et vix tandem senuit ; officio pastorali erga Pastoris magni gregem integritate maxima, labore, et vigilantia; amore benevolentia, et philadelphia, per quinquaginta annos, fungebatur; laboribus donec fatigatus intra limina per quatuor fere annos cohibitus fuit, ubi studiis et præcationibus enixe attamen incubuit; populo interea damnum effuse, insigniter quantumlibet reparatum, lugente; opere suo demum peracto, ut remuneretur accersitus fuit, 29 Maii, 1724, et resignatione maxima, sine dolore, sine morbo, nisi senectute et valetudine vix adversa, tandem evasit, suavissimeque in Jesu dormivit. Note. Mr. Cheever, the first minister, who was settled in Marblehead, a son of the celebrated Ezekiel Cheever, was one of the distinguished elergymen of New-England. His successors, in office, were the rev. John Barnard, the rev. William Whitwell, the rev. Ebenezer Hubbard, [q. o. v. in loc.] and the rev. Samuel Dana, who is the present pastor of the church. 512. MANCHESTER MASS. Hoc decus exiguum sacrum memoriæ reverendi AMESII CHEEVER, qui cursu peracto ætatis suæ 69, 15 Januarii, anno Domini, 1756, terrena pro cœlestibus relíquit. Note. The rev. Ames Cheever of Manchester was a son of the rev. mr. Cheever of Marblehead. MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 513. S. M. reverendi SIMONIS BROADSTREET, qui, annis triginta tribusque paractis munere pastorali in Christi ecclesiam Marmoracriensem secundam, quinto Octobris die, anno 1771, ætatisque 63, in Jesu dormivit. Humanitate caritateque præcla rus, pietate insignis, omnibusque bonis literis eximie præditus. Qui vitam suam bene degit honore Memorabitur; nec diés Ulla famam condet suam, sub invido Oblivii silentio. Buchanan. Note. The rev. Edward Holyoke, afterwards president of Harvard college, was the first minister of the second congregational society in Marblehead. Mr. Broadstreet was his successor, after whom were the rev. Isaac Story, the rev. Hezekiah May, and the rev. John Bartlett, the present pastor of the church. Mr. Bradstreet, as the name is usually written, was distinguished as a linguist, and, more so, for his piety and meekness. His father was the rev Simon Bradstreet, of Charlestown, a clergyman of high reputation. His grandfather was the rev. Simon Bradstreet, of New-London in Connecticut. His great-grandfather, the hon. Simon Bradstreet, was governour of the province of Massachusetts, eleven years, and was styled the Nestor of his age. [See art. 85.] MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 514. Note.-ISAAC STORY, esq. the second son of the rev. Isaac Story of Marblehead and grandson of the rev. Simon Bradstreet, was enrolled among the graduates of Harvard college in 1793. Having gone through a regular course of study, he became a practitioner of the law. For a term of time, he resided at Castine, on the banks of the Penobscot, and was the editor of the Castine Journal, a weekly gazette. He finally selected Rutland, in Worcester county, as a more favourable situation for his professional labours. No one of his age, in Massachusetts, had written more for the periodical publications of his day, than the subject of this article. Many pieces from The Desk of Beri Hesdin, somewhat in the style of The Lay Preacher, were from his pen, and were published in the Farmer's Museum. He wrote a volume under the signature of The Traveller, many parts of which were printed in the Columbian Centinel. He had a great fondness for the original manner of Peter Pindar, and wrote much in imitatation of this modern bard. A volume, issued by him from the press, under the title of The Parnas↳ sian Shop, by Peter Quince, was in imitation of the the British Pindar. As he began to write while very young, not a few prosaick and poetick productions were such, as, in riper years, he regretted to have published; yet there are some of his writings, the fruit of early age, which received handsome commendation from the late Joseph Dennie, esq. and other gentlemen of literary taste and judgment. He departed this life, at his paternal mansion, in July, 1803, at about the age of 28 years. The following notice appeared soon after his decease in the Salem Register. "Died at Marblehead Isaac Story, esq. of Rutland; a gentleman well known by numerous productions in polite literature. In his manners bland, social, and affectionate; in his disposition sportive and convivial; in his morals pure, generous, and unaffected; in his mind vivacious and refined. "After the usual academick course, he pursued the science of jurisprudence and gave promise of an honourable station among advocates. In the interval of juridical studies, he courted the Aonian sisters, and occasionally gave to the publick specimens of elegant composition. Wit and humour were provinces, in which he sought peculiar favour; though he not unfrequently mingled in his poetick effusions the gravity of sententiousness with the lighter graces." "The following monody is attributed to mr. Story's kinsman, now one of the justices of the su- O'er thee shall pity meekly mourn, With wonted charms unskilled to play, MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 515. Note-PHILIP ASHTON, jun. of Marblehead, when a young man, was taken, 15 June, 1722, in the harbour of Port Roseway, by the crew of Edward Low, a noted pirate, who, for many years, infested the coasts of North America. At the same time, Nicholas Merritt, jun. his cousin, met with a similar misfortune. Merritt, however, found means to escape from the hands of the pirates in September following, but did not reach his native place under a year after. Ashton was called to greater |