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a Congregational minister, was born at Framingham, Suffolk Co., England, September, 1626, and came with his father to New England in 1634. He graduated at Harvard in 1643, and was chosen tutor and fellow. In 1650 he was installed colleague pastor in Roxbury, where he labored during his life, which ended Nov. 19, 1674. He studied astronomy carefully, and published several almanacs, and astronomical and theological remarks upon the comet (1664). — Sprague, Annals, 1:138.