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FIRST GOVERNOR
OF MASSACHUSETTS
ESSEX INSTITUTE
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS,
VOLUME XV,
1878.-
SALEM i
PRINTED FOB THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.
1879.
613116
CONTENTS.
PARTS I, II.
Notice of the Perkins Arras in England, communicated by AUG.
T. PERKINS, 1
Itecord of deaths from gravestones in Rowley, including all
before 1800, communicated by GEORGE B. BLODGETTE, . . 14
Memorial of John Clarke Lee, by Rev. E. B. WILLSON, . . 35
Copy of a fragment of an Account Book kept by Gibson Clough,
communicated by WILLIAM G. BARTON, . . . . 63
Notes and extracts from the Records of the First Church of Sa-
lem, 1G29-173G, communicated by JAMES A. EMMERTON, M. D., 70
Parish list of Deaths begun 1785; recorded by REV. WILLIAM
BENTLEY, D. D., of the East Church, Salem, Mass, (continued),
communicated by IRA J. PATCH, 86
PARTS III, IV.
An Account of the Commemoration, by the Essex Institute, of
the Fifth Half-century of the Landing of John Endicott in
Salem, 101
INTRODUCTION, 103
EXERCISES AT MECHANIC HALL, 105
EXERCISES AT HAMILTON HALL, 113
Address of Henry Wheatland, 114
Remarks by Edwin C. Bolles, 118
Response of Governor A. H. Rice, 119
Response of Mayor Henry K. Oliver, .... 122
Response of Robert C. Winthrop, ... . . .126
Response of Marshall P. Wilder, 133
Response of Dean Stanley, 141
Letter from Chief Justice Gray 144
Response of William C. Endicott, 145
Response of Leverett Saltonstall, 147
Response by Benjamin Peirce, 151
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CONTENTS.
Response by George B. Loring, 155
Response by Fielder Israel, 164
Response by Joseph H. Choate, 166
Response by Benjamin H. Silsbee, 175
Address of E. S. Atwood, 181
SELECTIONS FROM CORRESPONDENCE, 185
From Joseph H. Towne, Milwaukee, Wn., . . . 185
From Hugh Blair Grigsby, Edgehill, near Charlotte Court
House, Va., 186
From Charles Levi Woodbury, Boston, .... 188
From L. G. M. Ramsay, Knoxville, Tenn., . . . 189
From John G. Whittle r, West Ossipee, N. H., . . . 190
From Peter L. Foy, St. Louis, Mo., .... 191
From David King, Newport, E. I., 192
From John C. Holmes, Detroit, Mich., .... 194
POEM by Charles T, Brooks, 195
ODE by William W. Story, 217
ORATION by William C. Endicott, 243
APPENDIX, 281
Notes on the Remarks of Henry Wheatland, George B.
Loring, and Benjamin H. Silsbee, with notices of the
following, 283
Joseph Story, 283. Joseph E. Sprague, 293.
Edward A. Holyoke, 284. John G. King, 294.
Joseph Or. Waters, 284. David Cummins, 294.
Timothy Pickering, 284. Frederick Howes, 294.
B. W. Crowninshield, 285. John Walsh, 295.
Nathaniel Silsbee, 285. Ebenezer Shillaber, 295.
Rufus Choate, 286. Asahel Huntington, 295.
Benjamin Pickman, 286. Stephen P. Webb, 296.
William Reed, 287. John Prince, 296,
Daniel A. White, 287. Brown Emerson, 297.
Gideon Barstow, 288. Lucius Bolles, 297.
Gayton P. Osgood, 288. John Brazer, 297.
Stephen C. Phillips, 288. James Flint, 298.
Leverett Saltonstall, 289. Joseph B. Felt, 297.
Daniel P. King, 289. Henry Colman, 298.
James H. Duncan, 290. Joshua Fisher, 299.
Charles W. Upham, 290. Andrew Nichols, 299.
Samuel Putnam, 291. Abel L. Peirson, 300.
Nathan Dane, 291. Charles G. Putnam, 300.
Ichabod Tucker, 292. Jacob Ashton, 300.
John Pickering, 292. Nathaniel Bowditch, 301.
Benjamin Merrill, 292. George Cleveland, 301.
CONTENTS. Vll
Charles C. Clarke, 301. John W. Tread well, 304.
Pickering Dodge, 301. George A. Ward, 304'.
Pickering Dodge, jr., 302. Jonathan Webb, 304.
William Gibbs, 302. . Stephen White, 305.
Francis Peabody, 302. Benjamin Goodhue, 305.
George Peabody, 302. Nathan Reed, 305.
William Pickman, 303. Jacob Crowninshield, 306.
Willard Peele, 303. E. Hasket Derby, 306.
Dudley L. Pickman, 303. William Gray, 307.
William Proctor, 303. Joseph Peabody, 307.
Nathaniel L. Rogers, 304. John Bertram, 307.
Nathaniel Silsbee, jr., 304.
Notes to the remarks of Dean Stanley, .... 308
Committee of arrangements, 309
Choir under the direction of B. J. Lang, .... 309
List of persons present at the Lunch, . . . . 310
Historical Events of Salem, 312
INDEX OF NAMES, 325
ERRATA, 332
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OF BARNSTABLE, MASS.
220 Devonshire St., BOSK
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE.
VOL. XV. JANUARY AND APRIL, 1878. Nos. 1, 2.
NOTICE OF THE PERKINS ARMS IN ENGLAND.
EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER FROM MANSFIELD PARKYNS,
ESQ., OF LONDON, TO W. H. TURNER, ESQ., OF OXFORD.
COMMUNICATED BY AUG. T. PERKINS, ESQ.
"THERE are several branches of the family of Perkins
who bear or have borne an eagle for arms. But there is
a very important distinction to be observed in these vari-
ous coats.
If you turn to my own family in the list of baronets at
end of Guillim's Display, 6th edition (or 5th?), you will
find the arms thus given (from memory) :
"He fyeareth or: a fess dancette between 10 billets er-
mines but of late times argent an Eagle displayed sable,
in a canton or a fess dancettee, etc., etc."
Or as it might be blazoned :
"Argent an eagle displayed sable, a canton of Parkyns
ancient."
You will find this ancient coat in the church of All-
HIST. COLL. XV 1 (1)
hallows in your "Oxfordshire Church Notes." And on
turning to the Visitation of Berks, 1623, and to the Berks
church notes with Ashmole's Visitation, of which the orig-
inal is in the Bodl. library, you will find that the Berks
family bore those arms (though six billets are given in
the Visitation, ten on the Tombs) quarterly with three
other coats, the second quarter being sable on a chevron
between three eagles displayed argent a mullet gules."
That is the coat I asked you if you could tell me to what
family it belonged. You have it quartered (mullet and
all) by John Broke in Gwelwe church and by Marmion
among Beckingham's quarterings, though on Beckingham's
tomb it is blazoned the reverse (i. e., argent a chevron
between three eagles displayed sable).
I take it to refer to the marriage of William Perkyns
(fourth in the Visitation of Berks, 1623), whose son
Thomas died 1478, from whose son John the Berks
family descended, while my own descended from another
son, Thomas.
The two other coats quartered in the Berks pedigree
.refer to later matches with which we had nothing to do.
Our arms at the period of separation would therefore be
thus tricked (Fig. 1) :
FIG. 1.
FIG. 2.
It is easy therefore to guess that, by accident from bad
drawing, or bad description, or trom an imperfect seal, or
from intention, the compound coat arose thus (Fig. 2).
It was so blazoned in a confirmation of a crest to Richard
Parky ns by Hervey, Clarencieux, 1559, as arms de-
scended to him from his ancestors. But it would seem
that he (Richard Parky ns) took it either as a second coat
or mistook it for a quartering.
You will observe this in a pedigree given in the Visita-
tion of Notts published by the Harleian Society, in which
two shields are given. One, quarterly ; one and four,
ancient ; two and three, modern. Two, quarterly of sev-
eral coats ; one, Parky ns ancient ; two, Ishaw of Walmer
Kent, etc., etc. The modern coat being entirely omitted
in the later shield. On the tomb of the same Richard
Parky ns at Honey, Notts (see Thoro ton's History of Not-
tinghamshire), this new coat is placed as a quartering.
It never was borne in the first quarter or alone till the
visitation of 1664 (Notts), which was attended by my
ancestors' Steward, who, probably knowing nothing about
it, produced, as the best proof, the confirmation of crest
by Hervey, and the arms there blazoned were accepted
as the correct arms and have since been borne.
You will therefore see that the point in- our arms is the
canton.
Another family (Worcestershire), being probably a
branch of ours, of whom there is a short pedigree in the
Philpott MSS. (Coll. of Arms), bore the same except
that the canton was sable a fesse dancette or, no billets.
These were of Worcestershire, but I think migrated to
Ireland about Charles I or Oliver Cromwell.
Sir William Parky ns of Marston, Warwickshire, exe-
cuted for Assassination Plot, seems to have supposed
himself to belong to us, as he applied in 1682 and
received a grant of an imitative or reverse coat, viz.,
sable an eagle displayed arg. in a canton of the second a
fesse dancette of the first. A family of Steele Perkins,
of Orton on the Hill, Leicestershire, of whom there is a
pedigree in Nichol's History of the County, assumed to
bear that coat on the ground of relationship to the War-
wickshire family, though if their pedigree is at all right it
proves they had nothing to do with them or the grantee.
Generally the sketch history of the family, as a rough
guide to you, may be taken thus :
The Pedigree (Berks Visitation, 1623) derives the
name from Peter or Perkins Morley, who is stated to have
been "serviens" (according to Selden a higher grade of
Esquire, but I think probably Steward of the Court) to
Sir Hugh Despencer (who died 1349). He is mentioned
in connection with Shiptou under Which wood, one of the
estates of the Despencers, and was living in the year of
the poll ta^.
I have not looked him up, nor his son Henry Perkins,
whose son John Perkins was seneschal to Thomas Despen-
cer, Earl of Gloucester 21, Richard II. It would seem,
therefore, that they held a sort of hereditary position as
stewards of the Despencers, who had enormous estates in
various counties. It is not surprising that by wills and
other sources we find the name of Parkins or Perkins in
close proximity to the principal manors and residences of
the Despencers, possibly descendants to the steward of
those manors.
He, John Parky us, was acknowledged, temp. Richard
II, to hold an estate of the manor of Madresfield, by
fealty and 8 s. 5 d. per annum. Madresfield in Worces-
tershire adjoins Hanley Castle, the principal seat of the
Despencers.
1, Edw. IV, he had a grant of land at Shipton under
Whichwood, another of their former manors forfeited.
Buscot in Berkshire is not far from Shipton, and close to
Fairford, another great place of the Despencers. In
1424, there was a fine between John Collee and Elizabeth
and William Perky ns (son of John the seneschal), and
Margaret his wife by which the manor and advowson of
Ufton Robert (near Reading) and a moiety of lands in
Buscot and other places and Ufton were settled on Wil-
liam and Margaret and their heirs (I think the Bccking-
hams had the manor and advowson of Buscot and the
other moiety of the lands) . Ufton and Buscot belonged
to the family of Painell and from them to one Thomas
Cillery. That is how the family acquired the Ufton
estates, which remained some centuries in that branch.
Thomas Perkins (son of William) appears to have died
v.p. His eldest son John inherited the Berks estates.
The property at Madresfield, Worcestershire, passed to
our branch.
The principal estates of the Despencers went with their
heiress to "the King-maker, Earl of Warwick," and it
would seem that the family of Perkins continued to hold
the position of stewards, or some such position, for in the
last year of Henry VI, or 1st Ed\v. IV, Bernard Brocas
(a Lancastrian) conveys several manors to Richard, carl
of Warwick, John Lord Montague (the earl's brother),
Thomas Perkins, Esq., and three others.
I take it that from this connection arose the Warwick-
shire branch before mentioned. William, son of Thomas
Perkins, married Joane Reade of near Coventry,
i. e., near Marston, where was the branch mentioned.
There is an old pedigree of four generations of the
Madresfield Branch in the College of Arms, the last
being Richard Parky ns, my ancestor, who about 1570
acquired the manors of Boney and Bradmore in Notts,
partly by marriage, partly by purchase. They of Ma-
dresfield, Worcestershire, married chiefly into Hereford-
shire, where they had also property.
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From them various branches appear to have sprung in
that and adjacent counties.
There is a pedigree of six or seven generations in the
late visitation of Hereford and Monmouthshire of a family
which, from similarity of names and arms, would probably
be a branch. They bore or, a bend dancettee between six
billets, but claimed to bear the arms of Sitsyllt, prince of
Merioneth as paternally descended from him. By a will,
there appears to have been some of the name in good
position, at Bristol, about A. D. 1500.
From the Berks branch probably descended branches
found at Guilford and in various parts of Berks, Surrey,
and in London, but these would not bear the eagle, which
was borne only, so far as I can ascertain, by the families
descended or claiming to descend from Madresfield in
Worcestershire, viz. : Notts, Warwick and Ireland.
The younger sons of our own branch for the last three
hundred years have been almost always barristers or sol-
diers, and hardly any have left sons behind them.
Thus you would then have all of those who bore an
eagle, so far as I can learn, except Perkins of Leicester,
which is in N\choPs History, and I think carried down in
Burke's Landed Gentry and Commoners.
Ashraoles MSS.
852, fol. 301.
Petrus Morley alias Agnes Tayler
Perkins de com.
Superstes | Salopiaeservusdomini
4*, Rich. II. J Hugonis de Spencer
domini de Shipton
in Com. Oxon.
Henricus Perkins
fllius Peter.
uxor ejus.
FIG. 3.
I
Seneschallus ) Johnes Perkins armig'r.
Tho. Comitis lilius Ilenrici vixit
Gloucestr 21 Ric. II ) j Hen IV .
Superstes 7 Hen. V
et 5 Hen. VI.
Hen. VI
1460.
I
Willus Perkins ar.
fllius Johannis.
I
Tho. Perkins ar. fll.
Willielmi ob. ante
18 Ed. IV.
I
Jones Perkins fllius
Thome.
Thomas Perkins
Johis.
= Uxor ejus fllia
et haeres . . More.
Ricus Perkins primus
fllius obiit sine cxitu ejus
fllia Mompesson.
I
Willus Perkins
Uxor ejus fllia
Wells de Com.
Southt.
Franciscus Perkins Anna fllia
de Ufton in Com. Berks. Plowden.
Armiger.
: Margareta fllia Jo.
Eeton de Catmore
in Com. Berks arm'r.
1 1
Edwardus Franciscus Perkins -
Perkins fllius et nacres modo
2 fllius. superstes 1G23.
1 1
Franciscus unions films Maria 1.
et vivens anno 1623. Jana 2.
1
Anna 3.
Fran ci sea 4.
1
Elizabetha 5-
Margareta 6.
Frauncis Parkyns.
I, George Underwood, of Ufton, did set downe this name Francis Perkins, and
I testifye this latter pedigree to be true.
Ashmole MSS.
851, fol. 201.
Francis Perkins of Margaret da. of
Upton in Com. Berks
John Eston of
Catmore in Com.
Berks Esquire.
8 I ol 1 ll 2 I I
Frances Mary Winifred Francis = Frances youngest Anne Elizabeth
dan. to Henry wife of
Winchecombe Wm. Blunt
wife to wife to wife to Perkins
Edwai'd John Arthur ob. anno
Codring- Hide of Mayn-
ton in Hide-end waring
Com. in Com. of Beech
Wilts. Berks. Hill Esq.
1660.
of Burghlebury
in Com. Berks.
I
Francis Perkins
of Ufton, aet. 11
annorum 25
Martin 1665.
Certified by Francis Hildesley
on the behalfe of Francis Perkins
now in minority.
of Fee-
house
in Com.
Berks.
4. Margaret
1st wife to
St. George
of ...
in com.
Harts
2ndly to
Butler of
Ashm. 850, 22, etc.
Ufton, 27 Aug., 1666.
Towards the east end of the chancell on the north side
is raised a faire and large stone monument where the
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statues of Richard Perkins, Esq., and the Lady Merwyn
his wife were made kneeling before a deske but now
broken downe.
FIG. 5.
At the TcTp of the JttonurnenT [5
t)ts Coat and Crest.
RICHARD PARKINS.
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Fia. 6.
fore side are Ikes e Arrvtes
Owthe
is cut in &1orue
Coat of Arm.es.
Lower on the same side of the chancell is another large
arched Monument of stone erected against the wall ; and
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within the arch lyes a man in armor, and his wife on his
left side.
no. 7.
Above is this coat and crest, and under them this short
inscription :
HIC JACET FRAN : PERKINS.
Si genus a proavis spectas, (pie lector) ab illis
Bissenus fait hie, quern lapis iste tegit
Si virtus candorque parent encomia terris
Hie habet, aut ccelis prremia, certus habet
Jungitur hoc tumulo, quern struxerat Anna marito,
Corpora divisit Mors sociavit Amor.
On the fore side of this Monument are the Figures of
two Sons ; and these Arms :
FIG. 8.
Neere to the said Monument is layd a marble Grave-
stone having a brass plate with this Inscription :
Franciscos Perkins filius Francisci
Et Margaretse, pafcre vivente
Mortuus et hie sepultus anno dni.
1660 aetatis vero suse 38.
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In a chapell adjoyning to the North side of ye Chancell
is a raised Monument over which lyes a large stone of
Touch and these arnies and Crest above the Epitaph.
FIG. 9.
Hie jaceo Franciscus Perkins films et heres Franc, et
Annse qui suprajacent ; duxi Margaretam filiam
Johis Eyston de Catmer Armigeri, ipsa genuit mihi
Sex filios, filiasqtie decem Amboque sub hoc marmor
contegimur.
Viximus Unamines, Tumulo Sociamur in uno,
Una sit ut requies, det Deus una salus
Obiit decimo nono Septembris Anno 1661 setatis suae 79.
On a plate of brass fixed on a Marble Gravestone lying
on the north side of the Monument :
FK. PERKINS, Margaretam uxorem alloquitur. In pace
requiesce (dilectissima Conjux) et paulisper expecta ad-
ventum meum, quod si diutius mansero hoc diviiio obse-
quio non vitse desiderio concessum obtestor. Obiit primo
die Martii. Anno 1641 setatis suse 55."
NOTE. While the above article was waiting for the printer, a most
fortunate and opportune discovery was made of the arms of the Per-
kins family as they were borne one hundred and fifty, or more, years
ago in, the then, English colony of Massachusetts Bay. A deed of
land in Ipswich, Mass., then given by Dr. John Perkins to John Wain-
wright, has been found to have appended to the signature of the
grantor, his seal, an engraving of which is placed in the margin. The
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date of this deed is April 29, 1725. On comparing the arms upon this
seal with that upon one of the shields given in the above communica-
tion, the two will be found to be identical, thus
connecting the Perkins family of New England
with that of the old country. This may lead to a
knowledge of the family connections of John Per-
kins senior previous to his immigration to this
country in 1G31.
Dr. John Perkins, whose seal is given here, was
the brother of Capt. Beamsly Perkins of Ipswich,
who died July 23, 1720. His tombstone is now to
be seen in the old burial ground in Ipswich. In
this tombstone is a sunken space in which was, formerly, a metal plate
containing the Perkins Arms, as is well remembered by many; this
plate is now nowhere to be found. Some years ago, as is believed, a
man of gentlemanly appearance came to Ipswich and represented him-
self as from New Orleans, stating that he was of the family of Capt.
Beamsly Perkins, and induced the custodians of the cemetery to let
him take the plate. Nothing has been heard or seen of either gentle-
man or plate since. The seal now discovered appended to the signa-
ture of Dr. John Perkins restores to us the arms taken from his
brother's grave.
Still another relic of the past, bearing upon the Perkins arms in
New England, was unearthed a few years ago, near where the Provi-
dence depot now stands in Boston. A grave-stone, of which we give
a representation, was found on land of Samuel Jennison, Esq., and
was given by him to his friend, Aug. T. Perkins, Esq., of Boston.
This stone is broken upon the right hand corners, but upon the upper
left, as will be seen, is a shield bearing the arms of the Perkins, a fesse
dancette between six billets, differing from the arms upon the seal
only in the number of billets, and from the bottom of the shield is a
depending branch with pine cones or pine apples, as they were called.
the pine cone or apple being the proper crest of the Perkins arms,
This stone is of the date of 10t>2, bearing the name of an infant son
of Edmund Perkins, the emigrant ancestor of the family at Boston.
There can be but little doubt that these arms, as here given, are
those which the families who immigrated to this country were entitled
to bear while in England.
Col. Thomas Handasyd Perkins, who has now been deceased some
years, before his death made this remark to his grandson, A. T. Per-
kins : "I do not remember, when I was a boy, to have ever seen our
arms represented with an eagle, as we now have it, but more like that
little thing in the corner of the shield," referring to the canton, which
is like the coat of arras now discovered. G. A. P.
RECORD OF DEATHS
FROM GRAVESTONES IN ROWLEY,
INCLUDING ALL BEFORE THE YEAR 1800.
With Notes.*
COMMUNICATED BY GEO. B. BLODGETTE, A. M.
1. Baily, James, died 20 March, 1714-5. Aged 64
years.
Son of James and Lydia, b. 15-11 mo., 1650.
2. Bayley, Nathaniel, died 21 July, J 722. In his
48th year.
Son of John and Mary (Mighill) Bailey, bapt. 4 April, 1675.
He m. 2 Jan.. 1700-1 Sarah Clark.
3. Bayley, Sarah, wife of Capt. Jonathan, died 28th
Sept., 1730. In her 55th year.
Jonathan, m. 30 Jan , 1707-8, Sarah Jewett, dau. of Dea.
Ezekiel (81). She was b. 24 Nov., 1675.
4. Bailey, Deacon David, died 12 May, 1769. In his
62nd year.
Son of Nathaniel (2), b. 11 Nov., 1707.
5. Bennett, Doct. David, died 4 Feb., 1718-9. Aged
103 years.
Father of Lieut. Gov. Spencer Phips.
6. Bennet, Doct. William, died 18 Sept., 1724. In
his 38th year.
Son of Doct. David (5) and Rebecca (Spencer), b. 9 July,
1687.
7. Boynton, John, son of John and Bethiah, died
19 Oct., 1714. Aged 5 months.
See Hist. Coll., Vol. V, note on page 15.
* The origin al spelling of the names is retained.
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8. Boynton, Joseph, son of Hilkiah and Priscilla,
died 7 Feb., 1717-8. Aged 2 months and three days.
9. Boynton, John, died 8 Oct., 1718. In his 40th
year.
See Hist. Coll., Vol. IV, page 126.
10. Boynton, Joseph, died 16 Dec., 1730. Aged
above 85 years.
See Hist. Coll., Vol. IV, page 12G.
11. Bradford, Dorothy, wife of Rev. Moses Bradford,
died 24 June, 1792. Aged 26 years.
Dau. of Moses 8 and Lucy (Pickard) Bradstreet, bapt. 8 Sept.,
1765, m. 2 Nov., 1788.
12. f Bradstreet, Capt. Moses, died 17 Aug., 1690. In
his 47th year.
Second son of Humphrey. 1
13. Bradstreet, Breget, dau. of Moses and Hannah,
died 22 July, 1718. Aged 22 years and 4 months.
B. 17 March, 1695-G.
14. Bradstreet, John, son of Moses and Hannah, died
24 [12] May, 1724. Aged 24 years.
Bapt. 21 April, 1700.
15. Brodstreet, Moses, Junior, died 15 Feb., 1727.
Aged 29 years.
Son of Moses 3 (17) Moses* (12) Humphrey, 1 bapt. in Row-
ley, 27 Feb., 1G97-8.
16. Bradstreet, Hannah, wife of Moses, died 3 Janu-
ary, 1737. Aged 67 years.
Dau. of John and Jane (Crosby) Pickard, m. 19 July, 1686.
17. Bradstreet, Moses, died 20 Dec., 1737. In his
73d year.
Son of Moses' Humphrey, 1 b. 17 Oct., 1665, was husband of
(16).
18. Bradstreet, Hannah, wife of Nathaniel, died 11
April, 1739. Aged 36 years.
Dau. of Ezekiel and Dorothy (Sewall) Northend, m. 19
April, 1727.
19. Bradstreet, Dorothy, widow of Moses and for-
tThe oldest stone in the yard.
16
merly widow of Capt. Ezekiel Northend, died 17 June,
1752. Aged 84 years.
2nd wife of (17).
20. Bradstreet, Lieut. Nathaniel, died 2 Dec., 1752.
In his 48th year.
Son of Moses 3 (17), bapt. in Rowley, 18 Nov., 1705. For
1st marriage see (18). He m. 2nd, 15 Aug., 1739, Hannah
Hammond.
21. Bradstreet, Abigail, wife of Ezekiel, died 23 Aug.,
1773. In her 22nd year.
Maiden name was Abigail Pearson.
22. Burpee, Mary, wife of Thomas, died 17 Aug.,
1721. In her 24th year.
Thomas m. 3 Feb., 1718-9, Mary Harris, dau. of Dea.
Timothy (58). She was b. 9 March, 1697-8.
23. Burpe, Esther, wife of Thomas, died 30 Oct., 1722.
In her 55th year.
Thomas m. 3 Dec., 1690, Esther Hopkinson, dau. of Jona-
than (72). She was b. 9 April, 1667.
24. Burpe, Jeremiah, died 4 Feb., 1723. In his 32nd
year.
Son of Thomas and Esther (23), b. 27 Oct., 1691. He m.
19 May, 1714, Rebecca Jewett.
25. Burpey, David, died 13 Dec., 1728. In his 28th
year.
Son of Thomas and Esther (23), b. 27 Nov., 1701.
26. Burpe, Nathan, died 22 January, 1729. In his
25th year.
Son of Thomas and Esther (23), b. 8 Jan., 1704-5.
27. Burpe, Hannah, wife of Jonathan, died 24 Janu-
ary, 1729. In her 24th year.
Jonathan m. 26 Dec., 1722, Hannah, dau. of Isaac and Eliz-
abeth (Jewett) Plats. She was b. 19 Sept., 1705.
28. Burpy, Johanna, wife of Joseph, died 1 Oct.,
1748. In her 28th year.
Joseph m. 19 June. 1740, Johanna Pickard, dau. of Jonathan
and Johanna (Jewett) Pickard. She was b. 16 Jan.,
1720-1.
29. Burpey, Joseph, died 5 January, 1776. In his
57th year.
Son of Jeremiah and Rebecca (24), b. 25 July, 1719. See (28)!
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30. Choate, John, son of Robert and Eunice, died
27 Oct., 1718. Aged 4 months and 28 days.
31. Clark, Ebenezer, died 28 April, 1716. In his
29th year.
32. Clark, Aron, son of Jonathan, died 10 March,
1743. In his 21st year.
33. Cogswell, Sarah Northen, wife of Doct. Nathaniel,
died 8 March, 1773. In her 35th year.
See Appendix to " The Northern! Family," page 15.
34. Cressey, Tamar, dtiu. of Mighill and Sarah, died
29 May, 1716. Aged near 19 years.
See N. E. Hist. Gen. Register for April, 1877.
35. Cresey, William, died 9 Feb., 1717-8. Aged 55
years.
36. Creci, Mikael, Junior, died 15 July, 1720. Aged
32 years.
Davis, Jacob, died 26 Feb., 1729, in]
his 16th year.
Davis, Mary, died 27 Feb., 1729, in
37.
her 6th year.
One
Davis, Moses, died 3 March, 1729, in Sl
his 4th year.
Children of Moses and Hannah Davis. _
38. Davis, Capt. Moses, died 1 Feb., 1753. In his
63rd year.
39. Dickinson, James, died 5 January, 1705. Aged
about 27 years.
Son of Jmes and Rebecca, b. 30 June, 1G78.
40. Dresser, Elisabeth, dan. of Joseph and Joanna,
died 20 May, 1736. Aged 19 years, 5 months, 25 days.
41. Dresser, Doct. Amos, died 22 Sept., 1741. In
his 29th year.
Son of Joseph and Johanna (Barker), b. 9 May, 1713.
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42. Elsworth, Mary, wife of Jeremiah, Junior, died
10 Dec., 1742. In her 25th year.
Maiden name Mary Clark.
43. Frazer, Nathan, died 21 Oct., 1741. In his 42nd
year.
Son of Colen, bapt. 14 Jan., 1699-700. He m. 19 Nov.,
1730, Jane Prime, dau. of Mark (188). She was b. 8 Sept.,
1707.
44. Gage, Sarah, dau. of William and Mercy, died
18 June, 1713. Aged 5 years.
45. Gage, William, died 18 March, 1730. In his 48th
year.
46. Gage, Mercy, widow of William, died 10 Oct.,
1775. In her 93rd year.
47. Gage, William, eldest son of Col. Thomas, died
2 Oct., 1777. Aged 26 years.
48. Gage, Col. Thomas, died 31 Aug., 1788. Aged
77 years and 19 days.
49. Gage, Mary, wife of Thomas, died 26 June, 1798.
Aged 34 years, 9 months and 11 days,
50. Gibson, Mehitable, widow of Deacon Benjamin
Gibson and Deacon Humphrey Hobson, died 14 May,
1773. Aged 84 years.
51. Hale, Hon. Thomas, died 11 April, 1730. In his
72nd year.
See Gen. of Hale family.
52. Hale, Sarah, widow of Hon. Thomas, died 26 April,
1732. Aged 70 years.
53. Hale, Doct. William, died 21 Feb., 1784, In his
56th year.
54. Hale, Jane, widow of Doct. William, died 5 July,
1799. In her 57th year.
55. Hammond, Sarah, wife of Thomas, died 16 Janu-
ary, 1712-3. Aged 57 years.
56. Hammond, Thomas, died 26 Feb., 1724. In his
9th year.
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57. Hammond, Oliver, died 19 Sept., 1758. In his
29th year.
58. Harris, Deacon Timothy, died 24 March, 1723.
In his 66th year.
59. Harris, Eunice, wife of John, died 21 Sept., 1775.
In her 39th year.
60. Harris, Mary, dan. of John and Eunice, died 17
Nov., 1795. Aged 28 years and 5 months.
61. Hart, Thomas, son of Joseph and Jane, died 23
Oct., 1722. In his 17th year.
62. Haseltine, Mrs. Sarah, died 13 Aug., 1778. In
her 56th year.
63. Hobson, William, died 23 Sept., 1725. In his
67th year.
Son of William 1 and Ann (Reyncr) Ilobson, b. 24 May,
1659, m. 9 June, 1G92, Sarah Jewett, dau. of Jeremiah (74).
64. Hobson, William, Junior, died 2 June, 1727. In
his 27th year.
65. Hobson, Jeremiah, died 13 Sept., 1741. Aged
44 years and 3 days.
66. Hobson, Deacon Humphry, died 23 June, 1742.
Aged 57 years, 11 mos. and 13 days.
Sec Hist. Coll., Vol. XII.
67. Hobson, Hannah, wife of William, died 13 Sept.,
1757. In her 28th year.
68. Hobson, Hon. Humphry, died 2 Aug., 1773.
Aged 56 years.
69. Hobson, Elizabeth, 2nd dau. of lion. Humphry
and Priscilla, died 23 Aug., 1773. Aged 25 years.
70. Hobson, Mehetabel, eldest dau. of Hon. Humphrey
and Priscilla, died 9 Sept., 1773. Aged 27 years.
71. Hopkinson, Elisabeth, wife of Jonathan, died 9
March, 1718. Aged 68 years.
She was dau. of John and Mary Dresser, b. in Rowley 10
March, 1649-50, m. 10 June, 1680, Jonathan (72) as his
second wife.
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72. Hopkinson, Jonathan, died 11 Feb., 1719. Aged
76 years.
Son of Micheal l and Ann, b. in Rowley 9-2 mo., 1643. M.
first, 11 May, 1666, Hester, dau. of Richard and Alice
Clark. She was b. in R. 10-8 mo., 1645. He m. second
as above, see (71).
73. Hoskins, Mrs. Susanna, "from Boston," died 27th
June, 1775. Aged 71 years.
Probably this name should be " Hodgkins."
74. Jewet, Jeremiah, died 20 May, 1714. Aged 77
years.
Eldest son of Joseph. 1 He m. 1 May, 1661, Sarah, dau. of
Thomas and Janet Dickinson. She was b. in Rowley 18
Oct., 1644, and d. 30 Jan., 1723-4. Jeremiah lived on the
farm his father gave him in the town of Ipswich, in the
first parish of Rowley.
75. Juett, Moses, son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth, died
11 June, 1715. In his 20th year.
B. in Ipswich 13 Oct., 1695. His father was the eldest son
of Jeremiah 2 (74).
76. Jewet, Faith, wife of Ezekiel, died 15 Oct., 1715.
In her 74th year.
She was dau. of Francis and Elizabeth Parret and b. in
Rowley 20-1 mo., 1642, m. Ezekiel 26 Feb., 1663-4.
77. Jewet, Benjamin, died 22 January, 1715-6. Aged
24 years, 3 months and 24 days.
Son of Nehemiah (78).
78. Jewet, Nehemiah, died 1 January, 1719-20.
Aged 77 years lacking 3 months.
Second son of Joseph, 1 b. in Rowley 6-2 mo., 1643. M. at
Lynn, Exercise, dau. of John and Rebecca (Wheeler)
Pierce.
79. Jewet, Priscilla, wife of Stephen, died 27 Dec.,
1722. In her 35th year.
" Hereby doth lie Soloman our well beloved son."
She was the third child of Joseph and Rebecca Jewett (83),
b, 9 Aug., 1687, m. 12 July, 1708 Stephen (92).
80. Jewett, Anne, wife of Aquila, died 6 March, 1723.
In her 40th year.
She was dau. of Thomas and Margaret (Hidden) Tenney of
Rowley; b. 26 Aug., 1683, m. Aquila 23 Oct., 1704.
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81. Jewctt, Deacon Ezckicl, died 2 Sept. 1723. In
his 81st year.
Eldest son of Maximilian. 1 b. in Rowley 5-1 mo., 1043.
For first marriage sec (7G). He m. second, 23 Oct., 1716.
Elizabeth, widow of John Jewett.
82. Jewett, Sarah, wife of Stephen, died 3 Dec., 1724.
In her 49th year.
Stephen (02), m. Sarah Trask of Beverly as a second wife.
Pub. 28 Sept. 1723, see (79).
83. Jewel, Rebekah, wife of Joseph, died 26 Dec.,
1729. In her 74th year.
She was dau. of William and Mary Law of Rowley, b. 1-4
mo., 1(555; m. 2 March, 1G7G-7, Joseph who was second
son of Maximilian. 1
84. Jewet, Mary, wife of Joseph, died 2 G June, 1732.
In her 43rd year.
Joseph m. 27 March, 170G, Mary Hibbert. lie was son of
Capt. Joseph, 2 who was third son of Joseph, 1 brother of
Maximilian. 1
85. Jewet, Elisabeth, dau. of Ephraim and Elisabeth,
died 5 April, 1737. In her 12lh year.
Bapt. in Ipswich 2G Dec., 1725.
86. Jewet, Ephraim, died 13 Dec., 1739. In his 59th
year.
Sixth son of Jeremiah 2 (74), b. 2 Feb., 1079-80; m. Eliza-
beth, dau. of Thomas and Hannah Hammond of Ipswich
(Rowley Parish), published 11 June, 170<J.
87. Jewett, Elisabeth, wife of Jacob, died 17 Sept.,
1741. In her 31st year.
See Hist. Coll., Vol. XII.
88. Jewett, Thomas, died 1 July, 1742. In his 75th
year.
Third son of Jeremiah 2 (74), b. 29 Jan., 1GG7-8. Never
married.
89. Jewett, Ruth, wife of Eliphalet, died 18 Sept.,
1750. In her 37th year.
She was dau. of Jonathan and Johanna (Jewett) Pickard,
b. in Rowley 13 Nov., 1713; m. 27 Feb., 1733-4.
90. Jewett, Lyda, wife of Stephen, died 7 Sept., 1754.
In her 70th year.
She was a dau. of Thomas and Deraaris (Bailey) Leaver of
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Eowley; b. 5 Dec., 1684; m. Stephen ^92), 23 Nov., 1725,
as his third wife. She was the widow of Daniel Thurston
and Robert Rogers.
91. Jewett, Elisabeth, wife of Rev. Jedidiah, died 14
April, 1764. Aged 51 years.
She was only child of Richard and Dorothy (Light) Dummer
of Newbury; b. 7 Dec., 1713; m. Jedidiah 11 Nov., 1730.
92. Jewett, Cornet Stephen, died 14 January, 1771.
In his 88th year.
The tenth and youngest child of Deacon Ezekiel (81) ; b.
23 Feb., 1682-3. For his three marriages see (79), (82)
and (90).
93. Jewett, Elizabeth, wife of Jacob, died 29 July,
1773. Aged 26 years.
94. Jewett, Jacob, died 26 May, 1774. In his 66th
year.
Son of Jonathan 3 and Mary (Wicom) Jewett; b. 28 Jan.,
1707-8, a descendant from Maximilian 1 through Joseph 8
and Rebecca (83).
95. Jewett, Joseph, died 1 Aug., 1774. In his 36th
year.
Son of Capt. George (97) ; bapt. 13. May, 1739. His grand-
son George is living in Rowley.
96. Jewett, Ruth, dau. of Capt. George and Hannah,
died 29 Sept., 1774. In her 29th year.
97. Jewett, Capt. George, died 5 Feb., 1776. Aged
68 years.
Eldest son of Joseph and Mary (Hibbert) (84) ; b. 25 July,
1708; m. 9 Jan., 1728-9, Hannah, dau. of Thomas and
Sarah (Hammond) Lambert of Rowley.
98. Jewett, Eliphalet, died 30 Oct., 1789. In his
78th year.
Eldest son of Cornet Stephen (92) ; b. 22 Jan., 1711-2. For
his first m. see (89). He m. second 20 June, 1751, Sarah
Gage of Rowley.
99. Jewett, Mrs. Mary, died 26 Aug., 1794. Aged
60 years.
100. Jewett, Abigail, wife of Capt. Moses, died 8
Nov., 1794. Aged 72 years.
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101. Jewett, Mary, widow of Jeremiah, died 17 Feb.,
1796. In her 91st year.
Dau. of Nathaniel and Priscilla (Pearson) Mighill of Rowley ;
b. 5 Jan., 1705-G; m. 27 Jan., 173G-7.
102. Jewett, Capt. Moses, died 31 July, 1796. In
his 75th year.
Bapt. in Ipswich, 7 April, 1722, second son of Aaron 4 and
Abigail (Perley) Jewett of Ipswich (Rowley Parish).
103. Jewett, David, "companion of Mrs. Elisabeth,"
died 15 July, 1799. Aged 53 years.
104. Jewett, Hannah, widow of Capt. George, died
28 Sept., 1799. Aged 93 years.
See (97). She was b. in Rowley, 15 Nov., 170G.
105. Johnson, Hannah, widow of Capt. John, died 25
Dec., 1717. Aged 83 years.
106. Johnson, Hannah, dan. of Samuel and Francis,
died 22 Sept., 1723. In her 19th year.
C Johnson, Francis, died 18 Aug., 1
I 1737. In his llth year.
J Johnson, Judah, died 14 Sept., 1736.
In his 7th year.
Johnson, Obadiah, died 9 June, J>
1736. In his 3rd year.
Johnson, Isaiah, died 24 Sept., 1736.
I Aged 11 mos. and 7 days.
L Sons of Daniel Johnson.
108. Jonson, Hannah, wife of Daniel, died 19 Feb.,
1740. In her 35th year.
109. Jonson, Elisabeth, dan. of Daniel and Hannah,
died 1 May, 1740. Aged 1 year, 6 months and 6 days.
110. Jonson, Abigail, son of Jonathan and Hannah,
died 29 May, 1756. In his 21st years.
111. Killborn, Meriah, died 23 Sept., 1710. Aged 14
years.
112. Kilborn, Joseph, died 5 March, 1723. In his
40th year.
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113. Kilborn, Doct. Eliphalet, died 4 June, 1752. In
his 46th year.
114. Kilborn, Dorothy, wife of Joseph, died 12 Aug.,
1793. In her 63rd year.
115. Laiten, Ezekiel, son of Ezekiel and Rebekah,
died 24 Aug., 1716. In his 21st year.
116. Laiten, Ezekiel, died 21 Nov., 1723. In his
66th year.
Son of Richard and Mary, b. 8-12 mo., 1657.
117. Lambert, Jonathan, son of Thomas and Sarah,
died 5 January, 1724. In his 7th year.
118. Lambert, Ednah, dau. of Thomas and Sarah, died
13 March, 1729. In her 21st year.
119. Lambert, Luci, dau. of Thomas and Sarah, died
5 May, 1736. In her 15th year.
120. Lambert, Elizabeth, wife of Thomas, died 6 July,
1749. Aged 36 years, 3 months and 10 days.
121. Lambert, Deborah, wife of Nathan, died 25
January, 1754. In her 38th year.
122. Lambert, Hon. Thomas, died 30 June, 1755.
Aged 77 years, 2 months and 22 days.
123. Lambert, Sarah, widow of Hon. Thomas, died
11 July, 1759. In her 77th year.
124. Lambert, Cornet Thomas, died 17 April, 1775.
Aged 63 years.
125. Lambert, Thomas, died 11 Dec., 1793. Aged
45 years.
126. Lancaster, Dorothy, wife of Thomas, died 23
June, 1752. In her 52nd year.
Dau. of Ezekiel and Dorothy (Sewell) Northend, b. 20
March, 1700-1, m. 8 Jan., 1729-30.
127. Lancaster, Thomas, died 29 Dec., 1792. In his
90th year.
Son of Samuel and Hannah (Plats), b. 25 Nov., 1703.
128. Lancaster, Anna, dau. of Samuel and Hitty, died
12 Dec., 1793. Aged 1 year and 3 months.
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129. Manning, John, son of John and Jane, died 12
Aug., 1736. Aged 4 years.
130. Mighill, Hannah, wife of Thomas, died 25 Sept.,
1748. In her 21st year.
See Hist. Coll., Vol. XII.
131. Mighill (unnamed), a son of Deacon Thomas and
Sarah, died 6 Aug., 1761.
132. Mighill, Capt. Nathaniel, died 25 Aug., 1761.
In his 78th year.
Son of Stephen and Sarah (Phillips) Mighill, b. in Rowley,
4 July, 1(584.
133. Mighill, Nathaniel, son of Jeremiah and Sarah,
died 5 Aug., 1773. Aged 14 years.
134. Mighill, Priscilla, wife of Nathaniel, died 26 Feb.,
1776. In her 94th year.
Daughter of Jeremiah ami Priscilla (Ilazcn) Pearson of
Rowley, b. 3 Feb., 1G82-3, m. Nathaniel (132) 3 Oct., 1705.
135. Mighill, Sarah, wife of Deacon Thomas, died 1
June, 1778. In her 58th year.
Sec Hist. Coll., Vol. XII.
136. Mighill, Nathaniel Esq., died 26 March, 1788.
Aged 73 years.
Son of Nathaniel (132) and Priscilla (134), b. in Rowley, 2
June, 1715.
137. Mighill, Jeremiah, died 3 Oct., 1793. Aged 69
years.
Brother of Nathaniel (130), b. 8 June, 1724.
138. Mighill, Nathaniel, son of Thomas and Mary, died
16 Dec., 1793. Aged 5 months.
139. Mighill, Elizabeth, dan. of Jeremiah and Sarah,
died 15 Feb., 1796. Aged 22 years, 6 months.
140. Mighill, Anna, dan. of Deacon Thomas, died 23
June, 1796. In her 13th year.
141. Mighill, Sarah, widow of Jeremiah, died 18 Fob.,
1799. Aged 63 years.
142. Nelson, Thomas, died 5 April, 1712. Aged 77
years.
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143. Nelson, Abigail, dati. of Thomas and Hannah,
died 18 Aug., 1716. Aged 20 years.
144. Northend, Capt. Ezekiel, died 23 Dec., 1732.
In his 66th year.
See "Northend Family," Hist. Coll., Vol. XII, No. 1.
C Northend, Moses, died 15 Aug., 1736.
In his 5th year.
145. 1 Northend, John, died 22 Aug., 1736. j, :
T T o T stone.
In his 3rd year.
Sons of. Samuel and Mary.
146. Northend, Ezekiel, died 18 Oct., 1742. In his
46th year.
147. Northend, Samuel, only son of Lieut. John and
Bethiah, died 15 June, 1749. In his 23rd year.
148. Northend, Bethiah, wife of Capt. John, died 12
June, 1767. In her 79th year.
149. Northend, Capt. John, died 24 March, 1768. In
his 76th year.
150. Northend, Elisabeth, widow of Ezekiel, died 9
May, 1787. In her 91st year.
151. Osborn, Jane, dau. of John and Jane, died 11
May, 1749. Aged 5 years and 8 months.
152. Palmer, Mary, wife of Deacon Samuel, died 7
July, 1716. Aged 64 years.
153. Palmer, Deacon Samuel, died 21 June, 1719.
Aged 75 years.
154. Palmer, Patience, wife of Timothy, died 20 Janu-
ary, 1730. In her 33rd year.
155. Payson, Jane, wife of Eliphalet, died 24 Nov.,
1722. In her 24th year.
See Hist. Coll., Vol. XII.
156. Payson, Hannah, dau. of Rev. Edward, died 5
Dec., 1725. Aged 27 years.
157. Payson, David, died 9 Aug., 1734. Aged 29
years.
Son of Rev. Edward, b. 5 March, 1705.
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Payson, Eliphalet, died in his 9th
year. May, 1736.
Payson, Jane, died in her 6th year.
One
158. <; May, 1736.
-D ivf i v i i o i I stone
Payson, Mark, died in his 3rd year.
May, 1736.
[ Children of Eliphalet and Ednah.
159. Payson, Mary, wife of Eliot, died 8 Sept., 1758.
In her 59th year.
Dau. of James and Mary (Hopkinson) Todd, b. 15 April,
1700, m. Eliot (1G2; 7 Nov., 1722.
160. Payson, Phebe, wife of Deacon Edward, died
12 Nov., 1765. In her 75th year.
Dan. of Timothy and Phebc (Pearson) Harris, b. 7 Dec.,
1G90, in. Edward (101) 20 Aug., 1723.
161. Payson, Deacon Edward, died 1 March, 1769.
In his 75th year.
Son of Rev. Edward, b. 5 June, 1G94.
162. Payson, Lieut. Eliot, died 4 May, 1774. In his
75th year.
Son of Rev. Edward, b. 11 March, 1699-700.
163. Payson, Hannah, wife of Capt. Edward, died 19
Dec., 1784. Aged 54 years.
164. Payson, Capt. Edward, died 28 Oct., 1797.
Aged 69 years.
165. Pp'irson, Capt. John, died 12 March, 1723. In
his 79th year.
Son of John and Dorcas Pearson, b. in Rowley, 27-10 mo., 1G44.
166. Pearson, Mary, widow of Capt. John, died 12
April, 1728. In her 77th year.
Pearson, John, died 11 May, 1736.
In his 8th year.
Pearson, Joseph, died 23 April, 1736.
167.
In his 6th year.
Pearson, Richard, died 27 April,
1736. Aged 2 years and 3 days.
Sons of John Pearson.
One
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168. Pearson, Joseph, died 19 July, 1753. In his
76th year.
Son of John (165) and Mary (Pickard) Pearson, b. 22 Oct.,
1677.
169. Pearson, Elizabeth, daii. of Capt. John and Ruth,
died 7 May, 1762. In her 21st year.
170. Pearly, Priscilla, grandchild of Elizabeth Mighill.
Aged 15 months and 4 days.
171. Pickard, Jean, wife of John, died 20 Feb.,
1715-6. Aged 89 years.
172. Pickard, Sarah, dau. of Jonathan and Johanna,
died 16 Nov., 1722. In her 12th year.
173. Pickard, Elisabeth, wife of Capt. Samuel, died
29 June, 1730. In her 62nd year.
Dau. of Hon. Thomas Hale. See Hale Genealogy.
174. Pickard, Lieut. Jonathan, died 25 January, 1735.
In his 48th year.
175. Pickard, Mary, wife of Jonathan, died 5 Aug.,
1748. In her 29th year.
176. Pickard, Capt. Samuel, died 2 Sept., 1751. In
his 89th year.
Son of John and Jane (Crosby) Pickard of Rowley, b. ,
3 mo., 1663.
177. Pickard, Jonathan, died 16 Feb., 1765. In his
48th year.
178. Pickard, Ednah, wife of Deacon Francis, died
30 Aug., 1769. In her 76th year.
See Hist. Coll., Vol. XII.
179. Pickard, Deacon Francis, died 12 Sept., 1778.
Aged 89 years.
See Hist. Coll., Vol. XII.
180. Pickard, Mary, wife of Jonathan, died 21 May,
1782. In her 64th year.
181. Pickard, Sarah, wife of Joshua, died 28 April,
1783. In her 36th year.
182. Pickard, Hannah, dau. of Joshua and Sarah, died
4 Dec., 1783. In her 4th year.
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183. Pengry, Aaron, son of Deacon Moses of Ipswich,
died 19 Sept., 1714. Aged 63 years.
184. Pingre, Ann, widow of Aaron, died 3 Feb., 1740.
In her 80th year.
185. Plats, Samuel, died 24 March, 1726. In his
78th year.
See Hist. Coll., vol. V, note on page 15.
186. Plats, Mary, widow of Samuel, died 2 June,
1726. In her 70th year.
187. Prime, Samuel, died 4 March, 1717-8. In his
43rd year.
Son of Samuel and Sarah (Plats) Prime, of Rowley; b.
29 Dec., 1G75; in. Sarah, dan. of Joseph and Ruth (Wood)
Jewett. Pub. 23 March, 1705-6. She was b. 3 Feb.,
1688-9.
188. Prime, Mark, died 7 Oct., 1722. In his 42nd
year.
Brother of (187) ; bapt. 13 March, 1(580-1 ; m. 10 Feb., 1702-3
Jane, clan, of Thomas and Edna (Northern!) Lambert; she
was b. 10 Sept., 1GS5.
189. Prime, Thomas, died 8 May, 1793. Aged 45
years.
190. Richards, Humphrey II., died 28 May, 1783. In
his 28th year.
191. Richards,- Jane, wife of Moses, died 17 March,
1793. In her 40th year.
192. Rylee, Hennery, died 24 May, 1710. In his
82nd year.
193. Sawyer, Ezekiel, died 26 June, 1766. Aged 60
years save 1 day.
194. Scott, Susanna, wife of Benjamin, died 20 Aug.,
1719. In her 69th year.
195. Stickney, Edner, wife of Ensign Andrew, and
dau. of Ezekiel and Edner Northend, died 7 Feb., 1722.
Aged 73 years.
196. Stickne, Andrew, died 29 April, 1727. Aged
about 83 years.
See "Genealogy of the Stickney Family."
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197. Stickney, Josiah, eldest son of Josiah and Martha,
died 19 Dec., 1798. Aged 17 years and 5 months.
198. Syle, Anna, wife of Richard, died 25 January,
1715. Aged 58 years.
199. Tenney, David, died 25 March, 1747. In his
19th year.
200. Todd, Lydiah, wife of Samuel Junior, died 7
Feb., 1720. In her 27th year.
201. Todd, Elizabeth, wife of John, died 5 April,
1725. In her 64th year.
202. Todd, Priscilla, wife of Samuel, died 25 May,
1725. In her 63rd year.
203. Todd, James, died 17 June, 1734. In his 63rd
year.
Son of John and Susanna Todd, b. in Rowley, 8 Feb., 1671-2.
204. Todd, Mary, wife of James, died 10 Nov., 1749.
In her 81st year.
Dau. of Jonathan (72) and Hester (Clark) Hopkinson, b. 9
July, 1669.
205. Todd Hannah, wife of Jonathan, died 21 April,
1774. In her 67th year.
206. Todd, Jonathan, died 29 March, 1775. In his
71st year.
207. Todd, Elizabeth, wife of Asa and 2nd dan. of
Col. Thomas Gage, died 23 July, 1776. In her 34th
year.
208. Torrey, Sophia, dan. of Doct. Joseph and Polly,
died 15 Aug., 1797. Aged 2 years, 6 months.
209. Wicom, Capt. Daniel, died 15 April, 1700.
Aged 65 years.
Was a lawyer and Rep. 1689 and 1699.
210. Wicom, Sara, wife of Daniel, died 9 April, 1705
[6]. In her 33rd year.
Daniel m. 27 June, 1690, Sarah, dau. of Edward and Hannah
Hazen. She was b. 22 Aug., 1673.
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211. Wicom, Lid lea, wife of Capt. Daniel, died 24
Nov., 1722. Aged 80 years.
See Hist. Coll., Vol. V, page 16.
212. Wood, Jeremiah, son of Jacob and Hannah, died
17 July, 1737 [6]. Aged 11 years.
213. Wood, Moses, son of Jacob and Hannah, died
8 Aug., 1736. Aged 9 years.
214. Woodbary, Hannah, wife of Samuel, died 27
Sept., 1722. In her 38th year.
215. Woodman, Hannah, dau. of Stephen and Hannah,
died 27 Feb., 1741-2. In her 14th year,
216. Woodman, Joshua, died 18 Oct., 1745. Aged
36 years, 1 month and 14 days.
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"REV. EZEKIEL ROGERS, | first minister of Rowley, |
Born at Wethersfield, Essex Co. | England, A. D. 1590,
a minister | in Rowley Yorkshire 17 years. | Came to this
place with his | Church and flock in April | 1639, died
June 23, 1660.J |
This ancient pilgrim nobly bore
The ark of God, to this lone shore ;
And here, before the throne of Heaven
The hand was raised, the pledge was given,
One monarch to obey, one creed to own,
That monarch, God ; that creed, His word alone.
Here also rest | the remains of his wives. |
With him one came with girded heart,
Through good and ill to claim her part ;
In life, in death, with him to seal
Her kindred love, her kindred zeal.
J Mr. Rogers died January 23, 1660-1, and was buried January 26, 1660-1.
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[South front.]
REV. SAMUEL SHEPARD, | third minister of Rowley,]
Born Oct. 1641, | settled colleague with | REV. MR.
PHILLIPS, | Nov. 15, 1665, | died April 7, 1668. |
DOROTHY FLINT, his wife | died Feb. 12, 1668. |
REV. EDWARD PAYSON fourth | minister, born June
20, | 1657, ordained Oct. 25, 1682, | died Aug. 22,
1732. |
Also his wives |
ELISABETH PHILLIPS, | and ELISABETH APPLETON.
[East front.]
REV. JEDJSDIAH JEWETT, | fifth minister of Rowley, |
Born 1705, | ordained Nov. 19, 1729, | died May 8,
1774. |
Also his wives |
ELISABETH DUMMER | and ELISABETH PARSONS. |
REV. EBENEZER BRADFORD, | sixth minister born
1746, | Installed Aug. 4, 1782, | died Jan. 3, 1801. |
ELIZABETH GREEN, his wife | died July 14, 1825.
[Forth front.]
Here rest the great and good | here they repose | after
their generous toil. | A sacred band, | they take their
sleep together. |
Twine gratitude, a wreath for them
More deathless than the diadem.
Who, to life's noblest end,
Gave up life's noblest powers,
And bade the legacy descend
Down, down to us and ours.
Erected by the Ladies Benevolent Circle, | of the Con-
gregational Society, Rowley, | 1851."
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2. Marble.
[North front.']
"Beneath this stone | are buried the remains of | SAM-
UEL PHILLIPS, | the second pastor | of the Church in
Rowley, J lie was born in Boxibrd, England, A. D.
1625, | Carne to America, with his father, | GEORGE PHIL-
LIPS, first minister of | AVatertown, Mass., in 1G30; was
graduated | at Harvard College, in 1650, and was | set-
tled in the Christian ministry, | in this place, in June,
1651, where he | served God and his generation faith-
fully | for 45 years, and died April 22, 1696. | Near this
spot are buried | the remains of his wife, SARAH, | daugh-
ter of SAMUEL APPLETON, of Ipswich; she died 15, July,
1714 aged 86 years. |
From them have descended, among others, | George Phillips, minis-
ter of | Brook Haven, L. I., New York; who died 173'.), | aged 75
years. |
Samuel Phillips, minister at Andover, Mass. | died June 5, 1771,
aged 81 years. |
Samuel Phillips, one of the founders of | Phillips Academy, Andover,
died August 21, 1700, | aged 70 years. |
John Phillips, founder of Phillips Academy, | Exeter, N. II., died
April, 171)5, aged 7G years. |
[West front.]
Samuel Phillips, Lt. Gov. of Mass. | died in Andover, Feb. 10, 1802,
aged 50 years. |
William Phillips, a distinguished | merchant and patriotic citizen, |
died in Boston, Jan., 180-t, aged 82 years. |
William Phillips, Lt. Gov. of Mass. | died in Boston, May 20, 1827,
aged 77 years, and |
John Phillips, Prest. of the Senate of Mass. | and first Mayor of
Boston, died in Boston, | May 29, 1823, aged 52 years.
This monument is erected | by Jonathan Phillips, of
Boston, | a descendant in the sixth generation. | A. D.
1839."
HIST. COLL. XV 3
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3. Granite.
[West front.]
"WILLIAM STICKNEY, | Born in | Frampton, England, |
A. D. 1592, | was, with his wife | ELIZABETH, | of Bos-
ton, in N. E. in 1638, | of Kowley in 1639, | where he
died | A. D. 1665.
[North front.]
Erected | By his Descendants, | Josiah Stickney | of
Boston, | Mathew Adams Stickney | of Salem, | Joseph
Henry Stickney | of Baltimore, MD. | 1865."
MEMORIAL OF JOHN CLARKE LEE.
COMMUNICATED BY REV. E. B. WILLSOX.
WHEN a biographer thinks to make the subject of his
pen more illustrious by building a lofty pedestal of an-
cestral honors on which to exhibit him to better advan-
tage, if the figure to which it is designed thus to lend
distinction is of but the common size, the effect is dis-
appointing.
But no man is wholly accounted for, or known as well
as he can be, who is studied apart from the genealogical
tree on which he grew. We have welcomed to this
paper some personal sketches and notices of a few of
Mr. Lee's relatives of earlier generations, not with the
thought of setting him at a higher elevation thereby,
though he was of a stature to justify high placing, but
because they show him more fully ; and show that more
than one salient trait in his character started some way
back, and has come through long and deep channels.
The Lees of this line appear to have been from the first
American forefather known to us, down to the subject of
this notice, a people with a positive flavor, in whom was a
strong individuality of character ; not rounded and toned
to a conventional and commonplace type, yet very genu-
ine withal, and without affectation of eccentricity .
That this strain of stout and relishable individuality
still persists, no more felicitous proof could be given
than the appreciative characterization of some of them,
and of Mr. John C. Lee in particular, by a kinsman,
which we are permitted to place before the reader farther
on in this memoir.
(35)
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We count ourselves happy that we can present this
portrait of the friend we commemorate, drawn in such
distinct and lifelike lines, such outstanding features, by
one who knew him long and well, and understood his
make by fellow feeling ; one moreover who possesses in
rare degree the gift of terse and graphic expression, as
well befitting the subject as it is illustrative of one of
the natural endowments of more than one of the Lee
family.
In so far as this delineator draws, we may withhold
our own hand. But before we introduce this sketch of
the man, it is fitting that we take some notice of the boy
who preceded and foretold him ; that we outline the life
historically ; and that we name here and there an outspeak-
ing and unavoidable quality of his personality, though it is
to be touched again by the other and more ingenious hand.
The homes of this family, in America, it may be men-
tioned, have been chiefly in and about Boston. But their
enterprise contributed its full share to the commercial
activity and prosperity by which Essex County attained
its well earned fame for hardy courage, good seamanship
and quick-witted seizure of opportunities leading to afflu-
ence some generations ago.
It requires but a few dates and a short narrative to tell
what there is to tell of the main facts in the life of Mr.
Lee. He was not a public man. He sought none of the
offices and honors which most men covet : such as would
naturally and easily have fallen to one of his abilities,
integrity and large qualifications for public service, if he
had desired and sought them. He had his ambitions, and
they were high : higher than "care of prince's ear or vul-
gar breath." So his name was not much on the tongues
of the multitude, nor did the newspaper paragraphist
announce his going and coming. He liked to have it so.
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Being such as he was, however, we have the fewer inci-
dents to record to the lengthening of his biography. He
was moreover not given to much mention of himself, and
except with a few intimate friends, the contemporaries of
his early years, seldom called up in the free fond way
common with men in mature life, the scenes and incidents
of childhood. For this reason in part it is, also, that
the materials for a sketch of his younger boyhood and its
training are meagre.
He was born April 9th, 1804, in Tremont Place, Bos-
ton. 1 His father, Nathaniel Cabot Lee, was in fail ing
health at the time this son and only child was born, and
went not long after, accompanied by his wife, to the
West Indies in hope of benefit from a change of climate,
leaving his infant son in the care of a trusty nurse in
Beverly. The father died in Barbadoes, Jan. 14, 1806,
in the thirty-fourth year of his age, the son being at the
time less than two years old. The mother, Mary Ann
(Cabot) Lee, a cousin of her husband, after a second mar-
riage with Francis Blanchard, Esq., of Wenham, 2 died
July 25, 1809. 'John Lee was thus left without father or
mother at the age of live years. Of the seven years fol-
lowing the death of his mother, that is, of the period
between the ages of five and twelve years, precise dates
*Not the place now so called, but a court opening out of Tremont Street nearly
opposite to King's Chapel, about where the store of lloughton & Dutton, numbered
65 on that street, now stands : known for a time as Phillips Place.
2 Francis Blanchard studied law with Judge Charles Jackson (S. J. C.), and
afterwards was his partner in law business, lie married the widow of Nathaniel
C. Lee, Aug. 2'J, 1808, who at her death in 180P, left a daughter, Eliza Cabot Blanch-
ard, born May 27th, 180D. This daughter married Robert C. Winthrop, March 12th,
1832, and died June 14, 1842, leaving three children. They are all living. Francis
Blanchard died at Wenham of consumption, June 2(>th, 1813, " having been distin-
guished for his good sense and legal acquirements, which were considered very
extraordinary for his age." His daughter was taken into the family of her fath-
er's uncle, Samuel Pickering Gardner, in November, 1814, where she remained till
her marriage.
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cannot be given. The time was divided principally be-
tween Wenliam and Duxbury. Early within the period
named, a winter, perhaps more, was passed in Salem with
his great-grandmother, Mrs. Sarah (Pickering) Clarke,
widow of Captain John Clarke, 3 and sister of the distin-
guished Colonel Timothy Pickering. While living with
Mrs. Clarke he attended the noted school of Miss Hettie
Higginson. With this grandmother's mother, he was
heard to say in the latter part of his life, he was in com-
munication with one who had seen and remembered some
of the actors in the witchcraft tragedies of the seventeenth
century.
In Wenham he lived in the family of the Kev. Rufus
Anderson ; 4 and he used to refer to this portion of his life,
in after years, as a time of which he had the happiest rec-
ollections. The family of Col. Timothy Pickering then
resided in Wenham, and his grandsons, Charles and Ed-
ward, sons of Timothy Pickering, jr., were living with
their grandfather. John Lowell Gardner, son of Samuel
Pickering Gardner, was also a frequent visitor there, pass-
ing his vacations with his grandmother who had a farm in
that part of Wenham bordering upon Hamilton. To both
Mr. Lee took his name from the Rev. John Clarke, D. D., minister of the First
Church in Boston, who was the son of John, and Sarah (Pickering) Clarke, above
named.
4 Rev. Mr. Anderson was the son of James and Nancy (Woodbury) Anderson,
and was born at Londonderry, N. H., March 5th, 1765; graduated at Dartmouth
College in 1791; studied his profession with his brother-in-law, Rev. Joseph McKeen
of Beverly, first president of Bowdoin College; married, 1st, Sept 8th, 1795, Hannah,
second daughter of Col. Isaac Parsons of New Gloucester, Me. ; she died July 14,
1803; married, 2d, May 27, 1804, Elisabeth Lovett of Beverly, who survived him;
ordained at North Yarmouth, Me., Oct. 22, 1794; dismissed Sept. 1804; installed at
Wenham, July 10, 1805; dismissed on account of ill health in 1810; died at Wenham
Feb. 11, 1814. His ancestors were among the Scotch Irish who came from the north
of Ireland and settled at Londonderry ; they came as early as 1725. His maternal
ancestor was John Woodburn, his paternal ancestor, John Anderson. Rev. Rufus
Anderson of the " A. B. C. F. M." is his son.
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these families John Lee was nearly related. 5 The three
boys named were of about his own age, and were his daily
companions. With them he ranged the fields, explored
the woods, and felt the charm of out-door life, enjoying
with zest the sports of a free and healthy childhood, tak-
ing impressions which lasted through life, and which ho
ever recalled with pleasure. The picture of that careless
time and country life, when in bare-footed 6 freedom he
scoured the neighborhood with his associates on such bus-
iness and adventure as invite enterprising country boys
abroad, was one which he kept fresh in memory when
years and cares had thickened upon him. Here, no
doubt, were developed the beginnings of that hearty love
of nature and taste for rural occupations, especially for
botanizing, horticulture and arboriculture, which became
sources of great delight, and at times of constant employ-
ment in subsequent years.
Those who remember him as he then was describe him
as large for his age, active, strong, rather shy of stran-
gers, somewhat headstrong and hard to manage, and one
"who would not tell a lie." If a little troublesome to his
elders sometimes, sincere and to be trusted in his speech,
and so attaching to himself his youthful companions as
never to lack a loyal attendance and sufficient support in
whatever expeditions and achievements were set afoot ;
from an early age, says one, an athletic and easy swim-
mer.
We are fortunately able to add some interesting remi-
6 Mrs. Sarah (Pickering) Clarke, great-grandmother of John C. Lee, Mrs. Eliza-
beth (Pickering^ Gardner, grandmother of John L. Gardner, and Col. Timothy
Pickering, grandfather of Charles and Edward Pickering, were sifters and brother:
daughters and son of Timothy and Mary (\Vingate) Pickering of Salem.
9 When Mr. Lee recalled these days lie did not omit to mention the going bare,
footed. It was not a habit with him, doubtless, as it was generally with the boys
of the town. It is likely that the novelty of it as an exceptional license made it a
more lively recollection afterwards.
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niscences of this time from each of these two, life-long
friends of Mr. Lee, who survive him. 7
"You are right," says Mr. John L. Gardner, "in sup-
posing that our early rambles in Wenham were favorable
to the cultivation and improvement of his natural liking
for the wonders of animal and vegetable life, for our com-
panion was Charles Pickering, a born naturalist, who
seemed instinctively to know all the habits and resorts of
all flying and creeping things, and has since become one
of our most distinguished men of science ; and John
C. Lee was always noted for his habit of accurate ob-
servation."
"As you have known him as a man, so he was as a
boy, sturdy and upright. I have never known him un-
reasonable, nor have I ever seen him give way to fits of
passion, as was often the case with other boys."
"In placing John C. Lee under the charge of Rev. Mr,
Anderson," writes Dr. Charles Pickering, "his relations
were desirous that he should not know of his large expec-
tations, fearing that such knowledge might have an injur-
ious effect upon his character. The secret was well kept
by us boys, and I do not think he became aware of his
pecuniary resources until nearly or quite grown up."
"Our boyish excursions, when out of school, were usu-
ally planned beforehand, and besides exploring the hills,
woods, streams, lakes, and morass of that diversified dis-
trict, included fishing and I am sorry to say ornithological
pursuits, we being as yet too young to be trusted with
fire-arms. On one occasion J. C. Lee gave chase to, but
fortunately did not overtake an 'unknown animal,' a wild
7 Unhappily, before these sheets go to the printer it becomes necessary to modify
this sentence. His two friends survived him, indeed, but one of the two has since
followed him. On the 17th of March, 1878, Dr. Charles Pickering, the distinguished
naturalist, died in Boston after a brief illness.
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cat." "Before we left Wenham, three other boys became
old enough to sometimes join in excursions, John and
Henry W. Pickering, and George Gardner ; s and all seven
were living in the beginning of 1876."
"J. C. Lee grew up always frank and open, ready to
give his opinion if he had formed one."
His life in Wenham must have ended in February,
1814, or before, as the Rev. Mr. Anderson died in that
month.
It is probable that it was about that time that he was
transferred to the family of the Rev. Dr. Allyn of Dux-
bury, where he remained till he came to Salem to live in
the early part of 1816. We are indebted to his friend,
Mr. Gardner, for all that we know of his school-days in
Duxbury ; and though the description given of the life
there by his school-fellow affords us no particular inci-
dents of a personal nature in his history, it presents a
pleasant picture of the circumstances and influences under
which his training went on.
"You are right," says Mr. Gardner, "in your inference
that J. C. Lee left Wenham before February, 1814. I
was sent to Duxbury also in May, 1814, and continued
there till October of that year, when I was removed after
partially recovering from a dangerous illness. As well as
I can recollect John Lee had been established there for
some time before I went, and continued there after my
departure. It is not unlikely that he was put there soon
after the death of his step-father in June, 1813."
"Our life at Duxbury was a very happy one. Dr.
Allyn was an eccentric but a most good natured and ex-
8 John and Henry White Pickering, sons of John Pickering, were cousins of
Charles and Edward, and George Gardner was a brother of John L. Gardner.
The excursions for which they were old enough must have been at times when
John Lee visited Wenhnm, after leaving Mr. Anderson's. John Pickering was born
Nov. 8, 1808, Henry W., May 27, 1811, and George Gardner Sept. 15, 1809.
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cellent personage. 9 The boys always addressed him as
uncle. When exchanging with the neighboring ministers
he was in the habit of taking one of the boys with him ;
and to insure his good behavior took him into the pulpit
with him. I shall always remember my assisting in this
way at the neighboring town of Scituate. Mrs. Allyn
was of the old Plymouth stock of Bradford. Most of our
discipline came from the Doctor's oldest daughter, Miss
Abby Allyn, a fine intelligent woman who afterwards mar-
ried the Rev. Convers Francis, brother of Mrs. L. M.
Child. 10
"So pleasant were the impressions made by our resi-
dence at Duxbury that in our early married days J. C.
Lee and I took a horse and vehicle and passed a day or
two in exploring our old haunts."
At the age of twelve John Lee was placed by his guar-
dian, Judge Charles Jackson, 11 in the family of his rel-
ative, John Pickering, the distinguished philologist, then
living in Salem, where he found a congenial and happy
home during the rest of his minority. On coming to
Salem he entered a private School kept by Abiel Chandler,
*Rev. John Allyn was born at Barnstable, March 21, 1767; graduated from Har-
vard College, 1785; ordained at Duxbury, Dec. 3, 1788; married Abigail Bradford,
-daughter of Job and Abigail (Parkman) Bradford, who was born 1765 and died
4839. He died July 19, 1833. See Francis' Memoir in Mass. Hist. Soc. (Collections)
3d aeries, Vol. V, p. 245; Hist, of Duxbury by Justin Winsor, p. 207.
10 Convers Francis was born Nov. 9, 1795, in Arlington then called Menotomy, and
. afterwards West Cambridge. His father Convers Francis, son of Benjamin and
Xydia f.Conyers) Francis, was born in Medford, July 14, 1766, died in Wayland, Nov.
27).185f>, at .the age of ninety. His mother was Susannah Rand, daughter of Barrett
and Susannah Rand of Charlestown, she died in 1814. C. F. graduated at Harvard
.College .in 1815, ordained at Watertown June 23, 1819; married May 15, 1822, Miss
Abby Bradford Allyn, daughter of Rev. Dr. Allyn of Duxbury : resigned his charge
at Watertowa, A.ug. 21, 1842, and at the beginning of the month following entered
upon the professorship of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Care in the Divinity
School at Cambridge made vacant by the death of Rev. Henry Ware, jr. He died
on the seventh of April, 1863. See Memoir by Rev. William Newell in Proceedings
-of Mass. Hist.. Society, 1864-5, p. 233.
11 Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, who married a younger sister
.x>f his father.
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and afterwards by John Brazer Davis, and under these
two masters he was fitted for Harvard College, entering
in 1819.
A short time before commencement in 1823 a large part
of his college class became highly incensed towards a mem-
ber charged with informing against, and falsely accusing
the person on whom the highest honors of the class had
justly fallen, and by whose disgrace and dismissal the in-
former himself would come into the forfeited honors of
his supplanted class mate. Feeling ran high against the
obnoxious student, and finally against the faculty, when
some of the class were expelled for visiting upon the of-
fender such indignities and ostracism as usually follow
conviction, or fixed suspicion of this crime. About half
the class including many of the older and more influential
of its members, after ineffectual remonstrance against the
course decided upon by the college officers as unjust, in-
voked upon themselves the penalties which had been de-
creed against the chief insurgents. John Lee ranked in
the list of the latter, it is presumed, and fairly enough,
for he had not concealed nor denied his full participation
in the act for which he, with others, was summoned to
answer. As years went by, one after another of those
who had refused to take their degrees upon the terms
prescribed by the college authorities, word having gone
out meantime that they would be given upon an intimation
that they were desired, signified their wish to be en-
rolled with the class, and received their diplomas. Mr.
Lee, with several others, took his in 1842.
After leaving college he pursued the study of Law for
a little while under the direction of John Pickering, Esq.,
but soon decided that a business career was more to his
mind, and formed a partnership with John Merrick, jr.,
with whom he carried on a mercantile business in Boston
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for a few years, probably from 1826 to 1830 ; for a short
time near the end of this connection William Sturgis, jr.,
was a third partner.
Not long after his marriage he had a fall in his store
over a flight of stairs, of which the consequences were se-
vere and lasting ; one leg continued through life less sound
than its mate. His health at last became so seriously un-
dermined from this cause that he was induced to go upon
a Southern journey, and he passed the winter of 1828-9
in the southwest, spending some time in New Orleans,
and visiting his grandfather, Francis Cabot, in Natchez,
Mississippi, at which place he was then resident.
Mr. Lee's business had not prospered ; and though his
health was much restored by travelling and wintering amid
new scenes and in a bland climate, it had not given him
heart to pursue further the struggles and chances of a
merchant's life. He determined to quit it. And his next
step was to remove to Salem as his place of future resi-
dence. This was in 1829. For the first four years he
occupied the house now the dwelling of Mrs. Asahel Hun-
tington. In 1834 he completed and occupied the house
in Chestnut street in which he passed the remainder of his
life. He had already bought a tract of land of several
acres in extent on Dearborn street in North Salem which
he continued to own and improve till within a few years.
The cultivation of his land was for several years his
chief occupation, which he followed with advantage to his
health, and in which he found keen enjoyment and had
excellent success. He set trees, and raised fruits and
flowers, giving personal attention daily to the work. The
land, said to have had but one tree upon it when he
bought it, has been thickly planted these many years with
trees in great variety, both forest and fruit-bearing, for-
eign and indigenous, set with his own hand, or under his
own eye.
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He soon became an active member of the Essex County
Natural History Society formed in 1833, and united with
the Essex County Historical Society in 1848 to form the
Essex Institute. He took great interest in its exhibitions
of fruits and flowers to which he was one of the largest
contributors. Declining its offices of honor and platform
duties he accepted that of Vice President which he held
for several years, and served upon its committee of finance
till his death. He was a working member; sought to
awaken interest in others ; shed off the discouragements
and refused to accept the prophecies of short life to the
society with which his request for subscriptions was some-
times met, gave to it himself, carried the subscription
paper to others, persevered in finding means of lifting
it out of its embarrassments, and only ceased to render it
active service when it had become well established ; and
never to the last lost his interest in it. Such offices as
are little sought by competent men, offices of large re-
sponsibility and requiring conscientious and pains-taking
attention with small compensation or none, were often
put upon him and he accepted them ; but for presi-
dencies of the various kinds, and such offices as merely
conferred distinction and set the official in the public eye
he had no desire. Like his forefather, Thomas Lee, of
the New Brick Church in Boston hereafter mentioned
he preferred to let others take the chair, but did not fail
to make himself felt both in counsel and action, where
executive work called for far-and-wide seeing judgment
and prudence in the management of treasuries and invest-
ments.
His high ideal of business exactness had small patience
with a loose administration of money trusts. Auditing
a treasurer's account, and coming upon an item set down
as " , about" a certain amount : "About!" said he :
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"About!" "I don't know what about means." He was
many years a trustee and officer of the Salem Savings
Bank, a director some time in the Exchange Bank, Mem-
ber and Treasurer of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, a director in the Eastern Rail-road Corporation,
and represented the town of Salem in the General. Court
of Massachusetts in the years 1834 and 1835.
In 1848, in connection with Mr. George Higginson,
he founded the well known banking house of Lee and
Higginson in State street, Boston, where he acquired rep-
utation for sound judgment, financial sagacity, and inflexi-
ble probity, giving to his house a high standing in its
high class. From this position, in which, perhaps, were
best exhibited his financial perspicacity and general ex-
cellence of judgment he retired at the end of 1862.
After withdrawing from business he made two visits
to Europe with his family ; the first in 1869-70 in which
he journeyed extensively in Great Britain and on the
continent; the second in 1872-3, when his time was
passed partly in southern France, but mostly in London
and its neighborhood, where he was visiting the family
of a daughter, the wife of S. E. Peabody, Esq., a member
of the well-known banking house of J. S. Morgan and
Company.
Travel was a true recreation and enjoyment to him ; and
an education as well. He did not make a toil of it, and
had no ambition to outdo others in the number of places
visited, nor in reaching points commonly unknown, and
seeing scenes or objects which others had overlooked.
He was a close and intelligent observer ; and of men and
affairs alike he gathered large stores of information, and
formed opinions with sharp insight of character and a
just estimate of the significance of events. Said one of
his countrymen, a well informed and experienced traveller
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who met him in Rome : " I was more than ever before
struck with his clear strong sense and observation in
the way he spoke of matters in Italy." His penetrating
perception went to the substance of things, and was
not easily deceived by appearances. While he had spe-
cial tastes he had a large curiosity for general knowledge,
and his conversation showed that he had gathered in many
fields. He read much ; and he read, as he travelled, 'with
a broad outlook, but not on that account with hazy appre-
hension and indistinct vision. As he became disengaged
from business* he passed much of his time with books and
periodical literature. His knowledge of geography was
particularly extensive and accurate. With his mind stored
by reading and observation his conversation was, as it
might be expected to be, entertaining and intelligent, and
was especially racy when in the company of his more
familiar friends he gave free play to his love of humor.
One who met him often remarked that he would rather
hear Mr. Lee tall^of the places he had visited than read
any book relating to them. Yet he was not forward,
not naturally disposed to lead in conversation ; he was
more given to asking questions, than to expressing and
expanding his own thoughts, and the person questioned
might never suspect that upon the very points on which
he pushed inquiry he was himself an expert. Though
regarded as rather reserved and shut up from easy and
free approach by strangers, when travelling, or among
people and scenes that were new, he found ready access
to persons of all grades of society, and took pleasure
in plying them with such pertinent questions as would
elicit interesting and instructive facts. And this he did
with an unvarying courtesy and kindness of manner which
inspired confidence and made every one well disposed to
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communicate and free to speak. If he shut up some he
knew how to open where he found it an object to enter
and explore.
He returned from his last European visit, it was thought,
with something less than his former health ; still no de-
cided symptoms of disease were noticed till a few months
before his death. The last summer (1877) he spent with
his family in North Conway, New Hampshire, and entered
with moderate freedom and his usual interest into the so-
cial life which surrounded him, and made pleasant new
acquaintances among the visitors at that favorite summer
resort.
From the time of his coming home from Conway in
September he was not well, yet not called sick. He
walked less, went out more rarely, and before long found
the exertion of climbing stairs a burden and a cause of
suffering ; at other times he had visits of severe pain in-
dicating that all was not right with the heart. On the
13th of November he went out for the last time. He
went reluctantly, but in compliance with the advice of his
physician, who thought it better that he should take the
air if he felt able. After the 16th he did not leave his
room. Yet no apprehension of immediate danger was
felt. On the 19th about four o'clock in the afternoon,
one member of his family only being with him, he sud-
denly complained of severe pain in the head ; but the
moment before he had been noticing and remarking upon
some small article devised for the comfort of the sick
which had been presented to him ; his attending daughter
saw an instantaneous change in his face, and before other
members of his family could be called to his bedside,
breath and life had gone.
Mr. Lee was married July 29th, 1826, to Harriet Paine
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Rose, daughter of Joseph Warner and Harriet (Paine)
Rose. She was born in the (English) West India island
of Antigua, Feb. 5th, 1804, her father being of English
descent, her mother a daughter of William Paine, M. D.,
of Worcester, Massachusetts. Of this marriage ten chil-
dren were born, all of whom but one came to. manhood
and womanhood, and are still living.
In person Mr. Lee was tall ; of large frame; of self-
reliant expression and bearing; his look open, manly, and
free from traces of self-consciousness ; a man to be noticed
in any company ; assuming nothing, but with the air, or-
dinarily, of one not too studious of the impression he
should make upon others, or of what the world might
think of him, so that he had nothing to answer for to him-
self, and kept his self-respect, as from a clear conscience.
Though not by nature what would be called an affable
man, possibly, 'he was frank and direct in manner and
speech, polite to such as had any claim upon him, alto-
gether prepossessing to men of like frankness, and to such
as set a high value on simplicity and straight forward sin-
cerity of character : one to inspire immediate and perfect
confidence that he would meet you and deal with you in
all honor, and that you would know no change in him.
We have thus traced the outline of Mr. Lee's life, set-
ting such dates as we could to mark the distances in its
outward progress and aspects ; barely mentioning besides
in passing a few characteristic traits too prominent to es-
cape notice. The following analysis of his character re-
ferred to in our opening pages, furnished in answer to our
solicitation by Henry Lee, Esq., of Boston, a cousin of
John C. Lee, and for many years his associate in business,
will be read with interest for its discriminating truth, its
economy of words, and the wealth of significance packed
in them ; as well as for its vivid anecdotes, and sugges-
HIST. COLL. XV 4
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live parallels between Mr. John C. Lee and others of
his lineage :
"The features of Mr. John C. Lee were strongly marked,
he was like 'a study in two crayons,' as the French would
say, there was not much shading in his character.
The trait by which he was distinguished, was his hon-
esty and sturdy independence, this flavored his speech and
gave character to his opinions and actions.
He was naturally conservative, incredulous of new
schemes, more prone to revert to the ways of our fore-
fathers ; and his natural aversion to labor and agitation
combined with his conservatism to harden him against
novel doctrines.
As with his opinions, so with his pursuits, he was in-
dependent ; a great reader and a lover of nature, his gar-
den and his study were his favorite haunts.
He was too reserved to discourse about his private
affairs, too manly to bewail his losses and disappoint-
ments, too modest to obtrude his advice or criticisms, too
noble to indulge in gossip or detraction. He was deferen-
tial to all whose age or character commanded his respect,
he was a lover of children and delighted in their com-
pany, he was jocose and kindly with his equals, taciturn
in the presence of strangers, curt to those whom he dis-
liked -somewhat dictatorial in little matters, in all great
concerns he was conciliatory and magnanimous.
He was more generally respected than liked ; there were
enthusiastic men whom he chilled, ceremonious men whom
he annoyed, pretentious men whom he overlooked, mean
men whom he slighted.
Such a man is necessarily somewhat isolated, his per-
sonality is too defined, 'he cannot forfeit his individuality
to follow in the wake of public opinion, he will not bow
down to the great golden image, nor swear allegiance to
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my Lord prosperity.' 'All the king's servants, that were
in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Human : for
the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mor-
decai bowed not, nor did him reverence.' It is curious
to trace the transmission of traits from one generation to
another; in this instance the trace is so distinct, that we
might say Mr. Lee's peculiarities were generic.
His grandfather's grandfather was one of the congre-
gation of the New North Church in Boston, who aggrieved
at the imposition of a colleague pastor against their pro-
test and that of the eight ministers of Boston, and dis-
gusted with the prevarications of the candidate and his
desertion of his country parish, quitted their old place of
worship, built half at their cost, and founded the New
Brick Church.
Another instance of his sturdiness was his suit :
Thomas Lee, merchant, vs. Honble. Wait Winthrop,
Esqre., and Adam Winthrop, Esqre., for funeral ex-
penses of Martha, widow of Deane Winthrop (grand-
mother of T. L. by a former marriage).
Undaunted by an unfavorable decision by the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas, he appealed to the Superior Court
of Judicature, pleading 'that he having advanced it trust-
ing to their honor and justice, especially as the sum was
so moderate and reasonable; the plaintiff was obliged and
did advance the charge,' and gained his suit against these
indebted magnates. By the records of the New Brick
(afterwards called the Old North), it appears that Thomas
Lee was upon every committee from the foundation, that
the entertainments on days of ordination and other church
festivals were always held at his house, that after mod-
estly refusing year after year, he wus at length prevailed
upon to be chairman at their* meetings, that together
with Honble. Thomas Hutchinsou and three other digni-
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taries, 'he was desired to sit in the front as long as he
thought proper,' and finally he was thanked by the church
for his generous gift of pews, etc.
The obituary of this old ruling elder bears the stamp
of truth. July 21, 1766 : ' Yesterday morning died Mr.
Thomas Lee, in the 94th year of his age, who in the
early and active part of life carried on a considerable
Trade in this Town, though he deserves to be recorded,
rather for the unblemished Integrity of his Dealings, and
the exact Punctuality of his Payments, than for the Ex-
tent of his Trade, or the length of his life.'
Mr. Lee certainly inherited the modesty, probity and
independence of this remote ancestor.
Thomas, the eldest son of the above, graduated at
Harvard College, 1722, was bred a merchant; after the
death of his first wife, removed to Salem, the home of
his maternal ancestors, the Flints, was married to Lois
Orne, d. of Timothy Orne, Esqre., and Lois Pickering
29 Dec., 1737, was sent to the General Court as Repre-
sentative 1739, 1740, and again in 1747, during which
time of service he was placed upon important committees.
Felt remarks of him that 'he was entrusted with various
duties in town and represented it in the General Court.'
He died in service, 14 July, 1747. Like his great-grand-
father, Mr. Lee removed from Boston to Salem, was
there entrusted with various duties in town, and repre-
sented it in the General Court.
Joseph,, the second son of old Thomas Lee, H. C.
1729, likewise bred a merchant, was afterwards made
judge of the Court of Common Pleas, married a daughter
of Lt. Gov. Spencer Phips, had his home and an exten-
sive estate on the Mt. Auburn road, Cambridge, side by
side with his brothers-in-law. Lechmere and Vassall ; was
one of the founders and wardens of Christ Church, and
one of the unpopular Mandamus Councillors.
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The following obituary notice was inserted in the 'Co-
lumbian Centinel,' Boston, Dec. 3, 1802 :
'At Cambridge, on Sunday last, Hon. Joseph Lee, aged
93. During a long life Judge Lee was respected by all
who knew him. He was distinguished in society by the
manners of a gentleman, and by the habits and principles
of an honest, honorable man. He was a kind neighbor,
warm and sincere in his friendship. Attached to govern-
ment from principle, he was a good subject to his king,
under whom he executed the duties of an important office
with fidelity and honor ; and with equal fidelity he ad-
hered to the government of the United States, since the
Revolution. In attendance on religious duties he was
exemplary, and, amidst the infirmities of age, he has seen
with composure the slow approaches of death and fostered
not the wish to lengthen the day of sorrow and pain.
His funeral will proceed from the place of the decease,
this afternoon, at half past 2 o'clock, which his friends
and acquaintances are requested to attend without further
invitation.'
The points in common between Mr. Lee and his great-
great uncle, the judge, are their conservatism, their
rigidity of habits, and their possession of and taste for a
fair garden.
Mr. Lee's grandfather, Joseph Lee, born in Salem, 22
May, 1744, was by the loss of his father, deprived of the
advantage of a College course and forced by narrow cir-
cumstances to go to sea.
He, with the Messrs. Cabot, whose only sister Elizabeth
he married, removed to Beverly, and after a term of
sea-service, carried on an extensive business for many
years with his distinguished brother-in-law, the Honorable
George Cabot who, as junior, had served him through all
the grades from cabin-boy to partner. 12
"The following passage from the lately published biography of Mr. Cabot
may certify that the subordinate lost nothing by a lax administration of the
captaincy. E. B. W.
" Not yet seventeen years old, he shipped as cabin-boy in a vessel commanded
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Mr. or Capt. Joseph Lee, as he was usually styled, had
a great talent for mechanics, especially for ship-building,
a numerous fleet designed by him were sent out as pri-
vateers during the War of the Revolution, and afterwards
to Europe and the East and West Indies. After his re-
tirement from active business the projectors of the Essex
Bridge having for some cause lost their engineer, besought
Mr. Lee to act in that capacity which he did to their
satisfaction, which they testified by the presentation of a
silver pitcher (Mr. Lee having refused any compensa-
tion) , upon which unexpected occasion he is reported to
have exclaimed 'that if he had known they would make
such d d fools of themselves he would never have
touched their bridge.'
Like many old sea-captains, Mr. Lee took a great
interest in his garden not only during his residence at
Beverly, but even in his extreme age he could often be
seen in the garden of his son-in-law, Judge Jackson, op-
posite his home in Boston, directing the gardener, or,
saw in hand, high on the ladder, pruning or grafting his
pear trees.
Early in this century, Mr. Lee and the Cabots moved
to Boston where Mr. Lee died on Feb. 6, 1831, aged 87
years.
His character as portrayed by his minister, the Rev.
Alexander Young, might be taken, word for word, as the
obituary of his grandson :
'Bred to the sea in early life, Mr. Lee retained in sub-
sequent years the physical and mental vigor which had
been developed and nurtured by that perilous mode of
by his brother-in-law, Mr. Joseph Lee. Such a change in his mode of life must
have been a sharp one to a young collegian of studious habits ; nor was his lot soft-
ened by relationship with his captain; for if family tradition may be trusted, Mr.
Lee gave his young kinsman the full benefit of severe ship's discipline." Life and
Letters of George Cabot, by Henry Cabot Lodge, p. 9.
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hardy industry. His virtue was of the severest kind.
An inflexible integrity, a stern moral principle, an un-
compromising adherence to truth and right, regardless of
consequences, were its prominent characteristics. Firm,
decided, independent, he formed his opinions of men and
things for himself, and shaped his actions by his own sense
of propriety and duty. Resolute in pursuing his own
straight-forward course, he turned aside to interfere with
no man's affairs, and would suffer no man to interfere
with his. Following the advice of the Apostle, he " stud-
ied to be quiet, and to do his own business." Retiring
and unobtrusive, he invaded no man's province, encroached
upon no man's rights, detracted from no man's character.
Though his morality was severe, yet he was neither austere
in manner, nor morose in feeling. He would not de-
signedly wound the feelings of the humblest individual,
nor do harm to any living thing. Accessible to kindness,
he reciprocated it to all who came within the circle of his
acquaintance ; and manifested, what I consider one of the
most delightful traits in old age, an affectionate interest
in the concerns and pleasures of his youthful relatives.
It is saying much for the goodness of an old man's heart,
that children are glad to leave their sports to listen to his
kind words and obtain his smile.
Mr. Lee's religious views were sober, rational, liberal.
He had great faith in the merit and efficacy of good works,
and did not like to hear moral virtue depreciated. He
thought, that to benetit mankind was no mean way of
serving God,- and believed with Jeremy Taylor, that " God
is pleased with no sacrifices from below so much as in the
thanksgiving songs of relieved widows, of supported or-
phans, of rejoicing and comforted and thankful persons."
He conceived that a well-spent life is the best preparation
for death, and that a man's religion is of little worth,
unless it pervades, elevates and purifies his whole char-
acter.
Mr. Lee was a truly benevolent man. Abhorring every
thing like ostentation and parade, he threw over his
charities the veil of secresy, and it is only by the dis-
closures of others that we have been made acquainted
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with their variety and extent, as well as with the singular
discrimination and delicacy with which they were dis-
pensed. His late munificent donation of twenty thousand
dollars to the M'Lean Asylum for the Insane, could not
be concealed from the world. It elicited the spontaneous
eulogy of the community, has enrolled his name on the
list of our public benefactors, and secured for him a place
in the grateful remembrance of posterity.
Regular and temperate in all things, Mr. Lee was free,
in an unusual degree, from the infirmities incident to old
age. Till the day of his decease he retained the vigor
and activity of youth. His frame was erect, and his step
firm and elastic. The faculties of a strong understanding
were unimpaired by the inroads of time or the ravages of
disease. He contemplated the approach of death with
the composure of a philosopher and the resignation of a
Christian. He died, as he wished to die, before in the
natural course of things, he should become a burden to
himself, or a source of anxiet}' to his relatives. He died,
as he wished to die, suddenly, believing that to the pre-
pared mind the change of worlds cannot be too rapid.
He lived useful and beloved, and died respected and
regretted, proving both in his life and in his death, that
"the hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the
way of righteousness."
"Why weep ye then for him, who, having run
The bound of man's appointed years, at last,
Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done
Serenely to his final rest has past ;
While the soft memory of his virtues yet
Lingers like twilight hues, when the bright sun is set.
"His youth was innocent : his riper age
Marked with some act of goodness every day ;
And watched by eyes that loved him, calm, and sage,
Faded his late declining years away.
Cheerful he gave his being up, and went
To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent."
Mr. Joseph Lee had twelve children, several of whom
died in childhood, his daughters all in early womanhood.
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All, sons and daughters, inherited their father's mas-
culine strength of mind and simplicity of heart; only
two, Mr. Joseph and Capt. George Lee, his talent for
naval architecture which they exercised. Commodore
Downes informed the writer that in the war of 1812 the
'Lee model' was the favorite model in the Navy. None
of them had his precision and love of order, and ability to
regulate the details of family and business affairs for
which he was eminent ; all shared his love of nature and
skill in gardening, and like their father, the sons were
sagacious, enterprising merchants.
Father and sons shunned display, declined public office,
finding resources in their books, their gardens and the
constant society of a large circle of family and friends.
But while unwilling to take office, or to appear in
public, they were interested in all political movements,
awake to all public claims to which they responded liber-
ally.
The children were of a more mercurial temperament
than their father, had remarkable powers of conversation,
full of wit and humor and a corresponding liability to
depression ; their perceptive faculties were keen, they
were alive to all the phenomena of nature, to all the
qualities good and bad of their fellowmen, and their frank
utterances were not always relished.
President Kirklaud, who for a time kept bachelors' hall
with three of the Lee brothers, used to say 'that the Leo
gentlemen were certainly hypocrites, for they took great
pains to conceal their good qualities,' and this habit, due
partly to shyness, partly to dread of effusiveness, con-
duced to a misunderstanding of their character beneath
the assumed hardness or bantering.
'There is a sweetish pulpy manner, which I have ob-
served uniformly covers, both in men and womeii, a
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bitter kernel,' and there is a certain crustiness and humor-
ousness which often shelters tender sensibilities, quick
sympathies, and there is a certain apparent eccentricity
among all original thinkers.
Capt. Joseph Lee was wont to attribute all the Lee
peculiarities to the 'Orne kink,' whatever that was.
Of Mr. Nathaniel Cabot Lee, the father of Mr. John
C. Lee, I only know that he was a friend of Mr. Francis
C. Lowell (one of the founders of our Cotton manufac-
ture), that he was highly esteemed as a man, highly
reputed as a merchant, that he was born in Beverly, 30
May, 1772, graduated H. C. 1791, married Mary Ann
Cabot, and died in the island of Barbadoes whither he
had gone for his health, 14 January, 1806, leaving one
only child to whom he willed half of his fortune (a
competent one for those days, and large for a young man
of 34 to have acquired) , deducting some generous lega-
cies to his wife's family. Whether Mr. Nat. Lee (as he
was called), possessed the humor and fluent conversational
powers of his brothers, I cannot say ; his son, Mr. John
C. Lee was more reserved and not so sparkling, although
by no means deficient in humor."
Mr. Lee's love of children and sympathy with them,
and his flow of tender feeling was fully known to but a
few who saw him intimately, and in hours of the most
private unreserve. In this softness of heart under a man-
ner ordinarily inclined to be impatient with sentimentality,
another "parallel might be traced with a like undemon-
strative sensibility, mostly hidden from observation and
unsuspected in earlier men of his family. Anecdotes of
too private a nature to be here introduced, could they be
given, would movingly illustrate this depth and gentle-
ness of nature, while some of them would, moreover,
exhibit a fine sense of honor and rare chivalry of spirit
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lying behind the bluff ways and laconic phrase of these
men, sometimes thought to "take pains to conceal their
good qualities."
The characteristics of Mr. Lee in which he resembled
ancestors bearing the same family name with himself have
been more fully exhibited because the means of showing
them have been at hand. No doubt, if it were possible
to trace with an equal research the lineaments of other
families from which he descended, equally interesting and
authentic likenesses might be designated in a walk through
o o o
these several portrait galleries. It is impossible at least
not to notice that some of his strongest and most indi-
vidual traits, if mainly derived from Lee ancestors, were
signally re-enforced by powerful tributaries which may
almost dispute with this, and with each other, the honor
of being the main spring. The most casual acquaintance
with the Pickerings and Cabots leads up by an open path
to the discovery that John Lee's worship of truth, sin-
cerity of speech, squareness of integrity, independence
of public opinion, disinterestedness in public service, sen-
sitiveness of honor, decision of mind sometimes accounted
obstinacy of prejudice, his love of knowledge and close-
ness of observation in travel, were the reappearance of
what had been noted as characteristic traits in foregoing
men and women, of one blood, if not of the same name
with himself. Timothy Pickering and George Cabot, to
name no others, were men whose history is well known.
In their fearless and unflinching adherence to a position
once deliberately taken, in the firmness against adverse
criticism and influences likely to move men of less nerve,
for which they were both distinguished, John Lee showed
himself kin to them. When he had deliberated and de-
cided, he was not likely to turn his ear to the public
clamor, or, any more, to the surprised objections of his
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friends. "We recognize the. family likeness as we read in
the pages of the biographer of Cabot, that : "Among the
New Englanders, the men of Boston and Salem, of Mar-
blehead and Newburyport, George Cabot was only one of
many whose minds ripened into a peculiar flavor, and
grew strong with a robust and masculine vigor, in this
school which never failed to leave on its scholars a char-
acteristic stamp of the quarter-deck and a dash of salt
water. . . . Mr. Cabot's education . . . was typical of
the mode of thought and manner of life which bred up a
class of clear-headed, strong-willed, sensible men, at a
time when the sentimentalism, which at a later day flooded
the country, would have been ruinous. Such education
was essentially practical, but its practicality was of that
sort which seeks in past experience a guide for future
action. The men of that age, while striking out for
themselves a new path in a new country, never fell into
the mistake of abandoning practice in favor of theory.
They may possibly have leaned too strongly in the other
direction, but to look at facts as they were was the lesson
which their early life had taught them ; and if from lack
of imagination they went too far in their contempt for
theory, at least they understood what they meant, and
maintained their own cause with a native shrewdness and
tenacity which stamped them as men of a peculiar mould."
Though Mr. Lee was no politician in the common sense
of that term, as being in the occupancy of public offices,
or in the pursuit of any, or one who by voice or pen
sought to guide popular opinion, he was a constant and
intelligent observer of public affairs, both state and na-
tional, and entertained well considered opinions respect-
ing public men and their policies ; opinions which he
expressed with unreserved frankness whenever there was
occasion. A whig, and inclining to the conservative wing
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of that party while it existed, from the time when the
mutterings of rebellion began to be heard his mind was
made up, and his voice never faltered in the support of
vigorous measures for its suppression. He put his sub-
stance at the service of his country when the result of the
struggle was involved in obscurity ; he gave liberally to-
wards the relief and sanitary measures adopted to mitigate
the sufferings of the soldiers and their families ; and if he
left his sons free to decide for themselves whether to
enlist in the army, he interposed no word or look to dis-
courage them from such a step. The enlistment and
arming of the negroes for the defence of the goverment
met his unhesitating approval.
He valued money for its uses ; betraying no wish to be
ranked with the munificent, he fell behind none in free
and judicious giving according to his means for the relief
of personal or general necessities, and for the help and
encouragement of all efforts and enterprises looking to
the public welfare.
Not concentrating his charity in large benefactions on
exceptional and isolated cases of calamity, not endowing
at long inteivals new or old foundations in institutions of
o
learning or charity, he gave to such, if they commended
themselves to his judgment, as they needed, and as he
was able, while he did not leave unheard, nor turn away
unanswered, those less conspicuous and ever besetting
appeals which flock to the audience room of listening com-
passion.
Of religion he had little to say ; little even with his
most intimate friends and in his hours of greatest freedom
of communion. He left others to discuss theology. He
valued such discussions and all speculative religion lightly
as compared with upright living. Sectarianism found in
him no encouragement. He cared little for the extension
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of the denomination to which he belonged, as a denomi-
nation. When an appeal was made for money to send
books and preachers to disseminate the theological tenets
which he had supported all his life, he said : "But why
should we try to bring all men to our own belief? Is it
certain that they would be better, or happier?" He gave
the money ; but as if in deference to the judgment of
others, and not without some doubt in his own mind as to
the wisdom of it.
His doubt was not, however, indifference to religion.
He was a steadfast upholder of religious institutions, and
believed in the practical lessons of Christian morality and
a Christian faith. He was an habitual attendant upon
public worship till infirm health interfered with the habit.
He was ready to serve upon committees chosen to build
a church and to perfect the administration of the parochial
system, for whose maintenance he accepted his full share
of responsibility. Religion with him took the form in
which it was epitomized by the prophet: it was to do
justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with God.
COPY OF A FRAGMENT OF AN ACCOUNT-BOOK,
KEPT BY GIBSON CLOUGII,
NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF MRS. WM. C. BARTON. 1
COMMUNICATED BY \V. O. B.
1773. Salem April 12 Agrec d with y e Wardins St.
Peters Church to Sarve as Saxton in s d church for the
sum of five pound 8 p r year. Dueling plesure.
An account of the Fuenarls &c.
April 16. M rs Lang Bureid with under Barers
gavet 126
21. M rs Archer Buried with und r Bar"
English 126
23. M rs Holman Burid with under Barr 3
Standley 126
May 1 . Mr Rob 1 Peall Burid with under Barr 8
gavet 126
19. Mr Bufinton Burid w l und r Barers
Standley 126
June 19. Mrs Kimball Burid w l under Bars
English 126
Mrs Beckett Buried with und r Bars
English 126
To Tolling the Bell for Stanley 126
July 1. to Buring Capt" Hall Negrove myself 400
J Some account of Gibson Clough may I> found in E. I. H. Col., Vol. Ill, pp.
09, 128, 195.
(63)
64
Dto 24. to Buring mary Lister in y e Church
yard " 250
27 . M r Josep h Mascoll Bur d w* und rs Bar rs
English I 26
31. Mr 8 Ingersoll Burid with under Barrs
in the church Yard by Clough 500
to tolling 2 Bells 30s. to six Barres
6 15s. 850
to seting a Corner Stone at the
Church fence 15
Aug. 7. M r Kimball Buried w fc under Barers
English 126
10. Capt. n Israel obear w* und r Barers
Clough 500
to Six Barr 8 6 15 s. d. to
tolling English 8 Bell 15 s. 7 10
22. M r Nunns child bured in the Church
yard 250
23. Coll Benj m Pickman Esq Buried with
under Barr s and in arms bell toll-
ing Standley 1 17 6
25. M r Savage Child Buriead in Church
yard 250
30. Capt. Lilley Child Buried in Church
yard 2 5
Sept. 7. Captn John Hoges wife Buried with
under Barrs English 126
13. Mrs Anstes Crowninshield Buried
with under Barrs and tolling y e
Church Bell English 1 17 6
26. to tolling the Bell for will m King &
a Negro [* *] 150
28. M r John young Buried with under
Bars English 126
Oct. 15. John Underwood 8 Child Buried 250
21. Ephr m Glover Child Buried a* y e
point 250
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Oct. 26. Mr 8 Sarah Beans Buried w* und r Bar 9
English 126
29. M r Ballard buried with under Bar 8
Stand ley 126
5. Mr 3 Margreat Sewell Buried with
under Burr 8 and one man at ye
toombe 7 17 6
to Toolling 2 Bells as Grants and
Standley 1 10
to opeing the Toambe and my other
Sarvice 6 15
Nov. 2. David Walls Child buried in tS/iases
Goats 350
Dec. 29. dipt" thomas Bowdich Child Buried
at ye point 2 10
Mr 3 Sarve buried with under Burr 8
English 126
1774.
Jan. 3. Mr Gorge Gardinr Buried with und r
Barr and tooling the Church Bell
Standley 15
4. Capt 11 Jonath" orne Burid w l und r bar
grant 126
Dto Mr will" 1 Crowell wife Buried in ye
Church yard 5
12. Recknoed with m r English and thir
is Due to me g. Clough on Balance
fiftey two shillings and six old
tenor by way of the Funeral Is &c.
Cr by Cash 1 2 6
15. M r Richard Wells Child Buried in y e
church yard 170
Feb. 9. M r Joseph Cabbot buried with under
bar 8 and tolling the Church bell for
grantt 1 17 6
HIST. COLL. XV 5
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March 1. M r Joushua Richardson Buried wth
under Barrs Standley 126
7. Old madam Osgood Buried with
und r Barrers grant 126
8. Elisabth Carrill Buried on pickrings
hill 500
20. Mr Samuell Blyth Buried with und r
Bar 8 grants Bell toled & in the
Church yard Clough 13 15
22. The Honr le Nathanell Ropes Esq and
Court &c Buried with under Bars
one of the Judges of y e Suprier
and tolling y e Church bell grant 1 17 6'
28. Mrs Chever Buried w* und r Barr
English 126
May 16. Capt. n Charles King Buried with
under Barrs in the Church yard
and tooling all the Bells in town
to my Sarvices diging the grave
and tenda c 500
to six unde Barrs at 22 s. 6 pr. Br 615
to touling three Bells 250
Sept. 25. M r Elezer Moses Burid w* un d B r
Standley 126
26. Coll John Higginson Bur d w* under
Barrs and tool ling the Church
Bell grant 1 17 6
27. Standley Buried a child in y e Church
yard
Oct. 10. Capt" Aliens Wife Buried w* under
Bars English 126
14. Capt n John Ward Burid w* und r Ba r
grant 126
Nov. 11. Mrs Wellcome Bur d w* und r Ba r
English 1 17 6
and tolling the Church Bell
13. Mrs Blaney Burid w* und r Bars gavett 126
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Nov. 14. Mrs Ropes wife of Jonathan Ropes
Burd with Vnder Bares grant 126
Dec. 4. M'Sahw [Shaw?] Burid in Church
1774. Novmbr 23 this day Recnoed with grant and
Receved fortey shillings in full to this day. G. Clough.
Dec. 24. Mr John Barton 2 Buried wt und' B'
Grant 126
27. Mr Philip Brown Buried under B'
English 126
o
1775.
Feb. 9. Mr. Samucll Archer wife Buried by
Clough 250
12. James Foards child Buried by Clough 250
Mar. 11. Mr. John Masury Wife Bur d w l imd r
Bar 9 English 126
13. Mr Lows child Buried in Church
yard 250
Apr. 20. Mr thomas Dowse buried in the
church yard with under Barr. ss and
tolling grants and Standley Bells 1 10
to opeing the toainbe and the paul 800
to my attendance at the house and
six poarters 900
Dto. 20. mrs hannah Batton Buri d und Barr 9
English 1 2 6 *
Mrs Anstess phippen Bur d un d Bar 8
Standly 126
23. mr Benjmin Williams Bur d un dr Bar 3
Gaveatt and tolling the Church
Bell for Williams 1 17 6
"John Barton was the eon of Thomas and Mary (Willoughby) Barton, b. Dec.
5, 1711. He kept an apothecary store on Essex street, was never married, and d.
Dec. 21, 1774.
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May 9. Mr Boots child Buried in ye Church
yard 250
16. Judge Ropes mother Burid wt under
Bar 8 grants 126
1780. the town of Salem Dr.
Mar. 13. by order of mr Noyce town Clark to ringing
the bell for ye town meeting four times in
one day.
Dto. 27. to Ringing the Bell for the Journment twice
in the day.
1779. Salem Jan. &c.
this day I took charge of the North Meeting-
House in said town, as Saxton for the sum
of thirtey pound 8 Currant money pr year.
An Account of fuenarls &c. s
Jan. 25. Mrs Veary Buread by grant with
under Bar 3 3 4
Feb. 4. Mrs Grain Buruid for grant paid 4 10
7 . Mr William Collings son John Buriad
paid 3
27. the child of mrs Porter Bur d paid 3 10
Mar. 7. Mr Joseph Gavets mother Burid paid 4 10
11. Mrs Dolley Archer Buried w th under
Barr a by Grant 3 4
Apr. 20. Mrs. Ruth Ruck Buried and paid 7 16
26. Mr Rust Child Burid paid 3 12
1780.
Feb. 17. Mr Right Burid from the work house
by English ye Saxtons attend my
part 600
Dto 20. Mrs Mary Cloutman Burid, pr Clough with
under Barers ; English Being Lame Andrew
paull all this paid
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Feb. 22. Mr William Rowell Burid by Clough Dclands
paull on pickrins hill this is paid.
April 3. Mary the Daughter of Capt Benj West Buryd
on pickring hill paid
1780. Salem.
April 2. Capt Samuell Webb with under Bar 8 by English
to Carring and tolling my bell 40 dollers paid
14. Sarah the wife of Capt Samuell Ilobhs Buryed
with under 8 Barr 8 and tolling English bell
350 pap 1 ' Dollers this paid
20. Elisabeth ye Daughter of Capt" Benj a West
buryed with porters and paull holders ; by
Clough this paid
the Revr e William M c Gillchrist DD and minis-
ter to the Episcopal Church in Salem Died
24. 19 Ult aged 70 years and was buryed in M r
Barr 8 tomb in } r e Church yard a Sermond
being prech d in s d Chu h by y e Rev d M r parker
this is from boston the text being taken in ye 17
paid psalm at 15 verse But as for me &c &c
27. John porteingilll Buryed mrs Ingalls by order
of Mr. Miles Ward ; to four porters Carring
him (!) to ye grave viz. Clough English
and y e 2 gavets to ye Velvett paull, Sum
total in dolrs 360
29. Mr Jonathan Woodman buryed by J. Gavett
with porters my part 45 Dolrs paid
30. M r thomas Butler buryed by Nurs with por-
ters my part 45 Dolrs this paid.
In ye year 1780 Jan'y 13 Bury d by Philip English
Sarah manning Jn Right John foot Elerson Child Jn
worby Child parker Child Cap 1 S te Webb.
Salem December 25 A.D. 1774 in r thomas Duckinfield
Daughter Mary Baptized in St peters Chu By y Reverd
m r Will m M c Gillchrist.
Their sou William Born in Salem InFebry 14 AD 1779.
NOTES AND EXTRACTS FROM THE
"RECORDS OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF SALEM,
1629 TO 1736." 1
COMMUNICATED BY JAMES A. EMMERTON, M. D.
THIS treasure of genealogical facts, to which the myr-
iad descendants of early Salem settlers must look for
ancestral dates, is, very properly, secluded from easy
public inspection. Its pages, crumbling with the wear
and tear of more than two centuries, would, under pro-
miscuous examination, easily lose even more of the irre-
parable records which thrifty scribes have carried in their
antique and sometimes almost microscopic hand to the
very edge.
I have made an attempt to collect all, as yet unpub-
lished, that is of interest to the genealogist, and, review-
ing that already published, diminish the desire, if not
entirely remove the necessity, for future seekers to refer
to the original record.
Judge White's published record of the proceedings at
church-meetings, pp. 45-117, nearly identical with the
manuscript for the first decade, 1660-70, and afterward
1 Records of the First Church of Salem, 1629 to 1736.
New England Congregationalism, etc., etc., by Daniel Appleton White, Salem,
1861.
Address at the Rededication of the First Church in Salem, Mass., 8 Dec., 1867,
by Charles W. Upham, Salem, 1867.
Annals of Salem, etc., J. B. Felt, Salem, 1827.
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embracing everything of general interest, follows the
original with remarkable fidelity, contrasting in that par-
ticular with such extracts, lists of dismissed members,
etc., as may be found in Felt's Annals. For instance,
the Thanksgiving appointed for the 8th Nov., 1665, for
"seasonable rain when there were fears of a drought," is
recorded by Mr. Felt as "because of comfortable food,"
and the prayer of the Rev. Mr. Higginson "the Lord
give good success" to the force sent to make reprisal
upon the Indians, to whom the "Lord had given commis-
sion to take no less than 13 of ye Fishing Catches of
Salem," is rendered by our annalist "The Lord gave them
success."
All agree that the record previous to 1660 is a copy, by
one hand, from the original record sequestered at that
time by vote of the church.
Judge White says, "These transcript records are evi-
dently in the same hand writing, and appear to have been
transcribed with great care."
Mr. Upham says, "copied in his (Hilliard Veren's) own
most excellent hand writing, well known to all who have
occasion to consult old court papers in the files."
The Rev. Thomas Barnard Jim. in the manuscript copy
he made for the North Church, says, "a bad transcriber
who has mispelt names grossly."
Frankly preferring Judge White's estimate of the copy-
ist, to that of the Rev. Mr. Barnard, I hesitate in. sug-
gesting a doubt as to the individual whom Mr. Upham so
confidently considers the transcriber.
Hilliard Veren's well known hand writing has, never-
theless, a wonderful variety. His signature, spelled as
above, in two jurats, in my possession, dated 1661, bears
little resemblance to the Ilillyard Veren of the church-list
but, per contra, other signatures of 1653 and 1661, are
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very similar, and in the deed in which one of these occurs,
he supplies Edward Hilliard with a different spelling for
his surname, in three out of four times writing it.
One peculiarity of his writing is an indifferent use of
the various forms of the small e, while the copyist con-
fines himself not strictly, but with surprising closeness to
the Greek Epsilon.
On the whole, I do not care to insist upon the very
striking resemblance of the name of Mr. Edward Norrice,
as that appears in the church-list on the 29, 10 mo., 1639,
to a tracing of the signature of his son Edward Norice,
which I had obtained through the courtesy of Geo. R.
Curwen, Esq., from an old ledger in his possession. The
ingenious suggestion of W. P. Upham Esq., that the
younger Norice, as school-master, had fixed some of the
marked characteristics of his own style in the hand writing
of his pupils, may account for that resemblance.
The interesting paper printed in Vol. I, pp. 38-39, of
these COLLECTIONS is from a copy made by David Pulsi-
fer, Esq., of Boston, of a manuscript in his possession,
in the handwriting of the Rev. John Fiske and, evidently,
his private record of parochial matters in Salem, Wen-
ham and Chelmsford. Since these lists, which, for con-
venience, we will call the Fiske and Church Record lists,
are, although purporting to cover the same ground, far
from identical, a collation of the two becomes interesting
as much from their dissimilarities as from their coinci-
dences, and because the complete Church Record enables
us to supply the deficiencies of the Fiske Record.
I think that neither Judge White nor Mr. Upham, quite
sufficiently marked these differences. True, they are
but slight in the earlier part, as to which Judge White
says, the names are the "same in both," but Mr. Upham's
remark," many names escaped him" seems founded rather
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upon his knowledge" of the men of those times, than upon
a comparison of the two lists.
In the subjoined table identical names have been
dropped.
Fiske.
Will Bann
Sam A.
Tho
Edm hall
Job
ims [irry] 2
dermaii
Bartholomew
no Browning
Tho Goldwhatye
William Grose
Jo Fiske
John Hardy
Hen Burchall
Edw Batchelder
Jn Hinds
Ric Waters
Benj Felton
Tho Olny
Wm Clerk
Daniel Ray
James Gafford
Tho Antru
Jos Grafton
Hanna Maurie
Elly
Eliz
Marth
Church Record.
William Bownd
Samuell Archer
Thomas Lothrop
Edmond Marshall
John Humphy
Frances Skerry
John Alderman
Henry Bartholomew
Thomas Browning
Thomas Golthwritc
William Ilathorne
his wife
Moses Maverick
his wife
William Goose
Henry Burdsall
Joseph Bachelder
James Hindes
Garvice Garford
Thomas Antrum
Alic Browne
Hannah Moore.
Ellen Felton
Elizabeth Allen
Martha Woolfe
9 In comparing the printed Fiske list with the manuscript, I had the valuable
assistance of Mr. H. F. Waters. Mr. Pulsrfer agreed with us in the corrections
included in the brackets, and in the reading of Shelton or possibly Skelton, in
place of Anne Stretton.
8 The copyist had nearly written Edward and substituted Joseph.
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ElynB
Gertrude Elford
Katherin Digweed
Mary Lord
Brayne, vid.
Hart
Eliz Williams 6
Turner, vid, dead
Sanders, dead
Marshal
Eliz Goldthwayt
Alice Baggerly 8
Gift Gott
Margaret Weston
Anne Fiske
Arabella Norman
Anne Spooner
Jane Anthrop
Tryphen Myrrel
Anne Stretton 2 [Shelton]
Bay
South wick
arkes 7
Marg euer [dener] 2
Mary
Mary Port
Holmes
Mary Grafton
Martha Tho'son
Edwards
Ellyn Backenbury
Gartrud Ellerd
Abigaile Lord
Agnes Brayne, wid.
Arabella Norman 4
Mary Hart
Eleazer Williams
Elizabeth Turner
Millesent Marshall
Arabella Norman
Amy Spooner
Triphene Marritt
Cassandra Southwick
Margarett Gardner
Mary Lemon
Mary Porter
Katherne Holme
Edwards
The deficiencies of the Fiske list, as printed, except
the five omitted names, are to be ascribed to accident, or
rather to the rents made by the antique pins by whose
help the loosened sheets have retained their places till
4 Arabella Norman appears twice in the Church Kecord 21, 3, 1636, and 25, 12,
1637.
6 Mr. Savage in his Gen. Diet., adopts this Eleazer Williams. He is not found
elsewhere. What Mr. Savage says of his wife and daughter Eliz., is true of Eliz.,
wife of John and daughter of Henry Skerry. Their daughter Eliz. was baptized
5, 2, 1663.
See Vol. XIII, p. 150, of these Collections.
7 "Arkes" cannot now be made out in the manuscript.
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our time, and it will be noticed that it contains seventeen
names which find no place on the permanent record.
Among these the names of the men may be found in
Felt, p. 548, "of original inhabitants except those who
were members of the church." These men were promi-
nent citizens, and their names appear frequently in the
town records.
Without insisting on the church membership of the
others it may be assumed that John Fiske, who "assisted
Mr. Peters in preaching," should find a place on the list.
The dilapidation of the first record book, one reason
for its abandonment in 16GO, may be sufficient reason for
the failure of the copyist of that date to extricate all the
names of church members.
The present book contains no list of members, other
than the minutes of the meetings at which they were
admitted, until 1718. If this custom obtained previous
to 1660 and Mr. John Fiske kept record of the meetings,
no one, who has tried to decipher his hand-writing, will
wonder at the discrepancy.
The Church Record list of members, down to 1659,
has marginal notes of deaths, excommunications, remov-
als, dismissals and recommendations, all without date.
Mr. Felt (p. 552) has printed this list, including 1650,
with substantial correctness.
The manuscript, however, inserts (in another hand)
Alice Browne after John Browne, 1637; it calls Anne
Moore, Agnes Brayne and Anne Robinson, of that year,
widows ; it re-inserts Thomas Vennor after Deliverance
Peeter, 1640 ; it distinguishes the Jane Verens as wives
of Phill. and Joshua ; it does not name the wife of John
Kitchin, 1643 ; and it calls Nicholas Pacy, in 1650, Patch.
As the mere fact of death may be taken for granted,
and excommunication has little genealogical interest, the
list subjoined only includes those under the other heads.
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John Endecott, rem.
Peeter Palfrye, "
Eoger Maurye, "
John Holgrove, "
Thomas Read, "
Richard Davenport, "
John Blackleech, rec.
Eliz. Davenport, rem.
Susanna Fogge, "
Alice Ager, "
Anne Ingersoll, "
Edmond Marshall, "
Lydea Bankes, "
Ann Garford, "
Deborah Holmes, "
James Moulton, "
Eliza Blackleech, "
Thomas Avery, "
Triphene Marritt, "
Emanuell Downing, "
Lucy Downing, "
Kathern Holm, "
William Osborne, rec.
Francis Higgeson, rem.
Edwards, "
Markes Fermayes, "
Thomas Moore, dis.
Martha his wife, "
Scicillea Harnett, rem.
Prescis Walker 1 , "
Mary Harbert, "
Lydea Holgrove, "
Edmond Tompson, dis.
William Steevens, rem.
Jane, w. of Phill. Veren, "
Tho. Ruck & wife, rec. to Boston.
Charles Glover, rem.
widdow Eastwick, "
Jane, w. of Joshua Veren, "
w. of Richard Graves, "
w. of John Cook, "
Sarah Hopeott, "
Thomas Marstone, rec.
Abygaile Fermayes, rec.
goodman Bulflnch, dis.
Ruth Mousall, letter & testimon'l.
Abell Kelly, rem.
Susan Concklyne, dis.
Phillemon Dickerson, "
Phineas Fiske "wenam," rem.
Elizabeth Wright, "
Frzwith Osborne, "
Richard Pettingall, rec.
John Cooke, rem.
Robert Gutch, "
Mary Devinish, rec.
Ann Bulflnge, dis.
Nathanyell Norcross, "
Katheren Pacy, rem.
Elizabeth Glover, "
James Fiske, "
Elizabeth Maury, "
Wm. Brown, Glover, dis.
Benjamin Fermaies, rec.
Robert Allen, "
Robert Elwell, dis.
Joane White, "
Thomas Edwards, rem.
Rebeca Cooper, "
Mary Goyte, rec.
John Hathorne, dis.
Richard Dodge, rec.
John Bourne, rem.
Edward Harnett, jun., "
John Scudder, "
his wife,
Lucy Downing, ye younger, rem.
Abigaile Montague, "
Ralph Smith, dis.
Mary Dickerson, "
Eunice Porter, rem.
goodw' Towne, "
Alexander Feild, rec.
Elizabeth Concklin, rem.
Mr. Felmingame, "
Wm. Vinson, et uxor, "
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The following list, made up from the body of the
records, includes all other transfers to and from other
churches, up to 1743 :
Admissions and Dismissions to and from First Church in Salem.
(Church accords.)
1600. Rev. John Iligginson and wife, from Gilford.
1661, Oct. Mr. Blackleach and wife, to Hartford.
1661, 22, 11. J. Rising, from Bermudas.
1662, 10 Sept. Bro. Kaym't and his wife, to Seabrook.
1662, 12, 11. Mrs. Sarah Ruck, from Concord.
1662, 12, 11. Robart Allen, to Norwich.
1663, 7 Sep. Eunice Smith, ye wife of Bro. Potter, to Falrfleld.
1663, 9 Nov. Bro. Browning, to Topsttekl.
1663, 10 Dec. Mr. Got and wife and his son Charles, to Wenham.
1663, 10 Dec. Math. Bachilor, to Wenham.
1664, 27 Mar. Jone Pitman, ye wife Tho. Pitman, of Marblehead.
1664, 5, 4. Win. Dounton and his wife and Edw'd Humber, from
Wcymouth.
1664, 19, 4. Johanna Town and Margaret Reddington, to Topsfield.
1664, 6, 9. Mrs. Lydia Banks (absent 22 years), to London.
1664, 6, 9. Our Honoured Governor and his wife, to Boston.
1665. Mr. Cunvithy and his daughter Curtis, to Southhold.
1665. Our brother and sister Ilarvy, to Southhold.
1667, 4, 5. Susanna Walker, to Boston.
1667, 6 Aug. Joseph Pliipeny and Dorcas his wife, from Boston.
1669, 9. James Rising, to Windsor.
1671, 25 June. Mr. Elias Stileman, to Portsmouth.
1671, 25 June. Sister Wheeler to New London or to Norwich.
1672. Mrs. Corwin, Sen. (b'p'd in Plimouth), by letter from
Marshfleld.
1672. An Peas, from Ipswich.
1673. Sara Giles, from Liime.
1674. 19 Feb. Joseph Brown, to Charlestown.
1676, 20 Apr. Thos. Stacy, ye miller, Susanna his wife and 9 children,
from Ipwich, of the ch. Thos., Win., Jno. and
Susanna are legible.
1676, 27 Aug. Mrs. Grafton (formerly Mrs. Lothrop), from Beverly.
1676, Jan. Mary Higginson, ye Pastor's wife from 1st Ch. at Bos-
ton.
1677, 5 Aug. Peter Clois, from York.
1677, 7 Oct. Mr. Cheevers, ye minister of M'head dismissed from
Ipswich.
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1678, 9 Mar. John Collins his wife from Gloster?
1678, 9 Mar. Thos. West (removing to Bradford) to Haverhill.
1678, 4 Aug. Sis. Taply (w. of Gilbert?), from Beverly.
1678, 11 Aug. Mrs. Baldwin, a French gentlewoman some years since,
from He of Jarsy.
1678, 11 Aug. Mrs. Endecot, from Wenham.
1678, 11 Aug. G. Fuller, from Rehoboth.
1678, 11 Aug. Mr. White, from Scituat.
1679, 10 Mar. Simeon Booth and Mary Penniwel from ye Eastward.
1679, 10 Mar. Robart Fuller (?G. gooclman above) from Rehoboth.
1679, Feb. Hanna Tyle, from Haverhill.
1680, 10 Mar. Mrs. Broadstreet, dismissed.
1680, 2 May. George Keisar, from Lin.
1680, 2 May. Mary, wife of Deacon Gidney, from Boston,
1681, 6 Oct. Jo Peas and wife, to Springfield.
1682, June. Mr. White, to Marshfleld.
1682, Nov. 7. W. Booth and wife, to Springfield.
1683, Nov. Mr. Daniel Eps and wife, from Ipswich.
1684, 11 Mar. Mrs. Roger Conant (by letter from ch. in) Ireland.
1686, 7 Dec. Martha Mackallam, from Lynn. .
1695, Mar. Mrs. Margaret Sewall, ch. of ch., at Cambridge.
1695, 18 Aug. Francis Ellis, from a ch. in Ireland.
1696, 3 May. Daniel Bacon, baptized at Lynn.
1696, 14 June. Hanna Gavet, wife of Philip, ch. of ch., of Cambridge.
1696, 5 Mar. Mary Woolcot, wife of Mr. Josiah, ch. of North ch. at
Boston.
1696. William Murry, baptized in Scotland.
1697. Susanna Bacon, wife of Daniel, sen., ch. of ch. at Lynn.
1697. Elizabeth Hunt, wife of Lewis, ch. of ch., at Cambridge.
1697, 7 Nov. Isaac Fits, ch. of ch., at Ipswich.
1697, 7 Nov. Sister Abigail Leads, formerly Kibbens, to Dorchester.
1699, 2 July. Sarah (Bavage?) now Dennis, to Ipswich.
1699, 2 July. Sarah Hadlock, to Salem village.
1699, 5 Aug. Sister Candish now (Earl) to North ch. at Boston.
1701, Jan. Sarah Coburn, wife of Edward, ch. of ch., at Beverly.
1701, Feb. Sarah Higginson, wife of Colonel John from Boston.
1702, March. Howard, wife of Samuel, baptized at Beverly.
1702, March. Marston, wife of Benjamin, ch. of ch., at Ipswich.
1702, 7 June. Eunice Willis, wife of Robert, ch. of ch., at Topsfield.
1702, Aug. Mascol, widow of John, ch. of ch., at Beverly.
1703, 6 June. James Rix and wife recommended to
1703, 6 June. John Chaplin, in New Jersey.
1703, 1 Aug. Mary West, wife of Samuel, ch. of ch., at Newbury.
1705, 6 May. Judith West, wife of Henry, from Newbury.
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1705, 5 Aug. Doctor Wheeler, ch. of ch., at Concord.
1705, 7 Oct. Experience Norton, from North Ch. sit Boston.
1707, 1 June. Proctor, wife of John, from Chebacco.
1707, 5 Oct. Isaac Fits, to Ipswich.
1708, 7 Nov. Priscilla and John Mash, to
1708, 21 Nov. Judith Reeves, wife of Cockerill, owned covenant here.
1709, 5 June. John Rogers, to Boxford.
1711, 7 Oct. Rev. Samuel Philips and wife Hannah, to Andover.
1712, 8 Feb. Elizabeth Ingalls, late of Lynn.
1713, 25 June. Capt. Simon Willard and wife, from Ipswich.
1715, 28 Aug. Hannah Derby, wife of Samuel, had been baptized and
two children, at Southold, L. I.
1716, 29 Apr. Knap, wife of Isaac, ch. of ch., at Cambridge.
171G, 15 July. Mary Flint, wife of Joseph, ch. of ch., at Charlestown.
1716, 5 Aug. Joseph Neal, from Presby. Ch. in Penn., at Newcastle.
1717, 17 Mch. Mary Bullock, wife of John, ch. of ch., at Reading.
1717, 2 June. Margaret Ilartwell, formerly Tomkius, to Concord.
1717, 8 Sep. Elizabeth Elson, w. of Samuel, ch. of ch., at Chebacco.
1719, 1 Mch. John Cole, baptized in England.
1719, 17 May. Martha Cook, wife of Isaac, baptized in Chebacco.
1719, 14 June. Elizabeth Pierce, to New.
1719, 18 Oct. Susannah Howe, wife of John, to Marlborough.
1720, 2 July. Susannah Prettice, from the Village.
1720, 14 Aug. Joshua Hicks, baptized in South Church, at Boston.
1720, 20 Nov. Rebecca Grinslett, wife of James, baptized at Reading.
1721, 16 July. Nathaniel Thomas, to Plymouth.
1721, 10 Dec. Ichabod Plaisted, baptized at Portsmouth in Piscataqua.
1721, 7 Jan. Rebecca Brown, wife of Peter, baptized at Beverly.
1721. John Mugford, baptized at Newfoundland.
1721. Jane'Luscomb, w. of William, bapt. at Newfoundland.
1723. Brother Samuel Howard and wife Mary, to Reading.
1725, 20 June. Margaret Felt, wife of Bonfleld, baptized at Newton in
Ireland.
1725, 3 Oct. Keturah Douglasse, wife of Wm., bapt. in Wenham.
172G, 22 May. Anne Gale, wife of Edmund, baptized in Beverly.
1726, 22 May. Mary Luscomb, wife of John, baptized in Boston.
1726, 25 Sep. Mary Marshall, wife of Robert, baptized in Boston.
1727, 1 Oct. John Nutting, baptized in Cambridge.
1727, 14 Jan. Joseph Pierpont, son of late Rev'd, bapt. in Reading.
1727, Feb. Ahijah Estes, baptized at 4th ch. in Boston.
1727, Feb. Mary Odel, wife of James, baptized at 3d ch. in Salem.
1728, 11 Aug. Sarah Marston, wife of James, baptized in Ipswich.
1730, 1 Mch. Paul Raymond, baptized at 1st ch. in Beverly.
1730, 1 Mch. Sarah Montgomery, wife of David, baptized at East
ch. in Salem.
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H730, 4 Apr. Mary Twist, wife of Daniel, bapt. at 1st ch. in Reading.
1730, 5 Apr. Ruth Houghton, dau. of Beuj., baptized at the Village.
1730, 5 July. Deliverance Ellison, wife of Joseph, bapt. 1st ch. in
Gloucester.
1731, 4 Apr. Paul Langden and Mary his wife, to Hopkinton.
1731, 3 Oct. Samuel Woodwell, to Hopkinton.
1731, 7 Nov. Benjamin Goodhue, ch. of 1st ch., in Ipswich.
1732, 30 Apr. Abigail Seas, wife of John, baptized at Topsfield.
1732, 29 July. Elizabeth Reeves, w. of Samuel, 1st ch., at Gloucester.
1732, 6 Aug. Sarah Glover, wife of David, 2nd ch., at Gloucester.
1732, 8 Oct. Benjamin Pickman, baptized in Boston.
1734, 7 July* John Swinnerton, Margaret his wife and Mercy their
daughter, to 3d ch., to Boston.
1734-5, 1 June. Francis Gahtman, from Germany.
1734, 15 June. Jonathan Millet, from Manchester.
1734, 2 Nov. Robert Fairservice, from Irish Presby. Ch., at Boston.
1734, 4 Jan. Mary Blyth, wife of Benjamin, from .1st ch. at Brain-
tree.
1736, 7 Mar. Deborah Goodale, wife of Isaac, from 1st ch. in Marble-
head.
1736, 4 Apr. Henry Bennett, from 1st ch. in Ipswich.
1736, 4 Apr. Paul Raymond and wife Tabitha, to Bedford.
1736, 2 May. Sarah Webber, from 4th ch. in Salem.
1736, 9 May. Hannah Battin, wife of John, from 1st ch. in Ipswich.
1736, 26 Dec. Mary Peal, wife of Robert, from 1st ch. in Marble-
head.
1737, 6 Mar. Jefry Lang, baptized at Portsmouth in Piscataqua.
1739, 6 May. Tobias Lakeman, baptized in 1st ch., in Ipswich.
1739, 4 Nov. Hannah Deadman, wife of William, baptized in 2nd
ch. in Ipswich.
1739, 6 Jan. Mary Stevens, wife of John, baptized at Portsmouth in
Piscataqua.
1740, 16 Nov. Sarah Pease, w. of Benjamin, bapt. 1st ch. in Newbury.
1741, 5 Apr. Mary Emerton, w. of John, bapt. 2nd ch. in Ipswich.
1741, 15 Nov. Mary Cummins, wife, of George, baptized 1st ch. in
Marblehead.
1742, 28 Mar. Jane Cummins, baptized, 2nd ch. in Marblehead.
1742, 3 Oct. Elizh. Yell, w. of Nath., bapt. 2nd ch. in Marblehead.
1742, 17 Oct. Hannah Peal, w. of Ebenezer, baptized in the Village.
1742, 11 Nov. Ebenezer Feltoii and Jehoadan his wife, to New Salem.
1742, 12 Dec. Ebenezer Stevens, baptized 1st ch. in Beverly.
1743, 2 Oct. Deborah Goodale, widow of Isaac deed., to New Salem.
1743, 2 Oct. Rebecca, wife of Jeremiah Meachum (baptized in Mar-
blehead), to New Salem.
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The list of church-members, so far as I know as yet
unpublished, continues :
1G51, 27, 2. Richard Waye, dismist.
James (Winchester, removed.
Hannah Stileman.
20, 5. Katherne Kootes.
Susannah Ilollinwood.
8, 12. Grace Venus.
1G52, 14, 9. Pasca Foot.
1053, G. 1. Ellen Stone.
Henry Renolds.
27, 0. Ann Woodbery.
1G54, 13, (J. John Stone.
24, G. Judith Ingersoll.
15 ray Wilkins.
his wife.
Ann Kenning.
1G55, 18, 1. Frances Woodhey.
Ilanna Ruck.
15, 5. Dorithy Norice.
1G5(', 30, 2. Frances Home.
Susan a Archer.
1C57, 31, 3. George Norton's 2nd rcccaving.
23, 12. Elizabeth Dodge.
Mary Corvvithy.
Alls Potter.
1G59, 20, 1. ye wife of Tho. Cromwell.
yc wife of Will Marstone.
Hugh Stacy et uxor removed.
The baptisms of the First Church in Salem, have been
published in Vols. VI, VII, and VIII of these COLLEC-
TIONS.
A careful collation of the published lists with the man-
uscript, in which, again I had the valuable assistance of
Mr. H. F. Waters, has revealed some errata.
Omitting the minor errors, mostly typographical, and
allowing to the editors their own construction of the some-
what dubious dating, which, prevails in certain parts of
the manuscript, as well as their own occasional alteration
HIST. COLL. XV 6
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to modern forms of the antique spelling, we thought the
following corrections would be of service in the interest
of exact genealogical research :
24, 11, 1636, for Thehphilus read Theophilus.
21, 8, 1639, for Mercy read Martha Moore.
7, 4, 1640, for Sound read Bownd.
27, 9, 1640, for 7 children read ye children.
16, 3, 1641, for Vinor read Venor.
1, 27, 1641, read .12, 7, 1641.
14, 9, 1641, for'Codman read Codnam.
3, 5, 1642, for Onesiphenas read Onesipherus.
18, 3, 1645, for Browne read Bowrne.
6, 6, 1648, read Samuel, Moses, and Mary.
10, 7, 1648, for Gold read Golt.
20, 5, 1651, read Mr. Thomas Thacher.
8, 7, 1653, for sister read Richard Waye.
17, 3, 1663, for Kippi's read Kippins.
7, 6, 1666, read Will, s.-of d. of bro. Bishop. '
19, 6, 1666, after "ye Sabbath before" read, and Sarah Henly.
1666-7-8, passim for Dowe, and Dow read Dove.
14, 5, 1667, read children of sister John Putnam.
28, 4, 1668, read Elizabeth of sister Thomas Dean.
20, 7, 1668, read William of sister Will. Maston.
Aug., 1670, for of s. Bean read Beal.
7 Sep., 1671, for Pickman read Pickering.
21 July, 1672, for H. read 7s. Williams.
8 Aug., 1672, read Thomas of Stackhouse daughter.
8 Aug., 1672, dele Hardy. Henly is very plain.
Feb., 1672, for Nicholas read Nicholets.
Feb., 1673, dele (Pickman?}.
Oct., 1674, read John of s. Elendor.
Apr., 1675, read of Isr. Porter.
Apr., 1675, read Is. Foot.
Feb., 1675, read Ruth of Richard and Ruth Rose.
2 Ap., 1676, read Richard and Dorcas.
Mar., 1677, dele Sen. after Skery.
July, 1677, read Richard of sister Stackhouse dau.
Mar., 1678, read Hezekiah of sister Harris.
7 Sep., 1679, for Archer read Allen.
Sep., 1680, dele (ch of do}.
1 May, 1681, read Mr. Sam. Cheevers.
2 Oct., 1681, read Mrs. Pilgrim.
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5 Aug., 1683, read Susanna Daniell and Alice Darby, adultt.
27 Apr., 1684, for Dixy read Day.
6 July, 1684, next Putnam jun. insert Abigail of .
2 Aug., 1685, for Barton read Baston.
Nov., 1685, for Horton read Norton, only first three at age.
Sep., 1686, for Haroy read Harvey.
Apr., 1687, for Elks read Elkins.
1 Aug., 1687, for Burk read Bush.
3 Sep., 1687, read two children of ye widow Elsey.
Oct., 1688, for Wilks read Wilkins.
Dec., 1688, for Eliaab. read Elizab., etc., Nurse.
16 Feb., 1689, read Priscilla Arthur and Nary Boicdish, at age.
1 June, 1690, for Truston read Freestone.
17 Aug., 1690, for Wilkis read Wilkins.
1 Jun.e, 1691, for Harris read Hains (of ye Village?). 8
April, 1693, read George Felt.
June, 1693, for Maston read Marsh. See note p.
June, 1693, for Conkline read Southerick.
Sept., 1693, for .Foster read Porter.
1 Apr., 1694, read Abigail of Abigail of French.
May, 1695, for Felton read Foster.
June, 1695, for Haddock read Hadlock.
21 July, 1695, for George read (rrove Hirst.
8 Mar., 1696, for Treet read Freek Woolcot.
24 May, 1696, for Cardish read Candish.
27 Sep., 1696, read Mr. Will Gidny.
21 Nov., 1696, read Elizabeth of Capt. Sewal, dele Thomas of and
(Swett?).
21 Nov., 1696, insert Thomas of .
30 May, 1697, for Meston read Maston.
16 Jan., 1697, for William Picket read Mr. Wm. Pickering.
27 Mar., 1698, read Mr. William Gidney.
26 June, 1698, read Mr. Will. Andrew.
12 Feb., 1698, for Elizabeth read William of Capt. John Brown.
12 Nov., 1699, read Mr. John Emerson Clericus
14 July, 1700, read Mr. Josiah Walcot.
9 March, 1701, is the omitted date for Benjamin Ropes, et al.
27 April, 1701, for Haron read Aaron Misservy.
4 Jan., J701, read Mary of James Brown.
19 April, 1702, read Abigail, daughter of Lieutenant Neal. 9
31 May, 1702, read Mrs. llasket. 10
e See Savage Gen. Die. 9 As appears from the Church Record.
10 In the Record "our sister Mrs. Hasket."
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15 Aug., 1703, for Ingersol read Ingols. See note p.
27 Feb., 1703, read Mr. Samuel Ruck.
14 April 1705, read Samuel, of Samuel Ingersol.
9 June, 1706, for Tucker read Packer.
27 Oct., 1706, dele at age, after Flint.
17 Nov,, 1706, dele ?, after Foster.
24 July, 1707, read Ezekiel, of Ezekiel Goldthwaite.
21 Nov., 1708, for Turner read Furnex.
12 Feb., 1709, for Turner read Furnex.
21 May, 1710, read Mr. Abel Gardiner.
13 Ang., 1710, read Peter, Lydia and Samuel, of Peter Chevers, dec'd.
See note p.
20 Aug., 1710, read Mary, of Thomas Elkius, dele Samuel.
11 Nov. 1711, for Turner read Furnex.
24 Feb., 1711, for Brown read Bacon. *
9 March, 1712, for Lufkin read Laskin.
3 Aug., 1712, for Neal read Neat.
19 Oct., 1712, read Freek of Mr. Wolcot.
18 Jan., 1712, for Turner read Furnex.
26 July, 1713, dele at age, after John Pratt.
16 Aug., 1713, read Kesia, wife of Francis Proctor, at age.
11 July, 1714, Elizabeth and Sarah Simons, etc. (Omitted date.)
5 June, 1715, read all children of Mr. Joseph Douglass.
28 Aug., 1715, for Legree read Legroe.
20 May, 1716, dele Mr. before Henfleld.
24 June, 1716, for Coytherill read Wytherill.
18 Nov., 1716, read Mr. Edmond Batter.
6 Jan., 1716, for Legre read Legro.
29 Sept., 1717, for Mehitable read Mihil (Michael) Bacon.
15 March, 1724, Sarah, of John and Mary West, "|
5 April, 1724, William, of William and Jane Luscomb, I
5 April, 1724, Jona., of Jona. and Priscilla Woodwell,
5 April, Joshua, of Joshua and Sarah Ward,
14 Jan., 1727, for Dalten read Datten.
17 Nov., 1728, for Gristis read Griffis.
27 July, 1729, for Cruft read Gruff.
23 Nov., 1729, read Jonathan Archer, Junior.
14 Nov., 1731, for by read "his mother should have," etc.
19 Aug., 1733, for Crujt read Gruff.
18 Aug., 1734, for Hannah read Susannah Glover.
4 Feb., 1738, for David read Peard Fabins.
5 Oct., 1740, Samuel Fisk, Pastor.
5 June, 1743, Mary and Abigail, of William and Eunice Pickering.
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Note. 13 Nov., 1737, 2 March, '40, 25 April, '42, Timothy Pickering
married Mary Wingate. See 1 April, '33 and 7 March, '3G.
Note. June, 1603, Marston, Marsh. See II, p. 209, of these COLL.
Note. 15 Aug., 1703, Ingersol, Ingols. See subjoined list, 1 Aug., 1703.
Note. 13 Aug., 1710. The change of Samuel from Elkins to Chccvcr,
is not only fairly deducible from the record, but is also
corroborated by the town records, etc.
Mr. Savage in his Gen. Die., mentions Benjamin Skelton, with S.
John, baptized 1G39, and Nathaniel with S. John, baptized 1G48.
There are no such baptisms on this list. In their place may be found
those of like-named ficltous. See Vol. VI, pp. 237, 243, and Vol.
XIII, p. 152, of these COLL.
[To be continued.]
PARISH LIST OF DEATHS BEGUN 1785.
RECORDED BY BEV. WILLIAM BENTLEY, D.D., OF THE EAST CHURCH, SALEM, MASS.
[Continued from page 298, Part 4, Vol. XIV.]
DEATHS IN 1798 (continued).
421. July 30. Benjamin, of Robert & Anstis Stone.
Fever, 18. They have one son and three daughters left.
He was a clerk in Boston and lived at his Bro. J. Dun-
lap's. Died in Boston.
422. Aug. 8. Deliverance Masury, widow of Benja.
Small Pox, 77. Fifteen years married. She has left two
widowed daughters. She was a White, her husband a
barber.
423. Aug. 10. Thomas Lewis, mariner. Suddenly,
28. Ten months married. His wife a Burroughs, then
a Dyer, one child by each, she lived with Dyer five
months. He had engaged as a mariner in the U. S. Ser-
vice and died as he was on foot through Lynn. He was
from Guernsey.
424. Aug. 12. Elizabeth Phillips, widow of Henry.
Of Fever, 51. Four years married. She was a Lam-
bert and has left one daughter Millet. Very suddenly,
supposed putrid fever ; sick four days.
425. Aug. 6. Hannah Webb, alias Hannon, widow.
Consumption, 40. 1st marriage seven years ; 2nd mar-
riage, 4 years. She has left five children, three males ;
two by Hannon, from Ireland. After very long illness,
(86)
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suddenly at last. She was a Murray. Both husbands
lost at sea.
426. Aug. 18. Elizabeth Millet, wife of John. Fever,
25. Six years married. She has left two children, males.
She was daughter of E. Phillips, who died Aug. 12.
Mother and daughter were taken together. The daii^h-
o o o
ter survived a week. A putrid fever.
427. Aug. 22. Francis Grant, mariner. Mortifica-
tion, 66. Forty-five years married. He has left a widow.
She a Smith and three widowed daughters. Dwire, alias
Steward, Horton, Daniels.
428. Aug. 28. Sarah, wife of James Browne. Fever,
37. Fourteen years married. She was a Masury. Has
left five children, three males. The fever was bilious,
alias, etc. Her sister and three of her children are sick
of the same fever. Sick eleven days.
429. Aug. 31. Samuel M., of Samuel & Priscilla
Lambert. Quincy, 15 months. They have one child, a
female, left. Sick about twenty-four hours. Both par-
ents Lamberts.
430. Aug. 31. Hannah, wife of Bradstreet Parker.
Vomiting, 24. Five years married. They have two
children, one male. She was born in Bradford, Mass.
Seized violently, and obtained no relief, and died in
forty-eight hours.
431. Sept. 6. Bradstreet Parker, merchant, fever, 28.
Five years married. His wife died seven days before.
He was born in Bradford, grandson to the Rev. Mr.
Balch, of that place.
432. Sept. 6. Mary, wife of Joseph Hodges, fever,
37. Fifteen years married. She was an Andrew. Her
mother a Gardner ; four children, three females.
433. Sept. 11. Sarah, of Joseph & Mary Hodges,
fever, 7. There are three children left ; one son. Two
sick of same fever. Mother died on 6th inst.
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434. Sept 11. News of the death of Edward Cox,
mariner, fever, 27. Four years married. Left a wife
and had no children. His mother afterwards married an
Adams and Cane. At Hispauiola upon his voyage. His
wife a Gay ton.
435. Sept. 20. News of Oliver Webb, captain, fever,
39. Fifteen years married. Left a wife, an Elkins, and
four children, three males and one female. He was the
son of William Webb. Died at Hispaniola, in August.
436. Sept. 20. John Diman Preston, captain, from
Marblehead, missing, 37. 1st marriage years, 2nd
marriage years, 3d marriage five years. Left a
wife with two children, males. She was a widow Forbes
with three children, one female ; married abroad, supposed
repeatedly. The Shallop sailed from Salem, 10 Nov.,
1797, and has not been heard of since.
437. Sept. 20. David Mansfield, mariner, pilot, miss-
ing, set. 52. Twenty-nine years married. Left a wife,
but never had children. This man was mate, and in
years.
438. Sept. 20. William Adams, mariner, missing,
set. 17. He was son of Mrs. Cox, alias Adams, Cane.
This was a young seaman. The other persons did not
belong to Salem.
439. Oct. 18. Elizabeth, wife of Nath. Bowditch,
scrofula, set. 19. Seven months married. She was the
2nd daughter of Capt. F. Boardman, lately deceased.
There are two daughters and a son of Capt. F. B. with
the widow.
440. Oct. 30. Ruth, widow of Joseph Searle. Old
age, set. 96. Forty-seven years married. Married at
twenty-four. She has left two sons and two daughters,
Grant and widow Chubb. Living with her younger son.
441. Oct. 31. Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Allyne,
occasioned by a fall, set. 84. She lived a single life and
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for many years was a housekeeper for a Mrs. Gunter in
Boston. She had a fall, after which she was never able
to walk, or entirely free from pain.
442. Nov. 1. Mary, wife of Capt. Joseph Waters.
^"Et. 39. Sixteen years married. She has left six chil-
dren, two sons.
443. Nov. 3. Rebecca, wife of Nathan Millet. Con-
sumption, rct. 28. Four years married. She has left
three children with her husband, one son. She was the
pattern of Christian patience and of a most amiable
disposition.
444. Nov. 8. Lydia, daughter of Samuel & Lydia
Woodkind. Fever, jut. 14. She was a Lambert. He
from Berkshire. This was their only child. The wife
has a son by a former husband, Pal fray.
445. Nov. 20. Edward, of Daniel & Bethiah Shchane.
Quincy, nine months. She was a Widger, of Marblehead.
They have three children left, one son.
446. Nov. 24. Mary, of Benjamin and Mary Becket.
Pleurisy, 20 months. She was a Wyman from Danvers ;
two children left, both males. Sick only one week ;
always feeble.
447. Nov. 30. Joseph Thayer, lately from Woburn.
Fever, set. 23. Two years married. He has a wife, an
Edget; are both from Woburn. lie came into town in
June last, and she in Aug. They have one child, a fe-
male. He was a carpenter employed by Mr. Lefavre.
448. Dec. 8. Philip Furlong from Ireland, tut. 22.
He came into this State in ship of Capt. T. Wellman,
owned by B. Pickman, three years since ; and sailed
from this port. He lived not far from Waterford, Ireland.
Has a mother living; died at Whitfords. Belonged to
Wexford, Ireland.
449. Dec. 25. William, of John & Hannah Mack.
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Atrophy, set. 3 months. They have one child left, a
male. The child pined from birth and was never in
health.
450. Dec. 30. Patrick Sennert, of Ireland, within
two miles of Waterford, of Dunkellyn of Kilkenny.
Consumption, aet. 46, He sustained a good character.
As the Catholic Priest was not in town, I attended the
funeral; buried 1 Jan., 1799, but he is not on my list.
He came here on 9th July, 1796, in a shallop from New-
foundland, and lived first with Mr. R. Collins, then
Lufkins and then removed to Mr. Ratchliffes.
DEATHS IN 1799.
451. Jan. 2. George Gilmore, of Norfolk, Virginia.
W. Ind. flux., set. 25, at the head of Pierce's wharf,
Water street.
452. Jan. 4. Mary, daughter of Jonathan Archer.
Consumption, 19. He has six children, three males, one
daughter married.
453. Jan. 20. Benja., of Benja. & Margaret H. Bray.
Quincy, 16 months. Two children left, one male.
454. Jan. 23. Anna Wyatt, died at Andover ; buried
in Salem. Dropsy, 33. Two children: Hannah Bray,
set. 14, and Annie Hawkins, set. 7.
455. Jan. 30. Margaret, widow of Jacob Clarke.
Asthma, 70. Fourteen years married. Married at 22.
Two daughters survived her. Widow Edey and w. of
Thomas Parsons. Last at Newburyport.
456. Feb. 16. Harriet, of Nathan & Rebecca Millet.
Atrophy, 8 months. The mother died in Nov. last. Two
female children are left with the father.
457. Feb. 24. News of the death of Benjamin Webb,
at sea. Fever, eet. 23. He was a son of Joshua Webb,
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deceased. His mother died last year. He has a brother
and three sisters. Went mate to Capt. J. Edwards, was
taken, and upon his return from Guadeloupe, in Charles
Derby ; died 4th Feb., at sea.
458. Feb. 23. Male child of Joseph & Mary More ;
suddenly, in fitts, aet. 2 months. They are young, this
the only child. Not of this town. He at sea. The
woman apprentice at ropemaking, Vincents.
459. Feb. 23. William Thompson born in Bedford,
Mass., fever, cet. 23. His mother lives in Boston and is
married to Mr. Samuel Vincent. The son served as a
ropemaker with Vincents. He was taken with Capt.
Endicott and died in the hospital at Guadeloupe ; lived
at S. Silsbee's.
460. March 6. Mary, widow of Francis Grant. Can-
cer, ret. 75. Forty-five years married. Married at 29.
Died at Robert & Mary Smith's, at the ferry, alias Beverly
bridge. Left three daughters, a brother Robert and sister
widow Mehitable Patterson.
461. March 18. John Diamond, of John Diamond &
Sarah Preston. Atrophy, oet. 9 months. The widow
has five children with her, one female. Her husband lost
at sea last year.
462. April 4. Sarah, wife of James Collins ; fever,
aet. 31. 1st marriage nine years; 2nd marriage, ten
months. She has three living children by Evoy, one male.
Collins had three children, one female. She has had one
female by Collins. Her husband Evoy died abroad.
Married Collins, who is in the U. S. Marine Service.
She was a Richardson, father a foreigner ; only child.
463. April 9. Nancy, of Jonathan & Elizabeth Pal-
frey. Scrofula, rot. 13 months. They have four children
left, two males. She was a Vincent. He a mariner.
. 464. April 14. Sarah, of Joseph & Mary Brown.
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Fever, set. 10 years. She was a Becket. They have four
children, males.
465. April 15. Jonathan Derby, captain. Consump-
tion, set. 28. He was a son of Hon. Richard Derby, Esq.,
educated at Dummer Academy, and at Boston instructed
as a merchant by his uncle E. H. Derby, and has been
six voyages to India. Long sick, and confined through
the winter ; was at his brother Samuel's in the Mansion
House.
466. April 16. Sarah, widow of John Ropes. Apo-
plexy, ret. 77. 1st marriage three years ; 2nd marriage
thirty- two years. Married at 19. She was a Titcombe,
of Newbury. She married first a Stockef and then was a
widow six years ; then married a Ropes and then was
a widow sixteen years. Left one child, married at Am-
herst, N. H.
467. April 22. Jean Baptiste, so called; a French
prisoner, worn out, set. 48. He was born in Rochelle,
France, from which he had been long absent in different
parts of America, chiefly St. Domingo. He left a child
there. He had been some time in Salem in the late war.
468. May 19. Maria, of John and Ruth Barker.
Fever, 17 mo. They are a family from Pembroke, and
this their only child. Have been in Salem but a few
years. A blacksmith. She descended from Rev. Smith.
469. May 17. News of the death of Benjamin, son of
Benj. Cloutman. Fever, set. 16. His widow mother has
many children. This a promising youth. Died 25 April
in Havana, of the prevalent fever, by which we have lost
many seamen. He was with E. H. Derby, jun.
470. May 17. News of the death of James, son of
John Collins, sen. Fever, set. 15. The father has left
five children, out of twelve. This a lovely youth ; died
5 April in Havana, of the fever there among the Ameri-
can ships. He was with Capt. Flint.
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471. June 13. Nathaniel Osgoocl. Aged, rot. 88.
Twenty-nine years married. Married at 34. He has left
one son, Christopher. His wife was a Hannah Babbidge,
married in 1745 and died Sept., 1774. He has lived with
his son above twelve years. He was a distinguished
shoemaker in his early life. In his temper easy. A
brother now living; an old man.
472. June 20. Thomas Squires, mariner. Consump-
tion, rot. 59. He came from Devonshire, England, rot. 19.
473. June 23. Mehitablc, of Joseph and Mehitable
Valpey. Dropsy in head, rot. 3 years. They have three
male children.
474. June 22. Samuel, of Xath'l and Abigail Phip-
pen. Fever abroad, rot. 17. They have one son and
two daughters left. Sick in the Ilavauna ; died on his
passage, 4 June. "VVas with Capt. Taylor.
475. July 7. Female child of William and Mary
Foye. Convulsions, l(i days. He has nine children by
former wife, four males ; none by the present wife.
47(3. July 9. News of the death of John, son of John
and Elizabeth Fairfield. Fever abroad, rot. 27. Family
scattered. Three daughters and four sons. Two daugh-
ters married. In the East Indies.
477. July 20. John Hodges, Captain. Ilemorrheis,
set. 76. Twenty-five 3 r cars married. Married at 23. A
worthy man. He has left three sons and a daughter, all
in reputation. Married a Manning.
478. July 27. Mary Chubb, widow, rot. 63. 1st
marriage, four years ; 2nd marriage, three years. Mar-
ried at 20. Left no children. First husband, Edcy, had
children. She was a Searle.
479. Sept. 2. Male child of Daniel and Sarah Heed.
7 mos. Child born in, and parents from Danvers lately.
He has one sou by a former wife.
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480. Sept. 3. George Cabot, of Joseph and Hannah
Hosmer. 14 days. They have two daughters and a son
left.
481. Sept. 15. Bethiah, of William and Sarah Mil-
let. 15 months. This was one of their twins. They
have three children. She an Archer.
482. Sept. 25. Sarah Hodges, of Daniel and Alice
Ropes. 15 months. They have two children left, one
male.
483. Sept. 30. Joshua, of Joshua and Lydia Webb.
20 days, A young family, first child.
484. Sept. 30. Richard Valpy. Decay, 65. Four
sons and three daughters left. An honest, humble per-
son, known as The Skipper.
485. Nov. 8. William, of William & Hannah Fos-
ter, 8 months. They have one child.
486. Nov. 10. Jonathan Mason, Sen., Capt. Apo-
plexy, 66. Forty-four years married. Married at 22.
He has left two sons and two daughters ; all have been
married, many grand-children. Married a Babbidge.
487. Nov. 28. Martha Perkins, maiden. Convul-
sions, 43. She had lived with Mrs. Rogers from the
time of marriage. She came from Ipswich.
488. Dec. 6. Elizabeth, widow of Ebenezer White-
foot ; from broken bone, 57 yrs. Nineteen years married.
Married at 15. She was a Mayberry. Left two sons
and four daughters.
489. Dec. 11. Lydia, of Barnabas & Lydia Herrick.
Consumption, 30. Her sister died in Oct. last. No
daughter left. Three sons.
490. Dec. 19. Robert, son of Pierce & Sarah Evoy.
Nervous fever, 11. Father and mother both dead. Two
sisters left by Evoy, one by Collins. First with a slow
and then nervous fever. Sick at G. F. Richardson's.
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491. Dec. 19. Eunice, daughter of Joshua & Hannah
Phippen. Consumption, 20. Four sons and three daugh-
ters left.
492. Dec. 22. Andrew, son of Andrew & Hannah
English. Quincy, 2 years, 8 months. One son and two
daughters left.
DEATHS IN 1800.
493. Jan. 5. James Collins in the ship Constitution,
mariner. Fever abroad, 41. 1st marriage, nineteen
years, 2nd marriage, one year. He married at 20 a
Masury and left by her three children ; 2nd marriage to
the widow Evoy and left one child. A man by trade a
shoemaker. Two sons, one daughter by tirst wife, one
daughter by 2nd wife.
494. Jan. 8. Abigail White, widow of Joseph White
of Isle of Shoals, 78. Seven years married ; married at
19. Left two children, sons. She was a Muchmore of
Isle of Shoals when J. W. of Salem married her. Lived
twenty years with her son Joseph.
495. Jan. 20. Male child of John & Lydia Searle.
Just after birth. She was a Fairtield. Lately married.
First child. She had been long very ill disposed.
496. Jan. 24. News of the death of Jonathan, son of
Jonathan Mason. Fever abroad, 16. The only son by
E. King, his first wife. They have two daughters by first
wife and two daughters and a son by second wife. Died
on board Capt. Derby at in Hispaniola of yellow
fever.
497. Jan. 24. News of the death of Benjamin Dorrel.
Fever abroad, 19. The only son of Mrs. Strout by her
former husband, Mr. Dorrel. Died on board Capt.
Derby from on the passage homeward.
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498. Feb. 16. Anna, wife of Nicholas Lane. Rheu-
matic Fever, 48. Thirty-one years married; married at
17. She was daughter of Wm. Bezoill. She has* left
two sons and nine daughters ; one son and three daugh-
ters married. Born in Cape Ann and removed to Salem
after marriage. He sailmaker.
499. Feb. 20. Capt. Andrew Preston. Nervous fever,
71. Forty-six years married; married at 25. He has
left one son and three daughters ; two daughters married.
Born in Beverly. She was a Lambert. He was an In-
spector of the Customs.
500. Feb. 24. News of death of John, son of John
& Hannah Collins, Sen. Fever abroad, 19. Have six
children left, two males. Have lost two young sons at
sea, both in the West Indies, by the Fever.
501. Feb. 24. News of death of Samuel, son of Sam-
uel & Sarah Ropes. Fever abroad, 19. Never lost a
child before. They have five children left, three males.
Was at Curacoa and died ashore. Sick four days. A
very promising youth.
502. March 20. News of death of Philip, son of Tho-
mas & Susanna Rue. Fever abroad and Dysentery, 22.
Six children left, three sons and three daughters ; one
son and one daughter married. Was in the ship America
from East Indies. The only person who died in the
voyage of 54. Died in Dec. last.
503. April 10. Margaret, of Adam & Mercy Wel-
mau. Consumption, 19. The widow mother has one
son by same marriage. She was a Mascoli and married a
Stephens and then Wellman.
504. April 25. Lydia, of James & Elizabeth Archer.
Convulsions, 18 months. They have four children, two
males. They are both Archers.
505. June 1. Jonathan Archer. Consumption, 53.
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Nineteen years married ; married at 24. He has left six
children, three males ; one daughter married. Wife died
in 1791. He had lived freely. Was an assessor of the
town seventeen years. A man of some information ; for-
merly a barber. Acquired interest in the war ; sold his
house ; was a tanner.
506. June 2. Edward Chevalier, born in the Island
of Jersey. Consumption, 55. Thirty years married;
married at 25. Left a wife, whom he married in Marble-
head. She a widow when he married her. Came to
Salem in the war from Marblehead, 1775. Had been ten
years in Marblehead.
507. June 4. Susannah, relict of Jonathan Mason.
Palsy and Apoplexy, 66. Forty-four years married;
married at 21. Left two sons and two daughters; all
have been married. Her husband died last Nov. Her
sister Ward in 1797. She was a Babbidge ; her mother
yet living.
508. June 7. Susannah, wife of Richard Valpy. Sud-
denly, 40. Nineteen years married ; married at 21. Left
three children, two females. She was a Backer from
Marblehead.
509. July 9. Lydia, widow of Benjamin Woodman.
Suddenly, 79. Thirty years married ; married at 25.
She was a Phillips ; parents from Lynn. She had thirteen
living children. A son and three married daughters left.
510. July 9. Lydia Babbidge, maiden. Fever and
mortification, 67. She was the last of the children. The
mother survives, aged 86. Lydia assisted the mother in
a school. Madam Babbidge has kept a school above half
a century. Lydia was sick about ten days. Sister of
Mrs. Mason, who died in June last, and Mrs. Ward, who
died Oct., 1797.
511. July 10. Elizabeth, widow of Andrew Millet.
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Fever and mortification, 69. Fifteen years married ; mar-
ried at 20. She was a Tozzer. Left two sons and a
daughter. Died at her son in law Chipman.
512. July 16. Female child of Ketire & Rebecca
Becket. Fever, 26 months. They have one child, a
male, left. She a Swasey.
513. July 31. News of the death of Tochim Jacob
Rochstein. Fever, 25. Eight months married ; married
at 25. She was a natural of Gayton ; married a Cox;
then this husband. He was a German from Lubeck;
lately came into America. Died at St. Christopher.
514. Aug. 10. News of death of Samuel, of Samuel
& Anna Foot. Small pox abroad, 17. Their only son ;
they have three daughters. She a Crowninshield of Clif-
ford. Died in Calcutta, on a voyage with Capt. Wheat-
laud. Lived Essex St.
515. Aug. 17. George Archer, Capt., on his passage
from Hamburg. Lost at sea, 34 years ; married at 26
years. He has left a wife and four children, three fe-
males. She a Hathorne ; supposed to be lost on Grand
Banks in Dec. last. Lived Derby St.
516. Aug. 17. John, of John & Mary Collins, with
Archer, lost at sea, age 20. They have three sons and
two daughters left. A great loss in their eldest son.
Turner St. They were seen so far on their passage.
517. Sept. 7. William, of Ebenezer & Sarah Slo-
cum. Dysentery, 13 months. They have two children,
one male. She a Becket. Essex St.
518. Sept. 10. Esther, of Daniel & Abigail Caldwell.
Fever, 9 months. Mother a Carroll ; he from Ipswich.
They have three children, two males. Near Bridge.
519. Sept. 1. Fern, of Thomas & Catherine Green.
Dysentery, 3 weeks. They have three children. They
were from Liverpool in England.
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520. Sept. 12. Male ch. of Josiah & Margaret Flag.
Vomiting and purging, 12 mos. They have two females
left and two males. He lately from Mason, N. II., orig.
from Reading, Mass. Daniels street.
521. Sept. 13. Hannah, of Samuel & Mercy Town-
send. 7 years. They have four children left, three
males. She was a Stevens. Essex St.
522. Sept. 14. Nathaniel, of Nathaniel & Elizabeth
Trow. 9 months. This their first and only child. She
a Gilman from Newmarket. He from Beverly. Daniels
St.
523. Sept. 21. News of death of James, of Thomas
& Mary Hutch insoii. Fever, abroad, 26 years. The
widow has two sons and two daughters at home, and a
son, long absent, place unknown. Turner St. He was
with Mugford, at Calcutta.
524. Sept. 24. Nancy, of Jonathan & Elizabeth Pal-
frey. 15 months. Four children, two males, left,
mother a Vincent, the youngest. Becket St.
525. Sept. 24. News of death of Joshua of widow
Murray. Fever abroad, 19 years. Her only child. She
was a Webb. He was with Capt. Mugford in ship Ulys-
ses, and died in Calcutta.
526. Oct. 5. Mary, daughter of Jacob & Mary Nor-
man. Scarlet fever, 4 years. The father dead. The
mother an Archer, she married a Gunnison, then Nor-
man, now Peters. One child left by Gunnison. Essex
street.
527. Oct. 16. Abigail, widow of Zachariah Curtis.
Aged, 86 years. Married at 20; seven years married.
She was daughter of John Gray. Turner, between Essex
and Derby.
528. Oct. 20. Lois, widow of Samuel Odell. Con-
sumption, 55 years. Married at 22 ; she died in Pleas-
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ant st. Has left four sons and three daughters. She was
a Larrabee of Lynn. Her husband died in 1790.
529. Dec. 12. Male child of Lydia, daughter of Dan-
iel Cloutman. 2 years.
530. Dec. 28. News of the death of Capt. Elisha
Harrington, drowned, 35 years. Married at 28 years.
She a Bin-rill ; her second husband. Three children left,
one son. He from Weston. He was cast away on
George's ; crew were saved ; were in a brig from Jamaica.
531. Dec. 28. News of the death of John, son of
Johnson & Ruth Briggs. Fever, 19 years. The widow
has six children left, three sons and three daughters.
Left by Capt. John Fairfield at Havanna.
532. Dec. 28. Capt. Adam Wellman missing, lost
at sea. 27 years. Married at 26 years. He married
Nancy, the eldest daughter of widow Browne. No chil-
dren. Son of Adam Wellman, who died abroad in 1786.
They sailed for Ireland 10th Jan. from Salem, and on 5th
of Feb. from New York.
533. Dec. 28. John Crandall, mate with Capt. W.
Putnam, missing. 41 years. Married at 32 years. He
married the eldest daughter of Nicholas Lane and had
three children, one male. He was from Providence, K. I.
Sailed 12th Feb. for Gibraltar.
534. Dec. 28. James Carroll, with Capt. Putnam,
mariner, missing. 19 years. The only son of James
Carroll, who married a Webb. Seven daughters left.
535. Dec. 28. John Cloutman, mariner, 2d mate
with A. Wellman, missing, set. 23 years. Son of Joseph ;
his mother a Becket. She has one son and three daugh-
ters left.
536. Dec. 28. Thomas Stephens, boy with Capt. A.
Wellman, missing. 14 years. The widow has three
daughters left. Her husband was lost in 1784.
[To be continued.]
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE.
VOL. XV. JULY AND OCTOBER, 1878. Nos. 3, 4.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE
COMMEMORATION, BY THE ESSEX
INSTITUTE, OF THE FIFTH HALF-CENTURY OF
THE LANDING OF GOV. JOHN ENDICOTT,
IN SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.
SEPTEMBER 18, 1878.
INTRODUCTION.
the annual meeting of the Essex Institute, held
Monday, May 21, 1877, u committee consisting of
President Wheatland, lion. James Kimball, AY. P.
Upham, Esq., and A. C. Goodell, Esq., were appointed
to consider and report upon the propriety of celebrat-
ing the 250th anniversary of the "Landing of John
Endicott," which would occur in September, 1878.
At a regular meeting, Monday, Oct. 1, 1877, the com-
mittee reported favorably, and in accordance therewith
the following vote was adopted :
Voted, That it is expedient for the Institute to take the
initiative in the matter of the celebration, and that the
Hon. W. C. Endicott be invited to deliver an oration on
the occasion, and also that the committee be authorized
to make the necessary arrangements.
The committee deemed it advisable, before proceeding
further, to invite the cooperation of the city authorities,
and accordingly conferred with the Mayor, who in his
inaugural address, delivered on Monday, Jan. 7, of this
year, alluded to this subject and recommended it to the
favorable consideration of the council. On the 14th day
of January that portion of his address was referred to a
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special committee, who, after a conference with the com-
mittee of the Institute, reported, at a meeting of the
council held 'on the llth of the March following, an order
appropriating $1,500.00. This report was referred to
the finance committee, who, on the 25th of March, re-
ported its adoption inexpedient.
The committee of the Institute, at the annual meeting,
Monday, May 20, 1878, was authorized to enlarge its
number, appoint sub-committees, and arrange plans for
carrying out the celebration in an appropriate manner.
The committee, thus invested with full powers to act,
after several meetings enlarged its number and arranged
sub-committees, who, by the liberality of several friends,
procured the necessary funds and were thereby enabled to
perform their several duties. Of the manner in which
these have been performed the reader can judge by the
perusal of the following pages.
EXERCISES AT MECHANIC HALL.
REV. ROBERT C. MILLS, D. D., CHAPLAIN OF THE DAY.
MR. BENJAMIN J. LANG, DIKECTOK OF Music.
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ORGAN VOLUNTARY.
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READING OF SCRIPTURE.
PSALM 147, v. 1. Praise yc the Lord; for it is good to sing praises
unto our God ; for it is pleasant, and praise is comely.
12. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem, praise thy God, O Zion.
13. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates ; he hath
blessed thy children within thee.
20. He hath not dealt so with any nation; and as for his judg-
ments they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.
PSALM 44, v. 1. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers
have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times
of old :
2. How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and
plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them
out.
3. For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them ; but thy right hand and
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thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst
a favor unto them,
8. In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for-
ever.
DEUT. 32, v. 7. Remember the days of old, consider the years of
many generations ; ask thy father and he will shew thee, thy
elders, and they will tell thee.
8. When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,
when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the
people according to the number of the children of Israel.
10. He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilder-
ness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the
apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth
over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketli them, bear-
eth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead them, and
there was no strange god with him.
DEUT. 4, v. 32. For ask now of the days that are past which were
before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth,
and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether
there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath
been heard like it.
34. Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the
midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by won-
ders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out
arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your
God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35. Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the
Lord he is God; there is none else beside him.
37. Because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed
after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty
power out of Egypt ;
38. To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier
than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their laud for an inheri-
tance, as it is this day.
DEUT. 2G, v. 7. When we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the
Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our
labor, and our oppression,
8. And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty
hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terrible-
ness, and with signs, and with wonders ;
9. And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us
this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
11. Thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy
God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the
Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
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PSALM 148, v. 1. I will extol thee, my God, King, and I will bless
thy name forever and ever.
3. One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall
declare thy mighty acts.
7. They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great good-
ness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
I KINGS 8, v. 5(5. Blessed be the Lord that h:ith given rest unto his
people Israel, according to all that he promised; there hath not
failed one word of all his good promise which he promised by
the hand of Moses his servant.
57. The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers,
let him not leave us, nor forsake us;
58. That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his
ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his
judgments which he commanded our fathers.
PSALM G7, v. 1. God be merciful unto us and bless us, and cause his
face to shine upon us;
2. That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health
among all nations.
3. Let the people praise thee, O God, let all the people praise
thee.
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PRAYER.
BY REV. ROUEUT C. MILLS, D.D.
IV
ORIGINAL HYMN.
BY REV. JONES VERY.
Though few, with noble purpose came
Our fathers to this distant wild;
A Commonwealth they sought to frame,
From country and from friends exiled.
Religious freedom here they sought,
In their own land to them denied ;
With courage and with faith they wrought,
Nor monarch feared, uor prelate's pride.
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That Commonwealth to power has grown ;
Religious liberty is ours ;
What now we reap, their hands have sown,
. And changed the wild to garden bowers.
The trees they planted, year by year
Still yield their precious fruit and shade;
Fair Learning's gifts still flourish here,
And Law man's right has sacred made.
They from their labors long have ceased,
On the green hill-sides saintly rest ;
Their sons, in wealth and power increased,
Have by their fathers' God been blest.
Their noble deeds our souls inspire ;
Be ours their faith and courage still;
Keep pure the home, the altar's fire,
And thus their cherished hopes fulfill.
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POEM.
BY REV. CHARLES T. BROOKS.
VI
ORIGINAL ODE.
BY REV. STEPHEN P. HILL, D.D.
Hail to the days of yore !
When to this Western shore,
Our fathers came,
And settled as their own
This land, so long unknown,
Where savage life alone
Had erst a name.
Wild as the winds at first,
That o'er these regions burst,
Those feathered forms,
So barbarous and so low,
To social life the foe,
Loomed, like the winter snow
Or cloud-clefl storms.
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Long as these shores had stored
Their wealth, all unexplored,
Old time had slept
In silence o'er the soil,
Nor heard the hum of toil;
But all this teeming spoil
For us had kept.
For us our fathers bore
Their fortunes to this shore
From o'er the sea;
And we to-day appear
To hail their high career,
And sanctify their year
Of Jubilee!
This rock-bound shore, so lone,
But what a land unknown,
Before them lay !
Whose hills and lakes and streams
Within its vast extremes,
Beyond their brightest dreams,
Now feel their sway!
For us they laid in light
The germs of social right
And civil power;
Which, fostered by their care,
Such fine proportions bear,
And give their sons to share
The ample dower.
By small degrees it grew;
And better than they knew
Their work appears,
In beauty and renown
To distant ages down ;
While glory yet shall crown
Its coming years !
Dear to our hearts be still
Each rock and vale and hill
Their feet have pressed;
And be it still our pride
To cherish with the tide
Of centuries, as they glide,
Their memory blessed.
FKKEDOM and FAITH enshrined
Within the heart and mind,
By VIIMTF. wreatlii-d ;
Let these our cares engage
Thro' each succeeding age;
Our noblest heritage
By them bequeathed !
Upon his ancient stall'
Two centuries and a half
In age to-day,
The State again appears,
Strong in the toil of years,
With treasures born of tears
And memories grey.
That parent pilgrim band,
Led by Jehovah's hand,
By this rude coast :
For fanes their fai h foresaw,
Founded in sacred awe,
Of LIKKUTY and LAW :
Our birthright boast !
Within this savage wild,
Where culture had not smiled
From earliest time,
They found a home ; and here,
Mid prospects dark and drear,
Displayed their faith sincere
By deeds sublime !
And children in the Hood
Of pure ancestral blood
Attend in train,
And follow as a Hock,
A numerous, vigorous stock,
Whose energies unlock
The land and main !
Hail to the land we love;
So broad, and blest above
All others, now ;
Whose wealth, in golden grain,
Adorns each spreading plain
And lines, with many a vein,
The mountain's brow!
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Thy hand, Almighty One!
Thro' ancient annals run
Divinely right,
Still leads our later way
Like Israel's shielding sway
Of pillar'd cloud by clay,
And fire by night !
Thy light, thy love, thy truth,
Alike in age and youth,
Shall lead us on;
Thro' error's darkling maze,
And foes of future days,
Till peace, o'er empire, sways
Its rule alone !
GOD OF OUR FATHERS! Thou,
Who did'st the State endow
And mould so free ;
By generations nursed,
Bid FAITH, as at the first,
With growing volume burst
In praise to THEE!
VII
ORATION.
BY HON. WILLIAM C. ENDICOTT.
VHI
HYMN.
"The breaking waves dashed high." Mrs. Hemans.
RENDERED BY MRS. J. H. WEST.
rx
POEM.
BY WILLIAM W. STORY.
Read by Prof. J. W. Churchill.
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THE ONE HUNDREDTH PSALM.
SUNG BY CHORUS AND AUDIENCE.
All people that on earth do dwell,
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice;
Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell,
Come ye before him and rejoice.
The Lord ye know is God indeed,
Without our aid he did us make,
"We are his flock, he doth us feed,
And for his sheep he doth us take.
O enter then his gates with praise,
Approach with joy his courts unto,
Praise, laud, and bless his name always,
For it is seemly so to do.
For why? The Lord our God is good,
His mercy is forever sure,
His truth at all times lirmly stood,
And shall from age to age endure.
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BENEDICTION.
BY REV. KOBERT C. MILLS, D.D.
EXERCISES AT HAMILTON HALL.
INCLUDING ADDRESSES AND CORRESPONDENCE.
AFTER the exercises at the Mechanic Hall the members
and subscribers with their invited guests assembled at
Hamilton Hall on Chestnut street for a lunch and social
entertainment.
The hall presented an exceedingly animated and inter-
esting appearance, and everything was well arranged and
conducted with good taste. An orchestra, under the
direction of Mr. Jean Missud, was stationed in the gal-
lery over the entrance to the hall, and entertained the
company, at intervals, with excellent music. On the
wall opposite to the entrance, behind the President of
the Institute, was suspended a portrait of Gov. John En-
dicott, and on each side were fac- similes of the colonial
flags of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and on the table
beneath were deposited several interesting relics of the
colonial period.
The tables were laid by Mr. Edward Cassell, the well
known caterer, and were handsomely decorated with a
choice display of flowers, arranged beautifully in large
bouquets, and a small one at each plate, with a neatly
designed carte de menu, a fitting memento of the celebra-
tion. The lunch embraced more than a score of dishes,
substantial and elegaut.
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N At 2.30 P. M. the PRESIDENT called the company to
order and asked their attention while the Kev. R. C.
MILLS, D.D., of Salem, invoked the divine blessing.
After an hour spent in festivity, the PRESIDENT com-
menced the intellectual exercises of the occasion with the
following address :
ADDRESS OF HENRY WHEATLAND.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Permit me to extend a cordial
welcome to the friends who are with us this day, espe-
cially to those sons and daughters of Salem, who, after
years of absence, come to revisit the scenes of their
childhood and to unite in paying that homage and respect
due to the memory of a common ancestry ; also to the
chief magistrate of this old commonwealth, to the repre-
sentatives of sister societies and to all others who have
honored us with their presence.
Let me briefly call your attention to some memorials
of the colonial period which are displayed in this hall
to-day. The two flags that are placed on each side of the
portrait of Governor Endicott, that hangs on the wall in
the rear, are fac-similes of two colonial flags, one of
Connecticut in 1675 and the other of Massachusetts in
1683. On the table we have the original indenture
under the signature of Lord Sheffield, Jan. 1, 1623,
granted by the council of Plymouth in the county of
Devon, England, for settling the northern part of Massa-
chusetts Bay. Roger Conant was then the governor or
commander. He arrived in Gloucester in 1624, and re-
moved to Salem in 1626. This charter or indenture was
superseded by the grant from the Council of Plymouth
and the subsequent charter under which Gov. Endicott
acted. The duplicate of this last charter, which was sent
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over to Gov. Enclicott in 1G29, is on the table. These
two valuable documents arc deposited in Plnmmcr Hall,
one the property of the Essex Institute, the other of
the Salem Athenaeum. The original charter, which was
brought over later by Gov. Winthrop, is in the State
House iu Boston. There is also the first book of records
of the First Church in Salem, which commenced with the
ministry of John Higginson who was settled in 1(559, in-
cluding a copy of the principal part of the records of the
previous doings of the church from an old and much
defaced volume. Also the Bible that was used by Dr.
E. A. Holyoke. These are interesting memorials of the
occasion.
Fifty years ago this day, in this hall, at the same hour
of the day, were assembled the members of the Essex
Historical Society with their invited guests Governor
Lincoln, Lieutenant-governor Thomas L. Winthrop, the
Hon. Daniel Webster, the lion. Edward Everett, Mayor
Quincy of Boston, Professors Farrnr and Ticknor of Har-
vard and others to commemorate the two hundredth an-
niversary of the landing of Governor Enclicott at Salem.
Of this assembly, all, with few exceptions, have passed to
the better land; four of the survivors are with us this
day. The orator of the day was the lion. Joseph Story, 1
one of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United
States, an original member and the vice-president of the
society. The president of the society, the venerable Dr.
E. A. Holyoke, 2 whose centennial anniversary was appro-
priately observed by the medical profession of Boston
and Salem on the thirteenth of the month preceding, an
event probably without a parallel in the annals of medi-
cine, presided. Dr. Ilolyoke was identified with the
1 The figures on this and the two following pages refer to notes in the appendix.
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literary societies of Salem for a period of nearly seventy
years, from the organization of the old Social Library in
1760, and a large portion of the time held an official posi-
tion. He was also an original member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, incorporated in 1780, and
at one time its president. He was also the first president
of the Massachusetts Medical Society incorporated in
1781. To the earlier volumes of the publications of each
of these societies he was a liberal contributor. His most
important communication, which was printed after his
decease, was a meteorological register kept with great
care, commenced on the first of January, 1786, and con-
tinued with only a few omissions of a part of a day till
the close of the year 1823 : from that time continued in a
less regular manner to the first of March, 1829, when the
last record was made. On that day he was confined to his
chamber by his last illness, and on the thirty-first day of
that month he closed his life of usefulness and benevo-
lence. We have in our library the day books which con-
tain an accurate account of his professional practice.
They comprise 123 volumes of ninety pages each, and on
each page was the entry of thirty visits, making on the
average twelve visits a day for seventy-five years. The
first entry was in July 6, 1749 ; the last was February 16,
1829. During the last few years of his life the entries
were very few.
The secretary of the society was the Hon. Joseph G.
Waters, 3 whose death we have recently been called upon
to deplore. He was secretary of the society for twenty-
one years, till the union of that society with the Essex
Institute in 1848. He will long be remembered for his
deep interest in our literary and scientific institutions and
for his versatile and extensive knowledge of English liter-
ature and history.
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V
The society at that time, which might be called' the
Augustan period of Salem history, had many men of note
and distinction ; among them was one 4 who was a member
of Washington's military family during the Revolutionary
war, and afterwards a member of his cabinet and also
that of the elder Adams. One 5 was a member of the
cabinets of Madison and Monroe. Three were, or had
been, or have since been senators in Congress, and fifteen
representatives in Congress; one 8 justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, a justice of the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts, 9 a judge of probate for Essex
County, 10 and twenty members of the legal profession, 11 of
whom we may enumerate Nathan Dane, Samuel Putnam,
Ichabod Tucker, John Pickering, Joseph Story, Daniel A.
White, Loverett Saltonstall, Benjamin Merrill, John G.
King, Kufus Choate, and others. There were also mem-
bers of the clerical 12 and medical 13 professions and mer-
chants. 14 The writings of some in history, literature,
science, law and jurisprudence were the highest authority.
The brilliant eloquence of some would draw great crowds
of attentive listeners not only at the bar, but at the forum
and in the lecture room ; and there were others, the sails
of whose ships whitened distant seas, bringing to this
port the products of every clime. At that time probably
no society in the United States could exhibit upon its
roll a greater number of men of influence in the various
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walks of life.
In determining the time for this commemoration it was
deemed meet and proper that the same day be selected
which our predecessors, fifty years ago, appointed, not
wishing to discredit their judgment as to which day of the
present new style corresponds with the calendar day of
1628, nor to express an opinion on a subject that has agi-
tated so much the minds of scholars and historical stu-
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dents. It is well to be correct in matters of history, but
practically it is of little consequence whether we celebrate
the sixteenth or the eighteenth, provided that the spirit of
the occasion is observed. "The letter killeth, the spirit
maketh alive." We are humble workers endeavoring to
build up a superstructure worthy to be placed upon the
foundation which the predecessors of this society in their
wisdom so wisely laid, and to carry forward, to the extent
of our means and feeble abilities, the work which they
would wish to have done. In order that this may be a
suitable and enduring monument to their memory, we
need the aid and cooperation of all ; not only of those
who reside among us, but of those born on our soil, edu-
cated at our schools, and who received here that first
impulse in life that has enabled them to assume positions
of trust and honor in the places of their adoption. I
thank you for your kind attention. Before taking my
seat, allow me to introduce to you the Rev. Edwin C.
Bolles, who has kindly consented to assist on this occa-
sion. [Applause.]
REMARKS OF THE REV. E. C BOLLES, PH.D.
Ladies and Gentlemen: In accepting the honorable
position of toast master on this occasion, 1 understand,
of course, that my duties are simply to indicate the way
in which others are to walk ; but I am also reminded of
the many interests which are represented here, the many
memories which must be recalled, the many voices which
you will all desire to hear. And because we have begun
our services at so late an hour, the numerous letters from
distinguished sons of Salem, or those who have been in-
vited to our commemoration, will not be read at the table,
but will be printed iu the published and official report of
these proceedings.
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There is one sentiment that must lead all the rest, and
great is our regret that no personal response can be made
to it. Those who laid the foundations of the new colo-
nies upon these western shores, we are wont to say,
"builded better than they knew." At any rate, they
could not understand how vast the building was to be for
which they laid the foundations. They could not under-
stand that so vast an union, so imperial a commonwealth,
so huge a population, would remember them so many
years after they had passed to rest, as their fathers
their fathers and the founders of their best institutions.
Permit me to give you, first of all: "The President of
the United States." [Applause.]
RESPONSE BY THE ORCHESTRA.
National Anthem, "Star Spangled Banner."
INTRODUCING GOVERNOR RICE.
We cannot be too thankful that this Anniversary comes
to us in the time of peace, and that, as we celebrate the
foundation of our state, we can say with pride that not
one jewel has been lost from the diadem of the Republic.
And if there be any one of the brilliants which we most
prize and cherish, it must be that very commonwealth
whose faint beginnings we celebrate to-day. I give you,
therefore, as our next toast : "The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, "and I call upon His Excellency, Governor
Alexander H. Rice, to respond. [Applause.]
RESPONSE OF GOVERNOR RICE.
Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen: I should
hardly meet the demands of this notable occasion, if I
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failed to say a few words in response to the sentiment
which has been so kindly introduced ; and I should do
equal violence to my own sense of propriety, if I were
to enter upon any extended remarks which would post-
pone, even for a few moments, the eloquent utterances of
those guests who are present from other cities and states
and from foreign climes, and for whose voices I know you
are already in waiting expectation. The orator of the
day, honorable and honored alike in his name, his charac-
ter, and his lineage, carried us by easy steps backward
through the vista of two hundred and fifty years, and in-
vited us to look upon the germs of the great and noble
commonwealth which is our pride to-day, and upon a
condition of social and political society of wonderful sim-
plicity, of sterling integrity, of dauntless courage, and of
religious fervor, well worthy to be the seed corn of the
glorious and honorable outcome which it is our heritage
to enjoy. I am not among those, who, while paying the
warmest possible tribute of admiration to the founders of
the commonwealth and of the nation, partake to any very
large degree in the apprehension that American character
and manhood have largely deteriorated from the early
times. [Applause.] We have to-day, I think, as bright
and noble examples of all that is honorable and just and
great in human character and achievement, as we have
had in any period of our history, state or national ; and
I think there are unmistakable indications that, should
any exigency arise calling for the re-assertion of those
principles and acts which have always been representa-
tive of the manhood and character of Massachusetts, our
citizens, one and all, forgetful of private interests anjl
personal considerations, would throw themselves into the
breach to save the honor and welfare of the common-
wealth. [Applause.] It would indeed be interesting
to take up the thread of history where the orator left
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it and to follow it clown during the remaining two hun-
dred years. How marvellous has been the expansion
of knowledge ! How great the discoveries and reve-
lations of science ! How manifold the arts in all their
kinds and appliances I How great the advance of soci-
ety ; how purified is religious thought; how elevated is
the plain upon which all civilized nations stand to-day !
How vast our resources, how great our opportunities !
But I must omit all this and can only bring to you the
hearty and cordial salutations of the commonwealth, in
this ancient city towards which I look to-day with a new
and inspiring devotion and gratitude. And I am sure
that when the proceedings of this day shall be read
throughout our borders, the sons and daughters of Massa-
chusetts will turn to Salem with grateful memories and
invocations, and heartily desire that "peace may indeed
be within her walls and prosperity within her palaces ;"
that the bright sunlight of joy and happiness may be in
your homes and your households ; and their highest and
best emulation will be a generous rivalry with you to sus-
tain what we claim as our common inheritance of privi-
lege and of honor. [Loud applause.]
INTRODUCING MAYOR OLIVER, OF SALEM.
The old and the new meet together in this celebration:
for although Salem is an old settlement or colony, it is,
comparatively speaking, a new city. If I mistake not, the
municipal seal puts two hundred years between the found-
ing and the act which gave it the character of a city. I
have no doubt that many present in this hall can remem-
ber that act of 1836 by which Perley Putnam, who had
been at the head of the selectmen of the town, passed
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over the keys officially to Leverett Saltonstall, the first
Mayor of Salem. At any rate, I give you as the next
sentiment, "The City of Salem," and I call upon His
Honor, Mayor Oliver, to respond. [Applause.]
RESPONSE OF MAYOR HENRY K. OLIVER.
Mr. President: Certain reminiscences, which just now
spring to memory, of days and events long past away,
when you and I stood in a different relation to one an-
other, suggest the thought that with the sense of ordinary
duty in calling upon me as Mayor to respond to the senti-
ment alluding to our goodly city, there may, just possi-
bly, mingle a little bit of pardonable sympathy with the
schoolboy, who, when not unreasonably nor unseasonably
chastised for misdemeanor, vowed that, if he grew to
manhood, he would have his revenge on his master, a
not uncommon vow among frisky younglings at school
such as, when I was in harness as teacher, you were, as
were sundry other oldsters whom I see hereabouts. And,
doubtless, neither have you, nor have these other now
antique venerables of this assembly forgotten, that in the
ancient days when you and they were the rollicking boys,
the peg-toppers, the March-marblers, the kite-flyers,
the general mischief-making manikins of the town,
"Creeping, like snails, unwillingly to school "
And I was he
"On whom you gazed and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.
And you oft laughed with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he"
that in these remote times of "sixty years since," as Scott
called his early novel of Waverley, yourself and these
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others might have felt, at my hands and in your hands,
something of the chastening rod ; and under its smart
have then vowed the vow of future revenue. And I
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argue that, not unlikely, you may therefore have wel-
comed this chance, however late, and consigned me to
this punishment of post-prandial exposure of speech.
Yet I was not much, you know, in the forceful way, and
you could hardly say with Horace, alluding to old flog-
ging Orbilius, the Roman schoolmaster,
" Memini quac plagosum mihi parvo
Orbilium dictare."
Recalling what, when but a little chap,
The master taught me with a stinging rap.
However that may be, I do not propose to permit you a
long enjoyment of this vengeance, nor to detain this
goodly company by any superfluous muchness of speech
from the more toothsome intellectual condiments that I
am sure are waiting to gratify their expectant appetites.
And speaking of school and schoolboys, which last we
all glory that we once were, it will not be out of place to
indulge in an excusable vaunting of the influence of Sa-
lem's early and continuous efforts at securing those means
which best insure best citizenship, and those means are
the wise education of her children. Upon this duty, the
more wise duty than any and all others, she entered at
her earliest epoch, founding here a free Latin School clear
back in the remote year of 1G37, two hundred and forty
years ago, and sending a scholar, Sir George Downing, to
the class first graduated at Harvard College, in 1642.
And all along the years that have since elapsed, she has
zealously cared for the mental and moral training of her
children, preparing them for the ordinary work of the
business of life, as well as continuing a full representation
at our various collegiate institutions. In my own time at
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Harvard class of 1818 there were upwards of thirty
students from Salem in the several classes of that College.
And without interruption, she has constantly and amply
provided, at the general expense, abundant and varied
educational means, expending therefor one quarter part
of her annual revenue, her own sense of justice, as well
as her own sense of true policy, urging her in this most
wise direction. I know that it is proverbially said, "Let
another praise thee and not thine own mouth," and, on
ordinary occasions, it is both discreet and modest to heed
the counsel. But we, her children, are here to-day on
our mother's natal day, and are reviewing the methods
and the means by which, during her long parentage, she
has reared us and prepared us to act our several parts as
men and as citizens. We are, in fact, acting the part
assigned to us in the second party the "another" that is
to act in the matter of praise, and it is our lips that praise
her, and not hers that praise herself. And in retrospect
of her whole history, pardoning the errors of certain
periods of that history, which errors were the legitimate
outgrowth of the hard-hearted logic of her religious creed,
errors these of the general world and not hers alone,
and charitably ignoring the less liberal influences that
hedged in some of her doings, the strongest reasons,
aided by a justifiable pride, impel us to be outspoken in
honoring her with our most grateful homage of heart and
of lip. I certainly can, without partiality, join in this
homage, being but an adopted child, Beverly-born and
Boston-bred, a descendant, in direct line, of Ruling Elder
Thomas Oliver, an immigrant thither of 1632 who was
so popular with his townsmen that when, by their vote,
their "horses were no longer to be pastured on the Com-
mon," they made his beast the sole exception. I can,
with smallest fear of contradiction, say that the most
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eminent position Salem has occupied in history, in com-
merce, in literature, in noticeable local events, in her
long and brilliant array of men of deserved renown, in
her widely known name, and in the true nobility of her
record, justities all the pride of her people, and entitles
her to highest rank among the cities of the land. So then,
Salve, magna parens !
Magna viruiu: tibi res antiquae laudis et artis
Ingredior."
Great parent, hail !
Great in thy breed of noble men;
To speak thy praise, I wield my pen
And thy renown record.
So, too, may I apply what the same great poet, from
whom I quote, sings elsewhere :
"Vivos dtieent de inarmore vnltns;
Orabunt cansas inelius, ca'lique meatus
Describent radio, et surgentia sidera dicent."
''Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo."
Some from dead marble living forms create;
Some at the courts the cause of right debate
Some with the wand mark out the planets' race,
And some the rising stars prophetic trace
See the long line of worthies, all our own,
Who by desert won praise and high renown.
How fitting the application of these words to our
younger Story and our Lander; to the multitude of our
distinguished statesmen and lawyers, our elder Story and
our Ciioatc to our liowditch and our Peirce ! and to the
long line of our illustrious citizens, whose good name
their own good and pure lives transmitted to us. May
we, by our continuous effort in imitating, transmit our
names to those who shall hereafter judge us by the high
standard of our forefathers !
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INTRODUCING THE HON. ROBERT C. WINTHROP.
History has been called a mirror in which we see the
living, moving forms of the past, though like an imperfect
mirror it may give a blurred or a distorted reflection.
All honor is therefore to be paid to those who make the
mirror of history clear. And that work is done better,
perhaps, by no organizations in the world than by the
Historical Societies which in local departments or neigh-
boring fields revive our knowledge of the by-gone world,
republish or restate the oracles of the past, or discover, it
may be buried under the dust of centuries, precious mem-
orials of those who have gone before. I give you there-
fore as our next sentiment, "The Historical Societies of
the United States fellow laborers in the work of gather-
ing up the relics of the past."
I shall call upon two gentlemen to reply to this senti-
ment, and I first remember the oldest historical society of
the country our own Massachusetts Historical Society
in whose name the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, its Presi-
dent, will reply. [Applause.]
RESPONSE OF HON. ROBERT C. WINTHROP.
I thank you, Dr. Wheatland, Ladies and Gentlemen,
for so friendly and flattering a reception. I was greatly
honored and obliged by the early summons which was
served upon me by the Essex Institute to be present here
on this occasion. But their Committee will bear me wit-
ness that in accepting it, as I did at sight, I expressly de-
clined to be responsible for any formal address. I came
to hear others ; and especially to listen to the worthy and
distinguished descendant of him whose arrival here, two
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hundred and fifty years ago, you are so fitly commemo-
rating to-day.
But I cannot find it in my heart to be wholly silent.
And let me say at once, Mr. President, that this is not
the first time I have participated in celebrating the settle-
ment of Salem under the lead of John Endicott. I can-
not forget that I was here fifty years ago to-day. It was
my well-remembered privilege to accompany my honored
father, who came, as Lieutenant Governor of the State,
to unite in representing Massachusetts on that two-hun-
dredth anniversary of its small beginnings. There were
no railroads in 1828, and we drove down together from
Hoston that morning, and drove back again at night, hav-
ing retired early from the dinner table to allow time for
getting home before dark.
I was thus in the way of hearing the eloquent oration
of Judge Story, in company with Webster, and Everett,
and Quinry, and the other illustrious guests of that occa-
sion, and of being in close proximity to the venerable Dr.
Holyokc, who had already completed the hundredth year
of his age. I recall him at this moment, as I saw him,
coming out of his own door, with an unfaltering step, to
join the procession on its march to the Hall. And here,
in his own handwriting, is the very toast which he gave
at that dinner, a precious autograph presented to yur
old Historical Society by our associate Mr. Waterston,
and which, by the favor of Dr. Dcane, I am able to ex-
hibit at this festival.
Here it is, with the autograph verification of Judge
Story beneath it, and my distinguished friend next to
me, the Dean of Westminster, will bear witness, while I
read it, to the clearness and firmness of the writing:
" The Memory of our Pilgrim Forefathers, who first
landed on this spot on the 6th of September, 1G28 (just
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two centuries ago this day), who forsook their native
country and all they held dear that they might enjoy the
liberty of worshipping the God of their fathers, agree-
ably to the dictates of their consciences."
The Dean, in his admirable " Historical Memorials" of
the world-renowned Abbey over which he presides, has
made special record of the " Monuments of Longevity,"
including, of course, "the gravestone of the olde, olde,
very olde man," Thomas Parr, "the patriarch of the seven-
teenth century," who is said to have lived to the age of
152. 2 But I doubt whether Thomas Parr, or anybody
else of later date, could have executed a piece of pen-
manship as fair and steady as this, after the authenticated
completion of his hundredth year.
And now, Mr. President, I could hardly have excused
myself, had I failed to come here again to-day, not
merely to revive the pleasant associations of 1828, but to
manifest in maturer years my sense of the intrinsic inter-
est of the occasion. My coming to your two hundredth
celebration was only and altogether an act of filial duty.
I was then a mere law student, just out of college. I
come now to your two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
after a half century of observation and experience, as a
recognition, both official and personal, of its significance
an$ importance. I say official, for I certainly could not
have reconciled it with my duty, as President of that old
Massachusetts Historical Society of 1790, which you have
just toasted, to absent myself from an occasion which
carries us back so close to the very cradle of. our common-
wealth. And I say personal, because I should have felt
myself disloyal to the memory of my venerated New
* Memorials of Westminster Abbey, by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D. Fourth
edition, p. 327.
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England progenitor, had I not been here, as his represen-
tative, to bear testimony to one, who hastened on board
the "Arbella" to welcome him, on his own arrival with the
Charter, in this same "Haven of Comfort," less than two
years afterwards, and who so kindly refreshed him and
his assistants, as he was careful to record in his journal
at the time, "with good venison pasty and good beer" ;
a bill of fare which might well make some of our mouths
water at this moment.
Nor could I have been held guiltless by any of you, if,
by my own delinquency, the name and blood of Governor
Wiuthrop had been missing from the representative group
of the old Fathers of Massachusetts, which lends so signal
a lustre, and so peculiar an historical interest, to this
scene and its surroundings. Conants, and (Yadocks, and
Endicotts, and Iligginsons, and Dudleys, and Saltonstalls,
not one of them, I believe, is without a lineal descen-
dant here, to do honor to his memory ! Well may the
words of the Psalmist of the old original Salem come
back to us with new force : "Instead of thy fathers shall
be thy children : The children of Thy servants shall con-
tinue, and their seed shall be established before Thee."
But this day, Mr. President, belongs peculiarly and
pre-eminently to old Xaumkeag and to John Endicott.
AVe arc not here to discuss historical conundrums, if
there be any still unsolved, after the exhaustive, judicial
analysis which was made by your accomplished orator
this morning, but we are here to recognize and com-
memorate historical facts. I rejoice to remember that
Endicott and Winthrop were always friends. No ques-
tion of priority or precedence, titular or real, was ever
heard of in their day. They understood perfectly the
respective parts they were called on to play in founding
Massachusetts, and they performed those parts with entire
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harmony and concord. It was my good fortune, not many
years ago, to bring out from my old family papers more
than twenty original letters from Endicott to Winthrop,
twice as many as had before been known to exist,
which had most happily been preserved for two centuries
and a quarter, and which make up a large part of the
best illustration of his character and career. They are
all printed in our " Historical Collections," and they all
bear witness to the confidence, friendship, and affection,
which the two old Governors entertained for each other,
and which nothing ever interrupted or disturbed.
Endicott lived fifteen or sixteen years longer than Win-
throp, and during the latter part of his life was associated
with troubles and responsibilities from which we all might
wish that he had been spared. He was a man of impul-
sive and impetuous temper, and sometimes too summary
and severe in his views and acts. But no mild or weak
nature could have contended with the wilderness trials he
was called to encounter. As Palfrey well says, in his
excellent "History of New England:" "His honesty,
frankness, fearlessness, and generous public spirit had
won their proper guerdon in the general esteem." Or we
may adopt the words with which Bancroft introduces him
into his brilliant "History of the United States :" "A man
of dauntless courage, and that cheerfulness which accom-
panies courage ; benevolent, though austere ; firm, though
choleric; of a rugged nature, which his stern principles
of non-conformity had not served to mellow, he was
selected as a fit instrument to begin this wilderness work."
As the founder of this oldest town of Massachusetts
proper, whose annals contain the story of so much of
early commercial enterprise and so much of literary and
scientific celebrity, including such eminent names as
Gray and Peabody and Derby, and Silsbee and Pickman
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and Pickering and Putnam, and Sultonstall and Bentley
and Bowditch and Story, and Pcirce and Prcscott and
Hawthorne, his own name could never be forgotten.
While, as the Governor of the pioneer Plantation which
preceded the transfer of the whole Massachusetts Govern-
ment from Old England to New England, without cither
predecessor or successor in tho precise post which he was
called on to fill from 1628 to 1630, 3 he must always hold
a unique place in Massachusetts history. Nor will it
ever be forgotten, that, when he died, in 1(565, he had
served the Colony in various relations, including the very
highest, longer than any other one of the Massachusetts
Fathers.
All honor, then, to the memory of John Endicott, and
may he never want a distinguished and eloquent descen-
dant, like my friend to whom we have listened this morn-
ing, to illustrate his name and impersonate his virtues!
May I be pardoned, Mr. President, for trespassing a
moment longer on the indulgence of the company, while
I give one more reason for my unwillingness to plead
either avocations, distance, or age, for not being here on
this anniversary? There seems to be a disposition, in
some quarters, to deal disparagingly, and even despite-
fully, with some of the Puritan Fathers of Massachusetts.
There is a manifest eagerness to magnify their errors of
judgment and to exaggerate their faults of character or
conduct. Men find it easier to repent of the offences of
their forefathers, than of their own offences. I trust that
AVC of Massachusetts may be betrayed into no recrimina-
tions. We can never exhibit any thing but respect for
the chivalrous planters of the Old Dominion ; or for the
brave Dutchmen of New Netherlands ; or for the pure-
See Life and Letters of John Winthrop," Vol. I, pp. 342-352, Vol. II, pp. 23-32.
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hearted Quakers of Pennsylvania or New Jersey ; or for
that grand impersonation of Soul-Freedom which our sis-
ter Rhode Island recognizes in her illustrious founder.
And, certainly, we can entertain nothing but the pro-
foundest admiration and reverence for the Pilgrims of
Plymouth Colony, so long independent of our own com-
monwealth. But all this -is consistent with holding, as
we of Salem and Boston all do hold, I trust and I believe,
at this hour, that the fathers and founders of Massachu-
setts proper are to be accounted as second to none of
them, either in themselves, or in the institutions which
they established. We are not called on to defend their
bigotry or superstitions. We may deplore their occa-
sional eccentricities and extravagancies. But no other
characters than theirs could have made New England what
it is. Indeed, the prosperity and freedom which our
whole land has enjoyed for a century past have had no
earthly source of greater influence and efficacy than what
is called the Puritanism of the Massachusetts Fathers.
I have no serious fear for the future welfare and glory
of our country. Out of all the crime, and corruption,
and political chaos, which are appalling us at this mo-
ment, light and virtue and order will reappear again,
even as the dense and protracted fogs which darkened the
whole North last week have broken away into the glorious
sunshine of this day ; or as the terrible fever which is at
this moment desolating the whole South, exciting all our
sympathies and receiving all our succors, will soon, by
the blessing of God, be followed by renewed health and
happiness. New England may never, perhaps, recover
her lost ascendency. But her. power has passed to those
in the Great West who do not forget the old hives from
which they swarmed, and who will not wholly renounce
the memories or the principles of their Puritan ancestry.
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Lot me once more thank the Essex Institute for the
privilege of taking part in this interesting festival, and
assure them of the best wishes of the old Massachusetts
Historical Society, over which I have the honor to preside,
for their continued prosperity and welfare.
INTRODUCING TIIK HON. MARSHALL P. WILDER.
. I desire the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, the President of
the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and
well-known also as the constant friend and patron of
rural improvement, to add his word in response to this
toast. [Applause.]
RESPONSE OF IION. MARSHALL P. WILDER.
Mr. President: I thank you for remembering me in
connection with the New England Historic Genealogical
Society, whose mission, like that of your own Society, is
to gather up, preserve and perpetuate, all that may be
known in regard to the history and genealogy of our New
England people. Most heartily do I rejoice that I am
able to be present and to participate in the privileges and
pleasures of the occasion.
Nothing could be more appropriate than the observance
of this anniversary. If, as we read in the good book,
we should hallow the fiftieth year, how much more should
we remember the 2")0th year; the fifth jubilee of the
landing of our Puritan Fathers on these shores an
event, as the orator has stated, which inu&>t ever he re-
garded as of momentous character, not only in the history
of our own New England, but, may I not add, in the
history of our country and the world.
The same heavens spread their magic arch of glittering
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beauty over us the same old ocean rolls its briny billows
at our feet, as when they landed here, but in almost
everything else how changed the scene ! The red man
has vanished like the will o' the wisp the dark forest
has fallen beneath the pioneer's axe, the stubborn soil has
opened its bosom to the ploughman's share, and the iron
track has opened a highway across our continent, from
sea to sea. Populous cities, thriving towns and villages
have sprung up as by enchantment ; civil, literary, scien-
tific and benevolent institutions have been scattered on
our land like gems from the skies, and to-day a popula-
tion of forty-five millions of souls are rejoicing in the
benefits and blessings of the most free, independent and
prosperous nation on earth >
But this is not, my friends, the result of chance. No,
no, it is a part of that great plan of Divine Providence
which has for its object the elevation of our nation to a
higher and nobler scale of civilization, and in which our
own New England was to perform a most important part.
How important then the record of everything which may
pertain to history and progress of our beloved land. To
this end our Historical and Genealogical Societies have
been established, and the Society over which you, Mr.
President, so ably and gracefully preside, has done noble
work.
How astonishing the progress of art, science, and civ-
ilization in our own day ! How grand the discoveries,
inventions and genius of our own New England men.
We have alluded to this before, but we delight to speak
of it again, that it may be perpetuated in our history
through all coming time.
"Thus should we tell it to our sons
And they again to theirs.
That generations yet unborn
May teach it to their heirs."
Listen again for a moment to this wonderful story ?
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"Who was it that brought the lightning from the fiery
cloud and held it safely in his hand? Who taught it to
speak all the languages of earth and sent it with messages
around the globe? Who was it that laid the mystic wire
dry shod from continent to continent in the almost fathom-
less abyss of the mighty deep? Who was it that brought
the heaven-born messenger, lethean sleep, to assuage
human suffering and blot from the memory the cruel op-
erations of the surgeon's knife? Who planted the first
free school on this continent, if not the first free school
in this world? Whose sign manual appears at the head
of the signers of the immortal Declaration of American
Independence? Who were the men, more than any
others, by whose bold adventure and wonderful despatch,
the iron track was laid across our continent, opening a
highway for the nations of the world? Were not these
all New England men? Aye, they Avcre Massachusetts
men. And who was it that was honored at his death by
special funeral rites in Westminster Abbey, under the di-
rection of the Very Reverend Dean who sits by your side
[applause], who but your own George Peabody, sou of
Salem, whose remains were by order of Her Majesty,
the Queen of England, sent hither under royal convoy of
ships in token of his benefactions to mankind ? And who
was it that pronounced the affectionate, eloquent, and
truthful elogium over these remains of his beloved friend,
in yonder field of peace ; who but our own cherished
Wihthrop, who honors this occasion with his presence.
But time would fail me, were I to speak in detail of the
benign influence of New England genius and New Eng-
land examples. Suffice it to say, that in all which relates
to the elevation and welfare of the human race she has
always stood bolclry forth as a pioneer in the march of
progress and of principle.
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I thank you Mr. President, for your kind allusion to
me, in connection with the great industrial interest of our
land. You do me no more than justice when you say
that I am a friend to rural improvements, for, Sir, I can-
not remember the time when I did not love the cultivation
of the soil, and the culture of fruits and flowers. It is
the instinct of my nature, and I have ever felt that I had
a mission to perform in this line of duty. I have there-
fore devoted all the time I could abstract from other cares
to the promotion of these objects. I have lived to see
great improvements in the agriculture and horticulture of
our country, and to them Essex County has been a large
contributor. From the earliest history of New England,
Essex County has been celebrated for the promotion of
these interests. Here in Salem was planted by Gov.
Endicott, the first nursery of which we have any account
in our country. For we find in 1648, he sold 500 apple
trees to William Trask, for which he received 250 acres
of land. Here also, was invented the first mowing ma-
chine in our land of which we have any account, a patent
having been granted by the colonial government to one
Joseph Jencks, in 1655, for the "more speedy cutting of
grasses." Here, in your own Salem, was planted the first
pomological garden in New England, for the identifica-
tion of fruits, by Robert Manning, fifty-five years ago, in
which he had nearly 2000 varieties of trees, and under
whose personal inspection were tested many hundred
kinds of fruits and whose son, still with us, is pursuing
the same important investigations. Here, too, were early
introduced, by your merchants and ship-owners, many of
the finest fruits which we now possess and among which
came, seventy-six years ago, that useful and almost indis-
pensable tomato, now so universally cultivated.
Your Essex Agricultural Society, now in its sixtieth
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year, has always stood in the front rank of all similar
associations. Its first president was Timothy Pickering,
who was also the first secretary of the first permanent
agricultural society on this continent. Here, also, in
Salem, were the homes of Joseph Peabody, Levcrett
Saltonstall (whose worthy son sits by my side), and many
other corporators of the Essex Society. Here, in Essex
County, on a later day, were the homes of Derby, Col-
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man, Newell, Proctor, Cabot, Allen, Ives, Hoffman, the
Putnams, and Allen W. Dodge, so recently taken from
us, and other leaders in agricultural and horticultural
progress. Here are now the farms of George B. Loring,
President of the New England Agricultural Society, of
Ben Perley Poorc, for many years Secretary of the United
States Agricultural Society, of Benjamin P. Ware, Pres-
ident of the Essex Agricultural Society, of Dr. J. R.
Nichols, the eminent agricultural chemist, and last, not
least, the 1800 acres of farms of my good friend, Gen.
Win. Sutton. Nor let it be forgotten, that here in Essex
County was the birth-place of Charles Louis Flint, for
twenty-five years the Secretary of the Massachusetts
Board of Agriculture.
Nor would I fail to express my gratitude to my good
friends of Essex County who have stood by me for twenty-
five years in all my efforts to advance the cause of Agri-
cultural education efforts which have culminated in the
establishment of our Agricultural College a college
which has already graduated 150 scholars, and whose
freshman class this year, numbers more than ninety stu-
dents, and whose President, W. S. Clark, Ph.D., has
by the order of the Government of Japan, planted the
first agricultural college in those far off isles, and in-
stalled over it a president, and three professors, all of
whom are graduates of the Massachusetts Agricultural
College.
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For the wonderful progress in agriculture and horticul-
ture which we have witnessed in our da}', we are mainly
indebted to those public spirited gentlemen who have
founded societies for the promotion of their interests, and
to which Essex County has contributed largely. It is not
a hundred -years since the first permanent agricultural
Society was founded upon this continent. It is not quite
fifty years since the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
was formed, the great leader in horticultural science ;
now, these and similar institutions are counted by thous-
ands. It is only thirty years since the American Porno-
logical Society was formed, whose first and last President,
through a merciful Providence, stands before you to-day
a society whose catalogue embraces lists of fruits for fifty
states, territories, and districts of the continent, and at
whose quarter centennial in Boston, the far off state of
Nebraska, headed by her governor, carried off the Wilder
medal for the best collections of fruit. But, marvellous
as our progress has been, it is but the dawn of that glori-
ous day when all our lands susceptible of fruit culture,
shall be brought into use.
What would Gov. Endicott have thought when planting
his pear tree in yonder field, if he could have foreseen
that his example would have been multiplied into thou-
sands of orchards ; that orchards of ten thousand trees of
a single kind would be planted ; that gardens in the vicin-
ity of Boston would possess eight hundred varieties of
the pear; that the apple would be so extensively culti-
vated, that three counties in the state of New York would
annually provide more than a million barrels of apples,
or that the exports of this fruit to the old world would
amount to 400,000 barrels annually ; that the peach crop
from the peninsula of Delaware and Maryland alone,
would exceed five millions of bushels a year; that the
culture of the grape would be extended to the Pacific
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const ; and the annual product of the vine, beyond the im-
mense consumption of fruit for the table, would produce
fifteen millions gallons of wine ; or that the product of
our fruit crops annually, would amount to $140,000,000,
or nearly half the average value of our annual wheat
crops.
I thank you, Mr. President, for your kind recognition
of my efforts to advance the interests of terraculture in
our land. But my work will soon be done. I have
passed the summit of the hill of life, have descended
almost to the valley below. Soon I shall be resting in
the bosom of mother earth ; but if, as you intimate in
your sentiment, I have done anything to advance the
great industrial interests of the world anything which
shall live when I have passed away I shall be content,
feeling that I have not lived in vain.
Mr. President, I thank you for the privilege of being
present on this most interesting occasion ; I rejoice with
you, that we are favored to-day by the presence of His
Excellency, Gov. liicc, and of our cherished friends,
Winthrop and Endicott, lineal descendants of the worthy
men whose deeds are this day commemorated ; and es-
pecially do we all rejoice, that we are honored by the
presence of the Very Reverend Dean of Westminster,
the illustrious guest from our father land. [Applause.]
May your Society go on prospering in the future as in
the past, and may your own valuable life and services bo
prolonged for many years an honor to your institution,
and a benefaction to our country.
INTRODUCING THE REV. DEAN STANLEY.
It may not be known to those who are at the other
tables in the hall, that a dish of pears from the veritable
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Enclicott pear tree has been placed before the President
at the head of this table, and that Colonel Wilder's porno-
logical instincts led him to identify them even from his
seat some distance away. They are not exactly edible,
these pears, as yet ; but indeed you know it was one of
the Puritan peculiarities to take a long time to have its
soft side brought out.
But we must not speak to-day, of all this history as
though it began with the landing of Enclicott or the
founding of any of the colonies in this western world.
American history is not like one of those plants in botany,
whose root abruptly terminates, bitten off, as the common
mind would say ; for the roots of our American history
strike down through all this anniversary and into the soil
of a land across the sea. And to those of us who have
had even the briefest look upon that land, it has given
especial pleasure to visit Westminster Abbey, where
those great men, who belong just as much to us as
they do to our English brethren, lie in their places of
honor, and where the earth, consecrated in the name of
religion at first, has become doubly, trebly, nay, an hun-
dred and a thousand fold consecrated since that time
by the wisdom and genius of those whose mortal taber-
nacles have been laid to rest within it. You will per-
mit me, therefore, to give as the next sentiment : "Our
Old Home." And when I call upon our honored guest
to respond to this sentiment, I might name him by any
one of his many titles to distinction. I might speak at
length of his service to letters and the church, the cause
of humanity and the interests of civilization everywhere.
But I call him by this one name, the name which is a
household word in the homes and churches of America,
and I introduce to you Dean Stanley of Westminster.
[Great applause.]
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RESPONSE OF DEAN STANLEY.
Mr. President: You are aware that I have been but
two days on this side of the Atlantic. I came to this
country not to speak but to hear, not to teach but to
learn, therefore you will not expect me, even if there
were not more potent reasons, to address you at pres-
ent at any great length. l>ut, after the kind way in which
you have proposed my health, after the kind reception
with which 1 have been met, after the tribute which I
feel is given, in my humble person, to my own country,
I cannot but say a few words to express the deep gratifi-
cation which I have had at being present, under the kind
protection of my ancient friend, Mr. Winthrop, and my
new friend, the governor of Massachusetts [applause],
on this auspicious occasion. You propose your old
homes, our old homes. It has often struck me that I
should almost have wished to have been born on this side
of the Atlantic, as a citizen of the United States, in order
to have felt the pleasure which T have seen again and
again in the faces of Americans as they have witnessed
their old homes on the other side of the ocean. It has
been my constant pleasure to receive them in that oldest
of all the old homes, whether of Old England or of New
England, Westminster Abbey. It is a pleasure to me to
think that, besides those common recollections of the
great orators and poets and statesmen of the English-
speaking race, those who cross from this side of the
Atlantic may even find something in that old home which
may remind them of their new homes here. You may
see on the walls of Westminster Abbey a tablet, placed
in that church by the state of Massachusetts itself, in that
dubious period over which the eloquent orator of to-day,
passed with so tender and delicate a step. And you will
see the grave which has been already alluded to, of the
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munificent benefactor of the poor of London ; the tem-
porary grave, in which his remains were deposited amidst
the mourning of the whole people of London within our
walls. You will even see in a corner there, most sacred
of memory, Boston harbor depicted with the sun setting
behind the western world. All these things, when any
of you come to Westminster Abbey, will, I trust, make
you feel that you are at home, even in an American sense,
within those old familiar walls.
But I cannot but feel that as there is this pleasure which
Americans must feel in visiting their old home on the
eastern side of the ocean, so there is a pleasure, if not
reaching back so far, yet still of the same kind, with
which an Englishman, after long waiting, after long de-
siring, visits for the first time the shores of this new
home of his old race. You can hardly imagine, I think,
the intense curiosity with which, as he enters Boston har-
bor, he sees the natural features opening upon his view
of which he has so long read in books, and has pointed
out to him name after name familiar in his own country.
And when I come to this celebration, cold and hard must
be the heart of that Englishman who would not feel drawn
to a place hallowed by the recollection of those Puritan
fathers whose ancestors were as valuable an element in
our society as they can have been in yours. And I,
speaking for myself, long, long before I had formed the
design of coming to America, certainly before I had any
expectation of being present on such an occasion as this,
had been drawn to the city of Salem by the recollection
that it was the birthplace of one whom I call my friend,
the gifted sculptor, whose vigorous and vivid poem we
all heard with so much pleasure to-day [applause], and
also by the genius ranking amongst the first place of the
genius of this century, the genius of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne. [Applause.]
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And listening to all the marvellous strains of interest
which have gone through the speeches of this day, one
of the thoughts which strikes me most forcibly is that I
am carried back from these shores to my own country 250
years ago. I doubt whether there is any audience in
England which could be equally impressed by any event
that had taken place in England 250 years ago [applause]
with the feeling both toward the mother country and
towards this country, and towards the society of their
own country which I have seen throughout the proceed-
ings of to-day. The foundation of Salem is indeed an
event which binds together our old and our new homes,
and if there is a mixture of light and shade in the recol-
lections which crowd upon us, it is one of those reflec-
tions which fill the mind with that double feeling so
important for the hopeful view of the future destinies of
our race. If in Salem we stand on the grave of some
extinct beliefs, extinct and vanished away, as we trust,
forever, so in Salem we cannot, Englishman and Ameri-
can alike, but look forward to that distant future, the
future not only of the eastern states, but of those far
western states of which several speakers have spoken,
and of those far distant ages in which we cannot forecast
with any certainty the destinies cither of Europe or Asia,
but in which we still hope that, judging by the past, our
own English race may still, under the providence of God,
eftect new works and fulfil more hopes for the human
race, such as, perhaps, at present we hardly dare think
of. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. [Applause.]
RESPONSE BY THE ORCHESTRA.
"God save the Queen."
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LETTER FROM CHIEF JUSTICE GRAY.
A letter has been received from the Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of our Commonwealth, which I will
read.
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 9, 1878.
My dear Sir:
The associate justices of the Supreme Judicial Court,
except Mr. Justice Endicott, request me to say, in their
behalf as well as in my own, that to our great regret our
official engagements at the terms of court established by
law constrain us to decline the cordial invitation of the
Essex Institute to be present at the commemoration of
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of
Governor Endicott at Salem ; and that we are therefore
obliged to leave it to the descendant of the first lawgiver
of the Massachusetts Colony to represent the court upon
this occasion.
Respectfully and truly yours,
* HORACE GRAY.
INTRODUCING THE *HON. WILLIAM C. ENDICOTT.
I give you, therefore, as the next toast, "The Supreme
Court of Massachusetts," and I follow it with another
which is itself suggested by the terms of the Chief Jus-
tice's letter. I am impressed with one thing especially as
I stand before you in this hall : the number of interests
which are here represented and summed up in individuals.
By that, I mean, that there are so many here who are at-
tached by more than a single golden link to the memories
and traditions which we revive or honor to-day. And
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of all such gentlemen, citizens of Salem, or bearers of
its illustrious names, I think that one may, in particular,
be mentioned here. I might speak of him as occupying
an honored place upon the supreme bench of our common-
wealth. I might call upon him to speak from his posi-
tion at the head of that institution of science which in our
community bears the illustrious name of Peabody. I
might identify him with the spirit of this day, by the
memory of that ancestor whose portrait is just above his
head. I shall call upon him by yet another name, and I
desire that, to the sentiment "The Orator of the Day,"
the Hon. William C. Endicott may reply. [Applause.]
RESPONSE OF THE HON. WILLIAM C. EXDICOTT.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : I thank you for
this kind reception. After the 'address which I delivered
this morning, I feel that I should not trespass upon the
brief hours allotted to us here, for they belong to others
and not to me. I intended to ask you to excuse me from
any reply to the sentiment now proposed. But I am
reminded by the speech of my friend Mr. Winthrop, of
the remarkable fact that so many of the lineal descendants
of the early settlers are here, and I desire to allude to
another name, to add one, which in that connection he re-
frained from mentioning. It is one of the most interesting
features of the occasion that a large number are present
who claim their blood and descent from those who started
this colony two hundred and fifty years ago. I said this
morning, that Endicott was welcomed when he landed, by
"Roger Conant and three sober men." These three men
were Woodbury, Balch, and Palfrey Palfrey the ances-
tor of the distinguished and ever-to-be-remembercd histo-
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riau of New England, Dr. Palfrey and the names of all
are household words in this neighborhood. My friend
was right in saying that either at this table or in the
hall, where we assembled this morning, there were de-
scendants of Conant, of Woodbury, of Balch, of Palfrey ;
and I see a Palfrey at the end of the table before me.
[Applause.] There are also descendants of Higginson
whom Endicott welcomed the next year ; and as my
friend has said, there are descendants of Endicott here.
I see several of them before me. [Laughter and ap-
plause.] And there are descendants of that stout Sir
Richard Salton stall, who came over with Winthrop. I
see on my right the familiar faces of two who bear his
name. I do not know that my friendship for them is
based altogether upon the fact that our ancestors were
friends ; but it goes back so far that I cannot remember
when it began, and their presence recalls pleasing and
delightful memories. But we have another name, ever
to be honored in Massachusetts. We have a Winthrop
here, whom you have welcomed so cordially, and to whom
I desire to add my welcome. My recollection of history
accords with his, when he says that Endicott welcomed
Winthrop, and Winthrop came on shore and was refreshed
with "venison pasty, and good beer." Endicott was
then resigning an office, giving up a place ; Winthrop
came clothed with the insignia of a new power. I have
no office to resign to my friend ; and he does not come
to Salem to-day with the power of a governor of Massa-
chusetts, bearing the seal and the Charter. These his
great ancestor could not 'transmit to him, and he was too
good a republican to have desired it if he could. But his
great ancestor could transmit other things to him. He
could transmit and send down with his blood, that capacity
for affairs, that sober and moderate wisdom, that rich and
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sonorous eloquence, to which you have listened to-day.
[Applause.] I therefore desire to give you as a sen-
timent, "the memory of Conant, and of Balch, and of
Palfrey, and of Woodbury, who stood upon the shore
and welcomed Endicott; the memory of Saltonstall and
Winthrop, whom Endicott afterwards welcomed. [Ap-
plause.]
INTRODUCING THE HON. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL.
We have not by any means forgotten, in making up the
sentiments for this occasion, that the honor of the old
founding was not concentrated in a single name. We
well know that a good leader requires good followers,
and that if other names have perhaps, through the force
of circumstances, obtained less lustre than those which
have been repeated so often to you to-day, there were
others who wrought with those ancestors of this common-
wealth to make their work effectual and permanent. I
beg to give you, gentlemen, as the next sentiment : "The
patentees of Massachusetts and their associates under the
old charter. May their descendants ever be mindful of
their virtues." And I call upon the Hon. Leverett Sal-
tonstall to respond.
RESPONSE OF LEVERETT SALTONSTALL.
I feel painfully conscious that it is for no merit of mine,
nor even for any official position, that I am invited to
respond to the sentiment which has just been offered ;
but merely because it is my privilege to bear the name,
and to have descended from one of those admirable men,
whose memory we this day celebrate. After the eloquent
oration of the morning, and the interesting remarks of
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the distinguished gentlemen who have preceded me, it
would be presumptuous in me to do much more than to
thank you, sir, for your kind words.
And yet I should be false to my instincts, to my native
place, to the memory of my honored ancestry, and espe-
cially of my venerated father, so identified with Salem,
had I been absent to-day, or refused whatever duty might
be assigned to me.
It is a good thing for us thus to recur to the birthday
of the town, the state, and may I not say of the nation?
to that bright day in September when the brave Endicott
and his band of hardy adventurers entered the bay and
began the first permanent settlement. We strive to pic-
ture to ourselves the scene, as it presented itself to their
admiring eyes, in all the freshness, beauty, and grandeur
of nature. It is difficult, now, to imagine this place as
it appeared to them, as they slowly approached this wild
shore. They had left their native land, a country the
most advanced in civilization and refinement, for the pur-
pose of beginning a settlement in this remote wilderness.
They arrived in September, whilst the forests were still
in their glory ; and though desolate and uncultivated, how
grand and beautiful must have been the prospect before
them ! The islands, the shores, the distant hills were
covered with lofty trees in their richest foliage. There
they had been amid the silence of ages, a silence unbro-
ken by human voice, save that of the savage race whose
home was in the forest.
We linger over their accounts of this new world, espe-
cially that given by the gentle and saintly Higginson,
who was so soon called from those who loved him here to
his long rest.
And again on the soft day in June, two years after,
when the "Arbella" and her consorts arrived, with Win-
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throp, Dudley, Johnson, Saltonstall, and others, a goodly
company, with their wives and children, bringing over
the charter, which they boldly resolved to execute as a
constitution of civil government here, instead of a mere
trading corporation in England, for which it was designed
a coup d'etat which decided the destiny of the colony,
and which made the little settlement here the germ of a
sovereign, free, and independent state.
No motive springing from the earth was sufficient to
induce these men to leave their pleasant and luxurious
homes, to abandon all the attractions of wealth and high
social position, for this savage wilderness ; in their small
and miserable vessels, devoid of every comfort, with in-
sufficient food, to cross what must have seemed to them
an almost boundless sea, to seek new homes in this "out-
side of the world." These were men (and women, too)
of high culture, who eagerly gave up all for "freedom to
icorx/itp God."
But I am reminded by your toast, Mr. President, that
I should not omit briefly referring to Sir Richard Salton-
stall, the first named patentee under the royal charter,
who, though not so conspicuous as others, was among the
first to devote himself, his family, and his fortunes to the
great enterprise, continuing, through life, to be the ardent
friend and supporter of the colony. No words can better
portray his truly Christian character, than his own letter
to the ministers of Boston, Messrs. Cotton and Wilson,
written after his return to England ; a few words from
which I know I shall be pardoned for quoting.
"It doth not a little grieve my spirit to hcare what sadd
things are reported daily of your tyranny and persecu-
tions in New England, as that you fine, whip, and im-
prison men for their consciences. Truly, friends,
this your practice of compelling any, in matters of wor-
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ship to doe that whereof they are not fully persuaded is
to make them sinn. * * * I hope you do not assume to
yourselves infallibility of judgment, when the most learned
of the apostles confesseth he knew but in part and saw but
darkly as through a glass." A "spirit" which descended
to his grandson, who refused to sit as one of the judges at
the special court for the trial of the witches. These acts
bear evidence to a manliness and independence, which
through all time should be a lesson to their descendants,
and inspire them with courage to boldly maintain their
convictions of right.
And now we have listened to the eloquent words which
have fallen from the lips of an Endicott and a Winthrop.
We rejoice that these admirable men, their ancestors,
among the other good things they did for posterity, under
the kind providence of God, left such a legacy as we
enjoy in their descendants. And it is a comfort to feel,
that however the storm of politics may toss our poor
country, and bring to the surface bad and dishonest
leaders, we have still among us good and true, wise and
patriotic men, who, while they carry in their veins the
blood and bear the names, no less inherit the virtues of
.their illustmous ancestors.
TOAST TO HARVARD COLLEGE.
From the earliest years of its settlement, the community
which we represent has been especially identified with the
cause of academic learning. It has probably supplied
more students than has any other city in the common-
wealth to the ranks of our oldest college ; and I am told
that to-day there are seven instructors upon the board of
its faculty, who hail in their birth from Salem. So I
shall give you as the next sentiment: "Harvard College,
-the Pioneer of Academic Learning in our Country."
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RESPONSE BY THE ORCHESTRA.
"Fair Harvard."
INTRODUCING PROFESSOR PEIRCE.
At the mention of Harvard College, I have no doubt
that some of your eyes turned toward one of our distin-
guished guests with the expectation that he would be
called upon to respond to that sentiment. I did not then
mention his name, for this reason, that I did not care to
have his individual title to distinction lost in the general
glory of the university, and also because I wished to
emphasize in a particular way the call which I should
make upon him. And I make that call by reminding you
that the City of Salem has been especially connected not
only with the science of history, but with the history of
science. Some of its most cherished shrines are scien-
tific shrines. Some of its noblest memories are the mem-
ories of scientific achievement and distinction. And so I
give you, as the next sentiment: "The record of Salem
in Science," and I call upon Professor Peirce of Harvard
College to reply. [Applause.]
RESPONSE OF PROFESSOR PEIRCE, OF HARVARD.
Mr. Chairman: I trust that you will permit me to ex-
tend your subject to one a little grander, and one that
was referred to, I believe, in my invitation, that is the
colonial science or the science of the colonies in general,
and not restrict it solely to Salem.
MR. BOLLES. Certainly, sir.
PROFESSOR PEIRCE. It is true that the grandeur of the
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theme deserves a more influential and fitting utterance.
Man, with his intellect is placed in this intellectual cos-
mos that he may grow and expand to the full measure of
his utmost capacity, which is,*of course, infinite; and the
land and the nation where this is readiest and most possi-
ble, is the natural birth-place of an independent and pow-
erful republic. Our earliest forefathers understood this
thoroughly, and they, in the outset, under the inspiration
of this, produced great men, such as the Winthrops,
Wiggles worths, Holyoke, Rittenhouso, Franklin and Bow-
ditch. They were all born before the Revolution. They
established universities and colleges all over the land.
Harvard was but one of them. There was Yale, there
was Columbia, New York ; there were altogether ten
colleges that were established before the Declaration of
Independence. They also founded academies, learned
academies throughout the country. The first of the Win-
throps was himself one of the founders, one of the orig-
inal founders of the Royal Society of London, and his
grandson had a volume of the memoirs of the academy
dedicated to him. And there were four of that family.
There were Bowdoin and many other American academies
that were members of the Royal Society. In 1727, I
think it was, Franklin founded at Philadelphia the Junta,
or established the Junta, which was a workingmen's soci-
ety for the pursuit of knowledge. And afterwards, later
than that, 1743, I think it was, that he founded a larger
society under the name of the Philosophical Society ; and.
he combined these two societies, afterwards, under the
national name of the American Philosophical Society."
I go forward to mention an incident that is closely con-
nected with this. In 1863, in the midst of the war for
the Union, his great grandson, Alexander Dallas Bache,
founded the National Academy of Science. It is inter-
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esting to sec how these great natures studied for union
and nationality. I remember iu the gloomiest times of
the war, Bache's turning to me and exclaiming: "If these
men succeed, you and I, professor, will have no country."
Massachusetts patriots in 1780, combined in the forma-
tion of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
This was done in the midst of our war. It was worthy
to be done by the descendants of the Pilgrims who came
to us from Ley den, from that glorious Ley den that after
the ravages of war and the desolation of famine, asked
as their first petition to the Prince of Orange, that he
should establish their university ! And so also did our
own Massachusetts patriots, even in the midst of war,
found the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The
beginning of the act of incorporation is worthy to be read
on account of its magnificent generalities. "As the arts
and sciences arc the foundation and support of agricul-
ture, manufactures and commerce ; as they are necessary
to the wealth, peace, independence and happiness of a
people ; as they essentially promote the honor and dig-
nity of the government which patronizes them ; and as
they are cultivated and diffused through a State by the
forming and incorporation of men of genius and learning
into public societies; for this beneficial purpose, the Hon.
Samuel Adams," at the head of sixty-two names ar-
ranged in alphabetical order and terminating witli James
Winthrop "are hereby formed into and constituted
a body politic and corporate, under the name of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences." The duty
especially assigned them was ; "to cultivate every art and
science which may tend to advance the interest, honor,
dignity, and happiness of a free, independent and virtu-
ous people." Among the names of the founders of the
Academy, were many citizens of our State. And we
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may observe of all these, what also we can observe of the
names of those distinguished men who have their repre-
sentatives here present, that not one of these names has
ever suffered dishonor [applause] , amid the pestilence of
dishonor with which the country has been ravaged. [Loud
applause.] One-fourth of the names of the founders of
the American Academy were from this very county of
which this society bears the name, and are a portion
of that junta of which Essex County may always be
proud.
I will here quote an anecdote which I think of some
interest as bearing upon this question. "About twenty-
five years ago a wealthy gentleman of New York, pro-
posed to have three national pictures painted. One of
these pictures was to include the richest merchants of the
country, twelve of the richest merchants of the country ;
the second was to consist of twelve of the most popular
statesmen, and the third was to consist of the most dis-
tinguished scientists. Some years after this plan was an-
nounced, I asked a friend what had become of these
pictures. " Why," said he with a significant smile, "did
you never hear the crisis of that tale? When the pic-
tures were to be produced many, most of the merchants
had been involved in the misfortunes of the times ; most
of the Statesmen had lost the favor of their constituents ;
the scientific men only remained [applause and laughter]
with honor and reputation unimpaired, because they had
not been exposed to the changes of fortune nor of the
multitude."
Now, sir, instead of a toast I will give you a sentiment :
May the country born of those born of the Pilgrims who
came from Leyden, be unequalled in the production of
sound learning, philosophy, science, and poetry. [Loud
applause.]
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INTRODUCING THE HON. GEORGE B. LORING.
We cannot too much, even in scientific Salem, thank
our friend, the professor, for the no\v reason which he-
lias given why science should be cultivated. I am re-
minded that several allusions have been made to-day to
the record of Salem among men of public life, and es-
pecially to its congressional record. I cannot, of course,
state the number of men who have gone from this place
to the halls of Congress, nor can I, not "to the manner
born," recount their virtues, nor their history ; but our
present representative has been invited to reply to this
toast, and we all regret that sickness absolutely prevents
him from addressing us to-day. I give you, however,
as a sentiment: "The record of Salem in Congress;"
and I will ask Professor J. W. Churchill, of Aiulover,
to read the response which Dr. Loring has prepared.
[Applause.]
RESPONSE BY THE HON. GEORGE B. LORING.*
Mr. President: It is a striking and interesting historical
fact that the first appointed Governor of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony and the founder of the first settlement from
which that colony sprang, has not been recognized as such
in history or in the honors bestowed upon the distinguished
fathers of the State. My mind is called to the contem-
plation of this curious fact by the toast to which I have
been requested to respond, and which refers to the funda-
mental part of all American government. In the matter
of colonial legislation the colony at Naumkeag seems to
have been peculiarly deficient. It is true the patentees
were to be a body politic, called the Governor and Com-
pany of Massachusetts Bay ; and their legislative body
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was to be composed of a Governor, Deputy and eighteen
assistants to be elected by the general assembly, which
embraced all the members of the Company. But until the
removal of the patent to Massachusetts, the legislative
rule Avas exercised by the officers of the corporation sit-
ting in London, and holding frequent communication with
the authorities in this country. It was from the General
Court sitting in London, that the enactments and instruc-
tions came. The government here was strictly subordi-
nate to the Company in England. Its jurisdiction did not
extend to all criminal offences even. Gov. Endicott was
appointed Governor in "1629, according to his best dis-
cretion with due observance of the English laws or such
instructions as they furnished him with, till the Patent
was brought over in 1630." It is easy for us to see that
such a state of affairs could not long be endured. The
right of representation was claimed by every Englishman.
The charter was so transferred as to blend into one the
Company in England and the Colony in America, and, as
it was said, in order to avoid any collision between Mr.
Cradock, the Governor of the Company, and Mr. Endicott,
the Governor of the Colony, a new choice of officers was
deemed necessary, and the choice fell upon John Win-
throp. Then it was that legislation in the Colony com-
menced ; and the controversies which attend legislation
commenced also. It will be remembered, moreover, of
John Endicott, that he was a stern and uncompromising
Puritan, and placed himself at once in sympathetic com-
munication with the Pilgrims at Plymouth. He was
opposed to all the ecclesiasticism of the church of Eng-
land, and expelled John and Samuel Browne from the
Colony on account of their devotion to Episcopal forms of
worship. The disturbance which grew out of this act
became very considerable. The Brownes, on their return
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to England, complained bitterly of their treatment, and
induced the Court of assistants to urge on Gov. Kndicott
to be careful about introducing any laws which might have
a tendency to damage the State. The enterprise, more-
over, for various reasons, proved to be unprofitable ; and
that the fisheries and the profitable trade of the colonies
presented strong inducements to the minds of the Puritan
emigrants, there can be no doubt. Milder counsels, Colo-
nial legislation, an increase of capital and mercantile
capacity, presented temptations which could not be re-
sisted. While we admire, therefore, the stern qualities
of John Kndicott and recognize the value of his ellicient
devotion to principle, and his valor, as armed with "the
sword of the Lord and of Gideon," he stood linn for his
convictions, and made all material interests subordinate to
the cause of Christ, we can easily understand why it was
that he lost his place in the line of the conditores iinpe-
riorum, and yet retained still the lustre of his greatness.
For this legislative imperfection in the career of the
colony of Xaumkcag, ample amends were rapidly made.
In KJ45 the General Court agreed to hold their sessions
successively in Boston, Cambridge, and Salem. In 1774
the colonial legislature convened here, resolved that a
General Congress was essential, and that it meet next
September in Philadelphia, and they proceeded to choose
as delegates Richard Derby and Richard Manning, names
held in high honor in their day. From this time until the
adoption of the Constitution, Salem was more engaged in
the strife for freedom than in the legislation which at-
tended it and immediately followed it. The military
career of Timothy Pickering, commencing in the success-
ful resistance to British aggression at the North Bridge
and ending only at the close of the great war, was the
contribution which Salem made to the long line of revo-
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lutionary heroes a tribute unsurpassed by any commu-
nity in our struggling and self-sacrificing country.
In surveying the course pursued by those, who, as
citizens of Salem, have represented what was long known
as the Essex South District in the Congress of the United
States, one is struck with the devotion of these men to
the best principles of Government and to the highest
wants and necessities of the times in which they lived.
In the business of constructing the Government, and in
the advocacy of useful reform, they stood among the
foremost. At the head of the line stands the name of
BENJAMIN GoODHUE, 15 whose wisdom as a citizen and in-
tegrity as a merchant are held in high esteem here to-day.
His career in Congress commenced in 1789 as Representa-
tive, and ended as Senator from Massachusetts in 1800.
He was distinguished for his careful scholarship while in
college, his wise and successful enterprise while in
business, and his practical usefulness while in Congress.
NATHAN READ IG was the next of our citizens to take his
seat in Congress. His service commenced in 1800 and
ended in 1803. Of his congressional career we know
but little. He was devoted to science, was an inventor
long before patent laws were known in this country, and
stirred the waters of Wenham Lake with a boat propelled
by steam before the steam-driven keel directed by Fulton
had ploughed the bosom of the Hudson River. He
closed his life as a Judge of Probate in the State of Maine.
JACOB CROWNiNSHiELD 17 was the immediate successor of
Mr. Read. He was a prosperous and 'leading young
merchant of the town. He represented the Republican
element of that day, and at the close of his first and only
Congress he was offered a seat as Secretary of the Navy
in the Cabinet of Mr. Jefferson, a position which he de-
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clined, preferring the comforts of private life to the toils
and trials of office. He died young ; but he left an hon-
orable reputation as a citizen and merchant, which is
sustained at home and abroad by one who through his
maternal ancestor has inherited the name and blood of
this distinguished son of Salem.
JOSEPH STORY, l the poet and orator and lawyer and
jurist and legislator, followed Mr. Crowinshield after an
interval of two years, representing the same political
sentiments as his mercantile predecessor. His career in
Congress was marked by great independence of hi.s party,
and by the zeal and industry with which he discharged his
duties. Shortly after the close of his congressional career
he was appointed a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court
of the United States, by President Jefferson. As a wri-
ter on law, and on the constitution, he has never been
equalled; as a teacher of law he was fascinating and in-
structive ; as a contributor to the literature of his day he
performed an important part ; as an orator he stood fore-
most at a time when the State was distinguished for its
brilliant and powerful speakers. I cannot forget that he
was one of a salaxv of orators whom I heard at the scc-
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oncl centennial celebration of the founding of Harvard
College, on which occasion he had as associates in that
great oratorical display, Edward Everett, John Quincy
Adams, Daniel Webster, Robert C. Winthrop, Peleg
Sprague, and the brilliant and youthful poet, Oliver Wen-
dell Holmes an assembly in which Judge Story, with
his fervid, rich and impassioned eloquence, had but one
superior, and he the matchless orator of our country in
his day and generation, and the presiding officer on that
occasion.
BENJAMIN PICKMAN, ? born of one of the oldest, most
prosperous and most respectable families in the town,
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succeeded Judge Story in 1809, and retired in 1811. He
was a strong federalist in politics and was a warm and
ardent friend of Josiah Quincy, who was his colleague in
Congress. He was strongly opposed to the policy of Mr.
Jefferson and represented the sentiments of those mer-
chants of the town who were antagonistic to the embargo
law. The friendship thus established between himself and
Mr. Quincy was never broken. He stood by this re-
markable man in all his controversies. He was a graduate
of Harvard College and a liberal patron of letters. He
was a member of the Convention that revised the State
Constitution in 1820, and he died in Salem, 1843.
TIMOTHY PICKERING* was the next citizen of Salem who
followed Col. Pickman. His entire life had been spent in
the service of his country ; and he had shown himself to
be a great soldier, a great cabinet minister, and a great
senator. He possessed undaunted courage, perfect integ-
rity, and a nice sense of honor. He contributed largely
to the legal information which guided the Colonies through
many difficult questions connected with the war, and took
an active part in some of the most important engagements
of the conflict. His mind was eminently practical. He
was a successful farmer and for many years applied not
only his sound experience to the tilling of the soil, but his
keen intellectual faculties to the discussion of all ques-
tions bearing upon the farmer's interests. He was for a
long time President of the Essex Agricultural Society,
placed there by the farmers of Essex, because he enjoyed
the confidence of all the leading agriculturists of his clay.
He held office on account of the valuable service he had
performed, and not to gratify his own restless desires.
He died in Salem, January, 1829.
NATHANIEL SILSBEE, G a distinguished merchant of
Salem, was chosen a member of Congress in 1816 ; served
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in the House until 1820, and in the Senate from 1826 to
1835. He belonged to one of the leading families of the
town who had done much to develop the commerce of
Salem ; and by his judgment and sound sense he largely
increased its influence in the business and councils of the
commonwealth. lie was a strong supporter of President
John Quincy Adams, and he left behind him a high and
honorable record. lie died in Salem, July, 1850.
GIDEON BARSTOW ? was Mr. Silsbee's successor. lie
was born in the old Colony, moved early in life to Salem,
practised for a time the profession of medicine, and after-
wards became a successful merchant, lie was a high-
toned and honorable gentleman, served through one
Congress, and died in March, 1852.
BENJAMIN W. CROWN INS HI ELI/' was elected to Congress
in 1823, having previously been a most efficient Secretary
of the Navy in the cabinet of President Madison, lie
was an ardent supporter of the war of 1812 and violently
opposed to the Federal tendencies of his District. He
had great confidence in the American Government and
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contributed liberally toward its financial support during
the trials and hardships of the contest. He represented
Massachusetts in an impressive style, journeyed to Wash-
ington with his own equipage and endeavored in every
way to maintain the social dignity of the Commonwealth.
He was an earnest leader in the political contests of this
town, and removed to Boston at the close of his political
career. He died in February, 1851.
KUFUS CiiOATE was in many respects the most brilliant
senator and member of the House, whom Massachusetts
has ever sent into the Halls of Congress. He brought to
the subject of the law, to which his life was earnestly
devoted, great shrewdness and adroitness, and profound
knowledge of its fundamental principles warmed by a rich
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imagination and great skill. He was indeed a great advo-
cate. But it was manifest to all, that when he left his
profession and entered upon literary and oratorical pur-
suits, his mind received fresh strength and energy from
the new work in which he was engaged. He had an
intense love of letters, and his tributes to books have
never been surpassed even by the distinguished orators of
antiquity. He was the warm friend of the humblest client
that appealed to him for advice ; and he left a memory
around the Bar of Essex County, which his contemporaries
cherish with admiration and from which his successors in
a younger generation find much to guide and stimulate
them in their work. He died in Halifax, July 12, 1859.
STEPHEN C. PHILLIPS 7 entered Congress in 1834. He
was a graduate of Harvard College and had long taken an
active part in the largest mercantile enterprises of his
native city. He went to Congress filled with the spirit of
reform, and in all his actions in the House, he was guided
by the sentiments of humanity and philanthropy for which
his District was distinguished. He tilled many offices of
public importance in the Commonwealth, devoting his
time and money to the cause of education, and was one of
the founders of the Freesoil party of 1848. He died by
accident, June 26, 1857.
LEVERETT SALTONSTALL ? was elected in 1839, and re-
mained in Congress till 1843. He was one of the leaders
of the Essex Bar for many years, and one of the most de-
voted and energetic supporters of the interests of Salem.
He maintained during his long life the most intimate rela-
tions with the cultivated men of the Commonwealth. He
was an ardent Whig and a great admirer and supporter of
Mr. Clay ; but notwithstanding his strong political con-
victions and his warm political attachments, he never lost
sight of the courtesies and kindnesses of life, tolerated
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with a gentlemanly and noble generosity all differences of
opinion, and never allowed them to disturb his relations
with his contemporaries throughout the State. He was a
warm friend, a wise, honest and eloquent lawyer, and a
most cheerful and benignant member of Society. In
Congress he devoted himself to questions affecting the
industries of the country, and it is to him that we owe the
protective tariff of 1842. He died in Salem, May 8, 1845.
CHARLES }Y. UniAM 7 was elected to Congress in 1853.
He commenced life as a merchant's clerk ; graduated at
Harvard in 1821 ; he then adopted the ministry as a pro-
fession, and was for many years settled over the First
Church in Salem. lie was a vigorous and graceful writer
and Hie author of some of the best biographical sketches
in our language. lie published a Life of Sir Harry Vane ;
a History of Witchcraft, and a Life of Timothy Pickering.
After leaving Congress he was for two sessions President
of the Massachusetts Senate ; and he then retired from
public life. He died in Salem, June 15, 1875.
These are the representatives whom Salem has sent into
the councils of the Nation ; and these are the services of
which she has a right to be proud. Her connection with
the legislature of the country, notwithstanding the early
Colonial obstacles, has been influential and important in
all the various forms of Government which have existed
here from the ancient times. I trust her future will be as
honorable as her past.
INTRODUCING THE REV. FIELDER ISRAEL.
It is emphatically to-day, the time of remembering
first things, and we shall omit one of the most impor-
tant factors in the history of Salem and the State did we
not remember the foundation of the earliest church. I
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give you as our next toast, "the First Church of Salem."
The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of that church
itself is almost at hand, and I call upon the Rev. Fielder
Israel, its pastor, for a response.
RESPONSE OF THE REV. FIELDER ISRAEL.
Mr. President and Mr. Toast- Master : You will allow
me to say, in view of the lateness of the hour and the
fact to which you have alluded, that the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of this oldest church in America is
almost at hand, that I shall not now attempt to reply at
any length to the sentiment you have offered.
Suffice it to say that if, according to the word of Mat-
thew Arnold, "there goes to the building up of human
life and civilization these four powers the power of con-
duct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of
beauty, and the power of social life and manners," then
these founders and fathers of the First Church not only
possessed these moral forces, but used them, according to
the light they had, wisely and well, and built a church to
the Living God, on the Pillar and Ground of the Truth.
They subscribed no creed, but with Francis Higginson,
their first minister in 1629, 1 they subjected themselves
under a perpetual Covenant of Love to God and His
Truth and to one another.
They believed in God and worshipped Him alone.
They gave themselves to the Lord Jesus Christ, as Hugh
Peters exhorted them in 1636, 2 and to the word of His
grace "for the teaching, ruling, and sanctifying of them
in matters of worship and conversation, resolving to
cleave to Him alone for life and glory, and oppose all
1 Covenant of 1629. 2 Covenant of 1636.
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contrary ways, canons, and constitutions of men." From
the beginning with John Eiulicott they made the Sermon
on the Mount, if not the only, the sufficient rule of faith
and practice. They believed in humanity and respected
manhood, and gave themselves to the work of its regen-
eration and refinement with a zeal that knew no service
too great, no sacrifice too costly. All life to them was
sacred. Liberty, Labor, and Learning were to them ordi-
nances of religion, of divine appointment, as well as Bap-
tism and The Supper.
Through this faith they worked righteousness, wrought
wonders, and subdued the kingdom. Hard, harsh, stern,
and severe as they seem to us they were sincere, honest,
and true, and believed they were doing God's service.
We would not now choose their methods nor copy their
manners.
"The old order chan^eth, yielding: place to new,
And God fulfils Himself in different ways."
This church remains until this day free and indepen-
dent, thoroughly organized, interested and engaged in
every good word and work. After two hundred and fifty
years,
"It stands as it ever has stood ;
And brightly its Builder displays
And flames with the glory of God."
"Esto perpetua."* [Loud applause.]
INTRODUCING JOSEPH II. CIIOATE, ESQ.
I have sometimes thought that a new catechism in his-
tory should be written, and that if one wanted to know
where William the Conqueror was born, or where Mary,
8 Motto and seal of Ihc Church first given by the lion. Judge White.
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Queen of Scots, had her nativity, the answer should be
uniformly and in all cases, "Salem;" for the sons and
daughters of Salem are so well scattered, it would seem
to me, especially in places of honor and repute all over
the country, that I am not surprised at anything or
anybody especially good claiming its ancestry here.
[Laughter.] I give you as our next sentiment: "The
sons and daughters of Salem in other cities," and I call
upon a gentleman whom I am sure will enforce more
emphatically what I have said in my prelude. I call
upon Mr. Joseph H. Choate to respond. [Applause.]
RESPONSE OF JOSEPH H. CHOATE, ESQ.
Mr. President) and Ladies and Gentlemen : The Salem
people abroad for whom you bid me speak, take, I am
sure, a lively interest in this two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the landing of Governor Endicott. Not
indeed that the blood of Endicott has ever wandered
far or in copious streams beyond the borders of New
England! The fact is that the Endicotts, the Win-
throps and the Saltonstalls have flourished too well upon
the parent stock and have been too much prized at home
o be driven, except on rare occasions, by inclination or
by necessity, to seek their fortunes beyond the domains
of New England, which they helped to plant and to es-
tablish. See how they present themselves before us
to-day. Fair types of all the past 1 Endicott, the su-
preme judge, well representing the old colonial governor I
Winthrop, bringing to the shrine of his honored ancestry
a personal fame which is better, far better, than to have
been the governor of any State, even of Massachusetts !
[Applause.] Saltonstall, my respected teacher in the
law, the most worthy son of a man whom all Salem has
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ever delighted to honor! [Loud applause.] But after
all a great share of the glory of Endicott and of Win-
throp was in their following, in that band of devoted fol-
lowers who came with them and after them and helped
them to make their great enterprise a success these cul-
tured gentlemen, these sturdy yeoman, all of the purest
English stock, who established and extended the boun-
daries of this ancient city, who organized, under the
guidance of Endicott, its first church, who built its first
houses, who laid out its first streets, and whose descend-
ants afterwards, in many generations, started its com-
merce and pressed it to the furthest confines of the globe,
so as to make the name of Salem respected and honored
on the shores of all the continents. It is from these men
that we trace our proud lineage, and it is this that makes
the sons of Salem proud of the -place of their birth.
[Applause.]
Of course, Mr. President, it requires great forecast for
a man to select a birthplace of which he shall always be
proud ; [laughter] but he must indeed be an unreasonable
creature, who having America for a continent and Massa-
chusetts for a State, Essex for a county and Salem for a
native town, is not entirely satisfied. [Laughter and
applause.] Of course a man born anywhere can get
along somehow. [Laughter.] I suppose that the native
of Topsfield, or of Middlcton, or of Beverly, if he re-
pents promptly, [laughter] and moves into Salem and
does well there, [laughter] may plead some excuse for his
original sin, [laughter] and if he be of ti lively imagina-
tion may even begin to boast of it. Why, Cicero boasted
of being born at Aspinum, and Rufus Choate at Hog
Island ; [laughter and applause] but it was after the one
had become the great orator of Rome, and the other of
Boston, and so, by their own fame, as it were, had ex-
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tended the boundaries of the cities of their adoption to
embrace the humble, but thanks to them, historic places
of their birth. [Applause.]
But Salem, Mr. President, is so old, so queer, [laugh-
ter] so unique, so different from all other places upon
which the sun in his western journey looks down, so full
of grand historical reminiscences, so typical of everything
that has ever occurred in the annals of American life,
[laughter] that he who has had the good luck to be born
here may really claim it as a peculiar distinction. You
have heard all day, to the going down of the sun, of its
historic glories, and I will not repeat them to your addi-
tional fatigue; but I want to remind you of one thing,
and that is that the man who is born in Salem tnust pay
the penalty of that distinction. And chiefly in being just
a little older to the cubic inch than any other man born at
exactly the same moment in any other part of North
America. [Loud laughter and applause.] How, sir,
could it possibly be otherwise, with human beings born
and bred in these old houses which have cradled so many
of our race for upwards of two centuries, that humanity
itself has got used to being started here and finds itself
an old story at the beginning? [Laughter and applause.]
I wish to suggest it as an interesting and at the same time
subtle enquiry for the scientists of the Essex Institute
[laughter] to compare the new-born Salem baby with an
infant born at the same moment in Kansas, or Colorado,
or Montana. I venture to say that the microscope would
disclose a physiological difference. [Laughter.] The
microscope would ascertain a slight, perhaps a very slight
mould of antiquity, [laughter] but which all the waters
of Wenham could never wash off. [Laughter and ap-
plause.] How can a man born in Derby street [laughter]
or Norman street Norman, who came over with Couant,
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who was here long before Endicott arrived, or Essex
street a high-way for the Indians before even Conant
thought of eoming how can such a man ever feel like a
new and absolutely young creature? [Laughter.] No,
Mr. President, he can not do it. This stale flavor and
tinge is bred in our bones. It is in the marrow, it is in
the red corpuscles of the blood, it is in the roots of the
tongue and of the hair, and you can no more rub it out
than the fanners of Massachusetts can weed out the witch-
weed and the woad-wax that Governor Endicott brought
over as choice garden plants. [Laughter and applause.]
Friction with the world don't destroy it in the least.
And so it is that you may know a Salem man wherever
you meet him, the world over. He carries about him a
little "Auld lang syne" that shows where he came from.
Sometimes it is in the cut of his jib, and sometimes of
his coat; sometimes it is the way in which he cuts across
a street corner, always slanting, never at right angles;
[laughter] or from his style of shortening things, as tho
way he utters some familiar words. He never takes off
his c-o-a-t but his cote ; [laughter] he never rides upon
the road, but always on the rode ; and if you should pick
up a final g, in "ing," you may be pretty sure that some
of his Salem people are the unfortunate people who have
dropped it; but if you can hear him say "git, "of course
you will know his very origin and almost the street from
which he came. [Laughter and applause.] Now in this
family meeting, as an illustration of this subject, perhaps
you will pardon me for telling a little personal anecdote.
A short time ago I was arguing a case in our court of
appeals at Albany with some earnestness, and there sat
by me a gentleman bred and born in the South. lie lis-
tened with attention, and when I got through he congrat-
ulated me, "but," said he : " I would have given a hundred
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dollars if you hadn't said "git." [Laughter.] Well,
Mr. President, how could I help it? [laughter] Governor
Endicott said it, [laughter] all my progenitors in this
town have said it for two hundred and fifty years, and so,
Mr. Chairman, I believe it is more than half right.
[Laughter and applause.]
Well, perhaps we ought not to allow a stranger to in-
dulge in these free criticisms of ourselves, but I am not a
stranger. Though not familiar in these streets for the
last quarter of a century, I claim to be a Salemite of the
Salemites. [Applause.] My maternal ancestors were
here for untold generations. They must have been here.
It is difficult to identify their names, because you know
when you go back eight generations you have about 128
progenitors, in that degree, and some of them must have
been here with Conant. They must have gone down on
the end of Derby wharf with him to welcome Endicott.
The orator of the day didn't mention the circumstance
because he didn't know it. [Laughter.] You must not
smile at that for an anachronism, because I challenge any
antiquarian to go down upon that venerable pile and view
its foundations and its structure, and give it anything
short of an antiquity, long before Endicott thought of
coming here. [Laughter.] Well, they helped to raise,
these maternal ancestors of mine, helped to raise the
First Church which it has been the glory of the Essex
Institute, after 200 years, to resurrect and restore. They
were in that hooting and howling crowd that followed
Cassandra Southwick, strapped to a cart's tail and whipped
through the streets of this ancient city. And then later
they were in that other procession, with death at the head
and Cotton Mather at the rear [laughter], that marched
from St. Peters street to Gallows Hill with the victims of
the witchcraft delusion. They were at the North bridge
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when Colonel Leslie made his unceremonious retreat,
and went whence he came. They listened to the Declar-
ation of Independence, first read on Salem common ;
[applause] and on the quarter deck and before the mast,
for many generations, they contributed to create, through
all the periods of its progress and decline, the commerce
of Salem. So I claim to be to the manor born and to
have a right to speak of Salem and of Salem institutions
as I think.
And, knowing this, I suppose, Mr. Chairman, it is that
you have called on me of all this company to speak for
the Salem people abroad. Well, I will say only a few
words. We make up the great mass of the population
of Salem. [Laughter.] Almost all Salem people go
abroad and very few of them remain at home. [Laugh-
ter.] I believe you number about 25,000 within these
ancient walls. We, the Salem people abroad, count our-
selves by hundreds of thousands. [Laughter.] You
may find us on all continents, in every country, in almost
every city, on all oceans, and on all isles of the sea. We
engage in all sorts of occupations, providing only they
are honest for you will bear me witness, Mr. Chairman,
that honesty is a Salem trait. Not to dilate upon their
virtues and their merits, I would say that they arc all
doing pretty well. I think I may say of them, as you
have heard said so much to-day of their ancestors, that
they live lives of honesty, of industry, and of economy,
and that makes up the great staple of Salem character at
home and abroad. They remember, sir, with gratitude
this ancient city, and above all the schools of Salem ; and
what they got in them they regard as her best legacy to
her departing children. In those palmy days of Salem,
Mr. Chairman, when I was a child, education was no
joke. [Laughter.] The business of life began with us
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in earnest as soon as we had learned to speak. There
was no playing or dallying for the children till they were
seven or eight years old, as is now too often the case.
At three years old the great business of education must
have been fairly started. [Laughter.] Why sir, I per-
fectly remember at the age of two and three-quarters
being led by the distinguished judge of the district court
of the southern district of New York, who had then at-
tained the ripe age of four, [laughter] and who, I may
say in passing, even then exhibited those marked judicial
qualities of mind and character [loud laughter] which
have recently attracted the attention of the President of
the United States, being led by him to that ancient semi-
nary for beginners in Summer street adjoining the bench
of Benjamin Cutts, which as far surpassed all modern
kindergartens as these excel common infant schools.
Well, then, at the age of seven, the boys of Salem of
this district were transferred to the central school in
Court street, under the shadow of the old court house, to
be thrashed for the period of three years under Abner
Brooks, of blessed memory. [Laughter.] Felt, in his
remarks on Salem, has made one curious and inexcusable
blunder, which for the truth of history, I wish to correct.
He declares that the whipping post that used to stand in
the rear of the old court house was not used after 1805. I
know better. I can swear from personal knowledge that
it was still in active use in 1839, and can show you the
very spot. [Laughter.] Well, then we were transferred
to that high school under the gentle, the patient, the ever
faithful Rufus Putnam, the best model of perfection in a
teacher, I believe, that even Salem has ever seen. [Ap-
plause.] And last, not least, came that glorious old
establishment in Broad street, the public Latin school,
the schola publica prima, which had stood from the foun-
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dation of the colony, which sent George Downing, who
proved to be one of its worst boys, to Harvard college to
join its first class, and which had sent a long procession,
two hundred years long, of the fairest of Essex chosen
from the homes of Salem, to graduate at Harvard col-
lege; and at last, after our time, was merged in the high
school. I rejoice to have seen, within a few days, our
old master, still living and walking these streets; [ap-
plause] and I hope he has been here to-day to enjoy the
prosperity and gratitude of all his old pupils ; and I am
sure they will join with me in saying that no living citi-
zen of Salem can show a record of so much done for the
welfare and good name of this city as he. lie was harsh
sometimes, we thought. lie had a monogram. They
were not much in fashion in those days, but he had one
that he applied to the hands and legs and backs of refrac-
tory pupils. It was "O. K. O.K. O.K.," ami anybody
who went to the public Latin school could translate it
as "an awful cut from Olivei Carlton's awful cowhide."
[Laughter.] Well, it was not as bad as it seemed. It
was a most impartial institution, because it mattered
nothing at all to the master hand that wielded it, whether
it fell on the aristocratic back of an Kndicott or a Salton-
stall, or the more common cuticle of a Choate or a Brown.
[Laughter.] This we can say with literal truth of it, I
think, namely, that it was more honored in the breach
than in the observance. [Applause and laughter.]
Well, then, the finer arts which Salem added to the
education which she offered to her children. Who has
forgotten Jacob Hood, who taught the boys pretty much
all the music they ever knew? His fame as a composer
and teacher may bo more limited than that of Mendels-
sohn or Liszt, but they never had such hard subjects to
deal with, and his success was wonderful because he
taught some of us to sing who never had made the at-
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tempt before. And then the lighter and more fantastic
art to which this temple in which we sit was dedicated.
I would like to have these tables swept away, and see
whether we have forgotten all the painful teachings of
those days. [Laughter and applause.] Why, this is the
very spot ; and when I look up and down these tables
this afternoon and see so many of the fair forms we left
behind us we the Salem people who have gone away
how the thirty years that have intervened disappear and
slip away ! How young they all appear again, how slen-
der, how fresh, how fair! Why, Mr. Chairman, let me
tell it as an historical incident, that on the very spot
where you now sit I have seen the daughters of Governor
Endicott, in the seventh generation, take steps that would
have won applause from their stern Puritan ancestor him-
self, if he had been permitted to look upon them. [Ap-
plause.]
But the day is passed ; the sun has already set. I
wanted to say something of some great names that have
shed such lustre upon Salem. [Cries of "go on."]
There is one that I will not omit, because, in my judg-
ment, and I believe in that of many of the sons and
daughters of Salem abroad, it is the dearest and most
precious jewel in the diadem of imperial Salern. I give
you the memory of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a native of
Salem, descended from her earliest settlers ! So imbued
was he with the genius of her sons, and so deeply has he
enthroned it in his matchless works, that though its an-
cient buildings will crumble, though the forests should
grow again between these historic rivers, and the place
be forgotten where Salem was, her name, her traditions,
and the spirit of her history, will still be familiar so long
as men can read in the English tongue "The Twice Told
Tales," and "The House of the Seven Gables." [Great
applause.]
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INTRODUCING BENJAMIN II. SILSBEE, ESQ.
You will find in Martineau's History of England an
allusion to Salem, in the reports which British travellers
used to carry home from America concerning the abun-
dance of Oriental luxuries and furniture in the homos of
that city. It was from the East that Salem drew its first
great wealth. Its mercantile connections with the East
Indies are still remembered wherever Salem is known,
though the vessels that sought those distant seas have
long since ceased to anchor in our bay. I give you as
the next sentiment: "The Commerce of Salem and tho
East India Marine Society," a toast to which Mr. Benja-
min II. Silsbee will respond.
RESPONSE OF BENJAMIN II. SILSBEE, ESQ.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: It seems par-
ticularly appropriate that the sentiment just announced,
and to which I have been called to reply, should thus
unite the "Commerce of Salem" and the "East India Ma-
rine Society," for in the past the two have been naturally
associated, and each somewhat mutually dependent on tho
other. Without the enterprise which started the foreign
commerce of Salem, after the war of the Revolution had
ended in the independence of the colonies, the class of
men who were the founders of the "East India Marino
Society" would probably have sought other fields of use-
fulness and employment, and without the aid of such
men that commerce would not have attained the promi-
nence which it did, and which caused Salem to be known
far and wide as one of the principal pioneers in the India
trade, and the names of her merchants, her ships and her
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ship-masters to be familiar in almost every part of the
civilized world. It might have been more appropriate,
if the sentiment to which I am replying had said the past
commerce of Salern, for though many of her citizens are
ship-owners and importers of East India merchandize, to
a very considerable extent, yet their vessels are never
seen in her harbor, and her commerce is virtually a thing
of the past, the memory of which only survives and
brings up, on occasions like the present, pleasant recol-
lections of her former business and enterprise.
The history of the commerce of Salern is yet to be
written, and it is to be hoped that under the auspices of
your young and active society, Mr. President, an histo-
rian will be found to put on record, before it is too late,
the facts connected with its rise and progress. The com-
merce of Salem, previous to the war of the Revolution,
was by no means inconsiderable, and during the war her
citizens were very active in fitting out privateers ; but in
what I may have to say regarding that commerce, I shall
confine my remarks to what was after the peace of 1783.
I cannot, in the time allotted to me, attempt to give
even a slight sketch of its extent, or the names, with very
few exceptions, of its prominent merchants. Perhaps the
most prominent, inasmuch as he dispatched the first ves-
sel from Salem to China, and was earlier engaged in the
East India trade than any of his cotemporaries, was ELIAS
HASKETT DERBY, 18 a man of large wealth, great enterprise,
and one of Salem's most respected citizens. In Novem-
ber, 1785, he sent the ship "Grand Turk," Ebenezer
West, commander, to the Isle of France and China. A
ship from New York for the same destination had sailed
in February, 1784, owned by several parties in Philadel-
phia and New York. So that to Salem belongs the honor
of having sent the second vessel to China from this coun-
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try, and the first from a New England port, loaded and
owned solely by Mr. Derby. His India business rapidly
increased, so that in 1789, out of fourteen American ves-
sels in the Chinese waters, five of them hailed from Salem,
and all were the property of Mr. Derby. Many of the
ship-masters in the employ of Mr. Derby and others were
very young men, as were also the officers and crew. A
striking instance of this is the fact that, about the year
171)2, the ship "Benjamin," Nathaniel Silsboe, master,
was cleared by Mr. Derby for the Isle of France with not
a man on board of her, neither her captain, officers, nor
any of her crew having attained the legal age of twenty-
one. Mr. Derby died in 1799, at the age of sixty.
Another of the prominent merchants in the early days
of the commerce of Salem, whose business was continued
many years after the death of Mr. Derby, was Mr. \ViL-
LIAM GKAY. W Mr. Gray was a native of Lynn ; came to
Salem when a boy, entered the counting-room of a mer-
chant of that day, and eventually became one of the
wealthiest of Salem's wealthy merchants, and, without
doubt, at one time her largest ship-owner. In IcSOG there
were seventy-three ships, eleven barks, and forty-eight
brigs employed in foreign commerce belonging to Salem,
of which one-quarter were the property of Mr. Gray.
He was devoted to his business, and his habit for fifty
years was to rise at the dawn of day, and go over his
large correspondence. He was a most patriotic citizen,
and used his great wealth with a most liberal hand. Mr.
O
Gray removed to Boston about the year 1809, where ho
ended his earthly life. Many of the captains in Mr.
Derby's and Mr. Gray's employ early became ship-
owners, and these, with many others, active and enter-
prising merchants, whose names are most familiar to our
eitizens, some of whom carried on a very extensive busi-
ness, might be mentioned, but time will not permit.
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If the full history of this commerce should ever be
written, it will be seen how much those men of a former
generation have contributed to the prosperity of Salem.
But there is one, whose business life covered a space of
more than fifty years, and who was probably more exten-
sively engaged in commerce in this long period, than any
other of Salem's distinguished merchants, with the ex-
ception perhaps of Mr. Gray one who is distinctly
remembered by all of us, who have arrived at middle
age, to whom I cannot but allude. JOSEPH PEABODY 20
was prominent as a merchant for so many years, carrying
on so large a proportion of his business in Salem, that
any account, however brief, would be imperfect without a
glance at the extent of his business. Mr. Peabody was
a ship-master in his early days. Retiring from the sea in
1791, he engaged in commerce, continuing in it actively
till towards the close of his long life, being owner at
different times of eighty-three vessels. His vessels were
employed in voyages to Calcutta, China, Sumatra, St.
Petersburg, and other European ports, most of them
bringing return cargoes, which were sold in Salem. I
have alluded thus hastily to three of the most prominent
merchants of our city, and would gladly have extended
the list. These men with many others were witnesses of
the dawn of Salem's commerce, and its meridian bright-
ness, and have long since passed onward and upward.
But we have with us yet, one well-known and most
valued citizen, who witnessed the setting of that com-
merce in which he had so long been engaged, his vessels
having been the last to enter the harbor of Salem from
ports beyond the Cape of Good Hope. May Mr. JOHN
BERTRAM 21 long be spared to enjoy the distribution of his
wealth.
The East India Marine Society was formed in the sum-
mer of 1799, and regularly organized in October of that
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year by the choice of a president, treasurer, secretary and
committee of observation. The conditions of member-
ship were that the candidate for admission should have
been master or supercargo of a vessel beyond the Cape
of Good Hope or Cape Horn. The objects of the society
were declared to be : first, to relieve the wants of the
widows and children of deceased indigent members, out
of the funds of the society; second, to make such obser-
vations and experiments as would tend to the improve-
ment and security of navigation; third, to form a collec-
tion of natural and artificial curiosities, principally from
ports beyond the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn.
The society has always been a charitable one, and con-
tinues to this day to distribute the income of its funds
among indigent members, or the widows and children of
such as have deceased. The second object of the society
has not been overlooked, and in its earlier days especially
received the careful attention of its members. Its some-
what famous museum, now transferred to the "Pcabody
Academy of Science," will bear witness that the third
object of the Society was faithfully accomplished. Most
of the ship-masters and merchants who had formerly been
ship-masters, became members of the Society at an early
date, and took an active interest in its success. Many of
these men were among our most prominent citizens, and
some of them were called upon to h'll places of honor and
responsibility in the town, the state and the nation. Of
these, I can now name but one whose fame has extended
far beyond the limit of his town or his country, who is
known among scientific men as the translator of La
Place's "Mechanique Celeste," and among navigators as
the author of the "Practical Navigator," which for moro
than seventy years has been the standard work on the
subject. Nathaniel Bowditch joined our society shortly
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after its formation, and continued an active member until
he left Salem in 1820, having been its secretary, presi-
dent, and one of the committee of observation.
Mr. President, I have said that the commerce of Salem
was a thing of the past. The same may be said of the
East India Marine Society. But not soon can it be for-
gotten among the descendants of its founders, and its
museum, preserved and taken care of as it will be, will
long help to keep its memory fresh and green in the
hearts of the citizens of our good old town of Salem.
CLOSING SENTIMENT.
Fifty years ago a very characteristic celebration marked
the two hundredth anniversary of the day whose com-
memoration occupies us at this hour. There are four
gentlemen present here who had a part in the festivities
of that time Messrs. R. C. Winthrop, George Peabody,
Caleb Foote and Nathaniel Silsbee. Of the survivors of
that time two others may also be remembered, though
absent Stephen P. Webb and George Wheatland. As
our last toast let us take : "The Survivors of the Celebra-
tion of fifty years ago."
RESPONSE BY THE ORCHESTRA.
"Auld Lang Syne."
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The following is the text of the address prepared by
Rev. E. S. Atwood in response to the sentiment: "The
Essex Institute our Host tit this Commemorative Festi-
val." This, intended for the closing toast, was omitted
on account of the lateness of the hour.
ADDRESS OF REV. E. S. ATWOOD.
When the pride of London, the Cathedral of St. Paul's,
had been brought to completion, and the hopes and labors
of years had their outcome in the massive walls and
stately areas and swimming dome of the great minster,
the question arose, in what way an appreciative people
could best express their estimate of the architect, in
whose genius the magnificent pile had its birth. The
expedient adopted was as significant as it was simple.
A tablet on the inner wall of the Cathedral bears the
inscription: "Si quseris monumentum, circumspice." The
man's work is the man's best testimonial.
And so, Mr. President, in response to this sentiment,
I have only to say "Si quoeris monumentum, circumspice."
This brilliant array of eminent men Avho have come to-
gether at the invitation of this Society, this garnered
wealth of historic research which has been so freely placed
at our disposal, the tide of eloquence and learning which
has flowed without pause, since the opening of these
exercises, these fair faces that forget for a little while
their youth, in their reverend interest in the past, all are
better testimonials to the position and worth of the Essex
Institute, than any poor words of mine could bo. It is
rarely, I think, that any organization succeeds in grouping
on a single spot so many men of mark, or is able to crowd
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between sunrise and sunset so much that is valuable of
sound learning and so much that is pleasing in witching
speech as this association has been privileged to summon
and command to-day.
And yet, sir, it is to be remembered that this occasion,
satisfactory as we trust and believe it has been, is only
one blossom of the work which the Essex Institute is
patiently and faithfully endeavoring to do, and is doing.
Formed thirty years ago by the union of the Historical
and Natural History Societies, it has zealously followed
the line of research of both of its progenitors, and has
achieved not only an American, but also a continental
reputation. Some of its expedients for promoting a gen-
eral interest in the objects for which it exists, have re-
ceived special commendation at home and abroad. Its
field meetings held in various parts of the county, and
sometimes outside of the limits of the state, have been of
great advantage to many communities, and quickened a
zeal for scientific and historical studies. The familiar lec-
tures and valuable papers which it yearly gives to the
public, constitute in the aggregate a most generous con-
tribution to the thought of the times. Speaking of this
whole class of work, the well known London magazine,
"Nature," says :
"* * * While affording a medium for the publication
of papers of sterling scientific value, the Essex Institute
has not been unmindful of the no less imperative duty of
scientific bodies, that of promoting a taste for science
among the educated but unscientific public. We in this
country have perhaps erred in too much ignoring the pro-
fanum vulgus. It becomes, however, yearly more and
more manifest that science must become no esoteric relig-
ion, but that it must grasp, in its all-including embrace
every section of the community. It is doubtful, indeed,
which class of scientific men deserves best of the repub-
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lie, those who devote the whole of their time to actual
work in the laboratory or the dissecting room ; or those
who of the riches of their knowledge impart to the
ignorant crowd in the lecture room or by the popular
treatise. With the names of the former will doubtless
be connected the most important discoveries of the age;
the latter will have the satisfaction of knowing that they
have done their part towards making science really popu-
lar, towards spreading its blessings among the masses.
The danger is when the instruction of the public is under-
taken by those who have not practically made themselves
masters of the mysteries they presume to communicate to
others."
Looked at from any and every point of view, the Insti-
tute deserves well both of scholars and the community at
large.
And so, Mr. President, I think that we shall all admit
that it is a matter of regret, that this society should be so
hampered in its work by the limitation of its surround-
ings. It has no home of its own, being only a tenant at
will in the building belonging to the Salem Athenaeum.
It is true it has been reasonably well accommodated in its
present quarters, but its large and invaluable collection
of books and manuscripts is poorly protected against lire,
and it is the constant fear of the managers that that peril
will be realized when it is too late to avert disaster. As
things are now, one hour of flame might sweep away what
has been so patiently gathered by the earnest work of
more than a half century. What the Institute needs, and
what some of its friends think it has fairly earned, is a
building of its own, commodious, lire-proof, and arranged
with reference to future growth. Our own citizens, the
inhabitants of Essex county, the wealthy and large hearted
men who belong to that numerous class which we are fond
of designating as "the Salem people abroad, "all of these,
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it seems to us, ought to be glad to lend a helping hand in
this enterprise, which is not local but national. Give us
this which we so greatly need, ladies and gentlemen, and
we assure you that the past accomplishments of the Essex
Institute, creditable as they are, shall be only the hint of
the larger and better work which shall be done. In that
building of which we dream, and which we have set our-
selves to secure, might be gathered and preserved the
records and relics of the old families of the Common-
wealth, the portraits that hand down in pictured distinct-
ness from generation to generation the memory of good
and true men and women, the histories of cities and
towns ; in a word, all that pertains to the old life and the
new, of the state. Past experience justifies us in believ-
ing that with a rallying centre so stable, there would be a
constant influx of books, manuscripts, works of art, things
new and old, a collection that would please the curious,
delight the antiquarian, instruct the student, aid the his-
torian, benefit every class in the community. If these
words seem enthusiastic, it is to be remembered that it is
the enthusiasm of truth. Men can hardly give themselves
and their meai^ to a nobler work, than the sending down
to posterity, undimmed, the handwriting of God in his-
tory.
SELECTIONS FROM CORRESPONDENCE.
Milwaukee, Wis., July 23, 1878.
MR. GEO. M. "\VIIIPPLE, SECRETARY ESSEX INSTITUTE,
Dear Sir: I should be most happy to be able to say, in
reply to the friendly invitation of your Committee, that I
would be present with you on the 18th of September next,
and take part in the services of the occasion.
Salem is a dear old town to me the place of my
nativity the home of as happy a childhood as boy ever
knew. There is no spot on the earth associated in my
mind with so many sacred and tender memories. In im-
agination I often go back to the old town people its
streets with the scenes and living throngs of more than
half a century ago -revisit the haunts and playgrounds
of my boyhood, and converse, or seem to converse, with
friends of other days, till the present vanishes into
shadow, and the past rises before me with all the vivid-
ness of a living reality.
The tree has been transplanted ; but its roots and fibres
still remain in the soil that gave it birth.
I wish I could be with you, and give utterance to
thoughts and emotions that are ever welling up in my
mind and heart as often as Salem is brought to my re-
membrance. But I cannot. I am now eleven hundred
miles away an old man in my seventy-fourth year
with voice so impaired and broken that I am not able to
address even a very small assembly.
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But everything that relates to Salem, is of interest to
me ; and therefore though absent in body on the day of
commemoration, I shall be with you in spirit.
It was when thinking of dear old Salem that I penned,
some time ago, a little ballad, containing among others
the folio wing .lines :
O give me back my boyhood's dreams,
When life was young, and hills and streams,
. And fields and flowers, shall be as then,
And birds will sing old songs again !
O give me .back the friends I knew,
The playmates of my earlier years.
When hours on golden pinions flew,
And tears were only April tears !
The brook by whose sweet banks I strayed
With hook and line, in careless joy,
Will babble over former tales,
And I shall be once more a boy !
Hoping your day of commemoration will be all you
anticipate, very truly yours,
JOSEPH H. TOWNE.
Edgehill, near Charlotte C. H., Virginia,
September 9, 1878.
To HENRY WHEATLAND, ESQ.,
Dear Sir: I am much obliged to you for the kind invi-
tation of the Essex Institute to attend the celebration of
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing
of Governor Endicott at Salem, and deeply regret that I
cannot be with you on so interesting an occasion. I take
a special delight in those anniversaries which commemo-
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rate the founding of States, and I would rejoice to behold
the gathering of the genius and worth and patriotism,
and, let me add, the beauty, of Massachusetts around a
common altar.
What an influence the year eighty-eight seems to have
exerted on the destinies of the Anglo-Saxon race ! The
year 1588, in which John Endicott was born, perhaps the
hour of his birth, saw Queen Elizabeth on horse-back,
with pistols in her holsters, exhorting her army to stand
up for the liberties of England then menaced by the In-
vincible Spanish Armada, which was hovering about the
British coast. And had Endicott lived to the age of your
townsman, the venerable Ilolyoke, he would have hailed
the British Revolution of 1688, to which England owes
that prestige which has made her the greatest nation the
sun ever shone upon. And then recurring to our own
land, we have another commingling of the eights in an
American centennial epoch, that of 1788, when the pres-
ent federal constitution was ratified by a people whose
territory was bounded by the river St. Mary's in Georgia,
with a portion resting on the eastern bank of the Missis-
sippi, on the waters of which our fathers could not launch
a skiff and bear their annual product to the sea without
vailing their flag to a foreign fortress, and begging a li-
cense from some haughty minion of the king of Spain,
but which now extends from Alaska to the gulf of Mex-
ico, and from sea to sea ; a constitution, by the way,
under the influence of which from the small beginnings
of John Endicott, which you are about to commemorate,
has arisen one of the grandest commonwealths of the new
world or the old.
It would indeed be a pleasing office to hear the lessons
of American experience of fwo centuries and a half ex-
pounded from the platform by your eloquent men, and to
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listen to the voice of the living lyre swept by the hands
of your distinguished minstrels ; but my infirmities make
such a privilege impossible to me ; and I can only assure
you of the cordial sympathy I cherish for the brilliant
success of your celebration, and of my earnest wishes
that it may tend not only to impress and instruct our
hearts and our minds with the recollections of the past,
but inspire us all with fresh hopes of the future of our
common country.
With great respect and esteem for the gentlemen of
your Committee, and for the members of the Essex Insti-
tute, I am truly yours,
HUGH BLAIR GRIGSBY.
Boston, Sept. 12, 1878.
To MESSRS. HENRY WHEATLAND AND OTHERS,
Gentlemen: Let me acknowledge the receipt of a kind
invitation to be present with you at the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the landing of Gov. Endicott at
Nahumkeig, and at the same time express my regret that
a prior engagement to be in Milwaukie that day, renders
it impossible for me to be with you on that occasion. I
trust, however, that your day will be brilliant and the
services gratifying to all interested in the early history of
New England.
Little has been preserved of the history of the period
during which Gov. Endicott exercised his authority over
the territories included in the Bay Charter. I have often
despaired when endeavoring to penetrate that mysterious
period further than the obscure references to the negotia-
tions with "the old planters," and political economical
views about " raising tobacco," I hope the ardor with
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which your Institute has pursued historical investigation
may be crowned with the discovery of additional facts.
In the career of John Endicott his governorship was
not the most important feature. A self-reliant and fiery
spirit kept him in the heat and turmoil of political contest,
wherever it arose in the Colony, and the uprightness of
his character and a certain marked ability of mind pre-
served for him respect and influence even in those rare
instances where his judgment was distrusted. He repre-
sented one of the best moulds of Puritan character.
Without doubt, as he first took possession of the Bay
Colony territory for the incorporated grantees, first
brought their Charter authority there, and first exercised
their right of local government over it, he was its first
governor under a Charter which, for half a century con-
trolled its fortunes. Neither the existence of earlier
settlements in the territory, nor the history of the old
planters can be found to militate against this honorable
distinction of him you celebrate.
I am your obedient servant,
CHAS. LEVI WOODBURY.
Mechlenburg Place, Knoxville, Tenn.,
Sept. 14, 1878.
DR. HENRY WHEATLAND AND OTHERS OF THE COM-
MITTEE OF ESSEX INSTITUTE,
Gentlemen: Your polite invitation to become your
guest at the approaching commemoration of the landing
of Governor Endicott at Salem has been received.
Allow me on my own behalf and in the name of the
Historical Society of Tennessee to make my very cordial
acknowledgments, for the compliment and good feeling
implied by the invitation and to assure your committee
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that we reciprocate their courtesy as thus manifested most
sincerely, and while circumstances beyond my control
make it impossible for me to attend in person, I seize the
occasion to join with you in the sincere wish that your
commemorative observances of the 18th of September,
1628, and the traditional and historical memories and
associations inspired by the fame and character of Endi-
cott and Salem, may be all that patriotism and reverence
for the past can desire.
Please assure your colleagues of the committee of the
regard and high consideration with which I am,
Your obedient servant,
J. G. M. RAMSEY,
President Hist. Soc. of Tennessee.
West Ossipee, N. H., 14th 9th mo., 1878.
GEO. M. WHIPPLE, ESQ.,
Dear Friend: I am sorry that I cannot respond, in
person, to the invitation of the Essex Institute to its
commemorative festival on the 18th inst. I especially
regret it, because, though a member of the Society of
Friends, and, as such, regarding with abhorrence the
severe persecution of the sect under the administration
of Gov. Endicott, I am not unmindful of the otherwise
noble qualities and worthy record of the great Puritan,
whose misfortune it was to live in an age which regarded
religious toleration as a crime. He was the victim of the
merciless logic of his creed. He honestly thought that
every convert to Quakerism became by virtue of that
conversion a child of perdition ; and, as the head of the
Commonwealth, responsible for the spiritual as well as
temporal welfare of its inhabitants, he felt it his duty to
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whip, banish, and hang heretics to save his people from
perilous heresy.
The extravagance of some of the early Quakers has
been grossly exaggerated. Their conduct will compare
in this respect favorably with that of the first Anabaptists
and Independents ; but, it must be admitted that many of
them manifested a good deal of that wild enthusiasm
which has always been the result of persecution and the
denial of the rights of conscience and worship. Their
pertinacious defiance of laws enacted against them, and
their fierce denunciations of priests and magistrates, must
have been particularly aggravating to a man as proud
and high tempered as John Endicott. He had that
free-tongued neighbor of his, Edward Wharton, smartly
whipped at the cart-tail about once a month, but it may
be questioned whether the Governor's ears did not sutler
as much under Wharton's biting sarcasm and "free speech"
as the hitter's back did from the magisterial whip.
Time has proved that the Quakers had the best of the
controversy ; and their descendants can well afford to for-
get and forgive an error which the Puritan Governor
shared with the generation in which he lived.
I am very truly thy friend,
JOHX G. WIIITTIEII.
St. Louis, Sept. 15, 1878.
G. M. WHIPPLE, ESQ.,
Dear Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of an invitation from the Essex Institute to assist, the
18th instant, at the commemoration of the landing of
Gov. Endicott at Salem, the 18th of September, 1028.
. I regret very much that I shall not be able to join in the
celebration which will signalize the 250th anniversary of
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that event. I like commemoration f^tes, for they have a
wholesome effect on the public mind, which is all too apt
to be engrossed by the present. When Burke said that
those who do not look backward to their ancestors will
not look forward to their posterity, he more than implied
that he who looks backward will also look forward j and
thus looking before and after will prove himself worthy
of both the past and the future.
There is another reason which in my humble opinion
calls for the commemoration of the early events of our
history. We live in a time when science is making won-
derful revelations, and (in the judgment of certain scien-
tists) shaking the foundations of supernatural religion.,
I do not propose to raise a theological question, much less
to say a word in favor of New England Puritanism, but
I do mean to say that belief in the supernatural was the
most potent element in the history of the colonies, as it
has been the most potent element and factor in the his-
tory of the human race. If it could be eliminated from
the past, we should have inherited very little worth caring
for in art, literature or political institutions.
I have the honor to be very faithfully yours,
PETER L. For,
President Mo. Hist. Society.
Newport, Rhode Island, September 16, 1878.
DR. HENRY WHEATLAND AND THE GENTLEMEN or THE
COMMITTEE,
Dear Sirs: I regret that some professional engagements
have intervened, to prevent me from accepting your polite
invitation, and from participating in your joyous festival,
on the anniversary of the settlement of Salem.
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At the former celebration on the 18th of September,
1828, the orator of the occasion, Judge Story, spoke in
high commendation of Rhode Island, as preceding the
other colonies in the establishment of Religious Liberty.
At that time it was the custom of historians to eulogize
Roger Williams as the sole early Apostle of Religious
Liberty in Rhode Island.
Had I been able to have been present at your celebra-
tion, I should have felt it my duty to put forth as early
advocates of Religious Liberty, the just and equal claim
of William Coddiijgtoii and his company, who, in 1638,
founded a settlement on the Island of Rhode Island, where
the Doctrine of Religious Liberty, having been practised
from 1638, was in 1644, incorporated into a distinct Act
of State Legislation. This was the first Act of entire
Religious Liberty ever incorporated in the Legislation of
a civilized state. The above Act preceded by three years
the union of Rhode Island with Providence Plantations in
1647. William Coddington and his company are, there-
fore, entitled to the high praise of being the first Legis-
lators, "since Christianity ascended the throne of the
Ctesars," to enact in their Code of Laws, the declaration
of entire Religious Liberty. Rhode Island is contented
with this praise. She aspires not to the additional com-
mendation of Judge Story for the eloquent preamble to
the Act in the Digest of 1798, an argument in support of
Religious Liberty, he says, rarely surpassed in power of
thought, and felicity of expression. That argument,
rightfully, belongs to Virginia, and to American States-
men of a later dav.
*>
I beg leave to offer the following sentiment :
"All Honour to the Early Worthies of your City ; the
illustrious Endicott and the glorious Founders of Salem."
Believe me, dear sirs, yours sincerely,
DAVID KING, M. D.
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Detroit, Mich., Sept. 5th, 1878.
DR. HENRY WHEATLAND, CHAIRMAN,
Dear Sir: Please accept my thanks for your invitation
to be present on the 18th inst. to participate in the Essex
Institute's proposed celebration of the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the landing of Gov. Endicott. It
would afford me much pleasure to be with you on that
interesting occasion. Undoubtedly there will be many
there who, like myself, left their native city many years
ago to seek a home in the West, so* that in connection
with the celebration there will be a reunion of friends
who may not have met for many years, each to tell the
story of his or her life, some to tell of their riches and
some of their poverty, some of their joys and some of
their sorrows. I would like to be there to join with you
in realizing the pleasures of the day and hearing the old,
old stories of Salem and its inhabitants, but other engage-
ments will prevent. Hoping that many of the sons and
daughters of Salem who have wandered to other parts of
the earth will be there to help make the grand gathering,
one of joy to many a household, and one to be placed on
record in the archives of the Essex Institute and treasured
up in the memory of all who may have the pleasure of
witnessing it, I remain,
Yours truly,
J. C. HOLMES.
POEM
BY
REV. CHARLES T. BROOKS.
"Antiquam exquirite matrem" 1 ^Eneid, iii, 96.
"Look up the Old Mother !"- long ago 'twas sung
By Roman Virgil, in his tuneful tongue ;
"Exquirite antiquam matrem!" thus
The blessed "Orclo" 2 read the words to us ;
The selfsame cry is in the air to-day ;
We hear the summons, and our hearts obey.
"Come back to the old Mother !" we, too, sing,
Tied to the ancient matron's apron-string ;
The elastic cord, which, wander where we will,
Draws the last lingering truant homeward still,
Sooner or later, to the Mother's breast,
In her embrace, a grateful child, to rest.
To-day where'er the world's wide ways they roam-
Old Mother Salem calls her children home.
On all the winds of heaven her voice goes forth
From East and West they come from South and North.
The message rings "from China to Pcru"-
1 The Motto is part of the oracle of Pliocbusto the " duriDardanidaa" (the hardy
Trojans), directing them, when they bhould reach the Latian shore, to search out
the old original homestead of their ancestors.
'The Ordo refers to the old Dclphin Edition, in which the words of the author
were arranged in the English order for the help of beginners. It was this railway
by which some of us were launched " E conspectu Siculae telluris in altum " at a
voluntary evening school kept by our worthy Mayor, in a room of the Ives' Block.
in 1827.
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Pacific isles have caught the tidings, too ;
And all at least on Memory's well-worn track
With loyal, loving reverence hasten back.
Each seeks some favorite haunt, where once the face
Of heaven and earth wore its most winning grace.
One finds his way to sweet South Fields again,
And steers for Derby's Farm alas ! in vain ;
Then climbs the lane, half fearing, hoping still
They may have left a piece of Castle Hill. 3
There rubs his eyes and seaward looks with dread
Heaven grant they may have spared old Naugus' Head !
Another to the Common takes his way,
Play-ground and training-field of childhood's day ;
To see if, still, the quivering poplar-trees 4
Flash in the sun and murmur in the breeze,
As when the glittering ranks, on -muster-day,
Down the green vista stretched their long array ;
And if, in that neglected, weed grown spot
The ancient Gun-house keeps its place or not.
When ail old son of Salem, after years
Of exile, in his native streets appears,
Behold, in his perplexed and eager glance,
What crowds of questions yearn for utterance !
Pray, can you tell me, friend, if hereabout
There lives a person by the name of Strout? 5
8 A large slice of this bold and beautiful eminence has been cut away this long
time.
4 The mall was lined with Lombardy poplars in my boyhood. They were cut
down to make way for Elms in 1823.
6 Joshua Strout, a grocer, kept in the northwest corner of the Franklin Build-
,ing. If I rightly remember, he was stout as well aa Strout.
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What has become of that queer, winking man,
Named Jaquish, 6 who could xaiv a load of (an?
Whose daughter Judith apple of his eye !
(A heroine whom Fame should not let die)
Of the church militant a soldier true ;
Binder of shoes; artist in fresco, too;
Fresh from her conflicts with the hosts of sin,
Would sit, well-pleased, and scrape the violin :
The mother bending o'er the buzzing wheel,
To drown the rapturous joy she needs must feel,
Or stooping o'er the hearth to brush aside
The honest tear-drop of maternal pride.
And this rare group has gone? Ah, wcll-a-day !
Thus on Time's wave the jewels melt away !
Does the old green Gibraltar-cart 7 still stop,
Up in Old Paved Street, at Aunt Hannah's 8 shop !
Beside Cold Spring drop the sweet acorns still?
Do boys dig tlagroot now beneath Legge's Hill?
When 'Lection-day brings round its rapturous joys
t Jaquishwa.s the popular pronunciation; but Jacques was, I believe, the real
name. The family room (lining, cooking anil work-room, all in one presented a
group which Teniers might have envied. The sharp-faced Judith, her shoe-binding
.aid aside, one leg with the deep blue stocking crossed over the other, while, with an
innocent self-satisfaction, she swept the violin for the entertainment of her visitors;
the father sitting, with an eye winking and watery, partly from paternal partiality
and partly from an infirmity well understood by his townsmen, the mother busy
at the spinning wheel and only occasionally looking up with a sly look of triumph
all this made a picture well worth a more elaborate execution than the text has
given it. (The fresco painting refers to the I'alms ami Camels that figured on the
walls of the room.)
7 Refers to old Ma'am Spencer and her son Thomas, the Quaker Astronomer,
Natural Historian and Scientist generally, who made that favorite hard candy
called gibraltars, over in North Salem. See Hist. Coll. Essex Institute, vol. xiv.
page 271, for a notice of Mr. Spencer.
Aunt Hannah is Hannah Harris, who kept a Circulating Library and variety
shop.
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Does Doctor Lang 9 sell liquorice to the boys?
Is there a house still standing where they make
The regular, old-fashioned 'Lection-cake ?
Does "A True Grocer" 10 his own merits praise?
Does Mister Joseph 11 bake cold loaves some days ?
Does Micklefield's 12 Indian, as he used to do,
Hold the narcotic weed to public view?
Echo the streets no more with Mullet's 13 bell?
Has Bedney 14 no more Almanacs to sell ?
Those Kings 15 of East and West, in days of yore
Monarch and Mumford do they walk no more?
Does 'Squire Savage still look sternly down
On ill-bred urchins with his awful frown ?
Deputy Dutch and dog do they still chase
The recreant debtor to his hiding place?
Does Louvriere still skip, with book in hand,
By a short cut through Doctor Oliver's land ?
Blind Dolliver 16 an eye in every finger
Still at the organ does he love to linger ?
Dr. Lang, apothecary, kept at the corner of Liberty and Essex Streets. The
Vine Street boys used to invest one cent out of their four-pence Ha'penny Election
money in ball-liquorice at his shop.
o There were two Trues, Abraham the grocer and Joseph True, carver. The
former kept in Washington Street, the latter in Mill Street.
11 John Joseph, a Portuguese, had a Bakery in Brown Street. A woman asking
for a cold loaf one day, he replied, " we did not bake any cold loaves to-day,
ma'am."
12 Micklefield, Tobacconist, kept on Front Street, near the corner of Central.
13 Mullet was the blind Town Crier.
14 Robwt Bedney was sexton of the " Tabernacle."
is " East and West " mean East End and West End. Jo Monarch was a stately
Portuguese who lived in a small house far down Essex Street, below the East
Church, and Mumford was King of the Colony in the " Huts " on the Turnpike
near Buffum's corner.
18 Dolliver was organist at the First Church.
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Or at the party, coming late, perchance,
Tune the piano while he calls the dance?
Does Doctor Prince continue still to preach?
Does Philip 17 blow? Does Master Hacker teach?
Do children sometimes see with terror, still,
The midnight blaze of wood-wax on Witch Hill?
Or hail, far twinkling through the shades of night,
The cheering beam of Baker's Island light?
Our pilgrim stands in Central street, and there
Wonders if still, in summer hours, the air
Murmurs abroad, as evening shades come in,
The tones of Ostinelli's violin ;
Or shakes with footsteps, in the dancing-hall,
That beat responsive to Papanti's call.
When "training-day" is drawing to a close,
And tired "Militia" long for sweet repose ;
Only the show r y "uniforms" would fain
"Improve the shining hours" that yet remain,
A few unique manoeuvres to display,
A grand finale to the festive day,
Do "lobster-backs" and gray-coats sometimes meet, 18
And come to a dead-lock, in Central street?
(Alas ! that this proud gala-day, so bright,
Should close its eye upon a true "sham-fight !")
But still fresh questions crowd upon his mind,
And still sad answers he is doomed to find.
17 Philip Frye blew the organ (played it, ae he flattered himself), at the North
Church.
"Refers to the rush and rivalry of the red coat Cadets and the Infantry for the
possession of that convenient street to display their respective tactical skill.
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Where is the old North Church that heard the tread
Of Sabbath-breaking troops from Marblehead?
Where is the venerable "East" that shook
To Bentley's note of thanks or bold rebuke ?
Where is the Old Sun Tavern? 19 Where the sign
That showed the "Coffee House" in days laug syne ?
The Juniper sweet name ! what charm it wore
To childhood's fancy in the days of yore !
The Willows well may it be called to-day
There Memory weeps the charm has passed away !
Where is the Gate,- beneath whose graceful arch
We saw so many a gay battalion march,
Welcomed by Washington's majestic face ?
Where is Plank Alley ? 21 Where is Holyoke Place ?
Neptune and Vine and Court streets 22 where are they?
With their old dwellers they have moved away
Gone up to that calm city in the air;
The feet of Memory still frequent them there.
"In Salem is his Tabernacle" so
Our pious fathers cried with souls aglow ;
And here their Tabernacle builded they ;
Men live who once beheld it ; but to-day
A wooden finger 23 stretches high in air
And cries : Behold your tabernacle there!
19 It was opposite Liberty Street or (more exactly) Dr. Oliver's house.
90 The old Common gates.
" Plank Alley " is Elm Street.
22 "Neptune connected Vine with Derby "Vine" is now part of Charter, and
Court" continues Washington.
23 Referring to the entire transformation of the old Tabernacle with its belfry.
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Yet while the pilgrim, roaming up and down
The streets and alleys of his native town,
So many a well-known object seeks in vain,
The sky, the sea, the rock-ribbed hills remain.
In the low murmur of the quivering breeze
That stirs the leaves of old ancestral trees,
The same maternal voice he still can hear
That breathed of old in childhood's dreaming car;
The same maternal smile is in the sky
Whose tender greeting blessed his infant eye.
Though much has changed and much has vanished quite,
The old town-pastures have not passed from sight.
"Delectable Mountains" of his childhood there
They stretch away into the summer air.
Still the bare rocks in golden lustre shine,
Still bloom the barberry and the columbine,
As when, of old, on many a "Lecture day," 1 ' 4
Through bush and swamp he took his winding way,
Toiled the long afternoon, then homeward steered,
With weary feet and visage berry-smeared.
Thus to some favorite haunt will each to-day,
At least in fond remembrance, find his way.
My thoughts, by some mysterious instinct, take
Their flight to that charmed spot we called the Neck ;
Aye, round the Mother's Neck I fondly cling;
Around her neck, like beads, my rhymes I string.
34 On Wednesday and Saturday there was no school in the afternoon, these
having originally been the times of the Week-day Lectures.
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She will not scorn my offering, though it be
Like beads of flying foam, flung by the sea
Across the rocks, to gleam a moment there,
Then break and vanish in the summer air.
Then hail once more, the Neck the dear old Neck !
What throngs of bright and peaceful memories wake
At that compendious name ! What rapturous joy
Kindles the heart of an old Salem boy,
As he returns, though but in thought, to take
That old familiar walk "down to the Neck !"
The old Neck Gate swings open to his view,
At morn and eve, to let the cows pass through.
Foye's rope walk stands there still he enters in :
Adown that dusky lane shall Memory spin
Full many a yarn, the while with silent tread
A ghostly workman draws his lengthening thread.
Through window-holes that light that black earth-floor
How many a sprite peeps in from days of yore !
What wild halloos renew their mocking chase
Far down the dark, reverberating space !
No magic wand the Enchantress needs to wave
Awe-struck we stand before old Gifford's Cave j 25
While, towering o'er us a strange contrast lo !
Fresh as they looked when, sixty years ago,
They caught our glance from far, on sea and land,
The red brick walls of the poors' palace stand.
26 A house in the bank back of the "Workhouse," consisting of several sucessive
rooms scooped out by Gifford, the hermit.
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With boyish feet I climb yon naked hill,
And Bentley's Rock a ruin, greets me still.
Rises once more the Genius of the place
The same elastic step and eager face.
The old man lifts the spy-glass to his eye :
"There go the ships !" again I hear him cry ;
As, on his other watch-tower, once he stood,
And fired his farewell shot in playful mood,
And to the parting fleet his God-speed said
The self-invited guests of Marblehead. 26
In my mind's eye, on that memorial ground
A relict of the war of '12 limps round,
As I beheld him oft in childhood's day,
Of the Neck Gate an old habitue.
Whereby there hangs a tale : One cloudy night,
The sentinel upon the Neck caught sight
Of a strange figure creeping round the hill ;
He cried out: "Who goes there?" but all was still,
He challenged thrice then fired a canine yell
Revealed his sad mistake too late and well.
With bleeding foot the victim limped away,
A cripple and a hero from that day.
28 One Sunday in the war of 1812 news came to Salem in church time that a
British fleet had chased the Constitution into Marblehead harbor. Dr. Bentley
dismissed his congregation and hastened over on horseback. In the afternoon he
laid aside his prepared sermon and extemporized one from Psalm civ, 26: ' There
go the ships."
Another, more particular version runs as follows : During the morning service,
some one came into meeting and whispered to a member of the Congregation. Dr.
Bentley observing it, called out, "what is lie telling you?" The man repeated,
11 The British Fleet are chasing the Constitution into Marblehead. The Doctor at
once dismissed the congregation, saying, " Let us hasten to help our brethren; we
must fight to day, we can pray any day.
Still a third version makes the Doctor to have said in dismissing the congrega-
tion : " Serving man is the most acceptable way of serving God."
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But other, fairer, memories consecrate
The immortal purlieus of the old Neck Gate.
Oft, on a summer Sunday's peaceful close,
(The sweet relief no child at this day knows ! )
In the long, lingering glow of evening's ray,
(Holy day melting into holiday)
All down through Wapping (Derby street, I mean),
Where trig and jaunty tars might then be seen,
Leaning on old spiked cannon, taken at sea,
Trophies of many a naval victory,
And made to serve henceforth a double intent,
Street-corner-post and sailor's monument;
Thus, in the Sabbath evening's quiet ray,
Down this old storied street we took our way
To where, beside the fresh, cool, spray- wet shore,
Old Coloael Hathorne's hospitable door
Invited us to rest ; serenely there
The patriarch greeted us with musing air ;
But no long reverence childhood waits to pay
Soon to the garden-gate we found our way.
How red how sweet the rose, the currant there I
What heavenly fragrance filled the evening air !
What but a; bit of Eden could it be
That little garden close upon the sea ?
Within, red rose and redder currant glow
Without, the white-lipped ocean whispers low.
Sweet memories ! yet not chiefly for their sake
My thoughts to-day have wandered to the Neck.
Bentley and Hathorne names that shed renown
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Upon the history of our ancient town
Are but as criers to-day, that point us back
With glowing faces, up the shining track
To where, assembled now on Memory's hill,
A group of forms more venerable still,
With upturned faces, wear immortal light,
Caught and reflected from the heavenly height.
On that memorial mount, in air serene,
Walking in glory, with majestic mien,
A shining cloud of witnesses appear
And send us greetings from their lofty sphere.
Reverent and brave, inflexible, sedate,
Founders and fathers of the Church and State,
Captains and counsellors, a saintly band,
They beckon onward to the Promised Land.
Conant, the wise and generous pioneer;
Endicott, high-souled, daring, and austere ;
Iligginson, Williams, Peters, well might we
Cry, as in vision we behold the three :
Fair souls ! to Goodness, Faith and Freedom dear,
Shall we not build three tabernacles here ?
On the Lord's mountain, at the fount of Truth
They dwell with Him, in life's unwithering youth :
That sweet and saintly one, who crossed the wave
To find, in one short year, an exile's grave ;
He twice a pilgrim, who in winter snows
And savage huts alone could find repose,
(Nay where, on earth, could such as he e'er find
Repose for his aspiring, restless mind?)
To whom the dark-skinned ravens of the wood
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In his distress brought sinking nature food ;
Who, by the hand of Providence led hence,
Still at his journey's end found PROVIDENCE ;
And that brave preacher and strong worker he
Who left his darling such sweet "Legacy ;"
Who, living, brought her lessons from the sky,
That taught the way to live for joys on high,
And with his dying smile and dying breath
The precious lesson : How to conquer death.
' "I wish you neither poverty
Nor riches ;
But godliness, so gainful
With content.
No painted pomp, nor glory that
Bewitches ;
A blameless life is the best
Monument ;
And such a soul that soars a-
bove the sky,
Well pleased to live, but better
Pleased to die." 27
O could those saints those seers and singers twain 28
Breathe their free spirit through my stammering strain,
Then should these lips indite a fitting lay,
Congenial to this high memorial day.
27 This beautiful extract I take from Eev. Mr. Upham's eloquent 2nd Century
Lecture.
aa I call Williams as well as Peters a singer, having in mind his touching
hymns in the wilderness, also given in Upham's discourse.
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Then might I utter in a worthier rhyme
Those lofty lessons for the coining time,
Of faith and freedom, of content and trust,
The fathers breathe from heaven and from the dust.
That graver task I cheerfully resign
To other voices abler hands than mine.
But me the question now confronts (too long
Evaded by my loitering, gadding song),
Why at this hour, when we our way retrace
Back to the earliest f(x>tprints of the race
Who on these pleasant shores first pitched their tent,
The cradle of the infant settlement
The old North River side my thoughts forsake
And take that lonely ramble to the Neck.
Forgive a would-be-patriarch (shall I say?)
Born all too late, whose memory stops to-day
Well nigh two hundred years this side the mark,
Runs back three score then fumbles in the dark.
I was a boy when quaint old Bentley died ;
I roamed the Neck, his spirit at my side.
Within its gate a realm of shadows lay
A land of mystery stretching far away.
There with a ghostly Past I talked with awe
The ancient Mother's august form I saw.
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"Seek out the ancient Mother !"-- How and where?
Some pore o'er musty scrolls and seek her there ;
But on the open land, beneath the skies
That made it fair to her first children's eyes,
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In that fresh air upon that sacred ground
Methiuks the Mother's presence best is found.
And so I seem to see her shadow wait
To greet me, passing through the old Neck Gate.
For does not Winter Island meet my eye
And tell a silent tale of days gone by?
I climb yon hill and see forevermore
A spectral sail approach the wooded shore.
On Winter Island wharf I see them land,
A ghostly train come forth upon the strand.
A village springs to life a busy port;
It has its bustling wharves its bristling fort.
Lo ! Fish Street destined one day to run down
To Water Street now runs to Water-town.
Can Fancy quite recall to-day the charms
Of those enchanting "Marble Harbor Farms?"
Are the "sweet single roses" 29 still in bloom?
Still do the " strawberries " the air perfume ?
And from the flowers and shrubs that clothe the ground
Does a "sweet smell of gardens" breathe around?
And, sons of Salem ! be it ne'er forgot
That it was there in that wild, lovely spot
While yet the plough had scarcely broke the land
They set their hearts to have the College stand. 30
Well can we guess what charms the landscape wore
When first our fathers trod this silent shore.
Sweet Briar.
Bentley (Description of Salem Mass. Hist. Col., 1st Series, vi. 232), says:
As early as 1036 they made a reserve of lands upon the Marble Harbor Farms for
a college.
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The child asks : Why should those green islands be
Baptized as Great and Little Misery?" 31
Miffht we not almost deem these names were iriven
o O
Lest those poor saints should dream this earth was
Heaven? 32
Great miseries and little miseries well
Could they, of both, by sore experience tell.
But, sweetly locked in sheltering arms, to-day,
Their shallop safe in Summer-Harbor lay.
Such was the name they gave the spot, when first
Upon their yearning eyes its beauty burst ;
Till by a three fold nay, a four fold claim,
SALEM showed right divine to be its name.
For Salem they were taught of old to pray ;
To Peace to Salem God has led their way ;
A spark of strife at Conant's breath had died : ' 3
In Salem now in Peace we dwell they cried.
And lo ! another wonder if we here
To Cotton Mather's word may lend an ear
"Behold !" they cried, "the meaning of our name
In Indian speech and Hebrew is the same.
31 Shelley sings:
''Many a green isle needs must bo
In this wide sea of misery."
89 But the prose account (Ben tley's) is: " It was early called Moulton's Misery
from a shipwreck."
83 See Ilubbard, quoted by Young (Chronicles of Mass., p. 31 and note): Rev
John White, speaking of the change of name from Nahum-keik to Salem, says it
was done "upon a fair ground, in remembrance of a pcticc. nettled upon a confer-
ence at a general meeting between them and their neighbors [the Dorchester
planters and rfndicott's company], after expectance of some dangerous jar"
' being by the prudent moderation of Mr. Conaiit quietly composed."
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This is the place of rest we came to seek :
This is our comfort-haven : Nahum-Keek !" 3 *
Here Mother Salem her first fortune made
The future Queen of the East India trade.
Here her commercial greatness she began
With that small fleet of fishers from Cape Ann.
Wharf after wharf crept westward, year by year ;
The hum of traffic grew more loud and clear.
Meanwhile, as through the field of History's glass
The various groups of scattered settlers pass,
Yonder we see, from the North River shore
The farmers of the region paddling o'er
To where the magnates of the Church and State
Reside the Minister and Magistrate.
There stands the house in its capacious lot,
Where dwells the worthy Master Endicott,
Which Roger Conant, that good-natured man,
Sent to his honored neighbor from Cape Ann. 35
North Fields and South Fields little dreamed that day
Of horse-cars. running on an iron way.
Each household had its family canoe,
34 Magnalia, i. 63: " Of which place I have somewhere met with an old obser-
vation, that the name of it was rather Hebrew than Indian; for Ndhum signifies
comfort and Keek signifies haven; and our English not only found it an haven of
comfort, but happened also to put an Hebrew name upon it; for they called it
Salem, for the peace which they had and hoped in it; and so it is called unto this
day."
35 An old witness says Endicott sent and had it pulled down by virtue of the
right given him by the company in England ; I have simply shadowed forth in my
version the well-known good grace with which Conant accepted his being super,
seded by Endicott.
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And of these "water-horses" some had two.
These troopers also had their grand displays,
Their General Trainings, and their Muster Days,
Hadst thou the skill to reproduce, my Muse,
That memorable Inspection of Canoes,
By some prophetic instinct (shall we say?)
Named to take place on that midsummer day
Which in another century was to be
The Glorious Fourth of Freedom's History
Couldst thou but picture to the outward eye
The flash of paddles in the noonday sky-
How would that grand Regatta's rainbow blaze
Dim all the tinsel pomp of modern days I 30
Turn now from inland ferry and canoe,
Where heavier, deep-sea craft invite the view.
Years passed our sorely tried, yet hardy town
Won with her merchant ships a rare renown. 37
The second war gave her success a check ;
I was a boy when the Brig Ann, a wreck,
Crawled up to Derby's Wharf and landed there
Her Oriental cargo, rich and rare.
"Upham's "Salem Village, &c.," i. C3. The order of the General Court is
dated June 24, 1836, and the time lixed was "'the next second day, being the fourth
day of the fifth month."
87 The following metrical version is offered of a well-known story drolly illus-
trative of Salem's former imposing greatness in oriental eyes.
Some native merchant of the East, they say,
(Whether Canton, Calcutta or Bombay),
Had in his counting-room a map, whereon
Across the field in capitals was drawn
The name of Salem, meant to represent
That Salem was the Western Continent,
While in an tipper corner was put down
A dot, named Boston, SALEM'S leading town.
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What sweets and fragrances, in frails and crates,
Gum-copal, allspice, nutmegs, cloves and dates !
Then filled the eyes of every Salem boy
With mingling tears of sadness and of joy.
We laughed to see how the old-yellow stores
Took in the bags of sweetmeats through their doors :
We wept to see through what a hard fought fight
The brave old hulk had brought us such delight.
Sadly she seemed to figure, as she ]&y 9
The sunset of our old commercial day.
Thenceforth, .O Salem ! on another sea,
A calmer deep, thy commerce was to be ;
In History's realm thy flag was now to shine
And make the noble wealth of Knowledge thine.
Peace be within thee, dear old Mother Town !
And as, at morn and eve, the dews come down
On thy fair gardens, grace from heaven descend
And rest upon thy homes till time shall end !
From BmTum's Corner to the old Neck Gate,
Peace and prosperity upon thee wait !
And from Orne's Point to Pickering's Point may peace
Reign in thy borders, and thy wealth increase
The wealth they win who choose the better part :
The never-failing wealth of mind and heart :
Treasures not tied to earthly fortune's wheel ;
Which not e'en Time the busiest thief can steal:
Generous aspirings Truth that maketh free
And "thoughts that wander through eternity;"
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Jewels of Knowledge Wisdom's ample store
Treasures laid up in Heaven forevermoro.
Tis pleasant, in this headlong age, to find
A quiet corner for the musing mind ;
And he who seeks it, sure may find it here,
In this old memory-haunted atmosphere.
"Dreamy old town" they call thee? Well, dream on !
Thought's dreams shall last, when Passion's dreams are
gone.
Be thine the dreams that yearn for realms divine ;
Pilgrims that seek Perfection's distant shrine ;
Such dreams so pure, so tranquil and so true
As Avarice and Ambition never knew ;
Not such as make the worldling's daily life
A scene of fitful, feverish, futile strife,
But those calm, holy dreams that melt away
Like morning twilight into perfect day.
ODE
BY
WILLIAM W. STORY.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by
WILLIAM W. STORY,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
ODE
I SEND my voice from far beyond the sea ;
Only a voice and therefore fit to be
Among the dim and ghostly company
That, from historic realms of shadowy gloom,
And from the silent world beyond the tomb,
This day shall come, their living sons to greet
With voiceless presence, and with noiseless feet,
To join the long procession in the street,
And listen to the praise
Of the old deeds and days
That in our memories evermore are sweet.
II
There the brave Endicott,
With jingling sword, high ruff, and magisterial coat,
August, shall lead the shadowy train
And marching near on either side
Wiuthrop, his friend so true and tried,
With stately step and dignified
And Conaut proudly plain.
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There Darley, Cradock, Vassall, Johnson. There
The stern-hued face of Goffe, the regicide,
And Skelton's serious air.
There Higgiuson, serene and sad,
With eyes uplifted 'neath a brow of care,
In Puritanic vestments clad,
Breathing a silent prayer.
There Roger Williams pensive shall be seen,
Quiet of presence, gentle in his mien,
As erst he was, ere he was forced to flee
Before the cry of rabid bigotry.
There Saltonstall and Pynchon, Lynde and Fitch,
Stern Stoughton, humbled Sewell, shall be found ;
And over-zealous Parris, looking round,
Eager to catch a glimpse of some foul witch
Among the childish group who, at his side,
Gaze all about them shy and eager-eyed.
There, rustling in her stiff brocade,
High-heeled, erect and slim,
Lady Arbella with her figure staid
And manners prim ;
And following her, full many a maid, whose eyes,
Up-glancing from her downcast face,
Despite her Quaker dress and bashful grace,
Give warrant for the charge of witcheries :
A brave procession, free of worldly guile,
Stern in its aspect and with features grim,
Scarce knowing how to smile,
All moving silently, and keeping pace
Unto a voiceless hymn.
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III
And there, behold, with lofty feathered crest,
A dark bronzed face looks out among the rest,
As the procession slowly moves along
That is old Massasoit, erect and strong,
With a brass coin upon his broad bare chest ;
Open his look as when
He met the Pilgrims on the shore with "Welcome
Englishmen !"
And there on either hand,
With frowning faces, stand
Brave Alexander, Philip, and their friend
Canonchet, brooding o'er the fate
That kingdom, home, and hearth made desolate,
And drove them to their sad and bitter end.
IV
And, since for all that pass the time is short
For full report,
Leap we two centuries, to note the name
Of some, who, on our Pilgrim roll of Fame,
Have later but not lesser claim.
Those who but fifty years ago
Walked in the flesh with us, when we
Closed up our city's second century
That now no more we know.
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Dearest to me, and first of all the throng
That slowly moves along,
Is one beloved form, with face benign,
Whose birthday fell on the same day as thine,
Oh pleasant town of mine !
'Tis the great Jurist : all his features bright
With an illuminating inner light,
Whose voice that day the story old
Of pilgrim faith and strength so nobly told,
The good, wise man, who had the power to draw
All hearts, as by a charm ;
Whose high clear spirit, dry with wisdom's light,
With love's rich tints, was warm.
There, not unknown to fame,
Goes Dane, whose liberal bounty laid
In Harvard's academic shade,
The school which bears his name ;
And, by his great abridgment to the law,
His full debt doubly .paid.
There Bowditch, who with keen and patient eye
Traced the far planet's pathway in the sky,
And man's across the sea ;
Whom every sailor, tossing on the main
In danger or distress,
Hoping to see his dear ones once again,
Names but to bless.
There Holyoke, still erect and firm, we see
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Under the full weight of a century.
There Pickering ; Pickmiin. There the clustering hair
And flashing eyes of Choate, whose rare
Full-worded eloquence hud power to thrill,
And move, and mould his hearers at his will.
There too are Phillips, Silsbec, Saltonstall ;
Putnam and Crowninshield, and King, and White,
Good men and true, to battle for the right
At bar, bench, and the nation's council hall.
There Hawthorne, in whose subtle glance
Are silent worlds of mystery and romance ;
A boy as yet, shy, modest in his mien,
Pondering the passing scene.
O J. O
There the two Prcscotts, not he of the sword,
Who the great battle fought for Liberty,
For he was of the older race, but he
Who wore the ermine of the bench, whose word
Was justice, and the younger one whose pen
Painted the pomp of Spanish chivalry,
Battles and conquests, and brave deeds of men
Sailing across the almost untried sea.
There Flint and Prince and Brazer we may note,
And Upham, who our saddest annals wrote,
Amid the clergy moving on ; and there
Our merchant princes all, whose argosies
Ploughed with their keel the torrid Indian seas
Rich spoils to us to bear.
Gray, Derby, Rogers and the Peabodies :
And following them, perchance more known to famo,
Yet only worthy of his name,
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He who with broad and open hand
Scattered its wide largess
Over his native and adopted land,
The ignorant to teach the poor to bless.
VI
These are our dead I a glorious company
That have before us gone, some many a year,
Some as it were but yesterday, and we,
Their living sons, to-day bring up the rear.
VII
Here on this day, then, when we meet,
These shades august to greet,
And sun us in their shining memory,
Let us our vows record,
Never by act or word
To shift our shoulders from the weight
They laid on us, of Liberty.
Now, while their spirits gather near,
Let us from them take heart, and cheer
And pledge our utmost will and skill
High up to hold, with spirits bold,
The task they planned we should fulfil.
No cravens recreant to our trust,
No cowards shrinking from the fight,
But ready, through life's toil and dust,
To combat for the Right t
Ready, with heart and hand, to strive
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To keep the ancient faith alive,
And bear us, so that our New England name,
Through us, shall never suffer shame.
VIII
Weak are we, and in numbers few,
Heroic deeds to dare and do ?
Well, so were they, the tried, the few
Who braved the sea, the storm, the bleak
Wind-hunted coast,
On these inhospitable lands to seek
The freedom that we boast.
Who bade farewell to homes and friends,
To arts, to luxury, to ease,
Ready to brave the blind, wild, weltering seas;
The icy shafts that cruel winter sends ;
Horrors of savage war, black nights
Startled by war whoops, hideous sights,
Perpetual fears that prowled like phantoms dim
Round every hope ; perils unknown and grim ;
The face of famine, that with hollow eye
Glared into every household's privacy :
All this and more than this intent
To plant upon this stern, far continent,
The seed, the precious seed, of Liberty.
IX
With stern sincerity they wrought,
With pious trust and earnest thought,
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With dauntless courage and determined will ;
And if that sternness had its evil side,
And through excess of zeal grew narrow-eyed,
And bigoted, and hard,
Their errors were to virtues close allied,
That no low passions marred.
For this we praise them nobly straight they stood
Their duty to fulfill.
Firm to their faith, whatever might betide
Of good or ill
For this we glory, that within our veins
Runs their strong blood
For this forgive the cruelty that stains
Their very faith to God.
X
Grim was their creed : for them the flower
*
Had scarce a right to bloom ;
Beauty and joy they deemed the devil's dower
To tempt man to his doom.
And life a sad procession of gray hours
That led but to the tomb.
XI
Even as I speak, behold, with plaintive eyes
What sorrowing phantoms rise !
That superstition, hid behind the cloak
Of pious duty, and, in God's own name,
Struck with its deadly stroke.
See, there ! that peaceful Quaker band
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That, from their hearth and home, and land,
Sharp persecution drove.
To whom onr fathers stretched no Christian hand
Of favor, grace, or love.
And that even sadder, darker group behold !
Fair maidens, children in the first fresh bloom
Of their young life, old men and matrons old,
Tottering upon the threshold of the tomb.
What was their crime? their cruel doom?
Ah, well may we uplift our eyes
In sorrow and surprise !
These are the devil's wretched brood,
That expiated with their blood
The crime of witchcraft, and foul sorceries.
XII
Sad is the sight : let us avert our gaze.
And yet most sad for this, that through the maze
Of all this tangled skein of cruelties,
Blindly astray, threading the bigot way
The clue of virtue lies.
Narrow of mind they were, and short of sight,
And still to duty true.
In wrong ways ever striving for the right
They meant God's work to do.
XIII
Two long half centuries since then have passed,
And now, what wondrous change !
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Cities are broadcast sown through the wide range
Of what was savage desert, drear and vast,
Where, through the wilderness, hissed now and then
The Indian arrow, or the passing breeze
Shook the primeval forest's serried trees,
Rings now the whir and busy hum of men :
The rattling train, with streaming snake of steam
And fiery eyes agleam,
Shakes all its silences with rush and roar,
And shoots its shuttles, weaving shore to shore ;
Gone is the dark face, and the cautious tread
That stole upon its game or on its foe :
A horde of pale-faced men, since born and bred,
Swarms everywhere from Maine to Mexico,
Builds, weaves, dams up the torrents in their flow
To turn the whirring mills to grind them bread ;
Sows leagues of seed, beats out the golden grain,
Tunnels the hills, speeds it across the main,
And, prisoning in the hold a fiery slave,
Bids him his huge arms heave, and o'er the wave
The ship, beneath the flaming fire by night,
And pillared cloud by day,
Across the desert ocean's pathless plain
Throbs on its pulsing way.
XIV
How vast a change is this ! and yet more vast
Another change that o'er our world has past.
For savage Liberty that then uncurbed
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Knew only power as might,
A strong republic we have shaped and orbed
To justice, law and right.
This is our boast, not only we are free
But free through Law, and scorning to be free,
Through aid of any wrong,
We, for the great hopes of humanity,
Our state have builded strong.
XV
Is this the truth, or but an idle boast?
On days like this it fits us to make pause,
Look to our armour, test its strength and flaws ;
See where we stand, what we have gained, what lost,
Take counsel, weigh our cause.
XVI
And pausing now, and looking round,
Boasting apart, can we affirm
That we are whole and sound ?
Or must we, even while we see
Our large proud marches of prosperity,
Abase our eyes, and own, that, while our growth
Is mighty in material things,
The soaring virtue of our brave stern youth
Flies low on wounded wings?
XVII
Alas ! the hymn to which our fathers trod
With even step, the inspiring cry
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With which they marched to liberty,
Their trumpet note, "Man only can be free
When he is just to man and true to God,
Virtue alone is true prosperity"
This wakes faint echoes in our bosoms now
Our faith is weaker, our desires more low ;
Let us be rich, we cry, wealth is the prize,
That Freedom, drugged with greed and luxury,
Holds up before our eyes.
From the stern virtues that our fathers knew
We turn with easy sneers,
The trumpet tone that stirred them through and through
Jars harshly on our ears.
We can be bought and sold, we have struck palms
With treachery and fraud,
Dishonesty corrupts us with its alms
And Bribery flaunts abroad ;
Sly Knavery, disguised, prowls like a fox
Around our politics ;
The juggler's hand is in our ballot-box,
While Office wins by tricks.
The simple homely ways
We knew in early days
Have lost their zest and beauty in our eyes ;
Corners, we have, and rings,
Where speculation hid in ambush lies
And on the unwary springs
New vices bred new names.
And in the public mart the bull and bear
Wrangle and fight, and lie and tear,
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And commerce for a swift advantage, games.
Folly in diamonds leads the social dance,
Half dressed and over free,
With the frail brood of wild Extravagance
And reckless Vanity.
XVIII
Is this our great Republic ? This the flower
Of that high faith our fathers planted here?
This the heroic spirit, and severe,
They left us for our dower?
Are we so fallen, we neither care nor heed
Whither our great republic drifts, so long
As we on lotus flowers may lie and feed
And listen to Corruption's syren song,
Heedless of rocks and shoals that stretch before,
And trusting only Luck in time of need
To hold the helm upon a wild lee-shore ?
What though our captain may be brave and true,
Or those the highest trust who hold,
If mutineers arc in the crew
And scuttlers in the hold?
XIX
Ah no ! it is not written in the book of Fate
That heedless as we arc, and blind,
This glorious ship on which are set
The eyes, the hopes, of all mankind,
This great republic, with its precious freight,
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That bears the flag of freedom at its peak,
This hope our fathers launched with hearts elate
With fears, and prayers and sighs,
Through our gross negligence should suffer wreck
In clear and cloudless skies.
XX
If the frail Mayflower could endure the stress
Of wind and tempest, on its venturous way,
With few to care and almost none to bless,
Bravely, without dismay,
Shall our strong ship, for want of worth and will,
Well-timbered, well-appointed, framed with skill,
Founder at last through utter recklessness ?
XXI
No ! foreign war hath struck at us in vain,
We have withstood the sterner, deadlier strain
Of fierce fraternal strife ;
We have worked out, with spirits stout and brave,
Through our heart's blood, redemption for the slave
Heedless of cost and life.
We have cast off his chains into the sea,
And purged us of the curse of slavery.
And, now, it is not to be even thought,
That we, who deeds like this have wrought,
While in the bay of peace we lie
Without a menace from the sky,
Should perish from internal rot.
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XXII
It is not that within our hind
Is hick of spirit, bruve mid high,
Of lofty magnanimity,
Of pure heroic temper lit
For actions large and grand.
Who, that behind shall cast his eyes
To that sad page of civil strife
With all its stern brave sacrifice,
Its faith that o'er defeat could fly,
Its stubborn strength, its scorn of life,
Such temper can deny ?
It is the spirit of delay,
The careless trust, that happy luck
Will save us, come what may,
The apathy with which \ve sec
Our country's dearest interests struck,
Dreaming that things will right themselves,
That brings dismay.
XXIII
No ! things will never right themselves,
'Tis we must put them right.
Strip for the task, do the good work,
Labor with love unite,
Fall into line, and fight !
While half the honest, wise, and strong,
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Apart in selfish silence stand,
Hating the danger and the wrong,
And yet too busy to uplift their hand
And do the duties that belong
To those who would be free.
Our great republic, soiled in name,
Is sliding down the dire declivity
Of ruin and of shame.
XXIV
Here, then, upon this day
So consecrate to memories of the past,
And hopes and fears that o'er the future cast
A dim and doubtful ray,
I call upon you, noble men and true,
High, low, young, old, wherever you may be,
Awake ! arise ! cast off this lethargy I
Your ancient faith renew,
And set your hands to do the task
That freemen have to do ;
Cleanse the Augean stall of politics
Of its foul muck of crafts and wiles and tricks ;
Break the base rings where commerce reeks and rots ;
Purge speculation of its canker spots ;
Drive off the cruel incubus that squats
Upon our sleeping country, till it rise
Renewed in strength, with upward looking eyes,
And forward go upon the path
Of its high destinies.
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XXV
If any love for liberty you bear,
If any pride in this dear land you share,
By all that love and pride, I pray you, swear
To set her free ;
And make her record honest, white, and fail-
In sight of all humanity.
XXVI
Swift fly the years. Too swift, alas !
A full half century has flown,
Since, through these gardens fair and pastures lone
And down the busy street,
Or 'neath the elms whose shadows soft are thrown
Upon the common's trampled grass,
Pattered my childish feet.
Gone are the happy games we played as boys !
Gone the glad shouts, the free and careless joys,
The fights, the feuds, the friendships that we had,
And all the trivial things that had the power,
When Youth was in its early flower,
To make us sad or glad !
Gone the familiar faces that we knew,
Silent the voices that once thrilled us through,
And ghosts are everywhere I
They peer from every window pane,
From every alley, street and lane
They whisper on the air.
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They haunt the meadows green and wide,
The garden walk, the river-side,
The beating mill adust with meal,
The rope-walk with its whirring wheel,
The elm grove on the sunny ridge,
The rattling draw, the echoing bridge ;
The lake on which we used to float
What time the blue jay screamed his note,
The voiceful pines that ceaselessly
Breathed back their answer to the sea,
The school house, where we learned to spell,
The church, the solemn sounding bell,
All, all, are full of them.
Where'er we turn, howe'er we go,
Ever we hear their voices dim
That sing to us as in a dream
The song of "Long ago."
XXVII
Ah me, how many an autumn day
We watched with palpitating breast
Some stately ship, from India or Cathay,
Laden with spicy odours from the East,
Come sailing up the bay !
Unto our youthful hearts elate
What wealth beside their real freight
Of rich material things they bore !
Ours were Arabian cargoes, fair,
Mysterious, exquisite, and rare ;
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From far romantic lands built out of air
On an ideal shore
Sent by Aladdin, Camaralzamau,
Morgiana, or Budoura or the Khan.
Treasures of Sinbad, vague and wondrous things
Beyond the reach of aught but Youth's imaginings.
XXVIII
Glad were the days, now vanished evermore,
When to our eager eye
Some friendly key opened the Museum's door
To worlds of mystery.
There, wandering many an hour amazed
With greedy look, we lingering gazed
On treasures strange from many a foreign land,
Whose very names our childish fancy smote,
So vague were they and so remote,
As awful, startling, grand ;
Dim Madagascar, and the far
Lone stretches of black Africa,
Pagoda'd China, quaint Japan,
Bronzed Egypt, where the creeping caravan
Along the yellow desert lengthening files ;
Hot Borneo and the tropic isles,
Where summer burns, and spices grow.
Arabia, Malta, Spain and Mexico,
Silken Circassia, lovely land of dream,
And bright Brazil where painted parrots scream ;
Cyprus and Rhodes, and all the isles that sleep
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In Grecian peace along the Ionian deep,
And turbaned Turkey with its barred Harem.
Wild Hottentot and stunted Caffre-land,
Swart Abyssinia, stately Samarcand,
Lands of the grove-like banyan and the palm,
Soft whispering seas of Polynesian calm ;
Siberia, black with battlements of pines,
Dwarfed Lapland, half asleep in buried snow,
Sad Upernavik, where, all winter, shines
No sun upon the dreary Esquimaux ;
All these their treasures sent for our delight,
To stir our fancy, and to charm our sight.
XXIX
There spread before us we could see
What worlds of curiosity !
Strange dresses bead and feather trimmed
High Tartar boots, and tiny Chinese shoes.
And all the slender craft that ever skimmed
The shark-infested Indian sea
Catamarans, caiques, or birch canoes,
Tinkling pagodas strung with bells,
Carved ivory balls, half miracles ;
Strung necklaces of shells and beads,
Sharp poisoned spears and arrowheads,
Bows, savage bludgeons, creeses keen,
Idols of hideous shape and grin,
Fat, bloated spiders stilted high
On hairy legs that scared the eye ;
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Great, gorgeous spotted butterflies,
And every splendid plumaged bird,
That flashes through the tropic skies
Or in the sultry shade is heard ;
All these, and hundreds more than these, we saw,
That made our pulses beat with a delighted awe.
XXX
How oft half-fearfully we prowled
Around those gabled houses, quaint and old,
Whose legends, grim and terrible,
Of witch and ghost that used in them to dwell,
Around the twilight fire were told ;
While huddled close with anxious ear
We heard them, quivering with fear,
And, if the daylight half o'ercame the spell,
'Twas with a lingering dread
We oped the door and touched the stinging bell
In the dark shop that led,
For some had fallen under times disgrace,
To meaner uses and a lower place.
But as we heard it ring, our hearts' quick pants
Almost were audible ;
For with its sound it seemed to rouse the dead,
And wake some ghost from out the dusky haunts
Where faint the daylight fell.
XXXI
Upon the sunny wharves how oft
Withiii some dim secluded loft
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We played, and dreamed the livelong day,
And all the world was ours in play ;
We cared not, let it slip away,
And let the sandy hour-glass run,
Time is so long, and life so long
When it has just begun.
XXXII
Alas ! though swiftly it has fled,
And gone are all the old familiar faces,
And few they are who lingering tread
The old familiar places,
Yet, still, those places we behold
Almost unchanged from what they were of old
Some fifty years ago ;
The demon of wild change, that o'er our land
Keeps hurry ing to and fro,
Swift to efface without a lingering trace
Youth's happy landmarks, here hath stayed his hand ;
And, if hot industry has hurried by
To toil in busier marts,
And nervous commerce spread its wings to fly
To dizzier schemes and arts,
Here-it has left us calm serenity
And peaceful hearts.
And thus, apart from crowded din and noise
And the fierce strife that spoils life's simplest joys,
Our dear old city worthily may claim
Her biblical old name,
'City of Peace,' And tranquil in her age,
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By no wild passions and ambitions torn,
May calmly sit like to some honored dame
And read her youth's bright page,
Happy to be at rest, unsoiled by shame,
Proud of the noble children she hath borne,
And looking forward still, with quiet heart
And ever upward aim,
To do her duty, and to act her part
Beyond the reach of blame.
ORATION
BY
HON. WM. C. ENDICOTT.
OEATIOIsr.
WE arc assembled to-day to commemorate the founding
of a great State : and to recall the names, the characters,
the deeds of the men who founded it ; men to whom the
words of Bacon may be fitly applied : "The true marshal-
ling of the degrees of honor are these : In the first place
O O 1
are condltores imperiorum, the founders of States and
Commonwealths." They are entitled also to other de-
grees of honor named by Bacon, for they were not merely
the founders of a State, but fathers of their country, who
long reigned justly, making the times good wherein they
lived, and lawgivers, governing by their ordinances after
they were gone.
The landing here two hundred and fifty years ago was
the first step in the establishment of the Colony of Mas-
sachusetts. To say that it was an event momentous in
its consequences to England and America, would be to
apply terms equally applicable to all successful coloniza-
tion by the children of the mother country. But the
planting of this Colony had a significance peculiar to
itself, for it was intimately connected with and a part of
that great national movement, of that great change in the
life and government of the English people then just be-
ginning. To restore to Englishmen their civil liberties,
to establish the right of the English nonconformist to
worship according to the dictates of his own conscience,
HIST. COLL. XV 16 (24 5 )
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were the motives which led alike to the Great Eebellion
and to the colonization of Massachusetts. Both were
parts of the great Puritan work. The leaders of both
movements were Puritans, not the Puritans of the Com-
monwealth, and of Cromwell, but Puritans as they stood
in 1628, not then pledged to separate from the national
church, but to purge and purify it by the aid of political
forces, under the existing forms of government. That
determined band of statesmen who passed the Petition of
Right in the parliament of 1628, and that no less deter-
mined band who planned and established the Massachusetts
Colony, were co-workers, friends and brothers embarked
in the same cause, and struggling in different paths to
accomplish the same ends. The one by wisdom in counsel
and parliament, and if necessary by their swords in the
field, intended to bring back to England the reign of
order, liberty, and law ; the other to found another and a
new England beyond the sea, where they and those who
agreed with them might rest secure, and in which sacred
asylum their brethren in England might find refuge if the
cause there was hopeless or went out in fire and blood.
It would be interesting to trace, did time allow, the ties
of lineage, of personal love and friendship, the bonds of
common interests, civil and religious, the identity of
views, purposes, and aims which united the Puritan
leaders who came over, and those who remained to do
their work in England, and made the cause of one the
cause of both. As the struggle widened and deepened,
the cause of one was not always the cause of the other ;
the infant Colony had peculiar interests to be guarded and
maintained at every cost ; the progress of the civil war
raised new leaders, educated in a new school, and issues
never dreamed of in 1628 were to be met in England;
but at the outset they were banded together for a common
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purpose, and by concert of action in different fields they
both sought to give civil and religious liberty to their
countrymen.
The influences which led to this great crisis in the
history of P^ngland, and produced that lofty type of char-
acter, and that noble elevation of thought, which dis-
tinguished the Puritan leaders of that day, cannot fail to
enlist the attention and engage the study of all who would
understand the period. A brief enumeration of some of
the most important, may assist us at this moment.
During the century which had passed between the fall
of Woolsey in 1529 and the embarkation of Endicott in
1628, the human mind had made wonderful progress. It
was a century of change, in which old things had passed
away and all things had become new ; yet at its close the
English kings still claimed the right to tax without par-
liament, and to persecute for heresy and nonconformity.
The England of 1529, and of the stormy years that fol-
lowed, was still Catholic England. All the safeguards of
constitutional freedom were swept away under Thomas
Cromwell. The right to tax, to imprison, to execute, at
the will of the sovereign, was claimed and exercised
almost without dispute. The powers of parliament,
recognized and established under the Plantagenet and
Lancastrian kings, were substantially extinguished under
the first Tudors. The hopes of the new learning, with
its schemes of social, religious, and political reform, which
had begun to illumine England, fell before the fierce spirit
of the times, and seemed to go out in darkness on the
scaffold of Sir Thomas More. But the very violence
with which the kingly power asserted itself may be in
part explained by the great questions with which it was
confronted, and by the new spirit that was abroad. For
great elements were at work.
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In 1526, the first copies of Tyndale's New Testament
appeared in London, and within ten years the whole
Bible translated was in the hands of the English people.
It was a new revelation to the general mind of England,
and was read, studied and committed to memory, as it
never had been before. It was not merely read, but, in
spite of the royal injunction, it was expounded and ex-
plained in the pulpits, and was everywhere the theme of
popular discussion. King Henry himself complained,
"that it was disputed, rhymed, sung, and jangled in
every tavern and alehouse" in the kingdom. It gave rise
to new theories of government, of religion, of social
duty ; it invested man himself with a new dignity and
power, and gave another color to the times. Is it strange
that it became at last the pillar of fire by night, the
pillar of cloud by day, to guide the steps of the Puritan;
that, beside the authority of earthly rulers, and the vain
counsels of fallible man, it should stand for him the
store-house of all wisdom and truth the one revelation
of the will of God to man, dictating its law alike to the
ruler of states and kingdoms and to the humblest of his
subjects, and holding out to each, with an impartial hand,
its blessed promises ?
If the Bible was a great teacher, so was the Reforma-
tion itself. Steadily, amid all the turbulence and violence
of the time, the revolution which struck down the church
of Rome went on ; the great religious houses disappeared,
one by one, and their wide lands became the property of
the subject; the Reformation, stayed for a time by the
faggot and the block in the reign of Mary, finally tri-
umphed under Elizabeth, and England became the great
Protestant power, and the mistress of the sea. It was a
period of intense excitement, of strange vicissitudes of
fortune on sea and land, of dangers so overwhelming'
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that at last men forgot the quarrels of politics and sect,
and stood together to avert a common peril and to win a
common victory. Such a struggle, extending through
more than one generation of men, quickened all the intel-
lectual faculties of the English nation, and gave to the
people a feeling of strength, power and self-confidence
never before known. It manifested itself in a spirit of
adventure, that sent the ships of England to all quarters
of the globe on voyages of trade and of discovery, and
the tales that came back to every household, of the won-
drous lands beyond the sea, first stirred that spirit of
colonization, which has, even to the present time, sent
yearly from the ports of England thousands of her chil-
dren. That rich commerce which had called Venice from
the Adriatic, and had studded the Mediterranean with
great cities, sought her shores; artisans and tradesmen,
driven from the continent by its wars and persecutions,
brought to England their skill and labor. She became
rich and prosperous ; new arts, new industries sprung
into life.
Nor did England acquire from foreign lands an added
commercial and industrial power merely. There was a
revival of the ancient, and the foreign learning; classical
studies, which had well nigh disappeared in the turmoil
of the Reformation, were again the pursuit of the English
youth, and through the common schools, founded so nu-
merously after the dissolution of the religious houses,
reached a larger class than ever before. Such was the
taste for the classical learning, it is said, that all the great
ancient authors were translated into English before the
close of the sixteenth century. And John Milton was
not the first young Englishman who sought in foreign
travel in Italy, and the great centres of the continent,
larger opportunities for study and culture. He but fol-
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lowed the example of the preceding century, and carried
with him directions of travel and maxims of prudence
from Sir Henry Wotton. The traces of the classical and
the foreign learning, with its grace and beauty, are to be
seen in all the literature, the letters, and the oratory of
the time. And that band of English exiles, who during
the Marian persecution had listened to Calvin in Geneva,
had there seen a church without a bishop, a state without a
king. They doubtless brought back some new thoughts
of civil and religious government, which they scattered
among their countrymen. Perhaps, to their prophetic
eyes already appeared the pillars of the coming republic,
rising in the dim distance. Rufus Choate, in his noble
address on the Age of the Pilgrims, says, "I ascribe to
that five years at Geneva an influence which has changed
the history of the world."
One fruit of this era of change, revolution and growth
this breaking up of the old limitations, this expansion
of the horizon of thought and action was the birth of
that noble and splendid literature, which stands without a
rival in modern times. The genius of its poets, drama-
tists, and philosophers, has thrown into the shade the
fame of the soldiers and statesmen of that eventful period.
Born of the times, it was also the teacher of the times.
While it reflected the national sentiment, it gave to it
form and substance. But who can measure and estimate,
within narrow limits, the influence of Sidney and Spenser
and Shakspeare, of Hooker and Bacon, on the generations
that knew them, and that were reared under this fresh
inspiration ?
I have thus endeavored briefly to state the temper and
spirit of the time, and some of the influences at work to
mould and fashion the Englishmen destined to do so great
a work both at home and in America. As the literature
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of the age was the fruit of the time, so were the men
who in 1628 had determined, in the service of civil and
religious liberty, to reform England and to found another
England beyond the Atlantic. They formed that great
political party known in the reigns of James I. and of
Charles I. as the Puritan Party. "The rank, the wealth,
the chivalry, the genius, the learning, the accomplish-
ments, the social refinements and elegance of the time
were largely represented in its ranks." 1 A majority of
the great middle class of Englishmen was also represented
there, whom the age had rendered thoughtful and relig-
ious ; of a bold, high, and independent spirit, they were
ready to suffer all for conscience and country ; they pos-
sessed moderate means, and had no political power, but
later they filled the parliamentary armies, and the ships
of Endicott, Higginson, and Winthrop.
The great controversy between popular and arbitrary
principles, which was the legacy of the Tudors, continued
through the reign of James ; it is spoken of by historians
as the period of vital stuggle, though the open conflict
and result did not come till later. The accession of
Charles gave little hope of better things ; the French
marriage of the King, his arrogant and repellent temper,
his early efforts to govern without parliament, his relent-
less hostility to the nonconformists in church worship, his
forced loans and unlawful imprisonments, and the danger
of a standing army, clearly indicated to all thoughtful
men that the great conflict was at hand. "They saw that
the time had come for determining whether the English
people should live in future under an absolute or under a
limited and balanced monarchy ; and they launched upon
the course of measures which was to decide that momen-
tous question." 2
1 1 Palfrey's Hist. N. E., 279. 1 Palfrey's Hist. N. E., 265.
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The first two Parliaments of Charles were of a resolute
disposition and were of short duration ; and in March,
1628, the last Parliament, that was to meet at Westmin-
ster until 1640, assembled. Its courageous spirit startled
the King, and in his necessity he gave his assent to the
famous Petition of Right, the second great charter of
English liberty, which announced that forced loans, com-
mitments without cause assigned, quartering of soldiers
in private houses, and hearings before military tribunals
of cases properly cognizable in courts of law, were con-
trary to the liberties of the subject and the laws and stat-
utes of the realm. This was afterwards violated by
Charles, and Parliament, resenting his duplicity, and
seeking to inquire into his conduct, was suddenly dis-
solved in March, 1629.
The Petition of Right was the first gun in the great
conflict which was to divide England. It is a singu-
lar fact that within a few days after the King assented
to it, Endicott sailed for these shores ; and six days
before Parliament was dissolved, for contesting the
King's right to violate it, Charles signed the Colony
Charter of Massachusetts, in March, 1629. Strange that
the same hand to sign the Charter, which was to esta-
blish the free State of Massachusetts, and thus give
to the Puritan full scope to found his free government,
should within one week dismiss a Puritan Parliament,
because it sought to secure some guarantees of a free
government at home.
By these two acts the career of the Puritans was deter- .
mined in England and America. After years of arbitrary
government and cruel persecution, they drew the sword
in England; the horrors of civil war followed, Charles
fell upon the scaffold, but constitutional liberty was finally
established by the Revolution of 1688. After years of
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toil, suffering and danger in America, the}' established
on a firm and enduring foundation the Colony of Massa-
chusetts.
To consider properly the nature of the expedition that
Endicott conducted, and the government that he after-
wards exercised on this spot, will require some detail of
subsequent events.
The colonial period, extending from September, 1G28,
to the extinction of the Charter, may be said to present
three phases or forms of government: (1.) The govern-
ment under Endicott and his associates from September,
1628, to the organization of the company under the Colony
Charter granted by the King, March 4, 1629. (2.) The
government by Endicott and his Council, under the
Charter, entitled the Governor and Council of London's
Plantation in the Massachusetts Bay in New England,
until the arrival of Winthrop, who superseded him in
1630. (3.) The establishment of the colonial govern-
ment here with the Charter under Winthrop and his
successors till 1686. The distinction to be observed by
these divisions is important to be kept in mind in con-
sidering the nature and character of the authority ex-
ercised while Salem was the scat of government.
The ""Great Patent of New England" as generally
called, was a grant by James I, on November 3, 1620, to
the Council established at Plymouth in the county of
Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing
of New England in America, of all that section of the
continent, lying between the fortieth and forty-eighth
degrees of latitude, that is from the northern line of Vir-
ginia to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to hold the same in
free and common socage (an estate of the highest nature
that any subject can hold under any government), with
power to establish laws not contrary to the laws of Eng-
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land, and to correct, punish, pardon and rule all British
subjects that should become colonists. 3
Grants were made by the Council prior to 1628, some
of which included territory afterwards embraced within
the limits of Massachusetts. 4 Attempts were made to
occupy portions of this territory before 1628. Roger
Conant, the leader of the principal effort in this direction,
a man of singular energy and determination, and some of
his associates who formed a portion of the "Old Planters"
as they were afterwards called, having abandoned their
settlement at Cape Ann, came to Naumkeag in 1626,
where, hoping for succor from England, they built houses
and prepared land for cultivation, and were found by
Endicott on his arrival two years later. 5
On March 19, 1628, the Great Council of Plymouth
granted to Sir Henry Roswell, Sir John Younge, Thomas
Southcote, John Humphreys, John Endicott, and Simon
Whetcombe, all that part of New England extending three
miles north of every part of the Merrimack, and three
miles south of every part of the Charles, from the At-
lantic to the "South Sea." The original of this patent is
not known to be in existence, but its substance is recited
in the Charter obtained in the following year. 6 All the
rights, powers, and privileges of the Council to plant and
rule this territory were conveyed to the patentees. Pre-
cisely to what extent, or in what form the patentees had
power to establish a government, appoint rulers, and
enact laws, not repugnant to the laws of England, it is
not important to inquire. No records of their adminis-
8 Plymouth Col. Laws, 1.
A complete history of these grants by S. F. Haven, Esq., may be found in
Lowell Institute Lectures on the Early History of Massachusetts, by members of
the Mass. Hist. Soc., pp. 129, 152.
6 Hubbard's Hist, of N. E., 107, 116.
IMass. Col. Rec.,3.
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tration are known to exist, and the acts of those who
came over under their authority afford the only evidence
of the powers they exercised ; and there is no doubt that
the Patent thus granted, which extinguished the claim of
the Council at Plymouth to this territory, was obtained
for the purpose of enabling the patentees, if their enter-
prise should prove successful, to procure the Royal Char-
ter of the following year, which established a distinct and
well defined form of government. It was a step in the
growth of the Massachusetts Colony.
The patentees, who acted in behalf of a large number
of other persons, were in earnest and at once organized
an expedition. Endicott, the only patentee who came
over at that time, manifested much willingness to embark,
which gave great 'encouragement to all interested in the
scheme. He was well known to "divers persons of good
note," and was selected as the leader. 7 Little is known
of his previous history. Yet we may assume, from the
fact of his appointment to such a trust, that his qualities
were well understood, and that he had already shown in
other fields of action, that power of command, that in-
trepid courage, that zealous love of liberty, that devout
and earnest spirit, which fitted him here for the wilderness
work, and led him to take so conspicuous a part in the
government of the Colony for nearly forty years. The
confidence which put him at the head of affairs in the
morning of the enterprise, continued to the end ; and he
was Governor of Massachusetts when, in 1665, at the
ripe age of seventy-seven, death found him at his post.
He sailed on the Abigail from Weyinouth, June 20, 1628,
'White's Planters' Plea, c. 9, p. 43, in 2 Force's Hist. Tracts. 3 Arch. Amer.,
xx, xxvi, 2. Memoir of John Endicott, by C. M. Endicott, Esq. Memorial of Gov.
Endicott, by Hon. Stephen Salisbury, in Proceedings of Amer. Antiq. Soc., 1873, p.
113. See also 2 Palfrey's Hist. N. ., p. 598.
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with his company, and landed here two hundred and
fifty years ago this day. We have no information of what
transpired on the voyage, except that they had a prosper-
ous journey, and safe arrival, and that Endicott sent back
a good report of the country, which inspired his friends
at home with a new zeal.
The learned and venerated historian of New England,
Dr. Palfrey, who, to the qualities of an accurate and pro-
found student of history, adds the graces of a vigorous
oratory, in a speech delivered at the Danvers Centennial
Celebration in 1852, said : "When the vessel which bore
the first Governor of Massachusetts was entering the
harbor of Salem, she was anxiously watched from the
beach by four individuals, styled, in the quaint chronicles
of the time, as 'Roger Conant and three sober men/ The
vessel swung to her moorings, and flung the red cross of
St. George to the breeze, a boat put off for the shore,
and, that the Governor might land dry shod, Roger
Conant and 'his three sober men' rolled up their panta-
loons, or rather their nether garments which we in these
degenerate days call pantaloons, waded into the water,
and bore him on their shoulders to the dryland." 8 In
behalf of the patentees, he thus took possession of the
territory described in the Patent.
Here, upon this spot, and at that hour, Massachusetts
began her career. The Royal Charter on the foundation
of the Patent was yet to be -obtained* the officials to ad-
minister its authority, its governor and assistants were
yet to be chosen and sworn into office. Its church, its
courts, its laws, its policy, were yet to be established,
erected, and declared. But the corner stone of the tem-
ple was laid. A firm and settled authority has since then
8 Danvers Centennial Celebration, p. 130.
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existed here, and amid changes and revolutions, and
under the several names of the Colony, the Province, the
State, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the problem
of self-government and of liberty regulated by law has
been solved ; that liberty so beautifully described by
Governor Winthrop, when at the close of his impeach-
ment and acquittal, in 1(545, he resumed his seat upon
the bench. After alluding to the natural liberty which
is incompatible and inconsistent with authority, he said :
"The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal : it may
also be termed moral, in reference to the covenant be-
tween God and man in the moral law, and the politic
covenants and constitutions amongst men themselves.
This liberty is the proper end and object of authority,
and cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that
only which is good, just and honest. This liberty you
are to stand for with the hazard (not only of your goods,
but) of your lives, if need be. Whatsoever crossdh this
is not authority, but a distemper thereof. This liberty is
maintained and exercised in a way of subjection to author-
ity ; it is of the same kind of liberty wherewith Christ
hath made us free." 9 These are noble and stirring words,
and when the children of the Puritans forget them, their
heritage will pass away like a scroll.
The instructions to Kndicott, signed by his associates,
John Venn and others, which were dated a short time
before he sailed, are lost. Ilutchinson, who apparently
had them before him when he wrote his history, says,
that "all the affairs of the Colony were committed to his
care." 10 What was then the organization of the patentees
in England does not appear, and it may be doubted
whether they contemplated any permanent organization,
2 Life and Letters of John Winthrop, 341.
10 1 Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts, 16.
258
until their plans were so far matured that they were ready
to ask for, and able to obtain, a royal charter. The ex-
pedition they sent out was thus entrusted to Endicott,
probably with full powers, as he is spoken of in the
Planters' Plea by John White, who was one of his asso-
ciates, and signed his letter of instructions, as having
been "sent over Governor." 11 They evidently intended
to provide and send to him ministers, a copy of the
Patent under seal, and a seal as the sign of his author-
ity; 12 though the vessel that bore the ministers did not
sail till after the Charter was granted.
That Endicott did exercise full authority after his arri-
val is evident from his acts. He allotted lands to settlers,
and Higginson the next year found a large number of per-
sons settled at Salem, with houses and lands inclosed.
He says : "We found about half a score of houses, with
a fair house newly built for the Governor." 13 And it may
fairly be presumed that Endicott maintained order and
exercised command. Before the winter an exploring
party made or prepared to make a settlement at Charles-
town ; and Endicott himself conducted an expedition to
Merry Mount, which he called Mount Dagon, within the
jurisdiction of the Patent, cut down the May pole of
Morton's companions, rebuked them for their profaneness,
and admonished them "to look there should be better
walking." 14
That he exercised a ruler's authority within his juris-
diction, and was most judicious in his dealings with the
Indians, is apparent from the fact the General Court in
1660 confirmed, contrary to their custom, a grant of land
11 White's Planters' Plea, c. 9, p. 43 in 2 Force's Hist. Tracts. 3 Arch. Amer.,
xx, xxvi, 2.
12 1 Mass. Col. Rec.,24.383.
18 Young's Chron. of Mass., 258.
" 1 Palfrey, Hist. N. E., 289. Morton's N. E. Memorial, 137.
259
by the Indians to John Endicott, Jr. ; "considering the
many kindnesses that were shown to the Indians by our
honored Governor in the infancy of these plantations for
the pacifying the Indians, tending to the common good
of the first planters, in consideration whereof the Indians
were moved to such a gratuity unto his son." 15 The old
planters were not altogether satisfied with the advent of
a new company in which they had no part ; but all diffi-
culties with them were adjusted, and as if to commemo-
rate the happy settlement, and as typical of the peace
that followed, the Indian name of Xaumkeag was changed
to Salem ; and at a General Court afterwards convened
by Endicott, in June, 1629, they were "all combined
together into one body politic, under the same Gover-
nor." 1G
The story of the first winter is a tale of exposure, pri-
vation, sickness, and death. Though less severe than the
terrible sufferings of the pilgrims at Plymouth, it was
greater than that which visited the larger company which
came over two years later with Winthrop. The dire dis-
tress of the settlers led to the visit of Fuller from Ply-
mouth, and that friendship began which ever after existed
between the Colonies to the time of their union under the
Province Charter. Endicott's wife died, and doubtless
under the influence of that great anMiction, he wrote a
touching letter to Bradford in which he says: "It is a
thing not usual that servants of one master and of the
same household should be strangers. I assure you I
desire it not. Nay, to speak more plainly, I cannot be
so to you. God's people are all marked with one and
the same mark, and have for the main one and the same
heart, guided by one and the same spirit of truth ; and
4 Mass. Col. Rec., Pt. 1, 427.
"Young's Chron. of Mass., 259. Thornton's Landing at Cape Ann, 68.
260
where this is, there can be no discord, nay, here must
needs be a sweet harmony." 17
But during all his trials and dangers, his courage did
not fail. We have none of the letters he wrote home,
but we can gather from the replies he received, and from
the annalists of the time, that his words were hopeful aud
confident, giving encouragement to his associates, and
enabling them to enlarge both their means and their num-
bers. Cradock, whose name first appears at this time as
a patentee, wrote to him in behalf of the whole, thanking
him for the "large advise" contained in his letters, and
giving assurance that they "intend not to be wanting by
all good means to further the plantation." 1 This letter
contains many suggestions, but no positive commands in
regard to Endicott's administration of affairs, showing
that they relied mainly on his discretion and judgment.
And in pursuance of this promise, six vessels sailed
from England in April, 1629, and arrived in Salem the
following June, bearing a large number of colonists with
cattle, food, arms, and tools. Among the passengers
came Higginson and Skelton, destined to be the first
ministers of the church founded at Salem. Previously
to this embarkation, the Charter was granted, but of this
Endicott probably had no notice until their arrival. A
new government was to be established ; and with the
arrival of this fleet, the first stage in the history of the
Colony may be said to have closed.
While these events transpired here, the Charter had
been obtained in England. It was dated March 4, 1629,
and granted and confirmed to Sir Henry Kosvvell and the
other patentees named in the Patent, and twenty asso-
17 Memoir of John Endicott by C. M. Endicott, Esq., p. 27. Morton's N. E. Me-
morial, p. 143.
1 Mass. Col. Kec., 383.
261
ciatcs, the same territory, to hold by the same tenure, and
made them "a body corporate and politic, in fact and in
name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the
Massachusetts Bay in New England." 19
There has been some difference of opinion among his-
torians respecting the character of the corporation thus
created. But a careful examination of the provisions of
the Charter leads irresistibly to the conclusion that it does
not establish a corporation merely for the purpose of
trade and traffic, but was intended to be the constitution
and foundation of a political government.
It appoints from among the grantees a governor, Mat-
thew Cradock, a deputy governor, and eighteen assistants
by name, with power to nominate and appoint as "many
others as they shall think fit and that shall be "willing to
accept the same, to be free of the said company and body,
and them into the same to admit." The persons thus
appointed became members of the corporation, having
the power annually to choose the governor, deputy gover-
nor, and assistants, and they are styled in the Charter
and were known in the subsequent history of the Company
as the freemen. To the governor, deputy governor,
assistants and freemen assembled in general court, the
Charter gives the power "from time to time to make,
ordain and establish all manner of wholesome and reasona-
ble orders, laws, statutes, and ordinances, directions and
instructions" not contrary to the laws of England ; in-
cluding the "settling of the forms and ceremonies of
government and magistracy, fit and necessary for the sitid
plantation and the inhabitants there, and for naming and
styling of all sorts of officers, both superior and inferior,
which they shall find needful for that government and
"IMasa. Col. Rec.,3.
HIST. COLL. XV 17
262
plantation, and the distinguishing and setting forth of the
several duties, powers, and limits of every such office and
place."
It also provides for the forms of their oaths, and "the
disposing and ordering of the elections of such of the
said officers as shall be annual, and of such others as shall
be to succeed in case of death or removal ; " and that
"these our letters patents or the duplicate or exemplifica-
tion thereof shall be to all and every such officers, superior
and inferior, a sufficient warrant and discharge;" and it
declares "that all and every such chief commanders, cap-
tains, governors, and other officers and ministers," as
should be appointed by the governor and company,
"either in the government of the said inhabitants and
plantation, or in the way by sea thither, or from thence,
according to the natures and limits of their offices and
places respectively," should "have full and absolute power
and authority to correct, punish, pardon, govern and rule"
all English subjects inhabiting said plantation or voyaging
thither or from thence, according to the orders, laws, and
instructions of the company. And the chief commanders,
governor, and officers for the time being resident in New
England are empowered for their defence and safety "to
encounter, expulse, repel and resist by force of arms, as
well by sea as by land, and by all fitting ways and means
whatsoever, all such person and persons as shall at any
time hereafter attempt or enterprise the destruction, inva-
sion, detriment or annoyance to the plantation or inhabi-
tants ;" and to capture their persons, ships, munitions,
and other goods.
These provisions of the Charter are fully recited, that
the character of the government authorized to be estab-
lished here by the Company in England, may be disclosed,
and the extent of the powers afterwards delegated to
.Endicott and his Council, may be understood.
263
The Company was duly organized in England, and the
Governor, the Deputy Governor, and Assistants, took the
oaths of office ; a committee was appointed to write to
Endicott and to make orders and powers for the govern-
ment of the Colony. Such a letter was prepared, directed
to Endicott and his Council, and forwarded to him by the
ships which carried Higginson and his companions, ac-
companied by duplicates of the Charter and the seal of
the Company. 20 The letter informed him that a Charter
had been obtained, that he had been "confirmed" Gover-
nor, and that they had provided him with a Council.
Many suggestions are made and wishes expressed in
regard to particular matters, but no positive orders nro
given. The whole government of the Colony was by this
letter intrusted to Endicott and his Council ; and the letter
states, "to the end that you may not do anything contrary
to law nor the power granted us by his Majesty's Patents,
we have, as aforesaid, sent you a duplicate of the letters
patent, under the great seal of England, ordering and
requiring you and the rest of the council there not to do
anything, either in inflicting punishment on malefactors,
or otherwise, contrary to or in derogation of said letters
patent; but if occasion require, we authorize you and
them to proceed according to the power you have." In
case of Enclicott's death, Mr. Skelton or Mr. Sharpe is
named to take charge of affairs, "and to govern the people
according to order, until further order." And in commit-
ting to the discretion of Endicott and his Council, the
maintenance of their privileges against the claims and
interference of John Oldhain and his adherents, the caution
is given, that "the preservation of our privileges will
chiefly depend (under God) upon the first foundation of
our government."
a l Mass. Col. Rec., 37, 37', 380.
264
There can be no question that the appointments thus
made and the powers conferred were but preliminary to a
more formal election, and a more specific delegation of
authority. They were probably sent forward at the time,
because of the opportunity afforded by the sailing of Hig-
ginson and others, who were to be of the Council.
On April 30, 1629, a general court was held, the letter
sent a few days before was confirmed, orders were drawn
up and an election had. 21 The record recites that the
Company "thought fit to settle and establish an absolute
government at our plantation in the said Massachusetts
Bay in New England," to consist of thirteen persons, resi-
dent on the plantation, who should "from time to time and
at all time hereafter have the sole managing and ordering
of the government and our affairs there," and "be entitled
by the name of the Governor and Council of London's
Plantation in the Massachusetts Bay in New England.
And having taken into due consideration the merit, worth,
and good desert of Captain John Endicott, and others
lately gone over from hence with purpose to reside and
continue there, we have with full consent and authority of
this court, and by erection of hands, chosen and elected
the said Captain John Endicott to the place of present
Governor in our said Plantation," for one year after he
should take the oath of office (which was sent out to be
administered to him in New England), or until the Com-
pany should choose a successor. At the same time they
elected seven members of the Council (Francis Higginson
and others who had recently sailed), and gave to the
Governor and the seven authority to elect three more ;
and, to complete the thirteen who were to compose the
government, the former or old planters residing within
the limits were empowered to name the remaining two
1 Mass. Col. Rec., 37J, 361.
265
members. To the government thus erected power was
given to elect one of their number deputy governor, to
make choice of a secretary and other necessary officers,
and to fill vacancies caused by deatli or removal from office
for misdemeanors or unfitness. Under the power derived
from the Charter and in nearly the same words, the
Governor and Council in New England were authorized
"to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome
and reasonable laws, orders, ordinances, and constitutions
(so as the same be no way repugnant or contrary to the
laws of the realm of England), for the administering of
justice upon malefactors, and inflicting condign punish-
ment upon all other offenders, and for the furtherance
and propagating of the said plantation, and the more
decent and orderly government of the inhabitants resi-
dent there." 22
A more complete delegation of the law-making power
to a political government could not well be framed ; and
substantially the same words are used in conferring it on
the Legislature in the Province Charter, and in the Con-
stitution of the Commonwealth. 23 The forms and cere-
monies of government and magistracy necessary for the
plantation, the chief commanders, captains, governors,
officers, and other ministers, named in the Charter, to
whom were intrusted full power to correct, punish, par-
don, govern and rule all English subjects resident in Xew
England, or on the way thither or from thence by sea,
according to the nature and limits of their powers and
offices, and to whom the authority is given to wage defen-
sive war, were by this act declared and appointed, and
the Governor and Council of London's Plantation in
22 See also Letter to Endicott, May 28, 1629. 1 Mass. Col. Rcc., 398.
"Anc. Chart., 32, 33. Const, of Mass., Ch. 1, Sec. I, Art. IV.
266
Massachusetts Bay in New England invested with the
powers of the Company, under the Charter, to make such
Jaws as the Company might make.
It is also to be observed that, while the form of the
oath to be administered to the Governor of the Company
in England binds him to execute the statutes and ordi-
nances made by the authority of the assistants and freemen
of the Company, the oath to be taken by "the Governor
beyond the sea" omits this clause, and, after stating that
he shall support and maintain the government and Com-
pany, declares, that "Statutes and ordinances shall you
none make without the advice and consent of the Council
for the government of the Massachusetts Bay in New
England." 24 This clearly refers to the Council on the
spot, which had been appointed as a branch of the gov-
ernment here ; and evidently contemplates that the laws,
by which the Colony was to be governed, were to be
enacted by Endicott and his Council. That it was the
intention of the Company to clothe the government in
New England with power to admit freemen is manifested
by another clause in the Governor's oath, which states
"you shall admit none into the freedom of this Company
but such as claim the same by virtue of the privileges
thereof." The oath to be administered to the Governor
of the Company in London contains a similar clause.
None of the powers conferred by the Charter, and essen-
tial to the proper and efficient government of the Colony,
seem to have been withheld.
But it is not to be supposed that the Company in Lon-
don intended to surrender the whole legislative authority
to the government thus established in New England,
without any power to restrain it, if it should exceed or
2* 1 Mass. Col. Rec., 39, 349, 351, 399.
267
unwisely execute its trust. And that they might be in-
formed of the conduct of the government here, and the
character of the laws which it enacted, it was provided in
the vote, which conferred the law-making power on
Endicott and his Council, that copies of all laws should
"from time to time be sent to the Company in London."'"
It does not appear that the Company passed any other
orders or laws in England for the government of the
Colony here (except the orders for the apportionment of
land to settlers, and for the observance of the Sabbath), 26
or in regard to any law enacted here under Endicott ; and,
as before stated, the language of the several letters of
instruction is rather of suggestion than command.
To the Governor and Council thus set up in Xew
England, complete power was delegated to administer a
political government, to make laws, to appoint officers,
and to admit as freemen of the Company, those who
claimed the same by virtue of its privileges ; the Company
of course retaining in itself the power to change the
government, appoint new officers, and repeal or change
any laws which might be enacted.
The right of the Company under the Charter to make
this delegation of power cannot be disputed. On this
point the Charter is explicit; the clause which gives to
chief commanders, captains, governors, and other officers
in New England appointed by the Company, the power
to correct, punish, pardon, govern and rule all English
subjects there resident, clearly indicates that it was the
intention of the Charter to authorize such delegation, and
to establish in the persons so appointed the highest func-
tions of government, to which is added the power to wage
1 Mass. Col. Ecc., 38.
*1 Mass. Col. Rec., 42, 303, 399.
268
defensive war by sea and land without order from or re-
course to the Crown. 27
That this government was at the time intended to be*
permanent, there would seem to be no question. There
is no evidence that a removal of the Company in London
with the Charter was then considered or thought of. The
first mention of such a project was made some months
later by Cradock. 28 Indeed Winthrop and other persons
of note and fortune, upon whose accession to the Com-
pany the removal afterwards took place, were not then
members, and had taken no part in the enterprise. 29
We cannot fail to see, in this large grant of power to a
subordinate government, that purpose, so soon to be more
distinctly manifested, of establishing a state independent
and complete in itself; owing no duty to the Crown of
England, except so far as the Charter compelled it to pay
one-fifth part of all precious metals found in the soil to
the King, and forbade them to make laws repugnant to
those of England. This was the construction put upon
the Charter by the founders of Massachusetts, and guided
their policy for fifty years.
Such was the character of the government erected here.
The records of Eudicott's administration are not known
to be in existence, and there is no direct evidence when
he took the required oaths. But it appears from various
sources, that he held courts, councils, and elections,
granted lands, made laws, and regulated the civil and
religious affairs of the Colony, under his appointment by
the Company, from the time of Higginson's arrival, until
"1 Mass. Col. Rec., 18. 1 Hutchinson's Hist. Mass., 20, 366. 1 Chalmer's Annals,
142.
28 1 Mass. Col. Rec., 49. See Remarks by Charles Deane, Esq., on " The Forms
of issuing Letters Patent by the Crown of England," Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings,
Dec., 1869, pp. 166, 179, 180.
Young's Chron. of Mass., 281, 282.
269
he was superseded by Winthrop in the summer of 1630 j 30
indeed there is no record of any other authority exercised
in the Colony, until the first court held by Winthrop in
August of that year.
Two events took place in Salem during Endicott's ad-
ministration, worthy of special notice ; the establishment
of the first church in the Colony, and the return of the
Brownes to England.
The arrival of Skelton and Higginson, who were non-
conforming ministers of the Church of England, and the
spiritual needs of the colonists settled at Salem, led to
the immediate organization of the first church of the Col-
ony, which still exists as the First Church of Salem. It
was a most important event, and determined the constitu-
tion of all the churches of New England.
It is not practicable here to point out all the distinc-
tions of faith and doctrine, or to enumerate the sects
which divided those engaged in resisting the assumptions
and claims of the Church of England. It is sufficient to
say .that the Puritans who founded the Colony, and their
friends who were struggling for religious freedom at
home, were not separatists, but nonconformists. It was
no new struggle ; it had divided the church during
80 Edward Howes, in a letter to John Winthrop, Jr., dated London, March 25,
1633, says: "There was presented to the Lords lately about twenty-two of Capt.
Endicott's Laws," 29 Mass. Hist. Coll., 257. 1 Mass. Col. Rec., 48, 3(51, 363, and
Letters of Cradock, 386, 398. See also the learned note to the case of Commonwealth
vs. Itoxbury, 9 Gray (Massachusetts Reports), 450, note pp. 503, 506, 507. In the
petition of the General Court to Parliament in 1651, signed by Endicott and Dud-
ley, then Governor and Deputy Governor, after alluding to their original charter,
under which they came over "about three or four and twenty years shire," they
say: "By which Patent, liberty and power was granted to us to live under the
government of a governor, magistrates of our own chosing, and under laws of our
own making (not being repugnant to the laws of England), according to which
patent we have governed ourselves above this twenty-three years." This covers
the period from 1628 to 1651, including Eudicott's nrst administration under the
charter in 1629.
1 Ilutchiiison's Hist, of Mass., 448.
270
the preceding century, and may be traced still further
back.
The separatists, to which sect the Plymouth emigrants
belonged, left the established church ; the nonconformists
remained within the pale, contending against its prelacy,
its ceremonies and discipline, while not objecting to its
doctrine. In such a contest the tendency was constantly
to drive the nonconformists to separatism ; and here in
the new world, distant from the church and its influences,
it would have been strange if the Puritan had still con-
tinued to cling to the hierarchy from whose persecutions
he had fled. There was no bishop here, from whom could
descend spiritual and ecclesiastical power upon the minis-
ter to be installed in his holy office. Neither the Com-
pany in London nor the Governor here possessed any
power of appointment. It must therefore come from the
congregations, from the Christian men who, called of God
to their high estate, could thus exercise the function of
prelate and of king. Endicott doubtless reached this
conclusion without difficulty ; he had learned from Brad-
ford and Fuller their outward form of worship, that it
was far different from the common report, and such as he
had always professed and maintained. Skelton and Hig-
ginson, who were asked to give their views of the manner
in which the minister should be called to his office, re-
plied : there was a twofold calling, "the one an inward
calling, when the Lord moved the heart of a man to take
that calling upon him, and fitted him with gifts for the
same ; the second was an outward calling which was from
the people, when a company of believers are joined in
covenant to walk together in all the ways of God." These
conclusions were not reached without protracted consulta-
tion. The ceremonies that followed were simple and
primitive. The members of the congregation voted for
271
whom they would have as pastor and teacher, and Skel-
ton and Higginson were chosen. Four of the gravest
members of the church laid their hands in prayer upon
them and they were ordained to their sacred duties. A
covenant was afterward drawn up, and signed by the
members, and on a later day the deacons and elders were
elected, the former proceedings were affirmed, and Brad-
ford, who was present from Plymouth, gave the right
hand of fellowship to the new church/" 1
Such was the first New England ordination. At a sin-
gle blow they had separated the organization of the
church from the authority of the state ; but the full sig-
nificance of the act was not appreciated by the actors in
that memorable scene. What seem to us the necessary
conclusions from such a step did not follow ; and doubt-
less it did not occur to Endicott or the ministers that they
had done anything more than recognize the right of a
godly people in every parish to choose its minister, under
the eye of a godly magistrate. The church was still to
continue a part of the Puritan state ; its membership was
for many years to be the qualification of those who were
to make its laws and administer its authority ; and the
conduct of its teachers, and the religious belief and prac-
tice of its people, were to be the subject of investigation
and correction by the temporal power. When we con-
sider the dangers that surrounded the infant state and
church, we cannot at this day know that their union was
not necessary and essential to the public safety.
Though the Puritan was in advance of his time, he was
still subject to its influences. The idea that religion
could be sustained, except through the aid of political
Letter of C'has. Gott, July 30, 1629. Hubbard'a Hist. N. E., 2C4. Morton's N.
. Memorial, 143.
272
forces, had not yet dawned upon the world at large, and
had not then occurred to the Puritan. The experience
too of mankind was against it. Luther would have been
destroyed but for the aid of the Elector of Saxony ; Cal-
vin was sheltered and protected by the Republic of Ge-
neva. Dear to the heart of the Puritan was his religious
faith ; alone in the wilderness, surrounded by perils, God
was very near to him, and he wanted a church to declare
and defend His word. Dear also to him was the liberty
of the people, and he wished to found a government that
would regulate and protect it. That the church would
furnish such a bulwark to the rising state, and that the state
would find the church a source of strength and purity,
were the natural and necessary conclusions which he
reached in common with the current opinion of his time.
But even in the small band of colonists there was oppo-
sition to the new church. The question was asked,
whether this was a church? John and Samuel Browne,
who were brothers and members of Endicott's Council,
recently arrived, men of character and influence, set up a
separate worship of their own, in conformity to the disci-
pline and ceremonies of the Church of England ; and
charged that the ministers " were separatists and would be
annabaptists." A conference was held before the Gover-
nor. Accommodation of the dispute was impossible. En-
dicott was in no mood, at this time, and in the critical
condition of afiairs, to tolerate schism. He acted with
his usual vigor ; finding that the brothers were of high
spirit, and that their speeches and practices tended to
mutiny and faction, he told them "that New England was
no place for such as they," and sent them back to England
by the returning ships. 32 This act was not formally dis-
2 1 Palfrey's Hist. N. E., 298.
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approved by the Company in London, though cautious
and politic letters were sent to Endicott and the minis-
ters. 33 He might well have relied on the instructions in
a previous letter, in which Cradock said: "If any prove
incorrigible, and will not be reclaimed by gentle correc-
tion, ship such persons home by the 'Lion's Whelp,'
rather than keep them there to infect and to be an occa-
sion of scandal unto others." 34
The question thus decided was of great importance, for
it settled the construction put upon the Charter, that the
Company and its officers had the right to exclude from
their chartered limits all persons whose schemes and prac-
tices were subversive of authority, creating dissensions,
fomenting discord and mutiny, and thereby imperilling
the salety of the Colony. This course was afterwards
followed, not only against those whose conduct and speech
impaired the authority of the rulers, but against those
guilty of crimes peculiarly infamous and dangerous to the
young Colony. "Religious intolerance, like every other
public restraint, is criminal, wherever it is not needful for
the public safety ; it is simply self-defence, whenever
tolerance would be public ruin." 35
The Colony was like a ship at sea, or an army on the
march, and disaffection and mutiny in the crew, or in the
ranks, must be summarily dealt with. The wide conti-
nent was open to colonization, but the narrow strip of
land called Massachusetts had been given to this people
as their own, with power to determine who should enjoy
and be admitted to its privileges, and upon what terms
and conditions. It was a heavy labor they had under-
taken, beset with danger on every side ; and only with a
18 1 Mass. Col. Rec., 51, 407, 408. " 1 Mass. Col. Rec., 303,
1 Palfrey's Hist. N. E., 300.
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united people could the work be accomplished. They
banished those only who disturbed their peace, and who
they thought endangered their safety ; and while they
adhered to this rule, they had the right to exercise this
power.
Another winter of suffering and death followed this
new arrival of colonists. Eighty died, and the accom-
plished and gifted Higginson contracted the fatal malady,
which soon carried him to the grave. But in the summer
of 1629 he had written that glowing description of New
England and its promise, which passed through three edi-
tions in London within a few months, awakened an intense
interest in the new Colony, and led many to embark.
On the other side of the water great changes had been
made. The proposition of Gradock, that the whole gov-
ernment with the Charter should be removed to New
England, had been, after grave debate, adopted by the
Company ; and a number of gentlemen of worth and for-
tune agreed to come over with their families and cast their
lot with the colonists. 36 Cradock withdrew from his office
of Governor, and John Winthrop was chosen to succeed
him. A Deputy Governor was elected, and eighteen
Assistants, among whom was Endicott. 37 Great prepara-
tions were made, and in the spring seventeen vessels
sailed from England, bearing more than a thousand pas-
sengers, and among them were Winthrop, Dudley, Salton-
stall, and Johnson.
The period of Endicott's administration was drawing
to its close ; the year for which he was elected was soon
to expire. Salem was no longer to be the seat of the
government, but merely one of the towns in the Colony
of which Boston was to be the capital. An era of pros-
86 Young's Chron. of Mass., 281, 282. ?: i Mass. Col. Kec., 58.
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perity and growth was about to dawn with the coming
fleets of Winthrop.
But we cannot forget the courage which held the place
though those two memorable years of suffering and dan-
ger, and amid sorrow, tears, and death, sent buck to
England words of hope and confidence ; a courage, not
born of mere personal fortitude and contempt of danger,
but inspired and sustained by a devout trust that God
would lead His children to the promised land ; nor can we
forget that here the foundation of the State was laid, in
soil sanctified by the blood of those who perished in the
eifort.
That our knowledge of the events of those two years
is so imperfect must ever be a subject of regret; though
the student of that period is not without hope that the
records of Endicott's government and his letters home
may yet be found. Henceforward we move in a clearer
light.
On the 12th of June, 1630, Governor Winthrop, bear-
ing the Charter, arrived at Salem, in the Arbella. lie
was cordially welcomed by Endicott, and a warm and ten-
der friendship seems to have begun at that time, which
lasted without a cloud while Winthrop lived. They were
both throughout their lives in the constant service of the
Colony, and during twenty-seven of the thirty-five years
which followed, one or the other held the office of Gover-
nor. Winthrop soon assumed the management of affairs.
The great services which he rendered in developing and
establishing the Colony, cannot well be over-estimated.
He possessed a rare genius for government, and was ad-
mirably trained for the execution of his work. It would
require more time than we have, properly to delineate his
character, to measure his powers, or to point out the dis-
tinctive features of our system, for which we are indebted
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to him. His name must ever stand among the great
names of Massachusetts.
During the next thirty years the Puritans had full
opportunities to develop and mould their institutions.
Though threatened at times with interference from Eng-
land, they maintained their course and were practically
independent and subject to no control by the authorities
at home. During the first ten years Charles was too
much occupied with his own difficulties to give much at-
tention to this side of the Atlantic. During the second
ten years the parliamentary struggle and the civil war
were raging ; and during the last ten there was no king
in England.
It was the golden age of the New England Puritans ;
and in 1660, when Charles II was restored, their great
work was substantially done, and the system which we
have inherited was settled on a firm and enduring basis.
Having a government under the Charter clothed only with
general powers, they started out with no written plans or
constitution ; they had no theories prepared in the closet
and based upon abstract principles. They wanted a free
government, annually responsible to the will of the free-
men of the Colony, in which the greatest liberty should
exist that was compatible with order and authority ; and
gradually it grew into symmetry and beauty, measure fol-
lowing measure, as the hour and the exigency demanded.
When the freemen became too numerous to meet in
general court, town representation was established ; and
later they adopted that great security of a constitutional
government, a legislature of two co-ordinate branches.
When the question arose how local authority should be
administered and taxes levied, the system of town gov-
ernment, substantially the same as it exists to-day, was
created in 1636 ; and these little republics, the best
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schools of selfgovernment in the world, survived the loss
of charters, and even in times of revolution protected the
people and maintained order. They early understood
that to make the government they intended to found,
enduring and perpetual, the people must be educated,
and they made the schools a public charge :!s and endowed
the college at Cambridge. The same year that the Com-
mons of England voted 39 to publish Lord Coke's Com-
mentary on Magua Charta, the Massachusetts colonists
established a code of fundamental laws, known as The
Body of Liberties, in which it is declared that : "The free
fruition of such liberties, immunities and privileges, as
humanity, civility, and Christianity call for as due to
every man in his place and proportion without impeach-
ment and infringement, hath ever been and ever will be
the tranquillity and stability of Churches and Common-
wealths." 40 To strengthen their hands at home and abroad
they joined the Confederation of the New England Colo-
nies, thus shadowing forth the Union of these States.
And thus we might trace through all the laws and policy
of the Colony the gradual growth of our institutions.
88 At a Quarterly Court, Mar. MO. HH1, ''Col. Endicott moved about the fences and
a free school, and therefore wished a whole town meeting about it." This applied
to Salem. See 1 Felt's Annals of Salem, p. 427, et seq.
3t) This was ordered May 12th, Kill.
40 Francis C. Gray, Esq.. in a learned paper on the Early Laws of Massa-
chusetts, published in 1.S4:}, says: '-The Hotly of Liberties really cslabli.-hcd by
them exhibits throughout the hand of the practised lawyer, familiar with Hie prin-
ciples and securities of English liberty ; and although it retains some strong traces
of the times, is in the main far in advance of them, and in several respect* in ad-
vance of the common law of England at this day. It shows that our ance.-tors,
instead of deducting all their laws from the llooks of Motes, established at the out-
set a code of fundamental principles, which, taken as a whole, for wisd equity,
adaptation to the wants of their community, and a liberality of sentiment superior
to the age in which it was written, may fearlessly challenge a comparison with any
similar production, from Magna Charta itself to the latest Jiill of Rights, that has
been put forth in Europe or America." 8 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll.. pp. 1'Jl, I'M, 218.
See also 2 Mass. Col. Hec., 212. '-The men of Massachusetts did much quote Lord
Coke." 2 Bancroft's Hist. U. S., p. 430.
IIIST. COLL. XV 18
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Throughout this period of thirty years it had been the
constant aim of her rulers to keep Massachusetts free and
untrammelled. This governed and controlled all her re-
lations to the mother country during that time. The
removal of the government with the Charter was probably
prompted and executed that such a purpose might be
carried out. When in 1635 a movement was made to
deprive them of their Charter, hopeful of assistance doubt-
less from their brothers in England, then nearly ready for
open conflict with Charles, they erected fortifications in
Boston harbor, appointed a military commission with ex-
traordinary powers ; and to secure a supply of musket
balls, they were made a legal tender, at a farthing apiece,
instead of coin, the circulation of which was prohibited.
And this was in substance their reply to the demand for
their Charter. In 1647 they resisted successfully the
right of Parliament to reverse the decision and control
the government of Massachusetts. And under the Com-
monwealth of England they kept this purpose steadily in
view ; they successfully remonstrated against the attempt
to impose upon them a new Charter, and to place gover-
nors and commissioners in all English colonies in Amer-
ica ; they did not yield to the plan of Cromwell to trans-
fer them to Ireland to be a defence against Catholicism ;
.and would not consent to waste their strength by trans-
planting their people to Jamaica. 41
They did not compromise their independence, and
yielded no more to the Parliament and the Protector than
they had to the King. They Expressed no formal ap-
proval of the execution of King Charles, or of the eleva-
tion of Cromwell or his son. They did nothing to impair
41 Petition to Parliament in 1651 ; Letter of Endicott to Cromwell in the same
year; 1 Hutchinson's Hist, of Mass., 448, 450; 2 Palfrey's Hist. N. E., 390.
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or imperil the safety of Xew England. To her, the child
of their suffering, they h;id transferred their allegiance.
But their hopes of independence were not to he real-
ized. With the Restoration came a new order of things.
The American colonies had prospered, they became ob-
jects of interest and worthy the attention of the Crown,
and there were those who coveted their places of honor
or emolument. There was not the same intense spirit
prevailing among the people, and religion was no longer
the vital question that it had been. There was no Puri-
tan party in England like that Avhich before the Great
Rebellion had given aid and comfort to their brothers in
New England ; a generation had passed away ; the Puri-
tans of Cromwell were scattered and broken ; some had
perished on the field or the scaffold, others were in exile
or in prison.
Soon after the Restoration, the struggle began in Mas-
sachusetts to save the Charter and the government ; it
dragged along with varying fortune through twenty weary
years, and the final judgment was entered and the Char-
ter annulled in 1(584. Then came the brief rule of Dud-
ley, the tyranny of Andros, the Revolution of 1(588, the
temporary government of Bradstrcet, and the Province
Charter of 1G ( J2 under which Massachusetts lived tiil our
own Revolution.
It would have been a sad experience to the Puritan
leaders of 1G28 and 1(530 to have witnessed these events.
Happily, Endicott and Winthrop and Dudley were spared
the spectacle. To them it would have seemed as if their
children were descending into the house of bondage.
But in the Providence which rules the affairs of men
and states, it was but a stage of discipline and growth,
whereby the consecrated democracy and godly magistracy
of the Puritan Colony finally bloomed into the full and
rounded beauty of the republican Commonwealth.
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The Province Charter and its royal governor did not
destroy what the Puritan had done. Child of the century
that preceded him, trained and educated for his great
work, he had builded wisely and well. The town govern-
ment and the town meeting which he had created proved
indestructible, and the school-house, though built of logs,
more enduring than castle or cathedral. All that was
best in his principles of conduct and methods of govern-
ment had passed into the life, the thought, the social
habits of the people, and was stamped on the character
of his posterity ; from father to son, 'through successive
generations, were transmitted a love of liberty, an obedi-
ence to law, a desire for knowledge, a reverence for
the teacher and the teachings of religion, a faculty for
understanding and dealing with public interests, a wise
economy and thrift, a deep seated belief that the general
welfare was more desirable than private good or gain, and
with all these a fervent love for the hills and valleys of
New England.
And so may it be to the end; and may your descen-
dants who meet here, as fifty or a hundred years go
round, to commemorate the lauding at Salem, be true
and faithful to the memory of their fathers, and stand for
the liberty and truth which the Puritan taught, with the
hazard not only of their goods, but of their lives, if need
be.
APPENDIX.
Ifotes on the Remarks of Henry Wltealland^ Gcorye 13.
Lorincj, and Benjamin If. tiilxbee.
TIIK persons named in these notes, with six exceptions, were mem-
bers of the Essex Historical Society in September, 1S2S. when the two
hundredth anniversary of the landing of (Jov. John Kndicott at Salem
was duly commemorated. These persons were prominent citi/ens of
Salem and its vicinity during the first third of the present century,
and may be considered representative men of that period, a period
when party and sectarian lines we're verv closelv drawn; and when
from the press were issued, either in the journals of the day or in a
separate form, numerous political and controversial communications
by some of our most learned scholars and theologians; though diller-
ing widely in their opinion on these and kindred subjects, they all
united in measures for the promotion of history, literature, the arts
and the sciences, and laid the foundations of several of the institu-
tions that now exist, in this city, in furtherance of these objects,
though modified in some of their features to conform to the spirit of
the times.
1.
JOSEPH STORY, son of Dr. Klisha and Mehitable (IVdrick) Story;
1). in Marblehead, 18 Sept., 177!>; gr. Harv. college, 17!S; in. '.' Dec.,
1804, Mary Lynde, daughter of Rev. Thomas F. and Sarah ( I'ynehon)
Oliver; she died 22 June, ISO."*; 111. LMly Sarah Waldo, daughter of
Hon. William Wetmore. lie studied law with Samuel Sewall and
afterwards with Samuel Putnam, and commenced the practice at
Salem in 1801. He soon became a lawyer of distinction ; speaker of
the Mass. House of Representatives; Hep. U. S. Congress. 1808-9;
from 1811 until his death Judge of the U. S. Supreme Court, a posi-
tion in which he won great distinction as a judge and a jurist. In
1830 he removed to Cambridge, having received the appointment of
the Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University. He possessed
great colloquial powers, and in early life was distinguished for his
poetical contributions; his juridical works were numerous and evinced
(283)
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great learning and profound views of the science of law. He died 10
Sept., 1845. See memoir by his son, W. W. Story.
2.
EDWARD AUGUSTUS HOLYOKE, son of Rev. Edward and Margaret
(Appleton) Holyoke, b. 1 Aug., 1728; gr. Harv. Coll., 1746; com-
menced the practice of medicine in Salem in 1749 ; m. 1 June, 1755,
Judith, daughter of Benjamin and Love (Rawlius) Pickman; she died
19 Nov., 1756; m. 2dly 22 Nov., 1759, Mary, daughter of Nath'l Vial,
of Boston (b. 19 Dec., 1737; d. 15 April, 1802). He died 31 March,
1829. See Discourse at the interment by Rev. J. Brazer; Memoir by
Dr. A. L. Peirson; Genealogy of the Holyoke Family, by Andrew
Nichols, E. I. Hist. Coll., Vol. Ill, p. 57; Notice in E. I. Hist. Coll.,
Vol. IV, p. 273.
JOSEPH GILBERT WATERS, son of Capt. Joseph and Mary (Dean)
Waters of Salem, where he was born 5 July, 1796, and a descendant
in the sixth generation from Lawrence Waters, one of the first settlers
of Watertown. He graduated at Harvard College in 1816 and studied
law with John Pickering of Salem. In the autumn of 1818 he went
to Mississippi and resided there some two or three years in the prac-
tice of his profession. Owing to ill health he returned to Salem, and
opened an office, where he resided during the remainder of his life.
He was editor of the "Salem Observer" for several years from its
commencement, in 1823. He was appointed special Justice of the
Salem Police Court Sept. 1, 1831, and standing Justice Feb. 23, 1842,
and continued to discharge the duties of this latter office until the
establishment of the 1st District Court in 1874. In 1835 he was a
member of the Mass. Senate. He also held other offices of honor and
trust. Married 8 Dec., 1825, Eliza Greenleaf Townsend, daughter of
Capt. Penn Townsend. He died 12 July, 1878.
4.
TIMOTHY PICKERING, son of Timothy and Mary (Wingate) Picker-
ing, was born at Salem 6 July, 1745, gr. Harv. Coll. 1763, m. 8 April,
1776, Rebecca White (daughter of Benjamin White of Boston, Mass.,
and Elizabeth Miller, of Bristol, Eng.), b. at Bristol, 18 July, 1754, d.
at Salem, 14 Aug., 1828. He was descended in the fifth generation
from John Pickering 1 , who settled in Salem about 1633, through
John 2 , John 3 , Timothy 4 . He was admitted to the bar in 1768, was on
the committee of correspondence and was a colonel of militia at the
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opening of the war; joined Washington with his regiment in the fall
of 177G, and was adjutant general of the army and afterwards quarter
master general. After the war he settled in Philadelphia. lie was a
delegate to the Pennsylvania Convention for considering the U. S.
Constitution, was in the cabinet of Washington and Adams, Post-
master General 1791-1795, U. S. Sec. of War, 1795, U. S. Sec. of
State, 1795 to 1800. In 1801 he returned to Massachusetts. U. S.
Senator from 1803 to 1811, and from 1814 to 1817 Representative in U.
S. Congress. In his retirement he enjoyed the respect and esteem of
his contemporaries and devoted himself to rural pursuits. He was
the originator and first president of Essex Agricultural Society and
delivered before that society several addresses. He died at Salem 29
Jan., 1829. See Discourse on his death by C. W. Uphara; also Life
and Letters by his sou Octavius and C. W. Upham.
5.
BENJAMIN WILLIAMS CROWNINSIIIELD, son of George and Mary
(Derby) Crowninshield, b. at Salem 27 Dec., 1772; descended from
Dr. John Casper Richter von Cronenshilt, a German physician, who
came from Leipsic to Boston about 1688 and died there in 1711; m.
Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Clifford) Allen of Salem;
owned lands near Lynn Mineral Spring Pond. Two of his sons, John
and Clifford, came to Salem and were successful and enterprising mer-
chants ; John married Anstiss, daughter of John and Sarali (Manning)
Williams, the father of George above named.
Mr. Crowninshield, like his ancestors, was largely engaged in com-
mercial enterprises in connection with his father and brothers under
the name of George Crowninshield & Sons ; his brother, George Crown-
inshield, the owner of the famous pleasure yacht, the "Cleopatra's
Barge," made an excursion to the ports in the Mediterranean, re-
turning iii October, 1817. He built the large brick house on Derby
street, between Curtis and Orange streets, now occupied as the Old
Women's Home. He was a member of the Mass. State Senate for
several years; U. S. Sec. of Navy from Dec., 18H, to Nov., 1818;
Rep. U. S. Congress 1823 to 1831; one of the first directors of the
Merchant's Bank, Salem, incorporated June 26, 1811 ; m. Mary Board-
man, daughter of Francis and Mary (Hodges) Boardman, 1 Jan., 1804.
He removed to Boston in 1832 and died there Feb. 8, 1851.
6. SENATORS IN CONGRESS.
TIMOTHY PICKERING, see ante.
NATHANIEL SILSBEE, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Becket) Silsbee,
b. at Salera 14 Jan., 1773; descended from Henry Silsbee, of Salem,
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1639, Ipswich, 1647, Lynn, 1658, d. 1700, through Nathaniel 2 , Nathaniel 3 ,
William 4 , Nathaniel 5 . He pursued his studies with Rev. Dr. Cutler
of Hamilton; d. 14. July, 1850; m. 12 Dec., 1802, Mary, daughter of
George and Mary (Derby) Crowninshield, b. 24 Sept., 1778; d. 20
Sept., 1835. In early life a shipmaster and supercargo, afterwards a
successful and eminent merchant. A Rep. and Senator Mass. Legis.,
for three years President of the latter body; Representative U. S;
Cong. 1817-21; Senator U. S. Cong. 1826-35. See Sermon on the
death of Nathaniel Silsbee, by James Flint.
RTUFUS CHOATE, son of David and Miriam (Foster) Choate, b. at
Ipswich (now Essex) 1 Oct., 1799; d. at Halifax, N. S., 13 July, 1859;
gr. Dart. Coll., 1819; m. 29 Mar., 1825, Helen, daughter of Hon. Mills
Olcutt of Hanover, N. H. ; Tutor at Dartmouth 1819-20; read law at
Harv. Univ. Law School, also with David Cummins of Salem and with
U. S. Att'y Gen. William Wirt; he commenced practice in Danvers; a
considerable portion of the period before his removal to Boston in
1834 was passed in Salem ; a member of Mass. House and Senate ;
Rep. U. S. Cong. 1832-4; Senator U. S. Cong. 1841-5; a man of splen-
did and brilliant talents, who early distinguished himself as an advo-
cate at the bar and an eloquent speaker in the Halls of Congress, on
the lecture platform, and on other occasions.
7. REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.
JOSEPH STORY, see ante.
BENJAMIN PICKMAN, son of Benjamin and Mary (Toppan) Pickman,
b.at Salem 30 Sept., 1763; descended from Nathaniel Pickman, who
came from Bristol, England, with his family, in 1661 and settled in
Salem, through Benjamin 2 (b. in Bristol, 1645, m. Elizabeth Hardy, d.
Dec., 1708), Capt. Benjamin 3 , Col. Benjamin 4 , and Col. Benjamin 5 ;
pursued his preparatory studies at Dummer Academy, then under the
charge of the celebrated "Master Moody;" gr. Harv. Coll. 1784; m.
20 Oct., 1789, Anstiss, youngest daughter of Elias Hasket and Elisa-
beth (Crowninshield) Derby (b. 6 Oct., 1769; d. 1 June, 1836); stu-
died law with Theophilus Parsons (Harv. Coll., 1769) then residing
in Newburyport, and afterwards Chief Justice of Mass. Sup. Court;
admitted to the bar; soon relinquished the practice of the profession
and engaged in commercial pursuits, in which he continued during the
greater part of his life ; a Rep. and Senator of Mass. Legislature ;
member of Mass. Constitutional Convention, 1820; member of the
Executive Council of Mass; Rep. U. S. Cong. 1809-11; he was Presi-
dent of the Directors of the Theological School at Cambridge, and
also President of the principal literary and historical and other insti-
287
tutions of Salem and vicinity; died at Salem 1C Aug., 1843. Sec Dis-
course on his death, by Rev. John Brazer.
WILLIAM REED, son of Benjamin Tyler and Mary Appleton (I)odire)
Reed, bapt. 9 June, 177(5; in. 13 Nov., 1SOO, Hannah, daughter of Rob-
ert and Mary (Ingalls) Hooper of Marblehead (b. Aug., 1778; d. 1C
May, 1855); the first ancestor was William, son of Richard Reed of
Whittlesey in the county of Kent, who came to America about li>:)0,
settled first at Weymouth, then removed to Boston; Samuel-, Samuel 3
of Marblehead, Samuel 4 , Samuel', Benjamin Tyler 6 , above named; an
eminent merchant in Marblehead, and highly esteemed for his ben< vo-
lent and religious character; Rep. U. S. Cong. 1811-15; President of
Sabbath School Union of Mass., of Am. Tract Society; an officer and
member of many other educational and religious organizations. He
was so deeply interested in the cause of temperance that he was styled
the "Apostle of Temperance." He died suddenly, IS Feb., 18.">7. His
widow, who survived several years, was always engaged in works of
charity, and was regarded as a most accomplished lady and eminent
Christian.
DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, son of John and Elizabeth (Haynes)
White, b. at Methuen, 7 June, 177G; gr. Ilarv. Coll., 17'.7; Tutor in
Harvard; studied law with Samuel Putnam, at Salem, and was ad-
mitted to the bar 20 June, 1804; commenced practice in Xewbiiryport ;
24 May, 1807, m. Mrs. Mary Van Schalkwyck, daughter of Dr. Josiah
Wilder of Lancaster, Mass.; senator Mass. Legis., 1810-15; elected
Rep. U. S. Congress in Nov., 1814; before he took his seat, he ac-
cepted the appointment to the office of Judge of Probate for the
county of Essex, and resigned his commission of representative in
the spring of 1815. Jan. 3, 1817, he removed to Salem, where lie
passed the remainder of his life; continuing to fill the office of Judge
of Probate, with uncommon ability, until he resigned the situation in
the summer of 1853. His vast literary resources were always at the
command of his friends and the public, and he was always a patron
of every good enterprise which tendered to foster the highest inter-
ests of the community; one of the founders of the Divinity School
at Cambridge; an overseer of Ilarv. Coll. from 1842 to 1853; founder
of the Lyceum at Salem, President of Salem Athenaeum and also of
the Essex Institute, etc.
His wife died 29 June, 1811 ; ru. 2d, 1 Aug., 1819, Mrs. Eliza Wet-
more, daughter of William and Abigail (Ropes) Orne of Salem; she
died 27 Mar., 1821; and he m. 3d, 22 Jan., 1824, Mrs. Ruth Rogers,
daughter of Joseph Hurd, of Charlestown; she survived him. He
died in Salem 30 Mar., 18G1, aged 84 years. See memoir by G. W.
288
Briggs in Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., Vol. VI, p. 1 ; Memoir by Rev. Dr.
Walker in Proceedings of Mass. Hist. Soc. ; also a notice in E. I.
Hist. Coll., Vol. IV, p. 104.
TIMOTHY PICKERING, see ante. NATHANIEL SILSBEE, see ante.
GIDEON BARSTOW, son of Gideon and Anna (Mead) Barstow, b. at
Mattapoiset, 7 Sept., 1783; d. in St. Augustine, Fla., where he had
gone for the benefit of his health, 26 Mar., 1852 ; m. Nancy, daughter
of Simon and Rachel (Hathorne) Forrester, who is now residing in
Boston. He descended in the sixth generation from William Barstow,
who, at the age of twenty-three, embarked for New England with his
brother George in the "True Love," John Gibbs, master, probably
from the West Riding in Yorkshire ; he was in Dedham in 1636, a free-
man in Scituate in 1649, and the first settler in the present territory of
Hanover; a noted man of his day and a great land-holder; d. in 1668,
aged 56; through William 2 , Benjamin 3 , Gideon 4 , Gideon 3 . Three or
four of the later generations lived in Mattapoiset and were largely
engaged in ship building. He first settled in Salem as a practising
physician, where he was considered skilful in his profession and atten-
tive to its duties; afterwards a merchant engaged in foreign com-
merce ; a member of both branches of Mass. Legis. ; a representative
in U. S. Congress, 1821-3.
BENJAMIN W. CROWNINSHTELD, see ante. RUFUS CHOATE, see ante.
GAYTON PICKMAN OSGOOD, son of Isaac and Rebecca T. (Pickman)
Osgood ; b. in Salem, 4 July, 1797 ; removed with his parents in early
life to Andover, which was afterwards his place of abode ; gr. Harv.
Coll., 1815; studied law with Benjamin Merrill of Salem, where he
began the practice of the profession; soon after returned to North
Andover. He lived a retired life, and his range of study and reading
was very extensive. Several times elected a Rep. Mass. Legis. ; Rep.
U. S. Cong, one term, 1833-35; m. 24 Mar., 1859, Mary Farnham of
North Andover. He died 26 June, 1861, aged 64 years.
STEPHEN CLARENDON PHILLIPS, only child of Stephen and Dorcas
(Woodbridge) Phillips; b. at Salem 4 Nov., 1801; gr. Harv. Coll.,
1819 ; a descendant from Rev. George Phillips, first minister of Water-
town, who came over in the "Arbella," with Gov. Winthrop, Sir R.
Saltonstall and others (d. 1 July, 1644, aged about 51), through Jona-
than 8 , Jonathan 3 , Stephen, 4 and Stephen 5 . After leaving college he
commenced the study of the law, but soon relinquished it and entered
upon mercantile business, and was for man}' years an eminent and
successful merchant. Member of both branches of Mass. Legislature ;
in 1834 elected a Rep. U. S. Cong. ; resigned in 1838 ; mayor of Salem
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from 1838 to 1842; a Presidential Elector in 1840; Member of Mass.
State Bd. of Education, 1843-52; Trustee of Mass. State Lunatic Hos-
pital, 1844 to 1850; president of several local organizations. In 1848
he left the Whig party and engaged actively in the Free Soil move-
ment, and was the candidate of that party for Governor. He had a
soul for great enterprises and was a liberal and public spirited mem-
ber of society. He m. 1st, 7 Nov., 1S22, Jane Appleton, daughter of
Willard and Margaret (Appleton) Peele ; she d. 19 Dec., 1837, and he
m. 2dly, 3 Sept., 1838, Margaret M., sister of his lirst wife. He was
lost by the burning of the steamboat "Montreal" on the passage from
Quebec to Montreal, 2G June, 1857.
LEVKKETT SALTOXSTALL, son of Nathaniel and Anna (White) Salton-
stall; b. at Ilaverhill, Mass., 13 June, 1783; gr. Ilarv. (.'oil., ls()2; m.
7 Mar., 1811, Mary Elisabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth
(Elkins) Sanders (who d. 11 Jan., 185S, aged 70 years) ; d. 8 May, 1815;
a descendant of Sir Richard Saltonstall, an associate of Mass. Hay
Company, 1st assistant, commenced the lirst settlement of Watertown
in 1(530, through Kichard 2 , Nathaniel 3 , Richard' 4 , Richard', and Nathan-
iel 6 . He commenced the practice of law in 1805 at Salem and soon
became eminent in the profession and acquired a large and profitable
business. Rep. Mass. Legis. ; I'res. Mass. Senate; Rep. U. S. Cong.,
1838-1843; first Mayor of Salem; President of Essex Agricultural
Society, Vice President of Essex Historical Society, and was associ-
ated with other institutions having for their objects the advancement
of the best interests of society. He was respected and beloved by
the whole community and often placed in ollices of honor and trust
by his fellow citizens. See Discourse on his life and character by Rev.
John Brazer.
DAXIEL PUTNAM KINO, son of Daniel and Phebe (Upton) King, was
born in Danvers (now Peabody) 8 Jan., 1S01 ; gr. Ilarv. Coll. 1823;
probably a descendant of William King, who sailed from London to
Salem in the "Abigail," July 1, KI35, a freeman in HJ3U, d. about 1C51 ;
through Samuel 2 , who removed to Soutliold, L. I., Samuel 3 . Xacha-
riah 4 , Zachariah 5 , Daniel . He in. 5 Feb., 1824, Sarah P., only child of
Ile-zekiah and Sally (Putnam) Flint. He then commenced the cultiva-
tion of the farm that for centuries had belonged to his wife's family
and devoted himself to agriculture. He hail been speaker of the
Mass. House of Rep. and President of Mass. Senate; Rep. U. S. Cong,
from 1843 to his death, which occurred 25 July, 1850. He had been
for several years, successively Secretary, Trustee and Vice President
of the Essex Agricultural Society and was also interested in several
of the county and local organizations. He had delivered several oc-
casional discourses that have been printed. His devotion as a public
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servant, his integrity as a private citizen, and the high moral and relig-
ious character which he sustained in all the relations of life had en-
deared him not only to his immediate constituents, but to the whole
people of Massachusetts.
HENRY JAMES DUNCAN was of Scotch Irish descent; his gr. grand-
father, George Duncan, was one of the Colony that came from Lon-
donderry, Ireland, and settled in Londonderry, N. H., in 1719; he
was a man of education, a justice of the peace, and an elder in the
church ; James 2 , the youngest child, removed to Haverhill and died
there in 1838, aged 92; and James 3 , who m. Rebecca White, and died
5 Jan., 1822, aged 02, was the father of the subject of this notice.
Born at Haverhill, 5 Dec., 1793; gr. Harv. Coll. 1812; studied law, first
in the office of Hon. John Varnum of Haverhill, afterwards with his
cousin, L. Saltoustall of Salem; admitted to the Essex Bar in 1815;
entered upon practice at Haverhill; passed through the various grades
of militia service to the rank of colonel; was a Trustee and President
of Essex Agricultural Society; member of both branches of Mass.
Legislature and also of the Council; in 1838 one of the Commissioners
of Insolvency; in 1841 one of the Commissioners of U. S. Bankrupt
Law; Rep. U. S. Congress 1849 to 1853. He took a leading interest in
the municipal affairs of his native town, and also in the benevolent
institutions of the Baptist denomination and was frequently elected
the presiding officer of their meetings and conventions. He married,
28 June, 1826, Mary, daughter of Benjamin Willis, Esq., of Boston.
Pie died at his residence in Haverhill, 8 Feb., 1869.
CHARLES WENTWORTH UPHAM, son of Hon. Joshua and Mary Chand-
ler Upham, formerly of Massachusetts, and a graduate of Harvard in
the class of 1763; b. at St. Johns, N. B., 4 May, 1802; gr. Harv. Coll.,
1821, and of the Theol. School, Cambridge, 1824; ord. 8 Dec., 1824,
colleague witn Rev. Dr. Prince of the First Church, Salem; resigned
his pastoral office in Dec., 1844 ; was soon called into public life ; Rep.
and Senator in Mass. Legis. and President of the latter body; Rep. U.
S. Cong., 1853-5; Mayor of the city of Salem; author of Letters on
the Logos, 1828, Lectures on Witchcraft, 1831, Salem Witchcraft,
in 2 vols., 8vo, 1867, Life of T. Pickering and other works, and several
orations and pamphlets; m. 29 Mar., 1826, Ann Susan, daughter of
Rev. Dr. Abiel Holmes, of Cambridge, who died. Thursday, Apr. 5,
1877, aged 72 yrs., 10 mos. and 20 days. He died 15 June, 1875, two
days preceding the general and enthusiastic celebration of the Battle
of Bunker Hill. See Memoir by G. E, Ellis, sermon by J. T. Hewes.
8. '
JOSEPH STORY, Justice of U. S. Sup. Judic. Court. See ante.
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9.
SAMUKL PUTNAM, son of Gideon and Hannah Putnam ; b. in Danvers
13 April, 1708; studied in the Academy at Andover; gr. Harv. Coll.
1787; went to Newburyport and studied huv with Hon. Thcophilus
Bradbur}', a sound and learned lawyer; established himself in the
practice of the profession, soon very extensive, at Salem. He took
a decided and ardent part in the political questions of the time anil
adhered with great conservative firmness and inflexibility to his prin-
ciples. In 1814, upon the death of Judge Scwall. he was appointed,
by Gov. Strong. Justice of the Mass. Supreme Court, and continued
to perform the duties until his retirement in 1*12, a period of twcnty-
eight years. In 1S25 he received from Harvard the decree of LL.D.
He hail repeatedly represented, in both branches of the Legislature,
his section of the State. lie in. 2S Oct., 17'.,">. Sarah, daughter of
John and Lois (Pickering) Gooll (b. 28 Nov., 1772, at Salem; d. at
Boston, 22 Nov., 18(>4). The family removed from Salem to Bo>ton
about iSuo. He died at Somervillc, o July, 1 >.".:'>.
A descendant of John Putnam, through Nathaniel', Benjamin'',
Nathaniel 4 , and Gideon"', who came from Buckinghamshire in K up-
land and settled in Salem in 10JH; his wile's name was 1'riseilla, by
whom he liad three sons, Thomas, Nathaniel, and John. About the
3'ear 1(540, they took up several tracts of land in Salem Village ijiow
Danvers) where they lived and died, tillers of the soil. John, Sen.,
and John, Jr., owned the farms now or recently owned by James 15.
Putnam and William A. Lander. Thomas's patrimony was the flmns
now or recently owned by Daniel and Jesse 1'utnam, and the house
now occupied by some of the family of Daniel Putnam is the house in
which Gen. Israel Putnam was born. Nathaniel Putnam's place was
the farm until recently owned by Hon. Samuel Putnam. These lands
have been owned and occupied by one or more of the respective de-
scendants of these original settlers.
10.
DANIEL AITLETON WIIITK, Judge of Probate for Essex. See ante.
11. LAWYERS.
NATHAN DANK, son of Daniel and Abigail (Burnham) Dane, of
Ipswich, b. in Ipswich 2'J Dec., 17.>2; gr. Harv. Coll., 1778. After
leaving college he taught school in Beverly, at the same time pursuing
his legal studies with William Wetmore, Esq., of Salem. In 1782 he
commenced the practice in Salem, but soon removed to Beverly and
r came into a lucrative and extensive business; a delegate from Mass.
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to the Continental Congress, 1785-88 ; framer of the celebrated ordi-
nance of 1787; author of the Abridgment and Digest of American
Law ; established a professorship of law in Harv. Univ. ; d. at Beverly,
Feb. '15, 1835; his wife Polly d. 14 Apr., 1840, aged 90. See N. E.
Hist. Gen. Keg., VIII, 14S, for "A Pedigree of Dane; Quincy's Hist,
of Harv. Univ., II, 375; Stone's History of Beverly, 135; E. I. Hist.
Coll., IV, 279.
SAMUEL PUTNAM, see ante. DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, see ante.
ICHABOD TUCKER, son of Benjamin and Martha (Davis) Tucker, b.
at Leicester, Mass., April 17, 1765; gr. Harv. Coll. 1791; m. Sept. 16,
1798, Maria, daughter of Dr. Joseph and Mary (Leavitt) Orne (b. Nov.
13, 1775; d. Dec. 14, 1806); m. 2dly, Oct. 13, 1811, Esther Orne,
widow of Joseph Cabot and daughter of Dr. William and Lois (Orne)
Paine of Salem and Worcester (b. Aug. 29, 1774, d. Jan. 29, 1854).
He commenced the practice of law in Haverhill, and afterwards re-
moved to Salem; clerk of the courts for Essex upwards of thirty
years; d. at Salem, Oct. 22, 1846.
He was President of the Essex Historical Society and also of the
Salem Athenaeum, and was always interested in Historical and Liter-
ary Institutions ; a member of Mass. Hist. Society, Am. Antiq. Soci-
ety, etc. See E. I. Hist. Coll., IV, 280.
JOHN PICKERING, son of Timothy and Rebecca- (White) Pickering,
b. at Salem 7 Feb., 1777; gr. Harv. Coll., 1796; m. Sarah, daughter of
Isaac and Sarah (Leavitt) White (d. at Salem, aged 69, 14 Dec., 1846).
He began the study of the law in Philadelphia, with Mr. Tilghman,
afterwards Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Penn. After spend-
ing several years at Lisbon and London connected with the U. S.
Legation in those cities, he returned to Salem and resumed the study
under the direction of Hon. Samuel Putnam. He commenced the
practice of the profession in Salem, and in 1829 he removed to Boston
and was soon appointed City Solicitor. He was widely known for his
writings on philological subjects, and as a lawyer he ranked high in
the consideration of the community. He was president of the Amer-
ican Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Phil-
osophical Society and various other literary and learned societies, both
at home and abroad. He died at his residence in Boston, 5 May, 1846.
See Memoir by W. H. Prescott, Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d Ser., X, 204;
White's Eulogy before Am. Acad. Sci., on Oct. 26, 1846.
JOSEPH STORY, see ante. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, see ante.
BENJAMIN MERRILL, b. at Conway, N. H., 13 March, 1784. His
father, Thomas Merrill, was a son of John and Lydia (Haynes) Mer-
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rill, of Ilavcrhill, was one of the first settlers of Conway, and died in
1788, aged GG. His mother, a descendant of George Abbot, one of the
early settlers in Andover, was Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin and
Abigail (Abbot) Abbot of Andover (b. 8 Nov., 173S, d. 12 Oct., 1787).
He was prepared for college at Phillips (Exeter) Academy, under
that eminent instructor, the venerable Dr. Benjamin Abbot, and was
well grounded in classical learning; gr. Harv. Coll. in INCH, and studied
law successively with William Stedman, of Lancaster, and Francis 1).
Dana, of Boston. He first opened his ollice in Marlboro', but within a
year removed to Lynn, and not long after established himself in
Salem, where he passed the residue of his life. For four or live years
he was connected in professional business with the Hon. Samuel Put-
nam, until the latter was raised to the bench of the Supreme Judicial
Court. He attained a high standing in his profession, though making
no pretensions to forensic eloquence and avoiding all public display.
His sound judgment, legal ability, sagacity, and learning inspired
universal confidence and gained for him an ample professional income
and an undying good name. lie freely imparted his extensive learn-
ing and various knowledge to all, whether upon consultation, in casual
conversation, or in the journals of the day. The pages of the Salem
Gazette contain many portraits from his pen of worthy and excellent
characters. He died at Salem, 30 July, 1847, unmarried. See Salem
Gazette, Aug. 3, 1847.
JOSEPH E. SPRAGUE, eldest son of William and Sarah (Sprague)
Stearns,!), at Salem 9 Sept., 1782; gr. Harv. Coll., 18<>l ; soon alter
graduation he took the name of Sprague, to which family his mother
belonged. A member of the Essex Bar; Postmaster of Salem from
1815 to 1829; in September, 1830, was appointed high sherill' of Es-
sex, and remained in ollice until his commission expired, about nine
months before his death, which took place 22 Feb., 1852. He hail
been Rep. and Scnat. Mass. Legis. and had held other offices of trust
and honor. lie in. 1st Elizabeth, 2d Sarah L., daughters of Hon.
Bailey Bartlett of Haverhill.
Mr. Sprague and Mr. Benjamin Merrill were classmates, and though
sometimes opposed in politics, were united, not only by their academi-
cal career, but by many circumstances of their times. They not only
took a deep interest in public affairs, but labored with disinterested
zeal and constancy to enlighten the people, through the local press.
For more than forty years the columns of the Salem Register have
been enriched by articles from the pen of Mr. Sprague, which have
often attracted notice throughout the Union. The same service with
equal effect during the same period was rendered by the pen of Mr.
Merrill to the Salem Gazette. The names of J. E. Sprague and B.
HIST. COLL. xv 19
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Merrill are identified with these two journals and will long be held in
grateful remembrance. See Salem Register, Thursday, Feb. 26, 1852.
JOHN GLEN KING, second son of James and Judith (Norris) King,
b. in Salem 19 Mar., 1787 ; member of the class that graduated at Harv.
Coll. in 1807 ; a descendant of William King, who sailed from London
to Salem in the "Abigail," 1 July, 1635, a freeman in 1636, d. about
1651 ; through John 2 , Samuel 3 , John 4 , James 5 ; studied law with Hon.
Wm. Prescott and Hon. Judge Story; began the practice in Salem,
where he continued during the remainder of his life. He attained an
eminent rank as a wise and learned counsellor, and was considered
one of the leading members of the Essex bar. He loved the quiet of
the study more than the contests of the forum, and had not been
known as a pleader. Kep. and Senator in Mass. Legislature ; the first
President of the Common Council of Salem ; for many years a Com-
missioner of Insolvency, and held that office at the time of his death.
He was one of the founders of the Essex Historical Society, and from
1822 until his decease was elected successively a trustee, correspond-
ing secretary, or vice president of that society and after the union a
vice president of the Essex Institute ; for twenty-three years of that
time he performed very acceptably the duties of corresponding secre-
tary of the first named society.
He was a ripe scholar and enjoyed the pursuits of literature, espe-
cially the ancient classics. His love of books amounted almost to a
passion, and his choice and well selected library was his solace
through many a year of suffering. He married, 10 Nov., 1815, Susan
H., daughter of Major Frederick and A. H. Gilman, of Gloucester.
He died 26 July, 1857.
DAVID CUMMINS, son of David and Mehitable (Cave) Cummins, b.
at Topsfield 14 Aug., 1785 ; gr. Dart. 1806 ; read law with Hon. S. Put-
nam ; began the practice in Salem in 1809 ; removed after many years
to Springfield, thence to Dorchester, where he died, 30 Mar., 1855;
Judge of Mass. C. C. P. from 1828 to his death; m. 1st, 13 Aug., 1812,
Sally, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Peabody) Porter of Topsfield
.(b. Apr. 1, 1786; d. Feb., 1814) ; 2nd, Aug., 1815, Catherine, daughter
of Hon. Thomas Kittredge of Andover, who died July, 1824, aged 34 ;
3d, Maria Franklin, sister of his 2d wife, who died 29 Jan., 1873, aged
80 years. He was a man of strong powers and prominent at the bar,
and is well remembered for his ardent natural eloquence at public
meetings and in addresses to juries.
KUFUS CHOATE, see ante.
FREDERICK HOWES, son of Anthony and Bethia Howes, b. at Dennis
.in 1782; m. Elizabeth, daughter of William and Susan Burley of Bev-
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erly; commenced the practice of the law in Salem, residing, however,
some time in Danvers and representing that town in the Legislature;
returned to Salem and was, for several years, President of the Salem
Marine Insurance Company ; he was for many years an ollieer of the
Salem Athenaeum; and a trustee 1*21-18, and treasurer, 1831-4S, of the
Essex Historical Society; d. at Salem 12 Nov.. is. ',.".
JOHN WALSH, b. at Newburyport 23 July, 171)4 ; d. at St. Louis. Mo.,
3 Dec., 1845; unmarried. His father, Michael Walsh, was the author
of the "Mercantile Arithmetic," which for many years in the e.-irlv
part of fills century was the standard text book on this subject in all
our schools; he was born near Waterford, Tipperary Co., Ireland, in
17<!3, and was the son of Thomas and Nancy (Walley) Walsh ; he
came to this country in 1782 and soon after his arrival formed an ac-
quaintance with Mr. Joseph Page of Salisbury, who invited him to
teach the school in that town; he continued in that vocation either
in that place or in Newbnryport during the greater part of his life, and
soon became well known and celebrated as a teacher; some of his
scholars, as Joseph Story, Caleb dishing and others, have acquired a
national reputation; Harvard College conferred upon him the honor-
ary degree of A. M. ; he died 20 August, islo. His mother was
Hannah, daughter of Joseph Page of Salisbury; she died is June,
1803, aged 38 years. Under the tuition of his father he was prepared
to enter Ilarv. Coll., where he graduated in 1814. lie studied law and
was admitted to the Essex liar, lie had an otlice in Saiem and also
in Danvers, and for three years, 1821-4, had the charge of a private
school for boys, located on Chestnut and Green streets, Salem. He
was considered a thorough scholar and was the author of several re-
views and biographical sketches.
GAYTON PICKMAN OSCJOOD. see ante. JOSKIMI G. WATF.RS, see find'.
EBKNKZKU SIIILLABKU, son of Kbenezer and Dorcas (Endicott) Shil-
laber, b. at Salem, July 8, 171)7; gr. Uowd. Coll., 181(5; studied law
with Hon. L. Saltonstall at Salem. lie first opened an ollice in New-
buryport; after a few years removed to Salem; Clerk of the Courts of
Essex County from 1841 to 1851; d. at, Uiddeford, Me., 8 Nov., 1.S5C.
set. 59 yrs., 4r mos. ; unmarried.
ASAIIRL HUNTINGTON, son of Kev. Asahcl and Alethea (Lord) Hunt-
ington, b. at Topsfleld 23 July, 1798; pursued his preparatory studies
at Phillips (Andover) Academy; gr. Yale Coll. 1819; commenced the
study of the law in the office of John Scott, Esq., at Newburyport, and
afterwards removed to Salem and finished his studies in the oflice of
Hon. D. Cummins. In March, 1824, he was admitted to the Essex
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bar and commenced the practice in Salem, where he spent the remain-
der of his life. He was attorney for the county of Essex and attorney
for the district of Essex and Middlesex. In 1851 he was appointed
Clerk of the Courts for the county of Essex, and continued to perform
the duties of that office till his death, either by appointment or elec-
tion. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853;
Mayor of Salem 1853; one of the Trustees of Dummer Academy, Di-
rector and President of the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company ; Presi-
dent of the Essex Institute 1861-5. He was from first to last a con-
sistent, unwavering, and judicious friend of the temperance cause,
and also interested in other movements for the improvement*of soci-
'ety. He married, 25 Aug., 1842, in Boston, Mrs. Caroline Louisa
(Deblois) Tucker. He died 5 September, 1870. See Memoir by O. P.
Lord, Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., vol. XI, page 81 ; Huntington Family
Memoir, p. 213.
STEPHEN PALFRAY WEBB, son of Capt. Stephen and Mrs. Sarah
(Putnam) Palfray Webb, b. at Salem 20 Mar., 1804; gr. Harv. Coll.
1824; pursued his studies with Hon. John Glen King and was admitted
to the Essex Bar, and practised the profession in Salem. Rep. and
Senator of Mass. Legis. ; Mayor of Salem 1842-3-4; went to San
Francisco,. CaL, about 1853, and resided there some three or four
years, and was elected Mayor of that city for the municipal year
1854-5; after his return to Salem he was re-elected Mayor for 1860-
1-2, and elected City Clerk for 1863-70; m. 26 May, 1834, Hannah
Hunt Beckford Robinson, daughter of Nathan and Eunice (Beckford)
Robinson, b. 9 June, 1805. He resides in Brookline, Mass.
12. CLEKICAL.
REV. JOHN PRINCE, son of John and Esther Prince of Boston, b. 22
July, 1751; gr. Harv. Coll. 1776; studied divinity with Rev. S. Wil-
liams of Bradford ; orcl. at Salem 10 Nov., 1779, over the First Church
and continued his connection until his decease, which occurred 7 June,
1836; at an early age he communicated to the scientific world his
improved construction of the air pump, and continued his labors as a
philosophical mechanician to a very advanced age. He was eminently
learned in almost every department of natural philosophy and he took
pleasure in contributing to the diffusion of useful instruction in a
great variety of ingenious methods. He was also a learned theologian
and was very conversant with the history of the opinions* of the
church; he received the degree of LL.D. from Brown Univ., and was
enrolled among the associates of several learned and philosophical
societies of the country. He m Mary, daughter of James Bayley
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of Boston, who died 4 Dec., 1800, aged 52; m., Silly, 27 Nov., 1810,
Milly, the widow of Jonathan Waldo, and daughter of John and Phebe
(Guild) Messinger of Wrentham, Mass. See Upham's Discourse at
the funeral, June 9, 1830; Upham's Memoir in Sillimans's Am. Jouru.
Sci., vol. XXXI, p. 201; Hist. Coll. Essex lust., vol. IV, p. 272.
REV. Buowx EMKUSOX, D.D., son of John and Catherine (Eaton)
Emerson, b. at Ashby, Mass., 8 Jan., 1778; gr. Dart. Coll., 1802; stu-
died divinity with Rev. Reed Page of Hancock; ordained colleague
pastor of the South Congregational Church in Salem 20 Apr., ISM.",,
and continued in that relation, or that of pastor, during a long life,
universally esteemed; several of his discourses have been printed;
his Alma Mater in 183.5 conferred upon him the degree of D.I). ; in.
29 Oct., 1800, Mary, daughter of Rev. Daniel Hopkins, who survived
until 4 April, 18GG, sustaining the happiest married relations for a
period of nearly sixty years. He died on Thursday evening, 25 July.
1872.
REV. Lucius BOLLES, sixth son of Rev. David and Susanna (Moore)
Bolles; b. at Ashford, Conn., 25 Sept., 1779; gr. at Brown Univ.,
1801; studied theology with Rev. Dr. Samuel Stillman of Boston;
ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church, Salem, Mass., 9 Jan.,
1805; in June, 1820, he was appointed Corr. Secretary of the American
Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, but continued to discharge the
duties of senior pastor in Salem until Aug., ls-34. He married, 8
Sept., 1805, his cousin Lydia, daughter of Deacon John and Lydia
(Taber) Bolles of Hartford, Conn. (1). 20 Oct., 1784; d. 20 June, 1S51).
He died in Boston, Mass., 5 Jan., 1844. He was the sixth generation
from Joseph Bolles, the first emigrant who was engaged in trade at
Winter Harbor, in the year 1040, afterwards removed* to Wells, Me.,
where he held the office of town clerk from 1054 to 1004, died at Wells
in the autumn of 1078; through Thomas 2 , John 3 , Enoch 4 , David'. lie
was the highly esteemed pastor of the church in Salem and the senior
and much respected Secretary of the Board. No man of his denomi-
nation occupied a more prominent position or exercised an influence
more strong and universal.
REV. JOHN BHAZKR, D.D., son of Samuel Brazer of Worcester,
Mass., b. in that place 21 Sept., 1789; gr. Harv. Coll. in 1S13; tutor in
Greek 1815-17, and Prof, of Latin, 1817-20; ordained over the North
Church in Salem 14 Nov., 1820, and continued the pastor until his
death, which took place at the plantation of his true friend, Dr. linger,
on Cooper River, near Charleston, S. C., 26 Feb. 1846, whither he had
gone for the beuetit of his health. He married 19 April, 1821, Annie
Warren Sever, daughter of William and Sarah (Warren) Sever of
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Worcester. She died in .Salem 30 Jan., 1843, aged 54. He was a fine
classical scholar, of great attainments, and a writer of great purity of
style. Many of his occasional discourses have been printed.
REV. JAMES FLINT, D.D., b. at North Reading, 10 Dec., 1779, son of
James and Mary (Hart) Flint, gr. Harv. Coll., 1802; spent a few years
in teaching, then studied divinity with Rev. Joshua Bates of Dedham ;
ord. 29 Oct., 1806, over the First Church and Society in East Bridge-
water; installed over the East Church in Salem 19 Sept., 1821, and
continued to be the pastor until the installation of his colleague, Rev.
Dexter Clapp, 17 Dec., 1851 ; m. Oct., 1805, Lydia Harriet Deblois; d.
in Salem 4 Mar., 1855. He soon acquired the reputation of a highly
attractive preacher, which he sustained to the last of his public ser-
vices. He was a person of extensive culture, a fine classical scholar
and some of his occasional poetic pieces will long be remembered.
See Discourse on his death, by Rev. Dexter Clapp ; Salem Gazette,
Mar. 6, 1855.
REV. JOSEPH BARLOW FELT, b. at Salem 22 Dec., 1789, son of Capt.
John and Elizabeth (Curtis) Felt; gr. Dart. Coll. 1813; studied divin-
ity with Rev. Dr. Worcester of Salem ; settled in the ministry at Sha-
ron, from 19 Dec., 1821, to 19 Apr., 1824, and also at Hamilton, as
successor of Rev. Manasseh Cutler, LL.D., from 16 June, 1824, to 4
Dec., 1833, when owing to ill health he dissolved his pastoral relations
with that church. In 1834 he removed to Boston, where he engaged
in his congenial pursuits of the antiquary and historian; librarian of
Mass. Historical Society ; a commissioner to arrange the ancient
papers in the State Archives; secretary and librarian of the Congre-
gational Library Association ; president of New Eng. Hist. Gen. Soci-
ety for 1850-1-2. In June, 1861, he removed to Salem, where he spent
the remainder of his life. In 1857 Dart. College conferred upon him
the degree of LL.D. ; the well known antiquarian, author of History
of Ipswich, Annals of Salem, etc. ; m. 1st Abigail Adams, daughter
of Rev. John Shaw of Haverhill, Mass., 18 Sept., 1816 (b. at Haverhill;
d. at Boston, July 5, 1859); m. 2dly, 16 Nov., 1862, Mrs. Catherine
(Bartlett) Meachum, daughter of Hon. Bailey Bartlett of Haverhill;
d. at Salem, 8 Sept., 1869, without issue.
REV. HENRY COLMAN, son of Dudley and Mary (Jones) Colman, b.
at Boston, 12 Sept., 1785; gr. Dart. Coll., 1805; studied divinity with
Rev. James Freeman of Boston and Rev. John Pierce of Brookline ;
ord. at Hingham 1 June, 1807; installed at Salem 16 Feb., 1825; dis-
missed 7 Dec., 1831 ; the remainder of his life was devoted to agricul-
ture. His writings on this subject, especially reports on the agri-
culture of Massachusetts and of England, have had an extended cir-
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dilation. He m. 11 Apr., 1807, Mary, daughter of Thomas Harris of
Charlcstown, Mass. He died at Islington, England, 17 Aug., 1849.
CHARLES \V. UPHAM, see ante.
13. MEDICAL.
EDWARD AUGUSTUS HOLYOKK, see ante.
JOSHUA FISHER, M. D., son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Fisher, b.
at Dedhain, May, 174!); gr. Harv. Coll. 17'('; in 1770 began the study
of medieine under the direction of Dr. Lincoln of Ilingham; began
the practice in Ipswich, for a time in Salem, and finally removed to
Beverly, where he passed the remainder of his lite; he was held in
high estimation by his profession, his patients and his friends; he was
also in an important sense a public man; senator in Mass. Legis. ;
president of Mass. Med. Soc. ; president of the Beverly Hank, and
also president of the Beverly Charitable Society and largely added to
its funds; took a deep interest in the natural sciences and bequeathed
to Harv. Coll. 820,000 to found a Professorship of Natural HiMory.
He died 15 March, 1x33. See Quincy Hist. Ilarv. Univ., vol. II, p. 427;
Stone's Hist, of Beverly, p. 100; Chauuing's Notice in Mass. Med.
Soc. Communications, vol. V, p. 27'.).
ANDREW NICHOLS, son of Andrew and Eunice (Nichols) Nichols;
b. at Danvers, 22 Nov., 1785; in. 1st, 1 June, ls<>!>, his cousin. Kuth
Nichols, daughter of John and Sarah (Fuller) Nichols (b. at Middle-
ton 21 Jan., 17S.1; d. s. p., ;J1 Mar. ls:52) ; in. 2d, l\ Oct., is;};',, Mary
Holyoke Ward, daughter of Joshua and Susanna (Holyoke) Ward. b.
at Salem, 2 May, 1800. He died .'50 Mar., is:,:;. In early life he
worked on the farm and attended the district school, but having
decided to become a physician he repaired to the Academy at Ando-
ver for the preparatory studies and on the llth of April. lsO.">, he en-
tered the office of Dr. Manning at Billerica; he also studied with Dr.
Waterhouse of Cambridge. In July, 1808, he entered upon the prac-
tice of the profession in the south parish of Danvers (now Pcabody),
where he resided until his decease.
He had an early taste for the study of natural history, especially
botany. He was particularly conversant with our local natural his-
tory, and several communications on these subjects have appeared in
the publications of this society. See Proceedings of Essex lust., Vol.
2, p. 2G. In all our excursions he took an active part. In the various
movements of society he took a deep interest. He was a pioneer
with Pickering in the organization of the County Agricultural Society;
for many years its treasurer. In Mass. Med. Society lie was an active
member and, for many years, was president of the District Society,
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embracing Salem and the neighboring towns. He delivered the annual
address in 1836. See Genealogy of Nichols Family in E. I. Hist. Coll.,
Ill, 29 ; sermon by F. P. Appleton.
GIDEON BARSTOW, see ante.
ABEL LAWRENCE PEIRSON, M. D., son of Samuel and Sarah (Page)
Peirson, b. at Biddeford, Me., 25 Nov., 1794; gr. Harv. Coll. 1812.
He studied medicine with Dr. James Jackson of Boston, and gradu-
ated M. D. Harv. Coll. 1816 ; entered upon practice of the profession
at Vassalboro, Me. ; removed to Salem early in 1817, where he spent
the remainder of his life. He kept himself well informed as to the
useful additions made to medical science, gave great attention to sur-
gery and acquired a high reputation in that branch of practice. For
many years he was largely employed in consultations throughout a
large portion of Essex County and was an active member of the Mass.
Med. Soc., and president of the Essex South District Med. Soc. at the
time of his decease. He married, 18 April, 1819, Harriet, daughter of
Abel and Abigail (Page) Lawrence (b. 4 July, 1793; d. 13 Nov., 1870) ;
was killed, on the New York & New Haven railroad, at Norwalk,
Conn., 6 May, 1853, on his return from New York, where he had been
to attend a medical convention.
CHARLES GIDEON PUTNAM, M. D., son of Samuel and Sarah (Gooll)
Putnam; b. at Salem, 7 Nov., 1805; gr. Harv. 1824; studied medicine
with Dr. A. L. Peirson and received the degree of M. D. from Har-
vard in 1827; commenced the practice in Salem; about 1833 removed
to Boston, where he resided the remainder of his life and entered into
a successful practice; president of Mass. Med. Society; m. Elizabeth,
daughter of James and Elizabeth (Cabot) Jackson; d. at Boston, 5
Feb., 1875, with universal respect and esteem for his invariable kind-
ness and courtesy, and his readiness to impart freely, from his abun-
dant professional resources, valuable information to his less experi-
enced brethren.
14. MERCHANTS AND OTHERS.
JACOB ASHTON, son of Jacob and Mary (Ropes) Ashton, b. at
Salem 5 Sept., 1744; gr. Harv. Coll. 1766; d. 28 Dec, 1829; m. 16
May, 1771, Susanna, daughter of Richard and Hannah (Hubbard) Lee
(b. 15 Apr., 1747; d. 21 Apr., 1817); merchant, afterwards Pres. of
Salem Marine Insurance Company. A prominent citizen, filling many
situations of trust, and during a long life he has uniformly exhibited
an example of industry, probity, and usefulness.
GIDEON BARSTOW, see ante.
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NATHANIEL BOWDITCII, son of Ilabakkuk and Mary (Ingersoll) Bow-
ditch, b. at Salem 2G Mar., 1773; in. 2."> Mar., 1798, Elizabeth B.,
daughter of Francis and Mary (Hodges) Boardman : she died 18 Oct.,
1798; m. 2dly, 28 Oct., 1800, his cousin Mary, daughter of Jonathan
and Mary (Hodges) Ingersoll (b. 4 Dec., 17*1; d. 17 April, 1*34); de-
scended in the sixth generation from William Bowditch, the first of
this family in Salem, who came to this country from the west of Fug-
land, probably from the city of Exeter, admitted an inhabitant Nov.
20, 1G39, had a grant of land Jan. 23, 1043; through William*, Wil-
liam 3 , Ebenezer 4 , Ilabakkuk 5 . In early life a clerk and supercargo;
president of Salem Fire and Marine Insurance Company ; removed to
Boston in 1823, and was the actuary of Mass. Hospital Life Ins. Com-
pany ; devoted himself to the study of mathematics and became very
distinguished in that direction; author of the American Navigator
and the translator of La Place's Mecanique Celeste, in 4 vols., 4to.
He was president of the East India Marine Society of Salem, and
president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, fellow of
Royal Society of London, and also member of many of the leading
scientific societies of this country and Europe. Ilarv. Coll. conferred
the degree of LL.D. in 182G, and he was from 1820-38 a member of the
corporation of that institution. He died at Boston 10 Mar., ls.-,s.
See Eulogies by D. A. White and John Pickering; Discourse on his
life and character by Alexander Young; Memoir by his son Nathaniel
Bowditch.
GEORGE CLEVELAND, son of Stephen and Margaret (Jefl'ry) Cleve-
land, b. 2G Jan., 1781; m. 7 April, 180S, Elizabeth, daughter of Jona-
than and Elizabeth (Ropes) Hodges (b. 1 Jan., 17S9, d. 23, Dec., ls34).
He died at Salem 13 Mar., 1840; descended from Moses Cleveland,
who came to this county (says family tradition) a joiner, from Ipswich,
Suffolk County, England, and early took up his permanent abode in
Woburn and m., 2G Sept., 1G48, Ann, daughter of Edward Whin;
through Aaron 2 , Aaron 3 , Rev. Aaron 4 , Stephen 5 . President of Salem
Commercial Insurance Company ; trustee and a vice president of the
Essex Historical Society. See Sewall's Hist, of Woburn, p. 599.
CHARLES CHAUNCY CLARKE, son of Rev. John and Esther (Orne)
Clarke of the First Church, Boston, b. in Boston 3 April, 1789; gr.
Harv. Coll. 1808; d. in Salem, unmarried, 14 Oct., 1837. Interested
in literary and historical studies; an officer of the Salem Athenscuin
for several years, and of the Essex Historical Society from its organi-
zation until his decease.
PICKERING DODGE, son of Israel and Lucia (Pickering) Dodge ; b.
6 April, 1778; m. 5 Nov., 1801, Rebecca, daughter of Daniel and Mary
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Jenks (b. 19 Feb., 1781 ; d. 30 Mar., 1851). He d. 16 Aug., 1833; well
known as an active, enterprising, intelligent and honorable merchant ;
universally esteemed.
PICKERING DODGE, jr., son of the preceding, b. at Salem, 24 April,
1804 ; prepared for college at the Private Grammar School in Salem,
kept by John Brazer Davis (H. C. 1815) ; gr. Harv. Coll. 1823 ; m. in
March, 1826, Anna Storer, daughter of Rev. Henry and Mary (Harris)
Colman of Salem (b. 20 Nov., 1808, d. 16 Sept., 1849) ; after his mar-
riage resided on a farm in Lynn until 1837, when he returned to Salem
and engaged in horticultural pursuits and in the walks of literature ;
in 1846, published a volume entitled "A History of the Art of Paint-
ing," in 1849 a second volume entitled " Sculpture and the Plastic
Art." After the death of his wife in 1849 he spent much of the time
of the four following years in European travel. In June, 1853, m.,
2dly, Eliza Webb, daughter of Rev. Samuel and Caroline (Howard)
Oilman, who was for many years the pastor of the Unitarian Church in
Charleston, S. C. He then spent a year in European travel, and after-
wards resided principally in Worcester, where he died 28 Dec., 1863.
WILLIAM GIBBS, son of Henry and Mercy (Prescott) Gibbs ; b. at
Salem 17 Feb., 1785; m. 24 Sept., 1811, his cousin Mercy, daughter of
Peter and Mary (Prescott) Barrett (b. at Concord, Mass., 13 Sept.,
1783yd. 7 Feb., 1837); resided in Salem, Concord and Lexington; d.
in Lexington 23 Dec., 1853 ; distinguished for his genealogical and
historical researches. The first of this family in this country was
Robert Gibbs, fonrth son of Sir Henry Gibbs ; b. about 1634 ; came to
Boston between 1657 and 1660, where he became a distinguished mer-
chant ; his son Henry 2 was the well known 'minister of Watertown ;
his son Henry 3 , a graduate of Harvard in 1726, entered into mercantile
business in Salem; his son Henry 4 , a graduate of Harvard in 1766,
was also a merchant in Salem and was the father of the subject of
this notice. See Family Notices collected by William Gibbs.
FRANCIS PEABODY, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Smith) Peabody,
b. at Salem 7 Dec., 1801; m. 7 July, 1823, Martha, daughter of Samuel
and Elizabeth (Putnam) Endicott; d. at Salem 31 Oct., 1867. Soon
after leaving school he made an excursion to Russia and Northern
Europe, and on his return settled in Salem, where he continued to
reside until his decease, except occasional visits to Europe. He was
early interested in the study of chemistry and the kindred sciences
and their application to the useful arts. He took an active part in the
organization of popular lecture courses in this city, and delivered sev-
eral of the lectures in the earlier courses, as those of the Essex Lodge
of F. A. M. in 1827-8, the Salem Charitable Mechanic Association
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about the same time, and the Salem Lyceum in 1830 the last named
institution has continued the annual courses of lectures. About 1826
he engaged in the manufacture of white lead. From that time until
his decease he had been interested in this and other manufactures, or
commerce.
Mr. Peabody had a very active and inventive mind and gave much
attention to experimental researches in physical sciences. President
of the Essex Institute 1865-7, and the first president of the Peabody
Academy of Science, being very much interested in the organization
of that Institution. See Memoir by C. W. Uphain, in Vol. IX of K. I.
Hist. Coll.
GEOKGE PEABODY, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Smith) Peabody,
and brother of the preceding; b. at Salem in Jan., 1*<M ; gr. Ilarv.
Coll. 1*23; m. 5 Sept., 1827, Clara, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Putnam) Endicott. Hep. Mass. Legis. ; member of Mass. Const.
Conv. 1853; popular commander of the Salem Light Infantry: Col. of
Artill. lieg. ; 1st Pres. of Eastern K. K. Corp. ; now resides in Salem.
WILLIAM PICKMAN, son of Benjamin and Mary (Toppan) Pickmau,
b. at Salem 25 June, 1774; d. at Salem, unmarried, 1 May. 1*57; in
early life a merchant in Boston, returned to Salem and lived many
years retired from the active duties of life. A brother of Benjamin
Pickman ; see ante.
WILLARD PEELE, son of Jonathan and Abigail (Mason) Peele; b. at
Salem 30 Nov., 1773; gr. Ilarv. Coll. 1792; in. Margaret, daughter of
John and Jane (Sparliawk) Appleton; d. 13 June, lsy5; studied law
before engaging in commercial pursuits; merchant in Salem; presi-
dent Commercial Bank.
DUDLEY LKAVITT PICKMAN, son of William and Elizabeth (Leavitt)
Pickman; bapt. May, 1771); in. 6 Sept., 1*10, Catherine, daughter of
Thomas and Elizabeth (Elkius) Sanders (bapt. 21) Aug., 1781, d. 18
May, 1823); d. 4 Nov., 184G. He was one of our most eminent and
wealthy merchants, for several years a member of both branches of
the legislature, public spirited and liberal to our several literary,
religious and charitable institutions. A cousin of Benjamin Pickman;
see ante.
WILLIAM PRO'CTOR, son of William and Elizabeth (Masury) Proctor;
b. at Salera: m. Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Peirce) Holman.
Rec. Secretary Essex Historical Society; merchant; in 1827 removed
to Brooklyn, New York.
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NATHANIEL LEVERETT ROGERS, son of Nathaniel and Abigail (Dodge)
Rogers; b. at Ipswich 6 Aug., 1785; m. 24 Oct., 1813, Harriet, daugh-
ter of Aaron and Elizabeth (Call) Waite; d. 31 July, 1858; descended
from Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, son of Rev. John of Dedham, b. in 1598,
arrived in Boston in Nov., 1636, and was settled over the church in
Ipswich, d. July 3, 1655; through Rev. John 2 , Pres. of Harv. Coll.,
Rev. John 3 of Ipswich, Rev. Nathaniel 4 of Ipswich, Nathaniel 5 . For
many years in business connections with his brothers John W. and
Richard S. under the name of N. L. Rogers & brothers, president of
the East India Marine Society of Salem and held other offices of honor
and trust. See N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., V, 105, 224, 311.
NATHANIEL SILSBEE, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Crowninshield)
Silsbee; b. 28 Dec., 1804; gr. Harv. Coll., 1824; m. Nov. 9, 1829, Mary
Ann Cabot Devereux, daughter of Humphrey and Eliza (Dodge)
Devereux, b. 6 Feb., 1812; merchant; mayor of the city of Salem,
1849, 50, 58, 59 ; removed to Boston, 1860 ; treasurer of Harv. College ;
now resides in Boston.
JOHN *VHITE TREADWELL, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (White)
Treadwell, b. at Ipswich 12 July, 1785. He moved to Salem in early
life and soon became one of our most respected and valued citizens,
widely known in the religious denomination of which, for a third of a
century he was a conspicuous and a hospitable member. He was for
many years a cashier and president of the Merchants' Bank, Salem ;
Rec. Sec. of Essex Hist. Society; m. Susan K. and Harriet K., daugh-
ters of Mr. Farley of Ipswich; d. 4 April, 1857.
GEORGE ATKINSON WARD, son of Samuel Curwen and Jane (Ropes)
Ward, b. at Salem 29 Mar., 1793; m. 5 Oct., 1816, Mehitable, daugh-
ter of James and Sarah (Ward) Gushing (b. 28 Feb., 1795; d. 4 Oct.,
1862) ; d. at Salem, 22 Sept., 1864; descended from Miles Ward, men-
tioned in 1639, who came from Enith in Kent, a few mixes below Lon-
don on the Thames, with his wife Margaret, and died in Virginia
3 Mar., 1650; through Joshua 2 , Miles 3 , Joshua 4 , Richard 5 , Samuel Cur-
wen 6 ; merchant at Salem and New York; one of the founders of the
Historical Society and its first secretary ; editor of Curvven's Letters
and author of several memoirs and historical papers. Se'e Notices of
the descendants of Miles Ward in E. I. Hist. Coll., V, 207 ; Memoir by
C. W. Upham, E. I. Hist. Coll., VII, 49.
JONATHAN WEBB, son of Benjamin and Mary (King) Webb, b. at
Salem 22 Jan., 1795; m. 5 Jan., 1825, Harriet, daughter of Abijah Nor-
they of Salem (d. at Andover 15 Oct., 1870, aged 72 years) ; d. 2 Aug.,
1832 ; an apothecary, Colonel of Mass. Militia, endowed with talents
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of the highest order and a refined taste, he devoted his leisure to sci-
entific pursuits, especially those appertaining to electricity. He was
enterprising and active in business, frank and cordial in his social
intercourse.
STEPHEN WHITE, sou of Henry and Phoebe (Brown) White; b. at
Salem 10 July, 1787; in. 7 Aug., 1SOS, Harriet, daughter of Elisha and
Mehitable (Peclrick) Story of Marblehead; she died 19 June, 1*27.
He removed to Boston about 1830; d. at Xew York 10 Aug., 18 n.
While a resident of Salcuj he was an active and enterprising mer-
chant; had been elected several years, a member of both branches of
the Legislature, and was frequently called upon to olliciate on public
occasions, and to hold positions of honor and trust.
15.
BENJAMIN GOODHUE, son of Benjamin and Martha (Hardy) Goodhue,
b. at Salem 20 Sept., 1748; gr. Harv. Coll., 1 7(5(1 ; m. (! Jan., 177*,
Frances Richie of Philadelphia (b. 27 June, 17~>1, d. at Salem 21 Jan.,
1801); m. 2dly 5 Nov., 1804, Ann Willard, a daughter of Abijah and
Anna (Prentice) Willard of Lancaster, Mass. (b. 20 Aug., 17;:J, d. 2
Aug., 1858); descended from AVilliam Goodhue, b. in England in 1<!12,
took the oath of Freeman, Dec., ]<!3f>, and probably came over in that
year; settled in Ipswich and sustained the chief trusts of the town;
was deacon of the First Church for many years, selectman, Hep. Gen.
Court, etc. ; died about 1090; through Joseph'-, William', Benjamin 1 .
He early embarked in commerce with credit^and success; a whig in
the Revolution; represented the county of Essex in the Senate of
Massachusetts from 1781 to 1789 when he was elected a Hep. to the
first U. S. Congress under the new constitution; in 179(5 elected to the
U. S. Senate, and in 1800 he resigned his seat and retired to private
life. lie died at Salem 28 July, 1814, leaving an irreproachable name
to his then only surviving son, Jonathan Goodhue of New York, n
merchant who in character and credit stood second to none in that
commercial emporium.
16.
NATHAN REED, b. at Western, now Warren, Mass., 2 July, 17.~>9; son
of Major Reuben and Tamerson (Meachum) Reed, who was born at
Sudbury, 2 Nov., 1730, d. 20 May, 1803; his grandfather, ('apt. Na-
thaniel Reed, was one of the first settlers of Warren, died 9 June,
1785, at the advanced age of 81. He gr Harv. Coll. 1781 ; then taught
school at Beverly and Salem about two years, tutor in Harv. 1783-7;
studied medicine with Dr. Holyoke until Oct., 1788, when he opened
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an apothecary shop; m. 20 Oct., 1790, Elizabeth, daughter of William
and Elizabeth (Bowditch) Jeffry. He invented a machine for the
making of nails, and in 1796 erected a building in Danvers for the
manufacture of nails, and the next year had his machines in operation.
About the same time he built a splendid mansion near by and moved
there; for many years since owned by Capt. Porter. He also con-
structed the lirst steamboat with paddle wheels in this country ; the
trial trip took place in 1789. Rep. U. S. Congress 1801-3. In 1807 he
removed to Belfast, Me., and for many years was Chief Justice of the
Court of Common Pleas in said county. He was much interested in
agricultural pursuits. He died at his residence in Belfast 20 Jan.,
1849. See History of the Reed Family by Jacob W. Reed, pages 272,
etc.
17.
JACOB CKOWNINSHIELD, son of George and Mary (Derby) Crownin-
shield; b. at Salem 31 May, 1770; d. at Washington 15 May, 1808; m.
June 5, 1796, Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Derby) Gardner (b.
1773, d. May, 1807). A brother of Benjamin W. Crowninshield, see
ante. A merchant in connection with his father and brothers at
Salem ; Rep. U. S. Cong. 1802-08. In 1805 he was appointed U. S. Sec.
of the Navy by Pres. Jefferson, declined the position on account of ill
health; in Congress he was specially valued for his knowledge of
marine and commercial matters, which was extensive and accurate.
He was prompt and diligent in the performance of his duties and pos-
sessed amiable manners, an open disposition and a liberal heart.
18.
ELIAS HASKETT DERBY, son of Richard and Mary (Hodges) Derby,
b. at Salem 16 Aug., 1739; d. 8 Sept., 1799; m. 23 Apr., 1761, Eliza-
beth, daughter of John and Anstiss (Williams) Crowninshield (b. at
Salem, 6 Aug., 1734, d. 17 June, 1815) ; descended from Roger Derby,
who came from Topsharn, Devonshire Co., England, and landed at
Boston 15 July, 1671; thence he went to Ipswich, afterwards to
Salem; b. in England in 1643; d. in Salem 26 Sept., 1698, aged 55
yrs.; m. 23 Aug , 1668, Lucretia (b. in 1643, d. 25 May, 1689); their
grave stones are in the old burial ground in Peabody; through Rich-
ard 2 , Richard 3 . At an early age he entered his father's counting room,
and from 1760 to 1775 kept his father's books and traded extensively
with the English and French W. I. Islands. Mr. Derby espoused the
cause of the colonists. Trade being depressed, he fitted out some 108
private armed vessels during the Revolutionary War. In 1784 he
despatched the ''Grand Turk" to Cape of Good Hope and to Canton
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(1st voyage). Other voyages were afterwards made. He thus led the
way to India and China, and opened for Sulem that extensive foreign
commerce which will always hold a prominent place in her history.
See Genealogy of Derby Family, Vol. IV of E. I. Hist. Coll.
19.
WILLIAM GRAY, son of Abraham and Lydia (Galley) Gray, b. in
Lynn 27 June, 1750; in. 18 Mar., 1782, Elizabeth, daughter of John
and Elizabeth (Brown) Chipman of Marblehead. Mr. Gray removed
to Salem at an early age and entered the counting room of Kichard
Derby. He soon became one of the largest ship owners in Salem,
and followed the lead of Mr. Derby in sending ships to Canton and
ports in the East Indies. His mansion in Salem is now the Essex
House. About LsO'J he removed to Boston. In 1810, Lsll, he was
chosen Lieut. Governor of Mass., having held previously a scat in the
Massachusetts Senate. He died in Boston 3 Nov., 1825. During his
life he accumulated a great property. As a merchant, he was industri-
ous, far seeing and energetic ; as a citizen, patriotic and public spirited.
20.
JOSKFII PKABODY, son of Francis and Margaret (Knight) IVabody;
b. at Middleton 12 Dec., 1757; m. 1st, 2S Aug., 17!H, Catherine; 2dly,
24 Oct., 171)5, Elizabeth, daughters of Kev. Elias Smith of Middleton.;
d. 5 Jan., ls44; descended from Lieut. Francis IVabody of St. Albans,
Hertfordshire, England, b. in 1014; came to New England in the ship
Planter in 1G35; one of the original settlers of Hampton, whither he
came in the summer of 1038; Freeman in 1G40; in 1057 he was in
Topslield and was one of the prominent men in that town; lived to
an advanced age, died 11) Feb., 1007-8; through Isaac 2 , Francis' 1 , and
Francis 4 . Mr. IVabody lived in early life in Boxford and Middleton;
at the commencement of the Revolution, he came to Salem to partici-
pate in the more stirring scenes of a sea life on board of our private
armed vessels, where he distinguished himself as a brave and skilful
officer. After the establishment of peace he was a ship owner and
merchant, and soon became one of the most eminent merchants of
Salem and extensively known throughout the commercial world. See
Genealogy of Peabody Family in N. E. Hist. Gen. Keg., Vol. ii, p. 153;
Memoir of J. Peabody by G. A. Ward, in Hunt's Merchant's Magazine,
Vol. XIII, page 150.
21.
JOHN BERTRAM, b. on the Isle of Jersey, 11 Feb., 179G; came to
Salem at an early age with his parents ; his father, John Bertram, son
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of Thomas and Jeanne (Legros) Bertram, was born in the Parish of
St. Saviour, Jersey, 26 Sept., 1773, d. at Salem, 29 April, 1825, aged 53
years; his mother, Mary Bertram, daughter of Jaques and Elizabeth
(Vaudin) Perchard, b. in the Parish of St. Saviour, Jersey, 16 Mar.,
1773, d. in Newton, Mass., 20 Feb., 1842, aged 70 years. He married
19 Oct., 1823, Mary G. Smith, who died 18 April, 1837, aged 36 years ;
m., 2dly, 25 March, 1838, Mrs. Clarissa (Maclntire) Millet, who died 30
June, 1847, aged 37 years; m., 3dly, 27 June, 1848, Mary Ann, daugh-
ter of Timothy and Sarah (Holmes) Ropes.
He commenced life as a cabin boy and by successive stages soon
became a commander, then an owner, afterwards largely interested in
vessels engaged in the several trades. Those of Zanzibar, Para, and
California seemed to have claimed a considerable share of his atten-
tion. In his various enterprises he has been successful, and now,
somewhat retired from the active duties of life, he takes pleasure in
aiding various charities. He has furnished and maintained at his own
expense the "Old Men's Home," and was largely instrumental in
establishing the Salem Hospital. As a merchant, enterprising and
energetic; as a citizen, public spirited and liberal.
Note to the Remarks of Dean Stanley.
BEAN STANLEY in his speech refers to the monument erected by
Massachusetts in "Westminster Abbey to Lord Howe. The following
extract is taken from the "History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's
Westminster, its antiquities and monuments," Vol. II, page 34 :
"A figure, representing the Genius of Massachusetts Bay, reposes
in a mournful posture and is supported by a shield. An obelisk rises
behind her, decorated with the arms of the Howe family and military
trophies. On a tablet beneath is the inscription :
'The province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, by an order
of the Great and General Court, bearing date Feb. 1, 1759, caused this
monument to be erected to the memory of George Augustus Lord
Viscount Howe, brigadier-general of His Majesty's forces in America,
who was slain July the 6th, 1758, on the march to Ticonderoga, in the
thirty-fourth year of his age, in testimony of the sense they had of
his services and military virtues ; and of the affection their officers,
and soldiers bore to his command. He lived respected and beloved.
The public regretted his loss to his family it is irreparable.'"
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Committee of Arrangements.
HENRY WHEATLAXD, Chairman.
ABNER C. GOODELL, JR.,
WILLIAM BUTTON,
WILLIAM r. UPIIAM,
EDWARD S. ATWOOD,
FIELDER ISRAEL,
RICHARD C. MANNING,
THOMAS M. S JTMPSON,
DANIEL B. HAGAR,
JAMES KIMIJALL,
HENRY L. WILLIAMS.
GEORGE R. EMMERTON,
EDWIN C. BOLLES,
AMOS II. JOHNSON,
THOMAS F. HUNT.
GEORGE M. WIIIPPLE, Secretary.
Choir, under the direction of 3Ir. B. J. Lany.
Sopranos.
Miss MARY A. BUSH,
Miss GRACE DALTON,
Miss CLARA L. EMILIO,
Miss MARY S. EMILIO,
MRS. A. E. B. GOVEA,
Miss NELLIE B. KEIIEW,
Miss GRACE E. MACHADO,
Miss S. ALICE MACHADO,
Miss HARRIET K. OSGOOD,
MRS. II. W. PUTNAM,
Miss HELEN M. SMITH,
Miss ROSAMOND SIMONDS,
MRS. J. C. TOWNE.
Altos.
Miss EMILY W. ARCHER,
MRS. A. B. DROWN,
MISS E. \V. ClIADWICK",
Miss MARY K. FELT,
MRS. C. B. FOWLER,
MRS. W. II. KEIIEW,
MRS. J. II. LEEAVOUR,
Miss S. AMY MACHADO,
Miss MARGARET M. OSGOOD,
MlSS C. S. iSl'ILLKR.
Tenor.
MR. SETII C. BENNETT,
MR. CHARLES E. CHUTE,
MR. E. V. EMILIO,
MR. ANDREW FITZ,
MR. D. B. HAGAR,
MR. D. B. KIMBALL,
MR. T. M. OSBORNE,
MR. GEO. M. WHIPPLE.
Bass.
MR. FRANK BROWN,
MR. S. P. CHASE,
MR. ARTHUR A. CLARK,
MR. K. B. GIFFORD,
MR. W. H. KEIIEW,
MR. JOHN C. PULSIFER,
MR. T. M. STIMPSOX,
MR. W. H. WIIIPPLK.
HIST. COLL.
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List of Persons present at the Lunch.
Archer, Charles F. W., Salem.
Atwoocl, Edward S., Salem.
Atwood, Mrs. Edward S., Salem.
Austin, Miss Harriet A., Salem.
Bacon, J. P., Boston.
Batchelder, Henry M., Salem.
Bodflsh, Joshua L., Boston.
Bolles, Edwin C., Salem.
Bolles, Mrs. Edwin C., Salem.
Bowdoin, Mrs. W. L., Salem.
Bowker, Charles, Salem.
Bowker, George, Salem.
Bradbury, Jas. W., Augusta, Me.
Brooks, Chas. T., Newport, R. I.
Brooks, Miss Mary M., Salem.
Brooks, Phillips, Boston.
Brown, Augustus S., Salem.
Choate, Charles F., Cambridge.
-Choate, Mrs. Chas. F., Cambridge.
Choate, Mrs. George, Cambridge.
Choate, Mrs. George F., Salem.
Choate, Joseph H., New York.
Churchill, J. W., Andover.
Clarke, Mrs. A. P., Lawrence.
Clarke, Miss Alice S., Lawrence.
Cook, Mrs. James P., Salem.
Cook, Miss M. A., Salem.
Curwen, George E., Salem.
Curwen, James B., Salem.
Curwen, Mrs. James B., Salem.
Davis, James H., Salem.
Davis, Mrs. James H., Salem.
Deane, Charles, Cambridge.
Dean, John Ward, Boston.
DeGersdorf, E. B., Boston.
DeGersdorf, Mrs. E. B., Boston.
Derby, Miss Lucy, Boston.
Dexter, George, Boston.
Dexter, Mrs. George, Boston.
Dudley, H. A. S. D., Boston.
Emmerton, George E., Salem.
Emmerton, Mrs., Geo. R., Salem.
Endicott, Miss Anna G., Salem.
Endicott, Miss Mary C., Salem.
Eudicott, John, Beverly.
Endicott, Mary Eliz., Beverly.
Endicott, Rob't Rantoul, Beverly.
Endicott, William, Beverly.
Endicott, William, jr., Boston.
Endicott, Wm., jr., 2d, Boston.
Endicott, William, Dauvers.
Eudicott, William C., Salem.
Endicott, Mrs. William C., Salem.
Endicott, William C., jr., Salem.
Fenno, D. Brooks, Boston.
Fenno, Miss, Boston.
Fielden, Francis A., Salem.
Foote, Caleb, Salem.
Franks, James P., Salem.
Franks, Mrs. James P., Salem.
Frothiugham, Rich., Charlestown.
Gardner, George, Boston.
Gardner, Miss, Boston.
Gifford, R. B., Salem.
Gifford, Mrs. R. B., Salem.
Goldthwaite Willard, Salem.
Green, Samuel A., Boston.
Grove, George, London.
Hagar, D. B., Salem.
Hagar, Mrs. D. B., Salem.
Harper, Gerald, London.
Harrington, L. B., Salem.
Harris, N. B., New York City.
Heard, John, Boston.
Hill, B. D.,Teabody.
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Hodges, Mary 0., Salem.
Hodges, N. D. C., Salem.
Hodges, Osgood, Salem.
Howe, Samuel B., Salem.
Howe, Mrs. Samuel B., Salem.
Hunt, Sarah E., Salem.
Hunt, Mrs. Thomas, Salem.
Hunt, T. F., Salem.
Iluntington, A. L., Salem.
Huutiugtou, Miss S. L., Salem.
Israel. Fielder, Salem.
Ives, S. B., Salem.
Ives, S. B., jr., Salem.
Ives, Mrs. S. B., jr., Salem.
Jenkins, Chas. T., Salem.
Ketchum, Silas, Poquonock, Ct.
Kimball, James, Salem.
Kimball, Mrs. James, Salem.
Lang, B. J., Boston.
Lang, Mrs. B. J., Boston.
Lee, Miss Harriet II., Salem.
Lefavour, J. W., Salem.
Lefavour, Mrs. J. W., Salem.
Lincoln, Solomon, jr., Salem.
Mack, William, Salem.
Manning, Richard C., Salem.
Merrill, George E., Salem.
Mills, Robert C., Salem.
Moore, David, Salem.
Moultou, J. T., Lynn.
Nevins, Wm. S., Salem.
Nourse, Dorcas C., Salem.
Oliver, Henry K., Salem.
Palfray, Charles W., Salem.
Peabody, Alfred, Salem.
Peabody, Francis, Danvers.
Peabody, Mrs. Francis, Danvers.
Peabody, Francis, jr., Danvers.
Peabody, Miss Martha, Salem.
Peabody, Miss Fanny E., Danvers.
Peabody, George, Salem.
Peabody, Mrs. George, Salem.
Peabody, Henry W., Salem.
Peabody, Mrs. Henry W., Salem.
Peabody, S. Endicott; Salem.
Peabody, Mrs. S. Endicott, Salem.
Peirce, Benjamin, Cambridge.
Peirson, Charles L., Boston.
Peirson, Mrs. Charles L., Boston.
Pliippen, George D., Salem.
Pickett, John, Beverly.
Pickman, Dudley L., Boston.
Pickman, Mrs. Wm. D., Boston.
Putnam, Alfred P., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Putnam, F. W., Cambridge.
Putnam, Mrs. F. W., Cambridge.
Rice, Alexander H., Boston.
Robinson, John, Salem.
Robinson, Mrs. John, Salem.
Rogers, Richard D., Boston.
Ropes, Charles A., Salem.
Ropes, Mrs. Charles A., Salem.
Ropes, Miss Eliza Orue, Salem.
Ropes, Miss Mary, Salem.
Ropes, Nathaniel, Salem.
Ropes, Reuben W., New York.
Russell, Samuel II., Boston.
Safford, Mrs. James O., Salem.
Saltonstall, Leverett, Boston.
Saltonstall, William G., Salem.
Saltonstall, Mrs. Win. G., Salem.
Silsbee, Benj. H., Salem,
Silsbee, Mrs. Benj. H., Salem.
Silsbee, Miss Margaret, Salem.
Silsbee, Edward A., Salem.
Silsbee, Nathaniel, Boston.
Silsbee, Mrs. Nathaniel, Boston.
Silver, Peter, Salem.
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Simoncls, William H., jr., Salem. Webb, Mrs. Wm. G., Salem.
Simonds, Mrs. Wm.H., jr., Salem. Webber, Charles H., Salem.
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, London. Webster, John, Salem.
Stimpson, Thomas M., Peabody. West, J. H., Haverhill.
Stone, Mrs. Alfred, Prov., R. I. West, Mrs. Julia H., Haverhill.
Sullivan, Henry D., Salem. Wheatland, George, Jr., Boston.
Wheatland, Henry, Salem.
Tuckerman, J. Francis, Salem. Whipple, George M., Salem.
Tuckerman, Leverett S., Salem. Whipple, Mrs. George M., Salem,
Wilder, Marshall P., Boston.
Upham, 0. W. H., Salem. Williams, Henry L., Salem.
Upham, William P., Salem. Williams, Miss E. D., Salem.
Williams, Tucker D., Salem.
Very, Jones, Salem. Winthrop, Robert C., Boston.
Historical Events of Salem, from its Early Settlement to
the present time. 1
1G26. Salem, then called Naumkeag, first settled by Roger Conant,
John Woodbury, John Balch, Peter Palfrey, and others.
1628. Sept. 6 ; Arrival of Capt. John Endicott with a company of about
one hundred.
1G29. April 30 ; Capt. Endicott appointed Governor of the Plantation.
1629. June 29 ; Arrival of Rev. Francis Higginson, Rev. Samuel Skel-
ton, and a company of about three hundred and eighty.
1629. August 6 ; A church is established, the first organized Congre-
gational Church in the country.
1630. June 12 ; Arrival of Gov. John Winthrop, with the charter.
1630.* August 6 ; Rev. Mr. Higginson dies, aged 43.
1630. August; Lady Arabella Johnson, a daughter of the Earl of
Lincoln, dies here.
1631. August; Indian alarm.
1634. August 2 ; Rev. Mr. Skelton dies.
1 The following list of historical events was prepared for "An Exhibit of Salem,"
sent to the International Exhibition in 1876 by the Essex Institute. At the request
of several friends, it is inserted in this appendix with a few additions. The limits
of these pages will not permit more extended notices; it is only a brief compend
a few facts gleaned from the records.
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1634. The congregation having worshipped from 1020 to the present
time in an unfinished building of one story agreed, with Mr.
Norton, to build a suitable meeting house, not to cost more
than 100.
1635. Oct. 6; Arrival of Hugh Peters.
1036. June; Assembling of the first Quarterly Court.
1639. First records of tanning business, riiilcmon Dickerson is
granted land "to make tan-pits and to dress goat-skins and
hides."
1643. May 10; "Wcnham set off and incorporated.
1645. May 14; Manchester set oif and incorporated.
1648-9. March 12; Marblehead set off and incorporated.
1650. Sept. 22; Brethren at Bass Iliver, Beverly, have liberty to ob-
tain a minister.
1050. Oct. 18; Topsfield set off and incorporated.
1055. May 17; Burial place laid out at the hill above Francis Law's
house.
1657. ; The Quakers began to arrive, and in 105s the first law
of penalty of death upon them was enacted, and in 1001 eigh-
teen of them were publicly punished in Salem.
1058. June 2i); Court punishes people for attending Quaker meeting.
1659. Dec. 23; Kev. Edward Norris dies.
1660. Aug.; Kev. John Higginson ord. minister of the First Church.
1665. March 15; John Endicott dies.
1667. July 4; Dismissal of Brethren from First Church to found a
church at Bass Kiver.
1668. Beverly set off and incorporated.
1672. March 22; Permission for ministry at Salem Village.
1674. June 5; Capt. Walter Price dies, aged 01.
1675. Sept. 18; Capt. Thomas Lathrop and seventy men were killed
at Bloody Brook (now Deerlield).
1675. Dec. 29; Capt. Joseph Gardner was killed at the Narragansett
swamp fight.
1681. June 28; William Ilathorne dies, lately, aged 74, having been in
the town since 1630.
1685. Jan. 6; Capt. George Curwen dies at 74, who came in 1038, and
in 1688, Jan. 20, Hon. William Browne, aged 81, who arrived
in 1635; these were the most noted persons in the town.
1689. Nov. 10; Persons dismissed to constitute a Church at Salem
Village, now Danvers, where they had preaching years before.
1692. This year is memorable for the prevalence of the witchcraft
delusion, twenty persons "being tried and executed ; though
designated "Salem Witchcraft," it had pervaded other places
previously to its appearance here.
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1697. March 27; Gov. Simon Bradstreet dies.
1608. Feb! 28 ; Bartholomew Gedney dies, aged 52.
1G98. June 28 ; Several dwellings were burnt on the spot now partly
covered by the Essex House, called the Great Fire till that of
1774; damages, 5000.
1706. Sept. 2; First Quarterly Meeting of Friends held in this place.
1708. Dec. 7; Benjamin Browne dies, aged 60; made liberal bequests
to schools in Salem and to Harvard College.
1708. Dec. 9; Rev. John Higginson dies, aged 92.
1712. First Grammar School, anciently called a writing school, was
established; Nathaniel Higginson, teacher.
1713. April 19; Ann, relict of Gov. Bradstreet, dies, aged 79.
1713. April 24; Benjamin Gerrish, collector of the Port, dies, aged 60.
1713. June 25; Persons dismissed to form a Church in the middle
precinct, now Peabody.
1714. May 13; Friends consider the building of a meeting house.
1716. Feb. 14 ; Hon. Wm. Browne dies in his 78th year, leaving leg-
acies to Harvard College, Salem Grammar Schools.
1718. July 9 ; Jonathan Corwin dies, aged 78.
1718. Dec. 25; Persons dismissed to form the East Church.
1725. Oct. 17; Major -Stephen Sewall dies, aged 68.
1728. June 30; Middleton is incorporated.
1728. Oct. 31 ; General Court assembles at Salem by order of Gov.
Burnett.
1740. March 17; Philip English dies, aged 89.
1740. Sept. 29 ; Rev. George Whitefleld preaches on the Common to
about six thousand people.
1744. Bridge built over North River.
1745. Jan. 28 ; Benjamin Lynde, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
dies, aged 89.
1745. July 17; Timothy Pickering born.
1749. ; First Fire Engine.
1755. Nov. 18 ; Great Earthquake.
1760. March 31; Social Library established.
1766. Salem Marine Society instituted.
1767. July 14; Timothy Orne died, aged 50.
1768. April ; First Printing Press, by Samuel Hall.
1772. Aug. 23 ; The new meeting house for the North Church and So-
ciety first opened for public worship.
1773. March 26; Nathaniel Bowditch born.
1773. Aug. 20; Benjamin Pickman dies, aged 66.
1774. Oct. 6 ; The Great Fire, Rev. Dr. Whitaker's Church, Custom
House, eight dwelling houses, fourteen stores, shops, etc.,
burned.
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1775. Feb. 2G; Col. Leslie's rencontre at North Bridge.
177G. Aug. 15; Rev. Thomas Barnard, of the First Church, dies.
1777. Feb. 17; John Pickering, celebrated philologist, born.
1780. May 19; Dark clay.
1781. Dec. ; Richard Derby, Jr., dies in his 4fith year.
1781. July 10; Stephen Abbott, the first commander of the Cadets,
and other officers are commissioned. First parade of this
company in uniform April 19, 17s 7.
1784. June 15; The bark "Light Horse," Capt. Buffinton, cleared for
St. Petersburg; first American vessel to trade there. Last
arrival at Salem from St. Petersburg ship "Eclipse," John-
son, master in September, 184;3.
1784. Oct. 29; Lafayette visited Salem.
1785. Nov. 28; Cleared ship "Grand Turk" Capt. Ebenezcr West, by
Elias Ilaskett Derby ; first voyage from New England to In-
dia and China.
1787. May 22; Ship Grand Turk returns from Canton; the first vessel
of New England that performed such a voyage.
1787. May 23 ; Artillery make their first public appearance under Za-
dock Buflington.
1788. Sept. 24; Beverly Bridge opened for travel.
1789. Feb ; Elias Ilasket Derby sent the ship "Astrea", a direct voy-
age to Canton for the first time.
1789. Oct. 29 ; Washington visited Salem.
1789. Dec. 15; First circulating library opened by John Dabney.
1792. July 2; Essex Bank, first in Salem, commenced business.
1795. Nov. 3; Sen. "Rajah," Capt. Jonathan Carnes, cleared for India,
sailed for Sumatra, first vessel, by Jonathan Peele.
1790. May 4 ; W. II. Prescott the historian born.
1797. Mar. 9 ; Salem and Danvers Aqueduct Corporation incorporated.
1797. May; Ship "Astrea," Henry Prince, master, entered from Man-
illa to Elias Ilasket Derby; first entry at Salem from Manilla.
1798. Apr. 2G ; Capt. Joseph Ropes in the ship ' ' Recovery " for Mocha ;
first American vessel to display the stars and stripes in that
part of the world.
1799. Sept. 8 ; Elias Ilasket Derby dies.
1799. Sept. 30 ; Launched the Frigate Essex, built by the merchants
of Salem for the U. S. Government.
1799. Oct. ; East India Marine Society organized.
1799. Dec. 6; Judge Andrew Oliver died, aged 62.
1802. The common levelled, fenced, and trees set out.
1802. May 10; Ship Minerva, owned by Clifford Crowninshield and
Nath'l West, had lately returned from China, the first Salem
vessel that had circumnavigated the globe.
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1803. Mar. 8 ; Salem Bank incorporated, now Salem National.
1B03. Sept. 22 ; Salem Turnpike opened for travel.
1804. July 4 ; Nath'l Hawthorne born.
1805. Jan. 1 ; New South Meeting House dedicated.
1805. July 4 ; Salem Light Infantry first paraded under Captain John
Saunders.
1807. July 4; Salem Mechanic Light Infantry first paraded under
Perley Putnam.
1808. May 15; Jacob Crowninshield, M. C., died, aged 38.
1810. 'March 12; Salem AthenaBum incorporated.
1610. June 1; Bark "Active," Capt. Wm. P. Kichardson, sailed from
Salem on the first trading voyage from Salem to the Feejee
Islands.
1811. June 2G ; Merchant's Bank incorp. " National," Jan. 9, 1865.
1812. Feb. 6; Consecration of Messrs. Judson, Newell, Nott, Hall
and Kice as Missionaries to India, in the Tabernacle Church.
1812. Feb. 19 ; Sailing of the Missionaries in the brig Caravan, Augus-
tine Heard commander.
1814. July 28; Benjamin Goodhue, U. S. Senator, dies.
1814. Oct. 1; Rev. Thomas Barnard, of the North Church, dies,
aged 66.
1814. Dec. 14; Rev. Daniel Hopkins dies, aged 80.
1815. June 17; George Crowninshield died, aged 81.
1815. Oct. 14 ; William Orne died, aged 64.
1816. Aug. 22; Great fire on Liberty Street, sixteen buildings des-
troyed.
1816. Nov. 16; Almshouse ready for occupancy.
1817. July 4 ; Simon Forrester dies, aged 69.
1817. July 8; President Monroe visits Salem, and was received in the
new Town Hall, the first public use of this building.
1817. Oct. 1 ; Salem Charitable Mechanic Association organized.
1818. Jan. 29 ; Salem Savings Bank incorporated.
1818. Feb. 16 ; Essex Agricultural Society organized. Col. Timothy
Pickering, first president.
1818. Present Custom House built by order of Congress.
1819. April 19 ; Commercial Bank incorp. First National, June, 1864.
1820. Feb. 15 ; Salem Dispensary formed.
1821. April 21 ; Essex Historical Society organized.
1821. Nov. ; Brig "Thetis," Charles Fobes, master, arrived from Mad-
agascar to N. L. Rogers & Bros.
1823. Jan. 31 ; Exchange Bank incorporated. National, Feb. 18, 1865.
1824. Feb. 9 ; Salem Marine Railway incorporated.
1824. Feb. 7 ; Salem Lead Manufacturing Company incorporated.
1824. June 12; Asiatic Bank incorporated. National, Feb. 1, 1865.
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1824. Aug. 31; Lafayette visits Salem.
1825. Nov. 3; William Gray dies at Boston.
182G. Lead manufacture commenced in Salem, by Salem Lead Company
on present site of Naumkeag Mills.
1826. Feb. 15 ; Essex Marine Railway incorporated. .
1820. May 8; Mercantile Bank incorporated. National, Jan. 10, 18(15.
1827. Aug. 11; First vessel to enter at Salem Custom House from
Zanzibar; three masted sch. "Spy," Andrew Ward, master, to
Natli. L. Rogers & Bros.
1827. Nov. ; Lectures before the Essex Lodge. The beginning of the
present system of Lyceum Lectures.
1828. Jan. 24; First Lecture before the Salem Mechanic Association.
1828. Aug. 13; Centennial birthday of Dr. E. A. Ilolyoke.
1828. Sept. 18; Essex Historical Society celebrates the bicentennial
anniversary of the landing of Eudicott.
1829. Jan. 29; Col. Timothy Pickering dies.
1828. March 31; Dr. E. A. Ilolyoke dies, aged 100 yrs., 7 mos.
1830. Jan. 18; Salem Lyceum organized.
1830. Feb. 22 ; First lecture before the Salem Lyceum, by D. A. White.
1830. April G; Death of Capt. Joseph White.
1830. Nov. 24 ; Thomas Perkins, merchant, died, aged 72.
1831. Jan. 19; Lyceum Hall opened.
1831. Mar. 17; Naumkeag Bank incorporated. National, Dec., 1804.
1831. June 23; Police court established.
1832. Ship "Tybee," Capt. Charles Millett, owned by N. L. Rogers
& Brothers; first American vessel to enter the ports of Aus-
tralia.
1832. August; Ship "Eclipse," William Johnson, master, consigned
to Joseph Peabody ; last entry at Salem, direct from Canton.
1833. June 26; Visit of President Jackson.
1833. Oct. 29 ; Visit of Henry Clay.
1833. Dec. 23 ; Essex County Natural History Society organized.
1836. Feb. 15 ; The town voted to adopt a city form of Government.
1836. March 22 ; Act to establish the City of Salem passed the Legis-
lature.
1836. April 4 ; City charter accepted ; 617 yeas, 185 nays.
1836. Apr. 14 ; Eastern Railroad incorporated.
1836. May 9; City Government organized; Leverctt Saltonstall,
Mayor, John G. King, President of Common Council.
1838. March 16; Nathaniel Bowditch died at Boston.
1838. May 31 ; City Hall first used for meetings of the City Council.
1838. Aug. 27; Eastern Railroad opened for travel to Boston.
1839. Feb. 27; Salem Children's Friend Society organized.
1839. Nov. ; Mechanic Hall opened.
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1839. Dec. 10 ; Eastern Railroad Branch from Salem to Marblehead
opened.
1839. Dec. 18 ; Eastern Railroad opened to Ipswich.
1840. Feb. 19 ; Harmony Grove Cemetery incorporated.
1840. June 14 ; Harmony Grove Cemetery consecrated.
1840. June 19 ; Eastern Railroad opened to Newburyport.
1840. Nov. 9 ; Eastern Railroad opened to- the New Hampshire line.
1842. March 21 ; The stone Court House was first opened. The Court
of Common Pleas commenced its session.
1843. Aug. 16; Hon. Benjamin Pickman died, aged 80.
1844. Jan. 5 ; Joseph Peabocly died, aged 86.
1844. Dec. 18 ; Great fire on Front street.
1845. May 8 ; Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, first Mayor of Salem, died,
aged 62.
1845. Sept. 10; Joseph Story, Justice U. S. Supreme Court, died at
Cambridge, aged 66.
1846. May 5 ; Hon. John Pickering died at Boston, aged 69.
1846. Aug. 31 ; Salem Academy of Music organized.
1846. Oct. 22; Ichabod Tucker died, aged 81.
1846. Nov. ; Brig "Lucilla," D. Marshall, master, to Tucker Daland;
last entry at Salem from Sumatra.
1846. Nov. 4 ; Hon. Dudley L. Pickman died, aged 67.
1847. Feb. 8 ; Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company commenced weaving.
1847. May ; Foundations laid for stone depot of Eastern Railroad.
1847. May 31 ; First parade of the City Guards under Capt. R. H. Far-
rant.
1847. July 5 ; James K. Polk passed through Salem.
1847. July 30 ; Benjamin Merrill, a distinguished lawyer, died, aged
63.
1848. Feb. 11; Essex Institute incorporated.
1848. Sept. 5 ; Essex Railroad opened to Lawrence.
1848. Oct. 27; Brig "Mary & Ellen," owned by S. C. Phillips, Capt.
J. H. Eagleston, cleared for the Sandwich Isles, via California;
first vessel from Massachusetts after the gold discovery.
1849. June 12 ; First field meeting of Essex Institute at Danvers.
1849. Sept. 24; First Exhibition of Salem Charitable Mechanic Asso-
ciation.
1849. Sept. 25 ; Philharmonic Society organized.
1850. Aug. 1 ; Salem & Lowell Railroad opened.
1850. Sept. ; South Reading Branch Railroad opened.
1850. April 4 ; Salem Gas Light Co. organized.
1850. Dec. 17 ; The stores were lighted with gas for the first time.
1850. July 14 ; Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee, U. S. Senator, died, aged 77
years.
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1851. Feb. 3; Benjamin W. Crowninshield, M. C. and U. S. Sec. Navy,
died in Boston, aged 79.
1851. Dec. 10; Nathaniel West, merchant, died, aged 00 years.
1852. Feb. 22; Joseph E. Spraguc, for many years sheriff of Essex,
died aged 70.
1853. July 3; Hon. Samuel Putnam died at Somerville, aged 85.
1854. May I.I; Caroline Plummer died, aged 74.
1854. Sept. 14; Salem State Normal School dedicated. Address by
Hon. G. S. Boutwell. R. Edwards, Principal.
1855. Mar. 0; Salem Five Cents Savings Bank incorporated.
1855. Nov.; Bark "Witch," consigned to Edward ]). Kimball ; last
entry at Salem from Batavia.
185G. March 18; Salem Classical and High School dedicated. Ad-
dress by II. K. Oliver.
1857. June 20; lion. Stephen C. Phillips, member of Congress, sec-
ond Mayor of Salem, died, a victim to a steamboat disaster
on the St. Lawrence River, aged 5G.
1857. July 2(5; Hon. John Glen King died, aged 70.
1857. Oct. G; Plummer Hull dedicated. Address by Rev. J. M. Hop-
pin.
1858. July; Bark "Dragon," Thomas C. Dunn, master, entered from
Manilla, consigned to Benj. A. West; last entry at Salem from
Manilla.
1859. Jan. 28; William II. Prescott, the historian, died at Boston,
aged G2.
1859. June 8 ; Mansion House fire.
18GO. Oct. 21 ; Franklin Building fire.
18GO. Sept. 4; Fair of the Essex Institute opened in Mechanic Hall.
18G1. March 29; Hon. Daniel A. White, first President of Essex In-
stitute, died, aged 85.
18G1. April 18; Salem Light Infantry, Capt. Arthur F. Devereux, left
Salem for Washington. (Three days after Pres. Lincoln's
Proclamation.) 8th Regt.
18G1. April 19; City Government of Salem appropriated $15,000 for
the benefit of families of Salem men enlisting for the war.
(Other appropriations were subsequently made.)
1861. April 20; Salem Mechanic Light Infantry, Capt. Geo. II. Pier-
son, and Salem City Guards, Capt. Henry Danforth, left Salem
for Washington; joining the 5th Regt., M. V.
1861. May 10; Field Hospital Corps raised by Rev. G. D. Wildes, D.D.
This corps was raised in Salem and vicinity, and composed
of sixty volunteers. It was the first effort for an ambulance
department in the army.
1861. May 10; Fitzgerald Guards, Capt. Edward Fitzgerald left for
camp with tlie 9th Reg.
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1861. May. 14; The Andrew Light Guard, Company C., 2nd Regt.,
Capt. William Cogswell, left Salem to join the Kegt.
1861. July 22; Essex Cadets (company raised by A. Parker Brown),
Capt. Seth S. Buxton, left Salem.
1861. Sept. 3 ; First company of sharp-shooters (unattached), left the
State for Washington. This company was armed with tele-
scopic rifles.
1861. Sept. 4; Company A, 23d Mass. Vols., Capt. Ethan A. P. Brew-
stei^ left Salem for camp in Lynnfleld.
1861. Sept. 7; Company under Capt. John F. Devereux left Salem for
camp.
1861. Sept. 30 ; Salem Union Drill Club, Capt. George M. Whipple,
votes to enlist for the war. Oct. 18 the company joined the
23d Regt. (Co. F) in camp at Lynnfleld.
1861. Oct. 8; Second company of sharp-shooters, Capt. E. Went-
worth, attached to the 22d Reg., left for the front.
1861. Oct. 31; 23d Regt., Col. John Kurtz, marched from camp at
Lynnfield to Salem ; were reviewed on the Common by the
City Government; collation served; the Regiment marched
back to camp in the afternoon.
1861. Nov. 15 ; Co. H, 19th Reg., Capt. C. U. Devereux, commissioned
(S. L. I.).
1861. Nov. 20; Salem Artillery (4th Battery) Capt. C. H. Manning, left
the State.
1861. Dec. 9 ; Capt. John Daland's and Capt. Geo. F. Austin's compa-
nies, left the State for the front; both were in the 24th Reg.,
Col. Stevenson.
1861. Dec. 13 ; Salem Light Infantry under Capt. Chas. U. Devereux,
left for the seat of war.
1861. Dec. ; Old Ladies' Home opened.
1862. March 8; Funeral of Gen. F. W. Lander. Address by Rev. G.
W. Briggs in the South Church.
1862. March 21; Funeral of Lieut. Col. Henry Merritt, 23rd Reg.
Mass. Vol.
1862. March 26 ; Fire Browne's Block, 226 Essex street.
1862. May 26; Second company of Cadets, Maj. John L. Marks, mus-
tered for garrison duty in the forts of Boston Harbor.
1862. Aug. 22; Capt. S. C. Oliver's company in 35th Reg. left the
State.
1862. Sept. 8; 40th Reg., Lieut. Col. J. A. Dalton, left the State for
Washington.
1862. Sept. 8; Co. B, 40th Reg., Capt. D. H. Johnson, left camp for
Washington.
1862. Sept. 8; Salem City Guards, 40th Reg., Capt. H. Danforth, left
the State.
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1862. Sept. 8; Company under Capt. R. Skinner, jr. (40^ Reg.), left
the State.
18G2. Oct. 4 ; Salem Light Infantry Veteran Association organized.
18G2. Oct. 22; 5th Reg., Col. Geo. II. Pierson, left Boston for New-
bern, N. C. (nine month's service).
1862. Nov. 19; Co. A, 50th Reg., Capt. Geo. D. Putnam, left the State
for Department of the Gulf. (Nine month's service.)
1862. Dec. 21; Co. F, llth Reg., Capt. J. F. Devereux, commissioned.
1862. Dec. 27; Co. E, 48tli Reg., Capt. Geo. Wheatland, jr., left the
State for Department of the Gulf.
1863. Jan. 25 ; New Jerusalem Church formed in Salem, Rev. T. W.
Hayward, pastor.
1863. March 19 ; Salem Union League formed, Rev. Geo. W. Briggs,
president.
18G3. March 31 ; David Pingrce, sixth Mayor of Salem, died.
1863. July 8 ; Horse cars commenced to run between Salem and South
Danvers.
1863. July 10; Drafting commenced in Salem at Lyceum, Hall under
direction of Capt. D. II. Johnson, provost marshal.
1863. Oct. 28; Horse cars to Beverly.
1863. Nov. 1(5. 12th unattached company of Heavy Artillery, Capt. J.
M. Richardson, occupied the forts on Salem Neck.
1864. Horse cars to South Salem.
1864. May 12; Salem Light Infantry, Capt. R. W. Reeves, left Salem
for one hundred days garrison duty.
1864. May 13; Act passed by Massachusetts Legislature authorizing
the city to take water from Wenham Pond or the aqueduct
sources.
1864. May 19 ; Nathaniel Hawthorne died at Plymouth, N. II., aged 60.
1864. June 23; Company of Heavy Artillery, Capt. Joseph M. Parsons,
left camp for Washington.
1864. July 28; 5th Reg., Col. Geo. II. Peirson, left the State for one
hundred days duty.
1864. Sept. 22; Salem Freedmen's Aid Society formed; president,
Alpheus Crosby.
1864. Dec. 5 ; Act of Legislature on the water question accepted by the
people; yes, 1623 votes; no, 151.
1865. May 22; City Council of Salem passes an ordinance authorizing
the Commissioners to commence operations on the Water
Works.
1866. May 14: Lynde Block destroyed by flre.
1867. March 2; Pcabody Academy of Science organized.
1867. Oct. 31 ; Francis Peabody, third President of the Essex Insti-
tute, died, aged 66.
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1867. Nov. 15 ; Phil. H. Sheridan, Post 34, Grand Army of the Repub-
lic,' chartered.
1868. April 15 ; Commenced laying the distribution pipes of Water
Works.
1868. Oct. 9 ; Reservoir on Chipman Hill in Beverly completed.
1868. Oct. 30 ; John A. Andrew died.
1868. Nov. 17; Salem Oratorio Society organized.
1868. Dec. 25 ; Water in every part of the city for hydrants.
1869. Feb. 1 ; First Public Performance of Salem Oratorio Society,
' 'Haydn's Creation."
1869. Feb. 8 ; Joseph Andrews, ninth Mayor of Salem, died.
1869. April 21 ; Salem Fraternity rooms opened in Downing Block.
1869. June 4 ; Horse Cars commenced running to North Salem.
1869. Aug. 19; American Association for the Advancement of Sci-
ence commenced its session in Salem. Museum of Peabody
Academy of Science dedicated.
1869. Nov. 4; George Peabody died at London, aged 74.
1869. Nov. 6; Tolls on Salem Turnpike and Chelsea Bridge abolished,
henceforth a free public highway.
1870. Feb. 8 ; Funeral of George Peabody at Peabody ; his remains
deposited in Harmony Grove Cemetery.
1870. May 1; Last entry from Zanzibar; bark "Glide" to John Ber-
tram.
1870. Oct. 31 ; Fair of the Essex Institute and Salem Oratorio Society
commenced in Mechanic Hall; first occupancy since the en-
largement and alteration.
1870. Sept. 23 ; Plummer Farm School on Winter Island opened.
1870. Sept. 5 ; Asahel Huutington, eighth Mayor of Salem and second
President of Essex Institute, died, aged 70.
1870. Oct. 22 ; First lecture before the Salem Fraternity, by H. K.
Oliver.
1871. April 21 ; semi-centennial anniversary of the Essex Historical
Society; noticed by the Essex Institute; address by A. C.
Goodell, jr.
1871. Oct. 3; The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions commenced its sessions in Salem.
1873. Feb. 19 ; Corporators of the Salem Hospital organized.
1873. Mar. 5 ; Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Essex Institute noticed.
1873. July ; Last entry from West Coast of Africa, Brig Ann Elizabeth
from Sierra Leone, to Charles Hoffman.
1873. Dec. 16; One hundredth anniversary of the destruction of the
Tea in Boston Harbor, commemorated by the Essex Institute;
Hon. James Kimball delivered an address.
1874. June 29 ; Hon. Joseph S. Cabot, fourth Mayor of Salem, died,
aged 78.
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1874. Oct. 1 ; First Patient received in Salem Hospital.
1874. Oct. 5 ; Centennial Anniversary of the Meeting of the Provincial
Legislature in Salem, Oct. 5, 1774, noticed by the Essex In-
stitute; A. C. Goodell, jr., Esq., delivered an address.
1875. Feb. 8 ; Centennial Anniversary of Leslie's Retreat at North
Bridge, Salem, noticed by the city authorities; addresses by
the Mayor, Hon. G. B. Loring and Rev. E. B. Willson.
1S75. March 25; Holly Tree Inn opened.
1875. June 14; Hon. Charles W. Upham, seventh Mayor of Salem,
died, aged 73.
1875. Dec. ; Exhibition of Antique Furniture, etc., at Plummer
Hall, by Ladies' Centennial Committee.
187G. Apr. 19 ; Centennial Ball at Mechanic Hall given by Ladies' Cen-
tennial Committee.
187G. May 8 ; Dedication of the City Hall extension.
1877. Mar. 21 ; Last entry from Cayenne, and close of the foreign
trade of Salem; sen. "Mattie F." to C. E. & B. II. Fabens.
1S77. Sept. 13; Salem Old Men's Home opened, admitted lirst inmates.
1877. Dec. 12; Salem Old Men's Home incorporated.
1878. Sept. 18; Commemorative Exercises at Mechanic Hall, by the
Essex Institute, on the 250th anniversary of the lauding of
John Endicott at Salem.
INDEX OF NAMES.
Abbot, 29.3.
Abbott, 315.
Adams. 88, 117, 153, 159, 1C1, 285, 298.
Ager, 70.
Alderman, 73.
Allen, 60, 73, 76, 77, 82, 137, 2S5.
Allyn, 41. 42.
Ally ne, 88.
Anderson, 38. 40, 41.
Andrew, 29. 08, 83, 87, 322.
Andrews, 322.
Andros, 279.
Anthrop, 74.
Antru, 73.
Ant rn in, 73.
Apple-ton, 32, 33, 70, 284, 287, 289, 291, 300,
303.
Archer. G3, 07, G8, 73, 81, 84, DO, 94, 96, 98,
99. 30!), 310.
Arnold, 164.
Ashton, 300.
Atkinson, 301.
Atwood, 181,309,310.
Austin. 310, 320.
A very, 76.
Babbidge, 93, 94, 97.
Bache, 152, 153.
Bachelder, 73.
Bachilor. 77.
Brackenbury, 74.
Backer, 97.
Bacon, 78, 84,245,250, 310.
Baggerly, 74.
Bailey. 14,21,293,298.
Baily, 14.
Balch, 87. 145, 146, 147, 312.
Baldwin, 78.
Ballard. 65.
Bancrolt, 130, 277.
Ba nkes, 76.
Banks, 77.
Bann, 73.
Baptiste, 92.
Barker, 17, 92. .
Barlow, 298.
Barnard, 71, 315, 316.
Barr, 69.
Barrett, 302.
Barstow, 101, 288, 300.
Bartholomew, 73.
Bartlett, 293, 298.
Barton, 63, 07.
Bntchelder, 73, 310.
Bates, 2!8.
Batter, 84.
Battin, 80.
Button, 67.
Bavage, 78.
Bayley, 14, 296.
Beal, 82.
Beans, 65.
Beckct, 89, 92, 98, 100, 285.
Beckett, 63.
HIST. COLL.
XV
Beck ford, 296.
Beckingliams, 5.
Bedney, 200.
Bennet, 14.
Bennett, 14. 80, 309.
Ben (ley, 86, 131,202,205. 206, 209, 210, 211.
Bertram, 178, 307, 308, 322.
Bezoill, 96.
Blackleacl), 77.
Blackleerh. 76.
Blanclmrcl, 37.
Blaney, 66.
Blodgette, 14.
Blunt. 8.
Blyth, 60, 80.
Boardman,88, 285. 301.
Bodlish.310.
Bolles. US, 151, 297, 309, 310.
Booth. 78.
Hoots, 68.
Bourne, 76.
Boutwell, 319.
Bowdich,65.
Bowdisli, 83.
Bowditch, S8, 125, 131, 152, 179,222,301,
3015, 314, 317.
Bowdoin, 310.
Bowker, 310.
Bownd, 73. 82.
Bowrne, 82.
Boynton, 14, 15.
Bradbury, 291, 310.
Bradford, J5, 32. 42, 259, 270, 271.
Bradstreet, 15, 16, 279, 314.
Bray, 90.
Brayne, 74, 75.
Brazer, 223, 284, 287, 289, 297, 302.
Brewster, 320.
Briggs, 100, 288, 320, 321.
Broadstreet, 78.
Brocas, 5.
B rod street, 15.
Broke, 2.
Brooks, 108, 172, 195, 310.
Brown, 67. 77, 79, 83, 91, 173, 297, 305, 307,
309, 310, 320.
Browne, 73, 75, 87, 100, 156, 269, 272, 313,
314.
Browning, 73, 77.
Burtington, 315.
Buffum, 214.
Buflnton, 63.
Bu Hindi, 76.
Bulflnge, 7/5.
Bullock, 79.
Bnrchall, 73.
Bnrdsall, 73.
Bui ke, 192.
Burley, 294.
Burnett, 314.
Bumham, 291.
Burpe, 16.
Burpee, 16.
Burpey, 16.
(325)
326
16.
BurriU 100.
Burroughs, 86,
Bush, 83, 309.
Butler, 8, 69.
Buxton, 320.
Cabbot, 65.
Cabot, 37, 44, 53, 54, 58, 59, 60, 94, 137, 292,
300, 304, 322.
Caldwell, 98.
Calery, 5.
Call, 304.
Calley, 307.
Calvin, 250, 272.
Camlish, 78, 83.
Cane, 88.
Carlton, 173.
Carnes, 315.
Carrill, 66.
Carroll, 98, 100.
Cassell, 113.
Cave, 294.
Chadwick, 309.
Chalmer, 268.
Chandler, 42, 290.
Channing, 299.
Chaplin, 78.
Chase, 30&.
Chauncy, 301.
Chevalier r 97.
Cheever, 85.
Cheevers, 77, 82.
Chever, 66.
Chevers, 84.
Chichester, 81.
Child, 42.
Chipman, 98, 307.
Choate, 17, 117, 125, 161, 165, 166, 167, 173,
233, 250, 286, 288, 294, 310.
Chubb, 88, 93.
Churchill, 110, 155, 310.
Chute, 309.
Clapp, 298.
Clarencieux, 3.
Clark, 14, 17, 18, 20, 30, 137, 309.
Clarke, 35, 38, 39, 90, 301, 310.
Clay, 162, 317.
Cleveland, 301.
Clerk, 73.
Clifford, 285.
Clois, 77.
Clough, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 60.
Cloutman, 68, 92, 100.
Coburn, 78.
Cockerill, 79.
Coddington, 193.
Codnam, 82.
Codrington, 8.
Cogswell, 17, 320.
Coke, 277.
Cole, 79.
Collee, 5.
Collings, 68.
Collins, 78, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 98.
Colman, 137, 298, 302.
Conant, 78, 114, 129, 145, 146, 147, 168, 169,
170, 207, 211, 212, 219, 254, 256, 312.
Concklin, 76.
Concklyne, 76.
Cook, 76, 79, 310.
Cooke, 76.
Cooper, 76.
Cotton, 149.
Corwin, 77, 314.
Corwithy, 81.
Cox, 88, 98.
Cradock, 129, 156, 220, 260, 261,.268, 269,
273, 274.
Crain, 68.
Crandall, 100.
Creci, 17.
Cresey, 17.
Cressey, 17.
Cromwell, 3, 81, 246, 247, 278, 279.
Cronenshilt, 285.
Ciosby, 15,28,321.
Crowell, 65.
Crowninshield, 64, 98, 158, 159, 161, 223,
285, 286, 288, 304, 306, 315, 316, 319.
Cruff, 84.
Cummins, 80, 286, 294, 295.
Curtis, 99, 298.
Curwen, 72, 304, 310, 313.
Curwithy. 77.
Cushing, 295, 304.
Cutler, 286, 298.
Cutts, 172.
Dabney, 315.
Daland, 318, 320.
Dalton, 309, 320.
Dana, 293.
Dane, 117, 222, 291, 292.
Danforth, 319, 320.
Daniell, 83.
Daniels, 87.
Darby, 83.
Darley, 220.
Datten, 84.
Davenport, 76.
Davis, 17, 43, 292, 302, 310.
Day, S3.
Deadman, 80.
Dean, 82, 284, 310.
Deane, 51, 127, 268, 310.
Deblois, 296, 298.
DeGersdorf, 310.
Delands, 69.
Dennis, 78.
Derby, 79, 92, 95, 130, 137, 157, 176, 177,
198, 202, 213, 223, 285, 286, 306, 307, 310,
315.
Despencer, 4, 5.
Devereux, 304, 319, 320, 321.
Devinish, 76.
Dexter, 298, 310.
Diamond, 91.
Dickerson, 76, 313.
Dickinson, 17, 20.
Digweed, 74.
Diman, 88.
Dodge, 76, 81, 137, 287, 301, 302, 304.
Dolliver, 200.
Dorrel, 95.
Douglass, 84.
Dounton, 77.
Dove, 82.
Downes, 57.
Downing, 76, 123, 173.
Dowse, 67.
Dresser, 17, 19.
Duckinfleld, 69.
Dudley, 129, 149, 269, 274, 279, 303, 310.
327
Dnrnmer, 22, 32.
Duncan, 29C.
Dunlap, 86.
Dunn, 319.
Dutch, 200.
Dutton, 37.
Dwire, 87.
Dyer, 86.
Eagleston, 318.
Eastwick, 76.
Eaton, 297.
Edey, 90, 93.
Edget, 89.
Edwards, 74, 76, 91, 319.
Elerson, 69.
Elford, 74.
Elkins, 83, 84, 85, 88, 289, 303.
Ellerd, 74.
Ellis, 78, 290.
Ellison, 80.
Elsey, 83.
Elson, 79.
Elsworth, 18.
Ehvell, 76.
Emerson, R3, 297.
Emerton, 80.
Emilio, 309.
Emmerton. 70, 309, 310.
Endecot, 78.
Endecott, 76.
Endicott, 91, 101, 103, 110, 113, 114, 127,
129, 130, 131, 136, 138, 139, 140, 144, 145,
146, 147, 148, 150, 156, 157, 165, 166, 167,
169, 170, 173, 174, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190,
191, lie, 194,207, 211, 212, 219, 243, 247,
251, 252, 253, 25i, 255, 256, 257, 258. 259,
260, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269.
270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 277, 278, 279,
283,295,302,310, 311, 312, 313, 317.
English, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 95, 314.
Eks, 78.
Estes, 79.
Eston, 7, 8.
Everett, 115, 127, 159.
Evoy, 91, 94, 05.
Fabens, 323.
Fabins, 84.
Fairfleld. 93, 95, 100.
Fairservice, 80.
Farley, 304.
Farnham, 288.
Farrant, 318.
Farrar, 115.
Feild. 76.
Felmingame, 76.
Felt, 70, 71, 75, 83, 172, 277, 298, 309.
Felton, 73, 80.
Fenno, 310.
Kermaies, 76.
Fermayes, 76.
Fielden, 310.
Fisher, 299.
Fisk, 84.
Fiske, 72, 73, 74, 76.
Fitch. 220.
Fits, 78, 79.
Fitz, 309.
Fitzgerald, 319.
Flag, 99.
Flint, 32, 52, 79, 84, 92, 137, 223, 286, 289,
Foards, 67.
Fobes, 316.
Fogge, 76.
Foot, 69. 81, 82, 98.
Foote, 180, 310.
Forbes, 88.
Force, 255, 258.
Forrester, 288, 316.
Foster, 83, 84, 94, 286.
Fowler, 309.
Foy, 192.
Foye. 93.
Fnincis, 42.
Franklin, 152,294.
Franks, 310.
Frazer, 18.
Freeman, 298.
Freestone, 83.
Frothingham, 310.
F rye, 201.
Fuller, 78, 259, 270, 299.
Furlong, 89.
Furnex, 84.
Gafford, 73.
Gage, 18, 22, 30.
Gahtman, 80.
Gardiner, 84.
Gardinr, 65.
Gardner, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 74, 87, 306, 310,
Garford, 73, 76.
Gaveatt, 67.
Gavet, 63, 69, 78.
Gavets, 68.
Gavett, 66, 69.
Gayton, 88, 98, 295.
Gedney, 314.
Gerrisn, 314.
Gibbs, 288, 302.
Gibson, 18.
Gidney, 78,83.
<;idny, a3.
Gifford, 204, 309, 310.
Giles, 77.
Oilman, 99, 294, 302.
Gilmore, 90.
Glover, 64, 76, 80, 84.
Goffe. 220.
Goldthwaite, 84, 310.
Goldthwayt, 74.
Goldwhatye, 73.
Golt, 82.
Golthwrite, 73.
Goodale, 80.
Goodell, 103, 309, 322, 323.
Goodhue, 80, 158, 305, 316.
Gooll, 291, 300.
Goose, 73.
Got, 77.
Gott, 74, 271.
Govea, 309.
Goyte, 76.
Grafton, 73, 74, 77.
Grant, 67, 68, 87, 88, 91.
Graves, 76.
Gray, 90, 130, 144, 177, 178. 223, 269, 277,
307,317.
Green, 32, 98. 310.
Greenleaf, 284.
328
Griffis, 84.
Grig&by, 188.
Grinslett, 79.
Grose, 73.
Grove, 310.
Guild, 297.
Gunmson, 99. -
Gunter, 89.
Gutch, 76.
Hacker. 201.
Hadlock, 78, 83.
Hagar, 309, 310.
Hains, 83.
Hale, 18, 28.
Hall, 314, 316.
Hammond, 10, 18, 19, 21, 22.
Hannon, 86.
Harbert, 76.
Hardy, 73. 82, 286, 305.
Harnett, 76.
Harper, 310.
Harrington, 100, 310.
Harris, 16, 19, 27, 82, 199, 299, 302, 310.
Hart, 19, 74, 298.
Hartvvell, 79.
Harvey, 83.
Haseltine, 19.
Hasket, 83, 286.
Haskett, 176, 306.
Hathorne, 73, 76, 98, 206, 288, 313.
Haven, 254.
Hawkins, 90.
Hawthorne, 131, 142. 174, 223, 316, 321.
Haynes, 287, 292.
Hayward, 321.
Hazen, 25, 30.
Heard, 310. 316.
Hemans, 110.
Henfield, 84.
Henly, 82.
Herrick, 94.
Hervey, 3.
Hevves, 290.
Hibbert, 21, 22.
Hicks, 79.
Hidden, 20.
Hide, 8.
Higgeson, 76.
Higginson, 38, 46, 66, 71, 77, 78, 115, 129,
146, 148, 164, 174, 207, 220, 251 258, 2(JO
263, 264, 268, 269, 270, 271, 274, 312, 313,
314.
Hildesley, 8.
Hill, 108, 310.
Hilliard, 72.
Hindes, 73.
Hinds, 73.
Hirst, 83.
Hobbs, 69.
Hobson, 18, 19.
Hodges, 87, 93, 94, 285, 301, 306, 311.
Hodgkins, 20.
Hoffman, 137, 322.
Hoges, 64.
Holgrove, 76.
Hollinwood, 81.
Holm, 76.
Holman, 63, 303.
Holme, 74.
Holmes, 74, 76, 159, 194, 290, 308.
Holyoke, 115, 127, 152, 187, 202, 222, 284,
299, 305, 317.
Hood, 173.
Hooker, 250.
Hooper, 287.
Hopcott, 76.
Hopkins, 297, 316.
Hopkinson, 16, 19, 20, 27, 30.
Hoppin, 319.
Home, 81.
Horton, 87.
Hoskins, 20.
Hosmer, 94.
Houghton, 37, 80.
Howard, 78, 302.
Howe, 79, 308, 311.
Howes, 269, 294.
Hubbard, 211, 254, 271, 300.
linger, 297.
Humber, 77.
Humphreys, 254.
Humphy, 73.
Hunt, 78, 296, 307, 309, 311.
Huntington, 44, 295, 296, 311, 322.
Hurd, 287.
Hutchinson, 51, 99, 257, '268, 269, 278.
Ingalls, 69, 79, 287.
Ingersol, 84, 85.
Ingersoll, 64, 76, 81, 301.
Ingols, 84, 85.
Israel, 163, 164, 309, 311.
Ives, 137, 197, 311.
Jackson, 37, 4i, 54, 300, 317.
Jacques, 199.
Jaquish, 199.
Jefferson, 158, 159, 160, 306.
Jeffry, 301, 300.
Jencks, 136.
Jenkins, 311.
Jenks, 302*.
Jennison, 13.
Jewet, 20, 21.
Jewett, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 32.
Johnson, 23, 149, 220, 274, 309, 312. 315,
317, 320, 321.
Jones, 298.
Jonson, 23.
Joseph, 200.
Judson, 316.
Juett, 20.
Kehew, 309.
Keisar, 78.
Kelly, 76.
Kenning, 81.
Ketchum, 311.
Kibbens, 78.
Kilborn,23, 24.
Kimball, 63, 64, 103, 309, 311, 319, 322.
King, 64, 66, 95, 117, 193, 223, 289, 294, 296,
304, 317, 319.
Kippins, 82.
Kirkland, 57.
Kitchin, 75.
Kittredge, 294.
Knap, 79.
Knight, 307.
Kurtz, 320.
329
Lafayette, 317.
Laiten, 24.
Lakeman. 80.
Lambert, 22. 24, 29, 86, 87, 89, 9C.
Lancaster, 24.
Lander, 125, 291, 320.
Lane, 90, 100.
Lang, 03. 80, 105, 200, 309, 811.
Langden, 80.
Larrabee, 100.
Laskin, 84.
Lathrop. 313,
Law, 21, 313.
Lawrence, 300.
Leads, 78.
Leaver, 21.
Leavitt, 25)2, 303.
Lechmere, 52.
Lee, 35, 3(5, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45,
40, 47, 48, 49. 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 50, 57,
58,51), GO. 300, 311.
Lefavour, 309, 311.
Lefavre, 89.
Legro, 84.
Legroe, 84.
Legros, 308.
Lemon, 74.
Leslie, 171, 315, 323.
Leveret t, 292, 301.
Lewis, 8*5.
Light, 22.
Li 1 ley, (i4.
Lincoln, 115,299,311,319.
Lister, 04.
Liszt, 173.
Lodge, 54.
Lord, 74, 295,296.
Loring, 137, 155, 283, 323.
Lorthop, 73, 77.
Louvriere, 200.
Lovett, 38.
Lowell, 58.
Lows, 07.
Lufkins,90.
Luscomb. 79, 84.
Luther, 272.
Lynde, 220, 283, 314.
Machado, 309.
Mac Intire, 308.
Mack, 89, 311.
Mackallam, 78.
Madison, 117, 161.
Wanning, 25, 09, 93, 136, 157, 285, 299, 309,
311, 320.
MansHeld, 186.
Marks, 320.
Marritt, 74, 76.
Marsh, 83, 85.
Marshal, 74.
Marshall, 73, 74, 76, 79, 318.
Marston, 78. 79, 85.
Marstone, 76, 81.
Martineau, 175.
Mascol, 78.
Mascoll, 64, 96.
Mash, 79.
Mason, 94, 95, 97, 303.
Maston,82,83.
Masury, 67, 86, 87, 95, 303.
Mather, 170, 211.
Maurie, 73.
Maury, 76.
Maurye, 76.
Maverick, 73.
Mayberry, 94.
Mavmvarinsf. 8.
Mcbillchrist, 69.
McKeen, 38.
Meachum, 80,298, 305.
Mead, 288.
Mendelsohn, 173.
Merrirk, 43.
Merrill, 117, 288, 292, 293, 294, 311 318.
Merritt, 320.
Messinger, 297.
Micklelield, 200.
Mighill, 14,23,25,28.
Miller, 284.
Millet, 80, 80, 87, 89, 90, 94, 97, 308.
Millett, 317.
Mills, 10.'), 107,111,114,311.
Milton, 249.
Misservy, 83.
Missud, 113.
Monarch, 200.
Monroe. 117,316.
Montague, 5, 70.
Montgomery, 79.
Moody, 286.
Moore, 73, 76. 82, 297, 311.
More. 1)1,247.
Morgan, 40.
Morley, 4, 7.
Morton, 258, 200, 271.
Moses, 66.
Moulton, 70, 311.
Moiu-all, 70.
Muchmore, 95.
Mugtord. 79,99.
Mullet, 200,
Murafovd, 200.
Murray, 87, 99.
Murry, 78.
Myrrel, 74.
Neal, 79, 83.
Neat, 84.
Negro ve, 63.
Nelson, 25, 26.
Nevins, 311.
Newell, 42, 137, 316.
Nichol, 4. 6.
Nichols, 137, 284, 299, 300.
Norcross, 70.
N< riee, 81.
Norman, 74, 99, 168.
Northern, 17.
Northern!, 15, 16, 17, 24, 26, 29.
Nor they, 304.
Norrice, 720.
Norris, 294, 313.
Norton, 79, 81,83, 313.
Nott, 316.
Nourse, 311.
Noyce, 68.
Nunns, 64.
Nurs, 69.
Nurse, 83.
Nuttiug, 79.
Obear, 64.
Odel, 79.
Odell, 99.
330
Olcutt, 286.
Oldham, 263.
Oliver, 121, 122, 124, 159, 200, 202, 283, 311,
315, 319, 320, 322.
Olny, 73.
Orne, 52, 65, 214, 287, 292, 301, 314, 316.
Osborn, 26.
Osborne, 76, 309.
Osgood, 66. 93, 288, 295, 309.
Ostinelli, 201.
Packer, 84.
Pacy, 75, 76.
Page, 295, 297, 300.
Paine, 48, 49, 292.
Painell, 5.
Palfray, 89, 296, 311.
Palfrey, 91, 99, 130, 145, 146, 147, 251, 255,
256, 258, 272, 273, 278, 312.
Palfrye, 76.
Palmer, 26.
Papanti, 201.
Parker, 69, 87.
Parkins, 4, 9.
Parkman, 42.
Parkyns, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7.
Parr, 128.
Parret, 20.
Parris, 220.
Parsons, 32, 38, 90, 286, 321.
Patch, 75.
Patterson, 91.
Pay son, 26, 27, 32.
Peabody, 46, 130, 135, 137, 145, 178, 180,
223, 294, 302, 303, 307, 311, 317, 318, 321,
322.
Peal, 80.
Peall, 63.
Pearly, 28.
Pearson, 16, 23, 25, 27, 28.
Peas, 77, 78.
Pease, 80.
Pedrick, 283, 305.
Peele, 289. 303, 315.
Peeter, 75'.
Peirce, 125, 131, 151, 303, 311.
Peirson, 284, 300, 311, 321.
Pengry, 29.
Penniwel, 78.
Perchard, 308.
Perkins, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 94,
317.
Perkyns, 2, 5.
Perley, 23.
Peters, 75, 99, 164, 207, 208, 313.
Pettingall, 76.
Philips, 79.
Phillips, 25, 32, 33, 37, 86, 87, 97, 162, 223,
288, 318, 319.
Philpott, 3.
Phipeny, 77.
Phippen, 67, 93, 95, 311.
Phips, 14, 52.
Pickard, 15, 16, 21, 28.
Pickering, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 52, 59,
82, 83, 84, 85, 117, 131, 137, 157, 160, 163
223, 284, 285, 288, 290, 291, 292, 299, 301,
314, 315, 316, 317, 318.
Pickett, 311.
Pickman, 64, 80, 89, 130, 159, 160, 223, 284,
286, 288, 295, 303, 311, 314, 318.
Pierce, 20, 79, 298.
Pierpont, 79.
Pierson, 319, 321.
Pilgrim, 82.
Pingre, 29.
Pingree, 321.
Pitman, 77.
Plaisted, 79.
Plats, 16, 24, 29.
Plowden, 7.
Plummer, 319.
Polk, 318.
Poore, 137.
Porteingill, 69.
Porter, 68, 74, 76, 82, 83, 294, 306.
Potter, 77, 81.
Pratt, 84.
Prentice, 305.
Prescott, 131, 223, 292, 294, 302, 315, 319.
Preston, 88, 91, 96.
Prettice, 79.
Price, 313.
Prime, 18, 29.
Prince, 201, 223, 290, 296, 315.
Proctor, 84, 137, 303.
Putnam, 82, 83, 100, 117, 121, 131, 137, 172,
223, 283, 287, 289, 291, 292, 293, 294, 296,
300, 302, 303, 309, 311, 316, 319, 321.
Pynchon, 220, 283.
Quincy, 115, 127, 159, 160, 292, 299.
Ramsey, 190.
Rand, 42.
Ratchliffes, 90.
Rawlins, 284.
Ray, 73, 74.
Raymond, 79, 80.
Read, 76, 158.
Reade, 5.
Reddington, 77.
Reed, 93, 287, 297, 305, 306.
Reeves, 79, 80, 321.
Renolds, 81.
Reyner, 19.
Rice, 119, 139, 311, 316.
Richards, 29.
Richardson, 66, 91, 94, 316, 321.
Richie, 305.
Right, 68, 69.
Rising, 77.
Rittenhouse, 152.
Rix, 78.
Robinson, 75, 296, 311.
Rochstein, 98.
Rogers, 22, 31, 79, 94, 223, 287, 304, 311,
316, 317.
Rootes, 81.
Ropes, 66, 67, 68, 83, 92, 94, 96, 287, 300,
301, 304, 308, 311, 315.
Rose, 49, 82.
Roswell, 254, 260.
Rowell, 69.
Ruck, 68, 76, 77, 81, 84.
Rue, 96.
Russell, 311.
Rust, 68.
Rylee, 29.
Safford, 311.
Salisbury, 255.
331
Saltonstall, 117, 122, 120, 131, 137, 140, 147,
141), 102, 100, 173, 2-20, 223, 274, 289, 29U,
292,295,311,317,318.
Sanders, 74, 289, 303.
Sarve, 05.
Saunders, 316.
Savage, 04, 74, 83, 85, 200.
Sawyer, 29.
Scott, 29, 122, 295.
Scmlder, 70.
Searle, 88, 93, 95.
Sea8, 80.
Selden, 4.
Sennert, 90.
Sever, 297.
Sewal, 83.
Sewall, 15, 78, 283, 291, 301, 314.
Sewell, 24, 05, 220.
Shakspeare, 250.
Sharpe, 203.
Shaw. 07, 298.
Sheffield, 114.
Shehane, 89.
Shelton, 73, 74.
Shepard, 32.
Sheridan, 322.
Shillaber, 295.
Shipton, 4.
Sidney, 250.
Si Hi man, 297.
Silsbee, 91, 130, 100, 101, 175, 177, 180, 223,
283, 285, 280, 288, 304, 311, 318.
Silver, 311.
Simonds, 309, 312.
Simons, 84.
Skelton, 73, 85, 220, 200, 203, 209, 270. 271,
312.
Skerry, 73, 74.
Skery. 82.
Skinner, 321.
Slocum, 98.
Smith, 70, 77, 87, 91, 92, 93, 302, 303, 307,
308, 309.
Sonthcote, 254.
Southerick, 83.
Southwick, 74, 170.
Sparhawk, 303.
Spencer, 14, 199.
Spenser, 250.
Spiller, 309.
Spooner, 74.
Sprague, 159, 293, 319.
Squires, 93.
Stackhouse, 82.
Stacy, 77, 81.
Standly, 07.
Standley, 03, 04, 05, 66.
Stanley, 03, 128, 139, HO, 141, 308, 312.
Stearns, 293.
Stedman,293.
Steevens, 70.
Stephens, 80, 99.
Stevens, 80, 99.
Stevenson, 320.
Steward, 3, 4, 87.
St. George, 8.
Stickne, 29.
Stickney, 29, 30, 34.
Stileman, 77, 81.
Btillman, 297.
Stimpson, 309, 312.
Stocker, 92.
Stone, 81. 80, 292, 299, 312.
Storer, 302.
Story, 110. 115, 117, 125. 127, 131, 159, 160,
193, 217, 218, 283, 284, 280, 290, 292, 294,
295. 305, 318.
Stoughton, 220.
Stretton, 73, 74.
Strong, 291.
Strout, 95, 198.
Sturgis, 44.
Sullivan, 312.
Stitton, 137, 309.
Swasey, 98.
.Swell , >Si.
Swinnerton, 80.
Syle, 30.
Taber, 297.
Taply, 7S.
Tayler, 7.
Taylor, 55, 93.
Tenney, 20, 30.
Tha.'her, 82.
Thayer. 89.
Thomas, 79.
Thompson, 91.
Thornton, 259.
Thoroton, 3.
Thurston, 22.
Tieknor, 115.
Tilglnnan, 292.
Titcombe, 92.
Todd, 27, 30.
Tompson, 70.
Tappan, 280, 303.
Torrey, 30.
Town, 77.
Towne, 70, 180, 309.
Town send, 99, 284.
Tozzer, 98.
Trask, 21, 130.
Troadwell, 304.
Trow, 99.
True, 200.
Tucker, 117,292,290,318.
Tuckerman, 312.
Turner, 1, 74.
Twist, 80.
Tyle, 78.
Tyler, 287.
Tyndale, 248.
Underwood. 7, 64.
Upliam, 70, 71, 72, 103, 103, 208, 213, 223,
285, 290, 297, 299, 303, 304, 309, 312, 323.
Upton, 289.
Valpey, 93.
Valpy, 94, 97.
Vane, 13.
Van Schalkwych, 287.
Varnum, 290.
Vassall, 52, 220.
Vauilin, 308.
Veary, 08.
Venn, 257.
Vennor, 75.
Venor, 82.
Vonus, 81.
Veren, 76.
Verens, 75.
Very, 107, 312.
332
Vial, 284.
Vincent, 91, 99.
Vinson, 76.
Wain wright, 12.
Wait, 51.
Waite, 304.
Walcot, 83.
Waldo, 283, 297.
Walker, 76, 77, 288.
Walley, 295.
Walls, 65.
Walsh, 295.
Ward, 6(>, 69, 84, 97, 299, 304, 307, 317.
Ware, 42, 137.
Warner, 49.
Warren, 297.
Washington, 117, 202, 285.
Waterhouse, 299.
Waters, 73, 81, 89, 116, 284, 295.
Watersou, 127.
Wave, 81, 82.
Webb. 69, 86. 88, 90, 94, 99, 100, 180, 293,
302, 304, 312.
Webber, 80, 312.
Webster, 115, 127, 159, 312.
Wellcome, 66.
Wellman, 89, 96, 100.
Wells, 65.
Welman, 96.
Wendell, 159.
Wentworth, 320.
West, 69, 78, 84, 110, 176, 312, 315, 319.
Weston, 74, 100.
Wetmore, 283, 287, 291.
Wharton, 191.
Wheatland, 98, 103, 114, 126, 180, 186, 188,
189, 192, 194, 283, 309, 312, 321.
Wheeler, 20, 77, 79.
Whetcombe, 254.
Whichwood, 4.
Whipple, 185, 190, 191, 309, 312, 320.
Whitaker, 314.
White, 70, 71, 72, 76, 78, 86, 95, 117, 165,
211, 223, 255, 258, 284, 287, 289, 290, 291,
292, 301, 304, 305, 317, 319.
Whitefield, 314.
Whitefoot, 94.
Whitfords, 89.
Whittier, 191.
Wicom, 22,30,31.
Widger, 89.
Wigglesvvorths, 152.
Wilder, 133, 140, 287, 312.
Wildes, 319.
Wilkins, 81, 83.
Willard, 79, 289, 305.
Williams, 67, 74, 84, 193, 207, 208, 220, 296 ,
309, 312.
Willis, 78,290.
Willoughby, 67.
Willson, 35, 323.
Wilson, 149.
Winchecombe, 8.
Wingate, 39, 85, 284.
Winn, 301.
Winsor, 42.
Winthrop, 37, 51, 115, 126, 129, 130, 131,
139, 141, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 152, 15 1,
156, 159, 166, 167, 180, 251, 253, 257, 259,
268, 269, 274, 275, 279, 288, 312.
Wirt, 286.
Wolcot, 84.
Wood, 29, 31.
Woodbary. 31.
Woodbery, 81.
Woodbridge, 288.
Woodbnrn, 38.
Woodbury, 38, 145, 146, 147, 189, 312.
Woodhey, 81.
Woodkind, 89.
Woodman, 31, 69, 97.
Wood well, 80, 84.
Woolcot, 78, 83.
Woolfe, 73.
Woolsey, 247.
Worby, 69.
Worcester, 298.
Wotton, 250.
Wright, 76.
Wyatt, 90.
Wyman, 89.
Wytherill, 84.
Yell, 80.
Young, 54, 64, 211, 258, 259, 268, 274, 301.
Younge, 254.
ERRATA.
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fnllflll read fulfil.
Rittenhouso read Rittenhouse.
academies read academicians.
Aspinum read Arpinum.
for Haskett read Hasket.
1820 read 1823.
for Henry James read James Henry.
for county read country.
Haskett read Hasket.
Pierson read Peirson.
Pierson read Peirson.
ESSEX INSTITUTE
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS,
VOLUME XVI.
SALEM :
PRINTED FOR THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.
1879.
PRINTED AT
THE SALEM PRESS,
SALEM, MASS8.
CONTENTS.
PART I.
The First Glass Facto ry : where? communicated by JAMKS
KlMBALL, .......... 1
Notes and Extracts from the " Records of the First Church" of
Salem, 1G29 to 1730 communicated by JAMKS A. EMMEKTON
M. D. (continued), 8
Parish List of Deaths begun 1785, recorded by Rev. WILLIAM
BENTLKY I). D. of the East Church, Salem Mass, (con-
tinued), ........... 18
Some old estates, communicated by E. STANLEY WATERS, . 37
Records of the First Church, at Salisbury Mass., 1687-1754,
communicated by WILLIAM 1*. UPIIAM, ..... 55
Inscriptions from the old Fail-field Burial Ground in Wenham
communicated by Wellington Pool, 1878, .... 09
The First Book of the Intentions of Marriage of the city of
Lynn, copied by JOHN T. MOULTON of Lynn, ... 71
PART II.
Biographical Notice of James Upton, communicated by Rev.
R. C. MILLS D. D., 81
Genealogical Notes, Ashby, 88; Blaney, 90; Bovvers, 94; Blythe,
95; Chapman, 95; Cook, 97; Derby, Dynn, Ilaskett, 100;
Eastie or Estes, 104; Flint, 106; communicated by EDWAUD
STANLEY WATERS, 88
Notes on the Richardson and Russell Families, communicated
by JAMKS KIMBALL, 110
The First Book of Intentions of Marriage of the city of Lynn,
copied by JOHN T. MOULTON, (continued), .... 127
Children and Grandchildren of William and Dorothy King of
Salem, communicated by HKNKY F. WATERS, . . .144
Records of the First Church at Salisbury Mass., 1687-1754,
communicated by WILLIAM P. UPHAM, (continued), . . 160
(iii)
iv CONTENTS.
PART in.
Notice of Portrait of Washington, communicated by CHARLES
HENRY HART, . . . ... '...'': 161
Historical Sketch of the Salem Female Employment Society, .:"-
by LUCY P. JOHNSON, . . 166
Notes on the Richardson an$ Russell Families, by JAMES
KIMBALL, (continued), V 171
Parish List of Deaths begun 1785, recorded by Rev. WILLIAM
BENTLEY D. D. of the East Church, Salem Mass., (con-
tinued), . 191
Records of the First Church at Salisbury, Mass., 1687-1754, com-
municated by WILLIAM P. UPHAM, (continued), .' ; O . 203
Genealogical Notes, Webb Family, communicated by EDWARD
STANLEY WATERS, ' . . 213
Baptisms at Church in Salem Village, now North Parish,
Denvers, communicated by HENRY WHEATLAND, '- '^>- , 235
PART IV.
The Gedney and Clarke Families of Salem, Mass ; compiled by
HENRY FITZGILBERT WATERS, . . . . . .241
Records of the First Church at Salisbury, Mass.; 1687-1754,
communicated by WILLIAM P. UPHAM, (concluded), . . 290
Baptisms at Church in Salem Village, now North Parish,
Danvers, commuicated by HENRY WHEATLAND, (continued), 302
Index of names, . . . . . ., . * . .. . . 319
Errata, .... .. - ,,..^ * ... . 328
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
ESSEX INSTITUTE.
VOL. XVI. JANUARY, 1879. No. 1.
THE FIRST GLASS FACTORY. WHERE?
COMMUNICATED BY JAMES KIMBALL.
A correspondent (G. W. P.) of one of the leading
newspapers in Boston some months back, writes :
"I notice in a communication from your New Ipswich,
N. H. correspondent, S., the following statement: 'It
may not be generally known, that near the borders of
this town the first glass factory in the United States was
established.' It is probably not known, 'generally known,'
for the very good reason that it is not the fact. One of
the earliest glass factories of which there is any definite
or particular account was established about 1754 in
Brooklyn, N. Y., by a wealthy Dutch gentleman, by the
name of Bamper. 'The first bottle ever made at this
factory, having blown on it a seal bearing the name of
Bamper, and the date 1754, is still preserved among the
curiosities of the Long Island Hist. So.'
The factory mentioned by 'S,' must be the one estab-
lished m 1779 or 80, at Temple, by a Mr. Hewes, of
Boston.
This may be a trifling matter, but such statements,
carelessly made, upon insufficient authority, are liable to
HIST. COLL. xvi l (l)
be quoted, and I write in the interest of historical accu-
racy in small matters." G. W. P.
Writing in the same spirit, we present a few extracts
from the first book of the town records of Salem, which
would locate the First "Glass-house" in Salem, Mass.
We here find the recorded evidence that, Essex County,
Mass., can claim the establishment of the "First Glass-
house" in New England.
The first reference found in our early records referring
to "Glass-house" is under date of the 27th of the llth
mo., 1638.
^Graunted to Obediah Hullme, one acre of land, for a
howse, neere to the glasse howse ; and 10 acres more, to
be layd out by the town."
The second reference is under date of the llth day of
the 10th mo., 1639.
"Graunted to the Glassemen severall acres of ground ad-
ioyning to their howses, viz; one acre more to Ananias
Concline ; & 2 acres a peece to the other twoe, viz.,
Laurence Southick, & Obediah Holmes, each of them
2 acres, to be added to their former howse Lotts."
The third and last reference is under date of the 14th
of 7th mo., 1640.
"John Concline receaued an Inhabitant of Salem.
Granted to John Concline ffiue acres of ground neere the
glasse house.
Granted half an acre more of land for the said John
Concline, neere the Glass howse."
Previous grants had been made to Ananas Conklin as
appears from the records under date of the 25th of the
4th mo., 1638. "It is ordered that Ananas Conkclin &
William Osbourue shall haue an acre a peece for a house
lot.
Ananias Conkclin shall haue that 10 acres of land w cb
was Killams lot, he haueing it exchanged for another on
Cap An side."
"Granted to Ananias Conclyne a yard conteyning 20
pole of ground to be laid out before his dore."
The records show that grants were made to four per-
sons who were styled glass men. These names appear
on the records of the first church in Salem, under date of
viz. :
Mr. Ananias Concklin, 1638.
Lawrence Southwick and his wife Cassandra, 1639.
" Obadiah Holmes & wife Catharine, 1639.
John Conckline does not appear on the Church
list, but received as an inhabitant, as above,
in 1640.
The importance of this early industry to the wants, and
convenience of the early settlers, led to the application by
petition to the Gen. Court, for assistance to enable the
"undertakers" to perfect these works, as a great public
benefit and necessity; for we find under date of Dec.,
1641 : "Att a General Court held in Boston, it was
voted ; That if the towne of Salem lend the "glassemen"
30 , they should bee alowed it againe out of their next
rate ; & the glasse men to repay it againe if the worke
succeed, when they are able." (Mass. Rec., Vol. 1,
page 344.)
From the following petition of John & Ananias
Conckline, it appears that these works were controlled by
parties who were styled undertakers, or as we would say
at the present day, stockholders ; the petitioners no doubt
believing that these works could be rendered more profita-
ble, and useful to the community ; carry their grievances
up to the Gen. 1 Court, as appears from the following
petition ; dated,
Oct., 1645; "Upon y e petition of John Cauklin &
Ananias Coukclayne, (who have bene implied about y e
glasse worke, w ch y e und r tak r s have for y 8 three yeares
neglected,) y* they might be freed fro m their engagment
to y e form r und r takers, & left free to ioyne w th such as
will carry on y e worke effectually, except y e former un-
d r takers will forthwith do y e same."
The Court conceive it very expedient in regard to y e
publick interest to grant this petition.
Provision was made, giving the parties interested
therein, opportunity to appear at the next Quarter Court
at Boston and show cause, &c.
Mass. Rec., Vol. 2, page 137.
The operations of these works were of vital importance
to the petitioners, for we find at the close of the year
1642-3, the following vote passed at a gen'all towne
meeting, Dec. 27th.
"Its promised by the towne that the 8 that hath ben'
lent by the Court by the request of the towne to Ananias
Concklyne & other poore people shall be repayed the
Court, at the next Indian Corne Harvest."
The Town appointed in 1658, Samuel Ebourne, &
Thos. Gardner as surveyors, for the fences, for the North
Neck, & the Glasse house fences. This Com. lived in
that locality.
The earliest glass made at Salem, was probably cast,
and of small size, and used for the small diamond
window panes of that period, small pieces of which have
been turned up from time to time in the cultivation of
the field. The scoriae or slag which is still plowed up,
seem to indicate that the glass was much lighter in color
than the common bottle glass of early times. The more
common articles for domestic use, including window glass,
according to tradition, were here made.
Some fine specimens of slag from this early furnace
have been turned out within a few months, and has been
deposited by Gen. William Sutton (the present owner of
the field) in the collections of the Essex Institute.
The glassmen do not appear in our records in their
distinctive calling, much after 1670, although tradition
has conveyed to us the belief, that they were continued
about to the close of the 17th century. The trouble
attending the continuing of these works, was evidently
want of capital, rather than that of skilled labor, for at
that early period, the demand was for the more common
wants of every day life. It is possible, that more particu-
lars may yet be discovered in relation to these works,
and some memoranda will no doubt be gleaned out from
the collections of miscellaneous papers and manuscripts
that are being from time to time deposited in the collec-
tions of the Essex Institute.
The Glass House field is shown on a plan of the Common
lands, delineated by Joseph Burnap, Surveyor, and
Jonathan Wade, of Ipswich, for the Committee of the
Proprietors of Common lands, in 1722, and contained
about 30 acres. It was situated in the western part of
Salem, bounded by the present line of Aborn street,
southerly and southeasterly ; a portion of strong-water
brook running through land of Sutton, into the North
River at the Stone bridge northwesterly ; Boston street
northerly.
The Gen. 1 Court in 1660, anticipating troubles and
difficulties that might arise in the future, from claims for
portions of the Common lands, enacted that no cottage,
or dwelling house should be admitted to the right of
Commonage, but such as have acquired the right in 1660 ;
or those who may have erected since by authority of the
town. This law was re-enacted in 1692.
6
Difficulties arising from time to time, in relation to the
rights of the Commoners petitioning for portions of these
unappropriated Commons, finally led to a mode of adjust-
ment, by which a wise, and equitable division of these
lands was made, satisfactory to all parties interested.
In 1722 a careful survey of all of the Common lands
was made, under the direction of a Committee styled the
Grand Committee for the Common, and undivided lands,
in Salem ; and in this Com. was vested authority to sell
and convey these lands, as they might deem just and
equitable to all concerned.
"This Plan contains all the great Common in Salem
between Spring Pond & Boston Road westerly. On Lyn
line southerly. South Field easterly. Road from Butts
to Salem northerly. Measured Anno 1722. Lines run
to divide Anno 1723. P Joseph Burnap, Surveyor
with Jonath Wade of Ipswich."
In dividing these lands, portions were sett of to the
1st & 2d Parishes in Salem; to the Parish in Salem
village, & the Middle Precinct. 60 acres for the Poor,
large tracts for local commonage &c, the whole amount
of land so divided was between 3500 & 4000 acres.
Under the act of 1660 claims were made, and filed for
cottage rights in the Glass house field, and the Deposi-
tions of some of the oldest inhabitants were made and
recorded in the Essex Deeds, Vol. 32, L. 73 & 254; for
10 or 12 Cottage rights," for Cottage, or Dwellings, that
existed, at, or before y e year 1661. f .^v?
"Deposition of Samuel Abourne, aged 78, & Daniel
Southwick aged 81, depose & say, that John Trask 3d is
in poss. n of 3 certain pieces of land in Salem, viz.
his homestead in lot in Glasshouse field &c, on which 3
pieces were erected, and in being 4 cottages at or before
1661 ; viz. upon his lot at Glasshouse field, 2 Cottages,
one of which was built by Lawrence Southwick, dec. d ;
the other by John Concline dec. d , both Glassmakers and
of Salem ; and on that piece that is now his homestead
there was a Cottage, erected & built at or before ye time
aforesaid by William Scudder formerly of Salem Yeo.
dec. d ; & on his piece of land near Ely Gyles, there was
erected a Cottage, at or before 1661, by Thomas A very,
of Salem, blacksmith dec. d " (Dated Dec. 16th, 1717.)
Other Depositions, referring to the subject of Cottage
rights will be found in Essex Deeds.
The Plan of the Common lands, before referred to, is
but little known, and it would be a valuable contribution
to our local history, if some one, of the few persons who
are conversant with the localities therein described, would
make it the subject of some future contribution to our
Hist. Coll., preserving the names and localities of what
were once monuments, referred to in our early deeds, and
locations, but are now lost to those who seek to find
them; by changes of names, and alterations and improve-
ments in the surroundings of these old and ancient land-
marks.
NOTES AND EXTEACTS FROM THE
"RECORDS OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF SALEM,
1629 TO 1736."
COMMUNICATED BY JAMES A. EMMERTON, M. D.
[Continued from page 85, Part 2, Vol. XV.]
In making out the subjoined list of names found in the
church-records, I soon discovered that a collection of all
the names would be cumbered with many repetitions ;
endeavoring to avoid this, I have retained only such
names as illustrate or supplement the list of baptisms (in
some instances proving the new-readings that appear in
the errata) or introduce fresh genealogical facts.
19, 12, 1661, Eliz Hill, w. of Zebulon.
12, 11, 1662, Ab' Bachiler, dau' of John.
12, 11, 1662, Eliz Bachiler, dau' of Joseph.
6, 1663, Mrs. Helwis, dau' of Maj Hauthorn.
6, 1663, Rachel Raiment, dau' of T. Scrugs.
6, 1663, Eliz Haskal, dau' of J. Hardy.
6, 1663, H. Baker, dau' of J. Woodbery.
27 Mch., '64, Freeborn Sallo's, dau' of bro Wolfe.
27 Mch., '64, Margery Williams, wife of Isaac.
27 Mch., '64, Jone Pitman, wife of Thomas of Marblehead.
4, 11, 1665, Edmond Gale, "being non-members."
4, 11, 1665, Henry West, "
4, 11, 1665, Elizabeth West, his wife, " "
4, 11, 1665, Thomas West, "
4, 11, 1665, Mrs. Hanna Brown, "I
4, 11, 1665, Love Stevens, i born in the church, or rec'd with
4, 11, 1665, John Massy, [ their parents in their minoritie.
4, 11, 1665, John Ingersall,
23, 5, 1666, John Maskall, non-members.
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born in the church, or rec'd
23, 5, 1666, Mrs. Endecott, non-members.
23, 5, 1666, Sara Henly, of M'head, "
23, 5, 1666, Thomas Giggles,
23, 5, 1666, Mrs. Anne Gardner,
23, 5, 1666, Mrs. Elizabeth Grafton,
23, 5, 1666, Mary Suasy,
23, 5, 1666, Lydia Pitman,
23, 5, 1666, Mary Herick,
23, 5, 1666, Lydia Herick,
23, 5, 1666, Hannah Woodbery,
23, 5, 1666, Elizabeth Patch,
23, 5, 1666, Mary Looms,
23, 5, 1666, Joseph Grafton, Jun., J
6 Nov., 1666, Hanna Gidney, w' of Bartholomew.
6 Nov., 1666, Rebecca Putnam, w' of John.
6 Nov., 1666, Eliz' Hollinwood, w. of Richard.
4, 5, 1667, sister Hollinwood, her dau' Starres children.
4, 5, 1667, sis' Rootes had adopted Mary Hodges child.
6 Men., 1577, Eliz h Allen, sister Cliffords' dau'.
6 May, 1677, Mrs. Anna Brown, w. of W m , Junior.
Apl., 1682, Mrs. Phipeny, a French woman.
5 June, 1682, Margaret Becket, w' of John.
1 Apl., 1684, Sam' Gardiner, ye baker.
6 June, 1684, Thomas Baston, of ye village.
13 Oct., 1684, Hanna Putnam, w' of Jo', Jun.
5 July, 1685, Mrs. Joseph Hardy and Mrs. Andrews ye 2 sisters.
Aug., 1685, widow Estwick.
7 Sep., 1686, Robert Follet and Persis his wife.
7 Sep., 1686, Eliz' Comer, bro' Stacy es daughter.
26 June, 1687, widow Flint.
4 Dec., 1687, Benjamin Putnam and Sara his wife.
2 June, 89, widow Jones.
9 June, 1689, J. Chaplin, admonished by church.
6 July, 1690, John Stacy, son of Thomas.
1 Apl., 1692, Priscilla, w' of Henry Skerry.
1 Apl., 1692, Mary, w' of Samuel Elson.
2 Apl., 1693, Mary Pascho, w' of Hugh.
2 Apl., 1693, Sarah Hill, w of Philip.
2 Apl., 1693, Elizabeth Louder, w' of John.
7 May, '93, Captain Steven Sewall.
7 May, '93, Eliz h Marston, w' of W m , a ch' of this ch*.
1 Apl., '94, Lieftenant Pickering.
6 Aug., '94, Jane Pickering, w' of Jonathan.
6 Aug., '94, Elizabeth Horn, dau' of John.
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26 Aug., '94, Abigail Smith, w of John.
27 Jan., '94, Martha Robinson, w' of Samuel.
Feb., '94, Tamizen Wood well, w' of Samuel.
30 June, '95, Mary Gale, w' of Samuel.
21 July, '95, Deborah Mechum, w' of Jeremiah.
11 Aug., '95, "Rebecca Gillinghara, w' of James.
15 Dec., '95, Benj. Pitman, Junior, ch' of this ch'.
15 Dec., '95, Susanna Flint, w of Sam 1 , ch' of this ch'.
15 Dec., '95, Mary, wife of s'd Benjamin.
3 May, '96, Anne Ropes, a ch' of this ch'.
10 May, '96, Elizabeth Booth, wid' of George.
27 May, '96, widow Candish.
7 June, '96, Sarah Rop, w' of James.
21 June, '96, Mr. John Higginson, tertius and Hannah his w'.
Aug., 1696, Judah Mackentire, w' of Daniel.
Aug., 1696, Joanna Shaw, w of "William Jun'.
Aug., 1696, Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols.
1 Nov., 1696, Felton, w' of John.
14 Nov., 1696, Deborah Gold, w' of James.
7 Feb., 1696, Mrs. Hannah Higginson, w' of John, Jun'.
14 Mch., 1697, Elizabeth English, dau' of sis' Stevens.
14 Mch., 1697, Sarah Gardner, w' of Abel.
2 May, 1697, Elizabeth Woodwell, w' of John.
9 May, 1697, Dorothy Lord, widow.
6 June, 1697, Beadle, w' of Nathaniel, Sen'.
6 June, 1697, Ashby, w' of Benjamin.
?7 June, 1697, Susannah Misservey, w' of Aaron.
4 July, 1697, Abigail Williams, w' of Hilliard.
Sep., 1697, Mr. Samuel Gidney, ch' of this ch'.
3 Oct., 1697, Bethia Peters, w' of Richard.
10 Oct., 1697, Benj. Hutchinson, of Salem village, ch of this ch
3 Apl., 1698, Mary Gale, w' of Samuel.
3 Apl., 1698, Mrs. Barbara Wells.
6 Nov., 1698, Hanna Gavet, w' of William.
1 Jan., 1698, Marshal, widow.
2 Apl., 1699, Sarah Carter, w 1 of John.
2 Apl., 1699, Sarah, their eldest dau., about 13 years.
20 Aug., 1699, John Orn, Junior.
24 Sep., 1699, Nathaniel Felton, son of bro John.
26 Nov., 1699, Mr. John Hawthorn, Junior.
4 Feb. 1699, Rebecca Ely, w' of John.
4 Feb., 1699, Remember Moses, widow.
2 M'ch, 1700, Margery Pasco.
2 M'ch, 1700, Mary Pasco.
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4 Aug., 1700, Anne Smith, w' of John.
1 Sep., 1700, Mary Collins, w of John.
1 Sep., 1700, Hannah Moses, w' of Eleazer.
22 June, 1701, Mary Waters, w' of Samuel.
24 Aug., 1701, Mary Lambert, w' of Ebenezer.
14 Sep., 1701, Sarah Peach, dau' of bro' W m Stacy.
28 Sep., 1701, Anne Andross, w' of John.
4 Apl., 1702, Elizabeth Waters, dau' of John.
19 Apl., 1702, Abigail Neal, dau' of Lieutenant.
31 May, 1702, Hanua, Sarah, Martha, dau' of our sis' Mrs. Hasket.
5 July, 1702, Priscilla Arthur.
28 June, 1702, Hannah Beadle, w' of Nathaniel.
12 July, 1702, Mary Turner, w' of Captain John.
2 Aug', 1702, Ruth Flint, w' of David.
7 Feb., 1702, Mr. John Gardner, son of Captain Samuel.
7 Feb., 1702, Mrs. Price, w' of Captain Walter.
28 Feb., 1702, Joseph Hardy, a ch' of this ch'.
28 Feb., 1702, William Punchin.
28 Mch., 1703, Sara Bowditch, widow.
28 Mch., 1703, Abigail Birch.
1 Aug., 1703, Abigail French, w' of Humphrey, ch' of this ch'.
1 Aug., 1703, Dina Ingols, w' of Stephen.
1 Aug., 1703, Anna Leech, dau. of John, ch' of this ch'.
19 Sep., 1703, Mercy Mastor, w' of Nathaniel.
17 Oct., 1703, Hanna Follet, w' of Isaac.
6 Feb., 1703, Hanua Foster, d' of our bro' John.
2 Apl., 1704, Elizabeth, dau' of our bro' Thomking.
2 Apl., 1704, Abigail, dau' of our bro' John Waters.
7 May, 1704, Mary Collins, w' of Adouiram.
2 July, 1704, James Kettle and wife.
3 Sep., 1704, Elizabeth Verry, widow.
10 Sep., 1704, Mr. Nathaniel Marston.
10 Sep., 1704, Bethia Fits, w' of Isaac.
10 Sep., 1704, Elizabeth Jeoffrey, w' of Simon.
1 Oct., 1704, Mrs. Marston, w' of Deacon.
15 Oct., 1704, Nathaniel Waters & Eliz h his w', ch' of this ch'.
6 May, 1705, Mary Tomkins, w' of bro' T.
6 May, 1705, Christian Abbot, w' of Captain.
30 Sep., 1705, Michael Bacon, ch' of this ch'.
7 Oct., 1705, Mr. Francis Ellis.
7 Oct., 1705, Jemima Verry, w' of Benjamin.
14 June, 1706, Daniel Lambert, ch' of this ch'.
1 Sep., 1706, Rachel Pomery, ch' of this ch'.
2 Mch., 1707, Mrs. Susannah Maston.
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23 Mch., 1707, Hannah Herbert, widow of Robert.
6 Apl., 1707, Bethia Maskol, w' of bro' John, Junior.
18 May, 1707, Elizabeth Pomery.
6 Oct., 1707, Samuel Philips, Junior.
7 Mch., 1708, Sarah Maskol, dau' of our bro' John.
6 June, 1708, Anne Gyles, w' of John.
16 Sep., 1708, Mary Battin, w' of Christopher.
3 Oct., 1708, William King and Hannah his wife.
3 Oct., 1708, Christopher Bavage & Lydia his wife.
21 Nov., 1708, Elizabeth Frost, w' of William.
21 Nov., 1708, Judith Reeves, w' of Cockerel.
2 Jan., 1708, Martha Willard.
6 Mch., 1709, Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner, w' of Cap* John.
27 Mch., 1709, Mrs. Mary Willoughby.
5 June, 1709, Robert Pease.
5 June, 1709, Prudence Witheridg, dau' of Mary, w' of Benj' Proctor.
2 Apl., 1710, Elizabeth Collier, dau' of John dec'd.
23 Apl., 1710, Mary Collins, widow of James.
4 June, 1710, Elizabeth Neal, w' of Jeremiah, Jun'.
4 June, 1710, Elizabeth Gerrish, w' of Mr. John.
June, 1710, Elizabeth Mash, dau' of Susanna.
1 July, '1711, Silence Rogers, w' of Daniel.
16 Sep., 1711, Elizabeth Foot, w' of Malachi.
23 Oct., 1711, D r Thomas Barton, his w' and Eliz h Barton, his sis.
30 Dec., 1711, Anne Ropes, w' of Benjamin.
30 Dec., 1711, Mary Philips, dau' of Mr. Samuel.
10 Feb., 1711, Mary Hunt/dau' of Mr. Lewis Hunt.
23 Mch., 1712, Rebecca Mackmalion, w' of Alexand'.
6 Apl., 1712, Dorithye Ropes, w' of John, Jun'.
6 Apl., 1712, Rebecka Massy, w' of Nathaniel.
13 Apl., 1712, Sarah Archer, w' or widow of Stephen.
26 Apl., 1713, Lauzford, w' of Elias, formerly Mary Eager.
31 May, 1713, Elizabeth Barton, w of Mathew.
31 May, 1713, Ruth Loader, relict of William.
28 June, 1713, Hebsiba Leech, w' of Samuel.
4 Oct., 1713, Mary Marston, dau' of John, Jun', dec'd.
6 Dec., 1713, Mrs. Maston, relict of Cap' Manasseh.
2 May, 1714, Sarah Ropes, w' of William.
27 June, 1714, Mary Star, wid' & her d' Mary Mackmilion, w' of James.
27 June, 1714, Elizabeth Orms.
1 Aug., 1714, Mary Becket, w' of William, Junior.
1 Aug., 1714, Susanna English, w' of Clement.
29 Aug., 1714, Sarah Bavage, w' of Christopher.
5 Sep., 1714, Sarah Ely, w' of Jonathan.
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31 Oct., 1714, Mary Murry, widow.
6 Dec., 1714, Hannah Bethel, w' of Richard.
26 June, 1715, Nathaniel Phippen & w' Margaret.
26 June, 1715, Margaret Skerry, w' of Ephraim.
10 July, 1715, Hannah Neal, dau' of Joseph, dec'd.
19 Aug., 1715, Martha Silsby, w' of Nathaniel, Juu'.
28 Aug., 1715, Martha Legroe, w' of John.
2G Feb., 1715, Susanna Marston, widow of John, Jon'.
26 Feb., 1715, Hannah Willard, w' of Richard.
4 Men., 1716, Elizabeth Westgate, dau' of widow W.
29 Apl., 1716, Mrs. Eliza Gerrish, dau' of Deacon G', dec'd.
20 May, 1716, Mary Driver, w' of Thomas, ch' of this ch'.
20 May, 1716, Dinah Wytherill, w' of Joshua, ch' of this ch'.
27 May, 1716, Dorcas Chapman, w' of Steven.
24 June, 1716, Hannah Neal, w' of Robert.
15 July, 1716, Sarah Saunders, w' of Philemon, ch' of this ch'
Aug., 1716, Hannah Abrahams (married widow).
26 Aug., 1716, Mrs. Mary Butler.
30 Dec., 1716, Mary Howard, dau' of our bro' Samuel.
27 Feb., 1716, Jane Willard, w' of Mr. Josiah.
7 Apl., 1717, Samuel West, Sen' & Jim', Mary, w' of S', Jun.
30 June, 1717, John Brown, ' of Bartholomew.
30 June, 1717, Mary Collins, d' of John.
21 July, 1717, Eunice Pope, d' of Samuel.
21 July, 1717, Jemima Ashby, w' of Jonathan.
25 Aug., 1717, Mary Sympson, w' of John.
3 Nov., 1717, Hannah Beadle, widow of Samuel.
3 Nov., 1717, Elizabeth Black, w' of Nathaniel.
28 Dec., 1718, Eliz^ Darby.
1 Men., 1719, Eliz h Ruck, d' of Samuel, adult.
1 Men., 1719, Mary Cole, w' of John.
26 July, 1719, Elizabeth Taller, w' of John.
30 Aug., 1719, Abigail Twist, w' of John Twist.
4 Oct., 1719, Abigail Elkins-, widow of Henry.
27 Men., 1720, Recompense Orne.
3 July, 1720, Mary Atkinson, w' of Theodore.
24 July, 1720, Sarah Symonds, w of John.
11 Sep., 1720, Elizabeth Chapman, w' of John.
30 Apl., 1721, Elizabeth Ropes, w' of Joseph.
17 Sep., 1721, Ann Cox, w' of Benjamin.
1 Oct., 1721, Sarah Bacon, w of Daniel.
1 Oct., 1721, Remember Norrice, w' of Edward.
22 Oct., 1721, Margaret Cook, w' of Joseph.
22 Oct., 1721, Margaret Cox, d. of Benjamin.
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17 Mch., 1723, Elizabeth Devoreux, w' of John.
4 July, 1725, Mary Dowce, w' of Richard.
18 July, 1725, Mary Beans, d' of Joshua.
5 Sep., 1725, Mary Ropes, w" of John, Junior, and Elizabeth Dean,
Twins.
26 Sep., 1725, Samuel Odel, s' of Benjamin.
28 Nov., 1725, Elizabeth Marston, d. of W m , dec'd & Eliz b his w'.
5 Dec., 1725, Bethiah Bickford, d' of John.
30 Jan., 1725, James & Sarah Odell, children of Benjamin.
20 Feb., 1725, Mary Darling, d' of Daniel.
24 Apl., 1726, Eunice Bowditch, adult, d 1 of William.
13 Nov., 1826, Joseph Bowditch & Elizabeth his w.
13 Nov., 1726, Margarett Hill, w' of John.
3 Sep., 1727, Margaret Beadle, d' of Thomas.
3 Dec., 1727, Hannah Hooper, w' of Charles.
3 Dec., 1727, Patience Phillips, dau' of sister Phillips.
3 Dec., 1727, Mary Manning, dau' of Jacob.
3 Dec., 1727, Mary Gyles, dau' of bro' John.
3 Dec., 1727, Mary Pike, dau' of Richard.
3 Dec., 1727, Rachel Phippen.
3 Dec., 1727, Hannah Ingols, w' of Ephraim.
3 Dec., 1727, Margaret Kaiton, dau. of sister.
17 Dec., 1727, Hannah Hathorne, w' of Benjamin.
31 Dec., 1727, James Gibson.
31 Dec., 1727, Hannah Higginson, dau' of Nathaniel, dec'd.
31 Dec., 1727, Hannah Osgood, dau' of bro' Nathaniel.
31 Dec., 1727, Hannah Pickering, dau' of sister Hannah.
31 Dec., 1727, Elizabeth Pickering, dau' of sister Hannah.
31 Dec., 1727, Mary Elkins, dau' of sister E., Junior.
31 Dec., 1727, Isabella Armstrong, dau' of widow.
14 Jan., 1727, Sarah Dalten.
14 Jan., 1727, Elizabeth Crowell, w' of John.
4 Feb., 1727, Edward Norrice.
4 Feb., 1727, Abigail, Hannah, Susannah, dau' of John Pratt.
11 Feb., 1727, Daniel Bacon, Jun', and his sis' Sarah.
3 Mch., 1728, Benjamin Lambert, s' of Eben., dec'd.
3 Mch., 1728, Elizabeth Bickford, w' of George.
3 Mch., 1728, Lydia Murray, w' of William.
3 Mch., 1728, Esther Cabot, dau' of John.
17 Mch., 1728, John Giles, s' of bro' John.
17 Mch., 1728, Sarah Osgod, dau' of bro' Nathaniel.
31 Mch., 1728, Elizabeth Smith, dau' of John, Jun'.
23 June, 1728, Mercy Aborne.
11 Aug., 1728, Mary Cook, dau' of widow Hannah.
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15 Dec., 1728, Elizabeth Higginson, dau' of sis' Batters.
15 Dec., 1728, Lydia Henfield, dau' of Joseph.
5 Jan., 1728. Susannah Glover, w' of Benjamin.
31 Men., 1729, Eunice Lambert, dau' of widow Mary.
20 Apl., 1729, Margaret Devoreux, widow.
20 Apl., 1729, Mary Tailer, dau' of John.
11 Jan., 1729, Susannah English, dau' of Clement.
25 Aug., 1729, Seeth Lambert, dau' of sis' Mary.
3 Jan., 1729, Bethiah Hacker, d' of George.
1 Aug., 1731, Edward Kitchen and Friek his wife.
6 Aug., 1732, Sarah and Elizabeth Price.
G Jan., 1733, Sarah Ewel (formerly Sarah Lambert), w' of John Ewel.
(She had dwelt several years at Boston.)
17 Feb., 1733, Sarah Ropes, w' of Thomas.
28 Sep., 1735, Hannah Skerry, dau' of Ephraim.
9 May, 173G, Lydia Neal, dau' of Jeremiah.
6 June, 1736, Abiel Burton, w' of Benjamin.
14 Nov., 1736, Sarah Kempton, dau' of John.
26 Dec., 1736, Sarah Ruck, dau' of bro' Samuel.
26 Dec., 1736, Mary Ruck, dau' of Deacon James.
3 Apl., 1737, Anna Gerrish.
30 July, 1738, Joseph Orue, Jun', "nigh unto death."*
6 May, 1739, Margaret Gold, dau' of Thomas "and was baptized."
18 May, 1740, Joshua Witherel, Junior.
29 June, 1740, Sarah Reeves, w' of Benjamin.
18 July, 1741, Mary Mazury, dau' of James.
18 Apl., 1742, Sarah Marston, dau' of James.
2 May, 1742, Sarah Marshall, dau' of Robert.
Even at the risk of repetition it seems desirable to
reprint the following extracts from the old record. They
make accessible, certain facts of interest to the genealo-
gist, and correct some inaccuracies of former publications.
22, 11, 1661. The church consented to ye baptizing of Mrs. Eliz'
Conants' child, upon ye letter from ye church at Corke, testify-
ing of her membership there.
30 Men., 1663. Mary Balsh, Eliz' Williams, and Daramaris Mansfield
(ye daughter of our bro' Conant ; of H. Skerry : of Mr.
Stileman).
*"At the dwelling-house of his Uncle Joseph Orne, who educated him publickly
from his youth up. This is the Dwelling-house where the First Church met and
worshipped God for several Lord's Days after it was, with its Pastor, driven from
the public Meeting House, on Lord's day April 27, 1735."
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7 Sep., 1663. Eunice Smith, ye wife of bro' Potter, now living at
Fairfield.
6, 9, 1664. Mrs. Lydia Banks absent twenty-two years dismissed
to a church in London of which Mr. Nye is pastor.
5 Oct., 1665. Mrs. Sherman, ye dau' of Mr. Johnson (our brother)
living at Boston, but belonging to this church.
4 July, 1667, Mr. Felt, p. 557, gives the list of mem-
bers dismissed to Bass River. He omits Goodie Biose
(or Biofe), and adds Sarah Conant and Bridget Loofe.
The record adds this list of "members yet not in full
communion" (who) "desire to be dismissed with their
parents."
Peter Woodbery. H. Herick.
Jo Dodge. Eph' Herick.
Jo Black. Jo Herick.
Sam Corning. Eliz' Herrick.
Nath. Howard. Ab' Stone.
Humph' Woodbery. Eliz Howard.
Sus' Woodbery. Jos Rootes.
Jo Woodbery. Tho' Woodbery.
Is Woodbery. Jos Lovet.
W. Dodge. Bethiah Lovet.
H. Rayment. Rem' Stone.
Sara Coiiant. Eliz' Howard.
9 Nov., 1681. The 3 Skeryes are neighbors of John Massy.
7 Nov., 1681. Bro' Grafton, Tho, Giggles, Jo Ingerson, and Eliz
Gardner are neighbors of Abigail Kippins.
13 Aug., 1684. The only difference between the list
printed by Mr. Felt (p. 558), of those "church members,
living at Marblehead," (who) " desire to become a church
by themselves" is substituting Joanna Hawley for G.
Hanly, and though the latter (G. for goodie?) is very
plain in the list, the former is nearly as plain in the record
of her admission the month before.
See "N. E. Congregationalism," additional, note p. 307.
10 Nov., 1689. "Was presented ye desire of ye Church Members at
ye village " (Danvers) " to have their dismission, for themselves
and their children, that they might be a church for themselves."
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Mr. Felt (p. 558) gives the list correctly, except that
the record calls Sara Putnam "ye wife of James."
25 June, 1713, ami 25 Dec., 1718. Mr. Felt's lists of
members dismissed to form the churches at middle pre-
cinct (Peabody) and the East Church in Salem, are
correct.
The subjoined list supplements the latter.
Some members dismissed to East Church later than
25 Dec., 1718.
24 Jan., 1719. Sara Ward, f w' of Miles.
23 Apl., 1721. Mary Waters, w' of Ezekiel.
1 Dec., 172:5. Richard Elvins and Sarah his wife.
7 Mch., 172o. Margaret Skerry, w' of Ephraim.
2 June, 1728. John Beckett and w' Susannah.
2 June, 1728. Elizabeth Foot, w' of Malachy.
2 June, 1728. Lydia Murray, w' of William.
2 June, 1728. Sarah Lowwater, w' of Elias.
2 June, 1728. Elizabeth Tapleigh, widow.
2 June, 1728. Jane Turner, widow.
2 June, 1728. Kezia Mazury, widow.
2 June, 1728. Mary Manning, dau' of Jacob.
2 June, 1728. Mary Daniel, dau' of Stephen.
2 June, 1728. Hauna Masters dau' of widow.
2 June, 1728. Margaret Beadle, dau' of Thomas.
17 July, 1728. Martha Silsby, w' of Nathaniel.
17 July, 1728. Anstis Crowningshield, w' of John.
1 Sep., 1728. Warwick Palfry and w' Elizabeth.
1 Sep., 1728. Elizabeth Crowell, w' of John.
6 Jan. 1733-4. Sarah Ward, f w' of Miles, Senior.
Pages 118-19 of the N. E. Congregationalism, give
an interesting account of the " perilous captivity " of this
"venerable old Church Book."
In stating that after its recovery the church voted "that
a copy of this ancient record be made for the church,"
the author was led into error.
t Miles Ward married Sarah Massey and Sarah Ropes. See Vol. V, p. 207 of
these Colls.
HIST. COLL. XVI 2
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The vote reads, "a copy of this book," meaning the
small quarto which had served for records since the
reorganization on Aug. 5, 1736, and in which the vote
was recorded. A copy of these records begins the vol-
ume still in use.
PARISH LIST OF DEATHS BEGUN 1785.
RECORDED BY REV. WILLIAM BENTLEY, D.D., OP THE EAST CHURCH, SALEM, MASS.
[Continued from Vol. XV, page 100.]
DEATHS IN 1801.
537. Jan. 22. Mary, of William and Anna Foster.
Worms, 4 years 4 months. They have another child.
She a Knapp. Essex Street between Turner and Becket.
538. Jan. 30. William, of William and Anna
Foster. Throat distemper, 4 months. They have no
other child, have lost three.
539. Jan. 30. Margaret, daughter of Joseph and
Margaret Strout. 10 months. Their only daughter, they
have 4 sons. Essex Street between Herbert and Curtis.
Father a Lieut, in the American Navy.
540. Feb. 3. Sarah Burroughs, child of Daniel
Geering. Fever, 20 years. Her mother a Stillman.
541. Feb. 4. News of the death of Jacob Whitte-
more. Fever, 23 years. 2 sons and daughter left with
the mother Mary. At Martinico.
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542. Feb. 6. John, son of Maj. Gen. John Fiske.
21 years. Only two sisters are left, married to Allen and
Putnam. Essex Street between Beckford and Dean.
543. Feb. 13. Mary, wife of Christopher Beals.
Bilious Fever, 33 years. One year married. She was
a Bacon of Lexington. The second wife of her husband.
Two children, one by each wife, males. They had lived
but a little time in Salern. lie from Boston, a ship-joiner.
Essex Street, corner of Turner.
544. Feb. 21, Sarah, widow of Capt. Oliver Webb.
Fever, 35 years. Married at 17 years, and time in
marriage 15 years. She was an Elkins. Her husband
died 1798. Three sons and a daughter left. Born E.
part of Salem. Essex Street, corner of Turner.
545. Feb. 27. Elizabeth Manning, maiden. Com-
plication, 72 years. There are two brothers and two
sisters living together, rich and unmarried. Essex Street
between Herbert and Curtis.
546. March 3. Sarah, wife of Robert Smith, aged
80. Married at 18 years, a Gatchell, with whom she
lived 12 years. Has lived with Smith 43 years, and
leaves one child, who married a Phillips of Marblehead.
Her maiden name was Knights. She lived in her native
town, Marblehead, till the war. Mr. Smith's second wife
lived near Essex Bridge. Smith is a h'sherman, and had
children by his other wife.
547. March 13. Judith, dan. of George and Judith
Archer. Scarlet fever and throat distemper, 5 years.
He was lost at sea last year. The widow was dau. of
Daniel Hathorne ; has had three children, one male.
The child sick three weeks. Resided in Winter Street.
548. March 20. Hannah, wife of Emmons Smith.
Consumption, 51 years. Married at 22. She a dau. of
Thomas Dimon. Four sons and three daughters left.
Resides on neck, below Ingersolls.
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549. March 21. Hannah, wife of Joshua Phippen.
Consumption, 60 years. Married at 23. She was a
Sibly and left four sons and three daughters. Was very
active in early life, long sick and confined. Resides
Hardy, below Derby Street. He a cooper.
550. April 11. William Scott, son of Thomas and
Mary Ashbey. Atrophy, 15 months. She was a White.
They have four children, one son. Resides Essex Street,
between Orange and Curtis. He a Captain.
551. May 8. Moses Stickney, of Brentwood, N. H.
Drowned, 25. Has no relations in this town in which he
has lived about two years. He was born at Newburyport
and educated at Brentwood. He was assisting to load
a sloop with rocks, and in a high wind attempting to get
from the neck to the sloop was drowned. See D. B.
552. June 6. Female child of Michael and Mary
Bateman. Convulsions, 6 days. She was a Batten, four
children, one male. He a foreigner, mariner. Child
taken suddenly. Resides Turner Street, between Derby
and Essex.
553. June 29. Mary, widow of Henry Chipman
from Newburyport. Aged 84. Married at 18. First
marriage sixteen years. Second marriage thirty-four
years. She was a Carr ; married a No well and lived at
Newburyport, then a Chipman ; left two sons and three
daughters. She had lived above a year in the family of
her son-in-law, Joseph Vincent, and died under the natu-
ral infirmity of age. Born in Newbury.
554. July 8. Lydia, widow of Abraham Valpy. 66
years. Married in 1756, at 20; 18 years married. She
was a Clough. Her father from Boston. One daughter
survived her. Born in Salem near the windmill. Resides
in Daniels Street. He a fisherman.
555. July 24. Mary Foot, dau. of William and
Rebecca Oliver. Canker on Bowels, 3 weeks. They
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have three children, two sons. She a Whitford. Resides
in Webb Street. He a soapboiler.
556. July 25. Sarah, widow of George Dean. Con-
sumption, 28 years. Married at 18 years, and 8 months
married. She was a Phippen, and left one child, a male.
Resides in Hardy Street, below Derby. Long sick.
Lost a sister and mother within two years, by Consump-
tion.
557. Aug. 4. Benjamin, son of Samuel and Sarah
Ropes. By accident, 19 years. Mother a Chever, have
six children, left three sons. A worthy youth. First
interment in the new ground in Brown Street. He was
helping to lower the fore top-mast of the ship Bellisauru.s,
at Union Wharf, and was crushed between the two at the
cap; death instant. See D. B.
558. Aug. 5. Hannah, wife of James Perkins, yellow
fever, 26 years. Married at 24. Was a Porter, born in
Nova Scotia. Left one child, a female. Essex Street,
corner of Hardy. lie a blacksmith. See D. B.
559. Aug. 16. Stephen, child of William and Han-
nah Webb. Obstructed breathing, 2 years 9 months.
She was an Allen of Marblehead. They have four
children, two sons. Resides Hardy Street, between
Essex and Derby. He a mariner.
560. Sept. 2. George Underwood, son of J. hn and
Hannah Macewen. Vomiting, 8 months. She was a
Townsend of Salem. He from Scotland, three children
left, two sons. They have lived at Kennebunk.
561. Sept. 7. Female child of Joseph and Sarah
Traske. Atrophy Infantile, 18 months. She was a
Dodge, both from Beverly. A young couple. He a
blockmaker. Resides Daniel Street, below Derby.
562. Sept. 13. Micah, son- of Nathaniel and Deborah
Kinsman. Dysentery, 1 year 7 months. She was a
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Webb and lived formerly at the Fort. Two sons left.
Resides Essex Street, opposite East. He a Captain.
563. Sept. 18. Elizabeth Stone, dau. of Gamaliel
and Sarah Hodges. Dysentery, 2 years 8 months. She
was a Williams, four children, three sons left. Resides
Essex Street, between Orange and Daniel. He a Captain.
564. Sept. 24. Elizabeth, of Jeremiah and Susanna
Abbott. Dysentery, 10 months. He was from Andover
last May. She a Center, from Charlestown, Mass. One
daughter. Living below Ash Street, on the bank of
North River. He a truckman.
565. Sept. 25. Elizabeth, dau. of John and Nancy
Pierce. Dysentery, 10 months. She was a Sibly; her
father from England, her mother from Beverly. Two
daughters left. Living in Turner Street below Derby.
He a blacksmith.
566. Sept. 26. Judith, wife of Joseph Miller. Con-
sumption, 23 years. Married at 20. Her father was
Deacon Kinsman of Gloucester, and her father's father,
Col. Warner of Gloucester. They have lived in Salem
two years. He was from Gloucester. Ropemaker and
painter. Two daughters left. Resides on Brown Street
on the common. She born in Gloucester.
567. Sept. 29. Hannah, wife of John Collins.
Dropsy in the head, 52 years. Married at 20. She has
left five of her own children, two sons ; one dau. lives of
his first marriage, besides two daus. married Batchelder
and Chever. She was a Porter, born in Littleton. Her
parents removed from Wenham. She lived long in
Danvers. He a fisherman and lived with his former wife
six years.
568. Sept. 30. Judith, dau. of Joseph and Judith
Miller. Atrop. Infant, 10 months ; youngest child.
569. Oct. 1. Mary, dau. of John and Mary Berry.
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Fever, 15 months, only clan. They have three sons. She
was a Ward. He a Captain. Resides Essex Street,
corner Turner.
570. Sept. 28. Robert, son of Robert and Hannah
Bartlet. Dysentery, 2 years. She was a Tarbox ; by
marriage a Stanley. Has five children by Stanley and
one by Bartlet. Resides Liberty Street, between Vine
and Water. He a mariner.
571. Oct. 4. Emmons Smith. Fever, suddenly ; 54,
married at 25. His wife a Dimon ; died in March last.
Four sons and three daughters left. He was born in
Ipswich.
572. Oct. 5. Miriam, wife of John Lewis. Dysen-
tery, 52 years. Married at 51 years. She was a Maley
of Marblehead ; lived in Fort Gerry, then Avith son Fiske,
then Jacob Crowninshield. Upon death of her sister
married sister's husband, removed five months since to
Salem. Resides Brown Street, on Common. He of
Newburyport, ropemaker ; has seven children.
573. Oct. 4. Nathaniel, son of William and Eliza-
beth Ilampson. Dysentery, 13 months 16 days. From
Marblehead, ropemaker. He has lived in Salem eleven
years. She an Eliot from Marblehead. Four children
left, one daughter. Daniels Street.
574. Oct. 5. Edward, of Daniel and Bethiah She-
hane. Dysentery and fever, 18 months. His father
from Isle of Wight. She a Widger from Marblehead.
Three children left, one son. Mariner. Becket Street.
575. Oct. 5. Joseph, son of Joseph and Mercy
Webb. Dysentery, 2 years and 3 months. She was a
Devereux of Marblehead. He a boat-builder. Left two
daughters. Becket Street.
576. Oct. 8. Elizabeth, dau. of Edward and Eliza-
beth Archer. Fever, 2 years and 6 mouths. She was a
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Phippen, one son left. He a ropemaker, child long sick.
Bridge Street, opposite Locust Street.
577. Oct. 9. Edward, son of above. Fever and
dysentery, 1 year. No child left.
578. Oct. 8. Lydia, dau. of Joseph and Lydia
Walden. Fever, 1 year and 8 months. She was a Flint
from Lynnfield. He from Danvers. Four sons left. He
a ropemaker. Pleasant Street.
579. Oct. 10. W. Browne, son of Samuel and Nancy
Masury. Fever and dysentery, 1 year. She a Browne.
Four children left, two sons. Captain, mariner. Charter
Street, corner Fish.
580. Oct. 11. Lemuel Winchester, of Audover.
Dysentery, 36 years. Married at 24. He has four
children, two sons by his wife, who had two children by a
former marriage. He came to work the season in town
as a carpenter, leaving his family in Andover, came with
her daughter. Bridge Street, opposite Locust, same
house with E. Archer.
581. Oct. 12. Sarah, dan. of Joseph and Mary
Browne. Fever and dysentery, 1 year and 7 mouths.
She was a Becket. They have four sous left. Captain,
mariner. Essex Street, opposite Pleasant.
582. Oct. 13. John, sou of Mary Gardiner. Dysen-
tery, 4 years. She was a Collins ; married Simon Gardi-
ner. Three children left by him, two sons. Essex
Street, corner of Herbert.
583. Oct. 14. Patty, daughter of Joshua and Ester
French. Dysentery, 3 years and 6 months. She was a
Butman. They have four children left, three daughters.
He a truckman. Lives Flint Street, between Essex and
Chestnut.
584. Oct. 15. Lydia, daughter of Joseph and Mary
Peele. Dysentery, 1 year and 3 mouths. She was a
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Lufkin, one son left. Derby Street, near Blaney Street.
He a mariner, absent.
585. Oct. 16. Samuel, son of Samuel and Susanna
Caban. Dysentery, 1 year and 2 months. She was a
Ruee. His father came in early life from France. Their
only child. Becket Street. He a mariner, absent.
586. Oct. 19. Mary, dau. of Moses and Lydia
Townsend. Dysentery, 8 years and 6 months. They
have four children left, one son. She was a Lambert.
He a captain of a ship. Derby Street, below Turner.
587. Oct. 20. George, son of John and Lydia
Albree. Chin cough, 1 year and 4 months. lie from
Medford and his wife also. She from the ancient family
of Tufts. Lived in Salem several years, then left and
returned two years since. He a trader. Two children
left, one son. Daniels Street between Essex and Derby.
588. Oct. 29. James, son of James and Mary
Clearage. Fever and dysentery, 8 years. He was from
Kitteiy, Maine. She a Foote, of Salem. He married
15 years ago, and afterward removed to Newfield, 90
miles. He has lately returned to Salem. Five children,
one male. He a ship carpenter and caulker.
589. Nov. 3. Mary, dau. of William and Elizabeth
Carl ton. Cough and dysentery, 9 months. A twin
child, two daughters left. She a Cooke. He a printer.
590. Nov. 7. Susanna, dau. of Ebed and Deborah
Stoddard. Cough and fever, 13 months. She a Marsh
from Hingham. He from Hingham, a shoemaker. Six
children left, one son. Derby Street, near corner of
Daniels.
591. Nov. 12. Margaret, wife of Charles Johnson.
Fever, 27 years ; married at 26. She a Whitefoot. He
from Gothenburg in Sweden. One child, a sou. Williams
Street.
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592. Nov. 15. Patience, wife of Richard Nichols.
Fever, 39 years, married at 19. First marriage one year.
Second marriage sixteen years. She was a Collins ; first
married a T. Stevely ; four children, one son, one dau. by
Stevely included. Broad Street, west end.
593. Nov. 22. Male child of John and Elizabeth
Bonnernaison. Convulsions, 9 months. He came from
Martinico, and married at Salem, 20 Aug., 1794, then
removed to Martinico. She daughter of Rev. Johnson.
She at Salem on a visit, Court Street. He a merchant.
594. Nov. 30. Male child of Ester White. Hooping
cough, 9 months. Her grandfather a Masury. Her
mother married a Burke.
595. Dec. 5. Eunice, widow of William Cooper.
Consumption, 48 years ; married at 22, married 8 years.
She was a Swasey. He an Englishman ; 18 years absent,
where, unknown ; left no children.
596. Dec. 7. News of the death of William, son of
John and Elizabeth Reath. Fever, abroad, 23 years. He
was born on Salem plains, but lived, till lately at Marble-
head. His parents have not lately lived in Salem. He
died at sea. Mate with his brother John.
597. Dec. 8. Mary, widow of Asa Whittemore.
Consumption, 52 years. Married at 17 ; 27 years married.
She was a Potter from Beverly, born at Chebacco,
Ipswich. He was from Danvers. He died at Boylston.
Left two sons and one daughter. Mrs. Whittemore's
father killed by Ellingwood, of Beverly. Always feeble.
A good mother. Husband a mariner. At first a black-
smith.
598. Dec. 13. Notice of the death of John, son of
Samuel and Mary Knapp. Fever abroad, 40 years.
Married at 18 years. First marriage seventeen years.
Second marriage, three years. He was born in Ports-
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mouth. His first wife a Gavett of Salem ; left three
daughters. His second wife a Dodd of Salem, has one
son. He was on his passage from Batavia to Philadelphia,
in the Brig Harriet, Capt. Isaac Hagar.
599. Dec. 13. Ester, wife of Joshua French. Debil-
ity, 40 years ; married at 22. She was a Butman, left four
children, three daughters. From Wenham. Flint Street.
600. Dec. 13. Mary, wife of Thomas Ashby. De-
bility, 36 years ; married at 26. His second wife, she
was a White. He lived but a short time with the first
wife. Three daus. and one son. Essex Street between
Curtis and Orange.
601. Dec. 16. Capt. John Baton, of Isle of Oleron.
Rupture, 72 years; married at 21. He was a Huguenot
from Rochelle. He came early [in 1745, see D. B.] to
Salem and married a widow Lander, who was a Slade.
Four daughters survived him. He was of good character,
much esteemed and respected. Long infirm but not con-
fined. English Street, below Derby.
602. Dec. 17. Ruth, widow of Capt. Johnson
Briggs. Fever, 46 years ; married at 17, married 22
years. She has left six sons and three daughters. He
died abroad in 1794. She was a Sti Ionian. Union St.
603. Joshua, son of Joshua and Ester French. Fever
abroad 14 years. The mother and another child have
died this year at home. He was at Batavia with Dever-
eux when he died.
604. Capt. Sam.uel Townsend. At sea, 39 years ;
married at 28. He has left a wife and five children,
two sons. He sailed from Salem and has not been heard
of. She a Stevens.
605. Samuel son of Samuel and Elizabeth Masury.
At sea, 19 years. The mother a Webb. He was with
Capt. Townsend.
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606. James, son of James and Hannah Collins. At
sea, 19 years. Parents dead. He was with Capt.
Townsend.
607. William, son of William and Elizabeth Fail-field.
At sea, 17 years. His mother a Becket. He was with
Capt. Townsend.
608. Richard, son of Richard and Mary Collins.
Fever abroad, 26 years. His mother a Cox. Two
daughters left. A mariner, had been three years absent ;
died at Philadelphia.
DEATHS IN 1802.
609. Jan. 2. Edward, son of James and Hannah
Murray. Fever, 2 years. The mother a Cox. Two
children left. Curtis Street.
610. Jan. 3. Susannah Welden, a maiden. Palsy,
84 years. Her parents came from Scituate before her
birth. She has lived thirty years in Danvers. She had
been paralytic before the last shock. Her mother's name
Elizabeth.
611. Jan. 3. Mary Ann Richardson. Lung fever,
90 years; married at 20, married 51 years. She had
ten sons and two daughters. One son and one daughter
survived her. She was a Dupy of Boston. Lived
in Salem nine years with her daughter Sweetzer. Her
husband David Richardson, of Woburn. Her son blind
by accident, living in Woburn. Derby St. near Daniels.
612. Jan. 4. Deborah, wife of James Becket. Palsy,
42 years, married at 23. Left four daughters and two
sons. She was a Peabody from Haverhill. This was the
second stroke, the other six months before. Her mother
a paralytic. Becket Street, below Derby.
613. Jan. 29. Mary, widow of William Cox. Pleu-
risy fever, 67 years, married at 27, married three years.
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She was a Village. Left one daughter, widow Macdaniel.
See D. B.
614. Feb. 12. Nicholas, son of Nicholas and Eliza-
beth Martin. Convulsions, 3 years. She was a Bartlett.
The husband was drowned several years since, one son,
John, left. Daniels Street.
615. Feb. 20. Female child of William and Eliza-
beth Cody. Quincy, ret. 10. The mother a Welcome.
A son left. She married a Williams and Jeans since.
616. March 7. A child of James and Hannah Mur-
ray. Fever, set. 10. One child left, they buried one in
January last. The mother lays sick. Curtis Street.
617. March 19. William Sage from Connecticut.
Consumption, a?t. 53. Married at 33 years. He was
from Middletown, Conn. He left one child, a son. His
wife a Welcome, has two children by Smith. Webb St.
618. March 27. John, son of John and Priscilla
Clark. Atrophy, 20 years. Father and mother long
time dead. Only one surviving sister, Priscilla. Curtis
Street.
619. April 2. Thomas Palfrey. Scrofula, 33 years,
married at 25. Left three children. He was a son of
Warwich P., formerly a Dept. of the Customs of Salem,
by a second wife, who was a widow Bickford, a Ward.
He married widow Gale, who was a Crowninshield. His
father left him an estate of great value. He was an
active man. She had children by Gale and three sons by
Palfrey. Derby Streat, near Daniels Street.
620. April 7. Hannah, wife of James Murray.
Consumption, 33, married at 20. Left one child, a dan.
Her husband has not been heard of for several years.
She was a Keen, and has lost 'two children this year.
Curtis Street.
621. April 18. Reuben, son of Reuben and Catharine
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Shad. Dropsy in head, 7 years. She has been long a
widow. Two children left, one son. She a Coffrin.
Derby, corner of Daniels Street.
622. May 12. Elizabeth, of Jona. and Sarah Browne.
Fever. 21 years. Her mother a Twiss. She addressed
by B. Waters. They have two sons and a daughter left.
Taken Saturday of malignant scarlet fever, and died
Wednesday morning. Lived on Allen's farm on the Neck.
623. May 28. Hannah, daughter of Daniel and
Deborah Sage. Fever, 5 years. She was daughter of
S. Silsbee. He from Scotland and at sea. A son and
daughter left. Daniels Street.
624. May 29. Daniel, brother of Hannah, last named.
Fever, 3 years. (See 1795, three children lost by same
fever.) Sick 41 hours only.
625. May 29. Mary, widow of John Ward. Fever,
51 years, married at 18 years. Lived with her first
husband, an Emerton, 7 years, and with her second
husband, Ward, 5 years. He died Dec., 1789. She a
Lufkin from Ipswich. Had son and daughter by first
marriage. Daughter married Luke Heard.
626. May 30. Sarah, wife of George Sinclair, of
consumption, 25 years; married at 23 years. One child,
a son left. She was a Mascoll, married in 1799. Her
husband a foreigner and absent. Complaining 9 months,
removed during her sickness to her mothers. Derby
Street, between Carl ton and Becket Streets.
627. May 31. George, son of Sarah Sinclair, above.
Fever, 9 months ; buried in same coffin with its mother.
628. June 5. News of the death of Samuel Rantoul.
Abroad, 21 years. His mother a Preston. Father died
abroad. A brother and sister living. His father from
England, worthy, died in 1782. He had been an apothe-
cary in Salem and his health directed a voyage, and he
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died of consumption in Bilboa, 20 April. With Capt.
Haskell, of Beverly.
629. June 14. Olive, wife of Isaac Perkins. Fever,
35 years, married at 23. She was a Phippen. No child.
She was seized violently with scarlet fever on Monday ;
sick seven days, had been complaining. On Derby Street
near Neck.
630. June 22. Hannah, one of the twins of William
and Elizabeth Carl ton. Fever, 18 months. One child,
a female, left. The other twin died in November last.
She a Cooke. Essex between Newbury and Union Streets.
631. June 26. Mary, of James and Mary Stocker.
Measles and consumption, 5 years. The father has one
female child left. His wife (a Herrick) died a few years
since. Child under care of grandparents. County
Street, near Ash.
632. July 1. Charles, of Charles and Margaret
Johnson. Fever after measles, 1 year. The mother died
in Nov. last. The father at sea. A Frenchman.
633. July 8. Susanna, of Susanna Preston. Con-
sumption, 17 years. The mother a daughter of Capt.
Andrew Preston. His wife a Lambert. Sick a year,
confined six months. Essex, opposite Pleasant Street.
634. July 8. Capt. Thomas Dean. Mortification,
79 years, married at 28 years ; lived one year with first
wife and forty-one with second wife. Leaves one dau.
by each wife. He was .3011 of Capt. Thomas Dean and
leaves a brother and two sisters. Derby Street. See
D. B.
635. July 12. Lois, wife of Andrew Cole, of Bev-
erly. Consumption, 33 years, married at 30. She was
a daughter of John and Elizabeth Fairfield. Lived much
in Beverly and married there. ~ Long sick ; came over to
her parents and died while on her visit. Only child died.
Turner Street between Essex and Derby Streets.
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636. July 30. Deborah, of Daniel and Deborah
Sage. Dysentery, 19 months. One son left, absent with
his father in the East Indies.
637. July 31. George, of William and Patty Boyd.
Atrophy inf., 3 months. He from Ireland, she, a Franks.
Two children left, one male.
638. July 31. News of the death abroad of John
Gray, of fever, 31 years, married at 23. Left three
children, one daughter. He a son of John Baton, and a
worthy man ; married a Browne. Died mate of a ship at
Batavia. Barton Court.
639. Aug. 16. Elizabeth, of George and Hannah
Hodges. 7 months. Their youngest child. She a Phip-
pen. He has two children, one son by former marriage
and one daughter left by the present. Hardy Street,
below Derby.
640. Aug. 17. Mehi table, of John and Miriam Per-
kins. Complication, 29 years. The parents from Tops-
field, 1785. She a Smith. They have four sons left, two
by a former marriage ; moved to farm on Neck, then to
last house on Derby Street, near Neck.
641. Aug. 18. Hiram, of Nathaniel and Eunice
Shed. 2 years and 3 months. The parents lately from
Amherst, N. H. Three children, one daughter. She a
Fail-field, of Amherst. Derby Street, between Daniels
and Hardy, on Palfrey's land.
642. Aug. 24. Mary, wife of Luke Heard. Dropsy,
33 years, married at 21. She was an Emerton. Her
mother died in May last, and had married a Ward ; one
child, a son, left. Heard from Lancaster. He hud been
for many years infirm. Derby Street, between Daniels
and Hardy Streets.
643. Aug. 24. Elizabeth, wife of Capt. John Ed-
wards. Dropsy, 56 years, married at 24. She a dan.
of Rev, Samuel Fiske, of Salem, and he a foreigner.
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She has left a son who married a Browne and a daughter
who married a Street. She had long been infirm. See
D. B. Essex Street above Elm.
644. Aug. 28. Susanna, widow of John Hathorne.
Aged 80 years, married at 25 years. Her husband died
after three years of marriage. She was a Tousel, and
descended from the ancient families of English and Hol-
lingworth. Col. Hathorne is her son. Daughter married
an Ingersoll. See D. B.
645. Aug. 15. Stephen Shehane, killed by lightning
at sea, 22 years. There is a widowed mother and three
sons, two married. Benjamin married and one child ;
Daniel married, four children, one son. He was in the
Belisarius. See D. B. Several were injured, he >nly
was killed.
646. Aug. 28. News of the death of William Becket.
Scurvy, at sea, 30 years, married at 26. He has left a
widow (a Waters) and one son and one daughter. The
mothers of both, widows. He sailed with Capt. Felt
from Isle of France, and they both died on the passage.
W. Becket 'died 2 July last.
647. Sept. 8. Jonathan Twisse, farmer on the Neck.
Palsy, 69 years, married at 23 years. One child left.
He came from Danvers upon the Neck farm, then Ives'
farm, and lived there twenty-eight years. His only child
married a Browne and lives on the farm. He was a large,
strong man and very honest and esteemed.
648. Sept. 10. Mehitable, widow of Capt. William
Paterson. Dysentery, 60 years, married at 27 years ;
lived with husband twenty-four years. She was a Smith ;
the family lived near ferry. Her husband dead nine
years. Left four children, one daughter married a Byrne.
She was complaining, confined: ten days. Her eldest son
married. In Herbert Street.
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649. Sept. 11. Sarah, widow of George Underwood.
Dysentery, 67 years, married at 20. She was a Lambert.
Married Matthew Butmau, of Beverly, 1755, lived with
him nine years; married John Underwood 1768, and
lived with him eight years. A child John and a son by
Underwood, George, left. Her second husband died
abroad. The collateral branches of family numerous.
Essex Street, corner of Becket.
650. Sept. 14. Ezra Trask from Beverly. Dysentery,
79 years. Married at 23 and lived fifty years with first
wife, Joannah (Green), who died 1797, aged 81 years.
He took his 2d woman before Dr. Putnam, of Danvers,
in 1801, and she died soon. He had lived in Danvers
and not long in Salem.
651. Sept. 15. Eunice, of Nathaniel and Eunice
Richardson. Consumption, 23 years. She was their
only daughter. They have four sons. She was addressed
by a S. Hunt, of Charlestown, N. H. Father from
Woburn, mother from Danvers, a Putnam. East Street.
652. Sept. 19. * Joseph Lambert, of Moses and Lydia
Townsend. Dysentery, 16 months. They 'have three
daughters left. The father at sea; she a Lambert.
Derby, corner of Carlton.
653. Sept. 21. Amelia, daughter of William and
Sara Patterson. Atrophy Inf., 23 months. They have
four children left, two sons. She an Archer, daughter of
John. Walnut Street.
654. Sept. 24. Thomas, son of William and Hanna
Webb. Dysentery, 16 months. They buried one child
thirteen months ago. They have three left, one son.
She an Allen of Marblehead. Hardy Street.
655. Sept. 30. Susanna, of Andrew and Hanna
English. Dysentery, 3 years. They have three children
left, one son, all sick. She a Patten. Williams Street.
656. Oct. 10. John, of James and Elizabeth Archer.
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Atroph Inf., 17 months. They have four children left,
two sons. She an Archer. Essex St., corner of Pleasant.
657. Oct. 3. John Andrew, of Rev. Nathaniel and
Mary Stone. Dysentery, 7 months. She an Andrew,
on a visit from Windham. Their only child. Winter St.
658. Oct. 10. Olive, wife of Zechariah Marston.
Dysentery, 38 years, married at 33 years. She a Shelden,
of Danvers. Two children, one son. He had also two
children by a former wife. Essex St., corner of Union.
659. Oct. 11. John, of Zechariah and Olive Marston.
Dysentery, 1 year.
660. Oct. 11. Hannah, wife of Andrew English.
Dropsy, 36 years ; married at 21. She a Patten. Three
children, one son.
661. Oct. 12. Mary, wife of John Williams. Dys-
entery, 46 years ; married at 26. She a Webb. Three
children, one son. A daughter has married a Victory
and a Rind. He born in London. Becket Street. In-
firm for a long time.
662. Oct. 13. Mary, daughter o'f John and Elizabeth
Emerton. Fever, 3 years. She a Bartlett from Marble-
head farms. He from Chebacco. Three children left,
one son. Turner Street below Derby.
663. Oct. 14. Charles, of John and Sarah Babbidge.
Dysentery, 15 mos. She a Becket. Six children living,
three sons. Essex Street, near Union.
664. Oct. [ *]. [ *] s of Joseph and Lydia
Walden. Dysentery, 8 mos. They have four children,
all sons. He aropemaker, industrious. She a Flint from
Lynnfield. Baptized in 1801. Long sick and the mother
and children. Pleasant Street.
665. Oct. 21. Isaac Perkins. Dysentery, 88 years,
married at 25 years ; 1st marriage, forty-one years, 2nd
*MSS. mutilated.
sixteen years. Left widow and four children, three sons
in town, dau. widow Woods. See D. B. All came from
Topsfield into the town of Salem. Derby, Neck Gate.
666. Oct. 23. Samuel, of Samuel and Abigail Webb.
Atrophy Inf., 10 years. Son of John Webb, she a Pal-
frey, two children, females. Hardy Street below Derby.
667. Oct. 28. Thomas Mascoll. Dysentery, 64 yrs.
Has two sisters, widow Mary Wei man and the widow of
Pasca Foot, called Tammy. Derby, corner of Becket.
668. Nov. 28. John Hubbard, of John and Martha
Fairfield. Scarlet fever and throat distemper, 3 years.
They have two daughters left. She a Hubbard of Ips-
wich Hamlet. He a son of Dr. W. Fail-field of Wenham.
669. Dec. 13. Priscilla Lambert, of Matthias and Han-
nah Rice. Scarlet fever and throat distemper, 4 years.
She was a Lambert of Salem and married M. Rice, a phy-
sician, of Saco, and removed to Blackpoint, Me. He
died several years ago. Left three males, child born at
Scarborough, widow removed to Salem last year.
670. Dec. 14. Female child of Henry and Sarah
Prince, at birth. He was from Ipswich. She a Millet.
They have six children, two males.
671. Dec. 15. Thomas, of Thomas and Mehitable
Rue. Scarlet fever and throat distemper, 3 years. She
an Archer. One male child. Her mother Kimball, past
80, and his mother's mother, a Becket, past 70, at the
funeral. Essex, corner of Turner Street.
672. Dec. 17. Richard Goss, of Bradford. Apo-
plexy, 53 years, married at 27 years. 1st marriage, one
year; 2nd, sixteen years; 3rd, four years. Leaves five
children. He born in Bradford, a ship carpenter. Third
wife a Eulen. His surviving children by second wife.
673. Missing. Capt. Hardy Millet. Lost at sea, 25
years, son of John Millet. Full name was Joseph Hardy.
[To le continued.]
SOME OLD ESTATES.
COMMUNICATED BY EDW. STANLEY WATERS.
IT has happened that the families of which some ac-
count has been printed in the COLLECTIONS have many of
them owned or occupied homes in that part of the city
which is now comprehended between Dean and Beckford
streets, bordering on Essex street, or in their neighbor-
hood.
This necessitated a somewhat thorough study and care-
ful collation of the boundaries of these premises, and the
use of considerable time and research in ascertaining them
and reconciling apparent discrepancies, and to save some
future explorer of this region that trouble, and as the
results obtained are somewhat definite and correct certain
errors which exist in regard to the location of some of the
earlier homesteads, they are here presented.
On the upper or western side of Dean street lay the
homestead land of Edw/ Flint, who died in 1711, leaving
it to his son Benjamin. It extended from Essex, then
Main street, to the bank of the North river, along which
ran a way which in 1760 was supplanted by the present
Federal, then called New street. This was probably
hardly a recognized town road, as I gather from some of
the deeds. In 1734 the bank at the north end of the
Flint land is spoken of as claimed by the town.
Benjamin Flint sold to Thomas Blaney a lot from this
(37)
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on Essex street, 3J rods in width, next east of the then
Quaker meeting-house and adjoining ground, in 1725, and
here then Blaney's house stood, newly built; in 1770, his
widow Alice sold this or a part of it to Edmund Needham.
At Benj. Flint's death in 1734 all this land was divided
among his heirs, and as Thomas Blaney married his neice
Desire Dean he obtained a part.
This was the most westerly strip, 140 poles long and
18 feet broad, of a piece of that length, and 72 feet
broad, which Flint's sister Eliz. Dean received with other
property as her part. It was a front lot on Essex street,
beginning at a point fifty feet from the corner of Dean
street. The corner lot went in the division ,to Edw.
Flint, a nephew of Benj., and his sister Mary Wain-
wright. Blaney also bought the next strip to his, a piece
of the same size, which came to John and Mary Ropes.
Between Blaney's homestead land and this came the
front lot assigned to another sister of Flint's, Sarah, wife
of Jacob Willard, who I think sold hers, and it was
bought in 1744 by Wm. Deadman.
Eliz. Dean's other heirs., Eliz. Field and Joseph Dean,
received respectively the next two quarters. Dean soon
afterwards bought his sister Field's, and then sold the
front half of their united portion to John West, who in
turn sold it to Wm. Deadman. Dean afterwards bought
the corner lot of Edw. Flint and his sister, and this was
transmitted through two or three generations of Deans,
until it came, about 1800, into the possession of Abner
Chase, who married into the family.
In 1763 we find Deadman owner of ajl the front land
on Essex street from Dean's to Blaney's, and April 26 of
that year he sold it to Dr. Eben Putnam, who lived there
the remainder of his life, having also added to it by pur-
chase from the widow Alice Blaney.
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In 1793 his heirs sold it to Major Joseph Hiller,* whose
residence it was for some time. There was apparently
some difficulty in regard to that strip which had been
set off to Desire Blaney. I gather that Blaney's second
wife and widow sold the whole to Dr. Putnam, not real-
izing that that portion of it which came by his first wife
should go to that wife's children or heirs, but at any rate
a claim was made, and successfully it proved, by Abigail
White's heirs, the daughter of Desire Blaney, and a sepa-
rate conveyance from them to Major Hiller was made
Sept. 20, 1793.
The old mansion-house at present on the premises, and
owned and occupied by William Ives, Esq., was built, I
think, before 1800.
The next, and corner lot, as we have said, became the
property of the Dean family. It was the home of Capt.
Jonathan, the son of Joseph, and perhaps of his son Jon-
athan, and of his daughter Sarah Chase. The house
which he built here remained until within a few years.
Turning the corner and keeping along the western side
of Dean street we follow the Dean homestead, but in
1799 the heirs sold a large strip with a front on Dean
street of 124 feet to Major Hiller, which ran back to his
land. The owner of the next land in 1799 was James
Fabens, who was here also in 1770. This land too was
formerly of Thomas Blaney, who in 1740 bought of Han-
nah, widow of Robert Orange of Boston, another sister of
Benjamin Flint, for 250 all her part of his homestead,
being 3| acres, bounding all these above mentioned prem-
ises on the north, and thence extending to the bank of
the North river. Through this of course Federal street
was laid out and many house lots thereon were sold from
*Mary Stevens, wife of Samuel of Gloucester, and daughter Abigail, wife of
Jos. Hiller of Boston, Gent., Apr. 17, 1752.
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the Blaney land. The following advertisement relates to
them :
"To be sold at a reasonable rate by Alice Blaney, a
number of house-lots lying near the bottom of Dean's
Lane. They are allowed to be some of the best in the
New Street."
Gaz. of Apr. 4, 1769.
Other occupants on this side of Dean, between Essex
and Federal streets, were Daniel Jacobs, Ezra Johnson,
and Eben Hutchinson, in 1764.
Back from or west of James Fabens' was Benjamin
Nourse's land, bought after 1765.
When Federal street was laid out, about 1760, lots
upon the south side of it were sold as follows : the most
westerly, containing 28 poles, to Joseph Ross, June 25,
1770 (the next estate* on the west being then owned by
"John Rowe, Esq.") ; next east to him a lot of the same
size to Benj. Hathorne, Nov. 28, 1772 ; next to him one
of 56 poles, June 5, 1773, which touched the Putnam
land on the south. These first named lots sold for 33 ,
12 s. apiece, the latter one for 57 , 17s., 4 d. ; the front-
age of the former was 3J poles, of the latter 5 poles.
I have no note of the sale of the corner lot.
Crossing Federal street the lot on the other corner of
Dean street was sold by the Blaneys to John Dampney
for 26 , 13s., 8d., Aug. 5, 1766. It was then bounded
east on Dean's lane, as the fence there stands, 8 poles ;
on the New street, 2J poles ; and north on the bank by
*It appears as if this must have been bought from Sam- Buffum, to whom, Sept.
9, 1766, Blaney sold 32 poles, bounded N. W. on a Town Way lately laid out and
commonly called New street, 4 poles; S. W. on land of Jno. Buffum, 8 poles; S. E.
by B.'s other land, 4 poles; and N. E. the same.
Edmund Needham.
Robert Blaney.
J. B. appeared Sept. 13, 1766, and, being almost blind, the within instrument
being read to him, he acknowledged it.
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the wall there, with the right to the bank, beach and
flats, continued to the channel of the North river, also
"the rocks and stones which stand on my land next said
Dane's land reserving to Sam. Williams his flake stuff,
and liberty to remove it next spring, and to improve the
land I have leased him."
Joseph Dampney, his administrator, sold this land in
1769 to David Britton. The next lot west was sold June
26, 1769, to Nathan Kimball for 33 , 12s., 3 poles in
front on Federal street. The next was bought by Joseph
Janes, Oct. 5, 1769, and a narrow strip in 1770. giving
a front in all of about 3J poles. The next by Billings
Bradish,* with a front of 4 poles, Sept. 4, 1770. The
next, Nov. 26, 1772, by Wm. Lang, on Federal street,
3| poles in front. The next with a frontage of 3 p., 21 1.,
to Jerathmeel Peirce, May 13, 1773, and the next and
most westerly, 3 poles on the street, bounded by land of
Jona. Buflfum on the west, had been previously sold to
Joseph Brown, Aug. 19, 1771.
Crossing Dean street at its foot, we come to the land
now occupied by the Hacker school-house, sold to the
town for that purpose by Jos. Sprague in 1789.
This must have been the land sold to George Dean,
Sen., by John Cole and George and Priscilla Bowers in
1686 and 1687, whose position a little further research
has freed from the doubt- which existed when the "Dean
Family" was begun.
The northern portion was sold by John and Mary
Ropes, to whom it came by division of the Dean heirs,
to the Cooks, who had already bought the southern por-
tion of Joseph Dean. It may have included also the land
extending from the school- house to Federal street, which
Mr. Sprague sold to Thomas Whittredge in 1799.
* Married Sarah Austin at Charleetown, Feb. 1, 1765. Coll., Vol. VJI, p. 24.
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Whether or not this passed directly from the Cooks to
Spragtie I do not know.
Returning to Essex street we come to the present
Stearns estate. This was inherited from, their grand-
father Joseph Sprague, who bought it in 1774 of John 4
and Joseph 4 Dean, the sons of Joseph 3 . It then had a
front of 107 feet, and extended back on Dean street 174
feet, the land next north and east of it being then owned
by James Grant, formerly of Joshua Hicks. Joseph
Dean 3 inherited this from his father Joseph 2 , who bought
it in 1700 from Capt. Thomas Flint, who bought it in
1672 from Elizabeth Spooner, when it was bounded north
and east by land of Joseph Duglass.
The next, the present Silsbee estate, we learn as above
was in 1672 of Joseph Duglass; in 1720 it belonged to
Joshua Hicks, who apparently owned considerable land
north of it also; he married a daughter, Martha, of
Roger Derby, who lived a little farther down the Main
street. In 1774 this land was of "late Joshua Hicks,
now James Grant and wife Mary."
From here all the land down nearly to the present
Monroe street, which was not laid out until 1801, and
including the present Rogers, Wheatland, and Bertram
estates, and running back to the North river, about seven
acres in all, belonged in 1704 to Thomas Ruck, and per-
haps before him to his father-in-law Joshua Buffam. In
Ruck's inventory, who died that year, we find two items
of real estate : "Old Spooner's and barne and seven acres
in ye towne," and "House and land formerly John Sym-
son's." The latter land lay probably down by the river,
next east of the Dean land on Dean street.
In regard to the former I incline to think that "old
Spooner" was the husband of Elizabeth, from whom Tho.
Flint bought the corner lot in 1672, one-quarter of which
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the deed says that he had sold to Edmond Bridges, dec. ;
that this quarter was bought by Jos. Duglass, being next
east, but that another part of the said Spooner's property,
the most easterly and containing his house, etc., was
bought by Thomas Ruck and is mentioned in his inven-
tory. The said Ruck in his will gives all his real estate
to his sons John and Thomas (the latter probably died
young, as I find no farther mention of him), except that
next Joseph Duglass, of which he gives his daughters
Hannah and Damaris 20 poles apiece. Damaris died
unmarried, and her portion was inherited equally by the
three children of her sister Hannah, who married George
Dean, viz., Hannah Chapman, Mary Ashby, and Damaris
Brackett.
After John Ruck's death, in 1740-1, these Dean heirs
sold to his administrators Joshua Hicks and Samuel Pope
the 20 poles which were the inheritance of their aunt
Damaris, though not until after some doubt as to which
should be considered hers, the portion immediately next
to Douglass', or next but one ; finally it was agreed by
"the administrators empowered by the General Court"
that it should be the lot immediately next, and that next
but one should be theirs in right of their mother. This
latter they sold in 1742 to Daniel Grant, and as its west-
ern boundary then was land of Joshua Hicks, it shows
that John Ruck's heirs had- sold Damaris' part to the said
Hicks. 'Each of these said lots was in width 2J poles,
in length 8 poles, and they would about include on Essex
street the land now belonging to and occupied by the
Rogers family.
We next come to John Ruck's homestead,* described as
*John Ruck et ux. Esther to Col. Sam. Browne, Jan. 4, 1719-20, B., 36 p., 198,
120 .
All that J. R.'s homestead : dwelling-house, shop, eight out-housing -f about
7 acres. South with the street or highway, west partly the land beg'd to Hannah
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in the note. The mortgage was satisfied after his death
as it appears. Whereas John Ruck, dec., mortgaged by
deed of Jan. 4, 1719, his dwelling-house, shop, etc., etc.,
and whereas Sam. Browne, Gent., and Wm. Browne,
Esq., executors of the estate of Samuel, dec., recovered
judgment against the said John, July 12, 1737, in the
sum of 210 , 8s., or possession of the premises with
costs '2 , 12s., which hath not been executed on account
of the lunacy or distraction of the said John, they hereby
release for 213, the said premises to his administrators.
Jan. 15, 1740.
This mortgage does not seem to have interfered with
his selling the premises in question, for so he did in 1730
and 1734, in two parcels ; the eastern one containing his
then dwelling-house, with 140 poles adjoining, also "the
highshop" at the north-western corner of the premises on
Main street, and fronting thereon 7 p., 15 f., he sold to
Jos. Cook, Jr., Dec. 26, 1730, who in 1734, June 6, sold
it to Sam. Sibley.
The other portion he himself sold to the said Sibley,
Sept. 30, of the same year, whose heirs sold it, 1761-5,
to John Ropes 4 and his widow Jane, who sold it afterwards
in separate parts. The northern portion, between the
North River and Federal street, she sold to Mr. John
Appleton in 1774; the middle portion, on the southern
side of Federal street, to Jona. Ireland, 1781 ; and the
front portion, on Essex street, to Mr. John Higginson,
1772.
The Wheatland estate includes the western portion of
this, and of the other a part was the home of the Plum-
mer family, of whom Miss Caroline added to it, by pur-
and Damaris Ruck, from father Tho. Ruck, dec., and partly land formerly Jos
Douglass', now Joshua Hicks', and partly Benj. Flint's; north by ye highway
and ye bank of ye North river; east partly John Bickford and partly Sam. Ropes
and partly Mrs. Eliz. Derby. A mortgage.
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chase of the south-eastern portion, from Joseph Sewall of
Boston, an heir of Miss Mehitable Higginson, in 1846.
Of the Plummer family it was bought by Mr. John Ber-
tram, who built a brick residence thereon.
We next come to the homesteacl of Roger Derby,
bought in 1678-9 of John Darland, being then the west-
erly part of his homestead. The compiler of the "Derby
Family" is right in his location of the homestead. It was
upon the western corner of Essex and Munroe streets,
but it also inclosed what is now a part of Munroe street
itself, that part which was given to Richard Derby being
entirely included in the street. But his conclusion that
Roger Derby's soap-house stood upon the other side of
the street, near what is now Chestnut street, seems to me
a mistaken one.
Roger Derby in his will gives his wife his "now dweling
house garding and yard excepting twenty-six feet of front
and the sope house riming or kept in the bredth next
Joseph neals," etc. ; and again to his son Richard he gives
"my sope-house with the twenty-six foot of land fronting
to the street and so quite backward across the garding,"
etc.
It is evident from this that the premises were all ad-
joining each other. Moreover, Joseph NeaPs was the
very next estate in Essex street, adjoining this on the
east ; and were this evidence insufficient, the mention of
the boundaries of these Derby premises in succeeding
conveyances settles the point beyond a doubt. The
"sope-house" must have stood where Monroe street now
is.
The Derby estate, then, at the death of its owner was
bequeathed in two parts. The larger and western por-
tion, about 59 J feet in depth and 73 J feet in 'front, was
bequeathed to his widow, and at her death to his son
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Samuel, but as he died before his mother, about 1728 (she
about 1740), it went to his sons Roger and Samuel, who
in 1741 sold it to Roger Peele. He was unfortunate
enough to lose it, or a part of it, by sundry executions,
about 1748, to Samuel Ropes 4 and John Beckett, the for-
mer of whom bought the latter's portion, his own being
the western strip, and Beckett's the eastern; and then
added the middle portion with a house, etc., upon it, by
purchase from Robert Peele in 1749, who, I think, was a
son of Roger.
Ropes sold it in 1773 to Richard Derby, the son of the
Richard to whom had been bequeathed the other or eastern
part of the homestead, to which we now come. This
was of about the same depth as the other, and 26 feet
in width, and inherited probably from his father. By
this purchase from Ropes he became owner of the whole
original homestead. The deed of a part of this to Ben-
jamin Ropes, mentioned in "Ropes' Family," I think must
have been a mortgage, which was afterwards discharged,
and probably the sale mentioned there of a part of the
next estate from John 3 to Samuel 3 was of the same nature.
This Derby land was in 1796 the property of Jacob Very.
In 1801, when Monroe street was laid out, it was "over
land on Essex St. belonging to Capt. Lawrence & Esqr.
Manning." In 1846 the western portion was land of
Hannah Wallis, whose shop was on the corner until about
1866, when it, together with the two-story dwelling next
above, were removed or demolished by Mr. Bertram, the
owner of the land, which was added to his grounds.
The next property, that which now forms the lower
corner of Monroe and Essex streets, we read was John
Darland's homestead in 1678. It appears afterward as
belonging to Joseph Neale, who was afterwards of New-
castle, Penn., in 1709, and deceased in 1716; he mar-
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ried Judith, a daughter of Richard Croade, whose estate
lay next east of his. This homestead extended from a
point about three feet west of the eastern corner of Mon-
roe street to a point east about 116 feet, which would be
perhaps in front of the western half of the present house
of Mr. Johnson. It was of an irregular shape, at about
a distance of 93 feet back from Essex street making an
angular turn and running west, behind the Derby land to
the Ruck land, and then stretching north 247 feet, and
beyond what is now Federal street.
It was sold Nov. 7, 1709, by his brother and Attorney
Lieut. Jeremiah Neal to the brothers John 3 and Samuel 3
Ropes ; the latter, father to the one who owned for a time
the Derby land adjoining. At this time it was bounded
north by land formerly Bishop's and Robbins', and east
at its northern part by land of Mr. Robert Kitchen.
The brothers divided it, and in 1734 exchanged por-
tions, Samuel taking the western and John the eastern,
and here were their homes. Samuel married a daughter,
Lydia, of Joseph Neal and thereby inherited, and also
bought of the other heirs small portions of the next
estate, his wife's grandfather Croade's, after the death of
his widow Frances in 1716. He died about 1762, and
his real estate, about half an acre with a dwelling-house,
went to his sou Benjamin. 4
He reserved the part of tjie estate which was the imme-
diate homestead, extending from Essex street north about
152 feet, but sold the next lot north, in 1781, to Nath.
Gould, 27 rods in size and fronting on the southern side
of Federal street. The piece on the other side, which
had been cut off by the laying out of the latter street, he
sold in April, 1782, to Nath. Chamberlain. It was next
east to that of Mr. John Appleton, sold him by widow
Jane Ropes from the Ruck or Sibley estate, and was
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bounded on the north by land of Benjamin Goodhue, jr.,
which was of Benjamin Bickford in 1774, and of John
Bickford in 1734. The portion on Essex street, at his
death in 1790, was inherited by his children, of whom
Hardy 5 and Timothy 5 bought the shares of the others in
1796, and in 1799 Timothy became the real owner. He
lived here until 1813, when it passed into the possession
of his brother-in-law, Ichabod Nichols, Esq., who I think
built the present mansion-house upon it. It was while it
was in possession of Capt. T. Ropes that Monroe, then
called "Ropes," street was laid out. It did not pass over
that part of his land which abutted on Essex street, but
over that part which, as has been said, lay back of the
Derby land. It also took portions of the Ireland and
Gould land.
The other half of the land on Essex street was the
homestead of John Ropes 3 . He and his brother Samuel
made divers minor purchases from the Neal and Croade
heirs, which I think were incorporated in this one mutual
estate ; and John also purchased of them the next eastern
land, which was kept as a separate portion, and sold as
such in 1741, to his son John 4 . He died about 1754, and
his real property, "a mansion house shop, barn, and 100
poles of land," went by agreement of the heirs to his son
Jonathan 4 , who resided here for a time, but afterwards
built himself another mansion-house upon his land on the
northern side of Federal street, which at his death went
to his only grand-child, Jona. Waldo, jr., and afterwards
became the property and present residence of Mr. Thomas
Perkins, on the corner of Lynn street.
Twenty feet of his laud on Federal street he conveyed
to Benj. Goodhue in 1782, who wished to lay out a street
from Federal to the water-side. It was 20 feet in width,
and about the same in depth. The street is now Lynn
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street. Goodhue in return conveyed to him a, piece of
land next north of his own, fronting on Lynn street, and
running back behind Chamberlain's to Mr. Appleton's
land 131 feet; in breadth at its rear 16 feet; in front on
Lynn street 60 feet. Next north of this was another
piece bought of Goodhue by Nath. Long; and of this,
Sept. of the same year, Mr. Ropes bought a strip, thus
completing the property upon which he probably after-
wards built the present house. At his death, in 1799,
his house in Essex street was occupied by his son-in-law,
Jona. Waldo, the property running back to Federal street
and being valued at $3,000. It is at present the resi-
dence, I believe, of Mrs. Emery Johnson, Sen., though
probably a part of it, the eastern, is incorporated into the
next estate, that of her son.
Together with such part, the next property is now occu-
pied by the mansion-house of Mr. Emery Johnson, built
within ten or fifteen years, and, if my memory serves me
rightly, about as far back from the street as the old house,
which it displaced. This, too, belonged to John Ropes 3 ,
and was bought by him from the Neals and Croades, heirs
of Richard and that Frances Croade, mentioned in "Dean
Family," who in 1680 thought "my neighbour male" dis-
posed to overstep his own boundaries.
The said John 3 sold it in 1741, then 148 feet in depth
and of 36 feet front, to his son John 4 , "shopkeeper," who
lived here, as did his widow Jane and her children after
him. At his death in 1773 it went to his son John 5 , who
the next year sold it to his mother, who by her will in
1781 left it to her daughters, and they soon after, dying,
to their nephew John 6 ; but he dying in 1788, it was sold
by order of General Court, in 1790, by their adminis-
trator, Jonathan 4 , who owned the next estate. He sold
it to Wm. Vans, Esq., and immediately re-purchased it,
HIST. COLL. xvi 4
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and owned it the rest of his life. He also added to it
by buying the land next north of it, reaching to Federal
street, of Wm. Pickman, Esq., formerly of Mr. Edw.
Kitchen in 1734, and of Mr. Turner's heirs in 1790. At
Mr. Ropes' death, 1799, being then in the occupation of
Dea. Thomas Hartshorne, and valued at $1,100.00, it was
bequeathed to his grandson Jona. Waldo, jr. It was
afterwards, I think, moved to Mason street in North
Salem.
From here to the corner of Bickford street the estates
at present are respectively as follows : first, the gambrel-
roofed two and a half story house, fronting lengthwise
upon the street, and occupied, in 1866, the western end
by "Capt. Richard Wheatland, the eastern by the Misses
Morgan; here in 1791 dwelt the Clarkes, of whom Capt.
John and wife Sarah, John, jr., of Boston, Clerke, and
Eliz., s ingle worn An, agree with Jona. Ropes, that year, as
to their boundary line, which it was settled was to extend
back 70 feet from the street. Next the double-house
built a few years ago by the Fryes, father and son, and
occupied by them. Next the large open field, with the
painter's shop at its southeastern corner, making the cor-
ner of Beckford street, and where a few years ago stood
Dr. Stearns' mansion-house,* formerly the residence of
Edw. Kitchen, Esq.
Nearly two hundred years ago this same tract of land
was similarly owned in three estates, the most western
being Richard Croade's ; this went to his heirs, the Neales
and others, as above mentioned. The second was the
homesteadf of George Deane 1 , perhaps set out to him by
the town, and of which he sold the western part to the
noted Thomas Maule in 1674, who probably sold it to
*Coll., Vol. V, p. 248.
t See " Dean Family." Further research has enabled me to identify it.
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another Quaker, Matthew Estes, as he was its owner in
1691, and who afterwards added by purchase from Mr.
Kitchen. He lived here until his death, when it went by
his will to his grandsons Richard of Lynn and Abijah of
Salem, the former of whom sold his share to the latter in
1736, the buildings on it having then been burned down.
Next came a five-feet way between this and the remainder
of the Deane homestead, laid out by agreement when
Manle bought the land ; and next, probably including the
eastern part of the Frye land, though I have not the data
to determine its exact position, was the original Deane
land. George Deane, who lived here, died about 1696,
leaving it to his widow Elizabeth, who sold it in 1698 to
her son Joseph 2 ; May, 1706, he bought the land on the
corner of Dean street and soon removed there, selling
this homestead the next month to Robert Kitchen, who
owned the next land east of his. By this deed we find
that it was 47 J feet on the street, and 120 feet deep.
Mr. Kitchen sold it the next day, June 25, to Matthew
Estes of Lynn, mariner.
The next and corner property belonged to the Kitchens
as early as 1 have any record of it ; Robert was perhaps
the father of Edward, who had his home in the mansion-
house, afterwards of the Turners, and remembered by
the present generation as the property of the Stearns
family. They were a prominent family in their time, and
owned land extending westward of this, in the rear of
the Deane, Estes, and Croade land to that of the Ropeses.
It was on these premises that the open-air ordination of
Rev. Dudley Leavitt took place in 1745. It was upon
this land, I think, on the southwest corner, that the bow-
fronted two-story building used as a tin-shop used to
stand, which was afterward removed to Boston street.
As we return in fancy to the time when this region
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presented so different an aspect from its present one,
primitive houses at intervals placed along the Main street,
with gardens and orchards between, and fields stretching
back down to the river bank, and these gradually giving
place to closer neighborhoods and improved buildings, and
finally in our own time presenting so marked a change in
the outward evidences of comfort and prosperity, and as
we people these scenes with characters equally primitive
and uncultivated, though improving also in their succes-
sive generations, as their surroundings improved, and
especially when one has been dealing and delving among
them, until they almost come to possess a personal reality
to him, it is not unnatural to wish that these old denizens
could return to this life and see with their own eyes, and
with their own old ideas, the changes that have taken
place.
Thomas Blaney, probably, hardly expected that his
ground, sacred to fish-flakes, would ever echo to the
strains of Catholic masses. Perhaps, however, he would
have endured it, at the thought of the increased demand
for the product of the said flakes, which would hence
accrue, on Fast-days.
Widow Orange, if told that one day a part of her land
would be covered with glass-houses, for the production of
grapes and perhaps specimens of her own family tree,
would in all probability, with the enlightenment of her
time, have pronounced it a clear working against Provi-
dence, to try to raise in that way what God had not made
"naterally" grow there.
We doubt if now the venerable John Cook and Wm.
Reeves would swear to Capt. Flint's land, refreshed
though their faculties be by their long rest, or if "old
Spooner" or his equally antiquated widow would recog-
nize their "house and barne" on the premises now occu-
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pied by Mr. Silsbee's solid mansion ; nor do we think
that neighbor Joshua Hicks, whatever other thoughts he
may have had as he walked in his garden, ever dreamed
that there a new grape would be produced, that should
carry the name of his old town, wherever it went.
Roger Derby would undoubtedly rejoice in the relaxa-
tion of the laws in regard to attendance at meeting, and
could probably be induced to "depone" as to the exact
location of his "sope-house." Thomas Maule would also
imitate his example, and tell us where his "new-house"
was. "My neighbour male, "too, being of a progressive
turn, would probably prefer stepping from his door-step
to the horse-car, and ordering his meal down town, to
having to shell his two bushels of corn, and then "pack"
his grist on his "beast" up to Capt. John Traske's mill,
especially if the "Captenn" was as careless or tricky about
his "grindinge" and "toule," as some of his customers
claimed.
Poor Maule's "aple trees" long ago bore their last fruit,
and for "such as gathered plumbs in ye widow ftrances
Croade's orchyard" there would now be but small pick-
ings. Mistress ffrances herself might answer her hus-
band's sarcasms by a reference to the "Counter-irritant"
displayed upon the handbills which usually embellish the
fence of the Kitchen estate, and explain to him what the
"but woeman's talke" means in these days.
Perhaps no one of the defunct Ropeses would have the
courage to appear, were he to know that it would be re-
quired of him to elucidate the transactions in real estate,
which he and his family indulged in within the limits
here treated of, to locate the positions, and to define the
boundaries of those frequent conveyances from father to
son, from uncle to nephew, and a host of other perplex-
ing relationships, which, to any one who had not happened
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to have given a little attention to the genealogy of the
family, "to have known the Kopes," in fact, would have
been sufficient to reduce him to the condition of neighbor
John Ruck, "lunatic or distracted." However, in this
matter we believe we have reached the Ropes' end, and
that the locations of the different premises of the family,
upon these pages, will be found correct and complete.
"Robbins, and Bishop," and John Simpson, shadowy
personages, perpetually mentioned in deeds as "formerly"
owning land on the "north," if they were to appear, could
they enlighten us as to where that land was? I never
met with deeds to or from them, and firmly believe that
the hyperborean regions in which they dwelt are now the
bed of the North River, or else that they only existed for
the purpose of bounding land on the " North ; " legal fic-
tions, like John Doe or Richard Roe.
One is forcibly impressed, though, in this tracing of
estates and families from one generation to another, by
the changes wrought in the latter ; in many cases a
melancholy one, sometimes the result of misfortune, more
often of folly and indiscretion, or worse.
What a fruitful theme, "the vicissitudes of families P
RECORDS OF THE FIRST CHURCH AT
SALISBURY, MASS., 1687-1754.
COMMUNICATED I5T WM. P. UPHAM.
[19]
The names of those yt were of ye Ch. A Salisbury when
I was ordained.
Males.
Maj'r Robt. Pike.
Capt. Bradbury.
Lieut'nt Buswell.
Serg't Price.
Sain'll Fellows, Sen'r.
Rodger Easman.
Joseph French.
Jno. French.
X 2 Sarn'll French.
XSearg't Stevens, Sen'r.
Henry Brown, Sen'r.
XJohn Gill.
William Brown.
Isaak Morrill. 3
William Barnes.
Serg't Iloit.
Garret Hadden.
Females.
Mrs. Pike.
Mrs. Bradbury.
Mrs. Buswell.
Mrs. Stockman.
XX Mrs. Carr, Widdow.
Mrs. Carr (William's wife).
Jane True.
X X Susanna French.
Mary French.
Abigail Brown.
Good wife Sarah Easman, Sen'r.
Mrs. Wheeler.
Mrs. Hubbard.
Nath'l Kasman's wife.
John Easman's wife.
Serg't Brown's wife.
Jno. Stevens wife.
XX (Win. Brown's wife.) 4
Isaak Merrill's wife.
Mrs. Mudgett.
Goodman Gill's wife.
Widdow Eaton.
Mrs. Fletcher.
(Sam. French's wife.) 4
Goodwife Currier.
Goodwife Biazedell7~
Goodwife Challice.
I Goodwife Huntington.
[NOTE. A brief notice of the first five ministers of this church is entered on
pages 133 and 138 of the original record, and will be found next after the memo-
randa of church votes. Pages 19,20, and 21 of the manuscript are in the hand-
writing of James Allen, the third minister.]
1P The figures in brackets at the right indicate the pages of the manuscript.
'Cross marks as in original.
8 In copying the original it has been found to be often impossible to distinguish
with certainty between the names Merrill and Morritt.
'Cancelled in the original.
(55)
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[20]
The names and number of persons admitted to full
comunio ab 4th May, '87.
1687, 3 July. Good. Page, Benj. Easman.
24 July. Mrs. Hews admitted.
24 July. Mrs. Allin, ye wife of Wm. Allin.
John Easman, Joseph True and his wife, Ruth True.
Goodwife Shepherd.
Goodwife Long.
Mrs. Allin, ye wife of John Allin.
Sept. 4.
Sept. 25.
Dec. 18.
Jan. 29.
Anno 1688.
May 20.
June 10.
1689, Apr. 14.
1690, July 20.
1691, Sept. 6.
1693, May 7.
1693, June 11.
16 July.
13 Aug.
20 Aug.
20 Aug.
17 Sept.
8 Oct.
5 Nov.
A Dec.
1694, 18 Mar.
15 July.
26 Aug.
1695, 16 June.
Robert Pike, Jun'r.
Phillip Browne.
Goodwife Macrest.
Mrs. Bayly.
Mercy Cluff, the wife of Jno. Cluff.
Rachel Allin, ye wife of Benj. Allin.
[21]
Symon French.
Mr. Rich. Hubbard and Dorithy Stevens, his daughter.
Mara, daughter of Nath. Easman.
Mrs. Elizabeth Honiwell.
Goodwife Blodged.
Goodwife Downer.
Widdow Foot, Goodwife Sergent, both of Aimesbery.
Mariah Bradbury.
Elizabeth Wheler, wife of Josiah Wheler.
Han. Brown, wife of Henry, Jun'r.
Hannah Evens, wife of Tho. Evens.
Mr. Henry Wheeler.
Ann Easman, wife of Ben. Easman.
(Handwriting of Caleb Gushing, the fourth minister.) [58]
Persons admitted into ye church.
1698, Dec. 11. William Bradbury, Abagail Wadley ye wife of Jno.
Wadley, Margaret Allin ye wife of Stilson Allin.
1698-9, Feb. 5. Nath. Brown, William Allin, Nath. Eastman, William
True, Susanna Pike, Jane Hubbard.
Feb. 19. Sarah Page, Martha Flanders, Mary Eaton.
Mar. 5. Ann Allin.
1699, Apr. 2. Naomi Flanders.
Apr. 9. Ruth Heard.
Apr. 30. Francis Pritchet of Amsbury.
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1699, May 28. Sarah Grealy, Hanah Stevens and Elizabeth French.
Aug. 6. Abigaill Morill.
Oct. 8. Elizabeth Eastman.
1700, Apr. 7. Abigaill French.
May 26. Richard and Sarah Fitts, by letters of dismission from
Ipswitch Chh.
Feb. 22. Susanna Morrill.
1701, Mar. 2. Jane True.
1702, Aug. 23. Mary Hall.
1703, Aug. 1. John Hubbard.
[59]
1704, July 30. George Brown.
Feb. 25. Susanna Long.
1705, Mar. 25. William Allin Jun.
Sept. 16. Ephraim Brown and Sarah his wife, Ruth Brown.
Nov. 11. Abigaill Felloes wife of Sam'll Felloes.
Mar. 24. Judith Eastman.
1706, July 28. Martha Eastman.
Aug. 25. Ruth Watson.
Oct. 20. John Webster.
1707, Sept. 7. Ephraim Wensley Sen'r, John Eaton Sen'r.
Feb. 1. Jacob Bradbury.
1708, July 18. Onesiphorus Page.
Feb. 27. Amos Page.
1709, Apr. 24. Jemimah Hubbard.
Jan. 1. Abigail Smith.
1710, May 21. Moses Merrill and his wife.
June 11. Abigail Alliu.
[60]
July 23. John True and Martha his wife.
Oct. 1. Bethia Shepperd, maid.
Dec. 3. Philip Flanders and Eliz. Brown.
Feb. 11. Sarah Clough, maid.
1711.
1712, Oct. 26. James Thorn.
1713, May 10. Hanah Hoit, Mary and Jane Eaton.
24. Keziah True.
July 26. Mr. Will. Hook and Eliz. Herd.
1714, July 18. Nath. Brown and Sarah French.
Sept. 12. Hanah Thorn, Dorcas Hubbard, Jabez True and Sarah
his wife, Joanna Allin.
1715, June 5. Bethia Osgood and Sarah Dow.
July 3. Jonothan Clough and Hanah his wife.
Oct. 16. Henery Anibross and Susanna his wife.
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1715, Feb. 26. Mary, wife of Jno. Evins.
1716, Aug. 26. Abraham Morrill, Isaac Morrill and John Griffin.
Jan. 20. Mary Allin.
1717, July 14. Solomon Shepperd.
1718, June 8. Jno. Merill and Mary his wife, Elizabeth Merill, Phebe
Tucker and Sarah Fitts.
July 27. Thos. Clough and Ruth, his wife.
Nov. 9. Jeremiah Stevens and wife Eliz., Elizabeth French
wido.
1719, Mar. 29. Benj. True and Mary his wife.
June 7. Mrs. Mary Bradbury wido, Mrs. Eliz. Moodey wido.
21. Mary, ye wife of Steph. Merill.
Aug. 30. Mrs. Mary Hook and Eliz. Brad'ry wido.
[June ?] Thos. Felloes, Judith Gill, Jud'th Gill Jun'r.
Oct. 25. Anna Buswell wido.
Dec. 6. Josiah Wheeler, Edw'd French Jun'r, Stephen Merrill.
1720, Apr. 17. William Baker.
June 5. Eliz. Brown.
[86]
1721, July 16. Henry True and Abigail his wife; Abigail, wife of
Joseph Easm'n.
Sept. 10. Elizabeth Hook maid.
Feb. 18. Rich'd Carr Jun'r, and Ellin'r Grealy.
1722, Apr. 22. Rebecca Bradbury.
1723, July 28. Mathew Pettingal and Joana his wife ; Nathan Clough
and Rachel his wife.
Sept. 22. Mary Carr wife of Sand'rs.
29. Lt. Jacob Stevens and Sarah his wife ; Sarah ye wife
of Nat. Easman.
Dec. 1. Elizabeth wife of Jacob Hook Jun'r.
1724, Feb. 21. Sam. [Yman?] Esq., Elias Pike.
1725, Aug. 15. Robt. Car and Susana his wife.
Nov. 28. Wm. Carr, Nath'l Fitts, Sarah, Hanah and Tabbitha
Walker.
1726, Sept. 25. Sarah ye wife of Brown Emerson, Martha and Ward
Fitts.
Dec. 25. Edw. French and Mary his wife, Joanna Bradbury.
1727, Mar. 19. Elizabeth Felloes wife of Thos. Felloes.
Aug. 20. Jeremy Wheeler.
Nov. 19. Thomas Bradbury and Sarah his wife.
[121]
Nov. 26. Jno. Eaton and wife, Benony Silly and wife, Isaac
Buswell and wife, Aaron Clough and wife, Wm. Gill
and wife, Elizabeth Collins, Hanah Allin wife of Jno.,
Caleb Gushing Jun'r, Abigail and Sarah Brown.
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1727, Dec. 31. William Boynton, Henry Eaton and wife, Jacob French
and his wife, John Bradbury and his wife, Mary
. Stevens, Hannah French, Rebecca and Elizabeth
French, Jno. Pike and Mary Hook, Mrs. Mary Hook,
Judith Norton, Eliz. Worster, Eliz. Silley.
Jan. 28. Phebe Brown, Benj'n Eaton, Judith Pettingal, Jos.
March and wife, Mary and Sarah True.
[122]
1727, J^an. 28. Rich. Long and wife, Jno. Stevens, Jno. Buswell,
Lydia French, Sarah True, Eleazer Iluhbard, Wido.
Sarah Carr, Mary French, Win. Allin and wife.
Feb. 18. Wido. March, Capt. Eaton, Dorithy Pike, Jno. Stock-
man and wife, Hanah Hucket, Patience Wheeler,
Jno. Allin, Sarah Eaton, Mehittab. Godfrey, Moses
Clough and wife, Sam. Moody and wife, Eliz. and
Mary Stevens, Moses Merrill Jun., Jno. Gushing and
Mary Bradbury, Jona. Eaton and wife, Win Moodey,
Abraham Pettingal, Anna Clough, Mrs. Anna Allin,
wife of Lt. Allin.
1728, Apr. 7. Eliz. Norton, Jno. Downer, Nicolaus Eaton, Sarah
Grealy, James Tappan and wife.
May 26. Elizabeth and Hanah Wensley, Mehitabel and Abigail
E as man.
July 14. Elliner Felloes, also Edw. Brown and wife, Elias
Smith and wife, and Brown Emerson were rec'd by
Lett'rs of recomendatiou from ye chh. of Xt. in
Reading.
[123]
Sept. 1. Mary wife of Ezek. Carr.
Oct. 27. Anna Felloes Maid.
Feb. 2. Samuel Eaton, David Grealy and Nicolaus French.
1730, Aug. 16. Nathan Brown, Sam'l Merrill and Ephraim Hackit.
Feb. 21. Ebenezer Hacket, Mary Emerson.
1732, Mar. 26. John Gill.
Oct. 8. Hanah Graves.
1734, Oct. 6. Nath'l Easman.
1736, Mar. 14. Sam'l Giles and Eliz. his wife, Jabez True, Jane True,
Sarah Long, Eliz. Brown, Martha Townsend.
May 9. Ruth ye wife of Dau'l Fitts, Elizabeth Brown and
Jemima Eaton.
1737, Mar. 20. Mary wife of Caleb Gushing Jun'r.
1738, Mar. 26. Sarah wife of Rob't Smith.
July 9. Jacob True and Eliz : his wife, Benj'n Bradbury.
Oct. 15. Ruth, wife of Benj'n Grealy.
1739, Mar. 11. Enoch Hoit and Sarah his wife.
1740, July 27. Joseph Hubbard.
Nov. 16. Daniel Merrill and Hanah his wife.
1741, Apr. 26. Moses Morrill, Martha True and Jemima True.
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[124]
1741, Nov. 15. Jemima Stevens.
Jan. 17. Joseph French 3d, Joseph True, Abraham Eaton, Phil-
lip Brown and Ann Allin.
1742, Mar. 14. Moses Hoit and his wife.
May 2. Stephen Merrill Jun'r, and Joanna his wife, Thomas
Stockman, Sarah ye wife of Dan'l Carr, Mary and
Abigail Fitts, Mary Pettingal and Martha Merrill,
Dorcas, Martha and Thankfull Hubbard.
June 27. Joseph Hoit and Nath'l Baker, wido. Mary French,
Judith wife of Sam'l Grealy, wido. Sarah French.
1743, Mar. 6. Sara'l Pettingal and Jane Wheeler.
Aug. 7. Joseph Eaton.
Oct. 9. Ruth Baker.
1744, Mar. 18. Sarah wife of Jabez True.
July 1. Sarah wife of Joshua French Jun'r, Rebecca Fitts.
Aug. 26. Daniel Hoit and Judith his wife, Hanah Ambross.
1746, Mar. 16. Moses Stockman by dismission from [Newbury].
[125]
July 27. Henry True.
1728 [1748?], Aug. 28. Abigail Jackman.
Oct. 23. Elliner Stevens and Elizabeth Baker.
Dec. 25. Mary Eaton.
1749, July 7. Timo. Townsend, Daniel Fitts, Abigail Baker and Me-
hitabell Fitts were received by letters from other
Chhs.
July 30. Daniel Merrill and Eliz. his wife, Abigail True.
Sept. 24. Jane ye wife of Benj'n Eaton.
1750, Mar. 18. Sam'l Baker.
Sept. 16. Joshua Pike and Sarah his wife.
Nov. 11. Mary Hoit wido.
March 5 ye 18, 1753. Mary Brown.
April ye 29. Moses French.
1754, June ye 9. Sam'l True.
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An Acct. of such as Owned ye Cove'nt.
1737, Nov. 6. Daniel Hoit.
Feb. 26. Daniel Merrill and Hanah his wife.
1738, Sept. 17. Ephraim Grealy.
1739, Mar. 18. Nath'l Brown Jun'r.
Nov. 4. Jacob Hale.
1740, Sam'l Grealy and Judith his wife.
1741, Mar. 8. Stephen Merrill Jun'r.
6 The three following are in the handwriting of Edmond Noyes.
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1741, June 7. Benj'n Stevens.
Mar. 7. Scipio, Negro serv't to Jno. Doell.
1742, Mar. 14. Susanna daftcr of James French.
21. David Norton.
28. John Eaton 3d.
June 27. Wm. Graves.
1744, Dec. 23. Daniel Merrill Jim'r and Elizabeth his wife.
Jan. 20. Moses French.
1745, Apr. 7. Sarah Eaton.
Dec. 1. Joseph Burn am and Mary his wife.
Jan. 26. William Eaton.
1746, Apr. 6. Jane Eaton.
June 14. Moses Pike and Lydia his wife.
Dec. 7. Ezekiel True and Mary his wife.
[128]
1748, July 3. Samuel Merrill Jun'r.
July 17. Elizabeth his wife.
Sept. 4. Benj'n, Simon, James and Ezra French.
Oct. 30. Samuel French and Mary French.
Jan. 15. Joseph Dow and Rhoda his wife.
[1750?] Sept. 30. James Crocker and Abigail his wife.
Oct. 21. Thomas Eaton and Unis his wife.
28. Jona. Walton and A his wife.
1751, July 14. Macress Carr.
Aug. A Moses Stevens.
{Handwriting of Edmond Noyes, the fifth minister.")
Nov. ye 10. Joseph March Jun'r.
Feb. ye 2. John March and Judith his wife.
Mar. ye 1. Moses Woodbury.
1753, Feb. 25. Nicholas Oakham. David Eaton was Baptized.
Apr. ye 8. Elaenor Jackman (formerly Merril) owned ye Cov't
and was Baptized.
Apr. ye 29. Dan'l Felch and wife.
Apr. ye 29. Jeremiah Allen.
Aug. 20. Elizabeth Lowell ye wife of Abner Lowell owned ye
Cov't and was Baptized.
[129]
1754, Mar. 17. Joseph French Jun'r.
(Handwriting of Caleb Gushing.') [48]
Att a Meeting of ye chh. Feb. 8th, 99-700, Tho. Sergent, Tho. Cur-
rier, Jno. Har[ver], Hannah Blaisdell, Rebecca Morrill and Mary
Gouldsmith all of Almsbury having formerly Owned ye Covenant in
ys. chh. were Upon yr. request dismissed (by Letters) from us to ye
chh. of Xt. at Almsbury.
Attest, C. Cushing, past'r.
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March A 99-700. Mariah Pressee was also Upon her request dis-
missed In order to Joyning in full Communion wth. ye chh. of Xt. at
Almsbury.
Atest C. Gushing past'r.
May 5th, 700. Hanah Foot, Kachel Sargent, and Frances Pritchet,
all of Almsbury being Members of ys. chh., were Upon yr. request
dismissed (by letters) from us to ye chh. of Xt. at Almsbury.
Attest C. Gushing past'r.
Nov. 21st, 701. Ann Bill was Upon her request dismist from us to
ye first chh. of Xt. In Boston.
Atest C. Gushing past'r.
[17]
Sept. 26th, 1725. Mr. Sam'll Easman and Mrs. Jane Hubbard were
dismist to Join wth. ye chh. at Kingstown.
(Handwriting of Edmond Noyes}. [132]
April ye 2d, 1752. Mehetabel Easman was Dismissed to ye 2d Chh.
in this Town.
May ye 24. Abigail Allen was received into this Chh. by a Dismis-
sion fm. ye Chh. att South Hampton.
May ye 31. Mr. Henry True was dismissed from this Church in
order to his being Incorporated with ye Chh. of Xt. at Hampstead.
Attest E. Noyes Pastor.
August ye 30. Daniel Hoit and Judith his wife were Dismissed to
ye Chh. of Xt. at Epping.
Attest E. Noyes Pastor.
Ye same day Kuth Griffin was Dismiss'd to ye 1st Chh. of Xt. in
Chester.
Attest E. Noyes Pastor.
April 14, 1754. Abigail Kimball was Dismiss'd to ye Chh. of Xt. in
Plastow.
June ye 2. Sarah ye wife of Joshua French was Dismissed from
this Chh. to ye 2d Chh. of Xt. in Kingstown.
Jan. 5, 1755. Elizabeth French formerly Eaton Dismissed to ye 2d
Chh. of Xt. in Kingstown.
Jan. 19. Jemima Maxfield Dismissed to ye 2d Chh. of Xt. in Salis-
bury.
(Handwriting of James Allen.) [24]
Children baptized.
1687, May 29. Hannah ye daughter of Nath'l Easman.
June 5. Mary, ye Daughter of Hen. Wheeler; Jemimah, Ke-
ziah, ye daughters of Rich. Hubbard ; Richard, ye
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Sonne of Rich. Hubbard; Jemimah, ye Daughter of
Henry True ; Jabez, ye son of Henry True , Ruth, ye
daughter of Serg't Nath'l Brown; Judah, ye daugh-
ter of Jno. Stevens; John and Daniel, sous of Isaak
Morrill ; Jemimah, ye daughter of Is'k Morrill.
1G87, June 12. Phebe, ye daughter of Phil : Brown ; Hannah, ye daugh-
ter of Phil. Brown.
July 10. Mary, ye daughter of Ones. Page.
Aug. 7. William and Sollomon, Sons of Mrs. Mary Hews.
Aug. 7. Abigail and Judah, daughters of Win. Allin.
[25]
Sept. 18. Benjamen, Edmund, Jeremiah, Sonns of Benj. Easman.
Oct. 9. Joseph, son, Ruth, daughter, of Joseph True.
Dec. 8. Joseph, Timothy, Symon, sons, Sarah, daughter of
Goodwife Shepherd.
1687-8, Mar. 4. Israel, ye daughter of Joseph True.
Anno
1688, May 27. Robert, ye sonne of Robt. Pike, jun'r.
June 10. Bethiah, daughter of Sol : Shepherd.
Itt : on the same day, Sarah, Mary, Hannah, daughters
of Jno. Allin.
[26]
July 29. William, Rich'd, sonns, Elizabeth, Susannah, daugh-
ters, Joseph, son, children of Rich'd Long baptized.
Sept. 23. Esther, daughter of Sam'l French.
Sept. 30. Dorithy, daughter of Wra. Allin.
1689, Apr. 21. Thomas, Son of John Easman.
- Apr. 21. Benjamin, son, Lydia, daughter, children of Goodw.
Macrest.
Sept. 8. Nath'l, ye Son of Nath'l Brown.
Nov. 3. Eleazar, ye Sonne of Rich'd Hubbard ; Mary, ye daugh-
ter of Isaak Morrill.
Nov. 10. Sarah, ye daughter of Rich'd Long.
Feb. 16. Sarah, daughter Rob't Pike, Jun'r.
1690, May 18. Mary, daughter of Nath'l Easman.
May 25. Mary, daughter of- Goodw. Macrest.
Feb. 22. Elenor, daughter of Rich'd Long.
1690-1, Mar. 8. Joanna, my first child, baptized ; being born on ye 5th
March, 1690-1.
[27]
1691, Apr. 19. Benj., Sonne of Joseph True; Solomon, ye Sonne of
Solomon Shepherd.
1691, Sept. 20. Mercy ye daughter of John Cluff.
1692, July 3. Sarah, Mary, Robert and Silvanus, Children of Wni.
Car.
Mary, my second child, born 10th Apr., 1692; baptized
17th Apr., 1692.
1692, Aug. 14. Joseph, Son of John Easman.
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1692 Sept. 25. Rachel, daughter of Isaac Morrill ; Mary, daughter of
Wm. Allin.
1693, Apr. 2. Sarah, daughter to Rich'd Long.
May 7. Moses, ye son of Jno. Cluff.
May 14. Elizabeth, daughter, Benj., sonne, Squire, sonne, and
Jeremiah, sonne, children of Benj. Allin.
June 18. James, Son of Symon French.
July 23. Joanna daughter of John and Dorithy Stevens.
Aug 20. Mrs. Honiwell at ye time of her admission.
[28]
Sept. 3. Hannah and Mary, daughters of goodwife Blodged.
Oct. 15. Rodger, John, Elizabeth, children of Eliz : Honiwell.
Nov. 12. Jabez, the Son of Wim'd Bradbury.
Dec. A Henry, Son of Josiah Wheeler.
Feb. 11. John, Son of John Stevens.
1694, Mar. 25. John, Rebeccah, Abraham, Eleazar and Henery, chil-
dren of Henry Brown, Jun'r.
Apr. 8. Samuell, the Son of John French.
Apr. 22. Mary, Thomas, Jacob, William, Rachel, Hannah, Jo-
seph, Judah, John, Children of Tho. Sergeant.
May 6. Israeli, Son of Sol : Shepherd.
[29]
July 29. Were baptized ye children of Rob't Downer, viz. :
Rob't, Martha, John, Andrew, Samuell.
Sept. 2. Elizabeth, my third daughter, and born ye 1st or rather
2d Sept., at midnight.
Sept. 9. Abigail Evens, daughter of Tho. Evens.
Sept. 30. A daughter of goodw. Blodged.
1695, Aug. 18. Wimond Bradbury; Son of W. Bradbury. It: eodem
die ; Elizabeth daughter of Josiah Wheler.
(Handwriting of Caleb Gushing.} [52]
1698, Nov. 27. John, ye son of Oneseph. Page and Mary ye daughter
of Sim. French.
Dec. 11. Wi[lliam], ye Son of Nic. Bond.
Dec. 18. William, ye son of Tho. Mugget; Hubbard, ye Son of
Jno. Stephens.
Dec. 25. Joseph, John, Elce and Ephraim, ye children of Jno.
Wadley.
Jan. 1. Margaret, ye daughter of Stils. Allin.
1698-9, Feb. 26. Thomas, ye son of Tho. Mugget.
Mar. 5. Jeremiah, Richard, Mary and Martha, children of Jno.
Hubbard.
1699, Apr. 16. Edmond, ye Son of Sam'll Joy.
Apr. 23. Mary, ye daughter of Rob't Downer.
Apr. 30. Jeremiah, ye Son of Solomon Shepard ; Job, John
and Judith, children of Sarah Page by her former
husband Rowell.
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1699, May 28. Mary, Ephraim, Jane and Samuell, children of Ephraim
Eaton.
Elizabeth, ye daughter of Benj. Herd.
June 4. Benjamen and Ephraim, ye sons of Martha Flanders
by her former husband Collins.
John and Dauiell, ye Sons of Naomi Flanders alias
Eastman.
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June 4. Benjamen and Abigaill, ye children of Henery French.
Hanah, ye daughter of Tho. Evins.
July 2. William and John, sons of William Bradbury.
July 16. Nathaniell, ye son of Richard Fittz.
Sept. 10. Benjamin, ye son of Josiah Wheeler.
Sept. 24. Joseph, ye son of Tho. Jewell of Amsbury.
Nov. 5. Moses, Elias, Mary and Sarah, children of Mr. Moses
Pike.
Nov. 26. Jeremiah, ye son of Stilson Allin.
Dec. 17. Rowland, ye son of Weym'd Bradbury.
Sarah, ye daughter of Jonath. Blodged.
1700, Apr. 7. Joseph, ye son of Nicolas Bond.
June 16. Jane, ye daughter of Jno. Hubbard.
Aug. 4. Aaron, ye son of Jno. Clough.
Sept. 1. Joseph, ye son of Benj. Eastman.
Dec. 15. Sarah, ye daughter of Joseph French, Jnn'r.
1700-1, Mar. 9. Benjamin and Abigaill, children of Isaac Morrill, Jr.
Mar. 16. John, ye son of Ann Mudget.
1701, Apr. 6. Ruth, ye daughter of Stilson Allin.
May 11. James, ye son of Will. Bradbury.
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July 13. Timothy, ye son of Moses Pike.
Aug. 10. Ann, daughter of Sam'll Joy.
Aug. 17. Jemimah, daughter of Ephriam Eaton.
Aug. 24. Nathaniell, ye son of Isaac Morrill, Jun'r.
Sept. 21. Joshua, ye son of 'Jno. Stephens.
1701-2, Mar. 8. Anna, ye daughter of Weymond Bradbury.
Martha, ye daughter of Hen. French.
1702, Mar. 29. Martha, ye daughter of Rich. Fittz.
June 28. Joseph, ye son of Jos. French.
July 26. Anna, ye daughter of Jno. Hubbard.
Aug. 23. Moses, ye son of Josiah Wheeler.
Aug. 30. John, Edward and Elizabeth, children of James Hall.
Sept. 13. Anne, ye daughter of Sam'll Eastman, wch. being sick
was baptized at his house.
Oct. 4. Ruth, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, daughters, Samuell,
Joseph and Ebenezer, sons of Sam'll Eastman.
HIST. COLL.
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1702, Jan. 81. Rebecca, ye daughter of Will. Bradbury.
1703, May 2. Thomas, ye son of Tho. Evins.
Nicholas, ye son of Edw. French, Jun'r.
May 9. William, ye son of Stilson Allin.
May 31. Benjamin, ye son of Benj. Herd, wch being danger-
ously sick was baptized at his house.
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Sept. 12. Martha, ye daughter of Comfort Weakes.
1703, Oct. 10. Caleb, ye son of Caleb Cushing, past'r, was baptized,
being born ye same day about six of ye clock in ye
morning.
1704, Mar. 26. Henery, ye son of Henery French.
Apr. 23. Joseph, ye son of Isaac Morrill, Jun'r.
Ebenezer, ye son of Joseph French, Jun'r.
Elizabeth, ye daughter of Sam'll Joy.
May 28. Joseph, ye son of Jno. Stevens.
June 11. Henery, ye son of Ephr. Eaton.
July 2. John, ye son of Moses Pike.
July 16. Keziah, ye daughter of Jno. Hubbard.
July 30. Thomas, ye son of Sam'll Eastman.
Josiah, ye son of Weym'd Bradbury.
Aug. 13. Jeremiah, son of Zachary Eastman.
Aug. 27. Jacob, son of Will. Bradbury.
Sept. 3. John, ye son of Sarah Scriven.
Nov. 19. Jacob, son of Edw. French, Jun'r.
Feb. 18. Abigail, daughter of Henery True.
Mary, daughter of James Hall.
1705, June 3. Richard, son of Rich. Fittz.
Aug. 12. John, Samuell and James, children of Is. Bus[well].
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Aug. 19. Sam'll, son of James Thorn.
Aug. 26. Judith, daughter of Ephraim Brown.
Sept. 16. Benjamin, Mary, Hanah, William and Jane, children of
William True.
Sept. 23. Ann and Susanna, daughters of Jno. Clough.
Sept. 30. Jemimah and Judith, daughters of H. Hook.
Oct. 14. Patience, David and Sarah, ye children of Jonathan
Grealy.
Nov. 18. Ebenezer, Hanah and Elliner, children of Sam'll Fel-
loes, Sen'r.
Jemimah, daughter of Tho. Bradbury.
Nov. 25. James, ye 2d son of Caleb Cushing, past'r, was bap-
tized.
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Dec. A Elisha, Mary, Elizabeth, Ann, children of Edw'd French,
Sen'r.
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Jan. 13. Jane, ye daughter of Lt. James March.
Feb. 13. Deborah, ye daughter of Sarah Scriven, baptized at
Kingston.
1706, Mar. 3. Jonathan Grealy, son of Jonathan G.
Mar. 24. Elizabeth, daughter of Henry French.
June 9. Joanna, daughter of Will. Bradbury.
Paul, ye son of Isaac Morill, Jun'r.
June 16. Eliner, daughter of Will. True.
David, son of Jno. Stevens.
July 14. Theophilus, son of Weyraoud Bradbury.
Martha, daughter of Zech. Eastman.
Jnly 21. Timothy, son of Sam'll Eastman.
Abigail, daughter of George Brown.
July 28. Samuell, son of Leiut. Jno. Giles.
Anna, daughter of Benj. Eastman.
Sept. 22. Sarah, daughter of Martha Palmer.
Oct. 13. Samuel, son of Sam'll Buswell.
Lydia and Sarah, twins of John Clough, Jun'r.
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Dec. 29. Mary, daughter of Stilson Allin.
Jan. 5. Joanna, daughter of Abigail Abbey.
Jan. 26. Joshua, son of Henry True.
Mary, Peter, Elizabeth, Thomas, Samuell, Abia, chil-
dren of John Tompson.
1707, Mar. 23. Josiah, ye son of Josiah Wheeler.
Apr. 6. Att Greenland, I baptized John, son of Sam'll Hains ;
Joseph, son of John Foss; Nathan, son of Sam'll
Foss ; Richard, sou of James Berry ; Joshua, son of
Joshua Weeks.
Apr. 13. Jemimah, daughter of Edw'd French, Jun'r.
May 11. Joseph, son of G'dwife Downer.
June 29. Roger, son of Juo. Eastman, Jun'r.
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July 13. Ward, daughter of Richard Fitz.
Aug. 10. Abigail, daughter'of Thos. Harris.
Aug. 24. Anna, Tabbatha, Jonathan, Mary, Jeremiah, children
of Jer. and Eliz. Stevens.
Oct. 12. Solomon, son of Moses Pike.
Nov. 2. Abigail, daughter of James Thorn; Abraham, Jona-
than and Ruth, children of John and Ruth Watson.
Jan. 25. Elizabeth, daughter of Tho. Evins.
Feb. 1. Hanah, daughter of Is. Buswell.
Feb. 15. John, ye son of Capt. Humphry Hook.
Feb. 22. Thomas, Ann, Elizabeth, children of Jacob Bradbury.
1708, Mar. 21. Mary, daughter of Wm. Bradbury.
Apr. 18. Dorithy, daughter of Jno. Hubbard.
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May 2. Andrew, son of Martha Palmer.
May 9. Dorithy, daughter of Jacob Bradbury.
June 4. Henery, son of Will. True.
July 25. Daniell and Abigaill, children of Onesiphorus Page.
Aug. 1. Benjamin, Moses, Mary, Nicholas, Sarah, Jacob, chil-
dren of Ens. Jos. Eaton.
John, son of Jno. Clough, Jun.
Aug. 29. Hanah, daughter of Edw. French, sen. ; Maria, daugh-
ter of Weym'd Bradbury.
Sept. 12. Edward, son of Sam'll Easraan ; Moses, son of Jno.
Stevens.
Oct. 1. Hanah, daughter of Henry True.
Oct. 10. Jabez, son of Ephr. Eaton; Micajah, son of Isaac Mor-
rill, Jun. ; Daniell, son of Joseph French, Jun.
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Oct. 24. Nehemiah, son of Onesiph. Page.
Oct. 31. Benjamin, son of Jonathan Greely; Mary, daughter
Philip Greely; Sarah, daughter of G. Brown.
Nov. 14. Samuell, son of Henry French.
Dec. 5. James, son of James Hall.
Jan. 2. John, son of Jno. Stockman.
Jan. 30. Abigail, daughter of J. Wheeler.
1709, Mar. 20. Deliverance, Samuell, Uriah and Theophilus, children
of Amos Page.
Apr. 10. John, son of C. Cushing, born ab't 2 morn.
Theophilus, son of Jer. Stevens.
Apr. 24. Elizabeth, daughter of Jno. Easman, Jun'r; Lydia,
daughter of Benj. Easman, Jun'r.
May 1. Lydia, daughter of Edw'd French, Jun'r.
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June 12. Abigail, daught'r of Zech. Easm'n.
June 5. Baptized at New-Castle Chh. John, son of Mr. Jno.
Frost; Mary, daught'r of Jno. Mardin; Mary,
daught'r, of James Leach; Nathaniel, son of Na-
thaniel R[ande] ; Abraham, Nathaniel, Ann, Sarah,
children of Joseph Crockit; Benjamin, son of Mrs.
Barns ; Jacob, son of Caleb Grafton.
At ye same time I also administered ye Sacrament
there their pastor being absent.
Sept. 25. William, son of Will Carr.
Dec. A Sarah, daught'r of Jno. Stockman.
Jan. 8. John, son of Jno. Webster.
Jan. 22. Sarah, daught'r of Will. Brad'ry.
Moses, son of Sam'll Joy.
[To be continued.]
INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE
OLD FAIRFIELD BURIAL GROUND IN WENIIAM.
COMMUNICATED BY WELLINGTON POOL, 1878.
THE old Fairfield family burial ground lies in the west-
erly part of the town, on a farm long owned and occupied
by the Fairfield family, but which has had different owners
and occupants for many years past, and belongs now to
the estate of the late Almon F. Bagley.
It occupies a knoll about an eighth of a mile to the
northward of the present house (which stands on the site
where the ancient farm-house formerly stood), and about
a quarter of a mile north of the school-house. There is
an old tomb in the ground, over the front of which stands
an ordinary headstone to the memory of "Mrs. Lydia the
wife of Mr. Benjamin Fairfield, "etc., while the foot-stone
is on the inside, leaning against the wall. There are also
several graves of more recent date, enclosed with stone
posts and chains in a small oblong square.
The oldest inscription in town, known to the writer, is
in this ground, and bears date of Oct. 24th, 1691.
Here lies buried y e body of the Honourable William
Fairfield, Esq. sometime speaker of the House of
Representatives; and for many years a Deac" of y e
church in Wenham, and Repr esentative for s d Town
who died Dec/ 18 th , 1742 in y e 81 8t year of his age.
Here lyes y e Body of M. Esther Fairfield, wife to
M r . William Fairfield, Aged about 55 years, Dec. d
Jan'?. y e 21 8t , 1722-3.
Here lyes y e Body of William Fairfield who died
October y* 24 th 1691 Aged 7 Days.
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Here lyes y e Body of John Whatley who died
Septm'r y e 15 tb 1716 Aged 18 months.
Here lies buried the body of Sarah Fairfield who
died Feb. ry 6 th 1705 in y e 18 th year of Her Age.
Here lyes ye Body of Tabatha Fairfield who -Died
October ye 7th 1717 Aged 21 years.
Lydia the Daughter of M. r Benjamin and Lydia
Fairfield who died August 15 th 1748 Aged five years.
Here lyes y e Body of M. rs Eunice Fairfield Wife to
M. r Josiah Fairfield, Dec. d July y e 25 th 1730 In y e
27 th year of her age.
Here lies Buried the Body of M. rs Lydia the wife
of M. r Benjamin Fairfield who died Sep.* 61752 in
the 40 th year of Her age.
The following inscriptions are found within the enclo-
sure referred to :
Sacred To the Memory of Harriet Matilda, Wife
of Mr. William Bonier, and Daughter of Mr. David
Woodbury who died Dec. 12, 1836, Aged 27 years.
The following lines are all on one stone :
Sacred To the Memory of Mark Stan wood, who
died May 25, 1795, on his passage from Jamaica to
Newbury Port, aged 25. Maria Woodbury, died May
25, 1802, aged 10 mos. Sally P. Woodbury, died
March 24, 1816, aged 9 mos. Charlotte Woodbury,
died March 2, 1817, aged 19 years. Betsy Woodbury,
died June 4, 1832 aged 57 years, wife of Mr. David
Woodbury. Abel Symons, who was supposed to have
been lost October 1831, on his passage from Boston to
Berbados, aged 29 years.
David Woodbury
Born
Feb. 8, 1776
Died
Feb. 16, 1853.
THE FIRST BOOK OF INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE
OF THE CITY OF LYNN.
COPIED BY JOIIX T. MOULTON, OF LYNN.
Sept. 11, 1703. Richard Atwell and Lydia Felt, both of Lynn.
Aug. 19, 1704. Samuel Baxter and Elizabeth Smith, both of Lynn.
Nov. 21, 1713. Abraham Allen of Marblehead and Ruth Bassett of
Lynn.
Aug. 6, 1715. Thomas Adams of Coltshire, in Connecticut Colony,
and Sarah Collins of Lynn.
Nov. 23, 1717. James Allen of Brookline and Mrs. 1 Mehitable Shepard
of Lynn.
Jan. 13, 1704-5. John Basset of Lynn and Abigail Berry of Boston.
Apr. 20, 1718. Joseph Atwell and Sarah Rhodes, both of Lynn.
Sept. 26, 1717. Benjamin Alley and Elizabeth Newhall, both of Lynn.
Dec. 18, 172G. Caleb Downing of Lynn and Mary Gould of Salem.
Jan. 22, 1726-7. Samuel Douglas and Sarah Cliilson, both of Lynn.
Feb. 26, 1726-7. Nathaniel Graves and Lydia Wallis, both of Lynn.
Jan. 7, 1727-8. Mr. James Pickering of Salem and Mrs. Thankful
Mower of Lynn.
Jan. 21, 1727-8. John Potter and Mary Baker, both of Lynn.
July 14, 1728. William Belt and Hannah Dispaw, both of Lynn.
Oct. 16, 1703. William Bassett and Rebecca Berry, both of Lynn.
Oct. 29, 1720. Samuel Aborn and Martha Bancroft, both of Lynn.
June 24, 1725. Ebenezer Aborn and Elizabeth Whittemore, both of
Lynn.
Feb. 4, 1707-8. Joseph Bass of Braintree and Mrs. Lois Rogers of
Lynn.
Apr. 10, 1708. William Boardman of Lynn and Abiah Sprague of
Charlestown.
Sept. 15, 1711. Samuel Baxter and Anna Rand, both of Lynn.
Sept. 26, 1702. Ebenezer Burrill and Martha Farrington, both of
Lynn.
Jan. 6, 1707. Daniel Hunt of Rehoboth and Dorothy Ballard of
Lynn.
Mar. 22, 1711-2. John Berry of Salem and Ruth Ingalls of Lynn.
It should be borne in mind that the titles Mr. and Mrs. were prefixed to the
names of persons of more than ordinary standing ai marks of distinction and tha t
the latter does not necessarily denote that the person was a widow.
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Oct. 4, 1701. Edward Brown and Sarah Ingalls, both of Lynn.
July 16, 1709. John Brown and Mary Paul, both of Lynn.
Oct. 29, 1709. Thomas Brown and Dorcas Prisbury, both of Lynn.
Mar. 10, 1695-6. Samuel Bredeen and Martha Stocker, both of Lynn.
Apr. 16, 1708. John Bates and Annes Gowing, both of Lynn.
Jan. 21, 1709-10. Mr. Thomas Burrage of Lynn and Mrs. Elizabeth
Parris of Dunstable.
Mar. 25, 1710. Daniel Brown of Lynn and Mary Salter of Charles-
town.
Dec. 27, 1712. Robert Burnell and Patience Mills, both of Lynn.
Apr. 11, 1713. William Ballard and Sarah Burrill, both of Lynn.
Sept. 12, 1713. Mr. Henry Burchstead and Mrs. Sarah James, both
of Lynn.
May 5, 1728. Doctor Henry Burchstead of Lynn and Ms Anna
Alden of Boston.
Apr. 17, 1697. John Brown of Reading and Sarah Dexter of this
town.
Sept. 11, 1708. Ebenezer Baker of Lynn and Mrs. Anne Hall of Bos-
ton.
Oct. 2, 1708. Ebenezer Belcher and Ruth Hitchings, both of Lynn.
Mar. 2, 1714-5. John Baker of Topsfleld and Anne Perkins of Lynn.
July 9, 1715. Thomas Blanchard of Andover and Hannah Gowing
of Lynn.
Aug. 27, 1715. George Booth of Lynn and Martha Williams of Read-
ing.
Jan. 14, 1715-6. Nathaniel Potter and Rebecca Baker, both of Lynn.
Aug. 10, 1717. Mr. Ebenezer Baker, a stranger, and Mrs. Sarah Baker
of Lynn.
Aug. 21, 1697. Samuel Burrill of Lynn and Margaret Jarvis of Bos-
ton.
Aug. 28, 1716. Joseph Bates and Elizabeth Proctor, both of Lynn.
Dec. 29, 1716. John Burnall and Mehitable Edmonds, both of Lynn.
Mar. 30, 1717. Joseph Breed and Susannah Newhall, both of Lynn*
Nov. 2, 1717. Raham Bancroft and Abigail Aborn, both of Lynn.
Apr. 15, 1719. Moses Brown of Boxford and Martha Emmons of
Lynn.
Nov. 20, 1697. Michael Bowden of Marblehead and Sarah Daues of
Lynn. (Davis?)
Nov. 4, 1717. John Breed of Lynn and Lydia Gott of Wenham.
Nov. 29, 1718. John Burrage and Mehitable Sargent, both of Lynn.
July 1, 1699. Jacob Burrill and Mary Elwell, both of Lynn.
Mar. 14, 1717-8. Benjamin Bowden of Marblehead and Barberry Hood
of Lynn.
Dec. 6, 1718. Jonathan Tuttle of Boston and Sarah Burrill of Lynn.
June 11, 1698. Thomas Bolithar and (Mary Richardson of Lyn).
Feb. 21, 1718-9. Ebenezer Tarbox of Lynn and Sarah Hall of Wenham.
July 11, 1719. John Balsam, stranger, and Sarah Jacobs of Lynn.
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Sept. 30, 1721. William Ballard and Deborah Ivory, both of Lynn.
Aug. 1, 1725. Divan Berry and Bethiah Barrage, both of Lynn.
Feb. 27, 1725-6. Joseph Ingalls and Rebecca Collins, both of Lynn.
Oct. 29, 1727. Jacob Eaton and Mekitable Breed, both of Lynn.
Oct. 23, 1743. Joseph Gleason of Oxford and Lydia Tarbox of Lynn.
Nov. 7, 1095. Daniel Hitchings, Sen., and Mrs. Sarah Hawks, both
of Lynn.
Feb. 24, 1722-3. Mr. Francis Colley of Marblehead and Mrs. Lydia
Burrill of Lynn.
Ang. 2, 1724. Daniel Blaney of Salem and Martha Mansfield of
Lynn.
Oct 3, 1725. Benjamin Larrabee and Elizabeth Newman, both of
Lynn.
Oct. 22, 1727. Samuel Thayer of Reading and Mary Fern of Lynn.
Oct. 30, 1703. John Ballard and Sarah Stocker, both of Lynn.
Nov. 17, 1723. Jabez Breed and Desire Bassett, both of Lynn.
Dec. 8, 1723. Edmond Lewis and Hepzibah Breed, both of Lynn.
Jan. 25, 1723-4. Samuel Berry of Salem and Maria Ingalls of Lynn.
Sept. 20, 1747. Eleazer Alley and Tabatha Ingalls, both of Lynn.
Feb. 1C, 1696-7. Daniel Hitchings, Jun., of Lynn and Sarah Boardman.
Sept. 1, 1723. Matthew Breed and Mary Stocker, both of Lynn.
Sept. 8, 1723. Nathaniel Tarbox of Lynn and Ruth Frail of Salem.
Sept. 8, 1723. John Williams and Tabatha Ingalls, both of Lynn.
Dec. 15, 1723. Samuel Hood of Lynn and Agnes Snow of Kittery.
Mar. 15, 1723-4. Ebenezer Gowing and Elizabeth Eaton, both of Lynn.
Apr. 1, 1704. John Bancroft of Lynn and Mary Clark of Reading.
Dec. 5, 1719. Samuel Breed and Deliverance Bassett, both of Lynn.
Nov. 15, 1724. John Bancroft and Mary Mansfield, both of Lynn.
Mar. 8, 1697-8. Moses Hawks of Lynn and Margaret Cogswell of
Ipswich.
Oct. 29, 1708. Mr. John Bancroft of Lynn and Mrs. Hannah Hacey
of Boston.
Oct. 28, 1722. 'Jacob Collins and Mary Norwood, both of Lynn.
Jan. 26, 1728-9. Cornelius Jones of Stratham and Abigail Hawks of
Lynn.
Dec. 5, 1719. Michael Basset of Marblehead and Huldah Hood of
Lynn.
Jan. 19, 1719-20. Aaron Bournt of Marblehead and Hannah Readdon
of Lynn. (Raddin?)
Sept. 5, 1725. Hezekiah Rhodes and Abigail Jenks, both of Lynn.
Nov. 25, 1744. John Collins and Bethiah Mansfield, both of Lynn.
May 21, 1698. Jonathan Hudson and Eleanor Wolts, both of Lynn.
(Walsh?)
Feb. 13, 1719-20. Daniel Browne and Margaret Smith, both of Lynn.
Dec. 17, 1720. John Browne of Reading and Abigail Pearson of Lynn.
Nov. 8, 1747. William Pratt of Maiden and Abigail Pell of Lynn.
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Mar. 11, 1698-9. John Hawkins and Abigail Shore, both of Lynn.
Dec. 17, 1720. James Boutel of Reading and Judith Pool of Lynn.
Jan. 7, 1698-9. John Hawks of Lynn and Abigail Floyd of Boston.
Feb. 11, 1720-1. Ebenezer Bancroft of Lynn and Ruth Boutel of Read-
ing.
April 8, 1722. Jonathan Gowing and Elizabeth Townsend, both of
Lynn.
June 2. 1728. Allen Breed and Huldah Newhall, both of Lynn.
Mar. 7, 1718-9. Benjamin James of Marblehead and Hannah Blaney
of Lynn.
Sept. 16, 1722. Jonathan Phillips of Lynn and Mary Brown of New-
bury.
Jan. 15, 1726-7. Solomon Newhall and Mary Johnson, both of Lynn.
Jan. 15, 1726-7. David Welman and Mary Bancroft, both of Lynn.
Dec. 6, 1730. David Welman and Esther Eaton, both of Lynn.
Jan. 8, 1696-7. John Ingerson and Elizabeth Newhall (Ingersoll?),
both of Lynn.
Mar. 17, 1715-6. Edward Ireson and Hannah Mansfield, both of Lynn.
July 11, 1725. Nathaniel Potter and John Rhodes, both of Lynn.
June 2, 1728. Allen Breed and Huldah Newhall (sic}, both of Lynn.
Oct. 20, 1739. Edward Cheever of Lynn and Mrs. Martha Wiggles-
worth of Ipswich.
Oct. 7, 1744. Solomon Newhall of Lynn and Mary Bly of Salem.
July 2, 1698. John Ivory and Ruth Potter, both of Lynn.
Jan. 29, 1708-9. Michael Janes of Stratford and Mary Collins of Lynn.
The above-named Michael Janes informs there is a
mistake in entering and publishing him as belong-
ing to Stratford, for it is a great while since he
lived there and has been in several places since,
and now lives in Lynn and has so done for a con-
siderable time and has been assessed in Lynn in
several assessments, therefore
Feb. 5, 1708-9. Michael Janes and Mary Collins, both of Lynn.
June 9, 1705. Richard Johnson and Elizabeth Newhall, both of Lynn.
Mar. 10, 1721-2. Joseph Hillow and Martha Hutchinson. both of Lynn.
Nov. 8, 1730. Robert Mansfield and Mary Rand, both of Lynn.
Sept. 3, 1732. Timothy Bancroft of Lynn and Elizabeth Taswell of
Dnnstable.
Sept. 30, 1699. Benjamin Boye^of Salem (Boyce?) and Mary Allen of
Lynn.
Feb. 12, 1708-9. Samuel Jenks of Lynn and Mrs. Elizabeth Floyd of
Maiden.
Dec. 11, 1714. Samuel Jenks and Hope Sargent, both of Lynn.
Sept. 23, 1715. David Johnson and Esther Laughton, both of Lynn.
May 4, 1700. Robert Buffum of Salem and Elizabeth Farrar of Lynn.
[No date.] Jonathan Johnson and Sarah Mansfield, both of Lynn.
Nov. 27, 1714. Samuel Ingalls and Sarah Ingalls, both of Lynn.
Mar. 19, 1731-2. Charles Bill of Boston and Ruth Fuller of Lynn.
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Oct. 7, 1699. Joseph Holloway (Hallowell?) and Bethiah Witt, both
of Lynn.
Nov. 19, 1715. Henry Kent of Marblehead and Elizabeth Richards of
Lynn.
April 7, 1716. Jonathan Knower of Maiden and Mary Johnson of
Lynn.
Mar. 8, 1700-1. Jonathan Hobbs of Ipswich and Elizabeth Graves of
Lynn.
Feb. 16, 1716-7. Joseph Slack and Rebecca Hathorne, both of Lynn.
July 3, 1719. Jonathan Smith and Mary Ingalls, both of Lynn.
May 16, 1700. Mr. John Channeck of Boston (Cheney?) and Mrs.
Mary King of Lynn.
July 12, 1712. Mr. Thomas Cheever and Mrs. Mary Baker, both of
Lynn.
Nov. 1, 1712. John Curtin and Mary Collins, both of Lynn.
Dec. 23, 1699. Eleazer Collins and Rebecca Newhall, both of Lynn.
June 16, 1711. William Collins and Abigail Richards, both of Lynn.
May 3, 1712. Samuel Coal and Susannah Brown, both of Lynn.
April 26, 1701. Ebenezer Hawks of Lynn and Elizabeth Coggeswell
of Ipswich.
May 12, 1705. Caleb Hobbs of Ipswich and Dorothy Graves of Lynn.
July 2, 1720. Richard Jackson and Rebecca Fuller, both of Lynn.
July 25, 1695. Samuel Collins of Lynn and Rebecca Howlaud of
Duxbury.
Dec. 9, 1702. Thomas Hawks and Sarah Haven, both of Lynn.
June 15, 1706. Nathaniel Hood of Lynn and Joanna Dunuell of Tops-
field.
Nov. 24, 1708. John Hebard of Beverly and Dorothy Graves of Lynn.
Aug. 10, 1700. Edward Munyan of Lynn and Sarah Proctor of Salem.
Jan. 1, 1714-5. Roger Edwards of Lynn and Sarah Hobbs of Ipswich.
Feb. 18, 1715-6. John Hart and Dorothy Farringtou, both of Lynn.
Dec. 5, 1695. William Merriam and Athildred Berry, both of Lynn.
Oct. 29, 1709. William Merriam and Abigail Mower, both of Lynn.
Oct. 13, 1711. William Merriam and Ruth Webb, both of Lynn.
June 16, 1716. John Hall and Sarah Chadwell, both of Lynn.
Dec. 7, 1700. James Mills and Amy Hinkson, both of Lynn.
Feb. 14, 1716-7. Jonathan Edmonds of Lynn and Sarah Hall of Boston.
May 11, 1717. David Edmonds and Hannah Hinkson, both of Lynn.
May 23, 1696. William Chilon and Jane Rhodes, both of Lynn.
Oct. 25, 1707. Joseph Edmonds of Lynn and Mary Pratt of Charles-
town.
Aug. 17, 1716. Samuel Edmonds of Lynn and Sarah Berry of Attle-
borough.
June 28, 1701. Mr. Downing Champney of Cambridge and Mrs. Mary
Lindsey of Lynn.
Nov. 3, 1705. Samuel Edmonds and Elizabeth Rhodes, both of Lynn.
Oct. 4, 1707. Thomas Eaton and Esther Buruap, both of Lynn.
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Nov. 19, 1698. Peter Emmons of Ipswich and Martha Eaton of Lynn.
Sept. 6, 1701. Daniel Eaton of Lynn and Mary Collins of Salem.
Sept. 16, 1704. Daniel Eaton and Abigail Heburd, both of Lynn.
Jan. 11, 1705-6. John Estes and Hannah Basset, both of Lynn.
June 5, 1701. Nathaniel Conant of Bridge water and Margaret Laugh-
ton of Lynn.
Jan. 13, 1704-5. John Collins, Jr., and Susannah Dagget, both of Lynn.
May 25, 1705. John Callender of Swansey and Priscilla Ballard of
Lynn.
Mar. 27, 1699. Nathaniel Collins and Mary Silsbee, both of Lynn.
Feb. 15, 1702-3. Mr. Richard Chaney of Boston (Cheney?) and Mrs.
Mary Jefferds of Lynn (Jeffries?).
May 18, 1717. Robert Edmonds and Abigail Dowty, both of Lynn.
Aug. 23, 1701. Jonathan Merrihue and Mary Oakman, both of Lynn.
Apr. 27, 1706. John Chilson and Elizabeth Jenks, both of Lynn.
Mar. 26, 1709. William Curtice and Elizabeth Scarlet, both of Lynn.
Sept. 17, 1709. Walsingham Chilson and Susannah Edmonds, both of
Lynn.
Mar. 21, 1695-6. Joseph Griffin and Sarah Basset, both of Lynn.
July 11, 1710. Elias Cook of Marblehead and Abigail Dillaway of
Lynn.
Nov. 15, 1718. Jonathan Collins and Rebecca Potter, both of Lynn.
July 6, 1740. Jonathan Collins and Elizabeth Rhodes, both of Lynn.
Jane 24, 1704. Richard Mower of Lynn and Thankful Sever of Rox-
bury (Seaver?).
Feb. 20, 1718-9. Richard Hayden of Marblehead and Barberry Collina
of Lynn.
Oct. 15, 1720. Zacheus Heberd of Lynn and Jane Andrews of Ips-
wich.
Nov. 28, 1696. Nathaniel Goodhue of Ipswich and Mercy Hawks of
Lynn.
July 20, 1706. Ephraim Mower and Elizabeth Deverex, both of Lynn.
April 5, 1719. John Hartshorn and Abigail Bancroft, both of Lynn.
Sept. 16, 1739. Mr. John Jenks and Mrs. Mary Hayden, both of Lynn.
May 4, 1700. Alexander Douglas and Abigail Sharp, both of Lynn.
May 10, 1707. Samuel Mansfield and Mary Benighton, both of Lynn.
Jan. 14, 1709-10. Ebenezer Merriam of Lynn and Jerusha Berry of
Boston.
June 19, 1697. John Goddard (of Boston) and Sarah Farrington of
Lynn.
Oct. 4, 1707. Joseph Mansfield and Mary Hart, both of Lynn.
Jan. 21, 1709-10. Ebenezer Merriam and Jerusha Berry, both of Lynn.
July 8, 1710. Daniel Mansfield and Joanna Burrage, both of Lynn.
Oct. 29, 1698. Benjamin Darling of Salem and Mary Richards of
Lynn.
Oct. 3, 1711. Ralph Merry and Mary Jefferds, both of Lynn.
Nov. 29, 1712. John Marshal and Martha Hutchinson, both of Lynn.
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Dec. 27, 1697. John Downing of Boston and Mrs. Hannah Shepard
of Lynn.
Oct. 20, 1711. Thomas Mower and Mary Lewis, both of Lynn.
Aug. 9, 1712. Andrew Mansfield and Sarah Breed, both of Lynn.
May 29, 1737. Andrew Mansfield and Mary Newhall, both of Lynn.
Apr. 25, 1701. Thomas Daniels of Topsfield and Dinah Brimsdell,
so called, of Lynn.
Jan. 16, 1713-4. Jonathan Mansfield and Martha Stocker, both of Lynn.
Jan. 30, 1713-4. Jonathan Mansfield and Martha Stocker, both of Lynn.
May 20, 1698. Daniel Gowing of Lynn and Mary Williams of Beverly.
July 6, 1705. Joseph Dodge of Beverly and Priscilla Eaton of Lynn.
Dec. 13, 1712. Henry Downing and Mary Rhodes, both of Lynn.
May 29, 1714. James Mills and Deborah Larrabee, both of Lynn.
May 26, 1716. Thomas Newman and Hannah Downing, both of Lynn.
Oct. 13, 1716. Ebenezer Norwood and Mary Trevitt, both of Lynn.
Sept. 5, 1G96. George Lilley and Elizabeth Hawks, both of Lynn.
Aug. 22, 1707. George Lilley and Sarah Silsbee, both of Lynn.
April 9, 1715. Daniel Mansfield and Mrs. Margaret Burrill, both of
Lynn.
Oct. 26, 1716. Ephraim Newhall and Abigail Denmark, both of Lynn.
Apr. 13, 1717. Timothy Macmullen of Salem and Abigail Rhodes of
Lynn.
May 30, 1719. John Curtis of Topsfield and Joanna Rhodes of Lynn.
Mar. 25, 1696. Reuben Lilley of Lynn and Martha Gibson of Cam-
bridge.
Nov. 2, 1717. Thomas Newhall and Elizabeth Bancroft, both of
Lynn.
Nov. 2, 1717. Ebenezer Norwood and Mary Newhall, both of Lynn.
Mar. 8, 1717-8. Theophilus Merriam and Abigail Ramsdell, both of
Lynn.
June 14, 1718. Samuel Newhall of Lynn and Catharine Stone of
Salem.
Sept. 19, 1698. William Giddings of Ipswich and Sarah Hitchings of
Lynn.
Nov. 8, 1718. Ebenezer Newhall and Elizabeth Breed, both of Lynn.
Dec. 27, 1718. Nathaniel Newhall and Eleanor Ramsdell, both of
Lynn.
July 30, 1709. Ralph Lindsey and Mary Breed, both of Lynn.
Oct. 27, 1711. Samuel Stocker and Hannah Lewis, both of Lynn.
Nov. 10, 1711. Samuel Laughton and Esther Alley, both of Lynn.
Sept. 2, 1699. Left. John Lewis and Mrs. Elizabeth King, both of
Lynn.
Jan. 14, 1706-7. Left. John Lewis and Mrs. Sarah Jenks, both of Lynn.
Sept. 6, 1708. Mr. Daniel LegarS of Braintree and Mrs. Ruth Bass
of Lynn.
July 15, 1704. Crispus Graves and Rebecca Alley, both of Lynn.
Sept. 30, 1715. John Lewis and Mary Burrill, both of Lynn.
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July 30, 1720. John Crisde (Christy?), a stranger that came from
Great Britain and Hannah Burrill of Lynn.
Oct. 19, 1700. Robert Gray and Dorothy Collins, both of Lynn.
May 13, 1719. Mr. Ebenezer Hawks and Mrs. Sarah Newbole, both
of Lynn (Newbold?).
Oct. 31, 1719. John Newhall of Lynn and Lydia Scarlet of Maiden.
Mar. 10, 1704-5. Abraham Goodale of Salem and Hannah Rhodes of
Lynn.
Mar. 7, 1712-3. Eleazer Rhodes and Sarah Newman, both of Lynn.
Nov. 6, 1714. Edward Howard and Eleanor Tarbox, both of Lynn.
Jan. 11, 1705-6. Andrew Gearns of Boston (Guernsey?) and Mary
Basset of Lynn.
Aug. 30, 1712. John Henderson of Salem and Hannah Farr of Lynn.
Aug. 31, 1714. Peter Hinkson and Elizabeth Jefierds, both of Lynn.
Oct. 12, 1706. James Holton of Salem and Mrs. Mary Lindsey of
Lynn.
Sept. 25, 1708. Daniel Hitchings of Lynn and Susannah Townsend
of Maiden.
Dec. 18, 1708. Samuel Graves and Elizabeth Lewis, both of Lynn.
Nov. 30, 1740. Samuel Graves and Mary Merry, both of Lynn.
Nov. 16, 1706. William Grea (Gray ?) and Hannah Scarlet, both of
Lynn.
Nov. 15, 1707. John Harding of Reading and Sarah Sherman of
Lynn.
Mar. 19, 1707-8. Francis Hutchinson of Lynn and Mary Jefferds of
Lynn.
Dec. 10, 1709. Thomas Graves and Ruth Collins, both of Lynn.
Mar. 15, 1709-10. Daniel Gowing and Mary Williams, both of Lynn.
Nov. 14, 1710. Daniel Gould of Charlestown and Susannah Pearson
of Lynn.
Nov. 10, 1711. John Hathorne and Rebecca Stocker, both of Lynn.
Aug. 12, 1710. John Hawks and Mary Whitford, both of Lynn.
Mar. 1, 1710-11. Thomas Hutchinson and Elizabeth Slafter, both of
Lynn.
Mar. 3, 1710-11. Jonathan Rhodes and Sarah Baxter, both of Lynn.
Nov. %>, 1747. Joseph Bowden of Marblehead and Lydia Collins of
Lynn.
Jan. 28, 1711-12. John Gowing of Lynn and Hannah White of Read-
ing.
June 28, 1712. Joseph Ramsdell and Deborah Mansfield, both of
Lynn.
Aug. 9, 1712. William Skinner and Priscilla Hobbs, both of Lynn.
Aug. 30, 1712. Zechariah Rand and Elizabeth Richardson, both of
Lynn.
Dec. 13, 1712. Anthony Slafter and Mary Eaton, both of Lynn.
Mar. 14, 1712-13. Henry Silsbee and Abigail Collins, both of Lynn.
Dec. 6, 1712. Benjamin Collins and Sarah Collins, both of Lynn-.
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Sept. 26, 1713. Mr. Benjamin Simonds of Woburn and Mrs. Susannah
Newhall of Lynn.
Oct. 13, 1713. Nathaniel Collins and Ruth Potter, both of Lynn.
Nov. 21, 1713. John Sibley 2 of Lynn and Zeruiah Gould of Salem.
May 10, 1714. Mr. Ebenezer Graves of Lynn and Mrs. Eliphal Hop-
kins of Boston.
Aug. 31, 1714. Robert Grant of Ipswich and Elizabeth Burnall of
Lynn.
Nov. 13, 1714. Lt. John Pearson of Lynn and Mrs. Martha Gordon
of Boston.
Nov. 24, 1714. Thomas Pearce and Hannah Alley, both of Lynn.
Dec. 11, 1714. Thomas Graves of Lynn and Ruth Taylor of Audover.
Aug. 25, 1G95. Samuel Newhall and Mary Hallowell, both of Lynn.
Dec. 31, 1695. Samuel Newhall and Abigail Lindsey, both of Lynn.
Dec. 4, 1714. James Parker and Sarah Ireson, both of Lynn.
July 19, 1715. Mr. Benjamin Poole of Reading and Mrs. Bethiah
Mansfield of Lynn.
Nov. 30, 1707. Jacob Newhall of Lynn and Abigail Locker of Salem.
Jan. 2, 1713-4. Jacob Newhall and Hannah Chadwell, both of Lynn.
Feb. 18, 1715-6. John Cummings of Topsfield and Mercy Larrabee of
Lynn.
Feb. 27, 1702-3. Edmond Needham and Hannah Hood, both of Lynn.
Apr. 7, 1705. Samuel Narremore of Charlestown and Rachel Paul
of Lynn.
Sept. 27, 1707. Thomas Newhall and Mary Newhall, both of Lynn.
Feb. 21, 1707-8. Francis Norwood and Sarah Trevitt, both of Lynn.
Feb. 23, 1708-9. George Nourse of Lynn and Lydia Hutchinson of
Salem.
Oct. 27, 1716. Samuel Graves and Elizabeth Collins, both of Lynn.
Jan. 29, 1710-1. Elisha Newhall and Jane Breed, both of Lynn.
July 7, 1711. Jonathan Norwood and Sarah Hudson, both of Lynn.
Jan. 5, 1716-7. Patrick Coburn and Rebecca Parris, both of Lynn.
Oct. 3, 1713. Joseph Newhall and Elizabeth Potter, both of Lynn.
Nov. 20, 1713. Daniel Newhall and Mary Breed, both of Lynn.
Sept. 4, 1714. Benjamin Nourse of Salem and Sarah Boston of Lynn.
Mar. 12, 1714-5. Isaac Larrabee of Lynn and Martha Towue of Tops-
fleld.
Aug. 13, 1715. Thomas Rhodes and Mary Rand, both of Lynn.
Aug. 22, 1716. Benjamin Ramsdell and Sarah Jenks, both of Lynn.
Mar. 23, 1716-7. Benjamin Chadwell and Ruth Collins, both of Lynn.
Apr. 6, 1717. Joseph Collins and Patience Benighton, both of Lynn.
Sept. 28, 1717. Benjamin Chaplain of Lynn and Tamsin Walden of
Salem.
Dec. 21, 1717. Samuel Larrabee and Sarah Breed, both of Lynn.
2 Should it not be Silsbee ?
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Mar. 7, 1717-8. John Graves and Unes (Eunice?) Collins, both of
Lynn.
Apr. 12, 1718. Kichard Hood and Theodate Collins, both of Lynn.
Sept. 26, 1718. John Gott of Hebron and Eleanor Tarbox of Lynn.
Aug. 1, 1719. Richard Goare of Boston and Sarah Hathorne of
Lynn.
Aug. 8, 1696. Joseph Farr and Rebecca Knights, both of Lynn.
Nov. 8, 1718. Mark Graves and Ruth Phillips, both of Lynn.
Sept. 1, 1719. Nathaniel Gowing and Hannah Eaton, both of Lynn.
Oct. 22, 1720. John Jenks of Lynn and Elizabeth Berry of Boston.
Nov. 26, 1720. Ralph Merry and Jane Rhodes, both of Lynn.
Dec. 17, 1720. Ebenezer Grover of Lynn and Anna Putt of Charles-
town.
Oct. 17, .1696. William Fuller and Bethiah Maplesdame, both of
Lynn.
May 21, 1720. Thomas Gowing and Sarah Hawks, both of Lynn.
Oct. 15, 1720. James Cheever of Salem and Mary Rhodes of Lynn.
Dec. 9, 1710. John Farrington and Hannah Newhall, both of Lynn.
Nov. 1, 1712. Thomas Fuller and Abigail Gustin. both of Lynn.
July 16, 1715. John Farrar of Great Britain and Mary Collins of
Lynn in New England.
Oct. 12, 1700. Joseph Felt and Sarah Mills, both of Lynn.
Nov. 27, 1708. Samuel Farrington and Hannah Ingalls, both of Lynn.
Mar. 29, 1712. John Fuller and Sarah Newhall, both of Lynn.
June 9, 1716. Josiah Sessions of Andover and Anna Cole of Lynn.
July 23, 1716. Timothy Sewall of Boston and Elizabeth Jeffrey of
Lynn.
Sept. 30, 1716. John Stocker and Abigail Lewis, both of Lynn.
Nov. 24, 1716. Joseph Farr and Naomi Lindsey, both of Lynn.
Feb. 14, 1716-7. Samuel Flint and Elizabeth Stearns, both of Lynn.
May 18, 1717. John Fern of Lynn and Mary Cheever of Salem.
May 16, 1719. Thomas Hanson of Cochecka and Hannah Pearce of
Lynn.
Mar. 5, 1719-20. Jonathan Hudson and Mary Hathorne, both of Lynn.
Dec. 10, 1718. Thomas Rhodes and Elizabeth Burrage, both of Lynn.
April 5, 1719. Michael Fling, a stranger (Flinn?), and Mary Richard-
son of Lynn.
Jan. 28, 1720-1. Joel Jenkins of Lynn and Mary Harnet of Maiden.
Sept. 10, 1720. John Farrington and Abigail Fuller, both of Lynn.
Sept. 17, 1720. Edward Hunt and Abigail Chilson, both of Lynn.
Oct. 29, 1720. Theophilus Farrington and Hannah Baker, both of
Lynn.
[To be continued.]
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
ESSEX INSTITUTE.
VOL. XVI. APRIL, 1879. No. 2.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF MR. JAMES UPTON.
COMMUNICATED BY REV. R. C. MILLS.
MR. JAMES UPTON, a member of the Essex Institute,
and for many years one of its Vice-Presidents, died in
this city, March 30, 1879, on the last day of the sixty-
sixth year of his life. He was a descendant, in the fifth
generation, of John Upton, who came to this country
about 1652. The line of James Upton's descent from
John is distinctly traced out in the Upton Memorial, pre-
pared by J. A. Vinton, and printed in 1874. James was
the oldest son of Robert, bprn 1788, who was the second
son of Robert, born 1758, who was the fourth son of
Caleb, born 1722, who was the eighth son of William,
born 1663, who was the third son of John Upton. As
John Upton is the only man of that name known to have
come in the 17th century from the mother country to the
New England colonies, all Americans bearing this name
consider themselves his descendants. The family can be
traced back through several centuries to Cornwall in Eng-
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land, where a town still bears its name. From this place
its members became scattered through England, Scotland,
and even Ireland. The tradition in the American part of
the family is that John Upton came from Scotland, and
that his wife, whose Christian name is known to have
been Eleanor, had Stuart for her family name. From
the fact that, although a man of good character and con-
siderable property, Mr. Upton was not admitted as a free-
man until 1691, after the rule of admission had been
modified by the colony, it seems probable that he was a
Presbyterian in his religious views, and unwilling on this
account to become a member of the only church then in
existence here.
The deed of the first land which Mr. Upton purchased
bears the date of Dec. 26, 1658. This property, to which
large additions were subsequently made, was situated in
the southwest part of Salem Village, or Danvers. It is
now within the limits of Peabody. A large portion of
this estate remained in the family of John Upton until
the death of Eli Upton in 1849. It was then sold, and
within a few years has become the property and residence
of Rev. Willard Spaulding, formerly of this city.
Mr. James Upton, the oldest of the nine children of
Robert and Lucy (Doyle) Upton was born in this city,
March 31, 1813. The enterprise and ability which gave
his father a place among the eminent and successful mer-
chants of Salem, are fresh in the memory of those of its
older mariners and men of business who still survive.
He bestowed on his son James an education which pre-
pared him to enter college. This education was received
under the care of Mr. T. Eames, whose assistant was our
present Mayor, Gen. H. K. Oliver, who was then in his
early manhood serving the city as a teacher in its old
Latin school. The young man's preference for a mercan-
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tile life turned him aside from college, and in 1827 he
entered his father's counting-room as clerk and book-
keeper. For seven years he remained in this position,
and thus became a thorough accountant. He did not,
however, lay aside the results of his school-training, and
by neglect lose the advantages which it had given him.
Through life he retained an interest in the Latin, Greek
and French languages, to an acquaintance with which the
preparation for college had introduced him. To this also
we may refer the habit of varied and intelligent reading
which Mr. Upton early acquired, always maintained, and
at last found a great relief and solace amid the bodily
feebleness from which he suffered during the closing years
of his life.
In 1835, on account of the failure of his health, he
made a voyage to Para in Brazil as supercargo, and
passed the winter of that year in Maranham and Pernam-
buco attending to business connected with the house in
Salem. After his return in 1836 "he was actively and
largely engaged in business with his father and others,
until the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, when
he withdrew from foreign trade. From that time until
1865 he was a special partner in the hide and leather
trade in Boston with his brother Franklin and John F.
Nichols, under the firm of Upton & Nichols." With this
firm and its successor he retained his connection until its
business was closed in 1878.
Mr. Upton was married twice ; first, Oct. 27, 1836, to
Emily Collins Johnson, who died Nov. 12, 1843, and
secondly, Oct. 9, 1845, to Sarah Sophia, daughter of
James and Lucy Ropes, who died Feb. 12, 1865. His
first wife bore him two children, and his second eight.
An unusual share of domestic bereavement was endured
by Mr. Upton. The nine children of his father were liv-
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ing and present when he was buried; but at the time
when Mr. J. Upton died, of all those who had made up
his family, only his oldest child and three of those of his
second wife were surviving.
Through the larger part of his protracted mercantile
career Mr. Upton was successful in his business, and he
remained so as long as he was able to give it his personal
supervision, and be active in its direction and control.
After an attack of paralysis in 1876, he had to relinquish
his direct connection with the affairs of his firm, and then
by a succession of disasters its business was in 1878 neces-
sarily brought to a termination. His character as a mer-
chant was always, even to the end, not only beyond
reproach, but held in the highest esteem by all those with
whom he had intercourse. In the time of final disaster
one of the sources of greatest comfort to himself and his
family was the many expressions of hearty sympathy and
confidence which came from those who had had the best
opportunities to acquaint themselves with his character as
an upright, assiduous, honorable and benevolent mer-
chant. Mr. Upton was called on to fill numerous posi-
tions of trust and responsibility among his friends and in
the community. These indicated the confidence which
those had who knew him longest and most thoroughly,
both in regard to his integrity and his sound judgment.
Prominent among these positions was that of Trustee of
Newton Theological Institution. This he held for many
years, during a portion of which he served that body as
one of its Executive Committee.
From early life Mr. Upton manifested much taste for
music. This he fostered, enlarged and improved by both
practice and study. He always took a special interest in
the musical part of the services in the two churches of
which he was successively a member. In one of these
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for several years he gave his own immediate direction to
this department of the Sunday School. The beneficial
results were so marked as to afford much pleasure to those
who were connected with the school, or were interested
in it ; while he himself enjoyed them as a gratifying
recompense for a large amount of care, labor and expense.
"In 1872 he printed for private circulation a collection of
original sacred musical compositions, entitled 'Musical
Miscellanea.' This work has been highly appreciated and
commended by competent judges."
In his early manhood Mr. Upton paid considerable
attention to the cultivation of fruit trees, and was for
several years Vice President of the department of Horti-
culture in this Institute. For twenty years he had an
orchard in North Salem composed in part of five hundred
pear trees of one hundred varieties. In April, 1860, he
presented to the Institute the notes which he had made in
1856 of the times at which fifty-nine of these varieties
had ripened. He also read at one of its meetings an in-
teresting and instructive paper in which he furnished the
results of his careful observation and experience in the
perfecting and ripening of pears, both while on the trees
and when gathered and preserved for maturing. This
had special reference to pears which keep until the later
parts of the season, or which can by care have the period
of their ripening deferred or protracted. These papers
were published in Vol. 2 of the Essex Institute Proceed-
ings. An illustration of the intelligence, thoroughness
and taste which characterized Mr. Upton generally, and
in a marked degree as a cultivator of fruit, is furnished
by a copy of Downing's "Fruits and Trees of America,"
which he presented to the Institute a few years ago. In
this he has carefully added to all that Mr. Downing
published concerning pears his observations in his own
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orchard, and all the confirmations, corrections, or con-
tradictions of the text which his reading, and inquiries,
and experience furnished him. Besides this he had a
large number of blank leaves added to the book, and on
these leaves he drew with his own pen the figures of 285
specimens of pears not found among the 208 furnished by
Mr. Downing. The added ones are those which the book
did not describe, or described without furnishing an out-
line of their shape. All Mr. Upton's specimens are care-
fully drawn, while some are admirably shaded and marked
so as to facilitate their identification, and save those who
may consult the volume from mistaking the names of
those which are somewhat similar in form.
For nearly forty-six years Mr. Upton was a member of
the First Baptist Church in this city. Humble and unas-
suming in profession and claim as to religious character
and hope, yet he was decided and confident as to what he
relied on as the revelation of God, and his way of life and
peace for men. His church has had few if any commu-
nicants who have loved it more, or more highly prized the
help it affords its members in the Christian life. And not
many are they who have rendered it as much service as
he in the different departments of its work, or who have
surpassed him in sympathy both with its joyful and its
afflictive experiences, or who have so cheerfully and
largely contributed the means for its support and for the
prosecution of all the work undertaken by it at home, or
in our country, or in the uttermost parts of the earth, to
serve God and elevate and bless and save men. He loved
the church and had confidence in it, because he believed
that its origin is divine, and that it has been given to
men as the channel of many and great blessings from God.
For thirty years Mr. Upton served his church as its
clerk, and the accuracy and neatness of its records during
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that long period show that few bodies, either secular or
religious, have ever enjoyed the services of so competent
and careful and skilful a recording officer.
To those who were intimate with Mr. Upton his evident
regard for the condition of such persons as might be in
need of sympathy and assistance was a marked charac-
teristic. Many cases of those who enjoyed his aid at
some time when help was needed have become known by
his friends since his death. Welcome as this help was, it
was more highly prized than on its own account because
of the thoughtful kindness and sympathy of which it gave
evidence. There was no effort made among our citizens
to meet an emergency caused by a public disaster to which
he did not render his cheerful aid, while all the established
charities of the city received liberal and constant assis-
tance from him. He took a special interest in institutions
of learning, and when the Trustees of Brown University
and of Newton Theological Institution undertook to secure
more ample endowments, no one more quickly appreciated
the need of such action, or was more cheerful in making
each of them a liberal donation. One very pleasant illus-
tration of his liberality was furnished when the churches
of this city which contribute to the Am. Board of Com.
for For. Miss, undertook to entertain that large body
during one of its annual meetings. His unsolicited and
unexpected contribution of a hundred dollars towards
defraying the expenses of the meeting was not merely
welcome to his Congregational brethren as help, but was
still more valued as a token of fraternal regard coming
from beyond their own denominational lines.
Those who knew Mr. James Upton best will always
cherish the remembrance of him as an intelligent, de-
cided, unassuming gentleman, who was independent in
his opinions and actions, but was controlled by principles
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which led him to feel deeply and accept cheerfully the fact
that his life and his talents and means were given him for
the benefit of others as well as for the well-being of him-
self and his own household. His influence was felt in
this way. during his life-time, and his friends can have no
higher wish regarding him than that in this sense, while
he now rests from his labors, his "works may follow him"
to do good among those who survive him.
GENEALOGICAL NOTES.
COMMUNICATED BY EDW. S. WATERS.
I HAVE thrown together in a loose way for publication
some of the materials incidentally gathered in preparing
the "Dean Family," to which they may serve as an appen-
dix. The latter portion of the manuscript of the Dean
family history having been destroyed in the Chicago fire,
and the author not having since been able to make the
requisite researches to complete it, its preparation and
publication are unavoidably postponed, but it was thought
well to put into printed form the notes intended for an
appendix, even though the main subject were not finished.
It may be well to say, too, that these notes, as well as
the "Old Estates," were prepared in 1868, far from origi-
nal sources, in the woods of West Virginia, though not
printed till now, 1879.
ASHBY.
Sept. 20, 1807, Benjamin Ashby married Mary Young.
[See Bentley.~\
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Mar. 13, 1802, Thomas Ash by married Ester Ashbey.
[See Bentley. ~]
Mar. 14, 1791, Thomas Ashby married Mary White.
[See Bentley. ~]
Dec. 31, 1792, Kebecea, their daughter, born. [See
Bentley.']
May 31, 1796, Fanny, their daughter, born.
Feb. 21, 1798, Thomas White, their son, born.
Nov. 18, 1792, Mary, their daughter, baptized.
Jan. 20, 1790, Rebecca, wife of Capt. Thomas, set. 19.
Consumption. She was a Hill. Left no children.
Thomas mar. Eebecca Hill, Feb. 3, 1789.
Dec. 13, 1801, Mary, wife of Thomas Ashby, died.
Aug. 17, 1806, John Brown married Mary Ashbey.
[See Bentley. ~]
May 13, 1804, Charlotte, dau. of Tho. and Ester Ash-
bey, bapt. [See Bentley.']
Dec. 29, 1804, Capt. Thomas died, set. 41, of debility.
Mar. at 24. 1st marriage one year, 2nd marriage ten
years, 3d marriage two years. Left five children. De-
scended from an ancient family. By 1st wife, no children ;
by 2nd, four; by 3d, one. Essex, cor. of Curtis. One
son, four dau. [See Beniley.~\
Apr. 11, 1801. Wm. Scott, of Tho. and Mary, d. of
an atrophy, set. 15 mos. They have four children, one
son.
Capt. Thomas, vide Felt, Vol. II, p. 301.
David, of John and Mary Browne, d. Nov. 26, 1810,
aged 13 months. Father d. on wreck of Margaret ;
mother an Ashby. A daughter left. Water St.
News of d. of John Browne upon the Margaret, July
22, 1810, at sea, aged 27. Mar. at 25, an Ashbey. One
child left, a son.
John Browne mar. Mary Ashbey, Aug. 17, 1806.
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Eliz. Ashby, of John and Mary Brown, bapt. Nov. 20,
1808.
David, of John and Mary Brown, bapt. Dec. 3, 1809.
Hannah, wid. of Benj., and others, to J. Pease, April
6, 1731, Reg. of Deeds, Vol. 58, p. 53.
Nath. Pease mar. Eliz. Ashby, Sept., 1701.
Edw. Durant inar. Priscilla Morong, April 19, 1814.
John Dicks mar. Martha Morang, Jan. 9, 1809.
Benj. Ashby, shipwright, makes his will Mar. 31, 1718,
mentions loving wife Eliz., sister Eliz., wife of Nath.
Pease, John, son of aforesaid Nath., aunt Eliz. Marston,
wid., loving mother Hannah, cousin Benj., son of Joseph
Allen, and bro. Jona. Ashbye, Eliz. Pease, ex.
BLANEY.
Births. ^
John and Elizabeth had : Daniel, 30, 8, 1684 ; John,
1, 6, 1686; Thomas, 30, 3, 1689; Elizabeth, 25, 10,
1692 ; Hannah, 31, 1, 1695 ; Henry, 20, 6, 1698 ; David,
6, 5, 1701. [See Quaker Records.]
Marriages.
"Robert Buffum to Sarah, 20, 10, 1703 ; "d. of John of
Lynn."
Walter Philips ("son of Walter of Lyn") to Eliz., 7 d.
Jan., 1713-4; "d. of John of Salem."
Matthew Estes of Lynn ("son of John dec.") to Mar-
tha, 19 Sept., 1744, "d. of David."
James Needham ("son of Daniel") to Alice, Oct. 11,
1770 ; "d. of Thos. dec." \_8ee Quaker Records.]
Deaths.
Mrs. Mary, May, 1798, aged 85. Wid. Mary, Apr.,
1799. Eliz., wid. of Capt. Jona., formerly of Salem, at
Newbern, N. C., Jan. 17, 1859, aged 83J.
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John to Hannah King, May 11, 1660, and had John, b.
May 5, 1661, Daniel, Henry, Joseph, and Elizabeth.
An agreement "was made Apr. 13, 1727, among John's
heirs ; his farm, partly in Lynn and partly in Salem,
divided into two portions, subdivided among his sons
John, Thomas, Henry, and David, the heirs to have his
lands equally besides what he especially willed them.
Apr. 1, 1728.
John, sen., to son Thos., fisherman, for 30, eleven
acres in Lynn, Mar. 18, 1716-7.
John, sen. (wife Eliz.), to son Thos., mariner, for
31, two common rights, Jan. 3, 1725-6.
Thos., cordwainer, from Rich. Hayden of Marblehead,
slaughterer, for 43, one-third of a tract partly in Lynn
and partly in Salem, formerly of Lieut. John Pickering,
and being that part given by him to Capt. Wm. P., he
sold by order of Court, Oct. 29, 1726. Barbara, wife of
Rich.
Thos. to bro. John, slaughterer or husbandman, for
43, land partly in Salem, partly in Lynn, Nov. 1, 1726.
John, sen., of Lynn, Apr. 17, 1691. Coll., Vol. V, p.
47.
Thomas, of Salem, and wife Desire, to Henry Burch-
stead, of Lynn, physician, for 170, two pieces of land
in Lynn, one being one and one-half acres, bounded east,
west, and north by said Burchstead's, south by land of
Benj. Flint, dec. ; the other, eleven acres, forty poles,
bounded south and west by land lately of John Browne,
Esq., dec., north by land of Nath. Collins, east southerly
of said Browne, formerly of Eleazer Collins. Aug. 11,
1737.
Thos. to David, tanner, for 130, fourteen acres, ninety-
two poles, partly in Lynn, partly in Salem, north of the
tannyard, saving the mother's thirds during her natural
life, Apr. 1, 1728. Also Feb. 18, 1729, for 170, thir-
teen acres as above, being part of his father's farm.
Said Thomas from John Holman, of Marblehead, and
wife Huldah, 116f poles, east southerly on a way to ye
great pasture, north on David Flint's division, June 11,
1737. Also from David Flint, of Marblehead, and wife
Hannah, eight to nine poles, north on John Flint's divi-
sion, east on John Metcalfs, June 4, 1737.
Joseph's division of estate, vide B. 42, f. 238.
John Blaney of Salem, yeoman, makes his will Dec. 29,
1723; mentions wife Eliz., eldest son John, and sons
Thomas, Henry and David, and daughters Elizabeth Phil-
lips, Hannah Reed, Sarah Peck and Penelope Blany.
Will presented Dec. 29, 1726.
Jona. makes will, giving property to only son Joseph
and three daughters, Mary, Abigail and Hannah, Aug.
15, 1757. Presented Oct. 3, 1757.
Joseph Blaney, Esq., of Windham, Co. of Cumberland,
sells land in Salem Mar. 11, 1779 ; also 13, to Sam. Lus-
comb.
John Blano mar. Eliz. Purchis, Nov., 1678, Lynn.
John Reed of Marblehead, shoreman, and wife Hannah
to "our brethren John & Thomas Blaney, cordwainers,
Henry, mar., & David, tanner, all of S'm," for 55, sell
all right to estate of honored father John, dec., June 26,
1728.
Walter Phillips, Jr., of Lynn, and wife Elizabeth,
another daughter, also quitclaim, Feb. 26, 1729.
Benj. Pix, of Marblehead, and wife Sarah, another dau.,
quitclaim, Feb. 18, 1729.
John, fisherman, Thos., shoreman, Henry, innholder,
and David, tanner, for 14 sell to Sam. Buxton, husband-
man, a common right in that division, Dog-pond rocks,
lately allowed to estate of late father John, dec., Feb. 23,
1735.
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Thos. from Hannah Orange, wid., of Boston, for 250
about three and three-quarters acres, northwest on the
North River, July 30, 1740.
May 12, 1741, to bros. Henry and David land adjoining
each other.
To Gideon Foster, Apr. 4, 1759, three common rights.
Jos., of Lynn, shipwright, makes will, Aug. 14, 1726 ;
wife Abigail, dan. Hannah James, son Jedediah, Benj.,
Ambrose, Nehemiah, and Abigail, eld. son Jos., Ex. ;
also son Jona., 20 to the poor of the First Parish of
Lynn. Pres. Mar. 2, 1726-7.
Guardianship of Nehemiah, aged 14, and Abigail, aged
12, granted to Benj. of Maiden, Mar. 2, 1726-7.
Agreement between John, Jr., of Lynn, and Robert
Devorix of Marblehead and wife Hannah, Jona. Felt of
Salem, ankersmith, and wife Elizabeth, and Sarah of
Lynn, brothers and sisters to said John, whereas said
John is heir apparent to the estate, partly in Lynn and
partly in Salem, entailed by his grandfather Daniel King
of Lynn, dec., to his mother Hannah, late dec., and
her heirs by his will, which is now in possession of his
father John, Sen., of Lynn, alias Salem, gentleman, who
is permitted to possess it during his life, and then it is to
come into the hands of said John, Jr., whose right it is,
yet out of affection, etc., he pays his sisters three-sixths
of it, after the decease of his said father; July 26, 1701.
Wid. Hannah of Lynn to Rand Graves, May 26, 1770.
Mary, administratrix of husband Daniel, 22 Dec., 1760 ;
to bringing up two young children, seven yrs., two nios.,
since last account.
Administration of Joseph, Esq., granted to Jacob Ash-
ton, Esq., Oct. 2, 1786.
Wm. of Lyndeborough, N. H., husbandman to Mary
of Yarmouth, N. S., wid., for 230, a certain dwelling-
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house at Newtown, so called, . . . situate in Marblehead,
Oct. 4, 1792. Also wife Ruth.
Jos., Esq., and Abig. Hooper, wid., both of Windham,
and Amos Evans and wife Eliz., of Marblehead, to John
convey "Waitt's land" in Marblehead, July 11, 1783.
Arnold Blaney, Bristol, Me., July 14, 1862.
Alice and Thomas, for 126, to Gideon George of
Haverhill sell twenty-seven and one-half acres, situate in
Haverhill, bounded northwest by Jamaica Path ( ?), north-
east and east on a highway leading to Merrimack River,
southeast by said river, and southwest by land of said
George, being that piece of land set out to them from the
estate of brother Sam. Peaslee, dec., Oct. 27, 1763.
She sells to the same, May 27, 177S, for 93, 6s., two
and one-half acres, being the share set out to her out of
the thirds of the widow of Sam. Peaslee.
Joseph, Jr., of Marblehead, tanner, and wife Eliz.
convey to their brother Wm. Cogswell of Ipswich all
right, excepting the widow's thirds, to the estate of late
father John Cogswell of Chebacco, Ipswich, dec., Dec. 3,
1726. Said John's widow Hannah the wife of Thomas
Perley, July 21, 1726.
His children: Wm., eldest son, John, Francis, Nath.,
Hannah, Sus., Eliz., Majery, Bethiah, Joseph.
Han. and Thos. Burnam, Sus., Sam., and Nath. Low,
children of Sus. and Amos Perley of Boxford and wife
Marjery, mentioned Aug. 1, 1726.
BOWERS.
Henry, b. 11, 18, 1716, O. S., d. 12, 26, 1789; his
wife Rebecca, d. 7 mo., 4, 1760. They had :
John, b. 12, 28, 1739, d. in Jamaica, 1766; Mary, b.
6 mo., 8, 1742 ; Dean, b. 3 mo., 22, 1745, d. in Antigua,
1764; Henry, b. 4 mo., 1, 1747; Rebecca, b. 6 mo., 1,
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1749, O. S., d. 2 mo., 9, 1803; Jerathmeel, b. 4 mo.,
26, 1752, d. 1775; Mary, b. 4 mo., 8, 1754; William,
b. 7 mo., 22, 1756 ; Lloyd, b. 5 mo., 30, 1758 ; George,
b. 6 mo., 11, 1760.
George and Priscilla to George Dean, 1687.
Henry, of Swansey, Co. Bristol, hatter, for 100 paid
by Wm. Stacey, joyner, "all that my Hatter's shop &c.
standing on the ground of Joseph Hathorne," etc., Oct.
6, 1736.
BLYTHE.
First Church.
Samuel, son of Jona. and Sarah, bapt. Aug. 27, 1721.
St. Peter's Church.
William, of Sam. Blyth, bapt. Nov. 11, 1750.
Sam. Blyth mar. Abigail Massey, Oct. 13, 1743.
Sam. Blyth mar. Sally Holland, Nov. 13, 1787.
CHAPMAN.
Children of John, Jr., and Hannah :
John, bapt. Jan. 29, 1727 ; Hannah, bapt. Nov. 3,
1728; Eliz., bapt. Aug. 2, 1730; Mary, bapt. Sept. 5,
1731; Sarah, bapt. Nov. 11, 1733; Samuel, bapt. Dec.
19, 1734; Lydia, bapt. Mar. 14, 1737.
Children of Jos. and Sarah :
Mary and Eliz., bapt. Jan. 24, 1731 ; Jos., bapt. Mar.
4, 1733-4; Jona., bapt. June 1, 1735; Lydia, bapt.
Feb. 26, 1738.
It was Joseph's widow, I suppose, who mar. Jan. 13,
1750, Michael More.
Margaret, of Stephen, Jan. 2, 1738-9.
Margaret, of Stephen, May 27, 1716.
Elizabeth, of Stephen, June 9, 1717.
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Geo. Williams, of Eliz. Chapman, now Mills, Oct. 7,
1739.
Eliz., of Eliz. and John Mills, Oct. 7, 1739.
John, of Eliz. and John Mills, Dec. 30, 1739.
Nov. 17, 1761, Mary, wid. of Isaac Chapman, black-
smith, and her daughter Eliz., convey to Roger Peele,
shipwright, one-half of common right for 5. To secure
him in possession of this against any claims of the chil-
dren or heirs of her sister Mary Atkinson, dec., the said
Elizabeth conveys to him her quarter part of her late
father's estate, above mentioned, and parcel of land
bounded north on the highway which leads to Richard
Palmer's house, east by land of David Calluin, south by
the mill-pond, and west by her uncle Jos. Britton's.
Eliz., wid. (?), child and heir of said Isaac, sells to
Timothy Atkinson her quarter of her father's estate as
above, except the part bounded east by land of David
Callum and a way, and north by a way formerly estate of
said Isaac, and which descended to his three children,
Michael, Mary and herself; Aug. 24, 1772.
In Beverly there are conveyances of property from
Eliz., wid., and Isaac, blacksmith, to Osman Trask, Jan.
31, 1763.
Eliz., wid., and Isaac, from Win. Haskell, Jan. 31,
1763.
Isaac, gent., from John and Hannah Ellinwood, May
26, 1791.
In Col. Hale's Record we find the deaths of James
Chapman's wife, Mar., 1739-40 ; Ezra Chappleman's wife,
Feb. 1, 1743; Ezra Chappleinan, in Europe, of small
pox, 1742-3.
An Isaac Chapman of Barnstable had John, b. May 12,
1681, and others.
City Records.
Hannah, wife of John, died Aug. 8, 1700.
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Their dau. Hannah b. Aug. 14, 1695; d. Nov. 10,
1713.
Son Stephen b. Sept. 18, 1697.
John mar. Eliz. Cook, Feb. 13, 1700-1, and had John,
b. May 15, 1702; Joseph, b. Dec. 8, 1703; Eliz., b.
Dec. 15, 1705; Daniel, b. Nov. 8, 1707, d. Dec. 31,
1713; Isaac, b. Aug. 27, 1710; Samuel, b. Nov. 2, 1712;
Hannah, b. Dec. 29, 1714; Eliz., b. Nov. 22, 1717.
Stephen mar. Dorcas Woodwell, Nov. 5, 1707, and
had Margaret, who died 1710-11, and Mary.
Joseph Henderson mar. Polly Chapman, Apr. 3, 1791.
Haven Poole mar. Polly Chapman, Oct. 15, 1804.
John Chapman mar. Ruth Hentield, Mar. 22, 1792.
John Ingersoll, b. 1645, d. 1715, mar. Deborah ,
and had Rachel, who mar. John Chapman.
COOK.
John, with consent of wife Marg., and mother Eliz.,
sells land formerly his lather Benj.'s, Aug. 15, 1761.
Benj. and James sell land to T. Orne about 1760-1.
John mar. Margaret Webb, Sept. 23, 1760. Barnard.
John mar. 3d Susannah Webb, Dec. 1, 1762. Barnard.
Joseph mar. Margaret Cox, Aug. 14, 1706. Noyes.
Abigail mar. Geo. West, Apr. 28, 1751. Leavitt.
John and Hannah had: John, b. Apr., 1702; Joseph,
b. Apr., 170- ; Geo., b. May 5, 1710.
Joseph mar. Margaret Cox, 1706, and had Joseph,
James, Win. and Margaret, all bapt. Apr. 29, 1722.
Joseph probably mar. Rachel Britton, Apr. 8, 1734.
John and wife Margaret sell to sister widow Susanna
Tarrant, Dec. 1, 1784.
Tho. Whittredge mar. Sarah, dau. of Henry Cook,
May 20, 1753. She had sisters Rachel and Mary of
Danvers.
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Benj. Cook and wife Eliz. to son John, Dec. 6, 1766.
Hannah to son Joseph, Jan. 16, 1735.
Jos., Jr., with wife Eunice to brother Sam., Jan. 16,
1735.
Jos., Benj., Sam., Mary Glover, Eliz. Henderson,
Hannah Archer to their mother Hannah Cook, widow,
Jan. 14, 1735.
Isaac, Sam., Charles, children of Sam., grandchildren
of Isaac, and nephews of Henry, Nov. 28, 1735.
Isaac's will dated Sept. 4, 1692.
Isaac and wife Eliz., nee Waters, from E. W., May 8,
1736.
Estate of Hannah, wid., dec., Apr. 8, 1745, divided
among her children Joseph, Benj., Mary Glover, Eliz.,
Hannah Archer.
John Cook, dec., mentioned, Aug. 4, 1729.
Joseph, Jr., and Eunice to Sam. Sibley, June 6, 1734.
Hannah, aged about 15, dau. of John, dec., chooses
.her mother Hannah as guardian, Dec. 13, 1731.
In division of said John's real estate into seven parts,
eldest son being dead, Jos., Sam., Geo., Benj., Mary,
Eliz. and Hannah each have one share.
Administration on estate of John Cook, mariner, was
granted to his widow Hannah, Dec. 29, 1721.
John, aged about 60, blacksmith, May 11, 1706, de-
poneth.
Samuel makes will Mar. 10, 1718, mentions wife Mary
and three sons, Isaac, Samuel and Charles, and daughter
Mary; presented Apr. 15, 1718.
Capt. (Nath.) Cook of small pox on passage from W.
I. to Salem. News received June, 1782. City Records.
John Beckford and John Cook were taken while fishing
in the bay by Capt. Lindsey, carried to Boston, and their
boat detained, Aug. 3, 1775. Felt.
1787, May 27, Schooner Industry arrived from St.
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Ubes. Her captain, John Cook was washed overboard
and drowned.
John, son of Isaacke and Eliz., b. Mar. 23, 1673.
John mar. Mary Buxton, Dec. 28, 1G72. Their son
John b. 20, 6 mo., 1674 ; son Joseph b. Mar. 9, 1680.
Nancy, wife of David Phippen, d. Oct. 24, 1815, aired
37. Married at 21 ; married sixteen years ; six children
left. Four sons, two daughters. Her mother a Cooke.
Her grandfather a Clough. He a grandson of D. P.
Vide June 23, 1816, Bentley's Record of Deaths.
Vide Wm. Eulen, Sept. 26, 1818, Record of Deaths.
Vide Sept. 2, 1819, Record of Deaths.
John Chamberlain to Stephen Cook, Apr. 3, 1778.
Mansfield, Foote and Cook to Ebenezer Peirce, June
3, 1779.
Eliz., wife of Stephen Cook, heir of Newhall, Dec. 12,
1779.
Jona. Cook to Jos., May 12, 1780.
Sam. Cook, on next page of Deeds.
Thos. Whittredge and wife Sarah, Rachel and Mary
Cook, of Danvers, daughters of Henry Cook, late of
Salem, Jan. 8, 1755.
Eliz. Cook, late relict of Joshua Bickford to Jos. Saul,
Oct. 30, 1778. Recorded Oct. 18, 1782.
Sam. Cook from Benj. Verry, Lib. 61, f. 114.
Rob. and wife Marg., and Jona. and wife Mehitable,
children of Isaac, late deceased, to Isaac, Apr. 1 and 11,
1767.
Sam., of New Salem, Hampshire Co., to John South-
wick, Mar. 8, 1745.
John Cook, blacksmith, b. about 1646, mar. Dec. 28,
1672, Mary Buxton, by whom he had several children,
whose births may be found in the COLLECTIONS, Vol. II,
p. 42.
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III his will, bearing date May 24, 1716, he mentions
loving wife Mary, eldest son John, son Joseph, son Eben-
ezer, dau. Eliz. Chapman, dau. Hannah Purchase, dau.
Lydia, and son Isaac, to whom he gives his homestead
and the little orchard up by Robert Willsou's, he to dwell
with his mother and to be executor, his neighbors and
friends Stephen Sewall and John Higginson to be over-
seers of it. Presented Nov. 9, 1716.
There was also an Isaac, perhaps brother to the above,
who had sons, Samuel and Henry. Samuel mar. Mary
. He made his will Mar. 10, 1718, and mentions
wife Mary and three sons, Isaac, Samuel and Charles, and
daughter Mary. Presented Apr. 15, 1718.
A Henry mar. Mary Hale, ye last of ye 7 mo., 1678.
Isaac was probably the ancestor of the Danvers family of
this name.
A Joseph Cook mar. Margaret Cox, Aug. 14, 1706,
and had Joseph, James, Wm. and Margaret, all bapt. at
the First Church, Apr. 29, 1722. He was perhaps a
brother of the John, who mar. Hannah Dean, and born
Mar. 9, 1680.
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DERBY. DYNN. HASKETT.
In tracing a pedigree in our public records, it not in-
frequently happens that one comes to a point where the
absence of a single name may prevent any farther definite
search in that particular direction, and destroy the com-
pleteness of the family record.
This is especially true in regard to the records of mar-
riages. In some cases, where we have a reasonable right
to find it at once, the most thorough search fails to dis-
cover it, and in others the maiden name of the wife being
placed last, near the edge of the page, is by the fraying
or crumbling away of the leaf utterly illegible. In such
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cases one must trust to other evidence, collateral or cir-
cumstantial, and this, as the compiler has found by several
cases, often proves to be sufficient. The following is in
point :
A descendant of Roger Derby, through a daughter by
his second wife ; I was of course desirous to know her
maiden name and thence her family.
Her name was known to have been Elizabeth, but an
examination of the records and other sources of informa-
tion failed to show anything further than that.
Soon afterwards the "Derby Family" was published in
the COLLECTIONS, but this also threw no direct light upon
the question.
But with the attention to apparent trifles which should
be characteristic of the genealogist it was noted that in
the will of Roger Derby there w r as a reference which
might throw some light upon the matter :
"i note that i have six pounds mony in my hands and
some of theyr fathers houssall goods which they must be
paid i mean John dinn & William Dinn ;"
The question immediately arose, who were John and
William Dynn, and how came he to have possession of
their properly. It could naturally only be as their rela-
tive, or their guardian, or through his wife, they being
relatives of her. The first and second reasons were dis-
missed for want of any evidence, and attention was given
to the third, which immediately suggested the question,
if they were not her children by a former husband. A
search in the records to establish this point was rewarded
by the following results :
William Dynn mar. Elizabeth Haskett, June 6, 1684.
John, son of William and Elizabeth Dynn, b. May 23,
1686.
William, son of William and Elizabeth Dynn, b. Aug.
1, 1689.
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Administration upon the estate of John Dynn granted
unto his mother Elizabeth Darby, July 2, 1713.
Elizabeth Derby, then, was a Haskett, daughter of
Stephen and Eliz., and had a brother Elias, and sisters,
of whom Hannah, Sarah, and Martha 1 were admitted to
the First Church, May 3, 1702 ; their mother had been
admitted Sept. 3, 1699.
It was already known from what place in England
Roger Derby came, but now those of his. descendants who
were by his second wife will also be able to extend an-
other line across the water to the Old Country.
"Mrs. Elizabeth Haskitt, widow, formerly wife of Ste-
phen Haskitt 2 of Salem, personally appeared before me ye
subscriber and made oath that she hath six children living
(viz.) one sonne whose name is Elias Haskitt aged about
twenty-eight years & five daughters Elizabeth, Mary,
Sarah, Hannah & Martha all which she had by her hus-
band the abovesaid Mr. Stephen Haskitt and were his
children by him begotten of her body in lawful Wedlock
being married to him by Doctor Clavell in Exiter in ye
Kingdome of England, and whose said husband served
his time with one Mr. Thomas Oburne a Chandler and
Sope-boyler in said place and way ye reputed Sonne of
Haskit 3 of Henstredge (so-called) in Summerset-
*By a typographical error " Haskel," in the "Baptisms," published in the COL-
LECTIONS.
Page 210, too, of the same,"8hould not " Fink" be " Tink " ?
*Adm. upon the estate of a Stephen Haskitt is found Feb. 5, 1742.
3 Stephen Haskett, Sen., Fuller, Marnhull, Dorset. Will dated May 24, 1648.
Prob. Feb. 27, 1653.
. Son Ellis, son John, grandchild James Young; mills, etc., in Marnhull, Todber,
and Fifehead Magdalen in Dorset.
Wife Eliz., son Stephen, dau. Eliz. Young, who was to inherit the leases, etc.,
after the wife and said Stephen.
"Pewter, brass and timber vessels."
Overseers, Osmond Ploant and Jno. Snooke. Witnesses, Robert Lillie and
Geo. Marsh, and Eliz. Haskett, widow, of Todber.
This memorandum has just been received, among others, from two Salem
genealogists now in England, who are combining research with recreation, Messrs.
Emmerton and Waters. The former having made it, the latter remarks upon it,
"Ellis is probably the same as Elias. The places named are near by Henstredge."
Oct. 20, 1879.
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shire in said Kingdome of England, & have often heard
my said husband say that he had hut one brother whose
name was Elias Huskit, and that he lived in said Town of
Henstredge. Elizabeth Haskitt.
Sworn at Salem May ye 30 1698 before me
John Hathorne."
Then follows testimony as to Elias Haskitt being in
Barbadoes.
The Notarial Record in the office of the Essex County
Clerk, from which the above is taken, contains other
material useful to the genealogist.
The descendants of his son Richard also will have the
same pleasure of this additional information ; as he mar-
ried Martha Haskett. Mr. Perley Derby is evidently
mistaken in the statement that Martha was the daughter
of Col. Elias Ilasket, son of Capt. Stephen. He was
born in 1670, and of course could not have a daughter
old enough for marriage in 1702-3. No, she was his .sis-
ter, the above mentioned Martha, daughter of Stephen.
It follows, therefore, that Roger 1 and Richard 2 , father and
son, married sisters.
There are other descendants of Roger Derby found in
the records.
His daughter Lucretia mar. Joseph Bolles at Ipswich,
1707-8 and had issue ; others of the name are found there
too.
The name also occurs in Marblehcad, but they were
probably not of this family. Alice, b. 1(579; John,
1G81 ; Mary, 1683. Is it known from whom "Darby
Fort" got its name?
Samuel Derby mar. Rcbeckah Nuttin, June 25, 1754.
Samuel Clark mar. Rachel Derby, Feb. 17, 1711.
Marblehead.
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EASTIE OR ESTES,
Matthew, of Robert and Doraty, of Old England, b.
28, 3, 1645.
Richard, of Robert and Doraty, of Old England, b.
28, 3, 1647 ; mar. Eliz'h Beck, 24, 4, 1687, and had Mat-
thew, b. 7, 14, 1689. Said Rich, and wife Eliz. mar. at
Dover, "both of ye Great Island, N. H. He in England
till 11 d., 7 m., 1684, brought a certificate from ye people
of 'God in Newinton, in East Kent, Old England."
Matthew Estes, in his will, mentions son John, to him
land, etc., in Lynn, and grandsons John and William.
Ahijah his grandson, son of said John and wife Hannah,
set. 21, to have said Matthew's "wester dwelling-house,"
the south end fronting the Main street, bounded by land
formerly Richard Croades's, now accounted in possession
of Joseph and Hannah Crow, the north end bounded by
land of Bethiah, widow of Robert Kitchen, etc. To
Ahijah's brothel Richard the adjoining "caster house,"
etc. To their brother Matthew, sister Philadelphia, and
sister Hannah, also bequests. Beloved brother Richard
of Lynn to be executor, he and his wife having liberty to
live in the wester house if they like till Ahijah be of age,
and to have a commission of a penny in the shilling of all
his debts and accessions, etc. Sam. Pope of Lynn, over-
seer and to assist.
John Ropes. June 15, 1723.
Sam. Ropes. Proved July 18, 1723.
Wm. Trask.
Matthew of Lynn, son of John, dec., mar. Martha,
daughter of David Blaney, Sept. 19, 1744.
Matthew mar. Anna, daughter of Sam. Newhall, Sept.
16, 1746. See Friends Records.
Robert Kitchen, merchant, and Bethia his wife, to Mat-
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thew Estis of Lynn, mariner, sells for 30 a parcel of
land bounded east and north by his own land, west by
said Estis', and south partly by said Estis' and partly by
Maine street, being 120 ft. long and 23 ft., 8 in. wide,
June 25, 1706.
Richard of Lynn, cordwainer, to Ahijah of Salem, hat-
ter, for 100 sells all his part of the land in Salem here-
tofore the homestead of his grandfather Matthew, dec.,
"given to us said Ahijah and Richard by his will" and
therein partly described, the buildings thereon having
been since burnt down, bounded south on Main street,
north and east by land of Kitchen, and west by land of
Neal, Nov. 29, 1736.
Hannah Estes.
John Estes.
Sam. Collins of Lynn and Thos. Richardson of Xew-
port, R. I., sell to Walter New berry of Boston, Robert
Burt'am and Samuel Pope and Joshua Buffam all of Salem,
and Matthew Estes, Jr., of Situate in Plimouth, currier,
for 200 a piece of land in Boston near Govern on r's Dock
so-called, bounded north by land now or late of John
Leverett, Esq., in the improvement of Francis Thresher,
east by Leverctt's Lane, 4 west by land of the heirs of
Widow Phillips, dec., and south by land of heirs of Capt.
John Wing, dec., with the brick meeting-house lately
erected thereon, commonly called the Quakers' meeting-
house, etc., etc., June 10, 1717.
4 Andrew Dunlnp of Boston, brewer, in his will of May 25, 1804, mentions prop-
erty in Boston, in Leverett street, valued at $15,000, at the eastward, in the Brew-
ery, in Halifax, and in Ireland, at $.J,50<), a note of hand due Josiah Waters, of
$100.00; :il-<> dau. Mary Martin, dan. Margaret, dau. Ann, wife of John (jiilli.s, dan.
Sally, dau. Elizabeth, dau. Jane, wife of Francis Anderson, son Andrew, and chil-
dren of late dau. Letitia McClea.
Andrew and John Gillis, Exrs.
Thomas Burley.
Daniel Stamford.
William Robertson. Presented July 23, 1801.
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Another Quaker meeting-house before or since, stood,
I think, near the present Devonshire street.
A family of the name, Friends, and who descended
from Matthew of Lynn, live upon the outskirt of North
Berwick, in Maine.
A Ruth, grandchild of Matthew Estee, was wife of
Joseph Brownell of "Road Island," May 13, 1725.
Ahijah mar made will Sept. 3, 1783, leaving
property to son Samuel's heirs as follows : Ruth, bap.
Apr. 14, 1765, mar. Ames; Anna, bap. June 16, 1765;
Mary, bap. Sept. 7, 1766 ; Sam. Gardner, bap. May 23,
1773; dau. Mary Blaney, widow; dau. Hannah Hathoru,
widow; dau. Eliz. Sanders, widow; son Nath., who per-
haps mar. Hitty , and had Hitty, bap. Feb. 27,
1774 ; Wm., bap. May 19, 1776 ; Susannah Prescot, bap.
June 12, 1776 and Nath., bap. June 13, 1779. Will
presented June 7, 1790.
Eliz., wife of Nath. Eastey, get. 43, d. Nov. 3, 1787;
left six children, two males ; a dau. mar.
Nath. Eastes, Oct., 1803, set. 24. See, Tab. Ok. Rec.
Nath. Eastes, Nov., 1806. Tab. Ch. Rec.
FLINT.
"Thomas and William (Flint) of Salem were brothers
& arrived here probably before the year 1640."
William owned much land in the vicinty of Flint street,
extending from Essex to Broad street. He died in 1673,
leaving a widow Alice. H^ had six children, of whom
two were sons, Edward and Thomas. Vide Flint Gen-
ealogy.
Edward Flint, "Ensigne," who died 1711, mar. 20, 8,
1659, Elizabeth Hart, by whom he had John, b. 26, 1,
1660, Wm., b. 12, 6, 1661, Thomas, b. 1, 12, 1662,
David, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Hannah, Sarah, Deborah,
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and Abigail, and grandsons Joseph, Samuel and Edward,
of whom Edward only seems to have survived, and a
granddaughter Mary, who married Sam. Wainwright of
Ipswich ; the two latter children of his son Joseph, who
d. 1710-20.
There was a difficulty in regard to the settlement of
William Flint's estate.
Sept. 30, 1695, Margaret Goodwin and Alice Picker-
ing, his daughter, applied to the Court begging that the
widow Alice and son Ensigne Edw., administrators,
might be cited.
The widow differed from her son as to the existence or
correctness of a will. They, Feb. 3, 1695-6, presented
different accounts of administration, and the l()th of that
month Alice set forth that the said William had four other
children than those mentioned in the pretended will, viz.,
Eliz., Marg. , Alice and Hannah; whereupon the said
will was declared null.
Feb. 26, Alice the widow presented her account, which
was allowed, and the estate divided as follows :
To the widow, one-third, 282, s. 17.
To Edw., eldest son, a double portion, 161, s. 4.
To Thomas, Eliz. alias Woodis in England, Margaret
alias Goodin, Alice alias Pickering, and Hannah alias
Keizar, each 80, s. 12.
From this Thomas Flinfc appealed and gave bond to
prosecute his appeal before the Honorable Lieutenant
Governor and Council.
Ensign Edward's will is dated May 23, 1711. He
gives property to his wife Eliz. ; to son David 20 poles
of land where his house stands, to son Benj. a dwelling-
house and barnes and land adjoining, also ye Brickkiln-
field, marsh and upland on the north side of Forest river
creek, also his ten acre lott in South-field called Bater's
lott, and the swamp land in Lyn bounds back of Dar-
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ling's. To daughters Eliz. Dean, Hannah Oring, Sarah
Willard, Deborah Lee, and Abigail Hallo way, also to
grandsons Jos., Sam. and Edw. each forty poles of his
land in ye ffield called Goldthright's ffield, and four acres
to kinsman John Bullock. Son Benj., ex. Presented
July 31, 1711. Administration on the personal estate
granted to his widow Eliz., Dec. 27, 1711.
Of the above premises, the homestead, which went to
Benj., was apparently just west of Dean street, extending
from Essex street to the North river ; the Forest river
land was afterwards sold by Mary Ropes, an heir of Benj.
Flint to John Cochran ; "Goldthrite's" field 5 was sold by
Jos. Flint and wife Mary to Nath. Ropes in 1721, then
bounded east on the highway, west on the Brickkiln Lane,
south on land of Wm. and Benj. Pickering, and north by
land of Eliz. Dean and other Flint heirs.
The Brickkiln field apparently went to David and then
to his heirs, and by one of them, Huldah Holman, to
have been sold in 1737 to Thomas Blaney, whose widow
sold it, Nov. 24, 1778, to John Buffington, mar. It was
bounded southeast on a way to the great pasture. Her
father, David of Salem, made his will July 26, 1736,
which was presented Nov. 3. The records contain sales,
etc., of his real estate. His daughter Hannah married
Tho. Cruff of Smithfield, "Co. of Providence, Collony of
R. I.," who makes his trusty friend Thomas Beadle of the
same place his attorney, Mar. 18, 1739-40, who in turn
gives the same power to Nath. Shelden of Gloucester,
Mar. 24, 1739.
This Thomas Beadle conveys to Jos. of Salem all right
to a certain dwelling-house here, etc., Aug. 12, 1736.
Benjamin Flint d. 1732 ; administration upon his estate
was granted to Thomas Lee of Boston and Benjamin Ger-
rish, Jan. 2, 1732-3. In his inventory we find: his late
6 Where was it ? Anywhere between Essex and Broad streets ?
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homestead with the old buildings and others, except
Thomas Bluney's fish-flakes, five acres, valued at 700.
The total of his real estate was 1,1582.
Major Ichabod Plaisted, Capt. John Higginson, Esq.,
Major Dan. Epes, Esq., Messrs. Jos. Orne, and Timothy
Pickering were appointed a committee, being all free-
holders, etc., to appraise and divide this into seven equal
parts, Apr. 17, 1734. This they did May 6, 1734, "the
Bank at the N. end of the homest'd being excepted, being
claimed by the Town."
To David and heirs, No. 1. To Eliz. Dean and heirs,
No. 5, being a front lott in the homestead, measuring
south on the Main street 72 ft., north on the rear land 75
ft., and is in length about 14 poles, east on No. 4, and
west on No. 6, also 1J acres on Forest river, and three
common rights. To Hannah Orange, No. 7. To Jacob
Willard and wife Sarah, No. 6. To Thomas Lee and
wife Deborah, No. 2. To Benjamin Gerrish and wife
Abigail, No. 3. To Edw. Flint and sister Mary Wain-
wright, No. 4.
Personal estate, 509, 8, 6.
Mem. There is about six acres called the meeting-
house field, formerly of Jno. Maul delivered us for 158,
s. 19, which we have not now accounted for, but shall
when impowered to do the same."
Thomas Lee. Benj. Gerrish.
John of Windham, Conn., for himself and as attorney
to his brother Joshua of the same place, for 40 sells to
Benj. Gillingham their former proportion, two-sevenths,
of the real estate of their father John Flint, dec., a
dwelling-house with one-half acre of land, north on
Prison land, east on Prison Lane, south on Benj. Beadle's
and west on Col. Sam. Browne's, with two common
rights, etc., Apr. 24, 1731.
NOTES ON THE
RICHARDSON AND RUSSELL FAMILIES.
COMMUNICATED Bf JAMBS KIMBALL, OF SALEM.
THE following communication is presented as the con-
tinuation of the genealogy of that branch of the Richard-
son family descendants of EzERiEL 1 of Charlestown, THE-
OPHILUS 2 , EZEKIEL 3 , THEOPHILUS 4 , through MOSES 5 of
Cambridge. From the "Richardson Memorial," edited by
John A. V in ton, page 55, No. 164.
Moses 5 Richardson of Cambridge was a descendant
from Ezekiel 1 Richardson, who came over in the fleet with
Winthrop in 1630 ; settled first in Charlestown, where he
remained until about 1641, when he removed to Woburn.
He was one of the original members of the church in
Woburn. Will proved June, 1648. (Rich. Mem., p.
31, No. 1.)
Theophilus 2 Richardson, eldest son of Ezekiel 1 , was
bapt. in Charlestown Dec. 22, 1633 ; mar. May 2, 1654,
Mary Champ ney, dau. of John and Joanna Champney of
Cambridge. (Rich. Mem., p. 37, No. 3.)
Ezekiel 3 Richardson, eldest son of Theophilus 2 and
Mary (Champney) Richardson, born in Woburn, Oct. 28,
1656, mar. Elizabeth Swan of Cambridge, July 27, 1687.
(Rich. Mem., p. 39, No. 20.)
Theophilus 4 Richardson, eldest son of Ezekiel 3 and
Elizabeth (Swan) Richardson, was born Jan. 7, 1691-2,
mar. in Watertown, Apr. 24, 1711, Ruth Swan, dau. of
Gershom Swan of Watertown. She mar. 2d,' Apr. 26,
(110)
Ill
1726, Ebenezer Parker of Stoneham. (Rich. Mem., p,
45, No. 59.)
1.
Moses 5 Richardson,* youngest child of Theophilus 4 and
Ruth (Swan) Richardson, born in Woburn 8th of Apr.,
1722 ; mar. Mary Prentiss, dan. of Henry and Catharine
(Fitch) Prentiss, born in 1728 ; date of marriage not
certain. Wife Mary died in Cambridge Mar. 12, 1812,
aged 84.
Moses 5 was killed in "Lexington fight," Apr. 19, 1775.
Several, if not all, of the patriots who fell on the 19th of
April, 1775, belonging to Cambridge, were hurriedly
buried in one large trench in the old bury ing-ground near
the Common, f After the bodies were placed carefully in
the trench, Elias Richardson, the son of Moses 5 , who was
present at the burial, seeing that his father's face was
uncovered, went down into the trench and covered it with
the cape of the overcoat in which the body was wrapped.
No memorial marked the place of burial of the first
martyrs to the cause of American liberty for nearly a cen-
tury.
"In 1870 the City of Cambridge erected over their
* The following certificate from the Town Books of Woburn has been preserved
with a lew papers that belonged to William Ku-M-11 of Boston, who mar. Mary
Richardson, dau. of Moses and Mary (Prentiss) Richardson.
Copy, "Mosea son of Theopilus and Ruth (Swan) Richardson, bu iu Woburn
Ap. btu 1722.
fr Town records
as attest John Fowle, Town Clerk."
In the Prentiss family Genealogy, p. 08 (-ill;, Moses should be substituted for
Raham. Moses' 6 youngest son Raham also mar. a Mary Prmti.-.-, but no known
relationship existed between the families of the two Mary Prontisses.
tThe place of burial was frequently pointed out to me by my mother in child-
hood on our annual visit to Cambridge during Commencement week, and although
over sixty years have passed away, such was the impression made on my mind
that I think I can see the spot as clearly to-day as I did at that time.
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remains a neat monument of Scotch granite, with this
inscription :
Erected by the City, A. D. 1870.
To the memory of John Hicks, William Marcy, Moses
Richardson, buried here.
Jason Russell, Jabez Wyman, Jason Winship, buried
in Menotomy. Men of Cambridge who fell in defence of
the Liberty of the People April 19th 1775.
f O, what a glorious morning is this."' (Paige's Hist,
of Cambridge.)
Moses 5 had six children by wife Mary Prentiss :
2. I. Mary, b. June 10, 1753, mar. William Russell of Boston.
3. II. Moses, b. Sept. 10, 1755, mar. Sally Clark of Boston in 1781.
4. III. Katharine, b. Aug. 16, 1757, mar. James Smith of Cambridge.
5. IV. Elias, b. Sept. 27, 1760, mar. Mary Rand of Charlestown.
6. V. Raham, b. Nov. 4, 1762, mar. Mary Prentiss of Cambridge.
7. VI. Elizabeth, b. July 14, 1767, mar. Rev. James Bowers of Bil-
lerica.
Moses Richardson buys* of Downing Champney of
Cambridge, laborer, a messuage and tenement with about
one acre of land adjoining the same for 702.
*The compiler of the Richardson Memorial locates Mr. Richardson as living in
West Cambridge, now Arlington. This is an error. He lived facing the Common,
near the Colleges, in the house bought of Champney in 1749, at the northeast cor-
ner of the house of Steward Hastings, now " Holmes' Place." In relation " to Mr.
Richardson being too old to be found with arms in his hands," being fifty-three
years of age, in those days patriotism counted more than years. I have a letter
before me, written by a college student who boarded in the Richardson house in
1824, in which occurs this passage: "Aunt Smith" (then about seventeen years of
age) " says she well remembers the night her father was called up. It was about
one o'clock at night. He marched to Lexington the next morning, and was killed
about five o'clock." He slept in the eastern front chamber, now owned (in 1824) by
Royal Morse.
After the death of Mr. Richardson, the eastern part of the house was sold to
pay expenses, and was bought by Mr. Morse; the western part remaining in the
possession of some of the family up to 1840 or 1850, when it was sold, and pur-
chafed by some of the Morse family.
I find a letter from William Russell written in "Mill Prison," in 1781, directed
to his wife as follows :
' Mrs. Mary Russell,
Cambidge
next door to Steward Hasting's."
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Bounded southerly, partly by the common land and
partly by land lately the Rev. John Fox's, but now Jon-
athan Hastings' ; * east by land lately Fox's, but now
Hastings'; northerly by land of John Cooper, but now
William Morse's ; westerly with land lately Nath. Wells',
but now Nathaniel Hancock's. (Recorded with Mid.
Deeds, Jan. 8, 1749.)
Moses Richardson of Cambridge, housewright, appears
as one of the sureties on Guardian's bond, in favor of
Addison Richardson, upward of fourteen years of age.
(Hist, and Gen. Reg., 1874, p. 328.)
He was "'Artificer in Chief" of the Mass, troops serving
under Gen. Wolfe in the invasion of Canada in 1758-9.
There were in the family quite a number of trophies,
taken from the homes of the French. I have in my pos-
session, preserved by my mother, part of the customary
decoration of the family altar, taken from the house of
some devout Frenchman. It is a rude representation cut
out of sheet brass of the letter H, with the cross resting 4
upon the middle bar of the H. There was with it a small
ivory crucifix well cut, but this cannot be found. These
were brought home by her grandfather, together with
some rich goods of silk which were kept for a long period
as curious relics of the old French war.
The family traditions would class Mr. Richardson with
the strong-minded men of his time. He was an excellent
mathematician, being also a surveyor and housewright.
He used to have his leather apron and breeches covered
with calculations in chalk as the most convenient place to
note them down. This habit was a source of great an-
noyance to his good wife, who, as she was remembered,
was very prim and precise.
He was the college carpenter and was called by the stu-
* Since Dr. Holmes.' J. K.
HIST. COLL. XVI 8
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dents "Old Mathematicus." One of the professors on one
occasion hearing this epithet applied to Mr. Richardson
said to them, "it would be to their credit if they should
ever become as good mathematicians as Mr. Richardson."
2.
Mary* Richardson, dau. of Moses 5 , Theophilus 4 , Eze-
kiel 3 , Theophilus' 2 , Ezekiel 1 , was born in Cambridge, June
10, 1753 ; mar. June 16, 1772, William Russell, a school
teacher of Boston. He was born in Boston, May 23,
1748. (See Russell Genealogy.)
Six children by William Russell :
8. I. William Russell, born in Cambridge, Mar. 24, 1772.
9. II. Samuel " " " Boston, Oct. 19, 1773.
10. III.* John " " " " June 30, 1779.
11. IV. Katharine " " " Cambridge, Mar. 24, 1784. ,<->
3.
Moses* Richardson, son of Moses 6 , was born in Cam-
bridge Sept. 10, 1755 ; mar. Miss Sally Clarke in 1781.
(No issue.) He was in camp at Ticonderoga Oct. 1,
1776, as shown by a letter to his mother at Cambridge of
that date. He writes : "I have been very low, was taken
after Mr. Butterfield left. I was very bad not like to
live, but now am able to walk about a little but very
weak. Mr. Walker is carried to the Hospital sick, up to
Fort George, or William Henry, and I am unable to learn
how he does. We have a post every week (on Sunday)
from Watertown." He was also in the Rhode Island ex-
pedition in 1778, with his brother Elias, and his brother-
in-law, William Russell. (Russell letters.)
In 1779 he entered the naval service and was afterward
on board the continental frigate "Hague" under the com-
*Two children who died in infancy are here omitted, and will be wherever
they are found, in other branches of the family.
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mand of John Manly, Esq., on her first cruise in 1782-3,
and was killed in an engagement with a British fifty-gun
ship off Guadaloupe, where the Hague was under fire for
thirty-six hours, and beat off her assailants.
The wife of Moses mar. 2d Jacob, or James, Libby of
Boston, a jeweller and silver-smith, who had a store on
Washington street, Boston, nearly opposite the "Old
South Church" for a long period. His name appears in
the directory up to 1840.
4.
Katharine* Richardson, dau. of Moses 5 , born Aug. 16,
1757 ; mar. James Smith of Cambridge, a house painter.
They lived in the Richardson house until her decease,
about 1835.
One child by James Smith :
12. I. Catharine Smith, mar. Galen Ware of Framingham.
5.
Elias* Richardson, son of Moses 5 , born in Cambridge,
Sept. 27, 1760; mar., May 15, 1788, Mary, dau. of
Moses and Mary Rand of Charlestown. He was a painter
and glazier by trade ; also for many years a civil officer
attendant upon the courts in Middlesex Co. Served in
the Rhode Island campaign in 1778, with his brother
Moses. Died April 14, 1801. Wife Mary died Oct. 26,
1828, aged 71 years.
Elias had eight children by wife Mary Rand, two of
whom died in infancy :
13. I. Moses, b. Apr. 7, 1789, mar.
14. II. Mary, b. Apr. 19, 1791, mar. Isaac G. Jacques.
15. III. Christopher C., b. Jan. 17, 1794, mar. Lydia Holman of Salem.
16. IV. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 11, 1795, mar. John M. Kuhn of Boston.
17. V. Rebecca Rand, b. Jan., 1799, mar. Silas B. Fillebrown of C.
18. VI. Martha, b. Nov., 1800, mar. Elisha Holmes of Stoughton.
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6.
Eaham* Richardson, youngest son of Moses 5 , born in
Cambridge, Nov. 4, 1762 ; mar. Jan. 6, 1791, Mary Pren-
tiss, dau. of John, or Jones, Prentiss of Cambridge, who
lived on the Stephen Prentiss farm on the West Cam-
bridge road, about one-half a mile from the common.
He was a saddler by trade.
He died Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving day), 1800. Wife
Mary (Prentiss) died Jan. 1, 1861, at the home of her
youngest son, Rev. J. P. Richardson, in Otisfield, Maine ;
buried in Framingham, Mass.
Raham had by wife Mary two children :-
19. I. Henry, born in Cambridge, Mar. 25, 1791.
20. II. James Frentiss, born in Cambridge, July 23, 1796.
7.
Elizabeth* Richardson, youngest child of Moses 5 , born
in Cambridge July 14, 1767 ; mar. Rev. James Bowers
of Billerica, grad. of Harv. Univ., 1794. An Episcopa-
lian clergyman. Rector of St. Michael's Church in Mar-
blehead from 1802 to 1811 ; afterwards at Kennebec,
Maine, for many years. Returned about 1825 to Fram-
ingham, where he lived for several years. Published a
volume of sermons on various subjects (library of Essex
Ins.), printed Hallowell, 1820.
Elizabeth Richardson had by Rev. James Bowers five
children, viz. :
21. I. Henry Bowers, mar.
22. II. Hannah C. O., mar. ; died 1834.
23. III. Mary Elizabeth.
24. IV. Augustus.
25. V. Julia Augusta. Births and deaths unknown.
The Rev. Mr. Bowers removed with his family to Indi-
ana about 1830, locating at first at Indianapolis.
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He with his dau. Hannah C. and her husband died of
cholera in or near Cincinnati, O., in 1833-4.
His widow Elizabeth survived him.
For descendants of Mary 6 Richardson, dau, of Moses 5 ,
Theophilus 4 , Ezekiel 3 , Theophilus 2 , Ezekiel 1 , by William
Russell 2 of Boston, see Russell Genealogy, post.
For Nos. 8, 9, 10, 11, of Richardson, see same, Nos.
3, 4, 5, 6, of Russell, post.
The families of Richardson and Russell are united:
1st, by the marriage of William 2 Russell of Boston
with Mary Richardson, dau. of Moses 5 Richardson of
Cambridge.
2d, the families of Richardson and Russell are united
with the Kimballs of Salem by the marriage of Katha-
rine 6 Russell, dau. of William and Mary (Richardson)
Russell, to James Kimball, son of Nathan Kimball of
Salem; also by the marriage of William 3 Russell, son of
William and brother of Katharine 6 , to Priscilla Kimball,
sister of James Kimball, and daughter of Nathan.
The above marriages stand, viz. :
William Russell to Mary 7 Richardson, Jan. 16, 1772.
James Kimball to Katharine Russell, Nov. 29, 1806.
William Russell to Priscilla Kimball, Feb. 12, 1812.
.12.
Catharine 1 Smith, tiau. of Katharine 6 and James Smith,
mar. Galen Ware of Framingham, a printer by trade.
Catharine had two children by Galen Ware :
26. I. Galen Edwin Alonzo.
27. II. Catharine Clarissa, mar. Nathaniel Howard.
13.
Moses 1 Richardson, son of Elias 6 , born in Cambridge
Apr. 7, 1789; mar. 1830; died in Cambridge, 1834. He
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was in the war of 1812. A prisoner at Halifax, where he
suffered from sickness and want; when paroled returned
to his home on foot from Portland, stopping at Salem.
One son, living:
28. I. Benjamin Houghton Kichardson, born in Cambridge; mar.
Ella White ; four children. Books and stationary in Cam-
bridge, now in Boston.
14.
Mary 1 Richardson, dau. of Elias 6 , born Apr. 19, 1791 ;
mar. Isaac Green Jacques Mar. 1, 1812. He died Apr.
14, 1861. Wife Mary died Jan., 1863.
Mary had three children by Isaac Green Jacques :
29. I. Mary Jane, born in Cambridge Sept. 10, 1814 ; unmarried.
30. II. Isaac James, " " " June 8, 1817; mar.
31. III. Sarah Rand, " " Mar. 13, 1819; mar.
15.
Christopher C. 7 Richardson, son of Elias 6 , born in
Cambridge, 1798 ; mar. Lydia Holman of Salem. A
cabinet maker ; lived at one time in Beverly, otherwise
unknown.
Four children by wife Lydia Holman :
32. I. Elias Richardson.
33. II. Lonenza.
34. III. Christopher Columbus.
35. IV. Mary Elizabeth.
16.
Elizabeth 1 Richardson, dau. of Elias 6 , born Oct. 11,
1795 ; mar. John M. Kuhn of Boston. He died .
He was a tea sampler and packer. Wife Elizabeth now
living, July, 1879. No issue.
17.
Rebecca Rand 1 Richardson, dau. of Elias 6 , born Jan.,
1799 ; mar. Silas Barnard Fillebrown of Cambridge in
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1825. He died about 1840. Wife Rebecca died in May,
1860. No issue. He was a graduate of West Point ; a
Lieut, in U. S. Navy.
18.
Martha 1 Richardson, dau. of Elias 6 , born Nov., 1800;
mar. in 1828 Elisha Holmes of Stoughton. Wife Martha
died 1863.
Martha had four children by husband Elisha :
36. I. Maria, born in Stoughton, mar. Benj. Franklin Drake.
37. II. John C., born in Stoughton, mar. Lucy Britton.
38. III. Rodney B. Capen, born in Stoughton.
39. IV. Jane C. Holmes, born in Stoughton.
19.
Henry 1 Richardson, son of Raham 6 R., born in Cam-
bridge Mar. 25, 1791; mar. Feb., 1814, Relief Arnold
of Framinghain, born Oct. 21, 1791 ; died at the home
of her son Henry Sept. 17, 1864. He died Aug. 4,
1870.
Henry had by wife Relief Arnold, eight children :
40. I. Henry Francis, born June 4, 1815, mar. Esther Colby.
41. II. Mary Prentiss, born June 25, 1817.
42. III. Raham William, born July 20, 1819; died Oct. 12, 1847.
43. IV. James Prentiss, Aug. 20, 1821 ; mar. June Carson.
44. V. Benjamin F., born Feb. 6, 1823; mar. Cordelia Seaver.
45. VI. Samuel Wadsworth, Nov. 30, 1824 ; mar. 1st, Clara Benja-
min; 2nd, Louise Partridge.
46. VII. Relief Catharine, born Nov. 27, 1826.
47. VIII. Elizabeth Ann, born Dec. 14, 1828; mar. Jan. 31, 1850.
20.
James P. 1 Richardson, son of Raham 6 , was born in
Cambridge July 23, 1796 ; mar. Miss Clara Carey, dau.
of Doct. Carey of Turner, Maine (date unknown). She
died a few years after her marriage. He died Nov. 15,
1862.
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Three children by wife Clara :
48. I. Wentworth Ricker Richardson.
49. II. Clara Carey, > twins
50. III. Mary Abigail, >
Mr. Richardson, before adopting his profession, "took
a trip" to Ohio, in company with James Kimball,* leaving
Salem in the Sch. Angler for Baltimore Sept. 18, 1817.
On his return the next year he commenced his preparation
for the ministry. He was a Congregationalist minister
of the "old school." His first settlement was at Poland,
Maine, Aug. 16, 1826 ; installed at Otisfield, Maine, Oct.,
1833. At the time of his death he was settled over the
church in the town of Gray, Maine. He died very sud-
denly of apoplexy. His mother, Mary Prentiss Richard-
son, for the last twenty-five years of her life lived with
her son James in Maine, where she died July 1, 1861 ;
was removed to Framingham and buried in burial lot of
her eldest son, Henry Richardson, in Edgell Grove Ceme-
tery.
21.
Henry 1 Bowers, son of Elizabeth 6 (Richardson) and
Rev. James Bowers, removed to the West with the family
about 1830, where he settled as a physician at Moores Hill,
about forty miles from Indianapolis, Ind. He married
and had a family of children by his first wife. But little
is known of this family. He married, 2d, his cousin
Catharine C. Ware, widow of Nath. Howard of St. Louis
(see No. 27).
26.
Galen Edwin Alonzo* Ware, son of Catharine 7 (Smith)
and Galen Ware of Cambridge, and grandson of Katha-
rine 6 (Richardson) and James Smith of Cambridge. He
*See Jour. Essex Inst. Col., Vol. 8, p. 226.
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was a bookbinder by trade. He married and had a family
after he removed to New York. It is believed that he
was a politician in New York, and at one period held some
honorable position in the New York Assembly, as a Man-
ual (in red and gilt) with his compliments was received
at the time by some members of the family.
27.
Catharine C. 8 Ware, dan. of Catharine 7 (Smith) and
Galen Ware, mar. Nathaniel Howard (date unknown) of
Boston. He was a dealer in dry and fancy goods, store
on Hanover street, Boston, between 1850 and 1860;
resided in Chelsea; removed to St. Louis, where he died,
leaving his wife Catharine and four children, viz. :
I. Joseph Russell Howard.
II. Ella Olivia "
III. Edwin "
IV. Julia Howard "
Catharine Howard mar., 2d, Dr. Henry Bowers (her
cousin, see No. 25). Whether he removed with his wife
Catharine to his old home, or went into the practice of
his profession in St. Louis is uncertain. He died in a few
years after his marriage with Catharine. So far as is
known, his widow with her family reside still in St. Louis.
29.
Mary Jane* Jacques , dau. of Mary 7 (Richardson) and
Isaac Green Jacques, born in Cambridge Sept. 10, 1814;
now resides in Cambridge, unmarried.
30.
Isaac James? Jacques, son of Mary 7 (Richardson) and
Isaac Green Jacques, born in Cambridge June 8, 1817;
mar. Mary Ann Dunham of Paris, Maine. Enlisted in
the 47th Mass. Reg., and was wounded in the battle of
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the Wilderness. Was with the expedition under Gen.
Banks to New Orleans and died soon after his return
from the effect of his wounds.
Children by wife Mary Ann :
I. Arthur Hamilton.
II. Carrie Gertrude.
III. Sarah Maria.
IV. Annie Mary.
V. James Franklin.
31.
Sarah Hand 8 Jacques, dau. of Mary 7 (Richardson)
and Isaac Green Jacques, born in Cambridge Mar. 12,
1819 ; mar. Charles T. Green. She died in Lowell, May
9, 1823.
34.
Christopher C 8 Richardson, son of Christopher 7 , son
of Elias 6 , born in Beverly ; enlisted very early in the
War of the Rebellion, in the Cambridge quota with his
three sons. They all died from exposure and sickness
during the war. Christopher 7 , after the war, settled down
in Virginia, where he now resides if living.
40.
Henry Francis A. 8 Richardson, son of Henry 7 and
Relief (Arnold) Richardson of Framingham, born June
4, 1815 ; mar. Esther Colby. Resides in Medfield.
Seven children by wife Esther:
I. Mary Frances Richardson.
II. George Francis " died Jan., 1848.
III. William Henry " died Oct. 27, 1871.
IV. Eliza -
V. Elizabeth Ann "
VI. AnnaN. "
VII. Charlotte C.
43.
James Prentiss 8 Richardson, son of Henry 7 and Relief
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(Arnold) Richardson, born Aug. 20, 1821 ; mar. June
Carson. A counsellor at law ; resided at Cambridgeport
at the commencement of the war of the Rebellion.
Five children by wife June :
I. Caroline A. Richardson, died young.
II. Jennie L. " mar. W. A. Benson of Cambridge.
III. Kate " mar. Herbert Chase, M. D., of Cam.
IV. Elizabeth A. "
V. Louis Gray "
At the dedication of the monument erected in the old
burial ground in Cambridge in 1870 to the memory of the
patriot militia-men of Cambridge who fell in the conflict
on the 19th of April, 1775, the Hon. H. R. Harding,
mayor of the city of Cambridge, remarked "that he de-
sired to call attention to one of the patriots whose names
were on the stone, that of Moses Richardson, and to say
that his descendants had inherited his noble blood ; for
his great-grandson had proved himself a true patriot, and
a worthy descendant of those heroic men who dared all
in defence of their Country's rights."
To James Prentiss Richardson, Esq., of Cambridge,
belongs the honor of raising and organizing the first Com-
pany of Militia in the United States which was raised
expressly for the defence of the Government in the war
of the Rebellion in 1861.
In anticipation of the impending struggle he issued in
the "Cambridge Chronicle" of Jan. 5, 1861, the following
notice :
"The undersigned proposes to organize a Company of
Volunteers, to tender their services to our common coun-
try, and to do what they can to maintain the integrity,
and glory, of our flag, and Union. Any citizen of good
moral character, and sound in body, who wishes to join
this corps ; will please call at my office, Main Street
Cambridgeport.
J. P. Richardson."
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On the 13th of April, 1861, sixty persons had enlisted
and were accepted by the Governor. The call of the
President for 75,000 men for three months on the 15th of
April, 1861, was promptly answered by the call of the
Governor of Massachusetts. This Company promptly on
the morning of the 17th of April answered the call, hav-
ing ninety-five men.
This Company was ordered to Fortress Monroe, where
they remained with Gen. Butler. At the expiration of
the three months this Company returned home, and re-
ceived an ovation from their fellow citizens at the City
Hall, July 23, 1861.
Of this Company nearly all of its returning members
re-enlisted for further service ; twenty-seven of its mem-
bers were killed in battle, or died from wounds, and
disease engendered in the service ; twenty-seven of its
members receiving commissions in the various depart-
ments of the public service.
Capt. J. P. Richardson was commissioned as Captain
in the 38th Regiment Aug. 12, 1862 ; Major, Dec. 4,
1862 ; Lt. Col., July 16, 1863, from which time the Col.
being absent on leave from Apr., 1863, Col. Richardson
had command until the close of the war.
He was severely wounded at the battle of Opequan,
Sept. 19, 1864, but continued in his command. He was
also with Banks in the Southwest Expedition.
At the close of the war he resumed his profession in
Cambridgeport, but was soon after commissioned as Judge
Advocate in the regular army of the United States, and
was ordered to Texas. He was also appointed Judge of
one of the State Courts. Resides in Austin, Texas.
44.
Benjamin F. 8 Richardson, son of Henry 7 and Relief
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(Arnold) Richardson, born Feb. 6, 1823 ; mar. Cordelia
Seaver. Two children :
I. * Elizabeth Ann, died young.
II. Frank Ellwood.
Reside in Cambridge.
45.
Samuel Wadsworth 8 Richardson , son of Henry 7 and
Relief (Arnold) Richardson, born Nov. 30, 1824; mar.,
1st, Clara Benjamin, two children, died young ; mar., 2d,
Louise Partridge. Two children by wife Louise :
I. Harry Arnold Richardson.
II. Louise Richardson.
Raised a Company in Cambridge in June, 1861 ; was
commissioned as Captain and annexed to the 16th Regt.
of Mass. Vols. Ordered to Baltimore ; thence to For-
tress Munroe ; remaining until May, 1862. Was engaged
in the capture of Norfolk and Suffolk, Va., under Gen.
Wool. Joined the Army of the Potomac June 12, 1862,
and took part in all the battles of that Army up to July,
1864, except Antietam, serving under Gen. McClellau,
Pope, Burnside, Hooker, Mead and Grant.
He was promoted to Major in 1862; Lieut. Col., May
18, 1864; breveted Col., July, 1864, as the Regt. had
become reduced to too small a number to allow a Col.
The Regt. originally mustered 1,000 men, to which were
added at different times 40'0 recruits, making in all 1,400
men. Of this number he brought home 231 men. The
others, including sixty commissioned officers, were killed,
wounded, disabled, and discharged by reason of sickness,
and missing.
He was wounded in seven different engagements, but
none severe enough to take him from field duty.
For many years after his return he was in the office of
the U. S. Marshal of Mass, as Deputy; resigned on
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account of ill health ; now an official in the State Prison
at Concord, Mass., where he resides.
48.
Wentworth Richer* Richardson, son of James Prentiss 7
and Clara (Carey) Richardson ; mar. Fanny Paine of East-
port, Me. Birth and date of marriage unknown.
He was a practicing physician at Portland, Me., at the
breaking out of the war of the Rebellion ; entered the
naval service as surgeon, was on board the "Kearsage"
for a long period ; had leave of absence on furlough, but
was soon ordered to Key West, Florida, where he died
of yellow fever within a week of his arrival at his post.
Two children :
I. Mary F. Richardson.
II. James Wentworth Richardson.
49.
Clara Care?/ 8 Richardson, twin dau. of James P. 7 and
Clara (Carey) Richardson, mar. Silas Blake of Harri-
son, Me., where she now resides ; a widow.
Two children :
I. Silas Blake.
II. Prentiss Blake.
50.
Mary Abigail* Richardson, twin dau. of James P. 7 and
Clara (Carey) Richardson, went with some friends, many
years ago, to San Francisco, Cal., where she married a
Mr. Newman, who soon after died. She has since mar-
ried again a second time, but her husband's name and
residence cannot be recalled by the friends in Mass.
[To be continued.]
THE FIRST BOOK OF INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE
OF THE CITY OF LYNN.
COPIED BY JOHN T. MOCLTON, OF LYNN.
[Continued from page 80, Part 1, Vol. XV.]
Dec. 4, 1697. Richard Oakes and Hannah Phillips, both of Lynn.
Nov. 22, 1708. Thomas Owens of Marblehead and Elizabeth Elkins
of Lynn.
Sept. 15, 1716. David Oliver of Marblehead and Hannah Stacey of
Lynn.
Apr. 1, 1736. Samuel Newhall and Dorothy Chamberlain, both of
Lynn.
Apr. 27, 1740. Samuel Newhall and Mary Hutchinson, both of Lynn.
Dec. 10, 1720. William Odell of Marblehead and Martha Collins of
Lynn.
Dec. 24, 1720. Samuel Coats and Abigail Sargent, both of Lynn.
July 15, 1721. Zaccheus Collins and Content Hood, both of Lynn.
Jan. 20, 1722-3. Zacheus Collins of Lynn and Elizabeth Sawyer of
Newbury.
Feb. 11, 1720-1. Ezekiel Collins and Rebecca Graves, both of Lynn.
Feb. 17, 1720-1. John James of Marblehead and Elizabeth Richards of
Lynn.
July 1, 1721. John Hartshorn of Reading and Abigail Bancroft of
Lynn.
Mar. 17, 1721. Jeremiah Eaton and Margaret Hawks, both of Lynn.
Aug. 19, 1721. Jonathan Thomson of Marblehead and Jane Coates of
Lynn.
Sept. 8, 1721. Thomas Eaton of Reading and Mary Gowing of Lynn.
June 17, 1722. John Shepard and Elsie Tucker, both of Lynn.
Nov. 1, 1724. David Townsend and Mary Hutchinson, both of Lynn.
Jan. 17, 1724-5. Samuel Whitford of Salem and Elizabeth Pearson of
Lynn.
June 4, 1738. Joseph Greeley of Roxbury and Sarah Browne of
Lynn.
Feb. 28, 1747-8. Matthew Mansfield and Sarah Sabens, both of Lynn.
Dec. 11, 1726. Rev. Mr. 1 Nathaniel Henchman and Miss Deborah
Walker, both of Lynn.
1 It should be borne in mind that the titles Mr. and Mrs. were prefixed to the
names of persons of more than ordinary standing as marks of distinction and that
the latter does not necessarily denote that the person was a widow.
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Dec. 11, 1726. David Rice and Elizabeth Rand, both of Lynn.
Oct. 9, 1726. Henry Newman of Lynn and Ruth Goldthwait of
Salem.
Dec. 11, 1726. James Rowland and Lois Potter, both of Lynn.
Sept. 11, 1742. Jedediah Newhall and Ruth Ingalls, both of Lynn.
Mar. 20, 1722. Godfrey Tarbox and Hannah Laughton, both of Lynn.
Mar. 10, 1721-2. Joseph Gowing and Hannah Bancroft, both of Lynn.
Mar. 17, 1722. Samuel Coats and Ruth Hart, both of Lynn.
Oct. 13, 1728. Mr. Ambrose Haskell of Marblehead and Ms. Pru-
dence Farrington of Lynn.
June 25, 1738. John Hawks and Mis Lydia Galley, both of Lynn.
Mar. 7, 1741-2. Abraham Gray and Lydia Galley, both of Lynn.
Oct. 8, 1727. John Upham of Maiden and Sarah Burnell of Lynn.
Oct. 8, 1727. John Clipsham of Marblehead and Sarah Burnell of
Lynn.
Oct. 15, 1727. Henry Blaney of Salem and Lois Ivory of Lynn.
Oct. 15, 1727. Isaac Ramsdell and Mary Rich, both of Lynn.
Mar. 5, 1731-2. John Hawks and Hannah Priest, both of Lynn.
Nov. 14, 1736. Thomas Stocker and Elizabeth Mansfield, both of
Lynn.
May 19, 1728. Timothy Howard and Jerusha Newhall, both of Lynn.
Jan. 30, 1731-2. William Williams of Reading and Tabatha Pearson
of Lynn.
Jan. 30, 1731-2. Benjamin Ivory and Ruth Ivory, both of Lynn.
Feb. 6, 1731-2. Ezeken Gowing of Lynn and Deliverance Wiman of
Woburn.
May 17, 1732. John Pearson of Lynn and Rebecca Osgood of Ando-
ver.
Feb. 14, 1747-8. David Fuller and Phebe Nourse, both of Lynn.
Dec. 1, 1723. EbenezerHoltonof Salem and Eunice Collins of Lynn.
Jan. 23, 1725-6. John Day of Marblehead and Ruth Wilson of Lynn.
Jan. 23, 1725-6. James Gould of Salem and Margaret Chadwell of
Lynn.
Jan. 23, 1725-6. Robert Mason of Marblehead and Barberry Oakes of
Lynn.
Mar. 31, 1723. Mr. Samuel Gott of Gloucester and Mrs. Ruth Ivory
of Lynn.
Mar. 24, 1723. Aaron Estes, a stranger, and Esther Richards of Lynn.
June 30, 1723. Ebenezer Collins and Mary Chadwell, both of Lynn.
Aug. 30, 1724. John Redding (Raddin?) and Sarah Bowden, both of
Lynn.
Feb. 6, 1725-6. Humphrey Deverex of Marblehead and Elizabeth
Reddin (Raddin?) of Lynn.
July 30, 1748. Henry Blaney of Salem and Hannah Graves of Lynn.
Jan. 28, 1727-8. William Cheever and Sarah Waitt, both of Lynn.
Apr. 28, 1728. Joseph Bates and Elizabeth Ramsdell, both of Lynn.
Apr. 28, 1728. Joshua Collins and Mary Silsbee, both of Lynn.
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Dec. 22, 1728. Mr. Richard Skinner of Marblehead and Miss Martha
Burrill of Lynn.
Oct. 31, 1742. John Stocker and Ruth Breed, both of Lynn.
Nov. 5, 1742. Josiah Sawyer of Andover and Hannah Gowing of
Lynn.
Apr. 3, 1737. John Young of Salem and Hannah Curtis of Lynn.
Nov. 20, 1737. John Stocker and Hannah Richards, both of Lynn.
Apr. 10, 1738.' Thomas Brown and Martha Mansfield, botli of Lynn.
Oct. 28, 1739. Aaron Felt and Mercy Waitt, both of Lynn.
Jan. 13, 1739. John Williams of Lynn and Martha Boardman of
Cambridge.
Jan. 20, 1739-40. Moses Newhall and Susannah Cowden, both of Lynn.
Jan. 27, 1739-40. Jonathan Newhall and Abigail Norwood, both of
Lynn.
Mar. 13, 1725-6. Daniel Townsend of Lynn and Lydia Sawyer of Read-
ing.
Mar. 13, 1725-6. Nathaniel Sherman of Lynn and Dorcas Sawyer of
Reading.
Apr. 24, 1726. Thomas Chadwell and Sarah Breed, both of Lynn.
Mar. 30, 1735. Daniel Hitchings and Hannah Ingalls, both of Lynn.
Mar. 30, 1735. Josiah Rhodes and Hepsibah Ramsdeil, both of Lynn.
May 26, 1728. George Cain and Lois Ramsdeil, both of Lynn.
Mar. 9, 1728-9. Thomas Jones of Lynn and Martha Wilson of Maiden.
May 18, 1729. Ambrose Blaney and Judith Curtis, both of Lynn.
May 25, 1729. Thomas Poole of Lynn and Eunice Green of Reading.
Aug. 3, 1729. Richard Collins and Sarah Ayers, both of Lynn.
May 19, 1747. Mr. Timothy Orne of Salem and Miss Rebecca Taylor
of Lynn.
Dec. 2, 1722. Thomas Burrage and Sarah Newhall, both of Lynn.
Oct. 18, 1724. Samuel Newhall and Kezia Breed, both of Lynn.
Dec. 20, 1724. Peletia Crocker and Johanna Gowing, both of Lynn.
Dec. 20, 1724. Jonathan AVelman and Mehitable Bancroft, both of
Lynn.
July 29, 1727. Jonathan Dunill of Lynn and Mehitable Kenney of
Salem.
Nov. 24, 1745. John Freeman and Sarah Burrill, both of Lynn.
Aug. 29, 1695. John Perkins and Anna Hutchinson, both of Lynn.
Apr. 5, 1719. Anthony Potter and Maria Ingalls, both of Lynn.
Nov. 25, 1722. George Unthank of Framingham and Ruth Curtis of
Lynn.
Dec. 2. Jean Glas forbid the banns.
Dec. 20, 1724. George Unthank and Ruth Curtis, both of Lynn.
Aug. 20, 1726. Andrew Rolfe of Boston and Mary Burrill of Lynn.
Aug. 27, 1726. Ebenezer Williams and Mary Hall, both of Lynn.
Sept. 23, 1733. Rev. Mr. Joseph Cliampney of Beverly and Miss
Thankful Pickering of Lynn.
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Nov. 17, 1734. Isaac Day of Gloucester and Sarah Downing of Lynn.
Apr. 24, 1697. Ebenezer Parker of Reading and Rebecca Newhall of
Lynn.
Dec. 3, 1732. John Richards and Lydia Phillips, both of Lynn.
June 3, 1733. Jonathan Welman and Esther Newhall, both of Lynn.
Aug. 19, 1733. Jeremiah Tarbox and Joanna Cooke, both of Lynn.
Nov. 25, 1733. Benjamin Blyth of Salem and Mary Legare of Lynn.
Mar. 6, 1742-3. John Breed and Jean Newhall, both of Lynn.
Oct. 26, 1699. Kendall Parker of Reading and Ruth Johnson of
Lynn.
Sept. 12, 1726. Thomas Breed and Sarah Farr, both of Lynn.
Oct. 20, 1728. Samuel Alley and Abigail Basset, both of Lynn.
Apr. 20, 1729. Thomas Baker and Rebecca Kelsey, both of Lynn.
Oct. 7, 1736. Jonathan Blaney and Hannah Gray, both of Lynn.
May 8, 1743. Mr. Ezra Mower and Miss Lydia Burrill, both of
Lynn.
Oct. 13, 1723. John Tarbox and Dorothy Gray, both of Lynn.
Oct. 13, 1723. Joseph Rhodes and Mary Fuller, both of Lynn.
June 21, 1724. Benjamin Tarbox and Deborah Gray, both of Lynn.
Apr. 4, 1731. Samuel Johnson and Ruth Holten, both of Lynn.
Aug. 3, 1735. Benjamin Jefferds of Lynn and Elizabeth Giles of
Beverly.
Aug. 3, 1735. Richard Pappoon and Elizabeth Ivory, both of Lynn.
Mar. 26, 1705. Benjamin Potter and Ruth Burrill, both of Lynn.
Mar. 15, 1706-7. Walter Phillips and Lydia Rowland, both of Lynn.
June 5, 1708. Ephraim Potter and Sarah Witt, both of Lynn.
Sept. 18, 1703. Jacob Powers of Concord and Sarah Merriam of Lynn.
Mar. 13, 1707-8. Samuel Potter and Elizabeth Heart, both of Lynn.
Nov. 16, 1735. Job Collins and Sarah Graves, both of Lynn.
Jan. 25, 1746-7. Thaddeus Riddan (Raddin?) of Lynn and Elizabeth
Brown of Salem.
Oct. 5, 1706. John Williams and Rebecca Pearson, both of Lynn.
Nov. 8, 1707. William Williams and Mary Mills, both of Lynn.
Feb. 10, 1708-9. Kendall Pearson and Lydia Boardman, both of Lynn.
Mar. 14, 1708-9. John Poole and Sarah Eaton, both of Lynn.
Nov. 25, 1710. William Peach of Marblehead and Sarah Elkins of
Lynn.
Jan. 4, 1710-1. David Potter of Ipswich and Mary Merriam of Lynn.
Nov. 15, 1712. Samuel Proctor and Sarah Larrabee, both of Lynn.
Oct. 17, 1713. Walter Phillips of Lynn and Elizabeth Blaney of
Salem.
Aug. 4, 1716. Edward Parker of Walsingford and Jerusha Merriam
of Lynn.
Nov. 27, 1697. Jonathan Ramsdell and Anna Chadwell, both of Lynn.
.Mar. 8, 1717-8. Eleazer Pope of Salem and Hannah Buffingtou of
Lynn.
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Apr. 19, 1718. Samuel Hart and Hepsibah Pearson, both of Lynn.
Sept. 6, 1718. Ebenezer Pearson and Hannah Mansfield, both of
Lynn.
Oct. 5, 1729. Samuel Pool of Reading and Rebecca Williams of
Lynn.
Oct. 5, 1729. Jacob Tarbox and Abigail Baxter, both of Lynn.
Oct. 22, 1698. Nathaniel Ramsdell and Elizabeth Mansfield, both of
Lynn.
Mar. 7, 1724-5. Benjamin Gowing and Abigail Wyman, both of Lynn.
July 4, 1725. Ebeuezer Burrill and Mary Mansfield, both of Lynn.
Nov. 23, 1729. John Andrews of Marblehead and Sarah Hood of
Lynn.
July 10, 1748. John Lewis and Elizabeth Newhall, both of Lynn.
Nov. 9, 1727. Theophilus Burrill, Esq., of Lynn and Miss Hannah
Chanack of Boston.
Mar. 31, 1728. Joseph Coats and Margaret Ramsdell, both of Lynn.
Sept. 1, 1728. Mr. Edward Pell of Boston and Ms Abigail Taylor of
Lynn.
Apr. 26, 1729. Mr. William Taylor for and in behalf of the overseer
and guardian of the said Ms Rebecca Kelsy, forbid
the banns betwixt Mr. Thomas Baker and Miss
Rebecca Kelsy, which was entered Apr. 20, 1729.
Sept. 22, 1699. Daniel Richards and Elizabeth Proctor, both of Lynn.
May 13, 1722. John Parris, a stranger, and Elizabeth Merriam of
Lynn.
May 19, 1723. Nathaniel Newhall and Phebe Town, both of Lynn.
May 19, 1723. John Clements and Hannah Ingersoll, both of Lynn.
Mar. 20, 1742-3. Benjamin Alley and Hannah Hart, both of Lynn.
Aug. 9, 1701. Thomas Roots, late of Boston, and Mary Cox of Lynn.
July 12, 1730. Joseph Eaton of Reading and Elisabeth Mansfield of
Lynn.
Nov. 15, 1730. Samuel Nickerson of Marblehead and Lydia Potter of
Lynn.
Nov. 15, 1730. Edward Hollo way of Maiden and Huldah Farrington
of Lynn.
Nov. 1, 1701. Thomas Rich and Mary Bancroft, both of Lynn.
Mar. 10, 1721-2. John Darling and Lois Gowing, both of Lynn.
Aug. 15, 1730. John Work and Elizabeth Deer, both of Lynn.
Nov. 14, 1731. James Parrot of Salem and Abigail Leason of Lynn.
Apr. 25, 1702. Mr. William Rowland : and (sic) Mrs. Elizabeth Lind-
sey of Lynn.
Dec. 31, 1732. John Newhall and Elizabeth Townsend, both of Lynn.
May 14, 1738. David Newhall of Boston and May Burchstead of
Lynn.
July 1, 1739. Ezekiel Rhodes and Jean Coburn, both of Lynn.
May 6, 1745. Ignatius Rhodes of Lynn and Sarah Merriam of Men-
den.
Nov. 28, 1702. Crispas Richards and Sarah Collins, both of Lynn.
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Sept. 15, 1728. Ensign Samuel Parker and Miss Elizabeth Gowing,
both of Lynn.
Sept. 15, 1728. Nathan Breed and Mary Bassett, both of Lynn.
Jan. 15, 1737-8. John Farrington of Lynn and Margaret Gloyd of
Salem.
Mar. 19, 1737-8. Jonathan Mansfield and Dorcas Ramsdell, both of
Lynn.
Feb. 19, 1743-4. Josiah Holden of Worcester and Jane Bancroft of
Lynn.
Nov. 28, 1702. Josiah Rhodes and Priscilla Smith, both of Lynn.
Mar. 15, 1724-5. Ebenezer Ramsdell and Tabatha Rhodes, both of
Lynn.
Apr. 11, 1725. Ebenezer Hawks of Marblehead and Anna Breed of
Lynn.
Feb. 16, 1728. Capt. Willard Roby of Boston and Miss Anna Taylor
of Lynn.
May 4, 1735. Timothy Hitchings and Mary Luke, both of Lynn.
May 17, 1735. The said Timothy Hitchings' mother forbid the banns.
Dec. 14, 1696. Nathaniel Sherman of Boston and Sarah Hutchinson
of Lynn.
Mar. 3, 1722-3. Isaac Ramsdell and Mary Rhodes, both of Lynn.
Nov. 14, 1725. Thomas Hudson and Mary Mills, both of Lynn.
July 22, 1733. Noah Ramsdell and Mary Batten, both of Lynn.
Sept. 8, 1734. Benjamin Chad well of Lynn and Mary Dailey of East-
ham.
Mar. 17, 1703-4. John Rhodes and Joanna Alley, both of Lynn.
Feb. 21, 1707-8. Daniel Ross of Windham and Mary Farr of Lynn.
Jan. 8, 1729-30. Samuel Holloway and Mary Norwood, both of Lynn.
Apr. 1, 1733. Jeremiah Newhall and Sarah Bates, both of Lynn.
Sept. 28, 1700. Thomas Stocker of Lynn and Sarah Berry of Boston.
Apl. 4, 1725. Daniel Jacobs of Lynn and Margaret White of Read-
ing.
July 25, 1725. Samuel Holloway and Charity Mansfield, both of Lynn.
Jan. 9, 1725-6. Grover Pratt of Maiden and Rebecca Lewis of Lynn.
Apr. 27, 1705. Shuball Stearns of Lynn and Mary Upton of Reading.
Jan. 15, 1708-9. Edward Twist of Salem and Hannah Aborne of Lynn.
Feb. 4, 1727-8. Timothy Osgood of Andover and Miss Mary Poole of
Lynn.
Feb. 17, 1699-700. Ebinezer Tarbox of Lynn and Mary Breen of Box-
ford.
Sept. 11, 1707. Mr. Benjamin Swetland of Lynn and Mrs. Hannah
Hale of Boston.
Dec. 6, 1707. Joseph Sibley of Lynn and Elizabeth Boutell of Read-
ing.
July 29, 1710. John Ramsdell and Elizabeth Chadwell, both of Lynn.
Sept. 30, 1710. Jonathan Ramsdell and Sarah Hathorne, both of Lynn.
Feb. 12, 1708-9. Samuel Ramsdell of Lynn and Abigail Mason of Bos-
ton.
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July 14, 1710. James Stimpson and Hannah Stearns, both of Lynn.
Nov. 4, 1710. Eleazer Rhodes and Jemima Preble, both of Lynn.
July 17, 1710. Ralph Tompkins of Great Britain and Mrs. Mary
Jetterds of Lynn.
Nov. 6, 1714. Daniel Twist of Salem and Mary Aborn of Lynn.
Dec. G, 1724. Joshua Pratt and Sarah Brook, both of Lynn.
Dec. G, 1724. Aaron Hart and Tubitlia Collins, both of Lynn.
Dec. 13, 1724. Joseph Alley and Hepsibah Newhall, both of Lynn.
Mar. 10, 1721-2. William Whitcomb of Boston and Experience Tarbox
of Lynn.
Nov. 18, 1722. Joshua Pratt and Zebiah Collins, both of Lynn.
Nov. 18, 1722. John Brewer and Mary Coats, of Lynn.
Nov. 18, 1722. Daniel Graves and Martha Coats, of Lynn.
Mar. 3, 1722-3. William Whitcomb of Boston and Sarah Fuller of
Lynn.
Mar. 10, 1720-7. Joshua Pratt and Elizabeth Hudson, both of Lynn.
Sept. 27, 1724. Joseph Trow of Marblehead and Sarah Bancroft of
Lynn.
Sept. 27, 1724. James Coats and Martha Rhodes, both of Lynn.
Mar. 30, 1729. Hugh Floyd of Boston and Mary Baker of Lynn.
Apr. G, 1729. Nathaniel Ramsdell and Sarah Farrington, both of
Lynn.
Feb. 1, 1729-30. Nathaniel Ramsdell and Joanna Downing, both of
Lynn.
May 14, 1G98. Benjamin Very of Salem and Jemima Newhall of
Lynn.
Feb. 23, 1723-4. Edward Pickering of Salem and Hannah Gowing of
Lynn.
Feb. 23, 1723-4. Henry Bachelder and Hannah, Stocker, both of Lynn.
Nov. 9, 1729. Daniel Morrison and Margaret Fraser, both now re-
siding in this town.
Nov. 9, 1729. Ezekiel Gowing and Lydia Gowing, both of Lynn.
Apr. 17, 1748. Zebulon Norwood and Elizabeth Quiner, both of Lynn.
Apr. 17, 1702. Mr. William Stacey of Marblehead and Mrs. Tabitha
King of Lynn.
Nov. 12, 1727. William Proctor and Jemima Collins, both of Lynn.
Nov. 19, 1727. Joseph Moulton and Sarah Lilley, both of Lynn.
May 14, 1732. David Northee of Salem and Miriam Bassettof Lynn.
Nov. 11, 1744. Isaac Wilson of Salem and Abigail Newhall of Lynn.
Aug. 27, 1732. Rev. Mr. Stephen Chase of Lynn and Miss Jane Win-
get of Hampton in the province of New Hampshire.
Jan. 6, 1733-4. Mr. William Perkins and Miss Sarah Stearns of Lynn.
Sept. 7, 1735. Mr. William Boardman of Lynn and Miss Elizabeth
Hill of Maiden.
Feb. 7, 1741-2. Mr. Benjamin Brintnall of Chelsea and Miss Eliza-
beth Waitt of Lynn.
June 10, 1710. Moses Wheat and Deborah Mansfield, both belonging
to Lynn.
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Sept. 30, 1715. Ebenezer Witt of Marlborough and Rebecca Breed of
Lynn.
June 30, 1716. Samuel Webber of Marblehead and Hannah Hood of
Lynn.
Dec. 2, 1716. Samuel Witt of Marlborough and Elizabeth Breed of
Lynn.
Aug. 23, 1717. Isaac Welman and Mary Slafter, both of Lynn.
Nov. 2, 1717. Daniel Wilson, a stranger, and Ruth Ireson of Lynn.
Nov. 2, 1717. Abraham Welman and Elizabeth Taylor, both of Lynn.
Mar. 1, 1717-8. John Wells and Mary Rhodes, both of Lynn.
Nov. 21, 1719. Thomas Witt of Maiden and Mary Ivory of Lynn.
Nov. 25, 1721. John Wells and Mary Newhall, both of Lynn.
Oct. 24, 1718. William Rich of Lynn and Elizabeth March of New-
bury.
Nov. 21, 1719. Benjamin Ramsdell and Abigail Fuller, both of Lynn.
Jan. 2, 1742- 3. Thomas Potter and Sarah Hart, both of Lynn.
Nov. 15, 1747. Timothy Hutchinson and Mehitable Wiley, both of
Lynn.
May 16, 1721. t John Poole of Gloucester and Abigail Ballard of Lynn.
June 24, 1721. Ebenezer Pearson of Lynn and Hannah Moodey of
Newbury.
Sept. 8, 1721. Robert Potter and Mary Breed, both of Lynn.
Oct. 25, 1721. James Pearson of Lynn and Hepsibah Hartshorn of
Reading.
Oct. 4, 1730. Jeremiah Eaton of Lynn and Hannah Osgood of An-
dover.
Oct. 11, 1730. Ebenezer Hathorne and Keziah Collins, both of Lynn.
Sept. 11, 1732. Isaac Langdon of Lynn and Miss Mary Coller of Fal-
mouth (Collyer?).
Jan. 29, 1748-9. Mr. Jonathan Fuller and Miss Sarah Lewis, both of
Lynn.
Nov. 4, 1695. Nathan'l Whittemore of Boston and Elizabeth Rhodes
of Lynn.
Oct. 11, 1724. Capt. James Pearson of Lynn and Mrs. Hannah Os-
good of Andover.
Oct. 18, 1730. Isaac Langdon, a stranger, and Mary Tonkin of Lynn.
Oct. 20, 1730. The abovesaid Mary Tonkin forbid the banns.
Aug. 8, 1731. Benjamin Carleton of Bradford and Elizabeth Ban-
croft of Lynn.
Oct. 23, 1719. Robert Searl and Elizabeth Hathorne, both of Lynn.
Apr. 16, 1720. Thomas Rand of Lynn and Elizabeth Parker of Read-
ing.
Sept. 12, 1736. Eliezur Lindsey of Smithfield and Hannah Hall of
Lynn.
Nov. 21, 1696. Thomas Wellman of Lynn and Sarah Brown of Read-
ing.
Mar. 8, 1719-20. Mr. Nathaniel Sparhawk and Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins,
both of Lynn.
135
July 9, 1720. Thomas Riddan (Raddin?) and Jerusha Collins, both
of Lynn.
Oct. 4, 1747. Ivory Willard and Ruth Breed, both of Lynn.
Oct. 4, 1747. Matthew Lindsey and Anna Breed, both of Lynn.
Oct. 24, 1736. Thomas Phillips and Sarah Snow, both of Lynn.
Jan. 9, 1736-7. Roger Derby of Marblehead and Martha Hall of Lynn.
Apr. 1, 1739. John Wower and Elizabeth Collins, both of Lynn.
July 10, 1739. Joseph Williams and Abigail Burrill, both of Lynn.
1742. John Gowing and Priscilla Gowing, both of Lynn.
Feb. 5, 1743-4. Ephraim Oliver and Abigail Farrington, both of Lynn.
July 31, 1(599. William Williams and Joanna Mower, both of Lynn.
Sept. 3, 1720. Henry Stanton aud Sarah Jenks, both of Lynn.
Jan. 27, 1739-40. Sharppo, servant to Samuel Carter of Salem, and
Mary, servant to Nathan Breed of Lynn.
Apr. 27, 1700. Stephen Welman of Lynn and Abigail Boston of Wells.
Mar. 26, 1720. Thomas Pearson of Boston and Eunice Lewis of Lynn.
Nov. 3, 1734. Henry Ingalls and Sarah Richards, both of Lynn.
May 9, 1736. Joshua Felt of Lynn and Dorcas Buckley of Salem.
May 12, 1745. John Newhall and Sarah Lewis, both of Lynn.
Oct. 24, 1702. John Witt, jr., and Mary Dane, both of Lynn.
July 14, 1721. Joseph Scott of Providence and Elizabeth Jenks of
Lynn.
Nov. 2, 1729. Samuel Reddin (Raddin?) and Hepsibah Bancroft,
both of Lynn.
Oct. 20, 1729. Benjamin Hood and Elizabeth Basset, both of Lynn.
Apr. 7, 1711. Samuel Stearns of Lynn and Sarah Burnap of Read-
ing.
July 22, 1722. John Wait and Ann Colley, both of Lynn.
Jan. 26, 1723-4. John Pitman of Marblehead and Ruth Ramsdell of
Lynn.
Oct. 9, 1748. William Daniels of Salem and Mary Oliver of Lynn.
Feb. 6, 1742-3. Joshua Pratt and Prudence Ilaskell, both of Lynn.
July 24, 1743. Samuel Breed of Boston and Abigail Brown of Lynn.
Feb. 12, 1743-4. Joseph Skinner and Abigail Brown, both of Lynn.
Jan. 19, 1745. Joseph Larrabee of Lynn and Elizabeth Trask of
Salem.
Sept. 11, 1748. Benja. Atwell, a stranger, and Hannah Brown of
Lynn.
Sept. 18, 1748. James Wiley of Reading and Lois Bancroft of Lynn.
Apr. 21, 1723. Mr. Nathaniel Fuller and Mrs. Anna Burrill, both of
Lynn.
Feb. 20, 1725-6. Joseph Richards and Mary Bowden, both of Lynn.
Apr. 30, 1727. Nathan Burrill of Lynn and Hannah Stone of Salem.
Apr. 23, 1727. Jonathan Reason of Salem and Abigail Jefferds of
Lynn.
Aug. 24, 1729. Benjamin Rhodes and Rachel Silsbee, both of Lynn.
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Oct. 7, 1722. John Newhall and Abigail Baker, both of Lynn.
Oct. 23, 1725. Samuel Harpwell of Concord and Experience Tarbox
of Lynn.
Oct. 31, 1725. Alexander Sloley of Marblehead and Elsie Jefferds of
Lynn.
Dec. 29, 1728. Jonathan Johnson and Susannah Mower, both of
Lynn.
Sept. 19, 1731. John Quiner, a stranger, and Elizabeth Fuller of Lynn.
Aug. 22, 1730. Robert Hood of Marblehead and Jean Glass of Lynn.
Aug. 29, 1730. Joseph Jefferds and Priscilla Griffin, both of Lynn.
Aug. 29, 1730. Kalph Merry and Mary Fuller, both of Lynn.
Mar. 2, 1739-40. Jonathan Wait and Hannah Hawkes, both of Lynn.
May 29, 1726. Mr. William Taylor and Miss Sarah Burrill, both of
Lynn.
Sept. 13, 1730. James Parker of Reading and Sarah Larrabee of Lynn.
Sept. 20, 1730. Samuel Newhall and Esther Newhall, both of Lynn.
Feb. 14, 1730-1. Samuel Kelley of Marblehead and Lydia Bowden of
Lynn.
Feb. 14, 1730-1. Ebenezer Collins and Mary Merry, both of Lynn.
Oct. 12, 1729. Nathan Atwell and Anna Ramsdell, both of Lynn.
Oct. 19, 1729. William Ingalls and Zeruiah Norwood, both of Lynn.
Dec. 21, 1729. Samuel Gowingand Patience Bancroft, both of Lynn.
Dec. 21, 1729. Thomas Cheever and Eunice Ivory, both of Lynn.
Oct. 24, 1736. Daniel Bassett and Lydia Hood, both of Lynn.
Nov. 20, 1743. Jonathan Twist of Salem and Elizabeth Nourse of
Lynn.
Nov. 30, 1729. Ralph Deuerix of Marblehead and Ruth Potter of
Lynn.
Nov. 30, 1729. Alexander Douglas and Sarah Ballard, both of Lynn.
Nov. 30, 1729. Ephraim Berry and Sarah Johnson, both of Lynn.
Nov. 30, 1729. Tobijah, a negro man of Maiden, and Zipporah, a
negro woman of Lynn.
Aug. 12, 1739. Adam Hawks of Lynn and Huldah Brown of Reading.
Jan. 8, 1729-30. Nathaniel Evans of Reading forbids the banns of
matrimony of Robert Gray, jr., of Lynn. .
Oct. 13, 1743. John Briant and Margaret Smith, both of Lynn.
Jan. 8, 1729-30. Humphrey Deuerix of Marblehead and Abigail Gail
of Lynn.
Jan. 4, 1729-30. Benjamin Eaton and Anna Rand, both of Lynn.
Jan. 4, 1729-30. Nathaniel Brown of Reading and Eleanor Stearns of
Lynn.
Jan. 4, 1729-30. Thomas Berry of Boston and Rebecca Ballard of
Lynn.
Mar. 15, 1740-1. Isaac Larrabee and Mary Stevens, both of Lynn.
Feb. 22, 1729-30. Moses Hawks and Susannah Townsend, both of
Lynn.
May 3, 1730. Richard Pappoon and Elizabeth Ivory, both of Lynn.
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May 5, 1730. Elizabeth Ivory forbid the banns.
Feb. 21, 1730-1. Mr. Joseph Town of Topsfleld and Miss Mary Mower
of Lynn.
June 24, 1733. Caleb Steils and Hannah Walton, both of Lynn.
June 7, 1730. Samuel Bredeen of Boston and Sarah Narremore of
Lynn.
June 7, 1730. William Thomas, a stranger, and Eunice Rhodes of
Lynn.
Nov. 22, 1730. John James and Mehitable Collins, both of Lynn.
Dec. 0, 1730. John My rick of Boston and Abigail Stevens of Lynn.
Apr. 5, 1731. John Bancroft and Ruth Newhall, both of Lynn.
Apr. 5, 1731. Nathaniel Flint of Reading and Ruth Herriek of Lynn.
Feb. 24, 1744 5. Caleb Upton of Lynn and Mary Steward of Reading.
June G, 1731. John Mansfield of Lynn and Mary Eaton of Heading.
July 4, 1731. James Piller, a stranger, and Mercy Ramsdell of
Lynn.
Aug. 15, 1731. Patrick Cobnrn and Mary Downing, both of Lynn.
Apr. 2, 1732. Robert Gray of Lynn and Elizabeth Allen of Marble-
head.
May 21, 1732. John Hart and Mehitable Endicott, both of Lynn.
Apr.' 14, 1745. Ephraim Hall and Mary Brown, both of Lynn.
July 2, 1732. Mr. Zachariah Hicks and Mrs. Mary Henchman, both
of Lynn.
July 1C, 1732. John Mower and Mary Burrill, both of Lynn.
July 1G, 1732. John Estes of Marblehead and Elizabeth Norwood of
Lynn.
Oct. 8, 1732. John Merriam of Wallingford in Connecticut and
Mary Burrage of Lynn.
Dec. 30, 1733. Benjamin Coats and Jemima Hathorne, both of Lynn.
Oct. 22, 1732. John Rhodes of Lynn and Athildred Merriam of Bos-
ton.
Oct. 22, 1732. Ebenezer Hawks of Marblehead and Ruth Graves of
Lynn.
Oct. 22, 1732. David Dunnell and Kezia Ramsdell, both of Lynn.
Oct. 29, 1732. Nathaniel Felch qf Weston and Mary Hawks of Lynn.
Dec. 24, 1732. Patrick Co win of Maiden and Jane Crawford of Lynn.
Apr. 22, 1733. Samuel Hart and Phebe Ivory, both of Lynn.
Apr. 14, 1733. Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Henchman and Mrs. Lydia Lewis,
both of Lynn.
Dec. 16, 1733. Mr. Ralph Hart of Boston and Miss Lois Rowland of
Lynn.
Dec. 23, 1733. William Johnson and Elizabeth Wiley, both of Lynn
Dec. 23, 1733. Benj. Wiley and Mary Potter, both of Lynn.
Dec. 23, 1733. Thomas Goatam of Marblehead and Sarah Farrington
of Lynn.
Mar. 25, 1734. John Burrill and Sarah Edmands, both of Lynn.
Feb. 10, 1733-4. John Bachelder and Elizabeth Whittemore, both of
Lynn.
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Feb. 24, 1733-4. Tragroth Talbot and Phebe Johnson, both of Lynn.
Apr. 28, 1734. Isaiah Ramsdell and Hannah East, both of Lynn.
Apr. 28, 1734. Nathan Jencks and Abigail Waitt, both of Lynn.
Aug. 11, 1734. Stephen Bradshaw of Medford and Mary Williams of
Lynn.
June 26, 1748. David Townsend and Judith Wiley, both of Lynn.
June 2, 1734. Zaccheus Norwood and Mary Richards, both of Lynn.
June 3, 1732. Capt. William Collins of Lynn forbid the banns of
matrimony betwixt the above said persons. (The
discrepancy in dates is in original record. J. T. M.)
Aug. 15, 1736. Joseph Johnson and Ann Legare, both of Lynn.
Oct. 10, 1736. Nathaniel Townsend of Lynn and Margaret Chamber-
lain of Maiden.
Mar. 27, 1737. Nehemiah Ramsdell and Susannah Grous (Groves?),
both of Lynn.
Mar. 29, 1741. Ezekiel Howard of Maiden and Experience Newman
of Lynn.
Dec. 25, 1748. Elisha Fuller of Lynn and Sarah Dispaw of Chelsea.
Nov. 21, 1736. David Tyler of Boxford and Martha Howard of Lynn.
Nov. 22, 1736. Benja. Downing of Lynn forbid the above banns of
matrimony.
Nov. 25, 1736. The above forbidding the banns of matrimony is found
insufficient according to law.
Nov. 28, 1736. Mr. Daniel Mansfield of Lynn and Miss Elizabeth
Tufts of Maiden.
Nov. 28, 1736. Samuel Larrabee and Elizabeth Hinchman, both of
Lynn.
Feb. 6, 1736. Benjamin Carder of Marblehead and Elizabeth Hutch-
iuson of Lynn.
Oct. 30, 1737. Jacob Ingalls and Mary Tucker, both of Lynn.
Aug. 30, 1741. Samuel Larrabee and Mary Brown, both of Lynn.
(A pen has been drawn across the following, which I
have here enclosed in brackets. J. T. M.)
[June 2, 1734. This may certify that whereas the intention of mar-
riage betwixt Zaccheus Norwood and Mary Rich-
ards, both of Lynn, was posted by me the above
day, that on the 3d day of June, 1734, the above
said Mary Richards forbid the banns.
Dec. 3, 1734. The above named Mary Richards came to me and told
me she had re-considered her forbidding the banns
of matrimony betwixt Zaccheus Norwood and her-
self and desired me to give him a certificate.]
Oct. 20, 1734. Samuel Baxter and Ruth Unthank, both of Lynn.
June 14, 1747. Joseph Aborn and Lydia Nourse, both of Lynn.
Oct. 14, 1722. Ralph Hart and Mary Hudson, both of Lynn.
Oct. 1, 1727. Matthew Farrington and Sarah Newhall, both of
Lynn.
Jan. 3, 1730-1. John Welman and Union Aborn, both of Lynn.
139
Nov. 12, 1732. Samuel Whitford of Salem and Rebecca Hawks of
Lynn.
Nov. 12, 1732. Timothy Ramsdell and Margaret Williams, both of
Lynn.
Sept. 6, 1747. George Nourse of Lynn and Hannah Wallis of Salem.
June 30, 1734. John Witt of Marlborough and Surah Ivory of Lynn.
June 30, 1734. Ebenezer Aborn and Margaret Moulton, both of Lynn.
Sept. 15, 1734. William Pelsue of Salem and Susannah Jeffords of
Lynn.
Sept. 5, 1736. John Makewater (McWalter?), a stranger, and Mary
Montgomery of Lynn.
Dec. 18, 1737. Mr. Edward Barrett of Boston and Miss Martha
Skinner of Lynn.
Dec. 25, 1743. John Hutchiuson and Elizabeth Johnson, both of
Lynn.
Oct. 6, 1734. Ephraim Stocker and Lydia Newhall, both of Lynn.
Dec. 8, 1734. John Larrabee and Priscilla Townsend, both of Lynn.
Jan. 5, 1734-5. Joseph Chilson of Smithfiehl and Elizabeth Thoyts of
Lynn.
Jan. 5, 1734-5. Ralph Lindsey and Abigail Blaney, both of Lynn.
Sept. 21, 1735. Aholiab Dimond and Lydia Silsbee, both of Lynn.
Sept. 21, 1735. Samuel Berry of Boston and Mary Fuller of Lynn.
Sept. 21, 1735. Jonathan Hawks and Sarah Newhall, both of Lynn.
Mar. 2, 1734-5. Mr. Nath'l Henchman and Miss Mary Richards, both
of Lynn.
Mar. 2, 1734-5. Jonathan Hart and Mercy Hawks, both of Lynn.
June 22, 1735. Benjamin Hutchinson and Mary Breed, both of Lynn.
June 24, 1735. Thomas Hutchinson, father to the above named Benj.
Hutchinson, forbid the banns of matrimony.
May 16, 1736. Mr. Theophilus Burrill of Lynn and Ms Mary Hill of
Maiden.
July 10, 1743. Thomas Cooper of Attleborough and Abigail Melmau
of Lynn.
July 13, 1735. John Poope (Pope?) of Salem and Mary Eaton of
Lynn.
July 13, 1735. Samuel Clark and Mary Fowler, both of Lynn.
July 13, 1735. Ebeuezer Tarbox and Mary Rand, both of Lynn.
July 27, 1735. Mr. John Hawks and Miss Elizabeth Curtis, both of
Lynn.
Dec. 7, 1735. James Goodwin of Reading and Mary Mansfield of
Lynn.
Dec. 7, 1735. Thomas Ilutchinson of Lynn and Sarah Carder of
Marblehead.
Dec. 7, 1735. Jacob Burrill and Eunice Ramsdell, both of Lynn.
Oct. 26. 1735. Thomas Mansfield and Bethiah Poole, both of Lynn.
Nov. 2, 1736. Stephen Norwood and Sarah Burlow, both of Lynn.
Mar. 21, 1735-6. Nathaniel Walden of Salem and Mary Nourse of Lynn.
140
Mar. 28, 1736. William Curtis of Lynn and Elizabeth Young of
Salem.
Apr. 25, 1736. John Hoper, a stranger, and Margaret Oben of Lynn.
Jan. 1, 1737-8. Joseph Downing and Hannah Narremore, both of
Lynn.
Oct. 25, 1747. Moses Chadwell of Lynn and Mary Newhall of Boston.
Oct. 25, 1747. Daniel Jacobs and Abigail Gloyd, both of Lynn.
Mar. 13, 1736-7. Nathaniel Gowing of Lynn and Mary Goodwin of
Reading.
Apr. 2, 1738. Ephriam Rhodes and Elizabeth Wiat, both of Lynn.
July 16, 1738. Ebenezer Williams and Mary Burrill, both of Lynn.
July 30, 1738. . Ephraim Sheldon of Reading and Lydia Gowing of
Lynn.
Aug. 6, 1738. Daniel Mansfield and Lydia Newhall, both of Lynn.
Oct. 8, 1738. William Lysk and Jeannet Hill, both of Lynn.
Apr. 26, 1747. John Fern of Lynn and Mehitable Macintyre of Salem.
Aug. 16, 1747. John Fern and Mary Best, both of Lynn.
Aug. 27, 1738. Ebenezer Lane and Elizabeth Bates, both of Lynn.
Sept. 10, 1738. Richard Singleton of Sutton and Thankful Goodell of
Lynn.
Oct. 15, 1738. Jeremiah Farrington of Lynn and Elizabeth Evans of
Salem.
Oct. 15, 1738. John Hewitt and Sarah Tarbox, both of Lynn.
Jan. 21, 1738-9. Christopher Batten and Mary Andrews, both now of
Lynn.
Jan. 9, 1742-3. Jacob Wellman and Jennie Johnson, both of Lynn.
Oct. 22, 1738. Joseph Knight of Salem and Mary Boardman of Lynn.
Oct. 22, 1738. Noah Tarbox of Lynn and Hannah Burrows of Ips-
wich.
Oct. 29, 1738. Ebenezer Giles of Beverly and Eve Hawks of Lynn.
Nov. 5, 1738. Jedediah Collins and Hannah Mansfield, both of Lynn.
Nov. 12, 1738. Joseph Mansfield and Sarah Stocker, both of Lynn.
Dec. 7, 1740. John Boardman and Eunice Cheever, both of Lynn.
Oct. 18, 1747. Nehemiah Ramsdell and Deliverance Smith, both of
Lynn.
Nov. 19, 1738. Mr. Samuel Poole and Miss Prudence Townsend,
both of Lynn.
Nov. 19, 1738. Joseph Newhall of Lynn and Elizabeth Hodgman of
Concord.
Nov. 19, 1738. Samuel Rhodes and Sarah Merriam, both of Lynn.
Nov. 23, 1738. Samuel Wilson and Elizabeth Atwell, both of Lynn.
Dec. 10, 1738. Joseph Waitt of Maiden and Susannah Bancroft of
Lynn.
Dec. 31, 1738. Samuel Graves and Hannah Rand, both of Lynn.
Jan. 28, 1738-9. Timothy Bancroft and Elizabeth Gerry, both of Lynn.
May 6, 1739. George Newhall of Boston and Sarah Norwood of
Lynn.
141
Jan. 21, 1738-9. Mr. Nathan Cheever of Boston and Miss Anna Fuller
of Lynn.
Feb. 4, 1738-9. Jacob Alley and Mary Provender, both of Lynn.
Mar. 11, 1738-9. Ebenezer Jaquith of Wilmington and Rebecca Stearns
of Lynn.
Mar. 29, 1739. Benjamin Gerry and Sarah Eaton, both of Lynn.
Apr. 8, 1739. Jeremiah Gray and Theodate Hood, both of Lynn.
Apr. 20, 1739. Abraham Sheldon of Heading and Sarah Gowing of
Lynn.
Apr. 20, 1739. Ebenezer Knight and Mary Greenslit, both of Lynn.
Aug. 19, 1739. Benjamin Downing and Sarah Smith, both of Lynn.
Nov. 4, 1739. Mr. Russel Trevett of Marblehead and Miss Anna
Potter of Lynn.
Dec. 23, 1739. Capt. John Fuller and Ilepzibah Ilathorne, both of
Lynn.
Feb. 10, 1739-40. David Bancroft of Heading and Eunice Bancroft of
Lynn.
Apr. 20, 1740. John Rhodes and Elizabeth Estes, both of Lynn.
May 4, 1740. Bristo, servant to John Burrage, and Mary, servant
to Nathan' Breed, all of Lynn.
Mar. 14, 1741-2. Nathaniel Wilson of Lichester (Leicester?) and Sarah
Parrish of Lynn.
June 29, 1740. Stephen Welman and Susannah Pedrick, both of Lynn.
Aug. 3, 1740. Francis Upton of Heading and Edde Ilerrick of Lynn.
Aug. 24, 1740. Thomas Stearns and Lydia Mansfield, both of Lynn.
Sept. 14, 1740. Josiah Nevvhall and Hannah Newhall, both of Lynn.
Sept. 14, 1740. Moses Chadwell and Susannah Newhall, both of Lynn.
Nov. 2, 1740. Joseph Maul of Salem and Hannah Johnson of Lynn.
Nov. 30, 1740. Mr. Joseph Huntin of Boston and Miss Jane Ballard
of Lynn.
Aug. 8, 1742. Mr. Samuel Ilerrick of Lynn and Miss Elizabeth
Jones of Wilmington.
Aug. 22, 1742. Mr. Richard Neck of Marblehead and Miss Sarah
Riddan of Lynn (Raddin?).
Oct. 3, 1742. Jonathan Hawks % and Abigail Farrington, both of
Lynn.
Oct. 3, 1742. Jonathan Newhall and Elizabeth Johnson, both of
Lynn.
Oct. 3, 1742. Edmund Whittemore and Desire Burrage, both of
Lynn.
June 17, 1744. John Newman and Mary Ramsdell, both of Lynn.
June 21, 1747. Ebenezer Mansfield and Mary Norwood, both of Lynn.
Oct. 24, 1742. Joseph Baldwin of Maiden and Miss Mary Potter of
Lynn.
Jan. 30, 1742-3. Ephraim Brown of Lynn and Anna Twist of Salem.
Feb. 6, 1742-3. Thomas Eaton and Mohitable Eaton, both of Lynn.
Oct. 2, 1743. Samuel Stocker and Elizabeth Griffin, both of Lynn.
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Dec. 4, 1743. Jacob Walton of Reading and Eunice Hawks of Lynn.
June 10, 1744. John Ramsdell and Rebecca Hazeltine, both of Lynn.
Sept. 28, 1740. Edward Fuller and Sarah Waitt, both of Lynn.
Dec. 28, 1740. Eliphalet Manning of Tewksbury and Hannah Aborn
of Lynn.
Jan. 4, 1740. Nathan Howard and Abigail Greenslit, both of Lynn.
Jan. 4, 1740. William Blackburn and Experience Curtis, both of
Lynn.
Feb. 15, 1740-1. Mr. Stephen Butcher of Boston and Susannah Cox of
Lynn.
Aug. 30, 1741. Elkeniah Hawks and Eunice Newhall, both of Lynn.
May 23, 1742. Gideon Gowing and Elizabeth Gowing, both of Lynn.
Oct. 8, 1709. Jonathan Youngman of Roxbury and Sarah Ramsdell
of Lynn.
Apr. 29, 1739. Francis Norwood and Hannah Peirce, both of Lynn.
June 24, 1739. Jacob Eaton and Mary Collins, both of Lynn.
Sept. 30, 1739. Timothy Upham of Maiden and Mary Cheever of Lynn.
Oct. 11, 1741. Nehemiah Collins and Miriam Silsbee, both of Lynn.
Jan. 31, 1741-2. Benjamin Eaton and Elizabeth Sparrowhawk, both of
Lynn.
Aug. 14, 1743. Mr. Thaddeus Riddan (Raddin?) to Miss Lydia
Hawkes, both of Lynn.
July 22, 1744. Jupiter, a negro, and Catherine, a negro, both of
Lynn.
Feb. 10, 1744-5. Ephriam Newhall and Abigail Newhall, both of Lynn.
Mar. 3, 1744-5. Jonathan Johnson and Catharine Brumagin, both of
Lynn.
Mar. 3, 1744-5. John Lindsey and Lydia Johnson, both of Lynn.
Oct. 6, 1745. Adam Johnston and Abigail Moulton, both of Lynn.
May 10, 1747. Samuel Hallowell and Mehitable Breed, both of Lynn.
Apr. 7, 1745. Moses Chadwell of Lynn and Elizabeth Knox of Bos-
ton.
Apr. 7, 1745. Theophilus Breed and Martha Newhall, both of Lynn.
Apr. 7, 1745. Samuel Derby and Bridget Newhall, both of Lynn.
Sept. 22, 1745. Edward Fuller and Ruth Shepard, both of Lynn.
Aug. 10, 1746. Capt. John Fuller and Miss Hannah Prince, both of
Lynn.
June 21, 1747. James Butler, a stranger, and Abigail Merriam of
Lynn.
May 24, 1741. William Sheldon of Reading and Abigail Gowing of
Lynn.
May 24, 1741. Eleazer Lindsey and Lydia Farrington, both of Lynn.
Sept. 20, 1741. Joseph Newhall and Abigail Hanson, both of Lynn.
Jan. 3, 1741-2. Ralph Merry of Lynn and Sarah Noah of Maiden.
Jan. 10, 1741-2. Benjamin James and Mary Breed, both of Lynn.
Feb. 28, 1741-2. Samuel Pratt and Anna Ireson, both of Lynn.
Apr. 8, 1744. Thomas Norwood and Lydia Hawkes, both of Lynn.
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Nov. 1, 1741. Thomas Lewis and Elizabeth Carder, both of Lynn.
Nov. 8, 1741. Stephen Phillips of Marblehead and Lydia Rand of
Lynn.
Nov. 15, 1741. Ignatius Fuller and Esther Newhall, both of Lynn.
Nov. 22, 1741. Ebenezer Norwood and Jerusha Groas (Grous?), both
of Lynn.
Dec. 20, 1741. Doct. Henry Burchstead, jr., and Anna Potter, both
of Lynn.
Dec. 20, 1741. Samuel Pudney and Sarah Brown, both of Lynn.
Jan. 8, 1743-4. John Davis and Sarah Brown, both of Lynn.
May 6, 1744. Samuel Richardson of Leicester and Elizabeth Par-
rish of Lynn.
July 1, 1744. Edward Johnson and Bethiah Newhall, both of Lynn.
July 15, 1744. John Fern and Mary Burrill, both of Lynn.
Sept. 2, 1744. Benjamin Gray and Sarah Hawkes, both of Lynn.
Sept. 9, 1744. Thomas Young, a stranger, and Martha Snow of Lynn.
Oct. 7, 1744. Isaac Stearns of Lynn and Abigail Briant of Lynn.
Mar. 22, 1746-7. Amos, a negro man of Woburn, and Peggy, a negro
woman of Lynn.
Oct. 28, 1744. Nathaniel Perkins of Boston and Bethiah Johnson of
Lynn.
June 16, 1745. Benjamin Ilerrick and Sarah Potter, both of Lynn.
Aug. 11, 1745. Obadiah Walker of Luneuburg and Abigail Gerry of
Lynn.
Sept. 8, 1745. Moses Hudson (of Lynn, J. T. M.) and Catharine
Kilby of Boston.
Sept. 8, 1745. Josiah Woodbury of Wilmington and Mary Hutchin-
son of Lynn.
Sept. 19, 1745. Joshua Cheever of Lynn and Hannah Perkins of Mid-
dleton.
Oct. 20, 1745. Thomas Hills of Maiden and Miss Sarah Burrill of
Lynn.
Oct. 20, 1745. Nathaniel Clerk, a stranger, and Rebecca Livingstone
of Lynn.
Oct. 27, 1745. Zaccheus Norwood of Lynn and Susannah Dunnell of
Topsfleld.
Oct. 27, 1745. Alexander Snow and Mary Brumagin, both of Lynn.
Nov. 6, 1745. Mary Brumagin forbid the said marriage.
Nov. 3, 1745. Pompey, a negro man of Lynn, and Phebe, a negro
woman of Reading.
Jan. 26, 1745-6. Ceasar, a negro man, and Moody, a negro woman,
both of Lynn.
Apr. 27, 1746. Jonathan Rhodes and Mary Fern, both of Lynn.
Two leaves are missing from the end of the book. J. T. M.
CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF
WILLIAM. AND DOROTHY KING OF SALEM. 1
COMMUNICATED BY HENRY F. WATERS.
THE deposition of Michael Shaflin aged about 80 years.
I this deponent doe testifie & saye y* about 33 years
agoe, when William King was wooinge of my danght r
Katherine, to have her to wife and I understanding that
his mother Doritha King widdow & Relict unto William
King Sen* had a claime of two shillings p weeke for some
tyme of her son William, whereupon I made a demurr In
giving my consent to the matche. And the s d Doritha
seing how it was & how resolved w th mee, did freely
acquit & discharge her s d son William King of y e s d dew
of two shillings p weeke as afores d apou w ch I gave my
consent for y e s d William King to marry w th my s d daught r
July y e 1 st 1685 before y e Court at Salem. Rob* Pike p
ord r .
Jn Weston Sen r aged about sixty-three years ; Testi-
fieth to the sum & the truth of All above written sworne
in Court by y e aboves d party es July y e 1 st 1685. Rob*
Pike p ord r .
I John Weston S n aged about 63 years doe testifie apon
my good knowledg that there being some difference be-
tween Doritha King widdow & her son William King
about thirty or two & thirty e years ago, concerning some
acctt. 8 between y m Relating to the estate of y e deceased
Will King. There was a full agreement & conclusion of
all differences and matters between y m In what respect
iFrom Records in the Essex County Registry of Deeds and Probate.
(144)
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soever ; And a wrighting was made & signed to y 1 end &
purpose. Vnto w ch I well Remember I sett my hand as a
witness ; with M r . Henery Bartholmew. Sworne July y e
first 1685 before the Court at Salem. Robt. Pike p order.
The last will and testimony of W m King that is to say
I doe freely give my whole estate to my wife if she doe
live longer then myself, as long as she doe live housing
land and whatsoever is myne. And at her decease half
of it to my brothers sones either the eldest or youngest
that hath most need of it as my brother judge meet.
The other half to whom my wife will of her relations or
any other whom she judge meet, if any thing be left.
Also my wife may buy or sell all the tymc of her life as
she will one thousand six hundred eightie & two the
seavinth month. William King.
Signed & acknowledged in the presence of us as wit-
nesses. Sam 11 Shattock Sen r .
Roger Darby.
And for overseers and ffiffees in trust to see this my
will performed my mynd and will being to make Katha-
rine my wife my sole executrix to all my estate I doe
appoint for my ffiffees best in trust with respect to my
estate my father in law Michael Shaflin and my Brother
in law Robert Stone And that my s d wife shall have the
free use and benefit of all my estate left her to sell and
dispose of for her comfort and necessity durehig her life-
tyme and afterwards to dispose of the remainder accord-
ing to my will abovesaid.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this sixth day of Septemb r one thousand six hundred
eighty four.
William King & a seal.
Signed & sealed in the presence of us. Abraham Cole.
Richard Croad.
HIST. COLL. xvi 10
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Abraham Cole and "Richard Croad made oath in Court
that they saw William King signe seal own and deliver
this as his last will and testament and that he was then of
a disposeing mynd and that they signed as witneses 25,
9 mo , 84.
Attest Benj a Gerrish Cler.
The will of Katharine King, widow & relict of the
above was made 11 Jan'y 1708-9 & proved 1 Jan'y
1718-19. She bequeathes "unto my coz Sam 1 Stone his
eldest son Sam u & to Rob* Stone son to my coz Rob*
Stone deceased and to Rober* Maning eldest son to my
coz Sarah Maning two parcels of land w ch my coz Benja-
min Stone marriner lately deceased gaue & bequeathed to
me in his last will & testam* baring date Decemb r 1697."
"I give unto my coz Sam 11 Stone son of my late sister
Sarah Stone y e one half of y e rest of all my estate both
reall & psonall & ye other halfe of my estate both reall &
psonall i give & bequeath to my coz Sarah Maning
daught r to my late sister Sarah Stone," &c.
[Stones, King &c. their agreement. Rec'ed on Record,
June y e 18, 1719.]
To all Christian People to whome these shall or may
come greeting. Know ye that William King formerly of
Salem within y e County of Essex deced by his last Will
& Testam* bearing date 1682 ye seventh month gave <&
Bequeathed unto his wife if she should Hue longer then
he his whole Estate housing Lands &c and at her decease
half of it to his Brothers sons y e other half to whom she
his wife should will of her Relacons or any other whom
she should judge meet and forasmuch as y e Relict Widow
of y e aforenamed William King deced made her will
gave & Bequeathed unto her nephew or cousin Samuel
Stone & to her neice Sarah Manning wife of Jacob Man-
ning of Salem all her estate Real & psouall in equall
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halues excepting some small Bequests to others of her
Relacons and appointed y e s d Samuel Stone and Jacob
Manning her Exec" as in her will bearing date y e 11 th
day of January 1708-9 fully appeares which Wills were
since proued in Court viz.* William Kings Will proued
y e 25tn 9\i684 an( j Kathrine King his Relict Widow her
will proved January 1 st 1718 Referrence whereunto being
had more at Large appears And whereas y e aforenamed
William King & Kathrine King have left of Real estate
as followeth viz. 1 a small Messuage or Tenem* consisting
of a Dwelling house and about twelve or thirteen Rods
O
of Land scituate in Salem afores d Bounded Southerly,
Westerly and Northerly on Land of Mrs. Bethiah Kitchen
and Easterly on y e Lane y* leads to y e North River as also
A Tract of land consisting of about fForty or ffifty acres
Upland & Marsh scituate in Salem afores d at or nigh a
place known by y e name of Royall side Bounded with y e
Land of late John Green deccd on y e Northwest that is
with a Streight line from a stump of a Tree standing in
y e fence unto an Oak tree standing by y e Mill pond and
otherwise mostly with y e Mill pond and River y 1 Runs up
before y e house y l was & formerly stood on s d Land or
however otherwise bounded or reputed to be bounded.
Now for y e Amicable settling and proportioning y e afore-
mentioned estate amongst those persons unto whome of
right it belongs according to y e true Intent & meaning &
purport of both y e aforementioned wills and to prevent
any further disagreement Misunderstanding or Contest
referring to y e same y e ptys Intrested therein Have Mutu-
ally agreed in Manner following viz. 1 That Samuel Stone
& Jacob Manning Executors shall be allowed & payd by
y e partys concerned and Intrested in proportion to their
respective shares and Intrests what Disbursem 18 y e s d Ex-
ecutors have been Necessarily out referring to y e s d Estate
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more then they have yet had & received 2 dly That y e s d
Samuel Stone & Jacob Manning in right of his wife Sarah
shall have & Enjoy y e one half of y e aforementioned hous-
ing and land to wit one quarter part to y e s d Samuel Stone
& y e other quarter to y e s d Jacob Manning in right of his
wife Sarah as afores d . To Have & To Hold y e same Re^-
spectiuely with y e priviledges Arrearages Commonages &
appurtenances whatsoever unto them y e s d Samuel Stone
and Jacob Manning in right as afores d and to their heirs
and assigns forever as an Estate in fee Simple 3 dly That
Samuel King of Southhold on long Island in y e County of
Suffolk, within y e s d Collony of New York, one of y e
Brothers of y e s d William King shall have and Enjoy as
his share & proporcon of y e s d Housing & lands one full
quarter part thereof To Have & To Hold y e same with y e
severall priviledges commonages and appurtenances be-
longing thereto & his heirs & assigns forever as an Estate
in fee simple 4 tllly that y e Legall Representatiues & heirs
of John King late of Salem deced Brother of y e s d Wil-
liam King deced shall have & Enjoy y e other quarter part
of y e s d Real Estate of Housing and Land To Have & To
Hold to them & their heirs & assigns forever Together
with -all y e priviledges comonages and appurtenances there-
to belonging or appertaining in manner following viz 1
Samuel King y e Eldest surviuing son one sixteenth part
William King y e other surviving son one sixteenth part
and y e Children of John King deced viz* Samuel King &
Mary King both of age Elizabeth King Joseph King Han-
nah King & Annis King under age to have their Fathers
sixteenth part equally betwixt y m and y e children of Jona-
than King deced another son of y e s d John King deced to
have y e other Sixteenth part viz* -Jonathan King Sarah
King Abigail King Ruth King William King John King
and Lydiah King To Have hold & Enjoy their s d Fathers
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sixteenth part Equally betwixt them with y e priviledges
commonages and appurtenances belonging thereto to them
and their heirs & assigns forever as an Estate in fee and
its covenanted & agreed by & betwixt y e partys Interested
in y e Estate as afores d that all y e aforemenconed parts
shares proporcons and dividends of y e Estate afores d shall
be and Remain to them and their heirs & assigns forever
according as it is proporconed and agreed on in this Con-
tract or partition being as is Judged & Concluded agree-
able to y e Intent of y e Testators and to y e Satisfacon of
such as are concerned" &c &c 18 th June 1719.
To the above agreement Annis widow of John King
and Sarah widow of Jonathan King added their signatures
(by mark).
Sam 1 King of Southhold, New York, cooper, conveys
to his youngest son John King of s d Southhold, mariner,
all the interest &c which the s d Sam 1 King had in the
Estate of his eldest brother William King of Salem de-
ceased &c 9 Nov. 1710.
In a series of deeds & acquittances following it appears
that Samuel King, the eldest surviving son of John King
(brother of William) was of Salem in 1719 his brother
William, the other surviving son of s d John was of Sut-
ton, Samuel King jun r of Salem eldest son of John King
jr. deed, son of John King sen r (brother of s d William)
was guardian of his brothers & sisters and Henry Cooke
of Salem was guardian of the children of Jonathan King
deed, son of John King dec'd (brother of s d William).
It may be well to note that William King, referred to
above, came over from England in 1635, clearing from
"Way mouth y e 20 th of March," among a lot (106 in num-
ber) of Somersetshire people. He was "aged 40 yeare,"
his wife Dorothy 34, his children Mary, 12, Katherine,
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10, William, 8, and Hanna, "6 yeare." In the same
ship came John Kitchen "aged 23 yeare," who was doubt-
less the one who settled in Salem close to the residence
of William King on the north side of Essex street, at the
present western corner of Beckford street. The baptisms
of more of King's children have already been published
in the Institute HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
RECORDS OF THE FIRST CHURCH AT
SALISBURY, MASS., 1687-1754.
COMMUNICATED BT WM. P. UPHAM.
[Continued from page 68, Part 1, Vol. XVI.]
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1710, Aprill 16. Symons, son of Sam'll Buswell.
Apr. 23. Dorithy, daught'r of Moses Pike.
Daniel, son of Jno. Eaton.
May 7. .Daniel, son of Rich'd Fits.
May 28. Apphia, Sarah, Moses, Mary, children of Moses Mer-
rill.
Jeremiah, son of Thos. Clough Jun'r.
May 14. I preacht at New Castle and admin'rd ye Sacram't to
yt Chh. and baptized twelve children.
(Viz.)'
June 18th. Hanah, daught'r of Benj'n Hoit.
July 2d. Mary, daught'r of Henry True.
Mary, daught'r of Jabez True.
July 23d. Jemima, John, Ezekiel, Jacob, Daniel, child'n of Jno.
True.
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July 23d. John, son of Jno. Doell.
Aug. 20. Elizabeth, Mary and Benjamin, children of Benj'n
Stevens.
Elizabeth, daught'r of Jno. Clough Jun'r. f
Sept. 3d. John, son of James Thorn.
1 Cancelled.
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Sept. 24.
Octob'r.
29.
Nov. 5th.
Dec. 3d.
Jan. 21.
Jan. 28.
Feb. 4.
Feb. 18.
1711, Mar. 25.
Apr. 1.
Apr. 8.
Apr. 22.
June 17.
June 24.
July 15.
July 29.
Aug. 5.
Sept. 9.
Sept. 1C.
Sept. 23.
Oct. 21.
Oct. 28.
1712, Mar. 30.
Apr. 6.
Apr. 27.
May 4.
June 22.
Aug. 10.
Sept. 7.
Sept. 21.
1712, Oct. 19.
Ann and Elisha, Children of Stillson Allin.
Martha, daught'r of Edw'd French sen'r.
Wintrop, son of Will. True.
Abigail, daught'r of Jo. French.
Benjamin, son of Jno. Stevens.
Jacob, son of Jac. Bradbury.
Andrew, son of Juo. Webster.
Ezekiel, son of Thos. Evins.
Jabez, son of Onesiph's Page.
William, Abraham, sons of Rob't Smith.
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Sarah, daught'r of Jabez True.
Elizabeth, of Jer. Stevens.
Judith, of Edw'd French jun'r.
Beuj'n, son of Sam'll Easman.
Ann, daught'r of Jno. Stockm'n.
Abell, John, Thomas, sons of John Merill.
Jerushah, daught'r of Weym'd Bradbury.
Ruth, daught'r of Jno. Merill.
Philip, son of Jonath'n Greely; Thomas and Mary,
childr'n of Ann Carter, widow.
Mehittabell, of Jno. Easman.
Hanah, of Henry French.
Samuel, son of Moses Merill.
Jacob, son of Zech. Easman ; Phebe, daught'r of George
Brown,.
Ezra and Mercy, child'n of Joseph Clough of Kingston.
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Philip, son of Jno. March.
Sarah, daugh'r of Amos Page.
Ruth, of Jno. True.
Crisp, son of Will'm Bradbury.
Abra daught'r of Will. Carr.
Peirce, Joseph and Mary, children of Daniel Moody
jun'r.
Sarah, daught'r of Josiah Wheeler.
Joanna, of Joseph Cliford.
Dorithy, William and Ruth, children of Joseph Stock-
m'n. Mary and Sarah, daught'rs of Bethiah Osgood.
Eliphalet, son of Ed. French, sen'r. Mehittabell,
Sarah and Abigail, daught'rs of Nath'l Easman.
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Obediah, Rich'd, Ruth and Keziah, children of Jos.
True jun'r.
Benjamin, son of Sam'll Joy.
Samuel, son of Jos. Greely.
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Dec. 5. Joseph and Benjamin, sons of Joseph Wadley.
Nov. A Susanna, daught'r of Jos. Stockm'n.
Stephen, son of Jno. Webster.
Dec. 28. Hanah, daught'r of Jno. Merill.
Mary, daught'r of Rob't Pike.
Jan. A Benjamin, son of Jno. Doel.
Feb. 8. Tamsin, daught'r of Isaac Merrill.
1713, Mar. 1. Joshua, son of Ed. French jun'r.
Mar. 8. Jacob, son of Jeremy Stevens.
Mar. 15. Sarah, daught'r of Henry True. Samuel, son of Jno.
Stockman.
Mar. 22. John, son of Jno. March.
Mar. 29. Jerushah, daught'r of Kich'd Fittz.
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Apr. 12. Eliner, daught'r of Jno. Clough.
June 21. Sarah, daught'r of Jac. Bradbury. Ephraini) son of
Tho's Clough.
June 28. Elizabeth, of Jabez True.
July 5. Israel, son of Jos. True Jun'r. Kuth, daughter of
George Brown.
July 19. Stilson, son of Stilson Allin.
July 26. Samuel, son of William True.
Aug. 16. Jemimah, daughter of Zech. Easm'n. Keziah, of
Benj'n Easman.
Sept. A Sarah, of James Thorn.
Oct. 19. Mary, of Onesiph. Page.
Oct. 25. William, son of Jno. Stevens.
Dec. 25. Mercy, daught'r of Moses Merill.
Jan. 24. Benj'n, son of Will. Bradbury.
Feb. 14. Jane, daught'r of Jonath'n Greely.
1714, Mar. 28. Gideon, son of Jno. Merill.
May 9. William, son of Josiah Wheeler.
May 23. Daniel, son of Daniel Moodey.
June A Nathaniel, son of Will. Carr.
July 18. Susana, daught'r of Jacob Merill.
Aug. 29. Ezekiel, Humphrey, Edith and Eachel, ch. of Andrew
Greely, Jr.
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Sept. 5. Enoch, son of Benj'n Hoit.
Sept. 12. Abigail, daught'r of Jos. Wadley. Ann, of Rob't
Pike.
Oct. 10. Ezekiel, son of Gershom Wi[nsor].
Dorcas, daught'r of Eleaz'r Hubbard.
Oct. 17. John, son of Rob't Carr.
Oct. 24. Jabez, son of Jabez True.
Dec. A Elizabeth, daught'r of Jno. Stockm'n.
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Jan. 9. Nehemiah, son of Henry French. Richard, of Jno.
dough* Jun'r. Benjamin, of William Baker.
Huldah, daught'r of Juo. Easman.
1715, Mar. 6. Judith, daught'r of Jer. Stevens.
Mar. 13. Moses, son of John Doel.
June 5. Nathaniel, son of Mr. N'l. Brown. Daniel, son of
Benj'n Iloit.
June 12. Elinor, daughter of Stillson Allin. Apphia, of
Jacob Morill.
July 3. Mehitabell, obediah and Jonathan, children of Jonath'n
Clough.
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July 3. Martha and Mary, twins, daughters of Tho's Clough.
Aug. 7. Phebe, of Isaac Morill. Moses, son of Juo. True.
Joseph, of Jno. March.
Aug. 14. Daniel, Stephen and Aaron, sons of Stephen Merill.
Sept. 11. Rebecca and Jerusha, daught'rs of Will and Eliz.
Shepperd.
Oct. 9. Eliphalet, son of Amos Page.
Oct. 30. Mary, daught'r of Jno. Webster Jun'r.
Nov. 27. Sarah, of Kob't Pike.
Dec. 4. Elizabeth, of George Brown. Jemimah, of Jo-
seph True Jun'r. Hanah, of Israel Webster.
Jan. 8. Moses, son of Jac. Bradbury.
Jan. 22. Betty, daught'r of Moses Merill.
Feb. 12. Joseph, son of Joseph Stockman.
Feb. 19. Nanne, ye daught'r of Jno. Merill.
1716, Mar. 4. Martha, of Will'm Buswell.
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Apr. 15. Barnabas, son of William Bradbury.
May 6. James, son of James Thorn.
May 27. Samuel, son of Abraham Brown Jun'r.
June 17. Elizabeth, daughter of Will. Carr.
Hanah, of Jacob Stevens.
July 8. Dorithy, of Jno. Stevens Jun'r.
July 15. John, son of Jno. Evins.
July 22. Enoch, of Jos. Wadley.
Sept. 30. Roland, son of Jno. Stockman.
Oct. 28. Jane, dafter of Jabez True.
Nov. 25. Elizabeth, of Nath'l Brown.
Jan. 20. Nath'l, son of Will. Baker.
Jan. 27. Obediah, son of Jos. French Jun'r.
1717, Apr. 14. Mary, daught'r of Josiah Wheeler. Daniel, son of
Jno. Webster.
Apr. 28. Moses, of EHas Pike.
May 12. Joseph, of Rob't Carr.
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June 9. Humphry, son of Jno. Merrill. Joseph, son of Benj'n
True.
July 21. Hanah, daught'r of Jacob Stevens.
Aug. 4. Hanah, of Jonathan Clough.
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Aug. 18. Lydia, Insley, Judith, children of Phillip Grealey Jun'r
and Abigail his wife.
Sept. 1. Elizabeth, daught'r of Stephen Merrill.
Sept. 29. Elizabeth, of Jno. March.
Oct. 6. Ann, of Jno. Evins.
Nov. 3. Mary, of Jno. Doel.
Nov. 10. Benjamin, Moses and Nanne, children of Moses Pike
Jun'r.
Nov. 24. Thomas, son of Jno. True.
Feb. 9. Mary, daught'r of Jos. True. Moses, son of Jno.
Stockman.
1718, Mar. 2. Rob't, son of Rob't Pike.
Apr. 6. Mary, daught'r of Eleaz'r Hubbard.
Apr. 13. Sarah and William, children of Sam'll Carr.
Apr. 20. John, son of Lt. Jer. Stevens. Ann, daught'r of Isr.
Webster.
June 8. Elisha, son of Jno. Clough.
June 29. Ezekiel, abner, Hannah, John, Thomas, Ephraim.,
child'n of Ezekiel Morrill.
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Barn[ull?], Ephraim, Thomas, child'n of (William) 2
Brown.
Samuel and Thomas, child'n of Jos. Easman.
Thomas, son of Tho's Clough Jun'r.
Isaac, son of Isaac Morill.
Judith, daught'r of William True.
Samuel, son of Jno. Gill.
Henery, son of Jacob Morill Jun'r.
July 27. Phillip, son of George Brown.
Aug. 24. Martha, daught'r of Jabez True.
Aug. 31. Jane, of Jacob Bradbury.
Oct. 19. Theophilus, Anna, abigail, Samuel, Daniel, children of
Sam'll Clough.
Dec. 7. Elizabeth, daught'r of Elias Pike.
Mar. 5. Ruth, of Nath'l Easman.
1719, Mar. 15. Humphry, son of Jno. Merill. Abraham, son of Will.
Baker.
Apr. 5. Mary, daught'r of Jno. Grealy. Abia, of Jno. Evins.
Ruth, of Benj'n True.
Apr. 12. Benjamin, son of Rob't Carr.
2 Written first Ephraim, then changed to William,
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May 3. Abigail and Thomas, child'n of Thos. Felloes. Judith,
dafter of Jno. Allin.
June 7. Nathan, son of Jno. Webster Jun'r.
July 26. James, son of Eliz : and James French. William, son
of Will. Boynton.
Sept. 6. Ann, daught'r of Jac. Stevens.
Paul, son of Jno. Stevens.
Sept. 27. Aaron, son of Stephen Merill. Martha, daught'r of
Eleaz'r Ilubbard.
Oct. 29. Jacob, son of Moses Merrill.
' Nov. 1. Will'm, Francis and Mary, ch'rn of Mrs. (Wm.) 3 Hook.
Dorithy and Hezekiah Coleb} r , Graud'rn of Ilenery
Ambross.
Jan. 3. Sarah, dafter of Eben Severns.
Feb. 7. Mary, Ephniim, Eben'r, Daniel, Sarah and Moses,
child'rn of Eben'r Ilucket.
Feb. 28. Thomas, son of Jno. Stockman.
Mar. 6. Elizabeth, dafter of Jno. Doel.
1720, Mar. 27. Mary, daughter of Jos. March. Abra, daugh'r of Nath'l
Brown.
June 12. Kattern, of Jno. Stevens Jun'r.
June 19. Sarah, Moses, child'rn of Moses Clough.
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July 3. Mary, daught'r of A Davis. Juo., son of Juo. Gill.
July 10. Isaac, son of Isaac Buswell.
July 17. Jemima, dafter of Jabez True.
Joseph, son of Jos. Easman.
Aug. 21. Rebecca, Elizabeth, Jno. and Mary, child'rn of James
French.
Sept. 11. Jonathan, son of Jos. Grealy.
Sept. 18. At Kingston, Elizabeth, dafter of Mr. Jno. Graham.
Thomas, son of Tho's Sleeper.
Oct. 9. Benj'n, son of Sam'll Sandburn. Moses, son of Jo-
seph Clough.
Oct. 30. Dyer, son of Jacob Hook Jun'r.
Dec. 4.. James, son of Elias Pike.
Jan. 29. Sarah, dafter of Wra. Baker.
Feb. 12. Mary, of Benj'n True.
Feb. 26. Benjamin, son of Moses Merrill. Jonathan, son of
Isaac Buswell.
1721, Mar. 19. Thankfull, dafter of Eleaz'r Hubb'd.
Apr. 16. David, son of George Brown. Mary, dafter of Nath'l
Fitts.
Apr. 23. Samuel, son of Jno. Evins.
'Interlined in the original.
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May 15. Martha, dafter of Jno. Merill. Abraham, son of Benj'n
Eaton.
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May 21. Hanah, dafter of Jona. Grealy.
June 4. Rich'd, son of Wm. Boynton.
July 2. Joanna, dafter of Rob't Carr.
July 16. Elizabeth, daught'r of Eben. Hacket. William, son of
Jno Allin. Deborah, dafter of Wm. Daniels.
July 23. Sarah and Judith, twins of Rich'd Carr, Jun'r.
July 30. Joshua, son of Stephen Merrill.
Aug. 20. Sarah, Joanna, and Moses, child'rn of Jos. French, 3d.
Sept. 17. Sarah, dafter of Jno. Webster.
Sept. 30. Bradbury, son of Jno. Stevens.
Oct. 15. Jacob, son of Jno. tockman.
Oct. 29. Ezekiel, son of Mr. Nath'l Brown,
dec. 3. Ellener, dafter of Jno. Stephens Jun'r.
1722, Mar. 11. Sarah, of [Ann?] 4 Gill.
Apr. 1. Caleb, son of Eiias Pike.
June 3. Reuben, son of Moses Clough.
June 10. Hanah, dafter of Benj'n True.
July 15. Elizabeth, of Jacob Stevens.
July 29. Abra, of Will. Carr. Humphry, son of Jacob Hook
Jun'r.
Aug. 12. Hugh, son of Joseph March.
Aug. 19. Ruth, dafter of Will. Baker,
dec. 16. Benony, son of Susana Long.
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dec. 30. Moses, son of Isaac Buswel.
Jan. 27. John, son of Samson Underbill.
Feb. 17. Judith, daught'r of Eleaz'r Hubbard.
1723, Mar. 10. Sarah, of Benj'n Eaton.
Mar. 31. Daniel, son of Jno. Allin.
Apr. 7. Parker, son of Henry Jaquis.
Apr. 14. Joshua, son of Wm. Boynton.
Apr. 28. Solomon, son of Timo. French.
Ruth, dafter of Tho's Felloes.
May 19. Esther, dafter of Mathew Pettingal.
Abigail, of Joseph Easman.
June 2. Daniel, son of Moses Merrill.
June 30. Elizabeth, dafter of Rich'd Carr, Jun'r.
July 28. Ezra, son of Stephen Merill. Abigail, dafter of Rob't
Carr. Nanne, of Will. Allin.
Sept. 8. Joseph and Abigail, Hanah and Mary, child'rn of Jno.
Eaton Sen'r.
* Apparently written first John, then changed to Ann.
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Sept. 22. Ilenery, son of Jer. Wheeler.
Nov. 24. Abigail, dafter of Win. Baker.
Feb. 9. Mark, son of Mrs. Graves.
1724, Mar. 8. Keturah -and Sarah, twins of Benj'ii True. Abigail,
dafter of Nath'l Fitts.
Mar. 15. Jacob, son of Lt. Jac. Stevens.
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1726, Dec. 11. Peter, son of Brown Emerson.
Dec. 18. Abigail, dafter of Bcnj'n True.
Jan. 15. Rebecca, of Rich'd Carr.
Feb. 5. Martha, of Jno. Bradbury.
Mar. 19. Joseph, son of Beuj'n Iloit. Rhoda, dafter of Benj'n
Eaton.
1727, Apr. 2. Abell Eaton, son of Jonath'n. Martha, dafter of Jac.
Hook Jun'r.
July 1C. Mary, dafter of John Merrill.
Aug. 13. William, son of Win. Gill.
Aug. 29. Mary, dafter of Jno. Allin, we. being dangerously sick
was baptized at his house.
Sept. 17. Hezekiah, son of Samson Underbill.
Joseph, son of Joseph March.
Nov.. 5. Richard, son of William Carr.
Nov. 19. Samuel and Elizabeth, children of Tho's Bradbury.
Nov. 26. '[William, son of Jer. Wheler.
Dec. 13. Martha, dafter of James Tappan, we. being danger-
ously sick was baptized lii private.
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Dec. 24. Elliner, John, Sarah, Dorcas, children of Benony Sillcy .
Dec. 31. Rebecca, dafter of Nath'l Fitts.
Jan. 14. Rich'd, son of Jno. Buswel.
Jan. 21. Esther, dafter of Jno. Eaton.
Jan. 28. Samuel, son of Tho's Felloes.
Feb. 4. Hanah, dafter of Win. Allin.
Feb. 25. Richard, son of Rich'd Long.
1728, Mar. 3. Mary, dafter of Geo. Brown. Jemima, dafter of Benj'n
True.
Mar. 10. Mary, dafter of Moses Clough. Betty, of Win.
Boy n ton.
Mar. 81. Jane, of Jacob French.
Apr. 7. Mary, of Jos. Easman.
Apr. 14. Silas and Abraham, sons of Tho's Garni [t].
May 12. Mary, dafter of Lt. Jac. Stevens.
May 26. Elias, son of Elias Smith.
June 2. Anne, dafter of Josiah Hook.
July 7. Samuel, son of Sam. Moodey. Mary, dafter of Henry
Eaton.
July 19. Joseph, Samuel and Jabez, sons of Sam'l and Sarah
Dow.
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800 5 [9.1]
July 21. Nathan, son of Kob't Carr.
Aug. 4. John, son of Elias Pike.
Sept. 8. Jeremiah, son of Jno. Allin.
Sept. 15. Jacob, son of Thos. Bradbury.
Sept. 21. Mary, dafter of Ebenez'r Hacket.
Oct. 6. James, son of Rich'd Carr.
Dec. 22. Paul, son of Nath'l Brown.
Dec. 29. Samuel, son of Dn. Jabez True. Mark, son of Abra-
ham Pettingal. Sarah, dafter of Brown Emerson.
Feb. 16. Thomas, son of Jona. Eaton.
1729, Mar. 16. Martha, dafter of Wm. Boynton.
Apr. 13. Isaac, son of Tho's Camit.
June 8. Patience, dafter of Jno. Buswell.
June 15. Betty and John, child'rn of A Mitchell.
Mirriam, dafter of Aaron Clough.
Aug. 10. Benjamin, son of Will. Moody.
Sept. 21. Francis, son of Stephen Bennit.
Oct. 12. Sarah, dafter of Jacob Hook Jun'r.
Oct. 19. Elizabeth, of Benj'n Eaton.
Nov. A . Samuel, son of Jno. Stockman.
Nov. 30. Moses, son of Elias Smith, and Mary, dafter of Isaac
Buswell.
Jan. 4. Jacob, son of Jno. Pike.
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Feb. 15. Mary, dafter of Benj'n True.
Anne, of Joseph March.
1730, Apr. 5. Sarah, Joshua and Abigail, childr'n of Timo. French.
Apr. 12. Jacob, son of Jno. Evins.
Apr. 19. Moses, sou of Jacob Stevens.
May 31. Sarah, dafter of Rob't Smith.
June 21. Sarah, of Jno. Bradbury.
July 12. Mary, of Rich'd Carr.
Aug. 2. Jemima, of Henry Eaton.
Sept. 20. Caleb, son of Wm. Johnson at Haverhill.
Sept. 27. Mary, dafter of Moses Merrill Jun'r.
oct. 4. Jedidah, of Jer. Wheeler.
Oct. 25. Elizabeth, dafter of Jno. E^iton.
dec. 20. Benj'n, son of Jno. Allin.
Ezekiel, son of Jona. Eaton.
Henery, son of Samuel Moodey.
Jan. 10. Shubael, son of David Grealy. John, son of Benj'n
Hoit Jun'r.
Jan. 31. Mary, dafter of Josiah Hook.
6 Number baptized to this date ?
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Feb. 14. Ebenezer, soir of Eben. Racket.
Feb. 21. William, son of Juo. Stockman. Moses, son of Wm.
Gill.
Feb. 28. Daniel, son of Wm. Moodey.
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1731, Mar. 21. Moses, son of Tho's Bradbury.
May 9. Macress, son of Sylvanus Carr.
May 1G. Samuel, son of Thomas Brown.
May 23. Sarah, clafter of Aaron dough.
June 14. Enoch, son of Joseph French, w'ch being sick was
baptized In Private.
July 25. Mary, dafter of Stephen and Mary Bennit.
oct. 3. John, son of Juo. Buswell. William, sou of Ambross
Downs.
Oct. 10. Keziah, dafter of Benj'n True.
Oct. 17. Sarah, of John Stevens.
Oct. 31. Susanna, dafter of Rob't Carr. Mary, of Caleb
Gushing Jun'r.
Nov. 14. James, son of Isaac Buswell.
Jan.' 2. Benjamin, son of Benj'n Eaton.
1732, Mar. 19. Jane, dafter of Tho's Brown.
Apr. 2. Abner, son of Benj'n Hoit Jun'r.
Apr. 9. William, son of Jacob Hook Jun'r. Thomas, sou of
Jno. True Jun'r.
May 14. Abigail, dafter of Jos. March.
May 21. Sarah, dafter of Edw'd Brown Juu'r.
June 4. Jacob, son of Moses Merrill Jun'r.
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July 30. Nathan, son of Jno. Allin.
Aug. 13. Abraham, son of Moses dough.
Sept. 17. William, son of Win. Moodey.
Oct. 1. John, son of Juo. Eaton.
Oct. 15. Sarah, dafter of Jer. Sheppard.
Nov. 2G. John, son of Brown Emerson.
Feb. 11. Moses, son of Josjah Hook.
Feb. 15. James, son of Jona. Eaton.
1733, Mar. 11. True, son of Henry Eaton.
Martha, dafter of Benj'n Hoit Jun'r.
Mar. 25. Nathaniel, son of Abraham Martin.
Apr. 1. Naomi, dafter of Rob't Carr.
Apr. 29. Abigail, of Samuel Moodey.
May 13. Benj'u, son of Isaac Buswell.
May 27. Anna, dafter of Benj'n True. Sarah, of Daniel Gill.
.Aaron, son of Aaron Clough. Samuel, son of Wm.
Gill. Dexter, son of Ebenezer Brown.
June 10. Mary, dafter of David Grealy.
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July 12. Samuel, son of Jno. Stockman.
July 19. 'Mary, dafter of Jno. Pike.
Aug. 26. Mirriam, of Jer. Wiieeler.
Oct. 14. Mary, of Thos. Cammit.
Oct. 28. Walker, son of Jno. Buswell.
Nov. 11. Samuel, son of (Jacob) 8 Bradbury.
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1734, Feb. 17. Benjamin, son of Jno. Doel.
Mar. 31. Mary, dafter of Moses Hoit.
Elliner, of Francis Hook.
Apr. 14. Anne, dafter of Thos. Camit.
May 5. Dorithy, of Moses Hoit.
July 14. Martha, of Isaac Buswell.
Sept. 1. Sanders, son of Hezekiah Carr.
Sept. 22. Elizabeth, dafter of Joseph March.
Judith, of William Moodey.
Sept. 29. Abijah, son of Wm. Gill. Osgood, of Daniel Carr.
oct. 6. Joseph, son of Moses Clough.
dec. 22. Mary, dafter of Jno. Allin.
Anne, of Elias Smith.
Jan. 12. Elizabeth, of C. Gushing Juii'r. Jabez, son of
Benj'n Hoit Jun'r.
Jan. 26. Joseph, son of Jona. Eaton.
Feb. 2. Elisha, of Jacob Hook Jun'r.
Feb. 9. Jemima, dafter of Jno. Bradbury.
1735, Mar. 23. John, Son of Dr. Sam'l Gyles.
Apr. 6. Rachell, dafter of Benj'n Eaton.
Apr. 20. Robert, son of Rob't Carr.
Apr. 27. Joshua, son of Sam'l Moodey.
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May 11. Hanah, dafter of Moses Hort.
May 25. Mercy, of Benj'n True.
Jane, of David Grealy.
John, son of Jno. Stevens.
Elizabeth, dafter of Eben'r Brown we. being danger-
ously sick was baptized at home.
Aug. 10. Henery, son of Hen'ry Eaton. Caleb, son of John
Pike. Sarah, dafter of Timo. Townsend.
Sept. 7. Hauah, dafter of Isaac Buswell.
Nov. 9. Patience, of Jno. Buswell.
Nov. 16. Rachell, of Francis Hook,
dec. 28. Elizabeth, of Josiah Hook.
Apparently written first Jacob, then changed to Tho.
[To be continued.]
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. XVI. JULY, 1879. No. 3.
NOTICE OF A PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON.
COMMUNICATED BY CHARLES HENRY HART.
IN January, 1863, Mr. David Nichols, of Salem, pre-
sented to the Essex Institute, two photographs of
Washington. The original,' from which these copies
were obtained, had been in his wife's family for many
years.
On removing it from the frame the following endorse-
ment was found upon the back. "This was done in New
York, 1790, and is acknowledged by all to be a very
strong likeness, B. Goodhue." 1 See "Proceedings of
Essex Institute," Vol. Ill, page 229.
The following letter from Mr. Charles Henry Hart,
a corresponding member of the Essex Institute, gives a
full account of this portrait of Washington :
1 Benjamin Goodhue, son of Benjamin and Martha (Hardy) Goodhue; born In
Salem, 20 Sept., 1748; graduated Harvard College, 1766; Representative or Senator
in U. S. Congress from 1789 to 1800; died in Salem, 28 July, 18U.
HIST. COLL. XVI 11 (161)
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Philadelphia, May 1st, 1879.
GEO. M. WHIPPLE, Esq., Sec'y. Essex Institute.
My Dear Sir :
I must ask you to pardon my not ac-
knowledging before this the receipt of your valued letter
of the 22ud ult., containing the tracing of the print in
possession of Mr. Nichols, known as the "Goodhue
Washington." But having been confined to the house for
a fortnight prior to its receipt, by an injury to my knee,
I was too much overpressed with, work to be able to give
due attention to my correspondence. The tracing is very
valuable to me, as proving what I have long thought, that
the Goodhue picture was the Wright profile ; and think-
ing that the Institute, having published Mr. Nichols'
statement made at the time he presented the photograph,
January, 1863, might like to preserve a correct account
of the picture, I make this communication, to you, for
that purpose.
The portrait of Washington in Mr. Nichols' possession,
certified by B. Goodhue, as "done in New York, 1790,"
is, without doubt, from the tracing before me, a very
dilapidated impression of the etching by Joseph Wright.
This artist, who was a son of Mrs. Patience Wright,
celebrated in her day as a successful modeller of profile
likenesses in wax, was born at Bordentown, New Jersey,
July 16, 1756, and when about sixteen, accompanied his
mother to London. Mrs. Wright became quite famous
there in her peculiar line, and placed Joseph under
Benjamin West to acquire a knowledge of the art he was
destined to follow. He also received some instruction
from John Hoppner, the very eminent portrait painter
who had married his sister. He passed some time in
Paris, where he seems to have enjoyed the protection of
Franklin, and returned to this country late in the year
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1782, bringing with him an introduction from Franklin to
Washington. In the autumn of the following year,
Dunlap writes 2 , that he met him at Headquarters, at
Rocky Hill, near Princeton, N. J. "At this time and
place Mr. Wright painted both the General and Mrs.
Washington, as I likewise attempted to do. Wright's
pictures I then thought very like. He afterwards drew a
profile of Washington and etched it, and it is very like."
There are three of Wright's painted portraits of Wash-
ington known, two in this country and one in Europe,
and a very justifiable presumption, that the likeness was
good and satisfactory, arises from the interesting fact,
that two of the three were painted for Washington him-
self; and one sent by him to the Count de Solms, a
distinguished officer in the Prussian service, who wished
it, to place in his collection of military characters, while
the other he presented to his friend, Mrs. Eliza Powel,
of Philadelphia, and it is now in possession of her grand-
son, Samuel Powel, Esq., of Newport, R. I. This last
is a full half-length, cut off below the knees, in military
costume. The third mentioned above is, I should think,
the original study, head and bust on panel 10 X 16, and
is owned by Mrs. E. A. Foggo, of Philadelphia, a great-
granddaughter of Francis Hopkinson, from whom in a
direct line she inherited it. It is much to be regretted
that none of the paintings, which are full face, have been
engraved.
The profile was drawn in New York after Washington's
inauguration, and very likely in 1790, as Mr. Goodhue
says, for New York was the meeting place of Congress
only from Mar. 4, 1789, until Aug. 12, 1790. An old New
Yorker, the late Gulian C. Verplanck, gives the follow-
History of the Arts of Design.
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ing account 3 of how Wright stole his profile likeness of
Washington, the President having been forced, on account
of his many engagements, to decline giving him a sitting.
He received the particulars from Mr, John Pintard, one of
the founders of the New York Historical Society. "The
President was a regular attendant at St. Paul's Church,
Broadway, where a canopied pew had been prepared for
his reception. It stood against the wall in the north
aisle, about half way down, and was decorated with the
United States Arms, as will be remembered by many old
citizens, for it stood until some twenty-five or thirty years
ago. Wright being determined on his purpose, obtained
permission of the occupant of the pew immediately
opposite, to use that position for a Sunday morning or
two, to take a deliberate miniature profile likeness of the
President in crayon, as he sat gravely attentive. I do
not know whether he painted any large portrait in oil or
in crayon from the small likeness thus obtained ; but he
etched it himself and published it here, printed on a
card ; the only copy of which, that I ever saw, I gave
some years ago to the New York Historical Society."
It is one of these etchings by Wright, now in possession
of Mr. Nichols, that Mr. Goodhue got at the time and
endorsed as "a very strong likeness." It has been re-
peatedly copied. In this country soon after it appeared
it was reproduced for the old Massachusetts Magazine,
for March, 1791, and on the other side of the water by
J. Collyer, in exact fac-simile.
In 1851, a Mr. Charles Fox published it in Boston, as
from an original miniature "taken by Nathaniel Fullerton
from General Washington, as he appeared on his horse,
while reviewing the American forces on Boston Common
3 " The Crayon," August, 18&7.
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in the year 1776," and accompanied it with a pamphlet to
verify its authenticity, as by Fullerton.
Wright's object in drawing this profile was most prob-
ably for the purpose of sending it to his mother in Lon-
don, in order that she might copy it in wax. Several of
her wax profiles of Washington are in existence, and show
that they must have been taken from this drawing by her
son. One in the best possible state of preservation is
in the possession of the Beck family of Philadelphia.
Joseph Wright himself fell a victim to the yellow fever
when it visited this city in 1793; he and his wife dying
on the same day from the dread disease.
To this matter of the Wright portraits of Washington,
I have recently given considerable attention, in company
with my friend, Mr. William S. Baker, the accomplished
author of several historical art monographs, and who is
now preparing for publication a "Catalogue Raisonne" of
the engraved portraits of Washington, with an account
of the original pictures, 4 which promises to be a work of
permanent value as well as of general interest. I think
what I have written will show Mr. Nichols' error in as-
cribing the portrait to St. Memin, as he evidently did to
the venerable Josiah Quincy, to whose daughter, Miss
Eliza Susan Quincy, I am indebted for the photograph,
from Ames' drawing of the profile, which I sent to you
and which you so kindly compared for me with the origi-
nal print.
With renewed thanks for your courtesy in the matter,
I am, my dear sir, very faithfully yours,
Chas. Henry Hart.
'This work has just issued from the press, with the title "The Engraved For-
traits of Washington, with Notices of the Originals and Brief Biographical Sketchei
of the Painters." Philadelphia, Lindsay & Baker, 1880.
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE
SALEM FEMALE EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY.
BY LUCY P. JOHNSON.
THE first movement towards the formation of a Society,
to give sewing to needy women, was made in 1857, by
the Dorcas Society ; one of the oldest charities in the city.
For this purpose a small appropriation was made for the
employment of those who had before been only recipients
of gifts of clothing. This was discontinued after a little
more than three years, for the want of the cooperation
of the Society. On the 9th of January, 1861, a few ladies
met at the house of Mrs. Nancy D. Cole to consider the
practicability of at once organizing a Society for givkig
sewing to poor women. A committee of four ladies,
Mrs. Robert S. Rantoul, Mrs. Fred. Winsor, Mrs. Sam'l
Johnson and Miss Esther C. Mack, was appointed to
draft a constitution. On the 16th of January, a second
meeting was held at the same place, when the report of
the Committee was read and accepted, the constitution
adopted, officers chosen, and collectors appointed for pro-
curing subscriptions. The board consisted of Mrs. Nancy
D. Cole, President ; Mrs. John Bertram, Vice-President ;
Mrs. Robert S. Rantoul, Treasurer ; Miss Esther C. Mack,
Secretary; Miss Anna Johnson, Purchaser; Managers,
Mrs. Sam'l. Johnson, Mrs. J. Willard Peele, Mrs. Wil-
liam S. Cleveland, Mrs. Alfred Peabody, Mrs. James O.
Safford, Miss Lydia H. Chase, Miss Martha G. Wheat-
land, Miss Harriet L. Whipple, Miss Harriet Hodges
and Miss Ellen D..Webb.
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The object of the Society was to give sewing to poor
women who were unable to procure employment else-
where, and to give them a fair compensation for their
work ; hoping, by these means, to encourage a spirit of
independence, and to diminish daily alms-giving; at the
same time it would establish a sure and convenient com-
munication between employers and employees.
A meeting of the Managers was held once a week to
cut garments and prepare work, and part of a store, No.
366 Essex St., was taken where the work was distributed
and the garments sold by the occupant of the store, Miss
Lydia Stone, who received a small percentage for selling
the garments. The work was given out twice a week,
but it was soon found impossible to give it out more than
once a week, and three of the Managers were in attend-
ance each time. The first distribution of work took
place, Saturday Jan. 26th, and twenty-one persons ap-
plied, each being required to show a recommendation, in
order to assist the Managers in finding out their needs
and worthiness. On the second day of giving out the
work twenty-eight applied, and the next time forty-five.
The applicants increased so fast, it was decided to limit
the number of employees to fifty, and the amount to be
paid to each about twenty-five cents. A list of appli-
cants for work was kept, and vacancies filled as fast as
they occurred. It was also arranged for each Manager to
cut at her home, a certain number of garments each week,
and the meetings for business to continue. It was impor-
tant that each article should be marked with the name of
the employee, cost of material and price for making.
These garments were sold at cost. The fee for Members
was $1.00 yearly. At the Annual Meeting, in April
1862, being fifteen months from the formation of the
Society, the number of subscribers was 263 ; and $482
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in donations was reported ; garments sold at the store to
the amount of $39.61 ; for ordered work $52.59 ; be-
sides these, the Managers held semi-annual sales, remov-
ing the garments to a more convenient place ; the first of
these sales realized the sum of $333.18, making the total
receipts for the first fifteen months $1670.38. The ex-
penditures for that time were $1352.01. It was then
decided to pay the employees in garments for three
months during the year, and cease distributing the work?
in July and August. The experiment was considered very
successful and many of the seamstresses proved so effi-
cient, the Managers were able to have the nicest sewing
and embroidery done, and orders constantly increased,
many persons from Boston and the neighboring towns
giving their patronage. It was also a great advantage to
those women who did the nice sewing, as their payments
were always in cash, and they were relieved of all re-
sponsibility of cutting or arranging the work. Some
fears were felt that the civil war, which occurred at this
time, would effect the prosperity of the Society, and
though the prices of garments were fluctuating, by the
rise and fall in the price of cotton, many large orders
were given for the Hospitals, and on the whole it con-
tinued successful.
In April 1866, owing to the increased work, two rooms
were hired in the second story of No. 155 Essex St., at
the rate of $50 per year, and, an Agent, Mrs. Phrebe Ann
Dodge, one of the employees from the commencement of
the Society, was hired at $6.00 per week, to assist in cut-
ting, receive orders and to sell the garments ; this arrange-
ment increased the expenses about $350, and, in order to
meet it, a profit of 10 per cent on the cost of fine gar-
ments was charged, also a small charge for cutting was
added. On the 14th of May, the building in which the
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Society had located, was burnt during the Lynde block
fire, but through the kindness of friends, all the garments
and materials, with some of the furniture was saved, and
only a loss on the permanent fixtures was sustained. A
meeting of the Managers was held, at once, and other
rooms secured at 286 Essex St., Hook's building, in the
third story, and, on the 23rd of May, work was again
distributed to the employees. Part of the extra expense
was defrayed by donations from friends.
In March, 1867, a donation of $300 was received from
the trustees of the late Charles Sanders, Esq., with the
wish that it might be the nucleus of a Fund ; and the
April following two other donations, of $1,000 each, were
received from Mrs. Nancy D. Cole and Mrs. Caroline
Saltonstall; these, with other donations from time to
time, made a fund of $2500. An Act of Incorporation
was obtained under the name of The Salem Female Em-
ployment Society. The society continued to prosper and
receipts from ordered work and sales at the store steadily
increased until 1869, when so many machine-made gar-
ments were sold at the dry goods stores, it prevented the
sale of hand-made garments. The orders for fine sewing
were not diminished at that time, but very soon it was
feared that the Society was not so well patronized, and
appeals were made to the community in the yearly reports,
and on other occasions. At this time, a donation of $150
from an unknown friend was a great relief, and, in 1875,
a legacy of $500 by the will of Miss Harriet Upton,
which was given unconditionally, enabled the Society to
pay all the bills, and the Managers felt encouraged. It
was soon found, however, that it was not supported, and,
in October, 1876, it was decided to sell the garments
without profit, and to close the Room half of the day and
reduce the Agent's salary in proportion, it having been
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increased in the prosperous times. It seemed to the
Managers that the Society was no longer needed ; they
felt sure that it had been of great service to many, and
only regretted that its usefulness had passed. Early in
the year 1877, the fund of $2,000 was returned to the re-
spective donors, as the conditions on which it was given
were to that effect ; there still remained several hundred
dollars, which could be used at the discretion of the Man-
agers and it was thought to be as much a Charity to
continue to give employment in that way even if the
garments were also given in Charity; so the City Hospi-
tal, Children's Friend Society, Relief Agency, and Wom-
an's Friend Society, each received a share, and all the
employees had some as a Christmas gift. The ordered
work was promptly attended to. This state of thingsTias
continued to the present time (January, 1879) . A legacy
of $204.68 from the late Miss Catherine Felt enabled the
work to be longer continued.
On the 31st of January, 1879, a special meeting was
held and the following vote was taken :
"The Salem Female Employment Society, having set-
tled its accounts and disposed of its assets, is hereby
dissolved."
A small balance remained in the treasury and it was
decided to divide it equally among the recent employees.
Some statistics in connection may not be out of place :
The whole number of women employed was 270, a
few of whom continued from the commencement of the
Society ; among them was the Agent, who at first took
the nicest sewing and then the entire charge, giving
satisfaction to all. The amount of money paid to the
work-women was $11,371.40, besides which they had
been paid in garments to the value of $1,354.24; this
also included the materials.
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The amount received from ordered work, which in some
cases included materials, was $11,828.78. The number
of garments cut and made was 27,707, not including
about 1,700, which were sent in cut. Amount received
from annual subscribers, $2,5(M.85. Other donations,
exclusive of funds returned, $1,629.57.
The career of the Emplo3 r ment Society serves as an il-
lustration of the necessity of conforming to the changes
which time invariably forces upon all similar institutions.
When it was established it was a much needed charity,
and for eighteen years it Irid faithfully done its work, and
now passes into history, leaving the numerous other char-
itable societies in Salem to carry out the demands of the
time.
NOTES ON THE
RICHARDSON AND RUSSELL FAMILIES.
COMMUNICATED BV JAMES KIMBALL, OF SALEM.
Continued from page 126.
FAMILY of RUSSELL as descended from Samuel and
Elizabeth Hacker Russell of Boston, from memoranda
made by the late Col. John Russell of Salem about 1850.
"Nothing very definite is known of the family or birth
of Grandfather Russell. He had the impression that his
mother told him that he came from the Bahama Islands
to Boston, where he followed the trade of a pump and
blockmaker.
It is evident that he did not originally belong to Boston
172
but was .of English birth. An account book written in a
very handsome hand was for a long time in the family,
containing his business accounts, but is now missing.
His name was Samuel, and on searching the Boston
town records a few years since was recorded, viz. :
Samuel Russell, mar. to Elizabeth Hacker, by the Rev.
Mr. Cooper, Sept. 24th, 1747.
There was also recorded the birth of William Russell,
the son of Samuel Russell, born 23d of May, 1748, who
was the father of the writer. Whether Grandfather Rus-
sell had been previously married cannot with certainty be
determined, but it will appear by the following memo-
randa found among the few papers that have escaped the
ravages of time that there were children of Samuel and
Hannah Russell, viz. :
Hannah, born 9th June, 1727,"]
Samuel, " 3d Jan., 1728, I
John, " 7th May, 1731, I of Samuel & Hannah Russell, his wife.
Mary, " 2d May, 1733,
Elizabeth, '" 22d Apr., 1735, J
The above list furnishes presumptive evidence that
Grandfather Russell had been previously married, and if
so, what became of the above named children? The
writer has an impression that his mother, had told him
that he had been married before coming to this country,
and that his wife and children were all dead. If they
were born in Boston it is certain that none of them were
within the knowledge of the family to which the writer
belonged.
"Elizabeth Frances Hacker daughter to Ibrooke Hacker
& Elizabeth, his wife was bn. June 25th 1737."
"William, son to Samuel & Elizabeth Russell, bn May
23d 1748." (This was the date of father's birth. J. R.)
"Elizabeth Kilcup bn. 25th Oct. 1707."
A mourning ring containing the hair of Elizabeth Fran-
173
ces Hacker, with the date of her death, was in the posses-
sion of my mother, but it has been lost. The "Elizabeth
Frances Hacker," referred to above, must have been in
some way connected with Grandmother Russell ; and the
birth of William Russell referred to ii the above memo-
randa must have been the son of Samuel and Elizabeth,
which agrees with the records of the town of Boston.
r>
Elizabeth Hacker Russell, wife of Samuel, died in Bos-
ton Feb. 18th, 1778, surviving her husband, the time of
whose death is unknown. After her husband's death she
taught a school for young ladies, on Center street, Bos-
ton.
The late Rev. Dr. Prince of Salem, who was born in
Boston, informed the writer that he perfectly well remem-
bered bis mother and her school.
It is believed that they had but two children, viz. :
William and John. What became of John, for whom the
writer was named, is unknown.
There is now in possession of the writer of this memo-
randa a large "Metalic Platter" with the letters "S u E
cut in it, being the initials of Samuel and Elizabeth "Rus-
sell," which it is hoped will be preserved in the family as
long as any one bearing the name survives.
John Russell, Salem, 1842.
"Note additional." I found in the "Copps Hill" bury-
ing ground, May 5th, 1847, a grave-stone inscribed :
"Roger Hacker, son of Caleb and Elizabeth Hacker,
died May 3d, 1740, aged 9 months."
Was not this a son of Elizabeth Hacker Russell by her
first husband ?
John Russell.
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The Russell family as descended from Samuel and
Elizabeth Hacker Russell of Boston, continued by James
Kimball of Salem.
The private papers and personal effects belonging to
the family of Samuel Russell were most of them wasted
or destroyed, as they lived and died in Boston during the
Revolutionary period. Their only son William being in
the army at his mother's death, which was at a time of
extreme activity in military affairs in and around Boston,
how the few personal effects that have come down were
preserved is unknown.
1.
Samuel 1 Bussell, born abroad, date unknown, supposed
to have come to Boston from Bermuda ; mar. Elizabeth
Hacker, by the Rev. Dr. Cooper, Sept. 24, 1747. . She
was born in Boston in 1707; died Feb. 18, 1778, aged
71. Two children-:
2. I. William, born in Boston May 23rd, 1748.
II. John, born July 20th, 1749; place of death unknown; believed
that he died abroad.
2.
William 2 Russell,* son of Samuel 1 and Elizabeth, born
in Boston May 23, 1748 ; mar. Jan. 16, 1772, Mary, dau.
*"Genealogical Register of Cambridge, from Paige's History of Cambridge, p
649, No. 25, William, perhaps son of Edward (16) by wife Mary had William bn &c."
I am led to believe that William (25) was the son of Samuel Russell of Boston^
born in Boston May 23, 1748; mar. in Cambridge Mary, dau. of Moses and Mary
(Prentiss) Richardson, Jan. 16, 1772.
1st child, William, born in Cambridge March 24, 1772.
6th child, Katharine, born in Cambridge March 4, 1784; the births of William
and Katharine occur on the same dates, as given 'to the children of William on p.
649.
Katharine, dau. of William Russell and Mary (Richardson), was my mother
She was born in the Richardson house on the same day that her father died, and in
the same house in which her mother was born and married.
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of Moses and Mary (Prentiss) Richardson of Cambridge.
He died Mar. 4, 1784. Wife Mary born June 10, 1753 ;
died in Cambridge June 13, 1814, at the house of her
late mother Richardson, and in the house in which she
was born, aged 61 years.
At an early age he was an usher to Master Griffith in
one of the Boston schools. When quite young he took
an active part in the political agitations preceding the
Revolution. As a member of the "Sons of Liberty" he
was associated with the early leaders in public affairs, in
the earlier organizations for the defence and maintenance
of their civil rights. He was present and assisted in the
destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor on the memorable
16th of Dec., 1773.*
In 1777 he was Sergeant Major of the Mass. State
Train of Artillery raised for the defence of Boston, under
the command of Col. Thomas Crafts and Lieut. Col. Paul
Revere of Boston, serving as Adjutant in the Rhode Isl-
and campaign in 1777 and 1778.f
In 1779 the Marine Committee of Congress were di-
rected to purchase the vessel called the Jason, J lately
captured from the British and carried into Boston. Mr.
Russell entered on board as clerk or secretary to Com-
mander John Manley, who had been ordered to the com-
mand of the Jason. The Jason, mounting 18 guns, 120
men, sailed on a cruise on the 19th of June, 1779, send-
ing in several prizes to Boston ; was captured on the 8th
of September of the same year by the British frigate
Surprise, of 28 guns and 230 men. After fighting two
glasses they were forced to strike, and Mr. Russell with
Capt. Manley and a portion of the crew were finally sent
*See 100th Anniversary, Essex Hist. Coll., Vol. 12, p. 197. lievves' Memoirs, by
B. B. Thacher. / .
tSee Ord. Book, Reg. of Art., Essex Hist. Coll., Vol. 13.
JVol. 3, p. 2b s 2, Cong. Jour.
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to England and committed to the "Old Mill Prison" in
Plymouth, Devon county, charged with piracy, treason
and rebellion, where he remained a prisoner until June
24, 1782, when he was exchanged, arriving in Boston in
the cartel-ship Ladies' Adventure, having been in confine-
ment nearly three years. During the whole term of his
imprisonment he taught a school, by permission of the
prison commissioners, for the benefit and instruction of
the American prisoners.
He again entered the naval service after being at home
but twenty days, when he was again captured and confined
a prisoner on board the notorious Jersey prison ship lying
off New York, Nov. 25, 1782.
In March, 1783, he obtained a parole for three months,
returning to his family in Cambridge during the summer
of 1783, and endeavored to resume his old occupation of
teaching a few scholars in the old Richardson house in
Cambridge. His health was now failing daily, and on
the 7th of March, 1784, he departed this life, wasting
with consumption, brought upon him by the privations
and sufferings he had endured in the service of his coun-
try.
William had by wife Mary (Prentiss) Richardson six
children :
3. I. William, born in Cambridge Mar. 24, 1772.
4. II. Samuel, born in Boston Oct. 19, 1773.
5. III. John, born in Boston June 30, 1779.
6. IV. Katharine, born in Cambridge Mar. 4, 1784.
3.
William 3 Russell, son. of William 2 and Mary (Richard-
son), born in Cambridge Mar. 24, 1772 ; mar., 1st wife,
Elizabeth, dau. of Richard and Eunice Hunnewell of
Cambridge, Aug. 4, 1799. She was born Oct., 1771;
died June 19, 1810, aged 38 years.
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William 3 had by wife Elizabeth (Hunnewell) three chil-
dren :
7. I. Elizabeth Frances, born in Cambridge Sept. 28, 1806.
8. II. Mary, born June 4, 1809.
William 3 mar. 2d wife Priscilla, dau. of Nathan and
Sarah (Friend) Kimball of Salem, Feb. 12, 1812. She
was born in Salem Aug., 1780; died in Salem Jan. 26,
1858.
William 3 had by wife Priscilla (Kimball) three chil-
dren :
9. III. Sarah Ann, born in Salem June 16, 1815.
10. IV. William, born in Salem May 20, 1817.
The families of Russell and Richardson are united :
1st, by the marriage of William Russell of Boston with
Mary Richardson, dau. of Moses Richardson of Cam-
bridge.
2nd, the families of Russell and Richardson are united
with the Kimballs of Salem by the marriage of Katharine
Russell, dau. of William and Mary (Richardson) Russell,
to James Kimball, son of Nathan Kimball of Salem ; and
the marriage of William Russell, son of William and
Mary (Richardson) Russell, and brother of Katharine
Russell, to Priscilla Kimball, sister of James Kimball.
The above marriages stand, viz. :
William 2 Russell to Mary 7 Richardson, Jan. 16, 1772.
James Kimball to Katharine 6 Russell, Nov. 29, 1806.
William 3 Russell to Priscilla Kimball, Feb. 12, 1812.
William 3 Russell was a master mariner, for many years
sailing a packet from Cambridge to the South in the
coastwise trade.
On June 13, 1813, whilst in command of the schooner
Henry S. Clement, bound to France, he was captured by
the British ship Orestes of 16 guns, and carried into Ply-
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mouth, Eng., and committed to "Mill Prison,"* where he
was confined three days, until paroles were made out,
when they were transferred to Ashburton prison as pris-
oners of war.
At Ashburton there were 102 American prisoners, and
at Plymouth from 500 to 600 more. His parole, at Ash-
burton, allowed him liberty to walk one mile from the
town. In a letter to his brother, Gol. John Russell, he
states "that the people are very kind to the Americans,
and dislike the war very much." The prisoners at Ash-
burton were allowed 8s., 9d., per week to find themselves.
Capt. Russell appears to have been the agent of the
prisoners, as the mess book with the daily issue of pro-
visions was kept by him at Ashburton, as well as on
board the cartel brig Ann Maria, on her passage from
Dartmouth to America. No date is given of the time of
their exchange, but the first entry in the mess book is
Aug. 12, 1813, when fifty men commenced drawing their
rations through their agent. Of this number, nineteen
were American ship masters.
After the close of the war he was in the merchant ser-
vice. He died in Risponga on the African coast, Aug.,
1821.
4.
Samuel 3 Russell, son of William 2 , born in Boston Oct.,
19, 1773, was lost from the foretoprnast of the ship Fox-
well, Capt. Stevens, on the 24th of September, 1799, on
the passage from Bristol, Eng., to Boston, when within a
few days sail from Boston.
5.
John 3 Russell, son of William 2 , born in Boston July
30, 1779. He was brought up to the trade of a printer
*The same prison in which his father (William 2 ) was confined nearly three
years, as a privateers-man, during the Revolution.
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in the office of the "Columbian Centinel" of Boston, which
was published by Major Benjamin Russell, one of the
sturdy patriots of the Revolution. On the completion of
his trade he removed to Salem and was employed in the
office of the "Salem Gazette," then published by Thomas
Gushing, where he remained for several years.
John 3 Russell, son of William 2 , mar. in Salem by the
Rev. Dr. Prince on the 3d of March, 1806, Eunice Hunt,
dun. of Lewis and Sarah (Orne) Hunt of Salem. She
was born Sept. 15, 1777 ; died Feb. 7, 1863.
Mr. Russell, by the advice and encouragement of his
many friends, retired from the printing business, and
entered into the brokerage and general commission busi-
ness, for which he was eminently fitted by his sterling
integrity and correct business habits. After some years
as a broker he entered the Salem Bank, where he re-
mained until about 1818, when he removed to Amcsbury
to take charge of the Amesbury Nail and Iron Works,
where he remained until the works were sold to be con-
verted into a woolen mill ; returning to Salem he was
elected cashier of the Bank of General Interest, and
afterwards its president.
He was often called Uj serve the town, in various posi-
tions, under the town governments ; and after the incor-
poration into a city he was for many years a member of
the Council and several years its president, representing
the city in the General Court.
Mr. Russell was born with the military spirit within
him ; his early associations were quickened by the patri-
otic spirit of his boyhood days. In 1806 he was elected
lieutenant of the Salem Artillery, serving in all the inter-
mediate grades, and in 1816 was elected colonel of Artil-
lery. In consequence of his removal out of his command
to Amesbury, he applied for his discharge, which was
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dated Mar. 10, 1818, wherein he is honorably discharged
as lieutenant colonel of artillery and colonel by brevet.
During the period preceding the war of 1812 political
strife in Massachusetts developed itself in its most unso-
cial form. Friends were alienated one from another by
reason of party divisions ; yet during this period of dis-
trust Capt. Russell, who was an avowed Federalist of the
"old school," was promoted from captain to major in
1810, lieutenant colonel in 1813, and colonel by brevet
in 1816, by the votes of his political opponents in the
military, to fill the most honorable and at that period one
of the most important commands in the military of Essex
county ; and at a period when none but the most true and
loyal were intrusted with the responsibilities of military
power.
His early training in the office of the "Columbian Cen-
tinel" of Boston, under the rigid discipline of Maj. Benja-
min Russell, gradually developed the distinctive character
of his political impressions, which were strengthened and
matured by being brought in contact with many of the
most loyal patriots of that day, who were in the habit of
making the office of Maj. Russell one of their places of
meeting. His reminiscences of % that period were inter-
esting and instructive, and to his latest day he often re-
called, with pride and enthusiasm, his associations with
that party.
Col. Russell may be truly classed with the strong-
minded men of his day and generation. Born in the
midst of the trying times of the Revolutionary period ;
suffering in common with others for the ordinary comforts
of daily life, his father suffering in an English prison as a
traitor and a rebel, such were ,the experiences of his child-
hood. Educated as he was amid the surroundings and
influences of those early days, which as he grew up to
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manhood were expanded and matured, made him one of
the most loyal to the American idea of liberty under law.
His views on many of the public questions of the times
often led him to express himself very strongly against
what he considered the radical heresies of the day ; and
yet his purity of purpose, integrity, firmness, and deci-
sion of character secured the respect and confidence of all
classes of our citizens.
In the formation of the Salem Charitable Mechanic
Association of Salem in 1817. He presided over the first
meeting of the subscribers, was elected treasurer for two
years, when he removed to Amesbury. On his return to
Salem he was elected in 1830-1-2 vice president, and in
1833-4-5 president of the Association.
John Russell died at Salem Apr. 12, 1853 ; buried in
family tomb (Mt. Auburn) in Cambridge. He had by
wife Eunice Hunt seven children :
11. I. John Lewis Russell, born Dec. 2, 1808, in Salem.
12. II. Sarah Orne Russell, born Nov. 3, 1811, in Salem.
13. III. William Henry Russell, born May 13, 1814, in Salem.
14. IV. Ibrook Hacker Russell, born May 2, 1817, in Salem.
15. V. Joseph Hunt Russell, born June 30, 1820, in Amesbury.
16. VI. Mary Eunice Russell, born Jan. 4, 1824, in Amesbury.
6.
Katharine* Russell, dau. of William 2 and Mary (Rich-
ardson) Russell, born in Cambridge Mar. 4, 1784 (the
same day her father died) ; mar. in Salem Nov. 29, 1806,
to James Kimball, son of Nathan and Sarah (Friend)
Kimball of Salem, who was born in Salem, Dec., 1777.
He died in New Orleans, La., Oct. 20, 1822. Wife
Katharine died in Salem Feb. 15, 1860.
Katharine had by husband James Kimball six chil-
dren :
17. I. James Kimball, born Oct. 14, 1808 ; mar. M. G. Putnam.
18. II. Catharine R. Kimball, born Apr. 18, 1810; mar. S. J. Ireson.
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19. III. Hannah G. Kimball, born Mar. 28, 1813; unraar.
20. IV. Mary E. Kimball, born Sept. 15, 1815; unraar.
21. V. Elizabeth H. Kimball, born Nov. 28, 1817; unmar.
22. VI. Eraeline R. Kiraball, born Jan. 14, 1822 ; mar. Jas. H. Muhlig.
7.
Elizabeth Frances* Russell, dau. of William 3 and Eunice
(Hunnewell) Russell, born in Cambridge Sept. 28, 1806;
mar. Ansell Dean of West Moreland, N. H., in 1835.
Wife Elizabeth died in 1852. Four sons :
231 I. Francis Dean, born 1838.
24. II. William Russell Dean, born July 24, 1840.
25. III. Charles Henry Dean, born Dec. 14, 1842.
26. IV. George Silas Dean, born Nov. 15, 1845.
8.
Mary* Russell, dau. of William 3 and Eunice (Hunue-
well) Russell, born in Cambridge June 4, 1809; mar.
William Norcross of Boston. Wife Mary died Oct. 28,
1864, at Marblehead. Husband living in Marblehead.
One sou :
27. I. William Otis Norcross, born in Boston; was in the Mass,
troops at Newbern during the war-," mar. at Newborn, where
at one time after the war he kept a hotel; if living is now.
supposed to reside in Netfbern, No. Carolina.
9.
Sarah Ann* Russell, dau. of William 3 by second wife
Priscilla (Kimball) Russell, born in Salem June 16,
1815 ; mar. William Isaacson, mariner. He died abroad.
Wife Sarah died Jan. 14, 1875.
10.
William* Russell, son of William 3 by wife Priscilla,
born May 20, 1817 ; mar. Hannah, dau. of Joseph and
Nancy Farmer of Salem, Mar. 13, 1845. Wife Hannah
borii Oct. 8, 1816. Eight children by wife Hannah : '
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*Mary Anne, born Mar. 24, 1847; died May 18, 1852.
28. I. Eunice, born Dec. 30, 1848.
29. II. Helen Louise, born Oct. 1, 1852; mar. Apr. 2, 1873.
*William Ibrook, born Apr. 2G, 1854; died Apr. 24, 1859.
30. III. Lillie Adella, born Aug. 18, 1855.
* William Ibrook, born Oct. 2, 185G; died Aug. 20, 1874.
*Laura Freeman, born Feb. 16, 1858; died Oct. 5, 1874.
"Carrie Elizabeth, born June 1, I860; died Nov. 24, 1862.
William 4 Russell, son of William 3 by wife Priscilla,
learned the trade of a ship joiner. For many years after,
he followed this occupation as "ship carpenter" on board
the barque Merlin, Capt. Abner Goodhue of Salem, sailing
in the Ilavanna and Russian trade.
On the discovery of gold on the Pacific coast he sailed
for California in the fall of 1849 in the ship Nestor, Capt.
Nathan Poole of Salem, stopping at Benicia. After dis-
posing of his adventure he went into the mining region,
locating near "Salmon Falls," where he remained until
1853, when he returned to Salem, where he now resides.
Follows the business of a teamster.
11.
John Lewis 4 " Russell, son of John 3 and Eunice (Hunt)
Russell, born Dec. 2, 1808; mar. at Fitzwilliam, N. H.,
Oct. 3, 1853, Hannah Buckminster Ripley, dau. of David
and Orra Ripley of Greenfield, Mass.
John 4 attended the Latin school in Salem up to the time
of the removal of his family to Amesbury, where he fin-
ished his preparatory course for college under the direc-
tion of the Rev. Mr. Barnaby, a Baptist clergyman of
Amesbury. Graduated from Harv. Univ. in 1828, and
the Divinity school in Cambridge in 1831.
Mr. Russell occupied various Unitarian pulpits for
longer or shorter periods, his last settlement being in
Hingham, continuing from June, 1842, to Sept., 1849,
and by extended engagements nearly three years longer.
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On his father's death in 1853 he returned to Salem, preach-
ing only occasionally.
In his younger days he had a great fondness for botan-
ical study. This interest he increased and developed
while in college, by giving his hours for recreation to
the study of the structure of plants in their most minute
forms, as they were found in the woods and swamps
around the suburbs of his college home. Upon going
out into the world to preach, his favorite study retained
its place in his regards, adding freshness to his thoughts
and giving an inspiration of beauty to his words and writ-
ings.
Mr. Russell was librarian and cabinet-keeper of the
Essex Co. Nat. Hist. Soc. at its formation in 1833, and in
1845 was elected its president. After the union of this
Society with the Essex Hist. Soc. in 1848, the two Soci-
eties forming the Essex lust., the senior of the two presi-
dents merged in the new Society, the Hon. D. A. White
became president, and Mr. Russell became vice president,
continuing in office until 1861, when he* resigned.
For many years he was a frequent lecturer before the
Normal schools of Massachusetts and other institutions
upon his favorite science. He held a high place in the
regards of men best instructed in the field of his chosen
studies, maintaining an extensive correspondence with
naturalists at home and abroad, his opinion being often
sought with deference by some of the most eminent of
European botanists.
Mr. Russell became a member of the Mass. Hort. Soc.
in 1831: in 1833 was elected professor of botany and
physiology in that institution t .performing the duties of
these offices for nearly forty years.
Mr. John Lewis Russell died at Salem June 7, 1873;
buried in family vault at Mt. Auburn.
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12.
Sarah Orne* Russell, dan. of John 3 and Eunice (Hunt)
Russell, born in Salem Mar. 3, 1811 ; unmar.
13.
William Henry* Russell, son of John 3 and Eunice
(Hunt) Russell, born in Salem May 13, 1814; for many
years clerk, afterwards cashier, of the Bank of General
Interest in Salem; died Mar. 1, 1843, aged twenty-eight
years.
14.
Ibrook Hacker* Russell, son of John 3 and Eunice
(Hunt) Russell, born in Salem May 2, 1817 ; learned the
trade of a clock maker of Edmund Currier, who was cele-
brated as one of the most skilled mechanics of his day.
Ibrook, having a great aptness for the higher branches of
mechanics, under the thorough training of Mr. Currier
bid fair to become a skilled mechanic in the working of
brass and steel. When quite young he made a small rifle
of beautiful workmanship, forging all the parts himself.
He died Feb. 8, 1839, aged twenty-two years.
15.
JosepJi Hunt* Russell, son of John 3 and Eunice (Hunt)
Russell, born in Amesbury June 3, 1820; pursued his
preparatory studies at the Latin school in Salem, Oliver
Carlton (Dart. Coll., 1824), principal; and entered Har-
vard University in 1837 ; died at Salem May 17, 1840, a
member of the junior class.
16.
Mary Eunice* Russell, dau. of John 3 and Eunice (Hunt)
Russell, born in Amesbury Jan. 4, 1824 ; died in Salem
June 15, 1845, aged twenty-one years.
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17.
James* Kimball, sou of Katharine 3 (Russell) and James
Kimball, born in Salem Oct. 14, 1808; bapt. Nov., 8,
1808 ; attended the "old Latin School" taught by Master
Day. A cabinet maker by trade, uniting with it the
manufacture of chairs for the foreign trade, continuing
the business upward of thirty years.
For many years a member of the City Council and
school committee. Represented the city in the General
Court in 1845, 1846 and 1857. State Agent of Essex
Bridge from the expiration of its Charter in Sept., 1858,
until the abolishment of tolls by the Legislature in 1868.
County Commissioner from 1860 to 1879, six terms of
three years each. President of the Salem Charitable
Mechanic Association for the years 1856, 1857, 1858.
He mar., 1st, June 26, 1834, Maria Giddings Putnam,
dau. of Joseph and Mercy (Whipple) Putnam. She was
born Aug. 5, 1806; died Apr. 28, 1853.
He mar., 2d, Jan. 13, 1861, in the city of Troy, N. Y.,
by the Rev. Edgar A. Buckingham, Ruth Putiiani Ste-
vens, dau. of Aaron and Hannah (Perley) Stevens of
Salem, who was born June 1, 1820, in Newbury, Mass.
No issue.
Five children by Maria G. (Putnam) Kimball :
31. I. Maria Elizabeth Kimball, born Apr. 2, 1835.
32. II. James Putnam Kimball, born Apr. 26, 1830.
33. III. Catherine Russell Kimball, bom Oct. 1, 1837 ; d. Aug. 24, 1853.
34. IV. Harriette Putnam Kimball, born Mar. 9, 1841.
35. V. Mary Frances Kimball, born Apr. 28, 184.6.
18
Catherine* Kimball^ dau. of Katharine 3 (Russell) and
James Kimball, bapt. Apr. 28, 1811; mar. Samuel J.,
son of John and Sarah (Sargent) Irespn of Lynn. He
was born Jan. 5, 1800 ; died Feb. 14, 1859. Shoe man-
ufacturer. No issue.
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20.
Mary Russell* Kimball, dau. of Katherine 3 (Russell)
and James Kimball, born Sept. 15, 1815 ; bapt. Oct. 22,
1815 ; for many years a school teacher in Salem ; matron
in the State Industrial School for girls at Lancaster dur-
ing 1861-2-3.
Entered upon the duties of teacher amongst the Freed-
men at Roanoke Island in March, 1864, serving three
years; Oct. 7, 1867, upon the same service at Columbus,
Ga., remaining two years; 1870, at Apalachicola, Flor.,
on the same service. Left teaching July, 1874, on ac-
count of illness, engendered in the South. Appointed
by the relief committee of Salem city missionary and
relief agent amongst the poor in Salem in November,
1875, continuing up to the close of 1879.
22.
Emetine Russell* Kimball, dan. of Katherine (Russell)
and James Kimball, born Jan. 14, 1822; formerly a
school teacher in Salem ; mar. Dec. 22, 1863, James H.,
son of Jeremiah J. and Elizabeth Muhlig. lie was born
in Halifax, N. S., Dec. 6, 1827. Housewright ; reside in
Salem ; no issue.
23.
Francis* Dean, son of Elizabeth Frances 4 (Russell)
and Ansell Dean, born 1&38 ; accidentally killed in a
planing mill.
24.
William Russell 5 Dean, son of Elizabeth Frances 4 (Rus-
sell) and Ansell Dean, born July 24, 1840; mar. Vienna
M. Cook, dau. of Zimri and Olive Cook of Mendon,
Mass. He enlisted in defence of the Union July, 1861,
for three years iu the command of Col. Devens ; was in
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the engagement at Ball's Bluff; discharged in 1862 on
account of severe sickness. Re-enlisted Dec., 1863, in
2d Mass. Artillery, Col. Frankle ; in several engagements
in North Carolina ; honorably discharged in Sept., 1865.
Now connected with post office in Worcester, Mass.
25
Charles Henry 5 Dean, son of Elizabeth Frances 4 (Rus-
sell) and Ansell Dean, born Dec. 14, 1842 ; a school
teacher in Lewisport, Kentucky. Enlisted in Sept.,
1861, in the 38th Reg., Indiana Volunteers; re-enlisted
in 1863, and was finally discharged Jan. 18, 1865; was
in the command of SHERMAN on his march to the sea, and
was in the battles of Stone River, Chickamauga, Lookout
Mountain, Mission Ridge, Marietta, Ga., Fort Mountain,
Chattahooche, Atlanta, Ga., and several other engage-
ments of lesser note. Was a prisoner in a rebel prison
for seventy-five days at Florence, So. Carolina. Mar. in
1870 to Miss Martha Ann, dau. of George W. and Nancy
Taylor of Kentucky. Three children, two of whom died
young. One son living :
I. George Russell Dean, born Jan. 16, 1874.
29
Helen Louise 5 Russell, dau. of William 4 and Hannah
(Farmer) Russell, born Oct. 1, 1852 ; mar. Apr. 2, 1873,
William Herbert, son of Levi and Lydia Richardson of
Lynn. Reside in Salem ; shoe finisher. Two children :
I. Carrie Louise Richardsoli, born July 25, 1873.
II. Herbert Russell Richardson, born Dec. 25, 1875.
31
Maria Elizabeth 5 Kimball, dau. of James* and Maria
G. (Putnam) Kimball, born in Salem Apr. 2, 1835 ; mar.
Mar. 1, 1860, by the Rev. Henry J. Thayer at Salem,
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George W. Woodward, son of Caleb and Joanna (Dan-
forth) Woodward of Merrimac, N. H., who was born in
Haverhill. Caleb was born in Boston Jan., 1792; died
in Haverhill July 26, 1877. Caleb was the son of Daniel
and Sarah (Simmons) Woodward of Hingham. Reside
in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; importer of crockery and manufac-
turer of chandeliers, etc., New York city. Two chil-
dren :
36. I. Alice Bartlett Woodward, born in Brooklyn, Nov. 22, 1864.
37. II. Frances Silver Woodward, born in Brooklyn, Jan. 25, 1869;
died March 13, 1876; buried in Harmony Grove, Salem,
Mass.
32.
James Putnam* Kimball, son of James 4 and Maria, G.
(Putnam) Kim ball of Salem, born Apr. 26, 1836 ; mar.
July 22, 1874, in Cambridge, by the Rev. Dr. Stone, to
Mary E., dau. of Gustavus and Amelia Frederica (Neu-
man) Farley. Mr. Farley born in Ipswich, Mass. ; wife
Amelia Farley born in Goteburg, Sweden.
A graduate of the Salem High School in 1854 ; entered
the scientific department of Harv. Univ., Aug., 1854;
University of Gottingen, 1855; Berlin from Oct., 1855,
to May, 1857 ; received the degree of Ph.D. at Gottin-
gen, June, 1857; after graduation entered the "mining
school" at Freiberg, Saxony, continuing through the
course; sailed for home Sept., 1858. In 1859-60, en-
gaged in the state of Illinois geological survey, under the
direction of Profs. Whitney and Foster, having the spe-
cial examination of the lead region in that state. Estab-
lished in New York city as a mining engineer. On the
establishment of the New York State Agricultural College
at Ovid was appointed professor of economic geology,
where he remained until 1862, when the Institution closed
in consequence of the southern rebellion ; the president
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of the college, Gen. M. Patrick, with the corps of pro-
fessors tendering their services to the government of the
United States. Appointed Ass't Adj. Gen. and Chief of
Staff to Brig. Gen. Patrick Feb. 2, 1862 ; commission
dates Apr. 18, 1862; attached to 1st Army Corps, 3d
Division, 2d Brig. New York troops. Aug. 15, 1862,
attached to McDowell's corps, King's Divis., Army of
Virginia. In several important engagements, viz., Fred-
ericksburg, Va., Middletown, Md., Sharpsburg, South
Mountain, and others.
Gen. Patrick, having been appointed in Nov., 1862,
Provost Marshal Gen. of the Army of the Potomac, con-
tinued the appointment of his staff officers in his new
position, where Capt. Kimball remained until ill health,
from continuous service, led him at the close of the win-
ter campaign, in Dec., 1863, to apply for his discharge.
Appointed major by brevet "for important services ren-
dered in the field.
Three children :
38. I. Russell Kimball, born in Bethlehem, Pa., Aug. 22, 1876.
39. II. Edith Kimball, born in Bethlehem, Pa., Sept. 29, 1877.
40. III. Gustavus Farley Kimball, born in Bethlehem, Pa., Oct. 17,
1870.
33.
Catharine RusselP Kimball, dau. of James 4 and Maria
G. (Putnam) Kimball of Salem, born Oct. 1, 1837 ; died
Aug. 24, 1853, of quick consumption, brought on by a
sudden exposure whilst absent from home, pursuing her
studies at the Academy in Andover, Mass.
34.
Harriette Putnam* Kimball, dau. of James 4 and Maria
G. (Putnam) Kimball of Salem, born Nov. 9, 1841;
mar. Apr. 20, 1871, Charles E. Tyler of Salem.
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35.
Mary Frances* Kimhall, dan. of James 4 and Maria of
Salem, born Apr. 28, 1846; mar. Oct. 6, 1869, Samuel
Appleton Safford, son of S. A. and Fanny (Percival)
Safford of Salem. Reside in Washington, D. C. One
child :-
41. Florence Percival Safford, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 3, 1870.
PARISH LIST OF DEATHS BEGUN 1785.
RECORDED BY REV. WILLIAM BENTLEY, D.D., OF THE EAST CHURCH, SALEM, MASS.
[Continued from page 36, Part 1, Vol. XVI.]
DEATHS IN 1803?
674. Jan. 2. Elizabeth, wife of William Daniels.
Asthma, 42 years. Married at 20 years. She was a
Grant at the ferry. He a boat builder from Hingham.
Leaves two sons and four datis.
675. Jan. .8. Nicholas Lane, of Thomas and Char-
lotte Magoun. Scarlet fever and throat distemper, 8
months. Their first and only child. She a Lane. He
from Pembroke, a ship carpenter. Carlton Street.
676. Jan. 8. Adeline, of Samuel and Susanna Ar-
cher. Fever, 5 months. She was a Babbidge. He SOD
of Samuel. Six children, two males. Walnut Street.
677. Mar. 5. William, of Zachariah and Olive Mars-
ton. Fever, 4 years. The mother and another child died
last October of dysentery. St. Peter Street below the
church towards the river.
678. Mar. 6. Abijah, of Abijah and Mary Hitchins.
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Fever, four years. She was a Cloutman, her mother a
Becket. His mother a Gardiner.. Carlton Street.
679. Mar. 25. Mary Smith. Consumption, 27 years
old. She was a granddaughter of Thomas Diman, an
honest news carrier.
680. Mar. 28. Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel and Mary
Hitchins. Fever, 14 months. She was a Webb. One
female child left. Bottom of Turner Street.
681. Apr. 1. News of the death of John Rogers at
sea. 26 years old. Married at 23 years. He married
Eliz. Foot, a Crowninshield. He was born in Ipswich in
England. One son left. He died on his passage from
Canton to Boston, of fever.
682. Apr. 1. News of the death of Edward, son of
Edward and Hannah Stanley. Shipwrecked, 17 years of
age. Born in Salem. Father dead and mother married
R. Bartlett. Shipwrecked in Virginia and perished.
683. Apr. 1. Concluded that Sam. Molloy is dead.
Aged 25 years. Married at 22. One son left. Married
Nancy Foote, a Crowninshield. Born in Salem and has
been missing three years.
684. Apr. 10. News of the death of Ebenezer Toz-
zer, of Fever, abroad. 46 years old. Married at 38.
He was a son of Mrs. Whitefoot, who died at 103. His
wife a Patterson. Two daughters left. Born in Salem.
On his passage from Graudeloupe in the Brig Trial, 25th
March.
685. Apr. 10. News of the death of James Crelly.
Fever, 42 years old. Married at 27. He was from Ire-
land. She a Valpy. Five children, four females. Sick
six days, died 18 March with Capt. Ober.
686. Apr. 10. News of the death of Stephen Waters,
.son of Benjamin and Lucia Waters. Dysentery, 19
years old. Father of Salem, mother a Dane of Ipswich,
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sister of Hon. Nathan Dane. A brother and two sisters
left. Parents dead. Died soon after he left Calcutta, in
a ship commanded by Joseph Orne of Salem.
687. Apr. 13. Mary, dan. of Mansfield and Joanna
Burrill. Consumption, 25 years old. Pie from Lynn in
early life. She a Silsbee. They have two sons and three
daughters left.
688. Apr. 22. Martha, wife of James Whittcrnore.
34 years old, married tit 21. A Clemens, born in Salem.
689. Apr. 21. William, of William and Hannah
Webb. Convulsions and worms, 6 years of age. She
an Allen. They have left four sons and two daughters.
690. Apr. 25. Hannah, wife of Robert Bartlett.
Fever, 45 years old. Married at 19 years. 1st marriage
14 years ; 2d marriage 7 years. She was a Tarbox of
Lynn, married a Stanley and afterwards a Bartlett. By
Bartlett a son. Two sons and one daughter by Stanley
living.
691. Apr. 29. Margaret Manning, of Benjamin and
Hannah Hodges. Consumption, 12 years of age. They
have four daughters and a son left. Mother a King.
692. June 15. Hannah Hodges, widow of N. Archer.
Age, 8fi years old. Married at 19 years. Daughter of
Gamaliel Hodges (see Day Book), and married an Ives
and Archer. Lived many years a widow. No children
survived her, but G. G. children.
693. July 27. Capt. Edward Allen, sen'r. Obstruc-
tion in intest. canal, 68 years old. Married at 24 years.
In first marriage fifteen years, in second twenty-five years.
He married Ruth Gardner, alias Hodges, 18 Jan., 1759.
He married Mary Lockhart of N. C., 1778. Left a son
and two daughters by first wife and three sons and three
daughters by second wife. See Day Book.
694. Sept. 2. Charlotte, of Joseph and Mary Wa-
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ters. Vomiting and purging, 10 years old. Mother a
Dean, died Nov., 1798. Four daughters and two sons
now left.
695. Sept. 2. John Loring, of John and Ruth -Bar-
ker. Teething, 12 months. She granddaughter of Rev.
Smith. Both from Pembroke. Two daughters left. A
few years in Salem. Blacksmith.
696. Sept. 2. News of the death of Amos Hill, of
West-India fever, 23 years of age. Married at 22.
He was from Richmond, Va., not long in Salem, mar.
Elizabeth, daughter of Rob't Bartlett. One daughter left.
Died in Gaudeloupe, 22 July.
697. Sept. 14. Josiah Warren, of Josiah and Eliza-
beth Gatchel. Atrop. Inf., 14 months. They have one
son left. She a daughter of Nich. Lane. He from
Brunswick, Me. Ship carpenter.
698. Sept. 15. Female child of Nathaniel and Mary
Silsbee. Injury at birth, two days old. -She was a daugh-
ter of George Crowninshield. He was a son of Nath.
Silsbee. Merchant.
699. Sept. 27. Wm. Cooke. Taylor, etc. Apo-
plexy, sd by Jury. 51 years old. Married at 22. First
marriage ten years, second marriage nineteen years. He
has left a second wife, and two children by first wife a son
and daughter. Daughter married a Becket. Wife a
Brown, widow Rankin. First wife a Marston. He was
from Cambridge. See Day Book.
700. Sept. 28. Sarah, wife of Benjamin French.
Consumption, 35 years old. Married at 26 years. She
a granddaughter of Rev. Emerson of Topsfield, named
Emerson, and has lived in and near Boston. No children.
He a carter. Essex Street, near Flint Street.
701. Oct. 1. Joseph J., son of Joseph Jenkins and
Abigail Knap. Dysentery, 10 mouths. She a Phippen,
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one daughter left. Derby, corner of Herbert Street.
Captain, mariner.
702. Oct. 7. Mehitable Smith, of William and Sara
Patterson. Inflammation of Bowels, 18 months. She au
Archer. Three children, two males. Herbert Street.
Captain, mariner.
703. Oct. 13. Edey, wife of Henry Stanley. Fever,
28 years old. Married at 24 years. She was a Picket
of Beverly. They have two children, females. Her first
husband left a child. He had a wife at Lynn, married
two years. Liberty below Charter, mariner.
704. Oct. 13. Jonathan, of Benjamin and Elizabeth
Cloutman. Scarlet Fever and throat distemper, 12 years.
She was a Fry. The father died 1797. Four daughters
two sons left. Webb Street. Father was a carpenter.
705. Oct. 23. Thomas Benson, of Robert and Hanna
Peele. Fever, 10 mos. She a Benson. Four children
left, two males. Carl ton Street. Father a mariner.
706. Oct. 23. Mary, of Benjamin and Mary Millet.
Scarlet fever and throat distemper, 7 } r ears. She a
daughter of Win. Peele. G. mother a Becket. Essex,
corner of Herbert Street. Father mariner.
707. Oct. 24. Mary, wife of Benjamin Macdouald.
42 years old. Married at 30 years; a Cox, born in
Salem. He from Ireland, died in the Amer. ship Essex.
Two daughters.
708. Oct. 29. William, of Nath. and Hannah Wes-
tern. Scarlet fever, etc., 6 years. The mother a Rich-
ardson from Woburn. Have seven children left, one son.
Carlton Street. Father a shoemaker.
709. Oct. 29. Lois, of same. Same disease, 3
years. Father from Reading.
710. Oct. 31. Samuel, of Mansfield and Sarah Bur-
rill. Quincy, 7 months. She a Randall of Isle of Shoals.
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Four children, two sons. Federal Street. Father a
carpenter.
711. Nov. 3. Henry, of Joseph and Marg. Strout.
Quincy, 7 years. She a Battoon, widow Dorrell. Three
sons left, one by first husband. Essex, corner of Curtis.
He a Lieut, in the Am. Navy.
712. Nov. 16. Margaret, wid. of W. White. Relax,
of Bowels, 74 years of age. Married at 23, married life
not quite a year. She was a Lambert and lived many
years a widow. A good and agreeable temper. Much
esteemed. Her husband was an Englishman, a mariner.
She lived Essex, corner of East Street.
713. Nov. 19. John Bray, a venerable man. Of
gradual infirmity. 80 years old, married at 24 years, and
had a married life of 28 years. His wife a Driver, long
dead. Two sons, dan. married B. Webb, one son mar-
ried. His parents died aged. He was long infirm. A
man of the greatest industry and most peaceful temper.
Essex, opposite Herbert. A shoemaker.
714. Nov. 19. Martha, of John and Eliza. Hill.
Quincy, 2 years. She a Browne. Six children, four
sons. Charter, corner of Fish Street.
715. Nov. 23. Sarah, of Nath. and Sarah Mclntire.
Nervous fever, 7 years. ' She a Sheldon. Both from
Reading. Three children, two daughters. Have been in
Salem five years. A laborer for Mr. Fogg. Daniel
Street below Derby.
716. Nov. 29. Nancy, of James and Hannah- Carroll.
Quincy, 6 years. She a Webb, dau. of John. Six
daughters left. Carlton Street.
717. Nov. 30. Mary Adelaide, of Benjamin and
Mary Babbidge. Nervous fever, 3 years. She a daugh-
ter of Joshua Phippen. They have one son left. Essex,
between Herbert and Union Streets.
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718. Dec. 14. Samuel Silsbee, Sen. Pleuritic fever,
73 years old. Married at 26 years. His wife a Prince.
Left one son and two daughters, married to Daniel Sage
and David Patten. Essex, corner Daniel Street. Quite
a healthy man, not very active.
DEATHS IN 1804.
719. Jan. 8. Eunice, dau. of William and Ruth
Prat. Quincy, 5 months. He from Weymouth. She
from Braintree. A Wills. Five children, three sons.
Not long in town. Webb Street.
720. Jan. 9. James Tytler from Scotland. Perished
on the Neck in a violent rain storm. 58 years. Married
in Scotland, set. 24 years. Thrice married. Has lived
on Salem Neck since he came to America in Aug., 1795.
He has a wife and two daughters, all in Salem, came with
him. He had two wives and children behind. See D. B.
721 . Jan. 5. Rose, negro servant of widow St. Webb.
Deformed, palsy, 31 years of age.
722. Jan. 20. News of death of Capt. Enoch Swett.
Fever at sea, December 21. 37 years of age. Married
at 32 to Nancy Williams. No children. He was born
in Newburyport.
723. Jan. 27. Penn, twin child of Samuel and Mary
Townsend. Quincy, 4 years and 7 months. He was
lost at sea. She a Wclman. Other twin named Moses.
Four children left, three sons. Essex Street, opposite
Pleasant.
724. Jan. 31. Martha, widow of Christopher Bab-
bidge. Mortification, 62. years of age. Married at 19.
First marriage not one year, second marriage twenty-four
years. She was a daughter of Silsbee of Salem. Mar-
ried first an Emerton in 1761, then Babbidge. Left four
children, two sons.
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725. Feb. 8. George Wade, son of George and Abi-
gail Newell. Fever, 16 mos. One child, son, left. He
from Kennebeck, Bovvdoin. She from Ipswich, a March
See D. B.
726. Mar. 6. Samuel Bishop. Tid6 waiter in Cus-
toms. Convulsions, 44 years. Married at 28, sixteen
years in marriage. He was from Marblehead. He had
been in the Revenue Boat since its establishment. His
wife a Cox of Salem. Four children, one son.
727. Mar. 20. Barbara, wife of Samuel Tibbets.
Consumption, 37 years of age. Married at 19. First
marriage fourteen years, second marriage two years. She
of Danvers. He a mason from New York state. No
children left. Both^of German descent. She was long
sick, but looked fresh. She a Bullock, grandmother an
Ulmar. First husband a Qoodhue. Essex, corner Hardy
Street.
728. Mar. 25. Benjamin, of Henry and Sara Prince.
Atrophy Inf., 1 month. She a Millet. He from Ipswich.
They have three sons and two dans. left. Mother very
infirm. Derby Street, between Daniel and Orange.
729. Mar. 28. Col. Samuel Carlton. Palsy, aged
73 years. Married at 23 years of age. She a Eunice
Hunt of Salem. Left two sons and five daus. ; two mar-
ried, Mrs. Barr and Mrs. Helrnes. He was with the
army in 1778 returned, was sick and paralytic, much
enfeebled, and confined fifteen years. Union Street.
730. Apr. 11. Jonathan, of Jonathan Archer. Run-
ning sores, aged 20 years. She was Rachel Woodman.
They have ten children left, three males. First child's
death in the family. The first child I ever christened.
Lame many years.
731. Apr. 11. Benjamin, of Benjamin Hodges. Con-
sumption, aged 19 years. She a Hauna King. Four
daus. left. He graduated at Cambiidge last year.
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732. Apr. 24. Asa, of Timothy and Lydia Tibbets.
Convulsions, 2 years of age. She was a Browne from
Ipswich. He from Albany. One child left, a son.
733. June 3. Susanna Babbidge, schoolmistress.
Fever, 90 years old. Married at 17 years; 12 years in
marriage. She was a Becket and had seven children,
four sons, three dans., and has many of her posterity.
See D. B. She was removed from her home on Essex
street, while it was repaired ; immediately taken sick and
died at Archer's. Walnut Street.
734. June 15. Male child of Jonathan and Ester
Smith. 24 hours after birth. They were both from
Lynnfield. She a Smith, cousins. Her mother a Hart.
Came to Salem in 1803. Two children living, one male.
735. June 17. Female child of George and Abigail
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Newell. 6 hours after birth. See Feb. 28 of the present
year.
736. July 13. James Carroll. Consumption, 55
years old. Married at 23 years, and 22 years in married
life. He was born in Berwick, Maine. Married Hannah,
dim. of John Webb. He lived till lately on the River,
bottom of Daniel Street. Died in Carlton Street.
737. July 15. Capt. Samuel Ingersoll. Fever at
sea, 60 years of age. Married at 28 years. He married
Susanna Hathorne at Hampton, 19 Oct., 1772. Left a
son and dan. His son survived him one week.
738. July 22. Capt. Ebenezer, son of above. Fever,
23 years of age. On board same ship with his father and
died at the Quarantine ground, Salem.
739. Aug. 13. Anna, widow of Adam Wei man.
Consumption, 30 years of age. Married at 25, one year
in marriage. She was a dau. of Nath'l and A. Browne.
Her husband died abroad. She was addressed by a sou
of Capt. B. West at the time of her death.
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740. Aug. 19. Capt. John Becket (military). Par-
alytic, 58 years of age. Married at 23. First marriage
five years, second marriage fifteen years, third marriage
thirteen years. Descended from ancient family of Becket.
Two sons and four daus. First wife a Browne, second
an Ingersoll, third a Dean. An active, social, benevolent
man. Sick about three years. Shipwright. Becket
Street. See D. B.
741. Aug. 19. Male child of Benj. and Mary Silver.
9 months. She a Bullock, dau. from the Ulmer family.
Corner of Hardy and Essex Streets, opposite meeting
house.
742. Aug. 21. Male child of Margaret Crispin.
Atrophy Inf., 5 months. The mother a dau. of Wm.
and Margery Crispin and granddaughter of widow Mary
Tazell. Crispin from England.
743. Aug. 21. George Ellison, mariner. Obstruc-
tions in int., 32 years old. Married at 28. Fathe;- an
Englishman, mother an Ulmer. The mother's family
from Germany. George married a Foster of Ipswich, one
son. See D. B.
744. Aug. 25. Bethia, dau. of John* and Kachel
Archer. Mortification, 12 years old. Nine children left.
745. Aug. 25. Female child of Win. and Hannah
Cord well. 9 months. She was a Hitchborn. They re-
moved from Boston to Maine several years ago, and lately
to Salem. Five children, three sons. Bridge Street.
746. Aug. 31. Mary Lee, of Samuel and Priscilla
Lambert. Quincy, 14 months. They have a son and
dau. left. He at sea. Both Lamberts, of Joseph and
Jonathan. Court Street.
747. Sept. 19. Male child, of Joseph and Martha
Webb.' Convulsions, 8 days old. She a Devereux of
Marblehead. Three children left, one son. Becket St.
748. Sept. 20. Alexander, of Alexander and Eliza-
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beth Donaldson. 8 mos. She a Pecle. One child, a
dau., left. He from Ireland, blockmaker. Becket St.
749. Sept. 16. News of the drowning of Alexander
Allen, at sea. 26 years. He was a twin child of Edward
and Mary Allen. The widow has three children of Capt.
Allen's by a former wife, and five of her own, two sons,
other one son. He fell from a yard that broke on his
passage homeward.
750. Sept. 23. Capt. Nathan Millet. Fever, ague,
etc., 32 years. Married at 24. Four years in marriage.
Son of Jonathan and Sarah. Left two dans. Mother
died in 1798. He had lately returned from W. Ind.,
sick. Corner of Essex and Herbert Streets.
751. Sept. 28. Female child of Thomas and Mary
Goldsmith. Atrophy Inf., 9 mos. She was a Whitford.
Goldsmith her second husband. Her former husband a
Hill. Four children by both marriages, two sons, two
duns. Derby Street, corner Webb Street.
752. Sept. 30. Male child of Thomas and Sarah
Webb, at birth. She was a Kilby from Hingham. They
have one child, a female, left. Derby Street below Eng-
lish and Webb.
753. Oct. 2. Mary, wife of Thomas Goldsmith. Ner-
vous fever, 41 years. Married at 21. First marriage
five years, second marriage five years. She was a dau. of
John and Mary Whitford, "married Hill in 1784; he died
in 1789. She married second, Goldsmith, in 1799. She
has left three children by first marriage, one son, and one
by last marriage, a son.
754. Oct. 3. Elizabeth, widow of Capt. John Bat6n.
Suddenly, 79 years. Married at 19. First marriage
three years, second marriage fifty-one years. She was a
Slate. She married Jona. Lander 1745, and John Baton
in 1750. Baton died Dec., 1801. She had ten children.
Died suddenly, without complaining, in her chair. Her
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two sons by Lander are dead. Four daus. by Bat6n sur-
vive. English Street below Derby.
755. Oct. 14. Charles Cooke, of William and Eliza-
beth Carlton. Fever, 14 months. They have one child
left, a dau. Essex Street, below Union and Walnut.
756. Oct. 22. John Perkins. Debility, GO years.
Married at 25. First marriage sixteen years, second mar-
riage eighteen years. He was from Topsfield in 1785 and
lived ten years on Derby's, afterwards Allen's, farm, at
the Neck. First wife a Heard from Topsfield. Second
a Merriam from Boxford. Four sous, two by each mar-
riage.
757. Oct. 23. Capt. Jona. Millet. Scurvy, 41 years.
Married at 25. He was a brother to Nathan, who died
Sept. 23. His wife a Masury. Left six children, five
sons. He returned on 21st from Batavia and had been
mate under his brother-in-law Ropes. Hardy Street
between Essex and Derby.
758. Oct. 26. Stephen Cloutman. Consumption, 49
years. Married at 26. His wife Hannah Smith. Ten
children, six males. He from one of the old Salem fam-
ilies. Ship carpenter, graver and caulker. Webb Street
on Collin's Cove side.
759. Nov. 11. Hannah Weston. Consumption, 20
years. The father, Nath'l, from Reading; shoemaker.
Mother Hannah Richardson, of Woburn. They have
now five daus., two sons. Long sick. Addressed by
Abraham Kuowlton. Carlton Street.
760. Nov. 12. Mary Stevens. Consumption, 21
years. Dau. of late Capt. Thomas Stevens ; his wife a
Valpey, who has two daus. Mary lived with her grand-
mother Welman. Hardy Street, between Essex and
Derby.
761. Dec. 16. Mary Chever, maiden. Paralytic, 80
years. Descended from an ancient family. Nursed long
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in Judge Lyncle's family. Died at Capt. Timothy Wel-
man's, a cousin. She possessed a house in Essex Street,
opposite Orange Street. Lived two years with Welman.
Derby Street, west of Hardy Street. 80 in August last.
762. Dec. 29. Capt. Thomas Ashby. Debility, 41
years. Married at 24 years. First marriage one year,
second ten years, third two years. Descended from an
ancient family. First wife unknown. Second wife Mary
White, died in March, 1791, four children. Third wife
an Ashby, married March 13, 1803, one child ; in all five
children, one son, four daus. Essex Street, corner of
Curtis.
763. Dec. 30. Mary, dau. of James and II. Carroll.
Atrophy, 7 years. She was a Webb. The father died
in July last. Five daus. left. Carlton Street.
[To be continued.]
RECORDS OF THE FIRST CHURCH AT
SALISBURY, MASS., 1687-1754.
COMMUNICATED JJT WM. P. Ul'IIAM.
[Continued from page ICO, Part 2, Vol. XVI.]
1736, Mar. 7. Thomas, son of Tho's Bradbury.
Mar. 14. Hanah, dafter of Aaron Clough.
Rachel, of Jer. Wheeler.
May 23. Ezekiel, son of Hez: Curr.
June 10. Timothy, son of Timothy French being sick at home.
June 19. Sarah, dafter of Jer. Shephard being sick at home.
June 20. Benj'n, son of Bcnj'n True. Jacob, son of Wm. Hook
Jun'r. Simon, a Molutto serv't of Nath'l Fitts.
Sept. 6. Sarah, dafter of Juo. Doell.
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Aug. 29. A of Moses Clough.
Sept. 19. Mary, clafter of Sam'l French.
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Oct. 7. Paul, son of Jabez and Sarah Eaton.
Oct. 10. Judith, dufter of Thos. Camrait.
Mary, of Daniel Carr.
Oct. 31. Abram, son of Daniel Fitts.
Nov. 7. Ezekiel, of Moses Merrill Jun'r.
Nov. 28. Elizabeth, dafter of Wm. Moodey.
Dec. 5. Elliner, of Mr. Ezekiel Chevers.
Feb. 23. Sarah, of Samuel Merrill.
Mar. 20. Mary, of Francis Hook.
May 8. Hanah, of Benj'n Hoit Jun'r. Jemima, of Thomas
Silley.
May 22. Samuel, son of Jabez Eaton.
June 19. Hanah, dafter of Sam'l Moodey. Hanah, of David
Grely.
July 10. Hanah, of John Allin.
July 31. Josiah, son of Jacob Hook Jun'r.
Aug. 21. Mary, dafter of Jona. Eaton.
Aug. 28. Esther, of Joseph P^aton Jun'r.
Sept. 18. Moses, son of Josiah Hook.
Oct. 9. Ephraim, Mary, Dorithy, Jane, Elizabeth, children of
Jno. and Jane Stevens ; also Betty, dafter of Rob't
Carr.
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1737, Oct. 23. Elias, son of John Pike. Francis, sou of Josiah
French.
Oct. 30. Moses, son of Sam'l Clark.
Nov. 6. Judith, dafter of Daniel Hoit.
Nov. 20. Caleb, son of John Buswell.
dec. 18. Sarah, dafter of Henry Katon.
Feb. 5. Elliner, of Francis Hook.
Feb. 12. Ebenezer, son of Ebin'r Brown.
Feb. 19. Mary, clafter of Ezekiel Cheevers.
Feb. 26. Joshua, son of Daniel Merrill.
1738, Mar. 5. George, of Wm. Hook Jun'r.
Mar. 26. Anna, dafter of Isaac Buswell. Moses, son of Moses
Hoit.
Apr. 16. Sarah, dafter of C. Gushing Jun'r.
Apr. 23. William, son of Timo. Tovvnsend.
May 14. Moses, of Silvanus Carr.
June 4. Hanah, dafter of Dr. Sam'l Gyles.
June 11. William, son of Tho's Bradbury.
July 9. Joseph, son of Moses Clough. Simon, ^ of Aaron
Clough.
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July 23. Mary, clafter of John Doel.
July 30. George, son of Hezekiah Carr.
Aug. 27. Anne, clafter, Samuel, son, of William Gill.
Betty, dafter of Nath'l Carr.
Sept. 10. Sarah, of Daniel Carr.
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Oct. 22. Judith, dafter of Jona. Eaton.
Nov. 19. Samuel, son of Jno. Stevens.
dec. 3. Judith, dafter of Win. Moodey.
Dec. 18. Nathan, son of Dan'l Fitts.
1739, Mar. 18. Gyles, son of Moses Merrill Jun'r.
Elizabeth, dafter of Nath'l Brown Jun'r.
Mar. 25. Sarah, of John Pike.
Apr. 15. Elizabeth, of Joseph Eaton Jun'r.
May 6. Joanna, dafter of Jer. Sheppard. Hanah, of Daniel
Merrill. John, son of Thomas Silley. Timothy,
of Josiah French.
May 20. Esther, dafter of David Grely.
June 10. Umphry, son of Ezek. Chevers.
July 1. Joseph, son of Enoch Hoit.
Aug. 19. William, son of Josiah Hook.
Sept. 30. Paul, son of Jabez Eaton.
Nov. 4. Elizabeth, defter of Isaac Buswell. Anna, dafter of
Elias Smith. Moses, son of Jacob Hale.
Nov. 25. Jacob, sou of Jno. Buswell. Kich'd, son of Daniel
Hoit.
Dec. 13. William, son of Ebenezer Brown.
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Jan. 20. Benj., son of Caleb Gushing Jun'r.
1739-40. Mary, dafter of Rob't Carr. Sarah, of Tho's Brad-
bury. Elizabeth, of Jacob Hook Jun'r.
Feb. 10. Abigail, of Sam'l Moodey.
Mar. 2. Francis, son of Wm. Hook, Jun'r.
Mar. 16. Hanah, dafter of Nath'l Carr.
Apr. 27. Lydia, of Moses. Hoit.
May 4. Timothy, son of Timo. Townsend.
May 11. Abigail, dafter of Henry Eaton. Samuel, son of Ste-
phen Webster.
June 8. Samuel, son of Daniel Carr.
July 27. John, son of Moses Clough. Jacob, son of Samuel
Greley.
Aug. 3. A son of Zacheus Clough. Mary, dafter of Eze-
kiel Evens.
Aug. 10. Nathaniel, son of Benj'n Gealy.
Sept. 14. Moses, of Jno. Doel.
Sept. 28. Laban, son of Ezekiel Morrill. Nathaniel, of Nath'l
Merrill.
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Oct. 26. Moses, son of Benj'n True,
dec. 28. Mary, daf'ter of Wm. Moocley.
Jan. 24. Belcher, son of Ntith'l Doel. Jacob, of Sam'l Bar-
nard. Elizabeth, clafter of Elisha Allin.
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1741, Mar. 1. Hanah, dafter of Jno. Stevens. Sarah, of Joseph
Eaton Jun'r. Jemima, of Sam'l Grealy.
Mar. 8. Sarah, of Stephen Merrill Jun'r.
Mar. 22. Rachel, of Francis Hook.
Apr. 5. Abigail, of Benj'n Morrili.
Apr. 12. Joseph, son of Jona. Eaton. Daniel, of Daniel Mer-
rill.
May 3. Betty, dafter of Jno. Allin.
May 10. Mary, of Benony Silly.
May 24. Moses, son of Moses Merrill Jun'r.
June 7. Elizabeth, dafter of Benj'n Stevens.
June 28. Humphry, son of Jno. Pike.
oct. 4. David, of David Grealy.
oct. 25. Samuel, of Jno. Buswell.
dec. 6. Joseph, of Daniel Fitts.
Dec. 20. Elizabeth, dafter of Josiah Hook.
Dec. 27. Mary, of Wm. Hook Jun'r.
Jan. 17. Benjamin, son of Jabez True Jun'r.
Jan. 31. Eunice, dafter of Jacob Hale.
Mar. 7. Abigail, of Jer. Sheppard.
Mar. 14. Trustrum, son of Nath'l Carr.
May 16. Benj'n, son of Dan'l Hoit.
May 23. Elizabeth, dafter of Tho's Silley.
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1742, May 30. Patience, dafter of Tho's Brown.
June 20. Moses Deal, adopted son of Juo. and Eliz. Eaton.
July 4. Reuben, son of Benj'n Grealy.
July 11. Eliot, son of Rob't Carr.
Aug. 15. John, of Josiah French.
Sept. 5. Samuel, of Sam'l Moodey.
Martha, dafter of Timo. Townsend.
Sept. 12. Joanna, of Henry Eaton.
Sept. 19. Nanne. of Moses Hoit. Stephen, son of Sam'l
Grealy.
Oct. 17. Anna, dafter of Moses Clough.
Oct. 24. Jabez, son of Eben'r Brown.
Nov. 21. Mary, clafter of Francis Hook,
dec. 5. Johanna, of Enoch Hoit.
19. Jane, of Tho's Silley.
Jan. 9. Samuel, son of Benj n True.
Jan. 23. Sarah, dafter of Joshua French.
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Feb. 6. Benjamin, son of Benj'n Stevens.
1743, Apr. 3. Abigail, dafter of Benj'n Silley.
May 29. William, son of Wm. Moodey.
July 30. Sarah, dafter of Jabez Katon.
Aug. 21. Hanah, of Jno. Buswell. Sarah, of Moses Mer-
rill. Israel, son of Jno. Pike.
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Sept. 4. Richard, son of David Grely.
Sept. 18. Benjamin, of Abraham Eaton. Judith, dafter of
Jona. Eaton.
Sept. 25. Nanne, of Jno. Doel.
Oct. 2. Jabez, son of Jabez True Jun'r.
Nov. 27. Elizabeth, dafter of Joseph Ilubbard.
Jan. 8. Moses, son of Jos. Eaton. Anne, dafter of Nath'l
Curr.
Feb. 5. Elizabeth, of C. Gushing Jun'r. William, son of
Thos. Stockman.
1744, Mar. 11. Ruth, dafter of Dan'l Fitts.
June 3. Josiah, son of Josiah Hook.
July 29. Dexter, of Ebenezer Brown.
Aug. 19. Ruth, dafter of Josiah French.
Sept. 23. Mirriam, of Benj'n Grealy.
Oct. 14. Joshua, son of Sam'l Moodey.
Oct. 28. John, son Of Timo. Townsend.
Umphry, son of Anthony Moss.
Nov. 4. Anna, dafter of Sam'l Merrill.
Dec. 9. Lydia, of Tho's Silley.
Dec. 1C. Elizabeth, of Sam'l Grealy.
Dec. 23. Joseph, son of Dan'l Merrill Jun'r.
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Dec. 30. William, son of Wm. Hook. Abigail, dafter of Benj'n
Stevens. Sarah, of Wm. Carr, Jun'r.
Jan. 20. Daniel, son of Dan'l Hoit. Sarah, dafter of Moses
French.
Feb. 3. Ephraim, son of Hen'ry Eaton.
Rebecca, dafter of Tlio's Brown.
Mar. 17. Robert, son of Rob't Curr.
Mary, dafter of Joshua French.
Mar. 24. Judith, of Francis Hook.
Mar. 31. Anna, of Nath'l Fitts.
Apr. 7. Hanah, of Jer. Shepard.
Mary, Stephen Merrill.
Muy 19. Mary, of Tho's Bradbury.
July 7. Apphia, of David Norton.
July 21. Enoch, son of Enoch Hoit.
Aug. 4. Dorithy, dafter of Juo. Allin.
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Aug. 25. Sarah, of Jabez True, Jun'r.
Sept. 8. Jonathan, son of Jona. Eaton.
Sept. 29. James, son of Jno. Pike,
dec. 1. Jacob, of Joseph Burnam.
Dec. 22. Benjamin, of Joseph Hubbard.
Benjamin, of Phillip Brown.
Jan. 19. Benjamin, of Win. Moodey.
Mar. 2. Rachel, dafter of David Grely.
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1746, Mar. 23. Charles, ye son of Moses Stockm'n.
Apr. 27. Benjamin, of Moses Merrill, Jun'r.
May 4. Ezra, of Stephen Morill, Jun'r.
May 25. Samuel, of Tho's Stockman.
June H. Benjamin, of Moses Pike.
July 13. Hanah, dafter of Josiah Hook.
Aug. 3. Edward, son of Aaron Clough.
Aug. 10. John, of Jno. Doel.
Mercy, dafter of Daniel Fitts.
Sept. 21. Moses, son of David Norton.
Oct. 26. Jabez, of Jabez Eaton.
Patience, dafter of Benj'n Greale.
Sarah, of Thomas Felloes, Jun'r.
Sarah, of Ezekiel True.
Mary, of Josiah French.
Bhoda, of Dan'l Merrill, Jun'r.
Jabez, son of Dan'l Carr.
J[ohu], son of Sam'l Merrill.
Judith, dafter of Sam'l Grealy.
Feb. 15. Umphry, son of Jos. Burnam.
Feb. 22. James, son of Timo. Townsend.
1747, Apr. 5. Ezekiel, son of Francis Hook. Jacob, of Thomas
Silley. Mary, dafter of Benj'n Stevens.
Apr. 12. Judith, dafter of Josh. French.
May 3. Mehitabel, of Nath'l Fitts.
Aug. 2. Martha, of Wm. Hook.
Aug. 9. Mark, son of Mark Graves.
Aug. 23. Sarah, dafter of Sam'l Moodey.
Sept. 6. Robart, son of Dan'l Merrill.
Oct. 18. Abraham, 'of Philip Brown.
Nov. 1. Sarah, dafter of Moses Pike.
Nov. 8. Samuel, son of Archalus Adams.
Nov. 15. Moses, of Dan'l Carr.
Nov. 22. Oliver, of Joseph Hoyt.
Nov. 29. Nicolas, of Moses French.
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Jan. 17. Martha, dafter of Enoch Iloyt.
Feb. 28. Anthony, son, Judith, dafter, of Anthony Moss.
1748, Mar. 27. Peter, son of Hen'ry Eaton.
Mary, dafter of Joseph Hubbard.
Apr. 10. Jabez, son of Moses Merrill, Jun'r. Jacob, of Eze-
kiel True.
Apr. 24. Hanah, dafter of Tho's Stockman.
May 1. Mary, dafter of Eliphalet French.
May 29. James, son of David Norton.
July 10. Elizabeth, dafter of Jabez True, Juu'r.
July 17. Abell, son of Satn'l Merril, Jun'r.
Sept. 4. Nicholas, of Abraham Eaton.
Sept. 18. Martha, dafter of Win. Moodey.
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Oct. 1G. Elizabeth, dafter of Jno. Pike.
Oct. 30. Joshua, son of Josiah French.
Nov. 20. Judith, dafter of Tho's Silley.
Nov. 27. Benj'n, son of Jno. Doel.
Dec. 11. Jerushuh, dafter of D'l Fitts.
Dec. 18. William, son of Nath'l Can*.
Dec. 25. Sarah, dafter of Benj'n Stevens. Mary, of Stephen
Merrill, Jun'r.
Jan. 8. Benjamin, son of David Grealy.
Sarah, dafter of Samuel Grealy.
Jan. 15. Rachel, of Joseph Dow.
Feb. 26. Mary, of Samuel Merrill.
1749, Mar. 19. Benj'n, son of Dan'l Merill, Jun'r.
Apr. 9. Lemuel, son of Wm. Hook.
Apr. 1C. Mary, dafter of Benj'n French.
July 30. Zebulon, son of Daniel Carr.
Aug. 27. Joshua, son of Jabez Eaton.
Sept. 10. Khocla, dafter of Daniel Merrill.
Sept. 17. Abigail, of Benj'n Grealy.
Oct. 1. duel ley, son of Paul Camit.
Nov. 12. Mary, dafter of Moses French,
dec. 3. Sarah, of Phillip Brown.
Dec. 17. Jabez, son of Moses Merrill, Jun'r.
Jan. 14. Abigail, dafter of Sam'l Grealy.
Jan. 21. Samuel, son of Archalus Adams.
Feb. 11. Sarah, dafter of Abraham Eaton.
Feb. 18. Elizabeth, of Thomas Stockman.
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1750, Mar. 5. Nath'l, son of Sam'l Baker.
Mar. 18. Timothy, of Henry Eaton.
Mar. 25. Eliphalet, of Eliph. French.
HIST. COLL. xvi H
210
Apr. 15. Caleb, of An ( thony Morss.
May 13. Timothy, of Josiah French.
May 20. Jabez, of Jabez True.
May 27. Enoch, of Sam'l French.
Sarah, dafter of Benj'n Bradbury.
July 8. Sarah, of Enoch Hoyt.
William, son of Mark Graves.
Sept. 9. Hanah, dafter of David Norton.
Sept. 23. Caleb, son of Caleb Gushing, Jun'r.
Sept. 30. John, of James Croker. Abra, dafter of Joseph
Hubbard.
Oct. 14. Sarah, of Sam'l Moodey.
Sarah, of Jos. and Abigail Page.
Oct. 21. Stephen, son of Tho's Eaton.
oct. 28. Mary, Samuel, Hanah, and Benj'n, children of Ben.
Hoit.
John and Hanah, children of Jno. Gill and Jona. Wal-
ton.
Jan. 6. Katherine, ye Da'ter of Benjamin Stevens. Joanna,
ye Da'ter of Benja. French.
Feb. 24. Anne, ye Da'ter of John Pike; Mary, ye Da'ter of
Will'm Hook; Elias, ye Son of Dan'll Alerril; Elias,
ye Son of Joshua Pike ; Baptized.
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1751. Mar. 24. Sarah, dafter of Amos Coffin.
Apr. 14. Abigail, of Dan'l Fitts.
July 14. Benjamiu, son of Macress Carr.
July 20. John, son of Roland Bradbury.
Aug. 11. Mary, dafter of Silvanas Carr.
Aug. 18. Humphry, son of Francis Hook.
Oct. A Lydia, dafter of Ezekiel True. Abiathar, of Ste-
phen Morill, Jun'r. Mary, dafter of Paul Cammit.
Nov. 10. William, son of Wm. Moodey. Moses, son of Moses
French. Elizabeth, dafter of Joseph March, Jun'r.
Dec. 1. Jonathan, son of Sam'l Grealy.
Handwriting of Edmond Noyes.
1752, Feb. ye 2. Judith, ye Daughter of John March.
Mar. ye 1. Nathanael, ye Son of Moses Woodbury.
Mar. ye 29. William, ye Son of Philip Brown.
Apr ye 5. Ruth, Daughter of Benja. Greeley.
May ye 10. Surah, Daughter of Sam'll French.
June ye 7. Abigail, Daughter of Jabez Eaton.
June ye 14. Hannah, ye Daughter of Enoch Hoit.
July ye 26. Josiah, Sou of Josiah French.
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Aus. 23.
1752, Oct. 15, N
Oct. 23.
Oct. 21).
Xov 12.
Dec. 3.
17.")3, Jan. 21.
Feb. 4.
Feb. 25.
Mar. 11.
Mar. 25.
Apr. 22.
Apr. 20.
May 13.
May 20.
June 10.
July 22.
July 29.
Aug. 12.
Sept. 23.
Oct. 14.
Nov. 25.
Dec. 2.
1754, Jan. 13.
Mar. 17.
Mar. 31.
Apr. 7.
Apr. 14.
Apr. 21.
May 26.
June 2.
June 9.
June 30.
Samuel, Son of
Nanncy, Daughter of Moses Stevens.
Jonathan Walton.
. S. John, Son of David Greeley ; Jabez, son of Benja-
Bi ailbnry ; Jacob, son of Thomas Stockman ; Bap.
tized.
Nathaniel, son of Eliphalet French.
Enoch, son of James Jackman, Jun'r.
Anne, Daughter of Benja. Stevens.
Mary, ye Daughter of Joshua Pike.
Edmund, sou of Win. Hook. Joseph, son of Sam'l
Pettingell.
Betty, Daughter of James Crocker. Sam'll, Son of Sam-
uel Baker. Elizabeth, Daughter of Benja. French.
Daviil Eaton, son of Sam'l Eaton, adult. Martha,
Daughter of Ezekiel True. Abigail, Da'terof Nich-
olas Oakham.
Elizabeth, Daughter of Amos Coffin.
Robert, Son of Sam'l Fowler.
Elizabeth, Daughter of Dan'l Fitts.
Molly, Daughter of Dan'l Felch. Betty, Daughter of
Jeremy Allin. Paul, son of Paul Cammit.
William, son of Macres Carr.
Joseph, son of Joseph Do\v.
Zilpah, Daughter of David Norton.
Martha, Daughter of Moses French.
Susanna, Daughter of Joseph lloyt.
Philip, son of Philip Brown.
Jenny, Daughter of Roland Bradbury.
Mary and Elizabeth, Daughters of Moses Pike.
Joseph, son of Moses Woodbury.
Jemima, Daughter of Josiah French.
Betty, Daughter of John March. O[iFenJ, son of Jo
seph March.
Joseph, Son of Joseph French, Jun'r.
Benja., Son of Dan'l Felch.
Elizabeth, Daughter of Abraham Eaton. Stephen,
Son of Abner Lowell.
Aaron, Son of Stephen Merrill, Jun'r.
Mary, Daughter of Moses Buswell.
Sarah and Mary, Daughters of Mrs. [Russell].
John Pecker, Son of Edmund Noyes, Pastor.
Hannah, Daughter of Sam'l Greeley.
Abigail, Daughter of James Jackman, Jun'r.
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{Handwriting of James Allen.} [33]
Grandchildren baptized.
mary Gill ye daughter of raoses Gill upon ye 1 July 1688.
Susanna ye daughter of Simon French upon 15 July, 1688.
Elizabeth, ye daughter of Tobias Langden upon the 16 Sept. 1688.
Anne ye Daughter of Tho. Evens upon ye 14 Oct : 1688.
Tobias ye Sonne of Tobias Langden upon ye 18th Aug'st 1689.
Hannah ye daughter gooclwife Pette : 6th Oct. 1689.
John ye Sonne of Capt. Sam'el Sherborn 29th Dec : 1689.
Joshua, Sarah, Sonn and daughter of Dau'el Moody 29 June, 1690.
Joseph, ye Son of Symd French, 31 Aug. 1690.
John ye Sonne of Tho. Evens 19 Ap. 1691.
25 Sept., 1692, mary daughter of Win. Philbrick.
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The children of those y* are in full communion of
Another town.
Thomas and Aaron ye Sons of Aaron Sleeper of Hampton 30 Sept :
1688.
Sam'll Son of Goodm : Jewell of Aimesbury 14 Oct. 1688.
Joseph Sonne of Deacon Page of Hampton 28 Oct : 1688.
Hannah ye daughter of goodwife Graves now of Salisbury but for-
merly of piscataqua. Anno. 1690.
Walter, the Sonne of Wm. Philbrick of Greenland. 10 Apr. 1691.
this to be amongst grandchildren.
Jacob : Isaak, Sonns of Isaak Green: 7th June, 1691.
Hannah and Mercy, Twinns children of Mr. John Pike baptized 12
July 1691.
Dorithy daughter of Mr. Jno. Cotton, 10 Sept., 0.693.
(Handwriting of Caleb Gushing.} [56]
Adult persons baptised.
1698, dec. 11. Margaret Allin, ye wife of Stilson Allin.
1699, Apr. 2. Naomi Flanders.
May 28. Elizabeth French, ye wife of Henery.
June 22. John Foot of Amsbury.
Oct. 8. Elizabeth Eastman, ye wife of Sam r ll East.
[To be continued.']
GENEALOGICAL NOTES. WEBB FAMILY.
COMMUNICATED BY EDW. STANLEY WATERS.
IN the notes upon these and other families the compiler
would be understood not to claim thoroughness of re-
search, nor completeness of result, but merely to put in
accessible and permanent form the results of information
and facts acquired indirectly, while making other definite
researches of a kindred nature.
First Church Baptisms,
March, 1690, Mary,* at age.
Apr. 13, 1690, Perez, Mary and Daniel, of Mary.
June, 1692, Elizabeth, of Daniel.
May 24, 1696, Margaret, of Daniel.
Dec., 1709, Elizabeth, of John.
Aug. 10, 1712, John, of John.
Feb. 26, 1715, Jonathan and wife Priscilla, at age.
1. JONATHAN 1 (2), d; before 1765. He mar. Mar.
23, 1713-4, Priscilla, dau. of Robert and Christian (Col-
lins) Bray,f by whom he had issue. He was a deacon of
the East Society. His mansion house stood on the cor-
ner of Derby and Hardy Sts., being in 1758 bounded
south by the new way, west by Hardy St., east by land
of Thos. Dean, and north by his son Jona.'s, who bought
*Inst. Coll., Vol. VIII, p. 139, "Becket Family."
tBray Family, Inst. Coll., Vol. VII, p. 247.
(213)
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the remainder of his father's homestead from the other
heirs.
1. JONATHAN 1 , by vvife Priscilla, had issue :
2. I. PmsciLLA 2 , bapt. Mar. 4, 1716, d. after 1769,
mar. Oct. 9, 1740, Gamaliel, son of Gamaliel and Sarah
(Williams) Hodges, b. Oct. 13, 1716, d. 1768, by whom
she had ten children. In his will, June, 1768, he men-
tions sons Gam., Joseph and Jona., and daus. Mary, Sarah
Putnam and Priscilla.
3. II. JONATHAN 2 (11), b. Dec. 22, bapt. 30, 1716, d.
Feb. 29, 1792, mar. June 22, 1740, Elizabeth Sanders;
b. 1717, d. Nov. 14, 1788; in 1767 is called "coaster."
His homestead in Hardy St., partly bought of Sam. Coll-
yer and bounded on the north by land- of Robert Stone,
otherwise his father's homestead, was sold by his other
children to their brother Michael, July 6, 1792. He kept
the Ship Tavern in Washington St. His children's bap-
tisms are from the Tabernacle Ch. Records".
4.' III. JOHN 2 , bapt. Oct. 19, 1718, d. young.
5. IV. STEPHEN 2 (19), b. Feb. 13, 1722, d. Mar. 24,
1796, mar. Nov. 27, 1746, Elizabeth Best, who died in a
year; mar. 2dly June 7, 1750, Mary, widow of Jacob
Manning and dau. of Joshua and Margaret (Lambert)
Tyler; 3dly, about 1775, a widow Mas my, dau. of
Beans. In regard to his second marriage more informa-
tion is desirable. His wife must certainly have been a
dau. of Margaret Tyler, because her property was left to
his children, "my grandchildren"; yet in the City Rec-
ord of Births, the only dau. of Joshua and Margaret
Tyler mentioned was Margaret; to be sure a dau. Mary*
may have been born, but not recorded. Then this dau.,
too, must have previously mar. a "Manning," as the mar-
*I have since found the following: "Mary, d. of Joshua and Margaret Tyler
bapt. Jan. 21, 1727-8.'* First Ch.
215
riage is recorded "Stephen Webb to Mary Manning";
a Mary Tyler was mar. to Jacob Manning July 2, 1745,
at St. Peter's church, and if this was she, it shows the
remarkable coincidence of her marrying a man who bore
the exact name of her own cousin, and yet was not he, as
is shown by the following pedigree :
Sam. Lambert = Margaret Browne,
b. Apr. 23, 1071.
Jacob Manninir.
Margaret = Joshua Tyler. Hannah = Benjamin, son of
1712. I" 10
b. Jan. 14, b. Aug. 1,
1090; 1702.
d. June, 1775.
Mary. Jacob,
b. 1737; d. 1815, ummir.
Possibly he may have been a much younger brother of
her uncle Benj., or he may have been of the Ipswich fam-
ily of "Manning," of which I have an indistinct impres-
sion that a "Jacob" married in Salem.
Stephe'n Webb is called "cordwainer." He lived near.
Neck gate, perhaps near where Foye's rope-walk after-
wards stood. I have heard that he lived at the Fort and
used to signalize vessels, and keep their owner's colors.*
Neck-gate was at the foot of Essex St., and from it a way
or road, sometimes covered by the tide, and following
somewhat the curve of the shore, led around to the right
down to the Neck.
Just at the junction of Essex St. with this road was
the northeastern portion of the real estate of Joseph
Browne, containing about two and a quarter acres. He
*Felt somewhat confirms this : "June 6, 1782, Notice is given that guards are at
the forts; that Stephen Webb has the command there, and that captains of vessels
give proper answers when hailed, if they would not be fired upon." lust. Coll.,
Vol. V, p. 259.
216
was born in 1673, and was the son of John and Hannah
(Collins) Browne, and grandson of Francis Collins,*
from whom "Collins' Cove" takes its name.
He died about 1756, leaving a good property for those
times (2753), and his ,real estate was divided into
shares, of which "Margaret Tyler, widow," received one,
in right of her mother, his sister. This was the portion
abutting on the road to the Neck, and at her death she
bequeathed it to her grandchildren, children of Stephen
Webb. Webb St., I suppose, took its name from these
owners, being apparently laid out through it. This land
with the adjoining flats was sold May 2, 1798, by these
heirs to Wm. Foye, ropemaker. She also left to them
the rest of her property which included :
A house and land late of Joshua Tyler dec'd.
A pew in the East Meeting-house.
A bond of Mr. John Ives, Oct. 31, 1757.
This Tyler homestead was on the westerly side of Eng-
lish St., the second house from Essex St., next to the
Ingersoll land, and was sold by the other heirs, Sept. -22,
1797, for $350.00, to Sam. Masury and John Patterson;
afterward Patterson and wife Hannah sold their share to
Masury. Jan. 14, 1763, this was called "Webb's land."
An old house, said to be a Patterson house, was burnt
down about here in 1864-5.
6. Y. MARY 2 , b. about 1724, d. of consumption Mar.
21, 1790, mar. July 16, 1747, Joseph Cloutman, whom
she survived. He was perhaps son of Joseph and Mary
(Peters) Cloutman. She left at her death two daus.,
unmar., and two sons, mar. One of these, Benjamin 3 ,
mar. June 6, 1779, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert and Eliza-
beth (Hiiliard) Frye, who survived him, dying Aug.,
* He was of Salem as early as 1637.
217
1818, aged 59. "He d. suddenly in bed July 4, 1787,
set. 48, left 8 children, 4 mules, his wife was a grdau. of
Frye at Fort Anne. He went to bed well, died before
his wife could see him." Bentley.
Of the children, Benjamin 4 d. 171)9; Jonathan 4 , Oct.
13, 1803, of scarlet fever and throat distemper, aged 12.
A promising youth. Sick five days. B. To Joseph 4 ,
for so many years the faithful City Clerk, we are indebted
for an alphabetical transcript of deaths from the Salem
newspapers, from their first issue to 1840, a most useful
volume. Elizabeth 4 mar. July 3, 1808, John Bullock,
who lived in Carlton St., and had issue. Robert Frye 4
was a hardware dealer in Salem ; he mar. June 23, 1811,
Mary Ann Fenno, who died May, 1813, aged 23 ; he died
at Charleston, S. C., Feb. 2, 1831. They left one child,
Mary Louisa 5 , who died a few years ago. Sally 4 , Pris-
cilla 4 , both unmar.
The other son may have been Joseph 3 , who mar. Han-
nah Becket and had Joseph 4 , lost at sea; John, "second
mate with Adam \Vellman, missing, aged 23, Dec. 28,
1800; one son & three daus. left;" Hannah 4 , mar. Vin-
cent; Mary 4 , mar. Abijah Hitching; Rebecca 4 , mar. Win.
Rowell ; and Benjamin 4 , lost like his brothers.
The old Cloutman house in Webb St. is still standing,
near or next to the school-house removed from East St.
thither.
7. VI. SUSANNAH 2 , b. about 1726, d. after 1768, mar.
Sept. 29, 1756, John Flint, who d. before 1767, by whom
she had :
I. John 3 , b. 1757, d. Dec. 28, 1813, mar. Margaret,
dau. of Peter and Margaret (Ives) Cheever, b. Nov. 5,
1761, by whom he had Abigail Ives 4 , mar. Timothy Hara-
den ; Priscilla 4 , d. 1826 ; Susan Parsons 4 , mar. Thomas
Brooks ; Mary Malloy 4 , mar. Samuel Nichols ;. Sarah 4 ,
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mar. John B. Currier, and, 2d, Ephraim Allen ; John 4 , d.
at Havana, July, 1811.
II. Susannah 3 , b. 1759, d. Nov. 19, 1848, mar. Josiah
Parsons of Newmarket, N. H.
III. Jonathan 3 , d, at sea.
IV. Joseph 3 , d. at sea.
8. VII. HANNAH 2 , bapt. Sept. 24, 1727, d. Feb. 14,
1817, mar. June 8, 1752, David, son of Jona. and Mary
(Marston) Neal, b. about 1730, d. 1762, by whom she
had issue. See "Neal Family."
9. VIII. SAMUEL 2 (29), b. Feb. 18, 1732, d. 1780,
mar. Oct. 14, 1755, Deborah Prince, by whom I think he
had no children ; mar., 2clly, Nov. 9, 1758, Hannah, dau.
of John and Hannah (Higginson) Ward, b. Dec. 31,
1735, d. Apr. 4, 1808; "Ap. 11, of a fever, much es-
teemed," Dr. Bentley says. He was a sea-captain, and
lived on the corner of Pleasant and East Sts., which
estate is still owned and occupied by his descendants.
This was bought of the Ives family in 1767. John Ives
mar. her cousin Sarah, dau. of Miles Ward, who mar.
Eliz., dau of John and Eliz. (Phippen) Webb. What
her relation to Samuel Webb was I do not know. Inst.
Coll., Vol. IV, p. 4.
10. IX. JOHN 2 (34), b. Aug. 10, 1733, d. May 17,
1811, mar. Nov. 5, 1752, Judith Phelps,* b. about 1730,
d. Sept. 12, 1814. They lived nearly sixty years in mar-
raige. His house was in Daniel St. below Derby St. I
think it became afterward the property of Fogg, from
whom the locality was called "Fogg's Beach."
JONATHAN 2 (3), by wife Elizabeth, had issue :
*"Her father lived to a great age, as did many of the family. Three sons and
three daughters survive and grand and great-grand-children. Her elder sister,
Emma (Southward), survives, and her youngest, Eunice (Perkins), at her son
Benja's in Essex St. between Herbert and Union. She was paralytic, shaking,
and went off easily as if fainting; no sickness." Bentley.
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11. I. PnisciLLA 3 , b. Sept. 15, 1741, Imp. Nov. 8,
1747, d. Oct. 5, 1831, aged 1)1, mar. Oct. 9, 17GO, David,
son of Thomas and Sarah (Hodges) Ropes, by whom she
had no issue. The Essex Institute has crayon portraits
of them both. See Ropes Fain., Vol. VII, pp. 1(32-3,
of these COLLECTIONS.
12. II. JONATHAN 3 , b. Oct. 8, 1744, bapt. Nov. 8,
1747, d. about 1703 ; apparently, from the following
document, by some accident or violence :
"Mary B.urchmore, Wid., conveys to John Leach, ship-
wright, Jona. Webb, Mar., and Benj. Ward, Jr., Cord\v r .,
all her mansion-house, etc., bounded north on Kpes Lane,
east by land of Robert Peele, south by that of John
Turner, Esq., or in his possession, and west by the garden
of late James Jeffrey, dee., as security for the recogni-
zance in 70 each, which they have entered into, to King
George III, that Zachariah Burchmore shall personally
appear at a Court of Assize and General Goal Delivery
to be held at Ipswich the 2d Tuesday of June next, to
answer such matters and things as shall be objected
against him, more particularly as to his being ye accompt
of ye death of Jona. Webb, Jr., late dec' 1 , etc., etc.
Nov. 3, 1763.
13. III. ELIZABETH 3 , 1). Sept. 15, 1747, bapt. Nov. 8,
1747, d. after 1792, mar. Jan. 1, 1775, Jeremiah Shepard,
b. about 1751, d. Aug. 11, 1817. They owned and occu-
pied the house on Brown St. next to the one mentioned
in the "Ropes Family" as built by Joseph Ropes, and
now in the occupancy of the family of Stephen 4 Shepard,
dec., a son of Jeremiah. lie had also sons Jeremiah 4 ,
Daniel 4 , Jonathan 4 , Michael 4 , Samuel 4 , and a dau. Betsey.
See ante, Vol. IV, p. 10.
14. IV. SARAH 3 , b. Apr. 9, 1750, bapt. Apr. 21, 1751,
d. probably before 1792, unmar.
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15. V. BENJAMIN 3 (45), b. Mar. 2, 1753, bapt. Mar.
3, 1754, d. Oct. 13, 1815, mar. Sept. 23, 1779, Mary,
dau. of Wm. and Mary (Andrew) King, b. Jan. 6, 1753,
d. Oct. 19, 1830. He kept the Sun Tavern in Essex St.,
and afterwards lived upon his farm at the foot of Conant
St. List. Coll., Vol. IV, p. 139, and Vol. VI, p. 99.
16. VI. STEPHEN 3 (49), b. Sept. 21, 1756, bapt.
Sept, 26, 1756, d. Feb. 11, 1831, mar. Oct. 3, 1779,
Sarah, dau. of Edw. and Ruth (Hodges) (Gardner) Allen,
who d. Sept. 23, 1780; mar. 2dly Sept. 2, 1784, Sarah,
dau. of Barth. and Sarah (Hodges) Putnam and widow of
Thomas Palfray, by whom she had a son Thomas, who
died unmar. The mothers of his two wives were sisters
and his cousins. A sea-captain, and afterwards carried
on a rope-walk in what is now Howard St. An account
of him may be found in the Inst. Coll., Vol. IV, p. 8.
17. VII. SAMUEL 3 , bapt. July 22, 1759, d. probably
before 1792, unmar.
18. VIII. MiCHAEL 3 (52), b. July 19, bapt. Aug. 1,
1762, d. Nov. 12, 1839, mar. Mar. 2, 1789, Ruth, dau.
of Barth. and Sarah (Hodges) Putnam, sister of his
brother Stephen's wife. She d. June 24, 1790, aged 22,
of a consumption, "much lamented." He mar. 2dly Oct.
30, 1796, Sarah, dau. of Matthew Mansfield and widow
of John Tucker. He kept a noted grocery and wine
store in Washington St., near the site of the present
City Hall. Inst. Coll., Vol. V, p. 87.
STEPHEN 2 (5), by wife Mary, had issue :
19. I. MARGARET 3 , b. about 1751, d. July 19, 1795,
mar. Peter Murray, cooper, who d. Feb. 13, 1807, aged
61. They left a dau., I, Mary 4 , who mar. Jan. 9, 1803,
Israel, son of John and Bethiah (Archer) Ward, b. Apr.
1, 1776, died June 4, 1849, and had Israel 5 , b. Oct. 3,
1803; Peter Murray 5 , b. June 15, 1805, d. at sea, Aug.
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4, 1824; Jonathan 5 , h. June 20, 1808, cl. May 7, 1809;
Jonathan 5 , 1). Jan. 2, cl. Oct. 23, 1814. She cl. Mar. 26,
1816.
20. II. MARY 3 , b. about 1753; was living May 2,
1798, then a widow; mar. a Murray of the same family
as her sister's husband. I know nothing more of her.
21. III. JosnuA 3 (54), b. about 1755, d. about 1780,
lost at sea,* mar. July 17, 1773, Hannah Murray, per-
haps sister of the above, who mar. 2dly Hannon, by
whom she left two children, and d. Aug., 1790. He also
was lost at sea.
22. IV. ELIZABETH^, b. about 1756, mar. Sam. Mas-
ury,| b. about 1752, and was lost from the Revenue Boat
Jan. 24, 1811, by whom she had: I, Benj 4 . ; II, Mary 4 ,
mar. a Clough ; III, John 4 , mar. Priscilla Carroll; IV,
Priscilla 4 , d. Nov. 3, 179*: V, Samuel 4 , d. unmar. ; VI,
Elizabeth 4 , mar. in Watertown ; VII, a dau 4 ., mar. Cut-
ler Western ; and others.
23. V. PmsciLLA 3 , b. about 1758, d. Jan. 11, 1781,
mar. Sept. 26, 1776, Thomas Welcome, who d. before
1794, by whom she had : I, Sally 4 , who mar. Capt. George
Southward, and d. Mar. 28, 1859, aged 81 ; II, Polly 4 ,
b. Dec. 12, 1780, mar. Robert, son of Thorndike and
Eunice (Beckett) Behind, and d. Aug. 19, 1864; her
husband, of about the same age, dying the next day.
They had issue. He mar. 2dly Sept. 16, 1782, Elizabeth
Lambert, who d. Oct. 20, 1793, aged 28, by whom he
had a son Thomas, who died at Gaud e loupe, Mar. 24,
1805, aged 22, mate of Brig Edwin, Capt. Townsend,
"a promising young man," and, if I am correct, Betsey,
bapt. Oct. 30, 1785; Elizabeth, bupt. May 23, 1790, and
*"In a prize-ship called the Geram, taken from the English," I am told.
f'Abigail Masury, d. Ap. 11, 1794, aged 65; a widow, left a dau. Jnih in. Webb.'
Bentley.
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who mar. George Hodges, afterwards of Andover, whom
she survives. List. Coll., Vol. Ill, p. 125.
-24. VI. HANNAH 3 , b. about 1760, mar. John Patter-
sou, by whom she had : I, Hannah 4 , mar. Sam. Rand and
went to Portland ; II, Priscilla 4 , mar. 1st a Wells, no
children, 2dly a Peterson and had issue; III, Mary 4 , d.
young; IV, Sarah 4 , mar. Dec. 17, 182/5, John, son of
Andrew and Martha (Babbidge) Ward, who d. Jan. 25,
1829, leaving Mary Ann 5 , who mar. Elliott F. Smith, and
Sarah Adeline 5 . She mar. 2dly Joseph Sibley, whose first
wife was a Valpy ; no issue by him. John 4 , who mar.
Sus. Eulen about 1803, and d. Sept. 15, 1817, aged 35,
leaving one son and five daus., was a son. His wife was
a granddaughter of Capt. Batton. Their dau. Maria 5 d.
Dec. 4, 1807.
25. VII. SUSANNAH 3 , bapt. about 1764, mar. John
Symonds, of the family, I think, which lived near Bev-
erly Bridge. They had issue.
26. VIII. DEBORAH 3 , b. about 1766, mar. Mar. 19,
1797, Nathaniel Kinsman. He was a Captain, and lived
in "Essex off East St." They had: I, Nathaniel 4 , mar.
Rebecca Chase ; II, Joshua 4 , mar. Mary Brown ; III,
Micah 4 , d. Sept. 13, 1801, aged one year, seven months;
IV* Eliza 4 , mar. John Southwick ; V, Mary Ann 4 , d.
unmar. There was issue of each marriage.
27. IX. STEPHEN 3 (57), b. about 1769, mar. June 7,
1795, Hannah, dau. of Benjamin Gale, who cl. Jan. 4,
1844, aged 71. He died of wounds received in the action t
between the Constitution and the Java, Feb. 3, 1813.
Admin, granted to his widow Hannah Apr. 9, 1813. He
had been two years in the Constitution.
28. X. JOSEPH 3 (61), b. about 1771, mar. Nov. 26,
1795, Mercy Devereux, of the Marblehead family of that
name and brought up by Mrs. Palfray, the widow of Benj.
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Gale. They lived in Becket St. He was a Captain.
She died Dec. 27, 1.812, aged 41 years.
SAMUEL 2 (9), by wife Hannah, had issue:
29. I. SAMUEL 3 , bapt. Apr. 13, 1-700, d. young.
29J. IJ. SAMUEL 3 , b. Nov. 9, bapt. 28, 17(52, d. an
elderly man. lie lived on the homestead in East St. and
had a silversmith's shop in Central St. lust. Coll., Vol.
IV, p. 9.
30. II. NATHANIEL 3 , bapt. Aug. 15, 17(55, d. before
Apr., 1794, nnmar.
31. III. JONATHAN 3 , b. about 17(57, d. after Apr.,
1794, nnmar.
32. IV. HANNAH 3 ,!), about 17(59, mar. Aug. 23, 1789,
Joseph Ilosmer of Norwich, Conn. He was a ship-master
and lived in the house in Pleasant St., next but one to
Capt. Webb's, which he built, having bought from him
the land. His widow long survived him, living in the
family of her dan. Mrs. Briggs in the old homestead, as
did also Miss Priscilla AVebb.
They had: I, Joseph 4 , bapt. June 2(5, 1791, d. young;
IJ, Hannah 4 , d. Nov. 20, 1795; II, Mary 4 , d. Dec. 1,
1795; III, Hannah 4 ; IV, Mary 4 , mar. James B. Briggs
and had 1, James Cabot;', 2, William*, d. a young man,
abroad, 3, Mary Ellen 5 , and d. 18(58; V, George Cabot 1 ,
d. Sept., 1799; VI, Samuel Webb 4 , bapt. Mar. (5, 1803,
d. unmar.
33. V. PRisciLLA 3 , b. about 1770, d. March 8, 1856.
JoiiN 2 (10), by wife Judith, had issue : *
34. I. HANNAH 3 , mar. about 1773, James Carroll, b.
in Berwick, York Co., Me., about 1750, d. July 13, 1804,
by whom she had: I, Hannah 4 , recently died, very aged,
mar. Dec. 8, 1802, Samuel, sou of Samuel and Mary
m
*I have but little information in regard to them, and doubtless there are some
errors in this account. If any should be detected information is desired.
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(Bates) Becket, b. 1775, d. 1850; no issue; List. Coll.,
Vol.. Ill, p. 208. II, Judith 4 , mar. Oct. 19, 1806, John L.
Hammond ; descendants in New Bedford. Ill, Abigail 4 ,
mar. a Hammond, and had one clau 4 ., who also mar. a
Hammond, so I was informed. IV, Elizabeth 4 , bapt.
July 16, 1786, mar. Henry Rice, whose mother was prob-
ably a Foye, and had issue. V, James 4 , lost at sea,
uiimar. VI, Priscilla 4 -, bap. July 29, 1792, mar. Dea.
John Masury, and had issue. VII, Nancy 4 , d. 1803, aged
six. VIII, Mary 4 , d. 1804, aged about seven.
35. II. JOHN 3 , d. young.
36. III. SARAH 3 , mar. Wm. Perkins, and had Sarah 4 ,
who mar., 1812, Christopher Frederic Ditmore, a Ger-
man, lust. Coll., Vol. Ill, p. 212.
37. IV. BENJAMIN 3 (69), b. Nov. 3, 1759, d. Sept.
10, 1827, mar. Hannah, dan. of John and Elizabeth (Dri-
ver) Bray,* who d. Sept. 25, 1838. He was a master
mariner and lived on the Bray homestead in Essex St.,
opposite Herbert.
38. V. JuDiTH 3 , mar. Sept. 1, 1790, James Jeffrey;
2dly, a Kelly.
39. VI. WiLLiAM 3 (79), mar. Dec. 12, 1790, Hannah
Allen, of a Marblehead family. She was brought up in the
family of Col. Pickman, and d. Nov. 16, 1813, set. 48, "a
worthy woman." Her husband survived her. They lived
in Hardy St. He received adult baptism Dec. 8, 1793.
40. VII. JosHUA 3 ? mar. a Watson. I know nothing
of his family, if he had one.
41. VIII. SAMUEL 3 (87), d. May 22,' 1810, set. 41,
mar. Aug. 18, 1793, Abigail, dan. of Richard Palfray,
who d. Oct 3, 1812, ret. 39. They lived in the old Pal-
fray house in Hardy below Derby St.
42. IX. HENRY 3 93), d. July 13, 1806, set. 35, mar.
*Bray Family, Vol. IV, Inst. Coll.
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Nov. 13, 1796, Joanna Burrill. They lived in Essex,
opposite Curtis St.
43. X. STEPHEN 3 , d. abroad, Aug. 6, 1796, cet. 23;
was with his brother Benjamin.
44. XI. THOMAS 3 (97), mar. Sarah Kilby of Hingham ;
received adult baptism Oct. 27, 1805. These families
were generally of the East Parish.
BENJAMIN 3 (15), by wife Mary, had issue :
45. I. MARY*, mar. Oct. 17, 1800, John, son of Sam.
and Margaret (Gardner) Barton, 1). 1784, d. 1818, and
had children. List. Coll., Vol. VI, p. 163.
46. II. PmsciLLA 4 , mar. Rev. N. W. Williams.
47. III. SAMUEL*, b. Jan. 8, 1785, d. April 5, 1865,
u n mar. He for many years enjoyed the cultivation of his
father's farm in Conant St ; in his last days lived in the
family of his niece, Mrs! Russell ; a man of eccentric but
kindly nature, and of scientific tastes. Inst. Coll., VII, 258.
48. IV. JONATHAN 4 (101), b. Jan. 22, 1795, d. Aug.
2, 1832, mar. Jan. 25, 1825, Harriet, d. of Abijah Nor-
they. An apothecary and colonel of the militia ; a man
of fine character. His family in the upper part of Essex
St. List. Coll., Vol. VI, p. 213.
STEPHEN 3 (16), by wife Sarah, had issue :
49. I. SARAH 4 , who mar. a Swett.
By second wife Sarah he had issue :
49 J. IJ. ELIZABETH*, wlio mar. George, son of Nathan
and Rebecca Peirce, and had issue.
50. II. RUTH PUTNAM 4 , who mar. June, 1816, Capt.
Henry T., son of Thomas and Sarah (Trask) Whittredge,
b. 1794, and d. Sept. 1, 1830, by whom she had Sarah 5 ,
who mar. George, son of Nathaniel and Mary B. West,
by whom she had George 6 . They lived in Indianapolis.
Inst. Coll., Vol. VI, p. 213.
51. III. STEPHEN P. 4 (102), who mar. Hannah, dau.
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of Nathan Robinson. A lawyer, and for a time resident
in San Francisco, of which city he was Mayor. Mayor
and City Clerk also of Salem. H. C. 1824.
MiCHAEL 3 (18), by wife Sarah, had issue :
52. I. MiCHAEL 4 (103), who mar. May 27, 1828,
Abigail, dau. of John and Abigail (Moseley) Mori arty,
who d. Nov. 17, 1862, at Cambridge. He was with his
father in business for a time, then a dry -goods merchant
in Boston, then removed to a farm in Windsor, Vt., and
finally to Cambridge, Mass., where he now resides.
53. II. RUTH 4 , mar. July 9, 1831, Benjamin C. Wade,
of Woburn, and had issue.
JosHUA 3 (21), by wife Hannah, had issue :
54. I. JosHUA 4 (108), b. about 1774, received adult
baptism July 27, 1794, mar. Dec. 16, 1798, Lydia Bea-
dle. He was a cordwainer. By will from his grand-
mother Tyler he received a silver can. His will is dated
May 12, 1828.
55. II. BENJAMIN 4 was a mariner, and I think did not
marry.
56. III. MARY 4 , b. about 1777; guardianship of her,
then 19, was granted to James Becket, Nov. 10, 1796.
She died during the winter, 1867-8, as died also her rela-
tive and neighbor Hannah 4 , wid. of Sam. Becket, 1 be-
lieve the two oldest women in the lower part of the town,
both retaining a good use of their faculties, at any rate
until recently. She mar. Mar. 9, 1800, Nathaniel Hitch-
ins, who has long been dead, by whom she had several
children. She lived latterly with a dau. in Becket St.
STEPHEN 3 (27), by wife Hannah, had issue :
57. I. HANNAH 4 , bapt. Mar. 13, 1796; unmar.
58. II. LYDiA 4 , bapt. Mar. 8, 1798, d. uiimar.
59. III. MARY TYLER 4 , bapt. Mar. 16, 1800, d. May
4, 1810.
60. IV. A son 4 , d. young.
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JOSEPH 3 (28), by wife Mercy, had issue :
61. I. SARAH*, bapt. June 12, 1790.
62. II. ELIZA 4 , bapt. Oct. 1, 1797.
63. III. JOSEPH*, bapt. Aug. 18, 1799, d. Oct. 5,1801.
64. IV. JOSEPII* (113), 1). Mar. 20, bapt. Apr. 11,
1802, d. at Penanir, July 23, 1846 ; mar. Mercy, dau. of
Win. and Mary (Brown) Ropes,* born the same day as
her husband. He was a sea-captain. The family live
in the house in Browne St., formerly of Jeremiah Shep-
ard.
65. V. A son 4 , b. Sept. 11, d. 19, 1804.
66. VI. STEPHEN 4 , bapt. Dec., 1805, prob. d. young.
67. VII. WILLIAM*, bapt. Nov. 8, 1807, prob. d.
young.
68. VIII. A daughter 4 .
BENJAMIN 3 (37), by wife Hannah, had issue :
69. I. BENJAMIN* (119), bapt, July 1, 1787, mar.
May 5, 1810, Sarah Felt. He was 'in apothecary and
much respected. Bray Family, Inst. Coll., Vol. IX.
70. II. ELIZABETH 4 , bapt. July 1, 1787, mar. a Bur-
bank.
71. III. JOHN*, bapt. May 25, 1788, d. after 1796.
72. IV. THOMAS BRAY 4 (124), bapt. May 22, 1791,
mar. Nov. 28, 1818, Elizabeth Williams, who survives
him.
73. V. WILLIAM* (125'), bapt. Oct. 6, 1793, mar. Isa-
bella, dau. of Alexander and Elizabeth (Peele) Donald-
son. A veteran apothecary ; his shop, established in
1823, is on Essex, opposite Daniels St., now kept by his
son Benjamin. Inst. Coll.; Vol. VI, p. 212.
74. VI. Infant 4 , d. at birth, Apr., 1796.
75. VII. HANNAH*, bapt. June 18, 1797, mar. James,
son of Edmund and Margaret (Stubbs) Gale, of Haver-
*Ropes Family, Inst. Coll., Vol. VIII, p. 63.
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hill. Bank officer, and had several children. List. Coll.,
Vol. VI, p. 207.
76. VIII. JONATHAN 4 , bapt. Apr. 14, 1799.
77. IX. STEPHEN* (128), bapt. Sept. 20, 1801, mar.
Martha, dau. of Wm. and Mehitabel (Mansfield) Lus-
comb. Mr. Webb was a bank officer, afterwards a clerk
in the Int. Rev. service.
78. X. CHARLOTTE IvES 4 , bapt. Nov. 18, 1804. At
the same date with the baptisms of the first two of the
above children, July 1, 1787, is recorded that of "Benj.
Webb aged 35." One would suppose this to be the
father of the children, but if so the age is wrongly given,
or else there is a mistake upon the grave-stone from which
I took it.
WiLLiAM 3 (39), by wife Hannah, had issue :
79. I. Son 4 , b. and d. Sept. 17, 1791.
80. II. HANNAH 4 , bapt. Dec. 8, 1793.
81. III. ELIZABETH 4 , bapt. Apr. 19, 1795, d. Aug. 17,
1814.
82. IV. WiLLiAM 4 , bapt. July 23, 1797, d. Apr. 21,
1803,
83. V. STEPHEN 4 , bapt. Nov. 18, 1798, d. Aug. 16,
1801.
84. VI. THOMAS 4 , bapt. June 14, 1801, d. Sept. 24,
1802.
85. VII. WILLIAM* (133), bapt. Nov. 11, 1805, mar.
and d. about 1852. He was a cabinet maker, occupying
the shop opposite Union St., in Essex St. He lived /I
think, in Hardy, then his family in Curtis St f
86. VIII. MARY 4 , bapt. Oct. 16, 1808.
SAMUEL 3 (41), by wife Abigail, had issue :
87. I. SAMUELS bapt. June 15, 1794, d. Oct. 23,1802.
88. II. ABIGAIL 4 , bapt. June 17, 1798.
89. III. DOROTHY 4 , bapt. Sept. 28, 1800.
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90. IV. SARAH 4 , bapt. Aug. 21, 1803.
91. V. SAMUEL*, b. about 1806.
92. VI. HENRY*, b. about 1809.
Guardianship of them was granted to Jona. Archer,
who gave bond with Wm. and Tho. Webb, Oct. 18, 1814.
HENRY 3 (42), by wife Joanna, had issue :
93. I. JOANNA*, bapt. Sept. 24, 1797.
94. II. MARY 4 , bapt. Feb. 2, 1800.
95. III. HARRIET 4 , bapt. Feb. 20, 1803.
96. IV. A daughter 4 , b. July, 1805, d. Feb. 10, 1806.
THOMAS 3 (44), by wife Sarah, had issue :
97. I. SARAH 4 , bapt. Oct. 27, 1805.
98. II. A son 4 , b. and d. Sept. 30, 1804.
99. III. TnoMAS 4 , bapt. Oct. 27, 1805.
100. IV. RACHAEL KiLBY 4 , bapt. July 2, 1809.
JONATHAN 4 (48), by wife Harriet, had issue :
101. I. HARRIET 5 .
STEPHEN P. 4 (51), by wife Hannah, had issue :
102. I. CAROLINE 5 .
MiCHAEL 4 (52), by wife Abigail, had issue :
103. I. ELIZABETH 5 , who mar. Capt. Edw. Boynton,
U. S. A., of Vermont, now Professor at West Point
Academy, and d. without issue.
104. II. SARAH 5 .
105. III. ABIGAIL 5 .
106. IV. MICHAEL SiiEPARD 5 , H. C., 1863.
107. V. MARY ANNA 5 .
JosHUA 4 (54), by wife Lydia, had issue :
108. I. JosHUA 5 , b. Sept. 10, d. 30, 1799.
109. II. JosHUA 5 (137), bapt. Jan. 25, 1801, mar.
I think both he and his wife died before 1850.
110. LYDiA 5 , bapt. Jan. 16, 1803, d. unmar.
111. IV. BENJAMIN 5 , bapt. May 12, 1805, mar. a
Savory, who died a few years ago without issue. He
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owned and occupied the house next to the West property
in Essex opposite Herbert St., which he has since sold.
A merchant.
112. Y. JOSEPH BEADLE S , June 19, 1808, lives with
his brother.
JOSEPH 4 (64), by wife Mercy, had issue :
113. 1. JOSEPH MACKAY S , b. May 26, 1827, d. Mar.
28, 1828.
114. II. JOSEPH HENRY S , b. July 16, 1831, mar.
Sarah, dau. of Caleb Newcomb, and had issue. A b'ank
officer.
115. III. FRANCIS ROPES S , b. Mar. 27, 1833, mar.
a dau. of Joseph Shatswell.
116. IV. MERCY *LouiSA 5 , b. Dec. 1, 1836.
117. Y. MARY EuzA 5 , b. June 25, 1839.
118. VI. AUGUSTINE FoRESTiER 5 , b. Aug. 16, 1841,
an officer in the service, and killed in South Carolina.
BENJAMIN* (69), by wife Sarah, had issue :
119. I. BENJAMIN 5 , killed in youth by an accidental
discharge of fire-works on Salem Common, July 4, 1823.
120. II. JOHN FELT 5 , d. in England Oct. 29, 1861.
For many years a commercial agent residing abroad, prin-
cipally at Zanzibar. See Inst. Proceed., Vol. 3, p. 185.
121. III. MARY S , mar. George West, a merchant,
whom she survives, with two children, I, Mary 6 , and II,
George Webb 6 .
122. IV. SARAH 5 , unmar.
123. V. ELLEN 5 , unmar.
THOMAS BRAY*, by wife Elizabeth, had issue :
124. A daughter 5 , who came to her death by an acci-
dent in the shop of William (85).
WILLIAM* (73), by wife Isabella, had issue :
125. I. BENJAMIN 5 . A chemist and apothecary.
126. II. ELIZABETH DONALDSON S , mar. George M.
Whipple, and had issue.
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127. III. WiLLiAM 5 , mar. Elizabeth Browning, who d.
leaving issue. An apothecary.
STEPHEN* (77), by wife Martha, had issue :
128. I. WILLIAM GEORGE 5 , mar. Annie Bertram.
129. II. STEPHEN 5 . 130. III. JOHN 5 .
131. IV. MARTHA 5 . 132. V. ISABELLA 5 .
WiLLiAM 4 (85), by wife, had issue :
133. I. A DAUGHTER 5 . 134. II. A DAUGHTER 5 .
135. III. A DAUGHTER 5 . 136. IV. A Sox r> .
JosiiUA 5 (109), by wife, had issue :
137. I. LYDIA G , died Aug. 4, 18G5, much regretted by
a large circle of friends, for her many virtues and amiable
character.
Daniel Webb mar. Mary Beckett July 20, 1675, ancT
had John, b. Apr. 17, 1676; Margaret, b. 12 m., 20,
1677, d. 8 m., 14, 1682 ; Perez, b. 2 m., 1, 1680 ; Mary,
b. 6 m., 14, 1682; Daniel, b. Sept. 5, 1688.
A John mar. Eliz. Phippen and had an Eliz., b. 1709,
d. 1737, who mar. Miles Ward 4 .
John Webb mar. Bridget Whitford and had Bridget, b.
6m., 17, 1673.
A Joseph was a witness to the will of Moses Chadwell
of Lynn Mar. 21, 1683-4.
Daniel Webb, Jr., mar. Eliz. Ropes June 5, 1719.
Daniel Webb, Jr., mar. Mary Mascoll, widow of Wm.
Becket.
Perhaps the same who was among the petitioners for an
Episcopal Church Oct., 1736.
Mar. 30, 1741, an action at Court between said Church
and Capt. John Web.b was to be continued at Ipswich.
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Baptisms.
Anne, of John and Anne, Aug. 24, 1746.
Wm., of John and Sarah, Sept. 17, 1758. Mr. Leav-
itt's Church.
Eliz., of John arid Sarah, Feb. 3, 1760.
Abigail, of John and Sarah, Aug. 2, 1761.
Daniel, of Daniel and Joannah, Nov. 19, 1775.
Hannah, of Joshua and Hannah, set. 20, Feb. 12, 1804.
Bentley.
Lucy, of Benj. and Abigail, Aug. 16, 1801.
Infant, of Benj. and Abigail, Aug. 23,* 1802. Epis-
copal Records.
Capt. Jona. of L'Orient, France, set. 30, Feb. 13, 1788.
Abigail, of John and Elizabeth, Mar. 17, 1723.
George, of Jona. and Jemima, Dec. 24, 1727.
Elizabeth, of Daniel and Mary, Sept. 6, 1730. First
Church.
Elizabeth, of John, Jr., and Ammi, Mar. 1, 1741.
John, of John, Jr., and Ammi, Oct. 9, 1743.
Marriages.
Benjamin to Joanna Tuttle, Nov. 26, 1789. Rev.
Spaulding.
Benjamin to Lucy Downing, Jan. 3, 1774. Rev. Bar-
nard.
Benjamin to Mary Diman, Dec. 8, 1743. Rev. Diman.
Benjamin to Abigail Muckleroy, Feb. 15, 1796. Rev.
Barnard.
Jonathan, Jr., to Margaret Mackey, Oct. 7, 1780.
Rev. Diman.
Margaret to Eben. Croke (?), Aug. 25, 1711, and had
issue.
1 * ' * Was buried 29th.
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Mary, wife of John Williams ; she a Webb, etc. Oct.
12, 1802.
"Abigail Masury, cl. Ap. 11, 1794, at 65, a wid., left
a dau., infirm, Webb." Bentley.
Son of Oliver Webb, d. Nov. 4, 1792, 48 hours old,
three children, two males. She an Elkins. Bentle}'.
John Cook, fisherman, and wife Margaret, a great-
granddair. of Daniel Webb, late dec., and Joshua Bick-
ford and wife Elizabeth, do., and Mehitable Webb, do.
(wife of Rich. Nutting, Jan. 16, 1768), make Dan. Cook
of Mendon, Wor. Co., their attorney, Mar. 20, 1765.
Dan. Webb of Needham, Jan. 16, 1768. of the same
family, John Darling and wife Margaret of Mendon,
make their son Daniel Cook of Salem their attorney May
27, 1749.
Administration on estate of Joshua Bickford granted
to widow Eliz. July 10, 1777, who gave bond with Rich.
Pike and Benj. Bickford.
Benj. Webb, fisherman, and wife Joannah, and Jacob
Caldwell and wife Eliz. sell for 4 to Sam. Ingersoll land
bounded north by the Main St., east by do. of Stevens,
south by do. of Fairfield, and west by do. of Crownin-
shield, Nov. 23, 1793.
Thomas, trader, and wife Mary and Mary Brookhouse,
widow, to Sam. Ingersoll, merchant, sell one-quarter of
one-quarter of an acre bounded north on Essex St.,
between Turner and Cromwell Sts., east by land of widow
Eunice Stevens, south on do. of John Fairfield and wife
Eliz., and west by do. of widow Hannah Crowninshield,
"descended to us from our father Benj. Webb, dec d ."
Nov. 30, 1796.
"Thomas Webb, a shipmaster, etc., was twice mar., and
died Oct. 14, 1825, aged 69." No. 51, Common Sub-
scribers, Inst. Coll., Vol. IV, p. 77.
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Abigail Masury, widow, sells one-half of a common
right formerly of dec. father Daniel Webb, to Nath.
Ropes, Sept. 27, 1793.
Win. Cooper, Nath. Coit of Baltimore, mariner, and
James Brewer of Boston and wife Martha, for 69 sell to
George Archer, mariner, all right to estate of his bros.
John and Nath., "being related to them as half-brother
and sister, Feb. 17, 1798.
Eben. Putnam of Danvers mar. Betsey Webb before
1816.
Guardianship of Sam., aged 18, Sally, 15, Oliver, 9,
and Win., 7, children of Oliver, mariner, dec., granted
to John McMullan, who gave bond with Dan. Kenney
and John Emerton, Nov. 2, 1802.
Hugh Joseph of Beverly and others to Wm. Webb, 3d,
of Salem all right to property of grandmother Martha
Rice, dec., Mar. 26, 1832.
Mary H. Webb, singlewoman, do., Nov. 28, 1832.
Martha Webb of Lynn and Mary W., wife of Walter
Phillips, 4th, of Lynn, do., to Wm. Foye and wife Han-
nah to said Harriet land adjoining hers, Feb. 22, 1839.
Thos. Needham, administrator of Wm. Webb, 3d, to
Harriet, Oct., 1838, a dwelling house, etc., in English St.
Heirs of said Martha Rice were Wm. 3d, Martha, Mary
H., Thomas L., Joseph W., and Edmund G.- Joseph and
David Joseph, her grandchildren, Jan. 3, 1827.
'Widow Neal was a Webb, June 4, 1816. Dr. Hoi-
yoke's Record.
BAPTISMS AT CHURCH IN SALEM VILLAGE,
NOW NORTH PARISH, DANVERS.
COMMUNICATED KY IIENKY WIIEATLAND.
1G89, Feb. 1C. Sister Priscilla Wilkins, adult.
Mch. 2. Brother Sani'l Nurse, adult.
Sister Mary Tarbell, adult.
Sister Mary Flint's children, viz., Thomas, Mary,
Ebene/er, William, Elizabeth, Jonathan.
1G90, Mch. 23. Sister Mary Nurse, adult.
Brother Goodalcrs children, viz., Thomas, Abraham,
John, Elizabeth, Sarah, Benjamin, David.
Brother Abr. Walcot's child Abigail.
Apr. 13. Bro. Ezek. Cheever's child Sam.
Bro. Sani'l Nurse's children, Samuel, Margaret,
George, Mary, Kebekah.
Apr. 20. Bro. Ben. Wilkin's ch. Abigail.
Bro. Aaron Wey's children Ruth, Johanuah.
Apr. 27. Lydia Ilutchinson, a sister, adult.
Bro. Tarbell's children, John, Mary, Cornelius.
Bro. Jona. Putnam's child Ruth.
May 4. Bro. Sil)ley's children, Mary, Benjamin, Samuel,
William.
Sister Ivory's son Thomas.
May 11. Bro. William Way childr. Samuel, Mary, Moses.
" 25. Sister Han. Ilolton's childr. Joseph, Hannah, Sarah.
Bro. Geo. Flint's son Ebenezer.
Bro. Jno. Putnam's dau. Susannah.
June 8. Sister Abigail Cheevers, adult.
July 13. Ruth, Bro. Henry Wilkins' child.
" 20. Bro. Tho. Wilkins' childr. Bray, Joseph, Isaac.
Bro. George Flint, adult, Mch. 27, 1G90.
Sister Abigail Cheevers 8 June (error).
Feb. 22. James, Bro. James Putnam's child.
Eliz., Bro. Benj. Putnam's child.
Mch. 1. Bro. Aaron Wey's child John.
1691, Ap. 5. Sister Deliverance Walcot's son (William).
" 26. Bro. Tho. Putnam's Timothy.
(235)
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May 10. Bro. Jonathan Putnam's son Jonathan.
Bro. Sam'l Abbie's child Abigail.
May 31. Sister Ruth Fuller's children, Joseph, William.
Sister Han. Wilkins.
Sister Sarah Fuller adult and her children Samuel,
Sarah.
June 7. Bro. Benj. Wilkin's child Priscilla.
July 12. Sister Abigail Holten and her child James.
Aug. 23. Hannah Wilkins, adult.
Sister Elizabeth Buxton's children, viz., Joseph,
Sarah, Anthony, Hannah, Rachel, Ebenezer.
Bro. John Putnam, jr., and his children, twins, John,
Rebekah.
Sept. 20. Sister Lydia Hutchinson's childr., Abigail, Richard,
Samuel, Lydia, Robert.
Bro. Wm. Wey's child Wait-still.
Oct. 25. Sister Lydia Hutchinson's son Ambrose.
Bro. Sam'l Sibly's child Rebekah.
Nov. 1. Sister Mary Flint's dau. Anna.
1692, June 26. Ebenezer, son to Ezek. Cheever.
July 9. Mary, dau. to George Flint.
u 24. Abigail, dau. to Wm. Way.
Oct. 16. John, son to Sam. Abbie.
" 23. Sarah, dau. to Aaron Way.
" 30. Jonathan, son to Jno. Tarbell.
Abigail, dau. to Thos. Putnam.
Jan. 25. Benj., son to Benj. Putnam.
Mar. 12. Sarah, dau. to Jno. Putnam, jr.
1693, " 26. Lydia, dau. to Jno. Buxton.
Ap. 16. Mary, dau. to George Flint.
" 23. Ebenezer, son to Jonathan Walcut.
May 24. Timothy, son to Henry Houlton.
Aug. 6. Daniel, son to Benj. Wilkins.
" 20. Ruth, dau. to Benj. Fuller.
Sept. 17. Sarah Prince.
*herdaug. Silence Phillips.
* Charity Prince.
* Sam, son to Thos. Flint.
* Jonathan, son James Putnam.
* Jeremiah, son to Deacon Putnam.
* dau. to Joseph Whipple.
* dau. to Jonath. Putnam.
* Wilkins, adult, and her children.
* Margins defaced in original.
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* John, Esther, Dan.
* Nathaniel, son to Abr. Walcut.*
*Eliz., dan. to Sam'l Sibly.
*son to Sam. Abbie.
* son to Jno. Putnam, jr.
*Nathanael, son to George Flint.
*son to Benj. Putnam.
* Wife to John Wheklon and her childr.
* Gershom, 13 yrs., John, 10 yrs.,
* Mary, yrs., Jonathan, 7 yrs.,
* Joseph, 4 yrs , Samuel, 2 yrs.
* Nathaniel, son to Ezek. Clieever.
* Benjamin, son to Capt. Walcut.
*son to John Buxton.
* son to Thos. Putnam.
*dau. to Jno. Wilkins.
* Ebenezer, son to Win. Way.
*dau. to Thos. Flint.
* Hannah, dau. to Geo. Flint.
*son to John Wheklon.
* Jerusha, dau. to Jonathan Putnam.
* Mar} r , wife to Jno Hutchinson.
* Ezra, son to Deacon Putnam.
* son to Jno. Putnam tertius.
* Mehitable, dau. to sd Putnam.
*dau. to Benj. Wilkins.
* son to George Flint.
* Benjamin, son to Henry Browne.
* Hannah, dau. to Henry Browne.
Baptisms by Joseph Green in 1698 and 1699.
1698, Nov. 20. Experience, dau. of Thos. Putnam.
Susannah, dau. of Thos. Putnam.
Mehitable, dau. of Henry Browne.
Miriam, dau. of Jno. Putnam 3d.
Nov. 27. Amos, son of John Putnam, jr.
Hannah, dau. of Benj. Fuller.
Dec. 11. Kebekkah, dau. of James Prince.
Ruth Osburu, wife of Alex. Osburn, and two of her
children, Nath'l Sibly, aged 12, Kuth Sibly, aged 10.
James, son of John Buxton.
* Margins defaced in original.
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1699, Ap. 9. John, son of John Hutchinson.
" 16. EbeViezer, son of Henry Felton.
May 28. Jane Hutchinson, wife of Benj.
Nathaniel, son of Benj. Hutchinson.
Mary, dau. of Philip Maccantire.
Rebekah, dau. Philip Maccantire.
Rachel, dau. of Sam'l Goodale.
June 18. Elizabeth Williams, -wife of Richard.
1G99, July 16. Prudence, dau. of Capt. Walcut.
Priscilla, dau. of Jno. Putnam, jr.
Aug. 13. Josiflh, son of Edw. Bishop, jr.
Susannah, dau. of Edw. Bishop, jr.
James, son of Edw. Bishop, jr.
John, sou of John Hadlock.
Israel, son of Benj. Putnam.
Sept. 3. Mary Walcot, wife of Jon. Walcot.
" 10. Three daughters of John Walcot, viz., Elizabeth,
Jerusha, and Mary.
Oct. 22. Mary, dau. of Joseph Whipple.
Nov. 26. Abigail Marten, adult.
Dec. 3. Anna, dau. of Joseph and Eliz. Green.
" 24. John Buxton, jr., adult.
Enos, son of Edw. Bishop, jr., and Susannah.
1700, Apr. 7. . Miriam, dau. of Abigail Marten.
" 28. 7 children of Joseph Hutchinson, jr., viz., Joseph,
Ebenezer, Elisha, Jasper, Ruth, Bethyah, Elizabeth.
May 5. 4 sons of Richard and Eliz. Williams named Richard,
Thomas, Nathanael, Benjamin.
May 19. Child of Jonathan and Mary Howard, named Mary.
" 26. John Giles and his children, John, Bridget, Abigail.
Deacon Putnam's child Abigail.
May 26. John and Ruth Rae's children, viz., Gideon, Hannah,
Kezia, Emma.
June 2. Mercy Guppy, adult.
" 9. Mary, wife of Joseph Goodale, and her 3 childr:
Edward, Mary, Ruth.
Elizabeth Sampson, maid, adult.
Jonathan, son of John and Mary Walcut.
Moses, son of John 3d and Hannah Putnam.
June 16. Abigail 141116 and her children, Samuel, Hannah, Eliz-
abeth, Mary.
July 7. Phillip, son of Phillip and Rebekkah Maccantire.
" 14. William, son of Joseph and Eliz. Putnam.
Aug. 4. Elizabeth, dau. of James and Sarah Putnam.
" 25. Elizabeth. Allin and her children, Joseph, William,
Elizabeth.
Jepthah, son of Eleazer Putnam.
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Sept. 15. Jerusha, dan. of Jomi. Putnam.
Oct. 20. June, wife of Ephraim Sheldon, and her children,
William, Ephraim, Kebekkah.
Nov. 3. Israel, son of Richard and Elizabeth \V511iams.
" 10. Children of John and Elizabeth Dale, viz., John,
Samuel, Elizabeth, Lydia, Mary, Sarah, Jane.
" 22. Samuel, son of Samuel Goodale.
" 20. Nathaniel, son of Henry Brown.
Jan. 12. James, son of James Prince.
1701, Mar. 10. Susanna, wife of Jonathan Fuller.
May 11. Benjamin, son of Benjamin Fuller.
" 25. Jonathan, son of James Kettle.
" 25. Tliebe, daughter of Sam'l and Abigail Lane.
June 29. Thomas Kenny, who owned the covenant (adult).
Amos, son of John and Elizabeth Bnxton.
July G. Benjamin, son of Ezek'l and R. Chevers.
Susanna, Anna, ch. of Jonathan and Susana Fuller.
July 27. Mary, Isaac, ch. of Thomas Nicols.
Aug. 17. Constant, dau. of Thorn Nicols.
Sept. 7. Sarah, wife of James Phillips, and his 3 children,
Samuel, James, Sarah.
Oct. 19. Martha Cox, maiden, adult.
Nov. 2. Lemuel, son of Ephraim and Jane Shelden.
' 30. Anna, wife of Win. Curtis, and her son William.
Kebekak, dau. of John and Sarah Hadlock.
Keturah, dau. of Joseph and Mary Goodale.
Dec. 14. Elizabeth Smith, maiden, adult.
" 28. John, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Green.
Feb. 8. Joseph, son of Joseph and Mary Whipple.
1702, Mar. 22. Samuel, son of John Giles.
1701, Aug. 3. Joseph Kenny, who owned ye Coven't, adult.
Nov. 10. Daniel Kenny, who owned ye Coven't, adult.
1702, Ap. 5. Hannah Cloye, who owned ye Coven't, adult.
" 19. Jonathan Kenny, who owned ye Coven't, adult.
Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Hutchinson, jr.
Sarah, dau. of Benjamin Hutchinson.
A p. 20. John, son of John and Priscilla Buxton.
Elizabeth, dau. of John and Elizabeth Phelps.
May 3. Elizabeth, wife of George Wyat, and their children,
George, Mary.
Also Elizabeth Perd, maiden, adult.
May 10. Zachary Goodale, jr., and. Sarah his wife, and their
child'n, Nathaniel, Lydia, Hannah, Kebekkak.
May 17. Kebekkah Alley, maiden, who owned the covenant,
adult.
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May 24. Mary, wife of Jacob Fuller, and their children, Mary,
who owned the covenant, adult, Edward, Jacob,
Sarah.
June 14. Elizabeth, dau. of Jacob and Mary Fuller (adult).
Rebekkak Shelden, maiden (adult).
Mary, wife of Samuel Rae, and their children, Sam-
uel, Robert, Jonathan, Benjamin, Abel.
June 21. John, son of John and Ruth Rae.
Abigail, dau. of John Hutchinson.
June 28. Mary, wife of Isaac Goodale, and their children,
Isaac, Samuel, Ezekiel, Jonathan, Hester.
Sarah, dau. of William Allin.
Aug. 16. Elizabeth, dau. of James and Sarah Phillips.
Sept. 6. Cornelius, son of Benjamin and Sarah Putnam.
Jeremiah, son of Thomas and Martha Kenny.
Sept. 27. Rachel, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth Putnam.
Oct. 18. Stephen, son of Thomas Fuller.
Nov. 8. Diademma, dau. of Nicholas and Jemima Howard.
Dec. 6. Children of John and Elizabeth Flint, named Stephen,
Joshua, Joseph, Lydia, Sarah.
Jan. 31. David, son of James and Sarah Prince.
Feb. 7. Elizabeth, dau. of Rich'd and Elizabeth Williams.
" H. Jonathan, son of Jonathan and Mary Howard.
1703, A p. 11. Samuel, son of Henry Houlton.
May 2. Jethro, son of James and Sarah Putnam.
Bartholemew, son of Benj. and Jane Hutchinson.
Zechariah, son of Zachary Goodale, jr.
May 30. Mary, dau. of James Kittle.
June 13. John Marten's children, viz., John, Mary, Abigail.
Mary, wife of Francis Fuller, and her child Mary.
Joseph, son of John Allin.
July 4. Joseph, son of Abraham Smith.
Hannah, dau. of Daniel and Eliz. Andrew.
July 18. Ruth, dau. of John Putnam, 3d.
Ruth, dau. of Phillip Maccantire.
Sept. 5. John, son of Samuel Goodale.
" 12. Joseph, son of Henry Brown.
Elizabeth, dau. of John Flint.
Edward and Elizabeth, ch. of Wm. and Dorothy
Bishop.
' Sept. 19. Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Ray.
Ann, dau. of John and Elizabeth Phelps.
[To be continued.]
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE.
VOL. XVI. OCT., 1879. No. 4.
THE GEDNEY AND CLARKE FAMILIES
OF SALEM, MASS.
COMPILED BY HENKY FITZGILBERT WATERS.
Ix the following papers will he found some account of
two families, the first of which (Gedney) flourished in
Salem during the first century after the settlement of New
England, and became connected by marriage with other
important and distinguished families of the colonial pe-
riod, and one or two members of which held some of the
most prominent offices of trust and honor in town and
state." The second of these families (Clarke) first settled
in Salem early in the eighteenth century and continued
here about a hundred years. Their connection with the
family of Fairfax, who have held a most distinguished
position both in England- and America, and through them
with the family of Washington of Virginia, will, I sup-
pose, impart some interest to this portion of my work.
I am under obligations especially to Dr. Henry Wheat-
land and George R. Curwen, Esq., for valuable assistance
in the preparation of these papers.
HIST. COLL. XVI 1C (241)
242
1 John Gedney was admitted for an inhabitant of
Salern at "a towne meeting y e 7 th of 6 th moneth," 1637,
having recently arrived from England, as appears by the
following extract from a list of the passengers of the ship
l^ary Ann of Yarmouth, Wm. Goose, master, deposited
in the Rolls Office in London :
"May the 11 th 1637. ' The examination of John Ged-
ney of Norwich in Norif. ***** to passe for New
England with his wife Sarah ageed 25 yeares *****
Lediah, Hanah and John ; mo r 2 Seruants ; William
Walker ageed ***** Burges ageed 26 yeares are de-
sirous to passe for Salam."
The following extracts referring to Mr. Gedney are
taken from the earliest volume of Salem Town Records
now known to be in existence :
"At a meeting vpon the first day of the 11 th moneth
1637" there was "graunted to John Gedney 80 acres of
laud whereof six acres of it are medow, lying neere to
M r . Gardner & is to be layed out according to former
order."
"At a generall towne meetinge held the 11 th day of the
.10 th moneth 1639," * * * * "John Gedney is called by
the towne to keepe an lime, & John Holgraue layeth his
down." In a list, made probably in 1637-8, to regulate
the distribution of marsh and meadow lands according to
the number of persons in a family, Mr. Gedney appears
to have seven in his family. At a meeting, held "the 14 th
of the 7 th moneth 1640," it was voted "That o r Brother
Gedney & o r brother Balch & o r brother ffogg doe enquire
about fustean spinsters & to iuforme the towne the next
2 d day." He took part in the government of the town
as selectman in 1655. He was always styled a vintner in
the records and was, as shewn above, an innkeeper; and,
after the death of Lieut. Wm. Clarke, kept the principal
tavern in Salem.
243
His first wife, according to Mr. Savage, was wrongly
named on the Custom house records ; certainly the mother
of his children whose baptisms are found recorded at
Salem, was Mary. Her maiden name and the date of
her death have not been ascertained. He afterwards
married Catherine , whose surname is not given,
but we may conclude that she was the widow of Mr. Wil-
liam Clarke (before referred to) who in 1645 was "cho-
sen to keepe the ordinarie in Salem." Otherwise I know
not how to account for his being in possession of the well
known Clarke's Farm ; which is described in the follow-
ing grants: "By the Towne in generall the li) th of 4 mo ,
1637" * * * * "Agreed that M r . Clark shall haue 200
acres by the sedaf pound (pond) not exeeding 20 acres
medow ; to be Laid out acording to the discretion of the
Layers out." "At a meeting the 13 of the 12 moncth
1642. Granted to Will" 1 Clarke 60 acres of land in lei\v
of that land w ch A hath lost by the laying out of Lyn
bounds being within the Lymitts of Lyn though laid out
by Salem. The sixty acres are to be laid out by the
towne of that land that lyeth South from M r Downyngs
great medow towards M r Johnsons land." "The 13 th of
the 8 th m 1649" * * * "Granted vnto M r Gedney the
land and medow w ch was taken from M r Clarkes ffarme by
the men of the towne of Lin." This farm lies within the
present borders of the town of Peabody (recently known
as South Danvcrs and more anciently as the Middle Pre-
cinct of Salem) close to the borders of Lynnh'eld and
near the well known farm granted to Col. John Hum-
phrey. Mr. Clarke and wife Catherine had, among other
children, only two (daughters) who seem to have survived
him, viz., Susanna and Hannah, who became the wives of
two of the sons of their -step-father Mr. Gedney, viz.,
John Gedney, jr., and Bartholomew Gedney. John Ged-
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ney of Salem, vintner, by his deed of 15 March, 1677-8,
for love and affection, conveyed to his "son Bartholmew
Gedney and Hannah his wife and to my daughter in law
Susanna Gedney widow of John Gedney my farms in
Salem by Ceader Pond formerly granted by y e towne of
Salem to M* William Clearke deceased and 60 acres addi-
tional granted to same William Clearke and afterward
confirmed to me John Gedney." Susanna's portion is
thus described in a deed of conveyance which she made
to her son Wm. after her marriage to her second husband,
Mr. Park man, as follows: "Deliverance Parkman of
Salem Merch* and Susanna Parkman my wife, the only
surviving Daughter and living child and Heir 8 of our
Father M r William Clark, Late of Srflem in y e County
and Province afores d Dec'd" * * * "For that Love and
natural Affection w ch we Have and Bear to our son Wil-
liam Gedney who bears up y e Christian name of our said
Deceased Father Have given granted and By these pres-
ents Do freely Clearly and Absolutely Give Grant and
Confirm unto ye s d William Geclney all that Our Farm
both upland and meadow commonly known by y e name of
Cedar pond farm or Clarkes farm w ch was Granted by y e
Town of Salem in y e year 1642 Containing about' one hun-
dred and Fifteen acres be it more or less lying and Being
in y e Township of Salem being y e one halfe of y e above sd
Grants Butted and Bounded westerly on M r . Joseph New-
hall northerly w th our Sister Hannah's halfe now in the
Possession of Cousin Francis Clarke easterly with John
Nurse and Golds southerly on Salem Common" (18 July,
1715). The history of the other half will be traced in
the account of Bartholomew Gedney 's family.
Mr. Gedney 's tavern, called the Ship Tavern, seems to
have stood about where John Turner, Esq., afterwards
built his house, well known in recent times as the Man-
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sion House, famous as a good inn, and opposite the head
of Central Street. It is interesting to note that this lot
or the next (now occupied by the Essex Coffee House)
has been the site of Salem's most frequented hostelry,
almost without a break, for more than two centuries.
Mr. Gedney owned a part of the Christopher Waller
lot (formerly John Whitlock's) on the north side of the
lane leading to the Pound (now Browne Street, next to
St. Peter's Church). This he divided into two portions
in 1G61, and gave one of them, with a new dwelling house
thereon, to his son John Gedney, jr., mariner, and the
other (also with a dwelling house on it) to his son-in-law
Nicholas Potter and Mary his wife, Mr. Gedney's daugh-
ter. His wife Catherine relinquished her dower. The
next year (1662) he bought of John (and Sarah) Ruck a
lot of land on the present northerly corner of Summer
and High Streets, which in 1664 he conveyed to his son
Bartholomew.
He died, it is said, 5th August, 1688, aged eighty-five
years, having made a will 22d Sept., 1684, which waa
proved at Salem 12th Dec., 1688, and recorded at Boston,
7th Feb., 1688. . He makes bequests to "daughter in law
Rebecca Putnam," * * * "to Bethiah Hutchinson * that
now liveth with me five pound in money and the debt
which her father Joseph Hutchinson oweth unto me," *
* * "to the children of my daughter Mary Potter," * * *
"to son Bartholmew Gedney and to grandson Eleazer
Gedney" * * * "to my grandchildren, the children of
my son Eleazer GetTney" * * * "to my daughter Susanna
*In the inventory of the estate of Bethia Hutehinson, presented 2G Nov., 1690>
appears the item, "given to her by her grandfather Gidny 13 11s. 7d." The
name of Bethia Hutchinson's mother has not been ascertained.
From his calling a Rebecca Putnam his daughter-in-law it would seem that he
took a third wife, perhaps the mother of Rebecca (Prince), wife of John Putnam.
We have yet to learn her parentage and that of her neighbor (perhaps brother)
Robert Prince.
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Gedney and unto her children she had by my son John
Gedney" * * * "to my son Bartholmew Gedney his wife
and children." The witnesses were John Browne, sen.,
and John Marston, sen., the latter of whom made oath
"that the 3 d day of August 1686 the within written was
read unto M r John Gedney and he declared the same to
be his last Will & Testam," etc.
Mr. Gedney's children were :
2 Lydia, born in England.
3 Hannah, born in England.
4 John, born in England about 1636-7, m. Susanna Clarke.
5 Mary (of whose birth nothing has been found), m. Nicholas Potter.
6 Bartholomew, bapt. in Salem 14 June, 1640, m. Hannah Clarke.
7 Eleazer, bapt. in Salem 15, 3 mo., 1642, m. Eliz. Turner.
8 Sarah, bapt. in Salem 23, 4 mo., 1644.
4 John (John 1 ) born in England about 1636-7, m. 4
May, 1659, Susanna, dau. of Wm. and Catherine Clarke,
bapt. in Salem, 12th 1 mo., 1643; was a mariner and
lived in the house on Browne Street conveyed to him by
his father in 1661. He died in the lifetime of his father,
at a date* not yet ascertained, and an inventory of his
estate, taken 21 Nov., 1684, was presented to the Court
by his widow Susanna, who was married 2dly, as has
been said, to Mr. Deliverance Parkman.
Her will, made 23 April, 1724, was proved at Salem
7 March, 1727-8. She bequeathes to "son W m Gedney
my Farm commonly called and known by the Name of
Cedar Pond Farm or Clarks Farm granted by the Town
of Salem in the year 1637, with the additional grant in
1642 to my Hon d father M r William Clarke late of Salem
deceased who died seized of the same and in my Posses-
sion ever since his decease to this day, my said son Wil-
liam Gedney paying out of the same fifty five Pounds in
* His neighbor Jajnes Browne in his will (1674) speaks of him as deceased.
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Province Bills of Credit to my Grandaughter Sarah Wil-
liams of Salem. Item to my daughter Elizabeth Gedney
nine pieces of Eight mild money. Item I give to my
grandson Bartholomew Gedney my silver tankard marked
S : P : . Item I give to my Grandaughter Sarah Williams
wife of Robert Williams twenty six Pounds in Province
Bills of Credit. Item I give to my grandaughter Susan-
nah Williams daughter of my grandaughter Sarah Wil-
liams five pounds in Province Bills of Credit. Item I
give to Susannah Gedney daughter of my Grandson Bar-
tholomew Gedney five Pounds. Item I give all the re-
maining Part of my Estate to my son William Gedney
and in case I should outlive him or survive him my will is
y 1 what I have given him shall be equally divided between
his children in manner following viz : Bartholomew shall
have one third Part, Hannah Grant one third Part, and
Elizabeth Davie one third Part, and in case Elizabeth
Davie should not live to lawfull a^e or to be married and
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leave no Issue then her Part to be equally divided be-
tween Bartholomew Gedney and Hannah Grant."
In 1698 (24th Dec.) Wm. Gedney, merchant (wife
Hannah releasing dower), and Nath'l Gedney, mariner
(wife Mary releasing), convey to their step-father De-
liverance Parkman, merchant, one-half of the Ship Tav-
ern, etc., calling themselves the "only surviving children
of M rs Susanna Parkman and grand children of M r John
Gedney of Salem dec'd."
In 1704 (18 Sept.) "Deliverance Parkman who married
with Susannah Gedney adm x on y e estate of M r John
Gedney jun r late of Salem dec'd" conveyed "to W m Ged-
ney of Salem y e only surviving sonne of said John Ged-
ney," by quit claim deed, till her interest "especially in
and to that dwelling house and land in Salem that was
the estate of my wife Susannahs late husband John Ged-
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ney jun r & now in the possession of Mary Gedney adm x
on the estate of Nathaniel Gedney."
The children of John and Susanna (Clarke) Gedney
were :
9 John, b. 5 March, 1659-60, d. young s. p.
10 Sarah, b. 6, 5 mo., 1662, d. 19, 5 mo., 1662.
11 Susanna, b. 4 March, 1663, m. 23 April, 1688, George Corwin, s. p.
12 Sarah, b. 12 April, 1666, d. young, s. p.
13 William, b. 25 May, 1668, m. Hannah Gardner.
14 Nathaniel, bapt. 5 June, 1670, m. Mary Lindall.
5 Mary (John 1 ) was third wife of Nicholas Potter,
formerly of Lynn, afterwards of Salem, his first wife
(Emm?) dying in Lynn (probably) ; his second wife,
Alice, widow of Thomas Weekes of Salem and perhaps
daughter of William Plasse, died in Salem 26, 11, 1658.
By his first wife he had two children, to whom he gave
his estates in Lynn, viz., Robert and Elizabeth (wife of
Thomas Newhall). He died in Salem 18, 8, 1677. In
his will of 10, 8, 1677, proved 27, 9, 1677, he refers to
son Robert Potter of Lynn and dan. Eliz. Newhall, and
makes bequests to "my six children by last wife viz:
Samuel, Benjamin, Sarah, Mary, Hannah and Bethiah."
* * * " m y hon d father John Gedney to be sole Executor
and my son Robert Potter & my brothers Bartholmew
Gedney & Eleazer Gedney overseers." The death of his
wife Mary has not been found recorded. Of their chil-
dren Samuel died s. p. 1692, leaving a will made 18 Jan.,
1691-2, proved 3 Oct., 1692, in which he provides for
his wife Rebecca and makes bequest to his brother Benja-
min, appointing his "unkle Gedny & Father Trask over-
seers." His widow afterwards became the wife of Joseph
Boice, jr., of Salem and gave a quit claim on her former
husband's estate to her brother-in-law Benjamin Potter 6
Feb., 1695-6. Benj. Potter died without issue and, in
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1697 (14th Aug.), the remaining children and heirs of
Nicholas Potter and wife Mary, viz., William and Hannah
Roach, Mary Elson and Bethia Witt, came to an agree-
ment about his estate, by which Win. Roach and his wife
were to have the dwelling house and land,* the western
boundary of which was land of Nathaniel Gedney. To
this agreement Bethia and Deborah Gedney were wit-
nesses.
The children of Nicholas and Mary (Gedney) Potter
were :
15 Mary, b. 4, 11, 1659; d. 29, 8, .
16 Hannah, b. 25, 1, 16G1 ; d. 28, 8, 1662.
17 Sarah, b. 4 Oct., 1062; d. s. p.
18 Mary, b. 10, 9, 1603; m. Samuel Elson.
19 Samuel, b. 9, 11, 1004; d. 10, 11, 1005.
20 Hannah, b. 27 March, 106(5)6; in. William Roach
21 Lyditi, b. 20 Feb., 1066(7); d. 17, 7, 1008.
22 Bethia, b. 23 May, 1008; m. 20 Feb., 1085, Thomas Witt of Lynn,
who died 27 Jan., 1090-1.
23 Samuel, b. 22 April, 1069; m. Rebecca (Trask?); d. s. p.
24 Lydia, b. 10 July, 1670; d. April, 1671.
25 Benjamin, b. 6 Nov., 1671 ; d. s. p.
26 Joseph, b. 9 June, 1673; died young.
6 Bartholomew (John 1 ) bapt. in Salem 14th June,
1640, m. 22d, 10 mo., 16G2, Hannah, dan. of William
and Catherine Clarke. He began life as a ship carpenter.
Most of his life, however, was spent in the public service,
as Judge of Probate for Essex County, as Member of
the Court of Assistants for the Colony and Province, and
as Colonel and Commander-in-chief of the military forces
of the county, besides other offices of trust an'd honor
that he was at various times called to fill. An interesting
article upon his life and services has already been written
"This estate afterwards came into the possession of Mr. Thomas Poynton and
then into the Ives family, who still possess it. ISy the same division Win. Roach
acquired Picton's (or PiKden's) Point, on the Neck,' afterward's called lioach's
Point, where the Alms House now is.
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for these COLLECTIONS (Vol. II, p. 223) by Aimer C.
Goodell, jr., Esq., whose only mistake seems to have
been his assertion that Col. Gedney 's mother was Cather-
ine (instead of Mary).
The Hon. Col. Gedney's dwelling house, as has been
stated, stood at or near the northern corner of Summer
and High Streets in Salem.
He died 28 Feb., 1697-8, and administration was taken
out in Suffolk County by his daughters Bethia and Debo-
rah Gedney, spinsters, while in Essex County Samuel
Gedney, chirurgeon and "only son," gave his bond as
administrator on his father's estate 27 June, 1698. By
the papers on file it appears that Col. Gedney took a sec-
ond wife, Anne, widow and administratrix of the estate
of Mr. Wm. Stewart of Ipswich, an inventory of whose
estate was handed in ; and in the account of administra-
tion credit was asked for payment to "Coll. Appleton
Guardian to Mrs. Margaret Stewart" (dan. of Wm. and
Anne) "towards her portion," and a charge made of an
amount "Due still to Margeret Steward."
In 1701 (3d Nov.) an agreement was made "between
Sam 1 Gedney only son and. Hannah Grafton one of y e
daughters, widow, Bethiah Gedney of Salem, single-
woman, one of y e daughters of said Barthol & y e said
Samuel Gedney as administrator of y e Estate of his sister
Lydia Corwin Deced and Guardian to Bartholomew Cor-
win only son of y e said Lydia a minor under age, Francis
Clarke of Boston & Deborah his wife an other of y e daugh-
ters." Under this agreement Bethia and her sister Debo-
rah received each one-half of their father and mother's
portion of the Clarke Farm, then occupied by Peter Twist.
Two years afterwards (22d Sept., 1703) Bethia Gedney
of Salem, spinster, conveyed her half to Francis Clarke
of Boston, merchant, referring to this agreement.
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Col. Gedney's half of the Ship Tavern was sold to
Deliverance Parkman, 13 Dec., 1698, by Samuel Gedney
of Salem, physician, only son and heir and administrator,
Joshua Grafton, mariner, and his wife Hannah, a daugh-
ter, Lydia Corwin of Salem, widow, and Bethia and
Deborah, single women, also daughters.
Dr. Samuel Gedney having died "before he gathered
in y e Creditts of y e said Dec'd, wherefore to M r Fran 8
Willoobee who marryed to one of y e daught" of y e said
Barth dec'd" letters of administration de bonis 11011 were
granted 31 March, 1708.
Col. Gedney's first wife, Hannah, d. 6 Jan., 1695-6.
Their children were :
27 Bartholomew, b. 4th, 2 mo., 1664; cl. 12th Aug., 1664.
28 Jonathan, b. 14th, 4 mo., 1665; cl. 14th, 6 mo., 1665.
29 Bartholomew, b. 2d, 6 mo., 1666; d. 22d, 7 mo., 1666.
30 Hannah, b. 19th, 6 mo., 1667; in. Joshua Grafton.
31 Lydia, b. 9th March, 1669; m. George Corwin.
32 Bethia, b. 27th May, 1672; in. Francis Willoughby.
33 Deborah, b. 3d Jan., 1673; d. 9 Dec., 1674.
34 Samuel, b. 2 Nov., 1675; m. Mary Gookin.
35 Deborah, ) tw b 25th N 1G77 . "i. Francis Clarke.
36 Martha, > ( d. young.
37 Priscilla, bapt. 1st May, 1681 ; d. young.
7 Eleazer* (John 1 }, bapt. 15th, 3d, 1642, m. 1st, 9th
June, 1665, Elizabeth Turner, probably a dan. of John
Turner, a merchant, formerly of Salem, afterwards of
Barbados, and certainly a sister of John Turner of Salem,
father of the eminent merchant, Col. John Turner, Esq.,
as appears from an agreement on record, bearing date 20th
March, 1691, between Major Charles Bedford, who had
married the widow of Mr. Turner, and Elizabeth Gedney,
daughter of Eleazer Gedney, deceased, who is also called
"niece of John Turner, merch*, dec'd, who bequeathed to
her one hundred pounds," etc. Mr. Gedney m. 2dly
*ThiB name often appears on the records shortened into Eli and Elie; but the
facts show them to be one and the same person.
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Mary Pateshall* 2d June, 1678, and had issue, as will
appear, by both wives. He was a ship builder and lived
in Ruck's Village, as that region south of Norman St.
and east of Summer St., running down thence to the
creek and river, was often called. His mansion house
stood on High Street near Summer Street and nearly
opposite that of his brother Bartholomew, while his ship-
yard was down by the creek, say between the present
easterly ends of High and Creek Streets, opposite the
Eastern R. R. grounds. This neighborhood was for a
time the home of the ship-building interest of Salem and,
from the noise of the caulkers' and ship-builders' ham-
mers, received the vulgar name of Knocker's Hole, by
which it is still oftentimes called, although the bed of the
creek has long ago been filled in and built upon and no
trace remains to indicate the business once so actively
carried on here.
Mr. Eleazer Gedney dying intestate (29th April, 1683)
the Worshipful William Browne and Bartholomew Ged-
ney, Esqs., Assistants, granted letter of administration
on his estate, 14th May, 1683, to his widow Mrs. Mary
Gedney, who appeared in Court 25th Nov., 1684, and
desired "a setlement of y e s d estate w ch according to In-
ventory by her presented amounted unto two hundred &
fifty pounds clear of debts There being 7 children now
liveing of the s d M r Eleazer Gidney. For the setlement
of the s d estate This Court doth order & decree That the
widow M rs Mary Gidney shal have fifty pounds of the s d
estate to be wholly her own and at her own disposal &
y t y e eldest sone Eleazer Gidney shal have a duble portion
in proportion w* y e rest of the children w ch amounts fifty
pounds and he to have it in houseing or lands according to
apprizal in s d Inventory y* y e rest of y e children six in
*She may hare been a daughter of Edmund Pateshall of Pemaquid. "1680, 2
May Mary wife of Deacon Gidney from Boston." [Ch. Rec.]
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number shal have each of y m twenty five pounds to be pel
to y m as they come of age or shall chuse guardians accord-
ing to the liberty in law or be marryed," etc., etc. "The
names of the children being Eleazer, Elizabeth, Ruth,
Mary, Ebenezer, Edmund and Martha." Eleazer Gedney,
shipwright, acknowledges, 28 Oct., 1690, to have "received
of my mother M rs Mary Gedney Relict & Administratrix of
the estate of my father deceaced twoe parcels of Land sci-
tuatc in Salem that was part of the estate of my said Father
as by deeds of Sale Appeares I doe here by declare that
I doe Accept the same In full satisfaction of my portion
of my fathers Estate assigned by the County Court & the
portion Assigned to my sister Mary Gidney," etc.
Mrs. Gedney rendered to the Court 9th Dec., 1G99, an
account of her administration, among the items being
"soe much Disburst on Ebenezer Gitlney in y e Time of
his sickness & li'unerall &c as p acctt 1(5 -12-00." The
other children are named as then alive.
Mr. Ebenezer Gardner of Salem in his will of 3d Feb.,
1684, bequeathed to Ruth Gedney ten pounds "lent to
her father & now in her mother's hands" ; and there is on
file in the Registry of Probate for Essex County a bond
of Mary Gedney, widow, etc., to pay Ilabakkuk Gardner
"the sum of 10 at or before 20 th Nov., 1701, which is
for the like sum of ten pounds due from my s d Husbands
estate to Ruth Gedney, the now wife of s d Habbakuk
Gardner by guift from her unkle Ebenezer Gardner unto
whom the s d sum was justly due from s d Estate." In
what way Mr. Ebenezer Gardner was uncle to Ruth Ged-
ney I cannot yet explain.
Eleazer Gedney,* the eldest son by the first wife, rc-
*IIe probably left posterity in New York ; for n Cnpt. Gedney's house is spoken
of in an account of the operations of the combined French and American armies
about New York, published in a recent number of The Magazine of American
History.
moved from Salem to Momorinock in West Chester
County, New York, as appears from a deed by which he
conveys, 17 March, 1696-7, to Deacon John Marston the
former building place (ship yard) of Mr. Kleazer Gedney
of Salem deceased. His wife Anna releases her right of
dower 4th Feb., 1696-7.
Ebenezer Gedney, the eldest son by the second wife,
died, as we have seen, before his father's estate was set-
tled.
Edmund, the youngest son, died without issue and by
his will of 15 March, 1705-6, proved llth July, 1706,
left one-half of his estate to his mother and the other half
to his only sister of the whole blood, Martha Gedney.
The widow, Mrs. Mary Gedney, died 4th Sept., 1716,
and administration on her estate was granted to James
Ruck of Salem and Martha his wife, "children" of de-
ceased, 21 Jan., 1716-17. She had retained possession
of the mansion house, which thus descended to Mrs.
Ruck and her heirs.
Mr. Gedney's children were :
38 Eleazer, b. 18 March, 1665-6 ; m. Anna , and removed to New
York.
39 Elizabeth, b. 2d, 4 mo., 1669; perhaps removed with. her brother.
40 Ruth, b. 24th May, 1672; in. Habakkuk Gardner.
41 William, bapt. 2d Aug., 1674; must have died in infancy.
42 Mary, bapt. 25 Nov., 1677; perhaps rem. with her bro. Eleazer.
43 Ebenezer, b. 25th, 3 mo., 1679; not living 9 Dec., 1699.
44 Edmund, b. loth, 9 mo., 1680; d. before 18th July, 1706, s. p.
45 Martha, b. 29th, 2 mo., 1682 ; m. James Ruck.
13 William (John* John 1 ), born in Salem 25th May,
1668, married 7th May, 1690 (or as another record says
9th June), Hannah, dan. of Samuel and Mary (White)
Gardner-, b. in Salem 18th July, 1669. In 1693 she in-
herited from her twin brother, Jonathan Gardner, by his
will, a portion of their father's homestead, which stood at
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the eastern end of what was anciently the estate of Eman-
uel Downing, Esq., from whom it passed to his daughter
Anne, wife 1st of Lieut. Joseph Gardner and 2dly of
Governor Simon Brad street. Mrs. Gedney, before her
marriage, had already inherited from her father, by will,
a portion of this estate at the northeast corner, near the
common or training Held. After her marriage her hus-
band bought of his brother-in-law, Abel Gardner, his
portion of the estate. Mr. Gedney and his wife thus
became possessed of all the Gardner homestead except
the portion of house and land that had descended to
Joseph and Mary Hen field, who inherited in right of their
mother Mary, another daughter of Mr. Samuel Gardner.
This then became the homestead of William Gedney,
Esq., who in 169(5 gave to his brother Nathaniel a quit
claim of all his interest in the homestead of their father
John Gedney, jun., deceased, on the northern side of
Browne Street.
His wife Hannah died 4 Jan., 1703-4, and he m. 2dly
25th May, 1704, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Eliz-
abeth (White) Andrew of Cambridge, born in Cambridge,
5th April, 1GG3.
In 1698 (5th Sept.) Win. Gedney, merchant, took out
letters of administration de bonis 11011 cum testamento
annexo on the estate of his grandfather Mr. John Gedney,
Sen., and received his quietus from the court 9th Sept.,
1706, having "exhibited acquittances* from y e severall
legatees."
Mi\ Gedney was an active merchant, filled the office of
* These acquittances, which were then ordered to be placed on file, were never
recorded and are now found to have disappeared, and recently too, for therj \n evi-
dence to show that the}' were in place within n very few years. It is to be hoped
that they have become misplaced rather than taken from the Court House. If
they had been found they would surely have thrown light upon these investiga-
tions.
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Sheriff of the County for several years, and was always
prominent in public affairs. He died 24th Jan., 1729-30.
His will, made 26th Nov., 1729, was proved by his sons,
Bartholomew Gedney and James Grant, executors, 5th
Feb., 1729-30. He mentions his wife Elizabeth and her
relatives and his grandson Wm. Grant and gives his
homestead to his son Bartholomew, dan. Hannah (wife of
James) Grant, and granddaughter Elizabeth Davie.
His widow died in Boston, as appears by her will of
llth Jan., 1737, proved 20th Sept., 1737, wherein she is
styled "Elizabeth Gedney of Boston widow of William
Gedney Esq. late of Salem dec'd." To Elizabeth Davie
she bequeathes a silver porringer marked S. P. to E. G. ;
to her daughter-in-law Sarah Gedney she leaves her gold
necklace ; another bequest is made to her kinswoman
Mary Andrew of Cambridge. The bulk of her estate
was disposed of as follows : "Half of my estate after my
debts and Funeral charges are paid I give and bequeath
to my beloved brother the Rev d Samuel Andrew of Mil-
ford in Connecticut. And the other half of my estate I
give to the children of my Brother William Andrew late
of Cambridge deced, viz Samuel Andrew, Elizabeth An-
drew now Elizabeth Stone and Mary Andrew to be equally
divided between them." * * * "I constitute make and
ordain Bartholomew Gedney my son in law sole Execu-
tor." Jonathan Andrew and Andrew Durand, executors
of the will of Samuel Andrew, late of Milford, in the
county of New Haven within His Majesty's Colony of
Connecticut, dec'd, appointed, 21st Aug., 1738, the Rev.
Timothy Cutler, D. D., of Boston, etc., their attorney "to
demand of M r Bartholomew Gedney of Boston Execut r
of Mrs. Eliz a Gedney late of Boston deceast a certain
legacy by her given to our Hon d Father M r Samuel An-
drew," etc.
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The children of Wm. Gedney, Esq., were:
46 Susanna, b. 29th April, 1G91.
47 Margaret, b. 8th (or 9th) June, 1694; m. Humphry Davie, Esq.
48 William, b. llth (or 12th) Oct., 1696, abt. i of afl hour after five in
the morning and died 28 Nov., 1696.
49 Jonathan, b. llth (or 12th) Oct., 1696, abt. 4 of an hour after six
in the morning and died 12 Nov., 1696.
50 Bartholomew, b. 22d March, 1697-8; married four times.
61 Hannah, b. 12th June, 1701; m. James Grant.
52 William, b. 12th Aug., 1707; d. 8th Jan., 1707-8.
14 Nathaniel (John' 1 John 1 ), bapt. at Salem 5th
June, 1070, married Mary , whose surname and date
of marriage have not been found, but we may reasonably
infer that she was Mary Lindall, b. 7 April, 1074, dau. of
Mr. Timothy Lindall, a merchant in Salem, son of James
Lindall of Duxbury. Her mother was Mary, dau. of Mr.
Nathaniel Veren of Salem, who was brought by his father
Philip Veren from the city of Salisbury, \Viltshire, Eng-
land, in the ship James of Southampton, 1635.
In 1689 (Oct. 16) Nath'l Gedney and his brother Wil-
liam received from their mother a conveyance of the aero
of land which had belonged to their father, bounded north
by the North river, east by land of Samuel and Jno.
Williams, south on the lane by the Pound, west by land
of Stephen Hasket. In 1696 he conveyed his interest in
it to his brother. This land afterwards came into the
possession of the Derby family , who had acquired pos-
session of the contiguous Hasket estate, and from the
Derby family I think it came into the Forrester family.
The paternal homestead, the site of which is now owned
by Stephen B. Ives, Esq., came to Nathaniel by quit
claim from his brother William, 23 Nov., 1696, and is
described as "given by my grandfather M r . John Gedney
Sen r . deced to my father M r . John Gedney Jun r . deceased
and then after my father's decease to my Brother M r . John
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Gedney Jun r and after my Brother's decease to my Brother
William Gedney and myselfe." A condition of this deed
is that the first male child to be born to Nath'l Gedney
shall be called* John Gedney and shall have a double por-
tion in said house and land.
Administration on the estate of Mr. Nath. Gedney, late
of Salem, mariner, deceased intestate, was granted 7
July, 1701, to his widow Mrs. Mary Gedney, who on the
same day was appointed guardian of their daughter Sarah,
"a minor of four years old or thereabout." Her sureties
were James and Nathaniel Lindall. She rendered an in-
ventory 22 Sept., 1701. Among the items appear "a
farine lutailed or one Quarter part of the farme w oh was
Giuen by M r . John Gidney Sen r the halfe to y e Children
of John Gedney jun r as William and Nath a of w ch y e other
halfe is to y e Children of Coll Earth Gedney," etc. The
same day she exhibited an "Accompt of her Adminis-
tracon on s d Estate," in which she credits the estate with
twenty-five pounds "Due from M r . Parkman to be paid
after y e Death of his Wife." The real estate was divided ;
one-third to the widow during her life and the other two-
thirds to Sarah Gedney, "only child." The daughter gave
,a discharge to her mother, the first clause of which reads
as follows : " Whereas M rs Mary Gedney alias Phippen
late wife of M r Nathaniel Gedney late of Salem in y e
County of Essex in New England marriner Deced now
wife to Thomas Phippen of Salem aforesaid marriner was
appointed Gardian to Sarah Gedney only child of said
Nathaniel Gedney Deced w ch said Sarah is since married
to Robert Williams of Salem aforesaid marriner." This is
dated "Twelfth day of ffebruary Anno Domini 1717-8."
The will of Mrs. Mary Lindall, proved 13 Jan., 1731,
mentions her "dafter Phipen wife to Thomas Phipeu,"
among others; and on file with it, but not recorded, is a
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receipt signed by Surah Williams and Mary Rose for a
portion of their "Grandmothers wareing aparil which we
haue Rec'd In Rite of our mother M rs Mary Pliippcii
Decst," dated Jan. 13th, 1731-2.
Sarah Williams, wife and attornej^ of Robert Williams
of Salem, mariner, and a granddaughter of Mrs. Susanna
Parkman, late of Salem, dec^d, etc., acknowledged, April,
1728, receipt from her uncle William Gedney, executor
of the will of said Susanna Parkman, etc. Mrs. Gedney
left two children by her second husband, as appears by a
conveyance, made 3 Jan., 1737-8, by Sarah Williams,
Edward Rose and wife Mary, to Jonathan Ring, of all
their right that their mother, Mrs. Mary Phippcn, late of
Salem, had to the thirty-third lot in Salisbury in Mill
Division, the said Sarah and Mary being children of Mrs.
Phippen ; and a quit claim of the same lot from Nathan
Phippen, who acknowledges receipt of a certain sum of
money from his two sisters therefor. Susanna Williams
was a witness to the first deed.
I find that Mrs. Gedney was married to Thos. Phippeu
Oct., 1706.
Mr. Nathaniel Gedney's only child by his wife Mary
was :
53 Sanih, bapt. 23 May, 1G97; m. Robert Williams 10 Oct., 1717.
30 Hannah (Bartholomew* John 1 ), born in Salem
19th, 6 mo., 1667, was married to Joshua Grafton 2d
August, 1686. He was born in Salem i) April, 1660,
being a son of Joseph Grafton by his first wife Hannah,
daughter of Joshua Ilobart of Hingham, and a grandson
of Joseph Grafton, the first of the name in Salem, whose
homestead included what is now known as Hardy Street
and the lots on both sides of it from the harbor up to
Essex Street.
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Administration on the estate of Mr. Joshua Grafton,
late of Salem, mariner, was granted 14th August, 1699,
to his widow Mrs. Hannah Grafton, whose sureties were
Timothy Laskin and Samuel Gedney. From the inven-
tory of his estate, exhibited 4 Dec., 1699, it is evident
that he was a merchant as well as mariner. His dealings
were with Barbados.
Very little has been learned about his family. In 1732
Nath. Emms of Boston and his wife Hannah conveyed to
Timothy Lindall, Esq., one common right and a half
"being originally from Joshua Grafton father of s d Han-
nah his homestead near Col. Turners." This, places it at
the southeast corner of old Mr. Joseph Grafton's estate,
at the foot of Grafton's lane, now Hardy Street.
The births of Joshua and Hannah Grafton's children
are thus recorded : ,
54 Hannah, b. 27 May, 1691, abt. 3 of ye clocke in ye morning; m.
Nathaniel Emms.
65 Joshua, K 16Jan 1693 .
56 Samuel, >
57 Sarah, b. 13 April, 1697.
58 Priscilla, b. 8 Feb., 1698.
31 Lydia (Bartholomew* John 1 ), born in Salem 9th
March, 1669 ; was the second wife of Ca.pt. George Cor-
win or Curwen, born in Salem 26 Feb., 1666, son of Mr.
John Cor win by his wife, Margaret, daughter of the Hon.
John Winthrop, jr., Governor of the Colony of Connec-
ticut. His first wife had been Lydia's cousin Susanna
Gedney (John* John 1 ), whom he married 23 April, 1688,
and by whom he seems not to have had issue. Plis father
was eldest sou of Capt. George Cor win or Curwen, born
in England 1610, w}io settled in Salem in 1638 and died
3 Jan., 1685, leaving one of the largest estates up to that
time accumulated in the Colony. This family ranked
high among the leading families of the Colony, not only
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socially but also in public affairs, both civil and military.
The Hon. Jonathan Corwin, second son of the first immi-
grant, held, among other very important offices, that of
Justice in the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer ap-
pointed to try witchcraft cases in 1692 ; and his nephew,
George, the subject of this notice, was sheriff of the
county during these trials. This family have always borne
the same arms as the Cur wen family of Workington,
Cumberland Co., England, differenced, in the case of the
Hon. Jonathan Corwin (above-named) by the proper
mark of cadency, a crescent in chief.
Mr. George Corwin, beside holding the office of sheriff,
as above stated, was a captain in the expedition against
Canada under Sir William Phipps in 1(590. He died 12
April, 1696, and his widow, Mrs. Lydia Corwin, died 23
Dec., 1700. They had an only son :
59 Bartholomew, b. 21 June, 1693; m. Esther, dan. of John Hurt (of
England); removed to Amvvell, New Jersey, and died i) May,
1747.
32 Bethia (Bartholomew* John 1 ) , born in Salem 27th
May, 1672 ; was married 26th April, 1705, to Mr. Francis
Willoughby, born in Salem 28 Sept., 1672, eldest son of
Mr. Nchemiah Willoughby, a merchant of Salem, by his
wife Abigail, dau. of Mr. Henry Bartholomew of Salem.
His grandfather was the Hon. Francis Willoughby, Ksq.,
who in May, 1665, became Deputy Governor of the Col-
ony of Massachusetts Bay, and so continued until his
decease, in April, 1671. He is said to have been a son
of Col. William Willoughby of London, who died in 1651,
and whose widow, Elizabeth Willoughby, left a will dated
at London, May, 1662, in which she made bequests 'to her
son Francis and his children, etc.
They were an arms-bearing family, as appears by a seal
attached to the signature of the Dep. Gov. on a bond
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issued by him 1 Feb., 1667, bearing Pretty (metals and
tinctures not indicated) ; crest, a lion's head between two
wings expanded. This seal, discovered by me in my re-
searches among the- files of Middlesex County Court some
years ago, is the only instance yet found of the arms
borne by the New England family of Willoughby, and
would seem to indicate their relationship to Sir Francis
Willoughby who was knighted by the Lord Deputy of
Ireland 30 Oct., 1610 (see Burke's General Armory Edi-
tion of 1878).
Mrs. Bethia Willoughby died 24th Nov., 1713, and
he took another wife, as appears by his deed of 6th March,
1717-18, conveying to Sam. Browne, Esq., his dwelling
house in Salem with wharf land and flats (about one acre),
bounded south on the lane that leads to the South Fields
(now High St.), west on the common, formerly known
as Laws Hill, now sometimes called Pickerings Hill
(Summer St. now bounds this property on the west),
north by the narrow lane betwixt these premises and the
homestead of Capt. Manasseh Marston deceased (this is
now known as Gedney Court) and east by low-water
mark ; all which (he says) Mr. Ruck sold Mr. Jno. Ged-
ncy, vintner, June 20, 1662, John Gedney conveyed to
his son Barth. Gedney 20 Nov., 1864, from whom it came
to Samuel Gedney, only son of Barth. Gedney, and by
him was given by will to his wife Mary, who conveyed it
to me. When he executed this deed he was of Boston,
and his wife Sarah released her right of dower. This
estate he had bought in 1710. In 1719-20 (10 March)
he sold to Benj. Ives three or four acres in Salem,
bound'ed west on the common or training field, south on
town common, east by a small strip that runs down to the
river by Geo. Hodges and north by said Hodges. This
had been the property of Mr. Nehemiah Willoughby, who
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had derived it from his father-in-law, Mr. Henry Barthol-
omew, and now comprises the well known Ilosmer, or
Briggs, estate, the Richardson estate, and the Xewhall
and Townsend estates, lying between Boardman Street on
the .north and Forrester Street on the south and bounding
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west on Pleasant Street.
Mr. Willonghby was a representative to the General
Court in 1713. His name disappears from the records,
and he niav have removed to Enirland to net uossession
32
Francis Willonghby of Salem and Sarah Chaunccy of
Boston published their intention of marriage in Boston,
12 Sept., 1710.
found entered on the Salem records :
GO William, b. 25 July, 1700.
Gl Uethia, b. 19 March, 1708-9; d. 11 July, 1709.
62 Bethia, b. 1 Oct., 1712.
34 Samuel (Bartholomew* John 1 ) born in Salem 2
November, 1675, m. 2 May, 1701, Mary Gookin of Cam-
bridge, born 26 Aug., 1679, whose father, Mr. Samuel
Gookin, was Sheriff of Middlesex Co., and her grand-
father, Major General Daniel Gookin, was one of the
most distinguished men in the early history ot the colony
of Massachusetts Bay.
Mr. Gedney was a chyrurgeon and physician and lived
in his father's homestead, at the northern corner of High
and Summer Streets, which his widow, Mrs. Mary Ged-
ney, sold to her brother-in-law, Mr. Francis Willoughby,
10 June, 1710. Ho evidently died without leaving issue,
and his widow was married, 16 Aug., 1711, to the Rev.
Theophilus Cotton, of Hampton Falls.
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issued by him 1 Feb., 1667, bearing Pretty (metals and
tinctures not indicated) ; crest, a lion's head between two
wings expanded. This seal, discovered by me in my re-
searches among the-files of Middlesex County Court some
years ago, is the only instance yet found of the arms
borne by the New England family of Willoughby, and
would seem to indicate their relationship to Sir Francis
Willoughby who was knighted by the Lord Deputy of
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boi
(now High St.), wesiTon the common, iunu.cn j ..,
as Laws Hill, now sometimes called Pickerings Hill
(Summer St. now bounds this property on the west),
north by the narrow lane betwixt these premises and the
homestead of Capt. Manasseh Marston deceased (this is
now known as Gedney Court) and east by low-water
mark ; all which (he says) Mr. Ruck sold Mr. Jno. Ged-
ney, vintner, June 20, 1662, -John Gedney conveyed to
his son Barth. Gedney 20 Nov., 1864, from whom it came
to Samuel Gedney, only son of Barth. Gedney, and by
him was given by will to his wife Mary, who conveyed it
to me. When he executed this deed he was of Boston,
and his wife Sarah released her right of dower. This
estate he had bought in 1710. In 1719-20 (10 March)
he sold to Benj. Ives three or four acres in Salem,
bounded west on the common or training field, south on
town common, east by a small strip that runs down to the
river by Geo. Hodges and north by said Hodges. This
had been the property of Mr. Nehemiah Willoughby, who
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had derived it from his father-in-law, Mr. Henry Barthol-
omew, and now comprises the well known Hosmer, or
Briggs, estate, the Richardson estate, and the Newhall
and Townsend estates, lying between Boardman Street on
the .north and Forrester Street on the south and bounding
west on Pleasant Street.
Mr. Willoughby was a representative to the General
Court in 1713. His name disappears from the records,
and he may have removed to England to get possession
of a house and land there, apprised at four hundred
pounds, which he claimed "as eldest son and heir and not
to be brought into Division" with his father's estate.
This property was bequeathed to Nehemiah by his brother
William, who, in his \v : ll of 1 Sept., 1077, speaks of it
as left him by his uncle William Willoughby.
The births of the following named children have been
found entered on the Salem records :
CO William, b. 25 July, 1700.
Gl IJethia, b. 19 March, 1708-9; d. 11 July, 1709.
62 Bethia, b. 1 Oct., 1712.
34 Samuel (Bartholomew* John 1 ) born in Salem 2
November, 1(575, m. 2 May, 1701, Mary Gookin of Cam-
bridge, born 26 Aug., 1679, whose father, Mr. Samuel
Gookin, was Sheriff of Middlesex Co., and her grand-
father, Major General Daniel Gookin, Avas one of the
most distinguished men in the early history of the colony
of Massachusetts Bay.
Mr. Gedney was a chyrurgeon and physician and lived
in his father's homestead, at the nort 
