Endnotes

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1 For the Description, I am principally indebted to my worthy friend, and respectable parishioner, Caleb
Gannett, Esquire.

2 This singular species of manure appears to have been much used in the infancy of the country. An early writer, in reference to the first settlers of Concord, observes: “The Lord is pleased to provide for them great store of fish in the spring time, and especially alewives, about the bigness of a herring: many thousands of these they used to put under their Indian corne.” Wonder-working Providence of Sion’s Saviour in New-England.

3 January, 1801.

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4 Gov. Winthrop’s Journal, printed at Hartford, in 1790.

5 Prince’s Chronology, vol. II. 8. Three numbers only of a second volume of this Chronology were ever published.

6 For the original names of the streets of Cambridge, I am indebted to William Winthrop, Esquire, (a descendent of Governer Winthrop) who, in some other particulars, has obligingly contributed to the correctness of this history.

7 This street was straightened the present year.

8 It stood on the west side of Water Street, near its southern termination at Marsh Lane.

9 Belknap’s American Biography, II. 339. Hubbard’s MS. Hist. of N. Eng.

10 Prince, II. 30, 31. This creek, or passage, which is still open, extends from the river to a northerly direction, to the upland on the west. Chicketawbut was the sagamore of Neponcett, which could not have been far from Boston, for, on the 14th of February, 1962, “the Governor and some other company went to view the country as far as Neponcett and returned that night.” The first mention of this Indian chief, within my knowledge, is March 23, 1631, when “Chickatabot (thus spelt by Gov. Winthrop.) came with his sannops and squaws, and presented the Governor with a bushel of Indian corn.” In April, he “came to the Governor again, and he put him into a very good new suit from head to foot; and, after, he sat meat before him, but he would not eat till the Governor had given thanks, and after meat he desired him to do the like and so departed.” He died, of small pox, in November, 1633, when that disorder occasioned “a great mortality among the Indians,” and carried off many of his people. Winthrop’s Journal, 24, 26, 32, 56.

11 Prince, II. 23.

12 Prince, II. 57. This fortification was actually made; and the fosse, which was then dug around the town, is, in some places, visible, to this day. It commenced at Brick Wharf, (originally called Windmill Hill) and ran along the northern side of the present Common in Cambridge, and through what was then a thicket, but now constitutes a part of the cultivated grounds of Mr. Nathaniel Jarvis; beyond which it cannot be distinctly traced. It enclosed above 1000 acres.

13 Wood’s New-England Prospect.

14 This venerable oak stood on the northerly side of the Common in Cambridge, a little west of the road leading to Lexington. The stump of it was dug up not many years since.

15 Winthrop's Journal, 42. It is highly probable, that this company came from Braintree, in Essex county, England, and from its vicinity, Chelmsford, where Mr. Hooker was settled, is but eleven miles from Braintree: And Mr. Hooker “was so esteemed as a preacher, that not only his own people, but others from all parts of the county of Essex flocked to hear him.” æ The names of this company, constituting the first settlers of the town of Cambridge, are preserved in the records of the Proprietors, under the date of 1632, and are as follow:

Jeremy Adams Matthew Allen John Benjamin Jonathan Boswell Mr. Simon Bradstreet * John Bridge Richard Butler John Clarke Anthony Couldby, or Colby Daniel Dennison Thomas Dudley, Esq. Samuel Dudley Edward Elmer Richard Goodman William Goodwin Garrad Hadden Stephen Hart John Haynes, Esq + Thomas Pleate Rev Thomas Hooker Thomas Hosmer Richard Harlackenden William Lewis

Richard Lord John Masters Abraham Morrill Hester Mussey Simon Oakes James Olmsted Capt. Daniel Patrick John Prat William Pentrey Joseph Redinge Nathaniel Richards William Spencer Thomas Spencer Edward Stebbins John Steele Henry Steel George Steele Samuel Stone John Talcott William Wadsworth Andrew Warner Richard Webb William Westwood John White

* afterward Governor of Massachusetts + afterward Governor of Connecticut.

16 Prince, II. 75. This church stood on the west side of Water Street, and south of Spring Street, near the place where these streets intersect each other, about 30 rods south of where the congregational church now stands.

17 Winthrop’s Journal. Governor Winthrop is characterised, by Morton, as “singular for piety, wisdom, and of a public spirit; as a man of unbiassed justice, patience in respect of personal wrongs and injuries, a great lover of the saints, especially able ministers of the gospel; very sober in desiring, and temperate in improving, earthly contentments; very humble, courteous, and studious of general good.” Dr. Belknap justly observes, that “he was eminently qualified for the first office of government, in which he shone with lustre, which would have done him honour in a larger sphere, and a more elevated situation. He was the father, as well as governor, of an infant plantation.” His house, in Boston, stood a few rods north of the Old South church, where the pile of brick stores has been recently built. The late John Winthrop, Esq. Hollis Professor of Math and Nat. Philos. was his descendant of the fourth generation; and James and William Winthrop, Esquires, now living in Cambridge, are descendants, of the fifth generation. Gov. Winthrop died in 1649, aetat. LXIII. Amer.Biog. II. 337. Magnalia, II. 8.
Thomas Dudley, Esq. is characterised as “a man of sound judgement in matters of religion and well read, bestowing much labour that way; as a lover of justice, order, the people, Christian religion æ the supreme virtues of a good magistrate. He was exact in the practice of piety in his person and family all his life. He was principal founder and pillar of the colony of Massachusetts; and several times, Governor and Deputy Governor of that Province. He was principal founder of the town of Newtown, [Cambridge] being zealous to have it made the metropolis.” On Mr. Hooker’s removal to Hartford, he removed from Newtown to Ipswich, and afterward to Roxbury, where he died, in 1653. aetat. LXXVII.
Wonder working Providence. Morton’s Memorial. Prince. Mather.

18 Trumbull, 5. II.

* Winthrop’s Journal

19 Neal

20 Wonder-working Providence.

21 Winthrop’s Journal.

22 Ibid.

23 Winthrop’s Journal

24 Wonder-working Providence, 61.

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25 For the form of the organization of this church, and the religious exercises on the occasion, see Winthrop’s Journal, 95, 96. This was the eleventh church, gathered in Massachusetts. The order of the churches was as follows:

26 Trumbull, I.55. Winthrop’s Journal, 100

27 “After God had carried us safe to New-England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear’d convenient places for God’s worship, and settled the civil government. One of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity: dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.” New England’s First Fruits, published in 1643.

28 Adam’s History of New-England.

29 C. Mather.

30 Wonder-working Providence.

31 Magnalia, III. 87. Wonder-working Providence, 164.

32 The town records confirm Mr. Prince’s account, that the church had a bell at first; for they shew that the town meetings were then called by the ringing of a bell. A drum, for what reason does not now appear, was
afterwards substituted in its place; for I find an order of the townsmen, in 1646, for the payment of fifty shillings to a man “for his service to the towne, in beating the drum.”

33 Wonder -working Providence. C.XLIII.

34 “The Reverend and judicious Mr. Jos. Glover, being able both in person and estates for the work, provided, for further compleating the colonies, in church and commonwealth, a printer,” dec. Wonder-working Providence, X.— Mrs. Glover (probably the relict of this gentleman) bought Gov. Haines’ house and estate, situated at Market Place, in Cambridge, in 1639.
Nothing of Daye’s printing is to be found. The press was very early in the possession of Mr. Samuel Greene, who was an inhabitant of Cambridge, in 1639, and who is considered as the first printer in America. His descendants, in every succession to this day, have maintained the honour of the typographic art. The present printers, of that name, at New-London, and New-Haven, in Connecticut, are of his posterity. The first press was in use at Cambridge, about half a century. The last thing I can find, which was issued from it, is the second edition of Eliot’s Indian Bible, in 1685. Some reliques of this press, I am informed, are still in use, in the printing office at Windsor, in Vermont.
Mr. Samuel Hall, printer to the Historical Society, printed the New-England Chronicle at Cambridge, from the commencement of the revolutionary war, in 1775, to the removal of the American army from Cambridge. A new printing press was set up in this town, the present year, by Mr. William Hilliard, a son of my worthy predecessor in the ministry.

35 Winthrop’s Journal.

36 The Rev. Mr. Prince, of Boston, observed, that, when he was last in England, in 1717, he found this Version “ was by some eminent congregations there preferred to all others in their public worship.” I find the eighteenth edition of this Version printed with the Bible at Edinburgh, in 1741; and the twenty-third (I suppose New-England) edition printed at Boston, in 1730. The Rev. Mr. Prince revised and improved this New-England Version, in
1758.

37 May not this be the town well, still in use, a little southwesterly of the first church?

38 There are now one hundred and ninety-one Students in this ancient and very respectable Seminary; and, for several preceding years there have been upwards of two hundred.

The observations of Mr. Oakes are worthy of perpetual regard: “Think not that the Commonwealth of Learning may languish, and yet our Civil and Ecclesiastical State be maintained in good plight and condition. The wisdom and foresight, and care for future times, of our first Leaders was in nothing more conspicuous and admirable, than in the planting of that Nursery: and New-England is enjoying the sweet fruit of it. It becomes all our faithful and worthy Patriots that tread in their steps, to water what they have planted.” Address to the General Court, in his Election Sermon, 1673.

39 Winthrop’s Journal.

40 Ibid.

41 Ibid

42 New England’s First Fruits. See Coll. of Hist. Soc. I. 243. Mr. Corlet appears to have been a man of learning, of piety, and respectability; and it is to the honour of Cambridge, that, in the infancy of the town, great exertions were made for his steady and permanent support. He was master of the Grammar School, in this town, between 40 and 50 years. He had the tuition of the Indian scholars, who were designed for the College, and, “for his extraordinary paines in teaching” them, received compensation from the Society for propagating the Gospel. In the accounts, transmitted from New-England to that Society, he is repeatedly, and very honourably, mentioned. [See Hazard’s Hist. Coll. II.] Dr. C. Mather (who has inserted in his Magnalia a biographical sketch of the Rev. Mr. Hooker, drawn by Mr. Corlet) styles him “that memorable old School-master in Cambridge; from whose education,” he adds, “our College and Country has received so many of its worthy men, that he is himself worthy to have his name celebrated in our Church History.”

43 See his. character in Trumbull's Hist. Connect. I. 241.

44 The Legislature of Massachusetts has made such an addition to this very useful fund, that six bachelors may now reside at the College, and seven boys be instructed at the Grammar School.

45 Wonder-working Providence. Magnal. III. 120.

46 Hist. Collect. of the Indians in New-England.

47 Homer’s Hist. of Newtown, in Coll. of Hist. Soc. vol.V. 253.æ Soon after Mr. Gookin’s arrival, he was appointed captain of the military company in Cambridge; and a member of the house of deputies. In 1652, he was elected assistant; and, four years after, was appointed by the General Court superintendant of all the Indians, who had submitted to the government of Massachusetts; in which office he appears to have continued, with little interruption, till his death. In 1662, he was appointed, in conjunction with the Rev. Mr. Mitchel, one of the licensers of the printing-press in Cambridge. In 1681, he was appointed major general of the Colony. He is characterized by the writers who mention his name, as a man of good understanding, rigid in his religious and political principles, but zealous and active, of inflexible integrity, and exemplary piety, disinterested and benevolent, a firm patriot, and, above all, uniformly friendly to the Indians, who lamented his death with unfeigned sorrow. He died in 1687 æ a poor man. But, such was the estimation of his character and services, that a decent monument was erected over his grave. It stands on the south-east side of the burying-ground in Cambridge, and has this inscription:

Here lyeth intered
the body of Major Gen.
Daniel Gookins aged 75 yeares
who departed this life y 19 of March
1686-7

Mr. Eliot’s apostolical labours among the Indians are justly celebrated in Europe and America. His Indian bible will remain a perpetual monument of his patient diligence, and pious zeal. “The whole translation,” Dr. C. Mather says, “he writ with but one pen.” the first edition of it was published as early, at least, as the year 1668, and a second in 1685. Both editions were printed at Cambridge.
The title of this bible is:

Mamusse
Wunneetupanatamwe
UP-BIBLUM GOD
Naneefwe
NUKKONE TESTAMENT
Kah Wonk
WUSKU TESTAMENT.

The Lord’s Prayer is as follows:
Nooshun kesukqut, quttianatamunach koowesdonk. Peyaumooutch kukketassootamóonk nen nach ohkeit neane kesukqut. Nummeetfuongash asekêsukokish assarnainneau yenyeu kesukok. Kah ahquoantamaiinnean nummatchefeongash neane matchenehukqueagig nutahquontamounnonog. Ahque fagkompagunaiinnean en qutchhuaongaint webe pohquohwuffinnean wutch matchitut. Newutche kutahtaunn ketassóotamoonk, kah menuhkesuonk, kah sohsumóonk micheme. Amen.

48 Caleb Cheescaumuck, (anciently written Cheeshahteaumuck) in 1665.

49 Gookin’s Historical Collections, chap. V.

50 Adams’s Hist. of N. England. Neal’s Hist. of N. England, II. 33.

51 By an estimate of the number of persons, and of the estate, in Cambridge, taken by the Townsmen, [Selectmen] by order of the General Court, in 1647, it appears, that there were then in town,

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54 PRESIDENTS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY

1640 1654 1672 1675 1682 1685 1701 1708 1725 1737 1770 1774 1781

Rev. Henry Dunster, resigned Rev. Charles Chauncy, died Rev. Leonard Hoar, M.D. resigned Rev. Urian Oakes, A.M. died John Rogers, A.M. died Rev. Increase Mather, S.T.D. resigned Rev. Samuel Willard, A.M. Vice-President, died Hon. John Leverett, A.M. S.R.S. died Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, A.M. died Rev. Edward Holyoke, A.M. died Rev. Samuel Locke, S.T.D. resigned Rev. Samuel Langdon, S.T.D. resigned Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. L.L.D.

1654 1672 1675 1681 1684 1701 1707 1724 1737 1769 1773 1780

55 Cambridge appears, in the first instance, to have contained merely a sufficient tract of land for a fortified town. Hence the early tendency of its inhabitants to emigration. By this second enlargement, it appears to have included the territory constituting the principal part of the present township of Billerica, and the whole township of Lexington; the former of which was incorporated May 29, 1655, and the latter, March 20, 1712. Cambridge Village was incorporated, by the name of Newton, December 8, 1691.

56 Wonder-working Providence, C. XXVIII.

57 Town Records. - The first church in Cambridge Village [now Newton] was gathered July 20,1664.

58 Town Records.

59 A phrase, supposed to mean “painted.”

60 Town Records

61 Ibid.

62 Ibid

63 Gookin’s Hist. Collect.

64 Church Records.

65 Ibid

66 Church Records. All the ministers, since Mr. Mitchel, have resided at the Parsonage. The front part of the present house, at the Parsonage, was built in 1720.

67 The Honourable William Stoughton, Esquire, was preacher of the gospel for several years. His Sermon, at the annual Election, has been ranked among the very best, delivered on that occasion. His Epitaph (which Mr. Clap, the late venerable town-clerk of Dorchester, told me, in his cautious manner, he believed may have been written by the Rev. Mr. Mather, of Dorchester) ascribes to him these traits:

Religione Sanctus,
Virtute clarus,
Doctrina Celebris,
Ingenio Acutus,
æ æ æ æ
Impietatis & Vitir Hostis acerrimus.
Hune Doctores Laudant Theologum,
Hune Pu venerantur Austerum.

With these excellent qualifications, however, he was never settled in the ministry. But, in civil life, he was eminently useful to the Commonwealth. He was repeatedly chosen its Lieut. Governor; and for many years, was Commander in chief. He was a generous benefactor to Harvard college. Stoughton Hall was erected at his expense. See his Epitaph entire in Hist. Collections, II. 10.

68 Church Records.

69 Town Records

70 Town Records.

71 Ibid.

72 Town Records.

73 Ibid.

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74 Church Records. The Rev. Mr. Cooke, “in whom,” as his epitaph justly states, “were united the social friend, the man of science, the eminent and faithful clergyman,” died June 4, 1783, in the 75 year of his age, and 44th of his ministry. He was succeeded by the Rev. Thaddeus Fiske, who was ordained April xx, 1788.

75 Town Records.

76 This church, called Christ Church, was opened October 15, MDCCLXI; and is considered, by connoisseurs in architecture, as one of the best constructed churches in New-England. Its model is said to have been taken from Italy. On its corner-stone is the following INSCRIPTION:

DEO. AITERNO.
PATRI. FILIO. SPIRITUS.
HANC.AEDEM.
SUB AUSPCIIS. ILLUSTRISS. SOCIETATIS.
PROMOVENDO. EVANGELIO.
IN. PARTIBUS. TRANSMARINIS.
INSTITUTAE.
CONSECRABANT. CANTABRIGIENSES.
ECCLESIAE. ANGLICANAE. FILII.
IN.
CHRISTIANAE. FIEDEI. ET. CHARITATIS.
INCREMENTUM.
A.D. MDCCLX.
PROVINCIAM. PROCURANTE.
V. CL.
FRANCISCO. BERNARDO.

Mr. Apthorp was educated at Jesus college in the University of Cambridge, in England, of which he was afterwards a Fellow. He proceeded A.B. in 1755, and has since received the degree of D.D. from one of the English Universities. Within a few years after his settlement at Cambridge, he went to England, and became settled in London, where he is still living.

77 Town Records.

78 Proprietor’s Records.

79 Town Records.

80 Ibid.

81 Ibid.

82 Town Records

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83 The reasons of Mr. Hooker’s removal to New-England are stated in a letter of the Rev. Mr. Cotton, preserved in Gov. Hutchinson’s “Collection of Papers.” æ “The questions you demand, I had rather answer by word of mouth, than by letter, yet I will not refuse to give you account of my brother Hookers removall and mine owne, seinge you require a reason thereof from us both. We both of us concurre in a 3 fold ground of removal. 1. God having shut a doore against both of us from ministringe to him and his people in our wonted congregations, and calling us by a remnant of our people, and by others of this countrye, to minister to them here, and opening a dore to us this way, who are we that we should strive against God and refuse to follow the concurrence of his ordinance and providence together, callinge us forth to minister here. If we may and ought to follow God’s callinge 3 hundred myles, why not 3 thousand? 2. Our Saviours warrant is in our case, that when we are distressed in our course in one country (nequid dicam gravius) we should flee to another. 3. It hath been noe small inducement to us, to choose rather to remove hither, than to stay there, that we might enjoye the libertye, not of some ordinances of God, but of all, and all in purity.” æ See the reasons more fully stated in Mr. Cotton’s letter: Hutch. Coll. p. 54.

84 President Stiles’s Election Sermon, second edition, 103.

85 Magnalia, III. 61. Dr. Ames designed to follow Mr. Hooker; but he died soon after Mr. Hooker’s removal from Rotterdam. His widow and children came afterward to New-England, where they found in Mr. Hooker, a faithful friend and beneficent patron.
The great Mr. Cotton pronounced Mr. Hooker Vir solertis ingenii, atque acerrimi judicii.

86 Trumbull’s Hist. Connecticut. See, also, Mather’s Magnalia, B.III. p. 58-68.

87 Peters.

88 Trumbull’s History of Connecticut, I. 326: and New England’s Memorial, 179. For a more particular account of Mr. Hooker and Mr. Stone, see Mather’s Magnalia, III. 58 & 116.

89 The following extract from Mr. Shepard’s MS. Diary, furnishes an interesting speciment of the barbarous treatment, which our pious ancestors received, under the inquisitorial domination of bishop Laud; “Dec. 16, 1630. I was inhibited from preaching in the Diocese of London, by Doctor Laud, bishop of that Diocess. As soon as I came in the morning, about 8 of the clock, falling into a fit of rage he asked me,
What degree I had taken at the University? I answered him, I was a Master of Arts. He asked, Of what College? I answered, Of Emanuel. He asked, How long I had lived in his Diocess? I answered, Three years and upwards. He asked, Who maintained me all this while? charging me to deal plainly with him, adding withal, that he had been more cheated and equivocated with by some of my malignant Faction than ever was man by Jesuit. At the speaking of which words he look’d as tho’ blood would have gush’d out of his face, and did shake as if he had been haunted with a Ague Fit, to my apprehension, by reason of his extream malice and secret venom. I desired him to excuse me: He fell then to threaten me, and withal to bitter railing, calling me all to naught saying, You prating coxcomb! Do you think all the Learning is in your brain? He had pronounced his sentence thus: I charge you, that you neither Preach, Read, Marry, Bury, or exercise any Ministerial Function in any part of my Diocess; for if you do, and I hear of it, I’ll be upon your back, and follow you wherever you go, in any part of the kingdom, and so everlastingly disenable you. I besought him not to deal so, in regard of a poor Town; and here he stopt me in what I was going on to say, A poor Town! you have made a company of seditious factious Bedlams; and what do you prate to me of a poor Town? I prayed him to suffer me to catechise in the Sabbath Days in the afternoon: He replied, Spare your breath, I’ll have no such fellows prate in my Diocess, get you gone, and now make your complaints to whom you will. So away I went; and blessed be God that I may go to him.”

90 “In the meane time the master, and other seamen, made a strange construction of the fore storme they met withall, saying, their ship was bewitched; and therefore made use of the common charme ignorant people use, nailing two red hot horse shoos to their main mast.”
Wonder-working Providence.

91 President Edwards styles Mr. Shepard “that famous experimental divine;” and, in his very judicious and elaborate “Treatise concerning Religious Affections,” makes a greater use of his writings, particularly of his “Parable of the Ten Virgins,” than of any other writings whatever.
Johnson, who wrote a few years after Mr. Shepard’s death, says: “Thousands of souls have cause to blesse God for him even at this very day, who are the seal of his ministrey, and hee a man of a thousand, indued with abundance of true saving knowledge for himselfe and others.” (Wonder-working Providence, XXXIV. This very scarce and valuable book, (obligingly put into my hands by the venerable antiquarian Judge Craneb, of Quincey,) was first published without the author’s name; and, afterward, erroneously ascribed to Sir F. Borges. The real author was Mr. Johnson, of Woburn, in N. England. See Preface of Prince’s Chron. ii.) Later writers have not overlooked Mr. Shepard’s antiquated merit. Dr. Mayhew, in one of his controversial essays, mentions him as a person of great note in his day, and a learned man. Dr. Chauncy, in his “Seasonable Thoughts,” quotes him with great respect, styling him, in different parts of his work, “the memorable,” “the celebrated,” “the famous” Shepard.

92 In 1644, he wrote to the Commissioners of the United Colonies, representing the necesssity of further assistance for needy scholars at Cambridge; and desired them to encourage a general contribution through the colonies. The Commissioners approved the motion, and recommended it to the consideration of the Legislatures of the several colonies, which adopted the recommendation; and an annual contribution was, accordingly, made through the United colonies, for many subsequent years. Trumbull’s Hist. Connect. I. 148. Hazard’s Hist. Collections, II. 17, where Mr. Shepard’s Proposition to the Commissioners is preserved entire.

93 Morton. æ Mr. Shepard’s monument is not now distinguishable among the tombs. In the burying ground in Cambridge, there are several monuments, of hard stone, with incisions, evidently designed to admit a softer stone with an inscription. By the ravages of time, or of sacrilegious hands, these inlet stones are now removed, and the inscriptions are unhappily lost. But for this injury, we might, perhaps, now have the melancholy pleasure of visiting the monuments of the pious and renowned SHEPARD and MITCHEL, and others, of revered memory. æ The slab, which covered the grave of the great President Chauncy, is broken into three pieces; and the fragments are carefully laid aside. A line of Horace would form an apposite inscription for the tomb of many a great and good man:
Oblitusque meorum oblivissendus et idis.

94 C. Mather. Dr. Increase Mather ascribes this measure to his father’s influence. “After Mr. Mitchel was arrived in New-England he employed his son Jonathan in secular affairs; but the spirit of the child was strongly set for learning, and he prayed my father to persuade his father that he might have a learned education. My father’s persuasions happily prevailed.”

95 The conduct of both parties, on this occasion, does them singular honour; and furnishes an example worthy of imitation in the present age, an age which is frequently censuring the bigotry of the pious ancestors of New-England, in contrast with its own catholicism. President Dunster “died in such harmony of affection with the good men, who had been the authors of his removal from Cambridge, that he, by his Will, ordered his body to be carried to Cambridge for its burial, and bequeathed legacies to those very persons.” Magnalia, III. 100. IV. 158.

96 Mr. Samuel Mather and Mr. Mitchel were the first that were elected Fellows in this seminary. In the infancy of the institution, a Tutor was, ex officio, a Fellow of the college.

+ Magnalia

97 The celebrated Mr. Baxter said of him, “If an Ecumenical Council could be obtained, Mr. Mitchel were worthy to be its Moderator.” C. Mather

98 Colonel Whalley and Colonel Goffe, two of the judges of king Charles I. on the day of their arrival in New-England, July 1660, came to Cambridge, where they resided till February following, and were treated with the kindest hospitality and friendship by Mr. Mitchel, who admitted them to the sacrament, and to private meetings for devotion. Hutchinson’s Hist. of Massachusetts I. 215. President Stiles’s Hist. of Three of the Judges of Charles I. 28.

99 New-England’s Memorial, 201.

100 Dr. C. Mather, who was educated under his presidency, has preserved, in one of his publication,s a specimen of his latin composition, which is very classical and elegant. In his judgement, “America never had a greater master of the true, pure, Ciceronian Latin,” than President Oakes. He appears to have had a poetical genius. An Elegy, of considerable length, written by him on the Rev. Mr. Shepard, of Charlestown, rises, in my judgment, far above the poetry of his day. It is of Pindaris measure, and is plaintive, pathetic, and replete with imagery.

101 This paragraph is extracted from Preface of Doctor Increase Mather to a Discourse of Mr. Oakes, published soon after the Author’s decease.

102 His previous election, in 1675, was pro tempore.

103 Church Records.

104 The Rev. Mr. Shurtleff’s Sermon, at the ordination of Mr. Nathaniel Gookin, in 1739.

105 Mr. Shurtleff informs us, (Ordin. Serm.) that the Rev. Seaborn Cotton was this Mr. Gookin’s great grandfather. I suppose the second Mr. Nathaniel Gookin (son of the ministry of Cambridge) married a daughter of John Cotton, (his predecessor in the ministry) who was a son of Seaborn, (his predecessor) who was a son of the renowned John Cotton, one of the first ministers of Boston.

106 Boston News-Letter, No. 671.

107 A few particulars concerning this memorable Snow may gratify curiosity. the Boston News-Letter of February 15, 1717, has the following paragraphs: “Besides several Snows, we had a great one on Monday the 18th current; and on Wednesday the 20th it begun to snow about noon, and continued snowing till Friday the 22nd. So that the Snow lies in some parts of the streets about Six foot high.” æ “The extremity of the weather has hindered all the three Posts from coming in; neither can they be expected till the roads (now impassable with a mighty Snow upon the ground) are beaten.” The News-Letter, of March 4, has this paragraph: “Boston; February ended with Snow, and March begins with it, the Snow so deep that there is no travelling.’

108 This very worthy and respectable man departed this life, since this History was committed to the press, February 7th, 1801, aetat. LIX. His father, Brigadier-General William Brattle, was the only child of the Rev. William Brattle, who lived to mature age.

109 Coll. of Hist. Soc. for 1799, p. 79.

110 He was one of the King’s Council; and, for more than twenty years, a Judge of Probate for the county of Essex; he was a man of sound judgment, and unimpeached integrity. It was remarked, that, during the long period in which he was in the Probate Office, there was never an appeal from his judgment.

111 He resigned his Fellowship in 1779.

112 President Wadsworth, speaking of Mr. Appleton, says: “I have often though, it is a great favour not only to the Church and Town of Cambridge, but also to the College, and therein to the whole Province, that he is fixed in that public post and station, assigned by Providence to him.” Preface to The Wisdom of God in the Redemption of Man.

113 President Stiles’s Literary Diary.

114 James Winthrop, Esquire.

115 His portrait, taken by Copley, represents him holding a volume of Dr. Watts, entitled “Orthodoxy and Charity.” This portrait, which is said to be an excellent likeness, is now in the possession of Mrs. Appleton, relict of the late Nathaniel Appleton, Esquire, who was a very worthy and respectable son of the minister of Cambridge. It was rescued from the fire in Boston, in 1794, in which Dr. Appletons’s MSS. then in the hands of his son, were consumed.

116 President Willard’s Sermon, at the funeral of Mr. Hilliard; from which this character is selected. The President was contemporary with Mr. Hilliard as a student, and a tutor, and had “a peculiar intimacy with him, for many years.”

117 “The air in the town is affected by the neighborhood of the sea on each side, from which it derives a dampness and frequently a chill which is disagreeable, if not unfriendly to tender nerves.” The Rev. Mr. Mellen’s description of Barnstable, in the collections of the Historical Society, III. 12.

118 Ever since the foundation of Harvard College, its officers and students have attended public worship in the first church in Cambridge.

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