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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15: ecclesiastical History. (search)
ral, as in the case of their former President, Mr. Chauncy. The town (which was the parish) voted, Nov. 14, 1692, to pay the expense and defray the charge of our Pastor Gookin's funeral charges, which amounted to about eighteen pounds in money: and the continuance of the same benevolence is indicated by a vote, March 10, 1700-1, that Mrs. Hannah Gookin should be paid three pounds, to pay the rent of her house this present year. The account is fittingly closed by the record under date of May 15, 1702: Voted, that the selectmen take care that Mrs. Hannah Gookin be decently buried at the charge of the inhabitants belonging to this meeting-house, and the charge of said funeral be added to the town rate granted this year. Rev. William Brattle, born at Boston, November, 1662, H. C. 1680, Tutor and Fellow of the College 1692, one of the first two on whom the College conferred the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, 1692, who had supplied the pulpit occasionally since Mr. Gookin's death and c