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Excerpt from A Record of the First Parish: In Watertown, Massachusetts
Rev. Henry Gibbs was invited to be assistant pastor with Mr. Bailey in 1691. He accepted the call, and entered at once upon his duties, but was not ordained or installed until Oct. 6, 1697. He continued pastor till his death, Oct. 21, 1 723.
Rev. Seth Storer was ordained July 22, 1 7 24. He died Nov. 27, 1774, aged seventy-two, after a useful ministry of over fifty years. After his death, Rev. Dr. Cooper, of Brattle Street Church, Boston, resided in this town for some time, Boston being in the possession of the British. He supplied this pulpit during his temporary residence here, and it was not until April 29, 1778, that any successor to Mr. Storer was found. On that day the Rev. Daniel Adams was ordained. His ministry was of short duration, for he was stricken down by the fatal hand of death the same year, and died Sept. 16, 17 78, after a ministry of less than six months.
Rev. Richard Rosewell Eliot was ordained pastor of this church, June 21, 1780. He died Oct. 21, 1818, aged sixty-six, after a ministry of thirty-eight years.
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