On 30 Aug 1682 when Susannah was 17, she married
Rev. Grindal Rawson (12167) , son of
Edward Rawson (4144) (16 Apr 1615-27 Aug 1693) &
Rachel Perne (5461) (ca 1619-11 Oct 1677), in Medfield, MA.
270 Born on 23 Jan 1659 in Boston, MA.25 Grindal died in Mendon, MA 6 Feb 1714/5.512 Buried in Old Cemetery, Mendon. Education: Harvard 1678.
From Crane’s Rawson Family genealogy:320
“His wife, writing to Dr. Cotton Mather, after the death of her husband, says, ‘after he had taken his first degree, he was invited by his brother-in-law, the Rev. Mr. Samuel Torrey, to come to his house and study divinity there, which he did, with such proficiency that he was advised to enter upon preaching. He preached his first sermon at Medfield, with great acceptation, and after two months’ occasional performances at other places, he received an invitation to Mendon,’ in the county of Worcester, Mass. This was Oct. 4, 1680. He continued to preach there until April 7, 1684, when he was permanently settled.
“Cotton Mather, who was a classmate and friend of Grindal Rawson, in his preface to his sermon which he preached at the funeral of the latter, quotes in the language used by President Urian Oakes, at the Commencement of 1678, when he conferred the degrees on the class of that year. It appears that ‘he took notice of three’ [gave honorary degrees to?] John Cotton, Cotton Mather, and Grindal Rawson; and of the latter as follows [translated from the Latin]:
“‘The third, somewhat high-sounding, is Grindal Rawson; sprung likewise from a most illustrious stock; for his Hon. father holds a high place in the State; the very pious and orthodox John Wilson, a truly apostolic man, was his great-grandmother’s brother [actually grandmother’s brother], and the Right Reverend Edmund Grindal, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, a most saintly man, and in the Archbishopric little less than a Puritan, his great-great-grandmother’s brother. And my God grant that in learning, holiness and excellence of character, he3 may resemble both Wilson and Grindal.’
“Cotton Mather, in his sermon referred to, says of Grindal Rawson:
“‘“We generally esteemed him a truly pious man, and a very prudent one, and a person of temper, and every way qualified for a friend that might be delighted in. We honored him for his industrious oversight of the Flock in the wilderness which had been committed to him, and the variety of successful pains which he took for the good of those to whom God had therefore exceedingly endeared him. We honored him for his intellectual abilities, which procured frequent applications to him and brought him sometimes upon our most conspicuous theatres; and we usually took it for granted that things would be failry done where he had an hand in the doing of them. We honored him for his doing the work of an Evangelist among our Indians, of whose language he was a master that had scarce an equal, and for whose welfare his projections and performances were such as render our loss herein hardly to be repaired. Such services are Pyramids.” And Dr. Metcalf, in his forthcoming History of Mendon, remarks that “he was an excellent scholar and an eminent divine. His reputation as a theologian was of such a character that the General Court sometimes referred grave and serious questions of ecclesiastical polity to him for decision.” It is said, “he was complimented as being the General Court’s oracle.”’
“The Rev. Grindal Rawson and the Rev. Samuel Danforth, pastor of the church in Taunton, were instructed by the Commissioners for the Propagation of the Gospel, in 1698 to visit the Indians in the American Plantations in New England and parts adjacent. The account given by them of their visit is quite interesting, and published in the Mass. Historical Collections, 1st series, vol. 10.
“The following order was passed by the General Court, July 31, 1692: ‘Ordered, that the Rev. John Hale, Rev. Grindal Rawson, Mr. John Wise and Mr. John Emerson, Ministers of God’s word, be desired to accompany the General and Forces in the expedition against Canada, to carry on the worshipping of God in that expedition.’ Whether they, or either of them, accompanied the expedition under Sir William Phips in 1690 is unknown.
“Several interesting anecdotes are recorded of the Rev. Grindal Rawson, in connectoin with Cotton Mather, but the limits of this memorial [Crane’s Rawson Family genealogy] will not permit of their insertion.
“Grindal Rawson was the author of a work entitled ‘Confession of Faith,’ written in the Indian and English tongues. Two, at least, of his sermons were published; one, an Artillery Election sermon, ‘preached to and at the request of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Comapny, in 1703;’ the other, an Election sermon, ‘preached before his Excellency the Governor, the Hon. Council and Representatives of teh Province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, on May 25, 1709.’ This latter serman was, in its tone, bold, manly and eloquent, and ‘published by the desire of the House of Representatives.’ A more extended notice of Grindal Rawson may be found in Cotton Math’s ‘Mantissa,’ in his preface to his sermon before mentioned. He died ‘on the Lord’s day, about sunset, Feb. 6 1715, a. 56.’
“The following are the epitaphs on the gravestones erected to the memory of himself and wife, in the burying-ground in Mendon:
“‘Here lyeth Interr’d / the Body of the Reverend Mr. / GRINDAL RAWSON, / The late faithful and learned Pastor / of the church of Christ in Mendon, / who died Feby. 6, 1715, / and entered 6 days into y^e 57th. year / of his age Deceased the 35th. / year of his ministry / The memory of the Just is Blessed.’
“‘Here lies inter’d y^e / Remains of Mrs. Susan-/na Rawson, Relect of / y^e late Rev. Mr. Grindal / Rawson Pastor of y^e / Church of Christ in / Mendon and daughter / to y^e Rev. Mr. John Wil / son 1st Minister of ye / Gospel in Medfield / who departed this life / July 8th A Domini 1748 / in y^e 84th year of her age.’”
Rev. Grindall Rawson d. 6 Feb 1714/5, “Entered 6 Days into ye 57th year of his age. Deceased the 35th year of his ministry”.