Excerpt from Some Recollections of the Pastors and People of the Second Church of Old Roxbury: Afterwards First Church, West Roxbury of Brook Farm and the Ancient Road and Landmarks From Elliot Square, Roxbury Hill, to Memorial Hall Square, Dedham He was the immediate successor of the Rev. John Bradford who was the pastor of the Parish at the time of his death. Mr. Flagg was a man feeble in health, which made parish work hard for him as well as his people. His ministry here was at a time when the liberal and the conservative were separating from each other in the churches. His pastorate was of short duration ending by his early death. Although a conscientious and refined gentleman his stay in the parish did not yield the harvest hoped for. 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.