Brattle, Thomas
merchant, author, was born in 1657, in Massachusetts. He was a once famous Boston merchant, and the author of Eclipse of the Sun and Moon Observed in New England; and Lunar Eclipse in New England, 1707. He died May 18, 1713, in Boston, Mass.
BRATTLE, WILLIAM, clergyman, author, was born in 1763. He was pastor of the church in Cambridge, having been previously a tutor in Harvard college.
He published a treatise on logic entitled Compendium Logicæ Secundum Principia D. Renati Cartesii, which was long used as a recitation book in the college.
He died Feb. 15, 1717.