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Excerpt from Notes and Additions to the History of Gloucester: Second Series
The full date of birth ofthe children of Rev. John Emerson, not stated in the History, is here given: Ruth, Aug. 26, 1660; Martha, Nov. 28, 1662; Mary, March 7, 1665; Elizabeth, Aug. 25, 1667, died April 6, 1683; John, May 14, 1670; Dorothy, July 6, 1675; and Samuel, Nov. 20, 1678, who died Dec. 5, 1687. Of the son John, one regrets to learn that his conduct in the early part of his college career was not credit able; but he received his degree in 1689, and, for aught I know to the contrary,'lived and died a respectable minister of the gospel (sec. 4, Mass. Hist. Coll., VIII, The Essex County Records contain the following deposition, relating to John Emerson, jr., which I here insert, as an interesting item in the family history of the second minister of the town.
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