Volume 1 — DECEASE OF THE FATHERS OF NEW ENGLAND.
Reading edition
DECEASE OF THE FATHERS OF NEW ENGLAND.
Chronologically arranged.
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1648.
Oct. 11, Rev. Henry Green of Reading.
1649.
March 26, Gov. John Winthrop of Boston, b. Jan. 12, 1588, d., a. 61.
Aug. 25, Rev. Thomas Shepard of Cambridge, b. Nov. 5, 1605, d., a. 44.
1650.
Sept. 11, Atherton Hough of Boston, an Assistant.
1651.
Aug. —, William Thomas, an Assistant of Plymouth Colony, d., a. 77.
1652.
Aug. 24, Adam Winthrop, Esq., of Boston, d., a. 33.
Sept. 14, Capt. Bozoun Allen of Boston, formerly of Hingham.
Dec. 23, Rev. John Cotton of Boston d., a. 67. (The old "Boston Book" says, Mr. Cotton d. 15th of 10th month.)
1653.
Jan. 18, Capt. William Tyng of Boston, Treasurer of the Colony.
July 31, Gov. Thomas Dudley of Roxbury d., a. 77.
Rev. Nathaniel Ward, first minister of Ipswich, d. in England, a. 83.
Nov. 8, Rev. John Lothrop of Barnstable.
Oct. 8, Hon. Thomas Flint of Concord.
1654.
Jan. —, John Glover of Dorchester, an Assistant.
Gov. John Haynes of Hartford, Ct.
July 23, William Hibbins, an Assistant, d. at Boston.
Dec. 9, Gen. Edward Gibbons of Boston.
1655.
May 8, Edward Winslow of Plymouth d. on board the Fleet, a. 61.
July 3, Rev. Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich d., a. 57.
Rev. Daniel Maud of Dover, N. H. He had taught a school for some years in Boston before he went to Dover.
Henry Wolcott, the ancestor of the governors of Connecticut by this name, d., a. 78.
1656.
Capt. Miles Standish of Duxbury d., a. ab. 72.
Capt. Robert Bridges of Lynn, an Assistant.
1668? Rev. Peter Prudden of Milford, Ct., d., a. 56.
March 23, Capt. Robert Keaine, merchant in Boston.
Oct. 22, Rev. James Noyes of Newbury d., a. 48.
1657.
Jan. 7, Gov. Theophilus Eaton of Connecticut d., a. 66.
March —, Gov. Edward Hopkins d. in London, a. 57.
George Fenwick, the first settler of Saybrook, d. in England.
May 9, Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth, d., a. 69.
1658.
Rev. Ralph Partridge of Duxbury.
John Coggan of Boston.
1659.
Feb. 27, Rev. Henry Dunster of Scituate d., (buried at Cambridge.)
March 9, Rev. Peter Bulkley of Concord d., a. 77.
April 10, Rev. Edward Norris of Salem d., a. ab. 70.
Sept. 29, John Johnson of Roxbury.
1660.
Oct. 16, Rev. Hugh Peters executed in England, a. 61.
1661.
Jan. 23, Rev. Ezekiel Rogers of Rowley, a. 70.
Sept. 17, Maj. Gen. Humphrey Atherton of Dorchester. He was killed by a fall from his horse on Boston Common, when on his return from a military review on the Common. Mr. Savage and the inscription on his tombstone say, that he died on the 16th, but other authority,[25] and incontrovertible, says, on the "17th at about 1 o'clock, after midnight."
Dec. 28, Rev. Timothy Dalton of Hampton d., a. ab. 84.
1662.
March 1, Rev. Ralph Smith d. at Boston.
March 30, Rev. Samuel Hough, minister of Reading, d. in Boston.
June 14, Sir Henry Vane executed in England, a. 50.
Oct. —, William Pynchon d. at Wraisbury, Bucks, a. 72.
1663.
——, Thomas Camock, nephew of the Earl of Warwick, d. in Scarborough, Me. If he is the same who is named in the 2nd charter of Virginia, 1609, he was quite advanced in years.
Rev. Richard Denton of Stamford, Ct., [ab. 1663.]
April 5, Rev. John Norton of Boston, a. 57.
June 12, Rev. John Miller d. at Groton.
July 5, Rev. Samuel Newman of Rehoboth, a. 63.
July 20, Rev. Samuel Stone of Hartford.
1665.
Jan. 9, Rev. Samuel Eaton of New Haven.
March 15, Gov. John Endecott of Boston, a. 77.
July 15, Capt. Richard Davenport, killed by lightning at Castle William, a. 59.
Rev. Adam Blackman of Stratford.
Dr. John Clark of Boston, a. 66.