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Deane and her children were removed from this tomb to Walnut Hills Cemetery, June 4, 1892. Boylston was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in London, a distinction very rarely conferred on natives of this country.Ī plain monument to his memory may still be seen in our Cemetery.ĭ. Peter Thacher, minister of the Brattle Street Church, Boston, and published in the Massachusetts Magazine for December, 1789. in the First Church, Roxbury, March 1, 1679, under the ministry of the so-called Apostle Eliot) was written by Dr. He was, famous in his day, not only for eminence in his profession in general, but especially for the practice of inoculation for the smallpox, which, though so strenuously resisted by many of his cotemporaries, proved of such essential benefit to society.Ī memoir of this distinguished man, (who was born in this town, in 1679, bapt. Thomas Boylston, first physician of this town. Voted, that the Thanks of the Town be given to Miss Mary Boylston for three Silver Dollars given by her for the Incouragement of Such Men as Shall Ingage to serve as Soldiers for the Town.ĭr. William, lawyer in Boston, colonel in the army in the last war with England, consul at London, was buried in this tomb and latter removed to Walnut Hills Cemetery. 1804, died a practitioner of medicine, in his native town, aged 34 yrs.'Ĭol. In treating the smallpox, that dangerous and destructive malady, few, if any cotemporaries had more extensive practice, or were more successful.' sellor, under the Government of this Commonwealth who watched over the interests of his native village with vigilance and fidelity and, who in the times that tried men's souls, amid the political contests, which raged in our land, was greatly instrumental in preserving this people from those disgraceful abuses which prevailed in too many other places. 1764, who spent a long life, as a distinguished physician of this town and vicinity, who was successively Representative, Senator, and Coun. 'Among the past inhabitants of this town who should be mentioned with distinction and respect, is the late Dr. In 1778 we find by his letters to his wife, that he was with the army under General Sullivan in Rhode Island.' Samuel, Peter), and Johanna (Gardner) Aspinwall, youngest brother of the Revolutionary colonel. 4, 1762, Lucy Sparhawk, sister of the wife of his brother Samuel. He served in the Revolutionary War, and held a Lieutenant-Colonel's commission, and at one time was in command of the fort at Sewall's Point. Son of Thomas and Johanna (Gardner) Aspinwall, for whom the Johanna Aspinwall Chapter, D.A.R., was named, was born in Brookline Jan. should have selected for his morning reading at family devotions the 27th chapter of the Proverbs, beginning, 'Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. One can imagine something of the sensation this event must have produced in this thinly settled town the loss of so prominent a citizen, the search for the body, - the military procession, for he was buried under arms, - the long funeral sermon, probably in the little church then only ten years built, - the vacant seat in the square pew, 'in the northwest corner,' - the muffled drums, and the volley fired over the grave.Īnd how it was doubtless the topic of conversation among neighbors when they met for weeks after, and with what superstitious awe they looked upon the fore-runner or 'warning' as they probably considered it, that he. In 1727, at the age of sixty-five, the Captain was drowned in Charles River, not far from his farm. The sons of this marriage were outlived by their father, who died in 1841, the last male member of this ancient family.' Hyslop gave her a great wedding, which was a grand event in the town for those times, and was not only a theme for tea-table chat, but was remembered, talked of, and written about, long after. His son William, the third of the name, married the adopted daughter of Mr William Hyslop. William Ackers died in 1794, at a good old age. In the Revolutionary times it was occupied as barracks for the colonial troops, but the family did not leave it, as many families left their houses but divided with the soldiers and bore the inconvenience. In 1744 the Ackers built a fine large house on the corner of Brighton and Boylston Streets, which was quite imposing for a farm-house in those days. 'The names of John and William Ackers, and that of their father, appeared on the petition for the separation of Muddy River from Boston in 1704.

Kelsey cemetery mary cornelia stepps harris