The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol. 1, No. 3, July 1847

Part 7

Chapter 73,093 wordsPublic domain

+-----------------------+----------------------+-------------------- A | B | F | G -----+-----------------------+----------------------+-------------------- 91 |David Annan |Inst. 1783|Dism. 1786 92 {|Claudius Florent |Com. 1784|Left {| Bouchard de La Poterie| | 93 |Peter Thacher |Inst. Jan. 12, 1785|Died Dec. 16, 1802 94 |Jeremy Belknap, D. D. |Inst. April 4, 1787|Died June 20, 1798 95 |William Montague |Induct. June 1787|Left May, 1790 96 |Thomas Gair |Inst. April 23, 1788|Died April 27, 1790 97 |Samuel West, D. D. |Inst. March 12, 1789|Died April 10, 1808 98 |Louis de Rousselet | | 99 |John Thayer |Com. June 10, 1790| 100 |Thomas Baldwin, D. D. |Inst. Nov. 11, 1790|Died Aug. 29, 1825 101 |Jesse Lee |App. 1790|Left 1791 102 |Daniel Smith |App. 1791|Left 1792 103 {|John Sylvester John |Induct. April 22, 1792|Died July 29, 1830 {| Gardiner, D. D. | | 104 |William Walter, D. D. |Induct. May 28, 1792|Died Dec. 5, 1800 105 {|Francis Anthony |Com. Aug. 20, 1792| Sept. 19, 1818 {| Matignon, D. D. | | 106 |Jeremiah Cosden |App. 1792|Left 1793 107 |Amos G. Thompson |App. 1793|Left 1794 108 {|John Thornton Kirkland,|Ord. Feb. 5, 1794|Dism. Nov. 4, 1810 {| D. D., LL.D. | | 109 |Christopher Spry |App. 1794|Left 1795 110 |Evan Rogers |App. 1795|Left 1796 111 |John Harper |App. 1795|Left 1796 112 |Joshua Hale |App. 1796|Left 1797 113 |George Pickering |App. 1796|Left 1797 114 {|John de Cheverus, D. D.|Com. Oct. 3, 1796|Left Sept. 26, 1823 {| | | {| | | 115 |Elias Hull |App. 1797|Left 1798 116 |Daniel Ostander |App. 1797|Left 1798 117 |William Beauchamp |App. 1798|Left 1799 118 {|John Snelling Popkin, |Ord. July 10, 1799|Dism. Nov. 28, 1802 {| D. D. | | 119 |William Emerson |Inst. Oct. 16, 1799|Died May 12, 1811 120 |Joshua Wells |App. 1799|Left 1800 121 |Thomas F. Sargent |App. 1800|Left 1801 122 |George Pickering |App. 1801|Left 1802 123 |Samuel Haskell |Induct. May, 1801|Dism. Sept. 1803 124 |Thomas Lyall |App. 1802|Left 1804 125 {|William Ellery |Ord. June 1, 1803|Died Oct. 2, 1842 {| Channing, D. D. | | 126 |Epaphras Kibby |App. 1803|Left 1805 127 {|Joseph Stephens |Ord. Jan. 30, 1805|Died June 9, 1812 {| Buckminster, | | 128 |Asa Eaton, D. D. |Induct. Oct. 23, 1805|Dism. May, 1829 129 |Peter Jayne |App. 1805|Left 1807 130 |Reuben Hubbard |App. 1805|Left 1806 131 |Charles Lowell, D. D. |Ord. Jan. 1, 1806| 132 |Samuel Merwin |App. 1806|Left 1807 133 |Thomas Paul |Ord. Dec. 4, 1806|Died April 13, 1831 134 |Daniel Webb |App. 1807|Left 1809 135 {|Joseph Clay | Aug. 19, 1807|Dism. Oct. 27, 1811 {| | | 136 |Caleb Blood | Oct. 5, 1807| June 5, 1810 137 |Joshua Huntington |Ord. May 18, 1808|Died Sept. 11, 1819 138 |Martin Ruter, D. D. |App. 1808|Left 1809 139 |Elijah R. Sabin |App. 1809|Left 1811 140 |Phillip Munger |App. 1809|Left 1810 141 |Samuel Cary |Induct. Jan. 1, 1809|Died Oct. 22, 1815 142 |Horace Holley, LL.D. |Inst. March 9, 1809|Dism. Aug. 24, 1818 143 |Greenlief Norris |App. 1810|Left 1811 144 |Edward Mitchell |Inst. Sept. 12, 1810|Dism. Oct. 6, 1811 145 |Samuel Cooper Thacher |Ord. May 15, 1811|Died Jan. 2, 1818 146 |Elijah Hedding, D. D. |App. 1811|Left 1812 147 |Erastus Otis |App. 1811|Left 1812 148 {|Edward Dorr Griffin, |Inst. July 31, 1811|Dism. April 27, 1815 {| D. D. | | 149 |Daniel Sharp, D. D. |Ord. April 29, 1812| 150 |Paul Dean |Inst. Aug. 19, 1812|Dism. April 6, 1823 151 |William Stephens |App. 1812|Left 1813 152 |William Hinman |App. 1812|Left 1813 | | | 153 |John Lovejoy Abbot |Ord. July 14, 1813|Died Oct. 17, 1814 154 |Francis Parkman, D. D. |Ord. Dec. 8, 1813| 155 |Edward Everett, LL.D. |Ord. Feb. 9, 1814|Dism. March 5, 1815 156 |Joseph A. Merrill |App. 1814|Left 1815 | | | 157 |James Manning Winchell |Ord. March 13, 1814|Died Feb. 22, 1820 158 |George Pickering |App. 1814|Left 1815 | | | 159 {|Nathaniel Langdon |Ord. March 15, 1815| {| Frothingham, D. D. | | 160 |Daniel Filmore |App. 1815|Left 1817 | | | 161 |Henry Ware, Jun., D. D.|Ord. Jan. 1, 1817|Dism. Oct. 4, 1830 162 {|Sereno Edwards Dwight, |Ord. Sept. 3, 1817|Dism. April 10, 1826 {| D. D. | | 163 |Timothy Merritt |App. 1817|Left 1818 164 |Enoch Mudge |App. 1817|Left 1819 165 |Hosea Ballou |Inst. Dec. 25, 1817| 166 |Phillip Larisey |Com. May, 1818|Left June, 1821 167 {|John Gorham Palfrey, |Ord. June 17, 1818|Dism. May 22, 1830 {| D. D., LL.D. | | 168 |Samuel Snowden |Inst. Sept. 18, 1818| 169 {|Francis William Pitt |Ord. Oct. 21, 1818|Dism. Dec. 1820 {| Greenwood, D. D. | | 170 {|James Sabine |Inst. Jan. 27, 1819|Withdrew with } {| | |a majority of } {| | |the Ch., } 1822 {| | |March 6. } {| | |(See 187.) } 171 |John Pierpont |Ord. April 14, 1819|Dism. May 10, 1845 172 |Benjamin R. Hoyt |App. 1819|Left 1821 173 |V. R. Osborn |App. 1819|Left 1820 174 |Simon Clough | 1819|Left 1824 175 |Patrick Byrne. |Com. March 18, 1820|Left July 11, 1830 | Assistant | | 176 |D. Kilburn |App. June, 1820|Left 1821 177 {|Samuel Farmar Jarvis, |Induct. July 7, 1820|Dism. Aug. 22, 1825 {| D. D., LL.D. | | 178 {|Benjamin Blydenburg |Ord. Feb. 21, 1821|Dism. Nov. 12, 1832 {| Wisner, D. D. | | 179 |William Taylor, D. D. | April, 1821|Left Dec. 17, 1825 | | | Cross | | 180 |Shipley W. Willson |App. June, 1821|Left 1822 181 |Ephraim Wiley |App. June, 1821|Left 1823 182 |Francis Wayland, D. D. |Ord. Aug. 22, 1821|Dism. Sept. 10, 1826 183 |Elijah Hedding, D. D. |App. June, 1822| 184 |Samuel Green |Inst. March 26, 1823|Dism. Mar. 26, 1834 185 |Paul Dean | May 7, 1823|Dism. May 3, 1840 186 |John Lindsey |App. June, 1823|Left 1824 187 {|James Sabine |Inst. Nov. 26. 1823|Epis. June, 1829, {| | | (See 170.) 188 |Prince Hawes |Inst. April 28, 1824|Dism. April 18, 1827 189 |Sebastian Streeter | May 13, 1824| 190 |Solomon Sias |App. June, 1824|Left 1825 191 |Isaac Bonney |App. June, 1824|Left 1826 192 {|Ezra Stiles Gannett, |Ord. June 30, 1824| {| D. D. | | 193 |John Lauris Blake, D.D.|Induct. July 18, 1824|Left June 24, 1832 194 {|Francis William Pitt |Induct. Aug. 29, 1824|Died Aug. 2, 1843 {| Greenwood, D. D. | | 195 |Alexander Young, D. D. |Ord. Jan. 19, 1825| 196 |Samuel Barrett |Ord. Feb. 9, 1825| 197 {|Benedict Fenwick, D. D.| May 10, 1825|Died Aug. 11, 1846 {| | | 198 |Aaron D. Sargent |App. June, 1825|Left 1826 199 |Timothy Merritt |App. June, 1825|Left 1827 200 {|James Davis Knowles |Ord. Dec. 28, 1825|Dism. Oct. 7, 1832 {| | | 201 {|Charles Mortgridge |Rec. as Pas. |Left Jan. 1, 1827 {| | Jan. 1, 1826| 202 |James Lee |Ord. March 18, 1826|Left ---- 1828 | | | 203 |Lyman Beecher, D. D. |Inst. March 22, 1826|Dism. Sept. 26, 1832

(To be concluded.)

COMPLETE LIST OF CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS IN THE EASTERN PART OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE, FROM ITS SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME; TOGETHER WITH NOTES ON THE MINISTERS AND CHURCHES.

BY THE REV. JONATHAN FRENCH OF NORTH HAMPTON.

(Continued from page 157.)

(Part 1 of 2) ------------------+--------------------+------------------+------------- _Towns._ | _Ministers._ | _Native Place._ | _Born._ | | | ------------------+--------------------+------------------+------------- Exeter }|Daniel Rogers |Ipswich, Ms. | 1707 A New Church was }|Joseph Brown |Chester, England |Feb. 8, 1762 formed in 1744. }| | | A New Church was |Isaac Hurd |Charlestown, Ms. |Dec. 7, 1785 formed in 1813. | | | Gosport |Joseph Hull, s.s. |England | |John Brock, s.s. |Shadbrook, Eng. | 1620 |Samuel Belcher, s.s.|Ipswich, Ms. | |John Tucke |Hampton |Aug. 23, 1702 |Josiah Stevens, s.s.|Killingworth, Ct. | 1740 |Samuel Sewall, s.s. |Bath, Me. | |Origen Smith, s.s. | | |A. Plumer, s.s. | | Greenland |William Allen |Boston, Ms. | 1676 |Samuel Macclintock, |Medford, Ms. |May 1, 1732 | D.D. | | |James A. Neal |Londonderry, N. H.| 1774 |Ephraim Abbot |New Castle, Me. | 1779 |Samuel W. Clark |Hancock, N. H. |Dec. 15, 1795

NOTES.

EXETER. _"Exeter New Church," afterwards called "The Second Church of Christ in Exeter."_[19] A considerable number of the members of the First Church seceded, and "embodied into a New Church, on a day of Fasting and Prayer, June 7, 1744." There is an error in several publications, giving 1748 as the date of the formation of that church. This error is found on the monumental stone of Rev. Daniel Rogers, in the graveyard, in Exeter. It is not strange that, in so long an inscription, there should have been, through inadvertency, an omission, by the engraver, or in his copy, of the word _installed_, immediately after the name. The words, _Pastor of a church gathered in Exeter_, should have been marked by a parenthesis. The inscription on the gravestone was copied by Alden, into his Collections, and thus currency has been, unintentionally, given to the error. Original documents show the facts in the case.

The causes of the _secession_, which issued in the establishment of a New Church in Exeter, were of a religious nature, but the presentation of them does not come within the scope of this work, and besides, we have not space for their discussion.

The _Rev. Daniel Rogers_ was born in Ipswich, Ms., in 1707, and graduated H. C. 1725. He received ordination, without a pastoral charge, by a council, which met at York, July 13, 1742. The ministers of the council were Rev. Messrs. Jeremiah Wise of Berwick, Me.; Nicholas Gilman of Durham, N. H.; John Rogers of Kittery, (now Eliot,) Me.; and Samuel Moody of York, Me. Rev. Daniel Rogers "had been many years a tutor in Harvard College, was a pious faithful minister of Jesus Christ, and a worthy son of Rev. John Rogers, pastor of the first church in Ipswich, who died, Dec. 28, 1745, in his 80th year. _He_ was a son of John Rogers of the same place, a physician, and preacher of God's word, and President of Harvard College, who died, July 2, 1684, aged 54 years. _He_ was eldest son of the Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, who came from England, in 1636, settled at Ipswich, colleague pastor with the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, and died, July 2, 1655, aged 57 years. _He_ was son of the Rev. John Rogers, a famous minister of God's word at Dedham, in England, who died Oct. 18, 1639, aged 67 years. _He_ was grandson of John Rogers of London, Prebendary of St Paul's, Vicar of St. Sepulchre's, and Reader of Divinity, who was burnt at Smithfield, Feb. 14, 1555, first martyr in Queen Mary's reign." [_Monumental Stone; Alden's Epitaphs._] Rev. Daniel Rogers died, Dec. 9, 1785, aged 79. When the Covenant of the 2nd church was adopted, it was signed by 30 males and 11 females. During Mr. Rogers' ministry, 22 males and 39 females were added. It is well known, that Mr. Whitefield preached a few times at Exeter. During the last week in September, 1770, he preached four times in Portsmouth. On Saturday morning he rode to Exeter, and preached to a large concourse of people, assembled in the open air. It was his last sermon. In the afternoon, he rode to Newburyport, where he died the next morning, on the 30th of September. He was interred on the 2nd of October. Of his pall bearers were Rev. Dr. Haven of Portsmouth, and Rev. Daniel Rogers of Exeter. "When the corpse was placed at the foot of the pulpit close to the vault, the Rev. Daniel Rogers made a very affecting prayer, and openly confessed that under God, he owed his conversion to that man of God whose precious remains now lay before them. Then he cried out, O my father, my father! Then stopped and wept, as though his heart would break; and the people weeping all through the place. Then he recovered, and finished his prayer and sat down and wept." [_Dr. Gillie's Memoirs of Whitefield._]

The _Rev. Joseph Brown_ was educated at Lady Huntingdon's Seminary, and was settled in the ministry at Epping, Essex, England, until he came to this country. When dismissed at Exeter, he removed to Deer Isle, Me., where he was installed, 1804, and where he died, Sept. 13, 1819, aged 57. From the death of Mr. Rogers to the close of Mr. Brown's ministry, in the 2nd church in Exeter, there were added fourteen males, and twenty-four females. During Mr. Brown's residence at Deer Isle, he was engaged in soliciting aid for some charitable enterprise. For that purpose he called on some of the people of Portsmouth. They received him kindly, and only objected that they had just been doing for _this_,--_that_,--and _the other_ objects of benevolence. His reply is worthy of notice for the sentiment it contains: "I love to come among these _have been doing_ folks." On the church book are the baptisms of his son Americus, in 1793; his son Charles Moulson, in 1794; and his son Daniel Rogers, in 1797. Rev. Charles M. Brown has been a zealous and useful Seamen's Chaplain. From the close of Mr. Brown's ministry, in the 2nd church in Exeter, to 1802, there were admitted three males, and nine females. There is then a chasm in the records, till Sept. 18, 1823, when a majority of the members remaining in Exeter, and they females, met at the house of Mrs. Martha Poor. Their proceedings are regularly entered in the church book, the last date being May 22, 1824.

They had no pastor after Mr. Brown. For a few years they had occasional preaching. They never formally disbanded; but most of them united, or mingled in the observance of religious ordinances, with other churches. Their meeting-house stood where Maj. Waddy V. Cobb's house now stands, on Front street.

_A New Church was formed Dec. 24, 1813_, which is now styled "_The Second Church in Exeter_." The ministers invited on the occasion by Letters Missive from "several members of the Religious Society, in the Upper Congregational Society in Exeter," were the Rev. Messrs. Porter of Rye, Holt of Epping, Abbot of Hampton Falls, Webster of Hampton, and French of North Hampton.

Mr. Hosea Hildreth, professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, in the Academy, and who was also a preacher, supplied the pulpit for some time. Mr. Hildreth was ordained in Gloucester, Ms., in 1825; and installed in Westborough, Ms., in 1834. He died in Sterling, Ms., his native place, July 10, 1835, aged 53.

_Rev. Isaac Hurd_, pastor of the present Second Church, was born in Charlestown, Ms., Dec. 7, 1785; graduated H. C. 1806; studied theology with Rev. Dr. Osgood of Medford, Ms.; and afterwards at Divinity Hall, in Edinburgh, Scotland; and commenced preaching in the city of London. He was ordained pastor of the First Church in Lynn, Ms., Sept. 15, 1813, resigned May 22, 1816, and was, by the unanimous invitation of "The Second Congregational Church, in Exeter," installed their pastor, Sept. 11, 1817. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Daniel Dana, D. D., of Newburyport, from 2 Tim. i: 7.

The father of Mr. Hurd was Joseph Hurd, Esq., of Charlestown, Ms., whose brother, Isaac Hurd, M. D., graduated at H. C. in 1776, and was a physician of celebrity, in Concord, Ms. The Rev. Mr. Hurd married, March 16, 1819, Mrs. Elisabeth Emery of Exeter, whose maiden name was Folsom. One of the sons of Mr. Hurd died in early childhood. His other son, Francis Parkman Hurd, graduated at H. C. in 1839, and received the degree of M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania, in 1845.

GOSPORT, or Star Island, is one of a cluster of eight small islands usually called The Isles of Shoals, composed of beds of rocks, partly covered with soil. They are about nine miles from Portsmouth Light House, and twenty-one from Newburyport Lights. Five of these islands are within the limits of Maine. Of these, Hog Island is the largest of the whole group, and contains about 350 acres. Of the three in New Hampshire, Gosport, or Star Island, formerly called Appledore, is the largest, and contains 150 acres. White Island, on which the Light House is located, is only one acre. These islands were visited, as early as 1614, by the celebrated navigator, John Smith, who gave them his own name; but they have long been called "The Isles of Shoals." They invited settlement, merely by the advantages they furnished for fishery. This business was prosperous, for about a century, previous to the American Revolution. The population varied from 300 to 600, employing a number of schooners and other craft. A meeting-house, previous to 1641, was erected on Hog Island, where the people from the several islands used to assemble. There was also a Court House on the same island. At a subsequent period, a meeting-house was built on Star Island, where the greater part of the inhabitants have resided.

_Rev. Joseph Hull_ came from England, and settled in Weymouth, Ms., in 1635. He resigned in 1639, and afterwards preached at the Isles of Shoals. He is mentioned as "of the Isle of Sholes," by Dr. Cotton Mather, in his list of the first class of New England ministers. [_Magnalia_, Vol. I., B. 3.]

_Rev. John Brock_ came to New England in 1637. He commenced preaching in Rowley, and afterward labored, a number of years, at the Shoals. He was esteemed eminently pious. The celebrated Mr. Mitchel of Cambridge said of him, "He dwells as near heaven as any man upon earth." Rev. John Allin of Dedham observed, "I scarce ever knew any man so familiar with the great God as his dear servant Brock." There were several remarkable coincidences between Mr. Brock's prayers and providential occurrences afterward. A man, whose principal property was his fishing-boat, and who had been very serviceable in conveying to the place of meeting the inhabitants of other islands, lost his boat in a storm. He lamented his loss to Mr. Brock, who said to him, "Go home, honest man, I'll mention the matter to the Lord, you'll have your boat to-morrow." Mr. Brock made the matter a subject of prayer. The next day the anchor of a vessel fastened upon the boat and drew it up.