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HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
VOLUME XI.
SALEM, MASS.
PUBLISHED BT THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.
1872.
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CONTENTS.
PAET I.
Address at the Semi-centennial Anniversary of the Formation of
the Essex Historical Society, by A. C. GOODELL, ... 1
Some Notes on old Modes of Travel, by K. S. RANTOUL, . . 19
Gleanings from Files of the Court of General Sessions of the
Peace, by JAMES EJMBALL, 74
PARTS II AND in.
Memoir of Asahel Huntington, by O. P. LORD, .... 81
Ancestry and Posterity of Zaccheus Gould, by B. A. GOULD, . 115
Perkins Family of Ipswich, by G. A. PERKINS, .... 222
Notices of the Ancestry of Mrs. Susannah Ingersoll, . . . 228
Gleanings from the Files of the Court of General Sessions of
the Peace, No. 2, by JAMES EJMBALL, 235
Memorandum referring to the Evacuation of Boston by the
British Troops in 1776, 240
PART IV.
The Closing History of the Branch or Howard Street Church in
Salem, by C. C. BEAMAN, 241
Perkins Family of Ipswich, by G. A. PERKINS (continued), . 249
Extracts from the Diary of Lieut. John Preston of Salem Vil-
lage, by S. P. FOWLER, 256
The Chipman Lineage, by R. MANNING CHIPMAN, . . . 263
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. XI. APRIL, 1871. No. 1.
ADDRESS
DELIVERED BEFORE THE ESSEX INSTITUTE ON THE SEMI-CENTEN-
NIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE FORMATION OF THE
ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
BY ABNEE C. GOODELL, JK.
ME. PRESIDENT, MEMBERS AND FRIENDS, OF THE ESSEX
INSTITUTE :
THE commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the Essex Historical Society, from which,
by a union with the Essex County Natural History Soci-
ety started some twelve years later the Essex Insti-
tute was formed, naturally suggests, as a theme befitting
the occasion, a consideration of the interdependence of
History and the other Sciences.
All the steps in the formation and union of these soci-
eties have been so often traced, and the character and
influence of the members of the first of them, especially,
so fully and graphically described, in addresses and pub-
lications by and before the Institute, that you will hardly
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expect from me a fresh treatment of a topic so familiar.
Indeed, the echoes of Mr. Upham's memorial address on
the lately deceased President of the Institute, in which he
has left nothing further to be said upon this subject, have
scarcely died away. You all remember his description
of the literary character of this community before the
Revolution ; of the formation of the Social Library in
1760 ; and his list of names of those gentlemen of cul-
ture whose learned conversations, in places of public
resort, or over Mr. Appleton's counter, did much, per-
haps, to mould the habits of thought and inform the mind
of Benjamin Thompson, the young Salem apprentice, who,
later in life, was the first to demonstrate, experimentally,
what Faraday has declared to be "the highest law in physi-
cal science which our faculties permit us to perceive"
the conservation and correlation of forces. Nor can you
have forgotten how strikingly our associate exhibited the
attainments of that group of scholars and men of science,
who, fifty years ago to-day, resolved upon the formation,
in this place, of a society devoted to civil and natural
history.
It needed not his eloquence, surely, to quicken our
pride at the recollection of those great names. Story,
who presided at the first meeting, now recognized alike
in Westminster Hall, at Heidelberg, at Paris, and in our
own courts, as a leading expounder of some of the most
intricate problems of jurisprudence ; Bowditch, not only
the translator, but the interpreter, of the profound calcu-
lations of La Place, in celestial mechanics ; and White
and Pickering who, in the most scholarly and faithful
manner, jointly prepared the first American critical edi-
tion of Sallust, and the latter of whom has given to us,
as one of the results of his extensive philological studies,
the first Greek and English Lexicon, are names worthy
to grace the rolls of any society of learned men. Nor
are their less conspicuous associates and successors to be
overlooked or forgotten. To say, merely, that they were
men of rare accomplishments is to fail, as Mr. Upham
has shown, in sufficiently recognizing their important con-
tributions to the education and refinement of society about
them, and to the advancement of science.
Leaving, then, the history of the origin and growth of
this society as a task already well accomplished, let us
pursue the theme at first propose<J.
A brief comparison of some salient features of every-
day life, now, and fifty years ago, will serve, appositely,
I think, to illustrate my argument.
No doubt the American citizen of 1821 felicitated him-
self that he was born in an age so auspicious. For more
than a generation American Independence had been an
accomplished fact. The recent prowess of our navy, in
conflict with the first and bravest maritime power in the
world, had fanned the flame of patriotic pride not less
than had the achievements of Franklin in science, and the
success of our statesmen in constitutional law and diplo-
macy ; and the hopes of stability and progress for the
Republic were well assured. The telescope was an old
invention, and the microscope had been used here more
than a century. Gunpowder, the mariner's compass, the
art of printing, the astronomy of Copernicus, knowledge
of the law of gravitation, the use of logarithms, true
principles of chemistry, the circumnavigation of the globe,
and great additions to our stock of geographical knowl-
edge, improvements in the art of navigation, the ex-
tension of commerce, the solution of important problems
of trade, the discovery of the circulation of the blood,
and vaccination, the construction of turnpikes and im-
proved roads, and the commencement of the application
of steam to fixed machinery and to locomotion, were all
actual achievements, which seemed to complete the long
progress of civilization and to render all hopes of a
greater future illusory and vain.
Yet, viewed from our present stand-point, even then,
how much of physical comfort and luxury was unknown,
and how insufficiently were the higher wants of our na-
ture supplied !
There were, then, no furnaces to warm our dwelling-
houses and our public halls ; no anthracite coal in grate
or stove ; no gas to illuminate our streets and jbuildings ;
the ordinary table fare in fruits and vegetables, espe-
cially lacked variety and delicacy; furniture was sim-
ply-contrived and expensive ; and clothing was so dear
and wardrobes so meagre, among the masses, as not only
to limit the gratification of taste in dress, but to have
produced intolerable inconvenience, had the modern no-
tions respecting personal cleanliness generally prevailed.
For amusements, our people were contented with the
feats of the strolling juggler, occasional shows of a few
wild animals, theatrical performances in our larger cities,
assemblies, dinner-parties, singing-schools, and the parades
of the militia. Our gardens, then as now, the source of
the purest and healthiest delight, were neither numerous
nor large. They seldom contained more than a single
variety of the peony, three or four varieties of the tulip,
as many, perhaps, of bush-roses and pinks, lilies, holly-
hocks, balsams, daffodils, lilacs, marigolds, poppies and a
small company of less conspicuous flowers, mostly an-
nuals.
There were, then, no courses of public lectures, no il-
lustrated magazines and newspapers, indeed, what news-
papers there were, were mainly filled with local and polit-
itical controversial articles, bitter, personal attacks, and
heavy, stilted disquisitions on matters of small impor-
tance. The reviewers and scientific journalists had, it is
true, begun their labors, but they wrote for a limited cir-
cle of scholars and thinkers, and depended upon their
pecuniary, as well as intellectual, aid for existence.
There were then no free schools for girls,* no English
high schools for boys, and no normal schools for either
sex. Railroads had not then superseded stage-coaches,
and the electric telegraph was not dreamed of. American
art was scarcely known ; and our few larger libraries were
defective, poorly arranged and not easily accessible.
What a contrast to this picture does our present condi-
tion afford ! when the telegraph brings us almost hourly
intelligence from Paris and San Francisco, and informs our
merchants of the arrival of their ships in Arabia on the
same day promising, presently, to more than fulfil the
extravagant engagement of Puck to
" put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes ; "
when our railroads stretch across continents, and ex-
change the produce of the Zones without transhipment ;
when the steamship, like a shuttle, weaves the strong
web of amity and common interest between the opposite
shores of oceans ; when newspapers convey to every
family daily intelligence from all lands, and upon all sub-
jects ; when exhibitions of the highest mechanical skill
and galleries of art are opened to the public, and our best
schools and libraries are free ; when, in short, the common
laborer has the means of being better fed, clad, amused
*This statement may require some qualification. In the country, children of
both sexes generally attended the same schools, which were not graded; but,
usually, in the larger towns, the girls were only permitted to attend, for recitation,
after the boys were dismissed. In Boston, as I am informed by Mr. Philbrick, the
accomplished superintendent of schools, no provision was made for the free
instruction of girls until 1789, when they were permitted to attend the grammar-
schools for half the year. Upon the establishment of primary schools, in 1818.
pupils of both sexes were admitted; but it was not until 1828 that girls were
allowed to attend the grammar-schools during the whole school year.
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and instructed than the most favored citizen could have
been two generations ago, and, if he chooses, can live a
larger life, with more solid enjoyment, than wealth could
then purchase or royalty command. Nor is this all : the
increase of knowledge and more complete dominion over
nature have been accompanied by the amelioration of laws
and manners, and a larger measure of national liberty ;
feudal customs have become extinct ; systems of involun-
tary servitude have been abolished ; the rights of individ-
uals, including freedom of thought and of speech, in a
great measure, established not only here but all over the
civilized world ; and the thoughts of leading minds, in all
pursuits, rationally directed to the great problems of life
and destiny, and the earnest consideration of how the
welfare of mankind may be best promoted.
To the question " To what are we indebted for all this
improvement?" there is but one final and sufficient an-
swer ; and that is, simply, THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE.
This Protean actor has played new parts throughout the
whole cyclopaedia. The venerable science of Astronomy
has, during the last half-century, been advanced by im-
provements in the finish and machinery of the telescope ;
and, besides the discovery of many asteroids and comets,
and the calculation of their orbits, the world has, in that
period, witnessed, in the discovery of the planet Neptune,
an unprecedented triumph of science. Herschel's discov-
ery of Uranus was accidental ; but the calculation by
which Le Verrier fixed the position and revealed the pres-
ence of Neptune, is an illustration of the perfection, and
the wonderful prophetic power, which this grand science
has attained a science the s} 7 stematic prosecution of
which in this country, dates hardly further back than the
year 1843.
Besides the telescope, two other great aids to man's
natural powers of observation are the products of the
last half-century ; I refer to the improved microscope,
and the spectroscope. To the perfection of the former,
we are indebted for the resolution of many obscure points
in physiology, arid the discovery and classification of a
vast number of curious phenomena in crystallography,
and in the lower and more minute forms of organic life ;
while the latter has afforded to chemistry a test incon-
ceivably delicate and sure, and to astronomy a positive
answer to questions which, but a few years ago, seemed
hopelessly beyond the province of actual knowledge.
Chemistry has, during the same period, performed for
the arts the most valuable services. It has created the art
of photography, and conveniently supplied to pharmacy
many valuable remedies. By its new and powerful ex-
plosive agents it has enabled man to quickly penetrate
and remove the hardest and most formidable natural bar-
riers, and, by its improved processes in metallurgy, it has
helped to people regions hitherto uninhabited, largely in-
creased the supply of coin, and proclaimed the opening
of the age of steel. Electricity has been made to oper-
ate the telegraph, and to reduce the cost, and accelerate
the process, of printing; and the discovery of the anaes-
thetic properties of ether and chloroform has greatly les-
sened human suffering.
Cuvier had publicly laid the foundation of modern
zoology only four years before the event we now com-
memorate ; and since that date the natural system in bot-
any has become firmly established. Within fifty years
geology and palaeontology have triumphed over obstinate
prejudices and formidable opposition, and archaeology has
risen to the dignity of a true science. Linguistic science
dates its origin from the writings of Bopp, on compara-
tive philology, which were first published in 1827 ; and
ethnology is just starting upon a new career.
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This is but an imperfect sketch of some of the recent
achievements of science ; and when we consider only the
more immediate results of these and other discoveries
and improvements, in their application to the practical
needs and purposes of life, we can hardly fail to ascribe
to its legitimate cause the corresponding advance of civ-
ilization, and shall clearly perceive that the relations of
science to history are intimate and important.
Indeed, history which fails to recognize the active
agency of science in the affairs of men and nations, nay,
which is not penetrated and guided by this idea, ceases
to be history and becomes either mere speculation, or,
what Bolingbroke characterized another superficial kind
of narrative, "a dry register of useless anecdotes."
The interdependence of the natural and physical sciences
is plainly evident. How closely related, for instance,
are mathematics and optics to astronomy, palaeontology
to recent zoology, comparative philology to ethnology,
and spectrum analysis to chemistry and astronomy. To
chemistry even the fine arts are indebted for photography,
which has created the pre-Raphaelite school of painters,
as defined by Ruskin, with all their fidelity to nature,
their delicacy, and freedom from exaggeration and false
luxuriance of style.
In like manner, the closest relations subsist between
geology, palaeontology, archaeology and philology on the
one hand, and history on the other. Indeed, what are
these sciences but histories of the period unknown to tra-
dition and prior to the invention of letters ? The great
questions, now agitated by the scientific world, respecting
the origin and primitive state of mankind, are as im-
portant to the historian as to the zoologist ; and whether
the arguments of later investigators in this field are sus-
tained or refuted , the experimental facts they have gath-
ered and attested, must carry us a great way toward the
ultimate truth respecting the beginnings of human exist-
ence, and the history of our savage progenitors in their
earliest and lowest condition.
The science of human physiology, too, has a direct
bearing upon history. It helps the historian to avoid
errors into which he is liable to be drawn, by the force of
dominant ideas, and teaches him when to suspect illusion
in others. Mental epidemics, sectional and national ani-
mosities, the antipathies of races and castes, and other
causes of sudden and general motions in the social and
political state oftentimes of momentous consequence
cannot be properly characterized or explained, without
the aid which physiological and ethnological science afford.
Let us not confound the history of science, with history
written upon a scientific basis, and guided by correct ob-
servation and appreciation of those intimate and profound
relations of things and events, which science discloses.
History has been well said to be philosophy teaching by
examples : it is, not less truly, science applied to the
progress of human events. The historian who under-
takes not only to recount, but to interpret events, should
collate, study, and digest his data with the same care, dil-
igence and freedom from prepossession, that the most
careful man of science would deem necessary in the
pursuit of his specialty. His conclusions should be in-
ductions ; and, moreover, he should so test his obser-
vations and deductions, both with reference to his own
possible misapprehension, and to the weight and credi-
bility of evidence, as to exclude, in anything he may
affirm, all chances of error from distorted or partial views
or sheer delusion.
A single instance in point may illustrate my meaning.
Probably, the most interesting and important phenomena
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of psychology have been exhibited, in this country and in
Europe, within the last twenty -four years, in what are
called " the manifestations of spiritualism." Rightly un-
derstood these phenomena, it would seem, offer a key to
almost all the spiritual mysteries of former times ; and
nothing, of a similar nature, in history is better supported
by human testimony, whether we regard the nearness of
the events, or the number, character and sincerity of the
witnesses ; yet, by applying to these phenomena the rigid
tests which science prescribes, the historian is obliged, in
spite of the earnest protests of a multitude of believers,
to exclude all the alleged phenomena which exceed or con-
flict with well-established scientific laws, from his list of
proved and admitted facts ; and, for the present, at least,
they, necessarily, take their place, in history, as subjective
impressions and not as objective realities.
The use of statistics affords an example of a purely sci-
entific method applied to history ; and it was a true say-
ing of Schlozer, the pupil of the founder of this science,
that "statistics is history at a stand ; history is statistics
in a state of progression." The importance of statistics
to political economy is now practically acknowledged the
world over ; and census-returns and public registers are
prepared by all civilized governments in such a manner
as to be easily digested into tables adapted to show the
comparative condition of society, in the most important
particulars, at different periods. Carried still further,
this science could be made vastly more serviceable, not
only in solving problems in political economy, but in
measuring the progress of ideas, faiths and other mental
phenomena, changes of manners and customs, and, gener-
ally, in contributing to the history of civilization. In-
deed, there seems to be no surer basis for sound induction
and generalization, in all matters relating to the progress
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of human events ; and, simply, because the method pur-
sued is purely scientific.
If it is true, then, that history is dependent upon sci-
ence for its only proper method, its tests and many of its
most interesting facts, it is not less true that science is
indebted to history for its preservation and expansion.
As printing is the art preservative of arts, so is history
the science preservative of sciences. Science cannot exist
in isolated phenomena ; it requires condition, comparison,
relation or combination ; there must be the copula and
predicate as well as the subject ; and these denote an his-
torical fact, even if they be presented simultaneously.
By history, alone, can science exhibit the order and
procession of discovery ; and, like a child to its nurse,
must it look to history to learn its age and the story of
its growth. Every part of science which is not learned
by original discovery is learned from history, no matter
what name the record assumes, or in what guise it appears.
All the known laws and data of established science are
historical facts ; and the story of Galvani and the frog, or
of Newton and the apple, and the discoveries to which
these incidents led, are as truly historical as the assassina-
tion of Caesar, or the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
The historian's art is indispensable to the man of sci-
ence in all his larger generalizations ; since only by this
means can the higher laws of relation and tendency be
discerned ; and a master of science should never think of
his speciality but with reference to the succession of ob-
servations and discoveries which have accumulated until
they have gained for it a place in the circle of the sci-
ences. Your best scientific treatises are strictly historical,
albeit their chronology may be brief and the events few.
Finally, the whole tendency of modern philosophy con-
strains us to believe that history and science, conjointly,
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have a nobler work to accomplish than the world has yet
witnessed ; and that is, to solve the problem of the great
end of human existence, to furnish a positive test of good
and evil, and to define the nature, indicate the course, and
demonstrate the obligations of duty. It is a lamentable
fact that the world, even the Christian world, is not yet
agreed upon a system of ethics. The philosophy of mor-
als is at best essentially dogmatic, or the creature of spec-
ulations profound, perhaps, often wise, and always well-
meaning ; but still very far removed from the certainty
of scientific induction. I do not attempt to say what the
true system is, nor whether its discoverer and expounder
has appeared ; but I firmly believe that we are not always
to grope through an
" infinite, dark, and fathomless abyss,"
but that science and history, mutually acting, are, some
day, to unfold to us a system of moral philosophy built
upon positive foundations and commanding universal
assent ; so that the .solution of ethical questions may be
made with the regularity and certainty of mathematics.
History cannot take its first step, nor philosophy exist,
without some theory of human duty constantly in view.
It may be purely speculative, or it may be accepted upon
authority ; but the recognition of some system is implied
in the very idea of history or philosophy. Yet what
widely different theories of right have been adopted by
historians and parties in all ages ! In English history,
for instance, is it settled what picture we shall accept
as genuine of Henry VIII, Mary of Scotland, Mary
of England, Elizabeth, Charles I, Cromwell and the
Puritans? Within the last fifty years what utterly
diverse conclusions have been arrived at respecting the
admitted facts of the careers of the first and the third
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Napoleons ; and what totally opposite ideas of morality
have been advanced and sedulously maintained in the ter-
rible controversies now happily ended concerning
American Slavery ! What umpire shall decide for us ?
What test shall, in future, be applied to redeem history
from the reproach of empiricism and uncertainty ?
The conviction that such conflicts must be reconciled ;
that error springs from partial views ; that all truth is con-
sistent in the aggregate and in all its parts ; that a uni-
form law pervades and characterizes all the motions of
life, referring them to some great, ultimate purpose ; and
that this law has been revealed, partially and by glimpses,
to the expounders of all systems, has drawn modern
philosophy to adopt the method of history, by which she
hopes to detect this law, and trace it to its end ; or, often-
er, assuming that she has discovered it, she resorts to
history to vindicate her right of discovery, and to show
how this continuous line of truth, extending through all
philosophical systems, has developed, at last, into har-
monious perfection in the particular system proposed.
If, with the historical method, she combines the induc-
tive processes of science, and limits herself to the study
of experimental truth distinguishing between mental
impressions and real phenomena she will make, let us
believe, if not as high excursions, a more certain progress
toward the desired goal, which it would be distrusting
Providence to believe is not attainable.
Here let us revert to the event we commemorate, and
consider the proofs of their wisdom who founded, in the
joint interests of history and science, the society out of
which this Institute has sprung.
What then existed only in an act of incorporation and
a name, now offers for public use, in this large and com-
modious building, a library of twenty-six thousand bound
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volumes, more than one hundred thousand pamphlets,
and two thousand five hundred volumes of newspapers,
bound and unbound, including duplicates.
On the other side of the library hall, the Athenaeum
displays nearly fourteen thousand volumes more, in every
department of literature.
Our publications embrace the three numbers of the
Journal of the Natural History Society, six volumes of
Proceedings, ten volumes of Historical Collections, and
an eleventh volume already begun. To these must be
added besides some occasional publications two vol-
umes of the "Monthly Bulletin" and five volumes of the
"Naturalist."
These publications have been well circulated and have
received merited attention at home and abroad. The
"Naturalist," especially, which is now published under
the auspices of the Peabody Academy of Science, has
been, without exception, most favorably noticed by scien-
tific and literary critics here and in Europe.
Our Cabinets, in 1866, contained about fifty-five thou-
sand classified specimens in the various branches of natu-
ral history. These and other specimens not then arranged
have been united with those in the East India Marine
Hall, and they, together, number several hundreds of
thousands. These united collections the Peabody Acad-
emy of Science has in charge ; but they are available for
use to members of the Institute, and all other students of
science, on the most liberal terms.
In numismatics, ethnological specimens, and manu-
scripts our collections are considerable ; and the fine arts,
embraced, by the recent amendment to our act of incor-
poration, among the objects of the Institute, are begin-
ning to receive special attention particularly the art of
music.
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The public have always been invited to participate in
our studies, and enjoy the advantages which the Institute
offers, upon almost equal terms with our members ; and
while the State has had the use of the rare collection of
the Province laws in our library, our cabinets have fur-
nished nearly all the typical specimens from which one
of our associates has made the drawings used in the
preparation of the recent work on the invertebrates of
Massachusetts, published by authority of the Common-
wealth.
Finally, we have established a printing-office, which,
though not now connected with the Institute, continues to
perform all our typographical work in a style not excelled
by any other press in the country.
All this, and much more, has been the result of grad-
ual and quiet growth. No Maecenas has showered his
golden bounty upon us, nor have we received the lar-
gesses of the State ; but by slow and silent processes, un-
der wise and prudent direction, those who are most to be
benefited by such an institution, the people drawn
by the various attractions which are embraced by its con-
stitution, have built it up, rendered it symmetrical, and
enlarged and strengthened its foundations.
Throughout our career we have had no jealousies, no
divisions, no conflicts ; but science and literature have
gone hand in hand to prove that wisdom's "ways are ways
of pleasantness and all her paths are peace." There has
not even been a generous rivalry between the workers
in the different departments of learning who have labored
here, side by side, in a common cause. To adopt the
words which were lately applied to our oldest university
by its President, in his admirable inaugural address, the
Institute " recognizes no real antagonism between litera-
ture and science:" nay, we go further; we claim to
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have shown that the true interests of both are identical,
and their success mutually dependent.
As the representative of the historical department of
the Institute, I am proud to attest to the joy with which
we all received the announcement of the munificent pro-
vision of Mr. Peabody, for the promotion of science in
this county, through the instrumentality of those devoted,
hard-working, young men who composed the scientific
side of this body ; and, I certainly utter the sentiments
of the Institute, as a whole, when I, also, express our
sense of the immeasurable obligations we are under to
the great disciple of Cuvier, who, for half the period we
are to-day looking back upon, has been disseminating a
knowledge of the correct principles of natural science in
this, the land of his adoption, and to whom his pupils,
our associates, are so much indebted for the methods of
observation and reflection by which they have won an en-
viable fame ; for their knowledge of, and interest in, the
progress of their European collaborators ; and for their
unfaltering, enthusiastic devotion to science through years
of discouragement, toil, trial and sacrifice.
Lovers of history and antiquities are, it is commonly
thought, habitually conservative. Constant retrospection
is apt to beget undue regard for the past and aversion
and distrust of novelties. Science, on the other hand, is,
to its votaries, nothing if not new. Yet here, where these
different dispositions are certainly as strongly marked as
in any other body, no offence has been given and no dis-
cord ensued. Our connection with our scientific associ-
ates has made us so familiar with the great truths of
nature, which it is their province to seek out and eluci-
date, that we are no longer startled by the free discussion
of those phenomena which have led men of science, every-
where, to modify their interpretation of, or assent to, the
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Mosaic cosmogony, and to reject the chronology of New-
ton. We do not hesitate to follow science in condemning
as visionary many notions generally received as truths
fifty years ago ; and some theories then entertained ap-
pear to us now as absurd as the cycles and epicycles of
Ptolemy.
Yet the effect of scientific progress has been not to
abate our reverence, but, by extending the limits of
actual knowledge, to exalt our ideas of the greatness,
harmony, minute economy, and regularity of Creative
Power ; and, by depriving them of all appearance of finite
and material qualities, to render more venerable the mys-
terious objects of faith.
If I should attempt to portray the results of the educa-
tion which this miniature university, with its democratic
organization, its wide range of pursuits, and its free
and health}' discipline, is calculated to bestow, I should
show you a mind many-sided ; intensely curious as to all
the phenomena of nature and all the concerns of life ;
exact and complete in what it professes to know ; ready
to receive any and all truth, yet not rashly venturing
upon experiments, nor given to drawing conclusions from
uncertain premises ; as far removed from envy and cov-
etous ambition, as from indifference to anything that con-
cerns the welfare and happiness of mankind ; large of
comprehension yet laborious and exact in details: know-
ing no science, no phenomenon of mind or matter un-
worthy of study, and holding sacred every law of nature ;
ever industrious in the serious avocations of life, yet ever
contriving how to make them pleasurable and recreative ;
intent on gathering and treasuring the relics of the past
because of their possible interest and value for the future ;
the associate and counsellor of age, and the friend and
genial companion of youth ; aiding, both by precept and
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example, to interest all others in its own special work,
and taking an equal interest in the pursuits of others ;
above all, disturbed by no fears that coming generations
will undo the work of to-day, or that the mass of our
fellow men may not be trusted to work out their own des-
tiny in the best possible manner; and looking, for the
conservation of truth, to the general intelligence of man-
kind rather than to edifices and institutions erected and
maintained by the few.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS : If, in the picture I present,
you discern the lineaments of one still living and long
may he be spared to us in whom the Institute may be
said, reverently and truly, to have lived and moved and
had its being that "guide, philosopher and friend" to
whom the whole community, and we in particular, are so
deeply indebted ; who, with rare industry, and utter
suppression of self, for more than a generation, has de-
voted to the upbuilding of this institution his time, learn-
ing, talents and all his energies ; whom ambition has not
allured from his chosen path of duty, nor bereavements
secluded ; consider, that the likeness is but another illus-
tration of the invariable relations of cause and effect,
that the school must take its cast from the genius of its
founder; and that the only return which it is possible
for us to make him, and that he will accept, is so to imi-
tate his example that this our " gentle mother," may have
sons and daughters able and worthy to take up and carry
on the work which he shall leave undone.
SOME NOTES ON OLD MODES OF TRAVEL.
BEAD AT THE INSTITUTE, FEB. 4, 1868, AND MARCH 2, 1870.
BY BOBEET 8. KANTOUL.
" You may ride in an hour or two, if you will,
From Halibut Point to Beacon Hill,
With the sea beside you all the way,
Through the pleasant places that skirt the Bay;
By Gloucester Harbor and Beverly Beach,
Salem Witch-haunted, Nahant's long reach,
Blue-bordered Swampscott and Chelsea's wide
Marshes, laid bare to the drenching tide,
With a glimpse of Saugus spire in the west,
And Maiden hills wrapped in hazy rest.
All this you watch idly, and more by far,
From the cushioned seat of a railway-car.
But in days of witchcraft it was not so ;
City-bound travellers had to go
Horseback over a blind, rough road,
Or as part of a jolting wagon-load
Of garden-produce and household goods,
Crossing the fords, half-lost in the woods,
By wolves and red-skins frightened all day,
And the roar of lions, some histories say.
If a craft for Boston were setting sail,
Very few of a passage would fail
Who had trading to do in the three-hilled town ;
For they might return ere the sun was down."
Peggy SKgh's Voyage.
When this region of ours was first colonized by Euro-
peans, they contented themselves for a time with the rude
means of conveyance and transportation known to their
savage neighbors. The favorite way to Boston, Ply-
mouth, and Cape Ann, was by water. The "dug-out"
was much in use, being a pine log twenty feet long and
two and one-half feet wide, in which they sometimes
" went fowling two leagues to sea." These " cannowes "
seem to have been inspected at stated intervals, by a
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town surveyor, and passed or condemned according to
their fitness for further service. It was in swimming for
one of these, from a desire to visit the Indian Village at
"Northfield," that Governor Winthrop's son Henry, on
the day after his arrival at Salem, was drowned in the
North River. In one of these boats, no doubt, Roger
Conant might often be seen making his way up Bass
River, to visit his farm of two hundred acres, near the
" great pond side." And Governor Endicott's little sloop-
boat, or "shallop," flits across the pages of the ancient
records, as, no doubt she walked the waters of the bay
and rivers, like a thing of life.
The condition of the trail, which was the only land
transit between Salem and Boston, is indicated by two
contemporary writers of the first authority. On the 12th
of April, 1631, Gov. Endicott wrote to Gov. Winthrop
the following letter from Salem.
"Right Worshipful: I did expect to have been with
you in person at the Court, and to that end I put to sea
yesterday, and was driven back again, the wind being
stiff against us. And there being no canoe or boat at
Saugus, I must have been constrained to go to Mystic,
and thence afoot to Charlestown, which, at that time
durst not be so bold, my body being, at this present, in
an ill condition to wade or take cold. * * * The
eel-pots you sent for are made, which I had in my boat,
hoping to have brought them with me." * * * *
It will be observed that these worthies were not the
plodders of the Colony. Their . position insured them
the best travelling facilities the times afforded. Gov.
Winthrop wrote in his Journal, Oct. 25th, 1631, "The
Governor, with Capt. Underhill and other of the officers,
went on foot to Saugus, and next day to Salem, where
they were bountifully entertained by Capt. Endicott, and
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on the 28th, they returned to Boston by the ford at
Saugtis River and so over at Mystic."
In 1637, Gov. Winthrop passed through Salem on foot,
with a large escort, on his way to and from Ipswich, and
next year, visited Salem by water and returned by land.
The first party of Salem people who visited Boston after
its settlement, are said to have spent four days on the
way, and on the following Sabbath, to have put up a note
of thanks, in our First Church (now restored and stand-
ing in the rear of Plummer Hall) for their safe guidance
and return.
In 1650, as we learn frpm Parkman's "France and
England in North America," the first essay was made, at
the instance of the Colony of Massachusetts, towards
negotiating a reciprocity treaty between these English
settlements and the French colonies in Canada. A Jesuit
ambassador from Quebec set out in company with a con-
verted Indian chief, to visit Boston, and secure the
military aid of this colony against the Iroquois, in con-
sideration of some privileges of trade to be granted by
the French. He made his way from "Kepane" (Cape
Ann), where he was forced ashore by stress of weather,
to Charlestown "partly on foot partly in boats along
shore," and from that peninsula the priest crossed by boat
to Boston, probably the first Romanist who ever re-
ceived a welcome in this Puritan Colony. On return-
ing, he stopped at Salem, and dined with Gov. Endicott,
who, he says, spoke French.
Some felling of trees and lifting of rocks was needed
to convert these muddy trails into bridle-paths, and then
the colonist moved about through the forest, accompanied
by good-wife on a pillion behind,* and followed per-
haps by a pack-horse, sweating under well stuffed pan-
* Dunton's Journal 1686. I. Felt 313.
niers. "Such a way as a man may travel on horse back,
or drive cattle," the court ordered laid out by Eichard
Brackenbury, Mr. Conant and others, from the ferry at
Salem; to Jeffrie's Creek, now Manchester. Poets sing
false, or the saddle was sometimes mounted on the backs of
cattle, in those early days, as now-a-days in San Domingo.
'Then, from a stall near at hand, amid exclamations of ^wonder,
' Alden, the thoughtful, the careful, so happy, so proud of Priscilla,
Brought out his snow-white Bull, obeying the hand of its master,
Led by a chord that was tied to an iron ring in its nostrils,
Covered with crimson cloth and a cushion placed for a saddle.
She should not walk, he said, through the dust and heat of the noon-day,
Nay, she should ride like a Queen, not plqd along like a peasant.
Somewhat alarmed at first, but reassured by the others,
Placing her hand on the cushion, her loot in the hand of her husband,
Gaily, with joyous laugh, Priscilla mounted her palfrey."
After the bridle-paths came the roads. The configura-
tion of our surface did not favor the use of canals and we
escaped that dreary stage in the development of trans-
portation. Roads multiplied apace, but they were con-
structed not so much on mathematical, as on social prin-
ciples. Nothing is more entertaining to the idler, than
to trace out some old abandoned lane, wandering between
crooked walls choked up. with underbrush of barberry,
alderberry, rose-bush, fern and bramble arched with
grand old elms, and seemingly leading nowhere. Some
dilapidated cellar-wall or ruined well soon answers the
question, " whither wilt thou lead me ? " The pioneers
built their homes where the soil was tempting, the slopes
attractive, and material at hand. Villages were small
and infrequent. Hence roads were made to reach the
homesteads of single colonists, and not with prime regard
to directness between town and town. And as the dis-
tance around a hill was no greater than over it, and the
cost of excavating must be avoided, these roads, in un-
even places, became still more circuitous, from the hills
they encountered. Their original cost has been expended
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many times over, in widening, straightening, and leveling
them, so that the curious observer will find on either side
of the present road, grass-grown bits of the old highway
leading off a little, and soon returning to it.
An old family of the county have been in the habit of
making a yearly pilgrimage from Cape Ann to Andover,
over the road as it was two or three generations back,
faithfully tracing out, wherever it was possible, each ox-
bow in the way, with its ancient trees and low-roofed
farm-house and well-sweep and brook. Hawthorne has
thus described one of the most tempting of these lovely
by-ways, in his account of "Browne's Folly," written for
the Institute in 1860.
"Along its base ran a green and seldom trodden lane,
with which I was very familiar in my boyhood ; and there
was a little brook, which I remember to have dammed up
till its overflow made a mimic ocean. When I last looked
for this tiny streamlet, which was still rippling freshly
through my memory, I found it strangely shrunken ; a
mere ditch indeed, and almost a dry one. But the green
lane was still there, precisely as I remembered it ; two
wheel tracks, and the beaten path of the horses' feet, and
grassy strips between ; the whole overshadowed by tall
locust trees, and the prevalent barberry bushes, which are
rooted so fondly into the recollections of every Essex
man."
These old roads belonged to the period when a journey
to Boston was a thing to be thought of for days before
hand and only to be embarked on in pleasant weather.
Dobbin must be brought in from pasture be rested and
fed up a little, and have his shoes looked to the "one-
hoss shay," with its capacity for stowage like that of the
ark,
" Thorough-brace bison skin, thick and wide,
Boot, top, dasher of tough old hide
Found in the pit when the tanner died ;"
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this lumbering conveyance was to be cleaned up over
night and its wheels put in order the Sunday suit must
be aired and dusted, and when at last, the eventful morn-
ing dawned fresh and fair, and the leave-taking of several
generations was accomplished, the journey of the day
was to be performed, by not too burthensome stages, re-
lieved by episodes of breakfast and baiting at the " Crea-
ture Comfort," or some other favorite half-way house, and
a scrupulous withdrawal of Dobbin from the too active in-
fluence of the mid-day sun.
A few figures will show how much distances from
point to point have been reduced. We find the follow-
ing in "Travis's Almanac," Boston, 1713.
"From Boston to Portsmouth, (Ferry's excepted) 62
Miles, thus accounted.
From Winisimit, to Owens 4 Miles, to Lewes' 1 s 2 &
half, to the Sign of the .Galley at /Salem 9, to the Ferry
at Beverly 1, to Fisks at Wenham 5, to Cromtons at Ips-
wich 6, to Bennets at Rowley 3 & half, (which is called
the half way house) to Sargeants at Neivbury, the upper
way by Thurrel's Bridge 8, but from Rowley the right
hand way by the Ferry is but 7 to said Sargeants, to
Trues, or to Pikes Gate at Salisbury 2 & half, to Nor-
tons at Hampton 4 & half, to Sherbons at said Town 2, to
Johnsons at Greenland 8 & half, and to Harvies at the
three Tons at Portsmouth 5 Miles & half."
In April, 1775, Col. Pickering marched his regiment
from Salem on the alarm of the fight at Lexington. To
explain his tardiness in reaching the scene of action, he
gives these distances in h'is journal. Salem to Danvers,
2 miles ; to Ne well's in Lynn, 7 miles ; to Maiden, 6
miles; to Medford, 3 miles; to Boston, 4 miles ; making
the route from Salem to Boston, towards the close of the
last century, 22 miles.
The character of the public houses of the time, is
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closely allied to our subject. The "Sign of the Galley
at Salem," mentioned by Travis, was, no doubt, the
" Ship Tavern," on School street, at the corner of what
are now Church and Washington streets, the old Gov-
ernor's house, brought up by water from Cape Ann,
and rebuilt there and successively occupied by Conant and
Endicott. It was kept, in 1713, by Henry Sharp, who,
in 1701, advertised a calash to let, the first recorded in-
stance of such a convenience in Salem. Modern travel-
lers would hardly think these inns well described by the
term " ordinary," under which they were licensed. They
were conditioned to allow no tippling after nine at night ;
the house must be cleared on week-day lecture of all per-
sons able to attend meeting ; no cakes or buns to be sold,
this was in 1637, on fine of ten shillings, the prohibition
not to extend to cakes "made for any buryall or marriage,
or such like special occation." In 1645, the widow of an
innholder is licensed "if she procure a fitt man, that is
Godly, to manage the business." In 1659, the law for-
bids dancing at Taverns, and as late as 1759, the sale of
spirits, wines, coffee, tea, ale, beer and "syder" on the
Sabbath.
At the middle of the last century a New York mer-
chant, supercargo on board the ship "Tartar Galley,"
from New York for London, was disabled when a few
days out, and put in to Boston for repairs. While de-
tained there he seems to have moved among what he
terms the " best Fashion in Boston." I make room for a
passage from his Journal. *
"October 19th, 1750. While at breakfast Mr. Nathan-
iel Cunningham waited on me at Capt. Wendell's, agree-
able to promise & furnished me with a horse to go to
* New England Hist, and Gen. Keg., January, 1870.
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Salem, being very desirous to see the country. Sett out
about 10 o'clock. * * * Cross'd Charles Towne
Ferry. * * * About 2 miles from thence we crosst
Penny Ferry which is better than mile over." Being
the neighest way to Salem. From this to Mr. Ward's is
about 8 miles, and is about a mile this side of Lyn which
is a small Country Towne of ab't 200 Houses very pleas-
antly situated, & affords a Beautifull Rural Prospect ; we
came to Mr. Ward's about one o'clock and dynd on fryd
Codd. From this place is about 7 miles to Salem. After
dinner having refreshed ourselves with a glass of wine
sett out on our journey through a barren rocky country
which afforded us not the least prospect of anything but
a desart country, abounding with Loffty Ragged Rocks a
fine Pastering Ground only for their Sheep, the Rhoads
are exceeding stony and the country but thinly peopled."
Oct. 19th. Arrived at Salem ab't 3 a Clock put up
our Horses at the Wid'o Prats from whence went to See
Coll. William Browne * where drank Tea with his Spouse,
after which Mr. Browne was so Good as to Accomodate
us with a Walk round the Towne, Shewing us the wharfs
warehouses &c., went up in the Steeple of the Church,
from whence had a Fine View of the Town, Harbour, &c.,
which is Beautyfully Situated From which have a View of
Mr. Brownes Country Seatf which is Situated on a Heigh
Hill ab't 6 Miles Eastward of Salem Spent the Evening at
his House where Joynd in Company by Parson Appleton J
and Miss Hetty his daughter from Cambridge they Being
Acquaintence of Mr. and Mrs. Browne we Supd togeather
and after that where Very merry, at Whist, &c.
* Col. Browne was, at one time, a conspicuous character in Salem. He probably
married the daughter of Gov. Burnet while the latter resided in Mass. His son,
Col. William Brown, was a prominent loyalist. Felt's Annals of Salem ; Picker-
ing's Life of Timothy Pickering ; Sabine's Am. Loyalists.
f "Browne's Folly;" see Ante, p. 23, and Stone's History of Beverly, p. 6.
t Rev. Nathaniel Appleton, D. D.
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Oct. 20th. Lodg'd at Mr. Brownes ; after Breakfast
Saunterd round the Towne mayking Our Observations
on the Build's &c. Dynd at his House after Dinner had a
Good Deal Conversation with him upon Various Subjects
he being a Gent'u of Excellent Parts well Adversed in
Leaturate a Good Scholar a Great Vertuosa and Lover of
the Liberal Arts and Sciences haveing an Extroardenary
Library of Books of the Best Ancient and Modern Authors
about 3 a Clock we Sett out in his Coach for his Country
Seat rideing trough a Pleasent Country and fine Rhoads
we arived there at 4 a Clock the Situation is very Airy
Being upon a Heigh Hill which Over Looks the Country
all Round and affords a Pleasent Rural Prospect of a Fine
Country with fine woods and Lawns with Brooks water
running trough them, you have also a Prospect of the
Sea on one Part and On another A Mountain 80 Miles dis-
tant The House is Built in the Form of a Long Square,
with Wings at Each End and is about 80 Foot Long, in
the middle is a Grand Hall Surrounded above by a Fine
Gallery with Neat turned Bannester and the Cealing of
the Hall Representing a Large doom Designd for an As-
sembly or Ball Room, the Gallery for the Mucisians &c.
the Building has Four Doors Fronting the N. E. S. & W.
Standing in the middle the Great Hall you have a Full
View of the Country from the Four Dores at the Ends
of the Buildings is 2 upper and 2 Lower Rooms with neat
Stair Cases Leadeing to them in One the Lower Rooms is
his Library and Studdy well Stockd with a Noble Colec-
tiou of Books the others are all uufurnish'd as yet Nor is
the Building yet Compleat wants a Considerable workman
Ship to Compleat it, so as the Design is But Since the
Loss of his first wife who was Governour Burnetts Daugh-
ter of New York by whome he has yet 2 Little Daughters
Liveing, the Loss of her he took much to heart as he was
doateingly fond of her Being a Charming Ladie when
married. But he is now determine! to Compleat it we
drank a Glass wine haveing Feasted our Eyes with the
Prospect of the Country Returned to his House where
Sup'd and Past the Evening Vastly Agreeable being a
Very merry Facitious Gentlemen, went to bed Intend'g to
Proceed to Marble head Next Morning.
Oct. 21st. Haveing Got our Horses ready, after Break-
fast took our Leave's of Mr. Browne and Spouse. Before
proceed shall Give a Small Discription of Salem. Its a
Small Sea Port Towne. Consists of ab't 450* Houses,
Several of which are neat Buildings, but all of wood, and
Covers a Great Deal of Ground, being at a Conveniant
Distance from Each Other, with fine Gardens back their
Houses, the Town is Situated on a Neck of Laud Nava-
gable on either Side is ab't 2 Miles in Lenght Including
the build'gs Back the Towue, has a main Street runs
directly trough, One Curch 3 Presbiterian and One
Quakers Meeting, the Situation is Very Pretty, &c. The
Trade Consists Chiefly in the Cod Fishery, they have ab't
60 or 70 Sail Schooners Employ d in that Branch. Saw
ab't 40 Sail in the Harb'r hav'g then ab't 40 at Sea. They
Cure all their Own Cod for Markett, Saw there a Vast
Number Flakes Cureing, in the Harbour Lay also two
Topsail Vessells and three Sloops, on Exam'g into the
Fishery find it a very adventag's Branch.
The travellers then ride to Marblehead " trough a plea-
sant country and good Roades" spend an hour there
at breakfast with Mr. Read see the town, of which
they formed no very flattering impression, and push on
to their friend Mr. Ward's, at Lynn. "Dyned upon a
fine mongrel goose" proceeded on their journey
* Salem had (May 1, 1868), 3053 dwelling houses, and about 21,000 inhabitants.
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"through Mystic, and came to Mr. Wendell's in Boston,
ab't 8 o'clock."
I find passages illustrative of the times in the diary of
John Adams written when the author was "riding the
circuit " in the practice of the law, at the age of thirty,
and residing in Braintree.
"1766, Nov. 3d. Monday. Sett off with my wife for
Salem. Stopped half an hour at Boston. Crossed the
Ferry, at three o'clock arrived at Hill's, the tavern in
Maiden, the sign of the Rising Eagle * * * where we
dined. Here we fell in company with Kent and Sewall.
We all oated at Martin's where we found the new
Sheriff of Essex, Colonel Saltonstall. We all rode into
town together. Arrived at my dear brother Cranch's,
about eight, and drank tea and are all very happy. Sat
and heard the ladies talk about ribbon, catgut, and Paris
net, riding-hoods, cloth, silk and lace. Brother Cranch
came home and a very happy evening we had. Cranch
is now in a good situation for business, near the Court
House and Mr. Barnard's meeting-house and on the road
to Marblehead : his house fronting the wharves, the har-
bor and shipping, has a fine prospect before it.
4. Tuesday. A fine morning : attended court all day
* * Prayer by Mr. Barnard, Deacon Pickering was
foreman of one of the juries * * his appearance is
perfectly plain, like a farmer.
5. Wednesday. Attended Court; heard the trial of an
action of trespass, brought by a mulatto woman for dam-
ages for restraining her of her liberty. * * * Spent
the evening at Mr. Pynchon's with Faruham, Sewall, Sar-
gent, Colonel Saltonstall, etc., very agreably. Punch,
wine, bread and cheese, apples, pipes and tobacco.
Popes and bonfires this, evening at Salem, and a swarm
of tumultuous people attending them.
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6. Thursday. A fine morning. Gated at Martin's,
where we saw five boxes of dollars, containing, as we
were told, about eighteen thousand of them, going in a
horse-cart from Salem Custom House to Boston, in order
to be shipped for England. A guard of armed men,
with swords, hangers, pistols and muskets, attended it.
We dined at Dr. Tuft's in Medford. * * * Drank
tea at Mrs. Kneeland's, got home before eight o'clock."
On a previous visit to his brother Cranch in August,
he rode after tea to Neck Gate, then back through the
common, down to Beverly Ferry and about town.
"Scarce an eminence," he says, "can be found anywhere
to take a view. The streets are broad and straight and
pretty clean. The houses are the most elegant and grand
that I have seen in any of the maritime towns."
On Friday, June 29th, 1770, he set out on another
"journey to Falmouth in Casco Bay." Dined at Good-
hue's in Salem. Fell in with a London merchant, a
stranger, who "made a genteel appearance," was in
a chair himself, with a negro servant, talked of American
affairs, thought the colonists " could not conquer their
luxury," and this would make them dependent on Great
Britain. " Oated my horse and drank balm tea at Tread-
well's in Ipswich." Treadwell's was a favorite resort
with him. On' a visit there ten days before, he says,
"Rambled with Kent round Landlord Treadwell's past-
ures to see how our horses fared. We found them in
the grass up to their eyes ; excellent pastures. This hill,
on which stand the Meeting-house and Court House, is a
fine elevation, and we have here a fine air and the pleas-
ant prospect of the winding river at the foot of the hill."
On another visit he writes. "Landlord and Landlady
are some of the grandest people alive : landlady is the
great grand-daughter of Governor Endicott. * * As to
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Landlord he is as happy and proud as any nobleman in
England." And again "The old lady has got a new
copy of her great grandfather's, Governor Endicott's
picture hung up in the house." That picture is now
among the collections of the Institute.
Next morning, Saturday, June 30th, he "arose not
very early, drank a pint of new milk and set off; oated
my horse at Newbury, rode to Clarke's at Greenland
meeting-house, where I gave him hay and oats and then
set off for Newington." Dined there with his uncle
Joseph, minister of that town, then in his eighty-second
year, and set off for York over Bloody Point Ferry * *
"a very unsentimental journey excepting this day at
dinner ; have been unfortunate enough to ride alone all
the way and have met with very few characters or adven-
tures. I forgot yesterday to mention that I stopped and
inquired the name of a pond in Weuham, which I found,
was Wenham Pond, and also the name of a remarkable
little hill at the mouth of the pond, which resembles a
high loaf of our country brown bread, and found that it
is called Peters' Hill to this day from the famous Hugh
Peters." * * *
July 1. Sunday. "Arose early. I took a walk to the
pasture, to see how my horse fared. * * * My little
mare had provided for herself, by leaping out of a bare
pasture into a lot of mowing ground, and had filled her-
self with grass and water.
2. Monday morning. In my sulky before five o'clock,
Mr. Winthrop, Farnham and D. Sewall with me on
horseback : rode through the woods the tide being too
high to go over the beach and to cross Cape Neddick
Kiver: came to Littlefield's in Wells, a quarter before
eight : stopped there and breakfasted. * * * Rode to
Patten's of Arundel. Mr. Winthrop and I turned our
horses into a little close to roll and cool themselves and
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feed upon white honey-suckle. P. M. Got into my
chair : rode with Elder Bradbury through Sir William
PepperelFs woods : stopped and oated at Milliken's and
rode into Falmouth."
Compare this picture of Mr. Adams, in his desobli-
geant, as he calls his narrow seated chair, riding into Fal-
mouth, with an incident in the career of two statesman
of our time. During the negotiation of the British-
American treaty which detained Mr. Webster in the Cab-
inet of John Tyler, after his colleagues had deserted all
the departments but that of State, it was proposed to con-
vey him, in company with Lord Ashburton, with the ut-
most speed, from Boston to Portland. Alexander Brown,
a genial, trusty, energetic man, was chosen from among
the drivers on the route to arrange the conveyance by
stage from the Railroad terminus, and the most thorough
preparations were made. Relays of picked horses, fre-
quent and fresh, awaited him at every stage house, a
groom to each horse, ambitious, both man and beast, to
act well their parts in the struggle against time. Three
minutes were allowed for each change of horses. Mr.
Brown, afterwards Depot- master at the Rail Road Station
in Boston, recalled the achievement of that day with
pride until his death, and used to tell how the British
ambassador got out at a stopping-place and watch in
hand observed the process of "unhitching and putting to,"
remarking that it was done as quickly, within a few sec-
onds, as in England. This was high commendation from
an Englishman. And it certainly was a notable thing,
to have driven for eight hours over American roads, well
enough to keep an English peer in good humor and to
have brought him into Portland in the company of that
man whose titan brow and olympian presence prompted
Sydney Smith to remark, that if the great American were
half as great as he looked he must be great indeed.
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Once more, Monday June 17th, 1771, Mr. Adams sets
out upon the Eastern Circuit.
" I mounted my horse and rode to Boston in a cloth
coat and waistcoat, but was much pinched with a raw,
cold, harsh, northeast wind. At Boston I put on a thick
flannel shirt and that made me comfortable and no more ;
so cold am I, or so cold is the weather, June 17th * * *
Came over Charlestown ferry and Penny ferry and dined
at Kettel's in Maiden. * * * Overtook Judge Cushing
in his old curricle with two lean horses, and Dick, his
negro, at his right hand, driving the curricle. This is
the way of travelling in 1771, a judge of the circuits,
a judge of the superior court, a judge of the king's bench,
common pleas and exchequer for the Province, travels
with a pair of wretched old jades of horses in a wretched
old curricle, and a negro on the same seat with him driv-
ing * * * Stopped at Martin's in Lynn with Judge
Cushing ; oated and drank a glass of wine. * * * Rode
with King, a deputy sheriff, who came out to meet the
judges, into Salem : put up at Goodhue's. The negro
that took my horse soon began to open his heart. He
did not like the people of Salem ; wanted to be sold to
Capt John Dean of Boston. His mistress said he did not
earn salt to his porridge and would not find him clothes."
Arrived at Falmouth, July 2nd, he writes : " This has
been the most flat, insipid, spiritless, tasteless journey I
ever took, especially from Ipswich." And this we can
understand better when we read of his riding alone
through Saco woods after night-fall. "Many sharp, steep
hills, many rocks, many deep ruts, and not a footstep of
man except in the road ; it was vastly disagreeable."*
* It will be remembered, in this connection, that when Gen. Washington took
command of the army at Cambridge, he came all the way from Virginia on horse-
back.
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Before great advances could be made towards speed,
comfort, safety and cheapness in travel, fords and step-
ping-stones must give way to ferries, ferry-ways must
yield to bridges, and turnpikes must supersede county
roads on the great thoroughfares. Road-making was no
new art. It had been, carried to a high point by the an-
cients, but the costliness of their works made the lesson
of little value to the new countries of the modern world.
The Romans, for instance, had magnificent roads leading
out into the provinces, as many of them as the hills
upon which the Eternal City sat. These roads were
crowned with a surface of polished stone, over which
wagons, on wooden wheels, were drawn by unshod
beasts with ease and speed. But it was only at the be-
ginning of this century that McAdam showed us how to
bridge over a quagmire with a crust of concrete so firm
as to bear loads that make the marshy substratum on
which it rests quake like a jelly.
From 1636 a ferry had been supported between North
Point or Salem Neck, so called, and Cape Ann or Bass
River side, now Beverly. From time to time it was
leased for the benefit of the Grammar School Masters
of Salem. At first it provided only for the crossing of
persons. But, in 1639, these were the regulations :
" Lessee to keep an horse-boate to have for strangers'
passadge 2d apeice, for towne dwellers Id apeice,
for mares, horses and other great beasts 6d apeice, and for
goats, calves and swyne, 2d apeice." For more than
a century, an inn known as the "old Ferry Tavern," stood
hard by on the Salem side. The ferry touched at Salem
side near the present bridge, but a little to the north.
In 1787, Beverly, somewhat aggrieved at the manage-
ment of the ferry in the interest of Salem, moved for a
bridge. A charter, now on deposit with the Institute,
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was granted to the Cabots, and Israel Thorudike of Bev-
erly, and to John Fiske and Joseph White of Salem, and
the old Ferry-way was laid out as a highway by the Court
of Sessions. Dec. 13th, the proprietors of the bridge
organized at the Sun Tavern. Nathan Dane was modera-
tor and William Prescott, clerk. The bridge was opened
for use Sept. 24th, 1788. It was one of the modern
wonders. Gen. Washington, on his northern tour next
year, dismounted to examine it and observe the working
of the draw. And a Russian engineer was specially com-
missioned to acquaint himself with its structure. But
this beneficent work was not carried through without
violent opposition, of which Spite Bridge was one of the
fruits. Salem voted to oppose the petitioners and invited
other towns to do so. Competition was threatened from
a parallel bridge. The navigation of North River, it was
urged, would be annihilated, and 40 vessels of various,
tonnage, then employed there, would be driven from the
river. "Prejudices, strong party feeling and much ex-
citement" are spoken of by Felt, 'and he adds that one
Blythe, a wit of the time, was prompted to observe that
there never was a bridge built without railings on both
sides. This timely successor of the old ferry-way, after
compensating its projectors for their risk and outlay, re-
verted,- at the expiration of its 70 years' charter, to the
State. I may be pardoned a personal reminiscence in
this connection. My grandfather told me that he walked
over the bridge on the day it was opened for travel,
being then a Salem school boy ten years old, and again
in his eightieth year on the day of the expiration of its
charter.
In 1868 the bridge was surrendered by the state to the
towns and thrown open to the public, in accordance with
that enlightened social economy, which shows us that all
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needless restraint upon the intercourse of neighbors is
barbarism.
Another monument of Essex County enterprise is
the turnpike connecting us with Boston, now also, in the
same liberal spirit, dedicated to free travel. March 6th,
1802, Edward Augustus Holyoke, William Grey, Nathan
Dane, Jacob Ashton and Israel Thorndike, with their
associates, were incorporated to build a turnpike from Buf-
fum's corner, through Great Pastures, over Breed's Island
in Lynn Marshes, across Mystic River, and from a point
near the navy-yard to Charles River Bridge. The Statute
Books are full of similar acts at this period. The Essex
Turnpike from Andover, intended to bring the travel of
Vermont and New Hampshire through Salem to Boston,
was chartered the next spring, as was also another from
State street, Newburyport " by as nearly a straight line
as practicable" to Maiden Bridge.
Here again we were not behind the times. Telford
and McAdam had not completed their grand experiments
nor demonstrated their rival systems for some years later.
But the turnpike corporators used the best science of the
day and a wonderful road they made. In the famous rec-
ords kept at Benjamin Blanchard's Barber Shop, in which
his distinguished patrons noted current events, while wait-
ing for an empty chair, it appears that work began near
"Pickering's Pen" June 7th, 1802. Of course there
was vigorous opposition and wild disparagement on one
side, great enthusiasm on the other. Dr. Stearns,
one of its most ardent promoters, is said to have declared
that, when the turnpike was done, a man might stand on
Buffum's corner and look straight into Charlestown Square.
The extent of the work of building may be judged of by
the fact that a village of huts covered the high ground
now occupied by Erastus Ware, which soon became a
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resort for toddy and tenpins, and that the material and
tools employed, sold on the completion of the work,
brought at auction, Oct. 27th, 1803, thirty-two hundred
dollars. Captain Richard Wheatland paid the first toll,
July 12th, 1803, on his way to Boston to take command
of his ship for Calcutta. How much the new route, only
twelve miles and a fraction long, did to bring us and the
metropolis together, will be recalled with pleasure by some
yet living who enjoyed for the first time, in the fall of
1803, an evening ride to Boston with a ball, a concert, or
a play in prospect to give zest to the excursion.
The largest sum, taken in a year at " Toll-Gate No 1,''
near our great pastures, was $5300, in 1805 ; the day of
the greatest travel was June 1st, 1813. On that summer
afternoon the smoke of conflict between the Chesapeake
and Shannon was rolling over the bay. One hundred and
twenty stages, crowded to repletion, passed up that day.
Thousands, of spectators prayerfully watched the fight from
every hill-top and gloomily retired when the issue was
but too plainly seen.
On the morning of Nov. 6th, 1869, the old gate-
keeper at "No. 1," gets orders to take no more tolls.
Gravely he sets open, for the last time, the last toll-gate
in Essex County and breaks out in rhyme :
"The last toll is taken, I've swung wide the gate,
The word has been spoken, We yield to our fate !"
The distinctive character of the turnpike among roads
is departed. It is as wholly a thing of the past as that
negro village which once clustered about the entrance at
Buffum's corner, with its fortune-telling and cake-baking
and fiddling and dancing. But the great road will stand.
Years will not destroy its traces of heavy blasting and
grading, its viaducts of splendid masonry across deep,
picturesque ravines, their granite sides and terraced but-
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tresses backed up with sturdy trunks and roots of ancient
elm and willow, fit types of the beauty and utility which
mark its course. No son of Salem returning from his
wanderings, however great a truant, but will pause de-
lighted on that hill top, where bursts upon the eye the
eldest born of New England cities, whether the morn-
ing sun is touching with an early glory the score of spires
and towers, clustered about that thing of beauty, the South
Church Steeple, or whether, at night-fall, broadsides of
factory windows are blazing with their perpetual illumina-
tion in honor of the triumphs of industry. While lovers
ramble and young limbs are strong while Bitter-sweet
Rocks live in song, and Great Pastures find a place in
story, so long shall there be brisk walking among its
rugged scenes in Spring and Autumn, and willing horses
shall be urged to speed over No-bottom Pond Bridge
on the moonlight gallop, so long as water plashes up like
molten silver through the chinks in the planking, until
indeed the poet sings to deaf ears :
" 'Tis life to guide the fiery Barb
Across the moonlight plain ! "
The first public conveyance noticed by Felt was a
" large stage chair," or two horse curricle which ran from
Portsmouth to Boston and back each week, in 1761. " An
epidemical distemper" among horses interfered with the
business in 1768 but two years after, Benj. Coats, who
was then landlord at the Ship Tavern in School, now
Washington street, gave notice that he had bought a " new
Stage chaise " which would run between Salem and Bos-
ton " so that he will then, with the one now improved in
that business, be able to carry and bring passengers, bun-
dles and the like every day except Sunday." He also has
five fall-back chaises, one fall-back curricle, six standing
top chairs and three sulkies to let. In December, 1771,
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Beiij. Hart advertises that "he has left riding the single
horse post between Boston and Portsmouth and now
drives the post stage lately improved by John Noble.
He sets out from Boston every Friday morning and from
Portsmouth on Tuesday morning following. The above
conveyance has been found very useful and now more so,
as there is another curricle improved by J. S. Hart, who
sets off from Portsmouth the same day this does from
Boston, by which opportunity offers twice a week, for
travellers to either place."
Systematic staging probably began here about 1796 arid
in this business Benjamin Hale of Newburyport, seems to
have been the pioneer on the route between Boston and
Portsmouth, as was Seth Paine of Portland, on the lines
further east. Mr. Hale was a resolute, persevering man,
and there was nothing worth knowing about staging which
he did not know. Many improvements in stage springs
are accredited to him, as well as the introduction of the
trunk-rack, by which means the passenger's luggage was
employed to ballast the coach, whereas formerly it had
rested, a dead weight, on the axles, jolting and tossing as
though springs were yet to be invented. He had made
his way up from small beginnings against discouragements
and trials, but his single coach, driven by his own hand,
in the early years of the century, had come at last to be a
large establishment of horses, carriages and drivers. Mr.
Paine's career had not been different. He was a postman*,
in Maine when all the mails were carried on horse-back :
a man of few words, prompt, inflexible, and of great
energy. He came to be the largest owner and sole man-
ager of coaches east of Portsmouth and government con-
tractor for the eastern mails, while the stages on this side
of Portsmouth were under the able and exclusive manage-
ment of Mr. Hale. The proprietors, at this time, were
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few, not more than five or six. Besides those named,
were Judge Elkins, of Wenhatn, and Salem, and Samuel
Larkin of Portsmouth. Dr. Cleaveland, of Topsfield,
bought in, about 1806. The profitable character of the
business could not long be concealed. Tributary lines
spring up. Thus a stage connected with the Boston Line
set off from Salem, Aug. 20th, 1810, for the Coos County.
Three were to be despatched every week. Competition,
of course, followed and, in 1818, opposing lines were
absorbed by the original proprietors, and the Eastern
Stage Company was incorporated. It is not too early to
write in a historic strain of that once familiar visitant, the
Stage Coach. And the books of this corporation, now in
possession of the Institute, shed ample light upon one of
the largest and most successful staging enterprises of New
England.
The Eastern Sfage Company was chartered by the state
of New Hampshire, for a period of twenty years. Its
act of incorporation, approved June, 1818, contains three
sections, and singularly enough, by no word except its
title, from beginning to end, indicates the business to be
facilitated thereby. By this act, Samuel Larkin, Wil-
liam Simes, Elisha Whidden and their associates are made
a body corporate, the " Eastern Stage Company," by
name, are to sue and to be sued, have a common seal,
make rules and by-laws, and generally to do whatever ap-
pertains to bodies corporate, with a capital stock not ex-
ceeding one hundred thousand dollars, shares not more
than five hundred in number, and that is all. To one
familiar with the guarded language of acts establishing the
railroad lines which superseded this great stage route,
the absence of all limitations of power is striking.
In the early railroad charters every function that could be
anticipated is provided for, even to the grade of the road-
bed, the curves of the track, and the erection of toll-houses
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and toll-gates, after the analogy of the turnpike, where
trains were to stop and travellers pay fare.
But these corporators did not abuse their powers, how-
ever loosely conferred. Their first meeting, duly notified
in the Portsmouth Oracle, the Boston Centinel, and the
Newburyport Herald, was held at Langmaid's Tavern, at
Hampton Falls, on Friday, October 9th, 1818. They
chose Dr. Nehemiah Cleaveland, of Topsfield, Moderator
and Samuel Newman, Clerk, accepted the charter,
adopted by-laws, and fixed their capital stock at four hun-
dred and twenty-five shares, of one hundred dollars each.
The by-laws provide for eight directors and a proprietors'
clerk, to be chosen annually by the share-holders who
were to throw a vote for each share owned, not exceeding
twenty the directors to choose a President from their
number, appoint "a principal agent and treasurer" and
such " agents, drivers, and servants as they may find nec-
essary for the due management of the property." They
are to close accounts and declare dividends in March and
September, and are allowed two dollars per day and ex-
penses for attendance at Directors' meetings. The clerk
was under oath, and the agent and treasurer under bonds
in the sum of ten thousand dollars.
Article VI. provides a form of stock certificate, as-
signable by indorsement and transfer on the books of the
Proprietors' Clerk.
Article VII. " No person whatever shall be privileged
to ride in any of the company's carriages without paying
common stage fare."
They organized thus, President, Dr. Cleaveland,
Proprietors' Clerk, Seth Sweetser, Directors, Josiah
Paine, Stephen Howard, Seth Sweetser, Samuel Larkin,
Thomas Haven, Henry Elkins, Ephraim Wildes. Col.
Jeremiah Coleman was principal agent and treasurer.
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If the charter said nothing of the purposes of this cor-
poration, their own by-laws said about as little. Nowhere
is there a distinct announcement of the function which
they proposed to discharge, nor any description of the ex-
tent nor location of their field of operations. This is to
be explained, no doubt, by the fact that some of these
gentlemen were, before their incorporation, already suc-
cessful operators and proprietors of stages running over
portions of the routes they now proposed to combine, and
no words were needed to teach them the duties and liabili-
ties of common carriers of persons.
Thus at the first directors' meeting we seem plunged at
once into the dust and whirl of stage-coach travel. The
six o'clock stage from Portsmouth (they vote) is to be
discontinued. What a chapter might be written on that
early coach, leaving "Wildes' Hotel" at six o'clock each
frosty October morning, or better still, on the stage which
all winter long, in storm or by starlight, left Boston for
the east at five o'clock in the morning. The hurried
breakfast, the smoking corn-cake, the savory rasher,
the potato raked, glowing hot, out of its bed of ashes,
the steaming, creamy, aromatic coffee, the chill,
crisp morning, lanterns flitting ghostly through the am-
ple stables, reluctant horse-boys shivering about the
door-yard and wishing themselves in their bunks again,
the resonant crack of the whip, the clear, sharp click
of well-shod hoofs on frozen ground, the clatter of
wheels, the scramble in the dark for seats, the long,
dull ride with fellow-travellers chilled and grim, half
concealed by twilight and half in mufflers, that crying
baby, who seems to have found vent, at that unlucky
moment, for all the pent-up sorrows of its little life-time,
the gradual warmth of conversation and day-break
stealing at last over the coach-load, the side-lights
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fading out and good nature once more prevailing over
cramped legs, sharp elbows and cold feet shuffling among
the scanty straw, all these things must now be given
over to the romancer, whose ready pen, ever busy with
the past, will not long neglect them.
The late President Quincy gives a well-drawn picture
of staging facilities at the close of the last century. He
was then paying court to a New York lady, to whom he
was privately engaged and afterwards married. Boston
had twenty New York, thirty thousand souls. Two
coaches and twelve horses sufficed the travel between the
two commercial centres of the continent. The journey
was almost as rare an event then, as a voyage to Europe
is now, and took about as long. To one bent on Mr.
Quincy's errand the way no doubt seemed doubly tedious.
The impatient suitor writes :
"The carriages were old and the shackling and much of
the harness made of ropes. One pair of horses carried
us eighteen miles. We generally reached our resting-
place for the night, if no accident intervened, at ten
o'clock, and after a frugal supper, went to bed with a
notice that we should be called at three, next morning
which generally proved to be half-past two. Then,
whether it snowed or rained, the traveller must rise and
make ready by the help of a horn lantern and a farthing
candle, and proceed on his way, over bad roads, some-
times with a driver showing no doubtful symptoms of
drunkenness, which good-hearted passengers never failed
to improve at every stopping-place, by urging upon him
the comfort of another glass of toddy. Thus we travelled
eighteen miles a stage, sometimes obliged to get out and
help the coachman lift the coach out of a quagmire or rut,
and arrived at New York after a week's hard travelling,
wondering at the ease as well as the expedition with which
our journey was effected."
Contrast with this picture an " Old Driver's Keminis-
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cence," which I give in his own words. "The stage that
left Newburyport for Boston at 8 o'clock in the morning,
usually took the passengers who had stopped for rest over
night, many of whom were strangers to our New England
customs. One morning as the passengers were about
taking their seats, a gentleman asked the driver if he
would accommodate him with a seat on the box. " Cer-
tainly," says the driver, "please step right up before an-
other occupies it." Our first stop was at Rowley, a seven
mile drive, during which many questions were asked by
the stranger and answered according to the driver's
knowledge. At this place we took some passengers.
While the driver was arranging the baggage, the gentle-
man on the box asked him to step in and take something
to drink. His reply was, "No, I thank you, sir, I have
no occasion for anything," and he mounted the box and
drove to Ipswich, where the horses were changed. Here
most of the passengers alighted while the shifting was
taking place. At the same time the stranger came off
the box and urged the driver again to take something to
drink. The answer was the same as before. When the
horses were ready, the driver, as was the custom, says
" the stage is ready, gentlemen !" and they take their seats
in the coach. Off they start down the crooked hill and
over the stone bridge, called by some short-sighted peo-
ple, "Choate's Folly." The next stop was at Wenham,
where it was the usual practice to take the fares, it being
the Half-way House to Boston. And here the outside
passenger says to the driver again, "Come, now, you
have accomplished one-half of the distance, you must
certainly take a drink with me." "No, I thank you, sir."
"What kind of men are you drivers here in this section
of the country ? Drivers where I came from will drink
at every stopping place, and it is with much fear that we
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travel there, but here I see that passengers are perfectly
at ease when seated in the coach." " Sir, things have
changed here within a few years. You were saying that
passengers in your section were uneasy and often had
fears for their safety while riding with your drivers.
Here all that is reversed, for in former years the travel-
lers used every precaution to keep the drivers sober, but
now the drivers by their example try to keep the passen-
gers sober." "I will never ask you to drink again," says
our outside passenger, and he was mum on the drinking
question the rest of the way to Boston.
The arrangements for the main route of the Eastern
Stage Co., in the winter of 1818, may be sketched thus :
A coach left Portsmouth for Boston at 9 A. M. (the
same carriage running through) dined at Topsfield, then
through Danversport and Salem to Boston, and back the
same way next day, dining at Newburyport. A portion of
the Newburyport turnpike was used, and this made Tops-
field quite metropolitan, so much so that conventions often
met there. John Adams writes, in 1808, of a great cau-
cus held at Topsfield to resist the embargo. The County
Convention which established Lyceums met there in 1829.
Of course the records plunge us at once into all sorts of
questions of law and policy they meet us at the thresh-
old, they linger to the end, questions of tolls on turn-
pikes and bridges, conferences arranged with this and
that corporation, new terms made or war declared.
Once it is voted that seven hundred dollars be accepted
by the Newburyport Turnpike as toll for the year, or
the stages go by Old Town Bridge. Complications grow
out of the delicate relations of carriers to the public.
Too accommodating drivers are induced to act as express-
men on their private account, and attempts are made to
hold the company liable for their losses. At the first
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meeting " Drivers are expressly prohibited from carrying
any money or packages, not accounted for to the compa-
ny's agent ;" and almost at the last a " committee is con-
sidering the subject of drivers carrying provisions from
sundry places to Boston for sale, contrary to a vote of
the directors." In April, 1819, "the company do not
consider themselves accountable for the loss of any bag-
gage, bundles, or packages whatever, committed to the
care of the drivers, or otherwise put into their stages."
This sweeping announcement, so like what is sometimes
read on the backs of railroad tickets to-day, was followed
up in the same spirit in 1826 and 1829. Now they vote
that no driver shall carry anything, except in his pocket,
without paying the company's agent, on pain of instant
dismissal; and again the driver must "agree with the
agent to exclude his private or pocket business from his
compensation, so the company shall have no participa-
tion, direct or indirect, with such business of the driv-
ers, meaning especially Bills of any Bank which may be
entrusted to them." "But is this law?" ask the perplexed
proprietors of Benjamin Merrill, Esq., in 1832, and that
eminent counsellor finds himself unable to give the de-
sired assurance, but on the contrary they record a long
opinion advising them that their contract with drivers will
not discharge them from liability, unless notice of it is
brought home in each case to the sender of the bill or
parcel. And accordingly a notice, drawn by him, is
formally served in person on every Bank President and
Cashier on the route, posted in the taverns, and widely
advertised in the newspapers.
The record is rich in little incidents which give life to
the picture of the times. A driver is fined fifty dollars,
the value of a horse killed by his carelessness. After-
wards, for good conduct, the forfeiture is reduced to one
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month's wages. Owing to the appreciated state of the
currency, in 1820, wages were reduced, and fares from
Boston to Exeter put at three dollars. Once in a while a
coach is overturned. In one case, if payment of damages
is refused by the Salem Turnpike, the agent is to enter a
complaint and present the road to the grand jury ; in
another, forty dollars are received in liquidation. Again,
a director is to settle for damages done by loose horses
breaking out of the Salem stable. And again, fines
imposed by the Post Office Department for loss of Mails,
are to be charged off to the drivers who lost them. Sub-
agents were selected for the principal points on the route,
placed on salary, and under bonds, and quartered at the
best hotels. Blacksmith's shops were established at many
points, and extensive stables in Boston and elsewhere,
many of them built of brick. Not more than seven shil-
lings were to be paid for shoeing, out of Boston, and but
ten cents for caulking or resetting shoes. Drivers are
forbid taking letters, in violation of laws regulating the
United States General Post-office ; and frequent embassies
are dispatched to Washington to contract for carrying the
mails, or to change the times or terms for delivering them.
"Accommodating Stages" are sometimes to take mails at
the desire of government or the Postmaster at Boston,
but "Mail Stages" are regularly designated, and these
make better speed and collect higher fares than the
former. Mail-contracts are exchanged among different
companies, and combinations formed with other lines
where competition would be ruinous, and agents are with-
drawn from Inns which harbor the books of hostile com-
panies. In April, 1823, it is significantly voted that sev-
eral sub-agents be discharged, and hereafter it shall be an
"iudispensible requisite that their moral characters be
good, and that they have no horses and carriages to let."
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In August, 1823, it is voted to "keep a horse and chaise
in Boston to accommodate passengers, and carry and
fetch their baggage." This under the stress of a vigorous
opposition, when the exigency called for unusual efforts,
and the running of extras at "about the same time the
opposing stage goes, but always a little before that con-
veyance and at the same fare." In October, a number of
horses and chaises are to be kept on hire at Newburyport.
In December, the extras run a little before the opposition
coaches, are to charge but half fare. The Ann street
Stage House at Boston is leased and furnished, and Col.
Wildes placed there as landlord, with an interest in the
profits not to exceed one-half. Next summer, the horses
are to be fed with cut hay and meal. April 19th, 1825,
the directors met at Oilman's hotel in Newburyport.
They found their enterprise thriving, established a sink-
ing fund to be swelled by semi-annual additions ; carried
one thousand dollars to that account; declared a semi-
annual dividend of four per cent. ; created seventy-five
new shares, making up the full five hundred to which they
were limited in their charter, and provided for selling the
new shares at not less than six dollars premium on a par
of one hundred dollars. To the sinking fund was after-
ward voted the net income of the Ann street Stage
House, and the agent was directed to sell at auction, from
time to time, collections of articles left in their offices and
coaches " for which no owners can be found." The second
dividend for this year was six per cent., and in 1826,
eleven per cent, was divided.
At the end of ten years the prosperity of the company
was established. It had now substantial stables, not con-
nected with public houses, at all the chief points of the
route, one of them on Church street, in the rear of
the Lafayette Coffee-house ; and it owned hotels, or a con-
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trolling interest in hotels, at Boston, Newburyport, Exe-
ter and Dover. It was sending deputations to the New
England Stage Association, which met at "Holbrook's," in
Milk street, Boston, with a view to bring together, at
least once a year, representatives of all the Stage compa-
nies of this section. In October, 1828, it held its shares
at a premium of fifty dollars, and made a semi-annual
dividend of eight per cent., on one hundred and fifty dol-
lars per share. At this time the management of the
Stage House in Ann street passed into the hands of Mr.
Leavitt, upon the death of Col. Wildes, and Col. Henry
Whipple, of Salem, became a director in place of Judge
Elkius, resigned.
In 1830, the company was incorporated in Massachu-
setts, with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars. In
1832, it sent delegates to a Mail Contract convention
which sat at "Wyatt's" in Dover, to apportion the Mail
Routes for New England, and its bid shows that it was
running coaches from Concord to Portsmouth ; Dover,
by two routes, to Newburyport ; Portsmouth, by Exeter,
to Newburyport, Salem and Boston ; from Salem to
Haverhill and Lowell ; from Gloucester to Ipswich ; and
from Lowell, by two routes, to Newburyport.
January, 1833, found them free from debt and their
stock higher than ever. They owned near five hundred
horses.
A steamboat had been built on Lake Winuepessaukee
and they were running stages from Dover to meet it. At
times they ran a daily to Portland. In October, 1834,
the stock stood at $202.13 per share on their books, par
being $100. In January, 1835, they were paying be-
tween eight and nine thousand dollars in tolls for the
year, had bought turnpike, bridge and bank stocks, and
amongst other real estate the Daltou House, between the
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West estate and Church street, in Salem, which they
sold, retaining a way out from the stables to Church
street. Up to this point, their career must be considered
as one of unmixed prosperity. The Eastern Railroad
was not chartered ; the Boston and Maine was but a spur
from the Boston and Lowell, extending as far as Andover.
Travel increased apace, with it the running stock and
corps of employes. The directors' record-book is pleas-
ant reading now. They meet at comfortable Inns, spend
two or three days together, examine lucrative accounts,
pass the evening over plethoric way-bills, compute their
dividends, make combinations with kindred bodies all
over the Eastern States, and New York if need be, and
smile at competition.
What a text is here for another volume of pen and ink
sketches, these old Stage Houses which figure in the re-
cord, "Wildes' Hotel" at Portsmouth, "Langmaid's" and
"Wade's" at Hampton Falls, " Oilman's" and the "Wolfe "
at Newburyport, the "Sun Tavern," the "Lafayette Coffee
House" at Salem, "Ann Street Stage House" and "City
Tavern" in Boston ! What pleasant memories start up
at the recital, as of those ancient hostelries of London,
once, as Mr. Dickens says, "the head-quarters of cele-
brated coaches in the days when coaches performed their
journeys in a graver and more solemn manner than they
do in these times, but which have now degenerated into
little more than the abiding and booking places of coun-
try wagons." Of these he says, " there still remain some
half-dozen, in the Borough, which have preserved their
external features unchanged, and which have escaped
alike the rage for public improvement and the encroach-
ments of private speculation. Great rambling, queer, old
places they are, with galleries, and passages, and stair-
cases wide enough and antiquated enough to furnish ma-
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terials for a hundred ghost-stories, supposing we should
ever be reduced to the lamentable necessity of inventing
any." Such was our own poet's Wayside Inn,
" Built in the old colonial day,
When men lived in a grander way,
With ampler hospitality
A kind of old Hobgoblin Hall,
Now somewhat fallen to decay,
With weather stains upon the wall
And stair ways worn and crazy doors
And creaking and uneven floors
And chimneys huge, and tiled and tall.
A region of repose it seems.
By' noon and night the panting teams
Stop under the great oaks, that throw
Tangles of light and shade below.
Across the road the barns display
Their lines of stalls, their mows of hay.
Through the wide door the breezes blow,
The wattled cocks strut to and fro,
And, half effaced by rain and shine,
The ' Red Horse ' prances on the sign."
One seems to recall the impatience with which the tired
traveller looked forward to alighting at these old Inns,
to see again the village steeple peering over the hill, its
gilded cockerel glistening in the sunset, to hear the
stage horn once more bidding the postmaster expect the
evening mail, the landlord serve the welcome meal ; to
see honest, little, nervous Jack Mendum, or 'sturdy,
robust, reliable Robert Annable, or good-natured Knight,
or the voluble but substantial Pike, or some other famous
whip, gather up his reins and muster his strength for a
final sweep across the tavern yard, the crowning effort
of a day of toil to dusty traveller and smoking, jaded
team, and then down go the steps and cramped legs are
free at last !
Or we seem again to be bowling down that grand old
turnpike from Newburyport, with Akerman or Barnabee
or Forbes, rumbling by old Gov. Dummer's Academy at
By field, telling off the milestones through the Topsfield
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of fifty years ago, over the grassy hills and by the beauti-
ful lake at Lynufield, on the coach that left " Pearson's"
at six every summer morning ; or to be whirling by Flax
Pond, where, a century ago last June, Mr. Goldthwaite
asked John Adams to a "genteel dinner" of fish, bacon,
peas and incomparable Madeira, under the "shady trees,
with half a dozen as clever fellows as ever were born," or
to be rattling through the old toll-gate and dashing down
great pasture hills into town on the topmost seat of the
early Boston Mail Stage which, in 1835, was to "break-
fast in Salem and dine at Portsmouth," while all the east-
ern landscape is aglow with the tints of morning and the
dews of spring make everything in nature sparkle. Or
perhaps it is winter.
Now the increasing storm makes all the plain
Prom field to high-way a vast foaming sea 1
And sculptors of the air, with curious skill,
Have graven their images of stainless white,
Pagodas, temples,. turrets, columns raised
From the exhaustless quarries of the snow,
Afar and near, the artwork of the wind !
and we reach perhaps the little Court House on the
hill at Ipswich, with the bar of southern Essex, to find
that another coach-load of jurisprudence is stuck fast on
Rowley Marshes, while judge and counsellor alike have
committed trespass quare clausum fregit, in prying their
coach out of a snowdrift with the nearest fence rails.
The Hon. Allen W. Dodge writes of the drivers of
those days as follows :
"In those days of old-fashioned winters, there were
many trials and difficulties in getting through the route,
but let the storm or the snow blockade be ever so bad,
they were always ready in their turn to do to the utter-
most all that men could do to accomplish it. These
drivers, too, were the most obliging and kind-hearted
men that ever handled reins, cracked whip or sounded
stage horn.
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" They were great favorites with all the boys who rode
with them. Many of us who were then at Exeter Acad-
emy came home at the end of the term by the Eastern
Stage route, and a lively time we used to have of it.
Quite a number of stage coaches were always sent on
to take us. When they arrived what a scramble ensued to
see who should ride with Pike, who with Annable, or
Knight, or Forbes, or some other good-natured driver
experienced in stages and careful of their young charges,
as if they were all destined to be governors, or judges,
01* presidents. We used to consider it the seat of honor
on the outside with the driver, there to listen to his sto-
ries and to enjoy his company. Many a scrap of practical
wisdom did we youngsters thus pick up to turn to good
account on the great road of life.
' ' And then too what a gathering at the old Wolfe Tav-
ern in Newburyport, when the noon stage-coaches ar-
rived from Boston. The sidewalk was often crowded
with anxious boys, and men too, to catch a sight of dis-
tinguished passengers and the last fashions, and to hear
the latest news. Why, it was as good as a daily paper,
or a telegraphic dispatch better indeed, for the living
men, actors sometimes in the scenes described, were there
to tell what had happened."
I find related in a contribution to the Salem Gazette,
one of those little incidents that sparkle like jewels in
the sand :
" Once when a mere child it was necessary for me to
go from Saco to a town near Boston. This was quite an
undertaking in those days, as one was obliged to pass the
night in Portsmouth. Being without a protector, my
mother confided me to the care of one of those old, faith-
ful drivers. It was evening when we reached Ports-
mouth and very cold. Everything was new and strange
to me. How carefully was I taken by the hand and led
up that long flight of stairs to the excellent accommoda-
tions which awaited me ! How well I remember the
kind, smiling face of Kobinson, as next morning, whip
in hand, he appeared at the parlor door and inquired for
the 'little girl' who was to go with him! His hearty
'good morning' and 'all ready, miss,' as I presented my-
self, are still sounding in my ears. While changing
horses at Newburyport I was comfortably seated before a
warm fire in the sitting-room. Ihdeed, I do not know
that I could have been more comfortably attended to had
I been the daughter of the President. I was the daugh-
ter of a poor widow instead, and an utter stranger to
the man whose memory I have ever cherished as one of the
pleasant recollections of my childhood."
What stalwart men this sturdy, out-door life produced !
Moses Head of Portsmouth, drove into that town from
Boston, the stage that brought news of peace in 1815,
with a white flag fastened to the box. News of the bat-
tle of New Orleans came at the same time. That even-
ing there was a procession in honor of these events. Head,
who was then Ensign of the artillery company, and re-
sembled Gen. Jackson in appearance and stature, arrayed
himself in a military suit and chapeau, and personated the
hero of New Orleans in the ranks of the procession to
great acceptance. He was born among the granite hills
of New Hampshire, and died at the age of seventy-two,
after a sickness of a day, the only sickness of his life.
Another old driver sends me his recollections of " life
on the road" and I insert them here.
"I began to drive on an opposition line in 1823, and
after about nine months I had an application from Col.
Coleman to come over to the old company. As I thought
it a more permanent job, I came over to drive "Extra."
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I had not been long at it before the travel increased very
much, so the directors ordered one hundred more horses
to be bought, and carriages in proportion, to accommodate
the public. The business came on so hard that I had all I
bargained for. I followed the mail twelve days in suc-
cession, starting from Boston at 2 o'clock in the morning,
breakfasting in Newburyport, dinner at Portsmouth and
back again to supper in Salem, getting into Boston any-
where from nine to eleven o'clock, so there was not much
sleep or rest for me. The twelfth day, when I droveinto
the yard at Salem, Col. Colemau was there and said he
"young man, you had better stop here and get a little
rest and take your team in the morning at four o'clock."
So Mr. Rand took the team to Boston and back.
"The worst of it was, I had the same horses out and
back every day. It was hard keeping up with the mail,
as their horses rested one or two days in the week, and
they were like wild ones. Only hold on and they would
go as fast as any one wished to ride. As a general thing
we made good time. I have been through Charlestown
Square on time, for three weeks, not varying five minutes
by the clock, although we had some trying storms. '
"I was compelled to stop at Hamilton one night, after
beating the storm from seven in the morning till ten at
night, with a single sleigh and two horses, and so, com-
pletely used up, we slept well. It cleared up about three
o'clock, so that uncle Robert Annable, with the morning
coach, came along pretty well, and passed us while we
were asleep, and took off his bells so as not to awake us,
and then he was very joyous to think he had got ahead.
It was something, to be sure, that never happened before
nor since.
"On the whole, it was a very pleasant life, for every one
on the road was very hospitable to us. I never got stuck
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in the mud nor snow, when all the people on the road
were not willing, night or day, to lend a hand. So we
felt that we were among friends, and that was comforting
to us. The wealthy Southerners, who used to come east
in summer, would almost always want us to keep on and
drive them to Providence or New York, for they did not
get so good accommodations at the South. And as we
refused the refreshments they offered us at every stopping
place, we were pretty sure to get a handsome present be-
fore 'they left, which was far more satisfactory. It was a
very pleasant business, and we had our choice of com-
pany outside, and that was worth a great deal.
"When it was decided by the Legislature that there
should be a Railroad, you may depend upon it there were*
heavy hearts. For we had spent so much time in staging
we did not know what we should do. But all who wished
had something to do. The corporation employed a large
number of the drivers as conductors, baggage-masters
and brakemen. I withdrew and took up the express busi-
ness, and followed that until 1860. So I had served the
public from '23 to '60."
These drivers, so freely trusted with life and treasure,
with the care of helpless infancy and age, deserved well
of the community and are held in kindly remembrance.
They knew of old the wants and habits of the travelling
public, and Railroad corporations were glad to secure
agents from among their numbers.
Has anybody forgotten rare James Potter of the Salem
and Boston Line, active, clear-headed, courteous and
prompt, who for forty years, drove with such care and skill
to Boston and back, that it was said, he was as well known
and as much respected by Salem people as Dr. Bent-
ley ? Here he comes up the street from the old " Sun
Tavern" with the seven o'clock morning coach, his dap-
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pie-grays groomed to a hair and well in hand, the
model driver, trusted by the Banks, by the old sea-kings,
by everybody with uncounted treasure, the splendid
reinsman, chosen in August, 1824, to bring the beloved
Lafayette safely into Salem.
Has anybody forgotten the scene in College yard at
Cambridge, when Peter Eay arrived at the end of the
term, with his coach and six sorrels, to take home what
might well be styled the " flower of Essex ! " How he
displayed, before admiring eyes, his mastery of curves
and functions, by turning six-in-hand, at a cheerful trot,
in the little corner between Hoi worthy and Stoughton,
and how the Essex boys, cheered by their fellows, and
eager for the long vacation, whirled out of college gate,
and down the historic roads by Washington's Elm and
Letchmere's Point, and Bunker Hill, to their welcome
home ! Handsome Peter, they called him a favorite
with children and ladies for with him, on the introduc-
tion of the famous steel-spring coaches, they first knew
what it was to ride comfortably outside, with an intelligent
and entertaining driver, whose tongue kept pace with his
team, and whose castles in the air often reached gigantic
proportions before half the distance between Lynn and
Salem was accomplished !
And here comes Page, witty, large-hearted, strong-
handed Woodbury Page, his two bays on the jump,
swinging round the corner from Beverly, sweeping
round the common to the old stable in Union street, shift-
ing horses, and then round the big elm and off again in a
twinkling, with those very four milk-whites, with which
he drove Henry Clay, in October, 1833, from Senator
Silsbee's door-step in Pleasant street to the Trernont
House in sixty minutes !
And what shall be said of the polished and agreeable
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Jacob Winchester, favorite driver on wedding journeys
and pleasure parties, who carried bags of specie to and
from New York, when our merchants wanted a messenger
who would neither play the rogue with funds nor suffer
anybody to take them from him ; what of the popular
driver and consummate reinsman Lot Peach, who would
get to Boston about as soon with crows' meat as moderate
drivers did with choice teams of horses ; what of Al-
bert Knight, always on good terms with passengers and
team; what of stout, little, talkative Major Shaw, who
was off at three with the sorrels and the last coach up,
rather than not go with whom ladies would often lose the
morning stages and some hours shopping and visiting in
Boston; what of stalwart, kind-hearted Adrian Low
whose cheerful life ended in mystery and an unknown
grave ; what indeed of the hundred and fifty good,
sound, trusty men, who, from first to last, drove stages
over these routes in the employ of regular or opposition
lines, whole families of them, like the four Potters, the
three Annables, the three Akermans, the brothers Canney,
Conant, Drake, Knight, Marshall, May, Manning, Patch,
Robinson, Shaw, Tenney, Tozzer, Winchester, seeming
to have been born on wheels, or descended from the hip-
pocentaurs of ancient fable, men who combined energy
and good nature in a ratio not likely to be developed by
any vocation now in vogue, men who cracked their
joke as they swung their whip, men who knew what
it is vouchsafed us to know of that fascinating uncer-
tainty, the horse, and supplemented this with a wonder-
fully shrewd appreciation of human nature 1 *
*It was a happy thought which brought two hundred and fifty " old stagers," of
the Connecticut Valley, Drivers, Proprietors and Agents, together at Spring-
field for a merry Christmas in 1859. Hon. Ginery Twitchell and James Parker,
Esq., of the Western Railroad, seem to have been promoters of this " gathering
of the whips," and two days were given up to their entertainment in Springfield,
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And what shall be said of those elegant coaches built
in the Union street shop for the Salem and Boston Stage
Company,
" Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw,
Spring, tire, axle, and linen-pin too,
Steel of the finest, bright and blue."
the first in the country mounted on steel springs, and pro-
vided behind with a " dicky " and trunk-rack after the Eng-
lish pattern ! And what of those noble teams of blacks
and bays and buckskins and roans and chestnuts, clean-
limbed and strong, that moved out, with coats like velvet,
every afternoon when dinner was over, before the City
Tavern in Brattle street, the Ann Street Stage House or
the Marlboro Hotel, sweeping the ground with flowing
tails, too often, it must be added, tails of fiction, in which
the cunning hand of Lancaster had eked out the unsuccess-
ful efforts of nature ! What of those scores of coach-build-
ers and blacksmiths, and harness-makers, who plied the
awl, and bent the tire, and drove the plane, with such
pride and spirit in these old days, when Harding shod, and
Daniel Manning ran with orders from the Sun Tavern to
the yards in Union street, and William H. Foster bal-
anced accounts and made up dividends, and Mackie, over
his saddlery, fought out the battle of Waterloo, and that
shy boy, since known to fame as Nathaniel Hawthorne,
was keeping stage-books in his uncle Manning's office !
What of that ancient negro hostler at Breed's Hotel, with
his little competency accumulated from the trifles dropped
into his hat for many a year by kindly travellers as the
during which the hospitalities of larder and stable were tested to the utmost. At
a public dinner on this occasion were produced those spirited lines of Edwin
Bynner, now familiar to newspaper readers, beginning,
" Oh ! the days are gone when the merry horn
Awakened the echoes of smiling morn.
As, breaking the slumber of village street,
The foaming leaders' galloping feet
Told of the rattling, swift approach
Of the well-appointed old stage coach I "
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stage rolled off, who fell on his knees on the stable floor
and wept great tears when the steam whistle sounded at
last and he felt indeed that he must say with his Shakes-
perean prototype, " Farewell ! Othello's occupation's
gone ! " Too many of this company of worthies are now
" where rolling wheels are heard no more and horses' feet
ne'er come." Twenty-one surviving drivers of the East-
ern Stage Company honored themselves and the memory
of the Agent under whom they served, by attending, in
April, 1866, the funeral of Col. Coleman, the man to
whose vigorous and intelligent oversight that enterprise
had almost owed its success for a quarter of a century.
During the same years the Salem and Boston Company
was under the courteous management of William Man-
ning, another model stage agent, known among the
" whips " as " Sir William," and to have been trusted by
whom they thought enough for an epitaph.
We come now to the closing scene of the Eastern
Stage Company. In July, 1835, the ominous words "Rail-
road " appear for the first time in their voluminous rec-
ords. Let us see what these words meant.
Passengers had been transported in carriages propelled
by steam over the Darlington and Stockton Railway in
England, for ten years. The engines employed were sta-
tionary, and inventive genius had been as busy with the
problem of travelling in steam carriages over turnpikes, as
with the twin problem, which has since completely over-
shadowed the other, of locomotive machinery for Rail-
ways. During the first ten years of the century, indeed,
the steam engine, both stationary and locomotive, began
to be applied to transportation. And long before this,
the simple tram-way of wood or iron, operated by horse-
power had been employed for the conveyance of passen-
gers and freight. As early as the settlement of New
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England, wooden rails were in use between the coal mines
of Newcastle and the river, and these were so far per-
fected that in 1765 they had been introduced extensively
in England, and enabled a horse to drag from two to three
tons on an easy grade. Plates and wheels of iron had
still further and very largely increased the draft-capacity
of the horse. On the Darlington and Stockton road,
trains had been provided with stable-cars, in which the
horses employed for motive power on level and up grades,
rested and fed in quiet while the momentum of the train
carried it down hill.
The use of the Railway was no less familiar on this side
the ocean. Our former townsman, Mr. Gray, after leav-
ing Salem, owned a wharf in Boston on which trucks
were moved by hand over a plank-walk provided on its
edges with round iron bars, on which ran grooved wheels,
thus forming a freight Railway from the ship in her dock
to the warehouses on Lynn (now Commercial), street.
In grading Beacon Hill for the erection of the State
House, late in the last century, an inclined Railway was
used, on which the gravity of the loaded cars in their de-
scent, served to bring up on a parallel track those which
had been emptied, and the same expedient, also in use in
England, was employed at Quincy when the blue sienite
of the quarries began to supplant, as a building material,
the familiar gray granite of our hills and ledges. The
first Railroad charter granted by Massachusetts author-
ized, March 4th, 1826, the building of a Railway from
these quarries to Neponset River, and the first freight
transported over it was the corner stone of Bunker Hill
Monument. It was operated by horse power.
That unrest which prognosticates some great step in
inventive art was stirring the public mind and bringing
to light ever}' clumsy expedient of cogs and ropes and
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wheels for mounting grades and for moving by steam on
common roads, as well as on rails, when in 1829, the
Stephensons, father and son, completed the Locomotive
" Rocket " and placed it upon the Liverpool and Manches-
ter road. Its success was at once complete and transpor-
tation by horse-power was doomed from that hour. In
America we were not behindhand in applying steam to
propulsion. It was already in use since 1807 on our
rivers, canals and lakes. The Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road was begun in 1827 ; other routes from New York
and Philadelphia soon after. In 1829-'30-'31 Massachu-
setts chartered roads from Boston to Lowell, to Provi-
dence and to Worcester.
In 1833, the Boston and Lowell road was extended to
Andover and Wilmington, and to Haverhill in 1835. This
was the first incursion of the iron monster into Essex, but
he rapidly made his way over the county, enfolding in
his fatal coils the poor struggling Stage Companies whose
nightly dreams were disturbed by the scream of the
whistle, and whose waking eyes, turn where they might,
were blasted with those words of doom, "Look out
for the engine" * For a time our directors stood up
*Mr. Tony Weller has favored the English-reading public with his views on
the Railway and its invasion of his native Island, in words which I am forced to
recall at this point. Said that eminent driver, as reported in " Master Humphrey's
Clock," '! consider that the rail is unconstitutional, and a inwader o' privileges.
As to the comfort as an old coachman I may say it veres the comfort o'
sitting in a harm-chair, a lookin' at brick walls, and heaps o' mud, never comin'
to a public 'ouse, never seein' a glass o' ale, never goin' thro' a pike, never meetin'
a change o' no kind (bosses or otherwise) but always comin' to a place, ven you
comes to vun at all, the werry picler o' the last I As to the honor and dignity o'
travellin' vere can that be vithout a coachman, and vats the rail to sich coachmen
as is sometimes forced to go by it, but a outrage and a insult ! and as to the in-
gen, a nasty wheeziu' creakin' gaspin' puffin' bustin' monster always out o'
breath, with a shiny green and gold back like a onpleasant beetle ; as to the ingen as
is alvays a pourin' out red-hot coals at night and black smoke in the day, the
sensiblest thing it does, in my opinion, is ven there's somethin' in the vay, and it
sets up that 'ere frightful scream vich seems to say ' now eres two hundred and
forty passengers in the werry greatest extremity o' danger, and eres their two
hundred and forty screams in run !'"
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manfully to their struggle with fate. First they tried to
curtail their expenses, offered to sell real estate,
to buy in their stock at par, then at $60 and then at $50,
and pay for it in the personal effects of the company.
Fifty horses were to be disposed of at a stroke, and again
and again another fifty, hay and grain were high,
the appetites of live-stock inexorable. To add to their
embarrassment travel went on increasing as the hour of
dissolution drew near. More horses and more were re-
quired, and again and again they were forced to replace
those sold. To sell so large a stud at once, when the
end came, would bring prices down to a ruinous figure,
and the theory was generally accepted that, upon the es-
tablishment of steam cars, horse flesh would be worth little
more than dog's meat. Before the end of 1835 they had
joined the other proprietors of Newburyport turnpike in
offering five miles of it for the use of a projected Railroad
to Salem. In 1836 the Eastern Railroad was chartered.
Still they go on voting to sell their horses, still buying
more. Late in '36 they try adding twenty per cent, to
their fares. The directors meet once a month without no-
tice, sometimes at half past six in the morning. They
combine with thirteen like companies to keep up prices.
Opposition coaches take the road and prices come down
again. Late in '37, they try a reduction of wages, the
peremptory sale of thirty horses, " as the company is fast
approaching dissolution," they say sell the lease they
hold of Henry Codmau, of the Ann Street House, and
agree with the purchaser to keep their teams from day
to day sell the Exeter Stables, the Portsmouth and
Concord Stages, apply without success for a short ex-
tension of their charter to close the business, and in Feb-
ruary, '38, offer for sale the whole remaining assets of the
corporation.
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This effort failing, the shareholders were for the last
time summoned to Hampton Falls, detailed reports
submitted, a fruitless effort made to start a new com-
pany, and the property turned over to trustees for final
administration, and so this respectable body-corporate died
without issue, at the stroke of midnight, June 26th, 1838.
Says the late Col. Whipple, who had been a director for
ten years, and became its president on the death of Dr.
Cleveland in 1837, "the holders of stock, during twenty
years, received eight and one-third per cent, in dividends
annually, and after paying all debts, between $66 and $67
on each share. It does not appear that a passenger was
killed or injured."
In August, 1838, the steam cars from Boston reached
Salem. The Register speaks of immense crowds on
every arrival and departure, covering the depot grounds
and the banks of the mill pond. In the belfry of the
wooden station house hung a bell, taken from a ruined
Spanish convent, and sold to one of our West Indiamen
for old metal, which was vigorously rung to summon pas-
sengers on the departure of a train. At first, the cars
took eleven hundred persons per day, but this, said the
papers, was evidently due to their novelty, and could not
be expected to continue. From six to eight hundred, it
was thought, could be relied on. In about a month, six-
teen hundred passengers were carried in one day, " the
best day's work yet," said the press with enthusiasm ! The
Boston Courier stated that the cars used were not of the
prevailing style, shaped like a coach-body with the door
on the side, but were of a new pattern, in which a man
may stand erect or pass from one to another, the whole
length of the train, while in motion, with perfect safety.
The passage from Salem to the Boston side of the ferry
occupied from thirty-five to forty minutes, and it was
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hoped that about thirty-two minutes would be the average
time consumed, when all was completed. The Boston
Post announced that the witches came out of their graves
to see these new conveyances. They met all expecta-
tions, and Mr. George Peabody, the first President of the
Road, in his opening address delivered before the six
hundred stockholders and others, August 27th, called at-
tention to the fact that those doing business in Boston
could now live more cheaply in Salem than in Boston.
What the Railroad has done for us, in common with all the
environs of Boston, cannot be briefly stated. If Boston is
the Hub, the Railroads seen from the State House dome
are the living spokes, which bind it to an outer circle of
social and business relations. If these have carried off
our men of enterprise in search of a larger market, they
have brought back the wealth they accumulate, to beautify
our estates and elevate our culture, and make of Mas-
sachusetts Bay, from Plymouth to Cape Ann, one great
suburb in which the arts of cultivated life are brought to
aid the native charms of country living.
Of the two presidents of the Eastern Stage Company,
the first, Dr. Cleaveland, was a man of no common
stamp. He came of the stauuchest Puritan stock, his
great grandfather, Moses Cleavelaud, having emigrated in
his prime from Ipswich, in England, to Eastern Massa-
chusetts and left a numerous and distinguished progeny.
Some of them appear among the founders of Connecticut ;
many of them adorn the learned professions or fill chairs
in the universities. Dr. Cleaveland's father died on his
77th birthday, in 1799, having been for more than half a
century the pastor of Chebacco Parish in this county
a chaplain in both the French and Revolutionary wars,
present with the army at Ticonderoga in 1758, at Louis-
burg in 1759, at the siege of Boston in 1775, on the Con-
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necticut shore in 1776, and in 1778 in New York and
New Jersey, and having given three sons to the Conti-
nental army.
Dr. Nehemiah Cleaveland was a man of large stature,
and of erect, dignified and commanding aspect. A tall
stripling of sixteen, he attended his father upon his ser-
vice as Chaplain during the siege of Boston, and in 1777
enlisted in the army as a common soldier. The stress of
war deprived him of the collegiate training to which he
had looked forward fondly, and kept him, during his
minority, either in the camp or at the plow. Having
subsequently mastered the science of medicine he began
practice at Topsfield in 1783, purchasing the stock of a
successful predecessor, as well as his library of just two
volumes. He was soon after complimented with a com-
mission as Justice of the Peace, and began to interest
himself in the public aifairs of town and county. As a
politician he was earnest, ardent and patriotic. He was
chosen, through Federalist support, to the State Senate
in 1811, and lost his seat the next year, under the opera-
tion of that famous districting system known as the " Ger-
rymander." From 1815 to 1819 he was reflected and
then withdrew. In 1814 he was a Sessions Justice of
the Circuit Court of Common Pleas. From 1820 to 1822
he was an Associate Justice of the Court of Sessions for
the county and in 1823 became its Chief Justice. This
station he filled with ability and firmness until 1828,
when he retired from public business, receiving at the
same time from Harvard College, the honorary degree of
Doctor of Medicine.
With an iron constitution and health, up to his fiftieth
year, untouched by disease, Dr. Cleaveland never laid
aside the practice of his profession, however interrupted,
but had extended it to all the neighboring towns. And
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up to his death in February, 1837, at the age of 77, he
continued to serve, as their trusted physician, the com-
munity with which he had for fifty years identified him-
self by rare activity in every enterprise of moment. As
a neighbor he was sought for his willing and judicious
counsel, while his public career was marked throughout
by good judgment, sound sense and solid worth.
He was twice married and left five children, among
whom the eldest son, an honored graduate of Bowdoin,
a distinguished educator, man of letters and doctor of
laws, perpetuates his name and title.
Dr. Cleaveland's was one of those monumental charac-
ters which deserve study both for themselves and because
they are typical of their times. Formed in our Revolu-
tionary period, it was consolidated like the arch by the
pressure which events imposed upon it. If his principles
were austere, he applied them as rigidly to his own con-
duct as to his judgment of others. Thus he could in
youth forego, without a murmur, the college training he
had been promised, and, at the last, reject narcotics which
would have spared him excruciating torture, because they
might deaden his mental and moral sensibilities. Says
the late Dr. Peirson of Salem, in the "Medical and Sur-
gical Journal," "he was a much respected member of the
Essex South District Medical Society. No man amongst
us set a better example of professional integrity and
honor. The few who could boast of his friendship, will
long remember with pleasure the virtuous and kind-
hearted old man, whose influence was uniformly and
efficiently exerted in support of good order and the true
advancement of society."
It is not too much to say of Dr. Cleaveland that he
was a thorough-bred New England gentleman of the
eighteenth century. It has been granted us of to-day to
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behold a brighter light ! Happy for us if posterity shall
find that we have lived up to it as nobly !
Col. Henry Whipple, the second and last president of
the Eastern Stage Company, has left us so lately that the
mention of his name is enough to recall a venerable pres-
ence and an exemplary life. He was born at Douglass in
Worcester County, June 24th, 1789, and died in his
eighty-first year, Dec. 2d, 1869. He served his appren-
ticeship with his brother, Charles, at Newburyport, and
opened a book-store in the Franklin (then Archer's)
Building in Salem, October, 1810. For three score years
from that time, including part of that golden era when
the story of Salem Commerce reads like an eastern fiction,
Col. Whipple was constant at his post, supplying our dar-
ing navigators with charts and books of travel, our
busy thinkers and bold projectors of enterprises distant
and domestic with the best intelligence of the day. Said
the Danvers Wizard in July, 1861, "it would be diffi-
cult to point to a man now living so identified with the
social, literary and denominational interests of Salem,
as is Col. Whipple. In almost all the societies of a
social and benevolent character he has been prominent
and active. With the grace of native dignity and the
bearing of a gentleman of the old school, the suavity of
his manner attracted to his place of business the elevated
and refined of Salem. His store was the resort and
lounging place of all the eminent men of the past who
have given a name to Salem in its modern history. Here
met Bowditch, Story, Prince, Pickering, the elder Wor-
cester, Barnard and Hopkins. Here Cummings discussed
politics with Glen King and Saltonstall, while Dr. Flint
and Judge White made criticisms on the last new book."
It was well said of Col. Whipple that in his death
Salem had lost one whom slander never touched, and who
had probably never made an enemy, his religious per-
suasion a consistent supporter, the militia a veteran
whose commissions bore date and expired before those of
any officer now living, and the Masonic body its oldest
member. First from seniority on the roll of the Active
Fire Club, and lately President of the Salem Dispensary,
a promoter in 1821 of the Salem and Danvers associ-
ation for mutual protection against thieves and robbers,
as well as an active militia-man from his enlistment in
the ranks of the Salem Light Infantry in 1811, until he
resigned the command of the Artillery Regiment of
Southern Essex, he was, in earlier as in later life, ready
at all times for whatever service devolves upon the good
citizen and Christian neighbor. At the close of the last
year, he fell peacefully asleep at his home in Salem, after
enjoying for a while a tranquil retrospect of the memo-
ries he was to leave behind.
The good old days of stage coach travel are over.
Gone, too, are most of those to whom they owed their
charm. The stage-driver, that next best man, it was
quaintly said, to the minister, out of jail, we have no
longer. The old stage houses are for the most part, as
in London, closed and deserted, or stand, "with a kind
of gloomy sturdiness, amidst the modern innovations
which surround them." Never again shall
The windows of the wayside inn
Across the meadows, bare and brown,
Gleam red with firelight through the leaves
Of woodbine, hanging from the eaves,
Their crimson curtains, rent and thin !
Even the Ann Street Stage House, the very focus of
New England travel, has vanished, and the name of the
street it stood on is fading out of mind ! Never again,
about its hospitable hearth, that well known company of
"whips" shall gather for a parting pipe, when guests are
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dreaming, and night coaches in, and horses well-bestowed,
and smouldering embers, in its ample fire-place, give a fit-
ful, flickering light. I see them now, in their quaint old
chairs, whiffs of smoke curling lazily about their cheerful,
weather-beaten, ruddy faces, heavy, wet boots steam-
ing on the hearth, ample capes and top-coats flung
dripping on the benches, while they chat by turns and
stir the fire and laugh at the storm. There sat burly
Sam Eobiuson, telling how he served the sneak who stole
a ride on the trunk-rack every day as the noon coach
passed through Wenham, by driving into the pond at
Peter's Pulpit, under pretence of watering his horses, and
then making such vigorous application of the lash that
whoso rode behind was glad to escape his parthian blows
by dropping off into the water ! Or little Jack Mendum
mounts a chair to tell how he drove the "mail," and
"something broke" and the hungry passengers were all
out, hurrying him on, and the neighbors bustled about,
and he lost his patience, and making up in oaths what he
lacked in stature, bid them all stand aside and let him
manage, "for while I drive that mail, I am the United
States of America ! " Or Peter Ray recounts the driving
of the first steel spring coach to Boston on its trial trip,
freighted with the mechanics who were its builders, and
what a stir it made on 'change ! Or Major Shaw, blinded
by his great popularity, utters his famous threat of run-
ning the Railroad off the route, by opposition coaches !
Or Woodbury Page enjoys the discomfiture of the Charles-
town driver who roughly asked him to "get his bean pot
out of the way," when he was taking up a passenger
from that city for Beverly, and he replied, "wait till I
get the pork in !" Or they all debate, with the warmth of
conviction, the relative merits of the northern and south-
ern routes to the eastward, until Alex. Brown declares
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that stage routes to the east are like different creeds in
religion, for all creeds lead to Heaven, if faithfully fol-
lowed, upon which reticent little Conant taps his pipe
on the great iron fire-dog, and as the ashes drop upon the
hearth, puts it tenderly away in his waistcoat pocket,
remarking that he would rather not go to Heaven at all,
if he must go by the Dover route, and retires to bed.
Each had his tale to tell, and each
Was anxious to be pleased and please,
With rugged arts of humorous speech.
Never again, in that quaint old hostelry, shall
The fire-light on their faces glance.
Their shadows on the wainscot dance. *
And the coaches which once, says a writer in the Lynn
Reporter, "raised such a dust on the turnpike, night and
day, that Breed's End knew no rest, and the road seemed
made for their accommodation, so much at home were
* A list of drivers employed on the Eastern Stage Routes, kindly furnished by
Hon. Allen W. Dodge. Those known to be dead at the date of publication, June
1871, are marked thus : (*)
Benjamin Akerman,
* John Akerman,
William Akerman,
Charles Annable,
*Perley Annable,
* Robert Annable,
* Nathaniel Aubin,
* Willis Barnabee,
David Batchelder,
Isaac Bracket,
* Nathaniel Bradshaw,
* Alexander Brown,
Benjamin Canny,
Moses B. Canny,
Nathan Carter,"
* Orlando Chandler,
*Alexander R. Chute,
Aaron Conant,
William Conant,
Camden Davis,
J. Holt Drake,
* Simon P. Drake,
Wm. Forbes,
* John Foss,
Nathaniel Gerrish,
* William Hanson,
* Moses Head,
Truman Herrick,
John Holland,
*Levi Hou stings,
C. C. Jackson,
* John Johnson,
* Albert Knight,
Edmund Knight,
* James Knox,
* J. Sherbum Leavitt,
*WifliamR. Long,
* Adrian Low,
* Stephen Marshall,
* Thomas Marshall,
* John May,
* Stephen May,
* John Mendum,
* John Merrill,
* James Merrow,
John Miller,
Frederick Mitchell,
Joseph Moses,
*Woodbury Page,
*Josiah Patch,
* Nathaniel Patch,
*Lot Peach,
* John Pearson,
* James Pike,
* Isaac Pinkham,
Eppes Porter,
* James Potter,
Joseph Potter,
* Oliver Potter,
* William Potter,
Jeremiah Prescott,
*Bickford L. Rand.
Peter Ray,
John F. Reniick.
*Joseph E. Kobinson,
* Samuel Robinson,
Calvin Rockwood,
Eseck Saunders,
Benj. Savory,
* Chester Shattuck.
Moses Shaw,
Samuel Shaw,
* Shepard Smith,
Sherborn Somerbv,
* Prince Stetson,
* William Stinson,
Jacob Tenney,
Moses Tenney,
Enoch Tilton,
Oliver Towe,
* Fortune Tozer.
*Wm. Tozer,
Gideon Walker,
Amos Whitten,
*John Wiggin.
* James Wildes,
Jacob Winchester.
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they on it in their day of glory," are all gone now. Over
Essex. Bridge, over the turnpike, through Salem streets,
horse-cars now rumble and rattle with their growing
freight. And at last the single coach, which brought us
daily the dust and mail bags of Cape Ann, has disap-
peared forever. Never again shall we gather at the cot-
tage gate, as the clatter of wheels and the cloud of dust
approach, to welcome the aged parent, the coming guest,
the daughter home from school. Never again shall we
linger in the open doorway of a New England homestead,
in tender parting with the young son setting out for sea,
or on some distant westward venture, to speed the
lovers starting together on the life-long journey, never
again cast longing glances after that receding freight of
dear ones, until at last the winding road and over-hang-
ing elm trees part us, and we sit sadly down to listen,
While faint from farther distance borne
Are heard the clanging hoof and horn.
Never again will the midnight watcher by the silent bed-
side hear the mail-stage arrive and go, leaving its mes-
sages of love and sorrow for the sleeping townsfolk, and
sing, with Hannah Gould,*
" The rattling of that reckless wheel
That brings the bright or boding seal
To crown thy hopes or end thy fears,
To light thy smiles or draw thy tears,
As line on line is read."
Famous levelers were these old stage coaches and mas-
ters in etiquette also ! What chance-medley of social el-
ements they brought about ! What infinite attrition of
human particles, what jostling of ribs and elbows,
what contact inconvenient, nose to nose ! What conse-
quent rounding and smoothing of angles and corners,
* The " Midnight Mail," a poem written by Miss Gould while watching with a
sick friend, on the arrival of the night coach at Newburyport.
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what a test of good-nature, what a tax on forbear-
ance, what a school of mutual consideration! For
how else could a dozen strangers consent to be boxed
up and shaken together for a day, but upon condition
that each was to exhibit the best side of his nature and
that only !
To the next generation, the old stage coach will be as
shadowy and unreal a thing as were those which appeared,
musty and shattered, to the uncle of the one eyed Bag-
man in Pickwick, while he dozed at midnight in the
Edinboro' courtyard. "My uncle," says the Bagman iu
telling the story, "rested his head upon his hands and
thought of the busy, bustling people who had rattled
about years before in the old coaches and were now as
silent and as changed. He thought of the numbers of
people to whom one of those crazy, mouldering vehicles
had borne, night after night, through all weathers, the anx-
iously expected intelligence, the eagerly looked for re-
mittance, the promised assurance of health and safety,
the sudden announcement of sickness and death. The
merchant, the lover, the wife, the widow, the mother, the
school-boy, the very child who tottered to the door at
the postman's knock, how had they all looked forward to
the arrival of the old coach ! And where were they all
now ! "
GLEANINGS FROM THE FILES OF THE COURT OF
GENERAL SESSIONS OF THE PEACE.
COMMUNICATED BY JAMES KIMBALL.
No. 1.
1697. William Baker, Glovyer,
vs.
Charles Attwood, his apprentice.
THE history of this curious case has preserved to us
the usages and customs, incident to the relations of Mas-
ter and Apprentice, as embodied in the common law at
this early period.
Charles Attwood of Ipswich was indented to William
Baker of Ipswich on the llth day of April, 1687, to
serve him until the 5th day of March, when he would
have arrived at the lawful age of twenty-one years,
which time would have expired on the 5th of March,
1699, but by the omission of the word nine after ninety
in the Indenture, he left his Master before he was of law-
ful age.
His Master, no doubt for the purpose of securing his
services for the unexpired time, complains of him for
stealing; the penalty for which was to be whipped, to
pay fine and cogts, also to pay treble the value of the ar-
ticles stolen, and if unable to pay the penalty and costs,
then to be sold into service, for such a length of time as
would nett the required amount, to any person who would
be responsible to the Court for the same.
Baker's object appears to have been to recover the ser-
vices of his Apprentice, trusting that, after the complaint
was made, neither the boy nor his friends would risk a
trial, and the consequent penalty.
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"Ipswich, July 30, 1697.
BAKER'S COMPLAINT.
William Baker of Ipswich, Glov er , brings his Servant
Charles Attwood, that had run from him & been absent
some considerable tyme, charge th him w th stealing sev-
erall things and carrying them away w th him, as a bridle
& a new suit of cloathes, and upon his examination being
demanded of the Dep nt whe'er he was Giltie and he
pleaded not Giltie, but upon his examination, owned y l
he had the Cloaths, for he said he had worue the briches
before, but not the coat & denied that he had the bridle.
For further Examination & Triall I sent him to Ipswich
Goal & there to remaine to the next sessions of the
peace to be holdeu for the County of Essex at Newbury
on the last Tuesday in September next, 1697. Before
JOHN APPLETON, J. Peace."
On the foregoing complaint of Baker the Grand Jury
found an indictment, and he was set for trial. The Pro-
ceedings under said indictment are entered in the Records
of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace as follows :
" Att A Generall Sessions of the Peace holden at New-
bury, September the 28th, 1697.
Charles Attwood being Indited for stealing a Coat and
pair of breeches from William Baker his Master Matter
of fact committed to a Jury Impaneled and sworne,
who find him not Guilty. The Court's Judgement is that
he be Dismist paying cost."
The Depositions filed on Baker's complaint against Att-
wood for stealing, are interesting, giving us to under-
stand somewhat of the evidence submitted to the Juries
of those early days.
"The Deposition of William Baker, Aged 42 years, tes-
tifieth and saith y t some time in July, 1697, being on y e
Rhoad travilling from Rhode-Hand bringing my servant
Charles Attwood home, I asked him what he had done
with y* new Sarge suite y* he stole from me when he Rane
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Away, he said ; that as he was going over sea the Coat
was washed overbord ; and y e briches he had worn out."
"The deposition of Tho s Bennet, aged about 27 years.
This deponent Testifieth & Saith that last July past, I be-
ing In Company with Charles Attwood & he Told me y*
he Lost the Sarge Coat that he Carried away from his
master In going over a reaver at y e Southard and a paire
of Britches he wore out that he caried away also."
"The Deposition of Martha Smith, about 40 yers old,
testy-fieth and saith that som tim in agust, 1696, Wil-
liam Baker showed me a pise of Searg, and asked me the
deponent whether ther was enough to make Charles Att-
wood a coat and a pair of briches. I told him I thought
ther be enough, then the said Baker said he would get
my husband to make them for Charles Attwood, wher-
upon Charles Attwood brought the Searg and my husband
mad them, and Charles fheched the clos away.
Sworn in Court.
Newbury, Sept. 28, 1697.
STEPH SEWALL, CL"
"The Deposition of thos Smith, Juu'r, Aged a boute 40
yeares, testifieth that in Sept in the year 1696, I made a
Jacote & a pare of briches for Charles Attwood upon his
Master's a compt (*& that hee tooke measure of s d
Attwood.) Sworn in Curt at Newbury this 28 Sept. 97.
Attest SEWALL, CL"
"The depossition of Dar s Woodwell, aged aboute 20
yeares. testifieth & saith that shee sawe Charles At wood
Cut out and mak e apare of Gloves for a man with Lined
Tops with an Intent for John Lord & this wase whille he
was a sarveant with his Master Baker. & it was unbe-
known to his Master.
Oath made to the truth of the above s d writing and
notice given to Charles Attwood by me.
Sept r 23 d 97. JOHN APPLETON, Jus. Peace."
* These words in brackets are in the handwriting of the Clerk.
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"The Deposition of Sarah Wascoat Aged aboute 23
yeares. Testifieth & saith y l being at the house of Good-
wife Atwood sometime this last Somer I Sawe apare of
Gloves with lined tops, & this knowing y* thay Came
from Mr. Baker, his Master. I asked Thomas Atwood
when he had them Gloves. he anssward to me y e he
bovgt them of Charles Atwood for a black Doge, &
that s d Gloves he made with a Intent for John Lord.
Ips ch Sep r 23 rd 1697. Sworn before me & timely notice
given to Charles Attwood by me.
JOHN APPLETON, J. Peace"
Baker, not proving his case against Attwood for steal-
ing, makes another complaint against him for running
away from his service and the following papers are filed
in this case.
"Essex ss.
To the Houo ble Justices of Quarter Sessions of the
Peace holden at Newbury, Sept. 28th, 1697.
William Baker of Ipswich Glover, Complains of Charles
Attwood for that the s d Attwood being an Aprentice viito
him the s d Baker as by an Indentur vnder his hand &
Scale, dated the 11 th day of April 1687. And his time not
expired vutill the 1st day of March, w ch would be in y e
yeare 1698-9 he being to serve the s d Baker 13 years
from the 1st day of March 1686. The s d Charles Att-
wood, Contrary to his s d Indenture & his Covenant &
engagement therein expressed, Absented himself from
his the s d Bakers service & Run away from him his s d mas-
ter the 16th day of September 1696, and so hath continued
out of his s d master's service to this day, which is to y e
said Baker's greivous damage, he haveiug been out much
time and expense in psueing & Recovering the said Ap-
prentice beside the want of his Worke in his calling for
above one whole yeare.
The said Baker humbly prays your honors to order the
s d Charles Attwood to serve out his time with s d Baker,
According as by his said Indenture he is bound.
Your Honors humble Serv 1
WILLIAM BAKER."
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The subjoined Papers are filed in this case.
"This Indenture made y e Eleventh day of Aprill Anno :
1687. Witnesseth that Charles Atwood with y e consent
of his Father Thomas Atwood of Ipswich in the County
of Essex in Newengland hath put himself an Apprentice
unto William Baker of y e said Ipswich for y e term of
time Beginning from y e day above written, untill y e fift
day of March, which will in y e year of our Lord one
Thousand Six hundred & Ninety Thirteen years by Com-
putation wanting only y e time since y e fift day of March
last past till y e above written Then to be Compleated,
Expired & fully ended. During which foresaid Term to
live, dwell with said William Baker his Master doing all
his said Master's Lawful Commandments not absenting
himself from his said Master's Service either by night or
by day keeping his said Master's Secrets not to contract
matrimony but in all things himself well behave liveing
after y e maner of an Apprentice trustfyly & Faithfully
& y e said William Baker on his part is to provide for
Charles Atwood aforesaid his Apprentice Meat drink
washing Lodging clothes & all things needfull & neces-
sary for such an Apprentice during y e said Term & with-
in y e said Term to teach his said Apprentice y e Art &
mistery of y e Trade of a glover & y e Art & mistery of a
white Leather dresser suficiently for y e use of a glover &
all other things conserning y e Art and misterys aforesaid
so as that end of y e said Term his said Apprentice shall
have proficencie in y e Knowledge & handy practicall part
of y e foresaid Arts & misteries being Imployed mostly
for y attaining thereof during y e said Term.
Also within y e said Term to teach or cause to be taught
his said Apprentice to read to write y e English Tongue
Suficently & so farr in y e Art of Arithmetick as well to
doe y e rule of three, called y e golden rule or rule of
proportion & at y e end & Expiration of y c said Term
shall then lett his said Apprentice have double new good
suits of Apparell throughout in evry perticular things as
Jaucoats Coats Waistcoates Briches drawers Trowssers
shirts Neckcloths Hatts stockings shoes gloves Hanker-
chiefs. Two of evry perticular one of said suits to be
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made of good Sold cloth or stuff by Merchants Hand-
some & comely for Sabbath dayes. y e other of New good
strong home made cloth.
To this Indenture the parties abovesaid have put to
their hands & Scales Interchangeably this day & yeare
first above writen.
Signed Sealed & delivered Signed Charles Attwood
in y e presence of & Sealed his
Thomas Lowell Thomas x Attwood
Mary Lowell Mark."
"The Deposition of Richard Lowe of Ipswich being
of full age Testifieth & saith : Aboutt y e time y 1 Thorn 8
Attwood Bound oute his Soun Charles Attwood An
Aprentiss to W lm Baker of Ips. "Glover." y e s d Attwood
being att my house, he told me y* he had Bound Charles
Aprentiss to Will m Baker, for thirteen years, saying he
would then be twenty & one years of Age when his time
came out. I asked s d Attwood why he bound him for so
long a time he told me y* s d Baker was to learn him y e
trade of a Glover, & to Dress his Lether. Also to read
& write & Cast Acompts fitt to Keep A merchautts Book.
Ips h Sep r 24 th 1697. Sworne and timely notice was
given to the adverse Party.
Before me, JOHN APPLETON, J. Peace."
"Ann Louell aged a Bout 73 yeares. saith shee did
understand to the Best of her memory that Charles Att-
wood should a bin bound to William Baker from the time
he went first to live with him s d Baker til thirteen yeares
were expired. Shee asked Tho s Attwood why he wold
bind a child so yong for so long time to a Glover, he said
he had several Children and that he did like s d Baker and
was sattistied.
Sworne the 24th of Sept. 1697. in Ips h . timely notice
was given to the adverse Party. Before me
JOHN APPLETON, J. Peace."
"The Deposition of Joseph Cabsbe & Robert Lord,
both of full age testyfie and say y* sum time in Sep 1 1696
being on Ocasion at y e house of the widow Attwood dis-
coursing with her tonsaruing her sun Charles his Inden-
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ture, we tould her we did beleve y t the honest intent of
it was y* Charles should sarve y e 13 years (said she) soe
he might if they had not differd. She said they knew
how y l Indentur run at first, for when her husband
brought it home he threw it into her Lape, and tould her
thare was Charles rite, then she took up y e Indenture and
see how it was rite and told her husband y* he had bound
the boye for but A bout 3 yeares. then s d he that's a
mistake he is bound for 13 yeares and when he found it
to be soe. had charged her not to Lett it be known : add-
ing these words, that he should Not be taken from him
untill y e time is expired if he used him well : She did
also say that she did never Eead it to any : but Charles by
Looking over sum of her wrightings after her husband
was dead found this Indentur, and said his time had bin
out agreat whill ; after which time he s d Charles was dis-
contented, and that made him Run away. and for y l
Indentur. she did believ that y e honist Intent of it was
13 years : but now William Baker shall dare his worst,
what is ritt must stand : they must stand by the Indentur
and not by ye honest intent."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
ESSEX INSTITUTE.
VOL. XI. JULY AND OCTOBER. Nos. 2 & 3.
MEMOIR OF ASAHEL HtfNTINGTON,
BY
OTIS IP. LORD.
[READ AT A SPECIAL MEETING, TUESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1871.]
MR. PRESIDENT : It is an ordination of Providence, that
social life shall be continuous. Communities do not cease to
exist. Their members are constantly passing away, and they
are succeeded by others and the common life goes steadily on.
The vacancy occasioned by the departure of an individual,
however eminent, is soon filled. As the human " organization
remains the same, though its constituent particles are in process
of perpetual decay and renewal, so a community continues to
be identical, though every member of it is changed. It is,
indeed, only natural that in our first thoughts upon the void
occasioned by the death of a great and good man, we should
feel that society itself has undergone a change, and that the
loss to it is irreparable ; and when the death is that of an inti-
mate and prized friend, there comes, also, the feeling of oppor-
tunities lost, of occasions neglected when we should have
learned more of his virtues and treasured more carefulty his
excellences ; the feeling, that if the companionship could be
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restored to us, but for a short time, we would know him better
and more intimately.
In the freshness of our sorrow we overlook a great law of
human existence, which reasserts itself on calmer reflection,
and we perceive that grief like this is a superficial and, to some
extent, a selfish emotion.
It is undoubtedly a beneficent arrangement of the Divine
wisdom, that we live with our friends not as if they were about
to die, but rather as though they would be always with us. If,
in obedience to that law by which death is appointed for all, a
friend is taken away, we have his life to comfort and instruct
us.
The only memorial of the 'good man, which is not worth-
less, is a review of his life a recurrence to his daily walk,
with all its acts and -charities, in which we find the evidences
and the elements of character. Statues and mausoleums are
meaningless, if the life, which they would commemorate, does
not give them vitality ; for we value the tomb because of the
life which consecrates it, and not the life because of the tomb,
however splendid. The grandest sepulchres of the world, im-
mortalizing no great deed, are. regarded but as monuments of
wasted labor ; while the mere recital of one high act of charity,
which developed the life and character of a poor and obscure
widow, is itself a memorial that can never perish.
It is in this view that I have accepted your invitation to pre-
pare and read before you a memorial of our late honored and
respected fellow citizen the Honorable ASAHEL HUNTINGTON
and I shall best satisfy myself, and, I doubt not, you also,
by a simple narration of those incidents and traits, which
secured to him the eminent position he held while he lived, and
which afford to us the sweet memories that we would fondly
cherish.
He was born at Topsfield, in this county, July 23, 1798. He
was the son of Rev. Asahel and Mrs. Alethea (Lord) Hunt-
ington. At the time of his birth, his father was the acceptable
and beloved pastor of the Congregational church and society
of that town. His first ancestor, who arrived in this country,
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landed in Boston, in 1633, a widow with five children ; her hus-
band, Simon Huntington, from Norwich in England, having
died upon the passage. One of these children, Christopher
Huntington, settled in Norwich, Connecticut. Christopher's
son Christopher lived in that part of Norwich, which is now
Franklin. His son, Barnabas, was the father of Rev. Asahel
Huntington, the father of him whose life we commemorate.
All these men, influential and respected in their time, holding
commanding positions in the church and in their municipali-
ties, were of the kind which created New England character.
The farm which the second Christopher owned and occupied
in Franklin, was lately owned and occupied by Azariah Hunt-
ington, a cousin of our friend, having descended unalienated
and undivided through four generations. The mother of
Asahel was one of five daughters of Dr. Elisha Lord of Pom-
fret, Connecticut, u a good physician and a good man." These
five sisters were all married, and with- one exception left chil-
dren surviving them. The eldest married Dr. Nehemiah
Cleaveland and resided in Topsfield. They were all, for their
time, of unusual culture. Though separated by a long dis-
tance difficult to be overcome, a year seldom passed without a
reunion either in Connecticut or Massachusetts. These de-
lightful gatherings were not without influence as well upon the
subject of these remarks as upon others connected with them.
Endowed by nature with persons more than comely, with
marked superiority of intellect, and graced by those charms
of character which delight and attract, they were women from
whom descend men of the highest type of manhood.
Upon both sides our friend came from unmixed Puritan
stock. The Rev. Mr. Huntington, his father, was graduated
with the highest honors of the class at Dartmouth College in
1786, and was settled in Topsfield in 1789. He was a true
specimen of the New England pastor, and might well have sat
for the village preacher of Goldsmith :
" A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year."
The village pastor, of the latter part of the last century and
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the beginning of this, is a character unknown at the present
day.
Like most others of the class, Mr. Huntington was pastor,
farmer and schoolmaster. A portion of the time he taught the
public school, or, in the language of the day, he kept the town
school. His teaching, however, was not thus limited. As was
the custom at that time, when there were few academies and no
high schools, he, like many other clergymen, took scholars from
abroad into his family, some to fit for college, others, especially
mates of vessels, to educate in the science of navigation. Be-
sides his own children, he had pupils from Boston, from this
city, from Newburyport, from Ipswich and occasionally a
Creole from the West Indies.
It is, of itself, a eulogy upon his character and influence that
so -many young men from the small village of Topsfield and its
vicinity were induced and aided by him to seek a public educa-
tion. Of these, were that beloved man, so affectionately re-
membered by all the older citizens of this place, the Hon.
David Cummins, for many years a leader of the bar of this
county, and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas as pure
minded and upright a magistrate as ever graced the ermine in
any State ; the late Benjamin Al thorp Gould, so long the dis-
tinguished master of the Boston Latin School ; the Hon. Asa
Waldo Wildes, for many years the chairman of the County
Commissioners of this county ; Rev. Jacob Hood, Rev. Eben-
ezer Perkins, Dr. Israel Balch, Dr. Josiah Lamson, and Dr.
George Osborne all well known in this vicinity. There was,
also, another pupil during several years under his instruction,
a cousin of Asahel, Nehemiah Cleaveland, LL. D., the elegant
scholar and accomplished gentleman, who long presided over
that ancient institution, known as Dummer Academy, beloved
and respected by all his pupils ; still living in advanced and
vigorous manhood, receiving the grateful esteem of hundreds
of pupils, whose course and usefulness in life had its first im-
pulse from his kind and courteous instruction. I am glad to
be able on this occasion to pay my personal tribute of respect
and affectionate veneration to my earliest instructor in an aca-
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demic institution, and to acknowledge my indebtedness to him
for what is of value in this memorial of his kinsman, between
whom and himself, during a contemporaneous life of three-
score and ten years, there had been unbroken, mutual confi-
dence, respect and love.
The fitting a young gentleman for college was, then, an
entirely different thing from the same task, at present ; and
without making comparisons, the village clergyman of Tops-
field might well have boasted of the preparations he had made.
It was not usual, at that time, to test the capacity of a boy's
mind by the quantity of heterogeneous matter which could be
crammed into it. The foundation of instruction was disci-
pline. The mind and body were both disciplined ; obedience
and self-control were cardinal virtues. The mind was an in-
strument to work, and by discipline to become self-acting, and
to impress itself upon its acts : not a mere reservoir, to receive
what could be forced into it and to take impression from what
came in contact with it. A preparation for college was rather
to teach the boy how to study than merely to impart knowl-
edge.
Like most fathers of the time Mr. Huntington thought it de-
sirable that his son should have the advantage of study away
from home, and at the age of eleven years he was sent to the
academy at Bradford and became a boarder in the family of
Rev. Mr. Allen, then the minister of the town. The means
of the father did not justify the payment of board, and Asahel
was taken into the family of a brother clergyman and boarded
in compensation for the labor he could perform in taking care
of the minister's cow and horse, and doing the chores of the
family. Young as he was, the advantages from this contract
were not all on his side. Even before this period, I have the
authority of the cousin, to whom I have referred, for saying :
" he was sensible and serious, earnest and practical, a will-
ing, capable and diligent boy. In a family like his father's,
with a small farm to be looked after, there is always plenty of
work, and this strong, willing lad early began to do more, per-
haps, than his share. No labor within the compass of his
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ability was so hard or so unpleasant, that he did not bend to
it with a will. The problem of life in so far as that means
the getting of a living seemed to have caught his attention
at a period when boys, in general, think of little beyond their
studies and their play. He discovered very early the value of
property, being eager to earn and careful to save." By labor-
ing for the neighbors in the vicinity for small compensation, by
raising fowls and husbanding their produce, he was enabled to
embark in the business of sheep raising, and while yet a mere
lad, became the owner of a flock of very considerable value.
During his stay at Bradford I am inclined to think that he
acquired but little except discipline and those associations
and memories with which, in the latter years of his life, he was
accustomed, occasionally, to regale his more intimate acquaint-
ances.
He was in his fifteenth year when his father died, after an ill-
ness of only four days. His elder brother, Elisha, afterwards
a physician of much respectability, and frequently honored
with important trusts by the people of Lowell, where he re-
sided, and also by the people of the Commonwealth in electing
him to the office of Lieut. Governor, was, at the time, in col-
lege. A younger brother, Hezekiah, who died quite young,
wtis sickly and weak, and the care of the home and farm de-
volved almost wholly upon Asahel. These duties he performed
with an ability and discretion beyond his years. He had all
but the entire direction and did a large part of the work with
his own hands.
Dr. Nehemiah Cleaveland, between whom and his brother-in-
law there existed a friendship of unusual strength with a
mutual confidence, administered upon the estate of Mr. Hunt-
ington, and became the legal guardian of the five fatherless
children. The property, though considerable, in view of the
circumstances and conditions under which it had been ac-
quired, was yet hardly equal in amount to our friend's annual
official income, during the last years of his life. As the
guardian, and kind, judicious friend of young Asahel, Dr.
Cleaveland did much towards laying the solid foundation of
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his character, and was at that time undoubtedly more instru-
mental in accomplishing the wishes and aims of his relative in
the education of his son, than any, or than all other persons ;
and it would not be pardoned, if I omitted a passing notice of
that most excellent man.
Inheriting from a father, who was eminently a patriot Chris-
tian pastor, the principles of the men who laid the foundations
of our republic, and himself, when a mere boy of seventeen,
enlisting in the service of the country during one of the dark-
est years of the revolutionary struggle, he lived to become a
marked man in the history of his native county. Deprived, by
the severity of the times, of the collegiate education which his
father had designed for him, he devoted himself after leaving
the army, to the study of medicine, first at Byfield under the
care of his brother, Dr. Parker Cleaveland, and subsequently
in Ipswich, under the tuition of Dr. John Manning, then
eminent as a physician, and commenced the practice of his
profession in Topsfield. During a long and honorable life, he
enjoyed the respectful esteem of his contemporaries ; called at
various times to the highest political and judicial offices in the
county, he performed every duty with an ability and fidelity
which reflected upon him high honor.
To the care of such a counsellor was young Huntington com-
mitted ; and I should fail in that part of my duty, which my
friend, could he speak, would be least willing to have omitted,
did I not speak of the parental care and affection, which this
truly wise and affectionate guardian bestowed upon his young
ward. The little patrimony was carefully and anxiously pre-
served. By his counsels and by his support, the young man
was encouraged and sustained in all the efforts and sacrifices
necessary to secure the education, which the death of his father
had well nigh prevented. Of him might our friend say, in the
language of the youthful bard :
" Some I remember and will ne'er forget,
My early friends * * * *
My counsellors * * * my guides
******* in doubt
My oracles, my wings in high pursuit."
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The influences which form and develop character are silent
and oftentimes secret, and yet, so far as we can now see, we
are authorized to attribute the course and the character of
our friend very much to the formative guidance and direction
of his beloved and respected uncle, whose interest in the wel-
fare of his ward continued long after he had entered upon the
active scenes and duties of life.
When, at the close of the sad, industrious summer which
succeeded the death of his father, the uncle advised his nephew
and ward to enter Phillips' Academy, with a view to college,
he at first objected, from doubts and fears of the expense. He
knew how small was his own share of the little property, and
probably thought that his mother and sisters, and perhaps his
brothers, might feel the need of his continued and not unskil-
ful toil. But the judicious friend, then standing in the place
of a parent, understood his capacities and knew much more
than he did of life and the world, and soon convinced him that
an education, though at first expensive and liable to be embar-
rassing, would more than repay its cost, and be far better in
the end not only for himself, but for those in whom he felt so
deeply interested.
Yielding to these considerations, he entered Phillips' Acad-
emy in the autumn of 1813, where his habits were studious and
his conduct exemplary. He was manly in his deportment, yet
not, I am glad to say, without a vein of roguishness. The boy
without this element seldom shows much manliness in later
life. At Andover, he had for his classmate, and part of the
time for a roommate, Milton P. Braman, now so well known
among us as an able divine and brilliant writer. He was the
son of Rev. Isaac Braman of New Rowley, now Georgetown.
The fathers of these boys had lived in the closest intimacy,
and their mutual regard was easily and naturally transmitted
to their sons. Unlike in temperament and tastes, they soon
became strongly attached to each other, and the friendship
then begun was never broken. The following remarks in rela-
tion to his former schoolmate are taken from a recent letter of
the Rev. Dr. Braman, and will interest and possibly surprise
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some of those who knew our friend well. "When a youth, he
had a most exuberant love of fun. His sense of the comic
and ludicrous was very keen ; and he was accustomed to divert
himself, greatly, with the eccentricities, curious peculiarities,
petty foibles and amusing habits of those within his observa-
tion, whose demeanor in those particularities was strongly
marked. His humor was much expended when a youth in
laughable practical jokes, which, as his age became riper, he
put away with other childish things. As this propensity be-
came chastened by age, you know how much it contributed to
the agreeableness of his society."
Many, whom I address, have undoubtedly heard him, half-
seriously and half-jokingly, claim to be a soldier of the war of
1812. It is well known that the people of Boston and its vi-
cinity were alarmed, while the British men-of-war were upon
our coast, lest the territory should be invaded. The boys of
Phillips' Academy, young Huntington among the number, de-
sired to do what they might in their country's cause, and, in a
body, walked to Charlestown, labored with their spades for a
whole day upon the redoubts, and walked back again to An-
dover and to their studies, not only with a consciousness of
duty performed, but proud and happy that they had elicited
words of compliment and commendation from that great man,
Josiah Quincy, who was then one of the trustees of Phillips'
Academy, and who had gone to Charlestown not only to see,
but to praise them.
In consequence of his limited means, he was received at the
academy as a beneficiary, but the bread then cast upon the
waters after many days returned.
Within a few years past, the academy building was destroyed
by fire, and a meeting of the Alumni was called to provide
means for rebuilding it. Our friend, if he did not originate
the call, was among the first to respond to it, and was selected
to preside over the deliberations. By his own liberal sub-
scription, and by his zealous and effective aid, in procuring
contributions from others, he more than repaid in money what
he had received, thus evincing a grateful and affectionate
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attachment to his early benefactor more valuable even than
his gift.
He entered Yale College in 1815, and was graduated in
course in 1819. I have again to acknowledge my indebted-
ness to the kinsman before referred to, who has not only
favored me with his own reminiscences, but has obtained from
Mr. Jonathan Edwards, a classmate of his cousin, now living
in New Haven, this testimony :
" As he was in a different division of the class, and roomed
at a distance from me" (in the early part of his college life he
did not occupy a room in the college buildings) " I saw but
little of him in his early college career. I knew, however, that
he was exemplary in his deportment, accurate in scholarship,
regular in attendance on college duties and more mature in
character than most around him. I never knew him engaged
in any of the dissipation or light amusement, which engrossed
so much of the time of many others. He was kind, courteous
and conciliating in his intercourse with others ; made many
friends, but no enemies, and preserved through his college life
the character of a gentleman. As I recollect him, he pos-
sessed then the genial manners, which he retained through life.
* * * He was among the first scholars of his class
having an oration assigned him at Commencement."
There is abundant evidence that during his course his rank
in all respects was high, and that it was continually improving.
In his senior year, he won the Berkleyan prize for excellence in
classic literature, but was, however, deprived of the benefit of
it, which is conditioned upon a residence in New Haven. Such
residence Mr. Huntington contemplated, and actually made
the city his home for a few months after graduation ; not long
enough, however, to entitle him to receive any portion of the
Berkleyan bounty.
Having fixed upon the profession of the law as best adapted
to his habits of thought, his disposition and his tastes, and
being still in straitened circumstances, he selected Newbury-
port as a place, where, situated as he was, he could most suc-
cessfully and least expensively pursue his studies. It was the
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place of residence of the late Hon. Asa W. "Wildes, a gentle-
man from Topsfield, a pupil of his father, then a young practi-
tioner of the law, who invited Mr. Huntington into his family,
where he found a pleasant home. Mr. Wildes was a gentle-
man of great amiability of character, a warm friend and a
genial companion ; and when, in the later years of his life,
misfortunes and reverses overtook him, they, who knew these
early associations, understood the fidelity and the affection,
with which Mr. Huntington adhered to his friend and former
benefactor. He never ceased, however changed the circum-
stances, to remember a kindness, and while he repaid such
debts in kind even usuriously, he never withheld that better
than payment in kind his grateful remembrance of it. He
entered the office of John Scott, Esq., then also a young law-
yer of Newburyport. Mr. Scott died while Mr. Huntington
was still a student in his office, leaving a widow and several
small children, and as is the case with most young attorneys,
he was poor. The widow and several of the children died be-
fore Mr. Huntington ; but his quiet, unobtrusive, and almost
unobserved devotion to that widow and those fatherless chil-
dren, during her life and as long as he lived, was more like
romance than like real life. There were no relations between
them or between their families, either of consanguinity or asso-
ciation there was nothing in the social position nothing
to call forth the sympathy and assistance, which extended
through a period of time equal to an estimated generation
except widowed and orphan dependence. To this call the
heart, the purse, the sympathy of our friend always responded.
At the time he was in the office of Mr. Scott, there was, in
Newburyport, an unusual proportion of intelligent and culti-
vated young men, many of them originating and residing there,
or in the immediate vicinity, and no inconsiderable number from
abroad, pursuing their studies preparatory to entering upon
their respective professions. Probably there was no more
brilliant coterie of young gentlemen in the Commonwealth ;
certainly none in any single municipality so unpretentious as
Newburyport. Very many of them, as you are probably all
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aware, were made famous by the genius of that gifted poetess,
Miss Gould, in those choice morceaux in the form of epitaphs,
so pleasantly and humorously descriptive of their more promi-
nent peculiarities. Of all those thus early dedicated to fame
by her graphic pen, the honorable Caleb Gushing of Newbury-
port, and Bailey Bartlett, Esq. of Lawrence, alone survive.
Taken in connection with what Dr. Braman says of Mr. Hunt-
ington's fondness for deriving amusement from the eccentrici-
ties, curious peculiarities and petty foibles of others, I am
prepared to believe what I am told by an eminent literary
man, a native of Newburyport, that the materials for all these
epitaphs were furnished by Mr. Huntington, and that they were
prepared at his suggestion and under his personal supervision ;
while that upon himself, which was one of the earliest, if not
the very first in point of time, was merely a ruse to divert at
tention from any suspicion of his participation. It is not
however, upon these effusions that the fame and the literary
position of their author is based. The gentleman to whom I
have referred, himself a poet of much distinction, the Hon.
George Lunt, in a recent communication to me thus refers to
the intimacy which existed and continued between these two
persons : "During Mr. Huntington's student life at New-
buryport, he was on terms of intimacy with a lady of large
literary celebrity in her day, and in a day when few ladies made
literary pretensions, the late Miss Hannah Flagg Gould.
Though considerably younger than Miss Gould, the intimacj 7
then formed was cordial and sincere, and remained unbroken
until the decease of the once famous poetess, a few years ago.
Doubtless, the fact that she also was of Topsfield origin led to
the acquaintance, for, though a professed admirer of her verses,
the tastes of Mr. Huntington were in the direction of his legal
studies, rather than in the way of general reading, especially
of poetry. At that time, Miss Gould resided with her father,
a plain, worthy and venerable man, who had been a captain in
the war of the revolution ; and after his decease and that of
other members of the family, she continued to occupy the same
dwelling. * * * She had many distinguished
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visitors from other parts of the country, attracted by her poeti-
cal reputation and one of those, who never failed to pay her his
respects, was the late respected Judge Daniel A. White of this
city, himself a gentleman of no mean culture, who always en-
tertained a high opinion of her verses and was her warm per-
sonal friend. * Many of her poems enjoyed
remarkable popularity during her life and are still favorites.
Her themes are almost always simple and familiar, distin-
guished by delicacy and purity of sentiment and by exemplary
correctness of versification, and no American female has yet
appeared so likely to be permanently remembered as she, for
some of her poetical pieces. As an instance of her general
accomplishment, at a time when such an acquisition was much
more rare than at present, upon the occasion of Lafayette's
spending a night at Newburyport in 1824, she was introduced
to him by the town authorities as the one lady able to converse
with him in his native tongue. It speaks well for the sound-
ness of Mr. Huntington's moral sense, that he found pleasure
in the familiar society of such a woman and that the friendship
continued while she lived."
The young gentlemen to whom I have referred as the associ-
ates of Mr. Huntington, at Newburyport, had established a
Debating Society or Club, of which he became an active and
earnest member. Indeed, at that, as well as at every other
time of his life, for him to be engaged in any enterprise was to
be active and earnest in it. He frequently, perhaps generally,
participated in the discussions, and his mode of debate was
marked by the same peculiarities, which afterwards became so
well known to the bar and to the public. He loved discussion,
and the more earnest and excited it was, the more pleasurable
was it to him. And he carried his discussions beyond the
limits of the debating club. Newburyport was then a town,
and her public affairs were discussed in that most perfect of all
democracies, and that strongest of all citadels of civil liberty
town meeting. Mr. Huntington being "of age" and resi-
dent at Newburyport, did not fail to attend the town meeting.
At such a meeting, some of the influential citizens proposed a
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measure, which they were strongly bent on carrying and which
they had no doubt of being able to carry. After they had
spoken in its advocacy, and had been heard with apparent
favor, young Huntington rose, in accordance with a previous
design, opposed the measure at some length and defeated it.
His opposition was most unexpected and filled the advocates
with surprise, disappointment and mortification.
On leaving Newburyport, he came to Salem and entered the
law office of the Hon. David Cummins, of whom I have be-
fore spoken as a pupil of the Rev. Mr. Huntington of Tops-
field. It would be pleasant to linger a moment upon the
memory of that beloved man, still green in the hearts of the
older portion of our community ; especially upon those endear-
ing traits of character and temperament, which, while they ren-
dered his success as a magistrate less conspicuous, only bound
him more closely by the ties of respect and love. With an
ardor and a vehemence of action in the trial of causes never
equalled at the Essex bar, his great powers were never excited
except upon the side of charity, virtue and truth ; but I must
content myself by saying, that the pupil of the father was the
eminently fit instructor of the son. Not far from this time,
Mr. Huntington taught the district school in North Beverly,
and I refer to the fact, especially, because he so endeared him-
self to the boys and girls of his school, that they ever after,
even to the time of his death, seemed to regard him as theirs ;
and the counsels which he commenced with them as boys and
girls, he continued to give them as men and women, whether
they were required in matters of law, of morals, of conduct
or even of domestic and family trial and concern. The friend
of their youth remained the counsellor of their lives, unpaid,
except by that filial gratitude and love, which prompted many
tears at his death.
While here engaged in the study of the law, he became much
interested in a system of mnemonics, or artificial memory. I
have not been able to learn whether the system originated with
him or whether he adopted it from some other source, nor have
I been able to ascertain precisely what it was. He prepared a
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lecture upon the subject, with a series of illustrative diagrams,
and delivered it in several places in the Commonwealth, in
Rhode Island and Connecticut. I have heard his warm per-
sonal friend, the estimable man and upright magistrate, Chief
Justice Mellen, late of the court of Common Pleas, say that he
remembered with interest its delivery at Providence, while he
was an undergraduate of Brown University. The only account
I can find of it is from that cousin to whom I am so greatly
indebted. He says : " The floor and ceiling and four sides of
a room, were supposed to have each nine compartments with
some familiar object in each. The student made himself
familiar with these, and then associated with them, in their
order, the things to be remembered." But whatever the princi-
ple, or whatever the detail, no doubt Mr. Huntington soon
came to the practical result, to which others before and since
have arrived, that each man must cultivate, in his own mode
and by his own reflection, such aids to the memory, as he finds
adapted to himself.
At the March Term of the Court of Common Pleas, 1824, he
was admitted as an attorney of that court ; two years later, ac-
cording to the law then existing, he was admitted an attorney
of the Supreme Judicial Court, and after two years' practice as
attorney, was admitted as counsellor in the Supreme Judicial
Court, the highest grade of the profession.
It is not easy to define with entire accuracy his position as a
lawyer. It is easy to say that he took a prominent place at the
bar, which he maintained with honor so long as he remained in
practice. It is easy to say, that he had the confidence of his
clients and of the public and the respect of his associates ; but
to point out wherein he differed, who differed largely from his
compeers, is not easy. Lord Bacon says : " Studies serve for
delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chief use for de-
light is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in dis-
course ; and for ability is in the judgment and disposition of
business. * * To spend too much time in studies is sloth ;
to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make
judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar."
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More, formerly, than now in the early education of youth was
there the just admixture of delight, ornament and ability.
The mind was so cultivated that it found delight in literary
pursuits, and discourse was made attractive and ability to treat
affairs promoted. When Mr. Huntington entered upon life, the
necessities of his position gave predominance to the last of
these qualities of study, the ability to deal with affairs. His
life became eminently a practical one, and though he never ab-
solutely renounced the humanities, he gave but inconsiderable
and unimportant attention to them. The natural and indeed
necessary result of this was accomplishment and not display
in his professional career. With no design to become a writer
or expositor of the law, his studies did not range through the
entire field of jurisprudence ; but determined to perform well
the duties of his profession, he limited his labors to the exi-
gencies of immediate duty. In this he was constant and stead-
fast. This course of study made him what he was. If there
was one mental trait, more strikingly manifest than any other
to the minds of all who were brought into contact with him,
it would probably be characterized by the majority as strong,
sterling, common sense. This, however, would very imper-
fectly describe it ; for we understand by a vigorous common
sense the mere natural working of a sound mind ; a sort of
intuition which results from original mental organization. It
is not that, that I mean. What we thus characterize, when we
apply it to Mr. Huntington, is the result of severe training
and discipline. It is more properly wisdom applied to con-
duct. The secret springs of action in one mind are not in-
tuitively known to another. To discover them and to turn
them to useful account demands more profound thought and
more incessant study than to master the details of history or
science. The mysteries of mind are more subtle than those of
physics and much more readily elude pursuit and investigation ;
and he that becomes master of the human mind and human
passions has achieved a greater triumph than he who has dis-
covered a planet. "He understands human nature," can prop-
erly be said only of him who has been a long, severe and
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profound student ; although when such power is attained, like
the most marvellous discoveries in science or art, it seems so
simple that we are inclined to deem it intuitive. What we call
gravitation, and what we call force, will explain nearly every
phenomenon of the physical world ; but it was the subtle and
more mysterious workings of the mind, the more difficult and
multifarious rules of human conduct that claimed the study of
Mr. Huntington ; and although we may call the result by the
humble and unpretentious name of common sense, it is indeed
one of the highest achievements of stud}'. The great poet of
nature wrote songs and sonnets, which would have given high
place to another ; but how insignificant they are in comparison
with his magnificent exhibitions of human action !
The position of Mr. Huntington, as prosecuting officer, while
still a young man, having been appointed to that place first in
1830, required the study of the mind in other than what may
be called its normal condition. He was called to deal with
men who violated law and duty ; with those who transgressed
in the slightest degree the rules of municipal law, and those
who committed the highest and most revolting crimes ; and the
conduct of men under such circumstances he was called to in-
vestigate and to study ; and though it opened a peculiar and
ample field, he entered upon it and reaped an abundant har-
vest. To this was added an accurate and critical knowledge
of the criminal law, a reasonable proficiency in the principles
of the common law, a familiarity with general jurisprudence
and an average degree of culture in literature and science.
He thus became in the practice of his profession a strong man.
The character, however, would be incomplete without the
addition of the high moral qualities, which distinguished him
through his whole career, and an incorruptible integrity, which
crowned and illustrated every other quality. While he held
the office, first of County and afterwards of District Attorney,
there were no separate terms of the Court for the transaction
of criminal business ; he was, therefore, although retained in a
large proportion of civil controversies, to a considerable ex-
tent, prevented from attending in Court to that branch of pro-
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fessional business. He was twice elected to the House of
Representatives of this Commonwealth, but was never a mem-
ber of any other legislative body.
He remained unmarried until the year 1842. In August of
that year, he was married, in Boston, to Mrs. Caroline Louisa
Tucker, widow of Mr. Charles Tucker of that city. Mrs.
Tucker had then one surviving child, Richard D., a lad of some
nine or ten years of age, now a partner in the long established
and well known house of Peele, Hubbell & Co., at Manila.
Though her idiosyncrasies were different from his, and though
their early associations and educational influences had been
respectively so unlike yet the constant and constantly increas-
ing mutual confidence, respect and love, which made his
married life one of comfort and happiness through many years
and to its close fully attested the fitness of the union.
His house was an abode of generous hospitality and of rare
domestic happiness.
By this marriage there were born to them three children,
William Deblois, Louisa Sarah, and Arthur Lord, of whom
only the two younger survived him.
As prosecuting officer for the District comprising the large
counties of Middlesex and Essex, the duties of Mr. Hunting*
ton were numerous and necessarily arduous. The year 1843
was one of much more than the usual responsibilit}*- and labor ;
and there occurred, during it, an important and memorable
trial in which he was compelled to meet an array of ability,
learning and legal skill, quite unexampled in the history of the
Commonwealth. He met the demands of the occasion. The
law was vindicated, and in the judgment, as well of the public
as of the profession, in such manner as to reflect high credit
upon him.
Strong as was his physical constitution, the labors of that
year were too exhausting, and late in the fall he was prostrated
with a tedious and dangerous illness, which, for many months,
confined him to his house and prevented him from attending to
any professional business till the next midsummer.
It was at this time, in Jan., 1844, while his body was suffer-
ing with a fearful disease, that there was superadded a calamity
much more terrible to him. .
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; buck wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes.
His integrity was called in question, and charges were pub-
licly made, that he was corrupt in office and had embezzled
public funds. Nerves, strong as his, might well yield under
the accumulated pressure of sickness and calumny. The
charges, indeed, came from polluted sources ; from those who,
nnder the law and by force of the law, had been doomed to the
pecuniary penalties, which he was charged with embezzling.
They came, however, with dates and sums and with circum-
stance, so that the poison gangrened the minds of some honest
and worthy men, and a call was made for Legislative investiga-
tion. On the 19th day of Jan., 1844, Mr. Washburn, of Lynn,
introduced an order into the House of Representatives, which,
after amendment, was adopted, directing the committee on the
Judiciary " to inquire into any charge which may be preferred
against Asahel Huntington, District Attorney of the Common-
wealth, for malefeasance in the discharge of the duties of his
office " and the committee were empowered to send for persons
and papers. At the time, that most excellent and pure minded
man, the late Honorable Leverett Saltonstall, our respected
townsman, was at the head of the committee on the Judiciary.
He knew Mr. Huntington well ; and there is sufficient evidence
that he was disinclined to enter upon such an investigation, at
a time when his friend was unable even to converse on any sub-
ject of business, and that he was disposed to let a life of in-
tegrity and uprightness be ijts own vindicator. But Mr.
Huntington, enfeebled and almost overwhelmed as he was,
demanded an investigation T and on the 12th day of March,
1844, Mr. Saltonstall, in behalf of the committee, made a re-
port recommending that " in conformity with the desire of the
respondent a committee be appointed, to meet during the re-
cess of the Legislature,, to examine the charges which have
been preferred against the said Asahel Huntington and to
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make their report at the next session of the Legislature. And
further-, that said committee have authority to send for persons
and papers." This report was accepted. The committee ap-
pointed were the late Hon. Joseph Bell, an eminent lawyer of
Boston, the Hon. George S. Boutwell, the present Secretary of
the Treasury of the United States, at that time a young, active
and extreme partisan of the extreme democrac} r , and the late
Hon. J. H, W. Page, a young and promising lawyer of New
Bedford. The committee it will be perceived, had none of the
qualities of a whitewashing committee. Nothing but integrity
could pass that ordeal. This committee met in Salem on the
9th day of July, 1844, having previously given notice to Mr.
Washburn who introduced the order, and to Mr. Huntington of
the time and place of their meeting. On that day, the com-
mittee say " Mr. Huntington appeared and was ready to pro-
ceed. But no person appeared to sustain the charges." I
have said the charges were made with the circumstance of
dates, and sums, and persons, who had paid the money, which
he was charged with embezzling ; and neither the committee
nor Mr. Huntington was willing to accept the absence of an
accuser as sufficient vindication of the accused. Under the
power to send for persons and papers they directed that Mr.
Washburn and every person named in the accusation should be
summoned, and that every document referred to should be
brought before them for examination. Though Mr. Hunting-
ton was able to be present, he had not recovered his health.
The elastic step and the buoyant spirit were not with him.
Severe and protracted illness and its sympathetic influence
upon a strong mind still debilitated and depressed him. But
his life of honor and integrity had not been in vain. He had
friends that loved' him, and they were friends that knew him.
They knew also his accusers, and though these had paraded
what they called facts and figures of condemnation, so as al-
most to forestall the public judgment, his friends did not falter
or hesitate. They voluntarily and unsolicited, tendered to him
their professional services before the committee, and entered
upon the investigation with a zeal and confidence which no de-
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ceptive array of figures could diminish, and which fraud and
falsehood could not shake. Foremost among them was the
late Hon. Rufus Choate, the friend of his early manhood and of
his whole life ; who, in probably the last letter he ever indited,
said affectionately " I am quite competent to pronounce for
myself that I love and esteem you and * * * and brother
Huntington quite as much as ever and for quite as much rea-
son. Pray accept for yourself, and give them all my love, and
be sure if I live to return, it will be with unabated affection
for you all." To the cause of his friend he brought his love
as well as his genius. Three others of the most conspicuous
of these, whom Mr. Huntington followed sorrowfully to their
graves, he would require me to name ; Mr. Stickney of Lynn,
an honorable lawyer of a different political party from Mr.
Huntington ; Mr. N. J. Lord of Salem, also of different poli-
tics, and Mr. J. H. Ward of Salem. The latter two were his
more immediate and active advisers, the last of whom especi-
alty engaged in the cause with characteristic enthusiasm, and
did not cease from his labors until the honor and integrity of
his friend were clearly and completely vindicated. But while
these, from their position, were natural!}" the more prominent
among his vindicators, others of the bar, some of whom are
now among the dead while others live to mourn his loss, felt no
less assurance of the final result and were in no degree less
ready, should opportunity occur, to lend their aid to a success-
ful issue.
Early in the next session in Jan. 1845, the committee made
their report to the House of Representatives. I give its
closing paragraph. "Oil the contrary, the evidence was en-
tirely satisfactory to the committee, that Mr. Huntington had
devoted himself with extraordinary zeal and untiring industry
even to the peril of his life, to the discharge of his official
duties ; and that he had thereby acquired, and has a just right
to retain the wide spread and well founded confidence of his
fellow citizens in the intelligence, integrity, fidelity and abilit}-
with which these duties have been discharged. The committee
are, therefore, unanimously of opinion, that the charges of
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malpractice in office brought against Asahel Huntington, Esq.,
District Attorney of the Commonwealth for the Northern Dis-
trict, at the last session of the Legislature are wholly unsus-
tained by the evidence referred to for their support, and that
no further action be had thereon by this House." And on the
7th day of Jan. 1845, the record says this "report was read,
unanimously accepted and ordered to be printed." Thus,
effectually and forever was wiped away the only stain ever
sought to be fixed upon his character. So thorough and com-
plete was their vindication, that not even a suspicion rested
upon any mind. Few, probably, of those who have since come
upon the stage have ever heard of the attempt to defame him,
while those who remember it, remember it only as a miserable
failure. It would not now have been referred to, but that en-
tire justice to his character required it, and because it illus-
trates, in a striking manner, the value of honesty, uprightness
and integrity in character.
A few months later he returned to his accustomed work with
strength and spirits fully restored, and from that time to his
death, which occurred a year ago this day, casting a gloom
over our city and sending sorrow to many hearts, his uniformly
robust health and ever cheerful temper were facts of universal
observation and remark.
Thus, wholly exonerated, in 1845, he resigned the office of
District Attorney which he had held from 1832, and resumed
with much success the general practice of the law.
In 1847, Essex county was again constituted a distinct dis-
trict, and yielding to the general public wish, he assumed again
the duties of public prosecutor which he discharged for four
years longer. In 1851, he was appointed by the Supreme Ju-
dicial Court, Clerk of the Courts for the County of Essex.
Subsequently, by a change in the constitution of the Common-
wealth, the office was made elective, and by successive elec-
tions, each for the term of five years, he continued to hold the
office during the remainder of his life. The duties of the office,
though he was not clerical in his tastes or habits, were accept-
ably performed. Lord Bacon, speaking of clerks, who are first
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and last and only clerks, and who grow old in the service, says
" an ancient clerk, skilful in precedents, wary in proceeding
and understanding in the business of the Court, is an excellent
finger of the court and doth many times point the way to the
Judge himself." In a different and far higher sense, Mr. Hunt-
ington was a finger which many times pointed the way for the
Judge himself; and it has often occurred to me, as I do not
doubt it has to others holding a similar position, that the rela-
tive position of Judge and clerk might have been changed to
the advantage of the public and for the better administration
of the law.
In 1853, he was a member of the convention called to revise
the constitution of Massachusetts. In 1854, he was Mayor of
the city, and this was the last political duty to which he was
elected by his fellow citizens.
But these were not all the trusts which were committed to
him. In 1844, he was chosen a Trustee of Dummer Academy,
an institution endeared to him by the fact that his esteemed
cousin, whom I have so often referred to, was for many years
its accomplished head. The duties of this office he performed
assiduously and efficiently so long as he lived. He was an
officer, at various times, in several of our charitable institu-
tions a service most congenial to his nature ; was Director and
President of the Naumkeag Cotton Company ; he was Presi-
dent, also, of this Institute which will never fail to honor his
memory.
In all places to which he was thus called, he gave the benefit
of his wisdom, his prudence and his efficient labors.
But, though his life was cheerful and happy in the highest
degree, it was not all unshadowed. I remember, and memory
will be dethroned when I forget that three years ago, our friend
and I were engaged, each in our respective official duties at
Newburyport, and returned together on the evening of Mon-
day, May 11, with the expectation of resuming our places on
the following morning. There was the same buoyancy of
spirits, the same warm words from the heart, the same flow of
genial and sympathetic kindness, that were his uniform charac-
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teristics and which made his society so charming. As I sat at
breakfast the next morning, a note, in his familiar handwrit-
ing, was brought to me, the opening words of which were,
" God has taken my first born." My own emotion, in some
faint degree, indicated the severity of the calamity which well
nigh overwhelmed him. I have since learned that when he
parted with me on that previous evening, instead of going
directly to his home, he made one of his frequent and ever wel-
come calls upon his beloved pastor ; and there, in an unusual
and pathetic manner, poured out his heart, his hopes, his
anxieties, his confidence in relation to his first born son ; lin-
gering beyond his custom, and seemingly reluctant to leave
the theme. His whole existence seemed garnered in the life
of that young man. He went to his home to find the seal
unbroken of a letter, which announced that this child of his
love, of his hopes, of his heart, had, several months before,
in a distant land, gone peacefully to his final rest.
He was a young gentleman of extraordinary promise, pos-
sessing an exceedingly amiable disposition, and had developed
a more than usual capacity for business. He had not only
endeared himself to a large circle of friends and associates
here, but had secured the warm affection of many, with whom
he came in contact in his far distant home. In contemplation
of a son, so suddenly cut down in the full vigor and bright
promise of opening manhood, well might the strong heart of
the father quail, and the firm step, for a time, falter. The
unwonted grief, which, at first, greatly saddened and subdued
him, soon settled into a calm and submissive sorrow, that
threw its attempering and hallowed influence over the rest of
his life. His silent, tender farewell to this child of his affec-
tions might be well expressed in the words of the beautiful
apostrophe.
" Go, gentle spirit, to thy destined rest,
While I, reversed our nature's kindlier doom,
Pour forth a father's sorrow on thy tomb.'
In the early manhood of Mr. Huntington, at just about the
time he was appointed a public prosecutor, began what has
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been known as the temperance reformation. This commenced
bj- a pledge to abstain from the use of distilled liquors and was
afterwards extended to abstinence from all intoxicating drink.
To this cause, he was, from first to last, the consistent, un-
wavering and judicious friend. To it, he devoted the strength
of his youth, the energy of his manhood, and the counsels of
his mature age. If he had a specialt} r in life, it was devotion
to temperance. If he had an ambition for distinction among
his contemporaries, it was as the uncompromising friend of
temperance. If there was one field above all others in which
he delighted to labor, it was that which the cause of temper-
ance opened to him. In 1861, when he was requested by his
classmate, Edwards, to give some of the incidents of his life
for the purpose of a class memorial, he said in a postscript to
his letter of repl}*, "If I have had any special mission, or
rendered any special service in my day and generation, it is as
a temperance reformer, and in that I flatter nryself I have
made my mark. My labors have been felt in the general cause
in this Commonwealth and in its legislation. Under the lead
of one of your name and blood, the late Dr. Justin Edwards of
Andover, the great temperance reformer of the United States,
who should alwaj-s be placed at its head, I enlisted in this work
of benevolence and good will more than three and thirty years
ago, and have been in it from that day to this, in season and
out of season, by pen, speech and example. And if, in all
these years, I have not done something, I must have been a
very poor worker. I have lived to witness an entire revolution
in the public sentiment of the State and people, and to see our
principles established in the high places of power and influence.
Our principles and creed have become energetic among the
vital forces of society and are installed in the legislation of the
State. In all this great work I have had some share, and as
far as public service is concerned, I consider it the great felicity
of my life." During his various terms of service as prosecut-
ing attorney, he labored with great zeal in the prosecution of
parties charged with the violation of laws respecting the sale
of intoxicating liquors. In the performance of this duty, I do
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not think he was fully understood. The fact that he was an
ardent and zealous advocate of temperance was put in conjunc-
tion with the fact that he was a no less ardent and zealous
prosecutor of persons charged with illegally selling intoxicat--
ing liquors, and they were deemed cause and effect. This, it
seems to me, is a superficial view of his conduct. His zeal in
both cases sprang from a deeper source. There was, underly-
ing his whole character, the profoundest conviction that the
morality, good order and advancement of society, depended
upon the prevalence of temperance ; there was also the no less
profound conviction that society itself and the government,
upon which it is based, will be subverted if law may be vio-
lated with impunity. His energy in the prosecution of such
offences arose not so much from the fact, that such persons
illegally sold liquors, as from the fact, that those, thus charged,
constituted a large and influential class of open and arrogant
violators of law ; and this energy was intensified when he saw
these persons, so open and arrogant in society, becoming mean
and cowardty before the judicial tribunals, and resorting to
every sort of sham and disguise when called to answer for
their conduct. No wonder that he took delight in rending
those disguises, in exposing those shams and in vindicating the
law. It would, however, be unjust to him and to his memory,
to give such prominence to his energ} r in securing the convic-
tion of such offenders as to warrant the inference that he was
less energetic in the prosecution of other offences. There
sometimes may have appeared to be more zeal in this class of
prosecutions, but it arose not from the prosecution, but from
the nature of the defences. These prosecutions were quite
tame and unexciting, when, as in other cases, the issue was
simply "Guilty" or "Not Guilty." It was only when some
device, ingenious or absurd, was resorted to, that his zeal
was kindled or his energy aroused. His true fame and excel-
lence as a public prosecutor, had a wholly different foundation.
Acting upon that other conviction to which I have referred,
that the whole fabric of society rested upon the supremacy of
the law, his great ability and all his powers were brought into
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action to this end. He kept constantly in mind the two great
objects of the criminal law the protection of society and the
reformation of the offender. He accepted as the true defini-
tion of these objects, that which was given in the most
remarkable trial in the annals of this county, by the great
constitutional lawyer who conducted that prosecution, " The
law is made, if we would speak with entire accuracy, to protect
the innocent by punishing the guilty." The vindication of the
law was the only object of his effort, the only joy in his tri-
umph. The result of this course of administration has al-
ready been anticipated in the report of that Legislative Com-
mittee, from which I have quoted the wide spread and well
founded confidence of his fellow citizens in the intelligence,
integrity, fidelity and ability with which those duties were dis-
charged.
In estimating the character of Mr. Huntington, his religious
views cannot otherwise than contribute an important element.
Although it is impossible that a mind like his could be fettered
by the words of any creed, his views were substantially in ac-
cordance with those, with whom he was accustomed to worship
the orthodox congregationalists. They were tolerant and
catholic. He was opposed as well to the bigotry of exclusive-
ness, as to the bigotry of liberalism. His religion was a reli-
gion of thought and action rather than speech. He never
proclaimed that he was a lighted candle, but those who ap-
proached him saw the light, which could not be hid. In refer-
ence to the fundamental principle of Christianity, he believed
that Science was silent, that if it spoke at all, it was only iti
gloom}' and despondent words ; that Philosophy could offer
nothing but a " pleasing hope," a "fond desire," a " long-
ing after," and that by Revelation, and by revelation alone,
the truth of the immortality of the soul was, with certainty,
promulgated ; and to deny an authentic and infallible revela-
tion was, with him, to uproot all confidence that the condition
of man differed from that of the beasts which perish. He was
not of those who rejected what was old in belief, because it
was old ; nor was the consentaneous judgment of all minds
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for thousands of years rejected by him because it had been so
long concurred in.
There is a class quite numerous now, and perhaps tempora-
rily increasing in number, endowed above all others with in-
quiring and investigating minds. They receive nothing upon
trust. Old truths are merely old superstitions until tested by
the touchstone of their unerring wisdom. They must put their
finger into the print of the nails, and thrust their hand into the
side of every truth before it can have their sanction ; and when
truth has stood this test, they are prepared to inquire whether
the body of truth is really a substantial body or only a certain
manifestation which appears to be a body ; for of such delicate
composition are their minds that they can contain nothing as
true, which is inconsistent with their view of what truth ought
to be. It would be difficult to tolerate this new school were it
not for that general and satisfactory compensation which nature
provides in such cases. While they will believe nothing which
has been generally believed for ages, there is nothing, of recent
suggestion, which they will not believe. They will hazard
their lives upon the truth of every theory, every hypothesis,
and even every speculation of each one of those learned pro-
fessors, who has established, each for himself, a positive suc-
cession of prehistoric ages fraught with detailed events ; nor
does it dampen the ardor of their belief, that of the theories of
a hundred of these learned men, each man's individual theory
is rejected as absurd by the other ninety-nine. They go for
progress. To believe what has been believed a thousand
years, is not progress.
It is mere incredulity and a bigoted adherence to old no-
tions, which refuses to believe that man by natural or sexual
selection or in some other equally philosophical mode has been
evolved from some ape-like progenitor, or anthropomorphous
monkey, and that in "Curiosity" "Imitation" "Attention"
" Memory " " Imagination" and " Reason " the difference be-
tween man and any other animal is only in degree not in
kind. With this class of advancing men, Mr. Huntington had
no sympathy. What had commended itself to the common be-
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lief for a long time was more likely, in his opinion, to be true,
than what had never been received. He was well aware that
these old truths had undergone investigation and scrutiny
man} T times ; that they had been opposed and denied ; crushed
even to the earth, only to rise again with renewed and in-
creased power ; that many of the new discoveries had been
time and again discovered, and time and again exploded ; that
under different names and in different tj-pes the new theories
and new philosophies had been, over and over again, originated
and discarded ; and it was such and such only of what modern
theorists and speculators call old superstitions, as, after study
and investigation, commend themselves to belief, that com-
manded his sanction.
It would be doing him great injustice, should I omit to say
that the authenticity and divine origin of the sacred scriptures
was the one foundation, on which he planted himself. His in-
terpretation of them the particular theological truths which
he derived from them, I shall not in this place attempt to
state : but belief in their essentially divine character was a
part of his being, and beautified and illustrated his life.
There was another trait of Mr. Huntington's character so
conspicuous and so constant, that no one would recognize the
portraiture which did not present it. It may, perhaps, be
designated by the word benevolence, if understood in that en-
larged signification of assisting others in every commendable
enterprise. Whether the call came from country, from state,
from city, from parish, from institution or from individual,
there was the same ready response. Whether made upon his
mind, his hand or his purse, the answer was never uncertain.
An unrecompensed journey of a thousand miles for a poor
widow was given with the same cheerfulness as his deposit in
the charity box. His views were enlarged and liberal. He
was conscious that
There is some soul of goodness in things evil
Would men observingly distil it oat.
He did not confine his good offices to kindred or to sect, to
those about him or personally known to him. I have known
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men liberal and generous ; men who gave largely, impulsively
and even passionately ; but I have never known a man, who so
uniformly and so cheerfully contributed according to his means
to every worthy object ; and his fondness for accumulation,
though great, undoubtedly, was thus graced and dignified by
his extraordinary dedication of its results to charity and
benevolence. His giving was not ostentatious nor lavish, but
discriminate and prudent. His public contributions are known
his private aid, by counsel, by loan, by gift will never be
fully revealed.
The inquiry is natural, whether there are any peculiar cir-
cumstances or causes, that evidently contributed to form the
character and to shape the life, which I have so imperfectly
depicted. There is, in every person, an individuality of some
sort. This is not the occasion to inquire whether such individ-
uality is inherent, or whether it is the result of education. In
relation to Mr. Huntington there were, at least, two facts which
had a marked influence on his character, and which modified to
some extent his whole life. His father was a clergyman his
mother a widow from his early boyhood.
The memory the consciousness of these facts, were, with
him, an ever-present, all-pervading influence, manifest in many
of his tastes and habits, and to which thousands of his kindly
charities may be traced. To the fact just mentioned may be
ascribed in large measure, I think, the peculiar interest he al-
ways felt in members of the clerical profession and in all mat-
ters and occasions of an ecclesiastical nature. Occasionally,
he presided, by special invitation, over assemblies which might
almost be called ministerial, and uniformly discharged the duty
with great felicity.
" And she was a widow." In this was a cause still more
potent. There is, probably, no appeal to the better nature of
a boy so strong, as that which is made by having a mother wid-
owed and destitute. His filial love and duty, thus specially
excited, became an unfailing stimulus to exertion and kept him
firmly in the right path. Who has not observed that the sons
of poor widows very often, nay, more frequently than those in
Ill
any other special condition of life become eminent for their
virtues and success. Mr. Huntington's devotion to the be-
loved and venerated parent, who survived his father nearly
forty years was conspicuously exemplary. Several years after
her death, at the age of eighty-five, he thus referred to her in
a letter to his classmate Edwards " She has been the delight
and charm of my life, and I cherish her memory in all honor
and with the highest filial love."
There were incidents of interest in the life of Mr. Hunting-
ton, to which I might refer. His life, however, did not consist
of here and there a brilliant exhibition ; an occasional exploit,
which startled or enchanted an admiring public ; there was no
extraordinary and sporadic effort now and then eclipsing the
general tenor of his life. There was rather a daily beauty,
which everywhere and at all times gave a charm to his life,
developing a well formed and symmetrical character of ac-
tive duty, kindly and faithfulty done of constant sympathy,
flowing in continuous benevolence and unfailing integrity,
seeking to be right rather than to be brilliant, dealing justly
and truly in all conditions of life.
To some extent, an impression has been made that there
was a certain degree of indolence in his mental constitution.
In that graceful tribute of his esteemed pastor, so happy in its
delineation of his character a tribute, which, while it does
honor to its subject, reflects honor upon its author it is said,
"that he was constitutionally, a man of more than usual
inertia." In the sense in which the eloquent preacher used the
phrase, it is undoubtedly true, for it was only when roused by
some exigency or excited by some call of duty that " his pro-
digious energy" was manifested. In its normal condition
in the ordinary intercourse of life there was a quiet repose
of mind an indisposition to obtrude his own reflections upon
others an apparent inattention which the phrase may pro-
perly characterize. In no other sense, however, is it true. He
was a thinking man. His mind was constantly active. In-
deed, it could not be otherwise ; for it was healthily constituted
constantly nurtured and well sustained by a vigorous and
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healthful physical frame. He did not display the crude, undi-
gested and unarranged congeries of thoughts which first took
possession of his mind. He spoke only matured opinions. It
was the incessant activity of his intellect its presentation to
itself of every question in so many phases and aspects which
gave the idea of what is sometimes called inertia more prop-
erly, perhaps, abstraction but which is, in reality, the highest
condition of mental activity.
The inquiry is not unnatural, why Mr. Huntington, com-
mended by such excellences of character, and fitted to adorn
any place, was not elevated to more conspicuous public posi-
tion. The answer, however, is easy, and for him an honorable
one. So far as judicial position is concerned, he had fixed an
ideal standard of qualification, which it were no disparagement
to him, nor to any man, to fail to reach. I am not without
reason to suppose that his absence from judicial office is to be
attributed rather to his own disposition than to that of the ap-
pointing power, and that he felt constrained to his determina-
tion by the conscientious fear that more is required of a judge,
than the lot of humanity will admit. The inquiry, however,
rather is, why he was not elevated to more important political
position. The present generation can scarcely appreciate the
condition of the public mind, as it was, when he entered upon
professional life. Suffrage was comparatively limited, and was
exercised principally by the more intelligent and the wiser.
The surest evidence of unfitness for any office was the desire
to fill that office. Politics was not a trade, and there were few,
if any, politicians. Officers were selected under the guidance
of an enlightened public judgment. It is a high tribute to the
early worth and future promise of our friend, that compara-
tively a stranger, and before he was thirty years of age, he was
chosen to represent the most important town in the county in
the public counsels. Before he had been ten years at the bar,
at a time when fitness was the only qualification, he was ap-
pointed by the executive to an important position, one previ-
ously held by a gentleman of high standing, who was by many
years his senior, and who had before occupied a high judicial
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office. AVith the change of the times, he did not change. If
that change were progress he did not advance with the progres-
sive ; if it were deterioration, lie did not deteriorate.
"O. that estates, degrees and offices
Were not derived corruptly; and that clear honor
Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!
How many then should cover, that stand bare,
How many be commanded, that command."
In reply to a letter already referred to, in which the inci-
dents of his life were asked of him, for the purpose of a Col-
lege class memoir, he said, " I have had the honor to hold
various offices of trust, which have sought me. I never sought
them, or any of them, from first to last." There was, however,
one occasion, and I can recall but one, after he had arrived at
the maturity of his manhood, when the public sentiment de-
manded that fitness should be the only qualification, and to
this end, with a single exception not to be more particularly
noticed, that public sentiment selected those who most emi-
nently possessed the requisite qualifications, and were to the
fullest extent entitled to the public confidence. I refer to the
choice of delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1853
and Mr. Huntington was of course, and without dissent, one
of them. Although the part he took in that assembly was not
a very conspicuous one, it was one of honorable and control-
ling influence, not so much in what was done, for he was in a
minority, as in what was prevented. The ultimate judgment
of the people, in rejecting every proposition of the convention,
was in accordance with his counsels and his efforts. If the
incumbency of high official position is necessary to establish a
title to grateful remembrance our friend did not achieve it.
Est autem gloria, laus recte factorum, magnorumque in rem-
publictim merilorum, quae cum optimi cujusque, tarn etiam mul-
titudinis testimonio comprobatur and our friend achieved it.
There is, however, another view of the character of Mr.
Huntington, upon which, if the proprieties of the occasion
would allow, it would be delightful to linger that of the
warm-hearted, generous, constant personal friend. It was in
this relation, beyond all others, that he commended himself
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most warmly, and in which his true worth was strikingly con-
spicuous. Tolerant of faults, sympathetic in vicissitudes, re-
joicing in success, supporting in trial, solacing in affliction,
seeking another's rather than his own advancement, his ever
ready and responsive heart grew warmer, and entwined itself
more and more closely about his friends every year of his life.
Washington Irving, in the preface to one of the later editions
of the sketch book, alluding to Sir Walter Scott, and in grati-
tude for the interest which that distinguished man had mani-
fested in him, before he himself had acquired his own worldwide
celebrity, used a phrase, which seems to me better than any
other to characterize our friend that "golden hearted man."
How descriptive and how just ! Those who were admitted to
his confidence those who sustained the relation of personal
friend those who have been accustomed to his cordial and
sympathetic greeting and not those alone will accept it
and amid all the recollections, which cluster about his name
and his memory, no word will more truly and graphically define
the aggregated qualities, which endear him to us than this one
phrase THAT GOLDEN HEARTED MAN.
ANCESTRY AND POSTERITY OF ZACCHEUS GOULD.
BY BENJAMIX APTHORP GOULD.
PREAMBLE.
SINCE the year 1854, the writer has employed such
intervals of leisure as he has found available, in the en-
deavors : first, to trace back the lineage of his family,
and secondly, to follow out the posterity of its earliest
American member, ZACCHEUS GOULD, who appears to
have sought the shores of New England between the
years 1636 and 1638, and to have established himself
finally in that part of Ipswich which was subsequently,
and chiefly through his efforts, set off into a separate
town under the name of Topsfield. *
During these sixteen years, the town, church and
county records of Xew England^ have been laboriously
and extensively scrutinized, and such opportunities as
have been found for obtaining information from special
family records have been improved, until the results of
the investigation, which at the beginning was prompted
by personal curiosity alone, have attained a magnitude
that confers upon them an interest of much wider range.
Many members of this family, and of others bearing the
same name, and not improbably affiliated with it by a
common origin on the other side of the Atlantic, have
contributed largely and most cordially to the stock of in-
formation gathered, and the family records have already
acquired a fulness far surpassing that which had been
anticipated. Through the laborious and assiduous efforts
of my friend Mr. Somerby, the well known antiquarian,
sundry unknown and long-forgotten records have been
discovered at various places in England, which have
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developed the family pedigree for six generations previous
to our first, American ancestor, and have thus brought
to light the relationship of some of the other American
families of the name, while they have introduced a slight
element of confusion, hy showing the simultaneous pres-
ence in New England of two persons named Zaccheus
Gould, uncle and nephew, the latter dying unmarried at
a comparatively early age.
A manuscript letter, written in the early part of the
present century by Eev. Daniel Gould of Bethel, Me.,
and purporting to give an account of the family as com-
piled by himself from various traditions, and from manu-
scripts which now seem to have disappeared, furnished
the first clews for tracing the history of the family in
America. Although many of the statements in this letter
have proved to be incorrect, they have none the less guided
to sources of information which could otherwise have been
found only with great^difiiculty. Some of these clews
were effectively followed up during the early stages of
the inquiry by Mr. Thomas B. Wyinan of Charlestown,
who made a number of journeys in my behalf to various
parts of the New England States, in order to examine
early records and to find the present representatives of
different branches of the family, for the purpose of col-
lecting such information as the elder members niiijht be
O O
able to supply from memory.
During the past few years, much additional information
has been gathered by my kinsman, Mr. John H. Gould
of Topsfield, whose avocations have carried him repeat-
edly to Western cities, where he has gleaned a rich har-
vest of facts regarding those descendants of Zaccheus of
Topsfield, who, following the example of their honored
ancestor, have sought and found new and thriving homes
towards the setting sun.
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Thus the mass of family memorials has gradually ac-
quired dimensions which have of late suggested to me
the duty of placing it upon record in some permanent
form, and iu such a manner as to be accessible to all
those interested in the subject. A plan of this sort was
already forming itself in my mind, when events occurred,
in consequence of which I am now on my way to another
hemisphere, with a view to a protracted absence from
home. Several years must probably elapse before the con-
templated work can be prepared and published. Mean-
while, in the natural course of human affairs it must be
expected that many of the elders will be taken away,
who can now give information which a few years would
render unattainable. And should I myself not be per-
mitted to return to my own land, there is no assurance
that another would soon be found with opportunity and
inclination to continue these inquiries and make public
his results.
Influenced by these considerations, and being unable
to find time for arranging in proper form all the mate-
rials hitherto collected, it has seemed best to prepare a
condensed abstract of the famity history, containing little
excepting names, places and dates, and to offer this to
my kindred throughout the land, as a germ or nucleus,
from or around which a worthy famity memorial may at
some future time be developed. Many of the numerous
gaps in this abstract can doubtless be filled out by some
person now living. Even where dates and names cannot
be supplied, some definite information as to place will
often lead to the information needed ; either by guiding
to official records, by identifying known individuals, or
by discriminating between different persons who bore the
same name and were living at the same time. The
amount of facts already gathered relative to persons in
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the United States, bearing the name of Gould, but not
known to be descendants of Zaccheus, is quite large ; and
some fortunate, though slight discovery or identification
may at any time transfer one or more entire families from
these records into their true place in our genealogy. Fur-
thermore, it is morally impossible that in so extensive a
record as is comprised even in this present abstract, mis-
takes should not exist. I have endeavored to avoid these,
as far as possible, by admitting no statement regarding any
descendant of Zaccheus Gould, which is not authenticated
by some official record, family Bible, or near kinsman of
the person concerned. Nothing has been accepted as
true because found in print, nor is any mere surmise,
however plausible, presented as a fact. Indeed, there are
few, if any, statements herein contained, for which the
authority cannot easily be produced.
I ^therefore earnestly request every one who may be
able to add to the information here presented, or to
correct any errors which he may recognize, to communi-
cate with Mr. John H. Gould of Topsfield, who has
kindly undertaken to receive such communications, and
to record the facts in proper form during my absence in
South America, which will probably continue for about
three years.
The arrangement adopted requires little comment.
The small superior figures appended to some names indi-
cate the number of the generation from the first American
ancestor. The marginal numbers arc affixed for the sake
of reference only, and are subsequently repeated at the
head of those paragraphs in which the corresponding per-
sons appear as parents of families. The limits prescribed
for the present abstract, comprise such paragraphs or fam-
ily groups for all fathers of families to the seventh gene-
ration of descendants from Zaccheus Gould, and similarly
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for all those mothers of families who were born to the
name of Gould. Wider limits than these would be in-
compatible with the plan of this present publication ; but
information is desired both regarding other descendants
in the female line, and regarding later generations than
the seventh.
The dates here given are intended to be in the Old or
New Style, according to the usage at the time ; so like-
wise, the months of January, February and part of March
to be regarded as belongiug to the preceding year until
1750, and to the following year after that epoch. But in
many cases where confusion might arise from the ambi-
guity in numeration, the double dates are given.
Hoping that this contribution to the family history may
not be deemed valueless by my kindred, now so widely
distributed over the continent, I solicit from them the
means of rendering the record more complete, and as
much information as possible concerning the numerous
individuals here mentioned, especially those who are not
now living. BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD.
At sea, 1870, June 6.
ABSTRACT OF THE FAMILY RECORD.
THOMAS GOULD, of Bovingdon, in the parish of Kernel Herapsted, and
county of Hertford, seems to have been born as early as the year
1455. His last will and testament is dated 1520, August 29, and was
admitted to probate Sept. 28, thirty days later. In this will he be-
queaths property to his wife Joan, and to seven children, five of
whom had not attained the age of legal majority. The eldest two
children were sous.
RICHARD GOULD, of Bovingdon, was the second sou of Thomas, above
named, and his wife was likewise named Joan. He was born,
apparently, not later than 1478, and died in 1531; his will being
dated August 25th and proved October llth of that year. His
widow died in 1537.
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THOMAS GOULD, of Bovingclon, son of Kichard and Joan, was born in
or before the year 1500. His will is dated in 1546 and was proved
.in 1547. By his- wife, Alice, he had seven children living in the year
1537, and eight at the time of his own death; only two of them
being at that time under eighteen years of age. The first four of
these children were sons ; the third being
KICHARD GOULD, of Stoke Maudeville, who was born as early as 1530,
and married (perhaps as his second wife), Jane, widow of -
Weden. By her he had two sons, Richard and Henry.
KICHARD GOULD, of Bovingdon, born about 1553. was the elder of
these sons, and his descendants appear to have been prominent
among the early settlers of New England. He was father of
1. Jeremy, who married Priscilla Grover. came to Rhode Island,
and after his wife's death returned to England, leaving
behind him three sons, the eldest of whom, Daniel, married
in 1651 Wait Coggeshall, and became the ancestor of the large
and highly respectable family of Goulds of Rhode Island.
2. John, of the " Corner Hall," in Hemel Hempsted, and of King's
Langley, possibly also himself a colonist of New England.
His youngest son, Zaccheus, died in New England unmarried,
and letters of administration on his estate were granted to
his elder sister, Elizabeth, in England. Other children of
John also came over.
3. ZACCHEUS, our ancestor, who was born in 1589 and died in 1670
at Topsfleld. The stones may still be seen in the Topsfleld
cemetery Avhich probably mark the places of burial for him-
self and his wife Phfbe. In company with Messrs. Zaccheus
Gould, his descendant of the sixth generation, and Samuel
Todcl, his descendant in the seventh, I exhumed these stones,
hoping to find some inscription, but without success.
HENRY GOULD, younger brother of the last named Richard, was born
about 1555. His posterity appear to have remained in England,
residing mostly in Buckinghamshire, at least for the next three gen-
erations.
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FIRST GENERATION.
1. ZACCHEUS GOULD, born about 1589, resided at
Hemel Hempsted and Great Misseuden, in Eng-
land, came to New England about 1638, estab-
lished himself finally at Topsfield, and died there
ab. 1670. By his wife Phebe, who died 1663,
Sept. 20, he had the following children :
2. Phebe, bapt. at Hemel Hempsted, 1620, Sept. 27,
m. Dea. Thomas Perkins of Topsfield. She Avas
living in 1681.
3. Mary, bapt. at Hemel Hempsted 1621, Dec. 19 ;
m. John Redingtou of Topsfield.
4. Martha, bapt. at Hemel Hempsted, 1623, June 15 ;
m. John Newmarch of Ipswich ; died 1699.
5. Prisdlla, m. John Wildes (b. 1620) ; d. 1663,
April 16.
6. John, b. 1635, June 10-21; m. 1660, Oct. 12,
Sarah Baker; d. 1709-10, Jan. 26.
SECOND GENERATION.
2
PnEBE 2 , dau. of Zaccheus Gould, m. Dea. Thomas
PEKKINS of Topsfield. He was the son of John
and Judith Perkins of Ipswich, was born ab.
1616, and died 1686, May 7, set. 70. Their chil-
dren were : [see Geneal. Reg. x. 213, 4.]
7. John, m. 1666, Nov. 28, Deborah Browning; d.
1668, May 19, leaving a sou Thomas, b. 1667,
Nov. 4.
8. Thomas, m. 1683, Sarah Wallis; d. 1719.
His children were, Martha, b. 1695 ; Robert,
b. 1697 ; Samuel, b. 1699 ; Sarah ; Phebe ; Han-
nah.
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9. Elisha , m. 1680, Feb. 23, Catherine Towne
(b. 1662, Feb. 25, dau. of Jacob and Catherine).
His children were Thomas, b. 1681, Oct. 15 ; m.
1719, Nov. 26, Mary Wildes. [See'Bradbury his-
tory of Kennebunkport] ; Elisha, b. 1683, May
27 ; m. Lucy , who d. 1751.
10. Timothy. 11. Zaccheus.
12. Margaret, m. Joseph Towne [b. 1673, March 22.]
13. m. Larnson.
14. Judith, b. 1658, Jan. 28.
3
MARY 2 , dau. of Zaccheus Gould, m. John REDING-
TON, of Topsfield, selectman in 1661. He died
1690, Nov. 15. His children were: [see Gen.
Ecg. ii, 157.]
15. Daniel, m. Phila. Peabody (b, 1698, Sept. 28).
16. Mary, m. 1. 1674, March 25, John Herrick of
Beverly (bapt. 1650, May 25; d. 1680), son of
Zachary and Mary Herrick.
2. 1682, March 13, Robert Cue of Salem (who
was, in the Herrick genealogy, supposed to have
married Mary the daughter, instead of the daugh-
ter-in-law of Zachary Herrick) .
17. Martha, m. as his 2d. wife, John Gould,
Jr. [b. 1648, Aug. 5; d. 1712, Jan. 24], son of
John and Joanna Gould of Charlestown, Upper
Village. This alliance between persons resid-
ing so widely apart suggests the possibility of
some kinship between the Goulds of Topsfield
and those of Stoneham. The children of this
marriage were Samuel, Abraham, b. 1692,
and Isaac. (See Vinton's "Giles Memorial," p.
170.)
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18. Phebe, m. Samuel Fisk of Wenham.
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MARTHA 2 , dan. of Zaceheus Gould, m. John NEW-
MARCH of Ipswich, whose will, made 1697, Feb.
14, was proved 1697, April 26. He seems to
have been a resident of Ispwich as early as 1638.
Their children were :
19. John, m. Johanna
20. Thomas, m. Abigail
21. Zaceheus, b. 1653, m. Frances (who died 1731,
July 11) ; d. 1731, Aug. 13.
22. Martha, m. 1675, Samuel Balch.
23. Phebe, in. Peter Pen ni well.
24. Sarah, m. Berry.
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PRisciLLA 2 , dau. of Zaceheus Gould, m. John
WILDES of Topsfield, b. 1620, the same whose
second wife, Sarah (Averill) married, 1663,
Nov. 23, suffered in 1692 from the witchcraft
persecutions. [See Gen. Reg. viii, 167.] Their
children were :
25. John. 26. Sarah. 27. Elizabeth. 28. Phebe.
29. Priscilla, b. 1658, April 6, m. 1681, May 9,
Henry Lake; d. 1688, March 23.
30. Martha, b. 1660, May 13.
31. Nathan, b. 1662, March 17.
32. Ephraim,
Q
JOHN 2 GOULD, born 1635, June 10-21, only sou of
Zaceheus, m. 1660, Oct. 12, Sarah, dau. of John
Baker. She was born 1641, March 9, died
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1708c-9, Jan. 20. For an account of his impris-
onment for alleged treason against the government
of Dudley, see 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. viii, 150-154.
Children :
33. John, b. 1662, Dec. 1; d. 1724, Nov. 5; m. 1.
1684, Nov. 10, Phehe French, m. 2. Eose -
34. Sarah, b. 1664, Dec. 18; d. 1723, Dec. 6; m.
1682, March 29, Joseph Bixby.
35. Thomas, b. 1666, Feb. 14; d. 1752, June 29; m.
1700, Mercy Sumner (b. 1675, Jan. , d 1763,
May 8).
36. Samuel, b. 1669-70, March 9 ; d. 1724, ; m.
1697, Apr. 20, Margaret Stone.
37. Zaccheus, b. 1672, March 26; d. 1739, ; in.
1702, Jan. 21, Elizabeth Curtice.
38. Priscilla, b. 1674, Nov. 2; d. 1715, May 16; m.
1695, Apr. 15, John Curtice.
39. Joseph, b. 1677, Aug. 24; d. 1753, Apr. 4; m.
1712-13, Jan. 14, Priscilla Perkins.
40. Mary, b. 1681, June 16 ; d. 1689, May 2.
Each of these five sons of Capt. John 2 Gould was the
founder of a numerous family or tribe, and it may be
convenient to keep these distinct from one another in our
record.
THIRD GENERATION.
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JOHN 3 GOULD, eldest son of Capt. John 2 , m. 1684,
Nov. 10, Pbebe, dan. of John French; b. 1667,
May 8; d. 1718, April 25. He appears also to
have had a second wife named Rose (?Keyes).
His children were :
41. Phebe, b. 1685, July 7 ; m. 1706, Oct. 16, Thomas
Curtice of Middleton and Andover.
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42. John, b. 1687, Aug. 25; m. 1708, Feb. 2, Hannah
Curtis; 1713, June 23, Phebe Towue.
43. Mary, b. 1689, May 11; m. 1711, June 25,
Thomas Stand ley of Atlleboro.
44. Nathaniel^ b. 1691, bapt. Oct. 25; m. Grace
Hurd ; lived at Harwich.
45. Sarah, b. 1694, Sept. 8; m. 1720; Nov. 24,
Thomas Butler of Altleboro.
46. Hannah, b. 1697, June 19; d. 1738, March 25;
m. 1721, Aug. 16, Gideon Towne of Topsfield,
(b. 1696, Feb. 4).
47. Daniel, b. 1699, Nov. 8; d. 1766, Dec. 11; m.
1731, July 28, Lydia Averill, 2d. 1753, Jan. 3,
wid. Lucy Perkins.
48. David, b. 1701, Dec. 25; m. 1720, Aug. 10, Abi-
gail Dodge of Ipswich.
49. Solomon,}). 1704, March 19; d. 1762, Dec. 15;
in. 1734, Dec. 19, Elizabeth Robinson, 2d., 1756,
May 12, wid. Rebecca Bixby.
50. Lydia, b. 1707, June 8 ; m. 1732, Nov. 23, Sam-
uel Standley.
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SARAH S , duu. of Capt. John 2 Gould, m. 1682, March
29, Joseph BIXBY. Children.
51. Sarah. 52. Joseph. 53. Jonathan 54. George.
55. Daniel. 56. Benjamin. 57. Mary. 58. Abigail.
35
THOMAS 3 GOULD, second son of Capt. John 2 , mar-
ried Mercy (b. 1675, Jan. ; d. 1763, May 8),
dan. of William and Augustine (Clement) Simi-
ner. There was also a Thomas Gould who m.
1729, Jan. 13, Mary Standley, but the death of
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widow Mercy Gould is recorded as above, and
she seems to have been the only wife of Thomas 3 .
Perhaps Mary Stand ley was the first wife of
Thomas 4 , his son. Children :
59. Thomas, b. 1701, Sept. 4 ; m. 1731, June 30, Mary,
dau. of John Gould [No. 106].
60. Jacob, b. 1703, Jan. 16; in. 1731, Feb. 4, Dor-
othy Goodridge ; lived in Lunenburg.
61. Deborah, b. 1704, Nov. 17; d. 1706, Jan. 30.
62. Deborah, b. 1707, Sept. 23; d. 1767, Nov. 7; m.
1730, Dec. 3, Joseph Page of Lunenburg.
63. Simon, b. 1710, March 8; d. 1803, Jan. 3; m.
1740, Oct. 9, Jane Palmer of Rowley.
64. Mercy, b. 1712, Jan. 17 ; m. 1733, Dec. 25, Natlrl
Page of Lunenburg.
65. Tales, b! 1714, March 24; d. 1736, Aug. 11; un-
married.
66. Benjamin, b. 1716, May 29; d. 1746; in. 1739,
Oct. 17, Esther Pierce.
67. Nathaniel,}). 1717, Nov. 9; d. 1748, unmarried;
lived in Lunenburg.
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SAMUEL 3 GOULD, third son of Capt, John 2 , m. 1697,
Apr. 20, Margaret Stone, and resided in Box-
ford. Children :
68. Sarah, b. 1698, Feb. 25 ; d. 1786, Feb. 21 ; un-
married.
69. Samuel, b. 1701, Jan. 18 ; m. 1725, June 9, Mehit-
able Stiles.
70. Moses, b. 1703, Sept, 18; ? d. 1772, Oct. 20; m.
1728, Nov. 7, Mary Bellows of Lancaster.
71. Daniel, not named in his father's will of 1724,
Dec. 2.
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72. Patience, b. 1709, Aug. 25 ; ? m. 1744, Edmund
Towne of Oxford.
73. Jonathan, bapt. 1709, Sept. 4. at same time with
Patience, probably twin with her.
74. Margaret, b. 1712, March 6.
75. Zaccheus, b. 1715, March 29.
76. Hubbard, b. 1720, July 8; m. 1744, March 8,
Hannah Bootman, 2d. 1759, Mary, widow of
Nath'l Jones, 3d. 1783, Jan. 2, Thankful Bowles.
There is some confusion upon the Boxford records in
the names of Samuel 3 Gould's children. "Moses" is there
erroneously written "Amos," and the birth of Jonathan
does not appear, although his baptism is upon the church
record, and he is named in his father's will.
37
ZACCHEUS 3 GOULD, fourth son of Capt. John, mar-
ried 1702, Jan. 21, Elizabeth, dau. of John Cur-
tice or Curtis. She was bom 1679, Dec. 15, and
died 1740, June 21.
77. Elizabeth, b. 1702-3, Feb. 13; m. 1733, March 29,
Edmund Towue, of Oxford and Sutton.
78. Mary, b. 1704-5, Mar. 1 ; m. 1731, Sept. 23,
Jacob Kobinson of Westford.
79. Priscilla, b. 1707, Aug. 4; d. 1744, Sept. 25; m.
1745, Oct. 8, Samuel Smith, b. 1714, Jan. 26.
They were great grandparents of Joseph Smith,
the Mormon prophet.
80. John, b. 1709-10, Jan. 29 ; d. 1778, June 21 ; m.
1748-9, Jan. 5, wid. Esther Bixby.
81. Sarah, b. 1711-2, Jan. 28; m. Estey.
82. Abigail, b, 1715, Aug. 12; m. 1737, Aug. 2, Jon-
athan Standley.
83. Zaccheus, b. 1716, Nov. 7; d. 1793, Jan. 2; m.
128
1745, Nov. 4, Rebecca Symonds of Middleton ;
no issue.
84. Eliezer, b. 1720, May 29; m. 1740, April 17,
Elizabeth Smith, 2cl. 1755, Feb. 25, Phebe, clan,
of John Gould (No. 110.)
85. Susanna, b. 1722-3, Feb. 11; m. Robert Smith.
38
PmsciLLA 3 , dati. of Capt. John Gould, m. 1695,
April 15; John CURTICE, Jr., the brother of
her brother Zacchcus's wife. He was born 1673,
Oct. 11.
86. Priscilla, b. 1695-6, Jan. 27.
87. John, b. 1697, Apr. 16; d. 1698, Aug. 27.
88. Nathaniel, b. 1698-9, March 13; owned covenant,
1733.
89. Lydia, b. 1701, Apr. 8.
90. Mary, b. 1702-3, Jan. 22; (?) m. Isaac How of
Falmouth.
91. .Sarah, b. 1705, July 4; d. 1706, March 29.
92. Sarah,}). 1712, Jan. 8 ; ( ?) m. Micah Holdgate
of Ipswich.
93. Hannah, b. 1712, Jan. 8; d. 1712, Oct. 24.
39
JOSEPH 3 GOULD, fifth son of Capt. John; m. 1713,
Jan. 14, Priscilla, dan. of Capt. Tobijah and
Sarah (Denison) Perkins. She was born 1689,
Apr. 21, and died 1753, April 11 ; See Geneal.
Reg. x. 212.
94. Priscilla, b. 1714, Apr. 6; d. 1799, May 27; m.
Oct. 3, 1745, Samuel Smith, Jr.
95. Joseph, b. 1715, Sept. 29; died early.
96. Amos, b. 1716-7, March.
129
97. Ruth, b. 1718-9, Mar. 8; m. 1741, Nov. 17, Daniel
Bixby; d. 1808, Sept. 14.
98. Mary, b. 1720, Dec. 22 ; m. 1756, Apr. 27, Dan'l
Robinson, of Middleton.
99. Anna, b. *1722, Oct. 30; d. 1749, June 29.
100. Sarah, b. 1724, Nov. 23; m. 1. 1749, Sept. 24,
Joshua Symouds of Boxford ; 2. Nathan Andrews.
101. Joseph, b. 1726, Nov. 4; m. 1751, Dec. 19, Eliza-
beth, dau. of Rev. John Emerson ; d. 1803, June 9.
102. Daniel, bapt. 1729, Mar. 30; d. 1734, Sept. 15.
103. Elizabeth, bapt. 1731, Dec. 26; d. 1734, Aug. 28.
104. b. 1733 ; d. 1734, Mar. 19.
FOURTH GENERATION.
(A.) TRIBE OF JOHN 3 '.
42
JOHN* GOULD, son of John, m. 1. 1708, Feb. 2,
Hannah Curtis, who d. 1712, Apr. 25.
105. Martha, b. 1709, Nov. 6; m. 1729, Sept. 23, John
Pritchard, and had twenty-one children.
106. Mary, b. 1710-1, Feb. 4 ; in. 1731, June 30, Lieut.
Thomas Gould, No. 59.
107. Hannah, b. 1712, Apr. 9 ; m. 1732, July 9, Sam-
uel Marston.
108. John, b. 1712, Apr. 9 ; d. hi infancy.
He in. 2. 1713, June 23, Phebe Towne.
109. John, bapt. 1714, June 20; d. in infancy.
110. Phebe, b. 1716, Sept. 22; m. 1755, Feb. 25, Elie-
zer Gould, No. 84, being his second wife.
111. Iiezia,\). 1718, May 10; m. 1739, Dec. 20, Jacob,
son of Dr. Michael Dwinell [b. 1715].
112. John, b. 1720, Apr. 6.
(9)
130
113. Richard, b. 1722, Apr. 20; ra. 1747? lived in
Milford and Amherst, N. H.
114. Stephen, b. 1724, July 6; m: 1747-8, Jan. 18,
Hannah Perkins.
115. Ruth, b. 1727, Sept. 16.
116. Jacob, b. 1728-9, Feb. 6; m. 1751, Oct. 27, Eliz-
abeth Towne. Lived in Boxford.
117. Esther, b. 1732, Aug. 10; m. 1751, July 9, Jona-
than Towne.
118. Amos, b. 1735, Aug. 13; d. 1772; m. 1759, May
3, Huldah Foster.
There is some indication of yet another son, Abner, born
about 1726, but this is uncertain.
44
NATHANIEL* GOULD, son of John, married 1716, Apr.
15, Grace Hurd of Yarmouth and resided at
Eastham and Harwich. They had children as
follows :
119. Nathaniel, b. 1717 ; m. 1742-3, Feb. 3, Jane Arey.
120. John, b. 1718 ; m. 1739, Ruth Godfrey of Eastham.
121. Elizabeth, b. 1720 ; ni. 1738, Oliver Arey of East-
ham.
122. Mary, b. 1721 ; m. 1742, Samuel Paine of Eastham.
123. Phebe, b. 1723; m. 1743, Joshua Godfrey of Chat-
ham.
124. Joseph, b. 1725.; m. 1745, Hannah Godfrey of
Chatham.
125. Abigail, b. 1727.
126. Priscilla, b. 1731; in. 1753, Jan. 9, Jonathan Lin-
nell of Eastham.
127. Solomon, b. 1733.
131
47
DANIEL* GOULD, of Topsfield, son of John; m. 1.
1731, July 28, Lydia (born 1712, Dec. 11 ; d.
1739, Dec. 22) dau. of Ebenezer Averill ; and
2. Lucy (b. 1722, Oct. 25 ; d. 1806, Aug. 29)
dau. of Capt. Thomas Tarbox of Weuham and
widow of Elisha Perkins. She was subsequently
married for the third time, 1768, May 31 , to Asa
Gould (No. 157). His children were, by 1st
wife, Lydia :
128. Ruth, b. 1732, June 28 ; d. 1747, Nov. 3.
129. Daniel, b. 1735, March 31 ; d. 1747, Nov. 22.
130. Lydia, b. 1737, June 3; d. 1747, Nov. 8.
By 2d wife, Lucy :
131. Daniel, b. 1753, Dec. 8; d. about 1842; in. 1.
1782, Dec. 24, Mary, dau. of George Booth.
She d. 1785, and he m. 2. 1788, Dec. 25, wid.
Eunice Perley ; lived in Wolfsboro, Bethel and
Rumford, Maine.
132. Elisha, b. 1755, Feb. 20; m. 1779, Sept. 19, Eliz-
abeth Peabody.
133. Lucy, b. 1757, July 23; m. 1778, Nathaniel Gold-
smith of Marblehead.
134. Samuel, b. 1759, March 6; m. 1. 1783, Abigail
Lamson ; 2. 1792, Ruth Tower; lived in Middle-
ton ; d. 1837, Apr. 12.
135. Lydia, b. 1760, Dec. 31 ; m. 1783, July 22, Sam-
uel Hood, d. 1834, Dec. 2.
136. Ruth, b. 1762, Dec. 3; m. 1791, Feb. 17, John
Hood, as his second wife.
137. Moses, b. 1766, June 10; m. 1798, Anna Mecum;
lived in Boxford.
132
48
DAVID* GOULD, son of John, m. 1726, Aug. 10, Abi-
gail Dodge of Beverly. He was in 1737 a large
land owner in Luuenburg, but his life seems to
have been chiefly passed in Sunderlaud and Lev-
erett, Mass. Children:
138. Abigail, b. 1727, Feb. 8, at Topsfield.
139. Rebecca, b. 1728, Mar. 25, at Lunenburg.
140. Solomon, b. 1730, Dec. 15, at Lunenburg; rn.
1757, Dec. 29, Prudence .
141. Joseph, b. 1732-3, Jan. 18, at Lunenburg.
142. Edmund, b. 1735, Jan. 18.
143. Sarah, b. 1736, Sept. ; m. 1759, Feb. 20, Solo-
mon Rood in Amherst.
144. (?) David. 145. Noah, bapt. 1737, Aug. 21.
146. John, bapt. 1739, Aug. 5; d. 1768, June 26; m.
( ? Mary Barrett) .
147. Daniel, b. 1745, Dec. 8,
49
SOLOMON* GOULD, son of John, m. 1. 1734, Dec.
19, Elizabeth, dau. of John Robinson. She d.
1749, Apr. 24, and he m. 2. 1756, May 12,
Rebecca, dau. of Nathan Wood, and widow of
Gideon Bixby. Children by first wife, Eliza-
beth :
148. Elizabeth, b. 1735, Oct. 12 ; m. 1754, May 2, Eli
Towne of Sturbridge ; d. 1799, Apr. 27.
149. Solomon, b. 1738, July 22; m. 1761, July 2,
Mehitable Perkins.
150. Nathaniel, b. 1741, Jan. 26; d. 1746, July 18.
151. Lydia, b. 1743, June 11 ; m. 1764, Feb. 27, Nath'l
Fisk of Danvers; d. 1809, Apr. 25.
152. John, b. 1746, Feb. 20; m. 1. 1769, Feb. 9, Eliz-
133
abeth, dau. of John Bradstreet; 2. 1777, Bethiah
Fitts; d. 1819, Apr. 24.
By second wife, Rebecca :
153. David, b. 1757, Feb. 21; d. 1778, Aug. 1.
154. Ruth, b. 1760, May 8 ; d. 1764, Apr. 9.
155. Amos, b. 1762, Feb. 19; m. 1792, Feb., Lydia
Wood.
(B.) TEIBE OF THOMAS.
59
THOMAS* GOULD, sou of Thomas, m. 1731, June 30,
Mary (No. 106), dau. of John Gould. He is
generally designated upon old records, as Thomas
Gould, junior. Children:
156. Thomas, b. 1732, May 22 ; m. 1757, Dec. 29, Anne
Perkins [b. 1739, June 21] ; they lived in Box-
ford, he died in 1771, and she afterwards m.
1786, Nov. 6, Andrew Foster [d. 1803, Apr. 3]
whose first wife was Hannah Berry of Middleton.
157. Abner, b. 1734, Apr. 27 ; d. 1738, Sept.
158. Asa, b. 1736, June 18 ; d. 1816, July 6 ; m. 1768,
May 31, Lucy, wid. of Daniel L. Gould, and
dau. of Thomas Tar box.
159. Mary, b. 1737, Oct. 22; m. 1768, Sept. 8, Simon
Stiles of Middleton.
160. Dorcas, bapt. 1744, May 13 ; d. 1746, Feb. 9.
161. Benjamin, bapt. 1746, June 18; d. 1747, Dec. 16.
162. Mercy, b. 1748, Mar. 30; d. 1749, Jan. 2.
163. Mercy, b. 1749, May 7 ; d. 1772, Feb. 13.
164. Andrew, b. 1751, July 1; killed 1777, at Ticonde-
roga ; m. 1773, Elizabeth Hood. No issue.
165. Nathaniel, b. 1753, July 16; m. 1. 1777, Nov. 20,
Hannah Killam ; 2. 1791, Mar. 3, Betty Andrews ;
d. 1842, July 3.
134
6O
JACOB* GOULD, son of Thomas, m. 1731, Feb. 4,
Dorothy Goodridge, of Newbuiy [d. 1801, Mar.
23] dau. of Philip and Mehitable (Woodman) ;
moved to Lmienburg 1730, was Constable,
Selectman, Capt. in militia, etc. Children:
166. Mercy, b. 1732, Mar. 4; m. 1752, Dec. 21, Aaron
Taylor, and lived in Kindge, N. H.
167. Oliver, b. 1733, Oct. 3; m. 1759, May 3, Mary
Stockwell of Petersham.
168. Sarah, b. 1735, Apr. 6 ; m. 1759, Dec. 27, Samuel
Sanderson [b. 1734 Apr. 26] ; lived in Gardner,
Mass.
169. Jacob, b. 1737, Oct. 16.
170. Dorothy, b. 1740, Aug. 27 ; d. in ini'ancy.
171. Elijah, b. 1743, Aug. 8 ; m. 1767, Feb. 26, Eunice
Patch.
172. Thomas, b. 1745, Oct. 20; m. 1768, June 28, Eliz-
abeth Willard, of Harvard [b. 1745-6; d. 1817,
Apr. 21] ; d. 1823, Mar. 3.
173. Dorothy,\>. 1750?, Aug. 18; m. 1773, Nov. 1,8,
Stephen Stickney, Jr; d. 1834,Feb. 22.
63
SIMON* GOULD, son of Thomas, m. 1740, Oct. 9,
Jane Palmer of Rowley. Children :
174. Moses, b. 1741, July 21 ; d. of fever, 1763, Sept. 2.
175. Hannah, b. 1744, June 9 ; unmarried (had no
palate); d. 1822, Nov. 25.
176. Jane, b. 1746, July 30; m. 1791, Apr. 12, Jacob
Andrews ; no issue.
177. Huldah, b. 1748, Aug. 1 ; d. 1748, Oct. 22.
178. Lucy, b. 1749, May 27; m. 1770, Sept. 4, Oliver
Perkins.
135
179. Huldah, b. 1752, June 7 ; m. 1777, Mar. 6, Enoch
Kimball of Boxford.
180. Simon, b. 1755, Nov. 8 ; m. 1788, Feb. 19, Sarah
White, and lived in Hempstead, N. H.
181. Elijah^ b. 1758, Feb. 29; d. 1840, Oct. 1; m.
1. 1789, Elizabeth Lake, who died in 1821; 2.
Hannah Esty [b. 1777 ; d. 1825] 3. Dolly Kim-
ball (d. Aug. 21, 1840).
66
BENJAMIN* GOULD, of Lunenburg, fourth son of
Thomas 3 , m. 1. 1739, Oct. 17, Esther, dan. of
Ephraim and Esther (Shedd) Pierce [b. 1722,
May 29] (see Bond's Watertown, p. 401). She
in. 2. 1752, Nov. 2, Joseph Hammond of LoAver
Ashuelot [now Swansey]. (See Bond's Water-
town, p. 270.) Children:
182. Benjamin, b. 1741, Jan. 31 ; in. in Lunenburg,
Sarah Foster of Harvard (b. 1745, Aug. 28).
183. Amos, b. 1744, Feb. 7; d. 1746, Sept. 20.
(C ) TRIBE OF SAMUEL.
69
SAMUEL* GOULD, eldest son of Samuel 3 , m. 1725,
June 9, Mehitable Stiles. Children :
184. Samuel, b. 1727, Mar. 20; d. 1791; m. 1746,
Sarah Gilbert (d. set. ab. 90).
185. Mehitable, b. 1729, Feb. 11 ; m. 1754, Peter Lam-
son, and moved to N. II.
186. Jeremiah, b. 1731, Aug. 5, at Boxford; m. 1.
1755, June 5, Hannah Bartlett of Brookfield ; 2.
17<50, Aug. 21, Hannah Stevens of Heath; d. at
Charlemont, 1809, Aug. 6.
136
187. Nathan, b. 1734, Jan. 8-18, at Boxford ; m. 1757,
Oct. 31, Martha Gilbert, of Br.ookfield ; lived in
Charlemont, moved to Virginia and died there
in 1816.
188. Jonathan, b. 1735, Nov. 28; probably died young.
189. Eli, b. 1738, May 4; m. 1769, Dec. 21, Lydia
Jennings.
190. Deliverance, b. 1742, Feb. 23 ; m. Reuben Nims,
of Shelburne.
70
MOSES* GOULD, son of Samuel 3 , m. 1728, Nov. 7,
Mary Bellows of Lancaster, dau. of Benjamin
and Dorcas (Cutter) Bellows (d. 1747, Sept.
8), and sister of Benjamin Bellows of Walpole.
Children :
Nehemiah, b. 1730, Feb. 19.
Moses, b. 1732, July 4; m. atGroton, 1759, Sept.
13, Submit Holden (b. in Groton, 1729, Nov. 21)
dau. of Stephen and Hannah (Sawtell) Holdeu.
193. Benjamin, b. 1734, Aug. 15.
194. Mary, bapt. 1737, Oct. 2; m. 1752, Mar. 27,
Zachariah Tarbell (b. 1730, Dec. 27), son of
Eleazer and Elizabeth (Bowers) Tarbell of Gro-
ton. They settled in Westminster. He was a
revolutionary soldier.
195. Aaron, bapt. March 16, 1744.
73
JONATHAN 4 GOULD, son of Samuel 3 , m. Lydia Smith
in 1730 (publ. May 3). They lived in Shirley,
where she died, 1758, Sept. 28. (See Butler, p.
490.) Children :-
196. Jonathan, b. 1731, July 24 (d. 1758?).
137
197. Lydia, b. 1732, Dec. 21; m. at Groton, 1758,
May 4, Amos Atherton from Lancaster.
198. Mary, b. 1735, Jan.. 1; d. 1773, Feb. 14; m.
1756, May 26, in Lunenburg, Obadiah Sawtell,
of Shirley.
199. Margaret, b. 1737, Apr. 16.
200. Samuel, bapt. 1739, Dec. 23 ; m. Elizabeth
201. Zaccheus, bapt. 1742, Apr. 25.
202. Daniel, bapt. 1744, May 27.
76
HUBBARD* GOULD, son of Samuel, m. 1. 1743-4.
March 8, Hannah Bootman ; 2. 1759, Mary, widow
of Nathaniel Jones; 3. 1783, Jan. 2, Thankful
Bowles. Children:
203. Hannah, b. 1744-5, Jan. 4.
204. Sarah, b. 1747, June 27.
205. Elizabeth, b. 1750, Aug. 3.
206. Asa, b. 1752, Aug. 26; m. 1. Jerusha Dirth ; 2.
Lois Owen; resided at Coldeu, N. Y., where he
d. 1849, Sept. 11.
(D.) TRIBE OF ZACCHEUS.
79
PRISCILLA,* dau. of Zaccheus 3 Gould, m. 1734, May
27, Samuel SMITH of Topsfield (b. 1714, Jan.
26; d. 1785, Nov. 14) ; brother of the husband
of her sister Susanna, and of the wife of her
brother Eliezer. He was son of Samuel Smith
(b. 1666, Jan. 26) and Kebecca (Curtis), who
were married 1707, Jan. 25. Children :
207. Priscilla, b. m. Kimball. 208. Samuel, b.
209. Vashti, b. m. Hobbs.
210. Susanna, b. m. Hobbs.
138
211. AsaJiet, b. 1744, March 7 ; m. 1767, Feb. 12, Mary
Duty of Wiudham, N. H. Moved about the
year 1790 to Tuubridge, Vt. They had seven
sons and four daughters, viz : 1. Jesse, b. 1768,
Apr. 20; m. Hannah Peabody of Middleton ; d.
Stockholm, N. Y., aged over 80 years. 2. Pris-
cilla, b. 1769, Oct. 24. 3. Joseph,* b. 1771,
June 12 ; m. dan. of Solomon Mack of
Sharon, Vt. ; d. Nauvoo, III:, 1840. 4. Asahel,
b. 1773, May 21 ; d. 1849 at Des Moines, Iowa.
5. Mary, b. 1775, June 4. 6. Samuel, b. 1777,
Sept. 15 ; d. 1834, Pottsdum, N. Y. 7. Silas, b.
1779, Oct. 1 ; cl. 1839, Sept. 13, Pittsfield, Pike
Co. 111. 8. John, b. 1781, July 16; d. 1854,
May 3, at Salt Lake City. 9. Susanna, b. 1783,
May 18. 10. Stephen, 1). 1785, April 23; d.
1802, July 25. 11. Sarah, b. 1789, May 16.
80
JOHN* GOULD, son of Zaccheus 3 , m. 1748-9, Jan. 5,
Esther, wid. of Richard Bixby, and previously of
James Taylor, Jr. She was dati. of John Giles
of Salem (b. ab. 1671) ; was bapt. 1718, July
8 ; and d. 1788, Dec. 20. Her sou Bartholomew
Taylor was living at the time of her 3d. marriage,
but d. get. ab. 20 years. She is No. 71 in Vintou's
" Giles memorial". Her mother (m. for the 2d.
time 1709, May 9), was Esther, dau. of Dr. John
Swinnerton of Salem, who d. 1691, set. 57.
212. John, b. 1749, Oct. 1 ; m. 1775, Jan. 12, Ruth
Perkins, sister of Robert; d. 1820, Jan. 11.
* Father of Joseph Smith, founder of the church of Latter Day
Saints, who was bom at Sharon, Vt., 1805, Dec. 2G; lived at Palmyra
N. Y., Manchester, N. Y., and Nauvoo, 111; and was killed at Carthage
111. 1844, June 27.
139
213. Benjamin, b. 1751, May 15; m. 1781, July 19,
Grizzel Apthorp Flagg of Lancaster; d. 1841,
May 30.
214. b. and d. 1753, April 5.
215. Esther, b. 1754, March 7 ; m. 1784, March 4, Capt.
Robert Perkins.
216. Elizabeth, b. 1756, May 6; unmarried, lived in the
paternal house, and d. 1844, June 11 (1843, on
church records).
84
ELIEZEU* GOULD, son of Zaccheus 3 , m. 1. 1740,
Apr. 17, Elizabeth Smith (b. 1718, July 8 ; d.
1753, March 27) ; 2. 1755, Feb. 25, Phebe 5
Gould (Xo. 110), clan, of John G. of Boxford.
Children :
217. Eliezer, b. 1740, Sept. 23; m. 1761, Jan. 6, Sarah
Bigelow.
218. Elizabeth, b. 1742, Nov. 12; d. 1743, Feb..4.
219. Zaccheux, b. 1743-4, Feb. 5 ; m. 1778, AnneBrowu
of Boxford; d. 1823, Feb. 13.
220. John, b. 1746, Mar. 5 ; m. 1772, Dec. 3, Jane
Palmer.
221. Huldah, b. 1748, Aug. 1; d. 1748, Oct. 22.
222. Elizabeth, b. 1749, Sept. 22 ; m. 1794, Feb. 19,
Thos. Lyon, of White Plains X. Y. ; d. 1829,
Sept.
223. Rebecca, b. 1752, Dec. 31 ; m. 1788, Mar. 25, Amos
Foster.
224. Besaleel, b. 1756, July 4; m. 1. 1788, Bathsheba
Robinson and lived in Douglas; 2. wid. of
Hill.
225. Jedediah, b. 1758, Apr. .7 ; d. 1758, Apr. 22.
226. Aholiab, b. 1759, June 24; killed 1777, Oct. 8 by
cannon ball at taking of Burgoyne.
140
227. Ebenezer, b. 1760 ; m. Anna Cook of Burrillville,
K. I. ; d. 1809.
(E.) TRIBE OF JOSEPH.
101
JOSEPH* GOULD, son of Joseph 3 , m. 1751, Dec. 19,
Elizabeth (b. 1730, Sept. 28), eldest dau. Rev.
John and Elizabeth Emerson; d. 1825, Mar. 5.
Children :
228. Elizabeth, b. 1752, Dec. 4; m. 1784, June 29,
Stephen Perley.
229. Joseph, b. 1753, Dec. 6; d. ret. 14, 1767, Sept. 16.
230. Dorcas, d. in infancy.
231. Daniel, b. 1755-6, Jan. 18 ; m. 1778, Sarah Brad-
street; d. 1826, Apr. 3.
232. Priscilla, b. 1757, Nov. 13 ; m. 1796, May 21, John
Longfellow of Byfield.
233. Sarah, b. 1759, Aug. 26.
234. Mary, b. 1761, Mar. 29 ; m. 1788, May 6, Elijah
Averill.
235. Emerson, b. 1763, Jan. 23 ; m. Sarah who
afterwards m. James Covell.
236. John, b. 1765, Jan. 27; m. 1. 1788, Jan. 8, Sarah
Lamsou ; 2. 1795, Betsey Stephens of Boxford ;
3. Clark.
237. Cornelius, b. 1767, Feb. 1; m. 1. Phebe Porter;
2. 1812, Lydia Jenkins.
238. Sarah, b. 1769, Feb. 5 ; m. Phiue'as Perley.
239. Abigail, b. 1771, Oct. 27; m. 1792, Feb. 9, Peter
Shaw of Beverly.
240. Joseph, b. 1773, Aug. 29; m. 1. 1794, Apr. 7,
Ruth Porter; 2. -1825, Jan. 16, Catherine B.
Parker; d. 1834.
141
FIFTH GENERATION.
(A) TRIBE OF JOHN.
113.
EiCHARD 5 GOULD, son of John 4 , m. 1747 ? . Chil-
dren :
241. Mary, b. 1745, Mar. 24.
242. John, b. 1748, May 1 ; d. 1748, May 31.
114.
STEPHEN 5 GOULD, son of John 4 , in. 1748, Jan. 18,
Hannah Perkins, lived in N. H. Children :
243. Hannah, b. 1750, Feb. 5.
244. Elijah, b. 1752, Mar. 30; was in American army,
d. 1775, May 8.
245. Stephen, b. 1754, Feb. 6 ; m. Lydia Fuller ; d. 1825.
246. Abner, b. 1756, Apr. 7; d. 1771, Jan. 30.
247. Eunice, b. 1758, Mar. 31 ; m. 1787, June 3, Wm.
Booth of Hillsboro'.
248. Jacob, b. 1759, Dec. 13 ; m. 1783, Jan. 13, Susanna,
(No. 256) dau. of Jacob 5 Gould (No. 116.)
249. Sarah, b. 1762, Apr. 12.
250. John, b. 1766, Sept. 29; d. 1767, Aug. 5.
116.
JACOB 5 GOULD, son of John 4 , in. 1751, Oct. 27, Eliz-
abeth Towue of Topsfield ; he commanded a com-
pany at Lexington. Children :
251. Jacob, b. 1752, Apr. 28; d. 1753, July 25.
252. Jtichard, b. 1753, June 15 ; d. 1754, Jan. 30.
253. Ruth, b. 1755, Jan. 22; m. 1787, Sept. 13, Nathan
Perley of Georgetown.
254. Elizabeth, b. 1756, Dec. 12; m. 1787, Mar. 15,
Nathaniel Herrick of Box ford ; d. 1814, Apr. 13.
142
255. Edna, b. 1759, Mar. 17; m. 1. Samuel Stiles; 2.
Jacob Fly nn of Milford, N. H.
256. Susanna, b. 1761, Feb. 13; m. 1783, Jan. 13,
Jacob (No. 248), (son of Stephen 5 Gould, No.
114) d. 1857.
257. Jacob, b. 1764, Sept. 9; m. 1790, May 25, Ruth
Peabody of Middleton.
258. Lois, b. 1766, Nov. 1 ; m. in Boxford, 1791, July
7, Benj. Perley of Dtmbarton, N. H. (Children
in Hist. Dumbarton, p. 254.)
259. Samuel, b. 1768.
260. Kezia, b. 1770, Oct. 24; m. 1805, Dec. 17, Joseph
Smith.
261. Haldah, b. 1774, Dec. 21 ; m. 1801, June 30, Moses
Dorman (Sen.) ; d. 1846, Oct. 26.
262. John, b. 1778, July 11 ; m. 1799, June 29, Polly
Prince ; living in Boxford in 1860.
118
AMOS S GOULD, son of John*, m. 1759, May 3, Huldah
Foster; lived in Bridgeton, Me. Children:
263. Ezra, b. 1760, Mar. 7."
264. Amos, b. 1761, Dec. 12.
265. Huldah, b. 1764, Mar. 31 ; m. 1784, Benj. Kimball
of Bridgeton, Me.
266. Phebe, b. 1766, Mar. 6.
267. Enoch, bapt. 1770, Dec. 2.
119.
NATHANIEL 5 GOULD, son of Nathaniel 4 , m. 1743, Feb. .
3, Jane Arey. Children :
268. Hannah, b. 1743.
269. Nathaniel, b. 1745.
143
270. Joshua, b. 1747 ; m. 1770, Mary ( ) Kurd, d.
1826, Jan. 19.
271. Daniel, b. 1749.
120.
JOHN 5 GOULD, son of Nathaniel 4 , m. 1739, Ruth God-
frey of Eastham. Children :
272. John, b. 1741, Sept. 15 ; m. 1766, Jan. 23, Apphia
Cole.
273. Thomas, b. 1743, Mar. 26; m. 1762, Nov. 11,
Phebe Cole ; lost at sea.
274. Richard, b. 1744, Dec. 9; m. 1765, Sept. 12,
Martha Bearse of Chatham.
275. Abigail, b. 1746, Apr. 22.
131.
DANIEL 3 GOULD, son of Daniel 4 , ru. 1782, Dec. 24,
Mary (b. 1751, July 3, d. 1785, Oct. 1) dau. of
George Booth of Hillsboro'. They had cue
child :
276. Molly, b. 1785, Sept. 28; d. 1785, Dec. 4.
132.
ELiSHA 5 GOULD, son of Daniel 4 , m. 1779, Sept. 19,
Elizabeth (b. 1750, Aug. or 1749, July 19)
dau. of Zorobbabel Peabody of Middletou ; 2?
1789, Sept. 17, Elizabeth Lake. Children :
277. Betsy, b. 1781, July 4; m. Levi Hyde of Ossipee,
N. H.
278. Jerusha Peabody, b. 1784, Feb. 15; m. Robert
Roberts of Ossipee; d. 1812, Feb. 14.
279. Polly, b. 1785-6, June 8 ; m. Stephen Willey.
134.
SAMUEL 5 GOULD, son of Daniel 4 , m. 1. 1784, Feb.
144
12, Abigail, dau. of John Lamson ; 2. 1792,
Feb. 13, Ruth (b. 1763, Feb., d. 1851, Jan. 19)
dau. of Joshua Towne. Childreu by his first wife,
Abigail :
280. Samuel Lamson,- bapt. 1785, Apr. 24; in. 1807,
Mar. 19, Mary Long; d. 1860, Apr. 9.
281. Lucy, bapt. 1786, Apr. 9.
282. Josiah, b. 1789, Jan. 8 ; in. 1816, Betsy 6 Gould,
(No. 482) dau. of Dea. John 5 (No. 212) and
Ruth (Perkins) ; d. 1851, Apr. 26.
283. d. in infancy.
284. Ruth, m. George Thomas of Middleton.
By 2nd. wife, Ruth :
285. Asa, bapt. 1793, June; unmarried; d. 1838.
286. Abigail, b. 1795, Mar. 26; unmarried; living in
1860.
287. Sally, bapt. 1799, Nov. 24; m. Fletcher.
288. Patty, bapt. 1803, Apr. 10; m. 1831, Dec. 28,
Samuel "W. Weston.
137.
MosES 5 GOULD, son of Daniel 4 , m. 1793, Apr. 14,
Anne Mecurn (b. 1771, living in 1860). Chil-
dren :
289. Moses, b. 1800, May 27 ; m. Lydia Abbot Russell ;
jd. 1845, June 30.
290. Daniel Tarbox, b. 1805, Apr. 30; unmarried in
1860.
291. Nancy, m. 1844, Oct. 15, Dan'l Andrews. No
issue.
140.
SOLOMON 5 GOULD, son of David 4 , m. 1757, Dec. 29,
Prudence ret. 18. They lived in Sunder-
land and Leverett, Mass. Children :
145
292. David, b. 1758, Dec. 29.
293. Solomon, b. 1760, Sept. 6- 22 ; d. 1762, Aug. 16.
294. Phebe, b. 1762, May 6 ; d. 1762, May 7.
295. Samuel, b. 1763, Mar. 21.
296. Noah, b. 1763, Mar. 21 ; m. 1794, Jan. 30, Mary
Williams.
297. Phebe, b. 1765, Jan. 26.
298. Prudence, b. 1767, June 26.
299. John, b. 1769, May 8.
300. Basmath, b. 1771, June 2.
301. Solomon, b. 1773, Apr. 27.
302. Lucius, b. 177(5), June 12.
303. Mosley, b. 1777, July 18.
304. Nathan, b. 1779, Apr. 27.
305. Amos, b. 1780, Dec. 17.
146
JOHN 5 GOULD, son of David 4 ; m. ? Mary Barrett
of Sunderland ; one child :
306. Miriam, bapt. 1766, Feb. 9 at Amherst.
149
SOLOMON 5 GOULD of Middleton, sou of Solomon 4 ,
m. 1761, July 2, Mehitable Perkins. Children :
307. Nathaniel, b. 1762, Mar. 13 ; twice married.
308. Solomon, b. 1764, Sept. 13 ; m. Betsey Proctor of
Marblehead.
309. Mehitable, b. 1768, May 3; d. of consumption,
1787, Aug. 11.
310. Martha, b. 1772, Sept. 7 ; died of consumption.
150
LYDiA 6 , dau. of Solomon 4 Gould of Topsfield ; m.
1764, Feb. 27, Nathaniel FISK of Danvers [b.
10
146
1740-41, March; d. 1815, Apr. 9], sou of The-
ophilus and Jemima (Goldsmith) Fisk; resided
in Topsfield. [See Essex Inst. Hist. Coll., VIII,
180] Children :
311. Nathaniel, b. 1764, Dec. 2; m. 1794, Nov. 20,
Mehitable Balch.
312. Ruth, b. 1767, May 10; m. Elijah Perkins.
313. John, bapt. 1769, Aug. 20; m. Huldah Wood-
bury ; d. 1803, May 4.
314. Lydia, bapt. 1772, March 1 ; d. 1777, May 16.
315. Benjamin, b. 1774, Aug. 17; m. 1796, March 17,
Lydia Hobbs.
316. Ebenezer, m. 1804, Mary Dodge.
317. Moses, b. 1777, Aug. 20 ; m. 1802, Dec. 12, Sukey
Platts.
Lydia, bapt. 1780, April 23.
David, b. 1783, Nov. 24: m. 1813, Apr. 8, Nancy
Baker.
151
JOHN 5 GOULD of Topsfield, son of Solomon 4 , m. 1.
1769, Feb. 9, Elizabeth Bradstreet, dau. of John
and Elizabeth (Fisk) Bradstreet [d. 1775, Oct.
18] ; 2. 1777, June 3, in Hamilton, Bethiah
Fitts of Ipswich. Children by his first wife,
Elizabeth :
320. Abigail, b. 1769, Dec. 25; m. 1793, Dec. 10,
Moody Perley of Boxford.
321. Rebecca, b. 1772, May 31 ; d. 1782, Feb. 10.
322. Elizabeth, b. 1774, Apr. 20; unmarried; d. 1796,
Apr. 5.
By his second wife, Bethiah :
323. David, bapt. 1780, June 18; d. 1781, Aug. 26.
324. Rebecca, b. 1782, Jan. 7 ; m. 1802, Mar. 18, John
Boardman of Topsfield.
147
325. John, b. 1785, Aug. 29 ; m. 1809, Nov. 30, Mary
Averell.
326. David, d. in infancy.
327. Elsey, b. 1788, Aug. 14 ; m. 1807, Dec. 25, Allen 6
Gould (No. 346).
328. David, bapt. 1791, Mar. 27.
329. Martha, b. 1793, Feb. 23; m. Israel Conant of
Ipswich.
154
AMOS S Gould of Peacham, Vt., son of Solomon 4 ; m.
1792, Feb. 9, at Boxford, Lydia Wood [b. 1760
and d. 1845, May 3]. They settled in Peacham,
1792. Children:
330. David, b. 1792, Nov. 5 ; m. in Boston, Susan Glea-
son, of Acworth, N. H. No children ; he was
lawyer in Chelsea, Mass., and d. there in 1860.
331. Jacob Wood, b. 1794, May 24; m. 1818, Feb. 12,
Maria Eew; d. 1868, Mar. 20.
332. Bennett, b. 1797, Dec. 1 ; m. 1833, Sarah Marsh.
(B.) TRIBE OF THOMAS.
156
THOMAS 5 GOULD of Boxford, son of Thomas 4 , m.
1757, Dec. 29, Anne Perkins [b. 1739, June 21].
She married, 2. 1786, Nov. 8, Andrew Foster in
Boxford [whose ancestry is in Geneal. Reg., XX,
229]. Children:
333. Dorcas, b. 1758, Nov. 3 ; d. 1759, June 16.
334. Anna, b. 1761, May 12; d. 1762, Dec. 30.
335. Benjamin, bapt. 1763, Jan. 30; m. 1785, Apr. 17,
Eusebia Abbot.
336. Anna, bapt. 1764, Nov. 11 ; m. Joshua Chamber-
lin of Arriugton, Me.
148
337. Sarah, bapt. 1766, Nov. 2 ; m. in Middleton, 1790,
Aug. 31, Asa Felton of Danvers.
338. Thomas, bapt. 1769, Mar. 5; d. in Southfield,
Mass. , set. about 25 ; m. in Salem ; had children
George and Mary.
339. Ezra, bapt. 1770, Dec. 23.
340. Mercy, bapt. 1773, Jan. 17 ; d. 1774, Sept. 28.
341. Phebe, bapt. 1775, Mar. 5 ; unmarried in 1799.
342. Andrew, b. 1777, June 21 ; m. Pamelia Kinney of
Middleton ; d. 1844, Jan. 24, in Boxford.
164
NATHANIEL 5 GOULD of Topsfield, son of Thomas 4 ,
m. 1. 1777, Nov. 20, Hannah Killam [b. 1755 ;
d. 1790, Apr. 5] ; 2. 1792, Mar. 3, Betty An-
drews. Children by first wife, Hannah :
343. b. 1779 ; d. 1781, July 20.
344. Hannah 2d.," b. 1781, Sept. 1; m. 1804, Sept.
16, Francis Hood.
345. Sally, b. 1783, Aug. 1 ; m. 1804, Apr. 15, David
Brown.
346. Allen, b. 1785, Sept. 15; m. 1. 1807, Dec. 25,
Elsey 6 Gould (No. 327) ; 2. Martha Drowne ; 3.
Mary Ann Potter ; d. 1862.
347. Andrew, b. 1787, Mar. 2 ; m. 1816, Nov. 15, Emily
Webb.
348. Polly, b. 1789, Feb. 1 ; living in Boxford in 1869.
349. Louisa, b. 1790, June 25 ; m. Francis Perley ; d.
1843.
Children by his second wife, Betty :
350. Sophia, b. 1792, Nov. 13.
351. Nathaniel, b. 1794, Aug. 27; went to sea, set. 21,
and died on homeward passage.
352. Andrews, b. 1796, Aug. 4; m. 1. 1821, Sept. 21,
149
Eebecca Putnam [d. 1854, Jan. 1] ; 2. 1855,
Mar. 19, Lydia 6 T. (No. 564), wid. of E. How
and dau. of Joseph 5 Gould (No. 240).
353. Francis, b. 1798, Sept. 5; m. 1. 1822, Oct. 9,
Irene Perley; 2. 1840, June 30, Catharine B.,
dau. of Edmimd Parker and widow of Joseph 5
Gould (No. 240) ; 3. Eliza, wid. of Cyrus Dud-
ley.
354. Dolly, b. 1800, Sept. 19; unmarried; d. 1835,
Jan. 28.
355. Pamelia, b. 1802, Oct. 19 ; m. 1825, Nathaniel
Dorman of Boxford.
356. Esther A., b. 1804, Dec. 30 ; m. Perley.
357. Thomas, b. 1807, Oct. 15; m. 1833, May 23,
Betsey Perkins.
358. Lemuel Holt, b. 1809, Nov. 11 ; .m. 1839, Jan. 23,
Sally Mundy.
165
MERCY 5 , dau. of Jacob 4 Gould, m. 1752, Dec. 21,
Aaron TAYLOR of Lunenburg and in 1760 settled
in Bindge, N. H., then called "Kowley, Canada."
Children :
359. Jonathan, b. 1753, July 22.
360. Aaron, b. 1755, Jan. 19.
361. Sarah, b. 1757, July 24.
362. Martha, b. 1760, Sept. 6. The church records
give her name as Mercy, bapt. 1760, Oct. 12.
363. Rebecca, b. 1763, June 11.
364. David, b. 1765, April 25.
166
OLIVER 5 GOULD, son of Jacob 4 , m. 1759, May 3,
in Petersham, Mary Stockwell of Petersham.
Children :
150
365. Oliver, b. 1760, Mar. 31.
366. Sarah, b. 1762, Aug. 16.
367. Lucy, b. 1764, Sept. 9.
368. Mary, b. 1766, Oct. 16.
369. Susannah, bapt. 1769, Jan. 8.
167
SARAH 5 , dau. of Jacob* Gould, m. 1759, Dec. 27,
Samuel Sanderson [b. 1734, Apr. 26, in Lunen-
burg]. He was a soldier of the Revolutionary
army. They moved to Gardner, Mass., where
both died. Children :
370. Samuel, bapt. 1762, Nov. 21.
371. Abraham, bapt. 1766, June 15.
372. Patience, bapt. 1770, March 4.
170
ELIJAH 5 GOULD, son of Jacob*, m. 1767, Feb. 26,
Eunice Patch. Children :
373. Lois, b. 1767, Dec. 22, in Rindge. 374. ? Joshua.
375. Samson, b. in Lunenburg, 1770, Jan. 31 ; m. 1795,
Nov. 22, Betsey (No. 384), dau. of Thomas 5
Gould; d. 1847, Oct. 24.
376. Mary, b. 1772. 377. ? Abigail.
378. Eunice, b. 1773, Dec. 21; d. 1846, at Waltham;
m. 1793, Mar. 19, Elisha Parker, Jr.
379. Elijah, b. 1775, Dec. 7 ; lived in Lebanon, N. H.
380. Benjamin, b. 1778, Dec. 30.
381. Ruth, bapt. 1782, June 9.
382. Sarah, bapt. 1783, Sept. 28.
171
THOMAS 5 GOULD, son of Jacob* of Lunenburg, m.
1768, June 28, in Harvard, Elizabeth Willard
151
[b. 1745-6, and d. 1817, Apr. 21, while visiting
her son in Charlestown.] She was dau. or niece
of Phineas Willard. Children :
383. Phineas, bapt. 1770, Nov. 4; d. 1776, Dec. 21.
384. Elizabeth, b. 1772; in. 1795, Nov. 22, Samson 6
Gould (No. 375) sou of Elijah 5 ; d. 1846, May 17.
385. Thomas, b. 1776, Sept. 10; m. 1805-6, Jan. 15-16,
Lydia Ellingwood of Charlestown [b. 1781, d.
1867, Apr. 13]. He died 1865, Dec. 31, at
Luueuburg.
386. Sabra, bapt. 1*779, Dec. 25 ; d. 1852, June 1 ; m.
1. 1804, Apr. 9, Ezra Clap, Jr. [d. in 1805,
Sept. 1] ; 2. Joseph Hayden [b. 1788 ; d. 1865,
Apr. 7].
387. Lucinda, bapt. 1787, Aug. 19 ; d. 1795, May 14.
172
DOROTHY 5 , dau. of Jacob 4 Gould of Lunenburg, m.
1773, Nov. 18, Stephen STICKNEY, Jr. [b. Kow-
ley, 1743, Nov. 10 ; d. Lunenburg, 1838, Oct.
26] son of Stephen and Mehitable (Goodridge)
Stickney. He was constable, selectman and town
treasurer of Luneuburg, and died at the age of
95. Children :
388. David, b. 1775, March 27 ; m. Sally Ehodes.
389. Mehitable, b. 1777, Oct. 21 ; d. 1820, Sept. 11 ;
unmarried.
390. /Stephen, b. 1781, March 15 ; m. 1825, Mary, dau.
of Wrn. Kilburn, and widow of Abel French.
Besides in Groton.
179
GOULD, son of Simon 4 , m. 1788, Feb. 19,
Sarah White. Children :
152
391. Moses, b. 1788, Nov. 22 ; m. 1818, Feb. 23, Mehit-
able Upton of Danvers ; d. 1829, Jan. 14.
392. Oliver, b. 1790, Apr. 5 ; d. 1795, June 22-29.
393. Oliver, b. 1795, Dec. 21 ; d. 1796, Aug. 11.
394. ffaffield,b. 1797, Oct. 8: unmarried; d. 1841.
395. Sally, b. 1800, May 26 ; m. 1824, June 18, Jesse
Perley, Jr., of Boxford.
396. 8am'l White, b. 1803, Jan. 8 ; m. of Balti-
more ; and d. in Philadelphia leaving one daughter.
397. Elijah, b. 1805, Sept. 19.
398. Thorndike Osgood, b. 1808, May 19.
180
ELIJAH 5 GOULD of Topsfield, son of Simon 4 , m. 1.
1789, Sept. 17, Elizabeth [b. 1768, July 25 ; d.
1821, Nov. 5] dau. of Eliezer and Sarah Lake;
2. Hannah Esty [d. in 1825] ; 3. Dolly Kimball
[d. 1840, Aug. 21, in Andover]. Children by
his first wife, Elizabeth :
399. d. set. 2 yrs., 1795, July 19.
400. d. set. 5 months, 1795, July 5.
401. Mehitable, b. 1801, Oct. 2; m. Hugh Floyd; d.
1828, Aug. 3.
No children by second or third marriage.
181
BENJAMIN 5 GOULD of Kludge, N. H., son of Benja-
min 4 , m. 1764, May 14, Sarah Foster [b. in Har-
vard, Mass., 1745, Aug. 28]. Children:
402. Esther, b. 1765, Sept. 19.
403. Benjamin, b. 1767, July 26.
404. Martha, b. 1770, June 18 ; d. 1776, March.
405. Rebecca, b. 1772, Nov. 25 ; d. 1776, Feb.
406. Joseph, b. 1774, June 2 ; d. 1776, Feb.
153
407. Sarah, b. 1779, May 4; d. 1780, Feb. 27, at
Rockiugharn.
408. Sarah, b. 1785,' June 7.
409. Joseph, b. 1776, Feb. 19.
(C.) TRIBE OF SAMUEL.
183
SAMUEL 5 GOULD, sou of Samuel 4 , m. 1750, Sarah Gil-
bert [d. set. ab. 90]. They lived in Brookfield,
Arnherst, Charlemont and Heath. Children :
410. /Sarah, b. 1751, Aug. 13 ; m. Ebenezer Field.
411. JEsther,}). 1753, June 30; unmarried; d. set. 55.
412. Samuel, b. 1755, May 30 and was killed at White
Plains, 1776, Oct. 28.
413. Isaac, b. 1758, Apr. 14; m. 1780, Olive Thayer;
d. 1844.
414. Daniel,\). 1760, Jan. 24; went "south;" was un-
married and died in New York City of yellow
fever.
415. Beulah, b. 1761, July 9 ; d. young.
416. Eli, b. at Amherst, 1766, May 5 ; m. 1790, Mar.
3, Bernice Johnson of Westford; d. at Heath,
1848, June 24.
417. Mehitable, m. Wni. Batt, an Englishman of Bur-
goyne's army, and lived in Beunington, Vt.
185
JEREMIAH 5 GOULD, son of Samuel*, m. 1. 1755, June
5, Hannah Bartlett, in Brookfield ; 2. 1760, Aug.
21, Hannah Stevens [d. 1812, Dec. 12]. He
lived in Brookfield from the age of about 15 yrs.
and about 1773 removed to Charlemout. Chil-
dren by his first wife :
154
418. Aaron, b. 1757, Dec. 23 ; m. 1781, May 29, Lydia
Gray ; d. 1826, Oct. 16.
419. Nathan (no children).
Children by his second wife :
420. John. .421. Mary O., b. 1769, Aug. 21; d. 1789,
Dec. 4.
422. Lydia, m. 1. Eells ; 2. Ephraim Eddy;
lived in Coleraine.
186
NATHAN 5 GOULD, son of Samuel 4 , m. 1757, Oct. 31,
Martha Gilbert of Brookfield. He moved from
Charlemont, Mass., with his son Nathan, to Vir-
ginia, in 1816, and died about two weeks after
his arrival. Children :
423. Jonathan was in revolutionary army and in a de-
tachment commanded by Gen. Lee at Monmouth ;
d. 1778.
424. Mehitable, m. Barnabas Alden of Ashfield.
425. Benjamin, b. 1767, Oct. 3; m. Lydia Alden; d.
1849, Dec. 2.
426. Paschal JPaoli, named for the Corsican General ;
died early.
427. Lydia, b. 1772, July 3 ; m. Eobert Young.
428. Nathan, b. 1776; m. 1. Esther Alden; 2. Ceman-
tha (Phillips) , wid. of Martin Burr of West Vir-
ginia ; d. 1826 or 1856.
429. Gilbert, b. 1779, Feb. ; m. 1803, Mehitable Tay-
lor ; living in 1869.
188
ELI S GOULD, son of Samuel 4 , m. 17.69, Dec. 21,
Lydia Jennings. They had one son :
430. Samuel, b. in Amherst, Mass. ; m. Gates.
155
191
MosES 5 GOULD, son of Moses 4 , m. 1759, Sept. 13,
in Groton, Submit [b. 1729, Nov. 21], dau. of
Stephen and Hannah (Sawtell) Holden. Chil-
dren :
431. Jeremiah, b. 1760, Jan. 27.
432. Moses, b. 1761, Sept. 1.
193
MARY S , dau. of Moses 4 Gould, m. 1752, Mar. 27,
Zachariah TARBELL [b. 1730, Dec. 27], son of
Eleazer and Elizabeth (Bowers) of Groton.
They settled in Westminster, Mass. He was a
revolutionary soldier. Children :
433. Molly, b. 1753, May 1.
434. Zachariah, b. 1754, Nov. 9 ; a revolutionary sol-
dier.
435. Elizabeth, b. 1755, Dec. 5.
436. Molly, b. 1757-8, Mar. 19.
437. Sibyl, b. 1758-9, Mar. 9.
438. Sarah, b. 1760, Sept. 20.
439. Bethuel, bapt. 1764, Sept 30.
196
LYDiA 5 , dau. of Jonathan 4 Gould, m. 1758, May 4,
at Grotou, Amos ATHERTON of Lancaster. Chil-
dren :
440. Lydia, b. 1759, Jan. 22.
441. Amos, b. 1760, Oct. 31.
442. Betty, b. 1762, Oct. 27.
443. Jonathan, b. 1765, Jan. 17.
444. Mary, b. 1768, July 28.
445. David, b. 1769, Oct. 6.
156
446. Eunice, b. 1771, Jan. 10; d. 1839, May 29; m.
1. 1791, May 12, William, son of Stephen and
Elizabeth (Lovejoy) Boynton [b. 1761, March
29; d. 1815, Feb. 27] ; 2. 1822, Dec. 8, Adoui-
ram, sou of Aaron and Martha (Porter) Patch
[b. 1789? d. 1851, Apr. 18].
447. Sarah,}*. 1773, Feb. 23; d. 1858, Sept. 19; m.
1809, June 6, David Bennett [b. Shirley, 1.754,
Nov. 17], son of David and Elizabeth (Wait)
Bennett. Had three children.
448. /Samuel, b. 1774, Oct. 18 ; d. 1774.
197
MARY S , dau. of Jonathan* Gould, of Lunenburg, m.
1756, Ma}' 26, Obadiah SAWTELL, who was born
1732, Oct. 11, at Groton [See Butler's Hist, of
Groton, p. 496]. Children:
449. Obadiah, b. 1757, Nov. 29.
450. Lydia, b. 1760, May 15.
451. Solomon, b. 1762, Feb. 23.
452. -/Sarah, b. 1764, Apr. 2 ; m. 1789, Mar. 4, Jesse
' Farnsworth.
453. Daniel, b. 1766, July 18.
454. Rebecca, b. 1768, June 3.
455. Zachariah, b. 1770, Mar. 11 ; d. 1771, Feb. 12.
456. Ede, b. 1772, June 17 ; d. 1772, Aug. 4.
199
SAMUEL 5 GOULD, son of Jonathan 4 , in. Elizabeth
Children :
457. Betty, b. 1769, Jan. 29, at Shirley.
458. Lydia, b. 1770, Sept 24.
459. Sarah, b. 1772, Oct. 23 ; d. same day.
460. Molly, b. 1776, Feb. 28.
157
461. Phineas, b. 1778, Oct. 25, at Lunenburg.
462. Hannah, b. 1781, Mar. 11.
205
AsA 5 GOULD, sou of Hubbard 4 , m. 1. 1784, Mar. 4,
Jerusha Derth ; 2. Lois Owen [born 1770, Mar.
31, and died 1847, Nov. 2] ; lived in Brookfield,
East Bethel, Vt., and Golden, Erie Gouuty, N.
Y. Children by his first wife, Jerusha :
463. Ezra, b. 1785, at East Bethel.
464. Elmer, b. 1787 ; moved to Wisconsin ; d. about
1867.
465. Hannah, b. 1790.
By his second wife, Lois :
466. John Derth, b. 1795, Mar. 11 ; m. 1820, May 7,
Hannah Bnffum; d. 1864, Nov. 15.
467. Mary March, b. 1797, Jan. 21 ; m. 1. 1817, June
20, Joseph Mayo, who died in Nov., 1830, leav-
ing one child, Sylvester Jackson Gould Mayo,
b. 1819, Apr. 23 ; d. 1842, Feb. 10. She m. 2.
Wade Clark [d. 1864, Apr. 6].
468. Jerusha, b. 1799. Jan. 7 ; drowned at White River,
set. about 17.
469. Philena, b. 1801, Dec. ; m. Soril Pierce.
470. Asa, b. 1804, Feb. 4; m. 1. 1824, March, Sally
Smith; 2. 1858, June 17, Phebe Wood [b. 1821,
March 2.]
471. Cornelius R., b. 1806, Apr. ; d. 1808, Aug.
472. Emily, b. 1808, Aug. ; unmarried.
473. Cornelius R., ( ?) b. 1810, Oct. 14 ; m. Nancy Fol-
som [b. 1813, Oct. 26].
474. Sylvanus Owen, b. 1812, Aug. 12 ; m. Marietta
Bacon ; a lawyer in Buffalo.
475. Jerusha M., b. 1816, Dec. 12; m. David French.
158
(D.) TRIBE OF ZACCHEUS.
211
JOHN 5 GOULD of Topsfield, son of John 4 , m. 1775,
Jan. 12, Ruth [b. 1753, Oct. 1, d. 1838, Jan.
9], dau. of Robert and Hannah Perkins. Chil-
dren :
476. Amos, b. 1775, Dec. 26; m. 1. Mary Herrick; 2.
Nelly Hood; d. 1850, June 2.
477. Mehitable, b. 1778, Apr. 17; m. 1824, Dec. 26,
Peter Dodge of Wenham.
478. Ruth, b. 1780, Apr. 10; d. 1781, Aug. 26.
479. Ruth, b. 1783, Aug. 3; unmarried; d. 1851, Aug.
29.
480. Lydia, b. 1788, June 12 ; m. 1808, Aug. 14, Sam-
uel C. Todd.
481. John, b. 1795, Nov. 12; m. 1818, Dec. 3, Harriet 6
(No. 557), dau. of Joseph 5 Gould (No. 240);
d. 1822, Oct. 7.
482. Betsey, b. 1799, Jan. 5; m. 1816, Josiah 6 Gould
(No. 282), son of Samuel 5 (No. 134).
212
BENJAMIN 5 GOULD, of Lancaster and Newburyport,
son of Dea. John 4 , m. 1781, July 19, Grizzel
Apthorp [b. 1753, May 2; d. 1827, Jan. 19],
dau. of Gershom and Hannah (Pitson) Flagg.
He was captain in the war of Independence and
fought at Bunker Hill. Children :
483. John Flagg, 1). 1782, June 26; m. 1. Mary Tur-
ner, of Lewiston, Me. ; 2. Jane Louisa, dau. of
Nathan B. and Jane (Lorhner) Graham; d.
1828, Apr. 21, in Mexico.
159
484. Grizzel Flagg, b. 1784, Feb. 3 ; m. 1808, Capt.
Harvey Casey of Pasquotauk Co., N. C ; d. 1808,
three mouths after marriage.
485. Esther, b. 1785, Oct. 3; m. 1806, Jan. 7, Henry
W. Fuller; d. 1866, July 26.
486. Benjamin Apthorp, b. 1787, June 15 ; m. 1823,
Dec. 2, LucretiaD. Goddard ; d. 1859, Oct. 24.
487. Hannah Flagg, b. 1789, Sept. 3 ; d. 1865, Sept.
5 ; unmarried.
488. Rebecca, Sarah, and Mary, b. 1790; d. in infancy.
489. Elizabeth, b. 1791, July 17; m. 1819, June 19,
Antonio Rapallo of New York.
490. Gershom Flagg, b. 1793 ; d. 1840, Jan. 17 ; un-
married.
214
ESTHER 5 , dau. of Dea. John Gould of Topsfield, m.
1784, March 4, Robert PERKINS [b. 1760, May
29], sou of Robert [b. 1728, Jan. 16; d. 1801,
Nov. 10] and Hannah Perkins [d. 1802, July
22]. Children :-
491. Benjamin, b. 1786, March 13; d. 1858, April 3;
m. Rebecca H. Ashby of Salem [d. 1863, Jan.
27]. Six children, Beuj. F., b. ab. 1811,
lives in Beverly; Rebecca P., b. 1814; Lucy
Ann ; Elizabeth ; Augustus, a physician in Bos-
ton ; Henry of Danvers.
492. Amos, b. 1788, April 2; d. 1851, Sept. 8; m.
1810, April 15, Betsey Brown of Boxford. Ten
children : Amos, b. 1811, Jan. 12 ; Samuel B.,
b. 1812, Nov. 20; d. 1818, Dec. 30; Betsey, b.
1815, Jan. 7 ; Robert S., b. 1817, Feb. 5 ; Olive
B., b. 1819, Mar. 4; d. 1862, Mar. 22; Sophia
C., b. 1821, Mar. 15 ; Samuel B., b. 1823, Aug.
8; Emily A., b. 1826, Feb. 10; d. 1846, Nov.
160
26 ; William P., b. 1828, Mar. 24 ; d. 1859, Nov.
17 ; Esther J., b. 1832, July 28 ; d. 1854, Aug. 11.
493. Esther, b. 1790, Jan. 12 ; d. 1842, Aug. 11 , m.
1807, July 23, John P. Peabody [d. 1846, Nov.
5]. Eight children: Hannah, b. 1807, Nov.
16; Cyrus, b. 1810, March 16; d. 1814, Sept.
14; Esther, b. 1812, Sept. 12; Harriet N., b.
1816, April 23; Mary P., b. 1818, Sept. 26;
Mehitable, b. 1821, Oct. 23; d. 1869, May 24;
Lydia P., b. 1825, Aug. 24; d. 1852, Dec. 29;
Sarah B.., b. 1829, March 19.
494. Robert, b. 1792, Feb. 16; d. 1814, Oct. 9.
495. Nehemiah, b. 1794, April 1 ; m. 1817, Lydia Brad-
street [d. 1867, Sept. 12]. Ten children :-
Lydia B., b. 1817, April 5; Nehemiah, b. 1820,
Nov. 8; Phebe W., b. 1822, Oct. 21 ; Benjamin
A., b. 1824, June 12; Moses B., b. 1826, June
17; Ruth L., b. 1828, Jan. 1; d. 1830, Sept.
12; Ruth E. G., b. 1831, July 29; Albert C.,
b. 1833, Dec. 18; Eliza B., b. 1835, June 8;
John W., b. 1841, Aug. 21.
496. Betsey, b. 1798, Jan. 8; d. 1814, July 18.
216
EuEZER 5 GOULD, son of Eliezer 4 , m. 1761, Jan. 6,
Sarah Bigelow [b. 1741, July 14; d. 1819, Apr.
5] ; lived in Douglass, Mass. Children :
497. Betty, b. 1761, June 25 ; m. 1786, Jan. 19, Simeon
Chamberlin [b. 1762, March 6].
498. ethiah,\).17()'6, Aug. 5; d. 1792, Dec. 24; m.
1782, Feb. 21, Richard Lee.
499. Jedediah, b. 1765, May 19; d. 1825, Nov. 6; m.
1. 1782, Sept. 22, Hannah Stearns; 2. 1815,
July 23, Ada Barnes.
161
500. Hannah, b. 1767, June 4; d. 1781, June 7.
501. Ezra, b. 1769, Aug. 17; d. 1770, Feb. 16.
502. Abigail, b. 1771, May 10; m. 1795, Feb. 19,
Ebenezer Cook.
503. Tamazin, b. 1774, Feb. 17 ; m. 1794, Nov. 23,
Henry Blackmer; d. 1804, Apr. 8.
504. Sarah, b. 1776, Apr. 19 ; d. 1778, Feb. 24.
505. Eliezer,b. 1779, Mar. ia; m. 1. Eunice Smith;
2. 1804, July 29, Comfort Darling; d. 1844,
July.
506. Jason, b. 1782, Nov. 13 ; m. 1806, Nov. 13, Hul-
dah Cummings ; d. 1826, Aug. 6.
507. Daniel, b. 1785, Feb. 15 ; m. 1808, Jan. 13, Han-
nah Houghton ; d. 1842, Aug.
219
ZACCHEUS 5 GOULD of Topsfield, son of Eliezer 4 , m.
1778, Sept. 29, Anne Brown of Boxford, dau. of
John Brown and Hobbs [dau. of Hum-
phrey and Anna Hobbs] . Children :
508. Rebecca, b. 1780, Nov. 28 ; m. 1804, Wm. Hub-
bard of Topsfield; d. 1818, Mar. 15.
509. Anna, b. 1783, Feb. 20 ; m. 1800, Feb. 27, Euos
Lake ; d. 1845, Oct. 1.
510. Elizabeth, b. 1785, Mar. 17; m. 1. 1804, Mar. 15,
Daniel Boardman; 2. 1823, May, Artemas W.
Perley ; d. 1827, Sept.
511. Huldah, b. 1787, Nov. 6; in. 1833, Feb. 28, Arte-
mas W. Perley [d. 1862, Jan. 6]. They had no
children.
512. Zaccheus, b. 1790, Jan. 19 ; m. 1812, Nov. 2, Anne
Hood.
513. Humphrey, bapt. 1792, Oct. 28 ; d. 1795, May 30.
514. John, b. 1795, Mar. 27 ; m. 1820, Polly Curtis.
11
162
515. Humphrey, b. 1797, July 3; m. 1827, Juno 11,
Electa Hay nes.
516. Eliezer, b. 1799, Aug. 21 ; m. Abigail Brown.
517. Eunice, b. 1801, Oct. 26; unmarried; d. 1820,
Dec. 1.
220
JOHN 5 GOULD, of Topsfield, son of Eliezer 4 , m.
1772-3, Dec. 3, Jane Palmer; moved from Doug-
las, Mass., to Wardsboro, Vermont, about 1794.
Children :
518. Enos, in. Betsey Johnson; d. in Dover, Vt., of
consumption, and left one child, Betsey, who was
b. in 1801 ; m. Joseph Howe, and d. 1830, Sept.
519. Huldah, m. , in Ohio.
520. John, in. Polly Stearns, went first to Sullivan, Lor-
raine Co., N. Y., afterwards to Ohio, where he
died at an advanced age.
521. Aholiab, m. Jane Sears.
522. /Silas, m. Betsey Johnson, widow of his brother
Enos (No. 518) ; d. 1845, Oct. 21.
523. Amos, m. Polly Johnson.
524. Timothy, m. ; went to Michigan ; not living
in 1860.
525. Lois, in. Sylvanus Parmelee and went to Ohio.
227
EBENEZER & GOULD, son of Eliezer 4 , m. Anna Cook,
of Gloucester (now Burrillville) , E. I. He died
in 1809, and she married, 2. Rev. Wm. Batchel-
ler; and died in 1844, ret. 83. She was sister of
Ebenezer Cook, who married Abigail 6 Gould (No.
502) dau. of Eliezer 5 (No. 217). Children:
Mary, b. 1785, Dec. 18; d. 1805.
Benjamin, b. 1787, Aug. 11; m. Olive Jepherson ;
d. 1849.
163
528. David, b. 1789, June 5 ; m. Maiy Pidge ; d. 1844.
529. Sally, b. 1791, Nov. 22 ; m. Amos Cragin Aldrich.
530. Nancy, b. 1794, Apr. 3; m. Richard Robinson.
531. Bathsheba, b. 1796, July 3 ; m. Parris Hall.
532. Comfort, b. 1798, Aug. 22; m. 1821, April 1,
Charlotte Carpenter.
533. John, b. 1800, Nov. 29 ; m. 1. Ann Eliza Whit-
ing ; 2. Susan Pierce ; d. 1844.
534. Susan, b. 1803, Feb. 16; m. 1. Nath'l Carpenter ;
2. Samuel Williams, Jr.
535. Amos Cook, b. 1804, Sept. 17 ; m. Polly Read.
536. Ebenezer, b. 1807, Sept. 27 ; m. Ruth H. Bishop,
1827, Oct. 1.
537. William, b. 1809, Aug. 17 ; m. 1834, Dec. 4, Mary
A. Durfee.
(E.) TRIBE OF JOSEPH.
231
DANIEL 5 GOULD, son of Joseph 4 , m. 1778, Jan. 31,
Sarah [b. 1755; d. 1831, Dec. 3], dau. of John
and Elizabeth (Fisk) Bradstreet; Children:
538. Huldah, b. 1778, Sept. 9 ; m. 1799, Nov. 28, Sam-
uel Peabody.
539. Sally, b. 1780. Aug. 25 : m. Caleb Warner of
Salem ; she was his third wife.
540. Betsey, b. 1782, May 10; in. 1806, Jan. 21, Ezra
Smith of Beverly.
541. Kitty Mehitable, b. 1785, Apr. 15; in. 1832, Rev.
Abijah Blanchard.
542. Priscilla,\>. 1790; died young.
543. Asenath, b. 1792 ; m. 1. Israel Perley, who died at
Harmony Grove ; 2. John Perley, of Salem ; d.
1854.
164
544. Emerson, b. 1794, Nov. 25 ; went to North Caro-
lina ( ? about 1820) .
545. Priscilla, b. in Bradford; m. 1823, Nov. 13,
Joseph G. Sprague, of Salem.
546. Daniel, b. 1798, July 23 ; m. Lydia Batchelder, of
Boxford.
235
EMERSON 5 GOULD, son of Joseph 4 , m. Sarah ,
who afterwards married James Covell. They
had one child.
547. Sally.
236
JOHN 5 GOULD, of Topsfield, son of Joseph 4 , m. 1.
1788, Jan. 8, Sarah Lamson [d. 1791, Jan. 1],
2. 1795, Betsey Stephens, of Boxford ; 3.
Clark. He lived in Springfield, Mass., and had
by his first wife one child :
548. David, bapt. 1791, Mar. 27 ; d. 1792, May 4.
237
CoRNELius 5 GOULD, sou of Joseph 4 , m. 1. Phebe
Porter, dau. of Joseph Porter and sister of Ruth,
wife of his brother Joseph (No. 240) ; 2. Lydia
Jenkins of Andover, in 1812. Children by his
first wife, Phebe :
549. Clarissa, b. 1791, June 10; m. 1818, Joseph E.
Holt.
550. Betsey, b. 1792, Dec. 11 ; m. 1817, May 25, Oli-
ver Killam.
551. Phebe, b. 1797, Jan. 23; m. 1819, Apr. 10, Isaac
M. Tucker of Worcester.
552. Joseph Porter,}). 1799, Apr. 10; m. 1826, Lucy
M., dau. of Oliver P. Peabody, of Boxford.
553. Fanny, b. 1801, Sept. 8; m. Abijah Flint.
165
By his second wife, Lydia :
554. Barzillai, b. 1814, Dec. 14; m. Ruth Averill of
Middleton; d. 1848, Oct. 24.
555. Henry Augustus, b. 1816, Mar. 4 ; m. Sarah Batch-
elder, 1837, Mar. 30.
556. Emerson, b. 1818, J?n. 14 ; m. Harriet Batchelder ;
(d. 1849?).
260
JOSEPH 5 GOULD, son of Joseph 4 , m. 1794, Apr. 7,
Ruth, dau. of Jonathan Porter of Danvers. She
died 1820, Apr. 10 ; and he m. 2. 1825, Jan. 16,
Catherine B., dau. of Edmund Parker. Chil-
by his first wife, Ruth ;
557. Harriet, b. 1795, June 21 ; m. 1. 1818, Nov. 4,
John 6 Gould (No. 481) ; 2. Smith of Byfield.
558. Betsey, b. 1797, Mar. 15; d. 1798, Feb. 21.
559. Betsey, b. 1799, Mar. 5; d. 1799, Mar. 17.
560. Joseph, b. 1800, Dec. 29 ; d. 1802, Oct.
561. Ruth, b. 1803, Aug. 20; m. John Merrill of Box-
ford.
562. Joseph, b. 1805, Dec. 5: m. 1834, Dec. 24, Olive
Sanborn.
563. Elizabeth Maria, b. 1808, Feb. 14; m. Samuel
Adams of Georgetown.
564. Lydia T., b. 1810, Mar. 7 ; m. 1. E. How; 2.
Andrews 6 Gould (No. 352).
565. Emerson P., b, 1812, Mar. 9; unmarried in 1860.
566. Jonathan Porter, b. 1814, Dec. 30 ; m. Mary Emily
Mundy; d. 1860.
567. Angeline H., b. 1818, Mar. 18; d. 1832, Feb. 11.
568. Ariel H., b. 1818, Mar. 18; m. Augusta Mundy,
ab. 1845.
569. Ruth, bapt. 1823, July 13.
160
SIXTH GENERATION.
(A, ) TRIBE OF JOHN 3 .
245
STEPHEN 6 GOULD, of Mt. Yernon, N. H., son of
Stephen 5 , m. Lyclia, dau. of Timothy Fuller of
Middleton. She died about 1810. Children :
570. Elijah, b. 1780, May 13 ; m. 1823, Sept. 18, Han-
nah Chapman.
571. Stephen, b. ab. 1782; m. Polly Melody of Am-
herst, N. H.
572. Abner, m. Almira Codman.
573. Timothy, b. 1789, May 2 ; m. 1815, Clarissa Brad-
ford.
574. Thaddeus, b. 1793, m. Mary Ann Hichborn ; d.
1840.
575. Lydia, m. Aaron Smith.
576. Jonathan, in. Sabra Booth.
248
JACOB 6 GOULD, of Hillsboro, N. H., son of Stephen 5 ,
m. 1783, Jan. 13, Susanna 6 Gould (No. 256),
dau. of Jacob 5 (No. 116). Children:
577. Denison, m. Rachel Averill.
578. Fanny, b. 1784, Sept. 21; unmarried; d. about
1819.
257
JACOB 6 GOULD, of Middleton, son of Jacob 5 , m.
1790, May 25, Ruth [b. 1769, Dec. 14], dau. of
Bemsley Peabody. Children :
579. MehitaUe, b. 1791, Mar. 19; m. 1810, Samuel
Bradstreet; had a large family of children.
167
580. Jacob, b. 1794, Feb. 10; m. 1. 1816, Ruby Swan;
2. 1841, Sarah T. Seward : d. 1867, Nov. 18.
581. Samuel Peabody, b. 1797, Dec. 21 ; died in in-
fancy.
582. Samuel Peabody, b. 1801, May 22 ; lives near Roch-
ester, N. Y.
583. George, b. 1803, Aug. 23 ; lives in Rochester.
584. Huldah, b. 1806, Aug. 15; m. 1828, Apr. 1,
Moses Dorman, Jr. ; d. 1839, Feb. 3.
262
JOHN 6 GOULD, of Boxford, son of Jacob 5 , m. 1799,
June 29, Polly Prince, of Boxford [b. 1774, Jan.
18; d. 1847, Aug. 29], dau. of Asa and Molly
Prince. Children :
585. Mary, b. 1799, Sept. 23; m. Porter Cheever of
Danvers.
586. Olive, b. 1801, Nov. 21 ; unmarried.
587. Eliza, b. 1804, June 10 ; m. 1840, Nov. 29, Charles
H. Lane.
588. Hiram, b. 1807, Apr. 5; had one son, John [b.
1834, July 12] ; d. 1852, Oct. 25.
270
JosHUA 6 GOULD, of Orleans, son of Nathaniel 5 , m.
1770, Mrs. Mary Kurd. Children :-
589. Rebecca, b. 1772 ; m. 1795, Timothy Bascom.
590. Josiah, b. 1774; m. 1796, Tamsen Higgins.
591. Joshua, b. 1776. 592. Jonathan, b. 1779.
593. Nathaniel, b. 1782; m. 1806, Hannah Knowles ;
d. 1843 or 1844.
594. Thomas, b. 1784 ; m. 1810, Thankful Kurd.
595. Molly, b. 1787 ; ni. 1809, John Young.
596. Benjamin, b. 1790; (no children).
168
272
JOHN 6 GOULD, of Orleans, son of John 5 , m. 1766,
Jan. 23, Apphia Cole. Children :
597. John, m. 1797, Feb. 16, Joanna Higgins ; d. 1846.
598. Sarah, b. 1768, Nov. 3 ; m. Gould Linnell.
599. Abigail, b. 1770, Oct. 20; m. Elkanah Linnell.
600. Apphia, b. 1772, Oct. 29 ; m. 1795, Joseph At-
kins.
601. Patty, b. 1791 ; m. 1809, Hiram Baker.
602. Elizabeth, m. 1804, Dec. 28, David Harding.
273
TiiOMAS 6 GOULD, of Eastham, son of John 5 , m. 1762,
Nov. 11, Phebe Cole; he was lost at sea, and
she married 2. 1791, James Young. Children :
603. Mary, b. 1764. 604. Thomas, b.l 7 65.
605. Ruth, b. 1767 ; m. 1784, Warren A. Kenrick.
606. Paine, b. 1770; m. 1789, Cynthia Kenrick of
Eastham.
607. Nathaniel, b. 1773; m. 1. ; 2. Ruth, wid. of
Smith ; d. 1855, Dec. 5.
608. James, b. 1774; in. 1793, Mar. 10th, Rebecca
Crosby.
609. Phebe, b. 1776 ; m. Benjamin Hurd.
610. Solomon, b. 1778 ; died a minor.
611. David, b. 1780.
274
RiCHARD 6 GOULD, of Chatham, son of John 5 , ni.
1765, Sept. 12, Martha Bearse of Chatham.
Children :
612. Josiah, b. 1766, July 26; m. 1. Azubah ; 2.
Sally .
169
613. Jane, b. 1768, July 27 ; m. Ebenezer Bangs.
614. Martha, b. 1770, Oct. 26 ; m. Nathaniel Smith.
615. Ruth, b. 1773, Feb. 4; m. 1. Wm. Patterson; 2.
Henry Mallow.
616. Mary, b. 1775, May 16; in. Paul Hamilton.
617. . Richard, b. 1777, April 18 ; m. Patty Elclridge.
618. David, b. 1779, April 19 ; m. Hannah .
619. Abigail, b. 1781, July 4 ; m. Edward Boardmau of
Nantucket.
620. Hannah, b. 1784, June 12; m. Benjamin Heud-
renk.
280
SAMUEL 6 LAMSON GOULD, son of Samuel 5 , m. 1807,
Mar. 19, Mary Long. Children:
621. Samuel Long, b. 1809, Mar. 26; m. Ann Poor of
Andover.
622. Ansel, b. 1811, Feb. 7; m. Matilda Radcliffe of
Andover, who d. 1859, July 3.
623. Charles, b. 1815, Apr. 15; m. Elizabeth 7 A.
Gould (No. 650), dau. of John 6 (No. 313).
282
JosiAH 6 GOULD, son of Samuel 5 , m. 1816, Betsey 6
Gould (No. 482) [b. 1799, Jan. 5], dau. of Dea.
John 5 (No. 212) and Ruth (Perkins) Gould.
Children :
624. Josiah Lamson, b. 1817, Oct. 20; m. 1849, Apr.
5, Mary Ann Small.
625. Daniel, b. 1820, June 12; m. 1. 1844, Nov. 20-24,
Mary Ann Sears ; 2. 1852, Apr. 30, Hannah G.
Dodge; 3. Lydia Ridley.
626. Abigail Lamson, b. 1822, Nov. 30 ; m. 1844, Oct.
29, Charles A. Elliot.
170
627. Mary Jane, b. 1824, Dec. 30; m. 1841, April 18,
Elisha A. Hood.
628. John, b. 1826, Dec. 5 ; ra. Mary A. Hutchinson.
629. Elizabeth, b. 1828, Nov. 12; m. Henry Long.
630. Lucy Ann, b. 1831, March 16.
631. Ellen Mehitable,\>. 1833, June 9; m. 1853, .May
19, Elijah Bradstreet.
632. Esther Maria, b. 1837, Jan. 30.
289
MOSES G GOULD, son of Moses 5 , m. Lydia Abbot
Russell. Children :
633. Melpomene. 634. Lydia Anna Faulkner.
635. Marion.
307
NATHANIEL 6 GOULD of Middleton, son of Solomon 5
m. 1. Lydia Porter, sister of Ruth, who m.
Joseph 5 Gould (No. 240), and of Phebe, who m.
Cornelius 5 Gould (No. 237) ; 2. Betsey Porter,
sister of foregoing; 3. 1806, Apr. 23, widow
Salome Foster [d. 1852, July 20]. Children :-
636. Betsey Porter, b. 1796, Mar. 6 ; m. 1819, Mar. 27,
Amos Batchelder; d. 1851, Mar. 28.
637. Henry Laurence, b. 1798, Sept. 29 ; m. 1822, Apr.
11, Lydia How; d. 1865, Feb. 19.
638. Nathaniel, b. 1801, Feb. 1; d. 1805.
308
SOLOMON 6 GOULD of Salem, son of Solomon 5 , m.
Betsey Proctor of Marblehead ; was Capt. of the
Salem Artillery Company. Children :
639. William P., went South, and died in Alabama
about 1861.
640. d. young. 641. d. young.
642. d. young.
171
643. Solomon, m. Catherine Becket; lives in Charles-
town, Mass., and has one sou, William C. Gould.
644. Eliza, m. F. F. Tilden of Charlestown.
645. Martha, m. Hinchman.
646. John Norris, went South and died near Baton
Rouge, La., many years ago.
325
JOHN G GOULD, son of John 5 , m. 1809, Nov. 30, Mary
Averill, dau. of Elijah Averill. Children :
647. Mary Averill, b. 1810, Sept. 9 ; m. Joshua Wal-
lace of Beverly; d. 1843, March 7, at Wenhani.
648. Lucy Peabody, b. 1811, Nov. 1 ; m. Oren J. Stone
of S. Boston and Bangor; d. 1842, Feb. 11.
Five children ; two living.
649. Sarah Friend, b. 1813, Aug. 7 ; unmarried.
650. Elizabeth Averill, b. 1816, Dec. 6 ; m. 1837, Dec.
17, Charles 7 (No. 623), son of Samuel L. Gould
(No. 280).
651. John Averill, b. 1819, Mar. 6; m. Elizabeth C.
Leach of Manchester; does business in Boston,
lives in Chelsea and has five daughters and one
sou.
652. Adeline Wallace, b. 1832, Apr. 1 ; in. Samuel Pit-
man of Salem.
331
JACOB 6 WOOD GOULD, son of Amos 5 , m. 1818, Feb.
12, Maria Rew [b. 1795, June 14 and d. 1866,
Mar. 19] ; lived in Massena, N. Y. Children :-
653. Celestia, b. 1819, Dec. 17 ; d. 1840, Jan. 3.
654. William R.,\>. 1822, June 24; in. 1863, Apr.,
Adelaide Barnhart ; living in Massena, N. Y . , in
1869.
655. .Lydia M., b. 1824, Aug. 8; a teacher in Chicago.
172
656. John S., b. 1827, Aug. 6. m. 1854, Feb., Eunice
M. Caswell; living in Massena, N. Y., in 1869.
657. Elsie Hannah, b. 1831, Jan. 21 ; teacher in Chi-
cago.
332
BENNETT 6 GOULD, son of Amos 5 , m. 1833, Sarah
Marsh [d. 1865, Feb. 28, set. 60] ; lived in
Peacham, Vt. Children :
658. Emily, b. 1834, June 12; d. 1854, Apr. 3, at
Charleston, Kanawha, Va.
659. Leonard, b. 1836, Sept. 3 ; lives in Chicago.
660. Charles, b. 1838, June 19 ; lives in Colfax, Cali-
fornia.
661. Mary, b. 1840, Apr. 27.
662. Frank, b. 1841, Aug. 1; m. 1869, Jan. 14, Al-
mira Miller.
663. Albert, b. 1843, Nov. 23; d. 1861, Dec. 2, in the
army at Camp Vermont.
(B.) TRIBE OF THOMAS.
335
BENJAMIN 6 GOULD, son of Thomas 5 , m. 1785, Apr.
17, Eusebia Abbot [d. 1853] ; lived in Deering
and Hillsboro', N. H. Children :
664." Samuel, b. 1786, Jan. 3; m. 1807, Polly, dau. of
Bemsley Peabody.
665. Thomas, b. 1787, Dec. 10; unmarried; d. at Mil-
ford, N. H., about 1844.
666. Abbot, bapt. 1790, July 25 ; unmarried ; lived at
Topsfield with Elijah .Gould.
667. Eusebia, bapt. 1792, July 29; m. Culver, a
Methodist clergyman.
668. Ward, bapt. 1797, June 11.
173
669. Benjamin, m. Nancy Grimes, and had a large fam-
iiy.
670. Duslin, married and lived in Palmyra, Me.
671. Ezra, died in early manhood.
672. Ebenezer, d. set. 19.
673. 'Nancy, m. Ellenwood ; living, 1860, in Deer-
ing, N. H.
674. Sumner, m. 1824, Jan., Sarah Johouuot; d. about
1848 ; they had three children. Thomas and
James live in Beverly, and one daughter died.
338
THOMAS 6 GOULD, son of Thomas, b. 1769, in Box-
ford ; married in Salem ; d. at Southfield, Mass.,
about 1794. Children :
675. George. 676. Mary.
342
ANDREW 6 GOULD, son of Thomas 5 , m. 1799, Aug.
18, Parnelia Kinney of Middleton [b. 1781, July
1, and d. 1865, Mar. 8, at Topsfield]. Chil-
dren :
677. Anna Perkins, b. 1800, Oct. 18 ; m. Samuel Clark.
678. Hannah Averill, b. 1802, May 10 ; d. 1804, Nov.
21.
679. Abigail Johnson, b. 1803, Sept. 17 ; m. Henry
Thompson.
680. Andrew, b. 1806, Dec. 11; m.' 1829, Feb. 24,
Mary P. Lake.
681. Lucy Putnam, b. 1808, Dec. 6; m. 1830, Nov.
24, David Lake; d. 1831, Sept. 9; one son in
Peabody, David G. Lake.
682. Hannah Averill, b-. 1810, Oct. 9; m. 1832, Dec.
20, Eliezer Lake, Jr.
174
683. Betsey Kenney, b. 1813, Oct. 20; m. Isaiah M
Small ; three children in Lynn.
346
ALLEN G GOULD, son of Nathaniel 5 , m. 1. 1807, Dec.
25, Else/ Gould (No. 327) ; 2. Martha Drowne,
of Hamilton; 3. Mary Ann Potter of Danvers
[b. in 1806]. Children by his first wife, El-
sey :
684. Allen, b. 1811, June 8; d. 1812, Feb. 22.
685. Allen, b. 1813, Sept. 24; d. 1813, Dec. 8.
686. Allen, b. 182*2, Nov. 14; m. Juliana Goodell [b.
1836, and d. 1860, Jan. 1].
By his second and third wives :
687. Charles //., b. 1825, Jan. 18; d. 1851, Aug. 22.
688. Nathaniel, b. 1831, Apr. 22; m. 1852, Rachel H.
Peabody of Boxford [b. in 1831].
689. Wm. Cleveland, b. 1833, May 12; m. 1854, Susan
M. Goodale [b. 1837].
690. Catharine, b. 1836, Dec. 5.
691. Alanson, b. 1838, Oct. 3.
692. Mary Ann, b. 1841, Jan. 24.
693. William H., b. 1843, May 8.
347
ANDREW G GOULD, of Danvers, son of Nathaniel 5 , m.
1816, Nov. 15, Emily Webb [b. 1795, Jan. 5].
Children :
694. Emily Augusta, b. 1817, Oct. 15.
695. George Webb, b. 1823, Jan. 28.
696. Sarah Ann Brown, b. 1830, Jai? 18; d. 1835,
Mar. 15.
175
352
ANDREWS 6 GOULD, son of Nathaniel 5 , m. 1. 1821,
Sept. 21, Rebecca [d. 1854, Jan. 1], sister of
Nathaniel Putnam, of Danvers ; 2. 1855, Mar.
19, Lydia T G , (No. 564) dau. of Joseph Gould
(No. 240) and \vid. of E. How. Children by
first wife, Rebecca :
G97. Eebecca Ophelia, b. 1822, Feb. 3 ; m. Dalton.
698. Mary Elizabeth, b. 1823, Nov. 21 ; m. 1840, Dec.
24, Dan'l H. Townsend. Neither was living in
1860.
699. Nathaniel Andrews, b. 1826, Dec. ; d. 1827, Oct.
353
FRANCIS 6 GOULD, of Boxford and Topsfield, son of
Nathaniel 5 , m. 1. Irene Perley [d. 1837, July
28] ; 2. 1840, June 30, Catherine B. [d. 1848,
Nov. 12], dau. of Edmund Parker and wid. of
Joseph 5 Gould (No. 240) ; 3. Eliza, wid. of Cyrus
Dudley. Children by his first wife, Irene :
700. Nathaniel Franklin, married and lived in Danvers ;
d. 1857.
701. Irene, m. 1850, June 12, Allen G. Hood of Box-
ford.
702. Jesse P., unmarried. 703. Catherine.
By his third wife, Eliza :
704. Thonms. 705. Esther. 706. (son).
358
LEMUEL 6 HOLT GOULD, son of Nathaniel 5 , m. 1830,
Jan. 23, Sally M. Munday. Children :-
707. Mary Ann, b. 183, Dec. 8.
708. Ellen Edna, b. 1842, Nov. 5; d. 1845, Mar. 6.
176
375
SAMSON 6 GOULD, son of Elijah 5 , m. 1795, Nov. 22, his
cousin Betsey [Elizabeth 6 ] Gould (No. 384) [b.
1772, and d. 1846, in Boston], dan. of Thomas
and Elizabeth (Willard) Gould. Children :
709. Christiana, b. 1796, Feb. 19 ; m. 1815, Apr. 9,
Ephraim Bailey, living in Medford in 1869 ; had
ten children.
710. Henrietta, b. 1797, Sept. 4; m. Cassius Clapp of
Charlestown ; d. in Charlestown, in 1837.
711. Lucinda, b. 1799, July 17; m. 1819, June 20,
Joseph Harley, of Charlestown [b. 1794, Dec.
21, at Boston] ; had six children and sixteen
grandchildren.
712. James Austin, b. 1802, June 1 ; m. 1. 1823, Dec.
11, Mrs. Sarah Barry [d. 1826, Mar. 5] ; 2.
Lucinda A. Messenger; d. 1837, Aug., in
Charlestown.
713. Thomas, b. 1804, Feb. 10; unmarried; lives at
Lunenburg, Mass.
714. Eliza Ann, b. 1806, Aug. 20; m. Robert Kimball
of Shirley ; no children.
715. Sophronia, b. 1809, June 20; m. Stearns Dauforth
of Woburn ; had three sons ; d. 1843, at Woburn.
716. Eusebia, b. 1812, Sept. 28 ; m. 1865, June 28,
Arad H. Wood of Pepperell [b. at N. Bridge-
water, in 1806], sou of Ziba and Abigail (Shaw)
Wood.
378
EUNICE 6 , dan. of Elijah 5 Gould, m. 1793, March 19,
Elisha PARKER, Jr. [b. at Lunenburg, 1773, April
30; d. 1813, Feb. 12] son of Elisha and Mehit-
able (Hartshorn) Parker. Children :
177
717. Betty, b. 1793, Aug. 31 ; m. 1815, Nov. 16, Joel
Stearns of Lexington; d. 1863, Dec. 11.
718. John, b. 1795, March 13; m. Mary Mann; d. in
Philadelphia, 1835.
719. Elisha, b. 1797, March 21 ; d. 1850, June 3 ; unm.
720. Simeon, b. 1799, March 28 ; d. iu Lexington,
Mass. ; unmarried.
721. Levi, b. 1801, June 9; m. and d. in New York
City.
722. Luther, b. 1-803, March 23 ; m. Harriet Goodrich
of Fitchburg; d. 1863, Dec. 9.
723. Swan, b. 1805, March 27 ; m. Seth Bennett of
Cambridge.
724. Harriet, b. 1807, Apr. 12 ; m. Lemuel E. Hodg-
kins of Waltham ; d. 1857.
725. Jonas, b. 1810, June 25 ; m. Delia Wentworth of
Great Falls, N. H.
726. Abigail, b. 1812, May 31 ; m. 1844, Varnum Whit-
ney of Shirley.
301
MosES 6 Gould of Danvers, son of Simon 5 , m. 1818,
Feb. 23, Mehitable Upton of Danvers [b. 1794,
Mar. 12, at Reading; d. 1839, Apr. 8]. Chil-
dren :
727. Mary Ann, b. 1818, Sept. 10.
728. Charles Henry, b. 1820, Nov. 9 ; m. Caroline Tap-
ley.
729. Caroline Elizabeth, b. 1823, Mar. 15.
730. Augustus White, b. 1829, July 1 ; d. 1844.
413
ISAAC GOULD, son of Samuel 5 , m. 1780, Olive
Thayer; he was Captain in the Revolutionary
12
178
War, moved in 1816 from Heath to Otsego, N.
Y., and died in Eden, N. Y., near Buffalo, in
1844. Children :
731. Beulah, b. 1782, Apr. 7; m. Wm. Elderkin of
Otsego.
732. Betsey, b. 1784, Jan. 12 ; m. 1806, Apr. 10, Abel
' Knight of Brookfield.
733. Mecta, b. 1786, Jan. 2; m. Harris Dieterich; liv-
ing at Cold Water, Mich., in 1869.
734. Lucius, b. 1787, Dec. 12 ; m. 1620, Jan. 6, Mary
Ann Dow ; d. 1832, Aug. 4.
735. Belinda, b. 1791, Feb. 22 ; m. 1. Elisha Tarbox
and had one child, Lorenzo D. Gould; 2. 1816,
Wm. Clark of Buffalo.
736. Olive, b. 1793, Apr. 28 ; m. Barnard Newell of
Springfield, Penn.
737. Harriet, b. 1795, July 22 ; m. David Wentworth
of Richfield, N. Y. ; d. 1862, Feb. 22.
738. Amelia, b. 1795, July 22 ; d. 1816.
739. Isaac, b. 1797, Sept. 11; m. Betsey Chapin of
Buffalo, drowned in Canal at Buffalo, 1832, Oct.
No children.
740. Ruel,l>. 1802, Dec. 15; m. 1. Levira Peak; 2.
ElmiraPeak; d. 1855.
416
Eu 6 GOULD, of Heath, son of Samuel 5 , m. 1790,
Mar. 3, Bernice Johnson [b. at Westford, 1768,
Aug. 27] . They resided mostly at North Adams ;
he was, when very young, a revolutionary sol-
dier. Children :
741.. Samuel, b. 1790, Oct. 5; m. 1. Patience Wilbur;
2. Lavinia (Sanford) wid. of Cheney ; d.
1859, June 13.
742. Wittard, b. 1792, Aug. 20; m. 1. Hannah Pike;
2. Louisa Boyden.
743. Arethusa, b. 1794, Oct. 11 ; m. 1822, John Taft.
744. David, b. 1797, Feb. 20; m. Sally Green.
745. Daniel, b. 1800, Aug. 18 ; m. Patience McKnight ;
d. 1843, Mar. 8.
746. Sally, b. 1802, Aug. 29; m. 1829, John Upton;
d. 1833, in Michigan.
747. Nancy, b. 1802, Aug. 29; m. 1831, Apr. 28, Levi
Gates.
748. Stillman, b. 1804, Sept. 1 ; m. 1834, Nov. 6, Maria
Smith; d. 1845, Jan. 5.
749. Eli, b. 1807, Nov. 8 ; m. Tirza Smith.
750. Elizabeth, b. 1809, July 8; m. Leander Legg; no
children; d. at Heath. . -
751. Almira, b. 1812, Aug. 11; unmarried; d. 1.836,
May 25.
418
AARON 6 GOULD, son of Jeremiah 5 , m. 1781, May 29,
Lydia Gray; moved to Virginia in 1808, with
part of his family, the rest following soon after ;
was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church of
French Creek, Upshur Co., W. Va. Children :
752. Samuel, b. 1782, Mar. 6; m. Esther Parker; d.
1827, Apr. 11.
753. James, b. 1783, Nov. 16; m. Ehoda Thayer; d. in
Ohio.
754. Hannah, b. 1785, Dec. 18; m. in Virginia, Joshua
Morgan, who came from Connecticut; d. 1866,
June 5.
755. Daniel, b. 1788, Jan. 4 ; m. Peggy Strange ; d.
1825, July 25.
756. Ebenezer, b. 1789, Nov. 4; m. Elizabeth Weeks;
d. 1845, Nov. 21.
180
757. Aaron, b. 1792, Feb. 25 ; d. 1864, May 5 ; m. 1.
Nice Vincent; 2. Esther Gould (No.. 770); 3.
Calista Bartlett.
758. Lydia, b. 1794, Feb. 13 ; m. Wm. Davis of French
Creek; moved to Illinois; d. 1859, Jan. 4.
759. Isabella, b. 1796, Jan. 2 ; m. George Bush of
French Creek; moved to Illinois; d. 1842, Oct.
24.
760. David, b. 1798, Apr. 4; d. in infancy.
761. Mehitable, b. 1799, Sept. 28 ; m. 1817, Aug. 24,
Wm. Phillips, and had six sons in the Union
Army, one killed, one missing, one severely
wounded ; living in 1870.
762. Sally, b. 1802, Apr. 24; m. Ezra Ward; d. 1849,
Aug. 5, in Illinois.
763. Nancy, b. -1804, June 10; m. Oliver Howes; liv-
ing near Clayton, Adams Co., Illinois, in 1869.
764. David, b. 1807, Nov. 29 ; d. 1808, Oct.
425
BENJAMIN 6 GOULD, son of Nathan 5 , m. Lydia Aid en
[b. 1766, Feb. 15, and d. 1829, Feb. 11]. He
moved, in 1808, to Ohio. Children :
765. William, b. 1792, Apr. ; d. 1792, Apr. 9.
766. Matilda, bapt. 1793, June 10 ; d. 1806, Apr. 22.
767. Mary A., m. Phineas C. Keyes, of Morgan Co.,
Ohio; d. 1856, May 2.
768. Philomela, bapt. 1796, July 24; d. 1851, Aug.
769. Jonathan, bapt. 1798, Jan. 28; d. 1802, Nov. 17.
770. Esther, b. ab. 1800; d. 1839, June; m. Aaron 7
Gould (No. 757).
771. Delia, b. ab. 1802; d. 1829, Sept. 18.
772. Joseph Dennis, b. 1804, Jan. 9 ; graduated at Lane
Seminary, Cincinnati; d. 1831, Apr. 29.
181
773. Ephraim, b. 1805, Dec. 2 ; m. 1830, Mar. 30, Lois
Porter.
774. Daniel, b. 1807, Oct. 25; m. 1. 1831, Apr. 5,
Annie L. Sharp; 2. 1851, Mrs. Jane Hartford;
d. 1851, Aug. 11.
775. Elizabeth G., b. 18lO, Mar. 10; m. Timothy East-
man, of Marion, Linn. Co., Iowa.
427
LYDIA" dan. of Nathan 5 Gould, in. Robert YOUNG
[b. 1769, Jan. 3]. They went to Virginia in
1811. Children:
776. Pascal Paoli, b. 1794, Oct. 18 ; m. Cynthia Phil-
lips, 1817 ; d. 1852, January 19.
777. Anne, b. 1796, June 3; m. Augustus W. Sexton,
1820, Mar. 23. They lived together fifty years.
He died fifteen days after their golden wedding.
778. Anson, b. 1798, July 6; m. 1. Ruhawah Barrett,
1822, Mar. 14 ; 2. Mrs. Anna Brahe, 1832, Oct. 14.
779. Gilbert, b. 1800, Aug. 12 ; m. Amaryllis Barrett,
1825, Apr. 21.
780. Festus, b. 1803, Mar. 28; m. 1. Lovina Phillips,
1826, July 20 ; 2. Rachel Graham, 1837, Feb. 21 ;
3. Mrs. Nancy Reed, 1867, Jan. 9.
781. Loyal, b. 1806, July 1 ; m. Margaret Porter John-
ston, 1832, Oct. 25. He was doctor of divinity
and minister of the Presbyterian church in French
Creek, Upshur Co., W. V.
782. Louisa, b. 1810, Mar. 26 ; m. James McAvoy,
1831, July 21.
783. Mehitable Sophronia, b. 1812, Nov. 17 ; m. Edwin
Phillips, 1830, Apr. 22.
784. Freeman Fairfield, b. 1815, Feb. 28; d. 1827,
Au<r. 26.
182
428
NATHAN 6 GOULD, son of Nathan 5 , in. 1. Esther
Alden [d. 1826], a sister of Barnabas Alden
(No. 424) ; 2. Cemantha (Phillips), wid. of
Martin Burr of W. Va. He went to Virginia in
1816 with his father, his brothers having pre-
ceded him ; thence to Albion, 111. Children by
his first wife, Esther :
785. Martha, b. 1802, July 24; m. 1824, Jan. 27,
Cyrus Rice.
786. Elizabeth b. 1804, Dec. 10 ; m. Rev. Butler
and moved to Minnesota.
787. Joel, b. 1806, Nov. 17 ; moved to Minnesota.
788. Julia, b. 1808, Dec. 31.
789. Freeman, b. 1810, Apr. 4 ; m. Dorcas Ward.
790. Nathan, b. 1813, Aug. 24 ; m. Taylor, of
Hawley; d. 1868, Aug. 17.
791. Gilbert, b. 1815, Oct. 20 ; d. net. 5 yrs.
429
GILBERT 6 GOULD, son of Nathan 5 , m. 1803, Mehit-
able Taylor [b. 1780, June 1, and d. 1858, Mar.
16]. He was living, in 1872, at French Creek,
TJpshur Co., W. Va., having moved from Charle-
mont in 1811. The whole family were loyal to
their country throughout the rebellion, though
bitterly persecuted. None ever owned a slave.
Children :
792. Eliza, b. 1803, Oct. 31 ; d. 1840, July 31.
793. Chandler, b. 1805, July 25 ; d. 1829, Sept. 20.
794. Laura, b. 1807, June 16; m. Dr. Brooks of Hali-
fax; d. 1855, Aug. 21.
795. Dwight J., b. 1810, Nov. 28 ; d. 1811, Aug. 17.
183
796. Harriet, b. 1812, May 29.
797. Gilbert Taylor, b. 1814, July 15 ; m. dau. of
John Loomis.
798. DwightB., b. 1817, Sept. 23.
799. Mandana, b. 1820, Mar. 12.
800. Benjamin, b. 1822, Mar. 10.
801. Ashley, b. 1824, Apr. 13.
802. A daughter who lived but a few hours.
430
SAMUEL 6 GOULD, sou of Eli 5 , m. Gates. Chil-
dren :
803. Daniel. 804. Ernest. 805. Betsey.
806. Samuel. 807. Sally. 808'. Stillman.
809. Daniel. 810. Eli. 811. Mary.
466
JOHN 6 DERTH GOULD, son of Asa 5 , m. in Golden,
Erie Co., N. Y., 1820, May 7, Hannah Buffum
[b. 1800, July 24, and d. 1856, May 18]. Chil-
dren :
812. Asahel Lewis, b. 1821, Jan. 30; m. 1860, Nov.,
Susan A. Wall.
813. Amos Wheeler, b. 1822, Nov. 26 ; m. 1852, Apr.
22, Caroline A. Cornell.
814. Sylvester Erwin Wesley, b. 1825, May 10; unm. ;
d. 1846, Dec. 20.
815. Joseph Cornelius, b. 1827, Nov. 11 ; m. 1853, Apr.
10, Angelina Dalby.
816. Lois Catherine, b. 1830, Nov. 15 ; m. 1856, Oct.,
Rufus Greene.
817. A son, b. 1832, Jan. 30; d. 1832, March 2.
818. Mary Cornelia, b. 1834, Dec. 28 ; m. 1858, Dec.
28, Henry L. Baker, Golden, N. Y.
184
819. Oliver Perry, b. 1837, Nov. 17; m. 1867, Jan. 1,
Augusta Calkins.
820. Linus Murray, b. 1840, Mar. 6; d. 1841, Mar. 11.
821. Emily Versalia, b. 1842, Apr. 13; m. 1865, Aug.
26, Aaron Cook of Metamora, Mich. [d. 1866,
May 18] .
822. Albert Byron, b. 1845. Jan 3.
470
AsA 6 GOULD, son of Asa 5 , m. 1. Mar., 1824, Sally
Smith [d. 1857, July 21] ; 2. 1858, June 17,
Phebe Wood [born 1821, Mar. 2J. Children :
823. Percy, b. 1825, Mar. 5 ; d. an infant.
824. ffliax R., b. '1828, Nov. 8; m. 1854, Jan. 1,
Amanda E. Scott.
825. Sylvanus, b. 1832, Jan. 1 ; d. 1834, Aug. 7.
826. Smith A., b. 1834, May 28; m. 1. Irene King,
1854, Mar. 18 ; 2. Lucy B. King, 1859, Jan. 20.
827. Joseph K., b. 1837, Nov. 16; imm. 1869; lives
in Crow Wing, Minn.
828. Sophia B., b. 1843, Sept. 23; d. 1846, Apr. 1.
473
CoRNELius 6 B. GOULD, son of Asa 5 , m. Nancy M.
Folsom [b. 1813, Oct. 26]. Children:
829. Lucinda A., b. Golden, N. Y., 1835, Jan. 16; m.
1858, Mar. 25, B. B. Hamilton, Wayne, Wis.
830. Wesley, b. Colden, N. Y., 1836, Sept. 7 ; d. 1857,
May 7.
831. Maria L., b. Colden, N. Y., 1838, Dec. 6; in.
1858, Oct. 31, Edmund P. Spokesfield, Wayne,
Wis.
832. Mien E., b. Colden, N. Y., 1841, June 2.
833. John F., b. Boston, N. Y., 1845, April 13.
185
834. Oretta A., b. 1848, July 23; d. 1850, May 17, at
Waterloo, Wis.
474
SrLVANUs 6 OWEN GOULD, son of Asa 5 , m; 1841, Oct.
5, Mariette Bacon [b. May 7, 1820] ; is a lawyer
in Buffalo. Children :
835. Emma Mariette, b. 1844, Dec. 7 ; m. 1866, Aug.
23, George D. Kellogg.
836. Sylvester Onslow, b. 1850, June. 27.
(D.) TRIBE OF ZACCHEUS.
476
AMOS S GOULD, of Ipswich, son of John 5 , m. 1. 1797,
Apr. 6, Mary Herrick [d. 1825, July] ; 2. 1826,
Dec. 25, Nelly Hood. His first wife was dau. of
Samuel Herrick of Danvers [b. 1745, Feb. 14,
and m. 1767, Nov. 19, Elizabeth Flint of Head-
ing. Children by his first wife, Mary :
837. Amos, b. 1800, Aug. 6 ; m. 1. 1822, Lavinia Dodge
of Hamilton ; 2. Augeliue Porter.
838. Betsey, b. 1802, Oct. 16; m. Capt. Daniel Patch;
wid. in 1851.
839. Mary, b. 1804, Sept. 12; m. Willard Smith of
Topsfield ; had three children, one of whom is
dead.
840. Cynthia, m. Henry Hubbard and lives iu Clare-
mont, N. H.
841. Asahel Huntington, b. 1813, May 26; d. 1825,
June 16.
842. Samuel H., b. 1814, Dec. 19; m. 1840, Nov. 26,
Abigail S. Foster.
843. John J., b. 1817, Jan. 27; m. Laura French.
186
844. Caroline A., b. 1818, Aug. 14; m. Abraham Rog-
ers of Claremont.
845. Charlotte A., b. 1820, Aug. 21 ; d. 1821, Oct. 30.
No children by second marriage.
480
LYDiA 6 , J. of John 5 Gould, m. 1808, Aug. 14, Sam-
uel C. TODD [b. 1783, Apr. 23, at Peterboro, N.
H.], son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Wallace)
Todd. Children :
846. Elizabeth, b. 1810, Feb. 4; m. 1840, Theodore
D. Billings.
847. Lydia, b. 1811, Apr. 15 ; m. 1847, Oct. 24, John
Sewall Annable.
848. Samuel, b. 1812, Oct. 15; m. 1838, Oct. 3, Har-
riet Lucinda Chase.
849. Alathea Huntington, b. 1814, July 15 ; m. 1836,
Nov. 26, Henry M. Bubier of Lynn.
850. John, b. 1817, Apr. 4; m. 1849, Dec. 11, Lucinda
Wilder.
851. Esther P., b. 1818, Dec. 7; m. 1849, Sept. 15,
Ebenezer F. Gay of Dedham.
852. Mary W., b. 1821, Nov. 17; m. 1844, Oct. 31,
Samuel M. Bubier of Lynn.
853. Ruth G-., b. 1823, May 19; m. 1843, June 29,
Allison H. Palmer.
854. Benjamin, b. 1824, Oct. 8; m. 1845, Nov.,Cyrene
Byron.
855. MehitaUe, b. 1828, Feb. 17.
856. Asahel H., b. 1830, Oct. 13.
481
JOHN 6 GOULD, son of Dea. John 5 , m. 1818, Nov. 4,
Harriet 6 (No. 557), dau. of Joseph and Ruth
187
Gould, and wid. of Smith of Byfield. Chil-
dren :
857. John Addison Brown, b. 1819, May 16; d. 1819,
Dec. 24.
858. John Addison Porter, b. 1820, Nov. 16.
859. Harriet Augusta, b. 1822, Dec. 21; m. 1840,
Mar., in Newbury, William F. Sumner of Dan-
vers.
483
JOHN 6 FLAGG GOULD, son of Benjamin 5 , m. 1. in
Portland, 1803, Dec. 15, Mary Turner of Lewis-
ton [b. 1786, d. at Newburyport, 1813, Apr. 7] ;
2. 1818, Feb. 13, Jane Louisa, dau. of Nathan
Burr and Jane Lorimer Graham. Children by
his first wife, Mary :
860. Benjamin, b. 1804, Dec. 4; d. 1805, Sept. 7.
861. Mary Elizabeth, b. 1806, Sept. 24, at Topsfield;
unmarried.
862. Sally, b. 1808, June 23, at Newburyport; d. 1810,
Oct. 12.
By his second wife, Jane :
863. John Flagg, b. 1819, June 1, in New York City;
d. 1820, Aug. 10.
864. Elizabeth Boyd, b. 1820, Dec. 30, in New York
City ; m. Alex Kelsey.
865. Jane Louisa Graham, b. 1823, Feb. 9, in New
York City; d. 1827, May 30.
485
ESTHER 6 , dau. of Benjamin 5 Gould, m. 1806, Jan. 7,
Henry Weld FULLER, of Augusta, Me. [b. 1784,
Jan. 1 ; d. 1841, Jan 29], Judge of Probate for
Kennebec Co. Children : '
188
866. Frederic Augustus, b. 1806, Oct. 5 ; d. 1849, Jan.
29; m. 1. Catharine M., dau. of Hon. Nathan
Weston of Augusta; 2. 1839, Margaret C. God-
frey of Orono.
867. Louisa Sophia, b. 1808, March 12 ; m. 1832, Sept.
2, Samuel E. Smith of Wiscasset, Governor of
Maine.
868. Henry Weld, b. 1810, Jan. 12; m. 1835, Nov. 10,
Mary S., dau. of Nathaniel Goddard, of Boston.
869. Martha Elizabeth, b. 1812, June 12; m. 1834,
Sept. 21, Joseph G. Moody of Augusta and Bos-
ton.
870. Caroline Weld, b. 1815, Jan. 3 ; m. 1835, June 5,
Isaac Farrar of Bangor.
871. Benjamin Apthorp Gould, b. 1818, May 23 ; m.
1843, Apr. 27, Harriet S., dau. of Hon. Daniel
Williams of Augusta, Me.
872. Lucretia Goddard, b. 1824, Aug. 9; in. 1849,
Dec. 27, Joseph K. Clark of Wiscasset.
486
BENJAMIN 6 APTHORP GOULD, son of Capt. Benja-
min 5 , m. 1823, Dec. 2, Lucretia D., [b. 1798,
Apr. 17], dau. of Nath'l and Lucretia D. God-
dard. He graduated from Harvard College in
1814, was Principal of the Boston Latin School
till 1824, and afterwards engaged in commerce.
Children :
873. Benjamin Apthorp, b. 1824, Sept. 27 ; m. 1861,
Oct. 29, Mary A., dau. of Hon. Josiah Quincy, Jr.
874. Nathaniel Goddard, b. 1827, Apr. 4.
875. Lucretia Goddard, b. 1831, June 14; m. 1859,
Oct. 22, Rev. George E. Ellis, D. D., of Charles-
town ; d. 1869, July 6.
189
876. Louisa Goddard, b. 1834, Jan. 13 ; m. 1866, Dec.
6, Horace McMurtrie of Boston.
489
ELIZABETH 6 , dau. of Benjamin 5 Gould, m. 1819,
June 19, Antonio RAPALLO. Children :
877. Jane Louisa, b. 1820, July 21 ; m. John C. Hen-
derson of N. Y.
878. Charles Antonio, b. 1823, Sept. 15 ; m. Helen,
dau. of Bradford Suraner, of Boston.
499
JEDEDIAH 6 GOULD, son of Eliezer 5 , m. 1. 1785,
Sept. 22, Hannah Stearns ; 2. 1815, July 23, Ada
Barnes. Children by his first wife Hannah :
879. Polly.
880. Rufus, m. 1. Lucina P. Martin; 2. Widow Milly
Taft,
881. Abigail, m. 1825, George Wade.
By his second wife, Ada :
882. Marvel Follett, lives at Blackstone, Mass.
883. Sally, d. before 1827.
505
ELIEZER 6 GOULD, son of Eliezer 5 , m. 1. Eunice
Smith; 2. 1804, July 29, Comfort Darling.
Children :
884. Ezra, b. 1800; d. at Millbury. . 885. Arvila.
886. Sally, b. 1804, Nov. 24; m. - Read of Lud-
low, Vt.
887. Lewis, b. 1806, May 30; lives in Wisconsin.
888. William, b. 1808, Apr. 9.
889. Rachel, b. 1810, Apr. 7.
890. Hannah, b. 1812, Apr. 27.
190
891. Jedediah Bigelow, b. 1814, Mar. 11.
506
JASON 6 GOULD, sou of Eliezer 5 m. 1806, Nov. 13,
Huldah Cummings. Children :
892. Parley, b. 1807, Sept. 17; m. 1832, Oct. 29,
Betsey T. Chapin.
893. Sylvester, b. 1810, Sept. 22; m. 1835, June 1,
Julia A. Aldrich.
507
DANIEL 6 GOULD, son of Eliezer 5 , m. 1808, Jan. 13,
. ;< ( Hannah Houghton. Children :
894. Betsey. 895. Phebe. 896. George. 897. Eliezer.
898. Louisa. 899. Erastus. 900. Tryphena.
510
ELIZABETH 6 , dan. of Zaccheus 5 Gould, m. 1. 1804,
Mar. 15, Daniel BOARDMAN ; 2. 1823, May, Arte-
mas W. Perley ; died 1827, Sept. Her husband
married, 1833, Feb. 28, Huldah 6 Gould (No.
511), and died 1862, Jan. 6. Children by first
marriage :
901. Elizabeth, m. Samuel Janes of Topsfield.
902. Nancy, m. Samuel Goodale of Boxford.
903. Daniel^ m. Mehitable Nelson of Georgetown.
By second marriage :
904. Huldah, b. 1825, Mar. 20; d. 1844, Dec. 7.
905. Charles Greenleaf, b. 1827, June 14; d. 1832,
Nov. 7.
512
ZACCHEUS 6 GOULD of Topsfield, son of Zaccheus 5 ,
m. 1812, Nov. 2, Anne [b. 1795, 'July 29], dau.
of John and Ruth 5 (No. 136) (Gould) Hood,
191
and granddaughter of Daniel 4 Gould (No. 47).
Children :
906. Anna, b. 1813, June 24; m. 1845, Apr. 14, John
B. Lake ; had one child ; died 1846, June 9.
907. Zaccheus, b. 1815, Apr. 3; m. 1837, July 31,
Elizabeth Thomas.
908. Adeline B., b. 1817, Feb. 28; m. 1835, June 18,
Timothy M. Phillips.
909. Rebecca, b. 1819, Apr. 28; m. 1840, Feb. 29,
John Brown Lake; d. 1843, Aug. 12.
910. Emily, b. 1821, Apr. 5; m. 1844, Feb. 14, Moses
B. Home.
911. John Hood, b. 1824, Jan. 30; m. 1854, June 29,
Mary F. Revere.
912. Elizabeth, b. 1826, June 28 ; d. 1827, Nov. 13.
913. Humphrey, b. 1829, Oct. 13 ; m. Sarah A. Pea-
body, 1854, Sept. 24 ; d. 1856, Nov. 12.
914. Elizabeth, b. 1832, Jan. 8; m. 1853, Nov. 29,
Charles Winslow.
915. Wm. H. Harrison, b. 1837, June 25 ; m. Sarah
Stone, 1862, Aug. 21.
514
JOHN 6 GOULD, son of Zaccheus 5 , m. 1820, May 4,
Polly Curtis ; they lived in Cavendish, Vt. Chil-
dren :
916. John, b. 1821, May 4; d. 1822, June 18.
917. Rodney Dennis, b. 1822, Oct. 26 ; m. 1845, May
8, Miriam Dinsmore ; d. 1857, May 13.
918. Mary Ann, b. 1825, Aug. 10; d. 1827, Apr. 2.
919. John, b. 1827, July 28 ; m. Orpha Buck.
920. Francis, b. 1829, Jan. 3 ; m. Laura
921. Alfred, b. 1830, Aug. 26 ; d. 1834, Aug. 24.
922. Mary Eliza, b. 1831, Oct. 31; d. 1834, Aug. 25.
192
923. Humphrey, b. 1833, Apr. 16; m. Catherine Cram.
924. Helen Augusta, b. 1836, Jan. 8; d. 1850, Sept. 7.
925. Stella, b. 1837, Feb. 11 ; m. 1862, June 19, Charles
Demmons, of Rowe, Mass.
926. Harriet Elizabeth, b. 1840, Aug. 10; m. Hiland
Hicks and lives in Perkinsville.
515
HUMPHREY 6 GOULD, son of Zaccheus 5 , m. 1827,
June 11, Electa Haynes [b. 1800, June 5] ; a
physician in Rowe, Mass. Children:
927. Electa Haynes, b. 1828, Aug. *15 ; m. 1854, Aug.
15, Win. A. Hicks.
928. Hannah, b. 1836, Dec. 18; m. 1866, March 19,
Edward Wright, of Rowe.
516
ELIEZER G GOULD, son of Zaccheus 5 , m. 1821, Sept.
16, Abigail Brown of Danvers [b. 1797, July
1]. Children:
929. Albert Augustus, b. 1823, Sept. 18, at Haverhill ;
m. 1. 1851, Jan. 14, Abigail Derby; 2. ;
lives in Portland.
930. Leverett Franklin, b. 1827, Nov. 24; m. 1859,
Nov. 17, Martha Aldrich.
931. Mary Eliza, b. 1831, Feb. 2 ; d. 1832, July 9.
932. Eliza Mary, b. 1833, July 14 ; m. Charles Foss.
933. Harriet Augusta, b. 1836, Oct. 5 ; d. 1841, Mar. 10.
934. Warren Austin, b. 1840, July 2 ; d. 1841, May.
521
AnoLiAB 6 GOULD, son of John 5 , m. Jane Sears.
Children :
935. Otis, had William and other sons.
193
936. Jane, m. Boyd.
522
SiLAS 6 GOULD, son of John 5 , m. Betsey, dau. of
Johnson, and widow of his brother Enos 6
GOULD (No. 518). Lived in Dover, Vt. Chil-
dren :
937. Alvin, b. 1804, July 17; in. Hannah Perry; d.
1849, Apr. 9.
938. John P., b. 1806, Sept. 27 ; m. Harriet A. Lazelle.
939. Sally, b. 1808, Dec. 9 ; m. Gershom Eice of Dover,
Vt. ; d. 1863, Aug. 19.
940. Lucy, b. 1811, Oct. 5 ; m. John Howard of Dover,
Vt. ; d. 1841, Feb. 3.
941. Olive, b. 1814, Feb. 17 ; m. Jonas Haven of Hali-
fax, Vt. ; living 1869.
942. Lois, b. 1817, May 3 ; m. Wm. Bailey, of New-
fane, Vt. ; d. 1846, Oct. 29.
943. Esther A., b. 1823, Nov. 20; d. 1840, May 18.
527
BENJAMIN 6 GOULD, son of Ebenezer 5 , m. Olive Jeph-
erson. Children :
944. Willard. 945. Chester.
946. Judson, lives in Douglas.
947. Emma Ann. 948. Aaron.
528
DAVID 6 GOULD, son of Ebenezer 5 , m. 1813, Mar. 20,
Mary T. Pidge of Providence [d. 1856, Mar. 9] ;
moved to New York City in 1831. Children :
949. Amie Ann, b. 1814, Mar. 20; d. 1837, May 25.
950. Emetine, b. 1815, Nov. 15; m. 1835, Dec. 30,
David Pearsall ; d. 1860, Oct 12.
13
194
951. David Henry, b. 1817, Aug. 12; m. 1844, July 1,
Mary Valentine.
952. Mary, b. 1819, Dec. 15 ; d. 1821, July 2.
532
COMFORT 6 GOULD, son of Ebenezer 5 , m. in Douglas,
1821, Apr. 1, Charlotte Carpenter [b. 1798,
Dec. 7] . Children :
953. Sheldon B., b. 1821, Nov. 18; m. 1842, June 9,
Lucy D. Peasley.
954. Elizabeth C., b. 1824, July 31, in Douglas; m.
1841, Oct. 3, at Northbridge, Warren F. Red-
field, of Claremont, N. H. ; lives at Dedham.
955. Ebenezer, b. 1826, Aug. 9, at Northbridge; m. 1.
1846, Apr. 14, Abby S. Stevens ; 2. 1850, Sept.
19, Eliza J. Stevens ; lives at Dedham.
956. Abigail Ann, b. 1829, Feb. 23 , m. 1848, Nov. 27,
at Woousocket, Win. H. Blakeley of N. Adams,
Mass. ; lives in Worcester.
957. Charlotte O., b. 1831, Aug. 12, at Willington,
Conn. ; m. 1849, April 16, at Woonsocket,
Charles A. Sible}'.
958. Philetus Woodruff, b. 1834, May 21; m. 1857,
Clariuda Adams.
959. Mary A., b.- 1836, Aug. 14, at Northbridge; m.
1858, June 21, at Hopedale, Mass., Anson A.
. Wheelock of Mendou ; they lived in Woonsocket.
960. Charles T., b. 1839, Apr. 4*; d. 1841, Mar 24.
961. Charles, b. 1841, July 12; d. 1845, Apr. 4.
962. Thomas C., b. 1844, Feb. 28, at Northbridge; d.
1848, Mar. 9, at Woonsocket.
533.
JOHN 6 GOULD, son of Ebenezer, 5 m. 1. Ann Eliza
195
Whiting, 1823, Oct. 6 [d. 1828, May 12] ; m.
2. Susan Pierce, 1829, Apr. 12.
963. John, b. 1824, Aug. 17 ; d. 1824, Aug. 30.
964. John, b. 1826, March 15.
965. Ann Eliza, b. 1827, May 29; in. W. R. Arnold,
1846, Apr. 30; [he d. 1850, Oct. 5] ; one child,
Eliza Jane, b. 1847, Feb. 22.
966. George, b. 1832, June 22; d. 1832, Oct. 11.
967. George Washington, b. 1837, May 29; d. 1841,
Aug. 24.
968. Mary Arnold, b. 1836, Nov. 27 ; m. Lewis Vaughau,
1857, Jan. 8. One child, Juo. Lewis, b. 1858,
Nov. 15.
969. Susan, b. 1842, June 5 ; m. Wm. Harris, 1870,
Oct. 18.
535
AMOS S GOULD, son of Ebenezer 5 , m. Polly Read.
Children :
970. Andrew Jackson. 971. Ebenezer.
972. Anna Cook. 973. Charles. 974. Amos.
536
EBENEZER 6 GOULD of Providence., son of Ebenezer 5 ,
m. 1827, Oct. 1, Ruth H. Bishop of Providence
[b. 1807, Dec. 23]. They went to New York
City in 1836, and returned in 1844. Children :
975. Frederic Lockwood, b. 1828, July 8; m. 1855,
June 11, Lydia M. Luther of Warren, R. I.
976. Amelia C., b. 1830, Feb. 26; d. 1834.
977. Edward Nelson, b. 1833, Dec. 25 ; d. 1835.
978. Edward Nelson, b. 1836, Dec. 26 ; m. Marceua
Levalley.
979. Amelia Augusta , b. 1839, Apr. 5 ; m. Miles B.
Lawson, 1861.
196
980. Wm. Henry, b. 1846, Aug. 26 ; d. 1850.
981. Emma H., b. 1849, Nov. 18 ; d. 1850.
537
WiLLiAM 6 GOULD, son of Ebenezer 5 , m. 1834, Dec.
4, Mary A. Durfee, of Providence ; moved to Tol-
land, Conn, in 1856, and, in 1864, to Auburn,
Mass. Children :
982. b. 1837, Feb 14; d. same day.
983. William C., b. 1838, Dec. 23; d. 1839, Jan. 27.
984. Hannah Anne, b. 1840, Aug. 5 ; m. 1865, Dec. 28,
Wm. H. Skinner.
985. Mary Jane, b. 1843, May 22 ; d. 1845, Aug. 5.
986. William Edwin, b. 1845, May 22 ; d. 1847, Sept. 6.
987. ElishaA., b. 1847, July 29.
988. Emma Jane, b. 1850, July 8.
989. Henry, b. 1853, June 17.
(E.) TRIBE OF JOSEPH.
546
DANIEL GOULD, of Boxford, son of Daniel 5 , m.
Lydia Batchelder. Children :
990. Sarah Bradstreet, b. 1833, June 28.
991. Mary Ann, b. 1835, Mar. 19.
992. Daniel Emerson, b. 1837, Apr. ; d. 1838, Feb. 27.
993. Martha Jane, b. 1840, June 5.
994. Lydia Helen, b. 1843, June 16.
552
JOSEPH 6 PORTER GOULD, of Middletown, son of Cor-
nelius 5 m. 1826, Apr. 23, Lucy M. [b. 1806,
May 29], dau. of Oliver P. Peabody. Chil-
dren :
197
995. Clarissa Holt, b. 1827, Feb. 23 ; d. 1848, Sept. 16.
996. Augustus Peabody, b. 1828, Oct. 21; d. 1848,
Sept. 27.
997. Porter Irwin, b. 1830, Aug. 1 ; m. 1859, Sept. 21,
Mary E. Peabody.
998. George Waldo, b. 1832, March 21 ; d. 1848, Sept.
18.
999. Lucy Maria, b. 1835, Oct. 7 ; m. 1854, Nov. 16,
Andrew Frame.
1000. Sarah Isabella, b. 1842, Nov. 30.
554
BARZiLLAi fi GOULD, son of Cornelius 5 , m. Ruth Ave-
rill of Middleton. He died 1848, Oct. 24, and
his wid. married, 2. John Gillingham, of Brad-
ford, N. H. Children :
1001. Mary Elizabeth, b. 1836, May 7; m. 1853, Dec.
4, W. Morrill Peabody.
1002. Charles Merrill, b. 1838, Apr. 8 ; d. 1862, Dec. 8.
555
HENRY 6 AUGUSTUS GOULD, son of Cornelius 5 , in.
1837, Mar. 30, Sarah Batchelder of N. Reading
[b. 1815, Sept. 21]. Children:
1003. Henry E., b. 1838, Feb. 27; m. 1861, Jan. 1,
Sarah C. Mason.
1004. Sarah A. J., b. 1839, Aug. 18 ; m. 1858, Apr. 3,
Benj. A. Eaton [b. 1835, Sept. 23; d. 1864,
May 4] ; one child, Ella A. was b. 1864, May 30.
1005. Augustus, b. 1842, Oct. 26; d. 1842, Oct. 31.
1006. Theodore P., b. 1846, Mar. 20; m. 1867, Oct. 9,
Jennie H. Metcalf, of Highgate, Vt. [b. 1847,
Apr. 6].
1007. Mark F., b. 1849, Apr. 3.
198
1008. Ella H., b. 1853, Oct. 23; d. 1856, Aug. 2.
1009. Ira R., b. 1856, Mar. 16; d. 1856, Mar. 20.
1010. Ida R., b. 1856, Mar. 16.
1011. Milo H., b. 1858, Feb. 22.
1012. Asa T., b. 1860, Aug. 26.
556
EMERSON 6 GOULD, son of Cornelius 5 , ra. 1839, May
30, Harriet Batchelder [b. 1820, Dec. 29]. He
lived in Reading, as do his children. Children :
1013. Harriet Maria, b. 1841, June 16; m. 1859, Nov.
17, James A. Bancroft [b. 1834, June 23] ; two
children, Harvey Ames, b. 1864, Nov. 4, and
Addie Maria, b. 1867, Oct. 14.
1014. Annis Amelia, b. 1843, June 2 ; m. 1860, Dec.
19, Parker Nichols [b. 1839, April 7]. A son,
Albion Gould Nichols [b. 1861, Aug. 9].
1015. Mary Susan, b. 1846, Aug. 14; m. 1868, June
25, Daniel Putnam [b. 1812, Apr. 14].
1016. George Emerson, b. 1848, Sept. 6.
566
JONATHAN 6 PORTER GOULD, son of Joseph 5 , m. 1840,
Nov. 26, Mary Emily Munday [b. 1821]. Chil-
dren :
1017. Wm. Porter, b. 1842, Aug. 22 ; d. 1844, Feb. 3.
1018. Mary Emily, b. 1845, Sept. 24.
1019. Wm. Porter, b. 1850, Oct. 16.
1020. Susan Choate, b. 1857, Feb. 7.
1021. Elizabeth Porter, b. 1860, June 27 ; d. 1867, Sept.
10.
568
ARIEL 6 H. GOULD, son of Joseph 5 , m. 1843, Jan.
31, Augusta Munday. Children :
199
1022. William M., b. 1845, Mar. 1 ; d. 1853, Feb. 16.
1023. Harriet Augusta, b. 1854, Apr. 11.
1024. Nellie Adeline, b. 1860, Aug. 7.
SEVENTH GENERATION.
(A.) TRIBE OF JOHN.
570
ELIJAH' GOULD of Hillsboro, N. H., son of Stephen 6 ,
m. 1. ; 2. 1823, Sept. 18, Hannah Chapman
of Windsor. Children by first wife :
1025. Franklin, b. 1805, Oct. 29 ; unmarried.
1026. David, b. 1807, Sept. 3 ; m. Hannah Chandler,
lives in Hillsboro.
1027. Nancy, b. 1810, Mar. 30; m. 1835, May 25,
Luke McClintock.
By second wife, Hannah :
1028. Hannah L., b. 1825, Nov. 27; m. 1849, Oct. 18,
Reuben N. Colbnrn, of Antrim ; one daughter,
' Emily E. Gould, b. 1850, Sept. 28.
1029. Louisa, b. 1827, Mar. 20; d. 1828, Jan. 1.
1030. Elijah Fuller, b. 1828, Oct. 17 ; m. 1854, Nov.
28, Elizabeth J. Duncklee [b. 1831, Oct. 17, at
Danversport] .
1031. Leonard Page, b. 1829, Apr. ; m. Sarah E Cool-
idge.
1032. Emily L., b. 1835, July 21.
1033. Luther Adalbert, b. 1832, Apr. 16.
572
AsNER 7 GOULD, of Hillsboro, son of Stephen 6 m.
Alrnira Codman. They had one child :
200
1034. Elizabeth, m. Marshall Miller, and lives in Ver-
mont.
573
TiMOTHY 7 GOULD, of Hillsboro, N. H., son of
Stephen 6 , m. 1815, Clarissa Bradford. Chil-
ren :
1035. Leonora Bradford, b. 1816, June 17 ; m. 1837,
June, Walter McKean, of Nashua.
1036. Henry Chandler, b. 1818, June 19; m. Elvira
Way of Bradford.
1037. John Milton, b. 1821, June 5; m. Catherine Fly
of Rockland, Maine.
1038. Thaddeus Fuller, b. 1824, June 5 ; d. 1826, Sept.
11.
1039. Frederic William, b. 1827, Sept. 11 ; m. Eliza,
dau. of Ammi Smith.
574
THADDEUS 7 GOULD, son of Stephen 6 , in. 1821, June
24, Mary Ann, dau. of Sam'l Hichboru. Came
to Boston in 1812. Children :
1040. Mary Ann, b. 1822 ; m. 1852, Emery, and
lives in Washington, D. C.
1041. Thaddeus, b. 1824, Mar. 21; m. 1847, Martha
M., dau. of Josiah Ober; has three children.
1042. Eliza Cook, b. 1826.
1043. Edward, b. 1828; d. 1839.
1044. George H., b. 1830, Aug; m. 1855, Apr. 26,
Harriet, dau. of Abner Knight, of E. Boston.
1045. Clarissa Bradford, b. 1834. 1046. Emily.
576
JONATHAN 7 GOULD of Henniker, N. H., son of Ste-
phen 6 , m. Sabra Booth. Children :
201
1047. Judson, m. Persis Hartshorn.
1048. Wm. Booth. 1049. Edward Bruce.
580
JACOB 7 GOULD, son of Jacob 6 , m. 1. 1815, Aug. 15,
Ruby Swan, [b. 1793, Mar. 24; d. 1840, Nov.
30] ; 2. 1841, Sept. 21, Sarah T. Seward [b. 1804,
June 4. He moved to Rochester, N. Y., about
1820 ; was Mayor of the city and Major General
of the militia. Children :
1050. Susan, b. 1817, Dec. 4; d. 1821, Feb.
1051. Caroline, b. 1819, May 4; m. Henry Benton,
1843, June 6.
1052. Susan, b. 1821, Sept. 10; m. Henry A. Tilden,
1844, June 27.
1053. Rhoda S., b. 1823, Nov. 1 ; d. 1827, Feb.
1054. Jacob, b. 1825, June 1 ; d. 1825, July.
1055. Jacob S., b. 1826, Sept. 6 : m. Elizabeth Johnson,
1849, Jan. 31.
1056. George Clinton, b. 1829, Jan. 15 ; d. 1829, June 28.
1057. Ruby, b. 1830, May 5 ; d. 1830, July 17.
1058. Sarah Ruby, b. 1842, July 6 ; m. Dr. Chas. E.
Simmons, 1865, June 29.
1059. Seward F., b. 1844, Oct. 4; m. Alice E. Hart,
1868, Jan. 9.
1060. Anna J., b. 1846, Nov. 10.
590
JosiAH 7 GOULD, sou of Joshua 6 , m. 1796, Dec. 1,
Tamsen Higgius. Children :
1061. Joshua, bapt. Eastham, 1800.
1062. Josiah, bapt. Eastham, 1800.
202
593
NATHANIEL 7 GOULD, son of Joshua 6 , m. 1. 1806,
Hannah Knowles of Eastham ; 2. Mary .
Children :
1063. Jonathan, b. 1807, Mar. 6; m. 1831, Dec. 31,
Sally Crosby of Orleans; d. 1849, Sept. 23.
1064. Mary, b. 1809, Nov. 28.
1065. Nathaniel, b. 1811, Nov. 23; m. 1835, Dec. 24,
Hannah K. Crosby ; d. 1856.
1066. Joseph K., b. 1813, Feb. 2; m. 1. 1837, Dec. 28,
Susan N. Jarvis ; 2. 1840, Nov. 12, Tempa B.
(Young), wid. of Freeman Knowles.
1067. Franklin, b. 1816, July 16; in. 1. 1837, Sept.
13, Eliz. N. Liunell ; 2. 1844, Mar. 21, Jerusha
Knowles.
1068. Joshua, b. 1818, Aug. 12; d. 1838, Nov. 20.
1069. Hannah Knowles, b. 1820, Aug. 3; m. 1843,
Jan. 8, Joseph Paine of Brewster.
1070. Sally W., b. 1822, Sept. 8; m. 1843, May 4,
Willard Kogers ; d. 1850.
1071. Benjamin, b. 1824, Jan. 22; in. 1848, Tamsen
Knowles.
1072. Nancy, b. 1828, Nov. 8; m. Bangs Nickerson of
Boston.
594
THOMAS 7 GOULD, son of Joshua 6 , m. Thankful Hurd.
Children :
1073. Clement, b. 1811, Sept. 13; m. 1837, Fanny
Snow ; d. 1855.
1074. Rebecca, b. 1817, Dec. 3; m. 1840, Oct. 27,
Davis Hurd.
1075. Thankful, b. 1822, Apr. 3.
203
1076. Eliza C., b. 1826; ra. 1850, Oct. 14, Simeon
Mayo.
1077. Thomas, b. 1828 ; m. 1853, Hannah Smith.
597
JOHN 7 GOULD, son of John 6 , m. 1797, Feb. 16,
Joanna [b. 1773; d. 1855, Nov. 26], dan. of
Sam'l Higgins. Children :
1078." Polly, b. 1797, Apr. 23; ra. 1. 1820, Feb. 3,
Amasa Taylor; 2. Hatsell Freeman.
1079. Joanna, b. 1798, Sept. 17; m. 1821, Aug. 9,
Joshua Higgins.
1080. Thomas, b.^1801, May 8.
1081. Joseph, b. 1803, July 20; unm. 1860.
1082. Sally, b. 1807, Aug. 27; m. 1830, Nov. 20,
Waters Taylor.
1083. ffliza,b. 1809, July 27 ; m. 1829, Apr. 16, Alvau
Smith.
1084. Phebe, b. 1810, June 15 ; ra. 1834, Seneca Hig-
gins.
1085. John, b. 1814, Jan. 22 ; unm. 1860.
1086. Patty, b. 1815, Apr. 22; m. 1837, Sept. 14,
Isaiah Liunell.
606
PAINE T GOULD, son of Thomas 6 , m. 1789, Cynthia
Kenrick, who married 2. David Twining, in
1797. Children :
1087. Paine.
1088. Polly, m. 1809, Feb. 25, Benjamin Atwood.
607
NATHANIEL 7 GOULD, son of Thomas 6 , m. 1. ; 2.
Ruth, wid. of Smith. Children :
204
1089. Jerome B. N., m. ; lived in Abington and
Boston. His son in. in Hopkinton, 1859, Aug.
8, Angenette L. Whiting of Mt. Vernon, Me.
1090. Son. 1091. Daughter, b. in Maine.
608
JAMES T GOULD, of Orleans, son of Thomas 6 , m.
1793, Mar. 10, Eebecca Crosby. Children :
1092. Thomas, b. 1793, Aug. 4.
1093. James, b. 1795, June 6; m. 1819, Nov. 18, Ruth
Paine.
612
JosiAH 7 Gould of Chatham, son of Richard 6 , m. 1.
Azubah ; 2. Sally . Children by first
wife, Azubah :
1094. Richard, b. 1788, Apr. 25; m. 1808, Jan. 8,
Sarah Nickerson of Harwich [b. 1790, Feb. 8] ;
d. 1835, Dec. 25.
1095. Josiah, b. 1790, Aug. 5.
1096. Azubah, b. 1792, Oct. 29.
1097. Stephen, b. 1795, Jan. 19.
1098. Sally, b. 1797, June 1 ; m. Luther Hammond and
had eight children.
1099. Else, b. 1801, Feb. 10; m. George Spencer and
had five children.
1100. John, b. 1803, Nov. 5 ; m. 1810, Sept. 16, Phebe
H. Gorharn and had five sons and three daugh-
ters.
1101. Betsey, b. 1806, May 19; m. 1. Davis Hall; 2.
Joseph Patterson, and had seven children ; living,
18/50, in Nantasket.
By second wife, Sally :
1102. Nancy P., b. 1810, June 21; m. David Patter-
son ; lives at Nantucket.
205
1103. Martha, b. 1811, Oct. 8.
1104. Olive #., b. 1818, Mar. 1; m. Wm. Patterson;
had seven children.
1105. Barnard C.
617
RiCHAUD 7 GOULD, son of Richard 6 , m. Patty Eldridge.
Children :
1106. Richard, b. 1798, Oct. 28 ; m. Betsy Hi nek ley ;
d. of consumption, leaving one child, Laura A.
1107. Polly, m. Win. Hi tellings ; had four children.
1108. Patty, b. 1801, Sept. 7; in. Dr. Francis Morris ;
no children.
1109. Thomas, b. 1803, Oct. 28 ; lost at sea.
1110. Joseph, b. 105, Aug. 18; m. Fanny Wheeler;
lost overboard in Long Island Sound.
1111. Eldridge, b. 1808, Mar. 8.
1112. Benedict, b. 1812, Jan. 15.
1113. "Merita", b. 1815, July 19; m. Joshua Rogers.
1114. Ethan, b. 1818, July 23; lost at sea.
1115. Freeman, b. 1822, Jan. 23 ; m. Jane H. ,
in Truro 1852, Mar. 4.
618
DAVID 7 GOULD, son of Richard 6 , m. Hannah .
Children :
1116. Sabra, b. 1799, Apr. 26 ; m. 1. John Weeks, 2.
1822, Aug. 6, Thomas Holway.
1117. Abigail, b. 1801, Jan. 4; m. 1820, Dec. 8, Josiah
Nickerson.
1118. Hannah, b. 1803, Aug. 1 ; m. 1. 1821 Benj.
Patterson [d. 1824, May 20] ; two children,
Benj. and Hannah; 2. 1830, Nath'l Small [d.
1855, Nov. 6], by whom she had seven children.
206
1119. David, b. 1806, Nov. 25; m. 1827, Mehitable A.
Phillips [b. 1808, Apr. 23].
1120. James, b. 1808, Jan. 1 ; m. 1828, Sally Nickerson.
1121. Azubah, b. 1809, Feb. 14; m. 1832, Nov. 29,
Joseph D. Jones.
1122. Joseph D., b. 1812, Mar 28; m. Susan H.
Harding [b. 1816, Apr. 14].
1123. Collins, b. 1813, Dec. 19.
1124. Jane, b. 1816, Jan. 18 ; in. Silas Nickerson,
had one child, Curtis, not now living.
1125. Lavina, b. 1818, May 3; m. 1839, Mar. 21,
Philip J. Smith.
1126. Levisa, b. 1820, July 10; m. 1838, Sept. 28,
Stephen F. Bearse ; had six children.
621
SAMUEL 7 LONG GOULD, son of Samuel 6 Lamson, m.
Ann Poor of Andover [d. 1868]. Is Doctor of
Divinity ; lives in Bethel ; has lived in Boothbay,
Orrington, and Albany (Maine). Children:
1127. Samuel Lamson; d. infant.
1128. Mary Greenleaf; m. George Morrell ; lives in
Minnesota.
1129. /Samuel Lamson, Surgeon U. S. N. ; d. Key \Vest,
Fla.
1130. Clara Atwood, m. Goo. Holt; lives in Wisconsin.
1131. Willie Poor; killed at Petersburg.
1132. Sarah Kimball.
1133. Ella Talbot; teacher in Boston.
1134. Annie Poor. 1135. Alice. 1136. Isabella.
623
CHARLES 7 GOULD, of Topsfield, son of Samuel 6 Lam-
son Gould, m. 1837, Dec. 17, Elizabeth 7 Averill
207
Gould (No. 650) [b. 1816, Dec. 6], dan. of
John 6 (No. 325) and Mary (Averell) Gould.
Children :
1137. May Elizabeth, b. 1839, July 23.
1138. Sarah Jane, b. 1841, Feb. 28; m. 1866, June
17, John Bailey of Topsfield.
1139. Charles Wallace, b. 1848, Feb. 14.
1140. George Ansel, b. 1849, Apr. 10.
1141. Wm. Pitman, b. 1855, Jan. 9.
625
DANIEL 7 GOULD, son of Josiah 6 , m. 1. 1844, Nov.
20, Mary Ann Sears [d. 1847, July 10 in Box-
ford] ; 2. 1851, Apr. 30, Hannah G. Dodge [b.
1820, Mar. 12, in Wenham], and 3. Lydia Ridley.
Children by first wife, Mary Ann.
1142. Daniel Herbert, b. 1845, Oct. 5, at Topsfield, and
was starved to death, in Salisbury prison.
1143. John Henry, b. 1847, June 5, at Box ford ; d.
1847, Oct. 20.
By second wife Hannah :
1144. Benjamin Dodge, b. 1852, Jan. 3 ; d. 1852, Sept.
13.
1145. Lydia E., b. 1858, Mar. 17.
1146. Hannah M., b. 1859, Nov. 11.
637
HENRY 7 LAWRENCE GOULD, of Middleton, son of
Nathaniel 6 , m. 1822, April 11, Lydia How. Chil-
dren :
1147. Julia Ann, b. 1823, Feb. 21 ; m. 1845, Sept. 25,
James W. Wilkius of Peabody.
1148. Caroline Elizabeth, b. 1825, Sept. 3; m. 1847,
May 12, Cyrus R. Wilkius of Middletou.
208
1149. Lydia Lovett, b. 1827, Dec. 17 ; m. 1859, May 8,
Henry E. Perley of Georgetown.
1150. William Henry, b. 1829, Nov. 24; d. 1830,
March 9.
1151. Martha Hichborn, b. 1832, Jan. 27.
1152. Eliza Lawrence, b. 1835, Dec. 1 ; d. 1836, Jan.
23.
648
LucY 7 PEABODY GOULD, dau. of John 6 of Topsfield,
m. Oren J. STOXE of South Boston and Bangor ;
and d. 1842, Feb. 11. Children :
1153.
1154. Lucy C., b. 1835, Feb. 5 ; m. Dexter W. Rollins.
1155. Augustus W., b. 1836, Apr. 15; m. Cynthia
Newton.
1156. . 1157. .
651
JOHN 7 AVERELL GOULD, of Woburn and Chelsea,
son of John 6 , m. 1845, Oct. 5, Elizabeth C.
Leach of Manchester. Does business in Boston.
Children :
1158. John Leach, b. 1847, Jan. 7 ; d. 1848, Sept. 2.
1159. Elizabeth Porter, b. 1848, June 8.
1160. Susan Cheever, b. 1849, June 27.
1161. George Lambert, b. 1852, Feb. 6.
1162. Ada Pitman, b. 1854, Jan. 15.
1163. Hattie Florence, b. 1858, March 15.
1164. Annie Leach, b. 1859, Oct. 2.
1165. Mary Averell, b. 1861, July 17.
209
652
ADELINE 7 WALLACE Gould, m. Samuel PITMAN Jr.
of Salem. Childreu :
1166. Frederica Lambert, b. 1853, Oct. 23.
1167. Clara Livingston, b. 1856, Oct. 13.
1168. Addle Palfrey, b. 1858, Jan. 1.
1169. Walter Carbick, b. 1861, June 10; d. 1861, June
23.
654
WiLLiAM 7 E. GOULD, son of Jacob 6 Wood, m. 1863,
Apr.; Adelaide Barnhart. Children:
1170. Clarence Barnhart, b. 1864, June 27.
1171. Elsie M., b. 1867.
656
JOHN 7 J. GOULD, son of Jacob 6 Wood, m. 1854,
Feb., Eunice M. Caswell. Child:
1172. Walter Caswell, b. 1855, March; d. 1860, Sept.
15.
(B.) TRIBE OF THOMAS.
664
SAMUEL 7 GOULD, son of Benjamin 6 , m. 1807, Polly,
dau. of Bemsley Peabody. Children :
1173. Betsey.
1174. Moses, m. Huldah Gilford; had son, Ebenezer,
living in Boxford in 1869, who m. Lucy Hutch-
inson.
680
ANDREW 7 GOULD, ou of Andrew 6 , m. 1829, Feb.
24, Mary Prudence Lake [b. 1809, May 6].
Children :
14
210
1175. Andrew D., b. 1830, Jan. 11 ; d. 1830, Jan. 27.
1176. Mary L., b. 1831, May 24; m. 1857, Mar. 10,
L. W. Nichols; one child, Martha L., b. 1857,
Aug. 16.
1177. Lucy P., b. 1833, Apr. 20; d. 1834, Sept. 27, at
Boxford.
1178. Andrew Amos, b. 1835, Apr. 11; d. unm. 1862,
Oct. 23, at Topsfield.
1179. Harriet L., b. 1837, May 17; m. 1857, Dec. 16,
Thomas W. Perley ; one child, Charles, b. 1857,
Aug. 30 ; d. 1866, Dec. 23.
1180. Sarah It., b. 1839, June 27 ; m. 1. 1861, Dec. ,
John P. Towne [d. in 1862, Mar. 16] : 2. 1866,
June 26, Henry W. Phillips; one son, Leon P.,
b. 1868, July 23.
1181. Edw. Otis, b. 1841, Feb. 11; m. 1866, Oct. 14,
Rosettha Foster.
1182. Almira A., b. 1846, Apr. 8; m. 1863, Sept. 19,
Job H. Frame ; one child, Arthur, b. 1863, Dec.
1 ; d. 1867, Sept. 2.
1183. Alpheus A., b. 1846, Apr. 8.
1184. Herbert Walter, b. 1848, July 4 ; m. 1871, Dec.
17, Laura A. Conley.
1185. Horace, b. 1848, July 4; d. 1848, Sept. 17.
1186. Emeretta Helen, b. 1850, Apr. 6; d. 1851, Aug.
28.
712
JAMES 7 AUSTIN GOULD, son of Samson 6 , m. 1. 1823,
Dec. 11, Sarah [b. 1800; d. 1826, March 5],
widow of Barry; 2. Lucinda A. [b. Barre,
1789, Oct. 11 ; d. Lunenburg, 1861, Dec. 1] dau.
of John and Mary Messenger of Barre. He died
at Charlestown, 1837, Aug. Children:
211
1187. Theodore \_Davenport~], b. 1825, June 8; m.
.1844, Oct. 24, Mary Ann Brown of Newbury-
port ; d. in 18f 0. Changed his middle name
from Davenport to Parker, at the request of his
great aunt, Eunice 6 Parker, dan. of Elijah 5 Gould
(No. 171).
1188. Child, b. 1826, Mar. 5 ; died on the same day.
1189. .
1190. James Austin, 1). in Boston, 1832, Jan. 20; m.
1855, Feb. 2, Mary M. Thayer of Lisbon, N. H. ;
lives at Lunenburg, Mass.
1191. Mary, b. Boston, 1833, Oct. ; d. 1836.
(C.) TRIBE OF SAMUEL.
734
Lucius 7 GOULD, of Buffalo, son of Isaac 6 , m. 1820,
Jan. 6, Mary Ann Dow of Richfield, N. Y.
Children :
1192. Nancy Amelia, b. 1821, Mar. 30; d. 1822, Aug.
25.
1193. Lucius Dow, b. 1829, July 14.
1194. Mary A., b. 1832, July 29 ; m. 1867, June 12,
LaFayette Blue.
741
SAMUEL 7 GOULD, of N. Adams, son of Eli 6 , m. 1.
1814, June 12, Patience Wilbur, who died at N.
Adams; 2. Lovina, wid. of Cheney, and
dau. of Sanford. Children by first wife,
Patience :
1195. Julia Ann, b. 1815, Apr. 2 ; m. Benjamin Morgan.
1196. Win. Munroe, b. 1817, Feb. 6 ; m. 1. Jeannette
212
Morgan; 2. Jane, wid. of his brother, Jerome S.
Gould (No. 1198).
1197. Delia, b. 1819, May 17 ; H. 1842, July 25.
1198. Jerome Smith, b. 1821, July 28 ; m. 1843, Aug.
5, Jane Mclntire ; d. 1850, Oct. 11.
1199. Arethusa, b. 1824, Sept. 21; m. 1850, Dec. 7,
John B. Newcomb.
1200. Mary Adeline, b. 1826, Feb. 28; m. 1853, July
22, Jacob H. Woodward.
1201. Charles Wilbur, b. 1828, Jan. 23; m. Sarah J.
Barrett.
1202. Eliza Emeline, b. 1830, May 11 ; d. 1842, Apr. 24.
1203. Almira, b. 1832, Mar. 14; m. 1853, Dec. 8,
Robert Rogers.
By his second wife, Lovina :
1204. Patience, b. 1836, Aug. 20; m. 1857, Dec. 31,
Walter R. Carr.
1205. Frances Amelia, b. 1844, June 12.
742
WILL ARD 7 GOULD, of Clarksburg, Mass., son of Eli 6 ,
m. 1. 1818, Dec. 3, Hannah Pike [d, 1847,
Aug. 14] ; 2. 1848, Aug. 23, Louisa Boyden.
Children by his first wife, Hannah :
1206. Tabitha, b. 1819, Aug. 29 ; m. 1840, Sept. 10,
John N. Chase; d. 1853, Feb. 1.
1207. Maria, b. 1820, Aug. 10; unm. : d. of typhoid
fever, 1844, Oct. 24.
1208. George, b. 1822, Oct. 15 ; killed on a water-wheel,
atN. Adams, 1832, Sept. 1.
1209. Emeline, b. 1827, Oct. 17; m. 1846, May 30,
George Marsh.
1210. Jane, b. 1830, Dec. 7 ; m. 1848, Apr. 24, Reu-
ben Hay den.
213
743
ARETHUSA 7 , dau. of EH 6 Gould, m. John TAFT.
Children :
1211. Jane, m. James Snow.
1212. William, m. Phebe Robbins.
1213. Charlotte. 1214. Eunice.
744
DAvm 7 GOULD, son of Eli 6 ; m. 1820, Nov. 26, Sally
Green. He died 1869, Aug. 13, at Heath. Chil-
dren :
1215. Caroline, b. 1821, Nov. 26; m. 1842, Stephen G.
Davenport.
1216. Henry David, b. 1825, Nov. 28 ; m. Martha Tem-
ple. They had two sons.
1217. Sarah Anneline, b. 1826, Oct. 17 ; m. 1851, John
Hunt of Hadley.
1218. George Gilbert, b. 1827, Apr. 18 ; m. 1856, Oct.
4, Jane C. Merrifield.
1219. Bernice Johnson, b. 1829, July 26; m. 1857,
Dec. 2, Joseph Chapiu of Heath [b. 1806].
1220. Hannah Jane, b. 1833, Feb. 20 ; m. 1860, Oct.
6, Horace C. Cummings of Pittsfield [b. 1829].
1221. Frances Almira, b. 1834, Mar. 4 ; m. John Merri-
field.
1222. Lyman Green, b. 1835, June 12 ; m. wid. Rox-
ana (Reed) Kingsbury.
1223. Louisa Emeline, b. 1837, Mar. 18; in. 1859,
Mar. 1, Hugh Maxwell [b. 1836].
1224. Willard Edgar, b. 1839, Feb. 15; unm. 1869.
1225. Ann Eliza, b. 1840, July 23 ; m. Amos Temple
of Shelburue.
214
745
DANIEL 7 GOULD, of Adams, son of Eli 6 , m. 1821,
Nov. 28, Patience McKnight. Children :
1226. Samuel J., b. 1828, - -25; m. 1851, June 10,
Rosetta Russ.
1227. Cynthia L., b. 1830, Jan. 3; m. 1849, July 3,
Almond H. Potter.
1228. Harriet Ann, b. 1833, Jan. 6; in. 1854, Apr. 13,
Edwin J. Decker.
1229. Sarah, b. 1835, Aug. 12; d. 1839, Feb. 26.
1230. George W., b. 1838, Nov. 25.
746
SALLY T , dau. of Eli 6 , m. in 1829, John UPTON.
Children :
1231. Oliver.
1232. Elizabeth was adopted by Oliver Arnold of North
Adams, and married Nathan Day.
1233. Henry.
747
NANCY 7 , dau. of Eli", m. 1831, Apr. 28, Levi GATES,
who d. 1858, Nov. 17. Children:
1234. Susan J.., b. 1832, Apr. 3; m. 1858, Dec. 26,
Henry J. Had lock.
1235. Stillman J., b. 1834, May 25 ; m. Sally Jarnegan.
1236. Robert IF., b. 1835, Oct. 15; in. 1865, Aug. 23,
Laura A. Landon.
1237. Sarah E., b. 1837, Jan. 18;'m. John Morrison.
1238. Helen L., b. 1839, Jan. 3; m. 1858, July 13,
Melvin J. Davis.
1239. Charles W., b. 1842, Aug. 20.
1240. Nancy C., b. 1844, Aug. 20; m. 1865, Dec. 20,
John W. Hagett.
215
748
STILLMAN T GOULD, son of Eli 6 , m. 1834, Nov. 6,
Maria Smith, sister of Tirza, who married his
brother Eli 7 (No. 749). He was a mechanic in
North Adams ; d. 1845, Jan. 6, of typhoid fever,
at Adams. Children :
1241. Mary, ; m. Bixby.
1242. Adeline, ; m. Towne.
1243. Gilbert.
1244. Edward, b. 1844, July 25 ; died from wound
received in war.
749
ELI T GOULD, son of Eli 6 , m. 1832, Sept. 20, Tirza
Smith. Children :
1245. Augustus George, b. 1833, Nov. 24; m. 1865,
Jan. 12, Jennie Hibberd.
1246. Lestina M., b: 1835, June 29 ; m. 1866, May 27,
Porter Green.
1247. Erwin Smith, b. 1837, June 28; m. 1861, Sept.
19, Susan E., dau. of Benj. Morgan, and grand-
daughter of Samuel 7 Gould (No. 806).
1248. Leander Johnson, b. 1842, Jan. 9 ; m. Delia Jane
Morgan, dau. of Benj. Morgan, granddaughter
of Samuel 7 Gould (No. 806).
1249. Adeline F., b. 1851, Dec. 27.
773
EpHRAiM 7 GOULD, son of Benjamin 6 , m. 1830, Mar.
30, Lois Porter, of Washington Co., Ohio [b.
1808, Jan. 5; d. 1859, Oct. 25]. Children:
1250. Joseph Dennis, b. 1831, Jan. 20 ; d. 1847, Mar. 16.
1251. Lydia, b. 1832, Sept. 17 ; d. 1832, Oct. 5.
216
1252. Jasper Porter, b. 183,3, Aug. 24; m. 1857, Nov.
29, Mary J. Taylor, of Lee, Mass. ; he is a Meth-
odist clergyman of the Pittsburg Conference,
and a graduate of Meadville College.
1253. Melissa Ann, b. 1835, Feb. 2; d. 1836, Feb 3.
1254. Mary M.,b. 1837, Feb. 22; m. 1857, Apr. 9,
Rev. John Irwin Brady.
1255. Daniel Webster, b. 1839, Feb. 17; m. 1865, Aug.
22, Sarah M. Hall, of Gallipolis, Ohio; d. 1870,
Jan. 22.
1256. Anna M., b. 1840, June 22.
1257. Simon Gilbert, b. 1842, Mar. 3 ; m. 1864, Dec.
3, Anna A. Robinson, of Noble Co., Ohio.
1258. Ephraim Quincy, b. 1843, Apr. 9; d. 1850,
May 5.
1259. Benjamin, b. 1845, July 18; d. 1845, Oct. 20.
1260. Lydia C., b. 1846, Sept. 24; m. 1868, Elisha F.
Morrison, of Chillicothe, Ohio.
774
DANIEL 7 GOULD, son of Benjamin 6 , m. 1. 1831,
Apr. 5, Annie L. [d. 1848, Oct. 20], dau. of
Judge John Sharp, of Marietta, Ohio; 2. 1851,
June, Mrs. Jane Hartford. He resided in Salem,
Washington Co., Ohio, where he was, for a num-
ber of years before his death, a ruling elder in
the Presbyterian Church. Children by his first
wife, Annie :
1261. Mary Elizabeth, b. 1832, Apr. 27 ; m. 1853, Mar.
15, Philander Alden.
1262. Jerusha Louisa, b. 1833, Sept. 5 ; d. 1851, Sept. 5.
1263. Jonas Moore, b. 1836, Jan. 22.
1264. Julia Lucretia, b. 1836, Jan. 22; m. 1857, Mar.
15, Henry G. Parker.
217
i
1265. Esther Anna, b. 1837, July 8.
1266. Edwin Chipman, b. 1838, July 25; d. 1843,
Oct. 7.
1267. James Willis, b. 1840, June 10; d. 1843, Oct. 11.
1268. Eliza Arvilla, b. 1842, Feb. 2; m. 1863, Jan. 1,
James Ritebey.
1269. William Luther, b. 1844, June 23 ; d. while serv-
ing in the army, at Suminersville, Va., in 1862.
1270. Margaret Sophie, b. 1846, Sept. 3 ; d. in infancy.
824
ELIAS T E. GOULD, son of Asa 6 , m. 1854, Jan. 1,
Amanda E. Scott [b. 1835, Oct. 20]. Chil-
dren :
1271. Sadie L., b. 1856, Dec. 14.
1272. Lizzie E., b. 1858, Dec. 28.
1273. Ella M., b. 1861, May 6.
1274. Howard E., b. 1863, Nov. 8.
826
SMITH T A. GOULD, son of Asa 6 , m. 1. 1854, Mar.
18, Irene King [b. 1838, Nov. 3, d. 1856, June
7] ; 2. 1859, Jan. 20, Lucy B. King [b. 1818,
Sept. 22], the mother of his first wife. Died in
Iowa, 1870. Children by his second wife,
Lucy :
1275. Ei-win S., b. 1860, May 26.
1576. Eugene B., b. 1861, Sept. 9.
(D.) TRIBE OF ZACCHEUS.
837
Anos 7 GOULD, son of Amos 6 , m. 1. 1822, Lavina
Dodge, of Hamilton ; 2. Angeline, dau. of Col-
218
onel Paul Porter. Children by his first wife,
Lavina :
1277. Nathaniel, m. Sophronia Meldram.
1278. Mary Ann, m. Henry L. Eaton, in Maiden ; lives
in Wenhara.
842
SAMUEL 7 H. GOULD, son of Amos 6 , m. 1840, Nov.
26, Abigail S. Foster, of Wenham [b. 1820] ;
is a physician in Brewster. Children :
1279. John Edward, b. 1842, Oct. 2 ; d. 1847, Jan. 25.
1280. Charles E., b. 1849, July 9.
1281. George A., b. 1854, Feb. 25.
843
JOHN 7 J. GOULD, son of Amos 6 , m. Laura French of
Wenham, where he resides. Child :
1282. Amos, b. 1849, Sept; d. 1853, Aug. 11.
873
BENJAMIN 7 APTHORP GOULD, son of Benjamin 6 Ap-
thorp, m. 1861, Oct. 29, Mary Apthorp Quincy,
dau. of Hon. Josiah Quincy, Jr., of Boston, and
Mary Jane (Miller). Children :
1283. /Susan Morton Quincy, b. 1862, Aug. 26.
1284. Lucretia Goddard, b. 1864, Nov. 20.
1285. Alexandra Bache, b. 1868, Jan. 5.
1286. Benjamin Apthorp, b. 1870, Feb. 8.
880
Rurus 7 GOULD, son of Jedediah 6 , m. 1. Lucina P.
Martin; no issue; 2. wid. Milly Taft, by whom
he had two children, viz. :
1287. Adolphus, d. 1869.
219
1288. Lucina Putnam, m. Samuel Sibley, who was killed
at Ball's Bluff.
013
HUMPHREY 7 GOULD, son of Zaccheus 6 , m. 1854,
Sept. 24, S. Augusta Peabocly of Boxford, dau.
of Deal Oliver T. Peabody ; lived in Verden, 111.,
where he died, 156, Nov. 12. Child :
1289. Anna Lavina, b. 1855, Aug. 4 ; d. 1856, Mar. 26.
950
EMELiNE 7 , dau. of David 6 Gould, m. 1835, Dec. 30,
David PEARSALL [d. 1864, Jan. 5]. Children :
1290. Cordelia F., b. 1838, Jan. 5.
1291. Emeline A., b. 1842, Feb. 6; m. 1862, May 21,
Fletcher H. Marsh.
1292. David L., b. 1844, June 11 ; d. 1855, May 7.
1293. Mary G., b. 1846, Nov. 25; d. 1861, Dec. 13.
1294. Charles J., b. 1849, Feb. 1.
1295. Ida F., b. 1856, Apr. 3.
953
SHELDON 7 B. GOULD, son of Comfort 6 , m. 1842,
June 9, in Northbridge, Mass., Lucy D. [b.
1822, Feb. 13] ; second dau. of Samuel Peasley
of Stanstead, Canada East; has lived in Woon-
socket, R. I., Worcester, and Blackstone ; iiow
lives in Rockville, Ct. Children :
1296. Samuel, b. 1843, July 5 ; d. 1848, Mar. 2.
1297. Daughter, b. 1846, Nov. 3 ; d. the same day.
1298. Mary Frances, b. 1848, Nov. 4 ; m. 1867, Nov.
27, in Worcester, Moses H. Meutzer of Stowe
(Rockbottom), Mass.
1299. Emma L., b. 1850, June 18; d. 1857, Aug. 5.
220
1300. William 8., b. 1856, Sept. 6.
1301. Etta B., b. 1858, June 24.
1302. Martha W., b. 1861, Feb. 23.
1303. Cora T., b. 1863, Oct. 1.
955
EsENEZER 7 GOULD, of Northbridge, son of Comfort 6 ,
m. 1. 1846, Apr. 14, in Woonsocket, Abigail
Stratton [d. 1850, Mar. 27], dan. of Abel and
Clarissa Stevens, of Gardner, Mass. ; 2. 1850,
Sept. 19, her sister, Eliza Jane Stevens; lives in
Kockville, Ct. Child by first wife, Abigail S. :
1304. Charles E., b. 1847, June 21.
By his second wife, Eliza Jane :
1305. Abby Jane, b. 1851, June 10.
1306. Wm. Henry, b. 1852, Dec. 4.
958
PniLETUs 7 WOODRUFF GOULD, son of Comfort 6 , m.
1857, Clarinda Adams, of Worcester; lives at
Rockville, Conn. Children ;
1307. Emma J., b. ab. 1858.
1308. Frank, b. ab. 1859.
1309. Estelle, b. ab. 1860.
975
FREDERICK 7 LOCKWOOD GOULD, son of Ebenezer 6 ,
m. 1855, June 11, Lydia M. Luther, of Warren,
R. I. Children : '
1310. Charles Frederic, b. 1858, Sept. 20; d. 1868,
Dec. 20.
1311. Florins Estelle, b. 1865, Sept. 3.
1312. Wm. Henry, b. 1869, July 4.
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977
EDWARD 7 NELSON GOULD, son of Ebenezer 6 , ru. Mar-
cena Levalley, in Providence. Children :
1313. Jennie T., b. 1859, Oct. 14; d. 1868.
1314. Emma H., b. 1861, Jan. 18.
1315. Anna A., b. 1863, Feb. 22; d. 1865.
1316. Edward N., b. 1865, Nov. 7.
(E.) TRIBE OF JOSEPH.
997
PORTER 7 IRWIN GOULD, of Middleton, son of Joseph 6 ,
m. 1859, Sept. 21, Mary Eliza Peabody. Chil-
dren :
1317. Willie Eugene, b. 1861, Nov. 3.
1318. Florence Etta, b. 1866, Jan. 15.
1003
HENRY 7 E. GOULD, son of Henry 6 , m. 1861, Jan. 1,
Sarah C. Mason [b. 1838, Aug. 11]. Chil-
dren :
1319. Frederic, b. 1864, Jan. 13 ; d. 1864, Jan. 15.
1320. Emma E., b. 1865, Nov. 7.
1013
HARRIET 7 MARIA, dau. of Emerson 6 Gould, m. 1859,
Nov. 17, James A. BANCROFT [b. 1834, June
23]. Children:
1321. Harvey Ames, b. 1864, Nov. 4.
1322. Addle Maria, b. 1867, Oct. 14.
PERKINS FAMILY OF IPSWICH.
COMMUNICATED BY GEORGE A. PERKINS.
THE New England Historical and Genealogical Regis-
ter, Vol. X, for July, 1856, contains a notice of the early
members of the several Perkins families of New Englmid,
and remarks upon the imperfect nature of the sketch,
desiring any additional facts or corrections ; and it is to
supply what is known from the most reliable sources (the
oldest records), that the following list of births, baptisms,
publishments, marriages and deaths in Ipswich is offered
for publication.
It is much to be regretted that the very first records
(from 1633 to the commencement of this list,) have, by
some accident, been destroyed. Another hiatus also exists
in the chain, from 1709 to 1732. These defects and
others which may exist in the following pages, it is to be
hoped will be supplied by future research.
Part of the records, from which this list has been tran-
scribed are to be found in the office of the Clerk of the
Courts of Essex County, but by far the largest portion is
from the town records of Ipswich ; the latter contain the
births with the names of both parents, while the former
give only that of the father.
The list, from both sources, was copied by the late
Alfred Kimball, Esq., who was at that time Town Clerk
of Ipswich and also employed in the Clerk of Courts'
Office. His attestation is a sufficient guarantee for its
accuracy.
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Extracts from the records of Births, Baptisms, Pub-
lishments, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of
Ipswich, Mass., of the name of Perkins.
BIRTHS.
Mary, daughter of Jacob Perkins, borne May 14th, 1G58.
Jacob, sonn of Jacob Perkins, borne February, 1662.
Hannah, daughter of Abraham Perkins, borne March 7th, 1662.
Mathevv, sonn of Jacob Perkins, borne June 23d, 1665.
Abraham, sonn of Abraham Perkins, borne August 15, 16(i5.
John, sonn of Abraham Perkins, borne February 25th, 1C67.
John, sonn of Jacob Perkins, jr., was borne Jan'ry 31st, 1668.
Phillip, daughter of Jacob, was borne January, 1669.
Phillip, daughter of Jacob, jun'r, borne Nov. 28th, 1670.
Hannah, daughter of Jacob Perkins, borne November llth, 1670.
John, sonn of Isaack Perkins was borne July 1st, 1670.
Abraham, soun of Isaack, was borne Sept. 15th, 1671.
Francis, sonn of Jacob Perkins, borne Dec'r 18th, 1672.
Beamsley, sonn of Abraham Perkins, borne Aprill 7th, 1673.
Hannah, daughter of Isaack Perkins, borne Jan'y 31, 1673.
Wesley, sonn of Jacob, jun'r, was borne March 13th , 1674.
Joseph, sonn of Sarg't Jacob Perkins, borne June 21st, 1674.
Isaack, sonn of Isaac Perkins was borne May 23d, 1676.
John, sonn of Abraham & Hannah Perkins, borne Aug't 28th, 1C76.
Recorded by order of Mrs. Hannah Perkins.
Sarah, daughter of Jacob Perkins, jr., borne May 18th, 1677.
Juvis, sonn of Sarg't Jacob Perkins, borne May 15th, 1677.
Jacob, sonn of Isaack Perkins, was borne Novembar 9th, 1678.
Samuel, sonn of Samuel Perkins, borne Novembar 26th, 16 .
Elisabeth, daughter of Isaack Perkins, borne May 29th, 1681.
Mehitable, daughter of Jacob, jun'r, borne July 12th, 1681.
Ebenezer, sonn of Samuel Perkins, borne February 3d, 1681.
Stephen, son of Mr. Abraham and Hannah Perkins, borne June 1683.
Sarah, daughter to Isaack and Hauah Perkins, borne March 28, 1685.
Nathaniel, son to Nathaniel and Judith Perkins, borne March 31, 1685.
Elisabeth, daughter to Samuell and Hannah Perkins, borne Jime
13, 1685.
Abraham, son Abraham and Hannah Perkins, borne Dec'r 22, 1685.
Jacob, son to Jacob and Elisabeth Perkins, borne Feb'r. 15, 1685.
Mary, daughter to Jacob and Sarah Perkins, was born Aug't 2d, 1685.
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John, son to Jacob and Elizabeth Perkins, borne Sept. ye 2 (torn off)
[1687],
Mary, daughter to Isaac Perkins of Chebacco, borne March 27, 1687.
Elizabeth, daughter to Jacob and Sarah Perkins, was borne May the
8th, 1687.
Ester, daughter to Mathew and Esther Perkins, born July 17, 1690.
Jacob, the son of Jacob and Sarah Perkins, born Jan. 3d, 1690.
Eunice, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Perkins, was born March 14th,
1691.
Elizabeth, daughter to Jacob and Elizabeth Perkins, borne March 18th,
1690. [1690-1].
John, son to Sam'll and Hanah Perkins, born May 12, 1692.
John, son to Luke and Sarah Perkins, born May ye 14th, 1693.
John, the son of Jacob and Sarah Perkins, was born Oct. 17th, 1693.
Sarah, daughter to Luke and Sarah Perkins, was born ye twenty-
second day of January, ano Domi 1694-5.
Joseph, son to Mathew and Esther Perkins, was borne June 15th, 1695.
Jemima Perkins, daug. of Nathan'll Perkins, born June 29th, 1686.
Mary, daughter to Matthew and Ester Perkins, born Decemb'r 3, 1696.
Sarah, daughter to Jacob and Sarah Perkins, Taylor, born Dec'r 26, '96.
Mary, daug'r to Jacob and Sarah Perkins, born Nov. 26, '98.
Hannah, daug'r to Jacob and Sarah Perkins, born July 24, 1701.
Hannah, daug'r to Mr. John and Mary Perkins, born June 9, 1699.
John, son to Mr. Jno. and Mary Perkins, born Jan'r. 23, 1700.
Sons born to Corp'l Jacob Perkins, seni. and Sarah, his wife .
Eobert Perkins, born Octob'r 21, 1695.
Westly Perkins, born Decem'r 3d, 1697.
Joseph Perkins, born Octob'r 9, 1699.
Jeremiah Perkins, born Decem'r 1, 1701.
William, son to Mr. John and Mary Perkins, born June 25, 1702.
Eliza, daugh. to Ltt. Matthew and Esther Perkins, born 27, 8, 1702.
Hannah, Da. of Cpt. Beamsley and Hannah Perkins, born 22, 2, 1707.
Martha, Da. of Beamsley and Hannah Perkins, born 3, 1, 1709.
Francis, son of Jacob and Susanna Perkins, born May 5th, 1732.
James, son of James and Margaret Perkins, born Feb'ry It, 1733.
Lucy, daug'r of James & Margaret Perkins, of Cheba., born Dec. 27,
1735.
Anna, daugh'r of Nath'l & Anne Perkins, born July 10, 1738.
Sarah, daugt. of Jeremy Perkins, born Aprill 28, 1750.
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BAPTISMS.
Sarah, da. to Beamsley and Hana. Perkins, bap'd Aug. 12, 1703.
Judith, da. to Jacob and Sarah Perkins, bapt'd. Nov. 4, 1705.
Stephen, son of Stephen and Mary Perkins, 27, 3, 1711.
Hannah, Da. of Capt. Nath'll and Esther Perkins, 26, 6, 1711.
John, son of Matthew and Martha Perkins, 23 March, 1712.
Joseph, son of Abram and Esther Perkins, 17, 6, 1712.
Lucy, daug'r of Capt. Beamsley and Hannah Perkins, 9, 9, 1712.
Elizabeth, Da. of Stephen and Mary Perkins, 18,8, 1713.
Hannah, Da. of Matthew and Martha Perkins, 20, 10, 1713.
Nathan'll, son of Abram and Ester Perkins, 3, 11, 1713.
Jacob, son of Jacob and Eliza. Perkins, May 8, 1715.
Joua. sou of Matthew and Martha Perkins, Sept. 11, 1715.
Francis, son of Steph. and Mary Perkins, Jan. 8, 1715.
Abram, son of Abram and Ester Perkins, 15, 5, 1716.
Sarah, Da. of Matthew and Martha Perkins, 3, 12, 1716.
Francis, son of Jacob and Eliza. Perkins, July 28, 1717.
Eliza., Da. to Jacob and Eliza. Perkins, Oct. 26, 1718.
Sarah, Da. to Jno. and Eliza. Perkins, 8/12, 1718.
Jeremiah, son of Robert and Eliza. Perkins, 20, 7, 1719.
Lucy, daughter of Jacob and Eliza. Perkins, baptized ye 16th of Octob'r,
1720.
Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Eliza. Perkins, baptiz'd ye 27 Nov'r,
1720.
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth Perkins, baptiz'd ye llth
June, 1721.
Esther, daughter of Matthew and Mary Perkins, baptz'd 24th of Xbr.,
1721.
Mary, daughter of Robert and Eliza. Perkins, baptzd ye 10th of March,
1722-3.
Ruth, daughter of Matthew and Mary Perkins, baptized Ang't31, 1723.
John, son of John and Elizabeth Perkins, baptzd 13th Oct., 1723.
Francis, son of Jacob and Elizabeth Perkins, baptzd June 28, 1724.
Matthew, son of Matthew Perkins, junr. and Mary, baptzd May 30,
1725.
Eunice, daughter of John and Eliza. Perkins, bapt'd April 10th, 1726.
Hannah, dau. of Dr. William and Hannah Perkins, bapt'd July 10, 1726.
Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Perkins, baptzd Aug. 14th,
1726.
Elisha, son of Elisha and Abigail Perkins, b;vpd. May 28th, 1727.
Lucy, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Perkins, bapd. Augt. 12th, 1727.
John, sou of Matthew Perkins, junr. and Mary, bapd. Novr. 19th, 1727.
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Abigail, daughter of Westly and Abigail Perkins, bapd. Novr. 1 9th, 1727.
Mrs. Margaret Perkins was baptized July the 21st, 1728.
William, son of Dr. William and Hannah Perkins, bapd. Aug. 4, 1728.
Lucy, daughter of Jacob and Eliza. Perkins, baptized Aug't. 25th, 1728.
Robert, son of John and Elizabeth Perkins, baptized Aug't. 25th, 1728.
Hannah, daugh'rof John and Elizabeth Perkins, bap'd April 12th, 1730.
Eliza., daugh'rof Joseph and Elizabeth Perkins, bap'd June 7th, 1730.
Brewer, son of Matthew Perkins, jun'r and Mary, bapd. June 7th, 1730.
Joseph, sou of Joseph mid Elizabeth Perkins, baptzd Sept. 5th, 1731.
Daniel, son of Jacob and Eliza. Perkins, baptzd. Sept'r 19th, 1731.
[Torn off], tephen, son of Matthew Perkins, juu'r and Mary, bap'd
Jau'ry 23d, 1731.
Zerobbabel, son of John and Elizabeth Perkins, bap'd Feb'ry 13th,
1731.
Jeremiah, son of Jerem. and Joanna Perkins, bap'd Apr'l It, 1733.
Jonathan, son of Joseph and Eliza. Perkins, bap'd Oct. 28, 1733.
Anna, daugh. of John and Eliza. Perkins, bap'd Feb'ry 10th, 1733.
Mary, daug'r of Mr. Jacob and Mary Perkins, bap'd Dec. 29th, 1734.
Abraham, son of Matthew Perkins, jun'r & Mary, bap'd Apr'] 6, 1735.
Nathanael, son of Nathan & Eliza. Perkins, bap'd April 6, 1735.
Daniel, son of Jeremiah and Joanna Perkins, bap'd Aug. 24, 1735.
Mary, daug'r of John & Eliza. Perkins, baptzd Oct. 26, 1735.
Beamsly, son of Nathan & Eliza. Perkins, bap'd Xbr. 5, 1736.
Stephen, son of Matthew Perkins & Mary, bap'd Xbr. 5, 1736.
Abigail, daugh'r of Elisha and Abigail Perkins, bapt'd Feb'ry 8th,
1735.
Mehitabel, daugh'r of Mr. Jacob Perkins and Mary, bap'd Feb'ry 20th,
1735.
James, son of Joseph and Eliza. Perkins, bapt'd May 23d, 1736.
Isaac, son of Joseph and Eliza. Perkins, bapt'd Oct. 29th, 1738.
Daniel, son of Jeremiah and Joanna Perkins, bap'd Jan'ry 14, 1738.
Eunice, daugh'r of Mr. Jacob Perkins & Mary, bapt'd Apl. 22, 1739.
Eunice, daug'r of John Perkins, bap'd Oct. 14th, 1739.
Eliza., daug'r of Nath'll & Anna Perkins, bap'd Dec'r 2d, 1739.
Wm., son of Jacob Perkins, jun'r & Mary, his wife, bap'd Decb. 28th,
1740.
John, son of Joseph Perkins, bap'd May 10th, 1741.
Joanna, daug'r of Jeremy Perkins, bap'd Jan. 22d, born 20th, 1741.
Mary, daug'r of Nath'll & Ann Perkins, bap't March 14th, 1741.
Sarah, daug'r of Jacob Perkins, yt mard. Dresser, bap'd Sept. 5th,
1742.
Susanna, daug'r of Joseph & Eliza. Perkins, bap'd Sept. llth, 1743.
Nath'll, son of Nath'll & Ann Perkins, bap'd Ap'l 15th, 1744.
Ester, daugt. of Nath'll & Ann Perkins, bap'd Aug't 4th, 1745.
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Ephraim, son of Joseph & Elizabeth Perkins, bap'd Nov. 19th, 1746.
Martha, daught. of Jeremy & Perkins, bap'd Feb'y 1st, 1746.
Abra., son of Nath'll & Ann Perkins, bap'd June 14th, 1747.
Samuel, son of Jacob Perkins, bap'd May 7th, 1748.
Francis, son of Francis & Martha Perkins, bap'd Sept. 4th, 1748.
Abigail, daugt. of Nath'l & Ann Perkins, bap'd Jan'ry loth, 1748.
Abigail, daugt. of Nath'll & Ann Perkins, bap'd March 18th, 1749.
William, son of Will'm & Eliza. Perkins, bap'd, Sept. 9th, 1750.
Sarah, daugt. of Nathl. & Anne Perkins, bapd. Decb. 1st, 1751.
Nathl., son of William & Eliza. Perkins, bapd. Augt. 2d, 1752.
Jeremiah, son of Jeremiah Perkins, bapd. Jannary 7th, 1753.
John, son of Robert & Elizabeth Perkins, bapd. Aprill 7th, 1754.
Elizabeth, daugt. of William & Elizabeth Perkins, bapd. June 2d, 1754.
Lucy, daugt. of Nathaniel Perkins, bapd. May 25th, 1755.
Elizabeth, daugt. of Robert & Eliza. Perkins, bapt. June 1st, 1755.
Hannah, daugt. of William & Eliza. Perkins, bapd. Augt. 24th, 1755.
Nathaniel, sou of William & Eliza. Perkins, bapd. Jan'y 30th, 1757.
Joseph, sou of Nathl. & Ann Perkins, bapd. July 24th, 1757.
Mary, daugt. of Nathl. Perkins, jur. & Mary, bapd. March 26th, 1758.
Hannah, daugt. of William & Elizabeth Perkins, bapd. Augt. 27, 1758.
Martha, daugt. of Francis & Martha Perkins, bapd. Oct. 22d, 1758.
Sarah, daugt. of Robert & Lucy Perkins, bapd. Apl. 27th, 1760.
Stephen, son of Nathl. Perkins, bapd. March 1st, 1761.
PUBLISHMENTS.
Mr. Olivar Appleton, published to Sarah Perkins, of Topsfield, Novem'r
16, 1701.
Steph. Perkins, pubh'd to Mary Eveleth, July 13, 1706.
Abraham Perkins pub'd to Esther Perkins of Ips., Jan'y 10th, 1707-8.
Will'm Leatherland, pub'd. to Eliza Perkins, Ips., Oct. 23, 1708.
Matthew Perkins pub'd to Martha Rogers, May 14, 1709.
Robert Quarles, p'd. Ips., to Mary Perkins, Wenh., July 9, 1709.
Jona. Burnam p'd. to Mary Perkins, Ip., Mar. 17, 1710.
David Burnam pub'd to Eliza. Perkins, 28, 2, 1711.
John Perkins pub'd to Annar Perkins, Wenh., 12, 11, 1711.
Jacob Perkins to Eliza Kinsman, March 6, 1713.
Ebeuez'r Smith pub. to Mary Perkins, Octo'r 19, 1714.
John Leighton and Sarah Perkins, 4, 10, 1714.
Robert Choate to Unice Perkins, Jan. 7, 1715.
Joseph Burnam to Judith Perkins, 5, 3, 1716.
Benja. Gilbert to Esther Perkins, Wenha., 26, 5, 1716.
John Marshall to Sarah Perkins, Sep'r 18, 1716.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
NOTICES OF THE ANCESTRY OF MRS.
SUSANNAH INGERSOLL.
THESE notices of the ancestry of Mrs. Susannah Inger-
soll were taken from a sermon delivered by Rev. William
Bentley, of the East Church, Salem, on the occasion of
her death in 1811.
This sermon (in manuscript), was presented to the In-
stitute by John Chapman, Esq., of Salem.
Mrs. Susannah Ingersoll died at Salem, Friday evening,
December 6, 1811, aged 65. Her father, John Hathorne,
was a lineal descendant of Major William Hathorne, a
man of note in the colonial period. Her mother was
Susanna Touzell, a granddaughter of Philip English and
a descendant of Richard Hollingsworth. Her husband,
Capt. Samuel Ingersoll, died July 18, 1804, aged 60.
See vol. I, page 156, of Historical Collections of Essex
Institute for a notice of the Ingersoll Family.
TEXT. Lam. of Jeremiah, ii, 13. "What thing shall I take to
witness for thee? What thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of
Jerusalem? What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O
virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea, who can
heal thee ?
"Susanna Ingersoll, lately deceased, is descended from
one of the first families of the settlement in Salem, and
died possessed of a greater portion of the primitive pos-
sessions than ever had fallen to the portion of any person
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belonging to the present generation. We cannot refuse,
then, so just an opportunity to look back upon our settle-
ment, as our Prophet would upon his ancient city, and
see the progress of its greatness, while we lament the
changes which time must ever bring upon all human
affairs."
"When -Salem was first settled, among the first inhabi-
tants was reckoned Richard Hollingsworth, who married
Sarah Woodberry. They had a son William with them,
who married Eleanor Story. From some fond engage-
ment she followed her lover into America, as she could
not consummate her marriage vow with the consent of an
aunt to whom her education had been entrusted. Upon
her arrival some ceremonies were forgotten which she
conceived due from her friend, and recollecting the wishes
of her aunt, she gave herself to William, who was soon
attracted by her person, her accomplishments and her
character, adapted to the ambition of his own mind. We
soon find them distinguished by the activity of his mind,
and by the generous concurrence of her virtues, and
her wealth ; while he had all the diligence of the mer-
chant, she had all the manners of her education and never
suffered herself to appear abroad without her servants.
This was something beyond the manners of the second
generation, but not beyond those of the first, who could
retain their servants in their duty, when they could pro-
vide for themselves. The posterity, however, remem-
bered that the aunt received from Charles II or the Isle
of Jersey, a medallion, which was transmitted as a testi-
mony of returning affection and respect, and was long
kept in the family in memory of these events and as a
pledge of affection. The daughter Susanna lost her hus-
band while in pursuit of his lands in Virginia by the
Indians, and Richard, after being wounded in a duel,
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returned and died at home, and his gravestones are still
standing. As early as 1635, Mr. Hollingsworth had an
exchange of lands Avith the settlers ; and he had claims upon
Winter Island, and that portion of the neck upon which
Col. Hathorue, one of his descendants, now dwells. He
was the first who had a convenient landing place in Sum-
mer Harbour, now the harbour of Salem, and it is thus
described to us. Beyond the projecting rock at the west-
ern part of the point of rocks was a stone causeway
twenty feet from the bald rock, which was then connected
with the upland, though the earth be now gone from the
bank beyond it. Above it was the largest store in Salem
and the house of entertainment below upon the causeway
of Winter Island, was continued under his influence with
the ferries. * * * The roads were direct from this
ferry to Hollingsworth and to the inn upon Winter Island.
In this time the settlement at Point of Rocks had attracted
many persons who built at that place, and the families of
Herbert, Striker, Punchard, Waters and others remained
at this place, then called Waters' farm, since the memory
of persons with whom I have had conversation upon the
subject. The Father Hollingsworth deceased in 1656 and
the son succeeded to his business and possessions, and it
will not be deemed impertinent by any reasonable persons
to exhibit a list of the possessions which came by inher-
itance to Mr. Philip English, who married Mary, the
daughter of AVilliam, and the only heir to the family estate.
She was born in the house belonging to William Hollings-
worth, where the Crowninshield Wharf buildings are ;
he removed from Point of Rocks, now so called, and here
her father lived. This house was known afterwards by
the name of the Blue Anchor, having been appropriated
for an Innholder in 1681, and four years before the
English house was built, which is now standing at the
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northern entrance of the neck. It was found incon-
venient as business and the settlements continued to move
westward to confine the Innkeeper to "Winter Island, and
two houses were opened besides three victualling houses.
But the old Inn upon the neck continued till the dispute
between the Cottagers and Commoners was settled, and
Mr. Crew was the last Innholder before the house was
taken down. William Hollingsworth when he died in
1686 had his large Mansion House on the land between
the Common and Essex Street, then called the Great
Street to the neck, and opposite to Turner and Becket
lanes, as they were then called, though since enriched by
valuable settlements. It was here he received the visit
of Gov. Endicott just before that patriarch left our hum-
ble world. Madam Eleanor Hollingsworth died here in
the year 1690, and was cried out upon in 1692, when it
was observed in Court she had been dead two years. The
following houses were in the possession of Mr. English
when he died. Two houses upon the point of rocks
belonging to the family of Hollingsworth, with a great
store on the southwest corner, taken down soon after his
decease ; the large house called the Blue Anchor belong-
ing to Hollingsworth ; the house adjoining the Blue
Anchor called Deyse's ; a house opposite to the Blue
Anchor called Allen's; the Mansion House which he built
in 1685 now standing, though deprived of its ornaments,
which were rich and numerous and in the highly Gothic
style ; Hollingsworth's land and house and store oppo-
site to Turner's street ; a house bounding on the above,
called Gale's ; two houses on the corner going to the
bridge on the left ; a house opposite to the eastern end of
Daniels' lane, now street, going eastward ; a house where
the Church of England now stands, taken down when Mr.
English gave the land upon which the church is now
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erected, for that purpose ; the house where the Hathornes
now live, called Minzey's, not fur from the New South
Meeting House. Besides these he had three stores on his
wharf, which with the wharf have entirely decayed, but
have given place to the best wharf we have in Salem,
by a family who have succeeded to the enterprise raised
and reputation of this ancient family."*
"Mr. English entered into mercantile employments upon
his first coming to Salem in 1666. He had twenty sail of
vessels in his service at one time, such as were employed
at that time in the fishery, coasting trades and foreign
voyages, and such were the talents of his wife that
when absent he could leave all his business in her hands,
fully persuaded that she was fully adequate to the sole
trust. How unhappy was it that her superior talents
should, in an ignorant age and from her deluded neigh-
bors, have obtained her an imputation which humbled her
spirits, exposed her to the worst treatment, subjected
her to long confinement in prison, obliged her to flee
for protection to Boston, and then to New York. It
is true the ignorant and stupid fanatics soon saw their
delusion. In their oppressive wants of the next winter,
they were fed by her charity, and solicited in the most
earnest manner her return. It is true they did confess
their delusion, and the part they had taken in it. But to
return, and find her house plundered, and the lowest
indignities offered to her property of every name ; her
enclosures destroyed and a wanton waste made of her
dearest concerns, this was too much for her innocence, and
* See Vol. viii, page 18, of the HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE The Petition of Philip English to the General
Court of Massachusetts for the removal of the attainder and compen-
sation of damages sustained for prosecution during the witchcraft
excitement in 1G92.
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she might well be willing to resign a life which could be
exposed to so much fanaticism, and what always accom-
panies such horrid wickedness."
"Mr. English was punished more from his warm defence
of his wife than from any charges which vile fanaticism
could make against him. Because he would not impeach
the wife of his bosom whom he knew to be innocent,
because he would not abandon one whom of all women
he ought to love, because he would not leave a tender
wife to all the cruelties of a prison, crowded in with the
worst of our race, without daily and earnest visits, he was
clamored against as a man not fit to live. And because
no law could reprehend him for what he had done, at once
the vile fanaticism invented the delusive plea that he was
employed by the Devil, and ought not to be suffered to
live. He was then conveyed to prison. In one day
these monsters of iniquity, but the same as fanatics of
every age, plundered his houses, his vessels, his fields,
and destroyed what they could not turn to their own profit
and use. Such is the havoc fanaticism ever has made and
ever will make in our world, and the denunciations of the
same spirit show that our own age is not free from the same
Devil, were he not bound hand and foot by the chains of
the law, and held down by the powerful voice of our
more enlightened citizens, but he is the same Devil still.
Chains hold but do Hot convert him."
"The only charge we can trace against Madam English
must have arisen from her great ability in mercantile tran-
sactions, a thing then unknown, because seldom trusted
to female character, but alleged by her active mind, the
confidence of her husband, and his necessary absence by
his affairs in Virginia. Having been educated by her
mother in the highest sense of European distinction, and
having never had occasion by the wants of life to mingle
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with the world, she had a more reserved deportment than
agreed with the wishes of gossiping people. But to the
honour of all who knew her, they were not found among
her accusers; no person inhabiting this part of Salem,
now called the town could be enticed to act so ungenerous
a part, whatever they might do when the outcry was made.
We are happy in this recollection. The outcry was from
those ignorant people who visited the town from the farms
and were astonished to find one of their sex, powerful in
numbers, capable of all the letters, and transactions of
business, and with a ready remembrance of all the persons
with whom she had dealings, and in all their arts and
shifts by which they could gain advantages over each
other, while they could never escape her penetration, or
pass any delusions upon her in the absence of her hus-
band. It was from these persons she received these
wounds which the virtuous in all ages have received from
the weak, the wicked, and the superstitious. It was from
this virtuous but injured woman our friend was descended.
It was from such able merchants she had received those
claims of respect for her family men who first began
the commerce of Salem, men who erected the proudest
buildings for your store-houses, men who first planted the
wharves at which your vessels could lay with safety, and
the first in this part of America."
"Nor is she less honorable in her female ancestors. M.
Story saw a king in the house in which she was educated.
But she possessed more than the favour of kings, the best
gifts which God has designed for woman, to be the orna-
ment of her family, the honour of her husband, and the
best example to her children. To find wealth allied to
virtue, and to live blessed among the good, and by
heaven preserved from the hands of the wicked."
GLEANINGS FROM THE FILES OF THE COURT OF
GENERAL SESSIONS OF THE PEACE.
COMMUNICATED BY JAMES KIMBALL.
ISTo. 2.
1697. William Baker, Glover.
vs.
Charles Attwood, his apprentice.
Concluded from page 80.
I Thomas Louell Ju r : aged about : 48 : years do testify,
That I having lately seen that writen Indenture
made between William Baker the Master, and Charles
Attwood the Apprentice, with the consent of his Father
Thomas Attwood, late of Ipswich, Deceased, which beareth
Date the Eleventh Day of April : 1687, wherein the Term
of time is thus Expressed, viz, For the Term of Time
begin ing from y e Day aboue writen Untill the fift Day of
Maich, which will be in the Year of our Lord: 1690,
thirteen years by Computation, wanting onely the time
from the fift Day of March last past till the day aboue
writen, then to be Compleated, Expired, and fully ended.
Which Indenture is said to be writen by me ; I say, it
being now full ten years since, it cannot be Expected that
I can now give so full & clear an account of all Circum-
stances relating therevnto, as I could at y e time when y e
said Indentures were writen ; But what I can remember
relating thereunto, is as followeth, viz, I doe certainly
remember, y l the aforesaid Attwood did speak to me
to write Indentures, conserning his sou Charles, being
bound to William Baker to learne y e trades of a Glover,
and White-Leather-Dresser ; and conserning the Term of
Time, y e said Thorn : Attwood then gave me this account
to be writen in y e said Indentures, viz, Thirteen full
Years, which then was Calculated to end & be expired in
the year of our Lord : 1699, for that y e said Tho : Att-
wood did then say, that his son Charles having lived with
y e said Will : Baker vpon liking from y e fift day of
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March y l then was last past (nothing then was accounted in
y e year 1686) till y e time he spake to me to write the
said Indentures (which appeared to be written y e eleventh
day of April : 1687), which time, said He, is a part of y e
said thirteen years, which compleated y e whole term in
1699. And I am sure, that my Intent then was to write
in y e Indentures according to y e acount said Tho : Att-
wood then gave to write by, however it came to pass that
y e word [Nine] was omitted, without wch : [Nine] the
Term would be Contradictory to it self as it plainly ap-
pears in y e written Indenture, vnless y e reading y e term
thus viz, For the term of time beginiug from y e Day
above written vntill thirteen years by Computation ; want-
ing onely the time -since y e fift day of March last past till
y e day aboue written, then to be Compleated, expired &
fully ended (leaving the rest) be of itself a Sentence com-
pleat ; But I am sure, y* y e word [Nine] through my for-
getfullness was Omitted when y e Indenture was written
contrary to my intent, its likely it might be written by
Candle-Light in y e evening Hastily, & I had the occasion
never since till now y e contest about it, to have perused
it, to have espied y e said omission that seasonably & in
good time to have entered ye said omitted [Nine] for I
delivered the Indenture to neither Tho : Attwood or Wil-
liam Baker aforesaid ; But (as I was informed) they
came to y e house of my vsual aboad at a time when I was
there absent, receiving y e said Indentures from thence,
where they were Signed & Sealed in my absence vnbe-
known to me, as it appears by y e word Charles in y e said
written Indenture by an other Hand therin written and
the word [Nine] it seems then was not minded alsoe ; &
soe y e omission remained.
And thus I have written my Testimony, myself that I
know and was Informed of relating to y e said Indentures.
Further I the said Thomas Louell Ju r : do Testify,
That some time this Year 1697 the Widdow, of the
other side said Thomas Attwood being at y e house of my
aboad, had discourse together conserniug the other side
said Indentures, she telling me then words in this sense,
That when her husband had brought home the Indentures,
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she saw the [Nine] omitted, and told her husband of it,
who told her, But y e boy s time is to be Thirteen years
and so he shall serve, if his Master do well by him, and
y e boy will stay with him; I then replyed words to her
in this sense, Then yoii know in your Conscience
that the nine was forgettfully omitted and that Charles
time is not out till the year 1099, she answered with
words in this sense, whatever was the Intent, that which
is writ must stand, and she had discoursed several vnder-
standing men about it, that said what was written must
stand for all my evidence to the contrary. But the Nine
is not contradictory, said I, but explanatory, which with-
out, is but Contradictory and Confusion. But the nine
makes the Indentures palpable and Intire in sense and
Reason.
The Records of the Court dispose of this case as fol-
lows :
ESSEX, SS.
This Court having viewed and considered said Inden-
tures, their Judgement is that the said apprentice is not
obliged to serve any longer by said Indenture.
The Complainant appeals
"W. Baker as Principle ^
Robert Lord & Nath Rust Jr > Recognised in
Sureties ) 10 to y e Party concerned.
The condition is that the said Baker shall prosecute
this complaint with effect at y e next assize and Generall
Gaol Delivery to be holden in this County.
It seems from the subjoined Papers in the further hear-
ing of this case that Baker intended to imprison Charles
Attwood and to keep him in Prison untill his appeal was
heard, for we find that he was rescued from the hands of
the Deputy Jailer, although there appears not to have
been any warrant against him unless he was committed by
order of his Master for safe keeping.
Att A Generall Session of the Peace holden at Ipswich,
March 29, 1698.
Thomas Attwood being complained of for rescuing his
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brother Charles Attwoocl out of the hands of the Deputy
Jailer, was sett for trial.
The Jury find a special verdict, to wit, That if the
Deputy was legally qualified a deputy to serve the writ
committed to him upon Charles Attwood, Then Thomas
Attwood is Guilty, but if said Deputy was not so quali-
fied then they find him not Guilty.
Sureties recognize in 40 to appear at the iiext Ses-
sions at Salem.
At the June Term of the Court holden at Salem, June
28th, 1698.
The Court render their Judgment in the matter of
Thomas Pen-in, Deputy to John Harris, under Sheriffs,
against Thomas Attwood ; to wit.
"Judgement wheron was left for consideration till this
Court, which being considered by their judgement is that
said Perriii was not lawfully qualified and that said Thomas
Attwood be dissmist and the said Pen-in pay costs of Court."
Baker recognizes at the March term of the court in
1698, recognizes in 40 to prosecute his complaint against
Thomas Attwood at the next sessions, but as there is no
further record, the case was probably withdrawn by Baker
paying the costs.
COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS.
SALEM, June 10th, 1701.
To Constable Sattfl Wakefield:
In his Majestie's name you are hereby required to take
Espetial Care to Informe Thomas Marston, Commander of
the Brigantine called the Yeorke, that the Authority heere
have provided the Howse y l was formerly ffrancis Muses
ueere Skerrys for himselfe & company to Repair unto, for
preventing the spreading of the Small pox where they
are to remaine till further ordered, hereof faile not.
Jos. WOLCOTT, ")
JEREMIAH NEALE, ( a , <? o i
PETER OSGOOD, f Selectmen of Salem.
EDWARD FFLINT, J
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ENDORSED
CAPIAS AND EXECUTION.
vs.
THOS. MARSTON DOG, CHARGED WITH SMALL POX.
To Constable Samuel Wakefield:
We being informed that Thomas Marston's doge, is
come ashore whereby the people are Indangred of getting
the Small pox. for preventing wherof you are hereby
required in his Majestie's name Forthwith to kill, or cause
to be killed the said Doge & Secured under Ground or
otherwise, so as that the Danger may be prevented.
Hereof fail you not.
dated at Salem 10 June 1701.
JOHN HATHORNE, ) T .. ~ ,, ^
' } Justices of the Peace.
JOHN HIGGINSON, $
COPPT OF NOTE SENT TO MRS. MERCY MARSTON ABOUT HER
SETTING IN MRS. OSGOOD'S SEAT IN YE 2D PEW.
1714.
I am to Informe you y* the Wid. M rs . Mary Gedney,
Cap 1 . Osgood's wife, M r . Keysor's wife, Cap 1 . Willarcf's
wife, M r . Jn. Pickering's wife, M r . Tho. Flint's wife, are
Placed in the Second Pew, in the meeting House w th in
The first Parrish in Salem & whereas you have Remoued
M". Osgood's Chair & Seated yo-Self in her Place (3-011
your Self having never been placed In S d pew) you are
desired to refrain taking The Same place or any of the
places of the psons Aboue mentioned for the future, it
being 111 resented by all that observe the same & all psons
ought to observe order in all things & places, Especially
in the Church at the Publick Worship, w ch wee desire you
will take notice of & Conform your Self accordingly.
Per order of the Selectmen.
WALTER PRICE, Town Cler.
To Mrs. Mercy Marston, Jun'r.
Salem, Aprill 10th, 1714.
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The following memorandum referring to the evacuation
of the town of Boston by the British Troops under Gene-
ral Howe, March 17th, 1770, was found upon the inside
cover of an account book kept by a resident of Boston,
and an active participator in the stirring events of that
period.
"Boston, June 14th, 1774. The 4th Regiment of Foot
landed.
June 15th. The 43d Regiment landed and encamped
on the common.
May 19th, 1775. I and my family left Boston for
Cambridge.
March 17th, 1776. George's Butchers left the Town
of Boston, and went on board the Transports, after plun-
dering the Town. The same day they sailed below the
Castle.
March 18th. I entered the Town.
19th. I came out again."
The writer of the above was a Prisoner of War in Mill
Prison, England, Oct. 13th, 1781, as entered upon the
covers of a Hymn Book given to him whilst in Prison.
(From the original bill in a scrap book.)
CAMP WINTER HILL, Aug. y e 5th, 1778.
The United States to Theoph 8 Bacheller Dr.
To y e ferriyes of eight men as a Guard to 9 British
Prisonirs over Charlestown ferry and the Guard back.
. s. d.
0. 9. 4.
Errors Ex.
rectd.
To Maj. Hopkins,
THEOPHILUS BACHELLER, Serg 1 .
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
ESSEX INSTITUTE.
VOL. XI. JANUARY, 1872. No. 4.
THE CLOSING HISTORY OF THE BRANCH OR
HOWARD STREET CHURCH IN SALEM.
BY C. C. BEAMAN.
THE Howard Street Church has passed away ; its large
ineeting-house and conspicuous steeple have been taken
down, and a city school-house has been erected on its
foundations, while the members who once belonged to the
church, and who still survive, have connected themselves
with other churches.
The removal of an old landmark, the termination of
the life of a Christian church, so long identified with the
history of so large and influential a city as Salem, may
well claim a brief record on the historic page. Having
read before the Institute some ten years ago a history of
this church from the commencement up to that time, I
propose to add a brief statement of what subsequently
occurred, down to the last days of its existence.
The last minister of this church, Rev. Charles C. Bea-
man, a native of Boston, and a graduate of Andover
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Theological Seminary in the class of 1837, immediately
followed the Rev. Ephraim W. Allen, commencing his
ministry April 5th, 1857. He married Miss Mary Ann
Stacy of Wiscasset, Maine, July 10, 1839. At the time
of his coming to Salem, the church was in a very discour-
aged condition, and entertained serious thoughts of making
no further exertions to continue, some leaving to join
other churches in the city. Those who remained resolved
to make further triaL
A new impulse was soon after given to the cause of
temperance in Salem, by the addresses of Peter Sinclair,
Esq., of Scotland, at Mechanic Hall and Howard Street
Church, resulting in the formation of Bands of Hope
throughout the city, connected with the Sunday Schools
of all the Protestant churches. His labors were not con-
fined to the young, and very soon an adult temperance
society was organized, indirectly through the awakening
he had created, though other agents were directly em-
ployed.
On Monday evening, July 27, 1857, a large and highly
respectable meeting of some two hundred and fifty or
three hundred ladies and gentlemen was held at the
Howard Street chapel, on a call to consider the question
of forming a temperance society. After prayer by Rev.
Mr. Hoppin of Crombie Street Church, the meeting was
addressed by Mr. Samuel C. Knight, a reformed rum-
seller ; Mr. John Hawkins, the veteran Washingtonian
lecturer; Mr. Ball, city missionary, and several other
persons. At an adjourned meeting in the same place,
August 3, a society was formed, a constitution adopted,
and officers chosen. Several names were added to the
list of members, who had formerly been intemperate.
Meetings were henceforth held every week at the Howard
Street chapel for nearly two years, reformed men and
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others taking part in the exercises. During this time
three hundred and two males and three hundred females
had signed the pledge of total abstinence. Many very
striking cases of reform took place, and in the meantime
the congregation worshipping in Howard Street Church
increased from the ranks of temperance, and the hopes
of permanent prosperity grew brighter.
To crown this success, a religious reformation joined in
with the temperance awakening, and spreading over the
city, refreshed many of the churches. Its beginning was
in the Howard Street chapel, in a week of prayer,
appointed by the church at a meeting convened for a pre-
paratory lecture, March 5, 1858. The temperance meet-
ings had been characterized by a fervent interest similar
to that witnessed in religious revivals ; and as a move-
ment to test the degree and character of this pervading
feeling in the city, the Howard Street Church resolved to
appoint a prayer meeting in their chapel every evening of
the following week, commencing on Monday evening,
March 8, to which the members of all other churches,
and all persons, were invited. Thexresponse to this call
was unexpectedly large, and developed great depth of
religious emotion. At the first meeting it was estimated
that two hundred persons were present, and an increase
followed on each successive assembling. Christians of
all denominations met, and there was a freedom and
union of spirit, a love and earnestness, in striking con-
trast with the constraint and separation, indifference and
formality, of preexisting manifestations. Proposals for
union were made by other churches, and the meetings on
tfte following week were held at the vestry of the Taber-
nacle Church, and from thence transferred successively to
the South and Crombie Street Churches. Many were
converted in all the societies, and additions made to
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churches. During that year thirty hopeful conversions
took place in the Howard Street Church, nineteen of
whom united themselves with the church, and great hopes
were entertained of future prosperity.
The Howard Street Church and its pastor turned their
attention to the poor and neglected classes of the city ;
and having a very spacious church only partially occupied,
offered free sitting and even whole pews to such as would
occupy them, and succeeded in drawing many to the
sanctuary who would otherwise have absented themselves.
In the pursuance of this plan the society consented to
unite with the Seamen's Bethel in Herbert street, and for
some months Mr. Knight, the minister of that church,
and his people, worshipped in the Howard Street Church.
But the union was of little benefit- to either society, and
was soon abandoned.
About this time the prospects of the Howard Street
Church grew less favorable. The civil war operated to
depress hopes and diminish resources some became dis-
couraged and left, and the income from the rent of pews
was very small, and the aid of sister churches in pecuni-
ary donations was almost wholly withdrawn. No mem-
bers of the other Congregational churches in the city were
willing to join themselves to the feeble church in order
to save it from extinction, and the members were dimin-
ishing from death and removals. To the praise of those
who remained, none of whom were wealthy, be it said
that their exertions were untiring to sustain and perpetu-
ate the organization, and especially the sisters of the
church, already burdened with family cares and labors
and some of them with the addition of ill health, fey
"fairs" and " sewing circles " they labored to raise money
to support the Gospel preaching among them ; and very
generously and nobly did the citizens of Salem of every
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name come to their assistance, but they could not always
hold out to labor.
Under these circumstances the pastor, from personal
and other considerations, felt it to be his duty to resign
and leave his people, though to do so seemed to imperil
the existence of the church. To show the love and har-
mony and good understanding existing between the pastor
and the people, it may not be improper to give a few
extracts from his letter of resignation, read to his people
from the pulpit on Sabbath afternoon, October 2d, 1864,
at the time he preached his farewell discourse in the close
of his ministry among them of seven and one-half years.
He says :
"The time has arrived when the indications of Provi-
dence seem to point out my duty to close my pastoral
labors among you. I have for some time been thinking
that such a time was approaching. It is a great satisfac-
tion to me, and I doubt not to you, also, that the sacred
and endeared relation between us has been uniformly
pleasant and harmonious, and that no diminution of affec-
tion and confidence occasions our separation. The seven
and a half years that I have been with you have been
among the happiest of my life, and not without some
precious results in the conversion of souls and the growth
of Christian graces.
We have thought at times that our church was about to
be raised to a prosperous condition as regards numbers,
pecuniary independence and spirituality ; but we have
encountered many disappointments, and it seems to have
been God's purpose to keep us humble and make us feel
our dependence. The withdrawals of church members to
other communions in the city, the removals to other
places, and the departures by death, with the continuance
of the civil war to weaken us, have gradually brought us
lower and lower, and we have not been receiving members
by letter or profession to counterbalance our losses.
It is with emotions of tender interest that I relinquish
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my position as your under shepherd, and take my leave of
you ; and be assured that I shall ever cherish the memory
of our intercourse, the remembrance of your kindnesses,
and invariable support. My warm welcomes at your
homes and your visits to my family, and your constant
attendance on the appointed religious meetings under so
many discouragements, the support of your prayers, and
your self-denying labors in the fairs which have been held
by our society, are indelibly impressed upon my heart,
and I shall never cease to pray for God's blessing to rest
upon you and upon yours."
The church and society accepted the resignation and
passed votes of thanks and commendation. No serious
attempt was made to continue the operations of the soci-
ety. The meeting-house was leased for a year or two to
the New Jerusalem or Swedenborg Church, but in the
early part of the year 1867 a bill on request of some of
the pew holders was passed by the legislature of the State
to authorize James Kimball, Allen W. Dodge and Benja-
min C. Perkins to dispose of the meeting-house and ves-
try, and apply the proceeds to the payment of the debts
of the society, and of the necessary expenses incurred,
and if any portion remained, to be distributed among the
pew owners in proportion to the appraised value of the
pews. This bill passed the Senate, April 29th, 1867,
the House of Representatives May 3, 1867, and the gov-
ernor approved it May 9, 1867. .
The house and vestry were sold at auction soon after,
and the debts were paid. The church appointed a com-
mittee to give letters of dismissal to other churches, and
thus terminated the life of the church.
The history of the Branch, or Howard Street Church
thus concludes. It passed through many changes since
its organization, December 19, 1803, and the dedication
of their meeting-house, February 6, 1805. Besides
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those who have regularly ministered to this church, a
large number of highly influential and able ministers have
occasionally occupied the pulpit. Judge Story delivered
his eulogy on Lawrence arid Ludlow to a crowded house,
assembled Aug. 23, 1813. The voice of prayer and the
hymns of praise have here ascended unto God. Baptism
and the Lord's Supper have been administered. The
cloud symbolical of the divine presence has often filled
the place.
At the dedication of the house, Mr. Spaulding checked
the exultation by solemnly calling upon them, "Arise
ye, this is not your rest ;" and how many who heard him
have arisen to the mansions above !
Oh, how many sacred memories gather about a church
edifice which for threescore years has been a place for
Christian worship ! Who can tell all the rich experiences
of faith ; all the sorrows of penitence ; all the delights
of love ; all the comforts of Christian fellowship ; all the
joys of Divine communion, and the anticipated bliss of
heaven ? It is written above in reference to such places ;
"This and that man were born there into a hope of ever-
lasting life."
APPENDIX.
The following brief history of the proceedings attend-
ing the dissolution of the Howard Street Church Corpo-
ration and the final settlement of its affairs will not be
inappropriate to be inserted at the close of the preceding
article by Mr. Beaman. J. K.
On the petition of Benjamin A. Gray, et al., proprie-
tors of the Howard Street Corporation to the General
Court of Massachusetts, an act was passed in 1867,
Chap. 54, appointing Benjamin C. Perkins of -Peabody,
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Allen W. Dodge of Hamilton and James Kimball, of
Salem, as Commissioners, with authority to sell and con-
vey the real and personal estate belonging to the propri-
etors, to pay all existing demands, and divide the balance
according to law.
The commissioners gave public notice of their appoint-
ment, with a request that all persons should present their
claims for adjustment.
The property having been duly advertised was sold at
public auction on June the 28th, 1867, by William Archer,
auctioneer, of Salem.
The meeting-house, organ, gas fixtures, clock and vari-
ous other articles were purchased by James F. Almy,
Esq., of Salem. The meeting-house was taken down,
and such of its materials as were available were used in
the construction of the First Methodist Meeting-house in
Beverly. The interest of the proprietors in the chapel
and land on which it stood was purchased by Amos Smith,
who had a claim on the same. This has since been resold
to Stephen B. Ives, and removed by him to his own land
in the rear and converted into a dwelling-house. The lot
of land belonging to the meeting-house, with the cellar,
was purchased by Amos Smith and others, and has been
resold to the city of Salem, and is now occupied by the
"Howard Street Primary" school-house. The "Howard
Street bell," as it was called, which was the finest in the
city, was purchased by subscription, and given in trust
to the mayor of the city as an alarm-bell, and was re-
moved by the city authorities to the belfry of the Central
Baptist Meeting-house in St. Peter's street.
The total sales amounted to $3,825.34. After the pay-
ment of preferred claims and expenses, the remaining
creditors received on principal and interest .9303 per
cent, on the dollar. Nothing was left for the proprietors.
A meeting of the proprietors was called by public
notice in the papers, and a formal dissolution of the soci-
ety took place.
The silver communion service belonging to the Church
was sold, and the proceeds divided amongst those of its
members who remained in its fellowship at the time of sale.
PERKINS FAMILY OF IPSWICH.
COMMUNICATED BY GEORGE A. PERKINS.
(Continued from page 227.)
Jacob Perkins to Mary Cogswell, Sep'r 8, 1716.
Nath'll Perkins to Eliza. Decker, Rowley, 9, 4, 1717.
John Perkins to Eliza. Endicott.'Box., 15, 1, 1718.
Robert Perkins pub'd Eliza. Douton, Oct. 25, 1718.
Stephen Perkins to Marg'tt Bligh, Sep'r 26, 1719.
Stephen Glazier and Elizabeth Perkins, both of Ipswich, the twenty-
fourth day of December, 1720, were published.
Matthew Perkins, jun'r and the widdow Mary Smith, both of Ipswich)
were published the ^fourteenth of January, 1720-1.
Edmund Potter, of Boston, and the widdow Esther Perkins, of Ipswich,
were published ye twenty second day of April, 1721.
Mark Perkins and Dorothy Whipple, both of Ipswich, were published
the fourth day of June, 1721.
Elisha Perkins and Abigail Newmarch, both of Ipswich, were pub-
lished the fourth day of August, 1722.
Mark How, of Ipswich aud Hephzibah Perkins, of Topsfleld were
published the sixth day of October, 1722.
Joseph Emerson and Abigail Perkins, both of Ipswich, were published
the fifteenth day of December, 1722.
Benjamin Grant and Elizabeth Perkins, both of Ipswich, were pub-
lished the twenty third day of January, 1722-3.
Benjamin Grant and Anne Perkins, both of Ipswich, were published
the second day of February, 1722-3.
Benjamin Newman, jun'r and Hannah Perkins, both of Ipswich, were
published the fifth of October, 1723.
Mr. William Perkins and Mrs. Hannah Crumpton, both of Ipswich,
were published the first day of February, 1723.
Westley Perkins and Abigail Rindge, both of Ipswich, were published
ye 27th day of Novem'r, anno 1725.
John Holland and Mary Perkins, both of Ipswich, were published ye
4th day of December, anno 1725.
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Thomas Treaclwell, tertius, and Sarah Perkins, both of Ipswich, were
published the 29th of October, 1726.
Barnabas Dodge and Martha Perkins, both of Ipswich, were published
the twenty fourth of August, 1728.
Joseph Perkins and Elizabeth Fellows, both of Ipswich, were pub-
lished the second of Nov'r, 1728.
Mr. Jacob Perkins and Mrs. Susanna Butler, widdo., both of Ipswich,
were published the seventh of Dec., 1728.
Mr. Thomas Norton, jun'r, and Mrs. Mary Perkins, both of Ipswich,
were published the fourth January, 1728.
John Butler and Hannah Perkins, of Chebacco in Ipswich, were pub-
lished the 27th of Decem'r, 1729.
John Bennet, of Rowley, and the widdow Eliza Perkins, of Ipswich,
were published March 21st, 1729.
Thomas Nason and Sarah Perkins, both of Ipswich, were published
the nineteenth day of Septemb'r, "1730.
Jeremiah Perkins and Joanna Smith, both of Ipswich, were published
the seventh of November, 1730.
John Greaves and Hannah Perkins, both of Ipswich, were published
the seventh of November, 1730.
Nathaniel Hart, jun'r and Elisabeth Perkins entred their intention of
marriage the 29th of March, 1731.
Capt. Elias Lowater, of Salem, and Mrs. Eliza Perkins, of Ipswich,
were published the sixteenth of October, 1731.
Jonathan Low, jun'r, and Sarah Perkins, both of Ipswich (Chebacco)
were published Octo. 16th, 1731.
Nathan Perkins and Elizabeth Manning, both of Ipswich, were pub-
lished October ye 23d, A. D., 1731.
James Perkins and Margaret Andrews, both of Chebacco in Ipswich,
were publisht. Novr. 5th, 1732.
Charles Adams, of Ipswich, and Mary Perkins of Wenham, were pub-
lisht. Octo. 13th, 1733.
Jacob Perkins, at the Hill, and Mary Dresser, both of Ipswich, were
publisht. Octo. 27th, 1733.
William Greely and Judith Perkins, both of Ipswich, were publisht.
Novr. 3d, 1733.
Nathanael Fuller and the widdo. Eliza. Perkins, both of Ipswich,
entred their intento. of marra. Dec. 7th, 1733.
Nathanael Perkins & Hannah Holland, both of Ipswich, entred their
intento. of marra. November 8, 1735.
John Perkins and the widdo. Abigail Dike, both of Ipswich, entred
their intento. of marra. Feb'ry 4th, 1735.
Isaac Perkins and Elizabeth Butler, both of Chebacco parish, entred
their intento. of marra. March 4th, 1736.
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Nathanael Perkins and Anna Harris, both of Ipswich, entred their
intento. of. marriage July 30th, 1737.
William Ely, junr. of Lyme in Connect., Colo., and Eliza. Perkins, of
Chebacco parish, entred yr intento. of marra. 7br. 16th, 1737.
Samuel Hovey and Eliza. Perkins, both of Ipswich, entred their in-
tento. of marra. Septemr. 25th, A. D. 1737.
Jacob Perkins, junr., and Mary Fuller, both of Ipswich, entred their
intention of marriage, Feb. 9, 1739.
James Gerrish, of Berwick, and wido. Mary Perkins of Ipswich, entd.
yr. intento. of marriage Decb. 12th, 1740.
Benjamin Kinsman & Eliza. Perkins, both of Ipswich, entred yr. inten-
tion of marriage Decb. 27th, 1740.
Daniel Kinsman & Mary Perkins, of Ipswich, entred their intento. of
marriage Jan. 10th, 1740.
Joseph Fowler, of Wenhain, & Eliza. Perkins, of Ipswich, entred yr
intention of marriage Oct. 3d, 1741.
Jacob Perkins, junr. & Eliza. Storey, both of Ipswich, entred yr inten-
tion, of marriage, July 28th, 1743.
Joseph Perkins, junr. & Elizabeth Choate, both of Ipswich, entred yr
iutento. of marriage January 7th, 1743.
Samuel Dike and Mary Perkins, both of Ipswich, entred yr. intention
of marriage Augt. 15th, 1747.
Francis Perkins & Martha Quarles, both of Ipswich, entred their in-
tento. marriage Oct. 17th, 1747.
Jeremiah Foster, junr., & Abigail Perkins, both of Ipswich, entred
their intention of marriage, Novb. 5th, 1748.
William Perkins and Eliza. Maybey, both of Ipswich, entred yr intento.
of marriage May llth, 1749.
Robert Perkins, of Topsfield, & Hannah Cummins, of Ipswich, entred
yr intention of marriage Sept. 27th, 1750.
Mr. John Rust & Mrs. Hannah Perkins, both of Ipswich, entred yr
intention of marriage, Novb. 17th, 1750.
Mr. Thomas Perkins, of Topsfleld, and Mrs. Martha Williams, of
Ipswich, entred yr inteno. of marr. Novb. 22d, 1751.
Mr. Jonathan Foster, of Ipswich, and Mrs. Dorcas Perkins, of Tops-
fleld, entred yr. intention of marriage Novb. 22d, 1751.
Mr. Abraham Lakeman and Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins, of Ipswich, entred
yr. iutento. of marr. Decb. 2d, 1752.
Robert Perkins & Elizabeth Brown, both of Ipswich, entred yr. inten-
tion of marriage Aprill 6th, 1758.
Mr. John Kinsman & Mrs. Eliza. Perkins, wido., both of Ipswich, en-
tred yr intention of marr. Decb. 9th, 1753.
Mr. Isaac Andrews & Mrs. Lucy Perkins, both of Ipswich, entred their
intention of marr. Augt. 10th, 1754.
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Mr. Francis Perkins & Mrs. Hannah Cogswell, both of Ipswich,
entred their intento. of marr. Feby. 8th, 1755.
Mr. Elisha Goold & Mrs. Abigail Perkins, both of Ipswich, entred yr
intention of marriage July 26th, 1755.
Mr. Nathl. Perkins, jur., & Mrs. Mary Lowater, both of Ipswich,
entred yr intento. of marr. Feby. 26th, 1757.
Mr. Jacob Perkins, of Boxford, & Mrs. Mercy Fowler, of Ipsh., entred
their intento. of marr. Oct. 27th, 1759.
Mr. Joseph Cummings, jur., of Ipswich, & Mrs. Judith Perkins, of
Topsfleld, entred their intento. of marr. March 3d, 175 [worn off
1758].
Mr. John Storey & Mrs. Hannah Perkins, both of Ipswich, entred yr
intention of marr. Apll. 4th, 1760.
MARRIAGES.
Abraham Perkins to Hannah Beamsley, October 16th, 1661.
Katherine Perkins to John Baker, May 13th, 1667.
Jacob Perkins to Saraii Wainwright, 1667.
Elizabeth Perkins to Thomas Borman, January 1st, 1667.
Martha Perkins to John Lamsou, December 17, 1669.
Mary Perkins to Thomas Wells, January 10th, 1669.
Judith Perkins to Nathl. Browne, December 16th, 1673.
Samuel Perkins to Hannah West, 1677.
Luke Perkins to Elizabeth Jago, April 26th, 1677.
Jacob Perkins to Elizabeth Sparks, December 27th, 1684.
Luke Perkins to Martha Conant, May 31st, 1688.
Jacob Perkins was marled to Elisabeth Sparks, Dece. 25, 1684.
Thomas Emerson was married to Phillip Perkins, Novemb. 20, 168
[torn off, 1685].
John Brewer was married to Martha Perkins, June 3d, 1689.
Jacob Burnam marryd Mehitable Perkins, Nov. 20, 1704.
Abraham Perkins marryd Abigail Dodge, Nov. 6, 1701.
Edward Eveleth, marrd. Eliza. Perkins, Janr. 4, 1704.
Thomas Stevens and Charity Perkins, both of Ipswich, were married
ye 24th day May, 1722.
John Swain, of Reading, and Mary Perkins, of Topsfleld, were mar-
ried the first day Dec., 1720.
Timothy Nicholls, of Reading, and Hannah Perkins, of Topsfield,
were married at Ipswich, October 7th, 1725.
Francis Choate and Hannah Perkins, both of Chebacco in Ipswich,
were married April 13th, 1727.
1728, Sept. 27th, Barnabas Dodge and Martha Perkins were married.
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1728, Janry. 28th, Mr. Thomas Norton, jnnr., and Mrs. Mary Perkins
were married.
1728, Feb'ry 10th, Jacob Perkins and widdo. Susanna Butler, both of
Ipswich, were joined in marriage.
1731, Novr. 10, Capt. Elias Lowater and Elizabeth Perkins married.
1731, November 18th, Jonathan Low, junr., and Sarah Perkins joined
in marriage.
1732, Dec. 14th, James Perkins and Margaret Andrews were joined in
marriage.
June 17, 1730, John Bennet, of Rowley, & the widdo. Eliza. Perkins,
of Ipsw. were joined in marriage.
Dec. 3, 1730, John Greaves and Hannah Perkins, both of Ipswich,
were joined in marriage.
June 15, 1731, Josiah Woodberry, of Bev'ly & Hannah Perkins, of
Ipsw. were joined in marriage.
1733, Decemr. 6th, Mr. Jacob Perkins & Mary Dresser were joined in
marriage.
1733, Decemr. 6th, William Greely & Judith Perkins were joined in
marriage.
1733, Jan'y 14, Nathanael Fuller and Eliza. Perkins, widdo., were
joined in -marriage.
John Perkins and Abigail Dike, both of Ipswich, were married the
4th of March, 1735.
Sept. 15th, 1737, Nathan'l Perkins and Anna Harris married.
Feb'ry 8th, 1730, Thos. Perkins & Eliza. Fowler were married.
1740, March 19th, Jacob Perkins & Mary Fuller were joined in mar-
riage.
1740, Jan. 23d, Dan'll Kinsman & Mary Perkins, both of Ipswich, were
joined in marriage.
1741, Jan. 20th, Joseph Fowler, of Wenham, & Eliza. Perkins, of
Ipswich, were joined in marriage.
The following persons joined in marriage by the Revd. Nehemiah
Porter, of Chebacco parish in Ipswich.
1753, July 19th, Robert Perkins & Elizabeth Brown, both of Ipswich.
Apl. 13th, 1760, Mr. John Storey & Mrs. Hannah Perkins, both of
Ipswich, were married by the Revd. John Cleaveland.
John Perkins & Sarah Elliot, Feb. 27th, 1786.
Martha Perkins & David Burnham, Feb. 7th, 1787.
William Perkins & Elizabeth Proctor Oct. 15th, 1788.
Sarah Perkins & Eleazer Low, Dec. 25, 1788.
Jacob Perkins of Maiden & Rebecca Appleton of Ips. Augt. 1, 1789.
Lucy Perkins & John Lord, jun., Jany. 27, 1789.
Jonathan Perkins & Dorcas Haskell, Jan. 7, 1790.
Sarah Perkins & John Fitz, Nov. 16, 1791.
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Mary Perkins & Nathan Choate, April 10, 1794.
Ruth Perkins & Adoniram Haskell, May 13th, 1794.
Mary Perkins & Thomas Lewis Hovey, Dec. 30th, 1794.
DEATHS .
John, son of Jacob Perkins, died April 6, 1669.
Elisabeth, wife to Quart. John Perkins, died Sept. 27, 1684.
Sarj. Jacob Perkins' wife died Febr. the 12th, 1685.
Quart. John Perkins, died Deer, the 14th, 1686.
Sarah, wife to Jacob Perkins junr., died Febr. 3d, 1688.
Elizabeth, wife to Jacob Perkins, died Aprill the 10th, 1692.
Capta. Beamsley Perkins died at his house in Ipswich, ye twenty third
day of July, 1720, being 47 years, three mo. and 16 days old.
Sarah, daughter of John aud Elizabeth Perkins, dyed ye 7th July, 1720.
Martha Perkins, wife of Matthew Perkins, junr., dyed ye 30th Sepr.,
1720.
Mr. Abraham Perkins dyed the 27th day of April, 1722, in the 82d year
of his age, being run over by a tumbrill, broke many bones across
his breast.
Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Eliza. Perkins, dyed Augt. 25, 1726.
Lucy, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Perkins, dyed Octo. 30th, 1726,
JEt. 6.
Lucy, an infant, daughter of Jacob and Eliza. Perkins, dyed Fbr. 9,
1727.
Lucy, daughr. of Jacob and Eliz'a. Perkins, dyed March 6th, 1728, JEt.
7 mo.
Brewer, son of Matthew Perkins, junr., and Mary, dyed Septr. 1st,
1730.
Daniel (an infant), son of Jacob and Eliza. Perkins, dyed Sept. 29th,
1731.
Hannah Perkins, relict of Samuel Perkins, deed., dyed Augt. 21t, 1732.
Eliz-abeth Perkins, wife of Jacob Perkins, dyed Septr. 27, 1732.
Mrs. Hannah Perkins, relict of Mr. Abra. Perkins, deed., dyed Octo.
16th, 1732, JEt. 91.
Capt. Stephen Perkins deceased May 15th, 1733, JEt. 50.
Stephen, son of Matthw. Perkins, junr., & Mary, deed. Feb'ry 21, 1735.
JEt. 4 yr., 1 mo.
John, son of John & Eliza. Perkins, dyed March 8, 1735, yrs. 12 & 5 m.
Zerobbabel, son of John & Mary Perkins, deed. March 19, 1735.
Eunice, daught. of John & Eliza. Perkins, deed. Mch. 31, 1736, JEt. 9
yr., 11 mo., 20 d.
Hannah Perkins, wife of Nathl. Perkins, deed. May 13th, 1736, JEt. 17
yr, 9 mo.
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Daniel, son of Jeremiah & Joannah Perkins, deed. June It, 1736.
Matthew Perkins, junr., deed. May 28t, 1737.
Capt. Matthew Perkins departed this life April 15, 1738, Mt. 72 yrs., 9
mo., 23 d.
Mrs. Sarah Perkins, wido. of Jacob Perkins, deed. Augt. 5, 1738, JEt.
65 y., 7 mo.
Sarah Perkins, daugr. of John Perkins, died Angt. 8th, 1742.
Jeremiah, son of Jeremiah Perkins, died May 1st, 1748.
Saml., son of Jacob Perkins, died Novb. 30th, 1748.
The wido. of Capt. Matthew Perkins died Oct. 6th, 1749.
Joseph Perkins drowned in Ipswich bay, Oct. 10th, 1751.
Hepzibah, daugt. of Joseph Perkins, deed. & Eliza, died Decb. 25,
1753.
Jacob Perkins, of Chebacco, died 28th March, 1754.
Mada. Margaret Perkins, died May 23d, 1754.
Wido. Hannah Perkins died Augt. 2d, 1758.
MeMtable Perkins died Oct. 7th, 1758.
Jacob Perkins died Decb. 2d, 1758.
Nathl. Perkins was drowned on Ipswich barr, May 4th, 1761.
Susannah, widdow of Jacob Perkins of Chebacco, died Oct. 1st, 1769,
.St. 80 yrs.
The foregoing are true extracts from the records of the town of
Ipswich. Attest,
ALFRED KIMBALL, Town clerk.
EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF LIEUT. JOHN
PRESTON, OF SALEM VILLAGE.
COMMUNICATED BY SAMUEL P. FOWLER.
THIS diar^ was written on a 16mo sheet of ten pages.
On the outside of the manuscript was the following en-
dorsement :
JOHN PEESTON,
SALEM VILLAGE,
1743.
I find no record of the birth of Lieut. John Preston, or
of his wife, Hannah Putnam. He died June 14th, 1771,
his wife March 28th, 1771. He had ten children, whose
names are as follows :
Elizabeth, born May 9th, 1745 ; John, born Sept. 8th,
1746 ; Philip, born Oct. 30th, 1748 ; Joshua, born March
22d, 1751 ; David, born March ~20th, 1752 ; Hannah, born
Aug. 8th, 1754 ; Levi, born Oct. 21st, 1756 ; Moses, born
April 20th, 1758 ; Aaron, born March 24th, 1760 ; Daniel,
born June llth, 1761.
Philip died May 29th, 1749; Joshua died May llth,
1751 ; Aaron died April 9th, 1760; Daniel died July 1st,
1762 ; David died Jan. 16th, 1774.
REMARKS ON YE YEAR
1944.
A blazing star was seen from December 24, 1743, to till
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Feb. 14 then it set about half an hour after sundown,
and it rose half an hour before the sun, and it drew nearer
the sun till it came to ye sun.
It was seen in the daytime.
June 2. War proclaimed with France.
June 3.* An earthquake a little after 10 o'clock in the
forenoon.
July 6. My father died in the 81st year of his age.
Sept. 9. A very hard frost.
1145.
Very moderate weather all February but two or three
days.
March 17. At night very hard thunder.
" 24. f The fleet sailed for Cape Breton.
May 9. My daughter Elizabeth born.
May 27. Rufus Putnam fell from Capt. John Gardner's
house and died in an hour after.
June 10. My brother 'listed for Cape Breton. Sailed
from Boston June 26, and arrived at Louisburg harbor
July 6th, and wrote me a letter dated July 7th. I received
it July 27th.
Aug. 13. He was brought home sick.
174O.
Feb. 2d. A very fair, pleasant day.
Aug. 2. Some frost in the meadows.
Aug. 11, 12, 13. Some frost every morning so as to
kill the corn leaves.
Aug. 26. Very hard frost, so as to kill the corn, beans
and potatoes.
* Rev. Thomas Smith in his Journal says there was a Fast on account of this
earthquake. He first saw the comet in Boston the 26th of December. It had then
been seen near three weeks.
t For the reduction of Louisburg.
17
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Sept. 3. My sou John born.
Oct. 18. The snow a foot deep.
Dec. 3d. At night a violent snowstorm, the wind North-
east, and the snow lay close on the ground till the last of
March following ; and it was thought by many that there
was more snow this winter than there had been any winter
since the country was inhabited. .
174S.
April 14. My brother Philip Preston died in the 28th
year of his age. About the same time a comet was seen
in the Northeast for a fortnight or three weeks. This
summer was called the hottest and driest summer that had
been known for a great number of years.
Oct. 30. My son Philip was born. It was dry all the
winter following, and but very little snow or fain, but
cold and dry.
This spring remained so dry that by the middle of May,
the rivers and brooks were as dry and as low as ever
known in the Fall.*
May 29. My son Philip died after twenty-four days'
sickness.
June 15. A general fast throughout this Province on
ye account of the drought.
June 20. Joseph Cross came home after he had been
* A melancholy dry time, the grasshoppers do us more spoil than the drought. I
reckon my poultry (about 100) eat ten thousand grasshoppers every day. They
have eaten up entirely an acre of potatoes. Very hot. The most remarkable time
that ever we or our lathers saw. Smith's Jour.
The reading of these old journals gives us assurance in the belief that no great
changes have [taken place in the seasons. The two dry summers experienced in
the years 1748 and 1749 were very much like our last two dry seasons, and they oc-
curred when the country was covered with a dense forest. We must therefore look
to some other cause for our dry summers.
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gone almost twelve years, and almost eleven years of that
time he was on board of a man-of-war in the king's ser-
vice.
June 28. Aunt Mary Tarbot died in the ninety-sixth
year of her age.
July 1. The pastures were as dry, and almost as white
as in ye winter time. In the fore part of July we had
fine showers of rain, which brought to the pastures as
fresh as May. English hay was so scarce this summer
that it was sold at the rate of 50 or 60 a doad in
Salem, and some hay in Boston 80 or 90 per load.
Aug. 27. A general thanksgiving on account of the
rain. There was a considerable good crop of Indian corn,
and ye winter was so favorable that the cattle were win-
tered beyond expectation.
1?5O.
This spring came on early, and brought showers, and
considerable good crops of corn. English hay at 40 a
load, Lawful money.
July 24. A shower of hail that was as large as robins'
eggs when they fell, so that they cut holes through the
tobacco leaves and cabbages.
Oct. Cider sold in Salem for 4 shil. per barrel, Law-
ful money.
Dec. Indian meal sold in Salem market for two shil-
lings per bushel. A moderate winter, no snow for sled-
ding, but a great deal of rain.
1951.
Jethro Putnam died.
Feb. 11. Eleazer Brown came into the widow Crosse's
in the evening, and fell down and died in four or five
minutes after he got within the door.
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March 22. My son Joshua was born, and he died May
llth with the throat distemper. My other children very
bad with the same distemper, but they recovered.
July 29. It began to rain moderately about nine o'clock,
and it rained steadily all day and all night very hard, ye
wind high at southeast.
July 30. Exceeding hard shower so that the rivers the
31st of May were almost as high as ever known in the
spring.
Oct.*This winter the village and middle parish was set
off from Salem as a district by the name of Danvers.*
This year was ordered by Parliament to begin the 1st of
January.
March 20. My son David born.
This spring was very dry, and exceeding cold. Small
pox very bad in Boston, and in May it broke out in Salem
and Charlestown.
June 27. George Stone fell into his well and was
drowned.
July 12. Being Sabbath day, in the afternoon George
Small's house was struck with thunder, and the thunder
came down chimney and killed Solomon Phips as he sat
on a block by the jamb. He fell down dead, and never
spoke or stirred. He was just entered on his one and
twentieth year.
1153.
Nothing remarkable till December, then - Swinner-
ton, his wife and one child, all died with ye fever. This
winter very little snow but abundance of rain.
The month of April very cold and dry, and ye wind
* January 25th, 1752.
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N. E. and N. all the month but three or four days.
June 30. Being Sabbath day, it rained some. At night
it rained very hard all night, so that Ipswich river was as
high as ever was known in the spring.
Aug. 8. My daughter Hannah born.
Oct. Died, in Dea. Nathan Putnam's house, Joshua
Wiatt and one of Asa Putnam's children. About the
20th died the said Deacon, and three more of Asa Put-
nam's children. The three children were all buried in
one grave. This winter was open, no sledding at all.
May 31. A very hard frost, so as to kill the corn and
beans ; in the meadows the brakes were killed.
This summer was exceedingly cold, and the frost came
on very early in the fall, so Indian corn was very much
hurt in some places.
Sept. 15. Jonathan Majory 'listed to go to Crown Point.
Sept. 25. Capt. Samuel Flint marched out of Salem
with his company to go to Crown Point.
Oct. Very cold weather.
" 18. It snowed considerably.
" 25. Snowed again.
" 30. A very snowy, stormy day as you shall know
in the winter time.
November from the 1st to the 17th unusually foggy
weather, and no wind tfll the 18th. In the morning be-
tween 3 and 4 o'clock was a terribly hard earthquake, which
threw down a power of stone wall, and a great many tops
of chimneys. This winter moderate.
1756.
This summer very wet and cold, and the latter. part of
it very dry.
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Oct. 21. My son Levi born. This month died Lieut.
Elieazer Porter and his wife and two eldest sons with
fever.
This year the French took Fort William Henry.
175S.
April 20. My son Moses born. In July our army was
defeated at Ticonderoga with 4 or 5,000 men.
August. The English took Cape Breton. The summer
exceedingly wet and cold.
1959.
This year the English took Ticouderoga, Crown Point,
and Quebec.
1?GO.
Mch. 20. Great fire in Boston, burnt 3 or 400 houses.
" 24. My sou Aaron born.
THE CHIPMAN LINEAGE, PARTICULARLY AS IN
ESSEX COUNTY, MASS.
BY R. MANNING CHIPMAN.
THE surname "Chipman" is, in America, definitive.
More than denoting, consanguinity excluded, a common-
age, it designates, consanguinity included, a lineage. All
persons on this continent who by birth bear, or have
borne, this surname, now met with throughout the United
States and the adjoining British Provinces, are, so far as
long and wide search yet has found, comprised in one emi-
grant ancestor with his wives and his posterity. Two
branches from the main stem have been, and a third
branch until lately was, in Essex County, Mass. These
papers propose to give a specific account of those branches,
as related to that stem ; after presenting, as preparatory,
some items which pertain not only to the Essex County
part, but also to their congeners, of this lineage.
MEANING AND ORIGIN OF " CHIPMAN."
Surnames, that have more or less been changed in form
or in sound, may obtain or they may suggest a meaning
which is not the true one. When Rowland Hill in his
"Village Dialogues," serious tracts, used Chipman to de-
nominate a carpenter, readers see that he made a good
/it; and when Nathaniel I. Bowditch, in his "Suffolk
Names," a humorous compilation, intimated Chipman to
be in more than form akin to woodman, readers feel that
he made a good hit. What is apt and what is amusing
have their utility. Such authors, however, as offer to
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teach, should first know. Easy recipients may not be
surprised that William Arthur, in his "Dictionary of
Family and Christian Names," confounds Chipman with
Chapman ; but an investigator, without being profound,
may both have and express surprise that Mark Antony
Lower, in such a work as his "Patronymica Britannica,"
allowed himself to make and utter the same confusion ;
since Mr. Lower cannot have the apology of being sup-
posed ignorant of a book by which Mr. Arthur professes
to have been aided, Burke's "Encyclopedia of Heraldry,
or General Armory, etc." In this last named and authori-
tative work, to descriptions of the arms proper to this
surname are prefixed as follows : "Chipenham, or Chip-
nam," "Chippenham, or Chipman." The euphonic form
"Chipmau" comes from the contracted form "Chip'n'am."
Its first element is "chip," "chipping," "cheap," as in
"cHEAP-side," derivatives from the Anglo-Saxon ceapian,
cypan, Dutch koopen, German kaufen, Danish kiobe,
Swedish, kopa, Icelandic kaupa, to buy, sell, CHEAPEN;
a?^d its second, Anglo-Saxon ham, Dutch and German
heim, Danish hiem, Swedish hem, Icelandic heimr, a vil-
lage, town, HOME. Its import is chap(men's)-home ;
mart; emporium. It is, as will be seen by what follows,
one of the earliest surnames which, passing from an in-
dividual to a family designation, were thus made social,
transmissible, hereditary and permanent. As occurring
in ancient documents, prepared when Latin was the schol-
arly and French the legal language of English writers, it
had the prefix de, which in each of those languages pur-
ports "of" or "from, "and then noted, as to the persons so
styled, either the ownership of, or a present or former
residence at, some locality named Chippenham (Anglo-
Saxon Cyppanham, Doomsday Book Cipham, Cippen-
ham, etc.) ; viz., as follows :
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PLACES CHIPPENHAM.
Chippenham, Co. Buckingham, twenty-two miles from
London is "a Liberty in the Parish and Hundred of Burn-
ham, forming part of the ancient demesnes of the crown
[of England] , and said to be the site of a palace of the
Mercian kings."
Chippenham, Co. Cambridge, sixty-one miles from Lon-
don, is "a Parish in the Hundred of Staplehou, a dis-
charged Vicarage in the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, and
Diocese of Norwich."
Chippenham, Co. Wilts., ninety-three miles from Lon 7
don, is "a Borough, Market-Town, and Parish, in the
Hundred of Chippenham," and "a place of the greatest
antiquity. In the time of [king] Alfred, it was one of
the finest towns in the [Anglo-Saxon] kingdom."
ARMS OF CHIPMAN.
The arms of Chipman, as for several generations in the
line of John Chipman, below marked (8), had present,
in their coloring and otherwise, enough appearance of anti-
quity to render probable the position that the picture was
made in England, that is, before such things were in this
country furnished to the order of whoever would pay for
the drawing of a so-called "coat of arms." As in that
picture, except that there are seen around the "shield"
appendages termed "supporters" which formerly were by
English rule used without, though latterly used only with,
permission expressed by the king, they are those which
the Messrs. Burke, giving them as by record of "Heralds'
Visitations" known to pertain to the Chipmans once
residing in Bristol, England, describe thus : "Ar. a bend
betw. six estoiles gu. Crest A leopard sajant ar.
murally crowned ;" viz., as less technically stated : "Upon
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a white shield or escutcheon, a red shoulder-belt between
six (red) stars. Seated above the shield a white leopard,
on his head a red mural crown." In respect to what
the emblems so described mean, the Messrs. Burke say :
" The crest or cognizance served, to distinguish the com-
batants in the battle or tournament ;" and M. Porny
"A mural crown was conferred upon him who first, at an
assault, mounted the walls of a besieged town, and there
set up a standard." That person, then, to whom in
feudal times was by his sovereign granted the right, for
himself and for his posterity, to have and to bear these
ensigns, was a soldier approved and rewarded for his
valor. In these, as in other armorial bearings, the ab-
sence of elaborateness and flourish attests their relatively
great antiquity.
CHIPMANS IN ENGLAND.
Willielmus de Chipenham was chairman of the com-
missioners ("jurors") in the "Hundred of Staplehou,"
Co. Cambridge, Eng., who, by order of William the
Conqueror, took, A.D., 1085, the inventory of the exten-
sive estates possessed by the opulent Monastery of El} r ,
in that County. The original record or report of that
survey is preserved among the Cottonian Manuscripts in
the British Museum and is marked "Tiberius, A. VI."
A printed copy of it forms a considerable part of the
"Doomsday Book," as prepared and issued under direc-
tion of the "Record Commission" appointed by the Brit-
ish Parliament, viz., the Inquisitio Eliensis, in Vol. II.
Ricardus de Chippenham was a burgess, returned for
Wallingford, Co. Berks., who obtained, A. D., 1306, as
also A. D., 1313, his "Writ de Expensis" for attending
the then last Parliament at Westminster.
Johannes de Chipman was a burgess, returned for
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Chippenham, Co. Wilts., who obtained, A. D., 1313, his
"Writ de Expensis" for attending the then last Parlia-
ment at Westminster. He is described as "Le Chap-
man;" in effect as if John Chipman, of Trade-town,
trader.
Sir [Rev.] John de Chippenham was one of the one
hundred and nineteen legatees of "the princely Clare,"
viz., Elizabeth de Burgh, Co. Clare and Prov. Munster,
Ir., Countess of Clare and foundress of Clare Hall, whose
father was Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, Eng.,
whose mother was Joan d' Acres, daughter of Edward I.,
of Eng., whose husband was John de Burgh, son and
heir of the Earl of Ulster, Ir. , and whose daughter was
Countess of Athol, Scot. Her will, dated at St. Clare,
25 Sept., 1355, was proved 3 Dec., 1360.
With equal minuteness might have been specified Wal-
ter Chiepman, A. D., 1198; Segar Chiepman, 1198;
Henry de Chippeham, 1216 ; John Chypman, M.P., 1298 ;
Walterus de Chippenham, 1327 ; Johannes de Chippen-
ham, 1355 ; Walter Chippenham, 1383 ; Henry Chippen-
ham, 1421 ; other Henry Ghippenhams, 1433 and onward ;
several Thomas Chippenhams (and Chipmans), of whom
was an ambassador extraordinary, with prebendaries, an
archdeacon and a S. T. P., 1433-1512 ; Juliana de Chip-
nam, 1509 ; Nicholas Chippenham, eccles. commis., 1518 ;
Edward Chipnam, 1625 ; and Eleanor Chipnam, 1570.
The persons above named are as found in the books
prepared and issued under direction of the "Record Com-
mission" appointed by the British Parliament, and in
works equally authoritative. It may here be added that
the historic statements made in these pages, though the
authorities are for brevity's sake not assigned, are all
historically based and sustained.
The date last above written being of a year later than
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that in which was born the founder of the lineage which
is, in some of its lines, to be soon presented ; the list
above given forms thus a sort of Jacob's ladder from that
lineage upward, each of the specified persons a round of
it, so that by a genealogical eye may be seen generations
ascending as well, as descending upon it.
The surname Chipman is extant, though not frequent,
now in England. From 1830 to 1850 it was borne in
Bristol and in Chippenham, its old localities as respects
some families; and in 1843, in Exeter, in that country.
In 1851-56 was a " J. Chipman, a Member of the Royal
College of Surgeons, at London."
ENGLISH CHIPMANS ON AMERICAN ISLANDS.
A physician named Chipman went from England, about
1835, and was till he deceased, about 1840, an associate
in medical practice at St. John, Antigua, W. I., with
Anthony Musgrave, M. D., the treasurer of that colony.
Another gentleman, a native of England and having that
sul-iiame, was, not far from 1840, at St. John, Newfound-
land, B. A., or its vicinity, probably a visitor there. No
others than these have been known or heard of as being
bearers of this surname, even temporarily, in America,
who were not, or are not ascertained congeners in that
lineage of which an outline is now, as below, given.
FIRST GENERATION.
To the names arranged serially are joined figures; a large one
prefixed, to specify individuals, a small one suffixed, to specify gen-
erations of the lineage. A name printed in large capital letters is one
with which, "on its recurrence in the series, will be found a special
or memorial notice, and also the date of birth, unless not known.
On such recurrence, the serial number which before was prefixed, will
be found suffixed, large, and in ( ). Abbreviations used are: b., for
bora; bap., baptized; m., married; d., dead, or died; Ru. Eld., Ruling
Elder ; and such others as are common. To names of places not in
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Massachusetts are added the names of counties, etc., except as to
places assumed uot to need such specification. The double date of
years usually denotes alternation, as "Jan., 1651-2" is of 1C51, accord-
ing to the old method of beginning the year on 25th March ; otherwise
is of 1652 ; in some cases, as 1865-7, it denotes continuity, or the
period from 1865 to 1867. Quotations are, in respect to orthography,
punctuation, etc., as are their originals.
1. THOMAS CHIPMAN was born, probably in Whitchurch,
not far from Dorchester, Dorset Co., Eng., about A. D.,
1567; died about 1623. He last resided in Bryan's-
Piddle, some five miles from said Dorchester. He was
owner of " Some certain Tenement or Tenements with a
Mill & other Edifice thereunto beclouding Lying and
being in Whitchurch of Marshwood vale near Burfoot
Alias Breadport [Bridport] in DorSetshire afores d her[e]-
tofore worth 40 or 50 Pounds p Annum," of which
property he, "about Threescore years" before 1651, was
dispossessed "By reason of Some kiude of Sale made of
Inconsiderable value by the s d Thomas (In the time of
his Single Estate not then minding marriage) unto his
kinsman M r Christopher Derby Living Sometime in
Sturtle [Sturthill] near Burfort afores d ." In 1775, as in
1848 stated the late Hon. Henry Chipman 7 , of Detroit,
Mich., Thomas Chipman 5 , of Salisbury, Conn,., who "was
by the right of primogeniture the lineal heir," but who
seems not to have known that any document respecting
the estate was extant in America, "caused inquiries to be
made by Silas Dean or Dr. Franklin (one or both),
colonial agents [then] in England, in regard to the es-
tate;" which inquiries "resulted in ascertaining that it
lay" as above described, and "that the rental was worth
five hundred pounds sterling." The last named Thomas
Chipman "meant to have prosecuted his claim, but was
prevented by the breaking out of the Revolution and its
consequences." The extract first above made, which is
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from an ancieut copy of a document prepared by John
Chipman(4), more than verifies the "tradition" referred to
in the statement last quoted. As connected with other
parts of the copied document, and in the light afforded
by other documents and records, some of which may
more distinctly be indicated below, that extract exhibits
how and in what degree the more shrewd than just ac-
quirer of Thomas Chipman's(l) estate was "his kinsman ;"
that is to say, there thus appears that the seller and
buyer were cousins-german in virtue of the latter's father
having married a sister of either the father or else of the
mother of the former. This uncle to Thomas Chipman(l)
was the "Henry Derby" who, in 1591, then of Bryau's-
Piddle, "bought, in company with John Croon, of the
same place, the manor and hamlet of Westport, in the
parish of St. Michael's and town and borough of Ware-
ham, from George Wadham, of Catherstone, Esq.," and
whose sons, viz., "Christopher Derby, of Sturthill (, gent,
buried in Shipton, 1639)," and "William Derby, of Dor-
chester, mercer" (, uncle and great-uncle, respectively,
to "William Derby and William his son," deceased, then
"of Sturthill, 1683"), together sold the "moiety of the
manor of Bryau's-Piddle, 1632." As connected with
Thomas Chipman's(l) estate at Whitchurch, Christopher
Derby and other of his sons will have farther mention.
As connected with the birthplace and with the homes of
Thomas Chipman's(l) descendants, and in regard to more
general interests, William Derby, brother to Christopher,
has elsewhere, and here may have, a record of honor.
He was a member, sometimes official, always efficient, of
the "Massachusetts Company," or "Company of New
England," by themselves styled "Adventurers for a Plan-
tation intended at Massachusetts Bay in New England in
America," through whose energy, under a grant obtained
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from the "Council of Plymouth, in the County of Devon,
for the planting, ordering and governing New England in
America," the "Commonwealth of Massachusetts" was
founded. The present writer, if not as being also "his
kinsman," yet as being a native of that Salem in the rudi-
ments of which, begun in 1626, Massachusetts had in
1628 its beginning, and in 16289 its capital, takes pleas-
ure in concluding this incidental account of him by
reminding other natives of that Salem how the founders
of their city and of their State held him in grateful es-
teem ; for "the noted Darby Fort," erected in 1629 on
Naugus Head to defend Salem's principal harbor, pre-
serves the name, and commemorates, too, the app'recia-
tiou set by contemporaries and associates on the merits
manifested in the services rendered, of William Derby.
By the connection, already set forth and to be again
brought into view, with William Derby, as also by the
intimacy, just below affirmed, with Mr. Lawrence, who,
or his son or other heir of the same name, "held the manor
and advowson of the .vicarage and other lands of Afl-
Pidclle," a "little" west of Bryau's-Piddle, is indication
given of the social position of Thomas Chipmau(l) . Both
unfortunate and at least unsagacious as he had been, in the
matter of his estate, his position continued to be what, in
his country and especially in his time, was of more conse-
quence than it would be here and now, socially respect-
able.
Thomas Chipraan(l) married, somewhat after 1590,
, who deceased near 1637. All that is known of their
children other than one son is in the closing part of the
copy, before mentioned, of the document prepared by
their son, given as follows: "John Chipman desires his
Love be presented to his Sisters Hannor and Tumsun and
to hear particulor[l]} r from them if Living and doth fur-
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tber request that Enquiry be made of m r Oliver Lawrence
of Arpittle [Aff-PicklleJwho was an Intimate friend of his
fathers he Desires also Enquiry be made of his Sisters
what those parchment writings Concerned in the Custody
of his mother when he was there." The sisters' names,
as so furnished, may be those conferred by their parents,
or those acquired by marriage. "Hannah," as in other
instances, so in this, may be a baptismal feminine name,
or, which not seldom occurs, a surname. "Tamson" (or,
as the preference is, "Twmswn") may have been intended
for Thomasine (not infrequently written Tamasine), a
baptismal feminine name, or, as a form which is provincial
in England, for "Thomson." A "John Tompson," as
records have it, or "lohii Tomson," as his autograph has
it, was, by residence and otherwise, so associated in this
country with their brother, as renders either affinity or
consanguinity between the two men not improbable. The
names of the sisters remaining ambiguous, leave the
question whether or not they married, unsolved.
Three children :
2. "Hannor."* (Hannah?)
3. "Tumsum." 2 (Thomasine?)
4. JOHN. 2
SECOND GENERATION.
4. Ru. Eld. JOHN CHIPMAN, son of Thomas Chipman(l),
was born near Dorchester, probably at Bryan' s-Piddle,
Dorset Co., Eng., about 1614; died 7 April, 1708.
Always brotherless and early left fatherless, he came to
America after having for a short time lived in the house-
hold of that wealthy cousin of his father through whose
cozenage of his father he had, as already recited, been
made portionless. The time of his emigration, with the
date of his birth, is supplied by his own words as, in the
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document before mentioned, copied thus :" The s d John
Supposeth his Age to be About thirty seven years : it
being next may Twenty and one year[s] Since he Come
out of England, Barnstable as Afores d this 8th of Feb
(51)." As the year was then reckoned to begin in March
on the 25th day, the "may," next to succeed the February
in A.D. 1651-2, was, of course, May, 1652. It so appears
that he emigrated in May, 1631. His thus copied words,
when supplemented by a record of Gov. Winthrop, of
Mass., assign also the port of his departure and the port
of his arrival, with the name of the vessel in which his
voyage was made. Winthrop recorded, as follows :
"Year 1631 ... July . . 14. The ship called the Friend-
ship, of Barnstable [,Eng.], arrived at Boston, after she
had been at sea eleven weeks and [been] beaten back by
foul weather. She set sail from Barustable again, about
the midst of May." So is shown that, leaving Barnstable,
Devon Co., Eng., May, 1631, in the ship Friendship (her
name a good omen), he reached Boston, N.E., 14 July,
1631. People had, in 1629-30, come from his native
County to Massachusetts in throngs. He would naturally
have sought them at or near Salem, and the very name
which such previous neighbors had, in 1630, transferred
from Dorchester, Eng., to Dorchester, N.E., might have
lured him to this latter locality as by a charm, if he had
by age or in condition been free to follow his choice.
The matters of record, as below furnished, which show in
what capacity, for what object, and under whose direction
or surveillance he emigrated, show also that if, on his
part, religious convictions either prompted or cheered his
emigration, yet, on the part of some other persons, his
emigration itself was an irreligious eviction. If John
Chipman, at the age of sixteen or seventeen years, shared
with William Derby the enthusiasm for settling New
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England which the eloquence of Rev. John White, of
Dorchester, Eng. , kindled and kept burning, so much the '
more easily might Christopher Derby persuade and " bind"
to acceptance of " a good opening for a young man " one
who, now near his majority, might, on reaching it, bring,
should he remain in England, an action at law for eject-
ment, so troubling, if not ousting Christopher, but who,
removed to America, would scarcely attempt such litiga-
tion. It will appear that one step towards such an attempt
was taken.
The emigrant Chipman had been in this country some-
what more than ten years when, 2 March, 1641-2, in
a suit which he brought against John Derby and which
Edward Winslow, then an Assistant, and both before and
after then the Governor, of Plymouth Colony, tried at
Plymouth, "Ann Hinde, the wife of "William Hoskins...,
being examined..., afeirmeth vpon oath as folio weth :
That the said Ann liued in the house of M r Darbeyes
father with the said John Chipman att such time as the
said John Chipman came from thence to New England to
serue M r Richard Darbey his brother," that is, John
Derby's brother. The "Council for New England" had,
so long previously as 1622, given order that youths "not
tainted with misdemeanors" might be sent to New England
as "apprentices;" and a general custom of sending such
youth indentured to such service, was so established. In
another part of the deposition, affirming that "the said
Ann came afterwards likewise ouer, to serue the said
Richard Darbey," the "afterwards" evidently respects 1637,
as to which year appear, on and by Plymouth Co. Records,
that "about" that date Richard Derby proposed returning
to England, and that at that date William Snow appren-
ticed to Richard Derby did, probably along with his master,
come from England to New England. The deposition
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also recites that, on her leaving England, " old M r Darbey
requested this depouant to comeud him to his cozen Chip-
man, and tell him if hee were a good boy he would send
him ouer the money that was due to him when hee saw
good ; and further, whereas this doponant heard the said
John Darbey affeirrne that his money was payed to John
Chipmans mother, shee further deposeth that his mother
was dead a quarter of a yeare or thereabouts before her
old master sent this message to his cozen Chipman ; all
which this deponant sweareth," etc. The intent of this
suit, viz., to recover money which John Derby, cozening,
withheld from "his cozen Chipman," and this deposition
as recorded, show that Christopher Derby was in respecjt
to John Chipman (4) what he had been in respect to the
father of the latter ; and that toward the latter, John Derby
was what Christopher Derby was. The character of Rich-
ard Derby also, as manifest by record of judgment ren-
dered, 1 Nov., 1642, by the " Court of Assistants" of
Plymouth Colony, in an action brought by Richard Willis
against him for fraudulent dealing, was so unlike what
Chipman and his other apprentices were, in order to be
apprentices, required to have, his character being "tainted
with misdemeanors," that between those two sons of Chris-
topher Derby, the comfort as well as the property of their
orphan "kinsman" was in much the same condition as
corn between the two millstones is, while these are
rolling. How the suit against John Derby resulted does
not appear.
The emigrant Chipman had been in this country some-
what more than twenty years when he, 8 Feb., 1651-2,
then a well-allied husband and cherishing father, prepared
the document of which, as by an ancient copy preserved
parts have been quoted herein above. It was designed
to be the initiative of m3;i>ures for the recovery of his
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paternal estate, and was probably transmitted to England.
Its title and design arc, as in the ancient copy, given thus :
"A brief Declaration with humble Request (to whom These
Presents Shall Come) for further Inquiry and Advice in
y e behalf of John Chipman now of Barustable in the Gov-
e[r]nment of NewPlimouth in New England In America
[,hef being y e only Son & Heir of M r Thomas Chip-
man Late Deceased at Brinspittcel [Bryan's-Piddle] about
five miles from Dor[c]hester in Dorsetshire in England."
The reasons for his delay of effort to recover his patrimony
and for his now taking the first step in this way are, as
in that copy, given thus : " y e s d John Chipman being but
in a poor and mean outward Condition hath hitherto been
Afraid to stir in it as thinking he should never get it from
y e rich and mighty but being now Stirred by some friends
as Judging it his Duty to make Effectual Inquiry after it
for his own Comfort his wife and Children which God
hath pleased to bestow on him if any thing. may be done
therein, & in what way it may be attained whether with-
out his Coming Over which is most Desired if it may bee.
Because of exposing his wife & Children to Some Straits
in his absence from tl^m, he hath Therefore Desired these
as afor[e] s d Desiring also some Sear[c]h may be made
for Further Light in y e case into the Records the Convey-
ance being made as he Judgeth about Threescore years
Since as Also that Enquiry be made of his Sisters which
he Supposeth lived about those parts and of whom Else
it may be thought meet, and Advice Sent over as Afor[e]-
s d not Else at present But hoping that there be Some Left
yet in England alike Spirited with him in 29 Job whom
the Ear that heareth of may bless God for Delivering y e
poor that crieth & him that hath no helper Being Eyes
to the blind feet to the Lame A father to the Poor Search-
ing out y e Cause which he kuoweth not, &c." The grounds
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of the declarant's claim are, as in that copy, given thus :
" [The consideration] being as the said John hath been
Informed but for 40 Ib And to be maintained Like a man
with Diet Apparel &c by the s d Christopher as Long as
the s d Thomas Should Live whereat y e Lawyer w c made
the Evidences being troubled at his Weakness in taking
Such an Inconsiderable Price tendered him to Lend him
money or to give him y e s d Thomas Seven hundred Pounds
for y e s d Lands But yet the matter Issuing as afores d
The Vote of the Country who had knowledge of it was
that the s d Thomas had much wrong in it Especially after
it pleased God to change his condition, and to give him
children, [he] being turned off by the s d Christopher
only with a poor Cottage and Garden Spott instead of his
for [e]s d Maintenance to the great Wrong of his Children
Especially of his Son John Afor[e]s d to whom y e S d
Lauds by right of Entailment did belong Insomuch that
m r William Derbe who had the s d Lands in his Possession
then from his father Christopher Derbe told the s d John
Chipman (being then a youth) that his father Christopher
had done him wrong that if y e s d Lands prospered with
him that he would then consider the s d John to do for him
in way of recompense for the Same when he should be of
Capacity in years to make use thereof The s d John
further Declareth that one m r Derbe A Lawyer of Dor-
chester (he supposeth y e father of that m r Derbe now
Living In Dorchester) being a friend to the mother of
the s d John Told her being Acquain[te]d withy 6 Business
and sorry for the Injury to her Heir that if it pleased God
he [the heir] Liv'd to be of Age he would himself upon
his own Charge make A Tryal for the recovery of it and in
case he recovered it Shee Should give him 10 lb Else he
would have nothing for his trouble and Charge. Further-
more John Derbe late Deceased of Yarmouth in New
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Plimouth Government Afor[e]s d hath acknowledged here
to the s d John Chipman that his father Christopher had
done him much wrong in the for[e]s d Lands." The
claimant, so far as is known, did not institute a suit for
recovery. The estate, certainly, never came into his
possession. Its income, a moderate competence in his
day, has since been, as was above stated, quite consider-
ably increased, and probably has now a yet greater value.
As John Chipman while his wardship continued,
1G31-5, and for a period just before his marriage lived
in Plymouth where was 'established his guardian or surveil-
lant, Eichard Derby ; so did he probably, through all the
term 1631-46. He then, it seems, for a short time,
1646-9, lived in Yarmouth, to which place had removed
from Plymouth, 1643, his other relative and inimical friend
John Derby. He lived in Barnstable, 1649-79, inclu-
sive, and thereafter lived nearly thirty other years in
Sandwich. He, 1 June, 1649, then of Barnstable, bought
of Edward Fitzrandolph, and, 10 Dec., 1672, bought of,
partly exchanged with, his brother-in-law, Lieut. John
Rowland, the parties all of Barnstable, lands, etc., situ-
ated there. The original of each of these deeds of sale
is still preserved. This property, its locality the "Great
Marshes "now "West Barustable," once the principal part
of the township, and where, till somewhat recently,
was the Custom-house of the Port with the Court-house,
etc., of the County, has proved so much more "real"
than the "estate" which to him "by the right of primo-
geniture" and "right of entailment did belong," that,
continuously from his death till now, its present possessor
being William Chipman 7 , it has been alike occupied and
owned by descendants retaining his surname.
Mr. Chipman, besides sustaining, 1652-69, inclusive,
various other civil offices, was for successive years a
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Selectman, then in Plymouth Colony invested with the
authority of a Magistrate, and was often a "Deputy to
the Court," or Representative in the Legislature. It was
a proof of his, as well as of that Colony's " meekness of
wisdom" that, when in Massachusetts rigorous laws, not
without some reason, were made and executed against
and on " people called Quakers," Plymouth Colony did,
or as the statute expressed it, "doe p[er]mitt" John
Chipman, with three associates named, "to frequent the
Quaker meetings to endeavor to reduce them from the
error of their wayes." In token of his merits and of
the public appreciation of his patriotic services, various
" graunts " of land were made to " M r John Chipman,"
1661-73, which, as to effect, were in "Barataria," for,
except as honoraries, they were never his possession.
The Church established, 1639, at Barustable, after
having been at Scituate five or six years, had emigrated by
its organic act from London, there formed 1616, and where
remained some members of whom was constituted what
still is the " South wark Church " of that city. Mr. Chipman
became, 30 Jan., 1652-3, as his wife had become, 7 Aug.,
1650, a member of the Church in Barustable. He probably
had been, as was Henry Cobb, a Deacon of that Church
for some time when, as its records state : " Henry Cobb
and John Chipman were chosen and ordained to be ruling
Elders of this same Church, and they were solemnly in-
vested with office upon y e 14th day of April Anno Dom :
1670." Mr. Chipmau, who long survived his colleague,
had in that office no successor, in the Barnstable Church.
If he was qualified for that station by wisdom and probity
as well as energy and piety ; he in that station, being to
the Church a Clergyman in all respects except that he did
not administer baptism and the Lord's Supper, so exhibited
the same qualities that, after he had removed to Sandwich,
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the Church in Barnstable made to him offers of an annual
salary, and the Town of Barnstable voted to him the pro-
priety of valuable meadow lands, conditioned that he
would return to that position there. From an item by
which he bequeathed " my carpenter's tools," articles that
all well-provided farmers have, it has been inferred that
he was, by secular occupation, a carpenter. He was, of
record, a "yeoman."
The Will of Eu. Eld. John Chipman, dated 12 Nov.,
1702, proved 17 May, 1708, mentions his "wife Ruth"
and "the compact made at their intermarriage;" his "sons
Samuel and John," to whom were devised his "house and
lands at Barnstable;" his "daughters Elizabeth, Hope,
Lydia, Hannah, Ruth, Mercy, Bethiah, and Desire ;" his
"grandchildren Mary Gale and Jabez Dimock;"and his
"friend Mr. [Rev.] Jonathan Russel, of Barnstable;"
"sons Samuel and John, executors ;" "Mr. [Rev.] Jonathan
Russel and Mr. [Rev.] Rowland Cotton, overseers." Wit-
nesses to the Will were "Rowland Cotton, Samuel Prince,
and Nathan Bourne." Among the "18 books small and
great," which so and not otherwise were described in the
"Inventory of Elder Chipman who deceased 7 of April
1708, by William Basset and Shnbael Smith" made, one,
no doubt, was his copy of the so-called "Bay Psalm Book"
that not long since was, and probably is still, existing in
Massachusetts.
The "Will of Ruth Chipman, relict of Elder John
Chipman, late of Sandwich," dated 6 Dec., 1710, proved
8 Oct., 1713, mentions her "brother John Sergeant," her
"sister Lydia Sergeant," her "sister Felch," etc., etc.,
and "Mr. [Rev.] Rowland Cotton, executor." Witnesses
to the Will were "John Chipmau"(6) and others.
Ru. Eld. John Chipman married, 1st, 1646, Hope, born
in Plymouth, Mass., 1629, died 1683, the second daughter
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of John Howland, Assistant, of Plymouth Colony. He
who before was, though outcast as well as off-torn, a hardy
germ, became, through this union, a stock with many
branches which were themselves stocks, like the banyan's,
and fruitful, like the palm's. There stands or lately stood,
in the ancient Burial Ground on Lothrop's Hill in Barn-
stable, a headstone denoting where was "interred y e H Body
of Mrs Hope Chipman wife of Elder John Chipman aged
54 years who changed this life for a better y e 8th of Jan-
uary 1683." Of her descendants, there have been nearly
or quite two thousand surnamed Chipman, of which number
survived, in 1864, one great grandchild, a contemporary
with several of the ninth generation with and from her
enumerated. These, with other thousands from her de-
scended, together with the many more thousands from
John Howland otherwise descended, trace their descent
from at least four of the passengers from England to
America, 1620, in the Mayflower; the wife of John
Howland, Elizabeth Tillie, and her parents, John Tillie
and his wife Elizabeth Tillie, having, along with John
Howland, come to "New Plimouth" in that company
which, then so little regarded, has since been so much
renowned.
liu. Eld. John Chipman married, 2d, 1684, Ruth, born
in Charlestown, Mass., 25 Oct., 1642, died in Sandwich,
Mass., 4 Oct., 1713, the youngest daughter of William
Sergeant, of Charlestowu and of Barnstable. She had
previously married, 1st, Jonathan Winslow, of Marshfield,
a son of Josiah, and a nephew of Gov. Edward Winslow;
and, after said Jonathan's decease, had married, 2d, in
July, 1677, Rev. Richard Bourne, a native of England,
who, after he had been honored in civil relations at
Sandwich, was, by Rev. John Eliot, of Roxbury, and Rev.
Rowland Cotton, of Sandwich, ordained, 17 Aug., 1670,
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first pastor at Marshpec, Mass., of a Church there organ-
ized from Indians, by his labors converted to Christianity,
and who in that relation died, 1682. Her remains were
laid by the side of her last husband's in what has until
recently been known at Sandwich as " The Freeman Burial
Ground."
Of Ru. Eld. John Chipman's children, all were by his
first wife, and, except a son and a daughter each of whom
died in early infancy, all survived him, viz., eight daugh-
ters from whose marriages were a numerous progeny, and
the two sons below named, his seventh and his eleventh
child :
5. SAMUEL. 3
6. JOHN. 3
THIRD GENERATION.
5. Dea. SAMUEL, CHIPMAN, second son of Ru. Eld. John
Chipman(4), was born in Barnstable, 15 April, 1661;
deceased , 1723. He resided in Barnstable, was often
employed in its local affairs and held in esteem by its
citizens. He built, on the paternal homestead near the
Custom-house and the Court-house and upon the great
road of Cape Cod peninsula, a house which continued, in
the line of his posterity, the "Chipman Tavern" until
about 1830. The Church with which he entered into
membership, 16 Aug. 1691, elected him to office, and he,
as its records state, "having accepted the deaconship, was
ordained by prayer and laying on of hands, 1 Sept., 1706."
Said to have been a carpenter, he was, as of record, a
"yeoman" and an "innholder."
His Will, dated 31 Aug., 1722, proved 17 June, 1723,
mentions his "wife Sarah" and his "children Samuel,
Jacob, Thomas, John, Joseph, Seth, Barnabas;" "sons
Samuel, and Jacob, executors." His widow's Will, dated
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7 Nov., 1733, mentions her children the same, Joseph
omitted, as those mentioned in her husband's Will; "sou
Barnabas, executor."
Dea. Samuel Chipman (5) married, 27 Dec., 1686,
Sarah, born 10 March, 1662-3, died 8 Jan., 1742-3, the
twelfth child of Ru. Eld. Henry Cobb, of Barnstable, etc.,
died 1679, emigrant from Kent Co., Eng., by his second
wife Sarah, married 12 Dec., 1649, a sister of Thomas
Hinkley, Governor of Plymouth Colony, and a daughter
of Samuel Hinkley, all of Barustable, who with his wife
Sarah and their four children came, 1634, from Tenterden ,
Kent Co., Eng.
Of Dea. Samuel Chiprnan's(5) eleven children, seven
of them sous, the first-born was Thomas Chipman 4 , Esq.,
successively of Stonington, Groton, and Salisbury, towns
of Conn., whose third son, Samuel Chipman 5 , of Salisbury,
Conn., and Tinmouth, Vt., was father of Hon. Nathaniel
Chipman 6 , LL.D.,b. 1752, d. 1843, Chief Justice of Vt.,
U. S. Senator, etc., and of Hon. Daniel Chipman 6 , LL.D.,
b. 1765, d. 1850, Mem. of Council of Censors of Vt., M.
C., etc., and was grandfather of Hon. Henry Chipman 7 ,
LL.D., b. 1784, d. 1867, Justice of U. S. Court for
Mich., etc. Other sons of Dea. Samuel Chipman (5),
were :
7. SAMUEL. 4
8. JOHN. 4
6. Hon. JOHN CHIPMAN, third son of Ru. Eld. John
Chipman (4), was born in Barnstable, 3 March, 1669-70;
deceased 4 Jan., 1756. He lived at Sandwich, 1691-
1712, and 1714-20; at Chilmark, 1712-13, and 1720-7;
thenceforward at Newport, R. I. In Mass., he was a
Magistrate and a military officer, a Member of the General
Court, 1719, a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas,
1722, Agent of the Eng. "Society for the Propagation of
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the Gospel," 1723. In R. I., he was first of the six Assis-
tants of that Colony and as such was, with the other Assis-
tants and the Governor, and with Philip Cortlandt and
Daniel Horsemanden, of the New York Council, a member
of the Commissioners of Review appointed by royal author-
ity in England, who met at Norwich, Conn. ; and, in respect
to Conn.'s course toward the Indians, a famous and pro-
tracted controversy, pronounced their decision, 1738. A
member of the Church in Sandwich, he was esteemed a
"true Christian" and was "accounted a very strict man as
to moral honesty." He, as of record, was first a "cord-
wainer," and later a "storekeeper."
He married, 1st, Mary, born 13 Nov., 1671, died 12
March, 1711, a daughter of Capt. Stephen Skiff, of Sand-
wich, a Magistrate ; married, 2d, Elizabeth, widow then
of Russel and previously of Pope, at the house
of whose father, a Capt. Pope, of Dartmouth, Mass., she,
a member of Dr. Col man's Church in Boston, died 29
Jan., 1725, the daughter of Capt. Thomas Handley, of
Boston, and of his wife originally Miss Young, of Bermu-
das, W. I. ; and married, 3d, Hookey (, or Hoxie),
of R. I., who deceased 21 Feb., 1747.
The children of Hon. John Chipman(G), ten by wife
Mary and two by wife Elizabeth, were seven sons and five
daughters, of which is pertinent to the design of these
papers his eleventh child, viz. :
9. HANDLEY. 4
FOURTH GENERATION.
7. Dea. SAMUEL CHIPMAN,. second son of Dea. Samuel
Chipman (5), was born in Barnstable, 6 Aug., 1689 ; died
, 1753. He lived in Barnstable, successor to his father's
estate and business and offices. His times and himself
are illustrated, not only by his wearing garments the
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buttons on which were dollars and smaller coins, but also
by less innocent exponents of wealth and position, such
as a "negro boy" sold to him, 1728, by the executors of
the estate of his late neighbor, a Chief Justice, and an
"Indian Squa" assigned to him, 1749, by a Justice, to serve
him "Three Tears And Four Months" because she had
stolen from him "On the Lords day the Ninth of July
Currant And On last Lords day Six Quarts of rhum of
Value Thirteen Shillings And Four Pence." Having
united with the Church about 1720, he was chosen Deacon
19 Aug., 1725. A "yeoman" and "tavern-keeper."
His Will, dated 30 Oct., 1741, proved 3 May, 1753,
mentions his "wife Mary," and his "children Hannah,
Mary, Samuel, Ebenezer, John, Nathaniel, and Timothy ;"
"son Timothy, executor."
He married, 1st, 8 Dec., 1715, Abiah, born 24 March,
1696, died 15 July, 1736, daughter of John Hinkley, Jr. ;
and married, 2d, 31 May, 1739, Mary, widow of
Green, of Boston. She was living in 1763.
Dea. Samuel Chipman (7) had, by the former of his
marriages, six sons and two daughters ; by the latter of his
marriages, one son. His third son, Dea. Timothy Chip-
man 5 , born 1723, died 1770, was father of John Chipman 6 ,
born 1762, died June, 1806, whose son William Chipman 7 ,
born 9 Jan., 1806, now owns and occupies the estate in
Barnstable there purchased and bequeathed by John Chip-
man(4). The posterity of Dea. Samuel Chipman(7), as
pertaining to Essex County, are derived from his third
child, the second son, viz. :
10. SAMUEL. 5
8. Rev. JOHN CHIPMAN, third son of Dea. Samuel Chip-
man(5), was born in Barnstable, 16 Feb., 1690-91, gr.
H. C., 1711; died 23 March, 1775. He was ordained,
28 Dec., 1715, pastor of the First Church in the Precinct
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of Salem and Beverly, now North Beverly, Mass. Having
for some months previous preached to the congregation
in their church edifice, still used as such, he became with
others an original member of the Church formed, as in that
time was frequent, the same day that his ordination
occurred. Though the choice of him as pastor is tradition-
ally said to have been made by a very small majority,
yet his long pastorate was harmonious to the end. The
only children of one of his sons, Joseph (22), own and
occupy the manse which he built. " The Jjjssex Gazette,
Vol. II., No. 59, from Tuesday, September 5th, to Tues-
day, September 12th, 1769," furnishes an illustration of
himself and his parishioners, and of the general spirit that
pervaded New England a century ago, in what follows :
"Precinct of Salem and Beverly, Sept. 8, 1769. On
Tuesday the 5th Instant, forty-one young Women of this
Place, moved perhaps by the many later examples of others
who have in a similar Way testified their high Esteem of
their Pastors, for their Work's Sake, viz : by seeking
Wool and Flax, and working willingly for them with their
Hands, having provided themselves with these Mate-
rials, met early in the Morning at the House of the Rever-
end Mr. Chipman, and in the JCvening presented him with
seventy Run of well- wrought Yarn. A Run is a skein of
twenty Knots : the number of Knots being 1396. Mr.
Chipman had no Knowledge of this Work and Labor of
Love till the Day was appointed and near at Hand ; but al-
though he desired not the Gift, yet he always rejoices to
see Fruit abound to their Account; and the repeated
kindness of his People to him, in his advanced Age, as
well as their living in the Exercise of social Virtues each
toward the other excites his Gratitude. N. B. The young
Gentlewomen were not moved in the least by political
Principles in the Affair above, yet they are the cordial
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Lovers of Liberty, particularly of the Liberty of drinking
Tea with their Bread and Butter, to which their Pastor
consents."
The Church having, 10 Dec., 1770, acceded to Mr.
Chipraan's proposal to that effect, Rev. Enos Hitchcock,
D.D., was ordained Pastor Associate, 1 May, 1771.
"A Lecture Comprising the History of the Second Par-
ish in Beverly," published 1835, represents Mr. Chipman
as having "been held in the highest esteem and reverence
by his people." The same publication, to an expression
of the great "influence" which "he exercised over them,"
adds: "His influence abroad was proportionally com-
mensurate with that exerted at home." When in New
England and elsewhere many, whether as leaders or as
followers, were either passionately opposing or indiscrim-
inately favoring certain methods and movements relative
to advancing practical Christianity, he as discriminately as
decidedly approved only discreet as well as honest eu-
deavors. Among some seventy signatures to "The Tes-
timony and Advice of an Assembly of Pastors of Churches
in New England, at a meeting in Boston, July 7, 1743,
occasioned by the late happy Revival of Religion in many
parts of our laud j" is found appended to his name a qual-
ification or adjustment of his concurrence, thus: "John
Chipman, pastor of a Church in Beverly, to the substance,
scope, and end." He showed his love for Christian doc-
trine and his vigilant care to retain and maintain its purity
in a work published whose title is : " Remarks on Some
Points of Doctrine, Apprehended by many as Unsound,
Propagated in Preaching and Conversation, and since
Published, by the Reverend Mr. William Balch, Pastor of
the Second Church in Bradford. Humbly offered to the
Consideration of the Ministers and Churches of New Eng-
land, by Samuel Wigglesworth, A. M., Pastor of a Church
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in Ipswich, and John Chipman, M. A., Pastor of a Church
in Beverly . . . Boston : Printed . . . Mdccxlvi." It is
believed that a Thanksgiving Discourse by Mr. Chipman
was printed.
The "Essex Gazette, Vol. vn., from March 28th to
April 4th, 1775," contains an .obituary notice of him in
which is said : " It pleased the Father of Spirits to indue
him with superior natural Powers, which he greatly im-
proved by a close Application to his Studies, and making
Divinity his principal Study. He was well qualified for
the important Work to which he was called, and was a
great Blessing in his Station. He had many Children,
whom he educated with great Wisdom and Prudence.
His Family has been called a School of useful Knowledge
and Virtue. . . His People were highly favoured of the
Lord, in being directed to so able, faithful, and successful
a Minister, and in having him continued with them for
such a length of Time. . . May his numerous Offspring,
and all that knew him, especially Ministers of the Gospel,
follow the excellent Example he has left us." Some of
the last expressions quoted have at least now the more
significance from a prediction which has, as made by him,
been, in the present writer's line of descent from him, pre-
served, and which has till this date been literally fulfilled,
to the effect that no pastor succeeding him in that Church
would die Avhile sustaining to it the pastoral relation.
The headstone at his grave, between his wives' graves
in the old Burial Ground at North Beverly, bears, below
the representation of a person wearing an " academical
gown" and "clerical bands, "a Latin inscription which
purports : "A man eminent for solid powers of mind and
useful learning, and particularly distinguished by his
acquaintance with the Scriptures ; serious and pungent in
preaching the word ; penetrated with love of the religion
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of Jesus, and by his own example teaching others its pre-
cepts ; in presiding over the Church vigilant and upright ;
to all the flock benevolent and just; heartily embracing
the good of all sects ; remarkable for the performance of
mutual and social duties ; in his family exemplary in every
Christian duty; by prosperity not inflated; in adversity
most patient ; he yielded up his spirit in most firm hope
of a happy immortality."
There hangs still in the place where in his lifetime it
hung, a portrait of him which one of his granddaughters
owns, Miss Eliza Maria Chipman(55), of North Beverly.
Large-sized photographic copies were, 1865, made of it, in
Salem, at the charge of one of his great-grandsons, James
Prescott Swain, Esq., of New York. A copy of it, painted
by the artist Alexander, is the property of another of his
great-grandsons, Hon. John Chipman Gray, of Boston.
The Will of "John Chipman, clerk," dated 4 July, 1769,
proved 4 April, 1775, mentions "my children, viz., Henry,
Joseph, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, Hannah and
Abigail;" "John Warren, my grandson;" "Ward, the
son of my son John ;" "the six children of my son John,
deceased ;" "my late wife, Hannah ;" "Mr. Joseph Warren ;"
"Mr. Ebenczer Warren;" "the late Rev. John Warren;"
and "my negro woman, Moreah." "Sou Joseph exec-
utor."
Rev. John Chipman married, 1st, 12 Feb., 1718-9,
Rebecca Hale, born 19 Nov., 1701 ; died 4 July, 1751.
A Latin inscription upon the headstone at her grave
commemorates her as "of marked piety, the ornament of
her sex, an exemplar to her family, and the crown of her
husband." Her father was Robert Hale, gr. H. C. 1686,
for a time, 1695 included, a preacher in Preston, Conn.,
subsequently a teacher and long a physician and magis-
trate in Beverly, son of Rev. John Hale, gr. H. C., 1657,
19
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pastor in Beverly, 1667-1700, and grandson of Dea.
Robert Halo, of Charlestown, 1632-59. Her mother,
wife of Dr. Robert Hale, was Elizabeth, born 15 May,
1684, died in Beverly, 24 Jan., 1762, who, daughter of
Nathaniel Clark, of Newbury, married, 2d, 1720, Col.
John Oilman, of Exeter, N. H.
Rev. John Chipman married, 2d, 20 Nov., 1751, Han-
nah Warren, born 31 March, 1707 ; died 24 June, 1769.
The inscription on the headstone at her grave represents
her as, for her "Excellent Knowledge and Pions Prudence,
worthy of most grateful Remembrance." Her father was
Joseph Warren, of Roxbury (now Boston), son of Peter
Warren, of Boston. Her brother Joseph was father of
the orator and patriot Dr. Joseph Warren, President of
the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, who, a Major
General just appointed, fell, volunteering as a private, in
the battle on Bunker's Hill ; as also of John Warren,
whose son was the late John C. Warren, of Boston, dis-
tinguished practitioners and professors of surgery. To
another of her brothers, Rev. John Warren, she, as below
appears, was by her marriage made stepmother ; like as
Ru. Eld. John Chipman (4)'s second wife had by her last
marriage become stepmother to a brother, viz. , John Sar-
gent, of Maiden, whose third wife was Lydia Chipman 3 ,
a daughter of the said Ru. Eld. John.
Rev. John Chipman's fifteen children, all by the first
marriage, and of whom each was baptized on the Lord's
day next after its birth, were :
11. Elizabeth 5 , b. 21 Dec., 1719; d. 7 Nov. 1773; m.,
1st, 21 April, 1737, Rev. John Warren, b. 18 Sept.,
1704, gr. H. C. 1725, d. 19 July, 1749, ordained pastor
of Church in Wenham, 10 Jan., 1732-3; and m., 2d, 3
July, 1751, Rev. Joseph Swain, b. 1721, gr. H. C., 1744,
d. 27 June, 1792, ordained pastor of Church in Wenham,
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24 Oct., 1750. By her first marriage were children John,
Elizabeth, Deborah, and Rebecca. Of issue from her
second marriage are grandsons James Prcscott Swain, of
Bronxville and New York, N. Y., 1871, and Chipman
Swain, Esq., of Brattleboro, Vt., 1840, since at the AVest.
12. Sarah 5 , b. 20 Nov., 1721 ; d. 10 Dec., 1721.
13. JOHN 5 .
14. Sarah 5 , b. 16 Nov., 1724; m. John Leech, Jr., of
Salem; their intention of marriage published 11 March,
1743-4.
15. SAMUEL 5 .
16. Rebecca 5 , b. 25 July, 1728 ; d. 28 Oct., 1763 ; m.,
14 Feb., 1749, Rev. Nehemiah Porter, b. 20 March,
1719-20, gr. H. C., 1745, d. 29 Feb., 1820, ordained
pastor of a Church in Ipswich (now Essex), Mass., 3 Jan.,
1750-1, dis. June, 1766, founder and installed pastor of
a (Cong.) Church, Yarmouth, N. S., 2 Sept., 1767, and
installed pastor of Church in Ashfield, Mass., 21 Dec.,
1774. Through his agency was procured, for one hundred
and fifty proprietors, the grant of said Yarmouth's land,
in width from three to sixteen miles, in length thirty, the
earliest emigrants to which, as indicated by the records
of said Church there, went in about equal proportions
from Essex Co., Mass., and Windham Co., Conn. Among
the children of Rev. Nehemiah Porter and of his first
wife, abovenamed, was Nehemiah, who established him-
self at said Yarmouth, and left, with other children,
Eunice, wife of Hon. Joseph Shaw, a step-son of the late
Capt. Zachariah Chipnian 5 , son of Handley Chipman (9) ;
and Joseph, of said Ashfield, father of Rev. Charles Sum-
merfield Porter, who, aged sixty-five years, deceased at
Boston, Mass., 10 April, 1870.
17. Robert 5 , b. 30 July, 1730; d. 30 Oct., 1736.
18. HENRY 5 .
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19. Byley 5 , b. 24 April, 1734; d., at Boston, 10 May,
1752.
20. Robert Hale 5 , b. 17 March, 1736 : d. at sea, in his
youth.
21. JOSEPH 5 .
22. Mary 5 , b. 15 Jan., 1740-1 ; d. 1791 ; m., 5 Dec.,
1775, Timothy Leech, of Beverly.
23. Hannah 5 , b. 20 Dec., 1742 ; d. 22 April, 1829 ; m.,
28 June, 1772, Miles Ward, 3d, of Salem, b. 12 July,
1744; d. 23 Oct., 1796.
24. Abigail 5 , b. 11 Jan., 1744-5; d. 1816; m., 9 Jan.,
1776, Capt. William Groves, of Beverly.
25. BENJAMIN 5 .
9. HANDLEY CHIPMAN, Esq., seventh son of Hon. John
Chipman(6) , was born in Sandwich, Mass., 31 Aug., 1717 ;
died 27 May, 1799. He lived, 1740-61, in Newport, R.
I., and thenceforward in Cornwallis, N. S. He was, in
R. I., a magistrate, and, in N. S., a magistrate and Judge
of Probate. Decidedly a Congregationalist, yet loving
all good men and at his decease leaving a bequest to the
Baptist Church and to the Episcopal, as well as to that of
which he had been a member, in Cornwallis, he by a work
in manuscript owned now by the writer of this notice, viz.,
"Short Comments," etc., on the New Testament, has left
evidence that he sought to be indeed a Christian. Origi-
nally, a "cabinet maker."
He married, 1st, 24 April, 1740, Jane, born 28 Aug.,
1722, deceased 5 April, 1775, daughter of Col. John
Allen, d. about 1765, aged 87, of Martha's Vineyard
(island), Mass., and of his wife Margaret, b. 28 Aug.,
1722, d. about 1768, daughter of Rev. William Homes,
ordained, 1715, pastor of the Church in Chilmark, Mass. ;
and married, 2d, 14 Dec., 1775, Nancy, born 1751, died
28 Jan., 1802, daughter of Stephen Post, died 15 March,
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1762, and of Clark, his wife, died 3 June, 1802, emi-
grants to N. S. from Saybrook, Conn.
The children of Handley Chipman(9), Esq., by his
first marriage were eleven ; by his second were five.
William Allen Chipmau 5 , Esq., his eleventh child, was
father of Rev. William Chipman 6 , one of whose twenty-
one children was Isaac 7 , born 1817, gr. Colby Univ. (then
Wat. C.), 1839, died 1852, Professor in Acadia College,
N. S. Hon. M;ijor Chipman 5 , his fifteenth child, born 4
Dec., 1780, was surviving, at his residence, Annapolis,
N. S., 1864 ; and thus he, a greatgrandson of the emigrant-
ancestor John Chipman (4) , was, as these papers may show,
a contemporary with persons surnamed Chipman in each
of five generations more remote in the Chipman lineage,
descending, than his own. Specially pertaining to the
design of these papers was said Haiidley Chipmau's ninth
child :
26. ANTHONY 5 .
FIFTH GENERATION.
10. SAMUEL CHIPMAN, second sou of Dea. Samuel
Chipman (7), was born in Barnstable, 25 Nov., 1721;
died about 1780. He lived in Groton, Conn. He was
in the ill-fated " Havanna Expedition," 1762-3. He mar-
ried, about 1746, Ruth Baker, of said Groton, born not
fur from 1730; deceased near 1780. Of their twelve
children was one some of whose posterity have been of
Essex Co., Mass., viz. :
27. THOMAS. 6
13. JOHN CHIPMAN, Esq., oldest son of Rev. John
Chipman (8), was born in Beverly, 23 Oct., 1722, gr.
H. C., 1738 ; died 1 July, 1768. He lived in Marblehead
at the period in which its commercial enterprise had an
enlarged and prosperous career. Admitted to the practice
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of law, when in this country the legal profession extended
scarcely beyond the routine of precedents and forms, he,
recognizing it as demanding a mastery of principles and
opening broad fields of investigation, so gave to it abilities
of a high order and pursued it with industry and ardor,
that his services were appreciated and sought for in dis-
tant localities. At the time of his decease, there were
only some twenty-five barristers, himself included, within
the Massachusetts Colony which then embraced what now
is the State of Maine. In Portland (then Falmouth),
Me., on a monument over his grave is inscribed: "John
Chipman, Esq., Barrister-at-law, was born Oct. 23 d , A.
D. 1722, and died July 1 st , A. D. 1768, of an apoplexy
with which he was suddenly seized in the Court House
in Falmouth, while he was arguing a cause before the
Superior Court of Judicature then sitting. To the re-
membrance of his great learning, uniform integrity and
singular humanity and benevolence, this monument is
dedicated by a number of his brethren at the bar."
His widow was for sometime a Teacher, aided by one or
more of her daughters, in Salem.
He married, in Cambridge, July, 1744, Elizabeth,
sister to Rev. Cotton Brown, ordained, 26 Oct., 1748,
pastor of the Church in Brookline, and oldest daughter
of Rev. John Brown, of Haverhill, died 1742, and of
his wife Joanna, whose father, Rev. Rowland Cotton, of
Sandwich, was son of Rev. John Cotton, of Plymouth,
and grandson of Rev. John Cotton, of Boston, Eng., and
Boston, Mass.
Twelve children :
28. John 6 , b. 30 July, 1745 ; d. in infancy.
29. Nathaniel 6 , bap. 31 May, 1747 ; d. in childhood.
30. Abigail 6 , b. 27 Jan., 1749 ;'d., her husband's sur-
vivor, 30 May, 1815; m., 29 Jan., 1769, Capt. Peter
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Bubicr, resident, a few years preceding 1782, in Lan-
caster, afterward in Marblehead, and grandson to whom
was Lt. John Bubier, U. S. N.
31. John 6 , bap. 28 Jan., 1750; d. in childhood.
32. Rebecca 6 , b. 16 Oct., 1752; d. 27 Dec., 1823;
m., 27 Dec., 1773, Capt. William Blackler, d. 18 Jan.,
1818, resident in Marblehead.
33. WARD 6 .
34. Elizabeth 6 , b. 9 June, 1756 ;m., 28 March, 1782,
Hon. William Gray, b., at Lynn, 27 June, 1750, d. 14
Nov., 1825. Long a distinguished merchant, at Salem
and at Boston, at one period " the largest ship-owner in
the IT. S.," and whose "fleet of commercial vessels" that
once reached "to the number of forty-four, many of them
the largest ships then constructed," was "kept perpetually
plying over nearly every ocean and to every seaport in the
world," Mr. Gray so far intermitted his commerce as to
serve Massachusetts for a single term as her Lieutenant
Governor. A writer, probably the late Col. Samuel
Swett, of Boston, by marriage Mr. Gray's son-in-law,
after affirming that Mr. Gray committed to his wife the
entire direction of his large household and that she was
competent to the position, added, in the same public jour-
nal : " With her experience as a Teacher, and as a super-
intendent of a relative's family, she'was perfectly qualified
to conduct all their domestic concerns and superintend
the education of her children." With this compare Joseph
Chipman(21).
35. Nathaniel 6 , b. May, bap. 7 May, 1758 ; d. in
infancy.
36. Samuel 6 ,
37. Mary 6 ,
38. Joanna 6 , bap. 5 July, 1761; m., 14 Nov., 1790,
Capt. William Ward, of Salem and of Medford, b. 28
(bap. 26 Aug., 1759 ; d. in infancy.
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Dec., 1761, d. 9 May, 1827, whose first wife was Martha
Proctor, m. 16 Feb., 1785; cl. Jan., 1788.
39. John 6 , bap. 7 Aug., 1763, d. after completing the
course of study in II. C., but before his class had received
the first academical degree.
15. Capt. SAMUEL CHIPMAN, second son of Rev. John
Chipmari (8), was born in Beverly, 11 Dec., 1726; died
19 Sept., 1761. He lived at Ipswich a short time, there-
after at Salem. He deceased at St. Martin's (island),
W. I. A shipmaster. Administration of his estate was
granted to his widow 16 Nov., 1761, and her account was
allowed 2 June, 1762. One lino in the "Inventory of
Capt. Samuel Chipman," comprises four articles with
their values annexed, as follows; "Wheelbarrow Is. a
Cow 48s. a Negro Boy 40. 1 Hogsheadd of Rum." His
oldest granddaughter kept in memory the name of the
"Boy," Sabe.
Capt. Samuel Chipman married (intention of marriage
published 30 June, 1744) Anstice, born 23 Oct., 1725,
died 25 April, 1789, oldest of the children, all daughters,
of Capt. Richard Manning, of Ipswich, born 1700, died 6
April, 1774, and of his first wife Margaret, born 1700,
died 15 July, 1762, oldest daughter of Jacob Boardman
and of his wife, widow of John Rogers, and daughter of
Richard Smith, Jr., all of Ipswich. Administration* of
the estate of Mrs. Anstice Chipman was granted to her
oldest son, 16 July, 1791.
Nine children :
40. JOHN 6 .
41. Richard 6 , b. 20 Oct., 1748. He resided at Salem.
Impressed, about 1775, into the British navy, he d., as
believed, an inmate of Greenwich Naval Hospital in Lon-
don. A mariner, unm.
42. Thomas 6 , bap. 27 Jan., 1750; d. in infancy.
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43. Anstice 6 , bap. 17 Nov., 1754; d. 25 April, 1821;
m., 1st, 23 July, 1772, Joshua Richardson, d. 22 Feb.,
1774, aged 28 ;*and m., 2d, 23 Oct., 1777, Thomas Man-
ning, d. about 1780, a mariner; all of Salem. Mrs.
Anstice Manning was for many years a Teacher.
44. THOMAS 6 .
45. Rebecca 6 , bap. 3 Sept., 1758; m., at Salem, 5
May, 1776, Capt. Stephen Egen, of the British army.
At New York, where he was stationed during its occupa-
tion by the British forces, Capt. Egen and his family are
said to have received in sickness kind attentions from her
cousin Ward Chipman (33) who, after Capt. Egen and
his wife had there died, forwarded their two children, as
is stated, to Caft. Egcn's father in Ireland.
46. Margaret 6 , b. 3 June, 1760; d. about 1772.
47. Elizabeth 6 , also b. 3 June 1760; d. 20 Sept., 1844.
Unm.
48. Samuel 6 , b. 1761 ; d. about 1783. A mariner. Unm.
18. HEXRY CHIPMAST, fourth son of Rev. John Chip-
man (8), was born in Beverly, 23 June, 1732; died
before 1800. He lived at Newbury (-port). As of rec-
ord, a "tinner." He married, 5 Feb., 1755, Mary,
daughter of Samuel Carr, and widow of Zechariah Now-
ell, of Newbury, which Mary died 29 June, 1801, at the
house of Joseph Vincent, of Salem, husband of Lydia,
one of the issue of said Mary's first marriage.
Five children :
49. Elizabeth 6 , b. 11 June, 1756; d. an infant,
50. Rebecca 6 , b. 13 May, 1758 ; d. unm.
51. Elizabeth Carr 6 ,b. 9 Dec., 1759 ; m., 1 Oct., 1783,
Jonathan Stickney, of Newbury port.
52. Paulina 6 , b. 11 June, 1761 ; d. iu infancy.
53. Paulina 6 , b. 7 Dec., 1763; m., 20 Oct., 1794,
Michael Morrison, of Newburyport.
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21. JOSEPH CHIPMAN, seventh son of Kev. John Chip-
man (8), was born in Beverly, 26 Oct., 1738; died 9
May, 1817. He lived in Salem, 1759-92 ; thenceforward
in Beverly. To his original business, in the one place
mercantile, in the other, a tannery and agricultural pur-
suits were added. On the paternal estate transferred to
him partly before and partly after his father's decease,
stand, as apt tokens of his own strong frame and character,
substantial walls of huge granite stones, well-split, which
around his fields were built by his direction. On a hill
which formed, near Wenharn Lake, a portion of that es-
tate, is now a reservoir pertaining to the new Water
Works for supplying, more amply than the old, the "pri-
mary fluid" to the city of Salem. Like his brother
Samuel, with his father, and his uncle Samuel, he was a
slave-holder, a "Peter," named in Salem records, 1797-8,
"Peter Chipman" as then a householder, having at a
very much earlier date been in an entry made of an old
account called, with reference to Joseph Chipman (21),
"your negro Peter." More honorable is the record that,
among the names of "Volunteers from Salem for the
Rhode Island Expedition," Aug., 1778, is found "Joseph
Chipman." He, while unmarried, "kept house" in Salem
as an aid to his apprentices and his journeymen, the admin-
istration being confined to a relative, or some other woman
of energy. Although it is in the due place recorded that
"Joseph Chipman and Dorothy Churchill, both of Salem,
entered their intention of marriage, 16 March, 1771," he
remained for more than thirty years after that time a
bachelor. A portrait of him which, taken in his prime,
is in his daughter's possession, indicates less of the vigor
which he had than of an unusual masculine beauty. A
" pump-and-block-maker."
He married, 1st, 2 Jan., 1803, Elizabeth Obear, of
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Beverly, who d. in or near 1807 ; and married, 2d, 7
Feb., 1809, Elizabeth Fowler, of Beverly, who d. 29
Aug., 1852.
Two children :
54. JOHN HALE 6 .
55. Eliza Maria 6 , b. 9 March, 1813. She resides with
her brother. She in former years was a Teacher.
25. Capt. BENJAMIN CHIPMAN, youngest sou of Rev.
John Chipman (8), was born in Beverly, 8 June, 1751 ;
died April, 1783. He lived in Salem. Captured in the
privateer schooner Warren, of Salem, 27 Dec., 1777,
and, in England, committed to the so-called Mill Prison,
he managed to escape and to reach his home. A ship-
master.
He married, about 1779, Anna, daughter of Jonathan
Porter, which Anna married, 2d, 10 July, 1798, Dea.
John Dike, of Beverly and Salem.
Two children :
56. Benjamin 6 , d. young.
57. Anna 6 (or Nancy), b. 13 Aug., 1783; d. about
1854 ; m., 8 April, 1817, Capt. Joseph Wilson, of Salem,
whom she, childless, long survived.
26. ANI'HONY CHIPMAX, fourth son of Handley Chipman
(9), Esq., was born in Newport, R. I., 1754; died (later
than April), 1790. He lived in Gloucester. He fora
time was a soldier in the American army, serving under a
"Col. Tucker." He went to Gloucester, 1780, after
having at Halifax, N. S., deserted from the British naval
service into which he had been impressed. A mariner.
He married, 1783, Anna Lurvey who married, 2d,
1792, Samuel Wonson, and thereafter resided in what now
is Rockport.
Two children :
58. ANTHONY 6 .
59. James 6 , b. 12 Aug., 1788; d., an adult, mini.
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SIXTH GENERATION.
27. THOMAS CHIPMAN, oldest son of Samuel Chipman
(10), was born in Groton, Conn., about 1747 ; died 18.03.
He lived in Ne t w London, Conn. He married, about
177(5, Rachel Moore, of now Greenport, N. Y., who sur-
vived him. Of their six children, pertains to the design
of these papers the oldest :
GO. THOMAS 7 .
33. Hon. WARD CHIPMAN, fourth son of John Chipman
(13), Esq., was born in Marblchead, 30 July, 1754; gr.
H. C., 1770; died 9 Feb., 1824. The oration which lie
delivered at his graduation was the first delivered on such
occasions there, in the vernacular language. He, in 1771,
was Preceptor of the Free School in Roxbury, Mass. He
studied law in Boston, under direction of Hon. Jonathan
Scwall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachu-
setts, and Hon. Daniel Leonard, author of political papers
published in a Boston journal, 1774-5, and signed "Mas-
sachusettensis," which, an able defence of the British
Government, were answered by John Adams, Esq., after-
ward President of the United States. Associated in those
professional studies with Mr. Chipman was, it is said,
Thomas Coffin who, a cousin of Adm. Sir Isaac Coffin,
became a Secretary of Sir Guy Carleton, and the Commis-
sary General of Quebec. Mr. Leonard, who at first had
advocated the cause of the Colonies with, as Pres. Adams
said, "great eloquence and energy," was drawn over to the
Royalist side of the controversy by Gov. Hutchinson ; and
then, as seems sufficiently manifest, drew with him to that
side Mr. Chipman. The last-named, after completion of
his preparatory studies, practised law in some interior
town, probably Lancaster, Mass., since he there, or else-
where in Worcester Co., owned land, the same, as may be
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inferred, which, "with right to a seat in the Meeting-house,''
his brother-in-law Capt. Peter Bubicr (30) conveyed, 31
Dec., 1781, to his uncle Joseph Chipman (21). "Ward
Chfpman" and "Daniel Leonard," with fifteen other names,
appear, upon "The Loyal Address" to Governor Gage,
on his departure from Boston, 14 Oct., 1775, as "of those
Gentlemen who were driven from their Habitations in the
Country to the Town of Boston." Mr. Leonard subse-
quently was Chief Justice of Bermudas. Mr Chipman,
probably in company with Mr. Leonard who, in 1776,
went with the British to Halifax, N. S., and thence to
England, "was obliged to abandon his native land, on
the evacuation of Boston in 1776. Having repaired to
England, the Royal bounty bestowed on him a pension in
common with a long list of his suffering fellow-country-
men ; but a state of inaction being ill-suited to his ardent
mind, in less than a year he relinquished his pension and
rejoined the King's troops at New York where he was
employed in a Military Department and in the practice
of the Court of Admiralty until the Peace of 1783. On
the first erection of this Province [New Brunswick] , he
was appointed Solicitor General, and continually afterward
bore a conspicuous and most useful part in its affairs as
an Advocate at the Bar, a Member of the House of As-
sembly, a Member of his Majesty's Council, a Judge of
the Supreme Court, and Agent on the part of his Majest\^
before several Commissioners for settling disputed points
of boundary with the United States, until he closed his
mortal career while administering the Government of the
Province as President and Commander in Chief during a
vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor." He died at
Frederickton, N. B. The inscription on the monument at
St. John, N. B., "erected over the remains " of Mr. Chip-
man, adds to the above-quoted statements the following :
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"Distinguished during the whole of his varied and
active life for his superior abilities and unweariuble zeal,
for genuine integrity and singular humanity and benevo-
lence, his loss was universally deplored ; and this frYiil
tribute from his nearest connexions affords but a feeble
expression of the affectionate respect with which they
cherished the memory of his virtues."
Although by the ardor of his youth and by gifted
instructors counselling him, then fatherless, he had, as
"retaining his loyalty to his Sovereign," become an exile
from New England,* he, the inscription also states, yet
"retained an affection for New England." An attestation
of that affection was given by the education of his son at
the same college of which he himself was, as his father
and his grandfather had been, a graduate.
President Chipman married, about 1785, Elizabeth,
surviving in 1851, daughter of Hon. William Hazen, born
in Haverhill, Mass., 1739, died at St. John, N. B., 1814,
a member of the Executive Council of that Province from
its erection, 1784, and of his wife Sarah, only daughter
of Dr. Joseph Le Baron, and of his wife Sarah, born
1726, one of the children of Rev. Nathaniel Leonard, of
Plymouth, Mass., and of his wife Priscilla, daughter of
Dr. Daniel Rogers, of Ipswich, Register of Probate and
Treasurer of Essex Co., Mass., which last-named Sarah
married, 2d, John White, Esq., of Haverhill. Mr. Hazen,
with associates, Mr. White and Mr. Symonds, received,
before the American Revolution, a grant, from the British
Government, of a tract of land on which now stands the
city of St. John, N. B. President Chipman thus became
by his marriage the possessor of a large landed estate.
One child :
61. WARD 7 .
40. JOHN CHIPMAN, oldest son of Capt. Samuel Chip-
man (15), was born in Ipswich, 9 Aug., 1746; died 25
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Dec., 1819. He resided in Salem. During the Revolu-
tionary War he, with Samuel Jones as partner, was en-
gaged in the manufacture of saltpetre, encouraged by the
stimulus of a governmental bounty; and subsequently
was, as is believed, one of the crew of the letter-of-
marque ship, Julius Caesar, (or of some other) of Salem,
Capt. Jonathan Hurradeu, commander ; and in another
cruise was armorer of the Mass, ship Tyrannicide, Capt.
John Fisk, commander. A cabinet-maker and surveyor
of lumber.
Mr. Chipman married, 1st, 22 May, 1768, Hannah,
bap. 28 Jan., 1749, died 21 April, 1797, youngest daugh-
ter of Capt. Eleazer Moses, born 28 Nov., 1703, died
1786, and of his wife Mary Henderson; and married 2d,
30 Jan., 1801, Elizabeth Towzer, of Salem, born about
1754, died not far from 1847, in Lebanon, Me.
Nine children :
62. Mary Henderson 7 , b. 12 April, 1769; d. 13 Oct.,
1853. Unm.
63. Samuel 7 , b. 2 July, 1770; d. 12 March, 1789.
64. John 7 , b. 13 May, 1772 ; d. 20 May, 1780.
65. Eleazer Moses 7 , b. 20 Oct., 1774; d. at sea, July,
1795. Admin, granted 7 April, 1804. A mariner.
Unm.
66. Hannah 7 , b. 13 Aug., 1777; d. Dec., 1780.
67. Elizabeth 7 , b. 22 July, 1780; d. 20 Sept., 1859;
m., 9 May, 1829, Capt. Samuel Gerrish, of Salem. Mrs.
Gerrish had, for many years before her marriage, been a
Teacher.
68. JOHN 7 .
69. RICHARD MANNING 7 .
70. SAMUEL 7 .
44. Capt. THOMAS CHIPMAN, fourth son of Capt. Samuel
Chipman (15), was born in Salem, 18 Nov., 1756 ; died 4
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Dec., 1821. Captured soon after his marriage and with
his vessel carried to Eng., he regained his home after a
vexatious detention, by the British authorities, of more
than live years. He resided in Salem. A shipmaster and
a trader. He married, 24 Jan., 1779, Elizabeth Millet,
of Salem, b. 31 July, 1757 ; d. 20 Nov., 1808.
Eight children :
71. WARD 7 .
72. Thomas 7 , b. 8 July, 1785 ; d. 22 Oct., 1808. Re-
sided in Salem. A dealer in hardware. Unm.
73. Andrew 7 , b. 1 June, 1787; d. 8 Sept., 1789.
74. Samuel 7 , b. 20 June, 1789; d. 7 Sept., 1790.
75. Elizabeth 7 , b. 8 Nov., 1790; d. 24 June, 1794.
76. Anstice 7 , b. 25 April, 1792 ; d. 8 Sept., 1808.
77. Elizabeth 7 , b. 2 July, 1795 ; m. Capt. Joseph, son
of Capt. Gamaliel Hodges, of Salem.
78. Margaret 7 , b. 14 Oct., 1797; d. 25 Oct., 1808.
54. JOHN HALE CHIPMAN, son of Joseph Chipman (21),
was born in Beverly, 11 May, 1811. Resides in Beverly.
A farmer. He married, 31 Dec., 1833, Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Capt. Hugh Hill.
Six children :
79. JAMES EDWARD 7 .
80. John Joseph 7 , a twin brother, b. 17 Nov. 1834;
d. 14 March, 1836.
81. Joseph 7 , b. 11 July, 1836; d. 24 June, 1843.
82. JOHN HALE 7 .
83. Jackson Hill 7 , b. 21 Oct., 1842; d. 19 March,
1850.
84. Joseph 7 , b. 21 Feb., 1846.
58. Capt. ANTHONY CHIPMAN, elder son of Anthony
Chipman(26), was born in Gloucester, 16 July, 1786.
He, living in Rockport till 1837, and thence till 1857 in
Stenbcn, Me., has since 1857 lived in Millbridge, Me.
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A shipmaster. He married 1st, 3 Dec., 1809, Sarah,
died 15 Aug., 1819, daughter of Edmund Pool and of
his wife Sarah Tarr; and married 2d, 24 Nov., 1820,
Sarah, died 12 March, 1857, who, a daughter of
Thurston, was the widow of William Davis, mariner.
Two children by Sarah (Pool) :
85. A child 7 ; d. in infancy.
86. A child 7 ; d. in infancy.
Four children by Sarah (Davis) :
87. ANTHONY 7 .
88. DANIEL 7 .
89. GEORGE 7 .
90. James 7 , b. 6 Dec., 1830 ; d. 3 April, 1851. Unm.
SEVENTH GENERATION.
60. THOMAS CHIPMAN, oldest son of Thomas Chip-
man (27), was bom in New London, Conn., 14 Aug.,
1778 ; died 20 May, 1813. He lived in Newburyport.
His death occurred at New Orleans, La. A manner.
He married, 19 Feb., 1809, Rebecca, died 20 Nov., 1818*
daughter of Billings Putnam, of Newbuiyport, born ia
Danvers.
Three children :
91. Hannah Wire 8 , born 7 May, 1809; m., 1st, Joseph
Carlton, of West Newbury, Mass. ; and m., 2d, John B.
Parker, of same place, who d. 5 April, 1854.
92. THOMAS JOSEPH 8 .
93. Benjamin Putnam 8 , b. 10 Jan., 1813; d. 20 Sept.,
1813.
61. Hon. WARD CHIPMAN, LL.D., son of Hon. Ward
Chipman(33), was bom in St. John, N. B., 21 July,
1787; gr. H. C., 1805; died 26 Nov., 1851. In 1842
Rev. John Pierce, D. D., said of him : "He was preemi-
nently the first scholar in his class, whose eloquent oration
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*On the Influence of Learning,' when he was graduated, I
well remember." Admitted early to practice in the Courts
of New Brunswick, he soon'took and steadily held in them
the post conceded to mental culture and power. Having
while his father lived been Attorney General of the
Province, he was, 17 March, 1824, the next month after
his father's decease, appointed to the position which that
decease had made vacant, a Justice of the Supreme
Court of Judicature. He was elected Chief Justice of that
Court, 29 Sept., 1834, which he, mainly on account of
impaired health, resigned 19 Feb., 1851. Announcing the
resignation, a prominent journal in the Province added :
"" During the long period he has been connected with
the ' Bench of New Brunswick, his decisions have been
highly satisfactory and his legal attainments considered of
no ordinary description, not only by the Bar of this Prov-
ince, but by all jurists in other countries. Up to the
present time his decisions are said to command as much
confidence, as to their correctness, as at any former
period." When the result of arbitration submitted by
Great Britain and the United States, respecting questions
that rose soon after the last war between those parties, had
been declared, Mr. Chipmau published, and in 1839, he
republished, anonymously: "Remarks upon the Disputed
Points of Boundary under the Fifth Article of the Treaty
of Ghent, principally compiled from the statements laid
by the Government of Great Britain before the king of
the Netherlands as Arbiter." Heir to an estate which
by situation was productive as well as large, Mr. Chipman
lived, though not with ostentation, in a sort of baronial
style. He left to the " Church Society" of New Brunswick,
a bequest of $50,000. The Prince of Wales, while he was
at St. John, Aug., 1860, was the guest of Mr. Chipman's
widow.
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Chief Justice Ward Chipman married a daughter of
W. Wright, Esq., Collector of the Customs in St. John.
He had no children.
68. JOHN CHIPMAN, fourth son of John Chipman(40),
was born in Salem, 6 Nov., 1783 ; died 8 March, 1856.
He lived in Salem. In the last war with England he once
or oftener was one of the crew of a vessel sailing, with
