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Nathaniel Cobb

COBB, Nathaniel R., merchant, born in Falmouth, Maine, 3 November, 1798; died 24 May, 1834. He was a member of the Charles street Baptist church in Boston, Massachusetts, and when but twenty-three years of age he drew up and signed the following remarkable document: "By the grace of God, I will never be worth more than $50,000. By the grace of God, I will give one fourth of the net profits of my business to charitable and religious uses. If I am ever worth $20,000, I will give one half of my net profits; and if I am worth $30,000, I will give three fourths, and the whole after $50,000. So help me God, or give to a more faithful steward, and set me aside." These resolutions he kept to the letter. As one result, he gave to Newton theological seminary at different times about $15,000.

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