WALTER, Nehemiah, clergyman, born in Ireland in December, 1663; died in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 17 September, 1750. He was of English parentage, and came with his father, Thomas, to this country in 1679, settling in Boston. He was graduated at Harvard in 1684, and, 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, till his death. Mr. Walter married a daughter of Increase Mather. He published " An Essay on the Sense of Indwelling Sin in the Regenerate" (Boston, 1707) ; "Practical Discourses on the Holiness of Heaven" (1726); and a posthumous volume of "Sermons on Isaiah LV. " (1755).--His son, Thomas, clergyman, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 13 December, 1696 ; died there, 10 January, 1725, was graduated at Harvard in 1713, and ordained as his father's colleague, 19 October, 1718. He published "Grounds and Rules of Music Explained" (Boston, 1721) ; "A Sermon at the Boston Lecture" (1723); and "Infallibility may Sometimes Mistake," an essay (1724).--Thomas's nephew, William, clergyman, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 7 October, 1737 ; died in Boston, 5 December, 1800, was graduated at Harvard in 1756, ordained by the bishop of London in 1764 as a minister of the Anglican church, and on 22 July of the same year installed rector of Trinity church, Boston. He sympathized with the loyalists, and, resigning the rectorship of Trinity church, 17 March, 1776, accompanied General Howe to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with his family and many others. He afterward went to New York, acted for some time as chaplain of a British regiment, and, returning to Nova Scotia, received a grant of land from the crown as compensation for his losses, which amounted to £7,000. He returned to Boston in 1791, and the next year became rector of Christ church in that city, where he ministered till his death, in 1796 he was invited to deliver the Dudleian lecture at Harvard college, and in 1798 he pronounced the anniversary discourse before the Massachusetts humane society, which was published. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by King's college, Aberdeen, in 1784.--William's grandson, LYNDE MINSHALL, journalist (1799--1842), was graduated at Harvard in 1817, established the "Boston Transcript" in 1830, and was editor till 1842.--Another grandson of William, William Bicker, author, born in Boston, 19 April, 1796; died in Charleston, South Carolina, 23 April, 1822, was graduated at Bowdoin in 1818, and studied divinity at Cambridge, but did not preach. He possessed an active fancy and great facility of versification. Mr. Walter contributed odes, sonnets, and translations to the newspapers and magazines, and in 1822 went to the southern states to give lectures on poetry, he published " Poems" (Boston, 1821), and" Sukey" a poem (1821). The latter was suggested by Fitz-Greene Halleck's "Fanny," which appeared in 1819.