* There is some doubt whether Dr. Griffin was a Congregational Minister. He was, however, the minister of a Congregational Church. 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; 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 57 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 313 years. There have passed their whole ministry in Boston 32, the average of whose ministry was 29 years; and of the age of 31 of them 55 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 and there is one vacancy. 12; 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. 1 John Cotton, 2 John Norton, 3 John Wilson, 4 John Davenport, 8 James Allen, 9 Thomas Bridge, 10 Eben'r Pemberton, 11 Increase Mather, D. D. 12 William Waldron, 13 Cotton Mather, D. D. 14 Peter Thacher, 15 William Cooper, 16 Benj. Colman, D. D. 17 Joshua Gee, 23 December 1652 167 | 19 5 April 1663 57 7 7 August 1667 38 37 15 March 1670 73 1 28 December 1674 65 5 15 October 1678 53 9 12 September 1707 68 29 22 September 1710 78 42 26 September 1715 58 10 13 February 1717 45 16 23 August 1723 85 54 20 September 1727 31 5 13 February 1728 65 44 1 March 1739 61 16 13 December 1743 50 28 29 August 1747 73 48 22 May 174850 25 18 John Webb, 19 Ellis Gray, 20 William Welsteed, 21 Thomas Prince, 22 Alexander Cuming, 23 Jonathan Mayhew, D. D. 24 Samuel Checkley, jr. 25 Thomas Foxcroft, 26 Joseph Sewall, D. D. 27 Samuel Checkley, 28 Joseph Howe, 29 John Hunt, 30 Eben'r Pemberton, D. D. 31 Andrew Eliot, D. D. 32 Samuel Cooper, D. D. 33 Andrew Croswell, 34 Samuel Mather, D. D. 35 Charles Chauncy, D. D. 36 John Clarke, D. D. 37 Jeremy Belknap, D. D. 38 Peter Thacher, D. D. 39 Simeon Howard, D. D. 40 Samuel West, D. D. 41 Joseph Eckley, D. D. 42 William Emerson, 48 Joseph S. Buckminster, 44 John Eliot, D. D. 45 John L. Abbot, 46 John Lathrop, D. D. 47 Samuel C. Thacher, 48 Joshua Huntington, 16 April 1750 63 35 17 January 1750 37 14 29 September 1753 58 26 22 October 1758 72 40 25 August 1763 37 2 8 July 1766 46 19 19 March 1768 44 21 16 June 1769 73 52 27 June 17698056 1 December 1769 73 50 25 August 1775 28 2 20 December 1775 31 4 9 September 1777 72 23 13 September 1778 59 36 20 December 1783 58 38 12 April 1785 77 37 27 June 178579 53 10 February 1787 82 59 2 April 1798 43 20 20 June 179854 11 16 December 1802 51 18 13 August 1804 72 37 10 April 1808 70 19 30 April 1811 61 32 12 May 1811 42 12 9 June 1812 28 7 14 February 1813 59 33 17 October 1814 31 1 4 January 1816 77 48 2 January 1818 32 7 11 September 1819 34 11 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. |