hen a part of Ipswich,
Mass., where he died November 29, 1669, about fifty-eight years old.
His father was distinguished as a physician and a magistrate, and held
the office of hospital surgeon in the army during the war that gave
us our Independence. His mother was a daughter of the Hon. Joseph
Badger, of Gilmanton, a gentleman of great respectability and for a
long time in public life.

"Under the influence of good parental instruction, his mind was early
formed to a deep sense of the importance of religion; but it was not
till he was fitting for college at Atkinson, that he received those
particular religious impressions which he considered as marking the
commencement of his Christian life. He did not make a public
profession of religion until the close of his Junior year, September,
1810; at that time he, with both his parents, and all his brothers and
sisters, nine in number, received baptism, and were admitted to the
church on the same day, in his native place, by the Rev. Stephen
Peabody.

"He became a member of Dartmouth College in 1807. Having maintained a
highly respectable standing in a class that has since numbered an
unusual proportion of distinguished men, he graduated in 1811. For two
years after leaving college, he was occupied in teaching in the
Atkinson and Hampton Academies. But, during this time, having resolved
to enter the ministry, he commenced the study of Theology under the
direction of the Rev. Mr. Webster of Hampton, and subsequently
continued it under Dr. Dana of Newburyport, and Dr. Worcester of
Salem,--chiefly the latter. Having received license to preach from the
Piscataqua Association, September 29, 1813, he performed a tour of
missionary service in New Hampshire, and at the close of December,
1813, returned to Massachusetts, and accepted an invitation to preach
as a candidate for settlement, in the south parish in Dedham. After
laboring there a few weeks, he received a unanimous call, which, in
due time, he accepted, and on the 20th of April, 1815, he was duly set
apart to the pastoral office. Here he continued laboriously and
usefully employed about fourteen years, during which time the church
under his care was doubled in numbers, and enjoyed a high degree of
spiritual prosperity.

"In June, 1829, he was appointed general agent of the American
Education Society, and he accordingly resigned his pastoral charge
with a view to an acceptance of the place. He entered upon the duties
of