John Chandler, Esq.

Biography and Obituary

The Boston News Letter of Aug. 12, 1762 ,says-" Worcester, Aug., 10 1762, Saturday the 7th inst. departed this life, the Hon. John Chandler, Esq. of Worcester, in the 69th year of his age; Eldest son of Hon. John Chandler, late of Woodstock, deceased. He left a sorrowful widow, two sons, five daughters and forty- two grandchildren."
" As his death is a loss to the Public, so in private life it may be truly said he was a kind Husband, a tender parent, and a beneficent friend to the poor, and his charity was as extensive as its objects were numerous; always seeming most highly delighted when employed in acts of charity and kindness. He was always a lover and a promoter of learning, a diligent and reverend attender upon the public worship of God, and upon all offices of religion in genera.l As he lived beloved, so he died much lamented. His remains were interred yesterday, attended with a numerous train."
In his youthful days he was employed in Treasury's office in this Province, and in the Secretary's office in Connecticut; and being blessed with a sprightly genius, soon was introduced into public life; and a great number of years represented the Town of Woodstock at the General Court of this Province; upon the county of Worcester being erected, he, at the request and desire of the people of said County, removed from Woodstock to Worcester, where he was immediately chosen representative of said Town, and for a number of years continued such, until he was chosen one of His Majesty's Council, of which he was one, until his death, notwithstanding his repeated desire to resign. He was the oldest member of the Gen. Court and was always had in high esteem by both houses, for his capacity, aptness, dispatch, and faithfulness for his assistance in public affairs. He was clerk of the Inferior Courts and Court of Sessions in said County until he was appointed one of the Pleas; and Register of Probate until he was appointed Judge, all which offices he executed with general approbation."
He resided near the spot where Hon. Edward Earle resided in 1877, on the east side of Summer street. He had 500 acres of land between Lincoln and Summer streets, extending back on Chandler Hill.
The manuscript sermon preached at his funeral, Aug. 15 P.M., 1762 by Rev. Thaddeus Maccarty, was in the possession one of the descendants of the deceased, Rev. G.S. Paine.
His remains were entombed on the Common in Worcester, where the mortal remains of many of his name and kindred have been gathered in the same tomb. This cemetery has been abandoned as a place of burial, and the monuments covered up over each grave, and there remains no sign of it ever having been a resting place of the dead, but the handsome monument to Col. Timothy Bigelow.
The tomb of the Chandlers is among the trees, about six rods E.N. East of the Bigelow monument, under the brow of the hill- down which over this very tomb, as the hill here is the steepest, the school boys coast on their sleds in winter and sport in the shade of the hanging trees in summer, unconscious of the "forefathers beneath" Truly the bodies of the dead rest in their graves and are forgotten.

Source: THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM AND ANNIS CHANDLER; WHO SETTLED IN ROXBURY, MASS 1637; by George Chandler; printed for the family on the press of George Hamilton of Worcester, Mass; 311 Main Street, 1883; pg. 120-121

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