Wigglesworth, though long prevented by sickness from officiating, never resigned his ministerial charge, as appears from a letter which he addressed to Samuel Sprague, July 22, 1687. He was now left alone as minister of the church. He had, however, recovered his health in a measure about this time, which had suffered for nearly twenty years, and for the remainder of his life he continued in public usefulness. He died on Sunday morning, June 10, 1705, in the 74th year of his age. The epitaph on the last page of this work is believed to have been written by Cotton Mather, as it appears in the appendix to his funeral sermon as by "one that had been gratified by his _Meat out of the Eater_ and _Day of Doom_." Mr. Wigglesworth had at least three wives: Mary, daughter of Humphrey Reyner, of Rowley; Martha, whose maiden name was probably Mudge; and Sybil, widow of Dr. Jonathan Avery, of Dedham, and daughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk, of Cambridge. By his first wife he had (1) _Mercy_, b. Feb., 1655-6; m. 1st, [Samuel?] Brackenbury, by whom she had at least one son, William; m. 2d, [Rev. Samuel?] Belcher. By his second wife, Martha, who d. 11th Sept., 1690, a. 28, he had:—(2) _Abigail_, b. 20th March, 1681; m. Samuel Tappan, 23d Dec., 1700;—(3) _Mary_, b. 21st Sept., 1682; unm. in 1708;—(4) _Martha_, b. 21st Dec., 1683; m. —— Wheeler;—(5) _Esther_, b. 16th April, 1685; m. 1st, John Sewall, June 8, 1708, who d. 1711; m. 2d, Abraham Tappan, Oct. 21, 1713;—(6) _Dorothy_, b. 22d Feb., 1687-88; m. 2d June, 1709, James Upham;—(7) Rev. _Samuel_, b. 4th Feb., 1689-90, d. 3d Sept., 1768. By his third wife, Sybil, who d. 6th Aug., 1708, a. 53, he had:—(8) Prof. _Edward_, D.D., b. about 1692, d. Jan. 16, 1765. Rev. Samuel Wigglesworth, the elder son, was settled in Hamilton Parish, in Ipswich, Mass., in 1714. He m. 1st, Mary, dau. of John Brintnal, of Winnisimmet, 30th June, 1715, who d. June 6 1723, a. 28, having borne him four children, Mary, Michael, Martha and Phebe. He m. March 12, 1730, Martha Brown, and had nine children. Edward Wigglesworth, D.D., the younger son, took his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1710, and applied himself to the study of Divinity. He preached for some time in different parishes, and in 1722 was installed Hollis Professor of Divinity of Harvard College. Not long afterward he was chosen one of the fellows of the corporation. He left an only son, who succeeded him as Hollis Professor in the same college, and an only surviving daughter, who married Prof. Sewall. The following are the various editions of the _Day of Doom_, so far as we have been able to ascertain: