Dudley Leavitt (minister)

For other people named Dudley Leavitt, see Dudley Leavitt (disambiguation).
Dudley Leavitt
portrait by Joseph Badger
Born1720 Edit this on Wikidata
Died7 February 1762 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 41–42)
Alma mater
Spouse(s)Mary Pickering Edit this on Wikidata
ChildrenElizabeth Leavitt Edit this on Wikidata
Map of Salem Village, Massachusetts, 1692

Rev. Dudley Leavitt (1720–1762) was a Congregational minister born in New Hampshire, educated at Harvard College, who led a splinter group from the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, during a wave of religious ferment nearly a decade before the Great Awakening. Following Leavitt's death at age 42, his congregation elected to christen itself 'The Church of Which the Rev. Dudley Leavitt was late Pastor' after the charismatic preacher.[1] Leavitt Street in Salem is named for the early minister.

  1. ^ A Memorial of the Old and New Tabernacle, Salem, Massachusetts, 1854-5, Samuel Melanchthon Worcester, Published by Crocker and Brewster, 1855