Nehemiah Walter

Nehemiah Walter (December 1663 in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland – 17 September 1750 in Roxbury, Boston, British Colonial America) was a clergyman. He came with his father, Thomas, to the American colonies in 1679, settling in the Boston area. He was graduated at Harvard in 1684. After living for a time in Nova Scotia, became colleague to John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. He was minister of Roxbury, Massachusetts from 17 October 1688 until his death.

Nehemiah Walter
Born	December 1663  Youghal
Died	17 September 1750  (aged 86–87)
Alma mater	Harvard University
Occupation	Minister
Children	Nathaniel Walter, Hannah Trowbridge
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Walter married a daughter of Increase Mather. He published The body of death anatomized: A brief essay concerning the sorrows and the desires of the regenerate, upon their sense of indwelling sin (Boston, 1707);^[1] Practical Discourses on the Holiness of Heaven (1726); and a posthumous volume of Sermons on Isaiah LV (1755).^[2]