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Title: The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles Knowles, 1867-1950
Subjects: Portraits, American United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Biography
Publisher: (Boston) The Boston athenaeum
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d John married Bethlah Eyre. Thedescendants of these children were numerous and distin-guished. The other children died early. Mrs. Walley,whose maiden name Is not known, died 11 November, 1711. Major Walley died at Boston, 11 January, 1711/12, atthe age of sixty-eight. Twelve days earlier he called In fivedistinguished clergymen to pray for relief from the painwhich afflicted his foot. To cheer the sufferer they viedone with another in prophecy. Mr. Wadsworth Insistedpretty much, said Sewall, that several in the room mightdy before Major Walley; all of them might. Dr. C.Mather said Probably some remarkable person In the roommight dye before Major Walley. The portrait, which was reproduced first in FreemansHistory of Cape Cod, Boston, 1858, represents MajorWalley as a boy. The original was owned at that time,apparently, by the Honorable Samuel H. Walley, ofBoston. It is now owned by Grenville Vernon, Esq., ofNew York. Family-Memorials, by Edward Elbridge Salisbury. 1885, page 283. 500
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JOHN WALLEY i644(?)-i7ii/i2 (SOI ) THB NBV; YORKipCBLiC LIBRAR The Rev. John Wheelwright, who troubled thewaters of New England from his coming, in 1636, to thetime of his death at Salisbury, in Massachusetts, 15 Novem-ber, 1679, at the age of eighty-seven, was born in or nearSaleby, County Lincoln, the son of Robert and KatherineWheelwright; he was a graduate of Sydney-Sussex Collegein 1614/15, and an athlete whom Cromwell affected to fearabove an army in the field. He married, at Billesby, Lincolnshire, 8 November,1621, Mary Storre, a daughter of the vicar, ThomasStorre, and succeeded to the benefice of Billesby, 2 April,1623. He buried his first wife 18 May, 1629, and mar-ried, second, in the winter of 1629/30, Mary, daughter ofEdward Hutchinson, of iVlford. Wheelwright was super-seded in 1631/2, and came to Boston in 1636. He wasscarcely settled at Mt. Wollaston (Quincy), when he joinedthe now famous Anne Hutchinson and Governor Vane incontention over the Covenant of Grace vs. the

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