{{Infobox Christian leader | type = Priest | honorific_prefix = The Reverend | name = Eliphalet Adams | ordination = February 9, 1709 | ordained_by = Gurdon Saltonstall | birth_date = {{birth date|1677|03|26}} | birth_place = Dedham, Massachusetts | death_date = {{death date and age|1753|10|04|1677|03|26}} | death_place = New London, Connecticut | parents = {{ubl|Rev. William Adams|Mary Manning}} | spouse = {{marriage|Lydia Pygan |December 15, 1709}} | alma_mater = Harvard University }} '''Eliphalet Adams''' ({{IPAc-en|ə|ˈ|l|aɪ|f|ə|l|ɛ|t}}; March 26, 1677 — October 4, 1753) was an eminent minister of New London, Connecticut. He graduated from Harvard University in 1694.<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896">{{cite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | year = 1963}}</ref> He was ordained February 9, 1709, and died on October 4, 1753, aged 76. Dr. Chauncy spoke of him as a great "Hebrician".
He published a sermon on the death of Rev. James Noyes of Stonington; election sermons, 1710 and 1733; a discourse, occasioned by a distressing storm on March 3, 1717; a thanksgiving sermon in 1721 and gave a sermon on the death of Gov. Leverett Saltonstall I in 1724.
He spoke at the ordinations of William Gager, May 27, 1725 and Thomas Clap, 1726; and at a discourse before a society of young men in 1727.<ref name=Allen>Allen, William. ''An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the Most Imminent Persons in North America From Its First Settlement, and a Summary of the History of the Several Colonies and of the United States''. 2nd ed. Boston: Hyde, 1832.</ref>
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==External links== *[http://virtualology.com/eliphaletadams/ Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 ]
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