Person:James Minot (8)

From #S1: Studied divinity, and preached often for about ten years but was never ordained.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Bond, Henry, M.D. Family Memorials. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston (1855): To Which Is Appended the Early History of the Town. With Illustrations, Maps and Notes. (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, 1855)
   721.

   Rebecca Wheeler, d/o Capt. Timothy Wheeler of Concord, m. abt. 1684 James Minot, s/o Capt. John Minot and Lydia Butler, b. 14 Sep 1653, d. 20 Sep 1735.

2. ↑ Wheeler, Albert Gallatin. The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler family in America. (American College of Genealogy , 1914)
   140.

   Will of "Mary Wheler Rellict of Cap Timothy Wheler late of Concord deceased", dated 20 Apr 1691, bequeaths to "son Minot" and "his wife Rebeca my daughter". Also mentions "eldest son born of my daughter Rebeca", and "Mary daughter of my son Minot now born of my daughter Rebeaca".

3. ↑ Shattuck, Lemuel. The Minot Family. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr, Jul 1847)
   1:173.

   Here is interred the remains of
   James Minott, Esq., A.M. an
   Excelling Grammarian, Enriched
   with the Gift of Prayer and Preaching,
   a Command Officer, a Physician of
   Great Value, a Great Lover of Peace
   as well as of Justice, and which was
   His greatest Glory, a Gent'n of distinguished
   Virtue and Goodness, happy in a Virtuous
   Posterity, and living Religiously, Died
   Comfortably, Sept. 20, 1735, AEt. 83.