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- He came to Massachusetts with his parents and siblings in about 1637. He graduated from Harvard Collefe in 1651, then went back to England as a physician and minister.
From William Chauncey Fowler (citation details below):
He became a clergyman beneficed in Woodborough in Wiltshire. He was ejected from his living in the church of England by the Act of Uniformity in 1662. He afterwards was for some time minister of a Congregational church in Andover. He then went to London as a practising physician. Upon the death of the distinguished divine and scholar, David Clarkson, who succeeded the celebrated John Owen, he was appointed his successor in Bury-street Chapel, London. After acting as pastor fourteen years, "finding his congregation dwindling," he resigned his office. He was succeeded by Dr. Watts, who had acted as his colleague for a year or two previous to his resignation. He then returned to the practice of medicine; but, was afterwards appointed tutor in a dissenting academy, subsequently conducted by Dr. Ridgley. He died Feb. 28, 1712.
Dr. Calamy classes him among the ejected ministers who suffered from the oppressive acts of Parliament in the reign of Charles II., and says of him, that "he was afterwards well known in London," and that he was a "zealous writer against Neonomianism." It is remarked of him by Dr. Charles Chauncy of Boston, his grandson, that he was "too rigidly orthodox, and too zealous in the defence of his principles on this head."
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
1632 - 1712 (79 years)
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