great necessity of judges from England. ... As for Mr. Bulkley he is stupified and drown in melancholy, and almost uselesse, being seldom with us."

"Verely," writes Thomas Danforth, 22. 8. 88, "his sun did set in a cloud."

According to Sewall he died "about eleven a clock on Friday, 25 May, 1688, "having languished for a long time," and was buried the 27th, "bec. could not be kept; word of wch was sent to Boston on ye same day to prevent persons going in vain on Monday to ye Funeral." Hutchinson, after citing Danforth, says he "died of melancholy."

April 16, 1667, Bulkley married Rebecca, born 6 September, 1645, daughter of Lieutenant Joseph and Sarah Wheeler, of Concord, and had children. His widow became the third of the four wives of Jonathan Prescott. His daughter Rebecca, born in 1681, married Jonathan Prescott, Junior, and, after his death, Joseph Whiting, H. U. 1661.

AUTHORITIES. S. G. Arnold, History of Rhode Island, i. 446, 452. W. Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, i. 120, 134; ii. 893. Harvard College Corporation Records, iii. 43; and Papers, i. 58; and Steward's Account-Books, i. 315, 316, 376. J. B. Hill, in Bi-Centennial of Old Dunstable, 187. T. Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts, i. 312, 341, 351; ii. 132; and Collection of Papers, 519, 543, 548, 557, 566. W. P. Lunt, Two Hundredth Anniversary Discourses, 100-102. Massachusetts House Journals, 1734, December 4; 1735, December 27; and Records, iv. (ii.), 551, 560; v. 263, 350, 418, 436. Mass. Historical Society, Collections,

v. 221, 245; xvi. 614; xxi. 72; xxvii. 297; xlv. 215. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, i. 72; iii. 240; iv. 271; vi. 74. J. G. Palfrey, History of New England, iii. 293. Rhode Island Colonial Records, ed. J. R. Bartlett, iii. 38, 196, 197. J. Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, i. 291; iv. 498. S. Sewall, Manuscript Diary; and in Massachusetts Historical Society's Collections, xlv. 215. L. Shattuck, History of Concord, 242, 382. E. Washburn, Judicial History of Massachusetts, 85, 103, 120. W. Whiting, Memoir of Samuel Whiting, etc., 202. W. H. Whitmore, Massachusetts Civil List, 25-27, 29, 30, 32, 34.

CAROLO CHAUNCÆO

SS. THEOL. BAC. PRÆSIDE COL. HARVARD.
CANTABRIGIE, NOV-ANGL.

IN COMITIIS PER INCEPTORES IN ARTIBUS,
DIE NONO SEXTILIS

Trum Detur Idaa omnium Entium in primo Ente.
Affirmat Resp. Nathaniel Chauncæus.

Trum Detur Concursus per Modum Principii.
Affirmat Resp. Elnathan Chauncæus.

Trum Mundus potuerit creari ab Eterno.
Negat Resp. Josephus Whitingus.

Trum Decretum Dei tollat Liberum Arbitrium.
Negat Resp. Calebus Watsonus.

JOHN BELLINGHAM.

Born 1644 (?), died 1670 (?), aged 26 (?).

JOHN BELLINGHAM, M. A., born perhaps in 1644, halfbrother of Samuel Bellingham, H. U. 1642, was son of Richard Bellingham, Governor of Massachusetts, by his second wife, Penelope Pelham, youngest sister of Herbert Pelham, to whom, as noticed in Winthrop's History, under the date of 9 November, 1641, "he married himself, contrary to the constant practice of the country."

The year after graduating he "was agent for his father at Rowley in care of land that had been his uncle William's."

The subject of his part on taking his second degree, in 1664, is printed on page 72.

He probably died about 1670 or 1672, as after his death, his father, in his will dated 25 November, 1672, (but which the Reverend James Allen,' one of the execu

"The Saying of the Revd Mr is as followeth. The Reason the James Allen, one of these Executors, Gou' gaue me (when he d'd his will

tors, says was delivered to him, "written with his own hand in 1670,") speaks of his "Only Son," meaning Samuel Bellingham, H. U. 1642.

AUTHORITIES. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xiv. 237-239; xviii. 173. J. Savage,

Genealogical Dictionary, i. 161; iii. 385. J. Winthrop, History of New England, ii. 43.

NATHANIEL CHAUNCY.

Born 1639 (?), died 1685, aged about 46.

REV. NATHANIEL CHAUNCY, M. A., of Windsor, Connecticut, and Hatfield, Massachusetts, son of President Charles and Catharine (Eyre) Chauncy, was born probably at Plymouth, Massachusetts, about 1639, and baptized at Scituate in December, 1641. He was twin brother of his classmate, Elnathan Chauncy, and brother of Isaac Chauncy and Ichabod Chauncy, H. U. 1651, of Barnabas Chauncy, H. U. 1657, and of Israel Chauncy, H. U. 1661, all of whom graduated at Harvard College.

It was probably Nathaniel Chauncy, or his twin brother, Elnathan Chauncy, who is mentioned by Winthrop, ii.

to me written with his own hand which was in the yeare 1670, after his son died (by his last wife) Mr John Bellingham whom he designed his Heire) that his Son Samuel had two hundred a yeare of his Estate and fifteen hundred pounds a yeare befalled him (there being thirteen p'sons liues between him and it, which were all deceased without heires, & he will trust none to take up for him, and never Come to take it, if I leaue it him, besides he will giue it away for

a Song, therefore I will dedicate it to God; and benefitt of this Contry." Accordingly, besides making provision for a "Minister's house, and a Meeting house" at Winnisimmet, now Chelsea, and allowance "yearely to any godly Congregational Minister who shalbe willing to settle in that place," and for other objects, he directs "That foure, or Six, more or less, young Students, be brought up for the Ministry, as the Estate will Beare."

72, as having "swooned away," when immersed, "in very cold weather," by his father, who "persevered in his opinion of dipping in baptism, and practised accordingly."

The subject of his part at Commencement on taking his second degree, in 1664, is printed on page 73.

His name as author appears on the title-page of the New England Almanack for 1662, the year after he graduated, with the motto, "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas."

August 24, 1663, he was chosen Tutor or Fellow of the College.

In reply to an application from the elders of the church of Windsor for aid in securing a colleague for the Reverend John Warham, the ministers, John Wilson of Boston, Richard Mather of Dorchester, and Jonathan Mitchel of Cambridge, write, 7 June, 1666: "For Mr. Nath' Chauncey we have good encouragement by what we hear concerning his learning and steadiness, diligence, hopeful piety, grave and peaceable demeanor. As concerning his voice, two of us never heard him preach, from the third you have heard an account formerly. We hear that it was better and more audible the second time he preached at Cambridge, than the first. But we understand he is likely to preach again the next Lord's day when some of yours will be present, by whom you may have further information than we can now give."

"We learn that he hath well approved himself for his abilities in preaching, and for piety, having been received into full communion in the church of Ipswich several years since, and carried it commendably among the people where he is."

At the time Chauncy entered upon his ministry there was great ecclesiastical excitement, particularly in Connecticut, "and parties were warmly engaged for and against