Samuel Worcester (1 November 1770, in Hollis, New Hampshire – 7 June 1821, in Brainerd, Tennessee) was a United States clergyman noted for his participation in a controversy over Unitarianism.
[1] After attending and then teaching in local schools, he went to New Ipswitch Academy,[1] and then entered Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1795.
He declined the professorship of theology in Dartmouth in 1804, and became corresponding secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1810.
He published Essays on Slavery, by Vigorinus (1826), The Memorial of the Old and New Tabernacle (Boston, 1855), Life and Labors of Rev.
Samuel Worcester (2 vols., Boston, 1852), and single sermons and discourses, and articles in religious periodicals.