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Onesimus (Bostonian) Onesimus (late 1600s–1700s [1]) was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of the impact of a smallpox outbreak in Boston, Massachusetts. His birth name is unknown. He was enslaved and, in 1706, was given to the New England Puritan minister Cotton Mather, who renamed him.
In 1721, Boston experienced its worst outbreak of smallpox (also known as variola ). 5,759 people out of around 10,600 [5] in Boston were infected and 844 were recorded to have died between April 1721 and February 1722. [4] [3] The outbreak motivated Puritan minister Cotton Mather and physician Zabdiel Boylston to variolate hundreds of ...
Richard Mather (paternal grandfather) Signature. Cotton Mather FRS ( / ˈmæðər /; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on theological, historical, and scientific subjects. After being educated at Harvard College, he joined his father Increase as minister of ...
Onesimus ( Greek: Ὀνήσιμος, translit. Onēsimos, meaning "useful"; died c. 68 AD, according to Catholic tradition ), [1] also called Onesimus of Byzantium and The Holy Apostle Onesimus in the Eastern Orthodox Church, [2] was a slave [3] to Philemon of Colossae, a man of Christian faith. He may also be the same Onesimus named by ...
Zabdiel Boylston, FRS (March 9, 1679 – March 1, 1766) was a physician in the Boston area. As the first medical school in North America was not founded until 1765, Boylston apprenticed with his father, an English-born surgeon named Thomas Boylston, and studied under the Boston physician Dr. Cutler. Boylston is known for holding several "firsts ...
The Epistle to Philemon [a] is one of the books of the Christian New Testament. It is a prison letter, authored by Paul the Apostle (the opening verse also mentions Timothy ), to Philemon, a leader in the Colossian church. It deals with the themes of forgiveness and reconciliation. Paul does not identify himself as an apostle with authority ...
Onesimos Nesib ( Oromo: Onesimoos Nasiib; Amharic: ኦነሲሞስ ነሲብ; c 1856 – 21 June 1931) was a native Oromo scholar who converted to Lutheran Christianity and translated the Christian Bible into Oromo. His parents named him Hika as a baby, meaning "Translator"; he took the name "Onesimus", after the Biblical character, upon ...
Samuel Sewall ( / ˈsjuːəl /; March 28, 1652 – January 1, 1730) was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, [1] for which he later apologized, and his essay "The Selling of Joseph" (1700), which criticized slavery. [2]