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

404 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
CHAPTER XXI.
Brief Sketch of the Religious Societies of Dorchester, to 1857,
FIRST PARISH.
REV. John Maverick and Rev. John Warham
were the first ministers of Dorchester. The Church
was gathered at the new hospital in Plymouth, England, March 20th, 1630, as the emigrants were about
to embark for this country. Johnson says that they
would not have been allowed to form a Congregational Church in England, were it not that they had
previously engaged their passage to New England.
He calls M-r. Maverick the " godly Mr. Maverick,"
and Mr. ~Warham he styles the "gracious servant
of Christ." Mr. Warham had been a minister at
Exeter, England, and Mr. Maverick resided about
forty miles from there. According to Morton, Mr.
Maverick died in Boston, February 3, 1636. He is
supposed to have been buried in the first buryingground in Dorchester, which was near the first meeting-house. He was father to the somewhat noted
Samuel Maverick, of Noddle's Island. In the latter
part of the year 1635, a large number of the Church
removed to Windsor, Ct., and commenced the settlement of that place. It is supposed that they took
with them the Church Records to that date, as they
are not at present to be found. There is a tradition
that both of the ministers were adverse to their removal. Mr. Maverick was the oldest, and was born
about the year 1575. Mr. Warham died at Wind