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.(02 Memoir of<br />

bets of their respective churches be not defiled<br />

therewith, that so, such as shall prove obsti-<br />

nate and will not reform themselves, may have<br />

God and man to witness against them.<br />

3d too. io th day, I649."<br />

(Signed by John Endicott, the Governor,<br />

also by the Deputy-Governor, and sev-<br />

eral other magistrates.)<br />

Notwithstanding this solemn appeal to the<br />

clergy, we do not find that Mr. Whiting ever<br />

preached against long or short hair, or inter-<br />

fered with his parishioners upon that or any<br />

similar subject. Judging by contemporary<br />

portraits, this puerile effort seems to have had<br />

little effect.<br />

In the following summer (June 4, I65o),<br />

Dorothy, Mr. Whiting's eldest, and only daugh-<br />

ter by his first wife, was married to Mr. Thomas<br />

Welde of Roxbury, a son of the Rev. Thomas<br />

Welde, the first minister of that town.*<br />

Near the close of _642, Mr. Whiting lost his<br />

dear relative and friend, Rev. John Cotton;<br />

+ See Savage's Gen. Dict., iv., 458, 459.

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