Grindal RAWSON

Male 1659 - 1715  (~ 56 years)


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  • Name Grindal RAWSON  [1, 2
    • Grindal Rawson graduated at Harvard College, 1678. His wife, writing to Dr. Cotton Mather, after the death of her husband, says," after he had taken his first degree, he was invited by his brother-in-law, the Rev. Mr. Samuel Torrey to come to his house and study divinity there, which he did, with such proficiency that he was advised to enter upon preaching. He preached his first sermon at Medfield, with great acceptation, and after two months' occasional performances at other places, he received an invitation to Mendon, in the county of Worcester, Mass. This was Oct. 4, 1680. He continued to preach there until April 7, 1684, when he was permanently settled. [1]
    • Grindal graduated from Harvard College in 1678 and became pastor of then-frontier Mendon in 1680. he also performed missionary work among Native Americans; toured numerous Christian Indian settlements in southeastern New England during 1698 (a report survives); served as interim pastor of the Indian church on Nantucket in 1707-1708; translated and published several religious tracts in the written version of the Native American Massachusetts language devised by Rev. John Eliot of Roxbury, who was known as "the apostle to the Indians." [2]
    Christening 30 Jan 1658/9  Boston First Church Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Death 6 Feb 1715  [1
    Person ID I93075  Main Tree
    Last Modified 11 Oct 2019 

    Father Edward RAWSON,   b. 16 Apr 1615, Gillingham, Dorsetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Aug 1693, New England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Rachel PERNE   d. 11 Oct 1677 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 1634 or 1635  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Family ID F38907  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Susanna WILSON,   b. 1 Dec 1664, Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jul 1748, Mendon, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Marriage 30 Aug 1682  Medfield, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Children 
    +1. Wilson RAWSON,   b. 23 Jun 1692   d. 1 Dec 1726 (Age 34 years)
    Family ID F38905  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 11 Oct 2019 

  • Sources 
    1. [S10188] E.B. Crane, A Revised Memoir of Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay.

    2. [S10793] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2019, Vol. 173 Summer.