. Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day. nd the son of Dr. Thomas Bulfinch, an eminent medical practitioner here.* The chiitlrcn of h^lizabcth Bulfinch (daughter of the Warden), who married Joseph Coolidge, Esq., Sept. 20, 1796, are still members 1 These facts are chiefly taken from between 1737 and 1750, who, many an article on the Amory family in the years after, received from the college New-England Hist, and Gen. Register, the degree of M. D. pro honoris causa. X. 59-65. (nr. Saniud A. Green.) His father was - I Mass. Hist. Coll., viii. 86^/j(Y. bor
. Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day. nd the son of Dr. Thomas Bulfinch, an eminent medical practitioner here.* The chiitlrcn of h^lizabcth Bulfinch (daughter of the Warden), who married Joseph Coolidge, Esq., Sept. 20, 1796, are still members 1 These facts are chiefly taken from between 1737 and 1750, who, many an article on the Amory family in the years after, received from the college New-England Hist, and Gen. Register, the degree of M. D. pro honoris causa. X. 59-65. (nr. Saniud A. Green.) His father was - I Mass. Hist. Coll., viii. 86^/j(Y. born in 1694, married Judith Colman 3 Eliots liiographical Dictionary, in 1724, and died in December, 1757: See also pp. 364-366, post. He was a CJentleman whose knowledge ■* Dr. Thomas Bulfinch (Jr.) was quite Fidelity and Success in his Business ren- a distinguished physician, who resided in dered him an Ornament to his Profes- liowdoin Square. He was [1746] one sion, as the Easiness and composure of of live graduates of Harvard College his Behaviour, and the Agreeableness of. 344 ANNALS OF KINGS CHAPEL. of this Society. Our honored friend, Mr. Thomas Bulfinch (H. ), — whose probity and courtesy made■ipijj I him A Christian Gentleman indeed, onewho, after serving this Church as junior war-den and thus continuing the family traditionhere, left at his death, in 1867, a void not tobe filled, — was the son of Dr. Bulfinchs sonCharles, the eminent architect of the StateHouse, the General Hospital, the Capitol ofthe United States at Washington, and otherpublic buildings there. A few personal andfamily memorials of these and other nameswill be given further on. The later story of Dr. Caners life is toldfj in the citations which follow, taken from thecorrespondence and other memoranda of thetime: — ■5 £>!. Cancr to the Secretary. ■Si Halifax, May , 1776. ■| I am now at Halifax with my daughter & ser- 3 vant, but without any means of support except ,s what I
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