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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 7: civil History. (search)
could not in ye extremity of ye pain submitt with cheerfullness to ye will of God; & told us yt God spake many things to him under this exercise. 26d. 6 m.—Mr. Mitchell wth diverse came to visit us; or discourse tended to provoke to give up or selves wholly to Jesus Christ and make him ye whole delight of or souls. Within dent, honest, conscientious, and faithful men. This important committee consisted of four Assistants, four Deputies, and four clergymen, of whom Danforth and Mitchell were of Cambridge. The report was signed by Danforth, and was probably written by him; it is here inserted, as it indicates the skill and firmness with which enr of any who are not chosen by this people according to theire patent, Cambridg the 17th of the 8. 1664. Charles Chauncy. Edward Oakes. Samll. Andrewe. Jonathan Mitchell. Elijah Corlett. Richard Champny. Edmund Frost. Gregory Stone. John Bridge. John Stedman. ffrancis Whitmor. Richard Jackson. Edward Shephard. Gilber
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15: ecclesiastical History. (search)
eover, Mr. Shepard's successor, the matchless Mitchell, prepared in 1658 a manuscript account of Thethe pinning mended. During his ministry, Mr. Mitchell encountered two special trials, namely, the IV., ch. IV., † 10. To the lasting honor of Mitchell and Dunster, it should be remembered that theks from his library. And Mather says, that Mr. Mitchell continued such an esteem for Mr. Dunster, t. It is reported by his biographers, that Mr. Mitchell was a Fellow of Harvard College, 1650, a meIf an Ecumenical Council could be obtained, Mr. Mitchell were worthy to be its moderator. But his lof President Dunster are in fact the bones of Mitchell. They are briefly as follows: About thirty y expensive sepulchre; but, on the other hand, Mitchell died in the meridian of his fame, and left a tructure and adornments of the grave point to Mitchell rather than to Dunster, much more its contentdren. For three years after the death of Mr. Mitchell, the church remained destitute of a pastor;[23 more...]
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 17: heresy and witchcraft. (search)
e, that many of the heretical party, in Boston, Salem, Newbury, Roxbury, Ipswich, and Charlestown, were disarmed. Mass. Col. Rec., i. 211, 212. The Cambridge church, however, seems to have escaped infection; and none of its members were included among the disaffected and supposed dangerous class. The vigilancy of Mr. Shepard was blessed ..... for the preservation of his own congregation from the rot of these opinions. Magnalia, ut sup. Nearly twenty years later, his successor, Mr. Mitchell, was sorely tried by the defection of President Dunster from the established faith, as related in chapter XVI. Great excitement followed, both in church and in state; and, as Dunster would neither renounce nor conceal his opposition to infant baptism, he was removed from office as head of the College (designed to be the school of the prophets), and fell under censure of the civil magistrates. Both consequences were natural, and apparently unavoidable. The governors of the College could
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
in 1668, but the family early left the town. Mitchell. In 1668, he purchased a house and 6 acres nerace, b. 9 Dec. 1648; Grace, b. 1 May 1650. Mitchell (Ch. Rec.) names Ruth as the youngest dau.; phn, bap. by Mr. Hooker, in Camb. about 1635 (Mitchell). Sarah, b. Mar. 1638; Jacob, b. 16 Jan. 1639n his son. Hall, May, a widow, is named by Mitchell as a member of his church. Her children werelliam Hamlet, and whose children, as named by Mitchell (Ch. Rec.) were James Hubbard, Sarah Hubbard, the former residence of Hooker, Shepard, and Mitchell, and afterwards of the Professors Wiggleswortsubject of general and bitter lamentation. Mr. Mitchell succeeded Mr. Shepard in more than one respildren, Benjamin, John, Sarah, and Rachell. （Mitchell.) He was here as early as 1638, when he ownedwas successively occupied by Hooker, Shepard, Mitchell, President Leverett, and the two Professors Went, Cooke as Colonel, and Shepard as Major. Mitchell in his Church Record, commenced in 1658, says[18 more...]
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, B. (search)
id to have erected, before Philip's War in 1675, a mill, which was very recently, if it is not now, standing. He had a son Michael, and is supposed to have been the ancestor of the large family of his name, in Bedford. 2. Daniel, brother of Michael (2), was early in Bridgewater, and owned land there, which he sold to his nephew, Michael Bacon, Jr., of Billerica. He was one of the jury for laying out highways in 1664, and is mentioned again in 1668, but the family early left the town. Mitchell. In 1668, he purchased a house and 6 acres near Angier's corner, about which time he probably came to Cambridge. His w. was Mary, dau. of Thomas Read of Colchester, Essex Co., England; and their children, recorded here in 1674, but prob. all born in Bridgewater, were Isaac, b. 14 Ap. 1650; Rachel, b. 8 June 1652; Jacob, b. 2 June 1654; Lydia, b. 6 Mar. 1656-7. They had also son John, to whom the father gave deed of land in Watertown, Feb. 1678-9, in observance of the last will and testam
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, C. (search)
e friend and patron of Mr. Shepard in England, and is affectionately noticed in his autobiography. He went to England in 1658, and in 1665 was residing at Stannaway, Co. Essex, at which date he conveyed his homestead and several lots of land to his son. It is not known that he returned here afterwards. By his w. Elizabeth he had Joseph, b. 27 Dec. 1643; Elizabeth, b. 16 Mar. 1644-5, m. Rev. Joseph Cawthorne of London; Mary, b. 30 Jan. 1646-7; Grace, b. 9 Dec. 1648; Grace, b. 1 May 1650. Mitchell (Ch. Rec.) names Ruth as the youngest dau.; perhaps the second Grace is a mistake and should be Ruth. 3. Joseph, s. of Joseph (2), grad. H. C. 1660 or 1661, and m. Martha, dau. of John Stedman, 4 Dec. 1665, by whom he had John, b. 25 Jan. 1667-8, d. 3 June 1684; Elizabeth, b. 11 Feb. 1669-70, d. 2 Feb. 1687-8; Joseph, b. 16 Sept. 1671; Haynes, b. 1 Feb. 1677-8, resided in Camb., Woburn, and Concord, and was living in 1724; Alice, b——(elder than Haynes), m. Rev. John Whiting of Lancaster
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, F. (search)
nt to Mr. Cradocke, shall be whipped for uttering malicious and scandalous speeches, whereby he sought to traduce the Court, as if they had taken some bribe in the business concerning Walter Palmer. He prob. resided a few years at Concord, for Mitchell says his son Jabez was baptized there, but was in his minority when his father joined this church. His w. Rebecca d. at Concord 11 May 1647. Before June 1649, he came to Camb. He m. Ellen, wid. of Percival Green, the marriage contract being d9. French, William, by w. Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, b. in England about 1631, m.——Ellis of Dedham; Mary, b. about 1633, bap. in England, between two and three years old at her father's joining; John, bap. by Mr. Hooker, in Camb. about 1635 (Mitchell). Sarah, b. Mar. 1638; Jacob, b. 16 Jan. 1639-40; Hannah, b. 2 Feb. 1641-2, d. 20 June 1642; prob. another Hannah, b. about 1643, m. John Brackett at Billerica, 6 Sept. 1661; Samuel, b. 3 Dec. 1645, d. 15 July 1646. William the f. was a tailor
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, G. (search)
iefly devoted to public affairs. He was sheriff of Middlesex 1715-17; Selectman of Cambridge 1717, 1718, Representative 1716, 1721, and often rendered service on important committees. As early as 1710 he was Lieut.-colonel in the expedition against Port Royal; and was commissioned Colonel of Troopers in 1724, in which office he was actively employed against the Indians. About 1697 he m. Hannah, dau. of Simon Lynde of Boston, who had previously been the w. of John Bigg of Bos. and of Jonathan Mitchell of Camb.; site d. and he m. 24 July 1728, Mary dau. of John Legg of Marblehead, who had been the w. of Capt. Edward Brattle and of Col. Nathaniel Norden, both of Marblehead. Col. Goffe d. s. p. 16 Oct. 1740. It is worthy of note that in 1725 Col. Goffe was appointed guardian to Edmund Trowbridge (grandson of his brother Edward), then a minor, afterwards a famous Judge. In 1740, Judge Trowbridge was appointed guardian to Col. Goffe, who had become incapable of managing his affairs.
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, H. (search)
C. 1647, may have been his son. Hall, May, a widow, is named by Mitchell as a member of his church. Her children were all adult at the timbrother of Edward (2), had a grant of land in 1645. By w. Isabel (Mitchell calls her Elizabeth), he had Mary, m. Israel Mead 26 Feb. 1669-70; Perry 21 Aug. 1667; Esther, b. 6 Dec. 1648. All were living when Mitchell commenced his Church Record, in 1658. Hastings, John, freeman 1, and John and Elizabeth, bap. in Braintree. To the name of John, Mitchell adds Seaborne, indicating perhaps that he was born during the pass d. 12 Ap. 1663, and Seeth, b. 1640 (called dau. of Mr. Homan, by Mitchell), m. Thomas Ross 16 Jan. 1661-2, and was slain by the Indian enemyrds owned and occupied successively by Rev. Thomas Shepard, Rev. Jonathan Mitchell, President Leverett, and the Professors Wigglesworth, fatheth Hubbard, who m. William Hamlet, and whose children, as named by Mitchell (Ch. Rec.) were James Hubbard, Sarah Hubbard, now Champney, admitt
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, L. (search)
ey to my brother Parish; my daughter Matha to my brother Stone; my son Joseph to my brother Bridge. Joseph was still living in the family of Deacon Bridge, when Mitchell prepared his fragment of a Church Record; and he may have been the father of Mary, b. about 1679, m. James Clark, Jr., 4 Nov. 1703, and d. 25 June 1711, a. 32. College. Pres. Leverett res. on the northerly side of Harvard Street, nearly opposite to Holyoke Street, which was the former residence of Hooker, Shepard, and Mitchell, and afterwards of the Professors Wigglesworth; connected with his homestead were about seven acres of land, now the property of Harvard College. He m. 25 Nov. e), she m.——Cole (perhaps the father of Arthur Cole, and died before 1668. This conjecture is partly founded on the fragment of a Church Record commenced by Rev. Mr. Mitchell, who d. in 1668. Under the name of John Fezington (Fessenden) he says: In his family is Reuben Luxford, alias Olbon, who, together with his sister Elizabeth
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