Dr. Charles Chauncey was born January 1, 1705; died February 10,
1787. He graduated at Harvard in 1721, and soon became pastor of the
First Church in Boston. He was an equally active opponent of
Whitefield and of Episcopacy. He was an ardent and romantic patriot,
yet so plain in his ways and views that he wished _Paradise Lost_
might be turned into prose that he might understand it.