Excerpt from Sketches of His Life: Accompanied by Eight Discourses; Together With Poetic Effusions, on Various Occasions and Topics Cheever of Marblehead. He had five daughters and one son, whose name was Ezekiel, by his first wife By his second wife, Ellen Lathrop, the sister of Capt. Thomas Lathrop, who was killed by the Indians at Deerfield in the year 1675, he had one daughter and two sons, prior to the birth of the Rev. Thomas Cheever, my immediate ancestor; who died December 27, 1749, aged ninety-one. Susanna, a daughter, who was born afterwards, attained to the age of eighty-four. His youngest son, William, died in infancy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.