JOSEPH BELCHER, A.M., b. Milton, May 14, 1669, son of Quartermaster Joseph and Rebecca (Gill) Belcher; H.C. 1690, A.B., A.M.; Ord. Dedham, Nov. 29, 1693; sett. Dedham, 1693-1721; Artillery Election Sermon, 1698; Election Sermon, 1701; his portrait in oils hang in the First Church, Dedham; d. Roxbury, Apr. 27, 1723, a. 53. (F.L. Weiss, The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England, 1936.)
JBrown (Contributor #48697180) tells me this a cenotaph (a marker over a bodyless grave). The Rev. Belcher d. in Roxbury and is buried in a S. Boston cemetery.
From The Belcher Families in New England, 1906:
REV. JOSEPH BELCHER (Joseph2, Gregory1), born May 14, 1669, in youth inherited a conciderable estate for those times, which enabled him to obtain a liberal education at Harvard College, where he was graduated in 1690. He then studied for the ministry, and began to preach in Dedham, in the spring of 1692, which resulted in a permanent call, and he was ordained and settled there on Nov. 29, 1693. He remained pastor there for nearly 30 years, until the autumn of 1721, when he was incapacitated by a paralytic shock, and was removed to the house of his son-in-law Rev. William Walter, in Roxbury, to be under the care of Dr. Philip Tomson, where he died Apr. 27, 1723. His portrait in oil hangs in the First Church in Dedham.
He married Mar. 8, 1693-4, Abigail, born Nov. 25, 1670, daughter of Benjamin and Susanna (Kirkland) Tomson, who father was a graduate of Harvard College, and for many years taught school and practiced medicine in Roxbury and Braintree, and also was noted as a poet and philosopher. She survived her husband. They had seven children.
JBrown (Contributor #48697180) tells me this a cenotaph (a marker over a bodyless grave). The Rev. Belcher d. in Roxbury and is buried in a S. Boston cemetery.
From The Belcher Families in New England, 1906:
REV. JOSEPH BELCHER (Joseph2, Gregory1), born May 14, 1669, in youth inherited a conciderable estate for those times, which enabled him to obtain a liberal education at Harvard College, where he was graduated in 1690. He then studied for the ministry, and began to preach in Dedham, in the spring of 1692, which resulted in a permanent call, and he was ordained and settled there on Nov. 29, 1693. He remained pastor there for nearly 30 years, until the autumn of 1721, when he was incapacitated by a paralytic shock, and was removed to the house of his son-in-law Rev. William Walter, in Roxbury, to be under the care of Dr. Philip Tomson, where he died Apr. 27, 1723. His portrait in oil hangs in the First Church in Dedham.
He married Mar. 8, 1693-4, Abigail, born Nov. 25, 1670, daughter of Benjamin and Susanna (Kirkland) Tomson, who father was a graduate of Harvard College, and for many years taught school and practiced medicine in Roxbury and Braintree, and also was noted as a poet and philosopher. She survived her husband. They had seven children.
JOSEPH BELCHER, A.M., b. Milton, May 14, 1669, son of Quartermaster Joseph and Rebecca (Gill) Belcher; H.C. 1690, A.B., A.M.; Ord. Dedham, Nov. 29, 1693; sett. Dedham, 1693-1721; Artillery Election Sermon, 1698; Election Sermon, 1701; his portrait in oils hang in the First Church, Dedham; d. Roxbury, Apr. 27, 1723, a. 53. (F.L. Weiss, The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England, 1936.)
JBrown (Contributor #48697180) tells me this a cenotaph (a marker over a bodyless grave). The Rev. Belcher d. in Roxbury and is buried in a S. Boston cemetery.
From The Belcher Families in New England, 1906:
REV. JOSEPH BELCHER (Joseph2, Gregory1), born May 14, 1669, in youth inherited a conciderable estate for those times, which enabled him to obtain a liberal education at Harvard College, where he was graduated in 1690. He then studied for the ministry, and began to preach in Dedham, in the spring of 1692, which resulted in a permanent call, and he was ordained and settled there on Nov. 29, 1693. He remained pastor there for nearly 30 years, until the autumn of 1721, when he was incapacitated by a paralytic shock, and was removed to the house of his son-in-law Rev. William Walter, in Roxbury, to be under the care of Dr. Philip Tomson, where he died Apr. 27, 1723. His portrait in oil hangs in the First Church in Dedham.
He married Mar. 8, 1693-4, Abigail, born Nov. 25, 1670, daughter of Benjamin and Susanna (Kirkland) Tomson, who father was a graduate of Harvard College, and for many years taught school and practiced medicine in Roxbury and Braintree, and also was noted as a poet and philosopher. She survived her husband. They had seven children.
JBrown (Contributor #48697180) tells me this a cenotaph (a marker over a bodyless grave). The Rev. Belcher d. in Roxbury and is buried in a S. Boston cemetery.
From The Belcher Families in New England, 1906:
REV. JOSEPH BELCHER (Joseph2, Gregory1), born May 14, 1669, in youth inherited a conciderable estate for those times, which enabled him to obtain a liberal education at Harvard College, where he was graduated in 1690. He then studied for the ministry, and began to preach in Dedham, in the spring of 1692, which resulted in a permanent call, and he was ordained and settled there on Nov. 29, 1693. He remained pastor there for nearly 30 years, until the autumn of 1721, when he was incapacitated by a paralytic shock, and was removed to the house of his son-in-law Rev. William Walter, in Roxbury, to be under the care of Dr. Philip Tomson, where he died Apr. 27, 1723. His portrait in oil hangs in the First Church in Dedham.
He married Mar. 8, 1693-4, Abigail, born Nov. 25, 1670, daughter of Benjamin and Susanna (Kirkland) Tomson, who father was a graduate of Harvard College, and for many years taught school and practiced medicine in Roxbury and Braintree, and also was noted as a poet and philosopher. She survived her husband. They had seven children.
Inscription
(North side)
Successors to Mr. ALLIN
gone to their rest before the
erection of this monument:
REV. WILLIAMS ADAMS
b. May 27, 1650, Grad. H.C. 1671.
Ord. Dec. 3, 1673; died Aug. 17, 1685.
REV. JOSEPH BELCHER
b. 1671. Grad H.C. 1690.
Ord. Nov. 29, 1693; died Apr. 27, 1723.
REV. SAMUEL DEXTER
b. at Malden Oct. 25, 1700. Grad H.C. 1720
Ord. May 6, 1724; died Jan. 24, 1755.
REV. JASON HAVEN
b. at Framingham, March 2, 1754
Grad. H.C. 1754. Ord. Feb. 5, 1756
died May 17, 1803.
REV. JOSHUA BATES
b. at Cohasset 20 March 1776.
Grad H.C. 1800. Ord. 16 March 1803
left for the presidency of Middlebury
College, Vt. 20 Feb. 1818; d. Jan. 1854.
(South side)
Church gathered Nov. 8, 1638.
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