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• Birth	05 Apr 1687	Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UPD	15 AUG 2009 10:27:08 GMT-5
  Died	Abt 1777  [2]
  Person ID	I4809	Alan Donald Vibber
  Last Modified	08 Dec 2009
  Father	Fisher Daniel,   b. 26 Feb 1650, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 17 Nov 1713, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
  Mother	Fuller Mary,   b. 26 Mar 1655, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 19 Mar 1726
  Married	19 Jan 1675	Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F1963	Group Sheet
  Family	Elizabeth
  Married	Y  [3]
  Family ID	F1989	Group Sheet

• Notes

  34. NATHANIEL5, youngest son of Captain Daniel (17) and Mary (Fuller) Fisher, was b. in Dedham, April 5, 1687 ; graduated from Harvard College, 1706; and was called, June, 1710, to settle as pastor in the South Precinct of Taunton which, two years later, was incorporated as the town of Dighton. He was ordained Nov. 26, 1712, and continued " not far from fifty years." " It is a mortifying fact that one who for so long a time was the only minister of the town, ' a good man and worthy minister of the gospel,' as all transmitted accounts are ready to pronounce, should sleep in its ancient burial place without stone or slab to mark the spot of his repose. The evidence that there was such a minister in Dighton, who undertook not only to teach the people in the way of truth and holiness, but to rear a family to 'God, is in the graveyard: ' Here lyeth the body of Nathaniel, ye son of ye Rev. Nathaniel Fisher and Elizabeth, his wife, died Aug. 1, 1728, aged 3 years.' ' In memory of Nathaniel, ye son of Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Fisher and Elizabeth his wife, died Nov. ye 2d, 1748, in ye 15th year of his age.' ' In memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher, ye wife of ye Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Fisher, who died Sept. ye 23d, Anno Domini 1765, in ye 70th year of her age'."—Emory's Ministry of Taunton. Mr. Fisher d. about 1777. Rev. John Smith was settled as colleague in 1772, and succeeded Mr. Fisher, continuing until December, 1801.

• Sources

  [S239] Dedham historical register, Dedham Historical Society (Mass.), (Name: Dedham Historical Society, 1894;), 137 (Reliability: 3). [S239] Dedham historical register, Dedham Historical Society (Mass.), (Name: Dedham Historical Society, 1894;), 138 (Reliability: 3). [S239] Dedham historical register, Dedham Historical Society (Mass.), (Name: Dedham Historical Society, 1894;), 137-138 (Reliability: 3).