THE

ESSEX INSTITUTE

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS

VOL. XL 1904

SALEM, MASS.

PRINTED FOR THE ESSEX INSTITUTE
1904

NEWCOMB & GAUSS

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CONTENTS.

Avery Family of Greenland, N. H., The. By William H.

Manning, ......... 89

Beverly, First Church Records. Copied by William P. Upham

(Continued), 129, 241

English Notes about Early Settlers in New England. By

Lothrop Withington (Continued) 145, 297

Antram, . . . 153 Fuller, ... 145
Bacon, ... 312 Herbert, ... 302
Breed, . . . 147 Hussey, ... 298
Cogan, .. . . 312 Mason, ... 155
Cogswell. . . 307, 311 Norton, . . 156, 297
Curwen, ... 299 Pratchett, . . 149, 152
Compton. ... 298 Sewall, ... 298
Downing. ... 304 Watkins, . . . 312
Dummer, ... 312 Weare, ... 146
Endicott, ... 311 Williams, ... 312
Essex County Estates Administered in Suffolk County prior

to 1701. By Eugene Tappan, Esq 212

First Meeting House in Salem, Notes on the Report as to the

Authenticity of. By Wm. P. Upham. Map, ... 17
Gardner, Frank A., M. D., Thomas Gardner, Planter, and

some of his descendants (Continued), Map, 33, 161, 257, 353
Gardner, Thomas, Planter, and some of his descendants (Co n-

linued), Map. By Frank A. Gardner, M. D. 33, 161, 257, 353
Hitchings, A. Frank. Ship Registers of the District of Salem

and Beverly, 1789-1900 (Continued), Illustrated, 49, 177, 217, 321
Howard, CecilHampden Cutts. The Pepperrells in Amer-
ica (Continued), 73

Howes, Martha O. Salem Town Records, 1659-1680, 97, 273, 337
Lander, Judge Edward. A Sketch of Gen. Frederick W. Lan-
der. Illustrated, 313

Lander, Gen. Frederick W., A Sketch of. By Judge Ed-
ward Lander. Illustrated, 313

Manning, William H. The Avery Family of Greenland, N. II. 189
Peirson, Abel Lawrence, M. D. A letter from Thomas

Spencer, Illustrated, . ...... 15

Oil)

j v CONTENTS.

Pepperrells in America, The, By Cecil Hampden Cutts How-
ard (Continued), ' 73

Phillips, Stephen Willard. Ship Registers of the District of

Salem and Beverly, 1889-1900 (Continued), Illustrated, 49, 177,
217, 321.

Rantoul, Robert S. The Date of the Founding of Salem, . 201
Revolutionary Letter written by Col. Timothy Pickering, . 96
Ropes, Nathaniel, The Estate of. Illustrated, ... 1

Salem, The Date of the Founding of. By Robert S. Rantoul, 201
Salem Town Records, 1659-1680. Copied by Martha O.

Howes, 97, 273, 337

Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, 1789-1900.
By A. Frank Hitchings and Stephen Willard Phillips
(Continued), Illustrated, .... 49,177,217,321

Spencer, Thomas. Letter from. Illustrated, ... 15
Tappan, Eugene. Essex County Estates Administered in

Suffolk County prior to 1701 212

Upham, William P. Beverly First Church Records (Con-
tinued), 129, 241

Upham, William P. Notes on the Report as to the Authen-
ticity of the First Meeting House in Salem. 3fap, . . 17
Withington, Lothrop. English Notes about Early Settlers in

New England (Continued), 145, 297

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VOL. XL. JANUARY, 1904. No. 1

THE NATHANIEL ROPES ESTATE.

BY the will of Mary Pickman Ropes, dated June 2,
1900, and admitted to Probate, November 9, 1903, the
Essex Institute acquires a residuary interest in the fine
old homestead estate on Essex Street in Salem, opposite
the head of Cambridge Street. This bequest is made for
the purpose of establishing and maintaining, in Salem, a
free public School of Botany, as a perpetual memorial to
the family of Nathaniel Ropes. To carry this noble design
into effect, an interest in considerable parcels of real
estate in Salem and Danvers, and in various enumerated
stocks and bonds, together being sufficient for the en-
dowment of such a school, are also devised to the Essex
Institute, thus assuring to the public a free School of
Botany, provided with means enough to make it a lasting
boon and ornament to Salem and the County. The
conditions enjoined upon the Essex Institute in the
administration of this trust seem, so far as it is possible
to anticipate the test of actual experience, to be such as
the Institute, had it been consulted, would have desired
to prescribe in accepting the gift.

The kindly inclination of the Testatrix towards the
Essex Institute was already matter of record. She was

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t would be a pleasure to revise, amend, supplement or
even rewrite the present manuscript, if thereby it might
Become a true and reliable history of John Home, worthy
STeservation in the archives of the only Essex

^Th^-ift of a School of Botany will greatly enlarge the
equinme nt of the Institute. We have been sadly unable,
oflatevears, from various causes, to do anything like
justice 'to our obligations to science. No one whose
privilege it was to know Dr. Asa Gray, needs to be told
how delightful a study is botany. A large element m
the working force of the Institute has always been
contributed by women, and with women a knowledge of
botany is ever a specially graceful accomplishment.
Had the Essex Institute accepted, in 1867, the conditions
of the munificent offer of the London banker, George
Peabody, our scientific side would, since that day, have
been more adequately developed. Now at last we shall
be able to do, for botany certainly, our full share. And
the Institute may well congratulate not only itself but the
general public around it, on the broad outlines of the gift
sketched by the Testatrix.

The terms of the will are as follows :

"I give and bequeath to my sister, Eliza Orne Ropes,
if she be living at my decease, all the property both real
and personal of which I die possessed, to have and to hold
the same so long as she shall live, and to invest or dispose
of the income as she may wish. Upon the decease of my
sister Eliza Orne Ropes, I desire that the following
disposition shall be made of my real estate and personal
property.

" To the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, I give all
my one-half interest in the house No. 318 Essex street

THE NATHANIEL ROPES ESTATE. 6

the Nathaniel Ropes homestead for four generations, with
the ground under and the garden attached thereto, my
one-half interest also in the furniture, carpets, silverware,
china, portraits and other pictures, books, trunk of antique
clothing, watches, jewelry, bric-a-brac, etc., etc., that tke
house may not, in the least degree, be dismantled, but
stand forever as a memorial to the family of Nathaniel
Ropes. It is my wish that the house shall be kept open
to visitors, who may desire to see the collection of
household antiques, and that a custodian shall live in the
house for the care and preservation of the same and its
contents. It is mv wish that no public meetings or crowded
receptions shall be held in the house, and that visitors shall
not be admitted in crowds. It is my wish that the garden
attached to the house shall be used for the cultivation of
such flowers, plants, shrubs, trees &c as may be useful in
the study of botany, leaving always the forest-trees on the
fore-ground as they have been for many years, and that
the grounds shall be kept open for the enjoyment of the
public so far as practicable, and shall be freely used by all
students of botany whether in public schools or private
classes. To encourage an interest in the study of botany
in the City of Salem, it is my wish that as good an
instructor as can be obtained shall hold classes in the house,
annually, for as many weeks or for as many lectures as
the management of the Institute may approve the class
in no instance to exceed the capacity of one of the eastern
rooms upon the lower floor of the house. As I shall
hereafter provide for the expense of these lectures, it is
my wish that the instruction shall be free to all who desire
to benefit by it, the management of the Institute making
only such conditions and rules as may be deemed necessary
in furthering the best interests of the class. In order
that the Essex Institute may, without financial em-
barrassment, carry out the intention of the testatrix
in making the above bequests, I give and bequeath to the
Essex Institute the following real and personal property,
the income of which to be applied to the support of the
objects named above.

"a. All my one-half interest in the house next east of
the Homestead, with the ground under and the yard

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attached thereto, known as No. 31(5 Essex Street. If, at
the expiration of three years, or any time thereafter, the
management of the Essex Institute shall find that there
has been a sufficient accumulation of funds to provide for
the perpetual care of the homestead and grounds, the
house No. 316 Essex street may be taken down and the
grounds thrown open to improve the appearance of the
street.

" I). All mv one-half interest in seven houses on Broad
street, Nos. 19 1/2 to 25 1/2, with ground under and
attached.

All my one-half interest in six houses on Hathorne
street, Nos. 5 1/2 to 9 1/2, in all five, and No. 8 on the
west side of the street, with ground under and attached
to all the houses.

All my one-half interest in Orne Square the houses
on both sides of the street with the ground under and
attached to all the houses.

My one-half interest in a lot of land in Danvers, Essex
County, Massachusetts.

My one-half interest in the Boston Water Power Stock.

All my shares of stock of the Edison Electric
Illuminating Company of Boston.

ff The income of the above investments shall be applied
to the care and preservation of the homestead and grounds
No. 318 Essex street and, should there be a surplus
annually or at the end of any fiscal year, it shall go toward
the establishment of a Fund to meet any extraordinary
expense that may arise in the future, or to purchase
adjoining property should there be an opportunity, so
that the lot may acquire something of its original
dimensions and finally open through to Federal street.

"c. My old Colony Railroad bonds, six in number,

)0.00, the income to be applied to the course of

lectures or class-instruction in botany. The above gifts

to the Essex Institute are on the express condition that

Essex Institute substantially carry out and fulfil the

bove directions and wishes of the testatrix as above

set lortn.

We now come to consider in more detail the estate in
which the Institute has just acquired, through the

THE NATHANIEL ROPES ESTATE. 5

munificence of Miss Mary Pickman Ropes, a valuable
interest. The mansion house of Nathaniel Ropes, which
now occupies the Essex Street front of the estate except
for a narrow dwelling at its eastern corner, probably
dates back to 1719, and has been in the Ropes name since
1768. The smaller building has, at different periods,
served 'Squire Savage as an office, Mayor Stephen
Palfrey Webb as a residence, and Dr. Henry Osgood
Stone as a consulting room. On the 7th of January,
1718, the day on which General Israel Putnam was born,
his father owned the Ropes estate.

Nathaniel Ropes, the first of the name and the father
of that Nathaniel who, in 1788, bought this estate, was
born at Salem, in the terrible Witchcraft year. He is the
grantee in a deed from the heirs of "the Honourable
Colonel John Hath orne, esquire, deceased," conveying to
him, August 2, 1726, a part of the Hathorne homestead
estate. He was of the third generation from George
Ropes, who was here as early as 1637, and was a Church
member and a landholder soon after. The grandson,
the first Nathaniel, married Abigail Lindall Pickman,
daughter of Captain Benjamin Pickman, born in February,
1706, and who died in 1775. On the lot bought of the
Hathorne heirs in August, 1726, since known as the John
Appleton property and lying on the southerly side of the
Main Street a little west from Town House Square, he
built a homestead appraised, April 15, 1774, at 800.
He died, October 22, 1752, as his gravestone in the
Broad Street Cemetery attests, at the age of sixty.

This Nathaniel, the first of the name, had by his wife
Abigail an only child and namesake, born May 20, 1726,
who died, tragically, March 18, 1774, in the house which
is the subject of this paper, and which he bought,
November 30, 1768, from the Barnard heirs, kinsmen of
the Reverend Thomas Barnard of North Bridge celebrity.
The estate, which he was previously occupying, extended
to the North River. He married, September 25, 1755,
Priscilla, daughter of the Reverend John Sparhawk,
sometime pastor of the First Church in Salem and a
kinsman of Sir William Pepperrell. She died, March
19, 1798, and rests bv his side near Summer Street at the

tf THE NATHANIEL ROPES ESTATE.

Old Burying Hill. It is not without interest to know
that both the Barnards and the Ropeses had an ancestor
killed at Bloody Brook.

The maternal grandparents of Priscilla Sparhawk were
the Reverend Aaron and his wife Susan (Sewall) Porter,
and it was their wedding, celebrated on Oct. 22, 1713,
of which Chief-Justice Samuel Sewall gives, in his famous
diary, so quaint a picture as having occurred at the
residence of his brother, Registrar Stephen Sewall,
living at the time on Essex, near Sewall Street. The
entry in Judge 8e wall's diary for the day of the wedding
of his niece is a curious medley of Church Psalmody and
Sack- Posset. Sack-Posset was a curd flavored with wine
and spice, a choice dainty at weddings.* Among the
guests are named Madam Leverett, and Neighbor Hirst
and his wife. "Was a pretty deal of Company present ;
Many young Gentlemen and Gentlewomen." M 1 . Noyes,
the officiating clergyman, "made a Speech, said Love
was the Sugar to sweeten every Condition in the married
Relation. Pray'd once. Did all very well. After the
Sack-Posset, &c. Sung the forty-fifth Psalm from the
eighth verse to the end, five staves. I set it to Windsor
Tune. I had a very good Turkey-Leather Psalm-Book
which I look'd in while M r . Noyes Read : and then I gave
it to the Bridegroom saying, 'I give you this Psalm
Book in order to your perpetuating this Song: and I
would have you pray that it may be an Introduction to
our Singing with the Choir above.' I lodg'd at M r .
Hirst's." Major Hirst's son married Chief-Justice Se wall's
daughter.

The second Nathaniel, the only child of Nathaniel and
Abigail, born May 20, 1726, was graduated at Harvard
in 1745, and chose the Law for his profession. He
achieved an early distinction at the Bar. He was chosen
to represent Salem in the General Court for 1760-61,
and thereupon was appointed one of four Justices of the
Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County, and
from 1762 to 1768 inclusive was also a member of the
Executive Council. He was Chief Justice of the Inferior

Mass. Hist. Coll. Fifth Series, Vol. vi, pp. 403-4-5.

THE NATHANIEL ROl'ES ESTATE. 7

Court of Common Picas for six years, and was for six
years Judge of Probate for this County, holding these
responsible positions from 17(>(> until 1772, when he
resigned them to become a Justice of the Superior Court
of Judicature. At the last named date he was elected a
Ruling Elder of the First Church in Salem. The
intolerable arrogance of the Mother Country was now
hastening to its inevitable issue. In 1773, at its first
session, the General Court began to insist that the Judges
should receive no compensation from the Crown and, on
March 3, a Resolution had passed enacting, as the opinion
of the Lower Mouse, "that, while the Justices of the
Superior Court hold their Commissions during Pleasure,
any one of them who shall accept of and depend upon the
Pleasure of the Crown for his Support, independent oi
the Grants and Acts of the General Assembly, will
discover to the World that he has not a due Sense of the
Importance of an Impartial Administration of Justice,
that he is an enenry to the Constitution, and has it in his
Heart to promote the Establishment of an arbitrary
Government in the Province." In February, 1774, four
of the Judges, namely Trowbridge, Hutchinson, Ropes,
and Cashing, replied to the Assembly that they had
received no part of the allowance from the King. Before
his fatal illness Judge Ropes had resigned his Judicial
office.

Three sons and three daughters composed his household.
The eldest son, born June 13, 1759, succeeded to his
name, and lived at different times in Salem and on his
farm at Danvers. He was a merchant, and died, August
8, 1806. This third Nathaniel married, April 17, 1791,
Sarah, the daughter of Dr. Ebenezer Putnam. His
brother John married a daughter of Jonathan Haraden,
the famous sea-fighter and captain of the " Tyrannicide."
Another son died young. Of the three daughters of
Judge Ropes, one married William Orne, a merchant,
whose daughter Eliza, becoming the wife of Judge Daniel
Appleton White, the first President of the Institute, was
the mother of an only child, the Reverend William Orne
White, and through him the grandmother of Eliza Orne
White, a writer of distinction. Another daughter of

8 THE NATHANIEL ROPES ESTATE.

Judge Ropes married Jonathan Hodges, a kinsman of
Joseph Hodges Choate. The third married Samuel
Curwen Ward, and became the mother of George Atkinson
Ward and the grandmother of George Rea Curwen.

The fourth Nathaniel, born at Salem, October 14, 1793,
was a son of Nathaniel last named by his wife Sarah.
He married, July 10, 1826, Sarah Evans Brown of
Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resided and was a merchant
and where he died July 19, 1885. They had three sons,
one of them, the last Nathaniel (H. U. 1855), born at
Cincinnati, January 7, 1833, who immediately after
graduation, established himself at Cincinnati, and was for
ten years in business there with his father, and after 1866
resided in the ancestral home at Salem with his widowed
aunt, Mrs. Joseph Orne. He built Orne Square. Henry
FitzGilbert Waters and James Arthur Emmerton were
among his classmates. He was an active member of the
Essex Institute after 1870, and died at Salem, February
6, 1893.

The estate upon which Judge Nathaniel Ropes lived,
and which he bought from the heirs of Samuel Barnard
in 1768, was a narrow strip six or seven rods wide, and
originally extended, like all the adjoining estates, from
the Main Street to the North River. In 1765-8 the new
thoroughfare, now known as "Federal Street," was
pushing its way across these elongated parcels of land,
until it finally superseded the eight-foot pathway alon^
the river-bank, beside which the early settlers, in those
primitive times when most of their transportation was
water-borne, had beached their " water-horses " From
time to time rear lots had been set off from the Ropes
estate, and when these ancestral acres had been reduced
the area lying south of Federal Street, Federal Court
was laid out and lots on both sides of it were sold until
e whole original acreage, less than fifty thousand
square-feet now stand recorded in the family name

was no unnatural impulse of the Testatrix,-a close
student of our past, which moved her to provide that
the ancient lines of this domain mi^ht L restored if
opportunity should offer, as far as Federal K and
that the estates about Federal Court mi,h

THE NATHANIEL ROPES ESTATE.

by purchase from time to time for the Botanical School,
and thus added to the Memorial estate.

The mansion house was probably built about 1719.
It seems to have superseded a more modest dwelling,

10 THE NATHANIEL ROI'ES ESTATE.

probably built near the same spot, by Philip Veren
before *1662. The title to the estate passed through
Putnam*, Lindalls and Barnards to Nathaniel Ropes.

The lines of the original estate, which, to some
considerable extent the Institute may possibly be enabled
to restore, ran, as we have seen, from the Mam Street
to the North River. There was no Federal Street laid
out before 1765, and before 1750 there was no suspicion
of the lane which foreshadowed it, and which bore at
different periods such names as " the town way," " the
back street" and "the new street," until, in 1792, it was
officially designated by the name of Federal Street.

The story of the toppan-Pickman-Emmerton home-
stead, adjoining the Ropes estate on the west, it is not
difficult to state. In 1640 this was the residence of Allan
Kvnaston or Kenniston, "mariner," whom Mr. Henry F.
Waters has traced as having married, at St. Dunstan's,
Stepney, Ratcliffe, July 2, 1628, Doraty or Dorothy
Turdutie, and she it must have been who, becoming
Kynaston's or Kcnniston's widow, married, before 1665,
Philip Cromwell, '" slaughterer," and thus put him in
possession of this estate. She died, Sept r 2, 1673, at the
age of sixty-seven, as the slate-stone slab standing in the
Charter Street Ground records, and her remains enjoy
the unique distinction of resting under the most ancient
grave-stone now preserved in Salem. From Leaf seven
of the first Book of recorded Essex Deeds it appears that
this home was once strangely hypothecated after this
wise : ff Phillip Cromwell, before he married his now wife
Dorothy Kynaston, did covenant to give hir tenn Cowes
and for hir security thereof did make over to the said
Dorothy his Dwelling house & ground and the house the
said Dorothy then lived in, as by a writing Dated the
tenth day of the 2d moneth 1649 more at Lardge
ap'eth." In 1680 Cromwell conveyed this estate to
William Hirst, and from Hirst it passed, after 1717, to
Mary Barton Toppan who became, April 22, 1762, the
wife of Dr. Thomas Pickman, a son of Col. Benjamin
Pickman, and they built upon it, about 1812-18, the fine,
brick mansion, so greatly improved, in 1885, by the
Emmertons, and since then the residence of that family.

THE NATHANIEL ROPES ESTATE. 11

Between 1807 and 1810 there seem to have stood on this
estate several little shops. At this period and later,
when travel from Boston entered the town through
Boston Street, the section of the Main Street from
Buffum's Corner to North Street was a favorite resort of
retail trade. Small dealers of every kind found a mart
for their traffic there, and the late Samuel P. Andrews
was able, in 1888, to enumerate thirty-four mechanics'
and retailers' shops standing, in his school-days, on Essex-
Street between North and Beckford Streets, and a dozen
more, before Buftum's Corner was reached.* The sadlery
of James Bott, a shop kept by one Batters, and the
famous rooms of the barber, Benjamin Blanchard, where
his patrons wrote out, while waiting for their turns, a
unique record of passing events, these and other small
shops shared the two estates now occupied by the Kopes
house and the lordly mansion-house of Dr. Pickman.

On the area now occupied, since 183H, by the North
Meeting House, lived, about 1807, according to the
recollection of the late Jonathan Tucker, stated to Mr.
William P. Upham in 1871, 'Squire Ezekiel Savage, and
in 1810 Deputy Sheriff Daniel Dutch. The " Widow
Felt" had a dwelling and dry -goods shop next, and
James W. Stearns a grocery and drug-store. There were
chair-makers and painters and hard-ware dealers, and
possibly other tradesmen, and next came the "Gibbs"
or " Osgood " heirs occupying the house and shop to the
east, and then the homestead of "William Ward,
merchant", and finally the Roger Williams, or Corwin,
or Witch House, these three still standing.

The troubles with the Mother Country reached an acute
stage in 1774, and found Judge Ropes in middle life with
a family looking to him for its support, a citizen well
established in business and in the affectionate regard of
the community he served. He was, according to George
Atkinson Ward, a well-read and able jurist, and a highly
valued magistrate. John Adams, in deprecating the
turbulence of the times, said in his diary of the Judges ;
"Three of them I could call my friends. Chief Justice
Oliver and Judge Ropes, abstracted from their politics,

* See Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Vol. XX, p. 175: Note.

12 THE NATHANIEL ROPES ESTATE.

were amiable men, and all of them were very respectable
and virtuous characters." But he was loyal at heart to
the dynasty under which he had grown to manhood, and
to which he owed his official standing, and could not at
once bring himself to recognize the fact that the Royal
Commission he was holding was destined to be one of the
last ever issued to an Essex County Justice, or, if that
fore-knowledge were perhaps vouchsafed to him, to feel
that it made disloyalty to one's convictions any the less
reprehensible and cowardly. He clung to the misguided
dynasty of the day, and to its supporters. He died too
early to be an "addresser" of Governor Hutchinson or of
Governor Gage. Doubtless he would have been of those
who made up the "grand procession " of loyalists moving
out from Salem in carriages, in the saddle and on foot,
over* the old Danvers road, to receive Gage and his
stately escort on their way from Boston. Doubtless he
would have borne his part in the welcome extended to the
new Chief Magistrate, at the Assembly House which
stood at the foot of Assembly Court,* as he had before
token part in the ball given there, by the son of Governor
Bernard, in 17(>8. And doubtless he would have been
conspicuous in the last reception and military ball
tendered there to Governor Hutchinson, in April, 1774
for absence, on the part of a high court-dignitary in ffood
standing with the Crown, from semi-official functions like
these, could not have failed to subject him to injurious
remark. Doubtless he would have illuminated the
rmdows of this very mansion, giving as they did on
Assembly Court, when, on the night after Game's arrival

npi hT h^ f thC , ASSCmblv H USe "<" ^ the
neighborhood were ablaze for the last time to hail with ,oy
the birthday of a King. How should he know that

rowned

m?? T rS t ?- rowned heads were dortined no
longer to be paid in his native town? It is not easy to
abandon in a moment, at the behest of others the habits

f an honest iife - And ^facL s

f an honest -

do so, or are thought to do so, are not sure
to be rewarded with the lasting confidence rf

* Where the South Vestry now stand,, in Cambridge Street.

THE NATHANIEL ROPES ESTATE. 13

fellow-men. Judge Hopes retained his office, unconscious
of wrong-doing, and scrupulously performed its duties.
His self-respect was unimpaired. He had seen no
occasion to resign. When the ground was taken that
officials of the Province should not accept emoluments
from the government which had commissioned them, Judge
Ropes could reply that he had not done so, but he
remained loyal at heart. Popular fury would brook no
middle ground. The fine old house became a target for
the mob. The windows which might have blazed in
honor of Bernard and Hutchinson and Gage, and of the
last King's birthday ever acclaimed on Massachusetts
soil, wore wrecked in wrath. His presence at the door
was called for, but without response, and the door was
forced. The Judge was, at the moment, stretched half-
conscious in the feverish delirium of a dying bed. Next
day he died, cut short in his career at the age of forty-
eight, his end hastened by the brutality of the mob.

The stranger, who approaches our main thoroughfare
through Cambridge Street, finds himself confronted with
a scene of interest and beauty. Looking to the right he
will observe, at the intersection of North Street, the most
ancient dwelling-house known to be standing in New
England, a structure associated with Roger Williams,
with Judge Jonathan Corwin, and with the trials for
Witchcraft. Next above it on the west stands the former
home, for the years between 1811 and 1823, of the great
astronomer, Nathaniel Bowditch, at that time President
of the Essex Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Then
comes another well-kept wooden homestead, with gambrel
roof and old Provincial porch and massive chimneys,
abutting on the grounds of the fine, stone church-edifice
of English design, built by the North Parish in 1836.
On this site was once the orchard of the famous Quaker
champion, Thomas Maule, a name the "House of Seven
Gables" has made almost as w r ell known to English
readers as that of any character in Scott or Dickens.

Immediately before him, the stranger looks upon a
dignified, pre-revolutionary, wooden mansion with its
stately trees and ample lawns, and beyond it, towards
the west, he sees the beautiful brick residence built by

14 THE NATHANIEL ROPES ESTATE.

Dr. Pickman, which dates its present elegance from the
occupancy of the late George Ropes Emmerton. The
noble sweep of the broad, elm-arched roadway, as it bears
off towards the City Library and the Upper Town, and
the comfortable and sightly homes which flank it on either
side, lead the eye pleasantly along over a picture which,
seen in summer, it is not easy to forget.

It has been the purpose of the Testatrix to embellish
still further this favored locality, and the opportunity of
which she has availed herself was indeed a rare one. The
house, with its gambrel roof and dormer windows, its
well-traced outlines, its ancestral memories, its strangely
interesting story, stood ready to her hand. Her means
were ample. And when a typical New England garden,
displayed to public view, with box-borders, and rose-
bushes, and hollyhocks, and tulips, and jonquils, open
to the street, shall lend its grace of color, form and fragrance
to this charming scene, when the Ezekiel Savage house
shall come away at last and uncover from the west the
beautiful, vine-draped bell-tower of the North Meeting
House, when the vision shall have been clothed in
bodily form and the future shall see this well-conceived
design an accomplished fact, then the memory of the old
Provincial Magistrate will be indeed secure.

Born at Biddeford, Maine, November 25, 1794: H. U., 1812. M.D., H. U., 1815

came to Salem, 1817: greatly esteemed as a surgeon and physician:

died at Norwalk, Connecticut, May 6, 1853.

A LETTER FROM THOMAS SPENCER,

WHO INTRODUCED THE SALEM GIBRALTAR,

ADDRESSED, OX HIS RETURN TO ENGLAND, TO HIS FRIEND

DR. ABEL LAWRENCE PEJRSON, M.D., OF SALEM.

BUANSBY, NEAR LINCOLN, 10 TWELFTH MO., 1838.
RESPECTED FRIEND :

I do not know that I ever received a letter that gave me more
pleasure than thine of the 30th Eighth Mo. I take it as a token of thy
kindly feeling towards me. Thy many visits to my family during a
course of years made thee, in part, a sharer of my joys and sorrows,
and it was meet that such a confidential intercourse should warm into
something like reciprocal good feeling. I am delighted with my
grapevine cane ; it is the very similitude of those used by the gentleman-
farmer of Lincolnshire to keep oft' the half-wild, bellowing bulls of
Bashan at the markets and cattle-fairs he is obliged to attend. I am
obliged to thee for taking an interest in the boy Spurgeon.

In regard to myself, I am now regularly installed at Bransby, and,
could I float off the quaint little hamlet with its queer houses and
primitive inhabitants and safe anchor the whole lot in one of the
coves round old Salem, I should want nothing of an eart 1 'y nature to
make me happy. I have at last entered the profession of my early
choice. I am a farmer. I feel fully confident that I can make two
blades of grass grow where only one grew before; and a little conceit
in one's self will not retard the operation. I wish I was near my
friend Charles Lawrence sometimes, to compare notes. I love to be
among cattle, to see them feeding and doing well. Last spring I
became quite a shepherd. I cherished the lamb and succoured the
dam, all of which was wonderfully pretty and vastly poetical, save and
except that the sheep were confoundedly lousy. But never mind that.
I am determined neither to see nor feel much of the evil or the ugly
in rural life. In constant search after the good and the beautiful, I
give myself up to the poetry of the thing, and, without romancing,
there is much that is pleasunt. Did thee ever see the irleaners in the
field? Oh! but I have, and have thought of Ruth and Naomi and the
barley-fields of Bethlehem, and have run home, with the scene in my
eye, to sit down and read all about them, and have wept as I read.
Doctor! did thee ever go to a sheep-shearing? I dare say not. But
I have though, and have revelled in imaginings of the antiquity of
the custom, and thought of the royal shearing of Nabal on Mount
Carmel, from whose abundance of good things Abigail could take
such a princely present to the fugitive David and the six hundred
hungry men that were with him. And then, too. of that shearing to
which Absalom invited his brethren, and of the wicked tragedy he
acted there.

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16 A LETTER FROM THOMAS SPENCER.

One day last summer, before the arrival of my family, I was sitting
lonely and sad, poring over a goodly book, when I was roused by
seeing one of the ancient dames of the village tottle down my garden
path bearing in her hand a wicker basket covered with a white napkin
white as snow. " There comes a present," thought I, " for many's
the ottering these white napkins have covered, sometimes a little
cheese, sometimes a little fruit, and perchance a hare. But, on the pres-
ent occasion, out came a china bowl, full of what I took to be plumb
porridge. It was thrnmaty, a savory mess made of boiled wheat, milk,
currants and various et ceteras. The old lady informed me that she
had seen more than fifty shearings since she had been the mistress of a
family, and that she had duly marked every one by making a large kettle
of thrumaty for the master and his men. She knew, she added, that I
had no wife at home, and she feared that I should have no thrumaty.
Good old soul ! Her feelings were like those of the negro women when
they sung of poor Mungo Park,

" He has no mother to bring him milk
No wife to grind his corn."

Oh Doctor ! thee don't know how good it was to sip down the savory
mess, and sit and talk with such a living chronicle of the past. She
told me of the merry times they had about May-day. On a certain fine
morning in spring, the milk-maids went into the great pasture with
their milking-kits all decorated with ribbands and flowers, and, after
many a shout and louder laugh and shake of the foot in rustic dance,
they returned into town in procession, bearing their full kits upon
their heads, and headed by two fiddlers scraping and screaming such
tunes as " Cherry Cheek Patty" and " Green Grow the Rushes ! "

It is a great mercy that I am under the restraining influence of
Quakerism, or verily I should make a fool of myself. I have a silly
reverence for all the old ways of our merry ancestors, and, were it
not that I have been taught better, I certainly should be after reviving
in this village of Bransby all the old customs that used once to gladden
the hearts of the peasantry. Imagine thy old friend, tambourine in
hand, some fine spring morning, footing it down the village street,
followed by two fiddlers and a whole flock of frolicksome milk-maids
It is well that my sheet is out, or I might repent of the rig my pen is
just now running.

My family are all in tolerable health. Do pray command me if I can
be of any service to thee. Believe that I retain a grateful recollection
of our long intercourse, and remember me as

A. L. PEIRSON, M. D.,

Salem, near Boston, U. S. A.

NOTES ON THE REPORT

AS TO THE
AUTHENTICITY OF THE FIRST MEETING HOUSE IN SALEM.

[COMMUNICATED BY WM. P. UPHAM.]

THE following paper presents certain suggestions made
by me in correspondence with the President of the Essex
Institute, Sept. 29, and Oct. 3, 1903, in regard to the
adverse report of the committee appointed March 5, 1900,
on the authenticity of the so-called first meeting house.
It seemed to me that these suggestions should be
considered before accepting as final a decision so contrary
to the opinion of a former committee of the Institute,
appointed more than forty years ago to pass upon this
same question.

The adverse report made by the recent committee, which
is printed in the Collections for July, 1903, relates to a
claim that the building now preserved in the rear of
Plummer Hall contains the frame, or portions of the
frame, of the first meeting house in Salem erected in
1634 and enlarged in 1639.

This claim is founded upon a tradition described in the
report of a committee of the Essex Institute, in I860, as
given to that committee by Caleb Peirce, the tradition
being that the building then standing on the land of David
Nichols, back of Boston Street, was "made from the first
meeting house." Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., Vol. n, p. 145.

The recent report, by the committee of 1900, in
arguing against the tradition relied upon by the former
committee of 1860, claims in the first place that ff tradition
is not history and does not command confidence unless it
has been widely disseminated in the community in the
past, in some definite form, and runs well back to the
events to which it relates."

In answer to this it may be said that tradition often
forms a valuable element of historical material and may
sometimes be accepted though only preserved in a family

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or among a few, especially where the tradition relates to

Xe^mLf oTthe Committee of 1900 that this
tradition fs not worthy of credence because eminent men

SsSHBCbTSS

In criving thataccount Colonel Benjamin Pickman, to whom
weare indebted for so much historical information, makes
no mention of what is shown by the Committee to have been
a matter of record, namely, that the same "old wooden
school house " was constructed partly from the timbers ot
the first meeting house in Salem, built m 1634. bmce
this most interesting item of local history was known to
all in 1673, and was preserved upon the town record, we
may reasonably suppose that some persons knew of it when
the " old school house "was pulled down in 1760, and that
it would be likely to be known to the purchaser of the old
timber, and the memory of it preserved in his family.
The tradition thus naturally arising would be credible
notwithstanding the rather surprising omission to mention
and " perpetuate " it by Colonel Pickman, one of the most
eminent and accurate antiquaries of the time in Salem,
who says " his curiosity often led" him " to view the place"
where the old school house stood.

The tradition given by Caleb Peirce in 1860 seems to
comply with the other test applied by the Committee since
it " runs well back to the event ;" that is, to Enos Pope,
2d, who was thirty-nine years old when the "event" of
the supposed removal, in 1760, took place.

The objections made to that which the Committee calls
the first" version " of the tradition, namely, the allegation
that the first meeting house was removed "in 1639 " and
that the Nichols building was the " Tomkins Inn," seem
to me to be aside from the question really at issue, which,
is the authenticity of the Caleb Peirce tradition, as
given in the Report of 1860, to wit, that the building
now in controversy was " made from the first meeting
house." The name " Tomkins Inn," and the allegation of
the removal in 1639, form no part of the Caleb Peirce
tradition or of the Report made in 1860.

AUTHENTICITY OF THE FIRST MEETING HOUSE. 19

These particulars were introduced, probably through
inadvertence, in a newspaper account of a " Ramble " in
the vicinity of Boston Street, said to have been published
" a short time previous to July, 1859." An account which
may be supposed to be based upon this story of the
Ramble was published in the Salem Observer, July 2,
1859, and was brought to the attention of the Institute
at the field meeting at Saugus, July 7, 1859 ; whereupon
a committee was appointed to investigate the matter. In
the report made by that committee the name " Tomkins
Inn " and the "removal in 1639 " do not appear.

In the recent Report the Committee seems inclined to
favor the theory that the building in question may have
been the first Quaker meeting house, although, according
to the first argument of the Committee, the tradition upon
which that theory rests should not command confidence
not being " in definite form" nor "generally disseminated
in the community."

The theory is plausible, and if the tradition as given
by Caleb Peirce had said that the David Nichols building
was made from the first Quaker meeting house, that would
probably have been accepted as its true history.

But the tradition did not so describe it, and the theory
does not appear to have been thought of till this present
controversy arose. Benjamin Proctor was eighty-four
years old in 1860 when he told Mr. Peirce that he had
heard his father say " more than a hundred times " that it
" was made from the first meeting house." An older
brother had said the same to Mr. Peirce " a few years
before," and was "much interested in having the house
preserved."

Benjamin Proctor knew that the David Nichols building,
in which he himself was born, was to be removed for
preservation as having been made from the old first
meeting house of the First Church, built in 1634.

If his family were Quakers and this was the Quaker
Meeting House, it is unaccountable that he should not
have known it as such and have so described it ; and the
same may be said of Caleb Peirce as well as of other
Quakers who knew of the proposed preservation.

It is stated in support of this' theory that the

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.

aemew Pickering, in 1639 and of th
mentioned below in treating of the Map of the
Church meeting house lot which accompanies the recent
Report, the theory has no advantage in this respect over
fhe theory of the Committee of 1860. As I understand
the meaning of those records the meeting house built in
1634 and enlarged in 1639 was probably less than twenty-
five feet in width.

The Committee in its adverse report expresses regret
that its conclusion does not coincide with that of the nrst
Committee of 1860, from which the present Committee
" at this more critical period, with greater perspective
finds itself " compelled to dissent."

I doubt whether this view is just. The inference would
be that the Committee of 1860 were led aside from
a critical opinion by their zeal and by the enthusiasm
occasioned at the then recent discovery of so interesting
a treasure.

The unexpected discovery of the marks indicating a
gallery, thus confirming what to that committee was
an entirely credible tradition, no doubt affected those
interested with the enthusiasm natural to the occasion.
But my recollection of the earnestness of those engaged
in the investigation and the care taken at that time to
study the evidence, particularly that afforded by the town
records, so extensively quoted in the recent Report, lead
me to the belief that this enthusiasm did not prevent a
strict attention to the known facts, and an endeavor to
pass a critical judgment upon them. It should be borne
in mind that the theory that the building, as now
preserved in the rear of Plummer Hall, contains portions
of the original frame of the first meeting house built in
Salem, in 1634, is different from, and independent of,
the theory that the frame thus preserved is identical in
form and size with that original.

Against the first theory, the only one for which the
tradition can be held responsible, no valid objection, as

AUTHENTICITY OF THE FIRST MEETING HOUSE. 21

it seems to me, has been brought forward. Against the
second theory serious objections are urged, upon which
the following suggestions may be of value.

To show that the meeting house of 1634 could not
have been so small as 17 by 20 feet, mention is made of
other larger meeting houses in less populous places. In
contrast, however, with the instances cited, it is significant
to note that the meeting house built at Northampton in
1655, and used till 16(34, was 26 by 18 feet, or very
nearly the supposed size of that built at Salem so long
before. The contract for building this meeting house,
which is entered upon the Northampton town records, is
given in full in TrumbulPs History of Northampton,
Vol. i, p. 25.

It is a misapprehension of the orders of 1635 and 1646,
as to absence from meetings, to hold that they required
that all persons without exception should attend every
religious service. The orders were evidently directed
against those who habitually refused, or neglected without
cause, to attend.

But of those who did attend it is not unreasonable to
suppose that a portion were obliged at times to take such
part as they could in the services outside the building.
The committee mentions an estimate of the number of
attendants in 1637 as over seven hundred. If this estimate
approaches the truth there must have been many that could
not be seated in any building likely to have existed at
that time in Salem. For many it was sufficient to testify
their faith by their presence and by their devotional
exercises at or near the sanctuary.

It is said that the rigors of a New England winter
would forbid such outside attendance. It is to be
remembered, however, that many of the attendants came
a long distance on foot or on horseback and were
necessarily inured to the weather however severe.

The great barn-like meeting house built in 1718 was
used for a hundred years without any provision for heating,
and it is difficult for us, accustomed as we are to modern
heating conveniences, to understand how the worshippers
could have endured the deadly chill which must have
pervaded the great spaces of its floors and galleries.

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Both these points that exception must be made as to
the number of attendants for those detained by good
cause, and that an outside attendance may be supposed
- are suggested by the language of the town order of 7th
July, 1644 (wrongly referred to by the committee as no
later than 1639"), appointing persons to "take notice ot
such as lie about the meeting house without attending to
the word or ordinances, or that lie at home or in the fields
without giving good account thereof."

As to the number apparently called upon to pull the
house down and store away the material, in 1673, it may
be observed that not all were required to work at it at
once and constantly. Town and Church were then one
and the same, and the matter was treated, like the old
method of working out taxes by labor on the highways,
as in the nature of a general assessment to be shared in by
all heads of families.

I shall show, I think, further on, that the building could
not have been much wider than the frame now preserved
indicates; and unless much wider and larger the difference
would affect but little the number required to pull it down.

A very material point that bears upon the question of
width, though apparently not considered by the Commitee,
is, that the wording in the agreement with Pickering for
the addition, in 1639, "hee is to build a meetinge house
of 25 foote longe, the breadth of the old buildinge,"
naturally leads to the conclusion that the breadth was less
than twenty five feet, the word length being usually
applied to the greatest measurement.

The Map of the locality and vicinity of the firct meeting
house of the First Church, which accompanies the Report
of the last committee, is incorrect in several particulars.

I. The Hugh Peters lot, conveyed to Benjamin Felton
in 1659-60, is placed to the east of the western line of
Washington Street, thus controverting the statement made
by me in my " Account of the dwelling houses of Francis
Higginson, Samuel Skelton, Roger Williams, and Hugh
Peters," Essex Inst. Hist. Coll., 1866, Vol. vm, p. 250, to
wit, that the Hugh Peters lot was on the " Southwestern
corner of Washington and Essex Streets," and that
Washington Street was originally laid out four rods
wide from river to river.

AUTHENTICITY OF THE FIRST MEETING HOUSE. 23

The records show that this lot, conveyed to Felton in
1659-60, was the same as that on which the Price building
now stands, the Electric Railway Office being at the
corner, as appears from the following abstract of title
made by me in 1877 :

Registry of Deeds. -

Book 1, Folio 76. 8 Feb., 1659-60. Hugh Peters
by Charles Gott, attorney, to Benjamin Felton, "one
dwelling house situate in the Town of Salem aforesaid,
together with a parcel of ground thereunto adjoining,
containing by estimation one quarter of an acre, be it more
or less, having the land of M r Ralph Fogg on the South
and West sides thereof and bordering Eastward upon the
Street and Northward upon the Lane, being the corner
house next to the now dwelling house of m r Edmond
Batter."

B. 6, F. 33. 29 Nov., 1681. Benjamin Felton to
Jeremiah Rogers "forty rods or one quarter of an acre,
be it more or less, bounded by the country road North
and East, by land in possession Mr. John Hathorne
South and West." At the end is an agreement by the
grantee not to "molest or compell" the grantor "to make
good or secure unto him any more land than is at present
within fence on the Westerly side of the house, with the
land the house stands on ; & with the land fronting before
it towards the Meeting house that belongs to it, thats not
inclosed."

B. 7. F. 29. 8 Jan. 1682-3. Deposition by Benjamin
Felton " that the land which I purchased of Charles Gott &
is the corner land of that lane over against m r Edmond
Batters his dwelling house, and which land since I have sold
unto Jeremiah Rogers, containing about Seaven or Eight
poles, be it more or less, and was that & no more than that
which was then at the sale thereof inclosed by a fence
between the land of m r John Hathorne & myself except
some small matter next to the Lane or Street : And is all
I bought at first or claimed or had any right unto or
possession of at all from the purchase of mine unto the
sale thereof unto the abovesaid Jeremiah Rogers,
notwithstanding the deed of sale of one quarter of an acre,
bee it more or less : And did not intentionally sell or

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conveye any more unto Jeremiah Rogers, notwithstanding
his deed but was abused therein. And as for the corner
bound next unto m r John Hathorne his shop being on the
South thereof and the street on the East, it is a rowe of
stones lying about two or three foot from the said m r
Hathornes Northward corner of his shop which Bounds
alwaies agreed upon between the said Hathorne & myself,
and is the true Southeast corner Bound of that land I
sould unto Jeremiah Rogers as abovesaid." This
deposition was sworn to before "William Brown Assistant."
The witnesses were Hilliard Veren and John Home, who
were neighbors of Benjamin Felton as appears on my
sketch mentioned below.

B. 32, F. 8. 1 May, 1717. Jeremiah Rogers to John
Rogers "my Dwelling house Barn and land they stand
upon situate lying & being in the town of Salem aforesaid
containing about nine poles more or less Bounded, vizt.,
Northernly & Easternly by the Main Streete, Western ly
& Southernly by Colo. Hathornes land."

B. 96, F. 165. March 26, 1750. John Rogers to
David Britton dwelling house and land "containing
about eight poles." "butting Northerly and Easterly on
highways & Southerly & Westerly on land in the
occupation of Joseph Hathorne & Samuel Archer."

B. 137 L. 95. 9 July, 1782, David Britton to Henry
Rust "about eight poles of land be the same more or
less, situate near the town house & bounding Northerly
on the Main Street there measuring seventy five feet,
Easterly on the Street leading to Marblehead there
measuring about thirty feet " etc.

B. 210, F. 256. 1815. Henry Rust to J. P. Rust.

B. 221, F. 128. 1815. Henry Rust et al to the wife
of Saml L. Page.

B. 225, F. 213. 1819. Ruth Rust to the same.

B. 226, F. 1. 1821. Ruth Rust to the wife of Jo-
seph Austin.

B. 234, F. 290. 1824. J. P. Rust to Joseph Aus-
tin.

B. 246, F. 190. 1827. Page and wife to Austin.

[Probate Records B. 83 F. 2. Will of Henry Rust.]

B. 450, F. 176. 1851. Notice as to privilege of air etc.

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B. 603, F. 255. 2 April, 1<S(H). The Massachusetts
General Hospital to Kbenr. N. Price. (Mentions devise
by will of Mrs. Agnes Austin.)

In 1784 Rust gave a small strip on the north side of
his lot to widen "Paved Street" (See Hist. Toll. Vol.
vii, p. 157).

For deeds of the lot next south, owned by Halph
the following :

1(>7<K Ezekiel Fogg to John Ma[r]ston.
11571. Henry West to John Ma[rjston.
H>85. John Marston to John Ilathorne.
Partition of estate of Joseph Ilathorne.
Deed to David Ropes.

kt Philip & Abijah Chase.
A hi jali Chase to Philip ( 1 hase.
Deed to Ilolvoke Mutual Fire Ins.

deeds it appears, that the western line
of Washington Street to the south as well as to the
north of Essex Street has always remained the same
from the time when the Hugh Peters lot was conveyed
to Benjamin Felton in 1 1)51) (>(). The prison, from 1(>(>H
to l(J7r> stood in the street to the east of Fulton's lot.
There appear to have been some small shops allowed to
stand for a while near the Cove which ran up towards
where Barton Square now enters Washington Street.

II. The Hilliard Veren house, afterwards known as
the Ilenfield house, which stood east of and close to
where the tunnel entrance now is, the north side being
(>5 feet south of where the capstone of the tunnel was
in 1873, was not associated with any other name than
Ililliard Veren in 1(>()1 or earlier, so far as I have ever
been able to ascertain. On the Map in the recent Report
it is marked as the ff Higginson house." There is no
evidence, however, that that was the Higginson house.
On the contrary all the evidence points to the belief
that the Win. Lord house, which stood where the south
eastern part of the Asiatic building now is, was the
Higginson house. How else can all the facts be
explained which I have hitherto adduced, as in Kssex

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Inst. Hist. Coll. Vol. vin, page 250 etc. V Such as the
connection of Mrs. Higginson and of Roger Williams
with the deed to Lord, and the claim of the town to some
interest, finally settled by Lord',* releasing to the town
all that he had^not then fenced in. See also Lord s deed
intrust "for the use of the Church of Salem," of his
dwelling house, barn, etc., in 1(551. Registry of Deeds,
Book 1," Folio 11.

We may reasonably suppose that the meeting house was
set there as being part of the lot originally laid out to
Higirinson as a parsonage according to the agreement
with the Company in London in 1629. By that
agreement, which was for a three years ministry, the
house to be built for the minister was to be for his use,
and upon his death or removal was "to be for succeeding
ministers," but "the increase to be improved of all their
grounds during the first three years" was to be at the
disposal of the Company. It was further agreed that,
in case of death or removal, the widow and children
should be provided for. Higginson died before the
expiration of the three years, and provision was to be
made for Mrs. Higginson and her eight children. The
magistrates, it appears, gave "the house" to Mrs.
Higginson, but there is no record of any disposal of the
land and it does not appear that anything was determined
as to use of the land for a meeting house. In fact this
remained a question till the agreement with Lord (who
had bought the Higginson house) giving up all that was
then unfenced by him.

To suppose the Henfield house to have been the
Higginson house would utterly conflict with the deposition
of Roger Conant (who ought to have known, if anybody)
that "the Wm. Lord lot was the outside lot and that it
was laid up to the street on the west side which street
was laid out four rod broad and bounded the said Wm.
Lord his lot on the west side." That part of Washington
street which is north of Essex street is just four rods
wide to-day and always was so. That the part south of
Essex street was originally of the same width is apparent
from the following facts: It has already been shown
that the western line of Washington street has always

AUTHENTICITY OF THE FIRST MEETING HOUSE. 27

been the same both north and south of Essex street. The
eastern line of the land where the Court House stood,
sold by the town to Rust and Brown in 1785, was a
continuation of that part of the eastern line of Washington
street which was north of Essex street ; and the same
continuation formed the Avestern line of the land conveyed
to Rust and Brown by the Proprietors of the meeting;
house in 1787, all of which is shown on the sketch
mentioned below.

III. The indication, on the Map in the Report of the
Committee of 1900, of the location of the first meeting
house of the First Church, as shown by dark lines
enclosing a space called the "first meeting house lot," is
not clear in its meaning. The space so designated is
marked as 47 feet wide, east and west. It does not,
however, represent the whole area of the meeting house
land, which, as the records show, extended westerly to
what was the original eastern line of Washington Street.
Neither does it, in my opinion, truly represent the possible
width, east and west, of the first meeting house itself,
for that, as the records mentioned below indicate, must
have been less than forty feet and was probably, as already
stated, less than twenty five feet.

In order to make this more plain I have drawn a sketch
of the sites of the successive meeting houses and of the
other houses in the vicinity, with the measurements of
land, street, etc., as made out from a careful examination
of all the records I could find, when studying the matter
some thirty years ago.

The present brick meeting house of the First Church
in Salem was built in 1827, and had porches on the
western and eastern sides, leaving open spaces at the
four corners. These open spaces were filled out when
the alterations were made in 1875.

The northwestern corner of this present building on
Essex Street, thus built out, is at the same point as was
the northwestern corner of the body of the wooden
meeting house which preceded it, built in 1718. This is
shown by measurements at different times, given in the
records. (See Registry of Deeds B. 144, F. 259, B. 1 47,
Fol. 17, and the Church records Aug. 23, 1787.) The

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first measurement in 1785 was 34 feet 4 inches from the
eastern side of the old Court House or Town House,
from which comes the name "Town House Square," to the
western side of the body of the house built in 1718.
When the Court House was removed, in 1785, the land
it had covered, 30 by 50 feet, was sold by the Town to
Henry Kust and Benjamin Brown. (See Keg- v Deeds
B. 144, F. 259.) By a deed of release, in 1787 (recorded
B. 147, F. 17), the Proprietors of the Meeting house
gave liberty to Kust and Brown to build their store at
31 ft. 4 in. distance from the northwest and outhwest
corners of the Meeting house, the Proprietors releasing
a strip 3 feet in width, shown by a dotted line in mv
sketch, from the west side of their land, which, as I have
said, extended westerly to the original eastern line of
Washington Street.

Rust and Brown at the same time gave up 9 feet in
width on the west side of their 30 foot lot, bought of the
Town, to widen the street on that side, thus making their
lot finally 24 feet wide. Their store was of that width
and so continued till 1839, when, as appears from the
City Kecords, July 8, 1839, this Kust and Brown 24 ft.
lot, with the passage way east of it up to the western
line of the present meeting house, measured in 1787 as
31 ft. 4 in. wide, was laid out as a street, the distance
across being then, in 1839, stated to be 55 ft. 5 in.,
or only one inch different from the measurement of
1787.

From this it appears certain that the western line of
the body of the meeting house of 171.S-1S27 coincided
with the western line of the present building.

The house of 1670-1718 was (H) feet on Essex Street
by 50 feet in depth. That of 1718-1827 was 70 feet on
Essex Street and of the same depth, 50 feet, as the one
that preceded it, and was to be built " on and nigh the
same place," or, as expressed in the heading of the
subscription list for building it, "on and adjoining
to the same place where the old meeting house now
stands."

As the new building of 1718 (which had porches on the
eastern and western sides) was to have the same depth

30 NOTES ON THE REPORT AS TO THE

from Essex Street (50 feet) and was to be on and
adjoining to the same place," we may reasonably conclude
that the north and south foundation walls were retained
and one or the other of the east and west foundations.
The meeting house built in 1670 could not therefore have
extended further west on Essex Street than the body of
that built in 1718, or, as shown above, further west than
the present building extends.

The house of 1670 was built at " the west end of the old
meeting house towards the prison" and was used for some
time while the old meeting house was still standing. It
had "three great doors" one at the east end, one at the
west end, and one on the north front. (See Town
Records elan. 13, 1672, Apr. 20, 1676, and March I,
1678-9.)

There must therefore have been a passage way on the
west side of the old first meeting house, between it and the
new building.

\\ r here the northwestern corner of the Hale Building
now is was a lot about 14 or 15 feet square on which stood
a shop, in 1647, as indicated in my sketch. This shop
was mentioned as the "shop of Benjamin Felton" in a deed
by Richard Stileman in 1647 (Registry, Book 1, Leaf 3),
and was afterwards owned by George Corwin, who sold
the lot to Wm. Sweetland in 1681" (Registry, B. 7, L.
10). South of this was the lot, about 17 by 15 feet, sold
by the Town to John Corwin, 7 Oct. 1669, and next
south came the house and shop of Edward Wharton, m
1660, and next south was the warehouse of George
Corwin.

As John Corwin would otherwise have had no access
to his lot, we must suppose that there was a passage way
from the street on the east side of the first meeting house
as it stood in 1669, and between that building and his lot.
It thus appears that there must have been open passage
ways on both the eastern and western sides of the old
first meeting house. From all these circumstances taken
together we are enabled to say quite confidently that the
ground which the original meeting house covered must
have been considerably less than forty feet in width. The
length of the present meeting house east and west is very

AUTHENTICITY OF THE FIRST MEETING HOUSE. 31

nearly 82 feet and 5 inches, and the width of the present
passage way between it and the Hale Building averages
about 1 7 feet, in all slightly less than 100 feet. Deducting
from this the 60 feet extent east and west of the house
built in 1670 leaves less than 40 feet.

Deducting again from this possible width of the ground
the supposed width of the first meeting house, 17 feet,
there would be left not more than 23 feet for the combined
width of the two passage ways thus shown to have existed,
one on the west side and one on the east side of the
original building.

As to the width of each of these passage ways we have
no positive knowledge but are left to inference from the
circumstances of the time and the subsequent history of
the rights of adjoining owners.

That the way on the east side of the first meeting
house was wide enough for a cart way, is probable from
the necessity for access to the land sold to John Corwin
in 1669. By an agreement made Dec. 15, 1825, between
the Parish Committee and John Derby, the owner of the
land where the Hale Building now stands, the passage
way was to be and continue open and of the width of
sixteen feet. Though this agreement has been thought
to be invalid as not being duly authorized by the Society,
the fact that such an agreement was entered into is some
evidence that the adjoining owner claimed an interest in
a way of that width. In fact Mr. Derby, in a letter to
the Society, in 1827, recorded in the Registry of Deeds
B. 493 L. 230, stated that he claimed nothing ff of rights
of land on said way other than what has been enjoyed by
this estate of mine for seventy years past, and the
privileges contained in the agreement made with your
committee on the 15th of December 1825."

In conclusion I think it may be said that there is
evidence, worthy of belief , that the building now preserved
contains portions of the frame of the first meeting house,
and further, that it is not wholly improbable that it
presents very nearly if not exactly the dimensions of the
original structure.

32 A LETTFJl FROM COL. TIMOTHY PICKERING, JUNR.

HEAD Q RS MIDDLE BROOK 23 D JUNE 77.

DEAR BROTHER,

So important an event as General Howe's army abandoning the
Jerfey's will doubtlefs excite a general curiosity to know the principal
circumftances refpecting it. I believe it was the week before lalt that
feveral thouiands of the enemy advanced from Brunfwick to Millftone,
about nine miles, & threw up Amdry redoubts, two or three of them
about Howe's quarters at Middle Buf h, between Brunlwick & Millftone.
After remaining in this fituation live or fix days, living in booths, they
fuddenly withdrew to Brunfwick, with divers marks of precipitation.

General Washington, having rec d information that the enemy were
preparing to leave the Jerseys, did the day before yesterday order
feveral corps of the array to march down, & harafs them in their
retreat. But the enemy went off from Brunlwick ib early yesterday
morning, that a part only of the detachments arrived in feafon to
attack them; and the rear guard of the enemy, confifting of their
heft troops & being judged 2000 ftroug, fnch of our troops as arrived
in feafon were too few in number to make an open & direct attack.
However, Col" Morgan with his reg t of riflemen (a corps felected from
the army) engaged them with great bravery; & the Col thinks that
full a hundred of the enemy were killed ; for he says his men frequently
got fhots at them within fmall distances, from 30 feet to 30 yards.
Two riflemen were killed & eight wounded, which is all the lofs we
have heard of on our part. Their departure from Brunfwick was
apparently haftened by the approach of our flrst troops; for the
foldiers left [woolen overalls, camp kettles, words erased] many things
in their camp and a new bridge over the Rariton built by the enemy was
left ftanding. 'Tis fupposed the enemy have all retired to Amboy, &
that they will as foon as pofsible totally quit the Jerfeys. The night
before the enemy departed from Brunfwick they burnt divers buildings
in the neighbourhood ; and fome of their [Jive, word erased] divilions
who retired lirft, let tire to a great number of houfes on their way to
Amboy, to wit, at Piscataway, Bonum Town & Woodbriuge. I fhoulcl
be more particular but the gentleman who carries this is in h:\fte to
depart.

I am yours affectionately

TIM. PICKERING JUNR.

P. S. I inclofe a letter to my wif e which you will fend her as foon as you
can. The main body of our army is in camp between the mountains
northward of Bound Brook. Gen 1 Sullivan's divifion at Brunfwick,
Lord Stirling's at or near Metuchin, between Brunfwick & Amboy, and
it is not unlikely the main body of our army may move that way.
To M r John Pickering jun r

of Salem, In the Massachusetts Bay,

[ESSEX INST. MS. COLLS. : PICKERING MSS., VOL. Ill, p. 64.]

THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER, AND SOME OF
HIS DESCENDANTS.

BY FRANK A. GARDNER, M.D.

(Continued from Vol. XXXIX, page 364.}

He purchased of Walter Price Bartlett Oct. 29, 1801,
for $4,000, a lot of land on the south side of Essex Street,
a short distance east of Liberty Street.* This lot
measured 35 1-2 feet on Essex Street, and was 153 feet,
7 in. deep. In the rear it extended westward to Liberty
Street, measuring 83 feet upon that street. The small lot
on the corner of Essex and Liberty Streets, was owned
by Edward S. Lang. Jonathan Neal obtained judgment
against Richard Gardner, and was granted the southern
end of this lot Jan. 23, 1813. t The northern end,
fronting on Essex Street, was granted to the Essex Fire
and Marine Insurance Company, in a similar way, Dec.
21, 1812.J The lot next south of the one above mentioned,
measuring 41 feet, 6 inches on Liberty Street, was
purchased by him, September 16, 1803. He sold it June
6, 1812, to Joseph Chapman Ward, for $1500. ||

He bought of widow Elizabeth Smith, in June, 1804, a
lot of land on the western side of Pleasant Street, and
sold the same May 31, 1809, to John Rhodes. 1" In
1809, he leased flats on the eastern side of Derby wharf,
and June 8, 1812, with the consent of John Derby,
President of the Derby Wharf Corporation, sold one half
of the store on Derby wharf to Jonathan Neal.* 1

Richard Gardner and others, leased to John Mason in
1804, "the Bathing house with well & pump & Bathing

* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 159.

t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 202, leaf 278; and Book of Executions, No. 1,
-lea i 278.

t Esex Book of Executions, No. 1, leaf 273.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 185, leaf 278.
II Ehsex Registry of Deeds, book 198, leaf 65.
ifEr-sex Registry of Deeds, book 187, leaf 158.
<** Essex Registry of Deeds, book 197, leaf 47.

(33)

34 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,

tub affixed."* In 1809 (July U), he offered a small
building for sale on "Andrew's Corner."t

He married July 29, 1797, Elizabeth Ward, daughter
of Miles and Hannah (Chipman) Ward.* She died
April -14, 1815, aged forty years. His second wife
was Eliza A. Peirce, daughter of Daniel and Betsey
(Mansfield) Peirce of Galliopolis, Ohio.? bhe died
Nov. 5, 1865, at Springfield, Mass. ||

Richard Gardner died March 10, 1836, at Utica, New

Children by his first wife, Elizabeth Ward :

240. RICHARD, b. May 22, 1798 (bap. Dec. 11, 1799) ;f d. Apr. 22,.
1875 ; m. Nov. 25, 1835,** Abigail Phippen West, dau. of
Thomas and Elizabeth (Moseley) West. Children : 1. Henry
Richard, b. Salem, Sept. 18, 1836; m. Salem, June 2, 1871,
Ellen K. Hodges, dau. of Samuel and Jane (Reed) Hodges.
No issue. He is a member of the Salem Light Infantry
Veteran Association, and the present head of the
department of Province Laws at the Massachusetts State-
House. 2. Sarah, d. very young.ft 3. Francis, b.
Gloucester, Jan. 27, .1840 ;tt d. Gloucester, June 23, 18404*
4. Thomas Barnard West, b. Gloucester July 3, 1842; d.
Salem, Nov. 6, 1860 ;tt unmarried. Richard Gardner
graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1816. He was
Master of the Williams Street School for boys, in Salem.
Later he went to Gloucester, Mass. , and became Master of
the Town Grammar School. The following testimonial in
regard to his work there, appeared in the Salem Gazette of
April 5, 1842: "The committee would fail of rendering
justice to its faithful and devoted teacher, if they did not
make public testimony of their high gratification with the
manner in which he has discharged the duties of his office.
The committee congratulate their fellow citizens on the
success which has so far attended this school. They may
now avail themselves of public instruction for their
children, with the assurance that they may pursue all the
branches necessary for a preparation to enter the higher
seminaries of learning, or be qualified in a high degree for

* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 183, leaf 274.

t Salem Gazette of July 14, 1809.

i Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. vi, p. 162.

Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. v, p. 212; and Salem Gazette of
April 18, 1815.

N Salem Gazette of Nov. 14, 1865.

'I North Church Records, Salem.

** Family Records, and Salem Gazette of Nov. 27, 1835.
ft Family Records.
tt Salem Gazette of June 26, 1804.

AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 35

any business or pursuit they may incline to follow." He
returned to Salem, and conducted a private school in the
old North Church, on the corner of North and Lynde
streets, residing at that time at number 5 Winter Street.
In 1850 he was secretary of Fraternity Lodge, I. O. O. F.
He became clerk of the Salem Gas Company as early as
1853, and remained in this office until he died, residing
during the latter part of his life at number 33 Summer
Street. The Salem Gazette of April 23, 1875, mentioned
his death, and stated that he was a teacher in the public
schools of Salem, from 1826 to 1839.

241. HANNAH, bap. Feb. 19, 1800;* d. Nov. 11, 1800.

242. SARAH DERBY, b. Feb. 26, 1809; d. July 2, 1842 ;f m. at Eaton,

N. Y., Mar. 7, 1838, Walter Kibby Sexton, son of Frederick
and Nancy (Lurdy) Sexton, of Sherburne, N. Y. Chil-
dren: 1. Frederick A., b. Apr. 12, 1839; d. Dec. 5, 1842. 2.
Walter A., b. Aug. 22, 1841: d. Mar. 12, 1844. f

Children by his second wife, Eliza Peirce :

243. CHARLES DERBY, b. Feb. 10, 1821 ; died young. J

244. DANIEL PEIRCE, b. Jan. 26, 1823; died .

245. HARRIET KITTRIDGE, b. Aug. 14, 1825 ; m. at Springfield, Mass.,

1847, James Hart, son of Ephraim and Martha (Seymour)
Hart. Child: Annie Gardner, b. Sept. 14, 1848; m. May
16, 1872, William E. Ingersoll, son of Edward and Harriet
(Childs) Ingersoll, of Springfield, Mass.

246. ANNIE, b. Feb. 11, 1828; m. 1st, at Rochester, N. Y., July 9,

1841, Norman Peck, son of Everard and Chloe (Porter)
Peck ; m.', 2nd, at Springfield, Mas., May 31, 1854, Charles
O. Chapin, son of Whitfleld and Melia (Chapin) Chapin.
Children by Norman Peck: 1. Benjamin Bangs, b. Jan. 3,
1843; d. Nov. 26, 1901; m., 1867, Alice Sparrow, dau. of
Warren T. Sparrow, of Portland, Me. 2. Norman Peck,
b. Apr., 1847; d. Sept. 29, 1848. Children by Charles O.
Chapin : 3. Harriette Gardner, b. Mar. 3, 1855 ; d. Aug. 5,
1857. 4. Charles Lyman, b. Dec. 6, 1856; m. at Spring-
field, Mass., Aug. 11, 1880, Lucy Bliss Shuraway, dau. of
Robert G. and Julia (Bliss) Shumway. 5. Henry Gardner,
b. Jan. 3, 1859; m. Jan. 9, 1889, Susan B. Russell, dau. of
Charles O. and Mariette (Linsley) Russell. 6. Elizabeth
Holland, b. Aug. 25, 1864. Resides in Springfield, Mass.

165 Thomas Gardner, the oldest son of Thomas
and Mary (Buffington) Gardner, was called "yeoman" in

* North Church Records, Salem.

t Authority, Mr. Frederick A. Sexton, of Sherburne, N. Y.

i Family Records.

Authority, Miss Elizabeth Holland Chapin, of Springfield, Mais.

36 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,

the records. * He was a member of Captain Samuel Epes'
Company of Minute Men, Col. Pickering's Regiment,
which marched from Danvers on the alarm of April 19,

1775.J

Thomas and his wife Rebecca, of Danville, Caledonia
Co., Vermont, with the other heirs of Eleazer Pope,
appointed Daniel Needham, of Lynnfield, attorney, June
7, 1797. J After the death of Anna Pope, widow of Eleazer,
they appointed Daniel Graves of Reading, attorney, Feb.
19, 1810, and he sold land in Lynnfield for them, April
16, 1810.

He married November 28, 1781, Rebekah Pope,
daughter of Eleazer and Anna (or Nanny) (Putnam) Pope.
She was born December 31, 1759. || Rebecca Gardner, of
Danville, Vermont, and her children, Sept. 23, 1825,
conveyed to Perley P. Proctor, of Danvers, IF their share
in the estate of John Gardner (No. 168). The scant
knowledge which the author has gained concerning the
children of Thomas and Rebecca was obtained from this
deed, and all attempts to learn more about them have thus
far failed.

Children :

247. JAMES, a resident of Canaan, Essex Co., Vermont, in 1825.f

248. REBECCA, m. Thomas ^Blanchard. They lived in Danville,

Caledonia Co., Vermont, in 1825. ^

249. ALLEN P., a resident of Danville, Vermont, Fin 1825. ^

260. JOHN, a resident of Newbury, Orange Co., Vermont, in

1826.f
251. MEHITABLK, m. Seneca Ladd. Eesidents of Danville, Vt.,

in 1825.f

167 James Gardner, the second son of Thomas
and Mary (Buifington) Gardner, was a mariner.**

REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE.

In "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War
of the Revolution," v. vi, p. 268, we find his record as
follows :

* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 165, leaf 261.

i Essex Registry of Deeds, book 191, leaves 238-9 '
fi Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. vin, p. 110
t XM6X Registry of Deeds, book 242, lekf 220.
** Essex Registry of Deeds, book 146 leaf 52

AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 37

"GARDNER, JAMES, Danvers. Landsman, ship
"Rhodes," commanded by Capt. Nehemiah Buffington ;
descriptive list of officers and crew sworn to Aug. 14,
1780 ; age 25 yrs. ; stature 5 ft. 8 in. ; complexion, light ;
residence, Danvers."

REAL ESTATE.

The first transaction, bearing his name, was dated
Feb. 6, 1786, at which time he sold about 5 3-4 acres of
upland, in Danvers, to Ebenezer Marsh, for 51, 14
shillings. * He inherited from his father one half of his real
and personal estate. t His brother John purchased all of
his right to their father's estate, May 15, 1800, for $500,
and on the same date gave James a mortgage deed of three
lots of land in Danvers for $300 loaned to him.J These
were discharged August 20, 1822, by Margaret, widow of
James. |

James and his wife Margaret, with the other heirs
of Francis Skerry, sold lots in different parts of Salem in
1792-5, including one sale on May 25, 1792, of 3 1-4 acres
of land on Ferry Lane (now Bridge Street), to Jonathan
Gardner (No. 161). He bought of the heirs of Francis
Skerry, Jan. 20, 1795, the "easterly lower room of the
Mansion house of the late Francis Skerry, with the pantree
and garret over said room. "|| In 1823 (Nov. 5), Margaret
Gardner, daughter of James, purchased of John and Henry
Skerry and others, all of their interests in this mansion
house, which was located in the "north fields. "IF

He married March 4, 1789, Margaret Skerry, daughter
of Francis Skerry.** She diedabout!825,andherdaughter
Margaret Gardner was appointed administratrix. ft Her
estate was appraised Jan. 4, 1826. It consisted of one
eighth of an acre of land "in the North fields," with part
of a house and barn on the same, and her household effects. J I

James Gardner died October 11, 1809.

* E886X Registry of Deeds, book 146, leaf 52.

t Essex Probate Records, book 359, leaf 546.

t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 160, leaf 235.

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 154, leaf 236; book 155, leaf 52; book 15, leaf 79
ami book 160, leaves 16-17.

II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 159, leaf 82.

IT Essex Registry of Deeds, book 329, leaf 126.
** Town Records, Salem.
ft Essex Probate Records, book 47, leaf 3.
t| Essex Probate Records, book 33, leaf 781.
Family Records.

38 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,

Children :

252. JAMES, b. May 7, 1790 ; d. Oct. 6, 1806.

263. THOMAS, b. Nov. 26, 1791 ;* died.* He went away, and no
word was ever received concerning him.

254. MARGARET, b. Sept. 20, 1795;* d. Apr. 12, 1862 ;f m. Oct. 2,

1828, George Wood, son of Andrew P., and Hannah (Love-
joy) Wood. Children: 1. James G., b. Sept. 23, 1829; d.
Oct. 5, 1829. 2. Hannah L., b. Sept. 11, 1830; d. Nov. 26,
1841. 3. Margaret G., b. Oct. 14, 1832; d. Mar. 10, 1874;
ra. Aug. 6, 1851, George H. Bodwell, s. of John and
Lucinda (Young) Bodwell.f 4. Isabella L., b. July 15, 1834 ;
d. Feb. 19, 1889 ;f unmarried. 5. Sarah E., b. Apr. 7, 1836;
m. at Salem, Apr. 21, 1864, Frank S. Clough,* s of Simon and
Mercy P. (Elkins) Clough ; he was b. in Gilmanton, N. H.f
She lives in Los Angeles, Cal.

255. EPHRAIM S., b. Dec. 20, 1797;* d. July 28, 1834.J Unmarried.

He was a stationer in New York.J

168 John Gardner, the youngest son of Thomas
and Mary (Buffington) Gardner, was the last Gardner to
live upon the old Thomas Gardner farm in WestPeabody.

He bought a pew in the "new Brick meeting-house" in
1806, paying therefor $180. 00.

REAL ESTATE.

He inherited, from his father, one-half of his real
estate, amounting to about sixty-six and one half acres. ||
In April 1790, he purchased of Hezekiah Duncklee,
sixteen and one half acres with a dwelling 1 house and
barn, near "land of Thomas Gardner dec.'lf This lot
had been mortgaged to him for 112 pounds, Oct. 10,
1785.** He bought other lots of land in this vicinity of
Elijah and John Flint yeomen, for 39, April 1791 ;ft
and three quarters of other lots with house thereon, ot
his uncle, Nehemiah Buffington, for a similar sum, Jan.

* Family Records.

t Salem Records.

t Salem Gazette of August 1, 18:U.

History of the First Parish, Danvers.

Registry of Deeds, book 144, leaf 71. '
!,8Hex Registry of Deeds, book 152, leaf 262.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 159J leaf 187.

AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 39

May 15, 1800, he bought of his brother James for
$500, his interest in their father's estate, and mortgaged
three lots to his brother for $300.* This mortgage was
discharged by James' widow Margaret, Aug. 20, 1822.*

The only other purchase recorded as .being made by
him, was one common right in the Salem sheep pasture,
for which he paid $45, December 24, 1803. t He sold
land as follows : two pieces of salt marsh in Lynn, to
Daniel Kitchens for 8, August 11, 1795 ; J two lots of
fifteen acres each to Hezekiah Flint, April 19, 1800 ;
one acre to Ephraim Larrabee, for $106.25, July 2,
1806 ;|| two acres, two quarters and twenty-two poles, to
Benjamin G. Proctor, for $263, Sept. 16,1818;! and
two acres of swamp land to Perley Proctor, for $200, on
the 28th of the same month.** He held a mortgage on
land of Ephraim Larrabee which was discharged July 1 ,

1814.ft

He married at Dan vers, Feb. 14, 1797, JJ Mehitable
Goodale, daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Upton)
Goodale. After his death his widow married, April 5,
1829, Samuel Taylor. {t She died May 14, 1846,
falling upon the steps of the old Gardner farmhouse, in
which she had continued to live up to that time.

John Gardner died April 12, 1823. tt In his will dated
April 8, 1823, he made the following bequests : To his
wife he gave his homestead field and meadow, containing
about thirty acres, with the buildings thereon, also all of
his land on the north side of the road, known as the "new
field." He also left her all of his right in the "Buffington
field." One half of the "old orchard and bogg meadow,"
amounting to twelve acres, he left to Hannah, Benjamin
G. and William Proctor, children of Benjamin G.
Proctor. The other half of the last named lots, he gave
to John Gardner Walcott, son of Ebenezer Walcott. All
of his household effects he left to his wife Mehitable.
The will was probated in May, 1823.

* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 166, leaf 236.

f Essex Registry of Deeds, book 173, leaf 132.

t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 166, leaf 146.

$ EHSCX Registry of Deeds, book 166, leaf 216.

| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 181, leaf 129.

11 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 225, leaf 00.
** Essex Registry of Deeds, book 219, leaf 88.
tt Essex Registry of Deeds, book 181, leaf 130.
JJ Dan vers Town Records.
Essex Probate Records, book 401, leaf 305.

40 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,

The inventory dated July 10, 1823, contained the*
following items :

The deceased homestead farm with the dwelling house,
barn and all the other buildings thereon containing fifty
acres more or less including the ox pasture and is situate
between the Newburyport turnpike and the county road. $1750.

A tract of pasture and tillage land lying on the north
side of the county road containing about twelve acres. 324.00-

A tract of pasture and swamp land lying on the west side
of the Newburyport turnpike containing about forty acres. 1280.00-

A tract of meadow and upland called the old orchard
about ten acres. 350.00

One pew in the meeting house in the north parish in
Danvers. 40 -<>

$3744.00
Personal property. 509.02*

No issue.

176 Ebenezer Gardner, the oldest son of Ebenezer
andDamaris (Merrill) Gardner, was born January 31, 1776.
He was a farmer, and lived at Hadley's Lake in Maine ^
Ebenezer Gardner married June 21, 1803, Sally Albee,
daughter of William and Ellen (Dillway) Albee. She
was born November 12, 1783, and died August 25, 1875,
aged 92. He died February 5, 1859.
Children :

256. SUSANNAH, b. Apr. 30, 1804 ; d. Dec. 25, 1886 ; m. Sept. 13, 1823,
at East Machias, Me., Cyrus Sanborn, son of William
and Priscilla (Mayhew) Sanborn. He was a blacksmith.
Children : 1. Hannah, b. Jan. 26, 1825 ; d. Jan. 26, 1854 ; m.
Oct. 11, 1846, Frederick Talbot, a lumber merchant in New
York. 2. Mary Crocker, b. Apr. 13, 1827; m. Apr. 30, 1854,,
Charles Talbot, brother of Frederick. He was a lumber-
merchant in East Machias, but lived later in Providence, R. I
3. Cyrus, b. Aug. 12, 1829 ; d. Apr. 4, 1847. 4. Susan Lowell*
b. Aug. 3, 1832 ; d. Sept. 8, 1832. 5. Sarah Albee, b. Sept. 17,
1833; d. June 21, 1891 ; m. Oct. 7, 1854, John K. Ames, of
Machias. He d. in 1901. 6. Susan Gardner, b. May 29, 1836 ;
d. Sept. 3, 1865; m. May 17, 1856, Frederick Talbot. 7.
Thomas Mayhew, b. Dec. 31, 1838; m. Nov. 28, 1865, Helen
Chase. 8. Caroline Lowell, b. Aug. 31, 1841. 9. Frank, b.
Dec. 5, 1843 ; m. Dec. 5, 1885, Elizabeth Brown. He is a hoteL
keeper in East Machias.

* Essex Probate Records, book 401, leaf 538.

AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 41

257. THOMAS J., b. Dec. 31, 1805 ; d. June 10, 1833.

258. jAMEs]A.,b.Dec.26, 1807 ;m. Dec.27,1832, AlmiraKilton. She

died Nov. 5, 1844. He m., 2nd, Mary Bowman, who is still
living in Machias. He was a farmer at Hadley's Lake,
afterwards removing to Machias where he carried on the
trade of a mason. Children of James A. and Almira(Kilton)
Gardner: 1. Almira,b. Dec. 1, 1833 ; m. Charles Morris, of
Philadelphia. 2. JamesT.,b. May 29, 1836; d. Sept 20,1875;
m. about 1858, Mary E. Gardner, dau. of Alfred and Mary
(Crocker) Gardner (No. 282). After his death his widow
married Daniel W. Harmon, son of Hiram and Mary
(Gardner) Harmon (No. 269). 3. Augusta, b. Aug. 14,
1838; m. Stillman Coflin, of Jonesport. 4. Emma, b. Dec.
20, 1840; d. May 10, 1842. 5. Emma, b. Oct. 23, 1844; d.
Sept. 13,1852. Children of James A. and Mary (Bowman)
Gardner : 6. Antoinette L., b. Feb. 23, 1846 ; d. Oct. 13, 1865-

7. Isaac E., b. May 25, 1848 ; m. Sept. 12, 1874, Eliza Wilbur.

8. Sophia K., b. Jan. 11, 1851 ; d. Oct. 29, 1865. 9. Clarence
T., b. Sept. 10, 1855; m. Mar. 26, 1879, Emma L Barnard.
They live at Machias. 10. Herbert, b. July 28, 1861 ; d. Oct.

2, 1865.

259. EBENEZER, b. 1810; d. Milford, Mass., Oct. 10, 1889; m. Oct.

26, 1833, Hannah C. Wilder, who was born at Dennysville,
June 21, 1806, and died in August, 1877. He was a black-
smith. In 1831 he removed to Dennysville. Children: 1.
Deborah Reynolds, b. Mar. 30, 1835; d. Jan. ,1895; m. Oct.
31, 1856, Benjamin Lincoln. 2. James Frederick, b. July

9. 1837; m., 1st, Maria E. Lincoln, in 1859; m., 2nd, Mary K.
Cooper, June 6, 1864. He was a soldier in the CivL War.

3. Lyman Kent; b. Nov. 4, 1840; m. June 4, 1863, Mary K.
Hobart, who was b. at Edmunds. He is a blacksmith at
Dennysville, and \vas a member of the State legislature for
1897. 4. Sarah Albee, b. Dec. 7, 1841; m. Thomas Crocker
Eastman. (5. Emma Albee, an adopted child, was b. Apr.
16, 1852, at St. Stephens, N.B. Shem. Albert C. McLauchlin.)

260. THAXTER, b. Feb. 19, 1812 ; d. Sept. 26, 1887 ; m. June 21, 1835,

Joanna, dau. of Jabez West. She was born Dec. 16, 1819;
d. Dec. 5, 1886. He was a farmer at Hadley's Lake. He
had no children, but adopted Emma Albee, who died Sept.
13, 1852, aged 10 years.

261. LUCINDA, b. Apr. 15, 18H; d. July 29, 1892 ; m. 1st, Aug. 31,

1835, Samuel Starrett of Hadley's Lake; m., 2nd, Stephen
H. West, of East Machias, who was b. Sept. 18, 1811, and
d. Oct. 12, 1891. One child who died young.

"The Gardner Family of Machias and Vicinity," by Charles L. Andrews,
Esq., of Augusta, Maine.

42 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,

262. LYDIA, b. Feb. 14, 1816; d. July 3, 1818.

263. HENRY A., b. Apr. 24, 1818 ; m. Nov. 1, 1841, Sarah G. Brown,

who was b. Feb. 15, 1820. They live at Hartley's Lake.
Children: 1. Henry Erastus, b. Aug. 10, 1841. He was
a member of Co. C, llth Eegt., Me. Vols., was taken
prisoner at Fair Oaks and died in Richmond, Va., June 3,
1862. 2. Mary J., b. Dec. 29, 1843 ; m. Nov. 15, 1873, Frank
F. Albee. 3. Lucinda S., b. Mar. 15, 1846; d. Mar. 15,
1849. 4. Eben,b.May 28, 1848; d. Nov. 15, 1881. 5. Abby
R., b. Aug. 25, 1861 ; d. Aug. 14, 1865. 6. Edwin R., b. Nov.
29, 1853; d. Aug. 31, 1865. 7. Susan S., b. Feb. 24, 1856.
8. Lizzie A., b. Mar. 7, 1859; d. Mar. 23, 1895; m. Nov. 25,
1879, Oliver H. Seavey. 9. Clara E., b. May 17, 1864; m.
Apr. 10, 1895, Isaiah C. Huntley.

264. AARON L. RAYMOND, b. Jan. 19, 1822, at East Machias; d.

Apr. 23, 1891, at Dennysville; m. Sept. 5, 1848, Abbie
Wilder Reynolds, b. Feb. 21, 1830, at Dennysville. He was
a prominent merchant for many years. Children: 1. Julia
Raymond, b. May 31, 1850, at Dennysville; d. Feb. 11, 1851.
2. George Reynolds, b. Jan. 14, 1852, at Dennysville; m-
Jan. 25, 1888, Annie E. Robbins. He is a prominent lawyer
at Calais and Judge of Probate of Washington County. He
has been a member of the School Board of Calais for many
years, and a member of the Board of Trustees of old
Washington Academy of East Machias. He is Past
Master of St. Croix Lodge F. & A. M., a member of St.
Croix Royal Arch Chapter, Hugh de Payens Commandery
K. T. of Calais, and the Lodge of Perfection, S. R. M. at
Machias. In addition to the above offices he is Chairman
of the Board of Trustees of Fellowship Lodge, I. O. O. F.
PastV. C. of Calais Lodge, K. of P., and one of the
Trustees of the Calais Savings Bank. He is also a member
of the Maine Society, S. A. R. 3. Edwin Raymond, b-
June 11, 1854, at Dennysville; m. Sept. 20, 1877, Ada
Sargent Allan. He is a prominent citizen of Dennysville,
holding the offices of Town Treasurer, and treasurer of the
Congregational Church there. He was also for many
years, the Superintendent of the Sunday School connected
with the same church. 4. Charles Otis, b. Sept. 2, 1856, at
Dennysville; m. Dec. 26, 1882, Sophia Alice Corthell. He
has been for many years a prominent merchant in the city
of Eastport, and the junior partner in the firm of Corthell

of ASgSta d M 6 ai^e amily f Machlas and Vi dnity," *Y Charles L. Andrews, Esq. ,
Family Notes.

AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 43

and Gardner. He has been a member of the Board of
Education, and very prominent in masonic circles. He is
an officer in St. Bernard Commandery, Knights Templar.
5. Eva May, b. Mar. 28, 1858. 6. Fred Lee, b. Apr. 3, 1862,
at Dennysville; m. Jan. 15, 1888, at Dennysville, Mary
Stoddard Philbrook. He is a member of the Board of
Health and School Board of Dennysville, and a merchant
in that place.

265. CYRUS S., b. June 16, 1824; m. May 16, 1857, Abbie S.

Harmon, dau. of Nathaniel. He was a blacksmith at East
Machias for years, and his sons, Elma and Arthur, still
carry on the trade. Children: 1. Andrew F., b. Feb. 22,
1859. 2. Elma H., b. Oct. 4, 1864. 3. Arthur E., b. Feb.
24, 1869. 4. Harry Morris, b. Dec. 26, 1871. He is now
postmaster at East Machias.

266. JULIA R., b. Oct. 18, 1826; m. Dec. 9, 1844, Thomas M.

Gardner (No. 288) , son of Thomas and Sarah (Barry)
Gardner. (For further account of this couple and their
children, see No. 288.)

267. EUWIN R., b. Nov. 6, 1828; d. Oct. 30, 1853; m. Mar. 28,

1853, Helen A. Cotton, of Milwaukee, Wis.

177 Samuel Gardner, the second son of Ebeno/er
and Damaris (Merrill) Gardner, was born in Machias,
Maine, July 13, 1781. He was a farmer at Had ley's Lake,
Maine.

He married, first, Abigail Barry, daughter of Jonathan
and Hannah (Knight) Barry of Marshfield. Jonathan
Harry was the son of Westbrook and Jane (Freeman)
Barry, one of the first settlers from Scarboro in 17(>3.
Thomas Gardner (No. 178) and John Gardner (No. 179)
married sisters of Abigail Barry. She died Mar. 21,
1831. He married, second, Jane F. Getchell, who died
Jan. 18, 1841. His third wife was Relief Wilson. He
died May 1(5, 1853.

Children :

268. ATKINS, b. Feb. 10, 1808; m. Betsey A very. Both dead.

269. MARY, b. Nov. 9, 1809; ft. May 28, 1891; m. Oct. 28, 1828.

Hiram Harmon, who was born May 28, 1802; d. Oct. 1, 1873,
Children: 1. G. Wellington, b. Dec. 10, 1829; d. Dec. 1,
1857. 2. Mary E., b. Apr. 26, 1831 ; m. Dec. 20, 1861, Daniel
Longfellow. 3. Leonard S., b. Oct. 12, 1833 ; m. Augustine

"The (Gardner Family of Mnchlai nnd Vicinity," by Charles L. Andrewn, Esq.
of Augusta, Maine.

44 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,

Longfellow. 4. Hiram W., b. Dec. 24, 1834. 6. Nathan
G b. Dec. 28, 1835. 6. Abbie G., b. Oct. 8, 1838; m.
A. J. Longfellow. 7. G. L., b. 1840; m. Amelia Gardner,
dau. of Hiram and Rebecca (Crocker) Gardner (No. 286).
8. Laura S., b. 1841 ; m., 1st, B. F. Longfellow, a soldier of
the Civil War, d. in 1862; m., 2nd, John Partington. 9.
Frances A., b. Jan. 9, 1843; m. James Bean. 10. Theodore
P., b. Apr. 26, 1844; d. Apr. 26, 1845. 11. Sherlock, b. Dec.
16, 1846; m. Olive Berry. 12. Watson, b. Nov. 9, 1848; d.
Oct. 1, 1863. 13. Evelyn, b. Feb. 4, 1850; d. July 4, 1850.
H.Daniel W., b. May 19, 1852; m., 1st, Mary E. Gardner,
dau. of Alfred and Mary (Crocker) Gardner (No. 282). She
d. Dec. 31, 1885 ; he m., 2nd, Mary Bars tow. 15. Charles F.,
, b. Dec. 9, 1865, m.

270. NATHAN, b. Aug. 10, 1811; m. Louisa Harmon, dau. of Japhet

Harmon. Child: 1. Angeline, m. John Mailer. Both
dead.

271. CAROLINE, b. Aug. 18, 1812; d. unmarried.

272. Lucius, b. Apr. 15, 1814; d. Dec. 18, 1889; m. July 1, 1841,

Lydia W. Albee, dau. of William and Hannah Albee. She
d. Nov. 5, 1885. They lived at Hadley's Lake. Children :
1. Benjamin F., b. Aug. 6, 1843; d. May 3, 1862. 2. Julia
M.,b. June 4, 1845; m. Apr. 18, 1868, Stephen Me Duffle,
of Manchester, N. H., who d. July 23, 1882 She m.,.2nd,
Sept. 25, 1888, Gilbert F. Farley, of Goffstown, N. H. 8.
Leonice B., b. July 19, 1850; d. Apr. 11, 1859. 4. Charles
H.,b. Apr. 1, 1852 ;m.. 1st, Miss Smith of Ferndale who d.
1878; m., 2nd, March 5, 1889, Mrs. Lorena Church. He
lives at Blue Lake, Cal. 5. Dunbar, b. Apr. 13, 1854; d.
Oct. 20, 1864. 6. Frederick, b. Jan. 16, 1856 ; d. May 8, 1860.
7. Emily L., b. Mar. 25, 1861; m. June 13, 1883, George H.
Willoby, s. of Charles and Augusta Willoby, of Brookline.
He is a jeweler in Franklin, Mass. 8. Fred W., b. Aug. 21,
1863; m. Nov. 4, 1889, Etta K. Owen. They live at Milton,
Mass.

273. JONATHAN, b. Feb. 9, 1817 ; d. May 7, 1841.

274. DANIEL F., b. Jan. 1, 1819; d. Mar. 4, 1890; m. Sept. 22, 1842,

Elvira Elsemore of East Machias, who was b. July 18, 1818.
After farming for a time at Hadley's Lake, he went West
and lumbered at Puget Sound. Children: 1. Lucy H., b.
Dec. 31, 1843; d. Dec. 11, 1870; m. Aug. 19, 1866, Putnam
Visher. 2. Eliza A., b. Feb 13, 1846; d. Aug. 6, 1886; m.
Dec. 13, 1882, James H. Morton. 3. Adelaide F., b. Feb 4,
1848; m. June 26, 1873, James F. Simpson. 4. Lorenzo D.

" The Gardner Family of Machiae and Vicinity," by Charles L. AndrewB.Ksq.,
of Augusta, Maine.

AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 45

W., b. July 1, 1851 ; d. Jan. 15, 1882 ; m. Dec. 4, 1876, Eunice
Wardwell. 5. Anson P. Morrell, b. July 23, 1855 ; d. Apr. 1,
1858.

275. LEONARD, b. Feb. 16, 1821 ; unm. Dead.

276. REBECCA, b. Dec. 13, 1823 ; unm. Dead.

277. ELLEN, b. Sept. 20, 1829; m. Dec. 5, 1849, James L. Meserve,

son of William and Pamelia (Burnham) Meserve. He d.
Sept. 20, 1896. Children: 1. Edwin W., b. June 30, 1855;
d. Feb. 21, 1877. 2. Emily L., b. May 14, 1860; d. Sept. 8,
1860. 3. Fannie B., b. Jan. 23, 1864; d. Sept. 16, 1864.
They lived at Cherryfleld, where he was a mill owner and
millwright.

278. HARRIET, m. Lord in California. Dead.

279. SAMUEL, d. at the age of 25.

178 Thomas Gardner, the third son of Ebenezer and
Damaris (Merrill) Gardner, was born in Machias, Maine,
October 10, 1783. He was a farmer and lumberman. He
married December 1, 1808, Sarah Barry, sister to his
brother Samuel's wife. An account of her ancestors has
been given in the article upon Samuel Gardner (No. 177) .
She was born Aug. 12, 1789, and died Oct. 11, 1863.

Children :

280. NATHANIEL MERRILL, b. Nov. 21, 1809; d. Jan. 4, 1876; m.

Ruth Westcott. She d. in Aug., 1882. He was for many
years a member of the firm of Longfellow & Gardner,
lumber dealers at Machias. Children: 1. William M., b.
Oct. 28, 1832 ; d. Aug. 18, 1837. 2. Mary A., b. Feb. 18, 1836 ;
d. Aug., 1864; m. R. T. Crane. 3. William T., b. Jan. 31,
1838; d. Oct. 16, 1839. 4. Amanda B., b. Mar. 15, 1840; m.
Dec. 31, 1863, Clark Longfellow, an apothecary at Machias.
They now live in New York and have a summer cottage
at Roque Bluff. 6. Julia Helen, b. Aug. 15, 1841; m. 1st,
June, 1865, Edward Vinton; m. 2nd, Sept., 1882, Gustavus
Barnes. Resides at Whitman, Mass. 6. Benjamin C., b-
Jan. 25, 1844 ; d. Jan. 29, 1844. 7. Alice Drusilla, b. Aug. 27,
1846; m. Aug., 1873, William Caswell of Melrose, Mass.

281. DEBORAH, b. Dec. 1, 1810; d. Jan. 7, 1845; m., 1830, Coffin

Smith, son of Stephen and Hannah (West) Smith. He
died Aug. 15, 1895. Children : 1. Harrison Thatcher, b.
Mar. 13, 1831 ; d. Sept. 15, 1885 ; m. Rebecca Hanscom. 2.
Sarah, b. 1832 ; d. Aug. 28, 1849. 3. Augustine Gardner, b.

"The Gardner "Family of Machias and Vicinity, " Charles L. Andrews, Esq .,
of Augusta, Maine.

46 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,

Dec. 1, 1833 ; m. Dec. 7, 1855, Nelson Babcock. 4. Frederick,
b. 1834; d. June 20, 1852. 5. T. Jefferson. 6. George E.

7. Deborah Thatcher, b. May 6, 1839 ; m. Aug. 4, 1864, James
White. 8. William C., d. 1879. 9. Leonora Harris, b. Dec.
21,1844; d. fall of 1903; m. Aug. 11, 1881, Edward G. Fuller.
They live at Wellesley, Mass.

282. ALFRED, b. July 16, 1812 ; m., 1st, Mary Crocker, dau. of John

Crocker, and sister to his brother Hiram's wife ; 2nd, Hannah
M. Foss ; 3d, Feb., 1862, Lizzie M. Harmon. He was a farmer
at Hadley's Lake, on the farm where he was born and brought
up.
Children by his first wife Mary : 1. Peter Harris, b. Mar.

4. 1838; d. Mar. 3, 1840. 2. Henry Lyons, b. Dec. 5, 1839;
d. Feb. 2, 1840. 3. Jacob William, b. Mar. 27, 1841 ; m. Apr.
19, 1868, Sophia Burton, and lives in Eureka, Cal. 4. Mary
Elizabeth, b. May 26, 1843; d. Dec. 31, 1885; m. 1st, about
1858, James T. Gardner, son of James A. and Almira
(Kilton) Gardner (No. 258); m., 2nd, Daniel W. Harmon,
s. of Hiram and Mary (Gardner) Harmon (No. 269).

5. Olive Catherine, b. Jan. 9, 1846; d. Feb. 14, 1849.

6. Delia, b. Feb. 17, 1848; d. July, 1880; m. Oct. 2, 1867,
Morton D. Harmon, s. of Henry Harmon.

Children by his second wife Hannah M: 7. Millard
Fillmore, b. Dec. 5, 1850; m. in Petrolia, Cal., May 29, 1877.
Mary Emma Allen, who was b. in Calais, Me., June 5, 1853.

8. Lyman Beecher, b. Nov. 6, 1853 ; unm. He lives in Seattle,
Wash. 9. Priscilla A., b. Nov. 12, 1855; d. Apr. 4, 1856.

Children by his third wife Lizzie M. : 10. Charles S., b.
Nov. 21, 1862; m. Aug. 27, 1884, Clara E. Barry of Machias,
b. Apr. 6, 1860. He is a lumberman and truckman at Machias.
11. Irene, b. July 19, 1865; d. June 6, 1871. 12. Hiram W.,
b. Mar. 14, 1867 ; m. at Derby, Vt., Oct. 3, 1894, Dell Hildreth.
He is a marble manufacturer. 13. Herbert M. b. Mar. 4
1869; m. Mar. 20, 1895, Josephine K. Hasty of Machias, bT
Feb. 9, 1873. 14. Horace T., b. Sept. 5, 1871; m. Sept. 9,
1893, Mabel Dennison, b. in Cutler, Jan. 21, 1873. 15.
Alfred, b. Aug. 30, 1873. 16. James R. I., b. May 16, 1875.

283. WILLIAM, b. Aug. 22, 1814 ; d. July 31, 1857. He never married.

He was a commission merchant at Baltimore.

284. JOHN, b. Nov. 4, 1815 ; d. July 5, 1897 ; m. May 8, 1846, Rebecca

Berry, wid. of Stephen Berry, and dau. of John Berry who
was one of the crew that captured the British schooner
Margaretta and was severely wounded. Child: 1. Alonzo,
b. July 29, 1846; m. Mar. 10, 1872, Lottie E. Small. They
live in California. (They also brought up Celia Brown.)

lly * MacW * 8 and ViCinity '" CharleB L ' An drews, Esq., of

AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 47

285. SALLY, b. June 22, 1817; m. Oct. 5, 1836, Benjamin G.
Challoner, son of Elisha D. and Lydia Challoner. He was
b. Sept. 30, 1814; d. Mar. 30, 1879. They lived fora time
at Cutler after which he was for some years in trade at
East Machias. Children: 1. Benjamin Thomas, b. July
1, 1837; d. Feb. 19, 1897; m. Annie Sanford. He was
postmaster at East Machias and held many important town
offices. 2. Lucy II., b. June 11, 1839; d. Mar. H, 1877.
3. Sarah Augusta, b. June 27, 1841; d. Apr. 6, 1874; m. a
Mr. Lathrop. 4. II. Antoinette, b. Oct. 17, 1844; m. July
10, 1867, F. H. Wiswell, a storekeeper at East Machias.
He was b. June 20, 1845. 5. Emma, b. May 9, 1847; m.
Edward Harding, M. D., of Boston. 6. Samuel Buckman,
b. Jan. 25, 1850 ; m. Hattie . He is a hotel proprietor
in California.

286. HIRAM, b. June 18, 1819; m. July 27, 1843, Rebecca Crocker,

sister to Alfred Gardner's wife (No. 282). She was b.
Dec. 30, 1820 and d. 1902. He was for years a successful
lumberman, and lives at Machias. Children : 1. Amelia, b.
June 9, 1844 ; m. May 31, 1869, Gilbert L. Harmon, of Machias,
s. of Hiram and Mary (Gardner) Harmon (No. 269). 2.
Viola, b. Feb. 23, 1846; d. 1899. 3. George E., b. Feb. 10,
1849 ; d. Dec. 24, 1868. 4. Morey, b. Apr. 15, 1852 ; m. Nov.
28, 1872, Susan N. Lynch. He is the proprietor of one of the
leading grocery stores at Machias. 5. Emma L. , b. July
17, 1854; d. Sept. 9, 1879. 6. Addie R., b. Dec. 9, 1858; d.
Mar. 28, 1872. 7. Angelia M., b. Dec. 24, 1861; d. July 15,
1877.

287. THOMAS, b. Mar. 27, 1821 ; d. June 26, 1822.

288. THOMAS M., b. Dec. 9, 1822; ra. Dec. 9, 1844, Julia R.

Gardner (No. 266), dau. of Ebenezer and Sally (Albee)
Gardner. He was a farmer and lumberman and for a
number of years has kept a hotel at East Machias where
he is well known to all the travelling public. Children :
1. Edward P., b. Feb. 13, 1846; m. Mar. 1, 1873, Leo A.
Munson. He is an American Express agent and livery
stable keeper at East Machias. He adopted Ed Earle
Dennison, b. June 7, 1886. 2. Emily T., b. Mar. 24, 1848^
m. Jan. 20, 1872, Elbert E. Wiswell, proprietor of a
hardware store at East Machias. 3. Susan S., b. Jan. 11,
1850 ; d. June 5, 1855. 4. Sarah Edna, b. July 5, 1852 ; d.
Oct. 17, 1869. 6. Aurelia R., b. Dec. 16, 1854. 6. Susan
T. f b. May 1, 1857; d. Apr. 17, 1868. 7. Harlan P., b. Aug.
6, 1869 ; m. Dec. 22, 1883, Lizzie A. Whittier. He is a

"The Gardner Family of Machlaa an I Vicinity." Charles L. Andrews, Esq.,
of Augusta, Maine.

48

storekeeper at East Machias. 8. Florence, b. June 1, 1862 ;
d. May 2, 1892; m. Dec. 29, 1888, Charles McReavey. 9.
Walter S., b. Feb. 3, 1865; m. Oct. 8, 1889, Emma K.
Smalley. He is a livery stable keeper.

289. DANIEL F., b. Jan. 25, 1825; m. 1st, Oct. 8, 1853, Sarah S.

Lincoln, dau. of William and Leah (Leighton) Lincoln of
Dennysville. She was b. Dec. 20, 1826 and d. Nov. 7, 1878.
William Lincoln was the son of Matthew Lincoln of Sidney,
Maine, and a native of Hingham, Mass. Leah was the
dau. of Samuel Leighton, whose wife was a Hersey. He m.
2nd, Oct. 8, 1881, Lucy Keller, a native of East Machias
widow of Ambrose Brown of Brooklyn, N. Y. She d. Nov.
19, 1895, aged 64. In 1849, at the time of the gold fever, he
went to California, via Cape Horn, returning in 1852 via the
Isthmus. He has been a farmer and lumberman at East
Machias most of his life. He has also been engaged in the
manufacture of sardines at Machiasport. In 1895, he
removed to Augusta, Maine. Children: 1. Laura S., b.
June 5, 1855; m. Aug. 27, 1876, H. M. Heath, a prominent
lawyer of Augusta, s. of Alvin C. and Sarah (Philbrook)
Heath, of Gardiner, Maine. 2. Annie, b. March 29, 1857;
m. June 8, 1892, Charles L. Andrews, of Augusta, s. of
George H. and Sarah (Safford) Andrews of Monmouth,
Me. (Mr. Andrews is a well known lawyer in Augusta,
Maine. The writer wishes to express his thanks to him
for compiling the records of the Gardner family of Machias
and for permitting them to be utilized in these articles.)
3. Charlie C., b. Nov. 5, 1859; d. Apr. 20, 1865. 4. Lucy
A., b. Aug. 6, 1862; d. June 13, 1864. 5. Willie, b. Apr.
11, 1864; d. Aug. 18, 1864. 6. Linnie B., b. Apr. 5, 1865;
m. Nov. 13, 1889, Orrin A. Tuell of Augusta, s. of James
Tuell of East Machias. He d. Jan. 16, 1895. 7. Lincoln,
b. Apr. 19, 1867; m. June 30, 1901, Georgie Smith. He is a
resident of Lewiston, Maine.

290. HANNAH, b. Jan. 25, 1825; m. Oct. 17, 1885, J. W. Parker,

who was b. Apr. 3, 1827. They live at Portland.

"The Gardner Family of Machias and Vicinity." Charles L. Andrews, Esq.,
of AugUbta, Maine.

(To be continued.")

SHIP REGISTERS OF THE DISTRICT OF
SALEM AND BEVERLY.

1789-1900.

COMMUNICATED BY A. FRANK HITCHINGS, WITH ADDITIONAL
NOTES BY STKPHEN WILLARD PHILLIPS.

( Continued from Vol. XXXIX, page 20S.}

BRITANNIA, sch., 69 tons, Salisbury, 1791. Reg. Aug. 18,
1800. Tim'y Wellman, Sam 1 Masury, owners ; Sam 1 Masury,
master. Reg. July 7, 1809. James Odell, Beverly, W m C.
Woodbury, Beverly, Nath 1 Bunker, owners ; Nath 1 Bunker,
master.

BRITTON, Beverly, sch., 59 tons, Manchester, 1789. Reg.
Apr. 4, 1800. Thos. Woodbury, Beverly, owner; Zeb ln
Woodbury, master. Reg. July li), 1801. Thos. Woodbury,
Beverly, Zebulon Ober, Beverly, Robert Rantoul, Beverly,
Andrew Peabody, Beverly, Silas Stickney, Beverly, Ebenezer
Smith, Beverly, owners ; Zebulon Ober, master.

BROOKLINE, ship, 349 tons, Medford, 1831. Reg. June 29,
1833. Stephen C. Phillips, owner ; Geo. Peirce, master.
[Water-color copy and photograph of an original painting at
Peabody Academy of Science. Sold to Boston owner, May
9, 1844. Later a whaler for many years out of New London.
Sold at Buenos Ayres about 1861, and broken up there.]

BROTHERS, ketch, 148 tons, Salem, 1795. Reg. Dec. 9,
1795. Elias H. Derby, Elias H. Derby, jr., Rich d Derby,
owners; John Felt, master. Reg. June 16, 1797. John
Derby, Elias H. Derby, Elias H. Derby, jr., Rich d Derby,
owners ; John Felt, master. [Full dimensions of masts and
spars given in Essex Inst. Hist. Colls., vi, 226. Wrecked on
her way to Havana, June, 1799.]

BRDTUS, ship, 303 tons, Salem, 1797. Reg. July 15, 1797.
Jacob Crowninshield, Geo. Crowninshield Geo. Crowninshield,
jr., owners; Rich d Crowninshield, master. Reg. Mar. 22,
1799. Rich d Crowninshield, Geo. Crowninshield, Jacob
Crowninshield, John Crowninshield, Benj. Crowninshield,
owners ; Benjamin Crowninshield, master. [Cast away on
Cape Cod in a snowstorm, Feb. 22, 1802, the day after leaving

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Salem, and nine lives lost. The Ulysses and Volusia, which
had sailed from Salem in company with the Brutus, went
ashore at the same time. See Felt, Annals, n, 314. Series
of three oil paintings of this wreck of the three ships, at the
Essex Institute.]

BUCK, brig, 217 tons, Bucksport, 1822. Reg. June 7, 1825.
John Barr, owner; Henry Barr, master. [Cast away on
Sumatra, about 1827. Water-color painting at Peabody
Academy of Science.]

BUCKEYE, bark, 328 tons, Covington, Ky., 1852. Reg. Dec.
14, 1853. Edw. D. Kimball, Frank D. Reed, Boston,
John Swasey, Cincinnati, 0., Edwin A. Swasey, Cincinnati, O.,
Allen Collier, Cincinnati, O., owners; Eph m Burr, master.
Reg. May 18, 1858. Edw. D. Kimball, Chas. H. Miller,
John Swasey, Cincinnati, O., Edwin A. Swasey, Cincinnati, O.,
Allen Collier, Cincinnati, O., owners ; Sam 1 Hill, master.

BCCKSKIN, sch., 39 tons, Portsmouth, Va., 1797. Reg. July
8, 1812. Nath 1 Garland, Danvers, Curtis Searl, Danvers,
Jeremiah Briggs, W m Manning, Robt. Stone, Nath 1 Silsbee,
Thos. Whittridge, Joseph Winn, owners ; Isaac Bray, master.
[As a privateer in 1812, carried 5 guns, 50 men. For her
record as a privateer, see Maclay's Hist, of Amer. Privateers,
p. 409. Captured by the British Frigate Statira, Aug. 7, 1812.]

BDLAH, brig, 203 tons, Dutch Trap, Mass., 1800. Reg.
Jan. 20, 1819. Rich. S. Rogers, John W. Rogers, owners;
Charles Forbes, master.

BUNKER HILL, sch., 127 tons, Northport,Me., 1825. Reg. Jan.
7, 1826. William Treadwell, Jer mh Knowlton, Northport,
Me., owners; John Symonds, master.

C. B. JONES, sch., 68 tons, Essex, 1853. Reg. Nov. 30,
1869. C. C. Pettingell, L. D. Pettingell, Charles H. Price.
Joseph Price, owners ; Henry Smith, master.

C. C. PETTINGELL, sch., 91 tons, Essex, 1866. Reg. Nov. 30,
1869. C. C. Pettingell, L. D. Pettingell, Jacob Kimball,
Aaron Perkins, Trustee, Charles A. Ropes, Trustee, Charles
H. Price, Trustee, owners ; Benjamin W. Smith, master. Reg.
Nov. 19, 1870. C. C. Pettingell, L. D. Pettingell, Aaron
Perkins, Trustee, Charles A. Ropes, Trustee, Charles H. Price,
Trustee, owners ; N. W. M c Kinney, master. Reg. Nov. 21, 1872.
C. C. Pettingell, L. D. Pettingell, H. M c Lellan, Aaron
Perkins, Trustee, Charles A. Ropes, Trustee, Charles H, Price,
Trustee, owners ; H. M c Lellan, master.

C. H. PRICE, sch., 71 tons, Kennebunk, Me., 1868 Ree
Nov. 4, 1869. Alfred Walen, C. C. Pettingell, ' L. D.'
Pettingell, Geo. P. Rust, Aaron Perkins, Trustee, Charles
A. Ropes, Trustee, Charles H. Price, Trustee, owners ; James
H. Haddock, master.

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CADET, bgtne., 97 tons, Pembroke, 1784. Reg. Dec. 13,
1790. Daniel Peirce, owner; Daniel Peirce, master.

CADET, bgtne., 100 tons, Pembroke, 1784. Reg. May 31,
1794. Elias H. Derby, owner ; Jonathan Games, master. Reg.
Mar. 23, 1795. Charles Derby, owner ; Charles Derby, master.
Reg. Jan. 5, 1796. Charles Derby, Thomas Lee, owners;
Charles Derby, master.

CALIFORNIA, sch., 50 tons, Dorchester County, Md., I860.
Reg. Oct. 15, 1859. Benjamin Webb, owner; John Prentiss,
master.

CALLIOPE, brig, 191 tons, Waldoborough, Me., 1822. Reg.
Apr. 18, 1826. Robert Upton, owner; William C. Waters,
master. [Sold in New York, in 1830, for $3500.]

CAMBERINK, sch., 103 tons, Eden, Me., 1823. Reg. Mar. 15,
1826. William Goodhue, John Goodhue, John G. Dean,
Ellsworth, owners ; David Homer, master. Reg. Sept. 6, 1828.
John Goodhue, owner ; Jacob F. Dow, master. Reg. Sept. 10,
1831. John Goodhue, owner; Jacob Woodbury, master.

CAMBRIAN, brig, 196 tons, Salem, 1818. Reg. Nov. 4, 1818.
Joseph Peabody, Gideon Tucker, owners ; Andrew Harraden,
master. Reg. Mar. 6, 1821. Joseph Peabody, owner ; Henry
G. Bridges, master. [Abner Goodhue, jr., was also master,
May 16, 1832. Water-color copy at Peabody Academy of
Science of painting by F. Roux.]

CAMBRIDGE, brig, 215 tons, Cambridge, 1822. Reg. Oct.
15,1827. Nathaniel West, jr., owner; Tobias Davis, master.
Reg. Nov. 25, 1829. John Hayman, Samuel Chamberlain,
Geo. West, owners ; John Hayman, master. [Sold in New
York in 1830.]

CAMEL, bark, 289 tons, captured in War of 1812. Reg.
July 15, 1815. Zaccheus F. Silsbee, Thomas Saunders, James
Devereux, Robert Stone, jr., Dudley L. Pickman, Charles
Saunders, William Silsbee, owners ; Holten J. Breed, master.

CAMEL, brig, 117 tons, captured in War of 1812. Reg. Oct.
13, 1823. Daniel Abbott, Thomas Tate, owners ; Thomas
Tate, master. [Full- rigged model at Peabody Academy of
Science. Condemned at St. Thomas in 1830.]

CANARY, sch., 137 tons, Prospect, Me., 1836. Reg. Mar.
30, 1841. Lott Alden, William Lane, John Cousins, Prospect,
owners; Daniel S. Goodell, master.

CANTON, bgtne., 335 tons, Portland, 1816. Reg. May 8,
1816. Joseph Peabody, William Ropes, Boston, owners;
Daniel Bray, jr., master.

CANTON PACKET, ship, 312 tons, Newbury, 1815. Reg. Oct.
2,1826. John Winn, jr., Nathan W. Neal, Joseph Winn,
Timothy Winn, owners ; Thos. Bowditch, master. [Condemned
at St. Thomas in 1829.]

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CARAVAN, brig, 267 tons, Salem, 1802. Reg. Feb. 14, 1812,
Pickering Dodge, owner ; Augustine Heard, master. [In this
little brig, the first missionaries from America to the East, Mr.
and Mrs. Judson and Mr. and Mrs. Newell, sailed from Salem,
Feb. 19, 1821. See Wayland's Memoir of Rev. Dr. Judson,
i, 93.]

CAROLINA, ship, 395 tons, Medford, 1836. Reg. May 13,
1842. David Pingree, Benjamin Fabens, Charles H. Fabens,
Benj. Fabens, jr., owners; Chas. H. Fabens, master. Reg.
Sept. 16, 1843. Isaac Gushing, Francis Brown, owners;,
Francis Brown, master. Reg. May 31, 1844. David Pingree,
Isaac Cushing, Francis Brown, owners; Francis Brown,
master. [Sold in New York, in 1845, for $14,000.]

CAROLINE, ship, 321 tons, Newbury, 1815. Reg. Jan. 1,

1820. Joseph Ropes, John Crowninshield, Stephen Field,
John Dodge, owners ; Nathaniel Page, master. Reg. Nov. 13,

1821. William P. Richardson, Stephen Field, Joseph Ropes,
owners ; Joseph Ropes, master. Reg. Dec. 8, 1824. William
P. Richardson, Joseph Ropes, James W. Cheever, owners ;
James W. Cheever, master. [Broken up.]

CAROLINE, ship, 240 tons, Wiscasset, 1812. Reg. June 12,
1826. Stephen White, owner; Joseph J. Knapp, jr., master.

CAROLINE, brig, 145 tons, Pittston, Me., 1826. Reg. Oct.
14,1828. Samuel Brooks, owner; John B. Curwin, master.
[Sold in Boston in 1831.]

CAROLINE AUGUSTA, ship, 406 tons, Portsmouth, N.H., 1826.
Reg. Nov. 20, 1841. David Pingree, owner; Andrew M.
Putnam, master. Reg. Aug. 15, 1846. David Pingree, James
B. Creamer, owners; Jas. B. Creamer, master. Reg. Dec. 19,
1849. Thomas P. Pingree, John B. Silsbee, David Pingree,
owners ; Joseph R. Francks, master. [Sold in California.]

CARTHAGE, ship, 426 tons, Salem, 1837. Reg. May 12,
1837. Joseph Peabody, owner; JohnE. Giddings, master.
[Sold to Boston owners about 1844.]

CATHARINE, ship, 315 tons, Salem, 1818. Reg. Oct. 9, 1818.
Joseph Peabody, Gideon Tucker, owners ; Samuel Rea, master.
Reg. Mar. 5, 1821. Joseph Peabody, Joseph A. Peabody,
owners; John Endicott, master. Reg. Apr. 8, 1829. Joseph
Peabody, owner ; William C. Dean, master. Reg. Mar.<28,
1832. Joseph Peabody, Benjamin Pickman, Pickering Dodge,
Nathan Robinson, Geo. Cleveland, Archelaus Rea, Benjamin
Merrill, Geo. West, Richard Savory, Tucker Daland, Michael
Shepard, Thomas Perkins, Thomas P. Bancroft, Thomas P.
Pingree, John B. Osgood, owners ; Henry Paddock, master.
[Sailed as a whaler in 1832, and near the Hawaiian Islands
was destroyed by fire, Nov. 29, 1832.]

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Aug. 14, 1821. Stephen Nourse, Beverly, Joseph Cheaver,
owners ; Joseph Cheaver, master.

CATHERINE, sch., 87 tons, Salem, 1793. Reg. July 26,
1793. Robert Leach, owner; Benjamin Farrer, master.
Reg. Oct. 19, 1802. Robert Leach, Samuel Leach, owners ;
Samuel Leach, master. [Joseph Henderson was also registered
as master, Dec. 13, 1797, and Jan. 19, 1799.]

CATHERINE, brig, 158 tons, Salem, 1801. Reg. Nov. 4,
1801. Joseph Peabody, Gideon Tucker, owners; Daniel
Gould, master. Reg. Oct. 13, 1813. Benjamin Shreve,
owner ; Aaron Endicott, master. [William Cheever was also
registered as master June 15, 1804, and Mar. 6, 1805.]

CATHERINE, sch., 69 tons, Amesbury, 1787. Reg. June 23,
1807. Francis Quarles, Phineas Cole, owners; Tracy Patch,
master. Reg. Nov. 5, 1807. Francis Quarles, owner;
Benjamin Waters, master. Reg. Mar. 16, 1809. Phineas
Cole, owner; Harvey Choate, master.

CATHERINE, sch., 85 tons, Scituate, 1817. Reg. Sept. 11,
1832. James W. Osborn, owner; John Lecraw, master.

CATHERINE, bark, 226 tons, Cohasset, 1840. Reg. Sept. 28,
1849. William Hunt, Robert Brookhouse, Robert Brookhouse,
jr., J. H. Hanson, owners; Simon Stodder, master. [Sold to
Boston owners, Dec., I860.]

CAVALIER, bark, 294 tons, Newmarket, 1827. Reg. July
16, 1833. Thomas P. Bancroft, owner; Sylvester P. Fogg,
master. Reg. Oct. 21, 1835. James King, Thomas P.
Bancroft, William Stickney, Thorpe Fisher, Oliver Hubbard,
William W. Palfray, John F. Allen, Thomas Farless, James
B. King, Joseph S. Leavett, Isaac Gushing, Joel Bowker, Geo.
W. Jenks, Albert G. Brown, F. B. Crowninshield, Boston,
Daniel Stoddard, Nathaniel J. Lord, Aaron Perkins, Morse &
Crocker, Alexander Donaldson, John Archer, Samuel Simonds,
Samuel Grant, Ezra Osborn, William Ball, Thomas Downing,
Benjamin Brown, Theophilus Sanborn, Geo. West, Richard
Savory, Charles F. Putnam, William and Thomas Rea, Samuel
Leach, Asa Sawyer, owners ; Timothy Russell, master. Reg.
May 9, 1839. David Pingree, owner; John G. Waters,
master. [Used as a whaler out of Salem, 1835-9. Sold to
Stonington owners in April, 1845.]

CAYENNE, sch. ,87 tons, Newburyport, 1872. Reg. Sept. 26,
1872. Charles E. Fabens, Benjamin H. Fabens, owners;
Willard S. Keene, master. [Burned at Grand Manan, N. B.,
1892.]

CENTURION, brig, 205 tons, Haverhill, 1822. Reg. June 29,
1822. Nathaniel West, jr., owner ; Joseph Bowditch, master.
Reg. June 20, 1829. Gideon Tucker, owner; Samuel
Hutchinson, master. [Sold in Boston, June 15, 1832, for $6,000.

54 SHIP REGISTERS OF THE DISTRICT

Water-color, painted about 1830, at Peabody Academy of
Science.]

CERES, bgtne., 173 tons, Saco, 1788. Reg. Nov. 14, 1789.
William Gray, jr., Weld Gardner, Samuel Gray, Francis C.
Gray, owners; Thomas Simonds, master. Reg. Oct. 29, 1791.
William Gray, jr., Weld Gardner, owners; Benjamin Ives,
master. [Lost at sea, 1791 or 1792.]

CERES, ship, 154 tons, Amesbury, 1784. Reg. Dec. 19, 1789.
William Gray, jr., Geo. Dodge, Clifford Crowrfinshield, owners ;
Clifford Crowninshield, master.

CERES, brig, 200 tons, captured in War of 1812. Reg. Oct.
18, 1817. Gamaliel Hodges, owner; Joseph Strout, jr., master.
[George Hodges, jr., was also master Jan. 9, 1827.] Reg. May
12, 1837. Joseph Hodges, John Hodges, Benjamin Webb, jr.,
John Nichols, jr., owners ; John Nichols, jr., master. [Taken
by privateer ship John in 1812. Cast away on Nova Scotia in
1837.]

CERES, ship, 373 tons, Charlestown, 1811. Reg. Jan. 16,
1824. John Gardner, jr., John Gardner, owners ; Thomas W.
Gardner, master. [Sold about 1825.]

CERES, sch., 84 tons, Hingham, 1818. Reg. Sept. 1, 1825.
Franklin H. Story, William Fettyplace, owners ; Geo. Gale,
master. [Sailed for Brazil, Feb. 15, 1826 and never heard
from.]

CEYLON, brig, 196 tons, Duxbury, 1834. Reg. Feb. 16,
1841. Charles Hoffman, owner; Edward A. King, master.

CHALCEDONY, bark, 21*4 tons, Medford, 1825. Reg. Sept. 3,
1836. Thomas P. Pingree, owner ; Geo. T. Richards, master.
Reg. Mar. 7, 1837. Robert Upton, owner; Geo. Upton,
master. Reg. Nov. 3, 1843. James Upton, Robert Upton,
Luther Upton, Geo. Upton, Alfred Peabody, owners ; John E.
A. Todd, master. Reg. May 28, 1846. James Upton, Robert
Upton, Geo. Upton, owners ; John E. A. Todd, master. [Oil
painting by B. West, at Peabody Academy of Science.
Condemned in California in 1858.]

CHAMPION, sch., 134 tons, Bluehill, 1822. Reg. Mar. 28,
1838. Benj. Webb, Joseph B. Webb, Cornelius Wasgatt,
owners; Cornelius Wasgatt, master. Reg. Sept. 7, 1854.
Benj. Webb, Joseph B. Webb, owners ; Charles G.Bray, master.

CHANCE, Beverly, sch., 53 tons, Amesbury, 1786. Reg.
Dec. 11, 1793. Elias Smith, Beverly, owner; Thomas Smith,
master.

CHANCE, sch., 56 tons, Amesbury, 1786. Reg. Dec. 22,
1799. Israel Williams, owner; John Holman, master.

CHARLEB, sch., 109 tons, Westbrook, 1815. Reg. Feb. 23,
1822. Michael Shepard, owner ; Richard Smith, master. Reg.
May 11, 1824. Stephen White, Franklin H. Story, owners ;
Nathaniel Ingersoll, master. [Sold in Maranhain in 1824.]

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CHARLES, Danvers, ship, 207 tons, captured in War of 1812.
Reg. Dec. 19, 1822. Thomas Cheever, Danvers, owner;
Parker Brown, master. [Sold in Boston in 1825.]

CHARLES, brig, 216 tons, captured in War of 1812. Reg. July
6, 1840. Benjamin Webb, jr., Samuel Grant, Timothy Bryant,
owners; Jacob Caldwell, master. Reg. Mar. 17, 1841.
Benjamin Webb, Timothy Bryant, John Hodges, owners ;
William W. Harron, master. [Sold in Buenos Ayres in 1841.]

CHARLES A. ROPES, sch., 64 tons, Newburyport, 1868. Reg.
Nov. 21, 1872. C. C. Pettingell, L. D. Pettingell, Alfred
Walen, Geo. P. Rust, Aaron Perkins, Trustee, Charles
A. Ropes, Trustee, Charles H. Price, Trustee, owners ; Henry
Kirby, master. Reg. Nov. 29, 1873. C. C. Pettingell, L. D.
Pettingell, Charles A. Ropes, Trustee, Charles H. Price,
Trustee, Aaron Perkins, Trustee, owners ; W. H. Kirby,
master.

CHARLES AMBURGER, brig, 184 tons, Salisbury, 1818. Reg.
Jan. 6, 1819. John Andrew, William Haskell, John Dike,
owners; Caleb Cook, master. Reg. Oct. 25, 1823. John Dike,
John Andrew, William Haskell, Charles T. Savage, owners ;
Charles T. Savage, master. [Lost.]

CHARLES DOGGETT, brig, 110 tons, Cohasset, 1826. Reg.
Jan. 13, 1831. John W. Rogers, Nathaniel Rogers, Richard
Rogers, owners ; William Driver, master. [Attacked by
natives while in the Fejees in 1833 and the mate and five men
were killed. For an account of voyages of the Charles Doggett,
see Sketch of Salem, p. 171.]

CHARLES H. FABENS, sch., 301 tons, Bucksport, Me., 1874.
Reg. Dec. 11, 1874. Charles E. Fabens, C. E. & B. H.
Fabens, B. H. Fabens, Marie E. Fabens, A. J. Fabens, B.
Louis Fabens, Caroline A. Fabens, Benjamin F. Fabens,
Joseph H. Towne, Samuel B. Symonds, Geo. L. Newcomb,
William Beasley, Bucksport, John Douglas, Bucksport,
E. P. Emerson, Bucksport, R. F. Sumersby, Bucksport,
C. J. Cobb, Bucksport, Geo. M c Allister, Bucksport, William
Fox, Bucksport, W. S. Keene, Prospect, C. B. Gardner,
Bucksport, Arthur Wardwell, Bucksport, F. H. Parker,
Bucksport, E. D. Green, Bucksport, Austin Saunders,
Bucksport, owners; W. S. Keene, master. [Wrecked in West
Indies, Mar. 18, 1886.]

CHARLES MORRIS, ship, 338 tons, captured in War of 1812.
Reg. Jan. 13, 1816. Joseph White, jr., Joseph White,
Stephen White, John W. Treadwell, William Fettyplace,
William Manning, owners; James Cheever, jr., master.

CHARLES SHEARER, 8ch., 97 tons, Essex, 1865. Reg. Nov.
20, 1868. Geo. P. Rust, Aaron Perkins, Trustee, Charles
A. Ropes, Trustee, Charles H. Price, Trustee, owners ; Amasa

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T. Webber, master. Reg. May 5, 1870. Geo. P. Rust,
Aaron Perkins, Trustee, Charles A. Ropes, Trustee, Charles
H. Price, Trustee, Joseph Price, owners ; James M. Haddock,
master. Reg. Nov. 28, 1871. Geo. P. Rust, Alfred Walen,
Charles H. Price, Joseph Price, owners; N. W.< M c Kinney,
master. Reg. Nov. 29, 1873. C. C. Pettingell, L. D.
Pettingell, Charles H. Price, Joseph Price, owners ; N. W.
M c Kinney, master.

CHARLES THOMAS, brig, 133 tons, Bowdoinham, Me., 1837.
Reg. Feb. 28, 1846. Benjamin Webb, John^Hodges, Charles
Leach, owners; Charles Leach, master. [Charles Wasgatt
was also master in 1847.]

CHARLES WEIGMAN, brig, 192 tons, Baltimore, 1841. Rag.
Aug. 31, 1846. Willard Phillips, Stephen C. Phillips, J.
Willard Peele, Joseph W. Osborn, John H. Eagleston, Geo.
West, owners; Daniel Walden, master. [Often spelled
Charles Workman. Lost at Hong Kong, Aug. 31, 1848.]

CHARMING SALLY, sch. , 86 tons, New England, . [Rebuilt

at Philadelphia, in 1788.] Reg. May 16, 1793. Richard
Crowninshield, Geo. Crowninshield, owners ; Richard Crown n-
shield, master. Reg. Nov. 23, 1793. Richard Crowninshield,
Geo. Crownmshield, owners ; Richard Crowninshield, master.

CHASE, brig, 157 tons, Newburyport, 1821. Reg. May 31,
1821. Edward Stanley, Philip Chase, Abijah Chase, Abijah
Northey, Ezra Northey, owners ; Philip P. Pinel, master.
[Sold at Boston in 1825.]

CHEROKEE, brig, 185 tons, Hingham, 1831. Reg. Mar. 6,
1837. Michael Shepard, John Bertram, Nathaniel Weston,
William Sutton, William B. Smith, owners ; William B. Smith,
master. Reg. June 29, 1850. John Bertram, owner ; Daniel
H. Mansfield, master. [Lost at sea.]

CHILO, brig, 90 tons, Falmouth, 1831. Reg. Dec. 12, 1834.
William A. Rea, Joseph Knowles, Boston, J. P. Wheeler,
Boston, owners ; Daniel Goodhue, master.

CHINA, ship, 370 tons, Salem, 1817. Reg. May 14, 1817.
Joseph Peabody, Gideon Tucker, owners ; Benjamin Shreve,
master. Reg. Dec. 7, 1820. Joseph Peabody, Joseph
A. Peabody, owners; Hiram Putnam, master. Reg. Apr.
27, 1829. Joseph Peabody, owner; William Johns c
master.

CHINA, brig, 186 tons, Dartmouth, 1848. Reg. Dec.28, 1859.
Henry E. Jenks, John C. Berry, Chas. A. Jenks, owners ;
John C. Berry, master. [Sold to Boston owners, Jan., 1861.]

CHRISTIANA, brig, Beverly, 226 tons, Pittston, Me., 1837.
Reg. July 28, 1849. Henry B. Ward, Danvers, Thomas
Patterson, Beverly, Josiah Lovett, 2 nd , Beverly, Robert G.
Bennett, Beverly, owners ; Thomas Patterson, master.

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CHUSAN, bark, 240 tons, Newbury, 1841. Reg. May 24,
1849. William Hunt, Robert Brookhouse, owners; Israel
Howe, master.

CICERO, sch., 99 tons, Bath, 1783. Reg. Nov. 18, 1789.
John Barr, Geo. Dodge, owners ; Christopher Babbidge,
master.

CICERO, bgtne., 158 tons, Amesbury, 1774. Reg. Feb. 27,
1790. Jonathan Mason, jr., Thomas Mason, Jonathan Mason,
owners; John Mason, jr., master. Reg. Sept. 27, 1791. Geo,
Williams, Thomas Mason, Samuel Williams, Boston.
Henry Williams, Watertown, owners ; William Patterson,
master.

CICERO, bgtne., 106 tons, Ipswich, 1785. Reg. May 22,
1790. Hugh Lee, Beverly, owner; Elias Smith, master.
[Lost at sea, 1790 or 1791.]

CICERO, bgtne., 139 tons, Bath, 1783. Reg. Nov. 12, 1791.
Geo. Dodge, John Barr, owners ; Christopher Babbidge,
master. Reg. Mar. 15, 1793. Stephen Webb, owner;
Stephen Webb, master. Reg. Oct. 2, 1794. John Norris,
Geo. Dodge, John Barr, owners ; Nathaniel Knight, master.
Reg. May 4, 1798. William Gray, owner; William Bladder,
master. [Henry Rust was also master.]

CINCINNATUS, ship, 226 tons, Hanover, 1799. Reg. June 17,
1799. Joseph Peabody, Thomas Perkins, owners ; Samuel
Endicott, master. Reg. Mar. 14, 1801. Joseph Peabody,
owner; Samuel Endicott, master. Reg. Sept. 4, 1804.
Joseph Peabody, owner; William Haskell, master. Reg. Mar.
29, 1809. Joseph Peabody, Gideon Tucker, Hezekiah Flint,
owners ; Hezekiah Flint, master.

CiPHfc.c, brig, 146 tons, Duxbury, 1822. Reg. Mar. 22,
1828. David Pingree, William D. Shatswell, Joseph Shatswell,
owners; William D. Shatswell, master. Reg. Feb. 25, 1830.
David Pingree, Thomas Holmes, owner; Thomas Holmes,
master. Reg. Nov. 14, 1835. Chas. Hoffman, owner ; Henry
Ropes, master. [Sold in Africa in 1841.]

CIPHEUS, sch., 78 tons, Essex, 1824. Reg. Jan. 14, 1825.
Joseph Howard, James Brown, Danvers, owners; Philemon
Putnam, master. Reg. Jan. 18, 1827. Stephen W. Shepard,
John Day, owners ; John Day, master.

CLARISSA, Danvers, sch., 59 tons, Danvers, 1787. Reg.
Jan. 14, 1794. Samuel Page, Danvers, owner; Thomas
Whittridge, master.

CLAY* ship, 299 tons, Hanover, 1818. Reg. Apr. 4, 1827.
John W. Rogers, Nathaniel L. Rogers, Richard S. Rogers,
Emery Johnson, owners ; Benjamin Vandeford, master. [Sold
at Boston at auction for $4100, as a whaler, Jan. 26, 1832.]

CLEOPATRA'S BARGE, brig, 191 tons, Salem, 1816. Reg.

58 SHIP REGISTERS OF THE DISTRICT

Jan 11 1817. Geo. Crowninshield, owner; Benjamin
Crowninshield, master. [Two photographs of original paintings
areatPeabody Academy of Science. For an account of this
vessel built for a yacht and famous at the time as the best
built and most elegant vessel yet -launched in New England,
see Essex lust. Hist. Coll. vn, 213 ; xxv, 81 ; Sketch of Salem,
213 ; and Silsbee's A Half Century in Salem.] Reg. Sept. 28,
1818. Richard Crowninshield, owner ; Israel Williams, master..

CLEORA, bark, 262 tons, Franklin, Me., 1847.

CLIMAX, brig, 153 tons, Orrington, Me., 1814. Reg. Apr.
25, 1802. Robert Brookhouse, Geo. W. Grafton, owners ;
Geo. W. Grafton, master. [Cast away in Madagascar, 1823.]

CLINTON, brig, 173 tons, Bangor, 1838. Reg. Oct. 7, 1846.
Benjamin Webb, John Hodges, owners ; William M. Harron,
master. Reg. Jan. 10, 1850. Benjamin Webb, John Hodges,
Geo. Savory, owners ; A. D. Caulfield, master.

CLIO, brig, 179 tons, Barnstable, 1822. Reg. Sept. 26, 1831.
Putnam I. Farnham, Jed Frye, owners; William Purbeck, jr.,
master. Reg. May 27, 1834. Putnam I. Farnham, Jed Frye,
Peter E. Webster, Josiah Spaulding, owners ; Josiah Spaulding,
master. Reg. Jan. 27, 1838. Putnam I. Farnham, Josiah
Spaulding, Jed Frye, New York, owners; James Daylay,
master. [Sold at Pernambuco in 1840.]

COLLECTOR, brig, 163 tons, Dighton, 1818. Reg. Aug.^27,
1822. Samuel Holman, 3 rd , owner; Geo. W. Carr, master.
[Sold at Bahia in 1824.]

COLMA, sch., 95 tons, Scarborough, Me., 1829. Reg. Jan.
10, 1832. Stephen Hoyt, jr., Joseph Sibly, William Stephens,
Thomas W. Taylor, Stephen Myrick, Temple Hardy, Joseph
Noble, owners ; Joseph Noble, master. Reg. Dec. 26, 1832.
Stephen Myrick, Joseph Sibly, Thos. W. Taylor, Temple
Hardy, Joseph Noble, owners ; Nathan Smith, master. Reg.
Dec. 2, 1834. Stephen Myrick, Joseph Sibley, Temple Hardy,
Henry Larcom, jr., Beverly, owners ; Henry Larcom, jr., master.

COL. TAYLOE, Beverly, brig, 142 tons, Charlestown, 1842.
Reg. June 29, 1847. Josiah Lovett, Beverly, Albert Thorndike,
Beverly, John Stickney, Beverly, Edward Lee, Beverly, owners ;
John Stickney, master.

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