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Rev. Samuel Whiling. I49
the old household at Lynn. He remained in
the family until his father's death, when, as has
been previously stated, he succeeded him in
the ministry, and finally was settled at SOuth-
ampton, Long Island, welcomed there by those
who had previously sat under his and his
father's ministry at Lynn, and had emigrated
to that town.
The hard-working pastor of Lynn had al-
ready begun to feel the weight of those infirmi-
ties which age and severe, incessant labor are
sure to bring, when his house was made deso-
late by the death of his wife, with whom he
had lived nearly forty-eight years, the mother
of all but one of his living children, the high-
ly respected, usefnl, energetic lady, beloved and
admired by old and young; a lady who, in- the
full glow of her youth and beauty, gave up the
brilliant and aristocratic society in which she
had been reared, and bestowed her heart upon
the brave Puritan whose only ambition was to
serve God according to the light which might
be given him from above, whether his temple
should be adorned by marble domes and gilded