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Their brown log buts peered rudely forth, Mid copse and thicket gray, With fragile tente, that scarcely kept The mocking storms at bay,
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While through the flashing forest wheeled The savage war-dance wild; Yet, 'mid these strange and startling scenes, The Flower of Lincoln smiled.
Months sped their course; the circling year Sealed up its finished scroll; And happiness, with changeless bloom, Breathed fragrance o'er her soul; For, though no costly board was there, Nor guest in pomp arrayed, Yet true love made an Eden home Within that greenwood shade.
But he, alas! whose touch doth turn Warm life to icy clay, Stole on, and from the blanching lip Kissed the sweet soul away, And mournful, 'mid the gnarled roots Of the thicket's broken crown, To scoop that lady's narrow house, The grating spade went down,
For her there was no plumed hearse, No long procession drear, No requiem from the organ's soul, Nor velvet-mantled bier, Though, in her own ancestral elimo, . A tomb of sculptured fame, 'Neath old cathedral's lofty arch, Her noble birth might claim.
Yot still she hath a monument To strike the pensive eye, -- The tender memories of the land Wherein her ashes lie ; The holy love that blest his heart Who brought her o'er the tide, That beamed with sunny glance on him, When all was dark besido ;
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The saintly faith that bore her soul Where clouds no more are known, Save by the fruits their tear-drops helped To ripen round the throne; Yes, that pure love, that hallowed faith, Have reared above her clay Such monument and epitaph As may not wear away. L. H. S.
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PARROTT.
Bur few of this name, formerly written Perrott, appear among the early emigrants to New England.
The first of whom we find mention is Francis Parrot, Town Clerk of Rowley, Mass., and Representative to the General Court in 1640. He died in 1656, without male issue. John Parrot was in Rowley in 1643, and died there in 1648. John Parrott was chosen Ensign at Wells. Me., 1659. Roh- ert Parrot was in Boston prior to 1693. Peter Parrot paid taxes in Boston in 1695.
BRYANT PARROTT
wng in Boston in 1690, where he had issue by Hannah his wife, a son,
BRYANT PARROTT,
horn March 16, 1600. He married first, February 9, 1710, Elizabeth Bridge, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Bridge, and by her had one daughter, Eliza, b. December 24, 1711, d. May 20, 1712. Mrs. Parrott d. December 29, 1711.
Hle wedded, secondly, February 26, 1713, Abigail Clark, and had issue,
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1. Abigail, b. January 3, 1714, m. May 9, 1738, David Tilden, and died without issue.
2. Hannah, ob. January 21, 1716.
3. Sarah, b. July 24, 1717, m. April 24, 1740, Captain Christopher Tilden, by whom she had two sons and a daughter ; viz. David Tilden (Major), Joseph Tilden (Captain, father of the present Joseph Tilden, Esq., of No. 21 Franklin Place, Boston), and Abigail, who m. the Hon. Nathan Cushing, Judge of the Supreme Court, Member of the Governor's Council, &c. Mr. Tillen d. 1756, and his widow m., secondly, Josiah Keen, Esq., of Pembroke, Mass., for many years Representative to the General Court.
4. Timothy, b. Mar 1, 1719, d. unm.
Mr. Parrott esponsed thirdly, June 1, 1724, Ruth Wads- worth, daughter of Deacon John Wadsworth, Seleetman of Milton, Mass., and Representative to the General Court ; and by her had one son and four daughters, namely :
1. Ruth, b. December 26, 1736, m. in 1756 Captain Thomas Croade, Esq., Selectman of IIalifax, Mass., Town Treas- urer, &c. She d. without issue, in 1789.
2. Benjamin, b. June 12, 1730, m. Rebecca Fenno, and left an only son, Bryant, b. 1755, d. unm. 1784, when the family became extinet.
3. Hannah, b. Jan. 9, 1737, d. unm.
4. Elizabeth, m. - Stephenson.
5. Mary, b. June 5, 1739, m. Benjamin Ilomer, of Boston. (Vide p. 201.)
Mr. Parrott, a merchant, resided in Water-street, Boston. His brick mansion-house, and stable, were consumed in the great fire of 1760, when 295 buildings were destroyed. Ile died December, 1754, aged 64, and was buried in his own tomb, now the Ilomer tomb, in the Chapel burial-ground.
B. II. D.
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HOMER.
The emigrant ancestor of this family came from the Prin- cipality of Wales ; or, according to other accounts, from the West of England. The place is, however, now unknown ; and, although researches have been made for some time past in England with the view of discovering it, they have thus far been unsuccessful. This is the more remarkable, from its having been lost for so short a time only ; as in the early part of the present century, two gentlemen related to the family in the female line, Messrs. Joy and Cobb, then in England, visited the birthplace of their ancestor Captain John Homer ; and the late B. P. Homer, who died sixteen years since, knew the name of the place, but no record of the saine can be found among his papers.
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The first of the family in New England,
CAPTAIN JOHN HOMER,
was born in Great Britain, A. D. 1647. He immigrated to Boston, in New England, cirea 1672, and was master, and probably part owner, of a ship trading between London and Boston. He was afterwards connected in business with Andrew Belcher, an eminent merchant in Boston, and the father of Governor Belcher. He married, in Boston, July 13, 1693, Margery Stephens, and died in Boston, November 1, 1717, aged 70 years, having had issue six sons and two daughters, namely :
1. John, b. 1094, m., and died, it is believed, without leav- ing issue.
2. Mary, b. 1696, d. young.
3. BENJAMIN, of whose line we are about to treat.
4. William, 6. 1701.
5. Michael, b. 1703, m., and had four sons, of whom the eldest, William, b. 1727, was father of Joseph Warren Homer, whose eldest son is Peter Thacher Homer, of No. 27 Mount Vernon-street. The second son, Michael, was father of the late Rev. Dr. Jonathan Homer, of Newton, Mass., A. M., S. T. D., S. H. S., who d. s. p .* in 1843.
6. Robert, b. 1700. Merchant at Honduras, Central Amer- ica ; m., and left issue. Ancestor of Charles Ilomer, of the firm of Homer and Sprague, merchants and ship- owners, India wharf.
7. Thomas, b. 1707.
8. Mary, b. 1708.
The second son,
BENJAMIN HOMER,
was born in Boston, May 8, 1608. Ile removed to Yarmouth, Mass., where he bought a farm, and married, December 22.
* s. p., sine prole, without issue.
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1721, Elizabeth Crowell, daughter of John Crowe or Crowell, and Bethia Sears, his wife .* He had by her six sons and three daughters, namely :
1. Bethia, b. 1722, m. Benjamin Cobb, of Boston.
2. John, b. 1724. A loyalist. Before the Revolution a merchant on Long wharf, Boston, and ship-owner. He removed to Barrington, N. S., and was father of Joseph Homer (d. 1837), collector of customs, post-master, and principal magistrate of Barrington, for forty years. Ilis eldest son, John, was for over ten years member of the Provincial Assembly, and d. at Halifax, in 1846, during the session of the Legislature. He was succeeded, as representative for the township of Barrington, by his eldest son, John W. Homer.
3. Margery, 6. 1727, m. Willard Sears.
4. William, b. 1729. A loyalist ; d. ccelebs.
5. BENJAMIN, of whom hereafter.
6. Stephen, 6. 1734.
7. Thomas, 6. 1736.
8. Elizabeth, b. 1738.
9. Robert, b. 1742.
Mr. Homer died in Yarmouth, October 24, 1776, æ. 78. His third son,
BENJAMIN HOMER,
was born in Yarmouth, August 5, 1731. He removed to Bos-
* John Crowe was grandson of John Crowe, one of the three original grantees of Yarmouth, representative and magistrate, and of the Rev. John Miller, A. B., of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Eng., in 1627, one of the carly New England ministers. Bethia Scars was granddaughter of Richard Sears, representative to the General Court, ancestor of the Sears family in New England, and of George Willard, brother of Major the Hon. Simon Willard, who was for twenty-two years member of the governor's council, and the same period chief in command of the military force of Middlesex county. Sears emigrated to this country in 1630, Miller and the Willard, in 1634, and Crowe in 1635.
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ton, and married, October 23, 1750, Mary Parrott, daughter of Bryant Parrott and his wife, Ruth Wadsworth (daughter of Deacon John Wadsworth. one of the selectmen of Milton, Mass., and representative to the General Court, and niece of Rev. B. Wadsworth, President of Harvard University, and of the Hon. Joseph Wadsworth, one of his majesty's judges *). He had by her one son, of whom presently, and four daugh- ters, namely :
1. Ruth, who married Monsieur Pierre Remi Arsonneau, and d. a widow, s. p.
". Elizabeth, m. Judge Amasa Paine, of Troy, N. Y., brother of Judge Elijah Paine, father of the Hon. Charles Paine, ex-governor of Vermont.
3. Mary, m. Judge Lot Hall, associate-justice U. S. Supreme Court, of Westminster, Vt.
4. Bethia Cobb, m. Colonel Oliver Gallup.
Mr. Homer, a merchant on Long wharf, and ship-owner, in connection with his brother John, was accidentally killed, at Farmington, Conn., while travelling on horseback, by a slide of earth falling upon him, March 30, 1776. He was buried at Farmington, and the inscription over his tomb states that he was " A Kind Husband, a Tender Father, a Faithful Mas- ter, a Pleasant Friend, and a Zealous Patriot." The words "faithful master " probably referred to his slaves, as he owned negro servants. Ilis widow survived him but a few years, dying of a broken heart, March 4, 1779.
Ilis only son,
BENJAMIN PARROTT HOMER,
was born in Boston, June 30, 1761. He was christened Ben- jamin ; but, to distinguish himself from several others bearing the same name, assumed the additional one of Parrott, it
* Three sons of Captain Samuel Wadsworth, who, with Lieutenant Sharp and twenty-six soldiers, was killed by the Indians, at Sudbury, Mass., 1676.
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being that of his mother's family, which was then become extinct, in the male line, by the death, unmarried, of the only son of his mother's only brother.
IJe married, in Gloucester, Mass., April 1, 1790, Abigail Pearce, daughter of David Pearee,* of Gloucester, and Bethia Ingersoll, his wife.
Mr. Homer was an East India merchant and private under- writer, but retired from business some twenty years before his death. He died at his house, No. 37 Beacon-street, corner of Walnut-street, Boston, April 4, 1838, aged 76. He had nine chil iren, six of whom pre-deceased him, unmarried. The survivors are
1. FITZHENRY HOMER, m. Nancy Bradford D'Wolf, daughter of the lon. James D'Wolf, of Bristol, R. I., United States Senator, and his wife, Naney Bradford, daughter of the Ilon. William Bradford, Lieut .- Governor of Rhode Island, and U. S. Senator, -and has issue two daughters.
2. Mary B. Homer, m. THOMAS DIXON, Knight of the Order of the Lily, and of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. Of a Scotch family. He died at his house, No. 1 Wal- nut-street, corner of Beacon-street, Boston, September 15, 1849, æ. 68 (vide N. E. Historical and Genealogi- cal Register for 1850, page 100), leaving issue three sons and one daughter.
3. Georgiana Albertina Homer, m. PHILO STRONG SHELTON, Esq., of Boston, native of Couneeticut, and has issue seren sons and three daughters.
ARMS. - Argent, a cross-bow unbent, pointed upwards, sable, between four moorcocks, gules. Crest, - a goat's head, erased argent. B. H. D.
* David Pearce was a merchant, and at one period supposed to be one of the riche-t men in New England. He owned at the same time forty square-rigged vessels; but was ruined about the year 1500, Lis vessels being all seized and confiscated in diferent European ports, or
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JOSEPH TILDEN. (p. SO.)
The tomb in King's Chapel burying-ground marked Benja- min Parrott Homer on the outside was the tomb of "Bryant Parrott, 1732." When the tomb is opened, this name is to be seen on the old scroll.
Christopher Tilden married the daughter of Bryant Parrott, more than a century past. Joseph Tilden, now of Boston, is his grandson. This tomb was the burial-place of the Tilden family until the last forty years.
The late Hon. David Tilden, with his wife and children, was buried there. The last of the name of "Tilden " was David, son of the before-named David ; was placed there about five years sinee. Christopher Tilden, before named, came from Marshfield. He was a descendant of Elder Nathaniel Tilden, who settled in Scituate in 1628. J. T.
JACOB WENDELL'S TOMB. (p. 144.)
Thomas Allen, Jr., Esq., one of the representatives of Pitts- field in the General Court, was born at Pittsfield, March 16, 1769 ; the eldest son of Rev. Thomas Allen, the first minister of that town, who was a chaplain, for a time, in the army of the Revolution, and, with a company of his own people, fought in the battle of Bennington.
Rev. Thomas Allen, born in Northampton, belonged to a family memorable for their patriotismn. Four of his brothers were also in the army : - Capt. Joseph Allen; Rev. Moses Allen, minister, of Midway, Georgia, chaplain to the Georgia brigade, who was taken prisoner at Savannah, and was
captured by French privateers. Ile was fifth in descent from Abra- hain Pierce, who was in Plymouth (with two servants) about 1623. His wife was a descendant, in the sixth degree, from Richar.l Inkersall or Ingersoll, who came to Salem in 162", and who was probably ances- ter of all of his namo in the United States.
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drowned, February 8, 1779, in attempting to swim ashore from a prison-ship ; Rev. Solomon Allen, an officer, who died at New York, January 20, 1821; Major Jonathan Allen, also an officer of the army, who was shot by a neighbor, while hunting deer in Northampton, in January, 1780 .*
The father of this family of fourteen children was Joseph Allen ; the mother, Elizabeth Parsons.
The three preceding ancestors of Rev. Thomas Allen each hore the name of "Samuel," and lived in Northampton, excepting the first, who died at Windsor, Connecticut, in April, 1648. It is supposed he was the brother or relative of Mathew Allyn, and that he came from the neighborhood of Chelmsford, Essex, Engkind. The name ALLEN, in the early records of Northampton, is also written Allyn and Allen.
It is remarkable that, in the book of the " Record Commis- sion," the name is printed in thirty different ways : as, Alan, Allan, Allane, Alyn, Allyn, Allyne, Allen, Allene, Allin, Alline, Alleyn, Alleyne, Alleynn, Allein, Alleine, Allain, Alayn, Aleyn, Aleyne, Alein, Ailen, Aillene, Allens, Alleins, Alleyns, Aleyns, Aleynes, Alien, Aleine, Allenn.
By following out the same principles of permutation, the number of methods in which the name can be written might readily be increased to upwards of one hundred. Merely by doubling the 7 and the n, where they stand single in the fore- going words, nearly forty new methods of writing the name -Allen would at once be introduced. A dissatisfied man of the name, or one desirons of an alias, has here a wide field of choice.
Thomas Allen, Jr., was educated at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1789, in the class of President Kirkland, Rev. Dr. Thayer, and Rev. W. Emerson. After being engaged soine years in the practice of the law in the courts of Berk- shire. he was chosen one of the representatives of Pittsfeld ; and, while in the discharge of his duty as sach, in Boston, he
* Seo Epitaphs from Northampton Buriul-ground.
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died of a fever, and his body was placed in the tomb of an excellent man, and old friend of his father, - the late Judge Oliver Wendell, whose father once chiefly owned the township of Pittsfield, and whose grandson, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, now owns a good house and farm in that town. His father's sermon on his death was printed. Of the twelve children of Rev. Thomas Allen, only one is now living, -Rev. William Allen, D. D., of Northampton. W. A.
ELIZABETHI HALL. (p. 65.)
Buried in Chapel Burying-ground, a few feet from the entrance, on the right. Was daughter of Josiah Saunders ; born in Boston, July 11, 1698; married Captain Stephen Hall, - his second wife, - April 27, 1736 ; died February 24, 1777, aged 80, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth, widow of William Gray, born January 3, 1737. Her husband, Captain Stephen Hall, was born in Charlestown, November 5, 1693 ; died February 24, 1773, aged also 80. He was buried in his father's tomb, Charlestown. He was educated a seaman, and commanded the first regular London packet-ship - the " New England Galley " -sailing cut of Boston. The daughter, Elizabeth, married William, third son of Edward Gray, Dec. 6, 1759 ; he died the 10th May, 1775, aged 51 ; she died Dec. 24, 1825, aged 89, at her son's, Rev. Dr. Thomas Gray, Jamaica Plain, and was there buried. She had Stephen Hall, Martha (married Dr. Samuel Danforth), William, Edward (called the " Honest Lawyer," married Susan Turell), John (known as "French John "), Elizabeth Saunders (married Jacob Eustis), and Thomas (Rev. Dr. Gray, of Jamaica Plains, married Deborah Stillman, daughter of Dr. Samuel Stillman), all born in Boston.
Their living issue at this date, -- February 15, 1852, -are, George Harrison Gray, merchant in Boston, and resident of
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West Cambridge ; Ann Greenough Whitney, of Jamaica l'luins, widow of the late Rev. George Whitney, - both chil- dren of Rev. Thomas ; John Gray, of Worcester, and Rev. Frederick Turell Gray, of Boston, -sons of Elward ; lIon. George Eustis, of New Orleans, Chief-justice of Louisiana, -- son of Elizabeth Saunders. All these have, at this time, issue living. hoth male and female, as has also Mary Turell Gray, widow of the late Dr. Thomas Gray, Jr., of Boston, and Jane Minot Lamb, wife of George W. Lamb, attorney, of New Orleans, and both granddaughters of Edward. There is also living their sister, Caroline Danforth Fales.
G. H. C.
JOSEPH SEWALL. (p. 66.)
Joseph Sewall was a lineal descendant, of the sixth genera- tion, from Ileury Sewall, Mayor of Coventry, Warwickshire, England, in 1607 ; and, of the fourth generation, from Henry Sewall, grandson of the preceding, who came to New England in 1634, was one of the first settlers of Newbury, Mass., the year following, and who there died, May 16, 1700, at. 86. He was a great-grandson of Hon. Samuel Sewall, Esq., of Boston, first Chief-justice of that name of the Supreme Court of Mass., who died 1730; a grandson of Rev. Dr. Joseph Sewall, the beloved pastor, for fifty-six years, of the Old South church, Boston ; the youngest son of Samuel Sewall, Esq., of Boston, merchant, &e., and of Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Edmund Quincy, Esq., merchant, of Boston and Braintree (now Quiney) ; and only brother of Hon. Samuel Sewall, Esq., of Marblehead, chief-justice, who died 1814. He was born at Boston, March 9, 1762 ; established himself in business, as a merchant, at Marblehead, 1785, and at Boston, 1799; was treasurer of the commonwealth, 1827, and the four immedi- ately succeeding years ; and, after a long life, singularly checkered by alternate prosperity and adversity, but of exem-
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plary industry, usefulness and moral worth, he died at Boston, May 5, 1850, in the 89th year of his age.
He married, September 21, 1788, Mary, daughter of Thomas Robie, Esq., of Marblehead, merchant, and of Mary, his wife, daughter of Rov. Simon Bradstreet, pastor of the Second Church, of that town. By this his virtuous consort, who died before him, July 23, 1834, at. 71, he had eleven children, of whom only two survive, namely :
Thomas Robie Sewall, Esq., broker and commission mer- chant, Boston.
Samuel Edmund Sewall, Esq., of Melrose, counsellor at law of the Suffolk bar, and a member of the senate of this common- wealth for Middlesex this present year.
The original place of sepulture, however, of the Sewalls, in Boston, was not the " King's Chapel," but the Granary Bury- ing-ground. In the latter sacred enclosure is a tomb, the sepulehire of four generations of the ancestors of the Sewalls, as well as of sundry revered friends and relatives of the fam- ily, of another name ; as, Hon. John Hull, Esq., master of the mint, 1652, and for whom the tomb was built, and Judith, his wife, a sister of Lieut .- Col. Ethinund Quincy, Esq., of Braintree, now Quiney ; the first Chief-justice Sewall, above named, their son-in-law, and Hannah, his wife ; Rev. William Cooper, of Brattle-street church, and Grove Ilirst, Esq., mer- chant, of Boston, sons-in-law of Judge Sewall, and their respective wives ; Mr. Daniel Quincy, son of the above Lieut .- Col. Quiney, by his first wife, and father of Hon. John Quincy, of Braintree, who was great-grandfather of the late President John Quincy Adams ; and Rev. Joshua Moodey, of Ports- mouth, some time assistant minister of First Church, Boston, who, dying while at Boston, on a visit, was buried in this tomb. S.
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JOHN COTTON. (p. 28.)
The Rev. John Cotton, born at Derby, in England, on the 4th December, 1585, was a son of Rowland Cotton, Esq., a lawyer, and a gentleman of honorable descent. Having studied with Mr. Johnson, of the Derby grammar school, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, early in the year 1598, at twelve years of age, and was admitted Master of Arts in 1606. He became fellow of Emmanuel College, and, as head lecturer, dean and catechist, was much beloved by the students.
At twenty-two years of age, he became famous, through the whole University, by a funeral oration upon Dr. Soamne, mas- ter of Peter House, who died in 1608; and he gained still greater applause, soon after, by a sermon delivered at St. Mary's, the University Church. Mr. Cotton, after his conver- sion, under the ministry of Mr. William Perkins, and especially by means of a sermon from Dr. Richard Sibbes, again preached at St. Mary's, in 1609. The church was filled with gentle- men of the University, whose expectations were raised by his previous success. Instead of an elaborate discourse from the ambitious scholar and divine, they heard a pungent and prac- tical sermon on repentance. The disappointment of the vice- chancellor and audience was apparent, and Mr. Cotton retired to his chamber discouraged, and with a heavy heart ; but he was very soon cheered by a visit from one of his hearers, Mr. Preston, fellow of Queen's College, and of great note in the University, who told him "how it had pleased God to work effectually upon his heart by that sermon ; " and, conferring " with Mr. Cotton, he studied wholly for the ministry. Mr. Preston was chaplain to the Prince of Wales, preacher at Lin- cola's Inn, Master of Emmanuel College, lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a learned writer. From that time, he greatly valued Mr. Cotton's friendship, and visited him as often as once a year at Boston.
Having resided at Cambridge "not above fourteen years," Mr. Cotton was chosen vicar of Boston, in Lincolnshire, on
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the fourth of July, 1612, but not without opposition from Bar- low, the bishop of the diocese, " who told him he was a young man, and unfit to be over such a factions people," who were imbued with the Puritan spirit ; but the bishop was coneili- ated by Simon Bibye, whose influence had been solicited by some of Mr. Cotton's friends, but without his knowledge. Several agreeable incidents conncet this gentleman's name with the family history. His daughter became the wife of Sir Edward Lake, LL. D., chancellor of the diocese of Lin- coln, whose niece, Anne Lake, was the wife of Mr. Cotton's grandson, the Rev. John Cotton, of Hampton, N. H., and, by a second marriage, the wife of the Rev. Dr. Increase Mather, whose father, the Rev. Richard Mather, was also befriended by Mr. Bibye, when in similar difficulties with the bishop at Toxtrth, in November, 1633. (See Copp's Hell Epitaphs, by Bridgman, p. 202.)
In February, 1630, by the advice of his physicians, Mr. Cotton's labors were suspended for a year or more, most of which time he passed, by invitation, at the Earl of Lincoln's. Here his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Horrocks, died, about the close of that year.
When Mr. Cotton took his degree of Bachelor of Divinity, at Cambridge, about six months after his settlement at Bos- ton, his Latin sermon, Concio ad Clerum, "was very much adinired, and applauded more than he desired." His text was in Matthew 5: 13; " in handling of which, both the matter and the rhetorical strains, elegancy of phrase, and sweet and grave pronunciation, rendered him yet more famous in the University. And so did his answering of the Divinity Act in the schools, though he had a very nimble opponent, Mr. William Chappel," afterward Provost of Trinity College, in Dublin.
He was eminently successful in his ministry, and Mr. Whit- ing gives an almost incredible account of his labors in the next twenty years of his life. This biographer says that he was of
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admirable candor, unparalleled meckness, rare wisdom, and was exceedingly beloved of the best.
His nonconformity was tolerated for a while, without dis- turhance, and was gradually embraced, in practice, " by the chief and greatest part of the town." Dr. Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, and the successor of Lord Bacon as keeper of the great seal, " went to King James, and, speaking of Mr. Cut- ton's great learning and worth before him, the king was wil- ling, notwithstanding his nonconformity, to give way, that l:e should have liberty to go on without interruption in Lis min- istry ; which was very marvellous, considering how that king's spirit was carried out against such men." But the tyrant Land, a fit successor to Bonner, gave him no peace ; and, on the 5th of July, 1633, he resigned the vicarage. He was con- cealed for a while at London, changed his dress, travelled under an assumed name, and, about the 13th of July, took passage at the Downs, thus elnding the hounds of the High Commission Court, who had long sought for him, and who expected the vessel would touch at the Wight. Mr. Cotton was accompanied by his second wife, Mrs. Sarah Story (the mother of all his children), who, on the 12th of August, on the Atlantic, gave birth to their first child, whom they christ- ened Natorn. He was minister of Hampton, N. II.
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