Nehemiah Walter
BornDecember 1663 Edit this on Wikidata
Youghal Edit this on Wikidata
Died17 September 1750 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 86–87)
Alma mater
OccupationMinister Edit this on Wikidata
ChildrenNathaniel Walter, Hannah Trowbridge Edit this on Wikidata
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Nehemiah Walter (born December 1663, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland – died 17 September 1750, Roxbury, Boston, British Colonial America) was a clergyman. He came with his father, Thomas, to the American colonies in 1679, settling in the Boston area. He was graduated at Harvard in 1684. After living for a time in Nova Scotia, became colleague to John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. He was minister of Roxbury, Massachusetts from 17 October 1688 until 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);[1] Practical Discourses on the Holiness of Heaven (1726); and a posthumous volume of Sermons on Isaiah LV (1755).[2]

References

  1. Walter, Nehemiah (October 12, 2009). The body of death anatomized. A brief essay concerning the sorrows and the desires of the regenerate, upon their sense of indwelling sin; delivered at the lecture in Boston. 12 d. 7 m. 1706. / By Nehemiah Walter, Pastor of the church in Roxbury. ; [Four lines of quotations in Latin].
  2. public domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1891). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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