Person:Nathaniel Glover (6)

According to "Glover Memorials and Genealogies", NATHANIEL GLOVER, the eldest son of Mr. Nathaniel and Mary (Smith) Glover, was born in Dorchester, 30 : 1 : 1653, and baptized 3: 2: 1653, by Rev. Richard Mather. He died at New- bury farm in that town, January 6, 1723-4, aged 71 years, and was buried in the westerly part of the ancient burial yard, where his gravestone still remains, but the inscription is so much worn by time as scarcely to be deciphered. At the age of seven years, in 1660, he was placed under the guardianship of his uncle, Mr. Habackuk Glover, of Boston, who succeeded his mother in that appointment at the time of her marriage with Gov. Hinckley and removal to Barnstahle. He was placed at school in Boston, and resided in the family of his grandmother, Mrs. Anua Glover, and after her decease, in 1670, with his uncle and guardian until about the time of his own marriage.

In 1672—3, at the age of twenty years, he was married to Hannah Hinckley, of Barnstable, and occupied the homestead at Dorchester a part of which was his inheritance, although, on account of his minority, the estate remained as yet undivided. In 1674, when he had attained the age of twenty-one years, the homestead estate at Dorchester was ordered to be divided amongst the children of Mr. Nathaniel Glover, deceased. Whether by the will of his father, or as the eldest son by right of primogeniture, it is not stated, but the Court ordered one half of the estate, with the house and buildings, to be settled on him as his portion, and the other half part to be shared equally between his only brother and sister, when they were of full age. He succeeded to his inheritance, and continued the business of tanning, which had been followed on the estate since the lirst occupation by his grandfather in 1631, and was carried on by his father until his decease in 1657, and by the lessees until the period of his succession in 1674, forty-three years from its commencement. In 1 700 he resigned the business to his eldest sou Nathaniel Glover, Jr., and the next year removed with his family to the Xewbury farm estate, a portion of which was his by inheritance. By a deed of gift from his uncle John Glover, and by purchase from the other heirs, he soon came in possession of a considerable portion of that estate, with the houses and buildings, which he retained until his death in 1723-4. In 1677, the second day of the eighth month, he was admitted to the Church at Dorchester ;* also " Mrs. Hannah, the wife of Mr. Nathaniel Glover." In 1683 he was elected constable, and was afterwards chosen to serve as selectman, and continued in that office a few years, the last in 1715. •

1. ↑ Glover, Anna. Glover Memorials and Genealogies: An Account of John Glover of Dorchester, Massachusetts and His Descendants, with a Brief Sketch of Some of the Glovers who First Settled in New Jersey, Virginia and Other Places. (Boston, Massachusetts, United States: David Clapp & Sons, Printers , 1867)
   p.177.