This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: .Harvard College. He became not only a man of learning, but also of wealth and piety, and of manifold experiences and wide observation.

For after his graduation at Harvard in 1075, he began his course as a merchant, and went on business to England. There he became a minister of the word of God. He returned to Boston, in 1682, with testimonials, as to his ministerial character and qualifications, from the Rev. Dr. John Owen and other eminent divines. He sailed, soon after his return to Boston, from that port to the West Indies. He preached successively in Jamaica, New Providence, and Bermuda. He obtained, in 1692, from the West Jersey Society of England, the right to a thousand acres of their land wherever he shouldplease to 220 New Havens Adventure On Delaware Bay.

take up the same. He selected a tract about five miles from the Meeting House in New England Town. It is now the northeastern part of the city of Bridgeton, including East Lake and the Indian Fields beyond it. This was surveyed to him in 1697, the same year that the West Jersey Assembly authorized the organization of Fairfield township without any territorial boundaries. He had also another survey bounded by the Cohansey River and one of its affluents, and lying about three miles from the Meeting House, between it and his other tract. He probably continued for more than ten years, and not so many as fifteen years, to be the pastor of the First Church of Christ in Fairfield, or in Cohansey, as the place was often and earlier called. He returned to Boston, and was there installed one of the pastors of the First Clrarch, May 10, 1705. He published several of his sermons, and was eminent for integrity, diligence, modesty, and moderation.

He died while he was the pastor of the.