. Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day. was oi)enedfor public worship. See atttc, p. 154. See also, for fuller accounts of thefamily, New-Kng. Hist, and Gen. \iv. 171-173; 303. There is amemoir of William Pitt Greenwood inthe Memorial biographies of the sameSociety, i. 26S-271. ■^ The list of his class contains a largeproportion of eminent names, amongthem the following (those marked fconstituting the entire first class thatgraduated from the Harvard DivinitySchool, in 1S17): —t John Allyn;tAn-drew Rigelow, ).; Gamaliel Ikadford,; S
. Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day. was oi)enedfor public worship. See atttc, p. 154. See also, for fuller accounts of thefamily, New-Kng. Hist, and Gen. \iv. 171-173; 303. There is amemoir of William Pitt Greenwood inthe Memorial biographies of the sameSociety, i. 26S-271. ■^ The list of his class contains a largeproportion of eminent names, amongthem the following (those marked fconstituting the entire first class thatgraduated from the Harvard DivinitySchool, in 1S17): —t John Allyn;tAn-drew Rigelow, ).; Gamaliel Ikadford,; Samuel D. Bradford, ; Mar-tin ]?rimmer; Gorham llrooks; ThomasPulfinch; John Call Dalton, ;Waldo Flint; Penjamin Apthorp Gould ;t F. W. P. Greenwood, ; t AlvanLamson, ; Jairus Lincoln; PlinyMerrick, LL 1)., Justice of the SupremeCourt of Massachusetts; t Peter Os-good ; ]lijah Paine, Justice of the Su-preme Court of New York; WilliamHicklingPrescott, (the historian) ;t James Walker, , President ofHarvard University. 444 ANxNALS OF KINGS J^^h/^. virtuous character, both of whom outHvcd him, and whosebest traits were reproduced in their distinguished son. 12spe-ciall} in him was verified the frequent rule tluit the mothers character sur\ivcs in the child, hor- tunate in this in- ^^^-^^^^j^^^^^,^i^^\ heritancc, he was fortunate also in theearl) impressionsto which his tenderrclii^ious nature wassubject, from theChurch to which hisparents was a child ofthis Chapel, andwas baptized byDr. Freeman,whose colleague hewas one day to be. The richly simple service to which hischildhood was accustomed formed the \ery habit of his mind;while the preaching of Dr. Freeman — almost bare in its sim-plicity, and lacking the wonderful charm and grace which com-mended every product of his own genius — impressed its ownsimple seriousness, perfect transparency, and absolute lojaltyto truth upon the very fibre of his intellectual nature. Fromthe
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