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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]
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Christening |
30 Jan 1658/9 |
Boston First Church [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 d. 27 Aug 1693, New England (Age 78 years) |
Relationship |
Birth |
Mother |
Rachel PERNE d. 11 Oct 1677 |
Relationship |
Birth |
Marriage |
1634 or 1635 |
England [1, 2] |
Family ID |
F38907 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Susanna WILSON, b. 1 Dec 1664, Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts d. 8 Jul 1748, Mendon, Massachusetts (Age 83 years) |
Marriage |
30 Aug 1682 |
Medfield, Massachusetts [2] |
Children |
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Family ID |
F38905 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
11 Oct 2019 |
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Sources |
- [S10188] E.B. Crane, A Revised Memoir of Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay.
- [S10793] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2019, Vol. 173 Summer.
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