the Beatitudes (Lond. 1660, 4to) ; and several other ex- cellent practical treatises.
Burroughs, Geokge, a Congregational minister, the time and place of whose birth is unknown, gradu- ated at Harvard 1670. He became pastor in Salem Village, Nov. 25, 1680, having previously preached in Falmouth, Me. He resigned in 1685, and returned to Falmouth, where he remained until 1690, after which his place of residence is not certainly known. < >n the 3d of August, 1692, he was tried for witchcraft in Bos- ton, and executed on "Gallows Hill," Aug. 19, Cot- ton Mather aiding and abetting!— Sprague, Annuls, i, ISO.
Bursfelde, a Benedictine abbey near Gottingen,
vived him about ayear. He died Sept. 24 1/67. Mr. , Q f()Umkd m lm. The abbot, John von 11a-
Uurr entered warmly into the great revival that 'took • organized a congregation here for the
place in the early part of h,8 mrn.s ry, and was mm &J ^^^ (l],s,rvaU(.(, aI1(1 the ruW of his innate relations with Whrtefield the Tennen s, and i<m „,,,., received in 136 convents and many
many other promoters of he work. He was the an- » • congelation was approved by the
thorofa "Latin Grammar and of several pamphlets. r()Um.n <lfI?aslc in ,.,-.„,; :ui(Hinallv bv Pius II. Af- -Sprague, Annals, in, 68. ^ ^ -t a(.lli(,V(,(1 ^,„t distinction, 'it existed until
Burr, Jonathan, a Congregational minister, born m)^ wben thc ^ conventa belonging to it were sup- Since the Reformation the abbey of Burs-
in Redgrave, Suffolk Co:, England. He preached in Reckingshal, Suffolk Co., until silenced for non-con- formity, and in 1639 he came to New England. In Feb. 1640, he became associate pastor of the church in Dorchester, and died Aug. 9, 1641.— Sprague, Annals, i, 123.
Burritt, Charles D., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born at Ithaca, N. Y., 1828, of pious parents. In 1841 he entered the Wesleyan Uni- versity, and distinguished himself there for thorough- ness, especially in the exact sciences. In 1844 he was made tutor, and occupied that post for a year and a half with great success. In 1846 he entered the itine- rant ministry in the Oneida Conference ; but his health,
pressed.
felde has had a Lutheran abbot.
Eurton, Asa, D.D., a Congregational minister, born at Stoningtoii, Conn., Aug. 26, 1752. graduated at Dartmouth 1777. In 177'.t he was installed pastor in Thetford, where he labored with signal success un- til his death, May 1, 1886. Be was made I'.D. by
Middlebnry College, 1804. lie published Essays on some of the fist Principle s of Metaphysics, Ethics, and
T/i<ol',/>/ (1824, 8vo), and a number of occasional ser- . mons. — Sprague, Annals, ii, 140.
Burton, Edward, D.D., professor of divinity at Oxford, was bom at Shrewsbury, 1794, educated at