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Isaac Backus
Isaac Backus was a prominent Baptist preacher during the American Revolution, who campaigned against state-founded churches in New England. Born in the village of Yantic, now part of the city of Norwich, Connecticut, Backus was influenced by the Great Awakening and the works of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. He was converted in 1741. For five years he was a member of a separatist congregation. In 1746, he became a preacher. He was ordained in 1748. Backus became a Baptist in 1751 when he served on the Middleborough Baptist Church in Middleborough, Massachusetts. In 1764, Isaac Backus joined John Brown, Nicholas Brown, William Ellery, Stephen Hopkins, James Manning, Ezra Stiles, Samuel Stillman, Morgan Edwards and several others as original members or chartered administrators of College in the British colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the first Baptist school of higher education.
BornJanuary 9, 1724, Yantic, Connecticut
DiedNovember 20, 1806
NationalityAmerican

About Isaac Backus

Religious Leader Isaac Backus was born in Connecticut, United States on January 9, 1724. He dies at the age of 82, on November 20, 1806.

This eighteenth-century Baptist clergyman, orator, and writer was a significant figure in Revolutionary-era New England, remembered for his impassioned lectures on the necessity of separating church and state. He was a delegate from Massachusetts to the committee that passed the United States Constitution in 1788.

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Isaac Backus before becoming famous

Isaac Backus was born in the Zodiac sign Capricorn (The Sea-Goat), and 1724 is also the year of Dragon (龍) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He became an ordained pastor after attending a Separatist Congregationalist church for half a decade. He began serving the congregation of Middleborough Baptist Church in Massachusetts in 1751.

Achievement of Isaac Backus

Government and Liberty Described and Ecclesiastical Tyranny Exposed (published in 1778) and An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty, Against the Oppressions of the Present Day are two of his most notable works (delivered as a sermon in 1773).

Isaac Backus's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He grew up in Yantic, Connecticut, before moving to Middleborough, Massachusetts.

Isaac Backus Collabed with

Religious Leader Jonathan Edwards, a fellow eighteenth-century religious figure and leader of the Great Awakening, was a major influence on him.

Isaac Backus Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Isaac Backus updated on March 16 2023.