THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
YOL. XXXV, 1899.
SALEM, MASS.
PRINTED FOR THE KSSEX INSTITUTE.
1899.
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Salem Vre0e:
THE SALEM PRESS Co., SALEM, MASS.
CONTENTS.
Biographical Notes. Nathaniel Silsbee. Portrait, ... 1
Muster Rolls of Capt. Theodore Morgan's Company, . . 79
Parsons and the Constitutional Convention of 1778. By EBEN
F. STONE. Portraits, 81
Early Church Records of Rowley, Mass. Communicated by
GEORGE B. BLODGETTE, Esq., 103
Joshua Coffin Papers, 129
Reminiscences of Henry M. Brooks. By GILBERT L. STREETER, 169
Federalist Broadside, March 16, 1812, 176
Beverly First Church Records. Copied by WILLIAM P. UPHAM, 177
Joshua Coffin Papers, 212
Early Church Records of Rowley, Mass. Communicated by
GEORGE B. BLODGETTE, Esq., 243
John Woodbury and Some of his Descendants. By PERLEY
DERBY, 257
Early Church Records of Rowley, Mass. Communicated by
GEORGE B. BLODGETTE, Esq., 273
A Forgotten Horror, 304
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
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ESSEX INSTITUTE.
VOL. XXXV. JANUARY, 1899. No. 1
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.*
NATHANIEL SILSBEE.
MY grandfathers and my great grandfathers, my grandmothers and
my great grandmothers were, 1 believe, all born in Salem, were of
English ancestry, and were all members of the East Religious Society,
of this town. My father, Nathaniel Silsbee, was born on the 9th of
November, 1748; and my mother (whose maiden name was Sarah
Becket) w r as born on the 26th of February, 1750. I, the sixth of their
children, was born on the 14th of January, 1773, in the house of my
Grandfather Silsbee (which is yet standing) situated on the south
side of Essex street, opposite the southern end of Pleasant street,
the northern end of which house was then occupied by my father's
family. Early in life, my father was intrusted with the charge of a
vessel and cargo to the West Indies, and was subsequently the owner
1 This paper, printed substantially as it was left by the late Senator Silsbee,
on his death in 1850, was intended solely for the perusal of the writer's family,
and contains passages which may seem too personal in their nature for the gen-
eral eye. It waa found difficult to suppress the more private reflections indulged
in by the writer, without impairing the continuity of the story, and the Institute
has been kindly permitted to print the whole. It was written at various dates
between January 14, 1836, his sixty-third birthday, and his death which occurred
July 14, 1850.
(1)
2 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES I
or part owner of several vessels employed in that trade which was
then the principal and almost the only branch of foreign commerce
pursued from this place. In the year 1779 or 1780, my father removed
his family to the so-called Elkins House on the south side of Derby
street, and making the southeastern corner of Derby and Turner
streets, where we resided until 1783.
In the month of June, 1782, when about nine and a half years of
age, I was placed under the tuition of the late Rev. Doctor Manasseh
Cutler of Hamilton (then Ipswich Hamlet) to be fitted for college, in
company with about twenty other scholars from Salem and some of
the neighboring towns, most of whom were fellow boarders with me
in Doctor Cutler's family. On the 19th of April, 1783, the day on
which the firing and other demonstrations of rejoicing took place in
this town, on the occasion of the Peace which had then recently taken
place between this country and England, we (my father's family)
removed to the house on Daniels street which my father had built for
the accommodation of his family and which was then just ready for
their reception, being the same house which was purchased by me
in 1794, which is yet owned by me, and in which I have passed some
of the most pleasant days of my life.
On the llth of October, 1784, while at Salem in the course of a
vacation, I met with an accident which caused my life to be despaired
of for some time. On seeing a horse that was drawing goods belong-
ing to my father, so much frightened as to have disengaged himself
from the control of his driver, and being on the full run, I, very im-
prudently, ran to and seized the bridle of the horse with the expecta-
tion of stopping him, instead of which, after being dragged by him
for some distance, and after receiving such wounds as rendered me
insensible, I fell and the cart-wheel passed over a part of my face. I
was carried home senseless, and remained so nearly twenty-four hours ;
but after a confinement of two or three months, and with scars which
I shall carry to my grave, I was enabled to resume my studies with Doc-
tor Cutler, who on the occasion of my injury (having heard on
Saturday evening that I was killed) read a note from his pulpit, on
the next day, and prayed for the death of a member of his family.
The decision of the physicians when called to me on that occasion
was, without a dissenting voice, that my wounds were incurable, and
that there was as little probability of a restoration of my mind as
there was of restoring my body; and but for the ardent solicitations
of my mother (my father was then at New York) the physicians would
not have deemed it expedient to sew up and dress the wounds, in the
manner they did. Of this I was subsequently informed by several of
the physicians themselves; and the late venerable Dr. Holy ok e who
liad the principal charge of the case told me that he considered it the
NATHANIEL SILSBEE. 6
greatest cure which, in the course of his unusually long and success-
ful practice, he had ever known. I have often thought how many
anxious hours I should have escaped if my life had terminated at that
time. I hope, however, and have the consolation to believe, that my
good mother never had cause to regret the effect of her solicitations
upon the physicians. At the time I was placed in Doctor Cutler's
family, my father was in possession of what was then considered a
handsome and independent property, but which in the course of four
years after, became so much reduced by the vicissitudes which some-
times afflict those engaged in commercial pursuits, that in October
1786, he felt compelled to take me from the collegiate course of studies
which I had been pursuing and prepare me for some other course of
life; and, as my propensities were rather of a nautical character, I
commenced the study of navigation.
In the month of May, 1787, at the age of a little over fourteen years
I entered upon my first voyage, which was from Salem to Baltimore,
in the capacity of captain's clerk, in a schooner of about eighty tons,
employed in that trade, and made three such voyages in the course of
that summer ; from which time I was unoccupied and consequently
uneasy and somewhat impatient, until December, 1788, when I shipped
as clerk to the supercargo of the brig " Three Sisters" owned by the
late Elias Hasket Derby (who was one of the earliest adventurers from
this country to the East Indies) and bound on a voyage round the
Cape of Good Hope. My wages for that voyage were five dollars a
month, and all the property which my father could furnish me for an
adventure was six boxes, containing six quintals of cod-fish, a part of
which perished on the outward passage, and the cost of the whole of
which was eighteen dollars. We proceeded on that voyage first to
the Cape of Good Hope, and from thence to Batavia and China,
where the vessel was sold and whence we (the officers and crew) re-
turned to this country in a ship called the " Astrsea," belonging to the
same owner. From the captain of that ship (the late James Magee
of Boston) I derived much information and advice, of a nautical
character and such as was, subsequently, of great benefit to me.
While absent on that voyage the present constitution and form of
government of the United States, which had been recommended by a
convention of delegates from the several states, l\eld in 1787, was
adopted by eleven of the then thirteen United States, and went into .
operation on the fourth day of March, 1789, with George Washington
as President and John Adams as Vice-President of the United States.
In the course of a week or two after my return from the India
voyage I went with my father in a small schooner of about thirty
tons on a coasting trip to Penobscot; my father, myself and my
brother William constituting the whole " ship's company "and having
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no other soul on board, either as officer, seaman, cook or boy, than
the father and his two sons, by whom the vessel was conducted to
several ports and from thence back to Salem, with a full cargo of
wood and boards obtained in payment of some old debts due to my
father from persons residing in that quarter.
On my return from the coasting trip to the eastward, I made a
coasting trip to the southward, from hence to Virginia in the capacity
of captain's clerk, and finished that trip in November, 1790.
In December of that year (1790) I shipped as second mate of a
small brig on a voyage to Madeira, from whence we proceeded to the
West Indies, thence to Baltimore, thence back to Madeira, and thence
to Philadelphia, where the command of the brig was tendered to me
for a voyage back to Madeira, which trust I should certainly have
accepted but for the intelligence of the death of my father and the
receipt of a letter from my good mother urging my return to her in
such terms as I could not and did not resist, but came home a passen-
ger in a small schooner which happened to be then at Philadelphia,
belonging to Salem, where we arrived in the month of December,
1791, after an absence of about twelve months. My father died on
the twenty-fifth day of June, 1791, at New York, and his remains
were interred in the burial ground of what was then called the "New T
Brick Presbyterian Meeting House," and I have never been sit New
York but on one occasion (when I passed hastily through the city
without making any stay in it) without walking round that burial
ground while there.
After contributing to the comfort of my mother and her family to
the extent of every cent of my earnings on the former voyage (which
were voluntarily as well as legally hers) and before I was nineteen
years of age, I accepted the command of a small sloop of about forty
tons, belonging to the late Elias Hasket Derby, and sailed before the
close of the year, on a voyage to Norfolk in Virginia, to procure a
cargo for the West Indies, without a single dollar in my pocket or a
dollar's worth of property on board the vessel in which I embarked.
We sailed from Salem on the 30th of December, 1791, with specie and
merchandise to the amount of 1500 dollars for Norfolk, but after en-
countering a succession of heavy gales of wind for more than thirty
days (in the course of which our old vessel became so leaky that the
pumps were barely sufficient to Keep her from sinking) and after en-
during such incessant and intense anxiety as prevented my having a
single moment of sound sleep for thirteen entire clays and nights, I
felt compelled to seek milder weather and proceed to the West Indies,
where, upon an examination of the vessel, she was declared to be un-
seaworthy by a survey of shipmasters and carpenters. At a somewhat
later age I should probably have acceded to that decision and aban-
NATHANIEL SILSBEE. 5
doned the vessel, but I then determined otherwise, caused some re-
pairs to be made on the vessel (which I knew to be entirely uninsured)
invested the funds which were furnished me to buy a cargo at Norfolk,
in West India produce and proceeded therewith to Norfolk, and thence
to Salem, where the vessel was considered unfit for another voyage,
and where I had the good fortune (for such I most truly considered
it) to be immediately offered, by the same owner, the charge of a brig
and cargo for the West Indies.
The offer just mentioned was promptly accepted and I sailed from
Salem, in the brig " Rose" of about sixty tons burden in the month
of May, 1792, with a cargo invoiced at 1000, or 3333 dollars, and re-
turned home from the port of Cape Francais in the Island of St. Do-
mingo in September of the same year, after a successful voyage for my
employer from whom, very shortly after my return, I had the further
good fortune to receive the offer of the command of a ship then build-
ing, and the consignment of her cargo on a voyage to the East Indies.
On the llth of December, 1792, I sailed from hence in the new ship
" Benjamin" of one hundred and sixty tons burden, and with a cargo
consisting principally of merchandise which cost about eighteen thou-
sand dollars (then considered a large stock for such a ship; for the
Cape of Good Hope and India, and with such instructions as left the
management of the voyage very much to my own discretion. On
leaving home every dollar that I possessed was much less than I wished
to leave with my mother for the comfort of herself and family during
so long a voyage as I had then undertaken ; therefore in addition to
all my own small means, I left with her also some money which I hired
for that purpose; consequently (as heretofore) I had no property
with me beyond what I had hired upon a respondentia-bond, to enable me
to pay my five per cent of the cost of the outward cargo, my perquisites,
as consignee of the cargo, being to put in five per cent of the outward
cargo, and to receive, at the close of the voyage, ten per cent of the
return cargo. Neither myself nor the chief mate of the ship for that
voyage (Mr. Charles Derby) had attained the age of twenty-one years,
when we left home on that voyage (I was not then twenty years of
age) and it was remarked to me by the naval officer (the late Mr.
Wm. Pickman) on taking the ship's papers from the Custom House,
that it was the first instance in which papers had been issued from that
office to a vessel bound to the East Indies the captain and chief mate
of which were both minors.
In an intensely cold and severe storm on the first night after leaving
home, our cook ( a colored man somewhat advanced in age) having
preferred his cooking-house on deck to his berth below, for a sleeping
place, had his feet so badly frozen as to cause gangrene to such an ex-
tent as to render amputation of all his toes on both feet absolutely
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necessary for the preservation of his life. Having neither surgical
skill nor surgical instruments on board the ship the operation, which
had become necessary, was a very unpleasant and a very hazardous
one, so much so that no one on board was willing to undertake the di-
rection of it, and I was most reluctantly compelled to assume, with
the aid of the second mate, the responsibility of performing the surgical
operation, with no other instruments than a razor and a pair of scis-
sors, and which, in consequence of the feeble state of the cook's
health, required two days to accomplish. The cook was very desirous
to be landed and left at one of the Capede Verde Islands, and for that
purpose I proceeded to the Island of St. Jago where I found, at anchor,
an English frigate the surgeon of which, at my request, came on
board our ship and examined the cook's feet and (to my great satis-
faction), pronounced the operation upon them well performed, assured
me that there remained no doubt of his recovery, furnished and pre-
scribed some future dressings and advised me, by all means, to keep
him on board ship under my own care, in preference to putting him
ashore. With the cook's approbation I followed the surgeon's advice,
and in the course of a few weeks thereafter the cook was able to re-
sume his duties, recovered his usual health and made several subse-
quent voyages.
After the transaction of some business at the Cape of Good Hope,
and while on the passage from thence to the Isle of France, we fell
in with a French frigate bound to that island from France, from the
officers of which vessel I obtained information of the war which had
then recently taken place (and which was of long duration and of
great vicissitudes) between France and England. That frigate reached
her port' of destination a few days in advance of me and the news of
which she was the bearer caused such a change in the commercial mar-
ket of the place as was beneficial to my voyage by enabling me to dis-
pose of the merchandise of which my cargo was composed at much
higher prices than could have been obtained before. On my arrival
at the Isle of France, it was my intention to proceed from thence to
Bengal for the purpose of procuring a return cargo, and, with this
view, as fast as my goods were sold, the proceeds were converted,
from the paper currency of the place, into Spanish dollars. On the
arrival of the aforesaid frigate, an embargo was laid on all foreign
vessels in port and was continued for more than six months, in the
course of which time the Spanish dollars which I had purchased had
become worth more than three times as much of the currency of the
colony as they had cost me, whilst the price of the products of the isl-
and, in the same currency had advanced comparatively but very little.
Finding myself enabled, by that circumstance, to purchase consider-
ably more than double the quantity o those products th n I could
NATHANIEL 8ILSBEE. 7
have done at an earlier period, I relinquished the plan of proceeding
to Calcutta, and concluded to sell my Spanish dollars and invest the
proceeds of them in coffee and spices and return from the Isle of
France direct to the United States; and in November, 1793, as .soon as
the embargo was raised, left the Isle of France and Bourbon, with
such a cargo for Salem. On my way home I stopped at the Cape of
Good Hope where I found the prospect of a profitable voyage from
thence back to the Isle of France to be such, that I could not consist-
ently, with what I conceived to be my duty to my employer (although
no such project could have been anticipated by him, and although at-
tended with considerable risk), resist the temptation to undertake it.
At that time the Cape of Good Hope was held by the Dutch who had
joined England in the then existing war against France, and it so hap-
pened (though I hardly know how) that I was the only master of a
foreign vessel then in port, of whom a bond had not been required
(on granting him permission to trade there) not to proceed from thence
to a French port. No such bond having been required of me and there
being two other Salem vessels then in that port, by which I could send
home on freight, a part of my cargo, I put on board those vessels,
consigned to my employer, such portion of my cargo as I knew would
considerably more than,pay for the whole cost of my ship and cargo
at Salem, sold the residue of the merchandise brought from the Isle
of France and Bourbon, and invested the proceeds in a full cargo of
wine and other articles which I knew to be in great demand at those
islands. I had scarcely got those goods on board my ship when, one
evening while employed in the settlement of my accounts, I was ap-
prised that such reports of my conjectured intentions had been made
to the government of the place as would probably cause the seizure of
my ship on the next morning; in consequence of which information
I did not hesitate (although I had not violated any bond or any law
which had been promulgated to me) to leave my business in the hands
of one of the other Salem shipmasters then in port with me, for set-
tlement; went immediately on board my ship and before morning was
not only out of port but out of sight of laud on my passage to the Isle
of France, where I arrived after a short passage, sold my cargo at a
great profit (the net sales amounting to full three times its cost at the
Cape of Good Hope) and invested the proceeds in a return cargo as
expeditiously as possible ; but here again I had to leave port very ab-
ruptly and two or three days before I had contemplated doing so, in
consequence of intelligence which I obtained early on a Sunday morn-
ing, that at a meeting on the Saturday evening preceding, of the Jaco-
bin Club (which then governed the place), it was decreed that an em-
bargo should be laid on Monday morning, on all the foreign vessels
then in port. Having previously suffered a six months' embargo in
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the same port, and having undertaken the voyage upon my own re-
sponsibility, I was determined to escape another embargo, even at
some hazard, if practicable ; and with this determination, I hired a
number of sailors and got them on board my vessel. One of the pi-
lots of the port, who was also an influential member of the Jacobin
Club, was (by means of an exorbitant price for his services and a
little stratagem mutually acceded to) prevailed upon to be on board
the ship to conduct her out of port bribed an officer of the port (by
giving him a passage with me to this country) to procure my ship's
papers from the Bureau of the Government made the other neces'-
sary preparations, and as soon as the " port-bell" rang. to call the pop-
ulace to their dinners, I had the three top-sails, jib and spanker has-
tily bent, slipped my cable and put to sea before their return from
dinner, giving my long boat to the hired sailors to convey themselves
and the pilot to the shore. Not having a sufficiency of provisions on
board the vessel for a passage to America, I was obliged to stop for
a supply at Bourbon where we anchored (having one and only one an-
chor left) on the next morning. On landing at the port of St. Denis
in Bourbon, I called on the Governor of the island (whose residence
was immediately contiguous to the wharf, and who was one of the old
royalists) as was usual though not obligatory^ and, immediately after
leaving the Governor, devoted myself exclusively to the procurement
of such provisions as I could find, which purpose was not accom-
plished until toward dark. Just as I was about stepping from the
wharf into my boat the Governor ordered me to his presence, which
order I obeyed from necessity, but with strong apprehensions that
some restraint was to be imposed on me. On meeting the Governor
he asked me, " How long do you contemplate staying in Bourbon?
My answer was, " Not more than a day or two." He added, " Can't
you leave here to-night?" I replied, " I can do so if you wish it." He
then said to me, " As you had the politeness to call on me this morn-
ing, and as I should be sorry to see you injured, hearken to my advice
and leave here to-night, if practicable." I thanked the Governor for
his advice and was on my way towards my boat when he called me
back to him and said, " Let no one know what I have said to you." I
was in my boat and on board my ship as soon as possible after leav-
ing the Governor. There was a war-brig at anchor in the harbour a
little to windward of my own vessel ; towards midnight I had the an-
chor hove up without noise, and let the ship adrift, without making
any sail, until by the darkness of the night we had lost sight of the
war-brig, when we made all sail directly from the land. At daylight
in the morning the war-brig was sent in pursuit of us, under a press
of sail, but fortunately could not overtake us, and toward night gave
up the chase. I never knew the cause of the Governor's advice to
NATHANIEL SILSBEE. 9
me, but attributed it to an apprehension, on his part, that my stop-
ping at Bourbon might be supposed by the populace, to be for the pur-
pose of taking off the French admiral, St. Felix (another old Royal-
ist), who had rendered himself obnoxious to the people and who was
known to bn then secreted somewhere on the Island; and that this
suspicion of the people might compel him (the Governor) to cause the
detention and perhaps the service of my ship, if I remained there un-
til the next day. I avoided stopping at any place, after leaving Bour-
bon until I arrived at Salem, which was on the eleventh day of July,
1794, on which day an anxious and profitable voyage of just nineteen
months was brought to a close; and I had the satisfaction to learn
from my employer (a satisfaction always grateful to my feelings)
that my proceedings were approved by him, and that he wished me to
prepare myself as expeditiously as possible to proceed on another voy-
age, in the same ship. 1
The result of that voyage was such as to give to the owner of the
ship and cargo a net profit of more than one hundred per cent upon
their cost ; and afforded to me a gain of over four thousand dollars,
which placed me in a condition to gratify the most anxious and at
that time the almost only wish of my heart, which was to increase
and secure the comforts of my mother, sister and brothers; and one
of my first acts was to purchase the house and land formerly owned
and occupied by my father, which I did at the cost of about fifteen
hundred dollars (subject to my mother's right of dower in it, as before
named) and placed the whole of it at my mother's disposal.
On my return from that voyage, in July, 1794, there was much ex-
citement in the country, and especially in the commercial community,
caused by British captures of American vessels and cargoes for an
alleged violation of the (paper) blockade of the French West India
Islands, and a suspicion of French property being covered by the
American flag a suspicion which was extended to all our vessels
bound to or from French ports. The excitement was such as to cause
a special mission to England, whereby a Treaty of Commerce was ne-
gotiated (known then and now as Jay's Treaty) which, though some
of its articles were strongly objected to, was ultimately ratified, and
a Board of Commissioners thereby created through whom indemnity
for most of the captures which had taken place was obtained. That
treaty did not, however, prevent frequent depredations on our com-
merce by British cruisers, subsequent thereto.
On the tenth of September of the same year (1794; I sailed again
!Dr. Jared Sparks, who married a daughter of Senator Silsbee, thus writes:
Captain Cleveland, in describing the voyage of the " Benjamin" in his " Narra-
tive of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises," made free use of these notes as
mentioned by him, as will be seen in that valuable and very interesting work.
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in the same ship "Benjamin," with a cargo double the value of that
of my former voyage, for the north of Europe and thence to India.
On that occasion I took leave of my mother and her family with much
less anxiety than I had ever done before, having given them a house
and being able to leave them in a situation of comparative independence,
besides being enabled to take with me nearly two thousand dollars,
which I could not but consider a handsome adventure in my new voy-
age, and which I look care to have as well insured as possible, for the
benefit of my mother, in case of accident to me. I took with me also,
in the capacity of clerk, my brother William, then about fifteen years
of age, and furnished him with a sum as an adventure for his own ac-
count. My first passage on this second voyage in the ship " Benja-
min," was to Amsterdam, but finding that place in some danger of an
invasion from France, and therefore but little commercial business
doing, I went from thence to Hamburg, where I sold my cargo, took
in another and left there about the middle of December, for India, but
was compelled by adverse winds and storms to stop at Dover, in
England, to repair some damages and to obtain further supplies of rig-
ging, etc. At Dover I met, at a public house where I took lodgings,
several English and American fellow-lodgers, whose practice it was
to introduce card-playing every evening and by whom I was not only
urged to participate in their games, but was told that it was hardly
civil to decline doing so. Although I knew but little about cards and
had never played a game for money in my life, I was prevailed upon
to do so on that occasion and in the course of the first evening was a
winner of about twenty dollars. On the evening following I declined
playing but on being informed that having been a winner on the pre-
ceding evening, I was bound in honor to afford the losers an oppor-
tunity to regain their losses, I recommenced playing, placed on the
table the amount of my gain on the preceding evening, lost it as fast
as I could and then claimed the privilege of quitting the table, which
I immediately did, and have never played a game of cards for money
from that day to this. So much for a lesson thus accidentally acquired.
From Dover I proceeded to the island of Madeira where I took in a
few pipes of wine and went from thence to the Isle of France where
I obtained satisfactory prices for every article of which my cargo was
composed, and for some of them enormously high prices. I loaded
my own ship with coffee and other products of the Island and de-
spatched her for home under the command of my chief mate (Richard
Gardner) ; purchased another ship of 400 tons (a prize vessel new and
built of teak-wood) for ten thousand dollars, which I considered and
which proved as good an investment as I could have made of a part
of my funds ; and in that ship I embarked myself, loaded it with coffee
and cotton, part for account of my voyage and part on freight, and
NATHANIEL SILSBEE. 11
with an entire crew (except myself and my brother William) engaged
at the Isle of France and made up, in fact, of almost all the nations
of the earth, and arrived at Boston on the ninth of November, 1795,
only two days after the arrival at Salem, of the ship which I had sent
home under charge of Mr. Gardner, having accomplished as success-
ful a voyage as could have been anticipated by anyone interested in it,
to Europe and India, in a few days short of fourteen months. A
short time before our arrival at Boston we were for two days, in com-
pany with, and but a few miles from, a schooner which we suspected
to l)n a privateer watching for a favorable opportunity to attack us.
Having on board the ship six guns and twenty-five men, I was deter-
mined to resist, as far as practicable, the attack of any small vessel.
On the afternoon of the second day that this vessel had been dogging
us, she bore down upon us with an apparent attention of executing
what we had supposed to be her purpose and which we were, as I had
imagined, prepared to meet; but on calling the crew to the quarters
which had previously been assigned to them, I was informed by one
of my officers, that there were four or five of the seamen who were
unwilling thus to expose themselves, alleging tlint they had neither
engaged nor expected to fight. On hearing this, all hands being on
deck, I ordered every passage way which led below deck, excepting
that leading to the cabin, to be securely fastened; then calling to me
such of the crew as had not engaged to fight, I immediately sent them
up the shrouds to repair the ratlin, and to perform other duties which
they had engaged to do, in the most exposed part of the ship. Find-
ing themselves thus exposed to greater danger than their shipmates,
they requested, before the schooner had come within gunshot of us,
to be recalled from their situation and allowed to participate in the
defence of the ship, which request was granted. All our six guns
were placed on one side of the ship, and we succeeded by a simultan-
eous discharge of the whole of them, as soon as the schooner had ap-
proached within the reach of their contents, in causing her to haul off
and hasten from us, but whether this was caused by an unexpected
resistance, on our part, or by any damage caused by that resistance,
we could not ascertain. I felt quite as willing to be rid of her, how-
ever, as anyone of her crew could have been to be rid of us.
Soon after my arrival at Salem, in November, 1795, Mr. Derby
offered me the charge of a large new ship then building for the India
trade, but as he admitted no one to an ownership of any part of his
vessels and as I could not otherwise take with me all the property
which I had acquired, I was induced to believe, by the success which
had attended my last two voyages, that my interest would be more
promoted by becoming part owner of a vessel ; I therefore declined
Mr. Derby's offer and purchased one-fourth part of a new ship of
about one hundred and ninety tons, called the " Betsey."
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On the twenty-sixth of February, 1796, 1 again left home on another
voyage round the Cape of Good Hope, in said ship Betsey, taking my
brother William with me as on the previous voyage, and leaving the
residue of my mother's family comfortably situated. After stopping
at Madeira and there taking a quantity of wine, I went to the Isle of
France, thence to Madras, thence to Pulo Fenang and thence to Cal-
cutta, where I procured a return cargo for the United States, but
touched at Madras on my way home to receive and invest the pro-
ceeds of some wine which I had left unsold at that place. In the
course of the few days that I remained in Madras one of those occur-
rences took place which, more than any and all others, led to the late
war between the United States and Great Britain. I received a note
early one morning, from my chief mate apprising me that one of my
sailors (Edward Hulen, a fellow townsman whom I had known from
boyhood) had been impressed and taken on board of a British frigate
then lying in port. Receiving this intelligence I immediately went on
board my ship and having there learned all the facts in the case, pro-
ceeded to the frigate where I found Hulen, and in his presence was
informed by the first lieutenant of the frigate that he had taken
Hulen from my ship under a peremptory order from his commander
" to visit every American ship in port and to take from each of them
one or more of their seamen." With that information I returned to
the shore and called upon Captain Cook (who commanded the frigate)
and sought, first, by all the persuasive means that I was capable of
using and ultimately by threats to appeal to the Government of the
place, to obtain Hulen's release, but in vain. I then, with the aid of
the senior partner of one of the first commercial houses of the place,
sought the interference and assistance of the civil authorities of the
port, but without success, it being a case in which they said they
could not interfere. In the course of the day I went again to the
frigate and in the presence of the lieutenant, tendered to Hulen the
amount of his wages, of which he requested me to give him only ten
dollars and to take the residue to his mother in Salem, on hearing
which the lieutenant expressed his perfect conviction that Hulen was
an American citizen, accompanied by a strong assurance that if it
was in his power to release him he should not suffer another moment's
detention adding at the same time that he doubted if this or any
other circumstance would induce Captain Cook to permit his return
to my ship. It remained for me only to recommend Hulen to that
protection of the lieutenant which a good seaman deserves, and to
submit to the high-handed insult thus offered to the flag of my country
which I had no means of either preventing or resisting, beyond the
expression of my opinion of it to the said Captain Cook, which took
place in the presence of other British officers, and in terms dictated
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by the then excited state of ray feelings. After several years deten-
tion in the British Navy and after the Peace of Amiens, Hulen returned
to Salem and lived to perform services on board privateers armed in
Salem, in the late war between this country and England. After
finishing my business at Madras I came directly home and arrived
here in July, 1797, after an absence of nearly seventeen months.
That voyage though much less successful than either of my two
former ones was yet sufficiently so to prevent my regretting the
course which I pursued in becoming a part owner of the vessel and
being thereby enabled to take with me all my own funds. It was
while absent on that voyage that John Adams succeeded General
Washington in the Presidency of the United States and that Thoma
Jefferson was elected Vice-President.
Soon after my return I sold my interest in the ship " Betsey" and,
upon the invitation of the late Ebenezer Preble of Boston, purchased
of him one-third part of his ship, "Portland," of two hundred and
eighty tons and commenced preparations for a voyage to Europe and
thence to India, upon which voyage I sailed from Boston on the twen-
ty-eighth of December, 1797, taking my brother William with me as
second mate, and having a full cargo of sugar, coffee, spices, etc., I
stopped at Cadiz on my way into the Mediterranean, and there heard
of the existence of the decrees of the French Government which made
liable to condemnation every vessel, of whatever nation, on board of
which might be found any articles of the production or manufacture
of Great Britain or any of its territories. These decrees had greatly
increased the risk of captures of all adventures into the Mediterra-
nean, and consequently had greatly enhanced the prices of colonial prod-
ucts in the Mediterranean markets. Thus situated, my voyage into the
Mediterranean presented the prospect of a very profitable one, if I
should be so fortunate as to escape capture by some of the numerous
French privateers then cruising in that sea; the risk of which, how-
ever, was so great (and in case of capture, subsequent condemnation
almost certain) that I was disposed to accede to some reduction of
the profit in prospect, by lessening the risk of the loss of the whole.
With these views I sought and found a purchaser for about one-half
of my cargo (at quite a large profit on the cost) to be delivered at the
risk of the purchaser either at Leghorn or Genoa as I might find most
safe or convenient, and received my pay in bills on England, guaran-
teed to my satisfaction, and to an amount equal to the cost of the
whole cargo. Having accomplished that sale; having erased from my
nautical instruments the name of the English maker of them; having
put on shore some English coal which I had on board for fuel, as well
as every hook in the English language; and, in short, having put out
of the vessel every article which could be considered of English pro-
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ductiou or manufacture (except articles of merchandise of which the
cargo was composed), and having cautioned my crew (all of whom,
except the chief mate, were my fellow townsmen) in case of capture
and of their examination to say (what was actually the truth) that
they were not on board the ship until after the lading of the cargo
had been completed, and that they were entirely ignorant of the kind,
quality or origin of the articles of which the cargo was composed,
after these precautionary measures had been adopted, I left Cadiz,
on my way to Genoa or Leghorn. On the fifth day after leaving Ca-
diz and not far from Malaga, I was stopped, the ship taken possession
of by a prize-master and crew from a French privateer brig from Mar-
seilles, carried into Malaga and accompanied into that port by the pri-
vateer. We arrived early in the morning and found there a great
number of American and other neutral vessels, with the French flag
displayed upon each and all of them. Some of them had been con-
demned and others were under sequestration ; none of them had been
acquitted nor was any one of them (but my own ship) subsequently
acquitted, but every one of them condemned. After anchoring at
Malaga no boat, other than those of the privateer, was permitted to
approach our ship, nor was I allowed to go ashore or to communicate
with any one there until late in the afternoon of the day of our arri-
val, when I was taken on shore and conducted, under a guard of French
soldiers, directly to the office and house (both in the same building)
of the French Consul, by whom, in the presence of the owner, the com-
mander and other officers of the privateer, the papers appertaining to
the ship and cargo were closely examined, and by whom I was mi-
nutely, and in the most authoritative manner, interrogated relative
to each and every article of merchandise on board the ship. Where
were they produced? How and by whom imported into the United
States? How came they into possession of the owners of my ship?
The quality, the colour and even the shade of colour of some of the ar-
ticles? And I was commanded by that mighty man (for at that time
the French Consul held the Spanish authorities of the place in as much
subjection as he did the humblest domestic) to answer each and all
his lengthy and precise interrogatories in "five words." I assured
him of my anxious desire not to prolong the investigation unnecessa-
rily, especially as I considered my case to be too plain and clear a one
to require any artifice to show it to be so ; and I further assured him
that, although I was in his power, I was not in such fear of that power,
as to deter me from the discharge of my duty to the owners of the
property under my charge, flattering him, at the same time, with the
profession that I could not help but indulge a belief that my answers
to any question which he might propound to me touching my cargo
would be such as to satisfy him of the injustice of my detention and
induce him to accord to me an immediate acquittal ; but that the length
NATHANIEL SILSBEE. 15
of those answers must be measured by me and not by him; and that
they would be adapted to my own purpose rather than to his. The
examination was closed and the record of it placed with the ship's
papers, on one of the shelves of the consular office with similar
papers appertaining to thirty or forty other vessels then under se-
questration, at about eleven o'clock at night, when I was informed
that I might return to my ship, in charge of the same guard which
brought me ashore. I then asked the Consul when I might expect his
decision npon my case. He said the decision must be " in turn." I
asked him when that time would probably arrive. That, he said,
was uncertain, as there were many cases before mine (pointing at
the same time to numerous flies of papers appertaining to their cases)
which would require possibly two or three months, but certainly not
less than one month, and that mine could not be decided short of that
time. I expressed my surprise that a case so plain as mine could
not l)e decided in one day or even in one hour as correctly as in a
longer time, and, after some disputation upon that point, I told the
Consul that I would not leave his office, unless taken from thence by
force, until his decision was made. Towards midnight the Consul and
his clerk together with the owner and officer of the privateer went
out of the office, leaving me there in charge of two porters and a
watchman, with whom I remained during the night, and saw nothing
more of the Consul until about nine o'clock next morning when, on
entering the office and expressing some surprise at finding me there,
he asked me if I could give him a written order to my officers direct-
ing them and the crew to assist in unclosing such parts of the cargo
as would enable a survey which he would immediately appoint, to
make such an examination of the various articles composing the car-
go as to enable them to report to him of what countries or colonies
they were the product. I complied with his request, intimating to him
at the same time that I presumed his survey would not be disposed,
whatever might be their opinions, to make any other report than such
as they knew would be acceptable to him. I remained in the consu-
lar office, without having once left the room from my first entrance
into it, until about four o'clock in the afternoon, which was about
twenty-four hours after I started from my ship. I then expressed a
desire to see a notary public for the purpose of noting a protest, and
was permitted, under a guard, to visit a notary whose office was but
a few doors from the residence of the Consul, and after transacting
my business with him, returned, in half an hour, to the Consul's of-
fice.
Shortly after my return the Consul read to me the report of his sur-
vey which declared every article of the cargo to be the product of
British Colonies, and then asked me what I had to say to that report.
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I replied that it was such as I expected it would be, and such I pre-
sumed, as he knew it would be, and I added (with some emphasis)
that I could not but entertain the hope that an individual exercising
the high functions appertaining to his office, would not permit himself
to be influenced by a report which, with other declarations equally,
untrue, proclaimed the article of mace (one among several kinds of
spices on board my ship) to be the product of a British Colony. Noth-
ing further was then said to me by the Consul and I sat uninterrupted
in his office, expecting to pass another night there, until towards nine
o'clock in the evening, when the owner, captain and other officers of
the privateer (who had not been there during the day) came into the
office, apparently summoned there by the Consul, who immediately
held a private conference with them in one corner of the room for
about half an hour ; then went to his desk, wrote something which he
handed to the owner and officers of the privateer, and having obtained
their signatures in addition to his own to the paper which he had
written, he handed it to me with my ship's papers, saying, "There
sir, are all your papers with permission to go when and where you
please." He also handed me an order to the prize-master and crew who
were on board my ship to leave her forthwith. I endeavoured (and I
believe successfully) to appear to meet that result as an expected
event, but such was not the case ; I had entertained but little hope of
quite so favorable a result at any moment. I had, however, determined
not to leave the Consul's office voluntarily, until my case was decided,
if my strength enabled me to stay there so long.
My feelings on receiving such relief of body as well as of mind,
may, therefore, be more easily imagined than described. I was taken
to my ship in one of the boats of the privateer i^none of my own ship's
company having been permitted to communicate with the shore) and
on delivering the order to the prize-master, he, with his crew, soon
retired to the privateer, leaving me in the quiet possession of my ship
and cargo. Although I had passed the preceding forty hours without
a moment's sleep and without refreshment of any kind whatever, yet
I should have put to sea without a moment's delay if the wind had
been favorable, but it was adverse, and I felt safer at anchor in port,
than under sail with a head wind in that part of the Mediterranean,
and therefore concluded to wait for a favorable change of wind. On
the following morning I went on shore and called on several commer-
cial houses to whom I had letters of introduction, and on the Ameri-
can Consul, none of whom had I previously been permitted to see, and
none of whom could readily be made to believe that I had obtained a
release and permission to proceed on my voyage until I showed them
the written instrument of the French Consul, nor was the American
Consul fully satisfied of the fact (as he informed me when I went to
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dine with him, on the same day) until he had seen the French Consul
who in answer to the inquiry, why he had acted so much more
promptly in my case than in any other of the numerous American
vessels then in port, replied to the American Consul that he (the
French Consul) yet believed my ship and cargo liable to condemna-
tion under the late decrees of France, but that my account of the
origin of the various articles composing my cargo had been so par-
ticular and so well connected and sustained that he had been induced
to liberate it. He admitted, however, to the American Consul, that
my apparent determination not to leave his office until my case was
decided, had not been without some effect on the time and character
of his decision.
Some of these transactions have been thus minutely narrated for
the purpose of showing the little security, which was afforded at that
time, to neutral property by the flag under which it was conducted,
and to show, also, the great responsibility and anxiety to which those
having charge of neutral property, afloat, were constantly subjected.
After waiting two or three days for a favorable wind, and after ob-
taining the permission of the commander of a Danish frigate and con-
voy, which had touched at Malaga on their way up the Mediterranean,
to accompany the fleet under his charge, I left Malaga and proceeded
in company with the Danish convoy until the fleet was entirely dis-
persed by a storm, from which time I avoided as much as possible
every vessel which came within sight, by which means and by approach-
ing the port of Genoa as nearly as I dared to do in the night, I was so
fortunate as to pass the " Moles" which make the harbour of that
place, just at the dawn of day, without being again captured, though
not without a narrow escape from several small privateers (such as
were found in the vicinity of every port in the Mediterranean; which
commenced their pursuit as soon as daylight afforded them a sight of
my ship, and by whom I should inevitably have been intercepted and
captured if I had been only a few miles farther from the port when
daylight exposed me to their view.
Having reached my port of destination and having both seen and
felt the immense risk of capture and condemnation to which neutral
property was then exposed in the Mediterranean sea, I concluded not
again to expose the whole or even a large portion of that which was
then confided to my care, to such hazard ; but to remit a considerable
portion of it to London, and to return directly to the United States
with the residue, instead of proceeding to India as was contemplated
when I left home. Another inducement to adopt that plan was the
prospect which then offered (and which was ultimately realized) of
making a very handsome profit by taking a cargo of brandy, from
some of the Spanish ports in the Mediterranean to the United States,
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the purchase of which would require but a small part of my funds.
Having concluded on such future proceedings,, I sent orders to Barce-
lona while completing the sale of my outward cargo at Genoa, for the
purchase of a cargo of brandy, to be held in readiness for me on my
arrival there. But another and an unlooked-for difficulty and one
which, for a while, threatened to frustrate all my plans, was to be en-
countered.
Shortly after my arrival at Genoa a French army entered that place
and, after laying an embargo on all the vessels in port, commenced
their operations of fitting from that port a part of the well-known
expedition under Buonaparte to Egypt, hiring such vessels as they
could, and taking into requisition such others as they wanted, for the
transportation of their army. My ship, being the best one in port and
having superior accommodations, was selected and taken into requi-
sition for the conveyance of the " Staff of the Army," and the French
General, who had the immediate and chief control of the operations
in Genoa, expressed much surprise that instead of soliciting the release
of my ship, as I most ardently did, I should not rather evince my grati-
tude for such an honour as would be conferred on me by the selection of
my ship and crew for such a purpose. After two or three unsuccessful
interviews with that officer for the purpose of obtaining a release, I
accidentally learned that it was found impracticable to procure a suffi-
cient quantity of salt provisions for the use of the transports ; and hav-
ing taken with me, from home, an ample supply of salt beef and pork
for an India voyage, I had about forty barrels more than was requi-
site for my passage directly to America, which I caused to be imme-
diately and privately conveyed to a place of deposit several miles from
the city, and then called again on the French General and asked him
if he did not wish to purchase some salt provisions. He answered
affirmatively, and asked how much I had and what price I expected
for it; adding "you know it is in my power to take it at my own
price." I told him that he should have every barrel of it at his own
price or even without price, if he would release my ship that those
were the terms and the only terms on which he could or would have
it. The General was excited by my proposition and angrily threatened,
before I left, to take the provisions into requisition and to make me
regret having insulted him with such a proposition relating to it. Two
days afterwards the General sent an order for me to appear before
him, which I did, when he demanded me to " inform him promptly "
where my forty barrels of provisions were, intimating a doubt of
my having it, as his officers had not been able to find it. I told the
General, very frankly, that if the ship which I commanded belonged
wholly to myself, and the property of no other person had been con-
fided to my charge, I might, and probably should have felt not only
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willing but, perhaps, highly gratified to command the ship which was
to convey a part of the " Staff of such an array on such an expedi-
tion ; " but that the ship was not entirely my own ; that a large part of
the ship and the proceeds of a valuable cargo, belonged to other per-
sons who had entrusted the property to my charge, and that my sense
of obligation to those individuals was such as to forbid my assuming
any new duties until those due to them had been discharged by the
termination of the voyage in which I was then engaged. That, in
accordance with views of what I conceived to be my duty, I had al-
ready removed from my ship, not only those and other articles of
provisions, but also every article of value, to a place of safety known
only to myself and one other person; that I had done this with a hope
of thereby obtaining the release of my ship, and, if disappointed in
that hope, with a fixed and irrevocable determination to abandon my
vessel to the authorities of the city, in which case all my officers and
every individual of my crew would quit the vessel with me. That
avowal from me was met by a threat from the General to coerce me
not only to a delivery of the provisions, but to the performance of any
and every duty which he might assign to me; not only the ship but
likewise her captain, officers and crew had, he said, been placed un-
der requisition by the French Kepublic; a requisition not to be frus-
trated, he said, by any human being; and (for the purpose, I presume,
of augmenting the force of those last words of the General) a subal-
tern officer who was present, added (with an enthusiasm which seemed
to appertain to all the French officers), "Yes, sir, suppose God had one
ship here and the Republic wanted it, he must give it."
The interview was terminated by a declaration from me, that a re-
lease of the ship was the only price and the only means by which he
could or would by any act of mine, obtain possession of the provis-
ions, and I again left him. The following day a highly respectable
merchant of Genoa, with whom I had transacted some business and
at whose house I had met the French General, called on me with an
invitation to accompany him to the residence of the General, who, in
the presence of the merchant, gave his assurance that if I would put the
provisions into the possession of that merchant, I should receive
the actual cost of it in America and the release of my ship. This ar-
rangement was immediately carried into effect, and, before the close of
that day, I was again in the full and quiet possession of my vessel,
for which I felt wholly indebted to the accidental circumstance of my
being in possession of that otherwise trifling article of salt provis-
ions; and I could not but consider that a more beneficial disposal of
forty barrels of beef and pork had, probably, never been made than
in this instance.
I have been thus particular in the relation of the second case of
arbitrary power which I had experienced within the space of two
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months, to show the total disregard of neutral rights which was then
evinced by the belligerent governments.
Immediately on obtaining the release of my ship I engaged to take
a freight of wheat to Barcelona (where I had purchased a cargo of
brandy) and my ship was therewith loaded and ready for sea in a very
few days ; but as the embargo was not raised until the day of the sailing
of the French Expedition we were detained a week or ten days longer,
when we sailed in company with that expedition, but instead of ad-
hering to it and proceeding toward Egypt, as my ship had for a while
seemed destined to, I soon left the fleet on my more westerly course
towards Barcelona, where I arrived without accident and, after de-
livering my cargo of wheat, proceeded to the port of Salon in Spain.
On landing at Salon, I was placed, for a short time, in rather an awk-
ward situation, no less so than finding myself under the guidance of
one of the brute creation. As soon as the ship was safely anchored
at that port I hastened on shore of a Sunday morning, to procure a
conveyance (which I had been informed was always to be had there)
to the city of Reus, about ten or twelve miles in the interior, where I
had ordered the purchase of a cargo of brandy ; but on landing at
Salon the only means of conveyance to be procured was a horse, and
only one horse, which horse was not only to carry me, but also to
guide me to Reus.
Having ascertained that between Salon and Reus there were some
roads diverging from the direct one with scarcely a house to be seen
near either of them, it was not without some hesitation that I consent-
ed to take such a conveyance, and such a guide ; but feeling an anx-
ious desire to hasten the loading of the ship, I was at length induced
by the strong assurance of the hostler that the horse " saba"the way,
to trust myself entirely to the guidance of the animal ; and had the
satisfaction to find that his owner had not misrepresented his facul-
ties, for he not only pursued the direct road to Reus (passing by sev-
eral others on the way) but, on reaching that city, he took me also
directly to the door of its principal hotel, after turning the corners
of several streets which led to it so that instead of guiding I was
actually and entirely guided by a horse from the seashore of Salon to
the principal hotel at Reus and as well guided as any human being
could have done it. There I took in a full cargo of brandy and wine,
with which (stopping a few hours at Gibraltar to enable me to pass
through the " Gut" in the night and thereby avoid the privateers in
that vicinity) , I had the good fortune to escape further capture and
to reach Boston in August, 1798, thus terminating a voyage of im-
mense hazard and of incessant and intense anxiety from the moment
of my arrival at Cadiz and hearing of the existence of the French
decrees, until its close; so much so, especially as it had been a voy-
age of profit as well as of pain, as to induce me to conclude to take
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an interval of rest ou shore, in the course of which, the comforts and
conveniences of my mother and her family were somewhat increased
by various expenditures within and upon the house which I pur-
chased for them four years before.
Under those decrees of the French Government which caused me
to be sent into Malaga, and other decrees of a similar character which
were subsequently issued by that government, numerous captures
were made of American property, and great dissatisfaction thereby
created throughout the country ; so much so, as to cause two special
missions (following each other) from the government of the United
States to the government of France on the subject, by the latter of
which missions a Treaty was negotiated in which the injustice of
those captures was fully recognized but that Treaty with France,
like the one with England of 1794, failed to prevent a continuance of
depredations on our commerce.
Shortly after my arrival at Boston, in August, 1798, it was con-
cluded to send the ship Portland back to the Mediterranean, owned
as on her former voyage (one-third part by myself) and she was
soon despatched on such a voyage. Previous to the departure of that
ship Mr. Eben. Preble and myself purchased another vessel, a large
schooner, for a voyage to Lisbon and thence to Eussia, to be confided
to the care and management of my brother William, who then com-
menced his duties as master and supercargo, before he was quite
twenty years of age, and who continued in charge of the same vessel
and cargo for about three years, trading (after the first voyage) be-
tween Boston and the Island of Cuba. It was in the course of my
residence on shore at that interval between my voyages, viz., in the
autumn of 1799, that the present " East India Marine Society " of this
city was brought into existence by the efforts of a few other East
India shipmasters and myself; and organized in January, 1800, a
short time previous to my leaving this country for India. The first
rules, etc., of the society were drafted by me, as one of the committee
appointed for that purpose.
I remained on shore and about home, from August, 1798, until the
latter part of January, 1800, in the course of which time I had several
offers to go abroad, for which I felt grateful but declined their accept-
ance. Before the return of the ship Portland, which took place late
in the autumn of 1799, I had become so very tired of staying on shore
and so anxious to resume more active duties that I made a conditional
sale of my part of that ship and made an engagement to become a
part owner, with the late Ebenezer Preble and Samuel Parkman of
Boston, of a larger and better ship, called the "Herald" of about
three hundred and thirty tons, in which, with a crew of thirty men
and armed with ten guns, I sailed from Boston on the twenty-ninth
day of January, 1800, for Madeira, and thence to Madras and Calcutta,
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with a stock of sixty- three thousand dollars in specie and merchan-
dise, and with credits authorizing drafts on England or the United
States, for about forty thousand dollars, making together over one
hundred thousand dollars, which, at that time, was considered a very
large stock of which, as in my previous voyages to India, I fur-
nished, besides my interest as owner of one-fourth part of the vessel
and cargo, five per cent of the cost of the outward cargo and for
which I was to take ten per cent of the return cargo, at the close of
the voyage as my compensation for transacting the business thereof.
On that voyage I took with me in the capacity of clerk, my other
brother, Zachariah, then about sixteen and a half years old (being
the first time of his leaving home) and furnished him with a small
adventure for his own account. After stopping at Madeira and Ma-
dras, we reached Calcutta the latter part of July and remained there
until the last of October, procuring a return cargo, with which we
left the mouth of the river Hoogly on the first day of November, in
company with four other American ships; the " Perseverance " Cap-
tain Williamson, the " Cleopatra " Captain Naylor, the " Grace "
Captain Davis, all of Philadelphia, and the " Sphinx " Captain Brantz
of Baltimore ; the captains and supercargoes of these ships and my-
self having entered into an engagement, before leaving Calcutta, to
keep company with each other until we passed the latitude of the
southern part of the Island of Ceylon, with a hope that our united
force (each ship having from eight to twelve guns) might enable us
to defend our property against the attack of a single French priva-
teer, several of which were known to be cruising in Bengal Bay. Of
this squadron of American Indiamen, I was designated as the Com-
modore.
On the morning of the third day of November, at daylight, two
strange sails were discovered a few leagues to windward of us, one
of which was soon recognized to be the East India Company's packet
ship " Cornwallis " of eighteen guns, which left the river at the same
time with us. At about 8 o'clock, A. M., the other ship stood towards
the " Cornwallis," soon after which the latter bore down upon us under
full sail, commencing at the same time a running fight with the other
ship which then displayed French colours. We soon perceived that
they were both plying their sweeps very briskly, that the Frenchman's
grape was making great havoc on the Cornwallis, and that the crew
of the latter ship had cut away her boats and were throwing over-
board their ballast and other articles for the purpose of lightening
their ship, and thereby facilitating their escape. The sea was per-
fectly smooth and the wind very light, so much so that it was quite
mid-day before either of the ships were within gunshot of us, by
which time we (the five American ships) were in a close line, our
decks cleared of a large stock of poultry (which with theii- coops
NATHANIEL SILSBEE. 23
could be seen for considerable distance round us) and every prepara-
tion made to defend ourselves, to the extent of our ability; but this
display of resistance on our part seemed to be quite disregarded by
the pursuing ship, and she continued steering directly for my own
ship which was in the center of our fleet, until she was fully and
fairly within gunshot, when my own guns were first opened upon her,
which were instantly followed by those of each and all of the other
four ships.
When the matches were applied to our guns the French ship was
plying her sweeps, and, with studding-sails on both sides, coming
directly upon us ; but when the smoke of our guns, caused by repeated
broadsides from each of our ships, had so passed off as to enable us to
see her distinctly, she was close upon the wind and going from us. The
captain of the " Cornwall! s " (which was then within hailing dis-
tance) expressed a wish to exchange signals with us, and to keep
company while the French ship (which was known by him to be "La
Gloire," a privateer of twenty-two nine pounders and four hundred
men) was in sight, which request was 'complied with, and he having
lost all his boats, I went on board his ship, where our signals were
made known to him, and where the captain and officers of the " Corn-
wallis " acknowledged the protection which we had afforded them in
the most grateful terms.
The "Cornwallis" continued with us two days, in the course of
which, the privateer approached us several times in the night, but
finding that we were awake, hauled off and after the second night we
saw no more of her. A sketch of that rencounter, from the pencil of
my highly esteemed friend, Lewis Brantz, Esq., of Baltimore, who
commanded the " Sphinx," was subsequently sent to me by him and
that sketch was borrowed of me several years thereafter by an Ital-
ian friend then in this country, without my having the least suspicion
of the purpose for which it was borrowed until some seven or eight
months after, when it was returned to me accompanied by a scagliola
table-piece, from Leghorn, exhibiting a copy of Mr. Brantz's sketch,
which had been sent to Italy for that purpose. 1
1 This interesting art-work is well represented at the Institute by a " Guide's
Aurora," imported by William Silsbee, and by several fine pieces imported and
used by Senator Silsbee, one of them the centre-piece of a dinner table, at
which have dined some of the most distinguished of Americans. Of the Scagl-
iola table described above by Senator Silsbee, his grand-daughter, Mrs. Mary C.
Whitwell, who now has it, writes as follows, August 9, 1898: "The table-top ia
circular and thirty-eight inches in diameter and the painting occupies a circle in
the centre, of sixteen inches diameter, surrounded with a narrow conventional
wreath in shades of yellow. Near the outer edge, and four inches in width is
another and more elaborate wreath in the same shades of yellow, and of the
nature of scrolls of acanthus leaves."
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That voyage in the "Herald" was terminated by a safe arrival at
Boston toward the last of February, 1801, and to the satisfaction,
I believe, of all who were interested in it.
At the close of that voyage I had so far advanced my pecuniary
means as to feel that another voyage might and probably would enable
me to retire from the sea and to change my condition on shore.
With the prospect already mentioned, that I might and probably
should, at the close of another voyage, be enabled to retire from the
sea, I did, on the first day of April, 1801, make to Miss Mary Crown-
inshield, daughter and one of the youngest children of George and
Mary Crowninshield, and grand-daughter of the late Richard Derby
(who was about five and a half years younger than myself I had long
entertained a hope, unknown, however, to her, that she might remain
unengaged until I could, consistently with the course which I'had pre-
scribed to myself, make such a proposal) my first advance towards
matrimony. An engagement of our future union was the result.
With such a change of situation in prospect, I sailed again in the
ship " Herald " on the eighteenth day of April, with a valuable cargo
under my charge, for the north of Europe with an intention of pro-
ceeding from thence to India, or to return from Europe to the United
States, as I might think best. While at Rotterdam (to which port I
proceeded after having stopped in England and passed a few days in
London for the purpose of obtaining information of the state of the
European markets) I concluded not to go to India, but to proceed to
St. Petersburg!! for a return cargo, stopping on the way at Copen-
hagen to dispose of part of the outward cargo which I did, and from
the time of entering the Gulf of Finland (not having been able to pro-
cure a pilot for that sea) until arriving at Cronstadt, which was more
than forty-eight hours, I never left the ship's deck nor closed my eyes
in sleep for a single moment.
I brought from St. Petersburg!! one of the largest investments of
Russian manufactures which, at that time, had ever been taken from
that port in any one American vessel, with which cargo I arrived safe
at Boston, the latter part of September of the same year 1801, when
my duties as a shipmaster terminated.
A new commander and supercargo was obtained for the ship " Her-
ald " and she was fitted and despatched for India. My brother, Zacha-
riah, who had accompanied me on the last two voyages, was continued
in her for the next voyage, in the same capacity of clerk. I retained
my part of the " Herald " and cargo and became part owner of a new
ship called the " Levant " which Mr. Ebenezer Preble was then build-
ing for my brother William to take charge of; and which he retained
the charge of until the year 1807, when he also retired from the sea.
The political excitement which existed in this country, at the time
NATHANIEL SIL8BKE. 25
of my becoming a citizen on shore, was such as to make it difficult, if
not impracticable, for any one so situated, to maintain a position of
perfect neutrality there seemed to be no other than belligerent ground
to stand on. On the fourth d;iy of March, 1801, Thomas Jefferson was
inaugurated President, and Aaron Burr, Vice-President, of the United
States. The result of that election, after the greatest political con-
test which had ever taken place in this country, evinced the ascend-
ency of the Republican over the Federal party. Those two political
parties had existed since the discussions which took place in the differ-
ent States of this Union, in the year 1788, upon the expediency of adopt-
ing the present Constitution of the United States which had been
framed and recommended by a convention of delegates from each and
all the States, held at Philadelphia, and which terminated on the sev-
enteenth day of September, 1787. Those two parties first existed
under the appellation of "Federalists" and" Anti-Federalists" and
subsequently under that of Federalists and Republicans ; the former
of which were ascendent in the government from its organization un-
der the present Constitution in March, 1789, until the period of Mr.
Jefferson's election. When those parties originated in 1788, I was too
young to know or to think much of political affairs, and from that
time until the autumn of 1801 (with the exception of one year, 1799) I
was but seldom within the limits of the United States, and even then
but rarely, if ever, longer than one or two months at a time ; conse-
quently I had not participated in any of the doings of either of the
political parties, and had never attended any political meeting, or ever
given my vote on any occasion. I could not then approve, nor have I
at any time since, of all the acts or even of all the principles of either
of those two parties, but those of the Republican party were, in my
judgment, generally more correct and better adapted to the institu-
tions of this country, than those of the other party ; and, with those
impressions, although most of my personal friends were of the Fed-
eral party, I became attached to the Republican party, though I could
not and did not approve or support, either by my vote or otherwise,
all their measures. The first vote that I ever gave, on any public oc-
casion was, I think, at the spring election of 1802.
From the close of my last voyage in September, 1801, I was neces-
sarily in Boston most of the time, aiding in fitting the two ships
(Herald and Levant) for sea, until December, when, both vessels hav-
ing sailed, I was enabled to pass most of my time in Salem, which
was to be my future, as it had been my past, place of residence, and in
the following summer of 1802, after having hired a house for the use
of my mother's family, I commenced repairs and alterations of my
own house (which had been previously occupied by them) for the ac-
commodation of a family of my own; and on the evening of the
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twelfth of December, 1802, 1 became a married man, and immediately
after the marriage ceremony had been performed at the residence of
her father, myself and wife proceeded to our own house and became
housekeepers.
Nothing occurred to mar our happiness until the fifteenth day of
September, 1803, when our first born child, a beautiful daughter, born
on the thirteenth day of the same month, and only two days old, was
suddenly taken from us by death an event yet fresh in my recollec-
tion. In the course of the same month of September, 1803, the ship
" Herald" returned from India, and my brother Zachariah, who had
been in her the three voyages as clerk, was placed in charge of ship
and cargo on a voyage to Batavia, and sailed on that voyage in De-
cember following.
Each of my two brothers was now in charge of good ships with
valuable cargoes, in the India trade, and with as fair prospects of suc-
cess as young men, thus situated, could hope for; and this circum-
stance contributed in no small degree to the augmentation of my own
happiness having, since the death of my father, considered the du-
ties devolving on me towards them to be those of parent as well as of
brother ; and my efforts as well as my solicitude for their advance -
ment and happiness were of a parental as well as of a brotherly char-
acter. In the autumn of the same year (1803) I extended my interest
in commerce by the purchase of a part of two other vessels which
were sent on voyages to India.
In the month of May, 1804, my brother Zachariah having returned
in the ship " Herald," with a cargo of coffee from Batavia, it was
concluded by the owners to send the ship and cargo to Holland, and
from thence to send the ship on a voyage to China, under my brother's
charge. My own health at that time, not being so good as usual, I
was not only invited but urged by the other owners, to take passage
in the ship to Holland and to direct the management of the business
there, and as inducement (additional to that of improving my health)
they most unexpectedly to me as well as most generously (for I could
not but so consider it) proffered me, in addition to the full compensa-
tion allowed to my brother as supercargo, a commission on the sale of
the cargo in Holland. On the tenth day of June, I took leave, for the
first time in my life, of a wife and of a home of my own, and sailed
from the harbour of Salem (to which, for my own accommodation, the
ship had been brought from Boston) for Rotterdam, where we arrived
safe, disposed of the cargo, and from whence the ship was dispatched
on the contemplated voyage to China ; soon after which I took passage
for Boston and arrived at Provincetown harbor (Cape Cod) about the
middle of December, and from thence reached Salem, by land, two
days after, when and where I had not only the happiness of finding
NATHANIEL SILSBEE. 27
my wife and other connections whom I had anticipated the pleasure
of meeting, in good health, but also the unexpected satisfaction of
meeting my brother William, who had arrived from Batavia much
earlier than had been anticipated. The pleasure of meeting my con-
nections on that occasion was increased by the influence of a strong
hope that I might never again feel obliged, or be induced, to leave my
family or my home, for any length of time.
On the morning of the twenty-eighth of December of the same year,
1801, I received at Boston, a message by express from Salem, an-
nouncing to me the birth, on that morning, of a son, which intelli-
gence brought me to Salem in less than two hours after it reached
me at Boston, and the child was introduced to me by the name of
" Nathaniel Junior," which name had been, thus far, bestowed before
I had ever seen him. 1
In 1806 I gave to my mother and sister, during their lives and the
life of the survivor of them, a piece of land contiguous to the prem-
ises then occupied by myself and, jointly with my two brothers, built
a dwelling house upon it which was also given to them (my mother
and sister) during their lives and which they took possession of in the
early part of the year 1807. In the spring of that year (1807) both
of my brothers (who then and for some time thereafter) made a part
of my mother's family) arrived in this country, from India, nearly at
the same time, and as one of the owners of the two ships in which
they had been employed was retiring from commercial pursuits, both
ships were sold at public auction.
In the month of June of that year (1807) a great and unlooked-for
excitement throughout the country was caused by an attack near the
Capes of Virginia, of the British frigate " Leopard" upon the United
States frigate " Chesapeake," because, as was alleged, some English
seamen who had absconded from the former, had been permitted to
enter on board the latter ship. Upon this " Chesapeake affair" (as it
was called) meetings were called and the public sentiment expressed
in almost every city, town and village of the Union, and on the thir-
teenth of July, Mr. Jefferson (then President of the United States)
Issued a proclamation calling a special meeting of Congress on the twen-
ty-sixth of October, 1807. On the twenty-second of December a gen-
eral embargo was laid, by Congress, upon all American vessels engaged
in foreign commerce ; and that embargo was continued until the first
of March, 1809, when it was repealed and, as a substitute therefor,
an Act of Non-intercourse with England and with France was passed
and continued in force against England until the revocation of her
" Orders in Council," and against France until the revocation of her
1 Mayor of Salem, 1849-50 and 1858-59; treasurer of Harvard University, 1862-76.
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"Berlin and Milan Decrees," so far as those " Orders in Council" and
those " Decrees" affected the commerce of the United States.
Having- found it inconvenient to pass so much of my time at Boston
and away from my family, as my interest in the two ships which my
brothers commanded had occasionally compelled me to do, and as my
brother William had determined to retire from the sea, we (my two
brothers and myself) had a ship built at Salem to which the name of
" Herald" was given, and which was launched in November, 1807,
and would have sailed immediately for India under the charge of my
brother Zachariah ; but before she could be dispatched, the embargo
just alluded to was laid by our government, which kept the "Herald"
at the wharf until its termination in March, 1809, soon after which
the " Herald" sailed, under command of my brother, for Sumatra,
since which time there has not, I think, a single year elapsed (except
during the continuance of the late war between this country and Eng-
land) in which I have not been interested in one or more vessels to
that Island, for the article of pepper, and in all the vessels on voy-
ages in which I have been interested since that period, my brothers
had an opportunity of taking a share, if they wished to.
In the month of April, 1808, Mr. Jacob Crowninshield, a brother of
my wife and then the Representative of this District in Congress, died
at Washington, within a year after the death of his amiable wife,
events which caused an irreparable loss to their four young children.
Mr. Crowninshield had been four years a member of Congress, in the
course of which he was nominated by Mr. Jefferson (then the Presi-
dent of the United States) and confirmed by the Senate as Secretary
of the Navy, but which appointment he declined accepting on account
of the then delicate state of his wife's health. Between Mr. Jacob
Crowninshield and myself there existed an intimate acquaintance and
I think I may say, a sincere friendship, which was commenced in early
life and in foreign countries, where we occasionally met while sailing
in the employ of the late Mr. Derby, first in the capacity of clerks and
subsequently as masters and factors, and which intimacy and friend-
ship were, doubtless, increased and strengthened by my subsequent
connection with his sister. I have ever considered his death as an
event which deprived me of one of my most valued friends. The re-
mains of Mr. Crowninshield were brought from Washington and landed
at Salem from a vessel which brought them from Baltimore ; and the
procession which followed them from the wharf to the place of in-
terment passed his former residence on the same day of the same
month and about the same hour of the day, in which the funeral of
his wife took place from that residence in the preceding year.
On the morning of the tenth of April, 1809, my own family was fur-
ther increased by the birth of a daughter; and on that occasion it was
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not necessary to send from home to apprise me of the event, as was
the case when the last preceding similar event occurred ; to that daugh-
ter was given the name of her mother, " Mary Crowninshield." I then
felt quite contented with the share of the blessings of this life which
had been accorded to me, and my solicitude was rather to retain what
I had than to acquire more.
Early in the month of June, 1810, I left home accompanied by Mrs.
Silsbee and our two children and also by my brother, Zachariah Sils-
bee, and attended by a maid-servant, for Saratoga ; stopping a short
time, on our way there, at Worcester, Northampton and Lebanon. On
our return from Saratoga, after passing a month in the vicinity of the
much frequented Springs of that place, we took passage at Albany on
board the " Car of Neptune " (the first steamboat which either of us
had ever been on board of ) and after a passage, which was then con-
sidered a very short one, of twenty-seven and a half hours, we landed
at the city of New York, which was the first time that either of us
had been at that place. In the course of the day on which we arrived
at that city, I visited the burial ground in which, nineteen years be-
fore that time (in 1791), the remains of my father had been interred.
We came from New York to Providence on our way home, in a packet
Vessel (steamboats had not then commenced running in the " Sound").
In February, 1812, my brother Zachariah on his return from Europe
concluded to abandon a seafaring life and to try his fortune on shore,
and from that time the adventures and speculations of either myself
or my brothers, were for account of all three of us ; not, however, as
" co-partners " but for the account of each, in such proportions as
were from time to time, agreed on between us, according to our re-
spective means.
Connected with the seafaring lives of myself and my brothers
there were some circumstances which do not usually occur in one fam-
ily. In the first place, each of us commenced that occupation in the
capacity of clerk; myself at the age of about fourteen years; my
brother William, 1 at about fifteen ( he having previously passed be
tween two and three years in a store on shore) and my brother Zach-
ariah at about sixteen and a half years of age. Each and all of us ob-
tained the command of vessels and the consignment of their cargoes
before attaining the age of twenty years, viz., myself at the age of
eighteen and a half, my brother William at nineteen and a half, and my
brother Zachariah before he was twenty years old. Each and all of us
left off going to sea before reaching the age of twenty-nine years, viz.,
myself at twenty-eight and a half ; William at twenty-eight ; and Zach-
ariah at twenty-eight and a half years of age. My brother William
*See Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., Vol. v, pp. 193 and 247.
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never had charge of but two vessels, to the one or the other of which
he was continually attached during the whole of the eight and a half
years that he commanded a vessel, and my brother Zachariah was
never at sea in any capacity but in two vessels and both of those vessels
bore the same name, as after the sale of the ship in which his first
voyages were made, the same name "Herald" was given to a new ship
in which he finished his seafaring life.
On the eighteenth day of June, 1812, after an embargo of sixty days,
the government of the United States declared war against England,
which had a most depressing effect upon the commercial interest of
the country. The vessels that were at home were generally disman-
tled and hauled up, except such as were suitable for privateers; and
although a much larger proportion of the vessels and property which
happened to be abroad at the commencement of the war escaped cap-
ture than was expected, yet a number of those vessels and a consider-
able amount of property fell into the hands of the enemy and caused
large losses to the commercial part of the community.
In the month of December of that year (1812) a settlement was
made by compromise, of a suit which had been long pending in the
Courts of this Commonwealth (.and which had for several years caused
me great inquietude) against the owners of the ship " Levant " and
also against my brother William as master of that ship, upon a con-
tract made by him at the Isle of France, in December, 1802, to deliver
a cargo of pepper at Bordeaux in France, which he was prevented ex-
ecuting by an unlooked-for renewal of the war between England and
France, before he reached Europe, and by the existence of such " De-
crees " and "Orders" of the belligerent powers as subjected to capture
and condemnation any vessel proceeding to either of these countries,
from a colony of such country. Besides the amount which (by a com-
promise) was paid by the owners of the ship, my brother, as master,
had to pay between eight and nine thousand dollars which I consid-
ered so heavy a draft upon his means, that I gratuitously paid nearly
one-half the amount or about four thousand dollars for him as a dona-
tion, besides what I had to pay as part owner of the vessel.
In the summer of 1813 my wife lost her good mother, after a sick-
ness which had confined her to her bed for two years.
About the first of June, 1814, I left Salem, accompanied by Mr.
Robert Stone, for New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and with
the intention of extending our journey to Kentucky, Ohio, and some
of the other western states of the Union ; but while at the city of
Washington (the first time that I was ever in that city, and not then
entertaining the most remote thought that I should, thereafter, be
called to pass so much of my time there) I received such intelligence
of the presence of the enemy's ships off the harbour of Salem, and of
NATHANIEL SILSBEE. 31
the apprehension that a landing from them might be attempted, in
that vicinity, that I was induced by a sense of duty to my family as
well, as by a regard for my property, to relinquish the western tour
which I had contemplated making, and hasten home, which I accord-
ingly did ; and soon after my return, in July, I removed my family to
a residence, hired for that purpose, in the town of Middleton, where
they remained until late in the ensuing autumn, during which time we
were in continual expectation of a visit from the British ships which
remained in sight off our harbour ; and so strong were the apprehen-
sions of such a visit that I did not pass even a single night with my
family while they were at Middleton, nor was I ever beyond the lim-
its of Salem, between sunset and sunrise, during that time, but al-
ways slept by, if not on my arms.
In the month of February, 1815, the news of peace, between this
country and England, which had been negotiated by the commission-
ers of the two countries (Messrs. John Quincy Adams, James A. Bay-
ard, Henry Clay, Albert Gallatin, and Jonathan Russell, in behalf of
the United States) at Ghent, reached here, and was received with dem-
onstrations of universal joy in every part of the country.
Although I rather gained than lost money by the shares which I
took in several privateers, yet at the close of the war the amount of
my property was nearly twenty per cent, or one -fifth part less than
at the commencement of it ; a considerable part of which reduction
was caused by my subscriptions to the loans which were made to the
government in the early part of the war, principally for six per cent
stock, at par, and which stock, at the close of the war, was not worth
more than eighty to eighty-two cents on the dollar. At this rate much
of it was sold, nor did it rise much, if any, above that price for a long
time after the peace, and prior to that event it had got down as low
as fifty cents on the dollar, and but few purchasers to be found even
at that reduced price.
In the month of June, 1815, Mrs. Silsbee's father died, at the ad-
vanced age of eighty-one years, and during a life of that unusual
length he had enjoyed almost uninterrupted health until a few months
before his death.
Immediately after the passing, by Congress, on the tenth of April,
1816, of the act establishing the " Bank of the United States," I was
appointed by the executive government of the United States, a joint
commissioner with the late William Gray and John Parker of Boston,
to receive the subscriptions within this State, to that institution, of
which, upon its organization, I was elected a director of the branch
established at Boston; and was annually reelected to the direction
either of that branch or of the parent bank at Philadelphia, from 1816
until 1832, when I declined being a candidate for reelection.
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In the autumn of 1816, at a Republican convention held at Salem,
of delegates from the several towns of this congressional district, I
was nominated as their candidate to represent this district, in the then
next congress; this occurrence was to me a most unexpected one
I had not the slightest knowledge nor had I even ever heard the inti-
mation or conjecture that such a nomination was contemplated by any
one, until I was officially notified of it by a committee deputed for that
purpose by the convention.
Having, on several occasions, declined invitations to be a candidate
for the State Legislature, and never having felt the least inclination
to assume any public trusts, but, on the contrary, an aversion to
them and having, moreover, never been afflicted with the smallest
share of ambition for public honours, especially such as would call me
from my commercial pursuits and from my home (to both of which I
felt strong attachments, and preferred them to any other occupation
or to any other home) I could not and did not hesitate to decline the
proffered honour of the convention. I was, however, prevailed upon
by the committee and by others, to allow the nomination to be acted
upon, although I could not and did not consent to take the office, in
the event of my being elected to it, of which I thought, as I presume
every one else did, that there was but very little probability.
The Federal party had then held a majority of the votes of this con-
gressional district and had elected their candidate for the last preced-
ing eight years. Moreover, the late Hon. Timothy Pickering who then
represented the district and who, it was understood, would be their
candidate at the coming election and who had already been publicly
proclaimed as such, was one of the most distinguished public charac-
ters as well as one of the most respectable individuals of the State,
against whose reelection his political opponents could not and did not
entertain much, if any, hope of success; but shortly after the " Re-
publican" nomination was announced in the newspapers, Colonel Pick-
ering most unexpectedly declined being a candidate and Mr. Thomas
Stevens of Beverly (a merchant of high respectability) was nomi-
nated as my opponent, and the contest between that gentleman and
myself was, very unexpectedly to me, decided in my favor though but
by a small majority. The result of that election afforded but little
satisfaction to me, and if I could have foreseen the effect upon the
best part of the residue of my life, by keeping me, as it did, in public
service for the ensuing eighteen years, I should, most certainly, never
have incurred the. personal inconveniences and pecuniary disadvan-
tages to which I have thereby been subjected.
In the spring of 1817 James Monroe, who was then President of the
United States, visited the Eastern and Middle States of the Union. I
was one of the committee which was appointed by the citizens of
NATHANIEL SIL8BEK. 33
Salein to invite the President to visit the town and to make the neces-
sary arrangements for his reception and accommodation. The invi-
tation was accepted by the President and, on the first day of his visit,
he was publicly conducted to the " Essex" now " La Fayette Coffee
House" where accommodation shad been provided for him and where
he dined with the committee and a number of guests. In the evening
of that day, July 8, he met the ladies and gentlemen of the place and
of the immediate neighbourhood at the Town Hall which had been pre-
pared for that purpose. On the next day, he visited the Fort in com-
pany with the committee and a number of other citizens ; and on his
return from the Fort he partook of a collation at my house, accom-
panied by the committee and other gentlemen of Salem and its vicinity.
On the following day he dined with Mr. B. W. Crowninshield (then
Secretary of the Navy) having taken his breakfast on the same day,
in company with the committee, with Colonel Thorndike at his resi-
dence in Beverly.
On leaving here, Mr. Monroe proceeded to the eastward and, after
going as far as Portland, returned to Washington by a route south of
this place.
On the fourth day of November, 1817, I reluctantly left Salem in our
own carriage, accompanied by Mrs. Silsbee, our two children and a
female attendant, to take my seat in Congress, on its meeting on the
first Monday of December, at Washington. On our way to that city,
after stopping a few days at New York, we made a yet longer stop-
page at Philadelphia, at the same boarding house with Mrs. Silsbee's
sister (Mrs. Rice) who was then residing temporarily in that city; it
having been for the purpose of affording the sisters an opportunity of
passing a little time together, that we left Salem some time earlier than
we should otherwise have done. We reached Washington only a few
days before the meeting of Congress, and proceeded directly to the
boarding house of Mrs. Thompson, one of the "Six Buildings" on Penn-
sylvania Avenue, the whole of which house had been previously en-
gaged by Mr. B. W. Crowninshield (then Secretary of the Navy) for the
accommodation of his own and my family. That session of Congress
was the first session of the Fifteenth Congress, and the first session
under the administration of Mr. Monroe. The officers of the execu-
tive branch of the government being James Monroe, President, Dan-
iel D. Tompkius of New York, Vice-President ; John Quincy Adams of
Massachusetts, Secretary of State; William H. Crawford of Georgia,
Secretary of the Treasury ; John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, Secre-
tary of War ; Benjamin W. Crowninshield of Massachusetts, Secretary
of the Navy and William Wirt of Virginia, Attorney General. The
Senators from Massachusetts (which then included the District, now
the State, of Maine) were Harrison G. Otis of Boston and Eli P. Ash-
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mun of Northampton. The delegates from Massachusetts to the House
of Representatives (of which Henry Clay of Kentucky was then the
Speaker), being nineteen in number, were: Benjamin Adams of Ux-
bridge, Samuel C. Allen of Greenfield, Walter Folger, jr. , of Nantucket,
Timothy Fuller of Cambridge, Joshua Gage of Augusta, Me., John
Holmes of Alfred, Me., Jonathan Mason of Boston, Elijah H. Mills of
Northampton, Marcus Morton of Taunton, Jeremiah Nelson of New-
bnryport, Benjamin Orr of Brunswick, Me., (Maine was then part of
Massachusetts), Albion K. Parris of Paris, Me., Nathaniel Ruggles of
Roxbury, Zabdiel Sampson of Plymouth, Henry Shaw of Lanesbor-
ough, Solomon Story of Westminster, Ezekiel Whitman of Portland,
Me., John Wilson of Belfast, Me., and myself.
A most dejecting occurrence overtook my family on the very thres-
hold of my public labors. While in the chamber of the House of Rep-
resentatives on the first day of the meeting of that Congress, and the
first day of my congressional duties, I received several letters from
home, announcing to me the very sudden and much lamented death of
Mrs. Silsbee's eldest brother, Mr. George Crowninshield, who had been
a member of my family the greater part of the time since the death of
his father in 1815, and who was the last person of whom, on the step
of my own door, I took leave on my departure from Salem, and with-
out the slightest apprehension that it was the last time that I should
see him.
An occurrence, while dining with Mr. Clay (Speaker of the House of
Representatives) in the course of that session of Congress, is yet
strongly impressed on my recollection and affords a verification of the
old adage that " the truth may not always be spoken -without causing
regret."
It had been stated in some of the public journals that a sea turtle
had been taken and carried in to New York which weighed one hun-
dred and thirty pounds. That statement was alluded to at the dinner
table, and caused some of the gentlemen then present (who had seen
no other than land-turtles) to express in strong terms, their disbelief
of the truth of the statement, and their regret that an editor of .a pub-
lic journal should attempt so far to impose on the community as to
give circulation to such a report. Knowing that sea-turtle were often
found of a much larger size than of one hundred and thirty pounds, I
was induced to make some remarks upon the subject with a view to
remove from the editor of the journal those unfavorable impressions
towards him which his story of the turtle seemed to have created ;
and on being asked if I had seen or ever before heard of so large
a turtle, I unhesitatingly answered affirmatively, and added that I had
myself, on more than one occasion, taken them at the Island of Ascen-
sion, on my way from India, weighing more than four hundred pounds,
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an avowal, which although nothing could be more true, caused me
much regret for some time thereafter, as I could not but apprehend
from the astonishment expressed by some of the highly respectable
gentlemen then present (with whom I had then enjoyed but a short
acquaintance) that either my veracity, or the correctness of my mem-
ory, was somewhat suspected by them.
In the month of November, 1818, and shortly before the meeting of
the next session of Congress, I was enabled to attain and to impart
full confirmation of what I had said on the subject. Mr. Clay, while
on a short visit to this part of the country, at that time, dined and
passed a day with me at Salem, in the course of which I took him to
the East India Museum, where I called to his recollection the turtle
story at his table in Washington (which had not then ceased to harass
my feelings) and then, with the shell of a sea-turtle before us, I asked
several highly respectable members of the E. I. M. Society who were
present if they had ever taken any such turtle in the course of their
voyages and if so, of what size they had generally found them to be ;
and I had the satisfaction to hear many of those members say that
they had frequently taken such turtle, and had but seldom found
them weighing less than five hundred and from that up to eight hun-
dred pounds each. I requested Mr. Clay to bear in mind those decla-
rations, assuring him that I should call on him at Washington to
repeat them to each and every individual who was at his dinner table
with me on the occasion alluded to. They were so repeated, by Mr.
Clay, to each and to all those gentlemen, and my own mind thereby
relieved from the unpleasant apprehensions which had for some time
disturbed it, and which have caused me to be more circumspect, on
similar occasions, ever since.
On my return to Salem in May, 1818, at the close of my first con-
gressional session, I purchased, in compliance with the wishes of
Mrs. Silsbee a site which she selected for the purpose (on the east side
of Pleasant street and opposite Washington square) and commenced
building thereon a new brick dwelling house to which was devoted as
much time as could be spared from my commercial pursuits during the
whole of that summer.
In the autumn of that year I was, in opposition to my ardent and
sincere solicitations and entreaties, nominated for the reelection to
Congress and at the request of a number of the leading individuals
of both o( the then existing political parties (Republican and Federal)
I consented to abide the result; with a positive declaration, how-
ever, that I would not again consent to such a proposal. As there
was no candidate formally opposed to me, I was elected by a large
majority though a number of votes were cast for Colonel Pickering,
without, as was said, either his own concurrence or that of his in-
fluential friends.
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The latter part of November, 1818, I took leave of my family and
friends, on my second tour of duty at Washington ; and never had I
left them so reluctantly the anticipation of it had caused me much
inquietude for a long time preceding my departure. On reaching
Washington I engaged lodgings (including a parlor for myself) at
the house of Mrs. Thompson (with whom myself and family boarded
the preceding session) and prevailed on Mr. Z. Sampson and Mr.
Hale, father of George Silsbee Hale, members of the House of Rep-
resentatives, from Massachusetts and New Hampshire, to take lodg-
ings in the same house and to form a mess with me; and tendered to
them the unrestrained use of my parlor in which we passed, in the
course of the session, many social and pleasant hours, and formed a
friendship for each other which continued between Mr. Sampson
and myself until he was called out of life several years thereafter;
and which is yet uninterrupted and which I trust, will ever be cherished
by the survivors of us. Subsequent to the period of our thus resid-
ing together, my name was introduced into the families of both of
those gentlemen. Mr. Sampson gave the name of " Zabdiel Silsbee
Sampson " to a son born thereafter and Mr. Hale gave the name of
" George Silsbee Hale " to one of his sons born some time thereafter.
The members of the executive branch of the government were the
same at the commencement of the first session of the fifteenth Con-
gress, except that Smith Thompson of New York was Secretary of
the Navy instead of B. W. Crowninshield who had resigned that office.
The Massachusetts delegation to that second session of the fifteenth
Congress were, in the Senate, Harrison G. Otis and Prentiss Melleu ;
and in the House of Representatives, the same as the preceding ses-
sion, with the exception of Enoch Lincoln in the place of A. K. Par-
ris, who had resigned. At the close of that short session, in March
following, Mrs. Silsbee met me at New York, on my way home, for
the purpose of making some purchases for our new house, the com-
pletion of which occupied no small portion of my time until the nine-
teenth day of October, 1819, on which day my family took possession
of it as their future residence.
This house and the land appurtenant cost me about twenty-five thou-
sand dollars, which, having been procured at the request of Mrs.
Silsbee, I considered as specially hers, and charged to the funds which
I had received as her share of the estates of her father and brother
George Crowninshield.
After passing about a month with my family in our new residence
I left them and it, on my third tour of duty at Washington, and took
lodgings, soon after reaching there, at the boarding house of Mrs.
McLeod on Pennsylvania Avenue, with a small and pleasant mess com-
posed of Gen. Alexander Smyth of Virginia, Ezekiel Whitman of Port-
NATHANIEL SILSBEE. 37
land, Edward Dowse of Dedham, and myself all members of the
House of Representatives. In that residence together, during a long
session of Congress (from the early part of December until the latter
part of May) a friendship was established between the two last-named
gentlemen and myself, which continued without abatement during the
life of Mr. Dowse and which has not yet, and I think never will be im-
paired between Mr. Whitman and myself, who are the only survivors
of that mess, Gen. Smyth as well as Mr. Dowse having been long
since called oat of life. The members of the executive branch of
the government were the same at the commencement of that first ses-
sion of the sixteenth Congress, as at the commencement of the sec-
ond session of the preceding Congress. The Massachusetts senators
were Harrison G. Otis of Boston and Prentiss Mellen of Portland.
My colleagues in the House of Representatives were Benjamin Adams
of Uxbridge, Samuel C. Allen of Northfleld, Joshua Cushman of Win-
slow, Edward Dowse of Dedham, Walter Folger jr., of Nantucket,
Timothy Fuller of Cambridge, John Holmes of Alfred, Mark L. Hill
of Phipsburg, Martin Kingsley of Hampdeu, Jonas Kendall of Leomin-
ster, Enoch Lincoln of Paris, Samuel Lathrop of West Springfield,
Jonathan Mason of Boston, Marcus Morton of Taunton, Jeremiah
Nelson of Newburyport, James Parker of Gardner, Henry Shaw of
Lanesborongh, Zabdiel Sampson of Plymouth and Ezekiel Whitman
of Portland.
In the course of that session (of 1819-20) several measures of a pub-
lic character were introduced which caused much discussion through-
out the country, as well as in Congress. One of those subjects was a
bill introduced in December to authorize the people of Missouri to
form a Constitution and State Government, and for the admission of
such State into the Union, to which bill nn amendment was offered"
the object of which was to provide that neither " Slavery nor invol-
untary Servitude " should be permitted in that State. That amend-
ment (the object of which was to prevent the extension of slavery to
a portion of our territory where it was then hardly known, and which
received the aid of my vote) led to a debate which occupied a large
portion of the time and a still larger portion of the attention of Con-
gress from the early part of December until about the middle of March,
and caused more excitement throughout the Union than any subject
which had been under consideration of Congress since the adoption of
the Constitution; and will be long remembered and referred to as
" the Great Missouri Question." The other subjects which caused ex-
citement, especially to three leading interests of the country, " Agri-
culture, Commerce and Manufactures, "were a " Tariff Bill" proposing
a large increase of the then existing rates of duty on most of the prin-
cipal articles of importation, also a " Cash-payment Bill" proposing
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the abolishment of all credits for duties on imports, and a bill " lay-
ing duties," and very heavy duties, on all sales of merchandise at auc-
tion. Numerous memorials and proceedings of town-meetings were
forwarded to Congress, relative to those three bills ; they were ad-
vocated by the manufacturing interest of the country (which did not
then exist to any considerable extent, in Massachusetts) but the com-
mercial, and a considerable portion of the agricultural interest, remon-
strated very strongly against them. I opposed the passage of those
bills, not only by my vote and by a speech in the House of Represen-
tatives, but also by private conversations and communication with
members out of the House.
I returned to Salem, from that session of Congress, towards the
close of the month of May, 1820, found all my family perfectly satis-
fled with their new residence and in the enjoyment of a full share of
happiness. An evidence of their disposition to increase, if possible,
the pleasure of that joyous meeting, after the longest absence from
my family which had ever occurred since I had had a family of my
own, was evinced by their putting into my hands (in an hour or two
after being with them, and with such apparent gratification as to make
an impression that has not yet been and probably never will be effaced
from my memory) the newspaper " Essex Register" of that morning,
the twenty-fourth of May, and pointing to a notice therein (quite too
strong and nattering) of my public services and of my then looked-for
return to my constituents.
In a few days after my return to Salem from that session of Con-
gress I was invited, by a committee appointed for that purpose, to
partake of a public dinner which they said my fellow townsmen, with-
out distinction of party, had concluded to give me " as a testimony of
their respect and to evince their approbation of my public services."
The dinner took place early in June and was fully attended by the cit-
izens of this town and its vicinity as well as by some distinguished
invited guests (as the newspapers of that time will show) and on
which occasion the Hon. Benjamin Pickman presided.
Early in the mouth of July of that year (1820) I left home with
Mrs. Silsbee and our daughter, accompanied by some other friends,
for Saratoga Springs, via Worcester, Northampton, Lebanon, etc.,
and after a short stay of about a fortnight at the Springs, returned
home by way of New York city. In steamboats from Albany as far
as New London and Norwich in Connecticut (which was as far as the
steamboats then ran upon the Sound), and from thence by land-car-
riage.
On the day after "commencement" in August, 1820, my son un-
derwent the usual examination of candidates, and was admitted a
student in the University at Cambridge.
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At a convention of delegates from the several towns of this district
which was held in September, I was again nominated for reelection
to Congress, which nomination I positively declined. Conventions
were then called by each of the then existing parties (Republican and
Federal) each of which nominated their own candidate and from each
of these conventions I had the satisfaction to receive a vote of thanks
for my past services, accompanied by their regret that I had declined
reelection.
After an attack of sickness which delayed iny departure for several
days, I lef t home early in.December, 1820, accompanied by Mrs. Silsbee
on my fourth and, as I then hoped and believed, on my last tour of pub-
lic duty at Washington ; and after rather a tedious journey in our own
carriage, reached there about a fortnight after the commencement of
that session of Congress, which was a quiet and harmonious one, com-
pared with that which immediately preceded it, thereby verifying the
old proverb that "after a storm comes a calm." A few days after reach-
ing Washington, we took lodgings at Miss Heyer's boarding house on
New Jersey avenue, Capitol Hill, in company with a pleasant mess
consisting of my friend and messmate of the preceding session, Eze-
kiel Whitman of Portland, and of John Sargent of Philadelphia, Ran-
dall S. Street of New York State, Joseph Dane of Kennebunk, and
Mrs. Silsbee and myself. The " District of Maine" had been sep-
arated from Massachusetts and admitted as a new State of the Union
by an act of the preceding session of Congress. The Massachusetts
delegation in the second session of the sixteenth Congress were,
in the Senate, Harrison G. Otis and Elijah H. Mills; and in the House
of Representatives, Benjamin Adams, Samuel C. Allen, William Eus-
tis (in the place of Edward Dowse, resigned), Walter Folger, jr.,
Timothy Fuller, Aaron Hobart (in place of Z. Sampson, resigned),
Jonas Kendall, Samuel Lathrop, Benjamin Gorham (in the place of
Jonathan Mason, resigned), Marcus Morton, Jeremiah Nelson, Henry
Shaw and myself. I remained at Washington a day or two after the
adjournment on the third of March, to attend the second inauguration
to the Presidency, of James Monroe, from whom I had received much
personal kindness, and for whom I entertained a high respect and es-
teem. On leaving the city, as Mrs. Silsbee and myself rode by the
"Capitol, "in our own carriage, I said to her (while looking at that
building), " This is probably my last look at that edifice, within which
I have passed some pleasant as well as many toilsome hours," and
" Where," said she, " You have made many friends and done yourself
much credit." It could not fail to be gratifying to me to know that
such was her opinion and, whatever doubts I may have had whether
anyone else would concur with her in it, the source, the time, and the
manner of that remark, made a strong impression on me, so much so
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that her very words and the very spot on which they were uttered r
are yet as fresh in my recollection as on the day of the occurrence.
The first three years that I was in the House of Representatives, I
was a member of the " Naval Committee" of that body, and the last
of those years (Mr. Pleasants of Virginia, who had for a number of
years presided over that committee having been transferred from the
"House to the Senate") I had charge of that committee. On the fourth
year of my service in the "House" I did not reach Washington (in
consequence of my detention at home, by sickness) until after the
committee had been appointed ; and as, by a rule of the House of Rep-
resentatives, no absent member is placed on a committee, I was there-
by relieved from all committee duties. I was, however, not only re-
quested, but urged by Mr. Philip P. Harbour of Virginia, who had
been placed at the head of the Committee on Naval Affairs, to take
his place, assuring me that he had taken it as a pro tempore appointment
and with an understanding on the part of the other members of the
committee as well as by himself, that he was to resign, on my arrival,
for the purpose of placing me at the head of the committee ; but I de-
clined his overtures.
On my return to Salem in March, 1821, although several trials had
successively been made, neither of the two parties (Republican nor
Federal) had succeeded in obtaining a majority of votes for either of
the candidates who had been nominated as my successor ; and I wa&
again solicited, by gentlemen of each party, again to become a candi-
date, which I could not, consistently either with my own inclinations
or with what I conceived to be my duty, consent to. Two or three
more trials took place, after my return, before a successor was elected,
which was finally accomplished by the success of the Republican ticket,
and the election of Gideon Barstow, as my successor.
With the close of that session of Congress which terminated on the
third of March, 1821, I took leave, as I thought, of all public cares,
and came home with a fixed determination that the residue of my life
should be devoted to my business and to my family ; but human fore-
sight is not extensive ; we cannot safely foretell today, either what or
where we may be tomorrow. In less than a single month after my
return to Salem, I was, without my consent and without even consult-
ing me on the subject, elected one of the Representatives from this
town to the State Legislature; and was made a candidate for the
Speaker's Chair of the House of Representatives of this Common-
wealth, in opposition to Josiah Quincy who was the Federal candidate
and the former presiding officer of that body, towards whose reelec-
tion, or rather, towards the defeat of my own election, no one of the
members could, I think, have contributed more than myself, knowing
how extremely inconvenient to my business and hostile to my wishes
[ANIEL S1LSBEE. 41
would be to assume duties \vhich would compel my attendance at the
State House in Boston, every day and every hour of the session. No
efforts of mine were spared to prevent my own election to the chair.
Mr. Quincy was elected and I was very glad of it.
It was in the course of that session of the Legislature that the peo-
ple of Boston petitioned for a city government, and the Act which
converted that Town into a City, was reported by a select committee
of which I was the chairman, which Act was approved by the differ-
ent branches of the state government, and accepted by the people of
Boston.
At the election of Representatives in the spring of 1822 the Repub-
lican ticket for this town failed of success, and I had the personal
satisfaction of finding myself once more a free man. But at the
spring election of 1823 I was, unexpectedly to everyone else as well
as to myself, placed in the other branch of the State Legislature. At
that election the Republican ticket of Senators for the County of Es-
sex, was, for the first time for several years, successful, whereby I
was elected a member of the Senate and upon the organization of that
branch of the government, in the month of May, I was, although one
of the junior members of the body, elected its presiding officer, in
opposition to the Federal candidate, the late Mr. John Phillips of Bos-
ton, who had been successively elected to the presidency of the Sen-
ate for the ten preceding years. The gentlemanly deportment of Mr.
Phillips towards me on. that occasion will ever be remembered, and his
kind offer to afford me any and every information touching the duties
of the office which had been held so long by him, and then for the first
time confided to me, would doubtless have been complied with and
have afforded me much aid ; but unfortunately for the community and
for myself, as well as for his family and friends, he was on the very
next morning, most .suddenly and unexpectedly called out of life and I
received the intelligence of his death while waiting for him to meet me
in the Senate Chamber, at the time which had been assigned by him
for that purpose, on the preceding day. At the funeral of Mr. Phil-
lips, I was one of the pall-bearers.
In the course of that legislative year, whilst the Senate was in ses-
sion and while occupying the chair of that body, on the twenty-ninth
of January, 1824, 1 received a message from Salem, announcing to me
the birth of a daughter. Although the intelligence of that event was
accompanied by the most favorable report relative both to the mother
and child, yet I found myself unable to withdraw my thoughts from
home and devote them to my duties in the Senate, consequently the
chair of that body was, at my request, temporarily filled by another
member, and I was very soon with my family where the prospect that
every hope and desire touching the event which had called me to them
42 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES I
would be realized was so strong, that I left them the next morning in
time to resume my seat in the Senate at the usual hour of its meeting.
That was the second time I had been called home from Boston, on such
an occasion, viz.. on the twenty-eighth of December, 1804, on the birth
of my oldest living child and only son, and again on the twenty-ninth
of January, 1824 (more than nineteen years afterwards) on the birth of
my second living daughter and youngest of my three surviving chil-
dren, who on the twenty -third of May following received, in baptism,
the name of " Georgiana Crowninshield."
At the spring election, in April, 1824, 1 was again elected to the Sen-
ate and on the organization of that branch of the government, in May
following, was reflected to the presidency of it.
In the summer of 1824 Gen. Gilbert Mortier de Lafayette arrived
at New York from France, upon an invitation from the government
of the United States, to visit this country ; and in the month of Sep-
tember of that year, he made a public visit to this town, from Boston
upon an invitation by a committee (of whom I was one) appointed by
the citizens of Salem for that purpose and to make suitable arrange-
ments for his reception and accommodation. He dined with the com-
mittee and a large number of the citizens of Salem and its vicinity, at
the "Lafayette Coffee House" and attended a ball in the evening.
In the autumn of 1824 I was chosen one of the Electors, for this
state, of President and Vice-President of the United States.
On the meeting and organization of the " Electoral College" at the
Senate Chamber in Boston, about the last of November or first of
December, William Gray of Boston was chosen to preside over the
body, and John Endicott of Dedham was chosen its secretary. The
proceedings of the meeting were with " closed doors," and the votes
of each and every Elector were given for John Quincy Adams of Mas-
sachusetts for President and for John C. Calhoun of South Carolina
for Vice-President of the United States. And those gentlemen were
placed (Mr. Adams by the House of Representatives of the United
States and Mr. Calhoun by the Electors of the States) in those
offices. The opposing candidate for the Presidency was General An-
drew Jackson of Tennessee; there was no opposing candidate for
the Vice-President, who received many votes. Mr. Adams was, in
my judgment, eminently qualified to discharge the duties of that office;
but while I considered General Jackson perhaps equally eminent (in
his capacity as a military officer) what little I had seen of him while
he was at Washington during the discussion in Congress relative to
his proceedings in the Seminole war, in addition to what I had heard
of him and especially of his impetuosity of temper, induced me to
believe certainly that he was not well qualified for the discharge of the
high duties of a chief magistrate of this nation, but that in his in-
NATHANIEL 3IL8BEE : 43
tercourse with foreign governments the peace of our own country
might be endangered by his strong and uncontrollable passion.
My son graduated at Cambridge that year (1824) and had a " part"
in the public performances assigned to a portion of the graduates ;
and he thereafter entered the law office of Mr. David Cummins of this
place as a student, though rather with a view of gaining some knowl-
edge of commercial law than with any expectation of pursuing that
profession.
Although I had been led to the expectation that, in accordance with
my well-known wishes, my name would have been withheld from the
senatorial ticket of candidates, I was, nevertheless, again nominated
in the spring of 1825, again chosen a member, and again reflected to
the chair of that branch of the State Government for the then ensu-
ing year ; in the course of which besides its legislative duties, those
of a judicial character were devolved upon us by the trial of an im-
peachment against the late Samuel Blagge then a notary public in
Boston.
Having been admonished by past occurrences that my wishes to
retire from public life might not be duly regarded by my political
friends, I made use of the opportunity which was afforded in acknowl-
edgment of a vote of thanks presented to me by the Senate at the
close of the session, in March, 1826, to give notice that my connection
with that body would terminate with that session of it, and that I
declined being a candidate for any office at the ensuing elections ; and
thus terminated my services in the State Legislature, and as I then
believed, in all other public situations, but we see but a short dis-
tance into futurity.
Shortly after the adjournment of the State Legislature in the month
of March, I left home, accompanied by my son, on an excursion
(partly for purposes of business, but mainly for recreation) to New-
port, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, at the latter of which
places we passed a fortnight very pleasantly, even much more so than
1 had anticipated, for in addition to the gratification afforded by the
hospitality of the President, some of the heads of departments, and
others, I realized the further and higher satisfaction, also, of finding
more friends and more friendship amongst rny old acquaintances in
Congress, than I had previously been aware of the existence of. We
returned home, after an absence of five or six weeks, towards the
last of April.
On leaving Washington at that time, I had not the most remote idea
that I should see it again for some years, if ever ; and nothing could
have been more unexpected than that I should be there again and in
a public capacity, before the close of that year ; but in less than three
months, after having a second time taken leave of public life, on com-
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ing to Salem from Andover (where my family had for several years
passed a few weeks of every spring, and where I had then been stay-
ing with them) in the month of June, I was informed that Mr. James
Lloyd, one of the Massachusetts members of the United States Senate,
had resigned his seat in that body and that I had been elected his suc-
cessor, by the Legislature. Even the high honour of a seat in the Sen-
ate of the United States was insufficient to reconcile me to that new
call to public duties, and especially to such duties as would take me
from my own business concerns, and from my home a considerable
portion of the time of the unexpired three years of Mr. Lloyd's term
of service. I was however prevailed on to accept the commission,
which, at the commencement of the next session of Congress, in De-
cember, 1826 (being the second session of the nineteenth Congress) I
presented to the Senate and took my seat in that body. It was the
second year of the administration of John Quincy Adams, John C.
Calhoun, Vice- President; Henry Clay, Secretary of State; Richard
Rush, Secretary of the Treasury ; .James Harbour, Secretary of War ;
Samuel L. Southard, Secretary of the Navy; and William Wirt,
Attorney General. The Massachusetts delegation were, Elijah H.
Mills of Northampton, and myself, in the Senate; and in the House
of Representatives, Samuel C. Allen of Greenfield, John Bailey of
Milton, Francis Bailier of Taunton, B. W. Crown in shield of Salem,
John Davis of Worcester, Henry W. Dwight of Stockbridge, Ed-
ward Everett of Cambridge, Aaron Hobart of East Bridgewater,
Samuel Lathrop of West Springfield, John Locke of Ashby, John
Reed of Yarmouth, John Varnnrn of Haverhill, and Daniel Webster
of Boston. My family did not accompany me to Washington that
session. I took lodgings at Mrs. Clark's boarding house, on F Street,
in a "mess" comprising General William H. Harrison and myself, of
the Senate, and six members of the House of Representatives, viz.,
B. W. Crowninshield of Massachusetts, A. H. Powell of Virginia, John
Barry of Maryland, Andrew Stewart of Pennsylvania, Joseph W. White
of Florida, H. W. Conway of Arkansas Territory. That session of
Congress was a short and quiet one, from which I returned to Salem
before the middle of March. The most important debate of that ses-
sion was upon a bill to regulate the trade with the British West Indies
and North American Colonies, in which debate I took part.
In the month of May of that year (1827) my son embarked at Boston,
for Holland, with a consignment to his care of part of a cargo of
merchandise shipped by me on board the same vessel, as the commence-
ment of his engagement in commercial pursuits. After disposing of
the business thus confided to him, and after having visited different
parts of Holland, France and England, he returned in one of the New
York packet thips, from Liverpool, and reached home a short time
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before I left it for Washington, in November, since which time he has
participated in my commercial business and concerns.
Shortly after my son sailed for Europe, I left home with Mrs. Silsbee
and our daughter Mary, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Orownin-
shield and a part of their family on a tour to the Falls of Niagara, pass-
ing through and making short stops at Worcester and Northampton
in this state; and at Lebanon, Albany, Utica, Trenton Falls, Syracuse,
Auburn. Seneca Falls, Geneva, Cauandaigua, Rochester, Lockport and
Buffalo, in the State of New York ; from which latter place we crossed
the Lake, and landed on the Canada shore at Waterloo, near the site of
Fort Erie and from thence by " Lundy's Lane " (where we stopped and
visited the battle ground) to Niagara Falls ; thence after passingafew
days at the Falls and having visited Queeustown, we crossed the Niagara
River and landed on the American shore, at Lewiston, from whence
we passed through Cambrey, Ridgeway, Gaines, and other places to
Rochester and thence by way of Palmyra, Elbridge, Syracuse, Utica,
and Schenectady to Saratoga Springs. Here we passed about a fort-
night and then after again visiting Albany, we took passage in one of
the steamboats and returned home by way of West Point and the city
of New York, at each of which places we made a short stop, and in
the course of our stay at the latter place we received by one of the
European packets which arrived while w r e were there a letter from
our son, announcing his safe arrival in Holland, in good health ; and I
yet distinctly recollect the gratification which the receipt and perusal
of that letter afforded.
Towards the latter part of November, 1827, I left home for Wash-
ington, accompanied by Mrs. Silsbee and our two daughters, and, on
reaching there, we took lodgings at Mrs. Clarke's boarding house
(my place of residence during the preceding session) and united in a
" mess" comprising, besides my own family, Mr. B. W. Crowninshield
and his family, also Edward Everett of Massachusetts, John Barney
of Maryland, Daniel B. Barnard of New York, members of the House
of Representatives ; and William H. Harrison, member of the Senate
from Ohio, also John D. Dickinson, of the House of Representatives
from New York, and Mrs. Dickinson. The term of service of my late
colleague, in the Senate, Elijah H. Mills, having expired with the ter-
mination of the last session of Congress, on the third of March, Dan-
iel Webster of Boston had been elected as the successor of Mr. Mills,
and he (Mr. Webster) was my colleague during the remaining eight
years of my services in that branch of the government. The Massa-
chusetts delegation in the House of Representatives for that session
(which was the first session of the twentieth Congress), were Sam-
uel C. Allen of Greenfield, John Bailey of Milton, Isaac C. Bates of
Northampton, B. W. Crowninshield of Salem, John Davis of Wor-
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cester, Henry W. Dwight of Stockbridge, Edward Everett of Cam-
bridge, Benjamin Gorham of Boston, James L. Hodges of Taunton,
John Locke of Ashby, John Heed of Yarmouth, Joseph Richardson of
Hingham, and John Varnum of Haverhill.
In the course of that session of Congress a tariff bill (well known
since as the "Tariff of 1828") was introduced and passed, whereby the
duties on most articles of importation were so much increased as to
cause much discussion in Congress and much excitement in every part
of the country. Some of the provisions of that bill were advocated
and strongly urged by the manufacturing interests, and those as well
as some others of its provisions were as strongly opposed and re-
sisted by the agricultural and commercial interests of the country. A
large majority of the votes of the Middle and Eastern, as well as those
of the Western states in both branches of Congress, were given in
favor of the bill, which was opposed by all the Southern and a por-
tion of the Western states. Every member of the House of Repre-
sentatives from Massachusetts, without a single exception, voted
for the bill (after it had been amended in the Senate and returned to
the " House") and in the Senate, not only my colleague (Mr. Web-
ster) but every New England member of that body, of the political
party to which I belonged, excepting one of the Rhode Island sena-
tors and myself, voted also for it. Several of the Massachusetts del-
egates voted against the bill in the form in which it first passed the
House of Representatives (where it originated) but when it was re-
turned to the House with the Senate's amendments to it, it met the
approbation and support of each and every individual of the delega-
tion from this State. Although the manufacturing interest had greatly
increased in several states of the Union, and had become a very essen-
tial and important interest to a portion of the people of Massachu-
setts, since the time of my taking part in the discussion, in the House
of Representatives upon the Tariff Bill of 1820 ; the protection afford-
ed to that interest had also been greatly increased since that period
by the provision of the Tariff Act of 1824 and, as I thought, sufficiently
so, yet I was not disposed to withhold even further protection to such
of our domestic establishments as were supposed to need it ; but the
bill under consideration at that time (taken together) contained such
provisions as imposed heavier contributions upon the agricultural and
commercial interests, for the benefit of the manufacturing interest
than, in my judgment, were either just or proper. At the time of the
discussion upon that bill, a presidential election was pending, between
Mr. Adams and General Jackson, upon which election it was believed
that the fate of the bill would have an important bearing, and the
friends of Mr. Adams ( of whom I was one and a most ardent and sin-
cere one) almost to a man, voted for the bill.
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Thus situated, I was placed in the unpleasant and trying predica-
ment of either yielding my own judgment, and my own convictions,
to what seemed to be the opinion not only of every other representa-
tive of Massachusetts in both branches of Congress, but also of a
number of my most particular friends at home who had written to me
on the subject, or of satisfying myself by an adherence to that judg-
ment and to those convictions, although I might and probably should,
thereby, cause much regret, if not dissatisfaction to a large portion
of my personal as well as political friends.
I could not and did not hesitate to pursue the latter course. I felt
constrained by a sense of duty to myself, as well as by what I con-
ceived to be the combined interests of all my constituents, to act ac-
cording to the dictates of my own judgment, rather than that of
others, according to principles rather than to policy ; and with those im-
pressions I rendered a vote (the only one from Massachusetts) against
the passage of the bill ; and also against my own individual interest,
being then, as now, a stockholder in several of the manufacturing es-
tablishments that were to be benefited by the provisions of the bill.
I have never regretted (although I most sensibly felt the responsi-
bility of the act) having given such a vote upon that bill which, as I
then apprehended and then predicted, had placed the duties on many
articles of importation so unreasonably high as could not fail to cre-
ate, ere long, such a reaction as would be injurious to the manufactur-
ing interests by a reduction of the duties below where they were before
the passage of that bill. And those apprehensions and those predic-
tions have been more than realized by the passage of the subsequent
Tariff Acts of 1832 and 1833, which may be attributed mainly, if not
entirely, to the " Nullification" proceedings of the state of South Car-
olina and the opposition of other Southern States caused by the pas-
sage of the Tariff Act of 1828.
There was a case in the " Executive" proceedings of the Senate, of
that session (1827-28) in relation to which my feelings became some-
what excited by the discussion and disclosures (of a party character)
to which it led. Mr. Moses Myers, of Norfolk, Virginia, formerly one
of the most distinguished and wealthy merchants of that place, and
at the same time one of its most respected citizens, having been unfor-
tunate in his commercial pursuits, was appointed by President Mon-
roe to the office of Collector of the Customs for that district, and on
the termination of his first four years of service, was renominated to
the same office by Mr. Adams, which renomination was opposed be-
cause, as was alleged, Mr. Myers was a debtor and defaulter to the
government. Having known Mr. Myers and having had some busi-
ness transactions with him when at Norfolk on my first voyage as
master of a vessel, in the year 1792 (since which I had not seen him
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and never expected to see him again), and having been informed that,
although he had lost all his property, he had preserved untarnished all
his reputation, and feeling that under such circumstances he had strong
claims to the office which he then held, I was induced to seek informa-
tion at the Treasury Department relative to the defalcation which had
been imputed to him, and finding that, although there was an apparent
balance against him, of several hundred dollars, growing out of a bond
given by him for duties before his appointment to the collectorship
that the government was, at the same time, in possession of property
amply sufficient to secure the debt, which property had been assigned
and delivered to the government by Mr. Myers for that purpose, but
which, by neglect of the government, had not been converted into
money and placed to his credit, and finding also, that the testimonials
in behalf of Mr. Myers, which were laid before the committee of
which I was a member, were of the most satisfactory character and
that the real objection to him was of Apolitical rather than of & pecun-
iary character, I used every effort in my power to sustain the nomina-
tion, and in course of those efforts, I proclaimed to the Senate my
willingness to take the property assigned to the government and to
pay forthwith into the Treasury the amount of the alleged defalcation
rather than see the nominee dispossessed of his office.
Although I was not required to execute my proposal it was sup-
posed (by some members at least) to have had an effect; but, however
that may have been, the nomination, which had been some time pend-
ing, was soon after confirmed, and I had the satisfaction to feel that
I had, probably, rendered some service to a respected individual who
had become known to me in one of the earliest commercial transac-
tions of my life. And it was not long before I had the further satis-
faction to learn that the whole amount of Mr. Myers' debt had been
realized by the government.
In the spring my son joined -us at Washington, remained there until
the close of the session, on the twenty-sixth of May, and then accom-
panied us home. It had been the invariable practice, in this state, to
elect the senators in Congress at the spring session (there were then
the two sessions annually) of the Legislature of the year preceding the
commencement of such senator's duties. My services' were to termi-
nate on the third day of March, 1829. I returned to Salem early in
June, 1828, while the State Legislature was in session and was in-
formed by several members who called on me for that purpose, that
they wished to fix on an early day for filling the vacancy which would
occur in the Senate of the United States, on the termination of my
term of service, and that they also wished to have my consent to be a
candidate.
[ said to each and all of those gentlemen that I thought it was their
NATHANIEL SILSBEE. 49
duty to proceed to the choice of some one to fill the vacancy which
was to occur on the fourth of March without delay, bnt that no earthly
consideration would induce me to consent to be a candidate for that
vacancy, and that, if nominated to it, I should request some member
of the Legislature publicly to announce my fixed determination to de-
cline the office in the event of my being reflected to it. I heard nothing
further on the subject until a few days after the interview just alluded
to when I was informed that (contrary to all former practice in this
State) the election had been postponed to the next session of the Leg-
islature.
In the early part of August in that year (1828) Mrs. Silsbee, our
two oldest children and myself, accompanied by my brother William
Silsbee and a part of his family, commenced a journey, by way of
Portland, to the White Mountains, and from thence, after passing two
or three clays in the vicinity of the Mountains, to Connecticut River,
and stopping in the vicinity of the river, at Newbury, Oxford, Hano-
ver, Enfield, Windsor, Weathersfield and Walpole. Thence, on our
way home, we passed part of a day (with my old congressional friend,
Salma Hale and his family) at Keene, in New Hampshire ; and made
short stops at Concord and at Groton in this State.
Towards the close of November, 1828, 1 left my family and my home,
as I believed and as all my connections expected, on my last term of
public duty at Washington; and on reaching that city, took lodgings
at Mrs. Blake's boarding house on Pennsylvania Avenue, in company
with Gen. Ezekiel F. Chambers, one of the senators from Maryland,
John Sargent of Philadelphia, B. W. Crowninshield of Salem, Isaac C.
Bates of Northampton, and Thomas H. Blake of Indiana, members of
the House of Representatives, and also Richard Peters of Philadelphia,
reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States,
constituting a very agreeable and pleasant "mess." The Massachu-
setts delegation for that session (which was the second session of
the twentieth Congress) was the same in both branches of Congress,
as at the preceding session.
On the meeting of the State Legislature in January, 1829, I re-
ceived a letter from a number of its members soliciting my consent to
be a candidate for reelection to the seat which I then occupied in the
United States Senate, which I again as positively declined as I had done
when previously solicited ; but, on the receipt of subsequent letters ap-
prising me of the difficulties which my friends would have to encoun-
ter in the selection of anew candidate and of the divisions and dissen-
sions which such a selection would create, and assuring me that all
such difficulties would be obviated by rny consent to their request, I
was, by these requests and at the solicitations of friends at Washing-
ton induced, though very reluctantly, to yield my consent on the condi-
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tion, and only on the condition, that they could not unite on some other
individual. I was then nominated and elected for a term of six years,
but I did not then think it probable or even possible that I could be pre-
vailed on to pass six more sessions of Congress at Washington, and
thereby subject myself to an absence from home averaging nearly six
months annually. Such a sacrifice of interest and of comfort was to
me too appalling to think of, yet that sacrifice was endured.
After I had consented to be a candidate for reelection to the seat
which I then occupied in the Senate, but before the nomination had
been acted upon by the Legislature of Massachusetts, I was called upon
one afternoon by Mr. John Bailey (one of the Massachusetts delega-
tion in the House of Representatives and who had formerly served
under Mr. Adams in the Department of State) and requested to af-
ford him a confidential interview, which was immediately granted.
Mr. Bailey said he had been induced by the information which he had
obtained directly from myself as well as from others, of iny wish to
retire from public life, to communicate to me his belief that Mr. Ad-
ams C whose presidential term of service was to expire on the ensuing
third of March) might be prevailed upon by me to consent to be a can-
didate for the seat which I then occupied, on its becoming .vacant after
the third of March. In the course of a free and full exposition to
Mr. Bailey of my views and feelings upon the subject of his commun-
ication, I assured him (and most sincerely too) that it would afford
me much gratification to be instrumental in placing Mr. Adams in the
seat then occupied by me in the Senate, either immediately after the
then ensuing third of March or, if I should be reflected, by a resig-
nation of the seat at any time thereafter while occupied by me, and
that I would see and confer with Mr. Adams on the subject forthwith,
and I did accordingly call on him in the course of an hour or two after
Mr. Bailey left me. I informed Mr. Adams of the interview which
had just taken place between Mr. Bailey and myself and of the sub-
stance of what had been said by both of us. I assured Mr. Adams that
I had no wish to retain my seat in the Senate but, on the contrary, an
ardent desire to retire from it ; that it would afford me not only much
mental relief to see him a candidate for the Senate, instead of myself,
but also much personal gratification to contribute in any way that I
could towards placing him in that situation. I assured him at the
same time that although I could not doubt but that if he would con-
sent to be a candidate he would receive the support of a large major-
ity of the then Legislature of Massachusetts, yet if he was willing or
would consent to it, I would endeavor to ascertain that fact, for his
consideration. Mr. Adams after having heard my remarks and after
an avowal of his feelings caused by this evidence (as he was pleased
to consider it) of personal and political friendship towards him, as-
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sured me tliat if he was confident of obtaining the votes not only of
every member of the Legislature but of every citizen of Massachu-
setts, he would not consent to be a candidate for the seat which I
then occupied ; that he could never think of placing himself in such a
position as to subject himself to the suspicion of having been instru-
mental in removing from office or preventing the reelection of a po-
litical and personal friend ; that no earthly consideration would induce
him to do so. And although I assured him that I would prevent any
such impression being made in that case, by a public avowal not only
of my wishes to retire from the Senate but also of my efforts to pre-
vail on him to consent to go there, I could not impair his apparently
fixed determination not to allow himself to be a candidate for the Sen-
ate at that time. Finding him inflexible on that point, I then further
assured him that, in the event of my reelection to the Senate, I would
not only most willingly resign my seat there at any time, within the
six years for which I might be chosen, that he would suggest to me,
either directly or through some friend, his willingness to be a candi-
date for the vacancy, and that it would at any and at all times, be
gratifying to my feelings to do so. I never received from Mr. Adams,
either directly or indirectly, any indications of a wish or willingness
on his part, to take my place in the Senate during the ensuing six years
that I occupied it. But towards the expiration of that time of service
he was one of several candidates for the seat about to become vacant,
and (to my certain knowledge) he even then declined being named or
considered a candidate until after I had proclaimed, not only to him
personally but also in the public newspapers, my determination not to
be a candidate for it myself.
Soon after the commencement of that session of Congress, in a con-
versation with some of the leading friends of General Jackson, in the
Senate Chamber, relative to his election to the Presidency (which had
just then taken place), one of those friends, Mr. E. W. Tazewell, a
Senator from Virginia (who knew some of my opinions of General
Jackson and some of the fears which I entertained that the peace of
the country might be endangered under his administration), took me
aside and had a long conversation with me on the subject, with a
view, as I understood him, to relieve some of my apprehensions, and
to remove some of my impressions as to the political course of General
Jackson's administration. Mr. Tazewell, who was then considered
one of his most prominent and able supporters, assured me that Gen-
eral Jackson would select his Cabinet, or heads of departments,
from the ablest men of the nation (who were not hostile to him) re-
gardless of their political opinions, and that we would have, under
the then ensuing administration, the ablest Cabinet which we had ever
had since the adoption of our present form of government, a Cabinet
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that would discard and discountenance all party men and party meas-
ures. The information then afforded by Mr. Tazewell (who assured
me that, in his opinion, I should within a year become perfectly rec-
onciled to the new administration) did go far to relieve some of my
fearful apprehensions, not doubting either then or now, Mr. Taze-
well's confident belief that such would be the course of conduct of the
new administration, of which it was then very generally supposed that
he (Mr. Tazewell) would be, one of the most prominent advisers. Other
leading members of the same political party gave me, at aboutthe same
time, assurances of a similar character with those of Mr. Tazewell.
But it was not long after General Jackson came into power before
it was perceived that the confidence which seemed to have been re-
posed in him, by those gentlemen as well as by many others, was
somewhat impaired and subsequently their friendship for him was
converted into the most deadly hatred.
General Jackson arrived at Washington early in February prepara-
tory to his inauguration on the 4th of March, 1829. I had not seen
General Jackson since he was in Washington at the time of the dis-
cussion in the House of Representatives (while I was a member of it;
relative to the Seminole War and of his proceedings as the Military
Conductor of that war, and even then, though I occasionally met him
in company, I did not (having opposed some of his proceedings in that
war) become much acquainted with him.
Thus circumstanced, soon after he reached Washington as Presi-
dent elect of the United States, one of his strong personal and politi-
cal friends (Mr. Branch then a Senator from North Carolina and
subsequently, a member of the Cabinet) not only offered but requested
that he might introduce me to General Jackson, to which I assented,
and on the morning of the first or second day of March (having felt
no particular desire to hasten the event) I was conducted by Mr.
Branch .(between whom and myself, though politically opposed and
strongly opposed to each other, there had existed from our first ac-
quaintance in the Senate, a pleasant intercourse and I believe, a sincere
personal friendship) to the rooms of General Jackson at Gadsby's
Hotel, where we found him in company with only two other friends
(Mr. Berrien and Mr. Eaton) who were subsequently members of his
Cabinet, and in whose presence I was introduced to the President elect
by Mr. Branch as his personal friend. After a short conversation
with the General, the hour arrived at which he received company,
(ten o'clock) and no sooner were the doors open for their admission
than the large room in which we were was so thoroughly filled with
apparently all kinds of male company, that it was with some difficulty
that Mr. Branch and myself could get oat of the room, which we did
as soon as possible. On our way from thence to the Senate Chamber,
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on my expressing 1 my surprise and regret that the President elect
should commence his public duties with such a prelude to them as that
which we had just witnessed, Mr. Branch assured me that both him-
self and other friends had endeavoured to prevent it, and that he had
told the General, more than once, that he ought to " crush all those
insects from him."
Simultaneously with the termination of my first term of service in
the Senate on the third of March, 1829, Mr. Adams' administration
terminated, when he retired from the " White House " and all the
heads of departments from their respective offices. On the follow-
ing day, March 4, the new Senate which had been called by a summons
of the late President, as usual on such occasions, met and was organ-
ized by administering the oaths of office to John C. Calhoun as Vice
President of the United States and to myself and the other newly elected
members of the Senate, subsequently to which General Jackson was
inaugurated in the Senate Chamber as President of the United States,
and then proceeded to the portico of the eastern part of the Capitol
and there delivered his Inaugural Address, to such members of Con-
gress as were present (of whom I was one) and a large concourse of
citizens. On that day (fourth of March) the presidential mansion,
the ' ' White House," where the new President, then for the first time,
received company, was so thoroughly filled with both sexes, of all
ages and apparently of all sorts and kinds, as to present such a scene
of disorder and confusion as was never before witnessed in that
building.
The Senate was kept in session until the seventeenth day of March
acting on such nominations to office as were made to it by the new
President, amongst which were those of an entire new Cabinet, be-
sides such others as evinced the existence of strong political predi-
lections and a disposition to cause them to be extensively felt. General
Jackson's selection of individuals to compose his first Cabinet was as
follows: viz., Martin Van Buren of New York, as Secretary of
State ; Samuel D. Ingham of Pennsylvania, for Secretary of the
Treasury ; John H. Eaton of Tennessee, for Secretary of War ; John
Branch of North Carolina, for Secretary of the Navy, and John
McPherson Berrien of Georgia for Attorney General; between all
of whom and myself, though political opponents, there was a per-
sonal intercourse, and with some of them, especially with Messrs.
Branch and Berrien I was on terms of somewhat more than common
intimacy and friendship.
It was apprehended, from some of the early movements of the new
administration that, notwithstanding what had been said to the con-
trary, a system of remoyal from office, of political opponents, had
been agreed on, nor was it long before 'those apprehensions were
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realized by numerous office holders. A few days previous to the in-
auguration of General Jackson an application to him passed through
my hands, which was signed by nearly all the commercial community
of Boston audits vicinity, requesting that General Henry A. Dearborn,
then Collector of the District of Boston and Charlestown, might be
retained in office, and having heard that some charges of a political
character had been made against that individual which were known
to others as well as myself to be untrue, I had an interview withGen-
eralJackson on the subject, accompanied by Mr. B.W. Crowuinshield
and in the course of that interview the new President assured us that
no man would be removed from office by him for or on account of his
political opinions, whatever those opinions might be ; that he placed
so high a value on the free exercise of opinion that he never should and
never would be instrumental in disturbing or in any wise impairing
the free use of it by others, and concluded his remarks upon that sub-
ject by authorizing us to assure General Dearborn and his friends that
neither he nor any one else would be disturbed in their office upon any
charges which might be made against them , until those charges had been
laid before them and they had been afforded e very facility to refute them
which they might require. Yet, notwithstanding those assurances of
General Jackson, General Dearborn was removed from his office in
less than a month after those assurances had been voluntarily given,
without a moment's previous notice that such a removal was contem-
plated and without assigning any reason for making it.
In the course of the time that the Senate was kept in session upon
executive business and after the nomination of the members of the
Cabinet had been made and confirmed, I asked Mr. Tazewell if the
individuals who had been nominated by the President to the several
executive departments of the government were the same that he had
referred to in his conversation with me in December preceding
whether the Cabinet which had been just formed was the " able Cabi-
net" which he then spoke of? He (Mr. T. ) promptly assured me that
although he thought the President would get along very well with the
Cabinet which he had selected provided we remained at peace with
other Powers, yet that, in his former remarks to me on the subject of
the Cabinet, he had not had reference to either of the individuals who
had recently been selected to compose it. It was apparent to me be-
fore the adjournment of the Senate on the seventeenth of March,
that dissatisfaction was felt by some of the leading political friends
of the administration; and that they had been either disappointed or
deceived in, at least, a part of the political course of the head of
that administration, which subsequent events showed to be the case.
I returned to Salem, from that term of duty at Washington, the
latter part of the month of March, 1829; but instead of meeting my
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family and friends in the capacity of a free man relieved from public
cares and thereby enabled to devote my whole time to them, and to my
commercial pursuits, as was contemplated when I left home the pre-
ceding autumn, I met them in the less satisfying capacity of a con-
tinued public servant, destined very shortly to return to the resumption
of unwelcome labours at Washington.
On the ninth day of November of that year, 1829, an event took
place in my family which can never fail to be deeply interesting to
parents. It was the marriage of my son (quite acceptably to his pa-
rents) to Miss Maryanne C. Devereux, the daughter of Mr. Humphrey
Devereux of this place, and immediately after the marriage ceremony
they left Salem in my carriage, to be overtaken by my own family, with
whom they were to pass the winter at Washington ; for which place
I left home accompanied by Mrs. Silsbee and our two daughters, on
the fifteenth of November, soon overtook those who had preceded
us, and reached the seat of government about the end of that month,
and took all the rooms of Mrs. Clement's boarding house, in Pennsyl-
vania Avenue, and near the Treasury Department, for the accommo-
dation of my family during the session, to the exclusion of any other
boarders.
The members of the executive branch of the government at that
first session of the twenty-first Congress were Andrew Jackson,
President, and John C. Calhoun, Vice-President of the United States ;
Martin Van Buren of New York, Secretary of State; Samuel D.
Ingham of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Treasury ; John H. Eaton
of Tennessee, Secretary of War; John Branch of North Carolina,
Secretary of the Navy; and John McPherson Berrien of Georgia,
Attorney General. The Massachusetts delegation to that Congress
were Daniel Webster of Boston and myself, in the Senate; and in
the House of Representatives, John Bailey of Wilton, Isaac C. Bates
of Northampton, Benjamin W. Crowninshield of Salem, John Davis
of Worcester, Henry W. Dwight of Stockbridge, Edward Everett of
Charlestown, George Grinnell, Jr., of Greenfield, Benjamin Gorham
of Barton, James L. Hodges of Taunton, Joseph G. Kendall of Leom-
inster, John Reed of Yarmouth, Joseph Richardson of Hingham, and
John Varnum of Haverhill.
In the early part of that session of Congress, I introduced into the
Senate, accompanied by some preliminary remarks, a bill for the pay-
ment of such portion of the claim of the State of Massachusetts (then
embracing the present State of Maine) for military services rendered
during the late war with England, as had been found on examination
to be due, according to the principles which had been adopted in the
settlement of similar claims of other States.
The "Massachusetts Claim" had been then pending and I believe
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annually acted upon in the House of Representatives since the year
1817, without a single favourable decision of that body having been
obtained upon it, and there being no hope of success in that branch of
the Legislature, it w;is decided to bring the claim before the Senate
and I was designated by the delegations from the two States (Massa-
chusetts and Maine) to present and to manage the case in that body,
which I did, and succeeded in carrying through the Senate a bill
granting to the state of Massachusetts the sum of four hundred and
thirty thousand, seven hundred and forty eight dollars and twenty-six
cents (430,748.26 dollars) being the amount found to be due upon the
principles by which similar claims had been adjusted with otherStates
of the Union ; but in the House of Representatives (notwithstanding
the united efforts of all the Massachusetts and Maine delegations to
pass it through that body in the same form that it went from the
Senate) the bill was so amended as to cause it to be referred to the
third auditor of the Treasury for his examination, and if he found
that amount to be due, according to the principles upon which sim-
ilar claims of other States had been adjusted, then, but not till then,
it was to be paid. He (the third auditor) did find the sum named in
the bill to be due, according to those principles, and the said sum of
430, 748.26 dollars' was accordingly paid into the Treasury of Massa-
chusetts. The great unpopularity of the " Massachusetts Claim " was
caused by the unpopular course which was pursued by the state gov-
ernment of Massachusetts at the commencement of the war between
this country and Great Britain in the year 1812, at which time Massa-
chusetts was governed by the Federal party, who were strongly op-
posed to the war, and who refused to comply with a requisition of the
President of the United States (which had been acceded to by the
governments of the other States) to place the militia of the State, or
such portion of it as might be called into service, under the orders
or control of United States officers, and that course of policy was pur-
sued by the authorities of Massachusetts until sometime in the year
1814, when the apprehended invasion of its own territory, which then
existed, or some other cause induced Governor Brooks (then chief
magistrate of the Commonwealth) silently to recede from his opposi-
tion to the requisitions of the general government, and to allow the
militia of this State to act under the orders of United States officers,
as was done elsewhere in the country. Such an opposition to what
was elsewhere considered a constitutional requisition of the general
government at the commencement of a war with the most powerful
maritime nation of the world, created a strong prejudice, in almost
every section of the country, against the authors of that opposition,
and that prejudice seemed to be revived in Congress whenever the
"Massachusetts Claim" was brought under consideration, and so
NATHANIEL SILSBEE. 57
strong was that prejudice, even up to the time of my bringing the
case before the Senate, that every member of the committee to which
it was referred told me that they could not but consider it a waste of
time to examine the immense mass of testimonials in the case, as they
could never be brought to a favourable opinion of it. They did, how-
ever, examine them, and in my presence and with the aid (furnished
at their request) of the notes which I had made in the course of my
examination of those testimonials (of which there was a large trunk
full), that examination led every member of the committee to the
conclusion that the sum named in the bill which I had caused to be
referred to them, was justly due to Massachusetts. Accordingly, the
chairman of the committee (Mr. Benton of Missouri) reported my bill
" without amendment," and in his remarks upon the bill, when it was
acted upon in the Senate, he said (as may be seen in Gales and Sea-
ton's Register of Debates, Vol. 5, Part 1, twentieth of April, 1830),
"Prejudices have prevailed agiaust these claims. I have felt those
prejudices. I have seen the time when I never expected to vote for
their payment."
The examination of the voluminous documents which were presented
in support of that claim, and the preparation to sustain and carry it
through the Senate, against the very strong prejudice which was
known to exist against it, in that as well as in the other branch of the
Legislature, occupied much of my time and attention during the early
part of the session.
That session terminated on the thirty-first of May, and on our way
home from Washington, in June, 1830, an accident occurred which
caused me greater mental suffering, for a short time, than I had ever
before experienced. On arriving at Providence in the steamboat from
New York at about ten o'clock in the forenoon, I engaged an extra
stage to take my family to Boston, leaving my own horses and carriage
to get on more leisurely. Mrs. Silsbee and my two daughters were in
the stage and the most of our baggage in its place, when the horses
of the stage started, without any driver to guide or control them, and
were almost instantly upon a full run and continued so, notwithstand-
ing many efforts were made by people in the streets to stop them, until
they had proceeded more than a mile from the wharf from which they
started, when the collection of people became so great as to turn the
horses towards a blacksmith's shop which stood at the corner of a
street, and such was their velocity at that moment and such the force
with which they went against the shop as to break down a consider-
able part of the side of the shop, to kill the leading horses and not
only to upset the stage but to break it almost entirely to pieces, so
much so as to render it unworthy of repair, although it was so new
a carriage as to have been in use but a very few days. Before the
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stage got oft' the wharf from which it started, I stepped into a light
wagon which happened to be at hand, and went in pursuit as fast as I
could make two horses carry me, and was about a quarter of a mile from
the stage and in full view of it, when it upset. I approached the site of
the accident, and the large concourse of people which the occurrence
had drawn there, with feelings which cannot be duly imagined (ex-
cept by one who has been similarly situated) and which I am incom-
petent to describe. I felt but very little, if any, hope of finding all
my family alive, and considered it hardly possible that either of them
could have escaped severe injury; but the first person whom I saw, on
approaching the wrecked carriage, whom I knew, was my daughter
Mary forcing her way through the crowd to meet me and who, as soon
as she saw me, proclaimed the happy tidings that all of them had es-
caped injury. I shall never forget that moment, nor shall I ever for-
get the hospitality and kindness of Mr. Arnold of Providence, whom
I had never before seen, and who took my family to his house, where
they received the most friendly attentions from himself and family,
for an hour or two, until another stage was procured to take us to
Boston from whence we reached home on the same day.
I left home again on the twenty-sixth of November and passed the
short session of 1830-31 at Washington, unaccompanied by any of my
family. I took lodgings at Mrs. Walker's boarding house, in E street,
in company with (Judge) Ambrose Spencer of New York, Thomas H.
Crawford, Denny of Pennsylvania and Kichard Spencer of
Maryland, all members of the House of Representatives and pleasant
associates. The individuals who composed the executive branch of
the government were the same as at the commencement of the pre-
ceding session ; and the Massachusetts delegation the same in both
branches of the Legislature at the commencement of that second ses-
sion of the twenty-first Congress as at the first session of that Con-
gress. For a considerable portion of the time of that session, the
Senate was occupied in its judicial capacity by the trial of James H.
Peck, a judge of the United States District Court for the District of
Missouri, on an impeachment for "High Misdemeanors in Offlce"found-
ed upon charges brought against him by Luke Edward Lawless of Mis-
souri, of all which charges the said Judge Peck was acquitted by the
vote of a majority of the Senate.
While at the city of New York on my way home from that session
of Congress in March, 1831 , I received an invitation from Mr. Monroe,
late President of the United States (who was then in ill health and
residing with his son-in-law, Mr. Governenr Morris, .in that city) to
call and see him. I accepted the invitation and passed a very pleas-
ant evening with the venerable, and in my opinion, most deservedly
esteemed Ex-President, towards whom I entertained great and sincere
NATHANIEL SILSBEE. 59
regard and from whom I had received many civilities and attentions.
Mr. Monroe's health was then feeble, but his spirits were good, his
mind having been ranch relieved (of which he seemed to take great
pleasure in assuring me) by the then recent passage by Congress of
an act for his relief. In consequence of the loss of some vouchers,
Mr Monroe's accounts with the government during some of his foreign
missions, had not been finally settled, and a balance which he claimed
upon those accounts, of about thirty thousand dollars, remained un-
adjusted and unpaid.
During his own administration of the government, he declined
pressing that claim, but subsequently it was presented and the bill,
to which I have alluded, had been passed but a few days when I saw
him. He spoke of it with very great satisfaction and expressed in
very strong terms his thanks to those (of whom he said he knew me
to be one) who had aided the payment of his claim. An event which,
he said, would render the residue of his life much more quiet and
composed than it would otherwise have been ; for although it would
not (as he declared) bring a single dollar into his pocket, it would en-
able him to pay off his debts and thereby relieve his mind from a pres-
sure which had long afflicted it. The Ex-President asked me to take
a family dinner with him on the ensuing day, but, as I was to leave
New York by the steamboat of that day, I was obliged to decline
his invitation, which I should otherwise have most willingly accepted,
if for no other purpose than that of passing a little more time with
him. Mr. Monroe was called out of life on the fourth of July at New
York, in less than four months after I saw him there.
For the session of 1831-32, being the first session of the twenty-
second Congress, I left home on the twentieth of November accom-
panied by Mrs. Silsbee and our daughter Mary, besides a coachman
and a female attendant (invariable appendages to my family, when
they accompanied me to Washington) and on reaching Washington
took a suite of rooms for our own private use, at Gadsby's Hotel,
which we occupied during the session, commencing on the fifth of
December, 1831 and continuing until the sixteenth of July, 1832 the
longest session of Congress which had ever been held under the pres-
ent Constitution of the United States. Every individual of President
Jackson's first Cabinet having simultaneously resigned and withdrawn
from their respective offices, subsequently to the second session of
the twenty-first Congress (Mr. Ingham and Mr. Branch, of the Treas-
ury and Navy Departments and Mr. Berrien, Attorney General, having
retired in disgust, and Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Eaton of the State and
War Departments, at the friendly suggestion, as was understood, of
the President) the new Cabinet which had been appointed in the re-
cess, and who were in office at the commencement of the first session
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of the twenty-second Congress were Edward Livingston of New
York, Secretary of State; Louis McLane of Delaware, Secretary of
the Treasury ; Lewis Cass of Michigan, Secretary of War ; Levi Wood-
bury of New Hampshire, Secretary of the Navy ; Roger B. Taney of
Maryland, Attorney General and William T. Barry of Kentucky, Post
Master General (the members of the Cabinet having then been in-
creased by the addition thereto of the Post Master General) .
The Massachusetts delegation to that Congress were, in the Senate,
the same as in the preceding Congresses (Mr. Webster and myself) ;
and in the House of Representatives John Q. Adams of Quincy, Na-
than Appleton of Boston, Isaac C. Bates of Northampton, George N.
Briggs of Lanesboro, Rufus Choate of Salem, H. A. S. Dearborn of
Roxbury, John Davis of Worcester, Edward Everett of Charlestown,
George Grinnell of Greenfield, Joseph G. Kendall of Leominster, John
Reed of Yarmouth, James E. Hodges of Taunton and Jeremiah Nel-
son of Newburyport.
The most important subjects which occupied the time and attention
of Congress in the course of that unusually protracted session, were
an "Act for the appointment of Representatives among the several
States according to the Fifth Census, " a k< Bill to modify and con-
tinue in force an Act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the
United States" (to renew the Charter of the Bank) and a " Bill to
alter and amend the several Acts imposing duties on Imports " since
known as the Tariff Act of 1832. Much time was consumed in the
discussion of those three bills ; and upon the Tariff Bill the discus-
sion was of a highly sectional character and productive of much ex-
citement ; for although the bill provided for a considerable reduction
of the duties on a number of articles of importation, it fell so far
short of satisfying the southern members or of removing the com-
plaints which had been created in the southern section of the Union
by the passage of the Tariff Act of 1828, that the passage of the new
bill was opposed not only with great zeal but with threats of resist-
ance to the further enforcements of the enactments of its predeces-
sor (the Tariff Act of 1828) and those threats were attempted to be
put in execution, within the State of South Carolina, by means of the
well-known " Nullification" Acts of that State, the ensuing season of
that year.
In the month of May I received intelligence of the sudden death of
my good old mother, at the age of over eighty-two years. It was but
a day or two before I heard of her death that I was apprised of its
near approach, and the information was such as not to encourage any
hope of my being able to reach home before her departure, or I should
certainly have made the effort to see her again which, as I then appre-
hended, would have been an unavailing one. She died before I could
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possibly have reached home, after receiving the first intelligence of her
sickness. On my way home from Washington we were detained sev-
eral days at Jersey City by the " Cholera" which was then making
such havoc in the city of New York as to have stopped the running
of the steamboats from thence to Providence, and to have interrupted
every other means of getting home and after having, with much diffi-
culty, procured a steamboat by means of a special application to the
directors, and for the special purpose of bringing on my own and sev-
eral other families of members of Congress who had congregated at
Jersey City, it was with some difficulty that we obtained permission
to land upon an almost uninhabited part of the shore on the Massa-
chusetts side of Fall River, having previously been forbidden to
approach the wharves of Newport or Providence, nor were we per-
mitted to land, even where we did, until such a close medical inspec-
tion of each and all the passengers had taken place as required an en-
tire day for its performance. These detentions delayed our return
to Salem until the twenty-fifth of July.
In the course of the summer of 1832, my son and his family be-
came the occupants of a new house which he had built on a site im-
mediately contiguous to my own homestead, thereby affording us the
pleasure of having himself and family located near us.
In the month of October of that year, the "Whigs" of Massachu-
setts had a convention at Worcester, composed of delegates from all
and each of the towns of the State and constituting one of the larg-
est and most respectable political assemblages that had ever been held
in this State, for the purpose of nominating Electors of President and
Vice-President of the United States, and of nominating a Governor
and Lieutenant Governor of this Commonwealth ; of which conven-
tion I was one of the delegates from Salem and was unanimously
chosen to preside over its deliberations, which occupied two days.
To leave home for Washington, either with or without my family, and
especially if unaccompanied by them, was an event which had always
caused so much more of inquietude than pleasure, that it was but sel-
dom spoken of in the family until the time of departure had so nearly
arrived that the preparations for it could no longer be delayed; and
towards the autumn of that year (1832) I felt a greater reluctance to
leaving home than I had ever before experienced, which was caused
partly by the death of my mother in the course of my last absence,
but principally by the apparently increased indisposition of my brother
William, who, although he continued to take his usual walk almost every
day and to attend to his business as usual, had for several years been
afflicted with complaints of a pulmonary character. So strong was
my aversion to leaving home at that time that I had concluded to re-
sign my seat in the Senate and would certainly have done so but for a
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consultation with Doctor Jackson of Boston after an examination by
him, of my brother's complaints, by which my apprehension of any
sudden or rapid change in my brother's health was greatly relieved ;
that circumstance, aided by the solicitations of a number of my polit-
ical friends not to retire from the Senate at that time, induced me to
withhold my resignation and again to take my seat in the Senate, for
which purpose I left Salem on the twenty-seventh of November, unac-
companied by any of my family, and on reaching Washington took
lodgings with a former landlady, Mrs. Walker, in E street, in company
with Thomas H. Crawford of Pennsylvania (an old messmate in the
same house), H. A. Ballard of Louisiana, H. A. S. Dearborn of Mas-
sachusetts, Julian C. Verplanck of New York, and William W. Ells-
worth of Connecticut, all members of the House of Kepresentatives
and agreeable men. The individuals who composed the executive
branch of the government, and those who composed the Massachu-
setts delegation, in both branches of the Legislature, were the same
at the commencement of that second session of the twenty-second
Congress, as at the first session of that Congress.
The "Nullification" acts of the state of South Carolina of the summer
and autumn of 1832, having for their object a resistance to the provi-
sions of the existing Tariff Acts, had caused great excitement in the
southern section of the country, and strong apprehensions of a disturb-
ance of the peace of the Union, in every other section of it. Such was
the state of the public mind, when the twenty-second Congress com-
menced its second session in December, 1832, a moment of greater
solicitude, touching the efficiency of our Constitution and laws, than
had existed since the adoption of our present form of government.
Shortly after Congress had assembled, the President of the United
States issued his proclamation upon the subject of the proceedings of
a majority of the people of South Carolina, and, at an early period of
the session, a bill (usually called the Force Bill) was reported, enti-
tled an "Act further to provide for the collection of duties on Im-
ports" which, after much discussion and strong opposition from some
of the southern members, was passed into a law. In the course of
the session, and in consequence of the then highly agitated state of
the public mind, another bill (called the " Compromise Bill") and a
very important one (prepared and reported by Henry Clay) was intro-
duced and passed, entitled an " Act to modify the Act of July 14, 1832,
and all other acts imposing duties on Imports," and providing for such
present and future reduction of duties, as that after the year 1842 no
articles of importation are to be subject to a higher rate of duty than
twenty per cent, ad valorem. That bill received the approbation and
support of all the southern and many of the western members, and
was opposed by most of the northern and eastern members who con-
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sidered its provisions to be such as greatly to endanger, if not break
down, some of the manufacturing establishments.
While thus anxiously occupied by the deeply interesting and un-
pleasant public duties of that session I received, most unexpectedly,
intelligence of a heavy domestic affliction. My letters by the mail of
Friday the eighteenth of January, 1833, reached me while in the Sen-
ate chamber, and the first of them that I opened, which was from
Mrs. Silsbee and which was written Monday the fourteenth of that
month, contained the afflicting intelligence that my brother William had,
on that day, been so far prostrated by a sudden and severe access of
his disorder as to leave no hope of his recovery from it. Immediately
on reading that letter I gave notice to my colleague in the Senate (Mr.
Webster") that I should leave the city in a few hours for home, and
proceeded to my lodgings to prepare myself to take passage in the first
stage for Baltimore ; but on reaching my lodgings and there reading
my other letters, of which there were several on the same subject
from different members of my family and from other connections, no
room seemed to be left for the most feeble hope that my brother's life
would continue until I could reach home or even so long as the sad
intelligence of its approaching termination had been on its way to me,
and by most of those letters I was admonished to be prepared to hear
of his death by the next mail. But one occurrence in the course of
my life up to that time had caused such painful sensations, as that in-
telligence. For some time I hesitated what course to pursue, but
finally concluded to await the arrival of the next day's mail, indulging
a feeble hope, though but a very feeble one, that it might bring less
gloomy tidings. By the mail of Saturday, I received but one letter,
which was written on Tuesday morning, when my brother William
was living, but no hope at all was entertained of his continuing
through the day. Sunday's mail brought the letters written on Tues-
day afternoon (which should have reached me on Saturday) announc-
ing the melancholy event of my brother's death at about noon that
day (fifteenth of January) and reciting such particulars of his last
moments and of the uncommon firmness of character and great com-
posure of mind with which he spoke of his approaching end and took
leave of his family and connections (those absent, as well as those
about him) as could not fail to afford much consolation. Although my
brother's health was evidently more feeble when I left home in the
autumn of 1832 than it was in the preceding autumn, he was, never-
theless, at the counting room almost every day, except in wet weather,
and I had no apprehension that, even in the event of his being more
unwell, in the course of the winter, so sudden a change would take
place as not to afford me time to be with him in his last days ; if I had
entertained such an apprehension, I should most certainly have re-
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mained at home and resigned my seat in the Senate, as I contemplated
doing and which, from the moment of hearing of my brother's in-
creased sickness and death, I have most sincerely regretted not having
done, and shall never cease to regret it.
During the whole of the second session of the twenty-second Con-
gress the chair of the Senate was occupied by a president pro tern-
pore (Hugh E. White of Tennessee) in consequence of the resigna-
tion by John C. Calhoun on the twenty-eighth of December, 1832, of
his office of Vice-President of the United States, which was the first
instance of a resignation of that office since its creation in 1789, by
the adoption of our present Constitution and form of government.
Governor Lincoln, who was the chief magistrate of Massachusetts,
having announced in his message to the Legislature in Januar3 r , 1833
(while I was at Washington), that he should decline a reelection to
the gubernatorial chair of that State, my name was presented, among
others, in the public papers, as a candidate for that office, and I was
solicited by letters from some of the leading politicians of the State,
to authorize them to propose me to a Convention which was then con-
templated to be held at Boston, in March, for the purpose of desig-
nating a successor to Governor Lincoln, but I declined giving any
such authority.
The first presidential term of office of General Jackson terminated
with the close of that session of Congress, on the third of March,
1833. Although my public duties led me occasionally to the presence
of General Jackson, and sometimes to lengthy interviews with him
on subjects connected with my duties as a member of the Senate, par-
ticularly in relation to duties of an executive character, I must (not-
withstanding my political opposition) do him the justice to say that I
never, on any occasion, either in visits of duty or of ceremony, had
to encounter any of that irritability or impetuosity of temper which
has been so generally and, I presume, justly ascribed to him; but on
the contrary, that his deportment towards me was always gentlemanly
and his civilities and attentions towards both myself and my family,
were, on all occasions, such as could not fail to be perfectly satis-
factory. Being anxious to reach home as early as my public duties
would admit of, I left Washington on the morning of the fourth of
March, without waiting to attend the ceremonies of the second in-
auguration of General Jackson. In consequence of the severity of
the weather on that and the preceding day, I was detained at Balti-
more nearly a week by the impracticability of getting on either by
water or by land conveyance, as neither steamboats nor stages were
moving, and I did not reach home until the fifteenth of March.
Having been appointed by my late brother William one of the ex-
ecutors of his will and also one of the guardians of his minor chil-
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dren (in conjunction with his widow and my brother Zachariah) the
duties appertaining to those trusts received my earliest attention after
reaching home and were commenced at the first session of the Pro-
bate Court for this county which took place after my return to Salem.
In the summer of that year (1833) the President of the United States
(General Jackson) visited the New England States and on his way
eastward from Boston, in the month of June, passed a night and a
part of two days at the Mansion House Hotel in this city, to which
he was conducted by a public procession which met him at Marble-
head, and where rooms had been provided for him. In these rooms
(probably in consequence of his health being feeble at that time) he
remained the whole time he was in the city with the exception of a
short morning's visit to the East India Marine Hall, where a number
of our citizens were introduced to him. On leaving the city, the
President rode through some of our principal streets, which was the
only opportunity afforded to any of the female part of the community
to see him.
In the autumn of that year the state was visited by a distinguished
political opponent of General Jackson and a rival candidate for the
Presidency of the United States at the then recent Presidential elec-
tion Henry Clay of Kentucky. Mr. Clay, while at Boston, was in-
vited by a committee appointed at a meeting of the citizens to visit
this city, which invitation was accepted, and on the day fixed upon
for that purpose he was conducted from Boston by the committee
through the towns of Lynn and Danvers (at both of which places he
met a public reception and some detention), was met by a large caval-
cade of the citizens of Salem, passed through the principal streets
of the city, was publicly received at the " Mansion House Hotel" by a
short address from myself (as chairman of the committee) to which
Mr. Clay replied, and after being introduced to an immense congre-
gation of citizens, partook of a public dinner provided for the occa-
sion ; subsequently to which, Mr. and Mrs. Clay (who had accompanied
her husband to Boston and who had accepted an invitation from Mrs.
Silsbee to be with her during Mr. Clay's visit to the city, and who
had, accordingly, been passing the day with her) passed the evening
and night at my house where they were met by a large party of ladies
and gentlemen who had been invited there for that purpose. After
taking breakfast with my family the next morning, Mr. and Mrs. Clay
were conveyed back to Boston, the former by myself and other mem-
bers of the committee and the latter (Mrs. Clay) by some of my con-
nections in a private carriage.
The Convention which had been proposed to be held at Boston in
the month of March, for the purpose of designating a successor to
Governor Lincoln, was postponed until October and then held at Wor-
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cester where a committee of that body, appointed for that purpose,
reported my name with that of one other individual, as candidate for
the gubernatorial chair. On being apprised of the proceedings at
that Convention, it was with much satisfaction that I heard that an-
other individual than myself (a gentleman residing at Worcester and
not the one whose name had been reported by the committee with my
own) had been designated by the Convention as their candidate. I
had never authorized any one to make such a nomination, nor said nor
done anything to induce a belief that I should or could acquiesce in
the nomination, if made ; but, on the contrary, I had refused the solic-
ited permission of several individuals to use my name for that pur-
pose. I was quite tired of the public duties appertaining to the
situation which I then held, in the Senate of the United States (a
situation sufficiently elevated and honorable to fill the measure of any
reasonable man's ambition and certainly not an inferior one to Gover-
nor of the State) and felt a yet stronger aversion to assume any new
and, to me, untried ones.
Towards the latter part of November, 1838, Mrs. Silsbee and our
two daughters accompanied me towards Washington as far as Phila-
delphia, where they passed about three weeks, and then joined me at
Washington, where I had previously engaged a suite of private rooms
for the session, at Mrs. Thompson's boarding house on Pennsylvania
Avenue, opposite the " Centre- Market." The members of the execu-
tive branch of the government at the commencement of that first
session of the twenty-third Congress were Andrew Jackson, Pres-
ident, and Martin Van Buren of New York, Vice- President of the
United States ; Louis McLane of Delaware, Secretary of State (Mr.
Livingston, the late Secretary of State, having been appointed Min-
ister to France) ; Koger B. Taney of Maryland, Secretary of Treasury ;
Lewis Cass of Michigan, Secretary of War ; Levi Woodbury of New
Hampshire, Secretary of the Navy ; William T. Barry of Kentucky,
Post Master General and Benjamin Franklin Butler of New York,
Attorney General. The Massachusetts delegation of that Congress
were Daniel Webster and myself in the Senate; and in the House of
Representatives, John Quincy Adams of Quincy, Isaac C. Bates of
Northampton, William Baylies of West Bridgewater, George N. Briggs
of Lanesboro, Rufus Choate of Salem, John Davis of Worcester, Ed-
ward Everett of Charlestown, Benjamin Gorham of Boston, George
Grinuell, jr., of Greenfield, Gayton P. Osgood of Andover, John Reed
of Yarmouth, and William Jackson of Newton.
That session (1833-34) which continued until the thirtieth of June
was not only a long one, but, to me, a more laborious one than
usual. At the commencement of the session the " Whig" members
constituted a majority of the Senate, and were therefore enabled, for
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the first time for several years, to organize the committees of that
body. They made no further changes, however, than to secure the
control of a few of the most important committees, by placing upon
them a chairman and a majority of members of their own party;
under that organization I was made the chairman of the Committee
on Commerce, but neither the honor nor the situation nor the increased
labours which it caused me, were either solicited or desired by me.
In the spring of 1834 my son's wife made us a visit (having been ac-
companied from Salem by some of her connections) and passed a few
weeks with us at Washington. [ returned to Salem with my family
on the sixth of July.
On the seventh day of August, 1834, a public dhmer was given by
the Whigs of Salem to my colleague in the Senate of the United States
(Daniel Webster) and myself, in a large pavilion, erected for the pur-
pose on the centre of the mall and nearly in front of my residence.
That " Whig-dinner " (given to evince an approbation of the proceed-
ings of their own and of the other 4i Whig members" of the United
States Senate, in opposition to some of the measures of the execu-
tive branch of the government) was much the largest festival of the
kind that had ever been held in this town or in the county ; the Gov-
ernor and the Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth, several of
the Massachusetts delegation in Congress and many other distin-
guished guests from Boston and elsewhere were present, by invitation
from the Committee of Arrangements.
On the twenty-second of November, 1834, I left town again with
Mrs. Silsbee and our daughter Mary, for Washington, where we took
a suite of rooms to ourselves at Miss Corcoran's boarding-house, on
Pennsylvania Avenue. The members of the executive branch of the
government at the commencement of that second session of the
twenty-third Congress were Andrew Jackson, President, and Mar-
tin Van Bureu, Vice- President of the United States; John Forsyth of
Georgia, Secretary of State (Louis McLane having resigned that
office) : Levi Woodbury of New Hampshire, Secretary of the Treas-
ury (the Senate having refused to confirm the appointment of Roger
B. Taney to that office) ; Lewis Cass of Michigan, Secretary of War;
Mahlan Dickersou of New Jersey, Secretary of the Navy: William
T. Barry of Kentucky, Postmaster General, and Benjamin F. Butler
of New York, Attorney General. The Massachusetts delegation were
the same in both branches of the Legislature as at. the preceding ses-
sion, with the exception of two changes in the House of Representa-
tives, viz., Stephen C. Phillips, in the place of Rufus Choate, from
Salem, and Levi Lincoln in the place of John Davis of Worcester.
At the commencement of that session of Congress, there were
strong apprehensions in every part of the Union, that this country
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and France might become involved in war. In consequence of the
French Government having caused to be protested, for non-payment,
a draft upon it from our government, for the first instalment of the
indemnity (which had been settled by treaty and which had become
due) for spoliations on our commerce, a controversy had taken place
between the two governments, which caused the French Minister
(Mr. Serusier) to ask for passports and to leave this country, and
our Minister at the Court of France (Edward Livingston) to leave
that country, and which for some time seemed to leave but small hope
of an amicable adjustment.
At that time, a majority of the Senate being " Whigs," they could
constitute the committees of the body as they pleased ; but there were
a few individuals of that majority who were disposed to place the ques-
tion of Peace or War, wholly and entirely in the hands of the executive
branch of the government; and in accordance with those views, were
desirous that the " Committee on Foreign Relations" (to which that
part of the President's message relating to the situation of affairs with
France would be referred) should be composed entirely of the political
friends of the administration our political opponents. The principal
objection to such a committee was caused by the well-known impetu-
osity of General Jackson, which, it was strongly apprehended by many,
might lead us, unnecessarily, into war, and which might be prevented
by such a report from the committee as would fully sustain our own
country, in each and every branch of its government, without causing
irritation to that of France. After considerable private discussion rel-
ative to the composition of the Committee on Foreign Relations, a
meeting of the Whig members of the Senate was held at my rooms,
where, after considerable discussion, it was unanimously agreed that
the Committee on Foreign Relations should be composed, as at the
preceding session, of a majority of Whig members with Mr. Clay as
their chairman. The arrangements of the evening were acted upon
next day and, in due time, a most able report touching the situation
of things with France was made by Mr. Clay, which met the approba-
tion of all parties, and in my judgment, contributed greatly to the ami-
cable adjustment of the controversy to which it related, and thereby
to the preservation of peace.
That session of Congress, of 1834-35, though a short one, WHS to
me the most laborious one that I had experienced. The duties of the
Committee on Commerce (of which I was reflected the chairman) ,
were much more onerous than usual, and in addition to the other nu-
merous questions submitted to the consideration of that committee,
there was one which occupied much of my time and attention. In the
course of the two preceding sessions there had been much conversa-
tion and some public discussion relative to the then existing number of
NATHANIEL SILSBEK. 69
Custom House officers, and of their compensations ; and towards the
close of the preceding session of Congress, I was requested by several
distinguished members of the Senate to endeavour to obtain such infor-
mation on the subject as would enable Congress to act upon it. In
accordance with the views and feelings which I had long entertained
and often expressed both publicly and privately on the subject, and in
compliance with the requests of others, I offered a Resolution on the
25th of June (a few days before the adjournment of the preceding
session) calling on the Secretary of the Treasury to report to Con-
gress, at the commencement of the then ensuing session " the amount
of revenue collected ; the number of entries and clearances ; the amount
of tonnage entered ; and the amount of fees received, at each of the
Custom Houses for each of the two last years ; also the amount and
rate of commission charged by each of the collectors on the revenue
collected by him : the number of officers of every description employed
at each of the Custom Houses ; the amount of the emoluments of every
kind received by each of those officers and the expenses incident to
their respective offices for each of the two last years, and also whether
any, and if any, such of those offices or officers may be dispensed
with, without injury to the public service.' 7 With the information
called for by that resolution (which was obtained soon after the meet-
ing of Congress, and referred to the Committee on Commerce) and
such as I had been able to obtain by means of correspondence and of
personal interviews with the Collectors and other officers of the Rev-
enue, as well as with mercantile gentlemen, I was requested and au-
thorized by the other members of the Committee on Commerce to
propose n " Bill to regulate the number and compensation of Custom
House officers " (of whom there were more than fifteen hundred, of
various grade) which, after much labor, both of body and mind, I ac-
complished in such manner as to meet the approbation of every member
of the committee (which comprised individuals of both political par-
ties) and on its being acted upon by the Senate, I succeeded in carrying
it through that body without any alterations or amendments whatever,
except such as were proposed by myself. Although the bill provided
for very considerable changes of the compensations of a large portion
of the officers increasing some and reducing others, as well as for a
reduction of the numbers of those officers in several of the districts ;
and although many amendments were proposed by numbers of the Sen-
ate of both political parties and from various sections of the country
(founded upon letters from Custom House officers and aided and urged
by the presence of those officers, a host of whom had collected at Wash-
ington from nearly all the principal districts of the Union, to attend,
and, if practicable, to influence the action of Congress upon that
bill) yet I succeeded (though I hardly know how it should have so
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happened) in resisting them all ; and the bill passed the Senate suffi-
ciently early in the session for the consideration of, and decision of
the House of Representatives upon it ; but it was no further acted
upon by that branch of the Legislature than to be reported by its Com-
mittee of Commerce with a few, and but a few amendments.
My duties in the Senate were to terminate on the third of March,
1835, and the session of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in the
course of which a new election was to be made, was to commence
early in January. To prevent any use being made of my name on
that occasion, I caused notice to be given through the public news-
papers early in December (although urged by several friends not to
do so) of my intention to retire from public life after the third of
March ; and that I declined being considered a candidate for reelec-
tion to the seat which I then occupied in the Senate of the United
States. Previous to the publication of that notice no candidate had
been nominated, but immediately thereafter several candidates were
announced and among them were John Quincy Adams, Levi Lincoln
(late Governor), John Davis, then Governor of the State, Isaac C.
Bates and several others. It was some time after the first trial, and
not until after several successive ballotings, by each branch of the
Legislature, that the choice of my successor was effected by the elec-
tion of Governor Davis.
About the middle of February my son made us a visit, from Salem,
and passed the residue of the session with us at Washington. On the
night of the third of March, or rather, on the adjournment of the
Senate on the close of that day's session, which did not take place
until between the hours of two and three o'clock on the morning of
the fourth of March, my public services terminated. I left Washing-
ton accompanied by those of my family who were then with me, on
the morning of the fifth of March and reached home on the four-
teenth of that mouth.
Relieved from those public cares which had occupied a large portion
of my time and of my attention for a number of years, and which
had caused long and frequent absences from my home and from my
business, I indulged a strong and as I then thought a well-founded
hope that some years of interrupted domestic quiet and happiness
might be in store for me. But Providence bad otherwise ordained,
and that hope which I had so fondly anticipated, was soon and most
severely blighted.
Although Mrs. Silsbee's health had been such, in the course of the
last session of Congress, as to compel her occasionally to keep her
chamber for several days together, yet, at other times, her health
seemed to be as good and her enjoyment of society about the same as
usual; and on the last night of the session she was at the " Capitol 1 '
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sometimes in the Senate Chamber and sometimes in the Hall of the
House of Representatives, accompanied by a number of her female
friends, until after midnight. She was more or less unwell the greater
part of the journey home and for some time after reaching there.
In the course of the month of May she passed about ten days at the
Lynn Mineral Spring Hotel and returned from thence with improved
health. In the early part of July she was with her niece, Mrs. Sally
Rogers, several days immediately preceding the death of that lady,
which event and the exertions which it caused, had, I am apprehen-
sive, an unfavorable effect upon her own health.
On the third of August, Mrs. Silsbee, our two daughters, our niece
Mary Ann Wellmau, and myself, set out on a journey, which had
been some weeks in contemplation, towards Saratoga Springs, the
waters of which had, on several former occasions, been so highly
beneficial to Mrs. Silsbee that she felt a strong confidence in their
further efficiency. We travelled slowly via Worcester, Springfield,
Hartford, New Haven, New York City, Rockaway, West Point, Cat-
skill Mountains, and Albany, stopping at each of those places, and
arrived at Saratoga on the fourteenth of August. The journey had,
apparently, been beneficial to Mrs. Silsbee, and the next morning after
reaching Saratoga she commenced the use of the waters by walking
to the Springs for that purpose, and continued to use them for three
days with a strong hope that she should derive the same benefit from
them which she had realized on all former occasions ; but after hav-
ing used them those three days, she became suddenly so unwell while
at the dinner table (the last at which she ever sat except in her own
chamber) as to be obliged to retire to her chamber, to which she was
confined under the care of a physician, until the twenty-third of
August, when she took a short ride, and on the next morning con-
cluded to commence her journey homeward. We accordingly left
our lodgings at Congress Hall in the course of the forenoon of Mon-
day the twenty -fourth of August and reached Troy in the afternoon
of the same day. It was Mrs. Silsbee's wish and intention to return,
by land carriage via Lebanon, Northampton and Worcester, but the
fatigue of riding from Saratoga to Troy was such that she abandoned,
though very reluctantly, her intention of making the journey by land,
and concluded to take passage in the steamboat to New York and
thence to Providence. After resting at Troy until the morning of the
twenty-sixth we took the boat and arrived at the city of New York
early in the afternoon of the same day ; left there the next morning
and arrived at Providence on the same evening of the twenty-seventh
where we were detained by the indisposition of our niece until the
morning of the twenty-ninth, when we left Providence in the railroad
cars, at seven o'clock, reached Boston at half-past nine o'clock, and by
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means of an extra stage from thence, reached home about noon on
Saturday the twenty-ninth of August after an absence of twenty-six
days.
We were all very glad to tind ourselves at home and Mrs. Silsbee
said, on entering the house, that it was one of the happiest events of
her life. In about an hour after getting into the house she retired
from the parlour to her chamber and to her bed and sent for her phy-
sician, Dr. Treadwell, who seemed to entertain no apprehension but
that her health might and would be restored ; nor had I then entertained
any doubts but that, with the comforts of home and the aid of her phy-
sician, her health would soon be improved; but after the expiration of
a week, finding no apparent change for the better, I began to feel
some gloomy forebodings and, with the approbation of Dr. Tread -
well, called Dr. Jackson from Boston for his examination of the case,
and advice. He, too, as well as Dr. Treadwell, seemed to entertain no
doubt as to the restoration of Mrs. Silsbee to her usual state of health.
My fears were much alleviated, if not entirely dispelled, by the result
of that consultation of physicians, and continued so for another week,
when the increased debility of Mrs. Silsbee was such as to leave to
me but little hope of her recovery ; although Dr. Treadwell's opinion
seemed not to be much changed until three or four days before her
death, which took place at half-past nine o'clock on Sunday evening
the twentieth day of September, just three weeks and one day after
reaching home from our journey. Her remains were entombed on
the twenty-third day of September, the day preceding the fifty-seventh
anniversary of her birth (which was on the twenty-fourth day of
September, 1778) and within three months of thirty-three years after
our marriage.
It was the first death of an adult person at which I had ever been
present no such event having taken place among my own connec-
tions (the Silsbees) from the period of my father's death (which hap-
pened abroad) in 1791, until that of my mother (forty-one years
thereafter) in 1832, which, as also that of my brother William, about
eight months subsequently, took place while I was at Washington.
The two last afflictive events had, as I then believed, prepared me to
meet and to sustain the loss of any of my connections, however near
and dear to me. who might be called out of life before me; and I con-
tinued in that belief even until Mrs. Silsbee had passed from this to
another world when I found that I had greatly Overrated my ability to
meet such a trying event, the recollection and effect of which maj r be
assuaged by time, but can never be obliterated it has caused a void in
my life which I feel every hour of the day the sad thought that she
is gone forever mixes itself with all my thoughts and feelings. The
high moral worth of my deceased wife, as well as her great delicacy
of mind and manners, was extensively known and highly appreciated.
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How iny time was occupied, until I was placed in the discharge of
public duties, maybe conjectured from what I have already narrated;
but my labours during the eighteen years that I was engaged in the
public service (which, however humble may have been their character
or effect, were occasionally, and especially the last two years of them,
as incessant and arduous as the labours of any period of my life) were
too diversified for particular description.
While in the House of Representatives of the United States, besides
being on several special committees (on the subject of a " Territorial
Government for the southern part of Missouri," on the subject of
" Currency," etc., etc.) I was a member of the Naval Committee, of
that body and. one of those years, had charge of that committee.
While in the Senate of the United States, besides being on several
special committees (for three or four successive years on as many
special committees, to which was referred the subject of ' French Spo-
liations prior to the year 1800," also on the subject of a "Uniform Sys-
tem of Bankruptcy," " Committees of Conference" with Committees
of the House of Representatives, Committees to wait on the President
to inform him that a quorum of both houses of Congress were ready
to receive his communications and the like) I was always, with the
exception of the last year, on two, and several times on three of the
standing committees of that body (on " Finance," on "Commerce,"
on the " Post Office " and on " Private Land Claims"). I was a mem-
ber of the Committee of Finance for five or six years, a member of
the Committee on Commerce each and all of the nine years that I
occupied a seat in the Senate, the two last of which years (after the
Whig-party obtained a majority in the Senate) I was the chairman of
that committee, and I cannot but consider it a circumstance of un-
common occurrence, that, except when in the autumn of 1820 I was
detained at home by sickness, which prevented my reaching Wash-
ington until a few days after the meeting of Congress, I was never
absent from the daily sessions of the House of Representatives, nor
from the daily sessions of the Senate of this Commonwealth, but one
day during the whole time that I was a member of those bodies, nor
was I ever absent from any meeting of either of 'the Committees of
Finance or Commerce, of the Senate of the United States, while I was a
member of those committees, although those meetings always occu-
pied four and often six mornings of every week of the session. For
the last week or two of each session, those committees, one or the
other of them, were usually in session every morning.
I never solicited office, either directly or indirectly, nor have I con-
tributed in any way whatever towards the procurement of any one of
the public trusts which have been bestowed upon me, and I have re-
tired voluntarily and wishfully from every public situation which I
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have ever held. And having ever considered " the pain of a little cen-
sure, even when unfounded, to be more acute than the pleasure of
much praise," I cannot but consider myself fortunate inasmuch as,
although in the course of my public life I may have received more of
the latter than I deserved, it has been my good fortune to escape the
former.
My engagements in the public service have, by causing a great in-
crease in my expenses and by withdrawing me from my private con-
cerns, had considerable effect upon my pecuniary situation and caused
my property to be much less than it might and probably would other-
wise have been. My expenses, since I entered public life in the year
1817, have been thereby increased from three to four thousand dollars
per annum, at least; and this extra expense (after subtracting from it
the amount of my compensation for public services during the same
time) for eighteen years with the annual interest thereon, amounts to
fifty or sixty thousand dollars.
At a Whig convention of delegates from every section of the Com-
monwealth held at Worcester in the autumn of 1836 for the purpose
of nominating candidates for the office of electors of President and
Vice-President of the United States, to be supported at the then en-
suing election, the following ticket was reported by a committee
appointed for that purpose and received the approbation of the con-
vention :
Electors of President and Vice-President :
At large, Nathaniel Silsbee, of Salem.
Edward A. Newton, " Pittsfleld.
District No. 1. Samuel Appleton, ' Boston.
" 2. Leverett Saltonstall, " Salem.
" " 3. Benjamin Walker, " Lowell.
4. Loammi Baldwin, " Charlestown.
" 5. Joseph C. Kendall, " Worcester.
" " 6. Samuel Lee, " Barre.
" 7. Thomas Langley, il Hawley.
" " 8. Isaac C. Bates, " Northampton.
"' !). Beralul Taft, jr., ' Uxbridge.
" 10. Howard Lathrop, " Easton.
" 11. Charles W. Morgan, " New Bedford.
" '.' 12. Charles T. Howes, " Rochester.
The individuals thus nominated by the convention were, each and
all of them, chosen at the election held for that purpose by the people
of the Commonwealth, in the month of November of that year, and
having received the Governor's certificate of their election (according
to the provisions of the Revised Statutes of the Commonwealth) they
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met at the Senate Chamber, in Boston, 011 Tuesday preceding the first
Wednesday of December following, when the " Electoral College" was
organized, in which organization I was appointed the presiding offi-
cer, and Mr. Kendall was appointed secretary ; and on the following
day the votes of each and of all the electors were given to Daniel
Webster of Boston for President and for Gideon Granger of New
York for Vice- President of the United States, neither of whom, how-
ever, received a majority of the votes of the States ; their successful
competitors were Martin Van Buren of New York who was elected
President, and Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky, Vice-President. The
electors appointed one of their body (Mr. Langley) to be the bearer of
their votes to Washington.
On the thirty-first of May, 1838, I left Salem accompanied by my
two daughters and attended by a man-servant, on a tour of diversion
towards some of the western states, without any prescribed limits as
to time or distance, and with an uncertainty whether it might occupy
only a few weeks or as many months of our time. We proceeded the
whole distance from Boston to Washington (the railroad from Salem
to Boston was not then quite completed) by railroads and steamboats,
passing through and making short stops at each of the cities of New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. We reached Washington on the
seventh of June while Congress was in session; and, although we had
contemplated passing but two or three days in that city, were induced
by the civilities and kindness of numerous friends and acquaintances
whom we met at Washington, to remain there until the evening of the
sixteenth of June. Many of those friends I had not seen since the
termination of my public service at Washington, in March, 1835, and
the meeting of them, together with the visits which I was called to
make, at various residences (some of which had been previously oc-
cupied by my own family) could not fail, daily ?nd almost hourly, to
remind me of the afflicting dispensation of Providence which, since I
was last in that city, had deprived me of the partner of my life, who
had previously passed much time with me there, and whose death is
as seriously felt by me now as at the time of its occurrence, three
years since.
We left Washington on the evening of the sixteenth of June, in a
steamboat for Potomac-Creek, distant about fifty miles, on the Virginia
shore where we landed at an early hour on the following morning,
and to which place some of our congressional friends were so kind as
to favor us with their company returning in the boat to Washington.
From Potomac-Creek we proceeded, by stages and railroads, through
Fredericksburg to Charlottesville, where we passed the night, and be-
fore leaving it on the next morning, took a look at the University
buildings and had a distant view of " Monticello " the residence of the
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late Thomas Jefferson. From thence we passed to Stautou, and on
the following day to the " Natural- Bridge" at and about which we
passed two days, and from thence proceeded by way of Buchanan,
Fincnstle and other towns, to the " Sweet Sulphur Springs" where we
passed part of a day and thence to the " White Sulphur Springs" (a
distance from Washington by the route we took of about 329 miles)
which we reached on the 23rd of June and where we passed a week,
in company with acquaintances whom we met there from almost every
section of the Union, and where the comforts and civilities which
were accorded to us were increased by a letter of introduction which
was put into my hands at Washington, by Mr. Clay, to the proprietor
of that valuable establishment (Mr. Caldwell) who is an old and ar-
dent political as well as personal friend of Mr. Clay ; and who is un-
derstood to have declined the acceptance of an offer of six hundred
thousand dollars for the grounds and buildings which he owns at that
place.
On the thirtieth day of June we left the ' White Sulphur," and after
passing part of a day and a night at the " Blue Sulphur Springs" (a
pleasant and comfortable place, about twenty-two miles from the
" White Sulphur") proceeded to Guyaudotta on the Virginia shore of
the Ohio River (about 162 miles from the "White Sulphur Springs")
where, in an hour after our arrival at that place, we embarked in a
steamboat for Cincinnati about 100 miles distant, and after a long pas-
sage (caused by numerous stoppages and detentions for freight and
passengers, at various places on the river) arrived early on the morn-
ing of the fourth of July and landed at Cincinnati, while, by their can-
non on the bank of the river, the citizens of that place were proclaim-
ing it to be the anniversary of our National Independence. We took
rooms at the Broadway Hotel, but were not permitted to remain there
longer than to take our breakfast and dinner, when we were taken to
the residence of Mr. Long worth and his family, a part of whom passed
a week at my house in Saleni in the summer of 1836. and one of whose
daughters is the wife of our long and highly esteemed friend, Larz
Anderson, who during his collegiate course of studies at Cambridge,
and for some time before entering college, was under my protection
and care, and who, in the course of that time (from the spring of 1818
to the autumn of 1822) was frequently a member of my family From
him and from the other members of the Longworth family, we real-
ized great kindness and attention during our stay at Cincinnati ; as we
did also from Judge Burnet, formerly a member of the United States
Senate from Ohio, and a friend and co-laborer with me in that branch
of the United States Government.
After passing a pleasant week at Cincinnati we took passage in a
steamboat for Louisville in Kentucky, distant about one hundred and
NATHANIEL SIL8BEE. 77
fifty miles, ami landed at that place early on the next morning where
we passed three days and where, besides, three of my old fellow mem-
bers of the Senate (Judge Howan and Judge Bill formerly members of
the Senate from Kentucky, and Governor Poindexter formerly mem-
ber from Mississippi) we met also a number of highly respectable and
esteemed acquaintances from whom we received many kind attentions
and who caused our stay there to be a very pleasant one. From Louis-
ville we proceeded by stage, accompanied by our friend Charles An-
derson (a brother of Larz; through Frankfort to Lexington, a distance
of seventy-five miles, where we arrived on the evening of the fifteenth
of July, and just as we had finished breakfast, at the hotel, on the fol-
lowing morning, Mr. Clay (who had reached his home, from Washing-
ton, on the preceding day and who had heard of our arrival) called
with two carriages, and insisted on taking us and our baggage directly
to his residence, at Ashland (about a mile from the city) where we
passed three days very agreeably, enjoying not only the hospitality and
kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Clay, but also that of some of their connec-
tions, and of other distinguished citizens of Kentucky to whose ac-
quaintance we were introduced. We were afforded an opportunity,
while at Mr. Clay's, of seeing some of the finest cattle, of various
kinds, which are to be found in the country; Mr. Clay having, for
several years past, devoted much of his attention to the importation
and propagation of the valuable stock of animals, which are now seen
in the immediate vicinity of Lexington. As an indication of the value
at which some of these animals are estimated, I was assured that for
a cow owned by Mr. Clay's son and which I saw, the high price of
2200 dollars had been offered ; and that 500 dollars had been offered
for a calf of hers, the moment it was born.
We took leave of Mr. Clay at Ashland, on the morning of the nine-
teenth of July, and in -an extra stage, accompanied by Mr. Charles
Anderson and another friend, arrived at Maysville, a distance of sixty-
five miles, in the afternoon of the same day, but not finding any boat
there that was going down the river, we had to wait at Maysville un-
til the following morning, when we embarked and arrived at Cincin-
nati (sixty-five miles distant) in the afternoon, and were taken by
young Mr. Longworth, who met us at the landing, directly to the res-
idence of his father. We passed the night there and on the follow-
ing forenoon took leave of that family (the Longworths) and of our
other friends at Cincinnati, and embarked in a canal boat accompanied
by young Mr. Longworth and Mr. Charles Anderson for Dayton, the
place of Mr. Charles Anderson's residence and about sixty-three miles
from Cincinnati. We reached Dayton early on the next day and after
taking dinner with Mr. Anderson and his family, left in an extra stage
for Springfield (twenty-five miles) where we passed the night, and on
78 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES :
the next morning proceeded on our journey towards Columbus, a dis-
tance of forty-three miles, and arrived there sufficiently early in the
afternoon to afford us an opportunity to walk round and take a full
view of that city, which is the seat of government of the State of
Ohio. We left Columbus next morning in another extra stage, and
after stopping to dine at the "Delaware Springs" (a pleasant and
commodious watering place where we met several of our western
acquaintances) we continued our journey towards the city of San-
dusky, a distance of one hundred and nine miles from Columbus, and on
the Ohio shore of Lake Erie, which we reached on the afternoon of
the twenty-fifth of July, after two days ride from Columbus. On the
morning of the twenty-sixth of July we embarked in a steamboat for
Detroit, in the State of Michigan, seventy miles distant, and arrived
there in the afternoon of the same day. On the next forenoon (the
twenty-seventh of July) we embarked again in another steamboat and
arrived in the afternoon at the town of Monroe, a distance of forty-
flve miles, and the place of residence of Mr. Charles Noble, who had
previously purchased some land in that State, for myself and others.
The intense heat of the weather at that time prevented my going
into the interior of the state, to see some of those lands, as I had
contemplated doing, and after seeing (in company with Mr. Noble)
such of them as were in the immediate vicinity of the town of Mon-
roe, we left there on the twenty-ninth of July, by stage, for Toledo,
and embarked at that place on the afternoon of the same day, in a
steamboat for Buffalo, in the State of New York, where, after stop-
ping at Cleveland, and several other places on the southern shore of
the lake, and after a passage of about forty hours and sailing about
three hundred and two miles we arrived on the morning of the thirty-
first of July. After passing part of the day .at Buffalo in viewing the
great increase and improvement of that city since I was there in the
year 1827, we proceeded by the railroad to Niagara Falls, from
whence after two days stay there (on the American side) we proceeded
by way of Lockport, Batavia and Avon to Genesee (twenty-nine miles
from Niagara) at which place, before we could prepare ourselves to
call on our former acquaintances, of the Wadsworth family, they had
heard of our being at the hotel, and not only called on us but took us
and our baggage to their hospitable mansion where we passed three
days very pleasantly. From Genesee we came by stage and railroad
through Canandaigua, Geneva and Auburn to Syracuse, about ninety-
five miles, and thence by canal boat about fifty miles, to Utica, at
which place and at Trenton Falls, we passed about forty-eight hours,
and from thence by railroad about eighty miles to Albany and thence
by railroad about thirty-six miles to Saratoga Springs, where we met
a number of acquaintances, and where we passed a few days. We
ROLL OF CAPT. THEODORE MORGAN'S GO. 79
then proceeded by way of Troy and Albany (stopping a few hours and
calling on some friends at each of those places) to New York city,
where, and at "Rockaway" we stopped three days, and came from
thence by steamboat to Newport, at which place we made another
short stop of two days, and then came, by stage and railroad through
Fall River, Taunton and Boston, to Salem where we arrived on the
twenty-first day of August, in good health and without accident after
an absence from home of but ten days short of three months, and
after having travelled over three thousand miles.
MUSTER ROLL OF CAPT. THEODORE
MORGAN'S COMPANY.
Muster Roll of Captain Theodore Morgan's Detached Company of
Foot, with the Equipments of the Non-Commissioned Officers & Pri-
vates, and their places of Abode.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS' NAMES.
Theodore Morgan, Capt.
Edward Lander, Lt.
David Wilson, Ensign.
NON-COM d OFFICERS. PLACE OF ABODK.
SALEM.
Jonathan Brown ] ~ Green Lane
John Trumbull Winter Street
Caleb Waruer *D Bridge St.
David Ellsworth J j3 North-fields
James M c Carthy, Drummer Williams Street
Hugh Pike, Fifer. Norman St.
NAMES OF RANK AND FILK.
Henry Allen Derby Street
John Howard jr Water Street
Samuel Balch Elm Street
William P. Orne Court St.
James R. Buffum Bath St.
George A. Ward Lynde St.
Joseph I. Knap Essex St.
WillardPeele
Mesheck W. Dow Neptune St.
James Forgerty Market St.
Eben Senter Curtis St.
Nathan Porter Liberty St.
Jonathan Sanders Herbert St.
80
ROLL OF CAPT. THEODORE MORGAN'S CO.
David Day
Cutting Silley
Phillip English
Charles Forbes
Jonathan Smith
William Abbot
Joshua Boynton
Joseph Blood
Ezra Shepard
Thomas Baker
Isaac Hagett
John Becket jun r
John Masury
Henry Archer jun r
Nathaniel Weston jun r
Samuel Cloutman
Peter Jerad
Stephen Fogg
Charles Green
Joseph Boyinton
Ebenezer Slocum
Daniel Ringe
Daniel Blanchard
Elijah Perkins
Richard Hay
Daniel Henderson
Thomas Davenport
William Luscomb 5 th
Henry White
Nathan Adams
Elisha Harrington
John White
Parker Cross
Robert H. Osgood
Benj. West
Benjamin Wells
Jacob Endicott
William Studson
John H. Wild
Gidens Allen
Benjamin Brookhouse
Jonathan Whipple
Stephen Jewitt
Joel Bowker
Oliver Cummings
Phillip Gurley
David Robins
Amos Putman
Jonathan Neal Jun r
David Becket
William Stearnes Jun r
Nathanel Appleton Jr
Simon Flanders
John Treadwell
Henry Pool
Stephen Palmer
Winter St.
Bridge St.
Bridge St.
Bridge St.
Bridge St.
Andrew St.
Pleas* St.
Bridge St.
Andrew St.
Pies* St.
Essex St.
Beckets Court
Becket Street
Derby St.
Turner St.
Turner St.
Daniels St.
English St.
Essex St.
Ash St.
Williams St.
Brown St.
Essex St.
Brown St.
Corner of Essex & Nuby St.
Fairfleld St.
Hath St.
County St.
St. Peter St.
Brown St.
Williams St.
St. Peter St.
Fairfield St.
Staije Point
Derby's Farm
Harber St.
High St.
Norman St.
Summer St
Stage Point
Norman St.
Pickman St.
Northfleld
Broad St.
Salem
CHIEF JUSTICE PARSONS:
BORN ,1 750! APPOINTED, 1 806: DIED, 181 3.
From an unfinished sketch, painted in I 8 I 3, by Gilbert Stuart.
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE.
VOL. XXXV. APRIL, 1899. No. 2,
PARSONS AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION OF 1788.
BY EBEN F. STONE.
I DESIRE to say something of Theophilus Parsons, who,
in his day, was familiarly known as the great Chief Justice
of this State, and of the part he took in the Constitutional
Convention, which, after much doubt and delay, by a
small majority, adopted the Constitution of the United
States. Where a result is accomplished by the joint
efforts of a large number of able and distinguished men,
it may seem somewhat ill-judged and ungracious to claim
for any one of this number special merit and consideration.
But, in this case, so great has been the success of the
Federal Constitution, that, since the time of its adoption,
it has been regarded a great honor to have been even a
member of any of the Conventions which voted in favor
of it, and the admirers of distinguished men, notably in
the case of Hancock and Adams, have studiously endeav-
ored to make it appear that it was especially through their
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82 THEOPHILUS PARSONS AND THE
efforts that the Constitution in this State was finally
adopted.
An Essex man may be pardoned therefore if, in this
case, he should claim that, if a distinction is to be made
in the value of the services performed by the members of
the Convention, the first place is to be awarded to The-
ophilus Parsons of Newburyport, who possessed, in an
extraordinary degree, the qualities needed by the friends
of the Constitution when they attempted to carry it in the
State of Massachusetts.
It must be conceded, for on this point the testimony is
conclusive, that, when the Convention assembled, the
majority of its members were opposed to the adoption of
the Constitution. It is conceded also that while a numer-
ical majority of the members were opposed, a very large
preponderance of the wealth and intelligence of the Con-
vention was in favor of it.
It is remarkable that, while on one side are the names
of men eminent in their time and afterward for talents and
wealth and influence, there are very few men on the other
side who enjoyed any distinction, either then or later.
According to the testimony of General Knox, who was a
close and fair-minded observer of the Convention, the op-
ponents of the Constitution were, for the most part, men,
more or less, by sympathy or action, identified with Shay's
Rebellion, and whose ideas of liberty were inconsist-
ent with law and order. They were supported in their
ideas of freedom, to some extent, by a few well-meaning
men who naturally sympathized with popular rights, but
were naturally jealous of power, as hostile to the rights
and liberties of the people. There were, however, only
a few of this class ; the great majority of the law-abiding
citizens whose sympathies, under ordinary political condi-
tions, were on the side of popular rights, had been forced
by the violence and excesses of the mob-spirit which cul-
minated in Shay's Rebellion to array themselves with the
friends of law and order and to throw their influence in
their favor. The result was, in this State, a sharp divi-
sion between the conservatives who believed law essential
to liberty, and the extreme radicals who believed that they
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1788. 83
could only preserve their liberties by constantly asserting
them in open defiance of law and order. The revolu-
tionary spirit had degenerated into license and the oppo-
sition in the Convention, according to the concurrent
testimony of respectable citizens, was composed mainly of
lawless and irresponsible men, without position or charac-
ter, who hoped, in the general confusion and disorder of
the times, to mend their own fortunes.
The Federalists, who were friends of the Constitution,
were of one mind and of one purpose. No personal
ambitions, and no difference of opinion on special measures
weakened their zeal or divided their forces. They were
a unit, and worked from the start with the energy and
precision of a machine, whose object was to accomplish
one purpose and nothing else, and that was in some way
to overcome the adverse majority, and secure the vote of
the State for the Constitution. Their important work was
transacted in secret caucus, where the leaders met daily
and compared notes and reported progress, keeping every-
thing so close that when the time came to show their hand,
the result of their efforts was a surprise to many of their
own party. Bancroft, with sill his attainments and pa-
tience in research, was a partisan so blinded by prejudice
that he could not see the truth of this. He tried to main-
tain that Hancock was in full sympathy with the ardent
Federalists, cooperating with them in secret caucus in all
their movements to secure the passage of the Constitution.
Bancroft disliked the Federalists. He was a Democrat
and he tried hard to show that the country was as much
indebted to Hancock and Adams, whose associations were
with the Anti-Federalists, for the success of the Constitu-
tion in Massachusetts, as to any of the Federalists who
were its most devoted and outspoken friends. This view
is contradicted by the evidence. It is clear that, before
the Convention assembled, both Hancock and Adams were
counted by the Liberty men as well as by the Federalists
as unfriendly to the Constitution, and during the session of
the Convention even, their conduct was so uncertain and
equivocal that it was a matter of doubt, among some of
the active and intelligent Federalists, what their position
84 THEOPHILUS PARSONS AND THE
would be when the decisive vote was taken. There is good
ground for believing that Hancock was only, at last, per-
suaded to support the Constitution by assurances from the
Federalists that they would give him their votes for Gov-
ernor and that he should also receive the electoral vote of
the State for President, which would be decisive in his
favor, in the event that Washington should be ineligible
as a candidate as he would be in case of the rejection of
the Constitution by Virginia. There was formerly among
the papers of General Knox a copy of a letter from Knox
to Washington in which he said that, during the debates
in the Massachusetts Convention, it was supposed that
Virginia would reject the Constitution, and that if Han-
cock would lend his influence in favor of the Constitution,
the Federalists would in return do all in their power to
secure his nomination for the Presidency. This letter has
disappeared. Its existence a few years ago can be estab-
lished by conclusive proof.
Bancroft says, and the evidence fully sustains him, that
the influence and efforts of Washington were all-powerful
in favor of the Constitution and that there can be no
doubt that it was Washington's great popularity and au-
thority that carried Virginia for the Constitution. If the
tradition be true, in respect to the suggestion made to
Hancock by the Federalists, that his personal fortunes
would be improved by the opposition of Virginia to the
Constitution, and that Hancock acted on that suggestion,
then we have this singular result that Virginia was carried,
because it was her mind that Washington would be Presi-
dent, and that Massachusetts was carried with the hope on
the part of Hancock that, through the loss of Virginia,
Washington would be ineligible and the prize would come
to him.
When the Convention assembled it was perceived by all
parties that a crisis had arrived in the affairs of the Com-
monwealth, and that the happiness and destinies of the
people would largely depend on the result of its proceed-
ings.
It was not a case for anmment, though the whole instru-
r"> ' O
rnont was carefully considered by sections, and the merits
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1788. 85
of its different provisions were clearly and ably set forth.
The opposition was not to be controlled by reason or elo-
quence. Actuated by passion or prejudice, or motives of
personal interest, it would listen only to private sugges-
tions which were often remote from the merits of the case.
For three months previous to the meeting of the Conven-
tion the new Constitution had been thoroughly discussed
in newspapers and pamphlets, and the people of the State
were fully committed, one way or the other, when their
delegates were chosen to decide the matter in Convention.
When it assembled it was obvious that, if the decision was
to depend on the merits of the instrument, the friends of
the Constitution were sure of success, but unfortunately
the temper and personnel of the Convention made it mani-
fest that other considerations than merit had prevailed in
the choice of delegates, and that if their votes were finally
to be won in favor of the Constitution other considerations
than merit were to be urged in its behalf. In the entire
number of the opposition, or of those whose opinions were
doubtful, there were two men whose influence, if it could
be obtained, might be sufficient to secure the number of
votes requisite to determine the result. These men were
Hancock and Adams. If this could be done, the chances
were in favor of the Constitution, but without them argu-
ment and eloquence, which should justify and enforce the
case in the public mind, would be unsuccessful. Beyond
a doubt, it was decided in the caucus by those who were
responsible for its conduct, that the only hope of the
friends of the Constitution was to be found in some way
by which Hancock and Adams should be induced to
declare in its favor.
But to convert those men to the cause of the Constitu-
tion was no easy task. It was an undertaking that from
its very nature required great skill and ability. It was
idle to expect from them an honest conversion, by elo-
quence or argument, which should deal strictly with the
merits of the case. They were not deficient in knowledge
or intelligence. They must be won, if at all, by private
suggestions and appeal to personal considerations, which
it would not be convenient to publicly express. Who
among the leading Federalists in the Convention was spe-
86 THEOPHILUS PARSONS AND THE
cially qualified for the service? Were Bowdoin or Dana or
Ames or King or Strong or Sedgwick, able or distinguished
as they were, the men to be charged with such a work?
They felt and acknowledged its importance and necessity,
and were willing to supply valuable aid, but it was not
suited to their talents, nor congenial to their tastes. The
opposition was in the majority, strong in numbers and im-
patient of delay. It was inaccessible to any argument or
appeal that might come from a Federalist. It could only
be defeated by an unexpected defection in its own ranks,
which should cause dismay and confusion. This could be
accomplished if the two men of great influence, who were
naturally counted on their side, could be induced by some
offer or suggestion to give their votes for the Constitution.
Other things were not to be neglected, but the one thing
that was essential was to conduct to a successful conclu-
sion some scheme by which Adams and Hancock should be
induced to come out for the Constitution and give it their
moral support. This was finally done. Who did it?
Who took the responsibility of this enterprise and carried
it through? When we compare the qualities of the differ-
ent leaders and consider the great powers and resources
of Parsons, his adroitness and circumspection, his capacity
for management, which had been proved by his great ex-
perience and success as a jury lawyer and as a counsellor,
and the commanding position he had held before he was
thirty years old, as the head of the Essex Junto, and the
author of the "Essex Result, "can there be any reasonable
doubt that it was to him that we are chiefly indebted for
the arts and arguments by which the Constitution was
carried, and the Federalists were victorious? I think a
careful study of the characters of the leaders will convince
anyone that Parsons excelled his associates in the quali-
ties which were needed to accomplish the work, and that
he was, in fact, among the leaders facile princeps . This,
I think, can be made reasonably clear not only by the evi-
dence to be derived from a comparison of the distinctive
qualities of the leading men of the Convention, but from
the testimony of men whose means of information were
such that they can speak with authority on this subject.
There can be no doubt that while the debate went on in
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1788. 87
Convention, Parsons and his associate Federalists were
busy in forming a set of amendments which should bridge
the way for Hancock to pass over to their side, and in
causing a meeting also of the mechanics of Boston, in
caucus, to pass resolutions especially adapted to persuade
Adams that his duty to his constituents required him to
support the Constitution. And when the scheme was ripe
and everything perfected, Hancock, who heretofore had
not been seen in the Convention, appeared with pomp and
circumstance and offered, as if they were his own pro-
duction, the fruit of his own study and reflection, the
resolutions which Parsons, according to his son's life of
him, had prepared, and which the leading Federalists had
deliberately in secret adopted. To give effect to the
scheme, Parsons had that very morning made a motion
that the Convention do assent to and ratify the Constitu-
tion. This was to separate Parsons and the Federalists
from all suspicion of complicity with any scheme by which
the opponents of the Constitution might be misled in their
conduct, and to confirm the impression that Hancock was
acting of his own motion in good faith for their interests.
What then took place is well described by Senator
Dalton in a letter of the third of February, 1788. In this
letter, he says that the Governor spoke of the fact that,
during his confinement, he had informed himself by means
of the Gazette and by inquiries, that differences of opin-
ion had prevailed among the members, and that conse-
quently he had contemplated a plan of conciliation, which
he begged to lay before them for their consideration.
" The propositions were then read. As soon as the Gov-
ernor had read them and sat down, Mr. Adams arose and
moved that they might be made the subject of debate,
which being seconded was agreed to. They gave a shock
to the Antis and caused an agreeable surprise in some of
the Feds; however, they have not yet had the desired
effect, but they are esteemed so important that on the mo-
tion of a half-converted Anti, at 2 o'clock yesterday, they
were committed to a committee of two from each county,
one from each side, to take up and report. Parsons and
Hutchinson are for Essex * * * From the support of the
88 THEOPHILUS PARSONS AND THE
Governor, and the plausibility of his plan, we promise
ourselves a large majority. Until this the balance of
power was each day vibrating, as the mercury in a ther-
mometer. Never ! Never was a more ardent struggle !
Learning, Merit, Dignities, Wealth and Honesty pitted
against their opposites !
"Governor Hancock has hazarded his whole interests to
the support of a Constitution, which, alone, must save
his country. We must, whether successful or not, sup-
port his interest. Are you willing that we should pledge
yours? Do not say, "I will be damned first. He shall
never have my vote.' Will you not if the Judge, 1 Par-
sons and myself pledge ourselves? You will !"
Earlier letters will show the State of feeling in the Con-
vention and the difficulties with which Parsons had to
contend.
In a letter of Gen. Henry Jackson to General Knox,
of 25th Nov., 1787, the writer says :
"Your friend Rufus King is chosen one of the delegates to the
Convention from the town of Newburyport, and the other three gen-
tlemen of that town are high Federal men. Therefore, it looks well.
I pray God that it may finally be adopted in this State. There is, and
will be an opposition against it in this Commonwealth and your friend
at Milton Hill" [this was the home of General Warren, Speaker of the
House of Representatives] "with some others, is at the head of it."
Nathaniel Gorham, one of the strong friends of the
Constitution and a leading delegate to the Convention, in
a letter to General Knox of 4 Dec., 1787, says :
"Mr. Gerry's letter has done infinite mischief; however, I do not
despair. The disposition of Boston, and indeed, of the whole sea-
coast is right; that, if the country is divided, will turn the scale."
In another letter to the General, of 16 December, 1787,
he says :
"The prospect brightens here; there are one hundred good men
chosen in this neighborhood, and a great number of towns choose to-
morrow, among which are such a number of good ones, that I think
we may count up fifty members of the right sort that, added to the
few good ones from the three western counties, will, I think, secure
the point."
1 Greenleaf .
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1788. 89
In another letter from Gorham to Knox, of 30 Oct.,
1787, he had said :
" Things look pretty well, though there is an opposition preparing.
Mr. A." [Samuel Adams, President of the Senate] "has not declared
himself. General W." [James Warren, Speaker of the House] " is un-
doubtedly against it. I hear of none against it in Essex except Mr.
Kilham. In Middlesex, the two Prescotts and James Winthrop are
the only persons of note who are decided against it. Governor Han-
cock, Bowdoin and Parson Stillman will be of the Convention from
Boston. The choice of the latter will no doubt be attended with good
consequences in attaching the Baptists."
In an unpublished letter from Nathan Dane to General
Knox all these letters addressed to Knox are used by
the courtesy of the Historic-Genealogical Society dated
Beverly, 27 Dec., 1787, he says:
" Ten days ago the friends of the Constitution thought that there
was no chance for its adoption, but I believe that the opinion now is,
that there is nearly an equal chance in its favor. The State appears
to me to divide on this question, nearly as it has on all political ques-
tions for several years past, and thinking men in general seem im-
pressed with the idea of the necessity of adopting it, or at least
something like it. It will have substantial friends here, but not, I
believe, a great many very zealous admirers. I doubt whether it has
monarchy enough in it for some of our Massachusetts men, nor de-
mocracy enough for others."
He adds a postscript, dated 30 Dec.
"Since I arrived home yesterday, I find the elections, in the province
of Maine and in the three western counties, have not been so favor-
able to the Constitution, as it was supposed."
In a letter from Nathaniel Gorham to General Knox,
dated Sunday, 6 January, 1788, the writer says :
" The Boston delegates (excepting the Governor and Mr. Winthrop,
who were both unwell) dined with Mr. Bowdoin (the ex-Governor) on
Thursday last, at which meeting, MS one of the company informed
me, all were right excepting Mr. Adams who opened fully and posi-
tively in opposition, and declared that he would continue to do so in
convention. Mr. Chambers Russell called on me last evening on his
way to Lincoln ; he says, that Clark, Rhodes and Freeman, three of
the greatest leaders in the north end, informed that they intended
that evening to have the most numerous caucus ever held in Boston
to consider what was to be done in consequence of Mr. Adams' dec-
laration. Nantucket, from their foolish religious whims, will not
send help to the establishment of a government which has a right to
raise armies either in peace or war. So five votes are lost when they
will be needed enough, for from several untoward circumstances the
90 THEOPHILUS PARSONS AND THE
elections have gone wrong in several places that were considered as
sure. The opposition of James Winthrop and Oliver Prescott of
Groton has had a very bad effect in this county; Mr. Pitts, of Dun-
stable, being the only man above Concord, that can be depended on.
It will be tight work, but I will not despair.
Say nothing discouraging and believe me,
Yours sincerely,
N. GORHAM."
This letter has never been published. I found it in a
collection of General Knox's papers in Boston, now pre-
served by the New England Historic-Genealogical Society.
I do not believe that Bancroft ever saw the letters which
I now quote.
This letter was written on the 6th : the next day, the
7th of January, a caucus of the tradesmen and mechan-
ics of the town was held at Masons' Hall, at the " Green
Dragon," at which strong resolutions were passed unani-
mously in favor of the Constitution, and among other
things it was resolved :
" That in the late election of delegates, it was our design to elect
such men and such men only as will exert their ability to promote the
adoption of the Constitution, and if any should oppose it, they will
act contrary to the wishes of the tradesmen of Boston."
Before the caucus adjourned a committee of seven was
appointed with authority to call any future meeting that
might be necessary, and two of that committee were
Clark and Rhodes whose names were mentioned in Gor-
ham's letter. It is well known that the caucus took place
at this time, and it has been already suspected that the
conduct of Adams as a delegate was influenced by it ; but
Gorham's letter in connection with the terms of the reso-
lution makes it clear that it was a scheme devised by the
Federalists to capture Adams, and that notwithstanding
his wariness and circumspection, he was caught in the
trap. Edmund Quincy, in the life of his father, Josiah
Quincy, gives this scrap of history taken from his father's
diary, Sept. 25 (1825?) :
" In evening with Lieut. Gov. Phillips : he told me this anecdote of
the late Samuel Adams. At the time of the Convention in Massachu-
setts for the adoption of the Federal Constitution, Adams and Han-
cock were known originally to be opposed to it. Those in favor of
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1788. 91
it had used various means to excite the people, and among others a
meeting of the mechanics, and this was held at the Green Dragon, at
which it was voted that we will have the Constitution. ' Well,' said
Adams, 'if they will have it they must have it;' and from that time
he voted in favor of it."
This is a remarkably accurate report of what really took
place considering that the story was told to Quincy nearly
forty years after the event. The caucus was held on the
7th of January, and Adams did not come out in favor of the
Constitution till the very last of the month ; just a week
before the Convention dissolved. Professor Parsons, in
the life of his father, Judge Parsons, says that Adams and
Hancock, while non-committal, were looked upon as hav-
ing a strong leaning against the Constitution.
Now, what finally induced them to support it? There
is no doubt but that, in the judgment of the Federalists,
and of Adams' contemporaries, the decisive fact was, in
Adams' case the caucus of the mechanics and tradesmen
of Boston, which Adams received as the spontaneous and
disinterested expression of that class of his constituents
whose interest and wishes always had great weight with
him. It did not occur to him that it was a contrived
plan. This explanation of his conduct implies no reflec-
tion on his honesty or intelligence. But, in Hancock's
case, it is not easy to account for his action without sus-
pecting motives which must seriously affect our judgment
of his true character. Hancock had a strong dislike for
the Federalists. His natural affinities were with their
political opponents. He always spoke of the Federalists
of this County who were active and influential as the
"Essex Junto" by way of reproach, and between Han-
cock and Bowdoin for many years there was a sharp and
bitter rivalry. Bancroft, in defending the conduct of
Hancock in the Convention, says that at this time Bow-
doin had retired from politics, but in this he is mistaken.
Bowdoin did not retire until 1789, and his friends, who
were the Federalists, were especially sore and aggrieved
at his defeat in 1787, when Hancock, by conciliating the
insurgents and their friends, was elected over him. The
Federalists were warm friends of Bowdoin, and recipro-
92 THEOPHILUS PARSONS AND THE
cated fully the dislike which Hancock felt and expressed
toward them. But while Hancock's sympathies were with
those opposed to the Federal Constitution, he acknowl-
edged, as did nearly all men of character and intelligence,
whatever their political faith that the powers of the
Confederation were inadequate and defective and that some
amendments were needed to save the Country from the
confusion which seriously threatened its prosperity if not
its life. Before the Convention assembled, the merits
and defects of the Constitution had been warmly and
thoroughly discussed in all parts of the State, and parties
were immediately formed to oppose or defend it, but the
people divided on this question very much as they had
formerly on other questions of public policy. On the one
side, the friends of order and government, on the other
side, the friends of liberty and popular rights.
The 12th of Jan., 1788, Major Winthrop Sargent of
Boston writes to General Knox :
*' DEAR HARRY : * * * That French and English War, and Dutch In-
terests, and everything else indeed are giving way to the important busi-
ness of the Convention. I dined this day with some of the members,
Federalists, and, though they have not settled their forms and cere-
monies, yet they venture to hazard sentiments and express fears. Sam
Adams is an Arch Devil on this occasion, and has made a motion that
E. Gerry should have a seat in the Convention."
In a letter of Parsons of Monday eve, 14 Jan'y, 1788,
to Michael Hodge he says :
" DEAR SIR : I sit down to communicate thro' you to our friends
the present appearances of the Convention. It is much crowded, and
is by far the most numerous representation this State ever saw. The
weight of abilities, property and probity, is decided in favor of, the
Constitution, but I fear the balance of numbers is against it. Great
numbers come determined, and upon them reason or argument will
make no impression, but among the opposers there are men of integ-
rity and candor who declare they come not decided, but are ready and
desirous of being informed. The effect of argument upon these will
determine the fate of the Constitution and I have therefore some
faint hopes. The conduct of Connecticut will have some weight in
our favor. You have, no doubt, heard that their Convention have
adopted the Constitution 128 to 40. But I fear this event will have its
effect chiefly upon a few wavering ones. To-day we agreed to con-
sider the Constitution by paragraphs but to take no question but upon
the whole.
"This mode was moved on outside and is the most favorable way
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1788. 93
for us, as it will give us time to exert our influence, before the great
question.
" The most favorable state of the parties I can now give you which
must be a secret is as follows. In Suffolk we have a majority of 31,
in Essex 27, and in the old Colony of 20, in all 78. But against us are
43 in Worcester and 20 in Middlesex which leaves 15. We hope Berk-
sh.re and Hampshire are balanced, and we have then 15 to spare for
the lower counties which I fear at present is not enough.
" King arrived to my great joy on Friday ev'g. You must see March
and get Dr. Sawyer to see his brother. They must come down imme-
diately, at all events. One of the Amesbury men is still absent. Let
me know the situation of my family the moment there is any alteration
in it. Be discreet to whom you show this letter. Yours Sincerely.
T. PARSONS."
Gorham to Knox, Jan'y 16, 1788 :
" We are hard at work, and the prospect not very good. Numbers
are at present against us, and the Opposition Leaders say they are sure
of the victory. They are your friend Thompson, White of Norton,
Bishop of Rehoboth, Dr. Taylor of Worcester Co. and Wedgery of
the Eastward, if they succeed in opposition to such a phalanx of
sensible men & good speakers as are in this Assembly it will be very
extraordinary. We know all is at stake & work accordingly. Say
nothing of what I write.
I believe some letters have been written from New York which have
done damage."
General Jackson writes to General Knox 20 Jan., 1788 :
" Mr. S. Adams has not yet come out. If he is against it, I believe
he will say but little, as the meeting of the mechanics of this town
and their proceedings must and will have an influence over him."
In a letter from Jackson to Knox of 23 Jan., he says :
" The Federalists are gaining ground every day, so much so, that
the Antis are much alarmed, and talk of an adjournment to influence
the Country against the Constitution."
Rufus King writes to General Knox, 27 Jan., 1788:
" Our hopes do not diminish although our own confidence is not
complete. The opposition are less positive of their strength, and
those few among them who are honest and capable of reflection ap-
pear uneasy concerning the fate of the question. Yesterday's Centi-
riel contains a proposal for a conditional ratification said to have come
from Sullivan. The Opposition give it some countenance. I mention
the circumstance rather to show that our opponents are not so con-
fident of their numbers, since hitherto they have reprobated the
suggestion of amendments, and insisted among their party on a total
rejection of the Constitution. From motives of policy we have not
taken any question which has divided the House or shown the strength
of sides. Hancock is still confined. He appears to me to wish well
to the Constitution but does'nt care to risk anything in its favor."
94 THEOPHILUS PARSONS AND THE
The 30th Jan., 1788, Gorham writes to General Knox:
"Say nothing! Wisdom and patience were never more necessary
than at the present time. Some of our people are so opposed
that there seems to be no means of convincing them. The Governor
got out and took his seat this day : we have almost got through the
discussion on paragraphs ; we cannot gain the question without some
recommendatory amendments ; with them I presume we shall have a
small majority. They are preparing and will be ready to-morrow.
We shall then present them, if a proper pause offers. We are now
in caucus and King is with us."
In another letter of Dalton to Hodge of 30 Jan'y,
1788, we find the following :
* This day Governor Hancock attended as President in Convention,
and, if he may be depended on, he will give countenance to the pro-
posed Constitution, which will carry a large majority in favor of it."
* * * ij w in tell you, as a confidential communication, that Mr. S.
Adams will come out in favor of the Constitution. This and the
Governor on the same side will settle the matter favorably. All this
is scarcely known out of our caucus, wherein we work as hard as in
Convention." * * * " Mr. Parsons is with us this evening, thoroughly
well and ardently engaged. T. D.
" P. S. Our friend D's communication will give you all the infor-
mation we are at liberty, at present, to put on paper. We have stolen
a moment in caucus to write this. Yours. T. P."
Here is a letter from Dalton to S. Hooper :
"BOSTON, Jan'y 31, 1788.
Thursday Eve'g, 11 o'clock.
"DEAR BROTHER : Just returned from caucus. I cannot avoid ac-
quainting you, in addition to my advice last Eve^to oar friend Hodge,
that the Governor, this afternoon, came forward in full support of
adopting the Constitution and accompanied the proposed ratifica-
tion with recommendatory amendments, which the old Patriot, Mr. S.
Adams, seconded warmly this plan, the Feds hope, will cause a
party to leave the Antis. We are not idle by Night or Day and sac-
rifice everything but moral Honesty to carry our point.
"The grand Question is now before us, and will probably be decided
on Saturday if not then, Tuesday will be the important day. I
tremble at the approach, and dread the feelings I shall have when the
Names and Answers are called and marked! Yea Yea, Nay Nay
says the Scripture ! Heaven will determine in our favor, unless we
deserve Kuin.
Adieu: Love, Compliments, &c., &c.,
T. DALTON."
This letter from Rufus King to General Knox is copied
from Drake's Memorials of the Cincinnati :
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1788. 95
Boston 3d. Feb. 1788.
'Dear Genl. : Hancock has committed himself in our favor and will
not desert the cause. Saturday's Centinel will give you an idea of his
plan. The Federalists are united in that system; and as A dams has
joined us in this plan we are encouraged to think our success probable.
" Gerry keeps close at Cambridge, and his adherents have made no
motion for his recall. Mr. Hancock's propositions were committed to
a Committee of two members from each County; they meet to day
and we hope favorably from their deliberations, a majority being Fed-
eralists.
" The final question will be taken in five or six days. You will be
astonished when you see the list of names, that such a union of men
has taken place on this question. Hancock will hereafter receive the
support of Bowdoin's friends and we tell him that if Virginia does not
unite, which is problematical, that he is considered as the only fair candi-
date for President."
Jackson writes to General Knox, 3 Feb'y, 1788 :
" The whole race of the Antis are a set of poor devils, without one
farthing in their pockets, and it is impossible for them to leave the
town unless they receive their pay. Some of them have been to the
Treasurer ; he informs them he has not a dollar in the public chest,
nor does he know where to borrow one. We [the Feds.] have cal-
culated that if the Constitution is adopted there will be no difficulty
about pay ; if not, they must look to the Treasurer for it."
Feb. 6, 1788, he writes to General Knox as follows :
"DEAR HARRY: Hurra! Hurra! the great question was put this
afternoon at 5 o'clock, by yeas and nays, and it was determined in
favor of the Constitution, by a majority of 19.
" I attended in the Gallery from 9 A. M. till 5 p. M. and ate my din-
ner on bread and cheese, which I got a boy to bring in from a shop.
The Gallery remained full the whole time of the adjournment from 1
to 3 P. M., such was the anxiety in the minds of the people on this
important business. Great credit is due to Gov. Hancock, Bowdoin,
King, Parsons, Dalton, Sedgwick, Dana, Gushing, Gorham, S. Adams,
C. Jarvis, J. C. Jones and others." 1
The extracts here given from letters written at the time
by persons of intelligence and with superior opportunities
for observation will serve to give a vivid idea of the spirit
and circumstances of the age when the question of the
Constitution was decided.
1 See, for a concise account of these proceedings, with contemporary letters
from Washington, Madison, Knox and others, the life of Chief-Justice Parsons
by his son, Theophilus Parsons, LL.D., pp. 57-86. Also, for other letters bearing
on the subject, see Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, Vol. xxv, pp.
17-21. Life of Josiah Quincy, by Edmund Quincy, p. 416.
Also, Debates and Proceedings of the Massachusetts Convention of 1788 (edi-
tion of 1856), pp. 399-412. Drake's Memorials of the Cincinnati, pp. 180-182.
96 THEOPHILUS PARSONS AND THE
When the final vote was taken and every vote that could
possibly be counted in its favor had been secured, the
Constitution was adopted by a vote of 187 out of a total
of 355, showing that notwithstanding the extraordinary
efforts of its friends and the aid of Hancock and Adams,
who by the judicious use of political expedients, had been
brought over to their side, the cause was carried by only
a small majority.
The merits of the case were ably and clearly presented
in the Convention but the debates were rather dull and
uninteresting. Nearly all the talent and intelligence of
the Convention were on the side of the Constitution, and
its friends were somewhat in the predicament of intellect-
ual champions, at the mercy of men, their inferiors in
everything but numbers, and without sufficient ability to
bring out to advantage the high qualities in which their
opponents excelled.
In this respect the Massachusetts Convention presented
a great contrast to the Constitutional Convention of Vir-
ginia, and to many of the other State Conventions that
assembled to pass upon the question of the Federal Con-
stitution. In Virginia, while the people at large were two
to one against the Constitution, the wealth and talent and
education of the State were strongly represented on both
sides of the question, and so the debates that took place
on the different subjects, as they arose, were full of life
and interest. But in Massachusetts, so one sided was the
Convention in respect to everything but numbers that
there was not a single representative of the popular feel-
ing in that assembly competent to give full voice and
effect to it. There was no man in the opposition to test to
the utmost the eloquence and powers of debate of such
men as King and Ames and Dana and Parsons. It was a
case for strategy, and not for eloquence. How to control
and conciliate Hancock and Adams and so convert a large
minority into a small majority was the question, a work
which offered little opportunity for the eloquence of Ames
or King, but was specially adapted to the genius of Par-
sons, whose forte was skill and ability in management.
Judge White, formerly judge of Probate in this County,
From a miniature painted from life by Malbone, in 1796.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1788. 97
and an eminent scholar with large knowledge of public
affairs, and a personal friend of Parsons, said of him, in a
letter, written in 1858, that in the Convention of 1788 he
was conspicuous among the most eminent members, and
as efficient as he was conspicuous ; that he had no doubt
that he was the master-spirit in the adoption of the Con-
stitution.
Isaac Parker, who succeeded Parsons as Chief Justice
of this State, was a constant spectator of the doings of
the Convention. He said that he heard the arguments of
all the eminent men of that assembly, but that Parsons
appeared to him to be its master-spirit. " Upon all sudden
emergencies, and upon plausible and unexpected objec-
tions, he was the sentinel to guard the patriot camp, and
to prevent confusion from unexpected assault." He was
then less than forty years old, but so mature in wisdom
that he was superior to any man in that Convention, unless
Sam. Adams be excepted, in his capacity to work out
political ends by political methods, which the exigencies
of government sometimes demand and justify.
In matters of science and scholarship he was the peer
of the most distinguished of his contemporaries, and in
matters of trade and business relating to the ordinary
affairs of life, so familiar did he seem with the special
knowledge of the mechanic or the tradesman that, in talk-
ing with them, he was often taken for one of their number.
His mind was insatiable of knowledge in all its forms.
His intellectual powers were of a very high order. He
excelled in that quality which is called worldly wisdom,
notwithstanding his great attainments in science and schol-
arship.
Easily the first in his profession as an accomplished
jurist and great judge, he dealt with the most difficult
problems in science and mathematics, as a pastime.
Great attainments are not infrequently found in common-
place men. Industry with moderate talents, under the
spur of an untiring ambition, will sometimes give a man
position and distinction, but will seldom deceive the clear
observer, who can easily distinguish between acquired
powers and genuine natural superiority. It is a common
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98 THEOPHILUS PARSONS AND THE
remark hymen of intelligence and observation, that they
are generally disappointed when brought into close con-
tact with those who have achieved reputation in the differ-
ent walks of life. Familiarity breaks the spell. The
prestige which comes with long continued success is dis-
pelled by the view behind the scenes. But it is character-
istic of true greatness that it is equal to all tests, and
gains in value the more severely it is tried.
Parsons was, in no respect, indebted for his influence
to the prestige which attends previous successes. He
stood on his merits, and his genuine superiority. He was
destitute of those qualities of deportment which attract
and influence the majority of mankind. He was careless
in his dress, and was deficient in that reserve and dignity
which are so important and agreeable in a public man.
He was always on very familiar terms with the common
people, and enjoyed joking with them on matters of com-
mon interest with a freedom and cordiality which won
their good will and sympathy. In my boyhood, stories
were current here illustrating this phase of his character,
and showing how congenial to his taste was an encounter
in the street with a market woman or dealer in small truck,
who, drawn into conversation by him, would bandy words
with the future Chief Justice, with wit and spirit. And
this man, so free and easy with the common people in all
their walks of life, that he could understand all their ways
and that they felt as if they understood him, was a great
student, and master of all that was to be known in the
realms of science and jurisprudence. He was familiarly
called in his profession "the giant of the law," and in
science and mathematics was on an equality with the leaders
of his time. I have said that Parsons' appetite for knowl-
edge to be derived from books was insatiable ; he read
and appropriated everything that he could find. But his
gre;it distinction consisted in this, that to his knowledge
of the books, which was almost supreme, he added that
knowledge of the world, and of human nature, which im-
plies great sagacity, and a wide experience in affairs.
This explains his great power, as a lawyer, with the jurors
as well as with the Courts. He was a master of men, and
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1788. 99
knew how to deal with them when occasion required. He
was eminently a wise man, as well as a learned one.
Parsons died in 1813, at the age of sixty-three, in the
full possession of his powers, and at the zenith of his rep-
utation. While regarded by all his contemporaries as a
great man, it was as a lawyer that he was especially dis-
tinguished, and, before his promotion to the bench as
Chief Justice of Massachusetts, he was often spoken of as
the "great lawyer." Politics was an episode with him,
and not an occupation. His life was devoted to his pro-
fession, and yet such was the extraordinary value of his
political services in the critical times which immediately
followed the war of Independence that it has been said by
one, a competent judge, who knew him well, " that his
early patriotic services were of more importance to his
country, than all his juridical labors, great as they unques-
tionably were."
He was often suspected by those who knew his powers,
but did not enjoy his confidence, of being the author of
measures which originated with other men, and for which
he was in no sense responsible, except so far as they may
have met with his approval. He was, however, a bold
politician and a man of singular sagacity and self-reliance.
His friends sometimes doubted for the moment his pru-
dence, and were apprehensive that, in the given case, he
was wrong, but the end generally justified his judgment,
and, in the course of events, they were led to adopt his
opinion and to acknowledge his superior foresight and
intelligence.
But with all his qualifications for high public service, as
a statesman, public life was not congenial to his taste.
He cared nothing for popularity and was impatient of the
arts and expedients by which popularity is often achieved.
His tastes were domestic and the display and magnificence
of power had no charm for him. It must be remembered,
however, that in his day the general government of the
United States had no prizes to offer that would tempt a
young mail of talents from the service of his own State,
and to be Chief Justice of Massachusetts was, in his time,
a higher honor than to be a United States Senator.
100 THEOPHILUS PARSONS AND THE
For a man of his remarkable powers, he was very free
from vanity or ambition or self-display, and yet he liked
attention and recognition, and was not superior to the use,
upon occasion, of some innocent expedient by which the
general impression of his wonderful talents should be ex-
tended and increased.
He is now forgotten except by the few who have some
curiosity about the past; for, unlike Hancock and Adams,
he is not so identified with political events as to make it
the object of some especial admirers to magnify and mis-
represent his party services, but it was conceded by his
contemporaries that he was not only preeminent, but sin-
gularly so.
Judge Story said of him that he belonged not to a gen-
eration, but to a century. And, in studying his character,
we can sympathize with the remark of Judge White, that
since his death, he had often thought of what Burke had
said upon the death of Johnson, "Johnson is dead, and
there is nothing left to remind you of him, or that has a
tendency to remind you of him."
It would be interesting to show why it was that the
character of the Virginia Convention differed so radically
from that of Massachusetts, but it is enough at this time
to refer briefly to the political condition of these States
at the time the question of the Federal Constitution came
before the people for their consideration.
During the revolutionary war the restraints of law and
order in this State, where the hardships of the war were
severely felt, were of little force, and the evils of lawless-
ness and insubordination were generally felt and acknowl-
edged. Many, who had been reduced to a condition of
extreme poverty, denied the authority of the law, and,
refusing to pay their debts, resorted to open rebellion
and stay-laws and other expedients, utterly inconsistent
with the necessary conditions of order, and good govern-
ment. This state of things produced a sharp division,
arraying on one side, the people whose sympathy with
popular rights carried them, in some cases, to a point be-
yond the limits of law, and on the other, the conserva-
tive and law-abiding, with the wealth and intelligence of
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1788. 101
the State whose fortunes were identified with established
institutions.
The excesses produced by the spirit of liberty which
naturally followed the conclusion of the war of independ-
ence, caused a reaction which led to a complete separation
between the conservative and law-abiding men on the one
side, and the radical and lawless on the other. But in
Virginia the case was different. It was an agricultural
State, and its political system was aristocratic. The evils
and dangers which Massachusetts had experienced from
the abuses of democratic principles were there compara-
tively unknown, and the doctrine of State Rights, as
opposed to the powers of the general government were
favored rather than hindered by the operation of local
causes. The policy of the Congress of the Confedera-
tion, which was controlled by the Northern States, had
been, in some respects, especially in regard to the naviga-
tion of the Mississippi river, adverse to the interests of
Virginia, and in the judgment of many of its public men,
the advantages of Union would be more than offset by the
loss of dignity and power which the State would experi-
ence. In Massachusetts the fate of the Constitution was
doubtful, not because of a division of opinion on its
merits, on the part of its leading men, but because of a
strong popular majority against it, which, at the time, was
ill-disposed to listen to the advice of intelligence or states-
manship.
The character of the two conventions faithfully reflected
the political condition of their respective states. In Mas-
sachusetts the disgraceful events of a public nature, which
had taken place, were especially unfavorable to the doc-
trine of State Rights and democratic ideas, and the think-
ing men were forced into the ranks of law and order. In
Virginia, the action of the Confederate Congress, and the
course of domestic affairs were favorable to the advocacy
of State Rights, and the friends of the Union and the Con-
stitution wero combated on the floor of the Convention bv
men of great eloquence and patriotism, and of ability and
statesmanship only not equal to their own.
For fire and eloquence and patriotism, Henry and
102 PARSONS AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Mason and Grayson had not their superiors in their State,
and in respect to those qualities which should distinguish
public men, they were worthy of rank with Madison and
Marshall and Pendleton, who represented the other side
of the question.
While the debate was pending in Virginia it was an
open question whether or not the requisite number of nine
States could be obtained. As it turned, however, New
Hampshire had the honor of being the ninth State in its
favor, casting an affirmative vote a few days before Vir-
ginia made its decision. This fact, however,- so slow were
the means of communication between the States, was un-
known for some time, in Virginia, and the friends of the
Constitution in that State pressed their case, as if union
or disunion depended on the result of their efforts. But
in this they were mistaken ; the Union was already safe
without them.
It is natural to speculate upon what would have taken
place, if Virginia had rejected the Constitution. One
thing is certain. It would have made Washington ineli-
gible as President, and by exciting the rivalries ot our
public men, ambitious for the prize, would have seriously
increased the difficulties already in the way of a harmoni-
ous Union. The tradition that Hancock, whose weakness
was excessive vanity, was induced to believe that if Vir-
ginia should reject the Constitution, which at the time of
the Massachusetts Convention was probable, the chances
of his being the successful candidate for the Presidency
were in his favor, seems to have evidence to support it.
This could not have happened, however, without a contest
which would have caused serious trouble and embarrass-
ment. It was well for the country that Virginia stood by
the Union. It settled the question of who should be the
first President, and prevented a contention, which would
have led to disastrous results. 1
ir rhis paper did not enjoy the final revision of the author. It was written in
1890-91, read at Newburyport to a literary Club, and left substantially as printed.
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JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 1
LETTER FROM THOMAS OSBORNK OF NANTUCKET.
der and louiug Brother littell in gospll bonds my harty
lone Remembred vnto you and your wife Though vnto
me vnknowne hoping you are in helth as I lining att The
wrighting her of blesed be the lord harty ly giuing you
Thanks for your kind entertanment when I was last att
your howse this is farther to let you vndrstand I name
maryed To one margry Col man A widow one the Hand
nantucat whar I now hame I beleufe god hath profided for
me and giue A mek hole A very louing wife one in Charity
I estem and Judg fers The lord and a true loufer of the
pepell and ways of the lord and I se nothing but the lord
blesing our Indefrs we may liuf comfortable though both
Aged and but crasy you know my weeklies and god
macks me sensable I hop in marsy of my insafishensy as
to the work I ham implyed in as to souls consurns but my
desyer is holy to Rely vpon the lord thought I ham week y*
weckns itseluf that can and I beleuf will inabll me in some
mesher to, what he Calls me to for which I wish your prayrs
That in hert and liuf I may be to the prase of his fre
grace rnacking and keping me fathfull vnto deth I may
Receuf the Crowne of liuf promised vnto all that loue
him : this farther der Brother I desyer and intreut you to
Remembr my harty Respeks and loue to ellder hull and
his wif our deckonsand thar wifes brother sayer ^-Sawyer]
and his wife and stcfan swet and all the Rest of my Breth-
rin and sisters in gospell bonds as If I had named them
1 These papers are selections from the Manuscript Collection of
Joshua Coffin, the historian of Newbury, now in the possession of the
Essex Institute.
HIST. COLL. VOL. XXXV 9 (129)
130 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
in pertickeler as you may haue oprtunyty wanting time
and other ocashons lying hard vpon me : this furdr I and
my wif Intrets you to Remembr our harty lone to our
brother Chandler and his wife and all Thar Child rin In-
treating him if he hauf my husbans Collmans mind which
himselfe ded wright and my husband Collman sett his
hand to it how he wold leuf me A comfortabll mantyance
if he dyed and leuft me A widow, my wife desyers he
wold be plesed to send it vnto her if he haufe the same as
Judging it miht be of great benifit and vse vnto her for
her husband Collmans sonns dells very hardly by her and
keps and taks what thay can posible from me and Requits
me very vnworthyly for all my car and indeufrs for Thar
good and Comfort which is A great gref and trobll vnto
me but we trust the lord will bar ous up and profid what
is nesasary and giue ous Contentment in our sprits in that
porshon he in his wisdom shall [ ] ought vnto ous. ernistly
desyring A few lines from you to know your one estat
and how things stand Respckting our sosiaty In poblick
carying one in the Consarns of the poblick worship of god
and how we dew in nombr and increse with the incresings
of god In loue to god and lone and pece Amoing your
selus by which it is mad manyfest that we are The tru
desiplls of Jesusous Christ by our pesable lining in the
one with another counting you to the protexion of the
allmighty god and Beging your all all my brothrins prayrs
for my being presarfed vnto his heuenly kingdon and de-
liufred from eury eufell way And work I Rest your lou-
ing Brother In gospll Bonds
Thomas osburne
from nanttucet Hand this 25 of the 8 month 1682.
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 22.
LETTER FROM JONATHAN BRIDGHAM.
Boftonthif4. ocktob : 87.
Louing ffriend m r John Coffin rny Loue and Respekts
to you : thefe Lienf are To: Inform you that I haue Re-
cceved by m r williams for your youes 8 : boifhels & a half:
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 131
of: wheit & 5 boifhels of Riee & two bids the bids you
fent afoor waor baed & the Lart ton : waor worf for
thay are good for Littell when wee workt them they fell
tou : peifis : I will maik the beft off them & giue you a
true account off them pray feud mee uoe moor sutch bids
for it will not doe to feud you good Lether for baed bids
as for the frait off the two bids ni r williams haith sattiffied
mee a bought them & if you fend mee good bids I will
sattiffie you for the saim as I doe your brother m r James
Coffin 2<* a pound and I : would Intreit you : if you haue
an : oportuuitty to fend mee sum moor wheit & Riee & I
fhall bee willing to plefhur you with whot Lether you
wontt as for the othar things you : wreit for at prefant I :
Cannot help you but will Indevior to help you as Sone as
I Can.
Sa r yours To sarue In whot : I : may or Can.
Jonathan Bridgham.
I : haue now fent you by m r wiliiams two cared hids &
fiue aids of folether marked
J: C:
Coffin Papers, Vol. I, pp. 24.
PETER RICH, WOUNDED SOLDIER.
1709.
Peter Rich being in her Majestys service received by
ye splitting of his guu a large & dangerous wound so
that his Carpus was thereby dislocated & the synonia
emitted. The Toules pulsant artery and nerves laid bare
& devested, The ossa metacarpii very much fractured &
lacerated, & ye carnous parts of ye hand greatly wounded
& contused, from all which there arose a symptomatical
fever and delirium.
vents; desucartines & dressing, balsamum, vulnerarum,
antifebritules, anodyne, Julibs, cordials & vulnerary de-
saltion = 23 7s
"It haue bin so several times my time" Tho. Noyes.
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 36.
132 JOSHUA COFFIN
NEWBURY TAX EATE, 1711.
Effex ff To m r Robart Adams Conftable for the Town
of Newbury within the County of Efsex Greeting
In Her Majefties Name you are Required to Levey and
Colect of the Several perfons named in the Lift here with
commited unto you each one his Refpective preportion
therein set down of y e sumetoatle of such List being a tax
or Affeffment granted & agreed by y e Inhabetants of y e
Town of Newbury regulerly affembled for defraying the
neceffary chargis arifing within the Same And to deliver &
pay in the sume & sumes which you Shall so Levey &
colect unto the Selectmen of the Town of Newbury afore-
said or theair order and to cornpleate and make up an
accompt of your colection of the wholl sume at on or
before the firft day of March next Infuing the date here-
of And if aney perfon or perfons Shall neglect or Refufe
to make payment of y e sume or sumes wheareat he or
they are Respectively affeffed and Set in the said Lift to
Diftraine the goods or chatties of such perfon or perfons
to y e value thereof And y e Diftrefs or Difteffes so taken
to keep by the space of four days at the coft and charge
of the owner and if y e owner do not pay the sume or
sumes of money so Afeffed upon him within within y e
said four days then y e said Difteff or Difteffes so taken you
are to Expofe and openly sell at an outcry for payment of
said money & charges notice of such sale being pofted up
in sum publick place within y e same Town twenty hours
beforehand And y e over plus coming by said sale (if
aney be) befids y e sume or sumes of y e affeffment & y e
charges of taking & keeping the Difteff or Difteffes to be
Emediately Reftored to y e owner and for want of goods
or chatties whereon to make Diftefs you are to feize y e
body or bodyes of y e perfon or perfons so refufing & him
or them commit unto the commnn goal of the faid County
there to remaine until he or they pay & satisfie the several
Sume or Sumes wheareat they are Re fpectively affeffed as
aforesaid unlefs upon application made to y e Court of
Gennral Seffions of y e peace the same or aney part there-
of Shall be abated Dated at Newbury aforeiaid this nin-
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPEUS.
133
teenth day of Defember in the year of our Lord Seventeen
hundred and Eleven being the tenth year of the Raigne
of our Sovaraigne Lady Anne of Great Britton France
and Ireland Queen Defender of the faith &c.
BENAYAH TITCOMB \ Selectmen
SILUANUS PLUMMUR [for the
CUTTING MOODEY [Town of
WILLIAM TITCOMB ) Newbury
A Town Rate Made Defemb r ? 1711.
MONEY
AS MONEY
s d
B d
Jofeph Woodbridge Efq r
5
11
5
11
serj. Abraham Adams
7
10
7
10
Robart A dams
3
8
3
8
Abraham Adams Ju r
2
3
2
3
John Adams
1
6
1
6
Ifaac Adams Ju r
5
5
Matthew Adams
2
3
2
3
Sam 11 Atkinfon
7
7
Nathaniel Atkinfon
2
3
2
3
Stephen Akerman
9
9
Ebenezer Ayres
2
2
Zacharyah Boynton
7
7
Jofhva Boynton Sen r
7
7
Jofhva Boynton Ju r
1
10
1
10
Jn Boynton Sen r
2
11
2
11
John Boynton Ju r
7
7
Doct r Bradftreet
2
6
2
6
Nath 11 Badger
3
3
Wid Marth Coker
1
4
1
4
Mofes Coker
7
7
Benjamin Coker
1
5
1
5
M r John Calef
3
2
3
2
ferj Th Clarke
2
6
2
6
Corp 1 Henry Clarke
3
11
3
11
134
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
MONEY
AS MONET
s d
B d
Ezra Cottle
1
3
1
3
John Cheney
2
4
2
4
Ephraim Colman
3
8
3
8
Thomas Colman
5
6
5
6
Peter Cheney
1
2
1
2
Juda Colman
7
7
Nathaniel Clarke
2
1
2
1
M r John Dumer
2
10
2
10
M r Richard Duincr
5
10
5
10
Nathaniel Dumer
1
1
Clark Richard Dole
7
10
7
10
William Dole
7
2
7
2
Ahner Dole
3
3
Richard Dole Ju r
2
1
2
1
Jofeph Downer Ju r
3
10
3
10
John Danford
7
7
Jonathan Danford
7
7
Thomas Danford
1
1
Francies Danford
7
7
Thomas Dlcefon
2
2
Jonathan Emary Sen r
3
10
3
10
Jonathan Emary Ju r
2
2
Anthony Emary
3
1
3
1
Wid Heftor French
4
,4
Colin Frazer
2
1
2
1
Jofeph Flood
9
9
John Flood
7
7
John French
1
5
1
5
M rs Jane Gerifh
9
9
Cor Jofeph Gerifh
3
7
3
7
William Gerifh
7
7
Jofeph Good ridge
1
7
1
7
Jofeph Goodridge Ju r
1
8
1
8
Samvel Goodridge
1
1
1
1
Edmund Goodridge
2
2
2
2
John Grant
7
7
Mauri ck Gilman
1
5
1
5
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
135
MONET
AS MONET
8 d
8 d
Richard Goodwin
7
7
Joseph Garner
2
2
Cap* Th Hale
9
9
9
9
John Hale
5
11
5
11
Jofeph Hale Jn r
2
5
2
5
Jofeph Hale Sen 1 '
4
4
Jonathan Here man
2
2
John Homes
1
1
1
1
Thomas Hafon
1
1
M r Samvel Hale
3
10
3
10
Eleezer Hutfon
1
1
L Stephen Jaqnic
8
5
8
5
Richard Jaquic
11
11
W Abigill Ilfley
2
9
2
9
Serj Jofeph Ilfley
5
10
5
10
Jofeph Ilfley Ju r
2
8
2
8
Serj James Jackman
6
2
6
2
C Richard Jackman
2
8
2
8
Richard Jackman Ju r
1
1
James Jackman Ju r
9
9
M r William Johnson
2
5
2
5
Serj John Kent
10
10
Cap* Richard Kent
7
5
7
5
M r James Kent
8
8
M r John Knight
2
2
Enf Jofeph Knight
5
5
5
5
Corp r Richard Knight
3
1
3
1
Serj Benjamin Knight
4
3
4
3
James Knight
2
3
2
3
Jofeph Knight Ju r
1
1
Nathanil Knight
9
9
Richard Kelley
4
3
4
3
John Kenney
4
2
4
2
Sam 11 Kenney
7
7
M rs Mary Lunt
2
8
2
8
John Little
2
3
2
3
Triftram Little Sen r
2
4
2
4
136
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS,
MONEY
AS MONEY
8 d
e d
Henry Lunt Sen r
1
3
1
3
Henry Lunt Ju r
1
5
1
5
Gidian Lowl
1
7
1
7
Richard Lowl
2
2
Stephen Lavnick
1
5
1
5
Stephen Longfelo
1
8
1
8
D Will m Moodey
8
5
8
5
Corp 1 John Moodey
4
2
4
2
Enf Sam 11 Moodey
5
2
5
2
W Sarah Mors
3
6
3
6
M r Jofeph Mayo
2
7
2
7
Hugh Matthes
1
1
1
1
Edmund Moars Sen r
2
11
2
1
Edmund Moars Jun r
1
5
1
15
Peter Moars
9
9
Mark Moars
1
1
Coll John March
. 2
1
2
1
Cap* Ifaac Mirrick
1
1
Cle : John March
6
4
6
4
John Mitchil
3
3
Jofeph Muzzey
1
10
1
D Cutting Noyes
4
6
4
16
Capt James Noyes
4
8
4
Timothy Noyes
4
2
4
2
Daniel Noyes
6
6
6
6
John Noyes Sen r
3
6
3
6
Cutting Noyes Jun r
3
2
3
2
Jofeph Noyes Sen r
11
1
John Noyes Ju r
3
1
3
11
Mofes Noyes
8
8
WidLedia Pierce
11
9
11
9
Jofhva Pierce
2
6
2
6
John Pierce
I
1
1
1
M rs Mery Pierce
4
4
Jofeph Poor Sen r
1
8
1
8
Jofeph Plnraer Ju r
3
9
3
9
Jonathan Plumer
3
3
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
137
MONEY
AS MONEY
8 (1
s d
Ephraim Plumer
3
2
3
2
M 1 ' Silvanos Plumer
5
7
5
7
Jofhva Plumer
3
2
3
2
Sam 11 Plumer Sen r
10
John Plumer
7
17
Samuel Plumer Ju r
11
11
m r John Pike
6
4
6
4
Wid Susanah Pike
1
2
1
2
Benjamin Pike
2
3
2
3
Thomas Pike
1
1
1
1
Matthew Petti nggall
3
2
3
2
Matthew Pettinggall Ju r
1
1
Nathanil Pettinggall Sen r
2
4
2
4
Nathanil Pettinggall Ju r
1
10
1
10
John Pettinggall
10
10
Nicholas Pettinggall
1
5
1
5
Samvel Pettinggall
1
4
1
4
Richard Pettinggall
1
10
1
10
Joseph Pettinggall
10
10
Thomas Pettinggall
10
10
Cap* John Pirson
4
4
L : Jeremiah Pirson
2
2
2
2
Benjamin Pirson
4
10
4
10
Wid Sarah Pettinggall
3
3
Stephe Pirsons widow
7
7
Jonathan Poor
4
7
4
7
Henr[y] Poor
7
7
Benjamin Plum r sen r
8
8
Abarham Rowil
2
5
2
5
John Rolf
4
7
4
7
Samvel Rolf
10
10
Henry Rolf-
5
3
5
3
John Richards
1
4
1
4
John Roherson
1
3
1
3
Edward Richardson Ju r
1
4
1
4
Henry Short
2
11
2
11
John Short
3
6
3
6
138
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
MONET
A8 MONEY
s d
s d
Clerk John Smith
3
2
3
2
Ebenezer Serpent
1
4
1
4
Stephen Swett
2
9
2
9
Moses Stickney
10
10
Henry Sewall
4
2
4
2
Joseph Swezey
7
7
Serj Daniel Thurston
6
10
6
10
Edmund Titcomb
2
7
2
7
Peter Tappan
4
4
4
4
Serj Sam 11 Tappan
4
4
4
4
John Tappan
1
7
1
7
Thomas Thorlo
2
2
2
2
John Thorlo
2
1
2
1
Abraham Thorlo
7
7
C : Richard Walker
5
5
5
5
Widow Woodman
1
9
1
9
David Woodman
3
6
3
6
Benjamin Woodman
11
11
John Wicomb
3
10
3
10
Joseph Willit
1
2
1
2
James Wise
1
1
Gorg Whits Estate
3
3
Elias Whitton
1
1
1
1
m r Johnathan Wheler
1
1
David Wood
2
2
Nathan Wheler
4
2
4
2
Moses Stockbridge
7
7
Philip Goodridge
4
9
4
9
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 41.
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 139
SOLDIEKS IN THE CANADA EXPEDITION.
The names of such sould rs y* voluntarily listed o r selves
for y e canda expedition out of maj r S : regement.
John Hartshorde sen r , Hav r ll, [Haverhill]
Pasco Chubb, Andd, [Andover]
Benj Goodridge Jun r
W m Bolton Jun r
John Wolingford p r serj noyes
Jonathan Hayns
Sam Georg
Wm Chalvce
Ralph Blasdell
Thomas Barnard
John Prowse
Ephraim Hoyt
Thomas Haynes
Joseph Gold
Benj Kimball
Thomas Carltone
Daniell Ela
Joshua Swan
John Neph
Thomas Titcomb ^
John Hendrick > p r cap 4 Greenleaf.
Zach Ayres j
John Badger Ju r
Edward Goodwin
John Dauis
William Sergeant sen r
John Huse
Jn Clark
Benj Poer
Step n Bolton
Jn Browne Ju r I p r cap* Greenleaf
Rich d Kent
James Anderton, sea
Edward Beale
Caleb Moody
Georg Evanson
140 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
Jabez Musgrove
Henry Dow
y e above nam d sold, listed & was w th me from June 26
to July 4.
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 42.
THE NEWBURY WATCH, 1691.
To m r Henry Short: June y e 15 1691.
Thes are in y er majefties Names to Requiar you to take
y e care of y e watch, euary night they are alike Requi to
come to your houfe to take y er charge, you are to order
y 601 to go to george Littells garison and ther one of y em
are to keepe y er post all y e night y e rest are to walke to
y e mill Bridge and from thence to Antony Morfes Houfe
& els where acording to your difcrefsion, the number of
men belonging to your care & charge are under expres*
they are to begin y e watch halfe an oure after funfet
and to continu till funrife, they are to be in number
three a night, and in case any man neglect his deuty
and doe not appeare at your houfe to take his charge you
are to fuppli his place and put another man in his Roome
and you are Required to fend y e next morning for a
shil [ling] in money & in cafe he Refufe to pay, you are
to returne his nam to y e captin he belongs to y* he may
be preceded with as y e Law derects, you are to take care
that they are legaly warned from time to time of this
faile not.
m r Richard Dole J r William Dole chriftemr pottell
Abner Dole Abaham fall [Samuell?] plumar Joihua
plumar Daniel cheny Sr Daniell cheny Ju John
Emarfon Hugh mathews John webfter filuanus plumar
franfis willet Sr franfis willett Ju Jofeph willet Dan-
iell goodridge Ephrim plumar Jofeph Ilsly Nathaniell
Bricket Jonathan Emary John pike Jofeph pike Ju
James Jackman Sr James Jackman Ju Benjamin palmer
Richard Jackman George Major John Hall John
Richards Jofeph goodridge John Kelly Sr John Kelly
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 141
Fu Richard Kelly James Badger John moody Henry
Lunt Cutting moody John Knight James Knight
Benjamin Knight Thomas Noyes John Noyes John
michell william moody george Littell Jacob parker
Robart mingo William Jlsly John llsly Timothy
[Noyes ?] Henry akers,
Daniel Peirc Capt,
Thomas Noyes capt,
Stephen Greenlef cap*
Jacob Toppan, Ensigne
Cutting Noyes lieut,
Joseph Knight [ ]
Henry Somerby cornet
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 45.
SALE OF SPANISH INDIAN BOY.
Receved of Richerd Kelly of Newbry the sum of thorty
eayght povnd in full mony for a Spanish ingon boy
named sesor by our iudgments under 10 eyrs old in the
eyr of 1714 reseved by me this day of ienry being the 15
of inery 1713, i say by me,
Cutting Noyes.
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 61.
REV. CHRISTOPHER TOPPAN'S LETTER ON THE RIGHTS OF
THE INDIANS.
Aug: 11. 1721.
Honour 1 * Sr.,
Pleafe to pardon my boldnefs, for troubling you
to read a few lines more That exprefsion in my writing,
which your Honour Intimated you did not well under-
ftand, viz : that the Indians fhould have convenient Lands
allowed y m for theinfelves and Pofterity, I meant thus
142 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
that in cafe, it be found, that the Indians formerly dif-
pofed of fo much of their Land as that they have not left
Lands convenient, for themfelves, that then fo much, as
may be thought propper, of what was purchaft of them,
fhould be relinquifh'd to them again further to open
what I Intend I'd offer a few things
1. That the Indians were the firi't Proprietors of the
Lands in this Country.
2. That yy. had in themfelves power to difpofe off
and convey away f d Lands.
3. That what Lands yy. formerly Sold and conveyed
away yy. can have no juft Claim unto, Now ! I make no
doubt but as your Honour fayes, yy. have as full, and
firm a Right, to their Lands as any white men have to
theirs but that I presume your Honour means, Lands yy.
have not fold.
4. That if thro Imprudence and Inadvertency they
have formerly conveyed away, fo much of their Land, to
the Englifh as that if what be conveyed away be taken up
and settled, by the English there be not convenient places
left for themfelves and Pofterity, I think it very agreable
to Reafon and Religion that the Government take care
that fuch places as may be thought convenient be allowed
them, and Recompence made to fuch Perfons (whofe
Predecefsours formerly purchafed f d Land of the Indians)
of Province Lands elf where.
5. That the Government having offered and done what
may reafonably be thought Juft and fair on this fcore,
that then if the Indians continue y r Infolent carriages
the English may juftly commence a warr againft them and
expect Gods blefsing to be with them, in their Endeavours
to fubdue them ; and in the mean time, that the English
in the Eaftern parts may be fecure and fafe I fee no wny,
but for the Governmt to keep out fome hundreds of
men or a fuficient number to keep the Indians in awe, till
the People are become ftrong enough, to defend them-
selves which yy. would in a few years be, were yy. com-
pelled to fettle regularly, and fecured from fear and danger,
by a fufficient Army, kept, in a body, in thofo parts, well
provided with fhow fhoos for the Winter and a fufficient
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 14
Number of whale-boats for pafsage by water in the fum-
mer. but lett me not tbrgett to mention here that I cant
but think it a duty to make further offers of the Gofpell
to them and by degrees to Inftill into yr. minds the true
Doctrines of Religion, doubtlefs fome of them might be
gained more efpecially if the Fryers could be fairly re-
moved from among them. I went this laft Spring to the
Ealt-ward, and, being at Damarifcotty on a Sabbath Day,
there being a family there and feveral perfons befides, I
preacht to them both forenoon and afternoon, and there
being hard by, an Indian Wigwam belonging to it aNefup
and his fquaw he about feventy and fhee near an hundred
years of Age not able to ftand or goe, both mentained by
a Kinfrnan a young pretty fellow, who went a hunting and
returned once a week or fort-night and brought them pro-
vifions to live upon. The old fonnop came of his own
accord on the fabbath Day to hear the word preacht and
gave diligent Attention. The fubject I infifted on was
that in Kom : 10. 13. and whofoever fhall call on the
name of the Lord, fhall be faved, and in the application
I applyed my felf to the Indian, f he wing that y r nation if
yy. called aright on the name of the Lord fhould be faved
as well as the English, or any other, the next day I went
to his Wigwam, he told me me very good fpeak-um
yefterday and defired me to fpeak to his fquaw, all one I
fpeak yefterday for that very good. 1 went feverall
times to his Wigwam and gave the beft advice I could to
the poor old Woman fhee feemed to underftand what I
said but was not feemingly fo much affected therewith, as
her hufband ; the day I came away he came on board the-
vefsell and praied me to goe once more to his Wigwam and
fpeak to his old fquaw about God and Chrift, and Heaven,
for may be, me never fee her any more, fo I went again,
and at my coming away the old man took me by the hand
expreffing a great deal of thankfullnefs for the counfell
and advice I had given his fquaw. In my difcourfe with
the old-man I uf't to mention and open the Articles of the
Chriltian Religion which he allways readily afsented unto
and I am perfutuled that by prudent methods in managing
of them fundry of them mig[ht] be wrought upon and
amongtt other methods I have thou[ght] but why fhould
144 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
I prefume to dictate to any who know much better then
my felt' what will belt fence the Interefts of our glorious
Lord in whofe service that I may be found faithfull lett
me have your prayers, as you have his, who is fr. your
moft humble fervt.
Chriftopher Toppan.
Rect Aug* 14 th
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 70.
BILL OF SALE OF A NEGRO.
I the fubfcriber of Newbury Do one & acknoledg
that I have fold to mr Richard Kelly a nagrow man called
Reuben : for which I have Receued on Hundred pound in
Billes of Credet to my full satisfaction as wittnes my
hand & fale this fourth Day of novembr on thousand feven
hundred & Twenty five
wittnes. Jonathan Poore
John Hale
Benjamin Hale
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 76.
THE TRUSTIES FOR MANAGING THE INTEREST OF
DR. THE FIRST BANK MONEY, C*E
TO THE TOWN OF NEWBURY.
To the Interest of the first Bank money put into 1 AQQ A 5
their hands >
By apreasent made to Kittery for y e Meeting H. 50.. 0..
By apreasent made to Tho 8 Moody 25.. 0..
By apreasent made to Cor 1 Gerrish 20.. 0..
By apreasent made to M r Somersby 5.. 0..
By a Law Book 5.. 0..
By Stephen Hale 5.. 0..
By Cor 1 Rich d Kent 10.. 0..
By what was left in the Trusties Hands 344.. 17.. 11
464. .17.. 11
Not account'd for 24.. 6.. 6
489.. 4.. 5
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
145
731
iy 14
MESS. NATHL. COFFIN, CAP*. HENRY ROLF &
WM TITCOMB TRUSTIES TO THE TOWN
OF NEWBURY.
To so much left in their Hands of what's
left of the Interest of the first Bank money /
1734 To the Interest due on Cap March & Lunts
Oct r Bond from y e 18 of May 1731 to the 23 d of
Octo br 1734 on 73 : 18 : 4
3?. 5 m . 5 d *y s at 6 per cent
D. To Ditto of Cap March & Doles Bond f rom J
y e 24 of Dece br . 1731 to y e 23 d of October I
1734 on 53. .17.. at 6 p Cent. 2 y 10 m - J
1731
May-
15.. 4.. 3
' 3
By a Bond of Cap 1 . Jn. March & M r Lunts for
By Ditto of Cap* Jn. March's & W m . Doles for
By Cap*. Jn. Greenleaf s Note
By y e Hono ble Nath 1 . Coffins Note of hand for
By Stephen Cresburys Note
By managing the afores d . money as they)
say at 20 p C'.
Not accounted for
73.
53.
23.
45.
1.
18.. 4
17..
. 0..
. 3.. 6
. 0..
97. .16. JO
299.
45..
15.. 18
2 .. 3
344.. 17.. 11
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 79.
SPECIFICATIONS FOR BUILDING A SHIP IN NEW ENGLAND.
Bristol 17 January 1733.
DEMENTIONS for a New Ship, to be Built at Boston
in New England of 58 Foot Keel & 21 Foot Beame. 12
Foot Rake by the Stem & 5 by y e Post ; 9 Foot in y e
Hould from under y e Lower Deck Beame to the Ceiling,
& 3 Foot 10 Inches between Decks from under y e upper
Deck Beames to y e Lower Deck ; & to Carry her Breadth
well forward even to y* after part of y e fore Chan n ell Viz*.
Length of Keele & Breadth of Beame Measured as
HIST. COLL. VOL. XXXV 10
146 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
Customary ; The Breadtli of her Floor from Surmark to
Surmark. 11 Foot. & 7 or 8 Inches Dead Riseing ; The
Floor Timbers to be 12 Inches Square. The Stem to be a
Good Crooked Piece & one that will tread well in pro-
portion. The Stern Post Likewise to be a Good Piece &
both pieces not Lefs then 10 Inches ; The Keele 12
Inches deep & 10 Inches thick w th a Good false Keele on
it of 3 Inches thick & Nail'd well on.
Transom 15 Foot high & 16 Broad & 12 Inches Square,
y e Harpin to be so many Foot high as y e Builder thinks
titt & that will give the Ship a Good Sheare, not too much
nor too Little but middling in proportion to w* they Buiid.
12 Inches high in y e Waste w th a Rise for a foreCastle
another abaft at the Main Mast for a halfe Deck both of
10 or 12 Inches w th 2 Hances proper for each Rise w th a
Plank Raile from Hance to Hance Sett on 4 Timbers Left
for that purpose, y e 2 Bulk Heads for y e fore Castle &
halfe Deck to be 4 Inches thick at Least & Timbers left
up at each Hance w th Crutches of a proper Heighth fitt
to put spare Topmast in.
11 Flat Timbers not to Varey in y e Least but placed on
y e Apron of y e Keele of one Heigbth & Length but so as
to make a Fair Body & Good Work & 10 Inches a sunder
& thicknefs as above 12 Inches & 8 Inches at y e Rung
Heads y e Rest of y e Floor Timbers of y e Same Thicknefs
both before & abaft & to Carry their Length well so as to
give a good Long Floor & to rise in proportion from y e
Middle of y e Keele afton & from y e foremost Flatt for-
ward to Content so as to make a Cleane Tail & Good En-
trance.
The Lower Futtocks 9 Inches Broad & 8 Inches thick
at y e Rung Head & Grow'd Rounding titt for their Work.
y e upper Futtocks 8 Inches Broad & 7 Inches thick & not
Lefs then 6 Inches at y e Bend. y e Topp Timbers 7
Inches thick at Foot & not Lefs then 4 Inches on the
Topp ; all these Timbers before Mentioned to be of Good
White Oak & every Timber & Futtock to Butt & Butt
w th a square Butt & no Lefs Scarf then 4 Foot or 4 at
Least.
A Good Kelson to Run from Stem to Stern & a Good
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 147
[nee fixed against y e Stern Post ; y e Foots of y e Stern &
Bow Timbers to be well chock'd & Boulted & a Good
broad apron on y e Stem not Lefs then Then 6 Inches
thick w th 2 Breast Hooks in y e Hould one pretty low
down y e other to Lodg y e Lower deck on &to Come well
Round y e Bows 2 Breast Hooks between decks, one in
the middle y e other to Lodg the Fore Castle Deck on to
Come well Round y e Bows & arm'd so as it may take y e
Nuckle & some other Timbers in. The Quarter & Stern
Timb rs to Rake well according to Pleasure w th a Good
Transom athoart them & well kneed 2 good Hnfs peices
forward of a Good thicknefs, good Timb r & Long Enough
to Run Low down in the Bows so as they may be firm &
y e Catt Heads to Turn from y e Hafs peices & not to Lodg
on y e Deck ; Lower Deck to Lodg on y e Transom abaft
6 the Beams to be 11 Inches thick & 12 Broad to Round
7 or 8 Inches all Double Kneed with Knees Grown to
their Work & y e Beams 4 or 5 Foot asunder w th Ledges
& Garlands in proportion. The Beams of y e upper Deck
to Round according to discretion & to be 7 Inches thick
& 10 Inch 8 Broad all Double Kneed w th Lodging Knees
Grown to their Work. Except a Good Hanging Knee of
each side at y e Bulk Head of y e foreCastle & halfe Deck
abaft, the Beams 4 or 5 Foot asunder w th Ledges & Gar-
lands in proportion. The halfe Deck & foreCastle deck
Beams to be 4 Inches thick & 7 Inch 8 Broad to Round
according to discretion all Double Kneed w th Knees Grown
to their Work. The Ship to be Plank'd w th Good White
Oak from y e Keele to y e Bend of 2 Inch thick Except
2 Streaks of 3 Inch & one of 3 Inch 8 at y e point of y e
Buldg. one Streak of 3 Inch & one of 3 Inch under y e
Bend. 2 Bends one on Top of y e other 9 Inches Broad &
5 Thick one Streak of 3 Inch Plank upon Top of y e
Bends & one on Top of that of 2 Inch y e Rest 2 Inch
Plank to y e Gunil Except a Channell Bend of 8 Inches
Broad & 3 Inch 8 thick to Carry a Round side & to Tumble
in at y e Channell Bend & then turn off to y e Gunill so as
to make a Handsom side every Streak of Plank to be
Work'd fair & none Broader then 9 or 10 Inches at most.
The Ceiling in y e Hould & between decks to be 2 Inch
White Oak Plank Except 2 Streaks of 2 Inch & one of
148 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
3 Inch Plank on the Rung Heads or points of y e Buldg &
one of 2 Inch y e other of 3 Inch upon Top of that for
Riseing under y e Lower Deck one of 2 Inch 8 for Rise-
ing und r y e upper Deck & one of 2 Inch for Spurcut
riseing on y e Lower deck, all y e planks both w th in &
w 01 out to be free from sapp. All y e Decks to be Laid
w 01 full 2 or 2J Inch Deale Plank free from Sapp & a
Good Length at Least 30 Foot Long Except a 2 or 2
Inch Oak Plank for Water way & 4 Inch Oak for Part-
ners on y e Lower Deck. The upper deck Waterways
must be Thick Oak & Gruff down so as to make a Good
Seam above y e Deck, y e Partners of Oak Plank 2 Inch
thick both before & abaft & y e halfe Deck to Run aft w tt
a Fa ire Sheare so as it may be 5 Foot 9 Inches in y e Cabin
under y e Beame & y e Quick Work on Top of y e Deck 6
or 7 Inches high & 1 or 8 on y e Fore Castle & all y e
upper deck Plank both for Main & halfe Deck to Run y e
full Length of y e Deck so as there may be no Butts.
A Good false Stern Post & Rudder & ye Counter to be
Plank'd w th good 2 Inch Oak Plank y e Stern w th 2 Inch
Deale Plank, a Good Drum headed Capson for 6 or 8
Barrs & Fix'd in his Place. A Good Substantial! Wind-
list & Bitts of 6 Inches thick & 18 or 19 Broad & fix'd
up high Enough from y e Deck so as it mayn't hinder the
Loop Holes in y e Bulk Head of y e Fore Castle under.
A Good Head Cutt Water & Badges w th Top Sail Sheet
Bitts afore & abaft & those before to go down to y e Lower
deck & be so substantial & Strong so as to make a Gallows
to Step y e Bow sprit in w ch must be well Chock'd both
above & below. To find Crofstrees Trufsletrees Anchor
Stocks, Cleets for y e Yards & Masts as may be Wanting.
A Main Hatch Way w th Hatches, an after Hatchway
w th Hatches & Grateings for y e halfe Deck & Likewise a
Grateing w th high Combings for y e foreCastle, a small
scuttle to go down out of y e foreCastle, another abaft in
y e Cabin to go down in y e Powder Roome 2 Ports Cutt
out & Hanged through y e Counter for Stern Chase one of
each side in y e Cabbin 2 of each side in y e Steridge thes
Ports to be of an Equal Distance one from y e other as
neare as Can be & to be between 20 & 24 Inches from y e
Lower Deck all of y e Same heighth as y e Gun Carriges
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 149
may serve y e one as well as y e other if need be all
Hanged well & Lind & so as they Shut Close & Contrive
so as they don't Cutt into y e Plank thats below them on
y e outside But that y e 2 Streaks above y e Bends may Run
fair along, one Port to be Cutt out Hang'd & Lin'd of each
side of y e foreCastle & y e Lower Sell to be so as it may
be Cleare of y e 2 Streaks above y e Bend, a Tiller fitted
to y e Rudder a Well Built in y e Hould to find oakham &
be well Caulk'd all over to find Pitch & a Coate of White
Stuff for her bottome. To be Truneld w th good dry White
Oak well Seasoned Trunels, all y e Timber & Plank to be
well Season'd & that Plank thats above y e Bends must be
through Dry Sufficient Timbers Left to Come through ye
Gunils of both sides fitt to belay to w th Stantions & Rails
for a Breast Work at y e Bulk head of y e halfe Deck &
Double Timbers fixed to Come through y e gunil of each
side y e halfe Deck so as to make Round Ports & 2 in y c
Starn through y e Taferell w ch Timbers of each side to be
Strong Enough to bare a Cable if it should be put out
through y e Starn as it will sometimes be ; w th Good Sub-
stantiall Rails fix'd on them, breast high, w th Chestrees &
Sundry other things as maynt be heare thought of & may
be Wanting all finished & done in a Workmanlike man-
ner & Ship Built to Content.
We would have her to be Built so as she may be a
Flooty Ship and not to draw above 11 Foot of Water
when Loaden if Lefs y e better, to Sail well in order to,
she must have a Cleane Tail Carried Fair without Hollows
& a Good Entrance w^ a Round Harpin to keep her up & a
Round Taught Body so as she may Carry Sail ; & be Stiff
not only when she is Loaden but at her Light Water
mark ; as she may Shift without Ballast if Pofsible to be
done, for we shall want her to Shift in Wild Roads & w th
as Little Ballast as pofsible, so it will Suite us to to have
a Stiff Shifting Ship w ch will be no hindrance to her Sailing.
Wittnefs our Gallys in y e Last Warr was so, & Saild as
well as most Ships in England w ch we should be Glad if
this did, dont forgett to rise at y e middle of y e Keele afton
Gradually & Fair not Quick up at once abaft ; & as we
shall send a Ship over w th all Materialls so we shall not
Want all y e Masts & yards as is Common but you may
150
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
agree for to have them as Customary & w* we dont take
oblidge y e Builder to alow for.
Mind to agree that 2 Foot of y e 58 Foot Keele to be
given in as if it was out of y e Rake, w ch is Common & so
as we may pay but for 56 Foot & that she must be Fin-
ished & Launched in all August at farthest, but sooner if
Pofsible & Call'd y e Bristol Merchant. If there is any-
thing amifs in these Dementions w ch may be mended &
for our Interest please to Lett it be done & it will oblidge
Jn Winne
To M r Will m Jones
In Bristol
To Forward to his Friend in
Boston p r first opportunity
to New England.
Walt Hawksworthy
Coffin Papers, Vol. I, pp. 85.
MUSTER ROLL. CAPT. MOSES TITCOMBS COMPANY.
The Muster Roll of the Company Inlisted for his Majesties Service
in the Intended Expedition againft Cape Breton under the Command
of Cap* mofes Titcomb of Newbury February 26 th 1744.
1
o
1
o
S|
I
B
00
3
1
Mofes Titcomb
Cap*
Newbury
Newbury
Sam u Greenough
Leiu*
Newbury
Newbury
Beamsly Glover
Leiu*
Ipfwich
Newbury
Jacob Titcomb
36
2 d Leiutenant
Newbury
Ditto
Knight
28
sergeant
Newbry
Ditto
Stephen Sweett
45
coporeal
Newbury
Ditto
Rowland Stockman
27
coperaell
falbury
Ditto
Stephen atkinfon
24
folidier
Newbury
Newbury
Jofeph Knight
22
folidier
Newbury
Ditto
Jacob true
19
apprn
falilbury
Ditto
John Horbard
22
Ditto
amlfbery
Ditto
Benj a . Titcomb Ju
20
Ditto Som
Newbury
Ditto
Nath 11 Little
22
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Sam 11 Lowell
19
Ditto Serv*
amefbury
Ditto
Daniel Plumer
45
Ditto
Newbury
Ditto
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
151
1
1
i
S
GO
RESIDENCE
Jofeph Eaton
32
Ditto
hamptown
Ditto
Rich d Hale Jun
24
Ditto
Newbury
Ditto
Philip march
17
Ditto Serv*
Ditto
Ditto
Mofes Hoylc
28
Ditto
armoury
Ditto
Jofeph ftevens Ju r
28
Ditto Clerk
Newbury
Ditto
John Collby
18
Ditto Som
Amsbury
Ditto
Richard Carr
20
Ditto Serv*
falisbury
Ditto
Johnfon Lunt Ju r
19
Ditto Serv*
York
Ditto
Oliver Goodridge
22
Ditto
Newbury
Ditto
Enoch ftickney
22
Ditto
Newbury
Ditto
Daniel Lunt Ju r
21
Ditto
Newbury
Ditto
Jofeph Cheney
39
Ditto
Cambridge
Ditto
Enoch fweett
23
Ditto
Newbury
Ditto
raartim Ayers
24
Ditto
Lumerick (?)
Ireland
Ditto
John march 3th
20
apprentice
falisbury
Ditto
Nath 11 march
21
folidier
Newbury
Ditto
Jofeph Rowell
20
appentice
Amfbury
Ditto
Will m Perkins
19
appentice
life of Ihoals
Ditto
Thomas Boardman
19
apprentice
Neubuy
Ditto
Sam 11 . Todd
21
foldier
Ditto
Ditto
John Stanwood
22
Ditto
Amfbury
Ditto
Matthew Pettingell
21
Ditto
Newbury
Ditto
David Dufton
23
Ditto
Haverhill
Ditto
James Beverly
22
Ditto
Andover
haverhill
Benjamin Prefer
22
Ditto
Amfbury
Newbury
John Harris
19
apprentice
Ipfwich
Ditto
Benjamin fwett
18
Ditto ferv*
Newbury
Ditto
Joliah merrill
24
folidier
Ditto
Ditto
Jofeph Hobson
19
foldier
Ditto
Ditto
John Couch
17
fom
Ditto
Ditto
Ebeneser Beal
18
fom
York
York
John Flood
50
foldr
Newbury
hamptown
andrew Peirce
29
Ditto
York
Newbury
Jonathan fhatfwell
35
Ditto
ipfwich
Newbury
Eliphalet Noyes
21
Ditto
Newbry
Ditto
Giles Harris
20
apprentice
Ipfwich
Newbury
John Dole Ju r
36
folider
Newbry
Ditto
Benja. Woodman Ju
28
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Coffin Papers, Vol. I, PP- 91.
152 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
PETITION RELATING TO A DIVISION IN THE SALISBURY
CHURCH.
January y e 31 st 1743-4.
Revrend fir
we the fubfcribers being Members of the first Church
of Chrift in falisbury and under your Care and Charge as
our paftor : and are very Mucth Concerned for the peace
and good order of this Church : and are very Much
Greaved for the diforders y* are prevailing amongft us
and therefore would bare our teftimony agaynft them and
pertickulerly agaynft y e diforders of many of our Comun-
ion that Inftead of afsembling themfelves in the houfe of
God hear for to hear his word preched on the Saboth
days : pafs by it or remoue from it although they liue
Near it and travill over to Newbury to hear Jofeph Adams
preach that great disturber of the Churches in Caufing
divisions Among them w ch we think as y e apoftle faith
ought to be Markt and avoided : but More Efpecialy we
are grived for and offended with feveral of the brethren
of this church for Inviting and InCuraging Adams to
Come over and preach in their houfes hear without your
approbation and Contrary to your Mind and the major
part of this Church therefore we pray that you would warn
a Church Meeting that we may labour to convince them
y* we are offended w th of their error and y e divifions and
Contentions they are very likely to make in this Church
by their d if orderly proceedings in InCourging Adams to
preach hear w th out your Confent w ch practice the minif-
ters in y e province have bore a publik teftimony agaynft
and if our Brethren will be Convinced of these diforders
and reform them we hope we fhall Enjoy peace and love
in this Church : but if they perfift in them we fhall look
upon them as diforderly walkers and to be dealt with as
fuch : and we further bare our teftimony agaynft any min-
ifters preaching in our parish w th out the approbation of
our minifter and y* no man y 4 has not had a libirall educa-
tion preach or exhort in a publick manner in our parrish
without the Confent of y e minifter & Church and we fur-
ther bare our folomn teftimony agaynft all fin and Imor-
ality and that if any member of this church fhall be guilty
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
153
of lying ftealing fwearing drimkenes or faboth Brakeing
or any other great tranfgresion and it Can be proved he
fhall appear before y e Church and be publickly admon-
ifhed and if any refufe fo to do they fhall be denied the
facrement : this our teftimony we refolve to ftand too by
y e help of God fo far as lys in our power for the fuppref-
ing of fin and diforder in our Church
W m Bradbury
Rich rd walker
Natha 11 Brown
matthew Pettingell
Thomas fellows
Robat Carr
John Stevens
Isaac Buswel
Wm Carr
John Weed
Richad Fitts
John Allen
Nathaniel Easman
Richard Long
Mofef Merrill
Elias Pike
John pike
Henry Eaton
Stephen Merrill
Nathanael ffitts
georg Brown
John Buswell
Caleb Cuf hing Jun r
Mofes Merrill ju.
Ebenezer Brown
Daniel fitts
Timothy Townsend
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 92.
GUN LIST CAPT SAM^ GERRISH'S COMPANY.
Reed of Cap* Sam 11 Gerrifh Sixty two Guns, as witnis
our Hands.
Castle William April y e 28 th 1759
David Jaquis
Enoch Thurfton
Samuel Bayley
Samuel Gardner
Joseph Coker
Makepace Colby
Solmon Aubin
Thomas Williams
Nathan Poore
Samuel Pike
Ichabod Colby
James Smith
Jonathan Godfrey
Samuel Dummer
Samuel Gerrifh
Abraham Swett
Samuel Danford
John Lakeman
Joseph fofter
Nathaniel Howard
David Perkins
his mark
Thomas X Ingcanks
Parker Pillfbery
Elias cheney
Joseph Stanwood
Nathaniel noyes
John flood
Stephen Noyes
Nehimmiah noyes
154 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
Benjamin Stickney John gould
Moses Dowin Ezek 1 mighill
Stephen Peirce Samuel Curler
Henry Peirce William Noyes
Aaron Cheever Benjamin Emery
Stephen Baly William Samson his mark X
Jacob Currier Enoch Poor
Thomas Pike Stephen Clark
Henry Greenleaf Mofes Poor
John Chafe Samuel Colby his mark X
Ezekiel hardee William Turner his mark X
Richard flanders Perker Cooper his mark X
Thomas Noyes Reuben mace
Samuel Lowel Sargeant Wead
Jofeph Ruff ell John Hutchins
m r Simon Page
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 100.
CORONERS INQUEST, OVER BODY OF JOSEPH FLOOD.
Esex S S- An Inquisitian Indented & taken at New-
bury within y e Sd County of Esex on y e Twenty fourth
Day of may in y e Thirtyth Year of his Majesty s Keign
George y e Second by y e Grace of God of Great Brittain
&C before Samuel Greenlief Gent n , one of y e Coroners
of Sd Lord y e King within y e County of Efex afores d
Upon a view of y e Body of Jofeph Flood juner of New-
bury afore S d then & there being dead by the Oaths of
Joseph Coffin Timothy Tapan Samuel Pierce Benjamin
Colman Thomas Pierce Nathaniel Clement Isaac Noyes
Joseph Rufsel Enoch Pettingal John Stickney Stephen
Goodwin Daniel Knight Samuel Tapan Daniel Emery,
Good & Lawfull men of Newbury af ores d within y e County
afores d who being Charged & Sworn to Enquire for our
s d Lord y e King when & by what meens & how y e S d
Jofeph Flood Came to his Deth upon their Oaths do say
that he by Towing a Log down a Creek Called Little Pine
Island Creek in Newbury Endeavouring to pufh off y e
Log from a Steep Bank Accidentaly Slipt his hold & So
fell into y e Creek Where he was Unfortunately Drowned,
as wee Suppofe by y e best of our Judgments,
And so y e Jurors Aforesd Say upon their Oaths that
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
155
y e AforeS d Jofeph Flood juner in maner & form Afores d
was Kill d or came to his Deth by his own Cafulty & mis-
fortune
Jofeph Coffin
Timothy Tapan
Samuel Pierce
Benjamin Colman
Thomas Pierce
Nathaniel Clement
Isaac Noyes
Jofeph Rufsel
Enoch Pettingal
John Stickney
Stephen Goodwin
Daniel Knight
Samuel Tapan
Daniel Emery
Coffin Papers, Vol. 1, pp. 111.
INLISTMENT CERTIFICATE, 1759.
I Joseph Pettingill do acknowledge to have voluntarily
inlifted myfelf as a private Soldier to ferve His Majefty
King GEORGE in the prefent Expedition forming for the
Invafion of CANADA. As Witnefs my Hand this thirty
first Day of March In the Year of our Lord 1759.
Efsex County > 2 nd Reg* Jofeph Pettingell
Ap 1 7 th 1759 5
These are to Certify, That Joseph Pettingell
Aged Thirty Two Years, born in Newbury came before
me, one of His Majefty's Juftices of the Peace for the
faid County, and acknowledged to have voluntarily in-
lifted himfelf to ferve His Majefty King GEORGE the Sec-
ond, in the above service : And that he acknowledged he
had heard read unto him the Second and Sixth Sections
of the Articles of War againft Mutiny and Defertion and
took the Oath of Fidelity, mentioned in the Articles of
War. And that he had received of Col 1 Joseph Gerrish
Eight Pounds two Shillings the Bounty allowed by the
General Court. Sworn before
Charles Peirce
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 123.
156 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
SCHOOL IN BYFIELD.
Newbury April y e 29 th 1760.
We the Subscribers hereby Promife to pay or Caufe to
be paid, unto Jofhua Noyes Jun r the Sura of Ten Pounds,
for his Keeping a private School in By field, at the Houfe
of M r Samuel Adams, for the Space of three Months ;
which Sum is to be paid by us in proportion to the Num-
ber of Scholars we Shall Sign for.
Subscribers
Henry Adams 3 Schollars
Samuel Adams 3 Scholars
Samuel Longfellow 1 Scholar
Mofes Hale 1 Scholar
Richard Dummer 1 Scholar
Daniel Stickney one Scholar
Mofes Parfons Three Scholars
John Frazer one Scholar
Daniel Chewte one Sholar
Mofes Woodman 2
John Thorler 2 Scholors
John Adams one Scholor.
Jofhua Noyes one Scholar.
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 128.
MUSTER ROLL. COL. JOSEPH COFFIN.
THE Following Soldiers Enlisted in his Majesties Ser-
vices in y e year 1761 were mustered Attested & paid the
Several Sums affixed to their Names by Col 1 Joseph
Coffin, as follows viz,
Joseph Leavitt 5-5-4
David Heth 5-5-4
John George 5-5-4
Joseph Cresey 554
John Row 5-5-4
Truman March 5-5-4
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
157
17-13-0
11- 2-4
28-15-4
15- 0-0
2-6
15- 2-6
3 12
William Wentworth 5-5-4
Phinehas Bagley 554
Jonathan Quinby 5-5-4
Roger Blasedill 5-5-4
Hezekiah Marsh 5-5-4
John Hutthins 5-5-4
Caleb Stickney 5-54
William Graves 5-5-4
Joseph Elliot 5-5-4
Richard Goodwin 9-0-0
Edw d Bishop 9-0-0
Nath 11 Hodgskins 0-6-0
Samuel Bayley 9-0-0
Ebenezer Flood 9-0-0
Francis Johnson 9-0-0
David Perkins 9-0-0
Enoch Boyd 9-0-0
John Perkins 9-0-0
John Call 9-0-0
Joseph Knight 9-0-0
John Hidden 9-0-0
William Hogen 9-0-0
John Gould 9-0-0
Jon a . Osgood 5-5-4
John Kindrick 5-54
Solomon Carr 5-5-4
money 212-2-0
17-13 to Coffin to be paid by Co 1 . Gerrifh
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 132.
BOND FREEING A SLAVE.
Know all Men by these Presents that I Sarah Weed of
Newbury in the County of Ef sex Widow am held to stand
firmly bound & obliged unto Jofhua Noyes : Mofes
Sawyer : Sergent Smith : Richard Adams & Thomas
Noyes : Selectmen and Treafurer of Newbury.
158 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
Selectmen of said Town of Newbury & Treafurer of
the fame Town & their Succefsors in said office of Treas-
urer in the full and just sum of fifty Pounds lawfull Money
to be paid unto the said Treasurer of said New bury, their
succefsors in said office of Treasurer or alsigns to which
Payment well & truly to be made I bind myfelf my Heirs
Executors & administrators firmly by these Presents
Sealed with my Seal this Twenty Second Day of Septem-
ber in the eighth year of his Majesty's Reign annoque
Domini one thoufand feven hundred & fixty eight.
The Condition of the present Obligation is fuch that
whereas the said Sarah is about to liberate & make free
her Negro Man Slave named Joel & it is required by a Law
of this Province that security shall be given to the Treas-
urer of the Town where fuch Perfon dwells as is about to
make free any Negro or Molatto Slave that the same shall
not be chargeable to the Town if therefore the said Sarah
her Heirs Executors or administrators fhall secure & in-
demnify the said Town of Newbury for or about the said
Joel in Case he shall by sicknefs Lamenefs or otherwise
be rendered uncapable to fupport himielf then this Obli-
gation to be void otherwise to remain in full Effect.
Signed Sealed & delivered
In Presence of us the words " her
Heirs Executors or Administrators "
being interlined before sealing.
And Treafurer. Sarah Weed
Sarah Peirce [seal]
Jofeph Willet
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 141.
NON-IMPORTATION AGREEMENT, NEWBURY, 1770.
Whereas it evidently appears to be absolutely Necefsary
for y e Political welfare of this Province to Discourage &
by all Lawful Means Endeavour to prevent y e Transporta-
tion of Goods from Great Britain, & Encourage Industry,
Oeconomy & Manufactures amongst our Selves
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 159
We therefore, y e Subfcribers being Willing to Contrib-
ute our Mite for the Publick Good, do hereby promise &
Engage to & with each other, That we will as much as in
us lies promote & Encourge y e use & Consumption of all
useful Articles Manufactured in this Province, & that we
will not (Knowingly) on any pretence whatever, purchase
any Goods of, or have any Concerns by way of Trade
with John Bernard, James McMasters, Patrick McMas-
ters, John Mein, Nathaniel Rogers, William Jackfon,
Theophelus Lillie, John Taylor, And Ame & Elizabeth
Cummin, All of Boston, or Israel Williams Efq r & fon of
Hatfield, or Henry Barns of Marlborough, or any Perfon
acting by or under them or any of them, or any other
perfon or perfons whomfoever that fhall or may import
Goods from Great Britain contrary to y e Agrement of y e
United Body of Merchants, or of any Perfons that pur-
chases of or Trades with them, or any of them y e f d Im-
porters before a General Importation takes place -(Debts
before Contracted only excepted.)
And if it doth or may hereafter appear, that there is
any Ship Builder in Newbury Port, or any other Town
wherefoever in New England, that has so little Regard for
y e Publick welfare, as to undertake to Build any Ship
Schooner, or Sea-faring Vefsel for any Foreigner ; or any
other Perfon And takes y e pay for y e Same, or any part
thereof, in Goods Imported Contrary to y e Agreement of
f a Merchants, We promise & Engage not to have any Con-
nection by way of Trade & Commerce (Debts before
Contracted only excepted) with any Such Ship Builder,
nor fell them any Materials for Building any fuch Vefsels.
But we will look upon all fuch Ship Builders (as well as
Importers & Traders with Importers) as perfons Diftitute
of y e Principles of Common Humanity (Sway'd only by
their own Private Interest) Enemies to their Country &
worthy of Contempt. And whereas a great part of y e Rev-
enue arising by virtue of y e Act of Parliament, is pro-
duc'd from the Duty paid on Tea. We do therefore
Solemnly Promise not to purchase any Foreign Tea, or
Suffer it to be us'd in our Families upon any Account un-
till y e i d Revenue Acts are Repeal'd or a General Impor-
160
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
tation takes place, and we will each one of us, as we have
proper Opportunitys Recommend to all perfons to do y e
fame. And we do hereby of our Own free will & Accord
Solemnly promise to & with Each Other, That will with-
out Evaf ion or Equivocation Faithfully & truly Keep &
Observe all that is above written, And whofoever f hall or
may Sign these Articles, And afterwards (Knowingly)
break y e fame fhall by us be esteem'd as a Covenant
Breaker, an Enemy to his Country, a Friend to flavery,
Deferving Contempt.
All & Singular of these Articles to Continue & Remain
in Force untill y e f d Acts be RepeaPd, or a General Im-
portation takes place.
As Witnefs our Hands
Newbury March 13, 1770
Richard Adams
Samuel Thorla
Mary Secomb
John Thorla
Jolhua Noyes
Sam 11 Sawyer
Robert Adams iu r
Abraham Adams
Israel Adams
Liphe Adams
John Adams
Edmund Adams
Mofes Little
Sam 1 Gerrish
Joshua Coffin
Cutting Lunt
John Moody
Rich. Adams sr
James Bay ley
Samuel Noyes
George Thurla
Abraham Thurla
Mofes Adams
John Noyes
Mofes Gerrifh
Paul Gerrifh
Jofeph Gerrish
Silas Rogers
Jacob Gerrish
Stephen Gerrish
Samuel Adams
Abraham Adams Jun r
Joseph Adams Jun r
John Frazer
William Dummer
Stephen Kent
Abraham Adams
Silas Adams
Nathaniel Adams
William Grant
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 143.
KEGIMENTAL OKDERS, 1775.
Regimental Orders.
Profpect Hill 25 th July 1775
Lieu* Col. Baldwin it is expected that you will agree-
able to general Orders take Post at Maiding to command
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161
the following Companies in their several stations viz
Richard Dodge Barnabas Dodge and Sprague Captains at
Chelfea alfo Cap Linsey deftined to the same place to re-
lieve Capt Rogers who is to repair immediately to Maid-
ing in the Room of Cap* belonging to the late
Col Gardners Regiment and occupy the s d Cap t>s Post
You are likewife to take in your Command Cap* John
Wood's Company who is to repair to Medford and supply
the port that Cap* Hall of s d Col Gardners Regiment now
occupies. All such Intelligence as you shall think avan-
tageous to the service is from day to day to be given to
the General.
Sir
You are hereby Ordered and Directed to Hold your-
self and the Regiment Under your Command inReadinefs
to March at a Moments Warning from me or y e Maj r
General that Such of them as May be Drawn Out By a
Former Order for y e Defenc of their Country to the place
they may Be Ordered Without the Leaft Delay Here of you
may not fail
Given under my hand at Ipfwich May y e 20 th 1776
To Col Daniel Spafford Efq r
Michial Farley Brigd
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 146.
MUSTER ROLL, CAPT. STEPHEN KENT'S COMPANY.
A Muster Roll of the Officers & Soldiers in the Company
commanded by Capt n Stephen Kent raised for the Defence
of the Sea Coast in the County of Essex & Colony of the
Mafsachufetts Bay & Stationed in Nowbury from the first
162
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
Day of November to the Ninth Day of December 1775
inclufively being the Time they were discharged from the
Service.
NAMES.
RANK.
TIME IN SERVICE.
MONTH. DAYS.
WAGES DUE.
Stephen Kent
Captain
1 "
11
7.. 8. .6
Dudley Colman
1 st Lieu*
1 "
11
4..19..0
Kichard Petti ngell
2 d Lieut
1 "
11
4.. G..7
Daniel Knight
Sarjeant
1 "
11
3.. O..G
John Pearfon
Sarp
1 "
11
3.. 0..6
Josiah Goodrich
Sarp
1 "
11
3.. O..G
Hezekiah Goodhue
Sarj't
1 "
11
3.. 0..6
Parker Jaques
Corporal
1 "
11
2. .15
John Hidden
Corp 1
1 "
11
2.. If)
Ebenezer Brown
Corp 1
1 "
11
2.. 15
Edward Swazey
Corp 1
1 "
11
2. .15
Samuel Pearfon
Drummer
1 "
11
2.. 15
George Blunt
Fifer
1 "
11
2. .15
Bank & File.
Joseph Lunt
1 "
11
2.. 9..G
Enoch Hale
1 "
11
2.. 9. .6
Andrew Stickney
1 "
11 | 2.. 9.. 6
James Safford
1 "
11
2.. 9.. 6
Mofes Aker
1 "
11
2.. 9. .6
Isaac Tilton 1 "
11
2.. 9.. 6
Ebenezer Moody
1 "
11
2.. 9..6
Joseph Poor
1 "
11
2.. 9. .6
John Sweat
1 "
11
2.. 9..6
David Boynton
1 "
11
2.. 9. .6
Samuel Pettingell
1 "
11
2.. 9..G
Isaac Adams
1 "
11
2.. 9. .6
Josiah Pettingell
1 "
11
2.. 9.. 6
Joseph Allen
1 "
11
2.. 9. .6
William Bayley
1 "
11
2.. 9..G
Rich* Flanders
1 "
11
2.. 9..G
Stephen Mitchell
1 "
11
2 . 9. .6
Daniel Knight Jun r
1 "
11
2.. 9..G
John Dole
1 "
11
2.. 9. .6
William Brown
1 "
11
2.. 9. .6
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
163
NAMES.
BANK.
TIME IN
MONTH
SERVICE.
DAYS.
WAGES DUE.
Silas Dole
1
11
2.. 9..6
Caleb James
1
11
2.. 9. .6
John Cheever
1
11
2.. 9..6
David Stickney
11
2.. 9..6
John Ely
11
2.. 9. .6
Benj ft Woodwell
11
2.. 9.. 6
Elias Cook
11
2.. 9. .6
Amos Stickney
11
2.. 9. .6
Benj a Jackman
1
11
2.. 9..6
Benj a Maine
1
11
2.. 9. .6
Cutting Pettingell
1
11
2.. 9..6
David Stickney
6
1..13..7
123..H..2i
Coflm^Papers, Vol. i, pp. 147.
PETITION FROM SELECTMEN OF NEWBURY ON MILITARY
AFFAIRS, 1775.
To the honourable Council & houfe of Eeprefentatives
of the State of y e Mafsachufetts-Bay, in Genr 1 Court
afsembled ; may it pleafe your honr s .
We the fubfcribers, Select-men of y e Town of New-
bury, beg leave to addrefs your honr s by way of Remon-
itrance & Petition givig you a juit relation of feveral
Facts, the truth whereof we are ready to make appear, &
which we humbly conceive to be grievances, which noth-
ing but a mifunderitang of the matters related, would
have prevalied, with the honorable Court, to have sub-
jected us unto. On the 19 th day of April AD. 1775.
our minutemen & others were called upon to march to y e
afsiitance of our diltrefs Brethren at Cambridge ; on y 6 20 th
day, of the fame month, we followed them with provifion
necefsary for their support : In about two days after
164 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
they arrived at Cambridge, they informed us that they had
received our provifion in plenty, but were obliged to eat
it uncooked, they being deftitute of Kettles to cook it in.
whereupon your Remonftrants & petitioners procured
nineteen tin Kettles, ten Coffee pots & feventeen Sauce-
pans, all amounting to the value of three pounds, eleven
Shillings & five pence, & delivering them to the Captains
of the two minute companies, belonging to Newbury, we
received their receipts for the same. The Commifsary &
Committee of Supplies refufed to pay us for y e f d Kettles,
Coffee pots, Sauce pans or our trouble ; altho' we were
at the expence of both the above mentioned Captains from
Newbury Going to the Commifsarys office, at Cambridge,
& to the s d Committee alfo, before whom were produced
Receipts that the above s d articles were received for the
use of this Colony, yet no payment was made. We then
petitioned the Genr 1 Court of the Colony for the Payment
of the same, fending the receipts from the Captains, as
vouchers in our favor ; but for reafons unknown to us,
were denied y e Payment of the same.
In obedience to a Refolve of Congrefs bearing date y e
23 rd of April A.D. 1775 ordering us to provide Blankets
for the nou commifsioned officers & Soldiers in the prov-
ince Service belonging to this particular Town : & Blan-
kets being inprocurable of the Merchants in the neighbour-
ing Towns, we were obliged to get them or at leaft a great
part of them in particular Families, one or two in a place,
in different parts of the Town ; this necefsitated us to ex-
pend much of our time ; we have alfo obey'd the feveral
orders of Congrefs so far as was in our power, fuch as
procuring clothing for the Army, the urgent necefsity of
which obliged us to fend the s d clothing at three different
times, at two of which the clothing was collected infmall
quantities from more than two hundred places in different
parts of the Town, the collecting of which we doubt not
but you are fenfible muft coft us much Time, fatigue &
care. We have endeavored to the utmoft of our power
to obey the orders for Pork, Beans, Vinegar &c. The
several articles of Blanketing, Provision & Clothing we
have fent to the feveral places mentioned in our orders,
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 165
to the value of feven hundred & one pounds. For col-
lecting the above articles, making out proper Bills to the
feveral Committees, or perfons ordered to receive them,
for receiving the money, & paying it out in fuch very
small quantities, & for our time & expence in performing
the same, we petitioned the Great & Gen 1 Court of this
State to allow us two & an half per Cent Commifsions ; but
were denied, altho' the same honorable Court af we are
enforrned has feen fit to allow five per Cent Commifsions
to Gentlemen at Newbury-Port for Service done within
the fmall compafs of that Town. And now may it pleafe
your honr s we petition & requef t you that a revifion of
thefe matters may fpeedily take place : & we would fur-
thermore requeft your attention to certain other griev-
ances of a later date : by an order of Congrefs bearing date
y e 9 th day of May A.D. 1775. we were ordered to hire
Guns for the ufe of the Army & to take Bills of the per-
fons lending s d Guns, & receipts of the Soldiers who re-
ceived them & to render the same to the Committee of
Supplies : we were to promife 6/ for the ufe of each Gun, &
Payment for them if not returned. In compliance with
the s d Order, we borrowed four Guns taking Bills of the
perfons lending & receipts of thofe Soldiers who received
them & fent them to the Committee of Supplies together
with the price of each Gun, expecting them to be returned
with the hire, or paid for according to order.
After the Rolls for that campaign were made up we
were called upon for thofe Guns which we had borrowed
and being informed that the Soldiers, to whom s d Guns
were delivered, had inlifted into the continental Service,
& that they had drawn arms out of the Store ; we then
hired a man & fent to know whether s d Guns were taken
into the Store, & our mefsenger returning informed us
that they were not taken into the Store, he then went to
the office, & found that they were not entered in the Rolls
of the Company then going to the place where s d Com-
pany had been stationed he found that one of them had
been sold and the money left for it : another left & the
fix Shillings for the ufe of it paid the other two he found
but they were both unfit for Service ; the Barrel & Stock
166 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
of one of them were both fplit; the other had the Barrel
bent, the Bayonet & Ramrod both loft & the Lock so
damaged that it was unfit for Service : &, in a word, both
of the two Guns laft mentioned were not valuable enough
to have payed the expence we were at in recovering them :
one of the Guns was appraifed at forty two fhillings, &
the other at thirty Shillings.
Moreover by an order of Court bearing date December
A.D. 1775 we were ordered to send three tons of english
Hay to head Quarters at the same price allowed to thofe
Towns not one fifth of the way diltant, & which hay could
not be purchafed here & transported thither at lefs than
four pounds more than thofe who lived near that place,
i. e. head Quarters might afford it for, but no allowance
has as yet been made for our diltance & extraordinary
expence.
The accompt of the expence of thofe Inhabitants of
Boiton fupported by us, before y e firlt of January lalt,
was, for reafons to us unknown, much curtailed even by a
deduction of four pounds twelve Shillings altho the ex-
pence did not exceed three Shillings for each perfon per
week, one of them excepted.
By an order of Court bearing date y e 17 th of January
A.D. 1776 it was required of us that we should fend in
an account to the honorable Court, of the Powder, Lead,
& Flints delivered to the rninutemen & to others from the
Town Store that was either ufed or left in the camp for
the ufe of the Army ; that the honorable Court might
caufe fatif faction to be made for the same, but when, with
confiderable difficulty, we had collected the accompt,
which amounted to Seven pounds & four pence, it was
neither allowed or paid according to s d order but why it
was not allowed we are unable to fay. Agreeable to an
order of the honorable Court bearing date y e 13 th of
September lalt we procured Teams to tranfport the Bag-
gage of thofe men raifed in this Town at as little expence
as was in our power, & having fent a particular accompt
of our proceedings, as to procuring Teams, & what ex-
pence it is necefsary for this State to be at on that account
in this Town, were, by the refpectable Committee of s d
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPEKS.
167
Court, refufed a recompence therefor, & our accompt cur-
tailed the Sum of nine pounds & twelve Shillings. Altho'
we have repeatedly petitioned the honorable Court of this
State, and been as often denied our requeft, tho' as moder-
ate as was in our power to make : yet, confcious of the
faithfulnefs of our endeavors to execute your orders, agree-
able to your defires, & confidentially credulous of your
readinefs to adjuft, every known miftake, we have confi-
dence to petition your hour 8 to place so much confidence in
our integrity, as to grant our requefts ; & be pleafed to
lend us no more difcretionary orders, or pleafe to chufe a
committee to execute them, whom you fhall have no occa-
fion to f nbject to the difgrace of being nominally unfaithful
in your Service, or urge to the difagreeable alternative of
a non compliance with the orders of so refpectable &
honorable a Court, which, we shall be ever ready, in rea-
fon, to ferve, & for which, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
Newbury Dec r y e 17 th A.D. 1776.
Tho s Noyes
Benj a Pearson
John Moody
Jofhua Ordway
"| Select Men
r ^
I Newbury
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 148.
RATION MONEY RECEIPT, 1777.
We the Subscribers Field Staff & other Comifsiond
Ofiicers;;in the Battallion Commanded by Edward Wiggles-
worth Efq. r certify that we have Receiv d . of John
Wigglesworth 2 M in f d Batt n . the Several sums in full
affix d . to our Names as Rations Due to us for our Services
in the United States of America from March 31 st 1777
until June 30 th 1777
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(To be continued.)
REMINISCENCES OF HENRY M. BROOKS.
BY GILBERT L. STREETER.
I AM pleased to have an opportunity to add a few words
to those already so fitly spoken by Professor Morse in
praise of our lamented friend and co-member Hemy M.
Brooks. I knew him from his youth up, and was some-
what intimately acquainted with the trials and disappoint-
ments of his life, as also with his successes and his joys.
He was a man of rare character, simple in his tastes and
habits, sincere and steadfast in his friendships, intelligent
and painstaking in all his varied pursuits. He was in all
respects a gentleman gentle in his disposition and manly
in his conduct. His sympathies were broad and active,
so that he loved to be a helper in every good cause.
Mr. Brooks was for so many years a member of the
Essex Institute, as an original member, as its Treasurer
and Secretary, that he seemed to be almost an essential
part of it. We miss him daily from his accustomed desk,
where he performed his duties with so much kindness and
courtes}', and where he afforded so much pleasure by his
instructive and entertaining conversation. He was pecu-
liarly qualified to perform the work of the Institute in a
successful manner. He was, I may say, felicitous in the
discharge of his duties. His heart was in it as well as his
mind.
1 Read at a meeting of the Essex Institute, held January 2, 1899.
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170 REMINISCENCES OF HENRY M. BROOKS.
His memory, tenacious and precise, teemed with recol-
lections of the people and the events that have made
Salem and Essex County famous. And it was his delight
to recall the incidents of "the storied past," to the relation
of which his keen sense of the humorous and the grotesque
often added a rich flavor.
He loved the past and largely lived in it, and seemed to
prefer the old ways, the old people, and the old things, to
their modern successors. He never tired of this theme.
If, in thus idealizing and glorifying the ancient ways and
the ancient days, he overlooked the deprivations and the
disadvantages of those times, it was but what we all do.
This is natural. ' 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the
view." We are, fortunately, so constituted that the
pleasant things of the past linger in our memory long
after the evils have been forgotten. It is this happy pro-
vision of nature which makes life cheerful and worth the
living which otherwise might become gloomy and de-
spondent.
"The good that men do lives after them
The evil is often buried with their bones."
Mr. Brooks did not trouble himself much with current
affairs. Yet he was far from being a recluse or a mis-
anthrope, but was indeed a genial companion and a lover
of society, if only it was of the right sort. His shy and
timorous nature preferred the quiet of home and the
household joys. He was contented with his books, his
music and his friends, and his communings with the things
gone by. He could say, with zest and enthusiasm,
" How pleasing wears the wintry night
Spent with the old historic dead !
While by the taper's trembling light,
We seem their very streets to tread."
Mr. Brooks never sought the temporary distinctions of
political office, which most men covet. He did not care
to shout with the multitude. He shrank from the clamors
and contentions and uncertainties of politics and contro-
versy. He sought rather the calm atmosphere of social
life. He could enjoy the sentiment so quaintly expressed
by an old English poet,
REMINISCENCES OF HENRY M. BROOKS. 171
" The wind is great upon the highest Miles,
The quiet life is in the dale below ;
Who tread on ice shall slide against their willes;
Who live at ease and can content them so,
That wisdom have that we ought all to know."
Mr. Brooks' best known contributions to our local annals
are contained in his published volumes of extracts from
old newspapers of Salem and Boston, with useful explan-
atory notes and comments. These are in the Institute,
and also several unpublished volumes of the same char-
acter. These collections are exceedingly interesting and
valuable, and are real literary curiosities. There is noth-
ing more unique in our library. It was a happy thought
that led to the compilation and annotation of this half-
dozen little booklets, entitled "Ye Olden Time Series."
In these pages we see a profusion of those queer old
wood-cuts which show how little skill had been acquired
in the pictorial art a hundred years ago, and we read
the -funny and usually florid advertisements which were in
style in that more decorous and ceremonious period ;
while numerous incidents, rare and curious, are recorded
in terms which a modern newspaper reporter might envy,
and which illustrate the peculiar conditions of society then
prevalent.
Charles Lamb said, " newspapers always excite curiosity.
No one ever lays one down without disappointment. A
newspaper read out is intolerable." This is doubtless true,
but Mr. Brooks' republications of the essential parts of
newspapers of the past show that they increase in value
by age contrary to the general impression.
When Henry D. Thoreuu built his famous shanty on
the shore of Waldeu Pond he papered the walls with old
newspapers, so that, on stormy days, when nothing could
be done outside, he could stand up and read the papers at
the least cost and trouble. And he tells us that he dis-
covered that the only valuable parts of the newspapers
were the advertisements, because they showed what the
people were doing and dealing in. The editorials were
vapid and unimportant, but the advertisements dealt with
facts. This, which seems to be a pleasantry, is the state-
ment of a truth, which Mr. Brooks has demonstrated by
172 REMINISCENCES OF HENKY M. BROOKS.
his discriminating labors. He has disclosed a new source
of pleasure. Hereafter the old newspaper will be more
carefully preserved, and the contents more studied. We
have learned from him that what was considered in litera-
ture to be a dry well is really a living and copious spring.
Mr. Brooks' other frequent and varied contributions to
our historical literature are to be found in sundry period-
icals of which Professor Morse has given an account.
And thus our good friend lived and served his time, by
a quiet, but busy, useful and honorable life. In his school
days he was studious, docile, and a favorite with his com-
panions and teachers. In business life, as a clerk in the
Salem bank and for many years Treasurer of the Forest
River Lead Company, he was assiduous and exemplary.
He did not race with the fortune hunters nor wrangle with
the place seekers. He was satisfied with the pleasures,
the comforts and the endearments of a happy and culti-
vated home. He learned that best of all lessons, to prac-
tise the virtue of contentment.
" Content! the good, the golden mean,
The safe estate that sits between
The sordid poor and miserable great.
Content alone can make us wise,
Content is riches, honor, all besides."
Our friend was not lost in the past, but was interested
in all living questions. He kept up with the best thought
of the times on the subjects of highest import. He learned
and performed his duties in political, religious and social
matters. He gave attention to the great problems of
human life and human destiny. And his conclusions were
those of the liberal school. This left him free to enjoy
the things of this world. His natural buoyancy of spirits
was not restrained by gloomy theories upon speculative
topics. He could indulge his love of fun, and join in
the merriment of his friends, when relating or listening to
a good story or a quaint reminiscence. He believed the
pleasures of life were innocent and wholesome. He was
a natural man, simple, sincere, social, sympathetic and
light-hearted. His ideals were pure and elevated, and
upon his record there is no stain.
REMINISCENCES OF HENRY M. BROOKS. 173
LETTER FROM MR. ABNER C. GOODELL. 1
SALEM, JAN. 2, 1899.
[Y DEAR SIR :
I wish to express my regret to you personally,
and through you to the Institute (if the occasion offers
and it is in order), that my state of health compels me to
forego the satisfaction of listening to your and Professor
Morse's tributes to the memory of my much loved and
respected friend Brooks, whose name I venerate not more
for his faithful and useful service for the Essex Institute
than for the warm and intimate friendship which existed
between us for more than forty years.
His accomplishments as a numismatologist and as an
investigator of the original sources of New England his-
tory were very great, and if his work has not won for
him the fame which others have achieved by means which
were distasteful to him, it is not because he deserved less,
but rather because his devotion to whatever work of pub-
lic interest he undertook was pursued unselfishly and for
the love of it without regard to public applause. He was
singularly exact and thorough in everything which he set
himself to investigate, and his knowledge, acquired with
painstaking diligence, was sometimes availed of by others
who, however adroitly they may have used it to their own
advantage, had evidently never obtained it by assiduous
study, nor ever verified it by comparison with the original
sources.
Mr. Brooks did not profess to be a historian in the
general sense. His intense interest in local and special
themes led him into narrower paths, but in these he was
a most curious and philosophical observer, and has con-
tributed some important and most valuable data for the
historian that is to be.
His sweet and gentle nature, his quick and subtle per-
ception of the amusing side of life and of the eccentrici-
ties and odd sayings of persons of local distinction for
their peculiarities and his inexhaustible fund of original
meeting of the Essex Institute, held January 2, 1899.
174 REMINISCENCES OF HENRY M. BROOKS.
and amusing anecdotes made him one of the most enter-
taining of men, and drew about him wherever he was
known the brightest wits and the most interesting racon-
teurs. His society was simply charming.
Above all, his tried integrity, his purity, and his inter-
est in everything tending to the good of the public won
for him the affection and respect of those whose friendship
was best worth cultivating.
To him and his devoted wife the Institute is indebted
for most valuable services ; and those who hacUhe felicity
of enjoying his and her intimate friendship must ever feel
that, when the grave closed over their loved remains, the
world for them had lost much of its sweetness and light.
Yours sincerely,
ABNER C. GOODELL.
To Gilbert L. Streeter, Esq.
LETTER FROM DR. O. W. ERNST. 1
298 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE,
BOSTON, DEC. 31, 1898.
DEAR PROFESSOR MORSE :
In case a tribute to the late Henry M.
Brooks is to be published, cannot some mention be made
of his contributions to the history of American transpor-
tation?
These contributions were local, which certainly does
not diminish their value, as such things treated locally by
those on the spot are apt to be free from error that always
creeps in when one deals with remote topics.
Our history of transportation is in so crude a state that
most essays in that field need revision. Mr. Brooks is an
exception. What he says may be generally accepted.
His industry is not entitled to greater praise, I think, than
his accuracy. I remember his contributions to the Salem
Historical Register and the Historical Magazine with par-
1 Read at a meeting of the Essex Institute, held January 2, 1899.
REMINISCENCES OF HENRY M. BROOKS. 175
ticular satisfaction. He gleaned, or mined, well; he of-
fers his resu Its freely ; and he abstains from unwarranted
inferences.
His merit in so difficult a subject as the history of trans-
portation, it seems to me, should be recognized by all
Essex men in particular. Essex County appears to have
treated the subject of transportation with greater care
and better results than any other county in the United
States. Felt began. Mr. Robert S. Rantoul has taught
us in his " Old Modes of Travel " how to present the sub-
ject. Mr. Goodell has enriched the literature of trans-
portation, especially postal, as he enriches whatever he
touches with his pen. And Mr. Brooks is their worthy
peer.
Histories, I think, tell too much of generals and states-
men, and not enough of daily affairs. Yet the daily work
of the community trying to earn a dollar and to save a few
cents is as interesting and attractive and instructive as
mere manoeuvring in the field of politics or poetry. Mr.
Brooks told us of our people travelling and trying to find
a market, and he did his work so well as to be a model in
nicety, modesty, and good sense. He has added to the
just fame of Salem, and Essex, and transportation.
Sincerely yours,
C. W. ERNST.
FEDERALISTS
FREEMEN !
Friends of Liberty and Wafhington.
TURN OUT ! TURN OUT ! ! With one voice and
one foul repair THIS DAY to the Poll, and never defert
yourPoft; until fuccefs and triumph fhall crown your zeal
and perfeverance. EVERY VOTE COUNTS, and a fingle
vote may decide the fate of Salem ! Away then with
bufinefs and pleafure. Obey the call of your Country !
Grudge not a few hours for the honor and reputation of
Salem and the falvation of the Commonwealth ! The
whole State looks on with anxiety, and expects every man
to do his duty ! Arife then in your ftrength, elect to office
FEDERAL Candidates, able and honeft men, friends of
Moderation, Peace, Commerce and Independence, and
unceafing enemies of War, Standing Army, Land Tax,
Stamp Act, and Diftrefs to the Poor, unneceffarily brought
upon the People by Democratic Office-holders and Salary-
men.
FELLOW CITIZENS,
Remember the party violence and perfecution of the
laf t year ! Remember the horrors of May Meeting !
THIS DAY it is in your power to remedy thefe evils.
Be on the ground at 8 o'clock. Do your duty, never
falter, and your Triumph is glorious and certain.
March" 16, 1812.
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HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE.
VOL. XXXV. JULY, 1899. No. 3
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 1
COPIED BY WILLIAM P. UPHAM.
A Church Book containing
The Affaiers of the Church of Christ
att = Bass= River in Salem
(which is sometimes called the North Side of the Ferry)
which began y e 20 th of September one thousand six hun-
dred and sixty-seaven. Registered first by Robert Mor-
gan, he being a brother of the said Church & desiered &
betr listed so to doe.
And after him by the Pastor
John Hale.
The Bass River is made a distinct towne the 3 d Novem-
ber 1668 : called Beverly.
[1] The Lord in mercy alluring and bringing over
into this wilder nesse of new England many of his faith-
full servants from England whose aymes weare to wor-
shipp God in purity according to his word : They in
1 The pagination of the original record is shown in the text, enclosed by
brackets.
HIST. COLL. VOL. XXXV 12 (177)
178 BEVERLY FIRST CHUUCH RECORDS.
pursuance of that worke began to sett vpp perticular
Churches : And the First Church gathered in the Mas-
achusetts Colony was in this tovvne of Salem : a gratious
begining of that intended Church reformation which hath
beine farther prosecuted & prospered through the Lords
mercy in diuers parts of this land : This Church of Salem
entred Church Covenant with publique fasting and prayer
vppon the sixt day of the sixt month 1629. Their num-
ber att the beginning verry smale was soone greatly in-
creased and inriched with diuers worthy labourers in God's
vineyard as Pastors and Teachers successiuely, viz. m r
Samuell Skellton : m r Francis Higginson : m r Hugh Pee-
ters : m r Edward Norris : and m r John Higginson : their
present Pastor. As their church increased diuers of the
members came over the Ferry to liue on basse ryuerside,
who on the 10 th of the 12 th ino th 1649 (m r Norris beinge
teacher) presented their request to the rest of the church
for some course to be taken for the meanes of grace
amongst themselues, because of the tediousnes & difficul-
ties over the water and other inconveniencies : which
motion was renued againe the 22 th 7 mo th 1650 : and the
2 day of the 8 mo they returned their answer, viz. that wee
should looke out some able and approued teacher to be
imploid amongst vs, wee still holding Communion with
them as before. But vppon farther experience wee vppon
the 23 of first mo th 1656 presented our desires to be a
church of our seines and after some agitation about it
wherin our teacher stood for vs it was putt to voat &
yeeilded vnto none appearing opposite, wee protesting
their was noe disunion in Judgment or affection intend [ed]
but brotherly Communion.
[2] Our desires being consented vnto, wee proceeded
to build a meeting house on Basse River Side : and wee
called vnto vs successiuely to dispense the word of life
vnto vs m r Josuah Hubbard, m r Jeremyah Hubbard, and
m r John Hales : and after almost three yeares experience
of m r John Hailes our motion was againe renued the 23
of 4 m th 1667 w ch was as foil.
Wee whose names are vnder written the brethren &
sisters belonging to Basse Riuer doe present our desires
to the rest of the Church of Salem that with their consent
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 179
wee and our children may be a church of our selues.
W ch wee also present vnto m r Hale desiring him to joine
with vs and to be our Pastor with the approbation of the
rest of the Church : Rodger Connant, Thomas Lathrop,
William Dixsy, Richard Dodg, Samuell Corning, Henry
Herrick, William Woodberry, Sen r , William Dodg Sen 1 ',
Humphrey Woodberry Sen r , Robert Morgan, Peter
Woolfe, Richard Brakenbury, Hugh Woodberry, John
Black Sen r , Josias Rootes Sen 1 ', John Stone Sen r , Nicho-
las Patch, Lott Conant, Exerzise Conant, John Dodg
Sen r , John Hill, Ralph Ellingwood, Edward Bishopp,
Sarah Conant, Bethiah Lathropp, Anna Dixsy, Mary
Dodge Sen r , Elizabeth Dodge, Elizabeth Corning, Anna
Woodberry Sen r , Anna Woodberry Jim 1 ', Mary Louitt,
Elizabeth Woodberry, Elizabeth Woodberry, Ede Her-
rick, Elizabeth Haskall, Ellen Brakenbury, Martha
Woolfe, Mary Dodge Jun r , Mary Woodberry, Hannah
Woodberry, Hannah Baker, Abigaile Hill, Sarah Leach,
Elizabeth Patch, Mary Herrick, Lidea Herrick, Free-
grace Black, Hannah Sallowes, Bridgett Louffe.
Such as are members but not in full Communion desire
to be dismissed with their parents, Peter Woodberry,
John Dodge Jun r , John Black, [3] Samuel Corning J r ,
Nathaniell Haward, Thomas Woodberry, John Wood-
berry J r , Isaack Woodberry, Humphry Woodberry Ju r ,
William Dodg Ju r , Ephraim Herrick, Henry Herrick,
Ju r , John Herrick, Edward Bishopp Ju r , Josiah Rootes
Ju r , Joseph Lovet, = Remember Stone, Elizabeth Ha-
ward, Bethiah Lovett, Abigaile Stone, Hannah Raiment,
Sarah Conant, Susanna Woodberry, Elizabeth Herrick :
This motion was answered the 21 th of the 5 mo th 1667,
as foil, viz., This wrighting being read together with
the names subscribed, ther was a vnanimous consent of the
brethren present vnto their desire, only it was left to the
Sacrament day after when in the fullest church as.semb[ly]
the consent of the whole church was signified by their votes
& so they have their liberty to be a church of themselves,
only they continue members hear vntill the[n]. being
a Church the Lord graunt his gratious presence with them.
Vppon this the brethren had a meeting vppon the 28 th of
August and renewed their call to m r John Hailes that hee
180 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
would be pleased to accept of the office of a pastor.
Whose answer was as ffoll : When I looke att the weight
of the worke you call mee vnto of wch. Paul cried out
(who is sufficient for theise things) I then looking vppon
my owne manifold Infirmities & indisposition of spirritt
therunto I see many discouragements : butt when I duly
considder the Lords soueraignty ouer mee & all sufficiency
for my succor I desire wheare I see his worke and call to
say with Esaiah heare I am send mee ; and in perticular
when I obserue the remarkable prouidences of God in
bringing me hither and pauing out our way hitherto and
the roome the Lord hath made for mee in their hearts
(w ch I acknowledg with thankfullnesse to God & yo r
seines : I doe look att the Call of God in the present call
to mee beeing [4] the more confirmed hearin by the con-
currence of our apprehensions, which hath appeared in
those things wee have hadd occasion to conferr about,
consenting our entringe into & proceeding ou r Church
affaires, which I hope the Lord will enable mee to practice
accordingly.
Wherefore while you walke according to Gods order
of the gospell, & in the stedfastnesse of the faith in
Christ, and I see that with a good Conscience and free-
dome of spirritt I can carry on my worke and dischardge
my duty to God and man & those that are vnder my care
according to the respectiue relations I may beare vnto
them : soe long as the Lord is calling mee to labour in
this part of his Vineyard ; I desire to giue vpp my selfe
to the Lord & his seruice in the worke of the Ministry in
this place ; Requesting you to striue together with me in
yo r praiers to God for mee that it may redound to his
glory, yo r Edifiinge & of Euery soule that shall dwell
amoungst vs and for ou r Joyfull accoumpt in the day of
Christs appearance.
By mee : John Hale.
The twentieth of September ffollowinge those members
abouenamed of Salem vnited together in a distinckt
society : and the said rn r Hale being dismissed from the
church of Christ att Charlestowne wherof hee was a
member : and recommended to the worke of Christ here,
Concurred with them ; when they solemnly made Confes-
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 181
sion of their faith : and Renewed their Covenant with the
Lord which was publiquely & vnanimously owned by them
as ffolloweth :
[5] Wee beleiue in one God the Eternall Jehouah Infi-
nite in wisdome, power, holinesse, justice, goodnesse, and
truth, the maker, preseruer, & gouernour of all things,
distinguished into the Father beggetting the Sonne & the
Sonne begotten of the Father, & the holy ghoast pro-
ceeding from the father and the sonne, three persons yett
one god : And that the Lord made man att the first in
his owne Image, in holinesse, knowledge, & righteous-
nesse, wherby hee hadd ability perfectly to obey God
for life according to the tennour of the Couenant of
workes, w ch hee lost by transgressing gods Command
bringing himselfe & all his posterity into a state of sinne
and misery, whereby wee are by nature Children of wrath
as well as others, liable to all miseries in life & death &
to Eternall Destruction :
That God out of his meere mercy sent his only begot-
ten Sonne Jesus Christ for mans redeemer = who is truly
God & truly man in one person = who as man was con-
ceived by the holy Ghoast, borne of the Virgin Mary,
made like vs in all things (yett without Sinn) heesunred
death to ransome the elect, was buried, Rose againe from
the dead & assended into heauen with his body wherwith
hee now sitts att the right hand of God to make inter [ce]s-
sion for the faithfull ; And shall thence returne to Judge
the whole world together att the Last Day.
That the Lord hath giuen vs the Scriptures of the old
and new testament for the only perfect and perpetuall
Rule of ou r Faith and Life.
That all that truly beleiue in Jesus Christ & repent of
all their smnes haue by faith a right to all the benefitts of
Christs purchase as the only [6] Righteousnesse of Christ
imputed to them for their Justification the priuiledges of
addoption, & sanctification by the spirritt, man being
vtterly vnable by any worke or righteousnesse of his
owne or light from within himselfe to please God.
Also that those who in this life walke before the Lord
in the faith of the gospell & sincere obedience to the Law
the rule of holinesse) wherin euery true beleeuer ought &
182 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
certainly shall perseuere vnto death, when their soules be-
ing then & not before made perfect in holinesse, shalbe
receiued into glory, till the resurrection when their bodies
being vnited to their soules & raised vp againe irume-
diatly before the gennerall Judgment they shall there be
openly acquitted & so be eternally glorified in heauen.
That then allso all that beleeued not in Christ shall be
publiquely Condemned & cast into hell for euer.
Allso wee beleiue that all true beleiuers make vpp that
one body the Church of wch. Christ is the head who for
the gathering in and perfecting of his saints hath ap-
pointed his Word, prayers, singing of pslames, Sacra-
ments of baptisme & the Lords Supper : Church officers
& discipline in particular churches, and that it is the Duty
of euery Christian orderly to attend thereunto :
The Couenant :
Wee doe in the presens of the Eternall God & for ou r
owne comfort renew ou r couenant with God, Joyning ou r
seines to the Lord in a perpetual couenant that shall not
be forgotten wherin wee doe hartily accept & Auouch the
Lord this day to be ou r God, & to walke in [7] his waies,
desiring to turne to him by vnfeigned repentance for all
our sinus, & by faith receiuinge Jesus Christ for ou r only
Lord and Sauiour, and his spirritt for our comfort 1 ", doe
take him for ou r portion according to the tennour of the
couenant of grace wherein hee hath promised to be a god
to the fnithfull & their seed after them in their genera-
tions, promising through the grace of God a constant &
sincere endeauour of obedience to all Gods commands
deliuered vs in his written Word, and to resist the temp-
tations of Sathan, the world, and ou r owne deceitful 1 harts :
and this vnto the death :
Wee doe allso in the feare of the Lord and presens of
his people, ingage to giue vpp ou r selues, & ou r seed to
the Lord, and to one another by the Will of God in ou r
Fellowshipp together as a particular church of Christ : or
congregation of the faithfull : promising each of vs to
continue faithfull & stedfast in ou r communion together in
the publiquo worship of God, & to submitt to the order,
disipline & gouernement of Christ in this his church, and
to the ministeriall, Teaching, guidance & ou r sight of the
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
183
Elder, or Elders therof, and to the brotherly watch of
fellow members : promising to walke towards them in loue
& faithfullnesse, and in all offences to follow the rule of
Christ, to beare and forbeare, giue and forgiue as hee hath
taught vs, so long as by the rules of Gods Word wee
shall continue in this ou r relation together, desiring allso
to walke with all regular & due communion with other
churches of Christ, for the Glory of God, ou r furtherancs
& growth in Christ : and mutuail Edification :
And all this not by any Strength of ou r owne but by
ou r Lord Christ assisting vs, whose blood wee desire may
sprinkle this ou r coucnant made in his name, Amen.
In Testimony of ou r Consent to this Confession of faith
and Coucnant wee subscribe on 1 ' names,
[8] John Hale
Richard Dodge Senio r
William Woodberry Senio 1 '
Richard Brackenbury
John Stone Senio r
John Dodge Senio r
Rodger Connant
William Dodge Senio r
Humphry Woodberry Senio r
Hugh Woodberry
Niekolas Patch
John Hill
[Rebeckah Hale*]
Sarah Elizabeth Dodge
Connaut Mary Lovett
deceased E | izaoeth Haskall
Mary Woodberry
Sarah Leach
Freegrace Black
Elizabeth Corning
Elizabeth Woodberry
Ellen Brackenbury
Hannah Woodberry
Elizabeth Patch
Hannah Sallows
Thomas Lathropp
Sarnuell Corning
Robert Morgan
John Blacke Senio r
Lott Connant
Ralph Ellen wood
William Dixsy
Henry Herricke Senio r
Peeter Woolfe
Josias Rootes Senio r
Exercize Connant
Edward Bishopp
Berthia Lathropp
Anna Dixsy
Anna Woodberry Senio r
Elizabeth Woodberry
Martha Woolfe
Hannah Baker
Mary Herricke
Bridgett Luff
Mary Dodge Senio r
Anna Woodberry Junio r
Edee Herricke
Mary Dodge Junio r
Abigaile Hill
Lidia Herricke
1 Cancelled.
184 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
Theise hailing proceeded thus farr vppon this solerrme
day of fasting and praier
[9] Then Immediatly they proceeded to the ordination
of tn r Hale as Pastor who was ordained by the Laying on
of hands, of the renerend rn r John Higginson Pastor of
the Church of Salem & of m r Thomas Cobbett Pastor att
Ipswhich & of m r Antipas Newman Pastor att Wenliam :
then weare they owned to be a distinckt orderly congre-
gationall church by the Elders & messengers of the neigh-
bour Churches abouesaid, who gaue their approbation and
right hand of Fellowshipp.
22 th 7mo th . Letters of Dismission for m rs Rebeckah
Hale were sent from the Church of Salisbury : & were
read and accepted. [& shee received unto fellowship w th
this Church 1 ]
29 th 7 mo th . The Sacrament of the Lords Supper was
administered : when allso was propounded the desire of
clivers to be admitted unto the Lords Supper.
23 th 8 mo th . Vppon a Church meeting Peter Wood-
berry and Sarah his wife John Black Jun r Humphrey
Woodberry Jun r Remember Stone and Sarah Conmmt,
(being all Children of the Church) whose desires were
before publiquely propounded, openly professing their
faith & repentains & owning the Couenant of God made
with their fathers : were admitted vnto full communion
with the Church : the same day as a testimony of our
duty to the children of the church this was generally con-
sented to by Vote, viz.
Wee hauing in o r Couenant with the Lord solemly pro-
fessed o r readinesse to giue up o r selues & o r seed to the
Lord, and considering the many gratious promises God
hath made to the seed of the faithfull, & duties required
towards them wee shall endeauour through the Lords
assistance to bring vpp o r children in the nurture & ad-
monition of the Lord, by watching faithfully ouer them
as lambs of the flocke and Children of the Couenant, to
encourage them in the waies of God : & admonish them
& proceed with them if they doe Euill as Duty requires :
[10] And in perticular will Catechize those vnder o r gou-
ernment & endeauour so long as is meet to bring them vnto
Added by Mr. Hale.
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 185
publique Catechising by the Pastor : theise being spetiall
meanes to farther their knowledg in the principles of god-
linesse. That wee may doe o r parts that o r children may
bee all taught of God. Wch. wee will follow w th o r praiers
to God, that it may be for the good of vs & o r Children
after vs. Henceforth it [is] expected that o r Reuerend
Pastor doe Register all matters conserning the Church and
[which] are to be committed to this booke as I haue done
hitherto
By mee Robert Morgan :
27.8.67. Was ye Lords Supper againe administred
before which were admitted unto fellowship w th this
Church, viz. Nathaniell Stone, Goodwife Bishop, & Jude
Woodbury.
5 :9 ber . Was a day of thanksgiving observed by order
from y e Generall Court, because of some mercy shewed
to England & for o r owne peace & libertys continued &
for o r comfortable harvest.
17 :9 mo . Margaret, wife of Brother Morgin & Elizabeth
wife of Lot Conant & Mary y e wife of Ephraim Hirreck
were admitted into this Church upon ye profession of
their faith & repentance.
1 :10 mo :67. Richard Patch ye son of Sister Patch was
upon ye confession of his faith & repentance, admitted to
full Communion & then baptized, not having been bap-
tized before : See more of this p. 150.
4 :10 mo . By Gen 1 Courts Order was kept a generall day
of Humiliation through ye Colony, for the troubles of
Gods people in England & elswhere abroad: for ye
tokens of Gods displeasure in this land in the loss of
diverse of ye vessells by sea & diverse sinns abounding
among us : In wch. day wee made it one speciall part
of o r worke to seek ye Lords favour to looke upon o r
Church to direct, & prosper o r small beginnings & con-
tinue his presence of mercy w th us.
[11] 1667 8 :10 mo . Nickolas Woodbury was admitted to
ye fellowship of this Church ; with John Gaily & his wife,
& [29:10 th : Seep. 3] Ephraim Hirreck w th them was
admitted to full Communion in ye Lords Supper.
186 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
166$ 26 :11 : m. Abigail Stone was admitted to ye
Lords Supper.
9 : 12 th . was Samuell Dodge son of Richard Dodge
admitted to ye Lords Supper & Elizabeth Livermore.
It having been conferred of between the present Pastor
& brethren of this Church before their being in this rela-
This was tion it was generally approved, viz : yt ye
Nemine Children borne of beleivers in particular
Contradicente orderly Churches & orderly walking therein
are to bee baptized & growing up to bee watched over &c.
And then being marryed if they walke unblamably &
understandingly profess their soundness in the principles
of religion & solemnly & publickly owne ye Covenant of
God made w th their fathers & there profess their desiers
& endeavours to submitt to the discipline of Christ in his
Church & to give up themselves & their seed unto ye
Lord & his people that then their children allso upon such
their desiers are to bee baptized though their imediate
parents upon sence of their present unfittness bee not as
yet received to ye Lords table.
Accordingly 16 : 12 : 166 John Dodge Ju r son of Br.
16: 12 m : William Dodge owning ye Covenant of God &
See more publickly professing to give up himselfe & his
p. 150 seed to ye Lord had his children baptized.
See p. 150.
24. 12 mo. Humphery Woodbury Sn r was Chosen to
ye office of A Deacon of this Church
8:1: mo. 6. Sarah ye wife of John Dodge Ju r was
admitted to Communion w th this Church.
1668, 26 : 1 : mo. The Councell of Magistrates apoynt
A Generall Fast to mourne for prophainness, superstition
& herisie increasing : to pray for ye encouragment of
Religion, disapoynting of its Enemys, yt ye great mo-
tions of ye world may bee overruled for Gods glory,
That hee would bless & direct ye King, Councell & Par-
lament, bless ye peace w th Holland & sanctifie ye late
warr, pestilence & burning of ye City of London, & con-
tinue to New England [12] peace, libertys & yegospell &
prevent in the ensuing yeare blasting milldew & caterpil-
lars & Convert ye rising Generation & supply w th Teachers
ye destitute Congregations.
I
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 187
1668, 5: 2, mo. Henry Bayly & Mary Clarck were
joy ned to this Church.
Thomas Patch w th other children of ye Church were dis-
missed from under ye watch of Salem Church to this (viz.
of them yt were not before dismissed) in this manner fol-
lowing. Viz : These are to signifie yt
10 : 3 : mo. T. Patch, J. Lovet & goody Wood come-
ing to me shewing their desier to joyne
wi th ye Church on Bass River Side enquiering whether
they had need of any particular Letters of Dismission from
this Church, I did acquaint the Church heer wth. it who
did unanimously express themselves yt it was taken for
granted by us, yt both these persons & all ye rest on yt
side in the same state w th these were dismissed (w th ye
rest of ye members of this Church) together once for all to
bee in ye same state in yt Church as they were in this, so
yt they desiering it they may freely joyne in full Com-
munion without having any further dismission from this.
Salem May 10. John Higginson
17 : 3, mo. The writing abovesaid was read & ye
partys therin expressed were accepted as dismissed from
Salem Church to o rs to bee under ye watch of this Church,
but not thereupon in full communion.
30. 3 mo . John Lovet ju r abovesaid & Bethia his wife
solemnly & publickly owning ye Covenant of God & giv-
ing up themselves & their seed to ye Lord & his people had
their children baptized, see p. 151. Mary Wood had her
childe baptized also ye same time upon ye same grounds.
12 : 5 mo . Thomas Patch & Mary his wife having been
first privately examined in their knowledge & good affec-
tions & desires by ye Pastor (w ch is also to understood of
all y i are admitted to any of ye publick ordinances above
named) upon their publick laying hold of ye Covenant
&c. as above had their children baptized, (p. 151)
[12] : 5 mo . Hannah Raymond owning ye Covenant &c
had her child baptized, (p. 151)
[13] 1668, 2 : 6 mo . Susanna Haskins daughter of Brother
Roots did lay hold of ye Covenant &c (as is above ex-
pressed for others) & had her child baptized.
10 : 8 mo . John West & his wife Mary were upon let-
ters of Dismission from ye Church of Ipswich received
188
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
unto Communion of this Church & their son Thomas w th
his wife Elizabeth at ye same time.
1669, 16 : 6 mo . By a unanimous consent of this whole
Congregation was kept puhlickly A Day of Humiliation
by fasting & prayer for ye great sinns abounding & break-
ing forth scandalously in this Country & in o r Towne &
Church in particular as ground of mourning (see 1 Cor.
5. 2. & 2 Cor. 12: 20) & for ye fears least a flood of
prophainness should overflow ye Land, to beg Gods mercy
& continuance of o r libertyes & yt ye Lord will Remem-
ber his cause & peaple in Brittaine & Ireland & for Gods
hand in taking away so many eminent godly ministers
from us by death (5 ministers dyed in about halfe a year.)
27: io m . Bethia Stanly (daughter of Sister
John 21. 15 ver. Lovet) a chide of ye Covenant having
before marriage comitted Fornication
w th him who is since her husband & ye
fact evident by her having a childe soon
after marriage & confessed by herselfe
was sent for to apeare publickly before
ye Church to give account to them of her
sinne & repentance. When shee owned
yt God had of late made her to see from
his word ye greatness of her sin against
God & desier yt God would humble her
truly & Blessed God for yt care ye Church
tooke for ye good of her soule
The Confession apearing somwhat
hopefull yet not so full, nor convincing
to ye world as was desired in regard of
ye newness of it &c. Shee had more
time given her for repentance & was with
ye Consent of ye Brethren layed under
{i Solemne Admonition to realize to her
owne Soule ye truth of yt Confession, &
to ye world by her conversation & to
proceed to yt fuller degree & manifesta-
tion of humiliation & repentance pressed
home by ye Pastor from Hebrews, 13,
4; 1 Cor. 6; 9, 10, 11 ; 2 d Corinth. 7,
11 ; 1 Tim 5, 20, Revelat. 2 : 21, 22.
1 Cor. 5, 11, 12.
Acts, 20, 28.
6. 10 m .
27 th . 10 mo .
eccles. 12. 14.
2 Sam. 11
14 ver.
2 Chron. 7. 14 ver.
1 Tim. 5. 20.
Levit. 19. 17.
James 5, 19. 20
Gal. 1. 6
Psalm [1. 15.]
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 189
[14] 1668. Benjamin Morgin Sonne of Bro. Morgin a
childe of ye Covenant in this Church having in partner-
ship w th another stole two horses & severall oxen & added
unto his highhanded bouldness ye hay nous sin of lying to
cover his sinne, was apprehended & convicted thereof at
Cambridge Court & ye fact being so notorious & evident
was sent for by this Church ye 6 : 10 : 68 by two of ye
brethren to apeare ye 13 : 10 : 68 to shew his repentance
for his haynous & publickly scandalous sins but he not
then apearing was sent to againe to apeare 27 : 10 mo.
But then he not only refused to come, but also spake very
reproachfully of ye Church & publick worship of God.
This answer being returned it was propounded by ye pas-
tor & consented to by ye Brethren yt two other messen-
gers should bee sent to him w th this message, yt unless ye
next Lords day hee apeared before ye Church & manifested
something of repentance not only for his former sinus of
theft & lying but for his presumptuous contempt of ye
worship of God & ofthis Church he should be proceeded
w th as A Scandalous & Impenitent sinner.
This was accordingly done & ye next Sabbath viz : ye
3:11: 166f hee made his apearance. But by his Irrev-
erend Carriage & Dumbe silence manifested himselfe to
be A lamentable spectacle of A stupifyed sinner & for-
saken of God & no signes of repentance manifested either
for his former sinns or late presumptuous behaviour : hee
was by ye Censure of Excommunication delivered to Satan
for ye destruction of ye flesh yt ye soule might be saved
in ye day of Christ. And ye Lord Sanctify his ordinance
to his soule for yt end. Amen.
1669, 11 : March A letter was read from about 28
brethren of ye [1 st ] Church gathered in Boston desiering
wee would send o r Elders & messengers to sitt in Coun-
cell w th ye Elders & messingers of other Churches to
Councell them in a labouring case. In answer heerunto
ye Pastor went to yt Councell. And, 13 th aprill, these
brethren were gathered into a Church Society at Charles-
towne by approbation of Magistrates Elders &c.
[15] 1669, 30. 3 mo . May: ye 30 th 1669 Nathaniel
Howard being a Childe of ye Covenant yt had putt him-
190 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
selfe under ye watch & discipline of Christ in this Church,
did publickly enter into Solemne Covenant vv th God & his
submission to ye yoake of Christ in his apoyntments & ye
discipline of his Church & giving up himselfe & seed to
ye Lord did desier his childe might bee baptized w ch was
accordingly done. See Baptism pag : 151.
4 : 6 : 69 was kept by this congregation a day of
humiliation & prayer because of Gods hande in Immod-
erate Raines, Blasting, Milldew, cold & storrnes : to
fynde out sin ye cause & desier remoovall of Gods frowne.
29 : 6 : 69 William Dodge jun r . did this day publickly
& solemnly ovvne ye Covenant of God &give up himselfe
to ye watch of ye Church w th his Childe in order to its
baptisme. See p. 151.
12 : 7 : 69 Good wife Raymund ye widdow was admit-
ted unto ye fellowship of this Church.
17 : 9 : 69 Was a day of Publick Thanks-giving to
bless ye Lord for staying ye Immoderate raines (w ch
thretned to destroy ye whole harvest of corne & fresh hay)
& for ye harvest ye Lord hath given.
6 : 8 : 69 A Letter was read sent from ye Church at
Newbury (ie ye Pastor & a considerable part of them) to
meet w th messingers of other Churches by o r messingers
to advise y m in regard of some differences &c. In answer
whereunto ye Pastor & Mr Conant went to Newlmry &
were present w th ye Councell. 3, 9 mo . 1669.
13 : 12 : 69 Was a letter read from ye last gathered
Church in Boston desiering our assistance by Messingers
in ye Ordination of Mr Thatcher for Pastor & other offi-
cers : but none went ye weather beeing so tedious.
13 : 1 :| j This day were joyned in full communion to
this Church: Thomas Patch (who before had solemnly
owned ye Covenant 12 : 5 : 68, but upon feares of his
owne unfitness proceeded no farther) & John Woodbury
ju r (who also had putt himselfe under ye watch of this
Church at ye begining of it & his wife Elizabeth (who
as a childe of ye Church at Rowley had a letter of rec-
ommendation from thence read ye same day) & Sarah
Balsh.
1670 7: 2 : mo . Was kept by this whole Congregation
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 191
a day of Humiliation by fasting & prayer under ye sence
of Gods frowning dispensations in taking from this Juris-
diction six ministers away from his Churches by death in
ye last yeare & permitting those divisions & breaches wch
are allredy begun in sundry churches & feares of more ;
And continuing ye snow so long on ye earth & ye frost
in ye grounde hindering seed time & pinching cattle for
want of fodder ; That ye Lord may reforme us from ye
sins wee have provoked him by, & returne to our churches
in mercy, & reserve for us ye apoynted weeks of seed
time & harvest & prevent ye blasting & milldews this
summer so far as may bee for his glory & our good.
19 : 2 : 70 Was ye second sitting of ye Councill at
Newbury upon an adjournment, at w ch sitting ye Lord
was pleased to smile upon ye endeavours of ye Councill
by making them instruments to heale yt breach & unite
both partys to meet in one way for future practice &
mutually to forgive what offences had been given or taken
against each other w th such expressions of love as rejoiced
themselves & all present. The Lord continue it.
[16] 1670 16 June Was apoynted for a day of generall
Humiliation : ye cause of w ch see in ye order.
At a Gen. Court at Boston ye 11 th May 1670 :
The Generall Court beeing sencible of Gods hande upon
ye Country sundry yeares, in diverse afflicting providences,
have been desirous to enquire into ye Causes thereof; &
amongst others, doe conceive these following may bee
considered, i. e. A serfish spirit, minding o r owne things
more than ye things of Christ, & of private before ye
publick good ; Too much slightness & negligence in priz-
ing & improoving ye Government & order both Civill &
Sacred in Church & Commonwealth ; A great & generall
neglect of Instructing & governing ye Rising Generation,
both in families & churches; A cooling of former life &
heate in Spirituall Communion ; Too great a neglect in
some places of a comfortable upholding & providing for
ye outward Subsistence of sundry faith full ministers ;
Too much decay of Love to God, & one another, & har-
bouring groundless Jealousies, accompanyed w th whisper-
ings & back bitiugs, w ch ways tende to separate very
192 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
friends ; Too great abounding of Sin amongst us, as pride,
luxury, drunkness, oppression, uncleanness, & diverse
others. These, w th any other sin yt ye Lord may upon
inquiry convince his people of, wee desier may be con-
fessed, bewailed & a thorough reformation endeavoured ;
& for this purpose ye Court do appoynt ye sixteenth day
of June next for a day of humiliation to be kept through-
out this Jurisdiction, & do commende it to ye Churches,
Elders, ministers & people to keepe ye same solemnly &
seriously accordingly.
Boston May 31, 1670. By ye Court Edward Rawson
Secy.
7 : 6 : 70 Samuell Corning ju r (son of Samuell Corn-
ing sn r ) w th his wife Hannah (daughter of John Bach-
elder) did both owiie ye Covenant of God solemnly in
publick & desier Baptism for their son : w ch was accepted.
4:7 : 70 Mary ye daughter of Edward Bishop & wife
of Robert Coburne professing her submission to God &
his ways & owning ye Covenant had her childe baptized
& letters of Recommendation to ye Church of Christ at
Chelmsford were consented to by ye brethren to bee sent
with her, shee going to live there.
22 : 7 : 70 : Was a fast apoynted by ye Councill of
Magistrats at Boston requiring a day of publick humil-
iation & prohibiting all servile worke on yt day ; because
of ye low estate of ye Churches of God all over ye
worlde, & ye increase of sin & evill among o r selves &
Gods hande following of us for ye same.
24 : 9 : 70 The Gen. Court sett apart for a day of
publick Thanksgiving for o r peace & libertys continued &
ye last yeare crowned with Gods goodness in answer of
prayers &c, prohibiting all servile labour y r in.
[17] 1671 14 tb April. Was a Church meeting to settle
ye charges for ye providing bread & wine for ye Lords
Supper ; concluded as follows. Wee have agreed y t ye
brethren & sisters w ch partake usually of ye Lords Sup-
per in full Communion w th us shall pay halfe a crowno
apeice by ye yeare to rnaintaine the charges of ye Lords
Supper & this either in rnony, or in what other pay shall
answer ye Deacon as well as mony ; & constantly to pay
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 193
halfe a yeares pay at every halfe yeares ende. It is agreed
yt the times of pay shall bee the first or second of March,
& ye tirst or second of September from yeare to yeare.
Voted by ye brethren : ye 14 : 2 : 1671.
1 : 8 mo . Joseph Hirreck son of Henry Hirreck deaceased
did owne ye Covenant of God & submit himselfe & his
seed to bee under ye goverment of Christ in this Church
& had his childe baptized. See B.
1672 22 : 7 mo Isaak Woodbury son of Humphry Wood-
bury Sn r did owne ye Covenant of God & submit himselfe
& his seed to bee under ye government of Christ in thi
Church. SeeBapt: s
29 th : 7: Hanah Grover daughter of Sister Black
owned ye covenant of God &c. See Bapt.
19 th October 1673, Bethia Stanley was reconciled to ye
Church upon her professing repentance for her offence for
wch shoe had been under admonition. See 27 : 10 : 69.
26 October 1673, Martha daughter of John Dodge jun r
& Elizabeth daughter of William Dodge jn r & Israel son
of Thomas Woodbury baptized.
9 th 8. George & John the sons of George Stanley by
Bethia his wife were baptized ye 9 th november. 1673.
16 th 9. Edmund Gale was dismissed from Salem
Church & so received into this Church, 16 : November
1673. allso Jonathan ye son of Jonathan Moss by his
wife Mary was baptized, november 16. 1673.
23 november, Joseph Lovet & his wife & Abigail Overs
did owne ye covenant & submit to ye watch of this
Church.
19. 10. 73. Was a Church meeting when were added
to ye Church Goodwife Biles & her sister Patch. Allso
Ephraim Hirreck for lasciv. speeches & slanderous reflec-
tions against authority was layd under an admonition &
space given him for repentance.
19. 5. 74. Jonathan Moss a member of ye Church of
Nevvbury was by letters of dismission from thence received
into this Church. Allso Deborah Benet wife of John
Benet & daughter of Goody Grover deceased was admitted
unto owning ye covenant & her childe to baptisme at ye
same time.
HI8T. COLL. VOL. XXXV 13
194 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
Goody Trask was baptized upon a profession of faith
& repentance ye 26. 5. 74.
[18] 1674 ll:8 mo Benjamin Balsh Jn r & his present
wife Elizabeth (ye daughter of Sister Elizabeth Woodbury
widdow) these beeing under ye watch of ye Church &
having sinned against ye Lord & their owne soules in
committing folly together before marriage, having a childe
born before they were marryed : They were called before
ye Church ye 11 : October 1674. where they confessed
their sin &c. And were publickly admonished (w th ye
Consent of ye brethren) to repent of their sin & so left
to some time of try all farther.
6. 10. 74. Deborah daughter of John Dodge Sn r by
[ ] his wife was baptized : When Goody Tapley
was allso admitted into ye fellowship of this Church.
6. 10. 74. This Church beeing informed of a suddaiu
motion of Thomas Roots of Salem & about seaven more
to joyne themselves into a Church did on ye 6. 10. 74,
Vote & agree, viz.
This Church doth declare themselves troubled at ye
suddain proceedings of those of Salem yt are going to
gather into a Church at Linn ye next 3 d day : & doe
therefore humbly advise (and request ye messingers of
ye Churches there assembled to moove them) to cease for
ye present, till further meanes may bee used for prevent-
ing & healing ye present differences at Salem. Our
brethren John West, John Dodge Sir" & John Hill were
chosen to signifie the same.
8. 10. 74 The result was yt Church-gathering was put
by for yt time.
10. 11. 74 Wenham Church sending letters desired o r
assistance of ym by o r messingers 13. 11. 74. at ye
Ordination of Mr. Joseph Gerish pastor of their Church.
The Pastor, Deacon Woodbury, Capt Lathrop, Ens :
Corning were desired to be present w th them.
Allso this day Goody Sallows was admitted to full
Communion.
29. 4. 75 Was a solemne fast by order of Councell
upon ye Indians rising about Swanzy.
[19] 11. 5. 75 John Hirreck owned ye covenant of
God & had his childe baptized. See baptisms.
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 195
5. 7. 75. Joseph Dodge son of Brother Rich Dodge
deceased owned ye covenant of God publickly & had his
childe baptized.
20: 11. 75 Was a Church meeting wherein Goody
Davis was admitted into this Church by letters of dis-
mission from ye Church at Wenham. Allso Ephraina
Hirreck was before ye Church but not giving full satis-
faction by manifestation of repentance was respited to
another time. Allso ye Gen. Court having recommended
to ye Churches a farther care of discipline in ye Churches
especially toward ye rising generation : it was consented
to, approved of. The words of ye order :
At a gen 1 Court 3:9: 1675 p : 33. This Court appre-
hending there is too great a neglect of discipline in ye
Churches & especially respecting those yt are their chil-
dren, through ye non-acknowledgment of them according
to ye order of ye Gospel in watching over them as well
as Chatechizing of them, inquiring into their spirituall
states, yt beeing brought to take hold of ye Covenant,
they may acknowledge & bee acknowledged according to
their relations to God & his Church, & their obligations
to bee ye Lords & to approve themselves so to bee by a
suitable profession & conversation : Do therefore solemnly
recommend it unto ye respective Elders & brethren of ye
severall Churches throughout this Jurisdiction to take
effectual I course for reformation herein.
9. 1. 1676. Was a Church meeting wherein o r Brother
Ephraim Hirreck was upon ye manifestation of repen-
tance absolved & restored to ye Church according to
Galat. 6. 1, 2. Math. 6. 14, 15. & 18. 21, 22. Luke 17.
3, 4, 5.
27. 12, 167| Robert Bradford was admitted into this
church & Isaak Woodbury into full communion with us.
19 th . 2 mo . 1676. Elizabeth Dodge wife of Will. Dodge
tertius was admitted unto full communion w th this Church
at a Church meeting & not beeing baptized before was
then baptized.
3. 5 mo . Susanna [Teny] daughter of Deacon Wood-
bury and a childe of the Church (see her name pag. 3 :
A : 1667 June 3) was admitted to full Communion w th
this Church on ye 30. 5. 76, before ye Sacrement.
196 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
17. 7. 1676. Brother Leift Dixy presented ye case of
two children of his son (Johns deceased) for whome he
desiered baptisme, his sonne heeing a childe of ye cove-
nant & one yt gave good hope of his dying in ye faith
& yt he would have joyned himselfe to full communion
w th this or some other church, but yt death prevented
him : wherefore he their Grandfather desiered baptisme
for these Grandchildren Sarah & Elizabeth, w ch by a vote
was consented to.
[20] 24 : 5 : rno. 1668. It beeing propounded unto ye
Brethren of this Church that they should give in to ye
Pastor ye names of their Children in Minority w ch were
dismissed from Salem Church together w^ their parents
to be under the watch of this Church as they grow up.
In Answer thereunto take the names following w ch are of
the Chilldren of this Church yt were borne before the
Church was gathered & settled heer.
Imp r Rebeckah ye daughter of ye Pastor John Hale
by Rebeckah his wife wch was borne at Bass-River ye
28 th of Aprill 1666 & baptized by Mr. Higginson (Pastor
of ye Church) at Salem.
Brother Humphry Woodbury Deaco,n his children viz.
William, Peter, Richard, Elizabeth & Christin.
Item : John, Cornelius & Hannah Children of o r Sister
Baker.
It : Children of John Dodge ju r by o r Sister Sarah his
wife are John, William & Sarah.
The Children of Robert Morgan & Margaret his wife,
Joseph Beniamen, Robert, Bethia, Moses. 1
The Children of Sister Abigail Stone are, John, Sam-
uell, William, Abigail & Jonathan.
The Children of Lot Commt, Nathaniel 1, John, Lo,
Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Sarah, William.
Peter the sone of Peter Woodbery. 2
The Children of Nickolas Woodbury are : Nickolas,
Joseph, Isaak, Andrew, Benjamin, [Jane] Abigail.
The Children of o r Sister Elizabeth Woodbury wife of
John Woodbury Sn r are Elizabeth, Abigail, Ebenezer, &
Hanah.
i In Robert Morgan's hand,
a In a different hand.
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 197
Children 0f John Black & his wife Freeborne are
Hannah & Mary Sallows, Sarah & Robert Sallows, &
John Black.
Sister Hannah Sallows, John & Peter, Hannah, Thomas.
Hue Woodburys Children by his wife Mary are
Sanmell, Sarah, Hue, John, Josiah, & Priscilla.
Nathaniel Howards children Elizabeth & Abigail.
Henry Hirreck Sen rs children unraarryed Elizabeth,
John, Benjamin.
Sister Mary Lovetts children, Bethia & Abigail.
Sister Hannah Woodburys Children, John Porter,
William, Sauiuell
Thomas Woodburys
Josiah Roots children, Thomas, Susanna, Jonathan.
[21] The children of William Woodbury deceased by his
wife Judith are William, Elizabeth, Hannah & Judith.
The children of John Dodge Sn r . Deliverance, John,
Josiah, Sarah, Ebenezar, Mary.
The children of Nathaniel Stone, John, Nathaniell,
Samuell, Elizabeth & Sarah. 1
[22] 1677 20 : 1 : mo. A Church meeting ; when Goody
Bayly was admitted into ye Church & Ralf Ellenwood
a childe of ye Covenant in this Church was publickly
rebuked & admonished w th consent of ye brethren, for
stealing meale at mill.
14. 4. 1677 A Church meeting wherein ye wife of
John Benet was admitted to full Communion in this
Church.
27 : 7 : 1677. A Church meeting w r in Edmund Grover
was admitted into ye Churches fellowship & John Dodge
jn r publickly admonished w th ye Consent of ye brethren
for giving false information to ye last Court at Salem
about [his] daughter Elizabeth Hall saying shee had been
marryed about six or seaven months before she had a
childe ; when upon proofe by wittnesses it apeared not to
be 3 months after shee was marryed before shee was de-
livered of a childe. See ye wittnesses in writing:
7. 8. 77. Was ye Lords Supper before w ch Nehemiah
Grover was admitted to full communion to this Church.
1 The rest of this page is blank.
198 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
16:9.77. A Church meeting w r in John Richards was
admitted into this Church, & John Dodge ju r his case agen
agitated & witnesses read, both ye former viz : Mr.
Dudleys, Robert Cox & his wife w th Anne Bromwell &
Abigail Stone, allso farther, John Stone & his wife &
John Hill & his wife testifying y* John Dodge owned in
y r hearing yt he said to ye Court was not unadvised.
See ye witnesses.
28. 10. 77 John Patch was admitted into fellowship
w th this Church.
17 : 1 : 16f-| Nathaniel Conant owning ye Covenant
of God personally & submitting himselfe & his seed to ye
goverment of Christ in this Church has his childe bap-
tized. See Baptisms.
24. 1. 78. Sarah Roots owned ye Covenant of God
personally & putt her selfe under ye watch & goverment
of Christ in this Church.
7. 2. 78. Jonathan By ley & his wife were received to
fellowship of full communion w th this Church.
7. 5. 78. Elizabeth wife of William Clerk & daughter
of Nath. Stone owned ye covenant & submitted to ye
watch of this Church & had her childe baptized. See bap.
4. 6. 78 1 It was consented to by ye vote of ye brethren
that Bro : Samuell Dodge should according to his desier
have his Dismission from this Church to ye Church at
Wenham.
29 March 1679 Deacon Woodbury received a flaggon
w ch was left at my house by brother John West w ch John
West gave it to ye Church as a token of his love.
Circit r 8 m . 1684 Sarah Hale ye Pastors wife was by
letters dismissed from newbury Church to this & heer
received.
[23] 1680 25. 2 : Christian Trask daughter of Bro
Humphry Woodbury Sn r owned ye covenant & submitted
her selfe & seed to be under this Church.
4 : 3 : 80 At a Church meeting John Balsh & Sarah
ye wife of Joseph Dod^e were admitted to full com-
munion in this Church.
i See page 30 for some baptisms misplaced in the original.
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 199
7 : 9 : 80 Mary ye wife of Richard Howhton & Eliza-
beth wife of Joseph Lovet were admitted unto full com-
munion in this Church.
10 : 5 : 1681 The wife of Andrew Eliot Sn r & ye wife
of Will. Cleaves, these women were admitted to full com-
munion in this Church.
14 : 6 : 1681 Edward Bishop jun r owned ye Covenant
of God & solemnly subjected himselfe to ye watch of this
church & had his childe baptized. See baptisms.
28 : 6 : 81 Humphry Horrell admitted to ye fellowship
of this Church.
11:7: 81 Bethia ye wife of John Conant admitted
into fellowship of ye church.
6:9: 81 Mary ye relict of John Hirreck admitted into
Church fellowship.
18 : 1 : 82 Edmund Ashby & Mary Williams were
admitted into full communion w th this Church of Christ.
28 : 3 : 82 Ruth ye wife of John Hebert admitted to
full communion of ye Church.
16:5: 82 William Woodbury admitted admitted to
to full communion of ye Church.
15 : 8 : 82 Rachel Bradford owned Gods Covenant in
this Church.
5. 9. 82 Richard Woodbury owned Gods Covenant in
this Church.
1. 5. 83 Hannah Grover, Goody Wooden & ye wife
of John Raiment were admitted to full Communion in this
Church .
29 : 5 : 83 Elizabeth wife of David Perkins admitted
to full communion.
5. 12. 8f was a church meeting & agreed as followeth
viz. The Brethren of this church doe agree yt hence
forth each of ye brethren & sisters of this Church w ch
usually partake of ye Lords Supper w th us shall pay halfe
a crowne by ye yeare beforehand in ye begining of ye
yeare, viz. in ye begining of March to maintain e ye
charges of ye Lords Supper & this either in mony, or in
what other pay shall answer ye Deacon as well as mony.
And this mony so payd to be layd in for a Church stock
to provide for ye Lords Supper & ye Deacon or Deacons
200 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
to give a seasonable account of ye disbursment of what
is payd in as abovesaid.
2 : 7 : 84 At a Church meeting ye brethren of ye
Church did choose o r Brother John Hill to ye office of a
Deacon in this church.
14. 7. 84 John Stone ju r son of Nathaniel Stone layd
hold of ye Covenant of God & gave up himselfe to be
under Church watch.
4 : 10 : 84 Miriam wife of Free Balsh & Sarah wife of
Thomas Gage admitted to full communion in this Church,
Allso John Bachelder & his wife beeing deceased gave
good hope of their dying in the faith & yt if they had
lived longer purposed to joyne in communion w th this
Church but beeing prevented by death, their childrens
case was considered by ye Church, as allso ye case of
Joseph Eaton a childe of ye covenant in ye Church at
Reddin, but living in this towne desiered to putt himselfe
under ye discipline of Christ in this Church & have bap-
tisrne for his children. Ye Brethen consent yt ye Pastor
may peacably proceed to ye baptizing of these & other
children in such like cases.
[24] 1678, 3 : 10 : At a Church meeting ye 3 : 10 : 78,
were admitted to full communion in this Church John
Hirreck, Mary wife of Edward Dodge & Elizabeth
Hooper.
1679, 1:4: John Conant jun r solemnly owning ye
Covenant of God & giving up himselfe & seed to God
w th submission to ye discipline of Christ in this Church
had his son Lot baptized.
16|f 4:1: A Church meeting w r in John Wooden
was admitted into this Church by dismission from Haverill
Church. Allso Joseph Dodge admitted to full commun-
ion : & John Dodge jun r upon his repentance manifested
to ye Church was forgiven unanimously. Allso voted
then yt another Deacon be chosen to assist Humphrey
Woodbury Sn r in yt work : but ye person not chosen till
another meeting.
17. 6. 1684. Admitted to full communion in this Church
ye Relict of Josiah Haskall, Christian Trask & ye wife
of Thomas Raiment.
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 201
24. 6. 1684. John Dodge ju r was admitted to full
communion.
22 : 1 : 168f John Bond owned ye covenant & sub-
mitted to ye discipline of this Church & had baptisme for
his childe.
5. 2. 1685: were ordained & established Humphry
Woodbury Sn r & John Hill Sn r (who had been before
chosen) in ye office of Deacons by prayer & laying on of
ye hands of ye Pastor.
19. 2. 85, Robert Cue & Elizabeth Harvey were joyned
to full Communion w th this Church.
26. 2. 1685, Widdow Wood admitted to full commun-
ion.
31. 3. 85, ye wife of Samuell Morgan admitted to full
communion.
5. 5. 85, Rachel Sibly of Manchester admitted to this
Church
9. 6. 85, Edward Bury admitted into ye Church.
6. 7. 85, Goody Curtice Sn r admitted to fellowship
of ye Church.
18. 8. 85. Ruth wife of Nehemiah Grover admitted to
full Communion.
8. 9. 85, Hannah wife of Roger Haskall admitted to
full Communion.
The relict widow of Joseph Haskall admitted to Com-
munion in this Church, See 17 : 6 : 84. l
[25] 18 : 2 : 1686, Mary wife of W m Eliot received
to full communion in this church.
23: 3: 1686 Hanah wife of John Balch admitted to
communion & baptized.
18. 5. 86, Joseph Hirreck Sn r , Mary his wife & Thomas
Goldsmith admitted to full communion.
8. 6. 86, John Cresie owned ye Covenant of God &
subjected to ve watch & goverment of Christ in this
Church.
15. 6. 86, Erne ye wife of James Taylor owned Gods
Covenant & subjected herselfe to ye watch & goverment
of this Church.
iHere follows the same vote passed 5. 12. 8$ and dated the same.
202 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
19. 7. 86, Mark Haskall professed his faith, subjected
himselfe to this Church & was Baptized & ye wife of John
Cleark owned ye Covenant & had her Childe baptized.
See baptisms.
20. 8. 86, Peter Woodbury Sn r was by ye brethren of
this Church chosen to ye office of a Deacon in this
Church.
16. 9. 86, The Church beeing met Brother Peter
Woodbury declared his acceptance of ye office of a dea-
con. Then allso Goody Pride & Goody Cleaves were
admitted to full communion w th this Church.
28. 9. 86, Goodwife Coburn admitted to full communion
in this Church.
5. 10. 86, Nickolas Woodbury owned Gods Covenant
& subjected himselfe to ye discipline of Christ in this
Church & had baptisme for his children.
23. 11. 16 BT Mrs. Thorndick making profession pub-
lic kly of her faith & repentance was baptized but not
beeing clear in her owne spirit did not at present proceed
to ye Lords Supper.
24. 2. 1687, Mr. Andrew Eliot admitted to full com-
munion in this Church & Humphry Horrell subjected him-
self to ye watch of this Church & had his children
baptized.
22. 3. 87, Hanah wife of Robert Bradford admitted to
this Church.
4. 4. 87, Mrs. Mary Smith dismissed to ye North
Church at Boston.
19. 4. 87, Mary wife of Joseph Hirreck jun r admitted
to full communion.
10. 5. 87, Hanah wife of John Trask Sn r admitted to
full communion.
7. 6. 87, Mary relict of John Tovie owned Gods cove-
nant & had her child baptized.
9. 8. 87, Mary daughter of Ben. Balch Sn 1 ' admitted to
full communion.
6. 9. 87. Ralph Ellenwood admitted to full commun-
ion in this Church.
4. 10. 87, Sarah wife of Georg Trow owned ye cove-
nant & had her son baptized.
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 203
Mary ye wife of Tobias Trow desired
baptisme upon ye profession of faith & repentance & sub-
jected herselfe to ye watch of this Church beeing baptized.
17. 4. 88, The wife of Mark Haskall was admitted to
full communion.
15. 5. 88, Daniell Collins received to full communion.
12. 6. 88, Humphry Horrel & his wife received to full
communion.
12. 6. 88, Isaac Woodbury jun r took hold of Gods
Covenant & engaged himselfe & had his childe baptized.
2. 7. 88, Charitie wife of Thomas Whitteridge joyned
in fellowship w th this Church & had her children bap-
tized.
30. 10. 88, Jacob Griggs & his wife Ellenor joyned in
fellowship w th this Church.
[12] 1. 89, Deacon Peter Woodbury ordained by prayer
& laying on of hands.
31. 1. 1689, Deborah daughter of Andrew Mansfield
of Lyn & wife to Philip White owned ye Covenant &
gave herselfe up to this Church.
21. 2. 89, Elizabeth Corning & Mary Raiment her
daughter were admitted into this church by Letters of
Dismission from Gloster Church.
Ruth ye wife of W m Haskall ju r owned ye Covenant.
19. 3. 89, Elizabeth wife of Joseph Woodbury ingaged
her self in covenant w th & under this Church & had her
childe baptized.
16. 4. 89, Marget King was admitted to full communion
w th ye Church.
23. 4. 89, John Lee of Manchester owned solemnly
Gods Covenant & subjected to ye goverment of Christ
in this Church.
29. 7. 1689, Ruth wife of Joseph Drinker admitted to
ye Lords Supper.
29. 7. 89, Abigail Grover submitted to ye discipline
of this Church & to be baptized upon profession of faith
& repentance not beeing baptized before.
[26] 3. 9. 1689, Dorcas wife of Anthony Coombs
owned ye Covenant & had baptisme for her childe.
8. 10. 89, John Cresie & his wife Sarah were admitted
to full communion.
204 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RKCORDS.
15. 10. 89, Martha Bacie admitted to ye fellowship of
this Church.
2. 12. 16{$, Mary wife of Solaman Cole admitted to
fellowship of ye Church.
20. 2. 1690, Andrew Woodbury ju r owned solemly
Gods covenant & subjected to ye goverment of Christ in
his Church.
27. 2. 90, Erne ye wife of James Taylor received to
full communion.
27. 2. 1690, James Kettle owned publickly ye Cove-
nant of God & subjected to ye goverment of Christ in
his Church.
1. 4. 1690, Jane Stacy upon her profession of faith &
repentance was baptized & admitted to this Church.
8. 4. 1690, Jonathan Raiment & his wife Sarah were
admitted to full communion in this Church & Hanah wife
of Thomas Cox owned ye Covenant of God & submitted
to ye goverment of Christ in ye Church & had her chil-
dren baptized.
15. 4. 1690, Nathaniel Wallis admitted to communion
in this church,
22. 4. 1690, Elizabeth Perkins dismissed to ye Church
at Bridgwater.
29. 4. 1690, Miriam wife of W ra Haskall admitted to
communion & baptized.
6. 5. 1690, Elizabeth wife of Isaak Woodbury ju r ad-
mitted to Communion & Mrs. Abigail Balaam to Com-
munion & baptisme to her & childe.
17. 5. 90, Joanna wife of Leift W m Dodge had her
Letter of dismission from ye Church of Charlestowne
read & shee accordingly received by this church into o r
fellowship though through sickess she was not present.
21. 10. 90, Isaak Woodbury ju r received to full com-
munion in ye Church.
8. 1. 91, Peter Woodbury ju r & Mary wife of Nickolas
Woodbury admitted to full communion.
26. 2. 91, Joshua Wallis upon personall profession of
faith & repentance was baptized & admitted to ye church.
3. 3. 91, Mark Haskall Sn r baptized upon profession
of faith & repentance ye 19. 7. 86, but being not clear in
his owne spirit went not farther till this day he first came
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 205
to ye Lords Supper. Now allso John Giles Sn r was ad-
mitted to this church.
3. 3. 91, Hanah wife of Philip Babson did publickly
engage herselfe to ye Lord by Covenant & to this Church
by ye will of God & craved baptisrne for her childe.
31. 3. 1691, Abigail Brisco & Hanah wife of John
Pride ju r admitted to ye Lords Supper.
7. 3. 1691, Elizabeth wife of Christopher Reed bap-
tized upon a profession of faith &c.
Memorandum, 4. 6. 1690, my son Robert Hale re-
ceived into full communion with this Church & I going
to Canada he carryd on ye work of preaching the Gospel
with this people till my returne 20. 9. 1690.
23. 6. 1691, John Conant, Ithamar Wooden & Widdow
Erne Bond admitted to ye Lords Supper in this Church.
30. 6. 91, Martha wife of Luke Perkins tooke hold of
Gods Covenant for herselfe & her childe.
20. 7. 91, Elizabeth wife of Joseph Hebert & her daugh-
ter Mary wife of Daniel Collins admitted to ye Lords
Supper in this Church.
27. 7. 91, Thomas Woodburyju r owned Gods Cove-
nant putt himselfe under ye goverment of this Church &
had 3 children baptized.
4. 8. 91, Katherin Sallows widdow publickly renewed
her covenant w th God & submitted to Christs goverment
in his Church.
[27] 1. 9. 1691, Received to full communion in this
Church Richard Stackhouse, Mrs. Mary Hardie & Sarah
wife of John Grover ju r & ye two latter had children
baptized
15. 9. 91, Mary ye wife of Job: Trow came to ye
Lords Supper having before made profession of faith &
repentance at her baptism 1 : 11: 1 7 8 .
3. 11. 169 Edward Wittington joyned in fellowship
w th this Church.
7. 12. 9 Jeremiah Bootman joyned to ye Church.
May 1. 92, Alice wife of John Woodbury dismissed
from ye Church at Marblehead & received to ours.
June 12. 1692, Mary wife of Benjamin Ellenwood bap-
tized upon ye profession of her faith & repentance ; yet
206 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
desiers to waite a while before she comes to ye Lords
Supper.
July 24. 1692, Mary wife of Samuell Morgan Sn r re-
ceived to o r communion by letters of dismission from
Gloster Church.
July 31. 92, Jonathan [Dike] professed faith & repen-
tance & baptized.
30. 8. 1692, Martha Trelance owned ye covenant &had
her childe baptized.
16. 8. 92, Rebecca wife of Nath : Raiment owned ye
covenant & her childe baptized.
6.9.92. Sam: Stone Sn r owned Gods Covenant,
subjected to ye Church &c.
20. 9. 92,Capt: W m Raiment joyned in full communion
w th this Church.
27. 9. 92, Admitted into Communion of this Church
by letters of Dismission from ye Church at Chebacco in
Ipswich Sarah wife of Henry Hirreck & from Wenham
Mary wife of John Black.
4. 10. 92, Mary Briars Baptized & admitted to fellow-
ship in this Church.
11. 10. 92, Abiafi wife of Joshua Wall is admitted to
full communion.
18. 10. 92, Joshua Wallis came to ye Lords Supper
w th his wife.
12. March 169, Admitted to ye Lords table Sarah
wife of Caleb Wallis & Rachel wife of W m Bradford.
2. April 1693, Mathew Bootman submitted himself
under ye watch of this church & upon professing faith &
repentance was Baptized.
Aprill 9. 1693, Baptized f Jeremiah son of Mathew &
Elizabeth Bootman.
Robert son of William &
Ruth Haskal.
April 16. Cornelius Baker ju r engaged himselfe in ye
Covenant of God & subjected himself to ye watch of
this church, & had his childe baptized.
May 8. 1693, Sam: Hirreck subjected himself to this
church & took hold of Gods Covenant for himselfe & his.
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 207
July 16. 93, Sam. Stone ju r subjected himself to this
church & had his childe baptized.
30. 5. 93, Elizabeth wife of Robert Cue received to
full communion.
6. 6. 93, Abigail wife of Cornelius Larkum owned
Gods Covenant for himselfe & seed & subjected himselfe
to ye Government of Christ in this Church.
7. 11. 169f, Admitted to full communion in this church
Benjamin Balsh Sn r & Katherin wife of John Wooden ju r
shee beeing now baptized.
28. 11. 169f, Josiah Wallis admitted to full commu-
nion ; Rebekah Stanford was baptized & Robert Morgan
personally owned ye Covenant of God.
25. 12. 169f , James Wallis owned Gods Covenant &
subjected to ye watch of this Church.
11.1. 1694, Nath Haward Sn r & Elizabeth Pool joyned
in full Communion.
25. 1. 1694, Thomas Goldsmith dismissed from hence
to ye Church at Southhold.
29. 2. 1694, John Wooden ju r Joined in full commu-
nion in this Church.
6. 3. 94, Phebe Larkum manifested repentance & layd
hold of ye Covenant of God in this church.
27. 3. 94, Thomas Woodbury Sn r Joanna wife of W m
Woodbury ju r & Joanna Dodge widdow were admitted
to full communion, & Samuel Corning ye 3 d owned Gods
Covenant & subjected himselfe to Christ in this church.
[28] 3 June 1694, Erne wife of Andrew Woodbury
& Mary wife of Peter Woodbury ju r were both admitted
to ye Lords table in the Church.
July 1. 94, Abi[el] wife of Samuel Stone ju r , admitted
to ye Lords Supper.
July 29. 94, Leiften : W m Dodge & Sarah Horrel ad-
mitted to Lords Supper.
August 5. 94, Caleb Wallis made profession of faith
& repentance & baptized.
23. 7. 94, Mary wife of Jo: Smith & Mary Wheeler
(the latter beeing now baptized) were admitted to full
communion in ye church.
14. 8. 1694, Jonathan Morse & his wife were dismissed
208 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
to ye church about gathering at Middleborow or if yt be
obstructed to ye church at Plimouth.
4. 9. 1694 Goody Mercy Chub baptized & admitted to
ye Lords Supper.
18. 9. 1694, W m Bradford admitted to communiou in
ye Lords Supper.
23. 10. 94, Mercy Chub ju r professed faith & repen-
tance, was baptized & putt herselfe under ye watch of
this church.
13. 11. 169| Sarah wife of Edmund Gale admitted to
full communion in this church.
3. 1. 169|, Martha wife of James Wallis made pro-
fession of faith & repentance & submitted to the watch of
this Church & was baptized.
10. 1. 9|, Mary wife of Benjamin Ellen wood came to
ye Lords Supper.
7. 2. 95, Edward Dodge admitted to ye Lords Sup-
per.
2. 4. 95, Martha Perkins joyned in full communion
with this Church.
30. 4. 95, Elizabeth wife of NathHaward Sn r admitted
to ye Lords Supper.
28. 5. 95, Samuel Goodale Joyned to this Church.
25. 6. 95, ye wife of Leift John Dodge & Ruth wife of
Nehemiah Haward ju r & Ruth daughter of John Wood-
bury all admitted to full communion in this church.
25. 6. 95, Rebeckah Standly wife of John Standly pro-
fessed faith & is baptized .
1. 7. 95, Mary wife of Robert Wood bury owned Gods
covenant personally in this Church.
22. 7, 95, Hunan Haward wife of Nath : Haward ju r
admitted to this Church upon her personall profession of
faith & repentance.
13. 8. 95, Margaret Grover widdow & Elizabeth wife
of Stephen H[ireck] owned ye covenant of God & sub-
jected to this church.
17. 9. 95, Admitted to ye Lords Supper John Welsh
& Sarah his wife, Hanah wife of Ebenezer Woodbury,
Hanah wife of John Ober, Elizabeth wife of Mathew
Bootman, Martha Trenance, Mercy wife of Gabriel Wood.
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 209
15. 10. 95, came to ye Lords Supper Elizabeth Rea &
Hauah wife of Nath Haward ju r having before manifested
faith & repentance, & now upon y r present profession
admitted to o r communion Martha wife of Samuel Balsh,
Hannah Swarton widdow, Lydia wife of Nehemiah Stone
& Sarah wife of W m Hoar ye two latter now baptized.
22. 10. 95,Tabitha Slew baptized & submitted to be
under this church.
12. 11. 9f, Abiel wife of Peter Yarinton & Elizabeth
wife of John Elenwood & Priscilla daughter of Cornelius
Baker these admitted to ye Lords Supper.
8. March 9f, W m Eliot & Good wife Deborah Roundeye
admitted to communion.
April 5. 96, Lei ft Jo n Sibly of Manchester & Ruth
Dodge received to ye Lords Supper.
May 3. 96, Bethia wife of Thomas Lovet manifested
repentance & submitted herselfe to Christ & his Church
heer & desired baptisme for her children.
June 14. 96, Katherin De Laud putt herself under ye
watch of this church.
July 19 th 96, Rebecca Lucas putt herself under this
church & was baptized.
July 26. 96, Anna Rich widdow Baptized & Joyned in
full communion w th ye church.
October 4. 96, Mary Thistle made profession of faith
& repentance & was baptized & Samuel Lee of Manches-
ter personally took hold of ye Covenant in this Church
& had his children Baptized.
October 18, 96, Sarah wife of Edward Coburn of
Salem (daughter of Brother Nathaniel Haward) owned
ye Covenant of God for herselfe & her seed.
15. 9. 96, John Lee of Manchester Joyned in full
communion in this Church.
13. 10. 96, Hannah wife of John Green came to Com-
munion in this Church & John Bachelder & Bethia his
wife made confession of their sin & manifested faith &
repentance & ingaged themselves personally to & under
this church.
[29] 14. 12. 169f , Thomas Lovet professed faith &
HIST. COLL. VOL. XXXV 14
210 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
repentance & subjected himselfe to ye watch of this
Church & Widdovv Deland came to ye Lords table.
2. 2. 1697, Ellenor wife of Edmund Ashby admitted
to o r communion.
25. 2. 1697, Joseph Harris ju r baptized & received to
o r communion of ye Church.
2. 3. 1697, Anna wife of Walter Shaw received to
communion in this church.
30. 3. 1697, Robert Woodbury & Abraham Gale pub-
lickly owned ye Covenant & subjected to Christs govern-
ment in this church & their children baptized.
27. 4. 97. Abigail wife of Cornelius Baker joyned in
full communion w th ye church & Jonathan & Elizabeth
Hirreck made a profession of faith & repentance & owned
ye Covenant & subjected ymselves to the watch of this
church.
1. 6. 97, John Raiment Sn r , Susanna wife of Samuel
Corning ju r & ye wife of Symon Lovet came to ye Lords
Supper.
29. 6. 97, Elizabeth Bowden widdow & Elizabeth wife
of Samuel Stone Sn r were admitted to ye Lords Supper.
July 15. 1694, William Dodge son of Capt W m Dodge
personally owned ye Covenant of God, subjected to this
church & had a son baptized.
5.7. 97, Thomas Sallows personally owned ye cove-
nant of God & subjected to ye goverment of this church
& had 2 children baptized.
19. 7. 97, John Green made profession of faith, sub-
jected to this church & was baptized.
26. 7. 97, Rachel wife of John Tuck Sn r & Sarah wife
of John Tuck ju r admitted to o r fellowship & ye latter
baptized.
3. 8. 97, Rebecca widdow of Joseph Harris ju r Re-
ceived into full communion.
7. 9. 97, Edward Bishop Sn r Samuel Haskal & Widdow
Knight of Manchester were received into full communion
with this church.
26. 10. 97, Deborah Morgan ju r manifested faith &
repentance & subjected to the watch of this Church & was
baptized.
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 211
2. 11. 169?, Samuel Bishop & Elizabeth wife of Jona-
than Hirreck came to the Lords Supper.
2. 3. 98, Rachel Littlefield of Wells daughter of Capt
Sibly of Manchester layd hold of ye Covenant of God in
this church for herselfe & childe.
29. 3. 98, Lydia wife of Josiah Littlefield of Wells
publickly took hold of the Covenant of God & had her
childe baptized.
29. 3. 98, Elizabeth wife of Benjamin Wallis layd hold
of the covenant of God for herself & childe & subjected
herself to the watch of this Church.
5. 4. 98, fJoyned to this Church Ruth wife of Good-
man Ma[sters] of Manchester
| Ruth Haskins widdow, Abigail Bla[sh] field
I & Hannah Cox.
Owned ye Covenant Jonathan Baker.
3. 5. 98, Ebenezar Dodge personally owned ye Cove-
nant of God.
7. 6. 98, Joseph Hirrek ju r admitted to full commun-
ion in this Church.
11. Sept. 98, A letter was sent to this church from ye
people at Exeter to desier assistance in ye gathering a
Church & ordaining Mr John Clark (who is o r son) to
ye office of a Pastor of A church & accordingly ye Pastor
of this Church with his son Robert Hale & ye deacon Jo :
Hill & Deacon Peter Woodbury were chosen & desired to
goe.
2. 8. 98, Joseph Dodge ju r was admitted to full Com-
munion in this Church.
6. 9. 98, Chosen to assist in ye Church ordination at
Salem Village, Leift John Dodge Leift Andrew Eliot &
the two deacons.
13. 9. 98, Miriam White Widdow owned ye Covenant
of God & subjected to this Church.
27. 9. 98, Mary ye relict of Benjamin Woodbury
owned Gods Covenant & subjected to this Church.
4. 10. 98, Letters of Dismission were granted by ye
brethren for Samuel Goodale to Salem Village Church ;
& for Sarah Horrel (now by her marriage called Goodale)
to the Church in Woodstock.
(To be continued.)
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 1
( Continued from page J68J
KOLL OF CAPT. ALLEN'S COMPANY, 1777.
A Lift of the Mens Names Belonging to Cap* Aliens
Company in Col Edward Wiggelsworths Battalion,
Springfield April 23 d 1777.
NOW PRESENT.
RANK.
NOW PRESENT.
RANK.
Noah Allen
Walter Dean
Edward Anable
Ambros Markham
Nath 1 Bettis
Ezra Walker
Eben r Hall
Simeon Smith
Char" Soul
Elihu Allen
Char 8 Ellice
Jofeph Glefon
Mikhel Lyon
Amos Smith
Eliphalet Smith
Afa Smith
Will m Smith
Obid Commins
Sam 1 Standleft
Ephraim Leonard
James Vanguelder
Ifaac Warker
Capt 4
Enl n
Serp
DO
D
Corp 1
Corp 1
Drum
Fifer
Private
DO
D
D
D
D
D
DO
DO
DO
D
DO
DO
Jedidiah Winch
Afhel Wright
Obidiah Brown
Private
Do
Do
Sic k on the March.
Jn. Spoor
Abfent by Leve.
Eben r . Smith
Ifaac Burton
Bank.
I 8t Lieut.
24 L'.
Private
DO
D
D
DO
DO
D
DO
DO
Obediah Johnfon
Dan 1 . Williams
Jn Smith
Sam 1 Gilfon
David Smith
Sam 1 . Smith
Jn Pike
Will m Pall
Hoytt
Sumtotal 37.
Coffin Papers, Vol. i, pp. 150.
1 These papers are selected from the Manuscript Collections of Joseph Coffin,
the historian of Newbury, now in the possession of the Essex Institute.
(212)
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 213
LETTER FROM JOHN SMITH OF WOODBRIDGE, N. J.
Lo : friend Henry Short yours I receiued : & y e wooll
you speake of I also receiued which I thainke you for :
I pray p r sent my respects w th my wines to yo r father and
mother and to Sarah yo r sister : if you com hither I shall
be glad to se you here : if you bring anything with you :
as you hint in yo r leter som thoughts that way : if you se
caus to bring good store of good sheepes wooll and nayles
for shooes: and clabord : (6 is & 8 ts ) & som Rugs &
blainekiting of trucking cloth : & : mallanis and som pow-
der & leade & for other thinges I leaue to yo r owne Con-
sideration : and for y e pduct of y e Contrey here it is
wheate att 4 s 6 d p b : poarke 3 lb 10 s p barrill beefe 2 lb or
2 lb 10 s , Indian : 3 s .
I would pray you to procure me a pnd of endegoe :
and send to my wif : by Sam 11 hale and I shall endeuer to
satisfie you wether you com yo r self or not.
thus desireing to heare of yo r welfare I rest yo rs in
what I may
John Smith.
ffrom Woodbridg in new Jersey,
this 13 th of apprill (1673)
I have spoken \v th goodman Blomfield about y e 14 s y 4
you speak of and he says he will take sora care about
it ere it be long but I yet haue receiued nothing of him.
ffor His Lou in and much respected friend Henry Shortt
Jun r att newbery in N : E. These
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 9.
AGREEMENT TO BUILD CORN MILL FOR HENRY SHORT.
Articles of agreement made and Concluded this thirty
firft day of December Ano Dom sixteen hundred eighty
& eight Between Serj John Hale of newbury in the
County of Efsex in new England & John Emery Jun r
both Carpent r s of the one p l y & Henry short of the Towne
214 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
and County afores d of y e other p l y witnefseth That the
s d John Hale & John Emery do for y m selves theyr Heyres
Executes & Adminift r s jountly & severally do Covenant
& promife to & w th the said Henry Short his heyrs Exec-
ute & Adminift r s or Afsignes to build & erect for y e said
Henry Short his Heyrs Execut r s & Adminft r s a good suf-
ficient Corne mill and to set the fame uppon the little river
at the Lower end of the faid Henry shorts pasture and to
do all the Carpent r s work of the same that is to fay to
do all the Carpenters work of y e s d mill and Dam and
Butments to the fame belonging or that may be requifite
or convenient alfo to make all the runing Geers as water
wheele Cog wheele & Trundle head alfo to build a Mill
Houfe of twenty foote in Length and twenty five foote in
breadth and to finish the fame by boarding or shingling as
the s d Henry short shall appoint all which the said John
Hale and John Emery Jun r for them felves theyr Exec-
ute & Adminift r s do promife & engage compleatly to
finilh uiz. y e Mill & mill houfe and all maner of Carpen-
ters work belonging to y e fame whither heere exprefsed
or not exprefsed according to rules of Art in every per-
ticuler fitt to grind corne well and servifable at or before
the twenty fifth day of Decemb r w ch will be in the year
of our lord 1689. The said John Hale and John Emery
are to overfee that the gravelling and earthing of y e Dam
be done as it should be done the said Henry Short to
provid all Timber Boards plank Iron work and hands to
doe all the earth work and Gravelling about the faid mill.
In Confederation of the premifes & upon y e honest &
faithfull performance of the said work by the said Car-
penters in every perticuler y e said Henry Short doth her-
by oblige himfelfe his heyrs execut r s & Adrninift r s to pay
to y e said Jno Hale ten pounds in good Lawfull mony of
New England & fiveteen pounds in good merchantable
Indian Corne & Cattell at equall proportions & thirty
pounds in good merchantable malt And to John Emery
Ju r ten pounds in good lawfull mony of new England and
fiveteen pounds in good merchantable Indian Corne and
Cattell at equall proportions & thirty pounds in good
merchantable malt at price currant as it goes from man to
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
215
man all which to be paid at or before y e firft day of June
which will be in y e year 1690.
In confirmation of all y l is above written y e ptyes con-
cerned haue heerunto fet y r hands & seals y e Day & year
above f d .
Signed Sealed & int r changeably delu r d in p r fens of uf
William W Michill
mark
her
Mary M ford
mark
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 12.
John Hale fen r [seal]
John Emery J r [seal]
Audover : y e 21 : of April : 1707 :
Honuored Sir in obdienc to yours bearing date y e :
17 : inftant for three men : I haue sent you three as good
hands as I can command : and doubt not but thay will be
well accepted : thair names are as followeth : Joseph Ab-
bott for himself: Joseph phelps sarut : To leiu* gorg Ab-
bott : John Crofe for himself: ordered to be at Newbery
acord to the time appointed,
John Chandler.
To the Honuorable leiu 1
Colonel Noyfe at Newbury
deliuer
by lieu* Abbott.
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 17.
PETITION TO GENERAL COURT FOR SETTING OFF A NEW
PARISH IN NEWBURY, 1711.
To
The Honourable Great & Gen e11 Court or Afsembly of
her Majest 8 Province of y e Mafschufets Bay
In New-Engl d , now convened.
The petition of y e Subfcribers Humbly sheweth ;
That whereas y or Petitioners (or fome of them) have of
216 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
late prefented yo r Hon rs with our humble Addrefs for Re-
leafe from under y* Restraint your Pleafure was to lay ua
under from proceeding further in building a New Meeting
Houfe untill after Hearing before y or Hon rs And for your
Benign Indulgence of us fo far as to Grant to us your
Favourable Permifsion to proceed in } Tt Affaire wherein
y or Hon rs (as yet) have been pleafed to fufpend your
Anfwer thereunto. We are bold once more to Adventure
to give y or Hon rs y e Trouble of another Addrefs Impor-
tuning yo r Favourable Anfwer. Hoping & verily per-
fwading ourfelves, That as it is purely Religious Interests
w ch Instigate & oblige us thus to be concerned for y e
Instituted Publick Worship & service of God : The In-
struction & Edification of ourfelves & ours under y e
means of Grace, (w ch by reafon of old age in fome &
Infancy in others is fo much Obstructed under our pref-
ent Circumstances as renders it Next to Impossible to be
attended upon as they ought to be :) So thofe Religious
well grounded principles w ch have upon all occafions fo
frequently & eminently difcovered themfelves to be truly
Rooted in y e Hearts of y or Hon rs by y or profefsed & prac-
tical Compliance w th what may have a tendency to pro-
mote things of y* nature (togeth r w th what els hath
heretofore been fpread before this Honourable Afsembly)
will so far Oblige your Hon rs to be Interefted in y e pro-
motion of thofe Interests of ours, as to Indulge us w th
your Favourable Grant of Liberty to proceed in y e
fmifhing of our Meeting-Houfe. And to call fome
Orthodox Approved perfon to preach y e Word of God to
us there. Whome (notwithstanding y e ufual objection
framed on y* ace* against us) we Trust under God's
Blefsing we f hall so Accommodate as may be approved by
y or Hon rs & fatiffactory & comfortable to himfelf: Thus
praying y or Hon rs pardon & Favourable Indulgence, We
subfcribe ourfelves y or Hon rs Humble Petition 1 " 5 :
Newbury : Dat d : no: y e 4 th : 1711.
Abraham Merrill John Bartlett
Jofhua Brown Jofeph Bailey
John Sawyer Samuell Bartlet
John Merrill Thomas Barlet
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
217
Nathanail Bartlet
John Bart let 3
Richard Bartlett
Samuell Bartlett
Josiah sawyer
Jolhua fayer
Samuel Sawyer
Thomas Brown
John Bay ley
Isaac Bayley
William Moulton
Joseph Annis
Charls Annis
Daniel of i La way
Jofeph Hoyt
Robert Rogrs
Dauid Mirrill
Joseph Little
George Little
Benjamin morfs
Ricbad Williams
Jofhua Brown ju
Benjamin Chefe
wdo, Elizebeth Worth
John sawer
Ephraim Dauis,
John Rogers
John ordway
Jonathan Sayer
John Cooper
Hanary Bradley
John Emery
Thorns Wells
John Eayr
John Fres
Stephen Coffin
James ffreese
Stephen Sawyer
Jofhua Bayley
John Atkinson in
Aquila Chefe
Timothy Merrock
Daniel Merill
nathen meril
John Brown
Nataniel Noyes
Daniel Pilfbery
Josiah Pilsbeary
Job Pilsbery
John Worth
Samuel poor
Zachariah Dauis
Jofeph Poore
Cutting Moodey
John ordway
Abial Long
Archelaus woodman
Sarah Tompson
Jofeph Brown
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 19.
NEWBURY SOLDIERS, 1744-6.
An account of the men been in the fervice fince
the war Commenced.
Co 11 Peirce, June 1744,
Sam 11 Plumer Ju
Stephen Dole
John Emery
1745.
Mofes fhort
218
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
Benj a Pettingell Ju
July 27- 1745
Richard Knight
Aprill 28-1746
John Pettingell Ju
Daniel Emery
July 18-1746
timothy Woofter
Jofeph Jackman
Silvanus Plumer
Henry Short
Sam 11 Hale
Co 11 Gerrifh, fince the war.
June 1744 inqueft.
Benj m Willet
Folan Coombs
John fweet
Jeremiah Pearfon Ju
Benj m Page
Matthew Perkins
July y e 27-1745.
George (fiees?)
Aprill 28-1746
Nathan Woodbery
John Perkins
June 11-1746
Jofeph Jaques
July 18-1746
Enoch Sweet
Daniel Weed
Hugh Coombs
John Hale
Daniel Clark
Ezekiel Mighill
Nathan Peabody
Cap* Hoyte, 1744
Thomas Coleby
Cutting fergeant
David martine
Zacheus Hunt
June 1745
Sam 11 Coleby Ju
Mofes or d way Jun
July 27-1745
John Whittier
April 18, 1746
Joihua fergeant
Jofiah Harve
Cap* Currier, 1744
Edward Gooding
Sam 11 Weed
James Hadlock
Jon a Huntington
June 1745
Will m morrill
Sam 11 Blasedill
July 27-1745
Sent one man
Aprill 18-1746
Edmund Coleby
Eliakim Hunt
May y e 11-1746
Edward Gooding
Cap 1 Ch'ng Comp 1744.
John ofgood
James Carr
Benj French
Jofeph Pike
June 1745
Jofeph ofgood
Jeremiah Joy
July 27-1745
Ezekiel Evens
Aprill 18-1746
Jeremiah Griffin
Aprill 28-1746
Robert Gatchell
Jacob Blasedill
July 18-1746
Abraham Watfon
Tristram Sanborn
Moses Blasedill
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 30.
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
219
CWBURY SOLDIERS AT CROWN POINT, 1756.
Newbury Sept r y e 6 : 1756
Reed The men ; Soldiers hereafter named being Im-
prefs'd in his Majesties Service against Crown Point, in
the Second Regiment of Militia in the County of Efsex
whereof John Grean leaf Efq r is Co 11 Vize. Benj m Win-
ter Abner Bayley Joseph Pettingell Jacob Thompfon
Enoch Wells Summer Shackford John Currier David
Downing & Ebenezer Fellowes. I have Reciud said Sol-
diers to march them to Worfester & there to attend untill
further orders. I fay Reed said Soldiers : of maj r Joseph
Coffin pr me :
Tho s : Clark
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 32.
NEWBURY SOLDIERS AT CAPE BRETON, 1744-46.
In Co 11 Gerrifh Company againit Cape Breton.
Andrew Peirce
Jonathan Shatfwell
Elipholet noyes
Giles Harris
Caleb Greeuleaf
John Dole Jun.
John Akers
Stephen Presby
Jeremiah Pearfon Ju r
Thomas arnold
Ambrofe Coleby
Solemon Hodgfkins
John Hobkins
Benj m Page
Samuel Harrife
John march 3 d
Benj m Coleby
Jofhua french
ofia h french
John Harburd
John march
Abraham Edwards
Peter filver
Jeremiah moulton
John Gage
Peter wonder
Jacob Rowell
Ebenezer Sweafy
Sam 11 Long
Jon a Gage
Jofeph Goodhue
Gidean woodwell
Lemuel Jenkins
mathew Pettengell
Rich d Woofter
Nath 1 Newman
Nath 1 Newman Ju r
John Newman
220
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
Benj m titcomb
John Downer Jur
Spencer Coleby
Enoch Hunt
Jofiah merrill
Jacob titcomb
Stephen Sweet
Jacob true
Daniel Plumer
Jofeph Eaton
Philip march
John Coleby
Rich d Carr
Daniel Lunt Jur
Jofeph Cheny
Enock Sweet
Martin Ayer
Nath 11 march
Jofeph Rowell
Sam 11 Todd
Benj m Prefbe
John Harris
Benj m fweet Jun
Jofeph Hudfon
John Couch
in Cap* Bartell Comp 1744
June
James Pike
Zacheus Hunt
John bowls
June 1745
fam 11 Green leaf
John Smith
John Howard
John Pearfon
Daniel Hills
July 27-1 745
James Smith 3 d
Aprill y e 18-1746
John Kelly
Aprill 28-1746
Stephen Clark
May 11-1746
Francis Follenfby
July 18-1746
Timothy Cooper
fam 11 merrill Jun
fam 11 Jaques
Cape Breen
John Currier
Hezekiah Hutchins
Pheneas Hardy
thomas morfs
Jacob March, Doc r
John Plumer
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 43.
NEWBURY SOLDIERS, " SOME TO BRETON, SOME TO THE
EASTWARD."
Daniel Hill
Archelaus merril for mofes fhort
Benjamin Pettingall Jun
Jonathan Els worth
Jonathan Town [for] Daniel todd
Timothy Palmer
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 221
Facob Gurdon [for] Stephen Dole
Fohn woodman
[athan adams
[faac whitier [for] Jeremiah Goodridge
Daniel richardfon
Nathan nichols [for] John Poor
John Foot [for] Jonathan Bartlet
Jonathan weed [for] John merrill
Henry Flood [for] Enoch morfs
Samuel Greenleaf
John Peaiion
John Smith
John Howard
James Hidden [for] Jon a Plumer
Lewis Perry [for] thomas morfs
John French
Samuel French
Jeremiah Joy
Jofeph Of good for Richard of good
Williammorril
Samuel Blazedell
Samuel Colbe
Mofes Ordway
Nathan Lambard
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 43.
CANADA EXPEDITION SUBSCRIPTION, 1776.
Newbury July 10 1776.
We whose Names are under Written have Paid the
Sums set against our Respective names for the Expedition
of Canada Against our unnatural Enemies of Great
Britian Vz :
Life Adams Paid 3-15-0
Enoch Adams Paid 0-18-0
Enoch Boynton ju Paid 2- 8-0
Cop Daniel Chute Paid 5- 0-0
222 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
Richard Goodtridge Paid 2- 0-0
Stephen Gerrish Paid 2- 0-0
Sam 11 Longfellow Paid 2- 0-6
Lieu Joseph Moody Paid 5- 0-0
Paul Moody Paid 5- 0-0
Joseph Danford Paid 3-15-0
Simon Thorla Paid 3-15-6
Sam 11 Thorla Paid 2- 8-0
John Noyes Paid 2- 8-0
Joseph Gerrish Paid 1-16-0
Daniel Hale 0-15-0
Canada men.
John Copp
Tristram Thorla
Thomas Bolten
Benj n Swain
Brad fc Wiggin
Joses Randall
ester men
Richard Martin
Moses Lull Jim
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 51.
INSTRUCTIONS TO COMMANDER OF SLOOP SWIFT,
MAY 23, 1776.
In Committee of War may 23 d 1776
Cap* John Wiggilfworth
S r
You being appointed to
the Command of the Sloop Swift, One of the Vefsels
fitted out by this Colony, to Obferve the motions of the
minifterial fleets, and army, of G* Brittain, you are when
your Vefsel is properly fixed for that purpose, to sail with
all pofible Expedition, and Cruife betwen Cape Cod, and
Cape Sable, and keep the best look Out you pofsibly Can
for the discovery of any fleet that may be Comeing, to the
Weftward, or whatever Course they may have Steered for
some time, and when you have obtained Inleigence as
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 223
afforesaid, or made such discovery, (that is of a fleet of
any Confiderable number of Ships and other Vefsels and
the Course they steer) you are then With the greatest
dispatch, to Convey such Inteligence, to the Council of
this Colony, any one of them, or the Committee of War,
and you are to ufe your best difcrefsion in Cruifeing to
avail yourself of such motions of the Enemy, as may be
nefesary to be known, for the Security and, defence of
this Colony, and you are to ufe all pofsible precaution,
and keep the best look out, that you may not fall into
the hands of the Enemy, whereby the good purposes of
your being fitted out will be defeated.
Thomas Gushing Chairman
Coffin Papers, Vol. 2, pp. 52.
CONTRACT OF ENLISTMENT.
Wee the Subscribers Do Inlist ourfelves in the Conti-
neltal Army to serve for the space of three months, accord-
ing to an Act of the Great and General Court of this
State, Further more we Do Promise to obey all the orders
Rules and Regulations of the s d army whatfoever as
Witnefs our Hands
Newbury Decem br 10 th 1776.
Joseph Danforth
Nathaniel Dummer
Richard Dummer
Amos Dwinell
Samuel Adams Ju
Stephen Adams
Ifrael Flood
Benjamin Fellows
Henry Dwinell
Richard martin
Enoch Flood
Amos Poor
Joseph Dan fort
Nathaniele Dummer
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, p. 52.
224
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
A Master-Roll of the Company, in His Majesty's Service,
MEN'S NAMES.
QUALITY
OF WHAT TOWN
NAMES OF FATHERS
AND MASTERS, OF
SONS UNDER AGE,
AND SERVANTS.
TIME OF EN-
TRANCE IX
THE SERVICE
MONTHS
DAYS
fami Gerrish
Capt
@ 9 p month
Mar.
31
Hez : Hutching
1 Lieut
@ 5 p Do
31
Ezra Putnam
2dDo
@do
31
Pearly Pike
Ensign
@ 3.20 p month
31
Bichd Hale
Serjeant
2..3..1 p Do
Apl
2
Stephn Clark
Do
Do @ do
a
John Pike
Do
Do do
Mar.
25
Henry Greenleafe
Do
Do @ do
Apl
2
John Goold
Corporal
@ 1..18..7 p Do
Mar.
28
Thomas Pike
Do
@Do
Apl
2
John Lakeman
Do
@ Do
2
Jacob Currier
Do
Do
2
Nath Noyes
Drum:
Do
Mar.
30
Solo Aubin
Private
@ 1..16
Aubin father
28
Stephn Bailey
Do
do
Api
2
Sami Bailey
Do
@do
Edwd Bailey father
Mar.
27
Ichabod Colby
Do
@ do
Enoch Toppan mastr
29
Sami Colby
Do
do
Thos Todd mastr
29
Isaac Chase
Do
do
April
2
Joseph Coker
Do
@ do
Mar.
24
Makepeice Colby
Do
@ do
Hez. Colby father
29
John Chase
Do
@do
Apl
6
Parker Cooper
Do
@ do
2
Sami Currier
Do
@do
2
Elias Cheney
Do
@do
Time Jackman mastr
6
Aaron Cheever
Do
do
Nathan Allen mastr
2
Moses Downing
Do
@ do
Richd Lowell mastr
2
Sami Dummer
Do
@do
Mar.
30
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
225
Under the Command of Samuel Gerrish Esquire Captain, viz.
UNTIL WHAT
TIME IN THE
SERVICE
WHOLE TIME
OF SERVICE
KINGS
ARMS
THE WHOLE
OF WAGES
DUE TO
EACH MAN
WHAT EACH
MAN RECEIV'D
OF THE COM-
MISSARY &C.
WHAT EACH
MAN RE-
CEIV'D OF
THE CAPT.
BALLANC
DUE TO
EACH
MAN
8
MONTHS
DATS
WEEKS
DAYS
WEEKS
140
85
8
15
17
d
s
6
14
d
4
10
K
(1
June
July
10
23
62
68
4
5
2 mo
Advance
Wages
8
11
8
132 9
84 3
21
68
3
85
10
9
85 10
23
68
5
60
2
6
15
7
53
May
5
67
1
3..12
30
15
6
2
3
7
24 19
5
57
1
11.. 6.2
30
15
6
3
15
2
22 14
Novr
1
35
6
17
1
8
13
4
16 8
May
5
57
1
30
15
6
2
5
5
28 10
May
10
58
4
Gun
28
4
11
3
16
3
3
21 8
Mar.
10
49
1
Gun
23
14
1
15
2
3
18 18
May
5
57
1
27
11
2
2
18
7
24 12
5
57
1
Gun
27
11
2
1
7
9
3
23 3
5
57
4
Gun
27
15
4
2
16
10
3
21 18
5
57
6
26
9
8
6
1
17 14
5
57
1
3..12
25
19
6
22 7
5
58
Gun
26
2
2
17
10
3
20 4
5
57
5
25
19
6
4
8
11
21 10
5
57
5
25
19
6
4
12
3
21 7
5
57
1
25
14
4
3
12
2
22 2
July
23
69
5
Gun
31
7
6
6
4
3
3
22 3
May
5
57
5
25
19
6
3
12
9
22 6
5
56
4
25
9
2
1
17
6
23 11
5
57
1
25
14
4
4
13
8
21
Jany
5
39
6
3..12
17
18
9
4
10
8
9 10
May
5
56
4
25
9
2
1
12
2
23 17
5
57
1
25
14
4
3
10
5
22 3
5
57
1
25
14
4
9
5
4
16 9
5
57
4
25
18
2
25 18
HIST. COLL. VOL. XXXV
15
226
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
A Muster-Roil of the Company, in His Majesty's Service,
MEN'S NAMES
QUALITY
OF WHAT TOWN
NAMES OF FATHERS
AND MASTERS, OF
SONS UNDER AGE,
AND SERVANTS.
TIME OF EN-
TRANCE IN
THE SERVICE
MONTHS
DAYS
Aaron Davis
Do
@do
Ap
2
Gideon Downer
Do
@ do
2
Sami Danforth jr
Do
@do
Mar.
30
Benj* Emery
Do
@do
30
Richd Flanders
Do
@do
A pi
4
Ebenr Flood
Do
@do
Mar.
20
Ebenr Flood junr
Do
@ do
Mich : Short mastr
2
John Flood
Do
@do
23
Joseph Foster
Do
@do
Isaac Foster mastr.
Apl.
6
Jon* Godfrey
Do
@do
John Godfrey mast?.
Mar.
29
Saml Gerrish 3d
Do
@do
30
Sami Gardner
Do
@do
27
Richd Goodwin
Do
@do
John Rogers maatr.
29
Asa Herriman
Do
a do
Ben. Coleman mast?.
31
John Hutchins
Do
@do
April
2
Ezek: Hardy
Nathi Howard
Do
Do
@do
@ do
Josiah Hill mastr.
Mar.
2
30
Stephn Jackman
Do
@do
Ellas Jackson Fathr.
29
David Jaque*
Do
@ d
Elipha. Jaques Fathr.
April
2
Thos Jenkins
Do
@do
Richd Tappen mastr.
2
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
227
Under the Command of Samuel Gerrish Esquire Captain, viz,
UNTIL WHAT
TIME IN THE
SERVICE.
WHOLE TIME
OF SERVICE
KINGS
ARMS
THE WHOLE
OF WAGES
DUE TO
EACH MAN
WHAT EACH
MAN RECEIV'D
OF THE COM-
MISSARY Ac.
WHAT EACH
MAN RE-
CEIV'D OF
THE CAPT.
BALLAN(
DUE TO
EACH
MAN
8
MONTHS
DAYS
WEEKS
DAYS
WEEKS
8
14
d
2
8
2
d
8
d
May
5
57
1
25
4
5
23 11
Deer
18
37
2
16
15
7
16 15
May
5
57
4
25
18
2
3
15
8
22 2
5
57
4
3..12
25
18
2
1
10
3
20 15
Mar.
10
48
6
3..12
21
19
9
12
8
17 15
May
5
59
3..12
26
11
5
15
5
17 3
5
58
1
26
3
4
2
18
5
S3 4
5
58
4
3..12
26
7
2
2
17
7
19 17
5
56
4
Gun
25
9
2
3
9
11
3
18 19
5
57
5
25
19
6
5
9
2
20 10
5
57
4
25
18
2
1
24 6
5
58
26
2
5
2
4
20 19
5
57
5
25
19
6
3
10
4
22 9
5
57
3
'25
17
11
4
8
1
21 9
July
23
68
3
Gun
30
15
11
3
27 15
May
5
57
1
25
14
4
4
5
1
21 9
April
20
55
3
24
18
11
1
7
2
23 11
May
5
57
5
Gun
25
19
6
4
8
8
3
18 10
5
57
1
25
14
4
6
15
11
18 18
5
57
1
25
14
4
7
3
18 14
29..10..2
1511
3
6
164.
13
9
27
1289 19
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, p. 47.
228 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
NEWBURY SOLDIERS, 1776-6.
The following is a List of the Men that were In the
Sarvice at Cambrige in the yeare 1775
(Viz) Elka 11 Lunt ju r 3-0-0
Stephen Lunt
Oliver Goodtridge
Benj am Poor
Amos Poor j ur
Elip'Poor
Jededi h Currier
Will am Currier
John Cheney
Michal Clark
Jofiah Adams
Will am Flood
Enoch Flood
Natha 11 Pearfon
Jacob Hale
Richard Martin
John Sawyer
Joseph Choate
Stephen Smith
Abraham Thorla
Nathan Adams
Winter Campaign (Viz)
Daniel Chute 1-4-0
David Chute
John Noyes
Enos Noyes
Paul Moody
Benj am Pearfon ju r
Lemuel Noyes
Ifrael Flood
Enoch Adams
Jofeph Gerrish
Richard Dummer ju r
Willam Turner
Richard Martin
Joseph Thorla
Bill Reed
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPER8.
229
the Following is a List that were the men to go to Canada
at first Levy which was 5000
Life Adams Paid
Enoch Adams
Enoch Boynton
Daniel Chute
Richard Goodtridge
Stephen Gerrish
Samuel Longfellow
Lieu* Joseph Moody
Paul Moody
Joseph Danford
Simon Thorla
Samuel Thorla
John Noyes
Jofeph Gerrish
Lie u Benj am Pearfon
Daniel Hale
Benj am Colman ju r
Eliphelet Tenny
Willi am Dummer
John Longfellow
3-15-0
0-18-0
2- 8-0
5- 0-0
2- 0-0
2- 0-0
2- 0-6
5- 0-0
5- 0-0
3-15-0
3-15-6
2- 8-0
2- 8-0
1-16-0
3-15-0
0-15-0
3-11-3
3-11-3
3-11-3
3-11-3
Octo br l d 1776 the Campain to Horfe Neck
Edward Longfellow & son Paid 1-11-8
Will am Moody 0-16-3
Lieu* Benj am Pearfon & Son 1_13_1_2
Jeremiah Pearfon 0-15-7-2
Sam 11 Dummer 0-19-4-2
Richard Webber 1- 8-1-2
En sn Richard Dummer & Son 1-10-2-2
Shubael Dummer 1-0-10-0
Will am Dummer 2-4- 2-0
Zachariah Dwinnel 2-7- 3-2
D r Benj am Colman & Sons 3-0- 0-0
Lieu 1 Blip' Tenny 1-2- 8-2
Lieu 1 Joseph Hale 3-9- 4-2
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 54.
230
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
CAPT. PAUL MOODY'S COMPANY OF NEWBURY MEN.
Newbury Dec r y e 21 1776
A list of the Several Soldiers Raised in the Town of
Newbury & Put under the Command of Cap 1 Paul Moody
is as follows viz.
Paul Moody
Caleb Kimbal
John Atkinson
Joseph Danforth
Stephen Adams
Oliver Goodridge
Amos Poor 3 rd
Eliphalet Poor
Nath 11 Dummer
Samuel Adams
Enoch Flood
Israel Flood
Rich d Dummer j r
Stephen Lunt
John Emery ju r
Enoch Hufe
John Burba nk
Thomas Thurla
Rich d Martin
Joseph Adams
Jonath n Thurfton
Francis Follansbee
Will Greenleaf
John Bartlet Jun r
Moses Sargent Moody
Benj a Fellows
Joseph Atwood Ju r
Charles Walker
Moody Hardy
Nath 11 ' Mitchel
Jofeph Jennings
William Marden
Stephen Plumer
David Cheney
Thomas Davis
Amos Dwinell
Joseph Rawlings
David Rawlings
Henry Dwinell
John Sawyer
Ezekiel Flanders
William Plumer
Isaac Plumer
Jofeph Rufsel
John Acors
Seth Plumer
Enoch Merrill
Isaac Currier
Peter Ordway
John Grayham
Daniel Chandler
Abel Greenleaf
Rich* Smith
Elias Greanleaf
Amos Little
David Hidden
Benj a Jackman
Mofes Hoyt
Josiah Teel
Enoch Adams jun r
Josiah Hunt
Samuel Brown
Fredrick Lewis
James Mansfield
Pero Hall
Henry Greenleaf
Obed Hute
John Hayes
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, p. 56.
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
231
KETURN OF CAMP EQUIPAGE, COL. EDWARD WIGGLES-
WORTH'S REGIMENT.
A Return of y e Camp Equipage in Col Edw d Wiggle
worths Reg 1 . Oct r y e 4 th 1777
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Cap 1 Haynes
72
12
7
3
5
28
Cap 1 Willington
54
. .
10
8
5
4
20
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i
. ,
Cap 1 Allin
71
11
6
5
5
25
i
Cap 1 Fairfleld
58
. .
8
7
3
8
22
. .
i
Cap 1 Pilsbury
60
g
7
3
1
20
Cap 1 Alexander
47
8
5
4
3
17
4 .
2
Cap 1 Blafdel
67
. .
11
6
3
4
19
. .
2
Cap 1 Davis
63
. .
11
6
2
3
27
2
. .
Field & Staff Officers
7
2
2
2
2
2
6
1
Total
499
2
82
54
30
35
194
10
Wm. Wigglesworth, Q r Master.
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 55.
BILLETTING LIST, CAPT. NOAH ALLEN'S COMPANY, 1777.
An Abstract of Cap 1 Noah Aliens Company in Col
Wigglesworths Regim 1 for Billetting due to them from the
Time of their Inlistment untill the 8 th day of April Laft
Sanfcottslfland Augult 24 th 1777-
232
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
NAMES
WHEN IN LISTED
NO RATION
Serf Edward Anable
Jany 1 th 1777
98
Ambrofs uiarkham
Ditto 1
98
Elihu Allen
Ditto 1
98
Amos Smith
Ditto 1
98
Ezra Walker
Ditto 1
98
Eliphalet Smith
Ditto 1
98
John Spoor
Ditto 1
98
John Pike
Ditto 1
98
Jams Sangilder
Ditto 1
98
William Paul
Ditto 1
98
Epharim Leonard
Ditto 1
98
Eben r Hall
Feby 16
51
Afahel Wright
Ditto 16
51
Obadiah Brown
Ditto 19
48
Mickel Lyon
Ditto 21
46
Obadiah Johnfon
Jany 20
78
Isaac Walker
Feby 24
43
John Smith
Ditto 18
49
Samuel Smith
March 8 th
31
Semion Smith
Ditto 29
10
Samuel Standleft
Ditto 11
20
Jofeph Gleafon
Ditto 29
10
Elijah Hoyt
Ditto 7
32
Obadiah Commins
Ditto 6
33
Charles Soul
Ditto 1
38
Samuel Glilfon
Ditto 10
29
Ifhmal Spink
Ditto 10
29
William Smith
Ditto 6
33
Charles Ellis
Ditto 7
32
Daniel William
Feby 6
61
Abijah Beard
March 4
35
John trafs
Ditto 5
34
Samuel Evens
November 16
144
John Duglefs
Ditto 14
146
Johnathan Hemenway
March 24
15
Jonathan Gleafon
Ditto 1
38
Noah Allen Cap*.
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 57.
JOSHUA COFFIM PAPERS. 233
MUSTER ROLL, CAPT. BLAISDELL'S COMPANY, 1777.
A List of the Mens Names Belonging to Cap n Blesdals
Cornpy In Co 1 P^dward Wiggilsworths Keg 4 Springfield
Aprail the 23 d 1777.
NOW PRE8ANT.
Isack Barron
John Phelem
Danniel marston
John Beetel
Andw Skeen
Thos Pool
Nathi Edward
JosP Storer
Lemi Welsh
Thorn* Ceney
Obodo Robinson
Peter Alin
John Celers
Noah Coal
Beujman Robins
Peter Walker
Isack Whitne Senr
John Brasher
Moses Starbert
Abram Whitne Junr
Wiliam Plumer
Jam* Gerrish Senr
WilK" Beels
Jos'h Legraw Sen r
Wothl Blansherd
George Gerrish Jim*
Sanii Riens
John Robenaon Junr
John Hutchins
Davd Patingal
Davd Woodman
Elias Le graw
Josie Stanford
John Hauks
Saml Bracket
Moses Goald
Will Redoubt
Jerey Sauer
John Stan fort
Lam Cash
Willm C omeay
Zacheriah Willis
Joshua Hanshaw
NOW PRESANT.
Lt
Enn
St
Do
Cori
Do
Do
DO
William Duggans
John Dadson
Benn Chamberlin
George Bery
Incris Blifing
Thorns Cuen
NOW ABSENT BT LEVE.
Captain Blesdal
Abijia Pool
John Marjre
John Frost
Elige Cumins
Cosham Cumins
DESARTED.
John Wright
TOTAL 56
Capn
Lt
Sart
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 60.
234
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
BRITISH TROOPS AT PROSPECT HILL, 1778.
A Return of British Troops Draw Provision Prospect
Hill Jan. 22 d 1778
COMMISIONERS.
STAFF.
NON
COMONd
RANK & FILE
& WOMEN.
COMd
DEPART-
CORNETS
Lt CORNETS
MAJERS
CAPTAINS
LIEUTS
2
a
CHAPLAINS
| ADGIRTANT8
Q MASTER
SURGION8
MATIS
8ARGENTS
DRUMERS
IN BARRUCK
IN HOSPITAL
WOMEN
WAGGONER
SAILORS
1
Royal Artilery
4
10
1
1
1
1
2
7
7
202
15
251
Adaune Corps
1
4
12
1
1
20
15
248
2
20
324
-th Regt
1
1
5
9
7
1
1
1
20
17
314
2
30
409
th Regt
1
7
8
8
1
1
1
22
16
313
11
30
414
Regt
1
1
5
8
4
1
1
1
23
20
342
8
25
440
th Regt
1
8
10
7
1
1
1
1
26
21
335
1
30
443
47 Regt
1
1
3
6
g
1
1
1
1
17
13
262
8
23
336
62 Regt
1
]
6
7
3
1
1
1
1
24
16
227
8
30
327
Detachd33 Reg
1
4
54
1
8
68
Comond departm
14
24
6
44
Total
6
6
42
71
28
5
3
5
7
8
163
125
2297
\
211
24
6
5056
Coffin Papers, Vol. u, pp. 65.
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
235
MUSTER ROLL, CAPT. JOSEPH EATON'S COMPANY, 1777.
A Muster Roll of Cap* Jofeph Batons Company in
Col. Johnsons Reg* of y e Mafchufetts Bay Militia in y e
Service of y e United States of America. Engaged till y e
last of Nov br 1777
Cap* Joseph Eaton Sick Abfent
Appointed August 1 st Lieu 1 Thomas Stickney Wounded 7 th October
y e 15 th 1777 2 d Lieu* Nath 1 . Plnmer 1777
No.
Engaged
Augt 1777
15 th
Serj 1 Major
Remarks
Aug"
1
1777
15
Jeduthun Abbot
August
Q Mafter Serj'.
2
1777
15
Nathaniel Dummer
August
Serp.
3
1777
15
Jeremiah Kimbal
4
Do
Abraham Emerion
5
Do
Daniel Cole
6
Do
David Hopkinfon
August
Corp 18 .
7
1777
15
Robert Andrews
8
Do
James Snow
9
Do
Jabez Gage
10
Do
Eliphelet Wood
August
Drumer
11
1777
15
Stephen Webster
August
16
Fifer
12
1777
12
Bennaiah demons
13
August
15
Privats
14
1777.
Do
John Ally
15
Do
William Austin
16
Do
Jacob Adams
236
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
No.
Engaged
Aug' 1777
15 th
Privats
Remarks
Taken Prisoner at
17
Do
John Andrews
Ticonderoga 17 th Sept
18
18
August
1 777
Do
15
William Ayr
Nathan Bayley
1777.
Died Oc tr 2 d 1777
19
-I i t t
Do
William Bradbury
20
Do
Amos Bayley
21
Do
Nicholas Bruzel
22
Do
Samuel Bacon
on Furlo
23
Do
David Bryant
24
Do
Seth Burnham
25
Do
John Cooper
26
Do
Daniel Carlton
27
Do
Ala Currier
28
Do
Dudly Duftin
29
Do
Francis Denfemore
on Command at Ben-
30
Do
Daniel Dow
ington
31
Do
Samuel Ely
32
Do
Samuel Eaton
33
Do
Samuel Frink
34
Do
Simeon Fofter
35
Do
Stephen Fofter
Wagoner
36
Do
John Greanough
37
Do
AmofGage
38
Do
Jeremiah Gage
39
Do
William Hesetine
40
Do
John Hesetine
41
Do
Amof Hovey
42
Do
A fa Huneford
43
Do
Ifaiah Hardy
44
Do
Henry Hardy
Wounded 7 th October
45
Do
Nath 1 Hale
1777
46
Do
Simon Heriman
47
Do
David Kimbal
48
Do
Nath 1 Kimbal
Sick Present
49
Do
Langey Kelley
50
Do
William Kimbal
Sick Present
51
Do
Simeon Kimbal
Sick Present
52
Do
Samuel Lecount
Wounded 7 th October
53
Do
Daniel Lord
54
Do
Peter Middelton
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
237
No.
Engaged
Augt 1777
15 th
Privats
Remarks
65
Do
William Merrill
56
Do
Tyler Porter
Wagoner
57
Do
Epreaim Peabody
58
Do
Andrew Peabody
Wounded 7 th octo r
59
Do
Jonathan Peabody
Sick Absent [1777
60
Do
Jacob Perkins
on Command at Ben-
61
Do
Daniel Remicks
ington
62
Do
Jeames Remicks
Difchar d Octo r 17 th
63
Do
Jeremiah Robertibn
1777
64
Do
William Sawer
65
Do
John Saunders
66
Do
James Smila
67
Do
William Steward
Killed Oc' 8 th 1777
68
Do
David See scions
Wagoner
69
Do
Amos Spafford
Wounded octor 7 th
70
Do
Timothy Saunders
1777
71
Do
James Whiteker
72
Do
Ebenezer Whiteker
73
Do
Jof him Wood
on duty
74
Do
Ezra Wiles
Sick Afent
Coffin Papers, Vol n, pp. 79.
LETTER CONCERNING CANADIAN RAIDS IN 1782.
Newbury [Vt] August 19 th 1782.
S r
Since our Last we have the following Inteli-
fence, a party of about twenty from Canada was in about
fteen Days Since on thier former Errand but were not
able to accomplish thier Defigns in this quarter they
have Taken another rout prehaps down the river where
they will not be so likely to be somuch Exfpofed as
at this Place, about the same Time one Davis who was
Taken from peacham last June returned from Canada with
an Olive branch in bis Hand from the Commander in
Canada for the Inhabitants that if the people would lay
238 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
down thier arms they should not be Hurt in the least,
but if they had soldiers or should Endeavor to Defend
themselves he would send his Soldiers and Indeans and
burn and deftroy the Country last thursday a party of
fifteen of the Enemy Came to peacham Captivated two
men viz Benj a Bayley and Luther Bayley, Swore three
perfons and went of, one of thier party Deferted to us,
and Informed that if the people on the river would not be
still and confent to the Terms [as] the people on the west
of the mountains had done the Enemy were determined to
lay the whole Country wast, he also says that Sixteen
Hundred barrill of provitions had been lately sent from
St. Johns up the lakes, and also large Quantitys of salt
Rum &c for the life of the grants.
We are not able to prevent thofe mischeafs which is
falling on our poor Inhabitants every day and are afraid
we shall be drove to very narrow bounds, about fifty of
the party Deftined for this Querter are arived eight [of]
which is gone gone to M r Whipples Cap 1 Smith is arived
from Col Ellises Reg 1 and informs that he Expects no
more from that querter than came with him which were
6 men only who were all from Col Ellis Reg 1 none from
Col Hale, Webber only three from Col Webers nor
Chafes Reg ts , he further says that Col Ellis Informed
him that Cap 1 How or Westmoreland Said publickly that
he would not obey Neither Newhampshire Congrefs nor
Gen 11 Washington Col King of Chesterfield seconded
him. it appears that that quarter is Infected still with
Sermonts Defcase our affairs here wear a better face Per-
mit us to request that attention is paid to this querter in
such way as you shall think proper, and that we may Sub-
scribe our Selves your very
To the Honnered Humble
Mef hech Ware Efq Servants
Jacob Bayley
Charles Johnston
The Hon, ble Eben r Webfter
Mafech Weare Prefident on Publick Service
the Council State of Newhamp
Exoeter,
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 87.
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 239
LETTER ON THE ISLES OF SHOALS, N. H., IN 1801.
Newburyport Sept. 1, 1801
My dear Sir
You are not ignorant of the Interest I have
taken in the Reformation and Civilizing of the People
inhabiting the Isles of Shoals. It is impofsible by Words
to convey any Idea of the extreme Poverty, Ignorance
and Vice these People had sunk into. The Islands had
been deserted by all who had Means to leave them No
one cared for the Instruction or Comfort of those that
remained. The children were growing up without one
virtuous or religious Sentiment. Drunkennefs, Profanity
and Idlenefs overwhelmed the whole Community. The
Liberality of well-disposed Persons furnished means for
erecting a commodious Stone House, to serve them as a
School House and as a Place of Worship. It also serves
by Means of a Tower on its Top as a very useful Beacon
for Vefsels arriving on our Coast.
The Society for propagating the Gospel have employed
the Rev. Josiah Stevens since April last as a Mifsionary,
to teach the Children, and to lead in the Exercises of the
Sabbath. His Piety, Patience, Mildnefs and Industry
have already wrought Wonders. Children who did not
know their Letters, now read intelligibly in their Bibles,
and those who never held a Pen before now write a legi-
ble joining Hand. Cleanlinefs and Decorum have kept
Pace with their Improvement in their School Exercises.
They are delighted with their new State, and their Ambi-
tion is kindled. Their Language has in a good Measure
lost its Profanenefs, and there is a consoling Prospect of
their Recovery to decent and virtuous Habits, should
Attention be still continued to them.
You need not to be told how great Satisfaction I derive
from this state of Things, nor how much Anxiety I feel
for it's Continuance and Improvement.
Mr. Stevens is precisely the Man to be desired for this
situation. He percieves it himself, and this has recon-
ciled him to the Idea of continuing in it, notwithstand-
ing his extreme Disgust from the Dirt and the Vice of
the People amongst whom he is placed, on Condition only
240 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
that a small House can be provided for his Accommoda-
tion. He has hitherto refided on another Island than that
on which the Meeting House is, and where almost all the
People live. The Pafsage acrofs is always inconvenient
and at some Seasons hazardous. There is a publick Lot
near the Meeting House on which such a House could be
built. Lefs than $1000 would complete it. Charity never
found a more inviting or a more promising Object. Say
then if such a sum cannot be raised from the Wealth, the
Piety and the Benevolence of those with whom you also-
ciate. You may afsure them that in a very short Time,
they fhall receive Accounts of the Improved Condition
of these wretched People, which fhall make their Hearts
thrill with Pleasure.
Your affectionate Servant
Dudley A. Tyng
Coffin Papers, Vol. n, pp. 93.
SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE MINISTRY AT ISLES OF
SHOALS, N. H., 1801.
Boston Sep 17 1801
The people on the isles of Shoals, having by the hu-
mane exertions of Dudley Atkins Tyng Esq r and others
been recovered from a state of the most deplorable igno-
rance, vice and wretchednefs ; and the society for propa-
gating the gospel having employed Mr Josiah Stevens as
a mifsionary and school master upon these islands, for
whom and his succefsors in office it is absolutely necefsary
to erect a small dwelling house which will cost about one
thousand dollars ;
The subscribers, desirous of promoting the cause of
virtue religion and humanity, and commiserating the un-
happy people on the isles of Shoals especially their chil-
dren, do agree to pay the sums annexed to their names
for the purpose of building a dwelling house for the use
of the minister or mifsionary residing on the ifles of
Shoals forever.
JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS. 241
Mr. Tyng's letter accompanies this subscription paper.
The money to be paid to the Treasurer of the Society
for propagating the Gospel to be appropriated to the ob-
ject. Benj n Bufsey pd thirty Doll
William Phillips jr thirty Sam 1 G Perkins Thirty
dollars pd paid
Samuel Salisbury thirty James Perkins thirty Dol
dollars p pd
Stephen Higginson thirty Joseph Coolidge thirty
dollars pd
St. Higginson jr thirty
dollars pd
K Boott thirty Dollars p d
W rn Pratt thirty doll 5 p d
Samuel Parkman thirty Dollars paid
Francis Amory thirty Dollars p d
Thomas C Amory Thirty Dollars Paid
Jam Greene Thirty Dollars paid
John Amory Thirty Dollars paid
Adam Babcock Thirty Dollars paid
T H Perkins Twenty Doll 8 paid
16 at 30 Dollars 480
T. H. Perkins 20
L P Gardner 10
L K Jones 20
Jon a Davis 7
S Salisbury J r 5
IP Davis* 10
P C Brooks 10
N Lee 10
N. Frazier 10
582
deduct 8 $ p d Burfe ) 8
for collections
) $ 574
Collected on the other page & remitted
to M 1 Tyng $ 574
The Gentlemen whose names have
been annexd not having paid
anything. M r Salisbury 30
HIBT. COLL. VOL. XXXV 16
242 JOSHUA COFFIN PAPERS.
M r Phillips paid 30
5. Higginson paid 30
6. S. Higginson j r paid 30
are under obligation to double their fums (paid) & M r
Isa : Davis pays more 10
$ 704
M r Tyng will collect the remaining fum at Newbury-
port
Coffin Papers, Vol. 11, p. 94.
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HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OP THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE.
VOL. XXXV.
OCTOBER, 1899.
No. 4.
JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS
DESCENDANTS.
A PAPER FOUND AMONG THK MANUSCRIPTS OF THIS LATE
PERLEY DERBY.
John Woodbury came from Somersetshire, England,
about 1624-5, in the interest of the Dorchester Company,
which established itself at Cape Ann, now Gloucester, at
or shortly before that period. Perhaps no better or
clearer account can be given of his earlier connection with
this company as its agent, than to give, in full, the depo-
sition of his son Humphrey, who accompanied him hither
on his second return. This deposition is given to offset
the celebrated Mason's claim to extensive tracts of land
in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and which caused
great agitation among the settlers at the time.
" Feb. 16, 1680-1. Humphrey Woodbury, Beverly,
aged 72, testifies, That when I lived in Surnersetshire in
England, I remember that my father, John Woodberye
(since deceased) did about 56 yeares agoe remoovefor new
England & I then traveled with him as farr as Dorchester "
HIST. COLL. VOL. XXXV
17
(257)
258 JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
(Eng.) " & I understood that my said father came to new
England by order of a company caled Dorchester com-
pany (among vvhome m r white of Dorchester in England
was an active Instrument) & that my father and the com-
pany with him brought cattle & other things to Cape Ann
for plantation work & there built an house & kept theire
cattell & sett up fishing & afterwards some of them re-
moved to a neck of land since called Salem : After about
3 yeares absence my said father returned to England &
made us acquainted with what settlement they had made
in new England & that he was sent back by some that In-
tended to setle a plantation about 3 leagues west of Cape
Ann. to further this designe after about half a years
stay in England, my father returned to new England &
brought me with him : wee arrived at the place now caled
Salem in or about the month of June 1628 : where wee
found severall persons that said they were servants to the
Dorchester company & had built another house for them
at Salem, besides that at Cape Ann. The latter end of
that sumer, 1628 : John Endecott Esq : came over gov-
ernor, declaring his power from a company of pattentees,
in or about London ; & that they had bought the houses
boates & servants which belonged to the Dorchester
company & that he s d Endecott had power to receive them
which accordingly he did take possession of: when wee
settled the Indians never then molested us in our improve-
m ts or sitting downe either on Salem or Beverly side of
the ferry, but shewed themselves very glad of our com-
pany & came & planted by us & oftentimes came to us
for shelter saying they were afraid of their enemy Indians
up in the country : & wee did shelter them when they
fled to us. & wee had theire free leave to build & plant
where wee have taken up lands ; the same yeare or the
next after wee came to Salem wee cutt hay for the cattell
wee brought over on that side of the ferry now caled
Beverly : & have kept our possession there ever since by
cutting hay or thatch or timber & boards & by laying out
lotts for tillage : & sometime after building & dwelling
heere, where I with others have lived about 40 yeares :
In all this time of my being in new England I never heard
JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 259
that Mr. Mason took possession heare, disbursted estate
upon, or layd any claime to this place of ours, save the
discourse of a claim within this yeare or two."
Mr. Woodbury had a brother William, but it is not
known precisely at what period he came to New England
but certainly before 1630; as, in that year, it is said he
and his brother John removed to the Cape Ann side, now
Beverly, and settled near Woodbury's Point, on Mackerel
Cove. He was made freeman in 1630 and was Deputy to
the General Court from 1635 to 1638.
In 1635 John Woodbury was appointed one of the
" overseers & Layers out of the Lotts of ground for this
prescinct of Salem * * * and in Lei tie of y r paynes
they are to have 4 s the acre for small lotts and 10 s the
hundred for great lotts rightly & exactly laid out and
bounded :"
25 : 11 : 1635, he, with Capt Trask, Roger Conant,
Peter Paltry and John Balch, received each a farm of 200
acres in Beverly. Bentley says " that farms were granted
to individuals on condition of selling their houses in
town, and the refusal of the farm was reserved to the town
if ever it was to be sold."
As early as 1636, the idea prevailed to some extent
that Salem would eventually be the capital of the colony,
and a motion was presented to the General Court by Cnpt.
Endecott in behalf of Col. John Humphries, to set off
some lands beyond Forest River in Marblehead in con-
templation of the erection of a college there. Upon this
a committee of six was appointed to view these lands,
one of whom was John Woodbury. No allusion to the
project, however, seems to have been made from that date.
In 1637, he was chosen one of the selectmen, which
office he filled till his decease, being present at every
meeting of the board, the last one being Dec. 3, 1641.
He was called father Woodbury, but probably not so
much from his age, as the title due him, on account of his
great prominence, usefulness in the affairs of the town,
and the general intelligence he seemed to possess. He
could not have been much ovor sixty years of age at his
decease as his last child was born about two years before.
There is no mention of land conveyances credited to
260 JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
him on record; but Aug. 1, 1660, his widow Ann, or
Agnes, sold to George Corwin acres of land, and a
small dwelling house, near to the meeting house in Salem.
Fie and his wife Agnes were among the original mem-
bers of the 1st Church, Salem, at its formation in 1629,
Samuel Skelton pastor.
Air. Woodbtiry made a will, which was presented at
court by his widow, and proved Feb. 8, 1642-3, but it
was never recorded. No inventory having accompanied
the will, she was requested to produce one ; and is the
last we know of this also.
They were married in England and it is supposed they
had a number of children, not represented on record,
some of whom may not have accompanied their parents
to this country. What leads to this conclusion is the long
interval between the birth of Humphrey, 1609-10, in
England and that of the baptism of his daughter Hannah,
1636, in Salem.
Of his wife Agnes, nothing more is known of her after
1660, when she made the conveyance to George Curwen.
Children :
2. HUMPHREY, 2 born in England, 1609-10.
3. JOHN. 2
4. HANNAH, 2 bapt. 1 st Ch. Dec. 23, 1636; m. Apr. 26, 1658, Corne-
lius Baker; he d. Sept. 1, 1714. Their children were :
i. Hannah, 3 b. Oct. 14, 1660; d. Nov. 6, 1662.
ii. Hannah, 3 b. Nov. 28, 1662.
iii. A child,' 3 bapt. Mar. 29, 1665, 1st Ch., Salem.
*'. cSSElftL,' l bapt ' Jul y 21 ' 1667 ' lst Ch " Salem '
vi. Jonathan, 3 bapt. Sept. 14, 1669, Beverly.
vii. Abigail, 3 bapt. Sept. 6, 1672.
viii. Priscilla, 3 bapt. Oct. 11, 1674.
ix. Bethiah* bapt. May 27, 1677.
x. John* bapt. Dec. 1, 1678; d. June 10, 16.
xi. Jabez, 3 b. Mar. 6, 1682.
6. ABIGAIL, 2 bapt. Nov. 12, 1637; m. John Hill.*
6. PKTEit, 2 bapt. Sept. 19, 1640; (b. June 19, 1640, Savage).
June 15. 1681.
* Peter Woodbury, Beverly, yeoman, bought of John Hill, Bererly, all the
and, meadow & upland now in possession of said Hill, t. e. all his part of the,
farm that was formerly John Woodbury's dec'd, father-in law to sd John Hill,
i. e. 25 A. upland, bounded on Jno. Woodbury, Wm. Dodge, house w't Benj.
Balch. sr & John Balch; also a parcel of meadow, called the great marsh apper-
taining to said Hill, as part or what was part of said John Woodbury's farm
dec'd. John Hill.
Abigail Hill.
JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 261
2 Humphrey 2 (John 1 ), born 1609-10; no will or
settlement of his estate. Jan. 2, 1635-6, he with six
others was granted acre each at Winter harbor for fishing
trade and to build upon.
In 1636 he received a grant of 40 acres of land and
Jan. 29, 1636-7, he received a grant of 40 acres more.
Dec. 2, 1667, he bought 10 acres of Susanna Rolling-
worth of Salem on Cape Ann side. Oct. 10, 1652, he
bought of Guido Bayley of Beverly, a dwelling house,
barn and 20 acres laud situated in Beverly. He was
styled a fisherman. He married Elizabeth who made
her willMay 1, 1689, proved Nov. 26, 1689, in which she
mentions her two grandchildren, Peter, son of John Wood-
bury and Peter, son of William Woodbury, to whom she
gave 10s. each because they were named for her son Peter,
who was killed by the Indians in the war, with Captain
Lathrop ; two daughters Susanna (Tenney) and Chris-
tian (Trask) to whom she gave a legacy of 20s. each and
daughter Elizabeth Walker, Peter Woodbury and Cor-
nelius Baker, her friends, were named as overseers of
her will. Win. Woodbury, Sam'l Hardy and Hannah
Baker witnessed the instrument.
Children :
7. JOHN, 3 bapt. Oct. 24, 1641.
8. ISAAC, 3 bapt. Feb. 4, 1643-4; d. Mar. 11, 1725.
9. HUMPHREY, 3 bapt. Mar. 8, 1646-7; d. Apr. 9, 1727.
10. THOMAS, 3 b. about 1639. Will made Dec. 11, 1716, proved
April 20, 1719.
11. SusANNA, 3 b. Feb. 4, 1648-9; m. Dec. 2, 1668, John, son of
Thomas and Ann Tenney of Rowley, who was b. Dec. 14,
1640.
12. WiLLiAM, 3 bapt. May 4, 1651.
13. PETER, 3 b. Mar. 28, 1653 ; killed, 1675, in the Indian war under
Capt. Thos. Lathrop.
14. RICHARD, 3 b. Feb., 1654-5; d. Boston, 1690, on his return from
Canada expedition.
15. ELIZABETH, 3 b. Apr. 28, 1657; m. Walker of Boston.
16. CHRISTIAN, 3 b. Apr. 20, 1661; committed suicide; m. Apr. 9,
1679, John Trask. Their children were:
i. Christian* bapt. Apr. 25, 1680.
ii. John,* bapt. Dec. 23, 1683.
iii. Edward* bapt. Nov. 21, 1686.
iv. Elizabeth,* bapt. Oct. 9, 1687.
v. William* bapt. Feb. 23, 1689-90.
3 John 2 (John 1 ), born ; died . He was called
John Woodbury, Sr., in distinction from John, son of
262 JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
Humphrey, who lived contemporaneously with him, the
terms answering to 1st and 2d of modern times. No set-
tlement of his estate is recorded. He married Elizabeth
, who, after his decease, married Captain John
Dodge as his second wife, as will appear from the following
deed of conveyance : " Peter Woodbury, Elizabeth Dodge,
late y e wife & since y e widow of John Woodbury Sr.
dec d , now wife of John Dodge, with son Ebenezer, son
of said John Woodbury dec'd, Beverly, and Cornelius
Baker, Salem, sell to Humphrey Woodbury Sr., Beverly,
40 acres of land, being now in possession of John Wood-
bury, son of said Humphrey Sr." Dec. 3, 1682. This
will show the relative distinction between the John Wood-
bury, Sr., and John, Jr. which at first proved quite con-
fusing in the separation of these two families. In 1702,
Capt. John Dodge deeded to his son William, some es-
tate and William covenants to him 5 annually, during
his (Dodge's) life and provides for his wife Elizabeth,
during her life. Captain Dodge died Jan. 14, 1723.
His widow, Elizabeth, died June 6, 1726.
Children :
17. ELIZABETH, 3 b. Aug. 15, 1654.
18. JOHN, 3 b. Mar. 15, 1657; probably d. before 1663.
19. ABIGAIL, 3 b. Oct. 6, 1660.
20. EBENEZER, 3 bapt. July 3, 1667.
21. HANNAH, 3 bapt. May 22, 1670.
6 Peter 2 (John*), baptized Sept. 19, 1640 (born
June 19, 1640, Savage) ; died July 5, 1704.
He and his wife Sarah were admitted to full commu-
nion, 23 : 8 : 1667, to the church in Beverly. Oct. 20,
1686, he was chosen deacon, which office he accepted
Nov. 16 following, but was not ordained till Jan. 12,
1688-9. He probably married, first, Abigail Batchelder.
He married July, 1667, Sarah, daughter of the first Rich-
ard Dodge. She died Sept. 11, 1726.
Children :
22. PETER, 3 b. Dec. 12, 1666 ; d. Jan. 8, 1706-7.
23. SARAH, 3 b. Dec. 12, 1668; m. Feb. 20, 1689, Jona. or Jno.
son of John and Rachel (Scruggs) Raymond, b. Apr. 25, 1666.
24. ABIGAIL, 3 b. Apr. 13, 1671 ; m. Lamson.
25. ANNA, 3 b. May 24, 1674; m. John Herrick.
26. MARTHA, 3 bapt. May 27, 1677 ; m. Brown.
JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 263
27. JERUSHA, 3 bapt. Feb. 8, 1680; her mother's name is Mary on the
baptismal record ; m. Mar. 28, 1698, Geo. Raymond.
28. JosiAH, 3 b. Jan. 15, 1682.
29. REBECCA, 3 b. Dec. 25, 1684; not living in 1702.
30. PmsciLLA, 3 b. June 23, 1687 ; m. Jan. 15, 1706, Richard Ober.
7 John 3 (Humphrey? John 1 ) , baptized Oct. 24, 1641 ;
died North Beverly, Jan. 2, 1715-16. Fie was styled John,
Jr., while his uncle John lived, and at his baptism was
called son of sister Woodbury the younger, his mother
bearing the same name as that of his uncle John's wife.
He married, first, Elizabeth , who died Apr. 16,
1689, aged about 44, and he married, second, July 2, 1690,
Alice, widow of John Derby.
Children :
31. ELIZABETH, 4 bapt. Apr. 3, 1670; m., 1703, Nathaniel Wood.
32. MARY, 4 b. Oct. 15, 1671.
33. RUTH," bapt. Sept. 5, 1674; m. July 20, 1704 (?), John West.
34. SARAH," bapt. Sept. 2, 1677.
35. SAMUKL, 4 bapt. May 4, 1679.
36. A CHILD, 4 bapt. May 8, 1681.
37. SUSANNA, 4 bapt. May 20, 1683 ; d. Aug. 15, 1684.
8 Isaac 3 (Humphrey* John 1 ) baptized Feb. 4, 1643-4 ;
died Mar. 11, 1725. Made his will Aug. 4, 1724 ; proved
April 14, 1726. Mentions sons Robert; Joshua, to
whom he gives 2 acres land he bought of his sister
Elizabeth Walker's children ; son Isaac, deceased; Benj.
and Isaac, children of his son Robert ; Zebulon son of
Robert ; granddaughter Anna Thorndike ; granddaugh-
ter Anna, wife of Rev. Mr. Barnard and granddaughter
Mary West. In 1689, he was taken in his fishing
schooner by the French. He married Oct. 9, 1671,
Mary Wilkes, daughter of Thomas. She was sister of
Robert Wilkes.
Children :
38. ROBERT," b. July 4, 1672; d. Oct. 13, 1746, " very sudden."
39. MARY, 4 b. Oct. 6, 1674; d. Oct. 22, 1717; pub. June 23, 1709, to
Michael Farley of Ipswich.
40. CmusTiAN, 4 b. Mar. 20, 1677-8 ; d. April 30, 1714 ; m. 1st, July 5,
1702, Capt. Thos. West; m. 2nd, Capt. John Thorndike.
1701.
41. ISAAC, 4 b. April 6, 1680; mariner; d. Bristol, Eng., Aug. 14,
42. DELIVERANCE, 4 b. Feb. 18, 1683; d. Nov. 22, 1683.
43. JosnuA, 4 b. Jan. 29, 1684.
44. ELIZABETH, 4 b. Jan. 17, 1687-8; d. April 23, 1688.
264 JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
9 Humphrey 3 (Humphrey^ John 1 ), baptized March
8, 1646-7 ; removed to Gloucester in 1677, where he died
April 9, 1727, aged 80. He bought and settled upon
what is called Biskie's Island. The following deed says,
under date of May 5, 1698, Humphrey Woodbury, now
of Gloucester, late of Beverly, mariner, to John Ober,
Beverly, my homestead, of dwelling house, barn, or-
chard, 11 acres upland, and swamp, bought by my father
(Humphrey) of Susanna Hollingworth, bounded on
Thorndike, said father's land and Peter Woolfe. Oct. 13,
1708, he sold land to son Nathan (who was afterwards of
Rowley, then of Haverhill). April 11, 1719, he con-
veyed by deed of gift to son Humphrey, and afterwards
the same, July 31, 1719, for his dutiful carriage toward
his parents, and to encourage him to stay with them in
their old age. He married Oct. 10, 1671 (Savage says
Jan. 8, 1671), Ann Winder of Gloucester. She was born
in 1653 and died Feb. 28, 1728.
Children :
45. ANN," b. May 31, 1680; d. Oct. 10, 1707; m. Israel Wood.
46. BETHIAH,* bapt. Aug. 31, 1673; ra. April 22, 1696, Jno. Batch-
elder.
47. ABIGAIL,* bapt. Oct. 25, 1674.
48. HUMPHREY, 4 Aug. 23, 1677; d. Dec. 23, 1695.
49. ELIZABETH, 4 b. , 1682.
50. NATHANIEL,* b. , 1684.
51. NKHEMiAH, 4 bapt. Sept. 5, 1686.
52. ABEL, 4 b. Oct. 7, 1688; d. in captivity; had a dau. Jerusha,
wid. of Israel Rand who d. 1834, ae. 97.
53. NATHAN," bapt. Mar. 15, 1690-1 ; m. Hannah Giddings and had
three children.
64. ISRAEL," bapt. July 23, 1693.
55. SUSANNA, 4 b. , 1695.
56. HUMPHREY, 4 b. , 1698.
10 Thomas 3 (Humphrey^ John 1 ), born about 1639.
Made his will Dec. 11, 1716, proved April 20, 1719, in
which he mentions wife Elizabeth, sons William, Jona-
than and Samuel, daughters Hannah, wife of John Ober,
and Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Herrick, and children of
his son Samuel, deceased, viz., Samuel, Keziahand Mary.
July 19, 1708, he deeded to his son William a house
in which said William had lived for divers years and the
barn said William had erected and 5 acres of land near
the point. May 21, 1717, he gave to his sons William,
JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 265
Jonathan and Samuel, and daughter Hannah, wife of John
Ober ; Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Herrick ; and grand-
children of Samuel Woodbury ; Cercia, wife of John
Mazury and Mary Woodbury, children of son Thomas,
deceased, " that land bought between rae and Joshua
Bisson, jointly of Jeremiah Belcher of Ipswich, the
whole being about 3000 acres ; bounded on Cromwell's
pond near the town of Haverhill and Policy meadow.
My share being one-half."
He married, first, Hannah, daughter of William and
Elizabeth Dodge, who was baptized in the First Church,
Salem, July 24, 1642, and died Jan. 2, 1688. She was
first the wife of Samuel, son of John Porter, the emi-
grant, who died 1651, leaving one son John, who settled
in and became ancestor of the Porters of Wenham. He
married, second, April 29, 1690, Elizabeth, widow of
Samuel Curtis.
Children :*
57. WILLIAM/ b. Sept. 17, 1662; d. Nov., 1725.
58. SAMUEL," b. , 1665-6; d. April 18, 1689.
69. THOMAS, 4 bapt. July 3, 1667.
60. ISRAEL, 4 b. May 23, 1670.
61. HANNAH/ b. Feb. 25, 1672; m. July 5, 1694, John Ober.
62. ELIZABETH, 4 b. Feb. 6, 1676; m. Joseph Herrick.
63. A DAUGHTER/ b. Jan. 20, 1679 ; d. young.
64. SUSANNA, 4 bapt. Mar. 7, 1680; d. before 1716.
65. JONATHAN, 4 b. Sept. 12, 1682.
66. SAMUEL,* b. Feb. 2, 1690-1.
12 William 3 (Humphrey* John 1 ), baptized May 4,
1651. Division of his estate Feb. 15, 1710-11. Mar-
ried Hannah Mascoll , 1676. She was born 1658, and
died Feb. 24, 1740.
Children :
67. HANNAH/ b. Mar. 28, 1680; m. Jan. 14, 1702-3, Daniel Stone.
68. PETER, 4 b. Aug. 3, 1682.
69. REBECCA," b. July 2, 1684; m. Isaac Gray.
70. HESTER, 4 b. Sept. 7, 1688.
71. WILLIAM/ bapt Feb. 2, 1679; d. Jan. 17, 1713, in Gloucester.
72. CALEB, 4 bapt. Mar. 30, 1690; d., 1772, in Gloucester; m., 1718,
Hephzibah Lane of Gloucester, who d. 1737-8. Guardian-
ship of his children William, Hannah, Rebecca, Caleb, An-
drew, Seton and Rachel was granted to him Jan. 8, 1738.
* A child of Thos. Woodbury, Sr., and Elizabeth, died Mar 15, 1690-1.
266 JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
14 Richard 3 (Humphrey* John 1 ), born Feb.,
1654-5. He went in the expedition to Canada and died in
Boston, on his return home, 1690. He married Dee. 16,
1679, Sarah Haskell. After his decease she married, sec-
ond, John Poole, who had been an apprentice to her hus-
band, and afterwards removed to Gloucester.
Children :
73. RICHARD,* b. Feb. 16, 1681 ; d. July 4, 1683.
74. jAEL, 4 b. Jan. 20, 1683-4; d. Dec. 5, 1746.
75. JosiAH, 4 b. Aug. 8, 1685.
76. KiCHARD, 4 b. Aug. 8, 1685; d., 1751.
77. SAKAH," b. Nov. 18, 1680; d. Dec. 4, 1680.
78. SUSANNA/ b. May 7, 1687; d. May 22, 1717; m. Herbert.
79. DAVID, 4 b. Mar. 15, 1688; d. April 5, 1735.
2O Ebenezer 3 (John* John*), baptized First
Church, Salem, July 3, 1667. Administration on his es-
tate granted widow Hannah, July 1, 1714. In his inven-
tory are mentioned, a gristmill, dwelling house and barn
in Salem ; 3 acres land, partly in Salem and partly in
Beverly ; an old dwelling house ; small barn and 8 acres
fresh meadow in Beverly. He was a miller and lived on
Royal side, which was called Salem some time after the
incorporation of Beverly. He owned land on both sides of
the stream then called Mill river. Oct. 12, 1702, he
bought of his father-in-law John Dodge, jr. (son of Will-
iam) "all his grist and corn mills in Salem, with 3 acres
land adjoining, 2 acres of which lay in Salem, bounded on
widow King, and east by Mill river, and the other 1
acres being all my (Dodge's) land, there lying in Beverly
bounded on said Mill river, my salt marsh and Moses
Gauge."
Dec. 20, 1708, Ebenezer Woodbury, Salem, miller;
Nathaniel Waldron, Wenham, bricklayer ; William Dodge,
jr., Beverly, maltster, and Jona. Rayinent, Beverly, yeo-
man, all administrators of the estate of William Dodge,
Beverly, deceased, lease to Jona. Dodge, Salem, "for
7 years after April 1 next, the home living which was
formerly Capt. John Dodge's, now belonging to the chil-
dren of said William Dodge, deceased, partly in Beverly
and in Salem, containing 54 acres, with house, barn and
mills, being all set out in a deed of gift from Capt. John
JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 267
Dodge, to said William Dodge. Also 4 acres of fresh
meadow and 3 ncres land in Proctor's Island, Chebacco."
June 7, 1710, he was 43 years of age when he made
deposition, that he was present Oct., 1702, at Capt John
Dodge's house, and was witness to the transaction between
said John Dodge and his son William and set his hand
as witness to the deed and said William gave a deed back
to his father or his brother Jonathan, as his father desired
11 acres land in Beverly and also surrendered a dwell-
ing house to said father or brother Jonathan for him which
he had built on a piece of land his father had given him by
word of mouth. He married May 15, 1690, Hannah,
daughter of John and Sarah Dodge. She was baptized
July 2, 1671 and died 1757. She was admitted to com-
munion Nov. 17, 1695.
Hannah, widow of Ebenezer, made her will, Aug. 1,
1748. It was proved May 2, 1757. She gave son Ebe-
nezer 100 ; son Nathaniel 2 acres of land in Salem,
which she bought of her brother Jona. Dodge. To
daughter Hannah Perkin's children 5. To daughter
Abigail Ellingwood's children 5. To daughter Sarah
and daughter Elizabeth Thorndike 5 each. To daughter
Mary Armstrong 5. To daughter Martha 5. To
daughter Priscilla 5. To daughter Mehetible Thorn-
dike, a cow. To daughter Jerusha 5. To grand daughter
Lydia Thorndike a feather bed, sheets, etc. Her sons
Ebeuezer and Nathaniel were appointed executors.
Children :
80. HANNAH, 4 b. Feb. 27, 1690-1 ; m. Feb. 8, 1711, Thos. Perkins of
Wenhara.
81. ABIGAIL," b. July 1, 1692; m. Feb. 14, 1718, Wm. Ellingwood.
82. SARAH," bapt. July 20, 1696.
83. ELIZABETH, 4 bapt. July 20, 1696; m. Nov. 20, 1718, Robert
Thorndike.
84. MARY," bapt. Oct. 16, 1698; m. Armstrong.
85. MARTHA, 4 bapt. Aug. 23, 1702.
86. Ku'ra, 4 bapt. Aug. 23, 1702.
87. PRisciLLA, 4 bapt. June 13, 1703; m. Sept. 28, 1724, Thos.
son of William and Joanna Woodbury, b. Sept. 5, 1700.
Removed to Falmouth, Me.
88. MEHiTABLE, 4 bapt. Sept. 2, 1705.
89. EBENEZER, 4 bapt Aug. 8, 1708.
90. JOHN, 4 bapt. Sept. 21, 1712; adm. granted his brother Ebene-
zer, Salem, June 2, 1740.
91. JERUSHA, 4 bapt. Sept. 21, 1712.
92. NATHANIEL,* bapt. July 31, 1715, after his father's decease.
268 JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
22 Peter 3 (Peter? John 1 ), born Dec. 12, 1666;
died Jan. 8, 1706-7. Mariner. April 12, 1697, he bought
of Joseph Herrick, Sr., Salem village, and his wife Mary,
4 acres of marsh in Beverly, being my right in partner-
ship with my cousin Jos. Herrick, which we bought of
Capt. Paul Thorndike. He married, , widow
Mary Dodge, who died Nov. 1763, aged 89.
Children :
93. MARK,* b. Oct. 31, 1693; d. Dec. 17, 1693.
94. ABIGAIL, 4 b. Sept. 14, 1694; m. Dec. 28, 1715, Jona. Conant.
95. JOSEPH, 4 b. Sept. 29, 1696; d. June 12, 1720.
96. BENJAMIN," b. April 18, 1699.
97. MARY, 4 b. Aug. 2, 1703; m. 1st, May 13, 1719, Josiah Trask of
Salem; m. 2d, June 21, 1727, Thos. Cox.
98. PETER, 4 b. June 20, 1705 ; d. May 24, 1775 ; m. Hannah Batch-
elder.
99. KEBECCA, 4 b. June 1, 1707; m., 1728, Josiah Lovell.
28 Josiah 3 (Peter* John 1 ), born Jan. 15, 1682;
died July 26, 1746. Cordwainer. Administration on
his estate granted his widow Lydia and son Joseph, Aug.
11, 1746. Division of estate to widow Lydia; eldest
daughter Lydia; Josiah, only son, and daughters Martha,
Mary and Sarah. He married April 29, 1708, Lydia
Herrick.
Children :
100. JosiAH, 4 b. Feb. 15, 1709-10; d. Dec. 12, 1773.
101. LYDIA/ b. April 24, 1713; m., 1731, Humphrey Bartlett of
Marblehead.
102. MARY," b. Mar. 3, 1716.
103. MARTHA/ b. May 5, 1721 ; m. Richard Leach.
104. SARAH," b. Mar. 15, 1729-30.
38 Robert 4 (Isaac, 2 Humphrey? John 1 ) , born July 4,
1672; died suddenly, Oct. 13, 1746. Administration on
estate granted his widow Mary and Isaac Woodbury.
Nov. 11, 1746. He married Dec. 11, 1693, Mary,
daughter Thomas and Elizabeth (West) Woodbury,
born Mar. 4, 1676 and died Dec. 5, 1754. He was town
clerk for several years.
Children :
105. ROBERT, 5 b. Sept. 4, 1694 ; d. May 21, 1750.
106. MARY, 5 b. April 18, 1697; pub. Jan. 7, 1721-2, to Jos. Her-
rick, 3 d .
107. BENJAMIN, 5 b. Aug. 1, 1699; d. April 26, 1702.
JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 269
108. ISAAC, 5 b. June 18, 1701; d. Oct. 31, 1776.
109. THOMAS, 5 b. June 21, 1703; d. May 8, 1751.
110. JAMES, 5 b. May 20, 1705.
111. HANNAH,* b. April 22, 1707; m. Francis Cogswell.
112. ZEBDLON, 5 b. Mar. 19, 1709. (A Zebulon Woodbury was lost
at sea in 1734.)
113. EBKNEZER, 5 b. Oct. 2, 1711 ; d. same day.
114. EBENEZER, 5 b. Nov. 19, 1712; d. Nov. 19, 1727.
115. BENJAMIN,* bapt. June 24, 1716 ;. lost at sea 1730.
116. RuTH, 5 b. Feb. 21, 1715; in. April, 1737, Tim. Wade, Ipswich.
117. ELIZABETH, 5 b. July 17, 1717; d. Nov. 7, 1717.
43 Joshua 4 (Isaac, 3 Humphrey? John 1 ), born Jan.
29, 1684 and died probably at Falmouth (Portland), Me.
Nov. 21, 1701, Joshua Woodbury "son of Isaac and
Mary," bought of Thos. Bailey, Bradford, a lot of land
in Beverly given by Humphrey Woodbnry, deceased, to
Sarah Walker and Eunice Walker, now wife of said Bai-
ley. June 13, 1718, Joshua Woodbury, Beverly, yeo-
man and Christian Thorndike, Beverly, wife of John
Thorndike, formerly Christian West, wife of Thos. West,
jr., deceased, gave deposition that, in 1714, the deponent
Christian Thorndike, alias West, purchased of her then
father-in-law, Capt. Thos. West, a tract of land in Bev-
erly, in part payment of which these deponents became
bound unto Wm. Hirst of Salem, deceased, in 50, and
on behalf of said Capt. Thos. West. April 16, 1736, he
bought of Mr. John Barnard and his wife Anne, of Mar-
blehead, one-half of their right in the Woodbury farm,
lying in Methuen, being lot No. 1, in the N. W. quarter
of the division of said farm, and the E. half of a lot laid
out to Isaac Woodbury in the S. E. division and one-half
of lot No. 5, behind the pond in the N. E. division.
April 25, 1736, he sold to Nathaniel Woodbury, yeo-
man, a tract of upland and swamp in the township of
Methuen, being the E. half of a lot in the S. E. quarter
of Woodbury's farm, laid out to the heirs of Isaac Wood-
bury, said half containing 80 acres.
Oct. 9, 1739, Joshua Woodbury of Falmouth and wife
Sarah, sell to John Standley of Beverly, 4 acres of or-
chard, upland and meadow. He removed to Fulmouth,
now Portland, Me., between 1736 and 1739, where he
probably settled. He married Sept. 20, 1711, Sarah
Woodbury of Salem.
270 JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
Children :
118. JOSHUA, 5 b. April 24, 1713.
119. MARY, 5 b. Sept. 15, 1715.
120. HERITABLE, 5 b. Nov. 17, 1717.
121. SARAH, 5 b. July 3, 1722.
122. ISAAC, 5 bapt. April 3, 1720.
123. PETER,* b. April 18, 1724.
124. ANNA, 5 b. Oct. 6, 1728.
125. EBENEZER, 5 b. Sept. 19, 1731.
126. PAUL, 5 b. April 4, 1733.
76 Richard 4 (Richard? Humphrey? John 1 ) born
Aug. 8, 1685; died 1751. He married May 17, 1711,
Esther Stone.
Children :*
127. ANDREW,* b. Feb. 23, 1712; removed to Gloucester.
128. SARAH, 5 b. July 19, 1713.
129. JosiAH, 6 b. Mar. 29, 1715; d. July 3, 1753.
130. GiDEON, 5 b. Mar. 21, 1717; abroad in 1743, long time.
131. JACOB, 5 b. June 9, 1719; d. Feb. 5, 1765.
132. DANIEL, 5 b. Mar. 27, 1721; d. July 5, 1799.
133. MARK, 5 b. Sept. 29, 1722.
134. ESTHER, 5 b. April 11, 1725.
135. JOHN, 5 b. Jan. 31, 1727.
136. LUKE, 5 bapt. April 11, 1731. Not mentioned in his sister's quit-
claim in 1751.
89 Ebenezer 4 (Ebenezer* John? John 1 ), baptized
Aug. 8, 1708. Removed to Salem, N. H., about 1740.
He made his will Feb. 8, 1774, in which he names his
wife Elizabeth, grandchildren James, Ebenezer and
John, children of my son Ebenezer 10 each; daughters
Anna 3 and Hannah 3 ; daughter Elizabeth Elling-
wood 1 ; son Hazadiah 10 ; daughter Abigail Duty
1 ; grandchild Lydia Field 2 ; daughter Mary Smith
3. Son Henry was appointed executor. June 29, 1741,
he bought of his brother-in-law Thomas Woodbury, and
wife Priscilla, then of Falmouth, one thirty-fifth part of
a farm in Methuen, called Woodbury's farm, " it being
my dividend of the same, as one of the descendants of
my grandfather Thomas Woodbury." He is called a
miller, and probably continued in the business of his
* William, son of Richard Woodbury, lost coming from N. E. 1759. (Robert
Hale.)
A child of Richard Woodbury, died 1731. (Robert Hale )
JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 271
father at Royal side, then called Salem. He married
Nov. 24, 1728, Elizabeth, daughter of Hazadiah, jr., and
Anna Smith of Beverly, who was baptized with her sister
Anna, July 11, 1714.
Children :
137. ANNA, 5 b. Sept. 28, 1729, in Salem.
138. HANNAH, 5 b. Sept. 18, 1731, in Salem.
139. EBKNBZER, 5 bapt. Nov. 18, 1733, in Beverly.
HO. ELIZABETH, 5 bapt. Nov. 23, 1735, in Beverly ; m. Ellingwood.
HI. JoHN, 5 bapt. May 28, 1738, in Beverly.
142. HAZADIAH, S bapt. Sept. 14, 1740, in Beverly.
143. LYDiA, 5 bapt. Aug. 5, 1744, in Salem, N. H.
144. ABIGAIL, 5 bapt. Aug. 3, 1746, in Salem, N. H. ; m. Duty.
145. MARY, 5 bapt. Sept. 6, 1748, in Salem, N. H.
146. ANDREW,* bapt. July 14, 1751, in Salem, N. H.
147. HENRY, 9 b. 1752.
92 Nathaniel 4 (Ebenezer* John^ John 1 ), baptized
in Beverly, July 31, 1715, after his father's decease.
Lived in Salem, N. H. April 25, 1736, he bought of
Joshua Woodbury, Beverly, a tract of 80 acres of upland
and swamp in the township of Methuen, being the E. half
of the lot in the S. E. quarter of Woodbury's farm, laid out
to the heirs of Isaac Woodbury. Dec. 12, "1735 or 6,"
for 50 he sells to Wm. Woodbury, Beverly, joiner, his
right in the estate of his father Ebenezer Woodbury, late
of Salem, miller, said estate lying partly in Beverly and
Wenham. There is no settlement of his estate on record
in Roekingham County. He married Rebecca .
She was received into the church in Beverly, Mar. 23,
1735, and dismissed June 1, 1740, to the church in Me-
thuen 2 d parish. The wives of Jona. Woodbury and
Robert Ellinwood were dismissed at the same time.
Children :
148. REBECCA, 5 bapt. May 11, 1735, in Beverly.
149. HANNAH,* bapt. June 29, 1740, in Salem, N. H.
150. ANNA, 5 bapt. Sept. 5, 1742.
151. NATHANIEL, 5 bapt. Sept. 16, 1744.
152. SARAH,* bapt. May 8, 1748.
153. JOHN, 5 b. July 10, 1749; died April 27, 1829.
154. LUKE, 5 bapt. June 23, 1751; d. Mar. 6, 1827 (gravestone).
155. MEHiTABLE, 5 bapt. Oct. 29, 1752.
272 JOHN WOODBURY AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
96 Benjamin 4 (Peter? Peter? John 1 ), born April
18, 1699. Removed to Sutton, Mass., where he was liv-
ing after 1733. May 6, 1 737, when of Sutton, he. sold for
400, to Daniel Dodge of Wenham, 20 acres of land, a
dwelling house and barn in Beverly. He married Dec.
14, 1721, Ruth, daughter of Lot and Elizabeth Conant,
who was born in Beverly, Nov. 18,1702.
Children:*
156. JOSEPH, 5 b. Sept. 27, 1722.
157. BENJAMIN,* b. Feb. 5, 1726.
158. JOSHUA, 5 b. Mar. 25, 1728.
159. ELIZABETH, 5 bapt. Nov. 1, 1730.
160. Lox, 5 bapt. Oct. 14, 1733.
98 Peter 4 (Peter? Peter? John 1 ), born June 20,
1705; died May 14, 1775. He made his will Mar. 14,
1775, proved May 29, 1775. Names wife Hannah; son
Peter ; James ; my 4 th division lot in Amherst, N. H. ;
Joseph ; John ; all my homestead of 40 acres. Feb. 28,
1728-9, he and his brother Benjamin, divide all the real
estate descended to them from their father Peter, jr., and
some land they bought of their mother Mary, widow of
said Peter, jr. He married March 19, 1730, Hannah
Batchelder of Wenham.
Children :
161. MARK, 6 b. April 24, 1730; d. Sept. 18, 1736.
162. PETER, 5 b. Mar. 13, 1732; d. Dec. 5, 1814, " of falling sick-
ness."
163. JAMES, 5 b. June 4, 1738; d. at Francistown, N. H., 1823. He
was father of Mary Woodbury, who was mother of Levi
Woodbury and wife of Peter, of Francistown.
164. JOSEPH, 5 b. Sept. 21, 1741; d. Feb. 5, 1816; m. Huldah Put-
nam.
165. JonN 5 , b. Nov. 8, 1743; ra. Emma Raymond.
* A new-born infant of Benj. Woodbury d. April 27, 1725.
Benj. Woodbury's child d. May 1736. (2d Church records.)
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A FORGOTTEN HORROR.
The epidemics of small-pox, which not infrequently ravaged the
best protected neighborhoods before 1800, were a scourge and a terror
hard to imagine. No household, " however watched and tended," was
exempt. Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, had the disease in 1767,
having contracted it from her daughter-in-law, the wife of the Crown
Prince Joseph, who died of it. In 1774, Louis XV of France, sur-
rounded with all the splendors of Versailles, ended a reign of fifty
years with an attack of the small-pox, and communicated the disease
to the two Princesses who attended his deathbed. The Bulletin, Vol.
xii, pp. 144-165, gives a vivid picture of the condition of things
before the introduction of vaccination as a preventive, in the early
years of this century. Frequent quarantines became necessary be-
tween town and town, highways were fenced off, and dogs and cats
exterminated. [See also Hist. Coll., Vol. v, pp. 195 and 252.]
Inoculation with the virus of the loathsome pest itself was prac-
tised for a century. This treatment was introduced from Constanti-
nople, about 1718, and was recommended by men of such influence
and authority as the Rev. Dr. Increase Mather. Hospitals were set
up, in secluded spots, to which the well-to-do resorted in classes of
a hundred. The treatment occupied a month. It began with dieting,
prescribed exercise, and a general regimen intended to prepare the
system for the introduction of the virus. When the patient had been
thus brought to the most favorable condition for encountering the risks
and trials of the disorder, of which he was capable, he was inocu-
lated with it and was carefully and in most cases successfully nursed
through it by a class of trained attendants who had been victims of
the pest, and whom we should call immunes. Of course the best
medical aid was secured, as well as the best conditions and surround-
ings. Gen. Washington submitted himself to the treatment at New
York, in 1776. Salem had a small-pox hospital on the Neck at that
time, another in the Great Pastures, the ground-plan of which may
still be traced in the sod, and a very large establishment of the kind
was set up by private enterprise on Cat Island, now Lowell Island,
and was burned down by a mob from Marblehead. With one or two
persons out of the class which entered at one time the disease was
expected to prove fatal, while the ninety-eight or ninety-nine per cent
who recovered generally quit the confinement of the hospital in excep-
tionally good condition. " Taking the bull by the horns," is, for the
most part, a practice of questionable expediency. Most persons who
approach the animal in that way get tossed pretty high and fall pretty
flat. But in this instance it was thought by the best people to be a
wise course. The assured immunity afforded for life from a most re-
pulsive and inconvenient disorder, to which persons of active habits
were peculiarly exposed, was considered worth all the risk and horror
of the experience.
The following lines were written, in 1794, by a discharged member
of a class at Beverly on leaving the resort at Hospital Point, in that
town. One should be first cousin to all the Muses to be able to draw
inspiration from such a theme.
Pinch'd with the Symptoms, chill'd for want of fuel,
Made lean by Jallop, Salts & Water Gruel,
For full three weeks with Patience we have borne
To be from roast-meat, toast and coffee torn.
With Job's few comforts, but with all his grief,
At length we find arrived the wish'd relief!
Hail ! BACON, BUTTER, EGGS ! Before our Eyes
We see hot puddings, beef & gravy rise!
We bid our fellow sufferers All Adieu,
And, be assured, we wish good Luck to You!
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INDEX.
Abbot, Abbott, David,
Adams, Liphe, 160.
253.
Matthew, 133.
George, 215.
Moses, 160.
Jeduthun, 235.
Nathan, 80, 220, 228.
Joseph, 215.
Nathaniel, 160.
William, 80.
Richard, 157, 160(2).
Acie, Acye, Elizabeth,
Robart, 132, 133.
113.
Robert, jr., 160.
Hannah, 113.
Samuel, 81, 83, 85,
John, 108, 113.
87, 89, 97, 100, 156,
Margaret, 113.
160, 230.
Mary, 108.
Samuel, jr., 223.
Adams, Abraham, 133,
Silas, 160.
160 (2).
Stephen, 223, 230.
Abraham, jr., 133,
Aires see Ayers.
160.
Akerman, Stephen ,133.
Benjamin, 34, 37, 39.
Akers, Aker, Acors,
Edmund, 160.
Henry, 141.
Enoch, 22 1, 228, 229.
John, 219, 230.
Enoch, jr., 230.
Moses, 162.
Henry, 156.
Albany (N. Y.), 29, 38,
Isaac, 162.
45, 71, 78, 79.
Isaac, jr., 133.
Alexander, , 231.
Israel, 160.
Nathaniel, 168.
Jacob, 235.
Alfred (Me.), 34, 37.
John, 3, 13, 133, 156,
Allen, Allin, Alin, ,
160.
108, 109, 231.
John Quincy, 31, 33,
Ann, 109.
42, 44, 46, 47, 50,
Elihu, 212, 232.
51, 53, 60, 66, 70.
Gidens, 80.
Joseph, 152,162, 230.
Henry, 79.
Joseph, jr., 160.
John, 153.
Josiah, 228.
Nathan, 224.
Life, 221, 229.
Noah, 168, 212, 231,
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Allen, Allin, Alin,
Noah, 232.
Peter, 233.
Samuel C., 34, 37, 39,
44, 45.
Stilsan, 108.
William, 109.
Alley, Ally, John, 235.
Samuel, 107.
Sarah, 109.
Thomas, 107, 109.
Ames [Fisher], 86, 96.
Amesbury (Mass.), 93,
150, 151.
Amiens, Peace of, 13.
Amherst (N. H.), 272.
Amory, Francis, 241.
John, 241.
Thomas C., 241.
Amsterdam, 10.
Anable, Edward, 212,
232.
Anderson, Charles, 77.
Larz, 76, 77.
Anderton, James, 139.
Andover (Mass.), 44,
66, 139, 151, 215.
Andrews, John, 236.
Robert, 235.
Ann, Cape, 257, 258,
259, 260.
Anne, Queen, 133.
Annis, Charles, 217.
Joseph, 217.
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INDEX.
Appleton, Nathan, 60.
Nathanel, 80.
Samuel, 74.
Archer, Benjamin, 245,
246 (2).
Henry, jr., 80.
Sarah, 245.
Arkansas Territory,
44.
Armstrong, , 2G7.
Mary, 267.
Arnold, 58.
Thomas, 219.
Ascension, Island of,
34.
Ashby, Edmund, 199,
210.
Ellenor, 210.
Ashby (Mass.), 44, 46.
Ashland (Ky.), 77.
Ashmun, Eli P., 33.
Astrsea (ship), 3.
Atkinson, John, 217,
230.
Nathaniel, 133.
Samuel, 133.
Stephen, 150.
Atwood, Joseph, jr.,
230.
Aubin, , 224.
Auburn (N. Y.),45, 78.
Augusta (Me.), 34.
Austin, Anthony, 103,
104 (2), 105.
John, 105.
Richard, 103.
William, 235.
Avon (N. Y.), 78.
Ayers, Aires, Aiers,
Ayer, Ayr, , 1 13.
Abraham, 117.
Ebenezer, 133.
Edward, 117.
Jabez, 116.
Ayers, Aires, Aiers,
Ayer, Ayr, Joseph,
119.
Martin, 15 1,220.
Mehetabel, 120.
Ruth, 113.
Samuel, 114,117, 119.
Stephen, 114.
Thomas, 116-118(2),
120.
William, 236.
Zacheus, 139.
Babcock, Adam, 241.
Babson, Hanah, 205.
Philip, 205.
Bacie, Martha, 204.
Bacon, Samuel, 236.
Badger, James, 141.
John, jr., 139.
Nathaniel, 133.
Bagley, Abel, 292 (2),
294.
Elias, 292.
Elizabeth, 253.
John, 253.
Joseph, 294.
Phinehas, 157.
Stephen-Hunt, 292.
Bailey, Bayley, Bayly,
, 105, 116, 197,
295.
Abigail, 106.
Abner, 219.
Abner-Ross, 296.
Amos, 236, 273, 278,
296 (2), 297, 301,
303.
Ann, 106, 123.
Anna, 298.
Anne, 282.
Benjamin, 238.
Benoni, 124.
Betty, 297.
Bailey, Bayley, Bayly,
Charity, 303.
Daniel, 255.
David, 128, 254, 255,
274, 275 (2), 277-
279, 281 (2), 282,
28(5, 302.
Edward, 224.
Elizabeth, 111, 112,
114, 253 (2), 281.
Eunice, 301.
Ezekiel, 248, 282,
297, 298, 301, 302.
George, 290.
Guido, 261.
Hannah, 243, 287.
Henry, 187.
Isaac, 217.
Jacob, 238, 255.
James, 109, 110 (2),
111, 112, 114, 118
(2), 123, 160, 279
(2), 280, 282 (2),
283, 286, 287.
Jane, 278.
Jedediah, 255.
John, 44, 45, 50, 55,
105-109, 111, 112
(2), 114, 116, 121,
217, 252-255, 279
(2), 292,294, 296-
299, 300 (2), 301
(2), 302, 303.
John, jr., 294.
Jonathan, 118 (2),
119, 121, 123, 124,
243-246, 248, 252.
Joseph, 106, 107,123,
216, 253 (2), 255,
273, 302.
Joshua, 217.
Josiah, 127.
Lois, 298.
Lucy, 301.
INDEX.
307
Bailey, Bayley, Bayly,
Luther, 238.
Lydia, 114, 297.
Mary, 111, 246, 281,
285, 286, 299.
Melritable, 292, 295.
Mercy, 244.
Moses, 245, 283.
Nathan, 236.
Nathaniel, 107, 123,
125 (2), 127, 128,
243, 244, 248, 253,
281, 303.
Paul, 286.
Pierce, 277, 294.
Richard, 107.
Salome, 296.
Samuel, 123,153,157,
224, 243, 278-280,
283, 285, 289(2).
Sarah, 244, 248, 274,
283.
Shobael, 119.
Stephen, 154, 224.
Susanna, 294.
Thomas, 108, 269,
280, 292.
William, 162, 289 f2),
290.
Bailier, Francis, 44.
Baker, , 196.
Abigail, 210, 260.
Bethiah, 260.
Cornelius, 196, 209,
210, 260 (2), 261,
262.
Cornelius, jr., 206.
Hannah; 179, 183,
196, 260 (3), 261.
John, 196, 260.
Jonathan, 211, 260.
Priscilla, 209, 260.
Samuel, 260.
Thomas, 80.
Balaam, Abigail, 204.
Balch, Balsh, Benja-
min, 202, 207, 260.
Benjamin, jr., 194.
Elizabeth, 194.
Free, 200.
Hannah, 201.
John, 198, 201, 259,
260 (2).
Martha, 209.
Mary, 202.
Miriam, 200.
Samuel, 79, 209.
Sarah, 190.
Baldwin, , 160.
Loamme, 74.
Ballard, H. A., 62.
Baltimore (Md.), 3,4,
22, 23, 28, 30, 43,
63, 64, 75.
Bancroft [George] ,83,
84, 90, 91.
Barbour, James, 44.
Philip P., 40.
Barcelona, 18, 19.
Barker, Anna, 104.
Barzillai, 104, 105
(2), 108-110, 112,
113(2), 115.
Berthy, 113.
Daniel, 248.
Ebenezer, 105.
Elizabeth, 106, 247,
278.
Enoch, 112.
Esther, 109.
Ezra, 108.
Hannah, 105, 244, 290.
Jacob, 108, 124, 126,
128, 244, 245 (2),
246, 247, 249-251,
277, 278, 280 (2),
282 (2).
James, 104, 105, 113,
Barker, James, 245
(3), 247, 248, 250,
275, 277.
James, jr., 280.
Jedidiah, 275, 295.
John, 292, 302.
Jonathan, 104, 250.
Joseph, 247, 290,
291 (2).
Margaret, 126, 282.
Mary, 104 (2), 109,
250, 251, 280, 282,
298.
Mercy, 111, 128.
Nathan, 106.
Nathaniel, 106 (2),
108, 109, 111, 113,
117 (2), 249, 295,
296 (2), 298, 302.
Noah, 115.
Patience, 124.
Ruth, 110.
Sarah, 105, 245, 277.
Thomaa,246,277,292.
Barnard, , 263.
Anna, 263.
Anne, 269.
Daniel B., 45.
John, 269.
Thomas, 139.
Barney, John, 45.
Barns, Henry, 159.
Barre (Mass.), 74.
Barron, Isaac, 168, 233.
Barry, John, 44.
William T., 60, 66,
67.
Barstow, Gideon, 40.
Bartell, , 220.
Bartlett, Bartlet, Bar-
let, Humphrey, 268.
John, 216.
John, jr., 240.
John, 3d., 217.
308
INDEX.
Barker, Jonathan, 221.
Nathaniel, 217.
llichard, 217.
Samuell, 216, 217.
Thomas, 216. .
Barton (Mass.), 55.
Bass River, 177, 178,
196.
Batavia, 3, 20, 27, 78.
Batchelder, Bachelder,
Abigail, 262.
Bethiah, 209, 2C4.
Hannah, 268, 272.
John, 192, 200, 209,
264 (2).
Bates, Isaac C., 45, 49,
55, 60, 66, 70, 74.
Bayard, James A., 31.
Bayley see Bailey.
Baylies, William, 66.
Beal, Ebeneser, 151.
Beale, Edward, 139.
Beard, Abijah, 232.
Becket, Davfcl, 80.
John, jr., 80.
Sarah, 1.
Beels, William, 233.
Beetel, John, 233.
Belcher, Jeremiah, 265.
Belfast (Me.), 34.
Bengal, 6.
Bengal Bay, 22.
Bemiington, 236, 237.
Benjamin (ship), 5, 9,
10.
Be nuet, Bennit, Benet,
, 112-114, 119.
Anthony, 114, 115.
David, 112, 246,250,
251.
Deborah, 193.
Elizabeth, 116, 250.
Jemima, 252.
Jeremiah, 248.
Bennet, Bennit, Benet,
John, 115, 193,197,
246 (2), 247(2) ,250.
Mary, 246, 279 (2).
Moses, 250.
Phillips, 251.
Rebecca, 114, 243.
Sarah, 114.
Spencer, 112, 247.
William, 113, 246
(4)- 248, 252.
William, jr., 243.
Bentley, , 259.
Bentoii, , 57.
Bernard, John, 159.
Berrien, John McPher-
son, 52, 53, 55, 59.
Bery, George, 233.
Betsey (ship), 11, 12,
13.
Bettis, Nathaniel, 212.
Beverly, James, 151.
Beverly (Mass.), 32,
33,89,177,257-262,
264, 266, 267, 268,
269, 271, 272, 304.
Beverly, North, 263.
Biles, , 193.
Bill, , 77.
Ann, 106.
John, 106.
Birtby,Birkby,Birkbe,
Birtbe, , 107.
Ebenezer, 121, 251-
254, 255 (2).
Esther, 118.
Hannah, 125.
Hephzibah, 251.
Isaac, 252.
Jeremiah, 116, 247,
249, 251 (3), 252.
Jonathan, 122, 251,
252.
Joseph, 249.
Birtby,Birkby,Birkbe,
Birtbe, Mary, 107,
247, 251.
Nathan, 126,255.
Priscilla, 254.
Samuel, 255.
Sarah, 117, 128,
253.
Thomas, 117, 121,
122, 125, 126, 128.
249 (2), 251.
Thomas, jr., 116 118.
Birtby, see also Bur-
pee.
Bishop, Bishopp, ,
185.
Benjamin, 274, 281,
283, 285, 286, 288
(2).
Edward, 157, 179,
183, 192, 210, 281,
301.
Edward, jr., 179,
199.
Enos, 283.
Jemima, 254, 276.
Joseph, 301.
Josiah, 254, 273, 274,
276.
Lydia, 273, 286.
Mary, 281.
[Phauuel], 93.
Samuel, 211.
Susanna, 285.
Biskie's Island, 264.
Bisson, Joshua, 265.
Black, , 193.
Freeborne, 197.
Freegrace, 179, 183.
John, 179 (2), 183,
197(2), 206.
John, jr., 184.
Mary, 206.
Blagge, Samuel, 43.
INDEX.
309
Blaisdell, Blasdel,
Blasedill.Blazedell,
, 231, 233.
Jacob, 218.
Moses, 218.
Nicholas, 168.
Ralph, 139.
Roger, 157.
Samuel, 218, 221.
Blake, , 49.
Thomas H., 49.
Blanchard, Blansherd,
Daniel, 80.
Wothl., 233.
Blashfield,Abigail,211.
Bliflng, Incris, 233.
Blodgette, George B.,
103, 243, 273.
Blomfield, , 213.
Blood, Joseph, 80.
Blunt, George, 1G2.
Ely, John, 163.
Board man, Thomas,
151.
Bointon see Boynton.
Bolton, Stephen, 139.
Thomas, 222.
William, jr., 139.
Bond, Erne, 205.
John, 201.
Bootman, Elizabeth,
206, 208.
Jeremiah, 205, 206.
Mathew,206(2),208.
Boott, K., 241.
Bordeaux, 30.
Borebanksee Burbank.
Boston (Mass.), 3, 11,
13, 20, 21, 24, 25,
26-28, 31, 33, 34,
37, 41-46, 54, 55,
57, 58, 60, 62, 64-
67, 71, 72, 74, 75,
79, 87-92, 94, 95,
Boston (Mass.), 130,
145, 150, 159, 166,
171, 174, 189, 191,
192, 202, 240, 261,
266.
Boswell, , 108.
Mary, 108.
Bourbon, Isle of, 7(2),
8(2), 9.
Bowden, Elizabeth,
210.
Bowdoin, [James],
86, 89, 91, 95.
Bowker, Joel, 80.
Bowls, John, 220.
Boxford(Mass-), 124.
Boyd, Enoch, 157.
Boynton, Bointou,
. 114.
Abiel, 126, 287.
Abraham, 125, 128,
243.
Amos, 280.
Ann, 106, 109.
Benjamin, 123.
Benoni, 128, 243(2).
Bethia. 244.
Bridget, 120, 124, 126,
Caleb, 106-109, 112,
114, 117.
Daniel, 115, 116.
David, 124, 162.
Dorothy, 243.
Ebenezer, 114, 246.
Edna, 245, 282.
Eleanor, 248.
Eleazer, 120.
Elizabeth, 246, 274.
Ellen, 115.
Enoch, 229.
Enoch, jr., 221.
Ephriam, 128, 274,
275(2), 276, 279-
283, 285, 287.
Boynton, Bointon,
Hannah, 107, 117,
119, 128.
Ililkiah, 113, 243,
246(4), 248-251,
252(3).
Ichabod, 108.
Isaac, 122.
Jane, 109, 243, 251.
Jedediah, 281.
Jeremiah, 112.
Jerusha, 246.
Job, 283.
Joannah, 246.
John, 107, 108(2),
109, 111, 133, 243
(2), 244, 246(2),
249(2), 276.
John, jr., 133.
Jonathan, 109, 112.
Joseph, 80, 105(3)-
109, 112, 113, 115,
121(2), 123, 124,
126, 128, 243, 246,
248.
Joseph, jr., 117, 118,
120, 245.
Joshua, 80, 109(2),
111, 115, 119, 133.
Joshua, jr., 133.
Margaret, 108.
Mary, 117, 243, 285.
Mehetable, 252.
Moses, 128.
Nathan, 126.
Nathaniel, 118.
Priscilla, 246.
Richard, 107, 124,
126.
Ruth, 250.
Samuel, 114 (4)-117,
118(2), 120, 122,
123, 125, 128(2),
243, 245.
310
INDEX.
Boynton, Bointon,
Sarah, 105, 117,128,
243, 245, 249, 279.
Stephen, 123, 243.
William, 106, 115.
Zachariah, 133.
Zacharias, 248.
Zachery, 115.
Zacheus, 243.
Brackenbury, Ellen,
179, 183.
Richard, 179, 183.
Bracket, _Samuel, 233.
Bradbury, William,
153, 236.
Bradford, , 303.
Hanah, 202.
Jacob-Pierson, 303.
Kachel, 199, 206.
Robert, 195, 202.
William, 206, 208.
Bradford (Mass.), 108,
269.
Bradstreet, , 115,
117, 133, 284.
Aaron, 109.
Abigail, 251, 299.
Bridget, 108, 119.
Daniel, 295.
David, 294.
Dolly, 300.
Dorothy, 117, 293.
Elizabeth, 114, 117,
281, 292.
Ezekiel, 276, 285,
299, 301.
Hannah, 106, 11 8, 120,
273(2), 292, 301.
Humphrey, 105, 120-
Jane, 128, 278.
Jeminah, 301.
John, 116, 117, 120,
122, 255, 284, 297,
299, 301.
Bradstreet, Jonathan,
115, 295.
Joshua, 118.
Judith, 299.
Lucy, 290, 302.
Mary, 252, 285.
Moses, 105(2)-109,
113, 114, 116, 118,
119, 121(2), 122,
126-128, 254, 285,
287(2)-290, 292,
293, 295, 301.
Moses, jr., 251, 252,
300, 301(2), 302.
Nathan, 296.
Nathaniel, 105, 126,
127, 254, 255, 273
(2), 275(2), 276,
277(2), 278, 279
(2), 281, 284-289,
292, 294-296, 298,
302(2), 303.
Phebe, 298.
Salla, 301.
Samuel, 107, 113.
Sarah, 120, 286, 297,
301, 302.
Branch, John, 52, 53,
55, 59.
Brautz, Lewis, 22, 23.
Brasher, John, 233.
Bray, Elisabeth, 289.
Enoch, 289.
Breen, Cape, 220(2).
Breton, Cape, 150, 219.
Briars, Mary, 206.
Bricket, Nathaniell,
140.
Bridges, Abigail, 245.
Daniel, 251.
Jane, 244.
John, 244, 245, 246
(2), 247, 251-253.
Joseph, 253.
Bridges, Ruth, 252.
Samuel, 247.
Sarah, 252.
Bridgham, Jonathan,
130, 131.
Bridge-water, 204.
Briggs, George N., 60,
66.
Brinton, Hannah, 247.
John, 247.
Brisco, Abigail, 205.
Bristo (negro), 274.
Bristol (Eng.), 145,
150, 263.
Broadway Hotel, 76.
Brocklebank, Brocle-
bank, Brottlebank,
105, 107, 113.
Elizabeth, 118, 125,
280, 284.
Eunice, 285.
Francis, 118.
Hannah, 103, 104,
112.
Jane, 105.
John, 113.
Joseph, 107, 125, 128,
243, 246, 287, 290.
Lois, 285.
Mary, 128.
Moses, 243.
Nathan, 246, 279, 280,
284, 287, 290.
Samuel, 103, 104, 111
(2), 112, 114.
Samuel, jr., 127.
Sarah, 103, 104, 114,
127, 279.
Bromwell, Anne, 198.
Brookhouse, Benjam-
in, 80.
Brooks, , 56.
Henry M., 169-175.
P. C., 241.
INDEX.
Brown, , 108, 262.
Abigail, 114.
Abraham, 127.
Benjamin, 121.
Ebenezer, 153, 162.
Ephraim, 292.
Francis, 292.
Georg, 153.
Hannah, 123.
James, 125, 251 (2).
John, 113-115, 117,
118, 119 (2), 121,
123, 125, 127, 217,
257.
John, jr., 139.
Jonathan, 79.
Joseph, 121, 217.
Joshua, 216.
Joshua, jr., 217.
Martha, 117, 119.
Mary, 115, 117, 118,
251, 282.
Mehetabel, 124.
Nathaniel, 114 (2),
115 (2), 117-121,
123-125, 127, 153,
282.
Obidiah, 212, 232.
Ruth, 125.
Samuel, 113, 118,230.
Sarah, 108, 120, 123.
Thomas, 217.
William, 127, 162.
Brunswick (Me.), 34.
Bruzel, Nicholas, 236.
Bryant, David, 236.
Buchanan, , 76.
Buffalo (N. Y.), 45,78.
Buffum, James R., 79.
Buonaparte, 18.
Burbank, Borebank,
, 105.
Caleb, 105-109, 111,
113.
Burbank, Borebank,
Ebenezer, 113.
John, 103, 106, 230.
Martha, 109.
Mary, 103, 107.
Samuel, 111.
Timothy, 108.
Burke [Edmund], 100.
Burnet, Judge, 76.
Burnham, Seth, 236.
Burpee see also Birtby .
David, 273.
Elizabeth, 289.
Hannah, 274.
Isaac, 283, 284.
Joanna, 281.
Jonathan, 273.
Joseph, 279,281, 282,
284, 289, 290.
Joshua, 279.
Mary, 284.
Mehitable, 284, 290.
Rebekah, 282.
Samuel, 274, 275(2).
Susanna, 283.
Burr, Aaron, 25.
Burthe, Jonathan, 124.
Thomas, 124.
Burton, Isaac, 168, 212.
Bury, Edward, 201.
Bussey, Benjamin, 241.
Buswell, Buswel, ,
105, 106.
Isaac, 153.
John, 153.
Joseph, 106.
Sarah, 105.
Butler, Bonjamin
Franklin, 66, 67.
Byfleld (Mass.), 156.
Byley, Jonathan, 198.
Cadiz, 13, 14, 20.
Caesar (negro), 280,288
Caesar, Spanish In-
dian boy, 141.
Calcutta, 7, 12, 21, 22.
Caldwell, , 76.
Calef, John, 133.
Calhoun, John C., 33,
42, 44, 53, 55, 64.
Call, John, 157.
Cambrey (N. Y.), 45.
Cambridge (Mass .) ,
34, 37, 38, 43, 44,
46,76,95, 151, 163,
164, 228.
Canada, ,111,114.
James, 110(2).
John, 111.
Stephen, 114.
Canada, 45, 139, 155,
221, 222, 229, 237,
261, 266.
Canandaigua (N. Y.),
45, 78.
Car of Neptune
(steamboat), 29.
Carlton, Daniel, 236.
Thomas, 139.
Carr, James, 218.
Richard, 151, 220.
Robert, 153.
Solomon, 157.
William, 153.
Cash, Lam, 233.
Cass, Lewis, 60, 66,
67.
Castle William, 153.
Cat Island, 304.
Catskill Mountains, 71.
Celers, John, 233.
Ceney, Thomas, 233.
Center, , 111, 114.
Eleanor, 114.
John, 111.
Ceylon, Island of, 22.
Chalvce, William, 139.
312
INDEX.
Chamberlain, Benja-
min, 233.
Chambers, Ezekiel, 49.
Chandler, , 130,
275, 282.
Daniel, 230.
John, 216.
Chapley see Shapleigh.
Chaplin, Ann, 250.
Daniel, 249.
David, 246.
Ebenezar, 250.
Elizabeth, 111, 126,
251, 255.
Hannah, 124, 283.
Jeremiah, 109, 126,
128, 243-247, 249,
250(2), 251,252(2),
255.
John, 107, 124, 126,
243, 245 (2), 247
(2), 250.
John, jr., 283.
Jonathan, 108, 128,
274.
Joseph, 106(2)-109,
111, 245-247.
Margaret, 124.
Mary, 243, 246.
Mercy, 126.
Mehitable, 243, 244.
Moses, 250.
Sarah, 274.
Chapman, , 107.
Dorothy, 107.
Edward, 254, 273-
277, 279, 282(2),
285.
Joseph, 275, 279.
Mary, 274.
Sarah, 273, 285.
Symond, 277.
Charlestown (Mass.),
54, 55, 60, 66, 74,
Charlestown (Mass.),
180, 189, 204.
Charlottesville (Va.),
75.
Chase, Chese, ,
238.
Aqnila, 217.
Benjamin, 217.
Isaac, 224.
John, 154, 224.
Chebacco (Mass.),
206, 267.
Cheever, Aaron, 154,
224.
John, 163, 254, 276.
Chelmsford (Mass.),
192.
Chelsea (Mass.), 161.
Cheney, Cheny, Chee-
ny, Daniel, 140.
David, 230.
Daniel, jr., 140.
Elias, 153, 224.
John, 134, 228.
Joseph, 151, 220.
Peter, 134.
Thomas, 168.
Chesapeake (frigate),
27.
Chesterfield(Vt .), 238.
Chcut see Chute.
China, 3, 26.
Choate, John, 248.
Joseph, 228.
Kobert, 248.
Rufus, 60, 66, 67.
Chubb, Mercy, 208.
Mercy, jr., 208.
Pasco, 139.
Chute, Cheut, Chewte,
, 107, 119.
Daniel, 156, 221, 228,
229.
David, 228.
Chute, Cheut, Chewte,
Hannah, 123.
James, 123.
Jemima, 125.
Lionel, 125.
Cincinnati (Ohio), 76
(2), 77.
Clarck, Mary, 187.
Clark, Clarke, Clerk,
,44,45, 89,90,
112, 114, 116.
Aaron, 251, 280, 294.
Abigail, 126.
Beriah, 280.
Daniel, 218,279,280,
282 (2).
Ebenezer, 114, 246,
248.
Elizabeth, 198, 279.
Esther, 112.
Hannah, 128.
Henry, 133.
Jane, 289.
Jeremiah, 250.
John, 107-109 (2),
111, 127, 139, 202,
211.
Jonathan, 116, 126,
248, 251, 254.
Judah, 126, 128, 243,
244 (2), 248, 250.
Lydia, 292.
Mary, HI, 246, 248,
288.
Mercy, 243.
Michal, 228.
Moses, 254, 288, 289,
291 (2), 292, 294.
Nathaniel, 134.
Richard, 108, 126,
127, 243 (2), 244,
248.
Ruth, 248.
Sarah, 107, 280.
INDEX.
313
I
Clark, Clarke, Clerk,
Stephen, 154, 220,
224.
Thomas, 133, 219,
244.
William, 198.
Clay, , 65, 76, 77.
Henry, 31, 34, 35, 44,
62, 65, 68.
Cleaves, Cleves, 202.
Nathaniel, 302.
Susy, 302.
William, 199.
Clement, , 55.
Nathaniel, 154, 155.
demons, Bennaiah,
235.
Cleopatra (ship), 22.
Cleveland, , 9, 78.
Cloutman, Samuel, 80.
Cobbett, Thomas, 184.
Coburn, , 202.
Edward, 209.
Mary, 192.
Kobert, 192.
Sarah, 209.
Cod, Cape, 26, 222.
Coffin, James, 131.
John, 130.
Joseph, 154-156, 219.
Joshua, 129, 160, 212.
Nathaniel, 145.
Stephen, 217.
Cogswell, Abigail, 297.
Dorothy, 297, 302.
Elisabeth, 292.
Erancis, 269.
Hannah, 267, 295.
Jonathan, 303.
Lois, 302.
Nathaniel, 291, 292
(2), 293 (2), 294
(2), 296, 297 (2),
301 (2), 302 (2), 303.
Cogswell, Northend,
291.
Sarah, 292.
Wade, 296.
Coker, Benjamin, 133.
Joseph, 153, 224.
Martha, 133.
Moses, 133.
Colby, Coleby, ,
108, 109, 111.
Abraham, 111.
Ambrose, 219.
Benjamin, 219.
Dorothy, 108.
Edmund, 218.
Hezekiah, 224.
Ichabod, 153, 224.
Isaac, 109.
John, 151, 220.
Makepeace, 153, 224.
Samuel, 154,218,221,
224.
Spencer, 220.
Thomas, 218.
Cole, Coal, Daniel, 235.
Noah, 233.
Mary, 204.
Rebecca, 119.
Solomon, 204.
Coleman, Colman,
, 105, 130.
Benjamin, 154, 155,
226, 229.
Benjamin, jr., 229.
Dudley, 162.
Ephraim, 134.
Jabez, 104.
John, 125.
Jnda, 134.
Judith, 113.
Margery, 129.
Sarah, 105, 127.
Thomas, 105, 125.
127, 134.
Coleman, Colman, To-
biah, 104, 105.
Tobias, 113.
Collins, Daniel, 203,
205.
Mary, 205.
Columbus (Ohio). 78.
Comeay, William, 233.
Commins see Cum-
mings.
Conant, , 190.
Abigail, 268.
Bethia, 199.
Elizabeth, 185, 196,
272.
Exercise, 179, 183.
John, 196, 199, 205.
John, jr., 200.
Jonathan, 268.
Lot, 179, 183, 185,
196(2), 200, 272.
Martha, 196.
Mary, 196.
Nathaniel, 196, 198.
Roger, 179, 183, 259.
Ruth, 272.
Sarah, 179(2), 183,
184, 196.
William, 196.
Concord (Mass.), 49,
90.
Connecticut, 38, 62, 92.
Connecticut River, 49.
Constantinople, 304.
Conway, H. W., 44.
Cook, , 12.
Elias, 163.
Coolidge, Joseph, 241.
Coombs, Anthony, 203.
Dorcas, 203.
Eolan, 218.
Hugh, 218.
Cooper, Couper, Ellis,
293.
314
INDEX.
Cooper, Couper, Eze-
kiel, 282.
Hannah,123, 255,291.
James, 291-293.
Jedidiah, 278.
Jesse, 285.
John, 217, 236.
Leonard, 128, 274,
275, 278, 280-283,
285, 287, 288.
Mary, 117, 278.
Molly, 292.
Moses, 125, 255, 273
(2), 274, 281.
Parker, 154, 224.
Peter, 119, 274, 288,
292(2).
Priscilla, 274.
Samuel, 116(2), 117,
119, 123, 125, 128,
278.
Sarah, 275, 283.
Susanna, 280, 287.
Timothy, 220.
Copenhagen, 24.
Copp, John, 222.
Corcoran, , 67.
Corning, , 194.
Elizabeth, 179, 183,
203.
Hannah, 192.
Samuel, 179, 183,
192(2).
Samuel, jr., 179, 210.
Samuel, 3rd, 207.
Susanna, 210.
Cornwallis (ship), 22,
23.
Corwen see Curwen.
Cottle, Ezra, 134.
Couch, John, 151, 220.
Cox, Hannah, 204,211.
Robert, 198.
Thomas, 204, 268.
Crawford, Thomas H. ,
58, 62.
William H., 33.
Cresbury, Stephen,
145.
Cresey, Cresie, Crecie,
Creasie, Abel, 123,
254-256, 273-277,
279(2), 282, 294-
296(2).
Abigail, 213.
Amos, 297.
Ann, 115, 252.
Caleb, 276, 282.
David, 125, 273, 276,
278, 279(2), 281(2).
Elizabeth, 251, 289.
Eunice, 275.
Hannah, 122, 254.
Jacob, 295.
James, 256, 277, 292,
293, 294, 297.
John, 117, 201, 203,
251, 252, 254, 255
(2), 275, 276(2),
278, 279(2), 295
(3)-297.
Jonathan, 119, 251.
Joseph, 116, 128,156.
Juda, 273.
Judith, 278.
Lucy, 276.
Mark, 127, 275, 289,
291, 294(2).
Mary, 120, 251, 253,
254, 278.
Mehitable, 255, 291.
Michael, 121, 123,
125.
Mighell, 114, 117,
119.
Mihall, 114, 116.
Moses, 293.
Richard, 296.
Cresey, Cresie, Crecie,
Creasie, Samuel,
126, 253, 273, 274,
276 (2).
Sarah, 203, 274,
278, 292, 295(2).
Susanna, 273, 274.
Tamer, 121.
William, 115 (3), 117,
120, 122, 123, 126-
128, 273, 294.
Crombie, Benjamin,
288.
Ruth, 288.
Cromwell's Pond, 265.
Cronstadt, 24.
Crosby, Crosbie, ,
104.
Antony, 103, 113.
Elizabeth, 120.
John, 250.
Jonathan, 118, 250.
Nathaniel, 103, 104,
118, 120, 122(2).
Prudence, 103.
Thomas, 113.
Crose, John, 215.
Cross, Parker, 80.
Crowninshield, B. W.,
33, 36, 44, 45, 49,
54, 55.
George, 24, 34, 36.
Jacob, 28.
Mary, 24.
Crown Point, 219.
Cuba, Island of, 21.
Cue, Elizabeth, 207.
Robert, 201, 207.
Cuen, Thomas, 233.
Cummings, Cummin,
Commins, Ame,
159.
Cosham, 233.
Elige, 233.
Cummings, Cummin,
Commins, Eliza-
beth, 159.
Obadiah, 232.
Obid, 212.
Oliver, 80.
Cummins, David, 43.
Currier, ,218.
Asa, 236.
Isaac, 230.
Jacob, 154, 224.
Jedediah, 228.
John, 219, 220.
Samuel, 154, 224.
William, 228.
Curtis, Curtice, ,
201.
Elizabeth, 265.
Samuel, 265.
Curwen, Corwen,
George, 260(2).
Gushing, , 95.
Caleb, jr., 153.
Thomas, 223.
Cushman, Joshua, 37.
Custom House, 5.
Cutler, Rev. Manas-
seh, 2, 3.
Dadson, John, 233.
Dalton [Tristram] , 87,
94, 95.
Damar i scotta (Me. ) ,
143.
Dana[Francis],86, 95,
96.
Joseph, 39.
Nathan, 89.
Danforth, Danford,
Francis, 134.
John, 134.
Jonathan, 134. g
Joseph, 222, 223(2;,
229, 230.
INDEX.
Danforth, Danford,
Samuel, 153.
Samuel, jr., 226.
Thomas, 134.
Daniel, Mary, 116.
Danvers (Mass.), 65.
Davenport, Thomas,
80.
Davis, , 22, 195,
231, 237.
Aaron, 226.
Abigail, 254.
Cornelious, 121-123.
Ebenezer, 127.
Elizabeth, 121, 127.
Ephraim, 217.
Hannah, 250.
I. P., 241.
Isaac, 242, 276, 292.
Israel, 168, 254.
Jacob, 245.
James, 247, 248, 292
(2).
John, 44, 45, 55,, 60,
66, 67, 70, 127, 139,
243.
Jonathan, 241.
Joshua, 292.
Lydia, 255.
Mary, 251, 254.
Moses, 243, 245, 247,
248, 250, 251.
Nathan, 123,254(3),
255, 256, 27(3.
Samuel, 127, 256.
Sarah, 122.
Susannah, 127.
Thomas, 230.
Zachariah, 217.
Day, David, 80.
Dayton (Ohio), 77.
Dean, Walter, 212.
Dearborn, H. A.S.,60,
62.
315
Dearborn, Henry A.,
54.
Decker, , 111.
Elizabeth, 110.
John, 110, 111.
Dedham (Mass.), 37,
42.
Deland, , 210.
DeLaud, Katherin,
209.
Delaware, 60, 66.
Denny, , 58.
Densemore, Francis,
236.
Derby, Alice, 263.
Charles, 5.
Elias Basket, 3, 4,
11, 28.
John, 263.
Perley, 257.
Richard, 24.
Detroit (Mich.), 78.
Deuty see Duty.
Devereux, Humphrey,
55.
Maryanne C., 55.
Devonshire (negro) ,
279.
Dickinson, Dickcnson,
Diceson, Dick
eson, , 104,
114.
Amos, 281.
Daniel, 278.
David, 124, 279.
Dolly, 289.
Elizabeth, 122, 252,
275.
George, 111, 127, 128
(2), 244, 247, 275,
277-279, 281.
Hannah, 253, 254.
James, 106, 107, 109,
(2)-lll, 125, 127,
316
INDEX.
Dickinson, Dickenson,
Diccson, Dicke-
son, James, 247,
280-282, 284 (2).
Jane, 276.
Jeremiah, 275, 277.
John, 106, 116, 252-
254 (2), 273, 274.
John, jr., i>86-289,
291.
John D., 45.
Joseph, 128, 274,
288.
Mahlan, 67.
Mary, 107, 125.
Mehitable, 287.
Mercy, 104.
Moses, 281, 295.
Paul, 280.
Rebecah, 114, 244.
Samuel, 110, 128 (2).
Sarah, 127, 253, 278,
282.
Susanna, 286, 291.
Thomas, 116, 119
(2), 122, 124, 128,
134, 252, 253, 274,
278, 295.
Thomas, jr., 252,
254, 275, 276.
William, 273, 274.
Dike, Jonathan, 206.
Dinah (negro), 279,
284.
Dixy,Dixsy, ,196.
Anna, 179, 183.
Elizabeth, 196.
John, 196.
Sarah, 196.
William, 179, 183.
Dodge, Barnabas, 161.
Daniel, 272.
Deborah, 194.
Deliverance, 197.
Dodge, Ebenezer, 197,
211.
Edward, 200, 208.
Elizabeth, 179, 183,
193, 195, 262 (5),
265.
Hannah, 2fi5, 267.
Joanna, 204, 207.
Jonathan, 266, 267,
(3).
John, 179, 183, 194,
196, 197 (2), 198,
208, 211, 262 (5),
266, 267 (3), 282.
John, jr., 179, 186,
(2), 193, 196-198,
200, 201, 266.
Joseph, 195, 198,
200.
Joseph, jr., 211.
Josiah, 197.
Martha, 193.
Mary, 179, 183, 197,
200, 268.
Mary, jr., 179, 183.
Phinehas, 282.
Richard, 161, 179,
183, 186, 195, 262.
Ruth, 209.
Samuell, 186, 198.
Sarah, 186, 196 (2)
198, 262, 267.
William, 179, 183,
186, 195, 196, 204,
207, 210 (2), 260,
262 (2), 265, 266
(3), 267 (3).
William, jr., 179,190,
193, 266.
Dole, Abner, 134, 140.
Amos, 252.
Enoch, 255,
Esther, 288.
John, 162, 290.
Dole, John, jr., 151,
219.
Joseph, 255.
Nathan, 288, 290.
Richard, 134, 248,
249, 252.
Richard, jr., 134, 140.
Sarah, 248.
Silas, 163.
Stephen, 217, 220,
249.
William, 134, 140,
145.
Donnell, Benjamin,
246.
Nathaniel, 246.
Dorchester (Mass.),
257, 258.
Dorchester Company,
257, 258.
Dorman, , 111.
Ephraim, 110.
Hannah, 110.
Phebe, 111.
Seth, 111.
Dougharty, Micah,
168.
Dover (Eng.), 10.
Dow, Benjamin, 245.
Daniel, 236, 254.
Henry, 140.
Hephzibah, 274.
Jeremiah, 253-255
(2).
Jeremy, 274.
John, 245, 246, 302
(2).
Mesheck W., 79.
Moses, 246.
William, 253.
Dowin, Moses, 154.
Downer, Gideon, 226.
John, jr., 220.
Joseph, jr., 134.
INDEX.
317
Downes, Elizabeth,
116 (2).
Richard, 116.
Downing, David, 219.
Jonathan, 273, 275
(2).
Moses, 224.
Priscilla, 273.
Dowse, Edward, 37,
39.
Dresser, Abigail, 115 )
290.
Amos, 245, 281, 299
(2)-301.
Ann, 296.
Benjamin, 115. 246,
277, 291.
Bethiah, 280.
Daniel, 124, 273, 274,
280, 282, 283, 285,
293.
David, 126, 243, 280,
281, 300.
David, jr., 278, 285,
291.
Dorothy, 295.
Edna, 255.
Elizabeth, 105, 112,
247, 274, 285, 298.
Hannah, 244 (2),
247, 280, 301.
Henery, 116.
James, 122, 252.
Jane, 108, 128.
Jemima, 276.
Jeremiah, 113, 243.
John, 104-108 (2),
109-112, 120, 243,
249, 289 (2)-293,
295, 296.
John, jr., 105, 115,
116, 118, 120, 122-
127, 252, 253, 255,
274, 276.
Dresser, Jonathan, 106,
123(2), 124(2), 126,
128, 244, 247.
Joseph, 109, 128,
203, 243-245, 247,
278, 298, 299.
Lydia, 111, 116, 283.
Mark, 278.
Martha, 105, 124.
Mary, 104 (2), 105,
126, 274, 280, 292,
297, 299.
Mehitable, 118, 245,
273, 285.
Mighell, 111.
Moses, 125, 253.
Nathan, 123, 247,
295.
Nathaniel, 110, 111.
Phoebe, 291.
Priscilla, 294.
Rebekah, 243.
Richard, 109.
Samuel, 105 (2), 106,
(2)-109, 111-113,
115, 116, 128 (2),
243, 245-247, 249,
278, 280, 281 (2),
282, 283, 292 (2),
294, 295, 297.
Samuel, jr., 123,124,
126, 276, 277.
Sarah, 108, 123, 128,
155, 276, 283.
Stephen, 127.
Thomas, 108, 111,
112, 126.
Drinker, Ruth, 203.
Dudley, , 198.
Duggans,William, 233.
Dtigless, John, 232.
Dummer,Dumer, ,
109, 113.
John, 108, 134.
Dummer, Dumer, Na-
thaniel, 112, 134,
223 (2), 230, 235.
Richard, 108 (2), 109,
112, 134, 156, 223,
229.
Richard, jr., 108,228,
230.
Samuel, 153, 224,
229.
Shubael, 113, 229.
William, 160, 229(2).
Dunstable(Mass.), 90.
Dustin, Dudly, 236.
Duston, David, 151.
Duty, Deuty, ,116,
118, 271.
Abigail, 270.
Andrew, 121.
Elizabeth, 281.
Eunice, 282.
John, 116, 249.
Joseph, 127.
Mark, 283.
Mathew, 118.
Moses, 123, 280 (2)-
283, 285, 287.
Samuel,119, 249,251,
252 (2), 253 (2).
Sarah, 114, 251, 287.
William, 113(2), 114,
119, 121, 123, 127,
285.
Dwight, Henry W., 44,
46, 55.
Dwinell, Amos, 223,
230.
Henry, 223, 230.
Zachariah, 229.
Eastnan, Nathaniel
153.
East liridgewater
(Mass.), 44.
318
INDEX.
Eastick, Richard, 273.
Zebulon, 273.
East India Marine
Hall, 65.
East India Marine So-
ciety, 21.
East India Museum, 35.
East Indies, 3, 5 (2).
Easton (Mass), 74.
Eaton, , 52, 59.
Eaton, Henry, 153.
John H., 53, 55.
Joseph, 151,200,220,
235.
Samuel, 236.
Eayr, John, 217.
Edward, Nathaniel,
233.
Edwards, Abraham,
219.
Egypt, 18, 19.
Ela, Daniell, 139.
Elbridge (N.Y.), 45.
Eliot, Elliot, Andrew,
199, 202, 211.
Joseph, 157.
Mary, 201.
William, 201, 209.
Elithorp, Elthrop, Ele-
thorp, , 106,
117.
Abigail, 109.
Daniel, 125.
Henry, '245.
Margaret, 106, 123.
Nathaniel, 109, 125.
Nathaniel, jr., 123.
Sarah, 117.
Elkins, 2.
Ellingwood, Ellen-
wood, Elenwood,
Abigail, 267.
Benjamin, 205, 208.
Elizabeth, 209, 270,
Ellingwood, Ellen-
wood, Elenwood,
Elizabeth, 271.
John, 209.
Mary, 205, 208.
Ralph, 179, 183, 197,
202.
Robert, 271.
William, 267.
Ellis, Ellice, , 238.
Charles, 212, 223.
Ellsworth, Elsworth,
, 115, 117.
Aaron, 287.
David, 79, 289.
Edward, 283.
Hannah, 248, 281,
294, 302.
Jacob, 290, 292.
Jeremiah, 246-249
(2), 250, 252-254,
285.
Jeremiah, jr., 283-
285, 287.
Jeremy, jr., 282.
Jonathan, 220, 250.
Joseph, 282, 283.
Lucy, 288.
Margaret, 253.
Martha, 288.
Mary, 292.
Nathaniel, 252, 254,
288-290, 292 (2),
294, 300.
Paul, 302.
Samuel, 285.
Sarah, 115, 246.
Thomas, 247, 281,
283, 285 (2), 286,
288, 298, 300, 302
(2).
Thomas, jr., 298.
William, 286.
William W., 62.
Ely, Samuel, 236.
Emerson, Abraham,
235.
John, 140.
Emery, Emary, An-
thony, 134.
Benjamin, 154, 226.
Daniel, 154, 155, 218.
John, 214, 217 (2).
John, jr., 213, 214,
215, 230.
Jonathan, 134, 140.
Endicott, Endecott,
Jacob, 80.
John, 42, 258, 259.
Enfleld (N. H.), 49.
England, 2, 6, 7, 9, 10,
13 (2), 21, 22, 24,
27, 28, 30, 31, 44,
55, 149, 177, 185,
257, 258, 260.
English, Phillip, 80.
Erie, Fort, 45.
Erie, Lake, 78.
Ernst, C. W., 174, 175.
Esman, Elizabeth, 113.
Mary, 113.
Essex County, 41, 132,
154, 155, 157, 161,
170, 175, 219.
Essex Institute, 23,
129, 169, 171, 173,
174, 212, 304.
Estman, , 109, 111.
Robert, 111.
Zachery, 109.
Esty, Richard, 254 (2).
Europe, 10, 11, 13, 24,
29, 30, 45.
Eustis, William, 39.
Evanson, Georg, 139.
Evens, Samuel, 232.
Ezekiel, 218.
Everett, Edward, 44,
INDEX.
319
Everett, Edward, 45,
46, 55, 60, 66.
Exeter (N. H.), 211,
238.
Fair field, , 231.
Matthew, 168.
Samuel, 168.
Fall, Abraham, 140.
Fall River (Mass.), 61,
79.
Falmouth (Me.), 267,
269, 270.
Farley, Mary, 263.
Michial, 161, 263.
Fellows, Benjamin,
223, 230.
Ebenezer, 219.
Thomas, 153.
Felt, , 175.
Mehetabel, 127.
Phinehas, 125.
Samuel, 127.
Field, Lydia, 270.
Fincastle (Va.), 76.
Finland, Gulf of, 24.
Fitts, Daniel, 153.
Nathanael, 153.
Richard, 153.
Flanders, Ezekiel, 230.
Richard, 154, 162,
226.
Simon, 80.
Flood, Ebenezer, 157,
226.
Ebenezer, jr., 226.
Enoch, 223, 228, 230,
Henry, 221.
Israel, 223, 228, 230,
John, 134, 151, 153
226.
Joseph, 134.
Joseph, jr., 154, 155
William, 228.
Florida, 44.
Fogg, Stephen, 80.
Folger, Walter, jr.,
34, 37, 39.
Follansbee, Follensby,
Francis, 220, 230.
Foot, John, 221.
Forbes, Charles, 80.
Ford, Mary, 215.
Forest River, 259.
Forgerty, James, 79.
Forsyth, John, 67.
Foster, Forster, ,
106 (2), 108, 109.
Abraham, 107.
Caleb, 108.
Dan, 255.
Daniel, 253-255 (2),
275.
Ebenezer, 106, 246.
Elizabeth, 275.
Hannah, 106, 255.
Isaac, 226, 253.
Joseph, 153, 226.
Mehitable, 107.
Mercy, 254.
Moses, 246.
Ruth, 109.
Samuel, 108.
Simeon, 236.
Stephen, 236.
Timothy, 105.
William, 105, 108.
Fowl, John, 168.
Franais, Cape, 5.
France, 6, 7, 10, 21, 27,
30, 42, 44, 66, 68,
133, 304.
Francistown (N. H.),
272.
Frankfort(Ky.),77.
Frazier, Frasier, Fra-
cier, Phrazer,
Abigail, 124.
Frazier, Frasier, Fra-
cier, Phrazier,
Collen, 113-115,
117-120, 122, 124,
126, 134.
Ebenezar, 119.
Elizabeth, 115.
Gershom, 120.
John, 114, 118, 156,
160.
Lawson, 126.
Mark, 277.
Moses, 279.
N., 241.
Nathan, 122,273(2),
274 (2), 275, 277,
279.
Simon, 113.
Solomon, 275.
Fredericksburg (Va.),
75.
Freeman, , 89.
Freese, Fres, James,
217.
John, 217.
French, Benjamin, 218.
Hestor, 134.
John, 134, 221.
Joshua, 219.
Osiah, 219.
Samuel, 221.
Frink, Samuel, 236.
Frost, John, 233.
Fuller, Nathan, 168.
Timothy, 34, 37, 39.
Gage, Geage, Amos,
236.
Apphia, 284.
Deborah, 282.
Elizabeth, 122, 248
(2), 280, 300, 301.
Hannah, 300, 301.
Jabez, 235.
320
INDEX.
Gage, Geage, Jane,
290.
Jeremiah, 236.
John, 122, 219.
Jonathan, 219.
Joshua, 34.
Lucy, 209.
Mary, 244, 254, 278.
Mehitable, 246.
Mercy, 248, 251.
Moses, 126, 266.
Nathaniel, 253, 286,
290.
Sarah, 124, 200, 243,
245.
Samuel, 250, 302.
Samuel-Northend,
286, 299, 300, 302-
Thomas, 122, 126,
200, 244 (2), 246,
248, 250, 278, 280,
282, 284, 286, 288
(2).
Thomas, jr., 122,
124.
William, 243-246(2),
248, 251, 253, 254,
286, 300, 301.
Gaines (N.Y.), 45.
Gale, Abraham, 210.
Edmund, 193, 208.
Sarah, 208.
Gallatin, Albert, 31.
Gaily, John, 185.
Gardiner (Me.), 37.
Gardner, , 161.
L. P., 241.
Samuel, 153, 220.
Richard, 10, 11.
Garner, Joseph, 135.
Gatchell, Robert, 218.
Genesee (N. Y.), 78.
Geneva (N. Y.),45, 78.
Genoa, 13, 14, 17, 19.
George, John, 156.
Sam, 139.
George II, 154, 155.
Georgia, 33, 53, 55,67.
Gerrish, Gerish, ,
144, 157, 218, 219.
George, jr., 233.
Jacob, 160.
James, 233.
Jane, 134.
Joseph, 134, 155,
160, 194, 222, 228,
229.
Moses, 160.
Paul, 160.
Samuel, 153,160,224,
225, 227.
Samuel, 3d, 226.
Stephen, 160, 222,
229.
William, 134.
Gerry [El bridge], 88,
92, 95.
Ghent, 31.
Gibraltar, 20.
Giddings, Hannah, 264.
Giles, John, 205.
Gilman, Maurick, 134.
Gilson, Samuel, 212,
232.
Gleason, Gleson, Jona-
than, 232.
Joseph, 212, 232.
Gloucester (Mass.),
257, 264-266, 270.
Glover, Beamsly. 150.
Goald, Moses, 233.
Godfrey, John, 226.
Jonathan, 153, 226.
Gold, Joseph, 139.
Goldsmith, Thomas,
201, 207.
Goodale, Samuel, 208,
211.
Goodale, Sarah, 211.
Goodell, Abner C.,173
174, 175.
Good Hope, Cape of,
3, 5-7, 12.
Goodhue, Hezekiah,
162.
Goodhue, Joseph, 219.
Gooding, Edward, 218
(2).
Goodridge, Benjamin,
jr., 139.
Daniell, 140.
Edmund, 134.
Jeremiah, 221.
Joseph, 134, 140.
Joseph, jr., 134.
Josiah, 162.
Oliver, 151,228, 230.
Philip, 138.
Richard, 222.
Samuel, 134.
Goodwin, Edward,
139.
Hannah, 251.
Richard, 135, 157,
226.
Stephen, 154, 155.
Goold, John, 224.
Gorham, Benjamin, 39,
46, 55, 66.
Nathaniel, 88, 89, 90,
93, 94,95.
Gospel, Society for
propagating the,
239-241.
Gould, John, 154, 157.
Grace (ship), '22.
Granger, Gideon, 75.
Grant, John, 134.
William, 160.
Graves, William, 157.
Gray, Isaac, 265.
Rebecca, 265.
INDEX.
321
Gray, William, 31, 42. Griggs, Ellenor, 203.
Gray ham, John, 230. Jacob, 203.
Gray son [William], Grinnell, George, 60.
102. George, jr., 55, 66.
Great Britain, 12, 13, Groton (Mass.), 49, 89.
56, 133, 164, 158, Grover, , 193.
159, 221, 222.
Green, Charles, 80.
Daniel, 297.
Dolly, 302.
Hannah, 209.
John, 209, 210.
Thomas, 297,
(2), 302.
300
Abigail, 203.
Edmund, 197.
Hannah, 193, 199.
John, jr., 205.
Margaret, 208.
Nehemiah, 197, 201.
Ruth, 201.
Sarah, 205.
Green Dragon [Tav- Guido's Aurora, 23.
ern], 90, 91. Gurdon, Jacob, 220.
Greene, James, 241. Gurley, Phillip, 80.
Greenfield (Mass.), 34, Guttridge, Benjamin,
44, 45, 55, 60, 66.
Greenleaf, , 139
(2).
Abet, 230.
Benjamin, 88.
Caleb, 219.
Elias, 230.
Henry, 154, 224, 230.
John, 145, 219.
Samuel, 154,
221.
Stephen, 141.
William, 230.
Greenough, Greenho,
, 114.
116.
Deborah, 116.
Ebenezer, 116.
John, 116.
Samuel, 116.
Sarah, 116.
Guyandotta, 76.
Daniel, 127.
Elizabeth, 114.
Epps, 244.
John, 236, 245.
Mary, 120.
Richard, 244.
Robert, 120, 245.
Robert, jr., 127, 128,
244.
Samuel, 128, 150.
Griffin, Jeremiah, 218.
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Hadlock, James, 218.
220, Hagett, Isaac, 80.
Hale, , 112, 238.
Benjamin, 144.
Betty, 288.
Bradstreet, 296.
Daniel, 222, 229.
David, 125.
Dorothy, 294.
Edna, 112.
Enoch, 162.
George Silsbee, 36.
Jacob, 228.
John, 135, 144, 177-
180, 183, 184, 196,
218.
Joseph, 125, 135, 229,
301.
21
Hale, Joseph, jr., 135.
Martha, 290.
Mary, 291, 292.
Moses, 156, 292.
Nathaniel, 236.
Rebeckah, 183, 184,
196 (2).
Richard, 224.
Richard, jr., 151.
Robert, 205, 211.
Salma, 49.
Samuel, 135, 213,
218.
Sarah, 198.
Stephen, 144.
Thomas, 135.
William, 288 (3),
290-292 (2), 294,
296, 301.
Hall, , 161.
Ebenezer, 212, 232.
Elizabeth, 197.
John, 140.
Pero, 230.
Hamburg, 10.
Hamilton, (Mass.), 2.
Hammond, Hammon,
David, 250 (2),
254, 255, 278, 292.
David, jr., 281-284,
292.
Esther, 300.
Hannah, 110, 247.
Joanna, 278, 292.
John, 292, 301.
Jonathan, 246.
Joseph, 250.
Mary, 249, 254, 282.
Nathaniel, 246, 247
(2), 249, 250, 289.
Oliver, 289.
Phinehas, 255, 281.
Sarah, 290 (2), 292.
Susanna, 284.
322
INDEX.
Hammond, Hammon,
Thomas, 110, 247,
249 (2), 283, 300,
301.
Harnpden (Mass.), 37.
Hampton (N. H.), 113,
151.
Hanary, Bradley, 217.
Hancock, [John], 81,
83, 84, 85, 86, 87,
88, 89, 90, 91, 92,
93, 94, 95, 96, 100,
102.
Hannah (negro), 299.
Hannibal (negro), 285.
Hanover (N. H.), 49.
Hanshaw, Joshua, 233.
Harbnrd, John, 219!
Hardy, Hardee, Har-
die, , 109.
Ezekiel, 154, 226.
Hannah, 122.
Henry, 236.
Isaiah, 236.
Mary, 205.
Moody, 230.
Phineas, 220:
Samuel, 261.
Harriman, , 118.
Elizabeth, 107.
Hannah, 109.
John, 125.
Jonathan, 113, 117
(2), 120, 121, 123,
125, 127.
Leonard, 118.
Mary, 121.
Matthew, 107, 108
(2), 109.
Margaret, 113.
Nathanael, 120.
Samuel, 127.
Sarah, 123.
Harrington, Elisha,80.
Harris, Harrice, ,
106.
Bridget, 106, 117.
Daniel, 301.
Dorcas, 118.
Edward, 114.
Eliezer, 113.
Elizabeth, 107, 118,
124.
Giles, 151, 219.
Hannah, 109, 126,
274.
Jane, 111.
Jeremiah, 294.
Job, 121.
John, 108, 119, 151,
220, 254, 255 (2),
274, 275, 277, 298.
John, jr., 295, 296.
Joseph, 113.
Joseph, jr., 210 (2).
Mary, 121, 254, 295,
296.
Nathaniel, 105 (2)-
111, 113, 114, 118,
121, 299.
Phebe, 116, 275, 296.
Rebecca, 210.
Samuel, 219.
Sarah, 110. 114.
Stephen, 122, 300.
Timothy, 113, 114,
116-119, 121, 122,
124, 126, 277, 294,
295 (2), 296, 298-
301.
Harrison, William H.,
44, 45.
Hartford (Conn.), 71.
Hartshorde, John, 139.
Harvard University,
27.
Harvey, Harve, Eliza-
beth, 201.
Harvey, Harve, Josiah,
218.
Hasen see Hazen.
Haskall, Elizabeth,
179, 183.
Hannah, 201.
Joseph, 201.
Josiah, 200.
Mark, 202-204.
Miriam, 204.
Robert, 206.
Roger, 201.
Ruth, 203, 206.
Samuel, 210.
Sarah, 266.
William, 204, 206.
William, jr., 203.
Haskins, Ruth, 211.
Susanna, 187.
Haseltine see Hazel-
tine.
Hatfleld (Mass.), 159.
Hauks, John, 233.
Haverhill (Mass.), 44,
46, 55, 126, 139,
151, 264, 265.
Haward, Elizabeth,
179, 208.
Hannah, 208, 209.
Nathaniell, 179, 207-
209.
Nathaniel, jr., 208,
209.
Nehemiah, jr., 208.
Ruth, 208.
Hawkes see Hauks.
Hawksworthy, Walt,
150.
Hawley (Mass.), 74.
Hay, Richard, 80.
Hayes, John, 230.
Hayden see Heyden.
Haynes, Hayns, ,
231.
INDEX.
323
Haynes, Hayns, Aaron,
168.
Jonathan, 139.
Thomas, 139.
Hay wood see Haward.
Hazeltine, Hasletine,
, 106.
Abraham, 106.
Deborah, 106.
Elizabeth, 106.
John, 106.
Mary, 106.
Robert, 106.
Samuel, 106, 108(2).
Hazeltine see also
Hesetine.
Hazen, Hazzen, Hasun,
Hasen, Hason,
, 105, 106.
Benjamin, 118.
Edna, 103.
Edward, 103, 112,
114 (2), 116, 121,
123, 126.
Hannah, 103, 126.
Hephzibah, 105, 118.
Isreal, 123, 279 (2).
Jane, 112.
John, 116.
Eichard, 104.
Samuel, 121.
Sarah, 106.
Thomas, 135.
Hedden see Hidden.
Hemenway, Jonathan,
232.
Henderson, Daniel, 80.
Hendrick, John, 139.
Henning, , 105.
Shubael, 105.
Henry [Patrick], 101.
Herald (ship), 21, 24,
25, 26, 28, 30.
Herbert, , 266.
Herden, , 107.
Ebenezer, 107.
Herriman, Herreman,
Asa, 226.
Jonathan, 135.
Simon, 236.
Herrick, Hirreck, Ben-
jamin, 197.
Ede, 179, 183.
Elizabeth, 179, 197,
208, 210, 211, 264,
265.
Ephraim, 179, 185
(2), 193, 195 (2).
Henry, 179, 183, 193,
197, 206.
Henry, jr., 179.
John, 179, 194, 197,
199, 200, 262.
Jonathan, 210, 211.
Joseph, 193, 201, 264,
265 (2), 268.
Joseph, jr., 202, 211.
Lydia, 179, 183, 268.
Mary, 179, 183, 185,
199, 201, 202, 268.
Samuel, 206.
Sarah, 206.
Stephen, 208.
Hesetine, John, 236.
William, 236.
Heth, David, 156.
Heyden, Edward, 247.
James, 248.
Jonathan, 245.
Lucy, 251.
Samuel, 127 (2).
Heyden see also Hid-
den.
Heyer, , 39.
Hibbert, Hebert, Hy-
bert, Hybirt, Hib-
bertt, , 292.
Elizabeth, 205, 283.
Hibbert, Hebert, Hy-
bert, Hybirt, Hib-
bertt, George, 128,
244-246, 248, 251
(2), 253, 255, 279.
Hannah, 280.
James, 244, 274, 277-
280, 283.
Jeremiah, 245, 255.
John, 199.
Joseph, 205.
Mary, 248.
Rebecca, 246.
Ruth, 199.
Sarah, 274, 278.
Susanna, 277.
Thomas, 25:5.
Hidden, Hedden, .
105, 106.
Adoniram, 291.
Andrew, 103, 105
(2), 116.
Ann, 104.
David, 230.
Dorothy, 127.
Eben, 244, 274-276,
278, 279, 281-283,
285.
Ebenezer, 124, 125,
127, 243-245, 247,
248, 251, 284, 294.
Elizabeth, 103, 124.
Ephraim, 275, 291
(3), 292, 294, 295,
301.
Eunice, 292.
Hannah, 295.
James, 221, 281.
Jeremiah, 282.
John, 114 (3), 116,
157, 162, 299.
Jonathan, 292.
Joseph, 105, 122.
Martha, 295.
324
INDEX.
Hidden, Hedden.Mary,
120, 243.
Mehetabel, 283, 285,
292.
Price, 276, 290, 292
(2), 295, 297, 299,
301.
Samuel, 106,122,126,
244, 274, 278, 290.
Sarah, 103, 125, 279.
Stephen, 244.
William-Price, 297.
Higginson, , 196.
Francis, 178.
John, 178, 184, 187.
Stephen, 241, 242.
Stephen, jr., 241,
242.
Hill, Abigail, 179, 183,
260.
Daniel, 220 (2).
John, 179, 183, 194,
198, 200, 201, 211,
260 (4) .
Josiah, 226.
MarkL., 37.
Ilingham (Mass.), 46,
55.
Hirst, William, 269.
Hoar, Sarah, 209.
William, 209.
Hobart, Aaron, 39, 44.
Hobkins, John, 219.
Hobson, Andrew, 294.
Ann, 118, 256.
Caleb, 127.
Daniel, 274.
Daniel-Clark, 294.
David, 278, 294.
Elizabeth, 245, 276,
284.
Hannah, 283, 289.
Hephzibah, 122.
Humphery, 124, 245,
Hobson, Humphrey,
248 (2), 251, 254,
283-285, 289 (2).
Jeremiah, 120, 256,
275-277, 287.
Jeremy, 273, 278.
John, 109 (2), 122,
126, 128 (2), 254,
287.
Joseph, 151,275, 277.
Lydia, 280, 282, 295.
Martha, 125.
Mary, 122, 285.
Mehitable, 251, 283.
Moses, 126, 253-255,
274-276 (2), 277,
278, 280, 282, 283,
287.
Samuel, 254, 255.
Sarah, 119,278.
Susannah, 253, 277.
William, 117(2)-120,
122, 123 (2), 125,
127, 273, 287, 289,
290 (2), 291 (2),
295.
Hodge, Michael, 92, 94,
Hodges, James E., 60.
James L., 46, 55.
Hodgkins, Hodgskins,
Hodgkin, Elisa-
beth, 244.
Eunice, 277.
Ezekiel, 275.
Hannah, 274.
John, 244, 246(2),
247, 249, 253(2),
274, 275, 277.
Nathaniel, 157.
Rebecca, 249.
Samuel, 247.
Solomon, 219.
Hogen, William, 157.
Holland, 26, 44, 45, 186.
Holyoke, , 2.
H oiling worth, Susan-
na, 261, 264.
Holmes, Homes, Alice,
103.
John, 34, 37, 135.
Richard, 103.
Samuel, 103.
Timothy, 104.
Hoogly (river), 22.
Hooper, Elizabeth, 200.
S., 94.
Hopkins, Nehemiah,
250.
Hopkinson, Ann, 108,
114.
David, 235.
Dorcas, 108.
Elizabeth, 111, 291.
Esther, 103(2), 104.
Hannah, 128.
Jeremiah, 105, 109,
120, 128, 244, 245,
247, 248, 250, 251
(2).
John, 106 (2), 108,
109, 111, 114, 116
(2)-
Jonathan, 103-105,
107(2), 108, 121,
125.
Mary, 104(2), 244,
289.
Mercy, 247, 248.
Michael, 120-122,
125, 128.
Moses, 122, 177(2),
289, 291.
Rebecca, 245.
Sarah, 128.
H or bard see Hubbard.
Horrell, Humphrey,
199, 202, 203.
Sarah, 207, 211.
INDEX.
325
Horse Neck, 229.
Horsleek, , 106.
Elizabeth, 106.
Hospital Point, 304.
Hovey, Amos, 236.
How, Howe, , 238.
Mark, 291.
Mary, 291.
Howard, Abigail, 197.
Elizabeth, 197.
John, 220, 221.
John, jr., 79.
Nathaniel, 153, 189,
197, 226.
Howes, Charles T., 74.
Howhton, Mauy, 199.
Kichard, 199.
Hoyle, Moses, 151.
Hoyt, Hoyte, Hoytt,
,212, 218.
Elijah, 232.
Ephraim, 139.
Joseph, 217.
Moses, 230.
Hubbard, Horbard,
Jeremiah, 178.
John, 150.
Joshua, 178.
Hudson, Joseph, 220.
Hulen, Edward, 12, 13.
Hull, , 129.
Humphries, John, 259.
Huneford, Asa, 236.
Hunt, Eliakim, 218.
Enoch, 220.
Josiah, 230.
Sarah, 294.
Stephen, 295.
Stephen- Woodman,
292.
Stuart, 292, 294, 295.
Zacheus, 218, 220.
Huntington, Jonathan,
218.
Huse, Enoch, 230.
John, 139.
Hutchins, Hezekiah,
220, 224.
John, 154, 157, 226,
233.
Hutchinson [Israel],
87.
Hute, Obed, 230.
Hutson, Eleezer, 135.
Hybert see Hibert.
Ilsley, Abigill, 135.
John, 141.
Joseph, 135, 140.
Joseph, jr., 135.
William, 141.
India, 5, 10, 11, 13,21,
22, 24, 26 (2) -'28,
34.
Indiana, 49.
Indian boy, Spanish,
141.
Indians, 141-143, 194,
238, 258, 261.
Indus, Mary, 279.
Ingcanks, Thomas,
153.
Ingham, Samuel D.,
53, 55, 59.
Ipswich (Mass.), 107,
114, 117, 121, 150,
151, 161, 184, 187,
206, 263, 265, 269,
282.
Ipswich Hamlet, 2.
Ireland, 133, 188.
Isle of France, 6, 1
(5), 10-12, 30.
Italy, 23.
Jackman, Benjamin,
163, 230.
James, 135, 140.
Jackman, James, jr.,
135, 140.
Joseph, 218.
Richard, 135, 140.
Richard, jr., 136.
Stephen, 226.
Timothy, 224.
Jackson, ,62, 72.
Andrew, 42, 46, 51-
55, 59, 64-68.
Caleb, 111, 255.
Daniel, 122.
Elias, 226.
Elizabeth, 111, 255.
Hannah, 112, J25.
Henry, 88, 93, 95.
John, 105 (2) .
Jonathan, 111 (2)-
114, 116, 120, 122,
125, 127.
Joseph, 127.
Joshua, 254.
Lydia, 113.
Mary, 114.
Samuel, 120.
Sarah, 254.
William, 66, 159.
Jacobin Club, 7, 8.
James, Caleb, 103.
Jarvis [Charles], 95.
James, 249, 250.
Mary, 249.
Sarah, 250.
Jaques, Jaquis,Jaquic,
David, 153, 226.
Eliphalet, 226.
Joseph, 218.
Parker, 162.
Richard, 135.
Samuel, 220.
Stephen, 135.
Jefferson, Thomas, 13,
25, 27, 28, 76.
Jenkins, Lemuel, 219.
326
INDEX.
Jenkins, Thomas, 226.
Jennings, Joseph, 230.
Jepththah (negro),
282.
Jerad, Peter, 80.
Jersey City, 61.
Jewett, Jewet, Jewit,
Jewitt, , 117-
119, 223.
Aaron, 281, 296, 298
(2)-303.
Abel, 247.
Abigail, 105, 127,
289, 299.
Abraham, 104(2),
105, 107(2), 109,
111, 125, 127, 128,
245(2), 298.
Amos, 249, 282, 283.
Ann, 104 (8), 106,
253, 282.
Anne, 127.
Aquilla, 112, 127,
128, 244-247, 249,
251, 253, 254, 274,
282.
Asa, 302.
Benjamin, 116, 125,
253.
Bithiah, 246.
Caleb, 250. 285, 299.
Charlotte, 297.
Daniel, 123, 125, 128
(2), 284, 288.
David, 128, 246(2),
282, 285, 298(2),
299, 301, 302(3).
Deborah, 104.
Dolly, 302.
Dorcas, 116.
Dorothy, 276.
Dummer, 256.
Ebenezer, 296, 298.
Edna, 273, 299.
Jewett, Jewet, Jewit,
Jewitt, Edward,
275, 296.
Eleaser, 106.
Eliphalet, 244, 275,
276, 278, 279, 281,
282, 284, 286, 287,
300.
Elizabeth, 108, 111,
112, 123, 124, 243,
245, 255, 277, 283,
285, 290(2), 299,
301.
Ephraim, 298(3)-
301.
Eunice, 278, 291.
Ezeck, 105-107.
Ezekiel, 103, 104(2),
105(2), 108, 110,
111, 117.
Ezra, 244.
Faith, 103, 118, 251.
George, 243, 256,
273, 277-279, 280,
282, 283 (2), 285
(2), 300, 301.
George, jr., 297, 299
(2).
Gibbins, 255.
Hannah, 112, 122,
256, 282, 284, 299-
302.
Hephzibah, 122.
Isaac, 121(2), 127,
128, 243.
Jacob, 128, 282(3),
284, 286, 301, 302
(2).
James, 107, 248,
280, 282(5), 284.
Jane, 245, 280(2),
286, 288, 297.
Jedidiah, 126, 256
(2), 273, 299.
Jewett, Jewet, Jewit,
Jewitt, Jemima,
246.
Jenny, 296.
Jeremiah, 106 (2),
107. 243, 251, 281,
284, 289 (2)- 292,
294, 296, 297 (2)
300, 302.
Jeremiah, jr., 285-
287.
Jeremiah, 3rd, 288.
Jeremy, 277, 278.
Jeremy, jr., 284.
Joanna, 108, 117,247,
284, 294.
John, 105, 106 (2),
116, 124, 126 (2),
243, 275, 276 (2)-
278, 280, 281 (2),
283 (2), 284, 286,
288, 289, 297.
John, jr., 255, 275.
Jonathan, 109, 123,
125, 126, 128, 243,
245, 246, 248, 250,
278, 282-284 (2),
298, 303.
Jonathan, jr., 282.
Joseph, 106,109, 111,
112 (4), 113 (4),
116, 117, 123, 128,
243, 244 (2), 246,
251, 255, 278, 284,
295 (2), 297, 298,
302 (2), 303(2).
Joseph, jr., 114, 128.
Joshua, 111,118,247,
249 (4), 250, 252,
254, 273, 278, 295.
Josiah, 244.
Katherine, 278.
Lois, 292.
Luca, 300.
INDEX.
327
Fewett, Jewet, Jewit,
Jewitt, Lucy, 277.
Lydia, 252.
Mark, 245,277, 278,
280-282, 284, 285,
287.
Mary, 105-107 (2),
128 (2), 248, 251,
253, 254, 273,275,
277, 280, 281, 292,
294, 296.
Maxim, 105, 123.
Maximilian, 122,126.
Mehitable, 114, 115,
121, 128, 243, 283,
284, 287, 302*
Mercy, 110.
Moses, 246, 253, 277,
280-282, 284, 285,
(2), 286 (2), 289,
290, 292, 300-302.
Moses, jr., 299-302.
Nathan, 109,244,286,
293.
Nathaniel, 110, 128,
245-248, 250 (2),
251, 254, 286, 299.
Nehemiah, 106-111
(2), 112, 114-116,
243, 248, 250, 277,
295 (2)-277 (2),
299, 300, 302.
Nehemiah, jr., 296,
298.
Patience, 287, 298.
Paul, 275, 278, 291
(2), 292, 294, 295,
297, 299, 300-302
(2).
Phebe, 243, 279, 286.
Priscilla, 109, 113,
116, 128, 248, 253,
274, 276.
Prudence, 301.
Jewett, Jewet, Jewit,
Jewitt, Purchase,
119, 285, 287, 296,
297 (2).
Purchase, jr., 294
(2), 302.
Kebecca, 116, 117,
249, 282. .
Rhode, 297.
Kuth, 119, 125, 247,
281, 282, 285, 294
(2), 299.
Samuel, 123,250,252
(2), 253, 286.
Sarah, 106, 107, 114,
124, 125, 128, 250,
275, 278, 282, 284,
287 (2), 292, 294,
296, 297, 300-302.
Seth, 126.
Stephen, 80, 111, 243,
244, 246, 247, 249,
253, 254, 281, 298-
301.
Stephen, jr., 293,
294, 296.
Solomon, 247.
Susanna, 289, 296,
299.
Thomas, 103, 106,
107, 117,118, 121,
122, 124, 254, 284-
286, 300.
William, 104, 127,128,
284.
William- Spafard,
300.
Joel (negro), 157.
Johnson, Johnston,
, 105, 235.
Abijah, 276.
Betsey, 303.
Charles, 238.
Debar Medchief ,303.
Johnson, Johnston,
Daniel, 124, 253,
255, 273, 274, 276
278, 279.
Elizabeth, 278, 281.
Francis, 157, 253,
279.
Hannah, 126, 273,
282, 285, 292.
Isaiah, 276.
Jane, 281.
John, 119, 254(2),
273, 274, 276-280,
285(2), 287-289,
291, 292.
Jonathan, 126, 243,
275, 276, 278, 279,
281, 284(2), 285.
Joram, 273.
Joseph, 126.
Judah, 255.
Mary, 128, 275, 288.
Moses, 276,291.
Nathanacl, 287.
Nehemiah, 274, 277.
Obediah, 212, 232,
274.
Paul, 289.
Priscilla, 278.
Rachel, 303.
Richard M., 75.
Samuel, 100, 105,
119, 122(2), 124,
126, 128, 243, 245,
303.
Sarah, 278, 279.
Susanna, 279, 280.
Susa Searl, 303.
Thomas, 245, 279,
281, 282.
William, 135.
Jones, John Coffin, 95.
L. K., 241.
William, 150.
328
INDEX.
Joy, Jeremiah, 218, 221.
Ksesar, Moses : 276(2),
281.
Sarah, 281.
Keene (N. H.), 49.
Kelly, Kelley, Eliza-
beth, 263.
John, 140, 220, 252.
John, jr., 140.
Langey, 236.
Richard, 135, 141(2),
144.
Samuel, 252 (3), 253.
Kendall, , 75.
Jonas, 37, 39.
Joseph C., 74.
Joseph G., 55, 60.
Kennebunk (Me.), 39.
Kenney, John, 135.
Samuel, 135.
Kent, James, 135.
John, 135.
Richard, 135, 139,
144.
Stephen, 160-162.
Kentucky, 30, 34, 60,
65-67, 75-77.
Kettle, James, 204.
Kilborn, Abigail, 118,
119, 255, 273.
Ann, 110, 248, 283.
Anne, 286.
Daniel, 280, 295.
David, 115.
Dorcas, 289.
Ebenezer, 250, 281-
283, 285, 286, 288,
289.
Eliphelet, 127, 282.
Elizabeth, 112, 251,
274, 289, 298.
George, 113, 245,246,
248-252, 273.
Kilborn, Hannah, 111,
246.
Isaac, 112, 113, 115,
120, 122, 248.
Ivory, 288.
Jacob, 115, 248, 251,
254.
Jane, 251, 282.
Jedidiah, 122, 253
(2), 255, 274.
Johannah, 248.
John, 122, 302.
Joseph, 110, 111 (2),
113, 115, 117, 118,
244, 247-249 (2),
250, 254, 280-282
(2), 284, 285, 287,
296, 303.
Joseph, jr., 296,298,
301, 302.
Lydia, 284.
Maria, 119.
Martha, 113, 252.
Mary, 115, 120, 247,
250, 282, 285.
Mehitable, 245.
Moses, 301.
Phoebe, 249.
Rebekah, 302.
Samson, 255.
Samuel, 111,113(2),
115, 119, 122, 127.
Sarah, 117, 244, 295.
Thomas, 287, 302.
Kilham, , 89.
Kimball, Kimbal, ,
109.
Benjamin, 139.
Caleb, 230.
David, 236.
Elizabeth, 109.
Hannah, 111.
Jeremiah, 235.
Nathaniel, 236.
Kimball, Kimbal,
Simeon, 236.
William, 236.
Kindrick, John, 157.
King, , 238, 266.
Marget, 203.
Rufus, 86, 88, 93, 94,
95, 96.
Kingsley, Martin, 37.
Kinrick, John, 127(2).
Kirk, Mary, 117.
Kittery (Me.), 144.
Knap, Joseph I., 79.
Knight, , 150, 210.
Benjamin, 135, 141.
Daniel, 154, 156,
162.
Daniel, jr., 162.
James, 135, 141.
John, 135, 141.
Joseph, 135, 141,160,
157.
Joseph, jr., 135.
Nathanil, 135.
Richard, 135, 218.
Knox, Henry, 82, 84,
88-90, 92-95.
Lafayette, Gen. Gil-
bert Mortier de,
42.
La Fayette Coffee
House, 33, 42.
LaGloire (ship), 23.
Lakeman, John, 153,
224.
Lamb, Charles, 171.
Lamber, Rebeckah,
109.
Thomas, 109.
Lambert, , 112.
Ann, 127.
Anna, 302.
Appea, 300.
INDEX.
329
Lambert, David, 289.
Elizabeth, 274, 299.
Jane. 112.
John, 302.
Jonathan, 248, 280,
292.
Lucy, 250.
Mary, 105, 124.
Mehetable, 278, 291.
Nathan, 107,221,247,
286(2), 289, 302.
Nathanael, 292.
Kebeckah, 106.
Sarah, 126, 276.
Thomas, 105-108(2),
124, 126, 127, 244
(2), 247, 248, 250,
280, 284(2), 291,
292(2), 300, 301
(2), 302, 303(2).
Thomas, jr., 274,
276, 278, 298, 299.
William, 298.
Lamson, , 262.
Lancaster, Dorothy,
277.
Ezekiel, 290.
Hannah, 244(2), 287.
Lydia, 127, 279.
Mary, 290.
Paul, 275, 290(2).
Priscilla, 290.
Samuel, 125, 127,
274, 289.
Sarah, 273, 292, 299.
Thomas, 125, 273-
275, 277, 279, 280
(2), 287, 289, 290,
292.
Thomas, jr., 299.
Lander, Edward, 79.
Lane, Hephzibah, 265.
Lanesbor ough (Mass. ) ,
34, 37, 60, 66.
Langly, , 75, 107,
108, 110.
Abl., 108.
John, 110.
Sarah, 107.
Thomas, 74.
Larkum, Abigail, 207.
Cornelius, 207.
Phebe, 207.
Lathrop, Lathropp,
, 194, 261.
Bethiah, 179, 183.
Howard, 74.
Samuel, 37, 39, 44.
Thomas, 179, 183,
261.
Lavuick, Stephen, 136.
Law, Aquila, 104.
Fayth, 104.
William, 104.
Lawless, Luke Ed-
ward, 58.
Leach, Martha, 268.
Richard, 268.
Sarah, 179, 183.
Leaver, Damaris, 108.
Liddeah, 112.
Sarah, 106.
Thomas, 106, 112.
Thomas, jr., 108.
Leavitt, Joseph, 156.
Lebanon (N.Y.), 29,
38, 45, 71.
Lecount, Samuel, 236.
Lee, John, 203, 209.
N., 241.
Samuel, 74, 209.
Leghorn, 13, 14, 23.
Legraw, Elias, 233.
Josth., 233.
Leiton.Ezeck, 115,119.
Ezekiel, 113, 118 (2),
119.
John, 116 (2), 119.
Leiton, Martha, 119.
Mary, 115.
Richard, 113.
Leominster (Mass.),
37, 55, 60.
Leonard, Ephratm,212,
232.
Leopard (frigate), 27.
Lesle, , 299.
Levant (ship), 24, 25,
30.
Lewis, Fredrick, 230.
Lewiston (Me.), 45.
Lexington (Ky.), 77.
Lillie,Theophelus,159.
Limerick, Ire., 151.
Lincoln (Mass.), 89.
Lincoln, Enoch, 36, 37.
Levi, 64, 65, 67, 70.
Linsey, , 161.
Lions, Samuel, 107(2).
Lisbon, 21.
Little, , 129.
Amos, 230.
George, 140, 141,
217.
John, 135.
Joseph, 217.
Moses, 160.
Nathaniel, 150.
Tristram, 135.
Littlefleld, Josiah, 211.
Lydia, 211.
Rachel, 211.
Livermore, Elizabeth,
186.
Liverpool, 44.
Livingston, , 66.
Edward, 60, 68.
Lloyd, James, 44.
Locke, John, 44, 46.
Lockport (N. Y.), 45,
78.
London (negro), 276.
330
INDEX.
London (Eng.), 17,24,
186, 258.
Long, Abial, 217.
Richard, 153.
Samuel, 219.
Longfellow, Longfelo,
Edward, 229.
John, 229.
Samuel, 156, 222,
229.
Stephen, 136.
Longhorn, Mary, 104.
Richard, 104.
Thomas, 104.
Longworth, , 76,
77.
Look, Abigail, 125.
Deliverance, 124.
Elisabeth, 123.
Isreal, 126.
Jonathan, 118, 119,
121, 123, 124(2)-
126.
Mary, 124.
Sarah, 121.
William, 119.
Lord, Daniel, 236.
Lot (negro), 282, 284,
285, 288.
Louffe, Bridgett, 179.
Louis XV, 304.
Louisana, 62.
Louisville (Ky.), 76,
77.
Lovell, Josiah, 268.
Lovett, Lovet, Louitt,
, 188.
Abigail, 197.
Bethiah, 179, 187,
197, 209.
Elizabeth, 199.
John, jr., 187.
Joseph, 179, 193,199.
Mary, 179, 183, 197.
Lovett, Lovet, Louitt,
Symon, 210.
Thomas, 209(2).
Low, Asa, 291.
Hannah, 292.
Jacob, 291, 292.
Lowell, Lowel, Anne,
276.
Benjamin. 302.
Betty, 279.
Elizabeth, 293.
Hannah, 295.
Jacob, 301.
Lucy, 286.
Moses, 278, 293, 295.
Richard, 224, 276,
278, 279, 281, 283,
284, 286, 287.
Samuel, 150, 154,
283.
Sarah, 287.
Solomon, 284, 300
(2)-302.
Susanna, 281.
Lowell (Mass.), 74.
Lowell Island, 304.
Lowl, Gidian, 136.
Richard, 136.
Lucas, Rebecca, 209.
Luff, Bridgett, 183.
Lull, Moses, jr., 222.
Lundy's Lane, 45.
Lunt, , 145.
Abigail, 125.
Cutting, 160.
Daniel, 120.
Daniel, jr., 151, 220.
Dorothy, 123.
Elkanah, jr., 228.
Henry, 136, 141.
Henry, jr., 136.
John, 120, 121, 123,
125.
Johnson, jr., 151.
Lunt, Joseph, 162.
Mary, 121, 135.
Stephen, 228, 230.
Luscomb, William,5th,
80.
Lynn (Mass.), 65, 194,
203.
Lynn Mineral Spring
Hotel, 71.
Lyons, , 106.
Michael, 212, 232.
Sarah, 106.
McCarthy, James, 79.
Mace, Reuben, 154.
Mackerel Cove, 259.
McLane, Louis, 60, 66,
67.
McLeod, , 36.
McMasters, James, 159.
Patrick, 159.
McNall, Joseph, 168.
Madeira, 4, 10, 12, 21,
22.
Madison, James, 95,
102.
Madras, 12(2), 13, 21,
22.
Magee, James, 3.
Maine, Benjamin, 163.
Maine, 33, 34, 39, 55,
56, 89.
Major, George, 140.
Malaga, 14, 17, 21.
Maiden (Mass.), 160,
161.
Manchester (Mass.),
201, 203, 209(3)-
211(2), 301.
Mansfield, Andrew,
203.
James, 230.
Mansion House Hotel,
65.
INDEX.
331
rblehead, 65, 205,
259, 268, 269, 304.
March [Ebenezer], 93.
Jacob, 220.
John, 136(2), 145,
219.
John, 3rd, 151, 219.
Nathaniel, 151, 220.
Philip, 151, 220.
Truman, 156.
Marden, William, 230.
Maria Theresa, 304.
Marjre, John, 233.
Markham, Ambros,
212, 232.
Marlborough (Mass.),
159.
Marseilles, 14.
Marsh, Hazekiah, 157.
Marshall [John], 102.
Marston, Daniel, 233,
274-277, 279, 281.
Martin, Mar tine,
David, 218.
Elizabeth, 300.
Ezra, 301.
Jane, 281.
Mary, 275.
Nathaniel, 300, 301.
Richard, 222, 223.
228 (2), 230.
Sarah, 274, 277.
William, 276.
Maryland, 44, 45, 49, 58,
60, 66.
Mascoll, Hannah, 265.
Mason, 257, 259.
[George], 102.
Jonathan, 34, 37, 39.
Mason's Hall, 90.
Massachusetts, 33, 34,
36, 38, 39, 42, 45-
47, 50, 51, 55-57,
61, 62, 64, 70, 82-
Massachusetts, 84, 90,
96, 99, 100-102,
178, 257.
Massachusetts Bay,
161, 163, 215, 235.
Masters, , 211.
Ruth, 211.
Masury, Mazury, Cer-
cia, 265.
John, 80, 265.
Mather, Increase, 304.
Mathe\vs, Hugh, 140.
Matthes, Hugh, 136.
Mayo, Joseph, 136.
Maysville (Ky.), 77.
Medford (Mass.), 161.
Mediterranean, 13, 16,
17, 21.
Mein, John, 159.
Mellen,Prentiss,36, 37.
Merrill, Merril, Meril,
Abraham, 216.
Archelaus, 220.
Daniel, 217.
Enoch, 230.
John, 216, 221.
Josiah, 151, 220.
Moses, 153.
Moses, jr., 153.
Nathen, 217.
Samuel, jr., 220.
Stephen, 153.
Merrock, Timothy,
217.
Methuen (Mass.), 269-
271.
Michell, John, 141.
William, 215.
Michigan, 60, 66, 67,
78.
Middleborough
(Mass.), 208.
Middleton, Peter, 236.
Middleton(Mass.),31.
Mighill, Mighell, Mig-
hel, , 112.
Ann, 112.
Anna, 303.
Dorothy, 303.
Elizabeth, 253, 298,
302.
Ezekiel, 164, 218,248.
. Hannah, 249,286(2).
Jeremiah, 252, 290-
293, 298.
Mary, 127.
Mehetabel, 291.
Nathaniel, 127, 128,
243, 245, 246 (2),
248, 249, 251-253,
279, 286, 289, 290.
Nathaniel, jr., 289.
Priscilla, 248.
Sarah, 245, 287, 292.
Stephen, 110, 128.
Thomas, 251, 286,
287, 293, 299, 302,
303 (2).
Mill river, 266.
Mills, Elijah H., 34, 39,
44, 45.
Milton (Mass.), 44, 45.
Milton Hill, 88.
Mingo, Robart, 141.
Mirrick, Isaac, 136.
Mirrill, David, 217.
Mississippi, 77.
Mississippi river, 101.
Missouri, 37, 67, 58, 73.
Mitchell,Mitchil,Jolm,
136.
Nathaniel, 230.
Stephen, 162.
Mitchell see also
Michell.
Moars, Edmund, 136.
Edmund, jr., 136.
Mark, 136.
332
INDEX.
Moars, Peter, 136.
Monroe, James, 32, 33,
39, 47, 58, 59.
Monroe (Mich.), 78.
Monticello, 75.
Moody, Caleb, 139.
Cutting, 133, 141,
217.
Ebenezer, 162.
John, 136, 141, 160,
167.
Joseph, 222, 229.
Moses Sargent, 230.
Paul, 222, 228-230.
Samuel. 136.
Thomas, 144.
William, 136, 141,
229.
Morgan, Morgiu, ,
185, 189.
Benjamin, 189, 196.
Bethia, 196.
Charles W., 74.
Deborah, jr., 210.
Joseph, 196.
Margaret, 185, 196.
Mary, 206.
Moses, 196.
Robert, 177, 179, 183,
185, 196 (3), 207.
Samuel, 201, 20G.
Theodore, 79.
Morrill, William, 218,
221, 237.
Morris, Governeur, 58.
Morse, Moss, Morss,
Anthony, 140.
Benjamin, 217.
[Edward S.], 169,
172-174.
Enoch, 221.
Jonathan, 193 (2),
207.
Mary, 193.
Morse, Moss, Morss,
Sarah, 136.
Thomas, 220, 221.
Morton, Marcus, 34,37,
39.
Moulton,Jeremiah,219.
William, 217.
Musgrove, Jabez, 140.
Muzzey, Joseph, 136.
Myers, Moses, 47, 48.
Nantucket, 34, 37, 89,
129, 130.
Natural Bridge (Va),
76.
Naylor, , 22.
Neal, Jonathan, jr., 80_
Nelson, , 105 (2)j
107, 113, 114.
Abigail, 120, 248,249.
Anne, 104, 125.
Anthony, 287.
Aphia, 247.
David, 248, 282, 285-
288, 290.
Dorothy, 124.
Elizabeth, 105 (2),
122, 126, 244, 245,
275, 276, 290.
Ephraim, 244, 245,
247, 250, 258.
Frances, 107-
Francis, 125, 126, 251.
Gernima, 113.
Gershom, 106, 123,
125, 128, 244, 247,
249.
Hannah, 117, 118.
Jane, 125, 255.
Jeremiah, 34, 37, 39,
60, 105, 107, 124,
125, 128.
John, 122, 123 (2)
126.
Nelson, Jonathan, 104,
122, 124.
Joseph, 111, 128,
245-248.
Lucy, 114, 285.
Martha, 108.
Mary, 126, 244, 245,
250, 255, 282.
Mehetabel, 244.
Mercy, 126(2).
Nathaniel, 123, 247.
Philip, 106, 108, 109,
111, 115(2), 118.
Philip, jr., 113.
Ruth, 109.
Samuel, 116, 246,
247, 251, 253, 288.
Sarah, 106, 113, 115,
128.
Solomon, 125, 255
Thomas, 104-107,
114, 126, 253.
Thomas, jr., 114,
116, 117, 120, 122,
124, 248.
Neph, John, 139.
Nevins, James, 249.
Martha, 249.
New Bedford (Mass.),
74.
Newbury (Mass.), 49,
118, 127, 129, 132,
133, 140, 141, 144,
145, 150 (2)-152
(2), 154-158, 160,
161, 163, 164, 167,
190, 191, 193, 212,
213, 215-217, 219
(2)-221, 223, 228,
230.
Newbury (Vt.), 237.
Newburyport (Mass.),
34, 37, 60, 82, 88,
102, 159, 165, 239,
INDEX.
333
Newburyport, (Mass. ) ,
242.
New England, 145, 150,
159, 177, 186, 213-
215, 257-259.
NewEngland Historic-
Genealogical So-
ciety, 90.
New Hampshire, 36,
49, 60, 66, 67, 102,
257.
New Haven (Conn.),
71.
New Jersey, 67.
New London (Conn.),
38.
Newman, Antipas,184.
John, 219.
Nathaniel, 219.
Nathaniel, jr., 219.
Newport (R. I.), 43,
61, 79.
Newton. Edward A.,
74.
Newton (Mass.), 6fi.
New York, 2, 4, 29,
30, 33, 34, 36, 38,
39, 42, 45(3), 53,
55, 57-62, 66, 67,
71, 75, 78, 79, 93,
304.
Niagara Falls, 45, 178.
Niagara River, 45.
Nichols, Nathan, 221.
Noble, Charles, 78.
Norfolk (Va.), 4. 5,
47.
Norris, Edward, 178.
Northampton (Mass.),
29, 34, 38, 44, 45
(2), 49, 55, 60, 66,
71, 74.
North Carolina, 52, 53,
55.
North Church, Boston,
202.
Northend, Northen,
, 279.
Dorothy, 123, 276.
Ednah, 103, 117.
Edward, 274.
Ezekiel, 103(2), 105,
120, 122-124, 126,
128, 244, 253, 255,
274-278.
Ezekiel, jr., 117(2),
120, 254.
Hannah, 124, 254.
Jane, 122, 252.
John, 117, 250, 252,
253, 275.
Mary, 105, 277.'
Mehetabel, 126.
Moses, 274.
Samuel, 128, 253,
274-276.
Sarah, 250, 278.
Sewall, 255.
Stephen, 253.
Northfield (Mass.),
37.
Norton (Mass.), 93.
Norwich (Conn.), 38.
Noyes, Noyse, -,
139, 215.
Cutting, 136, 141(2).
Cutting, jr., 136.
Daniel, 136.
Enos, 228.
Eliphalet, 151, 219.
Isaac, 154, 155.
James, 136.
John, 136, 141, 160.
222, 228, 229.
John, jr., 136.
Joseph, 136.
Joshua, 156, 157, 160.
Joshua, jr., 156.
Noyes, Noyse, Lemuel,
228.
Moses, 136.
Nathaniel, 153, 217,
224 (2).
Nehemiah, 153.
Samuel, 160.
Stephen, 153.
Thomas, 131,141(2),
154, 157, 167.
Timothy, 136, 141.
William, 154.
Ober, Hannah, 208,264,
265.
John, 208, 264 (2),
265 (2).
Richard, 263.
Ohio, 30, 45, 76, 78.
Ohio River, 76.
Ordway, John, 217(2).
Joshua, 177.
Moses, 221.
Moses, jr., 218.
Peter, 230.
Orne, William P., 79.
Orr, Benjamin, 34.
Osborn, , 279.
Jane, 281.
John, 279, 281, 283.
John, jr., 279.
Thomas, 129, 130,
283.
Osgood, Gayton P., 66.
John, 218.
Jonathan, 157.
Joseph, 218, 221.
Richard, 221.
Robert H., 80.
Osilaway, Daniel, 217.
Otis, Harrison G., 33,
36, 37, 39.
Overs, Abigail, 193.
Oxford, 49.
334
INDEX.
Page, Benjamin, 218,
219.
John, 287.
Nathanael, 287.
Peter, 168.
Simon, 154.
Palfry, Peter, 259.
Pall, William, 212.
Palmer, , 109.
Aaron, 293, 298.
Abijah, 287, 294.
Benjamin, 140.
Cooper, 113.
Daniel, 245, 277-279,
282, 284 (2)-288,
292.
Edward, 294.
Elizabeth, 105, 112,
253, 277, 290-292.
Francis, 113, 116,
118 (2) 248, 250,
253, 254, 274 (2),
275, 278 (2), 293.
Francis, jr., 112, 291,
292, 295, 297, 298.
Hannah, 248, 249,
282, 289.
Jane, 246, 274, 286.
John, 109, 113, 114,
245-247, 249, 250,
252-255 (2), 286,
292, 294, 297.
John, jr., 286, 289,
290.
John, 3d, 287, 288,
290, 291.
Jonathan, 251.
Joseph, 284, 288.
Lois, 292.
Lydia, 289.
Mark, 279.
Martha, 108.
Mary, 106 (2), 247
(2), 249, 291.
Mehetable, 244, 253.
Moses, 282, 286.
Nathan, 288.
. Patience, 273, 290.
Phebe, 112.
Ruth, 275, 283.
Samuel, 106 (2), 108,
112, 113, 244, 245
(2), 247, 251, 277,
292, 294, 296.
Sarah, 116, 246, 250,
252, 254, 285, 286,
295.
Stephen, 80,250,252,
282-284, 285, 286,
287, 289, 290 (2).
Susanna, 287-.
Timothy, 105, 107
(2), 119, 220, 252,
254, 273, 274, 277,
286.
Thomas, 112, 114,
245 (2), 246, 249,
251 (2), 296.
William, 287.
Palmyra (N. Y.), 45.
Parker, Isaac, 97.
Jacob, 141.
James, 37.
John, 31.
Parkman, Samuel, 21,
241.
Paris (Me.), 34, 37.
Parris, Albion K., 34,
36.
Parsons, Amos, 290
(2).
Andrew, 290.
Moses, 156.
Rebekah, 290.
Theophilus, 81, 82,
86-88, 91-99.
Patch, , 185, 193.
Elizabeth, 179, 183.
Patch, John, 198.
Mary, 187.
Nicholas, 179, 183.
Richard, 185.
Thomas, 187, 190.
Paul, William, 232.
Pay son, Paison, ,
111-113, 115-118,
274, 276.
David, 126, 254, 290,
291, 301.
Deborah, 296, 300.
Edward, 118, 119,
253 (2), 254 (3),
275, 289.
Edward, jr., 290.
Eliot, 122, 252, 254,
255, 274 (2), 276,
277 (2), 280, 282,
295, 298, 299.
Eliot, jr., 291.
Eliphelet, 115, 264
(2), 255, 277, 279.
Elizabeth, 112, 120,
252, 254, 273, 291.
Hannah,121,274,290.
James, 255, 289-293
(2), 295-297, 299,
300.
Jane, 255, 277, 297.
Jonathan, 124.
Mary, 113, 254, 276,
279, 282, 292, 303.
Mehitable, 116, 300.
Moses-Paul, 280,296,
297 (2), 298, 300,
301, 303.
Phoebe, 275.
Philips, 128, 252.
Samuel, 117, 251,
252 (3), 254, 273,
274.
Sarah, 112, 124, 243,
251, 296.
INDEX.
335
Pay son, Paison, Ste-
phen, 123.
Susanna, 245.
Thomas, 300.
Peabody, Andrew, 237.
Ephriam, 237.
Jonathan, 237.
Nathan, 218.
Peacham, 237, 238.
Pearl, , 115.
Elizabeth, 112(2).
Ellen, 115.
Mary, 115.
Pearson, Peirson, ,
112.
Abigail, 114,286,302.
Amos, 124, 248, 285.
Benjamin, 110-115
(2), 116, 118, 119,
122, 137, 167, 229
(2).
Benjamin, jr., 228.
Betty, 301.
Daniel, 112.
Dorcas, 109.
Elizabeth, 108, 112,
279, 290, 297, 302.
Hannah, 110, 114,
125, 245.
Hepzibah, 114, 117,
121.
James, 279.
Jane, 112.
Jedediah, 118.
Jeremiah, 111-115,
117, 118, 120, 122
(2), 124, 125, 137,
229, 255.
Jeremiah, jr., 218,
219.
John, 103, 105, 108,
115, 116, 124, 137,
162, 220, 221, 255,
274, 276-279.
Pearson, Peirson,
John, jr., 107 (2),
109, 114, 300-302.
Jonathan, 117, 122,
245, 283, 285, 286,
287(2), 289-292.
Joseph, 108,124, 126,
255, 277, 289.
Mark, 283.
Martha, 115.
Mary, 116, 249, 279,
281.
Mercy, 105.
Mehitable, 119.
Miriam, 112, 118.
Moses, 120, 247.
Nathan, 300-303.
Nathaniel, 228.
Patience, 120.
Phoebe, 111.
Priscilla, 111.
Rebeckah, 116, 255.
Richard, 126, 276.
Ruth, 113, 300.
Ruth-Duty, 281.
Samuel, 105, 108,
162, 278, 291(2),
297.
Sarah, 103, 105, 116,
252, 274, 301.
Sewell, 300.
Stephen, 112, 113
(2), 115-117, 120,
121, 137, 245(2),
247-249, 251(2)-
263(2) ,255(2), 291.
Tabitha, 292.
Peck, James H., 58.
Peele, Willard, 79.
Peirce, Pierce, ,
217.
Andrew, 151, 219.
Charles, 1">5.
Daniel, 141.
Peirce, Pierce, Henry,
154.
John, 136.
Joshua, 136.
Ledia, 136.
Mery, 136.
Samuel, 154, 155.
Sarah, 158.
Stephen, 154.
Thomas, 154, 155.
Pemberton, Bridget,
277.
John, 277.
Pendleton [Edmund],
102.
Pengry see Pingree.
Pennsylvania, 44, 53,
55, 58, 62.
Penobscot, 3.
Perkins, David, 153,
157, 199.
Elijah, 80.
Elizabeth, 199, 204.
Hannah, 267.
Jacob, 237.
James, 241.
John, 157, 218.
Luke, 205.
Martha, 205, 208.
Matthew, 218.
Samuel G., 241.
T. H., 241.
Thomas, 267.
William, 151, 279.
Zacheus, 279.
Perley, Pearley, Abi-
gail, 123.
David, 124.
Elizabeth, 296.
Hannah, 298.
Hephzibah, 108.
Jacob, 107.
John, 295, 296, 301,
302(2).
336
INDEX.
Perley, Pearley,
Judith, 301.
Liddeah, 107.
Nathaniel-Mighill,
302.
Patience, 126.
Polly, 303.
Priscilla, 302.
Sally, 303.
Samuel, 123, 124,
126.
Thomas, 107(2), 108.
Perry, Lewis, 221.
Perseverance (ship) ,
22.
Peters, Hugh, 178.
Richard, 49.
Pettengell, Petingall,
Petingal, Benja-
min, jr., 218, 220.
Cutting, 163.
David, 233.
Enoch, 154, 155.
John, 137.
John, jr., 218.
Joseph, 137, 155,
219.
Josiah, 162.
Matthew, 137, 151,
153, 219.
Matthew, jr., 137.
Nathanil, 137.
Nathanil, jr., 137.
Nicholas, 187.
Richard, 137, 162.
Samuel, 137, 162.
Sarah, 137.
Thomas, 137.
Phelem, John, 233.
Phelps, Joseph, 215.
Philadelphia (Pa.), 4,
22, 25, 30, 31, 33,
39, 43, 49, 66, 75.
Phillips, Dorcas^ 103.
Phillips, James, 291.
John, 41, 105, 291.
Mary, 104.
Samuel, 103(2)-105,
116.
Sarah, 103, 104, 116.
Stephen C., 67.
[William], 90.
William, jr., 241,
242.
Phillis (negro), 280.
Phippsburg (Va.), 37.
Phrazer see Frazer.
Piokard, , 105.
Abigail, 286, 295,
299.
Amos, 275, 280, 284,
299, 302.
David, 117, 250.
Dorothy, 248, 255,
295.
Edna, 249.
Elizabeth, 120, 252,
291, 302.
Ephraim, 284, 298-
300, 302.
Francis, 115, 246,
248(2)-252(2),255,
275.
Hannah, 105, 127,
274, 281, 302.
Humphrey, 280.
Jacob, 276, 292(2).
Jane, 103(2), 121,
125, 246, 251, 252,
279, 282, 300.
Jeremiah, 283, 300-
301(2), 302.
Joanna, 118, 250,
289.
John, 103, 111 (2),
115-117, 120, 244,
248, 249, 253, 287,
288, 303.
Pickard, Jonathan, 244,
247 (2), 249, 250,
252, 254, 255, 279-
282 (2), 284, 286-
289, 292, 297.
Joseph, 122, 255(2),
273, 274, 276, 277,
279(2)-281(2),283.
Joshua, 255, 281,
295-297, 300-302.
Lucy, 254, 292.
Lydia, 254, 255, 290.
Mary, 121, 285, 286,
295, 296, 298.
Mehetable, 250, 301
(2).
Moses, 118, 249(2),
250, 252-255, 274,
275, 284, 288, 291,
292(2), 300.
Moses, jr., 280-282,
285-288, 290.
Ruth, 301.
Samuel, 114(2), 115
(2), 116, 118, 120-
122, 125, 127, 244,
273, 274, 288, 289
(2), 295, 296, 299.
Sarah, 116, 244, 275,
277, 288, 296, 300,
303.
Simon, 120.
Thomas, 116, 280,
294(2), 295.
Pickering, Timothy,
32, 35.
Pickman, Benjamin,
38.
Wm., 5.
Pierce see Peirce.
Pike, Benjamin, 137.
Elias, 153.
Hugh, 79.
James, 220.
INDEX.
337
Pike, John, 137, 140, Pittsfleld, 74.
153, 212, 224, 232. Platts, Plats,
Abel,
Joseph, 218.
Joseph, jr., 140.
Pearly, 224.
Samuel, 153.
Susannah, 137.
Thomas, 137,154,224.
Pillsbury, Pilsberry,
Pilsbury, ,231.
Amos, 244(3), 246,
247(2), 248, 250
(2), 252.
Daniel, 168, 217.
Jane, 250.
Job, 217.
John, 246, 252.
Josiah, 217.
Judith, 248.
Mary, 244.
Moses, 250.
Parker, 123.
Pingree, Pengry, Pen-
gre, Aaron, 119,
244, 247, 249, 250,
252, 254.
Aaron, jr., 243, 246.
Ann, 249.
Asa, 256.
Dorcas, 254.
Francis, 254.
Jane, 251.
Job, 249-251, 253,
254, 256.
John, 253.
Lydia, 243.
Martha, 250.
Mary, 247.
Moses, 250.
Rebecca, 119, 246.
Samuel, 249.
Sarah, 252.
Stephen, 244.
Pitts, John, 89.
106, 107(2), 109,
118, 125, 254, 255,
275(2), 278(2).
Abel, jr., 253.
Abigail, 288.
Bethiah, 114.
Edna, 279.
Elizabeth, 104 (2),
122, 128, 281.
Hanah, 107, 109,
124, 127, 243, 255,
283, 288.
Hephzibah, 125.
Isaac, 106, 127, 128.
James, 105, 118, 119,
121, 123, 125 (2),
243, 250 (2), 251,
253, 254 (2), 255,
256, 275, 277 (2).
James, jr., 276.
Jane, 288.
Johannah, 128.
John, 104, 117, 119,
123(2), 125, 128.
Jonas, 104.
Jonathan, 104 (2)-
107, 249.
Joseph, 253.
Judith, 256.
Lydia, 119, 279.
Mark, 251,288(2).
Mary, 111, 117, 121,
123, 254.
Mehitable, 245.
Mercy, 253.
Moses, 106, 118, 119,
122, 124, 125, 128
(2), 243, 245, 246,
249, 279, 280, 281
(2).
Nathan, 121, 246,
279-282(2), 283.
Platts, Plats, Rebekah,
276.
Ruth, 255, 288.
S., 111.
Samuel, 1.14,118,121.
Sarah, 243, 275.
Pleasauts, , 40.
Plummer, Plumer,
, 111,113,114,
116.
Aaron, 117,251,252.
Abigail, 114, 126.
Ann, 116.
Benjamin, 109, 114,
118, 120, 124, 137.
Bradstreet, 298.
Daniel, 150, 220.
David, 119, 125.
Deborah, 125.
Elizabeth, 127, 128,
252, 302.
Ephraim, 137, 140.
Francis, 125.
Hannah, 123.
Isaac, 230.
John, 109, 120, 126,
127, 137, 220.
Jonathan, 120, 136,
221, 295.
Joseph, 115(2), 117,
122-125, 128, 245.
Joseph, jr., 119, 136.
Joshua, 137, 140.
Josiah, 302.
Martha, 120, 124.
Mary, 118.
Miriam, 115.
Moses, 115, 251.
Nathan, 124.
Nathaniel, 235, 245.
Sampson, 122.
Samuel, 137, 140,
295, 296 (2), 298,
302 (2).
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338
INDEX.
Plummer, Plumer,
Samuel, jr., 137,217.
Sarah, 113, 124.
Seth, 230.
Silvanus, 133, 137,
140, 218.
Stephen, 1H, 230.
Thomas, 111.
William, 230, 233.
Plymouth (Mass.), 34,
37, 208.
Poindexter, , 77.
Pollard, Benjamin, 168.
Poole, Pool, Abijah,
168, 233.
Elizabeth, 207.
Henry, 80.
John, 266.
Thomas,' 233.
Poor, Pore, Poer,
Poore, Amos, 223.
Amos, jr., 228.
Amos, 3rd, 230.
Benjamin, 119, 139,
228.
Daniel, 123.
Eliphalet, 228, 230.
Elizabeth, 121.
Enoch, 154.
Henry, 119, 121, 123,
126, 127, 137.
Henry, jr., 126.
Hephzibah, 126.
John, 221.
Jonathan, 137, 144.
Joseph,136, 162, 217.
Joshua, 126.
Moses, 154.
Nathan, 153.
Samuel, 127, 217.
Porter, , 265.
John, 168, 197, 265.
Nathan, 79.
Samuel, 265.
Porter, Tyler, 237.
Portland (Me.), 33, 34,
36, 37 (2), 39, 49,
269.
Portland (ship), 13, 21.
Potomac-Creek, 75.
Pottell.Christemr, 140.
Powell, A. H., 44.
Pratt, William, 241.
Preble, Ebenezer, 13,
21, 24.
Prefer, Benjamin, 151.
Presby, Presbe, Ben-
jamin, 220.
Stephen, 219.
Prescott, Oliver, 89,
90.
Price, Billy, 287.
Sarah, 273, 288.
William, 254(2), 273,
287, 288.
Pride, , 202.
Hanah, 205.
John, jr., 205.
Prime, Abigail, 286.
Ann, 111.
Bridget, 289, 292.
Ednah, 126.
Jane, 128.
John, 288.
Joshua, 245, 275, 276
(2), 277, 279-281
(2), 283 (2), 286,
288, 289, 291, 292
(2), 295.
Joshua- Je wet, 291.
Josiah, 286.
Mark, 110, 126, 128,
243-245 (2), 246,
248, 249 (2), 276.
Mehitable, 288.
Moses, 246, 280.
Nathaniel, 295.
Olive, 276.
Prime, Oliver, 292.
Samuel, 107(2), 108,
110, 111, 128 (2),
244, 245, 247, 248,
275, 279.
Sarah, 108, 247, 277.
Thomas, 243, 283 (2),
286, 288.
Proctor's Island, 267.
Prospect Hill, 160, 234.
Providence (R.I.), 29,
57, 58, 61, 71.
Provincetown(Mass.) ,
26.
Prowse, John, 139.
Pulo Penang, 12.
Putnam, Amos, 80.
Ezra, 224.
Huldah, 272.
Queenstown, 45.
Quinby, Jonathan, 157.
Quincy, Edmund, 90,
95.
Josiah, 40,41,90,91,
95.
Quincy (Mass.), 60, 66.
Raiment see Raymond.
Rand, Israel, 264.
Jerusha, 264.
Randall, Joses, 222.
Rantoul,Robert S.,175.
Rawlings, David, 230.
Joseph, 230.
Rawson, Edward, 192.
Raymond, Raymund,
Raiment, ,190.
Emma, 272.
George, 263.
Hannah, 179, 187.
John, 199, 210, 262.
Jonathan, 204, 262,
266.
INDEX.
339
Raymond, Raymund,
Raiment, Mary,
203.
Nathaniel, 206.
Rachel, 262.
Rebecca, 206.
Sarah, 204.
Thomas, 200.
William, 206.
Rayner see Reyner.
Rea, Elizabeth, 209.
Reading (Mass.), 200.
Redoubt, William, 233.
Reed, Bill, 228.
Christopher, 205.
Elizabeth, 205.
John, 44, 46, 55, 60,
66.
Rehoboth (Mass.), 93.
Remicks, Daniel, 237.
Jeames, 237.
Remington, , 106.
Mary, 103.
Mehitable, 103, 104.
Samuel, 106.
Sarah, 104.
Thomas, 103.
Reuben (negro), 144.
Reus (Spain), 20.
Reyner, Edward, 105.
Hannah, 108.
Jachin, 105, 108.
Rhodes, , 89, 90.
Rice, , 33.
Rich, Anna, 209.
Peter, 131.
Richards, Humphry
Hobson, 288.
John, 137, 140, 198.
Moses, 287 (2), 288.
Richardson, Daniel,
221.
Edward, jr., 137.
Joseph, 46, 55.
Ridge way, 45.
Riens, Samuel, 233.
Ringe, Daniel, 80.
Robbins, Robbens,
Robins, Benjman,
233.
David, 80.
Martha, 276.
William, 276.
Robertson, Jeremiah,
237.
Robinson, Robenson,
Roberson, John,
137.
John, jr., 233.
Obodo, 233.
Rochester (N. Y.), 45,
74.
Rockaway (N. Y.), 71,
79.
Rogers, , 161.
Daniel, 243.
Dionysius, 127.
Dorothy, 125.
Hannah, 245.
Jane, 250.
John, 217, 226, 243,
247, 249.
Jonathan, 245.
Joseph, 249.
Mary, 247.
Nathaniel, 159.
Robert, 125, 127,217,
243 (2), 245 (2),
250.
Sally, 71.
Silas, 160.
Rolf, Henry, 137, 145.
John, 137.
Samuel, 137.
Root, Roots, , 187.
Jonathan, 197.
Josiah, 197.
Josiah, jr., 179.
Root, Roots, Josias,
179, 183.
Sarah, 198.
Susanna, 197.
Thomas, 194, 197.
Rose (negro), 292.
Rose (brig), 5.
Ross, Daniel, 244.
Samuel, 244.
Rotterdam, 24.
Roundeye, Deborah,
209.
Row, John, 156.
Rowan, , 77.
Rowell, liowil, Abar-
ham, 137.
Jacob, 219.
Joseph, 151, 220.
Rowley (Mass.), 103,
190, 243, 261, 264,
273.
Rowse, Abigail, 250,
252, 255.
Mehetable, 252.
Sarah, 255.
William, 250.
Roxbury (Mass.), 34,
60. .
Ruggles, Nathaniel,
34.
Rush, Richard, 44.
Russell, , 118.
Chambers, 89.
Isaac, 168.
Jonathan, 31, 118.
Joseph, 154, 155, 230.
Russia, 21.
Ruth (negro), 284, 285,
288.
Rutherford, Alexan-
der, 292.
David, 298.
Joseph, 295.
Mary, 294.
340
INDEX.
Rutherford, William,
291 (2), 292, 294,
295, 298.
Ryal (negro), 275.
Sable, Cape, 222.
Sadler, Saddler, Abiel,
250.
John, 247 (2), 248,
250.
Joseph, 248.
Safford, Daniel, 296,
298, 301, 302.
Hannah, 296.
James, 162.
Nathaniel, 301.
Sally, 302.
Thomas, 298.
St. Denis, 8.
St. Domingo, Island
of, 5.
St. Felix, 9.
St. Jago, Island of, 6.
St. Johns, 238.
St. Pftersburgh, 24.
Salem (Mass.), 1-5, 7,
9(2), 11-13,25-28,
30-35,38,40-42,44,
48, 49, 54, 55, 60-
62, 65-67, 70, 74,
75, 79(2), 170, 171,
173, 175, 177, 178,
180, 184, 187, 194,
196, 197, 209, 258-
262, 266-269, 271.
Salem (N. H.), 270,
271.
Salem First Church,
178, 260, 265, 266.
Salem Neck, 304.
Salem Village, 211,
268.
Salisbury, S., jr., 241.
Samuel, 241.
Salisbury (Mass.), 109
(2), 113, 150-152,
184.
Sallows, Sallowes,
, 194.
Hannah, 179, 183,
197 (3).
John, 197.
Katherin, 205.
Mary, 197.
Peter, 197.
Robert, 197.
Sarah, 197.
Thomas, 197, 210.
Salon (Spain), 20.
Saltonstall, Leverett,
74.
Sampson, Z., 39.
Zabdiel, 34, 36, 37.
Zabdiel Silsbee, 36.
Samson, William, 154.
Sanborn, Tristram, 218.
Sanders see Saunders.
Sandusky (Ohio), 78.
Sangilder, James, 232.
Sanscotts Island, 231.
Saratoga (N. Y.), 29.
Sargent, Sergeant,
Cutting, 218.
Ebenezer, 138.
John, 39, 49.
Joshua, 218.
William, 139.
Winthrop, 92.
Saunders, Sanders,
Abigail, 286.
Anne, 292.
David, 294.
Dolly, 301.
Edward, 247,248(3)-
254, 273-276, 278,
292.
Edward, jr., 283,284,
286-288.
Saunders, Sanders,
Elizabeth, 249,287,
291, 298, 300.
Ezekiel, 278, 294.
Humphrey, 254, 291,
292, 294, 297 (2).
Jane, 251.
John, 237, 276, 292,
294, 296, 297 (2),
298, 300 (2)-302.
Jonathan, 79.
Joseph, 252, 283, 293,
300, 302.
Joshua, 292.
Lydia, 273, 275, 284.
Mary, 253, 296.
Sarah, 292.
Thomas, 248, 250,
288.
Timothy, 237.
William, 274,292(3),
293.
Sawyer, Sawer, Sayer,
, 93, 111, 129.
Anne, 276, 277, 302.
Aquila, 284.
Benjamin, 244, 250,
255, 298.
Edward, 107.
Eliot, 293.
Elizabeth, 109, 249,
296, 300, 301.
Eunice, 302.
Ezekiel, 109, 128 (2),
244-246, 248, 250,
255, 275-277, 279,
282, 284, 295 (2),
296, 298, 300-303.
Ezekiel, jr., 127, 302.
Hannah, 111.
Jane, 245, 248, 303.
Jerey, 233.
John, 107-109 (2),
111 (2), 216, 217,
INDEX.
341
Sawyer, Sawer, Sayer,
John, 228, 230,
245, 246, 249, 251
(2), 275, 282, 296,
298 (3), 301 (2),
302.
Jonathan, 217.
Joseph, 301.
Joshua, 217.
Josiah, 217.
Mary, 108, 127, 246,
296, 300.
Mehitable, 248, 298.
Mercy, 246.
Moses, 157, 245, 279,
298(2), 301, 302.
Samuel, 160, 217.
Stephen, 217.
Thomas, 302.
William, 237.
Scales, James, 109(2)-
112.
Mathew, 112.
Sarah, 110, 116.
William, 111.
Scescions, David, 237.
Schenectady (N. Y.),
45.
Scipio (negro), 287.
Scott, Scot, Abigail,
247.
Benjamin, 108, 110-
116, 247, 253, 287.
Benjamin, jr., 249.
Daniel, 277.
Dolly, 286.
Ebenezer, 114.
Elizabeth, 248, 294.
Hannah, 125, 247,
250, 300.
Jane, 243, 245, 252,
253, 281.
Johannah, 110.
Scott, Scot, John, 110,
124, 125, 243 (2),
247 (2), 289.
Joseph, 110-112(2),
114, 116, 244-246
(2), 247, 249, 251,
280, 297.
Joseph, jr., 277, 281,
284.
Lydia, 249.
Martha, 249.
Mary, 244, 296.
Mehitable, 243.
Moses, 124, 280, 296,
297, 300.
Priscilla, 284.
Ruth, 249.
Samuel, 116, 248-
250, 252(2), 253
(2), 287.
Samuel, jr., 286, 289,
294.
Sarah, 108, 116.
Susanna, 115, 251,
252.
Scruggs, Rachel, 262.
Searl, Searls, ,115.
Caleb, 299.
Daniel, 292.
David, 292, 294(2),
297, 299.
Deborah, 247.
Elizabeth, 244.
John, 243, 244, 247,
248.
Jonathan, 297.
Joseph, 248.
Samuel, 243.
William, 115.
Secomb, Mary, 160.
Sedgwick [Theodore],
86, 95.
Seminole War, 52.
Senter, Eben, 79.
Sergent see Sargent.
Serusier, , 68.
Sewall, Henry, 138.
Shackford, Summer,
219.
Shapleigh, Chaply,
John, 243(2).
Shatswell, Jonathan,
151, 219.
Shaw, Anna, 210.
Henry, 34, 37, 39.
Walter, 210.
Shay's Rebellion, 82.
Shepard, , 108.
Dorothy, 104.
Ezra, 80.
Hannah, 107.
Jeremiah, 107, 108.
Jonathan, 250.
Samuel, 104(2).
Shoals, Isles of, 151,
239, 240.
Short, Shortt, Henry,
137, 140, 213(2),
214, 218.
Henry, jr., 213.
John, 137.
Michael, 226.
Moses, 217, 220.
Sarah, 213.
Sibbey (negro), 279,
280.
Sibly, ,211.
John, 209.
Rachel, 201.
Siecs, George, 218.
Silley, Cutting, 80.
Silsbee, , 9, 29, 31,
33-36, 38, 39, 45,
49, 55, 57, 59, 63,
65-67, 70-72.
Georgiana Crownin-
shield, 42.
Mary, 45, 58, 59, 67.
342
INDEX.
Silsbee, Mary Crown-
inshield, 29.
Nathaniel, 1(2), 23
(2), 74.
Nathaniel, jr., 27.
William, 3, 10-13,
21, 23, 24, 27-30,
49, 61, 63, 72.
Zachariah, 22, 24,
26, 28-30, 65.
Silver, Elizabeth, 118.
Mary, 117(2).
Mercy, 119.
Peter, 219.
Ruth, 121.
Samuel, 117-119, 121,
123(2), 124.
Sarah, 124.
Simmons, , 104.
Jane, 104.
John, 106.
Sarah, 106.
Skeen, Andrew, 233.
Skelton, Samuel, 178,
260.
Slew, Tabitha, 209.
Slocum, Ebenezer, 80.
Smila, James, 237.
Smith, , 111, 157,
238.
Amos, 212, 232.
Anna, 271.
Asa, 212.
Benjamin, 243-245,
247, 248(2), 250,
252, 253, 255, 281,
287, 288(2), 290,
294.
Benjamin, jr., 282.
Bethiah, 282.
David, 212.
Ebenezer, 168, 212.
Eliphalet, 212, 232.
Elizabeth, 245, 303.
Smith, Hannah, 111,
255, 287.
Isaac, 281, 303.
Jacob, 250, 292.
James, 153.
James, 3d, 220.
Jane, 282.
John, 138, 207, 212,
213, 220, 221, 232,
244(3), 246, 248
(2), 285.
Jonathan, 80, 248,
282, 285, 286.
Joseph, 244, 252,
294.
Mary, 109, 202, 207,
247, 253, 270.
Mercy, 290.
Moses, 244.
Nathan, 286.
Rebecca, 246.
Richard, 230.
Samuel, 109,212,232.
Sarah, 243.
Simeon, 212, 232.
Solomon, 248.
Stephen, 228.
William, 212, 232.
Smyth, Alexander, 36,
37.
Snow, James, 235.
Somerby, Somersby,
, 144.
Henry, 141.
Somersetshire, 257.
Soul, Charles, 212, 232.
Southard, Samuel L.,
44.
South Carolina, 33, 42,
47, 60, 62.
Southhold, 207.
Spafford see Spofford.
Spain, 20.
Sparks, Jared, 9.
Sparks, John, 273.
Thomas, 273.
Spencer, Ambrose, 58.
Richard, 58.
Sphinx (ship), 22, 23.
Spiller, Benjamin, 288.
Hannah, 286.
John, 285.
Samuel, 285, 286,
288, 290(2).
Spink, Ishmal, 232.
Spofford, Spoford,
Spafford, Abigail,
118.
Amos, 237.
Daniel, 161.
Ebenezer, 115.
Elizabeth, 124.
Hannah, 112.
John, 108(2), 109,
111', 113, 115.
Jonathan, 111.
Lydia, 123.
Martha, 113.
Mary, 109, 117.
Mehitable, 121.
Ruth, 114.
Samuel, 108(2), 111,
112, 114, 115(2),
117, 118, 121, 123,
124.
Sarah, 111.
Spoor, John, 212, 232.
Spragne, , 161.
Springfield (Mass.),
71, 77,212, 233.
Stackhouse, Richard,
205.
Stacy, Jane, 204.
Standleft, Samuel,212,
?32.
Stanford, Stanfort,
John, 233.
Josie, 233.
INDEX.
343
Stanford, Stanfort,
Rebekah, 207.
Stanley, Stanly,
Staudly, Bethia,
188, 193(2).
George, 193.
John, 193, 208, 269.
Rebeckah, 208.
Stanwood, John, 151,
153.
Starbert, Moses, 233.
Sta[u]nton (Va.),76.
Stearnes, William, jr.,
80.
Stephens, , 119.
William, 119.
Sterey, David, 287.
Samuel, 287.
Stevens, John, 153.
Joseph, jr., 151.
Josiah, 239, 240.
Thomas, 32.
William, 120.
Steward, William, 237.
Stewart, Abigail, 119.
Andrew, 44.
Benjamin, 123.
David, 124.
Elizabeth, 127.
Hannah, 126.
James, 119, 121-124,
126, 127.
John, 122(2), 245.
Mary, 122.
Sarah, 245.
Solomon, 121.
Stickney, ,117(2).
Amos, 120, 122, 163,
281, 286.
Andrew, 117, 120,
122, 123, 126, 162,
Andrew, jr., 119,
123.
Apphia, 297.
Stickney, Benjamin,
123 (2), 125, 126,
154.
Caleb, 157.
Daniel, 156, 255.
David, 163(2), 276,
292.
Dudley, 292.
Elizabeth, 111, 255
(2), 274, 295.
Enoch, 151.
Hannah, 110, 292.
Jane, 120.
John, 110, 111, 113,
115, 120, 122(2),
154, 155, 254, 255,
277.
John-March, 298.
Jonathan, 109, 276,
290, 291( 2), 294,
295, 297, 298.
Joseph, 126.
Josiah, 290(2).
Julian, 104.
Lucy, 277, 284.
Mary, 113, 286.
Moses, 125, 138,251,
290, 292.
Eaul, 282.
Rebeckeh, 119.
Samuel, 104, 107-
109, 115, 247(2),
240, 251, 253, 255
(2), 274,276.
Sarah, 104, 117, 249,
294.
Simon, 254.
Stephen, 126.
Thomas, 108, 235.
William, 107, 253,
281, 282, 284.
Stillman [Samuel], 89,
Stockbridge, Moses,
138.
Stockbridge (Mass.),
44, 46, 55.
Stockman, Rowland,
150.
Stone, Abigail, 179,
186, 196(2), 198.
Abiel, 207.
Daniel, 265.
Eben F., 81.
Elizabeth, 197, 210.
Esther, 270.
John, 179, 183, 196-
198.
John, jr., 200.
Jonathan, 196.
Lydia, 209.
Nathaniel, 185, 197
(2), 198, 200.
Nehemiah, 209.
Remember, 179, 184.
Robert, 30.
Samuell, 196, 197,
206, 210.
Samuel, jr., 207(2).
Sarah, 197.
William, 196.
Storer, Joseph, 233.
Story [Joseph] , 100.
Solomon, 34.
Street, Mary, 300.
Nathaniel, 300.
RandallS., 39.
Streeter, Gilbert L.,
169, 174.
Strong [Caleb], 86.
Studson, William, 80.
Sullivan [John], 93.
Sumatra, 28.
Sutton (Mass.), 272.
Swain, Benjamin, 222.
Swan, Swans, ,
113.
Ebenezer, 113.
Fayth, 107.
344
INDEX.
Swan, Swans, Hannah,
115.
Joshua, 139.
Richard, 107, 113,
115.
Swanzy (Mass.), 194.
Swarton, Hannah, 209.
Swasey, Swazey,
Sweasy.Ebenezer,
219.
Edward, 162.
Joseph, 138.
Swett, Swet, Sweet,
Sweat, Abraham,
153, 168.
Benjamin, 151.
Benjamin, jr., 220.
Enoch, 151,218,220.
John, 162, 218.
Stephen, 129, 138,
150, 220.
Swift (sloop), 222.
Syle, John, 121.
Richard, 121.
Symmouds, Symons,
Elizabeth, 103(2).
John, 103(2).
Mary, 103.
Syracuse (N. Y.), 45
(2), 78.
Taft, Beralul, jr., 74.
Taney, Roger B., 60,
66, 67.
Tapley, , 194.
Tappan, Tapan, John,
138.
Peter, 138.
Richard, 226.
Samuel, 138, 154,
155.
Timothy, 154, 155.
Tappan see also Top-
pan.
Tauuton (Mass.), 34,
37, 46, 55, 60, 79.
Taylor, Erne, 201, 204.
James, 201, 204.
John, 93, 159.
Sarah, 110.
Tazewell, E. W., 51,
52, 54.
Teel, Josiah, 230.
Tennessee, 42, 53, 55,
64.
Tenny, Tenney, Abi-
gail, 114.
Ann, 111, 251. 261.
Benjamin, 125, 296,
297, 299, 300(2).
Daniel, 110, 118(2),
120, 121, 123, 125,
127.
Ebenezer, 125.
Elizabeth, 113, 244,
246.
Eliphalet, 229(2).
Gershom, 121.
Hannah, 115, 119.
James, 112(2), 114,
116, 121, 125.
Jane, 296.
John, 103, 116, 120,
261.
Joseph, 287.
Lydia, 299.
Mary, 127, 297.
Mehetabel, 122.
Mercy, 103.
Moses, 128, 254, 285.
Richard, 123.
Ruth, 119.
Samuel, 117, 246,
249 (2)-251, 253,
254, 273, 284.
Sarah, 103, 112, 118,
253, 273, 288.
Susanna, 195, 261.
Teriny, Tenney,
Thomas, 110, 115,
117, 119, 122, 250,
261, 284, 285, 287,
288.
Thomas, jr., 111-
113, 128, 243, 244.
William, 121.
Thatcher, , 190.
Thistle, Mary, 209.
Thompkins, Daniel D.,
33.
Thompson, Thomson,
, 33, 36, 66,
93, 118.
Abigail, 118.
Jacob, 219.
Sarah, 217.
Smith, 36.
Thoreau, Henry D.,
171.
Thorla see Thurlow.
Thorndike/Ihorndick,
, 33, 202, 264.
Anna, 263.
Christian, 269(2).
Elizabeth, 267.
John, 263, 269.
Lydia, 267.
Mehitable, 267.
Paul, 268.
Robert, 267.
Three Sisters (brig), 3.
Thurlow, Thurlo,
Thurla, Thorlo,
Thorla, Abraham,
138, 160, 228.
George, 160.
John, 138, 156, 160.
Joseph, 228.
Samuel, 160,222,229.
Simon, 222, 229.
Thomas, 138, 230.
Tristram, 222,
INDEX.
345
Thurston, Thoston,
Abigail, 123.
Abner, 122.
Benjamin, 121, 127.
Daniel, 115, 138, 247,
249.
Daniel, jr., 115.
Dorcas, 120.
Enoch, 153.
Hannah, 118, 124.
James, 118, 120, 122.
Jonathan, 230.
Joseph, 121 (4), 123,
124, 127.
Mehitable, 121.
Sarah, 249.
Thomas, 247.
Ticonderoga, 236.
Tilton, Isaac, 162.
Titcomb, Benayab.,133.
Benjamin, 220.
Benjamin, jr., 150.
Edmund, 138.
Jacob, 220.
James, 150.
Moses, 150.
Thomas, 139.
William, 133, 145.
Titus (negro), 275.
Todd, Tod, , 104,
105 (2), 112, 114.
Abigail, 299.
Abner, 123.
Amoz, 289.
Anna, 299.
Asa, 277, 295, 296,
299.
Benjamin, 281, 299-
302 (2).
Brattlebank, 249.
Caleb, 301.
Daniel, 220, 250, 273,
278, 289, 299, 301.
Daniel, jr., 297, 301.
Todd, Tod, David,280,
294, 297.
Dudley, 296.
Eben, 279.
Ebenezer, 255.
Edna, 296.
Elizabeth, 115, 252,
277, 294, 296, 299
(2), 300.
George, 287, 302.
Hannah, 112, 246, 295
(2), 302.
Henery-Bailey, 303.
Hester, 124.
James, 105, 122, 124,
126, 243, 244, 246,
274, 289, 292 (3),
296, 299.
Jane, 254, 299.
Jedidiah, 298.
Jenny, 296.
Jeremiah, 243, 279,
280, 282 (2), 285-
287.
Joanna, 285, 297.
John, 103, 114, 115,
117, 120, 122, 123,
126, 247 (2), 250,
252-254, 277, 278,
280 (2), 281, 298,
299.
John, jr., 114, 249,
251, 254, 255, 276,
280, 296.
Jonathan, 126, 274,
275 (2), 276 (2),
277, 279, 282, 286
(2), 296.
Joseph, 126, 287, 298.
Joshua, 253, 292.
Mary, 120, 122, 251,
282, 292, 297.
Mehitable, 244, 292.
Moses, 291, 293, 298.
Todd, Tod, Nathan,
279, 301, 302.
Nathaniel, 295, 302.
Nelson, 298, 303.
Paul, 289.
Priscilla, 243.
Ruth, 249.
Samuel, 105, 117, 119
(2), 123, 124, 151,
220, 243, 249, 280.
Sarah, 276, 289, 294.
Solomon, 298.
Susanna, 124, 288.
Thomas, 103, 122,
123, 224, 254, 288,
289 (2), 291 (2)-
293, 295, 296, 298.
Timothy, 104.
Wallingford, 301.
William, 273, 286,
287, 289, 290(2),
292, 294-296, 298.
Toledo (Ohio), 78.
Toppan, Christopher,
141, 144.
Enoch, 224.
Jacob, 141.
Toppan see also Tap-
pan.
Topsfleld (Mass.), 253.
Tovie, John, 202.
Mary, 202.
Town, Jonathan, 220.
Townsend, Timothy,
153.
Trask, , 194, 259.
Christian, 198, 200,
261(3).
Edward, 261.
Elizabeth, 261.
Hannah, 202.
John, 202, 261(2).
Josiah, 268.
William, 261.
346
INDEX.
Trass, John, 232.
Treadwell, Tredwell,
Tredwal, Tred-
wels, , 72.
John, 80.
Jonathan, 280, 284.
Mary, 284.
Ruth, 280.
Trelance, Martha, 206.
Trenance, Martha,208.
Trenton Falls, 45, 78.
Trow, Georg, 202.
Job, 205.
Mary, 203, 205.
Sarah, 202.
Tobias, 203.
Troy (N. Y.), 71, 79.
True, Jacob, 150, 220.
Trumbull, Trumble,
, 111.
Deborah, 103, 105,
111.
Hannah, 106, 127.
John, 79, 103(2),
105(2), 106, 108.
Joseph, 105-108.
Judah, 108, 123, 127.
Mary, 106, 107, 123.
Tuck, John, 210.
John, jr., 210.
Rachel, 210.
Sarah, 210.
Turner, William, 154,
228.
Tyng, Dudley A., 240,
241, 242.
United States, 3(2),
7, 12-14, 17, 21-
25, 27, 28, 30-32,
42, 44, 49, 52, 53,
65, 56, 58-67, 70,
73-75,81, 99, 167,
175, 235.
Upham, William P.,
177.
Utica (N. Y.), 45(2),
78.
Uxbridge (Mass.), 34,
37, 74.
Van Buren, Martin,
53, 55, 59,66,H7,75.
Vanguelder, James,
212.
Varnum, John, 44, 46,
55.
Verde Islands, Cape de,
6.
Verplanck, Julian C.,
62.
Versailles, 304.
Violet (negro), 280.
Virginia, 4, 33, 36, 40,
44,51, 75, 76, 84,
95, 96, 100-102.
Virginia, Capes of,
27.
Wade, Ruth, 269.
Timothy, 269.
Wuiuwright, Sarah,
111.
Simon, 111.
Walden Pond, 171.
Waldron, Nathaniel,
266.
Walker, Warker, ,
58, 62, 261.
Benjamin, 74.
Charles, 230.
Elizabeth, 261, 263.
Eunice, 269.
Ezra, 212, 232.
Hannah, 122.
Isaac, 212, 232.
Patience, 124.
Peter, 233.
Walker, Warker, Re-
bekah, 126.
Richard, 122,124(2),
127(2), 138, 153.
Sarah, 269.
Tabitha, 124.
W alley, , 284.
Wallingford, Woling-
ford, , 110.
John, 139.
Margaret, 127.
Nicholas, 110, 126,
127.
Sarah, 126.
Wallis, Abiah, 206.
Benjamin, 211.
Caleb, 206, 207.
Elizabeth, 211.
James, 207, 208.
Joshua, 204, 206(2).
Josiah, 207.
Nathaniel, 204.
Martha, 208.
Sarah, 206.
Walpole, 49.
Ward, George A., 79.
Ware, Meshech, 238.
Warner, Caleb, 79.
Warren, Warrin,
Henry, 295(2).
James, 88, 89.
Washington, George,
3, 13, 84, 95, 102,
234, 304.
Washington (D. C.),
28, 30, 33, 35, 36,
39, 40, 42-45, 48,
49, 50, 52, 54, 55,
57-59, 61, 62, 64,
66, 67, 69, 70, 72,
73, 75-77.
Waterloo, 45.
Watson, Abraham, 218.
Hannah, 104.
INDEX.
347
Watson, John, 104, 105
(2).
Weathersfleld, 49.
Webber, Weber, ,
238.
Eichard, 229.
Webster, Daniel, 44,
46, 55(2), 60, 63,
66, 67, 75.
Ebenezer, 238.
John, 140.
Stephen, 235.
Wedgery [William],
93.
Weed, Wead, ,154.
Daniel, 218.
John, 153.
Jonathan, 221.
Samuel, 218.
Sarah, 157, 158.
Weicom, Wicomb,
, 106.
Abigail, 107.
Ann, 106.
Daniel, 104, 106-109,
122, 123, 125.
Daniel, jr., 116, 118,
120.
Elizabeth, 125.
Francis, 107.
Hannah, 122.
Hephzibah, 123.
John, 106-108(2),
109, 111, 114, 116,
138.
Martha, 109.
Mary, 104(2), 109,
116, 120.
Mehitable, 111.
Rebecca, 108.
Sarah, 114, 118.
Thomas, 106, 116.
Welch, Welsh, John,
208.
Welch, Welsh, Lemuel,
233.
Sarah, 208.
Wellington, Thomas,
168.
Wellman, Mary Ann,
71.
Wells, Benjamin, 80.
Enoch, 219.
Thomas, 217.
Wells (Me.), 211(2).
Wenham (Mass.), 184,
195, 198, 206, 265-
267, 271, 272(2).
Wentworth, Aaron,
120.
Benjamin, 121.
Catherine, 119, 120.
Ebenezer, 120.
Edward, 123.
Martha, 120.
Mary, 120.
Mercy, 120.
Moses, 120.
Paul, 120(2), 121,
123.
Sarah, 120.
Sylvanus, 120.
William, 120, 157.
West, , 114.
Benjamin, 80.
Christian, 269.
Elizabeth, 114, 188,
268.
John, 121(2), 187,
194, 198, 263.
Mary, 187, 263.
Nathaniel, 104.
Ruth, 263.
Thomas, 188, 263,
269(3).
Twiford, 104.
West Bridgewater
(Mass.), 66.
West India Islands,
French, 9.
West Indies, 4(2), 5.
West Indies, British,
44.
Westminster (Mass.),
34.
Westmoreland (Vt.),
238.
Weston,Nathaniel, jr. ,
80.
West Point (N. Y.),
45, 71.
West Springfield
(Mass.), 37, 44.
Wharf, Whorff, Benja-
min Dresser, 303.
James, 302 (2), 303.
Wheeler, , 105,108.
Abigail, 121.
Abijah, 124.
David, 108.
Ebenezar, 121.
Elizabeth, 126, 253.
Hannah, 116, 120.
James, 115.
Jethro, 116, 117 (2),
120, 122, 124, 126,
128.
John, 253.
Jonathan, 112 (2),
114, 116, 121 (2),
123, 138.
Joseph, 105.
Mary, 105, 114, 115,
126, 207.
Mehitable, 121.
Mercy, 119.
Moses, 122.
Nathan, 118,119,121,
123 (2), 126, 138.
Rebecker, 118.
Samuel, 123.
Sarah, 116, 128.
348
INDEX.
Whipple, , 238.
Jonathan, 80.
White, , 258.
[Abraham], 93.
[Daniel A.], 96, 100.
Deborah, 203.
George, 115.
Henry, 80.
Hugh E., 64.
John, 80.
Joseph W., 44.
Josiah, 115.
Miriam, 211.
Nathaniel, 115.
Philip, 203.
Whiteker, Ebenezer,
237.
James, 237.
White Mountains, 49.
Whitman, Ezekiel, 34,
36, 37 (2), 39.
Whitney, Whitne,
Abram, jr., 233.
Isack, 233.
Whitteridge, Charitie,
203.
Thomas, 203.
Whittier, Whitier,
Isaac, 221.
John, 218.
Whitton, Elias, 138.
Whitwell, MaryC.,23.
Wicomb see Weicom.
Wigglesworth, Ed-
ward, 167, 168,212,
231 (2), 233.
John, 167, 222.
William, 231.
Wiggin,Bradt.,222(2).
Wild, John H., 80.
Wiles, Ezra, 237.
Wilkes, Mary, 263.
Robert, 263.
Thomas, 263.
Willet, Willit, Ben-
jamin, 218.
Francis, 140.
Francis, jr., 140.
Joseph, 138, 140,158.
Williams, , 130,
131.
Daniel, 212, 232.
Israel, 159.
Joseph, 168.
Mary, 199.
Richard, 217.
Thomas, 153.
Williamson, , 22.
Willington, , 231.
Josiah, 168.
Willis, Zacheriah, 233.
Wilson, David, 79.
John, 34.
Wilton (Mass.), 55.
Winch, Jedidiah, 212.
Winchester, William,
168.
Winder, Ann, 264.
Windsor (Vt.), 49.
Winne, John, 150.
Winslow (Me.), 37.
Winter, Benjamin, 219,
291.
Ruth, 291.
Winthrop, James, 89,
90.
Wirt, William, 33, 44.
Wise, James, 138.
Wittington, Edward,
205.
Wonder, Peter, 219.
Wood, , 105, 106,
109, 112, 113, 125,
201.
Aaron, 292.
Amos, 289.
Ann, 122.
Benjamin, 115.
Wood, Betty, 288.
David, 126, 128.
Ebenezer, 105, 119,
121 (2), 123, 126,
127, 244, 246.
Eliphalet, 235, 246.
Elizabeth, 118, 127,
263.
Ephraim, 115.
Eunice, 283.
Gabriel, 208.
George, 243.
Gideon, 289.
Hannah, 125,280,281.
Israel, 264.
Jacob, 125.
James, 106, 119 (2).
John, 109, 111 (2),
113, 161, 287.
Jonathan, 123, 251,
285 (3), 287, 288,
290, 292, 294.
Joseph, 113.
Joshua, 237.
Josiah, 113, 115-117,
119, 121, 125, 127,
243.
Lucy, 288.
Margaret, 252, 294.
Mary, 103, 112, 121,
187, 245, 291.
Mehitable, 119.
Mercy, 208.
Molly, 292.
Moses, 244, 277, 285,
294.
Nathaniel, 263.
Nehemiah, 114.
Priscilla, 113.
Rachel, 122.
Ruth, 286.
Samuel, 103, 115-
117, 127, 249, 287-
292, 294.
INDEX.
349
Wood, Sarah, 117, 248,
278, 285, 287, 290.
Solomon, 104.
Susanna, 290.
Thomas, 103, 113-
115 (2), 117-119,
122, 245, 248, 249,
251, 262, 281, 283,
286, 288.
Thomas, jr., 112,
113, 277, 278, 280,
285, 288, 289.
Woodbridge, Joseph,
133.
Woodbridge (N. J.),
213.
Woodbury, Wood-
berry, , 194,
195, 198.
Abel, 264.
Abigail, 196(2), 260,
262(3), 264, 267,
268, 271.
Agnes, 260(3).
Alice, 205, 263.
Andrew, 196, 207,
265, 270, 271.
Andrew, jr., 204.
Ann, 260, 264.
Anna, 179, 183, 262,
270, 271(2).
Anna, jr., 179, 183.
Benjamin, 196, 211,
263, 268(2), 269,
272(4).
Bethiah, 264.
Caleb, 265(2).
Cercia, 265.
Christian, 196, 261,
263.
Daniel, 270, 274.
David, 266.
Deliverance, 263.
Ebenezer, 196, 208,
Woodbury, Wood-
berry, Ebenezer,
262 (2), 266 (2),
267(3), 269, 270
(2), 271(3).
Edward, 247.
Elizabeth, 179, 183
(2), 190, 194, 196
(3), 197, 203, 204,
261-264(2), 265(3),
267-272.
Erne, 207.
Esther, 270.
Gideon, 270.
Hannah, 179, 183,
196, 197(2), 208,
251, 254, 260(2),
262(3), 264, 265
(2) -267 (2), 269-
271(2), 272.
Hazadiah, 270, 271.
Hazadiah, jr., 271.
Henry, 270, 271.
Hester, 265.
Hugh, 179,183, 197(2)
Humphrey, 179, 183,
186, 193, 196, 198,
200, 201, 252, 257
(2), 260 (2)-262
(3), 263-266, 268,
269 (2), 270.
Humphrey, jr., 179,
184.
Isaack, 179, 193, 195,
196,261,263(4),268
(2), 269(5), 270,
271.
Isaac,jr.,203, 204(2).
Israel, 193, 264, 265,
276.
Jacob, 270.
Jael, 266.
James, 269, 270, 272
(2).
Woodbury, Wood-
berry, Jane, 196.
Jerusha, 263, 264,
267(2).
Joanna, 207, 267.
John, 196, 197, 205,
208, 257(3), 259
(5), 260(4), 261
(7), 262(7), 263
(5), 264(2), 266
(3), 267, 268(3),
269, 270(2), 271
(5), 272(3).
John, jr., 179, 190,
262, 263.
Jonathan, 264, 265
(2), 271.
Joseph, 196,203, 268,
(2), 272 (3).
Josiah,197, 263, 266,
268 (3), 270.
Joshua, 263 (2), 269,
(4)-272, 281.
Jude, 185.
Judith, 197 (2).
Keziah, 264.
Levi, 60, 66, 67, 272.
Lot, 272.
Luke, 270, 271.
Lydia, 268 (4), 271.
Mark, 268, 270, 272.
Martha, 262, 267,
268.
Mary, 179, 183, 197,
204, 207, 208, 211,
247, 255, 263 (3)-
265, 267, 268 (5)-
272 (2).
Mehi table, 267, 270,
271.
Moses, 253, 254.
Nathan, 218, 252,263,
255, 264 (2), 274,
276.
350
INDEX.
Woodbury, Wood-
berry, Nathaniel,
264, 267 (3), 269,
271 (2).
Neheraiah, 264.
Nickolas, 185, 196
(2), 202, 204.
Paul, 270.
Peter, 179, 184, 196
(3), 202 (2), 203,
211, 250, 260 (2),
261 (5), 262 (3),
265, 268 (5), 270-
272 (4).
Peter, jr., 204, 207,
272.
Priscilla, 197, 263,
267, 270.
Rachel, 265.
Rebecca, 263, 265,
268, 271 (2).
Richard, 196, 199,
261, 266 (3), 270
(3).
Robert, 208, 210, 263
(3), 268 (2).
Ruth, 208, 263, 267
(2), 269.
Samuel, 197 (2), 247
(2), 250, 251, 263-
265 (3), 281.
Sarah, 184, 197, 262
(2), 263,266,267 (2),
Woodbury, Wood-
berry, Sarah, 268
(2), 269 (2), 270,
271.
Seton, 265.
Susanna, 179, 261
2G3-266.
Thomas, 179, 193,
197, 207, 261, 264,
265, 267-270 (2).
Thomas, jr., 205.
William, 179, 183, 196,
197 (3), 199, 210,
259, 261 (2), 264
(5), 265 (4), 271,
281.
William, jr., 207.
Zebulon, 263, 269.
Woodbury's Point,259.
Wooden, Woodin, ,
105, 107, 199.
Dorcas, 105.
Ithamar, 205.
John, 200.
John, jr., 207 (2).
Katherin, 207.
Peter, 107.
Woodman, , 138.
Archelaus, 217.
Benjamin, 138.
Benjamin, jr., 151.
David, 138, 233.
Dorothy, 127.
Woodman, Jane, 281.
John, 220.
Jonathan, 123, 282.
Joshua,126, 127,282.
Mehitable, 126.
Moses, 156.
Stephen, 123.
Woodwell, Benjamin,
163.
Gidean, 219.
Woodstock, 211.
Woolfe, Martha, 179,
183.
Peter, 179, 183, 264.
Wooster, Richard,
219.
Timothy, 218.
Worcester (Mass.), 29,
38, 44, 45, 55, 60,
61, 65, 66(2), 67,
71, 74 (2), 219.
Worth, Elizabeth, 217.
John, 217.
Wright, Asahol, 212,
232.
John, 233.
Yarinton, Abiel, 209.
Peter, 209.
Yarmouth (Muss.), 44,
46, 55, 60.
York (Maine), 151.
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