270 ELIZABETH CARY 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 Braintree, 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 
(tam 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 
