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Sept. 15. Stephen Kidder, (from Nantucket,) Jane Nov. I. Holmes, wife of Nathaniel Holmes.
Oct. 13. Mr. Bartholemew Trowe. 1755.
July 20. Sarah Rand, Sarah Souther, Iluldah Eides.
Nov. 9 Abigail Monk.
The wife of Jonathan Rand, Jr., Eliza- beth Souther, Anne Chainberlin. 1756.
Jan. 4. Joseph Larkin and wife, Mary, wife of Hammond Gowen, Joanna, wife of Samuel Swan, Susannab, wife of John Austin, Jr., Alice, wife of Benjamin Brasier, Jr., Anna Rand.
Apr. 25. Josiah Harus and his wife, Mis Parnel and Eliz. and Mary Codman, Jane Sawall, Re- becca Mason. Aug. 15. Lydea Teel.
Sept. 12. Mary, wife of Mr. John White.
Oct. 10. Elizabeth, wife of Wilson Chamberlin, Joanna Trowa, Mary Rand.
Dec. 5. Elizabeth Trowe, Mary Call. 1757.
Jan. 2. Elizabeth Salter.
Apr. 24. Hephzibinh Wolcott.
June 19 Ebenezer King und his wife Martha, Elizabeth Rand, (fil. of Whaff (?) Rand at Boston )
Oct. 9. John Austin, Thomas and Anna Rand, llephzibah, wilo of Samuel Larkin, Jr., Abigail and Esther fil potri Edes.
Nov. 6. Martha Trow9.
1758.
mora, Hannah Rhodes, daughter of Jacob Rhodes.
Jan. 29. llanneh, wife of Elias Stone; Frances Webb, her sister ; Mildred Whittemore ; my daughter Mary Abbott
Mar. 26. Mrs. Jane Flueker.
Apr. 23. Mary, wifeof Ebenezer Kent, Jr., Sarah Edes.
May 21. Merey, wife of Mr. Jnbez Whittamore. June 18. Lois, wife of Thomas Hooper.
Sept. 10. Mary, wite of John Osburna.
Dec. 3. Mary Collins.
Dec. 31. John Larkin, Jr., Sarah Prentice, daughter of Solomon P., Elizabeth Huggins. 1759.
Jan. 28. Zechariah Larkin, Thomas Whittemore. Feb. 25. Mildredl Rand.
May 20. The wife of Stephen Gullishon, Rebecca Sprague, Irene and Mary Prentice, (fil. Revdi.) June 17. Joseph Rand . Mary Mirick.
July 15. Hannah, wife of Ephraim Breed, Mary Sweetser.
1760.
wife. Feb. 21. Ruth Kettell.
Mur. 23. Abigail Frothingham.
Apr 20. Sainh, wife of Wilham Conant.
July 13. Hannah, wife of John Cary.
Nov. 30. Elizabeth, wife of Robert Cally.
Dec. 23. The witu of James Kenny.
1761.
Mar. 22 Mr. David Newell
June 14. Sarah Greaves.
July 12. Mr. Joseph Lynde and his wife.
Kept. 6. Sarah, daughter of Capt John Hancock.
Det. - 1. Hepbzibah Bradich ,daughter of Juines B.
Mary, wife of Thomas Edes.
Nov. 29. Sarah Welsh, Sarah Bradish. 1762. May 16. Anne Rand.
Jan. 5. William Hopping, Jr., Rebecca, wife of Ang. 8. Sursh, wife of Nathaniel Kont. Samuel Conant. Oct. 3. Jonathan Rand.
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Dec. 26. Sarah, wife of Timothy Brigden. 1763.
Jan. 23. Aaron Townsend, Mary, wife of Benj Dec. 18. Abignil, the wife of James Brazier, Frothingham, Jr., Hannah Lamson, daughter Abigail Kettell. 1769. of Caleb Lamson.
Dec. 25. Mr. John Miller, far advanced in years, Jan. 15. William and Joseph Kettle.
Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Welsh, deceased 1764.
Feh. 19 Hannah Hutchinsen.
Mar. 18. Nehemiah Rand.
Apr. 15. Mary Davis.
May 13. Constant Freeman.
July 8. Lydea Greenleaf.
Aug 5. John Ivory and wife, Mary Brown, vid. Apr. 7. Sarah Hopping.
the wife of George Calder.
Nov. 17. Isaac Kidder. 17 72.
Sept. 2. Susannah Hutchinson.
Sept. 30. Katharine, wife of Mr. Samuel Handley. May 31. Benjamin Hurd, Jr.
Oct. 28. William Leathers, Jr., and his wife.
Aug. 23. Isaac Parker.
Nov. 25. Benjamin Goodwin, Elizabeth, wife of Sept. 20. -- Eaton.
Thomas Harding. Hannah, wife of John Soley. Oct 18. Joseph Hurd, Mary, wife of James Call, Sally Broadstreet, Mary Eaton. .. 1773.
Dec. 23. Thomas Wood, Richard Boylston, Elen- zer Dowse.
1765.
Apr. 14. Sarah Townsend.
June 9. Ruth Hutchinson.
1766.
Aug. 31. Hannah, wife of John Burn. (!)
Dec. 21. Mr. James Hay, (far advanced in years.) 1767.
May 10. Mary, wife of William Goodwin.
June 7. Wife nf Joseph Rand, Jr.
Aug. 2. James Brazier.
Sept. 27. Samuel Goodwin ; tha wife of Thomas Sinee 1786, Mrs Elizabeth Sweetger, widow, Shephard. 1768.
Jan. 17. Hannah, wife of David Nawell, Jr.
June 5. Sarah, wife of Edward Goodwin, Jr.
Nov. 20. Sarah, the wife of flenry Phillipa Sweetser.
Mar. 12. Mary, wife of William Fosdick.
Apr. 9. Katharine, the wife of John Kettle.
Sept. 24. Mary, wife of Eben'r Larkin.
Dec. 17. Rebecca, wife of Nath'l Gorham.
1770. Jan. 14. William Wyer. 1771.
May 2. Elizabeth Leppingten. 1774. Aug. 22. Rebecca Davis.
Mar. 6. William nnd Ebenezer Frothingham.
Apr. 3. Isaac llurd. 1779. Jan. -. Henry Phillips Sweetser. 1783. June 22. Thomas and Rebecca Frothingham. 17.87.
Mrs. Nathaniel Austin, Mrs. Elizabeth Ed- monds, Mr. Jacob and Mrs. Foster.
July 8. Polly Hopkins, Francis Churchill.
Aug. 12. Barnabas Barker, James Gardner.
Sept. 25. Thomas Prentice, a student of Hollis- Nov. 11. Rebecca Cordis, wifo of Joseph Cordis, ton.
Sarai, wife of Jonathan Thompson.
INDEX.
Abbot, Rev. Hull, 125, 131, 136-39, 228; Convention of Congregational ministers, testi- notes 45, 46. mony of, 132. Converse, Edward, 33. Cotton, Rev. John, 43, 46. Aberginians, 10, 35, 37. Adams, Ilon. J. (2., 79; note 34. Admonition by Boston churches, 111, 12 ; Council, Ecclesiastical, 39, 79-82. note 39. Court, General, 15. Covenant, 13, 184, Alford Memoir, 245, 46.
Allen, Rev. Thomas, 46, 50, 51 ; notes 22, 24. Covenant, Ilalf-way, 59-65, 127, 152.
Arbella, 10, 165. Arbella, Lady, 14, 16, 17. Arianism, 152. Arminianism, 127, 28.
Associate pastorships, 138, 39. Awakening, the Great, 125-130.
Baptism, 59, 60, 65. Baptists, 56-59, 150; note 25. Beecher, Thomas, 33. Bell, 143, 237. Benefactors of the church, 158-160. Blackstone, Rev. William, 16; note 10. Block House, 141. Bradstreet, Rev. Simon, 111, 113, 114, 116, Elinunds, Daniel, 63. 1225. Bradstreet, Madam, 2.16. Bradstreet, Mrs. Anne, 116-120. Brattle, Madam, 219. Bright, Rev. Francis, 11 ; note 4. Browne, Rev. Joseph, 72. Bunker hill battle, 139-141. Burying hill, 105.
Coytmore, Catharine, 190. Coymore, Martha, 176. Creeds, 153,
Davenport, Rev. John, 44, 62.
Davenport, Rev. James, 131, 32, 134. Deacons, 15, 34, 110; note 19. Defection from the faith, 152-155. Devens, Richard, 159.
Discipline, earliest case of, 56. Disorders following the revival, 132, 33. Dudley, Gov. Thomas, 13, 14, 19 ; note 8.
Earthquake, 128; note 44.
Eliot, Rev. John, 19. Exchange, refusal of, 156.
Fanaticism, 43, 44, 130-135. Fast, 15, 18 Fay, Rev. Warren, 158. Frothingham, Dea., note 58. Frothingham, William, 34. Frothingham, Richard, Jr., 11. Funerals, carly, 67.
Catalogue of church members, 247-256. Charlestown, 11, 18, 20, 21, 38, 51, 52, 167; note 11. Gager, Dea., 15, 16. Galleries, 72, 211. Gilbert, Rev. Thomas, 71, 72. Chapel, 237. Chauncy, Dr., 134. Church, of Boston and Charlestown, 13, 14, Gould, Thomas, 56-59; note 25. 15, 18, 20 ; note 6. Graves, 'Thomas, 10, 11; note 3. Church of Charlestown, 20-22, 31-35, 183- Great House, 11, 15, 35, 195. 186. Church, Old South, 62; notes 26, 35. Greene, John, 15, 49, 50. Church property, 157, 241. Hale, Robert, 34. Harvard, Rev. John, 44, 45, 182. Church and state, 126, 152. Churches, division of, 155-157; comparative Harvard Church, note 53. age of, 186, 87. Harwood, Henry, 34. Higginson, Rev. John, 213. Hilton. William, 191, 92, Horsey's letter, note 37. Il mne well, James, 2.13. Hutchinson, Anne, 41. Hutchinsonians, 42-44. Colleagues, 138, 39. Colman's description of Stevens, 192-121. Confession of faith of 1680, 93, 151. Congregational Church, Second, 151 ; note 53. Congregationalism, 155; faith of, 151. Consociation, 60, 61.
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Imposition of hands, 102. Induction of Mr. Morton, 101. Installations and ordinations, 102. Itinerants, 131.
James, Rev. Thomas, 20, 34, 38, 39, 40 ; Removal to Boston, 16. note 21. James, Rev. Thomas, of Long Island, 41. Johnson, Isaac, 13, 14, 16, 17.
Larkin, Dea., 160. Learned, William, 45. Lecture, Charlestown, note 41. 1.emmon, Mary, 159. Lincoln, Countess of, 19. Lord's day, 22, 23. Lord's supper, 22, 65, 141. Lowden, John, 61.
Meeting-house, 11, 20, 72, 115, 116, 112, 158; Shepard, Rev. Thomas, of Cambridge, 55;
notes 20, 49, 55. Meeting-house Hill, 11, 12, 142; note 48. Miller, Dea , note 58. Miller, Capt. Jobn, 159.
Ministers, 15, 147, 48 ; mode of calling, note Small-pox, 36, 76, 121. 39.
Smith, Elizabeth, 159. Mishawum, 11. Missions, Indian, 199. Sprague, Ralph, 10, 33, 45 ; Richard, 10, 33, 159, 246; note 18; William, 10. Morse, Rev. Dr., 150-158; notes 52, 54. Stevens, Abigail, 159. Morton, Rev. Charles, 99-103, 106-113 ; Stevens, Rev. Joseph, 111, 15, 121-124; note notes 37, 38, 40.
Mousall, Ralph, 34.
Nowell, Increase, 15, 31, 32, 33, 45 ; note 17. Symmes. Rev. Zechariah, 38, 39, 45, 66, 70 ; Nowell, Parnel, 104. Nowell, Samuel, 190, 91.
Oakes, Rev. Urian, 78; note 33. Old South Church, Boston, 62; notes 26, 35. Ordination, early, 21. Organ, 237. Osborn, Thomas, 56, 57, 58. Oxenbridge, Rev. John, 66.
Paine, Rev. Joshua, 143-147, 239. Palmer, Abraham, 33. Parish, 1443; note 50.
Pastor, office of, 15. Pearce, Capt., 13, 18. Pemberton, Rev. Ebenezer, 110. Pews, owners of, 236. I'mullips, Henry, 159. Pilgrims, 10-17. Platform, Cambridge, 47; note 23. Prentice, Rev. Thomas, 125, 131, 138-142; Westminster confession, 47.
notes 43, 47. Printing, early, 183. Property of the church, 241. Psalms, New England version, note 15. Public worship, 22, 23.
note 16.
Questions after sermon, 44.
Records, town. note 5; church, note 14. Reformation, English, 24. Relations of religious experience, 96.
Revivals, 128-130. Richardson, Ezekiel, 34.
Ruling elder, 15, 49. Russell, Rev. Daniel, 72, 79, 82; Richard, 159; James, 114, 159, 223; Thomas, 143, 159 ; family, note 57.
Sabba'day house, note 30. Sacramental furniture note 56. Sagamore, John, 10, 37. Salonstall, Sir Richard, 15. Scarcity, 13, 18. Seating meeting-honse, note 30.
Rev. Thomas, 2d, 54, 72-78, 208 ; noles 31,32, 33, 36; Rev. Thomas, 3d, 80-87, 93-93, 220, 246. Sickness, 12, 16, 17, 35, 36.
49. Stoughton, Rev. W., 68-70, 213. Style, old and new, note 13.
note 28. Synod of 1637, 41-44; of 1648. 46-48, note 23; of 1662, 60-62; of 1679-80, 89-93.
Tablet, 148; note 51. Teacher, office of. 15. Testimony to the Revival, 133. Thacher, Rev. Dr., 141-147, 243.
Thanksgiving, 11, 18. Thatcher, Rev. Thomas, 208.
Toleration, 56; note 31. Town of Charlestown, 11, 35; records of, note 5.
Unitarians, separation from, 151, 55, 56. Unitarianism, origin of, 152-155. Universalist meeting-house, 150.
Walford, Thomas, 10 ; note 2.
Whitefield, 129. Willoughby. Francis, 208. Wilson, Rev. John, 13-15, 18, 20, 62 ; note 9 ; wife of, note 12.
Winter, 18, 20.
Puritans, 23-30, 48, 49, 52, 68, 160-162; Winthrop, Gov. John, 10, 13, 14, 17; notes 1. 7.
Winthrop church, note 53.
CORRIGENDA.
P. 11, 1st line, for " Thomas," read Francis.
P. 77, last line, for " foreut," read forent.
P. 120, 28th line, for " Anna," read Anne.
P. 182, 2d line, for " January 9th," read January 19th.
I am indebted to Mr. Richard Frothingham, Jr. for a correction of the statement made on page 33. Capt. Richard Sprague, who died in 1703, was the nephew of Richard and the sou of Ralph Sprague. See Frothingham's Ilistory of Charlestown, p. 22.
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