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ground. Mr. Joseph Marion, son of John Marion, Jr., died in Boston, at the residence of his son-in-law, William Story, Esy., in 176 . His house was burnt down, in King-street, in the great fire of March 11, 1760. Being quite ill at this time, and confined to his bed, he was removed to Mr. Story's house. His tomb is in the Granary Ground, numbered 172. He was well educated; one of the most important men in Boston ; president at public meetings ; held responsible situations ; was esteemed for his integrity and high moral worth. Ile was appointed secretary of state, pro. tem., 1714. Ile was register of probate in 1716, and was a lawyer by profession. In the New England Weekly Journal of November 25, 1723, . is the following notice : " Whereas a scheme is projected for erecting an Assurance Office for honses and household goods from loss and damage by fire in any part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, by the name of the New England Saving Fire Office in Boston [&c., &c.]. That the said Scheme or Proposals may be seen at the office of Mr. Joseph Marion, on the North side of the Court House on Exchange in Boston." Mr. Marion had great respect, veneration and esteein, for woman, her character and intellectual endowments ; he edu- cated his daughters as he would have educated sons, follow- ing the example of his honored father-in-law, Rev. Mr. Thomas Bridge. They were accomplished in the languages, painting, drawing and needlework. "Mr. Joseph Marion was very aristocratic and exclusive, valued himself upon his pedigree, had a genealogy of his family upon parchment, illuminated and painted as though it had just come from the limner's and printer's hands." As I have been informed by a relative of his wife's, this parchment was destroyed when his house was burnt. "He was the first person who put up tablets or mon- uments upon the church walls in Boston." He would not allow his remains to be put in the tomb with his wife and daughter. He requested his son-in-law, Mr. William Story, and the sexton, at his death, to place his coffin in a certain spot, which he had often pointed out to them. At his decease,
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upon digging, they found a brick tomb, cemented, large enough to contain one coffin.
Anna Marion, daughter of Joseph Marion, died at Ipswich, 17 -. She was remarkable for her intellectual culture, well- disciplined mind, and ardent patriotism. She translated the Old and New Testament from the original.
Ellen Marion, daughter of Joseph and Ellen Bridge Marion, was married to Theodore Coaker, of Dorchester, October 14, 1736. Dr. Coaker practised medicine at Providence, R. I. Mrs. Ellen M. Coaker died --. She left one child, Ellen Marion Coaker, who died young.
Elizabeth Marion, daughter of Joseph and Ellen Bridge Marion, was married to William Story, son of Elisha and Sarah Cooper Story (widow Renauf), August 5, 1741. Their children follow : Ellen, born May 8, 1742; Elisha, born December 3, 1743 ; Elizabeth Anna, born September 9, 1745. Mrs. Elizabeth Marion Story died October 15, 1745, aged 25 years.
Ellen Story, daughter of William Story, was married to Capt. Thomas Dodge, of Ipswich ; died March 16th, 1767.
Elisha Story, son of William Story, married Ruth Rud- dock, daughter of Major John Ruddock, September 13, 1767. Their children follow : Tabitha, John Ruddock, Abiel Rud- dock and Elisha Marion, -twin sons, - Rebecca, William, and Ellen. Dr. Story was surgeon in Colonel Little's regi- ment, marched to Lexington, April 10, 1775, and fought as a volunteer from Concord to Boston. At the battle of Bunker's Ilill, on the 17th of June, 1775, he fought in the trench, at the side of his friend, Dr. Joseph Warren, until obliged to assist in removing a wounded friend to Winter Ilill ; " where," as he remarked, " I passed the night taking care of the wounded and dying." He was at Trenton and other battles. When his regiment was disbanded, he returned to Boston, and resumed his practice as a physician. The small-pox becoming virulent in Marblehead, the selectmen invited hito to inoculate in that town. After the town was cleansed from
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that loathsome disease, he was strongly urged to remain there, and practise his profession. He was a leader of one of the gangs of the " sons of liberty," who destroyed the tea in Bos- ton harbor. Also one of the two commanders of the " sons of liberty," who gagged and bound the sentinels, and seized the two brass field-pieces placed upon the Boston Common to over- awe the inhabitants. Ile was an earnest and devoted " son of liberty." His first wife, Mrs. Ruth R. Story, died in Mar- blehead, March 21, 1778. Ile married, for his second wife, Mehetable Pedrick, daughter of Major John and Mehetable Stacey Pedrick, November 29, 1778. Their children were as f.Allows : Joseph, Hetty, Isaac, Eliza, Harriot, Charlotte, Car- oline, Horace Cullen, Franklin Howard, Frederick Washington Chathami, and Eloisa Adeline. Dr. Elisha Story died in Mar- blehead, August 27, 1805. He was an eminent physician, in extensive practice, and assisted at the birth of four thousand and seventeen children.
Elizabeth Anna Story, of Boston, daughter of William and Elizabeth Marion Story, married JJohn Heard, of Ipswich. They had three children : Joanna, Mary and John.
Prudence Marion (widow Taylor), daughter of Joseph and Ellen Bridge Marion, was married to John Jenkins, of Bos- ton, merchant, July 23, 1749, by Rev. Timothy Cutler. Their children follow : Elizabeth, born September 14, 1750; Jere- miah Jones, born June 2, 1755; Lewis, born April IS, 1757 ; Prudence Marion, born April 17, 1759 ; Susanna, born June 20, 1761 ; Heroine, born June 12, 1766. Mr. John Jenkins was an eminent merchant, and was burnt out in King-street, in 1760. Removed to Newport, R. I. He died at Hudson. Mrs. Prudence Marion Jenkins died at Hudson, N. Y.
Elizabeth Jenkins, daughter of John and Prudence, married Capt. John Thurston, of Newport.
Jeremiah Jones Jenkins, of Providence, R. I., son of John and Prudence, married Susanna Chace. He died at Provi- denee in 1814.
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Lewis Jenkins, of Newburyport, son of John and Prudence, married Rebecca Hooper, of Marblehead.
Prudence Marion Jenkins, daughter of John and Prudence, married Dr. John Chace, of Providence, December, 1778.
Miss Susanna Jenkins, daughter of John and Prudence, died unmarried.
Heroine Jenkins, daughter of John and Prudence, married Dr. John Tolman, of Hudson.
John Marion, Sen., by will, left a very large estate in Bos- ton, and a farm in Watertown. Proved February 12, 1705. Wife Sara, sons John, Isaac, Samuel, Joseph and . Benjamin ; daughter Sarah, wife of John Balston ; daughter Thomasine,. . wife of James Pennyman ; John, 3d, grandson, son of Sam- neł.
Isaac Marion, son of John, married Phobe -. They had one daughter, Mary. Isaae Marion was admitted to the First Church, 1096; died in Boston, June 25, 1724, aged 72 years. By his will, proved July 13, 1724, he gave all his property to his wife and her heirs. Mrs. Phoebe Marion died October 27, 1724 (King's Chapel Ground).
Samuel Marion, son of John, married, Ist, Hannah --. Their children follow : John, tertius, born December 25, 1681; Hannah, born June 23, 1685; Mary, born June 15, 1687. Mrs. Hannah Marion died -. He married, 2d,
Mary -. Their children follow : Samuel, born June 7, 1689; Katherine, born September 15, 1600 ; Edward, born December 2, 1692; Isaac, born November 8, 1694 ; Elizabeth, born November 20, 1696 ; Joseph, born December 18, 1098; Joanna, born May 10, 1701; John, born. April 5, 1703; Joseph, born July 22, 1705. Mr. Samuel Marion died 172 -. Ile was a member of the Artillery Company. His will was dated April 11, 1726, son Edward sole executor; " wife Mary," sons Samuel Marion, Edward, Isaac, John, Sarah Nash, Hannah Marion, Mary Godfrey, Katherine Davis, Eliza- beth Blanchard ; his property to be divided into nine parts.
Samuel Marion, son of Samnel Marion, married, Ist, Mary
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Ellise, May 12, 1712, who died He married, 21, Mary Moss, April 15, 1714. Their children follow : Samuel, born June 2, 1715; John, born August 17, 1717 ; Mary, born April 16, 1719 ; Sarah, born March 26, 1720. Mrs. Mary Marion died - -. Ile married, 3d, Aun Phillips, Deeci- ber 21, 1721. Their children follow : Sarah, born November 12, 1722 ; Samuel, born May 17, 1724. Mr. Samuel Marion died ---. Mrs. Ann Marion died -.
Edward Marion, son of Smanel, Sen., and Mary, was admit- ted to the First Church, 1713; married Mary Renalls, Novem- ber 15, 1715.
Isaac Marion, son of Samuel and Mary, married Rebecca Knight, July 11, 1717. Their children follow : Isaac, born March 1, 1719; Ignatius, born August 15, 1724 ; John, born January 24, 1726; Edward, born May 10, 1728 ; Rebecca, born October 18, 1730. Mr. Isaac Marion was admitted to the First Church, 1715 ; died Mrs. Rebecca Marion
died -. Rebecca Marion, daughter of Isaac, married Joseph Wainwright, January 2, 1750.
John Marion, son of Samuel and Mary, was admitted to the First Church, 1726 ; married Dorothy Tudor, August 23, 1728. Their children follow : John, born July 24, 1720 ; Rebecca, born October 2, 1,30; Dorothy, born April, 1732. Mr. John Marion died - -. His wife Dorothy died
Daniel Marion married Elizabeth Mann, 1727.
Abigail Marion, daughter of Joseph and Abigail Marion, was baptized at the First Church, February 23, 1760.
Sarah Marion, daughter of John, Sen., and Sara Marion, married John Balston.
Thomasine Marion, daughter of John, Sen., and Sara Mar- ion, married James Peunyman.
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THE PROCTOR FAMILY. (p. 52.) JOIIN PROCTOR,
born in England, 1588; died at Ipswich, 1660. Ilis children, John and Benjamin.
JOIN PROCTOR,
born at Ipswich, and died (by order of court) * at Salem, Aug., 1692. Married Elizabeth Bassett, of Lynn. His children, John, Martha, Benjamin, Mary, Thorndike, William, Eliza- beth, Joseph, Abigail, Samuel, and Elizabeth Verry.
BENJAMIN PROCTOR,
born at Salem, 1670; died at Salem, 1720. Married Whit- tridge, December 8, 1604. His children, Mary Priscilla, Sarah and John.
JOHN PROCTOR,
born at Salem, 1705. Died September 3, 1773. Married Lydia. Waters, December 14, 1727. His children, John, Lydia, Benjamin, Mary, Sarah, Sylvester, Prudence, Joseph, Daniel.
JOIIN PROCTOR,
born September 14, 1728. Died August 27, 1771. Married Mary Eppes, 1751; do. Ruth Rea, 1762. His children, Mary, Hannah, Lydia, Elizabeth, Sarah, Anna, John, John- son, Hannah, Billy.
* John Proctor was one of the victims of the delusion commonly known as Salem Witchcraft. His execution took place on Gallows Hill, in Salem. A letter from him, dated July 234, 1692, addressed to Rev. Cotton Mather and others, shows him to have possessed a mind and principles far in advance of the age in which he lived. Although his life was sacrificed by an infatuated and base faction, his condition was far preferable to that of those who condemned him. Let the mitto over his grave be,
" Obsta principiis."
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JOHNSON PROCTOR,
born October 20, 1765; died November 11, 1851. Married Lydia Waters, December 31, 1789; do. Mary Putnam, February 23, 1509.
Children of Johnson Proctor :
John Waters Proctor, born July 30, 1791.
Lydi : Proctor, " May 16, 1793; died Apr., 1798.
Lucinda Proctor,
Jan. 31 1795.
Lydia Waters Proctor,
Mar. 14, 1798.
Abel Proctor,
" Mar. 28, 1800.
Israel Putnam Proctor, Sept. 1, 1811; d. Oct. 16, '51.
Aaron Cheever Proctor,
Nov. 23, 1813.
JOHN W. PROCTOR,
born July 30, 1791. Married Mary Ingersol Osborn, May 23, 1825, who died May 19, 1845 ; second wife, Sally W. Wel- lington, March 1, 1852.
Children of John Waters Proctor :
Mary Ingersol Proctor, born Aug. 3, 1825.
Elizabeth Osborn Proctor, " Sept. 11, 1827. Dec'd.
John Augustus Holyoke Proctor,
Aug. 1, 1820.
Elizabeth Osborn Proctor,
Oct. 16, 1831.
John Webster Proctor,
Dec. 7, 1834. Dec'd.
Caroline Waters Proctor,
Mar. 26, 1836.
Augusta Oshorn Proctor,
Dec. 28, 1838. Dec'd.
Henry Harrison Proctor,
Dec. 18, 1840.
Edward Waters Proctor,
66 Mar. 4, 1842.
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BELL AND CRAFTS. (p. 191.)
This tomh has the name of John Gray on the ancient plan accompanying this volume, put on through mistake. It was built in the year 1790 by Thomas Crafts and Thomas Bell. Thomas Crafts, Sen., father of Thomas, was the first person
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deposited in the tomb. He died in 1704, aged 82. Thomas Crafts Bell, a child of Thomas Bell, was the second. Aun ('rafts, wife of Thomas Crafts, Sen., died January 31st, 1796, aged 85. They left four children, William, Thomas, Hannah (afterwards the wife of Thomas Bell) and Ebenezer. Eben. and William migrated to South Carolina, and entered int) business as merchants. By the French spoliations they he- came bankrupt. Their descendants have, to this day, demands against the United States government for these long-neglected claims. Thomas Crafts was born April 9, 1767 ; died August 26, 1798, aged 31 years. He was an attorney-at-law, and received the appointment as Consul of Bordeaux. He is spoken of as a man of education, good heart, sound morals, and genuine wit, well informed in the politics of his country, strongly attached to its true interests, which he defended with zeal through the columns of the Columbian Centinel. Thomas Bell married Hannah Crafts, daughter of Thomas Crafts, Son. They had eleven children : Daniel, Nancy, William, Thomas C., Sally, Betsey, John, Edward, Samuel, Hannah and Frances.
They left towu the day before the battle of Bunker Hill, The father was not allowed to go. The British prohibited the carrying away of any provisions, being besieged by the Americans, and their supply cut off. But the mother con- trived to get a feather bed into the ferry-boat, with a couple of legs of bacon, and some flour, sugar, &c., sewed up in it, before the sentinel had an opportunity of sticking his bayonet into it. They arrived safely, with their children and provisions, on the Charlestown side, where the old Charlestown bridge now is. So strict were the orders carried out in regard to pro- visions, that a sentinel on Boston neck, leading to Roxbury, touk away the gingerbread from the little children, saying " it was too good for rebels." Thomas Bell died November 23, 1808, aged 82, and was buried in this tomh. Hannah Bell did September S, 1317, aged 80, and was likewise buried in this tomb. Of the children, Daniel, Thomas, Nancy, William, Sally, EAward, Hannah and Frances, were buried in this tomh.
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John and Betsey settled in Greenfield, in this state. Samuel is now living, upwards of eighty-four years of age. Daniel Rell, eldest son of Thomas and Hannah, served as a captain in the army of the Revolution, and was in the battle of Banker Hill ; he also served his country in the war of 1812. He died October 9th, 1831, in the Elst year of his age. Sarah, his wife, died August, 1813. William D. Bell, son of Daniel, died in New York, September G, 1843, aged 54, and was buried in this tomb. He was married, January 12, 1812, to Joann Parkman, daughter of William and Lydia Parkman, who died at the ages, William 43, and Lydia 84, and were buried in the Copp's Ilill Burial-ground, in the tomb of Jonathan Mountfort, being descendants of that family. The descendants of Thomas Bell and Hannah Crafts, five genera- tions, are now in this tomb.
Thomas Bell, of Roxbury, was admitted freeman in 1636. Eight persons of the name of Bell had graduated at the New England colleges, of whom was Hon. Summuel Bell, LL. D., of Chester, N. H., and is a grandson of John Bell, an early inhab- itant of Londonderry, N. H. Thomas Bell, member of the Artillery Company, 1654, may have been the one who died in Boston, June 7th, 1654. His son Joseph was born in 1653.
William Bell built the King's Chapel as far as the gallery windows. A piece of stone, while he was at work in the chapel, struck him in the eye; inflammation set in, and in three days after the accident he died. He was buried under the chapel. After the tomb was built, they pronounced it fit for use ; but, while they were removing his remains to the tomb, the roof fell in, the men narrowly escaping with their lives. Ilis body was then placed in a grave, until the tomb could be rebuilt.
Nancy Dickason, whose maiden name was Nancy Bell, daughter of Thomas Bell, from whom the above information was received, died suddenly at Lynn, May 21th, 1852, up-
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wards of 80 years of age, in three days after these facts were obtained. B. -
ARMS. - Azure on a chevron argent, between three lions' heads, erased or, gorged with a collar of the first, charged with three bezarts, as many church bells of the field orna- mented of the third.
('rest, a human heart between two wings.
Motto, " Forward, kind heart."
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PITTS. (p. 76.)
Ilon. James Pitts graduated at Harvard University in 1731. He was an eminent merchant, and a man of great prominence in the social and political circles of his day. He married a sister ef Governor Bowdoin, and died during the siege of Bos- ton, leaving the following issue : three sons, Jolm, Samuel
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and Lendall, and one daughter, Elizabeth, who married Col. Warner, of Portsmouth, N. HI.
His eldest son, the Hou. John Pitts, was a graduate of Harvard University, and, according to Frothingham's "Siege of Boston " (page 22), " a man of large wealth and large intlu- ence, a zealous patriot, and one of the Provincial Congress, and on other boards." He is mentioned in the works and letters of John Adams, and was a confidential correspondent of Samuel Adams, during the Revolution. He was associated with such men as Bowdoin (his uncle), Hancock, Quincy, Prescott and James Otis ; and acted with John Scollay, Sam- uel Austin and Oliver Wendell, as one of the selectmen of Boston, during the siege ; and met General Washington, and tendered to him, in writing, the thanks and congratulations of the town, when it was evacuated by the British. At his house and at his father's the patriotic elubs were held and entertained. Ile married a daughter of Judge John Tyng, and their only child, Elizabeth, married Robert Brinley, Esy., of Tyngsborough, where she now resides.
Samuel Pitis, the second son of the Hon. James Pitts and Elizabeth Bowdoin his wife, was born in Boston, in 1745; died March 6, 1805. Ile was a gentleman of great hospital- ity and refined manners, and was a zealous patriot. Ile mar- ried a daughter of William Davis, Esq., of Boston, and left the following issue, namely : James, Thomas, John, William Len- dall, Mary, Sarah Chardon and Samuel.
Lendall Pitts, the youngest son of the Hon. James Pitts and Elizabeth Bowdoin his wife, was born in Boston, and died December 3Ist, 1787. Ile took an active local part in the struggle for independence, and, as is related in Hewes' biography of him, was a member and leader in the celebrated "Tea Party." He was a merchant of Boston. Married Eliz- abeth, daughter of Timothy Fitch, Esq., of Medford, and left the following issue, namely: William, who died in Boston, June, 1846, aged 67; James Lendall, who died in Boston, August, 1798, aged 18; Elizabeth Warner (the wife and
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widow of Gerard Cazeaux, formerly French Consul at Ports- mouth, N. H., and subsequently consul-general at New York) was born in Boston, December 25th, 1782, and died at Med- ford, July 13, 1851.
Margaret Gordon, second daughter of Lendall Pitts, was born in Boston, in 1784, and died at the residence of Benja- min Joy, Esq., August 17, 1823, aged 39.
Charles, third son of Lendall and Elizabeth Pitts, was born in Boston, and died in 1806. P.
APTHORP. (p. 135.)
Charles Apthorp, whose monument is in King's Chapel, on the north side, near the vestry, was son of John Apthorp and Susan his wife, whose maiden name was Ward, of the family of Lord Ward, of Bixley, now Bexley, England. Her portrait, rainted by Sir Peter Lely, and showing her to have been remarkably beautiful, remains in the family.
Charles Apthorp was born in England, A. D. 1698, and was educated at Eton. After the death of his father, he came to New England, and became one of the most distinguished merchants of Boston. He was paymaster and commissary, under the English government, of the land and naval forces quartered in Boston. On the 13th January, 1726, he married Grizzell, daughter of John Eastwicke, who married Griselda Lloyd, daughter of Sir John Lloyd, of Somersetshire, England, who assisted in conveying King Charles II. to France, after the battle of Worcester. To this family belonged James Lloyd, who emigrated to America about 1670, and, having resided at Shelter Island, and subsequently at Rhode Island, finally set- tled in Boston, where he died in 1693. His son Henry mar- ried a daughter of John Nelson, a relative of the families of Grenville and Temple. The traditions of the Lloyd family show that it had been both ancient and respectable ; while one of its nearer ancestors having been " Doctor in Physic" to
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Queen Elizabeth probably gave a professional destiny to Dr. James Lloyd, the eminent physician of Boston in the latter half of the last century.
Charles and Grizzelle Apthorp had issne eleren sons and seven daughters, of which large family fifteen survived their father.
Charles Ward Apthorp, the eldest son, married, in New York, Mary MeEvers. His children were three daughters, whose married names were Williamson, Vanden Heuvel, and Shaw. He had also three sons, Charles, James and George, who died unmarried. Of his daughters, Charlotte Augusta was the only one who left descendants. Her husband was John Cornelius Vanden Heuvel, a Dutch gentleman of fortune, who had been Governor of Demarara, and afterwards settled in New York. Maria Eliza, their eldest daughter, married John C. Hamilton, a son of the celebrated Alexander Hamil- ton ; another daughter, Justine, Mr. Bibby ; and a third, Susan Annette, Thomas Gibbes, of South Carolina.
Grizzell, the eldest daughter of Charles Apthorp, married Barlow Trecothick, afterwards Lord Mayor of London.
Susan, the second daughter, married, 8 October, 1734, Dr. Thomas Bulfinch, and had issue Charles, who married Hannah Apthorp, Anna, who married George Storer, and Elizabeth, who married Joseph Coolidge. She died 15 February, 1815, aged 80 years.
John, the second son, went to England, and became con- nected in business with the house of Tomlinson & Treeothick. Ile married Alicia Mann, of Windsor, sister of Sir Horace Mann, many years resident British minister at Fiorence. Mr. Apthorp embarked for Italy, with his wife, who was in a very hazardous state of health, and who died at Gibraltar, leaving two daughters, under the care of their grandmother, at Wind- sor. He pursued his travels in Italy, and afterwards returned to Boston, where he married Hannah Greenleaf, daughter of Stephen Greenleaf, high sheriff of the county of Suffolk, under the British government. Ile lived about four years at Brighton, when he embarked, with his wife, from New York
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for Charleston, S. C., to enjoy a warmer winter climate ; and they were lost at sea. The children, two daughters and one son, were left under the care of their grandfather, who attended most faithfully to their interest and education, and lived to see his granddaughters married, one to Charles Bul- finch, her cousin, and the other to Charles Vaughan, son of Samuel Vaughan, Esq., of London. The son, the late Col. John T. Apthorp, married Grace Foster, who lived only one year, leaving an infant. In another year he married her twin sister Mary, by whom he had a numerous family.
East Apthorp, the fourth son, was born in Boston in 1733. He received his preparatory education at the Boston Latin School, and was afterwards sent to England, and admitted a student of Jesus College, Cambridge. At the university he formed acquaintance with some of the most eminent men of his day, whose friendship was of great service to him in after life. Having completed his studies, and taken orders, Mr. Apthorp was selected by the Society for Propagating the Gos- pel as a proper person to be established as a clergyman of the Church of England at Cambridge, in Massachusetts. A church was built, which still stands, and for its chaste proportions is much admired. The establishment was, however, viewed with jealousy, as a step to the introduction of Episcopacy in America, and an attempt to influence the students of the college in their religious opinions. A controversy ensued, which was carried on between him and Dr. Mayhew with acuteness ; but with so much acrimony on the part of his opponent, as rendered his situation unpleasant, and deter- mined him to return to his friends in England. He was there soon made vicar of Croydon, and some years after was pre- sented to the rectory of Bow Church, in London, hy his friend and college companion, Bishop Porteus. fle retained these livings until about the year 1790, when, being afflicted with a dimness of sight, which threatened the total loss of that fac- ulty, be resigned them, in exchange for the prebend of Fins- bury. Ile then retired to pass the evening of life amidst the
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