Witherspoon, JOHN, theologian, was born in the parish of Yester in Scotland, 5th February 1722, studied at Edinburgh, was minister at Beith, at Paisley, and in 1768 was called to be president of the College of New Jersey, and pastor at Princeton. He was a representative of New Jersey to the Continental Congress, became quite blind in 1790, and died at Princeton, 15th November 1794.
His works (3 vols. Phila. 1803; and 9 vols. Edin. 1815) include Ecclesiastic Characteristics (1753), against the Moderates; a work on the stage (1757); and two treatises which are still read, on Justification (1756) and on Regeneration (1764).