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TURELL, Ebenezer, clergyman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 5 February, 1702; died in Medford, Massachusetts, 8 December, 1778. He was graduated at Harvard in 1721, and was minister of Medford, Massachusetts, from 25 November, 1724, till his death. He was eminent as a preacher and patriot. Mr. Turell published "Sermon at the Ordination of Reverend S. Cook" (Boston, 1740) ; "Dialogue About the Times" (1742); and "Life and Character of the Reverend Benjamin Colman " (1749); and he also collected and published poems by his wife, with a memoir of her (Boston, 1735). A tract of his on " Witchcraft " is in the "Massachusetts Historical Collections."--His wife, Jane, daughter of Reverend Benjamin Colman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 25 February, 1708; died in Medford, Massachusetts, 26 March, 1735, displayed precocious mental powers at an early age, wrote poetry at eleven, and on 11 August, 1726, married Mr. Turell. She afterward wrote eulogies on Sir Richard Blackmore's works, and on "The Incomparable Mr. Waller," " An Invitation into the Country in Imitation of Horace," and some prose articles. Her poems were collected and published by her husband, with a memoir of her life (Boston, 1735). A notice of her by Professor John Wilson will be found in his "Noctes Ambrosianae " (5 vols., New York, 1854).
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