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Second Gencralion. 2o 1
then " living in Old England, at Leaverton, Lin-
colnshire." His biographers say that he was
"a godly conformist, very extensively known
and respected."* He and his wife Esther were
buried on the same day, I9 October, I689.t
3. Rev. yose;MzW/_iYinH, born 6 April, 164I, at
Lynn, was graduated at Cambridge College,
I661 ; was his father's assistant at Lynn for sev-
eral years, was ordained teacher of the church
there 6 October, _68o ; was settled, I682, _ as
the fourth minister of Southampton, L.I., where
he officiated until his death.§ His father men-
tions him in his will as "his son Joseph, now
(February, I678)living with me at Lynn." He
* Mather's Magnalia. iii., chap. 28.
t Thompson's 13oston, 558. This date is given erroneously as it
October, 1655, by Savage, in his Gen. Dict. He says that "Rev. John
may have gone soon after his gr. at Itarv. Univ. to England," &c. If
the learned genealogist had read Mather's Magnalia, Rev. Samuel Whiring's
will, the records of Leverton, where Rev. John Whiting was settled
as rector, and Thompson's History of Boston, and. of Leverton, he
would not probably have used the word "may" in referring to a fact
which is as certain as any recorded by him in his voluminous dictionary.
Thompson's L. I., i., 339, gives the dates of his installation at
Lynn as i679 , and his settlement at Southampton as 168o. Lewis
and Newhall's Anna)s of Lynn give the date of installation as above
from the records at Lynn.
§ Mather's Magnalia; Thompson's Long Island, 339.
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