THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
VOL. XLIV 1908
SALEM, MASS.
PRINTED FOB THE ESSEX INSTITUTE
1908
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CONTENTS,
Blockhouse built at Bradford, 1704, 219
Buck, John H. The Early Church Plate of Newburyport,
Newbury, West Newbury and Rowley, .... 293
Burrill, Ellen Mudge. Biographical Sketches of Members
of the Burrill Family of Lynn, 221
Burrill Family, Biographical Sketches of Members of. By
Ellen Mudge Burrill, 221
Derbys of Salem. By Robert E. Peabody. (Illustrated), . 193
Edgett, Carrie C. John French of Topsfleld and Some of
his Descendants, 348
English Notes about Early Settlers in New England. By
Lothrop Withington (Continued), . . . 81,290,371
Essex County, Newspaper Items Relating to (Continued), . 338
Essex County Notarial Records (Continued), . .89,147,325
Extracts from Interleaved Almanacs kept in Newburyport,
probably by Joseph O'Brien, 332
French, John, of Topsfield and Some of his Descendants. By
Carrie C. Edgett, 348
Higginson, Rev. John. Letter on Drunkenness in Salem, . 192
Lewis, Edmund, of Lynn and Some of his Descendants. By
George Harlan Lewis (Concluded), .... 65, 153
Lewis, George Harlan. Edmund Lewis of Lynn and Some
of his Descendants (Concluded), .... 65, 153
Marblehead Vital Records, 1647-1849. Collected by Joseph
W. Chapman, 250
New England, English Notes about Early Settlers in. By
Lothrop Withington (Continued), . . . 81, 290, 371
Newspaper Items Relating to Essex County (Continued), . 338
Peabody, Robert E. The Derbys of Salem, (Illustrated), . 193
Rantoul, Robert S. Frederick Townsend Ward (Illustrated), 1
Rantoul, Robert S. Frederick Townsend Ward, Addenda, . 360
Revolutionary Letters Written to Colonel Timothy Picker-
ing. By George Williams of Salem (Continued), . . 313
Rowley, Co. York, England, Transcripts of the Lost Regis-
ters. Contributed by J. Henry Lea, .... 305
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Ward, Frederick Townsend. By Robert S. Rantoul (Illus-
trated). 1, 360
Warnings to Negroes in Salem in 1790, .... 93
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Reminiscences of life at Oak
Knoll, Danvers. By Abby J. Woodman (Illustrated), . 97
Williams, George. Revolutionary Letters Written to Colonel
Timothy Pickering (Continued), . 313
Withington, Lothrop. English Notes about Early Settlers
in New England (Continued), 81, 290, 371
Woodman, Abby J. Reminiscences of John Greenleaf
Whittier's life at Oak Knoll, Danvers (Illustrated), . 97
HISTOKICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. XLIV.
JANUAKY, 1908
No. 1
FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD
(Contributed by Robert S. Rantoul)
The stranger who wanders through Harmony Grove
Cemetery, as he approaches our Soldiers' Monument on
his way to the grave of the last of Washington's Life-
Guardsmen,
finds himself
confronted
with a heavy
granite ceno-
taph. It is
simple and
dignified in
design and
bears upon its
base a single
name. About
it are clus-
tered marble gravestones reared in memory of members of
one of the old commercial families of the town. These
memorials testify to strong family ties, for they were
placed here by a last survivor to commemorate her kin,
though their ashes are scattered far and wide. On these
stones we read that Frederick Gamaliel Ward, the father,
lies buried at Laurel Hill in San Francisco, that Eliza-
beth Colburn Ward, his wife, rests here beside their daugh-
ters, Elizabeth Colburn and Mary Louisa Ward, and that
Henry Gamaliel Ward, a son, lies buried at White Plains
near New York, while the remains of a nephew, Stephen
Ward Burchmore of Hartford, who earned some local rep-
utation as a writer, have been brought here for burial.
(l)
2 FKEDEB1CK TOWNSEXD WARD.
The granite monument bears the name of Frederick
Townsend Ward, another son, but it does not mark his
grave. His ashes rest in alien soil, consecrated with the
strange rites of oriental sepulture, and at Sung-Kiang in
China, with the recurring solemnities of each new year,
incense rises over them from the garden of a temple dedi-
cated to Confucius thousands of years ago. It is the pur-
pose of this paper to trace the unique career of the Salem
school-boy who left home to wrest favors from fortune,
and, a stranger in a strange land, without influence, means
or military education, to become, not many years later, a
trusted general officer in the Imperial Army and Navy of
China, destined to die in battle, at the age of thirty, a
Mandarin of high rank and wealth, married to the daughter
of a Mandarin of high rank and wealth, for the repose of
whose soul pagan rites and posthumous honors were de-
creed, such as are rarely accorded to the manes of a native
hero, and never before fell to the lot of one of western blood.
Frederick Townsend Ward was born in Salem, Novem-
ber 29, 1831, possibly in a fine, old, pre-Revolutionary,
wooden house in which his parents seem at one time to
have been domiciled, and which is still standing just .be-
low Monroe Street and the Public Library on the north
side of Essex Street. He was their first child, and they
were very young. His father, Frederick Gamaliel Ward,
a Salem ship-master and, later, a ship-broker and merchant
in New York City, was barely twenty-one when he mar-
ried Elizabeth Colburn Spencer, a girl of nineteen, both
of them tracing back for generations their Salem lineage.
The mother seems to have had literary leanings, and to
have spiced her correspondence with graceful bits of verse.
The Institute has miniature paintings of both of them. 1
1 Frederick Gamaliel Ward, mariner (so he is described in tax-lists
and city directories), was born in 1810. He has been characterized
as "bold, generous and impulsive." He seems to have been a no-
mad in his habits. Before his marriage he appears to have lived a
good deal with his maternal grandfather Townsend. When he came
to shift for himself, with a young wife to provide for, he seems to
have leased, successively, apartments in the historic Clarke house,
above referred to, a picture of which appears, then in a house at
the lower end of Essex street just west of Forrester street, where, if
not in the Clarke house, his first child might possibly have been
BY ROBERT S. RANTOTTL.
3
Frederick Townsend Ward's paternal grandfather was
Gamaliel Hodges Ward, a grandson of Miles Ward and
of Gamaliel Hodges. Gamaliel Hodges Ward was the
eighth of a family of fifteen own brothers and sisters. Of
born, then to have lived for some years on the east side of Becket
street, probably also on the northeast corner of Turner and Derby
streets, then on the west side of Liberty street, moving again to
the east side of Curtis street, and, in 1842-3, to have been living on
the south side of Federal street in houses first at one and then at
the other end of the street. After his grandfather's death in 1842
he seems, at times, to have made his home at the Townsend mansion
again, until his removal to New York.
These abiding places, save the last, were picturesque old wooden
dwellings, all of them still standing to speak for themselves, and to
bear witness, through their character and surroundings, to the qual-
their tenants. The first residence on the list has a notable
story. A heliotype of it appears as an illustration in the elaborate
genealogy of the Pickering family. It may have been built by John
Clarke (John Clarke Lee was his grandson), or possibly by John
Derby, whose ancestors, Roger and Richard Derby, had owned this
estate with the
soap-house oc-
cupying it since
16 7' 8. John
Clarke's daugh-
ter Hannah
married John
Derby. John
Derby was fa-
mous in the
"Quero" inci-
dent, and as a
part-owner of
the ship "Co-
lumbia " which
first explored
and gave its
name to the Co-
lumbia river.
Deborah, the
sister of John
Clarke, married the Honourable William Fairfax, a Collector of the
Royal Revenues at this port. John Clarke was his deputy. With
him she left Salem for Virginia, and became the mother of Bryan,
8th Lord Fairfax, the only Peer of England then born on this conti-
nent. She was also the mother of Hannah Fairfax, who married a
Washington. Judge Elisha Mack, who married a descendant of
John Clarke, owned the house in 1831 but did not live in it. It was
occupied by tenants-at-will, and tradition counts the Wards among
The Misses Morgan kept a school in the eastern half of it and
also lived there, and, in their parlour, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote
in their album an account of ancient paintings then hanging in the
rooms of the Essex Historical Society, an account reproduced in
the " American Note Books " for August, 1837.
4 FREDERICK TOWNSENp WARD.
the brothers, one was Naval Officer of the Port and an-
other was a Lieutenant in the Navy during our second
war with England. Gamaliel Hodges Ward married Pris-
cilla, the daughter of Moses Townsend, and Moses Town-
send, whose mother was a Lambert and who married a
Lambert, had built, in 1805, and occupied until his death
in 1842, the dignified, three-story, brick mansion-house
standing on the eastern corner of Carlton and Derby
Streets, near the head of Crowninshield's wharf. In this
comfortable homestead, still standing but now converted to
business uses and sadly disfigured, the parents of Freder-
erick Townsend Ward, in the course of their frequent mi-
grations, often found themselves housed, and much of
Ward's boyhood was spent under the hospitable roof-tree
of his great-grandfather Townsend. Indeed the proba-
bilities are, on the whole, very strong, that Frederick
Townsend Ward was born in this house, although his pa-
rents at the date of his birth would appear to have been
domiciled in a house belonging to Daniel Rindge, then and
now numbered as " 26 Essex Street." The almost uni-
versal impression of living persons who think they know
where Ward's birth occurred is that he was born in the
Townsend house, whose hospitality his parents, both before
and after the event, so often enjoyed. Considering all
existing conditions, and failing to find conclusive proof, I
This house, probably built about 1740, presents a singular archi-
tectural feature. It has two facades, forming a right angle with one
another, one facing westerly and one facing southerly, and finished
with equal elaboration. The middle dormer-window facing westerly
is the better-designed window, but the door facing southerly is the
better door. It shows fine old wood-carving in panel and dado and
baluster and mantle, such as graced the best days of Salem's famous
craftsmanship. The elder Upham supposed that Washington, when
a young colonel in the British service, journeying to Boston, in
1756, on a diplomatic errand for Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia,
would naturally visit his Salem connections, as he did later during
the siege of Boston. If he did so, he could not have failed to cross
the threshold of this ancient house.
John Clarke Lee, the family of Captain James Dunlap Gillis,
the family of the Reverend Doctor Thomas Tread well Stone, and
that of Judge Elisha Mack, were among those who have, from time
to time, occupied one side or the other of this house. (See the
4 Hodges Family of New England," pp. 38-9; the "Essex Antiqua-
rian," Vol. VII, p. 118; Willson's " Memorial of John Clarke Lee,"
Hist. Coll. Essex Inst., Vol. XV, p. 35.)
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 5
am inclined, on the whole, to give credence to this com-
mon though unconfirmed report.
Those who are curious in such matters will have no
difficulty in connecting young Ward with some of our
best known people, for no one who comes upon such names
as Townsend, Lambert, Hodges, Ward, in his family Bi-
ble, need look further for a pedigree. 2
But Frederick Townsend Ward's immediate forbears
deserve a word in passing. There were interesting char-
acters among them. The daughter of Captain Joseph
Lambert had, in 1758, married the Captain Moses Town-
send who was present at the siege of Boston and at the
capitulation of Fort Washington, and who died of disease
while a prisoner-of-war in Mill Prison near Plymouth, Eng-
land, in 1777. Their son Moses, who married his cousin,
a granddaughter of Captain Lambert, was sharing, in
1775, when only fifteen years of age, his father's priva-
tions and imprisonment, and at the age of seventeen found
himself an orphan, the eldest of a fatherless family of
seven children, with no help to look to but his own strong
2 It would be easy to trace a connection, either in blood or by mar-
riage, with such families as Bowditch, Derby, Hathorne, Holyoke,
Pickering, Putnam, with Joseph Hodges Choate and his distin-
uished brothers, with Henry Fitz Gilbert Waters, and with Charles
tuart Osgood, of the passing generation, with David Augustus and
Nathan Ward Neal, with Fitch Poole, William Frederick and Henry
Ward Poole, with Joshua Holyoke Ward and George Atkinson
Ward, of an earlier one. It is not without interest to note that the
Old Marine Society, founded in 1766 for scientific, charitable and
social objects by men who, says the Charter, " are or have been Mas-
ters of Vessels," and incorporated, six years later, under the sonor-
ous title of " The Marine Society at Salem in the County of Essex
and in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England," has,
on its honored roll of five hundred and sixty names, nine Wards and
three Lamberts, one of them, Joseph Lambert, a founder and char-
ter-member; and that the East India Marine Society, founded a gen-
eration later, after the privateering successes of the Revolutionary
War had called into life our great East India fleet, every man of its
four hundred members must have doubled one of the Great Capes,
either as Master or Supercargo of a Ship, asked for a charter, in
1799, through a Hodges, its first President, and had a Lambert
for the first signer of its honored roll, with six Wards and six
Hodgeses to follow, had a Lambert as one of the three members of
its Governing Board for its first six years, with Moses Townsend on
the same board from 1808 to 1816, and had among its first four
Secretaries a Ward, a Hodges, and Moses Townsend, while the fourth
secretary was Nathaniel Bowditch.
O FBEDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
arm. In 1805 he had provided himself with the comfort-
able homestead above referred to, and had become a lead-
ing National Republican and an ardent partisan of Jeffer-
son, and of Doctor Bentley, 3 and later became President of
the Union Marine Insurance Office, the Agent of the
Essex Marine Railway, the frequent Moderator of Town
Meetings and repository of local trusts, accepting, with
3 The rough old vikings who attended upon Doctor Bentley's minis-
trations did not go to meeting for nothing. They had encountered
lives of great exposure and peril, and they looked to him to pilot
them to a safe port at last. When he advanced new views in the
pulpit, as he often did, they waylaid him on his way home, or next
morning at the post-office, and either challenged or endorsed his po-
sition, in each case with equal vigor. If politics were not preached
in terms from the pulpit, political bias found its way there. Doctor
Bentley's political views were pronounced, and were odious to the
Federalist party, then dominant in many ways in New England, and
Federalist politics colored everything in social, religious and busi-
ness life. From most of the pulpit-exchanges which would have
been open to Doctor Bentley in his chosen calling, he was barred by
his Republican affiliations, and he exchanged but little, his flock
preferring at all times to hear him rather than another preacher.
Now and then, he exchanged with Doctor Parrish of Byfield, who,
while he was a pronounced Calvinist, was also a pronounced Re-
publican. Moses Townsend was one of the pillars of the old East
Church. He sat well up in front, and disliked so much to see a
strange face in the lofty pulpit above him that the obnoxious intruder
did not often get far in his service before discovering the fact. Upon
the preacher's giving voice to some expression widely at variance
with the doctrines to which his hearers were accustomed to listen,
an audible murmur of dissent would find its way through the front
pews, and those who sat near the Townsend pew were pretty sure
to hear the suppressed comment, " That's a damn'd lie!" accented
as of ten as not by a sharp rap on the sanded floor from the old man's
heavy walking-stick.
If Hildreth, the Federalist Historian of the Union, himself an Es-
sex County man, could speak of Salem as " The head-quarters of
the Massachusetts Democracy," he might with almost equal truth
have described the lower precinct of Salem, the home of so many
of the great commercial families,- as the head-quarters of the
war-party in the second war with England. Benjamin W. Crownin-
shield, our member of Congress and Madison's Secretary of the
Navy, lived there, as had his brother Jacob, also a Congressman
from this district, who refused the same cabinet office under Jeffer-
son. Before Hamilton Hall had been built as a social rallying-
ground for the Federalists of the town, and almost before the As-
sembly House in Federal Street had fallen into disuse, the Crownin-
shields and Forresters and Grays and Stones had erected Concert
Hall on Hanover Street, then to be renamed Market Street and
now Central Street, to meet their social needs. It was destroyed
by fire in 1844, and made way for the Phoanix Building.
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL.
Jonathan Hodges, in 1816, in
behalf of the town, the ten-
der from the Derby heirs of
a deed of Derby Square. The
name of Hodges was as hon-
ored as his own, and when a
son of Miles Ward married
Priscilla, the daughter of
Gamaliel Hodges, and when
their son, Gamaliel Hodges
Ward, in turn married Pris-
cilla Lambert Townsend, it
was to be expected that the scion of such a stock would
show military leanings as well as a passion for the sea,
for this Miles Ward (Salem had not been without a Miles
Ward since 1639) had borne a commission at the siege of
Louisburg and had served by the side of Wolfe at the
storming of Quebec. 4
Young Ward enjoyed the excellent schooling opportu-
nities of his day, and changed his school-connections with
his frequent change of home. Living at times in Essex,
Becket, Liberty, Curtis, Federal, and Derby Streets, he
*The Miles Ward House, a fine old colonial mansion of wood, three
stories high, with a gambrel roof, is still standing on the eastern
corner of Derby
and Herbert
streets. It was
built by a Der-
by. It was once
the residence of
Jacob Crownin-
shield, and later
a favorite haunt
of Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and
was occupied
by kindred
bearing the
name of Ward
as late as 1890,
among them
Charles Gama-
liel Ward,killed
at Drury Bluff
while Adjutant of the 24th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers.
The cut depicts it as it was in Hawthorne's day.
8 FKEDERICK TOWNSEND WAKD.
was first a pupil at the Dame's School, conducted by the
Misses Peirce in a house on the south side of Essex
Street just below Liberty Street, and his schoolmate, Wil-
liam Gurdon Saltonstall, has recalled the fact with inter-
est in personal reminiscences written out by him at the
close of his career. George Henry Allen was also among
the younger pupils. Before 1842, Ward had attended the
Old East School on the Common, and there Charles Henry
Allen was his school mate, and, when the Phillips School
superseded it in that year, Ward was a pupil there. He
had among his playmates at that time William Crownin-
shield Waters, Joseph Francis Tucker and Henry Fitz
Gilbert Waters. They well remember the ample barn on
Carlton Street, in the rear of the Townsend House, which
became, while Ward was living there, the stamping-
ground for all down-in-town youngsters of brain and spirit.
While the Wards were residents of Federal Street, living
at one time at No. 139, just below Flint street, and at an-
other time at No. 65, just below North Street, he attended
the Hacker School for the years 1843 and 1844, having
George Manton Whipple and George Arvedson for school-
mates. When, in 1845, he reached the English High
School, then kept by Master Rufus Putnam in Broad
Street, he found himself placed between George Leonard
Peabody, a few desks off on the one hand, and Andrew
Shales Waters on the other. Henry Appleton Hale and
James Ford Hale were among his classmates here.
Ward's school-days were not without some promise of
his future. He was quite the boy-hero of the play-grounds
and of the wharves, and this both on the score of certain
personal qualities, his generosity, his transparent hones-
ty, and his courage, but also because he chanced to have
for his father the owner of the " Vivid," and was freely
entrusted with the sailing of that sloop-yacht of fifteen
tons' burthen which danced and strained at her moorings
off Crowninshield's Wharf, the year round, awaiting the
orders of the family. Captain Andrew Madison Ropes
had charge of her during the Summer of 1846. But the
" Vivid " had a recognized skipper in " Pat Foy," as he
was known to his familiars on the wharves, though his
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 9
gravestone at Harmony Grove, with its unique inscription
in English, Latin and Hebrew, discloses the fact that the
old seaman's baptismal name was Patrick Fahey.
Young Ward's courage, discretion and seamanship had
been so well tested that he was allowed to sail the *' Vivid "
in all weathers and, as the family correspondence shows,
he handled her in more than one trying emergency with
the skill of a master. He freely extended the hospitali-
ties of the little craft among his playmates. It was his
passion to sail her at all hours, by sunlight or starlight,
in breeze or blast, even in tempestuous thunder-squalls,
as though he fain would
" Give her to the God of Storms, the lightnings and the gale." 5
He enjoyed loading down the "Vivid," as often as he
might, with a gang of Wapping urchins, they could all
swim like wharf-rats, and then listing her over until he
had her scudding rail-awash, to the delight of those whose
nerve did not forsake them and to the terror of the rest.
But salt-water had no terrors for him. From childhood a
fearless swimmer, his father, himself an expert swimmer,
whose methods were heroic, would strip him and his
5 An incident of the Summer of 1843 reveals these traits. An even-
ing sail had been planned to carry delicacies to an ailing friend at
Beverly, and a crew of youngsters were taken aboard, together with
Ward's mother, who was young and strong and a good sailor, a
younger son and daughter of the family, and the boy-hero, not
twelve years old, who was at the helm. A lady-friend, who was a
singer, was with them. All went well until the party, on its return,
sailed into a thunder-storm, when the tuneful guest began singing
hymns with the ardor of Cromwell's Ironsides or of the Plymouth
Pilgrims as pictured in the verse of Mrs. Hemans. The smaller
boys had already been landed at Beverly and sent home over the
Bridge. The darkness became stygian. There was no light-house
then on Derby Wharf, and Baker's Island Light was all they had for
bearings. They carried neither light nor chart nor compass. The
sea ran high. The Aqua Vitae Ledge was near at hand, revealed by
lightning-flashes, now bare, now yeasty with foam at every wave.
Wind and rain assailed them with all their fury. Little sail could
be carried. The situation was full of peril. Towards midnight they
reached home safe to find the town awake with panic. Throughout
the scene Ward sat with a firm hand on the tiller, speechless as
the sphynx. His only comment, when the incident was over, and
his father held him in his arms stifling reproof with caresses, was
this: " When the lightning-flashes showed us who were there, I
wished myself at home. It would have been all right if it had not
been for the women."
10 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
brother Henry and fling them off the wharf and plunge in
after them for practice, when they were little more than
infants, Ward often indulged in a prank which startled
rather than amused the unsuspecting. Seated idly on the
sill of the wharf, he would suddenly drop into the dock,
arid this with such art as to raise a cry of " boy overboard ",
arid he would watch with zest the measures taken for his
rescue. Even his boyish pride in a new suit of clothes
would not restrain him when conditions favored. If these
frequent escapades invited the paternal slipper, and doubt-
less it was applied, for Captain Ward was an irascible man,
the lad had not long to wait before his skill and courage
and endurance in swimming, and his home-feeling in salt-
water, were to stand him in good stead. When doubling
Cape Horn as Mate of the *"" Westward Ho !" he was
thrown over the ship's side by an angry crew, maddened
at what they thought to be the exactions of a boy, (the
"Far East " Magazine for May, 1877, is authority for the
statement) and he saved himself without assistance.
Daniel Webster's younger son, Edward Webster, Cap-
tain of the First Company of Mexican War Volunteers
raised in Massachusetts, and later promoted to be Major,
left Boston with his Regiment for the seat of War, Fet-
ruary 22, 1847. On January 20, he passed the day in
Salem with his well-equipped command. They carried no
colors but marched to their own fife and drum. The hours
of the day were given up to drilling on the Common, to
street-parades, to a visit to the East India Marine Muse-
um, and to a dinner at the Mansion House, tendered the
company by citizens of Salem. Captain Webster's elder
brother, Daniel Fletcher Webster, had married, in Wash-
ington Square, Caroline, a daughter of the Honorable
Stephen White. The visit attracted general attention and
the bearing of the corps was highly commended by the
local press. The sight of troops arrayed in the actual
panoply of war was too much for the self-command of a
boy like Ward. He had long been dreaming of marches
and charges, of camp and field, and " the spirit-stirring
drum, the ear-piercing fife," so fired his soul with martial
ardor that, with a chum and neighbor named Farnham, he
BY ROBERT 8. RANTOUL. 11
started on foot for the front, each of the truant pair, his
pack on his back, believing he had slipped away unnoticed
and was off for Boston and the war. They followed the
railroad track. Bat this route, a four hours' tramp for
them, could, by steam-car, be covered by their pursuers in
half an hour. Their absence was promptly observed,
albeit they had denounced the direst vengeance on those
who should betray them, and the train which overtook
them beyond Revere had one or more members of a search-
ing-party scanning the track on either side. They were
spied out from the car-windows, and Ward got no nearer
to the War in Mexico than to be captured before night-
fall on Noddle's Island and ingloriously hurried back to
Salem.
Ward came upon the stage of life just as Salem com-
merce was at its ebb. The old town had its schools of
navigation still, its nautical-instrument dealers, its ship-
yards and rope-walks and sail-lofts, its plethoric ware-
houses, its sailors' lodging-houses and dance-halls and
slop-shops. Its wharves were still alive with the activities
of a distinctly commercial port. The air was laden with
the traditions of old-world voyaging. Could more be
needed to fire the quick fancy with what Rufus Choate, a
son of Essex, had glorified in his first Salem Lyceum lec-
ture as " The Romance of the Sea !" with what Doctor
Bentley had for years preached about from his favorite
text in Psalm CIV, " There go the Ships: There is that
Leviathan ! " and what Longfellow has enshrined as
" The beauty and mystery of the Ships
And the Magic of the Sea!"
Other sea-coast cities as well as ours have produced a
class of navigators of the highest order, but in none of
these cities has the ship-master element been so distinctly
dominant as in post-Revolutionary Salem. Ship-masters
came to be the great merchants and directed the indus-
tries and moulded the society of the place. Their manners,
even when on shore, had a dash of the quarter-deck about
them. 6
6 At one time the city had a retired ship-master for its Mayor and
there were always retired ship-masters among its aldermen. The
12
FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
The houses they built, some quaint, some grand, the
old-world furnishings and the elegant appointments with
which they surrounded themselves on shore, the fruit and
flower gardens and the kitchen gardens in which they grew
their choice exotics and took their noon-day siestas, all
these told of sea-faring enterprises which had laid the
world's experience and art and collected wealth under con-
tribution to their comfort. 7
story goes that a humble suitor once came before the board to urge
his prayer, and was rather curtly dismissed. " You'll give a man a
hearing, won't you?" pleaded the retiring petitioner. "Hearing!
no I" shouted an alderman with profane emphasis, forgetting for the
moment that he was no longer in command, " We are not here to
give hearings! We are here to give orders! "
Indeed we were a sea-faring settlement from the start. The Col-
ony was planted by a fishing-company with a view to avoid carrying
back and forth between the fishing-grounds and the home-markets
the large quota of men needed to take the fare of fish, but not need-
ed for navigation on the long voyage. If a fishing-town could be
built up on the seaboard with farming-lands adjacent, the few sailors
needed to man the transports would deliver cargoes abroad, while
the balance of the fishermen remained on shore to till their crops
and cure the fish, or to pursue, throughout the seasons of the year
without a break, the gainful husbandry of the sea. The beautiful
land-locked Bay at Gloucester first attracted their notice, but farm-
ing-lands were lacking there, and those of the planters who did not
desert the enterprise, found, in the u pleasant and fruitful neck of
land" on which Salem stands, with its summer and its winter har-
bors, with its North and South Fields on either hand, a spot
more suited to their needs. Out of the fisheries grew up a thriving
trade with the Catholic ports of the Mediterranean and with the
West Indies. The Revolution put an end to this and forced capital,
enterprise and men into privateering. That war over, Salem found
herself mistress of an idle fleet of vessels built for contests of strength
and speed and manned with well-drilled crews drawn from the best
fire-sides of New England. With such means at hand, our merchants
were not slow to strike out new channels of trade. They made their
own charts and sought out their own
harbors. For fifty years Salem was
one of the trade-centres of the world.
Cut in the stone front of the Peabody
Academy of Science, a building dating
from 1824, may be read these words,
under the gable : " East India Marine
Hall," and over the rooms on the
ground floor, then leased for business
uses, "Asiatic Bank" "Oriental
Insurance Office." Where else on the
continent could such a record as this
be read? This and the City Seal tell
the story of Commercial Salem.
7 The famous parades which the East India Marine Society made,
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 13
The first railroad-train reached Salem from Boston,
August 27, 1838, and that was the beginning of the end.
Railroads were fast building up the larger ports at the
expense of the less. But our harbor, in Ward's day, still
knew the fleets that kept us in touch with every distant
corner of the earth, and the marvelous tales of returning
mariners brought home to the boyish fancy, as though
spread out on a map, tempting regions but little known in
books. In those days, to be born in Salem was to be born
a sailor. The stick the school-boy whittled shaped itself,
as though by the miracle of spontaneous evolution, into a
hull, a rudder, a bowsprit or a boom. The stately East-
Indiaman, the smart cock-boat of the Man-of-War,
drifted in spectral fancy through his dreams, and when, at
school, he drew lines on his slate to relieve the tedium of
the rule of three, his lines took form, without a thought,
in yards and shrouds and trestle-trees and bob-stays. Give
him a box of water-colors and the private signals of the
India merchants were its earliest product. When he
" went in swimming" he had a shingle flat-boat with a
meat-skewer mast and cartridge-paper sails to lead the way.
If he was too little to pull a pair of oars he sculled his
dory with one, and he had not long to grow before he knew
every sheet and ring-bolt and block and gasket from cut-
water to stern-post of the sea-bound vessel's complicated
rig. His chosen tasks at school were globe and chart and
map, and on lecture days he haunted the wharves and ran-
year after year, sometimes on its own anniversaries, sometimes in
the fine floral processions with which Salem used at sun-rise to usher
in the Nation's birthday, the palanquin, its four bearers robed in
Oriental garb, the Indian princess reclined within, personated by a
little miss in high-colored sandals and turban and draperies of flow-
ing silk, (their last public appearance was in honor of the introduc-
tion of Cochituate Water into Boston, in October, 1848,) features
like these were characteristic of the place. They mark with an em-
phasis stronger than words the extent to which, under the broaden-
ing influences of world-wide voyaging, we had drifted away from
the austere standards of our Puritanic sires. If another illustration
were needed, it might be found in the twilight marches, with drum
and fife, in which the 4 * Noble Fraternity of the Restiguche " in-
dulged, on the way to their memorable suppers, led by two negro
cooks in the livery of their calling, who moved in Indian file and
bore aloft on a tray above their heads the ponderous salmon that
was to grace the feast.
14 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
sacked the 'tween-decks of arriving ships. If he could
muster a few shillings, some kindly mariner took charge
of them as a venture and brought him home, in a twelve-
month or two, their trebled value in nutmegs or pepper-
corns or cubebs or gum-copal. He must have a boat before
he dreamed of a fowling-piece or a pony. The sea was
his first mistress, and she gave him no rest until she had
won him to her wild embrace. If, on leaving school, he
did not ship before the mast, he tried to sail as cabin-boy
or as ship's clerk, or even as supercargo. The shipping-
articles of the port were crowded with the names of mi-
nors, and ship'sofficers in their teens, sometimes in com-
mand at nineteen or twenty, were too numerous to chal-
lenge notice. In the wars, our townsman was as ready
with the oar as with the rifle (Glover's " amphibious reg-
iment " from Marblehead rowed Washington across New
York Harbor and the Delaware), and, while prisoner of
war in Mill Prison or in Dartmoor, he carved miniature
fleets out of well-picked chicken-bones and beef-bones, and
rigged them with the tendons that had been served up in
his rations. When he came at last to live in comfort on
shore and to drive his pair, the nigh horse might well be
known as " Port " and the off horse as " Starboard. " If
he built himself a " den " to doze and smoke and read and
chat in, it was likely to be rounded on the sides and top
like a ship's cabin, and furnished with transoms for air, if
not with bunks, and to have a swinging light overhead,
and spyglass, barometer and compass handy. Over his
dinner table swung, in summer, the East Indian punkah.
The dust and cobwebs under the eaves of his attic con-
cealed camphor- trunks and cedar-trunks stuffed with
camel's hair shawls and pongee silks and seersucker suits,
with now and then a bit of bronze or Nanking ware or
silver filagree or lacquer, and unbroached casks of Canton
ware might lie in hiding behind the wood-pile in his cellar.
Would he honor some guest with special attention ? A log
or two of sandal-wood, brought home for dunnage, might
puff and sizzle on the fire-dogs, and fill the house with a
spicy breath from Araby. Arab horses were no rare sight
in the streets of Salern, and when a family returned from
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 15
residence abroad, it was not unusual to bring with them
Chinese cooks, nurse-maids, and house-servants, so that the
garb of the Oriental was almost as familiar then as laundry
work has made it since. The high-bred Parsee merchant,
with his lofty head-dress of figured taffeta and buckram,
was no stranger here, nor was the turbaned Indian or Arab
gentleman unknown. Whether with purpose or by chance,
all our surroundings beguiled the fancy seaward. It was
a common thing for college graduates, before entering the
counting-room or a profession, to make the grand tour in
an Indiaman or a China-bound clipper. We built our own
ships and named them for our wives and daughters.
Ward had made a fruitless effort for a cadetship at
West Point. It was pre-ordained that such a lad, with
such antecedents, should find his first employment on the
sea, and his career began when, at the age of fifteen, he
left the High School in April, 1847, and sailed from New
York for China in the clipper-ship " Hamilton," of which
the firm of " Sampson and Tappan " were owners, and
the veteran captain, William Henry Allen, whose wife was
a Ward, was in command " a fine character, a gentleman
of the old school," so the family correspondence describes
him. Ward sailed in the capacity of Second Mate. It
was on this voyage, and while navigating the tropics, that
he plunged over the ship's side when under full sail, in a
wild chase after a butterfly that was fluttering about the
decks and over the wave-crests. Captain Allen found him
a valuable officer, and expressed regret at parting with
him, though often startled by his reckless daring.
Sea-life, whether in the forecastle or on the quarter-
deck, is a rare school for those habits of discipline and
authority which develop the instinct of command. The
merchant in his counting-room, the contractor at his
job, the trader in his business-house, if they fail to get
on with a subordinate, dismiss him and secure another.
Not so on ship board. There is no open labor-market on
the sea. The seaman who refuses duty can neither be
chaffered with nor persuaded nor discharged. He must
be coerced. If he cannot be reduced to instant obedience
and brought to resume his place, he will lie in irons, and
16 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
his share of the ship's duty will fall on the shoulders of
his unoffending mates. Thus the recalcitrant, through his
misconduct, inflicts a penalty on good-seamanship. He
imperils the well-being of the whole ship's company, the
success of the voyage, the safety of ship and cargo and
crew. Thus officers must be autocrats. Thus sea-disci-
pline becomes an intelligent despotism. Everything is at
stake on the sagacity, promptness, vigor of will of the
person in command, and he is only responsible, under the
law, to the owners of the ship. Instant and implicit sub-
mission is to be enforced at any cost. Promptness in ob-
serving, in resolving, in acting, these are the lessons
taught by life at sea, and Ward learned them all. The
martial virtues may not rank first in the scale of human
merit, but without courage and ardor and firmness in its
captains, the race is destined to achieve little. Ward had
born in him the instincts of a leader of men. To him the
initiative was a welcome opportunity ; to him, domination
was a delight. He was steady in his command wherever
placed. When those about him wavered, he stood firm ;
if they vacillated, he pressed on ; when they thought to
spare themselves, he thought to reach the goal. His pur-
poses were clearly conceived, distinctly declared, vigorous-
ly pursued, not lightly changed. He shrank from noth-
ing. A born fighter, he was no bully. As a boy, it was
his ruling passion to champion the weak, and his strength,
which was great, was ever on call in the interest of fair
play. He was a sort of umpire-in-ordinary of the school-
yard and the play-grounds. He was a favorite with his
mates, they all concur in that judgment, but if a boy
was " spoiling for a fight " Ward did not keep him wait-
ing long. A natural organizer, it was proverbial that the
side which secured Ward in the school-games was the side
that won. Something native to the man, a strong, mas-
terful, magnetic personality, a generosity uncalculating
in its devotion, a modesty genuine and free from guile,
a strength of purpose, a singleness of aim to which
obstacles served as incentive rather than as check, such
were some of the qualities which stamped him among men.
What he craved was power, not the semblance of power.
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 17
Here was no call for the coward's panoply of subterfuge
and deceit. He had that ready courage, both moral and
physical, which serves as a passport to the favor of savage
and civilized men alike.
A mate of the ship " Hamilton " before he was sixteen,
Ward at once displayed the sterling attributes which made
him strong. No doubt he was a rigid disciplinarian, and
he may have been a severe one, as his father had been be-
fore him. But he was not unjust. His appearance was
striking. Of no more than medium stature and always
slight, compact and wiry, he had the strength of an ath-
lete, and the surviving sister recalled with pleasure the
frolics of the " children's hour," when, at the end of their
evening's romp, they all rode off to bed on his willing
shoulders. He was quick, nervous and animated in his
movements, and his thick raven hair, hanging over his
shoulders like an Indian's, his broad forehead, which
carried assurance of large intelligence, his dark hazel
eyes, surmounting a strong nose and firm-set mouth, that
heavy under-jaw without which force of will is rarely
present, all this bespoke, as his pictures show, the robust
vitality within. His eyes have been described as quick
and restless, and as lighted up with fire by the intensity
of his purpose. His complexion was sallow, bordering
upon olive. Before the taking of the likeness, his last,
which is here reproduced, his mouth was disfigured, and
his power of speech impaired, by a wound received at
Tsing Pu, February 10, 1861. This, one of five wounds
he received in that bloody action, was from a bullet which
passed through his upper jaw, and, with the other hurts,
disabled him for weeks. He wore, in his brief military
life, no uniform or insignia of rank, the European dress
to which he adhered in battle sufficiently distinguishing
him from his men, and he was almost always seen either
in the close-fitting English frock-coat which came in with
Prince Albert, or in the loose, blue-serge tunic much worn
by residents of the tropics. He used, for the most part,
a gray cloth riding-cap, and, seeming to find the sword an
encumbrance, never wore one. For this omission he had
the highest military precedent. If need were, he could
18 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
have cited, among the great captains of history, Frederick,
Napoleon, Grant. Taking pattern from these military
prodigies, he found himself well equipped, when in com-
mand, with a light switch or riding-crop, without which
he was never seen in battle. In this practice he was fol-
lowed by his successor in command, Gordon, who never
appeared on parade or in action with arms of any kind,
but carried in his hand a rattan cane, a habit which, no
doubt, helped on the illusion among his men that he was
the object of superhuman care. Ward also seems to have
been not unwilling to encourage the belief that he bore a
charmed life. He made a practice of keeping, in his
breast-pocket, his most important papers. The day before
he fell, he told his friend Hayes, who remonstrated with
him against carrying anything of value into battle on his
person, that the bullet was not cast which was to end his
life. The utterance may have been genuine, for he had
already been shot five times in one battle without grave
results, or it may have been a stroke of art used to im-
press the fatalists about him. And, strangely enough, the
event seems to have justified his words, for the missile
which cut short his life, lately presented to the Essex
Institute by Rear Admiral Bogle of the British Navy,
proves to have been no bullet, but a shrapnel-slug, proba-
bly fired at the Rebels from a gunboat or a field-piece, and
by them returned in their fire from the fort, for lack of
proper ammunition for their ill-served musketry. Such
at least was the judgment of Admiral Bogle, and of Ward's
school-mate, Colonel Henry Appleton Hale, who has car-
ried a shrapnel-slug about his person since receiving it at
the battle of Cold Harbor.
The years 1848 and 1849 were marked years in the
world's advancement. Europe was then aflame with revo-
lution. Garibaldi, who had been prospecting in Central
and South America for a time, had returned to Italy, in
April, 1848. The discovery of gold in California was
changing the channels of the world's trade and migra-
tion. We approach now a period in Ward's career in
which his whereabouts and his movements become more
difficult to trace. A man of action, he was sparing
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in the use of words. With him to think was to act. 8
His home-letters, frequent and minute in their inquiries
for the welfare of every member of his family, contained
little information about himself and his purposes, beyond
what might be gathered from their dates and general
tone. During the years between 1847 and 1859, much of
Ward's time was passed on shipboard. Sojourns at the
great ports were giving him a knowledge of the world.
The exact dates and circumstances of his voyaging are
only to be learned by a laborious search of custom-house
records at Boston, New York, and San Francisco, and it
was felt that so few of the men are now living with whom
those records would in any way associate him, that the
knowledge gained would poorly repay the pains. How
long he was in China with Captain Allen, or just when
and by what route he arrived home I have not attempted
to determine. But we find him sailing from New York,
December 16, 1849, as chief-mate of the ship "Russell
Glover," commanded by his father, on a voyage to San
Francisco, where he arrived May 6, 1850. There a tedi-
ous delay occurred, during which Captain Charles Henry
Allen, a Salem school-mate, met him, and found him most
impatient of his duty as ship's keeper, chafing under his
prolonged inactivity, and fully resolved on a change at the
earliest opening.
Garibaldi paid his second visit to this continent in 1850,.
and, arriving at New York in June, was engaged during
that year and the next in revolutionary efforts in Central
America and Brazil, finally sailing from San Francisco for
Canton in January, 1852. It was at this time that Fred-
erick Townsend Ward's path crossed that of the " Libera-
tor of Italy." Ward left Salem in April, 1847. Gari-
baldi was then forty years of age, having been born at
Nice, July 4, 1807. For eleven years, between 1836 and?
1848, he had been engaged with varying success in revo-
lutionary movements on this continent, supporting
e lndeed, for the first three years of his life, he said nothing, and
was at last only betrayed into speech by an incident which called
for action. The cat was breaking into the bird-cage, and he rushed,
with his first articulate words, to summon his mother. Months!
elapsed before he spoke again.
20 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
himself, as best he might, in trade and as a teacher of
mathematics. He sailed in the "Speranza," April 15,
1847, from the La Plata for Italy, and reappeared there in
arms, June 23. The Revolution in Italy failing, he took
passage in June, 1850, for New York, where he was at
once welcomed in families who had been warm in their
sympathy for Kossuth, and where he devoted himself to
amassing, from a candle-factory which he established on
Staten Island, funds for his later undertakings. In 1851,
he went by steamer to Central America, visiting Chagres,
Nicaragua, and the Panama Isthmus, and thence, Jan. 10,
1852, to San Francisco and China, arriving at Canton in a
ship of which he was in command. He was in London in
February, 1854, but meantime he had doubled Cape Horn,
as master, on a voyage from Lima to Boston. Reaching
Genoa in May, 1854, he remained in Italy, quietly pro-
moting the cause he had at heart, until 1859, the year of
Ward's arrival at Shanghai, when he is found in arms
against Austria, and in September, 1860, he entered Na-
ples as " Dictator."
So the " Liberator " was, between the years 1850 and
1854, often engaged on this continent in his revolutionary
propaganda at points accessible to Ward. Both were sons
of ship-masters, and both were salt-water sailors. Born
in a Mediterranean port, the lad Garibaldi had run away
from home to follow the sea. To this day the fishermen
of the Mediterranean shore, of Sicily and the Riviere*,
cherish the statuette of Garibaldi which they have en-
shrined among their sacred things, with a veneration
which falls little short of worship. He was Ward's senior
by many years. He had encountered, in his day, every
peril and disaster, and had drained every bitter draught
that outlawry and exile and a self-imposed mission to re-
fenerate mankind by fire and sword could well involve,
ince 1837 this soldier of fortune had been wedded to
the Revolutionary Junta of Brazil, at first leading to de-
feat extemporized flotillas of gunboats, and then at last, in
1846, winning a signal victory on land, wounded, dis-
heartened, under sentence of death, fourteen years of the
best part of life expended in a struggle to lift from the
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 21
shoulders of an alien people, proclaiming itself the Repub-
lic of the Rio Grande, what he regarded as an insufferable
yoke. Ward might well take a hand in aid of such a man.
" Fearlessness and tenderness of heart " were alike con-
joined in both. Both of them could look danger in the
eye and smile. When the two met, the younger was fated
to succumb to the charm of the elder agitator. Their
natures were akin. Two rain-drops coursing down a win-
dow-pane are not more sure to run together.
Before the end of 1851 we find Ward sailing as chief-
mate of a bark, on a voyage from San Francisco to Shang-
hai, where he seems to have found temporary employment
on one of the opium-ships moored in the river, and to have
shipped again in 1852, as first officer of the ship " Gold
Hunter," from Shanghai for Tehuantepec. Here he joined
in one of the many attempts to found a settlement which
were the natural precursors of an Isthmian Canal.
If Ward ever associated himself with William Walker
it was at this time. Minister Burlingame's despatch to
Secretary Seward, announcing Ward's death, states baldly
that he had been with Walker in Nicaragua, and that he
regretted the fact. Most of his biographers have accept-
ed the statement. The expeditions led by Walker were so
disastrous and abortive that a general inclination is
evinced to shirk all responsibility for them. But, until
they failed, they were seriously regarded by the men en-
gaged in them, by the representatives of the United
States Government on the Isthmus, and by the adminis-
tration at Washington.
Of Ward's alleged co-operation with Walker, it is nec-
essary to speak with circumspection. Had Walker suc-
ceeded, the matter would be involved in less embarrass-
ment. The readiness with which British moralists con-
done like breaches of international comity in South Afri-
ca, with which we accept the results of such operations
in the Sandwich Islands and on the Isthmus, would
make it easy for the public opinion of to-day to excuse,
at least, if it did not canonize " The Grey-eyed Man of
Destiny," had his irregular and erratic undertaking proved
to be the entering wedge for an Isthmian Canal. But that
22 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
was not to be. "Walker was several times under arrest,
and at other times enjoyed a temporary success backed by
the qualified endorsement of his Government. He was
finally shot, by order of a drum-head court-martial, at
daybreak, on the third of September, 1860. There were
men involved in that fiasco who stood in every way above
criticism, and whom the part they took in it did not debar
from receiving, at the hands of Lincoln, high positions of
trust in the diplomatic, civil and military service of the
country.
Walker's operations on the Isthmus began in 1853.
Before that date, Prince Charles Louis Napoleon Bona-
parte, then a penniless adventurer who had, in 1838, been
sent by French capitalists to survey the Isthmus and to
report on the practicability of a canal, put forth, on his
escape from Ham in 1846, a brochure on the civil and
geographical polity of the United States, in which he pre-
dicted a great future for the Central States of America.
He foresaw, in the town of Leon in Nicaragua, the trade-
centre of a new world of traffic, such an emporium as
Constantinople had been to the older hemisphere, and he
proposed, by cutting the tongue of land between the lakes
of Nicaragua and the Pacific, to unite the Oceans at that
point with a link which should be known as the Canal
Napoleon. Many thoughtful persons had long felt the
need, in behalf of our commerce, of some access to the
Pacific which did not involve the doubling of Cape Horn,
and they were impatient to forestall interference from
abroad, and to put the country in a position of control
over some one of the inter-ocean routes. Joseph Warren
Fabens of Salem, a scholar and writer of repute, whose
ill-health drove him to forsake a course at Harvard for
residence in a warmer zone, was United States Consul
General and Director of Colonization for Nicaragua at
that time. The colonists to be welcomed there were most-
ly from California, and Walker's recruits were mostly
from California. Walker was, in March and April, 1856,
in control of Nicaragua, and had set up a Provisional
Government, an accredited envoy from which was recog-
nized at Washington. But the next year he had been
BY ROBERT S. RANTOCJL. 23
compelled to submit to the local authority and had retired,
only to reappear at the head of another expedition in Oc-
tober, 1858. The fate which awaited Maximilian a little
later overtook him, and the shattered remnant of his force
was brought home to New York in the United States Bat-
tleship "Wabash." Many men who followed that flag served
under names which were not their own. The name
" Ward " is found on some of the rosters. In one in-
stance the given name is Patrick, which might well be an
error for Frederick. The "London Times " of December
19, 1862, states without reserve that Ward was with
Walker. The authority of the British press in matters
like this is not conclusive. Ward's family uniformly
asserted that the dates of his home-letters showed such an
association to have been impossible. Walker's book, pub-
lished just before his death, and bringing his story down
to 1857, the public documents of the United States cov-
ering the period, and the correspondence with the peru-
sal of which I have been favored, fail to determine
whether Ward was or was not with Walker in Nicaragua,
but they make it plain enough that, had Walker's attempt
succeeded, the chapter of American history contributed
by him would have been written in a very different spirit.
From Tehuantepec, Ward seems to have made his way
to Mexico, and is said to have found favor with Alvarez,
and to have been offered a command in the Mexican army,
which he refused. Here he met a prospector from one of
our Southern States by the name of Wheat, who had been
an officer of the United States Army in Mexico, and who
was afterwards to bear a commission as Brigadier General
in the Confederate service. With him, Ward seems to
have embarked in a scheme for collecting and shipping to
New York cargoes of scrap-iron, old brass and copper,
the " flotsam and jetsam " that gathers in the wake of an
ancient civilization. At this point in his career he put
himself to a crucial test. Finding the plan of collecting
refuse metals to promise little, Ward set out, penniless and
alone, to cross the Continent in the saddle, and reached
Southern California without serious mishap, making the
journey on a single mule. When the chances of disability
24 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
from exposure and disease, and of hostile encounters, are
considered, in addition to the difficulty of procuring sub-
sistence for man and beast in a little-explored tract of
semi-tropical jungle, the incident savors of the more recent
exploits of Livingstone and Stanley.
Soon we find him once more on his way to the Orient,
and, in 1854, he was back in California again as first
officer of the " Westward Ho ! " of New York, Captain
Hussey commanding. During some of these years his
father was in business as a ship-broker in New York City,
and at times the son was with him there. Such months
in young Ward's career as are unaccounted for may have
been passed in Captain Ward's counting-room in New
York. From California, at some date in 1854, he seems
to have sailed for Hong Kong as chief-mate of the Clipper
Ship Black Warrior."
It is generally stated by his biographers, and there is
ground, in his own statements and in family letters, for
the belief, which is confirmed by the authority of Burlin-
game and Hayes, that he took part in the Crimean War as
a Lieutenant in the Imperial Army of France. The
Crimean War was in progress from the spring of 1854
until that of 1856. Ward's sister has stated that she was
at boarding-school during that period, and that her brother
called on her there to take his leave, as he told her, ' on
his way to the Crimean War." Hayes states that he had
a difference with a superior officer, and that, in conse-
quence, his resignation was called for and accepted. It
would seem to be an easy matter to fix the date and rank
of his service, but, while the courtesies of the French
War Bureau have been extended, through the kind offices
of United States Ambassador White, it has been found
practically impossible to trace in the records at Paris
Ward's service in the Crimea, unless the army-corps in
which he served shall first be designated.
Ward seems to have landed at Shanghai in the autumn
of 1859. He was not unknown there. In what vessel,
in what capacity, in what employ, he arrived there on the
voyage which was to be his last, I am unable to state. He
seems to have been as destitute of means as are the scores
BY ROBERT S. RANTOTTL. 25
of foreigners who drift into that cosmopolitan port in
search of a career, and to have been without influence on
which to lean. The American houses established there
knew him, not unfavorably, in a general way. But that
he had in view any means of raising money for commer-
cial or other ventures, or any prospect of allying himself
with commercial interests, or any way of living save upon
such earnings as come to young men of capacity thrown
on their own resources, does not appear.
In approaching the claim to recognition and eminence
which it is hoped to establish for him in the three remain-
ing years of Ward's life, it is necessary to discriminate
with care among sources of information which are of un-
equal value. Ward's loyal lieutenant, Forrester,? in the
" Cosmopolitan Magazine " for 1896-7, and an unknown
writer, in the "Friend of China" for 1863, who hails him
as the " Hero of Sung Kiang," have both put on record
their impressions of the man, and a Boston contemporary
by the name of Hayes 10 has written most instructively of
9 Edward Forrester, first with Ward under Garibaldi in South
America, and ever after that an attached and loyal friend, was his
second in command in China, and would, on Ward's death, have
succeeded to the command, had not his health, shattered by the
fiendish tortures inflicted on him while a prisoner in the hands of
the rebels, compelled him to decline the post. He was, in August,
1896, a guest at the dinner given in New York to Li Hung Chang, by
Ex-Consul General and Ex-Minister William Frederick Seward. In
1862, but for the timely intervention and large expenditure of the
Chinese Government, due to the friendship of the distinguished
guest of that evening, Forrester would have died. He was to have
been swathed with paper soaked in oil and slowly burned in the
street for the delectation of the mob. He had already suffered tor-
ture nearly to the limit of human endurance. But Li Hung Chang
hurried forward an enormous ransom costing half a million in arms,
ammunition and opium, and released him at the last moment. For-
rester printed his ' Personal Recollections of the Tai Ping Rebel-
lion" in the "Cosmopolitan Magazine" for 1896-7; Vols. XXI-
XXII ; with an introduction by one of its editors, John Brisben
Walker, a West Point graduate who had held a commission in the
army of China.
10 What Augustus Allen Hayes has left in print about Ward is enti-
tled to exceptional notice. Hayes was in Shanghai, as a junior part-
ner of the house of Olyphant, from 1860 to 1870. He was a Harvard
graduate of the class of 1857, a son of the chemist Hayes, for
many years State Assayer of Massachusetts, and he died in 1892,
leaving a widow who was of kin with Margaret Fuller, and, for sur-
26 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
him in the "International Keview " for 1881, and in the
" Atlantic Monthly " for 1886. " Harper's Magazine "
for April, 1866, printed a discriminating article by Gerald
Brown, entitled " The last months of the Tai Ping War."
The " Far East," issued simultaneously at Tokio, Shang-
hai and Hong Kong, by a graduate from the office of the
" Illustrated London News," printed, in 1877, an elabo-
rate, illustrated account of Ward's career, prepared for
that serial by Doctor Daniel Jerome Macgowan, 11 who
went to Shanghai from the United States as a missionary
surgeon, and who was well and favorably known to the
American, German, English and French Colonies resident
there.
Other articles, showing more or less discrimination,
have found their way into the magazine-literature of the
day, and books have been printed treating of China at the
period of the Tai- ping Rebellion, and dealing with the ca-
reer of Gordon, and with that of Li Hung Chang. The
writers of these have given such space as they could spare
to Ward's career, and such views of it as the information
at hand enabled them to gain. The general comment is
suggested by the English accounts that, in what they say
of Ward, not only have they to contend with the race-
viving classmates, Francis Bartlett, Franklin Haven, Solomon Lin-
coln, John Davis Long, Joseph May, Robert McNeil Morse, and
Arthur John Clark Sowdon. Alibone's Dictionary shows that he
was not without reputation as a writer.
"Daniel Jerome Macgowan was an American-born missionary to
China, a grandson of the distinguished Scottish divine of that name,
and a Doctor of Medicine. He was sent out as a Missionary Surgeon
by the American Baptist Board of Foreign Missions. After some
months spent in the hospitals of Paris, he reached Hong Kong in
February, 1843. In September of that year he opened a hospital at
Ning Po, and in 1845 became the agent of the Medical Missionary
Society. In 1854 he was again at Hong Kong, but went with his
family to London in 1859, having married in India an English wife,
the sister of an English missionary. Interpreter Alabaster of the
British Consulate at Shanghai married his daughter.
In 1861 he was lecturing in Paris, and later throughout England,
on China and Japan. In 1862 he returned to America and held a
commission in the Federal Army until the close of the war. He was
a copious writer, both in English and Chinese, and the list of his
publications on scientific and general topics, issued between 1843
and 1857, is a long one. He was again in China after the fall of
Richmond.
BY ROBERT S. BANTOUL. 27
prejudice against everything American existing before the
fall of Richmond, and which so heroic an effort is now
making to extirpate, but that, to the average English
reader, every concession made to the claims of Ward
seems to be in disparagement of a hero of their own,
seems like plucking a laurel from the brow of Gordon.
It is proper to add that English accounts of Ward
treat him more fairly in proportion as their authors
have been permitted a closer access to the papers or the
personality of General Gordon. Of Doctor Macgowan's
account it should be said that what he writes in apprecia-
ation of Ward has an added value in that the Baptist
Mission to which he was accredited was not in sympathy
with the efforts of the Imperial Government to put down
the Tai Pings. The magazine which the Mission issued
shows a thinly-veiled leaning towards the ' Celestial
Prince " and the pseudo-religious movement which he called
the " Heavenly Peace ", and says, in a number as late as
that for December, 1869, that Ward and Gordon by their
successes had set back, for fifty years, the hand on the dial
of Asiatic progress. The insurrection, known to the
world as the Tai-ping Rebellion, breaking out in 1851,
sustained itself for fourteen years, and during nine of
those years was in undisputed occupation of the great city
of Nanking, the most ancient of the capital cities of China.
Fifty millions of Chinamen are thought to have perished
as one of its results, and it so devastated some of the
most populous and ancient among the hundreds of cities
which it claimed to have reduced that, as the Right Hon-
orable Sir Mount-Stuart Elphinstone Grant-Duff, G. C.S. I.,
a Governor-General of India, whose figures I have used, has
stated in his published memoirs, " one can shoot pheasants
on the sites of them". It is to be borne in mind that events
of national import in China affect a stupendous fraction of
the human race. The population of China is estimated to
be one third of the population of the Globe, a population
equal to one hundred and four times that of England, a
population as great as that of Europe. It is not within
the province of this paper to treat the issues involved in
the Tai-ping Rebellion. Suffice it that the Baptist Mis-
28 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
sionaries in China were disposed to concede a measure of
sincerity to the professions of respect for the dogmas of
their faith which the Rebel leaders put forth. With this
exception it is safe to say that Europe and America were,
towards the end of the movement, a unit in their sympa-
thy with the Imperialists, and either held aloof, or did
what they could in aid of the Imperialist cause. The
view at that time held by Great Britain seemed to be that
an active course on its part was due not merely to the in-
terests of trade but to the claims of civilization and human-
ity, and this notwithstanding the fact that the British Gov-
ernment was, at that very moment, conducting active hos-
tilities against the Imperial Government of China in other
sections of its vast domain. The " Celestial Prince " de-
clared himself to be the vice-gerent of Christ, and to be
one of three persons of a triune God-head, and he pro-
fessed to reject the ancient polytheism of his race. While
these dogmas seemed, to the Baptist Missionary, to entitle
their adherents to some degree of consideration, they were
received, by most European and American residents, as
the rankest blasphemy. The ostentatious humility and
self-mortification practiced in public by the " Celestial
Prince", generally denounced as the low arts of a relig-
ious impostor, were accepted by the Baptist Missionary
as possibly sincere, and he clung fondly to the hope that
the movement, branded by others as profane and rebellious,
and pursued, though it was, through seas of blood, appar-
ently for the sake of conquest, might prove an entering
wedge for the advent of the Cross.
Arrived at Shanghai at the age of 27, Ward found em-
ployment as first-officer in the Yang-tsze river-boats which
steamed from point to point in the service of local trade.
Shanghai will be recognized as one of the great cities not
only of China but of the world, and as the great foreign
entrepot of a most fertile section. In this new calling
Ward at once attracted notice. A resident merchant,
who was taking passage on one of the river-boats, relates
this incident. The steamer grounded. The tide was fall-
ing and the situation was becoming desperate, for the
River swarmed with pirates. The commander of the boat
Li HUNG CHANG
1831-1901
BY EGBERT S. EANTOUL. 29
surrendered himself to despair and thoughts of suicide.
Rising to the occasion Ward took his place, inspired the
crew with his own spirit, and saved the day.
It was now 1860, the tenth year of the Rebellion. The
"Celestial Prince", the Apostle of the " Heavenly
Peace", held possession of Nanking. The capture of
Shanghai was of the first necessity to him, for it controls
the mouth of the Yang-tsze-Kiang, one of the three great
rivers of the world, and its possession would open untold
facilities for trade and supplies. For the moral effect its
fall would have on the outer world, its value was unique.
Repeated attempts had been made to invest and take the
City ; and the anxiety of the Imperial Government, and
of the local community, quickened with the advance of
the Rebel hordes now swarming from the North. Patriotic
Associations of Merchants and Bankers, the foreigner and
the native with equal readiness, tendered their aid in
support of the central authority, not so much that the
foreign residents desired the aggrandizement of the Man-
chus, but rather because they saw all their material inter-
ests to be imperilled and even civilization itself to be at
stake. They promptly offered money and gun-boats and
artillery and enlisted drill-clubs for the defence of Shang-
hai, in all this Hayes was active,- and they were pleased
to observe that the gun-boats, when Ward was on board,
lost no time in coming to close quarters with the Rebels.
This crisis found Ward acting as first officer of the
American-built Gun-Boat "Confucius", commanded by
an Englishman named Gough. The steamer was one of
a considerable fleet of larger and smaller craft extempo-
rised to meet the exigency by the business-men of Shang-
hai, whose mouth-piece in dealing with the Imperial Gov-
ernment was Taki, a native Banker of great prominence
and wealth. He was the confidential adviser of Li Hung
Chang, 12 then fast coming to the front, and the chief finan-
12 Douglas, the British biographer of Li Hung Chang, has claimed
credit for the great Viceroy on the score of his astuteness in recog-
nizing instantly the quality of this strange interloper, who, accord-
ing to the authority of Douglas, was engaged by the Association of
Patriotic Merchants, "at Li's instigation". Later, in 1861, Admiral
Sir James Hope, with his British Squadron, appearing on the scene,
30 FREDEBICK TOWNSEND WARD.
cial reliance of the authorities, both civil and military, in?
their desperate stress.
Ward's way to a career was now open. Through Cap-
tain Gough, he procured an introduction to Taki. The
interview began with a financial proposal so startling that
probably the proposal for the hand of the daughter, which
was to come later, could not more profoundly have dis-
turbed the smug composure of the Banker. Ward, in his
straight-forward manner, laid before Taki this offer : he-
would, for a large, stipulated price in hand, capture Sung
Kiang, the capital city of the Shanghai district and a
great Rebel stronghold not many miles up the river.
Once in possession of Sung Kiang, he would establish
there headquarters for operations by land and water, as a
diversion for the relief of Shanghai. Such were the
straits to which, at the moment, the great Emporium found
itself reduced that this audacious proposal was accepted
eagerly, and funds enough were furnished at once to make
a beginning and to secure the enlistment and drill of a
company of some hundred men. Recruits were readily
enrolled, for Shanghai, at this troubled period, swarmed
with the rabble of deserters and discharged seamen, from
foreign naval and commercial fleets, ready for every ven-
ture, which infests a large port in time of threatened war.
It was Ward's feeling that, properly fed and clothed, well
equipped, and, above all, ably led, this rabble could be de-
pended upon for a sort of warfare of which the Chinese
Rebels had no thought. It was FalstafFs crew under
Hotspur's command. Men and officers were at hand. His
Lieutenants and Drill-Masters awaited his call. The nerve
steamed up the Yangtsze Kiang as far as Nanking. "Meanwhile,'*
says Douglas, "Ward's force was, with the assistance of Li Hung
Chang, doing excellent work." One of Li's chief difficulties seems
to have been the raising of funds to meet the expenses of a foreign
legion. The Chinaman's jealousy of everything foreign is common
knowledge. But Li was so far successful as to have been, says
Douglas, appointed in 1862 by his Imperial Master, in recognition o f
these efforts, to be Governor of the Province. "In conjunction with
Ward," says the same authority, "the British Commander recovered
town after town." So Ward was at last reaching a firm footing with
the magnates. But how did this come about? A man must needs,
show himself of value before receiving advances of this nature.
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 31
of their chief, never at fault, was to be the bond that held
together this incongruous host. Now that money was
forthcoming, he seemed to hold in his hand a golden key
to the difficult problem.
In June, 1860, Ward with his little corps moved upon
Sung Kiang. The great walled-town swarmed with the
defiant horde who had once captured and then lost it and
again recaptured it from the Manchus. Lacking artillery
to effect a breach, Ward essayed to scale the walls, but the
garrison had no difficulty in defending them. The remnant
of his company, after a severe repulse, straggled back to
Shanghai and was paid off and discharged. His next re-
source was the Manila-men always to be found at Shang-
hai, who are held to be the ablest of Asiatic seamen. One
of the company recruited at this time, a body-guard
which clung loyally to Ward until his death, was his
aid-de-camp, Vincente Macanaya, a sketch of whose nota-
ble career appeared in the " Friend of China", published
at Shanghai, for April, 1863.
Supported by two white officers and less than one hun-
dred men, Ward succeeded, on his next attempt, in sur-
prising by night the garrison of Sung Kiang, Macanaya
leading a squad over the wall and reaching and throwing
open one of the gates, thus admitting Ward with his little
force. The plunder of this rich and populous City went,
as perquisites, to swell, after the manner of Asiatic war-
fare, the promised pay, but Ward promptly received his
contract-price, and established head-quarters near the Con-
fucian Temple in this defensible strong-hold. At last he
had a fortress to hold and his strong-box was at last in
funds. Promises and professions may effect much but,
without food, no force can be kept together for a day.
His muster-roll and his pay-roll now grew apace. His
next objective point was Tsing-Pu, a Rebel strong-hold
thirty miles away from Sung Kiang, but strong enough
and near enough to threaten his headquarters. Evading
the jealous scrutiny of Admiral Sir James Hope, (known
to the British Navy as " Fighting Jimmy," a favorite
and very distinguished officer then in command in those
waters, his portrait is in the National Gallery at Traffal-
32 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
gar Square), he rapidly but secretly enlisted at Shanghai
a force of twenty-five deserters and five drill-masters,
mostly English, and made this the nucleus of an expedi-
tion against Tsing-Pu, having closed with Taki, on favor-
able terms, a contract for the reduction of the place. To
this new force, swelled by the ready accessions which
high pay invited, he was able to add his little command,
besides his faithful body-guard, now counting two hun-
dred well-drilled Manila-men supplied with two field-
guns, and also a detail of five thousand Chinamen from
the highly-paid, picked force of the leading Chinese Gen-
eral, Li Ai Tang, a corps distinguished by the high-
sounding title of "Imperial Braves."
Commanding the largest body he had ever led, Ward
once more moved out against the enemy, who had also
enlisted deserters on high pay, and among them an ac-
complished English officer named Savage. This was on
Feb. 10, 1861. He led a gallant attack, but the long-
haired Rebel host, a garrison of ten thousand, under the
able generalship of Savage, poured from the walls such
murderous volleys as made retreat his only course, not-
withstanding that he had the aid of two hundred of the
feeble little gun-boats of the Chinese fleet. The place
was too strong for assault, and an immense force of Rebels
was known to be on the way to its relief.
Ward received five wounds during this bloody fray. It
lasted but ten minutes, and left half his force disabled on
the field. He retired to Shanghai for some weeks of rest
and surgical treatment, nominally disbanded his force,
and met the scrutiny to which he was subjected for the
breach of a neutrality the Allies were professing to main-
tain, by a counter-espionage exercised upon his unfriendly
European brothers-in-arms. But his enlistments and
drills were secretly kept up, and he got possession, thanks
to the help of Taki, of a park of artillery, with which
augmented force, on his discharge from hospital, he united
what could be rallied of his old corps, and was once
again on his feet and ready for the field. Again he at-
tacked Tsing-Pu. It was stategically an important place
and the money-value set upon it was also large. Once
BY EGBERT S. KANTOUL. 83
more he brought his guns and gun-boats to bear and this
time lost them all. His provision-train gone, but with
most of his men and some of their muskets, he reached
the Sung Kiang headquarters again, returned to Shang-
hai to enlist a new force, abandoned by Taki whose confi-
dence in him as a military leader he had lost, abandoned
by all except Li Hung Chang, his strongest backer,
and was placed under arrest by Sir James Hope and held
a close prisoner on the British Flag-Ship " Chesapeake."
An effort was made by the Admiral to bring Ward to trial,
on the charge of recruiting deserters from the British
Navy, before the United States Consul-General who, un-
der the ex-territorial system established in the foreign
quarter, had exclusive cognizance of the offences of
Americans. But Ward proved himself to be a naturalized
subject of China, and Sir James had no resource but to
keep him a close prisoner in his cabin. Ward's thrilling
and intrepid escape by swimming is well described in
" Forrester's Recollections." Early in 1861 he was again
discovered recruiting for his Sung Kiang garrison among
the British deserters, and with difficulty eluded the ani-
mosity of Sir James.
Ward now changed his tactics. He abandoned the en-
listment of deserters and turned his attention to recruit-
ing a native force to be commanded by European officers
and patiently drilled in the European School of Arms. To
this project neither the Imperial Government of China nor
its European allies, it seemed, could well except. Sung
Kiang became an advanced Military School. English
deserters, tempted by high pay, still served sub rosa as
drill-masters. The Chinamen proved themselves profi-
cient, especially so in artillery practice. The British
authorities at Shanghai soon became alarmed at the growth
of the movement and threatened interference. On a per-
sonal inspection of the Camp of Instruction at Sung Kiang
to which he had been invited, Sir James Hope was well
received by the troops and reported favorably. The drill-
sergeants were kept out of sight. He saw, for the first
time in his life, a large force of native Chinamen paraded
in European uniforms and showing themselves expert in
34 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
European drilL In view of such results and of the possi-
bilities which they disclosed, he found it best to wink at
the harboring of a few deserters from his fleet, and Ward
was promised every facility in his new attempt.
In the opening months of 1862, the time had come when
the Allies were ready to throw off the mask of nomi-
nal neutrality, and to take open ground against the
Rebellion. Humanity and civilization itself seemed to
demand it. The Tai-ping movement was a little past its
zenith, but still most disastrous to commerce and to the
general interests of China as most foreigners saw them.
The compact between the Imperialists and the Rebels had
provided that the latter should not come within thirty
miles of Shanghai and that the Allies should not interfere
within that radius. It was limited to a year and the limit
had expired. Ward at this time commanded a force
of something like ten thousand men. He seems at last
to have come to terms of perfect understanding with the
authorities, both native and foreign. His winter's work
was telling on the grand result. When a detail of the
garrison of a nearby town, from which sorties were made
to attack Sung Kiang, first saw the force of Chinamen
clothed and armed like "foreign devils" which he was
leading against them, they fled without a shot.
On February 21, 1862, General Ward took the offensive
with a thousand men, supported by Admiral Hope and
the French Admiral Protet, in a movement to enforce the
observance of the thirty-mile limit. This movement in-
volved many encounters and was a brilliant success.
From it Ward won great credit for his courage and strat-
egic sense, together with the high appreciation of both
his naval supporters. Of the six thousand Rebels who
were expected to make of the fortified town they were
defending an impregnable fortress, a large part were cap-
tured and turned over to the mercies of the Shanghai
Imperialists, who proceeded at once to decapitate them,
with every circumstance of barbarity, in the Public Square
of the City. Ward succeeded in arresting the slaughter
as soon as it was brought to his knowledge. This victory
was hailed with great enthusiasm, and earned for Ward's
BY ROBERT 8. RANTOUL. 35
corps the compliment of an Imperial decree in which it
was designated as " The Ever Conquering Legion." Its
numbers were doubled, and Admiral Hope found it in his
great heart to forgive his quondam prisoner and to praise
him warmly. In March, 1862, a memorial to the British
Consul-General from representative citizens of Shanghai,
shows that progress was making, though slowly, for the
relief of the port.
At this time Ward discovered that the Rebel leaders
were contracting for gun-boats in the United States. On
learning from him this fact, Li Hung Chang made an ef-
fective protest to the American Minister, and applauded
the loyalty which prompted Ward's information and which
defeated the Rebel plan. But gun-boats and implements
of war were a necessity to both parties and Ward, through
his brother who had joined him in China, and through his
father, now a ship-broker in New York, was in a position
to supply the Imperialists with muskets, artillery and river-
steamers, and this he did.
On April 26, an attack was planned on a strong walled
town twenty miles from Shanghai. A half-dozen armed
steamers and transports furnished by the Allies, together
with thirty little Chinese gun-boats, moved up the river in
support of Ward's force, which consisted of three battalions
with howitzers, and of a body of three thousand Chinese
troops. The City fell and was looted, mainly, it was
charged, by French sailors.
On May 6, the English and French Admirals took their
turn at the work and the French Admiral Protect, univer-
sally esteemed, was killed. A bronze statue commemorates
the distinguished Frenchman at Shanghai, and Imperial
honors were accorded him in an edict commanding gifts
" to comfort the departed soul of the faithful," and sacri-
fices to be arranged by Li Hung Chang, " to the manes of
the French Admiral". A detachment of the "Ever Con-
quering Legion" was present at the Military Mass cele-
brated in his honor at the Cathedral of Shanghai.
On May 13, Ward made his fourth attempt to capture
Tsing-Pu and this time with complete success. No loot-
ing was permitted. Ward received in hand the stipulated
86 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
thirty thousand taels as the price of this important capture,
returning at the head of his victorious troops to the Sung
Kiang headquarters. He had now equipped his men with
arms bought from the English Army in India and with
Prussian rifles. He had been supported in this attack by
English and French troops and by a French gun-boat car-
rying a heavy rifled gun which, after a three hours' bom-
bardment, effected a breach and let in his force. But his
men were later dislodged by an overwhelming Rebel horde,
after a most creditable defence.
General Ward and his troops earned great distinction
in an action on May 19. Ward's ambition at this time
seems to have been to lead a corps of twenty-five thousand
men of all arms, and to be empowered by tie Emperor to
operate with a free hand, independently of English and
French Allies, and to be responsible directly to him. The
" London Times," in a notice of his death, intimates that
he had achieved this object. The statement, often re-
peated, that Ward cherished the larger ambition of sup-
planting the Tartar dynasty and possibly, with the sup-
port of the " Young China" element, assuming power,
rests, so far as I know, upon what Hayes says in the " In-
ternational Review" for December, 1881, and in the " At-
lantic Monthly " for February, 1886. The statement has
the qualified support of Macgowan in the " Far East" for
July, 1877. Both these writers knew Ward well and
both are entitled to credit. There is no hint anywhere
that, in this, he may have relied on Li Hung Chang.
At last, in August, 1862, he started out without sup-
port for a fifth attack upon the strong-hold of Tsing-Pu.
A reward was offered for the first man to enter the city
and the Manila-man, Macanaya, General Ward's devoted
Aid-de-camp, secured it. The "Legion" succeeded at last
in taking and holding the town. Probably this was the
action so feelingly described by the one great Captain
among all the hosts enlisted under the Rebel flag. He
complains that Li Hung Chang was employing "devil
soldiers" against him. He was then in supreme command
of the Rebel forces. He finds it necessary to march in
person against these " Foreign Devils" at the head of ten
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 37
thousand picked men. " Fancy," he says, 4< A thousand
devils keeping in check my ten thousand men 1 Who
could put up with such a thing !"
Ward's relations with Taki were at this time most cor-
dial. It does not appear at what date he took to wife the
Banker's daughter, Chang Mei. 13 But he was now joint
owner with Taki of two American-built gun-boats. And,
with other gun-boats chartered by them, the Banker and
the General, he was now a Chinese Admiral as well,
fitted out an expedition against the river-pirates. Bom-
barding failed to dislodge them from their stockades, but
Ward disembarked a force and they fled before him.
Not even under their improved discipline could Ward's
Chinese contingent wholly eradicate their native greed for
plunder, although in Chinese army-regulations it is de-
nounced in the same terms with gambling, opium-smoking
and brutality. Even General Gordon, who after a time
succeeded Ward in his command, and who has been can-
onized in the English rubric, seems to have accepted the
inevitable, and could only treat this oriental vice in a tone
of apology. This is the account he gives in a letter to his
mother, dated October, 1860, of the looting by the Allies
of the Summer Palace at Peking : " The General ordered
it to be destroyed ; we accordingly went out and, after
pillaging it, burned the whole place, destroying in a
Vandal-like manner most valuable property, which could
not be replaced for four millions. We got upwards
of forty -eight pounds apiece prize-money before we went
out here ; and, although I have not as much as many, I
have done well. I think the grandees hate us, as they
must after what we did to the Palace. You can scarcely
imagine the beauty and magnificence of the places we
burnt. It made one's heart sore to burn them : in fact,
these palaces were so large, and we were so pressed for
time, that we could not plunder them carefully. It was
wretchedly demoralizing work for an army. Everybody
was wild for plunder."
13 A photograph of Chang Mei, the wife of General Ward, belonging
to his brother Henry, who died in 1867, was presented to the Essex
Institute by the widow of the latter, now Mrs. James Rufus Amidon,
of New York City.
38 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
Ward's success in disciplining the Chinese was begin-
ning to stimulate the Allies. The French in turn raised
a native Legion and put a leading French officer at the
head of it, and when an expedition was organized against
a force of Rebels threatening Ning Po, with the support
of Captain Rhoderick Dhu, commanding the " Encounter",
whose draught of water forbade a near approach, a French
Lieutenant leading a corps of the new Franko-Chinese
contingent, was taken into action on board the river-boat
" Confucius'', while Ward's men in equal numbers were
towed in launches up the river by the British gun-boat
" Hardy". At the end of a six hours' struggle Ward fell
back with the loss of eight officers and a hundred and fifty
men. Next day the attack was renewed with success and
the Rebels fled to Tsz'ki.
We approach the closing scene of Ward's career. He
was now ordered to King Po to take command there. The
order reached him at dusk. Late as the hour was, he at
once paraded his troops, reviewed them, and expressed
the highest satisfaction with accoutrements and drill. He
was never to marshal them again. More devoted follow-
ing no Captain ever had. It was their pride to be known
as " Ward's disciplined Chinese." Their foreign officers
they would cheerfully obey, but not the Mandarin Chinese.
They saw in their General more of the father and the
friend, and the wonderful spirit of the force died with
him. Macgowan has said, " He was self-contained yet
genial, having unlimited ascendency over all whom he
commanded." He reached Ning Po with only the life-
guard of Manila-men who were always near him, and at
once made his dispositions for driving the Rebels out of
Tsz'ki.
On the morning of September 20 he took five or six
hundred men up the river and opened an attack on the
fort at Tsz'ki with howitzers. A picture of the fort appears.
A storming-party passed him on its approach to the wall
it was to scale, and he said to Captain Cook who led it :
" You must do it with a rush, or we shall fail, for they are
very numerous." He was shot and carried to the rear before
the scaling-ladders could be placed. His command was
BY BOBBET 8. RANTOtTL.
39
largely made up of troops which were strangers to him,
and it has been hinted that he may have been shot by his
own men. But Admiral Bogle disposes of the conjecture.
The assault prevailed. Tsz'ki fell, and the Legion held
the town.
Forrester has thus described the closing scene :
" We now turned our attention to Tsz-Ki. Ward being
anxious to capture the city with the least possible delay,
we started out together to reconnoitre the field. We had
become so accustomed to the enemy's fire that we had
grown somewhat careless. While we were standing to-
gether inspecting the position, Ward put his hand sudden-
ly to his side and exclaimed, 'I have been hit.' A
brief investigation showed that the wound was a serious
one, and I had him carried on board the < Hardy' where
surgical attendance was promptly given. I then held a
consultation with the officers of the expedition. It was
decided to carry out Ward's plan and attack the city at
once. Ladders were quickly thrown across the moat which
were then drawn over and placed against the walls, and,
before the garrison fully recognized what we were about,
our troops were in possession of the city.
'* As soon as I had my troops properly housed and posted
I set out with General Ward for Ning-Po. Arrived there,
the General was removed to the house of Dr. Parker,
40 FREDERICK TOWN SEND WARD.
a resident physician, and every precaution taken. But he
had been gradually sinking, and he died that night.
" Early the next morning I ordered his body conveyed
on board the ' Confucius ', that we might reach Shanghai
at the earliest possible moment. The Captain of the boat
(Lynch by name, afterwards with Semmes in the ' Ala-
bama ') proved insubordinate. At nine o'clock we were
ten miles out at sea and short of coal. I had the Captain
put in irons and turned over the command to the Lieuten-
ant. We were then in such a strong current that I gave
up hope of getting the steamer back to Ning-Po, deter-
mined rather to work our way to a port near Shanghai.
By the middle of the afternoon we ran alongside a British
ship flying Dent and Company's flag. I knew this firm to
be warm supporters of the Imperial Government, and so
had no hesitancy in boarding the vessel and obtaining a
supply of coal. The funeral of General Ward at Shang-
hai was a most impressive one. A great number of civil
and military officials accompanied his body to Sung-Kiang,
where it was interred with great pomp, and enjoyed the
extraordinary honor of a resting-place in the Confucian
Temple." 14
But before turning to these impressive ceremonials, let
us devote a word to the high estimate which was now en-
tertained of him by persons whose standing fitted them to
pass an impartial judgment upon his career. He had not
merely risen by force of character, and in the face of ob-
stacles, to the head of a considerable command. Others
have done this. But Ward had created the corps in com-
mand of which he had been placed. His British critics
left nothing unsaid that could give token of the place he
14 The character of the ceremonies attending Ward's marriage,
and of those attending the funerals at Shanghai and at Sung Kiang,
was felt to possess so great an interest that efforts were made to se-
cure a description of them. But tiles of the local Chinese journals
printed in the English language are not accessible in this country.
The great libraries have only scattered numbers of their issues, and
neither the Low family of New York nor the Forbes family of Bos-
ton, while omitting no effort in this behalf, have been able to ren-
der any aid. While the representatives of our government in China
have, in the kindest spirit, done much to facilitate my work, and
have freely offered further help, it did not seem quite fitting to bur-
den them with a research of this nature.
BY EGBERT S. RANTOUL. 41
had earned in their regard in the three years during which
they had known him as a brother-in-arms.
Months before his death, in February, 1862, Sir
John Mitchel, in his valedictory order on resigning the
British military command in China, had spoken of Ward
in flattering terms. In March, 1862, Sir Frederick Bruce,
the British Ambassador at Peking, used in a dispatch to
Earl Russell these words : " In the Chinese force organ-
ized and led by Mr. Ward, I see the nucleus and begin-
ning of a military organization which may prove most valu-
able." Rear Admiral Archibald George Bogle, the " Lieu-
tenant Bogle" who commanded the "Hardy" in Ning
Po River, speaks of him, under date of December 28,
1897, as "a gallant fellow and good friend," and the
Rear Admiral has favored Francis H. Lee of Salem, a Direc-
tor of the Institute, who met him in Italy, with a detailed
account of his relations with Ward. It is here repro-
duced. 15
Captain Rhoderick Dhu, of the flagship " Encounter," in
transmitting Lieutenant Bogle's report of Ward's death to
Sir James Hope, wrote : " It is now my painful duty to
inform you that General Ward, while directing the as-
sault, fell, mortally wounded. The 'Hardy' brought
him down the same evening to Ning Po, and he died the
next morning in Dr. Parker's house. During a short
acquaintance with General Ward I have learned to appre-
ciate him much, and I fear his death will cast a gloom
over the Imperial cause in China, of which he was the
stay and prop."
How cordially Sir James responded to these generous
sentiments from a gallant British sailor appears from his
dispatch to Minister Burlingame, transmitting the an-
nouncement of Ward's death, which the American Minis-
ter embodied in his dispatch to Washington. These are
the words of the " rare old Paladin who had two flagships
sunk under him in action at Pei Ho " in 1859, and who,
in April, 1861, awaited his turn for the dressing of his
wounded leg, unwilling to claim the precedence due his
rank, until the more severely wounded had been treated :
15 See Appendix A: page 50.
42 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
" I am sure you will be much grieved to hear of poor
Ward's death. The Chinese Government have lost a very
able and gallant servant, who has rendered them much
faithful service, and whom it will not be easy for them to
replace."
Hayes has described his last interview with Ward, and
the disappearance of his papers, and expresses the belief
that no foreigner had ever attained a like ascendency in
China. 16
Ward's death was brought to the attention of the Em-
peror of China by no less a personage than Li Hung
Chang, the contemporary and friend of Grant, for years
the bulwark of the Dragon Throne, and the unfailing
friend of Ward. The Viceroy's memorial contained these
words :
" Li Hung Chang, Governor of Kiangse, on the 6th day
of the intercalary 8th Moon, in the first year of the reign
Tungche, memorializes the Throne It appears
that Brigadier Ward is a citizen of New York, in the
United States, who in the tenth year of the reign Hien-
fung came to China. Afterwards he was employed by
Wuhyu, Tautai of Shanghai, to take command of a con-
tingent of men from India to follow the regular army in
the attack on Kiating and Taet'sang, and twice to the
capture of Sung Kiang, as well as to the repeated attack
on Tsingpu, where, leading his officers and men, he was
several times seriously wounded. Later, after the contin-
gent of Indians had by an Imperial decree been dismissed,
Ward petitioned the Tautai, stating that he was willing to
become a Chinese subject ; whereuponW uhyu retained him
and gave him command of the Ever Victorious Army, to
support the Imperial troops in the defence of Sung Kiang.
In the first moon of the present year Ward defeated, with
500 troops, above 100,000 rebels at Yin-hi-pang, Tienma-
shan, and other places in the Prefecture of Sung Kiang.
Thus with few he overcame the many ; a meritorious deed
that is very rare. Again he arranged for the destruction
of the rebel fortifications of K'aukeau, Sian fang, Chow-
pu, Nank'ean, Cheling, Wang-keasze, and Lung-chuan,
)6 See Appendix B : page 53.
BY BOBBRT 8. RANTOUL. 43
having the co-operation of British and French troops.
From a petition of Wuhyu it appears that in the early part
of spring of the present year, Sung Kiang and Shanghai
were threatened by the rebels, and that the turning away
of the danger and the maintenance of tranquility in those
places was chiefly due to the exertions of Ward.
" By Imperial favour he was repeatedly promoted
from the fourth rank with the peacock's feather to the
decorations of the third rank, again to the rank of titulary
Futsiang, Brigadier, and again to Futsiang gazetted for
employment in office ; and praise was repeatedly bestowed
on him by your Majesty's decree. From the time of the
arrival of Your Majesty's Minister, Li Hung Chang, at
Shanghai, to take charge of affairs, this Futsiang, Ward,
was in all respects obedient to the orders he received, and
whether he received orders to harass the city of Kinsh-
wanei or to force back the rebels at Linho, he was every-
where successful. Still further, he bent all his energy on
the recapture of Tsing-pu, and was absorbed in a plan for
sweeping away the rebels from Soochan. Such loyalty and
valor, issuing from his natural disposition, is extraordinary
when compared with these virtues of the best officers of
China ; and among foreign officers it is not easy to find
one worthy of equal honour.
" Your Majesty's Minister, Li Hung Chang, has already
ordered Wuhyu and others to deck Ward's body with a
Chinese uniform, to provide good sepulture, and to bury
him at Sung Kiang, in order to complete the recompense
for his valiant defence of the Dynasty. Brigadier Ward's
military services at Sung Kiang and Ningpo are conspicu-
ous. At this time he lost his life by a wound from a
musket ball. We owe him our respect, and our deep re-
gret. It is appropriate, therefore, to entreat that your
Gracious Majesty do order the Board of Rites to take into
consideration suitable posthumous rewards to be bestowed
on him, Ward ; and that both at Ningpo and at Sung
Kiang sacrificial altars be erected to appease the manes of
this loyal man.
" In addition to the communication made to the Tsungli
Yamen, your memorialist, Li Hung Chang, consulted
44 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
Tseng Kwo Fan, Governor General of the Two Kiang, and
Tso-Tsung-Lang, Governor of Chehkiang, with regard to
the recapture of Tsze Kee by the rebels, and their spying
out the approaches to the city of Ningpo ; also with regard
to the newly appointed acting Tautai of Ningpo, She Che-
ngeh, putting this city in a state of defence, and the levy-
ing of contributions at Shanghai, to be forwarded to
Ningpo ; and further, with regard to Brigadier Ward's
recapture from the rebels of Tsze Kee, where he perished
from a wound by a musket ball, and for which reason
Your Majesty is entreated to bestow on him posthumous
honours ; and finally, with regard to dispatching with all
haste this memorial, and laying it before Your Majesty's
Sacred Glance for approval and further instruction."
With a promptness unusual in oriental procedure, this
memorial was followed in twelve days by the issue of an
Imperial Edict, of which the record obtained for the Essex
Institute, at the Tsung-li-Yamen in Peking, by our late
Minister Conger, is as follows :
" The following Imperial Rescript was received on the
18th day of the Intercalary Eighth Moon of the First
Year of the Reign of Tung-Chih.
" Li Hung Chang in a memorial has acquainted Us of
the death of Brigadier Ward, who perished from the
effects of a bullet-wound received at the capture of Tsz-
Ki, and has asked Our sanction for the building of a tem-
ple to him as a sincere expression of Our sorrow at his
death. Ward was a native of the United States of Amer-
ica. Having desired to become a Chinese subject, and
offered his services to Us, he joined the Imperial Troops
at Shanghai and took Kading, Tai-Tsan, and Sung-Kiang,
and later defeated the rebels at Ying-Kia-Ping, Tien-Mar-
Shan, and other parts, in the district of Sung-Kiang. He
also, in company with other foreign officers, destroyed the
rebel fortifications at Kaou-Kieaou and elsewhere. We,
admiring his repeated victories, had been pleased to confer
upon him special marks of Our favor, and to promote him
to the rank of Futsiang gazetted for service.
" According to the present memorial of Li Hung
BY ROBERT 8. RANTOUL. 45
Chang, Ward, having learned of the designs upon Ning-
Po of the Che-Kiang rebels who were in possession of
Tsz-Ki, at once advanced with the Ever Victorious Army
to destroy them. While in person conducting the move-
ments he was fatally wounded in the chest by a rebel bul-
let fired from the top of the city wall. The bullet came
out through his back. It grew dark to the General in-
stantly, and he fell. The City of Tsz-Ki was already
taken by his Ever Victorious Army. Ward returned to
Ning-Po, where he died of his wound the next day.
"We have read the memorial, and feel that Brigadier
Ward, a man of heroic disposition, a soldier without dis-
honor, deserves Our commendation and compassion. Li
Hung Chang has already ordered Wu-Shi and others to
attend to the proper rites of sepulture, and We now
direct the two Prefects that special temples to his
memory be built at Ning-Po and Sung-Kiang. Let this
case still be submitted to the Board of Rites, who will
propose to Us further honors so as to show our extra-
ordinary consideration towards him, and also that his loy-
al spirit may rest in peace. This from the Emperor I
Respect it ! "'
On October 27, 1862, Minister Burlingame forwarded
to Washington his official communication, announcing
Ward's death. An appendix gives it in full. 17 It em-
bodied a rendering of the Imperial Edict which paid his
countryman so noble a tribute, and it called forth from
Secretary of State Seward this feeling response :
" You will express to Prince Kung the President's sin-
cere satisfaction with the honors which the Emperor of
China has decreed to be paid to the memory of our dis-
tinguished fellow-citizen. He fell while illustrating the
fame of his country in an untried, distant and perilous
field. His too early death will, therefore, be deeply
mourned by the American people."
The whole correspondence was called for by the United
States Senate, upon motion of Senator Sumner, and was
17 See Appendix C: page 56.
46 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD.
duly transmitted under cover of a message from President
Lincoln. But the most unique of all the tributes paid to
Ward is that of the Emperor of China.
It will be observed that the Imperial Edict called for
the erection of temples at Ning Po and at Sung Kiang,
and the failure of the Chinese Government, for a period
of fourteen years, to take action towards that end has
been the occasion of much cynical remark.
Of the houses and lands, gun-boats, and personal effects
of which General Ward may have died possessed, little
was recovered for many years. His father, who died in
1865, and his brother, who died in 1867, with the aid of
his friends Hayes, Seward and Minister Burlingame spent
much time and effort in China in fruitless attempts to
secure a just accounting. Ward's widow survived him
but the fraction of a year, and, since they had no children,
Taki's interest in General Ward, save as a tradition of
Chinese history, became extinct upon her death. Taki
survived Ward but two years. Li Hung Chang's loyalty
to his early companion-in-arms seems, however, to have
survived all tests. After the interview with which the great
Viceroy of China favored Ward's sister and the widow of
his brother at New York, in 3 896, and after the promise
of renewed effort on the Viceroy's part, if he should be
spared to return to China, the interest of the Honorable
John W. Foster, diplomat and ex-Minister to China,
was secured, and a settlement was effected, but not
before the generation to which Ward belonged was
passing from the stage. Such effects as could be collected
in China were duly transmitted, and were divided, accord-
ing to the General's dying wish, between his sister and the
widow repre-
senting his only
brother. A few
years later the
Essex Institute
became the de-
visee, under the
sister's will, not
only of many
BY EGBERT S. RANTOUL. 47
relics of the General and of articles of personal adornment
which had belonged to his wife, but of a generous portion
of the sister's share received under the provisions of his
will. Miss Ward's purpose was to establish, on the basis of
an extensive library of Chinese history and literature col-
lected and given to the Institute during his life by the late
Thomas Franklin Hunt, a memorial to General Ward. In
this suggestion Mr. Hunt would have heartily concurred.
For this purpose she left ample funds, together with por-
traits of her parents and of her brother, his battle-flags,
some of his office furniture, the silver medal given her at
New York by Li Hung Chang, and other personal relics.
Of the proposed memorial temples one has been erect-
ed, and that one was dedicated with impressive ceremonies
on March 10th, 1877. It appears to be guarded with re-
ligious care, and to be the scene, on each New Year's day
in February, of elaborate rites. 18
But it is not due to the neglect of China that the Sung
Kiang Temple stands alone. What the Chinese authorities
would have done for Ward's memory, had they been left
to follow their
! own bent, can
j never be known.
They had, dur-
ing his life, pre-
sented him with
a plot of land
near the battle-
field of Sung
Kiang, in recog-
nition of the
prowess display-
ed there, as had
the French also given him a house in the best part of the
French Concession at Shanghai. The Imperial Edict
issued at his death called for shrines in the Confucian
Cemetery near his headquarters at Sung Kiang, and also
at Ning Po, where he died. This was in keeping with
Chinese practice in commemorating persons of the first
distinctipn. But a strange misunderstanding occurred.
19 See Appendix D: page 57.
48 PBEDBR1CK TOWNSEND WARD.
The American Minister, as he said in his dispatch an-
nouncing Ward's death, had entrusted this matter to the
hands of Consul-General Seward at Shanghai, a most
fortunate disposal of it. The Consul-General was a nephew
of the Secretary of State, and had been Consul in Shang-
hai during Ward's career. Later he succeeded Minister
Burlingame in the Chinese Mission, after the Minister be-
came the Special Commissioner of China to the Western
Powers. For some unexplained reason, an attach^ of the
Legation at Peking felt it incumbent upon him to intervene.
This was Samuel Welles Williams, LL. D., who had gone
to China years before as a missionary, and had become
distinguished for his knowledge of the language and polity
of the country. Failing to perceive that persons who in
good faith incline to honor a citizen of the country he was
charged to represent should by all means be encouraged to
do so, and in their own way, failing to perceive that
genuine good feeling is the same pure gold, current the
world over, whatever the stamp it bears, the attach^ pro-
ceeded to acknowledge on his own account the receipt at
the American Embassy of the Edict issued by the Emperor
of China, and to remonstrate, in terms as ungracious as
they were uncalled for, against the form of commemora-
tion proposed. 19 This course was naturally followed by
a withdrawal of the tender of posthumous honors, and
nothing further seems to have been done in the matter for
fourteen years. At the close of that period a new dynasty
found itself in power, Li Hung Chang had become a
dominating force in the Empire, and China, feeling per-
haps that she had not done justice to the reverence felt for
Ward, proceeded to mark his grave in the only way her
practice would suggest.
His grave is not neglected. The Chinese interpreter of
the United States Embassy at Peking visited it on New
Year's Day, in February, A. D. 1900, and found evidence
of recent offerings of affection. Arthur D. Coulter of
New York City has since described it as well cared for,
and as visited every month by Mandatories of the Chinese
Government, either civil or religious. 20
"See Appendix E: page 61. s See Appendix F : page 62.
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 49
So ends this strange recital. Ward has often been re-
ferred to as the free-lance, the adventurer, the soldier of
fortune. Such epithets cannot fairly attach, without
qualification, to one who enjoyed the very exceptional
honors conferred on him by the most conservative and
cautious people in the world, a race of men satisfied
with their archaic ways, and jealous and suspicious of for-
eigners to the point of fanaticism. Such epithets can
scarcely be applied to one who has it set down to his
credit that, dying at the age of thirty, he was carried to
the grave by sailors detailed from British men-of-war, at
the order of a nation not his own, not more pre-disposed
in his favor, not less distrustful of him before his phe-
nomenal success, than the Chinese themselves. British
officials and British merchants are equally slow to look
kindly on an erratic career, and they were not inclined,
in 1862, when the issue of our War for the Union seemed
to be in doubt, to applaud an American who made no dis-
guise of his loyalty to the Federal cause, and who was
suspected, whether justly or not, of a well-matured
plan to destroy, in a certain not remote contingency, the
British squadron riding at anchor in Shanghai roads.
But Ward had won his spurs in the open arena of bat-
tle. He was buried with all the honors, in the solemn
presence of the business men of Shanghai, English^
American, German, French and Chinese, as well as of
officers and men-at-arms of each of those nationalities. The
lives and property imperilled at Shanghai in 1860-62 were
too considerable an interest to be estimated lightly, and
Ward was fairly to be acclaimed as their strong deliverer.
No foreign resident, be he English or American, German
or French, who had life or property at stake in that
beleaguered port, has ever spoken of the man but with
entire respect, mingled with a generous measure of grate-
ful admiration, when he recalled the debt the city owed*
in her darkest hour, to Frederick Townsend Ward.
50 APPENDIX.
ADMIRAL BOGLE'S LETTER.
[APPENDIX A. SEE Ante, PAGE 41.]
(Written from memory and by request of my friend, Francis H.
Lee, of Salem, Massachusetts, U. S. A., Feb. 17, 1897).
General Ward was known at Shang Hai when the Tai Ping-
rebels first appeared near the coast-line and threatened the rich
Treaty Ports. Ward told me he first lived by doing "Pilot" for
small steamers, then as chief of a small band he was paid to
watch the approach of Tai Pings at night.
A perfect panic took possession of the Chinese authorities of
Shang Hai in the autumn of 1861. Ward saw his chance, and
vounteered to enlist a force of fighting men to keep the Tai
Pings out of the neighborhood. The Tao Tai or Provincial Gov-
ernor accepted his offer, made terms as to pay, and Ward
easily enlisted a few hundred of the scum of all nations then in
Shang Hai River. Later on, Ward got together a bodyguard of
Manila-men, all armed with rifles. The Provincial Government
paid regularly for all this small army, and also for the small
river-steamer, on board which Ward generally lived, stationed
some thirty to forty miles above Shang Hai.
In January and February, 1862, being in command of gun-
boats in that part of the river, I frequently met Ward, and at
times co-operated with him. He was most loyal to his employers
and ever zealous in his work. Ward must have assisted in captur-
ing eight or ten small walled towns, or fortified places, in the
spring of 1862.
Early in the Spring, the Tai Ping main army approached
Shanghai, and the British Admiral, for the protection of com-
merce and of the foreign residents, undertook to drive this force
back fifty miles and to clear all the neighborhood. In the late
Spring, H. M. S. "Hardy," was detached with others to operate in
Ning Po River, under Captain Roderick Dew, C. B., in the
"Encounter," when Ning Po was first taken and then Yu-You.
Numbers of the rebels, driven from the North, swarmed down on
the upper part of Ning Po River. About August, General Ward
appeared with some three hundred or four hundred troops, and
Captain Dew arranged to attack and storm Tse-Ki, up a narrow
but deep canal off the river. The "Hardy," with an extra "small
company" of fifty men, was to steam up the Canal, pass under
the old bridge, (masts out, funnel and boats down), clear ap-
proaches and await the arrival of General Ward and his men,
who marched across country. A delay occurred as the expected
extra company never came aboard, being detained by a threat-
ened attack on Ning Po itself; but, after waiting an hour, and
fearing to miss the rendezvous with Ward's force, we entered
the canal and steamed up in a downpour of rain. On nearing the
bridge, we saw it thickly occupied by men in all manner of
bright colors, such as the Tai Pings usually show. We nearly
opened fire ! But fortunately in time we recognized Ward's men
in new and bright blankets on account of the rain. Ward came
on board the "Hardy," and we had a pleasant evening and ar-
ranged a plan of attack for daylight.
APPENDIX. 51
I never saw Ward with a sword or any arm ; he wore ordi-
nary clothes, a thick, short cape, and a hood, and carried a
stick in his hand, and generally a Manila cheroot in his mouth.
At daylight the "Hardy" opened fire with shell on the West
gate and part of Ward's force made a sham move to the South
face. Later on, Ward himself led in direct attack on the West
gate, our guns still firing shot over the heads of the storming
party.
The gate was taken and the walls stormed, but General
Ward was wounded at close quarters and carried back and
placed aboard the "Hardy" in a cot swung to the mizen-boom.
We had no regular medical officer, for he was with the missing
company, but as soon as the town was completely occupied and
the rebels driven by our shell over the near hills, I at once
started under full steam for Ning Po, Ward suffering from the
trembling of the vessel. On our run down Ward asked me to
make out his will, which I did. He left all pay, etc., due to him
to his Chinese wife, and he appointed the British Admiral, Sir
James Hope, K. C. B., as his executor and trustee.
On arriving late at Ning Po, the General was immediately
attended to by our senior surgeon, Irwin, of the "Encounter,"
and placed in bed at the British Mission House, where he had
every comfort. The bullet had entered in front, about the
second or third lower button of the waist-coat, and had nearly
passed out behind; it was easily extracted.
General Ward was alive and conscious when he was landed
from the "Hardy" in the evening. The bullet (which I still
have) was most surely fired from a rebel fire-arm of some sort;
: is very small and quite unlike any ammunition used by
Ward's men, who all had good rifles. Ward was hit in front in
leading his men, a special company of Manila-men, his own body-
guard, all devoted to him. These fifty men always went with
Ward, quite apart from any Chinese Troops; Ward was always
"well to the front" in leading and directing. He was certainly
shot by the Rebel Tai Pings.
General Ward's will, made by me on board the "Hardy,"
was forwarded at once to our Commander-in-chief, Admiral' Sir
James Hope, (since dead) as Ward mentioned Sir James Hope,
C. B., and the United btates Minister to China as his trustees.
Two years later I was serving in the "Duncan," under the Ad-
miral at Halifax and in the West Indies, and we spoke about
this will of Ward's, and I then understood that the Chinese
Government had done justice to Ward's wishes, namely, to "pay
all arrears and provide for Ward's wife." He had married a
Chinese lady whom I have myself seen.
In trasmitting this interesting letter, Mr. Lee wrote as fol-
lows :
52
APPENDIX.
"I am going to send an interesting account of the do-
ings of Gen. Ward
in the Chinese Ee-
bellion. It was a
strange co-incidence
my stumbling on
this information. I
was coming out of
the dining room at
Hotel Eden in Home
at lunch time and
saw Kear-Admiral
Bogle, now on the re-
tired list, but for over
forty years in the
English Navy, show-
ing two bullets to
a gentleman. I had
got well acquainted
with the Admiral,
and I said: 'What
are these?' He said,
'There is the bullet
that killed General
Ward.' I pricked
up my ears and
thought at once of
General Ward of
Salem, who bore
a part in suppressing
the Chinese Eebel-
lion. I found it was
our Ward, and that
he was in the fight
with him and knew
him very well, as
you will discover if
you read the recol-
lections I got him to
jot down for me.
"I received them since I reached Florence and have writ-
ten him that I shall send this account to the Institute."
APPENDIX. 53
LAST INTERVIEW WITH HAYES.
[APPENDIX B. SEE Ante, PAGE 42.]
In the autumn of 1862, Ward was at the zenith of his power.
It is a fact that he had reached a position never attained by any
other foreigner in the Chinese Service. He had received unex-
ampled promotion, and knew that upon the expected capture of
Nankin, he would be raised to the rank of a Prince of the blood
royal. It is also a fact that his consuming ambition aimed at
the restoration of the old Chinese Dynasty to the throne so long
held by their Tartar Conquerors. He was a soldier to his fin-
gers' ends and doubtless accepted all risks and counted all
chances. He had faced death too often not to know how near
it was to him, from hour to hour, and that at any moment all
his dreams, hopes, and ambitions might be as naught.
I have said that I saw him first in a stormy scene. My last
sight of him was under far different circumstances. On a day
late in September, 1862, I looked up from my desk to see him
standing by me. I could not think of this smiling, amiable man
as a great Commander and a future ruler. I only remembered
then that when I, a few months before, lay sick of that terrible
Shang Hai fever, he had taken time from his cares and duties to
come and sit by a young country-man's bedside. He asked me to
lend him my Arab horse, which of course I was glad to do.
Later in the afternoon, walking in a street of the Settle-
ment, I met him, sitting erect in the saddle, riding my gray
Arab. We stopped, and I was patting my horse's neck and talk-
ing to the General. Knowing that on the morrow he was to
direct an assault at the town of Ning Po, the impulse seized me
to speak to him as I did. "General," I said, "You are taking
fearful risks. You may be killed at any moment. In such case,
what will become of your property and affairs? Let me find you
a confidential secretary, or some one in whose hands you can
trust your great interests." His blue coat was buttoned closely
across his chest. He smiled as he designated with his right
hand the outline of a little book in his left breast-pocket, and
replied: "It is all there."
When taken on board the "Hardy," mortally wounded, Ward
made this dying statement:
"The Taotai of Shang Hai owes me 110,000 taels. Ta Ki also
owes me 30,000 taels, 140,000.
"I wish my wife to have 50,000 taels, and all that remains
to be between my brother and sister.
"I wish Admiral Sir James Hope and Mr. Burlingame to be
my executors."
54 APPENDIX.
These words were taken down and witnessed by Archibald
G. Bogle, R. N., Lieutenant commanding, and John Colter, his
boatswain. When I spoke to Ward, two days before he died, I
warned him all in vain. Wah (as the Chinamen called him) was
a great man, indeed, said the Taotai and the excellent Ta Ki,
but, by the blessed memory of Confucius, he did but jest when
he spoke of their owing him money. The United States Consul-
General made a gallant fight and compelled the Chinamen to
refer the matter to arbitration. Curiously enough, I was myself
selected as an arbitrator on behalf of the estate. When I met
the gentleman named by the Chinese as arbitrator, I had vividly
in mind the little book in Ward's breast-pocket. Of this book no
trace could be found; nor could a scintilla of evidence on behalf
of the estate be brought to light. Between six and seven years
later I was making the journey from Hong Kong to Shang Hai
in the U. S. S. "Monocacy." As f ellow-passenger I had the Ameri-
can Minister, the lamented J. Ross Brown, and we stopped at the
open-coast ports. At Ning Po, among the callers on board the
ship was an ex-officer of Ward's army. It occurred to me to ask
him if he knew what became of the little book.
"I can tell you," said he, taking me aside. "I was guarding
the General's body. The blue coat which you remember lay on a
chair, and the book was in the breast-pocket. The Colonel who
was my superior officer relieved me. The book was never seen
again, but I saw the Colonel buy exchange for 40,000 dollars."
APPENDIX. 55
MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
[APPENDIX C. SEE Ante, PAGE 45.]
In answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant,
Information relative to the death of General Ward, a citizen of
the United States in the military service of the Chinese govern-
ment. I transmit a copy of a dispatch of the 27th of October last,
and of its accompaniment, from the minister of the United States
in China.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Washington, Feb. 6, 1863.
MB. BUBLINGAME TO MB. SEWABD.
Legation of the United States,
Peking, Oct. 27, 1862.
Sir : It is my painful duty to inform you of the death of
General Ward, an American, who had risen by his capacity and
courage to the highest rank in the Chinese service. He was shot
and mortalty wounded while reconnoitering, before its capture,
Tsz-ki, a place near Ning-po. The incidents attending his wound
and death please find in the edict of the Emperor.
General Ward was originally from Salem, Massachusetts,
where he has relatives still living, and had seen service in
Mexico, the Crimea, and, he was sorry to say, with the notorious
Walker.
He fought at the head of a Chinese force called into existence
and trained by himself, countless battles, and always with
SUCCM
Indeed, he taught the Chinese their strength, and laid the
foundations of the only force with which their government can
hope to defeat the rebellion.
Before General Ward died, when on board of her Majesty's
steamer "Hardy," he made his will, and named Admiral Sir
James Hope and myself his executors.
In a letter communicating the fact to me, Sir James writes :
"I am sure you will be much grieved to hear of poor Ward's
death.
"The Chinese government have lost a very able and gallant
servant, who has rendered them much faithful service, and whom
it will not be easy for them to replace."
On account of my absence from Shanghai, I shall authorize
our consul, George F. Seward, Esq., to act for me.
General Ward was a man of great wealth, and in a letter to
me, the last probably he ever wrote, he proposed through me to
contribute ten thousand taels to the government of the United
States, to aid in maintaining the Union, but before I could
respond to his patriotic letter he died.
56 APPENDIX.
Let this wish, though unexecuted, find worthy record in the
archives of his native land, to show that neither self-exile nor
foreign service, nor the incidents of a stormy life, could ex-
tinguish from the breast of this wandering child of the republic
the fires of a truly loyal heart.
After Ward's death, fearing that his force might dissolve and
be lost to the cause of order, I hastened by express to inform the
Chinese government of my desire that an American might be
selected to fill his place, and was so fortunate, against consider-
able opposition, as to secure the appointment of Colonel
Burgevine.
He had taken part, with Ward, in all the conflicts, and com-
mon fame spoke well of him.
Mr. Bruce, the British minister, as far as I know, did not
antagonize me, and the gallant Sir James Hope favored the
selection of Burgevine. Others did not.
I felt that it was no more than fair that an American should
command the foreign-trained Chinese on land, as the English,
through Osborne, would command the same quality of force on
sea. Do not understand by the above that in this, or in any case,
I have pushed the American interests to the extent of angry
disagreement. On the contrary, by the avowal of an open and
friendly policy, and proceeding on the declaration that the in-
terests of the western nations are identical, I have been met by
the representatives of the other treaty powers in a corresponding
spirit, and we are now working together in a sincere effort to
strengthen the cause of civilization in the east.
I have the honor to be your obedient servant,
ANSON BUBLINGAME.
HON. WILLIAM H. SEWARD,
Secretary of State, Washington.
APPENDIX. 57
THE CONSECRATION OF THE TEMPLE.
[APPENDIX D. SEE Ante, PAGE 47.]
The dedication of the Tsze-t'ang, or Memorial Hall, recently
erected by Feng, Taotai of Shanghai, at Soon-kiong, in com-
memoration of the late General Ward, of the "Ever victorious
Army," was performed on Saturday, with religious rites, in ac-
cordance with Chinese custom in such cases. The Taotai had,
through the United States Consul-General, expressed his inten-
tion of conducting the ceremony himself, and requested that a
limited number of invitations should be given to persons in-
terested, to accompany him. The Customs' cruiser "Kwa-shing,"
Captain Anderson, was prepared to convey His Excellency and
his guests, and seven a. m. was the hour fixed to commence the
trip up the river Hwangpoo. Precisely at that time there were
assembled at the Custom House jetty Consul General Myers, Dr.
Yates, Dr. Macgowan, Dr. Rreyer; Mr. P. G. von Mollendorff of
the German Consulate, the Hon. H. N. Shore, of H. M. S.
"Lapwing," Captain Ditmar, of the German corvette "Luise," Mr.
C. Deighton-Braysher and a few others, but the start was not
made until about 8.10 in consequence of the non-arrival of the
Taotai before that hour. By the time breakfast was over, the
vessel had sped considerably beyond the well-known Seven-mile
Reach; and presently Ming-hong was sighted, nearly opposite
to which is the creek leading to Nai-jow, the scene of the fight
in which the French Admiral Protet, to whose memory a statue
stands in the compound of the French Municipal Hall, received
his death wound. The reaches of the river beyond this place
were new to all on board except Mr. Deighton-Braysher, who
kindly undertook to pilot the vessel from Ming-hong to the
mouth of the Soon-kiong Creek ; and he also lightened the tedium
of the voyage by pointing out and describing the scenes of
greatest interest in connection with the Taiping rebellion, this
part of the country having been overrun by the rebels. Feck-
shimg- was next reached, opposite to which is the creek up which
H. B. M.'s gunboat "Stirling" was navigated to attack the
stronghold known as Yeh-sieh, which she quickly demolished.
58 APPENDIX.
There not being sufficient depth of water in the Soon-kiong
creek to float the K washing, she was anchored off its mouth, and
some Chinese houseboats and a couple of steam-launches, pro-
vided by the Taotai's directions, were brought alongside. The
passengers being transshipped to the houseboats, were soon
spinning up the creek, towed by one of the steam-launches, the
distance to the city of Sooii-kiong, from the river, being about
four miles. The creek becomes very narrow as the city is
neared, and is spanned not far from the walls by one of those
light-looking, picturesque stone bridges for the construction of
which the Chinese are famous. Here, on both banks, the people
had assembled in large numbers, and it soon became evident that
the sight of so many foreigners together was a novelty to them,
and the Taotai's bodyguard were useful in clearing a way along
the bank to where some dozen or so of sedans with bearers were
in waiting for the guests. The Taotai and others having taken
their seats, the procession moved off amid the banging of
crackers and bombs, and the animated gesticulations of the
people, numbers of whom kept up with it to the scene of the
day's ceremony. The way led along a narrow road through the
suburbs, skirting the wall of the city, until the gate was reached
through which the city was entered. A wide expanse of un-
occupied ground had first to be crossed, which before the re-
bellion was covered with houses. Here and there ruins of
houses are still to be seen, but the greater part of the waste is
scattered over with grass-grown mounds and heaps of refuse,
presenting a dreary aspect. The way next led along the bank of a
small creek and past the yamen of some militarj' mandarin, a
large and peculiar building, or rather series of buildings, having
all the appearance of huge cages, each being enclosed with very
lofty rail-fencing, and differing in several respects from the
architecture of any official residence in the vicinity of Shanghai.
Several unpretentious-looking pilaus were also passed enroute,
and in the distance, to the right, a lofty pagoda was visible.
The Memorial Hall was at length reached, surrounded by a low
wall of considerable extent, and entered by a gateway in the
usual joss-house style. Turning sharply to the right after
leaving the gateway, the main building is at once seen to be
very similar in construction to the open hall facing the entrance
to the Mixed Court in the Maloo. Immediately opposite the open
front stands the shrine containing the memorial tablet of the
deceased General; blue in colour with the inscription in gold.
Facing this are two small square tower-like structures, on which
are other inscriptions testifying to the merits of the deceased
and stating that the Memorial Hall was erected by Feng Taotai,
by Imperial command. Passing round the back of the shrine, a
large square space is reached, in the centre of which is the
grave-mound beneath which are the deceased's remains and also
the stone that used to mark the site of the grave. The surround-
ing space is thickly planted with young trees and shrubs.
THE S
On which Burnt-offerings are laid, with every New Year,
to the Manes of General Ward.
\
APPENDIX. 59
At the Hall the Taotai, on alighting from his chair, was met
and greeted by the magistrates of the district of Soon-kiong.
A number of other officials of lesser grade were present; and
numerous soldiers, in addition to the Taotai's bodyguard
thronged the compound. The greetings over, the Taotai led the
way to the shrine, and both he and the other dignitaries then
donned their official robes. Although it was broad daylight,
twelve lighted lamps were suspended from the roof, eight in one
row and one at each of the four corners of the shrine. Besides
these, there were four large red-wax candles burning, and in-
cense-sticks slowly smouldering away. The ceremony being one
of sacrifice, there were offered to the manes of the deceased the
entire carcase of a goat, and a large pig, a small roasted pig, a
ham, seven pairs of ducks, pairs of fowls, etc., and about twenty
dishes of fruits, confectionery, and vegetables, these being also
in pairs.
The Taotai and the two district magistrates being fully at-
tired, they advanced to the front of the shrine, and in obedience
to the direction of a sort of master of the ceremonies the Taotai
commenced the oblation by offering several small cups of wine,
which were deposited on a shelf in front of the tablet. Then,
all three kneeling, the Taotai stretched forth his hands towards
the tablet, and offered the food, the mandarins subsequently
bowing their heads nine times to the ground. A little music was
also played, and the ceremony, which scarcely occupied twenty
minutes, was concluded by loud discharges of fireworks and the
crash of gongs. It cannot be said to have been impressive,
though its novelty and picturesqueness were beyond dispute;
but it was interesting from the fact of its being intended to
honour the memory of a foreigner, and including precisely the
same observance awarded in the case of high Chinese officials.
At the conclusion of the ceremony, the whole of the food-
offerings were packed away in boxes, slung on poles, and taken
back to the ship, thence to be re-conveyed to the Taotai's yamen.
There was no speaking either at the grave or in the Temple,
except by Dr. Macgowan, who as a private citizen said a few
words to the Taotai in Chinese, apropos of the occasion, and,
after three photographic negatives of the scene in and around
the Temple had been taken, haste was made for the return trip
in order to reach home before dark.
On the return passage down the creek, the Taotai read from
a paper he held in his hand, the following statement, which was
translated as he proceeded by Dr. Kreyer : "I remember reading
the rescript in the Peking Gazette of how the late Emperor re-
gretted General Ward's death. At that time I was only a Chu-
yen, (a second-class literary degree), and did not know I should
ever be Taotai of Shanghai and live to take part in the dedication
of a temple to Ward's memory. When Ward came to China it
was thought in this district that the whole country would have
been lost to the rebels that, in fact, it could not be recovered.
60 APPENDIX.
But owing to the exertions of Ward, the rebels were defeated
and the country saved. The cities and places that were captured
were Kahding, Tar-chang, Soon-kiong, Ming-liu-ping, Tien-
mashan, Kau-jyan, Siaou Tsange, Chow-p'u, Che-ling, Wang
Kyasze, Tung-chau, all these being retaken by Ward before
Li Hung-chang came on the scene. After Li came into these
districts, Ward re-took Kinshan-wei, Liu Ho, Tsing-pu, and Tsz-
kzi. The greatest credit was therefore due to General Ward, as
nearly all those places were re-captured by him long before Li
Hung-chang came here. The name of General Ward was such a
terror that whenever the rebels heard that he was coming, they
ran away without fighting. General Ward's idea was to go
straight on to Soo-chow, and re-take that city ; but before going
there he marched to Ningpo, and at Tszche, a little town about
fifteen miles distant from Ningpo, he was shot by the enemy.
His Chinese clothes were changed for foreign ones at Ningpo,
where he died, his body being brought to Soon-kiong for burial.
The Imperial intention is to build two large temples to his mem-
ory one at Soon-kiong and the other at Tszche, where he
received his death-wound, and in each of which his statue will
be placed. All this is intended to be in accordance with Li Hung-
chang's petition to the Throne, and with the Imperial rescript,
issued in the first year of Tsung-chi, 8th moon, 18th day." In
conclusion, the Taotai said, in answer to a question by Mr.
Consul-General Myers, that the sole credit of Shanghai not hav-
ing been taken by the rebels was due to General Ward.
It was also explained that the present small temple at Soon-
kiong was only a temporary structure, and would be replaced
as soon as possible by a large and permanent one.
This account of the consecration of the tomb of General
Ward by the Governor of Shanghai and other dignitaries on
March 10, 1877 is taken in substance from the contemporary
issue of the "North China Mail." One of the three photographs
mentioned as being taken at that time was used to illustrate a
report of the account in the "Far East" for May, 1877, and is
inserted here. The two inscriptions on columns at the right
and left of the entrance to the shrine have been thus rendered
into English:
"A wonderful hero from beyond the seas, the fame of whose
deserving loyalty reaches round the world, has sprinkled China
with his azure blood."
"A happy seat among the clouds," (the ancient name of
Sung Kiang means, among the clouds) "and Temples standing
for a thousand Springs, make known to all his faithful heart."
APPENDIX. 61
SECOND EDICT.
[APPENDIX E. SEE Ante, PAGE 48.]
In respectful obedience to the above, on the 25th day of the
Ninth Moon of the present year, the Tsung-li Yamen reported
back to the Throne, saying that Dr. Williams, the Charge
d' Affaires of the United States, had called at the Yamen, and in
a personal interview had said that he had reverently read the
gracious Edict which added to the glory of a foreign country,
and which was most deeply appreciated, but that foreigners, in
commemorating heroism, generally build a large sepulchre and
erect a stone monument as a beautiful memorial ; and that the
building of temples to the dead and the offering of sacrifices the
foreigners do not consider an honor.
Thereupon the Ministers wrote to the Governor of Kiangsu,
His Excellency Li Hung-Chang, and to those under his jurisdic-
tion, that they should proceed according to the suggestion of the
aforesaid Charge d'Affaires, that is, build a large tumulus and
erect a stone, and that no other inscription than this Imperial
Edict should be engraved thereon; and that, moreover, they
ought not in addition to build the special temples.
To-day this Imperial Edict was received : "Let it be as pro-
posed. Eespect this."
Copied from the records of the Tsung-li Yamen on the 12th
Day of the Second Moon, in the XXVI Year of Kuangshu,
(March 12th, 1900).
[Seal of the Tsung-Li Yamen.]
(Translator's note.) It was my good fortune to visit Gen-
eral Ward's grave in February, 1900, at the time of the Chinese
New Year. Despite the Edict above translated, there is a sub-
stantial temple built before the tomb and placed in the charge
of a care-taker, who lives in a portion of the building. Incense
and other offerings had been presented at the New Year's festi-
val, remains of which were still to be seen on the altar.
(Signed) Chinese Secretary, U. S. Legation, Peking,' China.
62 APPENDIX.
COULTEK'S ACCOUNT.
[APPENDIX F. SEE Ante, PAGE 48.]
Arthur D. Coulter, the well-known mining- engineer, has late-
ly visited the spot, and we are indebted to him for some of the
illustrations used, and for this account.
Toward the
eastern end of
the walled city
stands one of the
most beautiful
pagodas to be
found anywhere
in the Orient.
Beautiful in
structure, it is
p e r f e ctly pre-
served, and over-
looks the coun-
try for many
miles. Passing
toward the east-
ern gate and
crossing the
mouth of the ca-
nal which follows
the city wall
by an arched bridge, one of those typical stone bridges, finely
cut and very old, which span the canal, the way leads toward
the military grounds, just at the present time occupied by a con-
siderable force of Chinese soldiers, and it is in the vicinity of this
fort that Ward's resting-place is located and where his shrine is
built. The place seems to have been fittingly selected by the
Chinese to give a military setting to this memorial of their mili-
tary Saviour. A wide path along the bank of the canal leads by
the beautiful bamboo groves a distance of about three hundred
yards from the Walled City to the Soldier's Compound. The lit-
tle temple proper is situated within a hundred feet of the outer
walls of the fort. It is built on a plat of ground which has been
maintained as an open park. In accordance with the Chinese
idea of filial piety a grave must be maintained above ground. In
almost all instances among the better classes the receiving vaults
are built of brick or stone and covered with tiling, and these are
maintained for many years, the obligation being handed down
from father to son. The longer the obligation is coming down
through generations, the more binding upon the recipient.
APPENDIX.
63
The temple-
compound which
has been dedica-
ted to War d,
stands within
four walls built
of brick. These
walls are about
ten feet in height
and very well
preserved. The
ground-a r e a is
about one hun-
dred feet square.
At the main en-
trance of the
compound is built
the caretaker's
house. He, with
his wife and
family, are maintained by the Chinese Government, as they have
been since the building of the shrine. Immediately after pass-
ing through the caretaker's rooms, one comes into an open court-
yard facing the temple proper, which is built across the middle
of the hollow square formed by the enclosure-walls. Entrance
to the temple proper is through three doors, which, when open,
leave the shrine or altar exposed to view from the outside. This
is in accordance with the prevailing arrangement of temples
throughout the Empire. The altar stands about ten feet re-
moved from the door which it faces, and is about six feet wide
by ten feet high. Across from this altar is a space paved with
brick throughout, and that is in a very good state of preserva-
tion and well kept. The altar is more plain than the altars
generally found in Bhuddist or Taoist temples. The main dec-
orations are the tablet and the writing in Chinese which adorn
the sides and top of the altar. On the top of the altar may be
seen the braziers for the burning of joss and incense by the
Taos priests. The attendance upon the temple by the Mandarins
and Officials or Mandatories from the Chinese Government has
been maintained since the building of the shrine. They are com-
manded to appear there during each month for worship.
Immediately behind is a door leading out to what may be cor-
rectly termed the grave-yard. This is an open space surrounded
on the one side by the walls of the temple and on the other three
sides by the walls of the compound already described. In the
central background, away from the temple, is located the mound
where Ward's remains were placed. Behind this mound, and on
both sides, extending out to the side-walls, the ground is covered
with a thick growth of young bamboo trees, making a very pretty
setting for the grave. The mound is perhaps six feet in height,
and would naturally have a base perhaps twice its height. In the
64 APPENDIX.
foreground, between the grave and the temple, the custodian or
caretaker has utilized the space for a bean-patch, the narrow
rows being interspersed with other well-known vegetables, such
as corn and peas.
The memory of Ward is held sacred to this day by those
with whom or with whose fathers he was closely associated. He
had endeared himself to the Taotai and the Chinese people prin-
cipally through his military career and his more personal
relations with Shanghai. The full significance of Ward's
martyrdom for the Chinese people has not been forgotten to this
day by this class of Chinese.
EEEATA.
The name of Ex-Consul-General and Ex-Minster Seward'
(note on page 25) is not William, but George Frederick Seward.
The age of Li Hung Chang seems to have been greater than
that indicated on his picture. Vigorous as he seemed, when on
his tour round the world in 1896, he was probably born not
much later than 1822.
EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN AND SOME OF HIS
DESCENDANTS.
BY GEORGE HARLAN LEWIS OF LOS ANGELES, CAL.
( Continued from Vol. XLIII, page 344-)
Children of James and Celia:
739. JAMES CHACE, b. April 16, 1817; d. July 21, 1818.
740. ALFRED BOSWORTH, b. June 7, 1819.
741. CELIA CHAOE, b. Jan. 29, 1821 ; d. Mar. 2, 1822.
742. CAROLINE, b. Mar. 2, 1823; d. Mar. 16, 1891; m. Oct. 9, 1843,
Nicholas B. Gardner, son of Peleg W. and Rhoda (Brown)
Gardner. Children: (1) James Lewis, b. July 12, 1844; m.
Aug., 1867, Mary E. Brown. (2) Walter, b. Dec. 4, 1846; m.
June 9, 1887, Abbie Austin Dean; no issue. (3) Esther, b.
Mar. 21, 1850 ; d. May 5, 1850. (4) Lawrence, b. May 10 r
1851; d. Aug. 22, 1852. (5) Laura Isabel, b. May 10, 1854;
d. Nov. 21, 1885. (6) Frederick Bowen, b. May 24, 1856.
743. CORDELIA ANGELINE, b. Oct. 3, 1824; d. June 11, 1885; m., lst r
Aug. 12, 1845, Thomas Gladding Dana, who d. Aug. 6, 1852,
son of George and Mary Ann (Gladding) Dana; m., 2d r
Thomas E. Roper, and separated.
744. MARY CHACE, b. April 3, 1829; m. June 9, 1873 (2d wife), Dr.
Charles W. Fabyan of Providence, who d. July 23, 1886.
745. CELIA JANE, b. Feb. 25, 1831; d. unm., Oct. 17, 1875. Teacher
in the public schools of Providence for 20 years.
Children of James and Nancy :
746. ANNA HARRIET, b. Nov. 26, 1842; d. Aug. 14, 1843.
747. JAMES, b. Nov. 30, 1847; d. April 4, 1849.
4O5 Chace Lewis, born in Dighton, Mass., Nov. 1,
1798 ; died in Providence, R. L, April 30, 1883. He
married, first, Nancy West, who died July 21, 1834,
daughter of Capt. Joseph West. He married, second*,
Sarah J. Gordon, who died Dec. 30, 1895, ae. 87 years.
Child of Chace and Nancy :
748. JOSEPH WEST, b. Dec. 17, 1831.
(65>
66 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
406 Bowers Lewis, born in Dighton, Mass., Mar.
13, 1801 ; died in Providence, R. L, Dec. 24, 1865. He
was a carpenter, and later in life a grocer. He married,
first, June 1, 1823, Catharine Thurber, born April 24,
1801, and died in Providence, R. L, Aug. 4, 1858, daugh-
ter of William and Elizabeth Thurber. He married, sec-
ond, April 3, 1859, Mary E. Springer, who died Sept. 24,
1865, 86. 28 years, daughter of William Springer.
Children of Bowers and Catharine :
749. KINGSLEY THURBER, b. in Johnstone, R. I. Feb. 24, 1824.
750. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. July 16, 1825.
751. CATHARINE ELIZA, b. April 27, 1827; d. Mar. 2, 1830.
752. CAROLINE MASON, b. Dec. 12, 1828; d. June 12, 1881; m. Aug.
20, 1845, Tristram Harris Angell, who d. Dec. 24, 1893, son
of Daniel and Sarah (Kelton) Angell. Children, b. in Prov-
idence, E. I.: (1) Edward Lewis, b. Mar. 11, 1847. (2)
George Bowers, b. July 25, 1848. (3) a son, b. and d. Nov.
23, 1852. (4) Henry Herbert, b. Sept. 23, 1853. (5) William
Harris, b. Mar. 17, 1858. (6) Carrie Crawford, b. Feb. 4,
1864; d. Sept. 14, 1865.
753. CATHARINE ROUNDS, b. Jan. 4, 1840; d. Dec. 3, 1875; m., 1st,
Oct. 17, 1860, Henry A. White, who d. Oct. 20, 1869. She
m., second, Jan. 19, 1871, Azro A. Hillman, son of Justin
and Abigail Hillman of Conway, Mass. Child by 1st m.,
Grace A., b. May 31, 1862. Children by 2d m., Frederick
(twin), b. Feb. 2, 1873; Frances (twin), b. Feb. 2, 1873.
407 Levi Lewis, born in Dighton, Mass., May 24,
1803 ; died in Providence, R. L, Mar. 31, 1884. He
married, first, Sept. 30, 1827, Joanna M. Thurber, born
Mar. 31, 1807, and died Dec. 9, 1863, daughter of Wil-
liam and Elizabeth Thurber. He married, second, Nov.
2, 1864, widow Harriet A. Macreading, born April 15,
1821, daughter of Nicholas and Harriet (Brown) Briggs.
He was a mason in Providence, where he was well to do
and highly esteemed.
Children of Levi and Joanna M., born in Providence :
754. LEVI JASON, b. July 27, 1828.
765. WILLIAM T., b. Mar. 26, 1831.
756. J. ELIZA, b. Aug. 25, 1836; d. in Norristown, Pa., Aug. 3, 1865j
m. Jan. 8, 1857, Eaton W. Maxey, jr., D. D., rector of
Christ's Church.Troy, N.Y. Child: Carroll, b. May 28, 1865.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 67
757. HARRIET I., b. Mar. 24, 1842; d. Oct. 7, 1893; m., 1st, Nov. 25,
1863, Edward K. Godfrey; m., 2d, May 8, 1879, Erastus L.
Walcott, who d. Oct. 7, 1893.
409 Jeremiah Lewis, born in Dighton, Mass., Dec.
2, 1806 ; died Nov. 15, 1882. He was a mason and built
the water works at New Bedford, Mass., and many fine
buildings in New York city and Brooklyn, N. Y. He
married in Thompson, Conn., Dec. 29, 1835, Luetta L.
Carpenter born at Woodstock, Conn., Feb. 2, 1812, daugh-
ter of Elijah and Phebe (Wilson) Carpenter.
Children of Jeremiah and Luetta L. :
758. MABIA ALMIRA, b. in Thompson, Conn., Oct. 1, 1836; m. Mar.
26, 1861, Isaac C. Manchester of Tiverton, R. I. They were
school teachers. She began to teach at the age of 16, and
taught at Cohasset and Taunton, Mass. She has been en-
gaged in philanthropic work along several lines, including
the W. C. T. U., and was National President of the Loyal
Women of American Liberty. They lived in Providence,
R. I. Children: (1) Hattie Lewis, b. Dec. 14, 1864; m. Mar.
5, 1891, Frank N. Pidge; (2) Annie Maria, b. June 6, 1866;
m. Sept. 1, 1887, Arthur E. Hill of Andover, Mass.
759. ELIJAH C., b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 13, 1839.
760. LYDIA JOSKHHINB, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., Mar. 13, 1842; d.
June 28, 1846.
761. PHEBE LAVINIA, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 20, 1844; d. Aug.
15, 1882, in Providence, R. I. ; m. Nov. 15, 1866, at Dighton,
Nathan H. Chase of New Bedford, Mass.
762. JANE FRANCES, b. in Dighton, Mass., Feb. 21, 1850; m. Nov.
22, 1868, Simeon M. Moulton of Standish, Me. Now in busi-
ness at Somerset, Mass. Children: (1) Lewis E., b. Feb. 26,
1872. (2) Lavinia Gertrude, b. Nov. 5, 1876. (3) Willard
Conkling, b. May 31, 1882.
411 Alfred Lewis, born Feb. 28, 1810 in Dighton,
Mass. He was a mason by trade but in 1836 removed to
Providence, R. I., where he successfully engaged in the
jewelry and hardware business, for 18 years. In 1856 he
removed to Wheaton, 111., and became a Trustee of
Wheaton College. He died in Chicago, 111., June 10,
18T6. He married in Providence, R. I., Nov. 16, 1836,
Hannah Farnham, b. Nov. 16, 1807, daughter of Stephen
and Olive (Leffingwell) Farnham of Plainfield, Conn.
68 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
Children of Alfred and Hannah, born in Providence :
763. HANNAH ANGELINE, b. Nov. 22, 1837; m. Feb. 12, 1870, Guy
Wellesley Acheson.
764. HABBIET ADBLB, b. Mar. 7, 1840; d. Aug. 10, 1841.
765. CLARA ADELAIDE, b. Dec. 19, 1842; m. June 3, 1864, George
Howard Beecher, a nephew of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
son of Rev. Edward Beecher. Children: (1) Isabella Anna,
b. Apr. 13, 1865, in El Paso, 111. ; m. Nov. 17, 1888, Wans Al-
bert of Wurzburg, Ger.,(2) Esther Harriet, b. in Galesburg,
111., Sept. 9. 1867; d. Aug. 27, 1868. (3) Jessie Colton, b. in
Galesburg, Oct. 7, 1869; d. Sept. 18, 1870.
766. EMMA ARABELLA, b. Aug. 27, 1845; d. Mar. 29, 1852.
767. DOBA ELLA, b. Feb. 23, 1847 ; d. Mar. 14, 1852.
768. JOSEPHINE, b. Dec. 25, 1849; d. Mar. 25, 1852.
769. HELEN AMELIA, b. Nov. 5, 1853, a pastel crayon artist in
Chicago, 111.
412 Sylvester Lewis, born in Dighton, Mass., May
2, 1812, was a mason and lived in Providence, R. I.,
where he died May 22, 1878. He married, first, in Provi-
dence, R. I., July 8, 1833, Elizabeth Winslow, b. in Provi-
dence, Jan. 25, 1817 ; and died there June 6, 1859, daugh-
ter of Henry Bowers and Elizabeth (French) Winslow.
He married, second, Oct. 19, 1859, Frances (Shepard)
Hopkins, widow of Russell Hopkins. She died Oct. 26,
1886.
Children of Sylvester and Elizabeth, born in Provi-
dence :
770. ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 3, 1834; d. Sept. 14, 1836.
771. SYLVESTER, b. Oct. 16, 1836; died Oct. 18, 1836.
772. HENRY BOWERS, b. Nov. 10, 1837.
773. BENJAMIN, b. Mar.13, 1843, unm., lives in Providence, a veteran
of the Civil War.
427 Reuben Lewis, born about 1797, married in
Providence, R. I., Sarah Borden of Fall River, Mass. He
died by suicide in Providence May 4, 1858, aged 61 years.
Children of Reuben and Sarah :
774. WILLIAM BROWN, b. Oct. 5, 1821, in Bristol, R. I.
775. JACOB BORDEN, b. 1824?
776. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. abt. 1827.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 69
435 Edward Simmons Lewis, born Nov. 26, 1794
in Philadelphia, Pa., was possessed of rare literary and
musical gifts, and contributed to Philadelphia periodicals.
He lived at Washington, D. C., where he died Sept. 22,
1829. He married Dec. 3, 1815, Susan Jean Washing-
ton, born Apr. 30, 1795, and died July 2, 1829, daughter
of Lund and Susanna (Greyson) Washington.
Children of Edward S. and Susan J. :
777. SUSAN ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 8, 1816; d. 1845.
778. LUND WASHINGTON, b. Apr. 11, 1818; d. 1819.
779. EDWARD AUGUSTUS, b. Feb. 22, 1820, in Washington, D. C.
780. VIRGINIA BEVERLY, b. Mar. 27, 1822; d. 1823.
445 Augustus Lewis, born in Hinsdale, N. Y., Jan.
30, 1832 ; married Dec. 17, 1879, Sarah Reed at Fontan-
elle, Neb.
Children of Augustus and Sarah, born in Fontanelle :
781. ROBERT J., b. Jan. 14, 1881.
782. SADIE AUGUSTA, b. July 20, 1882.
783. OSCAR D., b. Nov. 25, 1883.
447 John Conrad Lewis, born in Portville, N. Y.,
April 29, 1834 ; married May 14, 1879, Henrietta Fennell,
at Fontanelle, Neb. He lived at Albion, Neb., in 1895.
Children of John Conrad and Henrietta, born in Albion,
Neb. :
784. LAURA KATE, b. May 24, 1879; d. Feb. 27, 1882.
785. Lois, b. Nov. 14, 1881.
786. EMILY, b. Jan. 28, 1884.
787. AUGUSTUS DAN, b. June 17, 1886.
449 Oscar Lewis, born in Portville, N. Y., Oct. 25,
1840, married Laura H. Jones at Burlington, Iowa. He
resided at Arlington, Neb., in 1896.
Children of Oscar and Laura H. :
788. ANNA KATE, b. July 22, 1872; d. Oct. 4, 1872.
789. MARY Lois, b. June 2, 1874, at Middletown, Iowa; m. Fred
Webber.
790. WHITFIELD DAN, b. Apr. 15, 1877, at Fontanelle, Neb.
450 Osmar Lewis, born in Portville, N. Y., Oct. 25,
1840, married Oct. 9, 1868, Jane Gibson at Fontanelle,
70 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
Neb., and lives at Los Gates, Cal., where he is engaged in
the hardware business with his eldest son.
Children of Osmar and Jane, first born at Burlington,
rest at Fontanelle, Neb. :
791. GEORGE R., b. August 23, 1869.
792. ALLIE MAY, b. Jan. 30, 1871; d. May 5, 1879.
793. GERTBUDE HELEN, b. Jan. 25, 1877.
794. FBANK, b. Oct. 25, 1881; d. Oct. 12, 1883.
795. BESSIE, b. Jan. 6, 1886.
458 James Richards Lewis, born in Lockport,
N. Y., June 28 or July 5, 1855 (2 family records) ; mar-
ried at Stanton, Mich., Mar. 24, 1888, Miriam Springsteen
Compton, born in Muscatine, Iowa, June 23, 1863, daugh-
ter of Henry Springsteen and Adelaide Eliza (Bishop)
Compton.
Children of James Richards and Miriam S. born in
Minneapolis, Minn. :
796. HARRIET ADELAIDE, b. Apr. 13, 1889.
797. GERTRUDE MIRRIAM, b. Apr. 9, 1891.
798. RUTH HAWLEY, b. July 14, 1893.
467 Asa Lewis, born in Milford, N. H., Sept. 14,
1781, lived at Concord, Mass, for a time, but returned to
Milford, N. H., where he died Mar. 1, 1810. He married
Kebecca Davis, b. Aug. 30, 1784, who died Nov. 23, 1870.
Children of Asa and Rebecca born in his father's house
in Milford, N. H. :
799. BENJAMIN, b. May 23, 1808.
800. ASA, b. Mar. 3, 1810, on the day his father's corpse was buried.
469 Charles Lewis, born in Milford, N. H., June
30, 1785; was a lawyer, and removed to Maiden, Mass.,
where he was a Justice of the Peace for many years. He
was over six feet in height. He married, first, Jan. 24,
1818, Elizabeth Hall of Charlestown, Mass., born April
11, 1787, and died in Maiden, Dec. 31, 1837. He married,
second, at Littleton, Mass., Sept. 23, 1841, Sabra Jacques
Warren, born Mar. 31, 1810, and died in Maiden, Nov.
20, 1890. She was a member of the Maiden School Com-
mittee for several years. He died in Maiden, Aug. 7, 1865.
AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 71
Children of Charles and Elizabeth :
801. CHARLES OLIVER, b. Aug. 17, 1817; m. Ophelia Conklin, and
lived in New York city.
802. SARAH BLANCH ARD, b. Nov. 18, 1821; m. in Maiden, July 6,
1844, Thomas William Claggett of Upper Marlborough.
Prince George Co., Md., and later lived at Keokuk, Iowa.
803. MARY ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 1, 1824, lived at Maiden.
04. EMILY AUGUSTA, b. Nov. 15, 1827 ; lived at Keokuk, la.
Children of Charles and Sabra J. W., born in Maiden :
805. ELLA FRANCES, b. June 29, 1842; d. May 17, 1859.
806. MARION WARREN, b. April 21, 1844; d. Feb. 27, 1845.
807. WILLIAM CLAGGETT, b. May 9, 1847; d. Dec. 9, 1868.
838. CARRIE BLANCHARD, b. Dec. 10, 1849; d. May 11, 1857.
472 William Martin Lewis, born in Bridgewater,
K". H., Aug. 29, 1798. Was the founder of Gainesville,
Ala., to which he donated a church and a seminary. He
\ras a merchant and dealer in real estate, an elder of the
Presbyterian church, and a man of wealth up to the time
of the Civil War, which greatly depreciated the value of
his property in the South. He died at Gainesville, Ala.,
Feb. 13, 1881. He married, first, Sept. 25, 1828, Mary
Bartlett, born at Bristol, N.H., in 1802, and died at Spring-
ield, Ala., May 28, 1831, daughter of Ichabod and Ann
Bartlett. He married, second, May 2, 1836, at Columbus,
Miss., Aurelia Hiley Axtell, born at Windsor, Mass., Oct.
6, 1811, and died at Gainesville, Ala., July 15, 1865,
daughter of Sylvester and Hiley Axtell of Windsor, Mass.
Child of William M. and Mary, born in Gainesville,
Ala.:
809. WILLIAM FREDERICK, b. May 2, 1831.
Children of William M. and Aurelia H., born in Gaines-
ville, Ala. :
810. ELIZA JANE, b. Aug. 10, 1837; called " Lida "; m., at Gaines-
ville, Ala,, Jan. 14, 1858, Charles Crozat Converse, b. Oct. 7,
1832, at Warren, Mass., son of Maxey Manning and Anne
(Guthrie) Converse. He lives at Highwood, N". J. Children;
(1) Charles William, born in New York City, Aug. 10, 1864;
d. July 29,1865. (2) Clarence Conyers, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Feb. 12, 1867. An author and humorous writer.
72 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
811. SYLVESTER ORES WELL, b. Aug. 8, 1839.
812. MOSES BOARDMAN, b. Aug. 6, 1842; d. Jan; 15, 1844.
813. LAURA AURELIA, b. April 6, 1844; d. April 16, 1845.
814. MARTHA CRESWELL, b. May 14, 1846; d. Oct. 29, 1862.
815. MARY RUSSELL, b. Oct. 30, 1848; d. Aug. 16, 1850.
816. CHARLES CARRIN<JTON, b. Sept. 26, 1850; d. in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
Feb. 11, 1873.
817. SALLY MARTIN, b. Mar. 27, 1854 ; d. 1887, at Tuscaloosa, Ala.
473 Rufus Graves Lewis, born in Bridgewater,
N. H., Sept. 14, 1800, was a merchant in New Hampton,
N. H., and dealer in real estate in Alabama and Mississip-
pi, a leading man in the town, and a patron of the New
Hampton Institute. He married at Concord, N. H., Oct.
9, 1828, Sally Smith, born April 4, 1806, and died Oct. 15,
1878, daughter of Daniel Smith. He died Sept. 27, 1869,
Children of Rufus G. and Sally, born in New Hampton,
N.H. :
818. An infant son.
819. RUFUS SMITH, b. June 14, 1833.
820. EDWIN CRESWELL, b. Nov. 28, 1836 ; grad. of Harvard College,
1859; editor and proprietor of the Laconia, N. H., Demo-
crat; member of the Governor's Council; served on the
School Board and the Executive Committee of the New
Hampton Institute. Lives in Laconia, N. H. He married
Mrs. Eliza B. (Hilton) Lewis, widow of his brother, Rufus
Smith Lewis (823). No issue.
821. SARAH ELIZA, b. Sept. 4, 1839; m. at New Hampton, N. H.,
June 12, 1866, Frank Cutter Gordon, b. at Biddeford, Me.,
Mar. 20, 1834, son of Cyrus and Ellen M. (Cutter) Gordon of
Biddeford, Me. Children: (1) Ellen Belle, b. April 18, 1867,
at New Hampton, N. H. (2) Cyrus Lewis, b. July 9, 1869;
d. Oct. 31, 1874, at Biddeford. (3) Benjamin Lewis, b. Oct.
21, 1871, at Biddeford. (4) Sally Lewis, b. Feb. 22, 1873,
at Biddeford.
822. JAMES PICKERING, b. Feb. 10, 1842.
477 Jonathan Lewis, born in Harvard, Mass., July
6, 1787, was taken to Concord, Vt, Mar. 20, 1788, when
less than one year old, and lived there until his death,
Aug. 6, 1877. He married there, Jan. 5, 1819, Lucretia
McCarty Willard, born April 13, 1794, at Hartland, Vt.
She died in Concord, Vt., in 1880.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 73
Children of Jonathan and Lucretia M., born in Con-
cord, Vt. :
823. MARY MELVINA, b. Nov. 11, 1819; d. Feb. 15, 1833.
824. WABBRN CLARK, b. Aug. 18, 1821 ; m., 1st, at Concord, Vt.,
Aug. 18, 1849, Mehitabel Brown Frye, b. March 11, 1835, at
Concord, Vt., and d. there March 25, 1877, dau. of Hon.
Harvey G. and Lucy (Hill) Frye of Concord, Vt. He m.,
2d, at Lyndon, Vt., Oct. 29, 1878, Annette Augusta (Frye)
Burroughs, a widow, and cousin of his first wife, b. in Lyn-
don, Vt., June 5, 1842, dau. of Henry B. and Rebecca
(Hovey) Frye of Concord, Vt. He lived at West Concord
until June 30, 1882, when he removed to St. Johnsbury,
Vt., where he is a land surveyor and insurance agent.
825. JOHN WILLARD, b. Aug. 26, 1823.
826. ETHAN NICHOLS, b. July 25, 1825.
827. ALMA ELIZA, b. July 28, 1827; d., unm., March 30, 1854.
828. SUMNER WEST, b. April 6, 1829.
829. NANCY C., b. April 11, 1831; d. April 19, 1834.
830. ADELINE M., b. Feb. 21, 1834; d., unm., July 29, 1859.
831. MORRILL C., b. Nov. 20, 1835; d., unm., Feb. 22, 1857.
488 Jonathan Lewis, born in Roxbury, Vt., July
2, 1793, and died at Williamstown, Vt, June 14, 1870.
He married, first, at Williamstown, April 3, 1817, Sally
Smith of that place, who died June 12, 1833. He mar-
ried, second, Mrs. Amanda (Wiggin) Lamphere. He mar-
ried, third, in 1854, at Chelsea, Vt., Mrs. Eunice (Waldo)
Davis, b. in Williamstown, Dec. 9, 1798, where she died,
June 15, 1883, daughter of Anson and Mehitabel (Bur-
roughs) Waldo. She married, first, Feb. 18, 1844, at
Chelsea, Vt., Nathan Davis, who died in 1847.
Children of Jonathan and Sally :
832. MARIA SALLY, m. Herbert P. Martin of Williamstown, Vt.,
and had Lewis D., an osteopathic physician at Barre, Vt.
833. LUOINDA MARIA, b. April 22, 1819; d., unm., Sept.10, 1844. She
was a school teacher.
834. CARLOS SMITH, b. Feb. 22, 1824; d. 1854. He was a teacher of
vocal music and a boatman on the great lakes. He married
Jane M. Danley. No issue.
835. ELAM CLARKE, b. March 16, 1826; attended public district
school, Newbury Seminary, and Black River Academy. At
the age of 23 he began the study of medicine, but disliking
74 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
the thought of medical practice, he engaged in the business
of drugs, medicines, paints, oils, glass, etc., which he con-
tinued for forty years. He removed to Rutland, Vt., in
1853, and held responsible offices in both city and county of
Rutland, Vt. ; was president of the Marble Savings Bank
13 years, and trustee-director in the Rutland County Na-
tional Bank for over 20 years. He m., 1st, Mar. 13, 1848,
Emily Williams Allen of Wallingford, Vt, b. Sept. 25, 1826,
and d. June 14, 1894. He m., 2d, Mar. 4, 1896, Eliza John-
son White of South Hadley Falls, Mass., b. Aug. 5, 1835; d.
Nov. 13, 1902. No issue.
490 Moses Lewis, born in Roxbury, Vt., May 19,
1797, was a Methodist minister connected with the N. H.
and Vt. conferences, from 1831 until his death, Sept. 26,
1869. He married Apr. 8, 1819, Satira Davenport, born
May 3, 1799, who died Jan. 8, 1863.
Children of Moses and Satira :
836. LUCIA, b. Jan. 21, 1820; d. Feb. 6, 1820.
837. FANNY SATIBA, b. Jan. 20, 1821; d. Sept. 5, 1823.
838. JULIA ANN, b. Dec. 29, 1823; m. May 4, 1841, Aaron Gurdon
Martin. Children: (1) Gurdon, b. July 3, 1848; (2) Sati-
ra Lewis, b. Jan. 25, 1863.
839. ISAAC, b. July 5, 1825; d. Oct. 4, 1844.
840. FANNY SATIBA, b. Jan. 10, 1829; m. Mar. 1, 1848, Luther H. J.
Merrill. Children: (1) Matilda F., b. Sept. 19, 1851, who
m. Jan. 11, 1881, Lucius B. Wright, and had 2 children.
841. MOSES, b. Mar. 25, 1832; d. Sept. 3, 1839.
842. EMILY ELIZABETH, b. May 26, 1837; d. July 11, 1869.
493 James Lewis, born in Billerica, Mass., Feb. 1,
1785, removed with his parents to Groton, Mass., in 1796.
He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1807, read law
with Judge Dana of Groton and practised in Marlboro in
1810, removing to Pepperrell, Mass., May 12, 1812. He
was a member of the State legislature and senate, and died
in Boston, Feb. 6, 1845. He married Jan. 17, 1819, Har-
riet Parker, born Jan. 15, 1798, and died Mar. 26, 1875,
in Newburyport, Mass., daughter of Samuel and Submit
(Gilson) Parker of Pepperrell.
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Children of James and Harriet, born in Pepper rell :
843. CAROLINE CROSBY, b. Dec. 25, 1819; d. in Boston, Mar. 5, 1880;
m. Aug. 21, 1844, William Frederick Freeman of Boston.
844. HARRIET LUORETIA, b. July 13, 1822; d. in Boston, Dec. 29,
1860; m. Feb. 14, 1844, Charles M. Ellis of Boston.
845. SAMUEL PARKER, b. Nov. 16, 1824 ; d. Nov. 26, 1882 in Pepper-
rell; m. in Boston, Oct. 4, 1870, Catherine, dau. of Jonas
Haskins and Catherine (Marshall) Titus, a native of Detroit,
Mich. He was a lawyer. Children: (1) Madaline; (2)
James.
846. MARY FRANCES, b. Mar. 31, 1830; m. June 10, 1857, Francis
Augustine Howe, b. in Pepperrell, Apr. 20, 1827, son of
James and Harriet (Nason) Howe. Children: (1) James
Lewis, b. Aug. 4, 1859; (2) Francis Freeman, b. 1864; d.
Dec. 16, 1868; (3) Edith March, b. Jan. 21, 1870.
494 Aaron Lewis, born in Billerica, Mass., Dec.
11, 1786, kept a hotel in Groton, Mass., on the great
road, so-called, leading from Boston to Vermont. He was
a lieutenant in the 9th regiment of Groton during the
war of 1812-15, resigned and was released Sept. 1, 1814,
and died in Groton, Oct. 9, 1849. He married Dec. 28,
1814, Sarah Spaulding, born in Groton, Oct. 25, 1790,
and died there Apr. 19, 1832, daughter of Oliver and Ab-
igail (Hall) Spaulding of Groton, Mass.
Children of Aaron and Sarah, born in Groton:
847. GEORGE COUBTLAND, b. June 30, 1815; d. Jan. 16, 1820.
848. WILLIAM ANDREW, b. Nov. 3, 1818; d. unm., July 30, 1893.
849. ELLEN AUGUSTA, b. Nov. 9, 1821; m. in New York, Sept. 13,
1845?, Joseph Augustus Tucker of Pepperrell, Mass., and
d. in Roxbury, Mass., July 29, 1883 ; no issue.
850. GEORGE COURTLAND, b. Jan. 29, 1825.
861. ELIZABETH JAMES, b. Mar. 28, 1828; school teacher; d. unm.
at Hollis, N. H., Sept. 11, 1883.
495 Levi Lewis, born in Billerica, Mass., Nov. 28,
1788, lived in Groton until 1815, when he removed to
Lancaster, Mass., where he kept the store in the North
Village until his death, June i58, 1839. He dealt quite
extensively in lands. He was a Justice of the Peace in
1823, a member of the legislature in 1833. He left 10
children under 21 years of age at his death. He married
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Sept. 17, 1817, Abigail Ballard, born in Lancaster, Aug. 15,
1800, and died there Sept. 18, 1867, daughter of Thomas
and Abigail (Richardson) Ballard of Leominster, Mass.
Children of Levi and Abigail, born in Lancaster:
852. LEVI, b. Dec. 21, 1818.
853. ABIGAIL, b. June 13, 1820; d. Jan. 28, 1898; m. Solomon Car-
ter; lived in Boston, Mass.
854. JACKSON, b. Feb. 1, 1822; d. Oct.27, 1887, at San Jose, Califor-
nia.
855. MARTHA, b. Feb. 9, 1824; d. Jan. 15, 1825.
856. CROSBY, b. Apr. 24, 1825.
857. AUGUSTUS, b. Jan. 12, 1827; d. Nov. 24, 1831.
858. FRANCIS, b. Sept. 15, 1828; d. June 18, 1876, at San Jose, Calif.
859. MARTHA JANE, b. Oct. 15, 1830; m. at Westminster, Mass.,
June 21, 1859, Joseph Balcom Sawyer, b. in Templeton,
Mass., Oct. 21, 1819; d. Oct. 10, 1883; son of John and Lucy
(Balcom) Sawyer of Templeton, Mass. He was a manufac-
turer of chairs and inventor and patentee of machinery for
weaving rattan chair seating. Children b. in Templeton :
(1) Warren Francis, b. Mar. 25, 1860; d. June 30, 1860; (2)
Burnside Ellsworth, b. Oct. 10, 1861; (3) Louis Joseph, b.
June 10, 1863; pastor of a church at Seattle, Wash.; (4)
Albert Harris, b. June 23, 1868; (5) Frank Hastings, b.
Sept. 28, 1869.
860. SUSAN AUGUSTA, b. June 28, 1832; d. Feb. 12, 1852.
861. LUCY ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 1, 1834; d. Nov. 4, 1890, in Seattle;
m. Amos Holbrook Harris.
862. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, b. Feb. 1, 1834; d. July 1, 1892, at Capi-
tola, Calif.
863. JAMES BALLARD, b. Aug. 21, 1836; d. Nov. 19, 1887, at San
Jose, Calif.
496 Andrew Lewis, born in Billerica, Mass., Oct.
19, 1790, was a captain in the U. S. Army and died at
Fort Brooke, Tampa Bay, Fla., Nov. 30, 1840. He mar-
ried at Newport, Ky., Oct. 1, 1829, Mary Aurelia Mayo,
b. at Newport, Aug. 11, 1803, and died there May 4,
1844, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Putnam) Mayo of
Belpre Station, Ky.
Children of Andrew and Mary A. :
864. AUGUSTA MAYO, b. in Newport, Ky., July 2, 1830; m. Sept.
10, 1851, Henry K. Lindsey, b. in Newport, Ky., Nov. 3,
AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 77
1825, son of John B. and Maria (Noble) Lindsey of Newport,
Ky. She died at Covington, Ky., Feb. 26, 1886. Children;
(1) Aurelia, b. Oct. 1, 1852, in Newport, Ky. ; (2) Lizzie
Maria, b. July 21, 1854, in Newport, Ky. ; (3) Henry Augus-
tus, b. Aug. 29, 1856, in Covington, Ky.; (4) Louisa, b.
May 12, 1862; d. Aug. 23, 1862, in Walnut Hills, Ohio; (5)
Augusta Lewis, b. June 4, 1868, in Covington, Ky. ; d. Apr.
12, 1872.
865. MARY CROSBY, b. Apr. 11, 1833; d. at Newport, Ky., Feb. 23,
1845.
866. ANDREW, b. July 30, 1835; d. at Pepperrell, Mass., Aug. 27,
1855, of typhoid fever, while on a visit to his cousin, Mrs.
E. Augusta Tucker.
499 Frederick Augustus Lewis, born in Groton,
Mass., Sept. 10, 1798, removed to Lancaster, Mass., in
1816, and thence to Belfast, Me., in 1823, where he built
a brick house on the corner of Church and Pine streets in
1825, and engaged in various industries until 1848, when
he was admitted to the bar. He died there Dec. 23, 1867.
He married in Lancaster, Mass., Aug. 3 or 6, 1824 (3,
Fisher Kecord ; 6, Family Eecord), Sally Fisher, born
July 16, 1800, and died in Belfast, Oct. 25, 1878, daugh-
ter of Jacob and Nancy Carter of Lancaster, Mass.
Children of Frederick A. and Sally Lewis, born hi
Belfast, Me. :
867. HENRIETTA, b. July 11, 1825; m., Sept. 8, 1868, Nathan Walker
of Ellsworth, Me., son of Abel and Sally (Bowley) Walker
of South Hope, Me. He was a surveyor and sheriff, and d.
June 1, 1877; when his widow removed to Belfast. No
issue.
868. AUGUSTUS, b. May 16, 1827. He went to California July 9,
1849; made one voyage to Oregon as mate of a ship, after
which he was in government employ, boating on the bay and
river as pilot. Said to be living in San Francisco or San
Jose in 1898, unm.
869. JAMES, b. Feb. 24, 1829. He learned the printer's trade in
Belfast, Me., and went into business in Boston, March, 1880,
and removed to New Hampton, N. H., in 1887, where he
still resides. He m. in Quincy, Mass., Nov. 26, 1860, Martha
Hoyt Sanborn, b. in New Hampton, N. H., April 18, 1821,
and d. in Boston, Apr. 22, 1887, daughter of John and Nancy
(Sanborn) Sanborn of New Hampton, N. H. No issue.
870. FREDERICK, b. Sept. 10, 1835.
78 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
500 William Crosby Lewis, born in Groton,
Mass., Sept. 15, 1800, where he died Sept. 18, 1861. He
married in Westboro, Mass., Oct. 2, 1835, Emeline Au-
gusta Bellows, daughter of Asahel and Hannah (Valen-
tine) Bellows. Lived in Groton, where he was sheriff.
Child of William Crosby and Emeline Augusta, born
in Groton :
871. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, b. Nov. 30, 1840. He received
his early education at Lawrence Academy, and graduated at
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, in 1864,
and practiced at Bergen Point and Newark, N. J. In 1861
he dropped the name of Harrison. He m., 1st, Dec. 24, 1861,
Serene, daughter of Jonathan and Maria Ann (Churchill)
Buffington of Roxbury, Mass., who, on Sept. 10, 1870, ob-
tained a divorce. He m., 2d, in Newark, N. J., Oct. 4, 1890,
Olivia Prescott Woodford, b. in New York City, Oct. 22,
1852, daughter of Oliver Prescott and Elizabeth (Burnell)
Woodford, of Irvington on the Hudson, N. Y. He died sud-
denly of heart disease, at Santa Barbara, Calif., April 24,
1905, where he had resided for several years. He was a
genial, whole-souled gentleman, highly esteemed in the
community in which he lived.
501 Marshall Lewis, born in Townsend, Mass.,
Oct. 16, 1794, died Sept. 11, 1825, of fever caused by
running after a runaway yoke of oxen. Sept. 27, 1825,
administration was granted on his estate, his widow Sally
and only child, Marshall A., being named as heirs (Middle-
sex County Probate Records, file 9980). He married, May
30, 1822, Sally Adams, born in Townsend, Dec. 4, 1799,
daughter of Capt. Joseph and Mary (Brooks) Adams of
Townsend, Mass. After his death she married, second,
Samuel Warner, who died May 24, 1880, by whom she
had four children. She died May 13, 1880.
Child of Marshall and Sally, born in Townsend :
872. MARSHALL ADAMS, b. April 15, 1823; m., May 23, 1865, a
daughter of Amos and Martha (Choate) Carter of Blue
Hill, Me., b. May 3, 1837. He was engaged in the notion
business on Washington street, near Cornhill, Boston, and
was found dead in his office, with the door fastened, on May
23, 1883. He lived in Newton, Mass.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 79
502 Eri Lewis, born in Townsend, Mass., July 29,
1796, lived at Mason, N. H., and afterwards removed to
Townsend, Mass., and bought a farm, upon which he and
his wife died. He married, Nov. 23, 1820, Roxie Going
of Mason, N. H. He died July 29, 1871.
Children of Eri anil Roxie, born in Mason, N. H. :
873. ROXANA, b. June 24, 1822; m., June 13, 1844, Thomas Farrar,
at Townsend. Child: (1) Flora C., b. Sept. 2, 1855; a music
teacher at Woonsocket, R. I.
874. SALLY MARSHALL, b. July 20, 1824; m. George Brackett, son
of Nathan and Betsey Brackett of Hillsboro, N. H. ; school
teacher.
875. NANCY, b. July 20, 1827; d. March 21, 1876; m. Oct. 22, 1848,
Harry Williams, b. in Ireland, d. in Townsend, March 17,
1877. Children, b. in Townsend, except 1st : (1) Sarah A.,
b. Dec. 17, 1849, in Va.; d. May 20, 1875. (2) Eliza R., b.
Dec. 30, 1851; m., Sept. 4, 1773, Bowman C. Nickerson; d.
April 19, 1897. (3) James H., b. Oct. 20, 1853; d. Sept. 3,
1854. (4) JohnT., b. July 25, 1856; d. Aug. 30, 1856. (5)
Alice M., b. Aug. 21, 1858; d. Aug. 13, 1864. (6) Harry A., b.
Nov., 1867; d. Aug. 5, 1868.
876. ERI BRAINARD, b. June 6, 1829; died at Amherst College
while studying for the ministry.
504 Ithra Lewis, born in Townsend, Mass., Jan.
14, 1801, was a selectman in Lunenburg, Mass., eleven
years, and a member of the legislature in 1845. He died
Mar. 27, 1884, when it was written of him, "A grand
old Hero is fallen." He married, first, Nov. 2, 1826, Mary
Howard, born Feb. 15, 1804, and died Oct. 16, 1847,
daughter of Deacon Timothy and Sarah (Scripture) How-
ard of Lunenburg. He married, second, May 2, 1848,
Charlotte Brown, who died in Lunenburg, May 8, 1882,
daughter of Peter and Theodosia (Ashley) Brown of
Lunenburg.
Children of Ithra and Mary, born in Lunenburg :
877. JAMES, b. July 25, 1827; d. Apr. 10, 1853.
878. MARTHA, b. Aug. 4, 1831; m., June 4, 1851, George Harring-
ton, b. in Concord, Mass., April 6, 1826, son of Isaac and
Relief (Watkins) Harrington of Walpole, N. H. Child: (1)
James Lewis, b. Oct. 17, 1854.
879. MARY, b. Apr. 28, 1838; d. July 2, 1838.
880. MARY, b. Jan. 7, 1840; d. Oct. 10, 1847.
80 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN.
Children of Ithra and Charlotte, born in Lunenburg :
881. MARY, b. May 8, 1850; m., Jan. 22, 1879, Isaac Frederick Duran,
b. in Carlisle, Mass., Oct. 31, 1844, son of George Frederick
and Lucy A. F. Duran of Carlisle, Mass. Child: (1) Arthur F.,
b. in Lunenburg, Sept. 7, 1885; d. in Acton, Mar. 10, 1887.
882. CHARLOTTE, b. Nov. 25, 1854; m., April 16, 1879, Herman Les-
lie Duran, b. in Carlisle, Mass., Jan. 30, 1852, son of George
Frederick and Lucy A. F. Duran of Carlisle, Mass. Chil-
dren: (1) Roy Leslie, b. in Lunenburg, Oct. 26, 1881; (2)
Ethel Marrian, b. in Acton, Mar. 12, 1891.
506 Hamor Lewis, born in Lunenburg, Mass., Aug.
20, 1805, lived in Townsend, Mass., and was one of the first
trustees of the Methodist Church. He died there, Oct. 19,
1886. He married, first, in Lunenburg, Mass., Nov. 22,
1832, Olive Marshall, born in Lunenburg, Oct. 11, 1811,
and died in Townsend, April 8, 1841, daughter of Jacob
and Polly (Harrington) Marshall. He married, second,
Sept. 30, 1841, Lucy Stevens, born in Peterboro, N. H.,
Dec. 8, 1812.
Children of Hamor and Olive, born in Townsend:
883. ELLEN, b. Jan. 22, 1837; d. in infancy.
884. HANNAH AUGUSTA, b. Sept. 15, 1840; d., unm., Feb. 2, 1890.
Children of Hamor and Lucy, born in Townsend :
885. SELINA, b. Feb. 14, 1845; m., in Townsend, Sept. 23, 1869, Al-
bert H. Fessenden of Townsend. Children, b. at Port Hu-
ron, Mich.: (1) Willie Pitt, b. Feb. 7, 1871. (2) Nora Belle,
b. Jan. 7, 1894. (3) Ernest Garfield, b. Aug. 20, 1882. (4)
Roy Alfred, b. Dec. 15, 1887.
886. PORTER JAMES, b. Oct. 23, 1846.
887. ORA ANN, b. Sept. 27, 1848; school teacher; d., unm., Sept.
21, 1873.
888. WILBUR, b. Mar. 28, 1852; m. Dec. 12, 1894, Alice Newcomb.
Had (1) Beatrice Linda, b. Oct. 20, 1896.
888a. CHARLES HENRY, b. Feb. 19, 1846; m. June 10, 1873, Lucy
Moors, b. in Groton, Feb. 28, 1849, dau. of Joseph and Mary
(Hubbard) Moors. Had (1) Joseph Danforth, b. in Sterling,
Mass., Aug. 29, 1877.
888b. FRANCIS DANFORTH, b. Sept. 22, 1867; m. in West Groton, Nov.
10, 1898, Mary Abby Hill, b. in Charlestown, Mass., Sept. 29,
1867, dau. of Charles Henry and Mary Susan (Mclntyre)
Hill. Had (1) Lawrence Hill, b. Nov. 23, 1899, in Groton.
(To be continued.)
ENGLISH NOTES ABOUT EARLY SETTLERS IN
NEW ENGLAND.
Communicated by Lothrop Withington, 30 Little Russell Street,
W. C., London (including " Gleanings" by Henry Fitz
Gilbert Waters, not before printed).
(Continued from Vol. XLIII, page 320.)
WILLIAM SHEAFFE of Cranbrooke, Kent, yeoman, 29 De-
cember 1615, proved 9 January 1616. To the poor of Crane-
brooke ten pounds. To my sister Margaret Courthopp widow
ten pounds. The same to my sister Mary Couchman widow.
To Richard Sheaffe, son of my brother Thomas Sheaffe de-
ceased, one hundred pounds. To Edmond Sheaffe, another of
his sons, ten pounds. To Mr. Doctor Thomas Sheaffe, another
of the sons of my said brother, twenty pounds. To Harmon
Sheaffe, another son , one hundred pounds. To Thomas Sheaffe
son of the foresaid Richard Sheaffe, fifty pounds and to Rich-
ard, brother of said Thomas, fifty pounds, to Harman, another
brother, twenty pounds (at age of twenty one), to Joane
Bottinge, the daughter of my cousin Richard Sheaffe, twenty
pounds and the same to Elizabeth, Margaret, and Helene
Sheaffe, other of his daughters (the last named at age of
seventeen years). To Thomas Sheaffe, the son of my cousin
John Sheaffe deceased, twenty pounds. To Phinees Fletcher
and Gyles Fletcher his brother, sons of Mr. Doctor Gyles
Fletcher deceased, to either of them twenty pounds, and to
Ann Fletcher, the eldest daughter of the said Mr. Doctor
Fletcher, twenty pounds. To John and Alexander Courthopp,
sons of my cousin Peter Courthopp "which" dwells in the
house with me, to either of them thirty pounds, and to Kath-
eryn Courthopp, their sister, thirty pounds. Thomas Sheaffe
my kinsman hath mortgaged unto me a piece of meadow con-
taining four acres (for payment of eighty eight pounds upon
the 25 th day of June 1626). If he do pay it, then I give and
bequeath the same unto Mary Courthopp, another of the daugh-
ters of the said Peter. But if it is not paid, then I give the
said piece of ground to the said Mary. To Thomas Sheaffe son
of my cousin Alexander Sheaffe deceased forty pounds and to
Alexander, Katheryn, and Mary Sheaffe, his brother and sis-
ters, twenty pounds apiece. To Thomas Ruck, son of John
Ruck that married my brother Thomas Sheaffe's daughter,
twenty pounds. My executor shall put out twenty pounds to.
(81)
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the best profit and pay the same profit to my sister Mary
Couchman, for the term of her natural life, and after her de-
cease to the children of her son William Couchman the same
twenty pounds, to be equally divided amongst them. Money
owing unto me by Alexander Brickenden. To Mr. Eddy, if he
do preach at my funeral, twenty shillings. If not, then but
ten shillings. To Edmond and Henry Fletcher, sons of Mr
Doctor Gyles Fletcher, twenty pounds apiece and to Mary,
Judeth, Priscilla, and Elizabeth Fletcher, daughters of the
said Mr Doctor Fletcher, ten pounds apiece. To John, Ed-
mond, Samuel, Mary, and Helene Sheaffe, sons and daughters of
my kinsman John Sheaffe deceased, ten pounds apiece. To my
foresaid kinsman Mr. Doctor Sheaffe a lease of certain woodland
in Fryttenden &c. upon condition that he shall pay all such
legacies as I have given and bequeathed. A lot of silver dis-
tributed. To my cousin Roberts, the wife of Mr. George Rob-
erts of Brenchley, and unto himself, to either of them a gold
ring with death's head in it, to be worth thirteen shillings
four pence apiece. Chairs, tables, forms, and stools in the
house to remain there. Bedding to Ann wife of the foresaid
Peter Courthopp. A certain portion of household effects to
my cousin Richard Sheaffe's wife for her children and another
for Edmond Sheaffe, for his children &c. Godson John, son of
Peter Courthopp, to have two books of martyrs and my great
bible and his brother Alexander my other bible. Then follows
his will disposing of his lands, &c. To William, son of Mr.
Doctor Thomas Sheaffe, the messuage wherein I now inhabit
and the land, &c. (fifty four acres), to come into possession at
age of twenty one. To Edmond, son of brother Thomas, the
house wherein he dwells, and the land (ten acres) in Cran-
brooke at a place called Upper Wylsley, now in the tenure of
the said Edmond. To Harmon, son of cousin Eichard, half a
house with lands in Brenchley and Pepingbury als Pembery,
at twenty one. To Thomas son of Alexander Sheaffe a mes-
suage made up into two dwellings (one occupied by Mary
Couchman). John Sharpey a witness.
Proved by Thomas Sheaff, S. T. P.
Weldon, 7.
THOMAS SHEAFE of Cranbrooke in the County of Kent,
yeoman, 16 August 1604, proved 3 October 1604. He men-
tions wife Mary, son Richard Sheafe, sons Giles Fletcher,
George Roberts, Peter Courthopp, and Stephen Brett, brother
William Sheaffe, son in law John Ruck, son John Sheafe,
wife's brother Thomas Harmon, Edmund Sheafe, son of son
IN NEW ENGLAND. 83
John, Phebe, widow of son Alexander, son Thomas Sheafe,
Thomas Sheafe, son of son Alexander, son Harmon Sheafe,
and others.
Consistory Court, Canterbury, Vol. 40, p. 68.
JOHN SHEAFE of Goodhurst in Kent, yeoman, 26 Decem-
ber 1608, proved 28 February 1608. He mentions wife Kathe-
rine, sons Thomas, Samuel, Edmund, and John Sheafe, daugh-
ter Mary, wife of John Glidd, daughter Ann, and a child un-
born.
Consistory Court, Canterbury.
THOMAS SHEAFE, 29 May, proved July 1618. To my two
sisters Anne and Ellen the twenty pounds given me by my
uncle William Sheafe.
Letters issued to Katherine Byrch, natural mother of the
Deceased.
Meade, 78.
HARMON SHEAFE of Wickham, parish of Welford in Berk-
shire, clerk, 5 August 1615, proved 22 January 1629 by his
widow. To wife Sara all that one messuage or tenement
which I have, situate and being in the parish of Cranbrook,
in the County of Kent, now in the tenure and occupation of
Samuel Harm an, brewer, with all the appertenances thereto
belonging ; and all my household stuff in Berks, Kent, and
Essex.
Witnesses : Thomas Rucke, Richard Knight, and Jo : Whit-
locke.
Scroope, 2.
GEORGE ROBERTS of Brenchley, in the County of Kent,
gentleman, 10 February 1616, proved 16 February 1617. To be
buried in the parish church of Brenchley near the place where
my father was buried. To Richard Austin, minister ofBening-
ton, Kent, forty shillings, to make a sermon at my funeral, and
to Mr. Henshawe, vicar of Brenchley, ten shillings to see it
accomplished. To my mother, Margaret Roberts, ten pounds.
To my god son George Gyles of Tenterden. To Edward Wood-
war, my sister's son. To Samuel Grenwell, my sister's son,
John Grenwell, his brother, and Sarah and Anne Grenwell.
To my sister Maundy (her husband not to molest my execu-
trix), her son Thomas Maundy and daughter Elizabeth
Maundy. To my cousin Mary Reader. To my sister Margerie
Sheffe ten pounds within one year after my decease. My wife
Mary Roberts to be executrix. Richard Weekes of Horsman-
84 ENGLISH NOTES ABOUT EARLY SETTLERS
den, gentleman, and John Austen the elder, of Horsmanden,
clothier, to be overseers.
Meade, 18.
MARY EAND, wife of Eaphe Eande, of Oxted in the county
of Surrey, clerk (by mark) 24 June 1636, proved 9 March
1638. To be buried either in Oxley (sic) church or in Brench-
ley church in Kent. To the poor of Brenchley the sum of
five pounds within two months after my decease. To my well
beloved husband Mr Eaphe Eande forty shillings. To my
loving daughter the Lady Margaret Eoberts ten pounds, to
make her a piece of plate. To my cousin James Eand, the
apothecary, forty shillings to make him a ring. To Elizabeth
Eande, wife of the said James, twenty shillings (for a ring).
To Martha Fissenden the elder five marks if she be living
at the time of my decease. I give unto my cousin Phineas
Fletcher, clerk, twenty pounds of lawful English money. To
my cousin Eichard Sheaf e the elder, of Eowenden, Kent,
ten pounds. To my god-daughter Mary Eande, daughter of
Mr Doctor Eande, five pounds at her age of eighteen years to
make her a piece of plate.
I give unto my cousin Joane Fletcher, late the wife of Mr
Doctor Amyes, the sum of five pounds of lawful English
money, to be paid within three years after my decease if she
be then living and dwelling within this Eealm. To my cousin
Joane, the wife of Jonas Botting, five pounds of English mon-
ey within three years &c. if she be then living. To my
grand child Margaret Eoberts, daughter of Sir Walter
Eoberts, my cabinet with the two locks and all things
in it, at my decease. To my grand child Mary Eoberts,
one other of the daughters of the said Sir Walter,
my church bible and my little chest with the lock and
key. To my grand child Walter Eoberts (a minor) one
joyned chest, with all the linen therein being. To John and
William Eoberts, my grandchildren, five pounds apiece. To
John Best, servant to my husband, twenty shillings within a
half year after my decease. To my kinsmen Phineas Fletcher
and Eichard Sheaf e the first year's rents &c. of all the lands,
tenements, and hereditaments called Flyeshott Cawsye and
Sindrell in Brenchley and Horsmanden, Kent, first deducting
&c. for the good of my sister Anne Courthopp ; and if my
said sister Anne do die before the said first year then, out of
the said first year's rent, unto John, Alexander, and Mary
Courthopp, children of my said sister, ten pounds apiece. I
give the second year's rent &c. to my husband, Mr Eaphe
IN NEW ENGLAND. 85
Rande, for the good and behoof of the five daughters of Doc-
tor Kaphe Kande, son to my said husband, they being grand
children to my said husband. The two last years' rent &c. to
my grand son Walter Koberts , and he to be executor. My
kinsmen Phineas Fletcher and Richard Sheafe to be over-
seers.
Harvey, 45.
THOMAS SHEAFE, Doctor of Divinity and parson of Welford
in the County of Berks, 4 June 1639, proved 2 March 1639
by Thomas and Edmond Sheafe, sons and executors.
To my son Grindall Sheafe my lands and houses in Hunger-
ford and Inkpen, in the County of Berks, and to his heirs
forever, and all my books in my study and house at Windsor
and in my study and house at Wickham, parish of Welford,
except my book of martyrs and six lesser books, to be chosen
by my loving wife. To son Grindall the lease of my house at
Newbury, lately a new house, and fifteen pounds in money to
bear the charge of his degree as Bachellor in Divinity, in case
he take not that degree before my decease. To my son Thomas
Sheafe my coppice of wood and the cottage belonging to it in
the parish of Benenden in the County of Kent, and the two
carpets which my late wife brought me. To my daughter Doro-
thy Whitfield a pair of fustian blankets in my house at Wind-
sor. To the poor of the parishes in which my most abode hath
been, Windsor, Wickham, . To my seven children here
now named, viz : sons Edmond, Grindall, Edward, daughters
Whitfield, Weasley, Norwood, and Hesilrige. Sons Thomas
and Edmond to be executors.
Coventry, 38.
ALCE SHEAFE of New Windsor in the county of Berks,
widow, 4 April 1649, proved 5 February 1649 by Andrew
Plumpton, Executor. To be buried in the Castle church of
Windsor near my father's grave. I remit what my brother Ed-
ward Osborne oweth me and give him one hundred and fifty
pounds more, and to his wife Constance Osborne five pounds
&c. and to their four children, Constance, Rose, Nicholas,
Andrew Osborne, fifty pounds apiece (the two sons at twenty
one). To my cousin Elizabeth Babbington and her husband
Abraham Babbington and their two children. To John Os-
borne, son of my brother John deceased. To the widow of my
cousin William Osborne, deceased, and her son. To my cousin
Andrew Plumpton and his five children, Richard, William,
Margaret, Andrew, and Elizabeth. I remit what my cousin
86 ENGLISH NOTES ABOUT EARLY SETTLE BS
Henry Plumpton oweth me and give him thirty pounds, and
to his wife Christian Plumpton five pounds, and to their three
children five pounds apiece. To my cousin William Osborne, of
Suffolk, forty shillings.
Then I give to Mary Sheafe, the daughter of my son in
law Dcor(?) Sheafe, the money that her father oweth me, if
she be living at my decease. If not, then I give it to her father.
To Anne Spencer, my goddaughter. To my maid Elizabeth
Binfield. To Elizabeth Bridgers, servant to my cousin Plump-
ton, and the rest of his servants that shall be with him at my
decease. To my cousin Joseph Eiddier, my god son, &c.
Pembroke, 32.
WHEELER
JOHN WHEELER, priest of Briggewater. Will [in Latin]
22 September 1483 ; proved 26 January 1483-4. To be buried
in church at Briggewater aforesaid. To vicar of said parish
church 3s 4d. To each presbyter of said church 8d. To three
clerks of said church 12d. To the churchwardens 8d. To
St. Katherine's altar in same church 3 Ibs. wax and 20d. To
altar of St. Gregory 3 Ibs. wax and 20d. To altar of Trin-
ity 3 Ibs. wax and 20d. To altar of St. Erasmus 3 Ibs. wax
and 20d. To Alice Lye of Briggewater a tenement in the
weststrete in which John Clement now lives, and one in which
Walter Martyn Bedeman now dwells, and one in Frerynstrete
in which said Alice dwells, and, after her decease, to John
Kendale, John Drewe, Robert Phillips, Rector of Chilton,
John Bartlett, John Moddeslyghte, Thomas Haberfeld. Res-
iduary legatee and executor : John Drewe. Overseers : Rob-
ert Phillipp and John Bartelett.
Logge, 8.
AGNES WHELER. Will [in Latin] 1 July 1493 ; proved 15
November 1493. My spirit to God almighty and the Blessed
Virgin Mary and All Saints. My body to be buried in the
church of Shrewton. To the cathedral church of St. Mary,
Sarum, 12d. To the light of St. Katherine in Shrewton
church, two sheep. To Brotherhood of St. Michael of Orston
Magie, one sheep. To church of Wyntyrburstoke, church of
Rolston, church of Madyngton, church of Orston, George
church of Tylseyd, to each church one sheep each. Execu-
tors : John Wheeler, my son, and Sir Nicholas Pope. Wit-
nesses : Johanne Syward, and Thomas Foyker.
Vox, 4.
IN NEW ENGLAND. 87
RICHARD WHELER. Will 20 March 1505/6; proved 11
May 1506. To be buried in churchyard of Alhalowen in Wot-
ton Bassett. To mother church of Sarum, 40d. To high
awter of Wotton Bassett 2s. For a new chalice 6s. 8d. To
the herse light of said church 8d. To light of Seynt Anto-
ny 4d. To Saint Sight light 4d. To Margerete, my daugh-
ter, a house in Wotton Bassett, lyeing betweene a tenement
of Water Parker and a tenement of John Byrde ; if she die,
to Elyanor and Johanne. To said Margaret, 20 mares. To
Margaret, my daughter, a tenement in Wotton bassett, be-
tweene a tenement of Sir Kobert Chenye and Thomas Franke-
lyn, the said Elyanor to hold the tenement for ever. To
Jone a tenement in Wotton Bassett, lyeing between a tene-
ment of John Say and sir Kobert Chenye. Residuary legatees
and executors : Agnes, my wife, and Thomas Masslyn. Over-
seers : Water Estort, gentilman, and John Parker, yeoman.
Witnesses : sir John Palmer, parishe priest ther, Wat Escort,
John wth other.
Adeane, 6.
HENRY WHELER, citizen and grocer of London. Will 5
December 1545 ; proved 4 August 1546. To be buried in
churchyard of Saint Bennet greatechurche in London. To the
high Altar there for tithes forgotten 3s. 4d. For spice
bredd for my funeral 6s. 8d. To the poor 10s. To Master
Thomas Curtys 30. To Thomas Lawce 62. To William
Best 14. To Richarde Campion 21. To Thomas Spert
9, 14s. 5d. To Laurence Fortripp 50s. To Richard
Bowyer otherwyse called sterleye 11, 6s. 8d. To Thomas
Castell 9 ; and 15 of my debt to Thomas Lawce to be paid
by Thomas Claxton, Henry Everard, William Reade. Resi-
due to William, Mabell, and Elizabeth Wheler, my children,
when of age or married. Guardians : Master Thomas Curtys,
Thomas Lawce, Edward Haywarde, to lend out of my child-
ren's portion 25 to William Clynche and his wife, and to
take yerely accounts of same. If all my children die, to
Eustace Clinche 20, Katherine Clynche 20 and Walter
Clynche 3. To Sybill Turke, my may den and servant, 40 s.
To Mystres Curtys a ring of 4 to be called Wheler's ring,
and I will that she have a pece of my Reasons of the sonne
of theire comynge home. I have made arrangements for ad-
ministration of father in law John Aleigbas goods. Over-
seers : Richarde Bowyer and Brother in law William Clinche.
Witnesses : maister John Brekenden, parson there, Thomas
88 ENGLISH NOTES ABOCJT EARLY SETTLERS.
Curtys, Thomas Lawce, John Brewer, Richard Elderbecke,
William Clynche, Katherine nycolles, Katherine Lawce, mar-
gery goos, and others wt. me, Richard Bower, als Stirleye,
notarye.
Alen, 15.
HENRIE WHEALEB of Haytres desburie, County Wilts, es-
quire. Nuncupative will 29 October 167 ; proved 10 Novem-
ber 1567. To Elizabeth Whealer his wief all. Witnesses :
Mr. John Securis, Professor of Phisick, Thomas Westley, gen-
tilman, Gregori Clifton.
Stonarde, 32.
JOHN WHEELER of East Bloxworth, county Dorset, hus-
bandman. Will 14 October 1593; proved 25 June 1596.
Sycke of body, but sound of mynd (god be thanked). My
Soul to Almighty God, my Creator. My Body to be buried
in church yarde of Bloxworth. To reparation of church of
Bloxworth 3s. 4d. To poor of Bloxworth 3s. 4d. to be
given by Tho : Hart and my brother Robert Wheler. To my
sonne Anthonie Wheler, frame board in hall, crock, 4 of my
best oxen, after my Landlord hath chosen his heriot, 2 horses,
all things belonging to gearing and plowing, wheat and barley.
To my son John 9 in Money. To my son Richard 9 in
money. To my daughter Margaret 6 in money. To my
daughter Sarah 9 in money. To Margaret my wife all the
rest of my goods. She to be executrix. Children receive none
of their portion till wife marry again, or otherwise till day of
her death, If Anthony die before other children, his share to
be divided amongst the rest, but if any other die, that one's
share amongst the rest, but Anthony to have no part. Over-
seers : Tho : Clavel, gent, and Tho : Hart. Witnesses : Rob :
Rickman, Tho: Clavel, Tho: Hart, Rob: Wheler. Inventory
Ixxxvi li viijs. vjd.
Deanery of Sarum, Register 6, folio 128.
ANTHONY WHELER, late of Bloxworth, Dorset, deceased.
Administration of goods, 6 October 1607, to Fay the Wheler,
his relict. Inventory 66, 9s. 8d.
Deanery of Sarum, Register 8, folio 93.
WILLIAM WHELER, late of Sherborne, Dorset, deceased.
Administration of goods, 30 March 1609, to Joane Wheler,
his relict.
Deanery of Sarum, Register 8, folio 144'
(T0 be continued.)
ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS,
1697-1768.
(Continued from Vol. XLIII, page 232.)
[133] Instrument of manumission whereby " wee Wil-
liam Upton & Samuel Upton of Salem in the County of
Essex within y e Province of Massachusetts Bay in New
England husbandmen in Consideration that our Negroe
Servant has formerly Served our father John Upton Late
of Reading Deced & us the now Granters since from about
Eight year old to the Day of the date thereof being now
about thirty Two years of age and a halfe faithfully and
Truly and for Divers other good and Lawfull causes and
Considerations us hereunto moveing have and doe for our
Selves our hiers Executors and administrators Enfranchise
Set at Liberty and make free the said Negroe Thomas
* * * haveing attended y e Direction of the law in giving
bond to the Treasurer of Salem for y e Security of Said
Towne from any Charge that might happen or arise by
reason of said Negroes Lameness Sickness or otherwise
Disinabled from Supporting himselfe Wherefore we doe
declare and Publish the Said Negro Thomas To be free
and his own man so that forever hereafter he may be
deem'd & known to be a freeman." Witnesses : Nicho.
Lyddiard, R d Newcombe. Salem, Dec. 21, 1717.
Protest. Jan. 6, 1717/18. Capt. John Luscumb, com-
mander of the ship Prince of Wales, made declaration on
behalf of himself and his owner, Disney Stanyforth, mer-
chant in London, that by a charterparty dated July 17,
1717, between said Disney Stanyforth on the one part and
Thomas Hasley of London, merchant, it was agreed that
the said Capt. Luscomb should proceed to New England
and there remain, to be loaded with fish, for forty running
days Sundays included, 60 days demurrage to be allowed
at the rate of 1, 15s. Capt. Luscomb affirms that he
fulfilled the terms of the contract and the loading was not
completed up to the date of the present protest. Wit-
nesses : Nicholas Lyddiard, Henry Sewall.
(89)
90 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS.
[134] September y e 29 th day 1717
" M r Ropes.
These comes to Acquaint you of y e Death of my father
and mother but to Satisfy you y* my father Reced a great
Deal Short of what you may Expect of you r Son Money
for there came in two Bill of Sales against his Wages one
of twenty poundes and another of thirteen poundes and
tenn Shillings which make in y e whole 33 pounds and
tenn shillings So y e remainder my father had so after my
father had taken out y e charges there remains in his hand
31 pounds which I will Instly pay on a lawfull power
from you Or One Bill drawne by you on me with a Letter
of Advice from you I find in a Letter from one M r Pal-
frey that he was to have out of you Some money ffour
pounds and three Shillings but I have nothing to do with
it So I shall pay you y e whole Sume of 31 pounds and
you must pay him I could Wish y e money were Safe payd
then I Should be Easy I have no more to Inlarge but Rest
your friend unknown
Philip Coussine
" Pray Direct your Letters for John Coussine living on
Stepney Causeway near y e Sign of the Angell and
Crowne."
Deposition of Griffith Owen of Philadelphia, Penn.
physician, aged 69 years that he knew Richard Newcome
Sen r yeoman, deceased, late of Burlington in the Western
Division of New Jersey, and Mary Newcome his wife and
that he heard they came from Leicestershire, England,
about 1704 ; that he knew the said Richard Newcome Senr
died in 1705 in Burlington ; that Mary Newcome had
since died, and that Richard Newcome, mariner, residing in
Salem, is their only son, and that they never had any other
son.
'* Sworne (according to y e form used with Quakers)".
Salem, May 9, 1717.
Deposition of John Salhold, of Chester, Penn., aged
46 years, that he knew Mary Newcome, widow of Richard
Newcome Senr late of Burlington, N. J., that she died
some time after her husband, and Richard Newcome of
ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 91
Salem was their only son, and he knew the said Richard
Newcome was bound out as apprentice, by his mother, in
Philadelphia. Sworn after the manner of the Quakers.
Salem, May 9, 1717.
[135] Stephen Sewall of Salem acknowledged the
above affidavits to be true and adds that the said Richard
Newcomb had lived with him, the said Sewall, for about
a year, and he had always believed him to be the son of
Richard Newcome of Burlington, West Jersey.
Salem, May 9, 1717.
Protest. March 7, 1717/18. Capt. John Thompson,
commander of the ship Infanta Maria, made declaration
that on Feb. 9 when they were lying at anchor in Ipswich
harbour, " being a narrow rapid river," and nearly laden
with dry merchantable fish ready to sail to Oporto, Por-
tugal, " there came down on y e Stream a large Cake or
Land of Ice & notwithstanding her anchore well Setled
yet it f orcd y e Ship on vpon y e Side of a Steep bank where
she stuck fast y e After part of her & y e fore part fell
away w th y e Tide till she over sett with her Mast in y e
water where she lay under water Severall Dayes tho' ut-
most means was used to get her up so that her lading of
fish is all wett & Soakt in y e water." Salem, March 7,
1717.
Thirty days sight draft given by Wm. Hurst to John
Mabson on his father Hon William Hurst Esq. merchant
in New England, for 150. Endorsed by John Mabson.
March 11, 1717. Stephen Sewall, notary public, at the
request of Col. John Alford of Boston, merchant, assignee
of John Mabson of Antegua, merchant, showed the above
bill of exchange to Maj. Walter Price of Salem, merchant,
administrator of the estate of William Hurst Esq. late of
Salem, deceased, who refused to honor it because it had
no date and the person to whom it was directed was dead.
[136] Depositions of Richard Manning, John Crowell
and Aaron Crowell, all of Salem, and belonging to the
crew of Capt. Thomas Ellis, commander of the ship
92 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS.
Hopewell, " bound from Island of Barbadoes to Saltatuda
Missing of y* Island and ffalling to Leward we Shaped our
Course for Some of y e Bohema Islands in hopes to get
Salt there, but nigh y e Island of Hispaniola we Unhappily
mett with a pirate being a sloop of between thirty and
fforty Men, one Cap 1 Charles Commander his Sirname we
could not Learn, they took us, boarded us and Abused
Severall of us Shamefully, and took what Small Matters
we had even our very Cloathes and particularly Beat and
Abused our Mate, whose name was James Logun of
Charlestowne and him they fforceably carryed away with
them & threatened his life if he would not go, which they
were y e more Earnest for Insomuch as they had no artist
on board as we understood having a little before that
time, had an Engagem* with a Ship of fforce y had killed
Severall of y m as we were Informed by some of them y e
s d James Logun was very unwilling to go with & In-
formed Some of us y* he knew not whether he had best
to dye or go with them These Deponents knowing of him
to be an Ingenious Sober man to y e truth of all we have
hereunto Sett our hand Having ffresh Remembrance
thereof, being but y e fifth day of March last past, when
we were taken." Salem, May 1, 1718.
Salem, June 12, 1718. Deposition of Elizabeth Good-
ale, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Beachem, only sur-
viving child of Edward Beachem of Salem, cordwainer,
deed that where as she inherited from her father a certain
parcel of land viz. " about fifteen acres of Land in y e fields
comonly called y e north field in Salem," and she sold the
same for 40, which she '* distrubuted amongst my chil-
dren then living, which were eleven in number, viz.
Zachariah, Samuel, Joseph, Mary, Abraham, Thomas,
John, Elizabeth, Sarah, Benj% David, y e most of y e s d
sume in silver money, all save y e youngest to wit three
pounds a peice to each of them."
Bond given by William Hirst, late of Antigua, and now
of Salem, to Jeremiah Atwater of New Haven, Conn., for
382. June 20, 1718. Witnesses : John Pratt, Joseph
Small.
(To be continued.)
WARNINGS TO NEGROES IN SALEM IN 1790.
Essex, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of
Salem in s d County Greeting.
You are in the name of the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts directed to warn & give Notice unto John Black
& wife, Cato Groves & wife & to all the persons men-
tioned in the within List who have lately come into this
Town for the purpose of abiding therein, not having ob-
tained the Towns Consent therefor, that they depart the
limits thereof (with their Children & others under their
Care) if such they have, within fifteen days. And of this
precept & of your Doings thereon you are to make return
in the office of the Clerk of the Town within Twenty Days
next coming, that such further proceedings may be had in
the premises, as the law directs.
Given under our hands & seals at SALEM afores d this
SIXTH day of December A. D. 1790.
Edw d Norris.
Ge Crowninshield Selectmen
Neh h Buffington of
Jon a Waldo Salem
Nath. Richardson
Salem, December 22 th , 1790. Ps[u]ant to this Warrant
I have notified and warned these Persons marked Thus x
in this List to depart out of Said Towne in fifteen days
from their Being notified and Warned according to this
warrant as requested to do.
Benj a Felt Constb. of Salem.
An account of No. of Black People within the limits of
the towne of Salem as taking By the subscriber Benj a Felt
one of the Constables of Salem. December, 1790.
(93)
94
WARNINGS TO NEGROES IN SALEM IN 1790.
Names
John Black & wife x
Cato Groves & wife x
Primus Green & Do x
Hanah Wilson x
Steate
Machetus*
Do
Road Island
Mastus*
William Symons & wifex New York
Cato Ransee & Do x Road Island
Ceser Ooptonf & Do x Mosetus*
Ceser Porter & Do x Do
James Witinton x Virginee
Judey Clark x Road Island
Forteen Lorthrop & wife x Masitus*
Francis Talbort & Bevly
& do. x Virginay
Robert Freeman & Do x Masetus Salem
James Martin & Do x Do Salem
Will m Somersit Do Boston
Christofer White & wife x Bermuder a Prisner
Town Children
Salem 2
Charlestown 2
Greenwitch 2
Lyn 2
Boston
New York 3
Salem 2
Maiden
Boston
Marblehead
Marblehead 1
Pehro Renels & Do x
Joseph Samson Masatus*
Sarah Mansfield x Do
Titus Aurgostus & wife x Do
Road Island Exeter
Boston
Boston
Salem
Charlotte Low x Do
Tiller Deane x Do
John Jeffos & wife x
John Turner & Do x
Zacariar Bray & Do x
Vilot Kitchen x
Sam 11 Commens x
Primus Grant & wife x
Rose Hodges x
Nero Pain & Wife x
Zachariar Forster & Do x Do
Joseph Hodges servant to
D. Ropes Do
Peter Fiske x Do
Titus Cabat x Do
Thomas Buffenton x Giney
Ceser Kitchin x Masatus*
Boston
Salem
WesterlndianOobon
Salem
Salem
Salem
Woster
Salem
Giney
Giney
Masatus*
Boston
Middeltowne 4
Danvis 5
Boston
Old Yorke 2
Masatus*
Salem 1
Do
Trentown
Do
Moalden
*Massachusett8.
tUpton?
fWoburn?
WARNINGS TO NEGROES IN SALEM IN 1790. 95
Names
Steate
Town Children
Jack Seward & wife x
Do
Salem
1
Jack Gardner x
Do
Salem
1
Sceaser Aurgurt & wife x
Masatus*
Salem
1
James Black & wife x
Prisner
Marblehead
3
Vilot Prescot x
Masatus*
Danvers
Adam Barton
Masatus*
Salem
4
Samson James & wife x
Prisner
Salem
Sam 11 Blackman & wife x
Giney
Salem
1
Seaser Shiny x
Masatus*
Salem
Tho 8 Marling & wife x
Carrilorf
OobinJ
1
Peter Frances & wife x
Oobinf
5
Peter Manuel & wife x
Masatus*
Midletowne
3
Jack Borland & wife x
Virginey
Bakey Donckin x
Masetus*
Salem
3
Ruth Trask x
Masetus*
Danvers
Cato Goodie x
Masetus*
Danvers
James Black & wife x
Conncot
Boston
3
Barnabas Spraigs & wife
Virginey
Boston
1
Joseph Pitman & wife x
Masetus*
Dan vis
1
Vilot Mirgort x
Giney
Marblehead
3
Diner Lord x
Masetus*
Marblehead
1
Jame Howard & wife x
Masetus*
Salem
4
Susanr Candey x
Masetus*
Marblehead
3
Peter Thomas & wife x
Masetus*
Lyne
4
Primus Freeman & wife x
Masetus*
Danvers
1
Seasor Inticot & wife x
Masetus*
Salem
1
Benj* Glover & wife x
Road Island
Do
1
Cato Forester & wife x
Masetus*
Salem
1
Jack Hogans & wife x
Prisner
Salem
1
Thos Marten & wife x
Road Island
Do
1
Dover Lee & wife x
Masetus*
Salem
1
George Nicholos & wife x
Road Island
Do
James Green & wife x
Road Island
Do
5
Princ Hill & wife x
Masetus*
Andover
3
Ruben Middletown &wife xGiney
Danvers
3
Adam Johnson & wife x
Masetus*
Reading
Cato Richardson & wife x
Masetus*
Salem
James Diar & wife x
Roade Island
Massachusetts.
t Carolina?
tWoburn?
96 WARNINGS TO NEGROES IN SALEM IN 1790.
Names
Will m Digs & wife x
John Simons & wife x
Will Jonson & wife x
Jack Turner & wife x
Robard Black & wife x
Priner Saunders
Obed Dixenson x
Mather Salem
Cato Ranser & wife x
Scipio Daland x
Felow Browne & wife x
Tho s Lee & wife x
or Haruey
Anne Low x
Peter Manuel x
Cato White & wife x
Henry Dorsey & wife x
Jobe Ooptonf
Peter Bland
Primus Maning & wife x
Paro Runels & wife x
Pegay Flint
Porter Vance x
Primus Gardner & wife x
Jack Hill x
Abner Browne x
*Massachusetts. fUpton?
Essex Institute Manuscript Collections, Salem MSS*
Steate Town Children
Virginey
West Indies
Do
Salem
1
Road Island
Marblehead
Connecticut
West Indies
Masetus*
Masetus*
Lynfield
Dunstable
Salem
Road Island
Do
a
Masetus*
Salem
Road Island
Do
West Indies
Salem
5
Masetus*
Masetus*
Lyn
Mideltowne
3
West Indies
Salem
Philadelfrey
Masetus*
Salem
Giney
Masetus
Salem
Salem
Giney
Masetus*
Salem
Mideltowne
Masetus*
Salem
: Giney
Masetus*
Salem
Masetus*
Wen ham
HISTORICAL
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JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
From a photograph made in July, 1885,
by Miss Isa E. Gray.
Used here by courtesy of his publishers Messrs. Houghton. Mifflin A Company
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OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. XLIV. APRIL, 1908 No. 2
REMINISCENCES OF
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER'S LIFE
AT OAK KNOLL, DANVERS.*
BY MRS. ABBY J. WOODMAN.
[Head before the Essex Institute on the One Hundredth Anniversary
of the Birth of John Greenleaf Whittier.]
In the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, John
Greenleaf Whittier expressed a desire to become a member
of the household of Col. Edmund Johnson, and in the
following year, in the month of April, he gave up his
home in Amesbury, and, with many of his most cherished
personal effects, removed to " Oak Knoll," in Danvers.
He was remotely connected by kinship with Edmund
Johnson ; both gentlemen were directly descended from
ancient Quaker ancestors, Joseph Peaslee and his wife
Mary Johnson ; and he was doubly a cousin to Col. John-
son's wife, Phebe Whittier; their fathers were brothers,
and their mothers were cousins in the first degree.
Edmund Johnson was Mr. Whittier's senior by several
years, and survived but one year after Mr. Whittier came
into his family, and Mr. Whittier, because of his age and
chronic state of invalidism, soon came in many ways to
*Copyright, 1908, by the Essex Institute.
(97)
98 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER'S
occupy that place, in the careful regard of the daughters,
made vacant by the death of their beloved father.
The following summer, Mr. Whittier spent a week at
the Isle of Shoals, where he met his friend and admirer,
Mr. Nathaniel Thayer of Boston and Lancaster, Massachu-
setts. Mr. Thayer was but little acquainted with the
localities of Danvers, and he asked Mr. Whittier if he
would not prefer a residence nearer to the city of Salem,
at the same time remarking that the estate called " Kern-
wood " was then for sale, and that he would be pleased
to see Mr. Whittier permanently residing there, intimating
the pleasure it would give him to purchase the estate for
Mr. Whittier. Mr. Whittier made a somewhat evasive
reply, not really appreciating Mr. Thayer's generous inten-
tions. A few days after Mr. Whittier's return to " Oak
Knoll/' he received a letter from Mr. Thayer containing
the offer of " Kernwood " to him as a free gift, should he
prefer to reside there rather than at " Oak Knoll." Mr.
Whittier consulted the family in regard to it, and learning
that they preferred to retain the independence of their
own home, he gratefully declined his friend's most gener-
ous offer. Although Mr. Whittier strongly desired to
become a joint proprietor of " Oak Knoll," at the time of
its purchase from Mr. William A. Lander, in the year
eighteen hundred seventy-five, yet, in accordance with the
wise counsels of Col. Johnson, he came to his home, in
Danvers, untrammelled by any business complications, in
order that he might be as free to go from our home, as he
was always made free and welcome to its hospitalities. In
the quiet atmosphere of " Oak Knoll," Mr. Whittier cast
aside the cares of domestic life. The years of advancing
age glided peacefully onward, past the limit of three score
years and ten, and four score years brought to him no
realizing sense of its prophecy of labor and of weakness.
Aside from his correspondence, which was large and some-
times a little wearisome, he was free from annoying cares
in the present, and bearing no apparent burdens of regret
for that which " might have been " in the past, the peace
of his protracted life was like unto the flow of a majestic
river, which, past the shoals and narrows of its impetuous
LIFE AT OAK KNOLL. 99
course, moves smoothly on beneath the shade of bending
trees, by gently sloping banks of verdure, until it slowly
" rounds into calm."
When asked by a gentleman who was preparing a paper
on the life of John Greenleaf Whittier, to be read before
a public audience, what he might say of his residence in
Danvers, Mr. Whittier replied, " Say, it is my home. I
retain my legal residence in Amesbury, and I go there to
vote, but my home is at Oak Knoll.' ' He loved the
quiet of " Oak Knoll," its beautiful groves, its broad
lawns, and its quaint old gardens. He took especial
delight in their winding walks and fragrant borders
of box. The tall hedges of roses greeted him with
pleasant recollections of those which bloomed beside his
mother's door. The peonies shook their scarlet robes before
him, and the crimson balm and yellow daffodils were
quick reminders of a garden, far away in the past, where
peonies, and balm, and mints, and daffodils had blossomed
in his childhood's home in Haverhill.
Mr. Whittier was fond of domestic animals ; cats, dogs,
cows, and horses were all his pets, and all were responsive
to his call. Many of them received appropriate memorial
rhymes, after their timely or untimely " takings off,"
which are preserved as mementoes of their author's rare
humor and kindly nature, and of his responsive disposition
to enter sympathetically into the small details and innocent
recreations of country life.
He took much pleasure in driving along the country
roads and secluded byways of the town, until he had
become familiar with the surrounding scenery. Pausing
long upon the hill-tops, he inhaled their pure atmosphere
with delight, and refreshed his soul with the rich inspira-
tions which Nature presented in her broader landscapes.
His keen powers of observation encompassed everything :
the wild flowers by the wayside and the moss-grey walls
that sheltered them, the majestic trees, the herds of cattle
upon the hills, the brooks which flowed through grassy
meadows, and the little pools which mirrored the sunshine,
the patches of brown earth turned by the ploughshare to
the fertilizing influences of sun and dew, the long grey
100 JOHN GREBNLBAF WHITTIER'S
lines of dividing walls, and, over all, the broad arch of
the summer sky, each and all conveyed to him a full sense
of the beauty and the joy of life. Beautiful and grand
scenes in Nature were never forgotten, and the memory of
them was always, to him, a source of fresh delight. The
lawns of " Oak Knoll," the groves, and the meadow paths,
the mossy nooks where wild flowers grew and song birds
had their haunts, renewed their grace for him with every
fresh baptism of the morning. The last time his foot-
steps wandered in the familiar paths, he returned with his
hands filled with wild flowers, remarking, as he came, " I
think I have never heard the birds sing so loudly, or so
sweetly before."
After Mr. Whittier passed his seventieth birthday he
seemed to realize that he was standing
" Beside that milestone where the level sun,
Nigh unto setting, sheds his last low rays
On word and work irrevocably done."
When invited to drive over the picturesque hills of the
town, he often remarked, " I know just how everything
looks, we should see nothing more beautiful then what we
have at home. I am satisfied with this."
There is a small precipitous elevation in the pastures
which bears the name of " Cedar Knoll." It is approached
by a well-worn foot-path through a shaded and grassy lane.
It overlooks the fields, orchards, and wooded areas of the
estate, and is covered with a low growth of cedars and
other wild shrubbery. The moss-covered rocks afford but
scanty room for vegetation, but the crimson columbines
hang their drooping blossoms among them, the ferns thrust
their sword-like blades from every crevice, the white
bloom of the lowly saxifrage sends up sweet odors from
the ledgy surface, and the monotone of bees is heard in
the golden bells of the barberry. There was no month in
the year when the grey rocks of " Cedar Knoll " did not
greet the coming of his footsteps, when the solemn
silence of the cedars did not invite the reverent responses
of his soul to that sense of quietude which is the angelus
of Nature.
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Mr. Whittier was an ardent lover of Nature, as is shown
by the many poems which he wrote in her praise. How
many friends have given thanks for the inspiration of
him who gave to them such vivid portrayals of her satisfy-
ing beauty and grandeur ! How many, whose feet have
never walked where his had trod so often among the
mountains of New Hampshire, have beheld their majesty
through the medium of his verse ; have seen, through his
eyes, the purple glow of the sunsets which enfold those
lofty heights, and have felt themselves borne heavenward
on the spiritual atmosphere of his words, which are as the
breath and voice of those everlasting hills I
" Touched by a light that has no name,
A glory never sung,
Aloft on sky and mountain walls
Are God's great pictures hung.
What unseen altars crown those hills
That reach up stair on stair;
What eyes look through, what white wings fan
Those purple veils of air."
Every season of the year possessed for Mr. Whittier its
peculiar charm, and in each, he was often heard to exclaim,
when beholding some lovely aspect of nature, u I never
saw it so beautiful here before." The autumn of the year
is so suggestive of decay and of death, that unto many peo-
ple its coming is unwelcome. It brings to them the
" Melancholy days, the saddest of the year." Not thus
was it regarded by Mr. Whittier. He rejoiced in its
wealth of color, its golden sunsets, and veils of misty
splendor. In the ripeness and abundance of autumn, he
beheld the realization of the fair promises of the spring
and summer time, the crowning rewards of the passing
year. Every shrub and tree possessed for him its own
distinctive charm. The maples, in their mottled hues
from green to gold and scarlet ; the " painted beeches,"
from lightest tint of sunshine to the ribbed and russet
hues of the fallen leaf, or the silvery sheen of winter ; the
blood-red oaks, and yellow hickories ; the glowing sassa-
fras and the sombre ash ; the rich gold of the walnuts ;
the amber birches, quivering like an entangled mist ; and
the stately chestnuts, with broad arms reaching out over
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groups of crimson sumach, all hung their banners in the
hazy quiet of the Indian summer, and drooped and folded
them away without appeal for sympathy, or sadness for
their fallen glories, unto him who watched their silent
passing. Such dissolving views of Nature were a delight
to him. He beheld in them the restful retirement into
sleep which awaits a resurrection to renewed existence,
and not unfrequently he was heard to express a wish that
he might sometimes express his sentiments in a poem
which would convey to others his grateful appreciation of
the season of autumn, and help to dispel the feeling of
sadness which it conveys to the minds of many.
The oak tree, from its position upon the knoll in front
of the house, gave to his mind the suggestion of naming
the estate " Oak Knoll." This tree retains its foliage long
after the elms and many other trees are bare. Its leaves
become like disks of gold, and when they are fully ripened
they " stand not upon the order of their going," but fall
in a day, like the dropping of a great curtain. If Mr.
Whittier was away from home when this occurred, he was
duly notified by letter, usually in response to his enqui-
ries ; for, when the oak tree upon the knoll was bare, then
autumn had departed and winter was at the open door.
Mr. Whittier loved the warmth and cheer of sunshine,
and looked forward to the passing of clouds and storms,
with a cheerful expectancy of the brightness which they
but obscured, never doubting the existence of the silver
lining, however it might be hidden by the gloom of the
heavens or the disappointments of human life. If the
dawn was clear he never failed to witness the rising of
the sun. From the windows of his chamber he watched
the grey east change to crimson and pearl, and greeted the
uprising of the sun with the grateful reverence of one
who beheld in its glory a repetition of that miracle of cre-
ation when night gave way to day, in response to the
Divine command, " Let there be light." As the morning
brought to him renewed strength for the day, so the
evening came with benedictions for the night. He opened
wide the " Windows of his Soul," and received the full
baptism of the setting sun, until his countenance glowed
LIFE AT OAK KNOLL. 103
and his eyes shone with the peace of one whose cup of
thankfulness was full. In the friendly quiet of the sunset
hour he realized
" A presence ever near;
Through the deep silence of the flesh,
It reached the inward ear."
After the sunset came the social evening hours. Mr.
Whittier passed all his evenings in the family room, never
permitting his " den " to be lighted, lest he " might some-
time come to spend his evenings there in solitude." After
supper it was bis custom to sit for a few moments in
silence, with hands folded, before the open wood fire,
moments which may have been of retrospection ; a silent
response to the spiritual calls of his nature.
In family intercourse he was often humorous and some-
times quite facetious, using the quaint and local phrase of
his boyhood, the Friendly " thee " without its proper
distinction of case. He was conscious of its abuse, but
remarked, " I use it so because my mother did."
Generally he was considered to be a very diffident, or,
as some have said, a " very shy man," and easily discon-
certed by the presence of strangers. A certain reserve of
manner was peculiar to him, but the diffidence resulting
from a lack of moral or physical courage was foreign to
his nature. A certain absence of spontaneity debarred
him oftentimes from disclosing to many that geniality
which was inherent in his nature. His unquestioning good
fellowship with humanity in general often betrayed him
into confidences which involved a too lavish expenditure
of his sympathies, recognition of which admonished him
at other times to give heed to the injunction, " Put a bit
in thy mouth and a bridle on thy tongue." Thus at times
he was very frank and ingenuous, while at others he was
reticent. He sometimes hid himself behind the latter
mood when he felt a disinclination for social intercourse.
His writings give no evidence of a lack of moral courage,
and his life, in general, presented few opportunities for
the exercise of physical courage. There were, however,
frequent occasions during the earlier struggles for the
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abolition of slavery, which called for an exhibition of both,
and in neither was he found to be wanting.
The fact that Mr. Whittier never addressed a public
audience was not because he was afraid of the sound of
his own voice, but because there was not given to him the
power of a ready expression of the sentiments which had
firm possession of his mind, but which he could not read-
ily materialize in speech. There are those who can well
believe that had not Mr. Whittier been a " Friend by
conviction, as well as by birthright," instead of being the
" Minstrel of the North," in our late Civil War, he would
have been a leader in the midst of battle.
In the estimation of those who knew him well he was
not one who was subject to seasons of loneliness and de-
pression. He doubtless realized his solitary family con-
dition, after the deaths of his mother and sister Elisabeth.
In a letter written in eighteen hundred and eighty-one, he
wrote from Amesbury : " The circle of my old friends and
neighbors here is now very small and I seem to feel more
like a stranger than ever." His great mental resources
dispelled the ennui of a lonely life. It is only the Cru-
soes of mankind -men whose instinctive physical forces
overcome and submerge the finer capacities of the mind,
who exclaim, " O, Solitude, where are the charms that
Sages have found in thy face ! " Men, such as was Whit-
tier, count those hours good when they can retire into their
closets and shut their doors against the confusing activi-
ties of life. Sentimental gossips are apt to project their
own atmosphere around the objects of their solicitude and
take a melancholy pleasure in expressing concern and
sympathy for conditions which have no real existence.
Those who breathe the atmosphere of a higher apprecia-
tion of the true values of life, and of the pleasures and re-
wards of its seasons of meditation, recognize the wisdom
of a sage in the late Rev. Dr. Ellis, of Boston, who said to
his friends, " Solitude is not loneliness." Mr. Whittier
expressed the same sentiment in his lines :
" For Nature is not solitude,
Her many hands reach out to us,
Her many tongues are garrulous.
She will not leave our senses still
But drags them captive to her will."
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Those who think much and deeply, require less compan-
ionship from others than do they who live upon the sur-
face of thought. What appeared to some of his friends
to be hours of loneliness were oftentimes seasons of con-
verse with his imagination ; seasons in which the clear-
eyed angels of inspiration attuned his lyre to songs of
prophecy and praise.
Mr. Whittier spent little time in moody repinings over
the past or in idle speculations of the future. Like others,
he bore the crosses which humanity entails upon all. In
his draught of life the bitter was mingled with the sweet,
but the pangs of sorrow for the loss of friends were not
bereft of consolation. The lamp which illumined his
darkness was " The Inward Light," and by its guidance
he walked through vales of sorrow, fearing no evil ; some-
times it may have been with faltering steps, but never fall-
ing by the way, being sustained and strengthened by his
perfect faith and trust in the " Eternal Goodness."
Mr. Whittier was merciful in his judgments as he
hoped for mercy ; and forgiving of evil as he hoped to be
forgiven ; and yet, with all his wisdom and his virtues, he
was a man impatient of restraints, somewhat over sensi-
tive in disposition, and often abrupt in his disapproval of
sentiments derogatory to his own. There were not want-
ing occasions when his earnestness called for forbearance
on the part of others, but his anger was as the " Flint
bears fire," a moment of reflection, or a brief silence,
would call to his countenance the milder glow of self-re-
buke. He felt keenly the limitations of his nature. In a
letter he wrote, *' The story which C. has sent me is really
Dr. Jekyl's case. I wonder whether we have not the pos-
sibilities of this duality."
Mr. Whittier's birthdays were always observed as holi-
days at "Oak Knoll," where during the last sixteen years
of his life, with three exceptions, he received his friends.
In 1889, there was the gloom of a recent sorrow in the
home and Mr. Whittier passed his 82d birthday at Ames-
bury, in his old home, under the auspices of Judge and
Mrs. Gate who occupied his house in that town. In 1891,
he was at Newburyport, where he had been detained by
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illness in the home of his life long friend and relative
Joseph Cartland ; and in 1882, Mr. Whittier spent the
winter with the family in Boston. Although his birth-
day anniversaries occurred in the winter, the day was
never so unpropitious that it did not bring some tokens of
love and remembrance and a few friends with congratu-
lations for its happy return. With few exceptions, how-
ever, large parties came to greet him, bringing fruits from
every clime and rare and lovely flowers with many other
appreciative tokens of love and esteem and oftentimes
reverence, all of which cheered and warmed his heart and
lightened the burdens of his age. His correspondence
was very large at those seasons. Letters of congratulation
came from all parts of our country and many bore the
postmarks of foreign lands. Dr. Furness of Philadelphia
and Rev. Theodore Cuyler were for many years his con-
stant correspondents. Although a little wearied when his
guests had departed, there was always a " pleased surprise "
upon his face, while he enjoyed the fragrance and the
beauty of the rare flowers heaped in profusion around him.
Some tokens of regard were of a more practical character
Such was the offering brought to him by Gov. Ames on
his eightieth birthday upon which occasion his guests
through the day numbered between five and six hundred.
Gov. Ames duly recognized the pen as Mr. Whittier's
more appropriate instrument of labor, but he brought to
him, on that day, a specimen of his own manufacture, a
highly polished shovel. Although the pen is mighty to
preserve the vast records of the past, the shovel is often
requisite to break the crusts of Time, and lay bare the
secrets of antiquity. Mr. Whittier had previously re-
quested Gov. Ames to send a contribution of his shovels
to Amelia B. Edwards, who had made known to her friends
in America her need of those instruments in the continu-
ance of her explorations in the East. The Governor re-
sponded to the request and brought to Mr. Whittier a
shovel which shone like silver. It was duly inscribed
and hung beside his chamber door, a pleasant reminder of
the pleasantry of his eightieth birthday. Bearing date of
1887, there occur in a family diary these items :
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Dec. 17. " Elegant flowers, fruit, cake, coffee, &c., &c.
Everything was glorious and successful for Mr. Whittier's
birthday. Greenleaf happy as a king."
Dec. 18. "Saturday all right; Greenleaf slept well
and enjoyed yesterday in retrospect."
Mr. Whittier was not isolated, while he lived in Dan-
vers, from the visitations, almost companionship of many
friends who very frequently came to walk with him or to
sit in his cosy little room where he sat and wrote by day,
his <4 den," and not his " study," for he said, " I never
study." Among those frequent visitors were his friend,
Charles F. Coffin of Lynn, whom he loved as a brother,
Richard P. Waters of North Beverly, Col. Albert G.
Browne of Salem, Joseph Nichols of Peabody, and John
D. Philbrick, Deacon Fowler and Dr. William Goldsmith
of Danvers all of whom passed the barriers of human ex-
istence before him. Many others who survived him could
speak of the genial warmth of the reception with which
he always welcomed their coming.
Mr. Whittier received many visitors during his residence
at " Oak Knoll." They came to see him from every part
of our own country and from many foreign lands. He
loved the friends of his youth and early manhood, with a
strength of affection which time never weakened nor old
age effaced, and whenever they came to see him, his en-
joyment was real. They took him back, beyond the strug-
gles of his manhood, to the delightful companionship of
school-days, when the wine of life was fresh from the vin-
tage and fragrant with high aspirations and fair hopes for
the future. Among these visitors were Harriet Minot
Pitman and Samuel and Harriet Winslow Sewall. They
often came together in the morning and spent the summer
day with him, wandering through the groves and lawns,
not literally " hand in hand," but with hearts in unison,
recalling to each the pleasant memories of the long ago
and mingling their laughter with the sad refrain of tender
memories of the dear friends who had departed. How
genial was the companionship of those friends and how
white in the calendar of their friendship was the day when
they met together. All of those dear friends solved, be-
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fore him, the mysteries of death and the hereafter, con-
cerning which they held much wistful converse.
Hither came Celia Thaxter who sang so sweetly of her
Island home, from which she departed all too soon, gliding
away like a white mist upon the broad ocean that she
loved, yet leaving behind a lingering trail of pleasant
memories for those who loved her well. Lucy Larcom
came bringing her poems and wood-notes from the wind-
swept shores of Beverly. Long shall her memory be em-
balmed in the fragrance of the " Wild Roses of Cape Ann."
Many visitors came as pilgrims to a shrine. They came
as strangers to grasp his hand and, departing, bore with
them the impress of a sympathetic and abiding friendship.
Of such was Dorothea Dix, the loving and beloved phil-
anthropist. She spent a summer as a welcome guest at
the Hospital in Danvers and Mr. Whittier saw her many
times. Their companionship was a delight to both of
them. They possessed many sentiments in common and
both had spent the greater part of their lives in the right-
ing of wrong and in the amelioration of human suffering.
The ministrations of one, in his later years, had regard
more particularly to the spiritual, and the other, to the
material necessities of life, while both were efficiently in-
terested in all good works.
"One saw the heavenly, one the human guest,
But who shall say which loved the Master best?"
In the last days of her life, Miss Dix wrote to "Oak
Knoll": "I want your Phoebe to copy for me that heart-
penetrating poem of Mr. Whittier's " At Last.". . . " I
have it only in memory now, and that may sometime fail
a word or two." The poem was copied and sent to her
where she was, at the time, ill in Trenton, New Jersey.
She never allowed the copy to pass beyond her hand for
nearly two years. It was in her hands by day and be-
neath her pillow by night, until she died. Friends who
stood around her coffin at Mount Auburn, listened to the
poem as it was read above her silent form, from the same
worn copy that had been her solace and consolation through
her long illness, and then it was laid tenderly in her
hands and buried with her.
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The occasional visits of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
were always gratifying to Mr. Whittier. They met with
affectionate greetings and joked and laughed together in
the care-free overflow of minds at ease. They sat by the
fireside, or walked through the lawns with arms entwined
behind each others backs, rare old boys whose " hearts
were young again." Mr. Whittier was two years older
than Dr. Holmes and he delighted in claiming the prece-
dence of age. " Why thee are but a boy yet, while I am
now four score." u Ah," said Dr. Holmes, " I called up-
on a lady yesterday who is several years older than either
of us. Confound it, Mr. Whittier, these women will get
the better of us some way. That's the reason why they
hung them in old times. It was the only way the men
could get even with them." On another occasion, while
they sat before a glowing fire on a chilly autumn day,
Mr. Whittier referred to the then recent publication of
Dr. Holmes' poem " The Broomstick Train". Dr. Holmes
turned toward Mr. Whittier, with his most genial smile,
exclaiming " Good, isn't it ?" " Capital," replied Mr. Whit-
tier, " But thee forgot one thing." " Did 1 ? What is it ?"
said the Doctor. ' Why," replied Whittier, with the air
of one bringing a serious accusation against his friend,
" Thee gave Beverly her beans all right, but thee de-
frauded Danvers of her onions."
In the summer of 1885, Paul H. Hayne, the poet of
South Carolina, came to " Oak Knoll" with his gentle
wife to spend a week with Mr. Whittier. Mr. Hayne was
interested in the legendary lore of New England and in
the early New England life and Mr. Whittier happily re-
lated to him many characteristic stories of the Puritanic
days. The stern Puritans of Massachusetts and the
courtly Huguenots of South Carolina, were not unfairly
represented by the two poets. It was a pleasant though
significant companionship. Mr. Whittier was a descen-
dant of the early Quakers, and a strong defender of the
rights of Southern bondmen, and his poetic phillippics had
done much to deprive of home and worldly fortune, Mr.
Hayne, a gentle singer of the Sunny South, whose blood
had come down to him through generations of a proud an-
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cestry, of high estate, until the fortunes of a civil war had
reduced his lot in life to that of common men. Mr. Hayne
related many incidents and reminiscences of his youth,
which called from Mr. Whittier an amusing experience of
his own, when he was a student at the Haverhill Academy.
It is here related very nearly in Mr. Whittier's own
words.
" There is but little doubt that at the age of twen-
ty, I felt myself to be a real poet, somewhat unknown
to fame, but sufficiently acknowledged as such by the
Committee directing the dedication of the New Academy,
for them to invite me to read an original poem on that
occasion. Robert Dinsmore, an old Scotch farmer in
Windham, and a writer of rhyme and doggerel verse, was
also invited to do the same. The honor of leading the
procession which marched through the streets of Haver-
hill to the new Academy, was given to the two poets. I
often laugh when I recall the scene to memory. The hale
old Scotchman, short and plethoric, with long white hair
which was like a halo to his ruddy face, his uncertain
step and bearing, slightly exhilarated by a generous
draught of old Scotch whiskey before we started, was
something of a contrast to me, a rather tall and slender
Quaker lad, in Quaker hat and coat, and half frightened
out of my wits by the honor heaped upon me. However,
we delivered our poems all right and I am thinking that
must have been the time when 1 was dubbed " The Quaker
Poet."
In September, 1889, Sir Edwin Arnold, whose " Light
of Asia" has reached and touched the heart of Christen-
dom, came to " Oak Knoll" and spent several hours in
confidential converse with Mr. Whittier, upon the potent
themes of life and immortality. Mr. Whittier was deeply
impressed by the conversation of Sir Edwin Arnold,
which seemed to exercise a lasting influence over his
mind. The realistic views of a future life, which the re-
ligious training of a past century inculcated, took a strong
hold upon Mr. Whittier's youthful mind and, in a degree,
retained their influence over him through his early man-
hood. His *' Clear Vision," and other subsequent poems,
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gave glimpses of broader views and nobler conceptions of
God and of the Christ in man, as is shown in his poem of
" Trinitas." As he advanced in years there was opened
to his comprehension, a higher plane of spiritual develop-
ment and the prejudices of his youth became weakened,
but he never lost his faith in a concious existence in a
future life. How or where was to exist that life of the
future, was not made clear to his spiritual vision.
" Not mine to look where cherubim
And seraphs may not see. . . .
" I dimly guess from blessings known
Of greater out of sight. . . .
' I know not what the future hath
Of marvel or surprise,
Assured alone that life and death
His mercy underlies.
"I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care."
Once when remarking upon the belief which a friend
entertained concerning the materialization of spirits, he
said, " I never saw a ghost. No spirit ever came back to
me." The fact, that no visitor, however highly gifted
with mediumistic power, was ever able to invoke or mate-
rialize an unseen spirit at " Oak Knoll," was highly grati-
fying to him. His vision did not reach beyond the limit
of human capacity. He looked upon immortal life as up-
on a vast ocean upon which was everywhere inscribed the
Law of Love. Love for the Creator of all existences,
and good will unto all Mankind, were the shining lights
which illumined its surface and made a trust in its hidden
joys satisfying to his soul.
Mr. Whittier received a delightful visit from Canon
Farrar of Westminster, England, accompanied by Rev.
Bishop Brooks, who previously, and later, made frequent
calls upon Mr. Whittier. After Canon Farrar's return
to England, he wrote to Mr. Whittier asking him to write
an inscription for the memorial window to Milton, in
St. Margaret's Church, the gift of George W. Childs.
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Mr. Whittier wrote these lines, now inscribed on Milton 's
window :
cl The New World honors him whose lofty plea
For England's freedom made her own more sure,
Whose song, immortal as its theme, shall be
Their common freehold, while both worlds endure."
Mr. Whittier brought the inscription to the family room
and read it aloud and that evening it was the text of the
fireside conversation. He had read Milton's great poem
until it was as familiar upon his tongue as a schoolboy's
declamation. He rolled the music of its exultant periods
upon the resonant tones of his deep voice until we seemed
to hear the call to battle and feel the shock of the ghostly
combat. " And yet," said Mr. Whittier, " I consider Mil-
ton's prose works the greater production of his genius."
While he appreciated the sublime power of Milton as a
poet, he more highly appreciated the clear vision and men-
tal vigor with which, almost single-handed, he waged the
intellectual warfare for civil and religious liberty in Eng-
land. That "Lofty plea for England's freedom," in which
Milton advocated a free Commonwealth, without a sover-
eign or House of Lords, a government which should be
entrusted to a General Council of the ablest men, chosen
by the Nation, &c., &c., was, Mr. Whittier declared, the
foundation upon which our Fathers built the constitutional
government of the great republic of America.
Delegations of Friends from England, Ireland, and
Wales, and from various Quaker communities in New
England, Philadelphia, and the West, came at times to visit
and hold spiritual converse with Mr. Whittier. After
greetings, congratulations, &c. were delightfully dispensed,
a silence fell upon the small company of visitors and soon
every voice was hushed. Some one would then be "moved
by the Divine Spirit" to speak words of counsel, admoni-
tion, or of Holy promise unto those present and usually
one or more would reverently offer a prayer.
On one occasion there came three of Mr. Whittier's
confreres in the anti-slavery and abolition conflicts, who
urgently besought him to write a poem or even some word
of retraction from the sentiments expressed in his poem,
LIFE AT OAK KNOLL. 113
" John Brown of Ossawatamie." In that poem he con-
demned the rash and disloyal acts of John Brown, but he
forgave the treason, for the loving but misguided heart
which begat his unwisdom and fanaticism. Mr. Whittier
was firm in his refusal to retract or abate a single word
from the spirit or import of his poem ; saying, " John
Brown's acts were unconstitutional and I cannot condone
them." He never consented to any infringement of the
Constitution, which he revered as a Patriot. In a conver-
sation upon the subject, he once said, u lf my loyalty to
the Union is ever called in question, you have only to refer
to a letter which I wrote to the late Gov. Andrew to con-
fute the aspersion. He was
"A Patriot if a partisan,
He loved his native land. 17
On the visit of his friend George William Curtis and sev-
eral other gentlemen who accompanied him, Mr. Whittier
was urgently solicited to unite with them in the memora-
ble mugwump deflection from the Republican Party. He
assured them that, in many respects, his sympathies were
with them, but, said he, " I feel that I am now too old to
change my party affiliations or to enter into any political
complications."
The Massachusetts Club, of forty -four gentlemen, includ-
ing the Governor and four ex-Governors, Long, Brack-
et?, Talbot, and Claflin, on July eighth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-four, came and partook of strawberries, cream,
and other light refreshments, greatly to Mr. Whittier's
pleasure and gratification. In fact there were few months
in the year when he was not favored by the experience
of some such happy event.
Mr. Whittier was never reticent in regard to his poems
when he was writing them. He often enjoyed listening
to the reading of them, commenting upon them, and re-
lating some circumstances of their conception, &c. The
short poem, " What of the Day," is an instance of his pro-
phetic inspiration. " I wrote that poem two years before
the Civil War broke out. I was in my garden one morn-
ing, when I dropped my hoe and went to my desk and
114 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER's
wrote it. I read it over several times and said 'What
does it mean ?' I opened my drawer and put it out of my
sight and there it remained for two years, when I pub-
lished it."
Mr. Whittier's friendship for Samuel J. Tilden was of
long standing. Mr. Tilden was always in sympathy with
Mr. Whittier in his Free Soil and Anti-slavery views and
labors. Not only giving his sympathy, but efficient aid,
in several instances, to both. Mr. Whittier was at Centre
Harbor when he received the intelligence of Mr. Tilden's
death. That night he wrote his " Lines to Samuel J.
Tilden," and sent them to the editor of " The Boston
Transcript," in which they were published the next even-
ing. Many political friends marveled greatly at the senti-
ment contained in those lines, coming, as they did, so soon
after the preceding memorable presidential election. After
Mr. Whittier returned to "Oak Knoll," he was asked
how he came to write that poem. He replied with some
emotion, " Why, I had to do it. It was due to him, from
me."
Mr. Whittier's poem, " A Cry of a Lost Soul, " was so
highly appreciated by Dom Pedro, then Emperor of Brazil,
that he personally translated it into the Portuguese lan-
guage. With much difficulty he obtained a pair of the
Amazonian birds, had them preserved and mounted, and
then sent them to Mr. Whittier. Unfortunately they were
afterward destroyed by his housekeeper in a New England
joust of house cleaning. The friendship between the
Poet and the Emperor, thus inaugurated, was maintained
for years, until Dom Pedro abdicated and retired to Port-
ugal, from whence he wrote to Mr. Whittier, who was
afterwards kept informed by cable of his illness and death.
After Mr. Whittier passed his seventieth anniversary,
he published more than one hundred poems, nearly all of
which were written in the retirement of his home at " Oak
Knoll." As they were sent forth to the public, there
came back to him many letters of congratulation, of grat-
itude and of thankfulness, according as they met the
moods or needs of their readers.
Rhyming was not a natural gift to Mr. Whittier, it was
LIFE AT OAK KNOLL. 115
rather an acquired habit, contracted when a lad from the
rhyming melodies of Robert Burns and the verse of other
early bards. He often engrafted some afterthought or
suggested incident into a ballad or poem which had been
nearly, or quite, completed, thus necessitating more or less
change in the entire construction. When this occurred,
the debris of reconstruction was usually somewhat dis-
figured before consignment to his waste basket. It is well
to pay that deferential reverence to his memory which
withholds from public scrutiny those musty fragments
which their author consigned to oblivion. It was never
the poem, existing in his inner consciousness, which halted
and marked his manuscript with changes, but the lack of
fitting words wherewith to clothe the conceptions of his
mind. The ringing of the bells of harmony was always
clear to his inward ear. It required no whip or spur to
subordinate his genius to the march of conflict in the great
moral warfares of his fellow-men, no long-drawn pre-
ludes to attune his lyre to the sweet harmonies of nature,
or his harp-strings to the sad, low requiems he sang for
those whom he loved and mourned.
Mr. Whittier thought diligently upon spiritual subjects,
and was found of discussions which disclosed the views
of others upon themes regarding the exercise of Faith
and trustful reliance upon Divine Goodness, a term
which, in his comprehension, embraces the Power that
controls the Universe. Such matters were the fireside
topics of conversation for many winter evenings previous
to the writing and publication of his poem entitled, " The
Vision of Echard," a poem very dear to those who con-
templated with its author each point of that far-reaching
and significant '* Vision."
When Mr. Whittier was asked to write for some special
occasion, his first impulse was to give a prompt refusal.
The task was not to his liking. It savored too much of
the work of a machine, to be ground out, by the steady
application of thought upon a topic not pregnant with the
persuasive force which controls and inspires the mind
when great poetic themes seek utterance. When invited
to write an inscription for a bas-relief representing the
116 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER'g
" Last Indian and the Last Bison," to be carved by Pres-
ton Powers upon the granite cliffs which overhang the
beautiful natural park in the vicinity of Denver, Colorado,
Mr. Whittier declined, saying that he could not see the
figures or the position they were to occupy with the sur-
rounding scenery with sufficient clearness to enable him
to conceive of an appropriate symbolic inscription. Long
before, he had been presented with a fine large photograph
of " The Lion of Lucerne," carved by Thorwaldson upon
the cliffs which overhang the lake in Switzerland, but
which had been laid away in a folio so long as to have
been almost forgotten. After an evening spent in conver-
sation upon topics of travel, among which were the moun-
tain peaks of Colorado which had been seen in their
native grandeur, Mr. Whittier arose in the morning to
find confronting him upon his desk, " The Lion of Lu-
cerne." With a comprehending smile, he recognized its
suggestion, and that evening he read aloud these lines :
" The eagle, stooping from yon snow-blown peaks,
For the wild hunter and the bison seeks
In the changed world below, and finds alone
Their graven image in the eternal stone."
Mr. Whittier wrote the ballad, The Witch of Wen-
ham," in the winter of 1877. The previous summer, with
the little " Red Riding Hood " of his poem, he rode over
the rolling slopes of Cherry Hill, once known as " Alford
Hill," and around the borders of Wenham Lake, which
lay embosomed in wild shrubbery at its base. During the
drive he improvised for his child companion a marvellous
tale of the sad days of witchcraft in old Salem Village,
now known as Danvers. From this little romance there
came the happy conception of his beautiful ballad, " The
Witch of Wenham." Near to " Oak Knoll," still stands
" The farmhouse old," in which, according to tradition,
an unfortunate victim of the " dreadful horror " was con-
fined in its garret, whence she escaped by sliding down its
LIFE AT OAK KNOLL. 117
roof to the arms of one who had come to her rescue. The
old " Witch Well," may' still be seen beneath the broad
arms of a venerable elm, which, could it speak like the
" Oaks of Dodona," would tell strange tales of another
victim who dwelt beside it.
On a windy morning in early spring, Mr. Whittier
called to the family, " Come, put on your wraps, and all
go with me for a walk." The air was crisp with frost and
the lawns were sparkling in the glow of sunshine. We
walked to a rising knoll which overlooked the meadow
dotted with wild growths, through which Beaver Brook
here and there disclosed itself in little pools. Beyond
the meadow arose slopes of hills where stood old farm-
houses half hidden by sheltering pines. The winds swayed
the leafless branches of the tall trees and threatened us with
the "Trial of the Winds" in the old fable. Mr. Whittier
caught from the winds, the green hill slopes, and the
winding brook, a happy inspiration for the closing stanzas
of his ballad, and abruptly returned to his study. In the
evening of that day he read to us from his manuscript the
entire ballad "The Witch of Wenham." He was a
good reader of his own, as well as of other poems, and a
rare interpreter of the lyrics of Burns. While we lis-
tened to the unfolding incidents of the ballad, our minds
caught something of the vivid power of the reader, and
we seemed, with him, to hear the " Hebrew's old refrain,"
to behold with him the " fair face of Wenham Lake," and
to hear the " wheeling flight " of the " blind bats on their
leathern wings." With "Man and Maid" we sped "Along
the wild wood paths, the bridgeless stream we swam ;"
*' At set of noon we passed the Bass,
At sunrise Agawam."
With them, we 4< Shared the sweet relief," when, " In
the red sun-down," they came in safety to that " Friendly
door ... in distant Berwicktown." How sweetly sang
the song birds,
118 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER'S
" When once more by Beaver-dam
The meadow lark outsang
And once again, on all the hills,
The early violets sprang.
*' And all the windy pasture slopes
Lay green within the arms
Of creeks that bore the salted sea
To pleasant inland farms. 1 '
In reply to the question, " Which of all your ballads do
you like the best? " Mr. Whittier answered, " Hugh Tal-
lant's Sycamores." Mr. James T. Brady, an eminent jurist
and political leader in New York City, once expressed his
appreciation of that ballad in a letter to its author. These
two gentlemen, one a practical man of the world, and the
other a poet, possessed many common bonds of sympathy.
They were both bachelors, and both were earnest defend-
ers of Right against Wrong, according to their individual
understanding of those attributes. Judge Brady's letter
is an exceedingly interesting one, much read and prized
by Mr. Whittier.
New York, Mar. 5, 1866.
Mr. John G. Whittier:
My Dear Sir:
I am a stranger to you personally, but have long been
familiar with your intelligence and spirit, your poetry-
being a darling of my heart, which I have hugged closely
for years. My admiration must at least be deemed im-
partial, for I am a Catholic, and know what you have writ-
ten about Pio Nona. I was a Democrat of the Southern
class, and know how much your thoughts did to keep
alive the effort, which I thank God has resulted in the
abolition of slavery. I am of Irish parentage, and it is a
source of great pleasure and mirth to my friends and my-
self that I can challenge all the literature of Erin to fur-
nish one description so thoroughly Irish as your portrait
LIFE AT OAK KNOLL. 119
of Hugh Tallant in the " Sycamores." I think it is the
most racy and rollicking, as well as truthful representation
of the Milesian that ever came to my notice. You have
learned long since that Tom Moore did not write Irish
poetry, but treats Irish subjects with Oriental imagery.
The poets of '48, particularly Tom Davis, have done much
better, but the odor of the brogue is stronger in Hugh
Tallant than in even their pictures.
I am impelled to address you because I have just wiped
from my eyes the tears called to them by your " Snow-
bound," and from the bottom of my heart I thank you
for the spiritual enjoyment you have furnished in this
exquisite poem, and for your grand idea
That Life is ever Lord of Death,
And Love can never lose its own.'
I hope you will be pleased to know that a lawyer of
fifty years old, and an old bachelor at that, still keeps
alive in his soul the most undying fondness for poetry.
As to being an Old Bachelor, I care little for that now,
seeing how gracefully you have presented an Old Maid*
in your last sweet production.
Yours very truly,
JAS. T. BRADY.
In familiar family converse by a winter's fireside, Mr.
Whittier was asked why he never married. He made this
reply, which at the time was made note of by the writer :
" Matrimony was never a success in my family. My moth-
er and my sister Elisabeth were my especial care while
they lived, and I think with St. Paul, that while those
who marry do well, many who do not marry do better."
*The Old Maid referred to was the " Aunt Mercy " in " Snow-bound."
" The sweetest woman ever Fate,
Perverse, denied a household mate."
120 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER'S
Those friendships of his youth and manhood which have
afforded themes for speculative authors to magnify and
elaborate into " grievous disappointments in love," were
unreservedly talked about in reminiscent moods ; and,
" between the lines," it was not difficult to understand
why Mr. Whittier lived and died a bachelor. If any one
of the many women whose friendship was dear to Mr.
Whittier, took a deeper or more lasting hold upon his
affections, that hold was never deep nor strong enough to
guarantee to him the bonds of matrimony. He once told
us of a young Quaker lady whom he met for the first time
at Friends' Yearly Meeting, who was then and always the
most beautiful woman he ever saw. Had he then been in
circumstances to have engaged her affections for him, Ms
life would doubtless have been different in many ways.
In youth and in old age, the lady in the case was ever a
most lovely and beautiful woman.
Mr. Whittier never wished to " fight his battles o'er ; "
he preferred rather to contemplate the results of the
dreadful conflict for emancipation than to recall its awful
scenes of human slaughter. He gave the best of his life
to an untiring advocacy of the cause of freedom for the
slaves, and when, at last, the great proclamation was sent
over our vast country making good the declaration of our
fathers that " All men are born free," he bowed his soul
in sorrowful recognition of the awful facts of human sac-
rifice by which it was accomplished. He often expressed
a doubt whether the results attained justified the means
of their attainment, a doubt which he expressed in these
words "If I could have really foreseen the dreadful
bloodshed which resulted from the great conflict, I should
have hesitated and restrained my ardor, for a more peace-
ful solution of the great problem. It was sure to come,
some time, and the sacrifice of blood was awful." Years
of reflection brought to Mr. Whittier's mind a better un-
derstanding and realization of the far-seeing vision by
which the massive mind of Daniel Webster was enabled
to foretell the awful strife and horror of a civil war,
which his wisdom foresaw would be the sure result of the
policy of the political party which he abandoned. In
LIFE AT OAK KNOLL. 121
obedience to the demands of his nobler nature, Mr. Whit-
tier wrote " The Lost Occasion." He directed his pub-
lishers to place it in the next edition of his works, immedi-
ately after his poem " Ichabod," which was written thirty
years before, that the two poems might be read together.
It is to be lamented that Mr. Whittier's Biography was
not and could not be written according to the arrangements
he made in the summer preceding his death. He talked
of the matter freely with the family at " Oak Knoll,"
and was quite happy in the assurance that his friend, Dr.
Thomas Chace, then President of Haverford College,
Penn., would perform that labor of love, in his memory.
In a letter in June, 1892, he wrote : " I did not go to
yearly meeting (in Portland), though I was anxious to
meet Dr. Chace there, to talk with him about writing my
biography, which he has consented to do, in connection
with Mr. Pickard, who will aid him in obtaining material
and facts, &c." Most unfortunately for Mr. Whittier's
memory, Dr. Chace's death occurred just once month after
Mr. Whittier died.
When Mr. Whittier left Oak Knoll " for the last time,
he was very cheerful and happy. As he sat looking out
over the gardens and lawns, awaiting the carriage to con-
vey him to the station, he remarked upon their loveliness,
saying, with unusual assurance, " I shall not be gone over
three weeks, and when I get back we will have the whole
Whittier Club here from Haverhill. I want them to see
me here, among these trees, where I have taken so much
pleasure and comfort." He went from " Oak Knoll " to
his old home in Amesbury, where he remained a few days.
From there he went to the house of a daughter of his
mother's old friend, Elizabeth Grove, in Hampton, New
Hampshire ; and, in the grey dawn of the seventh day of
the ninth month, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-
two, he died. He had nearly survived to the eighty-fifth
anniversary of his birth, when he left the burdens and the
joys of life to receive the rewards of his faithful service
and to enter into that peace which passeth understanding.
The memory of such men is blessed. When they part
with the vestments of mortality, they are clothed in an
122 LIFE AT OAK KNOLL,
immortality which the wisdom of the world holds fast and
will not let depart from it ; an immortality which becomes
an integral force in the great moral power which moves
humanity to higher planes of virtue and excellence, as the
great cosmic forces shape and mould the Universe.
" Whatever his life's defeatures,
He loved his fellow creatures.
If of the Law's stone table
To hold he scarce was able,
The first great precept fast,
He kept for man the last.
Age brought him no despairing
Of the world's future faring.
In human nature still
He found more good than ill.
To all who dumbly suffered
His tongue and pen he offered;
His life was not his own
Nor lived for self alone.
Hater of din and riot
He lived in days unquiet,
And lover of all beauty
Trod the hard ways of duty.
He meant no harm to any,
He sought the good of many,
Yet knew both sin and folly;
May God forgive him wholly.
J. a. w.
THE
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
CENTENARY EXHIBITION AT THE ESSEX INSTITUTE,
DECEMBER 17, 1907 TO JANUARY 81, 1908.
FIRST EDITIONS AND PRINTED WORKS.*
" The Exile's Departure," and " The Deity," first two
printed poems. From Newburyport Free Press, June 8,
and June 22, 1826. Fac-similes in New England
Magazine, Boston, December, 1892.
Pericles. Broadside, 22J x 7% cm. [Haverhill, 1827?]
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
Incidental Poems, by Robert Dinsmore, Haverhill, 1828.
Contains "J. G. Whittier to the Rustic Bard."
Specimens of American Poetry, by Samuel Kettell, 3 vols.,
Boston, 1829.
Contains "The Sicilian Vespers.' 1
The Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette, 1829.
Whittier was a contributor.
American Anecdotes, by an American, 2 vols., Boston,
1830.
Contains "The Spectre Ship of Salem. 11
Essex Gazette, Haverhill, April 3, 1830 issue. Edited by
Whittier.
Contains a poem, "The Crucifixion," and an advertisement of
his proposed "History of Haverhill.' 1
Lent by Haverhill Public Library.
*The property of the Essex Institute when not otherwise designated.
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124 THE JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
New England Weekly Review, Hartford, Conn., Oct. 18,
1830 issue. Edited by Whittier.
Lent by Connecticut Historical Society.
The New York Amulet, and Ladies' Literary and Religious
Chronicle, New York, 1830.
Contains "Henry St. Glair," and other contributions.
Lent by P. K. Foley.
The Yankee Almanac for 1831, by Thomas Spofford, Bos-
ton [1830].
Contains " The Spirit of the North."
Legends of New England, Hartford, 1831.
Biography of Henry Clay, by George D. Prentice, Hart-
ford, 1821. Also, 2d edition, New York, 1831, con-
taining additional matter.
Whitter collaborated with Prentice in preparing this biography
and also revised the printer's proofs.
American Commonplace Book of Poetry, by George B.
Cheever, Boston, 1831.
Contains "To the dying year," and other poems.
The Literary Souvenir, A. A. Watts, editor, London,
1831.
Contains "The Indian Girl's Lament."
The Yankee Almanac for 1832, by Thomas Spofford, Bos-
ton [1831].
Contains " Boliver," and "The Cities of the Plain."
Literary remains of John G. C. Brainard, with a sketch
of his life, Hartford [1832].
History of Haverhill, by B. L. Mirick, Haverhill, 1832.
Whittier was the publisher of this volume and it is also
thought that he was the author.
CENTENARY EXHIBITION. 125
Moll Pitcher, a poem, Boston, 1832.
Justice and Expediency; or Slavery considered with a
View to its Rightful and Effectual Remedy, Abolition
(500 copies privately printed), Haverhill, 1833.
Anti-Slavery Reporter, Vol. I, No. 4, New York, 1833.
Contains "Justice and Expediency."
The Oasis, Lydia Maria Child, editor, Boston, 1834.
Contains Slave Ships. 1 '
The Colonizationist and Journal of Freedom, Boston, 1834
Whittier was a contributor.
New England Anti-Slavery Convention, Proceedings, Bos-
ton, 1834.
Whittier was one of the five signers of the "Address to the
People/'
The Maryland Scheme of Expatriation Examined, by a
Friend of Liberty, Boston, 1834.
Contains 4< The Hunters of Men."
New England Anti-Slavery Convention. Address to the
People of the United States by a Committee Boston,
1834.
Signed by Whittier and others.
Full statement of the reasons which were in part offered
to the Committee of the Legislature of Massachusetts on
the fourth and eighth of March, respecting Abolition-
i[s]ts and Anti-Slavery Societies, Boston, 1836.
Contains "Stanzas for the Times."
Mogg Megone, a poem, Boston, 1836.
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
Anti-Slavery Record, Vol. II, New York, 1836.
Contains l * Bill of Abominations."
126 THE JOHN GBEENLBAF WHITTIER
Songs of the Free and Hymns of Christian Freedom, Bos-
ton, 1836.
Contains "Voices of New England," and other poems.
Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Annual report.
(Right and Wrong in Boston in 1836), Boston, 1836.
Contains "To the memory of Charles B. Storrs," and "Cleri-
cal Oppressors."
Views of Slavery and Emancipation ; from " Society in
America," by Harriet Martineau, New York, 1837.
Preface is signed J. G. W[hittier].
Letters to his Constituents, by J. Q. Adams, Boston, 1837.
Contains "Lines on the passage of Mr. Pinckney's resolu-
tions/' and "Stanzas for the times." Whittier also writes
the Introduction.
Boston Book, Boston, 1837.
Contains "New England."
Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Annual report
(Right and Wrong in Boston), Boston, 1837.
Contains "Lines on reading the famous Pastoral Letter."
Poems written during the Progress of the Abolition
Question in the United States between the years 1830
and 1838, Boston, 1837.
Narrative of James Williams an American slave, New
York, 1838.
Written anonymously by Whittier.
Report on the powers and duties of Congress upon the
subject of slavery and the slave trade [by the Joint
Special Committee of the Legislature of Massachusetts,
April 6, 1838]. Mass. Senate document, No. 87.
Whittier was a member of the Committee.
The Liberator, Boston, June 29, 1838 issue.
Whittier was a frequent contributor.
CENTENARY EXHIBITION. 127
Poems, Philadelphia, 1838.
Moll Pitcher and The Minstrel Girl. Revised edition,
Philadelphia, 1840.
Lent ly 8. H. Wakeman.
The North Star: the Poetry of Freedom, Philadelphia,
1840.
Edited by Whittier, who also contributed poems.
American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter, New York,
Oct. 1, 1841 issue.
Edited by Whittier.
The Anti-Slavery Picknick, a Collection of Speeches, etc.
for use in Schools and Anti-slavery Meetings. Edited by
John A.Collins, Boston, 1842.
Contains " Stanzas," and " Stanzas for the times.' 1
Visit to the United States in 1841, by Joseph Sturge,
London, 1842.
Contains contributions by Whittier.
Poetical Remains of the late Lucy Hooper, by John
Keese, New York, 1842.
Contains "On the death of Lucy Hooper."
Lays of my Home and other Poems, Boston, 1843.
Readings in American Poetry, by Rufus W. Griswold,
New York, 1843.
Contains " New England," and other poems.
The Liberty Minstrel, by George W. Clark, New York,
1844.
Contains *' Gone, Sold and Gone," and other poems, set to
music.
Ballads and other Poems, London, 1844.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
128 THE JOHN GKEENLEAP WHITTIER
The Stranger in Lowell (anonymous), Boston, 1845.
Proceedings of a Convention of Delegates chosen by the
people of Massachusetts assembled in Faneuil Hall, Bos-
ton, January 29th, 1845, to take into consideration the
proposed annexation of Texas to the United States,
Boston, 1845.
Whittier was one of the four secretaries.
Voices of Freedom, 7th edition, Philadelphia, 1846.
Narratives of the sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke,
Boston, 1846.
Contains " Our Countrymen in Chains."
Scenes in the Life of the Saviour, Ruf us W. Griswold, ed-
itor, Philadelphia, 1846.
Contains " L'Envoi."
Memoir of Rev. Charles T. Torrey, by J. C. Love joy,
Boston, 1847.
Contains a tribute from Whittier.
Supernaturalism of New England (Wiley and Putnam's
Library of American books, No. 27.), New York, 1847.
A Wreath for St. Crispin, by J. Prince, Boston, 1848.
Contains "The Shoemakers," with a biographical sketch and
selections from Whittier's verse and prose.
The Dark Eye has Left us. Music by William R. Demp-
ster (sheet music), Boston, 1848.
American Free Soil Almanac for 1849, Boston [1848].
Contains " Free Soil Paean. "
Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal, 1678-9 (anony-
mous), Boston, 1849.
Poems, Boston, 1849.
Boston Book, Boston, 1850.
Contains " Kathleen," and " The Yankee Zincali."
CENTENARY EXHIBITION, 129
Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, Boston, 1850.
Songs of Labor and other Poems, Boston, 1850.
A Tract for the Times ! A Sabbath Scene. Broadside,
26} x 15 cm. [1850.]
Lent by 8. If. Wakeman.
Operatives reply to Hon. Jere. Clemens, a sketch of fac-
tory life and enterprise, by Harriet Farley, Lowell,
1850.
Contains a Letter from Whittier.
Poems, Boston, 1850.
Letter from Committee of Correspondence calling for a
State Convention to be held in Boston, March 26, 1851,
Boston, 1851.
Signed by Whittier and four others.
Hymns and Songs for the Anti-Slavery Celebration of the
Declaration of Independence at Abington, July 4, 1851.
Broadside, 41 x 22> cm. Boston [1851.]
Contains " American Liberty! "
Little Eva ; Uncle Tom's Guardian Angel. Music by
Manuel Emilio (sheet music), Boston, 1852.
The Farewell of a Virginian Slave-mother to her Daughter,
sold into Southern bondage. Leeds Anti-slavery
Tracts, No. 10. Leeds, Eng. [1852].
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
Clerical Oppressors. Leeds Anti-slavery Tracts, No. 21.
Leeds, Eng. [1852.]
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
The Christian Slave. Leeds Anti-slavery Tracts, No. 52.
Leeds, Eng. [1852.]
Selections from the writings and speeches of William
Lloyd Garrison, Boston, 1852.
Contains " To William Lloyd Garrison."
130 THE JOHN GBBENLEAF WHITTIER
The Chapel of the Hermits and other poems, Boston, 1853.
Autographs for Freedom, Boston, 1853.
Contains " The Way."
Sabbath Scene, Boston, 1854.
Literary Recreations and Miscellanies, Boston, 1854.
The Panorama and other Poems, Boston, 1856.
Song [written for the Essex Agricultural Exhibition].
Broadside, 17} x 6^ cm. [Newburyport, 1856.]
Essex Agricultural Society Transactions, Newburyport,
1856.
Contains * A Lay of Olden Time."
The National Era, Washington, D. C., January 1, 1857
issue.
Whittier was Corresponding Editor from 1847 to 1859.
Poetical Works, 2 vols. Boston, 1857.
The Sycamores, Nantucket, 1857.
Lent by S. ff. Wakeman.
The Legion of Liberty ! and Force of Truth, New York,
1857.
Contains '* What! shall we henceforth humbly ask as favors? 1 '
Celebration of the hundreth anniversary of the birth of
Robert Burns by the Boston Burns Club, January 25th,
1859, Boston, 1859.
Contains a letter and a poem.
Home Ballads and Poems, Boston, 1860.
Report of the Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting
of the Alumni Association of the New England Yearly
Meeting School, Philadelphia, 1860.
Contains " The Quaker Alumni."
CENTENARY EXHIBITION. 131
The Republican Campaign Songster, edited by William
H. Burleigh, New York, 1860.
Contains * The Song of the Kansas Emigrants," and "Free
Discussion."
The Bobolink Minstrel, edited by George W. Bungay,
New York, 1860.
Contains " Up for the Conflict."
Voice from John G. Whittier. The Quakers Are Out.
Those who desire this Song, call on John A. Innis.
Broadside, 12% x 8% cm. [Boston, I860?]
The Quakers Are Out. Published by Wright & Potter.
Broadside, 12^ x 8 cm. [Boston, [I860?]
Naples, 1860. Inscribed to Robert C. Waterston. 4 pages.
Bound with A Memorial of Helen Ruthven Waterston,
Boston, 1860.
The Yankee Girl, a song, with seven anonymous songs.
Broadside, 29% x 42> cm. [1860 ?]
Chimes of Freedom and Union. A collection of poems by
various authors, Boston, 1861.
Contains " Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott."
Patience of Hope, by the author of " A Present Heaven,"
Boston, 1862.
With an Introduction by Whittier.
Song of the Negro Boatman. Published by the Super-
visory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments.
Broadside, 18% x 9^ cm. [1862 ?]
Lent ly S. H. Wakeman.
Only Once, New York, 1862.
Contains " Patience," and "Song of the Negro Boatman," set
to " music composed for Only Once by an amatenr."
Army and Navy Melodies, Boston, 1862.
Contains " Song of the Negro Boatmen," set to music.
132 THE JOHN GEEENLEAF WHITTIER
Negro Boatman's Song. Music by Edward Wiebe (sheet
music), Boston, 1862.
Ole Massa on his trabbles gone. Music by S. K. Whitney
(sheet music), Boston, 1862.
American Anti-slavery Society. Proceedings at its Third
Decade, held in Philadelphia, Dec. 3d and 4th, 1863,
New York, 1864.
Contains " A Northern Song," and two letters.
In War Time and other Poems, Boston, 1864.
The Silver Bell, by Charles Butler, Boston [1864].
Contains * The Contraband of Port Royal," set to music.
Boatswain's Whistle. Published at the National Sailors'
Fair, Boston, 1864.
Whittier was one of the Editorial Council. Contains " John
Woolman4n the Steerage."
Essex Institute Proceedings, Vol. Ill, Salem, 1864.
Contains "Flowers, Flowering Shrubs and Vines in Amesbury
and Salisbury."
Poetical Works, 2 vols., Boston, 1864.
National Lyrics, Boston, 1865.
Essex Agricultural Society Transactions, South Danvers,
1865.
Contains " The Peace Autumn."
Maud Muller. Broadside, 19% x 13J^ cm. [1865?]
Memorial of Edward Everett from the City of Boston,
Boston, 1865.
Contains Letter from Whittier.
Good Company for Every Day in the Year, Boston, 1866.
Contains "Yankee Gypsies."
CBNTBNAEY EXHIBITION. 133
Snow-Bound, A Winter Idyl, Boston, 1866.
Prose Works, 2 vols., Boston, 1866.
Poetical Works, 2 vols., Boston, 1867.
The Tent on the Beach and other Poems, Boston, 1867.
Maud Muller, Boston, 1867.
Poetical Works, complete edition, Boston, 1868.
Among the Hills and other Poems, Boston, 1869.
Poetical Works, complete edition, 2 vols., Boston, 1870.
Ballads of New England, Boston, 1870.
Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. Thirty-sixth
and Final Report, Philadelphia, 1870.
Contains, " Oh! if the spirits of the parted come."
The Eternal Goodness and The Minister's Daughter, one
leaf, 8vo., London [1875?].
Winter Poems by Favorite American Authors, Boston,
1871.
Contains "The Pageant," and " In School-Days."
Miriam and other Poems, Boston, 1871.
Journal of John Woolman, Boston, 1871.
With an Introduction by Whittier.
Child Life: a Collection of Poems, Boston [1871].
Edited by Whittier.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim and other Poems, Boston, 1872.
To Edward and Elizabeth Gove on the Fifty-fifth Anniver-
sary of their Marriage, 29th of 8th mo., 1872, four
pages, 8vo.
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
134 THE JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
Complete Poetical Works. Household edition, Boston,
1873.
Child Life in Prose, Boston, 1874.
The Prayer of Agassiz, Cambridge, 1874.
Memorial of Charles Sumner, Boston, 1874.
Contains ' Sumner."
Lingering Memories. Music by D. F. Hodges (sheet
music), Boston, 1874.
Poems. New revised edition, Boston, 1874.
Hazel-Blossoms, Boston, 1875.
Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of the Battle
of Lexington, April 19, 1875, Lexington, 1875.
Contains " Lexington 1775."
Proceedings at the Dedication of the Haverhill Public
Library, November llth, 1875, Haverhill, 1876.
Contains a Letter and "Let there be light."
Program of exercises at the Dedication of the Haverhill
Public Library, Nov. 11, 1875, Haverhill, 1875.
Contains a u Poem."
Narratives of Colored Americans, New York, 1875.
Contains " Hymns sung at Xmas by the scholars at St. Hele-
na's Island, S. C."
Mabel Martin. A Harvest Idyl, 21 illustrations, Boston,
1876.
Mabel Martin. A Harvest Idyl, 58 illustrations, Boston,
1876.
Centennial Hymn, with music by J. K. Paine. Broadside,
x 12J^ cm. stereotype proof.
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
CENTENARY EXHIBITION. 135
Centennial Hymn, with music by J. K. Paine. Broadside,
18J^ x 12^ cm.
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
Centennial Hymn, with music by J. K. Paine. Compli-
ments of W. E. Coster, Philadelphia. Broadside,
19 x 12}^ cm.
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
Centennial Hymn. Music by J. K. Paine (sheet music),
Philadelphia, 1876.
Songs of Three Centuries, Boston, 1876.
Edited by Whittier.
Complete Poetical Works, Boston, 1876.
Indian Civilization : a lecture, by Stanley Pumphrey,
Philadelphia, 1877.
With an Introduction by Whittier.
Inauguration of the Halleck Statue [invitation and pro-
gram], New York, 1877.
The program announces a Poem by Whittier, to be read by J.
G. Wilson.
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
Fitz-Greene Halleck. Poem, 3 pages [New York, 1877].
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
The Tent on the Beach, Boston, 1877.
Favorite Poems, Boston, 1877.
Memoir of William Francis Bartlett, by Francis W. Pal-
frey, Boston, 1878.
Contains a memorial poem, " William Francis Bartlett."
The Vision of Echard and other Poems, Boston, 1878.
The River Path, Boston, 1878.
136 THE JOHN GRBENLEAF WHITTIER
Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. XV., Salem,
1878.
Contains "Account of the Commemoration of the Fifth Half-
Century of the Landing of Gov. John Endecott," with a
Letter from Whittier.
Tributes to William Lloyd Garrison, at the Funeral Ser-
vices, May 28, 1879, Boston, 1879.
Contains a poem, "Garrison."
William Lloyd Garrison and His Times, by Oliver John-
son, Boston, 1879.
With an Introduction by Whittier.
Bronze Group commemorating Emancipation. A Gift to
the City of Boston from Hon. Moses Kimball [Bos-
ton], 1879.
Contains a " Poem " by Whittier.
Poems of the Old South, Boston, 1879.
Contains " In the Old South Church."
The Life, Travels, and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor,
by Kussell H. Conwell, Boston, 1879.
Contains a Letter from Whittier.
A Short Sketch of the Life and Services of Jonathan
Walker, the Man with a Branded Hand, Muskegon,
Mich., 1879.
Contains a letter and " The Branded Hand."
Poems. New revised edition, Boston, 1880.
Whittier's Old-Time Poem, Cassandra Southwick, 4 pages,
4vo. [1880?].
Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. XVII, Salem,
1880.
Contains " Account of the Commemoration of the 250th Anni-
versary of the Arrival of John Winthrop at Salem," with
Letter from Whittier.
CENTENARY EXHIBITION. 137
The King's Missive and other Poems, Boston, 1881.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Proceedings, Vol.
XVIII., Boston, 1881.
Contains letter on the " King's Missive."
Grand Banquet given to the American Pomological Socie-
ty by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston,
September 16, 1881, 4 pages [Boston, 1881].
Contains "Hymn written for the Occasion " by Whittier.
The Whittier Birthday Book, arranged by Elizabeth S.
Owen, Boston, 1881.
An Autobiographical sketch, containing autographic addi-
tions. Broadside, 23 x 37^ cm. Amesbury, 1882.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
In Memoriam. Rebecca Chase Grinnell of New Bedford,
who died July 6, 1882. Poetical tribute by Whittier,
written at the request of the family, and engraved upon
a card.
" She leaves behind her, freed from griefs and years,
Far worthier things than tears ;
The love of friends, a record pure and good
Of gracious womanhood."
The Illustrated Fryeburg Memorial, Fryeburg, Me., 1882.
Contains "Lines."
Biographical Notes and Personal Sketches, by James T.
Fields, Boston, 1882.
Contains " In Memory."
The Bay of Seven Islands and other Poems, Boston, 1883.
Letters by Lydia Maria Child, Boston, 1883.
Contains a Biographical Introduction by Whittier, and * With-
in the Gate."
Text and Verse for every day in the year, from Whittier's
writings. Arranged by G. W. Cartland, Boston, 1884.
138 THE JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
Jack in the Pulpit [New York, 1884].
Edited by Whittier, and containing an Introductory Letter.
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
Proceedings at the Unveiling of a Bust of Elizabeth Fry
at the Friends' School, Providence, R. I., Ninth Month,
29th, 1885, Providence, 1885.
Contains "The Two Elizabeths."
Proceedings at the Presentation of a Portrait of John
Greenleaf Whittier to the Friends' School, Providence,
R. L, Tenth Month, 24th, 1884. Cambridge, 1885.
Contains a Letter.
Account of the Rebecca Nurse Monument, by William P.
Upham. From the Historical Collections of the Essex
Institute, Vol. XXIII, Salem, 1886.
Contains two Letters and his Lines for the Nurse monument.
Re-union of the Schoolmates of John Greenleaf Whittier,
September 10, 1885, with Exercises at the Presentation
of the Portrait of the Poet to the Haverhill Public
Library, December 17, 1885, Haverhill, 1886.
Contains " Poem, 1 ' and Letters.
Saint Gregory's Guest and Recent Poems, Boston, 1886.
Inauguration of the Statue of Liberty on Bedlow's Island,
New York, Oct. 28, 1886, New York, 1887.
Contains " The Bartholdi Statue."
American Literature and other Papers, by Edwin P. Whip-
pie, Boston, 1887.
With Introductory Note by Whittier.
Presentation of the Bartlett Statue to the State of Mas-
sachusetts by Jacob R. Huntington. Unveiled at Ames-
bury, Mass., July 4th, 1888, Newburyport [1888].
Contains " One of the Signers."
CENTENARY EXHIBITION. 139
One of the Signers [Amesbury, 1888].
In Memoriam. William B. Goldsmith, M. D. [New York,
1888].
Contains a Tribute.
At Sundown, Cambridge, 1890.
One of 50 copies privately printed.
The Haverhill Academy and the Haverhill High School,
1827-1890. An Historical Sketch by Albert L. Bart-
lett, Haverhill, 1890.
Contains u Ode " sung at the dedication, April 30, 1827.
Record of the Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary
of the Settlement of Haverhill, Mass., Boston, 1891.
Contains an " Ode " and Letters.
At Sundown, Boston, 1892.
The Demon Lady [Haverhill], 1894.
A New Year's Address to the Patrons of the Essex Gazette
[Haverhill], 1828, with a Letter hitherto unpublished,
Boston, 1903.
BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS.
Kennedy, W. Sloane. John Greenleaf Whittier. His Life,
Genius, and Writings, Boston, 1882.
Underwood, Francis H. John Greenleaf Whittier, a
Biography, Boston, 1884.
McKinstry, Rev. L. C. A Poetic Offering to John Green-
leaf Whittier, Haverhill, 1890.
Kennedy, W. Sloane. John Greenleaf Whittier. His Life,
Genius and Writings. Revised and enlarged edition,
Boston [1892].
140 THE JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
Souvenir of Whittier. Reprint of his Autobiography, with
steel portrait, Boston, 1892.
Clark, DeWitt S. In Memoriam. John G. Whittier. A
Sermon in the Tabernacle Church, Salem, Mass., Sep-
tember 11, 1892. [Salem, 1892.]
Memorial to John Greenleaf Whittier by the Citizens of
Amesbury, December 17, 1892, Amesbury, 1893.
A Memorial of John Greenleaf Whittier, from his Native
City, Haverhill, Massachusetts [Haverhill], 1893.
Garrison, William Lloyd. John Greenleaf Whittier.
Address before the Brooklyn Academy of Arts and
Sciences, Brooklyn, N. Y., December lY, 1892, Boston,
1893.
Fields, Mrs. James T. Whittier. Notes of his Life and
of his Friendships, New York [1893].
Linton, W. J. Life of John Greenleaf Whittier, London,
1893.
Pickard, Samuel T. Life and Letters of John Greenleaf
Whittier. 2 vols. Boston, 1894.
Flower, B. O. Whittier ; Prophet, Seer and Man, Bos-
ton, 1896.
Pickard, Samuel T., editor. Whittier as a Politician, Il-
lustrated by his Letters to Professor Elizur Wright, Jr.,
Boston, 1900.
Rantoul, Robert S. Some personal reminiscences of the
poet Whittier (From the Historical Collections of the
Essex Institute). [Salem, 1901.]
Contains a fac-simile of a Letter from Whittier.
Burton, Richard. John Greenleaf Whittier (Beacon Bi
ographies of Eminent Americans), Boston, 1901.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. John Greenleaf Whit-
tier (English Men of Letters), New York, 1902.
CENTENARY EXHIBITION. 141
Carpenter, George Rice. John Greenleaf Whittier (Amer-
ican Men of Letters), Boston, 1903.
Hawkins, Chauncey J. The Mind of Whittier, New York
[1904].
Pickard, Samuel T. Whittier-Land ; a Handbook of
North Essex, Boston, 1904.
Perry, Bliss. John Greenleaf Whittier, a Sketch of His
Life, with Selected Poems, Boston, 1907.
Circular issued by the Whittier Club of Haverhill setting
forth its aims. 4 pages.
AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPTS.*
Collection of youthful poems, 20 pages, folio, containing :
The Martyrs.
Canute and the Ocean.
Superstition.
The Midnight Scene Tradition from the Banks of the Mer-
rimac.
The Wounded Soldier (dated 6th mo. 1824).
Ingratitude (dated 1825).
Montgomery's Return.
To Nahant (dated 20th 8th mo. 1825).
The Comet- written on the evening of its first appearance in
the autumn of 1825.
To the memory of Chatterton, who died aged 17.
Extract of a New Year's address, 31st, 12 mo., 1824.
The Brothers (dated 3d, 10th mo. 1825).
Hope.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
Massachusetts to Virginia, 4 pages, folio.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
The Lost Occasion.
Sheets of paper pasted into one long sheet.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
The property of the Essex Institute when not otherwise designated.
142 THE JOHN GREENLBAF WHITTIER
Rantoul, 4 pages, folio.
The 4th and 6th stanzas were rewritten on separate slips
which were pasted at the corners over the original stanzas.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
The Landmarks, 4 pages, 8vo.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
In the Old South, 3 pages, 8vo.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
To William and Mary Claflin, signed, 1 page, 8 vo.
From the Oak Knoll Collection
Letter to M. R. Hodges, Newburyport, April 3, 1892, 1
page, 8vo.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
Through the Harsh Noises of our Day, 2 verses, signed,
Oak Knoll. 12 mo. 15, 1887, 1 page, 4to.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
The King's Missive, printer's copy, 6 pages, folio.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
To Grace Gurteen, of Haverhill, England. Signed, July
5, 1890, 1 page, 8vo.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
The Worship of Nature, 2 pages, 4to.
The concluding poem in " The Tent on the Beach," and does
not differ from the printed version. It was evidently at first
entitled " The Worship," and changed to "The Great Wor-
ship," and finally to "The Worship of Nature."
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
Trust, 1 page, folio.
Written in pencil on one side of a leaf from an account book.
An early draft as there are many changes and interlineations.
It was written in 1853, and included in "The Chapel of the
Hermits," 1853. The last three lines are written in ink, prob-
bly when it was revised for publication. It differs very
much from the Cambridge edition. On the other side of the
leaf is a portion of the poem " To My Old Schoolmaster."
Lent by &. If. Wakeman.
CENTENARY EXHIBITION. 143
To My Old Schoolmaster, 2 pages, folio.
Written in pencil on two pages of an account book. Evident-
ly the first draft, as there are many changes, corrections,
and interlineations. The poem was addressed to Joshua
Coffin of Newbury, his first schoolteacher, who afterwards
became associated with Whittier in his crusade against sla-
very. The poem was written in 1853 and was included in
" The Chapel of the Hermits," 1853.
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
Mabel Martin, 4 pieces, 9 pages, 8vo.
Written in 1857 and published in "The National Era," under
the title of "The Witch's Daughter." In 1875, the publish-
ers wished to issue an illustrated edition, and Whittier
enlarged and altered it to its present form. These four
pieces contain the 20 stanzas. I. " The River Valley," of
the Cambridge edition.
Lent by S. H. "Wakeman.
Our Master, 5 pages, 8vo. The original rough draft of
the poem.
Written on scraps of paper stuck together with sealing wax,
with some passages marked out or covered up and others in-
serted by gumming an additional piece of paper on the mar-
gin. The title evidently was originally intended to be " The
Master" for the first three stanzas were written under this
title and afterwards were covered up by a later version.
Apparently first printed in " The Tent on the Beach."
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
The Slaves of Martinique, 4 pages, 4to.
This poem originally consisted of 33 stanzas, one of which
(the third) is cancelled and was not published. Afterwards
four more verses were written and are attached to the man-
uscript, these when the poem was published were inserted
between the 8th and 9th stanzas. The manuscript is ad-
dressed to Gaml. Bailey Jr. Ed. Era Washington, D. C.
and first appeared in that periodical.
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
Khymed letter to Lucy Larcom, Amesbury, 25 March,
1866, 4 pages, 8vo.
Lent by 8. H. Wakeman.
144 THE JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
The Wife of Manoah to her Husband, 4 pages, 8 vo.
Contains 23 verses, with a short note on the margin addressed
to John Keese, Esq., 254 Pearl St., New York.
Lent by 8. H. Wakeman.
The Haunted Man; an extract, dated Haverhill, 22d.,
5mo., 1839, 1 page, 4to.
Lent by P. K. Foley.
Letter to Whittier from Mary Abby Dodge (Gail Hamil-
ton), dated Mar. 21, 1862, accompanying a copy of " The
Sycamores," 3 pages, 8vo.
Lent by S. H. Wakeman.
Letter to Sidney Perley, Esq., containing autobiographi-
cal information used in "The Poets of Essex County,"
Danvers, 17th, 7 mo., 1879. 4 pages, 8vo.
Lent by Sidney Perley r , Esq.
Two anti-slavery letters written in 1837 to Robert Ran-
toul, then a member of the Massachusetts Senate.
Letter introducing the chairman of the Amesbury Town
Committee of the Free Democracy, to the chairman of
the County Committee, Amesbury, 7th, llth mo., 1853,
1 page, 8vo.
Letter acknowledging receipt of invitation to attend the
celebration of the 250th anniversary of the landing of
John Endecott and containing a tribute to the memory
of the Puritan Governor, West Ossipee, N. H., 14th,
9th mo., 1878.
Galley-proof, corrected by Whittier, of a biographical
sketch in " Some notable men," by Andrew J. Syming-
ton. From Butler and Tanner, printers, Frome,
England.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
CENTENARY EXHIBITION. 145
PORTRAITS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND PERSONAL
RELICS.*
Oil portrait. Copy by Strains after Hoyt in 1845.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
Oil portrait painted by Caliga after a photograph made in
1886.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
Daguerreotype made in Philadelphia in the winter of
1844-5.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
Sixteen photographs of Whittier and " Oak Knoll."
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
Photograph made in 1861, and one made in 1879 with
dated autograph signature.
Twenty-six photographs and engravings of houses and
localities associated with Whittier.
Photograph of a crayon portrait after a daguerreotype of
Whittier's mother.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
Twenty-two engraved portraits of Whittier and his mother
and sister.
Gift of Houghton, Mifflin Co.
Photogravure of a sketch of the Whittier birthplace made
in 1849.
Lent by Sidney Perley, Esq.
Lithograph by Tappan and Bradford [Boston], of the
Whittier birthplace, after a painting by O. R. Fowler.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
*The property of the Essex Institute when not otherwise desig-
nated.
146 WHITTIER CENTENARY EXHIBITION.
Photograph of the Kitchen at Whittier's Birthplace.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
Journal of the Life, Labours, Travels, etc., of Thomas
Chalkley, Philadelphia, 1754, Vol. I. only.
Mentioned in Snow-Bound. From the old Whittier home
library of twenty volumes.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
Davideis. The Life of David, King o,f Israel, A sacred
poem ; in five books. [Imperfect but probably the 5th
edition, Philadelphia, 1754.]
The only book of poetry in the old Whittier homestead from
1807 to 1820.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
The original Quaker Marriage Certificate of John Green-
leaf Whittier's father and mother, dated at Dover,
N. H., 3d, 10th mo. 1804.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
Whittier's favorite cane.
From the Oak Knoll Collection.
Sundial formerly owned by Henry Ingersoll Bowditch,
M. D. of Boston. The inscription around this dial was
composed about 1852 by Whittier, for Dr. Bowditch.
"With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight
From Life's glad morning to its solemn night,
Yet through the dear God's love I also show
There's light above me by the shade below."
Lent by the children of Dr Bowditch.
Genealogical chart of two branches of the Whittier family
from 1620 to 1873. Lithograph, 39J^ x 56 cm. Bos-
ton [1873].
Lent by Sidney Perley, Esq.
ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS,
1697-1768.
(Continued from Vol. XL IV, page 92.)
Be it known " y* John Pettiner of N Caraileina
am held and firmly stand bound unto William Hirst of
Antegoa Gentleman in y e penall Sume of two hundred
pounds Currant money of N. Carrilina." Dated April 15,
1718. Condition of the bond being that the said John
Pettiner should deed to said William Hirst "one plantation
clear Grounde, orchards, houses, Gardens, woods, under-
woods, water and water cources and all other privileges
and Heridetrem ts there unto belong whatsoever with Seven
hundred acers of Land in y e province of N Carralina and
bounded in Manner and form as followes, beginning at the
head of Frank Creeke at a Green tree and so down y e s d
Creeke to y e mouth and from thence to Davenports point
at y e mouth of Yopin river, thence, Easterly Downe Al-
bermall river to & Joning to Hugh davis his plantation,
which s d Lands and plantation frontes & is opisisite to
Batte's Grave Island."
Witnesses : Hugh davis, Ebenezer Chamberlen, Eman-
uel Sherman.
Doctor Henry S weitzer's order on Abraham Purchase
to deliver two hogsheads of Fish to Joshua Wetherell,
sloopman, or coaster.
Salem, Nov. 16, 1715.
Thomas Cole, late of London, now resident in Salem,
distiller, gave bond to Ann Ropes, widow, of Salem, for
52. to secure a claim for .26.6.6. Witness : John
Green, Jn Holliman, John Henderson, R d Newcombe,
W m MacKenlie.
Salem, June 27, 1718.
[138] Protest. Salem, Oct. 4, 1718. Capt. Edward
Stotesbury of London, commander of the ship Grand Os-
(147)
148 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS.
sell, made declaration that by a certain charterparty made
April 18, 1718, between James Douglas of London, mer-
chant, and the said Edward Stotesbury, it was agreed that
the latter should sail from the River Thames to Boston
and there deliver to the factor of the said merchant, the
goods loaded at London and then sail to Marblehead and
there stay 60 running days, to be computed from the time
of arrival in Boston, and there load on as many quintals
of fish as could be carried. When loaded he should sail
to Bilboa, port St. Andrew, in Spain or to some port in
Portugal according to orders received. Twenty days de-
murrage to be allowed at the rate of 20s. per day to be
paid each night. The said Capt. Stotesbury affirmed that
although he complied with the terms of the contract, ar-
rived in Boston, Aug. 4, 1718, and according to directions
received from Messrs. Roland and Maxfeild, agents of
the said freighter, he went to Marblehead, arriving there
Aug. 21, and was always ready to receive the loading of
fish. After the limited time had expired he still needed 7
or 8 hundred quintals, having received only 1425 1/2
quintals.
Witnesses : Jno. Cuming, Jno. Cole.
[139] Protest. Oct. 25, 1718. Capt. Gideon Lowle
jr of Newbury, late master of the sloop Pacheapscot, made
declaration that on a voyage from Boston to " Brunswick
at ye easterly part of Cascoe hauing on board passengers
Cattle a hhd rum a hhd Malasses Twenty Sacks of Indian
Meale with other goods & Merchandiz & that on thier
Passage when they came off Winter Harbour being y e 13
Day of October Instant and when it grew toward y e Even-
ing y e wind blew very hard southerly so that we were
forc't to take in Two reiffs of y e Mainsayl & y e weather
looking very Doubtfull & like to be fowl weather we
stood in for winter Harbour (as did other vessels) To En-
deavor to recouer a Safe Harbour before night y e wind
blowing hard Southerly as af oresd & there running a great
Sea when we came abrest with wood Island y e wind veer'd
Suddenly all Westerly which occasioned vs Necessaryly to
Tack & we put her a stayes but she mift stays would not
ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 149
stay and before we could ware her y e grown Sea threw her
on vpon Wood Island about 10 clock at night where The
Sloop was Imediatly Bilg'd and afterwards broaken to
peices y e Cattle Drown'd y e goods most of them Staved
Spoyld & lost & y e passengers & Crew Narrowly Escaping
with their lives when the Day broake."
Witnesses : Richard Newcomb and Stephen Sewall jr.
Bond given March 31, 1718, by Joseph Vansweringen
of St. Mary's county, Maryland, to Samuel Barton, mer-
chant in Salem for XI 3. 8s. 8d. to be paid on or before
March 10, next ensuing in wheat at 4s. per bu.
Witness: John Leigh.
Protest. Salem, Dec. 16, 1718. Richard Lambert,
commander of the ship Marblehead Galley, made declara-
tion that loaded with dry fish he put to sea from Marble-
head, "y e wind being then fair viz Westerly but in y e
Night y e wind shifted to y e S S east & blew very hard with
showers of rain & then came about to y e E N E & blew a
very great Storm & raised a great Sea & being not farr of
from a Rocky Leeward Shore they were in great danger
being forc't to take in their Topsails & at last thier
courses alsoe y e Sea breaking vpon them they shipt much
water whereby they are doubtful they haue received con-
siderable Damage."
[140] Indenture, dated Aug. 7, 1717, between David
Loyd of Philadelphia, gentleman, and Isaac Norris of the
same place, merchant, executors of Thomas Loyd, late of
the same place, deceased, on the one part, and Phillip En-
glish, merchant, late of New York but then of Salem, on
the other part, whereby the said executors by an act of
General assembly in April 1715 entitled " an act for y e
better Enableing y e Exec rs of Thomas Loyd Deaceased for
Selling of Land for y e paym* of Debts, etc. Setled by y e s d
Thomas Loyd & Patience his s d wife upon her children by
her former hus'band Robert Story Deceased " were em-
powered to sell several parcels of land " lying & being w tu
out y e North Gate of y e s d Citty of New York w ch re-
mained unsold by y e s d Thomas Loyd and patience his
150 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS.
wife at y e time of his Decease." And the said executors
of said Loyd sold to Philip English " All y* Lott of Land
peice & pcell of Ground Situate Lyeing & being without
y e North Gate of y e s d citty of New York on y e west side
of y e Broadway bounded Easterly by the Broadway North-
ward by y e Land now or late in y e possestion of John Hi-
der westward by Lott of Land belonging to William Pipe-
horn Esq r and Southward by a Street Leading from y e s d
Broadway towards Hudsens .River called Crowne Street
containing in Length One hundred & Tenn foot & in y e
front and Reare each Sixty Three foot in English Mea-
sure "
Witnesses: Antho. Morris, Edw d Shippen, John Jaffrey.
Recorded in the office of the Town clerk of the city of
New York in Lib. no. 28, of conveyances, morgages begun
July 3rd 1712, page 478, 479.
Salem, Feb. 17, 1718/19.
[141] Protest. Salem, Feb. 24, 1718/19. Capt.
William Pickering of Salem, merchant, and mariner, on
behalf of himself and his partner John Maule of Salem,
merchant, said Pickering being one-half owner of the sloop
Salem, 50 tons, and John Maule being owner of one-quarter
made protest against Thomas Cox of Beverly, mariner and
fisherman, owner of one-quarter part of said sloop that
the said Cox as master of said sloop, the last sum-
mer carelessly left the sails unbent until a short time
before this protest and they have, on good grounds and
with great cause, shipt another master, viz. Thomas Pit-
man of Manchester, but the said Cox refused to deliver
the sails, which he a short time before took away and also
refused to fit out his part of the vessel although they
promised him equal advantage with them and " Intima-
ting y 1 she was going a Coasting."
Indenture made Feb. 7, 1717, between Ebenezer Slings-
by and William Gibb that the said Ebenezer Slingsby
promised to said William Gibb " from y e Day of y e Date
hereof until the first and Next arrivall at Boston In New
England & after for & During y e Term of four years to
Serve in Such Service and Imployment as y e s d William
ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 151
Gibb or his assignes shall there Employ him according to
the Custom of the Country In y e Like Kind In Considera-
tion where of y e s d William Gibb do hereby Covenant &
Grant to and with the said Ebenezer Slingsby to pay for
his Passage and to find & allow Meat Drink Apparell &
Lodging w th other Necessarys during y e s d Term and at
the End of y e s d Term to pay unto him y e Usuall allow-
ance according to y e Custom of y e Country in y e Like
Kind."
Witnesses: " Anthony Barkey Lill of Dublin."
June 17, 1718. Wm. Gibb made over the time of
Ebenezer Slingsby to Nath. Waldren of Wenham, Mass.,
to serve him as above stipulated.
Witnesses : Wm. Diamond, Wm. Dodge.
[142] " Cap 1 Bowditch on behalfe of himselfe & part-
ners owners of y e Brig Friendship Jos. Hathorne Com-
mand 1 " demand on M rs Cabbot atturney to her husband Mr
John Cabbott May 25 1719 concerning fitting out s d Brigg
of which s d Cabbot owns an 1/8 bound for Barbados
" Memorand" 1
" At y e Instance &request aforesd I went to the y e house
of y e s d John Cabbot & demanded of Cabbot his wife
to fix out thier part of y e s d Brigg on y e voiage afores d
She answered that y e lumber would not pay mens wages
& fix out y e vessel & therefore she would not be concernd
she was informed of y e law in y* behalfe she said she knew
it but would not be concerned in y e voiage for she could
buy no fish & lumber would not answer & finally refused
it her husband beyond Sea."
Bond dated July 12, 1722, given by John Place of
North Moulton, Devonshire, England, seafaring man, to
Capt William Smith of Limpson, Devonshire, England,
mariner, for 150 to secure the sum of 75.
Witnesses : Richard Young, William Ridge, Edward
Thompson
152 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS.
Protest. Salem, May 30, 1719. Capt. John Shattock
of Salem, master of the brig Endeavor, made declaration
that he set sail from Jamaica Oct. 3, 1718, being bound
for New England and that on Oct 23 in lat. 23 30 / north
" within sight of one of y e Bohemia Islands known by y e
Name of Long Island at 3 of y e Clock afternoon he un-
hapily met with a Pyrat being a Brigg of 12 Gunns &one
hundred & Twenty men one Cap* Charles Vain Comand r
who tooke me & kept me about four Days carried me to
an Island called Crooked Island plundred & Rifled me of
Seuerall hhds of rum a parcel of Brittish Merchandize
fiue barr 118 powder 30 sides of leather 84 pewter Dishes &
y e most of our provisions stript y e Brigg of what Suted
them tooke away my Clearing Certificats & other papers
of vallue stript my people of thier Clothes & abused Some
of them & it growing Late in y e year hard blowing winter
weather by that time we got vpon y e coast of New Eng.
being so hindred & disinabled as afores d that we could not
get in but were f orc't off from y e coast & so went to y e
West Indies again viz Barbados & there refitted & then
set sayl for New England again where we ariued y e 2 d
Day of Aprill last and not before."
Witnessses : Richard Newcomb, Edward Thompson.
(To be continued.)
EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN AND SOME OF HIS
DESCENDANTS.
BY GEORGE HARLAN LEWIS OF LOS ANGELES, CAL.
(Continued from Vol. XLIV, page 80.)
507 Reuben Lewis, born in Groton, Mass., Sept.
13, 1816 ; a farmer, and resided at Groton, where he died
Jan. 29, 1897, on the place his father owned. He married,
first, July 3, 1842, Eliza Ann Danforth, born in Hills-
boro, N. H., Dec. 21, 1818, daughter of Jonathan and
Catherine (Duncklee) Danforth of Hillsboro, N. H. She
died in Groton, Dec. 12, 1865. He married, second, Nov.
8, 1866, Susan Frances Lawrence, born in Groton, Nov.
30, 1828, daughter of Curtis and Lucy (Merriam) Law-
rence of Groton, who survives him.
Child of Reuben and Eliza Ann, born in Groton :
889. CHARLES HENRY, b. Feb. 19, 1846; m. June 10, 1873, Lucy
Moors, b. in Groton, Feb. 28, 1849, dau. of Joseph and Mary
(Hubbard) Moors. Had (1) Joseph Danforth, b. in Sterling,
Mass., Aug. 29, 1877.*
Children of Reuben and Susan F., born in Groton :
890. FRANCIS DANFORTH, b. Sept. 22, 1867; m. in West Groton,
Nov. 10, 1898, Mary Abby Hill, b. in Charlestown, Mass.,
Sept. 29, 1867, dau. of Charles Henry and Mary Susan
(Mclntire) Hill. Had (1) Lawrence Hill, b. Nov. 23, 1899,
in Groton.*
891. SUSAN ELIZA, b. Nov. 9, 1868; m. April 21, 1891, George Sam-
uel Knapp, b. in Dumraerstown, Vt., Nov. 29, 1857, son of
George Washington and Meriel (Mansfield) Knapp of Dum-
merstown, Vt. Children, b. in Groton: (1) Hazel Louise,
b. Oct. 1, 1892; d. Jan. 21, 1893. (2) Lewis Mansfield, b.
Mar. 4, 1894. (3) Lillian Elizabeth, b. June 25, 1897.
*This record through an error was included in the previous family.
(153)
154 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN.
509 Silas Lewis, born in Claremont, N. H., April 4,
1810, lived at Concord, N. H., and at Northfield, Vt.,
where he died Sept. 23, 1869. He married, at Concord,
N. H., Nov. 2, 1836, Lois Colby, b. in Goshen, N. H., May
3, 1812, who died his widow, at Lebanon, N. H., July 20,
1896. She was the daughter of Abner and Deborah
(Gunnison) Colby of Auburn, N. H.
Children of Silas and Lois, first two born at Concord,
N. H., the others at Northfield, Vt.:
892. AUGUSTA ANN, b. June 14, 1837; d. Oct. 13, 1838.
893. JOHN GUNNISON, b. April 29, 1839.
894. EDWIN COLBY, b. Jan. 5, 1842.
895. CHARLES EVERETT, b. Jan. 25, 1844.
896. MARY AUGUSTA, b. April 15, 1846; m. in Northfield, Vt., Jan.
2, 1868, Joseph Waldo Atwood, b. in Ripton, Aug. 8,
1844, s. of Arnon Adams and Olive Almira (Royce) Atwood
of New Haven, Vt. She d. in Randolph, Vt., Feb. 13, 1878.
Had, b. in Randolph, Vt.: (1) Louis Arnon, b. Mar. 12, 1869;
(2) Henry Joseph, b. Nov. 13, 1874; d. Oct. 4, 1881.
897. CAROLINE ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 14, 1848; m. at Northfield, Vt.,
Feb. 16, 1871, Marcus M. Rice, b. inNorthfield, Vt., Aug. 21,
1840; son of Titus and Louisa (Jones) Rice of Northfield, Vt.
Lives at St. Albans, Vt., and had born there: (1) Maud
Louise, b. June 25, 1873; (2) Bessie Lois, b. Oct. 27, 1875;
(3) Carrie Ellen, b. July 24, 1877; d. Oct. 2, 1882.
519 Charles Henry Lewis, born in Townsend,
Mass., April 10, 1808, lived in Concord, Townsend, and
later in Holden, Mass., where he died Oct. 10, 1892. He
married, first, Mrs. Sarah Wales, and, second, May 6,
1845, Mary Elizabeth Gleason, born in Weston, Mass.,
April 1, 1824, daughter of Amos and Mary (Nutting)
Gleason.
Children of Charles Henry and Sarah :
898. GEORGE HENRY, b. 1834 ; d. April 1, 1855.
899. MARY AUGUSTA, b. 1836; d. Oct. 19, 1854
Children of Charles Henry and Mary Elizabeth, 3 born
in Concord and 3 born in Townsend :
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 155
900. MARTHA E., b. Mar. 20, 1846 ; m. April 15, 1869, George Sum-
ner Graham, b. Nov. 8, 1840, son of Samuel and Aseneth
(Adams) Graham. Resides in Holden, and had born there:
(1) Charles Sumner, b. May 5, 1870; (2) Maud Elima, b. Nov.
4, 1871; (3) Edith Mabel, b. Jan. 25, 1874; d. July 9, 1887;
(4) Bertha Amanda, b. April 14, 1876; (5) Agnes May, b. Nov.
27, 1879; d. Jan. 3, 1880; (6) Florence Ethel, b. April 17,
1882; (7) Albert Arthur, b. Jan. 6, 1884.
901. FAUSTINA DELUCIE, b. Feb. 8, 1848; unm.
902. HARRIET ADELINE, b. June 25, 1853 ; m. Dec. 24, 1868, Asaph
Evans, b. in Townsend, s. of Hosea and Hannah Evans.
Had: (1) Everett Lewis, b. Oct. 12, 1871, in Townsend; (2)
Forest Leon, b. Dec. 31, 1882, in South Merrimac, N. H.
903. EMMA LOUISE, b. May 30, 1858; m. Dec. 21, 1881, Freeman
George Smith, b. in Centre Sandwich, N. H., May 4, 1857,
son of George and Mary (Clifford) Smith. Resides at Gil-
ford, N. H.
904. RHODA JANE, b. Dec. 14, 1861 ; m. May 8, 1884, John Dana
Graham, s. of Eliakim and Mary (Fleming) Graham. Resides
at Groveton, N. H., and have (1) Clyde Lewis, b. June 20,
1892.
905. MAUD GERTRUDE, b. Oct. 19, 1865; d. Aug. 1, 1867.
523 Benjamin Franklin Lewis, born in Town-
send, Mass., July 26, 1816, was a cooper by trade and
lived in Taunton previous to 1842 when he moved to
Fall River, and in 1844 moved to Townsend where he
owned a farm. He worked at his trade the first part of
his life, and later in the office of A. M. Adams, a lumber
dealer in Townsend. He was town assessor for several
years ; a member of the State legislature in 1871 ; a depu-
ty-sheriff for Middlesex County for 36 years ; and for
many years a licensed auctioneer. He died in Townsend,
Mar. 15, 1890. He married, Sept. 20, 1841, Elizabeth
Lamson, b. Jan. 31, 1820; d. Dec. 15, 1897, daughter of
Daniel and Abigail (Prentice) Lamson of Townsend.
Children of Benjamin Franklin and Elizabeth, born in
Townsend:
906. ABBIE ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 26, 1843 ; m. Nov. 26, 1865, Oren
Leonard Bruce, b. in Townsend, s. of Leonard and Mary
(Jenkins) Bruce. Resides at Ashby, Mass. Had, b. in
Townsend: (1) Berton Lovell, b. Mar. 6, 1873; (2) Wilbur
Lamson, b. Oct. 30 1875.
156 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
907. ELDORA ADELINE, b. Oct. 22, 1846; m. Jan. 12, 1871, Charles
Brooks Hart, b. in Townsend, June 9, 1845, s. of Samuel
and Lefy (Brooks) Hart. Resides in Brookline, Mass.
908. NANCY JANE, b. April 14, 1851; m. Charles Jefferson Towne,
b. Dec. 30, 1840, at Stoddard, N. H., s. of Isaac and Lucretia
(Taylor) Towne. Resides at Essex, Mass.
909. CHARLES FRANCIS, b. Feb. 21, 1864; d. April 28, 1877.
526 Albert Lewis, born in Townsend, Mass., May
11, 1824, is a farmer living at Creston, 111. He married
at Rockford, 111., June 23, 1856, Louisa Marsh Lewis,
born at Enfield Center, N. Y., Jan. 24, 1836, daughter of
Huron and Elizabeth (Mettler) Lewis of Enfield Center.
N.Y.
Children of Albert and Louise M., born in Creston, 111. :
910. JOHN FRANKLIN, b. Oct. 4, 1857; m. at Creston, 111., Feb. 17,
1881, Caroline Belle Swingley, who d. at Omaha, Neb., Oct.
21, 1896, dau. of Upton and Frances (Potter) Swingley of
Creston, 111. Had: (1) Frank Swingley, b. Aug. 9, 1884, in
Creston, 111. Mr. Lewis resided at Omaha, Neb., in 1899.
911. ALBERT EDWARD, b. Feb. 5, 1861; resides at Pittsburgh, Pa.
912. NELLIE LOUISE, b. April 13, 1864 ; resides at Pittsburgh, Pa.
913. GRACE ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 15, 1867; m. at Creston, 111., Sept.
12, 1888, Charles Pratt Whitney, s. of John Brooks and
Katharine (Pratt) Whitney of Mass. Resides at Edgewater,
111. Had b. in Chicago, 111.: (1) Lewis Husted, b. Feb. 8,
1892; (2) Charles Pratt, b. Dec. 12, 1893; (3) Katharine Fay r
b. Apr. 23. 1896.
914. EDNA MABELLE, b. April 23, 1875; resides at Creston, 111.
530 Alexander Lewis, born in Townsend, Sept,
10, 1806, married, 1827, Abigail Robinson of Lunenburg,
Mass. Lived in Peabody, Mass., where he died about
1882. She died Jan. 4, 1841.
Children of Alexander and Abigail :
915. CHARLES, b. 1828; m. Lydia Phippen of Salem, Mass., and d.
May 10, 1854. Had: (1) Charles A.; engineer; lives in Salem.
916. GEORGE ALEXANDER, b. Jan. 7, 1832; m. June 1, 1854, Harriet
Trofatter, who d. Aug. 12, 1890; morocco dresser; no issue;
resides in Salem, Mass.
917. JULIA ANN, b. July 4, 1840; m., Dec. 16, 1860, Ambrose Davis,
who d. Jan. 27, 1864. Resides in Salem, Mass.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 157
533 William Lewis, born in Groton, Mass., June
18, 1804, was a merchant in Bangor, Me. He died June
.8, 1876. He married Jane Bond Wadleigh, who mar-
.ried, second, White.
Children of William and Jane B. :
918. WILLIAM DEXTER, b. Apr. 5, 1831, in Boston, Mass.; m., Nor.
27, 1856, at Bangor, Me., Annie F. Lyon.
919. ABBY?
920. CHARLES HILDRETH, b. Aug. 5, 1836-7 ; a graduate of Nor-
wich, Vt., University; m., Oct., 1863, Oriana Pendleton, at
Watertown, Mass.
921. EMMA JANE, b. Sept. 27, 18; m. Jan. 18, 1872, Henry E. Call,
at Bangor, Me.
544 Lorenzo Turner Lewis, born in Boston,Mass.,
Feb. 7, 1817, died Feb. 5, 1855. He married at Havre,
France, Mar. 15, 1851, Clemence Clarissa Cormedesz, who
died in 1888.
Children of Lorenzo Turner and Clemence Clarissa,
born in Boston :
922. EMMA MAY, b. 1852; m. F. H. Melendy in 1876. Had (1) Ruth
Clarence, b. April 25, 1882, in Maiden, Mass.
923. FRANK T., b. 1854; m. Annie E. Draffin in 1875. Had: (1)
John Franklin, b. Aug., 1876, in Reading, Mass. ; (2) William
Malcolm, b. Sept., 1879, in Plymouth, N. H. He and his
two sons are bookkeepers in the offices of the West End
R. R. Co., Boston.
545 Bernard M. Lewis, born in Boston, Mar. 12,
1819 ; died Sept. 13, 18 . He was wounded in the Civil
War, received a pension, and was employed in the supply
department of the Boston Post-office. He married June
6, 1843, Arvilla Clapp, b. Feb. 2, 1820, daughter of Isaac
and Vesta (Reynolds) Clapp of South Weymouth, Mass.
Child of Bernard M. and Arvilla :
924. JAMES TKASK ALLEN, b. Sept. 16, 1844; m. Jan. 4, 1871, Jose-
phine Bolndell.
549 William Henry Lewis, born in Boston, Aug.
.5, 1830, was injured in the Civil War, and held a position
158 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
in the quartermaster's department at Washington, D. C.
until his death, July 6, 1891. He married Elizabeth A.
Sanford, widow of a comrade killed in the Civil War.
Children of William Henry and Elizabeth A., born in
Washington, D. C. :
925. CHARLES R., b. Feb. 1, 1863.
926. EDWARD H., b. Sept. 3, 1864; d. Sept. 7, 1866.
927. WILLIAM EDGAR, b. Nov. 10, 1867.
928. JAMES H., b. June 17, 1873; d. May 23, 1875.
929. JOSEPH WARREN, b. Sept. 21, 1875.
930. GEORGE BRIMBLECOM, b. Apr. 8, 1880.
551 Eben Augustus Lewis, born in Boston, April
3, 1815, was a brass finisher, and resided in Boston, from
which he removed to Dedham. He married Matilda
Hanscom, born at Eliot, Me., May 5, 1822, who died June
24, 1898, daughter of Samuel and Ann Maria (Paul)
Hanscom of Eliot, Me.
Children of Eben Augustus and Matilda:
931. ANN MARIA, b. Jan. 14, 1846; m. John J. Hilton; resides in
Maiden, Mass.
932. WARREN A., b. Mar. 7, 1847; d. April 9, 1868 ; lived in Boston;
m., 1st, Mary Homer; m., 2d, Lucy Davis.
933. MARY EMMA, b. June 12, 1848; m. Charles R. Griggs; resides
in Dedham, Mass.
934. SUSAN FRANCES GATES, b. Sept. 23, 1849; m. William F. Ba-
con; resides in Maiden, Mass.
935. EDNA MATILDA, b. Oct. 5, 1854; d. Feb. 19, 1889 ; m. Benjamin
R. Chase.
936. WALTER CLIFFORD, b. and d. in infancy.
937. WILLIE SAMUEL, b. Sept. 16, 1861; d. in South Boston, Mar.
20, 1876.
938. GEORGE EWARD, b. Jan. 20, 1863 ; m. Emily Warren of Ros-
lindale, Mass. Had: (1) George; (2) Clarence.
939. ETTA, b. and d. young.
552 Andrew Lewis, born in Boston, June 1, 1817,
and died Feb. 8, 1897. He married May 7, 1840, Mary
Ann Kittredge, b. Nov. 18, 1819, of Mt. Vernon, N. H.,
and lived in Haverhill, Mass.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 159
Children of Andrew and Mary Ann :
940. HATTIE A., b. Mar. 13, 1841, in Dracut, Mass.
941. CHARLES A., b. May 19, 1842.
942. J. OTIS, b. June 21, 1844.
943. IRVING, b. Mar. 18, 1852.
944. ELLEN M., b. Oct. 30, 1855.
559 Charles Benjamin Lewis, born in Boston,
Aug. 13, 1827, and died Mar. 4, 1885, at Medford, Mass.
He married, first, at Charlestown, Sept. 25, 1849, Sarah
Newhall, aged 21, daughter of John and Sarah Newhall.
He married, second, Nov. 8, 1854, Hannah Maria Sisson,
aged 20, daughter of William Bates and Mary Farnsworth
(Curtis) Sisson. He married, third, Jan. 3, 1877, at
Chelsea, Harriet N. Reed, aged 33, of Boston, daughter of
Thomas and Martha Reed of Gardner, Me. He served
on board the U. S. Frigates Macedonian and Potomac
during the Mexican war. He was freight agent for the
Boston and Lowell R. R. for many years, and lived in
Boston and West Medford, Mass.
Children of Charles Benjamin and Hannah Maria :
945. WILLIE WALLACE, b. Dec. 17, 1855, at Charlestown; changed
his name to Lunt.
946. ANNIE HAVEN (twin), b. Oct. 5, 1867, in Boston.
947. A child (twin), b. Oct. 5, 1867; d. same day.
560 Henry Frothingham Lewis, born in Boston,
Oct. 21, 1829, married in South Boston, Dec. 7,
1851, Mary Adaline Hopkins, born in Eastham, daughter
of John and Diana (Cole) Hopkins of Eastham, Mass. He
resided in Chelsea and Revere, but is now living with his
daughter in Hyde Park, Mass.
Children of Henry Frothingham and Mary Adaline :
948. MARY SUSIE, b. Oct. 10, 1852, in Eastham; m. in Chelsea, June
23, 1874, George H. Norris of Chelsea; now living at Hyde Park.
949. CHARLES BENJAMIN, b. July 17, 1854, in Charlestown; now
living at 87 Sixth Ave., New York City.
950. HENRY F., b, May 13, 1856, in Charlestown; d. Aug. 6, 1856.
160 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
561 Luther Lewis, born in Boston, Nov. 2, 1832 ;
died Dec. 15, 1898, at the Boston City Hospital. He
married in Boston in July, 1852, Almira H, Smith, born
at Eastham, Sept. 16, 1833, daughter of Freeman and
Phebe (Gill) Smith of Eastham, Mass. Resided in Bos-
ton, Charlestown and Stoneham, Mass.
Children of Luther and Almira H. :
951. LUTHER EDWARD, b. Mar. 28, 1854, in Boston; m. Abby Hard-
ing of Charlestown.
952. ELSIE S., b. Mar. 17, 1856, in Boston; m. Lyman Harding of
Charlestown. Now is Mrs. Elsie S. Peterson of Eastham,
Mass.
953. PHILIP F., b. July 16, 1862, in Chelsea.
954. JONATHAN SNOW, b. Nov. 14, 1864, in Boston; lives in Stone-
ham, Mass.
955. ALMIRA E., b. Oct. 16, 1873; d. May 9, 1876, in Charlestown.
956. WALTER N., b. Dec. 25, 1875, in Charlestown.
i
562 Frederick Thomas Lewis, born in Boston,
Nov. 2, 1839 ; died Dec. 25, 1900, in Chelsea. He married,
first, Mary Crocker Baker, daughter of Seymour and An-
nie Bangs of Eastham, Mass. He married, second, Jan.
18, 1893, Lilla C. Freedley. Lived in Chelsea.
Children :
957. FREDERICK E., employed by Swift Bros., Chicago, 111.
958. GEORGE, with John Hancock Insurance Co., Chelsea, Mass.
568 Robert Lewis, born in Lynn, June 16, 1808,
was a fisherman, and lived at Magnolia, a part of Glouces-
ter, where his children were born, except the third, who
was born in Lynn. He died in New Orleans, La., Nov.
20, 1864. He married in Gloucester, Dec. 28, 1846,
Susan Maria, born in Gloucester, May 9, 1827, daughter
of Winthrop and Charlotte (Merchant) Sargent of Glou-
cester. After his death she married, second, at Water-
town, Mass., John Barnard, who resided in Boston, and
died in 1899.
Children of Robert and Susan M. :
959. GEORGE.
960. ROBERT FRANKLIN, b. Nov. 2, 1848; d. May 7, 1849.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 161
961. ROBERT FRANKLIN, b. April 6, 1850, in Lynn.
962. ANNA AUGUSTA, b. July 2, 1853.
963. MABY MABSH, b. Mar. 26, 1855.
964. JACOB MEEK, b. Feb. 12, 1857.
965. CLABENCE SEBBEBT, b. Aug. 28, 1860.
570 Asa Lewis, born in Lynn, May 28, 1814, was a
shoemaker in early life, but a fisherman for more than 50
years, and captain of a vessel for more than half that
time. He died in Lynn, Aug. 3, 1 888. He married, first,
in Lynn, Nov. 6, 1834, Dorcas Davis, born in Lynn, Mar.
5, 1815, and died there, Feb. 26,1855, daughter of Joseph
and Susan ( Boy n ton) Davis of Lynn. He married, sec-
ond, in Lynn, April 14, 1858, his wife's sister, Mrs. Mary
Ann (Davis) Allen, widow of Amos Allen, who was born
in Lynn, Oct. 20, 1812, and died Aug. 1, 1881.
Children of Asa and Dorcas, born in Lynn :
966. HANNAH MABIA, b. Jan. 27, 1835; m. in Lynn, Oct. 26, 1862,
Jonas Ball Goodwin, b. in Lynn, June 20. 1833, son of Jonas
B. and Elizabeth (Graves) Goodwin of Marblehead. Had :
(1) William Otis, b. Dec. 11, 1870.
967. AMOS EDWIN, b. Jan. 19, 1837; d. young.
968. WILLIAM OTIS, b. Aug. 13, 1839; was killed Feb. 11, 1862, by
the falling of a mast on the U. S. Gunboat Huron.
969. SUSAN ADELAIDE, b. June 14, 1841; d. Sept. 24, 1842.
970. LUCY ELLEN, b. Nov. 15, 1843; m. Nov. 23, 1864, Edwin
Thompson Dorman, b. in 1842, son of Amos and Sarah
Richards (Hallowell) Dorman of Lynn. Had: (1) Jennie
Maria, b. Oct. 15, 1865; (2) Josie Emily, b. July 29, 1869; (3)
Lewis Asa, b. Sept. 25, 1875; (4) Arthur Warren, b. Oct 13,
1878.
971. EDWIN DAVIS, b. Dec. 14, 1849; m. in Lynn, Jan. 25, 1871,
Eliza Ellen Collyer, b. in Lynn, Jan. 6, 1839, dau. of Thomas
and Eliza J. Collyer of Lynn. Had : (1) Edwin Collyer, b.
in Lynn, Aug. 13, 1872.
972. DOBCAS EMILY, b. Feb. 9, 1855; m. at Danvers, Sept. 9, 1886,
William Edward Standley, son of Benj. F. and Sarah E.
(Withey) Standley. Lived in Danvers, and had : (1) Earl
Lewis, b. Feb. 3, 1887; d. Mar. 25, 1887; (2) Lewis Elmer,
b. June 19, 1889; (3) Ruth Withey, b. Mar. 22, 1893; (4)
Amos Linwood, b. Mar. 7, 1899.
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571 Benjamin Humphreys Lewis, born in Lynn,
Sept. 18, 1816, was a shoemaker, and lived in Lynn, where
he died, July 6, 1876. He married in Lynn, Sept. 9, 1853,
Hannah Chase, born in Henniker, N. H., April 11, 1824,
who died in Lynn, June 9, 1899. She was the daughter
of Jonathan and Patience (Peaslee) Chase of Henniker,
N. H.
Children of Benjamin Humphreys and Hannah, born in
Lynn:
973. FBED CHASE, b. June 29, 1854.
974. FRANK HERBERT, b. June 6, 1858; m. in Lynn, April 21, 1887,
Clara Ida Millan, b. June 6, 1860, in Pittsfield, Vt., dau. of
George Henry and Jane Elizabeth (Cadwell) Millan of Lynn.
Had: (1) Henry Benjamin, b. July 23, 1896; d. Oct. 26, 1896.
975. ASA WARREN, b. April 7, 1863; m. June 19, 1901, Sarah Achsah
Clark of Henniker, N. H. Had : (1) Lester Clark, b. in
Lynn, June 4, 1902.
These three brothers are engaged in the grocery busi-
ness on Lewis street, Lynn.
572 Otis Lewis, born in Lynn, Oct. 2, 1818, was a
fisherman, and associated in business with his brother Asa.
He lived in Lynn, where he died Jan. 12, 1893. He mar-
ried in Lynn, Mar. 7, 1847, Harriet Osgood Straw, born
in Hopkinton, N. H., April 23, 1815, and died in Lynn,
Dec. 4, 1878 (suicide). She was the daughter of William
and Hannah (Huse, of Weare, N. H.) Straw of Hopkin-
ton, N. H.
Children of Otis and Harriet O. :
976. A child, b. in Weare, N. H. ; d. Oct. 2, 1848.
977. WILLIAM PAGE, b. Oct. 6, 1858, in Lynn; m. in Lynn, Mar. 26,
1873, Rebecca Frances Howes, b. in Chatham, Mass., July
11, 1850, dau. of Ephraim Owen and Priscilla (Doane)
Howes of Chatham. Had : (1) Herbert Otis, b. in Lynn,
April 29, 1877; m. April 26, 1900, Florence Jessie Rhodes,
dau. of Howard J. Rhodes.
573 Warren Lewis, born in Lynn, Dec. 8, 1820, is
now living with his son, and is hale and hearty. He has
AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 163
been a shoemaker, fisherman, and farmer. He married in
Swampscott, Jan. 16, 1848, Sarah Glover Standley, born
in Swampscott, Dec. 2, 1828, daughter of Thomas and
Sarah (Phillips) Standley of Swampscott, and grand-
daughter of Walter and Sarah (Glover-Lewis) Phillips.
Sarah Glover was the daughter of Gen. John Glover, and
married Capt. Samuel Lewis, who died Mar. 15, 1792, at
St. Martin's, W. I. Gen. John Glover's Bible record, in
possession of the family, says: "Feb. 3, 1771, Sally
Glover, born - , married Captain Samuel Lewis, March
22, 1791." On another leaf it says : " Betsey L. Lewis
died Aug. 6, 1815, aged 23 years in June the 7th, their
only child." After the death of Capt. Samuel Lewis, she
married, second, Walter Phillips, and had four children,
viz. : (1) John Glover, (2) Walter, (3) Sarah, (4) Con-
tent. Walter, jr., married late in life, and had no children ;
Content died in girlhood ; Sarah married Thomas Stand-
ley of Lynn, now Swampscott, and had a large family, of
whom Sarah Glover Standley above mentioned was one.
Capt. Samuel Lewis was born April 1, 1769, son of
Thomas and Elizabeth (Lemmon) Lewis of Marblehead,
who was son of Capt. Philip and Lydia (Barrett) Lewis
of Boston, who was son of Capt. Philip and Martha (Bur-
rill) Lewis of Boston.
Child of Warren and Sarah G., born in Salem :
978. WILLABD FRANCIS, b. Nov. 17, 1848; m. 1st, in Lynn, Feb. 5,
1872, Abbie Jane Phillips, b. in Lynn, Feb. 5, 1849, and d.
Sept. 5, 1873, dau. of James B. and Augusta (Hanaford)
Phillips of Lynn. He m. 2d, in Lynn, Oct. 3, 1877, Salome
A. Ward, b. in Orange, Mass., June 10, 1850, dau. of Asa
Albee and Jane Chatman (Sawyer) Ward of Lynn. He is a
dealer in real estate and lives in Swampscott.
575 Henry Lewis, born in Lynn, Oct. 10, 1799,
was called " junior " in the birth record of his children,
his uncle Henry (264) being "senior." He was a shoe-
maker and lived in Lynn, and was buried July 25, 1840.
He married in Lynn, Jan. 8, 1820, Susan Pickett, born in
Marblehead, Sept. 21, 1802, and died in Lynn Aug. 21,
1888, aged 85 y. 11 m. 21 d. (Lynn Rds.)
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Children of Henry and Susan, the first seven born in
Lynn :
979. SUSAN, b. June 4, 1820; d. Oct. 25, 1821.
980. SUSAN, b. Oct. 18, 1821, m. 1st, Mansfield; m. 2d,
Lincoln.
981. JOHN, b. Feb. 16, 1823 (called John 4th); m. 1st, Feb. 5, 1846,
Mary A. Merrow, b. in Eaton, N. H., 1820; d. Dec. 1, 1850.
He m. 2d, Sept. 22, 1851, Lucenia Back, b. in Corinth, Me.,
1821, dan. of James Buck, and had (1) George Martin, b.
June 28, 1852.
982. HANNAH RUSSKLL, b. Nov. 4, 1824; m. April 11, 1843, John N.
Berry of Salem, Mass.
983. OLIVER QUBSTBAM, b. Aug. 6, 1826.
984. MARTHA, b. April 17, 1828 ; m. Nov. 5, 1843, Benj. Proctor.
985. HBNBY, b. Jan. 15, 1830; d. Sept. 11, 1830.
986. MABY ANN, b. 1834; m. Nov. 11, 1852, James O. Newhall.
987. CHARLES H., d. Apr. 28, 1873, SB. 38 y. 10 m. (Lynn Rds.)
988. ELIZABETH P., b. 1836; m. May 19, 1853, Geo. F. Newhall, Jr.
989. IANTHA, b. May 9, 1840; m. 1st, Sept. 21, 1862, George W. Fos-
ter, s. of Nehemiah and Snsan M. Foster of Lynn ; m. 2d,
Feb. 10, 1879, Jonathan Gerry Lewis (993), and d. Ang. 30,
1904.
576 John Lewis, born in Lynn, Oct. 9, 1802, was
a shoemaker and lived in Lynn where he died Feb. 15,
1880. He married Dec. 12, 1824 (Lynn Rds.), Mary
Babson Griffin, born April 26, 1806, and died May 25,
1895, daughter of Capt. Nathaniel and Priscilla (Lane)
Griffin of Gloucester, Mass.
Children of John and Mary B., born in Lynn :
990. LUOINDA PBISCILLA, b. Sept. 15, 1825; d. Jan. 30, 1903; m.
Jan. 1, 1857, Robert Phillips Mansfield, b. Aug. 1, 1827, d.
July 15, 1864, son of Epes and Elizabeth (Bucknam) Mans-
field. Had: (1) Ernest Lane Lewis, b. Mar. 6, 1858; (2)
Mary Ellen, b. June 15, 1859; d. Sept. 3, 1859; (3) Addie A.,
b. Oct. 24, 1860.
991. FITZWII/LIAM GRIFFIN, b. July 7, 1834.
587 Elbridge Gerry Lewis, born in Lynn, Aug.
10, 1807, and died April 25, 1861. He married, Aug. 7,
1834, Nancy Stone, born Feb. 6, 1813, daughter of Jona-
than and Nancy (Batchelor) Stone of Lynn.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 165
Children of Elbridge Gerry and Nancy, born in Lynn :
992. NATHAN BICKFORD, b. Sept. 20, 1836.
993. JONATHAN GERRY, b. Mar. 15, 1840; m. Feb. 10, 1879, lantha
(Lewis) Foster (989).
588 Leonard Lewis, born in Lynn, Dec. 7, 1810,
and died July 10, 1857. He was a shoemaker and lived
in Lynn. He married, first, in Lynn, May 21, 1835,
Susan Fowler, born in Lynn, Feb. 19, 1807, and died Sept.
21, 1849, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (?) Fowler
of Lynn. He married, second, in Lynn, Aug. 13, 1851,
Nancy Brown, born 1821, in Marblehead, daughter of
Simeon Stone.
Children of Leonard and Susan :
994. SARAH ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 22, 1836; m. 1st, John B. Harris, s.
of John and Emma (Leavitt) Harris of Marblehead, who
died in 1864 and she m. 2d, Jeremiah Lord Horton, son of
George and Elizabeth (Sutton) Horton of Marblehead.
995. CHARLES STB WART, b. Aug. 16, 1838; unm. Station agent on
B. A M. R. R. at Phillips Beach since 1874.
996. LEONARD PERCIVAL, b. June 7, 1846, in Lynn; m. June 10,
1866, Josephine, dau. of Benjamin and Mehitabel Green.
997. SUSAN LUOENA, b. Mar. 24, 1849; d. Sept. 18, 1849.
589 Bickford Lewis, born in Lynn, June 10, 1813,
and died April 21, 1880. He was a shoemaker and lived
in Lynn. He married, in Lynn, Nov., 1840, Mary Ann
Stone, born in Lynn, Jan. 24, 1818, and died July 27,
1870, daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Wilkins) Stone of
Lynn.
Children of Bickford and Mary Ann, born in Lynn :
998. CHARLES FREEMAN, b. April 7, 1841; d. Sept. 27, 1885; m.
Feb. 24, 1880, Mrs. Mary (Whitman) Nickerson; dau. of
Jacob and Susan Whitman of Liverpool, N. S.
999. WILLIS GAYLORD, b. Feb. 21, 1845; d. Sept. 19, 1846.
1000. MARY ANN, b. Dec. 18, 1848; d. in infancy.
591 Aaron Lummus Lewis, born in Lynn, July
16, 1818, removed to Kenduskeag, Me., near Bangor,
166 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
where he married Rachael T. Tilton of Lowell and is said
to have had the following children :
1001. JAMES.
1002. WILLIAM.
1003. LEVI.
1004. NATHANIEL.
1005. FANNY.
1006. EDWIN.
1007. HANNAH.
595 George Washington Lewis, born in Lynn,
April 12, 1818, was a shoemaker and lived in Lynn where
he died Nov. 15, 1903. He married Nov. 25, 1841, Cath-
erine E. Whippen, daughter of Joseph and Patience
(Ivins) Whippen of Marblehead.
Children of George W. and Catherine E.:
1008. SABAH FRANCES. For many years was principal of the Lewis
Grammar School at Glenmere (Lynn), formerly called
Gravesend, and d. unm.
1009. CATHERINE WASHINGTON, b. Sept. 27, 1848 in Philadelphia;
d. Aug. 3, 1850 (Lynn Rds.).
599 Ivers Foster Lewis, born in Lynn, May 3,
1826, a shoemaker by trade and lives in Lynn. He mar-
ried, in Lynn, Sept. 4, 1854, Harriet Augusta P. H. Col-
lins, born Nov. 26, 1829 (Nov. 30, 1828, family record),
daughter of John D. Collins.
Children of Ivers F. and Harriet A. P. H., born in
Lynn:
1010. FRANK COLLINS, b. Dec. 6, 1854; m. May 26, 1880, in Lynn,
Eliza M., dau. of George and Mary A. Kelland.
1011. MABY CAROLINE, b. Nov. 2, 1857; m. Aug. 26, 1885, in Lynn,
Joshua R. Johnson, s. of George and Sarah Johnson.
1012. ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 11, 1859; d. June 21, 1865.
1013. HENRY W., b. Mar. 27, 1863 (Lynn Rds.); m. April 16,1882, in
Lynn, Lottie M., dau. of George F. and Sarah A. Pevear.
618 Samuel Augustus Lewis, was born in Lynn,
Nov. 15, 1825, and died Dec. 13, 1893. He married,
June 16, 1852, Mary Fuller Delano, born in Attleboro,
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Mass., in 1880 (g.s), and died in Lynn, Aug. 16, 1895,
daughter of Rufus and Deborah Delano, whose remains
are interred in the same lot in Swampscott cemetery.
Children of Samuel A. and Mary F.:
1014. JOSEPHINE LUTHER, b. May 9, 1856; m. James Hammond.
1015. A son, d. in infancy.
620 John Wesley Lewis, born in Lynn, May 20,
1830, was a shoemaker and lived in Lynn where he died
Oct. 13, 1873. He married, Oct. 2, 1860, Sophia Stetson
Johnson, daughter of Albert and Deborah (Lindsay)
Johnson of Lynn, who died in 1904, aged 66 y. 4 m. 7 d.
(Lynn Rds.)
Children of John W. and Sophia S., born in Lynn:
1016 WILLIAM JOHNSON, b. Mar. 1, 1861; d. Apr. 13, 1861.
1017. LUCY MARIA, b. Nov. 1, 1863; m. Oct. 13, 1881, at Swamp-
scott, Augustus Tower Meacom, b. in Peabody, in 1860, s.
of George E. and Maria A. Meacom.
1018 HERBERT STETSON, b. Feb. 7, 1867; d. Feb. 9, 1868.
1019 WILLIAM JOHNSON, b. May 17, 1872; m. April 18, 1900, in
Lynn, Blanche Percy Hannaford, b. 1875; dau. of Charles
T. and Delia A. (Spinney) Hannaford of Lynn. Had: (1)
Percy Johnson, b. Aug. 2, 1902.
630 Benjamin Franklin Lewis, born in Lynn,
Oct. 22, 1820, lived in Westfield, Mass., where he was
engaged in the shoe business for more than 60 years.
He was a member of the M. E. Church which he joined
when 18 years old. He died at the house of Dr. C. W.
Strang, Bridgeport, Conn., on Jan. 12, 1905. He married
in Westfield, Sept. 14, 1842, Jane E. Johnson, daughter
of William and Eliza (Allen) Johnson of Westfield.
Children of Benjamin F. and Jane E. :
1020. ELLA J., b. Oct. 21, 1845; m. Oct. 21, 1868, in Westfield, Dr.
Clinton W. Strang, s. of Nelson and Julia (Wright) Strang.
Had: (1) Louis Clinton, b. Dec. 4, 1869; (2) Marion Ella,
b. Dec. 28, 1874; (3) Robert Hallock Wright, b. Feb. 22,
1881.
1021. MARION E., b. Oct. 18, 1846, in Bridgeport, Ct.
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1022. FRANK ROCKWELL, b. Sept. 6, 1856; m. Oct. 2, 1883, in West-
field, Mary Felton, dau. of Dr. Charles and Mary (Barker-
Johnson) Germaine. Had, b. in Westfield: (1) Ella Ger-
maine, b. July 12, 1884; (2) Richard Viets, b. Dec. 13,
1885; (3) Catherine De Millie, b. June 24, 1888; (4) Eliza-
beth Allen, b. July 27, 1890.
632 Albion Wesley Lewis, born in Northampton,
Mass., May 8, 1828, lived in Westfield, Mass., most of his
life where he was well known and highly respected. He
went to California around Cape Horn in 1850, where he
remained several years. He learned the cabinetmaker's
trade and was an expert workman. He was in the whip
business for a while with Samuel Tryon, and also sold
whips upon the road. At one time he was in the clotting
firm of Loomis, Lewis & Co. He was a member of the
46th regiment Mass. Volunteers, and in the 30th Company
Unattached Artillery during the Civil War. Later he
went South and engaged in the cotton business. He was
a Knight Templar and 32 degree Mason. He died Mar.
28, 1903. He married, Oct. 23, 1855, in Westfield, Mass.,
Caroline H., daughter of Timothy H. and Caroline B.
Loomis.
Children of Albion W. and Caroline H., born in West-
field :
1023. FREDERICK ALBION, b. June 19, 1859; d. Sept. 13, 1875.
1024. GRACE HOLLAND, b. April 1, 1869; m. May 12, 1891, at West-
field, Raymond Wesley Richards, s. of Rodolphus Palford
and Sarah (Burt) Richards. Had, b. in Westfield: (1)
Donald Lewis, b. Jan. 20, 1893 ; (2) Dorothy Pomeroy, b.
Aug. 28, 1894; (3) James Loomis, b. May 2, 1901.
638 Burrill Turner Lewis, was born in Lynn,
Sept. 19, 1825, and died in Marblehead Nov. 24, 1846.
He married in Marblehead, Nov. 19, 1844, Maria Jane
Mailey, b. Aug. 23, 1826, and died Mar. 1, 1894, daughter
of Thomas and Hannah Mailey of Marblehead.
Children of Burrill T. and Maria Jane, born in Mar-
blehead:
1025. THOMAS B., b. Jan. 6, 1845; m. Dec. 23, 1869, Mary A. Brown.
Had: (1) Josephine J., b. Jan. 10, 1871; (2) Caroline A., b.
Feb. 10, 1874; (3) Anna M., b. Mar. 23, 1877.
1026. HANNAH, b. Jan. 17, 1846.
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639 Thomas Harris Lewis, was born in Lynn,
Jan. 6, 1829, and died Dec. 22, 1886. He married, Sept.,
1849, Elizabeth A. Valentine, who died Oct. 10, 1898.
Children of Thomas H. and Elizabeth A.:
1027. THOMAS A. D., b. Aug. 24, 1851; d. April 13, 1881.
1028. ANNIE W. S., b. Mar. 28, 1857.
1029. FBANK, b. Mar. 19, 1864.
1030. LIZZIE T., b. Mar. 22, 1867.
640 Charles Warren Lewis, born in Lynn, Nov.
28, 1832, is a florist on Lewis St., Lynn. He married,
first, Sept. 6, 1857, in Lynn, Susan Ellen Newhall, born
in Saugus, July 11, 1836, and died Sept. 20, 1873, daugh-
ter of William P. and Mary Abby Newhall of Lynn. He
married, second, July 13, 1875 (Lynn Rds.), Clarissa Ware
Woodbury, born in Lynn, Nov. 14, 1830, daughter of
Samuel E. and Clara Woodbury of Lynn.
Child of Charles W. and Susan E., born in Lynn :
1031. WILLIAM ENDICOTT, b. Mar. 29, 1866 ; d. Sept. 4, 1902. Mr.
Lewis carried on a successful plumbing business at 17
Central Ave., Lynn. He was a member of the North
Congregational Church, superintendent of its Sunday
School, and charter member and President of its Chris-
tian Endeavor Society. He was one of the leaders in
forming the C. E. Union of Lynn and vicinity; was its
third President, and until his removal from the city was
the Union's County representative. He was chairman of
the Executive Committee of Mass. State C. E. Convention,
held in Lynn in 1897, the success of which was largely
due to the executive ability of Mr. Lewis. He m. Oct.
14, 1891, Annie E., dau. of John S. and Edna Knowles,
and had: (1) Ruth Endicott, b. Aug. 11, 1896.
647 Allen Webster Lewis, born in Lynn, June
17, 1825, married in Lynn, Nov. 2, 1850, Maria Ryan,
born in Neinha, County Tipperary, Ireland, daughter of
Daniel Ryan.
Children of Allen W. and Maria, born in Lynn :
1032. CHARLES FRANCIS, b. Oct. 16, 1851; d. June 28, 1875.
1033. ALLEN WKBSTEB, b. Dec. 3, 1852 ; d. Dec. 5, 1852.
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1034. GEORGIANNA, b. Sept. 24, 1853; m. July 28, 1886, Fred P.
Goldthwait, b. in Danvers, s. of Dennis and Adaline J.
Goldthwait.
1035. ALLEN WALLACE, b. Jan. 18, 1856; d. Feb. 10, 1858.
1036. ALLEN WALLACE, b. Sept. 3, 1859; d. Apr. 18, 1886; m. Mar,
2, 1881, in Lynn, Miriam P., dau. of Benj. F. and Marion
Crosscup.
648 John Conway Lewis, born in Lynn, Nov. 28,
1827, married in Lynn, July 18, 1852, Susan M. Alley,
born in Lynn, Feb. 27, 1835, daughter of John 4th and
Susan D. Alley.
Children of John Conway and Susan M., born in Lynn :
1037. SUSAN ABIGAIL, b. Nov. 26, 1852; m. April 12, 1871, Nicholas
J. Hoop, b. in Newburyport in 1846, son of John W. and
Hannah Roop.
1038. CHARLES EDMUND, b. Sept. 8, 1854 ; d. Sept. 10, 1855.
1039. CHARLES EDMUND, b. 1856; m. Feb. 25, 1879, in Lynn, Sadie
T. Anthony, b. in Lynn in 1858, dau. of William G. and
Frances G. Anthony.
1040. FRANK ALLEY, b. June 21, 1860; m. Apr. 25, 1888, in Lynn,
Mabel S. Southwick, b. in Peabody, 1870, dau. of Henry
and Lucy Southwick. Had, b. in Lynn: (I) Emma Pres-
cott, b. Sept. 6, 1888; (2) Henry Wilbur, b. Dec. 20, 1889;
(3) Everett Delmont, b. May 3, 1891; (4) Harold Wilson,
b. June 18, 1892; (5) Hazel Gladys, b. July 8, 1893; d. Sept,
9, 1893; (6) Harry Walcott, b. July 23, 1894; (7) Mahlon
Prince, b. Sept. 25, 1895; (8) Helen Arlene, b. Apr. 24,
1897; (9) Susan Gertrude, b. May 29, 1898; (10) Frank
Alley, b. Sept. 3, 1899; (11) Dorothy Bean, b. Oct. 13,
1900; d. May 14, 1902; (12) Ralph Morton, b. Sept. 22, 1902.
1041. EUNICE ALLEY, b. Jan. 13, 1863; m. Mar. 26, 1883, in Saugus,
George A. Stacy, b. in Atkinson, N. H., in 1857, s. of
Timothy A. and Harriet Stacy.
1042. JOSEPH CARLTON, b. Jan. 13, 1863; m. Nov. 28, 1889, in Lynn T
A. Florence Churchill, b. in Lynn, in 1866, dau. of William
and Sarah E. Churchill. Had: (1) Earl Carlton, b. Mar.
17, 1893, in Lynn.
1043. GEORGIANNA PIERCE, b. Oct. 26, 1865; d. Feb. 3, 1867.
1044. NATHANIEL ELLIS, b. Jan. 13, 1869, m. June 15, 1897, in Lynn,
M. Josephine Churchill, b. in Lynn, in 1869, dau. of
William and Sarah E. Churchill. Had : (1) Roy Ellis, b.
Dec. 22, 1903, in Lynn.
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1045. CHESTER VERJANNO, b. Mar. 30, 1872 ; m. June 27, 1894, in
Lynn, Georgia M. Anthony, b. in Lynn in 1874, dau. of
William G. and Celia Anthony. Had, b. in Lynn: (1)
Robert Favin, b. Mar. 1, 1897; (2) Helen Pauline, b. Jan.
2, 1902.
1046. ELMER E., b. Dec. 16, 1873; m. Nov. 27, 1895, in Lynn, Ber-
tha E. Gove, b. in Lynn in 1876, dau. of Enoch and Carrie
S. Gove.
672 Theodore Augustus Lewis, born in Lynn,
Feb. 9, 1827, married, first, Nov., 1852, Eunice E. Brad-
street, born in Topsfield, Mass., in 1827, and died Aug. 23,
1865, daughter of Cornelius and Eunice (Wright) Brad-
street. He married, second, Sept. 30, 1866, Martha A.
Grant, b. in Norridgewock, Me., in Jan., 1832, daughter
of Elijah and Louise (Curtis) Grant.
Children of Theodore A. and Eunice E. :
1047. CORNELIUS, b. Apr. 12, 1853; d. June, 1854.
1048. MELINDA A., b. May 30, 1855, in Topsfield; d. July, 1892; m.
Aug. 1, 1881, in Wakefield, Rev. Charles A. Melden, b. in
Salem, s. of George and Margaret Melden.
1049. WILLIAM HERMAN, b. Aug. 20, 1858, in Lynn; m. 1st, Sept.
15, 1880, at Middleton, Mary Ann Hall, dau. of Sarcuel
and Fanny Hall; m. 3d, June 27, 1896, at North Andover,
Lizzie F. Ingalls, dau. of S. William and Sarah Ingalls.
Child of Theodore A. and Martha A., b. in Lynn :
1050. JOSEPHINE BRADSTREET, b. Oct. 30, 1868 (Lynn Rds.), Oct.
13, 1868 (private rd.), unm.
681 Thomas Y. Lewis, born in Shelbyville, 111.,
Feb. 20, 1837, adopted the Y. in his name while a medical
student at Louisville, Ky., to prevent another Thomas
Lewis from receiving his mail. He graduated at the Ken-
tucky School of Medicine, Feb. 28, 1858, and practiced his
profession at Sullivan, 111., until 1881, when he removed to
Dublin, Texas. He was Superintendent of Schools of
Moultrie County, 111., 1865-1869, and alderman at Sulli-
van, 111., and at Dublin, Texas; also President of the
Board of School Trustees and President of the National
Bank of Dublin, Texas, upon its organization. He has in
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his possession the watch of his grandfather Thomas (164),
which was made in London, Eng., in 1810, on the case of
which is engraved his grandfather's obituary and the
names of his family. He lives in Dublin, Texas. He
married, in Sullivan, 111., June 22, 1858, Cordelia Basha
Elder, born near Sullivan, 111., Oct. 31, 1841, daughter of
James and Didama Elder, who were raised and married in
Tennessee and moved to Illinois.
Children of Thomas Y. and Cordelia B.:
1051. EVA, b. Aug. 9, 1860; d. Apr. 17, 1885, in Dublin, Tex.; m.
Apr. 18, 1880, F. M. Craig of Sullivan, 111.
1062. THOMAS EDWABD, b. Dec. 2, 1862, in Sullivan, 111. ; m. Nov.
24, 1896, at Dougherty, Indian Ter., Hattie.Marion Brown.
Had: (1) Thomas Y., b. July 31, 1898. Lives at Fort Worth,
Texas.
1053. MINNIE, b. Dec. 17, 1864; d. Oct., 1865.
1054. EDITH, b. Mar. 17, 1873; m. Mar. 28, 1889, S. S. Davis. Had:
(1) Lewie, b. Dec. 18, 1891; (2) Carl Thomas, b. July 30,
1893.
687 Charles Dudley Lewis was born in Roxbury,
Mass., Sept. 26, 1844, and died in Sherborn, Mass., May
4, 1905. He served in the Mass, legislature for eight
years from 1888, and was a member and treasurer of the
State Democratic Committee and a member of the National
Democratic Committee and also was well known in banking
circles and among cattle dealers about the state. He mar-
ried at Framingham, Mass., April 3, 1872, Emily Johon-
not Clark, born in Framingham, Dec. 15, 1846, daughter
of James Wilson and Catharine Monroe (March) Clark
of Framingham.
Children of Charles Dudley and Emily J.:
1055. JAMES WILSON CLARK, b. Apr. 27, 1875.
1056. WILLIAM GUSTAVUS, b. July 24, 1876.
1057. KATHERINE LEBARON, b. Sept. 26, 1877.
1058. FRANCES WILSON, b. Oct. 19, 1879.
1059. MARGARET DUDLEY, b. Apr. 21, 1882.
1060. CHARLES DUDLEY, b. Oct. 12, 1884; d. Apr. 14, 1896.
1061. EDMUND SANFORD, b. June 7, 1887.
1062. MARY ELIZABETH, b. Apr. 20, 1890.
1063. LEBARON, b. Oct. 10, 1892; d. July 1, 1893.
AHD SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 173
735 Dexter Bosworth Lewis, born in Providence,
R. I., Sept. 20, 1820, was a merchant. He was a council-
man in 1851-1853, 1875 and 1876, and a member of the
Marine Artillery Company. He was a director in the
Old Liberty Bank and the Second National Bank and also
in the Board of Trade. He was a member of the firm of
Burroughs & Lewis, engaged in the oil and cotton busi-
ness and for many years was in partnership with Col. J.
Lippitt Snow, under the firm name of Snow & Lewis,
handling dye stuffs and chemicals. He married in Provi-
dence, R. I., Sept 6, 1842, Mary Ann Leveck, born in
Bristol, R. I., Mar. 29, 1822, daughter of John C. and
Lucy W. (Dexter) Leveck. He died July 17, 1887.
Children of Dexter B. and Mary A., born in Providence,
R. I.
1064. JOHN DKXTBB, b. Mar. 19, 1846; m. Apr. 2, 1872, Sophie P.
Lapham, b. Apr. 4, 1848, dau. of Hon. Benj. N. and Sophia
M. (Bullock) Lapham. While fishing from a launch, Feb.
26, 1901, on Lake Worth, Fla., a storm came up suddenly
and overturned the craft, and Mrs. Lewis was caught in
the awning and drowned; her husband and youngest
daughter narrowly escaped by clinging to the bottom of
the boat. They were among the most prominent people
of Providence. They had : (1) John Bosworth, b. Mar. 19,
1874; m. Miss Watson, dau. of Col. Arthur N. Watson of
Providence; (2) Benjamin Lapham, b. Sept. 4, 1875; d.
Sept. 9, 1876; (3) Mary Louise, b. July 31, 1877.
1065. ELLKN LHVECK, b. June 4, 1851; m. Nov. 20, 1873, Stephen
M. Knowles, s. of Ex-Mayor Edward P. Knowles.and had,
b. in Providence: (1) Helen Lewis, b. Jan. 30, 1875; (2
Stephen Dexter, b. May 31, 1880.
1066. DEXTEB BOSWORTH, b. June 4, 1851; d. Aug. 18, 1851.
1067. FBANK EVENS, b. Oct. 3. 1859; unm.
740 Alfred Bosworth Lewis, was born in Provi-
dence, R. I., June 7, 1819, and died August, 1889. He
married, first, Nov. 21, 1842, Sarah B. Fields, who was di-
vorced. He married, second, Josephine V. Benson, born
1822, and died April 2, 1858.
Children of Alfred Bosworth and Josephine V. Lewis :
1068. GENEVIEVE, b. May 11, 1851; d. Aug. 17, 1853.
1069. PEMBEBTOH, b. Dec. 5, 1855; m. April 22, 1890, Maud Rist.
174 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
1070. ALFRED BOSWORTH, b. Nov. 3, 1856.
1071. JOSEPHINE, b. Mar. 18, 1858; m. April 23, 1881, Willis C.
Dunn. Had: (1) Willis, b. June 9, 1882; d. April 22, 1883;
(2) Lillian, b. Sept. 5, 1883; (3) Marion, b. Dec. 4, 1884; d.
July 10, 1885.
748 Joseph West Lewis was born Dec. 17, 1831,
and died Jan. 4, 1877. He married, first, Nov. 27, 1861,
Annie E. Snow, daughter of Henry H. Snow, who died
in childbirth Dec. 16, 1865. He married, second, Melissa
A.. (Horton) Clarke, a widow, born April 18, 1846 ;
daughter of Comfort and Martha P. Horton. She married,
third, June, 1884, Horace R. Handy.
Children of Joseph West and Melissa A.:
1072 JOSEPH WEST, b. Oct. 27, 1871 ; m. Nov. 18, 1896, Josephine
Billings, dau. of Henry A. and Josephine (Lewis) Billings,
a granddaughter of Bradford Lewis of Chicopee, Mass.
Mr. Lewis is a graduate of Brown University.
1073. FRANK HORTON, b. July 20, 1873.
1074. HERBERT CHACE, b. May 18, 1876; d. June 2, 1877.
749 Kingsley Thurber Lewis born in Johnston,
R. I., Feb. 24, 1824, married April 2, 1846, Susan A.
Mathewson, daughter of William B. and Susan S.
(Latham) Mathewson.
Children of Kingsley Thurber and Susan A., b. in Prov-
idence, R. I.:
1075. LOUISA JACKSON, b. Mar. 9, 1847; d. Sept. 7, 1876; a teacher
in the Providence, R. I., public schools.
1076. WALTER JAMES, b. Sept. 8, 1851; d. Sept. 25, 1906. He
learned the jeweller's trade and also was a conductor for
the Union Railroad Co. for 9 years. He was appointed
Sanitary Inspector of the Board of Health of Providence
in 1894, and retained the office until his death. He was a
member of Doric Lodge of Masons of Auburn, and was a
charter member of Co. E. First Light Infantry regiment,
a 2d sergt. upon organization and rose to 1st Lieutenant
which he held at time of death. He married, Sept. 20,
1874, Ella Maria Rockwell, who was divorced in July, 1895.
Had, born in Providence: (1) Grace Louise, b. Jan. 3,
1886; (2) Walter Irving, b. Aug. 9, 1891.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 175
750 George Washington Lewis, born July 16,
1825, married, first, Feb. 10, 1845, Louisa Jackson,
daughter of James and Hannah (Carpenter) Jackson. He
married, second, May 3, 1848, Mary J. Billings, daughter
of Samuel and Mary (Yates) Billings.
Child of George W. and Louisa J., b. in Providence,
R. L:
1077. GEORGE JACKSON, b. Dec. 4, 1846; married; d. Mar. 1, 1896,
in Allegan, Mich., where he was engaged for many
years in the coal and wood business.
Children of George W. and Mary J. :
1078. PHEBE BILLINGS, b. May 22, 1849, in Providence, K. L; m.
Jan. 21, 1874, Horatio A. Hunt. Had, b. in Providence:
(1) Helen Nancie, b. Jan. 26, 1877; (2) Jesse Hosmer, b.
Dec. 23, 1879; (3) Louise Wisnor, b. Aug. 6, 1880; (4) Fan-
nie Evans, b. Nov. 2, 1886.
1079. MARY AUGUSTA, b. Dec. 1, 1851, in Barrington, R. I.; m.
Mar. 9, 1876, Hon. Ellery H. Wilson, at one time speaker
of the R. I. House of Representatives. Had, b. in Provi-
dence : (1) Lewis Bartlett, b. Feb. 17, 1877; (2) Mary Hoi-
brook, b. Dec. 29, 1878; (3) Ellery Lewis, b. Jan. 1, 1882.
1080. FANNY BOWERS, b. Feb. 2, 1855, in Augusta, Ga.; m. May 10,
1876, Fred B. Evans. Had, b. in Providence: (1) Bailey
Winslow, b. Sept. 23, 1877; (2) George Warren, b. May 16,
1880; (3) Marion King, b. Mar. 17, 1883; (4) Bertha Lewis,
b. Feb. 12, 1888; (5) Margaret Hathaway, b. May 17, 1894.
1081. ELLEN JANE, b. June 18, 1857, in Augusta, Ga.; d. June 16,
1869.
1082. BERTHA, b. Nov. 18, 1860, in Barrington, R. I. ; m. May 23,
1888, Walter Edward Fisk. Had, b. in Providence, R. I. :
(1) Dwight Lewis, b. Aug. 25, 1891; (2) Katharine Brad-
ford, b. July 12, 1893.
1083. CAROLINE ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 27, 1867, in Providence.
1084. WARREN BILLINGS, b. Apr. 10, 1870, in Providence.
754 Levi Jason Lewis was born July 27, 1828 and
died Feb. 3, 1895. He married, Nov. 6, 1849, Clara R.
daughter of Isaac and Clarissa (Brownell) Wilcox.
Children of Levi Jason and Clara R. :
1085. LEVI AUGUSTUS, b. Nov. 30, 1850; m. Oct. 1, 1873, Mary E.i
dau. of Wilson J. and Elizabeth (Barnfield) McCartney.
176 EDMUND LBWIS OF LYNN
1086. FRANK L., b. May 9, 1853; m. 1st, Oct. 18, 1875, in Providence,
Emma L., dau. of Samuel and Mary 0. (Crandall) Taylor
of New Bedford, Mass. Had: (1) Frank, b. Apr. 3, 1878,
in Providence, R. I.; d. Oct. 8, 1878, in New Bedford; m.
2d, Nov. 27, 1884, Harriet E., dau. of Nicholas O. and Abbie
M. (Bliven) Reynolds of Exeter, R. I. Had, b. in Provi-
dence: (2) Harry R., b. Oct. 14, 1885; (3) Faith, b. May 1,
1889.
1087. CHAUNOEY, b. June 16, 1855.
1088. WALTER, b. Mar. 7, 1857 ; d. April 10, 1857.
1089. CLARA JOSEPHINE, b. Apr. 17, 1858; m. Dec. 31, 1876, James
Allen Blanchard, son of Allen and Barbara (Millard)
Blanchard. Had: (1) Clara Francis, b. Nov. 13, 1877; (2)
James Willard, b. Mar. 30, 1879; (3) Hattie Lewis, b. Oct.
31, 1883; d. Dec. 20, 1889; (4) Sarah Gertrude, b. Oct. 4,
1887; (5) Edgar Wilson, b. May 7, 1891; d. June 9, 1893;
(6) Mary Estha, b. Mar. 26, 1894.
1090. HARRIET ELLA, b. Sept. 2, 1861 ; m. Oct. 25, 1882, Allison W.,
son of William B. and Rachel Trafford. Had : (1) Inez
Perry, b. July 19, 1883; (2) Grace Barnard, b. Feb. 10,
1886; d. Feb. 23, 1894.
755 William T. Lewis born Mar. 26, 1831, mar-
ried, first, Oct. 12, 1852, Eliza B., daughter of Lewis
Thomas and Fanny P. (Burrows) Hoar, who died June
17, 1885. He married, second, Dec. 8, 1886, Mary Hop-
pin, daughter of Nicholas R. and Susan (Climer) Bradford
of Philadelphia, Pa.
Children of William T. and Eliza B.:
1091. ARTHUR, b. Oct. 27, 1853; m. Jan. 5, 1877, Jennie, dau. of
Capt. Joseph E. and Sarah Ann (Hubbard) Martin of Bar-
rington, R. I. Had : (1) Howard, b. Nov. 15, 1875 ; (2)
Marion, b. Mar. 9, 1882; (3) Hope Hubbard, b. NOT. 30,
1891.
1092. WILLIAM T., b. Mar. 27, 1857; m. Jan. 29, 1879, Elvira C.,
dau. of William A. and Sarah Smith (Bos worth) Cornell.
Had: (1) Harold, b. Dec. 3, 1881; d. Apr. 4, 1889; (2) Clin-
ton D., b. July 21, 1887; (3) William T., b. Oct. 29, 1894.
1093. FANNY, b. June 30, 1859; m. Jan. 10, 1883, Charles Sparks.
1094. ELLIOTT BURROWS, b. Dec. 13, 1872.
759 Elijah C. Lewis born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan.
13, 1839, lived in Providence, R. I., for 25 years and was
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 177
employed as travelling agent by the Windsor line of
steamships for 23 years. He was transportation agent of
a Baltimore line of steamships when he died, suddenly,
Dec. 17, 1896. He married Nov. 9, 1862, Emily Ann,
daughter of Rev. Josephus W. and Anna (Remington)
Horton.
Child of Elijah C. and Emily Ann:
1095. MINNIE EMILY, b. July 19, 1863; d. Jan. 20, 1886; m. Sept. 13,
1881, Dr. William D. Porter, a dentist, b. Sept., 1857, in
Glastonbury, Conn.; d. Jan. 19, 1901, son of Dr. William
Miller and Abby Frances Porter. Had: (1) Mabel Frances,
b. July 31, 1882.
772 Henry Bowers Lewis was born in Providence,
R. I., Nov. 10, 1837, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., in June,
1878. He was a bookbinder and at the time of his death
was foreman of the Methodist Book Concern of New
York City. He married in Providence, R. I., July 2,
1859, Mary S. Davis, b. Dec. 14, 1836, in Liverpool, Eng.,
daughter of Francis and Rose (Kerrigan) Davis.
Children of Henry Bowers and Mary S., first two b. in
Providence, R. I., last four in Brooklyn, N. Y.:
1096. FRANCIS HENRY, b. May 15, 1860.
1097. CHARLES SYLVESTER, b. June 8, 1862.
1098. SAMUEL CORNELL, b. Nov. 30, 1864; d. Dec. 2, 1865.
1099. WALDO STOCKTON, b. Dec. 29, 1867.
1100. HARRY WINSLOW, b. Oct. 15, 1871.
1101. IDA ELIZABETH, b. April 29, 1874.
774 William Brown Lewis was born in Bristol,
R. I., Oct. 5, 1821, and died in Cranston, R. I., Dec. 7,
1882. He married in New York City, Jan. 12, 1842, Jane
Brown Dempster, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Feb. 24,
1824, and died Mar. 18, 1907, at the home of her son
Charles E. Lewis, in Burlington, Vt.
Children of William B. and Jane B.:
1102. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. Feb. 22, 1843, in New York City.
m. July 2, 1873, in Providence, R. I., Maria Frances War-
den, b. Dec. 31, 1848, in Smithfield, R. I, Lives in Provi-
dence, and had born there : (1) Edith Marie, b. Nov. 13,
1875; (2) George Leland, b. Jan. 27, 1878.
178 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
1103. THEODORE FRANCIS, b. June 18, 1845, in Rochester, N. Y.; is
in the Creamery business at Oakland, Calif. He m. June
18, 1865, in Pawtucket, R. I., Ellen Maria Crocker, b. Sept.
19, 1845, dau. of Uriah B. and Maria C. (Harrington)
Crocker, and had b. in Providence : (1) Theodore Wallace,
b. June 15, 1872; d. Oct. 6, 1877.
1104. WILLIAM HENRY, b. Jan. 29, 1847, in Rochester, N. Y. ; d.
Oct. 21, 1864, from the effects of wounds received at the
battle of Cedar Creek, Va.
1105. JAMES DEMPSTER, b. May 22, 1848, in Providence, R. I. ; d.
Aug. 21, 1848.
1106. CHARLES EDWIN, b. July 13, 1849, in Providence, R. I. ; m.
Alia Clark; lives at Burlington, Vt.
779 Edward Augustus Lewis, was born in St.,
Louis, Mo.,* Feb. 22, 1820, and died there Sept. 21, 1889.
He was a lawyer by profession, presiding Judge of the
Supreme Court of Missouri and Chief Justice of the St.
Louis Court of Appeals for 12 years ; also editor of the
St. Louis Intelligencer. He married Sept. 9, 1845, Par-
thenia A. daughter of Walter L. Bransford of Kentucky.
Children of Edward Augustus and Parthenia A. :
1107. WALTER FELIX, b. Aug. 23, 1846.
1108. EDWARD SIMMONS, b. Aug. 22, 1848, in Richmond, Mo.
1109. FLORENCE ELIZABETH, b. May 18, 1850 ; m. Robert Atkinson.
1110. EUGENE WASHINGTON, b. July 20, 1855.
1111. PETER GRAYSON, b. Aug. 17, 1857; m. Minnie Carroll. Had :
(1) Minnie Olive, b. Mar. 10, 1884; (2) Carroll Grayson, b.
Aug. 7, 1885.
1112. BRANSFORD, b. Nov. 14, 1862, in St. Charles, Mo.; m. Jennie
Jaynes. A physician and surgeon ; editor of the Weekly
Medical Review; lecturer in the Missouri Medical College;
and formerly assistant-superintendent of the City Hospi-
tal of St. Louis, Mo.
799 Benjamin Lewis, was born in Milford, N. H.,
Mar. 23, 1808, and died Aug. 31, 1874. He married
at Ashby, Mass., Oct. 12, 1835, Harriet Prescott Adams.
*Another record says he was born in Washington, D. C.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 179
Child of Benjamin and Harriet P.:
1113. FREDERICK BENJAMIN ADAMS, b. Mar. 12, 1839; m. Mar. 12,
1866, Antoinette Grenell. Had : (1) Maud, lives at San
Jose, Calif .; (2) Frederick TDeLancey; (3) Agnes Adams,
m. Morris Mansfield Bruce and had (1) Starr Lewis Bruce.
800 Asa Lewis, born Mar. 3, 1810, in Milford, N. H.,
died June 30, 1846, in New York City ; married Nov. 9,
1837, at Concord, Mass., Abby H. Davis of Concord,
Mass. Had: (1) Charles G., d. April 5, 1843, se. 4 y.
809 William Frederick Lewis, born in Gaines-
ville, Ala., May 2, 1831, lived on a farm in Sumpter Co.
Ala., but held county office most of the time, and was
county surveyor at the time of his death, Aug. 9, 1891.
He married, first, at Eutau, Green Co., Ala., June 7, 1855,
Mary Ann Ridge way, b. Aug. 22, 1835, and died at De-
catur, Miss., Dec. 15, 1883, daughter of Sephalon and
Mary (Bell) Ridge way of Springfield, Ala. He married,
second, Dec. 22, 1887, Mary Ellen Bates, who died Aug.
1, 1892.
Children of William Frederick and Mary Ann :
1114. IOHABOD COLBY BABTLETT, b. June 1, 1856; m. April 12,
1386, Laura Ross.
1115. Infant son, b. June 24, 1858; d. July 7, 1858.
1116. MABGABET BELL, b. Sept. 13, 1859 ; d. Oct. 11, 1862.
1117. SALLIE MABTIN, b. Feb. 16, 1862; m. Feb. 2, 1887, Alexander
Archable Chaney, b. in Decatur, Miss., Mar. 24, 1862, s. of
Archable and Margaret (Jones) Chaney of Decatur, Miss.
Had, b. at Chunky, Miss.: (1) Charles Alexander, b. Feb.
7, 1888; (2) James Frederick, b. Mar. 17, 1890; (3) Oscar
Lewis, b. Dec. 24, 1892; (4) Mary Ella, b. Jan. 22, 1896.
1118. MABY ELLA, b. Dec. 24, 1865; m. Nov. 1, 1885, Thomas James
Parke, b. Oct. 4, 1864, in Decatur, Miss. ; s. of Thomas
and Harriet (Hollingsworth) Park of Decatur, Miss. Had:
(1) a daughter, b. Sept. 30, 1886; d. Oct. 24, 1886; (2) Mary
Harriet, b. Nov. 19, 1887; (3) Bessie Lewis, b. Apr, 2,
1890; (4) Argus Frazier, b. Sept. 22, 1893; (5) a son, b. Oct.
28, 1897.
1119. WILLIAM SEPHALON, b. Mar. 28, 1867; d. Mar. 28, 1869.
180 EDMUND LEWIS OP LYNN
1120. CHARLES BRADLEY, b. Aug. 9, 1870; m. Nov. 7, 1890, Sadie
Winham.
1121. RUFUS GUSTAVUS, b. June 2, 1873; m. Aug. 12, 1891, Lou
Ella Chaney.
1122. WALTER WEBSTER RUSSELL, b. Feb. 3, 1876; m. Nov. 24,
1896, Julia Beddowman.
1123. GERTIE ELIZA CONVERSE, b. Aug. 30, 1881.
819 Rufus Smith Lewis, born in New Hampton,
N. H., June 14, 1833, was an invalid for years, but en-
gaged in business in Lowell and Boston, Mass. He was
Register of Deeds in Laconia, N. H., where he died May
22, 1887. He married Eliza Bean Hilton, daughter of
David and Sally Fuller (Wallace) Hilton.
Child of Rufus Smith and Eliza B. :
1124. WINNIFREDA WALLACE, b. Feb. 3, 1858; m. Mar. 27, 1890, in
Laconia, N. H., Charles Henry Turner, b. in Wentworth,
N. H., May 26, 1861, s. of Charles and Elizabeth Kelley
(Goodspeed) Turner. Keside in Washington, D. C.
822 James Pickering Lewis, born Feb. 10, 1842,
in New Hampton, N. H., has been a clerk in the Post
Office Department, Washington, D. C., since Mar. 10,
1875. He married June 30, 1880, in Washington, D. C. 5
Mrs. Mary (Winn) Wilkey, born July 15, 1842, daughter
of Bernard and Katherine (Dyer) Winn.
Child of James Pickering and Mary :
1125. JAMES PICKERING, b. April 14, 1883.
825 James Willard Lewis, born in Concord, Vt.,
Aug. 26, 1823, was thrown from a carriage at St. Johns-
bury, Vt., and two weeks after died of apoplexy on May
11, 1879. He was Justice of the Peace at the time of his
death. He married, first, Diantha Chloe Richardson, born
in Salem, Vt., daughter of Francis and Chloe (Chamber-
lain) Richardson, of Waterford, Vt., who died in New
York City, Sept. 9, 1858. He married, second, at Brad-
ford, Vt.,' Dec. 25, 1863, Hattie Worthen, born Dec. 17,
1833, daughter of John A. and Mary (Runnels) Worthen
of Bradford, Vt.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 181
Children of John Willard and Diantha Chloe, born in
Kirby,Vt.:
1126. MARY MIRANDA, b. Oct. 19, 1849; m. Aug. 2, 1870, in Lowell,
Mass., Henry Gray Whittle, b. in Weare, N. H., Aug. 8'
1848 ; divorced May 5, 1893. Had: (1) Freddie Lewis, b.
Mar. 13, 1872, in Lexington, Mass. Both father and son
are railroad conductors.
1127. HENRY W., b. July, 1853 ; d. Sept. 22, 1857, at West Con-
cord, Vt.
826 Ethan Nichols Lewis, born in Concord, Vt.,
July 25, 1825, was a carpenter by trade, and removed to
Beloit, Wis., in the 50s, and thence to Springfield, Mass.,
in 1860, where he died July 5, 1887. He married June
11, 1851, Rebekah Partridge, born in Templeton, Mass.,
May 1, 1825, daughter of Otis and Unity (Fales) Par-
tridge of Templeton, who died in Springfield, Mass. , Aug.
4, 1881.
Children of Ethan Nichols and Rebekah:
1128. ETHAN ALLEN, b. April 16, 1852; m. Florence Jones, and died
of wood alcohol poisoning, July 10, 1907, at New Haven,
Ct., where he was a bookbinder; foreman for Price, Lee
& Co. He left two daughters.
1129. JAMES HENBY, b. Oct. 17, 1853, in West Concord, Vt., has
held public office in Springfield, Mass., since 1869. He m.
July 20, 1876, in Springfield, Miss., Fannie G. Fisher, b.
in Hartford, Conn., Dec. 25, 1852, daughter of Andrew
Cobb and Ellen Louise (Pease) Fisher of Springfield,
Mass. Had: (1) Raymond Irving, b. Dec. 25, 1879; (2)
Herbert Willard, b. May 15, 1881; (3) Elwyn Fisher, b.
May 28, 1884; (4) Beatrice, b. Jan. 1, 1888; (5) Harold
Percy, b. Mar. 10, 1890.
1130. FLORA ESTELLE, b. and d. in 1854-5, at Beloit, Wis.
1131. EMMA COBA, b. Sept. 10, 1858; unm.; a trained nurse, and
lives in Worcester, Mass.
828 Sumner West Lewis, born in Concord, Vt.,
April 6, 1829, was a machinist by trade, and lived in West
Concord, Vt., where he died Nov. 30, 1885. He served
throughout the Civil War in the 8th regiment Vermont
Infantry, and rose from the ranks to a lieutenancy. He
182 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
married, first, Nov. 7, 1859, Almira A. Balch, born in
Concord, Vt., July 2, 1834, and died at Bath, N. H., Nov.
25, 1861, daughter of Abner and Lydia P. (Woodbury)
Balch of Concord, Vt. He married, second, Aug. 8, 1872,
Sabrina Smith,born in Lunenburg, Vt., June 11, 1848, and
died in West Concord, Apr. 18, 1885, daughter of Asa
and Mary (Powers) Smith of Lunenburg, Vt.:
Child of Sumner West and Almira A. :
1132. FRANK BALCH, b. Aug. 30, 1861 ; a druggist and jeweller at
Whitefield, Vt. ; m. Sept. 27, 1888, Lizzie Estelle Dudley,
b. in Concord, Vt., April 30 ; 1866, dau. of Clarence H. and
Lucy O. (Burroughs) Dudley of Concord, Vt.
Child of Sumner West and Sabrina :
1133. FEED A., b. July 26, 1876.
850 George Courtland Lewis, born in Groton,
Mass., Jan. 29, 1825, was a farmer, and removed from
Groton to Pepperrell in 1860, where he died April 12,
1883. He married in Pepperrell, Nov. 30, 1854, Harriet
Augusta Pierce, born in Townsend, Mass,, Oct. 1, 1833,
daughter of Richard and Mary Ann (Hartwell) Pierce of
Pepperrell.
Child of George Courtlandt and Harriet A., born in
Groton :
1134. CHARLES ANDREW, b. Apr. 16, 1869; m. Oct. 31, 1882, in
Waltham, Mass, Amy Hackett, b. June 30, 1859, on Labu-
an Island, off the coast of Borneo, dau. of Rev. Wm. Henry
and Maria Elizabeth (Passmore) Hackett of London, Eng.
Had: (1) Raymond Augustus, b. June 25, 1883, at Wal-
tham, Mass. ; (2) Charles Courtland, b. June 17, 1892, at
Hollis, N. H.; (3) Frank Cyril, b. June 19, 1895, at Hollis,
N. H.
852 Levi Lewis, born in Lancaster, Mass., Dec. 21,
1818, removed to Sterling, and in 1850, to Leominster,
Mass., where he resides. He married in 1844, Frances
Ann Johnson, born in Sterling, Mar. 2, 1820, daughter of
Jonas and Nancy (Hayden) Johnson, who died in Leo-
minster, Aug. 22, 1875.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 188
Children of Levi and Frances Ann, first three born in
Sterling, rest in Leominster :
1135. LEVI WALDO, b. Mar. 12, 1845; m. June 23, 1881, Ella Maria
Gates, born in Leominster, Jan. 12, 1852, dau. of Augus-
tus and Adelia M. (Puffer) Gates of Leominster. Had, b.
in Leominster: (1) Bernard Waldo, b. May 10, 1882; (2)
Frances Adelia, b. May 2, 1885; (3) Hazel Isabelle, b. July
31, 1887; (4) Clyde Gates, b. May 22, 1894.
1136. ISABELLE JANE, b. June 2, 1846; unm.
1137. FRANK JACKSON, b. Aug. 4, 1849 ; m. Nov. 26, 1881, Cevilla
F. Piper, b. in Winchester, Mass., Mar. 2, 1850, dau. of
Ly sander and Rachel R. (Doane) Piper of Royalston, Mass.
Lives in Leominster, and had born there : (1) Clarence
F M b. Sept. 26, 1884; (2) Grace E., b. Nov. 12, 1886.
1138. ELIZABETH WEST, b. Nov. 12, 1850; m. Mar. 16, 1871, Daniel
Walter Goss, b. in Temple, N. H., Aug. 19, 1842, s. of
Henry and Sarah (Dexter) Goss of Leominster. Removed
from Lancaster to Leominster in 1875, thence to North-
boro in 1876, thence to Lancaster in 1881, thence to Clin-
ton in 1884, where he now resides. Had: (1) Flora Belle,
b. April 21, 1872; (2) Henry Walter, b. July 8, 1876; (3)
Clarence William, b. Aug. 4, 1882; (4) Addie May, b. Mar.
3, 1886.
1139. WILLIAM WARREN, b. Dec. 12, 1853.
1140. CHARLES CROSBY, b. April 21, 1857.
856 Crosby Lewis, born in Lancaster, Mass., April
24, 1825, was a merchant, and lived in Pepperrell, Mass.,
until 1858, in Westminster until 1861, in Lancaster until
1863, in San Jose, Calif., until 1867, in Philadelphia, Pa.,
until 1877, and in Westminster, Mass., until his death,
April 21, 1895. He married June 9, 1853, Martha Abba
Marshall, born in Fitchburg, Mass., April 7, 1830, daugh-
ter of Chedorlaomer and Martha Fox (Upton) Marshall
of Fitchburg.
Children of Crosby and Martha Abba :
1141. MARTHA AUGUSTA, b. Mar. 27, 1854, in Pepperell.
1142. CHARLOTTE ALLINA, b. Nov. 8, 1856; d. Sept. 7, 1875.
1143. ANNA WARE, b. Mar. 8, 1872, in Westminster.
184 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
870 Frederick Lewis,born in Belfast, Me., Sept. 10,
1835, learned the watchmaker and jeweller's trade in Bel-
fast, went to Boston in June, 1857, and remained two
years, and in 1859 went to Camden, Me., where he now
resides. He married at Camden, Jan. 30, 1868, Georgi-
anna Sophia Eaton, born in Camden, March 9, 1838,
daughter of William and Harriet (Hosmer) Eaton of
Camden.
Children of Frederick and Georgianna Sophia, born in
Camden :
1144. FREDERICK WILLIAM, b. Feb. 13, 1870; d. Aug. 19, 1870.
1145. JESSIE FISHER, b. Oct. 30, 1871.
1146. EDWARD GUSHING, b. Aug. 7, 1876; d. Mar. 17, 1880.
886 Porter James Lewis, born in Townsend, Mass.
Oct. 23, 1846, is a wholesale and retail dealer in grain.
He lived in Townsend until 1877, when he moved to Lan-
caster, Mass. He married in Brookline, N. H., Mar. 18,
1875, Sarah Elizabeth Warren, born in Townsend, Jan. 2,
1847, and died in Lancaster Jan. 2, 1897, daughter of
Samuel F. and Harriet Lucretia (Sawyer) Warren of
Townsend.
Child of Porter James and Sarah Elizabeth, born in
Townsend :
1147. ORA MABELLE, b. Nov. 9, 1876.
893 John Gunnison Lewis,born in Concord,N. H.,
April 29, 1839, served in Co. F, 12th Regt. Vermont
Vols. in 1862 and 1863. He was a farmer, and later
engineer of the water works at Lebanon, N. H. He mar-
ried at Waitsfield, Vt., Aug. 22, 1862, Sarah J. Bates,
born in Waitsfield, Dec. 22, 1839, daughter of Ira and
Eliza (Jones) Bates of Waitsfield.
Children of John Gunnison and Sarah J., born in
Waitsfield :
1148. GERTRUDE FRANCES, b. May 11, 1864; m. Edmund T. Hunt-
ington; lives at Randolph, Vt.
1149. FRED EVERETT, b. Oct. 7, 1865; lives at West Roxbury, Mass.
1150. GEORGE RENTON, b. Mar. 15, 1867 ; m. Ada Goodwin; lives
at Lebanon, N. H.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 185
1151. ERNEST LEROY, b. Nov. 7, 1868; d. Aug. 12, 1875.
1152. MARY AILENE, b. Feb. 10, 1870; m. Bertram L. Joslin; lives
at Waitsfield, Vt.
1153. HARRIET NAOMI, b. Mar. 19, 1872; lives at Lebanon, N. H.
1154. EDWIN COLBY, b. Aug. 5, 1873; lives at Lebanon, N. H.
894 Edwin Colby Lewis, born in Northfield, Vt.,
Jan. 5, 1842, was a photographer, and lived in Texas un-
til June, 1882, when he removed to Waitsfield, Vt., and
died there Feb. 27, 1883. He was a private in Co. F, 1st
Regt. Vermont Vols., 2d Lieut. Co. G, 6th Regt. Vermont
Vols., and was transferred and appointed Capt. of Co. H,
13th Regt. Heavy Artillery (colored), and served until the
end of the Civil War. He married, first, at Northfield, Vt.,
Aug. 15, 1862, Jane King, who died in Northfield, daugh-
ter of Nathaniel and - - (Dole) King of Northfield, Vt.
He married, second, in Galveston, Texas, in 1875, Annie
Kane, who died in Jefferson, Texas, August, 1877. He
married, third, in Galveston, Texas, Oct. 21, 1878, Kate,
daughter of Patrick and Katherine Devine of White Sul-
phur Springs, Va.
Children of Edwin Colby and Annie :
1155. ROBERT EDWIN, b. May 5, 1876, in Port Henry, N. Y.; lives
at Hanover, N. H.
1156. HARRY, b. May 5, 1876, in Port Henry, N. Y.; d. Aug., 1877.
Children of Edwin Colby and Kate :
1157. EDWIN COLBY, b. Mar. 29, 1879, in Bryan, Tex.; lives at St.
Johnsbury, Vt.
1158. KATE MAE, b. Oct. 27, 1881, in Bryan, Texas ; lives at St.
Johnsbury, Vt.
895 Charles Everett Lewis, born in Northfield,
Vt., Jan. 25, 1844, is a photographer. Lived at North-
field, Vt., until 1870, then removed to Lebanon, N. H.
He married, first, at Waitsfield, Vt., Jan. 25, 1866, Jane
M. Bugbee, born at Cabot, Vt., April 7, 1844, daughter
of Alanson and Harriet (Chandler) Bugbee of Northfield,
who died at Lebanon, N. H., April 11, 1882. He married,
second, at Newton Centre, Mass., Aug. 20, 1884, Sarah C.
186 EDMUND LEWIS OP LYNN
Ross, born Mar. 16, 1856, daughter of Edmund and Mary
(Carmichael) Ross of Margaree, Cape Breton.
Children of Charles Everett and Jane M. :
1159. ARTHUR ALANSON, b. Dec. 16, 1866.
1160. FLORENCE JANE, b. Feb. 11, 1869; d. Aug. 15, 1875.
1161. MINNIE, b. Sept. 14, 1870; d. Oct. 19, 1870.
1162. ANNIE MAE, b. May 4, 1878.
Children of Charles Everett and Sarah C. :
1163. GUY CHARLES (twin), b. Nov. 11, 1889.
1164. ROY EVERETT (twin), b. Nov. 11, 1889.
1165. PERCY JOHN, b. Apr. 29, 1891.
983 Oliver Questram Lewis, born in Lynn, Aug.
6, 1826, married there, Nov. 5, 1745, Sarah Ann Johnson,
born Dec. 30, 1826, and died May 11, 1899, daughter of
Benjamin B. and Lydia (Bacheller) Johnson of Lynn.
Children of Oliver Questram and Sarah A. :
1166. ANNA WARREN, b. Mar. 9, 1849, in Swampscott; m. Oct. 28,
1869, in Lynn, Caleb B. Neagles, b. in Maiden, s. of Eben-
ezer and Mary Neagles.
1167. ABBA JOHNSON, b. May 3, 1851; m. Nov. 30, 1870, in Lynn,
Charles A. Dwyer, b. in Salem, s. of Edward A. and Sarah
E. Dwyer.
1168. MARY ISABEL, b. 1856, in Nahant; m. Mar. 31, 1875, in Lynn,
Eddie W. Stone, b. in Lynn, s. of John S. and Harriet M.
Stone.
1169. ARTHUR C., b. 1859, in Nahant; m. Dec. 1, 1880, in Salem,
Minnie A. Childs, b. in Melrose, dau. of Warren F. and
Cynthia Childs.
1170. LUCY E., d. May 17, 1889, ae. 26 y. 6 m.
1171. HENRY A., b. in Swampscott; m. Feb. 22, 1887, in Lynn,
Luna S. Graves, b. in Marblehead, dau. of Samuel C. and
Mary E. Graves. Had : (1) Gladys May, b. Apr. 19, 1891.
1172. BENJAMIN H. J., b. Aug. 2, 1866; d. Sept. 18, 1866.
991 Fitzwilliam Griffin Lewis, was born in Lynn,
July 7, 1834, and died Dec. 25, 1867. He married in Lynn,
May 22, 1856, Mary Adelaide Ireson, born Sept. 8, 1834,
daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Choate) Ireson, jr.,
of Lynn.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 187
Children of Fitzwilliam Griffin and Mary A. :
1173. WILLIAM HERBERT, b. April 14, 1857; m. July 5, 1890, Har-
riet Hammond, at Somersworth, N. H.
1174. LLOYD GLOVER, b. Nov. 25, 1861 ; m. Nov. 4, 1891, in Lynn,
Carrie Florence Shillaber, b. in Danvers, Sept. 23, 1859,
dau. of Daniel and Nancy (Richardson) Shillaber. Had :
(1) Marion Shillaber, b. Aug. 2, 1892; (2) Philip Henry, b.
July 14, 1894; (3) Benjamin Ireson, b. Sept. 4, 1895; (4)
Carrie Florence, b. Feb. 19, 1900; d. Aug. 1, 1900.
1175. CARO W., b. April 30, 1866; d. Oct. 18, 1904; m., 1st, Aug. 3,
1886, in Lynn, Charles A. Howland, b. in Kenosha, Wis.,
Dec. 24, 1857, d. May 6, 1887, s. of Charles C. and Marga-
ret (Ayer) Howland. Had : (1) Louise Ayer, b. May 26,
1887 ; m. Dec. 24, 1904, Chester Bickford, at W. Rumney,
N. H. Caro W. m. 2d, Mar. 29, 1892, George Dodge of
Bennington, N. H. Had: (1) George Lewis, b. May 6,
1894; (2) Gladys, b. Jan. 17, 1897.
992 Nathan Bickford Lewis born in Lynn, Sept.
20, 1836, married Mary R. Marsh.
Children of Nathan Bickford and Mary R. :
1176. EDWARD ELBBIDGE, b. April 20, 1858; m. Oct. 15, 1879, in
Lynn, Eliza N. Tufts, b. in Lynn, dau. of Charles S. and
Clara A. Tufts. Had : (1) Bertha M., b. May 20, 1880; d.
April 6, 1886; (2) Irving E., b. April 13, 1882; (3) Robert
E., b. May 13, 1884; d. May 14, 1884; (4) Lillian B., b.
June 16, 1887.
1177. CHARLES AUGUSTUS, b. Jan. 30, 1860; m. Feb. 3, 1881, in
Swampscott, Abbie M. Bates, b. in Marblehead, dau. of
Joseph and Eliza M. Bates.
1178. ELLIOTT HERBERT, b. June 18, 1869.
1179. ANNA MABEL, b. 1871; m. Dec. 18, 1890, in Lynn, William O.
Collyer, s. of John O. and Hannah M. Collyer.
1180. ARTHUR GERRY, b. June 2, 1876 ; d. Oct. 17, 1877.
1181. HATTIE L., b. 1879; m. Nov. 19, 1896, in Lynn, Charles A.
Collins, s. of Charles H. and Jennie B. Collins.
1107 Walter Felix Lewis was born Aug. 23, 1846,
and died June 27, 1903. He married Monemia Chase.
188 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
Children of Walter Felix and Monemia :
1182. WALTER HOWARD, b. Feb. 3, 1873; d. July 29, 1873.
1183. GEORGE CHASE, b. May 18, 1876; Lieutenant U. S. Army.
1184. FLORENCE PARTHENIA, b. Sept. 24, 1877,
1185. FRANCES ANN, b. Feb. 1, 1884.
1186. SUSAN ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 14, 1885.
1187. WALTER FELIX, b. July 13, 1889-
1188. EUGENE GRAYSON, b. Feb. 8, 1896.
1108 Edward Simmons Lewis bora in Richmond,
Missouri, Aug. 22, 1848, is Vice-President of the Harga-
dine-McKittrick Dry Goods Co. of St. Louis, Mo., and
President of the Central National Bank. In 1891 he was
elected Vice-President of the Colonial Trust Co., and has
served as an officer and director of several financial insti-
tutions in St. Louis. He has held the highest offices in
the Traveller's Protective Association of Missouri and the
National Wholesale Dry Goods Association. He resides
in St. Louis, Mo. He married, first, Dec. 23, 1869, Julia
McElheney. He married, second, April 4, 1876, Pattie
Cooke.
Children of Edward Simmons and Julia :
1189. EDWARD MCELHENEY, b. Jan. 15, 1871; d. Jan. 2, 1883.
1190. JULIAN, b. Feb. 17, 1872; d. Mar. 9, 1872.
Children of Edward Simmons and Pattie :
1191. WATSON COOKE, b. Nov. 22, 1879.
1192. AUGUSTA BBANSFOBD, b. Dec. 25, 1881; m. May 6, 1905,
C. V. D. Hill.
1193. EDWABD MCELHENEY, b. Jan. 25, 1884.
1194. PATTIE MARIAN, b. June 9, 1886.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 189
ADDENDA.
14. ABIGAIL, d. May 30, 1700.
23. THOMAS, m. Elizabeth Brooks, dau. of Timothy and Mary
(Russell) Brooks of Swansey, formerly of Billerica.
32. JOSEPH, b. June 6, 1672. (Swansea Rds.)
35. HANNAH'S son (1) John (Stocker), b. Feb. 15, 1712-13.
49. JOSEPH, d. Nov. 23, 1729, se. 30 y. 6 m. (Copp's Hill Epitaphs.)
50. EUNICE, pub. Mar. 26, 1720.
53. NATHANIEL, probably d. young.
54. ABIGAIL, b. Jan. 8, 1691-2.
66. ELIZABETH, d. Sept. 13, 1761, ae. 56 y. She m. 1st, Nov. 24, 1727,
Ens. Hezekiah Shailer, b.May9, 1706; d. Sept. 10, 1752,
son of Thomas and Catherine Shailer of Haddam, Conn.
She m. 2d, Lieut. David Smith.
69. DEBORAH, d. 1775, ae. 56 y. Her husband, Daniel Clark, d. 1787,
ae. 67 y. (Church Rds.)
70. JOHN and wife Deborah were admitted to Haddam, Ct., Cong.
Church, March, 1759, and dismissed by letter to church at
Chester, Conn., in 1767. (Church Rds.)
113. JOSEPH, m. Sarah , and lived at Saybrook, Conn. His
father (John (70) of Saybrook) deeded house, barn and 18
acres land in Chester, Apr. 4, 1780, to son Joseph. Had:
(1) Deborah, b. Dec. 20, 1768. (2) Sarah, b. Aug. 27, 1770.
157. John Lewis born in Boston, May 10, 1774; married Susanna
(Brown?), born Dec. 18, 1773, and died in Boston, Nov. 26,
1837.
Children of John and Susanna:
HARRIET.
AMOS LEWIS, b. Mar. 20, 1794 in Boston, enlisted in the Bos-
ton Home Guard in 1813, and was appointed master sail-
maker in the U. S. Navy, Jan. 3, 1825 and served on board
the frigates Constitution and Constellation (g.s.). He re-
ceived his discharge Sept. 7, 1832. The Bible which he
carried while in the service is now is the possession of
his son Benjamin Lewis of Somers Point, Atlantic Co.
N.J. It is said that all his teeth were double teeth and at
the time of his death that he had lost but one. After his dis-
charge from the naval service he followed his occupation as
sailmaker which his three sons under the name of Lewis
Bros., continued after his death. He lived in Boston, New
York City, and Somers Point, N. J. where hed. March 20,
190 EDMUND LEWIS OF LYNN
1875. He m. 1st, in Boston, Mass., Elizabeth Menunisoir.
He m. 2d, Dec. 14, 1823, in Boston, Anna Hovey Mclntyre,
b. July 31, 1796, and d. Dec. 6, 1851 at Somers Point, N. J.,
daughter of Andrew and Rachel Mclntyre. He m. 3d,
July 23, 1853, widow Jane (Stillwell) Westcoat, who after
his death lived in' Philadelphia, Pa.
Children of Amos and Elizabeth, born in Boston:
I. JOHN BROWN, b. April 28, 1816; m. 1st, Nancy Lockett of New-
bern, 1ST. C. and had (1) William Henry; (2) Adelaide;
(3) Mary Anna. Married 2d: Caroline , of Baltimore,
Md. and had (4) Amos Edwards; (5) John Emmett.
II. ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 13, 1819; m. Ellis of New York City.
Children of Amos and Anna Hovey:
III. ANNE MARIA, b. Oct. 22, 1825, in Boston; d. unm. Jan. 8, 1907.
IV. ADELAIDE, b. May 27, 1827, in New York City; m. Jan. 27,
1849, John I. Steelman, s. of John I. and Jemima (Steel-
man) Steelman, and had (1) Emily, m. James C. Fisher of
Morris & Fisher, manufacturers of fish oil and fertilizer
at Reedville, Va.; (2) Anna Hovey Mclntyre, m. Albert
Morris; (3) Addie, d. unm.; (4) Lewis, m. Eva Blackman,
and had: (a) Addie, (b) Vera, (c) Stanley Lewis; (5) John
Craig, m.Lillie Hickman, Mayor of Linwood, N. J., and
had (1) Freda.
V. THOMAS KENDALL, b. July 20, 1829, inNew York City; m.Mary
Almira Lake, dau. of Enoch and Eliza Lake, and had:
(1) Harriet Somers; m. David Westcoat, and had (a) Lewis
Crosby; (2) Elmer Somers; (3) Anna Eliza, m. Rig-
gins; (4) Sarah Elizabeth, d. unm.; (5) Lynden; (6) Freder-
ick; (7) Jennie, m. Kelley.
VI. BENJAMIN WILLIS (twin), b. Dec. 11, 1831, in Somers Point,
N. J.; m. Annie Smallwood, dau. of Abel and Naomi
Smallwood, and had: (1) John G., m. Willimena Ingersoll;
(2) Caroline, m. George Jeffries; (3) Anna Mary, m. Elfrey
D.Gooy; (4) Emily, m. Richard J. Somers; (5) Walter; (6)
Luola, m. her cousin Matthew C. Fife (see below.); (7)
Lillie, m. Fenton; (8) Ida; (9) Benjamin.
VII. AMOS (twin), b. Dec. 11, 1831, in Somers Point, N. J.; m. 1st,
widow Sarah Ireland; m. 2d, Annie Risley. No issue.
VIII. CAROLINE WILLIS, b. Mar. 25, 1834, in Somers Point, N. J.;
unm., resides Linwood, N. J.
IX. MARY WILLIS, b. July 17, 1836, in Somers Point, N. J., m. 1st,
Matthew E. Fife, s. of Matthew and Margaret Fife, and
AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 191
had: (1) Margaret; (2) Annetta, d. young; (3) Matthew C.,
m. his cousin Luola Lewis (see above); (4) Luola, m.
James McMullin. Mrs. Fife m. 2d, Abram J'agoe and re-
sides in Philadelphia, Pa.
158. LYDIA, b. 1775; d. July 25, 1814.
161. ASA, b. 1777.
164. THOMAS, b. April 4, 1771 ; was in business with his father as
Thomas Lewis & Son.
171. SAMUEL SHAW LEWIS should be number 170.
193. SAMUEL, d. in Lancaster, Pa. Was a major on General Wash-
ington's staff and distinguished himself at the battle of Ger-
man town.
280. FRANCIS B.'s dau.(2) Mary Frances, m. Albert Lewis, a descen-
dant of William Lewis of Roxbury, 1630.
339. CATHERINE L's son: (1) Henry Ware d. Nov. 28, 1900, in Au-
burn, Calif.
353. CHARLES HENRY, m. Almira Tufts, dau. of Joseph Warren
Tufts.
380. HENRY, d. May 25, 1811.
439. WILLIAM GIFFORD, was killed at the battle of the Alamo.
500. WILLIAM CROSBY, m. Emeline Augusta Bellows, b. in West-
boro, Mass., Oct. 2, 1805.
604. ABIGAIL FIELDING, m. Joseph H. Valpey, b. Feb. 23, 1823,
son of Richard and Mary Ann (Emmerton) Valpey.
722. HENRY L. not Henry G.
757. HARRIET I. did not die Oct. 7, 1893.
875. NANCY'S dau. : (2) Eliza R. m. Sept. 4, 1873.
885. SELINA'S dau. : (2) Nora Belle, b. Jan. 7, 1874.
S88a. and 888b. belong to the family of Reuben (507).
REV. JOHN HIGGINSON'S LETTER ON DRUNK-
ENNESS IN SALEM.
To the Honoured & Worfhipful Mr Broadftreet & ye rest
of ye magiftrates of ye court at Salem Nov. 30. [1670?]
Honoured Srs.
Being very crazy with yt I cannot ftirre abroad, I
make bould to inform you in this way, yt I durft not but in
duty & confcience fet my hand vnto thofe 2 writings wch were
prefented to your felves at Ipfwich court, vpon ye grounds
there expreffed againft Mr Ashbyes being admitted an ordinary
keeper in Salem, entreating yt ye cafe may be feriously con-
fidered now, whether ye prefent ordinaries may not rather be
more strictly ordered, then another be added to them ; efpeci-
ally since Mr Ashby was judged an unfitt man for fuch a
place by a generall vote of ye town when it was referred to
them by ye Select men not agreeing in it, & yt fome of ye
Select men yt fet their hands to his approbation haue fince
frequently fayd they judg him unfitt but yielded to ye impor-
tunitie of others, alfo diuers of thofe yt set their hands to a
writing for him, haue faid they were ouercome by importu-
nitys. And Mr Ashby hath kept an ordinary here in ye towne
without licenfe & sold frequently for 3 pence a quart, both
wch (is suppofed) to be contrary to law, & he hath feemed to
cary it with a high hand, as if he was fure to be approued,
when it may be feared in regard of his temper being fo much
addicted to Companionship, yt his ordinary keeping may be a
fnare to ye loofer fort of people [in] this place & a means to
encreas drunkennes & prophanes here, agft wch there haue
not wanted very fad & judiciall warnings, as ye drowning of
feuerall perfons at feuerall times occafioned by their exceffiue
drinking, & others by frequent fudling & company keeping
vndone in their estates & as Mr Woodcock who dyed com-
plaining of ye fnare of companie & drinking
But I doubt not but it is & will be your ferious care to pre-
vent fuch things as much as may be thus refting in ye dis-
charge of my own duty, & craving pardon for my bouldnes I
reft
Your humble fervant
John Higginfon
Essex County Court Files, Vol. XVI, leaf 128.
(192)
CAPTAIN RICHARD DERBY.
1712-1783.
From a portrait copied by J. Alden Weir, after the original painting
by Col. Henry Sargent.
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. XLIV. JULY, 1908 No. 3
THE DERBYS OF SALEM, MASS.
A STUDY OF 18TH CENTURY COMMERCE CARRIED ON BY
A FAMILY OF TYPICAL NEW ENGLAND MERCHANTS.
BY ROBERT E. PEABODY.
In these days when the steamship, the railroad, the
telegraph, and the ocean cable bind the whole world so
closely together, it is hard to realize the difficulties and
dangers which beset American merchants who carried on
trade and commerce a hundred and fifty years ago. Not
only did the restrictions of the English Navigation Acts
hamper their trade, but the seas then swarmed with priva-
teers and pirates which cruised about ready to pounce up-
on any unsuspecting merchant vessel. It was almost im-
possible for a colonial merchant to send a ship on a voyage
without running the risk of capture either by an English
man-of-war or privateer, for violation of the Acts, or by a
Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, or some other freebooter. To
these dangers were added, during the French and English
wars, the chance of capture by Frenchmen, for as English
subjects the American colonists were lawful enemies to
France. Yet in spite of these obstacles colonial commerce
rapidly increased and in New England for nearly two
centuries after the landing of the Pilgrims, trade and ship
owning and the allied industries of shipbuilding and fish-
ing were the chief occupations of the population. With
NOTE. Where references are not given in the following pages, the facts are
taken from the original Derby Manuscripts in the Essex Institute, or from the
Memoir of Elias Basket Derby in Hunt's Merchants Magazine, Vol. 36.
(193)
194 THE DERBYS OF SALEM, MASS.
the soil too poor for extensive and profitable cultivation,
and a coastline indented with deep harbors, it was natural
that the inhabitants should turn to the sea for a livelihood.
The miles of pathless forest which grew down to the
water's edge formed a boundary to inland progress and
also supplied timber for building ships. The waters along
the shores abounded with cod, haddock and other edible
fish and within a few years after the first settlements were
made, the New Englanders were loading their vessels with
fish which they carried to Spain and Portugal where the
numerous Catholic fast days made a great demand for this
commodity. The West Indies also furnished a large
market for New England fish and lumber, which were ex-
changed for sugar, molasses, etc. In fact, with such in-
dustry did the New England merchants extend their trade
and with such rapidity did their ships increase in numbers
that before long they were doing practically all the coast-
wise as well as foreign trade for all the colonies.
It was with a jealous eye that England noted this rapid
commercial growth and her numerous Navigation Acts of
the seventeenth century were attempts to check it. Al-
though they excluded all foreign craft from the trade be-
tween the colonies and the mother country, they also pro-
hibited colonial vessels from trading anywhere except with
England or with an English colony. As Spain, Portugal,
the Western Islands, and the French and Spanish West
Indies were the most natural trading places for the New
England merchants, it might be supposed that the Acts
were great hinderances to their trade. But it was difficult
to enforce the Acts and the profits of the trade were great,
so that the commerce of New England continued to in-
crease rapidly.
In no American port was this commercial enterprise
developed to a greater extent than in Salem. Though
today not a single ocean-going vessel hails from this place,
between one hundred and one hundred and fifty years ago
it was one of the leading American ports and in the time
of its greatest prosperity, during the period between the
Revolution and the War of 1812, Salem was well known
in many parts of the East Indies and the South Seas
where no one had ever heard of New York or Boston.
BY ROBERT E. PEABODY. 195
Of all the Salem merchants who helped to give their
town this commercial supremacy none were more active
than those of the Derby family. Roger Derby, who was
the progenitor of the family in America, came to this
country in 1671 and soon after settled at Salem where he
embarked in maritime trade, and this occupation was con-
tinued by his descendants until the early part of the nine-
teenth century. In order to observe how these early mer-
chants carried on their business and how their commerce
was affected by the British Navigation Acts, the Sugar
Act, the Acts of Trade, and by the Revolution itself, we
can do no better than to trace the career of Richard Derby
and his sons who, as typical New England merchants,
carried on business during those troublous times.
Richard Derby, the grandson of Roger, was born in
Salem in 1712. His father had been a sailor and mer-
chant, but died while Richard was an infant and the boy
was reared by an energetic mother. Practically nothing
is known of his childhood, but early in 1736, at the age of
twenty-four, he appears as master of the u slope Ranger on
a voige to Cadiz," Malaga, etc. with a cargo composed
principally of fish. With a mate and four men as crew,
young Derby made a successful voyage and, exchanging
his fish for oil, fruit and handkerchiefs, arrived safely in
Salem in the latter part of May. In September he sailed
again to Spain in the "Ranger" on a similar trip, and in
the winter of 1739 he went as master of the " skoner
Ranger" to the French West India island of St. Martins,
where in April he sold his cargo for 2178. 4. 0.
All these voyages of course were in violation of the
Navigation Act of 1695 which prohibited colonial vessels
from trading anywhere except to England or her colonies,
but the law was easily evaded as may be seen by studying
more carefully one of these voyages. On Dec. 6, 1741,
Captain Derby sailed to the West Indies as master and
part owner of the schooner " Volant," and the following
extract from his sailing orders shows how the Acts were
regarded by New England merchants.
" If you should go among the French Endeavour to
gett Salt at St. Martins but if you should fall so low as
196 THE DERBYS OF SALEM, MASS.
Statia ; & any Frenchman Shou'd make you a good Offer
with good Security, or by making your Vessel a Dutch
Bottom* or any other means practicable in order to your
getting among ye French embrace it among whom if you
Should ever Arrive be sure to give strict orders amongst
your men not to sell the least Trifle unto them on any
Terms least they shou'd make your vessel liable to a
Siezure, also Secure a permit so as for you to Trade
there the next Voyage w ch you may Undoubtedly do by
your Factor & a little greasing some others ; also make
a proper Protest at any Port you Stop at."
Written on the margin of the sailing orders is the fol-
lowing note :
" Capt Derby if you Trade at Barbadoes buy me a
Negroe boy about Siventeen years old which if you do ad-
vise Mr Clarke of y fc he may not send one also
Benj. Gerrish jr."
It is safe to say that Capt. Derby made a successful trip,
for on July 5th following he sailed again in the "Volant,"
"for Barbadoes and elsewhere." The manifest of the
Volant's outward cargo on this voyage is still preserved
and may be taken as a typical cargo for the West Indies,
except that cod, mackerel and other fish are usually more
in evidence. Its main items were 54,000 ft. of boards,
34,500 shingles, 3,500 staves, 10 barrells of shad, 16 horses,
78 bags of corn and 20 of rye, and 32 empty hogsheads
for water.
It is needless to follow each and every voyage of
Captain Derby and it is sufficient to say that he continued
in the capacity of master till 1757, when, having laid up a
comfortable fortune and become owner or part owner in
a number of vessels, he gave up a sea life and established
himself as a merchant in Salem. In 1755 he had been
granted the upland, beach, and flats at Ober's or Palmer's
Head on Winter Island in Salem Harbor, for a wharf and
warehouse for 1000 years at one shilling per year.f But
*That is, to procure a Dutch registry and make her for the time being a Dutch
vessel and thus not subject to the British Navigation Acts. Custom house officials
were easily bribed in those days and it was easy to buy registries to make a ves-
sel English, French, Spanish, or Dutch to suit the case.
t Salem Town Records.
BY ROBERT E. PEABODY. 197
he does not appear to have used this site, for soon after he
began the construction of the present Derby Wharf from
whence he and his descendants during the next fifty years
sent vessels to all parts of the world.
Mr. Derby now began to build up a thriving trade with
the Spanish Peninsula, especially with Bilboa on the Bay
of Biscay, and was constantly sending his smaller vessels
on trading voyages through the West Indies, as well as
occasional trips to Virginia and the Carolinas. His Bilboa
agents, or " factors " as they were called, were Gardoqui
& Company. On the arrival of one of his ships they
would see to the disposal of the cargo to the best advan-
tage and arrange with the merchants in the interior of
Spain for whatever commodities in which the captain
wished to lay out the proceeds of the voyage for the return
cargo. Often the captain would take bills of exchange on
London in return for part of the outward cargo, as these
bills sold at a premium in America and helped to pay for
importations from England to America. Gardoqui & Com-
pany always kept an account with Mr. Derby, and if ever
one of the Derby captains wished any cash they would
supply him and draw against the account for so much.
Although Mr. Derby traded but little with England he
very early established an account with Messrs. Lane &
Frazer of London, always leaving a considerable balance
with them which his captains, wherever they might be,
could draw upon by means of letters of credit. In this
connection may be mentioned the case of one of Mr. Der-
by's ships at Cadiz, the " Antelope," the outward cargo of
which did not realize a sufficient amount for the captain to
procure a full return cargo and R. Anderson & Company
at Gibralter, wrote to Salem : " We shall supply him with
whatever sum he may be deficient, against his Bills on
London where he tells us he has a Credit lodged for that
Purpose."
In those days banking was a crude operation and in
the lack of better facilities was largely carried on by the
merchants. Mr. Derby, for instance, acted as a bank for
the people of Salem and kept accounts with a large num-
ber of the people in the town. If one man owed another
198 THE DERBZS OF SALEM, MASS.
a certain sum he would give his creditor a note on Mr.
Derby and the creditor could then demand the amount
either in cash or in dry goods or rum or in any article he
wished, since Mr. Derby acted as retailer of imported
goods as well as banker. Accordingly there may be found
among the Derby papers many such notes as these :
" Salem February 13 1760. Friend Derby Pleas to let
Barer have the sum of six shillings and eight pence in
goods and charge the same to account of
Jonathan Deane "
" Salem, Novembr 16 th 1738
Capt darby. Be plesd to let Mr Robert Smith heve one
gallon of Rum and Charge the Same to the account of
yours to Sarve
Benj Jones."
Between 1757 and 1764, Mr. Derby had the brig " Nep-
tune," commanded by his eldest son Richard junior, and
the ship " Antelope " and brig " Ranger," trading regular-
ly with Spain and the Western Islands,* and a number of
his other vessels made occasional voyages to the Peninsu-
lar. Mr. Derby pursued the Spanish trade with much
success in spite of its violation of the Navigation Acts
and there is no record of his losing a vessel in this trade,
for the English found it impossible to enforce the Act on
this widely scattered trans- Atlantic commerce. In the
West India trade he had the ship " Lydia " and a number
of smaller vessels including the schooners " Pembroke,"
" Three Brothers," " Three Sisters," " Mary," and " Charm-
ing Kate," and the sloops "Betsy," and " Sally. These
smaller vessels would load with fish, lumber, or grain, and
often a few horses, cows, or sheep, and then sail down
through the West Indies, disposing of their cargoes little
by little wherever they found a market. In the same way
they would pick up a return cargo at whatever island they
could with advantage, generally bringing back sugar, mo-
lasses, cotton, indigo or fruits. Often these little vessels
would carry fish to the Carolinas and return with rice and
*A general term for the Azores, Madeiras and Canary Islands.
B? ROBERT E. PEABODY. 199
naval stores, and occasionally in the summer season they
went to Newfoundland.
In the West India trade, however, the dangers of the
high seas were too great for Mr. Derby to continue this
prosperous trade without a loss. On July 27, 1759 his
schooner " Three Brothers," 56 tons, Captain Michael
Driver, with a crew of four men, sailed from Salem for the
French West India Island of St. Eustatia, with a cargo of
fish, wine, oil, raisins and lumber. When but one day out
of Salem she was chased by a British privateer. Capt.
Driver hoisted his English colors but the privateer never-
theless fired nine shots at him and made him heave to. On
coming up the privateer proved to be the " King of
Prussia," Capt. James Snellock, owned by John Smith of
Antigua. The Englishman ordered Driver to come
aboard which he did with two of his crew. In the mean-
time the Englishman sent his lieutenant with several men
on board the " Three Brothers," who took away " a quan-
tity of fish and 797 pieces of eight " out of Driver's chest.
Capt. Driver was then returned to his vessel, a prize crew
was put on board, and the course was laid for Spanishtown*
where they arrived five days later. Here the privateers-
men discharged and sold as much of the fish, mackerel,
wine, oil and raisins as they pleased and after remaining
for about a week, the lieutenant of the privateer took the
schooner to Antigua which was his home port. For three
days Driver was confined on board his vessel and when he
finally was allowed to land he was soon convinced that he
could obtain no redress from the owners of the privateer.
He accordingly left the schooner and what remained of
her cargo at Antigua and took the first vessel for Salem.
Mr. Derby then registered a protest and claim for 1334.
13. 4 for ship and cargo. But the " Three Brothers " had
been bound on a voyage to a French colony in direct vio-
lation of the Acts and it is therefore extremely doubtful
whether his claim was allowed by the admiralty courts.
No record remains to show that he ever received any com-
pensation, and unless the vessel was insured the whole
must have been a total loss.
*Probably Virgin Gorda or Spanishtown, one of the Virgin Islands. The only
Spanishtown in the West Indies on modern maps is about ten miles inland from
Kingston, Jamaica.
200 THE DEBBYS OF SALEM, MASS.
A few years later, in 1762, Captain Driver was again
captured, this time by a Frenchman, for the French and
English wars were then going on and New England ves-
sels were liable to seizure by the French. Returning home
to Salem from the West Indies in the sloop " Sally," he
was captured by the French privateer " La Tigre," Capt.
Fabre. The Frenchman was lenient and after taking the
first mate, William Adams, as security for the desired
amount of ransom, the " Sally " was allowed to proceed to
Salem. Mr. Derby thereupon fitted out his schooner
" Mary," as a cartel to sail under a flag of truce to Cape
St Frangois* to pay the ransom. He was joined in this
venture by Messrs. Furlong and Titcomb of Newburyport
who also had a man held by the French as hostage for a
captured vessel. The "Mary " sailed on June 2d, 1762,
with Capt. Driver in command, with a crew of three men
and all the necessary specie and papers for the ransom.
When nearly at her destination and passing down by the
Bahamas, the " Mary " fell in with the English privateer
" Revenge, " Capt. Daniels, which captured her, took all
her specie and two of the crew, and sent her into Nassau,
on the ground that she was bound to Cape Francois, which
was a French colonial port. Capt. Driver entered a pro-
test stating that from the nature of the voyage, being
bound as a cartel and in ballast, he was not violating the
Acts, and after about two months of delay, on August
12th, by an order of the Court of Admiralty at Nassau, his
rights were recognized and he received a restoration of
everything.! Two days later he sailed for Cape Frangois
where he arrived on August 27th. The ransom was paid,
the two hostages taken on board, and Captain Driver
started to return to Salem. However, his troubles were not
yet over. As he was about to leave the harbor the command-
ing officer of the port came aboard the " Mary," took off
*Cape St. Francois was the capital of Hayti, the western portion of Hispaniola,
and at that time French territory. The city was sacked and destroyed in 1793
during the revolutionary war in Hayti.
tin the meantime Mr. Derby had been active at home in trying to gain the
44 Mary's " release and on Sept. 21, 1762, the Mass. General Court instructed its
agent 4 ' to use his Endeavours that said Vessel, and the Monies sent in her be re-
stored to the owners, and to take effectual care that all Proceedings of this kind
be prevented for the future." But by that time the 4 ' Mary " had been set free.
Mass. Archives, Vol. 66, p. 226.
BY ROBERT E. PEABODY. 201
the unfortunate hostages, and placed them on board of a
French frigate just sailing for Santiago de Cuba, and put-
ting a prize crew on the " Mary," compelled Captain Dri-
ver to sail to Santiago with the frigate. Here the " Mary ''
was detained for over three months and when on Decem-
ber 3d the hostages were at last set free and the " Mary "
was allowed to depart, her provisions were nearly gone.
Moreover during her long stay in port the teredos, or ship
worms, had so eaten into her bottom that she was very
leaky. Captain Driver accordingly crossed over to Port
Royal, Jamaica, where he careened his vessel and repaired
her bottom and having taken on board provisions, sailed
for Salem where he at last arrived in safety. The losses
incurred by Mr. Derby and Messrs. Furlong and Titcomb,
by this ill-fated voyage amounted to about 300 more than
they had sent out as ransom, or a total loss of 800 be-
tween them.
Perhaps the most exasperating capture that Mr. Derby
suffered was during the French War of 1756-1763. With
the proceeds of several successful cargoes to Spain he
purchased at Gibralter a French prize ship of three hundred
tons which had been condemned to be sold by the British
Admiralty Court. He gave her the name of " Ranger "
and sent Capt. George Crowninshield out to take com-
mand of her with instructions to load with wine for the
West Indies. Crowninshield fulfilled these orders and on
arrival in the West Indies exchanged his wine for sugar
and sailed for Leghorn in Italy. But hardly had the
" Ranger " cleared the islands when she was captured by
four English privateers and carried into Nassau, where she
was condemned by the Court of Admiralty. She was
condemned in the first place because she had no register,
which, having been a foreign prize, she could not obtain
until her arrival in an American port ; and secondly, upon
the pretence that she was bound from a French island to
Salem, when, as a matter of fact, she was bound on a law-
ful voyage to Leghorn. The capture greatly aroused Mr.
Derby, as had the vessel reached Leghorn she could have
been sold with her cargo for fully $70,000. On the ad-
vice of the leading Massachusetts lawyers, he sent his son
202 THE DEKBYS OF SALEM, MASS.
John to Nassau, in a small vessel, with specie and a letter
of credit, but he found he could do nothing. Mr. Derby
accordingly wrote to his counsel in London to try and ob-
tain redress from the home government. In this letter he
writes that in three years fully two hundred colonial ves-
sels had been taken into Nassau, that all had been con-
demned except those that were able to pay the court more
than the captors, and that Admiralty Judge Bradford,
and Governor Shirley, who had gone to the Bahamas in
poverty, left for home with fortunes of 30,000. He adds
that these captures had " set the country on fire " and
would soon be taken up by the Province, and therefore
advises that no pains be spared to reverse the decree of
the court. For a number of years Mr. Derby continued
his appeal. He sent another vessel to Nassau to serve an
inhibition on the courts, but he never obtained his cause,
and it is safe to say that, except for a moderate insurance,
this voyage, which might have doubled his fortune, was a
total loss.
These cases clearly show the risks under which the New
England merchants carried on their trade, for Mr. Derby's
losses were not exceptional cases and many merchants
suffered far more than he. In fact, during the sixteen
months between July 1, 1760, and Nov. 1, 1761, no less
than twenty-three Salem vessels trading to the West Indies
were captured by the French.* In view of this state of
affairs, Mr. Derby and all the leading Salem merchants
petitioned the Massachusetts General Court, in the autumn
of 1761, that they be allowed to have the Province ship-
of-war, " King George," at the expense of the Province,
to convoy in a fleet such Massachusetts vessels as were
about to sail for the West Indies, to stay there with them
during the winter, and to convoy them home in the spring.
They based their petition on the ground that the Massa-
chusetts merchants largely supported the ship-of-war by
the tonnage taxes on their vessels and that all the people
in the Province were interested in the safety of vessels in
the West India trade. It is evident, however, that their
petition was not granted, and that their vessels continued
*Mass. Archives, Vol. 66, page 157.
BY EGBERT E. PEABODY. 203
to sail the seas unprotected. As a matter of fact, New
England vessels ran as much risk of seizure by English
ships as by the French. The Act of 1695, prohibiting
colonial vessels from trading to other than English or
English colonial ports, was still on the statutes, but the
English naval and customs authorities rarely were able to
enforce it, and in the trade between New England and the
Spanish Peninsular and Western Islands, the Act was
practically inoperative. The West Indies, however,
swarmed with English privateers, mostly owned in the
British West India islands, which lay in wait to capture
the vessels of their fellow colonists of New England un-
der the slightest pretext that they were bound to a foreign
island in violation of the Acts, or were guilty of treason
for trading with the French who were the natural enemies
of England. Within three years, as has been stated
above, fully two hundred Colonial vessels had fallen
into the hands of these English privateers.
In view of all these dangers to American shipping, it is
interesting to observe what were the rates of marine in-
surance in those days and fortunately there have been
preserved a few old insurance bills of Mr. Derby's in ac-
count with John Higginson, agent, for the period of the
French wars. Insurance on the ship " Lydia " to Madeira
in 1760, is quoted at 11 per cent. The following year, on
the same vessel from Salem to Jamaica, it is 14 per cent.,
and 10 per cent, for the return voyage. The higher rate
on the Jamaica voyage than on the one to Madeira was
probably due to the greater likelihood that the ship might
fall in with a French armed vessel while sailing through
the West Indies than on the broad Atlantic. It is notice-
able also that the homeward rate from Jamaica, 10 per cent.,
is lower than the outward, 14 per cent, due probably to the
fact that on the return voyage when once a vessel could get
away from the islands unnoticed, she was practically safe,
while on the outward voyage as she approached the West
Indies there was no telling when she might be captured.
The highest rate of insurance recorded during this period
is twenty-three per cent, on the schooner " Three Sisters,"
204 THE DEBBYS OF SALEM, MASS.
bound from Salem to Monte Christo,* Santo Domingo,
while 15 per cent, is quoted for the return voyage. These
extraordinarily high rates were due, of course, to the fact
that Monte Christo being a Spanish port, the vessel was
subject to capture by the English for violation of the
Acts, as well as by the French, and the homeward rate
was much lower than the outward rate for the reasons
stated. The lowest rate of insurance found recorded
among the Derby papers was 8 per cent., which was on
the schooner " Friendship," bound from Salem to Quebec,
in 1760. Although at the present time even this would
be considered a very high rate, yet it was probably the
average rate in those days for a coastwise voyage where
the chances of capture were small and the dangers of the
deep were the only risks, f
Mr. Derby usually insured his vessels only in part, and
in several letters he asks to have insurance made on
3,000, when the vessel and cargo are worth 8,000, but
as he either owned or was part owner in a great many ves-
sels, his risk was well distributed. He generally divided
his insurance among underwriters not only in Salem, Bos-
ton, New York and Philadelphia, but also placed a large
amount of it with his agents in London, Messrs. Lane and
Frazer.
With such tremendously high rates of insurance, the
profits of these voyages must have been proportionally
large. But it is difficult to learn how great they were
for though we have plenty of accounts of the sales of
cargoes in foreign ports, there are none to tell us how
much they originally cost. Mr. Derby would buy a cer-
* Monte Christo is a small town, with an open roadstead on the north C9ast of
Santo Domingo, and only a few miles from the boundary of Hayti. During the
French wars it was treason for American vessels to trade with the Freoch in
Hayti, but the Yankee merchants eluded this by loading and unloading their
vessels at Monte Christo, which was Spanish territory, and carrying the goods
across into Hayti in lighters. The place was known as " the Mont," and in 1760
Admiral Holmes reports seeing 91 Yankee vessels lying in the roads at one time.
tA comparison of marine insurance risks in 1760 and at the present time gives
the following results :
1760-1. 1906-7.
Salem to Madeira 11 per ct. l|perct
Salem to Quebec 8 * 5 f
Salem to Jamaica 14 ' 1
Salem to Monte Cristo (war risk) 23 1
Monte Cristo to Salem, do 15 '
Jamaica to Salem 10 1
(peace rate)
(peace rate)
BY ROBERT E. PEABODY. 205
tain amount of lumber here and a certain amount of rum
there, some horses in another place, and grain from some-
where else, and fish from elsewhere, and then store them
on his wharf. When one of his vessels was ready to
start on a voyage he would load her with various commod-
ities, in such amounts and proportions as he thought
might suit the market to which she was bound. He then
wrote out the captain's orders, which usually began as
follows :
" You being the appointed master of the Brig
now being laden and ready to sail, I advise and order you
to embrace the first fair time of wind and weather &
come to sail & make the best of your way to , and
on your arrival there," etc. Then followed directions of
how to dispose of the cargo, and in what commodities to
invest the proceeds for the return voyage, but the whole
transaction was generally left largely to the captain's
judgment.
The captains often sailed on primage, that is, they re-
ceived a certain monthly wage, and then were entitled to a
percentage of the profits of the cargo. Sometimes they
were entitled to a certain space in the hold of the vessel,
which they could load with whatever they desired. This
they could dispose of to the best advantage and invest
the proceeds in goods on their own account. This was
called an adventure " or ' privilege " and it would be
stated that he was allowed so many tons or hundred
weight of adventure or privilege, in addition to his
wages. After the Revolution, when the Derbys sent out
ships to the East Indies, private persons would often send
out adventures. That is, they would charter space in the
vessel's hold and send out anything they wished, which
the captain sold for them and then invested the proceeds
in some foreign article on their account. This practice,
however, was not very extensively followed in the West
Indies, Peninsular, or Western Islands voyages.
The crews of vessels on these voyages often were en-
titled to adventures and privileges, but this was not usually
allowed until the East India voyages following the Revo-
lution. In this connection a glance at the rate of wages
206 THE DERBYS OF SALEM, MASS.
for seamen in those days may prove of interest and for-
tunately preserved among the Derby papers are a great
many wages accounts or portledge bills,* as they were
called. One of the earliest of these bills is for the Brigan-
tine Neptune while on a voyage to Gibraltar and back in
1759. The master received <3 per month, the mate,
2. 3. 14, the able seamen 2. 8. 0, the common seamen
1. 17. 0, the cook, 1. 6. 8, and the cabin boy 1. 4. 0.
From 1760 to 1783, masters sailing without primage, ad-
venture, or privilege, received wages varying from $17.50
to 114.50 per month ; mates, from $16.00 to 111.00 ; able
seamen, from $13.00 to 110.00 ; and common seamen
f 10.00 to $9.00. Cooks received from $10.00 to $6.50,
and cabin boys usually were paid $6.00. Both captain
and crew were shipped for the round voyage and received
one months' wages before sailing and the balance on the
return home.f
In spite of his numerous losses Mr. Derby soon began to
amass a comfortable fortune. In 1764, however, Parlia-
ment passed an Act which severely curtailed the profits of
his trade. This Act levied duties on many of the stand-
*A Portlidge Bill of Mens Names Shipt on Board the Schooner Mary as a Flag
of Truce, Bound to Cape Francois & Back to Salem Again, together with their
Station Advance Wages & at what per Month the Wages that may become due
to be Paid at Return of said Schooner.
Mens Names Their Station at what per Mo. Advance Wages When Shipt
Michael Driver Master 6.13.4 6.13.4 31 May 1762
Stephen Archer Mariner 2.13.4 2.13.4 "
Daniel Adams " " "
John Morong " " * *
Salem, June 2d, 1762
The above is A True Copy of My Portlidge Bill Left
with my Employer
Michael Driver.
*In the following tables, master's wages have been omitted as at present they
usually sail on primage and in the old portledge bills they did not. The wages for
1760-1783 have been taken from the portledge Dills of Mr. Derby's vessels, those
for 1896-1906 from the United States Commissioner of Navigation's report for 1906
giving the present rates for sailing vessels of under 600 tons. The old rates have
been computed from pounds and shillings into dollars for convenience of com-
parison.
From New England ports to the West Indies.
1760-1783 1896-1906
1st Mates $16 to $11 $35 to $40
2d Mates $12.60 to $11 $30 to $35
Able seamen $11.60 to $10 $25 to $20
From New England to Spain & the Western Islands.
1760-1783 1896-1906
1st Mates $13 to $11.60 $40
Able seamen $11.60 $22 to $20.
THE DERBY HOUSE, DERBY STREET, SALEM.
Erected in I 762 by Richard Derby for his son Elias Hasket Derby.
The oldest brick house now standing in Salem.
BY ROBERT E. PEABODY. 207
ard commodities imported into the colonies from Europe
and the West Indies and was virtually an enforcement of
the inoperative Sugar Act of 1733 with additional provi-
sions. We have no record that any of Mr. Derby's ves-
sels were seized for smuggling and violating the Act, but
it caused him much inconvenience as well as everyone else
in the colonies. In 1768 he writes, "The late Act of
Parliament has put it out of the people's power to pay
money for the necessaries of life, because the duties, aris-
ing by the late act, have almost deprived us of our gold
currency already ; for all the money that is paid for duties
is sent home and will finally put a stop, if not entirely
ruin the trade of the country and the people in it."*
His ship "Patty," Captain Driver, sailed from Salem
about this time and he writes that unless the duties, which
the Acts also required to be paid before exportation, were
not taken off, it would be his " last cargo from this way."
He sends word to Mess. Chambers, Hiccox, & Denyer at
Madeira, not to load the ship with wine for the return
voyage, but to obtain good bills of exchange on London or
Lisbon, and if they must load her with wine they must do
so at a cost one-fourth less than last year or it would not
pay the cost of the duties.
Mr. Derby's business principally was carried on between
Salem and the West Indies, but he had two vessels, the
ship "Antelope" and the brig "Neptune," regularly in the
trade with the Spanish Peninsular and the Western
Islands, where they exchanged fish and lumber for wine,
salt, etc. Occasionally he sent a vessel on what was called
the triangular voyage of which we have an example in
the ship "Antelope" in 1771. She carried a cargo of fish,
lumber, and rum from Salem to Cadiz, disposed of it there,
crossed to Tangier and loaded a cargo of mules for the
West Indies and then returned from the West Indies to
Salem with sugar, molasses, etc. He also employed
a number of small vessels in the trade to Georgia and the
Carolinas.
By 1770, Mr. Derby appears to have been recognized as
one of the leading citizens of Salem and from 1769 to
Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. VIII, p. 1W.
208 THE DEEBYS OF SALEM, MASS.
1773 he represented his town in the Massachusetts Gener-
al Court and in 1774 in the Governor's Council. Not far
from his wharf he had built a substantial brick house sur-
rounded by pleasant gardens where he lived with his wife
and family of three daughters and three sons. His eldest
son Richard and his youngest, John, in early age had
been trained to the sailor's life, and at twenty-four, Richard
was master of his father's brig "Neptune" while John was
master of a vessel bound to the West Indies, when only
twenty- three.* His second son, Elias Hasket, however,
never went to sea, but when a young man entered his
father's counting room and soon began to master the ways
of the business. He gradually assumed the entire control
and management of the trade and the vessels, so that about
1772 or 1773 old Mr. Derby appears to have retired from
active business and, relinquishing his affairs to Elias Has-
ket, prepared to enjoy his old age in comfort.
About this time affairs with the mother country had be-
gun to assume a serious aspect. The Stamp, Townshend,
and other Acts had incensed the colonists to such actions
as brought about the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea
Party. In 1774 the first Continental Congress met and
resolved upon retaliatory measures to meet those of Eng-
land. On October 20, 1774, the American Association
was established and it was resolved not to import into the
Continental Colonies after December 1st of that year,
anything from Great Britain. It also prohibited the im-
portation from the British West Indies of molasses, syrups,
^Letter from John Derby to his father after starting on his first voyage as
Master.
In Sight of the Rolserfer
28 March 1763
Hond. Sir. I am about to wright a Letter that is not agreable to me. Nither
will it be to you I beleave. I met with the misfortune of loosing all my anker on
the Banck & was ablidged to put back to Providence to refit & sailed from there
2 days ago & this day met Capt. Boudetch from the Havana who tells me of the
bad marckets there is there. & now Sir I am undertaking a thing grait conse-
quence but Sir I hope it will turne out for the best but Sir if it does not I hope
it will be overloocket by you. That is I am about to put away for Charlestown
in South Carolina. I whould have proseaded as far as Havana as it was but being
afraid of lenthening time & of our wines growing bad thought it best to mack
the best of our way for Charlestown which is all the marckets we have to trust
too now. I shall endever to macking payable on my arivall at Charlestown. If
I chould think of any whare else that was lickly for a better market I whould pro-
sead let it be whare it whould. Excues haist as night is coming on. Capt. Bou-
detch can enform you of aney particulars relaiting to my affairs. My duty to
you and my mother.
Your dutiful son
John Derby.
ELIAS HASKET DERBY.
1739-1799.
From the painting by James Frothingham, now in the
Peabody Museum, Salem.
BY EOBEET B. PEABODY. 209
paneles, coffee, pimento and indigo, and resolved that com-
mittees should be chosen in every county, city, and town
to oversee the carrying out of this non-intercourse with
England and her West India colonies. The persons most
severely affected by this act were of course the merchants,
for this was another restriction to their trade in addition
to the English Navigation Acts, and one which was more
likely to be enforced than the English Acts had been. As
time went on many of the leading merchants and wealthy
people in the Provinces began to find the difficulties of
trade in America too great for them, especially those who
expressed any partiality for the royalist cause, and most
of them, preferring to remain loyal to the home govern-
ment, began to leave for England. At the same time
many of the wealthy American merchants were ardent sup-
porters of the Provincial cause and by lending and giving
freely of their resources to the Continental Congress were
largely instrumental in bringing about the successful out-
come of the Revolution. Of this latter class, none were more
prominent than the Derbys, who lent both guns and ships
to the Continental government, fitted out privateers, and
in many ways took an active part in the Provincial cause.
In 1774 and 1775, young Richard was a member of the
Provincial Congress and old Mr. Derby, his father, one of
the Massachusetts council.
It is not unnatural therefore that we find the Derby
name connected with one of the first actions that led to
the Revolution. In February, 1775, General Gage sent
to Salem a regiment of British soldiers under Colonel Les-
lie, to capture some cannon. The soldiers were met at the
North River bridge in Salem, by a large body of citizens
and we are told that when the demand was made to de-
liver up the cannon, old Mr. Derby came forward and
boldly replied, " Find them, if you can ! take them, if you
can ! they will never be surrendered !" This answer ap-
peared to voice the attitude of the constantly increasing
crowd and the troops prudently withdrew. Less than two
months later the Battle of Lexington plunged the Prov-
inces into what Joseph Warren termed " the horrours of
a most unnatural war." At the time few people in
210 THE DBRBYS OF SALEM, MASS.
America had any idea of seceding from England and set-
ting up a new nation, but the general feeling was that this
affair at Lexington was the result of the constant and op-
pressive measures of the British ministry. The Americans
claimed that the engagement had been started by the Eng-
lish and that, far from being the aggressors, the Provin-
cials simply had defended themselves and their property
and were entirely within the law. Accordingly the Pro-
vincial Congress resolved to send a fast vessel to England
with a document, addressed to the Inhabitants of Great
Britain, giving the American version of the affair, and
Richard Derby, senior, offered to the Congress his little
schooner " Quero " for this purpose. With his son Capt.
John in command, the " Quero " sailed from Salem four
days after the vessel bearing General Gage's official des-
patches. On May 28th, Captain Derby appeared in Lon-
don and found that General Gage's despatches had not
yet arrived. The effect of his news threw the nation into
consternation. Stocks fell and general uneasiness pre-
vailed. When, however, Captain Derby was summoned
two days later to give a verbal account of the affair to the
Secretary of State, he was no where to be found. He had
gone as suddenly as he had come and was on his way home
with the first news of the effect of the battle in London
before England had got over the first excitement caused
by his information.* Captain Derby's accounts of expen-
ditures on this voyage are still preserved in the State
House at Boston and include his account for personal time
and service which he modestly puts down as " 0."
Following the Battle of Lexington the Provinces found
themselves at war with the mother country, but the
conditions of trade seem not to have been particularly
affected. On May 9th, 1775, Richard Derby, senior,
writes to the captain of his schooner *' Patty," then in the
West Indies : " There hath not been as yet any stopping
of ye trade, so I would have you get a load of molasses as
good and cheap and as quick as you can and proceed
home. If ye have not sold, and ye markets are bad where
*A full account of this famous trip of the " Quero " is given in the Essex Insti-
tute Historical Collections, Vol. 36, pp. 1-30.
BY ROBERT E. PEABODY. 211
you are, you have liberty to proceed any other ways,
either to ye Mole, Jamaica, or to make a fresh bottom, or
anything else that you may think likely to help ye voyage,
but always to keep your money in your own hands."
But the Derbys were not destined to continue their
prosperous commerce during such troublous times without
interruption, and during the winter of 1775-6 they began
to suffer a number of serious losses. The first of these
was the capture of their schooner " Jamaica Packet,"
Capt. Ingersoll. While on a passage to Salem from the
north side of Jamaica she was taken by a British cruiser
and carried into Boston. Elias Hasket Derby thus de-
scribes the affair : " The captain who took him [i. e. Capt.
Ingersoll] deprived him of all his papers, and kept them
until the trial came on, when the bill of stores was miss-
ing from the papers. The court condemned one cask of
rum and one cask of sugar for want of the bill of stores,
but acquitted the vessel and cargo. Capt. Ingersoll could
not get leave to sell the cargo. He applied, from time to
time, to have the interest delivered, and could not suc-
ceed ; but after a time, and when the enemy were near
leaving Boston, he obtained leave to sell so much of his
cargo as would be sufficient to repair his vessel, with a
view to leave Boston with the fleet, which he was desirous
of doing, hoping thus to save the interest. When the
fleet and army were leaving Boston, they came and took
most of the rum on board the transports ; the soldiers and
sailors, and others, came in the time of confusion and cut
his sails from the yards, and made them into bags ; they
cut the hoops from the hogsheads of sugar, and took most
of it away. Not being satisfied with that, the day they
quitted the town they came and cut the fasts from the
wharf, when the schooner drove down river and went
ashore on one of the islands, and was there burned by the
British, by which I lost better than .3000 sterling."
This capture was quite a blow to Mr. Derby and made
him very nervous lest he should lose more of his property,
for he had three vessels in the West Indies ready to sail
for home. They were at Hispaniola, in charge of Capt.
Nathaniel Silsbee, one of his most trusted shipmasters.
212 THE DEBBYS OF SALEM, MASS.
During February, 1776, Mr. Derby sent Capt. Allen Hal-
let to St. Nicholas Mole, Hayti, in the schooner " Nancy,"
with a credit for 500 to 1000 to he laid out to the
best advantage. A long letter was also sent to Capt. Sils-
bee in regard to the management of the vessels in his
charge. This letter fortunately has been preserved and
not only shows the anxiety felt by Mr. Derby for the
safety of his property but gives an insight into the meth-
ods of carrying on commerce during the Revolution. Mr.
Derby writes : " If this letter should meet you at the
Mole, you may ship me, by any vessels bound to Cape
Ann, Newbury, Ipswich, or near to it, some cotton, cocoa,
sugar, molasses, duck, cordage, powder, or any other arti-
cle you think may answer, as I make no doubt that any
goods will make 100 per cent. But do not send any indi-
go, as that is contrary to the association, but any foreign
goods you have a right to bring.
" Worsted stockings & Middleing Linen for shirting is
at Present much wanted, as is Pins, Silk & Cotton Hand-
kf s. & writing Paper, all which articles is worth at least
150 per cent, more than common, and 150 Sterling well
layd out in such articles will leave more Proffitt than any
Westindia goods, but they must not come (in a vessel)
with an English Clearance, & neither must any of them be
taken from Jamaica, as it would be in direct Violation of
the Association, which I do not mean to brake." He then
adds the prices then prevailing in New England of some
of the leading commodities.
" Good sugar, 25 none here, will be soon 30.
Common Rum, 35/
Cocoa, 45
Cotton, 28/ to 30/
Molasses, 20/, none at market
Cordage, 25 to 27 per 112 & will be 30."
Of Capt. Hallet he writes : " I shall depend on your
advising him in all matters. He has no Clearance &
therefore suppose it not safe to go to Jamaica for a Clear-
ance, but you will judge of that. He has two Registers
& if you think it safe & Best he may go down to Jamaica
as from the Mole in Ballast belonging to Dominica, but I
fleet come on this coast in the spring as is talked of, I
BY ROBERT B. PEABODY. 213
suppose he may be as safe with a Cargo of Molasses, Su-
gar, Cocoa, & Cotton from the Mole without any Clear-
ance at all, Provided it is consigned to some Merchant in
Nova Scotia & the French Clearance to agree with that.
The reaison of my wanting his Papers so, is I think if he
is taken there, he must be safe if he is leased to that gov-
ernment. I have ordered Hallett to throw all the Papers
over in case he gets taken, but I do not think of loosing
her as the Schooner sails very fast. If not taken & if he
meets an Easterly Wind, as it will be the right season of
the year for it, he will stand a good chance to get into
some of our Harbours on the North Shore, & I am well
assured if he does well & has a good Cargo of Goods, he
will make not less than 100 per cent, after Paying the In-
surance and charge which at present is high. I have in-
sured the Schooner out & while she lay at the Mole
against all Risques at ten per ct. but if she goes to Jamaica
it is to be 5 per ct. more, so that the Insurance down will
be not less than 100 Dollars. At present I have not made
Insurance home as I suppose I cannot at this time get it
done under 25 per ct. & shall not make any at present for
by the last acct. from England it seems they are tired of
this unnatural War, but of that you can form a much
better judgement than we can here, as it is seldom we have
accounts that are to be depended on.
" There are many difficulties in carrying on business at
this time, and I should be sorry to hear of your going to
Halifax, or of doing any thing, however small, contrary
to the Association of the Continent ; and you may depend
upon it, that if the present dispute should continue the
next summer, that there will be no less than 100 sail of
privateers out from the continent, and I suppose the inter-
est of mine, as Jamaica or Halifax property, must share
the fate of other things, if taken. But may the Almighty
Disposer of all things order the councils of the wicked
administration to come to naught."
Mr. Derby concludes by saying : " The times at present
are such I cannot determine what will be for the best, and
must therefore leave it wholly to you, not doubting the
business will be conducted with care. Should so large a
214 THE DERBYS OF SALEM, MASS.
should think it not best to ship so much to the Northward
or otherwise ; but it is now said that commissioners are
appointed to come over to accommodate affairs, but I doubt
it. I commit you to the Almighty's protection, not doubt-
ing that we shall once more carry on business at Salem in
peace and safety.
From your friend
Elias Hasket Derby."
Capt. Hallet sailed from Salem during the latter part of
February and, arriving at St. Nicholas Mole, found Capt.
Silsbee there and delivered to him Mr. Derby's letter.
Silsbee disposed of Captain Ballet's cargo, quickly pro-
cured a return one for him, and about March 20th the
" Nancy " started for home. In the latter part of April she
arrived safely at Falmouth (now Portland), Maine, where
the cargo was sold to great advantage. Capt. Silsbee sent
word to Mr. Derby by Capt. Hallet that he would " visit
Jamaica to learn the latest news," and govern himself ac-
cordingly, and that he would not ship the principal part of
the property until he could do so with safety. But it was
impossible to carry on commerce at that time in safety,
and though Captain Silsbee used his best judgment, the
vigilance of the British cruisers was too great. During the
spring, when he sent Mr. Derby's three vessels north, two
of them fell into the hands of the enemy. This disaster
decided Mr. Derby. Up to that time he had indulged in
peaceful commerce alone ; henceforth, if he wished to retain
his position on the seas, he must meet the enemy with force.
In June, 1776, he fitted out his schooner ' Sturdy Beg-
gar," of 90 tons, as an armed vessel, with six carriage
guns and a crew of twenty-five men. On June 1 3th the
Massachusetts Council gave Peter Lander his commission
to command the vessel and " to make Reprisalls on the
Enemys of the united Colonys of North America agree-
able to the Laws and Eegulations of this Country."*
A few days later the " Sturdy Beggar " sailed from Salem
on her first cruise, being one of the first privateers com-
missioned in Massachusetts during the Revolution. Of
this cruise no record now remains, but in September he
'Mass. Archives, Vol. 164, p. 391.
BY ROBERT B. PEABODY,
215
fitted out, in company with Miles Greenwood of Salem,
his West India trader " Revenge," armed with twelve
guns, which made a very successful cruise, taking " four
Jamaicamen, laden with 733 hogsheads of sugar, besides
other cargo."
One might suppose that this success would have en-
couraged Mr. Derby to engage more extensively in priva-
teering, but he does not appear to have fitted out another
armed vessel till the following year. By the autumn of
1777 all hopes of a peaceful settlement between England
and the Provinces had disappeared and Mr. Derby became
one of the most active men in New England in fitting out
privateers. Of the 158 armed vessels fitted out from the
port of Salem during the Revolution, he appears as
owner or part owner of twenty-five, and it is safe to say
that he had shares in and helped fit out twice as many
more.* At the same time he continued to send some of
Armed vessels fitted out by Elias Hasket Derby during the Revolution, with
dates when commissioned (Mass. Archives).
1776
1776
1777
1777
1777
1778
1778
1778
1778
1778
June 13
Sept. 4
Oct. 8
Dec. 19
Dec. 22
Jan. 21
Feb. 25
Apr. 10
Apr. 18
May 22
1778 July 20
1778 July 23
Oct. 16
Mar. 29
Mar. 30
Apr. 15
Apr. 15
Aug. 3
Aug. 3
Oct. 28
Nov. 25
Nov. 26
Mar. 22
Apr. 18
Apr. 18
Aug. 5
Sept. 25
June 13
Sept. 4
Sept. 29
Sept. 29
Nov. 29
Nov. 29
Feb. 12
Feb. 2
May 9
June 29
June 29
Dec. 16
1778
1779
1779
1779
1779
1779
1779
1779
1779
1779
1780
1780
1780
1780
1780
1781
1781
1781
1781
1781
1781
1782
1782
1782
1782
1782
1782
Sch. Sturdy Beggar,*
Sloop Revenge,
Sloop Rover,
Schooner Congress,
Sch. Centipede,
Sloop Patty
Sch. Scorpion,
Sch. Lexington,
Brigt. Franklin,
Sch. Centipede,
Sch. Congress,
Sch. Scorpion,
Brigt. Franklin,
Ship Oliver Cromwell,*
Brigt. Franklin,
Ship Hunter,
Brigt. Fame,
Brigt. Roebuck,
Sch. Centipede,
Ship Three Sisters,
Ship Salem Packet
Sloop Nancy
Brigt. Hasket & John
Brigt. Lexington,
Brigt. Fame
Brigt. Hasket & John,*
Sloop Morning Star,
Ship Grand Turk,
Brigt. Young Richard,
Ship Grand Turk
Ship Patty
Ship Salem Packet,
Brigt. Lexington,
Ship Exchange,*
Sch. Fly,
Brigt. Lexington,
Ship Patty,
Ship Salem Packet,*
Ship Astrea,
*Captured by the enemy.
privateer,
letter of marque
privateer,
owner
part owner
owner
part owner
letter of marque,
privateer
letter of marque
privateer
letter of marque
privateer
letter of marque
part owner
216 THE DERBYS OF SALEM, MASS.
his vessels on trading voyages, for every sort of commo-
dity was in great demand and high prices awaited the
merchant who was courageous enough to engage in for-
eign commerce. But these vessels were always sent out
well armed and equipped with a " letter of marque" which
allowed them to capture any of the enemy's vessels they
might fall in with while on the voyage. As a result of
these many ventures, Mr. Derby found the Revolution a
period of great profits. To be sure, five of his vessels
were captured, but his privateers took many valuable
prizes and his trading vessels sailing as " letters of mar-
que" made a number of profitable voyages. Samuel Cur-
wen writes of Salem in 1780: "Those who five years
ago were the meaner people, are now, by a strange revolu-
tion, become almost the only men of power, riches and in-
fluence. The Cabots of Beverly, who, you know, had but
five years ago a very moderate share of property, are now
said to be by far the most wealthy in New England ; Has-
ket Derby claims the second place in the list." He adds,
"E. H. Derby's province tax is 11,000, and his neigh-
bors complain he is not half taxed."*
As the war progressed, however, Mr. Derby began to
engage less in privateering and, converting most of his
ships into " letters of marque," he sent them on trading
voyages with fully as much chance of material profit as
though he had continued in privateering. A glance at
the prices of standard commodities during the war shows
how much was to be gained by a successful trading voy-
age. In 1780, Curwen writes : " In New England a
dollar bill is worth only 2% of an English half penny.
Pins at Is. apiece, needles at 2s., beef 2s. 6d., veal 2s,,
mutton and lamb, Is. 6d., butter 6s per lb., rum eight
dollars per gallon, molasses two dollars, brown sugar
10s. per lb., loaf sugar 15s., Bohea tea seven dollars per
lb., coffee five dollars, Irish pork sixty dollars per barrel,
lemons 3s. apiece, wood twenty dollars a cord, ordinary
French cloth twenty-two dollars a yard, hose nine dollars
a pair. A suit of clothes which cost five guineas here
[England], would cost five hundred dollars in Boston."
*S. Curwen's Journal and Letters, p. 234.
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BY ROBERT B. PEABODY. 217
Although, as the war went on, Mr. Derby gradually
withdrew his vessels from privateering, in 1*781, he had
a large ship of 300 tons built at Salem expressly for a pri-
vateer. This vessel was the " Grand Turk" and was des-
tined to be one of the most famous ships ever owned in
Salem. * She was designed for speed and yet had good
carrying capacity and her armament of 24 guns made her
a veritable man-of-war. On June 13th, 1781, Thomas
Simmons received his commission to command her and
within three days after the notices were posted more than
one hundred of the 120 men required had signed the arti-
cles, such was the general desire to be a member of her
crew. No record has been preserved of her first cruise,
but in September she sailed again under the command of
Joseph Pratt, one of Mr. Derby's most trusted captains,
and making her way towards the British Channel she fell
in with the sugar laden ship "Mary," off the Irish coast.
The vessel was homeward bound from Jamaica and was an
easy prey for the " Grand Turk." A prize crew was
placed on board and the two vessels started for Bilboa,
but before they reached that port they fell in with the brig
"John Grace" which the "Grand Turk" captured. On
arrival at Bilboa the two prizes were sold and netted
$65,802. 00. Returning to Salem, the "Grand Turk" re-
fitted and then sailed on another cruise under Captain
Pratt, this time to the West Indies. On this cruise she
captured several prizes including the twenty gun ship
"Pompey," from London. These vessels were all carried
into the French West India Islands and sold, the proceeds
being remitted to Salem.
In the meantime Mr. Derby had another ship con-
structed which was even larger than the "Grand Turk,"
being rated at 360 tons. He named her the "Astrea" and
fitted her out as a "letter of marque" under the command
of his brother John Derby. During the latter part of
December, 1782, she sailed for France and made the pas-
sage across the Atlantic in the fast time of eighteen days,
capturing an , English brigantine on the way. Shortly
*In 1785 the "Grand Turk" went to Canton, China, being, with one exception,
(the "Columbia" of Oregon fame) the first American vessel to go to China or
218 THE DEBBYS OF SALEM, MASS.
after her arrival at Nantes, the preliminaries of peace be-
tween England and the United States, France, and Spain,
were signed at Paris. Captain Derby therefore made all
haste to discharge and reload, but he was greatly delayed
by a heavy inundation of the River Loire, which flooded
the principal streets of Nantes, so that when he was ready
to go aboard the "Astrea" he " was taken into a boat from
the staircase of his lodgings."* When the "Astrea" was
ready to sail she dropped down the river to the port of
Paimboeuf where she was delayed for several more days
by a succession of heavy westerly gales. On March 12th,
however, she Anally got to sea, and twenty-two days later
arrived in Salem. f The news of peace had not yet been
received in the United States, and thus Capt. John Derby
had the distinction of being the first to carry the news of
the outbreak of hostilities to England, which he had done
in the "Quero", and also the first to bring the news of the
declaration of peace to America. A fortnight after Cap-
tain Derby's arrival, Washington ordered the cessation of
hostilities and thus brought the war to a close.
The Derbys now disarmed their ships and prepared once
more to engage in trade and commerce. Elias Hasket
Derby was then the owner of four large ships between 300
and 360 tons, the "Grand Turk," the "Astrea," the "Light
Horse," and the "Hasket & John," and three brigs, the
"Henry," "Cato," "Three Sisters," in place of the fleet of
small sloops, schooners, and brigs which he had owned be-
fore the war. He soon embarked in the trade to India
and China and carried on this commerce with great activity
until his death in 1799 when he left a fortune of over
$1,000,000, one of the largest ever amassed in America
up to that time. He is often spoken of as the father of
American trade to the East Indies and is generally con-
sidered to have been one of the greatest American mer-
chants.
His brother Richard, junior, took an active part in the
Provincial Congress during the first years of the war, and
*8alem Gazette, April 10, 1783.
tThe "Astrea" is also credited with a passage of nineteen days from France to
Salem; once she went from Salem to the Irish coast in eleven days, two of the
fastest sailing voyages across the Atlantic on record.
BY ROBERT B. PBABODY. 219
might have had a prominent political career but for his
premature death in 1781. The other brother, John, en-
joyed a prosperous mercantile career, and was a part owner
of the ship "Columbia" which went out to the north-west
coast of America in 1787 and discovered the river that
bears her name. He died in 1812.
Richard Derby, senior, lived to witness the Independence
of his country, which was a great satisfaction to him as
he was always a sound Whig and an ardent patriot, and
during the Revolution both lent and gave freely to the
Continental Government, his vessels, guns, money, and
other property. He died in 1783.
BLOCKHOUSE BUILT AT BRADFORD, 1704.
To his Exelency the Gov r . and Councill and Represen-
tatives Now in Gen 11 Court assembled at Boston By
agournment y e 25 octobr. 1704.
The humble petition of david haseltine of Bradford
most humbly sheweth
That whereas your petitioner was Commanded by Co 11 .
Dan 11 peirc (Late deceaced). To impress five men out of
my Company fore with and to build one Blockhouse on
this side merimake River at a fording place called Gadges
Rock. I Received my order the 8 day of aprill 1704 from
our Collonell by word of mouth : he not being well and
able to write but farther Tould me that as soon as he was
capable he would send me up an order in writing, but his
Sickness Brought him to y e period of his Time that he had
no opportunity to write an order for me : however your
humble petitioner hath observed my verball comand and
hath performed the dutys according to the Consents of
what was prescribed and impressed five men the 10th day
of Aprill which I improved in building and Scouting till
the 28 day of June at which Time the Souldiers were
placed in the house at their duty and I am informed by
our Co 11 That he hath not order to allow for any more
220 BLOCKHOUSE BUILT AT BRADFORD, 1704.
Time from their placing in the houfe at their duty there :
whereby your petitioner is disinabled to pay for the Ser-
vice that was performed by 5 Souldiers from the 10th of
Aprill to the 28 of June : though their service performed
in that time was by the same order as afterwards, your
petitioner Therefore humbly prays that your hon re . will
pleas To Concider the premeses that the five Souldiers
may be allowed their wages for their service and labour
with susteinance from their entrance into duty the 10th
of Aprill to the 28 of June. Together with my small dis-
bursements of materials for efecting the worke of the
Blockhouse which is but a small mater as I shall hearin
give the account To your hon rs .
ittem : for 2 days worke with a Teem 00-07-00
ittem : for 150 foot of bords and Slabs for
Covering 00-07-00
ittem : Neiles 1 s : 6 d 00-01-06
your hon" may See by my Bill of cost that I have En-
deviored not to be chargeble to the publicke : as for the
worke of building it was performed by my Souldiers in
the Towne as Time abov d your humble petitioner prays
your honours to Grant what is hearin humbly ofered
which shall oblige your petitioner as duty engadgeth me
ever To pray for your hon rs .
Octob r . 23. 1704. David Haseltine
Mass. Archives, vol. 71. p. 174
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MEMBERS OF
THE BURRILL FAMILY OF LYNN, WHO
WERE PROMINENT DURING THE COLO-
NIAL AND PROVINCIAL PERIODS,
AND SOME OF THEIR
DESCENDANTS.
BY ELLEN MUDGE BURRILL,
Member of the Lynn Historical Society.
GEORGE BURRILL.
It is not definitely known when George Burrill came to
Massachusetts. Thomas Dudley said that some of the
passengers who accompanied Governor Winthrop settled
upon the river of Saugus, and undoubtedly George Bur-
rill was among the number, for he was living in the
" Third Plantation " in 1630. His home was on the south
side of what is now Boston street, on the westerly slope
of Tower Hill. The house was small and without archi-
tectural pretensions, wrote James R. Newhall, and stood
where the diminutive one-story school house was located
till within about fifty years. When the lands of the town
were divided in 1638, he received two hundred acres.
There has been some question as to what part of England
he came from, but an entry in a volume entitled " Lincoln
Marriage Licenses, an abstract of the allegation books
preserved in the Registry of the Bishop of Lincoln, 1598-
1628," recites that on January 12, 1626, in Boston, Eng-
land, George Burrill, of Boston, SB. 35, and Mary Cooper,
of Appley, ae. 20, were licensed to marry. Mary, his
wife, died in August, 1653. He died the same year.*
Lynn Vital Records.
(221)
222 THE BURRILL FAMILY OF LYNN:
His will is dated October 18, 1653, and was proved the
following June.
To George, the oldest son, was given the dwelling-house
in which he lived, with all the appurtenances belonging
thereto.
The house in which the father himself lived was given
to his son Francis, with certain upland and meadow, barns
and other buildings.
To the youngest son, John, was given the house which
formerly belonged to Francis, with land and salt-marsh,
but it was provided that in case John should not quietly
possess this house, then he was to have his father's dwell-
ing-house, and all the above mentioned was to go to
Francis.
No record has been found as to which part John
accepted, but it is recorded that the oldest son, John, jr.,
lived in his grandfather's house, and that another son,
Ebenezer, was born there. These facts, together with the
will of John, senior, would imply that he took his father's
dwelling as his share.
A memorandum on file in the probate office, Salem,
states that " George owned part of a house in Boston.
The goods that were coming from England were to be
divided among his three sons." The inventory of his
property would indicate that he was a merchant in con-
nection with his occupation of farming, for it covers
almost everything one could think of. His estate, valued
at .848.10.0, included part of the house in Boston, up-
land, meadow, three houses in Lynn, property in old Eng-
land, etc.
LIEUTENANT JOHN BURRILL, SENIOR.
He was the third son of George, and was born in Lynn
in 1631* and died April 24, 1703.* His business was
that of a maltster and tanner. He married May 10, 1656,
Lois Ivory, daughter of Thomas and Ann Ivory. She
was born in 1640* and died September 5, 1720.* Both
*Lynn Vital Records.
BIOGEAPHICAL SKETCHES. 223
were buried in the Western Burying Ground. Their
family consisted of five sons and five daughters.
In 1678, he was chosen one of the selectmen of Lynn,
and on September 4, 1686, with the six other selectmen,
received the Indian deed of Lynn. The town clerk's
books also record his election as clerk of the market, six
years ; surveyor of highways, one year ; commissioner of
assessments, five years ; and he fulfilled many other duties
in connection with town affairs. In relation to the office
of " clerk of the market," a colonial law of 1633 gave
Lynn authority to keep a market on the third day of the
week, from time to time. The office of " commissioner of
assessments " appeared as early as 1646, and was similar
to the assessor of the present day.
John Burrill was a member of the General Court. The
town records did not always agree absolutely with the
Secretary's lists, and as the father and son of the same
name held like positions, it has been rather difficult to
decipher their respective terms of service, but from a
careful examination of the Court records it would appear
that John Burrill, senior, was a deputy at the sessions be-
ginning May 20, October 14, and December 8, 1691 ; also
from May 31 to July 15, 1693, and from May 26 to De-
cember 22, 1697.
On the eighth of January, 1692, the town voted that
" Leftent Burrill and John Burrill, junior, should have
liberty to set up a pewe in the meeting house at the east-
ward end of the pulpit ajouning to Mister Sheppard's pew
& thay to maintain the glas windows so far as ajoyne to
it." This was in the Old Tunnel Meeting House, so called.
During the Andros administration the people were told
that all the lands would be taken in the king's name and
granted to such persons and on such terms as the king
might appoint; that their titles were worthless ; and that
the grants from the General Court were not legal. Indian
deeds were presented as original titles, but they were told
" such titles were worth no more than the scratch of a
bear's paw." The records of Lynn were pronounced " not
worth a rush," and to a committee from Lynn, Andros said,
44 there is no such a thing as a town in the whole country."
224 THE BURBILL FAMILY OF LYNN:
In explanation of this last sentence it should appear that
Edward Randolph, early in 16 8 T, had requested Andros to
grant to him Nahant. The Council directed the constables
to give public notice in Lynn that " if any person or per-
sons have any claim or pretence to the said land they ap-
pear before His Excellency the Governor in Council on
Wednesday, the seventh of March next, then and there
to show forth the same and why the said land may not be
granted to the petitioner."* Although it was considered
an act of sedition to assemble in town meetings for pur-
poses of deliberation, a town meeting was held in Lynn,
March 5, 1687-8, and " Thomas Laughton, senior, Capt.
Ralph King, Cornet John Lewis, Oliver Purchis, Lieut.
John Burrill, Edward Richards and John ffuller, senior,"
were chosen to draw up the claims of the proprietors to
Nahant. f Lieutenant Burrill, Edward Richards and Cap-
tain King were selected as messengers f to appear before
the Governor and Council. In the statement then made,
they took the ground that the Lynn records gave evidence
that in the year 1635 this tract of land was in the hands
of the then freemen of Lynn to dispose of, who then did
grant to several inhabitants, lands to plant and build upon
and possess, and among those to whom these lands were
granted that honorable and worthy gentleman, Mr.
Humphrey, was one, who was a patentee and an assistant
in the first government, and therefore they were sure it
was the town's land then ; that the inhabitants who built
and dwelt there paid a yearly rent to the town ; that this
tract of land was divided into planting lots to the several
proprietors by the vote of the town, as appeared by the
town records of 1656 ; and further, that they had honestly
purchased the land from the natives, the original proprie-
tors of the soi!4 The signatures of John Burrill, senior
and junior, appear on these manuscripts.
On April 18, 1689, Andros was deposed and the gov-
ernment overthrown. This marked the downfall of the
king's policy and on April 20 a Council of Safety was
*Mass. Archives ; Vol. 127, p. 173.
tMass. Archives, Vol. 127, p. 177.
jMass. Archives, Vol. 127, pp. 174-5; 178.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 225
organized and for the time directed public affairs. Town
meetings were held and a committee of safety for the
County of Essex was appointed, with directions to make
a report of grievances to be laid before the government.
The people of Lynn made further representation regard-
ing Nahant and said they had been obliged to spend nearly
100 for the vindication of their honest rights. The
committee on this occasion was Jeremiah Shepard, minis-
ter, and John Burrill, senior. They testified that aside
from Sir Edmund Andros' unreasonable demands for
money by way of taxation, and that without an assembly
and deputies sent from the towns according to ancient
custom for the raising of money and levying of rates, their
properties, their honest and just and true titles to their
land were also invaded, and particularly a great and con-
siderable tract of land called by the name of the Nahants,
the only secure place for the grazing of some thousands
of sheep, and without which the inhabitants could neither
provide for their families nor be capacitated to pay dues
or duties for the maintenance of the public, but if dispos-
sessed of, the town must needs be impoverished, ruined,
and rendered miserable. They further testified that al-
though often before the Governor and Council for relief,
Andros told them their pleas wese insignificant, and they
could have no true title until they could prove a patent
from the king.*
John Bun-ill's will is dated April 13, 1703, and the prop-
erty was valued at .1158. 01. 0. The estate was divided
between his wife and children, and in accordance with the
custom of the times, the instructions are very explicit. The
old end of the house in which he lived was left to his wife
during her life, then to his son Samuel, who also received
the remaining portion of the house, the home lot, and all
the houseing and barns thereon. This was the first Bur-
rill house. He also gave Samuel, one-fourth part of land
" without the field " and three acres " within the field "
which he bought of Robert Bronsdon. He gave Ebenezer,
the youngest son, all the land he bought of Robert Brons-
don at Swampscott, and all the houseing thereon, except
"Lewis' History of Lynn, page 280.
226 THE BTJBRILL FAMILY OF LYNN:
what he gave to Samuel. The farm thus purchased was
valued at <450. It was part of the original grant to Sir
John Humfrey, who, upon returning to England, sold it
to Lady Deborah Moody. The Kings were the next own-
ers. On February 24, 1693, Elizabeth, widow of Daniel
King, and her son Daniel, had mortgaged their property
to Robert Bronsdon, a merchant of Boston, for <220, and
it eventually came into his possession. John Burrill pur-
chased 120 acres, more or less, of Mr. Bronsdon, the con-
sideration being .270. The deed is dated Sept. 27, 1700.
Other reference to this property may be found under Eben-
ezer Burrill, on a succeeding page.
CAPT. JOHN BURRILL, JUNIOR.
He was generally known as Speaker of the Massachu-
setts House of Representatives. He was the son of John
and Lois Ivory Burrill and was born in Lynn, in the old
homestead, November* 18,1657 ; married July 28,1680,f
Mary Stower, daughter of Richard and Joanna Stower,
and spent all his life in his native town. He died Decem-
ber 10, 1721, J and is buried in the Western Burying
Ground. His wife, Mary, was born in Chaiiestown, Feb-
ruary 9, 1654, and died May 22, 1728. She is buried in
Charlestown. f They had no children.
Very little is recorded regarding the Speaker's early
life, but his education could not have been neglected and
as he grew in years he became a very able man. He was
a man of strong integrity, wisdom, discretion and sound
judgment, and one writer has said, " as he had more than
others, it was his care to do more than others." Thus en-
dowed he took it upon himself to serve God and his coun-
try and throughout his life was a true friend to his native
land. He was a religious man, a man of prayer. ' He
offered incense morning and evening and his stated retire-
ments, wherein he enjoyed secret communion with God
*Lynn Vital Records say " October."
tWyman's "Charlestown."
jLynn Vital Records.
[BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 227
the Father and his son Christ, were most delightful to
him." This last sentence is quoted from a sermon* by
Rev. Nathaniel Henchman occasioned by the death of
Capt. Burrill. Mr. Henchman was pastor of the First
Church of Christ, which Capt. Burrill attended, and it
was most fitting that he should prepare this eulogy.
John Burrill, in his will of December 6, 1721, be-
queathed <40 toward the furnishing of the table of the
Lord in the First Church in Lynn. Alonzo Lewis in his
History of Lynn, states that " upon several articles of the
consecrated plate may be seen engraved the Burrill coat-
of-arms," implying that this appeared on the plate be-
queathed by John Burrill. Mr. Lewis could not have
been correctly informed for there are two distinct gifts.
Of the seventeen pieces now preserved, one large covered
tankard, a smaller one without a lid, and two beakers, the
smaller of which has a handle, bear the inscription :
" The Gift of the Honourable John Burrill, Esq r to the
first Church in Lynn, December y e 10 th 1721."f On one
of the beakers the name is spelled "Burrell." Aside
from the inscription, these pieces are perfectly plain.
There is also one covered tankard, one bread plate, and
two beakers bearing the inscription : " The Gift of Theo.
Burrill, Esq r to the first Church of Christ in Lynn."$ The
Burrill coat-of-arms is engraved on the four pieces last
mentioned. Theophilus, who was a brother of John, left
by his will XI 00, for the purchase of this plate and a like
sum for the same purpose to the Second Church of Christ
and to the Society which had lately erected a new meet-
ing house in the westerly end of Lynn, <100 to be used
for the best interest of the Society.
John and his father were admitted as freemen in 1689-
90, and were certified as being in full communion with the
church. John, senior, was a lieutenant in the militia. The
Court records do not certify that a commission was issued
to him, yet it frequently happened that a company would
*In possession of Lynn Historical Society.
tMade by Andrew Tyler, a goldsmith of Boston.
iMade by Jacob Hurtl, an engraver of Boston.
Note: See " The Old Communion Service and its Donors," by John Albree and
Ellen Mudge Burrill, in " The 275th Anniversary of the First Church of Christ,
Lynn."
228 THE BURRILL FAMILY OF LYNN:
make its selection and, if not actively engaged in war, the
appointment might not be sent to the governor for official
sanction.
The History of Lynn is silent as to the military service
of the Speaker. On December 10, 1675, in King Philip's
War, the forces of the Colony were mustered on Dedham
Plain to march against the Narragansett Fort. A procla-
mation was issued that " if the soldiers played the man,
took the fort and drove the enemy out of the Narragan-
sett country, they should have a gratuity of land besides
their wages."* In 1727 a grant of land was made and
there were so many claimants that two tracts were ordered
laid out.f The grantees were divided into seven societies.
" Narragansett No. 3, or Souhegan West" was on the
south side of the Souhegan River, the east boundary being
four or five miles from the Merrimac, westward. It after-
wards became the town of Amherst, N. H. Twenty-seven
Lynn soldiers were represented in the division of the land. J
In a list of soldiers credited under Capt. Samuel Brockle-
bank, dated June 24, 1676, is John Burrill, ,03 06. 00.
and the same entry appears in an assignment of wages
dated August 24, 1676. Ebenezer Burrill received lot
No. 92 in " Souhegan West " for his brother John Burrill.J
This military service undoubtedly should be credited to
the Speaker.
A manuscript petition || to the General Court assembled
in Boston, May 29, 1679, from the troop at Lynn, recites
that " having not long since obtained the Court's favor to
become a Troop upon the free concurrence of the Militia of
the Foote souldiers in Lynn," and having been committed
and disposed to the order of Ralph King and John Lewis
who were corporals to the former troop, called Salem
Troop, they petitioned to have Capt. Richard Walker ap-
pointed their commanding officer. The manuscript was
signed by forty-eight members of the troop, among whom
were Francis Burrill and John Burrill, junior.
*Mass. Col. Records, Vol. 5, p. 487.
fMass. Archives, Vol. 72, p. 367.
jSecomb : History of Amherst, N. H.
Bodge : King Philip's War.
||Mass. Archives, Vol. on the Military, 1676-1680.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 229
On June 14, 1690, John Burrill, junior, was appointed
by the Governor and Council to be ' ' Lieutnt of a foot
company against the Comon Enemy, French & Indians
under the Comand of Capt. John Floyd."* A manu-
script certificate from Major Barth 1 Gedney, in relation to
Lynn's military officers,! endorsed '* For the Honorable
Waite Winthrop in Boston " (Major General of the forces)
and dated Salem, 25 of April, 1691, reads in part as fol-
lows :
" At ye appointment I have visited the foot Company
at Lin. They have nominated Lieft. John Burrill, junr.
their Captain. I request his commission be spedilie sent.
He is prevailed with to give himself to that service. I
judge him a worthy person & the company could not have
done better."
Still another reference to him is under date of June 2,
1691, when the military company in Lynn under the Com-
mand of Captain John Burrill^ presented Samuel Bligh to
be their lieutenant and Samuel Tarbox their ensign.
The said persons were confirmed, to be commissioned ac-
cordingly. J So John Burrill received his commission as
captain between April 25 and June 2, 1691, and there is
no doubt whatever about his military service.
In 1695, further claim was made to Nahant by other
parties and John Burrill, junior, with Lieut. Samuel John-
son and Joseph Breed, were chosen by the town to defend
their interests. The plaintiffs were called three times,
made default and were non-suited. The Court ruled that
the plaintiffs pay costs unto the defendants. This was the
last heard of any claim being made to Nahant as individ-
ual property.
In 1691, John Burrill, junior, was chosen town clerk
and selectman of Lynn and he served faithfully for thirty
years. His handwriting is very clear and plain, and an
examination of the two volumes which contain his records
as clerk indicate that he did not allow the larger duties of
life to overshadow the importance of detail. He was also
*General Court Records, 1689-1698, p. 142.
tMass. Archives, Vol. 37, p. 17.
^General Court Records, 1689-1698, p. 194.
230 THE BUKRILL FAMILY OF LYNN :
town treasurer, two years and was twice sworn as assessor.
At a town meeting held November 6, 1702, he was given
liberty to set up a little house in some convenient place
on the Common, for a stable.
He was first chosen a Deputy in 1692 and represented
his town under the Province charter for twenty-one ses-
sions. Early in the reign of King William, a conspiracy
known as the " Assassination Plot " was formed, of which
Sir George Barclay, encouraged by James II and with the
knowledge of Louis XIV, was the prime mover. The con-
spirators intended to murder the king but the plot was
suppressed and one of the results was the formation in
Parliament of the " Association," established by an Act
" for the better security of his majesties' royal person and
government." All persons holding office under the gov-
ernment were required to subscribe to this. It was sub-
scribed by the Lieu tenant-Governor, William Stoughton,
twenty-seven Councillors and forty-eight Representatives,
for the first time on September 18, 1696. John Burrill
as a member of the House subscribed. The original man-
uscript is preserved in the State Archives.* For ten
years (1707 and 1711-20) he presided over the House as
Speaker, serving during the stormy administrations of
Governors Dudley and Shute. It was during the latter
years of Gov. Dudley's administration that there was such
a controversy over the currency of the Province (1710-15).
As Speaker, John Burrill must have been a man of great
diplomacy for he was idolized by the members and yet en-
joyed the esteem of both royal Governors, his appoint-
ment as presiding officer being approved by them each
year. Governor Dudley himself said : " that post of honor
and trust had never been better filled, more wisely and
prudently managed than by him." He was well acquainted
with parliamentary forms and filled the chair with dignity
and authority. He was then elected a Councillor, serving
during 1720 and 1721. After his retirement from the
House, Mr. Cooke was elected Speaker and Governor
Shute immediately negatived the appointment, but the
House refused to have a second election and the Court
*Vol. 106, p. 396.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 231
was dissolved. A Speaker was chosen, however, at the
next session in order to facilitate public business, but a
protest went up against the governor for dissolving the
Court " for asserting and maintaining their just and ancient
privilege of choosing their Speaker," and the House re-
fused to acknowledge the Governor's power to negative
their choice. In 1721, John Clarke, Esq., was chosen
and, to prevent the election being negatived, a message
was sent to the Governor and Council that " John Clarke,
Esq., is chosen Speaker and is now sitting in the chair."*
That Speaker Burrill was a man of trust, sound judg-
ment and unspotted integrity, is shown by many important
matters with which he was connected and the many cases
on record where money, voted to certain persons for their
relief, was placed in his hands for proper disposal. He
was also charged with erecting a beacon at Nahant in
1713 ; with serving upon a committee to wait upon Rev.
Mr. Increase Mather and acquaint him that the Court had
chosen him president of Harvard College ; and on Sep-
tember 14, 1710, with four others, he signed a report rela-
tive to damages due to persons convicted of witchcraft in
1692.f In consideration of his long and faithful service
to the Province, a resolve of 1715-16 granted to him five
hundred acres of land in the township of Rutland. The
following year the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com-
pany were granted five hundred acres, but Mr. Burrill
was given the choice as to which end to lay out his grant.
He was a Justice of the Peace, Special Justice of Com-
mon Pleas, and also a Judge of the Inferior Court of
Common Pleas for the County of Essex. :(:
On December 6, 1721, he made his will. He gave to
his wife the improvement of his house and certain land in
Lynn and Nahant ; also his part of the house in Boston.
One-half of his farm in Rutland was given to his nephew,
John Burrill ; the other half was bequeathed to Grover
Pratt and Michael Switzer. The poor of Lynn were also
remembered. The remainder of his property was left to
*Barry's History of Massachusetts, Second Period, pp. 112-113.
t Report accepted 1711-12.
TWhitmore's Mass. Civil List, 1630-1774.
232 THE BURRILL FAMILY OF LYNN:
his brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews. The estate
was valued at .2,051. 15. 0.
During the winter of 1721, the smallpox became preva-
lent in New England, and early in December the Council-
lor was stricken with that disease. He fully realized the
nature of his illness, yet resigned himself to it and re-
mained cheerful to the last. A sketch of his life cannot
more appropriately close than with the words of Rev. Mr.
Henchman : " Not many minutes before death closed his
eyes he desired one with him, by prayer, to recommend
his departing soul to God, adding, 4 1 am now just going/
and at length he fell on sleep. Twas his delight and joy,
while he lived, to walk with God, and it was his happiness
when he died that God took him. He had finished his
course and kept the faith. Such was his life."
SARAH BURRILL PICKERING.
The oldest daughter in the family of Lieut. John and
Lois Ivory Burrill was Sarah, born in the old homestead
on Tower hill, May 16, 1661,* and after spending her
girlhood there, she married John Pickering, of Salem.
One of her grand-children was Hon. Timothy Pickering,
an intimate friend of Washington, and an eminent states-
man. He was Postmaster General, Secretary of War,
Secretary of State, United States Senator, and member of
Congress.
THEOPHILUS BURRILL.
Theophilus Burrill was the third son of Lieut. John
and Lois Ivory Burrill, and was born in Lynn, July 15,
1669,* and died July 4, 1737.* He married, first, July
5, 1694, Lydia Gathercole, of Boston, who was born in
1666, and died June 11, 1726.* He married, second (int.
Nov. 9, 1727*), Hannah Charnock, of Boston, a widow.
*Lynn Vital Records.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 233
He had no children. Like his brother John, he was inter-
ested in town and Province affairs. At the age of twenty-
five (November 8, 1694), he was chosen to serve at the
Superior Court at Salem " for ye jury of Tryalls," and on
November 5, 1701, was ordered to procure a schoolmaster
forthwith, or as soon as may be. He was town treasurer,
two years ; clerk of the market, three years ; surveyor of
highways, two years, and selectman, eleven years.
He was captain of the Lynn company in the expedition
against Port Royal, in 1707,* and in 1723 appears to have
been promoted to major. In 1732 and 1733 he was
colonel of the Essex County Regiment of Militia, as
verified by a document in the, State Archives impowering
him, with others, to administer the oath of allegiance ;
also, by two other papers bearing his signature as colonel.
One is endorsed " Coll. BurrilPs Regiment sworn 1732
& 3."f
He was appointed a Special Justice of Common Pleas
and Justice of the Peace for the Counties of Essex and
Suffolk, and also served as Representative in 1725, and
was a member of the Governor's Council from 1727 to
17304 As Councillor, on May 29, 1730, he was one of
a committee appointed to repair to Kittery and view the
situation. The Journal of the House of Representatives
records that they attended to their duty, and the account
of the committee's time and expense was ordered paid,
the sum being placed in the hands of Theophilus Burrill
to be paid by him to the committee.
He lived at what is now the northeastern corner of Bos-
ton and Federal streets. The house stood a short distance
from the street, and on each side of the walk leading to
the front door was a row of buttonwood trees which so
protected the lawn in the hot summer days that the grass
and shrubbery were always green. He gave his house to
his niece, Lydia Burrill (wife of Francis Calley), who had
been brought up in his family. It was stipulated that she
should not enter on the place for a year and was to pay
*Province Laws, 1706-7; roster, p. 690.
tMass. Archives, Vol. 72, pp. 408-414.
^General Court Records, Vol. 14.
Journal H. of R., May 29 and Sept. 10, 1730.
234 THE BURRILL FAMILY OF LYNN:
the widow (who was the executrix of the estate) the sum
of .100. The widow was unable to collect the money,
and appealed to the court, bringing suit against said Lydia
and her second husband, John Hawkes, and recovered
judgment. The defendants appealed to the General Court,
but the judgment was sustained. It seemed strange that
the widow should not have received the home, but there
evidently was an agreement that both husband and wife
should dispose of the separate property owned by them
before their marriage. This niece, Lydia, appears to have
been a much married woman, for later, Joshua and Lydia
Ward conveyed this estate to John Lewis, who married
her sister, Mary Burrill. The house was demolished
about 1885. This old mansion was occupied by Col.
James Robinson, the first postmaster of Lynn, the first
post-office having been located in a building on the prem-
ises.
Theophilus Burrill's estate was bequeathed to his
brother Ebenezer, his nephew Theophilus, and to sisters
and nieces. Rev. Nathaniel Henchman, who married
Lydia, daughter of John and Mary Lewis above referred to,
was also remembered. The residue, both real and personal,
went to the wife. The bequest to Rev. Mr. Henchman
was <30, and perhaps it was used for the purchase of a
silver service for Mrs. Curtis, of Burlington, Mass.,
a descendant, has a silver teapot and sugar bowl, on which
is engraved the Henchman coa1>of-arms. The inscription :
" The Gift of Theophilus Burrill, Esq r to the Rev d M r
Nath : Henchman, Pastor of ye first Church in Lynn, July
5 th 1737," is on the teapot. This date, July 5, is just one
day after Mr. Burrill's death. His gifts of <100 each to
the First and Second Churches for the purchase of plate,
and of a like sum to the new meeting-house in the westerly
end of Lynn for the use of the society, have already been
mentioned. He was clerk and treasurer of the First Church
on March 12, 1721-22, and filled those offices several years.
The earliest books of the parish records and accounts are
inscribed " March 5, 1721-22," the date of the separation
of town and parish.
The communion service of the Second Church (First
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 235
Church of Lynnfield) is of pewter and silver. There are
two tankards, two bread plates and one baptismal bason,
all of pewter ; also six silver two-handled beakers. The
two tankards were " The Gift of Cap* Timothy Poole To
y e Second church in Lynn 1737." The six silver beakers
bear the inscription : " The Gift of y e Honourable Coll:
Burrill, Esq r to y e Second Church in Lynn 1737." The
donors of the plates and bason are unknown. As for the
Saugus church, the bequest was undoubtedly used for a
similar purpose. The Universalist Church there, the suc-
cessor of the earlier society, is custodian of a portion of
this service. They have two beakers of hammered silver,
also two tankards and one plate of pewter. All are en-
graved, " The Gift of The Honourable Theophilus Bur-
rill, Esq r to the third Church of Christ in Lynn." From
a mark on the tankards and plate they appear to have been
made in London by one Richard King. The balance of
the service, which was loaned to the Congregationalists
after the Third Church was divided, had not been used for
many years and through some error was sold to a junk
dealer.
EBENEZER BURRILL.
Ebenezer Burrill, the youngest son of Lieut. John and
Lois Ivory Burrill, was born in his grandfather's house on
Boston Street, Lynn, July 13, 1679.* He died Septem-
ber 6, 1761.* On October 13, 1702,* he married Martha
Farrington, daughter of Matthew Farrington, junior, and
Sarah, his wife. ,She was cousin of John Farrington,
whose son was Capt. William Farrington, of the Second
Company of Foot in the Revolution. Captain Farring-
ton's monument was one of those unveiled June 18, 1904,
by the Lynn Historical Society and Old Essex Chapter,
Sons of the American Revolution, at the dedication of the
memorials to the Lynn men who served in the Revolution.
Martha, was born in Lynn, May 2, 1679,* and died August
'Lynn Vital Records.
236 THE BURRILL FAMILY OF LYNN :
9, 1760.* Both husband and wife are buried in the West-
ern Burying Ground.
As already stated, Ebenezer Burrill became the owner
of the land in Swampscott which had been purchased by
his father of Robert Bronsdon and after his marriage he
left the old homestead and took up his residence there. A
great deal has been said about the farmhouse, now moved
from its original site to the State road and some believe
it was built by John Humfrey, the original owner of the
land. The Humfrey house was probably standing when
Hon. Ebenezer Burrill owned the property, but is it proba-
ble that the two houses were identical ? In Ebenezer
Burrill's will the following paragraph appears :
" To my son Samuel, I give my field and pasture where
I now dwell, being all that upland and meadow ground
which my honour 'd Father purchased of Mr. Robert Bros-
don, with all the buildings thereon, excepting the privilege
of convenient room or rooms in my dwelling house so as to
accommodate my daughter Lydia Mowers dwelling there-
in so long as she remains a widow, and excepting the four
acres of land lying in my field which I have given to my
son Theophilus."
The inventory of the property has these items :
" The dwelling house where Samuel Burrill dwells, in-
cluding the clock in the now west room, with the barn,
old house, and other buildings. <146. 13. 4
" The dwelling house where Theophilus Burrill dwells,
with the barn and other buildings. .126. 13. 4
(This is the house at the corner of Essex and Burrill
streets.)
" The dwelling house where Ebenezer Burrill dwells,
with the barn and other buildings. <100."
(This was the Farrington homestead.)
Samuel Burrill died in 1797. His son Ebenezer was
administrator of the estate and the inventory presents the
following :
*Lynn Vital Records.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 237
" The dwelling house and land on which it stands,
" The barn. 200.
" The old house so-called. 50."
Again the question arises: is the farmhouse the Hum-
frey house ? It appears not.
A part of the Swampscott property was sold in 1798 to
Robert Hooper, of Marblehead, for 4,018.00, receipts for
which are on file at Salem, and in 1842 his daughter Han-
nah, widow of Hon. William Reed, sold it to Enoch Red-
ington Mudge. The present farm house is of the lean-to
style of architecture. The second story projects over the
first at the north and front, and the gable roof projects
over the second story. The piazza is a recent addition.
The house has such a small hall that one is surprised to
find the parlor and living room so large, although they are
very low studded. The kitchen extends across the width
of the house. The balustrade in the hall is hand-hewn, as
also are the oak beams, which show in all the rooms.
There was originally a large fireplace in each of these
rooms, and the walls surrounding the firefraines were
panelled to the ceiling. The area where the chimney stood
was 14' x 16', and the space each side of the chimney was
large enough for a person to climb from the ground to the
garret. When the house was moved from its former site,
now Elmwood Road, to the present State road, the chim-
ney was taken down and the fireplaces boarded up, other-
wise it was restored as nearly as possible to the original,
even to putting the cellar under only one-half of the house.
The contract called for moving a frame building but it
was found to be, in fact, a brick house, for there was a
solid brick wall on all sides between the clapboards and
plastering. It was found necessary to remove the bricks
around the first story but above that the bricks are intact.
Ship building was carried on to a certain extent in Lynn.
The Sloop " Endeavor " of 35 tons, built here in 1711, was
owned by Joseph Mansfield, John Breed, Samuel Farring-
ton, Benjamin Ivory and Ebenezer Burrill. On June 22,
1720, the town gave the latter liberty to set up a stable to
put his horse in when he was at meeting, and the following
year, with three others, he acted as trustee of Lynn's por-
238 THE BURRILL FAMILY OP LYNN :
tion of 50,000, in bills of credit, which had been issued
by the Province.*
It was during Ebenezer's boyhood that his father and
elder brother were using their best efforts to aid in pre-
serving the lands of Nahant against the encroachments of
Andros, and it is not strange that he inherited a desire to
enter public life. His first civil appointment was as con-
stable, in 1709. Between 1723 and 1754 he was chosen
selectman sixteen times. He was lieutenant of militia in
1727 and captain in 1730. His legislative career began
as a representative from Lynn in 1726, when the Court
met in the second town house, and he served under Gov-
ernors Dummer, Burnet, Tailer and Belcher. After six
years in the House, he was chosen Councillor, in 1732,
being the third member of his immediate family to have
held that position. He retired from the Council Board in
1747, during the administration of Governor Shirley. The
question of the Governor's salary was one of the principal
topics of controversy during those years, Governors Shute,
Burnet and Belcher all contending for a permanent salary,
but the people claimed the right to pay what they thought
the chief executive's services justly demanded. The two
latter, especially, pressed the matter but the controversy
was not terminated until 1735 when, by royal consent, the
Governor received permission to accept such sums as
should be granted to him.
Ebenezer Burrill was a man of strict integrity and
sound business judgment, a man who was frequently
called upon in the settlement of private and public affairs.
The records show that during his legislative career he had
many important committee appointments, such as the div-
ision of real estate, settlement of taxes, Indian affairs, and
especially on the subject of boundary settlements within
the Colony as well as the adjusting of lines between Mas-
sachusetts and the adjacent colonies. The Ipswich river,
a matter of interest to Lynn at the present day, was the
cause of discussion as early as 1731, for Ebenezer Burrill
served on a committee of the General Court to investigate
the incumbrances therein. He had one negro slave named
Town Records, Oct. 27, 1721.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 239
Cesar, of whom a little incident has been told. In those
days the streets were not lighted and perhaps there were
some who rather feared going out after dark. A. certain
resident of Swampscott, whose mind unfortunately was
not quite normal, met Cesar one day and said to him :
" Cesar, I had just as soon walk along with you in the
evening as anybody."
Ebenezer Burrill's will is dated January 14, 1761. He
owned a great deal of real estate, upland and marsh, also
wood lots in the forest reservation, and a large amount of
personal property, the estate being appraised at <2,182
19. 6. He had a large family of children, six daughters
and four sons, and the property was divided among the
children and grandchildren who survived him.
The term " Royal Family of Lynn" was evidently at-
tached to this family owing to the service as Councillor
under the Province charter of John and Ebenezer Burrill,
but the other brother, Theophilus, can now be added to
the list. These three brothers were all able men who
dealt justly with their fellow citizens. They held many
positions of honor and trust, were upright, loyal and true
to the Province, diligent and laborious in serving their
generation. The effort has simply been to present certain
facts in their lives, for their memory needs nothing that
the writer can contribute to perpetuate it.
EBENEZER BURRILL, JUNIOR.
Of Ebenezer Burrill's family the oldest son was Ebene-
zer born February 6, 1702-3 ;* died May 20, 1778.* He
married, July 29, 1725, Mary, daughter of Gen. Joseph
and Elizabeth Williams Mansfield, and their home was on
Boston street. Mary, the wife, was born May 13, 1709 ;*
died Apr. 22, 1786.* Their graves are in the Western
Burying Ground.
*Lynn Vital Records.
240 THE BURRILL FAMILY OF LYNN:
Ebenezer, junior, the subject of this sketch, was town
clerk from March 1, 1756 to March 6, 1775, with the ex-
ception of 1765, 1766 and 1767, seventeen years in all.
His service as selectman covered the same period with the
year 1775 in addition. Within this time he also filled the
office of town treasurer, thirteen years, and assessor, four-
teen years.* His services as a public officer were during
the stirring times previous to the Revolution. He began
his legislative career on May 30, 1764, serving eleven
years from 1764 through 1774. f In the History of Lynn
it is recorded that the people rejoiced over the repeal of
the Stamp Act by ringing bells and making bonfires, yet
the same paragraph says that on the first of December,
1766, they directed their representative, Ebenezer Burrill,
to use his endeavors to procure an act to compensate Mr.
Hutchinson and others for their losses in the riot of the
preceding year. These two sentiments would appear to
conflict. The town records show that on Sept. 18th, Lynn
acknowledged the Governor's desire by voting to give her
representative the necessary instructions in regard to com-
pensating these men, but the next vote, passed at the same
town meeting, certainly indicates on which side of the
question Lynn stood. They voted " that Mr. Burrill,
representative of Lynn, be and is hereby directed to be
no ways accessory to granting & drawing any sum or sums
of money out of the public treasury of this Province for
making up and repairing the damages sustained by several
gentlemen of Boston as set forth in the notification &c.,
but on the contrary to use the utmost of his endeavours to
prevent the same." The tax on tea came the next year
and Richard Pratt recorded in his Commonplace Book,
that "local affairs sunk into insignificance and the ways
and means of securing independence was set up at length.'
On September 19, 1768, the town chose Ebenezer Burrill
" by a great majority" to attend a convention at Fanueil
Hall in Boston, three days later to consult just, reasonable
and proper measures for the securing the crown and gov-
ernment ; also the constitutional rights and privileges of
*Town records of Lynn.
tGeneral Court Records.
BIOGBAPHICAL SKETCHES. 241
the inhabitants of the Province which they ought to enjoy
by charter, etc. On the 28th, ships arrived at Boston
with troops and Lynn's first thought was to hold a " special
solemn Fast day in the two parish meetinghouses, the
Old Tunnel and the West Parish on Saugus Green."*
Ebenezer Burrill was an earnest advocate of the rights
of the colonies and it is said was very strongly opposed to
the introduction of tea and would not permit a particle to
be used although the female members of the family con-
trived to introduce it. On May 24, 1770, the town spread
this vote upon the records : " We will do our endeavor
to discountenance the use of foreign tea," and in 1772 they
instructed their representative to " stand firm for their
charter rights." In May, 1773, they recorded their pro-
test against the principles of the governor, which to them
were inconsistent with that to which the people were en-
titled as Englishmen and instructed Mr. Burrill to en-
courage a free communication with their sister colonies
similar to the plan proposed by Virginia, a measure well
adapted to restore that harmony between Great Britain
and her colonies essential to the happiness of both.f In
December they concluded the tax on tea was in effect a
tax upon Americans without their consent and that the
act of Parliament allowing the East India Company to
send their tea to America on their own account was art-
fully framed. They resolved their disapproval of the land-
ing and selling of said tea and that they would not suffer
any tea subject to a parliamentary duty to be landed or sold
in this town, and that they stood ready to assist their
brethren at Boston or elsewhere whenever their aid was
required in repelling all attempts to land or sell any tea
poisoned with a duty.* Here they certainly showed a rev-
olutionary spirit and the next year preparations were made
for laying in a stock of ammunition.
General Gage ordered the General Court to convene at
Salem in October, 1774, but alarmed by the preparations
being made by the colonists and the patriotic instructions
of the people to the delegates, he countermanded the sum-
*Pratt's Commonplace Book.
tTown Records of Lynn.
242 THE BURRILL FAMILY OF LYNN:
mons and the members were discharged, but notwithstand-
ing this, ninety of the representatives met at Salem, Octo-
ber 5, 1774. The convention was organized without the
governor and on October 7th, the members resolved them-
selves into the Provincial Congress. Ebenezer Burrill and
Capt. John Mansfield were the members from Lynn. In
1775, the town was carefully guarded, a watch of twelve
men being kept each and every night, and on May 18th,
Ebenezer Burrill was authorized to give permits to persons
to pass as they should have occasion and to sign said per-
mits as a magistrate. He was known as " one of Sam
Adams' rebels" and zealously aided the efforts of the pa-
triots, but did not live to see those efforts crowned with
success.
He was the fortunate possessor of a "chaise" which, by
his will, was bequeathed to his wife. Pleasure carriages
were rarely seen, except in Boston, until the middle of
the 18th century. The chaise was introduced about that
date. In 1753 there were none in the counties of Worces-
ter and Barnstable ; but one was reported in Bristol ; there
were forty-seven in Essex ; fifty in Middlesex and about
two hundred in Suffolk County, f Like his kinsmen of
the earlier generations, he, too, had a strong religious na-
ture and believed in a glorious resurrection to eternal life.
EUNICE BURRILL GREEN.
In this same family a daughter Eunice, married Ezra
Green of Maiden. He was deacon of the Maiden church,
selectman, town clerk and representative. One of their
descendants, Rev. James D. Green, was formerly minister
at the Unitarian church in Lynn.
*Town Records of Lynn.
t Barry , Vol. 11, p. 22 ; Felt's Salem, Vol. 1, p. 316.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 243
SAMUEL BURRILL.
Samuel Burrill was born in Lynn, April 1, 1717* and
died May 3, 1797.* His wife was Anna, daughter of
John and Anna Brame Alden, of Boston, bom January 29,
1722 ;f died December 10, 1795.* Her mother, a widow in
1728, married Dr. Henry Burchstead. Samuel lived on the
farm at Swampscott which had been left him by his father,
as already described, and his son Ebenezer was administra-
tor of the estate. Samuel Burrill wasthe Lynn member to
a County Convention held April 25, 1776, in an endeavor
to procure more equal representation in the House of
Representatives.:): A memorial signed by twenty- two dele-
gates was presented to the House ; the committee were as-
signed a pew, and John Lowell, of Newburyport, as chair-
man, was given the privilege of the floor. The result was
an Act providing for more equal representation, which was
passed May 4, 1776. On March 3, 1777, Samuel Burrill
was chosen by the town a member of the committee of
correspondence. The other members were Deacon Daniel
Mansfield, Col. John Mansfield, Dr. John Flagg, Daniel
Newhall, Thomas Stocker and Benjamin Johnson. He was
also representative to the General Court in 1779, 1780,
1781 and 1783, and was a member of the Convention
which framed the constitution of the Commonwealth,
adopted in 1780.
THEOPHILUS BURRILL.
Theophilus Burrill, in the fifth generation, was the son
of Theophilus and Mary Hills Burrill, and was born Oct.
30, 1740. The record of his death has not been found.
He married, May 3, 1762,* Martha Newhall, daughter of
Benjamin and Elizabeth Fowle Newhall. She was born
February 23, 1743.* Theophilus enlisted as a private on
*Lynn Vital Records,
t Boston Vital Records.
tMass. Archives, Vol. 156, p.162.
Journal of Convention.
244 THE BURRILL FAMILY OF LYNN :
the Lexington alarm roll, Capt. William Farrington's
company, second company of Lynn, and marched on the
alarm of April 19, 1775, from Lynn to Concord, f He
re-enlisted November 11, 1777, in Col. Jacob Gerrish's
regiment of guards.;): Received his discharge February
3, 1778, and again enlisted the following day in the same
regiment, and probably as corporal, serving until April 3.
His residence was at the corner of Essex and Burrill
streets, Swampscott. The house is now standing. During
his life a path led from Essex street to the front door.
The house is square, with four rooms on a floor, the ell
being an addition of later years. There is a large old-
fashioned fireplace and oven in the kitchen, the beams
are visible in the parlor and dining room, and in one or
two of the rooms the inside wall is wainscoted to the ceil-
ing. The roof is typical of the time, the timbers being
fastened together with wooden pegs. The house is well
preserved and is most interesting. It is now owned by
Charles E. Burrill and Mrs. Ella F. Moore, direct de-
scendants of Theophilus' brother, Ebenezer Burrill. Dur-
ing the Revolution, as the troops passed the house on their
way from Salem to Boston, Theophilus' wife frequently
treated the soldiers to cider, incidentally, no doubt, gain-
ing some news of the war.
MICAJAH BURRILL.
In the family of Theophilus and Martha Newhall Bur-
rill there were six sons and three daughters, but the sec-
ond child only will here be mentioned, Micajah Burrill,
my great-grandfather. He was born December 10, 1764*,
in the house at the corner of Essex and Burrill streets,
Swampscott, which had been occupied by his father and
grandfather. He died Monday evening, December 7,
1863, aged 98 years, 11 months, 28 days, and his funeral
*Lynn Vital Records.
tMass. Archives, Vol. 12, p. 77.
jMass. Archives, Vol. 19, p. 152.
Mass. Archives, Vol. 19, p. 119.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 245
occurred on the ninety-ninth anniversary of his birth. A
portrait in the possession of Miss Martha Ellen Burrill,
represents him at the age of seventy-five, wearing a dark
suit of clothes, single-breasted vest, cut rather high, and a
white shirt with soft, turn-over collar. He was a man of
fine proportions, with round, full features. His skin was
very fair and his hair was white as snow, thick and
rather long. His hair turned gray when he was quite a
young men. He married, May 17, 1787, Mercy Ingalls,
daughter of Nathaniel and Mercy Pratt Ingalls. She was
born in a house situated on the easterly side of Fayette
street, just north of the railroad bridge. She died August
5, 1838, aged 73.* Micajah went to school on Water
Hill and each boy was obliged to carry a ' cleft " of wood
for the school fire. When the battle of Bunker Hill was
fought he was eleven years old and on that day was
ploughing on Pearl street, near where the residence of
Edwin Sheldon stood. He ran up to High Rock and could
hear the guns and see the smoke of the battle. Two years
later he was left an orphan, with the care of his younger
brothers and sisters.
During his early married life he lived in the homestead,
and then built a house on what is now the eastern corner
of Essex and Mt. Pleasant streets, Lynn, owning all the
land from there to Mt. Pleasant Place. It was in this
house that his wife died. Just west of the house there
was a natural well and a brook ran through his orchard,
crossing below the house and thence to Amos Breed's
field, now Lincoln street. On his land also were the
houses of his son Theophilus and daughter Patty, wife of
Capt. Samuel Mudge. Her home was on the westerly
corner of Mt. Pleasant street, but it has since been re-
moved to Sheridan street. During the latter years of
Micajah's life his own house was occupied by a son Amos,
with whom he lived for a time, but his last days were
spent with his daughter Patty. His own house, now much
changed in appearance, stands on Ezra street.
As a young man he was a weaver and wove all his
linen when he was married. He manufactured shoes for
*Lynn Vital Records.
246 THE BUBBILL FAMILY OF LYNN:
between forty and fifty years, making the first " buffed "
bottom shoes ever manufactured in Lynn. As early as
1790 it was his custom to carry his shoes in a bag to Bos-
ton, going by way of Maiden, and walking the entire dis-
tance, then, after selling his stock, he would walk back
again. His shop was situated just east of his house. It
was & two story building, and is now used as a dwelling.
In addition to his extensive shoe business in Lynn, he
conducted a store in Baltimore and also owned consider-
able shipping. He was very active and amassed what in
those days was considered a large fortune, but during the
war with Great Britain he lost very heavily. He said the
year 1819 was the hardest he had ever seen. It was im-
possible to collect bills from Southern customers and he
lost $ 20,000 worth of shoes that were wrecked on their
way to the South. Between 1825 and 1830 he lost prac-
tically everything, but went to work with renewed vigor
and recovered in part that which he had lost. He was a
man of great courage and energy.
He was one of the incorporators of the First Methodist
Society, later becoming one of the five original trustees of
the Methodist Church on Union street. He was very
much interested in the formation of that Society in 1811,
and did a great deal toward securing the erection of their
meeting-house.* The Society was incorporated February
27, 1813, as the " Eastern Methodist Society in Lynn,"
with power to " hold the lot of land whereon they had
lately built a meeting-house, together with said meeting-
house." Mr. Burrill was one of the incorporators named
in the act of the Legislature. He was also one of the in-
corporators of the Lynn Mechanics Bank,f became a
member of the board of selectmen, and took part in the
greeting to General Lafayette when he passed through
Lynn in 1824. In politics he was a staunch Whig and
even though he held no public office other than that of
selectman, he was greatly interested in public affairs
throughout his long life. He was a staunch supporter of
the Union cause and believed that the Union would not
*Dedicated Nov. 27, 1811, and burned in 1859.
tlncorporated February 23, 1814.
BIOGBAPHICAL SKETCHES. 247
be destroyed. He voted for George Washington for Pres-
ident of the United States and cast his ballot at every
presidential election, with one exception, up to 1860. On
November sixth of that year, at the age of ninety-six, he
went to the polls and voted for Abraham Lincoln. His
was a long, active and useful life, dominated by great
courage and a firm will. He was always strictly upright
in his dealings and commanded the respect and esteem of
all with whom he was acquainted. ' Thus has gone away
from us one of those links which connect us with the
past, whose memories reached back to the time that tried
men's souls, and who were eye-witnesses of events big
with the fate of this nation."* His wife was accustomed
to wear what was called a " Methody bonnet" made of
black satin and lined with white satin, the crown being
plaited. It was similar to the Quaker bonnet. Their
family consisted of eleven sons and two daughters. As
the father left no will, his son Warren settled the estate,
which was divided among the children then living.
KEBECCA TAYLOR.
The Lynn Historical Society has in its possession a por-
trait of Rebecca Taylor of Lynn, great-great-granddaughter
of the first George Burrill. She was a daughter of Sarah
Burrill and William Taylor, the latter a son of James
Taylor, who was treasurer of the Province from 1693 to
1714. The portrait owned by the Historical Society is a
copy of the original painted in 1757 by Joseph Badger of
Boston.
EBENEZER BURRILL.
Ebenezer Burrill was the son of John and Anne Tomp-
son Burrill, and grandson of Ebenezer, jr. He was born
*Lynn Weekly Reporter, December 12, 1863.
248 THE BURRILL FAMILY OF LYNN:
in Lynn, July 27, 1762.* He died July 29, 1839,* in
New York, and his request that he might be buried in the
Western Burying Ground was fulfilled. His early boy-
hood was passed in Lynn, but at nine years of age he was
adopted by his uncle Ebenezer, who resided in Newport,
R. I. He married Phebe, daughter of Capt. James Ca-
hoone and Phebe Wilcox, of Newport, August 3, 1788.
His wife was born Oct. 12, 1768 and died Mar. 30, 1841.
He is said to have visited Lynn in 1778 and when he
undertook to return, the British were so near Newport
that he went to New Haven, Connecticut, which accounts
for his service as a Revolutionary soldier being accredited
to Connecticut rather than to Rhode Island. He appears
on a pay roll of Capt. Phinehas Bradley's company of Artil-
lery Guards in the Connecticut service from April 3, 1780,
to January 1, 1781.f He represented Newport in the
General Assembly in 1799 and 1800. { In 1797 and 1798
he was Inspector of the Brigade of Militia for the Counties
of Newport and Bristol, and was elected Adjutant General
of Rhode Island in 1799, 1800 and 1801. The following
year he moved to New York. He had a very extensive
business career and for many years was engaged in the
shipping and commission business. One of his descendants,
Mrs. Montgomery Schuyler, of New Rochelle, N. Y., and
Mrs. Breese J. Stevens, of Madison, Wisconsin, a descend-
ant of his sister Mary Burrill Tuttle, have made a special
study of the genealogy of the family.
JAMES BURRILL, JUNIOR.
James Burrill, jr. was born April 25, 1772, in Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, and died December 25, 1820, in
Washington, D. C. He was a great-grandson of Hon.
Ebenezer Burrill, a grandson of Ebenezer, jr., and son of
*Lynn Vital Records,
t " Connecticut Men in the Revolution."
^Legislative Record of Rhode Island.
^Smith's Civil and Military List of Rhode Island,
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 249
James and Elizabeth Rawson Burrill, a lawyer by pro-
fession. He became Attorney General of Rhode Island in
1797, the year his cousin, Ebenezer, was elected Inspector
of Militia. He was a member of the General Assembly
from Providence in 1813 ; was chosen Speaker in 1814 ;
appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1816, and
later United States Senator. His mother was descended
from Edward Rawson, Secretary of Massachusetts Bay
Colony.
It is worthy of note that John Burrill and his kinsman
James, although residing in different states, held similar
positions, and continued in the public service during
their life time. They were Speakers of the House of
Representatives in Massachusetts and Rhode Island re-
spectively ; both Judges, though of different Courts ; both
members of an upper legislative body, one provincial, the
other national. Both died at their posts of duty in the
public service, in the midst of their usefulness, after a
sudden and short illness, in the same month, December,
and within one year of a century apart.
James Burrill's daughter, Elizabeth, was the mother of
George William Curtis, the American journalist, orator,
and author.
In closing, a word may be permitted about an elevation
in Lynn woods, from whose summit, two hundred eighty-
five feet above the sea, an unbroken view of the surround-
ing country can be obtained. By official decree of the
Lynn Park Commissioners, it has received the name of
" Burrill Hill," by which it was known in the olden days.
The Burrill school may be razed, the two streets which
bear the name may be discontinued, but the family name
of these eminent and distinguished men will be perpetu-
ated through this granite hill in Lynn's public forest.
MARBLEHEAD VITAL RECORDS.
1647-1849.
COLLECTED BY JOSEPH W. CHAPMAN.
Genealogical data relating to Marblehead, including Bible
records, family records, court depositions, wills, and invento-
ries of estates, containing births, marriages, and deaths, or
showing family relationship, the same not being included in
Marblehead Vital Records published in 1903-4.
ABBREVIATIONS.
a. age.
abt. about.
adm. administration.
b. born.
c. R. 1. Records of the By field Church.
ch. child.
chn. children.
CT. F. Court files, Essex Co. Quarterly Court.
CT. R. Court record, Essex Co. Quarterly Court.
d. daughter ; died.
dep. deposition .
k. husband.
int. intention of marriage.
in v. inventory .
jr. junior.
m. married; month.
(250)
MARBLEHEAD VITAL BBCOBDS. 251
nunc. nuncupative.
p. page.
pp. pages.
P. Rt l. Bible record now in possession of Joseph W. Chap-
man of Pueblo, Col.
p. R. 2. Family records now in possession of Joseph W.
W. Chapman of Pueblo, Col.
p. R. 3. Family record now in possession of Fred A. Chapman.
p. R. 4. Bible record now in possession of James C. Graves.
P. R , 5. Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Levi M.
Bladder.
p. R. 6. Family records now in possession of Mrs. George B.
Courtis.
P. Rt 7. Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Levi M.
Blackler.
p. R. 8. Bible record now in possession of Mrs. Samuel T.
Tucker.
p. R. 9. Family records now in possession of Joseph W.
Chapman of Pueblo, Col.
p. R. 10. Family record furnished by Miss Emma H. Chinn.
p. R. 11. Bible record now in possession of Mrs. John S.
Martin.
p. R. 12. Bible records of Commodore Samuel Tucker's fam-
ily from Sheppard's Life of Samuel Tucker,
p. R. 13. Bible record now in possession of Mrs. William
Widger.
p. R. 14. Bible record now in possession of John Mason
Graves.
p. R. 15. Bible records now in possession of Miss Ethel
Power of Winchester.
p. R. 16. Bible records now in possession of Mrs. William
Allen,
p. R. 17. Family records furnished by George Chinn of New
York City,
p. R. 18. Family records now in possession of Mrs. Edwin
Pecker.
p. R. 19. Bible record now in possession of Mrs. William
Knowland.
252 MAKBLEHEAD VITAL RECORDS.
p. R. 20. Bible records now in possession of Miss Emma H.
Chinn.
p. R. 21. Bible record now in possession of Thomas W.
Tucker.
p. R. 22. Salem Publishments.
p. R. 23. Boston Marriages and Intentions, 1700-1809.
p. R. 24. Family record now in possession of Joseph W.
Chapman of Pueblo, Col.
p. R. 25. Family record furnished by Joseph W. Chapman,
p. R. 26. Marblehead marriages, with additions from Salem
Intentions.
p. R. 27. Bible records now in possession of Mrs. John S.
Martin,
p. R. 28. Bible records now in possession of Mrs. William
Widger.
p. R. 29. Family records furnished by Miss Emma H. Chinn.
p. R. 30. Bible records now in possession of Mrs. William
Knowland.
p. R. 31. Bible records now in possession of Mrs. William
Knowland.
p. R. 32. Bible records now in possession of Mrs. William
Knowland.
p. R. 33. Eecords from William Hayden's book, 1750, now
in possession of the Essex Institute.
p. R. 34. Nasological Journal, now in possession of Essex
Institute,
p. R. 35. Extract from book kept by Benjamin Blanchard and
William Jelly of Salem, now in possession of Essex In-
stitute.
p. R. 36. Interleaved Almanac of Timothy Orne, now in
possession of Essex Institute.
s. son.
sr. senior.
T. term.
vol. volume.
w. wife ; week.
wid. widow.
y. year.
MARBLEHEAD BIRTHS.
ALLEN, Archibald K., s. William and Tabitha (Proctor), July
2, 1846. P. B. 16.
Mary Elizabeth, d. William and Tabitha (Proctor), Sept. 3,
1835. P. B. 16.
Rebecca P., d. William and Tabitha (Proctor), Dec. 24, 1837.
p. B. 16
WilHam, June 10, 1814. p. B. 16.
William, jr., s. William and Tabitha (Proctor), Feb. 3, 1841.
p. B. 16.
BAKER, Sarah, d. John and Ann, Mar. 12, 1735. P. B. 8.
BARTOLL, , d. John and Parnell, Feb. 2, 1642. Ct. F.
Vol. 1, p. 27. (John and Parnell had a s. William, whose
w. was Mary ; a s. John ; and a d. who m. William Light-
foot. Essex Deeds, Vol. 7, p. 154, and Vol. 14, p. 309.)
BENNETT, Mary, d. John and Margaret, Sept. 2, 1638. Ct. F.,
Vol. 1, p. 27.
BLACKLER, Frank, s. William and Louisa (Morse), Sept. 24,
1845. P. B. 24.
William Thomas, s. William and Louisa (Morse), Sept. 13,
1839. P. B. 24.
BOWDEN, Benjamin ["3d"], s. John and Mary (Knight),
Aug. 12, 1766. P. B. 17.
BROOKS, Mary, d. Edmund and Mary (Pearce), Aug. 27,
1789. P. B. 29.
BROWN, Mary Adams, d. Richard and Mary Adams (Martin),
Aug. 16, 1815. P. B. 30.
William Goodwin, s. Thomas and Sarah (Goodwin), Apr. 1,
1814. P. B. 30.
(253)
264 MAEBLEHEAD BIRTHS.
CASWELL, Clara Ann Standley, d. Thomas P. and Martha A.
(Standley), Apr. 7, 1844. p. R. 28.
George Payson Newhall, s. Thomas P. and Martha A. (Stand-
ley), Feb. 4, 1833. P. B. 28.
Joseph D. Standley, s. Thomas P. and Martha A. (Standley),
July 22, 1827. P. B. 28.
Martha Jane, d. Thomas P. and Martha A. (Standley), Oct.
27, 1831. P. B. 28.
Sarah Elizabeth, d. Thomas P. and Martha A. (Standley),
Nov. 16, 1837. P. B. 28.
Thomas Proctor, Nov. 2, 1799. P. B. 28.
Thomas Proctor, jr., s. Thomas P. and Martha A. (Standley),
Aug. 3, 1822. p. B. 28.
William, s. Thomas P. and Martha A. (Standley), July 18,
1825. P. B. 28.
CHAPMAN, Annis, d. Samuel, jr. and Susannah (Swan), bp.
Oct. 2, 1803. (Wrongly recorded in Second Church as the
daughter of Stephen and Hannah.) p. B. 2.
Benjamin Hathaway, s. John and Leonora (Bowden), Aug. 6,
1839. P. B. 2.
Betsy Berry, d. Nathaniel and Martha (Ogleby), May 23,
1817. P. B. 1.
Caroline Augusta, d. John and Leonora (Bowden), Aug. 1,
1843. P. B. 2.
Eliza, d. Samuel, jr. and Susannah (Swan), Aug. 23, 1805.
p. B. 2.
Hannah, d. Samuel, jr. and Susanna (Swan), June 1, 1816.
p. R. 2.
John Francis, s. John and Leonora (Bowden), May 11, 1832.
p. B. 2.
John Ogleby, s. Nathaniel and Martha (Ogleby) , Jan. 15,
1823. P. B. 1.
Joseph Warren, s. Nathaniel and Martha (Ogleby), July 24,
1828. P. B. 1.
Leonora Maria, d. John and Leonora (Bowden), Apr. 6, 1835.
p. B. 2.
Martha Ann, d. Nathaniel and Martha (Ogleby), Jan. 18,
1813. P. B. 1.
Mary Ann, d. Nicholas O. and Mary Ann (Parker), Mar. 13,
1835. P. B. 2.
Mary Ogleby, d. Nathaniel and Martha (Ogleby), May 3,
1815. P. B. 1.
Mary Koundey, d. Stephen and Joanna [Hannah] (Roundey),
Mar. 18, 1808. (Town record, entered abt. 1861 or 2.)
MARBLEHEAD BIRTHS. 255
CHAPMAN, Nathaniel, jr., s. Nathaniel and Martha (Ogleby),
Mar. 2, 1809. P. K. 1.
Nathaniel, s. Samuel, 2d, and Elizabeth Adams (Martin), Dec.
5, 1849. P. R. 3.
Nicholas Ogleby, s. Nathaniel and Martha (Ogleby), Nov. 10,
1810. P. R. 1.
Samuel, s. Nathaniel and Martha (Ogleby), Aug. 10, 1819.
P. R. 1.
Samuel, s. Nathaniel and Martha (Ogleby), Oct. 20, 1821.
P. R. 1.
William, s. John and Leonora (Bowden), Nov. 20, 1841.
p. R. 2.
CHINN, Joseph Abbot, s. George and Mary (Oliver), Oct. 4,
1826. P. R. 17.
CLOTHEY, Sarah, July 26, 1769. P. R. 17.
CROWNINSHIELD, William, s. Edward and Mary (Dixey),
May 7, 1807. P. R. 30.
William, jr., s. William and Mary Adams (Brown), Aug. 9,
1838. P. R. 30.
ELKINS, Abigail Hale, d. Edward and Mary (Brooks), Sept.
29, 1827. P. R. 29.
Edward, s. Thomas and Mary (Hales), Apr. 15, 1786. p. R. 10.
Edward Brooks, s. Edward and Mary (Brooks), Aug. 2, 1810.
p. R. 29.
Eliza Purrington, d. Edward and Mary (Brooks), Apr. 11,
1826. P. R. 29.
Elizabeth, d. Thomas and Mary (Hales), Sept. 1, 1788. P. R. 10.
Emeline, d. Edward and Mary (Brooks), July 31, 1829. P.R. 29.
Hannah R., d. Edward and Mary (Brooks), Sept. 1, 1822.
p. R. 29.
Jane, d. Thomas and Mary (Hales), May 5, 1781. P. R. 10.
Jane, d. Edward and Mary (Brooks), Feb. 2, 1820. P. R. 29.
John, s. Thomas and Mary (Hales), July 14. 1778. P. R. 10.
Mary, d. Thomas and Mary (Hales), May 25, 1769. P. R. 10.
Mary Elizabeth, d. Edward and Mary (Brooks), Jan. 9, 1811.
p. R. 29.
Rebecca, d. Thomas and Mary (Hales), Mar. 4, 1776. p. R. 10.
Rebecca Dennis, d. Edward and Mary (Brooks), Apr. 25,
1814. p. R. 29.
Richard Hales, s. Thomas and Mary (Hales), Sept. 15, 1784.
P. R. 10.
256 MARBLEHEAD BIRTHS.
ELKINS, Euthey Brooks, d. Edward and Mary (Brooks),
Aug. 14, 1812. P. B. 29.
Sally Bruce, d. Edward and Mary (Brooks) , Sept. 14, 1815.
p. B. 29.
Sarah, d. Thomas and Mary (Hales), Nov. 18, 1773. P. B. 10.
Thomas, s. Thomas and Mary (Hales), Oct. 14, 1771. p. B. 10.
FELTON, Sally, d. Francis and Sally (Graves), Aug. 6, 1810.
p. B. 17.
FROST, Mary, d. Richard and Eachel, Nov. 14, 1797. p. B. 5.
Sally, d. Eichard and Eachel, Mar. 17, 1793. P. B. 6.
GILLEY, Sally Eebecca LeCraw, d. Thomas and Sally, Sept.
4, 1818. P. B. 15.
GIRDLER, Benjamin, jr., s. Benjamin and Anna (Dennis) ,
Dec. 1, 1771. P. B. 19.
GRAVES, Amos Evans, Sept. 2, 1803. P. B. 4.
Amos Evans, jr., s. Amos Evans and Eliza (Chapman), Jan.
21, 1828. P. B. 4.
Edward Union, s. John, jr. and Mary, Sept. 7, 1844. p. B. 14.
Helen Maria, d. Amos Evans and Eliza (Chapman), July 25,
1845. P. B. 4.
James Chapman, s. Amos Evans and Eliza (Chapman), Apr.
29, 1839. P. B. 4.
James Chapman, s. Amos Evans and Eliza (Chapman), Jan.
8, 1841. P. B. 4.
John Chapman, s. Amos Evans and Eliza (Chapman), May
2, 1837. P. B. 4.
John Mason, s. John, jr. and Mary, Jan. 1, 1838. P. B. 14.
HINDS, Benjamin, s. Benjamin and Mary (Tucker), Mar. 19,
1791. p. B. 12.
Benjamin, s. Benjamin and Mary (Tucker), Aug. 27, 1793.
p. B. 12.
Samuel Tucker, s. Benjamin and Mary (Tucker), Sept. 27,
1798. P. B. 12.
KNOX, Clara, at Wolfboro, N. H., Aug. 15, 1812. P. B. 28.
MARTIN, Arnold, 3d, s. Arnold, jr. and Mary (Oliver), May
30, 1793. P. B. 27.
MARBLEHEAD BIRTHS. 257
MARTIN, Caroline Alley, d. Thomas Jefferson and Mary
Thompson (Peach), Dec. 22, 1847 (marked over 1846).
p. R. 7.
Caroline F., d. Knott, 5th, and Sally (Frost), Sept. 3, 1820.
p. R. 6.
Edward D., d. Knott, 5th, and Sally (Frost), Dec. 21, 1830.
p. R. 6.
Elizabeth Adams, d. Thomas, 5th, and Hannah (Tucker),
Oct. 24, 1823. P. R. 3.
Esther Frost, d. Thomas Jefferson and Mary Thompson
(Peach), Sept. 5, 1849. P. R. 7.
Hannah C., d. Knott, 5th, and Sally (Frost), July 17, 1828.
p. R. 6.
Hannah C., d. Knott, 5th, and Sally (Frost), Nov. 18, 1833.
p. R. 6.
John Sparhawk, s. Arnold, 3d, and Mary (Sparhawk), Apr.
11, 1825. P. R. 27.
Knott, 5th, s. Bichard and Hannah (Gruff), Jan. 16, 1788.
p. R. 6.
Mary, d. Thomas, 3d, and Mary (Butman), Dec. 13, 1804.
p. R. 7.
Mary Jane, d. Knott, 5th, and Sally (Frost), May 19, 1836.
p. R. 6.
Eichard, s. Thomas, 3d, and Mary (Butman), July 25, 1807.
p. R. 7.
Kichard, 3d, s. Knott, 5th, and Sally (Frost), Nov. 3, 1813.
p. R. 6.
Richard Henry, s. Thomas Jefferson and Mary Thompson
(Peach), Apr. 18, 1842. p. R. 7.
Sally, d. Knott, 5th, and Sally (Frost), Jan. 16, 1810. P. R. 6.
Samuel C., s. Knott, 5th, and Sally (Frost), Sept. 3, 1825.
p. R. 6.
Samuel Sparhawk, s. Arnold, 3d, and Mary (Sparhawk), Feb.
11, 1828. P. R. 27.
Sarah Elizabeth, d. Knott, 5th, and Sally (Frost), Sept. 30,
1818. P. R. 6.
Thomas Jefferson, s. Thomas, 3d, and Mary (Butman), Nov.
20, 1815. P. R. 7.
Thomas Jefferson, s. Thomas Jefferson and Mary Thompson
(Peach), Feb. 18, 1839. p. R. 7.
William C., s. Knott, 5th, and Sally (Frost), July 9, 1823.
p. R. 6.
William Peach, s. Thomas Jefferson and Mary Thompson
(Peach), Jan. 26, 1841. p. R. 7.
258 MAEBLEHEAD BIETHS.
MORSE, Abigail Sewell Graves, d. Levi and Mercy Cross
(Northy) , Sept. 17, 1826. p. B. 9.
Deborah Northey (name changed to Caroline), d. Levi and
Mercy Cross (Northy), Dec. 28, 1823. p. K. 9.
Hannah Fitts, d. Levi and Mercy Cross (Northy), Aug. 13,
1816. P. R. 9.
Joseph Northey, s. Levi and Mercy Cross (Northy). Jan. 3,
1823. P. B. 9.
Levi, s. Joseph and Mary (Randall), at Chester, N. H., Sept.
I, 1787. P. B. 9.
Levi, jr., s. Levi and Mercy Cross (Northy), Aug. 8, 1820.
p. B. 9.
Louisa, d. Levi and Mercy Cross (Northy), Feb. 23, 1818.
p. B. 9.
Mary Jane, d. Levi and Mercy Cross (Northy), Sept. 20, 1814.
p. B. 9.
Mercy, d. Levi and Mercy Cross (Northy), Aug. 6, 1812.
p. B. 9.
NORMAN, Arabella, d. John and Arabella, middle of Feb.,
1643. Ct. F. Vol. 1, p. 28.
Hannah, d. John and Arabella, middle of Jan., 1641. Ct. F.
Vol. 1, p. 28.
John, s. John and Arabella, Aug. , 1637. Ct. F. Vol. 1, p.28.
Lydia, d. John and Arabella, middle of Jan., 1639. Ct. F.
Vol. 1, p. 28.
NOWLAND, Hannah M., d. John H. and Elizabeth Martin
(Brown), Aug. 6, 1832. p. B. 31.
John H., s. John H. and Elizabeth Martin (Brown), Feb. 23,
1836. P. B. 31.
John H., s. John H. and Elizabeth Martin (Brown), Sept. 6,
1840. P. B. 31.
Mary A., d. John H. and Elizabeth Martin (Brown) , Jan.
II, 1831. P. B. 31.
Richard B., s. John H. and Elizabeth Martin (Brown), May
27, 1834. P. B. 31.
Thomas P., s. John H. and Elizabeth Martin (Brown), June
3, 1848. P. B. 31.
William Crowninshield, s. John H. and Elizabeth Martin
(Brown), June 18, 1838. P. B. 31.
OGLEBY, Martha, d. Nicholas and Martha (Card), Mar. 5.
1788. P. B. 1.
MARBLBHEAD BIRTHS. 259
ORNE, Adonirain Collins, s. John and Mary (Pearce), Feb.
22, 1809. P. R. 18.
Hannah Pickering, d. John and Mary (Pearce), Jan. 28,
1794. p. B. 18.
John, s. Jonathan and Priscilla (Holdgate), Sept. 7, 1773.
p. R. 18.
John, s. John and Mary (Pearce), Aug. 21, 1796. p. R. 18.
Jonathan, s. John and Mary (Pearce), Oct. 5, 1806. p. R. 18.
Robert Pickering, s. John and Mary (Pearce), Mar. 23,1799.
p. R. 18.
Sarah Holgate, d. John and Mary (Pearce), Feb. 6, 1804.
p. R. 18.
PEACH, Edward Frost, s. William and Mary (Frost), Dec. 4,
1825. P. R. 5.
Eliza Ann, d. William and Mary (Frost), Dec. 14, 1827. P. R. 5,
George S., s. William and Mary (Frost), Mar. 13, 1834. p. R. 5.
John C., s. William and Mary (Frost), Feb. 28, 1832. p. R. 5.
Lewis H., s. William and Mary (Frost), May 18, 1836. P.R. 5.
Lot, s. William and Mary (Frost), Dec. 14, 1840. p. R. 5.
Mary Thompson, d. William and Mary (Frost), Dec. 14, 1817.
p. R. 5.
Mehitable Cruff, d. William and Mary (Frost), Oct. 6, 1823.
p. R. 5.
Rachel Frost, d. William and Mary (Frost), Aug. 28, 1819.
p. R. 5.
Sarah E., d. William and Mary (Frost), Mar. 14, 1830. P. R. 5.
William, s. John and Mary (Thompson), May 3, 1797. P. R. 5.
William, jr., s. William and Mary (Frost), Sept. 2, 1821.
p. R. 5.
William, s. William and Mary (Frost), June 12, 1838. p. R. 5.
PEARCE, Mary. d. Robert and Mary (Goodwin), Dec. 22,
1774. P. R. 18.
POWER, Emma Lewis, d. Lewis Eussell and Sally Rebecca
LeCraw (Gilley), Apr. 22, 1847. P. R. 15.
Hannah V., d. Lewis Russell and Sally Rebecca LeCraw (Gil-
ley), Apr. 27, 1845. P. R. 15.
Lewis Russell, s. Thomas and Mary, May 1, 1789. P. R. 15.
Lewis Russell, jr., s. Lewis Russell and Emma (Woodfin),
Jan. 24, 1813. P. R. 15.
Lewis Russell, jr., s. Lewis Russell and Sally Rebecca LeCraw
(Gilley), Oct. 3, 1837. P. R. 15.
260 MARBLEHEAD BIRTHS.
POWER, Lewis Russell, jr., s. Lewis Eussell and Sally Rebecca
LeCraw (Gilley), Sept. 25, 1849. P. R. 15.
Miriam, d. Thomas and Meriam (Russell), Nov. 11, 1788.
p. R. 19.
Miriam Girdler, d Lewis Russell and Sally Rebecca LeCraw
(Gilley), Nov. 3, 1839. p. R. 15.
Sally Elizabeth, d. Lewis Russell and Sally Rebecca LeCraw
(Gilley), June 14, 1842. P. R. 15.
PRITCHARD, Alicia Cruff, d. Ezra Raddan and Mary Stevens
(Widger), Oct. 9, 1829. P. R. 11.
Benjamin, s. Ezra Raddan and Mary Stevens (Widger), July
14, 1822. P. R. 11.
Benjamin Thomas, s. Ezra Raddan and Mary Stevens (Wid-
ger), Feb. 22, 1837. P. R. 11.
Ezra Raddan, jr., s. Ezra Raddan and Mary Stevens (Widger),
Oct. 25, 1818. P. R. 11.
Joseph Widger, s. Ezra Raddan and Mary Stevens (Widger),
Oct. 28, 1820. P. R. 11.
Joseph Widger, s. Ezra Raddan and Mary Stevens (Widger) ,
July 8, 1833. P. R. 11.
Margaret, d. Hubbard and Margaret (Brimblecome) , Aug. 20,
1826. P. R. 13.
Mary Abigail, d. Ezra Raddan and Mary Stevens (Widger),
Aug. 22, 1826. P. R. 11.
Sarah Pitman, d. Ezra Raddan and Mary Stevens (Widger),
Oct. 8, 1831. P. R. 11.
William Widger, s. Ezra Raddan and Mary Stevens (Widger),
Nov. 9, 1824. P. R. 11.
PROCTOR, Tabitha, d. John and Elizabeth (Power), Oct. 16,
1816. P. R. 16.
ROUNDEY, Charles Edward, s. Thomas and Martha (Stone),
June 14, 1845. P. R. 17.
SPARHAWK, Mary, d. John and Emma (Martin), Nov. 23,
1797. P. R. 27.
STAGEY, Amos, s. Samuel and Lydia (Grandy), Mar. 13,
1794. p. R. 13.
Amos, s. Samuel and Lydia (Grandy), Dec. 5, 1803. P. R.13.
Benjamin, s. Samuel and Lydia (Grandy), Sept. 14, 1805
p. R. 13.
MARBLEHEAD BIRTHS. 261
STACEY, Elias Amos, s. Samuel and Lydia (Grandy), Feb. 14,
1801. P. B. 13.
Lydia, d. Samuel and Lydia (Grandy), Feb. 7, 1798. P. R. 13.
Lydia, d. Samuel and Lydia (Grandy), Jan. 23, 1809. p. B. 13.
Samuel, jr., s. Samuel and Lydia (Grandy), Feb. 28, 1790.
p B. 13.
William, s. Samuel and Lydia (Grandy), Sept. 28, 1792.
p. B. 13.
STANDLEY, Martha Allen, July 20, 1800. P. B. 28.
STEVENSON, "David, jr., s. David and Sarah (Blair), Sept. 13,
1797. P. B. 8.
Elizabeth, d. David (said to have been a Scotchman and name
changed from Selander) and Sarah (Blair), Dec. 12,
1784. p. B. 8.
John, s. David and Sarah (Blair), July 9, 1787. P. B. 8.
Mary, d. David and Sarah (Blair), Feb. 8, 1789. P. B. 8.
Nancy, d. David and Sarah (Blair), Oct. 4, 1791. p. B. 8.
Nelly, d. David (said to have been a Scotchman and name
changed from Selander) and Sarah (Blair), Apr. 27,
1781. P. B. 8.
Kebecca, d. David and Sarah (Blair), Jan. 1, 1795. P. B. 8.
Bobert, s. David and Sarah (Blair), May 18, 1800. P. B. 8.
Sally, d. David (said to have been a Scotchman and name
changed from Selander) and Sarah (Blair), Jan. 17,
1779. P. B. 8.
TEDDER, Jane Talbot, d. John and Martha (Tucker) , Aug.
21, 1798. P. B. 12.
John, s. John and Martha (Tucker), Apr. 14, 1800. P. B. 12.
John, s. John and Martha (Tucker), Dec. 27, 1806. P. B. 12.
Martha Elizabeth, d. John and Martha (Tucker), Aug. 21,
1802. P. B. 12.
Martha Elizabeth, d. John and Martha (Tucker), Nov. 14,
1808. P. B. 12.
Mary, d. John and Martha (Tucker), Sept. 28, 1804. p. B. 12.
TUCKER, Abigail Grandy, d. Thomas and Abigail (Teshew),
Sept. 29, 1808. P. B. 21.
Abigail Grandy, d. Thomas and Abigail (Teshew), Jan. 3,
1815. P. B. 21.
Betsy, d. Samuel and Mary (Gatchell), Feb. 20, 1777. P. B. 12.
262 MAEBLEHEAD BIRTHS.
TUCKER, George, s. Thomas and Abigail (Teshew), May 30,
1818. P. R. 21.
Hannah Martin, d. Thomas and Abigail (Teshew), Oct. 21,
1810. P. R. 21.
Hannah Martin, d. Thomas and Abigail (Teshew), Dec. 8,
1812. p. R. 21.
Martha, d. Samuel and Mary (Gatchell), June 20, 1772.
p. R. 12.
Mary, d. William and Deborah (Goss), July 23, 1778. P. R. 13.
Mary Widger, d. Thomas and Abigail (Teshaw) , July 24,
1821. P. R. 21.
Mary Widger, d. Thomas and Abigail (Teshew), Dec. 20,
1825. P. R. 21.
Sally Ehoads, d. Thomas and Abigail (Teshew) , Sept. 10,
1823. P. R. 21.
Thomas, jr., s. Thomas and Abigail (Teshew), May 31, 1804.
p. R. 21.
William, s. Thomas and Abigail (Teshew), Sept. 1, 1806.
p. R. 21.
UNION, Elizabeth, d. Edward and Mary (Symmes), Sept. 25,
1825. P. R. 14.
Mary Elizabeth, d. Edward and Mary (Symmes), Jan. 20,
1833. P. R. 14.
WALTON, Ebenezer, May 2, 1782. P. R. 19.
Elizabeth, d. William and Elizabeth, at Seaton, Eng., Oct. 27,
1629. Ct. F. Vol. 1, p. 69.
Martha, d. William and Elizabeth, Apr. 26, 1832. Ct. F. Vol.
1, p. 69.
WIDGER, William, jr., s. William and Elizabeth (Dove), Nov.
28, 1776. P. R. 13.
William, s. William and Mary (Tucker), July 18, 1803.
p. R. 13.
William, s. William and Mary (Tucker) , Aug. 2, 1805. P. R. 13.
WOODFIN, Emma, d. Kichard and Anna, Sept. 15, 1793.
p. R. 15.
Mary Ann, d. Francis Abbot and Annis [Ann] M. (Stone),
Apr. 15, 1838. P. R. 15.
WOODS, , eldest ch. William, latter end 2d m: 1664. Ct.
F. Vol. 10, p. 14.
MARBLEHEAD MARRIAGES.
ADAMS, Jane, of Boston, and William Phillips [jr. int.],
Apr. 24, 1796. p. R. 23.
ALLEY, Franklin, and Caroline F. Martin, Mar. 11, 1840.
p. R. 6.
ANDREWS, Nicholas, and Mary Fairfield, June 27, 1695. Ct.F.
BAILEY, Matthew, of Boston, and Annie Lankletter, int. May
12, 1763. P. R. 23.
BARER, Nicholas, and Elizabeth Bartlett of Boston, int. July
14, 1696. P. R. 23.
BARKER, Mary, and Hezekiah Legro of Salem, int. Nov. 7,
1739. P. R. 22.
BARRETT, Sally, of Boston, and John Bartlett, July 14,
1808. P. R. 23.
BARTLETT, Elizabeth, of Boston, and Nicholas Baker, int.
July 14, 1696. P. R. 23.
John, and Sally Barrett of Boston, July 14, 1808. P. R. 23.
BECKFORD, Elizabeth, and Benjamin T. Martin, Feb. 18,
1838. P. R. 6.
BELL, Sarah, wid., of Salem, and Richard Bermingham, int.
Nov. 25, 1758. P. R. 22.
BIRMINGHAM, Richard, and wid. Sarah Bell of Salem, int.
Nov. 25, 1758. p. R. 22.
BODEN (see also Bowden), John, and Rebecca Fowl of Bos-
ton, int. May 26, 1713. P. R. 23.
BORGAN, Peter, of Boston, and Hannah Stacker, int. Feb. 1,
1741. p. R. 23.
(263)
264 MARBLEHEAD MARRIAGES.
BOUNCO, Susanna, of Boston, and Robert Bowe, int. Oct. 30,
1722. P. B. 23.
BOWDEN (see also Boden), Leonora, d. Charles Bruce and
Betsy, and John Chapman, s. Samuel, jr. and Susanna
(Swan), [bef. 1832.] p. R. 2.
BOWE, Robert, and Susanna Bounco of Boston, int. Oct. 30,
1722. p. R. 23.
BROWN, Elizabeth M., and John Nowland, Aug. 22, 1830.
p. R. 31.
BUFFUM, Sarah, of Salem, and Daniel Needham, int. Oct. 7,
1727. P. R. 22.
CANDISH, Thomas, and Anna Collins of Boston, int. Sept. 15,
1716. P. R. 23.
CASWELL, Thomas Proctor, and Martha Allen Standley,
May 19, 1822. P. R. 28.
CHAPMAN, John, s. Samuel, jr. and Susanna (Swan), and
Leonora Bowden , d. Charles Bruce and Betsy [bef. 1832.]
p. R. 2.
Martha Ann, and Isaiah Hitchings Parrot of Lynn, June 13,
1841. p. R. 1.
Mary 0., and Hanson Munroe of Lynn, Sept. 15, 1833. P. R? 1,
Nathaniel, s. Samuel and Annist (Vickery), and Martha Ogle -
by, d. Nicholas and Martha (Card), Sept. 18, 1808. P. R. 1.
CLARKE, Samuel, and Rachel Vealy of Salem, int. Jan. 24,
1710-11. P. R. 22.
COLLINS, Anna, of Boston, and Thomas Candish, int. Sept. 15,
1716. P. R. 23.
COPP, Eunice, of Boston, and John Waldon, int. Aug. 4,
1748. P. R. 23.
CUMMINGS, Jean, of Salem, and Edward Rhoades, int. Jan.
14, 1748. P. R. 22.
DARLING, Abigail, of Salem, and William Mathews, int. Feb.
15, 1715-16. P. R. 22.
MABBLBHBAD MARRIAGES. 265
DIAMOND, Joseph, and Adah Mansfield of Salem, int. Jan. 31,
1745. P. B. 22.
FAIRFIELD, Mary, and Nicholas Andrews, June 27, 1695.
Ct. F.
FELTON, Sarah, of Salem, and John Webber [jr. Salem, int.],
at Salem, Jan. 8, 1733, P. R. 26.
FOWL, Kebecca, of Boston, and John Boden, int. May 26,
1713. P. B. 23.
FREETO, Jane Bessom, d. John and Mary (Brown), and
James Lyons, s. Thomas and Mary, Feb. 23, 1845. P. B. 25.
FURGESEN, Abigail, and Jacob Keeves of Salem, int. Dec. 17,
1743. P. B. 22.
GATCHELL, Mary, d. Samuel and Ann, and Samuel Tucker, s.
Andrew and Mary (Belcher), Dec. 21, 1768. P. B. 12.
GILL, Elizabeth, of Salem, and Samuel Weber, int. 9 br : 11 :
1709. P. B. 22.
GIRDLER, Benjamin, jr., and Miriam Power, Dec. 29, 1810.
p. B. 19.
Hannah, and Daniel Lisbril of Salarn, int. Nov. 15, 1740.
p. B. 22.
GLOVER, Jonathan, and [Mrs. int.] Mary Greeley of Boston,
Aug. 23, 1787. P. B. 23.
GOULD, Daniel, and wid. Sarah Stacey of Salem, int. Oct. 15,
1743. P. B. 22.
GRANDY, Lydia, d. Amos and Mary (Boden), and Samuel
Stacey, s. William and Hannah (Holliday), Dec. 23,
1789. P. B. 13.
GRANT, John, and Mary Pillar of Salem, int. Sept. 11, 1742.
p. B. 22.
GRAY, Susanna, of Boston, and Vinson Stilson, int. May 4,
1696-7. P. B. 23.
GRAYHAM, John, of Boston, and Deborah Hammon, int. Oct.
27, 1796. P. B. 23.
266 MARBLEHEAD MARRIAGES.
GREAVES, Ebenezer, of Boston, and Sarah Lovess, int. Oct. 1,
1741. p. R. 23.
GREELEY (see also Greely), Mary [Mrs. int.], of Boston, and
Jonathan Glover, Aug. 23, 1787. p. R. 23.
GREELY (see also Greeley) , Hannah, and William Stevenson
of Boston, June 26, 1795. P. R. 23.
GRIFFIN, Ann, of Boston, and John Lecraw, int. Nov. 26,
1717. P. R. 23.
HAMMON, Deborah, and John Gray ham of Boston, int. Oct. 27,
1796. P. R. 23.
HIGHBORN, Ann, of Boston, and Edward Stasey, int. June 12
1760. P. R. 23.
HINDS, Benjamin, and Mary Tucker, Dec. , 1789. P. R. 12.
HOMAN, John, and Margaret Robinson of Salem, int. Aug. 26,
1709. P. R. 22.
HUTCHINSON, Elijah, and Nancy L. Swift of Boston, int.
Oct. 26, 1803. P. R. 23.
JACKSON, Sarah, of Boston, and Joseph Smithurst, int. Nov.
28, 1754. P. R. 23.
KNOWLES, Abigail, and Richard Meek of Salem, May 5,
1753. P. R. 22.
LAMBERT, John, of Boston, and Margaret Richardson, June
15, 1794. p. R. 23.
LANKLETTER, Annie, and Matthew Bailey of Boston, int.
May 12, 1763. P. R. 23.
LEACH, Richard, and Esther Tower [Power, int.], of Boston,
Oct. 20, 1805. P. R. 23.
LECRAW, John, and Ann Griffin of Boston, int. Nov. 26,
1717. P. R. 23.
LEGRO (see also Legrow), Hezekiah, of Salem, and Mary
Barker, int. Nov. 7, 1739. P. R. 22
MARBLEHEAD MARRIAGES. 267
LEGROW (see also Legro), Mary, and Charles Simpson of Bos-
ton, int. Feb. 9, 1803. P. B. 23.
LISBR1L, Daniel, of Salem, and Hannah Girdler, int. Nov. 15,
1740. P. B. 22.
LOVESS, Sarah, and Ebenezer Greaves of Boston, int. Oct. 1,
1741. p. B. 23.
LYONS, James, s. Thomas and Mary, and Jane Bessom Freeto,
d. John and Mary (Brown), Feb. 23, 1845. P. B. 25.
McCLENCH, Elizabeth, of Boston, and Joseph Pedrick, Mar.
29, 1805. P. B. 23.
MANSFIELD, Adah, of Salem, and Joseph Diamond, int. Jan.
31, 1745. P. B. 22.
MARTIN, Benjamin T., and Elizabeth Beckford, Feb. 18, 1838.
p. B. 6.
Caroline F., and Franklin Alley, Mar. 11, 1840. P. B. 6.
Hannah, and Samuel Scollay of Boston, int. Feb. 12, 1740.
p. B. 23.
Mary, and Nicholas Trask, jr., of Salem, int. Mar. 2, 1728.
p. B. 22.
Thomas Jefferson, s. Thomas, 3d and Mary (Butman), and
Mary Thompson Peach, d. William and Mary (Frost),
June 3, 1838. P. B. 7.
MATHEWS, William, and Abigail Darling of Salem, int. Feb.
15, 1715-16. P. B. 22.
MAY, Hezekiah, Rev., and Margaret White of Boston, Nov. 18,
1803. P. B. 23.
MEEK, Richard, of Salem, and Abigail Knowles, May 5, 1753.
p. B. 22.
MORSE, Levi, s. Joseph and Mary (Randall) , and Mercy Cross
Northy, d. John and Mary (Cross) [bef . 1812.] p. B. 9.
MOULIN, Charles, of Boston, and Elizabeth Rhodes, int. Dec.
4, 1740. P. B. 23.
MUNROE, Hanson, of Lynn, and Mary 0. Chapman, Sept. 15,
1833. P. B. 1.
268 MARBLEHEAD MARRIAGES.
NEEDHAM, Daniel, and Sarah Buffum of Salem, int. Oct. 7,
1727. P. R. 22.
NELSON, William, and Eliza Thompson of Boston, int. Nov.
30, 1717. P. B. 23.
NORTHY, Mercy Cross, d. John and Mary (Cross), and Levi
Morse, s. Joseph and Mary (Randall) [bef. 1812.] P. B. 9.
NOWLAND, John, and Elizabeth M. Brown, Aug. 22, 1830.
p. B. 31.
OGLEBY, Martha, d. Nicholas and Martha (Card), and Nathan-
iel Chapman, s. Samuel and Annist (Vickery), Sept. 18,
1808. P. B. 1.
PARROTT, Isaiah Hitchings, of Lynn, and Martha Ann Chap-
man, June 13, 1841. p. B. 1.
PEACH, Mary Thompson, d. William and Mary (Frost), and
Thomas Jefferson Martin, s. Thomas, 3d and Mary (But-
man), June 3, 1838. P. B. 7.
PEDRICK, Joseph, and Elizabeth McClench of Boston, Mar.
29, 1805. P. B. 23.
PHILLIPS, William [jr. int.], and Jane Adams of Boston,
Apr. 24, 1796. P. B. 23. "
PILLAR, Mary, of Salem, and John Grant, int. Sept. 11, 1742.
p. B. 22.
PLAISTED, Sarah, of Boston, and Othniel Tarr, int. Apr. 3,
1746. P. B. 23.
POWER, Miriam, and Benjamin Girdler, jr., Dec. 29, 1810.
p. B. 19.
REEVES, Jacob, of Salem, and Abigail Furgesen, int. Dec. 17,
1743. P. B. 22.
REXFORD, Jordan, Kev., and Mary Tannatt of Boston, Oct.
27, 1805. P. B. 23.
RHOADES (see also Rhodes), Edward, and Jean Cummings
of Salem, int. Jan. 14, 1748. P. B. 22.
MARBLEHEAD MARRIAGES. 269
RHODES (see also Khoades), Elizabeth, and Charles Moulin
of Boston, int. Dec. 4, 1740. P. R. 23.
RICHARDSON, Margaret, and John Stacey, of Salem, int. Nov.
15, 1740. P. R. 22.
Margaret, and John Lambert of Boston, June 15, 1794.
p. R. 23.
ROBINSON, Benjamin, of Boston, and Mary Todd, int. June
16, 1768. P. R. 23.
Margaret, of Salem, and John Hoinan, int. Aug. 26, 1709.
p. R. 22.
ROUNDEL, Mary, and Thomas Waters, at Beverly, Apr. 19,
1695. Ct. F.
SCOLLAY, Samuel, of Boston, and Hannah Martin, int. Feb.
12, 1740. P. R. 23.
SIMPSON, Charles, of Boston, and Mary Legrow, int. Feb. 9,
1803. P. R. 23.
SMITHURST, Joseph, and Sarah Jackson of Boston, int. Nov.
28, 1754. p. R. 23.
STACEY (see also Stasey), John, of Salem, and Margaret
Richardson, int. Nov. 15, 1740. P. R. 22.
Samuel, s. William and Hannah (Holliday), and Lydia
Grandy, d. Amos and Mary (Boden), Dec. 23, 1789.
p. R. 13.
.Sarah, wid., of Salem, and Daniel Gould, int. Oct. 15, 1743.
p. R. 22.
STACKER, Hannah, and Peter Borgan of Boston, int. Feb. 1,
1741. P. R. 23.
STANDLEY, Martha Allen, and Thomas Proctor Caswell, May
19, 1822. P. R. 28.
STASEY (see also Stacey), Edward, and Ann Hichborn of
Boston, int. June 12, 1760. P. R. 23.
STEVENSON, William, of Boston, and Hannah Greely, June
26, 1795. P. R. 23.
270 MARBLEHEAD MARRIAGES.
STILSON, Vinson, and Susanna Gray of Boston, int. May 4,
1696-7. P. R. 23.
SWIFT, Nancy L., of Boston, and Elijah Hutchinson, int. Oct.
26, 1803. P. R. 23.
T ANN ATT, Mary, of Boston, and Rev. Jordan Eexford, Oct.
27, 1805. P. R. 23.
TARR, Othniel, and Sarah Plaisted of Boston, int. Apr. 3,
1746. P. R. 23.
TEDDER, John, and Martha Tucker, " now of Bristol, Me./ 1
Nov. 1, 1797. P. R. 12.
TESHEW, Abigail, d. John and Hannah, and Thomas Tucker,
s. George and Mary (Widger), Jan. 23, 1803. p. R. 21.
THOMPSON, Eliza> of Boston, and William Nelson, int. Nov.
30, 1717. P. R. 23.
TODD, Mary, and Benjamin Eobinson of Boston, int. June 16,
1768. P. R. 23.
TOWER, Esther [Power, int.], of Boston, and Eichard Leach,
Oct. 20, 1805. P. R. 23.
TRASK, Nicholas, jr., of Salem, and Mary Martin, int. Mar. 2,
1728. P. R. 22.
TUCKER, Martha, " now of Bristol, Me." and John Tedder,
Nov. 1, 1797. P. R. 12.
Mary, and Benjamin Hinds, Dec. , 1789. P. R. 12.
Mary, d. William and Deborah (Goss), and William Widger,
s. William and Elizabeth (Dove), Sept. 13, 1800. P. R. 13.
Samuel, s. Andrew and Mary (Belcher), and Mary Gatchell,
d. Samuel and Ann, Dec. 21, 1768. P. R. 12.
Thomas, s. George and Mary (Widger), and Abigail Teshew,
d. John and Hannah, Jan. 23, 1803. P. R. 21.
VEALY, Eachel, of Salem, and Samuel Clarke, int. Jan. 24,
1710-11. P. R. 22.
WALDON, John, and Eunice Copp of Boston, int. Aug. 4,
1748. P. R. 23.
MARBLEHEAD MARRIAGES. 271
WATERS, Thomas, and Mary Koundel, at Beverly, Apr. 19,
1695. Ct. F.
WEBBER (see also Weber), John [jr. Salem. int.], and Sarah
Felton of Salem, at Salem, Jan. 8, 1733. P. B. 26.
WEBER (see also Webber), Samuel, and Elizabeth Gill of
Salem, int. 9 br : 11 : 1709. p. K. 22.
WHITE, Margaret, of Boston, and Rev. Hezekiah May, Nov.
18, 1803. P. B. 23.
WIDGER, William, s. William and Elizabeth (Dove), and
Mary Tucker, d. William and Deborah (Goss), Sept. 13,
1800. P. B. 13.
MARBLEHEAD DEATHS.
BESOM, , [May ?] 11, 1794. p. R. 34.
BLANEY, , d. , May 28, 1794. p. R. 34.
BR[A]DDIS, , d. , [Aug ?] 11, 1794. p. R. 34.
BROUGHTON, N., Jan. 28, 1794. p. R. 34.
BROWN, , phthisis, [May ?] 14, 1794. p. R. 34.
BURKE, Hannah, Feb. 9, 1776. p. R. 33.
Thatcher, s. Hannah, Apr. 2, 1776. p. R. 33.
BURRAGE, , ch. , diarrhoea, [May ?] 10, 1794.
p. R. 34.
CHAPMAN, Nathaniel, jr., s. Nathaniel and Martha (Ogleby),
Oct. 19, 1831, a. 22 y. 7 m. 11 d. P. R. 1.
Nathaniel, Sept. 5, 1833, a. 47 y. P. R. 1.
Samuel, father of Nathaniel, Aug. 7, 1798. (adm. to wid.
Annis, Nov. 7, 1798. Probate Records, Vol. 366, p. 292.)
Samuel, s. Nathaniel and Martha (Ogleby), Oct. 20, 1820, a.
1 y. 2 m. 10 d. p. R. 1.
COLLINGWOOD, , d. , [June ?] 11, 1794. p. R. 34.
DENNIS, James, [July ?] 26, 1794. p. R. 34.
DEVEREUX, Polly, May 1, 1794. p. R. 34.
, wid., Mar. 25, 1794. p. R. 34.
DIXEY, John, Capt., May 16, 1794. p. R. 34.
, ch. , Jan. 27, 1794. p. R. 34.
, ch. Capt. , jr., Apr. 6, 1794. p. R. 34.
, ch. John, erysipelas, [June ?] 16, 1794. p. R. 34.
, ch. John, epilepsy, [July ?] 7, 1794. p. R. 34.
DOLLABER, Mary, w. Tristram, probably of Marblehead, July
3, 1644. Ct. R. Vol. 1, p. 28.
(272)
MARBLEHEAD DEATHS. 273
FOSTER, , Mr., Jan. 19, 1794. p. R. 34.
, Mrs., Apr. 19, 1794. p. R. 34.
FOWLER, , chn. Sam[ue]l, Mar. 22, 1794. P. R. 34.
GILLEY, Sally, w. William, jr., d. John and Hannah ( Widger)
LeCraw, Jan. 14, 1833. P. R. 32.
William, jr., s. William and Betsy (Goss), Apr. 24, 1828.
p. R. 32.
GOSS, , ch. , Jan. 13, 1794. P. R. 34.
GRAVES, James Chapman, s. Amos Evans and Eliza (Chap-
man), Aug. 25, 1839, a. 3 m. 26 d. P. R. 4.
John Chapman, s. Amos Evans and Eliza (Chapman), Sept.
7, 1837, a. 4 m. 5 d. P. R. 4.
GREEN, Darius, phthisis [May ?] 4, 1794. p. R. 34.
GRIST, John, Capt., paralysis, [June ?] 23, 1794. p. R. 34.
, w. Capt. John, apoplexy, Feb. 24, 1794. p. R. 34.
HAMMOND, , Mrs., Apr. 14, 1794. p. R. 34.
HARRIS, Robert, s. Mason and Elizabeth (Dennis), Dec. 3,
1832, a. 43 y. 10m. p. R. 14.
HAYDEN, Joseph Hine, brother William, jr., "burnt with
powder By accident on board of Capt. W m Burke, the
Schooner Warren," July 23, 1775. p. R. 33.
Sarah, Nov. 4, 1781. P. R. 33.
William, jr., brother Joseph Hine, " burnt with powder By
Occident on board of Capt. W m Burke, the Schooner
Warren," July 23, 1775. P. R. 33.
HINCKLEY, Hannah, d. Mary, Aug. 25, 1793, a. 1 y. 5 m. 17
d. P. R. 33.
Mary, Nov. 1, 1792, a. 22 y. 4 m. 8 d. P. R. 33.
HINDS, Benjamin, s. Benjamin and Mary (Tucker), Jan. 19,
1792. P. R. 12.
Benjamin, Capt., at sea, Apr. 12, 1 799. P. R. 12.
Buth, wid., " she moved in from Marblehead," at Byfield
Parish, Apr. 30, 1776, a. 80 y. c. R. 1.
274 MARBLEHBAD DEATHS.
HOMAN, Hannah, w. Nathaniel, sister of Mary (Tucker)
Widger, Oct. 15, 1829, a. 48 y. 7 m. p. B. 13.
HOOPER, , ch. W[illia]m, [July ?] 18, 1794. p. B. 34.
HORTON, , ch. Sam[ue]l, [June ?] 28, 1794. p. B. 34.
JACKSON, , [July ?] 25, 1794. p. B. 34.
LASKEY, , dyspepsia, [May ?] 6, 1794. p. B. 34.
LEE, Betsy, d. Col., Apr. 12, 1794. p. B. 34.
Sam[ue]l, [July ?] 31, 1794. p. B. 34.
, Mrs., dyspepsia, Feb. 4, 1794. p. B. 34.
LEWIS, Tho[ma]s, [Aug. ?] 6, 1794. p. B. 34.
LYONS, , d. , chilblain, May 26, 1794. p. B. 34.
MARTIN, Hannah C., d. Knott, 5th, and Sally (Frost), Aug.
3, 1832. P. B. 6.
Richard, Mar. 13, 1836, a. 88 y. 6 m. p. B. 6.
Sally, d. Knott, 5th, and Sally (Frost), Feb. 16, 1810. P.B. 6.
William C., s. Knott, 5th, and Sally (Frost) , at Sacramento,
Aug. 3, 1849. P. B. 6.
William P., s. Thomas Jefferson and Mary Thompson (Peach),
June 30, 1841, a. 5 m. 4 d. p. B. 7.
MEAK, , ch. Capt., Feb. 20, 1794. p. B. 34.
MEDOUN, William F., at New Orleans, Jan. 2, 1837, a. 39 y.
p. B. 13.
MERRETT, Mary (Boden), w. Samuel, May 4, 1805, a. 97 y.
p. B. 14.
MORSE, Hannah Fitts. d. Levi and Mercy Cross (Northy),
May 19, 1817. P. B. 9.
NOWLAND, John H., Sept. 18, 1839. P. B. 31.
John H., sr., June 9, 1849. p. B. 31.
ORNE, Joshua, Col., Mar. 11, 1794. p. B. 34.
, ch. Azor, Mar. 17, 1794. p. B. 34.
, Mrs., Apr. 27, 1794. p. B. 34.
, ch. George, [May ?] 20, 1794. p. B. 34.
MAEBLBHEAD DEATHS. 275
PEACH, Thomas, Capt., Nov. 26, 1802, a. 101 y. P. K. 35.
PEIRCE, J[oh]n, [June ?] 2, 1794. p. R. 34.
, Jan. 10, 1794. p. R. 34.
, ch. W[illia]m, Feb. 17, 1794. p. R. 34.
, wid., diarrhoea, [June ?] 18, 1794. p. R. 34.
PORTER, , wid. John, May 5, 1794. p. R. 34.
PRITCHARD, Benjamin, s. Ezra Kaddan and Mary Stevens
(Widger), July 10, 1823, a. 1 y. p. R. 11.
Joseph Widger, s. Ezra Raddan and Mary Stevens (Widger),
Get, 22, 1821, a. 1 y. P. R. 11.
Sarah Pitman, d. Ezra Kaddan and Mary Stevens (Widger),
Dec. 22, 1833, a. 2 y. p. R. 11.
William, s. William and Elizabeth, " supposed to have been
lost on passage from Grand Banks, schooner Borneo,"
Dec. 3, 1832, a. 53 y. p. R. 13.
REED, , wid., May 14, 1794. p. R. 34.
ROGERS, , ch. , May 21, 1794. p. R. 34.
SEWALL, H[enr]y, Feb. 15, 1794. p. R. 34.
Jos[eph], influenza, Mar. 31, 1794. p. R. 34.
, ch. , diarrhoea, Feb. 2, 1794. p. R. 34.
STAGEY (see also Stacy), Amos, Nov. 14, 1794. p. R. 13.
, wid., Jan. 1, 1794. p. R. 34.
STACY (see also Stacey), George, s. wid., Apr. 23, 1794.
p. R. 34.
Nath[anie]l, s. wid., May 13, 1794. p. R. 34.
, s. wid., [June ?] 7, 1794. p. R. 34.
STEVENSON, Elizabeth, d. David and Sarah (Blair) , Mar. 1,
1842, a. 58 y. P. R. 8.
TASKER, John, Esq., Nov. 8, 1761. P. R. 36.
TAYLOR, Sarah, w. Duncan, Dec. 17, 1806, a. 74 y. p. R. 8.
TEDDER, John, s. John and Martha (Tucker), Nov. , 1800.
p. R. 12.
Martha Elizabeth, d. John and Martha (Tucker), Oct. 21,
1805. P. R. 12.
276 MARBLEHEAD DEATHS.
THOMPSON, , Mar. 29, 1794. p. R. 34.
, wid., [July ?] 15, 1794. p. R. 34.
TINGSLEY, , [June ?] 15, 1794. p. R. 34.
TIPPET, , at workhouse, phthisis, Jan. 11, 1794. p. E. 34.
TOWN, Curtice, Apr. 11, 1794. p. R. 34.
Tho[ma]s, rheumatism, [May ?] 27, 1794. p. R. 34.
TUCKER, Abigail G., d. Thomas and Abigail (Teshew), Sept.
17, 1813, a. 4 y. 11 m. 18 d. p. R. 21.
Betsy, Dec. 18, 1781. P. R. 12.
George, s. Thomas and Abigail (Teshew), Apr. 13, 1821, a.
2 y. 10 m. 13 d. P. R. 21.
George, Nov. 8, 1832, a. 87 y. P. R. 21.
Hannah M., d. Thomas and Abigail (Teshew), Aug. 13, 1812,
a. 23 m. p. R. 21.
Mary, w. Andrew, Mar. 6, 1808, a. 91 y. 6 m. p. R. 12.
Mary, w. Samuel, Dec. 30, 1831, a. 79 y. p. R. 12.
Mary, w. George, Mar. 11, 1832, a. 87 y. p. R. 21.
Mary W., d. Thomas and Abigail (Teshew), Dec. 16, 1825,
a. 4 y. 10 m. 16 d. p. R. 21.
Samuel, jr., Sept. 5, 1776. p. R. 12.
Samuel, Mar. 10, 1833, a. 85 y. 4 m. p. R. 12.
VALPEY, , wid., hysteria and dyspepsia, Feb. 15, 1794.
p. R. 34.
WADDEN, , at the workhouse, Mar. 7, 1794. p. R. 34.
WARREN, , at the workhouse, paralysis, Jan. 6, 1794.
p. R. 34.
WATSON, Henry, [June ?] 1, 1794. p. R. 34.
WIDGER, Elizabeth, wid. William, Aug. 29, 1835, a. 81 y. 5 m.
p. R. 13.
William, s. William and Mary (Tucker), Aug.4, 1803. P. R. 13.
William, at Nantucket, Oct. 8, 1823, a. 75 y. 1 m. P. R. 13.
WILLSON, , May 10, 1794. P. R. 34.
WORMSTEAD, Betsy, unm., [May ?] 28, 1794. P. R. 34.
MARBLEHEAD VITAL RECORDS.
INFORMATION OBTAINED FKOM COURT DEPOSITIONS, WILLS,
AND INVENTORIES OF ESTATES IN THE ESSEX
COUNTY COURT FILES.
ABORN, see Eborn.
ALLEN, Robert ; w. Sarah ; mentioned 10 m., 1642. Vol. 1, p. 9.
BACKER, John (Baker), a. 28 y. ; that Mary Rowland intreat-
ed her (Jncle James Smith ; dep. Mar. T., 1669. Vol. 14,
p. 44.
BARTHOL (see also Bartoll), William; w. Mary; mentioned
June, 1569. Vol. 14, p. 126.
BARTOLL (see also Barthol), John, found dead in the sea,
Oct. 1, 1664. Vol. 10, p. 88.
John ; wid. Parnell, executor ; inv. Nov. 16, 1664. Vol. 10, p.77.
William, a. 32 y., dep. Sept., 1662. Vol. 8, p. 64.
BEALE, Martha, a. 22 y., dep. Mar., 1654. Vol. 2, p. 121.
Martha, a. 35 y., dep. June, 1667. Vol. 12, p. 90.
Martha, w. William, mentioned, June, 1669. Vol. 14, p. 128.
Martha, d. William, a. 13 y. in Sept. next, dep. June T., 1669.
Vol. 14, p. 129.
Martha, a. 30 y. and upwards, dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14,
p. 131.
Martha, jr., a. 14 y. next Sept.,dep. June T.,1670. Vol. 16, p. 31.
Martha, w. William; had a sister; mentioned Sept., 1670.
Vol. 16, p. 50.
Martha, jr., a. 14 y., d. William and Martha, brother William,
dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16, pp. 50, 54.
Samuel, a. 14 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, pp. 127, 129, 130.
Samuel, a. 16 y. middle of this July, s. William and Martha,
brother of James, dep. June T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 31.
Samuel, a. 16 y., s. William and Martha, brother James, dep.
Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 50.
(277)
278 MARBLEHEAD VITAL RECORDS.
BEALE, Samuel, a. 16 y. and upwards, dep. Sept. T., 1670.
Vol. 16, p. 54.
Samuel, a. 14 y. (may be James or William), dep. Sept. T.,
1670. Vol. 16, p. 54.
William, a. 22 y., dep. Mar., 1654. Vol. 2, p. 122.
William, assigns to his brother-in-law, John Bradstreet of
Marblehead, June, 1658. Vol. 4, p. 37.
William, a. abt. 38 y., dep. Nov., 1666. Vol. 12, p. 13.
William, a. 38 y., dep. June, 1667. Vol. 12, p. 89.
William, a. 38 y., dep. Sept., 1667. Vol. 12, p. 140.
William, a. 38 y. and upwards, dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14,
p. 130.
BEERS, Philip, a. 40 y., dep. Sept., 1663. Vol. 9, p. 51.
BENET (see also Bennett), John, wid. Margaret; inv. June
29, 1663. Vol. 9, p. 15.
Margaret, a. 64 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 52.
BENNETT (see also Benet, Bennitt), Edward, a. abt. 16 y.,
dep. June T., 1670. Vol. 15, p. 142.
BENNITT (see also Bennett), Samuel, a. abt. 62 y., dep. Nov.
T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 87.
BESOM, John, a. 14 y., dep. Mar. T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 26.
BICKFORD, Christian, a. abt. 17 y., dep. Nov., 1666. Vol. 12,
p. 29.
BOEN (see also Bowen), Thomas, a. 26 y., dep. Mar., 1654.
Vol. 2, p. 125.
BOWEN (see also Boen), Elizabeth, a. 26 y., dep. Mar., 1654,
Vol. 2, p. 119.
Thomas, a. abt. 24 y. ; has w. Elizabeth, 26 : 10 m : 1646.
Vol. 1, p. 56.
Thomas, w. Elizabeth, mentioned June, 1661. Vol. 6, p. 151.
Thomas, a. abt. 45 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 116.
BRADFORD, Robert, a. 32 y., dep. Nov., 1664. Vol. 10, p. 55.
BRADSTEET, John, a. 24 y., dep. Mar., 1654. Vol. 2, p. 122.
John, inv. June 14, 1660. Vol. 5, p. 114.
Sara, a. 16 s., dep. Mar., 1654. Vol. 2, p. 120
MARBLEHEAD VITAL BECOBDS. 279
BROWN, Ellesabeth, a. abt. 50 y., dep. Mar., 1667. Vol. 12,
p. 85.
BULKER, John, a. 28 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 94.
BURD, John, a. abt. 30 y., dep. June, 1665. Vol. 10, p. 142.
CALLY, Thomas ; w. Mary; Benjamin Pamata [Parmiter],
father-in-law ; mentioned Sept., 1660. Vol. 6, pp. 11, 13.
CHARLES, William, a. abt. 74 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14,
p. 117.
CHICHESTER, William ; w. Mary ; mentioned June, 1660.
Vol. 5, p. 99.
CHIN, George (Chine, Ching) ; wid. Elizabeth ; executor ; inv.
Mar. 6, 1663-4. Vol. 10, p. 11.
CLARKE, Emanuell, a. abt. 45 y., dep. Nov., 1666. Vol. 12,
p. 13.
Mary, m., a. abt. 29 y., dep. June, 1662. Vol. 8, p. 4.
CODNER (see also Codnor), Christopher ; wid. Mary ; s., a. 3
y.; d. Mary, a. 5 y.; estate settled Nov., 1660 ; Vol.6, p. 51.
John, a. abt. 40 y., dep. June, 1665. Vol. 10, p. 141.
John, a. 44 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 107.
Mary, a. 26 y.; calls Margret Bennet her mother ; dep. June,
1664. Vol. 9, p. 125.
Rachel, a. 20 y., dep. 4 m : 1660. Vol. 10, p. 83.
CODNOR (see also Codner), Henry, a. abt. 19 (17?) y., dep.
June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 129.
COLE, Nicholas, a. abt. 30 y., dep. Nov., 1666. Vol. 12, p. 29.
COMBES (see also Combs), Henry (Coombes), found drowned,
jury of inquest, Aug. 30, 1669 ; finding of jury, acci-
dent ; sworn Dec. 2, 1669 ; wid. executor ; chn. men-
tioned; inv. p85-05-06; Sept. 16, 1669. Vol. 15, pp.
60, 72.
COMBS (see also Combes), Mighell, a, abt. 28 y., dep. June,
1662. Vol. 7, p. 118.
Mihill, a. abt. 31 y., dep. Nov., 1663. Vol. 9, p. 62.
280 MARBLEHEAD VITAL RECORDS.
CONDEY, Samuel, a. abt. 33 y ., dep. June, 1664. Vol. 9, p. 123.
DARLIN, George, a. 50 y., dep. June T., 1670. Vol. 15, p. 143.
DENNES, James, a. abt. 29 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16,
p. 64.
DEVEREX (see also Deverix, Deverixe, Devorix), John, a. 50
y., dep. Nov. T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 108.
DEVERIX (see also Deverex), Ann, a. 46 y., dep. Sept., 1666.
Vol. 12, p. 141.
John, a. 50 y., dep. Mar. T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 41.
DEVERIXE (see also Deverex), Ann, a. abt. 43 y., dep. June,
1664. Vol. 9, p. 125.
DEVORIX (see also Deverex), Ann, a. abt. 46 y., dep. June,
1667. Vol. 12, p. 88.
Ann, a. abt. 20 y., dep. Sept., 1667. Vol. 12, p. 137.
DILL, Thomas, inv. July 2, 1668. Vol. 13, p. 71.
DOLIBER, Joseph, a. 40 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 115.
DOWNEING (see also Downing), Richard, a. abt. 27 y., dep.
June, 1664. Vol. 9, p. 125.
DOWNING (see also Downeing), Mary, a. 31 y., dep, Sept. T.,
1670. Vol. 16, pp. 51, 52.
Kichard ; w. Mary, d. Good wife [Margaret. Vol. 12, pp. 87,
89.] Bennet; mentioned June, 1667. Vol. 12, p. 88.
Richard ; w. Mary ; mentioned Sept., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 53.
Theophilus; w. Elin ; mentioned 6 m: 1647. Vol. 1, p. 86.
EABORNE (see also Eborn), Samuel, a. abt. 58 y., dep. Mar.
T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 44.
EBORN (see also Eaborne, Eburne), Samuel, had a letter from
Francis Simson of R. I., in which he says, " the share
my sister's first husband had in farm at Marblehead, he
sold to James Smith, then living in Marblehead (now
deceased), and pay was made by said James to Edmond
Nicholson, my sister's husband," 17 : 2 m : 1666. Vol. 12,
p. 13.
Samuel, a. abt. 58 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 94.
MARBLEHEAD VITAL RECORDS. 281
EBURNE (see also Ebora), Mary, a. 15 y., calls Mary. Smith
her grandmother, dep. Nov., 1662. Vol. 8, p. 89.
EDWARDS, James, a. abt. 31 y., dep. June T., 1668. Vol. 13,
p. 74.
William, a. abt. 32 y., dep. June T., 1670. Vol. 15, pp. 141,
144.
ELLIS, Thomas, a. abt. 37 y., dep. June T., 1670. Vol. 15,
p. 142.
FERRAND, Edmond, a. abt. 29 y., dep. Nov. T., 1670. Vol. 16,
p. 85.
FOARD, John, a. abt. 33 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16, pp.
51,63.
FORBUSH (see also Furbush), John, a. 40 y., dep. June T.,
1669. Vol. 14, p. 91.
FURBUSH (see also Forbush), John, a. near 40 y., dep. June,
1667. Vol. 12, p. 87.
GACHELL (see also Gatchell), Wribrough, a. 50 y., dep. Nov.
T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 108.
GALE, Bartholmew,a. abt. 25 y., dep. Nov., 1666. Vol. 12, p. 29.
GATCHELL (see also Gachell), John, sr., a. abt. 53 y., dep.
June T., 1669. Vol. 14, pp. 92, 117.
John, jr., a. abt. 25 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 49.
John, sr., a. abt. 50 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 50.
Samuel, a. 30 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 129.
Wiburrough, a. abt. 50 y., dep. Mar. T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 42.
GILLIGAN (see also Gilliginn), Frances, a. 23 y., dep. Sept.,
1667. Vol. 12, p. 139.
GILLIGINN (see also Gilligan), Francise, a. near 23 y., dep.
June, 1667. Vol. 12, p. 89.
GOOLER, Deborah, a. abt. 19 y., dep. Mar., 1667. Vol. 12,
p. 70.
GRANDIN, Judith, a. 20 y., dep. Mar., 1667. Vol. 12, p. 84.
282 MARBLBHEAD VITAL RECORDS
GREENFIELD, Peeter, a. abt. 35 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. VoL
16, p. 63.
GRIPPING, Jasper, a. abt. 21 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16,
p. 63.
GROUNDELL, Judith, a. abt. 21 y., dep. Mar. T., 1669. VoL
14, p. 44.
Judith, a. abt. 21 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 94.
GROUNDEN (see also Groundin), Judith, a. 18 y., dep. June
22, 1667. Vol. 14, p. 27.
Judith, a. 23 or 24 y., in Mar., 1667, when she made dep. she
was of Marblehead, dep. Nov. T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 86.
GROUNDIN (see also Grounden), Judith, a. abt. 20 y., dep.
Mar., 1667. Vol. 12, p. 74.
HART, John, inv. 14 : 1 m : 1655-6. Vol. 3, p. 54.
HATHORNE, Eleazer, a. abt. 32 y., dep. June T., 1669. VoL
14, p. 107.
HOER, Thomas, a. abt. 24 y., dep. June, 1666. Vol. 11, p. 128.
HOUMAN, Edward, a. 23 y., dep. June T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 36.
HOOPER (see also Hoper) , Eobert, a. abt. 50 y., dep. June T.,
1670. Vol. 15, pp. 140, 145.
HOPER (see also Hooper), Robard, a. 62 y., dep. Mar. T.,
1669. Vol. 14, p. 26.
HUDSON, John, a. abt. 57 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16,
p. 49.
Mary, a. abt. 50 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16, pp. 51, 67.
Samuel, a. abt. 21 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 50.
IVES, Thomas, a. abt. 20 y., dep. June T., 1668. Vol. 13, p. 69.
JAMES, Erasmus, a. 49 y., dep. Mar., 1654. Vol. 2, p. 120.
Erasmus ; wid. Jane ; Erasmus, jr., named ; inv. June 26,
1660. VoL 5, p. 111.
MARBLEHEAD VITAL KBCOBDS. 283
JAMES, Erasmus, a. 27 y., dep. Sept., 1662. Vol. 8, p. 68.
Erasmus, a. 34 y., dep. Mar. T., 1669. Vol. 14, pp. 25, 44.
Erasmus, a. abt. 36 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 107.
Erasmus, a. 54 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 94.
Erasmus (boat builder. Vol. 16, p. 29.), a. 34 y., dep. Nov.
T., 1669. Vol. 15, p. 27.
Erasmus, a. abt. 34 y., dep. Nov. T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 87.
Erasomus, a. abt. 30 y., dep. June, 1665. Vol. 10, p. 151.
Jane, a. 53 y., w. Erasmus, dep. Mar., 1654. Vol. 2, p. 119.
Jane, a. 64 y., dep. Sept., 1667. Vol. 12, p. 138.
Jane ; names s. Erasmus ; d. Hester, w. Richard Bead ; inv.
30 : 4 m : 1669. Vol. 14, p. 132.
JOANES, Grace, a. abt. 25 y., dep. June, 1666. Vol. 11, p. 129.
JOHNSON, Francis, a. abt. 59 y., dep. Mar., 1667. Vol. 12,
p. 80.
KNIGHT, Charles, a. 21 y., dep. Nov., 1661. Vol. 7, page 2.
Robert, a. 55 y. and upwards, dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14,
pp. 117, 149.
LATAMORE, Christopher, a. abb. 43 y., dep. June, 1661. Vol.
6, p. 105.
Marie, d. Christopher, a. bet. 7 and 8 y., found dead in a well,
jury of inquest, Mar. 6, 1668-9 ; finding of jury, acci-
dent ; sworn 19 : 1 m : 1669. Vol. 15, p. 71.
LEAG (see also Legg), Elizabeth, w. John (Legg), mentioned,
4 m : 1660. Vol. 5, p. 121.
John (Legg) ; w. Elizabeth ; mentioned, 4 m : 1651. Vol. 2,
p. 11 ; and 9 m : 1659. Vol. 5, p. 61.
LEDY, John (Legg?), a. 47 y., dep. Apr., 1657. Vol. 3, p. 118.
LEEGG (see also Legg), John, sr., a. abt. 58 y., dep. Nov.,
1666. Vol. 12, p. 12.
LEGG (see also Leag, Leegg), Elizabeth, a. abt. 57 y., dep.
Nov,, 1665. Vol. 11, p. 34.
Elizabeth, a. abt. 58 y., dep. June T., 1668. Vol. 13, p. 74.
John, jr., a. abt. 21 y., dep. Nov., 1665. Vol. 11, p. 34.
John, sr., did mason work, a. abt. 60 y., dep. Mar. T., 1670.
Vol. 15, p. 102.
284 MARBLEHEAD VITAL RECORDS.
LINSFURD, Francis, a. 60 y., dep. Sept., 1662. Vol. 8, p. 65.
MARTIN, Robert, a. abt. 33 y., dep. Sept., 1666. Vol. 12, p. 8.
MAVERICK (see also Mavericke), Moses, a. 50 y., dep. Sept.,
1662. Vol. 8, p. 65.
MAVERICKE (see also Maverick), Moses, a. abt. 54 y., dep.
Nov., 1665. Vol. 11, p. 29.
Moses, a. abt. 55 y., dep. Mar., 1667. Vol. 12, p. 84.
Moses, a. 57 y., dep. June T., 1668. Vol. 13, p. 58.
Moses, a. 57 y., dep. Mar. T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 41.
Moses, a. abt. 58 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 117.
MEGILIGEN, Alexander ; w. Frances; mentioned June, 1661.
Vol. 6, p. 151; Vol. 7, p. 43.
MONGEY, Walter (Munjoy), a. abt. 30 y., dep. June, 1665.
Vol. 10, p. 142.
MORGIN, Samuel, a. abt. 28 y., dep. June, 1665. Vol. 10, p.
141.
MOUNTJOY, Benjamin; wid. mentioned; inv. 28 : 4 m: 1659.
Vol. 5, p. 10.
NEWMAN, Robert, a. abt. 17 y., dep. June, 1667. Vol. 12, p. 88.
NICHALSON (see also Nicholson), Edmund; w. Elizabeth, and
s. Christopher, both legatees of George Pollard, men-
tioned 10 m : 1646. Vol. 1, p. 64.
Edmund ; w. Elizabeth ; mentioned 9 m : 1659. Vol. 5, p. 61.
NICHOLSON (see also Nichalson, Nickhollson, Nicklinson, Nic-
olson), Joseph, a. abt. 27 y., dep. Nov. T., 1670. Vol. 16,
p. 85.
NICK (see also Nicke) , William, a. abt. 35 y., dep. June,
1661. Vol. 6, p. 105.
William, a. 35 y., two. dep. 22 : 1 m : 1666-7, and 29 : 1 m :
1669. Vol. 14, p. 92.
William, a 35 y., dep. Mar. T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 44.
William, a. abt. 40 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 50.
MARBLEHEAD VITAL RECORDS. 285
NICKE (see also Nick), William, a. 38 y., dep. Mar. T., 1670.
Vol. 15, p. 102.
NICKHOLLSON (see also Nicholson), Thomas, a. 15 y., dep.
June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 107.
NICKLINSON (see also Nicholson), Joseph, a. abt. 20 y., dep.
June, 1661. Vol. 6, p. 105.
NICKSON, Mathew, a. abt. 46 y., dep. Nov., 1662. Vol. 8, p. 87.
NICOLSON (see also Nicholson), Edmond; wid. Elizabeth;
chn., Christopher, a. 22 y., Joseph, a. 20 y., Samuel, a.
16 y., John, a. 14 y., Elizabeth, a. 11 y., Thomas, a. 7 y.;
inv. Nov. 22, 1660. Vol. 6, p. 47.
NORICE, Dorothy, dep. " when I was at Marblehead, at the
house of Mr. [Francis ?] Johnson, my brother, 3 or 4
years ago," Mar., 1657. Vol. 3, p. 90.
NORMAN, Richard ; s. Richard : mentioned 22: 2m: 1653.
Vol. 12, p. 14.
Richard, a. abt. 43 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 117.
NORTHEY, John, sr. ; John, jr. ; mentioned , 1669. Vol.
15, p. 70.
OTLEY, Abraham; Mr. Hugh Alley, dep. June 16, 1662, that
when Mr. John Humphrey went to England, he left
Abraham Otley, his son-in-law. Vol. 7, p. 127.
PALMFTER (see also Pamiter), Benjamin, a. abt. 57 y., dep.
Mar., 1667. Vol. 12, p. 70.
Mary, a. abt. 57 y., w. Benjamin, dep. Mar., 1667. Vol. 12,
p. 70.
PAMITER (see also Palmiter), Benjamin, a. abt. 57 y., dep.
Nov., 1666. Vol. 12, p. 15.
PATTEY (see also Paty, Petey), Robert, a. abt. 23 or 24 y.,
dep. June, 1665. Vol. 10, p. 142.
PATY (see also Pattey), Robert, a. abt. 23 y., dep. June, 1662.
Vol. 8, p. 5.
286 MARBLEHEAD VITAL RECORDS.
PEACH, Ester (Ealis- Alice) , w. John, a. 54 y., dep. June T.,
1669. Vol. 14, p. 91.
John, jr.; w. Alice; mentioned 5 m : 1644. Vol. 1, p. 19.
John, sr., a. above 50 y., dep. Mar. T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 44.
John, sr., a. abt. 50 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 94.
John, jr., a. abt. 53 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 91.
John, a. 55 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 91.
PEDERICK (see also Pedrick) , John, a. abt. 40 y., dep. June,
1664. Vol. 9, p. 123.
PEDRICK (see also Pederick), John, a. abt. 25 y., dep. Nov.,
1663. Vol. 9, p. 62.
PETEY (see also Pattey), Robert, a. 23 y., dep. June, 1664.
Vol. 9, p. 123.
PITMAN (see also Pittman), Mark, a. 40 y., dep. June T.,
1669. Vol. 14, p. 116.
Thomas, a. 45 y., dep. Sept., 1662. Vol. 8, p. 65.
Thomas, jr., a. abt. 17 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 129.
Thomas, sr., a. abt. 55 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 129.
Thomas had 4 sons, mentioned June, 1670. Vol. 16, p. 35.
Thomas, a. abt. 56 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 51.
PITT, Susannah, nunc. will, d. abt. Sept. 9, 1668. " I give
unto my husband [William] one halfe, &c., and unto my
daughter Mary Lattimore [of Marblehead] the other
halfe, &c.," inv. Sept. 8, allowed Dec. 10, 1670. Vol. 16,
pp. 107, 108.
PITTMAN (see also Pitman), Mark, a. 40 y., dep. Sept., 1662.
Vol. 8, p. 64.
POERE (?), James, a. abt. 45 y., dep. June, 1664. Vol. 9, p.
123.
POLLARD, George, will dated May 13, proved Dec. 31, 1646.
Vol. 1, p. 647.
RANDALL, Robert, a. abt. 15 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14,
p. 81.
Sarah, a. abt. 20 y., dep. Mar., 1667. Vol. 12, pp. 74, 84.
Sarah, a. 20 y., saw last May in Richard Rowland's ground,
Capt. James Smith and his sister, Mary Rowland, dep.
June 19, 1667. Vol. 14, p. 26.
Thomas ; wid. mentioned ; inv. Nov. 20, 1667. Vol. 13, p. 15.
MARBLEHEAD VITAL RECORDS. 287
READ (see also Reade), Edward; w. Margaret; mentioned
Sept., 1660. Vol. 6, p. 11.
Edward, a. 48 y., dep. Sept., 1662. Vol. 8, p. 64.
READE (see also Read), Edward, a. abt. 55 y., dep. Nov.,
1666. Vol. 12, p. 15.
REYMER, William, a. abt. 35 y., dep. June, 1662. Vol. 8, p. 5.
RISE, Ralph, a. abt. 32 y., dep. Mar. T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 26.
Roger, a. 34 y., dep. June T., 1668. Vol. 13, p. 65.
ROADS, John, sr., a. abt. 40 y., dep. June T., 1670. Vol. 15,
p. 144.
ROWDEN, John, a. abt, 50 y., dep. June T., 1668. Vol. 13,
p. 70.
Mary, a. abt. 48 y., dep. June T., 1668. Vol. 13, p. 70.
ROWLAND, Mary, a. abt. 39 y., dep. Nov., 1666. Vol. 12, p. 12.
Mary, a. abt. 17 y., dep. Mar., 1667. Vol. 12, p. 82.
Mary, a. 19 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 92.
Richard; w. Mary; mentioned June, 1669. Vol. 14, p. 81.
Samuel, a. abt. 20 y c , dep Mar., 1667. Vol. 12, p. 83.
ROWLANDSON, Thomas, m. Martha Bradstrete ; she obtained
a divorce before June 23, 1670, when she' was w. of Wil-
liam Beale. Vol. 16, p. 30.
RUSSELL, Henry, a. abt. 24 y., dep. June, 1665. Vol. 10,
p. 141.
Henry, a. abt. 28 y., dep. Nov. T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 107.
Richard, a. abt. 23 y., dep. Nov., 1665. Vol. 11, p. 29.
Roger, a. abt. 60 y., dep. Nov., 1665. Vol. 11, p. 29.
SAUDEN, Arthur, inv. Apr. 8, 1667. Vol. 12, p. 113.
SEAVEY, Richard, a. abt. 35 y., dep. Nov. T., 1670. Vol. 16,
p. 86.
SLANTHER, John, a. 27 y., dep. Sept., 1663. Vol. 9, p. 51.
SLATER, Elizabeth, a. 26 y.; there is a John, sr.; dep. Nov.,
1663. Vol. 9, p. 53.
John, jr.; wid. Elizabeth ; inv. May 18, 1665. Vol. 10, p. 149.
288 MABBLEHBAD VITAL RBCOEDS.
SLEAD, John, a. 25 y. and abt. 25 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol.
16, pp. 51, 63.
SMITH, Elizabeth, a. 31 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 98.
Henry, a. abt. 63 y., dep. Mar., 1667. Vol. 12, p. 74.
James ; wid. Mary ; s. James ; son-in-law, Richard Kowland j
grandson James ; s. James ; will made Nov. 9, 1660, pre-
sented June 27, 1661. Vol. 6, p. 130.
James, Capt., a. abt. 43 y., dep. June, 1667. Vol. 12, p. 86.
James, a. abt. 15 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, pp. 81, 107.
James, Capt., a. 45 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 98.
Mary, wid. James, mother-in-law to Richard Rowland, men-
tioned Sept., 1662. Vol. 8, p. 66.
Mary ; s. James, living in England ; d. Cathoron Aborne, and
her chn., Mary, Rebecca, Moses, Hannah, James, and
Sarah Aborne ; d. Mary Rowland ; Samuel Rowland ;
Joseph Rowland ; 5 chn. of Mary Rowland; grandchild,
Mary Rowland ; will Mar. 28 and Dec. 18, 1663. Vol. 9,
pp. 10, 11.
Robert, a. 54 y., dep. June T., 1668. Vol. 13, p. 65.
SPILLER, Benjamin, found drowned, jury of inquest, Sept. 2,
1669 ; finding of jury, accident ; sworn, Dec. 2, 1669.
Vol. 15, p. 73.
STAGEY (see also Stacy), John, a. 60 y., has s. Henry, dep.
Mar., 1654. Vol. 2, p. 123.
STACY (see also Stacey), Henry, a. 46 y., dep. June, 1667.
Vol. 12, p. 89.
Henry, a. 46 y., dep. Sept., 1667. Vol. 12, p. 140.
Jane, a. 30 y. ; has daughter Mary ; dep. Sept., 1667. Vol. 12,
p. 142.
John, sr., a. abt. 40 y., dep. June T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 92.
Mary, a. 22 y., dep. June, 1667. Vol. 12, p. 89.
Mary, a. 22 y., dep. Sept., 1667. Vol. 12, p. 139.
THISTLE, Richard, a. abt. 22 y., dep. Nov., 1664. Vol. 10,
p. 55.
TUCKER, Andrew ; a brother Nicholas, deceased ; mentioned
June, 1668. Vol. 13, p. 74.
Roger, inv. June 25, 1661. Vol. 6, p. 126.
MABBLEHEAD VITAL BECOBD8.
WALDRON (see also Walldern), Dorothy, a. 30 y., w. John,
dep. Sept., 1665. Vol. 11, p. 22.
John, a. abt. 40 y., dep. June, 1665. Vol. 10, p. 151.
John, a. 40 y., dep. Sept., 1665. Vol. 11, p. 22.
WALLDERN (see also Waldron), John, a. abt. 42 y., dep.
Nov., 1666. Vol. 12, p. 12.
WALTON (see also Waltum), Josiah, a. abt. 20 y., dep. Sept.,
1662. Vol. 8, p. 68.
Mary, a. 17 y., dep. Sept., 1662. Vol. 8, p. 65.
Nathaniel, a. 32 y., dep. June T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 36.
Nathaniel, a. 32 y., dep. Sept. T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 64.
Samuel, a. 30 y., dep. June T., 1670. Vol. 16, p. 36.
WALTUM (see also Walton), William (Walton) ["The Rev.
William died Oct., 1668." Roads' History of Mhd., p.
23.], inv. Nov. 23, 1668. Vol. 13, p. 139.
WARD, Samuel, a. abt. 27 y., dep. June, 1665. Vol. 10, p. 142.
Samuel, a. abt. 28 y., dep. June, 1666. Vol. 11, p. 137.
WARD WELL, Cornelius, found drowned, jury of inquest, Oct.
26, 1669 ; finding of jury, accident ; sworn, Dec. 2, 1669.
Vol. 15, p. 70.
WAITERS, William, a. abt. 33 y., dep. June, 1666. Vol. 11,
p. 130.
WATTS, James, a. abt. 35 y., dep. 4 m., 1660. Vol. 3, p. 103.
WHITEYEARE, Abraham, a. abt. 60 y., " of Haverhill," (also
lived in Marblehead, 1637, 1648. Roads History of Mar-
blehead, 1st edition, pp. 13, 19), dep. June T, 1669. Vol.
14, p. 117.
WOODS, Mary, a. abt. 20 y., dep. June, 1666. Vol. 11, p. 128.
Mary, a. 21 y., dep. Mar. T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 27.
Samuel, a. abt. 30 y., dep. Mar. T., 1669. Vol. 14, p. 27.
William, m. Oct. 19, 1663; w. Mary mentioned, Nov., 1670.
Vol. 16, p. 86.
ENGLISH NOTES ABOUT EARLY SETTLERS IN
NEW ENGLAND.
Communicated by Lothrop Withington, 30 Little Russell Street,
W. C., London (including "Gleanings" by Henry Fitz
Gilbert Waters, not before printed).
(Continued from Vol. XLIV, page 88.
JOHN WHEELER of Greenhill, in the parish of Wootton
Bassett. Will 4 January 1610/11; proved 26 January
1610/11. Fyndinge myself somewhat weake in body to be
buried in church yearde of Wootton Bassett. To Anthony
Wheeler, sonne to my brother William Wheeler, all such
sommes of monye which William Lane of Greenehill doth owe
me, and all such as William Heyward of Cotmarsh doth owe
me, and all that Mr. Perkins of Lydyard dothe owe me, and
10 which Mrs. Werkes doth owe me, and alsoe 7, 14s. To
David Wheeler, son to the aforesaide William Wheeler, 4,
which Jno. Yeatall of Lydyard doth owe me. To John Saye
the younger, sonne of John Saye, of Wooton, all money which
Palmer and others standeth Bounde unto me, all in one bond.
To John Saye, the elder, the three kyen to be bestowed for
the keepinge of my mother. To my brother William Morti-
mer's children, everie one alike, 5, and 15 weights of wool
which William Beale of Bruckworthe is to pay me. To Anne
Wheeler, the daughter of my brother Wheeler, 4 which John
Langbridge of Woodshawe oweth me. To Edward Wheeler
the sonne of Margaret Wheeler, 10. To Thomas Wheeler
the son of Margaret Wheeler, 45 sheepe which I have going
in a grounde at Noades and 39 which are in John Parker's
meade. To William Wheeler, the younger, sonne of William
Wheeler of Bushton, 54s. which Hugh Arnold of Wootton
oweth me. To Elizabeth Wheeler, John Wheeler, and Roger
Wheeler, daughter and sons of Margaret Wheeler aforesaid, 7
beasts now in a ground called Salmons. Further to John
Wheeler, son of Margaret Wheeler, 40 sheep in the comon
fields. To Anne Maslyn, daughter of Thomas Maslyn of
Woodshawe, 40s. which Thomas Maye of Wootton doth owe
me. To my godchildren 2 sheep apiece. To Thomas Wheel-
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IN NEW ENGLAND. 291
er aforesaid, son of Margaret, one mare colour black, with one
eye. To George Mortymer, my kynesman, one store colt,
colour black. To Margaret Wheeler, one mare colt which
came of a mare called Bessent. To church of Wootton 13s.
4d. To the children of Richard Bathe, each 2 sheep. To
Elizabeth Saye, 2 sheep. To Frise Maslyn, daughter of
Thomas Maslyn, 4 which widdowe Heskyns oweth me. To
poor of Sutton Bassett 20s. to be paid as my brother William
Wheeler shall think good. William Wheeler, my brother,
sole executor. To John Saye, my brother in lawe, 5 which
John Smythe of Topnam oweth me, to be bestowed for the
maintenance of my mother. Witnesses : Jno : Weekes. Ri :
Bathe, Johane Saye, Anne Bathe, William Bathe.
Wood, 8.
EDWARD WHEELER of Tilehurst, county Berks, yeoman.
Will 10 August, 1609; proved at Reading 11 April, 1611. To
be b ried in Tilehurst churchyard. To mother church of Sarum
4s. To reparacions of Tilehurst church 10s. To poore of
Tilehurst 10s. To son in law Richard Turner 20s. To son
in lawe Edward Littlefield 5s. To son in law Willy am Green-
way e 20s. To daughter Joan Nicholls 16. To daughter
Beatrice Wheeler 12, and to have bedstead, best brasse pott,
lesse chest. To my daughter's children 12d. each. To sister's
sonn Thomas Chalke 40s. and my wearinge apparell. Rest to
son in law John Burton and Elizabeth his wife. Overseers :
friends John Burton the elder and Richard Tumor. Wit-
nesses : William Wilmer and John Aungellhis appr. [Signed :
Edward Wheeler.]
Consistory of Sarum , filed will 1611 (old no. 50.)
ELIZABETH WHELLER of East Bloxworth, county Dorset,
widow, sicke of bodie. Will 27 May 1611 ; proved 6 May
1612. To be buried in church yard of Bloxworth. To parish
church of Bloxworth, 12 pence. To my sonne Robert Whel-
ler, 5s. To his daughter Grace Wheller, heiffer bullock nowe
quarter ould. To my daughter Anne, my best peticoate, best
holland cerchers, best partlett, best aprons, and 2s. To her
daughter Joane (Sherelet's) 5s. To my daughter Alse 5s.
To my maide, Margaret Russell, a wast coate, one partlett,
etc. To my daughter Elnor Colemans, one smocke, one double
cercher, and 2s. To every one of my god children fower pence
apeece. Residue to my son William Wheeler, executor. Over-
seers : neighbours John Cooke, Henery Moulom, William
292 ENGLISH NOTES ABOUT EARLY SETTLERS
Vine. Witnesses : John Cooke, Henry Moulum, Tho : Souer-
idge, Wm. Vine. Inventory xij li. xiijs iid.
Deanery of Sarum, Register 9, folio 67.
ELIZABETH WHEELER. Bond, 19 December 1612, of Wil-
liam Moulton, of City of New Sarum, parchmentmaker, and
Bichard Forde, of ditto, shoemaker in 20 : Condition that
Elizabeth Wheeler, late of St. Martins, Citty of Newe Sarum,
Wilts, deceased, in last will gave to her daughter Sara Wheel-
er 20, and said Sara Wheeler is not of lawful age, therefore
the Et. Wor. Mr. Dr. Wilkinson, chancelor and dean of Sarum
and official of E-everend father in God, Henry, Lord Bishop
of Sarum, at special request of said Sara, appoints said Wil-
liam Moulton, her guardian, etc.
Consistory of Sarum. file 1612.
DOMINICK WHEELER. Will proved 16 February 1615/16.
In the name of god Amen, the 12th daye of December 1615
That I Domny Wheller of the Cittye of newe Sarvm in the
County of Wiltes Sherma' beinge by the p'vidence of god
stricken Sicke of body but of perfect & good memory thanks
be vnto god, I do by this my laste will & Testament I will &
give vnto my wife Mercy Wheller all & Singular my goodes
& Cattell both Beall & p'sonall mouabill & vnmouabel during
her naturall life & after her life ther Endinge that then both
thes thinges afor Specifield to Come vnto John Wheller the
Eldeste Sonne of the forsaid Domny Wheller. I will also &
give vnto my sone John Wheller a littell Clock & a plater
moreover I will & give vnto Annes Wheller the wife of John
Wheller fiue shiligs or anythinge to the valve thereof I will &
giue vnto Edward Wheller my son John Wheller's Eldeste
sone on silver Spone & to his brother John Wheller 1 pottin-
ger. in witnis herof I have sett my hand the Date abue writ-
en W D SiW Domny Wheller, Si'nu' John A M Malyerd,
Si'nu' Will W C Courstis
Sub Deanery of Sarum, file for 1615, No. 5.
[This is the will of the father of John Wheeler of Newbury,
Salisbury, and Hampton. L. W.]
(To be continued.}
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. XLIV. OCTOBER, 1908 No. 4
THE EARLY CHURCH PLATE OF NEWBURY-
PORT, NEWBURY, WEST NEWBURY AND
ROWLEY.
BY JOHN H. BUCK.
Like the early church plate of Salem, most of the ves-
sels in the churches of Newburyport and vicinity are of
New England manufacture. Those of London make are
found in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, a branch of the es-
tablished church of England.
The plate marked I. E. crowned, fleur-de-lis below,
heart-shaped shield, was probably made by John Edwards
(1687-1743), while the six cups of the First Church, New-
bury, by I. N. can be attributed to John Noyes (1674-
1749), both being referred to in the "Records of the
Church in Brattle Square." The mark I. C. on the
St. Paul's Church baptismal basin, may be that of John
Cony but he is best known by the mark with the
" cony " or rabbit below the initials. The tankard pre-
sented to the First Presbyterian Church by Mr. Tufts,
marked S. E. crowned, fleur-de-lis below, heart-shaped
shield, was made by Stephen Emery, possibly, and the same
applies to the mark of Edward Winslow (1669-1753),
E. W. fleur-de-lis below, heart-shaped shield, all of Boston.
Thomas Lynde whose mark T. Lynde appears on the
First church plate at Newburyport, was a goldsmith who
owned land in Boston, where he probably practiced his craft.
In 1790 he was of Worcester where he gave a deed of land.
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294 EARLY CHUKCH PLATE
Jesse Churchill and Newell Harding, silversmiths, of
Boston, early in the last century, are also among the
makers.
Of local craftsmen there are William Moulton of New-
buryport (see Currier's History of Newburyport), and
Caleb Warner of Salem, both of the first half of the last
century.
FIRST RELIGIOUS SOCIETY (UNITARIAN),
NEWBURYPORT.
This church was organized in 1726, as the Third Church
of Newbury.
TANKABD, height, 8 inches. One mark I. E crowned,
fleur-de-lis below, heart-shaped shield. Engraved with the
Titcomb coat of arms, and this inscription :
The Gift of Benaiah $> William
Titcomb to the third church in
Newlerry
1731.
Benaiah (b. 1653) and William (b. 1659) Titcomb were
sons of William and Joanna Titcomb of Newbury. Wil-
liam was the father of Col. Moses Titcomb of Colonial
and Revolutionary fame. Benaiah and William were mas-
ters and owners of vessels.
TANKAKD, height, 8 inches. One mark, I. E crowned,
T
fleur-de-lis below, heart-shaped shield. j> -** engraved on
handle. Inscription :
The Grift of M r Benaiah Titcomb
To The Third Church
in Newbury
1742. *
BY JOHN H. BUCK. 295
TANKARD, height, 8 inches. Two marks : 1, J. Burt ;
2, I. E (as above), M. R engraved on handle. Inscrip-
tion :
Q-ift of Mary Richardson to the
Third Church of Christ in Newbury June 1753.
This tankard probably was repaired by John Burt (1690-
1745) of Boston.
TANKARD, height, 9 inches. No marks. Inscription :
The Legacy of M Miz
Bartlett to the third Church
in Newbury
TANKARD, height, 7 7-8 inches. One mark, T. LYNDE.
Inscription :
The Q-ift of Nathaniel Carter, Usq r
to the
First Church in Newbury Port
1768.
TANKARD, height, 7 7-8 inches. One mark, T. LYNDE.
Inscription :
The Legacy of M r William Titcomb
to the third Church in Newbury.
Two PLATES, diameter, 12 7-8 inches. One mark: J.
CHURCHILL (Boston). Inscription:
The
Property
of the
First Church
in
Newburyport
Oct. 30 th
1805.
296 EARLY CHURCH PLATE
Two FLAGONS, height, 15 inches. One mark, J.
CHURCHILL (Boston). Inscription on both :
The
Gift of
Oapt n Peter LeBreton
to the
First Church
in
Newluryport
March
1805.
TABLESPOON, length, 9 inches. One mark, E. D prob-
ably E. Davis (Currier's History of Newburyport, p. 169).
Inscription:
the Q-ift of Josiah Titconib to the 1 church N P
A similar spoon marked E B or E R is at Salem with
the First church silver.
BAPTISMAL BASIN, on stand, diameter, 13 inches. No
marks. Inscription, around the upper edge:
This Basin was purchased by subscription and given to the
first Church in Newlury Port 10 Nov r
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, NEWBURYPORT.
St. Paul's was erected in 1738. Previous to this, how-
ever, Queen Anne's Chapel was built (1711) on what is
called the Plains, in Newbury. After the church was
built occasional services only were held in the chapel, and
it was finally abandoned in 1766. The communion ser-
vice, Bible and other movable property belonging to the
Chapel was disposed of by a few individuals, acting upon
their own responsibility.*
*Hist. Colls, of the Colonial Church, Vol. Ill, p. 131.
BY JOHN H. BUCK. 297
FLAGON, height, 12 1-2 in. Four marks : 1. Lion pas-
sant; 2. Leopard's head crowned; 3. small black-letter t,
London, 1694 ; 4. maker's mark, F G, pellet below, shaped
shield (Francis Garthorne). Engraved with the Royal
arms between the initials VV\ . Jtv and the inscription :
The gift of
K William and Q Mary
to ye Rev d Samll Myles
Jor the use of their Maj ties Chappell
in N. England : 1694
This was the King's Chapel in Boston. Governor
Hutchinson had received from King George III, in 1772,
a service of plate and pulpit furniture, which he present-
ed to the Chapel, taking in exchange the old communion
service, part of which he gave, through the Rev. Dr.
Caner, to the Cambridge Church, and the same to the
church at Newburyport.
The Flagon is the same in design and size and has the
same marks, arms and inscriptions as the one at Christ
Church, Cambridge. The chalice and paten are wanting.
CHALICE. Hall-mark cut out and a piece of plain silver
soldered in.
Inscription :
Ex dono Johannis Milles 1693
From the " Annals of King's Chapel " we learn that,
" In the yeare 1693 ... M r John Mills, a Barbadoes
gentleman, gave a plate & cup." These were probably
sent to Newburyport at the time of Gov. Hutchinson's
gift, or might have been the chalice and paten given. The
" plate " is missing.
" Mr. Sergeant writes, Oct. 7, 1772 : 'Gov. Hutchinson
has made to us a present of a silver flagon and cup with
cover, and given the same to Newberry Church. Bass, I
imagine, will be not a little proud of it.' '
298 EARLY CHURCH PLATE
BAPTISMAL BASIN, diameter, 15 in. One mark, I C,
heart-shaped shield. Engraved on rim, B
R S.
STANDING DISH used as a paten. Four marks : 1
Lion passant ; 2. Leopard's head crowned ; 3. Black-letter
capital 1R,, London, 1674 ; 4. maker's mark, T-P, pellet
between, plain shield.
Inscription :
The gift of
Dudley A Tyng Esqr
to & Pauls Church
October 1800.
Dudley A. Tyng was Collector of the Port, 1795-1803.
This dish has a richly chased border with flowers and
foliage surrounding a running stag, a unicorn, and a dog
at bay. This paten originally was intended for secular
purposes. Unfortunately all these vessels were stolen
Apr. 2, 1887, by burglars.*
OLD SOUTH CHURCH (PRESBYTERIAN),
NEWBURYPORT.
The First Presbyterian Church was organized in 1746.
The only recorded inventory of the South Church plate
is by Mr. Joseph Moody, when treasurer. " Purchased in
July, 1818, 2 flagons, 2 tankards, 8 cups and 2 plates.
Purchased, in June, 1832, 1 flagon, 2 plates and 4 cups."
The cost of plate purchased was $556, and the estimated
value of the entire service, both by purchase and gift, is
$800.
FLAGON, height, 15 inches. One mark, N. HARDING
(Boston), Inscription :
The
First Presbyterian Church
Newluryport
*See Currier's History of Newburyport, pp. 406-7.
BY JOHN H. BUCK. 299
Two FLAGONS, height, 13 inches. No marks. In-
scription :
The first
Presbyterian Church
Newburyport
1818
ONE TANKARD, height, 9 inches. No marks. Engraved
T
on handle, j # ^ No inscription.
ONE TANKARD, height, 9 inches. One mark, S. E.
crown, fleur-de-lis below, heart-shaped shield. S. M. en-
graved on bottom of tankard, and this inscription on the
front :
Presented
by
M r Samuel Tufts
to the
First Presbyterian Qhurch
in
Newbury Port
And there remain forevr
1799
EIGHT CUPS, height, 6 1-2 inches. No marks. In-
scription :
The first
Presbyterian Church
Newburyport,
1818
FOUR CUPS, height : 6 1-2 inches, to match. No marks.
Inscription :
The first
Presbyterian Church
Newburyport
300 EARLY CHURCH PLATE
FOUR PLATES, diameter, 12 inches. No marks or in-
scriptions.
NORTH CHURCH, NEWBURYPORT.
This church was organized in 1768.
Two TANKARDS, height, 13 inches. No marks. In-
scription :
North Church
Newburyport
1833
SIXTEEN CUPS, height, 6 inches. No marks. Same
inscription as above.
FOUR PLATES, diameter, 12 inches. No marks. Same
inscription as above.
BAPTISMAL BASIN, diameter, 13 inches. No marks.
Same inscription as above.
This communion service was purchased in 1833, at a
cost of 1800.
PROSPECT STREET CHURCH, NEWBURYPORT.
This church, the Fourth of Newburyport, was incorpo-
rated in 1794.
ONE FLAGON, height, 12 1-2 inches. Mark, Pure Coin
in two places. Inscription : HTOQ
Presented by
M rs Margaret Atwood
to the Fourth Church
in Newburyport
1832
BY JOHN H. BUCK. 301
ONE FLAGON, height, 12 1-2 inches. No marks. In-
scription :
Fourth Church in
Newburyport
EIGHT MUGS, height, 5 1-2 inches. One mark, W.
MOULTON. Inscription :
The Fourth Church
in Newburyport.
Two PLATES, diameter, 12 inches. No marks or in-
scription.
BAPTISMAL BASIN, diameter, 8 inches, height, 1 inches.
No marks or inscription.
FIRST CHURCH OF NEWBURY (OLD TOWN).
This was the first church organization in old Newbury,
and was established in 1635.
Two FLAGONS, height, 12 inches. No marks or in-
scriptions.
Two CUPS, height, 4 3-4 inches. No marks. Inscrip-
tion, on one :
Ex dono Enoch Coffin.*
Six CUPS, height, 3 3-4 inches. One mark, I. N.
No inscription.
Two PLATES, diameter, 12 inches. No marks or in-
scriptions.
*Probably Rev. Enoch Coffin, son of Nathaniel Coffin of Newbury (1695-1728).
302 EARLY CHURCH PLATE
BYFIELD PARISH CHURCH, NEWBURY.
The Byfield Church was organized in 1702.
Two CHALICES, height, 7 1-2 inches. Mark, I. E.,
crowned, fleur-de-lis below, heart-shaped shield. Beneath
the Dummer crest is this inscription :
Dedicated
By W m Dummer Esq r
to the, Church of
Newbury Falls
for the
Communion Table
1729.
Lt. Gov. William Dummer (1677-1761), was founder
of Dummer Academy, Byfield ; deputy-governor, and for
some time acting governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Two CHALICES of the above pattern, together with
other church plate donated by Gov. Dummer, were de-
stroyed in the fire of 1833.
SECOND CHURCH, WEST NEWBURY.
This Society was set off from the Second Parish of
Newbury, as the Fourth Church of Newbury, in 1731.
FLAGON, height, 14 1-2 inches. No mark. Inscription :
Presented
to the Second Church
of Christ in West Newbury
by M rs Sarah Hills
A.D.
BY JOHN H. BUCK. 303
FLAGON, height, 14 1-2 inches. No mark. Inscription :
Presented
to the Second Church
of Christ in West Newbury
by individuals
A.D.
FOUR CHALICES, height, 7 1-2 inches. No mark. In-
scription on each :
Presented
to the Second Church
of Christ in West Newbury
by Joseph Newell
A. D. 1822.
THREE CHALICES, height, 7 1-2 inches. No mark. In-
scription on each :
Presented
to the Second Church
of Christ in West Newbury
by individuals
A.D.
CHALICE, height, 7 1-2 inches. No mark. Inscription :
Presented
to the Second Church
of Christ in West Newbury
by M rs Sarah Thurlo
A.D.
Two PLATES, diameter, 10 inches. One mark, REED
AND BARTON (Taunton, Mass.) No inscription.
FIRST CHURCH IN ROWLEY.
The First Church in Rowley was probably organized
Dec. 3, 1639, when Rev. Ezekiel Rogers was installed
pastor.
304 EARLY CHURCH PLATE.
CUP, height, 4 1-4 inches. One mark, WARNER.
Engraved, on base,
E. E.
CUP, height, 4 3-4 inches. One mark, E. W fleur-de-
lis below, heart-shaped shield. Inscription, on base :
The gift of Ez : Rogers to
y e Chh of Rowley
1715
These two cups are supposed to have been the gift of
the first minister, Rev. Ezekiel Rogers. It is thought that
the inscription, with the date, 1715, was placed on them
at a later period, perhaps at a time when they were re-
paired or restored.
CUP, height, 5 3-4 inches. One mark, I. E crowned,
fleur-de-lis below, heart-shaped shield, Inscription, on
The gift of
Thomas Hale Esq r
CUP, height, 4 1-4 inches. One mark, E. W crowned,
fleur-de-lis below, heart-shaped shield. Inscription, on
base :
The gift of S: Phillips
To y e Chh. of Rowley
1714
Two CUPS, height, 4 1-4 inches. One mark,
WARNER-* Inscription, on base :
The gift of Nathan Barker
To the 1 s Church in Rowley
1739
*Caleb Warner (1784-1861) was a silversmith at Salem. He either made these
cups out of old silver with the inscription, or repaired old cups and stamped his
TRANSCRIPTS OF THE LOST REGISTERS OF
ROWLEY, CO. YORK, ENGLAND.
CONTRIBUTED BY J. HENRY LEA, ESQ. OF ELMLEA,
SOUTH FREEPORT, MAINE.
It is a well known fact that a considerable number of
the little band led into the wilderness by the Rev. Ezekiel
Rogers, who founded Rowley in the Colony of Massachu-
setts Bay, came from the parent town in Yorkshire where
he had preached for twenty-one years previous to his ejec-
tion for conscience sake from the living, and this gives to
the vital records of that parish a peculiar interest to all
connected with the families of Rowley in Massachusetts.
Most unfortunately, however, the earliest register book
of the English town has perished and no records are to be
found there previous to 1653, a date too late to be of much
value to the American genealogist.
Happily the Bishop's transcripts, or yearly returns
made to the Bishop of the Diocese by the incumbent, have
been partial^ preserved in the Diocesan Registry at York
and contain copies, certified by the Churchwardens or the
Rector, of the years 1622, 1623, 1624, 1630, 1631 and
1632- Scanty enough, but of inestimable value as saving
at least half a dozen early years of these records, which
serve to show, by their frequent entries of names familiar
to our cis-Atlantic Rowley and its neighborhood, the irre-
parable loss we have sustained in the destruction of the old
register book.
Being engaged at York in a search for the ancestry of
one of the Rowley families, it seemed best to secure com-
plete copies of these few transcripts and place them where
they would be readily accessible to the American student,
a task which the courtesy of Mr. Hudson, the Registrar,
enabled me to accomplish.
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306 TRANSCRIPTS OF THE LOST REGISTERS OF
To them I have ventured to add a few notes which
may enhance their value to those unfamiliar with the Eng-
lish topography or the names of the emigrant families.
No doubt local studerts can considerably amplify these
last.
TRANSCRIPTS OF PARISH REGISTERS OF
ROWLEY, CO. YORK, BEFORE 1653.
1622. BAPTISMS.
Sarah, daughter of Robert Northend 1 of Weeton 2 , 7 April,
1622.
John, son of John Clarke 3 of Weeton, 14 April
Alice, daughter of William Kidd of Weeton, 28 April.
Grace, daughter of Roger Brearam of Weeton, 12 May.
Anne, daughter of Robert Slegges of Bentley 4 , 12 May.
Hist. Colls. Essex Inst., vols. xii, xvii and xxii, also Water's
Gleanings in N. E. Register (Reprint, vol. i, pp. 427-8.) This
most interesting family were seated at Weighton Parva
(Weeton) and Hunsley in Rowley parish before 1604-5, in
which years were proved the wills of John Northend Sr. and
Jr. (probably father and son), in the Exchequer Court at
York. They were probably cadets of a numerous family of
the name seated at Northowram in the parish of Halifax,
whose wills appear in the Calendars from the beginning of
the 16th century.
Two of these Rowley Northends were of Rowley in Mass. r
Ezekiel, son of John Northend, who came before 1648 and
was ancestor of most if not all of the name in America, and
his cousin Jeremiah, son of Robert (whose baptism follows
in 1624), who came here as a servant and probably also a
kinsman of Mr. William Bellingham, in 1638, when he was
only 12 years of age. He returned to England in 1647 and
died there, Lord of the Manor of Weighton Parva, in 1702,
aged 78.
2. Weeton, i. e. Little Weighton or Weighton Parva, a hamlet in
the parish and 2 miles north of Rowley.
3. Richard Clarke was an early settler in Rowley, Mass., married
there in 1643 and died in 1673, leaving a son John and daugh-
ter Esther. He may have been an earlier son of this John.
4. Bentley, a hamlet in the parish of Rowley, about 4 miles N. E.
of the village and 2 miles S. W. of Beverley.
ROWLEY, CO. YORK, ENGLAND. 307
Agnes, daughter of Cislie Thriske alias Purdon, 23 June,,
one John Purdon being nominated father.
Anne, daughter of John Hoggard of Weeton, 10 Novem-
ber.
Marie, daughter of Thomas Jackson of Bentley, 8 Decem-
ber.
Richard, son of Thomas Wilson of Ripplingham 6 , 15 Jan-
uary, 1622.
Francis, son of John Dauson of Bentley, 2 February.
Elizabeth, daughter of Gilbert Morton of Ripplingham, 9
February.
MARRIAGES.
John Hall of Elloughton 7 and Susan Ladley of Rippling-
ham, 28 October.
Edward Coates 8 and Jane Chicken, both of Ripplingham,
5 November.
BURIALS.
Leonard Dunkan of Weeton, 27 March, 1622.
Ales Northend of Weeton, widowe, 9 August, 1622.
Doritie Thruston of Bentley, spinster, 12 August.
Anne, daughter of Robert Slegges of Bentley, 9 October.
Christopher Thriske of Weeton, 16 November.
Margaret Lowton, widowe, of Weeton, 27 December.
Anne, daughter of Nathaniel Hooton of Bentley, 7 March,
1622.
(JSigned)
John Northend ) ~,
William Jackson' | Churchwardens.
6. Riplingham, a hamlet in Rowley parish, about 2 miles west of
the village.
7. Elloughton is a parish 4 miles S. W. of Rowley.
8. A Robert Coates, Sr., married Jane, daughter of George Sum-
ner of Rowley, Mass., about 1651. Jane, the wife of this
Edward, had died in childbed the preceding August, see
baptisms and burials above. A Thomas Coats was of Lynn r
1646.
9. William Jackson was at Rowley, Mass., in 1643, where he died in
May, 1688, "aged and decrepit." Cf. note 10.
308 TRANSCRIPTS OF THE LOST REGISTERS OF
1623. BAPTISMS.
Roger, son of Michael Midleton of Weeton, 13 April, 1623.
Margaret, daughter of John Lightbone of Bentley, 25 May.
Edward, son of Nathaniel Hutton of Bentley, 1 June.
William, son of Mr. Henry Glenton of Bentley, 22 June.
John, son of Nicholas Jackson 10 of Hunsley, 11 24 August.
In this year 1623 not any marriages.
BURIALS.
Julian, daughter of Thomas Thriske yong r of Weeton, 24
April.
Roger, son of Michael Midleton of Weeton, 2 May.
Richard Dawson of Bentley, 2 May.
Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Freed of Bentley, 24 May.
A womans childe of Edward Cotes of Riplingham, unbap-
tized, 9 June.
Christopher Jackson of Weeton, 10 June.
Rather [sic] wife of Robert Sledges of Bentley, 28 June.
William, son of Mr. Henrie Glenton of Bentley, 3 July.
A womans child of Thomas Thriske theldest of Weeton,
unbaptized, 1 August.
Margaret, daughter of John Lightbone of Bentley, 2 August.
William Kidd of Weeton, 3 August.
William Thriske of Weeton, 19 August.
George Peetosse of Risby park, 22 August.
Annie Ladie Ellerker, wife of Sir Ralph Ellerker 12 of Ris-
bie, 13 Knt., 3 September.
10. Nicholas Jackson was of Rowley, Mass., 1645 and married there
1646 to Sarah Riley. He died 13 Feb. 1697-8. He may have
been a son of the above Nicholas. Cf. note 5.
11. Hunsley, a hamlet 3 miles N. W. of Rowley. Hunsley Beacon
530 feet high, is a notable landmark in the vicinity. There
is a Hunsley hill at Rowley, Mass.
12. See pedigree of Ellerker in Visitations of York in Harl. Soc.,
vol. xvi, p. 109; Foster's Visits, pp. 110, 136 and 515, Surtees
Soc., xxxvi, p. 295 and xli, p. 71. The lady was daughter
of Thomas Dalton of Sutton in Holderness by his wife Ann,
daughter of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of Kettleby. See Hunter's
Fam. Min. Gent, in Harl. Soc., vol. xxxix, p. 912.
13. Risby, a hamlet 3 1-2 miles north of Rowley. Risby Park was
the seat of the Ellikers, ut supra.
ROWLEY, CO. YORK, ENGLAND. 809
Isabell Sutton of Weeton, widowe, 9 September.
Marie, daughter of Thomas Jackson of Bentley, 15 Sep-
tember.
Richard Blansherd of Risby, 23 September.
Edward, son of Nathaniel Hutton of Bentley, 5 October.
Elizabeth Hall of Bentley, widowe, 27 December.
Frances Barton of Riplingham, spinster, 27 December.
Charles, son of John Heatsworth of Newcastle, 29 Janua-
ry, 1623.
ctL^Bell } Churchwardens.
1625.* BAPTISMS ANNO DNL, 1624.
Joan, daughter of Mr. John Northend 14 of Ripplingham,
6 June, 1624.
Robert, son of John Clarke of Weeton, 12 July.
William, son of Edward Cotes of Ripplingham, 8 August.
Robert, son of Thomas More of Risby, 5 September.
Thomas, son of Thomas Thriske yong r of Weeton, 5
September.
Anne, daughter of John Thriske of Weeton, 12 September.
Robert, son of Thomas Thriske thelder of Weeton, 26
September.
Jeremiah, son of Robert Northend 15 of Weeton, 26 Sep-
tember.
Robert, son of John Lightbone of Bentley, 3 October.
Mary, daughter of Leonard Crosse 16 of Bentley,20 February.
Elizabeth, daughter of Obediah Lickberry of Bentley, 13
March, 1624.
14. This Joan was the sister of Ezekiel Northend, the Emigrant.
She married William Stoute of Bentley, and was still living
in 1678, when her brother Anthony wrote to Ezekiel in
America. See letter in Essex Inst. Hist. Colls., Jan., 1874,
vol. xii.
15. The Emigrant, see Note 1. He died in 1702, aged 78, which
agrees exactly with this entry.
16. Margaret Crosse, a widow, was of Boston, 1638, and of Row-
ley, Mass., 1647. She was named in the will of Mr. William
Bellingham (with whom Jeremiah Northend came to New
England), in 1650.
*Sic in heading of transcript, but all entries are of 1624. O. S.
310 TRANSCRIPTS OP THE LOST REGISTERS OF
MARRIAGES.
William Thriske of Risby and Isabell Wilson of Weeton,
13 July, 1624.
Richard Leavit of Lunds and Gillian Bell of Bentley, 29
November.
Georg Carliell and Margaret Kidd, widow, both of Wee-
ton, 30 Nov.
Edward Cotes 8 of Ripplingham and Anne Clerke of
Bentley, 27 Feb., 1624.
BURIALS.
Robert, son of John Clarke of Weeton, 16 July, 1624.
John, son of Nicholas Jackson of Hunsley, 23 July.
Jane, wife of Edward Cotes of Ripplingham, 24 August.
A stranger that died in Hunsley, that named himself An-
thony Anderson of Burro wbrigges, 17 4 October, 1624.
Ezekiel Rogers, 18 Parson there.
Thomas Lutton, ) ^, , ,
Cornelius Avis,} Churchwardens.
17. Burrow with Burrow, on the river Lune in North Lancashire,
may be the place intended.
18. Ezekiel Rogers, the founder of Rowley, Mass., was born in
1590, at Wethersfield, Essex, the son of Rev. Richard Rog-
ers, parson of that place. He matriculated at Bennett's
College, Cambridge, B. A. there 1604, M. A. at Christ's
College, 1608. Was Rector of Rowley from February 21,
1621, to about 1636, when he was ejected. Came with a
colony to New England, 1637-8, and was installed pastor of
Rowley, Mass., 10 May, 1639. He married, 1st, Joane Har-
topp, daughter-in-law of Thomas Dampier als. Damport,
of Stratford le Bow, London, gent, (named in his will dat.
26 Mar., 1617, pro. 15 Feb., 1627, P. C. C., Barrington 18),
and with her sold lands in Bermondsey, Co. Surrey, for
100, in the spring of 1636 (Feet Fines, Trin- Car. I.), prob-
ably in preparation for their emigration. She died here 8
May, 1649, and he married, 2nd, very shortly after, to
Sarah (?), daughter of Mr. John Wilson, who died in child-
bed in February (12th mo.), 1650. He married, 3rd, 16 July,
1651, to Mary Lambert, widow of Thomas Barker and sister
of Francis Lambert. of Rowley. He died 23 January, 1660-1,
leaving no surviving children. His long and interesting
ROWLEY, CO. YORK, ENGLAND. 31.1
2 April, 1631.
BAPTISMS.
Anne, daughter of John Dauson of Risby, 11 April, 1630.
John, son of John Thruston of Bentley, 25 April.
Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Middleton, a stranger, 31
October.
Two twins, that is, Mary and Jane, daughters of William
Marr of Risby, 9 December.
Francis, son of Mr. Robert Askeof Bentley, 11 December.
Samuel, son of John Sparke of Hunsley, 23 January, 1630.
Mary, daughter of Francis Acham of Weeton, 6 March.
MARRIAGES None this year.
BURIALS.
Urseley, daughter of John Bell of Bentley, 7 July, 1630.
John, son of John Sawre 19 of (Nottingham, 20 died at Huns-
ley, 15 September.
Elizabeth Pearson, servant to Mr. Robert Northend of
Weeton, 9 October.
Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Middleton, a stranger, 10
November.
Ellen Smithe of Hunsley, widow, 2 February, 1630.
Anne Sutton of Weeton, spinster, 24 February.
Mr. Robert Northend, ) Churchwardens
William Marr, ) there.
1631. (Contains a duplicate of the entries for 1630 on
the preceding transcript, dated 2 April, 1631,
and also)
Timothy Sutton, a stranger, buried April, . . . 1631
will has been printed in the N. E. Reg., vol. v,pp. 125-8. See
also pedigree of the family in Water's Gleanings, Reg. xli.,
p. 158. The will of his father, Rev. Richard Rogers of
Wethersfield (Cons. Lond., Harmer 314), has also been print-
ed in the Register, vol. xvii., p. 326. Ezekiel's widow Mary
survived him, and died 12 February, 1678-9, her will, dated
22 July, 1678, pro. 1 April, 1679.
19. Edward Sawyer, with wife Mary, was of Rowley, Mass., in 1645.
He had sons John and Ezekiel.
20. Cottingham lies 5 miles E. N. E. of Rowley.
312 ROWLEY, CO. YORK, ENGLAND, REGISTERS.
BAPTISMS 1631.
Robert, son of John Clarke, baptized 2 October.
Hanna, daughter of Natha : Sumpner, 21 1 January.
William, son of Thomas Thruske, 15 January.
Ralfe, son of James Ashton, 29 January.
Christopher, son of Robert S tatter, 5 February.
BURIALS.
Gilbert Morton, parish clerke, buried May 20.
Elizabeth Lightbowne, May 28.
Thomas Thruske, June 11.
Mathew, son of Obadia Lickborow, January 18.
Margaret Sutton, February 26.
1632. BAPTISMS.
Anne, daughter of Nichol : White, 33 baptized April 22.
Lancelot, son of George Gray, May 13.
Daniell, son of Robert Northend, May 13.
Rachell, daughter of Franc : Acham, August 5.
Abraham, son of Jo. ... ... son, September 22.
Katherine, daughter of William Marre, January 27.
Rebecca, daughter of John Preston, 23 February 24.
BURIALS.
Anne Watson of Weeton, buried August 9.
Jane Gedney of Bentley, August 27.
John Hunsman of Weeton, August 31.
Rachell, daughter to Franc : Acam, August 22.
Rebecca, daughter of John Preston, March 12.
Lauerich [*/<?]
(signed) Ez Rogers.
21. Of. Thomas Sumner of Rowley, Mass., 1643, and a George
Sumner of same, who died about 1651, and whose daughter
Jane married Robert Ooates, senior, of Lynn.
22. A Nicholas White was of Weymouth, Mass., in 1643. He came
before 1639, in employ of Trelawney in fishing voyage. One
of this name was prominent in founding the iron works at
Taunton in 1653.
23. A John Preston and wife were of Reading in 1648.
REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS
WRITTEN TO COLONEL TIMOTHY PICKERING.
BY GEORGE WILLIAMS OF SALEM.
(Continued from Vol. XLIII, page 208.)
Salem, July 3, 1779.
D r Sir.
Received yours p r Millet, which I Thank you for. Our
Marchants has adopted much the same as the Marchants
has with you. It has Affected the prices of all most
every emported artical as you will see by the prise current.
Priverteering would have Turned out well, but all that
I have bin consarned in is retaken except one from Har-
reden that is in at Casco bay with salt. The ship black
prince on her return from her Last Cruse Tuck Seven
Saile, six of them ordered hear, not one Arrived. The
other, a small Vessel with Salmon, is arrived in France.
We have the Black prince & a New Ship Hector ready
for Sea in a day or Two, which has cost us about .50,000
for provissions &c for this Cruse. Embargo is Taking
place. The reason is the enemy is got into the river of
Penobscot. The report is about 800 Troops one Frigate
& Seven other Armed Vessells and orders is Sent down
to the Countys of Lincolon, Cumberland & York to Turn
out 1500 men, and hear is the Warren Frigate, and the
State & Privarteers, to the number of 13 to 15 Saile of
Armed Vessells. When our Littel Fleet & Troops Ar-
rives I make no doubt but we shall be able to Take them
all we have to fear the enemy will send a reingf orcement
of havey Ships. In that case thay will block us all in and
may Take the whole of us if thay Should it will distroy al-
most [all] of our navel Force of Privarteers which we
have bene a Collecting for this year past to a very great
expence. If faile will ruing many of the concern.
A number of provission prises is Arrived hear, and in
(313)
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the nabouring Towns. Nothing is wanting now but the
Farmers Louring there provissions & wood, but I must say
thay are allmost as cruel as the enemy, but still hope we
shall have the coast clear So we may emport from the
other States, for we have no dependance on them, as we
know now thay are sending grain down to Market in
abundance, as we know on the Sea coast that there never
was so great a prospect of a plentyfull year of all the
Cuntry produce on the earth as now. This State has
Layed on a Tax of X 2,800,500, to pay the Continen-
tal Tax & State Tax for the current charges. We make no
Money, and by Taxing & other charges I am now reduced
all most to the Last paper doll r . So much for serving
the publick. When I consider you and your Famely, you
are Serving the publick for nothing, it Troubles me &
others much. Tho you say Congress will consider you, if
thay reward there Servants no better then our State, you
will come of Badly, which I hope will not be the case.
Where is the grand secrit we offin hear'd of. We sup-
pose thear is nothing. Hope we shall not be amused with
another. No faith for grand secrit if any should be re-
ported. As for April & May, dead money has been a
great Damage to manny. We had better paid a Tax of
5,000,000 than had the Two emission Struck dead.
Nothing but a Timely Tax and the enemy gone will help
our money, while the Spirit of the Farmers hold there
produce so high. Thay dont consider the suffring sea
ports. I beleve in General thay have no feeling for us,
but want all our money, goods, houses, & then our
selves to be there Servants, as it was in Josephs Time,
but hope thay will be disappointed.
Let me know if any thing Turns up of a peace or any
other alterration in our publick Affairs. Now going on a
Committee to get the ships to Sea for this expedission.
P. S. prise current now moll 8 sold at 72 s p r Gall n
Sugar, at 60. N. E. rum, at 80/. W. I. rum, at 100/.
Coffe, at 16/. Tea, at 6 per Ib. English goods very
scarse. Flour, at 35 to 45 . Indian meal, 9 p r bus h
Rice, meal, 90. Wood, at 15 to 20 p r Cord. Beef, at
7/. Lamb 7/. Veal 5/. All em ported goods very dull.
Pickering MSS. Vol. 17, p. 273.
WRITTEN TO COLONEL TIMOTHY PICKERING. 315
Salem, Aug* 15, 1779
D'Sir
Received yours Last night with the Inclosed to Capt.
Dodge, which I have delivered. I have bene waiting to have
some good account to send you of penobscot. The great
delay in Fixing out Ships at Boston gave the enemy Time
to make one Fort very strong. We have taken all there
other Batterys except one under there strong Fort which
commands there Ships. Our Seamen went & stormed it &
Took it. After we Took all the stores we could Bring away,
we distroyed it. We had 15 to 20 killed & wounded. We
Took about 30 prisoners. This is the Last Account. About
Ten dayes past our Generel sent for more men [for] Col.
Jackson reg* from providence & thay are agoing down soon.
This expedition might have bene a short one, & I
make no doubt of a successfull one. At Newburyport &
Salem [they] got there Ships ready & sent them to Bos-
ton & part of ours Lay at the mouth of the Harbour of
Marblehead all most a fortnight awaiting for the Boston
Ships to come along, and thay was obliaged at Last to
press men for them, which was very disagreeable work.
If thay had not I beleve thay would have bene there to this
day. This delay has Ingered privet & publick property
much, as we have had a embargo on ever Sence the expe-
dition & we are fearfull the enemy will Send Ships down
and Take all our Fleet or Block them in. If thay should
get a reingf orcement down before ours we must retire into
the woods. So much for the delay of the Ships in Boston.
On the 12 th Instant came home to Salem one of the
prise masters of Sch r Sweets prises from New found land
in Twenty dayes pashage. He was Retaken and carred
into St. Johns in s d New found land, & Two dayes before
he Left S* Johns a Admerel in a 50 Gun Ship Arrived
from England. Left it in June. He ordered advertise-
ments up in severel parts of the Town that war was de-
clared against France & Spain. The Captain of the pri-
verteer that Took him told him that there was New Instruc-
tions for the Armed Ships, to make reprisals of French,
Spanyards, & Americans, & as soon as he was clean'd he
should go after the Spanyards. Hope it is True, as he had
his Liberty to walk about he saw the advertisements &
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read them. And our Townsman Henry Gardner he saw
and was at his house & he Longes to come home again.
A Ship from St. Eustatia gives a good Account of the
success of the Count De Estain which you will see by the
newspapers. Hope soon to hear he is got S* Kitt & all
Byran's Fleet, and he under Sail with his & Byrans for
Boston, so he may be out of the way of the Harricains.
Cap* Harreden Arrived hear a few days past, and Spake
with a Jamaca Ship a prise to the Continental Ships
Providence, Queen of France & Ranger. She had 700 hhd8
Sugar & Taken one more of 500 hbds Rum, & when the
Fog cleared away from them Saw 60 sail more of the
Fleet, and our three Ships Steering for them. Hope soon
to hear they have done somthing more. One of the above
Ships is Arrived Last night at Marblehead. Harreden
has Taken only a Snow & Five Brigs Loaded with Salt.
Cap* Ropes in a New Brig called the Wild cat is Taken,
and is the only priverteer Taken this Spring & Sumer.
Our Marchants sells all there Goods as the Committee
set them. The Farmers but few comes into Market & if
we had not Taken Flouer, Bread, Beef & pork, many
hundreds would not have had Bread & Meat on the sea
coast. We Long to have a free Coast with our Southern
States, so we may not depend on our Farmerss, for thay
will distroy the sea ports, if it should be in there power,
which I hope it will not be. If we can get the priverteers
to sea again, we shall get to windward of them.
We Long to see you. 1 wish I could pay you a visit,
but cant afoard it. Was In hopes before this unhappy
penobscot expedition I should have had some part of the
West Indies Fleet or Others from the Ships Black Prince
& Hector, but boath down to penobscot. If Lost will
distroy all my income for this year. Many of our Freinds
ask me what has become of the grand Secrit. If you
know, by your next please to Let me know. The stopage
of April & May money is dune amasin damage to many.
No body of men that has power to make money has a
right to stop money as the above was. As for subscribers
hear for the New loan, I dont no any. It Takes so much
money to buy Bread & Meat but few has any to spare.
Pickering MSS. Vol. 17, p.
WRITTEN TO COLONEL TIMOTHY PICKERING. 317
Salem, Sep fc 26, 1779.
D r Sir
Received yours by Cap* Dodge which I thank you for.
You ask me to give you a Account of the expidition at
penobscot. I wish I could give you a True Account. As
there is a sea & Land Commander, the Accountes thay
give differs. The Accountes from the Salem, Newbury &
Some other Captains, as I recolect is thay arived at penob-
scot the 25 th , 26 th took a fort on a Island the east side of
the river. 27 th Layed by 28 th Landed and Took all
there out workes but one, & there grand Fort was not
higher built then up to a mans Shoulder, but 2 or 3 Guns
mounted. Then our Gen 1 Ordered workes to be built.
The enemy Built there works as fast as we built ours.
Council of war was called from Time to Time & never
could git a Vote to Storm there workes, or retreet, alltho
thay ware sensible thay could not Take them only by
Storm, & as for the Shiping, it was allwayes in there power
to Take them when thay pleased, but in Council of war,
the Argument was if the Ships went into take the ene-
mys Ships the men would Leave there Ships and make there
Fort Stronger, so thay Layed, & could not git a Vote to
corne away untill the enemy came, then Ordered a retreet
up a river, the enemy after them, Took the Ships Hunter
& Harriden. The whole of the others & Transport we
burnt. All the reasons our Captian with Col McCobb &
Col Rever could give them there was in Council of war,
a Vote to Tarry as above. So ends the expidition to the
great Loss of privet men, and now the Loss can be paid
for the State has no money in the Treasury. A Letter
ordered by our Court to Congres for the Stopage of the
Continental Tax, to pay of the Loss, if that order should
be denighed, before the privet man can git there pay.
Thay that Let there ships go have sunk a third part of
there Value all ready, & by the Time thay git it Two
thirds will be sunk. You may see how the man that
Serves the publick is a sinking. There is a Court of in-
quire at Boston on Gen 1 Lowell, & a Court Marshell on
Capt. Saltonstall. Thease courts will say ware the Fait is.
All most every body Laments the Loss of Intrest, and
more so the Loss of the hour when thay might have Took
318 REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS
the enemy. Allso The great disgrace which Layes on the
Massachusetts.
This State has Layed a Land embargo to disappoint the
Hawkes, & a Committee will be Appointed to conffer
with the Other States to come into some measures to Save
a Sinking world. We still keep to the reputation tho sell
sparingly, as we are poorly supplyed from the Gun try.
We have promises from the Cuntry Gentlemen thay will
due better. I have but small faith for them. Time will
determing it.
This Town have got out a Number of privarteers. A
few days past the Schooner Sweet sent in a Brig from
Ireland with upwards of 1500 Ib. of pork & 200 Firkings
of Butter. Ship Cromwell [a] sloop with rice. If our
privateers had not been hindered by the embargo, it is
supposed we might have Taken 60 Sail of Vessells by this.
The Accounts by the way of Holland that the English
Fleet is Blocked up by the French & Spanard Fleets is
True. Capt. Coffen that came from Holland Lodges at
M r Coburns & Sayes on the coast of France there is 50,000
French Troops ready to embark to Land on the Island
of England, and thay will march for London. I dont care
ware thay march, if it will Bring a good peace. I am
Sorry for the English nation, thay are so blind to there
Intrest. If [there is] any alterration of Times hear will
Let you know. Many of your Freinds will be much
Obliaged to you if you will Let me know if there should
be any Alterration Likly to Take place so we may be able
to Take care of ourselves in this changeable world.
P. S. If I can git you good Fish, and any opportuni-
teis will Send yon.
Pickering MSS., Vol. 17, p. 295.
At Boston, Nov r 18, 1T79.
D r Sir.
Received yours of 3 d Instant, and we was in hopes you
would have put off the Tryal of the Hope untill we could
have had a return of y e Cartel which has been gone down
to Halifax this three weaks past. We expect her every
day, and we shall send it to you if you have not setteled
the affair with the owners of y e Hope, as soon as it comes
WRITTEN TO COLONEL TIMOTHY PICKERING. 319
as we have no dout in our minds that she was condemned.
Capt Harreden after he Left you off Sandy Hook he sail-
ing with a ship of 14 Guns 6 lb. a Brig of 10 Guns 4 &
3 Ib. & a Sloop of 8 Guns 4 lb. all Letters of mark Bound
from York to port 1 after wines, thay all ingaged
him. He Took them all three after [an] engagement of
three Glass.* Thay fought him well. He had eight
men wounded and he kill'd & wounded a Number of
theres. Thay are all arrived safe and he sailed on a Cruise
again nine dayes ago, and if he should Take any prises &
the wind Favorable for your river he is [to] send them to
your care. I could not buy any Fish at Salem, and sent
down to Portsmouth to Cap* Nicholes to buy for me Two
Q 18 of the Best Fish, and he could not get but one, and he
sent it up to me and he found out it was for you, and he
would not Take any pay for it, and I Told him I was
Sorry that he know'd it was for you. I have thank'd him
for it for you. Your Coutlash sould for 109 dont find
fault for it was sold at Vandue. I hope the price is anuff.
You may stop as much money as the amount of it out of
the prises if you please. Have sent for the Quintal of
Fish as Cap* Burk is Bound to your place and sayes he
will carre it for you as he has got a good ship, hope it will
come safe to you. All Freinds well and if you should
hear of a British ship of war call'd the Gaudeloupe as
arived viz at York, she Took Brother Clark, and he is on
Board of her. If any Cartel should go from your place
please to Let the Comisary put his name down as Master,
so if he should be there he may be exchanged.
Pickering M88., Vol. 17, p. 309.
At Boston, Nov r 24 th , 1779.
D r Sir.
Late Last Night received yours of 8 th Instant. Am
much surprised that Millet Lost or Left the Owners of
the Ship pickering's Letter to you which Letter gave you
our mind consarning the Hope, and am very Sorry Millet
Should be so neglectfull of the Letter. We could not get
proof of the Hopes being condemned, at Boston, but all
the Gentelmen that Tarred in Boston sayes thay have no
*Hour glass three hours.
820 REVOLUTION ABY LETTERS
doubt but she was, and we sent of to Halifax for a Copy
of her being condemned by a Cartel that Carred down M r
Weeks Family and we expect her every day, & we also
informed you we would have you put off the Tryal until!
we could git proof as we was in no doubt but we should
be able to get it, and have sent your Letter down to Salem
to the owners to act as they Judge best. You should have
had Letters offen from me if the Intrest had been all mine
own, which I could not have wright to you only by there
consent on the prises. This and the Last is on mine own
head. We have not heared from Harreden since he sailed
on his New Cruise. Hope you will have some more prises
from him as he has orders to send to you if the wind
should serve.
Pickering MSS., Vol. 17, p. 311.
Salem, Dec r 12, 1779.
D r Sir.
Received yours by M r Cotton Strout the 10 th Instant,
and Arrived safe with the horses, waggon & the money,
and the same day arrived Cap* Harreden from a Cruise of
Four weekes. Off york he fell in with the Ship Franklin
of Salem, and thay Took in C a Brig from Tobago with
227 hhds. Rum, mounted 14 Guns 4 lb & 40 men, retook
a Schooner with Mo ljs , Rum, Suger & Coffee belonged to
Boston, a sloop from New Providence, with Fruit, and a
sloop which drove out of Sandy Hook Loaded with white
Oak hh d8 Staves & Tar, and as she was in C with the
Franklin order'd them all for Salem, except the Last sloop
for Road Island, and hard winds & very coald weather
thay drifted to the eastard and standing to the northward
fell in with Nantucket, and a fair wind for Home, thay
concluded to come home, as the embargo was on shiping
at York as the Master of the sloop informed him. I was
in hopes you would have had a prise or Two more from
Harredin as he had oaders if the wind would Serve for
your place to send to your care. You desired me to pro-
pose to the Owners of the ship Pickering for the Negro
man you had not sold. Thay all of them with Cap* Har-
reden agreed you may have him for as many years as you
Judge he ought to Serve you for the thousand pounds
WRITTEN TO COLONEL TIMOTHY PICKERING. 321
and we are much surprised at the conduct of the Mereine
Court with you, that a jury should have a dinner found
them, and also on the Verdict of the Hope, and we are
Glad you appealed to Congres.
The Flag of truce is not arrived from Halifax that we
sent down by for the condemnation of the Hope. We
have also sent down by Cap* Foot which was Taken in a
Vessel of D r [John] Prince. He was a Salem man, and
Lived in that province before thease Times, and he has
got Liberty to go down on parole in a Small Schooner,
and he has promised he would go to Halifax and get the
condemnation of her, and send it up by the First oppor-
tunity. If it comes we shall send it to you, to let the
Former Owners know that Admerel Graves for his one
Intrest got her condemned on the Act of parliment which
was made to Take in all America property detaned before
the act was made. The Letter by Millet I hope you have
received, as his wife Sent it along by Cap 1 Richardson of
Salem that went out with our men to reinforce the Army.
I informed you that a Gentelman by the name of William
Keith now at Pheledelphia Lived at Halifax when the
Troops arrived from Boston, and M r Lambert informed
me he supposed he knowed of her being condemned at
Halifax. Please to inquire for him, if the Tryal aint over.
This year is been very Bad one for all your Friends.
Many of us has but the only one Vessel Left. The State
has not payed for our Ships that was Lost, and no money
in the Treasury as we are rasing a New Army. Every
doller that comes in goes for the Bounty, & Cloathing
for the Soilder, & Congres will not Let any of the 6 mil-
lio[ns] be declair'd to pay of the sufferers, which we Take
it very uncivil, as we have Lo[st] our ships and the em-
pro vement of them. If [it] rains porrage we have no dishes
to receive it, and have not a Capital to Build more untill we
get it. When paid I Judge wont get a ship for the Two.
I am grieved for many of the owners of the ships, as it
was there all in a maner when I reflect Back and think on
the man that has offered him self and Interest to serve
this cause, he is now Allmost ruined by this cause.
Judge Sullivan a few days past inquired If I knew you
was a coming home. I asked him the reason of his inquire.
322 REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS
He Told me one of the Judges of our Superer Court is
wanting by the death of Judge Foster, and he wished
you was hear, and you have been Talk'd off for that im-
portant office, and he wished I would mentioned it to you.
This for your consideration. Brother John sayed to me if
you was hear he beleved you would have the offer of it.
If any thing should Turn up in Faver of a peace, please
to Let me know which all our Friends on the sea coast
Heartly wishes for the day, as we are allmost pinched to
death by the unreasonable Farmer that demands so much
for the produce of his Farm, as he knows we must buy
wood, meat & Bread, if not we shall starve, and many
must set coald & go with Hungry Belles this winter.
P. S. prise Current.
Beef & Mutton 9 to 12 /, Corn 9 p r bush., Flouer
50 to 60 p r Ct, Wood p r Cord 60 to 90 X., Sugar 80 to
100 p r Ct,, Rum <12 p r Gall 8 , Jamaca Fish, 80 to
100 p r Qt 1 , Iron 50 to 60< p r Ct, English goods very
scarse, 100 for I 8 / sterling.
Sence I wright y e above we have accounts of all y e prises
is arrived in diffrent Harbours.
Pickering MSS., Vol. 17, p.
Salem, April 19 th 1780.
D'Sir
Last week we received yours of 1st, 2, 3 & 22d of
march. We rejoice the dispute is ended with the Hope.
The Agents for ship Pickering & Captors is Jonathan
Mason & Samuel Webb decesed a few days past. His
wife with s d Mason will give order for the Ballance of the
s d prises by Millet. . . .
We have no depreciation setteled hear. When you see
my Account and the Debt & Credet, do as you Judge right.
I would have offered my self to go for the prise money
if the Ship Pickering had bin to See. She arrived hear
Last Week from the West Indies with a full Load of
Suger, Cotton, Coffe, Cocoa & Rum, & a much better
Cruise then priverteering, and she will sail in a few days
with the suger for Bilboa with 45 men. John Gardner Jr.
is in France. M r Isaac White sails in a few days for Hol-
land, priverturing sails hear much, the hard winter & the
WBITTEN TO COLONEL TIMOTHY PICKERING. 323
cruilty of the Farmer on Account of the high price of pro-
vision & wood, we are all most on shore on the Sea coast.
If the enemy should get S Carolin as we have Account
of there ships geting over the Bar by a prise of the pil-
grims, we Judge it will be taken. If they should Turn
there cours this way after leaving the place Garrisoned.
I Judge thay may make great part of our eastern Coast
come to there Terms. It is the darkest Time I have seen
this war. It only arrises on Account of the high prises
of Bread, meat & wood.
I wish I could afford Time to come & see you &c.
prise Current.
Beef at 30/ p r lb., Veal at 30/, wood 80 to 100< p r
cord, pork 39/, Corn 50 doll r p r bush., Flour, not to be
bought in this Town, Sugar at 150 to 200X p r Ct., Rum,
W. Indies at 18 to 20 Gal, N. E. do 12 Gal, Moll 3
9 p r Gal, Cotton S p r lb, Coffee 60/ do, Chocolat
90/ do, Tea 20 to 24< do, English, dutch & Spanish
goods at 200 to 250 for one.
N. B. y e above prices will Bill more then Clintons Army.
Sence I wrote the above Last night Jn Gardner J r arrived
from Bilboa 50 days passage and well. The Hon ble M r Jay
arrived at Cadiz 26 Jan y from Martinico, nothing new.
To Timothy Pickering Esq r member of the Board of
War. Philadelphia.
Pickering MSS., Vol. 18, p. 15.
Salem, June 6, 1T80.
D r Sir.
Brother Clark & Millet a few dayes past after a Long
passage arrived Safe with all the money of the proceeds
of the Hope. I have mentioned to the agents for the
ship & Captors, all the owners I have seen are willing, you
should have the Amount of the stores, and you have sent
y amount inclosed which I have received. Also have re-
ceived of Cap* I. Woodbery a Thous d dollers for your
Two orders. The First good Opportunity shall send the
receipt of Dole & Ball to get the Four hundred dollers.
If no good Opportunity will Take my horse & go for it.
Brother John is at court and as soon as he comes home
will Let him see your Letter & what he says I must have
324 REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS.
for the Ball c of my Account, will Let you know. If you
should want y e above Money you may draw for it, as I
have Layed it a side with your name Till Further Orders.
I have Left going to court, and was determ'd to inlarge
my busness again, but the sudden high prises of Shiping
& every other Artical that belongs to ships, shall not at
presant. We have a rumer of a French Fleet & army
coming on the coast of America. Hope it is True. The
march'ts of this Town in the Spring Voyags has been suc-
cessfull. Privateering very unsuccesfull at present. Hope
the Newfound Land cruises will Turn out to Some Account.
Yours of April 12 th you mentiond that you had wrote
by Cap 1 Richie which I did not receive in Answer to mine
for your consideration. As I had no Answer from you
I Told Judge Sullivin I had wrote to you. Have not bin
in his Company Latly. As a new Constitution will Take
place soon, the Council determin'd not to appoint a Judge
Tell it took place, which will be I Judge next October as
the constitution is Generly Aproved of. The convention
meets next week for the returns from each Town in the
State. You ask my Opinion. The Salary of a Judge in
former days was Two hundred pounds, and what it will
be under a new constitution I cant Tell. The Grants now
is but Small. You must remember all Servants of Gov-
ernment there Grants is but Small. If I know'd what
your incom was I could give you my Opinion, which was
for your Interest to be a member of the Board of war or
a Judge. You can Judge by y e above Salary which would
be for your Intrest.
Your Freinds wish it was for your Intrest to be hear.
All are sorry you went with your Family. Then thay
might expect to see you, but dont now untill the unhappy
war is over.
N. B. prise current of goods much same as p r my Last
in y ra of May 13 th you mentioned that Cap* Harraden had
a bbl. of Limes of Cap* Guion. He is at Sea. When he
returned home from that Cruise he mention'd he had a
bbl. of Limes gave to him. I have no orders to pay any
thing for him. Will Let him no of them at his return.
Pickering M88., Vol. 18, p. 27.
(To be continued.)
ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS,
1697-1768.
(Continued from Vol. XL IV, page 162.)
[143] Protest. Salem, July 10, 1719. Mr. Craft
wright master of the sloop Dolphin" made delaration that
on a voyage from North Carolina bound for Barbados on
Feb 13 they * met with a violent Storm which shifted &
blew extremely all round y e Compass which raised a great
Sea & blew So very hard that thier Sloop would not hold vp
her Side but lay along to Such a degree y 1 y e the water
run in at ye Hatches & halfe filled her with water So that
they were forc't to cutt y e Mast away to Saue thier lives
& then they were driuen to & fro by y e wind & Sea &
Currents yet they made some little Sayl & set a Jury
Mast & did thier utmost to gain Some Harbour in Vir-
ginia, New England or Elsewhere on y e American Shore
but were driven so that y e first land they made was y*
coast of Cape Sables & there met with one Edmund Gale
of Beverly in New Eng d in a fishing vessel who tow'd y m
into La haue where they got a Stick for a Mast & sent or
went to New Eng d for recruit where we procured an old
Main Sayl & fixt as well as we could & so Set Sayl for
New England & in our passage off cape Neger being very
foggy & y e wind Southerly y e Sloop not making her way
so good as she was wont we Struck vpon a ledge of Rocks
at a considerable distance from y e land where She Stav'd
& broake to pieces lost all y e remainder of our Cargoe &
books & papers & everything & narrowly escapt with thier
lives perticularly they lost a bond of thirty fiue pounds
belonging to M r John Knot from Isaack Brunsun Deed
formerly of Wethersfield in y e Colony of Connecticut
more lately of North Carolina with many other notes re-
ceipts books of acc os & other papers of concernment &
(325)
326 ESSEX COUNTY NOTABIAL RECORDS.
value to y e great loss & detriment of y e owners of y e said
Sloop."
Sworn to by Samuel Wright, mate of the said ship.
Protest. Salem, Aug. 4, 1719. Capt. John Felmore of
England, commander of the ship or pinke the Port Royal,
of Exeter, made declaration that in March he shipped a
crew in Great Britain for a voyage to New England, then
to the Mediterranean to some port for a fish market and
then back to England, that they arrived in Marblehead
April 19, 1719 " & there he applyed himself e to load his
said ship with dry Merchantable fish but was very much
hindrd & obstructed by y e failure & neglect of Eobert
Clap, Joel Webber, Thomas Westcott & John Leet [men
of his crew] who often refused to doe y e s d Ships worke
& would goe & come very frequently as & when they
pleased would not obey y e s d Commander nor his officers
carry away y e Ships boat as they pleased without any
leaue or lycense threatened y e mate of y e Ship to beat him
& perticularly they deserted y e Ships Service from y e 30 th
Day of June to y e fourth Day of July following when it
was fair fish weather which was rare by reason of its being
an vnvsual wet Sumer more Rainy weather than has been
known since N. England was Setled in y e Summer time &
he had fish ready to Ship off but was disapointed by rea-
son of y e disobedience of y e s d Saylers who refusd to
worke & absconded to y e great detriment & hindrance of
y e voiage inasmuch as y e wet weather struck in Imediatly
after in an Extraordinary manner and further y e saylers
aforenamed obtinatly refused to doe any of y e Ships
worke or proceed on y e voiage unless y e s d Cap 1 John
Fillmore would giue them a bond to pay each of them
Twenty pounds Sterling if y e Ship Should be taken with
y e Spaniards on her Intended Voiage which obligation
they Extorted & forc't from him y e s d John Fellmore
being constrained & Necessitated thereunto their being
no hands to be had so that his ship and loading must
otherwise haue layn vp & all haue come to destrucon &
lastly on y e 28 th Day of July when y e Ship was ready to
sail (as She might have been much Sooner had it not
been for y e failures & miscarriages of y e s d men as af ores d )
ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECOBDS. 327
y e aforenamed John Leet runn Cleer away & Totally de-
serted y e Ships Service & never came aboard since neither
is it known to y e s d Command 1 what is become of him."
Sworne to by Thomas Felmore, one of the sailors and
also by George Parker, mate of the said ship, and Wm.
Neck of Marblehead, Inholder."
[144] Deed of sale from Abigail Pickman to John
Ruck, dated July 30, 1719, conveying to said John Ruck
a schooner called the Benjamin, 41 tons.
Witnesses : Richard Newcombe, Stephen Sewall jr.
Protest. Salem. May 19, 1720, Capt. Isaack Legoce,
commander of the sloop Anne, made declaration that he
sailed from Salem, May 16, 1720, bound for Cancer and
laden with salt, provisions and stores on freight, and about
30 leagues eastward of Cape Anne "it being rough weather
they sprang a leake insomuch that in a short time y e water
encreased y e pumps choaked so y* they were forc't to cut
vp y e platform afore & abaft & betake thier selves to Bayl-
ing & abundance of Salt Wasted & y e pumps still remained
Stopt & y e wind being Northerly & N N E we all thought
it Necessary to return back & have y e leaque Stopt &
things put in order so accordingly we bore vp y e helm &
runn back for Salem to stop y e leakues & Endeavor to
make her Tight fit for y e Sea." '
Sworn to by Peter Henderson, and John Muggford.
[145] " Capt Oburn S r
Please to pay unto M r Thomas Beadle or
order two months wages at four pound five shillings &
month Jamaica Currency for service & formd on board y e
Phila d ". . .
Charles Towne South Carolina Jo. Cropper"
Feb. 8 th 1719/20
"Charles Towne feb r y y e 9 th 1719 : 20 Borrowed from
M r Thomas Beadle y e Sum of fourty Shillings Jamaica
Currency w ch 1 promise to pay to M r W m Leaver or order
on Demand . . .
Wilf d Carter.
328 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS.
" William Hathen the Son of William Hathen by Joanna
his wife was borne on y e five & Twentieth day of June
Anne Dom 1685.
"Hezekiah Hathen y e Son of William Hathen by Joanna
his wife was born on y e fifteenth day of Sep r Anno Dom
1687."
Beverly, June 6, 1720. Vera Copia taken out of the
Beverly town book of register attest Robert Woodbery
Town Clerk.
Affidavits of Joanna Hathen, mother of Hezekiah Hathen
& William Hathen, Darcas Harris, widow, Rebeccah Stand-
ley, wife of John Standley, and Katurah Hathen, sister
to said Hezekiah Hathen and William Hathen that Wil-
liam Hathen went from Beverly to sea about 17 or 18
years before and " never hath been at home since but these
Deponents say have heard he was Impresst on board a man
of warr at Jamaica & never had any account of him Since
they further add that they understand he was Some years
at New Yorke & Sayl'd out from thence & y* y e Deponent
Johannah Hathen had Seuerall Letters from her s d Son
William Hathen in & about y e year 1708 & that there is
onely Surviving brother viz Hezekiah Hathen and no other
brother Living who is now bound to York to take care of
his Brother's Interest."
All signed with a mark.
Salem, June 15 1720
Protest. Aug. 31, 1720. Capt. Robert Peat, com-
mander of the Brigg Essex, made declaration that they
sailed, June 16, 1720, from Londonderry, Ireland, bound
for New England and having on board 100 passengers,
men, women and children, beside the ships crew, and on
July 17th, when they were about 60 leagues eastward of
Newfoundland Banks in lat. 43 40' " there came vp with
them a pyrat ship mannd with about 100 hands Capt.
Roberts, its leader & a sloop with about forty more &
boarded them & took them & plundered & Rifled them of
almost all that was worth taking Even thier very wearing
apparell & put y m in great Terrour of thier Hues by hold-
ing a pistol at thier breasts & Telling them they should
ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 329
haue no quarter & tooke away most of thier Saylers Rifled
thier Cabin Stateroom & Hold & damnifyed thier vessel
considerably."
[146] Indenture made March 18, 1719, between John
Mury, yeoman, and Robert Browne, farmer, that the said
John Mury promised " from y e day of y e date hereof untill
y e first & next arrival at New England & after for & Dure-
ing y e Terme of five years to Serve in Such Service &
Employment & as y e s d Robert Browne or his assignes shall
here Employ him according to y e Custom of y e Country in
y e Like kind in Consideration whereof y e s d Robert Browne
doth hereby covenant & grant to & w th y e s d John Mury
to pay for his passage & to find & allow meat Drink apparel
& Lodgeing with other Necessaries dureing y e s d Term
& at y e End of y e s d Term to pay unto him y e usual allow-
ance according to y e Custom of y e Country in y e Like
kind."
Witnessed by Tho. Wilkinson, Lord Mayor of Dublin,
March 19, 1719.
Landed at Salem, Aug. 22, 1720.
M r Thomas Beadle
You are in y e Station of a Second
Mate in my Sloop Philadelphia at four pounds five Shill-
ings p month if any accident of Mortality Should Please
God to attend Cap* Cropper or M r Carter y e Chief mate
do you take your Post of Preferment in right of your Turn
&c & Do y e Needfull therein if you ar willing at So Caro-
liner to be Discharged from y e s d Vessell Shew this to the
Command 1 " So it will be Granted you yo r freind Serv* W m
Oborne
Jam ca Kings X r 3 d 1719"
Forty days sight draft from George Garland to Richard
Gifford on Capt John Davis, merchant in Bristol, for <5
10s Sterling
Dated at Little Bell lie, 8 ber 1 st 1720-1
Indorsed by Richard Gifford, by mark, to John Loyd.
Salem, Dec. 10, 1720.
330 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS.
u Rights of land in North Carolina or Curriback w ch
Josiah Wheeler has sold to M r Jn Bartlett.
Recorded March y e 22 d 1720-21
Att a Court held for y e precinct of Curriback y e 24 th day
of August 1708 present y e Justices.
Richard Tharpe proved in open Court by his Oath Six
right viz himselfe
& Two Negroes the which rights he y e said Tharpe doth
assign To M r Josiah Wheeler.
Copia vera Test Edward Tayler
Att a Court held for y e precinct of Corahback the 24 Day
of August 1708 & sent y e Justices
M r Josiah Wheeler proved in open Court by his Oath
three right viz himselfe twice transported & Susan Rice
one Transported. Copia vera Test. Ew r Taylor C h C or
Witnesses John Bayley Josiah Wheeler Seale
Jeremiah Wheeler
Essex ss Salisbury November y e 22 d 1720
Then M r Josiah Wheeler owned he signed y e within
written Instrument & Deliuered it to M r John Bartlett
cef ore me
W m Bradbury Justice of peace"
[147] Canso, Sept. 3, 1721. Thirty days sight
draft of Daniel Martin to Capt James Galley on Capt
Daniel Martin in London for 100 Sterling Endorsed to
Richard Mico, merchant in London for account of Col.
Samuel Browne of Salem in New England.
Antigua, Aug. 2, 1721. Twenty days sight draft of
John Mabson to Cap* Abraham Redwood on Samuel Sewall
merchant in Boston, for 100. Protest on same recorded
Oct. 16, 1721.
Canso, September 4, 1721. Thirty days sight draft
given by Daniel Martin to Francis Hamblin of Salem,
fisherman, to John Cabot in Salem for 38 15s.
Protest on above recorded Nov. 6, 1721.
ESSEX COUNTY NOTABIAL RECORDS. 331
[148] Protest. Nov. 18, 1721. John Kirkman of
Boston, coaster, master of the sloop Swann, and James
Collins, his mate, made declaration that Nov. 16, they
sailed from Nantasket, or mouth of Boston harbour, being
laden with salt, to Marblehead, " where they ariued in y e
Evening of y e Same Day & mored thier vessel with all
thier anchors & in y e night following there arose a violent
storm at E N E & so shifted to y e Eastward afterward to
y e Southward & caused so great a Sea that had nigh
foundrd y m they taking in Much water She pitching her
head Clear vnder water so that we were in danger of ye
boltsprite getting under y e Cable & in great Danger of our
Hues vessel & Cargoe y e rocks being to leeward of vs &
another vessel or Two lost by our Sides by all which we
have great cause to fear & suspect considerable Damage &
wast of our Salt." Sworn to by Samuel Collins.
Protest against William Elliot of Beverly, tanner, March
9, 1721/22, by Benjamin Allen of Manchester, innholder,
on behalf of his wife Sarah Allen, late relict widow of
Joseph Tuck, late of Beverly, coaster, deceased, and as she
is guardian to Richard Tuck, Benjamin Tuck and Ebenezer,
three of the children of the said Tuck, and also Ebenezer
Ellen wood & Sarah his wife, daughter of Joseph Tuck,
deceased, and Thomas Lee, of Manchester, guardian of
Joseph Tuck, William Tuck and John Tuck, three more
sons of Joseph Tuck, deceased, make declaration that they
owned lt one moiety or halfe part of y e Sloop called y e
Two Brothers burthen about Sixty Tunns together with
one halfe of her Mast Sails Cables anchors boat Rigging
Tackle and apurtenances to her belonging or any wages
appertaning yet notwithstanding y e aforenamed William
Eliott hath Entered vpon & doth Illegaly withold y e pos-
session of y e Said moiety or halfe of y e Sloop.'*
(To be continued.)
EXTRACTS FROM INTERLEAVED ALMANACS
KEPT IN NEWBURYPORT, PROBABLY BY
JOSEPH O'BRIEN, FROM THE ORIGI-
NALS IN POSSESSION OF THE ESSEX
INSTITUTE, 1791-1815.
Dec. 31, 1791. Turpin's House Burned Between 6 & 7
of the Clock Evening.
June 2, 1796. M r Bodily Meeting House Raised.
Aug. 30. Capt. Emery Sailed.
Mar. 29, 1797. Martha Johnson went to M r Coffins to
live.
May 9. House Burned at Cars Island.
Sept. 28. Let Doctor Bond Part of my Barn.
Nov. 8. M r Savorys House Burned about one of the
clock in the morning.
Dec. 6. Mr Adams mills at Pine Island were Burned
about two of the clock in the morning.
May 5, 1798. Doct. Bond left the Barn.
July 26. Capt. J. O'Brien Sailed.
Sept. 1. Cloth from Mr. Amos Stickneys, 19 yards.
Oct. 12. Frigate Launched at 11 minutes after one of the
clock in the afternoon.
Dec. 4. Mr. Jackman and his Son Were Frozen to Death
in the evening.
May 20, 1799. Fire at M r Samuel Emerson's shop be-
tween 9 & 10 Clock at night.
June 4. M r J. Knap moved from my shop.
July 5. M r Wyers House Struck With Lightning.
Aug. 10. Moved Home.
Feb. 19, 1800. Exchanged Horses with M r John Aker-
man, Jr.
Mar. 6, Fire at Capt. Coolidgs House.
Mar. 16. Fire at M r William Works House between 10
and 11 of the Clock A. M.
June 3. Mrs. Chipmans Goods put in My House.
EXTRACTS FROM INTERLEAVED ALMANACS. 333
June 17. Fire at Capt. William Davis' House at half
after 6 clock morning.
July 18. Fire at M r Greenleafs Shop.
Oct. 5. Fire at House of Elder Enoch Titcomb, Deceased.
Oct. 14 & 15. Meeting House Raized.
Nov. 11. David Noyes and William Moody Noyes Come
to live at my House.
Nov. 13. M r Daniel Long & Thomas Lord began to im-
prove my Shop.
Mar. 24, 1801. Sold a cow to M r John Follansbee of
Newbury.
Sept. 10. M r Miltons Meeting House moved, Viz, the
Sold end.
Sept. 29. Old Meeting House Sold.
Oct. 2. Old Meeting House Pulled down between 12 and
One of the Clock.
Nov. 17. First News of Peace.
Nov. 21 . Fire at M r Nelsons Chamber in Market Square.
Jan. 13, 1802. Fire at Deacon Enoch Titcombs Store
between 11 and 12 at night.
Jan. 27. Meadows on fire which alarm'd this Town so
much that the Bels Rang for fire about 7 Clock
Evening.
Feb. 4. Let Doctor John Kittridge One Seat in my Pew.
Apr. 28. Capt. Joseph O'Brien moved.
Sept. 14. Barn Burned at Salisbury by Lightning be-
longing to M r Moses Pike.
Sept. 21. Mr. Daniel Dana's Meeting [House] struck
With Lightning.
Nov. 18. Capt. Jones Sailed.
Dec. 26. Great fire at Portsmouth.
Feb. 17, 1803. Cry of fire at Greenleafs wharf.
Sept. 26. Fight in the market.
Dec. 20. Exchanged Horses with M r Samuel Brookins.
May 1, 1804. Paid J. Ruseck 2 dolars and John Pettin-
gill 2 dollars and 50 cents in full for making fence
for this year.
Aug. 19. Isaac Johnson began to set in my Pew.
Sept. 10. M r Hudsons Store Raised.
Nov. 22. Sold my Horse to M r Moses Adams, Ju r of
Newbury for 30 dollars.
334 EXTRACTS FROM INTERLEAVED ALMANACS.
Feb. 24, 1805. Fire in Middle Street at y e House of M r
Jonathan Stickney between three and four Clock in
the morning.
Apr. 13. Fire at Capt. W m Combs Store on the wharf.
Apr. 1 7. Paid J. Russel for making fence $2.
Dec. 14. Hudsons Store Burned.
Dec. 24. Nail Factory Burned at Amsbury.
May 2, 1806. Paid W m Flood 112 1-2 for Cording Nine
Cord of Wood.
May 6. The Meeting House in the First Parrish in New-
bury Pulled down.
June 13. Fire at Samuel Jones Shop in the Evening
between 9 and ten.
June 18. The New Meeting House in the first Parrish in
Newbury Raised.
Aug. 4. Charles Austin of Boston Killed by Thomas O.
Selfridge.
Aug. 21. Fire at M r James Horten's shop.
Sept. 17. Dedication of M r Popkin's meeting house in
Newbury.
Oct. 7. Sold my mare to Capt. John Sawyer.
Oct. 30. Fire at Capt. Samuel Rolfe House.
Dec. 24. A great fire at Portsmouth.
Apr. 16, 1807. Began to dig the cellar of the New Meet-
ing House in M r Marquand's field.
May 24. Six men Drowned a little above the Rocks
Bridge in Merimack River.
July 2. Fire at M r Williams Sillhouse.
July 8. New Meeting House Raised in Newbury near
the Friends Meeting House.
Nov. 15. A man found Dead in his Bed at M rs Aliens,
opposite my House.
Feb. 26, 1808. M r Joseph Hoyts Store Burned Down
About two Clock afternoon.
June 15, 1808. Dedication of the New Brick Baptist
Meeting House.
July. A child of M r Daniel Knight Was Lost about the
middle of this month.
Nov. 2. Sold Lion for two dollars to M r Stephen Brown
of Hamilton.
BXTBACTS FROM INTERLEAVED ALMANACS. 335
Nov. 12. Exchanged Horses with M r Samuel Mansur.
Nov. 29. Exchanged Horses with M r Edmund Greenleaf
of Newbury and gave him 15 Dollars to boot.
Jan. 19, 1809. Exchanged Horses with M r Joseph Rand.
May 13. Old Town House Pulled Down.
June 16. Let a pew to J. Boardman.
June 21. Fire at the Factory at Amesbury.
June 27. Fire at the Brick Store in Middle Street near
Allen's Printing Office between nine and ten at night.
Oct. 23. Rev. M r Milton moved from M r Noyes House.
Nov. 16. M r William B. Banister moved to M r Noyes
house.
Jan. 1, 1810. Exchanged Horses with Jeremiah Coleman.
May 23. Capt. Samuel Allen Saild for Virginia.
Aug. 16. Fire at M r Nath 1 Noyes Shop on Lower Long
Wharf.
Nov. 9. A Small Shock of an Earthquake about a quar-
ter of an Hour after nine in Evening.
Dec. 13. Fire in Schooner at Titcombs Wharf about 10
at night.
Jan. 2, 1811. Fire at Picketts House.
Jan. 27. Fire at the Dexter House.
Feb. 26. Fire at Gilman White's store.
Apr. 19. Fire in Green Street, a Barn Burned Down
belonging to the Heirs of Theophilus Bradbury,
Esq., deceased. Also a Barn of M r Abraham Jackson.
May 16. M r Elias Pike Erected his mill House on my land.
May 31. A Great fire in this Town began at half after
nine at night and Lasted all night.
June 26. Fire at M r Enoch Prince's Barn.
July 12. A Barn Burned on Capt. W m Coombs Wharf.
July 23. Fire at Jacob Noyes House between 4 & 5
Clock in the morning.
Aug. 14. Fire at M r Robert Fosters House in High Street.
Aug. 28. M r Thomas Lords Shop Put upon my Land.
Aug. 30. Emanuel Soward put his House on my Land.
Sept. 18. Joseph Noble and John Parsons Erected their
Shop on my land.
Oct. 1. Fire at M r John M. Noyes House in the after-
noon between 4 & 5 o'clock.
336 EXTRACTS FROM INTERLEAVED ALMANACS.
Oct. 4. Thomas Moody Erected his Shop on my Land in
the afternoon.
Nov. 2. Capt. Elias Pike Erected his House on My Land.
Mar. 24, 1812. Fire at the upper Long Wharf in a store
belonging to Heirs of Nicolas Tracy Deceased.
May 12. Fire at M r Amos Atkinsons in Belville in New-
bury and his Shop Burned Down.
May 16. Part of the Baptist Meeting House Blowd down.
June 8. M r Michael Boardman took possession of my shop.
Apr. 9, 1813. Fire in Milk Street at the House Ocupied
by M r Silvester.
Apr. 10. Let my field to Capt. Joseph Brown and M r
Stephen Tilton for this year for $30 and I am to have
the fall feed and Corn Stalks.
Apr. 12. Joseph O'Brien Jr. Set Out for Alexandria.
May 5. M r Nathaniel Keezer Moved to Newbury Neck.
May 12. Let my furber Shop to Mr. Jeremiah Gray for
one quarter to pay me five dollars in his Work.
June 12. M r Silas Pearson of Newbury his mills Were
Burned down.
July 17. M r Jeremiah Gray gave up the Key of my far-
ber Shop to me.
July 24. Paid my tax to this Town, $70.56, deduct $4.23,
remains $66.33 cents.
Aug. 10. M r Charles Woodman began to Occupy my
Hatter's Shop.
Sept. 6. M r Dennis O'Brien Set Out for Alexandria.
Nov. 20. Agreed with Capt. Joseph Brown & Stephen
Tilton to let them my field for the year 1814 to pay
me 30 dollars.
Dec. 22. A Great Fire at Portsmouth.
Feb. 14, 1814. Let my Pasture to M r Silas Moody for this
year for Fifty dollars.
Feb. 24. Let a Pew to Jonathan Boardman for Six dol-
lars per year.
May 30. A House Struck with Lightning about One of
the Clock in the Night, belonging to Wi d Eunice
Kimbal.
July 28. Joseph O'Brien Set Out for Alexandria.
Sept. 28. David Noyes Arrived home to Newbury Port
from Reading in Pensylvania.
EXTRACTS FROM INTERLEAVED ALMANACS. 337
Nov. 21. Capt. J. O'Brien Set Out for Reading.
Nov. 23. Capt. Josiah Mitchel moved.
Nov. 28. Earthquake.
Dec. 14. Abner Pearson moved into my shop.
Jan. 13, 1815. News of Peace Came to town.
Feb. 17. Let part of my Cheever house to Mrs. Armi-
tage at 4 dols per quarter.
Mar. 13. Fire at the widow Goodhue's house.
Apr. 17. Let my field to Jonathan Beck for $25.
Apr. 27. First News of Bonaparte arrival in France.
Sept. 26. M r Abner Pearson moved from my Shop.
Oct. 4. William K. Wilson moved from my Chever
house.
Oct. 12. A Great Training at Boxford.
Oct. 23. Missionary Vessel Sailed.
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX
COUNTY.
(Continued from Vol. XLIII, p. $84..)
A fishing Schooner lately arrived at Newlury from the
Banks, bro't in Capt. Lawrence and his Company, belong-
ing to the Ship that was cast away on the Isle of Sable,
as formerly mentioned in this Paper. She was bound
from Gibraltar to Virginia, but taken by the French, who
after they were ashore, fired upon Capt. Lawrence's Peo-
ple, and wounded two of them, and after taking out some
of the Cargo, Rigging, &c, proceeded in a Schooner to
Louisburg, leaving all the English on the Island.
Boston Evening Post, June 13, 1757.
These are to Notify the Proprietors of New- Gloucester, in
the County of York, that as a Number of their Lots or
Rights were exposed to Sale on the 16th of February past,
and postponed to the 5th of May Instant, were not sold, said
Sale was adjourned to the 30th of June next, at the House
of Mr. James Broome, Innholder of (Gloucester, at 2 o* Clock
in the Afternoon, for the Sale of those that were left unsold.
Philemon Warner,
Gloucester, May bih, 1757. William Stevens, Committee.
Nathaniel Allen,
Boston Evening Post, June 13, 1757.
We also hear, that a Brigantine, belonging to Salem,
that had been taken by a French Privateer in the West
Indies, was retaken by a Privateer of New-York, and car-
ried to that Port.
Boston Evening Post, June 18, 1757.
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 339
To be Sold by Mr. Enoch Titcomb of Newbury, the Hull
of a Schooner of about 70 Tons, which will be launched
in a few Days : Any Person inclining to purchase may
inquire of said Titcomb for the Terms.
To be Sold, A Schooner, Burthen about 65 Tons, now
lying at Gapt. Bowditch's Wharf in Salem, with her Sails,
Rigging, &c., almost new. Also a strong able-bodied
Horse, about 15 Hands high, fit for Chaise or Saddle. Any
Person inclining to purchase may apply to Mrs. Jane
Paramore at Marblehead, and know further.
Boston Gazette, June 13, 1757.
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of the District
of New Salem, in the County of Hampshire, that at a
legal Meeting of the Proprietors of said District, on the
15th Day of July, 1746, there was a Tax of 25s. New
Tenor, raised on each Right, and on the first Day of
September, 77-47, there was a Tax of 25s. New Tenor,
raised on each Right; and on the 23d of May 1748, there
was a Tax of 35s. New Tenor, raised on each Right, and
on the 27th Day of July, 1749, 30s. was raised on each
Right, New Tenor, and on the 23d of October, 1749, a
Tax of 7s. 6d. New Tenor, and on the 6th of June, 1750,
16s. Lawful Money was raised on each right; and on the
20th of March, 1751, 20s. L. Money was raised on each
Right; and on the 30th of March, 1752, a Tax of 26s. 8d.
L. Money was raised on each Right; and on the 26th of
March, 1753, there was a Tax voted to be raised of 16s.
L. Money on each Right; but inasmuch as the General
Court in June following made a District of said New-
Salem, and enabled the Residents of said District to raise
Money to defray all future Charges, the Residents, as
well as the Proprietors have thought 8s. on a Right to
be sufficient to defray the Charges of said Propriety to
the Time they were made a District, as may appear by
the Vote of the District, as well as by the Vote of the
Proprietors; passed the 24th of December, 1753. And
whereas several of said Proprietors have not paid their
above Taxes, they are desired forthwith to pay them to
340 NBWSPAPBK ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
Mr. Samuel King, Treasurer for said Proprietors, or
their Lands will ~be sold for the Payment thereof, on the
first Day of September next, at Mrs. Margaret Pratt' s
in Salem, at Two of the Clock Afternoon.
Danvers, June l*t, 1757.
Thorndike Proctor, Committee for
Samuel King the Proprietors
B. Prescott,/ww. of New Salem.
Boston Evening Post, July 4, 1757.
A Fishing Schooner arrived at Marblehead the Begin-
ning of last Week, the Skipper of which says, he spoke
with one other on the Banks who inform'd him, That he
had been taken by a Letter of Marque Ship of 16 Guns,
bound from France to Louisbourg, but that he ransomed
her for about 2000 Livres, and that the Frenchman gave
them such Time to pay the Ransom, that he intended to
make his Fare of Fish before he return'd home. The
Ship was a dull Sailor, had a great Number of Men on
board, supposed to be Soldiers for the Garrison of Louis-
bourg : The above Fisherman afterwards fell in with
Capt. Dowse in our Province Snow, and inform'd him of
the Course the Ship steer'd.
Boston Gazette, July 11, 1757.
Stolen from Nathan Proctor of Danvers, out of a
Pasture, on the 12th of July instant, a large white Horse,
with some gray Hairs, in his Main and Tail, paces well,
about 15 Hands high, his right hind Hoof white behind,
with a Seam in it, which was crack'd when a Colt, a
Gelden, though seems to have one Stone near the Bigness
of a Goose Egg. Whoever will take up said Horse, and
bring him to said Proctor, shall be well rewarded for
their Pains, by NATHAN PKOCTOR.
Boston Gazette, July 18, 1757.
The following Affair happened at Salem some Time
since, viz. An Irish Fellow named James Clark, one of
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 341
the listed Soldiers in the present Expedition, not being
content with his Bounty, had marked a Goldsmith's Shop,
and when he came to try it, could not break it open, but
got upon the Roof and threw off an Arch which was built
over the Top of the Chimney and got down that Way,
and carried off about <100 O. T. in Silver Buckles &c.
and there being no-body with him but a Dog, they could
not prove it against him, but committed him to Goal on
Suspicion ; and when he came on Trial, the Dog was
call'd into Court, (for they were both seen together that
same Night) and the poor Fellow fearing the Dog should
turn King's Evidence, and he be convicted, confess'd the
Fact, pled Guilty, and received twenty Stripes at the
publick Post : The poor Dog that was with him has since
been Guilty of Murder, in killing a Larnb : for which
Crime (his Master being Chief Judge) he is condemned
to Transportation.
Boston Gazette, Aug. 1, 1757.
On the 10th Instant died at Salem, and on the 13th was
decently and honourable interr'd, Mr. Joshua HicJcs, aged
62, Major of the Regiment, and a considerable Merchant
in said Town.
Boston Gazette Aug. 22, 1757.
By a Vessell arrived here on Saturday Night last, from
St. Kitts, we have the following List of English Vessells
taken by the French in the West Indies, viz.
A Schooner from Salem, Capt. Pattisen.
A Schooner from Salem bound to Barbados, M'Coy.
Boston Gazette, Aug. 29, 1757.
All licenced and permitted Persons in the County of
Essex are hereby notified to pay the Duties of Excise,
which by Law will be due to the Subscribers (in Manner
following) Namely those of Salem, Beverly, Wenham,
Boxford, Topsfield, Middleton, Lynn & Danvers, at the
House of Mrs. Margaret Pratt Innholder in Salem on the
27th and 28th Days of September Instant. Those of
Marblehead at the House of Mr. John Reed in Marble-
head aforesaid, on the 3d and 4th Days of October next.
342 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
Those of Manchester at the House of Mr. John Allen
Innhoider on the 6th Day of the same Month. Those of
Gloucester on the 6th and 1th days of the same Month, at
the House of Mr. James Broom, Innhoider in said
Gloucester. Those of Ipswich on the tenth Day of the
same Month, at the House of Capt. Nathaniel Treadwell,
Innhoider in said Ipswich. Those of Newbury, By field,
Rowley, Almsbury, and Salisbury, at the House of Mr.
Joseph Newhall Innhoider of Newbury aforesaid on the
llth and IZth Days of October aforesaid. Those of
Haverhill, Bradford and Methuen at the House of Mrs.
Hannah Foster, Innhoider in Haverhill on the thirteenth
Day of the same Month. Those of Andover at the House
of Mr. Asa Foster of Andover aforesaid, on the fourteenth
Day of the same Month. At Times and Places above-
mentioned Attendance will be given, by
Jacob Ashton, Farmer.
N. B. No Accounts will be received unless they be ac-
cording to Law.
Boston Gazette, Sept. 6, 1757.
We hear that Thursday afternoon last was sent into
Marblehead, by a New-York Privateer, a Schooner mount-
ing 6 Guns, and navigated with 14 Frenchmen : That
she was a Fishing Schooner belonging to Marblehead, and
was taken on this Coast about 18 days ago, by a French
Privateer Sloop of 14 Carriage Guns : That the Schooner
being a prime Sailer, they fitted her out at Sea in Order
to take and decoy what Vessels they could to the Sloop :
That the Prisoners inform'd our People that they had be-
fore this taken three Snows two of which were bound
from Scotland, and sent them to Louisbourg : And that 3
or 4 Privateers more were to be on the Coast by this Time.
Boston Gazette, Sept. 12, 1757.
In a list of English Vessels taken and carried into Gruard-
aloupe from August, 1756, to the latter End of July,
1757, appears the following :
Ouchterlony from Newbury twice : Warren of New-
bury : Hand from Salem.
Boston Gazette, Oct. 3, 1757.
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 343
PROPOSALS for Printing by SUBSCRIPTION.
A Reply to a late anonymous Pamphlet Intitled, A
Winter Evening's Conversation upon the Doctrine of Origi-
nal Sin. By the Rev. Mr. Peter Clark, of Danvers. The
REPLY, as well as said PAMPHLET, is done by way of
DIALOGUE. The Book will make (as near as can at
present be computed) One Hundred Pages, in a Hand-
some Octavo, and shall be printed on good Paper, and
with a fair Character. The price to Subscribers will be
about One Shilling and Four Pence Lawful Money, per
Book, cover'd in blue Paper; with a seventh gratis to
those who subscribe for fix. Subscriptions are taken in
by S. KNEELAND in Queen-Street ; and where Sub-
scription Papers may be had. Upon the Appearance of a
sufficient Subscription, it will speedily be published.
Boston Gazette, Oct. 10, 1757.
About three Weeks since, the Body of a Man, of
a middling Stature, judg'd to be between 40 and 50
Years of Age, drove ashore on the Beach at Salisbury ;
he was dress'd in a blue Sea-Coat, Leather Breeches, with
Trowsers over them, white worsted Stockings, and new
Pumps : About which Time several Parts of a small
Vessel drove ashore there, supposed to be from the East-
ward, as a great Quantity of Lumber and Cord Wood
came ashore therewith.
Boston Gazette, Oct. 24, 1757.
To be Sold at VENDUE by me the Subscriber, Sundry
Tracts of Land (late the Estate of Richard Salt onst all,
Esq. who is since deceased) viz. A beautiful Seat for a
Gentleman or Trader, in Haverhill near the Ferry, con-
sisting of about Forty Acres of Choice Land, with a
handsome House and Yard and good Barns, Out-Houses,
and Orchards thereon. Said House is pleasantly situated
on an Eminence, by the back of the River Merrymack,
having a goodly Prospect of the Town, River, Ferry, c.
adjacent. And an Island in said River, containing about
Forty Acres of choice Land, within A Mile of said Ferry,
and contiguous to said House, with a good Barn there on.
And a Farm in Hempstead in the Province of New Hamp-
344 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
shire, about Eight Miles from said Ferry consisting of
about 220 Acres of Land, mostly under Improvement it
being an Island in a Pond with a House, Barn and Orchard
thereon. And a Tract of unimproved Land in said Hemp-
stead, near Londonderry Line, of about 80 acres. The
Sale to begin on Tuesday the 22d Day of November next,
at One of the Clock P. M. at the House of Matthew
Soley, Innholder in said HaverhilL
Haverhill, Octob. 24th, 1757.
Boston Gazette, Oct. 2J>, 1757.
Extract of a Letter from Bristol dated Sept. 20, 1757.
The Ship Essex, Capt. Poynton of Salem, fell down
and is to sail the 30 instant under Convoy of the Antelope
Man of War, who is to convoy a Fleet 200 Leagues to the
Westward.
Boston Gazette, Nov. 14, 1757.
Whereas some evil-minded Person disguised and armed,
broke open Sis Majesty's G-oal in Newbury the Night be-
tween the 5th and 6th instant, and took out one Thomas
Eaton, a Prisoner there for deserting His Majesty's Ser-
vice ; If any Person will apprehend said Deserter, and
return him to said Goal, or any other in the County of
Essex, he shall have FOUR DOLLARS Reward, and all
necessary Charges : And if any Person will apprehend
any of those who assisted his Escape, so as they be
brought to Justice and be convicted, he shall have for
each TEN POUNDS Reward paid by me.
ROBERT HALE, Sheriff.
November 8, 1757.
Boston Gazette, Nov. 21, 1757.
Deserted the 14th of December, 1757, from Captain
Nicholas Cox's Party, of the 47th Regiment, recruiting at
Salem, in the County of Essex, Josiah Wood, 5 feet 7
inches and a half high, 23 years of Age, by Trade a Shoe-
Maker ; Had on a light brown Coat, a red Waistcoat,
Buckskin Breeches, and a Black cut Wig. He is well set
every Way, a dark Complection, long Face, a little Rash
on his Cheeks and Nose, and three scars on his Right
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 345
Hand. Whoever will secure the said Deserter in any
Goal in America, and give notice to Captain Cox, at Major
Read's in Marblehead, or Lieut. Thomas Archbold at Mrs.
Fletcher's in Boston, shall receive Twenty Shillings over
and above what is allowed by Act of Parliament.
Boston Gazette Dec. 26, 1757.
We hear that a Negro Man who attended the Ferry at
Beverly, in returning from laying the Boat off one Night
last Week, it is suppos'd lost the Paddle, whereby the
Canoe drove out to Sea, and the Negro perished, he hav-
ing not been heard of ; Tis said the Canoe has since been
found among the Rocks near Salem.
Boston Gazette, Jan. 23, 1758.
Newbury, February 1st, 1758.
SCHEME Of (the First Part of) a LOTTERY
To be drawn at Newbury, allowed by an Act of the Great
and General Court of the Province of the Massachusetts-
Bay, January A. D. 1750, For the Raising the Sum of
Twelve Hundred Pounds, to be applied towards the build-
ing and maintaining a bridge in Newbury, over the River
Parker there, at the Place called Old-Town Ferry, which,
when built, will be of publick service, as is declared in
the Preamble of said Act.
The managers appointed by the General Court who act
are John Q-reenleaf, Joseph Atkins, and Daniel Farnham,
Esqrs : of Newbury, who are sworn to the faithful Dis-
charge of the Trust reported in them, and are answerable
for any Deficiency.
The Prosecution of the above Design has been hitherto
deferred, several unforeseen and unavoidable Accidents
occurring.
But the Managers now at the earnest Desire of the
People of this Part of the Country, and of Travellers this
Way in general, have agreed to pursue the same with the
utmost Diligence, and begin the Bridge immediately when
the Drawing of this First Part is over.
The Advantage to the Publick from this Bridge will be
that Travelling the great Eastern Road between Rowley
346 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
and Newbury by the way of Old-Town, is not so far by
considerable as it is by the Way of Newbury-Falh, and
the Road beyond Comparison better ; for it is Plain,
Level, Pleasant and Firm, and extremely good for Car-
riages save in one or two Places in Rowley Fields, which
by long Disuse in some Seasons, are become something
miry ; but with little Cost and Pains in Gravelling, it
may be rendered equal to, and as good as the other Part
of the Road. But the other Road round by Newbury-
Falh, is Mountainous, Rocky, Founderous, and excessive
Miry in some Seasons, and in all difficult and troublesome
to pass in with Carriages, as is well known to all Travel-
lers that Way, to their great Grievance these many Years
past.
The whole LOTTERY is divided into three Parts, or
Classes. The first Part or Class contains 6000 Tickets at
Two Dollars each, Twelve Hundred of which are Benefit
Tickets of the following value.
Dollars Dollars
1 of 1000 is 1000
1 of 750 is 750
1 of 500 is 500
2 of 250 are 500
3 of 100 are 300
17 of 50 are 850
20 of 40 are 800
30 of 20 are 600
50 of 16 are 800
100 of 8 are 800
975 of 4 are 3900
1200 Prizes 10800
4800 Blanks
6000 Tickets at Two Dollars per Ticket 12000
Deduct 10 per Cent for the Bridge &c 1200
Gold as well as Silver will be taken for the Tickets,
and the Prizes so paid off. As soon as the Tickets are
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 347
disposed of, Notice will be given of the Time and Place
of Drawing, and a List of the Prizes Published in the
Boston- Gazette and Country Journal. Prizes not demand-
ed in Twelve Months after Drawing will be deemed to be
given for the building and maintaining said Bridge, and
will be so apply 'd. The Managers doubt not but a suffi-
cient Number of Adventurers will soon offer ; and that
they will be able to draw the first Part by the middle of
March next ; and they Hope for the Assistance of all those
who have encouraged and promoted so useful a Design.
TICKETS to be had of the respective Managers : New-
bury ; of Ebenezer Storer, Esq. ; Mr. Samuel Hughes, Mer-
chant in Queen street; Mr. Timothy Newell on Dock-
Square, Boston ; and at Edes and GHIVs Printing-Office.
Boston Gazette, Feb. 6, 1758.
By a Gentleman who came Passenger to New-York in
the Earl of Halifax Packet, and arrived in Town since
our last, we are advis'd, That the Ship Essex, Capt. Poyn-
ton, belonging to Salem, and bound from Bristol to this
Port, having miss'd the Convoy, was taken the 19th of
October last, three Days after he left Bristol-Channel, by
a French Privateer of 36 Guns, and 400 Men, called the
Melampe, belonging to Bayonne ; the Privateer next Day
saw a Sail, to which she gave Chace, and thereby lost sight
of her Prize, who made the best of her Way to the first
Port in France :
The Essex, Poynton, is re- taken by two English Sloops,
and sent into Oporto. The Gentleman who gave us this
general account was Passenger on board the Essex.
Boston Gazette, Feb. 13, 1758.
In the Snowy-Weather on the 3d Inst. a sloop laden
with Wood from the Eastward, Haskel Master, of Man-
chester, was cast ashore on Hampton Beach ; The People's
Lives were sav'd, tho' they were very much froze, by
keeping on a Rock the whole of the Night. The Vessel
bilg'd and was lost.
Boston Gazette, Feb. 13, 1758.
(To be continued.)
JOHN FRENCH OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., AND
SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
BY CARRIE C. EDGETT.
1. John French, of Topsfield, a tailor by trade, was
probably a son of Ensign Thomas French of Ipswich.
There was also a John French in Ipswich, who had seven
children born from 1659 to 1673, recorded in the County
Court records, and there are two deeds from " John ffrench
of Ipswich taylor and ffreedom his wife," dated in 1677.
(Ipswich Deeds, 4 : 99, 486.) The reasons for supposing
that the Topsfield John was the son of Thomas are based
uponthe following data : Thomas Frenchjhad a son Ephraim
and Richard 2 (John 1 ) had an uncle Ephraim French (See
below [6]) Thomas had a daughter Mary Smith. Robert
Smith of Boxford married a Mary French (Topsfield His-
torical Collections, vol. 8, p. 87). Samuel Smith of Box-
ford was administrator of the estate of his father, Robert
Smith, in 1698, and John French of Topsfield was a sure-
ty on his bond. (Essex Probate Docket, 25,729.) Ensign
Thomas French died August 8, 1680, and his widow died
May 6, 1681. By his will, dated August 3, 1680, he left
his real estate to sons Thomas and Samuel, and named
also " Mary my beloved wife," sons John and Ephraim,
and daughter Mary Smith. To his son John, he left 4< one
Cow which is to make up the full summe of thirty pounds
which I formerly promised him for his Portion." He pro-
vides that son Thomas is to " give full and free libertie
to Mary my wife his mother, . . . and that after her
decease my son Thomas shall deliver to my three children,
John, Sam 11 and Mary, three of the biggest pewter dishes
which shall then be left and remain, that is to say, to each
(348)
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 349
of them, one."* The inventory of his estate amounted to
,217 : 15 : 6. (Essex Probate Docket, 10,191.)
John French was living in Topsfield as early as March
1, 1664/5, when a daughter was born. He is first men-
tioned in the town records on Dec. 31, 166 T, when land
was laid out to John How, " next John ffrench bordering
Vpon the Common." From that time until 1697, his
name is found frequently. He was chosen surveyor of
highways, or fences, or both, seven times, tythingman,
three times, on jury at Ipswich, three times, grand jury-
man, three times, and commissioner on special errands to
the " sheare Towne," twice. He was admitted ' Come-
nar," March 7, 1675/6, and took the oath of allegiance
and fidelity Dec. 18, 1678. He was assessed 8s. 6d. on
county rate, Nov. 18, 1668, and 1. Is. lid. on Rate
for the minester" in 1681. He is called ' Corpll." John
French in 1691, '92 and '94, John french Clarke and
Clarke french in 1696/7 and '97/8, the latter title probably
meaning clerk of the military company. He built a one-
story house about 1675, which before 1798 was raised to
two stories and enlarged. This is still standing, and is
known as the " French-Andrews " house, located on How-
lett street, near the "Dry Bridge." (Topsfield Hist.
Colls., vol. 8, p. 22 ; vol. 6, p. 47. He bought of John
Wild, Jan. 8, 1672, "several parcells of land . . . con-
teineing thirtie acres " for X40. (Ipswich Deeds, 4 : 376.)
On the same date he sold to William Perkins two acres
for 42 shillings (Ipswich Deeds, 5 : 289), and again, May
19, 1685, he sold ' one acre & Twenty Pole " for 31 shil-
lings to William Perkins (Ipswich Deeds, 5 : 290).
A few years before his death he deeded his homestead
to his son John, by the following instrument, dated Dec.
2, 1701.f
" Know all men by these presents that I John French
of Topsfield In y e County of Efsex In New Englan d Tay-
lor for Divers good Causes me Thereunto moving Espec-
*He also left a cow to Mary Smith, and ordered that the balance of
Ephraim's portion be paid in money. This fits the supposition that John and
Mary lived within a short distance, and Ephraim much farther away.
tThis deed is dated more than six months after the mother's death, according
to Topsfield records. It may have been prepared some time before it was exe-
cuted, or there may be an error in one or the other dates.
350 JOHN FRENCH OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
ially for y e naturall affection I Bare to my son John
French Jun r & for his Encouragem 1 and advancem* have
given Granted ... all y* part of my upland & meadow as
hereafter mentioned with y e Bounds & housing all my
upland & meadow y* I Bought of John Wild of Topsfield
. . . provided he & his heirs perform y e Conditions here-
after mentioned viz y e said John French Jun r is to Im-
prove all my Tillage Land and meadow Ground and
orchard and to give his fathar John French one half of
the Produce of what is Raised upon the Land meadow
and orchard the said John French Sen r to pay all Taxes
for the Land & what Cattle properly Belongs to him &
his son John to pay for his Cattle During His father John
French Naturall Life & at the Decease of his said father To
pay all his Debts and funerall Charges and if his mother
should survive & outLive his father then the said John is
to take Care of his said mother & Provide for her & to
keep for her one Cow four sheep and Provide meat for
them Winter & summer & his said mother to have one
Room in my Dwelling house with halfe the Cellar & half
the Chamber of the said house and to Till one acre & half
of Land yearly During his mother's Life & to give her y e
produce of it and to Dress y e Land with Dung as there is
occasion and to find her wi th firewood & to Cut it such a
Length y* Be fit to Lay In y e Chimney and to find her
Twelve Bushells of good apples one Barrell of Cydar &
Two Bushells of malt which is yearly to be paid & to pay
all Rates & Taxes Daring his said mothers Life & at her
death to give her an honourable Buriall : A percell of
meadow omitted four acres."
Signed John French
John French Jun r
(Essex Deeds, 15 : 257.)
John French's wife's name was Phebe. Although no
record of their marriage has been found, she was without
doubt Phebe, daughter of Robert and Sarah Keyes, born
in Watertown, June 17, 1639. Robert Keyes removed to
Newbury, and died there July 16, 16 7. His widow mar-
ried Sergeant John Gage of Ipswich, Nov. 7, 1658, and
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 351
died a widow July 7, 1680. (History of Newbury), or
July 7, 1681, according to the settlement of her estate,
which was '* equally divided to the three daughters, viz :
the wifes of Win. Smith, John ffrench and Samuel Bus-
well " (Essex Probate Docket, 10,506). Sarah Keyes
(born May 26, 1633), married Samuel Buswell, July 8,
1656 (Savage), and Rebecka Keas (born March 17,
1637/8, married William Smith, July 6, 1657. (Topsfield
Rds.)
John French and his wife were both members of the
church in Topsfield, in a list dated 1684. There are two
entries of her death : " John French his wife drown d
herself may 13, 1701." "Phebe French dyed on ye 14 th
of may 1701." There is no record of his death, but it
probably was between March 5, 1705/6 (the last mention
of John French Jun r on town records), and Jan. 25,
1706/7 (date of daughter Mary's power of attorney, see
below [2]). He died intestate, and his estate was settled
by an agreement between the heirs, as follows :
" This Agreement made & Concluded upon this twenty
fifth Day of August 1707 between John ffrench Adm r &
John ffrench as Attorney to Mary Pearfon Widow
Richard ffrench Thomas Towne & Sarah his Wife Jn
Gould & Pheebe his Wife Martha ffrench Lydia ffrench
David Shaplin & Hephsibah his Wife & Patience ffrench
all Children of M r Jn ffrench Late of Topsfield in y e
County of Essex in N England Dec d Intestate With
Respect to y e Estate of y e faid Dec d which he Left undis-
posed of is as followeth
1. Wee Doe Agree } rt our Brother John ffrench f hall
quietly & peacably Enjoy all y* Estate of houfeing &land
given him by our faid ffather by Deed of gift and alfo
one half Acre of Meadow Lye ing on y e norwardly fide of
a Brook Called Mile Brook below y e Bridge ... he being
by Deed oblidged to pay all Debts.
2. Wee Do Agree y* our Brother Richard ffrench shall
haveall y e Land upon y e plaine being about 40 acres Ex-
cepting one Rod for a high Way to y e s d Jn to his Meadow
as aforesaid.
3. Wee y e s d abovenamed Jn ffrench in Right of Mary
352 JOHN FRENCH OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
Thomas Town in Right of Sarah Jn Gould in Right
of Pheebe Martha ffrench Lydia ffrench David Shaplin in
Right of Hephzibah & Patience ffrench haveing each of
us Received y e sum of fifteen pounds in Moveable Estate
which is y e whole of y e perfonal or moveable Estate of
y e s d Dec d which we accept of In full of our Right Title
Interest & Demand."
The inventory of his estate contains " a certain p r fall of
Upland & Meadow in y e plains " valued at <28, and
personal property amounting to <56 : 16: 00, including
one Horfe, three cows, one heifer, one steer, one oxe, six
sheep, one fwine, pieces of cloth, box Iron goose, and the
usual articles of furniture, clothing, etc. His eldest son
John French was administrator and Richard French of
Enfield and John Gould of Topsfield were sureties on his
bond. (Essex Probate Docket, 10,156.)
The children of John and Phebe French, from County
Court records, with the exception of the first, were :
2. MARY.
3. SARAH, b. March 1, 1664-5.
4. PHEBE, b. May 8, 1667.
MARTHA, b. Aug. 9, 1669; living, unm., in 1707.
5. JOHN, b. Aug. 26, 1671.
LIDIAH, b. May 17, 1674; living, unm., in 1707; prob. m. Nathan-
iel Averill, June 17, 1730, and d. May 31, 1746.
6. RICHARD, b. Aug. 18, 1676.
7. HEPHZIBAH, b. Feb. 2, 1678-9 (recorded as Phebea).
8. PATIENCE, b. Aug. 23, 1681.
2. Mary French, married, Nov. 11, 1684, Stephen,
son of Deacon John and Dorcas Pearson, of Rowley. He
died Jan. 5 (Town Rd.), Jan. 25 (Ch. Rd.), 1705/6. She
died Sept. 27, 1730, 4 < bed-rid many years" (Ch. Rd.).
In the settlement of her father's estate, she authorized
her brother John to act in her behalf, and the power of
attorney is on file at Salem, calling her " the widow mary
parson of rowly in the county of aficks," dated Jan. 25,
1706/7, and witnessed by Elizabeth and Martha Pearson,
all three signing by marks.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 353
Children, born in Rowley :
ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 25, 1685; m. Aaron Pingry.
STEPHEN, b. June 9, 1687; m. Hannah Jewett.
MARTHA, b. July 6, 1689; m. Aquila Jewett.
MARY, b. Jan. 7, 1690-1; m. Peter Moers.
JONATHAN, b. Oct. 29, 1693; d. Dec. 11, 1693.
PATIENCE, b. July 26, 1697; m. Timothy Palmer.
HEPHZIBAH, b. Jan. 20, 1698-9; m. Nathl. Crosby.
3. Sarah French, born March 1, 1664/5, married
March 17, 1684/5. Thomas3 (Edmund 2 , William 1 ) Towne.
He was born in Topsfield in 1655, and died in 1720
(Towne Genealogy). She is mentioned in her husband's
will, dated Jan. 20, 1713.
Children, born in Topsfield :
EDMOND, b. Jan. 28, 1685-6; d. unm., 1741, aet. 55.
EXPERIENCE, bp. June 24, 1688; d. Oct. 27, 1760.
THOMAS, bp. Oct. 18, 1691.
SARAH, b. May 8, 1694; d. Nov. 1, 1761.
EDNA, b. Dec. 23, 1690.
RICHARD, b. July 16, 1700; m. (1) Elizabeth Bixby; (2) Eannah Bixby.
MERCY, b. July 7, 1703; d. March 11, 1741; (called Mary, in Towne
Genealogy, but birth record is Marcy, and father's will Mercy.)
4. Phebe French, born May 8, 1677, married Nov.
10, 1684, Johns (John 2 , Zaccheus 1 ) Gould. He was born
in Topsfield, Dec. 1, 1662, and died Nov. 5, 1724. She
died Apr. 25, 1718.
Children, born in Topsfield :
PHEBE, b. July 7, 1685; m. Thomas Curtis.
JOHN, b. Aug. 25, 1687; m. (1) Hannah Curtis; (2) Phebe Towne.
MABY, bp. Nov. 3, 1689; m. Thomas Stanley.
NATHANIEL, bp. Oct. 25, 1691; m. Grace Hurd.
SARAH, b. Sept. 8, 1694; m. Thomas Butler.
HANNAH, b. June 19, 1697; m. Gideon Towne.
DANIEL, b. Nov. 8, 1699; m. (1) Lydia Averill; (2) Lucy (Tarbox)
Perkins.
DAVID, b. Dec. 25, 1701 ; m. Abigail Dodge.
SOLOMON, b. March 19, 1703-4; m. (1) Elizabeth Robinson; (2) Rebecca
(Foster) Bixby.
LYDIA, b. May 3, 1707; m. Samuel Standly.
354 JOHN FRENCH OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
5. John French, born in Topsfield, Aug. 26, 1671,
called yeoman and planter in deeds, removed to Norwich,
Connecticut, about 1718. The first mention of " John
french iunr " on the Topsfield town records is found
March 3, 1695/6, and from that date to 1709 he was
chosen surveyor of highways, twice, fence viewer, twice,
juryman, constable, and tythingman, once each. He re-
ceived the homestead from his father by deed in 1701,
and sold it for <400, June 16, 1718, to Joseph Andrews
of Boxford, the deed conveying " about forty-seven
acres " (Essex Deeds, 32 : 289). He exchanged some
land with Ephraim Wildes, Dec. 29, 1710, receiving "one
acre of meadow more or less," for " one acre & a halfe
& halfe a quarter " (Essex Deeds, 25 : 84 ; and 26 : 155).
He also bought three acres in Ipswich of Nathaniel Boar-
man, Jan. 4, 1715/16, for ,15, 10s., and three acres in
" Hafsockey Meadow," Topsfield, of Thomas Baker,
March 19, 1717, for 15. The Ipswich land he sold June
19, 1718, to Jesse Dorman, for the same sum he paid for
it (Essex Deeds, 28: 116; 33: 196; 34: 196). His
wife's name was Elizabeth . They were both mem-
bers of the church at Topsfield, and Oct. 12, 1718, u were
dismissed to y e Church in Norwich on y r removal thither."
He was admitted an inhabitant of the town of Norwich in
1724, and died there April 20, 1730, leaving sons Abner,
John, Joseph, and Samuel.
Children, born in Topsfield :
ELESABETH, b. Apr. 6, 1696; d., a widow, Feb. 6, 1729-30; m. Nov. 21,
1715, Thomas* (Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , John 1 ) Perkins of Topsfield.
Children, born in Topsfield: (1) Robert, b. Nov. 19, 1717; (2)
Thomas, b. April 17, 1720.
JEMIMAH, b. Jan. 31, 1697-8; m. May 25, 1720,* Samuel Crocker.
ABNER, b. Nov. 17, 1699; m. Nov. 6, 1723,* Sarah Sluman.
KEZIA, b. July 6, 1702; m. Nov. 8, 1727,* James Bill.
JOHN, b. Nov. 22, 1704; m. Aug. [21], 1729,* Phebe [dau. of Thomas
Hyde].
MARY, bp. Oct. 27, 1706.
JOSEPH, b. Aug. 10, 1709.
-SAMUEL, b. Jan. 29, 1710-11; m. Nov. 4, 1734,* Elizabeth White.
*" Early Connecticut Marriages, Book 4."
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 355
6. Richard French, born in Topsfield, Aug. 18,
1676, called husbandman and yeoman in deeds, removed
to Enfield, Connecticut, as early as 1699. He held no
office in Topsfield, but his name occurs frequently on the
Enfield records. He was chosen fence viewer, three times,
surveyor of highways, three times, allower of town debts,
twice, tythingman, four times, assessor, once, constable,
once, and served on different committees a number of
times. March 21, 1739, he was on a " Com tee to Dignify
ye Seats in y e meeting house according to the rules fol-
lowing : i. e. they shall adjust age usefullness Quallifica-
tion and offices with the Last three years Lists " (History
of Enfield, vol. 1, p. 388). He was also an " Alower of
Society debts, May 12, 1632 " (Church Records, vol. 2).
He was called Corporal, Dec. 15, 1730, and " Sargeant,"
March 10, 1734/5.
Some time after removing to Enfield, June 7, 1711, he
sold to Ebenezer Averill of Topsfield a tract of upland in
Topsfield, twenty acres more or less, " a good perfect and
Absolute Estate of Inheritance in fee Simple," for 20
(Essex Deeds, 25 : 76).
On June 5, 1699, Ephraim French conveyed by deed
of gift to his " cousin " (i. e. nephew), Richard French,
*' all my housings and lands at Enfield after my death. . .
He to live with me and maintain me." (Hist, of Enfield,
vol. 3, p. 1973.) Ephraim French, who had been in En-
field as early as 1687, died there in September, 1716.
Under date of August 29, 1720, the records state that
Richard French is " possessed of a parcel of upland that
Came to him by right of his uncle Epbraim French." In
1731 he conveyed to John Meacham fifty acres " original-
ly belonging to the Grant of my uncil Ephraim French
dec d .*
Richard French's wife's name was Elizabeth ,
She was born about 1680, according te her gravestone in-
scription, " Here lies the Body | of Mr s Elizabeth |
French wife of M r Richard French | who Departed this
life April the 30 th | 1752 in y e 73 d Year | of her age."
'History of Enfleld (vol. 1, p. 27), makes Richard French son of Ephraim, but
this is surely incorrect.
356 JOHN FRENCH OP TOPSFIELD, MASS.
His gravestone inscription reads as follows : " Here lies
Inter d | the Body of M r | Richard French | he died
March | y e 13 th 1757 in y e | 82 nd Year of his Age." His
will, dated May 24, 1745, presented July 5, 1757, men-
tions his wife, not named, children : Elizabeth, Experi-
ence, Alice, Ephraim, Richard, and John, and makes the
three sons executors.
Children, born in Enfield :
AMEB, b. May 6, 1700; prob. d. before 1745; m. Nov. 8, 1722,,
Isaac Pease, jr. Children (1724-1740) : Emy, Isaac, Phebe,
Jacob, Abner, Anne, Noadiah, and Luraina.
ELIZEBETH, b. Aug. 3, 1702; living in 1845; m. Nov. 22, 1722,
John Warner.
PHEBEE, b. Dec. 20, 1704; d. April 1, 1705-6.
FEEBEE, b. March 16, 1706-7; d. March 13, 1706-7, sic.
9. EPHBAIM, b. May 15, 1708.
EXPEBIENCE, b. Aug. 3, 1710; d. March 4, 1791; m. March 3,
1736-7, Joshua Bush. Children (1737-1749): Joshua, Abiel,.
Eli, Experance, Hannah, Jonathan, and David.
10. RICHABD, b. Sept. 18, 1712.
HEPZIBATH, b. Dec. 9, 1714; prob. d. before 1745.
11. JOHN, b. March 30, 1716.
ALICE, b. April 30, 1720; d. Dec. 2, 1778; m. Sept. 21, 1743, Aaron
Bush. Children (1744-1763): Alice, Aaron, Moses, Oliver,
Elizabeth, Rufus, Sarah, Mary, and John.
7. Hephzibah French, born in Topsfield, Feb. 2,
1678/9, married, Nov. 13, 1704, David Shapley, or Shep-
ley, of Marblehead. Her birth is given on the County
Court records as Phebea, but the settlement of her father's
estate places Hephzibah between Lydia and Patience. She
was living in 1707.*
Children, on Topsfield church records :
DAVID, bp. Aug. 26, 1705.
RICHABD, bp. April 6, 1707.
8. Patience French, born in Topsfield, Aug. 23,
1681, married in Enfield, Conn., Aug. 3, 1711, James, son
of John and Elizabeth Ferman, or Fairman. He died in
*A David Baplye of Marblehead died intestate, and his son Richard was made
administrator of his estate Dec. 30, 1720. (Essex Probate Docket, 25,0970
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 357
1721 ; his will, dated Feb. 10, 1720/1, presented May 16,
1721, mentions wife Patience, and four sons, James, the
eldest, others not named. May 16, 1738, Richard Fer-
man, minor, over fourteen, heir of James Ferrnan, deceased,
chose Richard French as his guardian. The widow Pa-
tience Ferman m., 2d, March 8, 1725/6, Ebenezer Spencer.
He died before April 12, 1741, when land was laid out to
the " Heirs of Ebenezer Spencer Late of Somers Dec d ."
She m., 3d, Oct. 25, 1749, Ephraim Colman of Coventry.
' Children of James and Patience (French) Ferman, bom
in Enfield :
JAMES, b. May 7, 1713; m., Jan. 5, 1739-40, Johannah Stebbins of
Springfield.
JOHN, b. March 31, 1715; removed to Wilbraham, Mass.
JOSEPH (twin), b. May 16, 1717; d. May 18, 1717.
BENJAMIN (twin), b. May 16, 1717; m. (1) Nov. 11, 1742, Hannah Mag-
grigry; (2), March 8, 1749-50, Abigail Bement. He enlisted as a
soldier in the Havana Expedition (1762), and died there.
RICHARD, b. Sept. 21, 1719; removed to Newtown.
There is also the death of a Richard Ferman, son of
James, not dated, among the Enfield deaths in 1718.
9. Ephraim French, born in Enfield, May 15,
1708, was on the lists of proprietors for drawing lots,
Feb. 6, 1729, Feb. 4, 1734/5, and Nov. 6, 1745. He was
chosen hog Reve," March 10, 1739/40, and Tything
man," March 10, 1745/6.
He married (int. Sept. 9, 1744), Rebecca Pomry, " resi-
dent in Enfield.' '
Children, born in Enfield :
ABIGAIL, b. Aug. 25, 1745.
REBECCA, b. Nov. 24, 1746.
ELISABETH, b. May 20, 1748.
EPHRAIM, b. Jan. 18, 1749-50.
MANASSAH*, b. July 1, 1751; m. Hannah . Had: Esther, b. Aug.
30, 1777.
HULDAH, b. Feb. 10, 1753.
MOBIAH, b. Apr. 19, 1755.
*A Menassah French served in the Revolution, in company commanded by
Capt. Ellsworth, of East Windsor, enlisting July 6, 1775.
858 JOHN FRENCH OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
ISAAC, b. Jan. 28, 1757; d. in the Revolution. He served under Capt.
Parsons of Enfield in 1776 ; re-enlisted Jan. 22, 1777, for a term
of three years, and was taken prisoner July 2, 1777. (Conn. Sol
diers in Rev.)
SILENCE, b. Aug. 27, 1758; d. in infancy.
SILENCE, b. July 2, 1760.
LYDIA, b. Feb. 23, 1762.
ASHEB, b. Dec., 1764.
10. Richard French, was born in Enfield, Sept. 18,
1712. He was chosen Colecter," Dec. 10, 1751 (vol.
1). This seems to be his only town office. He married,
June 16, 1743, Miriam, daughter of Jonathan and Rachel
(Kibbe) Bush. He served as private in the French and
Indian War in 1758 and 1759, and died at Ticonderoga,
Sept. 29, 1759.
Children, bom in Enfield :
JOSEPH, b. Sept. 2, 1748.
LUCY, b. March 27, 1745.
MIRIAM, b. Apr. 15, 1747.
SUSANNAH, b. Jan. 28, 1750.
RICHARD, b. June 16, 1753.
CALVIN, b. June 6, 1755.
11. John French, was born in Enfield, March 30,
1716. He seems to have been a more prominent citizen
of Enfield than either of his brothers. He was chosen
" Hog Reive, " once, fence viewer, once, constable, once,
" Collector of Rates or Taxes," once, surveyor, three
times, tythingman, once, and, in 1754, was on a ' Comitte
to take Care to see that the [school] houses be built . . .
the house for the north End to be set against John trenches
in the most Convenient place."
His wife was Rachel, daughter of Jonathan and Rachel
(Kibbe) Bush, who was born May 30, 1722. The date of
marriage is not recorded in Enfield. This marriage is
proved by a deed, dated Jan. 6, 1749, from Jonathan,
Joshua, Moses, Aaron, and Caleb Bush, Richard French
Jun r and Miriam his wife, John French and Rachel his
wife, Job Larkham and Mary his wife, and Elizabeth
Bush, spinster. All of these except Miriam agree with
AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 359
the names of the recorded children of Jonathan and
Rachel Bush. John French also served in the French
and Indian War, from May to September, 1758, when he
was a sergeant.
He died April 15, 1775. His will, dated Feb. 27, 1759,
presented Jan. 22, 1776, names wife Rachel, children
Rachell, Eleanor, Azubah, John, and Levi, and makes
wife Rachel and son John executors.
Children, born in Enfield :
12. JOHN, b. Dec. 10, 1739.
RACHEL, b. Sept. 16, 1743.
ELEANER, b. Sept. 21, 1748.
AZUBAH, b. Jan. 13, 1750.
LEVI, b. Dec. 16, 1754. Served in Revolution on Lexington
Alarm list; private, 1776; corporal, 1780.* (Conn. Soldiers in
Revolution.)
12. John French, born in Enfield, Dec. 10, 1739,
was chosen fence viewer in 1772, tythingman in 1777, and
served on the " Schooll Comittee " in 1779. His wife's
name was Abigail.
Children, born in Enfield:
CYNTHE, b. Apr. 13, 1771.
MARY, b. March 9, 1773.
LUTHBRSON, b. March 20, 1775.
LEVI, b. Feb. 15, 1777.
ANNA, b. Jan. 18, 1779.
JOHN, b. Sept. 17, 1780.
LEUDIAH (Ludier, Church Rd.), b. March 8, 1783 (son).
*A description of him in 1780 gives trade, farmer; height, 5ft. 10 in.; light
complexion, blue eyes, brown hair.
FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD
ADDENDA
(Contributed by Robert S. Eantoul)
Since my paper on Frederick Townsend Ward was in
print, additional material has come to hand which it seems
well to bring together in these Collections. I have had
access, during some months spent abroad, to three of the
great libraries of the world, the Bibliotheque Nationale
at Paris, the library of the British Museum in London,
and the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Having made my-
self familiar with their catalogues, and having, upon the
advice of Frederic H. Balfour, Esquire, once the editor of
an English journal printed in China and, himself, a writer
on China, inserted, in the London " Notes and Queries," a
request for first-hand information, which request elicited a
number of valuable replies, I feel that little remains to be
done that could make this research exhaustive, except it
be to examine the current journals and newspapers of the
day printed in China. These publications, whether issued
in Chinese, French, German, or English, I have been un-
able, with one or two exceptions, to find. What I have
brought home seems to possess a value not so much for
new light disclosed as that it is, much of it, cumulative
evidence from the mouths of witnesses more or less un-
willing. Much of the standard literature to which I have
been so kindly helped in my research can be found as well
in the libraries of this Country. But the thoroughly-
indexed files of the London Times and some other local
authorities cannot, so far as I know, be found here.
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BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 361
The tone of the London Times, during the period of our
Civil War, was bitterly hostile to everything American
not identified with the States in Rebellion. This great
journal has been copiously indexed in print, and, for fix-
ing dates and for opening vistas of intelligence, the index
is invaluable. Like many other publications of the day,
the Times not unnaturally began by treating Ward most
cavalierly, at first speaking of him as the " Notorious Ad-
venturer Ward " ; as " High Mandarin Ward " ; as " Yan-
kee Filibuster Ward." Even official despatches to the
British Government during his early career reported mili-
tary operations of some moment, conducted by *' Mr.
Ward." But it soon began to appear, from private let-
ters, from government despatches, from the regular
and special press-correspondence on the spot, not only
that " Mr. Ward " had too strong a hold on the Imperial
Government of China to be longer ignored, but that he
was a personality to be reckoned with, and that Admirals
Prott and Hope were as often found to cooperate with
Ward as Ward with them. European Officials could not
recognize him, as they found themselves forced to do,
without giving him some title. The Chinese rank con-
ferred on him was variously designated in English by the
title of Colonel, General or Brigadier. And from the be-
ginning of his last year, if not before, he seems to have
received from the authorities, in personal intercourse and
in official mention, all the recognition he could ask. If
the French and German government despatches treated
Ward as fairly, at the end of his career, as the English
government despatches which I examined treated him, no
ground was left for complaint. The unfortunate Burge-
vine incident, following so closely upon Ward's death,
unavoidably reflected on his fame, and revived for a tune
some of the ill-feeling of which, in former years, he had
been the object. But when the following tributes, paid
him from sources none too partial, are read, it will be seen
that Ward has not been set on too high a pedestal, and
that he had earned, before his death, the generous appre-
ciation of his peers.
362 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD ADDENDA
" The Story of Chinese Gordon," by Alfred Egmont
Hake, is endorsed without qualification by all its critics.
It says : (Vol. I, p. 52-3) " The March on Shanghai, in
January, 1862, led to the allied forces co-operating with
Ward, who was then at Sung Kiang with 1,000 drilled
Chinese. And it is from this that British interference in
the Tai Ping Rebellion may be said to date. From Feb-
ruary to June the allied forces assisted Ward and the Im-
perialists."
From Andrew Wilson's *' The Ever Victorious Army "
a good estimate may be formed of the important services
of General Ward. The author was in China during the
war, and was close to Gordon, and was acquainted with
Ward. He was an editor of the North China Mail. He
has devoted a generous amount of space to Ward's career,
and, while Wilson's book has been sharply attacked by
Colonel Charles Cornwallis Chesney of the Royal Engi-
neers, in " Essays in Military Biography," his military
critic is not without a friendly word for Ward. In the
" Life of Gordon " by Archibald Forbes, and in another
by W. F. Butler in "English Men of Action," in the
score or more of' letters and despatches printed in the Lon-
don Times for the years 1862 and 1863, in the official
reports rendered by Sir Frederick Bruce, the British Am-
bassador at Peking, covering those years, and in a serial,
contemporary account of Ward's exploits, couched in
most flattering terms, and extending through the current
issues of the North China Herald, from February to Oc-
tober, 1862, further instructive passages will be found.
In its issue of February 15, 1862, the Herald said :
" The rebels were defeated in their attack upon Sung
Kiang by the bravery and discipline of the Imperial troops
under Ward, who has trained a regiment of fine, able-
bodied men in the European system of military tactics."
March 22 : " A sharp engagement took place between
the troops under Colonel Ward and a large party of Rebels
at Soon Kiong, ending in their utter discomfiture. A large
Imperial force was surrounded and on the point of giving
in, when the timely succor arrived. This defeat at a most
important point, it is considered, will have great effect in
checking their incursions."
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 363
April 12 : " Ward's men pushed on beautifully and in
excellent order, * * * made a most gallant rush, cheering
in the English manner." * * * " Ward's men were steady
and sure."
May 17 : " Ward's men are now guarding the West
Gate at Ning Po and there is something like discipline
among them which the Taotai's troops don't know what
to make of." * * * " Sung Kiang has lately become much
improved under Ward's protection. The guardhouses are
now tenanted by Ward's drilled Chinamen, who present a
very creditable appearance." Such are some of the Her-
ald's comments.
February 21, 1862, British Consul Medhurst wrote to
Minister Bruce : " The Admiral had anticipated my sug-
gestion by entering into an agreement with Colonel Ward,
the American Commander of the Imperialist forces, to
support him in an attack he intended making on the Tai
Ping position opposite Woo Sung." Again, February 27,
he speaks of " the man whom I mentioned as commanding
a foreign contingent in the service of the Chinese, called
General Ward, with whom the Admirals and General Sir
John Mitchel had been in close consultation."
February 21, 1862, Admiral Hope reports to the Ad-
mirality : " During the last six months a Chinese force
of about 1,500 men, to be increased to four thousand, has
been embodied, armed and disciplined, under the author-
ity of the Vice Roy of the Province, by Colonel Ward, an
American, at Sung Kiang, a walled-town about twenty-
five miles southwest of Shanghai, and a district of coun-
try in its vicinity has been placed under his charge. Being
acquainted by this officer that the Vice Roy had directed
him to drive the Rebels out of the village I have above
adverted to, a place on the river of much importance,
occupied by the Rebels with five thousand men and which
they were stockading for permanent occupation, * * * *
determined, in conjunction with Admiral Protet, on sup-
porting him with a body of seamen and marines of which
the details were as follows: French, 160 men, 2 field-
pieces: English, 336 men, 1 six-pounder. The Chinese
troops took the village today in very good style, many of
364 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD ADDENDA
them behaving with much gallantry. One French seaman
was killed. Two French seamen and one English marine
were slightly wounded. Colonel Ward had seven men
killed and from 30 to 40 wounded."
" The History of China " by Demetrius Charles Boul-
ger, the author of " A Life of Gordon " and of other ap-
proved works on China, (London and Calcutta, 1898,
second edition, Vol. II, p. 362) says : "Two Americans,
Ward and Burgevine, were easily tempted by the promise
of good pay and by the possibility of distinction to raise a
levy among the foreign and sea-faring colony, and to place
themselves at the disposal of the Shanghai Committee.
Of these two men Ward was the recognized leader. In
addition to high pay, they were promised a large sum as a
reward for the capture of certain positions. The place on
which they were invited to make their first attempt was
Sung Kiang, a large walled- town nearly twenty miles
south-west of Shanghai. The first attack was made under
Ward in July, 1860. It was repulsed with some loss.
Ward was a man of determination and he resolved to make
a further and vigorous effort to capture the place.
"He renewed the attack and, having gained possession of
a gateway, he held it against all comers until the main
body of the Imperialists joined him. The capture of Sung
Kiang brought home to the Chinese mind the valuable aid
which a foreign contingent might render. It also made
Ward's force popular for the moment with the more ad-
venturous portion of the European community. It so
far encouraged the officials that they requested Ward to
proceed forthwith to attack Tsing Pu and, in return for
its capture, they promised him a great reward.
" Ward was nothing loath. He had soon assembled at
his camp at Sung Kiang a force of twenty-five Europeans
under a Swiss Captain, two hundred and eighty Manila-
men under Vincente, two Englishmen as officers, an
English doctor and Burgevine in control of the stores.
The force was very weak in artillery, which consisted of
only two six-pounders, and, although a large Imperial
Army and Flotilla were attached to the expedition, it was
generally understood that the brunt of the fighting would
BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 365
fall on Ward's force." (Here the historian describes the
strength of Tsing Pu, and the value of the aid rendered
by Savage, an English officer who had joined the Rebels.)
" Ward delivered his attack during the night of August
2, 1860, and was driven back with severe loss. All the
Europeans, except six, were either killed or wounded, and
Ward himself was wounded in the jaw. This first re-
pulse, disastrous as it was, did not lead Ward to abandon
the enterprise. He hastened off to Shanghai, obtained
one hundred and fifty recruits, chiefly Greeks and Ital-
ians, and two eighteen-pounder guns, and, thus reen-
forced, proceeded, after an interval of three weeks, to
renew the attack. But a Rebel army hastened from Soo
Chow and drove him away in confusion, attempting the
capture of Sung Kiang. In this they failed and their Eng-
lish ally, Savage, was mortally wounded." The historian
then gives an account of the Rebel failures at Sung
Kiang and Shanghai. In his "Life of Gordon," (Vol. I,
p. 57) the author quotes him as saying that Ward was
a very considerable loss, * l for he managed both the
force and the Mandarins very ably."
I quote, next, from Colonel Robert Hamilton Veitch, C.
B., of the Royal Engineers. In his " Gordon's Campaign
in China as told by Himself," (London : 1900 : p. 30) he
says : " It is necessary to describe the foreign-officered
force known by the Imperialist Government under the
name of the ' Ever Victorious Army.' * * * Its creation is
due to an American, Ward, who, on the invasion of Kiang
Soo by the Rebels in 1860, undertook the recapture of
Sung Kiang with a party of a hundred foreigners for a
certain sum of money. This he accomplished. * * *
The impetus that this success gave to the desertion of sea-
men from the Royal Navy and Merchant-shipping to join
him, led to Ward's being arrested and his foreigners dis-
banded. He then took to drilling Chinese, funds for their
support being found by rich merchants of Shanghai, and
support was also given him by the British Authorities.
* * * He eventually worked this nucleus into a force of
from six to seven thousand Chinese, office red by foreigners
of all nationalities. * * * They were armed with Tower
366 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD ADDENDA
muskets and had a powerful artillery. * * * Ward was
a brave, clear-headed man, much liked by the Chinese
Mandarins, to whom he was courteous in his manner, and
a very fit man for the command of the force he had
raised."
The last reference to Ward which appeared in the Times
before the announcement of his death, was communicated
in the letter of a special correspondent from Hong Kong,
printed in its issue of October 6, 1862, and was in these
words : " The Rebels are down in great force on Tsing
Poo. This city has lately been taken, and is now held by
Ward with his Imperial levies. * * * Some other places
have also fallen to him, and in these attacks he is described
as having been supported by an efficient artillery, * * '*
served by native gunners, trained by non-commissioned
officers from the fleet, * * * and the Chinese are stated to
have shown themselves very apt scholars indeed."
The letters of Lieutenant Thomas Lyster of Gordon's
Company of the Royal Engineers were published by E. A.
Lyster (London, 1891), under the title of " With Gordon
in China." Lieutenant Lyster wrote to his mother, Au-
gust 28, 1862 : " I was introduced to General Ward, the
American, who is an officer in the service of the Chinese
Government : in fact he has been made a Mandarin. He
is a quiet-looking little man, with bright eyes, but is a reg-
ular fire-eater. He has saved 60,000. He is married to
a Chinese." And, later, to his sister (p. 96): ' We have
not killed any Tai Pings since, although they have man-
aged to kill General Ward. I saw him a short time ago,
and was to have gone on an expedition with him. I liked
the old fellow very much."
Lieutenant Lyster, throughout the year, calls the "Ever
Victorious Army " " Ward's men" or Ward's force." At
page 110, he writes from Sung Kiang : " Poor old Ward
is buried here, once a very nice city where Chinese liter-
ary degrees were conferred, but the Rebels took it and
demolished the greater number of the fine buildings. It
has now been, for about two years, in possession of
Ward's force. * * * In Chinese fashion f his coffin is over
IThe soil of the Yang Tsee delta is too wet to permit of burial in the earth.
BY ROBERT 8. RANTOTJL. 367
ground. * * * The place was his head-quarters. * * * He
came out to China as mate of a ship, and has died worth
a million and a half. * * * He was often wounded and
people had the idea that he could not be shot to death."
February 22, 1863, Lyster writes, " Captain Gordon,
R. E., has been promoted to Major. He is trying to get
command of this force, and, I think, will succeed. * * *
I have just returned from a surveying expedition. I wit-
nessed a singular defeat of Ward's drilled Chinese by the
Rebels. The force, under an English Officer, Captain
Holland of the Royal Marines, went out to take Tait San.
* * * I was sent to survey Tait San when taken, and ar-
rived while Captain Holland was besieging the town.
Through bad management, Holland's force was repulsed,
and had to retire in haste with the loss of two guns. This
is a great blow for the drilled Chinese as they were never
beaten in Ward's time." February 23, 1863, Lyster
writes : " Gordon appointed to Ward's force : I take charge
of the Company."
Lyster's letter to his mother, dated May 8, 1863, says :
" The Rebels have been very successful lately: they beat
Ward's force, killing several hundred. The failure was
entirely through bad generalship in the commanding-
officer. General Holland had no idea beyond brute force ;
did not believe in tactics. When he told me he was going
to retreat, 1 asked him not to do so, and showed him
what to do. He retired to Sung Kiang, losing two guns.
General Ward, who was not a professional soldier, would
have acted better."
Leslie Stephen's " Dictionary of National Biography "
says of Gordon ; (edition of 1891, edited by Sydney Lee)
" The Tai Ping Rebellion was of so barbarous a nature
that its suppression had become necessary in the interests
of civilization. A force, raised at the expense of the
Shanghai merchants, and supported by the Chinese gov-
ernment, had been for years struggling against its progress.
This force, known as the ' Ever Victorious Army,' was
commanded at first by Ward, an American, and, on his
death, by Burgevine, also an American, who was summar-
ily dismissed. For a short time, the command was held
368 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD ADDENDA
by Holland, an English Marine officer, but he was defeated
at Tait San, February 22, 1863. Li Hung Chang * * *
then applied to the British Commander-in-Chief for the
services of an English officer, and Gordon was authorized
to accept the command. "
The same authority says of Admiral Sir James Hope :
"In the spring of 1862, he co-operated with the Chinese
Imperial Troops under the American General Ward in
driving back the Tai Pings from the neighborhood of
Shanghai and Ningpo."
The United Service Club gave a banquet at its Club-
House, Pall Mall, on March 4, 1863, to Rear-Admiral Sir
James Hope, K. C. B., who had just returned from China,
His Royal Highness, Field Marshall the Duke of Cam-
bridge, K. G., in the chair. One hundred and twenty-four
covers were laid, Admiral Hope was on the Field Mar-
shall's right, and Viscount Palmerston, then Prime Min-
ister, on his left. Among the distinguished club-members
present was Vice Admiral, the Earl of Shrewsbury and
Talbot.
The French Admiral, Auguste Leopold Protect, horn in
1808, and mortally wounded in May, 1862, was commis-
sioned, in 1852, as Governor of Senegal, having served in
a very responsible position, since 1846, as Captain of a
French Frigate. Through his energy and vigor he built
up that French colony, and his capture with a small force,
in 1854, of the well-defended strong-hold of Danmar won
him great favor. In 1862 he became Commander of the
French Naval Station of China and Japan. It is not with-
out interest to the American reader to note that a charac-
ter of Admiral Protet's eminence and distinguished service
failed of the marked recognition at the hands of China be-
stowed upon our young townsman, Ward. The 4< Grand
Dictionnaire Universel," in its sketch of Protect, says : " At
this time, the Tai Pings in revolt against the Imperial
Dynasty of the Manchus were achieving great successes,
and were threatening Shanghai. Protet cooperated with
the English Admiral Hope, and with the American Colonel
Ward, in the repulse of the Rebels and the protection of
commercial interests."
The Count d'Escayrac de Lauture was taken prisoner at
Bf ROBERT S. RANTOUL. 369
the Palikao Bridge and was released, after much torture
and abuse, on the taking of the Summer Palace. He
delivered an address, June 21, 1862, before the French
Academy of Moral and Political Science, embodied in a
sumptuously-printed quarto which appeared at Paris in
1862, under the title of " Memoires sur la Chine." In this
he speaks from personal knowledge gained while attached
to the French Embassy at Peking, and also while expiate
ing a bitter captivity at the hands of the Rebels. He says :
" Shanghai, besieged by the Rebels, has seen bivouaced
about her streets, under her walls, over the plains which
surround her, hard upon two millions of men stripped of
everything they possessed. Famine destroyed them at
the rate of more than a thousand a day, notwithstanding
the Jesuits had relieved about ten thousand of them, and
the alms of the Chinese themselves vied with the charity
of the Christians in sacrifices and devotion."
The same brilliant and discriminating writer, in 1863,
finds that Shanghai had doubled her commerce since 1860,
while Hong Kong, which grew but slowly, was bewailing
her ruin. Shanghai, a new city, is now, he says, superbly
built on land which, twenty-one years ago, could be bought
at from thirty to forty centimes per metre, and which now
commands from forty to one hundred and seventy-five
francs per metre.
A very extraordinary work on the Tai Ping revolt is
the two-volume account of personal adventures, given
in eight hundred and forty-two grand-octavo pages by
" Lin Le, Late Commander of the Loyal and Faithful
Auxiliary Legion," entitled "Ti-Ping Tien Kwoh." His
preface does not disclose his identity, save through the
signature " A. F. L., London, February, 1866." "Lin
Le" is thought to have been Augustus F. Linley, a vo-
luminous Scotch writer, who, calling himself by a Chinese
name, joined the Tai Ping Rebellion and sought to justify
his course and that of the Tai Pings by wholesale denun-
ciation of the Imperialists and their allies. His evi-
dence is of value as intelligence derived from the enemy's
camp. He gives us the Rebel estimate of Ward. And
it is not a little significant that, while he takes pains,
throughout the ponderous philippic, to give Ward his full
370 FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD ADDENDA
share of the credit, or discredit, of the campaign, the
Commander of the Loyal and Faithful Auxiliary Legion
uses, when he comes to part with him and to write his
epitaph, language to which no soldier could except.
On page 450, Lin Le says : "Admiral Hope, in his
attack upon the Tai-Pings, associated himself with one
Ward, an American Filibuster in the service of the Man-
choos. Before this Ward was persecuted and reviled very
fiercely. But no sooner did the Admiral and his col-
leagues think it necessary to pull in the same boat with
him than the Yankee Filibuster became their pattern and
ally. ***The surprise of Ward can only have been equalled
by his gratification at finding his very questionable pres-
ence, and still more doubtful pursuits patronized and
imitated." And so on through chapters of personal abuse,
but always fully accrediting Ward with what was his share
in the joint operations with Admirals Hope and Protet,
and generally doing his command the justice to speak of
it by the dignified title of "Ward's Legion," or " Ward's
Disciplined Chinese." He describes the force as " well
armed and ably led,"and alludes to Ward's "reckless dar-
ing," and to his " tone of assured victory" when ordering
an assault. Lin Le attributes Ward's successes to his
" large park of artillery, always employed."
Finally, (Vol. II, p. 583) he takes leave of Ward in
the following guarded but not unfeeling words. " Gen-
eral Ward, whatever his failings might have been, was a
brave and determined man. He served his Manchoo em-
ployers only too well and, at the last, in closing a career
of peril and fidelity with the sacrifice of his life, he sealed
all faults with his death, and left those who cherished his
memory to regret that he had not fallen in a better cause.
While directing the attack at Tze Ki, ten miles inland
from Ning Po, September 21, 1862, Ward, the first for-
eigner to take military service under the Manchoos, fell
mortally wounded by a Tai Ping musket-ball. This ad-
venturer originated the force that finally was the princi-
pal instrument in driving the Tai Pings from the domin-
ions they had established. By such apparently insignifi-
cant means does the Great Ruler of the Universe over-
throw the efforts and establish the destinies of men."
ENGLISH NOTES ABOUT EARLY SETTLERS IN
NEW ENGLAND.
Communicated by Lothrop Withington, 30 Little Russell Street,
W. C., Londtm (including "Gleanings" by Henry Fitz
Gilbert Waters, not before printed).
(Continued from Vol. XLIV, page 892.)
% WHEELER.
WILLIAM WHELER of Yattendon, Berks, yeoman. Will 12
November 1616 ; proved 16 June 1619. To be buried in Yat-
tendon churchyard. To church of Yattendon 12d. Topoore
of Yattendon 2s. To sone Johne Wheler two kyne, two flock-
bedes, and one of my great Chestes, % pewter vessells, and \
of all kinds of grayne as it cometh unto the barne by the
bushell, all my shepe and one horze. To Joane Coges, my
wife's daughter, one bushel of mellyns. Wife Elizabeth to
have Chunters[?] To sone William Wheler and heirs male,
tenement where I dwell, with 30 acres of lands and one little
medowe plot, all in common feldes of Yattendon, and for want
of heirs, to son John Wheler. Best to son William "Wheler,
executor. Overseers : Cossin John Herron the elder, and
Cossen John Wheler the younger of the waterside. Witness-
es : John Herron the elder, John Wheller the younger of the
waterside. Inventory by Hugh Noyse, John Wheller, and
John Herron, 29 March 1619, 93, 16s. 2d. Exhibited at
Newberry 16 June 1619.
Consistory of Sarum, will filed 1619 (old No. 102).
DAVID WHELLER, Barklie, county Somerset, husbandman.
Will 27 July 1628 ; proved 14 February 1628/9. To be bur-
ied in Berklie church yard. To my Daughter Mary, one
truckell bed, and one chest, and one coffer, and 20. To
Daughter Johan 40s. To my wife Ann Wheller, two kine
and one ground called "reades " during my estate, and use of
residue of household stuff e, during widdowhood, and if she
outlive the years of the ground, executor to pay her 20s. per
year. To my sonn in law Edward Pallmer, one obligac'on of
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372 ENGLISH NOTES ABOUT EARLY SETTLERS.
10 due unto me from Walter Fisher. Best to son David
Wheller, executor. Overseers : brother James Wheller and
brother in law Joseph Pallmer. Witnesses : John Horsman,
Nicholas Wells.
Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1629 file (not registered).
SAMUELL WHEELER of Warmister, county Wiltes, yeoman.
Will 25 March 1628 ; proved 15 June 1629. To be buried
neere my mother. To parish church of Warmister and poor
of same, 5s each. To sister Edith Wheeler, 10. To sister
Temperance, 5. To Sister Margaret Turnor, 5. To Brother
in Law Oliver Turnor his two daughters, Elizabeth and Alice,
5 each. To William Smithes, 10s. To Mr. Bradstocke
Harford 10s. To Aunt Foster 20s. Executor : Godson John
Turnor, son of Oliuer Turnor. Thomas Wheeler, my father,
to have use of household stuff for life. Overseers : William
Coles, Gent, and vncle Robert Foster. Witnesses : Edmund
Tracie, William Middlecott, John Blake, Richard Reasson.
Administration to Oliver Turner, father of John, executor
during minority.
Ridley, 62.
WOODBRIDGE.
REVEREND DU[D]LEY WOODBRIDGE of St. Philip, Island of
Barbadoes, Rector, "shortly intending to North America."
Will 15 March 1747/8; proved 14 February 1749/50. To
my sister Mary Alleyne of Boston in New England, widow
and relict of Major Abel Alleyne, formerly of this Island, but
afterwards of Boston, 100 and Annuity of 100, also my
plate with South Sea Company's arms on it. To Andrew
Wade, son of Peter Wade of Parish of St. Peters in the Island,
Merchant, and to John Payne, son of Thomas Abel Payne of
St. Lucy in the Island aforesaid, Planter, 30 per Annum,
for education and maintenance in New England, till they are
fit to be sent to Queen's College, Oxford, said 30 to be con-
tinued as long as they are at Oxford. Residuary Legatee and
Executrix : Wife Ruth Woodbridge, with remainder to Mary
Alleyne. Witnesses : Tho 8 Abel Payne, Robt. Wadeson,
Sam 1 Armstrong. Administration with will annexed of Rev-
erend Dudley Woodbridge, clerk, late Chaplain of H. M. S.
Sunderland, but at the Island of Barbados, deceased, to Ed-
ward Clark Parish, Esquire, administrator, with will annexed
of Ruth Woodbridge, widow, deceased, she surviving, but dy-
ing without having taken execution of the said will.
Greenly, 65.
IN NEW ENGLAND. 373
RUTH WOODBRIDGE, late of the Island of Barbadoes, now
living in Boston, county Suffolk, Province of the Massachu-
setts Bay, in New England, widow. Will 23 December 1748 ;
proved 14 February 1749/50. My estate to my mother Su-
sannah Haggett for life, she to pay to my sister in law Mary
Alleyne, widow, 100, and to my good friend Collo. Richard
Willshire 300. At decease of my mother the remainder to
my sister Jane Haggett, wife of Nathaniell Haggett, Esq.,
with remainder, at her decease, to my nephew William Hag-
gett, son of Nathaniel. Executors : Mother Susannah Haggett
and Brother in law Nathaniel Haggett. Overseer and trustee
in Boston : Richard Wiltshire. Witnesses : Wm. Bowdoine,
Thomas Willshire, Joseph Mannon. Administration to Edward
Clark Parish, attorney for Nathaniel Haggett, Esquire, one
of the Executors, now living in the Island of Barbadoes.
Greenly, 65.
ARNOLD AND POPE
Thomas Arnolde of Yeatesburye, county Wiltes, husband-
man. Will 8 December 1610 ; proved 6 June 1611. To poore
of Yeatesburye 20s. at discretion of Mr. Ritch, parson, and
James Pope, and overseers of poore. To poore of Calne 20s.
To Mr. Ritch our parson, 40s. for sermon and buriall in
Chancell. To godchild Thomas Chilfester 10s. Mary Broad-
field, 40s. her father oweth, Kymborough Bullecke 10s., Edith
Symmes 10s., John Casswell 20s., Adam Good 10s., Stephen
Jeferson 10s., Richard the son of James Pope 20s., John a
Lanes' sonn 20s. of money his father borrowed and which now
his mother oweth. To sister Margaret Arnold 40 and 2 kyne.
To sister Jane Arnold 20, yf she willfully goe aboute to
marry e herself with one Roger Loxen, 20 to her brothers
and sisters, they to allow to her 40s. a year for it, or to keep
her well and honestly as long as she live. To sister Ellen
Gardiner 6. To Brother Ambrose Arnold 5. To Brother
Richard Arnold 10. To children of brother and sister
marryed, a sheep or 5s. each. To Ellen, daughter of Gregory
Moone of Marshfeild 5 out of debt her father oweth. To
Anne, wife of Gregory Moone 5 ditto, leaving 10 due to
executors. To Thomas Kyng of Marshfield 10 of debt he
oweth, leaving 30. To Edward Hosey of Marshfeild five
quarters of barley he oweth. To Edith Symes' daughter 5
at marriage or yf her father die, at his decease. To children
of Mr. Robert Franc 10 among them. To making of decent
374 ARNOLD AND POPE.
seates aboute the Chancell of Yeatesbury Church, that men
may kneel the better of Communyon, which seates I would
have made at discretion of Mr. Ritche the parson, and James
Pope, 40s. To servaunt William Forman debts he oweth
and 12 sheep as they ram at the Leate. To servant Robert
Poole 2 sheep ditto. To the Kyngers of the Belles at Fun-
eral 10s. To Thomas Seymer for making my Coffin 10s. To
uncle Thomas Arnold and John Arnold his sonn, debts they
owe. To Richard Pope, sonn of James Pope, my brother in
la we, 60. To my shepperd Phillip Belly, 2 sheepe, ditto.
To my sister Israeil Arnold 20. To William Arnold, sonne
of Brother Isaac Arnold, 20. To John Arnold of Yeates-
burye, weaver, 20s. which Henry Reynoldes als Ingrame
owes. To Robert Casswell the elder of Yeatesbury 40s. To
Richard Pope, son of James Pope, best Gofer and Chest. To
William Arnold, sonn of brother Isaac ten acres of wheate.
Whereas John Robines of Marshfeild doth owe me 10, to
his wife 8 of debt. To brother Isaac's son William 10s.
more. To William Brown of Yeatesbury, shepperd, 20s. To
Johan Burlake 10s. Rest to brother Isaac Arnold and sister
Elizabeth Pope, executors. Overseers : Mr. Ritch our parson
and James Pope. Witnesses: Peter Ritche, William For-
mond, Richard Arnold. Debts due to me, Thomas Arnold, 8
December 1610 : John Scott of Spirke, 20. John Purnell
40s. Mr. Bretche of Mounton 20s. Phillipp Jeninges 40s.
Thomas Smith 4. John Chilfester, senior, deceased, owed
3 which his wife must paye. William Broadfeild 40s.
(given his daughter). John Chilfester, junior, 4. Nicholas
Chilfester of Highwaye 12 and 6 with another. William
Arnold of Cleeve 4 also 5 marks. Robert Arnold of Comp-
ton 4 and 3 more. Malime of Chisleton 40s. My brother
James Pope 20, also for hundred waight of wooll 58s.
Gregory e Moone 10, his legacy being paid Michael Baylie
for letting land. Henry Reynoldes 20s. given to John
Arnold. Thomas Kyng of Marshfeild 30 legacy being paid.
William Leddell of" Pen 40s. Richard Bretch 40s. Mrs.
Daniell 10s. for 3 bushels of wheate and a peice of tymber of
cake she borrowed. John Robines of Marshfeild 10 when
his wyues legacy is payd, 40s. Thomas Hosey 3, or 20s.
when legacy paid. 60 Wood
*ThJs will evidently gives the origin of the Pope family of Salem.
IJSTDEX.
Aborn, Aborne, ,
277.
Cathoron, 288.
Hannah, 288.
James, 288.
Mary, 288.
Moses, 288.
Rebecca, 288.
Sarah, 288.
Acham, Acam, Fran-
cis, 311, 312.
Mary, 311.
Rachell, 312(2).
Acheson, Guy Welles-
ley, 68.
Adams, , 332.
Daniel, 206.
Harriet Prescott,
178.
J. Q., 126.
Jane, 263, 268.
Capt. Joseph, 78.
Mary ( Brooks), 78.
Moses, jr., 333.
Sally, 78.
Sam, 242.
William, 200.
Agassiz, , 134.
Akerman, John, jr.,
332.
Alabama (ship), 40.
Alabaster, , 26.
Albert, Wans, 68.
Albree, John, 227.
Alden, Anna, 243.
Anna Brame, 243.
John, 243.
Aleigbas, John, 87.
Alford, Col. John, 91.
Allen, Alleyne, ,
334, 335.
Capt., 15, 19.
Maj. Abel, 372.
Amos, 161.
Allen, Archibald K.,
253.
Benjamin, 331.
Charles Henry, 8.
Capt. Charles Hen-
ry, 19.
Emily Williams, 74.
George Henry, 8.
John, 342.
Mary, 372(2), 373.
Mary Ann (Davis),
161.
Mary Elizabeth,253.
Nathaniel, 338.
Rebecca P., 253.
Robert, 277.
Capt. Samuel, 335.
Sarah, 277, 331.
Tabitha (Proctor),
253(4).
William, 253(5).
William, jr., 253.
Mrs. William, 251.
William Henry, 15.
Alley, Franklin, 263,
267.
Hugh, 285.
John, 4th, 170.
Susan D., 170.
Susan M., 170.
Ames, Amyes, Dr., 84.
Gov., 106(3).
Amesbury (Mass.),
334, 335, 342.
Amidon, Mrs. James
Rufus, 37.
Anderson, Capt., 57.
Anthony, 310.
R. & Co., 197.
Andover (Mass.), 342.
Andrew, Gov., 113.
Andrews, , 349.
Joseph, 354.
Nicholas, 263, 265.
Andros, , 223(2),
224(2), 238.
Sir Edmond, 225.
Angell, Carrie Craw-
ford, 66.
Daniel, 66.
Edward Lewis, 66.
George Bowers, 66.
Henry Herbert, 66.
Sarah (Kelton), 66.
Tristram Harris, 66.
William Harris, 66.
Anne (sloop), 327.
Antelope (man of
war), 344(2).
Antelope (ship;, 197,
198, 207(2).
Anthony, Celia, 171.
Frances G., 170.
Georgia M. 171.
Sadie T., 170.
William G., 170,171.
Archbold, Lieut.
Thomas, 345.
Archer, Stephen, 206.
Armitage, , 337.
Armstrong, Sam'1,372.
Arnold, Arnolde, Am-
brose, 373.
Sir Edwin, 110(2).
Hugh, 290.
Isaac, 374(4).
Israeil, 374.
Jane, 373.
John, 374(3).
Margaret, 373.
Richard, 373, 374.
Robert, 374.
Thomas, 373,374(2).
William, 374(4).
Arvedson, George, 8.
Ashby, Ashbye, ,
192(3).
Ashton, Jacob, 842.
(375)
376
INDEX.
Ashton, James, 312.
Ralfe, 312.
Aske, Francis, 311.
Robert, 311.
Astrea (ship), 215,217,
218(4).
Atkins, Joseph, 345.
Atkinson, Amos, 336.
Robert, 178.
Atwater, Jeremiah,92
Atwood, Arnon
Adams, 154.
Henry Joseph, 154.
Joseph Waldo, 154.
Louis Arnon, 154.
Margaret, 300.
Olive Almira
(Royce), 154.
Aungell, John, 291.
Aurgostus, Titus, 94.
Aurgurt, Sceaser, 95.
Austin, Austen,
Charles, 334.
John, 84.
Richard, 83.
Averill, Ebenezer,355.
Lydia, 353.
Nathaniel, 352.
Avis, Cornelius, 310.
Axtell, Aurelia Hiley,
71.
Hiley, 71.
Sylvester, 71.
Babbington, Abra-
ham, 85.
Elizabeth, 85.
Backer, John, 277.
Bacon, William F,158.
Badger, Joseph, 247.
Bailey, Baylie,Bayley,
Garni., jr., 143.
John, 330.
Matthew, 268, 266.
Michael, 374.
Baker, Ann, 253.
John, 253.
Nicholas, 263(2).
Sarah, 253.
Thomas, 354.
Baker, see Backer.
Balch, Abner, 182.
Almira A., 182.
Lydia P. (Wood-
bury), 182.
Balfour, Frederic H.,
360.
Ballard, Abigail, 76.
Abigail (Richard-
son), 76.
Thomas, 76.
Bangs, Annie, 160.
Mary Crocker Bak-
er, 160.
Seymour, 160.
Banister, William B.,
335.
Banking, 197.
Barker, Mary, 263,266.
Nathan, 304.
Thomas, 310.
Barnard, John, 160.
Barrett, Sally, 263(2).
Bartlett, Bartelett,Al-
bert L., 139.
Ann, 71.
Elizabeth, 263(2),
295.
Francis, 26.
Ichabod, 71.
John, 86(2), 263(4).
Mary, 71.
William Francis,
135(2).
Bartoll, Earth ol, ,
253.
John, 253(3), 277(2).
Mary, 253, 277.
Parnell, 253(2), 277.
William, 253, 277
(2).
Barton, Adam, 95.
Frances, 309.
Samuel, 149.
Bass, , 297.
Bates, Abbie M., 187.
Eliza (Jones), 184.
Eliza M., 187.
Ira, 184.
Joseph, 187.
Mary Ellen, 179.
Sarah J., 184.
Bathe, Anne, 291.
Ri., 291.
Richard, 291.
William, 291.
Beachem, Ed ward, 92.
Elizabeth, 92.
Beadle, Thomas, 327
(2), 329.
Beale, James, 277(2),
278.
Martha, 277(9).
Martha, jr., 277.
Samuel, 277(3), 278
(2).
William, 277(7),
278(7), 286, 290.
Beck, Jonathan, 337.
Beckford, Elizabeth,
263, 267.
Beddowman, Julia T
180.
Bedeman, Walter
Martyn, 86(2).
Beecher, Rev. Edward
68.
Esther Harriet, 68.
George Howard, 68.
Rev. Henry Ward,
68.
Isabella Anna, 68.
Jessie Colton, 68.
Beers, Philip, 278.9
Belcher, Gov., 238(2).
Bell, Christ., 309.
Gillian, 310.
John, 311.
Sarah, 263(2).
Urseley, 311.
Bellingham, William,
306, 309.
Bellows, Asahel, 78.
Emeline Augusta,
78, 191.
Hannah (Valentine)
78.
Belly, Phillip, 374.
Belville (Newbury,
Mass.), 336.
Bement, Abigail, 357.
Benjamin (schooner),
327.
Bennett, Benet, Ben-
net, Bennitt, Ed-
ward, 278.
Goodwife, 280.
John, 253, 278.
Margaret, 253, 278
(2), 279, 280.
Mary, 253.
Samuel, 278.
Benson, Josephine V.,
173.
Bentley, Dr., 6(2;, 11,
INDEX.
377
Berry, John N., 164.
Besom, , 272.
John, 278.
Best, John, 84.
Betsy (sloop), 198.
Beverly (Mass.), 341,
345.
Bickford,Chester,187.
Christian, 278.
Bill, James, 354.
Billings, Henry A.,
174.
Josephine, 174.
Josephine (Lewis),
174.
Mary J., 175.
Mary (Yates), 175.
Samuel, 175.
Binfield, Elizabeth,86.
Bird, see Burd, Byrde.
Birmingham, Ber-
mingham, Rich-
ard, 263(2).
Bixby, Elizabeth, 353.
Hannah, 353.
Rebecca (Foster),
353.
Black, James, 95(2).
John, 93, 94.
Robard, 96.
Black Prince (ship),
313(2), 316.
Black Warrior (clip-
per), 24.
Blackler, Frank, 253.
Mrs. Levi M.,251(2).
Louisa (Morse), 253
(2).
William, 253(2).
William Thomas,
253.
Blackman, Eva, 190.
Samuel, 95.
Blake, John, 372.
Blanchard,Blansherd,
Allen, 176.
Barbara (Millard),
176.
Benjamin, 252.
Clara Francis, 176.
Edgar Wilson, 176.
Hattie Lewis, 176.
James Allen, 176.
James Willard, 176.
Mary Estha, 176.
Blanchard, Richard,
309.
Sarah Gertrude,176.
Bland, Peter, 96.
Blaney, , 272.
Bligh, Samuel, 229.
Blockhouse at Brad-
ford, 219.
Boardman, Boarman,
J., 335.
Jonathan, 336.
Michael, 336.
Nathaniel, 354.
Boden, see Bowden.
Bodily, , 332.
Bogle, Admiral, 39,
50.
Lieut, 41.
Rear Admiral, ,
18(2), 52.
Archibald G., 54.
Rear Admiral Ar-
chibald George,41
Bolndell, Josephine,
157.
Bond, Dr., 332(2).
Borden, Sarah, 68.
Borgan, Peter,263,269.
Borland, Jack, 95.
Borneo (schooner),
275.
Boston (Mass.),13,315.
Botting, Bottinge,
Joane, 81, 84.
Jonas, 84.
Bounco, Susanna, 264
(2).
Bowden, Boden, Bow-
doine, Benjamin,
3d, 253.
Betsy, 264(2).
Charles Bruce, 264
(2).
John, 253, 263, 265.
Leonora, 264(2).
Mary (Knight), 253.
Wm., 373.
Bowditch, , 5.
Capt., 151, 208(2),
339.
Dr., 146(2).
Henry Ingersoll, M.
D., 146.
Nathaniel, 5.
Bo we, Robert, 264 (2).
Bowen, Boen, Eliza-
beth, 278 (3).
Thomas, 278 (4).
Bower, Richard, 88.
Bowyer, Richard, 87
(2).
Boxford (Mass.), 337,
341.
Brackett, , 113.
Betsey, 79.
George, 79.
Nathan, 79.
Bradbury, Theophi-
lus, 335.
Wm., 330.
Braddis, , 272.
Bradford, Judge, 202.
Mary Hoppin, 176.
Nicholas R., 176.
Robert, 278.
Susan (Climer), 176.
Bradford (Mass.), 219,
342.
Bradley, Capt. Phine-
has, 248.
Bradstocke, , 372.
Bradstreet,Bradstrete
Broadstreet, ,
192.
Cornelius, 171.
Eunice E., 171.
Eunice (Wright),
171.
John, 278 (3).
Martha, 287.
Sara, 278.
Brady, , 118.
James T., 118, 119.
Brainard, John G. C.,
124.
Bransford, Parthenia
A., 178.
Walter L., 178.
Bray, Zacariar, 94.
Brearam, Grace, 306.
Roger, 306.
Breed, Amos, 245.
John, 237.
Joseph, 229.
Brekenden, John, 87.
Bretch, Bretche, ,
374.
Richard, 374.
Brett, Stephen, 82.
Brewer, John, 88.
378
INDEX.
Brickenden, Alexan-
der, 82.
Bridgets, Elizabeth,
86.
Briggs, Harriet
(Brown), 66.
Nicholas, 66.
Broadfield, Mary, 373.
William, 374.
Brocklebank, Capt.
Samuel, 228.
Bronsdon, Brosdon,
, 226.
Robert, 225 (2), 226,
236 (2).
Brookins, Samuel, 333.
Brooks, Rev. Bishop,
111.
Edmund, 253.
Elizabeth, 189.
Mary, 253.
Mary (Pearce), 253.
Mary (Russell), 189.
Timothy, 189.
Broome, Broom,
James, 338, 342.
Broughton, N., 272.
Brown, , 272.
Charlotte, 79.
Elizabeth M., 264,
268.
Ellesabeth, 279.
Gerald, 26.
Hattie Marion, 172
J. Ross, 54.
John, 113 (3).
Capt. Joseph, 336
(2).
Mary A., 168.
Mary Adams, 258.
Mary Adams (Mar-
tin), 253.
Mary E., 65.
Peter, 79.
Richard, 253.
Sarah (Goodwin),
253.
Stephen, 334.
Susanna, 189.
Theodosia (Ashley),
79.
Thomas, 253.
William, 374.
William Goodwin,
253.
Browne, Abner, 96.
Col. Albert G., 107.
Felow, 96.
Robert, 329 (3).
Col. Samuel, 330.
Bruce, , 56, 363.
Berton Lovell, 155.
Sir Frederick, 41,
362.
Leonard, 155.
Mary (Jenkins), 155.
Morris Mansfield,
179.
Oren Leonard, 155.
Starr Lewis, 179.
Wilbur Lamson,155.
Brunsun, Isaack, 325.
Bryan, , 316 (2).
Buck, James, 164.
John H., 293.
Lucenia, 164.
Bumngton,Buffenton,
Jonathan, 78.
Maria Ann (Chur-
chill), 78.
Nehemiah, 93.
Serene, 78.
Thomas, 94.
BufEum, Sarah, 264,
268.
Bugbee,Alanson, 185.
Harriet Chandler,
185.
Jane M., 185.
Bulker, John, 279.
Bullecke, Kymbo-
rough, 373.
Bungay, George W.,
131.
Burchmore, Stephen
Ward, 1.
Burchstead, Dr. Hen-
ry, 243.
Burd, John, 279.
Burgevine, , 56,
364 (2), 367.
Col., 56.
Burke, Burk, Capt.,
319.
Hannah, 272 (2).
Thatcher, 272.
Capt. Wm., 273 (2).
Burlake, Johan, 374.
Burleigh, William H.,
131.
Burlingame, , 21,
24, 41, 45, 46, 48,
53, 55.
Anson, 56.
Burnet, Gov., 238 (2).
Burns, , 117.
Robert, 115, 130.
Burrage, , 272.
Burrill, Burrell, ,
221, 225, 227 (3),
231(2), 234, 240,
241, 246.
Capt., 227 (2).
Col., 233, 235.
Lieut., 223, 224.
Amos, 245.
Anne Tompson,247.
Charles E., 244.
Ebenezer, 222, 225,
226, 228, 234, 235
(2), 236 (5), 237,
238 (3), 239 (4),
240 (2), 241, 242(2),
243, 244, 247 (2),
248 (2), 249.
Ebenezer, jr., 239,
240, 247, 248.
Elizabeth, 249.
Elizabeth Rawson,
249.
Ellen Mudge, 221,
227.
Eunice, 242.
Francis, 222(3), 228.
George, 221 (4), 222
(3), 247.
James, 249 (3).
James, jr., 248 (2).
John, 222 (3), 223,
225,226(2), 227(5),
228 (2), 229, 230
(2), 231, 233, 239,
247, 249.
John, jr., 222-224,
228, 229 (3).
John, sr., 222-225,
227.
Capt. John, 229.
Capt. John, jr., 226.
Lieut. John, 224,
232 (2), 235.
Lieut. John, jr., 229.
Lieut. John, sr., 222.
Lois Ivory, 226, 232
(2), 235.
INDEX.
379
Burrill, Lydia, 233,
234.
Martha Ellen, 245.
Martha Newhall,
244.
Mary, 221, 226, 234,
239.
Mary Hills, 243.
Micajah, 244 (2),
245 (2).
Patty, 245.
Samuel, 225 (2), 226,
236 (3), 243 (5).
Sarah, 232, 247.
Theo., 227.
Theophilus,227, 232
(2), 233, 334 (3),
235, 236 (2), 239,
243 (4), 244 (3),
245.
Warren, 247.
Burroughs, Annette
Augusta (Frye),
73.
Burt, J., 295.
John, 295.
Burton,Elizabeth,291.
John, 291 (2).
Richard, 140.
Bush, Aaron, 356 (2),
358.
Abiel, 356.
Alice, 356.
Caleb, 358.
David, 356.
Eli, 356.
Elizabeth, 356, 358.
Experance, 356.
Hannah, 356.
John, 356.
Jonathan, 356, 358
(3), 359.
Joshua, 356(2), 358.
Mary, 356.
Miriam, 358.
Moses, 356, 358.
Oliver, 356.
Rachel, 358, 359.
Rachel (Kibbe), 358
(2).
Rufus, 356.
Sarah, 356.
Buswell, Samuel, 351
(2).
Butler, Charles, 132.
Butler, Thomas, 353.
Byfield (Mass.), 302,
342.
Byrch, Katherine, 83.
Byrde, John, 87.
Cabot, Cabbot, Cab-
bott, , 151 (3),
216.
John, 151 (2), 330,
Titus, 94.
Cahoone.Capt. James,
248.
Caliga, , 145.
Call, Henry E., 157.
Calley, Cally, Francis,
233.
Capt. James, 330.
Mary, 279.
Thomas, 279.
Campion, Richarde, 87.
Candey, Susaner, 95.
Candish, Thomas, 264
(2).
Caner, Rev. Dr., 297.
Captors (ship), 322.
Carliell, Georg, 310.
Carpenter, Elijah, 67.
George Rice, 141.
Luetta L., 67.
Phebe (Wilson), 67.
Carroll, Minnie, 178.
Cars Island (Newbury-
port, Mass.), 332.
Carter, , 329.
Amos, 78.
Jacob, 77.
Martha (Choate),78.
Nancy, 77.
Nathaniel, 295.
Solomon, 76.
Wilfd., 327.
Cartland, G. W., 137.
Joseph, 106.
Castell, Thomas, 87.
Caswell, Casswell,
Clara Ann Stand-
ley, 254.
George Payson New-
hall, 254.
John, 373.
Joseph D. Standley,
254.
Martha A. (Stand-
ley), 254 (7).
Caswell, Martha Jane,
254.
Robert, 374.
SarahElizabeth,254.
Thomas P., 254 (7).
Thomas Proctor,
254, 264, 269.
Thomas Proctor, jr.
254.
William, 254.
Gate, , 105.
Cato (brig), 218.
Centipede (schooner),
215 (2).
Cesar (negro), 239 (3).
Chalke, Thomas, 291.
Chalkley, Thomas,
146.
Chamberlen, Eben-
ezer, 147.
Chambers, Hiccox, &
Denyer, 207.
Chaney, Alexander
Archable, 179.
Archable, 179.
Charles Alexander,
179.
James Frederick,
179.
Lou Ella, 180.
Margaret (Jones),
179.
Mary Ella, 179.
Oscar Lewis, 179.
Chang Mei, 37 (2).
Chapman, Annis, 254,
272.
Annist (Vickery),
264, 268.
Benjamin Hatha-
way, 254.
Betsy Berry, 254.
Caroline Augusta,
254.
Eliza, 254.
Elizabeth Adams
(Martin), 255.
Fred A., 251.
Hannah, 254 (2).
Joanna Hannah
(Roundy), 254.
John, 254 (4), 255,
264 (2).
John Francis, 254.
John Ogleby, 254.
380
INDEX.
Chapman, Joseph W.,
250, 251 (3), 252
(2).
Joseph Warren, 254.
Leonora (Bowden),
254 (4), 255.
Leonora Maria, 254.
Martha Ann, 254,
264, 268.
Martha (Ogleby),
254 (5), 255 (4).
272 (2).
Mary Ann, 254.
Mary Ann (Parker),
254.
Mary O., 264, 267.
Mary Ogleby, 254.
Mary Roundey, 254,
Nathaniel, 254 (5),
255 (5), 264, 268,
272 (4).
Nathaniel, jr., 255,
272.
Nicholas O., 254.
Nicholas Ogleby,
255.
Samuel, 255(2), 264,
268, 272 (2).
Samuel, jr., 254 (3),
264 (2).
Samuel, 2d, 255.
Stephen, 254 (2).
Susannah (Swan),
254 (3), 264 (2).
William, 255.
Charles, William, 279.
Charming Kate
(schooner), 198.
Charnock, Hannah,
232.
Chase, Chace, Dr.,
121 (2).
Benjamin R., 158.
Hannah, 162.
Jonathan, 162.
Monemia, 187.
Nathan H., 67.
Patience (Peaslee),
162.
Dr. Thomas, 121.
Cheever,Chever, ,
337 (2).
George B., 124.
Chenye, Sir Robert,
87 (2).
Chesapeake(flagship),
oo
CO.
Chichester, Mary,279.
William, 279.
Chicken, Jane, 307.
Childs, Child, Cyn-
thia, 186.
George W., 111.
Lydia Maria, 125,
137.
Minnie A., 186.
Warren F., 186.
Chilfester, John, jr.,
374.
John, sr., 374.
Nicholas, 374.
Thomas, 374.
Chinn, Chin, Chine,
Ching, Elizabeth,
279.
Emma H., 251, 252
(2).
George, 251, 255,
279.
Joseph Abbot, 255.
Mary (Oliver), 255.
Chipman, , 332.
Choate, Joseph Hodg-
es, 6.
Rufus, 11.
Church silver, 293.
Churchill, A. Flor-
ence, 170.
J., 295, 296.
Jesse, 294.
M. Josephine, 170.
Sarah E., 170 (2).
William, 170 (2).
Claflin, , 113.
Mary, 142.
William, 142.
Claggett, Thomas
William, 71.
Clapp, Clap, Arvilla,
157.
Isaac, 157.
Robert, 326.
Vesta (Reynolds),
157.
Clark, , 319, 323.
Alia, 178.
Catharine Monroe
(March), 172.
Daniel, 189.
DeWitt S., 140.
Clark, Emily Johonnot,
172.
George W. , 127.
James, 340.
James Wilson, 172.
Judey, 94.
Rev. Peter, 343.
Sarah Achsah, 162.
Clarke, , 2, 196.
Deborah, 3.
Emanuell, 279.
Esther, 306.
Hannah, 3.
Jo, 309.
John, 3 (5), 231 (2),
306 (4), 309, 310,
312.
Lewis, 128.
Mary, 279.
Melissa A. (Hor-
ton), 174.
Milton, 128.
Richard, 306.
Robert, 309,310,312.
Samuel, 264, 270.
Clavel, Tho., 88 (2).
Claxton, Thomas, 87.
Clay, Henry, 124.
Clemens, Jere., 129.
Clement, John, 86.
Clerke, Anne, 310.
Clifton, Gregori, 88.
Clothey, Sarah, 255.
Clynche,Clinche, Eus-
tace, 87.
Katherine, 87.
Walter, 87.
William, 87 (2), 88.
Coates, Coats, Cotes,
Edward, 307 (2),
308, 309, 310 (2).
Jane, 307, 310.
Robert, sr., 307, 312.
Thomas, 307.
William, 309.
Coburn, , 318.
Codner, Codnor.
Christopher, 279.
Henry, 279.
John, 279 (2).
Mary, 279 (3).
Rachel, 279.
Coffin, Coffen, ,
332.
Capt., 318.
INDEX.
381
Coffin, Charles F.,107.
Enoch, 301.
Rev. Enoch, 301.
Joshua, 143.
Nathaniel, 301.
Coges, Joane, 371.
Colby, Abner, 154.
Deborah (Gumiison)
154.
Lois, 154.
Cole, Coles, Jno., 148.
Nicholas, 279.
Thomas, 147.
William, 372.
Collingwood, ,272.
Collins, Anna, 264 (2).
Charles A., 187.
Charles H., 187.
Harriet Augusta P.
H., 166.
James, 331.
Jennie B., 187.
.John A., 127.
John D., 166.
Samuel, 331.
Collyer, Eliza Ellen,
161.
Eliza J., 161.
Hannah M. f 187.
John O., 187.
Thomas, 161.
William O., 187.
Colman, Colemans,
Elnor, 291.
Ephraim, 357.
Jeremiah, 335.
Columbia (ship), 3,
217, 219.
Columbia river, 3.
Coombs, Combes,
Combs, Coombes,
Henry, 279.
Mighill, 279 (2).
Capt. Wm., 334,
335.
Commens, Samuel,94.
Commerce, 18th cen-
tury, 193.
Compton, Adelaide
Eliza (Bishop),70.
Henry Springsteen,
70.
MiriamSpringsteen,
70.
ondey, Samuel, 280.
Confucius (gun-boat),
29, 38, 40.
Conger, , 44.
Congress (schooner),
215 (2).
Conklin, Ophelia, 71.
Constellation (frigate)
189.
Constitution (frigate),
189.
Converse, Anne(Guth-
rie), 71.
Charles Crozat, 71.
Charles William,71.
Clarence Conyers,71
Maxey Manning, 71.
Conwell, Russell H.,
136.
Cony, John, 293.
Cook, Cap!., 38.
Cooke, , 230.
John, 291, 292.
Pattie, 188.
Coolidg, Capt., 332.
Cooper, Mary, 221.
Copp, Eunice,264,270.
Cormedesz, Clemence
Clarissa, 157.
Cornell,Elvira C., 176.
Sarah Smith (Bos-
worth), 176.
William A., 176.
Coster, W. E., 135.
Couchman, Mary, 81,
82 (2).
William, 82.
Coulter, Colter, Ar-
thur D., 48, 62.
John, 54.
Courthopp, Alexan-
der, 81, 82, 84.
Ann, 82, 84 (2).
John, 81, 82, 84.
Katheryn, 81.
Margaret, 81.
Mary, 81, 84.
Peter, 81, 82 (3).
Courtis, Courstis,Mrs.
George B., 251.
Will, 292.
Coussine, John, 90.
Philip, 90.
Cox, ,150(2).
Capt., 345.
Capt. Nicholas, 344.
Cox, Thomas, 150.
Craft, , 325.
Craig, F. M., 172.
Crocker, Ellen Maria,
178.
Maria C. (Harring-
ton), 178.
Samuel, 354.
Uriah B., 178.
Cromwell (ship), 318.
Cropper, Capt., 329.
Jo., 327.
Crosby, Nathl., 353.
Crosscup, Benjamin
F., 170.
Marion, 170.
Miriam P., 170.
Crosse, Leonard, 309.
Margaret, 309.
Mary, 309.
Crowell, Aaron, 91.
John, 91.
Crowninshield, ,
4, 6, 201.
Benjamin W., 6.
Edward, 255.
George, 93.
Capt. George, 201.
Jacob, 6, 7.
Mary Adams
(Brown), 255.
Mary (Dixey), 255.
William, 255 (2).
William, jr., 255.
Cummings, Cuming,
Jean, 264, 268.
Jno., 148.
Curtis, Curtys, ,
87, 234.
George William,113,
249.
Hannah, 353.
Thomas, 87 (2), 88,
353.
Curwen, , 216.
Samuel, 216.
Cuyler, Rev. Theo-
dore, 106.
Daland, Scipio, 96.
Dalton, Ann, 308.
Thomas, 308.
Dampier,Thomas,310.
Damport, Thomas, 310.
Dana, , 74.
382
INDEX.
Dana, Daniel, 333.
George, 65.
Mary Ann (Glad-
ding), 65.
Thomas Gladding,
65.
Danforth, Catherine
(Duncklee), 153.
Eliza Ann, 153.
Jonathan, 153.
Daniell, , 374.
Daniels, Capt., 200.
Danley, Jane M., 73.
Danvers (Mass.), 340,
341.
Darling, Darlin, Abi-
gail, 264, 267.
George, 280.
Dawson, Dauson,
Anne, 311.
Francis, 307.
John, 307, 311.
Richard, 308.
Davenport, Satira, 74.
Davis, Abby H., 179.
Ambrose, 156.
Carl Thomas, 172.
Dorcas, 161.
E., 296.
Eunice (Waldo), 73.
Francis, 177.
Hugh, 147 (2).
Capt. John. 329.
Joseph, 161.
Lewie, 172.
Lucy, 158.
Mary S., 176.
Nathan, 73.
Rebecca, 70.
Rose (Kerrigan),
177.
S. S., 172.
Susan (Boynton),
161.
Tom, 119.
Capt. William, 338.
Dean, Deane, Abbie
Austin, 65.
Jonathan, 198.
Tiller, 94.
De Estain, Count,316.
Deighton - JBraysher,
,57.
C., 57.
Delano, Deborah, 167.
Delano, Mary Fuller,
166.
Rufus, 167.
Dempster, William
R., 128.
Jane Brown, 177.
Dennis, Dennes, Jas.,
272, 280.
Dent, , 40.
Derby, Darby, ,
5, 7 (2), 193 (2),
195 (2), 197 (5),
198 (6), 199 (2),
200, 20 1(3), 202(4),
203, 204(3), 205,
206 (3), 207 (3),
208, 209(4), 211 (2),
212(3), 213, 214(4),
215 (2), 216(2), 217
(3), 218.
Capt., 195, 196(3),
198, 210(3), 218(2).
E. H., 216.
Elias Basket, 193,
208 (2), 211, 214,
215, 218.
Basket, 216.
John, 3 (2), 202, 208
(4), 217, 219.
Capt. John,210, 218.
Richard, 3, 195 (3),
208 (2), 209.
Richard, jr., 198,
218.
Richard, sr., 209,
210, 219.
Roger, 3, 195 (2).
Derby Wharf (Salem),
197.
Devereux, Deverex,
Deverix,Deverixe,
Devorix, , 272.
Ann, 280(4).
John, 280(2).
Polly, 272.
Divine, Kate, 185.
Katherine, 185.
Patrick, 185.
Dew, Capt., 50.
Dexter, , 335.
Dhu, Capt. Rhoder-
ick, 38, 41.
Diamond, Joseph, 265,
267.
William, 151.
Diar, James, 95.
Digs, William, 96.
Dill, Thomas, 280.
Dinwiddie, Gov., 4.
Dinsmore, Robert,110 r
123.
Ditmar, Capt., 57.
Dix, , 108.
Dorothea, 108.
Dixenson, Obed, 96.
Dixey, , 272(3).
, Capt., 272.
John, 272(2).
Dodge, Capt., 315 r
317.
Abigail, 353.
George, 187.
George Lewis, 187.
Gladys, 187.
Mary Abby, 144.
William, 151.
Dole & Ball, 323.
Doliber, Dollaber, Jo-
seph, 280.
Mary, 272.
Tristram, 272.
Dolphin (sloop), 325.
Donckin, Bakey, 95.
Dorman, Amos, 161.
Arthur Warren,161.
Edwin Thompson^
161.
Jennie Maria, 161.
Jesse, 354.
Josie Emily, 161.
Lewis Asa, 161.
Sarah Richards
(Hollo well), 161.
Dorsey, Henry, 96.
Douglas, , 29(2)*
30(2).
James, 148.
Downing, Downeing,
Elin, 280.
Mary, 280(3).
Richard, 280(3).
Theophilus, 280.
Dowse, Capt. 340.
Draffin, Annie E.,157..
Drewe, John, 86(2).
Driver, , 199(3).
Capt., 199(2), 200(4),,
201(2), 207.
Michael, 206(2).
Capt. Michael, 199,
INDEX.
383
Drowning accident,
343.
Drunkenness, 192.
Dudley, Gov., 230(3).
Clarence H., 182.
Lizzie Estelle, 182.
Lucy O. (Bur-
roughs), 182.
Thomas, 221.
Dummer, Gov., 238,
302.
Lt. Gov. William,
302.
Wm., 302.
Dummer Academy
(Byfield),302.
Duncan, (ship) 51.
Dunkan, Leonard, 307.
Dunn, Lillian, 174.
Marion, 174.
Willis, 174.
Willis C., 174.
Duran, Arthur F., 80.
Ethel Marrian, 80.
George Frederick,
80(2).
Herman Leslie, 80.
Isaac Frederick, 80.
Lucy A. F., 80(2).
Roy Leslie, 80.
Dwyer, Charles A.,
186.
Edward A., 186.
Sarah E., 186.
Dyer, see Diar.
Earl of Halifax (pack-
et), 344, 347.
East India Marine So-
ciety, 5, 12.
Eaton, Georgianna
Sophia, 184.
Harriet (Hosmer),
184.
Thomas, 344.
William, 184.
Eborn, Eaborne,
Eburne, Mary,
281.
Samuel, 280(3).
Edes and Gill, 347.
Eddy, , 82.
Edgett, Carrie C., 348.
Edwards, Amelia B.,
106.
Edwards, James, 281.
John, 293.
William, 281.
Elder, Cordelia Basha,
172.
Didama, 172.
James, 172.
Elderbecke, Richard,
88.
Elkins, Abigail Hale,
255.
Edward, 255(9),
256(2).
Edward Brooks, 255.
Eliza Purrington,
255.
Elizabeth, 255.
Emeline, 255.
Hannah R., 255.
Jane, 255(2).
John, 255.
Mary, 255.
Mary (Brooks),
255(8), 256(2).
Mary Elizabeth,255.
Mary (Hales), 255(7),
256(2).
Rebecca, 255.
Rebecca Dennis,255.
Richard Hales, 255.
Ruthey Brooks,256.
Sally Bruce, 256.
Sarah, 256.
Thomas, 255(7),
256(3).
Ellenwood, Ebenezer,
331.
Sarah, 331.
Ellerker, Annie La-
die, 308.
Sir Ralph, 308.
Elliot, Eliott, William,
331(2).
Ellis, , 190.
Rev. Dr., 104.
Charles M., 75.
Thomas, 281.
Capt. Thomas, 91.
Ellsworth, Capt., 357.
Emerson, Samuel, 332.
Emery, Capt., 332.
Stephen, 293.
Emilio, Manuel, 129.
Encounter (ship), 38,
50, 51.
Encounter (flagship),
41.
Endeavor (brig), 152.
Endeavor (sloop), 237.
Endecott, John, 136,
144.
Endecott, see also In-
ticot.
English, Philip, 149,
150.
Essex Marine Rail-
way, 6.
Essex (brig), 328.
Essex (ship), 344,
347(3).
Estort, Water, 87.
Evans, Asaph, 155.
Bailey Winslow,175.
Bertha Lewis, 175.
Everett Lewis, 155.
Forest Leon, 165.
Fred B., 175.
George Warren, 175.
Hannah, 155.
Hosea, 155.
Margaret Hatha-
way, 175.
Marion King, 175.
Everard, Henry, 87.
Everett, Edward, 132.
Exchange (ship), 215.
pabens, Joseph War-
ren, 22.
Fabre, Capt., 200.
Fabyan, Dr. Charles
W., 65.
Fahey, Patrick, 9.
Fairfax, Bryan, 3.
Hannah, 3.
William, 3.
Fairfield, Mary, 263,
265.
Fairman, see Ferman.
Fame (brigantine),
215(2).
Farley, Harriet, 129.
Farnham, , 10.
Daniel, 345.
Hannah, 67.
Olive (Leffingwell),
67.
Stephen, 67.
Farrar, Canon, 111(2).
Flora C., 79.
384
INDEX.
Farrar, Thomas, 79.
Farrington, , 236.
Capt., 235.
John,235.
Martha, 235.
Matthew, jr., 235.
Samuel, 237.
Sarah, 235.
Capt. William, 235,
244.
Fellmore, Felmore,
John, 826.
Capt. John, 326.
Thomas, 327.
Felt, Benjamin, 93(2).
Felton, Francis, 256.
Sally, 256.
Sally (Graves), 256.
Sarah, 265, 271.
Fennell, Henrietta, 69.
Fenton, , 190.
Ferman, Benjamin,
357.
Elizabeth, 356.
James, 356, 357(5).
John, 356, 357.
Joseph, 357.
Patience, 357(2).
Patience (French),
357.
Richard, 357(3).
Ferrand, Edmond,
281.
Fessenden, Fissenden,
Albert H., 80.
Ernest Garfield, 80.
Martha, 84.
Nora Belle, 80, 191.
Roy Alfred, 80.
Willie Pitt, 80.
Fields, James T., 137.
Mrs. James T., 140.
Sarah B., 173.
Fife, , 191.
Annetta, 191.
Margaret, 190, 191.
Matthew, 190.
Matthew C., 190,
191.
Matthew E., 190.
Fillmore, Capt. John,
326.
Fires, 332.
Fisher, , 77.
Andrew Cobb, 181.
Fisher, Ellen Louise
(Pease), 181.
Fannie G., 181.
James C., 190.
Sally, 77.
Walter, 372.
Fisk, Dwight Lewis,
175.
KatharineBradford,
175.
Walter Edward, 175.
Fiske, Peter, 94.
Flagg, Dr. John, 243.
Fletcher, , 345.
Dr., 81, 82.
Ann, 81.
Edmond, 82.
Elizabeth, 82.
Giles, 82.
Gyles, 81.
Dr. Gyles, 81, 82.
Henry, 82.
Joane, 84.
Judeth, 82.
Mary, 82.
Phineas, 81, 84(2),
85.
Priscilla, 82.
Flint, Pegay, 96.
Flood, Wm., 334.
Flower, B. O., 140.
Floyd, Capt. John,
229.
Fly (schooner), 215.
Foard, see Forde.
Foley, P. K., 124, 144.
Follansbee, John, 333.
Foot, Capt., 321.
Forbes, , 40.
Forbush, John, 281.
Forde, Foard, John,
281.
Richard, 292.
Forman, Formond,
William, 374(2).
Forrester, Forester,
, 6, 25(2), 33,
39.
Cato, 95.
Edward, 25.
Fortripp, Laurence,
87.
Foster, Forster, ,
273(2) 372.
Judge, 322.
Foster, Asa, 342.
George W., 164.
Hannah, 342.
lantha (Lewis), 165.
John W., 46.
Nehemiah, 164.
Robert, 335, 372.
Susan M., 164.
Zachariar, 94.
Fowle, Rebecca, 263,
265.
Fowler, , 107, 273.
Elizabeth, 165.
O. R., 145.
Samuel, 165, 273.
Susan, 165.
Foy, Pat, 8.
Foyker, Thomas, 86.
Franc, Robert, 374.
Frances, Peter, 95.
Frankelyn, Thomas,
87.
Franklin (brigantine),
215(4).
Franklin (ship), 320(2).
Frederick, , 18.
Freed, Anne, 308.
Elizabeth, 308.
Freedley,LillaC.,160.
Freeman, Primus, 95.
Robert, 94.
William Frederick,
75.
Freeto, Jane Bessom,
265, 267.
John, 265, 267.
Mary (Brown), 265,
267.
French, , 349.
Abigail, 357, 359.
Abner, 354(2).
Alice, 356(2).
Amie, 356.
Anna, 359.
Asher, 358.
Azubah, 359(2).
Calvin, 358.
Cynthe, 359.
Eleanor, 359(2).
Elizabeth, 354, 355,
356(2), 357.
Ephraim, 348(3),
349(2), 355(5),
356(2), 357(2).
Esther, 357.
INDEX.
385
French, Experience,
356(2).
Hephzibah, 352,
356(5).
; Huldah, 357.
. Isaac, 358.
Jemimah, 354.
John, 348(10),349(6)
350(6), 351(9),
352(4), 354(3),
356(2), 358(3),
359(6).
Corp. John, 349.
John, jr., 350(3),
351, 354.
John, sr., 350.
Joseph, 354(2), 358.
Kezia, 354.
Leudiah, 359(2).
Levi, 359(3).
Lucy, 358.
Lutherson, 359.
Lydia, 351, 352(2),
356, 358.
Manassah, 357(2).
Martha, 351, 352(2).
Mary, 348(4), 351(2),
352(2), 354, 359.
Miriam, 358(3).
Moriah, 357.
Patience, 351,352(2),
356(2).
Phebe, 350, 351,
352(3), 353, 356(2).
Rachel, 358, 359(4).
Rebecca, 357.
Richard, 348, 351(2),
352(2), 355(6),
356(3), 357, 358(2).
Richard, jr., 358.
Samuel, 348(2),
354(2).
Sarah, 352, 353.
Silence, 358(2).
Susannah, 358.
Thomas, 348(6).
Ensign Thomas,
Friendship (brig), 151.
Friendship (schooner)
204.
Frost, Mary, 256.
Rachel, 256(2).
Richard, 256(2).
Sally, 256.
Frye, Fry, Elizabeth,
138.
Harvey G., 73.
Henry B., 73.
Lucy (Hill), 73.
Mehitabel Brown,
73.
Rebecca (Hovey),73.
Fuller, John, sr., 224.
Margaret, 25.
Furbush, John, 281.
Furgesen, Abigail,
265, 268.
Furlong and Titcomb,
200, 201.
Furness, Dr., 106.
Cage, Gen., 209,
210(2), 291.
Sergeant John,
350.
Gale, Bartholomew,
281.
Edmund, 325.
Gardner, Gardiner,
Ellen, 373.
Esther, 65.
Frederick Bowen,
65.
Henry, 316.
Jack, 95.
James Lewis, 65.
John, jr., 322, 323.
Laura Isabel, 65.
Lawrence, 65.
Nicholas B., 65.
Peleg W., 65.
Primus, 96.
Rhoda (Brown), 65.
Walter, 65.
Gardoqui & Co., 197.
Garibaldi, 18.
Garland, George, 329.
Garrison, William
Lloyd, 129(2),
136(2), 140.
Garthorne, Francis,
297.
Gatchell, Gachell,
Ann, 265, 270.
John, jr., 281.
John, sr., 281(2).
Mary, 265, 270.
Samuel, 265,270,281.
Wiburrough,281(2).
Gates, Adelia M. (Puf-
fer), 183.
Augustus, 183.
Ella Maria, 183.
Gathercole,Lydia,232.
Gaudeloupe (ship of
war), 319.
Gedney, Maj. Barthl. r
229.
Jane, 312.
Germaine, Dr. Charles,
168.
Mary (Barker-John-
son), 168.
MaryFelton, 168.
Gerrish, Benj. jr.,196.
Col. Jacob, 244.
Gibb, William, 150(2),
151(3).
Gibson, Jane, 69.
Gifford, Richard, f 329
(2).
Gill, Elizabeth, 265,
271.
Gilley, Betsy (Goss),
273.
Sally, 256, 273.
Sally Rebecca Le-
Craw, 256.
Thomas, 256.
William, 273.
William, jr., 273(2).
Gilligan, Gilliginn,
Frances, 281.
Francise, 281.
Gillis, Capt. James
Dunlap, 4.
Girdler, Anna (Den-
nis), 256.
Benjamin, 256.
Benjamin, jr., 256,
' 265, 268.
Hannah, 265, 267.
Gleason, Amos, 154.
Mary (Nutting), 154.
Mary Elizabeth,154.
Glenton, Henrie, 308.
Henry, 308.
William, 308(2).
Glidd, John, 83.
Mary, 83.
Gloucester (Mass.),12 r
342.
Glover, , 14.
Benjamin, 95.
386
INDEX.
Glover, Gen. John,
163(2).
Jonathan, 265, 266.
Sally, 163.
Sarah, 163.
Godfrey, Edward K.,
67.
Going, Roxie, 79.
Gold Hunter (ship), 21.
Goldsmith, Dr. Wil-
liam, 107.
William B., M. D.,
139.
Goldthwait, Adaline
J., 170.
Dennis, 170.
Fred P., 170.
Good, Adam, 373.
Goodale, Goodie,
Abraham, 92.
Benjamin, 92.
Cato, 95.
David, 92.
Elizabeth, 92(2).
John, 92.
Joseph, 92.
Mary, 92.
Samuel, 92.
Sarah, 92.
Thomas, 92.
Zachariah, 92.
Goodhue, , 337.
Goodwin, Ada, 184.
Elizabeth (Graves),
161.
Jonas B., 161.
Jonas Ball, 161.
William Otis, 161.
Gooler, Deborah, 281.
Gooy, Elfrey D., 190.
Gordon, , 18, 26,
27(2), 362(3), 364,
365(2), 366(2), 367
(2), 368.
Capt., 367.
Gen., 27, 37.
Benjamin Lewis,72.
Cyrus, 72.
Cyrus Lewis, 72.
Ellen Belle, 72.
Ellen M. (Cutter),
72.
Frank Cutter, 72.
Sally Lewis, 72.
Sarah J., 65.
Goss, Goos, , 273.
Addie May, 183.
Clarence William,
183.
Daniel Walter, 183.
Flora Belle, 183.
Henry, 183.
Henry Walter, 183.
Margery, 88.
Sarah (Dexter), 183.
Gough, , 29.
Capt., 30.
Gould, Daniel, 265,
269, 353.
David, 353.
Hannah, 353.
John, 351, 352(2),
353(3).
Lydia, 353.
Mary, 353.
Nathaniel, 353.
Phebe, 351, 352,353.
Sarah, 353.
Solomon, 353.
Zaccheus, 353.
Gove, Bertha E., 171.
Carrie S., 171.
Edward, 133.
Elizabeth, 121, 133.
Enoch, 171.
Graham, Agnes May,
155.
Albert Arthur, J55.
Asenath (Adams),
155.
Bertha Amanda,155.
Charles Sumner,155.
Clyde Lewis, 155.
Edith Mabel, 155.
Eliakim, 155.
Florence Ethel, 155.
George Sumner,155.
John Dana, 155.
Mary(Fleming),155.
Maud Elima, 155.
Samuel, 155.
Grand Ossell (ship),
147.
Grand Turk (ship),
215(2), 217(6), 218.
Grandin, Judith, 281.
Grandy,Amos,265,269.
Lydia, 265, 269.
Mary (Boden), 265,
269.
Grant, , 18, 42.
Elijah, 171.
John, 265, 268.
Louise (Curtis),171.
Martha A., 171.
Primus, 94.
Grant-Duff, Rt. Hon.
Sir Mount-Stuart
Elphinstone, 27.
Graves, Admerel, 321.
Amos Evans, 256(6),
273(2).
Amos Evans,jr.,256.
Edward Union, 256.
Eliza (Chapman),
256(5), 273(2).
Helen Maria, 256.
James C., 251.
James Chapman,
256(2), 273.
John, jr., 256(2).
John Chapman, 256,
273.
John Mason, 251,
256.
Luna S., 186.
Mary, 256(2).
Mary E., 186.
Samuel C., 186.
Gray, , 6.
George, 312.
Jeremiah, 336(2).
Lancelot, 312.
Susanna, 265, 270.
Grayham, John, 265,
266.
Greaves, Ebenezer,
266, 267.
Greely, Greeley, Han-
nah, 266, 269.
Mary, 265, 266.
Green, Benjamin, 165.
Darius, 273.
Eunice Burrill, 242.
Ezra, 242.
James, 95.
Rev. James D., 242.
John, 147.
Josephine, 165.
Mehitabel, 165.
Primus, 94.
Greenfield, Peeter,282.
Greenleaf, , 333.
Edmund, 335.
John, 345.
INDEX.
387
Greenwaye, Willyam,
291.
Green wood, Miles,215.
Grenell, Antoinette,
179.
Grenwell, Anne, 83.
John, 83.
Samuel, 83.
Sarah, 83.
Griffin, Griffing, Ann,
266(2).
Jasper, 282.
Mary Babson, 164.
Capt.Nathaniel, 164.
Priscilla (Lane), 164.
Griggs, CharlesR.,158.
Grinnell, Rebecca
Chase, 137.
Grist, , 273.
Capt. John, 273(2).
Griswold, Rufus W.,
127, 128.
Groundell, Judith,
282(2).
Groundin, Grounden,
Judith, 282(3).
Groves, Cato, 93, 94.
Guion, Capt., 324.
Gurteen, Grace, 142.
Gyles, George, 83.
Haberfeld,Thomas,86.
Hackett, Amy, 182.
Maria Elizabeth
(Passmore), 182.
Rev. Wm. Henry,
182.
Hafsockey Meadow
(Topsfield), 354.
Haggett, Jane, 373.
Nathaniel, 373(4).
Susannah, 373(2).
William, 373.
Hale, Henry Appleton,
8.
Col. Henry Apple-
ton, 18.
James Ford, 8.
Robert, 344.
Thomas, 304.
Hall,Elizabeth, 70,309.
Fanny, 171.
John, 307.
Mary Ann, 171.
Samuel, 171.
Hallett, , 213.
Capt., 212, 214(3).
Capt. Allen, 212.
Hamblin, Francis,330.
Hamilton (clipper),15,
17.
Hammond, Hammon,
, 273.
Deborah, 265, 266.
Harriet, 187.
James, 167.
Hand, , 342.
Handy,Horace R.,174.
Hannaford, Blanche
Percy, 167.
Charles T., 167.
Delia A. (Spinney),
167.
Hanscom, Ann Maria
(Paul), 158.
Matilda, 158.
Samuel, 158.
Harding, Abby, 160.
Lyman, 160.
N., 298.
Newell, 294.
Hardy (gun boat), 38,
39, 41(2), 50(3), 51
(4), 53.
Hardy (steamer), 55.
Harmon, Harman,
Samuel, 83.
Thomas, 82.
Harraden, Hareden,
Harreden, Harre-
din, , 313,316,
320(2).
Capt., 316, 319, 320
(2), 324.
Harriden (ship), 317.
Harrington, George,
79.
Isaac, 79.
James Lewis, 79.
Relief (Watkins),79.
Harris, Amos Hoi-
brook, 76.
Darcas, 328.
Elizabeth (Dennis),
273.
Emma (Leavitt),165.
John, 165.
John B., 165.
Mason, 273.
Robert, 273.
Hart, Charles Brooks,
156.
John, 282.
Lefy (Brooks), 156.
Samuel, 156.
Tho: 88(3).
Hartopp, Joane, 310.
Haruey, , 96.
Harvard College, 231.
Harvey, see Haruey.
Haseltine, David, 219,
220.
Haskel, , 347.
Basket & John (brig-
antine), 215 (2).
Basket & John (ship),
218.
Hasley, Thomas, 89.
Hathorne, Hathen,
, o.
Eleazer, 282.
Hezekiah, 328(4).
Joanna, 328(4).
Jos., 151.
Kathurah, 328.
William, 328(7).
Hathorne, see also
Hawthorne.
Haven, Franklin, 26.
Haverhill (Mass.),342,
343.
Hawkes, , 318.
John, 234.
Lydia, 234.
Hawkins, Chauncey J. ,
141.
Hawthorne, Natha-
niel, 3, 7.
Hawthorne, see also
Hathorne.
Hayden, Joseph Hine,
273(2).
Sarah, 273.
William, 252.
William, jr., 273 (2).
Hayes, , 18, 24(2),
25(3), 29, 36, 42,
46, 53.
Augustus Allen, 25.
Hayne, , 109(2),
110.
Paul H., 109.
Haywarde, Heyward,
Edward, 87.
William, 290.
388
INDEX.
Heatsworth, Charles,
309.
John, 309.
Hector (ship), 313,316.
Hemans, , 9.
Hempstead (N. H.),
343, 344.
Henchman, , 227,
234.
Rev., 232, 234.
Kev. Nathaniel, 227,
234(2).
Henderson, John,147.
Peter, 327.
Henry (brig), 218.
Henshawe, ,83.
Herron, John, 371(3).
Hesibrige, , 85.
Heskyns, , 291.
Hichborn, Ann, 266,
269.
Hickman, Lillie, 190.
Hicks, Joshua, 341.
Hider, John, 150.
Higginson, John, 192,
203.
Rev. John, 192.
Thomas Went-
worth, 140.
Hildreth, , 6.
Hill, Arthur E., 67.
C. V. D., 188.
Charles Henry, 80,
153.
Jack, 96.
Mary Abby, 80, 153.
Mary Susan (Mcln-
tire), 80, 153.
Prince, 95.
Hillman, Abigail, 66.
Azro A., 66.
Frances, 66.
Frederick, 66.
Justin, 66.
Hills, Sarah, 302.
Hilton, David, 180.
Eliza Bean, 180.
John J., 158.
Sally Fuller (Wal-
lace), 180.
Hinckley, Hannah,
273.
Mary, 273(2).
Hinds, Benjamin, 256
(5), 266,270,273(2).
Hinds, Capt. Benja-
min, 273.
Mary (Tucker), 256
(3), 273.
Ruth, 273.
Samuel Tucker,256.
Hirst, William, 92,147
(2).
Hoar, Hoer, Eliza B.,
176.
Fanny P. (Burrows),
176.
Lewis Thomas, 176.
Thomas, 282.
Hodges, , 5, 7.
D. F., 134.
Gamaliel, 3, 7.
Jonathan, 7.
Joseph, 94.
M. R., 142.
Priscilla, 7.
Rose, 94.
Hogans, Jack, 95.
Hoggard, Anne, 307.
John, 307.
Holiman, Edward,282.
Holland, ,367,368.
Capt., 367(2).
Gen., 367.
Holliman, Jno., 147.
Holmes, Dr., 109(4).
Dr. Oliver Wendell,
109.
Holyoke, , 5.
Homan, Hannah, 274.
John, 266, 269.
Nathaniel, 274.
Homer, Mary, 158.
Hooper, 274.
Lucy, 127(2).
Robert, 237, 282.
William, 274.
Hooton, Ann, 307.
Nathaniel, 307.
Hope, Admiral, 34,35,
361, 363, 368(2),
370(2).
Admiral, Sir James,
29, 31, 53, 55, 368.
Rear Admiral Sir
James, 368.
Sir James, 33(2), 41,
51(3), 56.
Hope (ship), 318(2),
319,321(2),322,323.
Hoper, Robard, 282.
Hopewell (ship), 92.
Hopkins, Diana(Cole),.
159.
Frances (Shepard),
68.
John, 159.
Mary Adaline, 159.
Russell, 68.
Horsman, John, 372.
Horton, Horten, ,
274.
Anna (Remington),
177.
Comfort, 174.
Elizabeth (Sutton),
165.
Emily Ann, 177.
George, 165.
James, 334.
Jeremiah Lord, 165.-
Rev. Josephus W.,
177.
Martha P., 174.
Samuel, 274.
Hosey, Edward, 374.
Thomas, 374.
Howard, Jame, 95.
Mary, 79.
Sarah (Scripture),-
79.
Timothy, 79.
Howe, How, Edith
March, 75.
Francis Augustine,
75.
Francis Freeman, 75.
Harriet (Nason), 75.
James, 75.
James Lewis, 75.
John, 349.
Howes, Ephraim
Owen, 162.
Priscilla (Doane),.
162.
Rebecca Frances,
162.
Howland,CaroW.,187.
Charles A., 187.
Charles C., 187.
Louise Ayer, 187.
Margaret (Ayer),.
187.
Hoyt, , 145.
Joseph, 334.
INDEX.
389
Hudson, ,305,333,
334.
John, 282.
Mary, 282.
Samuel, 282.
Hughes, Samuel, 347.
Humphrey, Humfrey,
,224,236,237.
John, 236, 285.
Sir John, 226.
Hunsman, John, 312.
Hunt, , 47.
Fannie Evans, 175.
Helen Nancie, 175.
Horatio A., 175.
Jesse Hosmer, 175.
Louise Wisnor, 175.
Thomas Franklin,
47.
Hunter (ship),215,317.
Huntington, Edmund
T., 184.
Jacob R., 138.
Hurd, Grace, 353.
Jacob, 227.
Huron (gunboat), 161.
Hurst, William, 91(3).
Hussey, Capt., 24.
Hutchinson, ,240.
Gov., 297(3).
Elijah, 266, 270.
Button, Edward, 308,
309.
Nathaniel, 308, 309.
Hyde, Phebe, 354.
Thomas, 354.
Infanta Maria (ship),
91.
Ingalls, Lizzie F.,171.
Mercy, 245.
Mercy Pratt, 245.
Nathaniel, 245.
Sarah, 171.
S. William, 171.
Ingersoll,Capt.,211(3).
Willimena, 190.
Ingrame, Henry, 374.
Innis, John A., 181.
Insurance, Marine, 204.
Intemperance, 192.
Inticot, Seasor, 95.
Ipswich (Mass.), 91,
842.
Ireland, Sarah, 190.
Ireson, Benjamin, jr.,
186.
Hannah (Choate),
186.
Mary Adelaide, 186.
Irwin, , 51.
Italy, 20.
Ives, Thomas, 282.
Ivory, Ann, 222.
Benjamin, 237.
Lois, 222.
Thomas, 222.
J'Agoe, Abram, 191.
Jackman, , 332.
Jackson, , 274.
Col., 315.
Abraham, 335.
Christopher, 308.
Hannah (Carpen-
ter), 175.
James, 175.
John, 308, 310.
Louisa, 175.
Marie, 307, 309.
Nicholas,308(3),310.
Sarah, 266, 269.
Thomas, 307, 309.
William, 307(2).
Jaffrey, John, 150.
Jamaica Packet
(schooner), 211.
James, Erasmus, 282
(2), 283(9).
Erasmus, jr., 282.
Jane, 282, 283(3).
Samson, 95.
Jay, , 323.
Jaynes, Jennie, 178.
Jefferson, Jeferson,
, 6(2).
Stephen, 373.
Jeffos, John, 94.
Jeffries, George, 190.
Jelly, William, 252.
Jeninges,Phillipp,374.
Jewett, Aquila, 353.
Hannah, 353.
Joanes, Grace, 283.
John Grace (brig), 217.
Johnson, Jonson,Col.,
97, 98.
Adam, 95.
Albert, 167.
Benjamin, 243.
Johnson, Benjamin B. ,
186.
Deborah (Lindsay),
167.
Edmund, 97(2).
Col. Edmund, 97.
Eliza (Allen), 167.
Frances Ann, 182.
Francis, 283, 285.
George, 166.
Isaac, 333.
Jane E., 167.
Jonas, 182.
Joshua R., 166.
Lydia (Bacheller),
186.
Martha, 332.
Mary, 97.
Nancy (Hayden),
182.
Oliver, 136.
Lieut. Samuel, 229.
Sarah, 166.
Sarah Ann, 186.
Sophia Stetson, 167.
William, 96, 167.
Jones, Capt., 333.
Benj., 198.
Florence, 181.
Laura H., 69.
Samuel, 334.
Joslin, Bertram L.,
185.
Kane, Annie, 185.
Keezer,Nathaniel,336.
Keith, William, 321.
Kelland, Eliza M., 166.
George, 166.
Mary A., 166.
Kelley, , 190.
Kendale, John, 86.
Kennedy, W. Sloane,
139(2).
Kettell, Samuel, 123.
Keyes, Keas, Keese,
John, 127, 144.
Phebe, 350.
Rebecka, 351.
Robert, 350(2).
Sarah, 350, 351.
Kidd, Capt., 193.
Alice, 306.
Margaret, 310.
William, 306, 308.
390
INDEX.
Kimball, Kimbal, Eu-
nice, 336.
Moses, 136.
King, Kyng, ,226.
(Dole), 185.
Capt., 224.
Daniel, 226(2).
Elizabeth, 226.
Jane, 185.
Nathaniel, 185.
Ralph, 228.
Capt. Ralph, 224.
Richard, 235.
Samuel, 340(2).
Thomas, 373, 374.
King George (ship-of-
war), 202.
King of Prussia (priv-
ateer), 199.
Kirkman, John, 331.
Kitchen, Kitchin, Ce-
ser, 94.
Vilot, 94.
Kittridge, Kittredge,
Dr. John, 333.
Mary Ann, 158.
Knapp, Knap, George
Samuel, 153.
George Washing-
ton, 153.
Hazel Louise, 153.
J., 332.
Lewis Mansfield,
153.
Lillian Elizabeth,
153.
Meriel (Mansfield),
153.
Kneeland, S., 343.
Knight, Charles, 283.
Daniel, 334.
Richard, 83.
Robert. 283.
Knot, John, 325.
Knowland, Mrs. Wil-
liam, 251, 252(3).
Knowles, Abigail, 266,
267.
Annie E., 169.
Edna, 169.
Edward P., 173.
Helen Lewis, 173.
John S., 169.
Stephen Dexter, 173.
Stephen M., 173.
Knox, Clara, 256.
Kossuth, 20.
Kreyer, Dr., 57, 59.
Kwa-shing (cruiser),
57.
Ladley, Susan, 307.
Lake, Eliza, 190.
Enoch, 190.
Mary Almira, 190.
Lambert, , 4, 5(2),
321.
Capt., 5.
Francis, 310.
John, 266, 269.
Joseph, 5.
Capt. Joseph, 5.
Mary, 310.
Moses, 5.
Richard, 149.
Lamphere, Amanda
(Wiggin), 73.
Lamson, Abigail
(Prentice), 155.
Daniel, 155.
Elizabeth, 155.
Lander, Peter, 214.
William A., 98.
Lane, John, 373.
William, 290.
Lane & Frazer, 197,
204.
Langbridge, John,
9QO
40VM
Lankletter, Annie,
263, 266.
Lapham, Benj. N.,
173.
Sophia M. (Bullock)
173.
Sophie P., 173.
Lapwing (steamer),
57.
Larcom, Lucy, 108,
143.
Larkham, Job, 358.
Mary, 358.
Laskey, , 274.
LaTigre (privateer),
200.
Lattimore, Latamore,
Christopher, 283
(2).
Marie, 283.
Mary, 286.
Lauerich, , 312.
Laughton, Thomas,
sr., 224.
Lawce, Katherine, 88.
Thomas, 87(3), 88.
Lawrence, Capt.,
338(2).
Curtis, 153.
Lucy (Merriam),
153.
Susan Frances, 153.
Lea, J. Henry, 305.
Leach, Richard, 266,
270.
Leaver, Wm., 327.
Leavit, Richard, 310.
LeBreton, Capt. Peter,
296.
LeCraw, Hannah
(Widger), 273.
John, 266(2), 273.
Leddell, William, 374.
Ledy, John, 283.
Lee, , 51, 274.
Col., 274.
Betsy, 274.
Dover, 95.
Francis H., 41, 50.
John Clark, 3, 4.
Samuel, 274.
Thomas, 96, 331.
Leet, John, 326, 327.
Legg, Leag, Leegg,
Elizabeth, 283(2).
John, 283.
John, jr., 283.
John, sr., 283(2).
Legoce, Capt. Isaack,
327.
Legro, Hezekiah, 263,
266.
Legrow, Mary, 267,
269.
Leigh, John, 149.
Leslie, Col., 209.
Leveck, John C., 173.
Lucy W. (Dexter),
173.
Mary Ann, 173.
Lewis, , 156,
169(2), 173, 174,
227.
Bros., 189.
Aaron, 75(2).
Aaron Lummus,165.
INDEX.
391
Lewis, Abba Johnson,
186.
Abbie Elizabeth,
155.
Abby, 157.
Abigail, 76(2), 156,
189(2).
Abigail Fielding,
191.
Adelaide, 190(2).
Adeline M., 73.
Xss Adams, 179.
rt, 156(2), 191.
Albert Edward, 156.
Albion W., 168.
Albion Wesley, 168.
Alexander, 156(2).
Alfred, 67, 68.
Alfred Bosworth,
65, 173(2), 174.
Allen W., 169.
Allen Wallace, 170
(2).
Allen Webster, 169
(2).
Allie May, 70.
Alma Eliza, 73.
AlmiraA., 182.
Almira E., 160.
Almira H., 160.
Alonzo, 227.
Amos, 189, 190(3).
Amos Edwards, 190.
Amos Edwin, 161.
Andrew, 76(2), 77,
158, 159.
Ann Maria, 158.
Anna Augusta, 161.
Anna Eliza, 190.
Anna Harriet, 65.
Anna Hovey, 190.
Anna Kate, 69.
Anna M., 168.
Anna Mabel, 187.
Anna Mary, 190.
Anna Ware, 183.
Anna Warren, 186.
Anne Maria, 190.
Annie, 185.
Annie Haven,. 159.
Annie Mae, 186.
Annie W. S., 169.
Arthur, 176.
Arthur Alanson.lSO.
Arthur C., 186.
Lewis Arthur Gerry,
187.
Arvilla, 157.
Asa, 70(3), 161(2),
179, 191.
Asa Warren, 162.
Augusta Ann, 154.
Augusta Bransford,
188.
Augusta Mayo, 76.
Augustus, 69(2), 76,
77.
Augustus Dan, 69.
Aurelia H., 71.
Beatrice, 181.
Beatrice Linda, 80.
Benjamin, 68, 70,
178, 189, 190.
Benjamin F., 167.
Benjamin Franklin,
155(2), 167.
Benjamin H.J.,186.
Benjamin Humph-
reys, 162(2).
Benjamin Ireson,
187.
Benjamin Lapham,
173.
Benjamin Willis,
190.
Bernard M., 157(2).
Bernard Waldo, 183.
Bertha, 175.
Bertha N., 187.
Bessie, 70.
Betsey L., 163.
Beckford, 165(2).
Bowers, 66(2).
Bradford, 174.
Bransford, 178.
Burrill T., 168.
Burrill Turner, 168.
Carlos Smith, 73.
Caro W., 187.
Caroline, 65, 190.
Caroline A., 168.
Caroline Crosby, 75.
Caroline Elizabeth,
154, 175.
Caroline H., 168.
Caroline Mason, 66.
Caroline Willis, 190.
Carrie Blanchard,
71.
Carrie Florence,187.
Lewis Carroll Gray-
son, 178.
Catharine, 66.
Catharine Eliza, 66.
Catharine Rounds,
66.
Catherine DeMillie,
168.
Catherine E., 166.
Catherine L., 191.
Catherine Washing-
ton, 166.
Celia, 65.
Celia Chace, 65.
Celia Jane, 65.
Chace, 65(2).
Charles,70,71(2),156.
Charles A., 156, 159.
Charles Andrew ,
182.
Charles Augustus,
187.
Charles Benjamin,
159(3).
Charles Bradley,
180.
Charles Carrington,
72.
Charles Courtland,
182.
Charles Crosby, 183.
Charles Dudley,
172(3).
Charles E., 177.
Charles Edmund,
170(2).
Charles Edwin, 178.
Charles Everett,
154, 185, 186(2).
Charles Francis,
156, 169.
Charles Freeman,
165.
Charles G., 179.
Charles H., 164.
Charles Henry, 80,
153, 154(3), 191.
Charles Hildreth,
157.
Charles Oliver, 71.
Charles R., 158.
Charles Stewart,
165.
Charles Sylvester,
177.
392
INDEX.
Lewis, Charles W.,169.
Charles Warren, 169.
Charlotte, 80(2).
Charlotte Allina,
183.
Chauncey, 176.
Chester Verjano,
171.
Clara Adelaide, 68.
Clara Josephine,
176.
Clara R., 175.
Clarence, 158.
Clarence F., 183.
Clarence Herbert,
161.
Clemence Clarissa,
157.
Clinton D., 176.
Clyde Gates, 183.
Cordelia Angeline,
65.
Cordelia B., 172.
Cornelius, 171.
Cornet John, 224.
Crosby, 76, 183(2).
Deborah, 189(3).
Dexter B., 173.
Dexter Bosworth,
173(2).
Diantha Chloe, 181.
Dora Ella, 68.
Dorcas, 161.
Dorcas Emily, 161.
Dorothy Bean, 170.
Earl Carlton, 170.
Eben Augustus,
158(2).
Edith, 172.
Edith Marie, 177.
Edmund, 65, 153.
Edmund Sanford,
172.
Edna Mabelle, 156.
Edna Matilda, 158.
Edward Augustus,
69, 178(2).
Edward Cushing,
184.
Edward Elbridge,
187.
Edward H., 158.
Edward McElheney ,
188(2).
Edward S., 69.
Lewis, Edward Sim-
mons, 69, 178, 188
(3).
Edwin, 166.
Edwin Colby, 154,
185(5).
Edwin Collyer, 161.
Edwin Creswell, 72.
Edwin Davis, 161.
Elam Clarke, 73.
Elbridge Gerry, 164,
165.
Eldora Adeline, 156.
Elijah C., 67, 176,
177.
Eliza Ann, 153.
Eliza B., 176, 180.
EKzaB.(Hilton),72.
Eliza Jane, 71.
Elizabeth, 68(2), 71,
155, 166, 189,
190(2).
Elizabeth A., 158,
169.
Elizabeth Allen,
168.
Elizabeth James,
75.
Elizabeth (Lem-
mon), 163.
Elizabeth (Mettler),
156.
Elizabeth P., 164.
Elizabeth West, 183.
Ella Frances, 71.
Ella Germaine, 168.
Ella J., 167.
Ellen, 80.
Ellen Augusta, 75.
Ellen Jane, 175.
Ellen Leveck, 173.
Ellen M., 159.
Elliott Burrows,
176.
Elliott Herbert,187.
Elmer E., 171.
Elmer Somers, 190.
Elsie S., 160.
Elwyn Fisher, 181.
Emeline Augusta,
78.
Emily, 69, 190.
Emily Ann, 177.
Emily Augusta, 71.
Emily Elizabeth, 74.
Lewis, Emily J., 172.
Emma Arabella, 68.
Emma Cora, 181.
Emma Jane, 157.
Emma Louise, 155.
Emma May, 157.
Emma Prescott,170.
Eri, 79(2).
Eri Brainard, 79.
Ernest Leroy, 185.
Ethan Allen, 181.
Ethan Nichols, 73,
181(2).
Etta, 158.
Eugene Grayson,
188.
Eugene Washing-
ton, 178.
Eunice, 189.
Eunice Alley, 170.
Eunice E., 171.
Eva, 172.
Everett Delmont,
170.
Faith, 176.
Fanny, 166, 176.
Fanny Bowers, 175.
Fanny Satira, 74(2).
Faustina Delucie,
155.
Fitzwilliam Griffin,
164, 186, 187.
Flora Estelle, 181.
Florence Elizabeth,
178.
Florence Jane, 186.
Florence Parthenia,
188.
Frances Adelia, 183.
Frances Ann, 183,
188.
Frances Wilson,172.
Francis, 76.
Francis B., 191.
Francis Danforth,
80, 153.
Francis Henry, 177.
Frank, 70, 169, 176.
Frank Alley, 170(2).
Frank Balch, 182.
Frank Collins, 166.
Frank Cyril, 182.
Frank Evens, 173.
Frank Herbert, 162.
Frank Horton, 174.
INDEX.
393
Lewis, Frank Jack-
son, 183.
Frank L., 176.
FrankRockwell,168.
FrankSwingley,156.
Frank T., 157.
Fred A., 182.
Fred Chase, 162.
Fred Everett, 184.
Frederick, 77, 184
(2), 190.
Frederick A., 77.
Frederick Albion,
168.
Frederick Augus-
tus, 77.
Frederick Benjamin
Adams, 179.
Frederick DeLan-
cey, 179.
Frederick E., 160.
Frederick Thomas,
160.
Frederick William,
184.
Genevieve, 173.
George, 158, 160(2).
George Alexander,
156.
George Brimble-
com, 158.
George Chase, 188.
George Courtland,
75(2), 182(2).
George Eward, 158.
George Harlan, 65,
153.
George Henry, 154.
George Jackson, 175.
George Leland, 177.
George Martin, 164.
George R., 70.
George Renton, 184.
George W., 166, 175
(2).
George Washington,
66, 68, 166, 175,
177.
Georgianna, 170.
Georgianna Pierce,
170.
Georgianna Sophia,
184.
Gertie Eliza Con-
verse, 180.
Lewis, Gertrude-Fran-
ces, 184.
Gertrude Helen, 70.
Gertrude Mirriam,
70.
Gladys May, 186.
Grace E., 183.
Grace Elizabeth,
156.
Grace Holland, 168.
Grace Louise, 174.
Guy Charles, 186.
Hamor, 80(3).
Hannah, 68,162,166,
168, 189.
Hannah Angeline,
68.
Hannah Augusta,80.
Hannah Maria, 159,
161.
HannahRussell, 164.
Harold, 176.
Harold Percy, 181.
Harold Wilson, 170.
Harriet, 75, 189.
Harriet A., 182.
Harriet A.P.H.,166.
HarrietAdelaide,70.
Harriet Adela, 68.
HarrietAdeline,155.
Harriet Ella, 176.
Harriet I., 67, 191.
Harriet Lucretia,75.
Harriet Naomi, 185.
Harriet O., 162.
Harriet P., 179.
Harriet Somers, 190.
Harry, 185.
Harry R., 176.
Harry Walcott, 170.
Harry Winslow,177.
Hattie A., 159.
Hattie L., 187.
Hazel Gladys, 170.
Hazel Isabelle, 183.
Helen Amelia, 68.
Helen Arlene, 170.
Helen Pauline, 171.
Henrietta, 69, 77.
Henry, 164(2), 191.
Henry, jr., 163.
Henry, sr., 163.
Henry A., 186.
Henry Benjamin,
162.
Lewis, Henry Bowers,
68, 177(2).
Henry F., 159.
Henry Frothiug-
ham, 159(2).
Henry G., 191.
Henry L., 191.
Henry W., 166, 181.
Henry Wilbur, 170.
Herbert Chace, 174.
Herbert Otis, 162.
Herberts tetson, 167.
Herbert Willard,
181.
Hope Hubbard, 176.
Howard, 176.
Huron, 156.
lahtha, 164.
Ichabod Colby Bart-
lett, 179.
Ida, 190.
Ida Elizabeth, 177.
Irving, 159.
Irving E., 187.
Isaac, 74.
Isabelle Jane, 183.
Ithra, 79(2), 80.
Ivers F., 166.
Ivers Foster, 166.
J. Eliza, 66.
J. Otis, 159.
Jackson, 76.
Jacob Borden, 68.
Jacob Meek, 161.
James, 65(3), 74, 75
(2), 77, 79, 166.
James Ballard, 76.
James Chace, 65.
James Dempster,
178.
James H., 158.
James Henry, 181.
James Pickering,72,
180(3).
James Richards, 70
(2)
James Trask Allen,
157.
James Willard, 180,
181.
James WilsonClark,
172.
Jane, 70.
Jane B., 157, 177.
Jane E., 167.
394
INDEX.
Lewis, Jane Frances,
67.
Jane M., 186.
Jennie, 190.
Jeremiah, 67(2).
Jessie Fisher, 184.
Joanna M., 66.
John, 164(3), 189(4),
228, 284(2).
John, 4th, 164.
John Bosworth,173.
John Brown, 190.
John Conrad, 69(2).
John Conway, 170
John Dexter, 173.
John Emmett, 190.
John Franklin, 156,
157.
JohnG., 190.
John Gunnison,154,
184(2).
John W., 167.
John Wesley, 167.
John Willard, 73.
Jonathan, 72, 73(3).
JonathanGerry , 164,
165.
Jonathan Snow,160.
Joseph, 189(4).
Joseph Carlton,170.
Joseph Danforth,
80, 153.
Joseph Warren, 158.
Joseph West, 65,
174(3).
Josephine, 68, 174.
Josephine Brad-
street, 171.
Josephine J., 168.
Josephine Luther,
167.
Josephine V., 173.
Julia, 188.
Julia Ann, 74, 156.
Julian, 188.
Kate, 185.
Kate Mae, 185.
Katherine LeBaron,
172.
Kingsley Thurber,
66, 174(2).
Laura Aurelia, 72.
Laura H M 69.
Laura Kate, 69.
Lewis, Lawrence Hill,
80, 153.
LeBaron, 172.
Leonard, 165(2).
Leonard Percival,
165.
Lester Clark, 162.
Levi, 66(2), 75, 76
(2), 166, 182, 183.
Levi Augustus, 175.
Levi Jason, 66, 175
(2).
Levi Waldo, 183.
Lida, 71.
Lillian B., 187.
Lillie, 190.
Lizzie T., 169.
Lloyd Glover, 187.
Lois, 69, 154.
Lorenzo Turner, 157
(2).
Louisa J., 175.
Louisa Jackson,174.
Louisa Marsh, 156.
Louise M., 156.
Lucia, 74.
Lucinda Maria, 73.
Lucinda Priscilla,
164.
, Lucretia M., 73.
Lucy, 80.
Lucy E., 186.
Lucy Elizabeth, 76.
Lucy Ellen, 161.
Lucy Maria, 167.
Luetta L., 67.
Lund Washington,
69.
Luola, 190, 191(2).
Luther, 160(2).
Luther Edward, 160.
Lydia, 191, 234.
Lydia( Barrett), 163.
Lydia Josephine,67.
Lynden, 190.
Madaline, 75.
Mahlon Prince, 170.
Margaret Bell, 179.
Margaret Dudley,
172.
Maria, 169.
Maria Almira, 67.
Maria Jane, 168.
Maria Sally, 73.
Marion, 176.
Lewis, Marion E.,167.
Marion Shillaber,
187.
Marion Warren, 71.
Marshall, 78(2).
Marshall A., 78.
Marshall Adams, 78.
Martha, 76, 79, 164.
Martha (Burrill),
163.
Martha A., 171.
Martha Abba, 183.
Martha Augusta,
183.
Martha Cresswell,
72.
Martha E., 155.
Martha Jane, 76.
Mary, 71, 79(3), 80,
180, 234.
Mary A., 76,173,187.
Mary Adaline, 159.
Mary Ailene, 185.
Mary Ann, 159, 164,
165(2), 179.
Mary Anna, 190.
Mary Augusta, 154
(2), 175.
Mary B., 164.
Mary Caroline, 166.
Mary Chace, 65.
Mary Crosby, 77.
Mary Elizabeth, 71,
154, 172.
Mary Ella, 179.
Mary Emma, 158.
MaryF., 167.
Mary Frances, 75,
191.
Mary Isabel, 18C.
Mary J., 175.
Mary Lois, 69.
Mary Louise, 173.
Mary Marsh, 161.
Mary Melvina, 73.
Mary Miranda, 181.
Mary R., 187.
Mary Russell, 72.
Mary S., 177.
Mary Susie, 159.
Mary Willis, 190.
Matilda, 158.
Maud, 179.
Maud Gertrude, 155.
Melinda A., 171.
INDEX.
395
Lewis, Melissa A. ,174.
Minnie, 172, 186.
Minnie Emily, 177.
Minnie Olive, 178.
Miriam S., 70.
Monemia, 188.
Morrill C., 73.
Moses, 74(3).
Moses Boardman,
72.
Nancy, 65(2), 79,
165, 191.
Nancy C., 73.
Nancy Jane, 156.
Nathan Bickford,
165, 187(2).
Nathaniel, 166, 189.
Nathaniel Ellis, 170.
Nellie Louise, 156.
Olive, 80.
Oliver Questram,
164, 186(2).
Ora Ann, 80.
Ora Mabelle, 184.
Oscar, 69(2).
Oscar D., 69.
Osmar, 69, 70.
Otis, 162(2).
Parthenia A., 178.
Pattie, 188.
Pattie Marian, 188.
Pemberton, 173.
Percy John, 186.
Percy Johnson, 167.
Peter Grayson, 178.
Phebe Billings, 175.
Phebe Lavinia, 67.
Capt. Philip, 163(2).
Philip F., 160.
Philip Henry, 187.
Porter James, 80,
184(2).
Ralph Morton, 170.
Raymond Augustus,
182.
Raymond Irving,
181.
Rebecca, 70, 181.
Reuben, 68(2), 153
(3), 191.
Rhoda Jane, 155.
Richard Viets, 168.
Robert, 160(2).
Robert E., 187.
Robert Edwin, 185.
Lewis, Robert Favin,
171.
Robert Franklin,
160, 161.
Robert J., 69.
Roxana, 79.
Roxie, 79.
Roy Ellis, 170.
Roy Everett, 186.
Rufus G., 72.
Rufus Graves, 72.
Rufus Gustavus,180.
Rufus Smith, 72(2),
180(2).
Ruth Endicott, 169.
Ruth Hawley, 70.
Sabra J. W., 71.
Sabrina, 182.
Sadie Augusta, 69.
Sallie Martin, 179.
Sally, 72, 73, 77,
78(2).
Sally Marshall, 79.
Sally Martin, 72.
Samuel, 191.
Capt.Samuel,163(4).
Samuel A., 167.
Samuel Augustus,
166.
Samuel Cornell, 177.
Samuel Parker, 75.
Samuel Shaw, 191.
Sarah, 68, 69, 75,
154, 189.
Sarah A., 186.
Sarah Blanchard,
71.
Sarah C., 186.
Sarah Eliza, 72.
Sarah Elizabeth,
165, 184, 190.
Sarah Frances, 166.
Sarah G., 163.
Sarah J., 184.
Satira, 74.
Selina, 80, 191.
Silas, 154(2).
Sophia S., 167.
Sumner West, 73,
181, 182(2).
Susan, 164(3), 165.
Susan A., 174.
Susan Abigail, 170.
Susan Adelaide, 161.
Susan Augusta, 76.
Lewis, Susan E., 169.
Susan Eliza, 153.
Susan Elizabeth, 69,
188.
Susan F., 153.
Susan Frances
Gates, 158.
Susan Gertrude,170.
Susan J., 69.
Susan Lucena, 165.
Susan M., 160, 170.
Susanna, 189.
Sylvester, 68(3).
Sylvester Creswell,
72.
Theodore A. ,171(2).
Theodore August-
us, 171.
Theodore Francis,
178.
Theodore Wallace,
178.
Thomas, 163, 171,
172, 189, 191(2),
274.
Thomas A. D., 169.
Thomas B., 168.
Thomas Edward,
172.
Thomas H., 169.
Thomas Harris, 169.
Thomas Kendall,
190.
Thomas Y., 171,
172(2).
Virginia Beverly,
69.
Waldo Stockton,
177.
Walter, 176, 190.
Walter Clifford, 158.
Walter Felix, 178,
187, 188(2).
Walter Howard,
188.
Walter Irving, 174.
Walter James, 174.
Walter N., 160.
Walter Webster
Russell, 180.
Warren, 162, 163.
Warren A., 158.
Warren Billings,
175.
Warren Clarke, 73.
396
INDEX.
Le w is, Watson Cooke,
188.
Whitfield Dan., 69.
Wilbur, 80.
Willard Francis, 163.
William, 157(2), 166,
191.
William Andrew,75.
William Augustus,
76.
William B., 177.
William Brown, 68,
177.
William Claggett,
William Crosby,
78(2), 191.
William Dexter,
157.
William Edgar, 158.
William Endicott,
169.
William Frederick,
71,179(2).
William Gifford,
191.
William Gustavus,
172.
William Henry, 157,
158, 178, 190.
William Henry Har-
rison, 78.
William Herbert.
187.
William Herman,
171.
William Johnson,
167(2).
William M., 71(2).
William Malcolm,
157.
William Martin, 71.
William Otis, 161.
William Page, 162.
William Sephalon,
179.
William T., 66,
176(4).
William Warren,
183.
Willie Samuel, 158.
Willie Wallace, 159.
Willis Gaylord, 165.
WinnifredaWallace,
180.
Lewis Bros., 189.
Lexington (brigan-
tine), 215(3).
Lexington (schooner),
215.
Li Hung Chang, 25(2),
26, 30, 33, 35(2),
36(2), 42(2), 43(3),
44, 45(2), 46, 47,
48, 60(3), 61, 64.
Lickborow, Lickber-
ry, Elizabeth, 309.
Mathew, 312.
Obediah, 309, 312.
Light Horse (ship),
218.
Lightbone, Light-
bowne, Elizabeth,
312.
John, 308(2), 309.
Margaret, 308(2).
Robert, 309.
Lightfoot, William,
253.
Lill, Anthony Barkey,
151.
Lincoln, , 22, 46,
164.
Abraham, 55.
Solomon, 26.
Lindsey, Augusta
Lewis, 77.
Aurelia, 77.
Henry Augustus,77.
Henry K., 76.
John B., 77.
Lizzie Maria, 77.
Louisa, 77.
Maria (Noble), 77.
Linsfurd, Francis,
284.
Linton, W. J., 140.
Lisbril, Daniel, 265,
267.
Littlefield, Edward,
291.
Livingstone, , 24.
Lockett, Nancy, 190.
Logun, James, 92(2).
Long, , 113.
Daniel, 333.
John Davis, 26.
Longfellow, , 11.
Loomis, Caroline B.,
168.
Loomis, Caroline H. ,
168.
Lewis & Co., 168.
Timothy H., 168.
Lord, Diner, 95.
Thomas, 333, 335.
Lothrop, Forteen, 94.
Lottery, 345.
Lovejoy, J. C., 128.
Lovess, Sarah, 266,267.
Low, , 40.
Ann, 96.
Charlotte, 94.
Lowell, Gen., 317.
John, 243.
Lowle, Capt. Gideon,
jr., 148.
Lowton, Margaret,
307.
Loxen, Roger, 373.
Loyd, , 150.
David, 149.
John, 329.
Patience, 149.
Thomas, 149(4).
Luise (corvette), 57.
Lunt, , 159.
Luscomb, Capt. ,89(2).
Capt. John, 89.
Lutton, Thomas, 310.
Lyddiard, Nicholas,
89(2).
Lydia (ship), 198, 203.
Lye, Alice, 86(2).
Lynch, , 40.
Lynde, T., 293, 295(2).
Thomas, 293.
Lynn (Mass.), 223(3),
224(2), 225, 228,
241, 341.
Lyons, Lyon, ,
274.
Annie F., 157.
James, 265, 267.
Mary, 265, 267.
Thomas, 265, 267.
Lyster, , 367(3).
Lieut., 366(2).
E. A., 366.
Lieut. Thomas, 366.
Mabson, John, 91(3),
330.
Macanaya, , 31,36.
Vincente, 31.
INDEX.
397
McCartney, Elizabeth
(Barnfield), 175.
Mary E., 175.
Wilson J., 175.
McClench, Elizabeth,
267, 268.
McCobb, Col., 317.
M'Coy, , 341.
Macedonian (frigate),
159.
McElheney, Julia,188.
Macgowan, , 36,
38.
Dr., 27, 57, 59.
Daniel Jerome, 26.
Dr. Daniel Jerome,
26.
Mclntyre, Andrew,
190.
Anna Hovey, 190.
Rachel, 190.
Mack, Elisha, 3, 4.
MacKenlie, William,
147.
McKinstry, Rev. L.
C., 139.
McMullin, James, 191.
Macreading, Harriet
A., 66.
Madison, , 6.
Maggrigry, Hannah,
357.
Mailey, Hannah, 168.
Maria Jane, 168.
Thomas, 168.
Malime, , 374.
Malyerd, John, 292.
Manchester, Annie
Maria, 67.
Hattie Lewis, 67.
Isaac C., 67.
Manchester (Mass.),
342.
Maning, Primus, 96.
Manning, Richard, 91.
Mannon, Joseph, 373.
Mansfield, , 164.
Adah, 265, 267.
Addie A., 164.
Daniel, 243.
Elizabeth (Buck-
nam), 164.
Elizabeth Williams,
239.
Epes, 164.
Mansfield, Ernest Lane
Lewis, 164.
Capt. John, 242.
Col. John, 243.
Joseph, 237.
Gen. Joseph, 239.
Mary, 239.
Mary Ellen, 164.
Robert Phillips, 164.
Sarah, 94.
Mansur, Samuel, 335.
Manuel, Peter, 95,
96.
Marblehead (Mass.),
148, 250, 253, 263,
277, 326, 340, 341,
342(3), 345.
Marblehead Galley,
(ship), 149.
Marine insurance, 204.
Marquand, , 334.
Marr, Marre, Jane,
311.
Katherine, 312.
Mary, 311.
William, 311(2),312.
Marsh, Mary R., 187.
Marshall, Chedorlao-
mer, 183.
Jacob, 80.
Martha Abba, 183.
Martha Fox (Up-
ton), 183.
Olive, 80.
Polly (Harrington),
80.
Martin, Marten, Mar-
ting, Aaron Gur-
don, 74.
Arnold, jr., 256.
Arnold, 3d, 256(3).
Benjamin T., 263,
267.
Caroline Alley, 257.
Caroline F., 257,263,
267.
Daniel, 330(2).
Capt. Daniel, 330.
Edward D., 257.
Elizabeth Adams,
257.
Esther Frost, 257.
Gurdon, 74.
Hannah, 267, 269.
Hannah (Cruff),257.
Martin Hannah(Tuck-
er), 257.
Hannah C., 257(2),
274.
Herbert P., 73.
James, 94.
Jennie, 176.
Mrs. John S., 251,
252.
John Sparhawk,
257.
Capt. Joseph E.,176.
Knott, 5th, 257(11),
274(3).
Lewis D., 73.
Mary, 257, 267, 270.
Mary (Butman), 257
(3), 267, 268.
Mary (Oliver), 256.
Mary (Sparhawk),
257(2).
Mary Jane, 257.
Mary Thompson
(Peach), 257(5),
274.
Richard, 257(2), 274.
Richard, 3d, 257.
Richard Henry, 257.
Robert, 284.
Sally, 257, 274.
Sally (Frost),274(3).
Sally Frost, 257(10).
Samuel C., 257.
Samuel Sparhawk,
257.
Sarah Ann (Hub-
bard), 176.
Sarah Elizabeth,
257.
Satira Lewis, 74.
Thomas, 95(2).
Thomas, 3d, 257(3),
267, 268.
Thomas, 5th, 257.
Thomas Jefferson,
257(7), 267, 268,
274.
William C., 257,274.
William P., 274.
William Peach, 257.
Martineau, Harriet,
126.
Mary (schooner), 198,
200(6), 201(3), 206.
Mary (ship), 217.
898
INDEX.
Maslyn, Masslyn,
Anne, 290.
Frise, 291.
Thomas, 87,290,291.
Mason, , 322.
Jonathan, 322.
Mather, Rev.Increase,
231.
Mathews,William,264,
267.
Mathewson, Susan A.,
174.
Susan S. (Latham),
174.
William B., 174.
Maule, John, 150(2).
Maundy, , 83.
Elizabeth, 83.
Thomas, 83.
Maverick, Mavericke,
Moses, 284(6).
Maxey, Carroll, 66.
Eaton W., jr., 66.
Maxfeild, , 148.
May, Maye, Rev. Hez-
ekiah, 267, 271.
Joseph, 26.
Thomas, 290.
Mayo, Daniel, 76.
Mary (Putnam), 76.
Mary Aurelia, 76.
Meacham, John, 355.
Meacom, Augustus
Tower, 167.
George E., 167.
Maria A., 167.
Medhurst, , 363.
Medoun, William F.,
274.
Meek, Meak, ,274.
Capt., 274.
Richard, 266, 267.
Megiligen, Alexander,
284.
Frances, 284.
Melampe (privateer),
347.
Melden, Rev. Charles
A., 171.
George, 171.
Margaret, 171.
Melendy, F. H., 157.
Ruth Clarence, 157.
Menunisoir, Eliza-
beth, 190.
Merrett,Mary(Boden),
274.
Samuel, 274.
Merrill, Luther H. J.,
74.
Matilda F., 74.
Merrimac River, 219,
334.
Merrow, Mary A., 164.
Methuen( Mass.), 342.
Mico, Richard, 330.
Middlecott, William,
372.
Middleton, Midleton,
Elizabeth, 311(2).
Michael, 308(2).
Roger, 308(2),311(2).
Middleton (Mass.),
341.
Middletown, Ruben,
95.
Millan, Clara Ida,162.
George Henry, 162.
Jane Elizabeth
(Cadwell), 162.
Millet, , 313, 319
(2), 321, 322, 323.
Mills, John, 297.
Milton, , 112(5),
333.
Rev., 335.
Mirgort, Vilot, 95.
Mirick, B. L., 124.
Mitchell, Mitchel,
Gen. Sir John,363
Sir John, 41.
Capt. Josiah, 337.
Moddeslyghte, John,
86.
Mollendorff, P. G.von,
57.
Mongey, Munjoy,Wal-
ter, 284.
Monocacy (steam-
ship), 54.
Moody, Lady Deborah,
226.
Joseph, 298.
Silas, 336.
Thomas, 336.
Moone, Anne, 373.
Ellen, 373.
Gregory, 373(2),374.
Moore, Moers, Moors,
More, Ella F.,244.
Moore, Joseph,80,153.
Lucy, 80, 153.
Mary (Hubbard),80,
153.
Peter, 353.
Robert, 309.
Tom, 119.
Thomas, 309.
Morgan, Morgin, ,
3.
Samuel, 284.
Morning Star (sloop),
215.
Morong, John, 206.
Morris, Albert, 190.
Morris & Fisher, 190.
Antho, 150.
Morse, Abigail Sewell
Graves, 258.
Caroline, 258.
Deborah Northey,
258.
Joseph, 267, 268.
Hannah Fitts, 258,
274.
Joseph, 258.
Joseph Northey,258.
Levi,259(9),267,268,
274.
Levi, jr., 258.
Louisa, 258.
Mary (Randall),258,
267, 268.
Mary Jane, 258.
Mercy, 258.
Mercy Cross
(Northy), 258(8),
274.
Robert McNeil, 26.
Mortimer, Mortymer,
George, 291.
William, 290.
Morton,Elizabeth,307.
Gilbert, 307, 312.
Moulin, Moulom,Mou-
lum, Charles, 267,
269.
Henry, 291, 292.
Moulton, Lavinia Ger-
trude, 67.
Lewis E., 67.
Simeon M., 67.
W., 301.
Willard Conkling,
67.
INDEX.
399
Moulton, William, 292
(2),294.
Mountjoy, Benjamin,
284.
Mowers, Lydia, 236.
Mudge, Enoch Red-
dington, 237.
Patty, 245.
Capt. Samuel, 245.
Muggford, John, 327.
Munroe, Hanson, 264,
267.
Mury, John, 329(3).
Myers, , 60.
Myers, Consul Gener-
al, 57.
Myles,Rev.Sam'll,297.
Nahant, 224(2), 225,
229(2), 231, 238.
Nancy (schooner),212,
214.
Nancy (sloop), 215.
Napoleon, , 18.
Neagles, Caleb B., 186.
Ebenezer, 186.
Mary, 186.
Neal,David Augustus,
5.
Nathan Ward, 5.
Neck, Wm., 327.
Needham, Daniel,
264, 268.
Negroes in Salem, 93.
Nelson, , 333.
William, 268, 270.
Neptune (brig), 198,
207, 208.
Neptune (brigantine),
206.
Newbury (Mass.), 334
(4), 338, 342, 344,
345(2), 346.
Newbury Falls(Mass.)
346(2).
Newburyport (Mass.)
fires, 832.
Newcomb,Newcombe,
Newcome, Alice,
80.
Mary, 90(4).
Rd., 147.
Richard, 89, 90(2),
91(3), 149, 152,
327.
Newcomb, Richard,
sr., 90(3).
Newell, Joseph, 303.
Timothy, 347.
New England, 194.
New Gloucester
(Maine), 338.
Newhall, Benjamin,
243.
Daniel, 243.
Elizabeth Fowle,
243.
George F., jr., 164.
James O., 164.
James R., 221.
John, 159.
Joseph, 342.
Martha, 243.
Mary Abby, 169.
Sarah, 159(2).
Susan Ellen, 169.
William P., 169.
Newman, Robert, 284
New Salem (Mass.),
339.
New York (N.Y.), 149,
150.
Nichols, Nicholes,
Nicholls, Nicho-
los, Nycolles,
Capt., 319.
George, 95.
Joan, 291.
Joseph, 107.
Katherine, 88.
Nicholson, Nichalson,
Nickhollson,
Nicklinson, Nic-
olson, Christo-
pher, 284, 285.
Edmund, 280,284(2),
285.
Elizabeth, 284(2),
285(2).
John, 285.
Joseph, 284, 285(2).
Samuel, 285.
Thomas, 285' 2).
Nick, Nicke, William,
284(4), 285.
Nickerson, Nickson,
Bowman C., 79.
Mary (Whitman),
165.
Mathew, 285.
Noble, Joseph, 335.
Norman, Arabella,
258(5).
Hannah, 258.
John, 258(5).
Lydia, 258.
Richard, 285(3).
Norris, Norice, Doro-
thy, 285.
Edward, 93.
George H., 159.
Isaac, 149.
Northeud, , 306.
Ales, 307.
Anthony, 809.
Daniell, 312.
Ezekiel, 306, 309(2).
Jeremiah, 306, 309
(2).
Joan, 309(2).
John, 306, 307, 309.
John, jr., 306.
John, sr., 306.
Robert, 306(2), 309,
311(2), 312.
Sarah, 306.
Northey, Northy,
John, 267, 268.
John, jr., 285.
John, sr., 285.
Mary (Cross), 267,
268.
Mercy I Cross, 267,
268.
Norwood, , 85.
Nowland, Elizabeth
Martin (Brown),
258(7).
Hannah M., 258.
John, 264, 268.
JohnH.,258(9),274.
John H., sr., 274.
Mary A., 258.
Richard B., 258.
Thomas P., 258.
William Crownin-
shield, 258.
Noyes, Noyse, ,
335(2).
David, 333, 336.
Hugh, 371.
Jacob, 335.
John, 293.
John M., 335.
Nath'l., 335.
400
INDEX.
Noyes, William
Moody, 333.
Nurse, Rebecca, 138.
Qber's Head (Win-
ter Island), 196.
Oborne, Wm., 329.
O'Brien, Dennis, 336.
Capt. J., 332, 339.
Joseph, 332, 336.
Joseph, jr., 336.
Capt. Joseph, 333.
Oburn, Capt., 327.
Ogleby, Martha, 258,
264, 268.
Martha (Card), 258,
264, 268.
Nicholas, 258, 264,
268.
Oliver Cromwell
(ship), 215.
Olyphant, , 25.
Oopton, Ceser, 94.
Jobe, 96.
Oopton, see aUsoUpton.
Orne, , 274(3).
Adoniram Collins,
259.
Azor, 274.
George, 274.
Hannah Pickering,
259.
John, 259(8).
Jonathan, 259(2).
Col. Joshua, 274.
Mary (Pearce),
259(6).
Priscilla(Holdgate),
259.
Robert Pickering,
259.
Sarah Holgate, 259.
Timothy, 252.
Osborne, , 56.
Andrew, 85.
Constance, 85(2).
Edward, 85.
John, 85(2).
Nicholas, 85.
Rose, 85.
William, 85, 86.
Osgood, Charles
Stuart, 5.
Otley, Abraham, 285
(2).
Ouchterlony, ,
342.
Owen, Elizabeth S.,
137.
Griffith, 90.
pacheapscot (sloop),
148.
Paine, Pain, Payne,
J. K., 134, 135(3).
John, 372.
Nero, 94.
Thomas Abel, 372
(2).
Palfrey, , 90.
Francis W., 135.
Palmer, Pallmer, ,
290.
Edward, 371.
Sir John, 87.
Joseph, 372.
Timothy, 353.
Palmer's Head (Win-
ter Island), 196.
Palmiter, Pamata, Pa-
miter, Parmiter,
Benjamin, 279(2),
285(3).
Mary, 285.
Paramore, Jane, 339.
Parish, Edward Clark,
372, 373.
Park, Parke, Argus
Frazier, 179.
Bessie Lewis, 179.
Harriet (Hollings-
worth), 179.
Mary Harriet, 179.
Thomas, 179.
Thomas James, 179.
Parker, Dr., 39, 41.
George, 327.
Harriet, 74.
John, 87, 290.
Samuel, 74.
Submit (Gilson), 74.
Water, 87.
Parker river (Newbu-
ry), 345.
Parrish, , 6.
Parrott, Parrot, Isai-
ah Hitchings, 264,
268.
Parsons, Parson,
Capt., 358.
Parsons, John, 335.
Mary, 352.
Partridge, Otis, 181.
Rebekah, 181.
Unity (Fales), 181.
Pattey, Paty, Robert,
285(2).
Pattisen, Capt., 341.
Patty (schooner), 210.
Patty (ship), 207,
215(2).
Patty (sloop), 215.
Peabody, George
Leonard, 8.
Robert E., 193.
Peach, Alice, 286(2).
Edward Frost, 259.
Eliza Ann, 259.
Ester, 286.
George S., 259.
John, 259, 286(2).
John, jr., 286(2).
John, sr., 286(2).
John C., 259.
Lewis H., 259.
Lot, 259.
Mary (Frost), 259
(12), 267, 268.
Mary (Thompson),
259.
Mary Thompson,
259, 267, 268.
Mehitable Gruff,
259
Rachel Frost, 259.
Sarah E., 259.
Capt. Thomas, 275.
William, 259(14),
267, 268.
William, jr., 259.
Pearce, Mary, 259.
Mary (Goodwin),
259.
Robert, 259.
Pearson, Abner, 337
(2).
Dorcas, 352.
Elizabeth, 311, 352,
353.
Hephzibah, 353.
Deacon John, 352.
Jonathan, 353.
Martha, 352, 353.
Mary, 351, 353.
Patience, 353.
INDEX.
401
Pearson, Silas, 336.
Stephen, 352, 353.
Pease, Abner, 356.
Anne, 356.
Emy, 356.
Isaac, 356.
Isaac, jr., 356.
Jacob, 356.
Luraina, 356.
Noadiah, 356.
Phebe, 356.
Peaslee, Joseph, 97.
Peat, Capt. Robert,
328.
Pecker, Mrs. Edwin,
251.
Pedrick, Pederick,
John, 286(2).
Joseph, 267, 268.
Pedro, Dom, 114(2).
Peetosse, George, 308.
Peirce, , 8, 275(3).
Col. Danll, 219.
John, 275.
William, 275.
Peirce, see also Pierce.
Pembroke (schooner),
198.
Pendleton, Oriana,
157.
Perkins, , 290.
John, 354.
Lucy (Tarbox), 353.
Robert, 354.
Thomas, 354(4).
William, 349(2).
Perley, Sidney, 144(2),
145, 146.
Perry, Bliss, 141.
Peterson, Elsie S., 160.
Petey, Robert, 286.
Pettiner, John, 147(2).
Pettingill, John, 333.
Pevear, George F.,
166.
Lottie M., 166.
Sarah A., 166.
Philadelphia (sloop),
329
Philbrick, John D M
107.
Phillips, Phillipp, Ab-
bie Jane, 163.
Augusta (Hanaford)
163.
Phillips, Content, 163.
James B., 163.
John Glover, 163.
Robert, 86(2).
S., 304.
Sarah, 163(2).
Sarah (Glover-Lew-
is), 163.
Walter, 163(3).
Walter, jr., 163.
William, jr., 263,
268.
Phippen, Lydia, 156.
Phoenix Building (Sa-
lem), 6.
Pickard, , 121.
Samuel T., 140(2),
141.
Pickering, , 3, 5,
150.
John, 232, 322, 323.
Sarah Burrill, 232.
Timothy, 232, 323.
Col. Timothy, 313.
Capt. William, 150.
Pickering (ship), 319,
320, 322(2).
Pickett, , 335.
Susan, 163.
Pickman, Abigail, 327.
Pidge, Frank N., 67.
Pierce, Harriet Au-
gusta, 182.
Mary Ann (Hart-
well), 182.
Richard, 182.
Pierce, see also Peirce
Pike, Elias, 335.
Pillar, Mary, 265, 268.
Pinckney, , 126.
Pinelsland (Newbury-
port), 332.
Pingry, Aaron, 353.
Pipehorn, William,
150.
Piper, Cevilla F., 183.
Lysander, 183.
Rachel R. (Doane),
183.
Piracy, 92, 152, 328.
Pitman, Pittman, Har-
riet Minot, 107.
Joseph, 95.
Marke, 286(2).
Thomas, 150, 286(3).
Pitman, Thomas, jr.,
286.
Thomas, sr., 286.
Pitt, Susannah, 286.
William, 286.
Place, John, 151.
Plaisted, Sarah, 268,
270.
Plumpton, , 86.
Andrew, 85(3).
Christian, 86.
Elizabeth, 85.
Henry, 86.
Margaret, 85.
Richard, 85.
William, 85.
Poere, James, 286.
Pollard, George, 284,
286.
Pompey (ship), 217.
Pomry, Rebecca, 357.
Poole, Fitch, 5.
Henry Ward, 5.
Robert, 374.
Capt. Timothy, 235.
William Frederick,
5.
Pope, , 374.
Elizabeth, 374.
James, 373(2), 374
(5).
Sir Nicholas, 86.
Richard, 373, 374(2).
Popkin, , 334
Port Royal (ship),
326.
Porter, , 275.
Abby Frances, 177.
Ceser, 94.
Mabel Frances, 177.
Dr. William D.,177.
Dr. William Miller,
177.
Portledge bill, 206.
Portsmouth (N. H.),
333, 334, 336.
Potomac (frigate), 159.
Power, Emma (Wood-
fin), 259.
Emma Lewis, 259.
Esther, 266, 270.
Ethel, 251.
Hannah V., 259.
Lewis Russell, 259
'6), 260(3).
402
INDEX.
Power, Lewis Knssell,
jr., 259(2), 260.
Mary, 259.
Meriam (Russell),
260.
Miriam, 260, 265, 268.
Miriam Girdler,260.
Sally Elizabeth,260.
Sally Rebecca Le-
Craw (Gilley),
259(3), 260(3).
Thomas, 259, 260.
Powers, , 116*
Poynton, , 347.
Capt., 344. 347.
Pratt, , 241.
Capt., 217.
Grover, 231.
John, 92.
Joseph, 217.
Margaret, 340, 341.
Richard, 240.
Prentice, , 124.
George D., 124.
Prescott, Prescot, B.,
jr., 340.
Vilot, 95.
Preston, John, 312(3).
Rebecca, 312(2).
Price, Maj. Walter,91.
Prince, Enoch, 335.
J., 128.
Dr. John, 321.
Prince of Wales(ship),
89.
Pritchard, Alicia
Gruff, 260.
Benjamin, 260, 275.
Benjamin Thomas,
260.
Elizabeth, 275.
Ezra Raddan,260(9),
275(3).
Ezra Raddan,jr.,260
Hubbard, 260.
Joseph Widger, 260
(2), 275.
Margaret, 260.
Margaret (Brimble-
come), 260.
Mary Abigail, 260.
Mary Stevens (Wid-
ger), 260(9),275(3).
Sarah Pitman, 260,
275.
Pritchard, William,
275(2).
William Widger,260
Privateering, 200, 215,
313, 338.
Proctor, , 340.
Benjamin, 164.
Elizabeth (Power),
260.
John, 260.
Nathan, 340(2).
Tabitha, 260.
Thorndike, 340.
Prot6t, , 368(2).
Admiral, 34, 35, 57,
361, 363, 368, 370.
Atiguste Leopold,
368.
Providence (ship),316.
Pumphrey, Stanley,
135.
Purchase, Abraham,
147.
Purchis, Oliver, 224.
Purdon, Cislie, 307.
John, 307.
Purnell, John, 374.
Putnam, , 5.
Rufus, 8.
Queen of France
(ship), 316.
Quero (schooner), 3,
210(3), 218.
Rand, Rande, Dr., 84.
Elizabeth, 84.
James, 84(2).
Joseph, 335.
Mary, 84(2).
Raphe, 84(2), 85.
Randall, Robert, 286.
Sarah, 286(2).
Thomas, 286.
Randolph, Edward,
224.
Ranger (ship), 201(2).
Ranger (brig), 198.
Ranger (schooner), 195
Ranger (ship), 316.
Ranger (sloop), 195(2).
Ransee, Cato, 94.
Ranser, Cato, 96.
Rantoul, Robert, 144.
Roberts., 1,140,360.
Rawson, Edward, 249.
Read, Reade,Edward,
287(3).
Hester, 283.
Major, 345.
Margaret, 287.
Richard, 283.
William, 87.
Read, see also Reed.
Reader, Mary, 83.
Reasson, Richard,372.
Redwood, Capt. Abra-
ham, 330.
Reed, , 275.
Hannah, 237.
Harriet N., 159.
John, 341.
Martha, 159.
Sarah, 69.
Thomas, 159.
William, 237.
Reed, see also Read.
Reeves, Jacob, 265,
268.
Rest, William, 87.
Revenge (privateer),
200.
Revenge (sloop), 215.
Revenge (trader), 215.
Rever, Col., 317.
Revolutionary letters,
313.
Rexford, Rev.Jordan,
268, 270.
Reymer, William, 287.
Reynolds, Reynoldes,
AbbieM.(Bliven),
176.
Harriet E., 176.
Henry, 374.
Nicholas O., 176.
Rhodes, Rhoades,
Roads, Edward,
264, 268.
Elizabeth, 267, 269.
Florence Jessie, 162.
Howard J., 162.
John, sr., 287.
Rice, Bessie Lois, 154.
Carrie Ellen, 154.
Louisa (Jones), 154.
Marcus M., 154.
Maud Louise, 154.
Susan, 330.
Titus, 154.
INDEX.
403
Richards, Donald
Lewis, 168.
Dorothy Pomeroy,
168.
Edward, 224(2).
James Loomis, 168.
Raymond Wesley,
168.
Rodolphus Palford,
168.
Sarah (Burt), 168.
Richardson, Capt.,
321.
Cato, 95.
Chloe (Chamber-
lain), 180.
Diantha Chloe, 180.
Francis, 180.
Margaret, 266, 269
(3).
Mary, 295.
Nath.,93.
Richie, Capt, 324.
Rickman, Rob., 88.
Riddier, Joseph, 86.
Ridge, William, 151.
Ridgeway, Mary Ann,
179.
Mary (Bell), 179.
Sephalon, 179.
Riggins, , 190.
Riley, Sarah, 308.
Rindge, Daniel, 4.
Rise, Ralph, 287.
Roger, 287.
Risley Annie, 190.
Rist, Maud, 173.
Ritch, Ritche, ,
373(2), 374(3).
Peter, 374.
Roberts, , 82.
Capt., 328.
George, 82(2), 83.
John, 84.
Margaret, 83, 84.
Lady Margaret, 84.
Mary, 83, 84.
Walter, 84, 85.
Sir Walter, 84(2).
William, 84.
Robines, John, 374(2).
Robinson,Abigail,156.
Benjamin, 269, 270.
Elizabeth, 353.
Henry Ware, 191.
Robinson, Col. James,
234.
Margaret, 266, 269.
Rockwell, Ella Maria,
174.
Roebuck (brigantine),
215.
Rogers, , 275.
Ez., 304.
Ezekiel, 310(2), 311.
Rev. Ezekiel, 303,
304, 305.
Mary, 311.
Rev. Richard, 310,
311.
Roland, , 148.
Rolfe, Capt. Samuel,
334.
Roop, Hannah, 170.
John W., 170.
Nicholas J., 170.
Roper, Thomas E.,
65.
Ropes, , 90.
Capt., 316.
Capt. Andrew Mad-
ison, 8.
Ann, 147.
D., 94.
Ross, Edmund, 186.
Laura, 179.
Mary (Carmichael),
186.
Sarah C., 186.
Roundel, Mary, 269,
271.
Roundey, Charles Ed-
ward, 260.
Martha (Stone),260.
Thomas, 260.
Rover (sloop), 215.
Rowden, John, 287.
Mary, 287.
Rowland, Joseph,288.
Mary, 277, 286, 287
(4), 288(3).
Richard, 286, 287,
288(2).
Samuel, 287, 288.
Rowlandson, Thomas,
287.
Rowley (Eng.), 305,
306.
Rowley (Mass.), 305,
308, 342, 345, 346.
Ruck, Rucke, John,
81, 82, 327(2).
Thomas, 81, 83.
Runels, Renels, Paro,
94, 96.
Ruseck, J., 333.
Russell, Russel, Earl,
41.
Henry, 287(2).
J., 334.
Margaret, 291.
Richard, 287.
Roger, 287.
Russell Glover (ship),
19.
Rutland (Mass.), 231.
Ryan, Daniel, 169.
Maria, 169.
Salem, Mather, 96.
Salem (Mass.), 12(3),
13, 14, 93, 192,
194(2), 195, 197,
199, 202, 216, 242,
340, 341.
Salem (sloop), 150.
Salem Marine Society,
5.
Salem Packet (ship),
215(3).
Salem privateers, 215,
313.
Salem school boys, 8.
Salhold, John, 90.
Salisbury (Mass.), 333,
342.
Sally (sloop), 198,
200(2).
Saltonstall, Capt.,
317.
Richard, 343.
William Gurdon,
8.
Sampson, , 15.
Samson, Joseph, 94.
Sanborn, John, 77.
Martha Hoyt, 77.
Nancy (Sanborn),
77.
Sanf ord, Elizabeth A. ,
158.
Saplye, David, 356.
Richard, 356.
Sargent, Sergeant,
, 297.
404
INDEX.
Sargent, Charlotte
(Merchant), 160.
Susan Maria, 160.
Winthrop, 160.
Sauden, Arthur, 287.
Saunders. Priner, 96.
Savage, , 32(2),
365(2).
Savory, , 332.
Sawre, John, 311(2).
Sawyer, Albert Har-
ris, 76.
Burnside Ellsworth,
76.
Edward, 311.
Ezekiel, 311.
Frank Hastings, 76.
John, 76, 311.
Capt. John, 334.
Joseph Balcomb,
76.
Louis Joseph, 76.
Lucy (Balcomb), 76.
Mary, 311.
Warren Francis, 76.
Saye, Say, Elizabeth,
291.
Johane, 291.
John, 87, 290(3),
291.
Schuyler, Mrs. Mont-
gomery, 248.
Scollay, Samuel, 267,
269.
Scorpion (schooner),
215(2).
Scott, John, 374.
Seavey, Richard, 287.
Securis, John, 88.
Selander, David, 261
(2).
Self ridge, Thomas O.,
334.
Semmes, , 40.
Sewall, , 91, 275.
Harriet Winslow,
107.
Henry, 89, 275.
Joseph, 275.
Samuel, 107, 330.
Stephen, 91(2 .
Stephen, jr., 149,
327.
Seward, Soward, ,
21, 45, 46, 48, 55.
Seward, Emanuel,335.
George F., 55.
George Frederick,
64.
Jack, 95.
William, 64.
William Frederick,
25.
William H., 56.
Seward, see also Sy-
ward.
Seymer, Thomas, 374.
Shailer, Catherine,
189.
Ens. Hezekiah, 189.
Thomas, 189.
Shapley, Shepley, Da-
vid, 356(2).
Richard, 356.
Shaplin, David, 351,
352
Hephsibah, 351,
352.
Sharpey, John, 82.
Shattock, Capt. John,
152.
Sheaf, Sheafe, SheafC,
Sheaffe, Sheffe,
,86.
Dr., 82.
Alexander, 81(2),
82, 83(2).
Alice, 85.
Ann, 83.
Anne, 83.
Edmund, 81, 82(5),
83, 85(3).
Edward, 85.
Elizabeth, 81.
Ellen, 83.
Grindall, 85(3).
Harmon, 81(2), 83
(3).
Helene, 81, 82.
John, 81, 82(3),
83(3).
Katherine, 81, 83.
Margaret, 81.
Margerie, 83.
Mary, 81, 82(2), 86.
Phebe, 83.
Richard, 81(4), 82
(2), 83, 84(2), 85.
Samuel, 82, 83.
Sara, 83.
Sheaf, Thomas, 81(7),
82(4), 83(4), 85(4).
Dr. Thomas, 81, 82.
William, 81, 82(2),
83.
Sheldon, Edwin, 245.
Shepard, Sheppard,
, 223, 251.
Jeremiah, 225.
Sherman, Emanuel,
147.
Shillaber, Carrie Flor-
ence, 187.
Daniel, 187.
Nancy (Richard-
son), 187.
Shiny, Seaser, 95.
Shippen, Edward,150.
Shipping records, 89,
147, 313, 325, 332,
338.
Shirley, Gov., 202,
238.
Shore, H. N., 57.
Shute, Gov., 230(2),
238.
Silsbee, , 214.
Capt., 212, 214(3).
Capt. Nathaniel,
211.
Silver plate, 293.
Silvester, , 336.
Simmons, Thomas,
217.
Simons, John, 96.
Simons, see also Sym-
ons.
Simpson, Simson,
Charles, 267, 269.
Francis, 280.
Sisson, Hannah Maria,
159.
Mary Farnsworth
(Curtis), 159.
William Bates, 159.
Slanther, John, 287.
Slater, Elizabeth,
287(2).
John, jr., 287.
John, sr., 287.
Slead, John, 288.
Slegges, Anne, 306,
307.
Robert, 306, 307,
308.
INDEX.
405
Slingsby, Ebenezer,
150(3), 151.
Sluman. Sarah, 354.
Small,Joseph, 92.
Smallwood, Abel, 190.
Annie, 190.
Naomi, 190.
Smith, Sraithe,
Smythe, Almira
H., 160.
Asa, 182.
Daniel, 72.
Lieut. David, 189.
Elizabeth, 288.
Ellen, 311.
Freeman, 160.
George, 155(2).
Henry, 288.
James, 277, 280(2),
288(7).
Capt. James, 286,
288(2).
John, 199, 291.
Margaret, 128.
Mary, 281, 288(3),
348(2), 349(2).
Mary (Clifford), 155.
Mary (Powers), 182.
Phebe (Gill), 160.
Robert, 198, 288,
348(2).
Sabrina, 182.
Sally, 72, 73.
Samuel, 348.
Thomas, 374.
William, 351(2).
Capt. William, 151.
William, 372.
Smithurst, Joseph,
266, 269.
Snellock, Capt. James,
199.
Snow, Annie E., 174.
Henry H., 174.
Col. J. Lippitt, 173.
Snow & Lewis, 173.
Soley, Matthew, 344.
Somers, Richard J.,
190.
Somersit, William, 94.
Soueridge, Tho., 292.
Southwick, Cassan-
dra, 136.
Henry, 170.
Lucy, 170.
Southwick, Mabel S.,
170.
Sowdon, Arthur John
Clark, 26.
Sparhawk, Emma
(Martin), 260.
John, 260.
Mary, 260.
Sparke, John, 311.
Samuel, 311.
Sparks, Charles, 176.
Spaulding, Abigail
(Hall), 75.
Oliver, 75.
Sarah, 75.
Spencer, Ann, 86.
Ebenezer, 357(2).
Elizabeth Colburn,
2.
Speranza (ship), 20.
Spert, Thomas, 87.
Spiller, Benjamin,
288.
Spofford, Thomas,
124(2).
Spraigs, Barnabas, 95.
Springer, Mary E., 66.
William, 66.
Stacker, Hannah, 263.
Stacy, Stacey, Stasey,
, 275(2).
Amos, 260(2), 275.
Benjamin, 260.
Edward, 266, 269.
Elias Amos, 261.
George, 275.
George A., 170.
Hannah (Holliday),
265, 269.
Harriet, 170.
Henry, 288(3).
Jane, 288.
John, 209(2), 288.
John, sr., 288.
Lydia, 261(2).
Lydia (Grandy),
260(3), 261(5).
Mary, 288(3).
Nathaniel, 275.
Samuel, 260(3), 261
(5), 265, 269.
Samuel, jr., 261.
Sarah, 265, 269.
Timothy A., 170.
William,261,265,269.
Stacker, Hannah, 269.
Stanley, Standley,
Standly, , 24.
Amos Linwood, 161
Benjamin F., 161.
Earl Lewis, 161.
John, 328.
Lewis Elmer, 161.
Martha Allen, 261,
264, 269.
Rebeccah, 328.
Ruth Withey, 161.
Samuel, 353.
Sarah (Phillips),163.
Sarah E. (Withey),
161.
Sarah Glover, 163(2).
Thomas, 163(2), 353.
William Edward,
161.
Stanyforth, Disney,
89(2).
Statter, Christopher,
312.
Robert, 312.
Stebbins, Johannah,
357.
Steelman, Addie,
190(2).
Anna Hovey Mcln-
tyre, 190.
Emily, 190.
Freda, 190.
Jemima (Steelman).
190.
John Craig, 190.
John I., 190(2).
Lewis, 190.
Stanley Lewis, 190.
Vera, 190.
Stepney Cause way, 90.
Stevens, Mrs. Breese
J., 248.
Lucy, 80.
William, 338.
Stevenson, David,
261(9), 275.
David, jr., 261.
Elizabeth, 261, 275.
John, 261.
Mary, 261.
Nancy, 261 .
Nelly, 261.
Rebecca, 261.
Robert, 261.
406
INDEX.
Stevenson, Sally, 261.
Sarah (Blair), 261
(9), 275.
William, 266, 269.
Stickney, Amos, 332.
Jonathan, 334.
Stilson, Vinson, 265,
270.
Stirling (gunboat), 57.
Stocker, John, 189.
Thomas, 243.
Stone, , 6.
Eddie W., 186.
Harriet M., 186.
John S., 186.
Jonathan, 164.
Joshua, 165.
Mary Ann, 165.
Nancy, 164.
Nancy (Batchelor),
164.
Nancy Brown, 165.
Sarah (Wilkins),
165.
Simeon, 165.
Rev. Dr. Thomas
Treadwell, 4.
Storer, Ebenezer, 347.
Storrs, Charles 13.,
126.
Story, Robert, 149.
Stotesbury, Oapt.,
148.
Edward, 148.
Capt. Edward, 147.
Stoughton, William,
230.
Stoute, William, 309.
Stower, Joanna, 226.
Mary, 226.
Richard, 226.
Straine, , 145.
Strang, Dr. C. W.,167.
Dr. Clinton W., 167.
Julia (Wright), 167.
Louis Clinton, 167.
Marion Ella, 167.
Nelson, 167.
Robert Hallock
Wright, 167.
Straw, Hannah (Huse)
162.
Harriet Osgood,162.
William, 162.
Strout, Cotton, 320.
Sturdy Beggar
(schooner), 214(2),
215.
Sturge, Joseph, 127.
Sullivan, Judge, 321,
324.
Sumner, , 45.
Charles, 134.
George, 307, 312.
Jane, 307, 312.
Thomas, 312.
Sumpner, Hannah,
312.
Natha, 312.
Sunderland (ship),
372.
Sutton, Anne, 311.
Isabell, 309.
Margaret, 312.
Timothy, 311.
Swann (sloop), 331.
Sweet (schooner), 315,
318.
Sweitzer, Dr. Henry,
147.
Swift, Nancy L., 266,
270.
Swingley, Caroline
Bell, 156.
Frances (Potter),
156.
Upton, 156.
Switzer, Michael, 231.
Sylvester, see Silves-
ter.
Symington, Andrew
J., 144.
Symes, S y m m e s ,
Edith, 373, 374.
Symons, William, 94.
Symons, see also Si-
mons.
Syward, Johanne, 86.
Syward, see also Se-
ward.
Taki, 29, 30(2), 32(2),
33, 37(2), 46(2).
Talbort, Francis, 94.
Talbot, -, 113.
Tannatt, Mary, 268,
270.
Tappan, , 15.
Tarbox, Samuel, 229.
Tarr, Othniel,268,270.
Tasker, John, 275.
Taylor, Tayler, Tail-
er, Gov., 238.
Bayard, 136.
Duncan, 275.
Edward, 330.
Emma L., 176.
Ewr., 330.
James, 247.
Mary C. (Crandall),
176.
Rebecca, 247(2).
Samuel, 176.
Sarah, 275.
William, 247.
Tedder, Jane Talbot,
261.
John, 261(8), 270(2),
275(3).
Martha Elizabeth,
261(2), 275.
Martha (Tucker),
261(6), 275(2).
Mary, 261.
Teshew, Abigail,
270(2).
Hannah, 270(2).
John, 270(2).
Tharpe, , 330.
Richard, 330.
Thaxter, Celia, 108.
Thayer, , 98(3).
Nathaniel, 98.
Thistle, Richard, 288.
Thomas, Peter, 95.
Thomas (negro), 89(2).
Thompson, ,
276(2).
Edward, 151, 152.
Eliza, 268, 270.
Capt. John, 91.
Thorwaldson, ,
116.
Three Brothers
(schooner), 198,
199(3).
Three Sisters (brig),
218.
Three Sisters (schoon-
er), 198, 203.
Three Sisters (ship),
215.
Thriske, Thruske,
Agnes, 307.
Anne, 309.
INDEX.
407
Thriske, Christopher,
307.
Cislie, 307.
John, 309.
Julian, 308.
Robert, 309.
Thomas, 308(2), 309
(3), 312(2).
William, 308, 310,
312.
Thruston,Doritie,307.
John, 311(2).
Thurber, Catharine,
66.
Elizabeth, 66(2).
Joanna M., 66.
William, 66(2).
Thurlo, Sarah, 303.
Tilden, , 114(2).
Samuel J., 114(2).
Tilton, Rachael T.,
166.
Stephen, 336(2).
Tingsley, , 276.
Tippet,* , 276.
Titcomb, , 294,
339.
Benaiah, 294(4).
Enoch, 333(2), 339.
Joanna, 294.
Josiah, 296.
Col. Moses, 294.
William, 294(5),295.
Titus, Catherine, 75.
Catherine (Mar-
shall), 75.
Jonas (Haskins),75.
Todd, Mary, 269, 270.
Topsfield (Mass.),341.
Torrey, Rev. Charles
T., 128.
Tower, Esther, 266,
270.
Town.Towne, Charles
Jefferson, 156.
Curtice, 276.
Edmond, 353(2).
Edna, K
Experience, 353.
(iideon, 353.
Isaac, 156.
Lucretia (Taylor),
156.
Marcy, 353.
Mary, 353.
Town, Mercy, 353(2).
Phebe, 353.
Richard, 353.
Sarah, 351, 352,353.
Thomas, 276, 351,
352, 353(2).
William, 353.
Townsend, , 2, 3,
5,8.
Moses, 4(2), 5(2), 6.
Capt. Moses, 5.
Priscilla, 4.
Priscilla Lambert,7.
Tracy, Tracie, Ed-
mund, 372.
Nicolas, 336.
Trafford, Allison W.,
176.
Grace Barnard, 176.
Inez Perry, 176.
Rachel, 176.
William B., 176.
Trask, Nicholas, jr.,
267, 270.
Ruth, 95.
Treadwell, Capt. Na-
thaniel, 342.
Trofatter, Harriet, 156.
Tryon, Samuel, 168.
Tsing Pu, 35.
Tuck, , 331.
Benjamin, 331.
Ebenezer, 331.
John, 331.
Joseph, 331(4).
Richard, 331.
William, 331.
Tucker, Abigail G.,
276.
Abigail Grandy,
261(1).
Abigail (Teshew),
261(2), 262(8), 276
(4).
Andrew, 265, 270,
276, 288.
Betsy, 261, 276.
Deborah (Goss),
262, 270, 271.
E. Augusta, 77.
George, 262, 270(2),
276(3).
Hannah M., 276.
Hannah Martin, 262
(2).
Tucker, Joseph Au-
gustus, 75.
Joseph Francis, 8.
Martha, 262, 270(2).
Mary, 262, 266, 270
(2), 271, 276(3).
Mary (Belcher), 265,
270.
Mary (Gatchell),
261, 262.
Mary W., 276.
Mary Widger, 262
(2), 270(2).
Nicholas, 288.
Roger, 288.
Sally Rhoads, 262.
Samuel, 251, 261,
262, 265, 270, 276
(2).
Com. Samuel, 251.
Samuel, jr., 276.
Mrs. Samuel T.,
251.
Thomas, 261(2), 262
(8), 270(2), 276(4).
Thomas, jr., 262.
Thomas W., 252.
William, 262(2),270,
271.
Tufts, , 293.
Almira, 191.
Charles S., 187.
Clara A., 187.
Eliza N., 187.
Joseph Warren, 191.
Samuel, 299.
Turke, Sybill, 87.
Turner,Turnor, Alice,
372.
Charles, 180.
Charles Henry, 180.
Elizabeth, 372.
Elizabeth Kelley
(Goodspeed), 180.
Jack, 96.
John, 94, 372(2).
Margaret, 372.
Oliver, 372(3).
Richard, 291(2).
Turpin, , 332.
Tuttle, Mary Burrill,
248.
Two Brothers (sloop),
331.
Tyler, Andrew, 227.
408
INDEX.
Tyng, Dudley A., 298
(2).
Tyrwhitt, Sir Robert,
308.
Underwood, Francis
H., 139.
Union,Edward,262(2).
Elizabeth, 262.
MaryElizabeth,262.
Mary (Symmes),
262(2).
Marine Insurance
Office, 6.
Upham, , 4.
William P., 138.
Upton, , 94, 96.
John, 89.
Samuel, 89.
William, 89.
Upton, see also Oop-
ton.
Vain, Capt. Charles,
152.
Valentine, Elizabeth
A., 169.
Valpey, , 276.
Joseph H., 191.
Mary Ann (Emmer-
ton), 191.
Richard, 191.
Vance, Porter, 96.
Vansweringen, Jo-
seph, 149.
Vealy,Rachel,264,270.
Vine, William, 292(2).
Vivid (sloop-yacht),
8, 9 (2).
Volant (schooner),
195, 196(2).
Wabash (battleship),
23.
Wadden, , 276.
Wade, Andrew, 372.
Peter, 372.
Wadeson, Robt., 372.
Wadleigh, Jane Bond,
157.
Wakeman, S. H., 123,
127, 129(2), 130,
131, 133, 134, 135
(4), 138, 142(2),
143(5), 144(2).
Walcott, Erastus L.,
67.
Waldo, Anson, 73.
Jonathan, 93.
Mehitabel (Bur-
roughs), 73.
Waldron, Waldon,
Waldren, Wall-
dern, Dorothy,
289.
John, 264, 270, 289
Nath., 151.
Wales, Sarah, 154.
Walker, - , 21(4), 22
(4), 23(3), 55.
Abel, 77.
John Brisben, 25.
Jonathan, 136.
Nathan, 77.
Capt. Richard, 228.
Sally (Bowley), 77.
William, 21.
Walton, Waltum,
Ebenezer, 262.
Elizabeth, 262(3).
Josiah, 289.
Martha, 262.
Mary, 289.
Nathaniel, 289(2).
Samuel, 289.
William, 262(2), 289.
Ward, - , 5(2), 7(2),
8(4), 9(3), 10(2), 11
17, 18(3), 19(2), 20
(3), 21(5), 23(7),
24(4), 25(5), 26(3),
27(4), 28(2), 29(3),
30(6), 31(6), 32(2),
33(3), 34(5), 35(6),
36(3), 37(4), 38(5),
39(3), 40(2), 41(5),
42(6), 43(5), 44(3),
45(4), 46(5), 47(2),
48(3),49(3),50(10),
51(11), 52, 53(2),
54(3), 55, 56(2),
59(2), 60(3), 62,
63(2), 64(2), 361
(11), 362(7), 363
(5), 364(7), 365(7),
366(7), 367(5), 368,
369 (2), 370(11).
Capt., 10, 24,
Ward, Col., 362, 363
(2), 364, 368.
Gen., 34, 36(2), 37,
39, 40, 41(2), 46(2),
47, 50(3), 51(3),
52(3), 55(5), 57,59,
60(5), 61, 362, 363,
366(2), 367, 368.
Asa Albee, 163.
Charles Gamaliel,?.
Elizabeth Colburn,
1(2).
Frederick Gamaliel,
1, 2(2).
Frederick Town-
send, 1, 2(2), 3,
4(2), 5, 19,49,360
(2).
Gamaliel Hodges, 3
(2), 4, 7.
George Atkinson, 5.
Henry, 10, 37.
Henry Gamaliel, 1.
Jane Chapman
(Sawyer), 163.
Joshua, 234.
Joshua Holyoke, 5.
Lydia, 234.
Mary Louisa, 1.
Miles, 3, 7(3).
Salome A., 163.
Samuel, 289(2).
Warden, Maria Fran-
ces, 177.
Wardwell, Cornelius,
289.
Warner, , 304(2).
Caleb, 294, 304.
John, 356.
Philemon, 338.
Samuel, 78.
Warren, , 276,342.
Emily, 158.
Harriet Lucretia
(Sawyer), 184.
Joseph, 209.
Sabra Jacques, 70.
Samuel F., 184.
Sarah Elizabeth,
184.
Warren (frigate), 313.
Warren (schooner),
273(2).
Washington, , 3,
4, 14, 218, 232.
INDEX.
409
Washington, Lund,69.
Susan Jean, 69.
Susanna (Greyson),
69.
Waters, Watters, An-
drew Shales, 8.
Henry Fitz Gilbert,
5, 8, 81, 290, 371.
Richard P. 107.
Thomas, 269, 271.
William, 289.
William Crownin-
shield, 8.
Waterston, Helen
Ruthven, 131.
Robert C., 131.
Watson, , 173.
Anne, 312.
Col. Arthur N., 173.
Henry, 276.
Watts, A. A., 124.
James, 289.
Weasley, , 85.
Webb, Samuel, 322.
Weber, Samuel, 265,
271.
Webber, Fred, 69.
Joel, 326.
John, jr., 265, 271.
Webster, Capt., 10.
Daniel, 10, 120.
Daniel Fletcher, 10.
Edward, 10.
Weeks, Weekes, ,
320.
Jno., 291.
Richard, 83.
Wells, Nicholas, 372.
Wenham (Msss.), 341.
Werkes, , 290.
West,Capt. Joseph, 65.
Nancy, 65.
Westcott, Westcoat,
David, 190.
Jane (Stillwell),190.
Lewis Crosby, 190.
Thomas, 326.
West India trade, 199.
West Indies, 12.
Westley, Thomas, 88.
Westward Ho (ship;,
10.
Wetherell, Joshua,
147.
Wheat, , 23.
Wheeler, Whealer,
Wheler, Wheller,
, 86, 87, 290.
Agnes, 86,,87.
Alse, 291.
Ann, 371.
Anne, 290.
Annes, 292.
Anthonie, 88.
Anthony, 88(3), 290.
Beatrice, 291.
David, 290, 371, 372.
Dominick, 292.
Domny, 292(3).
Edith, 372.
Edward, 290, 291(2),
292.
Elizabeth, 87,88,290,
291, 292(2), 371.
Elyanor, 87(2).
Fay the, 88.
Grace, 291.
Henrie, 88.
Henry, 87.
James, 372.
Jeremiah, 330.
Joane, 88.
Johan, 371.
Johanne, 87.
Jone, 87.
John, 86(2), 88(2),
290(3), 292(6), 371
(5).
Josiah, 330(5).
Mabell, 87.
Margerete, 87.
Margaret, 87(2), 88
(2), 290(4), 291(2).
Mary, 371.
Mercy, 292.
Richard, 87, 88.
Rob., 88.
Robert, 88, 291.
Roger, 290.
Samuell, 372.
Sara, 292(3).
Sarah, 88.
Temperance, 372.
Thomas, 290(2),372.
William, 87, 88, 290
(4), 291(3), 371(3).
WKippen, Catherine
E., 166.
Joseph, 166.
Patience (I vins), 166.
Whipple, Edwin P.,
138.
George Manton, 8.
White, , 24, 157.
Anne, 312.
Caroline, 10.
Cato, 96.
Christofer, 94.
Eliza Johnson, 74.
Elizabeth, 354.
Gilman, 335.
Grace A., 66.
Henry A., 66.
Isaac, 322.
Margaret, 267, 271.
Nichol, 312.
Nicholas, 312.
Stephen, 10.
Whiteyeare, Abra-
ham, 289.
Whitfield, , 85.
Dorothy, 85.
Whitlocke, Jo: 83.
Whitman, Jacob, 165.
Susan, 165.
Whitney, Charles
Pratt, 156(2).
John Brooks, 156.
Katharine (Pratt),
150.
Katherine Fay,
156.
Lewis Husted, 156.
S. K., 132.
Whittier, , 97(3),
98(9), 99(2), 100,
101(3), 102(2), 103,
104(4), 105(4), 106,
107(2), 108(2), 109
(9), 110(5), 111(3),
112(6), 113(4), 114
(9), 115(2), 116(3),
117(2), 118(2), 119,
120(4), 121(5), 123
(2), 124(3), 125(3),
126(4), 127(3), 128
(3), 129(2), 130,
131, 132(2), 133(2),
135(3), 136(6), 137
(4), 138(2), 140(6),
143(2), 144(2), 145
(6), 146(6).
J. G., 123, 126.
John G., 118, 131,
140.
410
INDEX.
Whittier, John Green-
leaf, 97(3), 99, 123,
138(2), 139(4), 140
(7), 141(2), 146.
Phebe, 97.
Whittle, Freddie Lew-
is, 181.
Henry Gray, 181.
Widger, Elizabeth,
276.
Elizabeth (Dove),
262, 270, 271.
Mary (Tucker), 262,
274, 276.
William, 262(5), 270
(2), 271(2), 276
(4).
Mrs. William, 251,
252.
William, jr., 262.
Wiebe, Edward, 132.
Wilcox, Clara R., 175.
Clarissa (Brownell),
175.
Isaac, 175.
Phebe, 248(2).
Wild, John, 349, 350.
Wild cat (brig), 316.
Wildes, Ephraim, 354.
Wilkey, Mary(Winn),
180.
Wilkinson, Dr., 292.
Tho., 329.
Willard, Lucretia Mc-
Carty, 72.
Williams, , 334.
Dr., 61.
Alice M., 79.
Eliza R., 79, 191.
George, 313.
Harry, 79.
Harry A., 79.
James, 126.
James H., 79.
John T., 79.
Williams, Samuel
Welles, 48.
Sarah A., 79.
Willshire, Wiltshire,
Richard, 373.
Collo. Richard, 373.
Thomas, 373.
Wilmer, William, 291.
Wilson, Willson, ,
276.
Ellery H., 175.
Ellery Lewis, 175.
Hanah, 94.
Isabell, 310.
J. G., 135.
John, 310.
Lewis Bartlett, 175.
Mary Holbrook,175.
Richard, 307.
Sarah, 310.
Thomas, 307.
William K., 337.
Winham, Sadie, 180.
Winn, Bernard, 180.
Katherine (Dyer),
180.
Winslow,Edward,293.
Elizabeth, 68.
Elizabeth (French),
68.
Henry Bowers, 68.
Winter Island (Salem),
196.
Winthrop, Gov., 221.
John, 136.
Waite, 229.
Withington, Lothrop,
81, 290, 371.
Witinton, James, 94.
Wolfe, , 7.
Wood, Josiah, 344.
Wood Island, 148, 149.
Woodbridge, Rev.
Dudley, 372(2).
Ruth, 372(2), 373.
Woodbury, Wood-
be ry, Clara, 169.
Clarissa Ware, 169.
Capt. I., 323.
Robert, 328,
Samuel E., 169.
Woodcock, , 192.
Woodfin, Ann, 262.
Anna, 262.
Annis, 262.
Emma, 262.
Francis Abbot, 262.
Mary Ann, 262.
Richard, 262.
Woodford, Elizabeth
(Burnell), 78.
Oliver Prescott, 78.
Olivia Prescott, 78.
Woodman, Abby J ,
97.
Charles, 336.
Woods, , 262.
Mary, 289(3).
Samuel, 289.
William, 262, 289.
Wood war, Edward,
83.
Woolman, John, 133.
Works, William, 332.
Wormstead, Betsy,
276.
Worthen, Hattie, 180.
John A., 180.
Mary(Runnels),180.
Wright, Elizur, jr.,
140.
Lucius B., 74.
Samuel, 326.
Wyers, , 332.
Yates, Dr., 57.
Yeatall, Jno., 290.
Young, Richard, 151.
Young Richard (brig-
antine), 215.
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