twenty shillings, & five pound in money." "I give, dedicate & Devote my Organ' to the praise & glory of God in ye sd Church, if they shall accept thereof, & within a year after my decease procure a Sober person that can play skilfully thereon with a loud noise; Otherwise to ye Church of England in this towne on ye same terms & conditions, & on their Nonacceptance or discontinuance to use it as abovesd unto y College, & on their Nonacceptance or discontinuance as before I give the same to my Nephew William Brattle."

"I give and bequeath unto my dear brethren William & Edward Brattle & their wives, unto my dear Sisters Elisabeth Oliver, Kathar" Winthrop, & Mary Mico & their husbands, to my brother Joseph Parson & to my dear Nephews & Neeces... Ten pound apeece toward buying of them mourning. And in-stead of giving gloves at my funeral, My Will is that so many Bills of Credit on y province as I shall be years old at y° time of my decease, of five shillings value, be distributed among such poor but sober & honest persons in this towne to whom it shall be ye greatest kindness at ye discretion of my three sisters, above named; & that ye like number of ye sd five

The Brattle Street "Church, with all possible respect to the memory of our devoted friend and benefactor," voted, 24 July, 1713, that they did "not think it proper to use ye same in ye publick worship of God." "At a meeting of the gentlemen of the Church" worshipping in King's Chapel "this 3d day of August, 1713, referring to the Orgains given them, ... Voted that the Orgins be accepted by the Church, and that Mr. Myles answer Mr. William Brattle's letter concerning the same," and in the following year they "procured a Sober person" from England, one

Mr. Edward "Enstone at a salary of £30 per annum." This was undoubtedly the first organ ever used in public worship in New England. In 1756 this organ was sold to St. Paul's Church, where it remained until 1836, eighty years, when it was again sold to St. John's Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for four hundred and fifty dollars. A new case was added, and it has remained in the chapel of the Sunday School ever since, and is still in good order. It is supposed to be the oldest in America.

shilling Bills be given among five or six of ye poorest Ministers of y Country that shall most need & best deserve ye same, & a half crown Bill to each of ye Students of Harvard College that shall come to my funerall.”

WORKS.

1. Sic in se sua per vestigia volvitur annus. Virg. | 1678. | An | Almanack of | Cœlestial Motions of the Sun and Planets, | with their principal Aspects, | For the Year of the Christian Era | 1678. | Being in our Account the third after | Leap-year and from the Creation, | 5627. | Calculated for the Longitude of 315 gr. and 42 gr. 30 | min of North Latitude | By T. B. | Quid potest esse tam apertum, tamque perspicuum, cum cœlum | suspeximus, cœlestiaque contemplati sumus, quam aliquod esse | numen præstantissimæ mentis quo hæc reguntur. Tull in Lib. | 2. de natura deorum | Cambr. Printed by S. Green & S. Green: | 1678. B.

2. "Mr. Thomas Brattle of Boston in New England is the anonymous person alluded to by Newton in his Principia as having made such good observations on the comet of 1680; but he says, in his letter to Flamsteed, that he took no great pains on the subject." -F. Baily, Supplement to the Account of John Flamsteed, 725.

3. Letter, giving a Full and Candid Account of the Delusion. called Witchcraft, which prevailed in New England; and of the Judicial Trials and Executions at Salem, in the County of Essex, of that Pretended Crime, in 1692. In the Massachusetts Historical Society's Collections, v. 61.

Brattle also aided Calef in his "More Wonders of the Invisible World."

4. Depositions of him and others respecting the printing "The Gospel Order Revived," in reply to Increase Mather's "The Order of the Gospel," 1700-1. In I. Thomas's History of Printing in America, i.

5. An Account of some Eclipses of the Sun observed by him at Cambridge 12 June 1694, 27 November 1703, & of the Moon 12 Dec. 1703, is printed in the Philosophical Transactions, xxiv. 1630 (Abridged, iv. 247, 249); and in volume xxv. 247 (Abridged iv. 271) is his Observatio Eclipsis Lunaris peracta Bostonij Nov. Anglorum, die quinto Aprilis vespere, A. D. 1707.

AUTHORITIES. — J. Belknap, Interleaved Triennial Catalogue of Harvard College. T. Brattle, Manuscript Will in Suffolk County Probate Records, No. 3467. T. Bridgman, Pilgrims of Boston, 317. B. Colman, Sermon after the Funeral of W. Brattle, 36. S. G. Drake, History and Antiquities of Boston, 471, 495, 518. J. Eliot, Biographical Dictionary, 83. Essex Institute, Historical Collections, x. 90. F. W. P. Greenwood, History of King's Chapel, 74. E. D. Harris, Brattle Family, 5, 6, 80, 81. A. Holmes, Annals of America, i. 511. J. Leverett, Manuscript Diary, 61, 75-77, IOI. S. K. Lothrop, History of the Church in Brattle Street,

47, 61. Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, v. 61; and Proceedings, iii. 288, 11 March, 1858; vi. 337, 13 November, 1862. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, iii. 112; vii. 341. J. G. Palfrey, Sermon, 18 July, 1824, 7, 31-40. B. Peirce, History of Harvard University, 85, 88-90. J. Quincy, History of Harvard University, i. 101, 106, 130, 132, 150, 204, 410, 412; ii. 233, 234. J. Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, i. 239. S. Sewall, Manuscript Letter-Book. E. Turell, Life of B. Colman, 43. C. W. Upham, Salem Witchcraft, ii. 450; and his Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather, 29, 80.

JEREMIAH CUSHING.

Born 1654, died 1706, aged 51.

REV. JEREMIAH CUSHING, B. A., of Scituate, born at Hingham, Massachusetts, 3 July, 1654, was the son of Daniel Cushing, a wheelwright, who was born at Hingham, England, and his first wife, Lydia, daughter of Edward Gilman.

He was educated for the ministry under John Norton, of Hingham. In 1681 a committee was "chosen to treat with Mr. Cusheon or some other Minister to settle in Sherburne. And Thomas Holbrook was chosen to go to speak to Mr. Cusheon for an answer from him in reference to his settleing in Sherburne."

In 1681 he was preaching at Hingham. In 1682 and 1683 he was at Haverhill, Massachusetts, but declined an invitation to be settled there. After this, mention is made of his preaching occasionally in Hingham. He

began to preach to the First Church and Society in Scituate in February, 1691, and was ordained there 27 May, of the same year, he being the first minister of that town. who was born in this country. His salary was sixty pounds. The Conihassett partners gave him twenty acres of land.

According to Freeman, Cushing, before the close of the seventeenth century, was at Provincetown, where his son. Ezekiel was born 28 April, 1698; but it is probable if he preached there it was to the few residents and to the transient population in the fishing season.

Cushing "suffered a lingering illness, having been obliged to suspend his labours for several months," and died 22 March, 1706. A monument to his memory was erected in the "old burial ground near the harbour."

June 5, 1685, he married Hannah Loring, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Jacob) Loring, of Hingham. Their children were Hannah, born 1687; Ignatius, 1689; Jeremiah, 1695; and Ezekiel, 28 April, 1698. The widow married, in 1706, John Barker, a lawyer, and Barker's son Samuel married the daughter Hannah the same year.

AUTHORITIES.-American Quarterly Register, viii. 148, 158. W. Biglow, History of Sherburne, 51. G. T. Chase, History of Haverhill, 136, 138, 139. S. Deane, History of Scituate, 183. History of Dorchester, 242. F. Freeman, Hist. of Cape Cod, ii. 628. S. Lincoln, History of Hingham, 116; also his Letter, 1863, Jan

uary 2. N. Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, 367. A. Morse, Genealogical Register, and History of Sherborn, 285. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, viii. 217; ix. 178. J. Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, i. 489; ii. 119. J. Winsor, History of Duxbury, 276.

CLASS OF 1677.

Thomas Cheever,

John Danforth,

Edward Payson,

Samuel Sweetman,
Joseph Capen,

Thomas Scottow.

QUESTIONES
Pro modulo Discutienda,

SUB REVERENDO

URIANO OAKES,

ECCLESIÆ CANTABRIGIENSIS PASTORE, ET COLLEGII HARVARDINI

in Cantabrigia Nov-Anglorum

PRÆSIDE,

PER INCEPTORES IN ARTIBUS IN COMITIIS

Ante Diem IV Idus Sextiles

Anno Dom. M. DC. LXXX.

N detur liberum Arbitrium in non
Renatis, ad bonum Spirituale?

Negat Respondens Thomas Cheeverus. II An Annihilatio sit opus Omnipotentia? Affirmat Respondens Johannes Danforthus.