George Duffield

George Duffield (October 7, 1732 – February 2, 1790) was a leading eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister. He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1732.

Duffield moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1757, and ministered to multiple churches until 1772. He was known to be an ardent and animated preacher. He married Margaret Armstrong, a sister of General John Armstrong and elder in Duffield’s church.

From the fall of 1772 until his death in 1790, he served as pastor at the Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. During the American Revolutionary War, he served as a chaplain of the Continental Congress.

His son was George Duffield II and grandson George Duffield, Jr., the American Presbyterian minister and hymnodist, who was a pastor from 1840 to 1869 at numerous cities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Michigan.