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Rev. Elisha Fish (1719-1795) was born in Groton, Connecticut and graduated from Harvard in 1750. The following year he was ordained as the minister at the First Congregational Church in Upton, Massachusetts and married Hannah Forbush of Westborough, Massachusetts.
Fish served as a chaplain in the Revolutionary War. He gave several fiery sermons during the war that described the feelings of many New Englanders. In a sermon from May 1776, Fish took for his text Judges 11:27: “Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou dost me wrong to war against me.” He described the war as “unnatural” and entirely the fault of the British. Fish also published several sermons during his lifetime on infant baptism and subjects related to the American Revolution. He served as minister in Upton until his death in 1795. His son, Elisha Fish, Jr., also became a Congregational minister.
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