(N. B. She was heard some weeks before her birth by the whole family and others, distinctly to cry for some minutes without possibility of mistake.) 1761, Jan. 16, a daughter stillborn,-February 12, my wife Anna died, aged 38, after having been mother of eleven children n; seven survived her, but must follow.

I married 25 Nov. 1762, Mrs. Lucy, relict of the late Rev. Nicholas Bowes, of Bedford, and daughter of the late Rev. John and Elizabeth Hancock, of Lexington. On Sept. 21, 1768, my wife Lucy died, aged 56, after years of sore distress from the gravel.

My daughter Rebecca died 2 Feb. 1778, aged 19-after eight months distress from the effects of the small pox, which she bare with inimitable patience and even surprising calmness. She seldom from her birth was out of temper, and rarely cried but from tenderness for others.

Few families have met with more and greater change by Death in equal time. But let us not tarry then-it is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed-the father is continued, and lives parted in old age. Seven out of thirteen remain. Let us prepare to follow-be ye also ready.

The remainder is by another hand, as follows:

1783, June 4, 3 o'clock, morn, died the Rev'd Sam'l Cooke of the dropsy, aged 74.

1784, Feb. 13, died Miss Elizabeth Coole of a consumption, aged 38. 1785, Sept. 22, died Miss Elizabeth Hall, aged 19 yrs. 1787, June 23, died Mrs. Anna Hall, 44.

1788, March 9, died Mrs. Sally Burr.

1789, Sept. 11, died Mr. Ezekiel Hall, aged 48 yrs.

1793, Jan. 24, Monday,past four o'clock, P. M., died Mrs. Hannah G. Bradshaw, aged 38, of consumption.

1795, Jan. 2, Mr. Samuel Cooke died suddenly at Boston, 9 o'clock in the evening. 1796, Aug. 31, at Charleston, S. C., died Mr. John Hall, aged 22 years, son of Mr. Ezekiel and Mrs. Anna Hall.

1793, June 7, Mr. Henry Bradshaw died at Boston, 12 past 3 o'clock in the morn, of an apoplexy.

Mrs. Mehitable Cutter, wife of James Cutter [Vide Cutter Hist. v. §2, 5], b. 25 Dec. 1765; m. 28 May, 1807; d. March 3, 1809. Miss Rebecca Cooke Bradshaw, b. 5 March, 1782; d. 29 May, 1813, æ. 31. Mary C. Bradshaw, b. at Boston, 8 April, 1813; d. 8 Feb. 1815. Mrs. Maria E. Wellington (Mrs. Dr. Timothy Wellington), b. at Berwick, 5 June, 1773; m. 17 Oct. 1813; d. March 6, 1816. Mr. Samuel Hall, son of Ezekiel and Anne Hall, b. 17 July, 1770; d. at Eastport, 22 Sept. 1817, æ. 48. Miss Mary Cooke, d. 1 Feb. 1824, æ. 76. Miss Eliza Bradshaw d. at Boston, 11 March, 1843, æ. 58. Mrs. Eliza Bradshaw d. Boston, 29 Aug. 1843, æ. 51, wife of Samuel C. Bradshaw, who d. at Somerville, 19 Feb. 1862, æ. 73.

RECAPITULATION.

1. SAMUEL COOKE, b. 1709; grad. Harv. College, 1735; ordained, 1739; m. Sarah Porter, 1740, Anna Cotton, 1742, Lucy Bowes, 1762, and d. 1783. Had one child by his first, and eleven children by his second marriage, viz. :

i. SAMUEL, b. and d. 1741.

2. ii. ANNA, b. 1743.

iii. SAMUEL, b. and d. 1745.

iv. ELIZABETH, b. 1745; d. 1784.

v. MARY, b. 1747; d. 1824.

vi. SARAH, b. 1750; m. Rev. Jonathan
Burr, 1787; d. 1788.

vii. SAMUEL, b. 1752; d. 1795. 3. viii. HANNAH GIBBS, b. 1754. ix. A daughter, b. and d. 1755. x. A daughter, stillborn, 1756. xi. REBECCA, b. 1758; d. 1778. xii. A daughter, stillborn, 1761.

2. ANNA, b. 1743; m. Ezekiel Hall, 1765, d. 1789; she d. 1787. Issue:

i. EZEKIEL, b. 1766; d.

ii. ELIZABETH, b. 1766; d. 1785.

iii. SAMUEL, b. 1770; d. 1817.

iv. JOHN, b. 1774; d. 1796.

3. HANNAH GIBBS,2 b. 1754; m. Henry Bradshaw, 1781, d. 1793; she d. 1793. Issue:

i. REBECCA C., b. 1782; d. 1813. ii. ELIZA, b. 1784; d. 1843.

iii. ANNE, b. 1786; d. 1869.

iv. SAMUEL C., b. 1789; d. 1862.

Miss Anne Bradshaw, the last surviving grandchild of Rev. Samuel Cooke, died Nov. 30, 1869, at the old parsonage in Arlington, aged 84 years.

Rev. Sam'l Cooke's Abstract of Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages in figures Statistical, 1739-1783.

The admissions to the church during Rev. Samuel Cooke's ministry were 224, besides 121 by covenant and 3 by letter. The dismissions were 13. In addition to the record of these, Mr. Cooke kept a register of the births, baptisms, deaths and marriages in his parish from Sept. 12, 1739, to his death, June 4, 1783. This was continued by his successor, Rev. Thaddeus Fiske, and has been valuable in compiling the foregoing work. The abstract or summary here presented was prepared by Rev. Mr. Cooke.

In the Second Precinct of Cambridge.

Copy of Vote of First Parish Cambridge, 1784.

At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the First Parish in Cambridge, September 13th, 1784,

Hon'ble Francis Dana, Moderator.

Voted, That the Hon'ble Francis Dana, Wm. Kneeland and Wm. Winthrop, Esqrs., Mr. Caleb Gannett and Dea'n Aaron Hill, be a Committee to examine the orders and Laws, which have heretofore been made by the Court for the purpose of fixing Boundaries between this Precinct and the Second Precinct in this Town; and if upon examination, said Committee find s'd Orders or Laws to interfere they shall consider and report to this Parish a proper Line for a Boundary between the two Parishes; and that this Committee shall have authority to confer and act in concurrence with any Committee which shall be chosen by s'd second Parish for the purpose of fixing Boundaries between the two Parishes, and report at the adjournment of the meeting.

Att'st JAMES MUNRO, Parish Clerk. Cambridge, Sept'r 15th, 1784.

"Besides some Provincials and Hutchinson's Butchers, slain in Concord Battle, near this meeting-house; buried here."

BAPTISTS.-1787.

"The names of those that belong to the Baptist Society in Cambridge Northwest Precinct.

Thomas Williams
Capt. Benjamin Lock
Gershom Cutter'

Ebenezer Swan

Isaac Munroe
Aaron Swan
Stephen Cutter2
George Swan
Caleb Hovey
Nehemiah Estabrook
Ephraim Cook
Thomas Eliot

Charles Cutter3

Gershom Cutter Jr.*
Andrew Cutter

Daniel Reed

Isaac Cutter
Stephen Starnes
Abraham Cook
John Fowle
Joseph Shaw
Joshua Thomas
Mr. Jerrel

Nathan Blodget, Nonresident
Ebenezer Swan, Junr.

Ebenezer Swan, Senr.
Gershom Swan
Benjamin Wilson
William Locke

Benjamin Locke, Jr.

Ebenezer Hill

Simeon Crosby

Cambridge July 21, 1787.

THOMAS GREEN, Pastor of the Baptist Society in said place." "For the Committee of the Northwest Parish in Cambridge."

REV. THADDEUS FISKE, D.D.

REV. THADDEUS FISKE, D.D., graduated at Harvard College in 1785, and died in Charlestown, Nov. 14, 1855, aged 93. He was the son of Jonathan and Abigail Fiske, was born at Weston, June 22, 1762, and was at the time of his death the oldest clergyman in Massachusetts. He was ordained pastor of the Second Parish in Cambridge (Arlington), April 23, 1788, and resigned his charge April 23, 1828. He preached upwards of twelve hundred sermons to his flock during his ministry; attended and officiated at the funerals of six hundred and sixty-six persons; baptized seven hundred and forty-nine; joined in marriage three hundred and eighty-six couples, and admitted two hundred and eighty-eight persons to the church, including those professing religion by owning their covenant. It is remarkable he lived to see five clergymen successively ordained over this society, three of whom passed off the stage before him, viz.: Rev. David Damon, died June 25, 1843, aged 55; Rev. William Ware, Feb. 19, 1852, aged 54; and Rev. James F. Brown, June 14, 1853, aged 32. In 1821, the degree of D.D. was conferred upon Dr. Fiske by Columbia College, New York. A few months before his death he removed from West Cambridge to Charlestown to reside with a relative in the latter place, where he passed the remaining days of his life. A beautiful monument indicates the spot of his burial in the old grave-yard at Arlington.

Dr. Fiske married, June 17, 1789, Lucy, daughter of Rev. Jonas Clark, of Lexington. She died March 9, 1855, aged 88. Their issue:-1. HORATIO HANCOCK, b.

1 Vide Cutter Hist. xi. §1, 3. §3, 10. Ib. xi. §4, 7.

June 22, 1790; m. March 29, 1818, Letitia, dau. of Amos Whittemore [Vide Cutter Hist. xi. §1, 2], and d. in Boston, Sept. 13, 1829, leaving a wife and two daughters, Elmira and Caroline, who married George B. Neal, of Charlestown.-2. ELMIRA, b. April 23, 1792; m. Joseph Adams, Esq., Nov. 19, 1811; and died June 13, 1854, s. p. Adams died suddenly, June, 1814.-Vide Necrology Alumni Harvard College; Bond's Watertown, 218, 219; and Appendix to Sermon of Dr. Fiske, preached at the close of his ministry, April 23, 1828.

Records of the Second Church in Cambridge-by Thaddeus Fiske, Pastor, during his ministry.

Began to preach to the Second Church and Society in Cambridge on the first Sabbath in April, 1787-and continued to preach and supply the Parish to July 16th of the same year, on which day, being Monday, he received his call to settle with them in the Gospel ministry-At the following meeting, viz.

"The proceedings of a meeting held by the inhabitants of the N. W. Precinct in Cambridge and those of Charlestown legally joined to said precinct-on the 16th day of July, 1787-Lieut. Jeduthan Wellington was chosen Moderator of said meeting.

I. 2.

Voted to come to the choice of a Minister.

Voted that the church and congregation vote together in the choice of a minister.

3. Voted, unanimously by the church and congregation that Mr. Thaddeus Fiske be their minister.

4. Voted to give Mr. Fiske one hundred pounds salary.

5. Voted to give Mr. Fiske one hundred and fifty pounds as Settle

ment.

6. Voted that Messrs. Capt. William Adams, Samuel Whittemore, jr., Seth Wyman, Deacon Joseph Adams and Lieut. Jeduthan Wellington be a committee to acquaint Mr. Fiske with the proceedings of the aforesaid meeting.

A true copy from the records.

JOHN CUTTER, jr. Clerk."

1787, July 16. The Second Parish in Cambridge made choice of Mr. Thaddeus Fiske for their Pastor.

1788, March 9. At a meeting of the Church held this day, 1st. Voted to choose a committee of the church to wait on the Rev. Mr. Fiske to consult with him what churches he would have sent to in order for his ordination. 2d. Voted to choose Messrs. Capt. Ephraim Frost, Deacons Thomas Hall and Joseph Adams, Mr. Samuel Whittemore, jr. and Mr. Ammi Cutter a committee for the above purpose and to sign letters missive to the churches invited.

AMMI CUTTER, Clerk of s'd Church.

Mr. Thaddeus Fiske ordained to the work of the Gospel ministry in the Second parish in Cambridge, April 23, 1788.

The Churches that assisted in the solemnity were the First and Third Churches in Cambridge, and the Churches of Lexington, Medford, Watertown, Waltham, Brookline, Weston and Brookfield.