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chosen a tutor and fellow of that university,
and subsequently studied divinityP Afterthe
death of Rev. Joseph Estabrook, in I7II, at
Concord, Mass., a committee of the town, con-
sisting of three persons, was chosen to "pro-
cure preaching. The Rev. Edward Holy-
oke, afterwards president of Harvard College,
Rev. Benj. Prescott, one of our native gradu-
ates," says Shattuck, t "and the Rev. John
Whiting, were employed as candidates for six
sabbaths. A liberal settlement was offered the
town by Mr. Prescott's father, should he be
chosen; but the proposition was not accepted.
The church gave Mr. Whiting a call, in which
the town concurred by one hundred and ten
votes in his favor, *9 November, I7II. Dec. ii
following, it was agreed, by eighty-four to thirty-
seven paper votes, to give him £ioo as a settle-
ment, and .g'Ioo as an annual salary, and pay
the expenses of his ordination, which tool:
place 14 May, I7,2."
Of this ordination, Judge Sewell makes in his
journal the following ent U : " I go to Concord
t He was college librarian from xToJ to I7O6, and tutor from I7o 7
to _712.
l tIist, of Concord, I63.