"Nathaniel Glover, the fourth son of John Glover, Esq., and Anna his wife, was born in 1630-31, died in Dorchester, May 21, 1657, and was buried in the ancient burial ground of that town. The grave-stone has gone to decay. There are but few acts of his short life to be found on record. He attained the age of manhood in Dorchester, and succeeded to the homestead at the time of his father's removal to Boston in 1652. In that year he was married to Mary Smith, of Dorchester. On the 22d of the 3d month he was admitted to the Church there, in full communion. May 3, 1654. he took the freeman's oath, and was recorded among the New England Freemen. In 1655 he was chosen one of the Selectmen of Dorchester, and again in 1656 and 1657. In 1655 he was appointed, with others, to settle the bounds between Dorchester and Dedham. He was also chosen to fill other offices in the town. By his father's will, in addition to the Dorchester homestead estate already given him, he was to receive four hundred pounds in money, and forty pounds more to be paid to him by his brother Habackuk after the death of his mother, Mrs. Anna Glover; also one fourth part of Mr. Glover's Newbury Farm, and one fourth part of the other lands reserved as the widow's dower. He left a will, which is on file, proved June 5, 1657. Inventory of his estate taken and sworn to by the underwriters, Roger Clap and William Clark, the 5th day of the 4th month, 1657: …"
