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A Funeral Elogy upon the Aufhor. 413
Who undertakes this fubjeft to commend Shall nothing find fo hard as how to end.
Finis (£• non. John Norton.*
Omnia 'R.om^indd Jileani Miraada Gentis.
- This clergj'man was a nephew of the Rev. John Norton, of the Fii-st
Church in Boston. He graduated at Harvard College in 1671, and was ordained pastor of the First Church in Hingham, Nov. 27, 1678, as successor of the Rev. Peter Hobart. He died Oct. 3, 1716, in the 66th year of his age, after a ministry of nearly thirty-eight years. — '• Lincoln's History of Hing- ham," pp. 24-25.
It has been suggested that he edited the second edition of Mrs. Brad- street's " Poems." — N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, vol. ix. p. 113, note %%.
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