Remarks on the Harvard triennial.

  • Dabney, J. P. (Jonathan Peele), 1793-1868.
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[1847]
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    1669. Joseph Gerrish.* 1720.) Did then these persons (father and 1700. Joseph Gerrish.* 1720.) son) both die,—do the revisers seri- ously think,—on the self-same year 1 Singular truly ; though there is no natural impossibility. The father, the minister of Wenham, near Salem, and very well known in his day by his brethren of Essex, finished his course, to be sure, at the time above given, as confirmed by many testimonies. The son too is designated as a minister. But of his sepulchre no man knoweth, and quite as little on what part of the earth's sur- face was his path of life that ended there. AH is obscurity ; which not even John Farmer has been able to penetrate. • How then is this ? Why, some grave [Q,u. comic ?] authori- ties seem quite at a loss to settle which is the father ; or again, it is said, that both, (despite of records) were minis- ters of W., the one being a facsimile life to the other from its first hour to its last. And some old gentlemen, much deferred to in these matters, giving in, as we are told, for one (or per- haps, uniting both) of these theories, the result follows. We are half ashamed so to state it; but no better apology is there for this double date. 1709. John Wainwright.* 1739.) We repeat the challenge with 1711. John Wainwright.* 1739.) which the preceding article be- gan. John Wainwright of Ipswich, colonel of the regiment, a representative, Clerk of the House,—evidently a considera- ble man,—died Sep. 1739. [B.News-let.] But which of these near contemporaries, if either, was he ? It is not very likely, both ; though it was very long doubtful to those most at home in these inquiries,which. But it is not doubtful now ; nor was it previous to the issuing of the last Triennial. From evi- dence in the College Library, then recent, it was clear that in 1739, the later John [1711] had been dead at least a dozen years. We know him to have been so [drowned] very near twenty years before. ( Town Records in Essex co.) To both this date and the preceding one then, what better name can we apply than dishonesty 1