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- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH VIII.
RICHARD WOODHULL, fourth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the second son of Nathaniel Wodhull and Sarah, daughter of Richard Smith, (2nd,), of Smithtown, Long Island.
He was born May 22, 1729, and graduated from Yale College in 1752. He officiated as tutor in the college from April, 1756, to September, 1761.
He was admitted to the bar of New Haven County, November, 1762, but was recalled the next March to the position which he so ably filled, "his proficiency in mathematical and scientific studies making him particularly valuable as a teacher."
About this time, however, he became imbued with the doctrine of Robert Sandeman, which obliged him to be "a non-resistant in the Revolution," and in consequence of this, was obliged by President Clapp, of Yale, to resign.
He taught in the Hopkins Grammar School from 1782 to 1785. Professor Kingsley said of him, "He enjoyed a high reputation for his attainments in all the branches of collegiate learning, but was particularly distinguished in the department of mathematics."
President Dwight described him as "a man of extensive and varied learning, generally reserved, but when drawn into conversation highly interesting."
He married four times. He died in New Haven, Conn., in his home at Elm and Church Sts., which he purchased in 1765, December 7, 1797, in his sixty-ninth year.
His fourth wife survived him, as did an only daughter.
(See Genealogy, No. 25.)
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1729 - 1797 (68 years)
