Genealogy of the Fitch family in North America - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGY. 13
Meal for them that are skil'd in the word of Righteousness,
or, The Doctrine of Living unto God
wherein the Body of Divinity is briefly and meth-
odically handled by way of Question and Answer.
Published at the desire and for the use of the
Church of Christ, in Norwich, in New England, by
James Fitch, pastor of that Church," Boston, 1679.
The three pages of 'To the Reader' are signed by
the celebrated Rev. Dr. Increase Mather. He also
wrote an interesting account of his work for the
'heathen/ in 1674, which is printed in Mass. Hist.
Soc. Coil's 1st series i., 208, besides many letters to
the Assembly which may be found in Trumbull's
Colonial Records of Connecticut/*
"Mr. Fitch's long and useful life closed on Xov.
18, 1702, according to the inscription on his grave-
stone although Lebanon records say Xov. 19. His
wife survived him and was living in 1711. The date
and place of her death has not been ascertained."
u His grave in the old burying ground at Lebanon,
Conn., near the resting place of the Trum-
bulls, is marked by an upright slab bearing the
following inscription :
" *
Said to have been -written by his son, Rev. Jabez Fitch.
Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., First Series x., 68.