CONTENTS. Attorneys, who have practised in Rockingham County, Attorney Generals for New Hampshire, Biographical Notices of Physicians in Tamworth, Biographical Notices of Physicians in Charlestown, Biographical Notices of Physicians in Concord, Blake, Rev. Jeremiah's Statistics of Congregational Ministers and Chipman, Hon. Daniel, Sketch of, Page. 114 125 74 77 80, 135 47 69 71 127 Cooke, Josiah P., Esq., Sketch of, Christian Union, by William C. Whitcomb, Concord, Physicians of, viz. Rolf, Ezra Carter, Emery, Ebenezer H. Goss, Philip Carrigain, Peter Green, Samuel Bliss, Duncan, Alexander Campbell, Hiram Hoyt, John W. Fur- Dana, Rev. Dr. Daniel's Thoughts on Pulpit Eloquence, 28, 85 Dartmouth College Triennial Catalogue, Statistics of, 46 Dartmouth College, Sketches of Alumni of, 64 French, Rev. Jonathan's Statistics of Congregational Ministers and History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New Hampshire, by Juridical Statistics of Rockingham County, by Hon. John Kelly of Exeter, Jackson, Rev. Dr. William, Sketch of, Kelly, Hon. John's Juridical Statistics of Rockingham County, 34, 111 Memoir of Rev. Samuel Worcester, D. D., Ministers and Churches, Congregational, of Carroll County, Statistics of, by Rev. Jeremiah Blake of Tamworth, Ministers and Churches, Congregational, of Rockingham County, New Hampshire Senate, Statistics of, by J. A. Richardson, Esq., Notices of New Publications, 82 Thoughts on Pulpit Eloquence, by Rev. Daniel Dana, D.D., Whitcomb, William C.'s Christian Union, 34, 111 34 40 45 111 112 113 114 123 124 124 125 28,85 74 127 9 REV. SAMUEL WORCESTER,D.D. Pate Senior Pastor of the Tabernacle Cunrch. Salem, Mass. and Cocosponding Secretary of the C.R.C. Filtr THE NEW HAMPSHIRE REPOSITORY. VOL. II. OCTOBER, 1846. No. 1. MEMOIR OF THE REV. SAMUEL WORCESTER, D. D. DR. WORCESTER was born at Hollis, N. H., November 1st, 1770. His father, whose name was Noah, was a highly respectable farmer of that town, and a descendant in the fourth generation from the Rev. William Worcester, who was the first minister of Salisbury, Ms., where he was settled in the year 1638.* There is a diversity in regard to the Christian name, and also the orthography of the surname of the first minister of Salisbury. By some the Christian name has been written Thomas, and the surname Worster or Woster. But by the Salisbury records, it appears that his name was written William Worcester, and it is so written by the Rev. Dr. Cotton Mather in his Magnalia; and these facts seem to be good and sufficient authority for spelling the name as above. The following brief genealogical account of the Worcester family, is here inserted as a matter of interest to many, and as worthy of being preserved. The Rev. William Worcester, who was the first minister of Salisbury, came from Salisbury in England, and was admitted freeman in 1640. He married for his first wife, Sarah who died, April 23rd, 1650, and for his second wife, he married, Aug. 22nd, 1650, the widow Rebecca Hall. He died, Oct. 20th, 1662. The names of his children were Samuel, William, Sarah, Sarah, 2nd, Timothy, Moses, Sarah, 3rd, Elizabeth, and Elizabeth, 2nd. Samuel, who resided at Bradford, died at Lynn, April 21st, 1680, when returning from Boston, having been deputy to the General Court. He had a son named Francis, who married Mary Cheney, and died at Bradford, Dec. 17th, 1717. This Francis had a son Francis, who was born, June 7th or 8th, 1698, married Abigail Carlton, and was pastor of the second church in Sandwich, Ms., and signed "The Testimony and Advice of an Assembly of Pastors of churches in New England, at a meeting in Boston, July 7th, 1743, occasioned by the late happy Revivals of Religion in many parts of the Land." He removed with his family to Hollis, N. H. in 1750, where he died, Oct. 14th, 1783, at the age of 85 years. He was |