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