Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    The Records of the First Church in Boston 1630–1868

    Committee on Publication

    LYMAN HENRY BUTTERFIELD

    ROBERT EARLE MOODY

    WALTER MUIR WHITEHILL

    Editor of Publications

    WALTER MUIR WHITEHILL

    The Reverend Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, D.D. 1793–1870

    Minister of the First Church, 1815–1850

    Painted by Thomas Ball

    Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    VOLUME XLI

    COLLECTIONS

    THE RECORDS OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN BOSTON 1630–1868

    Edited by

    RICHARD D. PIERCE

    Boston

    PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY

    1961

    THE ANTHOENSEN PRESS, PORTLAND, MAINE