had this sermon printed in Boston and a copy was signed by Increase Mather and sent to the church at Malden. Death Wigglesworth died June 10, 1705 in Malden, Middlesex County. The epitaph on his grave in Bell Rock Cemetery says: An encomium to his memory says, Notes See also Benjamin Tompson, Puritan New England poet and contemporary of Wigglesworth Early American publishers and printers Further reading Matthiessen, Francis Otto. "Michael Wigglesworth, a Puritan Artist." New England Quarterly (1928) 1#4 pp: 491–504. in JSTOR Morgan, Edmund S. American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America (2010) pp 102–11 Morgan, Edmund S. The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth, 1653-1657: The Conscience of a Puritan (1970) Primary sources The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth, 1653-1657 transcribed and printed by Colonial Society of Massachusetts, December, 1946 Wigglesworth, Michael, ed. Ronald A. Bosco. The Poems of Michael Wigglesworth (University Press of America, 1989) External links About Michael Wigglesworth and his Poetry Biography page from the Heath Anthology of American Literature Biography from PBS Documentary Out of the Past 1631 births 1705 deaths 17th-century Christian clergy Kingdom of England emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony 17th-century American poets American religious writers Calvinist and Reformed poets Harvard College alumni Massachusetts colonial-era clergy 17th-century New England Puritan ministers People from Malden, Massachusetts Poets from Massachusetts American male poets People of colonial Massachusetts New Latin-language poets American male non-fiction writers