Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Rev. Mr. Wilson” in chapter 14, page 454 of HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.:
...ese simple, rational, and impressive rites, we do not know, but presume it must have been a sermon and a hymn.
The first prayer made by a clergyman at a funeral, which we have heard of, was made by Rev. Mr. Wilson , of Medfield, at the funeral of Rev. Mr. Adams, of Roxbury, Aug. 19, 1685.
The first one made at a funeral in Boston was at the interment of Dr. Mayhew, 1766.
The pomp and circumstance of grief w...
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