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Rev. Josiah Flynt was also written as Flint. He was born on 24 August 1645 in Braintree,
Massachusetts. He was the son of Rev. Henry Flynt and Margery Hoar. Rev. Josiah Flynt graduated in 1664 from Harvard. He was
ordained on 27 December 1671 pastor of the First Church, Dorchester, where he remained until his death. He was preacher to
the Artillery Company in Boston in 1677. He married Esther Willet, daughter of Captain Thomas Willet and Mary Brown, on 24
January 1671/72 in Braintree ? the marriage is also said to have taken place in Swansea but does not appear in the vital records
of that town nor of Dorchester. Rev. Josiah Flynt died on 16 September 1680 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, at the age of 35.
The inscription on Rev. Flint's tombstone reads:
"Here lyes intered Ye corps of
Mr. Josiah Flint"
Late Pastor to Ye Church in
Dorchester Aged 35 years Dec
Sept. Ye 16 1680
A man of God he was, so Great, so Good,
His Highest Worth was hardly understood
So much of God & Christ in him did dwell
In grace and Holyness he did excell.
An honor and an ornament thereby
Both to Ye Church & Ye Ministry
Most Zelous in Ye work of reformation
To save this self-destroying generation
With courage strove gainst all this peoples sin
He spent His strength his life his soul therein
Consumed wh' holy zeal for God for whome
He lived & dy.d a kind of martydome
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