17 John Webb,

18 William Cooper,

19 Thomas Foxcroft,
20 Thomas Prince,

27 Samuel Mather, D. D.

28 Mather Byles, D. D.

29 William Hooper,

Ordained 18 May 1737 dis. 19 November 1746 30 [died 14 April 1767 0810

37 Alexander Cuming,

39 Samuel Blair, D. D.

40 Simeon Howard, D. D.

41 John Lathrop, D. D.

42 John Bacon,

43 John Hunt,

44 Joseph Howe,

45 Ebenezer Wight,

46 John Clarke, D. D.

48 John Eliot, D. D.

47 Joseph Eckley, D. D.

49 Oliver Everett,

50 Peter Thacher, D. D. I
51 Jeremy Belknap, D. D.
52 Samuel West, D. D.

53 John T. Kirkland, D. D. 54 John S. Popkin, D. D.

Died or dismissed. Age.Min.
Ordained 27 Septem. 1738 died 17 January 1753|37|14
Ordained 14 April 1742 died 13 September 1778 59 36
Ordained 22 May 1746 died 20 December 1783 58 38
Ordained 17 June 1747
Ordained September 1747
Installed

Ordained 5 February 1794 dismis'd November 1810
Ordained 10 July 17991 dis. 28 November 1802

*There is some doubt, whether Dr Griffin were a Congregational Minister. He was, however, the minister of a Congregational Church.

The names in Italicks designate ministers' sons. Of these, 26 have been natives of Boston;

10 were educated in England;

66 in Scotland;

in Yale College;

1

66

in Harvard University;

in Nassau Hall;

in Union College;
in Williams College;

unknown;

25 have had the degree of D. D.

17 were sons of clergymen ;

4 have been Presidents of Harvard University;
4 were chosen to the office, who declined it;
2 are Presidents of other colleges; and

2 are Professors at our neighbouring University. It will be observed that 52 of those first mentioned in this list have deceased. Of 37 an account may be found in Eliot's and Allen's Biographical Dictionaries.

One turned Episcopalian; and one has become a Presby

terian.

Of the whole number 24 have been installed; 52 ordained and 16 have taken a dismission.

;

There have died in the ministry in Boston 48, the average of whose ages has been 57

years.

Of the 40, who have finished their course in Boston, the date of whose ordination or installation and decease is known, the average of their ministry is 31 years.

There have passed their whole ministry in Boston 32, the average of whose ministry was 293 years; and of the age of 31 of them 551 years.

Seven only have died out of the ministry; and five are now living, who have no pastoral charge. There are eleven houses of worship for Congregationalists, and one is building. The present incumbents of Congregational Churches are 12; and there is one vacancy.

There have been 17 Congregational Churches in Boston, gathered according to the usages of our fathers. Of these, one of their houses, on the demise of Dr. Samuel Mather, was sold to the Universalists, and has ever since remained the

First Universalist Church in Boston. The seventh church is merged in the second.

The church in School street became extinct, at the death of the Rev. Mr. Croswell.

The Church in Federal street was Presbyterian, till the installation of Dr. Belknap, when it became, and has ever since remained, a Congregational Church.

Three of the nominally Congregational Churches have no appropriate houses of worship. One meets in a school-house, Buttolph street; one in a school house, in South Boston; and the other, in the same part of the city, of which the Rev. Prince Hawes was recently installed pastor, assembles in a private room.

A commodious house for worship, between North and South Allen streets, is in a state of forwardness, for which no Church has yet been gathered.

Of the 48, whose ages have been known, at the time of their death,

So that precisely one third lived to the advanced age of 70 and upwards. Seven had arrived at half a century in their ministerial life.

The following have been Collegiate pastors, at different periods in the history of Boston.