Wigglesworth, Edward, New Haven 1638, had come in Aug. of that yr. to Mass. brot. w. Esther, perhaps sis. of Rev. John Rayner, and s. Michael, b. in Eng. 28 Oct. 1631, and taught his rudiments by famous Ezekiel Cheever, H. C. 1651, had there, Abigail, bapt. Dec. prob. 13, 1640, was a man of good repute, and comfortab. est. d. 1 Oct. 1653. Of his last sickness he gave acco. stat. his age 49, in a letter to John Winthrop, 18 July bef. his d. wh. may be read in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. IX. 296, 7. In his will made six days bef. that let. he names only ch. Michael, and Abigail, to wh. he gives £160. and £80. severally, but directs that her share be paya. at 20 yrs. of age, and all the resid. to w. Esther, wh. tho. constit. extrix. was, with her d. commit. to the s. then resid. at Cambridge, studying for his profess. and an officer of the coll. with this injunct. "that he do endeavor so far as he may with conven. have them near unto him, wherever it please God to cast him." By the inv. his est. appears £401. 14s. 2d. In his diary, the s. writes "news is brot. to me." Friday, 14 Oct. 1653, "of my f.'s d. My f. d. 1 Oct." From New Haven to Cambridge the news pass. in thirteen days, while in our time the traveller requires only half as many hrs. At New Haven the inscript. on his gr.-st. back of the first ch. was alter. from 1653 to 1678, as the fac simile in Stiles's Hist. of the Regicides shows, with the vain surmise, that it had been erect. over Edward Whalley, wh. prob. d. after 1670, but earlier than 1675.
