Volume 1 — EPITAPHS.[27]
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EPITAPHS.[27]
Here is interred the remains of James Minott, Esq., A. M. an Excelling Grammarian, Enriched with the Gift of Prayer and Preaching, a Commanding Officer, a Physician of Great Value, a Great Lover of Peace as well as of Justice, and which was His greatest Glory, a Gent'n of distinguished Virtue and Goodness, happy in a Virtuous Posterity, and living Religiously, Died Comfortably, Sept. 20, 1735, Æt. 83.
Here lyes the remains of Major Jonathan Prescott, Esq., a Gentleman of virtue and merit, an accomplisht physitian, but excelling in chirurgery. Of uncommon sagacity, penetration, and success in his practice, and so of very extensive service. But his life was much valued, and his death very generally lamented. He married the amiable and only daughter of the Honorable Colonel Peter Bulkley, Esq., by whom he had ten children. He was removed from ministring to men's bodies, to the world of spirits, October 28th, 1729, Ætatis suæ 54.
Here lyes the Body of Rev. Mr. Christopher Toppan, Master of Arts, fourth Pastor of the First Church in Newbury; a Gentleman of good Learning, conspicuous Piety and Virtue, shining both by his Doctrine and Life, skilled and greatly improved in the Practice of Physick and Surgery, who deceased, July 23, 1747, in the 76th year of his age, and the 51st of his Pastoral Office.