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good deeds, or the perhaps more equitable Asiatic idea that 
honor flows in an ascending course, ennobling those whose 
nurturing care has thus borne fruit,— the bond of lineage 
- may not lightly be disregarded ; and each day’s experience 
teaches us anew, that “men do not gather grapes of thorns 
nor figs of thistles.” 
I may therefore say that our departed colleague drew his 
origin from the early founders of our race, from that sturdy 
stock which gave character to the Colony of Massachusetts 
Bay, and shaped the civilization of New England. 
His first American ancestor, Mr. Witt1am HvuBpBarp, 
came out at the age of forty in the “ Defence” from Lon- 
don, in the year 1635, and soon established himself in Ips- 
wich, Essex County, Massachusetts ; which town he repre- 
sented for eight successive years, from 1638 to 1646, in the 
Legislature of the Colony. In 1662, he removed to Boston, 
where he died in the year 1670, aged seventy-five years, 
leaving three sons, all born in England. 
The eldest of these sons and second in the line of descent 
was the Rey. Witt1Am HvupparpD, a man of much note in 
his day. Born in 1622, he was but thirteen years old when 
his father brought him to the new world. He graduated at 
Harvard College in 1642, and was in 1658 ordained col- 
league of Rev. Tomas Coppetr in Ipswich, where he re- 
mained as pastor until his death in 1704; his kinsman, Rev. 
Joun Rogers, son of the President of Harvard College, 
acting as his colleague during the later years of his life. 
This learned and good man was one of the first historians 
of the early troubles with the Indians. Two works on this 
subject were published by him in 1677, and subsequently 
republished in London in one yolume under the title, “ The 
Present State of New England.” His “ History of New 
England,” left by him in manuscript, is preserved in the ar- 
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