History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 172

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1534

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" Aprel the 11 Day 1760.

for work Brookline Meeting house on the Pulpit Laying a floore in the Same and Raising the Same and Paint and Painting, for weather Boairds and Doore ...

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"EBENEZER THWING."

A year later was the following :

" BROOKLINE March 19, 1761.

" The Select men of Brookline in Behalf of ye town to Joshua Davis Dr. Decem 16th

1 A common occurrence at the present day, to exceed appro-

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" JOSHUA DAVIS."

Mr. Jackson married Hannah, daughter of John Avery, Esq., of Boston, and had two children, a son and daughter. Sarah married, first, Atherton Thayer, of Braintree; second, Stephen Thayer. His son, Joseph, graduated at Harvard College, 1787 ; student of medicine at Portsmouth, N. H., where he died, Aug. 19, 1790. The mother died Oct. 2, 1800.

After the death of Joseph Jackson, at a meeting of the town held Aug. 29, 1796, Dr. William Aspin- wall, Isaac S. Gardner, Esq., and David Hyslop were chosen a committee to supply the pulpit. The first person called to preach on probation was Rev. John Pierce, A.M., of Dorchester, Mass. Previous to this time a Rev. Mr. Merrick, a resident of Brighton, and a native of England, and Rev. Thomas Craft, of North Bridgewater, who had been dismissed from Princeton, Mass., and others, supplied the pulpit. On the 2d day of October, 1796, Dr. Pierce preached his first sermon to Brookline people, preached four Sabbaths, and then went to Quincy to fulfill a prior engagement. Rev. James Hawley supplied the pul- pit till the return of Mr. Pierce. On the 27th of November, 1796, he resumed preaching in Brook- line, and at the end of a few weeks, after preaching ten sermons, the church held a meeting in the old brick school-house, and passed the following votes :

1. "Voted to proceed to the choice of a gospel minister to settle in the town by written Votes."

2. " Voted To choose a committee to wait upon the selectmen with a copy of the votes passed at this meeting and request them to call a Town Meeting, to know whether the Town ap- prove of the choice the church have made of Rev John Pierce for a gospel minister to settle in this town, and will unite in making adequate appropriation for his Support."

3. " Voted, That Messrs Samuel Clark-Ebenezer Davis, and David Hyslop be a committee for the above purpose."

4. " Voted, To choose a committee to be joined with such, as the congregation may see fit to appoint, to wait upon Mr. John Pierce with a copy of the Votes of the church and congregation and invite him to settle in this town, and be our minister."

5. " Voted, That Messrs William Aspinwall, Isaac S. Gard- ner and David Hyslop be a committee for the above purpose." " Attest, ISAAC S. GARDNER, " Clerk to the church."

" Decem'r 20. 1796.

" At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Brookline holden on the 20th Day of December 1796. for the purpose of knowing whether the Congregation would concur with the choice the Church made at their meeting holden on the 13th Inst. of Mr. John Pierce for a Gospel Minister to settle in this Town;

" Also to know whether the Town will make appropriation for his settlement and Salary &c.

"Wm. Aspinwall Esquire was chosen Moderator.

" The Inhabitants gave in their votes and upon counting the same it appeared that Mr. John Pierce was unanimously chosen.

" Voted unanimously to give Mr. John Pierce Five hundred Dollars as a Gratuity or settlement.

" Voted unanimously, to give Mr. John Pierce four hundred Dollars and sixteen Cords of wood Deliv'd at his Door, or one hundred & six Dollars sixty six tenths & seven mills, in lieu of the wood, also the use of the Parsonage House Barn &.C. an- nually, for his salary so long as he shall continue to be our Min- ister-provided he shall accept Our invitation to settle with Us.

" Then Stephen Sharp and Mr. Ebenezer Heath were chosen a Committee to Join the Committee Chosen by the Church, to wait on Mr. Pierce, with a Copy of the proceedings of the Church and Congregation, and invite him to settle in this Town and be Our Minister.

" Then the Meeting was Dissolved. " Attest STEPHEN SHARP Town Clerk."

" February 6, 1797.

" At the meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Brook- line, at the brick School house, warnd & assembled according to Law-For the purpose of receiving the report of the Committee appointed to wait on Mr. John Pierce & acquaint him of the proceedings of the church & congregation, and to transact & do any thing relative to the Settlement of a Minister.

"Stephen Sharp was chosen Moderator.

" Mr. Pierce's answer being read a copy of which is as fol- lows. viz.

" To the Church and Town of Brookline " Christian Friends

" Having taken your proposals into serious and attentive con- sideration, and sought such counsel and direction, as the im- portance of the subject demands, I take this opportunity to inform you that I accept your invitation to settle with you in the ministry.

" As to that part of the terms, which you have left optional with me, my choice is to receive the wood.

"From the kindness you as a town, have always discovered towards your ministers as well, as from the unanimity, which has marked all your proceeding respecting me, I trust you will ever make provision for my comfortable support 'so long as I shall continue to be your Minister.'

"That your brotherly love may continue & increase, that no root of bitterness springing up may disturb your harmony, that you may grow in grace, in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and improve in every Christian virtue, is the fer- vent wish and shall ever be the constant aim of

" your servant "in the Lord

" JOHN PIERCE.

"CAMBRIDGE, January 31st, 1797."

Dr. Pierce was regularly ordained March 15, 1797. There were present representatives of twelve churches, as a council, convened for the purposes of ordination. After an introductory anthem, the male members of the church were asked if they wished to accept of the Rev. John Pierce as their pastor. An affirmative reply was made, when the candidate made the follow- ing response :

" In the same public manner you, my Christian

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friends, again invite me to settle with you in the min- istry. I renew my acceptance. My inexperience in the sacred profession I have undertaken fills me with painful emotions hitherto unknown. I cannot with- hold my most earnest wishes, as it is the subject of my constant prayers, that the solemnities of this day may cement a union which may both promote the cause of religion and conduce to our mutual happi- ness."

Rev. John Bradford, of Roxbury, led the service in prayer. The sermon-text, 1 Corinthians iii. 10- 15-was by the Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris, of Dorchester, of whom it is said he preached his first and his last sermons in this town. Ordaining prayer was by Rev. Peter Thacher, D.D., of Boston. The charge was by Rev. Jacob Cushing, of Waltham. Right hand of fellowship was tendered by Rev. Eliphalet Porter, of Roxbury, of the church where our fathers formerly worshiped. The concluding prayer was by the Rev. William Greenough, of the Second Church in Newton, the exercises closing with an anthem, " Arise, Shine, O Zion," etc., under the leadership of Isaac S. Gardner, Esq.

The history of the First Church or the town would not be complete without an account of the , illness. Rev. Dr. John Pierce. He perhaps did more than any other person to give character to the habits and life of early Brookline. On one occasion a neighbor- ing clergyman, the Rev. Dr. Putnam, said, " As I understand it, Dr. Pierce is Brookline, and Brookline is Dr. Pierce," in 1797. Rev. John Pierce, D.D., the son of John and Sarah (Blake) Pierce, was born in Dorchester, Mass., July 14, 1773. His father was a shoemaker, an honest, intelligent, religious man; died Dec. 11, 1833, aged over ninety-one years. From his earliest childhood he had an earnest desire to become a minister. He commenced to study Latin with the same woman who taught his mother, and in 1789 entered Harvard College, graduating with high honors in 1793, with an excellent reputation as a scholar. After leaving college he was assistant pre- ceptor of Leicester Academy for two years. In 1795 he commenced the study of theology with Rev. Thad- deus Mason Harris, of Dorchester ; approved by the Boston Association, Feb. 22, 1796, and preached for

cheerfulness and benignity." His hair from his early manhood was almost white, and became beautiful in its snowy whiteness long before he was old. He remarked during his last sickness that for forty years he had not known what it was to have a physical in- firmity worth naming. He had always had a habit of rising early, and either sawing or splitting wood or working in his garden for two hours or more before breakfast. He was so vigorous a walker that, when on an exchange anywhere within six or seven miles, he used to go out and back on foot, and without fatigue.

He was temperate both in eating and drinking, and economical without a shade of meanness or . miserly tendency.

In March, 1849, Dr. Pierce was seized with a sharp, sudden illness. Relief was obtained, but not a cure. He continued to suffer great pain, and, as weeks passed on, seemed gradually failing. During his long ministry he had lost only thirteen Sabbaths by ill health, and several of those were in 1805, when he had a rheumatic fever.

He belonged to a long-lived family, and though at an age when most men grow infirm, he was as elastic and vigorous as a boy till the day of his first attack of

All was done that love and skill could suggest to arrest the course of the disease, but in vain ; and it soon became apparent that the beloved pastor and friend of the people was soon to be called away. Un- used as he was to illness, there was no irritability or impatience, and with unfailing serenity and cheerful- ness he waited for the end. In August of that year a new organ was placed in the church, and on Satur- day, the 18th, there was a trial of the instrument.

This was, of course, an event of great interest to one so fond of music as the doctor; and though he was too feeble to walk or ride, he was carried in his chair by some of his young friends to the church. There he read some passages from the Scriptures and a hymn, joining heartily in the singing. At his own special request the tune sung was "Old Hundred," which Dr. Pierce used to say was " the best tune that ever was written or ever would be."

All rose and sung the hymn standing, except the doctor himself, who playfully asked that the old pastor generation."

the first time in his native town March 6th, the same | be excused, as he no longer belonged to "the rising year. At the close of the year 1796 he became a tutor in Harvard College, where he remained four He was borne to his home by the same loving hands, never to be carried out again till he was carried for burial. Daily, however, he received the visits of a host of friends, who came laden with flowers, fruits, or other proofs of their affection, and, months, and while there was called to settle in the town of Brookline, where he spent the remainder of his days. He died Aug. 24, 1849, aged seventy-six years. Dr. Pierce was a fine-looking, tall, large- framed man, with a countenance "beaming with | in the words of another, " wealth never purchased

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and power never won attentions of all kinds so devoted and loving as were gladly rendered without stint, and in constant anticipation of his slightest wishes," not merely from his own society or townspeople, but from all sects and many towns and the neighboring cities.

Dr. Pierce failed very rapidly after his visit to the church at the trial of the organ, but retained pos- session of his faculties and consciousness until the evening of Thursday, August 23d.

His last words were spoken that evening to Mr. Shailer, who with the family and two or three near friends were present. Mr. Shailer made an inquiry | respecting the petition which he should offer for him in the evening prayer, to which he replied, " Entire submission to the Divine will." He never spoke again, but still reclining in the chair which he had occupied for weeks without lying down, he quietly breathed his last at half-past eleven, in the forenoon, Aug. 24, 1849, aged seventy-six years.

No one has any moral right to do for him that which he always refused to do for himself-class him anywhere as a theologian. He must be simply known as an " eclectic Christian," to use his own terms ; and if this phrase is indefinite, it must be remembered that it has all the precision which he desired. Ou one point we may, however, be very explicit. He set | his face like a flint against every form of sectarian exclusiveness and bigotry, and was only intolerant

dition of the members of his society, there were none to charge him with partiality, none to doubt his friendliness and ready sympathies.

His memory has been kept fresh, and is still dear to all who knew him, and the recollections of the hal- lowed months of beautiful serenity and peace and faith which made his sick-room like the threshold of the heavenly kingdom have been a ministry of holy influences to many souls.

In the words of his colleague, in his funeral dis- course, "Simply thus to dwell upon the life of a good man is better than to have entered into a dis- cussion of the mysteries of Godliness."

" He uniformly refused to be classed with any sect whatever, or to take any names except those of a ' Congregationalist' and a 'Christian.' He seldom preached doctrinal sermons. He had no taste for controversy, and hardly ever indulged in expressions of his belief clothed in any other phraseology than that of the Bible. For any party to claim him as a member on account of his opinions would be showing a sad want of respect to his memory, and an utter disregard of his feelings and wishes when alive."

The funeral solemnities took place at the church on the afternoon of the 27th.

The body was borne from the parsonage to the church by the same young men who had carried him thither a week before, attended by eight clergymen as pall-bearers. Rev. Mr. Shailer read the Scriptures, towards those who ventured to judge any body of | the venerable Dr. Lowell, of Boston, offered the prayer believers in Christ, and to deny them the Master's name.

(in compliance with the special wish of Dr. Pierce), and Rev. Mr. Knapp, his colleague, delivered the dis- people was so beautiful that we give it as repeated by

Towards some views-more or less prevalent in ; course. The last message of the dying minister to his

New England of late years-he might have failed a little in preserving that " charity which is not easily | Mr. Knapp on this solemn occasion :

provoked ;" but on the whole, his Catholicism was a marked trait in his character, which, often severely tried, was seldom found wanting. He was an earnest, plain preacher ; dealing generally with practical sub-

" When you gather with my friends around my remains," he said, "read to them those cheering words of Jesus, 'I am the resurrection and the life ; he that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet jects, without seeking originality of thought or being | shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth on remarkable for any graces of rhetoric.

me shall never die.' And say to my people," he con- tinued, " my faith and hope are there; that I do not feel that I shall ever die, but only pass on to a higher life. And beseech them," he added, " beseech them, if they love me, and would express their love, to do it by remembering me while they seek Christ as their Saviour and strive to live as his disciples."

But his style was that of former days; and few men have retained so much of their early acceptable- ness in the pulpit, owing to the impression he made upon his hearers of his own deep sincerity and un- feigned piety. You felt that he believed with his whole heart and soul everything he said, and was thoroughly in earnest. It was, however, by the daily A simple white monument just within the cemetery wall marks his last resting-place. beauty of his life as the faithful pastor that Dr. ! Pierce won the confidence and affection of his people Dr. Pierce married, Oct. 31, 1798, Abigail, daughter of Joseph and Jemima ( Adams) Lovell, of Medway, Mass., who had been a pupil of his while preceptor . . . With the same hearty simplicity he visited the rich and the poor, the refined and the unlearned, and though there were wide diversities in the social con- at Leicester Academy. She died July 2, 1800, leav-

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ing a son, who died at the age of two years. He married a second time, May 6, 1802, Lucy, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Homes) Tappan, of North- ampton, Mass., by whom they had ten children, viz. : Sarah Tappan, Elizabeth, Abigail Lovell, Lucy, Fero- line Walley, John Tappan, Robert, William Blake, Benjamin Tappan, Mary Wilde. The widow died at Brookline, Feb. 12, 1858.

Sermons and addresses by Rev. John Pierce :

1. Discourse on the Mystery of Godliness, at Med- field, Oct. 8, 1797.

2. Eulogy on Washington, Feb. 22, 1800.

3. Discourse on a Christian Profession, at Brook- line, 1800.

4. Sermon at installation of John S. Popkin, | to 1850 ; pastor of Westminster Church, Providence, Newbury, Sept. 19, 1804.

5. Century sermon from incorporation of Brookline. Nov. 24, 1805.

6. Valedictory sermon, old meeting-house, June 8, 1806.

7. Dedication sermon, new meeting-house, June 11, 1806.

8. Sermon at gathering of Second Church, Dor- chester, Jan. 1, 1808.

9. Valedictory sermon, Burlington, Vt., Jan. 9, 1817.

10. Sermon at ordination of Samuel Clark, Prince- ton, June 18, 1817.

11. Century sermon, church in Brookline, Nov. 9, 1817.

12. Dudlean Lecture on Errors of Church of Rome, at Cambridge, Oct. 24, 1821.

13. Sermon at ordination of Rev. Benjamin Hun- toon, Canton, Jan. 30, 1822.

14. Sermon, " Second Century," Dorchester, June 17, 1830.

15. Charge at ordination of Rev. T. B. Fox, Aug. 3, 1831.

16. Sermon in Liberal Preacher, February, 1835.

17. Reminiscences of Forty Years, Brookline, March 19, 1837.

18. Address at funeral of Thomas A. Davis, Newton, Cambridgeport, and Roxbury. During this mayor, at Boston, Nov. 25, 1845.

19. Address at opening of town hall, Oct. 14, the preachers of neighboring towns supplying the 1845.

20. Address at Brookline jubilee, fifty years, , prayer for foreign missions was held in the house of March 15, 1847.

21. Disciples called Christians, . Religious Muga- zine, August, 1848.

22. Election sermon, Jan. 3, 1849.

Rev. Frederic Newman Knapp, son of Jacob Newman Knapp, of Walpole, N. H., graduated at (Harvard College) 1843, Divinity School Harvard 52

College, July, 1847. In April, 1847, Dr. Pierce asked that a colleague might be settled with him. On the 10th of August of that year, while Mr. Knapp was in the Divinity School, he received a call to be- come a colleague pastor with Rev. Dr. Pierce, which call was accepted, and Mr. Knapp was publicly or- dained as their colleague pastor, Oct. 6, 1847, and continued to preach for seven years. He was much esteemed as a pastor, and was succeeded by Rev. Dr. Frederic H. Hedge in October, 1856. Dr. Hedge, son of Professor Levi Hedge, of Cambridge, was born Dec. 12, 1805 ; graduated at Harvard College, 1825; settled in West Cambridge, Mass., in 1828; pastor of a Unitarian Church in Bangor, Me., 1835

R. I., 1850 to 1856; from October, 1856, to 1872, ; pastor of the First Church, Brookline, where he la- bored for sixteen years. Dr. Hedge married Lucy, daughter of Rev. Dr. John Pierce before mentioned. He is now a professor in Harvard College, Cam- bridge.

Rev. Howard N. Brown is the present pastor, son of Mather C. and S. A. Brown, born in Columbia, N. Y., May 11, 1849 ; fitted for college at Whites- town, N. Y .; studied at Harvard College Divinity School, and was ordained at Ilion, N. Y., where he | remained 1871-72. Settled in Brookline, Sept. 1, 1873.

Baptist Church .- The origin of this church may be said to date from 1805. In that year Mrs. Beu- lah Griggs, a member of Rev. Dr. Pierce's church, and the mother of Deacon Thomas Griggs, now liv- ing at the age of ninety-six years (in 1884), in- vited Rev. Joseph Grafton, well known as " Father Grafton," to preach in Brookline. The first service was held in Thomas Griggs' house Oct. 27, 1806, from the text, " Fear God and keep his command- ments." And the result of this meeting may be said to have been the birth of the present church. Those who held Baptist views in this town previous to 1827 were in attendance on church worship in year meetings began to be held in private houses, want. In June of that year the first concert of Edward Hall, at the corner of Washington and School Streets. The number of attendants on the services increased beyond the means of private houses, and in the month of February, 1828, a lease of a lot of land where " Joyce's" building now stands was secured, and a chapel twenty-six by thirty-six was erected, which was ready to occupy in March of the

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same year. On the 5th of June, 1828, thirty-six individuals-eleven brethren and twenty-five sisters -were regularly recognized as the " Baptist Church of Brookline."

Names of members constituting the church :

Brethren.

Deacon Elijah Corey.

Elijah Corey, Jr.

Deacon Timothy Corey.

David Hart.

Thomas Griggs.

Samuel C. Davis.

David Coolidge.

Thomas Seaverns.

Daniel Sanderson.

Arthur Sumner.

Thaddeus Graves.

Sisters.

Beulah Griggs. Mary Corey (1st).

Mary Irving (2d). Mary Pool.

Nancy Pierce.

Harriet F. Griggs.

Mehitable Stone.

Maria Griggs.

Lucinda Reckard.

Helen Maria.

Sarah Richards.

Sarah Hall.

Margaret Simmons. Elizabeth Griggs. Eliza Hart.

Eliza May.

Mary Ann Corey.

Susan Coolidge.

Matilda Ellis.

Mary Corey (2d).

Sarah Griggs.

Elizabeth Corey.

Rebecca Stetson.

Susan Cheever.

Almira Sanderson.

" The above-named brethren and sisters were regu- larly dismissed and recommended by their respective churches, and constituted agreeable to their request into a church by the name of the Baptist Church in Brookline, on June 5th, 1828."-Church Records.

At the expiration of one month after the organiza- tion of the church, it became evident that increased accommodations must be had. Accordingly, five gen- tlemen deeply interested pledged themselves to pay for a new church, viz. : Deacon Elijah Corey, forty per cent. ; Deacon Timothy Corey and Deacon Thomas Griggs, twenty per cent. each ; and David Coolidge and Elijah Corey, Jr., ten per cent. each. The corner- stone was laid Aug. 15, 1828, and the new church was built and dedicated Nov. 20, 1828. The chapel was converted into a parsonage, which now stands the first building south of the new church on Harvard Street, and is occupied by Thomas S. Brown.

On the 25th of March, 1830, Rev. Joseph M. Driver, a student at Andover Theological Seminary, was recognized as pastor, continuing till November following. The next pastor was Rev. Joseph An- drews Warne, D.D., of London, England, a graduate of Stepney College, recognized April 14, 1831, and preached his farewell sermon Jan. 29, 1837, and soon after was recognized pastor of the Third Baptist Church in Providence, R. I. During the past few years he resided on his farm at Frankford, Pa., a sub- urb of Philadelphia, where he died March 10, 1881. He is said to have been " mighty in the Scriptures," . discreet, and true."

and was highly esteemed and his memory affection- ately cherished. He was a man of great force of will and of marked logical power. In his purchase of land he was remarkably fortunate, so much so that by shrewd management he became the possessor of a comfortable property. Having no children, he gave his property, amounting to forty thousand dollars, to the Baptist Missionary Union, reserving a small in- come only during his life.

Following Mr. Warne was the long and faithful pastorate of Rev. William Hosmer Shailer, D.D., of Haddam, Conn., where he was born Nov. 20, 1807. He was the son of Smith and Lucinda (Shailer) Shailer. His early life was spent in teaching, and pursued a course of study preparatory to entering Wil- braham Seminary ; afterwards entered the institu- tion at Hamilton, N. Y., now known as Madison University, where he graduated in 1835; studied theology in the Newton Theological Institution nearly one year. In December of that year he assumed control of the Literary Institute at Suffield, Conn. He was ordained at Deep River, Conn., Feb. 26, 1836, and thus was teacher as well as preacher for about one and one-half years, when he accepted a call from the First Baptist Church in Brookline, commencing his labors there Sept. 1, 1837. For ten years he was secretary of the Massachusetts Baptist Association ; for thirteen years was secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and seven years member of its executive committee. He was always deeply interested in the work of education, rendering valu- able service in the public schools. He became a trustee of the Newton Theological Institution in 1853, an office which he held till his decease. In December, 1853, he accepted an urgent call to settle with the First Baptist Church in Portland, Me., com- mencing his duties there March 19, 1854, preaching his farewell sermon to the Brookline Church Feb. 26, 1854. He was pastor of the church in Portland for nearly twenty-four years, and resigned in August, 1877. He died in Portland, Feb. 23, 1881. For nearly all the time he lived in Portland, and one of the board of managers the larger portion of the time. For twenty-five years was a trustee of Colby Univer- sity. In 1858 he became editor and proprietor of Zion's Advocate, which position he retained until 1873. A school building in the city of Portland was named Shailer School, as an appreciation of his services in the cause of education.

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History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 172

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1534

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1534