. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . n the churchyard of the Dedham Parish Churchof old Dedham is a tombstone to mark his burialplace and around the margin the following wordsin Latin were deciphered some years ago: I, John Rogers, a preacher of the Word of God,42, in this place 31 years . . my work beingfinished, I have resigned my soul . . my I wait for the dav . . Aged 65, October18, 1636. In the center the following words are still leftalthough the rest of the inscription has beenobliterated:— True-hearted worshipper of God,No Boanerges more courageouslyGa
. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . n the churchyard of the Dedham Parish Churchof old Dedham is a tombstone to mark his burialplace and around the margin the following wordsin Latin were deciphered some years ago: I, John Rogers, a preacher of the Word of God,42, in this place 31 years . . my work beingfinished, I have resigned my soul . . my I wait for the dav . . Aged 65, October18, 1636. In the center the following words are still leftalthough the rest of the inscription has beenobliterated:— True-hearted worshipper of God,No Boanerges more courageouslyGave forth his thunder, and no BarnabasSpake with more dulcet tone than he. . There is also a bust of him in the Parish Churchon the south chancel wall. There is another tab-let to the memory of Daniel Sargent Curtis, whowas born in Boston in 1825 and who lies buriedbeneath the tablet on the outside of the south Dedham existed before it was called Ded-ham, before Essex had become the land of theEast Saxons, and before the country was known. Photograph hy /■. t-ritii ^^ c <i , England Kindness Ian Forbes-Robertson, Esq. BUST OF REV. JOHX ROGERS, in the parish church of Dedham, Eng-land. He may have been a relative ofthe John Rogers who was one of thethree men in whose honour Dedham,Massachusetts, was named. His son,Nathaniel, was instrumental in namingIpswich, Haverhill and Chelmsford,Massachusetts.
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