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Jan 01, 0001 Youghal, Munster, Ireland Died on 17 Sep 1750 (aged 1749)
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About Nehemiah Walter
- Nehemiah Walter (b.
- in Ireland in December, 1663; d.
- in Roxbury, Mass., 17 September, 1750) was an American clergyman.
- He was of English parentage, and came with his father, Thomas, to the American colonies in 1679, settling in Boston.
- He was graduated at Harvard in 1684, and, after living for a time in Nova Scotia, became colleague to John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians.
- He was minister of Roxbury, Mass., from 17 October 1688, till his death.
- Walter married a daughter of Increase Mather.
- He published The body of death anatomized: A brief essay concerning the sorrows and the desires of the regenerate, upon their sense of indwelling sin (Boston, 1707) ; Practical Discourses on the Holiness of Heaven (1726); and a posthumous volume of Sermons on Isaiah LV.
- (1755). This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J.
- G.; Fiske, J., eds.
- (1891).
- "article name needed".
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.
- New York: D.
- Appleton.
