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lost, and there is little material from which to form an estimate 

 of his ministry. He was the pastor of the church in Scituate 

 until his death, which occurred March 22, 1705. 



Job Cushing [II. 153], son of Matthew Cushing, was born in 

 Hingham July 19, 1694, and. graduated at Harvard College in 

 1714. He was the first minister of Shrewsbury, Mass., where he 

 was ordained Dec. 4, 1723. In 1731 a question arose respecting 

 the expediency in church government of having ruling elders in 

 the church. This and matters growing out of it engaged the at- 

 tention of the church for ten years or more. Church meetings 

 were frequent, and there was much correspondence between this 

 church and that of Framingham. This disclosed a controversy 

 between the churches of Framingham and Hopkinton. In all this 

 Mr. Cushing necessarily took a prominent part. He died Aug. 6, 

 1760. 



Jonathan Cushing [II. 152], the son of Peter and Hannah 

 CHawke) Cushing, was born in Hingham Dec. 20, 1689. He was 

 graduated at Harvard College in 1712. He afterwards taught 

 school in Hingham, and was ordained as minister of the First 

 Parish in Dover, N. H., Sept. 18, 1717. He " sustained the char- 

 acter of a grave and sound preacher, a kind, peaceable, prudent 

 and judicious pastor, a wise and faithful friend." He died March 

 25, 1769. 



Rev. Jeremy Belknap was ordained as colleague pastor with Mr. 

 Cushing Feb. 18, 1767. 



Samuel Dunbar [II. 197] was the son of Peter and Sarah 

 (Thaxter) Dunbar, and was born in Hingham May 11, 1704. He 

 was graduated at Harvard College in 1723, and was ordained pas- 

 tor of the First Parish of Stoughton in 1727, where he remained in 

 faithful service for fifty-five years, until his death, June 15, 1783. 

 There was no other religious society in all the territory of the 

 First Parish of Stoughton, being that territory now included in 

 and forming the town of Canton. 



Paul Revere, at the age of twenty-one, accompanied Col. Grid- 

 ley to Crown Point in 1755-56, and assisted in the struggle then 

 going on. Rev. Mr. Dunbar accompanied them on this distant 

 and perilous journey, returning to his parochial duties in Decem- 

 ber, 1755. 



Nathaniel Eells [II. 210] was born in 1678, and was the son 

 of Samuel Eells, who removed to Hingham from Connecticut 

 about 1689, when Nathaniel was eleven years old. His father's 

 residence was in Hingham until his death, in 1709. Nathaniel was 

 graduated from Harvard College in 1699. The first mention of 

 him in Scituate, according to Mr. Deane, is Jan. 12, 1702-3, when 

 " the church and society chose a committee to discourse with Mr. 

 Eells concerning his settling with us in the work of the ministry." 

 Again, in 1703, " The agents before chosen are directed to apply 

 themselves to Mr. Eells, at his return to Hingham, concerning 

 his settlement in the work of the ministry." He was ordained in 



