Hosea Hildreth (January 2, 1782 – 1835) was an educator and minister in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
[1] His son, Richard Hildreth was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1807, where Hosea Hildreth was the ninth head of school at Deerfield Academy.
[1] As minister of the First Church of Gloucester, he was, according to his son, the last Congregationalist minister ordained by a mixed group of Unitarian and orthodox Congregationalists, when he was called to the pulpit in 1825.
[3] This practice and his sympathies eventually led to his expulsion from the Essex Association.
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