Nehemiah Walter
Irish-born American clergyman
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Nehemiah Walter (December 1663 in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland – 17 September 1750 in 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.
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| Born | December 1663  |
| Died | 17 September 1750 (aged 86–87) |
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| Occupation | Minister |
| Children | Nathaniel Walter, Hannah Trowbridge |
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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]
