Nehemiah Walter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nehemiah Walter

American clergy

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Youghal, Munster, Ireland

Date of Death: 17-Sep-1750

Profession: writer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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).
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Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.
New York: D.
Appleton.