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CONTENTS.
Abbot, Maj. Stephen, Revolutionary Letter written by, . . 54
Beverly First Church Records (Continued). Copied by Wil-
liam P. Upham, 161, 257, 353
Dow, George Francis. Salem Commoner's Records, . . 273
Gardner, Frank A., M. D. Thomas Gardner, Planter, and some
of his Descendants. Illustrated, . . .73, 209, 289, 369
Gardner, Thomas, Planter, and some of his Descendants (Con-
tinued}. By Frank A. Gardner, M.D. Illustrated, 73,209,289,369
Gloucester. Muster Roll of Capt. William Norwood's Company,
1764, 51
Hancock, John, Revolutionary Letter written by, . . 56
Howard, Cecil H. C. The Pepperrells in America. Illustrated, 153,313
Lyford, Francis, of Boston and Exeter, and some of his
Descendants (Continued}. By William Lewis Welch, . 57, 185
Marine Notes from a book kept in Salem, 1812-1815 (Con-
tinued). Copied by George L. Peabody, .... 147
Misery Islands, and what happened there, The. Illustrated, . 225
Muster Roll of Capt. William Norwood's Company, Gloucester,
1764, 51
North Bridge, Salem, February 26. 1775. The Affair at the.
Illustrated 321
Peabody, George L. Marine Notes from a book kept in Salem,
1812-1815 147
Peter, Hugh. By Mrs. Eleanor Bradley Peters. Illustrated,. 1,97
Peters, Mrs. Eleanor Bradley. Hugh Peter. Illustrated, . 1, 97
Pepperrells in America, The ( Continued} . By Cecil H. C. How-
ard. Illustrated, 153, 313
Revolutionary Letter written by John Hancock, ... 56
Revolutionary Letter written by Maj. Stephen Abbot, . . 54
Salem Commoner's Records (Continued}. Copied by George
Francis Dow, 273
Upham, William P. Beverly First Church Records, . 161, 257, 353
Welch, William Lewis. Francis Lyford, of Boston and Exeter,
and some of his Descendants, 57, 185
(HI)
HUGH PETER.
From the original portrait in the possession of C. E. Treffry, Esquire,
of Place, Fowey, Cornwall, England.
HISTOBICAL COLLECTIONS
OP THE
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VOL. XXXVIII. JANUARY, 1902. No. 1 .
HUGH PETER :
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST ; FOURTH PASTOR
OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN SALEM.
A MOSAIC.
BY ELEANOR BRADLEY PETERS.
[Mrs. Edward McClure Peters.}
"I WAS the son of considerable parents, from Fowey in
Cornwall, my father a merchant, his ancestors driven
thence from Antwerp for religion I mean the reformed ;
my mother of the same town of a very ancient family, the
name Treffrey of Place, or the place in that town of which
I would not boast." Thus writes Hugh Dirkwood,
otherwise Hugh Peter. He was baptized in the parish
of St. Ewe, in Fowey, the entry in the parish record
reading thus: " Anno RR. Elizabeth '41-Hugh the son
of Thomas Dirkwood, baptized 7th June 1598," and the
accompanying note : " Otherwise Hugh Peters, Chaplain
and adviser to Oliver Cromwell ; beheaded by Charles II,
on Tower Hill. J. J. T."*
He was the third child and second son of Thomas
Dirkwood and Martha Treffrey, she being a descendant
of Sir John Treffrey who, in the 14th century, defended
Fowey against the French. Why and when Thoma
Dirkwood changed his name to Peter no one knows ; bu
* Error: he'was hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross. The initials
are supposed to be those of the Rev. Justin Treffrey, and the date 1668-1698.
2 HUGH PETER :
the time was evidently between 1599 and 1610; perhaps
about the period that Martha Treffrey's sister, Deborah,
marries Henry Peter,* M. P. for Fowey, who descended
from a sister of the Sir William Peter, famous as having
been " secretary and of the Privy Council to four kings
and queens of this realm, and seven times ambassador
abroad in foreign lands." He was also appointed one of
the trustees for the young king, in the will of Henry VIII.
Whatever the exact status of the Dirkvvoods towards
the Peters it is certain that Hugh Peter assumed not only
the name but the coat of arms of that family. Perhaps
Henry Peter, M. P. for Fowey, is the uncle he mentions
in the sketch of his life in the Last Legacy. f
" These J lived in very great abundance ; their Losses
at Sea grew very great ; in the midst of which Losses, my
elder Brother being at Oxford, I was sent to Cambridge,
and that Estate I had by an Uncle, I left with my Mother,
and lived at the University, and a little from thence,
about eight years ; took my degree of Master of Arts,
where I spent some years vainly enough, being but 14
years old when thither I came ; my Tutor died, and I was
expos'd to my shifts."
He was at Trinity College, and took his degree of B.A.,
in 1616. In 1622, he received the degree of A.M., but
to continue in his own words : " Coming from thence
[Cambridge], at London God struck me with the sense
of my sinful estate, by a Sermon I heard under Pauls,
which is about 40 years since [consequently in 1620]
which Text was The burden of Dumah, or Idumea, and
stuck fast. This made me to go into Essex ; And after
being quieted by another Sermon in that Country, and the
Love and Labours of Mr. Thomas Hooker, I there Preacht,
there married with a good Gentlewoman, till I went to
London to ripen my Studies, not intending to preach at
all ; where I attended Dr. George Sibs, and Davenports
Ministry, with others, and I hope with some profit. But
in short time was forced to preach by importunity of
* During the civil war Thomas Peter, son of Henry Peter and Deborah Treffry,
was on the royalist side. He was at one time a prisoner in the Tower, from which
he was rescued through the influence of his first cousin, Hugh Peter.
t " A Dying Father's Last Legacy to an Only Child."
J His family. Thomas.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 3
Friends, having had a Licence from Dr. Mountain Bishop
of London before, and to Sepulchers I was brought by a
very strange providence, for preaching before at another
place and a young man receiving some good would not be
satisfied, but I must preach at Sepulchers once monthly
for the good of his Friends ; in which he got his end (if I
might not shew vanity) and he allowed Thirty pounds per
Annum to that Lecture, but his person unknown to me :
he was a Chandler, and dyed a good man, and Member of
Parliament. At this Lecture the Resort grew so great
that it contracted en vie and anger : Though I believe above
an hundred every week were perswaded from sin to Christ.
I wish I may not be judged for saying so : There was
six or seven thousand Hearers, and the Circumstances fit
for such good work. But I am tender ; there I had some
trouble, who could not conform to all : and went to
Holland, where I was five or six years, not without the
presence of God in my Work ; But many of my
Acquaintance going for New England had engaged me to
come to them when they sent, which accordingly I did :
And truly my reason for myself and others to go, was
merely, not to offend Authority in the difference of
Judgment ; and had not the Book for Encouragement of
Sports on the Sabbath come forth, many had staid. That
good man, my dear firm Friend, Mr. White of Dorchester,
and Bishop Lake, occasioned, yea, founded that Work,
and much in reference to the Indians, of which we did not
fail to attempt, with good success to many of their souls
through God's blessing. See Bishop Lake's Sermon,
1 King, 8.37. who profest to Mr. White of Dorchester,
he would go himself with us, but for his age, for which
he had the late King's gracious Patent, Licence and
Encouragement. There I continued seven years."*
Felt's memoir of Peter states that he prayed for the
Queen at St. Sepulcher's, saying " that as she came into
the Goshen of safety, so the light of Goshen might shine
into her soul, and that she might not perish in the day of
Christ." This came to Laud's ears who forbade Peter's
* Quotations are made exactly as found, though many are so confusedly
expressed and so bristle with pronouns that they are sadly in need of order and
clearness. The compiler, however, dares not meddle with them.
4 HUGH PETER:
ministry and had him confined in the New Prison for
" some time before any articles were exhibited against him.
Though certain noblemen offered bail for him it was
refused."
In 1627, Aug. 17, before going to Holland, being
suspected of heterodoxy, "he subscribed a submission and
protestation addressed to the Bishop of London, setting
forth his admission to the doctrine and discipline of the
English government and his acceptance of the episcopal
government."*
He was one of the earliest members of the Massachusetts
Bay Company. In May, 1628, he subscribed to the joint
stock of the Plantation, and he was one of the fourteen who
signed the first instructions to Endecott, Sept. 13, 1628.
He also attended the Courts of the Company, held on the
llth and 13th of May, 1629.
List of Subscribers. " In the name of god [sic] Amen.
London, May, 1628.
Sundrie men owe vnto the general stock of the
adventurers for plantacon intended att Massachusetts Bay
in New England, in America the some of tow thousand
one hundreth and fiftie pound. And is for soe much
vnderteken by the pticuler persons menconed hereafter,
by there seuerall and general 1 stock for the aforesaid
plantacon. Subscripcons to be by them adventured. In
this point, where vnto the Almighty grant prosperous and
happie Success, that the same may redound to his glorie,
the propagation of the Gospel 1 of Christ, and the particular
good of the seuerall Adventurers, that now are or hereafter
shall be Interested therein. The persons nowe to be made
debtors to the generall Stock being as followeth :
Sr. Rich'd Saltonstall, Knt, oweth 100
Mr Isacke Johnson Esqr 100
Mr Samuel Aldersey 50
John Venn 50
Hugh Peter 50"
[and others.]
Letter from Mathew Cradock to Capt. John Endecott,
"from my house in Swithens Lane neare London stone
* Dictionary of National Biography.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 5
this 16th February, 1628-9. . . . But for Mr Peters,
he is now in Holland from whence his return hither I hold
to be uncertain."
In Holland, Peter was pastor of an Independent church
in Rotterdam. There he made the acquaintance of John
Forbes, a noted Presbyterian divine, with whom he
travelled into Germany to see Gustavus Adolphus, and
of Sir Edward Harwood, an English commander in the
Dutch service, who fell at the siege of Maestricht in 1652.
It seems probable that he was Sir Edward's secretary."*
Sir William Brereton, who visited Rotterdam in 1634,
describes Peter as a "right zealous and worthy man," and
states that he was paid a salary of 5000 guilders by the
Dutch government.!
On leaving Holland, he returned to England and sailed
from Plymouth, in July, 1635, in company with the
younger Winthrop, Vane, and others, in the "Abigail."
Gov. Winthrop, in his Journal, says : " Mo 8, 6 arrived
the Defence & the Abigail, ten weeks from Plymouth with
two hundred and eighty persons and many cattle infected
also with small pox ;" in spite of which no deaths occurred.
Speaking of Peter's arrival, Winthrop says : "Amongst
others came Mr. Peter, pastor of the English church in
Rotterdam who being persecuted by the English
ambassador, who would have brought his and other
churches to the English discipline, and not having had
his health these many years, intended to advise with the
ministers here about his removal."
That he was pursued while in England is evident from
a letter Samuel Reade (step-son of Peter) writes to John
Winthrop, jr., from London Aug. 2, 1635, saying that he
is thankful ff alsoe for my father's [Peter's] escape out of
cruell hands. We learn if you had stayed but 2 dayes
longer my father would scarcely have avoided them for
they had taken an extraordinary cunning course for his
attachment."
" This yeere [1635] came over the Famous servant of
Christ Mr Hugh Peters whose courage was not inferior to
any of these transported servants of Christ, but because
* Dictionary of National Biography; Harleian Miscellany.
Travels of Sir William Brereton.
6 HUGH PETER:
his native Soile hath had the greatest share of his labours,
the lesse will be said of him here :
With courage bold Peters a Souldier stout
In Wildernesse for Christ begins to war,
Much worke he finds 'mongst people, yet hold out;
With fluent tongue he stops phantastick jars.
Swift Torrent stayes of liberties large vent ;
Through crooked wayes of error daily flowing,
Shiloe's soft streames to bath in would all bent ;
Should he while they in Christian freedom e growing,
But back thou must, thy Talents Christs will have,
Improved for him, his glory is thy crowne,
And thou base dust while he thee honour gave ;
It matters not though the world on thee do Frowne."*
Within a few weeks of his -arrival, "Mr. Hugh Peters
preaching at Boston & Salem moved the country to raise
a stock for fishing as the only probable means to free us
from that oppression which the seamen and others hold us
under."-f Two months later (January, 1635-6) we find
him going from place to place intent on this same work,
" and so prevailed as he procured a good sum of money to
be raised to set on foot the fishing business to the value of
[ ] and wrote into England to raise as much more.
The interest was to set up a magazine of all provisions &
other necessaries for fishing that men might have things
at hand & for reasonable prices whereas now the
merchants & seamen took advantage to sell at most
excessive rates, in many things two for one &c."J
April 26, 1636, "The Charity of Dartmouth of 120 tons
arrived laden with provisions. Mr. Peters bought all the
provisions at 50 in the 100 (which saved the country
200) & distributed them to all the towns as each town
needed."}
Mar. 3, 1635-6, Peter was admitted freeman, with
Vane, Shepherd, Rogers, Harlakenden and others.
Winthrop calls him "a man of a very public spirit &
singular activity for all occasions," and adds that he "went
* Wonder- working Providence of Sion's Saviour. Being a Relation of the first
planting in New England in the yeere 1628. Maes. Hist. Coll., 2nd series, Vol. Ill,
p. 154.
t Winthrop'* JournaUNov. 20, 1635.
t Winthrop's Journal.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 7
from place to place laboring both publicly and privately
to raise up men to a better frame of spirit."
That Peter came to New England without any definite
resolution to remain here is evident from the following
letter from Samuel Reade to John Winthrop, jr.
London, March 5, 1635-6. "We wonder we haue noe
certaine information whether my father Peter intendeth
to stay with you, or to returne. It is necessary it should
speedily be determined of, that his church may know
how to dispose of themselues. Mr. Davenport supplyeth
his place yet."*
Writing to his son, 1636, 2mo. 26, Winthrop says
"The Lord in much mercy sent us a ship the 12 of this
present with provisions but she had put in at Pascataqua
& sold much there ; for she brought only 39 hogsheads of
meal, 25 of peas, 8 of oatmeal, 40 of malt & some beef &
prunes & aqua vitae, & 18,000 of [unknown]. My
brother Peter bought it all & divided it amongst the "f
["about 16 lines are gone," says
Savage, "the paper being thin."] Is this the same as the
"Charity" referred to above?
When provisions are sent in the Rebecca to the
"Governor of the Plantation upon the mouth of the
Connecticut," amongst others is found "a hogshead of
pork which my brother Peter puts in."J
The same year, shortly after their arrival, "Mr. Vane
and Mr. Peter finding some distraction in the Common-
wealth arising from difference in judgment and withal
some alienation of affection among the magistrates and
some other persons of quality and that hereby factions
began to grow among the other people, some adhering more
to the old governour, Mr. Winthrop, and others to the late
governour Mr. Dudley, the former carrying matters with
more lenity and the latter with more severity they
procured a meeting at Boston of the governour, Deputy,
Mr. Cotton, Mr. Hooker, Mr. Wilson, and there was
present Mr. Winthrop, Mr. Dudley and themselves. "J
The result was a desire among the clergy that Mr.
Winthrop should be more severe, in the future, in his
*Mass. Hist. Coll., 5th series, Vol. I, p. 217. fWinthrop's Journal, p. 456
t Winthrop's Journal.
8 HUGH PETER :
dealings with transgressors against the law, and ten
articles were drawn to this effect.
May 25, 1636. 'The Gounr, Deputy Gounr, Tho :
Dudley, John Haynes, Rich Bellingham Esq, Mr Cotton,
Mr Peter and Mr. Shepheard are in treated to make a
draught of lawes agreeable to the word of God, wch may
be the ffundamentalls of the Comonwealth & to present
the same to the nexte Genall Court."*
In 1636, Mo. 3, 15, "Mr. Peters preaching at Boston
made an earnest request to the church for four things 1.
That they would spare their teacher Mr. Cotton for a
time that he might go through the Bible and raise
marginal notes upon all the knotty places of the scripture.
2. That a new book of martyrs might be made to begin
where the other had left. 3. That a form of church
government might be drawn according to the scriptures.
4. That they take order for employment of people
especially women and children in the winter time ; for
he feared that idleness would be the ruin both of church
and commonwealth :f
"10-4 mo. 1636. "Mr. Fenwick . . . intends
about a month hence with my brother Peter to be with
you." Winthrop to his son John Winthrop, Gov. of the
Plantation at the mouth of the Connecticut.!
1636. 4 mo. 23. " Mr. Fenwick, my brother Peter &c.
set forth on horseback on the 27 of this month and will
expect your shallop at the upper town to carry them down
the river and so will join Mr. Peirce's pinnace to Long
Island, Hudson's River, &c.," writes Winthrop to his son.
This journey was doubtless owing to the fact that Sir
Harry Vane and Hugh Peter " were associated with
Winthrop by the patentees of Connecticut, in the agency
for the management of their estate. The three made
proclamation of the rights of their principals and required
a recognition of them on the part of the emigrants to
that region." Peter being so well viewed by the Dutch
took the journey to reconcile the disputes between them
and the English. J
* Records of Mass. Bay Colony. t Winthrop's Journal.
I This journey of Hugh Peter's is undoubtedly the foundation of the statement
made by several writers thai Thomas Peter was in Connecticut in 1636. I can
find no evidence of Thomas being in this country prior to 1645.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 9
"In the year 1635, I, Lion Gardener, Engineer and
Master of works of Fortification in the legers of the
Prince of Orange, in the Low Countries, through the
persuasion of Mr. John Davenport, Mr. Hugh Peters with
some other well-affected Englishmen of Rotterdam, I
made an agreement with the forenamed Mr. Peters for
100 per annum, for four years, to serve the company
of patentees, namely, the Lord Say, the Lord Brooks
[Brook], Sir Arthur Hnzilrig, Sir Mathew Bonnington
[Bonighton ?] , Sir Richard "Saltingstone [Saltonstall],
Esquire Fenwick, and the rest of their company, [I say]
I was to serve them only in the drawing, ordering and
making of a city, town, or forts of defence Mr
Winthrop, Mr Fenwick, and Mr Peters persuaded me
that they would do their utmost endeavour to persuade
the Bay-men to desist from war a year or two, till we could
be better provided for it ...
So they returned to Boston. But our great
expectation [of having many laborers sent to him] at
the River's mouth, came only to two men, viz. Mr Fenwick
and his man, who came with Mr Hugh Peters, and Mr
Oldham and Thomas Stanton, bringing with them some
Otter-skin coats, and Beaver and skeins of wampum."*
Pequot Warres, by Lion Gardener.
That they were not long gone is evident from the
following : " 1636, Mo. 5, 6. Many ships lying ready at
Natascott to sail Mr. Peter went down and preached
aboard the Hector and the ships going forth met an east
wind which put them in again ; whereupon he staied and
kept the sabbath with them.f"
Dec. 21, 1636. Having preached acceptably at Salem
he is made pastor there, joining the church, Jan. 8, 1636,
O. S. His name stands first in the records of admission
to full communion, 8/11, 1636, the year ending March,
1637. He was their fourth minister, Higginson and Skelton
having died and Roger Williams having been removed in
November. The church at Saugus (Lynn) had wished to
have him but he preferred Salem. This same year,
1636, he was granted 300 acres at Jeffreys Creek now
* Mass. Hist. Coll., 3rd series, Vol. in, p. 136.
t Winthrop's Journal.
10 HUGH PETER:
Manchester. He, and Captain Endecott, each had two
acres at the west end in Salem bordering upon Captain
Trask and father Wood bury 's lot.
" June 15th 1636. Laid out to Mr. Peters 150 acres of
land by order from the selectmen bounded southerly by
the land of the farm of Porter and land commonly called
Joshua Rea's land easterly with ye land of William
Kaimonts to a bound tree at the northwest corner of ye
said Raimont's land northerly with the land of Nathan
and Jno. Putnam, westerly with a little river or brooke
until it meets with Joshua Rcas land bounds and then
buttes upon his land until it comes to the bound tree yt
belongs to farmer Porter and Josh Rae."*
March 12, 1637. "Capt. Sedgwick, John Johnson, and
Mr. Robt. Keayne are desired to speak with Mr Peters,
and Mr Peirce about the Price of the coates and armes
which the country had last summer."!
In 1637, Hugh Peter writes to John Winthrop : " Wee
haue heard of a dividence of women and children in the
bay and would bee glad of a share viz : a young woman
or girle and a boy if you thinke good [these were Pequot
captives] . I wrote to you for some boys for Bermudas
which I thinke is considerable. Besides wee are bold to
impart our thoughts about the come at Pequoit which wee
wish were all cut down, or left to the Naragansicks rather
than for vs to take it, for wee feare it will proue a snare
thus to hunt after their goods whilst wee come forth
pretending only the doing of justice, and wee beleeue it
would strike more terror into the Indians so to doe : It
will quit cost to vs to keepe it."
"The 23d of this 7th mo 1637 Mr Hugh Peter delivred
into the Court a deed of Mr Robert Saltonstall, makeing
over all the estate that hee hath, or shall have, to satisfy
his creditors."!
Nov. 20, 1637. " For the colledge, the Governour, Mr
Winthrope, the Deputy, Mr Dudley, the Treasurer, Mr
Bellingham,MrHumfrey, Mr Harlakenden, Mr Staughton,
Mr Cotton, Mr Wilson, Mr Damport, Mr Wells, Mr
Sheopard and Mr Peters, these, or the greater part of
them, whereof Mr Winthrop, Mr Dudley, or Mr
* Salem Town Records- t Records of Mass. Bay Colony.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 11
Bellingham to bee always one, to take order for a colledge
at Newtowne." This was the founding of Harvard College,
and May 2, 1638, "Jt is ordered "that Newtowne shall
hereafterward be called Cambridge."*
Nov., 1637. " Mr Dunkaen and Increase Nowell were
appointed to take Mr Peters his account between this and
the next Courte."*
Dec., 1637. Peters reproved Vane, then governor,
because of his expressing dislike to a meeting of Cotton
and the elders about differences of opinion ; Peter adds
" that the Ministers are saddened by his jealousy of their
deliberations and his apparent inclination to restrain their
liberty." The governor apologized, f
Mar. 12, 1638 . . . " this Court hath therefore
ordered that the freemen of every towne (or some part
thereof chosen by the rest) wthin this Jurisdiction shall
assemble together in their severall townes, and collect the
heads of such necessary and fundamental laws as may bee
sutable to the times and places whear God by his Pvidence
hath cast us, & the heads of such lawes to deliver in
writing to the Governor for the time being before the 5th
day of the 4th month called June, next, to the intent that
the same Governor, together with the rest of the standing
councell, <fe Mr Richard Bellingham Esq, Mr Bulkley, Mr
Phillips, Mr. Peters, and Mr Sheopard . . . [and
others] may vpon the survey of such heads of lawes,
make a compendious abridgment of the same for the
Generall Court."* . . .
March 12, 1638. " Whereas there hath been divers
complaints made concerning oppsion in wages, in prizes
of comodities, in smiths worke, in excessive prizes for
the worke of draughts and teames and the like, to the
great dishonour of God, the scandoll of the gosple & the
greife of divers of God's people . . . the Court
. hath ordered it, that it shall bee onely considered
by Mr Endecott, Mr Bellingham, Mr Harlakenden, Mr
Staughton, Mr Peters, Mr Noise, [and twenty more]
whom the Court hath desired in that perticoler & to
bring into the next Generall Court their thoughts for the
remediing of the same."*
* Records of Mass. Bay Colony.
t Felt's Ecclesiastical History of New England.
12 HUGH PETER:
In 1638, the town of Salem paid Mr. Peter for "weights,
beanie and scales."
About 1637 or 1638, Peter's first wife dies, probably in
England, for in March 6, 1636-7, a letter says: "Mrs.
Peters is yet in HolLind and James Dovvninge with her,
but we now daily expect them." Mrs. Peter, the
gentlewoman to whom Peter refers in his "Last Legacy,"
was Mistress Reade, widow of Col. Edmund Reade, of
Essex, England, and is said to have been the daughter of
Thomas Cooke of Pebmarsh. She seems to have been
Readers second wife and was apparently much older than
Peter. Her name was Elizabeth. Her husband died in
or about 1624, and she soon after married Peter.
Colonel Reade's children were, as nearly as I have been
able to discover :*
1. Edmund, born 1595 ; died young.
2. William; died 1659.
3. Samuel.
4. Edmund, born 1604; died 1613.
5. Thomas, the youngest son, died Dec., 1677; he
was a Colonel in the Parliamentary army and Governor of
Stirling, and was associated with Monk at the Restoration.
6. Margaret, died, 1672, in Ipswich, Mass. ; she
married John Lake, presumably in England.
7. Martha, died, 1662, in Ipswich, Mass. ; married
(1st) Daniel Epps, in England ; (2nd) Samuel Syrnonds.
8. Elizabeth, baptized November 27, 1614; married
John Winthrop, jr., in England, in 1635, and their first
child Elizabeth, is baptized in July, 1636.
John Winthrop's second wife, Elizabeth Reade, was the
mother of all his children and came to this country with
him. The elder Winthrop, after this marriage, always
refers to his son's father-in-law as " my brother Peter."
This was customary at the time as is evidenced by
Cromwell's addressing Richard Mayor, whose daughter
married Richard Cromwell, as "Dear brother" and
" Loving brother, "f
In April, 1638, we first hear of the person who was to
be Peter's second wife : Upon the 12th day of the month
Peter's church together with the others, " kept a solemn
*They may not be arranged in the order of their birth, the dates being mostly
unknown ; but Elizabeth appears to be the youngest daughter.
t Cromwell's Correspondence.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 13
fast-day for divine deliverance from the threatening evil
of a general governor for the colonies and the consequent
dissolution of their charter privileges and the loss of all
their religious liberty." The next day Peter writes thus
to Winthrop :
"To the noble Gouernour in Boston;
Hon. Sir, I much thanke you for yours, and together
am sorry for the sickness of our frends. I am still
troublesome to you. I haue sent Mrs D. Sh.* letter which
puts mee to new trouble, for though she takes liberty
upon my Cossen Do wiring's speeches, yet (Good Sir) let
mee not bee a foole in Israel. I had many good answers
to yesterday's worke and amongst the rest her letter :
which (if her owne) doth argue more wisdome than I
thought shee had. You haue often sayd I could not leaue
her; what to do is very considerable. Could I with
comfort and credit desist, this seemes best ; could I goe on,
and content my selfe, that were good ; my request is, that
this bearer my hart's halfe may well observe what is best.
For though I now seeme free agayne yet the depth I know
not. Had shee come ouer with mee I thinke I had bin
quieter. This shee may know, that I haue sought God
earnestly, for the next weeke, I shall bee riper :
1 doubt shee gaynes most by such writings ; and shee
deserues most where shee is further of. My very hart is
with you and I am
Yours euer H : Peter
If you shall amongst you advise mee to write to hir I
shall forthwith, our towne lookes vpon mee as contracted
and so I haue sayd my selfe what wonder the changef
would make I know not."
Extract from letter of Endecott to John Winthrop :
April 13, 1638. "I cannot but acquaint yow with my
thoughts concerning Mr Peter, since hee receaued a letter
from Mrs Sheffield, which was yesterday in the eveninge
after the fast; shee seeming in her letter to abate of her
affeccions towards him, and dislikinge to come to Salem
vppon such terms as hee had written. I finde that [s]hee
begins now to play her parte, and if I mistake not, you will
* Deliverance Sheffield.
t " Charge " was printed, but evidently a mistake.
14 HUGH PETER :
see him as greatly in loue with her (if shee will but hold
a little) as euer shee was with him ; but hee conceals it
what hee can as yett. The begininge of the next weeke
you will heare further from him "*....
Later, Peter again writes to Winthrop : " Sir ... I
know not well whither Mrs Sh. haue set mee at liberty or
not; my conclusion is, that if you find I cannot make an
honorable retreat then I shall desire to advance . . .
Once more for Mrs Sh. I had from Mr Hibbens and
others, her fellow passengers, sad discouragement, where
they saw her in her trim" . . .
Poor woman, probably very seasick, and sadly out of
trim, but very likely no worse than her fellow passengers.
Emanuel Downing writes to Winthrop in 1638 : " My
Cosen P. is constant to his dayly charge, soe that all his
friends are resolved to leave him to his owne way, yet
blessed be God his preaching is verie profitable and
comfortable to all."
August or September, 1638, Francis Weston, an
advocate of Williams, complains of Mr Peter of the Salem
church, as not being allowed to ask questions in time of
public worship. He also objects that the wife of Peter
and others who came from Rotterdam after he did, had
been received as members of his church at Salem though
they brought no letters of recommendation. f
This approximately places Peter's marriage to
Deliverance Sheffield, of whom we know only that she
joined the church in Boston, March 10, 1639, and was
dismissed to the church in Salem, Jan. 2, 1640.
Nov. 12, 1638. He had 230 acres of land granted him,
in addition to 50 more at the head of Forest River, granted
him the previous year, part of which bears his name to
this very day.J
Dec. 6, 1638. He was present at the execution in
Boston, of Dorothy Talby, she being of his congregation
in Salem. The unfortunate woman, suffering from religious
mania, had murdered one of her children. This form of
insanity was entirely misunderstood in those days.
* Mass. Hist. Coll., 4th series, Vol. VII, p. 157.
t Felt's Ecclesiastical History of New England.
j Felt's Memoir of Hugh Peters.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 15
He was a witness, though a somewhat reluctant one,
against Mrs Hutchinson, and took little part in that affair.
May 22, 1639. Mr Peter is desired to write to Holland
for 500 worth of salt peter, and 40 worth of match.*
June 6, 1639. He is granted five hundred acres of
land by the Court.
June 19th. Granted to Mr Peters the Marsh lying over
against his now dwelling containing about one and one-
half acres or thereabouts on the other side of the water.
Peter writes to the church at Dorchester :f
" Salem-1-5-39. Reuerend and deerly beloued in the
lord, wee thought it oure bounden duty to acquaynt you
with the names of such persons as haue had the great
censure past vpon them in this our church, with the
reasons thereof; Beseeching you in the lord not only to
reade their names in publicke to yours, but also to giue
vs the like notice of any dealt with in like manner by you,
that so wee may walke towards them accordingly ; for
some of vs here haue had communion ignorantly with such
as haue bin cast out of other churches.
2 Thes : 3, 14. wee can do no lesse than haue such
noted as disobey the truth.
Roger Williams and his wife, John Throckmorton and
his wife, Thomas Olney and his wife, Stukeley Westcot
and his wife, Mary Halliman and Widow Reeues. These
wholy refused to heare the church, denying it and all the
churches in the Bay to bee true Churches and (except two)
are all rebaptized.
John Elford for obstinacy, after diuers syns hee stood
guilty of, and proued by witness, William James for pride
and diuers other evills, in which he remained obstinate.
John Talby for much pride, and unnaturalnes to his
wife, who was lately executed for murdering her child.
William Walcot for refusing to bring his children to the
ordinance, neglecting willingly family dutyes, &c.
Thus wishing the Continued enioyment of both the
Staues (Beauty and Bands) and that y our soules may flovrish
as watered gardens, rest y rs in the lord Jesus,
Hu : Peter.
* Records of Mass. Bay Colony.
t The original letter is in the Mass. Archives, Vol. CCXL, p. 33.
16 HUGH PETER:
By the churches order and in her name. For the church
in Dorchester."
June 6, 1639. Mr Endecott, Mr Downing and Mr
Hauthorne are to dispose of the house which Mr Peters
bought, as they can, and return the money for the college*
[Harvard] .
June, 1639. He had an Indian servant, named Hope,
who was whipped for running away and for drunkenness.
Sept. 4, 1639. Writing from Salem he speaks of " my
wife," but we know not the date of his marriage. " My wife
desires my daughter to send to Hanna that was her mayd,
now at Charltowne, to know if shee would dwell with vs
for truly wee are so destitute (hauing now but an Indian)
that wee know not what to doe."f " My wife is very
thankful for her apples and desires much the new fashioned
shoes," he writes to Win thro p in 1639.
His health is seldom good. In 1636, he writes : " but
God's hand hath bin and is upon mee, more and more in
the weakness of my body, which declynes dayly." And
again in 1638 : "My head is not well, nor any part at
present for I cannot get sleepe."
3 mo. 3 day, 1638. Endecott writes from Salem, to
Winthrop : "and would however [have seen you] had
not Mr. Peters' illness onely detayned mee for he hath
bene very ill. But I hope the worst is past though hee
be as sick in his thoughts as ever."
Hugh Peter's daughter Elizabeth, his only child, to
whom he dedicated his " Last Legacy," was born in Salem,
and was baptized there the first day of the eighth month,
(Oct.) 1640. It must have been about the time of his
daughter's birth that his wife first showed signs of mental
disorder, and perhaps he refers to this in a letter dated
1640, when he says : "De pe melancholy is getting fast
vpon mee agayne and tethers mee at home." And again in
the same year : " Am also at present fallen into a sore fit of
my old hypochondriacal melancholy through cold and care."
He often refers to Ipswich in his letters, and frequently
goes there, several of his step-children being settled in
that town.
* Records of Mass. Bay Colony.
t Mass. Hist. Coll., 4th series, Vol. vi.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 17
The first discourse ever delivered within the limits of
Wenham (first called Enon), was preached by him from
a small hill now leveled, but long known as Peter's Pulpit,
and his text was : " In Enon, near to Salem, because there
was much water there." John, in. 23. In 1835, the
town of Wenham voted to grant Hugh Peter's hill to the
first church in Salem, upon condition of their erecting
there a monument to him. The offer was to hold good for
three years : it was not accepted and the land passed to
an ice company.
Peter owned a farm of three or four hundred acres in
Marblehead, near what is now Devereux.
In 1640, the Court requested the Churches of Salem,
Roxbury and Boston to relinquish their pastors for the
mission to England. The churches strenuously objected.
Impetus was given to ship building in 1640-41, by Hugh
Peter and Richard Hollingeworth causing a ship to be
begun in the February of that year. She was of 300 tons
and was finished and launched in June. She was perhaps
the Mary Ann of Salem, mentioned in 1643. The
inhabitants of Boston forthwith built a ship of 150 tons.
" These are the ministers of the Bay. At Salem, Master
Peter, Pastor, Master Norris, Teacher, and his sonne a
School Master. Long Island is begun to be planted, a
Church was gathered for that Island atLynne, in the Bay.
Master Peter of Salem was at the gathering. At Northern,
alias Piscattaqua, is master Larkham Pastor, One master
H. K.* was also lately Minister there, with Master
Larkham. They two fell out about baptizing of children,
receiving of members, buriall of the dead, and the
contention was so sharp, that Master K. and his party
rose up, and excommunicated Master Larkham, and some
that held with him : And further Master Larkham flying
to the Magistrates, Master K. and a Captainf raised
Armes and expected belpe from the Bay : Master K.
going before the troop with a Bible upon a pole's top, and
he, or some of his party giving forth, that their side were
Scots, and the other English : Whereupon the Gentlemen
of Sir Ferdinando Gorges plantation came in, and kept
* Hansard Knollys. t Underbill.
HIST. COLL. VOL. xxxvm 2
18 HUGH PETER:
Court with the Magistrates of Piscattaqua (who have also
a Patent) being weake of themselves. And they fined all
them that were in armes, for a Riot, by Indictment, Jury
and Verdict, formally Nine of then were censured to be
whipt, but that was spared. Master K. and the Captain
their Leaders, were fined 100 1. apiece, which they were
not able to pay. To this broyle came Master Peter, of
Salem and there gave his opinion at Northam, that the
said excommunication was a nulity."*
"And particularly, Master Peter went from S;ilem on
foot to New Dover, alias Piscattaqua, alias Northam, to
appease the difference betweene Master Larkham and
Master K. when they had been up in Armes this last
Winter time. He went by the sending of the Governour,
Counsell and Assistants of the Bay, and of the Church of
Salem, and was in much danger of being lost returning,
by losing his way in the woods, and some with him, but
God be blessed they returned. "f
"Mr. Peters and Mr. Dalton with one of Acamenticus
went [1641] from Pascataquack with Mr. John Ward [of
Haverhill] who was to be entertained there for their
minister ; and though it be but 6 miles yet they lost their
way and wandered 2 days and 1 night without food or fire
in the snow and wet."J
June 2, 1641. "The Court doth entreat leave of the
church of Salem for Mr. Peters, of the church of Roxberry
for Mr. Wells and of the church of Boston for Mr. Ribbons
to go to England upon some weighty occations for the good
of the country, as is conceived ;" and this time the
congregation sacrificing itself, permitted him to depart.
He left, with Weld of Roxbury and Hibbens of Boston, as
agents for the Colony, to attend to its interests in the
mother country, and principally to plead fora decrease of
the taxes.
"There being no ship which was to return right for
England," they went to Newfoundland intending to take a
passage from thence in the fishing fleet. They left Boston,
* Plain Dealing or Newes from New England, by Thos. Lechford. Mass. Hist.
Coll., 3rd series, Vol. Ill, p. 93.
t Ibid., p. 10.
i Winthrop's Journal, II, p. 29.
Records of Mass. Bay Colony.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 19
August 3rd, accompanied by John Winthropthe younger.
They were 14 days to Newfoundland. Peter and Weld
preached to the people there " who were much affected
with the word taught, and entreated them with all
courtesy."
He writes on July 27, 1641, "If the Lord continue my
life, then I do hereby authorize them [Gott and Horn] to
do all my affairs as if myself was present, as in looking
into my house, to dispose of my ground, mill, and other
things as in wisdom they shall see meet."
While on his way to England a commission was forwarded
to him from Connecticut, signed by Haynes and Winthrop.
"Whereas the bearer, Mr. Hugh Peters, minister of Salem,
is sent at the public request to England to negocinte with
the present parliament there about such matters as concern
us, which we confide to his care and fidelity, this is to
authorize him, if occasion permit him to go to the
Netherlands, to treat with the West Indian Company there
concerning a peaceable neighborhood between us and them
of New Netherlands and whatever he shall further think
proper touching the West Indies."
" 1642, Mo. 6. Mr. Welde, Mr. Peter, and Mr. Hibbens
who were sent lust year into England, had procured 500
which they sent over in linen, woollen, and other useful
commodities for this country, which, because the stock
might be preserved and returned this year for a further
supply, were put off together for about eighty pounds
profit, and the principal returned by Mr. Stoughton in the
next ship."* " My first work was with the first, to go for
Ireland, which I did with many hazards ; then I was at
sea, with my old patron, the Earl of Warwick, to whom
I owed my life," he writes.
From June to Sept., 1642, he was chaplain to the forces
for the reduction of Ireland, in the expedition commanded
by Alexander, Lord Forbes, and the same year he wrote
an account of this expedition.
March 10, 1643. One of the ends of his mission was
attained in the relief of New England from all duties
on exports and imports to and from the mother country,
which were for the home consumption of the colonists.
July 5, 1643. He attended Mr Chaloner (who was in
* Winthrop's Journal, II, p. 75.
20 HUGH PETER:
Waller's Plot) in prison and at his execution. Chnloner,
advised by Peter, on the scaffold, explained the part he
had taken in the plot, and then desired Mr Peter to pray
with him. The same year he was sent by Parliament
to Holland, to borrow money for the Protestant sufferers
in Ireland and raised 30,000.
Jan. 4, 1644. He attends Sir John Hotham at his
execution ; and on the scaffold received public thanks
from Sir John for his excellent instruction and assistance.
Mar. 12, 1644. In a speech of Archbishop Laud's, at
the beginning of his trial, after speaking of the persons
whom he had been the means of converting from
Romanism, the Archbishop said: "Let any clergyman
of England come forth and give a better account of his
Zeal to the Church." Peter, who stood near him replied
that however he was only an humble individual among
many hundreds of ministers in the kingdom, he had been
instrumental thro' divine aid, in bringing not only twenty-
two from Papistry but one hundred and twenty, who
witnessed a good profession, as true Protestants and
sincere Christians. He added that others as well as
himself, were able to produce hundreds of real converts
to the Church, for each whom the Prelate could.* He
accompanied the Earl of Warwick, upon his expedition
for the relief of Lyme, during May and June of 1644,
and subsequently gave "a large Relation to the Commons
of all the Business of Lyme where he was with the Earl
of Warwick."
June 6, 1645. He is chaplain to the train, "the
regiments in charge of the baggage wagons and artillery ".f
While Laud was in prison he charged Peter with
conspiring to banish him to New England and begged
that he might not be sent over-seas, pleading his age and
infirmities. This had indeed been thought of, but as a
means of saving him from death, and Peter's request
therefore had been a motion made in Commons.
July 20, 1645. "On the Lord's day [at the siege of
Bridgewater,] Mr. Peters in the forenoon preached a
preparation sermon, to encourage the soldiers to go on ;
Mr Bowles likewise did in part in the afternoon. After
t Felt's Memoir of Hugh Peters.
j Gardener's Great Civil War, u, 297.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 21
both sermons the drums beat, the army was drawn out
into the field : the commanders of the foiiorne hope, who
were to begin the storm, and the soldiers, being drawn
together in the field, were there also afresh exhorted to do
their duties (with undaunted courage and resolution) by
Mr. Peters, who did it (as one says of him) tarn Marte
Quam Mercurio."*
In 1645, at the storming of Bridgewater, " Mr. Peters
and Mr. Boles, in their sermons, incouraged the Soldiers
to the work. About 7 at night the fort being drawn out,
and these that Commanded the storm and forlorn, Mr.
Peters, in the Field, gave them an Exhortation to do their
duties."f "Mr. Peters who brought up the Letter from
Sir Thomas Fairfax was called into the House, and made
a large Relation of the particular passages in the taking
of Bridgewater ; he also produced several Commissions
in Characters, which the House referred to a Committee,
to be decyphered, and gave 100 to Mr. Peters for his
unwearied services, and sent a letter of thanks to Sir
Thomas Fairfax for all his great services and particularly
for this of Bridgewater."J
Aug. 29, 1645. Friday. A fast was kept through the
army to seek God for a blessing upon the designs against
Bristol : Mr Del and Mr Peters kept the day at the head
quarters.*
Aug., 1645. At this time, in compliance with Peter's
former application to Parliament, he obtained the passage
of an ordinance, enlarging that of 1643, which allowed
all exports to New England to be free from duties without
the previous restriction.
Sept. 9, 1645. "Mr. Peter was called into the House and
gave them a particular Account of the Siege of Bristol,
and the cause of sitting down before it to prevent the
plunder and cruelties of Prince Rupert in that Country,
and he pressed the desire of Sir. Thomas Fairfax to have
Recruits sent to him."
Sept., 1645. " Mr. Peters Preached in the Market Place
at Torrington, and convinced many of their Errors in
* Anglia Rediviva; England's Recovery. The History of the Motions, Actions
and Successes of the Army under tir Thomas Fairfax, by Joshua Sprigs:, M. A.
London, 147.
t Whitelocke's Memorials, ed. 1732, p. 6..
i Whitelocke's Memorials, ed. 1732, p. 157.
I Whitelocke's Memorials, ed. 1732, p. 171.
22 HUGH PETER:
adhering to the King's Party, and that he, with Lieut.
Col. Berry* were sent to Plymouth to treat with the
Governor."!
Oct. 1, 1645. "The Co r t thinketh it meete y fc Mr Peet rs
and Mr Weld, being sent ov r as prsons fit to negociate
for y e country, haveing been long absent, desire they may
und r stand the Co r ts mind y* they desire their qpsence
here, and speedy returne."J
It is probably about this time that he wrote the
following letter :
" To my truly honourable and faithful General Sir Thomas
Fairfax :
" Sir, one of the greatest comforts I have had in this
world, next to the grace of God in Christ to my poor
Soul, hath been to be a member of your Army, and a
spectator of his presence with you and it, what others do,
I know not ; but it is my duty to return to my work, and
to meet you again ; which I am bold to do with this simple
present. I know your mind, that must not, will not, be
flattered ; nor am I skillful in that mystery : I have seen
you upon earth, and doubt not to meet you triumphing in
heaven. I only must crave leave to speak your own
words, that your great experience of God's Power and
mercy, have made strong obligation upon you to love
Him and the saints, which I have seen you do impartially ;
you have made it your interest, and now, you find you are
not deceived, the God of all your unparalled mercy dwell
in that thriving soul of yours, strengthen you throughout
to the completing of this great work, yea, Sereus in
Ooelum redeas, diuque Laetus intersis populo Britanno.
"For myself (if it be worth your acceptance) I am
resolved to live and die in your and the kingdom's Service,
and as you have obliged three kingdoms to you and many
thousands of saints, so none of them more to honour you
than, Sir
Your ever faithful servant in Christ
Hugh Peters."
* Perhaps this is " Capt. Lieut." Berry who killed Gen. Cavendish.
t Whltelocke, ed. 1732, p. 194. Whitelocke gives this information Feb. 28, 1646
(O. S.), saying: " Letters from the Army certified that" . . . but it appears to
me that this event took place in the previous September.
Records of Mass. Bay Colony, Vol. II, p 137.
Memorials of the Civil War, ed. by Rob.
Bell (Fairfax Correspondence).
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 23
Oct. 7, 1645. "Letters brought by Mr. Peters from
Lieutenant General Cromvvell certified that, after he had
entered Winchester Town, he summoned the Castle who
denied, then he planted six Guns, and after firing them
round sent a second Summons for a Treaty, which he
refused : That he made a Breach with two hundred Shot,
and then the Governor beat a Parley, which was agreed
to, and Colonel Hammond and Major Harrison, for
Cromwell, agreed upon Articles for Surrender of the
Castle, which was well manned with six hundred eighty
Horse and Foot, near two hundred Gentlemen Officers,
and their Servants, victualled with fifteen thousand Weight
of Cheese, store of Wheat and Beer, twenty Barrels of
Powder, seven Pieces of Cannon. The Works exceeding
strong, eight hundred Pounds of Butter, one hundred
forty Quarters of Wheat and Meal, seven thousand Weight
of Bisket, great store of other Provisions, Arms and
Ammunition.
"The Messenger of the good news had fifty Pound given
him Mr. Peters was called in, and made a
particular Relation of the taking of Winchester Castle.
Oct 7, 1645."*
"Mr. Peters, also being requested to make a relation to
the House of Commons, spake as follows : The reader
will like to hear Mr. Peters for once, a man concerning
whom he has heard so many falsehoods, and to see an old
grim scene through his eyes. Mr. Peters related That
he came into Basing House some time after the storm, on
Tuesday, 14th of October 1645 ; ' and took a view first of
the works which were many, the circumvallion being above
a mile in compass. The Old House had stood (as it is
reported) two or three hundred years, a nest of Idolatry ;
the New House surpassing that in beauty and stateliness ;
and either of them fit to make an emperor's court. The
rooms before the storm (it seems), in both Houses, were
all completely furnished ; provisions for some years rather
than months ; 400 quarters of wheat ; bacon divers rooms
full, containing hundreds of flitches ; cheese proportionable ;
with oatmeal, beef, pork ; beer divers cellars-full and that
very good.' Mr. Peters having taken a draught of the
* Whitelocke, ed. 1732, p. 175.
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same. * A bed in one room, furnished, which cost 1,300
Popish books, many with copes, and such utensils. In
truth, the House stood in its full pride; and the Enemy
was pursuaded that it would be the last piece of ground
taken by the Parliament, because they had so often foiled
our forces which had formerly appeared before it. In the
several rooms and about the House, there were slain
seventy-four, and only one woman, the daughter of Dr.
Griffith, who by her railing/ poor lady, f provoked our
soldiers (then in heat) into a farther passion. There lay
dead upon the ground Major Cuffle ; a man of great
account amongst them, and a notorious Papist; slain by
the hands of Major Harrison, that godly and gallant
gentleman' all men know him f and Robinson the Player,
who a little before the storm was known to be mocking
and scorning the Parliament and our Army : eight or
nine gentlewomen of rank, running forth together, were
entertained by the common soldiers somewhat coarsely ;
yet not uncivilly, considering the action in hand.
"The plunder of the soldiers continued till Tuesday
night, one soldier had a hundred-and-twenty pieces of
gold for his share ; others plate, and others jewels ;
among the rest one got three bags of silver which (he
being not able to keep his own counsel) grew to be
common pillage amongst the rest, and the fellow had but
one half-crown left for himself at last. The soldiers sold
the wheat to country-people ; which they held up at good
rates a while ; but afterwards the market fell, and there
were some abatements for haste. After that, they sold
the household stuff, whereof there was good store, and
the country loaded away many carts ; and they continued
a great while, fetching out all manner of household stuff,
till they had fetched out all the stools, chairs and other
lumber, all of which they sold to the country-people by
piecemeal.
! "In all these great buildings, there was not one bar left
in all the windows (save only what were on fire), before
night. And the last work of all was the lead ; and by
Wednesday morning they had hardly left one gutter about
the House. And what the soldiers left the fire took hold
on ; which made more than ordinary haste ; leaving
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 25
nothing but bare walls and chimneys in less than twenty
hours ; being occasioned by the neglect of the Enemy in
quenching a five ball of ours at first.' What a scene ! ' We
know not how to give a just account of the number of
persons that were within. For we have not quite three
hundred prisoners, and it may be have found a hundred
slain, whose bodies, some being covered with rubbish,
came not at once to view. Only riding to the House on
Tuesday night we heard divers crying in vaults for
quarters, but our men could neither come to them, nor
they to us. Amongst those that we saw slain, one of
their officers lying on the ground, seeming so exceedingly
tall, was measured ; and from his great toe to his crown
was 9 feet in length ' [s^c] .
"The Marquis* being pressed by Mr. Peters arguing
with him, urging him to yield before it came to storm,
broke out and said : ' That if the King had no more
ground in England but Basing House, he would adventure
as he did, and so maintain it to the uttermost ;' meaning
with these Papists ; comforting himself in his disaster,
'that Basing House was called Loyalty.* But he was
soon silenced in the question concerning the King and
Parliament; and could only hope ' That the Kin g might
have a day again.' And thus the Lord was pleased in a
few hours to show us what mortal seed all earthly glory
grows upon, and how just and righteous the ways of God
are, who taketh sinners in their own snares, and lifteth up
the hands of His despised people.
"This is now the twentieth garrison that hath been taken
in this Summer, by this Army ; and I believe most of them
the answers of the prayers and trophies of the faith, of
some of God's servants.
"The Commander of this Brigade, Lieutenant-General
Cromwell, f had spent much time with God in prayer the
night before the storm, and seldom fights without some
Text of Scripture to support him. This time he rested
upon that blessed word of God, written in the Hundred
and fifteenth Psalm, eighth verse. 'They that make them
are like unto them ; so is every one that trusteth in
* The Marquis of Winchester.
26 HUGH PETER:
them. Which, with some verses going before was now
accomplished.'
"Mr. Peters presented the Marquis's own Colours, which
he brought from Basing; the Motto of which was, Donee
Pax redeat terris; the very same as King Charles gave
upon his Coronation-money, when he came to the Crown.
So Mr. Peters; and then withdrew, getting by and by
200 1. a year settled on him."*
Jan. 18, 1646. Sunday. At Dartmouth, Mr Del in
the morning and Mr Peters in the evening, exhorted the
soldiers to do their duty.f
"For the right honourable the Lord Fairfax, these :
May it please your Lordship, as soon as we were
masters of the town, I sent a letter to your Lordship in
the express to your house. The two forts are since
surrendered, and Mr Peters this bearer, can relate all the
particulars, it is one of the greatest businesses the General
hath yet done, to God be the Glory, I take my leave, and
remain
Your Lordship's most humble servant,
I. RUSH WORTH.
Dartmouth, January 20, 1645." (1646. N. S.)
Jan. 23, 1646. "Mr Peters came from the Army to the
House, and made them a Narration of the storming and
taking of Dartmouth, and of the valour, unity and affection
of the Army, and presented several Letters, Papers and
Crucifixes and other Popish things taken in the Town. "J
"Peter was chaplain in the campaign of 1645-46;
Whenever a town was to be assaulted, it was his business
to preach a preparatory sermon to the storming parties ;
at Bridgewater, Bristol and Dartmouth his eloquence was
credited with a share in inspiring the soldiers. During
the siege of Bristol he made converts of five thousand
clubmen ; when Fairfax's army entered Cornwall his
dispatches specially mentioned the usefulness of Peter in
persuading his countrymen to submission. ... In
addition to his duties as chaplain Peter exercised the
* Whitelocke; ed. 1732, p. 218. Carlyle's Oliver Cromwell.
t AngliaRediviva.
t Whitelocke, ed. 1732, p. 189.
PKEACHEK, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 27
functions of a confidential agent of the general and of a
war correspondent. Fairfax habitually employed him to
represent to the parliament the condition of the army, the
motives which determined his movements and the detail
of his successes."*
Feb. 28, 1646. Saturday. "His excellency bad
intelligence that salt ash was quitted by the enemy, and
their works left undemolished ; that the Governour of
Mount Edgecombe was resolved to conclude upon a treaty
negociated by Master Peters :
"The conditions for the surrender of mount Edgecomb,
a place of great strength and consideration, were this day
presented to the General by Master Coriton, Master
Tower, Master Glanville, and Master Trevisa, gentlemen
of the country, who were glad of the opportunity to
present themselves to the General for his favour ; the
propositions were ratified by his excellency and letters of
recommendation were agreed unto, to be drawn and sent
on their behalf to the parliament, their reasonable coming
in was a good service and master Peters' industry ; this
negociation was great, and worthy all acceptation and
acknowledgement."!
March 21, 1645 (1646, N. S.). " Mr Peters newly come
from the Army, was called into the House and made them
a particular relation of the proceedings of Sir Thomas
Fairfax there, as is before mentioned, and that Hopton's
Horse that were disbanded were near five thousand.
"That the Lord Hopton was not gone for Oxford, but
took shipping for France, and many of the Commanders
with him, and some before, and others went to their own
houses, that Pendennis Castle was closely besieged and
that the General intended to return towards Exeter.
"Order for an hundred pounds per annum to be settled
on Mr. Peters, and his Heirs, out of the Earl of
Worcesters Estate and fifty pounds to the Gentleman that
brought the Letters from Sir. Thomas Fairfax."}:
April 3, 1646. Peter preached a sermon, "God's
Doings and Man's Duty," before the Lord Mayor and
* Dictionary of National Biography.
t Anglia Rediviva.
t Whitelocke, ed. 1732, p. 198.
28 HUGH PETER:
Aldermen of the City of London and the Assembly of
Divines; this sermon was one of Thanksgiving "for the
recovery of the West and disbanding of five thousand of
the King's Horse !" and was printed by R. Ra worth for
G. Calvert at the sign of the Black and Spread Eagle at
the west end of Pauls. 1646.
The following extracts are made from this sermon :
"Since you are still buzzed in the ear with a desperate
increase of error, give me to leave this expedient by way
of a query. The wound seems to be in the understanding,
and the cure must be there (under favour) What if some
convenient places in the city were set apart two or three
times weekly, where Godly learned men, appointed by
yourselves, and the leaders or heads of these errors, as
they are termed, might have leave to come, and there in
a brotherly way take and give satisfaction? For as
conclaves have always been dangerous, so these poor
erring men can not have the benefit to appear with
boldness, and reasonable souls may sooner certainly be
taught with reason and scripture than with cudgels and
blows."
"I could wish some of my learned brethren's quarrelling
hours were rather spent upon clearing the originals,
and so conveying pure scripture to posterity, than in
scratching others with their sharpened pens, and making
cockpits of pulpits."
"Men and Brethren, whilst we are disputing here, they
are perishing there and going to hell by droves. If I
know anything, what yon have gotten by the sword must
be maintained by the word I say the word, by which
English Christians are made : in other countries disci-
pline makes them so. Drive them into a church together
and then dub them Christians ; you will find too much
of this abroad and hence it comes to pass that most of
their religion lies in polemics, which is the trade wo are
likely to drive if God prevent not."
"What Mr. Peters further asked for was not stricter
discipline, but more attractive preaching. Nor were
men's bodies to be neglected. Why was not the
Charterhouse employed in helping the widows and orphans
of those who had been slain in the war ? Why were there
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 29
so many beggars in the city? Why could not the Courts
do justice more quickly? And as a means thereto, why
could not the language of the law be English instead of
French that badge of conquest? There might even be
two or three friend-makers set up in every parish without
whose labour and leave none should implead another.
Why were poor debtors to be kept in prison? Why
should men's names be exposed to detraction ?
"I know no publick person, but ought to carry a spare
handkerchief to wipe off dirt ; yet certainly blasting men's
names in print, is not the way to clear a cause in dispute.
Let us look to our duty and the Lord will care for our
reproaches."
In a letter from Giles Firmin* to John Winthrop,
written from England in 1646, appears the following:
"Mr. Peter hath done very much service since hjther hee
came. I could wish hee did not too much countenance the
Opinjanisls, which wee did so cast out in New England.
I know he abhores them in hjs heart, but hee hath many
hang vpon him, being a man of such vse. I hope God
will preserve him spottlesse, notwithstanding vjle
aspersions cast vpon hjm, but I percejue jt is by the
Presbyterjans, agaynst whom some tjme hee lets dropp a
sharp word." '^Colchester, 1st July."f
1646. "A plantation was this year begun at Pequod
River by Mr. John Winthrop Junr., Mr. Thomas Peter,
a minister, (brother to Mr. Peter of Salem) and this
Court power was given to them two for ordering and
governing the plantation till further order, &c."J
In 1646, Cromwell commanded Peter to raise a regi-
ment of foot for service in Ireland. This attempt was
unsuccessful, but undoubtedly gave rise to the report that
Peter was a colonel.
August, 1646. An ordinance sent up to the Lords for
settling 200 pounds per annum upon Mr. Hugh Peter.
October, 1646. Ordinance for settling 200 pounds per
annum on Mr. Hugh Peters. ||
* A physician of Ipswich, Mass., and a man of repute and standing.
t Mass. Hist. Coll., 4th series, vol. VII, p. 277.
I Winthrop's Journal, II, 25.
Whltelocke, ed. 1732, p. 218.
II Whitelocke, ed. 1732, p. 223. Evidently the same as the preceding.
30 HUGH PETER:
In this year he published his "Last Report of the English
Wars," in which he answered seven questions.
1. "Why he was silent at the surrender of Oxford."
He replied that the place was so near London and the
occurrence so generally known there was no need of his
giving it greater publicity. He also adds "You had nothing
committed there by ours that had not its rise from integrity
and faithfulness to the State."
2. "What he observed at Worcester, it being the last
town in the Kings hands?" He speaks in high terms of
the skill and bravery, exhibited there by Col. Whalley and
other officers. He observes "I preached at Worcester at
our coming in, and afterwards, did observe a door open
to the Gospel. I am now satisfied with my many, many
petitions, that I might live to see this day, this blessed
day, and the last town of the enemies taken. I am
thinking whether to go a few days more in this vale to
admire what I have seen upon earth, and then die, that I
may praise him, as he would be praised, who hath founded
mercies for his servants, and brought forth deliverance to
miracle, through Jesus Christ."
3. " What were best to do with the army?"
" The disbanding of an army if trusty ought not to be a
work of haste. Never fewer complaints, nor many men of
such quality, whose design is only to obey their masters,
viz. the Parliament."
4. " If he had any expedient for the present difference ?"
To nullify such want of harmony, the clergy should
become reconciled, and general charity exercised :
Presbyterians and Independents should be friendly and
seek for the greatest public benefit. " Coals blown get
heat and strength ; neglected grow cold. I think we might
do God more service in study and pulpits, than in waiting
at great mens doors and working them up to their selfish
interests."
5. " What his thoughts were in relation to foreign
States?"
" That forthwith one might have some choice agents
sent, as two to Sweden, two to the Cantons, our good
friend, two to the Netherlands, and so to other parts, as
we see cause, aud these accompanied with a manifest of
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 31
God's gracious dealings with the State, letting them know
we omitted this work in our misery, lest our friends might
fear us for beggars, but now being upon an even foot with
them, we let them know our condition, and how we are
ready to own them against a common enemy."
6. " How these late mercies and conquests might be
preserved and improved?"
By the same means the mercy is gained, it may be
preserved even the encouragement of good men "Walk
plainly in your counsels, God needs no man's lies to carry
on his work. Let it be our care that after ages may not
say we conquered ourselves into a ne\v slavery. Justice
will exalt and maintain a nation. I wish they might be
first sharers in it, that first adventure their estates and
lives. A State may stand upon any frame of government,
if fastened together with Justice, charity and industry, the
only upholders of the flourishing neighbor state the
Netherlands." He proposed, that, for the promotion of
morals and religion, as the chief source of a nation's
prosperity, three or four missionaries might be employed
in each County. He added "how ripe I have found
Herefordshire and Worcestershire, for the Gospel and
many other counties."
7. "Why his name appears in so many books not
without blots and he never wipes them off?"
" I have been thinking to answer six or seven pamphlets,
that name either enviously, or disgracefully, but yet
remain doubting. The Lord rebuke Satan, This I must
say, if either in Doctrine or practice I have failed, the time
is not yet wherein any brother in any way of God hath
dealt with me."*
"I lived about six years near that famous Scotchman
Mr. John Forbes with whom I travelled into Germany
and enjoyed him in much love and sweetness constantly,
from whom I never had but encouragement though we
differed in the way of our churches. Learned Amesius
breathed his last breath in my bosom. "f
*This report was called in derision "Mr. Peter's politics."
t Forbes was a Presbyterian, Ames a Separatist. Extraordinary toleration
for those days! He evidently refers to Ames, and uses the Latin termination
the more to emphasize "learned Amesius breathed his last," etc. Learned Ames
would not be impressive. See list of Hugh Peter's works, No. 16. He and Ames
were warm friends ; he was very kind to Ames' widow.
32 HUGH FETER :
"Truly it wounds my soul, when I think Ireland would
perish and England continue her misery through the
disagreement of ten or twelve learned men. Could we
but conquer each other's spirit, we should soon befool the
Devil and his instruments ; to which end I could wish we
that are ministers might pray together, eat and drink
together, because, if I mistake not, estrangement hath
boiled us up to jealousy and hatred."
Speaking of his former church in Rotterdam he remarked
" I thank the Lord it continues to this day." Alluding to
his residence in Salem he said "nor did I loose all my
seven years being in New England, amongst these faithful
learned, godly brethren whose way of worship, if we
profess, it will not be groundless when their writings are
examined. But to those printed scribblers against me, I
may provide shortly a more satisfactory answer, where I
may plainly charge untrue and unworthy passages upon
the authors. Now the good Lord, who hath led captivity
Captive for us, subbue us to himself, and grant that, in
these tossing, troubling, foaming seas, we depart not from
our principles of reason, honor, liberty, much less religion,
which is the prayer of Hugh Peter."
How near Peter came to returning to the land he loved
is shown by the following letters to the Winthrops :
Deale, 23 of June, 1645, " desiring you to assure all
the world that i am coming to you and haue sent my wife
before for diverse reasons,"
1646. "I am coming over if I must, my wife comes of
necessity to New England hauing run herselfe out of breath
here ; you know all, the Lord teach rnee what to doe."
Gravesend, 4 of 7ber. Be sure you never let my wife
come away from thence without my leave & then you love
me,"
16-9-1646. The elder Winthrop writes to his son at
Fisher's Island near Pequod River : " Mrs. Peters went
three days since to Salem ;" fixing her arrival at least
approximately, and about this time he writes again: "My
sister Peter who is now as she used to be," indicating at
least temporary amelioration in her mental condition.*
Peter to Winthrop, May 5, 1647. "Deere Brother
* Letters to the Winthrops : Mass. Historical Collections.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 33
my coming was resolved vpon by this ship, but the Lord
hath put in two impediments, the one my want of health
which is much impayred, and 21y my land given by
parliament is but even now turning into money. It is
worth 211 per annum and I am putting it of. By the
next ship I intend to come if God give me measure of
strength. ... I pray (Sir) haue an eye to my wife, if
she will come hither I hynder not, but I thought she might
bee better there. . . Ah, sweet New England ! & yet
sweeter if dissensions bee not among you if you will giue
any incouragement to those that are godly & shall differ,
etc."
To John Winthrop the elder, May 5 1647. " For my
selfe I intend New England shall share in my comforts
and wish men tender in forsaking it, I am sure my spirit
these 2 or 3 yeers hath bin restles about my stay here,
and nothing vnder heauen but the especiall hand of the
Lord could stay mee : I pray assure all the Country so,
for I must write vnto your selfe now instead of many,
being surprizd as I am hauing a full purpose to come in
this ship really : my bookes you may tell the elders I
shall bring with mee and it may be some thing else, but
truly doe find things goe not well in my absence, and
therefore would bee glad to see what I haue disposed of
by myselfe : thus I Quaere
1. Why Mr Payne of Ipswich should haue 120 and od
pounds from my goods when neuer more then 60 were
here demaunded ?
2. Why concluded without a word from mee or any
on this side the water for mee ?
3. Why my goods sold at halfe the value to pay him
which they cost here?
4. Why my wife should dispose of anything of my
goods without your order, or the deacons, etc. ?
5. Why Rob. Saltonstall should trouble Shirt* of the
noate and others for 100 1 his father owed mee for bread
for his family, and made mee be two years getting of my
due, which his son it seems would haue payd back agayne,
the attempt being monstruous thus to thinke to cheat his
father's frends.
* A Conveyancer.
HIST. COLL. VOL. XXXVIII 3
34 HUGH PETER :
6. Why I should pay so much money for the Country
viz : 200 and neuer considered of & as Mr Pocock sadly
complayns, and why Sherly should not haue his 110
own agreement, vizt, to relinquish the business of
Plymouth ?
These things Heave to your wisdom." . . . ,
Upon the return of Thomas Peter to England, in 1647,
he finds that "his brother was in Chester preaching," and
in April he writes from London to Winthrop : " Sir, After
a sad travaile from Mallaga, but a fair one from thence
hither, I haue met with a sad afflicted brother which is
more greevous to me than I wille expresse. He needs
much of your prayers, and if all the sages of Greece were
heere cannot yield him a contenting counsell."* . .
May 17, 1647. Hugh Peter having given his share of
a small barque to the town of Salem, the town received
of Robert Codman 8-15-0 for profits which it had made.
June, 1647. "Mr Peters went to the King at Newmarket,
and had much discourse with hiin."f
" Mr Peters likewise was at Newmarket, and had much
discourse with his Majesty : His Majesty told Mr Peters,
that he had often heard talk of him, but did not believe
he had that Solidity in him he found by his Discourse, that
he would have further Conference with him another time.
Mr Peters moved His Majesty to hear him preach but
His Majesty refused."!
(Sat.) Sept. 18,1647. "After a sermon in Putney Church
the General, many great Officers, Field-Officers, inferior
Officers and Adjutators, met in the Church ; debated the
Proposals of the Army towards a Settlement of this
bleeding Nation ; altered some things in them ; and were
very full of the Sermon, which had been preached by Mr
Peters."
Nov. 11,1647. "& M r Pet r s is to pay 50 1 toy e colledge."||
[Harvard College.]
" Wednesday, December 22, 1647, was, according to
Appointment, kept as a Solemn Fast by the General and
* Mass. Hist. Coll., 4th series, vn. p. 428.
f Whitelocke, ed. 1732, p. 254.
j Rushworth'a Collections, vi, 578.
Rushworth's Collections, vn, 791.
|| Records of Mass. Bay Colony.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 35
Officers ; the Duties of the Day were performed by divers
of the Officers, amongst whom there was a sweet Harmony.
The Lieutenant General, Commissary General Ireton,
Col. Tichburne, Col. Hewson, Mr Peters and other officers,
pray'd very fervently and pathetically : this continued
from Nine in the Morning till Seven at Night."*
June 26, 1648. Thomas Peter writes "My brother is
now before Pembroke with Cromwell who expects to carry
the castle shortly."
In the beginning of the same month June, 1648, Mr
Peter went across to Milford Haven and from the Lion,
a parliamentary ship riding there, got " two drakes, two
demi-culverins and two whole culverins, and safely
conveyed them to the Leaguer ; with which new
implements an instantaneous array was made and a
storming thereupon followed but without success. "|
Sept. 7, " Peter with Messrs Marshall and Caryl was
requested to perform religious service before the House
the next day which was Fast."
1648. On the day of Pride's Purge, in the afternoon,
Mr Peters arrived at the House and released Fiennes and
Rudyerd, giving to those who inquired by what authority
they had been detained the short answer : "By the power
of the sword. "f
December 20, he was desired to officiate before the
House on the Friday following in St. Margaret's Church.
January, 1648-9. "Upon a conference betwixt the King
and Mr Hugh Peters, and the King desiring that one of
his own chaplains might be permitted to come to him for
his satisfaction in some scruples of conscience, Doctor
Juxon Bishop of London was ordered to go to His
Majesty."
January 21, 1648-9. Peter preached before the High
Court and on the 28th in St. James' Chapel : this was two
days before the King's death. ||
March 8, 1649. "Yesterday Mr Peters presenting
Hamilton's Petition made many believe he would escape."
* Rushworth's Collections, vn, 815.
t Carlyle's Cromwell, Vol. I, p. 648.
j Gardiner's Great Civil War, in, 539.
Whitelocke, ed. 1732, p. 370.
This was his celebrated sermon on the text " To bind their kings in chalni
and their nobles in fetters."
36 HUGH PETER:
The Duke of Hamilton commanded the Scottish forces that
marched into England and were defeated at Preston. A
report was current in New England that Peter had taken
the Duke prisoner with his own hand. Peter's petition
was unsuccessful, and Hamilton was executed the next day.
Before his death he "bade Peter adieu & embraced him."
March 20, 1649. Sir Henry Mildmay,* Sir Jus.
Hamilton and Mr Hillard to be a committee to receive what
Mr Peters, or any whom he may bring with him, have for
the benefit of the commonwealth, and to thank him for
the same.
March 29, 1649. Mr Peter's proposition for building
frigates was referred to the same committee [that is the
Admiralty committee] .
May 9, 1649. Twenty pounds to be payed to Col.
Humphreys to enable him to go to Mr Peters with a
physician.
May 9, 1649. Council of State to Hugh Peters:
" We are sorry of your sickness at Sandwich, and doubting
whether you can have there physicians acquainted with
your condition have desired Col. Humphreys to visit you
and bring a physician to consult with Dr Gourd on and one
shall be left fit to take care of your health ; being very
sensible of your faithful service, we would not be wanting
in anything that might tend to your recovery."
In the summer of 1649, Peter is chaplain to the
parliamentary forces sent against the rebels in Ireland.
September, 1649. A proclamation was made by the
Parliament wherein was stated "that Mr Peters the
Minister, was arrived at Dublin, and that at the beginning
of the Troubles in Ireland he led a Brigade against the
Rebels, and came off with honour and victory, and the
like was now expected from him."|
From Dublin, Sept. 15, 1649, he writes to the Speaker
of the House of Commons :
"Sir, The Truth is, Drogheda is taken, 3552 of the
Enemy slain and 64 of ours. Col. Castles, and C. Symonds
of note. Ashton the Governour killed, none spared, we
have all Tyron, and Dundalk, and are marching to
* Member from Walden. f Whitelocke, ed. 1732, p. 426.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 37
Kilkenny. I come now from giving thanks in the great
Church. We have all our Army well landed.
I am yours
Hugh Peter."*
The same year Peter writes to John Winthrop, jr : "I
pray you take speciall notice, with Mr Gott, of what I haue
at Salem ; as also 100 Mr Downing's house is bound for,
as also 20 Mr Endecott hovse with all my other matters.
My intention is you and yours should bee the better for
it, as I have signified formelly. Let Mr Gott take the
income of all and bee accountable, my child hauing
another portion." . .
The same year he sends a loadstone to the younger
Winthrop.
October 12, 1649. John Eliot writes to Hugh Peter:
rt The Lord hath greatly delighted to improve you, and
eminently your talent is increased to ten talents for our
Lord and Master's honour and use, and doubt not but
your crowne shall be answerable. You are indeed much
envyed, evil spoken of, smitten with the tongue. No
matter. Be not troubled at what men say, when they
speak evillof you, seeing you cannot but see, yea, all men
know it, God dealeth well by you, the Lord doth improve,
accept, succeed you. I cannot wish you in New England
so long as you are of such great use and service in the Old ;
not because I love you not, but because I love you and the
cause of God, which you do totis viribus pursue and
prosper in. I have a request unto you in behalfe of these
poor Indians. We are about to make a Town and bring
them to a cohabitation and civility, for the accomplishment
whereof we want a magazine of all sorts of edge tools
and instruments of husbandry, for clothing, etc, That
successful and reasonable magazine of Provisions, which
you were a lively instrument to procure so seasonably at
Bristoll, for the relief of the army at Pembroke, doth
incourage and imbolden me to request this favour, that you
would be pleased to use that wisdom and interest the Lord
hath given you in the hearts of his people to further this
magazine for the poore Indians. "f
* Whitelocke, ed. 1732, p. 427.
t Felt's Ecclesiastical History of New England, Vol. ti, p. 15.
38 HUGH PETER:
March 25, 1650. "From Milford Haven [came news]
that the country thereabouts did unanimously take the
Engagement ; that Mr Peters opened the matter to them
and did much to encourage them to take it."*
Eudecott writing to the younger Winthrop from Salem.
Sept. 28, 1650, says : " Mr. Peters is Colnell of a foote
regiment in Ireland."
Jan. 2, 1650-1. "Mr Peters [is appointed] to be Consul
at and Alusia [Andalusia?] and have credentials to the King
of Spain and instructions about the business of the fleet
going southward and to attend the Council to-morrow."
From December to March, 1650-51, on his return from
Ireland, he is very ill, and was attended for ten weeks by
Dr. Young who testified against him at his trial.
Letter to the Missionary Corporation in England from
Wm. Steele, dated April 17, 1651, refers to charges of
mismanagement of funds by Peter and Welde. "As for Mr
Peters and Mr Welde they haue sufficiently satisfied vs
with what hath been formerly answered."
March 6, 1651. Mr Peter to be paid his quarterly
allowance of 200 a year as it grows due.
November 6, 1651. A sermon to be preached in the
chapel at Whitehall every Friday at 5 p. m. by Mr Peters,
and notice here to be given to him, to begin on the 14th
inst.
December 11, Mr Sterry, Mr Peters and Mr Caryl to
be three ministers to preach before council in Whitehall
Chapel, as they did last year, with the same allowance.
January 20, 1651. "Vote that Mr Hale, Mr Steel, Mr
Cocke, Mr Manby, Mr Sadler, Colonel Blunt, Sir Henry
Blunt, Mr Berners, Major General Desborough,Mr Moyer,
Colonel Tomlinson, Mr Fountaine, Alderman Fowker,
Mr H. Peters, Major Packer, Sir William Roberts, Mr
Meltwold, Mr Mansell, Mr Rushworth, Mr Sparrow, and
Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, be the Committee to take
into Consideration what Inconveniences there are in the
Law, how the Mischiefs which grow from delays, the
chargeableness, and irregularities in the Proceedings of
the Law may be prevented, and the speediest way to
prevent the same.
* The engagement of adhesion to the Parliament. Whitelocke, ed. 1732, p. 447.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 39
" And to present their Opinions to the Committee of
Parliament appointed for that purpose, and they or any
seven of them have power to send for any Person to confer
with them in this business, and for Records."*
Jan. 31, 1651. Whitelocke says, in this connection:
" Mr Hugh Peters the minister who understood but little
of the law was very opinionative, and would frequently
mention some proceedings of law in Holland wherein he
was altogether mistaken."!
1651. "Soe wee toucke the tyme to goe to visit Mr
Petters at his chamber. I was mery with him and called
him the ArchBP : of Canterberye, in regard of his
attendance by ministers and gentelmen, & it passed very
well; soe he calling the Maiour,J sonn Winthrop, I put
him in mynd to remember his eldest sonn in Mew England,
& that he would be pleassed to giue yew his house at
Salem, he said he cared not if he did. I desired he would
write to yew by me to that purposse, he promised he
would write by me, and I tould him I would call of him,
though his lodging were aboue two myles from myne, &
did so, but was gone to Greneage about a speshall accation,
conserneing Mrs Jaine Puckering, a knight's daughter &
haire, that was stolne & maryed by an vnworthy person,
which mariage wos disannulled.
"I sawe your sister, for shee wos then in London, and
Mr Petters tould his sonn that he must bring his wife to
waite of him, for he did see gentelworaen did waite of him,
Mrs Saltonstall, Mr Rich. Saltonstall wife, & other
gentell women being thereto speake with him, which wee
accordingly did observe him ther in another daye, & would
haue gone with vs to dyne at Sir Hen. Vaine, but he would
not." . . . William Coddington to John Winthrop, Jr. ||
" About the same time Mr Peters, who still kept fair
with those at Whitehall, made me a visit : and in our
conversation about the publick affairs I freely told him my
opinion concerning the actions of Cromwell, endeavouring
to make him sensible not only of his injustice, but great
* Whitelocke, ed. 1732, p. 520.
t Whitelocke, ed. 1732, p. 521.
| Major Stephen Winthrop, brother to John Winthrop, jr.
Probably Thomas or Samuel Reade.
II Mass. Hist. Coll., 4th series, Vol. vii, p. 281.
40 HUGH PETEK I
imprudence, thus to sacrifice the commonwealth to his
ambition, and by every step he had lately taken to
strengthen the hands of the common enemy, whereby he
would undoubtedly open a way for the return of the family
of the late king, who would not fail to do all that revenge
could inspire them with ; whereas if he had made use of
his power to establish the just liberties of the nation, or
could yet be persuaded so to do, he might live more
honoured and esteemed, have the pleasure and satisfaction
arising from so generous an action, when he died, and leave
his own family, together with the whole body of the people,
in a most happy and flourishing condition. He confessed
that what I had said was most true, but added that there
was not a man about him who had courage enough to tell
him so ; that for his part he had observed him immediately
after the victory at Worcester to be so elevated that he
then began to fear what was since come to pass ; and that
he told a friend with whom he then quartered in his return
to London that he was inclined to believe Cromwell would
endeavour to make himself king."*
In spite of the exciting and interesting condition of
national affairs he longs for the land where he once dwelt :
"Oh that I euer left New-England ; or had neuer had this
wife so sent to me ! Oh deare Sir ! My dayes are gone
and I looke to my end apace," he writes to the younger
Winthrop in 1652.
At this time affairs were most prosperous with him
and the condition of the country appearing to be settled
he advises the younger Winthrop to come to England,
instancing his brother, Major, or now Colonel, Winthrop's
advancement and other promising conditions.
March 2, 1652. "Mr Peters to preach for Mr Caryl in
Whitehall Chapel on Lord's day afternoon until his
return."
20 2 mo 1652 " Mr. Peters is well at Whitehall." Roger
Williams to J. Winthrop, jr.f
In 1653, Dutch ambassadors were sent to England
(their fleet having been almost destroyed) to treat for
peace. They apply to Peter and empower him to offer
* Ludlow's Memoirs, ed. 1771, p. 239.
t Mass. Hist. Coll., 4th series, Vol. vi, p.
286.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 41
300,000 for peace, but were unsuccessful. Again they
applied to Cromwell who gave them their wish in 1654.
Peter, always very friendly toward Holland, was much
disturbed by the war with that country and even wrote to
Sir George Ayscough taking him to task for making war
upon his co-religionists. Sir George made no answer,
but handed the letter to the Parliament whereby Mr Peters
was severely reprimanded and was, for some time, in
disgrace.
That Peter's estimate of himself was a true one and that
he was frequently lacking in judgment, is proved by
several instances, but to a rather alarming extent in this
case : A letter of intelligence from Holland, without
signature and bearing the date of Sept. 26, 1653 (N. S.),
is found among Thurloe's State Papers (Vol. i, p. 484)
to this effect: "I cannot omit to certify you, that Mi-
Hugh Peters (whoe I believe is an honest man) doth
correspond at Amsterdam with a woman called Mrs.
Grace Crisp, concern inge state affairs which letters are
communicated to Mr John Webster of ... whoe is
knowne a profest malignant . . . great mischief
can be done to the commonwealth." .
From the same source(Vol. i,p. 583) and also testifying
to his lack of judgment comes a letter from Jongestall to
His Excellency Frederic Count of Nassau, Stadtholder
and Captain general of Friesland " Mr Peters hath writ
a letter to the queen [of Sweden] by the lord Whitelocke,
wherein he relates the reasons why they put their king
to death, and dissolved this last parliament, and withal
sends to her majesty a great English dog, and a cheese for
a present."
Whitelocke, it seems, was much discomposed at being
the bearer of these peculiar gifts, but the queen ft merrily
and with expressions of contentment received them,"
" though from so mean a hand."*
In March, 1653-4, "Thirty-eight chosen men, the
acknowledged flower of English Puritanism, were
nominated by this ordinance [March 20th, same year], to
form a Supreme Commission for the Trial of Public
* Whitelocke : Journal of Embassy to Sweden.
42 HUGH PETER :
Preachers. Any person pretending to hold a church-
living, or lay tithes, or clergy dues in England has first
to be tried and approved by these men. Of the thirty-
eight, nine are laymen, our friend old Sir Francis Rouse
at the head of them and twenty-nine are clergy. His
Highness we find has not much inquired of what sect
they are : has known them to be Independents, to be
Presbyterians, one or two of them to be even Anabaptists ;
has been careful only of one characteristic, That they
are men of wisdom, and had the root of the matter in
them, Owen, Goodwin, S terry, Marshall, Manton, and
others not yet quite unknown to men, were among these
clerical Triers: the acknowledged Flower of Spiritual
England at that time ; and intent as Oliver himself was,
with an awful earnestness, on actually having the Gospel
taught to England."* Peter was one of the thirty-eight
triers.
He appears to have much trouble with his property in
New England and repeatedly complains of its mismanage-
ment. In 1654 he writes : " I wonder they would sell
my house at Salem to Mr Endecot for 20 whereas by my
letter I gaue it you and all I had there, in trust for my
daughter, if shee came ouer, and if not to you and yours,
and that is my meaning, and pray you to looke to it, for
Mr Endecot hath not payd me a penny, owing mee much
more Here is 900 per annum for the
Indians, I wish it were imployed for the English poore
there."
3. 1. 1654. He writes to "my good frend Mr. Gotte
deacon at Salem now at Wenham. My deere Frend I
had yours, and truly do loue you hartily, though I
haue bin some tymes troubled at my busines having no
returnes & you selling my house for 20 and lending
out my bookes & things and sending home nothing to
mee, but only what Spencer sent a note of a colt and
three sheepe etc. though I am no way angry with you, for
I loue you hartily but great payments haue gone forth
you write & truly I know no debts but such as Mr. Payne
made vpon mee. My mynd is that Mr. John Winthrop
* Carlyle'B Oliver Cromwell, Vol. n, p. 74.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 43
might bee spoke with about what I haue to whom I assigned
it long synce, vpon some conditions though : I profess no
thing but want of health (I thinke) could detayne me from
New England such is my loue to the place, & lonely it
will bee yet, I pray doe but for mee, as I would doe for
you, Mr. Downing owd me 180, nobody would seise the
horse* he made oner to mee, and now hee is here with
him to make hast after him.f Salute your good wife,
pay your selfe for wat charge I put you to, & loue
Yours Hu : Peter."*
Roger Williams writes on the 12th of July, 1654, soon
after returning from England, to John Winthrop of
Connecticut : "I had no letter for you, but yours are all
well. I was at the lodgings of Major Winthrop and Mr.
Peters, but I missed them. Your brother flourishes in
good esteem & is eminent for maintaining the freedom of
the conscience as to matters of belief, religion & worship.
Your father Peters preacheth the same dictum though not
so zealously as some years since ; yet cries out against
New England rigidities and persecutions, their civil
injuries and wrongs to himself and their unchristian
dealings with him in excommunicating his distracted wife.
All this he told me in his lodgings at Whitehall, those
lodgings which I was told were Canterbury's ; but he
himself told me that the library wherein we were together,
was Canterbury's, and given him by the Parliament. His
wife lives from him, not wholly, but much distracted. He
tells me he had but 200 a year and he allowed her
fourscore per annum of it. Surely Sir, the most holy
Lord is most wise in all the trials he exerciseth his people
with. He told me that his affliction from his wife stirred
him up to action abroad, & when success tempted him to
pride, the bitterness in his bosom comforts was a cooler
& a bridle to him."||
Even now Peter had more than this one affliction to
embitter his life. Money is owed him in many quarters
* This is horse in the text, but evidently a mistake as other reference is made
to Mr. Downing's house in this connection.
t The exuberant use of pronouns without subjects, by the old worthies, is a
great trial to the modern compiler.
{Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d series, Vol. I, p. 179.
Son of the governor and brother of John Winthrop, jr.
II Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d series, Vol. x.
44 HUGH PETER:
which he cannot collect, and his estate in New England
is greatly mismanaged. Reappears to have lent money
to many persons and to have been in debt to John
Winthrop, jr., some hundreds of pounds in consequence,
whence came a lessening of their early intimacy and
affection and the Governor of Connecticut, who was
formerly addressed as " My Deere Hart," and " take notice
I loue you as myne owne soule" in 1649, is now only :
Whitehall, 10-4-54.
" My worthy Frend. I heerd from you and your wife
also the last yeere, and if I delighted in writing long you
would have some, but you know I doe not, and the many
vnkindneses I had from New England hath much deadend
me in these things, rather contenting myselfe with what
I can doe here, then further to be troublesome to them :
They owe me much money which I would freely give to
your wife and children if they would pay it ... For
your wife's demand of 100 I shall not be idle therein.
My charge is here so great & my experience* that I can
doe little for my friends, being oppresed with myne own
& my brothers and sisters necessity, yet I have sent you
a small token . . . Mr. Got writes of the sale of my
house ; Mr. Downing is not honest, owes me 100 for
which his house is bound to mee. These are not good
dealings. Mr. Endicott owes me money, pays none. I
payd 20 in gold to Mr. Saltonstall also for him, but
hardly acknowledged and that also I wish you had." . . .
Nov. 9, 1654. A letter from the Council of
Massachusetts is directed to "the Reverend and much
honored Mr. Hugh Peter." They apologize for their silence
& then, "yet such is our confidence of your zeal for God,
your real and cordial affection to the cause of God a nd
the liberties and welfare of his people here, that we are
encouraged ; our necessities at this time also compelling us
to make use of all our friends, amongst whom we cannot
* O
but rank yourself among the chief, and are confident you
will not suffer us to be mistaken therein but that in due
time we shall see Amicus return. "f
* Expense?
t Felt's Ecclesiastical History of New England, Vol. n, p. 112.
PBEACHEE, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 45
Feb. 23, 1654. Joseph Caryl, Hugh Peters, Peter
Sterry, ministers one-fourth years salary, 50 each.
Jan. 31, 1655. Peter received 150 for three-fourths
years salary at Whitehall.
Dec. 21, 1655. He received 100 for a half-years
salary at Whitehall.
On the opening of the New House at the second
Parliament, January 25, 1657-8. "Mr. Peter's moving
exercise " is mentioned.
The latter part of his life was embittered by every
variety of vile accusation, the least of which was his
reputed theft of the crown jewels, and to which he
refers in a letter: "Were I not a Christian, I am a
Gentleman by birth, & from that extract do scorn to
engage in the vile things suggested."
William Hooke, writing to John Winthrop, Jr.,
April 13, 1657, says : "Mr Peters is not yet thoroughly
recovered out of his late eclipse, but I hear better of his
preaching than was formerly spoken of it."*
His ill health gave him much uneasiness and at times
he expressed a fear that " he would outlive his parts," but
the Rev. William Hooke writing to the younger Winthrop
at this time, says : " Mr Peters is in good health. "f
January 25, 1657. Peter preached a sermon before
the House, in which he said "religion was left by our
ancestors (as, for instance, Smithfield and latter times),
hot, fiery hot ; but it was now fallen into luke-warm
hands : We do not boil up our religion to the height ;
Other nations are seeking for a general peace, whilst we,
for want of an enemy, are scratching one another ; They
say they will come over and choose their religion when
we have agreed of a religion : and when we use our God
better they will serve him."J
Mr. Peters was intrusted with the care of the library
at St. James' and the following advertisement appeared
in this connection: "Feb. 1, 1658. Tuesday, Workmen
being employed for repairs of the house of St. James's,
and some part of the leads over the library there being
* Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d series, Vol. I, p. 183.
t Mass. Hist. Coll., 4th series, Vol. TII, p. 587.
t Burton's Diary, Vol. II, p. 346.
46 HUGH PETER I
to be amended, some idle Persons and youths took an
opportunity to get into the library, where they found
a good store of medals, some of gold, others of silver, the
rest of brass ; which, for their rarity and antiquity, had
formerly been collected and were still preserved there.
This they took to be treasure, and seized it as prize, divers
of them filling their pockets ; some of which were
apprehended before they could get away, and are since
committed to the Gate-house, by which means, many of
the medals are recovered, and more it is hoped will be.
But many are like to be lost, unless such persons as by
accident shall have a view, be pleased to discover them,
These are, therefore, to desire all goldsmiths, and other
persons whatsoever, that in case such things shall be
offered to them, they would take care to apprehend the
parties and give notice thereof to Mr. Hugh Peters at
WhiteHall."*
The following letter from Colonel Lockhart to
Secretary Thurloe, appears in Thurloe's State Papers,
Vol. vii., p. 249.
"From Dunkirk, July 8-18, 1658.
May it please your Lordship,
I could not suffer our worthy Friend, Mr. Peters,
to come away from Dunkirk without a Testimony of the
great Benefits we have all received from him in this
Place, where he hath laid himself forth in great Charity
and Goodness in Sermons, Prayers, and Exhortations, in
visiting and relieving the Sick and wounded ; and in all
these, profitably applying the singular Talent God hath
bestowed upon him to the chief Ends proper for our
Auditory; For he hath not only showed the Soldiers
their Duty to God, and pressed it Home upon them, I
hope to good advantage, but hath likewise acquainted
them with their Obligations of Obedience to his Highnes's
Government, and Affection to his Person. He hath
laboured amongst us here with much Goodwill, and seems
to enlarge his Heart towards us, and Care of us for many
other Things, the Effects whereof I design to leave upon
that Providence which has brought us hither. It were
* Burton's Diary, Vol. IV, p. 452.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 47
superfluous to tell your Lordship the Story of our present
condition, either as to the Civil Government, Works or
Soldiery. He who hath studied all these more than any
I know here can certainly give the best Account of them.
Wherefore I commit the whole to his Information, and
beg your Lordship's casting a favourable Eye upon such
Propositions as he will offer your Lordship for the Good
of the Garrison. I am, May it please your Lordship,
Your most humble, faithful and obedient Servant,
Will. Lockhart."
The following is written in Lockhart's own hand :
"My Lord
Mr Peters hath taken leave at least three or four
times, but still something falls out, which hinders his
Return to England. He hath been twice at Bergh, and
hath spoke with the Cardinal* three or four times; I kept
myself by, and had a care that he did not importune him
with too long Speeches.
He returns, loaden with an Account of all Things here,
and hath undertaken every Man's Business. I must give
him that Testimony, that he gave us three or four very
honest Sermons : and if it were possible to get him to
mind Preaching, and to forbear the troubling himself with
other Things, he would certainly prove a very fit Minister
for Soldiers. I hope he cometh well satisfied from this
Place. He hath often insinuated to me his Desire to stay
here, if he had a Call. Some of the Officers also have been
with me to that Purpose ; but I have shifted him so
handsomely, as, I hope, he will not be displeased : For I
have told him, that the greatest Service he can do us is
to go to England, and carry on his Propositions, and to
own us in all our other Interest, which he hath undertaken
with much zeal."
The first letter is evidently an open one ; the latter is
as evidently private ; it is sufficiently humorous and gives
one a good deal of insight into Peter's character.
July, 1658. Mr Hugh Peters related in the House the
passages of Mardike and Dunkirk, where he preached to
the Soldiers, f
*Mazarin.
t Whitelocke, ed. 1732, p. 674.
48 HUGH PETER :
Oct. 12, 1658. The Assembly of Savoy in London
begin their session. Peter is a member.
At the death of Cromwell he preached a funeral sermon
upon the text : " My servant Moses is dead."
Sept. 7, 1658. He was one of those appointed to have
mourning for the late Protector. . . . and in the funeral
procession, among the chaplains of Whitehall walked "Mr
Peters."*
Jan. 28, 1658-59. In the House " Mr. Peters prayed,
standing," the last reference we have to his officiating in
the House. f
"During the troubled period that followed [after
Cromwell's death], he took little part in public aifairs,
probably owing to ill-health. He deplored the overthrow
of Richard Cromwell, protested that he was a stranger to
it, and declared that he looked upon the whole business
as 'very sinful and ruinous/ When Monck marched into
England, Peters met him at St. Albans, and preached
before him to the great disgust of the general's orthodox
chaplain John Price." (Masere's Select Tracts, n-756.)
On the 24 of April in answer to some inquiries from Monck,
he wrote to him saying, " My weak head and crazy carcass
puts me in mind of my great change, and therefore thank
God that these twelve months, ever since the breach of
Richard's parliament, I have meddled with no public affairs
more than the thoughts of mine own and others presented
to yourself. (Manuscript of Mr Leybourne Popham)."J
January 11, 1659-60, he was deprived of his lodgings
at Whitehall.
January 29. He was appointed by the Parliament to
preach before General Monk, when the latter was on his
march from Scotland to London, a fast day sermon at
St. Albans ; when it was said " he troubled the General
with a long first sermon and at night too he supererogated
and prayed a long prayer in the General's quarters."
In May, the Council of State ordered his apprehension.
Pamphlets, ballads and cartoons appeared against him in
profusion ; never was a man so unpopular.
* Burton's Diary, p. 524.
t Burton's Diary, Vol. ni p. 11.
I Dictionary of National Biography.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 49
A letter of Roger Williams to Winthrop of Connecticut,
dated February 6, 1659-60, gives premature rumour of
Peter's death : " Sir, you were not long since the son of
two uoble fathers, Mr John Winthrop and Mr Hugh
Peters. It is said they are both extinguished. Surely,
I did ever from my Soul, honour and love them even when
their judgments led them to afflict me."*
A Letter from W W- to William Goffe in 1660,
has the following :
"May the 19th. The Covt. was Burned in severall
places of England, and caried in a disgraceful maner
(fixed to Horse Tailes) through the streets, with the
effigies of the Protector, Hugh Peters, and others whom
they had a mind to vilinV'f
June 7, 1660. Peter and Cornet Joyce were ordered
to be arrested. Mark the coupling of their names, and
it is clear in what estimation he was then held.
July 18. He was excepted from the Act of Indemnity,
although he was neither one of the seventy Commissioners
who tried the King nor one of the fifty-nine who signed
the death warrant. J
From this time until his arrest he was in hiding.
"Peters, who had hidden himself to escape apprehension,
drew up a policy for his life, which he contrived to get
presented to the House of Lords. It denies that he took
any share in concerting the king's death and gives an
account of his public career substantially agreeing with
the defence made at his trial and the statements contained
in his Last Legacy. "
A letter from Andrew Newport to Sir Richard Leveson
states that "Hugh Peter was taken in Kent Street on
Sunday last," that Sunday being the 31st of August,
1660. He was at once committed to the Tower. A
jingle of the times refers to him thus :
* Life of Roger Williams. John Knowles.
t Mass. Hist. Coll., 4th series, Vol. viu, p. 166.
t "Col. Hacker, who was one of those to whom the warrant of the high court
of justice, for the execution of the king, had been directed, together with Mr.
Hugh Peters, and the two persons who were in mask upon the scaffold when he
was beheaded, were excepted by the lords both for life and estate." Ludlow's
Memoirs, p. 394.
Historical MSS. Commission, 7th Report, p. 115; Dictionary of National
Biography.
HIST. COLL. VOL. XXXVHI 4
50 HUGH PETER.
"Sing hay ho, my honey, my heart shall never rue;
Twenty-four traytors now for a penny
And into the bargain Hugh."*
The Rev. John Davenport writes to John Winthrop,
jr., from Newhaven, October 17, 1660: "Dr. Goodwin,
Mr. Nie,f and Mr. Peters tire in prison and likely to lose
their lives."
After the King's restoration, Mr Peters being
apprehended and coiumitled to prison, his Majesty sent a
warrant to Sir John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower,
to obtain information of his royal Father's library ; when
Mr Peters te&titiod under oath that "In the year 1648, he
preserved the library in St James's against the violence
and rapine of the soldiers, that the same continued three
or four months in his custody ; that he did not take
anything away, but left it unviolated as he found it; and
that he delivered up the key and custody of all to Major
General Ireton."
Ludlow,J who knew Peter personally, speaks of him
as follows in his Memoirs (ed. 1771, page 406) :
"This person had been minister in England for many
years, till he was forced to leave his native country by the
persecution set on foot in the time of Land, against all
those who refused to comply with the innovations and
superstitions which were then introduced into the publick
worship. He went 'first into Holland, and from thence to
New England ; where after some stay, being informed that
the parliament had relieved the people in some measure
from the abuses in church and state, and designed to
perfect that work, he returned to England ; and in all
places, and all occasions, encouraged the people to appeal
vigorously for them. Having passed some time in England
he was made chaplain to a brigade that was sent against
the Irish rebels and observing the condition of the
plundered protestants in that country to deserve
compassion , he went into Holland , and improved the interest
he had there with so good success, that he procured about
* Bihliotheca Cornubiensis, II, p. 471.
t Philip Nye, an Independent minister and member of the Westminster Assem-
bly of Divines.
J One of the regicides.
MUSTER ROLL, 1764. 51
thirty thousand pounds to be sent from thence into Ireland
for their relief. He was a diligent and earnest solicitor
for the distressed protestants of the valleys of Piedmont,
who had been most inhumanely persecuted and reduced
to the uttermost extremities by the tyranny of the Duke
of Savoy ; and in gratitude to the Hollanders for the
sanctuary he had found among them in the time of his
distress, he was not a little serviceable to them in composing
their differences with England in the time of Cromwell."
(To be continued.)
MUSTER ROLL
OF OAPT. WILLIAM NORWOOD'S COMPANY, 4TH COMPANY
OF GLOUCESTER, 1764.*
A Trew List of the Company Under the Comand of Capt.
William Norwood, the 4th Company of Gloucester.
The under officers of the above Capt.
William and James Norwood Drumers.
Nathaniel Haraden Clarck
Sargent David Lane
Sanrent Ambros Finson.
Sanrent Daniel Marchant.
Sanrent John Parce
Corpriel Abnor Denneson.
Corpriol Micel Sargent
Corpriel Jonathan Griffen
Corpriel Joseph Davis.
Daniel Anness Samuel Butman
Ebenezor Anness John Bntman
John Atkins Robart Bell
John Arnoll Samuel Cass
Jerimiah Butman Junr Thomas Chards
Jonathan Butman John Colhnan
*From the original now In the possession of Miss Rowe of Gloucester,
52
MUSTER ROLL, 1764.
Joseph Clarck
Isaac Denneson
David Dermesson
Jonathan Dennesson
John Dennes
Joseph Davis Junr
William Davis
Andrew Davis
James Day
Jedidiah Day
Peech Dulleloud.
Thomas Eddes
Joseph Eddes
Nathan Foster
Caleb Fellows
Samuel Griffen ye 3
Ollovor Griffen
Ambros Griffen
Daniel Griffen Junr
Richard Goss
Josiah Griffen
Benjm Griffen
Nathaniel Griffen
Thomas Galhood
Benoney Haraden
Caleb Haraden
Andrew Haraden
John Haraden
John Hodgkins
Dnniel Haraden
William Humferys
Samuel Hale
John Hale Junr
William Jumper
Moses Johnsen
Jonas Jackson
Job Knights
Rice Knolten
Benjm Lane Junr
John Lanksford
Solomon Lane
Gidion Lane
Jonathan Lane
Caleb Lane
Daniel Lane
William Lowden
John Lane
Joseph Lane Junr
James Lane
Joseph Lane 3
Geddings Lane
Alexander Lundey
Robbert Lewes
Samuel Marchant
Daniel Marchant Junr
Jabez Marchant Junr
Paul Morgan Jim
Dennes McCarley
Frances Norwood
Ebenezer Norwood
Joshua Norwood Junr
Isaac Norwood
Solomon Norwood
John Proctor
Amos Phipps
John Phipps
Jonathan Robenson
Samuel Robenson Junr
John Robenson
Ezekiel Robenson
Benjamin Robenson
Daniel Robenson
Witham Rand
Nehemiah Stanwood
Solomon Sargent Junr
Stephan Sargent
Jonathan Sargent
Jessee Savell
Joseph Somes
David Sargent
Abraham Stanwood
Samuel Sargent
MUSTEK ROLL, 1764. 53
Andrew Sargent Andrew "Woodbury
Joseph Sanders Peter Woodbury
Edward Sanders John Woodbury
Job Tucker William Whitetredg
Lemuell Tucker Joseph York
John Tucker Junr Thomas York
William Thomas
THE ALARRUM LIST.
James Davis Esqr Adnoiram Griffen
Caleb Woodbury Ensign Ebenezer Cass
Jedidiah Davis Ensign Paul Morgen
Samuel Fellows Ensign Joshua Norwood
Samuel Lane Edward Jumper
Abraham Eobenson Jerimiah Butman
Dck Samuel Griffen Jonathan Andress
Benjamin Davis Thomas Griffen
Jabez Marchant John Hale
Francis Sargent Solomon Sargent
John Stanford Daniel Griffen
John Tucker Thomas Webster
Joseph Haraden Josiah Lane
Benjamin Goll Thomas Phipps
Thomas Savell Jonathan Norwood Junr
John Buller Abraham Norwood
Benjamin Lane Peter Sargent
Jonathan Norwood William Sargent
Samuel Robenson Benjamen Wheler.
John Savell
54 REVOLUTIONARY LETTER BY MAJ. STEPHEN ABBOT.
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER WRITTEN BY
MAJ. STEPHEN ABBOT.*
CAMPS NEAR WEST POINT FEBY 12 TH 1782
DEAR SIR
Po verity Driues me to treble you at this time that is to
se if you will be so kind as to Creadet me for the Following
artecles to it for Linnen a nough for Six Shirts and 12
yards of Jane of a Dark Snuf Collar it Being for a Patton
for two Pare of overalls and two Wescoats and a patton
of White Ribed Stuf for a Wescoat <fe Briches Such as
would anfwer for Somer Ware What you Should think
moft Proper if you Will Creadot me for the a bone artecels
While I Come Whome or While We draw Wages you
Shall be Wai Paid for the Same and you Will greatley a
Bleage me at this time as I am entireley Destetute of
money and am not able to get thefe things at this time
Without Some gentlemon will giue me Short Creadet for
them and it will be very Difecolt for me to Do without
them as I have the Command of the Light In (entry
Company and our Reg 1 is under marchen orders Seposed
to go to Alboney and if we go into that Conterey moft
Sertaiu my dutey Will Confist in Scouten the Woods
Which Will be very uncofetebel in Hot wather with thick
Cloathen
Theirfore I am under the nhfolute Nefety of asken this
Faver of you for Which I hope you Will be pleafed to
Grant and you Shall be Wai Paid as Soon as Pofal>le
Sir you rnnft think that it is a hard thing that after I
haue Refked my life for upward ,of Six years in the
Publick Servis to Be Brought So Low as to not be able
to By a Small matter of Somer Cloathen But it is in fackt
the cafe
Prohaps you will Say it is by Reason of my one
enprndens but I think it is not the Cafe I engaged in the
Servis in 1777 and Receaued the Nomenell Sum of my
Wages in the old Continelton Dollars and all I haue
Receauod Sens Jan y I st 1780 is Sixty Hard Dollars and
Sixty New omefion it is true Some of the troops haue
Receaued Some new omefion for the year 1781 but my
* From the Essex Institute Manuscript Collections.
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER BY MAJ. STEPHEN ABBOT. 55
Companey being at the Sotherd the money was Drawn for
them for 3 months and it grue so Bad that th[e] Coll. Saw
Proper to Return the money again af it was of no Vallew
in Virgeney Where they were
I hope you wont think I am a Blamen you or Eney other
gentlemen for it I am oneley menfhenen to you our Hard
forten but it dont all Discorage me in the least I bant
none what it was to Command one Dollar this 2 months
nor I dont no as I Shall for Six months to come but if I
can get a few Shirts and a few thin Cloathen I feal my
Self Pritey vval Contented to be without money for I am
Detarmend as I haue beene So long in the Sei vis to Se it
out if I am Euen a hleage to fight with Euen a Shirt Sir I
mult Beg your Pardon for Trobelen you with so So long a
Scrall and Conclude Subfcriben my Self your Moft
obedient and humble Servent
Stephen Abbot*
NB Sir if you Should be pleased to Send th[e] a
bone artecles by the Barer Pleas to Send a bill of the
Const for I will Send the money as Soon as in my Power
if I dont Come whome my Self S. A.
Their would want a Small matter of Cors Linnen for
Pockets and wafpon Linens
M r Jofhua Ward
Marchant in
Salem.
Memorandum written in pencil on the blank page :
Salem 13 th March 1782, R d of Josh Ward 21 yards
Linnen 4 yards Corderoy & 2 Peices Nankeen for Cap 1
Stephen Abbot
p r Jonathan Curtis
* Stephen Abbot, son of Stephen, of Andover (b. March 21, 1718) ; he the son of
Stephen, of Andover (b. Jan. 14, 1678-9) ; he the son of Deacon John, of Andover
(b. March 2, 1648) ; he the son of George, perhaps from Yorkshire and in Andover
as early as 1643; was born at Andover, August 12, 1749 (O. S.) ; removed to Salem,
where he was a trader before the Revolution; married, first, Sarah Crowell, and
second, Mary Badger; lived at one time in County (now Federal) Street, and
entertained Washington at tea there, in his capacity of first Commander of the
Independent Corps of Cadets, which acted as the President's body-guard on his
visit to Salem, October 29, 178.
Stephen Abbot after his Revolutionary services was admitted to the Essex
Lodge of Free Masons in 1791, and was its Treasurer from Dec., 1793, to Dec.,
1806. He died at Salem, Aug. 10, 1813.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution (vol. I, page 15), states
that he was a Lieutenant in Capt. Benjamin Farnum's company of the Regiment
of Col. Ebenezer Francis; that he was also in Col. Marshall's Regiment; that he
was also a Captain in the Eleventh Regiment; that he also served in Col. Tucker's
Regiment and that he was mentioned in pay abstracts and muster rolls dated at
Bennington, Ticonderoga, Stillwater and West Point.
56 ENLISTMENTS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY.
ENLISTMENTS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY.
A LETTER FROM JOHN HANCOCK, DEC. 8, 1775.
PHILAD A DEC R 8, 1775.
SIR,
On the 2 d Inftant by order I forwarded to you the
refolutions of Congress directing fuch foldiers as will
reinlift to be paid their wages for the months of October
November and December & moreover one months pay in
advance and defiring you to exert your utmost endeavours
to promote the recruiting fervice in the army as well as
in your particular Colony.
By letters fince that from the General, the Congrefs are
informed that from the 19 to the 28 of November not more
than 2540 rein lifted and that only 966 had reinlifted before
that time. The fituation of the General and army is the
more alarming, as General is well apprized of this matter,
and will, no doubt, on the first favourable opportunity
avail himfelf of the information.
I need not inform you, what pain the Congrefs feels at
this backwardnefs in the foldiers to reinlift. Nor need I
paint to you the dreadful confequences that must enfue,
fhould the lines be abandoned and the General deferted
at a critical moment. I am therefore defired to forward
to you the enclofed refolution of Congrefs and to request
you to exert yourself in defence of our common liberties
by affording the General all the aid in your power and to
comply with his request for the afsistance of the militia
whenever he may find it necefsary to apply for it.
I am
Sir
Your most obed't ferv fc
JOHN HANCOCK Presid'*
* From the Essex Institute Autograph Collection.
FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
BY WILLIAM LEWIS WELCH
of the seventh generation.
(Continued from Vol. XXXVII, page 408.)
115 John Lyford (Thomas, 42 David, Thomas, 2
Francis 1 ), born 13 Sept., 1766, at Epping; died 3 Sept.,
1859, at Dover, Me. ; married 14 March, 1798, Mima
Morse, who was born 28 March, 1776, at Concord, Vt.,
and died Nov., 1852, at Dover, Me. He went to Cabot,
Vt., in 1787, and lived there and at Woodbury, Vt., until
1846, when he went to Garland, Me., to live with a son,
at the last, living in Dover, Me.
Children, all born at Cabot, Vt. :
273. JOHN, b. 11 Feb., 1799.
274. FIFIELD, b. 12 Apr., 1800; d. 1852, at Garland, Me. Went to
N. H., when 13 yrs. old; m. in N. H., Louisa Fogg. No
issue.
275. JOSEPH WHEAT, b. 5 Jan., 1802.
276. PARLEY SCOTT, b. 18 Nov., 1804.
277. HIRAM, b. 24 Sept., 1806.
278. SUSAN CHASE, b. 22 Sept., 1808; m. 1st, 28 Oct., 1827, Estes
Hatch, of Cabot, Vt., who d. 19 Jan., 1838; m. 2d, 5 Dec.,
1839, Dearborn Bean Senter.
279. HAZEN BAILEY, b. 1 May, 1810.
280. HORACE, b. 15 July, 1812 ; went to Maine when 16 yrs. old; m.
Aurelia Ramsdell, of Garland, Me. 6 children.
281. SALLY, b. 15 June, 1815; unm. ; lives at Calais, Vt.
282. DAVID, b. 14 Nov., 1818.
116 Thomas Lyford (Thomas,** David, Thomas 2
Francis 1 ), born 1768 ; died at Cabot, Vt. (Selectman of
Cabot, Vt., 1843-44?)
Children :
283. THOMAS,* b. 1802; d. 23 June, 1881.
* The Hoyt Genealogy, page 78, states that Thomas Lyford of Cabot, Vt., mar-
ried Mary Hoyt, who was born in 1802.
HIST. COLL., VOL. xxxvm. 5 (57)
58 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
284. PETER, d. 16 Oct., 1866; m. 6 Jan., 1864, Mary Varney, who
was b. 11 May, 1818.
284a. JAMES.
285. ANN.
286. ELIZA, m. Jason Britt.
287. IRENE.
117 David Lyford (Thomas David, 13 Thomas,*
Francis 1 ), died before 1820, at Cabot, Vt. ; married 23
July, 1795, Judith K. Heath,* daughter of Lt. Jonathan
Heath who was the first settler in Cabot. The widow of
David, married, 1820, Fifield Lyford, 114 her husband's
brother.
Children :
288. DAVID, b. 10 Jan., 1796.
289. JONATHAN, b. 7 Sept., 1810; m. Tamar Matilda Tucker (?).
290. THOMAS.
291. HARVEY.
292. SIDNEY, m. Jane Huggins.
293. HARRISON, b. 6 Oct., 1814, at Cabot, Vt. ; d. 3 Feb., 1866; m.
Mersylvia Maria Huggins, at Cabot, Vt. She was born at
Cornish, N. H. Their daughter Margaret V., b. 2 Dec.,
1842, at Cabot, Vt. ; m. 25 Apr., 1861, John Hopkins at
Lancaster, N. H., and lives there.
294. KATHERINE, m. Oren Elmer.
295. ROXANA, m. 4 Feb., 1829, Stephen Hoyt, who was b. 4 Feb.,
1800 and d. 29 June, 1879.
296. MARTHA, m. Calvin Whittier.
118 Peter Lyford (Thomas, 4 * David, 13 Thomas*
Francis 1 ), born 1773; died 1861; married 1809, Lois
Blanchard, who was born 19 Mar, 1791, and died 1880
(Abbot Genealogy, p. 109). Lived at Woodbury, Vt.
Children :
297. DORCAS A., b. 19 Apr., 1811; m. Alva Elmore and lives at
Cabot, Vt.
298. MEHITABLE, b. 23 Mar., 1813; d. 1895.
299. AURA, b. 21 May, 1816.
300. BETSEY, b. 8 Jan., 1818 ; d. 10 Feb., 1835.
301. SARAH BLANCHARD, b. 26 July, 1820; m. 25 July, 1847, Daniel
Lawson who was b. 5 Sept., 1816, and d. 6 Nov. , 1890.
*This was the first marriage in Cabot, Vt.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 59
302. CALVIN, b. 4 Jan., 1823.
303. PETER ROBINSON, b. 29 Aug., 1825.
304. GEORGE, b. 9 July, 1829.
305. MARTIN VAN BUREN, b. 27 Mari, 1831.
806. JAMES MONROE, b. 22 Feb., 1835.
122 John Lyford (Biley Dudley Biley
Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 1 Jan., 1782 ; died 1 Jan., 1854,
at St. Albans, Me. ; married, 1st, Marian Rowe, of
Brentwood, N. H. ; married, 2nd, 2 Mar., 1817, Abigail
Fogg Baine, widow of William Baine of Skowhegan, Me.,
to whom she was married Feb., 1813 (he died 12 Jan.,
1816). She was born 10 June, 1792, at Raymond, N. H.,
and died 20 Dec., 1878. She was the daughter of Samuel
Fogg (born 31 Aug., 1756) and his wife Ruth Lane,
(born 31 July, 1762), and was the eighth child of
seventeen children. By her first husband, she had
Elizabeth A. Baine, born 10 June, 1814, who married
Roy, at Newport, Me. ; and Nathan Baine, born 7
Dec., 1815, who married Bisbee, at St. Albans, Me.
Children, by 1st wife :
307. BILEY, b. 22 Jan., 1805, at St. Albans.
308. MARY, b. 30 Nov., 1807, at St. Albans; m. Snow.
309. ALBERT, b. 26 June, 1810, at St. Albans.
310. DOLLY, b. 16 Jan., 1812, at Brentwood, N. H. ; d. 10 Oct. , 1850 ;
m. 30 Mar., 1823, at St. Albans, Thos. Boynton Tenney, b.
at Topsfield, Mass., 14 Jan., 1800.
Children by 2nd wife, all born at St. Albans, Me. :
311. JOHN FOGG, b. 17 Feb., 1818.
312. JAMES ROBINSON, b. 10 Apr., 1819; m. 8 Jan., 1861, at
Prescott, Wis., Mary Elizabeth Ellis, who was born in
Seneca Co., O.
313. WILLIAM KING, b. 13 Aug., 1820; d. 12 Jan., 1836.
314. MARIA UOWE, b. 13 Nov., 1821; d. 21 June, 1840.
315. PAMELIA, b. 5 Jan., 1823; d. 9 Aug., 1848; m. 1841, Enoch W.
Rollins, of St. Albans.
316. SULLIVAN, b. 25 May, 1824; d. 14 Nov., 1863.
317. ABIGAIL, b. 27 Dec., 1825; d. 26 Dec., 1848; m. Bates.
318. FRANCES H., b. 7 July, 1828; d. 28 Sept., 1851, m. Given.
319. SAMUEL FOGG, b. 15 May, 1830.
320. Lois ANN, b. 5 Feb., 1832; m. L. E. Judkins, of Skowhegan,
Me.
321. SARAH W., b. 4 July, 1836; d. 26 Oct., 1861.
60 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
123 Dudley Lyford (Biley Dudley,** Biley,
Stephen* Francis 1 ), born 14 Oct., 1793; died 26 Dec.,
1852, at St. Albans, Me. ; married, 1st, 30 May, 1814,
Susan Tuck of Brentwood. She was born 23 Dec., 1795 ;
died 15 Jan., 1849, and was the daughter of Deacon
Edward Tuck of Brentwood (born 4 Jan., 1764 ; married
29 Nov., 1785) and Mercy, daughter of Israel and
Elizabeth (Judkins) Smith of Poplin. He married, 2nd,
1850, Mrs. Mehitable W. Morse, born 1800 and died 1881.
Children :
322. ASENATH, b. 11 Oct., 1816; d. 4 Oct., 1892; m. 1840, Othniel
Fletcher of Maiden, Mass. He d. 1841.
323. AURELIA, b. 14 Sept., 1818; d. 11 Oct., 1895; m. B. F-
Weymouth of Dexter, Me. He d. Nov., 1876.
324. DOROTHY, b. 12 Nov., 1823; d. 13 Sept., 1826.
326 Twms > who d ' at birtb '
327. FRANKLIN BLUNT, b. 18 Dec., 1826; d. 18 Dec., 1841.
328. HENRY WASHINGTON, b. 8 Oct., 1830; d. 7 Nov., 1841.
329. SUSAN PRATT, b. 20 July, 1834; m. 22 Feb., 1857, Ira Hylan
of Epping, N. H.
330. EDWARD TUCK, b. 6 May, 1837; m. 29 Sept, 1864, Olive A.
James. He was chaplain of the llth N. H. Vol. Inf.
124 James Lyford (Biley Dudley,** Biley
Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 25 Feb., 1795; died 17 Jan.,
1855, at Fremont, N. H. ; married Hannah Leavitt.
Children :
331. BETSEY BLAKE, b. 14 Nov., 1820; m. 2 June, 1839, Francis H.
Blackler of Epping, N. H.
332. EZEKIEL DALTON, b. 23 Aug., 1824, at Fremont; d. 8 Apr., 1884,
at Epping, X. H. ; m. Rhoda A. Ellis, dau. of Ebenezer Ellis
and Sarah Burleigh, of Fremont. She was b. 1 Feb., 1843,
at Brentwood, and d. 9 July, 1893, at Haverhill, Mass. ; their
child, Martha Washington, b. 1866 ; m. 26 Nov., 1890, Fred
E. Wakefleld.
333. SARAH STEVENS, b. 13 Sept., 1830, at Fremont; m. 10 Oct.,
1849, Win. Perkins, b. 26 Feb., 1825, in Canada.
127 Epaphras Kibby Lyford (Biley Dudley**
Biley, Stephen, 5 Francis^), born 21 July, 1800, at
Poplin (now Fremont), N. H. ; died 3 Sept., 1876, at
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 61
Newburyport, Mass.; married, 1st, Sept., 1824, Maria
Coolidge ; married, 2d, Feb., 1827, Sarah R. Fletcher.
Children, by 1st wife :
334. HARRIET MARIA, b. 11 June, 1825; m. 21 Jan., 1849, B. S. Bos-
worth.
Children, by 2nd wife :
335. ANNA E., m. William F. Braman.
336. GEORGE HENRY, b. 10 July, 1829.
337. CHARLES WELLS, b. 2 Jan., 1832.
338. SARAH ANN, b. 4 May, 1834, in Boston; d. 8 May, 1853.
339. HENRIETTA S., m. William B. Fiske; was living at Plainfield,
N. J., in 1895.
340. EMMA GERTRUDE.
128 Henry Lyford (Biley Dudley** Biley,
Stephen, 5 Francis^), born 31 July, 1803; died 16 June,
1880 ; married Dorothy (Dolly) Perkins, who was born
23 Aug., 1805, and died 25 Jan., 1890. Lived at
Allenstown, N. H.
Children :
341. JOHN FREDERICK, b. 19 Apr., 1834.
342. PHILENA JOSEPHINE, b. 5 Nov., 1836; m. 12 June, 1870, B. V.
B. Lyford. 350
343. D. MALVINA, b. 13 Oct., 1838; d. 16 Sept., 1891; m. 19 Nov.,
1864, at Fremont, Amos Sanborn, who was b. 25 Sept., 1837 .
13O Washington Lyford (Biley Dudley
Stephen f Francis 1 ), born 10 Mar., 1805, in Epping ;
died 11 May, 1878, at Fremont; married, 1st, 8 July,
1841, Hannah Robinson, who was born 10 Oct., 1810,
and died 4 Mar., 1854; married, 2nd, May, 1854, Sarah
Kimball, who was born 31 Jan., 1810, and died 10 Nov.,
1884, at Newton, N. H.
Children :
344. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. 11 June, 1846.
345. BILEY BLAKE, b. 29 Oct., 1848; m. 1 Jan., 1885, Susie E. Peas-
lee, b. 18 Oct., 1853. Children: Lora A., b. 11 May, 1890;
Clara B., b. 16 June, 1894, and d. 4 May, 1895. Lives at
Brentwood Corner, N. H.
62 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
134 Joshua Smith Lyford (Johnj Biley
Stephen , 5 Francis^), born 2 June, 1802, at Brentwood ;
died 26 Dec., 1870; married Lydia Levering Sanborn,
born at Hampton, N. H., and daughter of Nehemiah
Sanborn, who was born 10 Apr., 1778, and married
2 Mar., 1797, Lydia, daughter of Lieut. John Lovering,
of North Hampton, N. H.
Children, all born at Brentwood :
346. MARIA LOUISA, b. 16 Sept., 1826.
347. JOHN ALFRED, b. 18 Nov., 1827; went to California in 1856.
848. WOODBRIDGK SANBORN, b. 6 June, 1829.
349. AUGUSTUS DINSMORE, b. 3 Dec., 1830.
350. BAINBRIDGE VAN BUREN, b. 28 Jan., 1834; d. 10 May, 1892; m.
1st, Sarah Gale ; m. 2nd, 12 June, 1870, Philena Josephine
Lyford; 342 by 2nd wife had Henry Smith Lyford, b. 6 June,
1872, at Haverhill, Mass., and d. there, 3 Aug., 1872.
351. LAUREN DANA, b. 6 June, 1836.
352. JOSHUA SMITH, b. 28 Jan., 1838; d. 22 Jan., 1840.
353. JOSHUA ELBRIDGE GUNNISON, b. 28 Nov., 1840; m. 29 Mar.,
1883, Emma Adelaide Judkins, and had one child : Henry
Mellish Lyford, b. 9 Mar., 1884. Lives at Brentwood, N. H-
138 Stephen Carr Lyford (Stephen Stephen
Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), how 1787, at Brookfield, N.H. ; died
9 Dec., 1869, at Vineland,N. J. ; married 10 June, 1837,
Emily Heywood, who died 1865. She was a daughter of
William Heywood, of Winslow, Me., born 1767, who
married i n!798, Miss McKecknie, daughter of Dr. John
McKecknie (who came from Scotland, Jan., 1760) and
Mary North, who was born in 1742.
Children, all born at Laconia, N. H. :
354. EMILY HEYWOOD, b. 23 Apr., 1838.
355. STEPHEN CARR, b. 14 Aug., 1839.
356. JANE BURNS, b. 23 Dec., 1840; d. unm., 20 July, 1874.
357. WILLIAM OTIS, b. 17 Mar., 1842; d. 6 Dec., 1863. Served in
2nd N. H. Inf. Vols., and also in 5th N. H. Inf. Vols.
358. CHARLES HENRY, b. 20 Mar., 1844.
140 Theophilus Wiggin Lyford (Stephen, 55
Stephen?* Stephen 5 Francis 1 ), born 15 Apr., 1792, at
Brookfield, N. H. ; died 6 Feb., 1874, at Brookfield;
married 1817, Mary Goodhue, daughter of Josiah
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 63
Goodhue and Betsey Fox. She was born 19 Nov., 1795,
and died 6 Jan., 1834.
Children, all born at Brookfield, N. H. :
359. WILLIAM HENRY, b. 16 Oct., 1817; d. unm., 7 June, 1846.
360. SAMUEL, b. 25 Sept., 1820; d. unm., 2 Sept., 1852.
361. BETSEY, b. 16 Aug., 1824; m. 28 June, 1849, John Hutchins, at
Brookfleld.
362. SARAH A., b. 25 May, 1829; d. 4 Jan., 1862; m. Dec., 1857,
John Lucas.
143 William Oilman 'LyfortiL(Francis, 5G 8tephen* 4
/Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 19 Feb., 1784, at Exeter, N.H. ;
died 11 June, 1852, at Baltimore, Md., and was buried
in Greenmount Cemetery; married 2 Feb., 1804, at
Lexington, Va., Margaret Mitchell (daughter of George
Mitchell, who died 10 July, 1816, at Staunton, Va., aged
65), born 4 July, 1786, in Norfolk Co., Va., and died 24
Nov., 1865, at Vineland, N. J. He kept a tavern in
Baltimore, called Ly ford's Fountain Inn in 1838. He
published in 1808, at Staunton, a newspaper, "The
Republican Farmer," and he also was proprietor of the
Baltimore Price Current, in 1847.
Children :
363. MARY ANN, b. 15 Dec., 1804, at Staunton, Va. ; d. 19 Sept., 1867,
at Vineland, N. J.; m. 1st, 3 Nov., 1830, at Baltimore, Md.,
John Spohn Baker, -who d. 11 Sept., 1843, at Baltimore, SB.
52; m. 2nd, 7 Apr., 1849, at Baltimore, Peter Albinson.
364. WILLSON RUSH, b. 6 Aug., 1806, at Staunton, Va. ; d. 15 Aug.,
1806.
365. GEORGE MiTCHELL,b. 14 July, 1807, at Staunton, Va. ; d. 14 July ,
1807.
366. JULIET CECELIA, b. 9 Sept., 1808, at Staunton, Va. ; d. 22 Nov.,
1808.
367. WILLIAM GILMAN, b. 22 Mar., 1810, at Staunton, Va. ; d. 2 Feb. ,
1826, of fever, at sea, on board ship Douglass, Capt. Fowler
while on a voyage from Curagoa to New York.
368. MARGARET MITCHELL, b. 1 Apr., 1812, in borough of Norfolk,
Va. ; d. May, 1890, at Richmond, Va. ; m. 1st, 22 Sept., 1833,
at Baltimore, Md., H. F. Dickehut ; m. 2nd, 16 May, 1853, Rev.
W. B. Sweeney, at Baltimore, Md. Her daughter Margaret
(Dickehut) Lyford, b. 27 Aug., 1834, m. at Baltimore, Md. r
64 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
19 June, 1856, William Stiles, who was b. 11 Aug., 1829, at
Westfleld, Mass. ; lives at Austin, Tex.
369. FRANCES VIRGINIA, b. 23 Aug., 1817, at Norfolk, Va. ; d. 20
Apr., 1875, at Baltimore; m. 1st, 24 Jan., 1839, at Baltimore,
David S. Johnson, of Binghamton, N. Y., who d. 20 July,
1845, at Baltimore; m. 2nd, 8 Apr., 1852, at Baltimore,
Hadaway Auld, of Eastern Shore of Maryland.
144 Francis Lyford (Francis Stephen Stephen, 5
Francis*) born 10 Aug., 1786, at Newmarket, N. H. ;
died 18 Aug., 1879, at Laconia, N. H. ; married, 1st, 14
June, 1811, Abigail Fogg Cass, who was born 26 June,
1790, at Meredith, N. H., and died Nov., 1861, at Lake
Village, N. H. She was a daughter of Daniel Cass* and
Abigail Fogg, and granddaughter of Stephen Fogg and
Sally Flanders. Francis Lyford married, 2nd, 6 Aug.,
1862, Mrs. Eliza Boynton, who was born 22 June, 1807,
and died 14 Feb., 1873.
Children, all by first wife :
370. MALVINA FITZALAN, b. 26 Nov., 1812, at Gilmanton, N. H. ; d
23 Oct., 1883, at Salem, Mass.; m. 1 Apr., 1840, Aaron
Welch, who was b. 3 Oct., 1810, in Shapleigh, Me., and d.
28 Aug., 1883, at Salem. Children : William Lewis Welch,
b. 29 July, 1840, at Centre Harbor, N. H., and Charles Oscar
Welch, b. 31 Aug., 1843, at Salem, Mass. William Lewis
Welch enlisted at Salem, Mass., 26 Aug., 1861, in Co. A,
23d Reg. Mass. Inf. Vols., and was mustered out at New
Berne, N. C., 28 Sept., 1864; hem. 11 Apr., 1869, in Boston,
Mass., Mrs. Margaret (Margery) Doane (Holbrook) Wiley,
and had six children, all born in Salem : William Lewis, b.
23 Nov., 1869. Flora, b. 20 Nov., 1871. Mabel, b. 2 Apr.,
1873; m. 14 Nov., 1895, at Salem, Albert Nelson Blake, b.
13 Dec., 1870, and had Margery Doane Blake, b. 3 Nov.,
* Daniel Cass, b. 1747, was a son of Joseph Cass, b. 1734, of Epping, N. H., and
Sarah Flanders, b. 4 July, 1730 (she was a dau. of Jedediah Flanders, b. 13 Apr.,
1705, who m. 3 Jan., 1728, Eleanor Barnard). While of Raymond, N. H., he was in
Capt. Dan'l Moore's Co., Col. John Stark's Regt., as private, 3 mos. 8 da., to 1
Aug., 1775; he enlisted from Col. John Webster's Regt. of militia into one of the
t hree regiments allowed to N. H. as their proportion of the Continental Army.
He enlisted at Epping, N. H., 8 Mar., 1777, as Corporal in Capt. Dearborn's Co.,
Col. Alexander Scammell's Regt., 3d N. H.; was discharged, 8 Mar., 1780, as Ser-
geant. He m. 9 Nov., 1780, Abigail Fogg (b. 1751 ; d. 11 Aug., 1844), and d. 11 Oct.
1801, by accident, being thrown from his horse. His widow applied for a pen-
sion, 11 Sept., 1838. He was a brother of Lieut. Jonathan Cass, who was the father
of Hon. Lewis Cass.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 65
1900, in Stoneham, Mass. Horace Mann, b. 7 July, 1875 ; d.
27 Sept. , 1876. Francis Lyf ord, b. 6 May, 1878 and d. 12 Aug. ,
1878. Walter Doane, b. 9 Dec., 1881. Charles Oscar Welch
enlisted at Boston, Mass., 8 Feb., 1864, in Co. M, 2d Regt.
Mass. Cav. Vols., and was mustered out at Fairfax Court
House, Va., 20 July, 1865; he m. 22 Nov., 1870. at Salem,
Mass., Ellen Augusta Kowell, and had four children, all born
at Salem: Charles Edward, b. Dec., 1871, still-born. Nellie
Rowell, b. 14 Dec., 1873. Bertha Anna, b. 15 May, 1878.
Edward Oscar, b. 18 June, 1882.
371. CAROLINE, b. 3 Feb., 1814, at Gilmanton; d. 15 Mar., 1836, at
Centre Harbor, N. H.
372. WILLIAM BILEY, b. 16 Jan., 1818, at Gilmanton; d. 27 Sept.,
1834, at Danvers, Mass.; buried at Salem, Mass., in the
Sibley Tomb, in Howard St. Cemetery.
373. EUNICE CASS, b. 26 Dec., 1820, at Gilmanton; d. 1 May, 1896,
at Salem, Mass.; m. Charles Saunders and had one son,
Charles Francis Saunders, b. at Georgetown, Mass., 9 June,
1849.
374. DANIEL CASS, b. 2 July, 1823, at Centre Harbor, N. H. ; d. 13
June, 1838, at Centre Harbor.
375. SARAH ANN, b. 18 July, 1825, at Centre Harbor; d. 30 Aug.,
1894, at Salem, Mass. ; m. Edward Rowell.
376. FRANCIS WAYLAND, b. 11 Feb., 1829, at Centre Harbor; m. 4
Jan., 1851, Placentia Ann Pickering, b. 4 Aug., 1831; had
Ida May, b. 17 Mar., 1853, who m. 2 Nov., 1875, Austin
Herbert Putnam, b. 8 Apr., 1853. Ada Florence, b. 5 Nov.,
1857.
377. LEWIS CASS, b. 14 Mar., 1834, at Centre Harbor, N. H. ; d. 22
June, 1835, at Centre Harbor.
155 John Lyford (Robert Stephen** Stephen*
Francis 1 ), born 6 Feb., 1797; died 28 Apr., 1831;
married, 1825, Mary Shortridge, who was born July,
1801, at Brookfield, N. H., and died 27 Apr., 1834.
Children, all born at Brookfield, N. H. :
378. LEWIS, b. 25 Dec., 1825.
379. MARY N., b. 23 Aug., 1827; d. 28 Oct., 1858; m. 7 Oct., 1849,
at New Haven, Ct., Charles S. Mason of Boston.
380. ROBERT, b. 1829 ; d. 11 July, 1846, in Boston.
381. JOHN, b. 12 May, 1831 ; m. 13 May, 1858, Caroline A. Edwards
of Cincinnati, O. ; child, George H. A., b. 28 Jan., 1861.
161 Thomas Lyford (Robert Stephen** Stephen, 5
Francis^), born 6 Nov., 1807, at Brookfield, N. H. ; died
66 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
9 July, 1865, in Boston, Mass. ; married, July, 1832,
Susan Jenkins, who was born 1809, in Boston and died
18 Mar., 1883, in Boston.
Children :
382. A DAUGHTER, who died in infancy.
383. HENRY AUGUSTUS, b. 14 Sept., 1834.
384. THOMAS JEFFERSON, b. 18 Apr., 1836; m. 7 Sept., 1859, Susan
Jenkins Gulliver.
385. GEORGE ALBERT, b. 2 Feb., 1838.
386. CHARLES ROBERT, b. 6 Sept., 1842; d. 5 Sept., 1852, at Wake-
field, N. H.
164 Dudley Lyford (Dudley* 1 Moses , 25 Stephen,
Francis 1 ), born 12 Aug., 1775. Lived in Pittsfield'
N. H. At birth he was named Oliver, but his father dying
before he was three years old, his mother changed his
name to Dudley, after his father. He married Nancy Green,
who was born 15 Nov., 1783, and died 27 Nov., 1868.
He died 4 Dec., 1840. He was a tanner, and was called
"Colonel," being Col. of the 18th Kegt., 3d Brigade, 1st
Div., N. H. Militia, composed of all persons able to do
military duty in the towns of Nottingham, Deerfield,
Epsom, Northwood and Pittsfield.
Children, all born at Pitts field, N. H. :
387. ELIZA BLAKE, b. 10 Aug., 1803; d. 17 Oct., 1865; m. James
McCrillis ; no children.
388. OLIVER SMITH, b. 1 Dec., 1805.
389. JEREMIAH GREEN, b. 22 Feb., 1808; d. 6 Apr., 1815.
390. SARAH FOGG, b. 5 May, 1810; d. 19 Nov., 1882; m. 12 Nov.,
1828, at Pittsfield, Jeremiah Cross, who d. 11 Aug., 1872.
391. MEHITABLE, b. 4 Sept., 1812; d. 4 July, 1813.
392. JOHN CRAM, b. 26 June, 1814.
393. MEHITABLE GREEN, b. 27 Aug., 1816; d. 4 Sept., 1894; m.
1834, Daniel Babb who d. Mar., 1888.
394. FRANCIS HUBBARD, b. 19 Sept., 1820.
395. NANCY GREEN, b. 28 Dec., 1822; d. 17 Feb., 1840.
396. JEREMIAH DUDLEY, b. 4 June, 1825; d. 9 Dec., 1864. He was
Lieut, in Co. C, llth N. H. Inf. Vols.
165 Dudley Lyford (Oliver Smith Moses
Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), "Deacon," born 18 Feb., 1781, in
Brentwood; died Nov., 1856; married 19 Feb., 1805,
Betsey Smith, who was a daughter of Jabez and Martha
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
67
Smith. She was born 25 July, 1786, and died 12 Dec.,
1868.
Children :
397. SOPHRONIA, b. 16 Mar., 1806; d. 16 July, 1833; m. 15 Jan.,
1828, William Coggswell, b. at Haverhill, Mass., 4 Oct., 1801.
398. EBEN SMITH, b. 21 July, 1807; d. 7 Nov., 1810.
399. AAEON SMITH, b. 1 June, 1809; d. 18 July, 1877; m. 7 Nov.,
1838, Harriet Philbrick. She was b. 1 July, 1813, at Mt.
Vernon, Me.
400. BETSEY AUGUSTA, b. 2 Mar., 1811; d. 2 Oct., 1842.
401. FANNY, b. 20 Oct., 1813; d. 26 Mar., 1872; m. 20 Jan., 1836,
Louis Bradley.
402. MOSES, b. 31 Jan., 1816; d. 4 Aug., 1887; m. 26 Nov., 1848,
Mary L. Dyer; child, Edwin Francis, b. 9 Sept., 1857; lives
at Springfield, Mass.
403. DANIEL SMITH, b. 13 Oct., 1818 ; d. 14 June, 1838.
404. SAMUEL THING, b. 7 Jan., 1821 ; d. 29 Sept., 1840.
405. OLIVER SMITH, b. 19 June, 1823, at Mt. Vernon, Me.
406. FRANCIS, b. 22 Feb., 1826; d. 4 Sept., 1881.
407. DUDLEY AUGUSTIN, b. 24 July, 1828 ; d. 28 Oct., 1857.
170 Joseph Lyford ( Jonathan , 65 Moses , 25 Stephen, 5
Francis 1 ), born at Barnstead, N. H. and died in 1829, at
E. Livermore, Me. ; married, 1815, Betsey Adams, at
Livermore, Me. After the death of her husband she
married Hill and died 12 Feb., 1881, at Kent's Hill,
Me., aged 81.
Children :
408. MOSES, b. 21 Apr., 1816, at Portsmouth, N. H.
409. BETSEY ADAMS, b. 12 Jan., 1819, at Livermore, Me. ; d. 15 June,
1888, at W. Mt. Vernon, Me. ; m. 5 Jan., 1837, Willoughby
Clough, at W. Mt. Vernon, Me. He was b. 22 Apr., 1812,
and d. 29 May, 1891. Their oldest son Phineas, b. 17 June,
1839, at Mt. Vernon, Me. ; m. 30 June, 1866, Sarah Torrey
Bailey, of No. Auburn, Me., b. 28 Aug., 1842; their dau.
Sadie Alice, b. 20 June 1868, at No. Auburn; m. Frank
Howe Lyford, 765 1 Sept., 1892.
41O. JOSEPH ADAMS, b. 17 Dec., 1821, at Livermore, Me.
411. NATHANIEL, b. Apr., 1824; m. at Claverack, N. J., Emeline F.
Forbes, b. 31 Aug., 1824; d. 12 Aug., 1856. Had Emma F.,
b. 30 Aug., 1850; m. 30 Mar., 1882, at E. Brookfleld, Mass.,
Curtis, b. 19 Feb., 1836.
68 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
172 Francis William Lyf or 'd( Jonathan , 65 Moses,' 25
Stephen, 5 Francis*), born, 1798, at Barnstead, N. H. ;
died, 1826, at Livermore, Me. ; married, 1821, at
Barnstead, Rebecca Proctor Bunker, of Corinna, Me.,
who was born 3 May, 1802, daughter of Enoch and Sally
Bunker. After her husband's death she married Sylvanus
Boardman Stevens.
Child :
412. FRANCIS WILLIAM, b. 7 Aug., 1822, at Barnstead.
173 Joseph Lyford (Nathaniel Lad Moses,* 5
/Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ). Deacon. Lived at E. Livermore,
Me., born 16 Oct., 1784, at Brentwood, N. H. ; died 23
Oct., 1864, at Livermore, Me.; married, 1st, 16 Aug.,
1807, Jertisha Talbot, who was born 16 Aug., 1787, at
Fayette, Me., and died 10 Apr., 1815; married, 2nd, 5
Nov., 1818, Mary Stone, daughter of Col. Stone of
Livermore Corner. She was born at Worcester, Mass.,
10 Oct., 1790 and died 21 Oct., 1855.
Children by 1st wife :
413. SOPHRONIA, b. 12 Jan., 1808; d. 17 Dec., 1832, at Jay, Me.; m.
27 Jan., 1828, Abner Stubbs, b. 18 Apr., 1803, at Jay, Me.;
d. 12 Feb., 1841, at New Boston, 111.
414. SABRINA, b. 12 Apr., 1811; d. 15 June, 1881; m. 1st, 15 Feb.,
1835, Abner Stubbs, m. 2nd, June, 1844, Joel Blaisdell.
415. MOSES, b. 29 Mar., 1813; d. 26 Apr., 1814.
416. FRANCIS, b. 10 Apr., 1815.
Children, by 2nd wife :
417. JESSE STONE, b. 8 Dec., 1819.
418. JOSEPH KINSLEY, b. 24 Jan., 1823.
419. D WIGHT, b. 31 Oct., 1824, who left home about 1839, and has
never been heard from.
420. MARY JUSTINE, b. 23 Mar., 1829 ; m. 8 Mar., 1856, John Record,
of Livermore, Me.
421. SARAH CLEMENTINE, b. 23 Aug., 1830; m. Sept., 1865, William
G. Roberts, of Waverly, Mass.
174 Samuel Lyford (Nathaniel Lad, 66 Moses* 5
Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 8 Sept., 1786, at Brentwood,
N. H. ; died 20 Jan., 1869, at Livermore Falls, Me.;
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 69
married, , at Livermore, Irene Smith, who was born
in 1791 and died 29 March, 1870.
Children :
422. HARRIET, b. 22 Sept. , 1812, at Livermore ; m. 1836, Abram Luce.
423. JULIA ANN, b. 18 Oct., 1818, at Livermore; m. 23 Dec., 1851,
C. S. Pray, b. 1815.
424. NANCY WESTON, b. 17 Oct., 1825, at Livermore Falls ; m. Apr.,
1850, George Gould.
425. FRANK M., b. 3 Jan., 1834, at Livermore Falls; d. 6 Oct., 1895,
at Kansas City, Mo.
175 Oliver Smith Lyford (Nathaniel Lad, 66
Mosesf 5 Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 23 June, 1789, at
Brentwood, N. H. ; died 28 Nov., 1874, at Livermore,
Me. ; married, 1st, 14 Apr., 1812, Betsey Low, daughter of
Rev. Robert Low and Judith Elvvell. She was born 20
Sept., 1793, and died 2 Mar., 1846. Married, 2nd,
2 June, 1847, Irene Morse. She was born 24 July, 1802,
and died 13 Mar., 1888.
Children, all by 1st wife:
426. CLARISSA PAYSON, b. 2 Nov., 1812; d. 2 Nov., 1889, m. -
Paine.
427. SAMUEL Low, b. 25 June, 1814.
428. AURELIA CLEMENTINE, b. 14 Apr., 1816; m. Lane.
429. NATHANIEL, b. 6 Oct., 1818, at New Gloucester, Me.
430. OLIVER FRANCIS, b. 19 Oct., 1820; d. 7 Sept., 1823.
431. OLIVER FRANCIS, b. 24 Apr., 1823; d. 12 Dec., 1850, at An-
dover, Mass.
432. BETSEY Low, b. 11 Dec., 1830; d. 30 Aug., 1832.
433. SARAH MORSE, b. 29 Dec., 1832; m. Libby.
434. ANN JUDSON, b. 29 Oct., 1835 ; m. Morse.
435. JUDITH ELWELL, b. 20 Jan. 1839 ; m. Doten.
182 Levi Johnson Lyford (Nathaniel Lad, 66
Moses, Stephen,^ Francis^), born 19 Nov., 1805; died
3 Aug., 1892, at E. Livermore, Me. ; married, 1st, Sally
Bumpus, who was born 1804 and died 1841 ; married,
2nd, Hannah Wilbur; married, 3rd, 10 Jan., 1849, at
Auburn, Me., Mrs. Chloe P. Emery (nee Packard) , widow
of Addison Emery. She was born 14 July, 1816, and
died 3 May, 1896.
70 FRANCIS LYFOBD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
Children by 1st wife, all born at E. Livermore :
436. JULIA, m. Thomas Lee.
437. AGRANDECE, b. 21 Nov., 1829 ; d. 21 June, 1894 ; m. Alvin
Record.
438. SARAH MELISSA, b. 1833; m. Elisha H. Pettingell.
439. LEVI JOHNSON, b. 19 June, 1836.
Children by 3rd wife, all born at E. Livermore :
440. GEORGE HENRY, b. 12 Apr., 1856.
441. CHARLES FINLEY, b. 24 Dec., 1857; d. Mar., 1866, at Min-
neapolis, Minn.
188 Moses Lyford (Francis Moses** Stephen, 5
Francis^, born 14 Feb., 1802; died 5 Mar., 1860;
married Sophronia Stevens, who was born 3 July, 1804
and died 30 Dec., 1887.
Children :
442. JOHN TUCK, b. 14 Feb., 1830; lives at Livermore Falls, Me.
443. ABIGAIL STEVENS.
444. COLUMBIA DELPHINE.
445. FRANCES ELLEN.
446. MOSETTE SOPHY.
193 Gideon Colcord .Lyford (TheophttusJ* The-
ophilus? 1 Stephen f Francis 1 ) , born 5 Sept., 1798; died
30 Aug., 1880, at Exeter, N. H. ; married 9 Sept., 1821,
Hannah Emery Gilman, who was born 27 Feb., 1798 and
died 20 May, 1879, at Exeter, N. H.
Children :
447. EDWIN OILMAN, b. 11 Oct., 1822.
448. ELLEN AUGUSTA, b. 30 Sept., 1824.
449. FREDERIC WILLIAM, b. 4 Dec., 1827; d. 31 July, 1828.
450. LUCY MARIA, b. 16 May, 1831 ; d. 6 Feb., 1835.
451. MARY CAROLINE, b. 8 Nov., 1836; d. 30 Oct., 1867.
197 John Colcord Lyford. (Theophilus The-
ophilus* 1 Stephen^ Francis 1 ) , born 3 Nov., 1810; died
30 May, 1881; married 26 Nov., 1846, Sarah Kenard
Burleigh, who was born 9 Dec., 1825. Farmer, lived at
Exeter.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 71
Children :
452. MARY GORHAM, b. 30 Nov., 1847 ; m. 1st, 16 Jan., 1869, Stephen
Dolloff; m. 2nd, 17 Aug., 1876, William H. Peva.
453. CLARA FRANCIS, b. 4 June, 1849.
454. ANNIE COLCORD, b. 80 Mar., 1851.
455. OLIVER HENRY, b. 26 Sept., 1853; d. 30 July, 1879.
456. SARAH AUGUSTA, b. 2 June, 1855; m. 5 Apr., 1881, Geo. E.
Eastman.
457. THEODORE BURLEIGH, b. 24 May, 1857; m. 1st, 5 July, 1878,
Mrs. Nellie M. Higgins; m. 2nd, 14 May, 1884, Mary E.
Smith.
458. JOHN FREDERICK, b. 17 Apr., 1859; d. 1 Dec., 1859.
459. JOHN EDWARD, b. 26 Nov., 1860; d. 18 Sept., 1861.
460. CLARENCE EDGAR, b. 27 Jan., 1867; d. 12 Apr., 1870.
201 Moses Cogswell 'Lyford(Thomas, 88 Thomas, 20
Thomas, 11 Thomas? Francis*), born 3 Oct., 1813; died
Dec., 1870; married, 1861, Juliette Eudora Robinson, of
Belmont, N. H. Lived at Canterbury, N. H.
Children :
461. ETTA HANNAH, b. 25 Dec., 1862; d. 10 Dec., 1888; m. 27 Nov.,
1887, John Ham Lyf ord. 473
462. EDWIN MOSES, b. 8 Sept., 1865.
463. FRANK DUDLEY, b. 19 Jan., 1867; m. 16 Oct., 1895, Alice Latti-
more, of Somerville, Mass.
202 James Lyf ord ( Thomas Thomas Thomas, 11
Thomas? Francis 1 ), born 4 Oct., 1814, at Canterbury,
N. H. ; died 28 May, 1879, at Tilton, N. Hi ; married,
1st, 28 Feb., 1839, Abigail French, of Stonejiam, Mass.,
who was born 25 Feb., 1818, and died 1 jjune, 1846;
married, 2nd, 7 Sept., 1846, Sophia M. Richardson, who
was born 26 Nov., 1810, and died 28 Aug., 1851 ; married,
3rd, Nov., 1851, Mary Isabel McLean, of New Boston,
N. H., who was born 11 Oct., 1821, and died 28 Nov.,
1885.
Children, by 1st wife :
464. LAVINA FRENCH, b. 2 May, 1841 ; d. 22 June, 1842.
465. ABBY LAVINA, b. 30 May, 1843; d. 19 Dec., 1844.
Child, by 2nd wife :
466. THOMAS JEFFERSON, b. 8 Jan., 1848; d. 14 Nov., 1875; m. 16
Mar., 1874, Mary Addie Cogswell, b. 1853; d. 20 Mar., 1874.
72 FRANCIS LYFOBD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER.
Children, by 3rd wife :
467. JAMES OTIS, b. 28 June, 1853, in Boston, Mass. ; m. 2 May, 1882 ,
Susan Ayer Hill, of Concord, N. H. Children : Agnes Mc-
Lean, b. 6 Apr., 1884; d. 21 Jan., 1901. Katharine Batchel-
der, b. 11 Nov., 1888; d. 1 Feb., 1893. Richard Taylor, b. 6
Jan., 1896.
468. MARION ELIZABETH, b. 26 July, 1855.
469. ALBERT GIDDINGS, b. 3 Mar., 1860.
470. AMOS COGSWELL, b. 16 Dec., 1862; d. 3 May, 1892, at Denver,
Col.
203 John Lyford (Thomas,** Thomas Thomas, 11
Thomas* Francis*), born 8 Dec., 1815; died 9 Dec.,
1888; married 12 Nov., 1840, Elizabeth Ham, of
Canterbury, N. H. She was born 9 May, 1821, and died
19 Dec., 1869.
Children :
471. ARIANA HAM, b. 20 Jan., 1842; d. 22 Mar., 1845.
472. MARY ELIZABETH, b. 5 July, 1844; d. 1 Nov., 1882; m. 19 July,
1869, Smith N. Ellsworth, of Concord, N. H.
473. JOHN HAM, b. 15 Sept., 1846; m. 1st, 27 Nov., 1887, Etta Han-
nah Lyford; 461 m., 2nd, Addie C. Dow, of London, N. H.
She d. 9 Sept., 1895 ; 4 children.
474. ABBY ANN, b. 15 July, 1848; d. 18 Sept., 1880; m. 24 Oct.,
1870, Clarence W. Whitcher, of Northfleld.
475. ARIANA HAM, b. 5 Oct., 1850; d. 18 Apr., 1875.
476. ESTELLE, b. 28 Jan., 1853; m. Charles O. Judkins, of Belmont.
477. CLARA KIMBALL, b. 15 July, 1855 ; m. 23 Dec., 1875, William N.
Batchelder, of New York City.
478. AMANDA FLORA, b. 27 Jan., 1858 ; m. William Moulton, of Hop-
kinton, N. H.
(To be continued.}
THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER, AND SOME OF
HIS DESCENDANTS.
BY FRANK A. GARDNER, M.D.
(Continued from Vol. XXXVII, page 392.')
Elizabeth Jeffry's daughter married Nathan Reed, and
upon the death of her mother inherited the property.
Nathan Reed and his wife Elizabeth, for $9,000, sold to
Joseph Peabody of Salem, Merchant, "That large dwelling
houfe late the Manfion houfe of M rs Elisabeth Jeffry
deceased, fituate upon Efsex ftreet, between Saint Peters
street and Newbury ftreet containing about one
hundred and three poles and two hundred and sixty feet"
bounded : easterly on Capt. Jonathan Gardner's
land 300 ft. and 9 inches to Brown Street, northerly on
Brown St. 93 ft. 8 inches, W. on land lately belonging to
George Williams Esq. deceased and land of Capt.
Nehemiah Andrews, about 298 ft. 5 inches to Essex St.
and southerly on Essex St. 95 ft. 5 inches to the bounds
first mentioned.* This is the lot upon which Plummer
Hall stands, and some interesting historical notes in regard
to it may be found in the article in Vol. vi of the
Collections already mentioned.
The remaining portion of lot V,which Madam Bradstreet
occupied until her death, was sold by her heirs to Benj.
Ropes Nov. 1, 1716 (including a house known as "y e
Globe Tavern.") It extended through from street to
street, and was bounded on the eastern side by William
Bowditch's land, and on the western by land of the heirs of
William Browne deceased. f A few days later the purchaser
sold a portion of this to Joseph Ropes. J Upon the death of
Benj. Ropes, his estate was divided among his heirs, and
* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 164, leaf 213.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 31, leaf 95.
I Essex Registry of Deeds, book 31, leaf 100.
Essex Probate Record, book 319, leaf 56.
(73)
74 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
several of the portions thus allotted were purchased by
Miles Ward Jun.,* who in turn sold them with a dwelling
house thereon, to Nathaniel Ingersoll, July 3, 1741. j
Feb. 24, 1758, Nathaniel Ingersoll for 600 pounds, sold
to George Williams, his homestead, " consisting of a
Dwelling house, Barn, .... and about fifty eight Poles
of land, .... part of the late Homestead Land & Real
Estate of Benjamin Ropes Deceased. "{ This also
extended through from street to street and was bounded
on the East by land of Joseph Bowditch Esq., and on
the West by Joseph Ropes' land.
Joseph Ropes retained the part which he purchased ot
Benjamin Ropes until his death, when his son Daniel
purchased the share of his brother David (Sept. 13,
1773).
In the above description of this very interesting square,
the writer has endeavored to confine himself to a study
of the location and ownership of the various divisions, as
the historical side has been well presented in the article
in the Historical Collections, Vol. vi, p. 93, etc., while the
sketches of the many Gardners who have owned portions
of this square, will be found in their appropriate places
in the present series.
In 1674 (17, 6mo.), Lieut. Joseph Gardner of Salem,
" vintner," bought two acres of land of William Browne,
Jun., on the eastern side of the " comon comonly called
the training place," and near a piece of swamp land owned
by "y e sd Mr Joseph Gardner."|| On the 22nd of July in
the year following, he bought of Thomas West of Salem,
10 acres of land in w y e north field."f
MILITARY SERVICE.
The earliest allusion to such service is the following :
" Itt is ordered, that Joseph Gardiner be leftennantto the
NOTE. An excellent account of the Joseph Gardner or " Bradstreet " house
is given in the Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. xxiv, p. 251.
* Essex Registry of Deeds book 64, leaf 213; book 66, leaf 254; and book 81,
leaf 239.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 82, leaf 129; and book 83, leaf 208.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 105, leaf 36.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 161, leaf 177.
|1 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 84.
1T Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 120.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 75
foote company vnder the comand of Walter Price, captaine,
at Salem."* (May 15, 1672). We find the following in
the town records for Aug. 18, 1673 : "Lieut Jo : Gardner
one Barrell of powder." "The Court, taking notice
of the increase of the souldjers in Salem, judge it meet
to order that the ffoote company there be by the selectmen
of Salem divided into two cornpanyes, and their distinct
limitts by them to be p r scribed, and that Joseph Gardiner
be captaine to the first foote company in Salem"f (Oct.
7, 1674). "It is ordered, that John Price be leftenfit, &
John Higginson ensigne, to the first ffoote company in
Salem, (under the conduct of Capt Joseph Gardiner,)
they taking the oath of fidelity till this Court further
order. w t (May 12, 1675).
In the records of the various acts concerning the raising
of troops for service in the Narragansett country, we find
the following : " Capt Joseph Gardiner, for the ffoote,
(and others) appointed to be captaines to be imployed in
y s service" (Nov. 12, 1675).
A list of Salem men impressed for this service, thirty-
one in number, is preserved in the Massachusetts archives
at the State House, with Joseph Gardner's autograph
signature appended. ||
The following account of this expedition, is given in
Felt's Annals of Salem, 1st edition, p. 251-2: "They
marched with other troops from Boston the 8th. On the
15th, two men of this town were killed, and one more
wounded by Indians. Capt. Joseph Gardner, of this
town, and others, went out immediately and killed an
Indian, who had slain one of the Salem troops and had
his cap on. 19th. The forces of Plymouth, Connecticut
and Massachusetts attacked the Narragansets in a Swamp.
After a warmly contested battle of three hours, the English
took the enemy's place and fired their wigwams. One
thousand of the Indians perished. Eighty-five of the
English were killed or died of their wounds, and one
hundred and forty-five others wounded. Among the killed
were Capt. Gardner and six of his company, besides
* Massachusetts Bay Records, v. iv, part 2, p. 517.
t Massachusetts Bay Records, v. v, p. 22.
$ Massachusetts Bay Records, v. v, p. 33.
Massachusetts Bay Records, v. v. p. 69.
|| Massachusetts Archives, v . 68, p. 71.
76 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
eleven more of them wounded. 'Maj. Church espying
Capt. Gardner amidst the wigwams in the east end of the
Fort made towards him ; but on a sudden, while looking
at each other, Capt. Gardner settled down. The Major
stepped to him and seeing the blood run down his cheek,
lifted up his cap and called him by name. He looked up
but spoke not a word, being mortally wounded, shot
through the head, and observing the .wound the Major
ordered care to be taken of him.' Thus fell an inhabitant
of Salem in the camp of his enemies. The loss of him
and others of his townsmen in so bloody a contest, must
have occasioned here when related, general emotions of
regret By his patriotic devotedness, he
honored both his town and country."*
A list of those of his company slain at Indian fort,
Narragansett, December 19, 1675, is preserved in the
Massachusetts Archives, v. 68, pp. 103-104.
In the Massachusetts Bay Records, v. v, p. 73, under
date of Feb. 21, 1675-6, we read: " It is ordered that
Lift. John Price & Ensigne John Higginson, Leftennt &
ensigne to the late Capt Gardiners company, haue their
comissions for those places forth w th ."
Joseph Gardner married Ann Downing, daughter of
Mr. Emanuel Downing, gent., until 1638 a lawyer in
London, f Rev. Joseph B. Felt, in his Annals of Salem,
1st edition, p. 356, states that she was born in London,
and had "an excellent education, and what is more, a
principle of deep piety, which rendered her talents,
attainments and possessions, blessings to society." After
the death of her husband it was voted that she " shall be
payd her chardges dif burst upon y e Commetta about Mr
Higginson. ." (22, 11, 1675). She married, about
1676, Governor Simon Bradstreet, and the agreement
drawn up between Mrs. Ann Gardner and the Governor,
upon the eve of their marriage, is an exceedingly
interesting document. It is dated May 2, 1676, and
sworn to on the 6th of the following month. } The four
" Articles of Agreement," are models of shrewdness, and
* Church's History.
t Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 144.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 85, etc.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 77
business foresight, and the " new woman " of to-day will
have a difficult task in equalling in these regards her
counterpart of 225 years ago.
She received a letter of recommendation from the
church, March 10, 1680, having been married to Governor
Bradstreet.*
She died April 19, 1713, aged 79. f
In the settlement of the estate of Joseph Gardner, his
widow was appointed executrix, as the following record
shows : " This court understanding theire is remaining
du e to M rs Bradstreete late relict & executrix of Cap 1
Joseph Gardner deceafed to the valu e of about 10 pounds
for the court expenses, this court doe order that the
marshall fhall forthwith, pay the same out of the first
money he receives "J (30, 9 mo. 1680).
Sept. 23, 1704, Madam Ann Bradstreet, "widow,
executrix of y e Last will .... of Capt. Joseph Gardner,
Late of Salem, mariner Dec." for 13 pounds sold to
"Leiut. Abell Gardner y e only surviving son of M r Sam 11
Garner Senr of Salem Dec d , have Quittclaimed released
.... all manner of .... actions . . . especially into y e
estate of my first husbands father M r Thomas Gardner
Sen r ,"etc.
No children.
THIRD GENERATION.
12 Lieut. Thomas Gardner, the oldest son of Lieut.
Thomas and Hannah Gardner, was baptized at the First
Church in Salem " 25 : 3 : 1645. "|| In a deposition dated
10, 10, 1661, he gave his age as about 17.1F
* k Felt's Annals of Salem, 1st edition, p. 265.
t Felt's Annals of Salem, 1st edition, p. 356.
t County Court Records, 30- 9 mo. 1680, Case No. 26.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 271.
[[First Church Records.
IT County Court Papers, book 7, leaf 3.
78 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
He held many town offices, the first being that of
constable, to which office he was chosen March 15,
1679-80.* At the town-meeting held March 9, 1684-5,
he was also chosen a selectman, to which latter office he
was again elected Feb. 21, 1686-7, and he continued to
hold it through 1688.*f
On the 18th of the 10 mo. 1689, "Lt. Tho Gardner,"
and two others, were " Im powered to Sue Tho. Mould att
the next County Court at Ipswich, as he was Constable in
the year 1686 for Rates Committed unto him in that
year."*
He was chosen one of the w Searchers & Sealers of
leather," March 24, 1689-90, and again March 9, of the
year following. On the 18th of the last named month, he
was appointed on a committee to " go in pambulation upon
the lyne between Salem & lyn."*
His first service on the trial jury was in 1681 (May 31) ,
and he was also chosen in 1691 and in 1693. His name
appears in a "List of freeholders to be Jury men, "dated
Aug. 23, 1686.*
Thomas Gardner, Jun. , of Salem, "ye Aturney of Lieut.
Tho. Gardner of Pimaquid," sold to Gilbert Tapley of
Beverly, a dwelling-house and half an acre of land in
Beverly. J According to this deed, this property had been
purchased by Lieut. Thomas Gardner of JPemaquid May
13, 1661. This deed of sale to Gilbert Tapley bears the
date March 15, 1674-5, and is signed by Thomas Gardner,
Jun., the attorney, his signature being witnessed by Thomas
Gardner, Sen., the first Thomas Gardner (the immigrant) ,
having died less than two months previous to this date.
NOTE. The statement has been made that Thomas Gardner, 3d Gen.,
the subject of this article, resided for some time to the eastward and
that he was the Lieut. Thomas Gardner, of Pemaquid. The above deed
proves that this could not be true, as the " attorney " in the above
transaction must have been Thomas of the third generation. It was
quite natural for his father Thomas Gardner, Sen., to act as a witness
to his son's signature. Further than this we know from the above
deed that the estate was purchased by the grantor, Lieut. Thomas
Gardner of Pemaquid, May 13, 1661. At that time we know from a
* Town Records.
t County Court Papers, book 48, leaf 74.
| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 146.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 79
deposition made by Thomas Gardner, 3d Gen., in that year that he was
only 17 years of age,* therefore in all probability much too young to
have property deeded to him. Another proof that they were two separate
persons is the following, as we state elsewhere in this article, Thomas
Gardner, 3d Gen., was chosen "Ensigne " of the "First Foot Company"
in Salem, on training day, April 25, 1676. f In " Ancient Dominions of
Maine," p. 171, the statement is made that Waldron went to Pemaquid
with 60 men on Feb. 22, 1677, and that Captain Gardiner was .in
command there. The same author states further that, "Thomas
Gardiner had been made chief of the military forces of Pemaquid, in
the county of Devonshire, under a commission of the General Court
of Massachusetts Bay, two years before." A careful comparison of
two autograph signatures of Lieut. Thomas Gardner of Pemaquid,
with seven of Thomas Gardner, 3d Gen., of Salem, shows more points
of difference than of similarity. The following is a brief review of
the references to Lieut. Thomas Gardner of Pemaquid which the
writer has found in the records, and historical publications :
1661, May 13. Purchased land in Salem (Beverly) as above stated.
1665. Summoned from Pemaquid as a resident of the territory of the
Duke of York, i
1665. Sept. 5. Appointed one of the commissioners to hold court at
Sheepscott.
1672. May 18. One of the signers to a petition from Pemaquid, to
have the settlement taken under the protection of the
General Court. |i
1674. "Mae 27." Commissioned with others by the General Court
to repair Pemaquid, Capenwagen, Kennebeck, etc., or some
one of them to the eastward, and keep a county court, etc.,
etc.f
1674. July 22. He with others held court at Pemaquid,** as above
ordered.
1674. Oct. 7. "This Court taking into consideration what hath binn
acted by Left. Gardiner (and others) in setting the easterne
parts at Kennebeck (etc.) ..... upon desire of the
inhabitants, they have called those places the county of
Devonshire," etc. ft
1674. Oct. 7. " Left. Thomas Gardiner was Appointed Treafurer as
County Treafurer from Kenebeck, eaftward, w th in the
1674. Oct. 7. Lieut. Thomas Gardner took oath.JJ
* County Court Papers, book 7, leaf 3.
t Massachusetts Archives, book 68, leaf 249.
t Ancient Dominions of Maine, p. 139 to 144.
Maine Historical Society, v. n, p. 233.
|| Maine Historical Society, v. v, p. 240.
IT Maine Historical Society, v. v, p. 249.
** Massachusetts Bay Records, v. v, p. 17.
ft Massachusetts Bay Records, v. v, p. 16.
it Massachusetts Bay Records, v. v, p. 18.
80 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
1674. Oct. 7. He was "appointed to have comand & regulation of
all the military forces, & of the affaires thereof, in the
seuerall places of this county & particularly of Pemaquid."*
1674. Oct. 7. "These persons following are appointed & haue liberty
to keepe houses of publicke enterteynement," etc. " Left
Gardiner to his fishermen. . . . John Earthy for Corbyn
Sound," etc.f
1675. Sept. 22. An autograph letter bearing this date, written by him
to Gov. Leverett, is on file at the State House in Boston.
In it he describes the troubles with the Indians, laying
particular emphasis upon the fact that the natives had been
deprived of their fire-arras, and were in danger of starvation
in consequence. |
1675. Oct. 18. A document signed by Edw. Rawson, Sec'y of the
Council, shows that "Left. Thomas Gardiner," had been
suspected of trading with the French and Indians. His
examination was ordered, and if the suspicions were
sustained he was to be brought before the council. A
warrant for his arrest was appended to the above letter.
He evidently cleared himself of these charges, as he
continued in command at least two years longer.
1674-5. March 15. Through his attorney, Thomas Gardner Jun. of
Salem he sells a dwelling-house and half an acre of land in
Beverly to Gilbert Tapley. ||
1676. "21." He wrote a letter from "Munhegan," describing the
distressed condition of those who had fled thither from
Pemaquid. He mentions "the perfidious & uniust dealing
of fom English as we Supofe who have Stollen Eight or
Nine persones from the Indians About Micheas River &
Caried them Away. The Indians being Insenfed for their
lofe we desire that Enquiry may be made of one Lawton
that went in A bark of Mr. Simon Lines and John Lauerdore
being of Company About it," etc. If
1677. Feb. 22. Waldron went to Pemaquid with 60 men, and found
Capt. Gardiner in command there. "Thomas Gardiner had
been made chief of the military forces of Pemaquid, . .
two years before."**
1685. June. "Thomas Gardner Sr. Merchant of Salem," was granted
power of attorney for John Earthy, in June 1685. ft John
Earthy in this document, refers to the grantee as "my
* Massachusetts Bay Records, v. v, p. 19.
i Massachusetts Bay Records, v. v, p. 20.
Massachusetts Archives, book 67, leaves 260-1.
Massachusetts Archives, book 68, leaves 20-21.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 146.
Massachusetts Archives, book 69, leaf 51. (Index gives date "Aug." 21, 1676.)
** Ancient Dominions of Maine, p. 171.
tt Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 43.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 81
trusty and well beloved friend. " We know that John
Earthy was a prominent member of the Pemaquid colony
when Lieut. Thomas Gardner was there, and it is probable
that both of these men came up to Salem after the Pemaquid
colony was broken up. This "Thomas Gardner Sr." could
hardly have been Thomas of the 3d Gen., as his son
Thomas was only fourteen years old at that time, and
Thomas 1st and 2nd Gen. had both died. This again
implies another party, and the intimacy of this man with
John Earthy leads us to think that this " Thomas Gardner,
Sr." was no other than the former commander at Pemaquid.
What finally became of this Lieut. Thomas Gardner of
Pemaquid, we do not know. He may have returned to
England. It certainly seems probable that he was in some
way related to the Salem family, but just what that relation-
ship was, we have been unable as yet to discover.
In 1680 he was one of the appraisers of the estate of
John Turner,* and in 1681 he served in a similar capacity
in the settlement of the estate of William Bowditch.f
His autograph signature is appended to the inventories of
both of these estates.
He was appointed (Dec. 26, 1683) one of the commis-
sioners to dispose of a ketch belonging to the estate of
Capt. Jno. Corwin. A report of the decision of these
commissioners, bearing his signature, is on file, dated Apr.
1, 1685J. The will of Major Charles Redford, dated
Apr. 29, 1691, bears his name as a witness.
As Thomas Gardner, Jun., he signed the petition for a
new meeting-house in Salem in 1680. || In 1691-2 (1,
12 mo.) he was seated with other men "in the middle
gallery."^"
The soldiers to the number of 90, on training day April
25, 1676, voted to have "Sergant" Thomas Gardner
appointed "Ensigne" of the "First Foot Company in
Salem, lately commanded by Joseph Gardner." A
petition to that effect was presented to the General Court
by Samuel Gardner, Jun., and others.**
* County Court Papers, book 34, leaf 86.
t County Court Papers, book 30, leaf 137.
i County Court Papers, book 45, leaves 42 and 43.
Essex Probate Records, book 303, leaf 72.
|| County Court Papers, book 33, leaf 84.
IT Town Records.
^Massachusetts Archives, book 68, leaf 249.
HIST. COLL. VOL. XXXVIH 6
82 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
Oct. 10, 1683, he was appointed lieutenant of "Capt.
John Higginson Jun's troop of horse." Lieut. Thomas
Gardner was appointed with others to look after the
repairs on the fort at Winter Island (6, 6, 1689).*
John Higginson and Thomas Gardner, petitioned the
General Court, May 8, 1684, to have a Cornet and
Quartermaster appointed for the troop in Salem, and that
a few men in Marblehead who desired to join might
do so.f
He evidently owned several vessels, and dealt quite
extensively in fish, as the following extracts from
documents will prove :
Jan. 8th, 1683-84, Thomas Gardner acknowledged that
he was in debt to Philip Cromwell slaughterer for seventy-
five pounds for the "Ketch William now by me bought
of y e said Phillip Cromwell," agreeing to pay "thirty Seuen
pounds, Ten shillings in merchantable cod ffish at or before
y e Twentieth Day of June next ensuing y e Date hereof
at y e Rate of Two Ryalls pr quintall under price Currant,"
and the other 37 pounds, 10 shillings at or before "y e last
Day of October Next Ensuing this prefent Date in
merchantable or refufe ifish" at the same rate. This was
entered in the Registry of Deeds, Feb. 17, 1695-64
In the County Court Papers, book 51, leaf 102, we find
the following : "Lt. Thomas Gardner of Salem Merch u "
attached Edward Hilliard of Salem "marriner," to the
value of four hundred pounds. Hilliard was master of
the "Ketch Expectation in a voyage to y e westward in y e
10 mo 1690 and did break his s d Orders Given him by the
owner Sd. Gardner in taking of Other Methods & not
Returning home again to Salem or Boston In New
England as by y e Coppy of y e Sd Orders shall now
Amply apear, beareing date y e 10th. decemb r 1690 w ch
tends to the dainmage of y e sd. Gardner four hundred
pounds in money. " "The attachmt w th other evidences
were Read & Comitted to y e Jurie. The Jurie find for y e
pi* 400 pounds in money & Cost of court. Judgment is
respited till next Ipsw ch court according to y* Law."||
* Town Records.
t Records of Massachusetts Bay Colony, book 70, leaf 114.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 67.
County Court Papers, book 51, leaves 101-2.
|| County Court Records, Nov. 24, 1691, Case No. 2.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 83
The above judgement was sustained in the court at
Ipswich March 29, 1692.*
From the above documents, we learn that he owned a
vessel called the "Expectation," and a deed dated
Nov. 2, 1686, shows that he purchased at that time a
quarter interest in a barque of 20 tons burthen "called y c
John, lately of Dublin."f
REAL ESTATE.
The first recorded purchase of land by him was dated
Sept. 14, 1671, at which time he bought of John and
Hannah (Gardner) Buttolph a portion of the Joseph
Gardner lot measuring about 14 poles, being the spot
upon which the Salem Athenaeum now (1901 ) stands, J and
which is fully described in the article upon Joseph
Gardner, 2nd Gen.
In the inventory of the estate of Thomas, this is
described as the "homestead of Lieut. Thomas Gardner
Deced" valued at 120 pounds. It was bought Dec. 27,
1698, by Capt. William Bowditch, who married Mary
Gardner the daughter of Thomas. The price paid by him
was 125 pounds. ||
Dec. 17, 1677, "Thomas Gardner Jun'r merchant,"
bought of Daniel Andrew of Salem, bricklayer, a
"Dwelling House with all y e Ground under it ....
Containing about Thirty Rod of Ground. . . bounded
with y e Street Southerly," E., N., & W. with land of
Edmund Batter. If This is described in the inventory, as
"the house & ground where Mr. Higginson Ter s lives." It
was sold in 1698 (recorded Aug. 2, of that year) for 100
pounds to Stephen Sewall of Salem, merchant.** The old
house still stands on Essex St. A description and cut of
this house may be found in the Essex Antiquarian, Vol. n,
page 168.
On the date of the purchase of the above lot by Thomas
Gardner (Dec. 17, 1677), of Daniel Andrew, he sold to
* County Court Records, (Ipswich), of the above date, Case No. 39.
f Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 89.
i Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 132.
Essex Probate Record, book 305, leaf 189.
I] Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 224.
If Essex Registry of Deeds, book 59, leaf 168.
** Essex Kegistry of Deeds, book 61, leaf 120.
84 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
this same Daniel Andrew, who was his brother-in-law, all
his right "in severall parcels of land .... which were
bequeathed to Mary " his wife and her sister Sarah by the
last will of his father-in-law John Porter. Among the
lots mentioned in this sale were the following : Smith's
farm, 80 acres; 125 acres between Keniston's farm, and
Lawrence Leach's ; 10 acres purchased of Mr. Gott, next
to Mr. Putnam's ; and the Keniston farm, 200 acres, and
20 acres of meadow. Samuel Gardner, Sen., witnessed
the signature of his nephew to the above.*
June 28, 1678, he bought of his mother-in-law Mary
Porter, widow of John, 70 acres of land, bounded by
land of George Gardner, Samuel Gardner, Richard
Rolling worth and John Rubton.f This was evidently a
part of the 80 acres mentioned in the inventory as being
"nigh Ipswich river," valued at 60 pounds. J It was sold
for that amount by his administrator, to Joseph Pope,
Aug. 1, 1698.
He bought another lot of land of his mother-in-law, June
15, 1680, described as a piece of land " by y e South river
at the burying point, it being a p'cel of land formerly
granted .... to John Porter, "containing 35 ft. " in front
or bredth against y e water," E. upon Maj. Hathorne's
grant, and the grant of Samuel Gardner and Capt. Joseph
Gardner on the west. || He probably sold this lot before
his death as no mention is made of it in his inventory.
Aug. 10, 1681, he purchased of Benjamin Balch (who
married his aunt Sarah Gardner) , 2 1-2 acres " upon a
neck of land in Salem caled y c Planter's marsh," formerly
the land of Benjamin Balch's father John Balch, deceased. IF
It was mentioned in the inventory as being worth 20
pounds,** and was sold with the homestead, Dec. 20,
1698. tf
We find the following entry in the Town Records, under
date of March 31, 1684: "Voated that the towne doe
grant unto Thomas Gardner their Right in that Island in
the South River that lyeth before Mr. Jos e Hardy Sen rs
* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 119.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 18.
t Essex Probate Record, book 305, leaf 189.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 179.
Jj Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 77.
If Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 169.
** Essex Probate Records, book 305, leaf 189.
tt Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 235.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 85
dore." The present Union Street is supposed to extend
over this island.
Lieut. Thomas Gardner bought for four pounds of John
Higginson, "one-halfe of all that cove & wharf land in
Salem which I y e said John Higgenson bought of John
Archer San'r of Salem, cooper" (Feb. 14, 1686-7).*
Articles of agreement were drawn up between Thomas
Gardner and John Higginson, in regard to the joint
ownership of this property, June 6, 1687, they agreeing
that the north end should belong to John Higginson and
the south end to Thomas Gardner, f
This property was named in the inventory, valued at
40 pounds.J
Capt. William Bowditch the administrator, sold it to
Capt. Benjamin Allen for 42 pounds, Sept. 3, 1697.
John Westgate, of Salem, conveyed to Lieut. Thomas
Gardner Nov. 17, 1690, his dwelling house and land in
return for 60 pounds, 9 shill. 4 pence, loaned to him.||
This mortgage was evidently cancelled as no such property
was owned by the mortgagee at the time of his death.
July 7, 1692, he bought of Edward Hilliard, a house
and land "neer unto the neck so called," paying 40 pounds
for it. If He sold the same property back to the grantor
Nov. 7, 1694, for 63 pounds.**
The only piece of property enumerated in the inventory
that we have not described, is given in that document as
"a lott of land nigh Mr Babbiges," valued at 10 pounds, ft
This was sold by the administrator for 30 pounds to Capt.
John Turner, " one of y e Principle creditors of y e sd
Thomas Gardner Dec d ." It consisted of a " Warehouse
or fish house . . . at . . . Winter Island," with about 26
rods of ground ; bounded N. by Christopher Babbige, W.
by Thomas Browning, S. by John Grafton, and E. by a
Lane or highway. This deed is dated Dec. 23, 1698, and
from it we learn that Thomas Gardner purchased the lot
of John Grafton 4 J
* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 137.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 138.
I Essex Probate Record, book 305, leaf 189.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 100.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 172.
f Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 44.
** Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 68.
tt Esssx Probate Record, book 305, leaf 189.
tt Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 127.
86 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
In a list of unimproved lands, compiled in 1683, we find
that he was taxed in that year for 50 acres of such land,
the tax thereon being 1 shilling. The following taxes
were also paid by him in the same year : " County rate
00 : 05 : 00 " and "Miuifter's Rate 00 : 15 : 00."*
Thomas Gardner married Mary Porter, daughter of
John Porter, on the " 22, 4mo. 1669." The following note
in the Town Records, under date of" 1-12 mo. 1691-2,"
evidently refers to her : "Lt. Tho. Gardner's wife is seated
in the Second piew with old Mr. Flint. "f
She died eleven days after her husband, Nov. 27, 1695.f
Thomas Gardner died Nov. 16, 1695. An inventory of
his estate was taken Sept. 5, 1696, by " Steph Sewall and
Manafseth Marston." The total value of the seven pieces
of real estate which have been described above, amounted
to 370 pounds. All of his wearing apparel and household
effects are enumerated, the grand total amounting to
488: 19: 064
The following bill is preserved among the papers of the
estate in the Probate office : ft The Estate of Lt. Thomas
Gardner Sen Deceafed is Dr. for severall things for his
funerall had of Wm Browne.
10th. 9 - 1695 to 25 Gall 3-4 of St Georges wine at 2/6
p Gal 13 : 04 : 04i
to 3 p r wem Gloves at 2/4 p 1 yd bla
caloco 3/ : 10 : 00
to 2 Gallons Madera wine at 4/ p Gall 4 : 08 : 00
to pay mony 4 : 02 : 04
mdc. for his wifes ffunerall
20 9 - 1695 to 12 Gall St Georges at 2/6 p Gall 1 : 10 : 00
to 2 Gall Madeira wine at 4 p Gall 00 : 08 : 00
to 12 p r mens m. Gloves & 3 p r womens
ditto at 2/4 pr 01 : 15 : 00
07 : 15 : 04*
Errors excepted pr W m Browne
Reed of M r W m Bowditch Seaven pounds, fifteen shillings & 4 p in
full for the Acco Above I say received this 27th. January 1696.
Mr W m Browne."
* County Court Papers, book 43, leaves 14 and 20.
t Town Records.
t Essex Probate Record, book 305, leaf 189.
Probate Papers, No. 10,668,
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 87
Children :
60. MARY, b. 14th of 12 mo., 1669;* d. 1724; m. Aug. 30, 1688, Capt-
William Bo wditch. Children: 1. Mary, b. Aug. 2, 1689;*
d. Oct. 2, 1689.* 2. William, b. Oct. 31, 1690;* d. Oct. 12,
1706. 3. Mary, b. Dec. 18, 1693;* m. 1st, Sept. 8, 1715,*
James Butler, of Boston ;f 2nd, Dec. 26, 1723,* Samuel
Barton, of Salem, t No issue. 4. Sarah, b. Jan. 10, 1695-6;*
d. March, 1761 ; m. June 30, 1715,* Joseph Hathorne, son of
John and Ruth (Gardner) Hathorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne
was a descendant of Joseph and Sarah. f 5. Thomas, b.
June 5, 1698;* d. Nov. 30, 1702. f 6. Joseph, b. Aug. 21,
1700.* He was a man of wonderful humor. He was Clerk
of Courts for many years. 7. Ebenezer, b. April 26, 1702 ;*
d. Feb. 2, 1768 ;f m. Aug. 15, 1728,* Mary Turner, dau. of
Col. John and Mary (Kitchen) Turner. f Ebenezer was a
shipmaster and merchant.! They were ancestors of
Nathaniel Bowditch LL.D.f 8: Eunice, b. June 8, 1705;*
d. July 2, 1705.* 9. Eunice (2nd) b. March 22, 1707 ;f m.
Dec. 12, 1728,* William Hunt, of Salem.* 10. Daniel, b.
June 19,f 1709 ; d. at age of 19 or 20 years, t 11. William ,
b. Feb., 1713 ;f d. Nov. 1, 1715. f
61. THOMAS, b. 25, 8 mo., 1671 ;* d. 1696 ; m. 4, 4th. mo., 1695, Mary
Higginson, dau. of John and Sarah (Savage) Higginson.J
62. HABAKKUK, b. 25 Feb., 1673;* d. Feb 3, 1732-3; m. Mar. 22,
1697, Ruth Gedney,* dau. of Eleazerand Elizabeth (Turner)
Gedney.
63. JOSEPH, b. 29 Aug., 1677.
64. HAPSCOTT, b. 22 July, 1679.*
22 Capt. Samuel Gardner was one of the leading
men of Salem. He is referred to in the records as, baker,
merchant and gentleman.
He was born about 1647, as a deposition, made by him
in 1691 (May 20), gives his age as about 44, || and he was
baptized "14-3-1648."*
* Salem Town Records.
t N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, v. L, p. 438.
S Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. v, p. 36.
Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. xvi, p. 264.
County Court Papers, book 51, leaf 104.
88 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
During his long and useful career, he held at one period
or another, almost every office of honor and responsibility
in the gift of the town.
CONSTABLE.
His first office was that of constable, to which he was
elected, on the 12th of March, 1676-7.*
SELECTMAN.
In 1678 he was chosen as one of the selectmen, and
between this date and 1710, the last year of his service in
this office, he served twenty one years.*
RECORDER.
We find in the town records under date of " 8 March,
1683-4, that Samuel Gardner, Jun., " is Chosen to keepe
the Towne bookes &c for the yeare Infueing." He
continued to serve during the following year, and from
1689 to 1692 inclusive.*
MODERATOR.
He was first chosen moderator, at a general town
meeting, held on the " 21, 12 mo. 1689-90." He presided
over fifteen town meetings between this date and 1714.*
SURVEYOR.
He was chosen to lay out land for Capt. Wm. Brown,
and to view other land, March 17, 1684-5. On the " 17,
12 mo. 1689 -90, "he was appointed on a committee to
" lay out & Settle the high way formerly ufed between
Tho. Flint & Joseph Popes & also a highway near John
Moulton his houfe." He laid out another highway Nov.
15, 1693, and in the following Feb. (19th) surveyed land
for Samuel Goldthwaite near Butts Brook. *j
* Town Records.
t "Butts Brook" was the name given to the small stream of water in South
Peabody near the junction of the Lynn and the Lynn field roads. A large boulder
lies on the edge of the stream on the southern side of the road. According to the
late Nathan Bushby the logs which were floated down stream in the early days
would jamb against this boulder, located at an angle in the stream and this
" butting " gave the brook its name. The whole locality became known as the
"Butts/' P. A. G.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 89
Capt. Sam'l Gardner was appointed with others, on June
28, 1697, "to inquire into the matter relating to
Miery Swamp form r ly granted to John Endicot Esq."
In Dec. (3d) 1700, he was ordered with others, "to Run
y e Bounds w th Jn Pudney Sen r his farme." He laid out
an acre of land allowed to "J no Trask" for him "to improve
for five years" (Mar. 14, 1700-1).*
March 22, 1702-3, he was appointed "Surveyor for
highways, "for "Redding Road & Thereabouts." He viewed
land at the village, in the spring of 1703, and on Apr. 6th
of that year, was appointed with others, " to View y e p r cell
of Swamp neary 6 70 Acres Petitioned for y e Feltons,"and
to " View the Highway at Wills hill." In the following
month (8 th day) he was appointed on another committee
to " settle y e head Bounds & Ranging Bounds, upon y e
line between Salem and Beverly."*
He was ordered with " Dan 11 Epes," to view "y e place
near J no Trask's fulling mill, where y e sheep are washed,"
etc. (Mar. 27, 1704). During the next few years he served
on several similar committees, as follows : Apr. 8, 1706,
"to lay out a highway from Buffington's to Lynn line," and
to " Issue y e matter ab* Jn Feltons changing a small strip
of Land w th y e Towne." May 3, 1710, "to view & Lay
out & make certaine a highway from Thomas Buflington's
. ... toy 6 Widow Pope's," and Jan. 31, 1710-11, to
straighten the way by Philip Hill's shop, to "y e burying
point."*
He was chosen to serve on committees of perambulation
many times including the following : to run the line
between Salem and Lynn, Apr. 28, 1684, and Apr. 10,
1694, also for "y e Upper Ran^e of Lynne" (Apr. 2, 1700).
The line between Salein and "Reding," March 19, 1686;
between Salem and Boxford, June 19, 1696; between
Wenhamand Beverly, July 29, 1695 ; between "the Towne
and Humphreys ffarme," July 2, 1695 ; and between "y e
Farms and Salem Towne," Jan. 3, 1698.*
On the 7th of the 2nd mo. 1691, he was "impowered"
with Capt. Sewall, "to agree with a Suitable man to keep
the Towne heard." These two men were chosen Apr. 28,
1701, "w to the Selectmen to Settle y e Ace 1 between Isaac
* Town Records.
90 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
Sterns & y e Towne." He was chosen assessor Aug. 16,
1704, and March 21, 1708-9, was made a member of a
committee, "to Consider about fencing y e Towne
Comon."*
A petition was received June 8, 1710, from Capt.
Samuel Gardner, and many of his neighbors "without the
Bridge in Salem and below and without y e village Line
praying for a Seperate precinct" (Middle Precinct, now
Peabody). He was chosen in 1714 and 15, to "see that
the laws were enforced regarding swine."*
From the County Court Records, 27, 4mo. 1682, Case
No. 28, we learn that he took the "oath of freeman," on
that date. Two records of service on the "Jury of
Trials," have been found, one dated June 9, 1673, and the
other Nov. 6, 1680. His name appears on a "List of
freeholders to be Jury men, 23 Aug. 1686."*
We find his name appended to the inventories of the
estates of Jno. Smith, Isaac Hyde and Moses Vouden.t
In the settlement of the estate of Joseph Grrafton, he
acted as attorney for his uncle John Gardner of Nantucket
(Jan. 23, 1683-4), and he also performed the duties of
appraiser for the same estate. J He witnessed the will of
Francis Skerry, Aug., 1684. In 1691, he again served
as appraiser, this time in the settlement of the estate of
Capt. John Price, || and in 1684 (19, 9 mo.), in that of
Nath'l Ingersoll.lT Nov. 16, 1691 he "absolutely renounced
his executorship"of the will of Mnj. Charles Bedford.**
He was one of the overseers of the will of Nathaniel
Putnam, ft
REPRESENTATIVE AND DEPUTY TO THE GENERAL COURT.
He was chosen first to this office in June, 1692. His
town was also represented by him in 1694, 7 and 8, and
1701, 3, 5, 7 and 10.* In the Mass. Bay Colony Records,
*Town Records.
t County Court Papers, book 34, leaf 90; and book 36, leaf 5.
j County Court Papers, book 39, leaves 148-9; and Essex Registry of Deeds,
book 6, leaves 104 and 117.
S County Court Papers, book 42, leaves 71 and 72.
[l County Court Papers, book 51, le-if 125.
IF County Court Papers, book 43, leaf 61.
** Essex Probate Records, book 303, leaf 72.
ft History of the Putnam Family, v. I, pp. 26-8.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 91
we read th.it in 1703 (May 27), the Governor had rejected
five of the assistants proposed. Samuel Gardner was a
member of a committee appointed to nominate others, and
these were accepted.
MILITARY SERVICE.
Oct. 7, 1678, Samuel Gardner, Jan., was ordered "to
officiate as Ensigne for Capt. Price's company."* He was
called " Leut. Sam'l Gardner," in the Town Records,
March 8, 1685-6, at which time he was chosen a selectman.
On the 6th of the 6th mo., 1689, "Lt. Samuel Gardner
was appointed with others, to manage and oversee the
work on the repairs of the fort at Winter Island. "f At
that time he advanced five pounds to assist in carrying on
the above named repairs. He was appointed one of three,
to take care of the wounded soldiers and seamen, Feb.
3, 1691. J The earliest date o( his being called Captain,
wasNov.,1691, in the Probate Records, book 303, leaf 72.
Throughout the remainder of his life, he was usually
referred to as " Captain."
CHURCH.
Samuel Gardner, Jun., was " Seated in the Second Seat
(below the men's), (19 llmo. 1684). July 12, 1697, he
was appointed on a committee for "ordering clifpofing or
building of Seats in the Meeting houfe." At the same time
he was seated in the " men's second seat below. "f He was
one of the prime movers in the establishment of the church
in the Middle Precinct, and gave the largest contribution
for that purpose, twenty pounds (Jan. 18, 1709-1 0)."
In the Massachusetts Archives, v. xi, pp. 337-357, his
name and the names of others in that locality, appear
in articles of agreement regarding the building of this
meeting house. In this same volume we find a petition
from Samuel Gardner and other inhabitants "without the
village line," in regard to the -construction of this edifice. [
* Records of the Mass. Bay Colony, v. v, p. 205.
JTown Records.
Felt's Annals, 1st Edition, p. 301, also Mass. Archives, v. 69, p. 219.
Massachusetts Archives, v. xi, p. 337, also Hanson's History of Danvers, p,
.
|| Massachusetts Archives, v. xi, pp. 332 to 359.
93 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
In the Salem Town Records, under date of March 12,
1710-11, we read: "Ten acres of Land near Golthites
lor the Miniftry of y e new Precinct granted by y e
General! Court."
A deposition "respecting obstructions in the South
River," dated June, 1671, is on file at the court house in
Salem.*
He was one of the large tax payers of the town, and
many payments were made to him by the town for services
rendered. Some of these payments were for rent of a
house owned by him, and which the town hired and used
as a poor-house. In the Town Records, under date of
Jan. 2, 1720-1, we read that 20 shillings was ordered to
be paid for rent of this house for the year 1720, " and in
full to said Time, and M r Houlton is defired to acquaint
him That the selectmen Shan't want hishoufeany Longer,
the poor being removed & about to remoue out of the
Same.' 1 Other payments were made to him for timber,
and the use of his teams on the highways. The town
frequently hired bulls of him for the town herd, and
exchanged the old town bull for a young one. He also
wintered the town bull for 15 shillings, f
REAL ESTATE.
In our consideration of the very extensive land holdings
of Samuel Gardner, we will take up first those which he
inherited from his father. The house which his father
left to him was on Daniels St., and an account of Samuel's
disposition of it and of its later owners will be found in the
article upon George Gardner.
The mill property upon the South river in Salem, which
was left to him by his father, he retained, and added to it
by purchasing from the heirs of Samuel Ruck, one-sixteenth
part of the property in 1702. J (March 6), and an
additional sixteenth of their son James Ruck, April 7,
1708. On the 9th of June, 1712, he and his son John,
purchased one-eighth part of this mill from John and
* County Court Papers, book 17, leaf 98.
t Town Records.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 184.
\ Essex Registry of .Deeds, book 20, leaf 128.
AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 93
Priscilla Gardner of Mcndon, said John having inherited
it from his grandfather, John Gardner, of Nantucket
(formerly of Salem), uncle of Samuel.*
He inherited from his father, land in the "South field,"
and purchased other lots in that section from John Grafton
and Stephen Daniel in 1692, Isaac Meacham in 1693,
Henry Lunt in 1695 and Samuel Ruck in 1699-1700.f
He sold six acres of this to John Holmes in 1694. J
Another piece of property left to him by his father was
the 400 acre farm, in what is now West Peabody. In
1684-5, he had granted to him "about ten acres of land
lying between his farme which Tho : Gould dvvels & the
land of Benjamin Pope, which is in recompence for his
making Alphabets for & transcribing pt. of y e townes
books. " In 1691 he bought of the town a strip of land,
in this locality 224 poles long, and 6 wide. The following
entry in the town records is interesting in this connection ;
At a meeting of the Committee appointed by the towne to
settle the bounds of the farm of Capt. Sam'l Gardner . .
"Wee finde them Amount unto four hundred and tenn
acres which wee allow . . for a peaceable Conclusion and
Settlement of the premifes the Said Committee do hereby
allow Said Gardner fourty acres more which makes four
hundred and fifty acres. Said Gardner relinquifhing . . .
the Ouerplufs land . . . about two hundred acres more."
(Jan. 5, 1696-7). After his death his executors sold
(Dec. 22, 1726) four acres of this farm land to John
Osborne, for 26 pounds, 19 shill.|| Two hundred acres
of this farm, he left to his grandson John Higginson.
Another two hundred acre portion he leftlf to the five
daughters of his deceased son John Gardner. The
remainder of the farm was left to John, Daniel and
Samuel Gardner, the three sons of John Gardner, son of
Samuel. In 1733, the farm was divided among these
three brothers.**
The next locality, which we will consider, is that portion
* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 25, leaf 74.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 65, leaves 183-5, and book 15, leaf 6.
J Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 45.
Town Records.
fj Essex Registry of Deeds, book 48, leaf 167.
IT Essex Probate Records, book 315, leaf 182 4.
** Essex Registry of Deeds, book 65, leaves 173-5.
94 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
of Salem known as the "North fields," which in this case
was the particular section of it, lying at present in the
vicinity of Central Street in Peabody. Samuel evidently
inherited some laud in this locality from his father, for he
sold to John Robinson, Oct. 2, 1721, a right to the
common lands of Salem which formerly belonged to his
father George Gardner, by "virtue of a Cottage or
Dwelling house by him built in the North field, nigh to
the great gate before y e said Robinson's now Dwelling
house."* This was probably a part of the ten acres
granted to George Gardner in 1637,f as the grants in this
section were usually ten acre lots, and the name "ten
acre lot side," is often met with. He purchased of Ele
de Boon Repose, of Salem, Jan. 28, 1691-2, 7 1-2
acres near the above and 3 acres near land of Thomas
SpoonerJ and of John Robinson 2 acres adjoining the
first lot. Other lots were bought of Samuel Oshorne
Sen., and Hugh Pasko in 1696, and of John Robinson
in 1708. || The last named property he evidently acquired
by exchanging two acres in this locality for the acre and
half of land of John Robinson. If He bought two poles of
land near Strong Water Brook in Feb. 1693-4, for 3
shillings.! The division of all this property in the North
Fields among his grandsons will be considered in the
articles relating to them.
From the town records, we learn that in 1711, Capt.
Gardner desired to purchase the old "Robert Pease
houfe," "upon which y e Select men Entered Caution w to
Maj r Sewall against his recording y e same unlefs Isaac
Pease will secure y e Town against his father & mothers
being a town charge, he being obliged to maintaine them
during their naturall life, in consideration of his father's
Conveying y e same to him" (Feb. 26, 1711-12 ).f
In Feb. (17) 1700-1, he purchased of Thorndike
Proctor, two lots of land on what is now Lowell Street in
Peabody, above Proctor's Crossing. One measuring 18
acres was near Anthony Needham's and the other
* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 39, leaf 75.
t Town Records.
i Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 31; and book 65, leaf 192.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 65, leaves 192-3.
[[Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 203.
IT Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 202.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 95
containing ten acres was on the opposite side of the road.*
They were originally a part of the Downing farm. He
bought two more lots adjoining these, of Samuel Marble
March 7, 1702, and the remainder of the Samuel Marble
farm, including dwelling-house, barn, etc. ; he and his
cousin Abel Gardner bought of Daniel Marble, Sept. 21,
1720.f
His father-in-law, John Browne Sen. gave him July 7,
1676, fifty acres of land which had been granted to John
Browne by the town.J This, Samuel Gardner sold to
James Gould Apr. 1, 1691.
He purchased of John Browne, of Salem, mariner,
Dec. 7, 1688, his house (where Samuel Shattuck then
lived) with land, wharf, warehouse etc.|| In 1695
(Oct. 22) he bought of Bartholomew Browne, the lot
North of the above containing 3-4 of an Acre. IF The
house and land purchased in 1688, he conveyed to his son
John in 1705-6 (Feb. 7), ** and the other lot he deeded
to his grandson John Higginson, Feb. 21, 1721-2. ft
In addition to the above lots, which from their importance
we have described somewhat in detail, he either purchased
or had granted to him, many other "parcels" of land
in the town proper, at the "Butts," Winter Island,
Marblehead, Lynn, etc., etc. He held many mortgages,
and sold many lots which he had purchased previously of
others. U As early as 1682 he was taxed for 300 acres of
"unimproved" land.
Samuel Gardner married twice. His first wife was
Elizabeth Grafton, widow of Joseph Grafton.|||| She was
the daughter of John Browne, Sen., as the following
documents will prove: John Browne, Sen., in a deed
calls Samuel Gardner, Jim., his "sou."inr In his will dated
* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 234.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 163; and book 43 leaf 19
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 138.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 48, leaf 259.
I Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 117.
I Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf HI.
** Essex Registry of Deeds, book IX, leaf 159.
( Essex Registry of Deeds, book 45, leaf 178.
It Essex Registry of Deeds.
6 County Court Papers, book 43, leaves 11 and 20.
fin Felt's Annals of Salem, 1st Edition, p. 282.
UiT Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 138.
96 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER.
1683, the above mentioned Elder John Browne, appoints,
"my Sone in Law Samuel Gardner Jun r to be my executor."
He also leaves property to his " sone and daughter
Gardner."* Samuel Gardner, Jun., and widow Elizabeth
Grafton, were married April 24, 1673. f She was the
mother of all of his children, and lived until after her
father's death, which occurred about Nov. 24, 1685.* His
second wife was Susanna Daniel, widow of Stephen Daniel.
She married Samuel Gardner prior to March 25, 1690, as
an agreement regarding the division of the property of
her first husband, bearing that date is on file at the court
house. By this agreement she was to have two hundred
and fifty-nine pounds, fourteen shillings, and bring up her
youngest child Susannah Daniel, being then about three
years old. The remaining two hundred pounds was to be
divided between the children, namely Stephen, Mary and
Susannah Daniel. J His second wife Susannah evidently
died before he did, as no mention is made of her in his
will.
He died about Feb. 24, 1724.
His will is dated April 1, 1723. In it he bequeaths to
his grandson, John Higginson, two hundred acres of his
farm, Bear meadow in Reading (twelve acres), and one
sixteenth part of the grist mill. All of these "gifts" were
bequeathed to him on condition that he would pay to his
sister Sarah Higginson one hundred and ten pounds within
two years, and also that he pay to the children of his
granddaughter, Elizabeth Prescott, deceased, namely
Benjamin, Hannah, Elizabeth and Sarah, a similar amount
to be divided among them in equal shares " when they
come of age." Six pounds per "annium " was also to be
"Divided Equally betwixt them," during their minority.
To the five daughters of his son John, Elizabeth,
Hannah, Bethiah, Ruth and Lydia, he gave another two
hundred acre portion of his farm, to be divided equally
among them, and they were also to have " Twenty Pounds
in niony apeace, to be Paid them by their three Brothers
John, Daniel & Samuel Gardner."
* Essex Probate Records, book 302, leaf 156.
t Town Records.
i County Court Papers, book 48, leaf 119.
Felt's Annals of Salem, 1st Edition, p. 378.
(To be continued.')
REPRODUCTION OF A LETTER WRITTEN BY HUGH PETER.
From Massachusetts Archives, Vol. ccxl, page 3 3.
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE.
VOL. XXXVIII. APRIL, 1902. No. 2.
HUGH PETER :
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST ; FOURTH PASTOR
OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN SALEM.
A MOSAIC.
BY ELEANOR BRADLEY PETERS.
[Mrs. Edward McClure Peters.]
(Continued from Vol. XXXVIII, page 51.}
"The 10th of October,* Sir John Robinson, Knight,
Lieutenant of his Majesty's Tower of London, according
to his Warrant received, delivered to Mr Sheriff the
Prisoners hereafter named who were (in several coaches)
with a strung Guard of Horse and Foot conveyed to
Newgate, and about Nine of the Clock in the Morning
delivered to the Keepers of that Prison, and thence
brought to the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, London,
where the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer were in
Court assembled and where their Indictment was publickly
read by Edward Shelton Esq. Clerk of the Crown. f . . .
* This account of the trial is taken from Corbett's Complete Collection of State
Trials. London, 1792.
t " September 10. At night comes Mr Mooer, and tella me how Sir Hardress
Waller (who only pleads guilty), Scott, Coke, Peters, Harrison, &c., were this day
arraigned at the bar of the Sessions House, there being upon the bench the Lord.
Mayor, General Monk, my Lord of Sandwich, &c., such a bench of noblemen as
had not been seen in England. They all seem to be dismayed, and will all be
condemned without question. . . . To-morrow they are to plead what they have
to say." . . . Pepys' Diary, p. 55. London, 1825.
(97)
98 HUGH PETER :
"Points resolved at the meeting preparatory to the
Trials of the Murderers of the late King :
4 ... it was agreed that the actual Murder of the
King should be precisely laid in the Indictment, with the
special Circumstances as it was done, and should be made
use of as one of the Overt-Acts, to prove the compassing
of his Death.
6 ... it was resolved that there need not be two
Witnesses to prove every Overt Act tending to the
compassing of the King's Death, but one Witness to prove
one Overt-Act tending to the Compassing of the King's
Death, and another Witness to prove another Act tending
to the same end are sufficient."*
The Indictment was found at Hick's Hall, and there the
proceedings began on Tuesday, the 9th of October, 1660.
Hugh Peter was No. 10 on the bill of Indictment among
the thirty- two that were arraigned for high-treason ; only
ten of the thirty-two were executed.
Clerk: Hugh Peters, Hold up thy Hand. How sayest
thou? Art thou Guilty of the Treason whereof thou
standest Indicted, and for which thou art now Arraigned ?
or not Guilty?
Hugh Peters : I would not for Ten Thousand Worlds
say I am Guilty. 1 am not Guilty.
Clerk : How will you be tried ?
Hugh Peters: By the Word of God. (Here the People
laughed.)
Court : You must say, By God and the Country ; Tell
him you that stand by him, what he should say, if he doth
not know.
Clerk : How will you be tried ?
Hugh Peters: By God and the Country.
Clerk : God send thee a good Deliverance.
Sessions House, Old Bailey, Oct. 13, 1660.
Clerk of the Crown : Set Hugh Peter to the Bar (which
was done accordingly).
Clerk: Hugh Peters, Hold up thy Hand ; thou standest
Indicted, &c. If you will challenge any of the Jury you
* Any one might be proved a traitor under such a sweeping decision, which
included not only acts but words as well, and made the latter as weighty as the
former.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 99
must challenge them when they come to the Book, before
they are sworn.
Lord Chief Baron:* Mr. Peters, you may challenge to
the number of thirty-five peremptorily, but beyond that
you cannot, without good Cause shown ; and that you may
have Pen, Ink and Paper.
Peters: My Lord, I shall challenge none.
Sir Edward Turner, f to the Jury : you have often
heard repeated to you that the Substantial Part of the
Charge is the Compassing and Imagining the Death of the
King, and all the rest will be but Evidence to prove
that Imagination against the Prisoner at the Bar, whom
we will prove to be a Principal Actor in this sad Tragedy,
and next to him J whom God hath taken away and reserved
to his own Judgement ; and we shall endeavor to prove
that he was a Chief Conspirator with Cromwell at several
Times, and in several Places : and that it was designed by
them ; We shall prove that he was the Principal Person
to procure the Soldiery to cry out, Justice, Justice, or
assist or desire those for the taking away the Life of the
King. He did make use of his Profession, wherein he
should have been the Minister of Peace, to Make himself a
Trumpeter of War, of Treason and Sedition, in the
Kingdom : He preached many Sermons to the Soldiery
in direct Terms for taking away the King, Comparing the
King to Barabbas: He was instrumental when the
Proclamation for the High Court of Justice (as they called
it) was proclaimed, directing where it should be proclaimed
and in what place. When the King was brought upon the
Stage, that Mock Work, he was the Person that stirred
up the Soldiery below to cry for Justice ; we should shew
you as he preached at several Times upon several
Occasions, still he was in the Pulpit to promote this
Business ; the next day after he was brought to Trial he
commends it ; you shall hear all out of the Mouth of the
Prisoner ; therefore I say no more ; call the Witnesses.
Peters: May it please your Lordships, I will give you
* Sir Orlando Bridgeman.
t Attorney to Hia Highness, the Duke of York.
t Cromwell.
100 HUGH PETER I
an Account of the Business : I lived 14 years out of
England, when I came over I found the Wars begun ; I
began no War, my Lord, nor have been the Trumpeter
of any when I came out of the West Indies, I fled from
the War into Ireland, to the Western Part there ; and it
was after the Rebellion, when some of the Irish had been
stirring there, I went and spent my time there. I was
neither at Edgehill nor Naseby ; but my Lord ; after I
came over there was War that the People were engaged
in ; I was not here in the Beginning of it, but was a
Stranger to the Carriage of it.
When I came into the Nation I looked after Three
Things : One was that there might be Sound Religion ;
the Second was that Learning and Laws might be
maintained ; the Third, that the Poor might be cared for ;
and I must Confess I have spent most of my Time in these
Things to this End and Purpose : There was a Noise in
all Parts of some Miscarriages in Matters of Religion,
after it was settled I lived in Ireland, I must profess for
my own part, solemnly, that my Carriage hath been upon
these Heads, For Religion, I have, through God's Mercies,
spake of the Truths of the Protestant Church, upon this
Account I did stay to see what God might do.
I was sent over to his Majesty that we might have
a little Help in point of Excise and Customs, and
Encouragement in Learning. My Lord, this is true, that
I being here in the Nation and being, sent over upon the
Occasions of the Country, and not upon any Design ; but
this I say (I cannot deny it) , that after I came over and
had seen the State of England, in some Measure I did stir,
but by strong Importunities, the Ministers of London
deeper than I : I am very sorry to hear of my Carriage
towards the King ; it is my great Trouble ; I beg pardon
for my own Folly and Weakness ; I thought God had a
freat Controversy with the Nation, and the Lord was
ispleased on all Hands ; that which some People took to
I did take unto ; I went into the Army ; I saw at the
Beginning of it that Corruptions grew among them. I
suppose none can say I have gone aside from any Orthodox
Truth of the Lord ; And now to take off the Scandal, upon
me, and to the Business, let me beg of your Lordships to
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 101
consider what ever Prejudice or Revenge may take up
Mens Hearts, there is a God that knows all ; God hath a
regard to the People of England ; I look upon this Nation
as the Cabinet of the World, That that doth concern the
Business is, this, my Lord, that after this Time hither I
came, and did bear Witness to all the World, that there
was amongst us something that was for better and
something worse, for the Nation ; I took Advice of some
great Persons concerning the Weightiness of it ; I had
neither Malice nor Mischief in my Heart against the King ;
upon this I did engage so far being Invited ; I went into
the Wars, and there I found very strange and several
Kinds of Providences, as this Day hath been seen ; I do
not deny but that I was Active, but not to stir in a way
that was not Honourable. I challenge a great Part of the
Nation to manifest my Carriage among them : I shall make
it good divers ways ; I had so much Respect to his Majesty,
particularly at Windsor, that I propounded to his Majesty
my Thoughts Three ways to preserve himself from Danger,
which were good, as he was pleased to think, though they
did not succeed, and the Work died ; as for Malice, I
had none in me. It is true, there was a Difference amongst
us, an Army, and an Army, I never had a Groat or a
Penny from Oliver Cromwell since I knew this Place ; I
profess I have had no Ends for Honour or Gain since I
set Foot upon this Shore ; I challenge any Man that
belonged to that Party whether they had not the same
Respect from me as my own Party ; I have not persecuted
any with Malice : I will only take off Malice.
Lord Chief Baron: Your Business is Matter of Fact.
Peters: I am unskilful in Law, this that I offer is to
shew that I had no Malice in me ; I was so far from Malice,
that I have a Certificate, if worth the reading, from one of
the Emminentest Persons in the Nation, to shew I had no
Malice : It is concerning the Marquis of Worcester, under
his Lady's Hand, beginning with these Words, " I do here
testifie that in all the Sufferings of my Husband, Mr Peters
was my great Friend, &c." I have here a Seal (and then
produced it) that the Earl of Norwich gave me to keep for
his Sake for saving his Life, which I will keep as long as
I live.
102 HUGH PETER :
Lord Chief Baron : I am not willing at all to interrupt
you, or hinder you ; that which you speak of doing good
Services, is not at all to the Point ; we do not question
you for what good you have done but for the Evil you
have done ; I hope there is no Malice in your Heart, nor
upon the Court or Jury, we and they are upon our Oaths,
and you hear the Matter alleged against you ; pray come
to the Matter.
Peters: My Lord, I cannot remember them.
Lord Chief Baron : Then I will remember you : You
are charged by this Indictment for Compassing and
Imagining the Death of the King, and there is set forth
sundry Particulars to prove the Overt Act, that you with
other Persons named in that Indictment, did consult and
meet together, how to bring about the King's Death. Then
you are charged with several Acts of Contriving and
Endeavouring the King's death. Overt Acts that tend
to the Compassing and Imagining the King's death, or any
one of these, to encourage the bringing on the King to his
Death, the consulting or meeting together about it, though
you did not sit or sentence ; yet if you did any Thing
tending to that Encouragement, or otherwise Abet it,
Comfort or anywise Aid those Traitorous Persons that did
it, in the doing of it you are by Law Guilty of the whole
Fact : The proposing and determining, the King shall
die, though you were not he that actually put him to Death,
yet notwithstanding, if you did the other, you are Guilty
of all, if you shall speak any Seditious Speeches, be they
in the Pulpit, or out of the Pulpit, if you shall utter any
Thing that tends to Sedition, these are open Acts, which
prove the Imagination of the Heart ; though Imagination
of the Heart be Treason yet it cannot be proved but by
open Acts, yet the Imagination itself is Treason.
First you did conspire, all the Witnesses go along to
prove this. Dr. Young saith, you came over from Ireland
to his House, and after Five Days that you were recovered
of the Flux you staid there Ten Weeks ; you said yourself
there was enough, if it were true, to condemn you or any
Man : I shall repeat it to you ; you told him a Narrative,
that you came from New England, from thence to Ireland
and then you came to Holland, with an Intent to see how
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you might bring on the Kingdom to be a Commonwealth.
Next he saith, you spake very often against the King by
way of Disgrace, against him and his Family, against the
King and his Offspring, this you said very often : Then
you spake in Vilification of Monarchal Government, that
this Commonwealth, would never be at peace till 150, or
Three L's, Lords, Levites and Lawyers were taken away,
at which he replied, then they must be all Switzers,
Tinkers or Traitors : He swears you were a Colonel, and
had a Commission ; that you would have had him accept
of a Commission ; and that you had two Companies come
from the West : you told him the Parliament had an Intent
to secure Cromwell and yourself, but that you rid hard for
it; and then you confessed you agreed then upon his
Death, to bring him to Trial, and to cut off his Head ; you
did agree together, and he believes it was your Advice to
Cromwell; your Answer was this, that he was more
violent than yourself; that he took upon him to be a Spy ;
and that he was no competent Witness, because he was
under a Temptation, because you did not help him to his
Living, and so conceived it to be Malice ; you say he was
used to take up such Courses in his own Country ; the
Matter is not whether you had Malice to the King's Life
or Monarchy. For the next, One Gunter, he swears, that
he was a Servant to Mr. Hildesley, at the Star in Coleman
Street, and this was in 1648, he saith that many of the
Party of Cromwell did use to resort thither, amongst the
rest he saw you, he said he came into them, and their
Discourse was about Charles Stuart, and the Prisoner
and did guess it was about the King ; that you were privy
to it then; he saith this was Three Days before Oliver
Cromwell went out of Town ; the Effect of that is urged
no further than this, that you were so far of the Cabal,
that you were present with those Persons, Cromwell,
Ireton, Rich, and others ; you said, I was there once with
Mr. Nathaniel Fines. Starkey, he saith, that at his Fathers
House Ireton lay, and was quartered there at Windsor,
before and when the King was Prisoner ; that you had
your Quarters there, and Cromwell, too, in that Town:
The General Meeting of the Council of War was at his
Fathers House ; that Ireton and his wife lying there, you
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came and resorted thither very often ; he saith then that
it appeared that after the Council of War had done, many
times Rich and you, and Cromwell, and Ire ton, were there
together, sometimes till Two O'Clock in the Morning ; he
saith then, that he did observe there was a Fifth Person
(he did not remember his name) and you sat up usually
till Two or Three in the Morning ; You had Guards about
you ; he saith further, that Ireton being a Domestick, he
often discoursed with him, and you came sometimes to be
there too ; that there being some Discourse concerning
the King, many Times he did assert the Law concerning
him, that he was Solutus legibus, as to his Person ; that
you should say, that it was an unequal, Law, and that you
did then discourse fully against the King's Government ;
you said he was a Tyrant, not fit for that Office ; that the
Office was useless, chargeable and dangerous ; these very
Words he observed, which afterwards were Printed when
they took away Monarchy. He saith further, that was
their full and whole Discourse ; he saith that his Father
at Supper used to say that usual Grace, " God save the
King, Prince, and Realm ;" but afterwards that he heard
the King was made a Prisoner, that his Father altering the
Grace, he said, "God save his most excellent Majesty, and
deliver him out of all his Enemies hands ;" you rose up,
and said "Old Gentleman, your Idol will not stand long ;"
that he did observe you often with them ; he saith further,
when Bacon was coming out, and speaking some Words
concerning your frequent Affronting the King, you took
up a Staff and were ready to beat him, and made an
Uproar : It appears also of your being privy to Cromwell's
Actions. The next Witness is Walkely and he swears this
against you, that he was in the Painted Chamber the next
Day after the Proclamation was made ; and there he saw
John Goodwin and you : and there was an Assembly, and
at the middle of the table John Goodwin was, and made
a long Speech or Prayer ; that Cromwell would have had
the People stay there, but it was ordered that they should
be turned out ; at the End he saw you come out with the
rest ; there it appeared you were in the Consultation ; he
saith he met the Army at St. James's, and then, when they
were half past, he saw the King in his Coach, and there
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he saw Mr. Peters like Bishop Almoner riding immediately
before the King ; and at St. James's Park he saw you
Marshalling the Soldiers, that he was forced thereupon to
go about ; he saith further, that within a Year or Two
after the Army was raised he heard you say these Words,
If we can keep up our Army Seven Years longer we need
not care for the King and all his Posterity.
Peters: My Lord I must deny abundance of this ; the
King commanded me to ride before him, that the Bishop
of London might come to him.
Lord Chief Baron: But this was Three Weeks after
. . . The next Witness against you is one Proctor : he
saith, that Day (as the other Witness did) he saw you
riding just before the King's Coach and because he did his
Duty the Soldiers threw him, Horse and all, into a Ditch.
The next Witness is one Hardwick, he saith that when
the Proclamation was read he saw you in Westminster
Hall, and that you said, they had done as good as nothing,
unless it was proclaimed in Cheapside and at the Old
Exchange ; this you said to some of the Officers there.
Peters: My Lord, I cannot acknowledge it.
Lord Chief Baron : The next Witness against you is
Simpson, he swears he saw you in Consultation with
Oliver Cromwell, and take Sir William Brereton by the
Hand, and come to Bradshawe's and this during the time
of the King's Trial ; he further saith, that one Day when
the King was at his Trial you commanded Colonel
Stubbers to bid his Soldiers cry out Justice, Justice,
which they cried, and afterwards some of the Soldiers spit
upon the King.
Peters: I do believe that he, that swore that, cannot
say I was there.
Lord Chief Baron : AnotherWitness is one Richardson,
who saw you the First Day in the Court ; and he said
further, that you commended Bradshaw and another, to
wit Cook, for their Carriage in the Trial of the King ;
that you held up your Hands and said This is a most
Glorious Beginning of the Work.
Peters: Whereabouts in the Court?
Richardson : In the Body of the Court, called then the
High Court of Justice.
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Peters ; My Lord, I do not know that ever I was in the
body of the Court.
Lord Chief Baron : The next Witness is Sir Jeremy
Whichcot, he saith, he heard you often Speak sciirrilously
of the King ; and making a Narrative of Cromwells
Escape, you said there was a Meeting, and there we
resolved to set aside the King ; remember what the other
Witness said, we agreed and here we resolved ; you said, I
cannot but reverence the High Court of Justice, it doth
resemble the Judging of the World at the Last Day by the
Saints : so it was the Saints that sat there ; I would have
preached before the Wretch, but the poor Wretch would
not hear me : you often called him Tyrant : I cannot
possibly remember the Place, Things, or Words, that are
alledged. Then you have another Witness Nunnelly, he
saith he came with a Warrant to Oliver Cromwell for
some Money, and that he should say, go and see the
Beheading of the King at Whitehall, he saith there he met
with you (though you said you were not there that day)
going to the Banquetting House ; that you spoke to Tench,
and whispered in his Ear, and that Tench went and
knocked Staples on the Scaffold ; he meeting Tench said,
What, are you a Hangman? Saith Tench, this day will be
a happy Day ; he saith after all this Hugh Peters was
upon the Scaffold, and that he went out with the Hangman.
Peters: I do profess to your Lordships before Angels
and Men that I did not stir out of my Chamber that day.
Lord Chief Baron: The Counsel doth not put Reliance
upon that, because of what your Witness saith, though
his Evidence is not satisfactory. The next is Clough,
and he swears this, that he saw you in the Painted
Chamber with the Council of Officers, and there you
desired them to call on God for a Blessing upon their
Business, and there you said, " O Lord what a Mercy it is
to see this great City fall down before us ! And what a
Stir is there to bring this Great Man to Trial, without
whose Blood he will turn us all into Blood, if he reign
again. And this was about a Month before the King was
Murthered, you hear it, Mr. Peters.
Peters: Some Part I did, but it is impossible for me to
bear down many Witnesses ; indeed, my Lord, I say this,
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they are marvellous Uncharitable, and speak many false
Things.
Lord Chief Baron : The next is this, the Testimony
concerning several Sermons of yours, and let me tell
you the Pulpit ought not to be a place where Men with
Impunity may speak any Thing, what they list, of Sedition
and Treason.
Peters: I am of the same Judgment myself, my Lord.
Lord Chief Baron : And there was a Solemn Day to
seek God, then you preached at St. Margarets' Church ;
this was Mr. Bever ; in he came, and heard you talk much
of Barabbas and our Saviour ; there you fell upon this
speaking of the King, It is a sad thing that it should now
be a Question, whether we should crucify our Saviour
Jesus Christ, or that great Barabbas, speaking of the King ;
ou called him Traitor, Tyrant, Murtherer, of his Subjects,
and the like, you went on in, a Way of a Story, These
Citizens, for a little Trading they will have Christ crucified
and the great Barabbas at Windsor released ! and said
you, to the Clergy, the Assembly, they are all for
crucifying Christ, and releasing Barabbas ; you made that
Expression, "O Jesus, what shall we do?" The King
was a Prisoner then at Windsor, you made your Applica-
tion to the Parliament that was then present, you told them
the people did expect Justice from them ; you must not
prefer the great Tyrant and Traitor, naming the King, to
these poor hearts, (the Red coats standing by).
Peters: I must profess against most of that.
Lord Chief Baron : There is the same by others. It
is further proved by the Order, that you were appointed
to preach.
Peters : I do not deny I preached, but not these Things.
Lord Chief Baron: The next Thing is this, there was
one Mr. Chace, this was during the Trial, he saith you
preached at Whitehall upon this text, Psalm CXLIX.
To bind their Kings in Chains, and their Nobles in
Fetters of Iron," You had two or Three other Verses
ore ; then you made a Discourse of a Mayor and a
ishop's Man, the Bishop's Man being drunk, the Mayor
mmitted him to Prison ; the Bishop being angry, asked
y what Authority? The Mayor said, there was an Act
108 HUGH PETER :
of Parliament for it ; he did not find that either the Bishop
or his Man was excepted ; you applied that to the King ;
said you, I will shew you an Act of the Bible, Whosoever
sheds Man's Blood, by Men shall his Blood be shed ; this
doth not except the King, Prince, Prince Rupert, Prince
Maurice, or any of that Rabble."
Peters : It is false.
Lord Chief Baron: You said further, this is the Day
that I and many other Saints of God have prayed for these
many Years ;" and Oliver Cromwell laughed at that Time.
The next Witness was Tongue, he heard you preach, and
he swears the same with the former; that you applauded
the Soldiers, and that you hoped to see such another Day
following as the Day before ; and that Blessed be God the
House is purged, and the Lords will shortly be pulled out ;
and the Twenty Eighth Day of January, which was the
Day after the King was Sentenced, at St. James's his
Chapel, you took for your Text the CXLIX Psalm, 6,7,
8 and 9 Verses, whereof these Words were part," To bind
their Kings in Chains, and their Nobles with Fetters of
Iron ;" there in the middle of that Sermon, having spoken
before of the King, you said you did intend to preach
before the poor Wretch upon the 14th of Isaiah, 18, 19 and
20 Verses, speaking of all the Kings of the Nations, Thou
art cast out of thy Grave like an abominable Branch, &c.,
he saith further, you said, look upon your lesser Bibles
and you will find the Title is, "The Tyrants Fall." There
is another Witness that is one Bowdler, a few Days before
the King's Death, at St. Sepulcher's, there you fell upon
the old Comparison, all along you compared the King to
Barabbas ; and that a great many would have Christ
crucified, and Barabbas released ; all along comparing the
King to Barabbas. One more, and that was Ryder, he
heard this Text, " He shall call his name Emanuel ;" you
fell to speak of News; what shall become of the King?
And you said "the King was Barabbas, and a great many
would rather have Christ crucified than Barabbas." And
then Mr. Walker he saith, that after the King was first
brought to his Trial he heard you say this, I have prayed
and preached this Twenty Years and now may I say with
old Simeon, " Lord, now lettest thou thy Servant depart
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in Peace, for mine Eyes have seen thy Salvation ;" He
mentions that you made Use of the other Comparison of
the Mayor and the Bishop's Man, and inferred from thence
that the King and Prince, &c., were not excepted out of
the Scripture, where it is said " Whosoever sheds Man's
Blood, &c. You have heard all this witnessed against
you, what have you to say for yourself?
Peters: These are but single Witnesses.
Lord Chief Baron: The Statute is Two Witnesses for
Treason, but not Two to One individual Thing though
there are several Witnesses have proved the same Thing
about Barabbas, and our Saviour, " bind their Kings with
Chains," &c., and of your other Actions there is a whole
iry of Witnesses. Two Witnesses expressly, we agreed
upon the King's Death, and we resolved to set the King
aside.
Peters: I do not know the Witnesses.
Lord Chief Baron: One is Sir Jeremy Whichcot, the
other is Dr. Young ;* you shall do well if you have any
Thing to invalidate these Witnesses to speak it, else the
Jury will be sent together to deliver up their Verdict.
Peters: My Lord, if I had Time and Opportunity, I
could take off many of the Witnesses, but because their
Testimony is without Controle I cannot satisfie myself; I
have no skill in the Law, else I might have spoke for
myself; I do not know what to say more, unless I had
more Time and Counsel.
The Solicitor General:} If the Prisoner can say no
more, here is this in it ; here are Five Places where he did
consult about the King's Death, at Windsor, at Ware in
Coleman Street, in the Painted Chamber, and in Bradshaw's
House ; and Four Witnesses to prove this ; there are Two
Witnesses to his Comparison of the King and Barabbas,
and Two Witnesses to his Text of binding their Kings in
Chains, &c. Proof that he hath been in Action in New
England ; that he came from it with that Intent, and then
went to Holland ; that he had been in Arms ; that he called
le Day of his Majesty's Trial a Glorious Day, resembling
* Dr. Young, who testified against him, was one of the jury that condemned
t Sir Heneage Finch.
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the Judging of the World by the Saints ; he prays for this
in the Painted Chamber, preaches for it at Whitehall, St.
James's chapel St. Sepulchre's ; what Man could more
contrive the Death of the King than this miserable Priest
hath done ? The Honour of the Pulpit is to be vindicated ;
and the Death of this Man will preach better than his Life
did ; it may be a Means to convert many a miserable
Person, whom the Preaching of this Person hath seduced ;
for many come here and say they did it, "in the fear of the
Lord ;" and now you see who taught them ; and I hope
you will make an Example of this Carnal Prophet.
The Jury went together, and after a little Consultation
settled in their Places.
Clerk: Are you agreed in your Verdict?
Jury: Yes.
Cleric : Who shall say for you ?
Jury: Our Foreman.
Clerk: How say you? Is the Prisoner at the Bar
Guilty of the Treason whereof he stands Indicted? Or
not Guilty?
Foreman : Guilty.
Clerk : And so you say all ?
Jury: Yes.
Clerk : Look to him Keeper.
Council: We desire Mr. Cook may be brought to the
Bar, and that they may both have their Judgement
pronounced. . . .
Clerk: Hugh Peters, Hold up thy Hand; what hast
thou to say for thyself why Judgement should not pass
against thee to Die according to Law ?
Peters: I will submit myself to God, and if I have
spoken anything against the Gospel of Christ I am heartily
sorry.
Silence Commanded.
Lord Chief Baron: You are both Persons of that
Ingenuous and Liberal Education as I hope, I shall not
need to tell you what it is to Die, you have had a great
deal of Time to think of it ; you could not but think of that
Issue of your Doings long ago, and therefore I shall spare
my Labour of telling you what it is to Die and of that
Eternity that you are to enter into ; only give me leave in
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. Ill
a few Words, in relation to both your Professions, to say
something to shew the Nature and Heinousness of this
Offence, the Murther of the King. If you were not
actually guilty of putting the King to Death, nay, admitting
(in Charity) you had no intent to go as far as you did, you
are by the Laws of Christ and this Nation, guilty of High
Treason, in that you that are a Lawyer know very well (and
I speak it that you may lay it to your Hart in the
Convictions of your Conscience, I must say to you as
Joshua said to Achan, "my Son, give Glory to God, and
confess ;" and it would become you so to do) you know
very well it is the law of this Nation, that no one House,
nor both Houses of Parliament have any coercive Power
over the King, much less to put him to Death ; you know
(as you cited very well) that the imprisoning of the King
is Treason. You know both of you, this is an undoubted
Truth ; the rule of the Law is, that the King, that is the
King can do no Wrong ; in the estimation of Law ; he
may do some particular Acts as a private Person, but he
can do little Prejudice in his own Person ; if he would
hurt any it must be by Ministers, in that case the Law
provides a Remedy ; if he doth it by Ministers they must
answer for it. The King of England is one of those
Princes who hath an Imperial Crown ; what is that ? It
is not to do what he will ; no, but it is that he shall not
be punished in his own Person if he doth that which in
itself is unlawful. Now remember this when you took
the Oaths of allegiance and supremacy ; (I presume you
both did so) What was your Oath of Supremacy ? It
was this, that the King was the only Supreme Government
of these Realms ; it goes further, as he was the
Supreme Governor, so he was the only Supreme Governor,
that excludes Co-ordination ; you swear further, that you
will to the utmost of your Power defend the King against
all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever ; truly you that
were a Lawyer when you had thus sworn, your Fee could
be no Excuse against what you had sworn to. We know
that the King, in his Politicks or Natural Capacity, is not
only Salus Populi, but Salus Reipublicse. The Law hath
taken care that the People shall have Justice and Right ;
the King's Person ought not to be touched ; the King
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himself is pleased to judge by the Law ; you see he doth
by Law question the Death of his Father; he doth not
judge it himself, but the Law judges it. Mr. Peters
knows very well he subscribed the 39 Articles of Religion ;
look upon them that were confirmed in 1552, and upon
those Articles that were confirmed in 13 Elizabeth ; the
King is there acknowledged to have the Chief Power in
these Nations; the meddling with the King was a
Jesuitical Doctrine : This I speak, not that the King
should or ought to Govern but by the Fundamental Laws
of the Land ; they that keep within the Bounds of the
Law are happy ; you that are a Lawyer know this in
point of Law, and you that are a Divine know this in point
of Divinity. You both know the Truth of it, and when
you have thought upon it, I hope you will reflect upon
that horrid Crime, the shedding of Royal Blood. You see
he had granted all those Grievances of the People, taken
them away, secured them, for the future ; and at this very
Time, when this horrid Act was done you see he had
granted all at the Desire of the People ; he had made
those Concessions such, as (were it not in respect of
others more than those that treated themselves) they
thought was more than could be expected by the Nation.
You that had a Hand in the King's Death it falls upon
you, the Guilt of it, because you were some of those
Instruments that assisted those Persons that broke the
Treaty ; prepare yourselves for that Death which you are
to die ; it is a Debt which we all owe to Nature ; if in
this case there is something of Shame comes to you it is
that you must take as Part of the Reward of your Sin.
The only Work, I have now to do is to pronounce the
Judgment, and this is the Judgement of the Court, and
the Court doth award, that both of you be led back to the
Place from whence you came, and from thence shall be
drawn upon a Hurdle, &c. and the Lord have Mercy upon
your Souls.
Clerk: Crier, make Proclamation.
Clerk: O Yes,&c. All Manner of Persons, &c.and all
Jurors and Witnesses, are to appear at this Place
toMorrow Morning at Seven of the clock in the morning
upon Pain of One hundred Pounds a piece. So God Bless
king Charles, &c.
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None of the accused were allowed counsel although they
repeatedly asked for the same.
Ere his death let us hear his vindication in his own
words.
"The Case of Mr Hugh Peters Impartially
Communicated to the View and Censure of the Whole
World : Written by his own hand. London ; Printed
for Sam. Speed, and are to be sold at his shop, at the
signe of the Printing-Press in St. Pauls Churchyard.
"They which think to Vindicate themselves to the
World by writing Apologies, rarely reach their ends,
because their Game is an After-Game ; prejudice is strong,
and the Plaister can hardly be made broad enough, nor
Apologies put into all hands who have prejudged and
received the first tincture. And therefore our blessed
Saviour is slow in that work ; onely clears the great
question of that age, by proving himself the Messiah
(Job, 5.) by four witnesses, but not forward to answer
expectations of the World otherwise.
"And yet so much of his example there is; yea, so
much of St. Pauls, and others, that there seems to be a
necessity of saying something, though hard to wipe off so
much dirt as is thrown on my self. Yet at this distance
and leasure, hearing by printed papers what my lot is in
England, my native Country ; Therefore I do in the Name
and fear of God, and before his holy Majesty, Angels and
Men, profess that I never had head nor hand in contriving
or managing the late Kings death, as is basely and
scandalously suggested by black mouths : was all that day
(he dyed) sick and sad in my Chamber, which I prove
by two substantial witnesses. And for what is in that
Pamphlet June 19, about my confessing in my sickness,
landing at Plymouth from Ireland, it is most untrue and
mistaken, for I never was sick at Plymouth, nor landed
there from Ireland : nor any of that information
colourable : & this I avouch in the truth of my soul ; and
would in presence justifie, if weakness, and lameness, and
this distance did not hinder; yea, many years being upon
me, and an utter inability to do my self right in these
things, if the Lord do not make my way in the hearts of
men.
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114 HUGH PETER :
"I shall briefly give an account of my coming into
England, my behaviour since I came, and my present
condition in this Juncture.
" A Colony going to settle in New England, by his late
Majesties Patent, I went thither, who by my birth in
Cornwel, was not a meer stranger to that place, and
fishing-trade : and thither, invited often, I say, went, and
was with another sent into England by the Magistrates
there, for ease in Excise and Custom, and some supplies
for Learning, &c, because I had been witness to the
Indians receiving the Gospel there in Faith and Practise ;
they having the Bible translated by us into their Language,
and part thereof printed, and hundreds of them professing
the Gospel, and teaching each other the knowledge of the
true God ; and the rather, from the example of the
English there : when in seven years among thousands
there dwelling, I never saw any drunk, nor heard an Oath,
nor any begging, nor Sabbath broken : all which invited
me over to England : but coming, found the Nation
imbroyled in troubles and War ; the Preaching was, Curse
ye Meroz, from Scotland to England ; the best Ministers
going into the field : in which (not without urging) I was
imbarqued in time ; and by force upon me here, failed
of my promise of returning home : which was and is my
sad affliction. My first work was, with the first to go to
Ireland ; which I did with many hazards, then was at sea
with my old Patron the Earl of Warwick, to whom I ow'd
my life ; then was imploy'd by the City ; then by the
Earl of Essex, my Lord Say, and others ; and my return
stopt by the Power that was ; and so was in the last Army
in several places, but never in the North : In all which
affairs I did labour to perswade the Army to their duty.
My principles in Keligion guided me to those Orthodox
truths exprest in the Confessions of Faith in England;
and known to joyn with the Protestants who are found in
the Faith, in Germany upper and lower, France, &c, I have
and do hereby witness against all Errours of all kinds.
For the War, I thought the Undertakers knew their
Work; I was inconsiderable, yea, heartily sorry for
mistakes about me. For my Carriage, I challenge all
the Kings party to speak if I were uncivil ; nay, many of
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them had my Purse, Hand, Help every way, and are
ready to witness it ; yea, his present Majesties servants
preserved by me through hazards. I was never privy to
the Armies transactions about the late King at Holmby
or elsewhere, or of any Juncto, Council or Cabal. But
when his Majesty sent for me, I went to him, with whom
I dealt about my New England business, & was three or
four times with him, and had his special acceptance and
served him to my utmost, and used all my little skill for
his and the Nations good more than twice : for which I
have witness ; though it be hard to cut my way through
so many Rocks. But God is Good.
"It is true, I was of a Party, when I acted zealously,
but not with malice or mischief: it hath been accounted
Honourable, Et Cesare in hoste probat, to keep to principles
of honour and honesty. I never quarrelled others for
their judgment in Conscience. It is received, that Religio
docenda est, non coercend. I saw Reformation growing,
Laws made, and some against debauchery and evil (which I
was glad to read in his Majesties late Proclamation) . I saw
a very learned, godly, able Ministry as any in the World,
well provided for : I saw the Universities reformed, and
flourishing ; and such things much encouraged me in my
Endeavours. I studyed the 13 of the Rom. and was
tender ; but found the best of Scotland and England of
the Ministry engaged, and so satisfied me, that I
understand the first undertaking is still maintained good.
By the War, I never enriched myself: I have often
offer'd my personal Estate for 2001, and for Lands, I never
had any but that part of a Noblemans, which I never laid
up peny of; nor never urged the Lord Grey, or others,
to buy, nor knew not of the sale, till done ; nor justifie
any unworthy thing in it. I never plundered nor cheated,
never made peny over the Sea, nor hoarded or hid any
in England.
"I never was guilty of secluding the Members in 48,
nor knew it, till done, and sent by my Lord Fairfax to
fetch off two of them, and to know who they were that
were secluded.
"I never had Jewels, nor anything of Court or State,
more than before, directly nor indirectly. Never had any
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Ecclesiastical Promotion in my life in the Nation to enrich
me ; but lived on my own when I had any thing : nor
have been a lover of money.
"The many scandals upon me for uncleanness, &c., I
abhor as vile and false, being kept from that and those
aspersions cast ; and such I make my protest against as
before. I know how low my name runs, how Titleless,
how contemned. David knew why Shemei curst him.
"For the Laws of England, I know no place hath better :
onely having lived where things are more expedite and
cheap, I have shewed my folly so to say : and having no
evil intention, a very worthy Lawyer took exception at
something of mine or my friends, which was never intended
in his sense by either, and crave his excuse ; I can charge
my self with evil enough, as any excentrick motion of mine
from my own Calling, want of a solemn spirit in slight
times, with unbelief, if I have gone about to reach
Religious ends by trampling upon civil duties, breaking
of any Covenants, or slighting them ; and do fear Gospel,
and the Spirit also may be undervalued by mine, and
others unworthy dealing with them. Much to these I
might add, who have seen many vanities under the Sun ;
and the World hung with Nets and Snares: Alas, there is
nothing to Christ.
"And lastly, I understand what exception is upon me
for Life and Estate in the House of Commons. I have
taken hold of the Kings Majesties gracious Pardon, as
others did ; and know not truly where this exception lies
grounded, I wish I had been with their Honours to have
clear'd it. I hope a Vagrant report or Airy Noise takes
no Place with them : for I challenge the World for my
innocence for these suggestions; and appeal to their
Honours, and the Noble Lords fora review of the Charge
or Information ; and crave no favour if any sober man
can charge me ; otherwise I most heartily beg just favour,
unless my evil be only for acting with such a party, I
must have it : For I know before whom my Cause is, and
may not despair.
"I must again profess were I not a Christian, I am a
Gentleman by birth, and from that extract do scorn to
engage in the vile things suggested, and that by one
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creditless witness, that only supposeth, but asserts
nothing.
"I wish from my heart that our present Prince may
be, and the Nation by him more happy then any ; and
that the true ends of Government may be had and
communicated fully ; that every honest heart may have
cause to rejoyce in God, the King, and their Laws. And
for my self (through Grace) I resolve to be quiet in a
corner (if I may) to let God alone with ruling the World,
to whose Wisdom and Power we ought to submit ; yea,
to mind mine own work, though never so small ; to be
passive under Authority, rather then impatient ; to
procure the quiet and peace of the Nation to my utmost ;
to mind things invisible, and of a better consistence then
these below ; and to pray, when I can do no more.
Hugh Peters."*
EXTRACTS FROM "A DYING FATHER'S LAST LEGACY
TO AN ONELY CHILD."
" There [in New England] I continued seven years till
sent thither by the Plantation to mediate for ease in
Customs and Excise ; the Country being poor, and a
tender Plant, of their own setting and manuring. But
coming hither, found the Nation imbroiled in those Civil
Discontents, Jars and Wars, and here was forced to stay,
though I had nothing to support me but the Parliament's
Promises. And not being able in a short time to compass
my Errand, studied with a constant purpose of Returning,
and went with the first to Ireland, most of your London
Godly Ministers being engaged in Person, Purse and
Preaching in the Trouble ; I thought Ireland the clearest
*No date is given to these printed pages, but they were evidently written early
in 1660, O.S.; they are bound with two other short articles: "Peters Pattern, or
The perfect Path to Worldly Happiness, As it was delivered in a Funeral Sermon
Preached at the Interrment of Mr. Hugh Peters lately deceased. By I. C.
Translator of Pineda upon Job, and one of the Triers. Gusman, Lib. i.
Chap. 2. Verse 4. Amicus Plato, sed magis arnica veritas. London, printed in
the Year 1659," and "The Tryall and Condemnation of Mr. John Cooke, Sollicitor
to the late High-court of Injustice, and Mr. Hugh Peters, that carnall Prophet.
For their severall High-treasons, &c. At the Sessions house in the Old-baily, on
Saturday, the 13 of October, 1660. Together with Their severall Pleas, and the
Answers thereunto. Proverbs 25. v. 5. Take away the wicked from before
the King, and His Throne shall be established in righteousness. London ,
Printed for John Stafford and Edward Thomas, 1660."
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work ; and had the Pay of a Preacher then and afterward,
as I could get it ; I was not there at Edge-hill, nor the
Bishop of Canterburies troubles or death. Upon my
return was staid again from going home [mark, he calls
it home] by the Earl of Warwick my Patron ; then by
the Earl of Essex, afterward by the Parliament, who at
last gave me an Estate, now taken away. I had access
to the King about my New-England business ; he used
me civilly ; I, in requital, offered my poor thoughts three
times for his safety ; I never had hand in contriving or
acting his Death, as I am scandalized, but the contrary
(to my mean power :) I was never in any Council or Cabal
at any time, I hated it, and had no stowage for Council,
thinking all Government should lie open to all ; nor had
a penny from any General, but lived in debt, as now I
am ; nor had means for my Expenses, what I had others
shared in. I confesse I did what I did strenuously, though
with a weak head, being over-laid with my own and others
troubles ; never was angry with any of the King's Party,
nor any of them for being so ; thought the Parliament-
Authority lawfull and never studied it much : have not
had my hand in any man's blood, but saved many in Life
and Estate. The Parliament in 1644 gave me the Bishop's
Books valued at 140. which I intended for New-England,
being a part of his private Library, which (with all mine
own) I have often offered for 150. the mistake about them
was and is great, for they never were so considerable :
And these were my gettings who never aimed to be rich
nor ever had means to reach it. ...
" The Changes grew (as you see) a Commonwealth I
found but thus altered : I staid so long at White-hall,
contented with any good Government that could keep
things together ; till the breach of that they call Richard's
Parliament, and then I removed, and never returned more,
but fell sick long, and in trouble ever since ; never was
summoned but once by the Council which was in April,
about Books ; of which (lying sick) I craved of the
President of the Council to excuse me, who sent unto me
he had, and I gave him an account of the Books : but
hearing that my Estate was gone, and I indebted, was
private, and did purpose so to live, and so to die, having
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a resolution (which I kept) never to meddle with State-
matters, but either here, or in New-England, to spend my
old age, in looking into my Grave and Eternity : and
never had to do with any Insurrection with Souldiers or
others ; nor never would, had I a longer life, my head and
heart be tired, as well as my body craz'd : I thought the
Act of Indemnity would have included me, but the hard
Character upon me, excluded me, which I was so sensible
of, that Nature (in its own preservation) carried me to
privacy ; but free from that report of the manner which
is suggested, of which you may be assured : By my zeal
(it seems) I have exposed myself to all manner of reproach :
but wish you to know that (besides your Mother) have
had no fellowship (that way) with any Woman since first
I knew her, having a godly wife before also, I blesse God.
"But because what is before written, may seem my
white side only, I shall deal in all plainness with you,
That though in Religion I am and have been really sound
and Orthodox to my best apprehension, according to the
blessed Word of God ; and the generality of the Protestant
Confessions ; yea, though I travelled through Protestant
Churches for Order, to copy the best, and have joyned
with the Churches of Christ, and took in with that I call a
Tender Presbytery, for such was ours in New-England,
and yet so, as I never unchurcht any Parish where a godly
Minister was, and godly People joyned together, though
not all so ; and do know God may have a People under
all forms and would withdraw to the furthest Judges, rather
than give offence to what I cannot close with ; yet so
unworthy have my thoughts been of myself to be a meet
Preacher of the Gospel, that more than twice had I given
it over, had not Friends prevailed ; yea, my profession
of the Gospel hath been with much folly, weakness and
vanity : I crave pardon of any that have taken offence,
though in a Christian way I have not had the reproofs of
Three either for Preaching or Conversation. I am heartily
sorry I was Popular, and known better to others than
myself: It hath much lain to my heart above any thing
almost, That I left the people I was engaged to in New-
England, it cuts deeply, I look upon it as a Root-evil:
and though I was never Parson nor Vicar, never took
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Ecclesiastical promotion, never preach'd upon any
agreement for money in my life, though not without
offers, and great ones ; yet I had a Flock, I say I had a
Flock to whom I was ordained, who were worthy of my
Life and Labours ; but I could never think my self fit to
be their Pastor, so unaccomplisht for such a work, for
which, who is sufficient (cryes the Apostle) ?
" This is my sore trouble ; and a private life would have
become me best, and my poor gift have had its vent also.
But here I was overpowered to stay. For Errors in
Judgment I have pittied, never closed with any that I
know ; when I was a Tryer of others, I went to hear and
gain Experience rather than to judge : When I was
called about mending Laws, I rather was there to pray
than to mend Laws ; When to judge in Wills, I only went
sometimes to learn, and help the Poor, than to judge, but
ill all these I confesse I might well have been spared.
" Nor do I take pleasure in remembering any my least
activity in State- matters, though this I can say, I nowhere
minded who ruled fewer or more, so the good ends of
Government be given out, in which men may live in
Godliness and Honesty. I have often said, That is a good
Government, where men may be as good as they can, not
so bad as they would; where good men and things are
uppermost ; and have thought if good Magistrates cannot
bring all to their Judgments, the Dissenters may have
liberty, being kept out of office, and want some other
publick characters. That which a Friend of mine, and
myself writ by Letters about Magistrates, was very little,
and the Records of the Tower were only named, as giving
way to all other Records, to cut off dissentions, or marks
of Tyranny, which no good Prince will exercise ; I am
sorry if any offended, it was Zeal for Quietnesse. I honour
Laws, and good Lawyers heartily, and know their use ;
only ease, expedition and cheapness, what good man doth
not call for? Sedition is the heating mens minds against
the present Authority, in that I never was, yet sorry,
Authority should have any hard thoughts of me, or know
so inconsiderable a creature as myself. I never could be
fit for a Court, many wayes not fit, and am therefore
grieved that I was either constrained, or content to live,
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where I could do so little good ; for I would dye without
a secret in my bosom, unless Cases of Conscience in the
way of Preaching, which are secret, indeed ; and for
reading them to the world I had appointed a Portion had
it been continued to me.
" Upon all this you may ask what design I drove, being
look'd upon that way ? Truly these three :
" First, That Goodness, that which is really so, and such
Religion might be highly advanced.
" Secondly, That good Learning might have all
Countenance.
" Thirdly, That there might not be a Beggar in Israel,
in England.
"And for all these I have projected or laboured, and I
have no other. And these I pray his present Majesty may
looke to, and that God would blesse him every way.
" If in the prosecutions of these I have used any of my
wonted rudenesse,or unguarded zeal I am heartily as Sorry.
So begging pardon from God and Man, Constitution or
Custom, I conclude in these particulars, though the aim
be good.
" I conclude the former thus : I think, That as bad men
care not who rule, or what is uppermost, so they may have
their lusts ; so good men, if they may enjoy God and his
Truth, with good Conscience. For my whole course you
know and feel where my wound heth been these Twenty
years,* which hath occasioned not only my Head and
Heart breaking, but travelling from mine own Nest into
businesse.
"Blesse God, if ever you meet with suitableness in
Marriage : For my spirit it wanted weight, through many
tossings, my head that composure others have, credulous,
and too careless ; but never mischievous nor malicious :
I thought my work was to serve others, and so mine own
Garden not so well cultivated ; only this I say, I aimed at
a good mark, and trust the Lord in Jesus Christ hath
accepted it. My Faith in the Everlasting Covenant was
and is, though feeble, yet Faith. I could thus continue,
ripping my whole heart to you, who have very often had
great success, even to the last hours of my last Preaching,
* His wife's mental malady.
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and am preaching the life of Faith to my self, to which
call in all prayers to the Father in Jesus Christ his dearest
Son, to whom let us look, as the Author and Finisher of
our Faith, who for the pay that was set before him,
endured the Crosse, despised the Shame, and now sits at
the right hand of Majestie, making Intercessions for
Transgressors, Heb. 12, 12. To whom be Glory and Praise,
and Thanks for Ever. For he is worthy, who hath washed
us from our sins by his own Blood, and made us Kings,
and Priests unto God the Father ; To him be Glory and
Dominion for ever.
"For that part of my Lord Craven's Estate, which I
have, took no small place in my trouble.* You may know
that I was not in the City when that Act was made, nor
urged my Lord Grey to buy ; nor ever advised the said
Lord (as I had time) but to good and just things and
company, against that Spirit of Levelling then stirring :
and do heartily wish, that taken offence might dye : for
it was not intended by me, who could and can be as
well contented without Land, as with it ; never being
ambitious to be great or rich since I knew better things.
"And now I must return to yourself again, and to give you
my thoughts about your own Condition. I do first commend
you to the Lord, and then to the care of a Faithfull Friend,
whom I shall name unto you, if a Friend may be found in
this Juncture, that dare own your Name (though there be
more of your Name) and if such a Friend advise it, that
you serve in some Godly Family, to which you seem to
incline, and must (it seems) ; but truly if not a good
Family, what will your Condition be ? Dwell where God
dwells, and be in such Company, as you must be with in
Heaven, and then you do but change your place, not your
company, though it be unexpected and uncouth, yet
remember the best men have been servants, Moses kept
his father's sheep ; so Jacob and the Patriarchs ; David to
Saul, and many more ; I have before given thee Rules
for it ; and be sure to be steady to Family and Private
* The Parliament had granted Peter lands out of Lord Craven's estate. "1660.
Ye 10th d. of the 6th Mo. Concerning Mr Peters I heare little, onely from brother
Hooker, that the lord Craven waytes hopefully for the restitution of his lands,
wherein, he saith Mr Peters hath a share, he is of kin to Monck, and sometimes
dineth with him." The Revd. John Davenport to John Winthrop Jr. Newhaven.
Mass. Hist. Coll., 3rd series, Vol. x, p. 38.
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Duties, your Life will be dead without them, call your
Condition God's Ordinance, and he can blesse it to you.
But if you would go home to New-England (which you
have much reason to do) go with good Company and trust
God there ; the Church are a Tender Company ; a little
will carry us through the world, yea very little : Oh
Godliness with Content ! Your faithfulness to me and
your Mother will find acceptance in Heaven, I trust. My
dear Child, tell me how couldst thou be without God's
Rod ? remember he hath a Staffe also. For your Mother
(considering her distemper) I have and shall say more
unto you. To his Grace who is able to do above all we
can ask or think, I commend you both."
"And if I go shortly where time shall be no more, where
Cock nor Clock distinguish hours, sink not ; but lay thy
head in his Bosom who can help thee : for he sits upon
the Waves. Farewell.
"And since we must part, must part ; take my Wishes,
Sighs and Groans to follow thee, and pitty the feebleness
of what I have sent, being writ under much, yea very
much discomposure of spirit."*
This written testimony concerning his life and work is
added to that which he gave at his trial. History itself
tells us of his many kindnesses to distressed royalists ;
and no less a person than the King himself was, while in
prison, indebted to Peter for the services of Dr. Juxon,
Bishop of London, and for the admittance to his person
of Sir John Denham intrusted with a message from the
Queen, f
"Some Notes taken of a Sermon preached by | Mr.
Hugh Peters, the 14th. of October, 1660, | after his
condemnation, in the Prison of Newgate, | where he was
much interrupted by the coming in and | going forth of
strangers that came to see him, and | the other prisoners,
in the Room with him, and so | was constrained to break
off the sooner ; And though | they are but brief Heads,
* "A dying Father's Last Legacy to an Onely Child, or Mr. Hugh Peters Advice
to his Daughter, ivritten by his own Hand during his late Imprisonment in the
Tower of London; and given her a little before his Death."
t Whitelock: Sir John Denham's Epsi. Dedic. to Charles II. of his Poems; 2d
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yet it's thought con- | venient here to insert them, for the
better satisfac- | tion of any touching the frame of Mr.
Hugh Peters | at the time. |
"The discourse was from Psal. 42, ver. 11 : Why art
thoucast down, O my soule? and why art thou disquieted
within me? Hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him,
who is the health of my Countenance and my God.
"After Analyzing the psalme, he Observed this Doctrine.
"Doctrine, That the best of God's people are apt to be
disponding, This was the Man's case in the whole 88 psal,
Also David's case, when he complained of the breaking of
his Bones, &c, This was Christs case himselfe, when he
cryed out My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me.
"The Reasons why the best of God's people, are apt to
dispondencies, are,
"First, When something falls out from God more than
ordinary, when God puts weight in Sorrow and Affliction,
that makes it sinking ; Although that Afflictions are heavy
of themselves many times, yet it's the weight that God
puts in sorrow, that makes it sink us.
"21y Over-valuing our comforts, putting too much upon
Wife, Children, Estate, or Life itself, a man is apt to be
cast down when he thinks of parting with them.
"Thirdly, Our unpreparednesse for sufferings, and
afflictions that makes us dispond. Also, I thought not of
it say some, its come unexpectedly upon me.
"Fourthly, We are apt to dispond when our Afflictions
are many when they are multitudes, when all is struck at
together, Name, Estate, Relations and Life itself.
"Fifthly, When Afflictions are of long continuance, a
man can bear that Burthen a while, that he cannot stand
under long.
"Sixthly, when Afflictions fall upon the noblest part of
man which is his soule, then are dispondencies apt to come
in.
"Seventhly, When we have more Sense then Faith,
"Now it should not be so, God's people ought not to
be so, God's people ought not to dispond, 1. Because it
discovers impatiency. 2. Because it discovers want of
Faith, they leane not upon the Rock that will not faile
them. 3. It discovers want of Wisdom, &c. 4. We
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should not be thus, because it gratifies the Enemy, who
in such a case is ready to upbraid us, and say, where
is now their God? what is become of their God?
"Now what cure and remedies are there for disponding.
The Eleventh verse gives two. First, Hope in God,
Hope thou in God. Secondly, Faith is set on work,
I shall yet praise him, &c.
"But more particularly take these directions. 1. Be
carefull of exercising faith, for no condition of man
superceeds his Faith, do all in Faith, pray in Faith, and
bear in Faith, &c. Now what is the exercise of Faith
but rouling* upon Christ, and staying on him, here I'll
stick, if I perish, I perish.
"The miscarriages of Christians, is either because they
have no faith, or else, because, if they have faith, they
give it not food to live upon ; faith must go to Christ, as
the Liver Vaine and fetch blood and life thence. We quarrel
that 'we have not Love, and patience and meeknesse,
&c. but the defect lyes in our faith, if we had more faith
we should have more of all other Graces.
"Now what is the food of faith f Ans. Faith will not
feed upon every dish, not on a stalled Ox or fatted Calfe ;
prosperity is not faiths food. But it will Eat a word,
live upon promises, these nourish faith, I will never leave
thee, nor forsake thee, all things shall work together for
good, and the like promises.
"2. Be marvellously carefull of things below, measure
things below, measure things not by sense, or by a day,
but by faith and Eternity ; we are troubled at the losse
of this and tother Creature, and comfort, but what's the
value of them, the over valluing things is our mischiefe.
"3. Go and tell the Lord Christ I have defiled
conscience, and if thou doest not wash me, I am undone
for Ever. See the necessity and worth of Christ ; there
must be something better to look at than what we loose
for the present, something above Estate, and Life, and
Relations, and Name. See the worth of Christ's blood,
*This curious word is evidently "roll." See Pepys' Diary, Mar. 7,1661-2.
"Early to White Hall to the Chapel where, by Mr. Blagrave's means I got into
his pew and heard Dr. Creeton, the great Scotchman and chaplain in ordinary to
the King, preach before the King, and Duke and Duchess upon the words of
Micah : 'Roule yourselves in dust.' He made a most learned sermon upon the
words ; but in his application, the most comical man that ever I heard in my life.
Just such a man as Husjh Peter."
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it's worth all the world , because what the blood of Bulls and
Goats could not doe, his blood doth cleanse from all sinne.
w 4. Keep close to the use of Ordinances much of our
mischief hath come from neglects of this kind ; the safety
of a Christian lyes in the enjoyment of Church Communion,
Psal. xxvii-4, 5, and 6 Verses, One thing I have desired
of the Lord, and that will I seeke after, that I may dwell
in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my Life, <fec. for
in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his Pavillion,
in the secret of his Tabernacle, shall he hide me, he shall
set me upon a Rock ; and now shall my head be lifted up
above mine Enemies round about me, &c. The greatest
fears are dispelled then you shall find before troubles
passe over (for you expect some) it will be a hard matter
to break Churches, they are so fast Chayned together, and
yet there hath been marvellous miscarriages amongst
Saints in their Church Relations.
FINIS.
He also during his imprisonment in the Tower, wrote
some sheets of paper to his Daughter, leaving them with
her as his last Legacy, containing in it very much sound
and wholesome advice as to her soules health. It carries
with it such a savour as denotes it proceeds from a spirit
that hath learned experience in Christ's schoole, and hath
been acquainted sometimes with sunshine as well as foul
weather, it's too long here to be inserted, but if it be
made publick by itselfe, doubtlesse the Experienced
Reader will be no looser by perusing this legacy."
In Cobbett's State Trials, London, 1792, appear the
following extracts from " Some Memorable Passages of
Mr. Hugh Peters, in his Imprisonment at Newgate, and
at the time of his Execution at Charing-Crosse, October
16, 1660.
"Mr. Peters, as is well known, was exercised under a
great Conflict in his own Spirit, during the time of his
Imprisonment, fearing (as he would often say) that he
should not go through his Sufferings with Courage and
Comfort, and said to Friends, that he was somewhat
unprepared for Death, and therefore unwilling to dye ;
something he said he had committed, and other things
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omitted, which troubled him ; but tho' it was a Cloudy
and dark Day with him for a Season ; yet the Light of
Gods Grace and Favour would break forth at last.
" And surely the Favour of God did at last appear, for
a little before he went forth to Execution (as many can
testify) he was well composed in his Spirit, and cheerfully
said, I thank God now I can dye, I can looke Death in the
Face and not be afraid.
"As for the slanderous Report which was too much
received by good People as well as bad, to wit, that he
was guilty of Uncleannesse : A Friend coming to him in
Prison, put that Question seriously and soberly to his
Soule, to which he reply 'd That he blessed the Lord, he
was wholy clear in that Matter, and that he never knew
any woman but his own wife.
" A Night or two before he suffered, two of the Episcopal
Clergy, who as some report were the King's Chaplains,
came to give him a Visit ; they endeavoured to make
Advantage of the Temptations wherewith he was then
assaulted, and to perswade him to a Repentance and
Recantation of his former Activity in the Parliament
Cause, which they endeavoured to enforce upon him by a
Promise of Pardon from the King, in case he would barken
to them. But tho' he was then much afflicted in his Spirit,
yet the Lord did help him to beare up with much Courage
against the Insinuations of that sort of Men, and told them
he had no Cause in the least to repent of his Adhering to
that Interest ; but rather, that he had in the Prosecution
thereof done no more for God and his People, in these
Nations ; and with Civility dismissing those Visitants, he
applyed himself to some other Ministers then present,
whome he judged more able to speake a Word in Season
to him under these great Tryals, wherewith the Lord was
then pleased to exercise him.
" Mr Cooke to Mr Peters In the Dungeon said, * Brother
Peters, we shall be in Heaven to-morrow in Bliss and
Glory, What a blessed thing is that, my very heart leaps
within me for Joy ; I am now just as I was in the storm,
almost in Sight of Heaven. Read me, Isaiah, 43, 9-10-
11 ; 61 ; 10-11 Hosea 13-14.' Then looking upon his
bed, said 'That shall be my last Pillow, I will lay me
128 HUGH PETER !
down and sleep a while,' and he slept about an hour and a
half, and then awoke saying, 'Now farewell Sleep, no more
Sleep in this World and farewell Darkness and Light I am
going where there shall be no Night there neither need of
Candle, nor of the Sun for the Lord will give us Light ;
yea, the Lord will be our everlasting Light, and our God
will be our Glory." 3
Justice Coke on the day of execution said to Mr.
Peters, " Brother Peters, this is our wedding-day ; we
know that the bridegroom is come, and we are ready to
enter into the marriage, we are now going to the souls
under the altar, and could our Judges but know what
glory we shall be in before 12 o'clock, tbey would desire
and pray to be with us, their blindness is my sorrow ; for
when we are gone, our blood will cry, and do them more
hurt, than if we had lived."
The third day after their trial, Oct. 16, 1660, Peter and
the Solicitor John Coke, who had been one of the
prosecutors of the late King, were dragged on " two
sleddes "* from Newgate to the place of their execution
at Charing-Cross. Their sentences were the same, but
the head of Major General Harrison had been placed on
a pole on Coke's sled with the face towards him. Instead
of this sight filling Coke with fear it appeared to inspire
him with courage and enthusiasm.
In his last speech he said (referring to Peter's previous
state of mind) , "Here is a poor Brother coming, I am afraid
that he is not fit to die at this Time ; I could wish his
Majesty might shew some Mercy."
"The Sheriffe interrupted in Words to this effect : 'Let
that alone, for the King's Majesty hath Clemency enough
for all but his Father's Murtherers.' "
Coke suffered first : he was hanged by the neck and then
cut down alive. His body, after other mutilation, was
opened and the bowels were taken out and burned. Then
came the merciful blow that severed the head from the
body, and lastly the body was cut into four parts for
permanent exhibition in as many places; these being,
usually, the four principal cities of the kingdom, while the
head was set upon Temple Bar.
* Ludlow.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 129
"Peter, being carried upon the Sledge to execution, and
made to sit within the Railes at Charing-Crosse to behold
the Execution of Mr Coke, One comes to him and upbraided
him with the Death of the King, bidding him (with
opprobrious Language) to repent : He replyed, ' Friend,
you do not well to trample upon a Dying Man, you are
greatly mistaken, I had nothing to do in the Death of the
King.'
"When Mr Cooke was cut down and brought to be
quartered, one they called Coll. Turner, calling to the
Sheriff's Men to bring Mr Peters near, that he might see
it, And by and by the Hangman came to him, all besmer'd
in Blood, and rubbing his bloody Hands together, he
(tauntingly) ask'd, 'Come, how do you like this, Mr
Peters, how do you like this Work?' To whom he
reply'ed, ' I am not (I thank God) terrifyed at it, you
may do your worst !'
" When he was going to his execution, he look't about
and espy'd a Man, to whom he gave a Piece of Gold
(having Bowed it first) and desir'd him to goe to the
Place where his Daughter lodged, and to carry that to her
as a Token from him, and to let her know that : *
" 'My heart is full of Comfort ; I am ready to die ; weep
not for me ; let them weep who part and shall never meet
again, you and I shall meet again in Heaven, and before
this piece of Gold reaches you I shall be with God in Glory,
where is no Night, no need of a Candle, nor of the Sun
for the Lord will give us Light.' The man being dismissed
with the pieco of gold Mr Peters said to the Sheriff: 'I
truly forgive you and all men from my heart and if you
will believe the words of a dying man, I tell you, I am
not convinced of any thing I have done amiss in the
business for which I am condemned to suffer, and of
consequence, I do not repent of anything there is done by
me. I own the cause of God and his people and I am
here this day to bear Avitness to it, I bless the Lord I have
nothing lying upon my conscience and I bless the Lord
that he has in goodness and mercy made me willing to
give myself a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto
* State Trials, London, 1792.
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130 HUGH PETER I
God. I thank the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that in
weakness I am strong, and am not unwilling to go to God
through the fire anfl jaws of death, blessed be the Lord
Jesus, that hath given me the victory over sin and death,
and hath supported me with spiritual Joy on this good
day. Oh, my soul, bless the Lord, that death, my good
friend, is come to guard me out of time into eternity, bless
the Lord, O my soul, in this moment ; for he is come that
I have long looked for, and support me with his
everlasting arm, come, beloved spirit, come and make
haste, and be thou like a young roe upon the mountain
of spices. Lord Jesus, I come to thee upon the wings of
faith, Lord Jesus receive me with grace into the Joy of
my Lord. Amen.' Then with a smiling countenance, he
yielded to the stroke of death."*
" Being upon the ladder he [Peter] spake to the Sheriffe
saying, Sir, you have here slain one of the Servants of
God before mine eyes, and have made me to behold it, on
purpose to terrific and discourage me, but God hath made
it for an Ordinance to me for my Strengthening and
Encouragement.
"When he was going to die, he said, ' What Flesh, art
thou unwilling to go to God through the Fire and Jaws of
Death? Oh, (said he) this is a good day, he is come that
I have long look'd for, and I shall be with him in Glory,'
and so smiled when he went away.f
"Tuesday following, being the sixteenth of October,
Mr John Cook and Mr Hugh Peters were about the same
hour [between nine and ten in the morning] carried on
two Hurdles to the same place, and executed in the same
manner, and their Quarters returned in like manner to the
place whence they came [Newgate] .
" The Head of Mr Cook is since set on a Pole on the
North-East end of Westminster Hall (on the left of Mr
Harrisons) looking towards London, and the Head of Mr
* It is much to be regretted that the above quotation cannot be placed as it per-
fectly completes the account given by Ludlow and State Trials; but the latter
says: " What Mr Peters said further at his execution, either in his speech or
prayer it could not be taken, in regard his voice was low at that time and the
people uncivil." Our informant was evidently better placed, and heard all, as
the following lines from " State Trials " appear to be but imperfectly heard frag-
ments which do not give, altogether, the same impression as does the full and
complete account.
t State Trials, London, 1792, Vol. II, p. 413.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 131
Peters on London Bridge. Their Quarters are exposed
in like manner upon the tops of some of the City Gates."*
It is singular that Peters was so severely treated when
others, much more deeply concerned in the King's death,
were dealt with so differently.
" But the Body of Mr Hacker was by his Majesties just
favour given entire to his friends and buried. "f
"Never," said the official newspaper, "was person
suffered death so unpitied and (which is more) whose
execution was the delight of the people. "J
His family was left in extreme poverty; in July, 1677,
John Knowles of London writes to Governor Leverett
requesting among other things that Mr Higginson's
congregation provide in part for Mrs. Peters who has been
supported by Mr Cockquaine and his church.
The following appears to be the entry of the marriage
of his daughter :
"All Hallowes Church, London Wall, April 23, 1665 :
Thomas Barker and Elizabeth Peters."
"Ye 10 ApH, 1703, Sr. ... I am desired by Mrs
Elizabeth Barker daughter to Mr Hugh Peters, to write
you in her favour, in reference to a concerne to be
transacted there in recoverie of her father's lands and
estates. It hath beene so long delaied already, and if not
speedily donne will be shorte of ye time of your country
limitations. Have taken much pains in examining her
papers and letters from thence, wch directed her to send
over letter of atturney ; was wth her before ye Lord
Mayor of these citty, when oathe was made of her being
ye reputed daughter of Mr Peter. Some New England men
were alsoe present to attest and witnesse it wth ye letter
of atturney. . . She is a widow and in low circumstances.
If you can bee servisible to her, it will bee a grate kindnesse
and respect to memory of her father soe well known in
New England. "
Winthrop, in his reply, refers to an indebtedness of
Peter's to his father of some five or six hundred pounds,
and he professes himself unable to be of any assistance.
* An Exact and most Impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial,
and Judgment (according to Law) of nine and twenty Regicides, London, 1660.
t Col. Hacker was one of the three officers charged with the execution of the
King's sentence.
J Dictionary of National Biography and Mercurius Publicus, Vol. II, p. 670.
Letter from Samuel Keade to Wait Winthrop. Mass. Hist. Coll.
132 HUGH PETER :
There is also a deposition from Elizabeth Barker in
which she states that having omitted certain things in a
previous petition " some persons there taking advantage
thereof and of the absence and poverty of the said
Elizabeth, have entered into the same property and are
still in possession thereof, these derive noe title thereto,
either from the crowne, or from said father or herself, but
are ready to compound with her if they may be secure
therein. The said Elizabeth being very poor having been
a widow many yeares, and having had a constant charge
upon her of eight children, three of which in the last war-
died in his Majesty's service and the rest being incapable
to afford her a maintenance, and she being altogether
helpless, her hard circumstances rendering her a fit and
just object, of her Majesty's clemency, and therefore
prayed her Royal letter to Colonel Dudley, Governor of
Boston Colony, to pass a patent to her for the said lands
formerly her father's."
June 30, 1704. Elizabeth Barker of London, widow,
only daughter and heiress of Hugh Peter, sometimes
heretofore of Salem, N. E. deceased, Clerk, confirms to
Robert Devereux of Marblehead, Tanner, the farm of 350
acres now in his occupation.*
In 1703-4, Samuel Sewall in a letter to John Thompson,
of Jan. 18, writes: "The memory of Mr Peters is still
set by in Salem. "f
In his history of Salem, published in the Massachusetts
Historical Collections, 1st series, Vol. vn, Rev. William
Bentley says of Hugh Peter :
"No man ever possessed more sincerely the affections of
his people. Mr Hugh Peters in his person was tall and thin.
He was active and sprightly. In speech he was ready but
his language was peculiar to himself. He had a power of
associating his thoughts in such a manner, as to be sure to
leave them upon the memory. If his images were coarse
they were familiar, and never failed to answer his purpose
Wherever he went, whatever he said, it was sure to be
remembered. . . . Mr Peters was known to get the favour
of the people by his simple manner of living, travelling
on foot and freedom of conversation."
* NewEng. Hist, and Gen. Register, Vol. XL, p. 66.
t Mass. Hist. Coll., 6th series, Vol. I, p. 288.
PKEACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 133
Thomas Burton says in his Diary : "Hugh Peters was
of Queen's* College where, is a picture of him in the
gallery of the Master's Lodge which I saw there March
21 (1671), he is in his own hair and in a black gown and
rather a well-looking open countenanced man, the present
Master Dr Plumptre told me that when he first came to
the presidentship this inscription was on the picture :
r Hugh Peters the seditious misleader,' but that he had
struck it out so that now there is lately printed on it his
name only, Hugh Peters ; by it is a picture of Oliver
Cromwell of the same size with his name 'Oliver Cromwell,'
thereon instead of the usurper Oliver Cromwell which Dr
Plumptre had erased, the Master supposed the two original
inscriptions secured them a place in his gallery at the
restoration. "f
The only portrait of Peter now known to exist is owned
by C. E. Treffry, Esquire, and is in his dining room at
Place, in Fowey, Cornwall, his mother's home.
List of the writings of Hugh Peter : J
1 Advice of that Worthy Commander Sir Edward
Harwood upon occasion of the French King's Preparation ;
also a Relation of his Life and Death, 4to, 1642.
2 A True Relation of the passages of God's Providence
in a voyage to Ireland. . . wherein every day's work is set
down faithfully by H. P. an eye witness thereof, 4to, 1642.
3 Preface to Richard Mather's Church Government
and Church Covenant discussed, 4to, 1643.
4 Mr. Peters' Report from the Armies, 26 July, 1645,
with a list of the chiefest officers taken at Bridgewater,
&c, 4to, 1645.
5 Mr. Peters' Report from Bristol, 4to, 1645.
6 The Full and Last Relation of all Things concerning
Basing House, with divers other passages reported to Mr.
Speaker and divers Members in the House. By Mr. Peter
who came from Lieut. Gen. Cromwell, 4to, 1645.
7 Master Peter's message from Sir Thomas Fairfax
with the Narration of the taking of Dartmouth.
* Error; he was of Trinity.
t Burton's Diary (" by Mr Cole in his Mss. XXIV. 138 " says Burton) Vol. I,
p. 244. (Carlyle asserts that there was no such person as Thomas Burton an
that the Diary was written by Nathaniel Bacon.)
I Dictionary of National Biography.
134 HUGH PETER :
8 Master Peter's message from Sir Thomas Fairfax
with the whole state of the west and all the particulars
about the disbanding of the Prince and Sir Ralph Hopton's
Army, 4to, 1646.
9 God's Doings and Man's Duty, a sermon preached
April 2, 1646, 4to.
10 Mr. Peters' Last Report of the English Wars,
occasioned by the Importunity of a Friend pressing an
answer to seven Queries, 4to, 1646.
11 Several Propositions presented to the House of
Commons by Mr. Peters concerning the Presbyterian
Ministers of this Kingdom with the discovery of two great
Plots against the Parliament of England, 4to, 1646.
12 A Word for the Army and Two Words for the
Kingdom, to clear the one and cure the other, forced in
much Plainness and Brevity, from their faithful Servant,
Hugh Peters, London, 1647.
13 Good Work for a Good Magistrate, or a Short Cut
to Great Quiet, by plain, honest, homely English hints
given from Scripture, Reason and Experience for the
regulating of most cases in this Commonwealth, by H. P.,
12mo, 1651.
14 A Preface to "The Little Horn's Doom and
Downfall " by Mary Gary, 12mo, 1651.
15 Latin Verses on Henry Ireton, 1650.
16 Dedication to Operum Gulielmi Amesii volumen
primum. 12mo, Amsterdam, 1658.
17 A Dying Father's Last Legacy to an Onely Child,
or Mr Hugh Peters' Advice to his Daughter, written by
his own Hand during his late Imprisonment in the Tower
of London, And given her a little before his Death;
London, Printed for G. Calvert, and T. Brewster, and
are sold at the Black-Spread Eagle, and at the Three
Bibles, at the West-End of Pauls, 1660. 12mo.
18 The Case of Mr Hugh Peters impartially
Communicated to the View and Censure of the Whole
World, written by his own Hand, 4to. 1660.
19 A sermon by Hugh Peters preached before his
death as it was taken by a faithful hand, and now published
for public information, London, printed by John Best,
4to. 1660.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 135
Thirty-five of his letters are to be found in the Winthrop
Papers in the Massachusetts Historical Collections,* and
there is an autograph letter of his in the Massachusetts
Archives,! which has been published in the Hutchinson
Papers, page 59.
His fun and wit shine in many of them ; take this one
written to John Winthrop in 1636 :
" A little newes I had out of a late letter come to hand
out of England which you may tell the Governour from
me to make him laugh. J At Bristow in one church
whilst they were preaching a great Bull broke into the
churchyard and a company of boyes followed him with
squibs ; the people within were taken up before with
thoughts that the papists that day would rise, and had
warding all the Country over ; the Bull and the squibs so
wrought vpon their melancholy brayries, that one cryes
out, if I perish, I'll perish here, another swounds away,
another they are come, they are come."
In another letter : " Mr Eaton very ill of the Skurvey.
An eele py. . . . Bendall hath buryed his wife ; another
eele Py." Two tragedies in two lines.
Dedication of God's Doings and Man's Duty " to the
Honourable, the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, and the
Common Counsel! of this famous City of London. . . .
That you are made wealthy for others, not yourselves
alone, That you would not make Opinions your Interest
which are changeable, but Godlinesse and Faithfulnesse,
That you would rather punish known sins, shew mercy on
the poor, a known duty, maintain Civil peace, look to
your City-privileges rather then lose yourselves in doubtful
questions." . . . From the sermon :
w I am bold to say you have heard more of Christ within
these last four years, then you have for forty before. . . .
Truly I know nothing so heavie but love can lift, nothing
so high but it can reach, nothing so deep but it can fathom.
... It will be love to the Lord, if we love him in his
dispensations when they have their viscissitudes ; to love
* Peters' letters quoted in this article are nearly all from the Winthrop Papers,
Mass. Hist. Coll.
t Vol. 240, page 33. J Vane.
The letter of Sir Thomas Fairfax, previously quoted, appears also here as a
dedication.
136 HUGH PETER :
him smiling, and love him frowning too ; to love him,
sitting upon his knee, and love him under his lash too. .
. . Tell your little ones this night the story of 45, the
towns taken, the fields fought, tell them of neer 30000
prisoners taken this last year, 500 pieces of ordinance, tell
them of the little losse on our side, he sure to let them
know it was for the liberty of the English subjects you
fought, charge them to preserve the liberties that cost
you so dear, but especially the liberties purchased by the
blood of Christ, and above all let them know that the God
of heaven is the God of England, and hath done all, but
his name, and his Sons name, who can tell us? I wish
we knew God better, that we might love him more. . . .
" Lastly, since feasts are seldome without beggars, give
me leave to be the first : and if we had not been over-bold
in detaining you already, I should have been large, even
from my soule to beg help from this most Honourable
Assembly in foure particulars : 1. I beg for Soules. 2.
For Bodies. 3. Estates. 4. Names.
" And for the first, I present you here the tears and cries
of many thousands, in the countries we have conquered,
who poor souls cry like prisoners at the Grate, Bread,
bread, for the Lords sake bread; all you that passe by
take Pitty, pitty of us, we have lived upon husks time out
of minde. . . . I need not tell this Assembly, that every
where the greater party is the Orthodox, and the lesser
the Hereticks. . . . Secondly, I have something to beg
for the bodies of men : you have had strong cries from
widowes and fatherlesse children, whose husbands and
fathers have spent their heart-blood in this service ; you
have many maimed men, which puts me in minde of an
expedient for them, if improved: I mean that famous
royall Foundation of the Charter-House, or Suttons
Hospital, they say worth 5 or 6000 1. per annum. . . .
The streets also are swarming with poor, which I refer to
the Senators of this Citie, that is glorious many ways,
why should it be so beggarly in the matter of beggars ?
. . . Yet let not my request die. I have lived in a Country,
where in seven years I never saw a beggar, nor heard an
oath, nor lookt upon a drunkard. . . .
"The third boon I beg is for mens estates . . . can
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 137
there not yet be found a shorter way to further justice?
must that badge of conquest still lye upon us, the Lawes
I mean in French? Can there not an expedient be found
out in plain English, whereby every one may soon come
to his own ? May there not be two or three friend-makers
set up in every Parish, without whose labour and leave
none should implead another? There is one evill I have
seen under the Sun, a poor man kept in prison for debt,
whereby his spirit is debaucht, and he utterly disabled to
pay : It is not so abroad. Fourthly and lastly ; I beg
something for mens names."*
rt The only way I know to reach Gods mind in worship
will be to love the truth for its owne sake, yea, to love it
when it shall condemn our practices and persons also."f
" I do conceive that the sword will not be sheathed,
which is now drawn, till church work be better known.
Presbytery and Independency are the ways of worship and
church fellowship now looked at, since we hope Episcopacy
is coffined out and will be buried without expectation of
another resurrection. We need not tell the wise whence
the Tyranny grew in Churches and how Commonwealths
got their pressure in the like kind."f
" Yea, though my share lies so much in them [slanderous
pamphlets] that it would be costly to purchase clean
handkerchiefs to wipe off every spattering on my face,
and I could as shortly and more truly answer alias he did
Bellarmine, with ' Thou lyest.' "
"Quick justice makes quiet commonwealths."
" Good men not good laws must save Kingdoms. "J
His "Good Work for a Good Magistrate," summed up
his scheme of reform, proposing among other things, a
register of land titles and wills, and suggesting that when
that was established the old records of the Tower, being
useless monuments of tyranny, might be burned. He
also proposed setting up a bank in London like that of
Amsterdam, the establishment of public warehouses and
docks, the institution of a better system for guarding
against fires in London, and the adoption of the Dutch
system of providing for the poor throughout the country.
He further says that lawyers would find more real law
* God's Doings and Men's Duty.
t Preface to Clmrch Government and Church Covenant.
t A Word for the Army and two Words for the Kingdom
138 HUGH PETER :
and justice in the ten commandments than in their
" obsolete precedents."
" The waies and means ordained of God, to bring anie
nation to and preserve them in as happie a condition as
the world can afford are by
I True Religion maintained and advanced by the
magistrate and walked in by the people ;
II True mercie towards the poor practiced and
advanced both by Magistrate and People ;
III True Justice and Righteousness amongst both
Magistrate and People towards other Nations."*
His "Last Legacy " is full of sense, religion, beauty,
pathos and poetry and might be quoted from end to end
with advantage.
That he was .highly esteemed by the best of his own
time and profession is evident from the constant use
Fairfax and Cromwell made of him, and from letters of
such men as John Eliot, Winthrop, Davenport, etc. The
latter pays him the following tribute in a letter dated
July, 1637.
" Deare and honoured in the Lord to whom (for Christ
and in Him) I owe not onely any service but my self also,"
etc.
It is fitting to end with a characteristic quotation from
the Dictionary of National Biography which, together
with Gardiner's "Great Civil War," presents the only
adequate or definite view of Peter's life or character that
I have found in print :
"His arguments were rather those of social reformer
than a divine. He regarded doctrinal differences as of
slight importance, suggested that if the ministers of
different views dined oftener together their mutual
animosities would disappear, and that if the state would
punish every one who spoke against either presbytery or
independency, till they could define the terms aright, a
lasting religious peace might be established."
" And know this, That the necessity of a Christ (which
the understanding discovers) will set the Will on work to
* Good Work for a Good Magistrate.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 139
all duty, and (the worth in Christ it makes manifest) will
make the Will delight ; unless these two Faculties be thus
wrought upon by Word and the Spirit, you will be at a
constant loss, and all the miscarriages in Religion have
the Ignorance of this for the Fountain. . . . For as I
profess myself Orthodox in all Points of Religion ... so
I have desired in nothing to be more Clear than in the
Two Doctrines aforesaid ; . . . this hath been my
Experience, That the Preaching of these Truths have been
my greatest Advantage, and of much benefit to Others ;
though in this I have enough to bewail also.
'To this purpose, Hear the best Men, Keep the best
Company, Read the best Books. . . . This one Book (the
Bible) well read, will answer any Question, or Case, and
you will finde Solomons Proverbs the best Politicks, and
Christ crucified the best Divinity. . . . How few pray !
How many say words? Oh, how many say their Prayers
backwards, call him Father, who is not their Father,
would not have his Name hallowed, nor his Kingdom
Come? . . . You cannot be so bad as he (God) is good.
... It is hard to Watch, most are very Drowsie ; The
Disciples themselves could not Watch one Hour. . . .
The Lord is forced to keep us waking by Affliction, as the
Thorn to the singing Bird. . . . Do not grieve Conscience
twice, it must be your best friend, yea when friends, and
world, and all shall leave you to solitariness. If it whimper
a little, do not make it roar out ; and yet do not stille it,
but attend it, and carry it up to Mount Calvary for peace.
Remember, good Conscience and Sin cannot live together ;
Let but this Bird sing sweetly within, and let Heaven
and Earth come together, thou shalt be safe (my poor
child).
" The Kingdom of Heaven must suffer Violence ; Violent
Faith, Love, Prayer, Must storm it. . . you may easier
make bares to the Sea, and order the Influences of Heaven
than call back yesterday. . . .
" This Herb [Content] grows in very few gardens, But
Oh that you might be truly content ! You will find a But
upon all your Comforts; and therefore you cannot be
contented. . . .
" Riches have Eagles wings, and Beauty but skin deep ;
140 HUGH PETER I
Honour in another's keeping; Friends and all, are but
waking dreams. . . .
" I commend unto you meekness of spirit ; be loving to
all ; envy none. You know what a Promise the Meek
have, . . Meekness carries many good things with it, as
Love, Piety, Patience, etc. . . . Meekness will make
smooth all your wayes, disappoint Enemies of the
advantage they may take against you ; And your love will
not only cover many sins, but help many out of them. . . .
" Oh ! how can we lift wrathful hands to Heaven. They
say Anger is the Boyling of the Blood about the Heart ; I
am sure it cools the Heart in Spirituals ; God took this
to himself when he discovered his Name to Moses ; a
pitiful, pardoning, long suffering God. . . .* The Lord
make you Meek from the true Root (my dear Child). . . .
" Thoughts are not free, nor words wind, they will judge
us one day. . . .
" Read and know, That Whilest you look too much
into others Gardens, you will neglect your own. . . .
"If your Fancy be not well-fed, your Thoughts (like
Millstones) will grinde themselves. Spirits rais'd and not
imploy'd, will torment the Witch that rais'd them. . . .
Be content to be a Shrub, Cedars will shake ; and never
desire to be near Greatness, Honour often dies grinning
and ghastly, our business must be our own, as well as our
crosse. To meddle with other rnens work will be thankless,
as to take other mens Physick will be useless, if not
dangerous. . . . The Busie-body is but a Pedlar to carry
up and down, and vend the Devils Wares. How few lose
anything by quietness, and doing their own work? . . .
David got his great wound upon this neglect, and Peter
his, by warming his hands when he should have been
breaking his heart in secret.
" Oh keep home, keep home ; I speak experience toyou,
who never found good hour but in mine own work. . . .
Be always ready to say, I am where the Lord would have
me to be. . . Sew up your mouth, but let it be with Honestie ;
not Policie. As you never hurt yourself by speaking
little, so will you never gain anything by telling a Lie.
* The italics are the compiler's ; remarkable words for those days !
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 141
" Much of Wit must be pared off before it will be useful.
" You shall never have comfort in suffering for Folly.
" There are two very good Turns in Mans Life ; the one
is a lawful Calling ; the other is marriage : and miscarriages
in either are almost irrecoverable. . . . This Conjugateness
(like a yoke) must still be lined with more Love to make
the draught easie. . . .
"They [husband and wife] need to pray out, not quarrel
out their first bubblings ; They need at first to dwell much
in their own duties, before they step into each others. . . .
" Many dying men speak much about the Vanity of the
World. But truly, as I would not die in a pet, so I would
not quarrel with or leave the World, because I could be
no greater in it, but because I not do, nor be better in it
and that God is pleased I should leave it for a better.
"And whilst I am in the World, and advising about it,
there is a great Raritie in the World, if you could reach
it, and that is a Friend, which is a Commoditie so very
scarce, that it will be your wisdom to look upon a Friend
this day, as likely to be an Enemy to-morrow. . . . Fair
Dove-coats have most pigeons ; Lost Estates have no
Friends.
"A Friend must have three qualifications ; he must have
the art and skill of a Friend, few know it ; must have the
bowels and mercie of a Friend, which most want ; and
lastly must have Faithfulness, the great ingredient. . . .
" Though it be not safe to dig at Foundation a often, lest
we shake the Building ; so our great care is to have sound
Foundations to build upon. . . .
" Be willing to want what God is not willing to give. . . .
" Whoever fears to sin, never sins by fear. . . .
" In the night the waking Child in the cradle is quiet at
the Nurses coming to it, because there is more of comfort
in the Nurse than fear in the Dark. . . . And then be
pers waded to set a right value on all earthly, perishing,
dying things ; do not call a Pebble a Pearl. . . .
" For a little needle will draw a long tail of Thread
after it. ...
"My Child, to believe things incredible, to hope things
delayed, and to love God when he seems angry, Are
Luthers wonders and mine, and thine.
" A well led life is the best Monument."
142 HUGH PETER:
"MY WISHES.
I Wish your Lamp and Vessel full of Oyl,
Like the Wise Virgins (Which all Fools neglect)
And the Rich Pearl, for which the Merchants toyl,
Yea, bow to purchase are so circumspect :
I wish you that White Stone with the New Name,
Which none can reade but who possess the same.
I wish you neither Poverty, nor Riches,
But Godlinesse, so gainful, with Content,
No painted Pomp, nor Glory that bewitches :
A blamelesse life is the best Monument :
And such a Soul that soars above the Skie,
Well pleas'd to live, but better pleas'd to die.
I wish you such a Heart as Mary had,
Minding the main, open'd as Lydea's was ;
A Hand like Dorcas, who the Naked clad;
Feet like Joanna's passing to Christ apace.
And above all, to live your self e to see
Marryed to Him, who must your Saviour be."
" Whoever would live long and Blessedly, let him observe
these Following Rules, by which he shall attain to that
which he desireth"
Thoughts Divine, Awful, Godly
Talk Little, Honest, True
Works Profitable, Holy, Charitable
Manners Grave, Courteous, Cheerful
Dyet Temperate, Convenient, Frugal
" Let thy Apparil Be Sober, Neat, Comely,
Will Comfiant, Obedient, Ready
Sleep Moderate, quiet, Seasonable
Prayers Short, Devout, Often, Fervent
Recreation Lawful, Brief, Seldom
Memory Of Death , Punishment, Glory"
These fragments of a useful and active life can be no
more fittingly ended than by quoting the preface to the
Last Legacy written by another hand.
" To the Impartial Reader. Be not Discouraged from
reading this small Treatise, because of the unhappy End
of a Wearisome pilgrimage, which the Author met with
in this world ; If we get a fall in a journey, or meet with
a great showre of rain so it be in the close of the day
when we are near our Inn, where we meet with
accomodation and refreshment, we are the less troubled ;
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 143
Yet such was his case (who for many years was very
Instrumental in the Church of God, and a means of
bringing many Souls to Christ ; and for the Good of
others came into this Kingdom when it was in a flame of
Civil War, which hath signd* him also, that he might
escape everlasting flames) in this Discourse he bewails the
vanity of his own Spirit ; and we will not Excuse him ;
he finds himself too busie in Aliena Republica and we will
not justifie him ; But if that precious Gold should be cast
away because there is some Dross, or the Children of God
cast out of the Family for every fault though heinous,
we should condemn the Generation of the just : You will
find in the Legacy to his only Child that he had a Root of
Grace, and that the Fountain was clear from which ran so
savoury a stream, And that at the last when he had no
hope to save a frail Body, yet he minded his own and
others Souls, And that he was a Master Workman in that
Mysterie, wherein he had laboured successfully so many
years, And we hope that notwithstanding the prejudicacie
of some against him and the words of others, and his sad
shameface Catastrophy, we may charitably judge that God
hath wiped all Tears from his Eyes, that he is entered
into Rest, his Works following him ; and that he is made
perfect by his great Suffering ; And with the same to you,
except these Bonds. G. F. N. B.
LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED.
Anglia Rediviva, England's Recovery. The History of the Motions,
Actions and Successes of the Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax, by
Joshua Sprigge, M.A. London, 1647.
Annals of Salem, by J. B. Felt, 2 vols. Salem, 1845.
A Dying Father's Last Legacy to an Onely Child, or Mr. Hugh Peters
Advice to his Daughter, written by his own Hand, during his late
Imprisonment in the Tower of London : And given her a little
before his Death. London, Printed for G. Calvert and T. Brewster,
and are to be sold at the Black-spread Eagle, and at the Three
Bibles, at the West-End of Pauls, 1660.
Bibliotheca CornuUensis, a Catalogue of the writings, both Manuscript
and Printed, of Cornishmen and of works relating to the county
of Cornwall, by George Clement Boase, and William Prideaux
Courtney. London, 1882.
Chronological Observations of America, by John Josselyn, Gent.
* Singed,
144 HUGH PETER :
(Massachusetts Historical Collections, 3d series, Vol. 3, page 355).
London, 1674.
Complete Collection of State Trials, from the earliest period. William
Cobbett. London, 1792.
A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Esq., Secretary, first
to the Council of State, and afterwards to the Two Protectc-s,
Oliver and Richard Cromwell ; 7 vols. London, 1742.
Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, by
Alexander Young. Boston, 1846.
Collections of Scarce and Valuable Tracts of the late Lord Somers.
Londpn, 1812.
The Case^jf Mr. Hugh Peters, Impartially Communicated to the View
and Censure of the Whole World : Written by his own hand.
London [1660],
Oliver Cromwell's Speeches and Letters,' by Thomas Carlyle; 4 vols.
New York, 1897.
Preface to Church Government and Church Covenant, by Hugh
Peters. London, 1643. (The article itself is by Richard Mather.)
Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Sidney Lee. New York,
1896.
The Diary and Memoirs of John Evelyn, Esq. , F.E. 6 T . ; edited by William
Bray, Esq. London and New York. (Preface of 1815 edition.)
Diary of Thomas Burton, Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and
Richard Cromwell from 1656-1G59, now first published from the
Original Autograph Manuscript with an Introduction containing
an Account of the Parliament of 1654, from the Journal of Guibon
Goddard, Esq., F. R.S. ; also now first printed. Edited and
Illustrated with Notes Historical and Biographical by John Towill
Rutt;4vols. London, 1818.
The Ecclesiastical History of New England, comprising: not only
religious but also moral, and other relations, by Joseph B. Felt;
2 vols. Boston, 1855.
God's Doings and Man's Duty, Opened in a Sermon preached before
both Houses of Parliament, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the
City of London, and the Assembly of Divines; at the last
Thanksgiving Day, April 2. For the recovering of the West, and
disbanding 5000 of the King's Horse, &c. By Hugh Peters,
Preacher of the Gospel. London, 1646.
History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay from the first Settlement
thereof in 1628 until its Incorporation with the Colony of Plimouth
Province of Main, &c., by Mr. Hutchinson. London, 1765.
Historical and Critical Account of Hugh Peter after the manner of Mr.
Bayle (by Dr. William Harris), published anonymously. London,
1751.
The History of Massachusetts, by John Stetson Barry; 3 vols. Boston,
1855.
PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST. 145
The History of the Rebellion and Civil War in England, together with
an Historical View of the Affairs of Ireland, by Edward, Earl of
Clarendon; 7 vols. London, 1849.
History of New England from 1630 to 1649, by John Winthrop, Esq.,
first Governor of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, from his
original Manuscripts with notes by James Savage; 2 vols. Boston,
1826. (Also called Winthrop's Journal.)
History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649, by Samuel Rawson
Gardiner, M.A., LL.D. ; 3 vols. London, 1886.
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State, Weighty Matters
in Law, Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments, beginning
the Sixteenth Year of King James, Anno 1618. Digested in order
of Time and now published by John Rush worth of I c 'ns Inn,
Esq. London, 1659.
The Harleian Miscellany ; 10 vols. London, 1810.
Life of Roger Williams, by John Knowles.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Historical Collections.
Memoir of Hugh Peters, by Joseph B. Felt (New England Historical
and Genealogical Register, Vol. v). Boston, 1851.
Memorials of the Civil War, comprising the Correspondence of the
Fairfax family with the most distinguished personages engaged
in that memorable contest, now first published from the original
Manuscripts; edited by Robert Bell; 2 vols. London, 1849.
Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, with a Collection of Original Papers, and
the Case of King Charles the First. London, 1771.
Memorials of the English affairs; or an Historical account of what
passed from the Beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First,
to King Charles the Second, His Happy Restauration, containing
the Publick Transactions, Civil and Military together with The
Private Consultations and Secrets of the Cabinet. By Mr
Whitelock. London, 1732.
Memoirs of Samuel Pepys Esq., F.R.8., comprising his Diary from
1659 to 1669 and Selections from his Private Correspondence;
edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke. London, 1825.
Magnolia Christi Americana, or the Ecclesiastical History of New
England from its first planting in the year 1620 into the year of
our Lord 1698 ; in 7 books by Cotton Mather, Pastor of the North
Church in Boston, New England. London, 1702.
The Publications of the Harleian Society, established 1869. London.
Plain Dealing, or Newes from New England, by Thomas Lechford,
Clement's Inne, January 17, 1641 (Massachusetts Historical
Collections, 3d series, Vol. 3, page 54). London, 1642.
Peters' Pattern, or The Perfect Path to Worldly Happiness. As it was
delivered in a Funeral Sermon preached at the interrment of Mr.
HIST. COLL. VOL. XXXVIII 10
146 HUGH PETER : PREACHER, PATRIOT, PHILANTHROPIST.
Peters lately deceased. London, Printed in the Year 1659 (a
burlesque).
The Parochial History of Cornwall, by Davies Gilbert, 1838.
Roger Williams, the pioneer of religious liberty, by Oscar S. Straus.
New York, 1894.
Left. Lion Gardener, Relation of the Pequot Warres (Massachusetts
Historical Collections, 3d series, Vol. 3, page 131).
Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New
England, printed by order of the Legislature edited by Nathaniel
Shurtleff; 5 vols. Boston, 1854.
The Tryall and Condemnation of Mr. John Cooke, Sollicitor to the late
High-court of Injustice, and Mr Hugh Peters, that carnall Prophet.
For their severall High-treasons, &c. At the Sessions-house in
the Old-baily, on Saturday the 13. of October, 1660. Together
with, Their severall Pleas and the Answers thereunto. London,
Printed for John Stafford and Edward Thomas, 1660.
The Tales and Jests of Mr Hugh Peters, completed into one volume.
Published by one that hath formerly been conversant with the
Author in his Lifetime, and Dedicated to Mr John Goodwin and
Mr Philip Nye. Together with his Sentence and the Manner of
his Execution : To which is prefixed a Short Account of his Life.
London, 1660. Reprinted, London, 1807.
This reprint contains the well-known frontispiece of Peter in
the pulpit with three scrolls issuing from his mouth and bearing
the words: Blasphemy, Rebellion, Heresie; also an hour-glass
in his hand. A side beam of light (or so it seems) is inscribed :
" I know you are all good fellows, stay and take the other glass."
A Word for the Army and two Words for the Kingdom. To clear the
one and cure the other. Forced in much Plainness and Brevity
from their faithful Servant Hugh Peters. London, 1647 (Harleian
Miscellany ; Vol. v, page 607).
Wonder-Working Providence ofZiorfs Saviour, Being a Relation of the
first Planting on New England, in the year 1628 (Massachusetts
Historical Collections, 2d series, Vol. 3, page 123).
An Exact and most Impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment,
Trial, and Judgment (according to Law) of nine and twenty
Regicides, the Murtherers Of His Late Sacred Majesty Of Most
Glorious Memory : Began at Hicks-Hall on Tuesday, the 9th of
October, 1660. And Continued at the Sessions House in the Old-
Bayley until Friday, the nineteenth of the same Moneth. Together
with a Summary of the Dark and Horrid Decrees of those
Caballists Preparatory to that Hellish Fact. Exposed to view
for the Reader's Satisfaction, and Information of Posterity.
Imprimatur; John Berkenhead: London, Printed for Andrew
Crook at the Green Dragon in St Paul's Church -yard, and Edward
Bonsel at the White-Swan in Little-Britain, 1660.
MARINE NOTES
FROM A NEWS BOOK KEPT IN SALEM, MASS., 1812-1815,
AT THE OFFICE OF THE ESSEX INSURANCE
COMPANY, NATHANIEL BOWDITCH,
PRESIDENT.
COPIED BY GEORGE L. PEABODY.
(Continued from Vol. XXXVII, page 344.}
Feb. 26. Arr. at Boston yesterday Ship Norfolk,
Packett, 42 days from Liverpool brings London dates to
11 th & Liverp. to 13 th Jan. Accounts of the capture of
the Frolic & Macedonian had been received. Many long
faces among high minded folks in consequence. News
from the Russian army to the 29 th Nov. 9 sail of the Line
fitting for the American coast. The Schooner Resolution
has been captured & sent into Bermuda. The Montgomery
sailed for Cape Ann.
Monday, March 1 [1813]. Reports of the English
Frigates being driven on Shore in the Chesapeake in a
heavy gale of wind. Eng. Schooner Juniper from Halifax
arr'd at Rio Janeiro on the 29 th Sept r .
March 2. Priv. Ship John of this port has been captured
in the West Indies. Privateer Brig Hunter is said also
to have been taken.
March 3. Arrived Ship Fingal, Davis, 43 days from
Liverpool at New York ; left 10 th Jan'y & brings London
dates to llth Jan'y. The Vengence of New York for
(147)
148 MARINE NOTES, 1812-1815.
Bordeaux. Brig Expectation from do for do & Privateer
Hunter has been sent into England.
March 4. A Schooner at Philadelphia from France (left
25 th Jan'y) brings accounts of the death of Mr. Barlow on
his way from Wilna to Paris. No accounts of the Grand
Army since the 29 th bulletin.
March 5. Sch r Enterprise, Holmes, hence'at Bourdeaux.
Brig Porcupine, of Boston, has arrived in France 14 days
from Boston. Brig Ann, Lee, prizemaster, arrived at
Marblehead, prize to the privateer Growler. U. S. Brig
Viper, prize to the Eng. frigate Narcissus arrived at
Bermuda 13 th ulto. Sailed the Montgomery for Cape Ann
on a cruize.
, March 6. Portuguese Brig Sacramento sailed for
Havanna. Arrived at New York Brig Nimrod 120 days
from Canton. Ship Pres. Adams, of Boston, was lost 30
miles S. W. of Mocho (Macow) about first September, in
a typhon ; the ship was abandoned by Capt & Crew &
afterwards plundered by the Natives ; the ship was
eastward bound. Total loss of Vessel & Cargo. The U. S.
Frigate Cheaspeake on the 13 th Jan'y was in chase of a
fleet bound from Eng. to the Brazils under Convoy of the
Cherub Sloop of War 20 guns.
Monday, March 8 [1813]. Brig Latona from London
in 47 days, arrived at Boston this afternoon. Foreign
Seamen License and non exportation bills have passed
the House.
March 9. The privateer Sch r Swordfish, Evans, from
Gloucester, was captured Dec r 28,Lat. 38 40', Long. 39
45'by the Elephant 74, (The Hermes frigate in C) & arr'd
at Portsmo. Eng. Jan y 14 th . Sloop Endeavour, Orne, from
Salem for Bourdeaux, was sent into Guernsey in Jan? by
the Lion privateer. Privateer Brig Hunter, Upton, from
Salem, was captured Dec r 23, by the Br. frigate Phebe.
The following British Vessels were cruizing off the
Western Isles in Dec r in three divisions, viz 1 . one
consisting of the Colossus 74, Rhin 38, & Goldfinch,
10, another of the Theseus & Bellona, 74's, & Niemion
frigate, the other the Elephant 74, & Hermes frigate.
The two latter since arr'd in Eng. The Colossus &
Elephant are remarkable fast sailers.
MARINE NOTES, 1812-1815.
149
List of H. B. M. Ships on the Bermuda and Halifax Station,
16, 1813.
Ships
S*. Domingo,
Marlborough,
Poictiers,
Ramilus,
Dragon,
Victorious,
Acasta,
Junon,
Shannon,
Spartan,
Statura,
Tenedos,
Nymphe,
Belvidera,
Maidstone,
Aeolus,
Cleopatra,
Minerve,
Narcissus,
Laurestiuus,
Tartarus,
Fawn,
Atalantee,
Childers,
Colibri,
Curlew,
Dotterell,
Dauntless,
Fantome,
Indian,
Goree,
Martin,
Margiana,
Rattler,
Recruit,
Sophie,
Sylph,
Guns Commanders
74, Admiral Sir J. B. Warren.
74, Rear Adm r Cockburn.
74, Sir J. P. Beresford.
74, Sir T. M. Hardy.
74, Cap* Collyer.
74, " Talbot.
40, " Kerr.
38, " Saunders.
38, " Brooke.
38, " Brenton.
38, ' Stackpole.
38, Parker..
38, ' Epworth.
36, ' Byron.
36, ' Burdete.
32, Lord J. Townsend.
32, Cap* Pechell.
32, " Hawkins.
32, " Lumley.
24, " Graham.
20, " Pasco.
20, " Fellowes.
18, " Hickey.
18, " Bedford.
18, Pechell.
18, ' Head.
18, Daniel.
18, ' Barber.
18, ' Lawrence.
18, ' Jane.
18, ' Byng.
18, ' Senhouse.
18, ' Scott.
18, ' Gordon.
18, ' Evans.
18, " Lockyer.
18, " Douglas.
March 12. Ship Pacifick up for Liverpool is not
allowed to go by Government ; she will however go for
Lisbon with passengers & letters. Letters from thence
will be forwarded to England.
Monday, March 15 [1813]. Ship Venus, Lander,
arr'd at N. Orleans on the 8 th Feb y 42 days. Yesterday
sailed the Privateer Ship Alexander, B. Crowninshield,
Esq r Commander, on a cruise. The Privateer Brig
Decatur is captured by the Surprise Frigate off the
Western Islands.
150 MARINE NOTES, 1812-1815.
March 16. Arrived at New York Ship Powhattan,
Roberts, from Bourdeaux, with a valuable cargo. Gov 1
Schooner Com. Hull, was at Holmes-hole on Saturday
last and was to sail first wind with the vessels in port,
under convoy. A Cartel with prisoners arrived at
Newport on Sunday. Privateer Ship Ticklen (John) of
Salem, captured by an Eng. gun Brig, has arrived at S l
Thomas, crew sent to Barbadoes. The Com. Hull
arrived at Boston with the Vineyard Fleet this morning.
" British Frigate Pomona of 30 guns was chased several
hours by the Essex Frigate, 32, but escaped by superior
sailing, the captain of the British Frigate said his men
had mutinied which justified his running !" see Evn'g
Post.
March 17. A Prize to the Yankee privateer arrived
at Boston this forenoon. Arrived Brig. Henry, Harris,
from Cadiz. Plymouth Lights bear"s W. S. W. 12 miles,
was boarded by the Liverpool Packet, Bass ; after several
hours detention was permitted to proceed. The L. P. had
8 men on board & had taken one of the Sen" under
convoy of Com. Hull, loaded with Flour & Corn. Arr d
the Rover, Boardman, from N. York.
March 18. Brig Return, King, is reported to have
arrived at the Vineyard from Cayenne, 29 days passage.
Capt. Moody of the Brig Mary Caroline of Boston arr d in
town this afternoon from S fc Thomas. The Mary Caroline
sailed from Archangel the last of Aug* & after being at
sea 130 days (60 of which he was on the Coast of
America) was obliged to bear up for the West Indies
after which he was captured by the Cerberus, Sloop of
War, car d to S fc Thomas & condem d . Sch r Dolphin,
Brown, from Norfolk, 18 days, has arr d . Sch r Nymph,
Patterson, from New York is cap d by the Liv. Packet,
privateer.
March 20. Arrived at Boston Brig Reaper 140 days
from Calcutta with a valuable cargo of peice goods, &c.
Brig ^Cara van sailed from Calcutta, Oct. 2 d .
Tuesday, March 23 [1813]. Arrived Brig Henry,
Bowditch, from N. York, also Brig Return, King, from
Cayenne via the Vineyard, with Molasses &c. The U. S.
Ship Hornet, Cap 1 Lawrence, of 18 Guns, Captured on the
MARINE NOTES, 1812-1815. 151
25 Feby [by] his B. M. Brig Peacock, of 19 Guns, after
an action of 15 minutes. 1 man Killed & 2 wounded on
b d the Hornet ; 8 Killed, 27 wounded & 19 drowned from
the Peacock. A Brig beating in with a white flag at the
main. Arrived Brig Caravan, Heard, from Calcutta & 35
days from Pernambuca, to Pick g Dodge.
March 24. A Spanish Ship loaded by Capt Dutch of
the Brig Factor at Montevideo has arrived at Charleston
(S. C.), 159 days passage.
March 25. Privateer Brig Sir J C Sherbrooke,
Freeman, is off Cape Cod, made 4 captures (late Thorn of
Mar d ). Sailed Privateer Alfred at 11 A. M.
March 26. Ship James, Reymers, from Philad. 107
days with passengers, arrived at Batavia July 11 th '12.
Mr. Barclay (B. C) has reached Bermuda in the Valiant,
74, also a Fleet from England. The U. S. Ship Hornet
in the Sound (L. I.) Sch. Lottery, formerly of Baltimore,
has been sunk by a U. S. Schooner.
Monday, March 29, [1813] . Cartel Ship Pennsylvania
Packet, from Liverpool, arr'd at Eeedy Island (Del.), on
Monday night last. Brig Silkworm, from Lisbon, arr'd
at Boston on Saturday ev'g. Left 13 th Feby. Ship John
Adams, Downing, sailed 7 days before. Sloop of War
Hornet, Capt. Lawrence, arr'd at N. York on Thursday
last. Privateer Sch Thrasher of Gloucester had arrived
at Gibralter, prize to theEng. Frigate Magicienne. Ship
Samuel, Capt. Hall, dispatched as a Cartel by the Am.
Consul with seamen from Cadiz and the adjacent ports,
sail'd Feby 26 th for New York. Spoken on' the 23 rd inst
on the S. E. part of Georges Bank, Cartel Ship United
States from London for New York. 12 M. Sailed the
privateer Ship America, Capt. Kehew, on a cruize.
Sailed this morning privateer Sch r Cossack, Capt. Jn
Upton.
March 30. Ship United States (Cartel) from London,
57 days, has arrived at New York. Capt. Stanley
passenger is arrived in Town.
March 31. Spoken by the Ship United States from
England, March 24 th Lat. 42-50' Long. 71-30' W.,
English Brig Earl Percy, prize to the U. S. frigate
Chesapeake, captured on the 28 th Jan' y Lat. 1 North ;
cargo salt (from Bonavisto bound to Brazil) .
152 MARINE NOTES, 1812-1815.
April 1. This morning arr'd at Marblehead an English
Brig from the West Indies with a cargo of Rum, prize to
the Privateer Alfred of this port. Several W. Indiamen
in sight at the same time. Moses Wallis is arr d , says
that his sloop was yesterday taken in Co. with a Schn r
loaded with wood, the men taken out of the schn r &
ordered on board the Sloop. Taken by the Ratler, Capt.
Gordon, 16 Guns, off Wood Isle. .Ship Betsy, Nash,
arr'd at Boston yesterday from Lisbon 40 days. Spoke
25 th inst, 5 leagues west of George's Bank, British Sloop
of War Curlew, from Halifax, having in Co. the valuable
Ship Volant from (France for Boston) prize to the
Curlew, captured a few days before. Arrived at Boston
Cartel Schooner Anson, 40 days from Madeira. On the
28 th Long. 67, Lat. 42 N, was boarded from the Br.
frigate Shannon, in Co. with the Acasta, said to be cruiz-
ing for the U. S. frigate Cheaspeake. An English
outward bound fleet of 30 sail of Indiamen, arr'd off
Madeira, 18 th July, under convoy of a frigate & two sloops
of War. A letter from Liverpool states that no
newspapers were permitted to be sent to America. Ship
Bostwick (Cartel) for Halifax, sailed from New London,
24 Ult with the Officers & crew of the Macedonian.
April 2. Brig Pilgrim at New Orleans in 42 days.
In the Bay, (seen from Marblehead) two Frigates, since
seen from Leg's Hill standing with light airs to the
southward, yards square & staysails set, one with yellow &
the other with dark sides, supposed to be the Tenedos &
Shannon of 38 each.
April 3. Two Frigates in sight from Leg's Hill at 8
A. M. standing N. E., probably the Tenedos & Shannon,
British Frigates. The above Frigates stood in above the
Boston Light & tacked ship at 12 o'clock & now standing
oft* (East). A Pilot boat has arr'd at Boston, which had
boarded the Shannon & Tenedos. The Cap 1 of the S,
informed the Pilot he had come up to pay a visit to the
brave Com. Itodgers, in consequence of which 90 men
extra had been put on board the Pres fc and they using
every exertion to get out. The above Ships boarded off
Boston Light a Coasting Sloop and permitted her to pass.
A Cartel has arrived at N. Y. ; Col. Barclay, passenger.
(To be continued.)
THE PEPPERKELLS IN AMERICA.
BY CECIL HAMPDEN CUTTS HOWARD.
(Continued from Vol. XXXVII, page
70 Margery Wentworth born Mar. 11, 1747;
married Robert Cutts, 1766.
Children :
194. SAMUEL SOLLEY, b. 1767 ; m. Apr. 25, 1805, Susanna Lewis ; d.
at sea.
195. THEODORE ATKINSON, b. 1768 ; m. Nov. 25, 1804, Mary A. Furnald ;
d. May 3, 1853.
196. POLLY, b. 1770; m., 1801, John Clark.
197. OLIVER, b. 1774; d. at sea, aged 19.
198. WILLIAM, b. 1776; m. June 29, 1802, Hannah Grouard; d. Sept.
23, 1823.
199. THOMAS, b. 1776; m. 1813, Eunice Cutts; d. 1845.
200. ROBERT, b. 1782 ; d. at Baltimore, Md.
201. MARGERY PEPPERRELL, b. Feb. 14, 1784; m. Mar. 6, 1807, Mark
Furnald ; d. 1864.
202. NANCY, b. July 26, 1786; d. unm., Apr. 3, 1869.
72 Benjamin Frost born July 21, 1753; married
Feb. 18, 1784, Mercy Gibbs Prescott.
Children :
203. HENRY, b. Dec. 30, 1784 ; d. Apr. 30, 1863, at Rye, N. H.
204. MARY NEWMARCH, b. Feb. 14, 1787 ; d. 1810.
205. BENJ. PRESCOTT, b. Mar. 25, 1792; d. Mar., 1818.
206. ELIZA PEESCOTT, b. May 16, 1795 ; d. young.
207. MERCY GIBBS, b. Aug. 2, 1797 ; d. young.
208. ELIZA PRESCOTT, b. Sept. 6, 1800; d. 1811.
209. JOHN NEWMARCH, b. Oct. 19, 1802 ; m. Dec. 27, 1824, Emeline
Seavey; d. Apr. 26, 1874.
210. MERCY GIBBS, b. Jan. 31, 1805; d. Sept., 1821.
73 William Frost born Nov. 15, 1755; married,
1778, Sarah Holt, daughter of Rev. Nathan Holt and
HIST. COLL. VOL XXXVIH 10* (153)
154 THE PEPPERRELLS IN AMERICA.
Sarah Abbot, of Danvers, Mass. She died Sept. 17,
1841.*
75 John Frost born 1759 ; married Lucy Lowe,
daughter of Major Caleb Lowe.
Children :
211. JOHN, m. Hannah B. Buffington.
212. .
213. .
214. .
216. .
216. .
217. .
77 John Frost born Aug. 15, 1738 ; married, in
1760, Margaret Nowell. John Frost served in the
. Revolutionary war as Colonel and commissary ; he had
command of a regiment at Dorchester and was subsequently
commissioned as Brigadier General in the Revolutionary
Army. He was, for many years, a representative of
the Massachusetts legislature, and afterward a Senator
and one of the Executive Council ; also, for a number of
years, Clerk of the Courts and Register of Probate. He
died at Eliot, Me., July 10,1800. His wife died July 8,
1814, aged 71.
Children :
218. JOHN, b. Dec. 6, 1760; d. at sea, unm., 1778.
219. JOSEPH, b. Dec. 25, 1762; m. Mary Shapleigh; d. Jan. 8, 1811.
220. MARY, b. Jan. 11, 1764; m. Sam'l Jordan ; d. Nov. 27, 1797.
221. SARAH, b. Feb. 23, 1768; m. John Swett; d. Mar. 10, 1828.
222. ANDREW PEPPERRELL, b. Apr. 14, 1769; d. Feb. 4, 1771.
223. GEORGE, b. Apr. 14, 1769; d. May 8, 1769.
224. ANDREW PEPPERRELL, b. Feb. 15, 1772; d. young.
225. NATHANIEL, b. Jan. 22, 1774; m. Abigail Kimball.
226. GEORGE, b. Oct. 3, 1778 ; m. Sarah Bartlett.
227. TIMOTHY, b. Dec. 3, 1779; m. Susan Coffin.
228. WILLIAM, b. Aug. 3, 1781 ; m. Elizabeth Keating.
229. MERCY, b. Apr. 10, 1784; m. Edmund Kimball; d. Sept., 1823.
78 Sarah Frost born Oct. 4, 1740; married May
19, 1763, Richard Cutts, son of Major Richards and
Eunice (Curtis) Cutts.
* See Holt Genealogy, Albany, 1864.
THE PEPPERKELLS IN AMERICA. 155
Richard Cutts, jr. served as Special Justice of the
Court of Common Pleas 1747-1761. His father served
at Louisbourg with Sir William Pepperrell, and was for
eight years Councillor of Maine. Richard Cutts, jr.
through his mother, was a descendant of the well-known
families of Curtis, Bonython and Foxwell ; also paternally
from the Wills, Hoel Shapleigh Treworgye and other dis-
tinguished lines.
Children :
230. JOSEPH, b. July 5, 1764; m. Apr. 10, 1790, Mary Chauncy; d.
July 3, 1861.
231. RICHARD, b. Nov. 25, 1765; m., 1814, Joanna Raynes.
232. SARAH, b. Aug, 31, 1767; m., 1786, Capt. Daniel Bartlett.
233. MARY, b. Sept. 13, 1768; m. Aug. 4, 1793, Wm. Pepperrell
Frost, s.p.
234. JOHN, b. Oct. 9, 1770.
235. JOANNA, b. July 13, 1772; d. unm., 1792.
236. EUNICE, b. Jan. 31, 1774: m., 1813, Thomas Cutts; 'd. 1821.
237. ELIZABETH, b. May 24, 1782; m. Francis Raynes.
79 Timothy Frost born Oct. 5, 1742 ; married
March 8, 1761, Hannah Nowell.
Children :
238. HANNAH, b. 1761 ; m. Wilson of Falmouth, Me.
239. ABIGAIL, b. Sept. 18, 1763; m. Chas. Frost; 90 d. Aug. 11, 1838.
240. TIMOTHY, JR. b. Nov. 9, 1765; d. young.
241. WILLIAM PEPPERRELL, b. Mar. 1, 1768; m. Aug. 4, 1793, Mary
Cutts 233 s. p.
80. Abigail Frost born Oct. 1, 1744 ; married Oct.,
1767, Capt. Samuel Leighton.
He was a prominent man and possessed of large
property. In the war of the Revolution he raised a com-
pany at the request of General Warren, and marched to
Watertown. He held a Captain's commission and was at
the Battle of Bunker Hill and Washington Heights. He
was commissioned Major in 1778, and died suddenly
February 27, 1802, at his home in Eliot, Me.
Children :
242. JOHN, b. Oct. 18, 1768; m., 1795, Sarah Parsons; d. June 14,
1854.
243. MARY, b. Jan. 8, 1770; m. Joseph Jordan.
156 THE PEPPERRELLS IN AMERICA.
244. SAMUEL, JR., b. May 25, 1771 ; m. Francis U. Parson.
245. ABIGAIL, b. Nov. 7, 1772 ; m. T. Lancton.
246. SARAH FROST, b. May 25, 1774; m. Josh. Bragdon.
247. ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 23, 1777; m. Elias Davis.
248. JANE, b. June 25, 1779 ; m. P. Ricker.
249. GEORGE, b. Feb. 25, 1782.
250. HANNAH, b. Dec. 7, 1783; m. Maj. William Mclntyre.
81 William Frost born May 26, 1747 ; married
Elizabeth Randall of Berwick, Me.
Children :
251. GEORGE, b. Jan. 20, 1776 ; d. young.
252. , b. Jan. 20, 1776.
253. ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 21, 1780; d. unm.
254. SOPHIA, b. Apr. 15, 1782: d. unm.
255. ISAAC, b. Jan. 17, 1785.
256. JACOB, b. Jan. 17, 1785 ; joined the Shakers.
257. SALLY,' b. Mar. 31, 1787; joined the Shakers.
258. LYDIA, b. Mar. 31, 1787; m. N. Young.
259. POLLY, b. Feb. 24, 1789; d. young.
260. LUCY, b. June 28, 1790 ; d. unm.
261. NANCY, b. Sept. 12, 1791 ; joined the Shakers.
262. SABRA, b. Feb. 11, 1793; joined the Shakers.
263. , b. Feb. 11, 1793; d. young.
264. JOHN GEORGE, b. Sept. 15, 1794.
265. WILLIAM PEPPERRELL, b. Apr. 22, 1796.
266. CHARLES, b. Mar. 2, 1799 ; d. May 10, 1803.
82 Jane Pepperrell Frost born Sept. 10, 1749 ;
married Jan. 1, 1772, Col. John Nowell of York, Me.
She died in 1827. They had one son and two daughters.
85 George Pepperrell Frost born in 1758 ;
married Elizabeth Goslin and settled in Rochester, N. Y.
He enlisted in the Revolution at sixteen and rose from
private'to captain. He died Feb. 8, 1844, a pensioner
on half pay.
Children :
270. WILLIAM.
271. SARAH, m. Daniel Carson.
272. ELIZABETH, m. Richard Carman.
273. GEORGE PEPPERRELL, m. Benjamin.
THE PEPPERRELLS IN AMERICA. 157
89 Andrew Pepperrell Frost born in 1752;
married Eleanor Slemmons. She died in 1796.
Children :
274. NANCY, m. Capt. Thomas Seal.
275. WILLIAM, d. unm. in 1816.
276. CATHERINE, m. Mahon.
277. ELEANOR, m. Clark.
278. ANDREW PEPPERRELL, d. unm. in 1845.
279. JOSEPH.
280. JANE, m. - Brown; d. 1835.
90 Charles Frost, jr. born July 6, 1755 ; married
Abigail Frost 239 . He died April 6, 1841.
Children :
281. JOANNA, b. Jan. 7, 1784.
282. GEORGE, b. Jan. 6, 1785.
283. HENRY, b. Mar. 10, 1789.
284. CHARLES, b. Nov. 19, 1791.
285. WILLIAM, b. 1794.
286. ABIGAIL, b. Nor. 7, 1799.
287. ELIZA, b. Mar. 22, 1802.
288. JOHN, b. June 12, 1807.
91 William Blunt married, 1st, -^ Slade ; married
2nd, Mehitable March-
Children, by first wife :
289. GEORGE, d. unm.
290. ARTHUR, m. Hunt.
291. WILLIAM, m. Far scald.
292. ABIGAIL, m., 1st, John Noble; m., 2nd, Major Cluff.
293. JOHN, m. Perkins.
Children, by second wife :
294. EDMUND MARCH.
295. JOSEPH.
296. ELIZABETH, m. Captain Goodhue.
297. JAMES.
298. MARY.
299. SARAH, m. John Shannon.
93 John Blunt married Hannah Sherburne.
Children :
300. JOHN, b. Feb. 27, 1757 ; d. young.
301. FRANCIS, b. Aug. 4, 1759; d. young.
158 THE PEPPERRELLS IN AMERICA.
302. GEORGE F., b. Sept. 7, 1761.
303. ROBERT WHIFFLE, b. July 5, 1763.
304. SARAH, b. Oct. 6, 1766 ; m. Mark Syrames.
305. CHARLES, b. Aug. 3, 1768; m. Leighton.
306. MARK SHERBURNE, b. July 7, 1770; m. - - Waldron.
307. MARY ANN, b. Apr. 29, 1772.
308. OLIVER CROMWELL, b. Oct. 3, 1774.
94 Sarah Frost Blunt married Thomas Furber.
Children :
309. WILLIAM.
310. JOHN.
311. THOMAS.
95 Abigail Frost Blunt married William Parsons,
son of Rev. Joseph and Frances (Usher) Parsons. She
died July 4, 1818.
Children :
312. JOSEPH, b. Nov. 21, 1769; m. Charlotte Sargent.
313. SARAH, b. Oct. 6, 1771; m. Jno. Leighton.
314. ABIGAIL FROST, b. July 12, 1773; m. Col. Daniel Lewis.
315. JOHN, b. Sept. 8, 1775.
316. FRANCES USHER, b. Jan. 14, 1778 ; m. Gen. Samuel Leighton.
317. WILLIAM, b. Jan* 14, 1780; m. Mary Parson; d. Oct. 8, 1864.
318. THOMAS, b. Jan. 21, 1783.
319. SAMUEL, b. Mar. 6, 1785.
320. USHER, b. Aug. 18, 1788 ; m. Mary J. Holmes ; d. Dec. 19, 1868.
97 Margaret born Dec. 8, 1747; married Hon.
John Wentworth, jr., July, 1771.
He was the son of Col. John and Joanna (Gilman)
Wentworth of Dover, N. H ; was one of the Committee
of Correspondence in Revolutionary troubles ; Represen-
tative in the State Assembly, Register of Probate for
Stafford Co. until his death ; on several committees ;
was a delegate from New Hampshire to the Continental
Congress and one of the signers of the original Articles
of Confederation. He has been called "a statesman and
lawgiver superior to most of his contemporaries."
He was a member of the Congregational church in
which faith he died Jan. 10, 1787, of consumption,
aged 42.
Mrs. Margaret (Frost) Wentworth became the third
THE PEPPERRELLS IN AMERICA. 159
wife of Colonel John Waldron of Dover, N. H., where
she died Sept. 30, 1805.
Children :
321. JOHN, b. Apr. 5, 1772; d. unm. July 28, 1819.
322. MARGARET, b. May 27, 1773; d. unm. Oct. 27, 1801.
323. ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 9, 1774; m. June 1, 1800, Hon. Dan'l M.
Durell.
324. JOSEPH, b. Dec. 23, 1775; d. unm., 1798.
325. MESHECH WEARE, b. June 17, 1777 ; d. unm. May, 1799.
326. DOROTHY, b. June 24,|1779 ; m. Jan. 10, 1815, Hon. John Harvey.
327. PAUL, b. Apr. 22, 1782 ; m. Lydia Cogswell.
98 Joseph Frost born May 3, 1749 ; married Sarah
Simpson, daughter of Capt. John Simpson of York, Me.
Children :
328. JOSEPH, b. Dec. 4, 1786; d. at sea in 1810.
329. MmiAM, b. June 15, 1789 ; m. Jan. 30, 1824, John Cloutman.
99 George Frost born Nov. 24, 1750; married,
1770, Abigail Bell, daughter of Thomas Bell of Newcastle,
N. H.
George Frost was for many years a justice of the peace
and a merchant in the European and West India trade.
She died July 25, 1810, aged 58.
Children :
330. MARY, b. Dec., 1770; m. Feb. 2, 1797, Rev. Jno. Osborn, of Lee,
N. H. ; d. Sept., 1840.
331. MARGARET, b. Feb. 15, 1772; m. Apr. 30, 1797, Capt. Sam'l
Greenough; d. Nov. 20, 1799.
332. ABIGAIL, b. Jan. 21, 1774; m. May 15, 1800, Capt. Titus Salter;
d. June, 1821.
333. GEO. PITTS, b. Apr. 10, 1775 ; m. Dec. 18, 1797, Mehitable White.
334. ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 9, 1777; d. unm. 1817.
335. A CHILD, b. Sept., 1779 ; d. young.
336. SARAH, b. Oct. 16, 1780; m. Capt. J. M. Salter.
337. JOHN, b. Jan. 27, 1783; m. Jan. 8, 1806, Jane White; d. Nov.
22, 1842.
338. THOMAS BELL, b. July 25, 1784; m. Nov. 13, 1806, Sarah White.
339. WILLIAM CLARK, b. Nov. 19, 1786; m. - - 1814, Lucy Monson.
340. DOROTHY, b. Nov. 16, 1789; d. unm.
160 THE PEPPERRELL8 IN AMERICA.
341. JOSEPH, b. Mar. 15, 1791; m. 1825, Farnum*.
342. CHARLES LEWIS, b. May 28, 1793; m. 1820; lived in
Richmond, Va.
10O Mary Frost born Jan. 29, 1752 ; married
Stephen Chase, jr., son of Rev. Stephen and Jane
(Wingate) Chase.
He was a graduate of Harvard College in 1754; a
merchant at Portsmouth, N. H., and one of the founders
of the Portsmouth Athenaeum. He died in 1805. She
died Sept. 15, 1819.
Children :
343. JOSEPH, b. April 22, 1772; m. Margaret Chesley.
344. WILLIAM, b. Feb. 10, 1774; m. Sarah Blunt s. p.-, d. Aug. 30,
1834.
345. MARY, b. Nov. 15, 1776; m. Edmund Toppan.
346. HARRIET, b. Aug. 14, 1778 ; m. Olion Crosby.
347. SARAH, b. Oct. 23, 1780 ; m. J. H. Woodman.
348. THEODORE, b. Mar. 16, 1786; m. Apr. 26, 1831, Clarissa Bigelow.
102 Jane Frost born March 17, 1757; married
Nov. 1, 1781, Capt. John Salter, who was born Nov. 14,
1740 and died Sept. 28, 1814. She died Dec. 10, 1837.
Children :
349. BENJAMIN, m. Harriet Tibbetts.
350. JOHN, m. Sarah Tibbetts.
351. WILLIAM FROST/D. Jan. 25, 1787 ; m. Sept. 30, 1817, Mary Ewen ;
d. Sept. 26, 1849.
107 Sarah Frost born June 17, 1766 ; married
Capt. Richard Salter Tibbetts. He was a sea captain and
died in the West Indies about 1830. She died Jan. 4,
1852.
Children :
352. HALL JACKSON, d. Aug. 24, 1872.
353. CAROLINE A., m. Capt. Nathaniel N. Merrill.
354. ELIZABETH, m. John Lake Salter.
355. HARRIET, m. Benjamin Salter.
356. SARAH, m. John Salter.
( To be continued.)
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
COPIED BY WILLIAM P. UPHAM.
(Continued from Vol. XXXVII, page 368.)
May 11. baptized Martha Picket a grown maid.
Robert Son of Jn Cleeves by his wife [Mercy (Eaton)].
Elizabeth daughter of Matthew Butnian by his Wife
[Elizabeth (Hooper)]. Allice daughter of Nehemiah
Wood by his wife [Susanna (Low)].
May 18. baptized Elizabeth Shaw being ab fc 18 y r old
upon a Publick profess 11 of her faith & Repentance. &
Mary daughter of Gabriel Wood by his wife [Mercy] .
May 25. Baptized Joseph Son of Joseph Corning by
his wife Rebeccah [Woodbury]. & Lydia daughter of
Eleazar Giles by his wife Lydia [Groves] .
June 1 st Elizabeth daughter of Luke Morgan by his
wife Susanna [Clark?] baptized.
June 8. baptized Lydia daughter of Joseph Balch by
his wife Sarah [Hart] .
June 15. baptized Rebecca daughter of Deac 11 Peter
Woodbury now deceased by his wife [Mary (Dodge)].
Sam 11 Son of Sam 11 Butman by his wife Abigail [Ober] .
Robert Son of Rich d Patch Jun r by his wife [Hannah
(Eaton)].
June 22. baptized Peter son of Richard Ober Ju by
his wife [Priscilla (Woodbury) ] .
June 29. baptized W m son of George Pierce by his
wife Rebeccah.
July 6 th baptized William Son of Lot Conant Jun r by
his wife [Elizabeth (Pride)] & Samuel son of Samuell
Balch by his wife Ellenor [Cleaves] & [Emma] daughter
of Jn Haskol by his wife [Emma (Taylor)].
July 27. baptized Moses son of Moses Fluant by his
wife [Mary] .
HIST. COLL., VOL. XXXVIII. 11
162 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
Aug. 3 d baptized. Mary daughter of Jn Frost by his
wife Hannah [widow of John Green].
Aug. 10. baptized Ebenezer Son of Nath 11 Wallis Jun r
by his wife [Anna (widow of Edw. Rich, n&e Balch)] &
Rebeccah daughter of James Patch by his wife Rebeccah
[Biles] & Rachel daught r of Jabez Baker by his wife
[Rachel (Allen)].
Aug. 17. baptized Bethya daught r of Jn Lovet by his
wife [Mary (Pride)].
Aug. 24. Baptized Esther daughter of Ralph
Ellenwood by his wife [Sarah (Woodbury)].
Aug. 31. baptized Lydia daughter of Stephen Herrick
by his wife [Elizabeth (Trask)] & Mary daughter of Jn
Wheeler by his wife Mary [Giles] .
Sept. 7. baptized. Nathan son of Joseph Dodge Jun r by
his wife [Priscilla (Eaton)].
Sept. 14. baptized. Mehetabel daughter of Jn Frost
by his wife Hannah [widow of John Green] .
Sept. 21. baptized. Israel Son of Roger Conant by his
wife Mary [Raymond] & Mary daughter of W m Patch by
his wife Ellenor.
Sept. 28. baptized David son of George Standley by
his wife [Jane (Stacy)] & Experience daughter of
Nehemiah Stone by his wife Lydia.
[175] October 5 th Baptized Josiah Son of Sam 11
Lee of Manchester by his wife Rebecca.
Octob. 26. Baptized Cornelius Son of Jonathan Baker
by his wife Mary [Trask] * w ch was born after It's Fathers
death. & Abigail Daughter of Jn Creesie of Ryall side by
his wife [Sarah (Gaines)].
Nov. 30. Baptized. Ralf Son of Jn Tuck Jun r by his
wife Sarah [Shaw] & Judith daughter of Stephen Howard
of Ryall side by his wife [Judith] .
Dec. 29, 1707. baptized George son of Nathanael
Rayment by his wife [Rebecca (Conant)].
March 21, 1707/8. baptized Abigail [Blashfield]
Wheeler widdow of Jonathan Wheeler deceas d being I
suppose ab l 25 y r old upon a Publick profess 11 of her faith
& repent e . The same day Bethya [(Lovett) Shaw] wife
*Afterwards m. Samuel Balch.
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 163
of Peter Shaw owned y e covenant & had y r Son Peter
Baptized. & Experience daughter of Joseph Trask by his
wife [Elizabeth (Sallows)].
April 4. baptized Herbert Son of Jn Thorndike by
his wife [Joanna (Dodge)] & Bethya daughter of Peter
Wooden by his wife [Elizabeth (Mallet)].
April 11. Baptized Joseph Son of Samuel Lovet by his
wife Prudence [Dodge j .
May 2 d baptized Joshua Son of Lot Conant sen r by his
wife Elizabeth [Pride J .
May 9 . baptized Samuell Son of Samuell Goold by his
wife [Betty (Thorndike)].
May 16. baptized Abigail daught r of Humphry Howel
by his wife [Elizabeth (Smith)]. Abigail daught r of Jn
Ober by his wife [Hannah (Woodbury)] . Abigail daughtf
of Nath 11 Stone Ju by his wife [Mary (Balch) ] .
May 23. baptized Elizabeth daughter of Sam 11 Corning
Ju by his wife [Susanna (Knowlton)]
May 30. baptized Jonathan Son of Jonathan Dodge by
his wife Jerusha [Raymond] .
June 7 th 1708. baptized Elizabeth daughter of Benjamin
Dike by his wife [Ann (Lucas)].
June 20 th baptized Margery y e wife of Ebenezer Ashby
ab' 22 or 23 years old. Ebenezer Son of Tho s Sallows
by his wife [Abigail (Wallis)] & Zebulon Son of Joseph
Morgan Ju by his wife Sarah [Hill] .
June 27, 1708. baptized Tho s Son of Tho s Blower
(Pastor) by his wife Emma [Woodbury, nee Eliot] born
y e Tuesday before @ 6 In morn.
July 11 th baptized. 400 in all. Robert Son of Ebenezer
Dodge by his wife [Lydia (Nowell)]. Thomas Son of
Andrew Dodge by his [second] wife [Sarah (Andrews)].
Joseph Son of Jn Baker by his wife Deborah.
Aug 8 th baptized. Mary [Thorndike] Wife of Robert
Morgan & Hannah [Thorndike] Wife of W m Pride w
y n made &c : & were admitted to full communion.
Ebenezer Son of Ebenezer Woodbury by his wife
[Hannah (Dodge)].
Aug. 22. Baptized Mary daughter of Moses Fluant by
his wife [Mary].
Octob. 3. baptized Nicholas Son of y e Rev d M r
104 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
Nicholaus Webster now preacher of y e Gospel there = &c
viz. Manchester. Churchil . Son of ,Jn Knovvlton of
Manchester by his wife.
Octob 10. baptized. Dixie Son of Robert Morgan bv his
wife Mary [Thorndike] . & Sarah daughter of Jeremiah
Heberd by his wife Mary [Derby] .
October 17 th baptized Dan 11 & Hannah Son & daughter
of Joseph Butman by his wife [Rebecca (Harris, ne'e
Stone)]. Sarah daughter of Stephen Herrick by his wife
[Elizabeth (Trask)]. Mary daughter of Andrew Elliot
by his wife Mary [Herrick].
Octob r 24. baptized. Nicholas Son of W m Woodbury
Jun r by his wife Rebecca [Woodbury] .
Nov. 7 th baptized. Jn Thorndike atf'35 year old upon
a publick &c. Jonathan Son of Benjamin Ellen [n] wood
by his wife [Mary]. AndreAv Son of Daniel Coburn bv
his wife [Elizabeth (Conant)].
Dec. 12. baptized. Anna daughter of Hezekiah Ober
by his wife [Anna (Morgan)].
Dec. 19. baptized. Priscilla daughter, of Jonathan
Dike by his wife [Bethiah (Baker)].
Jan. 23. baptized Grace [Eliot] wife of W m Bradford
Ju w made a Publick profess 11 of Faith &c. Robert Son
of W ni & Grace [Eliot] Bradford. Abraham Son of
Charls & Miriam [widow of John White, nee Gale]
Johnson. Abigail daughter of William & Abigail [Gale]
Hooper.
Feb. fi, 1708/D. Baptized Mercy daughter of
Benjamin Balch by his wife Mercy [Leach].
[176] March <> 1708/9. Baptized Abigail daughter
of Sam 11 Butman by his wife Abigail [Ober] .
March 13 th baptized Tho s Son of James Clark by his
wife [Abigail (Larcorn)] & Rebekah daughter of Jn
Standley by his wife [Rebecca (Larcom)].
March 27. baptized Jonathan Son of Paul Thorndike
by his wife Mary [Batchelder] .
April 3. baptized Elizabeth & Hannah Twins daughters
of James & Mary Patch.
April 24. baptized. Elijah Son of Joseph Dodge Ju
by his wife [Priscilla (Eaton)].
May 8 th . baptized. Samuel Son of Benjamin Wallis by
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 1 (i5
his wife Sarah. & Richard Son of Joseph Tuck by his wife
Sarah [Reith],
May 15 th . baptized. George Son of Jonathan Dodge
by his wife Jerusha [Raymond] . Josiah Son of Josiah
Woodbury by his Wife Lydia [Herrick] .
June 19. baptized. Ellenor daughter of Jn Cleeves by
his wife Mercy [Eaton] .
June 26. baptized. Susannah daughter of Luke Morgan
by his wife Susanna [Clark?].
July 10. baptized. Zebulon & Hannah of Robert
Woodbury by his wife [Mary (West)].
July 17. baptized. Miriam daughter of Jn Haskol by
his wife Emma [Taylor] .
July 31. baptized. Bartholomew Son of Benjamin
Allen of Manchester by his wife [Abigail (Hill)] & Lydia
daughter of Roger Conant by his wife Mary [Raymond]
Aug 14 th baptized. Nehemiah Son of Nehemiah Howard
by his wife Ruth [Dixey] . Lydia daughter of Jonathan
Herrick by his wife Elizabeth [Dodge]^ Sarah daughter
of Nehemiah Wood by his wife Susannah [Low].
Jonathan Son of John Wheeler by his wife Mary [Giles] .
Sarah daughter of Stephen Howard by his wife [Judith] .
Aug. 28. baptized. Bethya daughter of Peter Shaw
deceased by his wife Bethya [Lovett] .
Sept 4. baptized. Abigail daughter of Jn Lovet Ju by
his wife Mary [Pride] . William Son of Philip Deland by
his wife Abigail [Bradford]
Sept 18. baptized. Jn Son of Gabriel Wood by his
wife Mercy.
Octob. 2. baptized. Zechariah son of Zech. Stone by
his wife Jane [Curtis] .
October 9 th baptized. Rachel daughter of George Tuck
by his wife Mary [Morrill] .
Octob 23. baptized. Anna daughter of Jabez Baker by
his wife Rachel [Allen] .
Octob. 29. baptized. Esther daughter of Sam 11 Stone
of Manchester by his wife Abiel.
Nov. 13. baptized. Peter Son of Peter Groves by his
wife Abigail.
Nov. 27 th 1709. baptized. Joanna daughter of Lot
Conant se by his wife Elizabeth [Pride] . Anna daughter
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of Caleb Wallis by his wife Sarah [Stone] . Joseph Son
of Joseph Foster by his wife Rebeccah [Groves, nee Wallis] .
Dec. 18, 1709. batiz d John, W m , Herbert & Sarah
children of W m Pride by his wife Hannah [Thorndike"
Tho s Son of Tho s West by his wife Christ" [Woodbury =
Sarah daughter of Joseph Balch by his wife Sarah [Hart =
Jan. 22, 1709/10. baptized Josiah Son of Joseph
Corning by his wife Rebeccah [Woodbury] .
Febr. 5, 1709/10. baptized Mary daughter of Nath 11
Raym 1 by his wife Rebecca [(Conant)].
March 5, 1709/10. baptized. Thomas Son of Philip
L [ec] ody by his wife Martha Rebeccah daughter of Dan 11
Stone by his Wife Hannah [Woodbury] .
1710. April 8. baptized Lydia daughter of Benjamin
Parnel by his Wife Mary [Johnson] .
April 16. baptized. George Son of George Pierce by
his wife Rebecca.
May 7 th baptized. Hannah, Elisabeth & Sarah daughters
of Richard [and Martha (Thorndike)] Thistle se r all adult
& y e 1 st Mari^ to Peter Pride. Benjamin Son of W m
Elliot Ju r by his wife Anna. Anna daughter of W m
Woodbury Jun r by his wife Rebeccah [ Woodbury ]*.
Mercy daughter of W m Bradford Ju by his Wife Grace
[Eliot].
May 14. baptized Andrew Son of Andrew Elliot by
his wife Mary [Herrick] . baptized Martha daughter of
Rich d Patch Ju by his wife Sarah.
Jun. 18, 1710. Isaac Gray & Joseph Foster being of
adult age made a publick profess" of y r faith & repentance
& were baptized also Mary y e daughter of Matthew Butman
by his wife [Elizabeth (Hooper) ] .
[177] June 25, 1710. baptized. Isaac & Hannah
children of Isaac Gray by his wife Rebeccah [Woodbury] .
Mary daughter of Jn Tuck Ju r by his wife Sarah [Shaw] .
July 2 d 1710. baptized. Jonathan Son of George
Standly by his wife Jane [Stacy] . Sarah daughter of
Andrew Dodge by his wife Sarah [Andrews] .
July 16 th baptized Elizabeth Cole a grown maid daughter
of Solomon Cole by his wife [Mary] upon a publick
profess of her faith & Repent 6 .
July 23. baptized. Lydia daughter of Sam 11 Corning
Jun r by his Wife Susannah [Knowlton] .
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July 30. baptized. Benjamin son of Jonathan
Woodbury by his wife Ellenor [Ellingwood] & Susannah
daughter of Jn Ober by his wife Hannah [Woodbury] .
Aug. 13, 1710. baptized Mary daughter of Jonathan
Raym 1 by his Wife Sarah [Woodbury]. Jonathan Son of
Jn Herrick by his wife Sarah [Kimball]. Priscilla
daughter of Sam 11 Lovet by his wife Prudence [Dodge] .
Jonathan & Hannah children of Peter pride by his wife
Hannah [Thistle].
Aug. 20. baptized. Dinah daughter of Lot Conant Ju
by his wife Martha [Cleaves]. Charity daughter of
Benjamin Dike by his Wife Ann [Lucas] .
Sept 3 d Baptized Noah Son of John Creesie by his
wife [Sarah (Gaines)] of Royal Side.
Sept. 10. Baptized. 500 in all. Elisabeth Knights a
grown maid w was y n rec d to full communion . Eleazar Son
of Edmund Grover by his wife Mary [Low] . Priscilla
daughter of Richard Ober Jun r by his wife Priscilla
[Woodbury] .
Oct. 8. Baptized Anna daughter of W m Elliot Jun r
by his wife Anna [Porter] .
Nov. 5. baptized. Abigail daughter of Robert Morgan
by his wife Mary [Thorndike] . Hannah daughter of
Jonathan Woodbury by his wife Ellenor [Ellingwood] .
James Son of James Chapman by his wife Mary [Gale] .
Mehetabel daughter of Joseph Dodge Ju by his wife
Priscilla [Eaton] . Rebeccah daughter of Joseph Trask
by his wife Elizabeth [Sallows] .
Nov. 26. Baptized. Samuel Son of Sam 11 Morgan
deceased by his wife Sarah [Herrick]. Livermore &
Richard Sons of Tho s Whitredge by his wife Sarah [Gage] .
Unis daughter of Benjamin Ellenwood by his wife Mary.
Dec. 17. bapt d Benjamin Son of Sam 11 Herrick by his
wife Sarah [Leach] . Anna daughter of Benjam" Lovit
by his wife Anna. Mercy & Experience daughters of
Robert Sallows by his wife Mary [Thistle] .
Dec. 24. baptiz d Benjamin Son of Ebenezer Dodge
by his wife [Lydia (No well) ] . Elisabeth daughter of Moses
Fluant by his wife Mary.
Dec. 31. baptiz d Thomas Whitredge being ab l 50 years
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old &G. Sarah daughter of Jn Lovit by his wife Mary
[Pride] . Elisabeth daughter of W m Hooper by his wife
Abigail [Gale].
Jan. 7 th 1710/11. baptized John, son of Tho s Blowers
(past r ) by his wife Emma [Woodbury, nge Eliot] . Charles
son of Charles Johnson by his wife Miriam [White, nde
Gale] .
Jan. 14, 1710/11. baptized Isaac Dodge Son of Robert
Dodge by his wife Lydia [Woodbury] .
Jan. 21. baptized Thorndike Son of W m Pride by his
wife Hannah [Thorndike] .
Jan. 28. baptized. Widdow Sarah Williams & Mary
Hebert a grown maid &c.
Feb. 4. baptized. Free-born son of Benjamin Patch
by his wife Susannah [LaGroves] .
Feb. 11. baptized. Benjamin Son of Joseph Foster
by his wife Rebecca [Grove] .
March 4, 1710/11. baptized Thomas Son of Sam 11 Goold
by his Wife Elisabeth [Thorndike] .
March 18. baptized Benjamin Son of Ebenezer Ashby
by his wife Margery & Mary, daughter of John Darby by
his Wife Deborah [Conant] .
March 25. baptized. W m Son of Zechariah Stone by
his Wife Jane [Curtis] .
April 15, 1711. baptized. Edward Son of Jn Thorndike
by his Wife Joanna [Dodge]. Joshua Son of Paul
Thorndike by his wife Mary [Batchelder] .
April 22. baptized. Bathsheba daughter of Jn Haskul
by his wife [Emma (Taylor)]. Mary daughter of Joseph
Stephens Ju. by his wife Mary [Millett] .
April 29. baptized. Jn Son of Eleazar Giles by his
his wife Lydia [Groves] .
May 6 th baptized Rachel & Mary Twins of John Balch
3 d by his wife Mary [Tuck] .
May 27. baptized. Mercy daughter of Jonathan
Williams by his wife Anna [Shaw, nge Gale] .
[178] June 10, 1711. baptized. Jonathan Son of
Israel Balch by his wife [Ruth (Dodge)].
17. baptized. Lydia daughter of Stephen [and Judith]
Howard.
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July 15. baptized. William Son of Joseph Tuck by
his wife Sarah [Reith] . Joanna daughter of Hezekiah Ober
by his wife Anna [Morgan] .
July 22 d baptized Mary Allen (ab*35 y r old probably)
of Manchester upon a publick profess" of faith & Repent c
w y e same day was rec d toy e L ds table, & baptized Sarah
daughter of Richard Patch Jun r by his wife Sarah [ Ashby] .
Aug. 12. baptized. Samuel Son of Sam 11 Butman by
his wife Abigail [Ober] . Abigail daughter of Benj n Allen
by his wife Abigail [Hill] of Manchester. Ruth daughter
of Israel Balch by his wife [Ruth (Dodge)]. Ellenor
daughter of William Patch by his wife Ellenor.
550) Aug. 26. baptized. Josiah Son of Nathanael
Wallis by his wife Anna [Rich, nde Balch] . Bethya daught r
of Peter Woodden by his wife Elisabeth [Mallett] . Abigail
daughter of James Clark by his wife Abigail [Larcom] .
Sept. 9 th baptized. Mary [Pierce] wife of Joseph
[Jonathan ?] Allen of Manchester w was y n admitted to
full communion. Also David & Miriam Son & Daughter
of Joseph [Jonathan?] & Mary Allen. Also Jabez Son
of Jabez & Rachel [Allen] Baker.
Sept. 23 d baptized Elisabeth daughter of Sam 11 [and
Rebecca] Lee of Manchester &c. & Elisabeth daughter of
Sam 11 Trask of Salem by his wife [Mercy (Creesy)].
Sept. 30. baptized Elisha Son of Jonathan [Benjamin ?]
Allen of Manchester by his wife Abigail [Hill] .
Octob r 28. baptized " Josiah Son of Sam 11 Balch Jun r by
his wife Mary [Baker, nge Trask] .
Nov. 11. baptized W m & Jn Sons of W ni Haskul by
his wife Mary [Stephens] . Jn Son of Jn Williams by his
Wife Elisabeth [Bishop] .
Nov. 18. baptized. Mary daughter of Henry Herrick
Jun r by his wife Joanna [Woodbury] .
Dec. 9. baptized. Elisabeth daughter of Benjamin
Wallis by his wife Sarah [Sallows] .
January 6. baptized. Abigail daughter of Peter Groves
by his wife Abigail.
"Jan. 27, 1711/12. baptized. Abigail daughter of W m
Haskul by his wife Mary [Stephens] .
Febr : 10 th 1711/12. baptized Bartholomew Son of Lot
Conant sen r by his wife Elisabeth [Pride] . Benjamin Son
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of Joseph Foster by his wife Rebecca. Ellen our daughter
of Jonath 11 Woodbury by his wife Ellenor [Ellingwood] .
Feb r . 24 baptized. Mary [Tuck] wife of Jn Balch
Ju ab fc 25 y rs old. Anna daughter of Israel Wood by his
wife [Anna (Woodbury)].
March 2 d baptized. Mary & Charity Twins of Benjamin
Cole by his wife Sarah [Thistle] .
March 9. baptized. Sarah daught 1 ' of Joseph Morgan
Ju by his wife Sarah [Hill] .
March 16. baptized. Martha daughter of Richard Ober
Ju by his wife Priscilla [Woodbury] .
March 30, 1712. baptized. Jn Son of Nehemiah Stone
by his wife Lydia.
April 6. baptized. Abigail Ross, a Grown maid &c.
Nathanael Son of Nath 11 Rayment By his Wife Rebeccah
[Conant] .
May 4. Baptized. W m Son of Jonathan Dodge se by
his wife Jerusha [Raymond] .
May 18. baptized. Lydia* daughter of Andrew Elliot
by his wife Mary [Herrick] . & Unis daughter of George
Tuck by his wife Mary [Morrill] .
Jun. 8, 1712. baptized. Rebeccah daughter of Robert
Dodge b}^ his wife Lydia [Woodbury] .
June 15. baptized. Elisabeth daughter of Jn Ober by
Hannah [Woodbury] his wife. & Ezra Son of Lot Conant
Ju by his wife Martha [Cleaves] .
June 22 d baptized. Joseph Son of Joseph Balch by
his wife Sarah [Hart]. & Rebekah daughter of James
Chapman by his wife Mary [Gale] . & Mary daughter of
James Patch by his wife Rebeccah [Biles] .
June 29, 1712. baptized. Josiah Son of Nehemiah
Howard by his Wife Bethya [Shaw] . Nathan 11 Son of
Dan 11 Corning by his wife Abigail [Waldron] . Andrew
Son of W m Woodbury by his wife Rebecca [Woodbury] .
[179] July 6 th 1712. baptized Lydia daughter of
Joseph Butman by his wife [Rebecca (Harris, nge Stone)] .
July 13. baptized. Elisabeth daughter of Jn Baker
by his wife Deborah.
July 20, 1712. baptized. Paul Son of Robert Morgan
* Living in 1811 [L. E.], died June 7, 1811, in her 100th year.
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 171
by his wife [Mary (Thorndike)]. Josiah Son of Roger
Conant by his wife Mary [Raymond] .
Aug. 3 d 1712. baptized Jeremiah Son of Jeremiah
Hebard by his wife [Mary (Derby)]. Abigail daughter
of Nicholas Ober by his wife Abigail [Conant] .
Aug. 10. baptised Benjamin Son of Dan 11 Larcum by
his wife [Phebe (Stone)]. & Mary daughter of Philip
Lecody by his wife [Martha] .
600) Aug. 24. baptized. Martha Williams of
Manchester a grown maid.
Aug. 31, 1712. baptized. Pat% Deborah, Love, Sibley,
children of Josiah Littlefield of Manchester by his wife
Lydia.
Sept. 7, 1712. baptized. Rachel daughter of W m
Bradford Ju by his wife Grace [Eliot] . Lydia daughter
of Jonathan Williams by his wife Anna [Shaw, nee Gale] .
Sept. 21. baptized. Jn & Jerusha son & daughter of
Ebenezer Woodbury by his wife [Hannah (Dodge)].
Sarah daughter of Jn Thorndike by his wife Joanna
[Dodge].
Sept. 28. Unice daughter of Ebenezer Dodge by his
wife [Lydia (Nowell) ] .
October 5. baptized. John & Richard sons of Ruth
[Dodge] Ingerson widow &c. Nathanael son ofNeherniah
Wood by his wife Susannah [Low] .
October 12. Jeremiah Son of Charles Johnson by his
wife Miriam [White, nee Gale].
Oct. 19, 1712. Abigail daughter of Jn Balch by his
wife Mary [Tuck] .
Nov. 9, 1712. baptized. Dan 11 son of Joseph Dodge
by his wife [Priscilla (Eaton)].
October 19, 1712. baptiz d Elisabeth daughter of Tho s
Blowers (Past r ) by his wife Emma [Woodbury, nee
Gale] .
Dec. 7, 1712. baptized. Andrew son of Rich d
Woodbury by his wife Esther [Stone] . Ebenezer Son of
Jn Darby by his wife [Deborah (Conant)]. Elisabeth
daughter of Jn Standley by his wife [Rebecca (Larcom) ] .
Dec. 14. baptiz. Gideon son of Sam 11 Goold by his
wife [Elizabeth (Thorndike)].
Dec. 21, 1712. baptized. Henry Son of Robert Hale
Esq r by Elisabeth [Gilman, of Exeter] his wife.
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Jan. 25, 1712/13. baptized. Mihil Son of W m
Woodbury by his wife [Joanna (Wheeler)]. < Elisabeth
daughter of Zech. Stone by his wife [Jean or Jane 1
(Curtis)].
" Febr. 8, 1712/13. baptized. Martha [Glin] Elliot
widdow of Sam 11 Elliot, also Martha daughter of Benjamin
Balch by his wife Mercy [Leach]
Febr. 15, 1712/13. " baptized. Samuel Son of Sam 11
Elliot deceased by his wife Martha [Glin] .
March 1 st 1712/13. baptized John Son of Jn Cleeves
by his wife Mercy [Eaton] .
March 29, 1713. baptized. Zechariah Son of Paul
Thorndike by his wife [Mary (Batchelder)]. Hannah
daughter of Benj n Patch by his wife [ Susan na ( LaGroves )] .
April 5, 1713. baptized Jane daughter of Moses
Fluant by his wife [Mary] . & Elizabeth daughter of W m
Elliot Jun r by his wife Anna [Porter] .
April 12. baptized Edw d son of W m Hooper by his
wife Abigail [Gale] .
April 19. baptized Lydia daughter of William Patch
by his wife Ellenor.
May 3 d baptized. Lucy daughter of Sam 11 Herrick
by his wife Sarah [Leach] .
'May 10, 1713. baptized. John Son of Jn Wheeler
by his wife Mary [Giles] .
May 31, 1713. baptized. John Son of Israel Balch
by his wife [Ruth (Dodge)]. Mary daughter of
Benjamin Trask by his wife Triphena [Herrick] . Abner
son of Will m Pride by his wife Hannah [Thorndike] .
Jehoadan daught r of Jn Haskul by his wife [Elizabeth] .
Lydia daughter of Herbert Thorndike by his wife Sarah
[Herrick] .
June 21, 1713. baptized. Jonathan son of Joseph
[Jonathan?] Allen of Manchester by his wife Mary
[Pierce] . Lydia daughter of Jonathan [Benjamin ?]
Allen of Manchester by his wife Abig [ail ( Hill ) ] . Sarah
daughter of Ralph Ellenwood Ju. by his wife Sarah
[Woodbury] .
July 26, 1713. baptized. Bethy a daughter of Sam 11
Stone of Manchester by his wife. Sarah daughter of
Rich d Woodbury by his wife Esther [Stone] . Elizabeth
daughter of George Pearce by his wife [Rebecca] .
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[180] Aug. 2, 1713. 650: baptized. James Son
of Jn Frost by his wife Hannah.* Trenance son of Jn
Webber by his wife Elizabeth [Trenance] .
Aug. 16. baptized. John Son of Sam 11 Butman by
his wife Abigail [Ober].
Aug. 23. baptized. John Son of John Webber by
his wife Elizabeth [Trenance] .
Aug. 30. baptized. James son of Sam 11 Corning 1 Ju
by his wife [Elizabeth] .
Sept. 6, 1713. baptized Rachel, Elizabeth & Abigail
children of Josiah Littlefield by his wife I/ydia both of
Manchester.
Sept. 13. baptized. Peter son of Peter Pride by his
wife Hannah [Thistle]. Thomas son of Jn Williams
by his wife Elizabeth [Bishop]. Edmund Son of
Ebenezer Ashby by his wife Margery.
Sept. 20. baptized. Mary daughter of Edmund Grover
by his wife Mary [Low] .
October 4 th baptized. John son of Lot Conant Jun r f
by his wife Martha [Cleaves] . Joanna daughter of
Joseph Trask by his wife Elizabeth [Stone] .
October 11, 1713. baptized. Lydia daughter of Josiah
Woodbury by his wife Lydia [Herrick] .
Nov. 1 st 1713. baptized. Ruth Son} of Jn Hebord
Jun r by his wife [Dorcas (Graves) of Lynn], he having
owned y e Covenant at Linn ab* 4 years Since where his
1 st child was baptized.
Nov. 15. bap : Miriam [Hooker] wife of Jn Hill ab l
26 years of age & y r child Miriam also. Merch 1 , Jn &
Catharine children of Joseph [and Sarah (Grover)] Eaton
also. John Son of Joseph Tuck by his wife Sarah.
Dec. 6. baptized. Charity Daughter of Benjamin
Cole by his wife Sarah [Thistle].
Dec. 13, 1713. baptized. Dixy son of Nehemiah Stone
by his wife Lydia. Jonathan son of Jonathan Woodbury
by his wife Ellenor [Ellingwood] .
"Dec. 20, 1713. baptized. [Jonathan] Son of John
Tuck by his wife Sarah [Shaw] .
Jan. 24, 1713/14. baptized. Ebenezer Son of Sam 11
Balch Ju by his wife Mary [Baker, nte Trask] .
* Widow of John Green. t Removed to Concord, Mass.
t As recorded in the original. Erased in the original.
174 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
Febr. 7, 1713/14. baptized. Freeborn Son of Peter
Groves by his wife Abigail.
April 4 th 1714. baptized. Edith daughter of Richard
Ober Ju by his wife Priscilla [Woodbury] .
April 11, 1714. baptized. Anna daughter of
Benjamin Ellen wood by his wife Mary. Israel Son of
Israel Wood by his wife Edith [Dodge].* Deborah
daughter of John Darby by his wife Deborah [Conant] .
May 2 d baptized. Sarah daughter of Roger Conant by
his wife Mary [Raymond] .
May 16. baptized. Ruth daughter of Benjamin
Trask by his wife Triphena [Herrick] .
May 23. baptized. Ebenezer Son of Eliezer Giles
by his wife Lydia [Groves] . Lydia daughter of Joseph
Foster by his wife Rebecca [Groves] . Abigail daughter
of Dan 11 Corning by his wife Abigail [Waldron] .
May 30 th 1714. baptized. Abigail daughter of James
Patch by his wife Rebecca [Biles] .
June 13, 1714. baptized. Jabez Son of Nehemiah
Hay ward by his wife Bethya [Shaw] . Hezekiah Son of
Hezekiah Ober by his wife [Anna (Morgan)].
Jun. 20, 1714. baptized. Paul Thorndike ab* 35
years of Age & y e same day Mary daughter of Nathaniel
Wallis by his wife [Anna (Rich, nge Balch] .
June 27. baptized. Jeremiah Son of Jer. Buttman by
his wife Elisabeth [Whittredge] .
July 11, 1714. baptized. Elizabeth & Anna daughters
of Hazadiah [and Anna (Woodbury)] Smith Jun r &c.
July 25. baptized. Joseph Son of Henry Herrick
Ju by his wife Joanna. [Woodbury]. Judith daughter of
Tho s Cox by his wife Judith [Eliot] .
Aug. 1, 1714. baptized. Israel Son of Jonathan
Herrick by his wife Bethya [Solart] . Edward Son of
Edw d Bond by his wife Elisabeth [Coy] .
Aug. 15. bapt d . Mary daughter of Andrew Elliot by
his wife Mary [Herrick] . Lois daughter of Elisha Dodge
by his wife [Mary (Kimball)].
700) Aug 29 th 1714. baptized Nathanael Son of Joseph
Dodge Ju. by his wife [Priscilla (Eaton)]. Martha
daughter of Joseph Corning by his wife Rebeckah
[Woodbury] .
* Second wife.
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Sept 5, 1714. baptized Joseph Son of Joseph
Stephens by his wife [Mary (Millet)].
Sept. 12, 1714. baptized. Mary daughter of Jn
Ober by his wife Hannah [Woodbury] .
Sept. 19, 1714. baptized. Hannah* daughter of
Robert Morgan by his wife Mary [Thorndike]
[181] Octob r 3 d 1714. baptized. Israel Son of
Ralph Ellenwood Ju by his wife [Martha (Robinson)].
Octob 10. baptized Abigail daught r of Jn Baker by
Debo [rah] .
Octob r 24. baptized William son of Charles Johnson
by his wife Miri[am White, ne Gale].
Dec. [5], 1714. baptized. Emma daughter of
George Tuck by his wife Mary [Morrill] .
Dec. 12, 1714. baptized. Ebenezer son of Edmund
Grover by his wife Mary [Low] .
Dec. 19, 1714. baptized. Caleb son of Robert
Dodge by his wife Lydia [Woodbury] .
Dec. 26, 1714. baptized. William Son of Benj"
Dike by his wife Anne [Lucas] & Lydia daughter of
Joseph Morgan Ju by his wife Sar[ah (Hill)]
Jan 2 d 1714. baptized. Samuel son of Jn Conant
Ju by his wife [Bethiah (Mansfield)].
Jan. 9, 1714. baptized. Elizabeth daughter of Jn
Hill by his wife Miriam [Hooker] .
Febr 6, 1714/15. baptized. Andrew Son of Tho s
Blowers. (Past r ) by Emma [Woodbury, n6e Eliot] his
wife, born that morning abHwo &c.
Febr 13, 1814/15. baptized. Mary daughter of Paul
Thorndike by his wife Mary [Batchelder] .
Febr 20. baptized. Joshua Son of Joshua Woodbury
by his wife [Sarah (Woodbury)].
March 20. baptized. Wilks Son of Tho 8 West by
his wife Christ 11 [Woodbury] .
March. 27. baptized. Hannah & Elisabeth daughters
of Tho s West Deceased by his wife Christian [Woodbury]
April 3 d 1715. baptized Elisabeth daughter of Lot
Conant se by his wife [Elizabeth (Pride) ].f
April 17, 1715. baptized Josiah Son of Rich d
Woodbury by his wife Esther [Stone] .
* Living in 1811. Died Dec. 17, 1811. 97.
t Removed to Bridgewater, Mass., in 1718.
176 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
,May 1 st 1715. baptized Stephen son of Sam 11 Corning
by his wife [Susanna (Knowlton)] . William Son of W m
Bradford by his wife Grace [Eliot]
June 5, 1715. baptized Sam 11 Son of Sam 11 Lee of
Manchester by his wife.
June 12. baptized. Jn Son of Jn Cleeves by his
wife Mercy [Mary Eaton] .
July 3 d baptized. Roger Son of Israel Balch by his
wife [Ruth (Dodge)] & Mary daughter of W m Tuck by
his wife Mary [Eliot] .
July 10. baptized Elizabeth daughter of Jn Wheeler
by his wife Mary [Giles] .
July 17 th baptized. Jane daughter of Peter Groves
by his wife Abigail. Ebenezer Son of Jn Williams by
Elisabeth [Bishop] his wife. Azariah Son of Joseph
[Jonathan ?] Allen of Manchester by his wife Mary
[Pierce] . Sarah daughter of Robert Leech by his wife
Elisabeth [Haskins] .
July 24. baptized. Samuel Son of George Standly
by his wife [Jane (Stacy)]
July 31, 1715. Nathan ael Son of Ebenezer Woodbury
deceased by his wife [Hannah (Dodge)]. Benjamin Son
of W m Ellenwood by his wife [Abigail (Woodbury)].
Aug 7 th baptized . Sarah daughter of Joseph Eaton by
his wife [Sarah (Grover)]
Aug. 21, 1715. baptized. Stephen Son of Benj"
Allen "of Manchester by his wife Abigail [Hill] . W m Son
of W m Patch by his wife Ellenour. Tho* Son of James
Patch by his wife Rebeccah [Biles] .
Aug. 28. baptized. Rebeccah daughter of W m
Woodbury 2 d by his wife Rebeccah [Woodbury] .
Sept. 11 th baptized. Hannah & Abigail twins of Jabez
Baker by his wife Rachel [Allen] .
Sept. 18 th 1715 baptized. Mary daughter of Joshua
Woodbury by his wife [Sarah (Woodbury)]. Emma
daughter of W m Elliot Ju by his wife Anna [Porter] .
Oct. IK. baptized. Jn Son of Patience Ashby byJn
Ashby deceased. Sarah daughter of Benjamin Cole by
his wife Sarah [Thistle] .
Oct. 23. baptized. James Son of Richard Patch by his
wife [Rebecca (Biles)].
October 30. baptized. Mishael Joseph & Samuel
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 177
children of Samuel West by his wife Mary [Norton] .
Richard son of Sam 11 Butman by his wife Abigail [Ober] .
Martha daughter of Sam 11 Balch by his wife Mary [Baker,
nge Trask] .
Nov. 6. baptized. Jonathan son of Benjamin Lovet
by his wife Anna. Sarah daughter of Nicholaus Ober by
his wife Abigail [Conant] .
Nov. 13. baptized. Josiah son of Joseph Foster by his
wife E-ebekah [Groves, nge Wallis].
[182] Nov. 20, 1715 baptized. W m son of Will*
Cleeves by his wife Rebeccah [Whittredge] .
Nov. 27. Baptized. Abner son of James Chapman by
his wife Mary [Gale] .
Dec. 4, 1715. baptized. Benjamin Son of Jn Darby
by his wife [Deborah (Conant)]. Deborah daughter of
Jn Hill by his wife Miriam [Hooper] .
Jan. 1, 1715/16. baptized. Rachel daughter of Jn
Tuck Ju. by Sarah [Shaw] his wife.
Jan. 22, 1715/16. baptized Mary & Martha twins of
Benjamin Balch by his wife [Mary (Leach) ] . Hannah
daughter of Samuel Woodbury by his wife [Hannah
(Dodge)]. Abigail daughter of Hannah Howard born
In fornicat" see the oy r sud. of y s book &c :
Febr. 12. baptized. Benjamin son of Joseph Tuck
by his wife Sarah [Reith] .
Febr. 19. baptized. Jn Son of Nath 11 Rayment by his
wife [Rebecca (Conant)].
April 1 st baptized. Lydia daughter of W m Hooper by
his wife Abigail [Gale] .
April 15, 1716. Baptized. Sarah daughter of Jn Balch
[3d] by his wife [Mary (Tuck)].
April 22, 1716. baptized. Nathanael Son of Joseph
Dodge Ju by his wife [Priscilla (Eaton)]. Martha
daughter of Jn Conant Jun r by his wife Martha [Dodge] .
April 29. baptized. Benjamin Son of Benjamin Trask
by his wife Triphena [Herrick] . Jane daughter of Zech.
Stone by his wife Jane [Curtis] .
May 6, 1716. baptized. Jn Son of Sam 11 Lee Ju of
Manchester by his wife.
May 20, 1716. baptized. Elisabeth daughter of
Jonathan Woodbury by Ellenor [Ellingwood] his wife.
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178 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
June 3 d baptized. Mary Picket a grown maid upon her
making apublick profess" of her faith & repentance. Also,
Thomas & Joseph Twins of W m Cleeves by his W.
Rebecca [Whittredge] .
June 10, 1716. baptized Mercy [Creesy] wife of
Samuel Trask & Jacob Son of Isaac Gray by his wife
Rebecca [Woodbury] .
June 17. baptized. W m Son of W m Ellen wood by his
Wife [Abigail (Ellingwood)].
June 24. baptized Benjamin & Ruth Children of
Robert Woodbury by Mary [West] &c.
Aug. 12, 1716. baptized. Micajah Son of W m Pride
by his wife [Hannah (Thorndike)]. Anna, daughter of
Benjamin Ober by his wife Rachel [Raymond] . Elisabeth
daughter of George Wiat by his wife Hannah [Lovett] .
Aug : 19 : baptized. Joseph Son of Isaac Hull Jun r by
his wife Anne [Wood] .
Aug. 26. baptized. Ralph Son of Ralph Ellenwood by
his wife Sarah [Woodbury] . & Jonathan Son of Sam 11
Harris by his wife Mary [Hoar] .
Sept. 2, 1716. baptized Joseph Tuck ab fc 40 years old
upon his making a publick profess" of faith & repent 6 &
Emma daughter of Andrew Elliot by his wife Mary
Herrick] .
Sept. 9. baptized. Samuel son of Herbert Thorndike
by his Wife [Sarah (Herrick)].
Sept. 23. baptized. Margaret daughter of Robert
Sallows by Elisabeth [Larcom] his wife.
Octob. 7. baptized. Mary daughter of George Pierce
by his wife [Rebecca].
Octob. 21, 1716. Elisabeth daughter of Isaac Hull Ju
by his wife Anne.
Oct. 28. baptized. Henry Son of Henry Herrick Ju
by his wife Joanna [Woodbury] .
Nov. 4, 1716. bapt d Andrew Son of George Tuck by
his wife Mary [Morrill] .
Nov. 11. baptized. Rich d Son of Richard Ober by his
wife Priscilla [Woodbury] . Hannah & Lydia twins of
Hazad. Smith Ju by his wife Anna [Woodbury] .
800) Nov. 18, 1716. baptized. Hannah & Elisabeth
twins of Sam 11 Smith by his wife Elisabeth [Hayward] .
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 179
John & Judith Children of Joseph Butman by his wife
[Rebecca (Harris, nge Stone)].
Nov. 25. bapt d Joseph Stephens ab* 30 years old &
Elizabeth Deland ab* 26 a Single woman. Also Joseph
Son of Joseph Stephens by his wife Mary [Millett] . &
John Son of JnHebert Juby his wife [Dorcas (Graves)].
Dec. 9. baptized. W m Son of Jer Butman by his wife
Elisabeth [Whittredge].
Jan 6, 17|f. baptized Keturah Hathon upon apublick
profess" of faith & Rep e being in adult age.
[183] January 13, 1716/17. Then baptized Jn Son
of Edw d Bond by Elisabeth [Coy] his wife.
Feb. 10, 1716/17. Then baptized Hannah daughter of
Joseph Eaton by his wife [Sarah (Groves)].
Feb. 17 baptized. Samuel Son of Eli: Giles by his
Wife Lydia [Groves] .
Mar. 17, 1716/17. baptized. Israel Son of W m Elliot
Ju by his wife Anna [Porter] .
Mar. 31, 1717. baptized. Gideon Son of Richard
Woodbury by his wife Esther [Stone] .
April 7, 1717. baptized. Hannah daughter of Sam 11
Trask by his wife Mercy [Creesy] .
April 21, 1717. baptized. Andrew Son of Jn Webber
by his wife Elisabeth [Trenance]. & David Son of
Jonathan Williams by his wife Anna [Shaw, nge Gale] .
May 5, 1717. baptized. Mercy daughter of W m Patch
by his wife Ellenor.
May 19, 1717. baptized. Nehemiah Son of Joseph
Corning by his wife [Rebecca (Woodbury)].
July 14, 1717. baptized. Benjamin Son of Jos. Morgan
Ju by his wife Sarah [Hill] . Lydia daughter of Isaac
Gray by his wife Rebecca [Woodbury] .
July 21, 1717. baptized Joseph son of Israel Wood
by his Wife [Edith (Dodge)].
Aug. 18. baptized James, Charity, Lucy, Rebekah
children of James Tayl r by his wife Charity [Whittredge] .
also Grace, Martha & Charity children of Benj n Webster
by his wife Ruth [Gray] upon owning y e Covenant of y r
baptisme.
Aug. 25, 1717. baptized Samuel Son of Joseph Foster
by his wife Rebekah [Groves, nge Wallis] .
180 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
Sept 1. baptized. Elisabeth daughter of Robert
Woodbury by his wife Mary [West] .
-8- baptized. Susannah & Elisabeth children of
Susannah [Comer] the wife of W m Webster by him.
22. baptized. Samuel Son of William Woodbury
Jun r by his wife Rebekah [Woodbury] . & Francis Son
of And r Elliot by his wife Mary [Herrick] .
Sept. 29. baptized. Hannah daughter of Israel
Woodbury by his wife Mary [Woodbury]
October 6. baptized. Judith daughter of W m Tuck
by his wife Mary [Eliot] .
October 20. baptized. James Chapman ab fc 30 years
of age &c. & Elisabeth daughter of W m Groves by his
wife [Elizabeth (Hull)].
Nov. 3 d baptized. Andrew son of W m Bradford by
his wife Grace [Eliot] . Rachel daughter of Benj 11 Ober
by his wife Rachel [Raymond] .
Nov. 17, 1717. bapt d . Nathan 11 Son of Josiah Stone
by his wife [Mary (Davis)]. Mehetabel daughter of
Joshua Woodbury by his wife [Sarah (Woodbury)].
Nov. 24. baptized Sam 11 Son of Lot Conant by his
wife Elisabeth [Pride] & Benj 11 Son of Paul Thorndike
by his wife Mary [Batchelder] .
Dec. 29, 1717. baptized. Deborah Knolton w
made a publick profess 11 of faith & repent 6 & was rec d y 11
to full communion, also Robert son of John Baker by
his wife Deborah.
850) Janur. 26, 1717.18. baptized. Cornelius Larcum
aged ab l 60 years & Sarah Homes ab l 19 years old &
Elisabeth daughter of Benjamin Trask by his Wife
Triphena [Herrick].
Febr 16. baptized Solomon Son of Benjamin Cole by
his wife [Sarah (Thistle)].
Feb. 23. baptized. Margaret daughter of Ebenz r
Cleeves by his wife Sarah [Stone].
Apr. 20, 1718. baptized. Jn Son of Jn [and Mary
(Pride)] Lovit Ju & Margaret daughter of Jn Haskol
by his wife Emma [Taylor] .
April 27. baptized John son of Jn Elliot by his wife
Elisabeth [Balch]
May 4. baptized Susanna daughter of Jn Masury by
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 181
his wife Kerziah [Woodbury] . Elizabeth daughter of
Sam 11 Woodbury by his wife.
[184] May 11, 1718. baptized Emma Williams in adult
age w was y n admitted to y e Lords table.
May 18. baptized. Jonathan Harris ab l 30 years old
upon a publick profess" of faith & Repentance &c, &
Ephraim Son of Ralph Ellenwood Jun r by his Wife Sarah
[Woodbury] .
May 25. baptized. Jn Son of Sam 11 Butman by his
wife Abigail [Ober] & Lydia daughter of Jn Haskul by
his wife [Elizabeth]
June 1. bapt d Sam 11 Son of Zech. Stone by his wife
Jane.
June 22. baptized. William, Robert, & Benjamin
Sons of Robert Haskul by his wife Mary.
June 29. baptized Ebenezer Son of Joseph Tuck
deceased by Sarah [Reith] his Wife & Cornelius Son of
Jonathan Woodbury by his Wife Ellenor [Ellingwood] .
July 20. bapt d John, son of John Hill by his Wife
Miriam [Hooker] .
July 27. baptized. Miriam Margaret & Mary children
of Jonathan Harris by his wife Miriam.
Aug. 3 d t>apt d . Ebenezer Son of Sam 11 Herrick by
his wife Sarah [Leach] . Tho s Son of Hezekiah Ober by
his Wife Anna [Morgan]. John son of Jn Stone Jun.
by his Wife Ruth [Watson] . Ruth daughter of Joseph
Stephens by his Wife Mary [Millett] .
Aug. ult. baptiz d . Benjamin & Sarah children of Jn
Osment by Anna [Foster] his wife & Abraham Son of
Abraham Whit[ee]ar by Lydia his wife.
Sept. 28, 1718. baptized. Prudence Williams A grown
maid & William Son of Andrew Elliot by his wife
Mary [Herrick].
Octob r 12. baptized Joseph Son of Joseph Trask by
his wife Emma [Tuck] .
Nov. 2 : baptized Mary & Elizabeth children of W m
Biles by his wife Eliz[abeth] : Amos son of Joseph
Butnam by his wife [Rebecca (Harris, nge Stone) ]^&
Abigail daughter of Jn Grover by Abigail [Hoar] his
wife.
Nov. 16, 1718. baptized. Hannah daughter of
Robert Sallows by Elizab[eth Larcom].
182 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORD8.
X
Dec r 7, 1718. baptized. Ambrose Son of Ebenez r
Cleeves by his wife [Sarah (Stone)].
Dec r 28, 1718. baptized. Hannah daughter of Sam 11
Smith by his wife [Elizabeth (Hay ward)].
Febr. 15, 1718/19. baptized. Dorothy daughter of
Josiah Stone by his wife [Mary (Davis)].
Mar. 1, 1718/19. baptized. Ruth daughter of
Edmund Grover by his wife [Mary (Low)].
Mar. 8, 1718/19. baptized. Judith daughter of
Benj" & Mary [Ruth (Gray) ?] Webster.
Mar. 22. baptized. Bayly Son of Edw d Bond by his
wife Elizabeth [Coy] .
Mar. 29. bapt d Sarah daughter of Jonathan Conant
by his wife [Abigail (Woodbury)].
May 3 d baptized. David Son of Samuel Harris by
his wife Sarah [Biles].
May 17. baptized. Hannah daughter of George Wiat
by his wife Hannah [Lovett] .
May 30. baptized. Henry Son of Jn Webber by his
wife Elizabeth [Trenance] .
June 7. baptized. Anthony Wood & Ho wet Herrick,
Men grown upon a publick & Solemn profess 11 of faith &
Repent 6 , also Sarah the daughter of Jonathan Williams
by his wife Anna [Shaw, ne Gale] .
June 14. baptized. Jacob son of Rich d Woodbury by
his wife Esther [Stone] . & Abigail Daughter of Jonathan
Conant by his wife [Abigail (Woodbury)].
June 21. baptized William Son of Nicholas Ober by
Abigail [Conant] his wife. & Jonathan son of Howet
Herrick by his wife [Abigail (Wheeler)].
July 19. baptized, the widow Priscilla Frisson.*
[185] Aug. 2, 1719. Baptized Samuel Son of Sam 11
Trask by his wife Mercy [Mary (Creesy)] & Mary
daughter of Joseph Foster by his wife [Rebecca (Groves,
nte Wallis)].
Aug. 16. baptiz d Joseph Son of Jonathan Harris by
his wife [Miriam (Haskell)] & Martha daughter of
Ebenez r Ashby by his wife Margery.
Aug. 23. baptized. Ebenez r Son of W m Ellen wood
by his Wife. & Mehetabel daughter of Sam 11 Butman by
Abigail [Ober] &c
* Widow of William Preston.
BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS. 183
Oct. 11. baptized. Abigail daughter of Moses Morgan
by Patience [Ashby] his wife.
Nov. 8, 1719. baptized Abigail daughter of George
Tuck by his wife [Mary (Morrill) ] .
Nov. 15. baptized. Andrew Son of Paul Thorndike
by his wife Mary [Batchelder] . & Judith daughter of
Will m Elliot by his wife Anna [Porter] .
Jan 3, 1719/20. baptized W m Nathan & Ruth children
of [Priscilla] y e widdow [of William]. Prisson &
Retire Son of Benj. Trask by his wife [Tryphena
(Herrick) ] & Elizabeth daughter of Eli : Giles by his
wife Lydia [Groves] .
Jan. 17, 1719/20. baptized Ebenezer son of Joseph
Stephens by Mary [Millett] his wife. & Ann daughter of
Stephen Billion a frenchman Wh sojourned among us
himself & wife being In full communion with y e french
Chh. in Boston.
Feb 7. baptized Hannah daughter of W m Biles by his
wife [Priscilla (Morgan)] .
21. bapt d Joseph Son of Israel Wood by his wife
[Edith (Dodge)].
Mar. 13. baptized. Ezra Son of James Chapman by
Mary [Gale] his wife.
Mar. 20. bapt. Benjamin Son of Benjamin Ober by
Rachel [Raymond] his wife & Abigail daughter of Israel
Woodbury by his wife Mary [Woodbury] .
1720. Mar. 27. baptized. Nehemiah Prisson & Abigail
[Allen*] his wife upon y r publick profess" of faith &
Repentance w y n came to full Comm n
April 3. baptized William son of Jn Cleeves by his
wife [Mercy (Eaton)] . Nath 11 Son of Jonathan Woodbury
by his wife Ellenor [Ellingwood] . Isaac Son of Joshua
Woodbury by his wife Sarah [Woodbury] .
April 24. baptized. Nehemiah, Priscilla & Abigail
children of Nehemiah Prisson by Abigail [Allen] his
wife & Ebenezer Son of Ebenez r [Ellenwood] by Sarah
[Tuck] his wife.
May 8. baptized Samuel Son of Will m Bradford by
Grace [Eliot] his wife & Ruth daughter of Simon Lovit
by his wife [Annis (Swetland)].
* She was of Manchester.
184 BEVERLY FIRST CHURCH RECORDS.
May 15. baptized. Abigail daughter of Samuel
Woodbury by Hannah [Dodge] his wife.
July 10, 1720. baptized. Paul Son of Robert Haskul
by his wife [Mary] .
July 17, 1720. baptized. Anna daughter of Jn
Thorndike se by his wife [Elizabeth (Ober)]. Christian, &
David Sons of David Wheeler by his wife [Mary
(Larcom)].
July 31. baptized. Abiel Yarrow a grown maid upon
a publick profess 11 of faith & repent 6 .
Aug 21. baptized Deborah daughter of Benjamin Balch
by his Wife Mercy [Leach] & Hannah daughter of
Benjamin [and Priscilla (Patch)] Cole.
Aug. 28. bapt d Joseph, William & Emma children ot
W m Leech by his wife Tryphena [Herrick] : & Benjamin
Son of Edw d Bond by his wife Elisabeth [Coy]
950) Sept. 11. baptized. Ebenezerson of John Stone
Jun by his wife [Ruth (Waldron)] ; Freeborn son of
Peter Groves by his wife Hannah [Stone, nge Woodbury] .*
[ ] Son of W m Cleeves by his wife [Rebecca
(Whittredge)]-
[186] Sept 25, 1720. bapt d by y e Rev d M r Fisk of
Salem In my absence. T B.
Oct. 2. baptized. John son of Sam 11 Hadlock by
Prudence his Wife.
Oct. 9. baptiz d James Son of Benjamin Lovit by Anna
his wife.
Oct. 23, 1720 baptized. Sam 11 Son of y e widdow
Priscilla [Patch] Cole [widow of Benj Cole] & Eunice
daughter of Richard Patch Ju by his Wife [Rebecca
(Biles)] & Anna daughter of Bishup Palmerf by Martha
[Picket] his W :
Nov. 6. Mary daughter of Josiah Stone by his wife
[Mary (Davis)].
Nov. 13. baptized Jane daughter of Zech. Stone by his
wife Jane [Curtis] . Ichabod Son of Ralph Ellenwood Jun.
by his wife [Sarah (Woodbury)].
Dec. 4. baptized. William Son of William Webster
by his Wife [Susanna (Comer)].
* She was a second wife : widow of Daniel Stone.
t He was born in Marblehead.
(To be continued.)
FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
BY WILLIAN LEWIS WELCH.
of the seventh generation.
(Continued from Vol. XXXVIII, page 72.)
213 James Gilman Lyford (James, 89 James
Oilman, 33 John, Thomas? Francis 1 ), born 14 Jan.,
1794 ; died 11 Apr., 1867 ; married 2 Dec., 1816, Huldah
Hubbard Spaulding, who was born 23 Oct., 1795, and
died 25 Oct., 1848. Lived at Canterbury.
Children :
479. DIANA SPAULDING, b. 4 Feb., 1818; m. 7 Apr., 1843, Frederic
Morrill.
480. JAMES, b. 23 June, 1820; d. 1891, Milo, Me.; m. 1st, 10 Jan.,
1850, Roxinda Bearse, b. 1830, d. 1851; m. 2nd, 15 Apr.,
1858, Sarah Ann Mitchell, b. 1838. Lieut. Co. B, 20th Me.
Inf.
481. ARIEDNA, b. 29 June, 1822; m. 20 Apr., 1842, James Dolloff
of Saginaw, Mich.
482. HULDAH, b. 16 July, 1824 ; m., 1855, John Donald of Sebec, Me.
483. MOSES GREENLEAF, b. 9 July, 1826; d. 27 Sept., 1849.
484. WILLIAM HOLWAY, b. 23 May, 1831; d. 16 Nov., 1897; m.
10 Apr., 1856, Hannah Gould, b. 25 May, 1835; moved in
June, 1874, from Sebec, Me., to Greene, Butler Co., Iowa.
485. HENRIETTA, b. 7 Feb., 1839; m. 1868, Lafayette Jackson of
Sangerville, Me.
214 Moses Greenleaf Lyford (James, 89 James
Oilman, 33 John, Thomas,* Francis 1 ), died 20 Nov.,
1887; married 1830, at Sebec, Me., Adaline Shepherd
Lyford 236 . She was born Sept., 1812, and died 17 Sept.,
1894.
Children :
486. MOSES GREENLEAF, b. 1833 ; d. ae. 1 year.
487. DANVILLE BRYANT, b. 1836; d. ae. 12 years.
(185)
186 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
488. JOSEPH GREENLEAF, b. 1838, at Sebec, Me.; m. 21 Nov., 1863,
Letitia Fowler. Children: Joseph Oilman, b. 6 Aug., 1864,
at Sebec. Walter Greenleaf, b. 28 Dec., 1866, at Brown-
ville.
489. CAROLINE F. ; m. Annis.
490. FRANCIS, b. 1841.
491. SARAH ELIZA, b. 1846; m. Moore.
492. MOSES GREENLEAF, b. 1847 ; ran away ; not heard from since
1873.
219 Thomas Lyford (Dudley, 91 James Oilman, 33
John, 12 Thomas* Francis 1 ), born 2 Feb., 1807, at
Canterbury, N. H. ; died 19 Dec., 1858, at Roscoe, 111. ;
killed in a threshing machine ; married ElizaBurns Greely,
who was born 8 Jufy, 1809, at Gilmanton, N. H., and died
27 June, 1874, at Rockford, 111. About 1842, he drove
from Canterbury, N. H., to Roscoe, 111.
Children :
493. DUDLEY, b. 6 Nov., 1835, at Canterbury; m. 13 Apr., 1862,
Emma Harley, b. 25 Apr., 1841, at Spartanburg, S. C. ; lives
at Roscoe, 111.
494. ELIZABETH GREELY, b. 22 Oct., 1837, at Canterbury ; m. 1 May,
1860, John J. Bradley, b. at Westfield, N. Y.
495. JOSEPH GREELY, b. 2 Dec., 1839, at Andover, N. H. ; m. 1 Jan.,
1868, Emily M. Brown, b. 30 June, 1843, at Shirley, Mass. ;
lives at Guilford, 111.
496. ALICE HORN, b. 7 Dec., 1842; m. 3 June, 1868, Josiah E. Rich-
ardson, b. 18 July, 1842, at Roscoe, 111. ; lives at Rockford,
111.
497. THOMAS, b. 19 Apr., 1845; d. 14 May, 1845.
498. THOMAS, b. 15 Aug., 1848; d. 19 Dec., 1862.
499. ANNAH AUGUSTA, b. 7 Nov., 1850.
500. CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN, b. 21 Aug., 1853; m. 23 Dec., 1885,
Emma L. Hendrickson, b. 30 Jan., 1860, in Minneapolis.
Physician and lives in Minneapolis, Minn.
222 Thomas Lyford (Biley,^ James Oilman, 33
John, Thomas* Francis 1 ), born 11 Nov., 1804, and was
the first white child born at Atkinson, Me. ; married 7
Jan., 1828, Betsey Holmes Chandler, born 8 Jan., 1807,
at Garland , died 29 Jan., 1870, at Atkinson.
Children, all born at Dover, Me. :
501. THORNTON, b. 30 Oct., 1828; m. 1st, 22 Feb., 1859, Emily
Woodman; b. 27 July, 1831; d. 1 Nov., 1878; m. 2nd, 27
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 187
June, 1882, Annie Mathews, of Islesboro, Me.; b. 30 Aug.,
1841.
502. ELEANOR HAMMOND, b. 20 Apr., 1830 ; m. 14 Apr., 1856, W. W.
French ; lives at Bangor, Me.
503. BYLEY, b. 1 Aug.; 1832; m. 1st, 9 Oct., 1863, Adeliza Hill
Prescott, of Exeter, Me., b. 1 Jan., 1831; d. 23 Dec., 1875,
at Hyde Park, Mass.; m. 2nd, 22 Oct., 1877, Hannah L.
Cook, of Provincetown, Mass., b. 23 Oct., 1845. He en-
listed 1 Aug., 1862, in Co. K, 35th Mass. Vols., and was
wounded at Antietam.
504. Lois KAPHIRA, b. 4 Aug., 1837; d. 29 Oct., 1872; m. 6 Feb.,
1856, A. J. Chase.
605. MARIA LOUISE, b. 25 July, 1839; m. 20 Oct., 1868,
Butters.
506. WILLIAM BRAMWELL, b. 19 Mar., 1843 ; m. 5 June, 1870, Jennie
S. Page, b. 7 Sept., 1851. Nine children.
507. REUBEN PILLSBURY, b. 5 Aug., 1845; d. 5 Apr., 1860.
225 Gilman Lyford (Biley** James Oilman
John, Thomas,* Francis 1 ), born 9 Dec., 1809 ; married
8 Nov., 1841, at Atkinson, Me., Sally Jane Genn, who
was born 26 Oct., 1823, at Provincetown, Mass., and
died Sept., 1899. Lived in Atkinson, Me.
Children :
508. AUGUSTA GENN, b. 8 Nov., 1842, at Atkinson; d. 30 Aug.,
1873; m. 15 Mar., 1868, Wesley Bradford Stirling, of
Dover, N. H.
509. LURANA LEE, b. 14 Mar., 1844, at Atkinson; m. 8 Oct., 1865,
at Foxcroft, John Fairfield Arnold.
510. ALTHEA SNOW, b. 1 June, 1845, at Atkinson; d. 23 June, 1866.
511. SARAH JANE, b. 27 Aug., 1846, at Atkinson; d. 3 Aug., 1877.
512. SILAS WRIGHT, b. 2 Apr., 1848, at Atkinson; d. 12 July, 1868.
513. THOMAS BENTON, b. 21 July, 1849, at Atkinson; d. 18 Nov.,
1856.
514. SABRA LOUISE, b. 5 Dec., 1850, at Bangor.
515. HORACE OILMAN, b. 27 Sept., 1853, at Atkinson; d. 28 Feb.,
1854.
516. HORACE OILMAN, b. 23 Dec., 1858, at Atkinson; went West
about 1878 ; not heard from since 1893.
517. WELBER THOMAS, b. 14 May, 1861, at Atkinson; d. 18 June
1861.
226 John Lyford (Biley, James Oilman John
Thomas? Francis 1 ), born 9 June, 1811, at Atkinson,
188 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON AND EXETER,
Me. ; died 22 Feb., 1875, at Warren, Wis. ; married 25
Jan,, 1835, Olive Basteen (or Boston). She was born
11 May, 1814.
Children, all but the last two, born at Atkinson, Me. :
518. HESTER ANN, b. June, 1837; m. 1st, 1857, Zenith Smith; m.
2d, Gould.
519. THOMAS, b. Dec., 1839; d. Dec., 1854.
520. CHARLES, b. Mar., 1841.
621. ELLEN MARCIA, b. Mar., 1843; m. 17 Dec., 1862, Isaac E.
Goodnoe.
522. LYNDON BRADBURY, b. 3 Aug., 1844; m. 25 Dec., 1872, at
River Falls, Wis., Mary Lucinda Sharp, b. 18 Mar., 1844,
at Hartford, O.
523. AMANDA BROWN, b. 23 Apr., 1847 ; m. 19 Aug., 1866, at Warren,
Wis., Jos. Andrew Mitchell, who d. 5 May, 1871; m. 2d,
17 Sept., 1872, Thos. Mooers, who d. 2 Nov., 1893; m. 3d,
12 June, 1895, Esau Worman. She lives at Deronda, Wis.
524. LOUISA, d. aged 11 mos.
525. JAMES, d. 25 Dec., 1884; m., 1879, Mary Swanson.
526. FRANKLIN BENJAMIN, m., 1882, Annie . She d. 1885.
227 Biley Lyford (JBiley, 9 * James Oilman, John
Thomas? Francis 1 ), born 17 Mar., 1813, at Atkinson,
Me. ; died 25 May, 1885, at Atkinson, Me. ; married 1
Jan., 1838, Betsey Lewis Cook, who was born 26 Dec.,
1818, at Provincetown, Mass., and died 29 Oct., 1886,
af Atkinson, Me.
Children, all born at Atkinson, Me. :
527. BENJAMIN COOK, b. 11 Jan., 1839; m. 1st, 22 Apr., 1866, Eliza
Ann Batchelor; m. 2d, 12 July, 1881, Emma Frances
Moseley. He enlisted in Co. E, 1st Me. Hy. Art., and was
wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness.
628. ELISHA HAMMOND, b. 11 Aug., 1840; m. 10 July, 1865, Hannah
Jane Rider, b. 30 Mar., 1839. Enlisted in 14th Me. Inf.,
1861 ; discharged for disability, 1862 ; reenlisted as Medical
Cadet, U. S. A., June, 1863. Physician at Vinal Haven, Me.
529. FREEMAN, b. 17 Apr., 1842; enlisted in 14th Me. Inf.; d. 5
Dec., 1866, at Atkinson.
530. EDWARD COOK, b. 1 Dec., 1843; m. 28 Nov., 1867, Caroline
Sophia Freeman. He enlisted in Co. M, 1st Me. Hy. Art.,
and was wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness and also
at Petersburg.
531. GEORGE DALLAS, b. 6 Sept., 1845; m. 26 Nov., 1873, Dorcas
Mary Snow, b. 15 Jan., 1850. His son, Walter Freeman
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 189
Lyford, during the Spanish American war, was " bayman ' '
on the Mass. Hospital Steamer " Bay State."
532. BETSEY LEWIS, b. 10 Oct., 1847; d. 5 Sept., 1869.
533. HARRIET PATTERSON, b. 15 Aug., 1849; d. 19 June, 1866.
534. ELLA FRANCES, b. 12 July, 1851 ; d. 13 May, 1866.
535. JEFFERSON COOK, b. 18 Sept., 1854.
536. AMANDA JOHNSON, b. 5 Apr., 1856 ; d. 1 June, 1874.
537. BYLEY ATKINS, b. 2 Jan., 1859 ; d. 25 Dec., 1860.
638. FRANK ELMER, b. 23 Dec., 1860; m. 25 Sept, 1889, Mary Abbie
Adair, b. 27 Dec., 1862, at Upton, Mass.
231 John Lyford (Zebulon, 93 James Gilman
John, 1 * Thomas* Francis 1 ), born 23 July, 1797, at
Canterbury, N.H. ; died 1882, atCassville, P.Q. ; married
Asenath Glidden, born 20 Jan., 1800, at Hatley, P. Q.,
daughter of Simeon Glidden. She died 2 Aug., 1871.
Removed to Stanstead, P. Q., Canada, in 1809.
Children, all born at Stanstead, P. Q. :
539. WILLARD GLIDDEN, b. 22 Dec., 1819; d. 1896; m. 15 July, 1851,
Harriet N. Erskine.
540. JOHN BUSWELL, b. 25 Sept., 1821; m. 15 June, 1852, Nancy
Adams Ames.
541. SIMEON GLIDDEN, b. 22 Apr., 1823; m. 19 Dec., 1850, Sarah
Ann Pressy, b. 4 Apr., 1832 and d. 7 Oct., 1896.
542. JANE, b. 19 Apr., 1825; m. Willard Cole.
543. EDWIN, b. 12 May, 1827 ; d. 14 July, 1827.
544. EDWIN, b. 1 Jan., 1830; d. 30 June, 1898; m. 1st, 11 Dec.,
1849, Emeline D. Currier (two children); m. 2d, 11 July,'
1854, Ellen S. Libby.
545. ASENATH, b. 26 Oct., 1832; d. 17 Aug., 1838.
546. WRIGHT CHAMBERLAIN, b. 22 Aug., 1834; m. 1st, 5 Sept., 1855,
Sarah C. Mitchell; m. 2d, 2 Feb., 1877, Mary Elizabeth
Christy; m. 3d, 4 Mar., 1897, Abby Stanley Hayes.
547. RUTH GLIDDEN, b. 25 Feb., 1836; d. 1861; m. 23 Feb., 1856,
Leonard A. Stearns.
548. ASENATH, b. 21 Aug., 1838; m. Orrin M. Moulton.
549. SARAH ANN, b. 25 Dec., 1840; m. Leonard A. Stearns.
550. CHARLES WORTH, b. 13 Mar., 1842.
551. HARLEY MCCLARY, b. 3 Dec., 1844; m. 27 Dec., 1866, Ellen
Ladd, b. 21 July, 1845.
232 Nathaniel Lyford( Zebulon James Oilman
John, 1 * Thomas* Francis*), born 7 May, 1799, at
Canterbury, N. H. ; went to Stanstead, P. Q., m 1809,
190 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
and died 3 Mar., 1861 ; married, 1st, 1819, Mary Glidden
(sister of Asenath, wife of John Lyford 231 ), who was born
Feb., 1796, and died 14 Nov., 1827 ; married, 2d, 1831,
Susan Rogers, who was born 3 Oct., 1804, and died 31
Oct., 1873.
Children, by 1st wife, all born at Stanstead, P. Q. :
552. MARY, m. Henry Pond.
553. ZEBULON, b. 19 June, 1824; m. 5 Oct., 1848, Lois Ann Wood-
ward, b. 11 Mar., 1832. Children: George Washington, b.
7 Sept., 1849. Louis Dexter, b. 2 Apr., 1851; d. 30 Aug.,
1890.
554. NOAH GLIDDEN, b. 25 June, 1825; d. 13 Dec., 1898; m. 1st, 25
Dec., 1847, Sarah Young Leathers, b. 26 June, 1825, d.
12 Feb., 1865; m. 2d, 9 May, 1867, Ellen Mariah Bickford,
b. 18 Oct., 1828. Children: Charles Albert, b. 1 Oct.,
1849. Walter Henry, b. 16 Jan., 1852; d. 21 Aug., 1852.
Fred Henry, b. 15 July, 1854.
555. BETSEY GLIDDEN, b. June, 1827; d. 8 Apr., 1856; m. Horace
Taylor.
Children, by 2d wife, all born at Stanstead, P. Q. :
556. SUSAN LOUISE, b. 18 Oct., 1831; d. 13 Nov., 1831.
557. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. 19 Dec., 1835; M. D.; m. - Reed.
558. EDGAR ALONZO, b. 19 Apr., 1842; d. 8 May, 1895; m. 19 Nov.,
1872, Charlotte Augustia Huckins. Nine children.
559. WILLIAM FRANCIS, b. 22 Oct., 1846.
237 Jonathan Lyford (Jonathan** James Gilman
John,^ Thomas? Francis 1 ), born 1815, at Sebec, Me. ;
died 28 Sept., 1848 ; married Lydia Burnham, who was
born Dec., 1818, and died 17 May, 1885.
Children :
559a. LORELLO HARVEY, b. 6 Dec., 1843; d. Oct., 1896.
5596. CORDELIA FRANCES, b. 8 Apr., 1846; d. 10 May, 1889.
559c. ASA JONATHAN, b. 23 Dec., 1848, at Garland, Me. ; m. 2 July,
1881, Ada Lyford 5596 . Two children.
559d. GEORGE WASHINGTON, d. in infancy.
239 James Oilman Lyford (Jonathan** James
Gilman, John, 1 '* Thomas? Francis 1 ), born 1820, at
Sebec, Me.; died 29 Mar., 1892 ; married Elizabeth
Morrill, who was born in 1829 and died 25 May, 1863.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 191
Children :
559e. ADA, b. 19 Nov., 1851, at Sebec, Me. ; m. 2 July, 1881, Asa
Jonathan Lyford. 559c
559/. FRANK OSCAR, b. 29 Nov., 1853.
559#. ELDEN OILMAN, b. 10 Apr., 1856.
559/i. ALBERT LOREN, b. 10 Apr., 1856.
569i. LIZZIE AUGUSTA, b. 27 Nov., 1858.
559j. LEWIS AUGUSTUS, b. 27 Nov., 1858.
559&. CLARA ELLA, b. 4 Aug., 1861.
245 Wright Chamberlain Lyford (Jeremiah**
James Oilman?* John, Thomas* Francis 1 ), born at
Stanstead, P. Q. ; died 21 Oct., 1858, at Leavenvvorth,
Kan. ; married 1 Nov., 1847, Lucy Clark Cape well, who
was born 11 Dec., 1826, and died 14 Nov., 1894.
Children, all born in Boston, Mass. :
560. Louis HENRY, b. 27 Aug., 1848; m. 17 Dec., 1889, Nellie
Lawlor, b. 11 Dec., 1856.
561. LOUISE CAPEWELL, b. 28 May, 1850; d. 1852.
562. CHARLES ALBERT, b. 6 Feb., 1852.
251 Joseph Gilman Lyford ( Thomas Dearborn*
Thomas? 5 John Thomas ^Francis 1 ), born 8 July, 1830,
at Northfield, N. H. ; married, 1st, 13 May, 1856, Mary
Ann Shannon, who was born 9 Feb., 1829, and died 7
Feb., 1865; married, 2d, 17 Dec., 1866, Ann Maria
Brown.
Children, by 1st wife :
563. JOHN THOMAS, b.- 1 Aug., 1859; d. 4 Apr., 1860.
564. CLARENCE EUGENE, b. 23 June, 1861 ; d. 6 Feb., 1862.
Children, by 2d wife :
565. JAY BROWN, b. 23 July, 1871; m. 1 Jan., 1895, Gertrude
Marguerite Jones, b. 12 Aug., 1873.
566. LAURA MAY, b. 21 Aug., 1874.
567. FRED HANCOCK, b. 20 May, 1876.
568. ANNA BELLE, b. 1 Sept., 1878.
252 William Haines Lyford (Jeremiah Hall, 105
Thomas? 5 John, Thomas, % Francis 1 ), born 8 Sept-,
1836; married 25 Apr., 1861, Jane Holmes, born 25
192 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
Apr., 1842. Lives at Port Byron, 111. ; M.D. at Rush
Medical College.
Children :
569. GEORGE ABBOTT, b. 29 Sept., 1863; d. 8 Aug., 1864.
570. GRACE ROSETTA, b. 4 Aug., 1865; m. 13 Sept., 1883, Frank
Byron Skelton, b. 24 July, 1859.
571. CHARLOTTE ELLEN, b. 10 Dec., 1866; m. 16 Sept., 1891, James
Holliday Boyd, b. 6 Apr., 1858.
572. EDWARD HALL, b. 12 Jan., 1869.
573. MARY ANNETTE, b. 25 Sept., 1870; m. 27 July, 1894, Charles
Warren Hunt, M.D., b. 29 Oct., 1870.
574. CLARENCE HOLMES, b. 24 Oct., 1872.
575. FLORENCE CYNTHIA, b. 7 Apr., 1874.
576. FRANCIS IRVING, b. 20 Aug., 1875.
577. BURTON, b. 18 May, 1877; d. 30 Oct., 1878.
578. LUCY, b. 11 Apr., 1878.
579. BESSIE, b. 3 Aug., 1879.
580. SARAH, b. 19 Mar., 1881 ; d. 4 July, 1881.
581. ERNEST JEREMIAH, b. 16 Oct., 1882.
582. EDNA CLARISSA, b. 13 Jan., 1886.
257 Augustus Lyford (Joseph, 106 Joseph, John,
Thomas,* Francis 1 ), born 5 May, 1816, at Canterbury,
N. H. ; died 5 Mar., 1886; married 19 Oct., 1842,
Abigail Emerson, born 18 Apr., 1818. He went west,
in the fall of 1836, with his father Joseph Lyford, 106
and settled in Buda, 111. Lived at Galesburg, 111.
Children, all save the first, born in Groveland, 111 :
583. HENRY AUGUSTUS, b. 5 Sept., 1843, at Buda, 111.
584. JOSEPH EMERSON, b. 29 Mar., 1847; d. 17 Mar., 1848.
585. FRANKLIN EMERSON, b. 20 Aug., 1849; d. 12 Mar., 1850.
586. MARY CHARLOTTE, b. 10 Oct., 1851.
587. CHARLES EUGENE, b. 9 Nov., 1854; d. 9 Oct., 1874.
258 Alfred Lyford (Joseph, 106 Joseph, 36 John, 1 *
Thomas,* Francis 1 ), born 28 Jan., 1818, at Canterbury,
N. H. ; went west with his father Joseph Lyford, 106 in
the fall of 1836 ; married 19 Dec., 1839, Mary S.Emerson,
born 5 Au., 1820, sister to the wife of Augustus
Lyford. 257
Children :
. 588. HENRIETTA, b. 31 July, 1843; d. 8 Nov., 1897; ra. 3 Sept.,
1863, Terrell.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 193
589. WLNTHROP E., b. 21 Feb., 1845 ; m. 10 Sept., 1881.
590. LUELLA, b. 24 Jan., 1858 ; m. 20 May, 1883, Fisher.
260 Joseph Lyford (Joseph Joseph** John, 12
Thomas,* Francis 1 ), born 7 Nov., 1828, in Canterbury,
N. H. ; went west with his father Joseph Lyford, 106 in
the fall of 1836 ; married, 1st, 15 Feb., 1855, Josephine
Hinman, who was born 22 Apr., 1837 and died 20 Jan.,
1870; married, 2d, 7 May, 1872, Mary Jane Quimby,
born 22 Apr., 1845.
Children, by 1st wife, all born at Neponset, 111.
591. LAMBY, b. 7 May, 1856; d. 16 Apr., 1857.
592. CHARLES EDGAR, b. 4 Nov., 1857; m. 14 Mar., 1888, Mattie
Day.
593. VICTOR GERALD, b. 16 Aug., 1859; m. 16 Sept., 1885, Florence
Nightingale Willetts, b. 24 Sept., 1861.
594. LEO LINCOLN, b. 30 Nov., 1860; m. 15 Feb., 1883, Jane Otley,
b. 15 Sept., 1861.
695. SARAH LOTTIE, b. 16 June, 1862; m. 15 Feb., 1882, Carlos
Bartlett Craig.
696. NELLIE ELLA, b. 1 Oct., 1865; m. 24 Jan., 1884, Robert
Kounseville.
697. GRANT HINMAN, b. 8 Apr., 1868 ; d. 11 Mar., 1869.
598. JOSEPH HINMAN, b. 17 Jan., 1870 ; d. 28 Apr., 1871.
Children, by 2d wife, all born at Neponset, 111. :
699. FLORENCE JOSEPHINE, b. 12 Mar., 1873.
600. LUELLA ROSE, b. 11 May, 1875.
601. MOSES HERBERT, b. 24 Aug., 1877.
602. SCOTT Dow, b. 18 May, 1879.
603. MYRTIE DELLA, b. 3 Nov., 1880; d. 14 Oct., 1881.
604. BERTHA WINIFRED, b. 29 Apr., 1883.
269 Prank Lyford( Winthrop Dearborn, 111 Joseph,
John, Thomas, 12 Francis*), born 31 Oct., 1854 ; married
28 June, 1881, Elizabeth Beattie, who was born in
Canada and died 18 Aug., 1887.
Children :
- 605. MARY A. E., b. 11 Aug., 1882.
606. JOHN F., b. 23 May, 1885.
607. HATTIE J., b. 25 Mar., 1887.
273 John Lyford (John, 115 Thomas, David, 13
HIST. COLL., VOL. XXXVIH. 13
194 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
Thomas* Francis^), born 11 Feb., 1799, at Cabot, VL ;
died Sept., 1886, at Ticonderoga, N. Y. ; married Abigail
Rutherford of Monkton, Vt., who died Feb., 1884.
Children, all born at Monkton, Vt. :
608. IRA, b. June, 1824; killed in the woods in 1879, by a cut from
an axe; m. 1st, 1857, Lucy Barney; m. 2nd, 21 Apr., 1860,
Corrilla R. Foster, b. 13 July, 1854.
609. ERSKINE, b. 25 Nov., 1829; served in the 6th New Jersey and
1st and 5th New York Cavalry.
610. OSCAR, b. 25 Nov., 1829; d. 1873 at Ticonderoga; served in
the 12th Vermont Heavy Artillery.
611. JOHN, b. 12 Oct., 1835; m. Mrs. Mary Clark. One child.
275 Joseph Wheat Lyford (John," 5 Thomas
David, Thomas Brands 1 ), born 5 Jan., 1802, at Cabot,
Vt. ; died 27 Jan., 1884, at Dover, Me. ; married Mrs.
Mary (Bradish) Hoyt, who was born 6 Sept., 1798 and
died 31 Mar., 1876. Lived at Cabot, Vt. and Woodbury,
Vt., until 1848, when he removed to Dexter, Me.
Children :
612. ROYAL JACKSON, b. 27 Dec., 1828, at Cabot; m. 2 Sept., 1849,
Elizabeth Lydia Garland, b. 11 June, 1830. Six children.
613. HORACE CARLOS, b. 19 May, 1831, at Woodbury; d. 18 Sept.,
1878, at Syracuse, N. Y. ; m. 23 May, 1852, Caroline Augusta
Hatch, b. 18 May, 1831, at Lowell, Mass. Four children.
614. CHARLES PECK, b. 22 Apr., 1838, at Woodbury; m. 1st, Apr.,
1860, Eliza Ann Voorhees; m., 2nd, Nettie Maria Blann;
m. 3rd, Caroline Augusta Flanders. Three children.
615. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. 30 Apr., 1842, at Woodbury; d. 27
Apr., 1843.
276 Parley Scott Lyford (John, 115 Thomas,**
David, 13 Thomas,* Francis*), born 18 Nov., 1804, at
Cabot, Vt. ; married 20 Feb., 1823, Judith Herrick, who
was born 2 May, 1801, and died 29 July, 1875. Lived
at Woodbury, Vt., until Oct., 1837, and afterwards at
Benson, Vt., and Saratoga Co., N. Y.
Children :
616. MARTHA ALMIRA, b. 30 June, 1823; d. 10 Sept., 1847.
617. ALONZO GEORGE, b. 31 Mar., 1825; m. June, 1849, Polly
Amanda Scribner.
618. BENJAMIN HERRICK, b. 7 May, 1827; m. 1st, 14 June, 1850, Mary
Ann King, who d. 26 Feb., 1853; m. 2nd, Feb., 1854, Mary
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 195
Catherine Hammond. Children : Edwin Scott, b. 18 July,
1851; d. 9 June, 1901. Mary Ann. Willard Richard.
619. MARY FLORELLA, b. 1 Apr., 1831; m. 31 Mar., 1853, Royal
Tyler Hall.
620. WILLIAM, b. and d. 3 Mar., 1839.
621. NORMAN WALLACE, b. 26 Sept., 1840 ; killed 7 May, 1864, at the
" Battle of the Wilderness."
277 Hiram Lyford (John, 115 Thomas David,
Thomas* Francis^), born 24 Sept., 1806, at Cabot, Vt. ;
died 22 Feb., 1881, at Mazomonie, Wis. ; married 12
July, 1826, at Bangor, Me., Betsey M. Gale, of Dover,
Me. She was born 6 Jan., 1803, at Meredith, N. H. and
died 29 Aug., 1885, at Bangor, Me. Lived at Dover,
Me.
Children :
622. EDWIN, b. 15 Dec., 1827; d. 17 Dec., 1827.
623. SUSAN ELIZABETH, b. 5 Aug., 1829 ; m. 1st, R. C. Wyat; m., 2d,
George Me Kee.
624. LOUISA, b. 13 Dec., 1832; d. 4 Jan., 1891; m. Stephen Ellis.
625. JOHN FIFIELD, b. 19 Jan., 1834; d. 25 Sept., 1880; m. 5 Sept.,
1856, Hannah Augusta Fox. Four children.
626. NANCY JANE, b. 18 Nov., 1836; d. 5 Mar., 1892; m. Sylvester
Ellis.
627. VICTORIA LA RUE, b. 5 Jan., 1838; m. 14 May, 1863, Samuel A.
Fellows, b. 6 Nov., 1833.
628. AMANDA MEL VINA, b. 30 Sept., 1839; m. F. H. Dyer.
629. ROXANA ANNISTEEN, b. 9 May, 1841; m., 1st, Josiah Stock-
bridge; Li. 2d, Chandler Haskel; m., 3d, Fred C. Utecht.
630. HARRIET ETTA, b. 15 Feb., 1843; d. 1 Jan., 1862.
631. MARY MARTHA, b. 8 Aug., 1845; m., 1st, Calvin Pope; m. 2d,
Laton Miles.
632. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. 6 June, 1847 ; d. Mar., 1883 ; m. Juliette
McComal.
633. HIRAM WALTER, b. 5 Oct., 1849; d. 10 Sept., 1851.
279 Hazen Bailey Lyford (John, 115 Thomas,
David, 13 Thomas* Francis 1 ), born 1 May, 1810, at
Cabot, Vt; died 17 Jan., 1899; married 1st, 17 Mar.,
1833, Electa White, who was born 8 Jan., 1811 and died
22 Nov., 1858 ; married 2d,3 Sept., 1859, Mary Needham,
who was born 8 Jan., 1840 and died 28 Feb., 1893.
Lived at Montpelier and Warren, Vt.
190 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON AND EXETER,
Child, by 1st wife :
634. HORACE WHITE, b. 18 Feb., 1835; m. 9 Sept., 1869, Sarah
Rebecca Vincent, b. 25 Dec., 1838.
Child, by 2d wife :
635. MARY ELECTA, b. 19 Nov., 1860.
282 David Lyford (John, 115 Thomas, 4 * David, 13
Thomas* Francis 1 ), born 14 Nov., 1818,. at Cabot, Vt. ;
married 31 Dec., 1839, Salvira Koe, who was born 23
Mar., 1817, and died 9 Oct., 1892. Lived at North Troy,
Vt.
Children :
636. LOVINA, b. 17 Dec., 1841; m. 21 Jan., 1867, 'Charles Simpson.
637. SUSAN M., b. 12 Aug., 1843; m. 23 Dec., 1866, Alfonso Plumb.
638. LUCLNDA, b. 6 Jan., 1848; m. 23 Aug., 1866, Elias Thayer.
639. ALTHA, b. 6 Mar., 1850; m. 8 Jan., 1876, Daniel Morse.
640. CHARLES JESSE, b. 4 July, 1852; m. 23 Oct., 1876, Patience
Persina (Chase) Fuller, b. 31 Jan., 1844.
641. JOSEPHINE, b. 22 June, 1856; m. 24 Feb., 1873, Don Hyde.
288 David Lyford (David, 111 Thomas, David, 1 ' 3
Thomas,* Francis 1 ), born 10 Jan., 1796, at Cabot, Vt. ;
died in 1888 ; married Susan Wells.
Children :
642. ASA B., b. 19 Feb., 1826, at Calais, Vt. ; m. Jane .
Three children.
643. ANDREW JACKSON, b. 12 Feb., 1828; m. Emily Oilman
Lyford. 648 Six children.
644. LOVERIN, b. at Cabot, Vt.
645. JULIA A. ; m. Thomas.
646. ROLY ; m. Clark.
647. MARTHA.
291 Harvey Lyford (David, ul Thomas, David, 13
Thomas,* Francis 1 ), married Electa Martin. Lived at
Peacham, Vt.
Children, all born at Peacham, Vt. :
648. EMILY GILMAN, m. Andrew Jackson Lyford. 843
649. ELIJAH.
650. CHARLES.
651. HARRIET R., b. 1839 ; m. 1 July, 1865, Charles Z. Brown.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 197
299 Aura Lyford (Peter, 118 Thomas, 4 * David
Thomas? Francis 1 ), born 21 May, 1815, at Cabot, Vt. ;
died 9 Aug., 1864, at Washington, D. C. ; married Nov.,
1837, Asenath Hoyt, who was born 4 Apr., 1812, and
died 26 June, 1855. Served in Co. H, 13th Vt. Infy., and
the 3d Battery.
Children :
652. BETSEY, b. 14 Nov., 1840; m. 1 Jan., 1862, Alvah Carpenter,
of Chelsea, Vt.
653. HENRY BLANCHARD, b. 23 Apr., 1844; m. 8 Oct., 1875, Evoe
Estella Carpenter. Eight children. Served in Co. G, 6th
Vt. Infy.
654. HARRIET, b. 7 Mar., 1849.
655. AURA, b. 8 Oct., 1854; d. 24 June, 1855.
302 Calvin Lyford (Peter , 118 Thomas David,
Thomas? Francis 1 ), born 4 Jan., 1823, at Woodbury,
Vt. ; died 25 Oct., 1897; married, 1st, 23 Feb., 1856,
Phylura A. Ball, who was born 11 Jan., 1827, and died
4 Dec., 1873; married, 2d, 30 Jan., 1877, Abbie Meader.
Lived at Hard wick, Vt.
Children:
656. Lois MARY, b. 6 Feb., 1859; m. 27 Sept., 1879, Joshua C.
Kimball.
657. FRANK HERBERT, b. 10 Jan., 1864.
303 Peter Robinson Lyford (Peter, 1 Thomas,**
David, Thomas? Francis 1 ), born 29 Aug., 1825; died
14 Nov., 1897 ; married 21 Sept., 1851, Lovinia Sprague,
who was born 8 Dec., 1828. Lived at Cabot, Vt.
Children :
658. ELLA EMERY, b. 18 Aug., 1854; m. 7 May, 1879, Henry C.
Eaton. He d. 5 May, 1898.
659. ALICE MAY, b. 19 Sept., 1856; d. 29 Sept., 1894; m. 20 Sept.,
1882, Robert H. Martin.
660. SHERMAN HENRY, b. 6 June, 1865 ; m. 23 Dec., 1897, Delora M.
Bussell. She d. 17 Aug., 1898.
304 George Lyford (Peter, 118 Thomas, 4 * David,
Thomas,* Francis 1 ), born 9 July, 1829; married June,
1864, Mary Ann Sprague, who was born 27 Jan., 1827,
and died 12 Dec., 1889. Lived at Cabot, Vt.
198 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON AND EXETER,
Children :
661. FRED, b. 9 May, 1866.
662. BURT, b. 15 Dec. 1867; m. 14 June, 1892, Kate Russell.
663. NEIL W., b. 4 Oct., 1871.
305 Martin Van Buren Lyford( Peter, 118 Thomas
David, Thomas* Francis 1 ), born 27 Mar., 1831;
married, 1st, 24 Apr., 1870, Mrs. Mary Ann (Voodry)
Glidden, who was born 10 May, 1842 and died 23 Dec.,
1872; married, 2d, 4 Nov., 1875, Mrs. Ellen Sophia
(Galloup) Danforth, who was born 17 Mar., 1845. Lives
at Woodbury, Vt.
Child :
664. LEWIS VOODRY, b. 20 Nov., 1872.
306 James Monroe Lyford (Peter,"* Thomas,
David, 13 Thomas* Francis*), born 22 Feb., 1835 ; married
28 Oct., 1865, Lucretia E. Laird, of Woodbury, Vt.
Served three years in Co. C, 1st Vt. Cav. Lives at
Woodbury, Vt.
Children :
665. MYRA ELIZA, d. aged 2 years.
666. INEZ MAY, m. Oscar E. Dodge, of Worcester, Vt.
667. ESTELLA JANE, m. Bert R. Nelson, of So. Woodbury, Vt.
307 Biley Lyford(e7o^n, 122 Biley Dudley ', 49 Biley , 23
Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 22 Jan., 1805, at St. Albans,
Me.; died 7 Sept., 1884; married 20 June, 1830,
Catherine Dow, who was born 1 Oct., 1807, and died 21
Nov., 1878.
Children, all born at St. Albans, Me. :
668. MARY A., b. 27 Apr., 1832.
669. CAROLINE, b. 7 May, 1833.
670. DANIEL CALVIN, b. 23 Feb., 1836; m. 1st, 15 Feb., 1862,
Lodoski Maria Fletcher, b. 13 June, 1835 and d. 6 Feb., 1889 ;
m. 2d, 28 May, 1891, Josephine M. Harmon.
671. HENRY HARRISON, b. 14 Oct., 1844; m. 7 Feb., 1874, Violetta
Rollins, of Dexter, Me.
3O9 Albert Lyford (John^Biley Dudley Biley,
Stephen, 5 Francis^), born 26 June, 1810, at St. Albans,
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 199
Me. ; died 13 Sept., 1867, at Waterville, Me. ; married
1 Jan., 1833, Phebe Bates, of Fairfield, Me.
Children :
672. ELVIRA, b. 21 Feb., 183*; m. 9 Apr., 1857, Andrew Jackson
Lang, b. 3 Sept., 1831 and d. 22 Aug., 1870.
673. WILLIAM ALBERT, b. 20 Mar., 1836; d. 17 July, 1846.
674. LOUISA STUART, b. 20 Nov., 1837; m. 7 Oct., 1862, Rufus
Knight Marriner. Hed. 12 Aug., 1875, and she m. 2d, Jan.,
1878, Walter C. Campbell.
675. SARAH ABIGAIL, b. 5 Oct., 1839; d. 7 May, 1840.
676. ANNE MARIA, b. 27 May, 1842; m. 16 Feb., 1863, Holloway
Winslow Thomas, of Athens, Pa.
677. CHARLES FRANKLIN, b. 15 Jan., 1844, at Waterville, Me. ;
served in Co. E, 16th Me. Infy., and was killed at Fredericks-
burg, Va., 14 Dec., 1862.
678. JAMES MONROE, b. 5 Nov., 1845, at Waterville, Me.; m. 18
Nov., 1868, Helen Louise Sawyer. Served in Co. E, 16th
Me. Infy.
679. FREDERICK EUGENE, b. 26 Jan., 1853, at Waterville, Me.; m.
1st, 19 Sept., 1877, Cora Bristol Lowman, b. 14 May, 1868,
and d. 3 Apr., 1888; m. 2d, 14 Mar., 1890, Jane Elizabeth
Lemon, b. 7 Jan., 1860. Four children.
311 John Fogg Lyford (John, Biley Dudley,**
Biley, Stephen* Francis 1 ), born 17 Feb., 1818, at St.
Albans, Me. ; married 8 Feb., 1844, Fairrena Bean Rowe,
who was born 6 Aug., 1819, at St. Albans, Me. and died
22 Nov., 1896, at St. Albans.
Children, all born at St. Albans :
680. FRANKLIN ORESTES, b. 21 Jan., 1847; m. 22 Jan., 1873, Ellen
Susan Skinner, b. 5 Jan., 1848. M. D. ; lives at Farmington,
Me.
681. HORACE KIBBY, b. 17 June, 1848; m. 1st, 30 Aug., 1870, Sophia
Stinchfleld, b. 9 May, 1848 and d. 27 Oct. , 1875 ; m. 2d, 27 Nov. ,
1876, Clara Ann Stinchfleld, b. 8 Dec., 1831. Five children.
682. VESTA LIZZIE, b. 31 Jan., 1852.
319 Samuel Fogg Lyford(Jo/m, 122 Biley Dudley,**
Biley, ^ Stephen* Francis 1 ), born 15 May, 1830, at St.
Albans, Me.; married 11 Dec., 1859, Almeda Avilda
Robinson, born 31 Mar., 1838.
Children, all born at St. Albans :
683. CORA FRANCES, b. 4 July, 1861 ; m. Frederick H. Costellow.
684. FLORENCE ABIGAIL, b. 26 Dec., 1868 ; m. 7 Jan., 1897, Elbert E.
Knowles of Corinna, Me.
200 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON AND EXETEK,
336 George Henry Lyford (Epaphms Kibby,
Biley Dudley Biley, Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 10
July, 1829, in Boston, Mass. ; married 28 Oct., 1851,
Harriet Elizabeth Tappan, born 12 Oct., 1831.
Children, all born at Newburyport, Mass. :
685. LUCIA LAIRD, b. 19 June, 1852; d. in infancy.
686. MARY BRIGHAM, b. 30 July, 1853; m. 14 Sept., 1876, John J.
Hornor of Helena, Ark.
687. ELIZABETH TAPPAN, b. 12 Aug., 1855; m. 20 Sept., 1882,
James E. Kilduff of Brooklyn, N. Y.
688. HATTIE FLETCHER, b. 19 Apr., 1857; d. 15 June, 1889; m. 23
Jan., 1883, David Kowe of Brooklyn, N. Y.
689. GEORGE TAPPAN, b. 22 Oct., 1861 ; lives at LaGrange, Ark.
690. WILLIAM TRACY, b. 4 Mar., 1863; lives at LaGrange, Ark.
691. BENJAMIN LUNT, b. 4 Sept., 1864; m. 6 Jan., 1892, Mary Eva
Cooledge, b. 19 Oct., 1874. Two children.
692. WOODMAN HUSE, b. 18 Nov., 1866 ; d. 12 June, 1895, at Chicago,
111.
337 Charles Wells Lyford (Epaphras Kibby,
Biley Dudley, Biley Stephen* Francis^), born 2 Jan. ,
1832, in Boston, Mass. ; married Laura J. Benson. Lives
at Cambridgeport, Mass.
Child :
693. CHARLES FLETCHER, b. 1 Sept., 1858; m. 1 Sept., 1883, Ida
Augusta Garland. One child.
341 John Frederick Lyford (Henry, 138 Biley
Dudley Biley Stephen, 5 Francis^), born 19 Apr.,
1834; married 17 Apr., 1859, Abbie Elsina Carr, born
20 May, 1834. Lives at Fremont, N. H.
Children :
694. WALTER HENRY, b. 13 Sept., 1859; m. 10 Apr., 1893, Aurelia
Estelle Ford, b. 24 Jan., 1870.
695. FREDERICK CARR, b. 20 Oct., 1861; m. 12 Sept., 1888, Ellen
Osgood, b. 23 Feb., 1867.
696. FRANK HERBERT, b. 10 Nov., 1867; m. 28 Feb., 1894, Mary
Francis Doe, b. 13 Apr., 1867.
697. ABBIE ELSINA, b. 22 Mar., 1871 ; m. 1 June, 1893, John Peter
St. John.
698. JOHN BURTON, b. 2 Jan., 1874.
344 George Washington Lyford ( Washington
Biley Dudley,* 9 Biley, Stephen, 5 Francis 1 }, born
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 201
11 June, 1846, at Fremont, N. H. ; married 31 Dec.,
1871, Annie Curry, born 26 July, 1847.
Children, all born at Philadelphia, Pa. :
699. BABY, b. 19 Nov., 1872; stillborn.
700. GEORGE, b. 28 Dec., 1873; d. 22 June, 1889.
701. JULIA, b. 11 Feb., 1876; d. 16 Nov., 1879.
702. WALKER, b. 9 Mar., 1878; d. 22 June, 1889.
703. ANNIE, b. 27 Jan., 1880; m. 14 June, 1899, James Dempsey.
704. MARTIN, b. 6 June, 1882.
705. ELIZABETH H., b. 25 June, 1884.
706. JOSEPH, b. 17 Dec., 1886.
348 Woodbridge Sanborn Lyford (Joshua
Smith, 134 John, Bileij, Stephen* Francis^), born
6 June, 1829 ; married Annie Brown. Lives at Lawrence,
Mass.
Children :
707. GERTRUDE MARIA, b. 1859, at Lawrence, Mass.; m. 3 Sept.,
1875, Josiah B. Smith.
708. ELLA FRANCIS, d. aged 17 years.
709. FRANK PASCAL, d. aged 29 years.
710. ANNA HORTENSE.
349 Augustus Dinsmore Lyford (Joshua,
Smith John, Biley, Stephen, 5 Francis*), born
3 Dec., 1830; married 1st, 4 Feb., 1862, Julia Ann
Davis, who died 5 Dec., 1885 ; married, 2d, Emma .
Lives at Brentwood, N. H.
Children :
711. MARY ISABELLE, b. 25 Dec., 1862; m. 3 Jan., 1883, Charles
Sumner Day; d. 22 Feb., 1896.
712. GEORGE AUGUSTUS, b. 8 Aug., 1864; m. 22 Sept., 1889, Lydia
Ann Goodwin.
713. FRANCIS STUART, b. 8 Sept., 1867; m. 1 Jan., 1895, Carrie Etta
Holbrook.
714. ELLA GERTRUDE, b. 13 Dec., 1870; m. 11 Dec., 1890, Jesse
Solomon Gray.
715. EDWARD PAYSON, b. 24 May, 1876.
351 Lauren Dana Lyford (Joshua Smith
John, Biley,^ Stephen,* Francis*), born 6 June,
1836; married 28 Dec., 1860, Deborah H. Eustis, who
died 23 Sept., 1887. Lives at Brentwood, N. H.
202 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON AND EXETER,
Children :
716. LAUREN DANA, b. 20 June, 1862; d. 14 Feb., 1900, at Exeter,
N. H.; m. 3 June, 1882, Josephine Dickey.
717. JAMES ALFRED, b. 31 Oct., 1864; m. 31 Oct., 1887, Lizzie
Sarah Goodrich.
718. ARTHUR HERBERT, b. 29 Apr., 1869.
719. FLORA AUGUSTA, b. 13 Feb., 1872; d. 2 Oct., 1872.
355 Stephen Carr Lyford (Stephen
Stephen, 55 Stephen** Stephen , 5 Francis 1 ), born 14 Aug.,
1839 ; died 9 May, 1885, at Frankfort Arsenal, Pa. ;
graduated at West Point, 1 July, 1861 ; Major Ordnance
Dept. U. S. A. ; married 28 June, 1875, Gertrude Kemble
Paulding, eldest daughter of Peter Kemble Paulding
and granddaughter of James K. Paulding.
Children :
720. EMILY PEARSON, b. 17 Oct., 1877; d. 9 Mar., 1878.
721. STEPHEN KEMBLE, b. 2 Aug., 1879.
378 Lewis Lyford (John , 155 Robert , 59 Stephen,
Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 25 Dec., 1825, at Brookfield,
N. H. ; married 1 July, 1850, Clara H. Lord, of
Hallo well, Me., born 12 Apr., 1827. Lives at Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Children :
722. FRANK L., b. 13 Oct., 1851, at Cincinnati, O.
723. MARY M., b. 14 July, 1855, at Newport, Ky.
724. CARRIE E., b. 8 July, 1859, at Cincinnati, O.
725. EMMA A., b. 19 Feb., 1862, at Cincinnati, O.
726. CLARA D., b. 9 Aug., 1865, at Cincinnati, O.
383 Henry Augustus Lyford (Thomas, 161
Robert, Stephen, Stephen, b Francis 1 ), born 14 Sept.,
1834 ; died 8 MayT 1875 ; married 25 Feb., 1856, Annie
Jane Miller of Boston, who was born 9 Nov., 1836, and
died 29 Jan., 1878.
Children :
727. CHARLES PRESCOTT, b. 21 June, 1857; m. 15 Dec., 1880, Julia
Beal, b. 23 Dec., 1855.
728. ANNIE GERTRUDE, b. 20 May, 1859.
729. HENRY AUGUSTUS, b. 10 June, 1862; d. 23 Apr., 1864.
730. HENRIETTA AUGUSTA, b. 11 Apr., 1868.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 203
385 George Albert Lyford (Thomas, Robert,
Stephen,** Stephen, b Francis 1 ), born 2 Feb., 1838, in
Boston, Mass. ; married 10 Feb., 1873, Mary Elizabeth
Montgomery, born 19 Sept., 1850. Served in Co. D,
13th Mass. Inf. Lives at Rouse ville, Pa.
Children :
731. ADA BLANCHE, b. 17 Dec., 1873; m. 19 Oct., 1892, Robert Orr.
732. FREDERIC AUGUSTUS, b. 7 Aug., 1876.
733. GERTRUDE OLIVE, b. 23 Feb., 1878.
734. GEORGE ALBERT, b. 27 Sept., 1879.
735. RALPH EMERSON, b. 18 Sept., 1881.
736. RAYMOND ARTHUR, b. 12 June, 1892.
388 Oliver Smith Lyford (Dudley, Dudley,
Moses* 5 Stephen,* Francis 1 ), born 1 Dec., 1805, at
Pittsfield, N. H., and is supposed to have been killed by
Indians, on the way home from California, across the
plains ; married, 1st, Martha True Williams, who died in
1828; married, 2d, 1838, Mrs. Martha Tomlinson
(Williams) Elliot, who was born 21 May, 1806, at
Lynchburg, Va., and died 28 Dec., 1868, at Keytesville,
Mo.
Child, by 1st wife :
737. AUGUSTINE, b. 4 June, 1825, at Keytesville, Mo. ; d. 13 Dec.,
1869, at St. Louis, Mo ; m. 20 May, 1856, Mary Jane Filson,
b. 22 Feb., 1835 and d. 15 Jan., 1871. Children : Harvey Caples,
b. 30 June, 1858; Harry Olin, b. 27 Jan., 1860; Alford
Augustine, b. 5 Aug., 1863.
Children, by 2d wife :
738. FRANCES VICTORIA, b. 31 Jan., 1839, at Fayette, Howard Co.,
Mo. ; m., 1st, J. F. Slade; m., 2d, Thomas Cooley ; m., 3d,
Adams; m., 4th, Green.
739. ANN ELIZABETH, b. 12 Jan., 1841, near Keytesville, Mo.; m
5 June, 1860, W. I. Gillespie.
740. MARY CATHARINE, b. 2 Mar., 1843, near Keytesville, Mo. ; d.
14 June, 1895, at Montgomery City, Mo. ; m. 12 Mar., 1873,
Frank Labourin.
741. THOMAS DUDLEY, b. 15 Mar., 1846, at Brunswick, Mo. ; served
in Co. I, 49th Mo. Inf.
742. MATITE WILLIAMS, b. 28 Oct., 1850, at Brunswick, Mo. ; m.
2 Mar., 1880, Isaac Cram.
204 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
392 John Cram Lyford (Dudley Dudley,^
Moses,* 5 /Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 26 June, 1814, at
Pittefield, N. H. ; died 28 Dec., 1897; married 1 May,
1837, Mary Jane Leavitt, who was born 20 Mar., 1813 and
died 20 Aug., 1878. He died in the Odd Fellows Home,
Concord, N. H. ; was Grand Master of Grand Lodge,
I. O. O. F. of N. H., 1848-49. Served three years in
7th N. H. Inf. in Civil War, being detailed as surgeon's
clerk.
Children :
743. JOHN MELVIN, b. 15 May, 1839 ; d. 29 June, 1844.
744. MARY ARDENIA, b. 5 July, 1843; d. 15 Nov., 1874; m.
Bickford.
745. ERVIN SALONE, b. 7 Apr., 1848; d. 19 Sept., 1897; m. 3 July,
1875, Clara Eudora Graf ton.
394 Francis Hubbard Lyford (Dudley, 1 **
Dudley,^ Moses* 5 Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 19 Sept.,
1820, at Pittsfield, N. H. ; died 24 Aug., 1891, at
Woodstock, N. H. ; married 1st, 29 Jan., 1845, Eunice
T. Pickering, who was born 27 "Nov., 1825 and died
3 Jan., 1852; married 2d, 13 May, 1852, Catherine S.
Cox, who was born 7 Apr., 1825 and died 15 Aug.,
1897. Lived in Pittsfield, N. H., to 1836 ; Keytesville,
Mo., 1841; Pittsfield, N. H., 1847; Barnstead, N. H.,
1849; California, 1852; Manchester, N. H., 1857;
ordained a Free Will Baptist minister, Randolph, Vt.,
1860 ; preached in Randolph and Thetford, Vt., Lebanon,
Me., Hampton, Holderness, Laconia, Meredith, Littleton,
Contocook and Woodstock, N. H., and Haverhill, Mass.
Children, by 1st wife :
746. NANCY GREEN, b. 12 May, 1846, at Pittsfield; d. 11 Nov., 1855.
747. ARDENIA E., b. 9 Apr., 1848, at Barnstead; m. 15 July, 1872,
George E. Gay. Lives at Maiden, Mass.
Children, by 2d wife :
748. JAMES DUDLEY, b. 11 Feb., 1853, at Barnstead; d. 21 Oct.,
1853.
749. EVA C., b. 9 Oct., 1854, at Manchester; d. 14 May, 1855.
750. KATE IDELLE. b. 5 Oct., 1856, at Manchester ; d. 26 Apr., 1892.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 205
405 Oliver Smith Lyford (Dudley* Oliver
Smith, Moses* 5 /Stephen 5 , Francis*), born 19 June,
1823, atMt. Vernon, Me.; married 27 Sept., 1852,
Lavinia A. Norris, born Apr., 1825. Vicc-Pres. of C.
and E. I. R. R. and lives at Chicago, 111.
Children :
751. FRANK EMILUS, b. 2 Apr., 1854; d. 1 Oct., 1855.
752. FANNY BRADLEY, b. 11 Sept., 1856; m. 5 Feb., 1878, John W.
Griffith.
753. WILL HARTWELL, b. 15 Sept., 1858; m. 28 Apr., 1886, Mary
McComas.
754. HARRY BROOKS, b. 14 Jan., 1861; m. 15 Feb., 1883, Josephine
A. Goyette.
755. CHARLES WARREN, b. 22 July, 1865 ; d. 21 Sept., 1868.
756. OLIVER SMITH, b. 21 Mar., 1870; m. 8 Jan., 1896, Frances
Lyman Meigs, b. 28 Apr., 1871.
408 Moses Lyford (Joseph, 110 Jonathan, 65 Moses, 25
Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 21 Apr., 1816, at Portsmouth,
N. H. ; died 31 May, 1880, at Sturbridge, Mass. ; married
1838, Olive Allen, who was born 12 Aug., 1818, and
died 16 Apr., 1896.
Children :
757. ELIZABETH, b. 11 Aug., 1840; m. 7 Aug., 1855, Hiram Bigelow,
b. 10 Sept., 1829.
758. ALBINA, b. 19 Aug., 1850; m. 9 Nov., 1869, Judah Brown.
759. WILLABEY CLOUGH, b. 25 Jan., 1854; m. 1st, 20 Oct., 1872,
Mary Trask, b. 2 Jan., 1854 and died 19 Aug., 1890; m. 2d,
18 Nov., 1891, Ada A. Fiske, b. 9 March, 1862. Three
children.
760. EVA JANE, b. 11 Oct., 1855; m. 1st, 16 Jan., 1874, Charles
Nichols; m.,2d, Norman Daniels.
410 Joseph Adams Lyf 'or d( Joseph, 110 Jonathan, 65
Moses,* 5 /Stephen, 5 Francis*), born 17 Dec., 1821, at
Livermore, Me. ; married 15 Oct., 1852, Esther Villetta
Howe, who was born 5 Dec., 1835. Lives at South
Spencer, Mass.
Children :
761. JOSEPH CHAUNCEY, b. 12 Oct., 1853, at So. Spencer, Mass. ; m.
5 July, 1879, Nettie Eliza Adams, b. 21 Nov., 1856. Five
children.
206 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON, AND EXETER,
762. ELLA JANE, b. 5 May, 1856; d. 30 Jan., 1891.
763. MARY ETTA, b. 12 Jan., 1859.
764. CARRIE ESTELLE, b. 21 Aug., 1861; m. 22 Apr., 1886, Hartwell
Wheeler Baldwin, b. 10 Jan., 1856.
765. FRANK HOWE, b. 23 Feb., 1864; m. 1 Sept., 1892, Sadie Alice
Clough, b. 20 June, 1868 ; a granddaughter of Betsey Adams
Lyford. 409
766. TAYLOR CLOUGH, b. 4 Dec., 1866; m. 21 Oct., 1891, Nellie
Louise Pierce, b. 10 July, 1867.
767. FRED ADAMS, b. 4 Dec., 1869.
768. ALICE MABEL, b. 10 July, 1872.
769. HARRY LEE, b. 12 Jan., 1876.
412 Francis William Lyford ( Francis William , m
Jonathan, 65 Moses, 25 Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 7 Aug.,
1822, at Barnstead, N. H. ; married 11 Apr., 1849,
Fidelia Jane Chapman, born 19 June, 1825. Lives at
Quincy, 111.
770. CHARLES AUGUSTUS, b. 25 Sept., 1850; m. 7 July, 1892, Mrs.
Gallic (Walker) Musyrure, b. 1 May, 1855. Two children.
771. ELLEN ESTELLE, b. 3 Oct., 1852; m. 10 Dec., 1873, Wilson R.
War field.
772. GEORGE HERBERT, b. 18 Mar., 1856, at Quincy, 111.; m. 11
Feb., 1884, Josephine Culbertson, b. 20 Dec., 1866. Two
children.
773. FRANCIS WILLIAM, b. 15 Apr., 1858; d. 15 Oct., 1861.
774. LILLIE BELL, b. 7 Aug., 1861; d. 25 Apr., 1862.
416 Francis Lyford (Joseph Nathaniel Lad, 66
Moses, 25 /Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 10 Apr., 1815, at
Livermore, Me. ; died 25 Sept., 1897, at Denmark, Me. ;
married 27 Sept., 1838, Amanda M. F. Fales, who was
born 21 Aug., 1810, at Wrentham, Mass., and died 31
Aug., 1892, at Augusta, Me.
Children :
775. ABBY M., b. 22 Dec., 1839; d. 25 Feb., 1842.
776. ELLA F., b. 19 Apr., 1842 ; d. 17 July, 1843.
777. FRANCIS N., b. 22 Dec., 1844; d. 1 Sept., 1845.
417 Jesse Stone Lyford (Joseph, 113 Nathaniel
Lad, 66 Moses, 25 /Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 8 Dec., 1819,
at E. Livermore, Me. ; died 31 Aug., 1895, at Lewiston,
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 207
Me. ; married 14 Dec., 1843, Olive Becky Patten, who
was born 19 Apr., 1823, and died 11 Aug., 1861.
Child :
778. FREDERIC DWIGHT, b. 20 Apr., 1847; m. Mary Clara Murphy,
and lives at Lewiston, Me.
418 Joseph Kinsley Lyford (Joseph Nathaniel
Lad, 66 Moses** Stephen,* Francis 1 ), born 24 Jan., 1823 ;
married 12 Dec., 1847, Hannah Jane Smith, who was born
5 Sept., 1823. Lives at Livermore Falls, Me.
Children :
779. EMMA, b. 6 May, 1849 ; d. 29 May, 1869.
780. CURTIS DWIGHT, b. 6 Dec., 1861.
427 Samuel Low Lyford (Oliver /Smith, 115
Nathaniel Lad Moses* 5 Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 25
June, 1814, at Livermore, Me. ; married 25 June, 1839,
Sarah Additon, of Dexter, Me.
Children :
781. ABBIE MARIA, b. 16 Aug., 1841, at Dexter, Me. ; m. 30 June,
1867, Nelson Tenney, b. 25 May, 1838.
782. HATTIE LOUISE, b. 19 Sept., 1855; m. 1st, 20 Dec., 1877, Loren
Beals, who d. 14 Feb., 1888, at Portland, Me. ; m. 2d, 21
Apr., 1896, William B. Howatt, of Dexter, Me.
429 Nathaniel Lyford( Oliver Smith, 115 Nathaniel
Lad, 66 Moses,* 5 Stephen, 5 Francis 1 ), born 6 Oct., 1818,
at New Gloucester, Me. ; married 3 Aug., 1845, Mary
Adams Goding, born 17 Jan., 1824. Lives at Brookline,
Mass.
783. GEORGE EDWIN, b. 18 May, 1846; m. 19 June, 1873, Maria M.
Dennis, of Cambridge, b. 9 June, 1847.
784. EMMA, b. 26 Nov., 1857; d. 2 July, 1860.
785. CHARLES DANA, b. 21 July, 1859; m. 22 Nov., 1893, Mabel
Hayward, of Brookline, b. 21 July, 1859.
439 Levi Johnson Lyford (Levi Johnson, 1 **
Nathaniel Lad, Moses,* 5 Stephen, 5 Francis*), born 19
June, 1836, at E. Livermore, Me.; married 29 Dec.,
1859, Sarah Rebecca Moody, who was born 14 March,
1838, and died 20 Jan., 1893. Lives at Livermore Falls,
Me.
208 FRANCIS LYFORD, OF BOSTON AND EXETER.
Children :
786. LILLIAN EMERY, b. 31 Mar., 1861.
787. BERTRAND EVERET, b. 4 June, 1862 ; m. Laura Alvena Putnam,
b. 13 Dec., 1867. Child: Charles Dwight, b. 16 Dec., 1889.
788. HARRY PARKS, b. 5 Sept., 1867; d. 20 Jan., 1894; m. 27 Nov.,
1889, Viola Edith Staples, b. 25 Nov., 1869.
789. BLANCHE THEONE, b. 30 Nov., 1870.
790. DWIGHT FORESTALL, b. 8 July, 1876; d. 8 Mar., 1879.
791. RALPH JOHNSON, b. 12 Jan., 1878.
792. FLORENCE BELL, b. 21 Apr., 1881.
440 George Henry Lyford (Levi Johnson, 1 **
Nathaniel Lad, 66 Moses, 25 Stephen, 5 Francis*), born 12
Apr., 1856, at East Livermore, Me. ; married 25 Mar.,
1894, at Martinez, Cal., Minnie Frances Diehl, born 8
Sept., 1865, at Winona, 111.
Children :
793. RUTH, b. 29 Dec., 1894.
794. HOWARD DEWEY, b. 19 Jan., 1896.
795. PERCY DIEHL, b. 15 Apr., 1898.
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THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER, AND SOME OF
HIS DESCENDANTS.
BY FKANK A. GAKDNER, M.D.
(Continued from Vol. XXXVIII, page 96.}
He gave to his "Sister Marston, Wife of Deacon John
Marston" ten pounds, and a like sum to his "Cousin
Marg. Stacey."
The sum of ten pounds was bequeathed to the "Poor
People in Salem."
All the remainder of his "Estate bothReall & Personall,"
he bequeathed to his "three Grandsons John Daniel and
Samuell Gardner, the Sons of my Son John Gardner,
Dec d ." Their mother Elizabeth was to have the use of it
while she was "bringing up" the children. Provision
was made that these three grandsons should pay certain
sums to their mother and sisters.
He appointed his grandson John Higginson, and his
daughter-in-law Elizabeth Gardner, executors of his will.
The document was witnessed by Henry West,
Ebenezer Proctor, Edward Tomson and Stephen Sewall.
It was proved Feb. 24, 1724.*
The real estate was not enumerated in the inventory.
The following items are of interest, as they show the
value of stock at that time: "1 pr oxen 12.10, 1 pr.
Stears 9.15, 3 Cows 12, 1 heifer 48/ 2 yearling
Calves 64/."f
NOTE. The two hundred acres section of his farm
which he gave to his granddaughters, was divided into
four equal parts, and assigned to them May 29, 1733. \
Children :
65. GEORGE, b. 28, 11 mo. 1674 (bap. March, 1675) ;|| d. 1675.
66. HANNAH, b. Apr. 4, 1676 ; d. June 24, 1713 ;f m. Sept. 11,
* Essex Probate Records, book 315, leaves 182-4.
f Essex Probate Records, book 315, leaf 237.
t Essex Probate Records, book 321, leaves 72-4.
Town Records.
|| First Church Records. (Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. VII and
VIII.)
1T Stone in the Charter Street Burying Ground.
HIST. COLL., VOL. XXXVIH. 14 (209)
210 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
1695, John Higginson,* s. of John and Sarah (Savage) Hig-
ginson. Children: 1. Elizabeth, b. June 28, 1696;* d. Mar.
20, 1722; m. Oct. 20, 1715,* Rev. Benjamin Prescott. He
was the first minister of the Middle Precinct (now Peabody)
Church in Salem. 2. John, b. Jan. 10, 1697-8;* d. July 15,
1744;* m. 1st, Dec. 4, 1719,* Ruth Boardrnan. 2nd, Apr. 28,
1732,* Esther Cabot, dau. of John and Anna (Orne) Cabot.
He held several of the chief town offices. In 1725 he was
chosen County Register. 3. Samuel, b. Feb. 5, 1699-70;* d.
Sept. 23, 1702.* 4. Sarah, b. Feb. 13, 1702-3* ; d. June 14,
1746; m. Dec. 1, 1732,* John Cabot, jr., s. of John and Anna
(Orne) Cabot. John Cabot, jr., was a physician in Salem.
He graduated at Harvard in 1724. 5. Francis, b. Nov. 29,
1705;* d. Nov. 29, 1705.* 6. Henry, b. Sept. 23, 1707;* d.
Dec. 1, 1708. *f For name of second wife and her children
see Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. v. v, p. 36.
67. SAMUEL, bap. Feb., 16774
68. GEORGE, b. Sept. 9, 1679* (bap. Sep. 28, 1679)4
69. JOHN, b. -Apr. 14, 1681;* d. July 18, 1722; m. Jan. 11, 1704,*
Elizabeth Weld, dau. of Daniel and Bethia Weld.
70. SAMUEL, bap. Aug. 12, 16834
26 Ebenezer Gardner was mentioned in the Town
Eecords in 1678 (17, 4th mo.). At that time his tax
amounting to 17 shill. was abated, as he was ''under aged
when rated."
'ear
He was appointed one of the executors of the will of
his father George Gardner, and on the 25th of October,
1679, he gave his brother Samuel Gardner power of
attorney to act for him in the settlement of his father's
estate. The two brothers gave Caleb Stanley of
Hartford, Conn., power of attorney to act for them in
the settlement of the same estate in Connecticut (May 24,
1680). In the document first mentioned he was called a
"shipwright of Salem. "||
*Town Records.
t Essex Institute Hist. Coll. v. Ill, p. 5, and v. v, p. 36.
\ First Church Records. (Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. viiandvin.)
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 49.
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 75.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 211
In 1680 he signed a petition for a new meeting-house
in Salem.* A list of taxes on unimproved land, made in
1682, credits him with 75 acres of such land, for which
he was assessed one shilling sixpence.!
His name is also on a tax list dated 1683. At that
time he paid 5s. "County rate," and 14s. "Minister's
rate."}
Ebenezer Gardner, "mariner," bought of Paul Mansfield,
Dec. 25, 1682, for 5 pounds, a half acre of marsh land in
Salem " neere Claybrooke soe caled " and near Castle Hill
land, and other land of the grantee.
He married Nov., 1681, Sarah Bartholomew, daughter
of Henry and Elizabeth (Scudder) Bartholomew. || She
died Sept. 5, 1682.T
Ebenezer Gardner died May 8, 1685.** In his will
dated Feb. 3, 1684, and probated May 11, 1685, he
made the following bequests : to his sister Hathorne, he
left 100 pounds, and all his "household Stuf Except the
pewter & linen which my wife brought with her." To his
sister Mary Turner, he left 50 pounds. The sum of 100
pounds was left to be divided among the four sons of his
sister Buttolph, deceased "as they com of Age." The
house and ground which "he had with" his wife, he left to
his brother Henry Bartholomew, Sister Swinerton,
Sister Willoughby, and the three children of his sister
Pilgrim deceased. The pewter and linen, he desired to
be equally divided between his sisters Swinerton and
Willoughby. To George Gardner, son of his brother
(Samuel) Gardner, he left an "Acre of marfh at Strong
Water brook." His "salt-marfh in the South field," he
left to Nathaniel Hathorne, son of his sister Hathorne.
To Susanna Gardner, "daughter of my unckle Thomas
Gardner," he left 10 pounds, and to Margaret Gardner
daughter of his "Unckle Sam 11 Gardner," he left an equal
amount. "To the poor honeft people in Salem," he left
50 pounds to be distributed by his "Unckle Samuel Gardner
* County Court Papers, book 33, leaf 84.
t County Court Papers, book 43, leaf 20.
j Cennty Court Papers, book 43, leaf 17.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 72.
|| Bartholomew Genealogy, p. 52.
IT Gravestone, Charter Street Burying Ground.
** Town Records.
212 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
Brother Hathorne, and Brother Gardner." The remainder
of his estate he wished to have divided into thirds. One
third was to be given to the three children of "my
Brother Gardner, George John & Hannah, to Each an
Equal share." Another third he left to the three children
of "my Sister Hathorne : John, Nathaniel and Ruth."
The remaining third he bequeathed to the three children
of his sister "Mary Turner, Robert, Habakkuk and
Mary." His brother Samuel was executor of the will,
which was probated May 11, 1685.*
In the inventory of the estate, dated April 30, 1685,
we find the following items, among many others :
"2 acres & 1/4 of Salt marfh in y e
South field 22.10.00
1 acre ditto at Strong Water brook 20.00.00
To one farme about 100 acres and houfe
&c 100.00.00
Ketch Sam 11 Dutch mafter 200.00.00
Money 275.03.00"
The total value of the estate was 925 pounds, 2 shillings
and 7 pence.
The document was signed by " Jno Higginson Jun "
and Stephen " Sewall."f
Samuel Gardner Jun., "executor of y e last will &
testament of Ebenezer Gardner deceased," for 200 pounds,
bought of John Hathorne, "for y e use & benefit of Jno
Hathorne, Nathaniell Hathorne and Ruth Hathorne,
children of y e aforesd Jno Hathorne & Ruth his wife,"
all "yt his piece of land, scituate . . . in y e township of
Salem . . . formerly belonging to Ralp Fogge."J
Nov. 9, 1687, John and Hannah Swinnerton, and
Nehemiah and Abigail Willoughby, for 59 pounds, sold
to Henry Bartholomew, Junr., their right and title to
1/2 tract of land in Salem known by " y e name of Thomas
James his farme, lying between y e land of Mr. Francis
Johnson, Robert Follett and Mr. Batter deceased," with
one half of the houses etc. thereon, "by vertue of y e last
will & testament of Ebenezer Gardner deceased. "
"County Court Papers, book 44, leaf 109.
t County Court Papers, book 44, leaf 110.
j Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 47.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 89.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 213
From depositions made by Samuell Very and
tf Nathaniell Camell," Oct. 2, 1682, we know that this
farm was near Butt's Brook.*
Child :
71. BARTHOLOMEW, b. June 12, 1682 ; d. Dec. 20, 1684. f
59 Lieut. Abel Gardner, called in the records,
tf husbandman," "yeoman," and "tanner," was born "1,
7 mo., 1673. "J
ft&ff
He lived in the old homestead, in that portion of Salem
known as the "Middle Precinct" (now Peabody). The
house had been occupied previously, by his father and
grandfather. It stood on the present corner of Central
and Elm Streets, in Peabody, and has been described
in an earlier article in this series.
He was prominently identified with the affairs of the
town throughout his life and held many town offices.
SURVEYOR.
The first office to which he was appointed was that of
field and fence-viewer for "North field," in March (14)
1694-5, and between this date and 1737, he served many
times as surveyor of highways, and on committees in
regard to land claims. His name is also found frequently
in the lists of those who perambulated the boundaries of
the town.
CONSTABLE.
This office was first held by him in 1700. He also
served in 1703 and 1704.
SELECTMAN.
He served the town in this capacity in 1713 and the
year following. J
* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 67.
t Gravestone in the Charter Street Bury ing-ground.
j Town Records.
Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. xxxvn, p. 94; deprint, p. 14.
214 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
In 1701 he was chosen one of a committee to prosecute
all "Perfons Tranfgrefsing y e Town Order about
preferring y e Young wood." "Lt Abell Gardner," was
chosen "Trustee to Value persons Estates, purfuant to an
Act of y e Gen 11 Court" (Dec. 30, 1707).
He was chosen one of the tithing-men, March 21,
1719-20. Various sums were paid him by the town for
timber, used in repairing the highways, and for the use
of his teams in similar work. Jan. 29, 1711-12, it was
ordered that "Left. Abell Gardner have a note on y e
Town Treafurer for ten shillings for y e ufe of his bull
among y e town Herd anno 1711."*
JURY.
He served on the trial jury in 1696, 1708, 1709, 1712,
1717, 1719, and 1726 ; and on the grand jury in 1724
and 1730.*
In 1711 he was one of the contributors to the South
Parish (Middle Precinct) Meeting House, f
MIDDLE PRECINCT SCHOOL-HOUSE.
In the Town Kecords under date of March 14, 1711-
12, we find reference to a "Petition of our Neighbours
living aboue y e town Bridge and below the village line,
for fome allowance towards a School amongst them."
Later in this month, "Articles of Agreement" were
drawn up and signed by eleven citizens of that district,
Abel Gardner's name heading the list. As this was the
first school-house to be established in what is now Peabody ,
this document is an interesting one historically. It reads
as follows :
"Articles of agreement Covenanted, made and
unanimously agreed on this 25 day of March In the
Eleaventh year of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lady
Anne by y e Grace of God of Grate Brittain France and
Ireland Queen, and in the year of our Lord God 1712
by and between us the Subscribers hereof for and on
behalfe of our Selves our heirs Executors and
administrators and Every of us Mutually with Each other
* Town Records. t Hanson's History of Danvers, p. 240.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 215
in manner following : That whereas wee have or are about
to purchase the Dwelling houfe of Robert Peas of Salem
aforesaid and about twenty rod of the land belonging to
the said homestead which is adjoyning to the maine road
Easterly, and Southerly with Robinson's, westerly the
Brook, Northerly Gardner's which houfe and land wee
have purchased for to Improve as a School house for the
Education of our Children forever, pursuant to which wee
doe further covenant as folio weth :
1st. that wee will repair and fix up one of the rooms
forthwith with all convenant speed fit for y e use aforesaid.
21y. That wee and our heirs Executors and
administrators shall and will from time to time and at all
times Keep y e said houfe in good Suitable repair for that
occafation or build another that may be more convenient
in y e rome and Stead thereof as the majo r part of our
comunity may agree to.
3dy. that wee shall and will bear and pay y e Charge
that may arise by reafon of the premises Equaly betwixt
us our heirs executors or administrators-
41y. that what foever y e majo r part of the community
shall agree upon at a Meeting on due notice given thereof
Eight day before y e meeting shall bee binding to the whole
Community and all Shall be obliged to pay their shares
and proportions of what shall be so agreed on by the
majo r part of the proprietors or community and no person
shall be admitted into the community without the leave
and Lycence of the majo r part of the proprietors first had
and obtained at a meeting as aforesaid.
In Testimony and for confirmation of all and singular
the articles covenant and agreement before mentioned the
parties concerned have hereunto set their hands and scales
the day and year first written.
Abell Gardner
John Gardner
Robert Willson
John Osborne
SEAL
SEAL
SEAL
SEAL!
Samuel Cook [SEAL =
Samuel Cook Jun [SEAL"
William Osborne Jun r [SEAL"
216 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
Henry Cooke
Jacob Read
Joseph Buxton
Samuel Osborne
SEAL
SEAL
SEAL =
SEAL
Signed Sealed and Delivered in the prefence of ous
Benjamin Prescott
Samuel Gardner
And if any one shall at any time part with his right in
the premises It shall be to such an one as the majo r part
of the Community Shall be Satisfied in and If the major
part of the Community shall refuse so to admit any one
they shall be obliged to purchase the part that is put
upon sale and shall have it at the first cost.
In Testimony &c a Essex fs Salem March 26, 1712."*
Examined by Stephen Sewall. (Recorded Mar. 27,
1712.)
The following extract from the Town Records explains
itself : " In answer to y e Petition of our Neighbours living
aboue the town bridge and below y e village line for
allowance towards a School amongst them, Voted That
there be paid unto the Inhabitants of the new Parish
five pounds Pr annum for three years next coming
towards maintaining, a reading, writeing & Cyphering
School for their Children , provided they do keep up and
maintaine fuch a School y e faid Term" (March 24,
1711-12).
In the Town Records, under date of Sept. 21, 1714,
we find the following: "Left Abel Gardner" granted
"five pounds to be applyed to y e ufe of yt School (y e
middle precinct or new Parish) to which y e first paym*
was made, vizt y e School kept by y e Wid Katherine
Dealand faid School being kept by y e approbation of y e
Selectmen as y e Law directs, this being y e 2 nd payment."
On the 27th of March, 1712, John Gardner sold to
Abel Gardner and others, a lot of land with an old house
upon it, to be used as a school-house. t The lot
measured 42 feet on the front (East) on the highway, and
33 feet in the rear (West) on the brook. It was bounded
* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 26, leaf 146.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 26, leaf 135.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
217
on the North with other land of John Gardner, and on the
South with land of John Kobinson.*
This lot of land, frequently mentioned in deeds as " the
school-house lot," was sold June 8, 1857, by "The
inhabitants of School District No. 3, in South Danvers "
to Andrew Curtis. t It was described in the deed as
bounded on the East on Central Street, there measuring
41 feet, 9 inches. The house numbered 62 Central Street
in the present town of Peabody, stands upon this lot.
REAL ESTATE.
We will first consider the property which he inherited
from his father. The portion of his father's homestead on
Main Street in Salem, which was left to him, amounting
to one-sixth of the lot, he sold to his brother-in-law,
William Gedney, Nov. 12, 1694. t This is the lot upon
which the present Essex Institute building stands.
The lot and orchard in the " North field " (lying East
of what is now Central Street in Peabody) which his father
bequeathed to him, he retained throughout his life, and
resided in the house which was upon it, and which we
have described in an earlier article. This property,
valued in the inventory of his estate at 750 pounds, he
left to his son Joseph, with the proviso that the widow
should occupy the " Westerly halfe Thereof," during her
life. All of the land in the " North Field," and the upland
and meadow at Strong Water Brook, including the
"Burying Place" (valued at 60 pounds), he left to his
sons Jonathan and Joseph.
The large farm in what is now West Peabody, called so
often the farm "near Anthony Needham's," which was also
left to him by his father, he disposed of as follows : One-
half of the 120 acres he gave to his son Thomas, Mar. 28,
1729,|| and in 1734 (Mar. 1st), he sold to this same son
Thomas, seven acres of the remainder of this property,
for 45 pounds. If The rest of the farm (valued in the
* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 26, leaf 135.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 573, leaf 71.
j Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 75.
Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. xxxvil, pp. 93-4; deprint, pp. 13-14.
N Essex Registry of Deeds, book 78, leaf 220.
if Essex Registry of Deeds, book 76, leaf 230.
218 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
inventory at 266 pounds) he retained until his death,
and willed it to his son Abel. * Abel (4th Gen . ) , for 370
pounds, conveyed his portion to his brother Thomas,
Apr. 1, 1742. f
Another valuable holding, which he received from his
father Samuel, was one-eighth part of the grist mill
property on the South River. One-half of this he sold
to his son Jonathan, Oct. 21, 1728, for 80 pounds ;J
and the remainder (valued in the inventory at 106
pounds) he left to his son Abel. Abel (4th Gen.) sold
it to his brother Jonathan, Dec. 28, 1739, for the above
amount.
Still another lot of land, inherited by Abel from his
father, was the one described in Samuel's will as " Land
Lieing neer to the Land of John Harwood cont about ten
acres. "|| This had been granted to Samuel by the town
Nov. 1, 1680. Abel sold it to John Waters, Jun., Oct.
10, 1695.11
In addition to the above mentioned lots left to him by
his father, Abel inherited from his brother Jonathan in
1693, several valuable pieces of real estate.*' The largest
of these was Jonathan Gardner's farm at Ipswich River.
This had been left to Jonathan by his father. Abel sold
a portion of it (110 acres) Nov. 21, 1694, ft to William
Russell of Reading, for 60 pounds ; and Feb. 28, 1704-5,
he sold the remainder for 42 pounds, 10 shillings, to
William Russell, Jun., and John Russell. JJ The
warehouse which his brother Jonathan left to him he sold
Feb. 1, 1694-5, to Col. Timothy Lindall ; and the wharf-
lot near Burying Point, which had been originally granted
to Samuel and Joseph Gardner, Abel sold Oct. 18, 1715,
to Col. Samuel Brown, he having received that also as a
legacy from his brother. || ||
Daniel Marble conveyed to Abel Gardner and his cousin
* Essex Probate Records, book 324, leaves 15-17.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 82, leaf 115.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 46, leaf 249.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 80, leaf 72.
J| Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. xxxvii, p. 382; deprint, p. 86.
11 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 274.
** Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. xxxvii, p. 387, deprint, p. 91.
tt Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 89.
tj Essex Registry of Deeds, book 16, leaf 205.
| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 121.
HII Essex Registry of Deeds, book 29, leaf 230.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 219
Samuel Gardner, all of his real estate as security for 400
pounds which they advanced to him, Sept 21, 1720.*
In 1712 (Sept. 22), he sold to Ben'j Prescott, 11/4
acre of land on Bishop's hill in North field, f
The only piece of real estate left for us to consider, is
the 38 acre lot at "Blind Hole" in Topsfield which was
left to Sarah, wife of Abel Gardner, by her father Israel
Porter. J This was described in the inventory of Abel's
estate as "38 acres of Land at Blind hole," valued at 475
pounds. He willed this land to his children and
grandchildren, and they sold their portions to Benjamin
Towne of Topsfield in 1740-48.
Abel Gardner married, first, Sarah Porter, daughter of
Israel and Elizabeth (Hathorne) Porter. Her father was
the son of John Porter, and her mother was the daughter
of Major William Hathorne, who came with John
Winthrop in the Arbella, and became one of the grandest
men in the colony. Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of his
descendants.
Israel Porter and his wife Elizabeth at the time of the
witchcraft delusion, headed the movement to save the life
of Rebecca Nurse, and their names stand on the Rebecca
Nurse Monument in Danvers, at the head of the list of
those who, at the peril of their own lives, tried to save
her from martyrdom.
Sarah Gardner died Sept. 24, 1728, aged 53 years. ||
Abel Gardner married, for his second wife, Sarah King
of Salem, in 1731. Their intention of marriage was
published June 1, of that year.H He had no children by
his second wife.
Abel Gardner died Nov. 10, 1739, and was buried in
the family burying place on Gardner's Hill at Strong
Water Brook (junction of present Main and Grove
Streets, in Peabody). This lot has been fully described
in the article upon Thomas Gardner, 1st Gen.**
* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 43, leaves 19 and 20.
f Essex Registry of Deeds, book 54, leaf 251.
j Essex Probate Records, book 309, p. 130.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 80, leaf 98; book 82, leaves 208, 250, 273 and 274;
book 85, leaf 72; and book 90, leaf 273.
|| Gravestone, at present in Harmony Grove, near the Peabody gate.
IT List of Publishments, in the Town Records.
** Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. xxxvu, p. 91; deprint, p. 11.
220 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
The double stone, which marked the grave of Abel and
his first wife Sarah, is at present in Harmony Grove.
WILL.
In his will dated Jan. 12, 1737, after a very devout and
elaborate introduction, he leaves to his "Beloved wife
Sarah Gardner y e ufe and Improvm* of one third part " of
his real estate, " So Long as Shee Eemains my Widow,
and also y e One halfe of my Dwelling houfe Being y e
Westerly halfe Thereof." He also gave one third of all
his personal estate, and also "all the Estate Shee brought
to me when I married her."
The disposal of most of his real estate, we have already
considered, under the descriptions of his various land
holdings.
In addition to the bequests thus mentioned, he left to
his sons Jonathan and Thomas, one common right each,
and to the five children of his deceased son Samuel, twenty
pounds "a peice " and three common rights.
To his three daughters, namely, Elizabeth Waters,
Sarah Osborne and Mary Waters, he left two-thirds of his
"moveable Estate To be Equally Divided between them."
He also left to Elizabeth Waters and Sarah Osborne, " Two
acres of land In y e Northerly End of myLott In y e North
Field next To Robinfon's Lott," to be equally divided
between them. His other daughter, Mary Waters, received
a bequest of an half acre of land in the same section of the
town, adjoining Isaac Cook's land. This last lot measures
five poles on the front (now Central Street, Peabody) .
The witnesses to the will were, Daniel Jacob, Rogers
Dudley and John Nutting. It was proved Nov. 19, 1739.*
An inventory of his estate, dated Dec. 6, 1739, was
presented by his executors, Jonathan and Thomas
Gardner, his sons, on the 27th of December of the same
year, the committee being Thorndike Proctor, Daniel
Marble and Daniel Epps.
The inventory contained in addition to the list of land
holdings, the following items, among others: "4 oxen
40 pounds, 3 cows 18 pounds, 1 heiffer 50 shill., 1
yearling 35 shill., 4 swine 16 pounds 10 shill., 7 sheep
* Essex Probate Records, book 324, leaves 15-17.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 221
105 shill., and 1 horfe 7 pounds. One pew in y e Middle
parrish meeting houfe 15 pounds."*
The total value of his property was 1993 pounds, and
17 shillings.*
Children, all by his first wife Sarah Porter :
72. SAMUEL, b. Mar. 7, 1695-6 ;f bap. Sept. 27, 1696 ; J d. about 1736 ;
m., 1719 (pub. Mar. 21), Sarah Adams, dau. of John and
Hannah (Treadwell) Adams, of Ipswich.
73. JONATHAN, b. Feb. 23, 1697-8 ;f bap. June 26, following;! d.
Nov. 27, 1783; m. 1st, Dec. 2, 1725, Elizabeth Gardner, dau.
of John and Elizabeth (Weld) Gardner ;f 2nd, Jan. 8, 1755,
Wid. Mary Avery, of Boston; 3d, Nov. 17, 1757, Wicl. Mary
Palfrey, of Salem.
74. THOMAS, b. Feb. 21, 1699-70 ;f d. Apr. 13, 1700. f
75. ELIZABETH, b. Mar. 30, 1701 ;f bap. June 8, same year;J m.
Nov. 30, 1721, John Waters,! Jun., son of John and Mary
Waters. Children: 1. John, b. Nov. 30, 1722; d. Carlisle,
1812, aged 90; m. Apr. 6, 1763, Kachel, widow of Nathaniel
Tarbell. 2. Israel, bap. 1724-25 (not named in father's will) .
3. Elizabeth, bap. Mar. 26, 1727; d. Nov., 1775; m. Henry
Jacobs. 4. Abel, bap. May 4, 1729; d. 1786; will dated May
20, 1786, proved July 13, 1786; m. 1st, July 9, 1751, Hannah
Proctor; m. 2nd, Lydia Trask. She died in 1816. 5. Mary,
bap. June 13, 1731; d. young. 6. Sarah, bap. Oct. 15, 1732;
d. young. 7. Mary, bap. May 4, 1735 ; m. William Shillaber.
8. Lydia, bap. May 29, 1737; d. Jan. 23, 1831 ; m. Jan. 4, 1759,
Aaron Putnam, s. of Lieut. Stephen and Miriam (Putnam)
Putnam. 9. Ruth, bap. Oct. 28, 1739; d. before 1760. 10.
Abigail, bap. Apr. 26, 1741. 11. Eunice, bap. Oct. 28, 1744.
76. THOMAS, bap. Oct. 14, 1705 ;J d. abt. 1753; m. Feb. 13, 1728,
Eunice Waters, dau. of John and Mary Waters. f
77. ISRAEL, bap. Oct. 5, 17074
78. SARAH, bap. May 21, 1710 ;J m. Joseph Osborn son of Samuel
and Eleanor Osborn. Children : 1. Ginger, bap. Sept. 29,
1734; m. Feb. 5, 1756, Nathaniel Brown. 2. Eunice, bap.
Dec. 19, 1736; m. Feb. 12, 1761, Benjamin Porter 3d., s. of
John and Apphia Porter. 3. Israel, bap. May 27, 1739; d.
abt. 1790; m., 1763, Lois Littlefleld, of Wells, Me. 4.
Mehitable, bap. Nov. 14, 1741 ; m. 1st, Feb. 9, 1764, Ezra Porter
s. of John and Apphia Porter; m., 2nd, Sylvester Proctor. 5.
Aaron, b. Nov. 15, 1742; d. Feb. 8, 1803; m. Mar. 24, 1774,
* Essex Probate Records, book 324, leaves 206-7.
t Town Records.
j First Church Records.
Essex Antiquarian, v. II, p. 88.
222 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER,
Lydia Proctor. 6. Abel, bap. Aug. 18, 1745; d. young. 7.
Abel, bap. Nov. 9, 1746; m. Jan. 25, 1770, Lydia Foster, dau.
of Gideon Foster.
79. ABEL, bap. May 10, 1713;* m. Aug. 16, 1734, Priscilla Stacey,f
dau. of Simon and Sarah (Hill) Stacey.
80. HANNAH, bap. May 1, 1715. J
81. MARY, bap. Oct. 28, 1716 ;J m. Nov. 29, 1737, Nathaniel
Waters, f son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (King) Waters.
82. JOSEPH, bap. Sept. 28, 1718 ;J m. Sept. 29, 1741, Mehitable
Pope,f dau. of Joseph and Mehitable (Putnam) Pope.
FOURTH GENERATION.
61 Thomas Gardner, the fourth in direct line to
bear that surname, was born on the 25th of the 8th
mo. 167 l.f His grandmother, Mary Porter, widow of
the emigrant John Porter, deeded to him June 28, 1678,
a lot of land in Beverly, which John Porter had formerly
bought of William Dixey, bounded by land of Hugh
Woodberry, William Dodge and by the seaside. This lot
measured an acre and a half. Thomas Gardner of Salem
" Marriner," sold the above described lot Feb. 13, 1695-6
(three months after his father's death), for 18 pounds,
to Thomas Cock of Beverly. ||
In 1691, he was a witness in the Gardner-Hilliard case,
which we have mentioned in the article upon Thomas
Gardner, 3d Gen. The court record is as follows : "The
Testimony of Thomas Gardner Jun'r Aged Twenty yeares
or thereabouts. Testifieth & Saith that the Ketch
* First Church Records.
t Town Records.
t Records of the Middle Precinct Church.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 2.
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 85.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 223
Expectation which is in Controversie between Mr. Edward
Billiard and my father was Built By Mr. J no Norman And
Bought of him by my father, and S d Norman hath Credit
for y e Same upon my fathers Book and farther Saith that
for y e abovesaid Ketch my father was proffered fiveteen
pounds per month By Mr Addams yt Dwells at Mr
Abraham Coles To goe to y e West Indies." " Sworn in
open Court. Attest B. Gerrish.*"
His name appears on the tax list, May 14, 1695. t
He married on the 4th of the 4th mo. 1695, Mary
Higginson, daughter of Lieut. Col. John and Sarah
(Savage) Higginson. She married, 2nd, 25, 4mo. 1699,
Dr. Edward Weld ; and 3d, May 3, 1708, Dea. James
Lindall.t
Thomas Gardner died in 1696. No children.
62 Habakkuk Gardner, born on the 25th of the
2nd mo. 1673, was a master mariner.
[torn.]
He commanded several different vessels sailing from
Salem to the West Indies, as the following notes from the
records will show : "Habbakuk Gardner Comand 1 ' of y e
K Prosperous his protest Entred Feb. 13, 1696-7. By
this Publique Instrument of or in y e nature of a Protest.
Be it known and Manifest unto all people that upon y e
Thirteenth Day of February Anno Dom : 1696-7 Anno
qui Regni Regis Guielmi Tertii Angliee &c nono before
Mr Stephen Sewall dwelling in Salem within his Maj ties
Province of y e Mafsachufetts Bay in New England Notary
Publique in said Province admitted & Sworne perfonally
came & appeared Mr Habbakuke Gardner of Salem aforesd
Marriner Comander of y e Good Ketch Caled y e Prosperous
of Salem burthen about 40 Tuns or Thereabouts & Then &
There declared That in his Yoiage from Barbados To New
* County Court Papers, book 51, leaf 102.
t Town Records.
J Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. v, p. 36.
224 THOMAS GARDNER, PLANTER.
England in y e Lattitude of 39 degrees or thereabouts
upon y e 22d Day of January last past They mett with a
violent Storme y e wind being at N N West & y e weather
Excefsive Cold which held for aboue Sixty houres that
they Splitt thier maine Sail . . . they could not Reife
thier Sail nor doe any thing Confiderable for to help
themfelves So that there was much Water in y e Hold &
were forced back againe thirty-Six Leagues . . . by y e
Good providence of God they arived with y e Sd Ketch
in sd port of Salem y e 12th. Day of this Instant February
. . . Therefore y e sd Habbakuke Gardner y e Sd Master
of sd Ketch in y e Nature of a protest & To ... Make
it Evident to all people . . . that the Violence & long
Continuance of y e Said Storme . . . was y e cause & y e
Only Caufe of y e lofses," etc. etc.*
In the same book we find the following copy of a bill
of exchange; "y s bill of Exchan g to Capt Gardner Bay
Campeachy pleas pay Capt Hab. Gardner or his orders y e
Summ e of Three poundes Currant money of Barbadoes
in Ten dayes after Sight of this my first bill of Exchange
the Second not payd It being for provifions & place y e
Same to y e account of y e Wheler ffrigatt from S r your
Humble Seruant
Val Booth
To Nicho 8 Baker at Barbados please to pay y e within
March y e 9th. 1699. mentioned unto m r
Conrade Adams & you
will obleige your Seruant
to Comand.
Hab. Gardner. f
Eecorded from y e orriginall
Verbatim Exam, pr Steph Sewall Not pub."
* "Booke of Recordes for Masters" (Office of Clerk of Courts), book 1, leaf 3.
t "Booke of Recordes for Masters," book 1, leaf 21.
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THE FISHERMEN'S PETITION OF IC59.
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE.
VOL. XXXVIII. JULY, 1902. No. 3
THE MISERY ISLANDS,
AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED THERE.
THERE are two Miseries, misery loves company, but
the lesser of the two plays so small a part in the scheme
of things that simple mention would seem to be all the
notice to which it is entitled. This it got as early as
June, 1630, being referred to in Governor Winthrop's
Journal of that date as "Little Isle," when the Governor
described the channel between "Baker's Isle and Little
Isle" through which the "Arbella" was warped into the
harbor on her arrival at Salem. It has a surface of from
five and three-quarters to six and one-half acres, and,
according to Bentley, forms the northern limit of the ship
channel. It is scarcely more than a promontory stretching
in a southerly direction from the larger island, for the
two are connected by a sand-bar, covered at mean high
tide with some feet of water, and forming at low tide
a natural causeway now a few inches under water, but
a century ago quite dry, over which the cattle grazing on
the Greater Misery could then pass and repass freely.
Bentley says the bar was above water at half tide at the
end of the eighteenth century. The subsidence going on
has changed all this, as Mr. Sears explains in his account
of the islands, and the field-mice, which infest the lesser
(225)
226 THE MISERY ISLANDS.
island so seriously as to prevent tree-culture, are never
seen on the greater.
The theory accepted by Professor Shaler and other
scientists, that subsidence is going on along the north
Atlantic coast at the rate of a foot in from fifty to one
hundred years, is applied by Mr. Sears to the Beverly
Shore between West's Beach and the islands. "There
are," he says (Essex Institute Bulletin, Vol. xxvi for
1894, p. 65, and again, p. 68, and pp. 72-3), "many
sunken stumps of forest trees which may be seen, when
the water is clear and still, at a depth of twelve or four-
teen feet at low tide. A piece secured from one of these
stumps proved it to be white pine." A peat-meadow
full of stumps has been submerged at Mingo Beach and
is visible at low tide from the shore.
It will be noted that Mr. Sears finds twelve or
fourteen feet of water at low tide. Bowditch's chart,
prepared and published in 1804-6, gives the depth of
water at low tide at different points between the Miseries
and West's Beach as five, six, nine and ten feet, but
never more. Pride's Rock was "dry" at low tide ;
Bowditch's Ledge, "dry." The Government charts of
the latest dates state the present depth at from eight to
eighteen feet. If the depth of water between the Island
and the beach was some feet less when the settlement was
effected than now, the familiar tradition of women from
West's Beach wading across at exceptionally low tides,
to visit the islands in search of blackberries, is no longer
beyond the range of possibility. Lee's Rocks are said
to have been covered with soil and vegetation within the
memory of man.
The ridge connecting the two islands must have
subsided at least as rapidly, more rapidly, in fact, for
it is composed of detritus and of soft Cambrian rock,
which accounts for the line of weakness separating the
greater island from the less, so that this Siamese ligament
between them not only settles from below, in common
with the surrounding region, but also washes away at the
top. The Cambrian quartzite is still in evidence on
both islands and is quite a prominent feature of the Little
THE MISERY ISLANDS. 227
Misery. A vein of this soft rock crops out at Nahant,
and again at Naugus Head, and then is so far depressed
as to permit the ship-channels to pass over it between the
Harbors and the Bay, reappearing again in the Little
Misery. So the subsidence of the land is supplemented
by the erosion of the sea. Agassiz, when visiting Beverly
Beach for the first time, ventured the conjecture that this
line of islands had been, in prehistoric ages, a continuous
promontory extending from the shore and that, from time
to time, the sea had broken through.
The Islands lie in a direction about northeast from the
City Hall at Salem, and at a distance from that point of
about five and a half miles as the crow flies . Though nearer
both to Beverly and to Manchester than to Salem, they
are still a part of the old municipality, never having been
ceded to either of the newer towns as, one after another,
these have broken away from the maternal apron-strings
and set up for themselves.
How and when the strange name they bear got attached
to these islands it is not altogether easy to determine.
They have borne the name of the Miseries at least since
1658-9, and it may be unsafe to infer from the fact that
Winthrop names "Baker's Isle" while in his reference
to the "Little Misery," he gives it no name, but calls
it "Little Isle," that the designation of the "Miseries" had
not been affixed to these islands as early as 1630, for it
should be remembered that the Governor was a new
comer and the charts he had, most rude and primitive.
We are not much better informed as to the name of
Baker's Island. Bentley supposed it to have been named
for Baker, the ship-carpenter who arrived in Salem in
1637, but the discovery of Winthrop's journal exploded
that theory by showing that it was Baker's Island in 1630.
For a whole generation after the settlement, we know
little of these islands . Felt mentions them as bearing their
present name in 1658-9, when he says (Vol. i, p. 238)
that Salem instructed the Selectmen to see if "payment
had been made for Moulton's Misery." So it seems that
the Town, authorized by an Act passed by the Court of
Assistants, in 1631, had taken possession of the islands
228 THE MISERY ISLANDS.
and was attempting to improve them in the common
interest. How long before 1658-9 the Town had done
this does not appear, and what had occurred there before
then is a matter of conjecture. Probably those who were
in need of ballast or fish-flaking or fuel or timber helped
themselves. But, November 12, 1659, the "Records of
the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England"
contain an entry, described in the margin as an "Ans r
to Engersall's peticbn." It is in these words : "In ans r to
the peticbn of John Engersol, Thomas Sallowes, & Paul
Mansfeild, humbly desiring the fauor of this Court to
graunt them the island called Mortons Misery : The
Court sees no cawse to graunt theire request."
These petitioners were men of prominence and must be
presumed to have known the correct name of the island
they petitioned for. In describing it as "Morton's
Misery" in a paper of this importance, they certainly
raise a presumption that its name was "Morton's Misery."
The original petition is to be found in State Mass.
Archives, Lands, Vol. XLV, p. 87, and is here reproduced.
It is as follows :
To the honored Court now assembled at Boston,
the humble petition of John Ingersol
Thomas Salows and Paul Mansfeild showeth
That we, inhabitants of the towne of Salem, havinge for our
furtherance in our trade of fishinge setled a stage upon an Isleland
(borderinge upon the sayd towne) called Morton's misery, and have
ben at charges to the valew of 30 or 40 pounds
And flndinge by experience that our trade of fishinge wil scarcely
mayntayne our famelyes w th out plantiuge of some corne, the lord
hauinge giuen us children whome we could imploy that way to be
helpeful unto us in case we had some land to imploy them upon.
Wherefore our humble request unto this honored Court is that they
would be pleased to grant the sayd Island unto your humble petitioners.
Some of us havinge liued in this towne 20 or 30 years brought ouer
by our parents in the tyme of our Infancy & neuer had any land of
the towne. The sayd Island may contayne to the valew of 40 or 50
acres of land, and not aboue 10 or 12 acres plantable the residue
beinge rocks and swamps. Thus leauinge the premises to your pious &
serious considerations forbearinge to declare our urgent necessity es,
and what a great beniflt the sayd land may be unto us, hopinge our
THE MISERY ISLANDS. 229
humble request may be by your bem'gne Clemency granted unto us &
your humble petitioners shal euer pray etc.
Dated 20 th of 8 moth
1659 signum of
26. (8) 59. The comittee haveing John 1 1 Ingersol
read over this petition, due not Thomas T Sallowes
judge meet that it be graunted, Paul P Mansfeild
conceiveing that the Hand may be
of use for others as well as y e
petitioners, and y* it be reserved
for y* end.
Thomas Danforth.
Anthony Stoddard.
Roger Clap.
The deputies approue of the returne of the Committee in answer
hereunto with reference to the Consent of o r Hon ble magists hereto.
The magists Consent
hereto William Torrey Cleric.
Edw Bawson Secrety.
It will be noted that the Record spells the name of
Sallows and that of the ancestor of all the Ingersolls in
several different ways, and that of Paul Mansfield a little
strangely, but English spelling, before the nineteenth
century came in, with its unabridged dictionaries and
public schools and daily press to curtail our orthographic
license, has been well said to have been "a matter of
private judgment," and the name of "Morton's Misery"
may really have been "Moulton's." Bentley, in his
Description of Salem (1799) , speaks of the Island as being
"early called Moulton's Misery from a ship wreck" and
Felt, in his second edition (1845-9), follows Bentley.
Salem instructed the selectmen in 1658-9, says Felt, "to
ascertain if payment had been made for Moulton's Misery.
This is so named from a disastrous shipwreck. In October
of the same year, several of our townsmen petitioned
General Court for leave to plant corn on it, where they
had already set up a fishing stage. Their request was
not allowed. At the first session of the Legislature in
1660, Salem applied to them for a grant of the three
islands. Part of their application ran thus : 'Whereas ther
230 THE MISERY ISLANDS.
are certayne Hands neare our towne, combnly knowen by
the names of the Miserys and Baker's Hand, fit for
fishinge imployments, a great part of our imployment,
our humble request to this honoured Court is, that they
would be pleased to grant the propriety of those Hands
to ye towne of Salem, and you shall further ingage your
petitioners to be thankfull to you, desiringe Almighty
God to inable you with his presence and blessinge in all
your waighty occasions.' An affirmative answer was
delayed untill the next session. This was thus recorded :
'Vpon a motion made in the behalfe of the inhabitants of
Salem, this Court judge th it meete to graunt to them
certaine Islands, knowne by the name of the Miseries and
Baker's Island, lying in the mouth of theire harbor,
provided, that it shall be lawfull for any fishermen to
make vse of them in making fish, and whatever conduceth
thereto, as building houses, stages, etc., as also wood and
flaking in all fishing seasons.' "
Our ancestors seem to have followed the gruesome
practice of commemorating their disasters. Witness
Bowditch's Ledge, Rising States Ledge, Avery's Rock,
and Norman's Woe. Whether the misery recalled in the
name of these islands was endured by some unfortunate
Morton or Moulton, or whether, after the islands acquired
from a disastrous shipwreck the name of the Miseries, some
Morton or Moulton had possession or occupancy of them,
must be left to conjecture. It will be noted that the name
of Moulton has replaced that of Morton in all modern
accounts. An examination of the original records at the
State House and at the City Hall seems to justify this
substitution. No person bearing the name of Morton
seems to have lived hereabouts before 1660, and although
Governor Endecott in 1628-9, dealt out a full modicum
of misery to Thomas Morton of Furnival's Inn and Mount
Wollaston , summoning him to Salem in the summer of 1 6 2 9 ,
and into his austere presence, to answer "for his much
insolence, profaneness and loose carriage," stripping him
of his possessions, burning his house over his head, and
banishing him from the Colony, there is no hint that he
ever held him as a prisoner on Misery Island in contempt
THE MISERY ISLANDS. 231
of Court or whilst awaiting deportation to England. The
accepted view of this matter has of late years been that
the Islands, at some period and in some way, received the
name of " Moulton's Misery" and were somehow associated
with Robert Moulton, a master-ship-carpenter, sent over
by the London adventurers, in 1629, to supply water-craft
and encourage ship-building, a well-known and estimable
man who has among his descendants so conspicuous a
personage as the Detroit lumber-dealer who was the first
Secretary of War in the administration of President
McKinley. There seems to be no evidence that Robert
Moulton at any time owned or occupied the Miseries, but
while they may have acquired their sombre appellation
before his day, he might very well have obtained a lease
of them for their supply of ship-timber, near at hand and
readily rafted to Salem, or he may have had a ship-yard on
the Island. Ship-timber in the early years of the colony
was a commodity of great account. June 10, 1668, masts
were sent from Salem as a present from the Town to the
King. Incessant efforts were made in Town Meeting and
otherwise to protect this source of wealth. It may have
been for the sake of a supply of ship-timber that Governor
Endecott, in 1655, sought of the Colony and obtained
possession of Cat, now Lowell, Island. All the Islands
seem to have been heavily wooded. Higginson, in June,
1629, anticipating the "fresh woods and pastures new,"
of Milton's Lycidas, enters in the journal of his voyage
an account of his arrival in the harbor of Naumkeag, and
speaks of " every island full of gay woods and high trees,"
and of " so many islands replenished with thick woods
and high trees and many fair, green pastures." But before
1660 the Islands had begun to be denuded of their timber
and devoted to corn-planting and fish flakes. However
acquired, the name appears frequently in records Colonial,
Provincial and local, and Bentley, Felt and Palfray as well
as other local authorities, while unable to explain, have all
accepted the designation.
In 1631 the Court of Assistants made all islands public
property, but just what disposal was made of our islands,
beyond frequent efforts to make them sources of income
to the Town treasury by an excise on lumber, and by
232 THE MISERY ISLANDS.
devoting them to the curing of fish, does not at first
appear. The language of the Act is as follows :
At a " Court of Assistants, holden att Boston, July 5 th , 1631."
It is ordered that all the ilelands within the lymitts of this pattent,
Conants Ileland, Noddles Ileland, Tompsons Ileland, togeath r with all
other ilelands within the lymitts of our pattent, shalbe ap^priated to
publique benefits & vses, & to remaine in the power of the Gou'n r &
Assistants (for the time being) to be lett & disposed of by them to
helpe towards publique charges, & that noe <^son w'soeu* shall make
any vse or benefltt of any of the said ilelands, by putting on cattell.
felling wood, raiseing slate, &c., without leaue from the Gou'n r & As"
sistants for the time being. This order to take place iniediately
after the first of Octob r nexte.
The title which, in 1638, Mascononomet 1 asserted to
the Town of Ipswich when, twenty years before his death,
he executed his deed to John Winthrop, junr., the son
and heir of Mascononomet asserted, as late as 1673, to one
half and possibly to the whole of the Misery Islands, and
this without regard to the action of the Town of Salem
and of the Court of Assistants. He proceeded to convey
to Bartholomew Gale the greater Misery, to the extent of
forty acres, by an indenture which is " inrouled " or
recorded in these words (Essex Deeds, book vm, leaf
106-7) :
Know all men by These ^sents that I, Thomas Tyler, of Martha's
Vineyard, have bargained for & Sold and do by these ^sents Sell ,
make Over and deliver Unto Bartholmew Gale of Salem, in the County
of Essex, in the Collony of the Mattathusets, all my right, Title and
Intrest . . . Island, forty acres more or less, Comonly caled & known
by y* Name of Moultons Miserie, lying and being between Bakers
Hand and Manchester, for him y e s d Bartholmew Gale to have & to
Hold to him, his hiers, Executors, Adm" or Assignes, from me y e
said Thomas Tyler, my hiers or assignes, for Ever, or any other person
whatsoever Claiming any right, Title or Intrest thereto, or to any part
thereof, from, by or under me, hereby Covenanting and alowing that
It may and Shall be Lawf ull for y e Said Bartholmew Gale to inroule
or Cause to be Inrouled the premises in any of his Majestie's Courts
of Records in the Said Colonie : in Consideration of which Hand I,
the said Thomas Tyler, do acknowledge to have received of the said
Bartholmew Gale a Ualuable Consideration, and for y e Confirmation
& Ratification of y e ^mises I have Caused This my deed of Sale to be
1 See appendix, p. 253.
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made & have hereunto Set my hand & Seal, this Twelfth day of
February, in y e year of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred Seventy
three.
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Thomas T Tyler & a Seal
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Signed, Sealed and Delivered in
the essence of us,
Daniel Bacon.
Benjamin Marston.
Thomas Mayhew.
y e said Thomas Tyler is y e Sonne of y e Sagamore of Agawamm, a
known man in y e Countrey ; he sold y e Towne of Ipswich, all or y e
most part of it. all y e old planters know him that had ought to do
w th ye Indians in those daies. George can Inform Concerninng him,
he that hath lost his Nose : I mean not Else.
^ me, Thomas Mayhew.
Dan le Bacon & M r Benjamin Marston Gave Oath that y e Aboue S d
Instrument was Signed, Sealed & deliuered in thier presence by
Thomas Tyler, and that they Set thier handes as Wittnesses unto y e
Same. Sworne, Salem, Decemb er 14 th , '84.
befor mee John Hathorne, Assis*.
This transaction, as between the parties to it, was
clearly in good faith. Bartholomew Gale was not unknown .
He owned, in March, 1662, the house with one quarter
acre of ground west of an estate which Philip Cromwell
bought of William Hollingworth and sold to Philip
English. These dwellings are described as being near the
Common, having a highway for their southern boundary
(Essex Deeds, book in, leaf 7-8 and book iv, leaf 126).
Gale is described as a fisherman and could have improved
the island in his calling. In 1662 he married Martha, a
daughter of Robert Lemon. She died that year, and later
he married Mary Bacon. The name was not uncommon
hereabouts. Gale's Rocks are marked on the charts of
Manchester Shore. He seems to have removed to
Marblehead. In November, 1666, he makes a deposition,
describing himself as of Marblehead and twenty-five years
of age. There is no evidence that he attempted to
possess himself of or to convey his interest in the Island,
and the Town authorities seem to have ignored his
transaction with Thomas Tyler. Possibly their action in
234 THE MISERY ISLANDS.
December, 1673, as to timber illegally cut there, may have
grown out of it in some way. Possibly he was waiting in
the hope of securing a similar title to the remaining
moiety, if indeed forty acres were not supposed to be the
whole area, as in the case of the Fishermen's Petition.
Yet the character of the parties signing the conveyance,
and the formalities attending its execution, preclude the
idea that it was not seriously meant. Who, -if any one,
owned the other half of the Misery under the Indian title
does not appear, nor is there any conveyance from a wife
of the grantor in release of dower, although Tyler had,
as early as 1671, a son Thomas Tyler, junior, and in
1687-8 a wife Alice, who joined him in his mortgage of
an estate bounding on " Squash Meadow " in Edgartown.
Probably this last was an estate held in right of the wife
and not an estate in which she had only a right of dower,
if indeed such an interest in the lands of a spouse was
recognized among the Redmen (Dukes County Land
Records, book i, leaf 177). But it was not the uniform
practice amongst the colonists of those days for the wife to
join in a conveyance in release of dower.
It is to be regretted that Tyler has failed to perpetuate
in his Deed either his Indian name or the Indian
designation of the Island, for these aboriginal names are
often sonorous and suggestive, as Longfellow's poem of
"Hiawatha" has amply shown. But the Indians were at
this date much given over to English nomenclature, and
in the deeds recorded in early volumes at our Registry
containing Indian names, most of them are duplicated
with an English alias. Of the ten signers of the Indian
Deed to Salem in 1686, eight used English names.
Tyler's wife, according to their mortgage deed of one
hundred acres by " Squash Meadow Pond," recorded in
Dukes County, called herself Alice. She was a daughter
of Antumsquan, Sachem of Sanchacantucket ( Marthas
Vineyard) and had a brother Wabummuck, alias Mr. Sam,
who succeeded as Sachem to that island realm. Tyler's
son and grandchildren remained at Marthas Vineyard
where their names often appear in the Real Estate Records.
And it may be added here that the Indians pf Southern
Massachusetts and of Providence Plantations were a much
THE MISERY ISLANDS. 235
more powerful factor to be reckoned with, and much more
able to make their claims respected than were those of
Massachusetts Bay. Their descendants have maintained
an honorable name until our day. Indian grants of land
have been respected by the Courts in both the Colonies
bordering on Narragansett Bay, while those made in this
section with equal formality have been lightly treated,
especially so in Essex County, where the white settlers
found but a feeble and waning remnant of the Indian race.
As lately as in 1884 the Commonwealth has recognized
the conspicuous heroism and eminent good-citizenship of
the Indians of Gay Head and Chilmark, by a Resolve of
that year detailing services rendered by both men and
women at the fatal shipwreck of the steamer "City of
Columbus," and in this it had a precedent at least as
early as 1697, when Hugh and nine other Indians of Cape
Cod were commended and rewarded by the Colony.
Thomas Mayhew was a prominent personage and large
landholder at Marthas Vineyard. He was a son of the
Rev. Thomas, lately commemorated by a monument as the
first missionary to the South Shore Indians. The latter
was a son of Gov. Thomas Mayhew, and both father and
son were original patentees under Lord Stirling in 1641.
His characterization of Sagamore George is justified by
our Records. This Sachem seems to have been much
consulted in the Indian transactions of the period. Felt
thinks that he may have been captured and sold as a slave
in the West Indies, for it is certain that he passed some
years at the Barbadoes. The Rev. John Higginson
records that, on his arrival with his father in 1629,
he found this young Sachem under the control of a
guardian, being a lad of thirteen, which was about the
chronicler's own age. Sagamore George died in 1684,
at the age of sixty-eight. His claim extended from the
Naumkeag, now Bass River, to the Mystic, and through
life he asserted this claim with vigor. His Indian name
was Winnepurkitt. He was sometimes called George
Rumney Marsh, and sometimes George No-Nose. He
was the last survivor of the sons of Nanepashemet. He
survived King Philip's War and in it took sides with his
own people. Thus he may have fallen into the hands of
236 THE MISERY ISLANDS.
white men as a prisoner of war and have been sold for a
slave. He married an Indian Princess of Nahant and left
daughters and grandchildren, signers of the Indian Deed
to Salem. The year of his death is the date of his deed
to Marblehead, and also of the beginning of the reign
of James II. The Charters were soon in peril.
Daniel Bacon was probably the father of Bartholomew
Gale's second wife. No better name than that of Benjamin
Marston is borne on our records. There are four
generations of Benjamins, three of whom were graduated
at Harvard, in 1689 and 1715 and 17 49 respectively. In
1696 one of them was a Deputy; in 1727-8-9 another,
and this last was a Justice of General Sessions and High
Sheriff. They have been ship-masters and ship-owners
and persons of property, intelligence and standing, since
the arrival of their ancestor in 1637. They are well
commemorated in a paper printed in the New England
Historical Genealogical Register, Vol. xxvnfor July and
October, 1873, which was reviewed in the Salem Gazette
for January 30, 1874. The first Benjamin Marston, born
in 1651, must have been the witness to the Indian Deed.
He died in 1719 and his son Benjamin, who removed to
Manchester, acquired the interest of Capt. George Corwin
in the Misery Islands in 1731, offering to buy them in fee.
Dying in 1754, he left a provision in his will setting
apart one sixth of the rental of the Islands for propagating
the Gospel among the Indians. The third Benjamin
removed to Marblehead, where he married and had
Robert Hooper and Jeremiah Lee for brothers-in-law. He
offers for sale in the Essex Gazette of 1769-71 the interest
of his father's estate in the Misery Islands. He enjoys
the unique distinction of having been eulogized by the
poet Southey.
But enough of the Indian Deed. It is a sad reminder
of conditions existing here when the English came. No
voice nor pen has more touchingly portrayed this somber
picture than has our own Story, in his famous Second
Century Oration on the landing of Endecott. And if the
death-knell of perishing millions is a thing full of pathos,
if, as Story says, "neither philosophy nor policy can
shut out the feelings of nature, and humanity must
THE MISERY ISLANDS. 237
continue to sigh at the constant sacrifices of this bold,
but wasting race," how then shall we interpret the
sentiments of the few favored princes of the race, the
men bred up to deference and to such rude luxury as their
lot afforded, possessors of the soil, accustomed to be
listened to around the council fires and followed on the
war path? Under the homely name of Thomas Tyler
went to the grave a scion of the stock to which this section
had from prehistoric times belonged, and to which it was
a patrimony to be defended as well as to be enjoyed. The
young brave himself had grown to manhood in daily sight
of this beautiful Island of the Sea. To its quiet cove he
had guided with a boyish hand his birch canoe. On it he
had pitched his painted tent to hail the morning sun,
rising full-orbed and glorious out of his ocean bed, as we
greet him from the Misery to-day. On that Island of his
he had winged the blue heron when he first drew bow,
and from its rocks had learned to spear the flat-fish and to
angle for the perch. Here may he not have stood, another
Hiawatha, peering out through the shining mists of
morning into the fateful future,
By the shining Big- Sea- Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning !
He was a man. What must he have felt to give up, under
the stress of an imperious and inexorable fate, delights
like these, and to
See the remnants of his people
Sweeping westward, wild and woful,
Like the withered leaves of Autumn,
and to find himself lamenting, with Macbeth,
" Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown
And put a barren scepter in my gripe,
Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding!"
After the date of this Indian deed, the Town Records
show persistent attempts to control the occupancy of the
Islands in the interest of the public. At last the expedient
was devised of leasing the Islands to some one man of
238 THE MISERY ISLANDS.
influence, thus enlisting a private interest as well as the
public authority for their protection. The Town was
fortunate in the character of its first lessee. Captain
George Corwin, after improving them for a few years,
secured the first written lease on the 19th day of February,
1678. This was executed with great formality and secured
him in undisturbed possession for a thousand years and a
day. But only in 1731 was the Town induced to part
with the fee in the Islands. Captain Corwin died in 1685.
He was the ancestor of all the Curwens, and had come to
Salem, in 1638, from Workington Hall in Cumberland
County in the north of England, where, December 10,
1610, he was born, at the " stately, castle-like seat of this
ancient, knightly family," as Camden records. George
Atkinson Ward, in his appendix to " Curwen's Journal
and Letters" (edition of 1845, pp. 445-6), says that, "in
company with the celebrated Hugh Peters, he laid the
foundation of the mercantile enterprise of Salem, and first
commenced building vessels in that port ; he was afterwards
extensively engaged in commerce during the whole of his
long life." . . . He was trading with London before 1658.
"He left one of the largest estates that had been
administered upon in the Colony, comprising, besides the
homestead, four dwelling-houses, four warehouses and
two wharves in Salem, three farms in the vicinity, containing
fifteen hundred acres ; a warehouse and wharf in Boston ;
the ketches 'George,' 'Swallow,' 'John,' and 'William,'
valued at 1,050 ; in merchandise 2,232 ; in gold and
silver coin93,7s,0d. in English and New England money ;
and 621 ounces of plate. Among the wearing apparel
inventoried are a silver-laced cloth coat, a velvet ditto,
a satin waist-coat embroidered with gold, a trooping
scarf and hat-band, golden-topped and embroidered gloves,
and a silver-headed cane, which still remains." Dr. Bentley,
in his sketch of Salem, says, speaking of the year 1685,
"This year Salem lost another eminent man, Captain
George Corwin, who came here in 1638 with his family,
and was rich. He was often engaged in Town affairs,
and in 1666 commanded a troop of horse. He also was
a representative in the General Court. There is a three
quarter portrait of him. His dress is a wrought, flowing
THE MISERY ISLANDS. 239
neck-cloth, a sash covered with lace, a coat with short
cuffs, and reaching half way between the wrist and elbow,
the shirt in plaits below ; a cane and an octagon ring which
still remains." This was written in 1799. The portrait,
neck-cloth and cane are now in possession of the Essex
Institute. Captain Corwin's town residence was the fine
mansion at the corner of Main Street and Corwin's Lane,
now Essex and North Streets, still preserved and thought
by Upham to be the homestead from which Roger Williams
fled in 1636 to found the Providence Plantations and
Rhode Island. It is probably the oldest dwelling-house
standing in New England. Captain Corwin was the father
of Judge Jonathan Corwin, who succeeded him in that
residence, and grandfather to Sheriff George Corwin, both
grimly conspicuous in Witchcraft days. Captain Corwin's
widow, who was a daughter of Governor Edward Winslow,
and a sister of Governor Josiah Winslow, both of the
Plymouth Colony, claimed, in the settlement of his estate,
various interesting articles of plate given her by her
father, Governor Winslow, by her brother, Governor
Winslow, by the Honourable Herbert Pelham of the
Council of Assistants, and by the Lord Mayor of
London ; among them a large tankard with arms ; six
gilt silver spoons ; a silver watch and a small hand silver
candle-stick ; together with a quarto Bible and eight pounds
in gold which her husband had received as the " produce "
of an Indian boy-servant sent her by the Governor and
Council from Plymouth.
We are not unprepared, from our knowledge of the
man, of his wealth and tastes, to find that Captain
Corwin, becoming the lessee of the Island in 1678, built
upon it an elegant and costly pleasure-house, which
before its disappearance in 1782 gave to the estate,
according to inventories filed in 1723 and in 1754, a value
quite beyond that of any other seaside or inland acres in
this section. In the estate of Benjamin Marston who
succeeded to the Island by indenture with Jonathan,
administrator of George Corwin, in 170 1, 2 and died
in 1719, while a town residence with luxurious
appointments, which has the distinction of being the first
See appendix, p. 253.
240 THE MISERY ISLANDS.
brick dwelling-house built in Salem, was appraised at
1,000, the lease-hold interest in the Misery Island
property, classed as personal estate, was rated at 600.
And in the settlement of the estate of Benjamin Marston,
his son, who died in 1754, a homestead in Manchester is
rated at 240 while the Island is inventoried at 800,
and one hundred and sixty-six acres of tillage, mowing,
pasturage and marsh on the mainland at 1,280.
The fancy of the reader must supply a picture of the
life which made the Greater Misery a resort of the " fashion
and quality of the town " for a century after the building
on it of Captain Corwin's elegant pleasure-house. It will
be noted that this structure antedates the one on Brown
Hill in Danvers by half a century. Dr. Bentley intimates
that the pasturage of sheep was introduced on the Island,
and this was done no doubt as a source of profit and also
as a means of improving the lawns. This use of the
Island began as early as in 1754, when the inventory of
one of the Marston estates shows a flock of forty sheep
there. The Marston estate's offer of the place for sale
in 1769-71 describes the house as in good condition at
that time. In 1782, says Dr. Bentley, it was demolished,
the fact being twice mentioned by him, first in his De-
scription of Salem, 3 and again in the Essex Register for
August 9, 1817. It will be remembered that Dr. Bentley
removed his residence from Boston to Salem only a year
later than the disappearance of this pleasure-house. He
was ordained September 24, 1783. So the occurrence
was then a fresh one. And in the absence of further
knowledge, it is a fair presumption that the house was
removed to supply fuel for British Cruisers. British
accounts of the Siege of Boston state, that many houses
were torn down to furnish the beleaguered garrison with
firewood, and the forest- trees on Cat Island in our harbor,
which suddenly disappeared January 7, 1776, according
to Dr. Story's diary, were supposed at that time to have
contributed to the fuel supply of the British Frigate
" Merlin " then on patrol duty in Massachusetts Bay.
Be this as it may, the Island was without a dwelling
from that date until after August 9, 1817. Dr. Bentley 's
s See appendix, p. 256.
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communication in the Essex Register of that date, giving
an account of the first steamboat excursion in our waters,
and touching on the possibilities of the islands, says :
"Our Islands are not in the high cultivation they readily admit ,
and are the only part of our soil which is deprived of its former
reputation. They are not so extensive as the Boston Islands, but
they are recovering the share of favour they have lost. The excellent
crop of grass this year, on Cat Island, has rewarded the labour of
our neighbours from Marblehead, who gathered it. The provident
Keeper of the Light House on Baker's Island has restored a garden
to that spot, & has renewed some of the labours which rendered
that Island delightful, while it was the property of Col. Turner and
his heirs, above a Century. The Moulton Misery Isles had as early
attention, and were an object to the family of Capt. Curwen, the
greatest Merchant of Salem. The House, which was demolished
during the war of the revolution, has not yet been restored, but the
Islands promise to reward the diligence of any worthy Inhabitant and
cultivator."
The Islands, through a series of conveyances, testa-
mentary or otherwise, many of them most curious in
their quaint phraseology and ponderous verbiage, passed
into the possession of the Dodge family, an ancient and
numerous clan, who for generations owned and operated,
amongst their belongings, the old cider-mill by the
Willow Tree Cross-roads at Wenham Neck. In these
instruments of conveyance occur the well known names
of Andrew, brother of Governor Belcher, Margaret
Higginson, Benjamin Brown, John Higginson, Edmund
Quincy, Governor James Bowdoin and Andrew Oliver.
Sometimes the instrument of conveyance is addressed :
"To all Christian people to whom these Presents may
come." Often the date, as well as the reigning
sovereign's name and title are given in stately Latin.
Sometimes the consideration stipulated is to be in
" Spanish Pieces of Eight," in one case a third part of
the Island was mortgaged for eleven hundred and eighty-
seven of them ; once it is to be " 2655 ounces of coined
silver of sterling alloy ;" and sometimes the Islands are
described by an amusing pleonasm as " Islands situate in
Salem Harbour, Butted and Bounded by the Salt Sea."
And the house on the Misery which burned down just
HIST. COLL., VOL. XXXVm. 16
242 THE MISERY ISLANDS.
before daybreak in the morning of December 16, 1895,
was probably erected by members of the Dodge Family
some of whom had a part-interest in the Islands at least
as early as 1753.
Just when the farmhouse was built it is not easy to
determine. The warning against trespassing, published
in the Salem Gazette of April 14, 1820, by John Thorn
Dodge and William Dodge, gives perhaps some color to the
surmise that there was at that date no house standing on
the Island, at least that there was no family there. But
this second, or Dodge, house cannot have been built much
later than that date.
During the occupancy of the Islands by the Marston
family, April 26, 1705, Captain Nathaniel Marston arrived
from the Barbadoes in the sloop " Sterling," having the
small-pox on board. Before vaccination was introduced
this terrible scourge could only be dealt with by
inoculation and by rigid measures of quarantine. Raw
cotton was at that time brought from the Barbadoes and
was used, mixed with sheep's-wool, for hand-spinning
and weaving. The harbor islands were availed of as a
quarantine station, and in some instances, even when no
small-pox had developed on the voyage, the cargo of cotton
was landed on an island and detained by the town
authorities for a stipulated term. Captain Marston and
his crew were quarantined at the Misery, and some of the
men died there, as appears from the Town Records for
July 10 and August 16, 1705.
At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the North
Shore was patrolled below Tuck's Point by details from
Glover's Regiment, which was stationed at a camp of
instruction at Mackerel Cove, between Paul's Head and
Mingo Beach. Two British coasters, sailing from Boston
and driven in by stress of weather, took refuge under the
lee of the Misery, where they were discovered at daylight
and reported. This was on November 4, 1775. One of
them at once made sail for Boston. The other was
captured and proved to be a sloop commanded by Captain
Ritchee and laden with English goods and provisions for
the Ministerial Army at Annapolis, Nova Scotia. This
prize was secured by a detail from Captain Moses Brown's
THE MISERY ISLANDS. 243
Beverly company of Glover's Regiment, with the aid of
a number of inhabitants who had armed themselves for
the purpose, and it was reported to General Washington
at the camp in Cambridge by William Bartlett, Esquire, of
Beverly, commissioned by Washington to take charge of
such prizes. Captain Brown afterwards became conspicuous
as a citizen and patriot and, while a member of the
Legislature of Massachusetts, was the original projector of
the Turnpike road between Salem and Boston.
Since the building of the second house, the Islands
have not been without their story. For a part of the
time they have been a place of public entertainment,
and at other times have been farmed for crops, for
sheep-raising or for general pasturage. They were well
adapted for the raising of sheep, because dogs could be
kept at a distance. They have long been a favorite resort
for ailing and convalescent cattle, and this fact is due in
part to the absence of annoying insects, said to be
characteristic of islands generally, as well as to the rare
quality and abundant supply of the drinking water. It
has been no infrequent experience with dwellers at West's
Beach to wateh some foot-sore ox or hoof-bound roadster
or growing heifer hitched behind a dory and putting off
from the sandy shore for a swim to Misery Island. And
at the season's close it was rarely that the animals did not
swim back again through the frosty surf in improved
condition and with higher spirit. The beasts of burthen
working on the Island must also be brought ashore, from
time to time, to receive the attention of the farrier, for the
island sod is too soft to wear away the natural growth of
horn in their feet, and horses remaining there for long
exhibit an abnormal enlargement of the hoof. Now and
then some burly bullock or some unruly colt, tired of its
protracted swimming-bath, takes a notion to resist and
turn back, or to lie on its side and be hauled along, or
perhaps to rear and to plunge into the boat, a scene,
when watched through the spy-glass, rather more
interesting to the observer than agreeable to the boatmen.
About 1844, the Island with its farmhouse passed into
the hands of Daniel Nevill and entered upon a period of
renewed interest. Mr. Nevill came to this country a few
244 THE MISERY ISLANDS.
years before, a penniless adventurer without a friend or a
resource beyond his own indomitable grit. Those who
are curious in such matters will not fail to note that
his name is the family name of Lords Cornwallis and
Abergavenny and of the Earl of Warwick and Salisbury,
known to history as " Warwick the King-Maker." Mr.
Nevill first leased, one after another, the smaller islands
in Boston harbor and, providing himself with an old,
water-logged sloop, carried ballast and paving stones to
the Boston market whenever sea and sky both favored
the venture. His thrift was rewarded, and when he had
stripped of surface-stones one island after another,
meanwhile buying a better vessel for the purpose, he
betook himself to the Misery Islands, secured a lease of
them, and pursued there for a while the same profitable
husbandry. Here his numerous family grew up, too far
removed from the mainland for regular attendance at
school in Salem or in Beverly when the season was
inclement, but he had no trouble in finding, from time to
time, some young student of divinity, fitting himself for
holy orders, who was glad to accept for a year or two the
hospitality of his island home, and to act as private tutor
to his growing flock. And when the crop of shingle on
the beach began to fail and the upland soil was under
good cultivation, now that his family was well-grown,
and himself past middle life, and his single sloop had made
way for a fleet of fishing schooners, he determined to buy
the Islands, and make a homestead farm of them, and there
to close his singular career. His deed, in which Kichard and
John Thorn Dodge are the grantors, bears date in 1849.
He found himself master of a considerable tract, of nine
times the area of Salem Common, lying within a mile of the
shore, near a ready market, and located upon the largest
island, with the exception of Plum Island, Baker's Island
is a little smaller than the Misery, between Boston
Harbor and the Isles of Shoals.
The surface of this island-farm is quite uneven and
varied in its character, though the roughness which Dr.
Bentley noted in his description in 1799 is hardly to be
found there now, and the marshy portion described as so
extensive in the fishermen's petition of 1659 has wholly
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THE MISERY ISLANDS AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS.
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disappeared. The division-wall built of surface-stones,
separating it into six divisions with the pond watering
four of them, remains as in the Marston offer for sale of
1770. And in the midst of all, sunk in a sort of crater
or natural depression in the surface and fully protected
on every hand from the ocean gales, and surrounded with
apple-trees, nestled the second dwelling-house, the
farmhouse of the Dodge family, with its buildings, a
large barn which escaped the conflagration of 1895
overtopping it on higher ground towards the northwest
and occupying a position much more sightly and
commanding than its own.
From the highest elevations of this interesting tract a
view of the ocean, unbroken towards the east and south,
is to be had, which is unsurpassed anywhere unless it be
from the ship's deck. Whether seen in his angry moods,
or under the purple glow of sunset, or with the sun just
mounting above the tranquil, eastern horizon, bringing the
welcome of the new-born day, in all his phases and
however viewed, no outlook to be readily enjoyed on this
part of the coast gives a more impressive picture of
" Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste."
After the advent of Daniel Nevill, views of hospitality
prevailed on the Island which were quite baronial, so
much so that the new comer acquired the sobriquet of
"Lord of the Isles." It was impossible to approach his
sea-girt realm from any point of the compass that was not
swept by his unerring glass, and before one could make
a landing on the Island, the old man appeared upon the
beach, ready to extend a welcome and to urge upon the
visitor the hospitalities of his modest house. 
