Thomas McAuley (1778–1862)
Thomas McAuley was born on 1 April 1778 in Coleraine, Ireland (now Northern Ireland). Upon immigrating to the United States in his early twenties, he served as a frontier missionary and attended Union College in Schenectady, New York. Following his graduation in 1804, he worked at the college as a tutor and lecturer/professor in mathematics and natural philosophy. McAuley married Mary Magoffin in 1806. In 1818 he was ordained a Presbyterian minister; he subsequently held pastorates in New York City and Philadelphia.
"Thomas McAuley to Thomas Jefferson, 19 May 1819," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-14-02-0296. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 14, 1 February to 31 August 1819, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 306–307.]
Edwin F. Hatfield, D.D., The Early Annals of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New-York (New York: 1876).
Thomas McAuley in U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704–1930 (Ancestry.com).
Rev Thomas McAuley at Find a Grave.