Joshua Long. Born 1634, died before 1700.
Joshua Long, or Longe, M. A., the youngest son of Robert Long, innholder at Dunstable, in Bedfordshire, by Elizabeth, probably a second wife, was born in England. July 7, 1635, when he was about nine months old, his parents with their ten children embarked in the Defence at London, and, coming to Massachusetts, settled at Charlestown.
The son’s college bills extend from June, 1650, to September, 1654, the charge for tuition being omitted after the Commencement in 1653; and several of them, paid by 'Mr Longe,' indicate the father's respectable standing.
The son was living 10 July, 1658, the date of his father's will, proved 5 April, 1664, which says, 'My will is that twentie pounds be given to my sonne Joshua to buy him bookes if my wife see it need, so to doe,' and if he 'haue no need of wt I giue him; then my will is that his part be divided to Hannah and Ruth and Deborah.'
The date of his death is not ascertained; but the star in Mather's Magnalia, and in the Catalogue of Harvard Graduates issued in 1700, indicates that it must have occurred some time in the seventeenth century, and it may even have been several years before its close."
