The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

486 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
-those objects being in some respects at variance —
it was natural to suppose there might have been a
collision between them. This appears to have been
the case. The animosity manifested, however, was
of a temporary nature. Eventually, matters were
amicably settled. Plymouth was joined to Massachusetts, a component part of which it has ever
since remained. Those who were " wont to trot
after the Bay horse," as Wiswall expressed it, were
satisfied, having fully accomplished their purposes,
and the diplomatists returned to their homes, Mather having punningly uttered a hope that the
"weazel " would " be content in his den."
Mr. Wiswall, after his return, ministered acceptably to his people for many years. He is said to
have been "nearly a faultless man," and to have
stood "very high in the estimation of the whole
Plymouth Colony, for his talents, piety, and incorruptible integrity." The General Court of Massachusetts voted him $60 for his services, and, after
his death, 300 acres of land were assigned to his son
Peleg, on petition, for the efforts of his father in the
cause of the Province.
He died in Duxbury, and was buried in the second burial ground in that ancient town, his monument bearing the following inscription: -" HERE
LYETH BURIED yE BODY OF YE REVEREND /MR ICHABOD WISWALL, DECD JULY YE 23, ANNO 1700, IN THE
63" YEAR OF HIS AGE. " This stone," says Winsor, "the oldest in the yard, is still perfectly legible,
and free from moss-emblematic of the good man's
purity, whose remains lie buried beneath." " His