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Brighton, church in, 161. Brock, Rev. John, 89. Building Committee of present
church, report of, 255.
Burials, manner of, in 1641, 40.
Cambridge, the name,60 ; first church in, 21, 24; noted men, 28; schools,
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41; character of founders, 44 ; con- dition in 1647, 113; in 1792, 173; in 1835, 228; church in Cambridge village, 114; Cambridge Farms, pe- tition to be set off, 132; church in northwest precinct, 152; church on south side of the river, 161; action at the Revolution, 153, 163.
Cambridge Farms, set off, 182. Cambridge Platform, 32.
Cambridgeport, church in, 185; First Evangelical Church in, 188.
Cambridge village, new church or- ganized in, 114.
Champney, Richard, 29, 265.
Charlestown, Covenant of
First
Church in, 32.
Chauncy, President, 109, 116, 119, 123.
Children, church - membership of, 78, 236.
Church discipline, 38, 147, 178; church plate, 178, 206, 208.
Clark, Jonas, 129, 131, 265.
College church, formation of, 181 - 184.
Collins, Edward, 30, 265.
Confessions, Shepard's book of, 28.
Congregational church. What, 31.
Committee to inspect manners of Christians, 149.
Confession of Faith and Form of Ad- mission to the Communion of the Church, 1872, 267.
Contributions, taken every Sabbath afternoon, 38; mode of collecting, 39; different objects of, 130; by scholars, 130.
Corlet, Elijah, 30, 41, 45, 61, 115.
Cotton, Rev. John, 8, 10, 11, 18, 26, 27, 28, 52, 54, 57, 92, 95.
Covenant assented to by those who desired baptism for themselves, 136; by certain persons in order to their children's being baptized, 137; Covenant, Half-way, 111, 112. Daggett, Oliver E., 225.
Dana, Miss Sarah Ann, gift of land, 201.
Danforth, Thomas, 30.
Darley, Sir Richard, 16, 51.
Day, Matthew, 29.
Day, Stephen, 42.
Deacon's, 35, 265.
Decisions of Supreme Court of Mas- sachusetts and United States, 203, 271.
Dedication of present church, 252.
Dignifying the meeting-house, 37.
Discipline, 38, 147, 178. Downing, George, 118.
Dudley, Deputy-Governor, 6, 26.
Dunster, Henry, 30, 43, 45, 61, 102 - 110.
Dunton, John, 29.
Eaton, Nathaniel, 29, 60, 61.
Ecclesiastical Synod, first in Amer- ica, 56.
Elders, 35.
Elders, ruling, 35, 264.
Eliot, John, 7, 43, 66, 89.
Eliot, John [Jr.], 115.
Endicott, Governor, 4.
Episcopal Church, 161, 186.
Everett, Edward, 186.
Families, inspection of, 125.
Familists, 53.
Farnsworth, James D., 180.
Farwell, Stephen T., 181, 250, 255, 256, 266.
Felton, President, 230.
First Church in Cambridge, organ- ized, 21, 24 ; Covenant and Creed, 32 ; officers, 35; members in 1658, 116, - in 1829, 199, 251, - in 1835, 252,-in 1872, 271; lands, 150; stock and funds of, 175, 205; mode of admission, 153, 267; during and after the Revolution, 153, 163, 164; communion, 38, 177 ; plate, 178, 206, 208; library, 179; Sabbath school, 180 ; separates from first parish, 188; worships in Court House, 198; Ecclesiastical Council, 199 ; con- nected with Shepard Congrega- tional Society, 200 ; relinquishes property, 203 ; meeting-houses, 249 ; officers from the beginning, 264; Confession of Faith and Form of Admission, 267 ; membership, 271.
First Evangelical Congregational Church organized at Cambridge- port, 188.
First Parish, surrender of church property to, 203 - 206 ; meeting- house of, 202.
Flint, Francis, 256, 266.
Flynt, Tutor, 162.
Form for the ordaining of a minis- ter of the gospel, used when Mr. Brattle was ordained, 135.
Form of admission to the church adopted 1872, 267.
Frost, Gideon, 175, 176, 266.
Fuller, Samuel, 4.
Fuller, Thomas, 88.
Funerals, how conducted in 1641, 40.
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INDEX.
Goffe, Whalley and, 118.
Gookin, Daniel, 30, 66, 114, 116, 129. Gookin, Mrs. Hannah, 133, 143. Gookin, Nathaniel, invited to assist President Oakes in the minis- try, 128; ordained as pastor, 129; amount of Sabbath collections, - collections for the redemption of captives, - students' contribution, 130 ; reports of his sermons by Joseph Baxter and Benjamin Col- man, - a Fellow of the College, - his death, - funeral charges, 131. Gray, Asa, 256.
Green, Samuel, 29, 45, 67.
Green, Samuel, 201.
Half-way Covenant, 111, 112.
Hampden, John, 25.
Harlakenden, Richard, 18.
Harlakenden, Roger, 14, 19, 28, 30, 70.
Hartford, founded, 10.
Harvard College. Founded, 59; be- quest of Harvard, 59 ; under N. Eaton, 60 ; overseers, 61; Presi- dent Dunster, 30, 43, 45, 61, 102; Chauncy, 109, 116, 119, 123; Hoar, 89, 116, 123; Oakes, 89, 120, 128; Rogers, 89, 145 ; Leverett, 126, 143, 146. Mather, 116, 133, 135,
146; Wadsworth, 146 ; Langdon,
155; Willard, 171 ; Quincy, 124,
160; Felton, 230; in 1798, 174; church in, 181.
Harvard Hall, burning of, 161.
Harvard, John, 59.
Haynes, John, 26, 28.
Higginson, Francis, 4, 32, 48.
Hill, Aaron, 175, 250, 266.
Hilliard, Timothy, chosen as Mr. Appleton's colleague, - installed as pastor, 156 ; character of, 165; an overseer of the university, - his publications, extracts from, 166 ; description of his person, - his death, 167.
Hilliard, William, 176, 220, 266. Hoar, Leonard, 89, 116, 123.
Holmes, Abiel, his early life, 169; his labors in Georgia, 170; is invited to become the successor of Mr. Hilliard, - his reply, - his instal- lation, 171; his first sermon, 172; survey of the town at this time, 173 ; the church stock, 175; the deacons at this time and their successors, 175; time of observing the Lord's Supper changed, 177; church discipline, 178; church li-
brary established, 179; the sab- bath school, - juvenile library, - library for the Shepard Congrega- tional Society, 180; organization of the College Church, 181 - 184; . dedication of a new meeting-house at Cambridgeport, - a church or- ganized, 185 ; sermon in Episco- pal church, 186 ; introduction of Watts's psalms and hymns, 186; organ introduced, 187; trouble with parish, 188 ; Unitarian As- sociation formed, 189 ; the sep- aration of the First Church and Parish, 188-200; Mr. Nehemiah Adams ordained as colleague pas- tor, 201 ; the transfer of the church property to the parish, 203 - 206 ; farewell sermon, - his death, 208; his ministry, 210; his publications, 212; his offices, 212; his last sermon, 214; his burial, 215; hymn of, 215; sermons in 1829, 221; his resignation, 224 ; his later care of the church, 225; hymn, 253.
Homer, Charles W., deacon, 252, 255, 266.
Hooker, Joanna, 70.
Hooker, Thomas, his history before coming to New England, 7; church organized in Newtown and he chosen pastor, 8 ; the meeting- house, 9; removes with his congre- gation to Hartford, Conn, - is dis- tinguished as a preacher and coun- sellor, - his death, 10.
Hosmer, Zelotes, 230, 252.
Hubbard, William, 88.
Hutchinson, Mrs. Ann, 10, 52 - 57, 131.
Hymn sung at the installation of Mr.
Albro, written by Dr. Holmes, 215, 252.
Indians, provision for, 66 ; Daniel Gookin made superintendent of, 67. Indian College, 66. Jackson, John, 115.
Jenks, Dr., 211, 220, 221.
Johnson, Edward, 87; description of Cambridge in 1652, 113.
Johnson, Marmaduke, 29, 67.
Lafayette, 160.
Lands of the church, 150.
Langdon, President, 155.
Langhorne, Thomas, 36.
Laud, Bishop, 15, 16, 20, 25.
Lectures, 41.
Leverett, President, 126, 143, 146.
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INDEX.
Manifesto Church, 141.
Manning, William, 121.
Marriage among Puritans, 39.
Marriot, Thomas, 27, 118, 265.
Martin, A. C., 255.
Massachusetts Sunday School So- ciety, Dr. Albro's connection with, 235.
Mather, Cotton, 43, 88, 94, 102, 123, 126, 146.
Mather, Increase, 116, 133, 135, 146. Mather, Samuel, 89.
Mckenzie, Alexander, estimate of Dr. Albro's work, 238; invited to the pastorate and declines, 245 ; installed, 245, 253 ; visits Europe, 246 ; new church, 246 ; pastor, 255, 264.
Means, James H., sermon on Dr. Al- bro, 244.
Meeting-house, first, 8, 36, 69, 249 ; second, 70, 114, 249 ; gallery in, 125 ; third, 143, 159, 249 ; fourth, 154, 160, 201, 249; fifth, of parisb, 202 ; fifth, of church, 201, 223, 239, 250 ; sixth, 21, 246, 252, 262. Melledge, James P., 256.
Minister, salary of, 39, 125, 130, 138, 154, 220, 239 ; donations to, 125, 139, 152.
Mitchel, Jonathan, his early life, 90 ; his regard for Shepard, - is made a Fellow of the College, 91 ; the church in Hartford invites him to become their pastor, - Mr. Shep- ard and others induce him to be- come the minister of this church, - his ordination, 92 ; his regard for education, 94 ; his preaching, 95; he marries the widow of Mr. Shepard, 95; his death, 96 ; epi- taph by "J. S.," 97; extract from sketch of his life in the Magnalia, 99 ; his views of doctrine, 101; his trial with President Dunster, 102 ; his influence in the synod held in Boston in 1662, 111 ; his reputa- tion, 112; in influence, 116.
Mitchel, Mistress, 119, 123, 132. Mitchenson, Ruth, 71.
Monis, Judah, 137, 250.
Moore, Josiah, 176, 266.
Morse, Jedediah, 171.
Munro, James, 175, 266.
Munro, James, 176, 177, 220, 266. Munro, Miss Mary, 180.
Munroe, Charles W., 256, 266.
Newell, Rev. William, D. D., 116, 201, 202, 231, 257.
Newtown, founded, 6 ; church in, 8; name changed, 60.
Oakes, Urian, born in England and brought to this country in his childhood, 120; graduates at Har- vard College in 1649, - publishes an almanac for 1650, - preaches his first sermon at Roxbury, - re- turns to England, - is invited to become pastor here, 121; after re- peated delays he arrives, 122; is ordained, - the church observes a day of public thanksgiving, - the minister resides in the new parson- age, - ordination expenses, - he is made a Freeman, - preaches the annual election sermon in 1673, 123 ; becomes President of the College, 124 ; Mr. Nathaniel Goo- kin chosen to assist in pastoral duties, 125 ; Mr. Oakes's death, 126, 128 ; his elegy on the death of Thomas Shepard of Charles- town, 127.
Officers of the church, 35.
Officers of the church from its for- mation in 1636 to 1872, 264 -266. Oliver, Dr. John, 143.
Organ introduced, 187.
Parker, Horatio G., 252, 256. ยท
Parker, Joel (Royall Prof.), 230, 256.
Parsonage erected, 120, 239, 263.
Pastors, 35, 364.
Pelham, Herbert, 30.
Peters, Hugh, 26, 118.
Peirce, Benjamin, 105.
Phillips, Samuel, 89.
Pierce, William, 42.
Pierson, Abraham, 116.
Plymouth, first church in New Eng- land at, 3.
Population of Cambridge in 1647,
113, - in 1790, 173, - in 1835, 228. Prayer meetings, 223.
Preston, Dr., 13.
Prince, Thomas, 184.
Prophesying, 38.
Prout, Mr., 122.
Puritans, who they were, 3 ; first form a Congregational church, 5 ; usages of, 31 - 46.
Quincy, President, 124, 160.
Robinson, John, 89.
Rogers, John, 89.
Rogers, President, 145.
Ruling elders, 35, 264. Russell, Charles Theo., 255, 266.
Sabbath, views of English reformers, 79; of Shepard, 79.
INDEX. 289
Sabbath school, instituted, 180 ; Francis Flint, superintendent, 266. Salary of minister, 39, 125, 130, 138, 154, 220, 239.
Salem, organization of church at, 3. Sands, John L., 256.
Saunders, George S., deacon and clerk, 255, 266.
Saunders, William A., 256, 262.
Savage. Habijah, 131.
Sawyer, Miss Mary Ann, 180.
Schools in Cambridge, 29, 30, 41, 61, 115.
Scrooby, church founded in the vil- lage of, - crosses the seas, and at Plymouth becomes the first church in New England, 3.
Shedd, James A., 266.
Shepard Congregational Society or- ganized, 200.
Shepard, Jeremiah, 88.
Shepard, Jeremy, 29.
Shepard, Joanna, 70.
Shepard, John, 20.
Shepard, Margaret, 18, 51, 52.
Shepard, Samuel, 29, 88.
Shepard, Samuel, 60, 68.
Shepard, Thomas, birth and early life,
12; enters Emmanuel College, 13; appointed a lecturer and receives deacon's orders in the English church, 14 ; is forbidden by the Bishop of London to exercise any ministerial functions in his diocese, 15 ; goes to Buttercrambe, 16 ; his marriage, - goes to Heddon, 17; sails for New England, 18; installed as pastor in Cambridge, 21; his salary, 39, 68; death of his wife, - her character, 50 ; the troubles with Mrs. Hutchinson, 52; an ec- clesiastical synod held at the meet- ing-house in Dunster Street, 56 ; connection with Harvard College, 59 ; his interest in its prosperity, 61 ; discussion with English breth- ren, 64 ; his doctrinal belief, 74 ; his views on the church-member- ship of children, 78, - on the Sab- bath, 79, - on heaven, 81 ; his preaching, 82 ; his ir fluence, 85; his sons, 88; his will, 71; his death, 71.
Shepard, Thomas, 2d, 88, 116, 126, 127.
Shepard, Thomas, 3d, 88.
Shepard, William, 12.
Sherman, John, 97.
Singing, how conducted in 1640, 42, - in 1817, 186.
Skelton, Samuel, 4.
Society of Christian Brethren, meet at the house of Dr. Holmes, 210.
Sparhawke, Esther, 37.
Sternhold and Hopkins's version of the Psalms, 42, 43.
Stickney, Nathaniel N., 256.
Stiles, President, 170, 212.
Stoddard, Solomon, 116.
Stone, John, 129, 265.
Stone, Samuel, 8, 10, 15, 18, 26.
Stoughton, William, 116, 120.
Stowe, Calvin E., 220.
Strafford, 25.
Synod, the first in America, meets here, 56; of 1648, 64.
Taylor, John, 122.
Taylor, Samuel H., 63.
Tauteville, Margaret, 51.
Teacher, 35.
Tenney, Miss Hannah, 180.
Tithing-man, 37.
Unitarianism, 189.
Unitarian Association formed, 189.
Vane, Henry. 24, 26, 55, 56, 118. Wadsworth, President, 146.
Walton, John, 175.
Warland, Owen, 171.
Washington, 154, 160.
Weld, 16, 18. Wendell, Jacob, 152.
Wendell, Oliver, 215.
Whalley and Goffe, 118.
Whitefield, George, 162.
Whitman, Ephraim P., 256.
Wigglesworth, Michael, 116.
Willard, President, 171
Willard, Samue', 116, 135.
Williams. Roger, 28. Willoughby, Francis, 97.
Wilson, John, 26, 55, 56.
Winship, Edward, 29.
Winship, Joanna, 29.
Winthrop, John, 6, 24, 26, 55, 56.
Wiswall, Elder, 115.
Wyeth, Benjamin F., 256.
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