hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 7 3 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 7 results in 1 document section:

Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15: ecclesiastical History. (search)
tings: Mr. Increase Mather preached. much in the time of our vacancy; and he gave his to Mrs. Hannah Gookin, widow, and it was paid her and for entertaining the minister that preached with us. Chich 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 saerred the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, 1692, who had supplied the pulpit occasionally since Mr. Gookin's death and constantly since March 25, 1696, was ordained pastor of the church Nov. 25, 1696.