Joseph  Eliot,  A.  B.,  Harvard,  1658;  for  the  first  three  years
after  his  graduation  he  was  "Imployed  in  the  Indian  worke"
with  his  father,  the  Apostle  John  Eliot,  and  received  the  "com-
pensation of  about  £10  annually."  He  was  later  associated
with  the  Rev.  Eleazer  Mather  in  the  Ministry  of  the  North-
ampton Church.  On  January  1,  1663,  the  town  of  Northampton
voted  to  build  him  a  house  and  offered  other  inducements  if


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he  would  settle  with  them  permanently,  but  be  was  prevailed
upon  to  go  to  Guilford,  where  he  was  ordained  Pastor  of  the
Church  in  1664-65.  He  seems  to  have  also  acted  as  Physician
and  the  Guilford  records  in  1683  say  that  "poyson  was  to  be
gotten  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Eliot  with  his  directions  for  the  improv-
ing of  it  for  the  poysoning  of  the  wolves."  In  1681  the  Gen-
eral Court  at  Hartford  made  a  grant  of  land  of  200I  acres  to
Mr.  Eliot.
He  also  received  valuable  grants  of  land  from  the  town  of
Guilford  ;  the  greater  part  of  this  land  is  owned  by  his  descend-
ants. He  died  May  24,  1694,  after  about  thirty  years  of  ser-
vice.
Great,  great,  great,  great,  great  grandson  of  John  Eliot,
called  the  Apostle  to  the  Indians,  was  baptized  at  Widford,
Hertfordshire,  England,  August  5,  1604,  died  May  29,  1690,
at  Roxbury,  Mass.  He  was  educated  at  Jesus  College,  Cam-
bridge, England,  1618-1622;  taught  in  the  school  of  Thomas
Hooker  at  Little  Baddow,  Essex,  Eng.,  part  of  the  time
before  he  came  to  America,  which  was  in  1631  in  the  ship  Lion.
