The names in Italicks designate ministers' sons Of these, 26 have been natives of Boston; 10 were educated in England;

25 have had the degree of D. D.

17 were sons of clergymen ;

4 have been Presidents of Harvard University;
4 were chosen to the office, who declined it;
2 are Presidents of other colleges; and

2 are Professors at our neighbouring University. It will be observed that 52 of those first mentioned in this list have deceased. Of 37 an account may be found in Eliot's and Allen's Biographical Dictionaries.

One turned Episcopalian; and one has become a Presbyterian.

Of the whole number 23 have been installed; 53 ordained; and 16 have taken a dismission.

There have died in the ministry in Boston 48, the average of whose ages has been 5711 years.

Of the 40, who have finished their course in Boston, the date of whose ordination or installation and decease is known, the average of their ministry is 31

years.

There have passed their whole ministry in Boston 32, the average of whose ministry was 293 years; and of the age of 31 of them 5514 years.

Seven only have died out of the ministry; and two are now living, who have no pastoral charge. There are eleven houses of worship for Congregationalists, and one is building. The present incumbents of Congregational Churches are 12; and there is one vacancy.

There have been 16 Congregational Churches in Boston, gathered according to the usages of our fathers. Of these, one of the houses, on the demise of Dr. Samuel Mather, was sold to the Universalists, and has ever since remained the

First Universalist Church in Boston. The seventh church is merged in the second.

The church in School street became extinct, at the death of the Rev. Mr. Croswell.

The Church in Federal street was Presbyterian, till the installation of Dr. Belknap, when it became, and has ever since remained, a Congregational Church.

Three of the nominally Congregational Churches have no appropriate houses of worship. One meets in a school-house, Buttolph street; one in a school house, in South Boston; and the other, in the same part of the city, of which the Rev. Prince Hawes was recently installed pastor, assemble in a private room.

A commodious house for worship, between North and South Allen streets, is in a state of forwardness, for which no Church has yet been gathered.

Of the 48, whose ages have been known, at the time of their death,

So that precisely one third lived to the advanced age of 70 and upwards. Seven had arrived at half a century in their ministerial life.

The following have been Collegiate pastors, at different periods in the history of Boston.

Order, in which Congregational ministers have died in Boston, with their ages, and the period of their ministry in Boston.

But what is most material to observe, is, that of the 76 Congregational ministers, who have been settled in Boston, not one has been deposed for even the suspicion of immorality.