Flynt, Josiah (1645-03-25 - 1680-09-16)

GEMMS Person ID
GEMMS-PERSON- 3963
(old series: GEMMS-PERSON-4215)
Name
Josiah Flynt
Title
Mr.
Gender
Male
Denomination
Congregationalist
Lived
b. ca. 1645-03-25 d. 1680-09-16 (old)
Linked Sermons
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Source of Data

Jennifer Farooq; Brent Nelson

Biographical Sources Consulted

Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Vol. 2. Baltimore, MD; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.; 1965. Originally published Boston, 1860-1862. Vol. 2, pg 174; Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1792) First Series Vol. 1, Page 99.

Dunn, Edward Thomas. “Tutor Henry Flynt of Harvard College, 1675-1760).” PhD Dissertation. University of Rochester, 1968.

Dunn, Edward Thomas. "FLYNT, Henry (5 May 1675-13 Feb. 1760)." In American National Biography. Gen. eds. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: OUP, 1999, vol. 8, pp. 157-8.

Other note

A prominent Congregationalist minister in the Boston area like his father Henry Flynt (d. 1668) before and his son Henry Flynt (1675-1760) after him (Dunn, 1968, iv). By 1675, he was pastor at Dorchester and later wrote the preface to his uncle Leondard Hoar's posthumous Sting of Death and Death Unstung (Ibid., 14). After proceeding M.A. in 1667, "he preached on a trial basis at Braintree, where some of the congregation detected 'divers heterodoxies, delivered, and that without caution, in his public preaching.' He was vindicated, however, and, while he did not inherit the paternal pulpit, was ordained at Dorchester in 1671" (Ibid., Dunn, 15).

GEMMS record created
June 30, 2023
GEMMS record last edited
March 19, 2025