Milton Town

Milton Town

This church, having been a mission enterprise for two years, was organized Nov. 13, 1882, with twenty-five members, and Nathan Hunt was ordained as pastor.

Mr. Hunt was born in Scott's Woods, Milton. He is remembered with great affection as connected with the Sabbath School of the First Evangelical Church in his boyhood. The pastor of this church has followed him with the watchful interest of a sincere friend in his education and progress onward to the place he now occupies.

From the humble walks of life he has risen to the position of clergyman in his own native town, respected and beloved by his people and fellow-citizens, - a record of fidelity and earnest purpose in life worthy of recognition.

Since the above date a handsome church edifice has been erected on the Dorchester side, where the shepherd gathers his Milton and Dorchester flock. May the prophetic words come to pass : " There shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed." - Ezekicl xxxiv. 14.

Mini Sters Of Milton

Here closes the long record of two and a quarter centuries, covering- the four extended pastorates of the town church, and the four pastorates of each of its branches.

Thus have we travelled down amid the denizens of the past, through all the changes of these centuries of time. It is well thus to do, U> turn awhile and look upon the great past, to have our souls lilled and thronged with its glorious solemn visions.

Pastors and people, shepherds and flocks, - all, all departed, all silent ! The past holds them. Their bodies lie in our burialgrounds, and there will remain till the voice of the archangel and the trump of God. The venerable Thacher and many of his family and name ; the gentle Taylor ; Robbins, ardent and earnest in all his life ; Gile, Cozzens, Angier, and Washburn, with their people around them, - a vast congregation of once sincere, earnest, high-minded actors in this place of our sojourn.

We are sometimes disposed to speak severely of the harsher traits of their characters ; but even their infirmities, their sternness of temper, their religious exaltation, their disregard of the graces of life, were important factors in the work to be wrought out.

Could men of gentler stamp have breasted the obstacles, and performed the arduous labors, and laid broad and deep the earth-fast foundations of this Republic, now so strong and fair?

Source changes here: from Milton Records : Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1662-1843, by Milton (Mass.), published 1900; 51 words in this source stream.

Tower

Abia, dau. of Samuel, Hope, eon of Samuel and Margrit, Jeramiah, son of Samuel and Margret, Abigel, dau. of Samuel and Margret, Jehosephit, Samuel,

Vinal

Elisabeth, wife of Oliver, son of Joseph, wife of Samuel, son of Samuel, son of Josiah, Abigail, W., dau. of Oliver,

Source changes here: from Milton Records; Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1662-1843, Alphabetically and Chronologically Arranged, published 1900; 30 words in this source stream.

Turner

Polly How (dau. of William), fBenjamin, son of Benjamin and Esther, fMary, wife of Stephen, fPatience, widow of *('Capt.) Thomas, fJoseph Hunt, son of Alexander, t(Sukey F.) dau. of William,