Joshua Scottow and John Alden (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Joshua Scottow and John AldenChurch, being a daughter of the first William Phillips, deacon from 1764 to 1793.Anna Quincy was staying at the house of her uncle, John Hull, on Cotton Hill, in Boston, and on the evening of Wednesday, August 30, 1676, she was present at a prayer meeting the1e convened. Samuel Sewall was living with his father-ia-law, having been married a few months previously. This prayer and conference meeting was the first he had ever attended, and he has left us an account of it. Emaus Smith was the principal speaker, and the passage of scripture com mented upon was the ninth verse of the 1 lgth Psalm, Where withal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word. The room seems to have been crowded, and, says Sewall, Anna Quincy stood against the closet door next the entry. The next day, Thursday, she was attacked by fever, and her symptoms were so alarming that some of her friends at once began to fear the worst. Providentially, her mother was with her. On the morning of Sunday the physician said that she was not dangerously ill, but at ten o'clock she died. Her funeral was on Monday, and, according to the custom of the time, four youths, some if not all of whom were members of this congregation, served as bearers. Their names were Henry Phillips, Tim othy Dwight, Joseph Tappan and John Alcock. Where she was buried is not quite clear. The South, afterward called the Granary Burying Ground, had been laid out, and her brother, Daniel Quincy, was buried there, in John Hull's tomb, in 1690. We are inclined to think that she was buried in the Old or King's Chapel Burying Ground.We have told all there is to tell of this dear child. We get one glimpse of her, as she stands against the wall in that neighborhood prayer meeting, and, five days later, we see a mournful procession moving towards one of the graveyards in what we now know as Tremont Street. May not our faith follow her within the veil, and see her there.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.