Statistics for occurrence #1 of “the Rev. John Wilson” in chapter 1 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge:

...served in our memories through a curious oath By Goffe-Whalley then extant among Cambridge boys, but now vanished. We knew the spot where stood the oak tree, on the north side of the common, where the Rev. John Wilson , first minister of Boston and a portly man, climbed the tree on Election Day, in 1637, and exhorted the people to vote for Governor Winthrop and not for Harry Vane. We read in a book by a Cambridge...
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