John Bissett

Rev. John Bissett (1761-1810) was originally from Breechin, Scotland.  After earning an M.A. at Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1779, he became an Episcopal clergyman.  He emigrated to Canada in 1786, serving for a time as a rector in St. John, New Brunswick.  From 1788 to 1792 he was rector of the parish church in Shrewsbury, Maryland.  While there he published two sermons, A Sermon on Regeneration and Grace (Baltimore, 1788) and A Sermon delivered in St. Paul’s Church, Baltimore, on the 19th of June, 1791 (Baltimore, 1791). In October 1792 he became assistant rector of Trinity Parish, New York, serving also as Professor of Letters at Columbia College. He resigned his position at Trinity in March 1800 and returned to England, where he died in 1810.