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Rev. Sar_uel Whilz_ Z. 27
was one of the commissioners at the conference
held at the Savoy in I66I." His Puritanism
and nonconformity at last caused him to be
expelled,.by operation of the Act of Uniformity,
from all his offices in i662.*
Another of Mr. Whiting's college mates was
the son of a nonconforming clergyman, who
afterwards, following his father's example, stood
bravely by his principles, came over to this
colony, became its governor and one of its most
influential men,--the tolerant Simon Brad-
street,} whose portrait still adorns the senatechamber
of our State House, and of whose de-
scendants one was married about a century later
to the Rev. John Whiting of Concord, a grandson
of his college friend. The Rev. Thomas
Welde Swas also at Cambridge with Mr. Whi-
ting, though by some years his senior. He was
in Trinity College, and took his degrees of
A.B. I613, and A.M. in i618. He was or-
dained as the first minister in Roxbury, in
July, 1632; and John Elliot, in November
following, was settled as his colleague. The
* Young's Chron., 439, note. Thompson's Boston, 775, 776.
"_Thompson's Boston, 432. :l: Young's Chron., 51i, note.