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mataric. of Emanuel Coll. 1569, and proceed. A. M. 1603, serv. as curate
at St. James, Duke's place, London, first, and soon aft. had the living of
Stondon Massey's in Co. Essex, where he was resid. when recommend. for
the serv. of the Gov. and Comp. of Mass. Bay in 1629, by the Rev.
John White of Dorchester, our effic. friend. But he was not at liberty
to leave his flock, until he was driv. from his place, where a new rector
was induct. Aug. 1633. Greatly was he honored here, in 1639 unit.
with Cotton to frame a body of laws, to wh. prob. he was in some degree
equal, as Mather tells us, in a few lines with wh. he begins his life of the
s. John, he had first been a student of the law. Yet he was more
extensive, kn. by his wit. in the over flow of wh. he produc. the Simple
Cobler of Agawam, wh. by its humor almost compensates for his asperity.
He preach. the sermon for the gen. election, 1641, and was very
judicious in dissuad. our governm. from taking side in the strange contest
betw. La Tour and D'Aulney 2 yrs. later; went home bef. 1647, and
preach. to the Ho. of Commons, on the month. fast, 30 June in that yr.
obtain. the living of Shenfield in Essex, where he d. 1653. Most clear.
did his independ. shine at that day of trouble, for he publis. that sermon,
when Parliament was afraid to. Against the arrogant claim of the
army, that early in the mo. usurp. control of the person of the k. then
conduct. a treaty with Parliam. in whose custody he was, Ward. support.
with abundant spirit the legal power of that body to make a thoro. pacificat.
Such a bold vindicat. the Commons of Eng. dared not print. Of
his fam. our acco. is imperf. but of his s. John and James eno. is bef. ment.
and his d. Susan m. famous Giles Firmin. NATHANIEL, Hartford 1638,
an orig. propr. was held in respect, m. prob. for sec. w. Jane, wid. of John
Hopkins, but aft. some yrs. disgusted with the ch. quarrels, rem. to Hadley
1660, there, by special delegat. of author. to Pynchon and Holyoke
from our Gen. Ct. he and the other Conn. emigr. were adm. freem. 26
Mar. 1661, and he d. May 1664, leav. no ch. His will of 27 May in
that yr. gives of his good est. above one half to William Markham, a
kinsman, residue to Hadley sch. and sev. friends and relatives. * OBADIAH,
Sudbury 1654, b. in Eng. s. of the first William, rem. to Marlborough
1662, by w. Mary, m. a. 1667, had Alice, b. 14 Nov. 1668;
William, 7 Jan. 1670; Obadiah, 18 Sept. 1672; Bethia, 1674, d. soon;
Mary, 4 May 1676; Jane, 1677; Edmund, 21 Jan. 1679; Sarah, 29
Jan. 1681; Richard, 26 Apr. 1683; Elizabeth 4 Dec. 1685; Hannah, 3 Jan.
1688; Eleazer, 2 Nov. 1689; and Prudence, 1691; was rep. 1689, and
d. 5 Jan. leaving sec. w. Joanna, m. 20 Dec. 1693, as the fam. report is,
d. of Isaac Mixer, and wid. of Joseph Harrington, wh. outliv. him.
But I am convinc. that the Ward Family, p. 12, has here fallen into
error, for on p. 23 it makes Obadiah, s. of Richard, m. on the same day,
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