Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . ChairmanCounty Commissioners Melrose, January, 1905. AN INCIDENT OF THE EARLY COLONIAL PERIOD. Ordination of REV. THOMAS CARTER. First Minister of a Painting in the Woburn Public Library. Key to the Painting—The figure in the centre of the picture is a representation (ideal) of the Carter, when two lay members ot liis church were in the act of laying on hands. The man witlithe belt represents Capt. Edward Jolinson; the other is unlcnown. The ministe
Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . ChairmanCounty Commissioners Melrose, January, 1905. AN INCIDENT OF THE EARLY COLONIAL PERIOD. Ordination of REV. THOMAS CARTER. First Minister of a Painting in the Woburn Public Library. Key to the Painting—The figure in the centre of the picture is a representation (ideal) of the Carter, when two lay members ot liis church were in the act of laying on hands. The man witlithe belt represents Capt. Edward Jolinson; the other is unlcnown. The ministers in the bacltground are,from the readers left liand, first, John Cotton of Boston; second, Ricliard Mather of Dorchester; third,John Eliot of Roxbury; fourtli, at the side of the pulpit, John Wilson of Boston—the faces of these four aietaken from contemporary portraits—all the other figures are imaginaiy. The man on a bench with his cloakslipping from his shoulders represents Increase Nowell, a magistrate whose duty it was to be present. Be-sides the ministers whose names have been mentioned, there were present Symmes and Allen of Charlestown,Shepard of Cambridge, Dunster, president of Harvard college,
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