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THE
PILGRIMS OF BOSTON
AND THEIR
DESCENDANTS:
WITH AN
INTRODUCTION BY HON. EDWARD EVERETT, LL. D.
ALSO,
Inscriptions from the Monuments
IN THE
GRANARY BURIAL GROUND, TREMONT STREET. BY
THOMAS BRIDGMAN,
AUTHOR OF "MEMORIALS OF KING'S CHAPEL," AND "COPPS' HILL." NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
346 & 848 BROADWAY.
LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN.
BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & COMPANY.
M.DCCC.LVI.
______________________________ Russell JOHN, Minister of Wethersfield, Conn., graduated at Harvard College, 1645. [W. Winthrop] removed to Hadley, Mass., in 1659, and was there installed. He died November 10, 1692. It was in his house in Hadley, that Whalley and Goffe, two of the Judges who sentenced Charles I. to death, were for a long time concealed, and where they are supposed to have died. ______________________________ Midway, between the beautiful town of Hadley, Mass., and the Connecticut River, and almost beneath the shadow of Mount Holyoke on the south, Amherst College on the east, and Northampton westerly, the traveller will find amid the fields of golden corn, the ancient cemetery in which repose all that was mortal of the pilgrims of Hadley for near two centuries. Among them he may read, on two brown stone tables, the following inscriptions: 33 YEARS FAITHFVLLY GOVERND REVEREND RVS THE FLOCK OF
CHRIST IN HADLEY
TIL THE CHIEF
SHEPHERD SVDEN
LLY BVT MERCIFV
LLY CALL'D HIM OFF
TO RECEIEV HIS REW
ARD IN THE 66
YEAR OF HIS AGE
DECEMBER 10
1692 HERD AND FOR SELLS REMAINS WHO FIRST GAT GOFFE and WHALLEY, two of the judges of Charles I., were concealed from the rage of their pursuers for several years, in the Rev. Mr. Russell's cellar. One of them was there for a long time, and was so carefully screened from the public eye, that none of Mr. Russell's neighbors had any knowledge of the circumstance. The tradition is that on a certain occasion, when the town was beset by Indians, an aged man of a remarkably venerable aspect, with a long beard, white as the driven snow, suddenly rushed into the engagement, fought with wonderful adroitness, animated the soldiers by his cheering language and valiant conduct, and after repelling the enemy, immediately withdrew to his place of concealment. It was reported that an angel had appeared with a sword, and achieved the victory. REBEKAH
MADE BY GOD A MEIT HELP
TO MR JOHN RVSSELL,
AND FELLOW LABOVRER IN CHRIST'S WORK
A WISE VERTVOVS PIOVS MOTHER
IN ISRAEL LYES HERE
IN FVLL ASSVRANCE OF A IOYFVL
RESVRRECTION
SHE DIED IN THE 57 YEAR OF
HER AGE NOVEMBR 21
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