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Eliot, Andrew, 1718-1778 Clergyman; born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 28, 1718; graduated at Harvard College in 1737; ordained associate pastor of the New North Church in Boston, where he was sole pastor after 1750. When the British occupied Boston he did much to ameliorate the condition of the people. He also saved valuable manuscripts, among them the second volume of the History of Massachusetts Bay, when the house of Governor Hutchinson was invested by a mob. He died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 13, 1778.