Edward Wallin by G Holden Pike

Pike tells us that the second pastor at Maze Pond Church was Wallin's father.

The second pastor, Edward Wallin, whose grave is at the rear of Maze-pond chapel, was born in 1678. On account of a brave adherence to the principles of Nonconformity, the family greatly suffered amid the troubles of the Restoration, and their temporal circumstances were correspondingly injured. His parents were prevented from bestowing upon Edward so liberal an education as they thought desirable. They nevertheless appear to have early designed their son for Christian work, although necessity obliged their keeping the boy for a season in trade. Young Wallin promoted his parents' wishes by persevering against difficulties until he gradually acquired a respectable amount of Biblical and literary knowledge. When only in his twenty-fifth year, he was simultaneously invited to the pastorate by two societies; and notwithstanding the pressure of poverty, he chose to serve the least wealthy. At Maze-pond he maintained a position of usefulness till his death in 1733. Dr. Gill, who preached Wallin's funeral sermon, has unfortunately left us but few particulars about the life of his subject, whose character he extols in a high strain of panegyric.