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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: His piety shone bright, and particularly that part of it, his Humility, the light of his Doctrine joyned with that of his conversation was indeed very forcible and convincing. He was relatively good and desirable. December 14, 1686, he married Elizabeth, born 19 January, 1670-1, daughter of Theodore and Ann (Wood) Price. She died 10 October, 1693. April 28, 1696, he married Abigail Bull, who died in 1702. July 20, 1704, he married Lydia GoflF. Authorities. ? A. Abbot, History of Andover, 75-77; and Letter in W. B. Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit, i. 198. S. L. Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover, 422, 417, 431. J. Barnard, Diary, in the Congregational Quarterly, iv. 380,381. C. K. Dillaway, History of the Grammar School in Roxbury, 46, 47, 185. C. M. Ellis, History of Roxbury, 53, 57. J. B. Felt, in American Quarterly Register, vii. 246. Harvard College Corporation Records, i. 55; iii. 68. Historical Manual of the South Church in Andover, 18, 19. S. Judd and L. M. Boltwood, History of Hadley, 450. Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, x. 170. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, iii. 67, 68. R. G. Parker, Sketch of the Grammar School in Roxbury, 30. J. Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, i. 118, 120. W. B. Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit, i. 198. July 9, 1680. We started out to go to Cambridge . .. about six o'clock in the morning, and were set across the river at Charlestown. We followed a road which we supposed was the right one, but went full half an hour out of the way, and would have gone still further, had not a negro who met us, and of whom we inquired, disabused us of our mistake. We went back to the right road, which is a very pleasant one. We reached Cambridge about eight o'clock. It is not a large village, and the hou...
