Volume 1 — DECEASE OF THE FATHERS OF NEW ENGLAND.
Reading edition
Chronologically arranged.
1630.
Aug. 6, Rev. Francis Higginson d. at Salem, a. 43.
Sept. 20, Dr. William Gager, surgeon, d. at Charlestown.
Sept. 30, Isaac Johnson, an Assistant, d. at Boston.
Oct. 23, Edward Rossiter, an Assistant.
1631-2.
Feb. 16, Capt. Robert Welden d. at Charlestown.
1634.
Aug. 2, Rev. Samuel Skelton d. at Salem; the first pastor who died in New England, the term pastor being used in contradistinction to teacher.
1635.
Aug. 14, Rev. John Avery was drowned.
1636.
Feb. 3, Rev. John Maverick of Dorchester d. at Boston, a. 60.
1638.
April —, Nicholas Danforth d. at Cambridge.
Sept. 14, Rev. John Harvard, founder of Harvard College, d. at Charlestown.
Nov. 17, Roger Harlakenden, an Assistant, d. at Cambridge.
Dec. 21, John Masters.
1641.
Aug. 9, Rev. Jonathan Burr of Dorchester d., a. 37.
Rev. Henry Smith of Wethersfield. (Mr. Savage says he died in 1648.)
1644.
April 16, Elder William Brewster of Plymouth d., a. 84.
July 1, Rev. George Phillips of Watertown.
Israel Stoughton, an Assistant, d. in England.
John Atwood, an Assistant of Plymouth Colony.
Sept. 4, Rev. Ephraim Hewett of Windsor, Ct.
Hon. George Wyllys of Hartford, Ct.
1646.
April 12, John Oliver, (H. C. 1645,) d. at Boston, a. 29.
1647.
July 7, Rev. Thomas Hooker of Hartford, Ct., d., a. 62.
(To be continued.)
Governor Bradstreet's House.