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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 4 0 Browse Search
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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Old portraits and modern Sketches (search)
f Baxter, as might be inferred from the state of the times, was an unsettled one. He first took a house at Moorfields, then removed to Acton, where he enjoyed the conversation of his neighbor, Sir Matthew Hale; from thence he found refuge in Rickmansworth, and after that in divers other places. The women have most of this trouble, he remarks, but my wife easily bore it all. When unable to preach, his rapid pen was always busy. Huge folios of controversial and doctrinal lore followed each oe market-place, and under my window, year after year, crying to the people, Take heed of your priests, they deceive your souls; and if any one wore a lace or neat clothing, they cried out to me, These are the fruits of your ministry. At Rickmansworth, he found himself a neighbor of William Penn, whom he calls the captain of the Quakers. Ever ready for battle, Baxter encountered him in a public discussion, with such fierceness and bitterness as to force from that mild and amiable civilian
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The Whitmores of Medford and some of their descendants. (search)
beral benefactor to the church there that he was mentioned with gratitude in its records. He died March 26, 1753. His widow lived till March 27, 1783, and died at the age of 96. I have been told by our president that this Historical Society is interested not merely in the men who lived here but also in the women. The most noteworthy thing that John Whitmore did during his life appears to be his marriage to Mary Lane. She was a granddaughter of Job Lane, who was born in 1620 in Rickmansworth, England. He was in Rehoboth, N. E., in 1644. He went to England, and was married there in 1647, but returned to this country and settled in Malden. In 1658 he built the first church there. He bought land in Billerica, now Bedford, of Fitz John Winthrop, grandson of Governor Winthrop, in 1664. He also had a large estate in England, and his heirs received the income of it until 1816, when the property was sold and divided among them, after 154 years of payments to New England heirs—an u