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Nov. 29, 1711 ; " Mrs Hanah Walley died last night, aged better than 30. years." Dec. 1; "Mrs Sarah [? Hannah] Walley buried. Bearers, Major Wm Dudley, M' Joseph Sewall ; M' Benj. Walker, M' Jnº Foy ; M' David Stoddard, M' James Walker. White Scarvs and Rings." -- Sewall.
1709.
JAMES PEMBERTON,
HANNAH PEMBERTON.
James Pemberton, grandson of James (1669), and son of Dr. Thomas, who died 26 July, 1693 ; merchant ; had wife Hannah ; died, 1747, aged 83.
"A gentleman well respected among us while living, and his death is much lamented."-News Letter.
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ELIZABETH WALLEY, a daughter of the second John Alden (1669) ; she married John, son of John Walley, mariner, by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Wing. Her husband is supposed to have died in a distant land; she afterward married (30 April, 1702), Simon Willard (1695), son of the second minister of the church. The will of Abiel Walley (1716), proved 31 Aug. 1759, mentions his wife Margaret (1716), and his mother Eliza- beth Willard.
MARY EMMONS, wife of Nathaniel Emmons (1713), who died in 1720 or 1721 ; their son, Nathaniel, was baptized 5 Dec. 1703.
MARY PEMBERTON-BREAME, probably a daughter of James Pemberton (1669), sister of the third minister of the church, and wife of Benjamin Breame.
1711.
ANN HOLLAND, wife of Thomas Holland (bapt. cov. 1704). Their son, John (bapt. cov. 1752), married Eliza- beth (1753), daughter of William (bapt. cov. 1724) and Dorcas (1727) Fallass.
ISABELLA ARMITAGE-RAND, a daughter of William Tilly (1691) by his first wife.
KATHARINE ALLEN -- WILLARD, first wife of the Hon. Josiah Willard (1701), and a relative of Jeremiah Allen, the treasurer of the Province.
Aug. 1, 1725; " Mrs. Katharine Willard dyes ; * * * has left two Sons and a Daughter ; is much lamented. Bearers, M' Davenport, Col. Fitch; Col. Winthrop, M' Treas' Allen ; M' Samuel Sewall de Stephano, M' Jacob Wendell." --- Sewall.
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ELIZABETH WALLEY, daughter of the Hon. John Walley (1679), and wife of the Rev. Joseph Sewall (1713), fourth minister of the South Church. She was born at Bristol, R. I., I Nov. 1685, and died, 27 Oct. 1756. Her husband survived her thirteen years.
SARAH BROMFIELD, daughter of Edward (1698) and Mary (1696) Bromfield ; baptized, 13 Oct. 1692.
Monday, Jan. 11, 1773 ; "Last Saturday noon, departed this Life in the S3ª Year of her Age, Mrs. Sarah Dupec, Widow of the late Capt. Isaac Dupce, and Daughter to the Hon. Edward Bromfield Esq. deceased. She was remarkable for her Piety ; of an amiable Disposition, and an agreeable Deportment in Life, which endeared her to all her Acquaint- ance. Her Remains are to be interred on Thursday next at 4 o'clock p.m. from the house of William Phillips Esq"."- Evening Post.
HANNAH HILL, daughter of James (1671) and Hannah Hill, and granddaughter of Daniel Henchman (1669).
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GRACE TILLY-CLARK, baptized 6 Nov. 1692; daugh- ter of William Tilly (1691) by his first wife, and wife of Jonas Clark, brazier. Her step-mother, Abigail Tilly (1704), became the second wife of Judge Sewall.
WILLIAM STODDARD, son of Simeon (1691) and Mary (1686) Stoddard ; baptized, 12 Nov. 1693. He was one of the founders of the Land Bank in 1740, with Robert Auchmuty, Samuel Adams the elder, Peter Chardon and others.
NATHANIEL SHANNON, baptized 22 Nov. 1689; son of Nathaniel Shannon (1701), for many years naval-officer at the port of Boston.
FRANCES BROMFIELD, daughter of Edward (1698) and Mary (1696) Bromfield; baptized, 10 June, 1694. She
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married, 13 April, 1715, the Rev. John Webb, and died, Aug. 1721.
: Sept. 16, 1721 ; " Mrs. Frances Webb is buried, who died of the Small Pox. I think this is the first public Funeral without Scarys. Has a very good character." -- Sewall.
The Rev. John Webb, Harv. Coll. 1708, was ordained first minister of the New North Church, Boston, 20 Oct. 1714.
" His labors as a minister were abundantly successful. He was a leading efficient promoter of the Great Revival of 1740-43. No church in Boston shared more largely than his in the blessings of that glorious manifestation of Divine power and grace. We have his own statement, made to the Rev. Thomas Prince, pastor of the Old South Church and Compiler of the Christian History, that in a period of three months, in 1741, he was visited by more than one thousand different in- dividuals in deep concern for their own salvation."- Vinton.
ELIZABETH DANFORTH-WALLEY. She may have been the Elizabeth, wife of John Walley, who died 28 Nov. 1721, aged 32 years.
MARY FIFIELD, daughter of Richard and Mary Fifield ; baptized, 13 May, 1694; was married by the Rev. Mr. Pemberton, 21 April, 1713, to Samuel Adams (1706), and, 16 Sept. 1722, became the mother of Samuel Adams (1789). She died, 8 March, 1748. Her son's biographer says of her :
" The mother of Samuel Adams was a woman of severe religious principles, and she carly embued her children with reverence for the Christian virtues which she practised. To the scrupulous attention of his parents to devotional objects must have been greatly due the religious turn of mind which was a prevailing trait throughout the life of the son." -- Wells.
In 1789, Samuel Adams, then Lieut. Governor of the Commonwealth, came back to the church where his grandparents and parents had worshipped, and by whose ministers his mother had been baptized and married.
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ELIZABETH SCOLLAY, became the wife of Benjamin Mason (1717).
JEREMIAH BELKNAP, grandson of Joseph (1669), and son of Joseph (1688) by his first wife, Deborah, daughter of Jeremiah Fitch ; baptized, 9 Jan. 1687; followed the trade of his father, that of a leather breeches maker, says Savage ; by wife Sarah had Joseph (1735), whose son was the Rev. Jeremiah (1764), the historian.
LYDIA WALLEY, third daughter of the Hon. John (1679) and Sarah (1672) Walley, and sister of Elizabeth (1711), wife of the Rev. Joseph Sewall (1713). She was born in Bristol, R. I., 2 Sept. 1688, and died in Boston, 26 April, 1747.
DAVID JEFFRIES, son of David the emigrant, who ar- rived in Boston 1677, and married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth Usher ; they seem to have attended the South Church, as their children were baptized there. David was baptized 12 April, 1691 ; Harv. Coll. 1708; he married Katharine (1713), daughter of John and Katharine Eyre (1683). He was a passenger in the " Amity," Capt. Thomas, from London, which was lost off Dungeness, in the autumn of 1716, with all on board except the second mate, Beard, who swam ashore. The Rev. Thomas Prince (1718) had written from England, that he proposed taking passage with "a dear and- pious Friend, Mr. David Jeffries, but was prevented by Sickness and other Inci- dents." Mr. Jeffries left an only son, David (1740), who became a deacon in the Old South. His widow married Oliver Noyes (1693). Mr. Jeffries was a college classmate of the Rev. John Webb; Joseph Sewall (1713) and Thomas. Prince (1718) graduated one year earlier, so that they were all in college together for.a time.
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MARY DUNCAN, wife of Samuel Duncan.
JOSEPH. BELKNAP, grandson of Joseph (1669), and son of Joseph (1688) by his first wife Deborah (Fitch) ; bap- tized, 8 Nov. 1685.
JANE ELLERY, daughter of Capt. John Bonner, and wife of John Ellery (1719). She died, "very much lamented," Oct. 1739.
MARY ALDEN, wife of William, son of the second John Alden (1669).
JOHN FOYE,
DOROTHY FOYE.
John Foye commanded vessels in the trade between Boston and the Thames.
Nov. 26, 1715 ; " Capt. Foy buried in the South B. place ; Bearers, Winthrop, Sewall ; Bromfield, Stoddard ; Checkly, Campbell. L' Gov' and Secretary there." Jan. 16, 1723-4; " Mrs. Dorothy Foy, widow, is buried, At 74. Bearers, Sewall, Townsend ; Bromfield, Stoddard; Col. Fitch, Col. Checkley. Buried in one of the new Tombs in the South as Mrs. Henchman was in the North on Monday."-Scwall.
Capt. Foye's son, William, was for many years Treas- urer of the Province; he married Elizabeth Campbell (1728).
ALEXANDER SEARS,
REBECCA SEARS.
They soon took dismission to the New North Church. Judge Sewall records that at the ordination of the Rev. John Webb, the first minister of that church, 1714, the representatives of the sister churches "were entertain'd at Mr. Seers's." His signature followed that of the pas-
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tor, Mr. Webb, on the church covenant. IIe was a mem- ber of the committee to build the meeting house ; and he was among those who strenuously opposed the settlement of the Rev. Peter Thacher (1673), as colleague with Mr. Webb in 1720. He was a sea captain by profession.
1713.
The Rev. JOSEPH SEWALL, son of the Hon. Samuel Sewall (1677), and grandson of John Hull (1669), one of the founders of the church. Like his immediate prede- cessor in the Old South pastorate, Mr. Pemberton, he was one of the baptized children of the church.
Aug. 19, 1688 ; "M' Stoughton at our House in the after- noon to hear Mr. Willard, who, after Sermon, baptized my young Son, whom I named Joseph, in hopes of the accom- plishment of the Prophecy, Ezek. 37th and such like ; and not out of respect to any Relation, or other person, except tlie first Joseph." [ "Behold I will take the stick of Joseph ctc." ] -Scwall.
He graduated at Harv. Coll. in 1707, the Rev. Thomas Prince, his life long friend and colleague, being in the same class. He was installed as a colleague with Mr. Pem- berton in. 1713, and surviving three colleagues, lived until 1769. He was not a great man ; "but, in humble, ardent and consistent piety, and devotedness to the work of the ministry, has seldom been equalled. A disposition natu- rally mild and affectionate began to be sanctified in child- hood ; and evidences are preserved of his diligent and faithful use of the means of promoting growth in grace from early youth." "He delighted in the work of the ministry ; and when he grew venerable for his age as well as his piety, he was regarded as the father of the clergy. The rising generation looked upon him with reverence ; and all classes of people felt a respect for his name." His sermons, of which many were published and
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are preserved, were always instructive and practical. Although of a deliberate and cautious disposition, he "was courageous in withstanding error. He could sacri. fice everything for peace, but duty and truth and holi- ness."- Wisner.
In 1724, he was called to the presidency of Harvard College, to succeed Mr. Leverett, but in compliance with the urgent desire of his people, he declined the invitation. When Jonathan Belcher (1706) returned from England, in 1730, as Governor of the Province, he brought for him a diploma from the University of Glasgow, constituting him a Doctor of Divinity. He was for many years one of the commissioners of the Society in London for Propa- gating the Gospel in New England, and a corresponding member of the Society in Scotland for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
His funeral sermon was preached by his nephew, the Rev. Charles Chauncy (1724), who said :
" On the evening of the 26th of last August, the day on which he completed fourscore years, he spake to you from this desk, with affectionate gratitude to God upon such an extraordinary occasion, and so as to endeavour your spiritual edification. He was not permitted, after this, to preach to you more than three or four times. * *
* It would be a great omission, if I did not make mention of him as one of those 'good men, for whom one would even dare to die.' He was in his temper. pitiful, tender hearted, courteous, kindly affectioned ; and fromn principle as a Christian, he ' forgot not to do good and com- municate,' as he had opportunity, and according to his ability. It was his practice to lay by one full tenth of his income for the uses of piety and charity. And sometimes, as occasions in providence called for it, he went even beyond this."
Dr. Sewall lived to see his son, Samuel (1749), whom he had baptized, a deacon of the Old South. His wife, Elizabeth (1711), daughter of the Hon. John Walley (1679), died many years before him.
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NATHANIEL EMMONS, son of Samuel and Mary (Scott) Emmons ; married Mary (Warmall) (1709), and died in 1720 or 1721. Sewall speaks of attending a meeting at the Widow Emmons's in the autumn of 1720. Their son, Nathaniel Emmons, was one of the early portrait painters, and his portrait of Judge Sewall is in the possession of Samuel Sewall, of Burlington, Mass.
ABIGAIL LOWDER, granddaughter of Deacon Jacob Eliot (1669), and daughter of William and Abigail (1685) Davis. She married Henry Lowder.
KATHARINE JEFFRIES ---- NOYES, BETHIA EYRE -- WVALLEY,
Daughters of John and Katharine (Brattle) Eyre (1683). Katharine married, first, David Jeffries (1711), and then Oliver Noyes (1693). Bethia married John (1719), son of the Hon. John Walley (1679), and had daughter Bethia (1744), who died in 1748.
DANIEL HENCHMAN, elected deacon of the church, 17 April, 1719, but his name is not to be found in the list of members. He was grandson of Daniel (1669), and son of Hezekiah and Abigail Henchman. Capt. artill. co. 1738, 1746. He was "the enterprising bookseller who caused the first edition in America of the English Bible to be printed, says Thomas in his History, with a false title page to evade the right of the King's printer."-Savage. He erected the first paper mill in Massachusetts, in 1730. It was on the Neponset River, in Milton, and turned out writ- ing, printing and wrapping paper, from linen rags collected mostly in Boston .- Nason. His daughter, Lydia, married Thomas Hancock, and gave the land in Court St. on which the parsonage of Brattle St. Church stood for many years. He served on many important committees
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in the Old South Church, and when he died, 25 Feb. 1761, a recognition of his faithful services as a church officer was placed on the records. He left a legacy of £65. 13. 4. to the poor of the church.
1716-17.
HANNAH SEWALL, eldest daughter of the Hon. Samuel (1677) and Hannah (1688) Sewall; baptized, 8 Feb. 1679-80. She injured her knee, and was a great sufferer for several years.
Dec. 23, 1716; "M' Sewall preaches in the Afternoon. Propounds his Sister Hanah." Jan. 6; " Hanah Sewall taken into the South Church. Lord grant that it may be in order to her being taken into Heaven !" -- Scwall.
She died "after a long languishment," 16 Aug. 1724. Her father says :
" She expired half an hour past Ten. Her pleasant Counte- nance [as she lay in death ], was very refreshing to me. I hope God has delivered her from all her Fears !" Aug. IS ; "My Daughter is Inter'd, Bearers, Majf Habijah Savage, M' Wn Payn ; M' John Boydell, Mr John Walley ; M' Henry Frank- lyn, Henry Gibbs. Had Gloves and Rings of 2 pwt and 3. Twelve Ministers of the Town had Rings, and two out of Town. At our return from the Grave, her Bro' J. Sewall pray'd."
ABIEL WALLEY,
MARGARET WALLEY.
Abiel, son of John and Elizabeth (1709) Walley, was baptized 5 Sept. 1686; his father received adult baptism on the same day. His mother was probably a daughter of the second John Alden (1669) by his second wife Eliz- abeth (1674), daughter of William Phillips and widow of Abiel Everill. He was a prominent merchant; in 1721, he was appointed comptroller of His Majesty's Customs for Boston ; and in 1750, he was chairman of a committee
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appointed by the town, consisting of Samuel Welles, Charles Apthorp, Thomas Hancock and others, to memorialize the General Court against the tax then in force, on tea, coffee, carriages and other articles. He took dismission to the New North Church. In 1730, he was a member of a committee of that church, with Samuel Barrett, Joshua Cheever, Josiah Langdon and others, for enlarging its meeting house. His will, dated I Sept. 1739, was proved 31 Aug. 1759.
SUSANNA THAYER.
During the prevalence of small pox in Boston in 1721, Sewall speaks of her being brought from Brookline with the disease upon her, Nov. 18. He visited her at a house in Sudbury Street, where she was lodged, and on the 27th expresses a hope that she may recover.
Nov. 30; "About 7. m. Susan falls asleep." "Dec. I, is decently buried just after the Sacramental Lecture. 'M' Cooper [his son-in-law] and I went next the Herse. Is laid near our Tomb. She had serv'd me and my family faithfully fifteen years, and now I hope she is gon to Heavenly Rest."
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THOMAS SMITH. Captain Thomas Smith married, 9 May, 1701, Mary, youngest child of John and Margaret (Winthrop) (1707) Corwin, who died 29 July, 1716.
Aug. 1; "Chief Justice and J. Davenport went to the Funeral of Mrs. Mary Smith Corwin, who died on the Lord's Day p.m."-Sewall.
BENJAMIN MASON, born in Boston, 23 Dec. 1695 ; mar- ried, 12 Jan. 1721, Elizabeth Scollay (1711) ; died, Feb. 1744. Their son was Jonathan Mason (1742), elected deacon 1770; United States senator, 1800-03 ; he mar- ried, 12 Oct. 1747, Miriam Clark (1741). Miriam (1774),
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daughter of Jonathan and Miriam Mason, married the second William Phillips (1772), deacon, 1794, and lieut. governor.
ELIZABETHI HENCHMAN, probably wife of Deacon Daniel Henchman (17-).
CHRISTIAN BASS, wife of Samuel Bass (1704), had daughter Christian (1741), baptized 2 Dec. 1722, who married John Armstrong (1789).
1718.
SIMON DANIEL. Sewall records that his wife Jane died, 9 March; 1719-20, aged 80.
"March, IIth, is buried in the New burying place ; Bearers, Sewall, Stoddard ; Checkley, Tim Clarke ; Capt. Hill, Capt. John Alden. Went to the Funeral from the visitation of Mr Williams' School."
Simon Daniel's will, by which he bequeathed fifty pounds to the poor of the Old South, was proved 21 May, 1722.
The Rev. EDWARD WIGGLESWORTH, son of the Rev. Michael Wigglesworth, of Malden ; born, 1693 ; Harv. Coll. 1710 ; taught in Boston for a time, and, in 1722, was elected as the first professor of Theology at Cambridge on the Hollis foundation. At his installation, the oaths were administered to him by Col. Penn Townsend and Judge Sewall. His first wife was a daughter of the Rev. John Leverett, president of the college ; his second was Rebecca, daughter of Deacon Joseph Cooledge. He was succeeded in the Hollis professorship by his son, Edward Wiggles- worth, Harv. Coll. 1749.
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The Rev. THOMAS PRINCE, fourth son of Samuel Prince of Sandwich, and grandson of John Prince of Hull who came to New England in 1633. John was a son of the Rev. John Prince, of East Shefford, Berks, England, who "was born of honorable parents, educated in the University of Oxford, was one of the Puritan ministers of the Church of England who in part conformed, and found great friends to protect him in omitting the more offensive ceremonies as long as he lived."
The second wife of Samuel Prince was Mercy, daughter of Governor Hinckley. Their son, Thomas, was born at Sandwich, 15 May, 1687 ; Harv. Coll. 1707. After com- pleting his studies he went abroad, remaining several years ; he preached for some time at Coombs in Suffolk, and was urged to settle there, but he was unwilling to expatriate himself permanently from New England. He returned in the summer of 1717, and was at once invited to several important pastorates ; he at length accepted 'a call to the South Church, as colleague of his classmate and friend, Mr. Sewall, and was installed I Oct. 1718. He married, 30 Oct. 1719, Deborah Denny (1727), who had been a member of his congregation at Coombs, and who survived him, and died, I June, 1766. Their son, Thomas, Harv. Coll. 1740, a young man of much promise, died at the age of 26; and their daughter, Deborah (1739), one of whose letters to an English relative, describing the re- vival under the preaching of Whitfield, is extant, died 20 July, 1744, in the 21st year of her age. Only one of the children survived their father; or was married,-Sarah (1745), who became the wife of Moses Gill, merchant, afterward lieut. governor and acting governor.
" The talents of Mr. Prince were above mediocrity ; and in diligent and successful study, few if any in America have been his equals. Ile made great proficiency, not only in divinity, but also in most of the branches of natural science and polite literature cultivated at that period. In history and
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chronology, especially as relating to this country, his labors were prosecuted with unparalleled industry and fidelity, and have imposed on posterity great and lasting obligation. In 1703, while at college, he began a collection of books and public and private papers, relating to the civil and religious history of New England, to which he continued to make valuable additions for more than fifty years. He also made a large collection of classical and theological works and books of general literature. All these he gave, at his decease, to the church and congregation of which he had been minister. *
" But it is not merely for his literary acquisitions and labors that Mr. Prince is to be remembered by us with respect and gratitude. 'That,' said his colleague. in his funeral sermon, ' which set a crown upon all, was, that he feared God from his youth, and early appeared a lover of pure religion.' We have as convincing evidence of his decided, consistent and de- voted piety, as of his extensive learning. Hc was, indeed, a rare instance of diligence and fidelity in the duties of per- sonal religion and in the work of the ministry, united with great ardor and proficiency in secular studies. His sermons were rich in evangelical truth ; always prepared with care, abounding in facts and pertinent illustration. 'His dis- courses,' it is said, 'were sometimes too learned for common people' ; but if we may judge from those which were pub- lished, he was less faulty in this respect than, from the char- acter of his mind and studies, might have been expected. * *
"Forty years were these excellent men, Sewall and Prince, associated in the responsibilities and labors of the pastoral office in this congregation ; furnishing an example of mutual affection and union of purpose and pursuit, to which the annals of collegiate charges will be searched for a parallel, I fear, almost in vain. The journals and other documents that have come down to us, lay open before us the most secret history of these men ; and not a solitary instance appears of un- pleasant difference of opinion. or of the slightest interruption, in any form, of confidence and affection." -- Wisner.
Mr. Prince's health began to decline in the autumn of 1757. "When means to restore it failed, he expressed his submission to the will of God, saying, It is just as it should be." He died, 22 Oct. 1758, aged 72. On the next Sabbath, his funeral sermon was preached by Dr. Sewall ; and at the same service, his Revisal of the New England Version of the Psalms, which he had undertaken
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at the request of the congregation, and which had been accepted a short time before his death, was used at public worship for the first time.
The Prince Library is now deposited for safe keeping in the Public Library, under a mutually satisfactory ar- rangement between the City of Boston and the Old South Church.
ABIJAH ADAMS, son of John and Hannah Adams (1700) ; baptized, 17 May, 1702. He married, in 1725, Deborah Cutler (1726), and he may have had a second wife Hannah, as the baptisms are recorded of "Habijah, of Habijah and Deborah Adams," 9 April, 1727, and of " Hannah, of Abijah and Hannah Adams," 6 July, 1729. He was for many years clerk of Faneuil Hall market, and died in 1768.
HANNAH DEMING, wife of Samuel, who was probably son of David and Mary Deming. John, "of Samuel and Hannah Deming," was baptized 3 Sept. 1721, and joined the church 1741. Samuel died, 22 April, 1722, aged 38, and Hannah, 4 Sept. 1742, aged 66. We find on the bap- tismal record, as early as 1705, Samuel and Hannah Deming, and in 1747, John and Mary Deming, and Samuel and Mary Deming.
ELIZABETH GREEN-KNEELAND, wife of John Knec- land.
THOMAS ADAMS, son of John Adams (1700) by his second wife Hannah (1700), daughter of Anthony Check- ley ; born 29 March, 1701 ; baptized next day.
SARAHI WING, wife of Cord Wing, son of John (1669) and Jehosheba (1670) Wing.
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1719.
BENJAMIN SIMPSON, had wife Elizabeth.
BARTHOLOMEW GREEN. We do not understand the ap- pearance of this name under the date of 21 June, 1719, as Bartholomew Gree, the father, was chosen deacon of the church two months before this, and must have been a member for many years, and his son of the same name is recorded as having been baptized I Sept. 1700, and as owning the covenant 2 Jan. 1725.
Bartholomew Green, fourth son of Captain Samuel Green,-"the famous printer of Cambridge, who arrived with Governor Winthrop in 1630," -- was born at Cam- bridge, 12 Oct. 1666. Early in 1690 he set up a printing office in Boston, but his presses and type were hardly in place before the great fire of that year consumed them. In two years he established himself again. "His printing- house was in Newbury St., now Washington, near the corner of Avon St., a site which he and his successors continued to occupy until the Revolution." He was " the principal printer of this town and country near forty years."
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