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1. Elizabeth, born April 12, 1645.
2. Ann, born Nov. 5, 1646.
3. Hannah, born Jan. 5, -.
4. John, born Feb. 28, 1649.
5. Joseph, born - 1651.
6. James, born
7. Josiah, born 1655.
8. Samuel, born -.
9 Joshua, born March 13, 1658.
10. Zachariah, born Jan. 14, 1659.
11. Eleazer, born Nov. 9, 1660.
12. Sarah (by second wife), born Dec. 12, 1697.
It is highly probable that the many hundreds of this name who are found not only on the records of Groton, but also of Shirley and Pep- perell, are all descendants of these two brothers, Capt. James Parker and Joseph Parker.
Hon. Leonard M. Parker, of Shirley, and his brothers and sisters, are descendants, in the sixth generation, from James, through James Jr., Phineas Leonard, and James. In a brief notice like this, it is impossible to give a full and perfect view of such a character and history as that of Capt. James Parker. Few men have as full and faithfully discharged all the duties of a long life, and in so many im- portant spheres. He added to his high mental endowments strict moral integrity. In the fear and love of God, he followed the path of duty
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To LEVI PARKER, GENTLEMAN, GREETING.
R EPOSING especial trust and confidence in your ability, Courage, and Good Conduct, I do by these presents, constitute and appoint you, the said Levi Parker, to be a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Foot, one of the Battalions raised by this Commonwealth to serve in the Continental ARMY, whereof JOHN BROOKS, Esq., is Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant.
You are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Lieutenant in the said Regiment, in all things appertaining thereto, observing such orders and instructions as you shall receive from the Colonel of said Regiment, or any other of your superior officers, for which this shall be your sufficient WARRANT, till you shall receive a Commission in manner and form pointed out by the resolves of Congress, of March the eighth, and June the twenty- eighth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.
Dated at Boston, the twentieth of December, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.
John Hancock .~
By his Excellencies command, JOHN AVERY, Secretary.
[NOTE.] Copied from the original now in possession of James Parker, Esq., of Springfield, Mass., the gentle- manly Conductor of the W. R. R., one of his grandsons.
wherever it led, only asking, "Is it right ? Is it the will of God ? Will it benefit my fallen fellow creatures ?" Of very few can it be said, as to the circumstances in which they are called to act, more truly than of him,-he was the good presiding genius in the scenes through which he moved, and his name and memory is a crown of honor and glory to his numerous descendants.
PARKER.
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Levi Parker, of Cambridge, son of Levi Parker, born Jan. 9, 1778, married Sept. 22, 1803, at Westford, to Betsey, eldest daughter of Samuel Wright, and had the following children :
1. Martha Elizabeth, born at Groton, Aug. 20, 1805.
2. William Henry, born at Groton, April 16, 1811.
3. Anna Wright, born at Westford, April 6, 1813.
4. Luther Lawrence, born at Westford, Oct. 31, -.
Martha Elizabeth married Edmund Boynton, of Cambridge, July 28, 1836; had one son, Henry, born May 20, 1838, died Oct. 24, 1845.
William Henry married Mary West Hayden, daughter of Ezekiel Hayden, of Cambridge, May 18, 1843; has two children, William Levi, born March 26, 1844, Henry Boynton, born March 5, 1846.
Anna Wright married Dr. Ansen Hooker, of Cambridge, Feb. 5, 1852; had one child, Lizzie Ann, born Jan. 22, 1853, died Jan. 24, 1853.
Luther Lawrence married Harriet, eldest daughter of Caleb G. . Loring, of Boston, May 6, 1846, and had one son, Luther Lawrence, born March 26, 1848. His wife died at East Cambridge, Aug. 26, 1851, aged 28 years and 2 months.
Thomas Parker, first minister of Newbury, Mass., the only son of Robert Parker, who was driven out of England for Puritanism in the reign of Elizabeth, was born in 1595. After having been for some time a student at Oxford, he pursued his studies in Ireland under Dr. Usher. Thence he went to Holland, where he enjoyed the assistance of Dr. Ames. He returned to Newbury, England, where he preached, and was the instructor of a school. He came to this country with a number of Christian friends in May, 1634, and immediately went to Agawam, or Ipswich, Mass., where he continued about a year as an assistant to Mr. Ward. In 1635, he commenced the settlement of Newbury, and was chosen pastor, and Mr. Noyes teacher. He died in April, 1677, aged 81, leaving behind him the character of an eminent scholar and of a most pious and benevolent Christian.
Through his incessant application, he became blind several years before his death. Under this heavy calamity he was patient and cheer-
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ful, and used to say in reference to his darkened eyes, " they will be restored shortly in the resurrection."
Having never been married, he yet, with parental affection, gave several young gentlemen the advantages of a public education. In his views of church government, he was inclined to presbyterianism. Some " Theses de traductione peccatoris ad vitam," written by him at an early age, were printed with some works of Dr. Ames. He also published a letter to a member of the Westminster Assembly, on the government in the churches of England, 1644 ; the prophecies of Daniel expounded, 4to., 1646; a letter to his sister, Mrs. Avery, on her opinions, 1649. Mag- nalia, III., 143, 145, 147.
Samuel Parker, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts, was born at Ports- mouth, N. H., in 1745, and graduated at Harvard College in 1764. He was afterwards nine years an instructor of youth in Newburyport, and other towns. In 1773, he was ordained by the Bishop of London, and May 19, 1774, was established as an assistant minister at Trinity Church, Boston, of which he became the rector in 1779. During the Revolu- tionary war the other Episcopal clergymen quitted the country, but he remained at his post, and his church was saved from dispersion. After the death of Bishop Bass, he was elected his successor; but he was at the head of the Episcopal churches but a few months. He died sud- denly at Boston, Dec. 6, 1804, aged 59. Distinguished for his benev- olence, he was in a peculiar manner the friend of the poor, who in his death mourned the loss of a father. He published a sermon at the election, 1793; before the asylum, 1803; and some other occasional discourses.
Isaac Parker, LL.D., Chief Justice of Massachusetts, was born in Boston, in 1768, and graduated at Harvard College in 1786. He commenced the practice of law in the district of Maine, and was elected a member of Congress. In 1806, he was appointed a Judge of the Su- preme Court, and in 1814, Chief Justice, as the successor of Mr. Sewall, of which office he, with high reputation and faithfulness, discharged the duties sixteen years. On Sunday, May 25, 1830, he was suddenly attacked with the apoplexy, of which he died the next morning, May 26,
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aged 62. His successor is Lemuel Shaw. He was a distinguished scholar and friend of literature. For eleven years he was a trustee of Bowdoin College, and for twenty years an overseer of Harvard College. He was a man of great moral worth, and a firm believer in the Christian religion. He published a sketch of the character of Judge Parsons, 1813.
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THE TOMB OF JAMES HUTCHINSON.
No. 36.
NANCY MCCLINCH TOMB.
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF MRS. MARY CUNINGHAM,
WIDOW OF MR. ANDREW CUNINGHAM, DEC'D JULY 14TH, 1774, AGED 85.
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF MR. ANDREW CUNINGHAM, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE APRIL 27TH, 1752, IN THE 60TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.
ELISABETH TORREY'S TOMB, 1815.
No. 2. CAPT. JOHN GERE, 1772.
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HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
DEACON HENRY HILL,
DIED JULY 8, 1726,
AGED 70 YEARS.
THIS TOMB WAS ERECTED BY HIS SONS JOHN AND THOMAS HILL.
BENEATH THIS TURF
REPOSE THE REMAINS OF
CHARLES WILLIAM TUTTLE,
WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 8TH, 1846,
AGED 18 YEARS
M
ALSO,
MARY ABBY TUTTLE,
AGED 11 YEARS,
WHO DIED DEC. 7, 1847.
CHILDREN OF MR. HUGH H. TUTTLE.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF
MR. JAMES KING,
AGED 36 YEARS, DEC'D OCT. YE 4TH, 1734.
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HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF
GEORGE MASON, ESQ. AGED 36 YEARS, DEC'D YE 25TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1684.
HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF
MRS. MARY MASON, WIFE TO ARTHUR MASON, AGED 67 YEARS, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPT'R YE 19, 1745.
MEMENTO MORI FUGIT HORI.
HERE LYES INTERED YE BODY OF
MRS.
JOHANNAH MASON
LATE WIFE TO MR. ARTHUR MASON, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, JANUARY YE 2D, 1704-5, IN YE 70TH YEAR OF HER AGE.
HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF MR. DAVID MASON, AGED 43 YEARS, WHO DIED JULY YE 19, 1746.
HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OF MR. ARTHUR MASON, AGED ABOUT 78 YEARS, DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH YE 4TH, 1778. ARTHUR, s * TO MR. DAVID AND MRS. SUSANNAH MASON,
AGED 5 MONTHS & 19 DS.
MASON.
ARTHUR MASON, of Boston, was a constable. Twenty-four of the name had graduated at the N. E. Colleges in 1826. Edmund, was a propri- etor in Watertown, in 1642. Henry was freeman in Massachusetts in 1650. Henry of Scituate, 1650. Hugh, freeman of Watertown, 1635, representative 1644 and 1645, 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1674, to 1677. Was a captain of the militia, and died Oct. 10th, 1678. His wife died May 21, 1692. They had children, viz. : Hannah, born Sept. 23, 16, 1636. She married Captain Joshua Brooks of Concord. Mary, who married Rev. Joseph Estabrook. John, born Jan. 1, 1644, married Hannah Ramsden and settled in Concord. Joseph, born Aug. 10, 1646, died July 22, 1702. Daniel, born Feb. 19, 1649, graduated at H. C. in 1666, and Sarah, born Sept. 25, 1651. John, the distinguished Pequot warrior, came early to New England, and settled at Dorchester, which he represented in 1635 and '36, having been admitted freeman in 1635. He removed with Mr. Wareham to Windsor, in 1636, was elected a magistrate from 1642 to 1659; removed to Saybrook, 1647; to Norwich in 1659; was elected Deputy-governor in 1660, and the nine succeeding years; was Major-general, and died at Norwich in 1672 or 3, æt. 72. He left three sons, Samuel, John, and Daniel, whose posterity have ever remained in Connecticut, and are spread over the country. Jeremiah Mason, LL. D., was a descendant. John, the proprietor of New Hampshire, towards the settlement of which he ex- pended a considerable estate. He died in England Nov. 26, 1637, having never come to New England. His only child, Jane, married John Tufton, Esq., and had John, who died without issue, and Robert,
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who took the name of Mason. Robert, grandson of the preceding, was declared proprietor of New Hampshire, by Charles II., 1677, and by a mandamus in 1680. He was a counsellor in 1682, at which time he resided in Portsmouth. He was named as one of Sir Edmund Andros's council, but died in 1686, leaving two sons, John Tufton Mason, who died in Virginia without issue; and Robert Tufton Mason, who married Catherine Wiggin, and was lost at sea in 1696, leaving two children; John Tufton, who died at Havana, in 1718, and Elizabeth, who was living in 1738. The last John Tufton Mason had two sons, John Tuf- ton and Thomas Tufton. Robert of Roxbury in 1637, his wife died that year. Ralph of Boston, 1637, Zuriel, (?) born 1637, John, born 1640, Jacob, born 1644. Samuel, of Connecticut, son of Major-general John Mason, was elected an assistant in 1683. Stephen, of Massachusetts, was one of the first councillors under the charter of William and Mary, 1692.
Hon. Jonathan Mason died in 1831, leaving a numerous family, who are among our most estimable and respected citizens. Of his two sons, Jonathan and William P., the latter was for several years reporter of the decisions of Judge Story, though he has now retired from the pro- fession. Of Mr. Mason's daughters, one is wife of Hon. David Sears ; one is widow of the late Patrick Grant; one was wife of Samuel D. Parker, the distinguished criminal lawyer; one was first wife of Dr. John C. Warren, and the mother of his equally distinguished son, J. Mason Warren; and one is the mother of the late Dr. Samuel Parkman, whose private worth, and whose eminence as a surgeon, make his recent death a loss to our whole community.
Mr. Mason and Mr. Otis were the two chief Mount Vernon pro- prietors, and Mrs. Hepzibah C. Swan, wife of James Swan, Esq., was one of their associates. She was a lady of great personal beauty, of strong impulses, and of a most marked and decided character. Mr. Swan was at Paris during all the fearful events of the old French Revo- lution. He died in 1831, in Paris ; Mrs. Swan in 1829.
PERKINS.
ABRAHAM PERKINS, of Massachusetts, was admitted freeman 1640. Isaac, of Massachusetts, freeman in 1642. John, of Ipswich, was born about 1590. Came to New England, and was admitted freeman in 1633, settled in Ipswich in 1633, representative in 1636. He died in 1654. He might be the same person who arrived with Mr. Williams, Feb. 5. 1631. John of Ipswich, 1634, son of the preceding, was admitted freeman in 1637. William, of Ipswich, 1633, freeman 1634, is supposed to have been the same who preached at Gloucester 1651, 1655, and became the second minister of Topsfield, and died May 21, 1682, æt. 75, leaving sons, Tobijah, John, Timothy, probably William, who died at Topsfield in 1696, and five daughters, who all married. William of Wymouth, was member of the Ar. Co. 1638, Representative 1644, and leader of the military band. There was a William Perkins, of Roxbury, whose son William died in 1639. Forty-two persons of the name had graduated in New England in 1826.
William Perkins, remarkable for his longevity, was born in the west of England, and died at New Market, N. H., in 1732, aged 116 years.
Dr. Elisha Perkins, the inventor of the tractors, was the son of Dr. Joseph Perkins, a distinguished phsyician of Norwich, Conn., who died in 1794, aged 90. He was born in Jan. 1740; having studied with his father, he settled in Plainfield, Conn., and had extensive practice. His habits were social; his mind active and inquisitive. About the year 1796, he invented the tractors, which are two in- struments, one of steel, the other of brass, pointed at one end. Cures
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were effected by drawing the points for a few minutes over the part of the body diseased. Thus the toothache, the headache, rheumatic and other pains were removed. A patent was obtained. The fame of Per- kinism extended to Europe. The son of Dr. Perkins went to London, where a Perkinean institution was created for the benefit of the poor, of which Lord Rivers was President. The published cases of cures amounted to 5,000, certified by eight professors, forty physicians and surgeons, and thirty clergymen; yet it was not long before the tractors sunk into neglect. Dr. Perkins invented an antiseptic medicine, and repaired to New York to test its efficacy against the yellow fever ; but he took the disease, and died in Sept. 1799, aged 59. His son, Bejn. D. Perkins, a graduate of Yale College in 1794, a bookseller at New York, died in Oct. or Nov., 1810, being highly respected for his intelligence, benevolence and piety.
JAMES PERKINS, Esq., a benefactor of Harvard College, and of the Boston Athenæum, was born in Boston in 1761, and was the son of Mr. James Perkins. Educated as a merchant in the counting-house of the Messrs. Shattucks, he settled in St. Domingo; but was driven away by the revolution in that island.
On his return he engaged in business with his brother, Col. Thomas Handyside Perkins, and conducted an extensive trade to the north-west coast, and to China. He died at Roxbury, Aug. 1, 1822, aged 61. His wife was the daughter of Timothy Paine, of Worcester. He was an upright merchant. One of his last acts of liberality was the gift to the Boston Athenaeum of the house now occupied by the institution- an estate which was valued at eighteen thousand dollars.
He also in his will bequeathed twenty thousand dollars to Harvard College. His fine portrait is preserved in the Athenæum.
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No. 3. THOMAS AND A. D. PECK, 1771.
No. 19. JOHN MOLINEAUX'S TOMB, 1809.
HERE LIES ENTOMBED THE REMAINS OF MR. WILLIAM MOLINEAUX, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DEC'R 22D, 1774, IN THE 58TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.
No. 15.
THE TOMB OF
JOSEPH HAWLEY DORR AND SAMUEL DORR,
1810.
No. 7.
BELONGS TO E. PRICE.
MARGARET SMITH AND SETH THAXTER'S TOMB, 1807.
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No. 114. THOMAS SNELLING'S TOMB, 1810.
No. 106. JAMES AND DAVID HOMER, AND
JOHN ASHTON'S TOMB.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF MR. HENRY PETTIT, AGED 32 YEARS AND 5 DAYS, DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY YE 19TH, 1721.
[NOTE.] This is a small stone, standing 12 feet north of Lieut. Gov. Cushing's Monument.
No. 112. DOCT. WILLIAM SPOONER.
ANN POLLARD, DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM AND ANN POLLARD, AGED 19 YEARS, DYED YE 24 OF OCTOBER, 1683.
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No. 6. EDWARD BLAKE, JUN'R.
TOMB. MR. JOSEPH LASINBY, DIED SEPT. 9TH, 1774, AGED 80 YEARS. COAT OF ARMS. 1
HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF MRS. ABIGAIL POTTS, SHE DIED MARCH 3D, 1750, AGED 74 YEARS.
THE TOMB OF HUGH HALE, ESQR.
ISAAC WHITE'S TOMB, 1807.
No. 14.
TOMB OF JOSHUA EMMONS.
PAYNE ARMES.
HERE LYES BURIED
THE BODY OF
MRS. ELIZABETH GORE,
DIED OCT. YE 12TH,
1751,
AGED 40 YEARS.
HERE LYES BURIED
THE BODY OF
MRS. SARAH GORE,
DIED MAY YE 15TH, 1751,
AGED 35 YEARS AND 6 MO.
GOVERNOR CHRISTOPHER GORE.
JOHN GORE, of Roxbury, was admitted freeman in 1637, member of the Ar. Co. 1638, died June 4, 1657. John Gore, perhaps a son of his, died at Roxbury, June 26, 1705.
John Gore, one of his descendants, graduated at H. C. 1702.
The late Governor Christopher Gore is believed to have been of this family. He was born in Boston in 1758; his father was a respectable mechanic, who at the beginning of the Revolution, as he adhered to the royal government, went to Halifax, but afterwards returned to Boston.
He graduated in 1776, and after studying law with Judge Lowell, engaged in extensive and lucrative practice. In 1789, he was appointed first United States Attorney for Mass., in the execution of which office he met with difficulties, but he resolutely pursued the course of duty. In 1796 he was appointed colleague with William Pinkney, a Commissioner
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under the fourth article of Jay's treaty with England, to settle our claim for spoliations. By his efforts, when in England, he recovered sums, to a vast amount, for our citizens; his argument on that class of captures, which were made under the rule of 1756, was elaborate and powerful. As his commission lasted nearly eight years, he remained abroad till 1804. In the preceding year he had been left by his intimate friend, Rufus King, minister to England, Chargé d'affaires. After his return he was chosen, in 1809, Governor of Mass., as successor of Governor Sulli- van, but the next year the people chose Mr. Gerry in his place.
In 1814 he was appointed Senator to Congress, in which capacity he served about three years, and then withdrew into final retirement. His residence was a beautiful seat about nine miles from Boston, at Waltham, whence he was accustomed frequently to walk into town.
An excruciating disorder embittered his last years. He died March 1, 1827, aged 68. His friend, Mr. King, died the next month. Having no children, Mr. Gore left valuable bequests to the American Academy and the Historical Society, of which he was a member; and he made Harvard College his residuary legatee. With the literature of the day he had kept himself well acquainted, and he was an excellent classical scholar. His mind was acute and discriminating ; his morals pure; his manners dignified and elegant. He published a Masonic oration in 1783.
BUMSTEAD.
EDWARD BUMSTEAD, of Boston, was a freeman in 1640; had a son, Joseph, born in 1653.
Thomas, of Boston, member of the Ar. Co. 1647, died 1677 ; had a son, Gerard, born at Roxbury 1643.
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HERE LYES THE REMAINS OF MR. FITCH POOLE, MERCHANT OF THIS TOWN, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPT. THE 2D, 1770, IN THE 34TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.
" THE SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF THE JUST, " SHALL FLOURISH WHEN THEY SLEEP IN DUST."
[NOTE.] This monument stands 74 feet southwest of the Franklin Monument, and directly in front of the tomb of Mr. Phillips and heirs, and Moses Bass, and near the path.
POOLE.
ELIZABETH POOLE, of Taunton, 1639, " the virgin mother of that town," one of its greatest proprietors, and a chief promoter of its settle- ment, died May 21, 1654, aged 65. Henry Poole, of Boston, died Sept. 14, 1643. John Poole, of Cambridge, 1632, perhaps of Lynn, in 1639, and afterwards of Reading. Jonathan Poole, of Reading, was representative in 1677, perhaps freeman 1673. Samuel Poole was a merchant of Boston, member of the church 1640. William Poole, of Dorchester, was town clerk about forty years, and often a schoolmaster. He died Feb. 24, 1672. Mr. Savage names a Mr. William Poole, who had a son drowned at or near Taunton, Dec. 15, 1667. Fitch Poole, Esq., the POET OF DANVERS, is supposed to be a descendant of John Poole, of Cambridge, and Lynn.
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TOMB No. 110.
CORNELIUS COOLIDGE, 1810.
HERE LIES THE BODY OF ELIS'TH CALDWELL, SECOND DAUGHTER OF CAPT. ROBERT AND FRANCES CALDWELL, WHO DIED AUGUST 6TH, 1795, AGED 17 YEARS.
HERE LIES INTERRED THE BODY OF
ROBERT CALDWELL, SON OF CAPT. THOMAS AND FRANCES CALDWELL, WHO DIED SEPT. 13TH, 1795, 1 AGED 4 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS.
MR. SAM HELYER.
TOMB No. 109.
LORENZO DRAPER AND FRANCIS TUFTS, 1811.
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TOMB No. 108.
JOSEPH TILDEN AND C. LUDDINGTON.
HERE LIES INTERED THE BODY OF
CAPT. NICHOLAS GARDNER,
WHO WAS WOUNDED BY THE ENEMY,
OF WHICH HE DIED JUNE 13TH, 1782, AGED 33 YEARS.
[NOTE. ] This gravestone stands 19 feet south of Franklin's Monument.
HERE LYES INTERED THE BODY OF
MRS. LYDIA DRAPER,
WIDOW OF DEACON RICHARD DRAPER,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AUG'T YE 30TH, 1747, IN YE 77TH YEAR OF HER AGE.
HERE LIES INTERED THE BODY OF
MR. RICHARD DRAPER
SON OF MR. JOHN DRAPER, DECEASED,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN HOPES OF A GLORIOUS
RESURRECTION TO IMMORTALITY,
JUNE 4TH, 1774, AGED 47
YEARS.
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No. 111. OBADIAH WRIGHT AND ISAAC TRASK'S TOMB, 1810.
HERE LIES INTERRED THE BODY OF MR. THOMAS CRAWFORD, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AUG. 23D, 1773, AGED 56 YEARS.
"STOP HERE, MY FRIENDS, AND CAST AN EYE, "AS YOU ARE NOW, SO ONCE WAS I; " AS I AM NOW, SO YOU MUST BE, " PREPARE FOR DEATH AND FOLLOW ME."
"A GOOD NAME IS BETTER THAN PRECIOUS OINTMENT."
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MARY MORRIS, 1741.
HERE LYES THE BODY OF MRS. MARY MCNIEL, THE CONSORT OF CAPT. HECTOR MCNIEL, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEB'Y 7TH, 1769, AGED 38 YEARS.
REV. THOMAS BALDWIN.
THOMAS BALDWIN, D D., was born in Norwich, Conn., December 23d, 1753. After he removed to Canaan, N. H., he became pious and joined the Baptist Church in 1781. It was with pain he thus forsook his con- nections and early friends, for he had been educated a Pedobaptist, and his venerable minister at Norwich was his grand uncle. Having for some time conducted the religious exercises at public meetings, in Au- gust, 1782, he ventured for the first time to take a text, and preach doc- trinally and methodically. His advantages for mental culture had been few. At the request of the Church, he was ordained June 11th, 1783, as an Evangelist, and he performed the duties of pastor for seven years, besides preaching often during each week, in the towns within a circle of fifty miles, " chiefly at his own charges," sometimes receiving small pres- ents, but never having a public contribution.
In these journeys he was obliged to climb rocky steeps, and to pass through dismal swamps; and as the poor people had no silver, and the continental currency was good for nothing, sometimes the travelling preacher was obliged either to beg, or to starve.
For several years he was chosen a member of the Legislature. In 1790 he was invited to Boston, as pastor of the second Baptist Church. He now successfully pursued a course of study, and by his unwearied exertions, acquired a high rank as a preacher. His church though small in 1790, became, under his care, the most numerous and flourishing, of his own denomination in New England.
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ELISHA BROWN,
OF BOSTON,
WHO,
IN OCT'R, 1769, DURING 17 DAYS,
INSPIRED WITH
A GENEROUS ZEAL FOR THE LAWS,
BRAVELY AND SUCCESSFU ***
OPPOSED A WHOLE BRITISH REG'T.
IN THEIR
VIOLENT ATTEMPTS
TO FORCE HIM
FROM HIS LEGAL HABITATION.
HAPPY CITIZEN,
WHEN CALL'D SINGLEY TO BE
A BARRIER TO
THE LIBERTYS OF A CONTINENT.
ELISHA BROWN.
ELISHA BROWN was an inhabitant of the southerly part of Boston, where he owned an estate of considerable value. In the year 1769, when the British soldiers held possession of the town, his house, a very commodious mansion, was selected as remarkably well adapted for the use of barracks, and he was peremptorily ordered to vacate the premises for their convenience. On refusing to comply with the demand of the sol- diers, the house was surrounded by the troops, and kept in a state of siege. It is said that for seventeen days he prevented the troops from gaining their wishes, he having barred all the windows and doors on the inside of the house, and relying for sustenance on the usual family stores which he had provided for family use, and upon the supplies which his friends from without, from time to time found opportunities to convey to him. He died in August, 1785, at the age of 65 years.
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