Joseph Parrish Thompson

Joseph Parrish Thompson (August 7, 1819 – September 20, 1879) was an abolitionist and Congregationalist minister. He was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church in New York from 1845 to 1871, (also known as Broadway United Church of Christ and Second Free Presbyterian Church). His major life accomplishments include being a superintendent of the Underground Railroad, the founding of The Independent, an anti-slavery religious weekly started in 1848, founding The New Englander (later re-named the Yale Review), served as president of the American Union Commission, being a member of the committee to create the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and assisted the Treaty of Berlin with the religious liberty clause.

He graduated in 1838 from Yale, where he was a member of Skull & Bones, followed by theological studies at Andover and New Haven, and was ordained pastor of the Chapel Street church in New Haven in November 1840. During his years at New Haven, he was one of the originators of The New Englander, a Congregational quarterly review, later renamed the Yale Review. Thompson was pastor at the St. David AME Zion Church in Sag Harbor in 1839. The church was built by members of the First Presbyterian (Whalers) Church in Eastville. He worked with the Quaker community and others to help slaves escape. They were hidden beneath the pews via a trap door under the main sanctuary. St. David's became a stop on the Underground Railroad.

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