270 ELIZABETH GARY AGASSIZ 



placed at Oxford, and if ye Lord shall see fitt, to make 

 him a Minister unto his people." As the nearest prac- 

 ticable conformity to this direction, I placed him 

 carefully at Harvard College, to such purpose that he 

 graduated therefrom in 1650, became a faithful min- 

 ister to God's people, a capable physician to heal 

 their bodily diseases, and became the third President 

 of the College, and the first who was a graduate from 

 it, in 1672. 



My daughters became the wives of the Rev. 

 Henry Flint, the minister of Brain tree, and Col. 

 Edmund Quincy of the same town : and it is recorded 

 that from their descendants another President has 

 since been raised up to the College, Josiah Quincy 

 (tarn carum caput), and a Professor of Rhetoric and 

 Oratory, John Quincy Adams, who as well as his sons 

 and grandsons have given much aid to the College, as 

 members of one or the other of its governing boards, 

 beside attaining other distinctions less to my present 

 purpose. 



The elder of my three sons who came with me to 

 America, John Hoar, settled in the extreme western 

 frontier town of English settlement in New England, 

 called Concord: to which that exemplary Christian 

 man, the Reverend Peter Bulkeley, had brought his 

 flock in 1635. In Mr. Bulkeley's ponderous theologi- 

 cal treatise, called *'The Gospel Covenant," of which 

 two editions were published in London (but whether 

 it be so generally and constantly perused and studied 

 at the present day, as it was in my time, I know not), 

 — in the preface thereto, he says it was written "at 



