David Dudley Field I (May 20, 1781 – April 15, 1867) was an American Congregational clergyman and historical writer. He was born in East Guilford, now Madison, Connecticut on May 20, 1781, the son of Timothy Field, an officer during the

American Revolution The American Revolution (1765–1783) was a colonial rebellion and war of independence in which the Thirteen Colonies broke from British America, British rule to form the United States of America. The revolution culminated in the American ...

. He graduated from

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

in 1802, and received Doctorate in Divinity degree from

Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim ...

. He held pastorates at

Haddam, Connecticut Haddam is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region. The population was 8,452 at the time of the 2020 census. It is the only town in Connecticut that the Conne ...

, and

Stockbridge, Massachusetts Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,018 at the 2020 census. A year-round resort area, Stockbridg ...

. He wrote ''A History of the Town of Pittsfield, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts'' (1814), ''A Statistical Account of the County of Middlesex in Connecticut'' (1819), ''The Genealogy of the Brainerd Family, in the United States, with Numerous Sketches of Individuals'' (1857), ''Centennial Address with Historical Sketches of Cromwell, Portland, Chatham, Middle-Haddam, Middletown and its Parishes'' (1853), among other works. He married Submit Dickinson (1782-1861) in 1803, daughter of Noah Dickinson, who was a veteran of the

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and served in the

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. They both raised nine children, four of whom achieved national prominence. He is buried at the Stockbridge Cemetery in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''
/ref> Their children were: * David Dudley Field Jr. (1805–1894) was a US Congressman and law reformer. * Emilia Ann Field Brewer (1807–1861), who married missionary Rev.

Josiah Brewer Josiah Brewer (June 1, 1796 – November 19, 1872) was an American minister and author. He was the father of U.S. Supreme Court justice David Josiah Brewer. Biography Brewer was born June 1, 1796, in Monterey, then a part of Tyringham, Mass. ...

* Timothy Beals Field (1809–1836) * Mathew Dickinson Field (1811–1870) * Jonathan Edwards Field (1813–1868) *

Stephen Johnson Field Stephen Johnson Field (November 4, 1816 – April 9, 1899) was an American jurist. He was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from May 20, 1863, to December 1, 1897, the second longest tenure of any justice. Prior to this ap ...

(1816–1899) was an associate justice of the US Supreme Court. *

Cyrus West Field Cyrus West Field (November 30, 1819July 12, 1892) was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. Early ...

(1819–1892) was a business man and industrialist who led the effort to lay the first Atlantic telegraph cable. * Henry Martyn Field (1822–1907) carried on in the family tradition becoming a clergyman and author. * Mary Elizabeth Field (1823–1856)

References

* Hyamson, Albert Montefiore. ''A Dictionary of Universal Biography for All Ages and All People''. p. 210

External links

''Yale Obituary Record''
* 1781 births 1867 deaths Williams College alumni People from Madison, Connecticut 19th-century American Congregationalist ministers Yale University alumni People from Stockbridge, Massachusetts Field family Historians from Massachusetts Historians from Connecticut {{Congregationalism-stub