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Derby Colonial Cemetery
Derby, New Haven, Connecticut

Reverend  Zephaniah  Swift


August 2007


Rev Zephaniah Swift
born at Wilmington Vt
1771 graduated Dartmouth College
1792
Installed as pastor of the
Congregational Church on Roxbury Ct
1796 and dismissed in 1813
settled over the first church in this
Town in 1813 in which relation
he continued until his decease
Feb 7 1848.
  
   Eminent for his virtues and usefulness in
all his relations to mankind while he
lived he was universally revered and
loved and being dead
his memory is Blessed.


 

Orcutt, Rev. Samuel,  History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880,
   (Springfield, Massachusetts, Press of Springfield Printing Company, 1880)
page 813

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