History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . unostentatious, wasreal, and any man who acted from conscientious motives wassure of respectful treatment from him. He professed to be, and we believe was, governed by a senseof responsibility to a higher power. We are quite sure that his descendants will attach less valueto the pecuniary inheritance which devolves upon them thanto the memory which they can thus cherish and hold in honor. JEREMIAH GRIDLEY. Jeremiah Gridley, or Jeremy, as he was famil-iarly known, or Uncle Jerry, was
History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . unostentatious, wasreal, and any man who acted from conscientious motives wassure of respectful treatment from him. He professed to be, and we believe was, governed by a senseof responsibility to a higher power. We are quite sure that his descendants will attach less valueto the pecuniary inheritance which devolves upon them thanto the memory which they can thus cherish and hold in honor. JEREMIAH GRIDLEY. Jeremiah Gridley, or Jeremy, as he was famil-iarly known, or Uncle Jerry, was born in Roxburyabout 1703, and was a brother of Col. Richard Grid-ley, the famous engineer during the Revolutionarywar. It has been a source of dispute as to wherehe died. Tudor, in his life of Otis, says he was aBoston inhabitant and died there. Dr. Eliot, in hisbiography, says he died in Boston, and further, thathis legal knowledge was unquestionable, and adds that he died poor because he despised wealth. The records of the town of Brookline say he diedthere Sept. 10, 17G7, aged sixty-four years. He ; I. r^^i^ .a/S^
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