Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Susan Huntington, of Boston, Mass: Consisting Principally of Extracts From Her Journal and Letters; With the Sermon Occasioned by Her Death (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Susan Huntington, of Boston, Mass: Consisting Principally of Extracts From Her Journal and Letters; With the Sermon Occasioned by Her Death

Mas. Susan huntington was a daughter of the Rev. Achilles mansfield, Of Killingworth, in the State of Connecticut. In this place her father was ordained to the ministry Of the Gospel in the year 1779, and continued the Pastor of the First Church until death closed his labors in 1814. This gentleman was a native Of new-haven, a graduate Of Yale College, and a respectable, useful, and much esteemed minis ter of Christ; and, for many years previous to his death, was a member Of the Corporation of the College at which he had received his education. On the maternal side, mrs. Huntington was descended from that pious man, so illustrious in the annals Of the New England churches, the Rev john eliot Of Roxbury, Mass, who will bear, to future ages, the honorable title of the Indian Apostle. Mrs. Mansfield was a daughter Of joseph eliot of Killingworth, whose father jared eliot, D. D.

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