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ESSEX INSTITUTE 



HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



YOL.XLYI 1910 





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SALEM, MASS. 

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1910 



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CONTENTS. 



Button family of Haverhill, Mass. By D. W. Hoyt, . 348 

Dodge, Francis Safford, Brigadier General in the United 
States Army. By Mrs. Mary Hunt (Weston) Dodge (Illus- 
trated), 97 

Dodge, Mrs. Mary Hunt (Weston), Francis Safford Dodge, 

Brigadier General in the United States Army (Illustrated), 97 

Duston family of Haverhill, Mass. By D. W. Hoyt, . . 350 

East Anglia, Familiar ways of. By Pauline Willis, . . 247 

Essex County, Newspaper Items Relating to (Continued), 185, 253 

Essex County Notarial Records (Continued), . 81,114,273,325 

Fuller, Col. Archelaus, of Middleton, Mass., Journal in the 

Expedition against Ticonderoga in 1758, . . . 209 

Groveland, Mass., The Houses and Buildings of. By Alfred 

Poore, M. D. (Illustrated), 193, 289 

Groveland Localities and Place-names. By Alfred Poore, 

M. D., 161 

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Records of the Vice- Admiralty Court, 

(Continued), 69,150,257,317 

Hoyt, D. W. The Button family of Haverhill, Mass., . 348 

Hoyt, D. W. The Duston Family of Haverhill, Mass., . 350 

Lewis, George Harlan, Captain Edmund Lewis of Marblehead, 

Mass, and some of his Descendants, .... 62 

Lewis, George Harlan. John Lewis of Lynn, Mass., Tory in 

the Revolution, and some of his Descendants, . . 65 

Lewis, George Harlan. John Lewis of Marblehead, Mass., 

and some of his Descendants, 56 

Lewis, Captain Edmund, of Marblehead, Mass, and some of 

his Descendants. By George Harlan Lewis, . . 62 

Lewis, John, of Lynn, Mass., Tory in the Revolution, and some 

of his Descendants. By George Harlan Lewis, . . 62 

Lewis, John, of Marblehead and some of his Descendants. By 

George Harlan Lewis, 56 

Long, Henry Follansbee. The Newburyport and Danvers 

Railroads, (Illustrated), 17 

Marblehead in the year 1700. By Sidney Perley (Illustrated), 

1, 178, 221, 305 

Newburyport and Danvers Railroads, The. By Henry Follans- 
bee Long (Illustrated) 17 



iv CONTENTS. 

Newburyport in the Revolution. Historical Notes, . 184 

Newspaper Items relating to Essex County (Continued), 185, 253 
Perley, Sidney. Marblehead in the year 1700 (Illustrated), 

1, 178, 221, 305 

Poore, Alfred, M. D. Groveland Localities and Place-names, 161 
Poore, Alfred, M. D. The Houses and Buildings of Groveland, 

Mass. (Illustrated), . . . , . . . 193, 289 

Putnam, Capt. Jeremiah, of Danvers, Mass. Revolutionary 

Orderly Book in the Rhode Island campaign, . . 333 

Revolution, Newburyport in the Historical Notes, . . 184 

Revolution, Records of the Vice-Admiralty Court at Halifax, 

Nova Scotia, during the (Continued), . 69, 150, 257, 317 

Revolutionary Orderly Book of Capt. Jeremiah Putnam of 

Danvers, Mass, in the Rhode Island Campaign, . 333 

Ticonderoga, Journal of Col. Archelaus Fuller, of Middleton, 

Mass., in the Expedition against, in 1758, . . 209 

Willis, Pauline. Familiar Ways of East Anglia, . . 247 

Woodwell, Matthew, of Salem, Mass, and his Descendants. By 

W. H. Woodwell, 129 

Woodwell, W. H. Matthew Woodwell of Salem, Mass, and his 

Descendants, 129 











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VOL. XLVI. JANUARY, 1910 No. 1 



MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. I. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 



THE following account of land titles and houses in 
Marblehead as they existed in the year 1700, is the first of a 
series of articles based upon actual surveys and title 
deeds. Opposite page three is a map of the western end 
of the town, including an area of about one thousand 
acres, and on it are shown all the houses standing within 
this territory at that time. 

All that part of the territory westerly of the line run- 
ning from Forest river to the sea, on which is " Ruck's 
tree," was Mr. John Humphreys' farm of five hundred 
acres. Three hundred acres of this tract had been granted 
to Thomas Scruggs in the year 1635, in the following 
words : 

This is void by ii of the 11 th moneth 1635. Granted by 

the grant of ^ Q freemen of Salem the day and yeare 

another farme _ ., J . J 

in Lei we of above written vnto m r Ihomas bcrugs of 

this to mr. the fame his heires and assignes for ever a 

farme conteyning three hundreth acres of 
land whereof thirty acres are fitt to be mowed fcituate 
lying and being in the outmoffc bounds of Salem towarde 
m r Humphries* and is from the Sea where the frefhe 

*The eastern part of Swampscott, as it was before 1867, belonged 
to John Humphreys. 

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2 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 

water runs out, west and by North is the fearme next to 
m r Humph ryes bounded by the Com on by the North weft 
end & East End Pvided alwayes & in Cafe of Sale, the 
towne of Salem haue the firft pfer before any other 

John Endecott 
Roger Connunght 
John Holgrave 
Thomas Gardner 
Edm. Batter.* 

This lot of Mr. Scruggs was regarded as an excellent 
site for the college which was about to be established in 
New England and it was offered for that purpose. The 
offer was not accepted, however, as Newtown, now Cam- 
bridge, was nearer the seat of government and deemed 
more fitting, and Mr. Scruggs relinquished his right to the 
land of the town. John Humphreys desired a grant of the 
same land and two hundred acres additional, and it was 
granted to him in the following words : 

At a genall Court or towne meeting of Salem held the 
fecond of the third moneth caled May A 1636. 

Imp 1 * after the reading of former orders; In the reading 
of an order for the divifion of Marble Head neck; A mo- 
tion was brought in by C p Endicott in behalf e of m r 
John Humphries for fome land beyond fforeft River, 
moved by spetiall arguments one whereof was, Least yt 
fhould hinder the building of a colledge, w ch would be manie 
m loffe It was agreed vpon this motion that fix men 
fhould be nominated by the towne to view thefe lands 
and to Consider of the pmifes, and for that end was named 
m r Thomas Scrugs, C p Trafke 

m r Roger Conant m r Townsen Bishop 

John woodbery Peter Palfrey 

Itm yt was ordered that whereas m r Scrugs had a farme, 
of three hundred acres beyond forest River, And that C p 
Trafke had one of tooe hundred acres beyond Baffe River, 
The C p Trafke frely relinquifhing his farme of tooe hun- 
dred acres, It was granted vnto m r Thomas Scrugs and he 
there vpon frely relinquished his farme of three hundred 

*Salem town records (Grants), page 6. 



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MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 3 

acres that foe m r Humphryes might the better be accomo- 
dated. * 

Mr. Humphreys lived in Salem and was called "esquire." 
Sept. 6, 1638, he conveyed to Emanuel Downing of Sa- 
lem, esquire, "the two ponds and so much high ground 
about the ponds as is needful to keepe the duck coye pri- 
vate from the disturbance of plowmen heardsmen or oth- 
ers passing by that way w ch he may enclose so as he take 
in above fifty acres of the upland round aboute the 
same."f Mr. Downing was a brother-in-law of Governor 
Winthrop and had brought over from England *' at great 
charges, all things fitting for taking wild fowl by way of 
Duck Coy." He obtained leave of the General Court to 
set his decoys in these ponds. It was ordered that no man 
"should shoote in any gunn within a half mile of the 
ponds, nor use any other means for the disturbance of the 
fowle there." Mr. Downing returned to England and prob- 
ably died about 1657, having granted this fifty acres of 
land to his grandson Solomon Stoddard of Boston, gentle- 
man, " fellow of ye College of Cambridge." For fifty 
pounds, Mr. Stoddard conveyed the land to Moses Mav- 
erick and Richard Rowland, both of Marblehead, May 1, 
1667. J This tract of land comprised the lots on the map 
marked James Darling, Estate of Richard Rowland, and 
Ambrose Gale. 

Messrs. Maverick and Rowland conveyed to Johr* 
Peach, sr., one-fourth, to John Peach, jr., one-eighth and 
to Samuel Ward one-eighth of this fifty acres Jan. 20,. 
1667. Some division of the land was made apparently 
and Mr. Maverick and "one of the Peaches" conveyed the 
lot marked James Darling to George Darling, sr., of Sa- 
lem, yeoman, in the seventies. || The lot marked Estate 
of Richard Rowland was Richard Rowland's portion of the 
Coy pond lands as probably divided. The lot marked 
Ambrose Gale was the one-eighth of these lands conveyed 
by Messrs. Maverick and Richard Rowland to Capt*. 

*Salem town records (Grants), page 9. 
fEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 1. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 26. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 27. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 303. 



4 MABBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 

Samuel Ward of Marblehead, vintner, Jan. 20, 1667.* 

The remainder of Mr. Humphreys' farm, about four 
hundred arid fifty acres, was owned by him at the time of 
his decease. By her attorney, William Hathorne of Sa- 
lem, Mrs. Lydia Bankes, late of Salem, for one hundred 
and thirty-three pounds, conveyed to Moses Maverick, 
David Corwithen, Arthur Sandin, William Charles, John 
Peach the elder, and "others the inhabitants of Marble- 
head, all that farm called y e Playnes farme ling in Salem, 
being 400 acres, with all y e housing, &c., excepting 50 
acres & 2 ponds formerly granted to Mr. Downing," 24: 7: 
1645. f The list of grantees and the amount each one paid 
toward the purchase is only partially known. The tract 
of land was subsequently divided among the purchasers in 
proportion to the amount each one paid. 

The road running near the Coy ponds, as shown on the 
map, was the ancient road leading from Salem to Marble- 
head. Its course in Salem was through the great pastures to 
the head of Broad street. Upon the laying out of the road 
through the South Fields of Salem in 1666, this fell into 
disuse and was used principally to go to the Darling farm. 
It was called, in 1677, "ye highway y 4 goes to George 
Darlin's"; in 1728, "Boston road"; and, in 1731, "ye coun- 
try road." 

Where this road left the town was the "Marblehead 
gate," which was there as late as 1703. In the early set- 
tlement, each town was fenced, and at the highways gates 
in the fence were maintained. 

The southern highway shown on the map is that over 
which electric cars now run between Marblehead and 
Lynn and was called "ye old waye yt went to Mr. King's" 
in 1677; "ye old highway," 1682; "the old country road," 
1687; u the old path and road which was to Lynn," 
1691; "ye old path and road which was formerly to Lynn," 
1701; "the old path/' 1710; "ye old highway y* for- 
merly led from Marblehead to Lynn," 1715 ; "highway 
that leads to Lynn," 1719; "the old path and road which 
was sometimes to Lynn," 1724 ; "ye road leading to King's 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 27. 
i l Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 29. 



MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 5 

farm," 1728 ; ye way yt leads to Reddans," 1734 ; "and ye 
country road," 1739. 

The road leading to Salem over Forest River was laid 
out by committees chosen for that purpose by the towns 
of Salem and Marblehead in the spring of 1666. The 
following is a copy of the record of their return: 

The Returne : of thofe that weare Apoynted to laye owt the Com- 
mon hie waye: betwixt salem towne and marblhed: is vydz: tha; 
the waye: shall: lye: out of the towne of marblhed: as: the Common 
Cart waye now lyeth: fower Rodds wyde and soe to Runn: fower 
Rodds broade: as wee haue m'ked trees: neere the way as It is 
Commonly vied: only vppon the midle of the playne wee Leaue the 
common waye: and goe: soinwhat one the Left hand of the ould waye 
according as thee trees are marked and soe to Runn: fower Rodd 
wyde: vntill wee com to: the bridg: and then to goe fower Rodd 
wyde:vntil wee Com to the litle gate: that standeth In the south 
feeld ffence : and then wee haue determined that the waye shall 
Runn: throgh at that gate vppon a strayght lyne vnto an ould tree 
that lyeth neere that common hye waye: in the south ffeeld and soe 
to goe along the waye: as it is now vfed: through the the south ffeeld 
vnto the mill dam: and the breath of the whole waye through the 
south ffeeld to be one Rodd wyde And that this is owre Joynt agree- 
ment: wee haue heare vnto sett oure hands this 24 of Aprill: 1666 

William Hawthorne 
Henry Bartholomew 
Richard TT his 
Rowland * mark: 
Samuell Ward :* 

The bridge had already been built by William Flint and 
John Neale for the town of Salem at an expense of five 
pounds. 

After the new road, leading by the present lead mills, 
was laid out in 1737, this was called the old road to For- 
est river. Years later the road running around Legg's 
hill to the Lynn road was laid out and that part of the 
old road, leading easterly of Legg's hill, through "the dun- 
geons," went out of use. 

The ancient highway to the Neck through tlie Dever- 
eaux farm was laid out in 1670. Its beginning on the 
main highway through the town is now Smith street. 
This old way continued to be used as the only way to the 
great neck until 1721. This was probably the nearest 
way over high land, the pond and marsh east of the Dev- 

*Salem town records, volume 2, page 81. 



6 MABBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 

ereaux house rendering it inexpedient to construct a road 
there in the primitive days. In the autumn of 1720, a 
new way to the Neck was agitated, and a petition signed 
by "a considerable number" of the inhabitants of Marble- 
head, was presented to the court of general sessions. It 
stated that the * ancient" way was encumbered and stopped 
up, and the prayer requested that the encumbrances be 
removed or a change made in the location of the way. 
Dec. 27, 1720, the court ordered that Capt. William Bow- 
ditch, Capt. John Gardner and Capt. Theophilus Burrill 
be a committee to lay out a way of two rods in width in 
the old way or in a new location.* At the same court, 
the committee reported, Jan. 18, 1720-1, that they had 
laid out said way two rods wide and provided that the 
town or proprietors of common lands in Marblehead 
should hang a gate at each end of the new road. This re- 
port was confirmed by the court on the last-named date.f 
Accompanying the petition was a plan, now on file in the 
office of the county commissioners^ which is reproduced 
as the frontispiece of this number of the Historical Col- 
lections. Besides the ways, it shows the location of the 
Devereaux house and barn, and upon the Neck (which is 
not drawn to scale and is lacking in shape) are shown the 
dwelling houses, fish houses and fish flakes, and along the 
shore are four boats and fishing vessels. 

Forest river was so called from the earliest settlement. 
Above the little bridge at Legg's hill the stream was called 
Frost-fish brook in 1681 and 1711. 

The ocean off this territory was called ye sea, from 
1674 onward. 

In the sketches that follow, after 1700, titles and deeds 
referred to pertain to the houses and land adjoining and 
not always to the whole lot, the design being, after that 
date, to give the history of the houses then standing. 

James Darling House. George Darling, sr., of Salem, 
yeoman, who was one of the Scots brought to New Eng- 
land in 1651, bought this lot of about twenty acres of 

*Court of General Sessions records, volume 1719-1727, page 40. 
tCourt of General Sessions records, volume 1719-1727, page 45. 
JCounty Commissioners Plans, book 2, plan 4. The original plan 
measures 14} x 11% inches. 



MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 7 

"Moses Maverick and one of the Peaches" before June 
14, 1677, when he was living in this house which he had 
erected thereon.* He died in the summer of 1693, having 
in his will, given his estate to his wife Katherine for her 
widowhood, and the house and this lot of land to his son 
James Darling. The house, garden, orchard and remain- 
der of the lot were appraised at ninety-five pounds. James 
Darling was a shoreman and lived here. He owned the 
lot in 1716, the house having probably been gone fifteen 
years. 

Estate of Richard Rowland Lot. Richard Rowland died 
possessed of this lot in the summer of 1685, his will dated 
April 24, 1685, being proved June 30, 1685. He devised 
this land to his son John Rowland and his children. It 
was then appraised at thirty pounds. John Rowland died, 
leaving no issue, before Dec. 4, 1693, when administra- 
tion was granted upon his estate to his widow, Abigail 
Rowland. The land was then appraised at twenty-four 
pounds. It remained a portion of the estate of his father, 
Richard Rowland, until 1716. 

Ambrose Grale Lot. This lot comprised one-eighth of 
the Coy pond lands which were conveyed by John Hum- 
phreys to Emanuel Downing in 1638, this one-eigth part 
having been conveyed by Moses Maverick and Richard 
Rowland to Capt. Samuel Ward of Marblehead, vintner, 
Jan. 20, 1667. f For twelve pounds, Captain Ward con- 
veyed it to Ambrose Gale of Marblehead, merchant, Jan. 
10, 1685.J and Mr. Gale owned it until his death which 
occurred in the summer of 1708. 

Thomas Pitman Lot. That part of this lot lying east- 
erly of the dashes belonged to Samuel Archard of Salem, 
carpenter, June 8, 1661, when, for four pounds, he con- 
veyed it to Thomas Pitmau. That part of the lot lying 
westerly of the dashes belonged to Henry Harwood as 
early as 1661, and soon after to Thomas Moore who sold 
it to Mr. Stileman, sr. It belonged to Capt. James Smith 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 303; Marblehead town 
records. 

tEssex Registry ol Deeds, book 3, leaf 27. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 114. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 30. 



8 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 

of Marblehead, mariner, Aug. 26, 1668, when he sold it to 
William Flint of Salem, husbandman.* Mr. Flint con- 
veyed it to Thomas Pitman March 16, 1669.f Thus Mr. 
Pitman became the owner of the whole lot of which he 
died possessed in the summer of 1694. It belonged to 
his heirs in 1700. Mr. Pitman's children, Joseph Pitman, 
Sarah Dod and Mary Fortune, survived him, and his 
daughter Elizabeth Knight and son John Pitman died be- 
fore himself. Mrs. Knight's son, Thomas Russell of Mar- 
blehead, mariner, as trustee for his mother's children, con- 
veyed one-fifth of this part of the lot to his uncle Thomas 
Pitman, jr., executor of the will of the father of the latter, 
Oct. 22, 1696. J John Pitman, the son, left widow Char- 
ity and children, Joseph, John, Abiel, and Mary Pitman. 
As trustee for her children, Mrs. Charity Pitman con- 
veyed one- fifth of this part of the lot to said Thomas Pit- 
man, Dec. 26, 1696. 

Joseph Doliber Lot. Joseph Doliber owned this lot in 
1677, and died possessed of it in 1688. His estate owned 
it in 1700. 

John Holmes Lot. This lot was part of the plain farm, 
being all that Henry Stacy, sr., of Salem, husbandman, 
bought in said farm. For fifteen pounds, he conveyed it 
to John Holmes June 9, 1677, || and Mr. Holmes died pos- 
sessed of it in 1718. 

Thomas Pitman Lot. This lot is supposed to includes 
on its western side, the lot conveyed by Francis Johnson 
of Boston, merchant, to Edward Hoeman of Marblehead 
before May 12, 1677. The remainder of the lot be- 
longed to Nathaniel Walton in 1677. Francis Johnson of 
Boston, merchant, and wife Hannah, conveyed it to 
Thomas Pitman, sr., of Marblehead May 12, 1677.TJ Mr. 
Pitman died possessed of the whole lot in the summer of 
1694. It was then appraised at thirty pounds. Under 
the will of Mr. Pitman, his grandson, Thomas Russell, was 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 43. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 4. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 18. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 129. 
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 176. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 5. 



MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 9 

trustee for his brothers and sisters. Mr. Russell died and 
his brother-in-law, Amos Dennis (husband of Elizabeth 
Russell), was executor of his will. For six pounds, Mr. 
Dennis, in his capacity of said executor, conveyed one- 
fifth of the lot to his wife's uncle, Thomas Pitman, jr., 
July 19, 1697.* The remainder of the heirs continued to 
own their interests in 1700. 

Ambrose G-ale Lot. This was one-eighth of the land 
laid out to Nicholas Merritt in the plain farm which de- 
scended to his son John Merritt of Marblehead, mariner, 
who sold it to Ambrose Gale of Marblehead, merchant, 
some years before 1701. Mr. Gale, for six pounds, con- 
veyed it to John Palmer of Marblehead, fisherman, August 
5, 1701.f John Merritt conveyed another eighth part of 
this lot to John Leg of Marblehead, merchant, Jan. 22, 
16914 

John Codner Lot. John Codner of Marblehead, fisher- 
man, owned this lot in 1699, and died possessed of it in 
the early spring of 1710. 

Nathaniel Norden Lot. This part of the plain farm, 
containing thirty-nine acres and one hundred and thirty- 
five rods, belonged to Moses Maverick of Marblehead, 
having been assigned to him, in the division, for fifteen 
pounds. He died Jan. 28, 1685-6, and, by agreement of 
the heirs, Archibald Ferguson of Marblehead, mariner, 
and Moses Hawke of Lynn, planter, as their attorneys, for 
sixty-five pounds, conveyed this lot to Nathaniel Norden, 
Esq., of Marblehead Sept. 4, 1699. Mr. Norden died, 
possessed of it, March 1, 1727-8. 

John Legg and Samuel Legg Lot. John Legg of Mar- 
blehead owned this lot very early and died, possessed of 
it, in the early part of 1674. This eight acres of the 
plain farm was devised to his three sons, Samuel, John 
and youngest son Daniel. It was then valued at seventeen 
pounds. Daniel died, unmarried, before March 16, 1690, 
when his brothers, Capt. Samuel Legg of Boston, mariner, 
the eldest son, and John Legg of Marblehead, merchant, 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 172. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 44. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 86. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 1. 



10 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 

made a division of it, Samuel taking the northeastern part, 
and John the southwestern part,* and they owned their 
respective portions in 1700. 

Estate of Richard Rowland Lot. That part of this lot 
lying westerly of the westerly dashes was the ten-acre lot 
owned by Mr. Ruck who sold it to Richard Rowland 
of Marblehead before 1672. 

The remainder of this lot was made up of three ten- 
acre lots which were owned at an early date by Moses 
Maverick of Marblehead, merchant, who, for fifty pounds, 
conveyed them to Mr. Rowland Aug. 25, 167 2.| Mr. 
Rowland died, possessed of the entire lot of forty acres, 
in the summer of 1685, having devised it to his son John 
Rowland and the latter's children. John Rowland died, 
leaving no issue, before Dec. 4, 1693, when administra- 
tion was granted to his widow, Abigail Rowland, who 

subsequently married Caine. The land remained 

a part of the estate of Richard Rowland in 1700. 

In this lot are the famous "dungeons" or kettle holes 
made by the glaciers. 

Jeremiah G-atchell Lot. That part of this lot lying 
westerly of the western dashes was a ten-acre lot that be- 
longed to Thomas Oliver of Salem, callender, before July 5, 
1658, when he conveyed it to John Bradstreet of Salem4 
This deed mentions the "old Indian fort" in the south end 
of the lot. John Gatchell of Marblehead, planter, conveyed 
this lot to his son Jeremiah Gatchell of Marblehead, wheel- 
wright, and his children April 17, 1680. 

The remainder of this lot originally consisted of two 
ten-acre lots, which belonged to James Underwood, baker, 
and Abraham Williams before 18 : 7 : 1651, when they 
conveyed them to John Gatchell of Marblehead, planter. || 

That part of the lot lying between the dashes was con- 
veyed by Mr. Gatchell to his son Jeremiah Gatchell May 
1, 16824 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 109. 

tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 168. The easterly ten-acre 
lot is mentioned as being owned by Robert Bartlett in 1680. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 82. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 126. 
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 10. 
IfEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 126. 



MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 11 

That part of the lot lying easterly of the easterly dashes 
was conveyed by John Gatchell to his son Jeremiah Gat- 
chell, for twenty-five pounds, Feb. 8, 1682-3.* 

Jeremiah Gatchell owned the whole lot for many years 
after 1700. 

G-eorge Bonfield Lot. Moses Maverick owned the east- 
ern part of this lot early and conveyed it to William 
Beale, sr., of Marblehead before Dec. 8,1674. The re- 
mainder of the lot belonged at an early date to John 
Bradstreet, who died possessed of it, about 1660. He 
was childless, and his brother Moses Bradstreet, and 
Nicholas Holt, sr., of Andover and John Kimball of Ip- 
swich, husbands of John Bradstreet's sisters Hannah and 
Mary, released it to his sister Martha's husband, William 
Beale, sr., of Marblehead before Dec. 8, 1674, when Mr. 
Beale conveyed his then interest in the land to Mr. Brad- 
street's sister Rebecca's husband, George Bonfield, sr., of 
Marblehead, fisherman.! Mr. Bonfield owned the land in 
1700. 

James Smith Lot. This was a lot from ninety to one 
hundred acres in extent and a part of Mr. Humphreys' 
farm. It belonged to Capt. James Smith of Marblehead, 
mariner, Feb. 4, 1674, when he conveyed it to Symond 
Lynde of Boston, merchant. At that time there was 
*' housing" upon the lot and it was in the occupation of 
Micha Bowds, sometime of Salem, husbandman.^ This 
was probably a mortgage, as Captain Smith owned the 
lot in 1700. ' 

James Dennis, Amos Dennis and Annis Trevie Lot. This 
was the share of William Charles of Marblehead in the 
Humphreys farm, and he died, possessed of the lot in 
1672 (?), having devised it in his will to James Dennis, 
blacksmith, Amos Dennis, fisherman, and Thomas Trefey 
(or Trevie), shoreman, in right of his wife Annis, all of 
Marblehead. The several parties owned it in 1700. 

Jonathan Norman Lot. This lot belonged to Richard 
Norman in 1687 and to Jonathan Norman of Marblehead 
in 1700. 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 126. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 123. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 18, leaf 81. 



12 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 

Mrs. Mary Woods Lot. John Peach of Marblehead, 
planter, owned this part of the plain farm early, and, with 
his wife Alice, conveyed it to his natural daughter Mary, 
wife of William Woods of Marblehead, spinster, Dec. 30, 
1687.* Her son, John Woods of Marblehead, owned it 
with her in 1710. 

Robert Bartlett Lot. That part of the lot lying westerly 
of the dashes belonged to William Bartoll, jr., of Salem, 
mariner, Dec. 11, 1682, when he conveyed it to Capt. 
Robert Bartlett of Marblehead, yeoman. f That part lying 
easterly of the dashes also belonged in 16 8 2, to Mr. Bartlett 
who was deceased in 1719. 

Samuel Reed Lot. This lot belonged to Richard Row- 
land before 1680. He died in 1685, having devised this 
lot to his daughter Abigail Reed. The lot was then val- 
ued at seventy pounds. In 1689, it belonged to Samuel 
Reed, and in 1718 to Ester Reed of Marblehead, spinster. 

Benjamin Ireson Lot. This lot belonged to John and 
Parnall Bartoll, who were both deceased Feb. 4, 1688-9, 
when their eldest son, heir-at-law and administrator, Wil- 
liam Bartoll (wife Mary), for thirty-three pounds, con- 
veyed it to Benjamin Ireson of Lynn, planter.^ Mr. Ire- 
son died possessed of it in 1705. 

Robert Devereaux House. This tract of three hundred- 
and fifty acres of land was granted to Rev. Hugh Peter by 
the town of Salem in 163-, and when he went to Eng- 
land he gave his property into the care of one of his dea- 
cons in Salem, Charles Gott. For one hundred pounds 
sterling, Mr. Gott, who had removed to Wenham, con- 
veyed the land to John Devereaux of Marblehead, fisher- 
man, July 1, 1659. In this deed, the lot is described as 
follows: "bounded westward towards the Forrest river, 
Tinkers Island lying on y e east, being bounded southward 
toward y e river head & Throgmorton's cove lying towards 
the norwest." 

In 1660, Mr. Peter, as one of the regicides of Charles II, 
was executed at Charing Cross, London. Mr. Devereaux 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 18, leaf 81. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 16, leaf 152. 
{Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 309. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 63. 



MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 13 

continued in possession of the property, having built a house 
upon the eastern part of the lot. He died in the spring of 
1695 and his will dated Sept. 4, 1693, was proved May 
20, 1695. He provided as follows : " I give and bequeath 
unto my son Robert Devereux two thirds of all my land 
within the Stonnwall now lying in marblehead being three 
hundred Acres more or less with my now dwelling house 
and Barne, only I give unto my son Roberts son Joseph 
twenty Acres of land within y e stonn wall which is out of 
the two thirds of my son Roberts laud before mentioned 
which land lying next to Marblehead comon jyning to 
my land without the stonn wall, when he shall be 21 
years of age, ... to remaine in the family and 
name of the Devereuxes from generation to generation in 
way of intale forever and ever." The other third was de- 
vised to the three sons of the testator's deceased son 
Humphrey Devereaux, Joseph (one-half), Humphrey 
(one-quarter), and Ralph (one-quarter). 

After the decease of Mr. Devereaux, the daughter and 
heir of Hugh Peter claimed title to the land, alleging 
that Deacon Gott had insufficient authority to execute the 
deed. The widow, Mrs. Ann Devereaux, one of the exec- 
utors of the will of Mr. Devereaux, of whom the demand 
for possession was made, consulted her children and 
friends, who advised her not to contest her claim and she 
did not. The son, Robert Devereaux, to whom the two- 
thirds were given, obtained a deed from Elizabeth Barker 
of London, England, "only daughter and heiress of Hugh 
Peters sometime heretofore of Salem, clerk/' deceased, 
June 29, 1704.* 

Robert Devereaux lived here, being a tanner, and died 
many years afterward. How long the house stood after 
1704 is uncertain, but it was probably soon taken down 
and a new one built in its place. 

Joseph Bubier House. This lot of land was granted by 
the commoners of Marblehead to Richard Downing of 
Marblehead, fisherman, who had built a house upon it, 
Jan. 13, 1684,t and here he lived until April 5, 1686, 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 18, leaves 81 and 82. 
tMarblehead town records. 



14 MARBLEHBAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 

when, for twenty-one pounds, he conveyed it to Robert 
Bartlett of Marblehead, fisherman.* The commoners, not 
having received their pay from Mr. Downing, f subse- 
quently conveyed the estate to Joseph Bubier of Marble- 
head, mariner, who owned it as late as 1737. The northern 
end of the lot was granted to Mr. Bubier by the common 
ers, Sept. 30, 16954 His "old house" was then standing 
on the lot. 

William Hewett House. This house and lot were owned 
by Moses Maverick of Marblehead, merchant, in 1677. 
Oct. 7, 1679, he and his wife Eunice conveyed it to Wil- 
lism Hewett of Marblehead, fisherman. The estate had 
been lately in the possession of Philip Welch. Mr. 
Hewett, for love, ^conveyed to his friend Judah Nicholson 
of Marblehead, a widow, the new end of the house she 
now lives in and land and meadow next to Lt. Robert 
Bartlett's land, etc., on a brook and stone wall, Sept. 15, 
1702. || For love he also conveyed to his maid Mary 
Boober (youngest daughter of Joseph Boober of Marble- 
head), single woman, whom I brought up, my dwelling 
house in which I now live, barn and this farm and all my 
estate, Sept. 16, 1707. If She married Francis Bowdin in 
the same year. How long the house stood after that date 
is uncertain. 



THE GREAT NECK. 

On the opposite page is a map of the great neck be- 
longing to Marblehead as it was in the year 1700. This 
map covers an area of about three hundred acres, and 
shows all the houses standing there in that year. The fron- 
tispiece also gives a view of these houses and the fish 
houses and flakes. Some leases of land for fishing were 
made at various times and the records speak of grants 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 68. 

tSee mortgage from Mr. Downing to the commoners, dated Aug. 
10, 1685, and recorded in Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 50. 
JMarblehead town records. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 99. 
| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 279. 
ITEssex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 185. 



MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAK 1700. 15 

having been made and other lots laid out there at several 
times before 1700, but the only lots known certainly to 
have been owned by private persons at that time were 
those that formed a part of the eight acres which were 
early owned by John Coyte. He sold the land to Wil- 
liam Pitt of Boston, merchant, who conveyed it to his 
son-in-law Christopher Lattimer of Marblehead, mariner, 
Feb. 2, 1659.* who disposed of it as hereinafter stated. 
The way across the Neck is first mentioned in 1678.f 

John Pedrick House. Mr. Lattimer conveyed this part 
of his lot to John Petherick of Marblehead, fisherman, 
Oct. 17, 16634 Mr - Pedrick built a dwelling house and 
barn upon the lot and lived there. He died, possessed of 
the estate, in 1706. Upon division of the estate, Feb. 19, 
1723-4, the buildings and land were assigned to his son 
John Pedrick. The house is then called " old," and prob- 
ably stood only a few years longer. 

Estate of Andrew Tucker House. Mr. Lattimer con- 
veyed this part of his lot to Andrew Tucker of Marble- 
head, fisherman, March 28, 1672. He died, possessed of 
the house and lot, before Dec. 6, 1692, when administra- 
tion was granted upon his estate. The house and land 
descended to his only surviving son Philip Tucker of 
Marblehead, fisherman, upon assignment in 1730. The 
lot "with an old house thereon," was then valued at 
twenty-five pounds. The house was probably gone before 
June 10, 1732, when he sold the land to Joshua Coombs 
of Marblehead, fisherman. || 

John iSearl House. This was a part of the lot of Chris- 
topher Lattimer, and was owned in 1672 by John Allen, 
who had probably purchased it of Mr. Lattimer. Mr. 
Allen sold it to Mr. William Browne, and Mr. Browne to 
John Pedrick in 1678. Someone built this house before 
Oct. 5, 1683, when Mr. Petherick, for fifty pounds, con- 
veyed it with the lot to John Searl of Marblehead.^[ He 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 4. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 38. 
{Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 129. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 135. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 60, leaf 219. 
HEssex Registry of Deeds, book (i, leaf 97. 



16 MAKBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. 

died about 1700, and his heirs conveyed the house and 
land to Samuel Stacey of Marblehead, shoreman, May 4, 
1719,* Mr. Stacey owned the estate in 1732. 

John Pedrick Lot. That part of this lot which lies 
easterly of the dashes was owned in 1672 by John Allen, 
who had probably purchased it of Mr. Lattimer. Mr. 
Allen sold it to Mr. William Brown, and Mr. Brown to 
John Pedrick in 1678. The remainder of the lot was 
conveyed by Mr, Lattimer, who was then called a vintner, 
to Mr. Petherick Dec. 20, 1678. f Mr. Pedrick owned the 
entire lot in 1700. 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 35, leaf 173. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 38. 




& BEORBETOM 



mi & mm ROUTE 

BOSTON i NEWBURYPORT 

GEORGETOWN, TOPSFIELD AND DANVERS, 

Connecting at WEST I>A> VEUS with Trains to and from SALEM. 

Trains from BRADFORD and GROVELAND connect with this line 

at GEORGETOWN for BOSTON. 



Depot in Boston, 
* Bradford, 

Newbury 



Boston and Maine Depot, Haymarket Square. 

At Haverhill Bridge. 

, .... "West of the Tunnel 



FALL ARRANGEMENT. 

OR AH) AFTER MOHDAY. OCTOBER 23, 1854. 



i % 



FOR BOSTON. 


PROM 


BOSTON, 




NEWBURYPORT, 7.45, 11.00 A.M., 


1.43,5.00P.M. 


! BOSTON, - 805 


A.M., 12.00 M 


.,3.00, 5.30 P.M. 


BYFIELD - - - 7.97, 11.12 


1.57, 5.12 


W. DANVERS, 


8.45 


12.35 


3.35, 6 08 


HAVER'L BRIDGE, 7.45, 11.00 


1.45, 5.00 


N. DANVERS, 


8.54 


12.41 


3.14, 6.18 


GROVELAND, - 7.50,11.05 


1.50, 5.05 


' r OPS FIELD, 


9.08 


12.58 


3.58, G.32 


GEORGETOWN, 


8.03, 11.18 


2.03, 5.18 


BOXFORD, - 


9.18 


1.08 


4.08, 6,39 


BOXFORD, - - 


8.09, 11.25 


2.09, 5.25 


GEORGETOWN 


9.25 


1.15 


4.15, 6.46 


TOPSFIELD, - 


8.18, 11.34 


2.18,534 


GROVELAND, 


9.31 


1.21 


4.21, 6.52 


N. DANVERS, - 


8.33, 11.50 


2.35, 5.50 


BYFIELD, - 


9.32 


1.21 


4.21, 6.52 


W. DANVERS, - 


8.42, 11.58 


2.43, 6.00 


HAV'L BRIDGE, 9.36 


1.26 


4.26, 6.57 


Arrive at BOSTON 


9.19 12.40 


3.23,6.40 Ar. atNEWBP'T, 9.43 


1.33 


4.33, 7.04 



NEWBURYPORT AND BRADFORD. 

TRAINS LEAVE NKWBUR YPORT FOR BRADFORD at 7.45 and 11.00 A.M., 1.45 and 5.00 P.M.. 
BRADFORD FOR NEUBURYPOHT at 8.40 A.M., and 1.45, 3.55 and 6.20 P.M. 

" Leaving NEWBURYPOUT at 7.45 and 11 00 A.M., and 5.00 P.M., and BRADFORD at 8.40 A;M. 
3.45 and 6.20 P.M., connect with Trains on the Boston & Me. Railroad to and fro:n LAWRENCE, and the West 
and North ; also, with Trains going East 

GEORGETOWN AND HAVERHILL BRIDGE. 

TRAINS leave GEORGETOWN for HAVERHILL BRIDGE at 8.05, 9.25, 11.18 A.M. and 1.13, 2.03, 4.15, 

5.18 and 6.46 P.M. 

Leave HAVERHILL BRIDUE for GEORGETOWN at 7.45, 8.25, 11.00 A.M., 12.55, 1.45, 3 50, 5.00, 6 20 P.M. 



$3- Passengers are not allowed Baggage above $50 in value, or 80 Ibs. in weight, without extra charge. For 
farther particulars, see. Railway Guide. 

C. S. TENNEV, Sup't. 



particu 
GEORGETOWN. OCTOBER 18, 1854. 



THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS 
RAILROADS. 

AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONSTRUCTION AND EARLY WORK- 
ING OF RAILROADS IN CENTRAL ESSEX COUNTY. 



BY HENRY FOLLANSBEE LONG. 



From the first settlement of New England down to a 
comparatively recent period, the prosperity of its people 
was derived from agriculture and commerce. Later came 
industrial development in the manufacture of boots and 
shoes, and cotton and woolen goods, and with it the ne- 
cessity for railroads. In the earlier years of the nineteenth 
century, Newburyport was one of the prosperous trading 
centers of Massachusetts, but its growth and prosperity 
did not increase, largely because of its failure to enter into 
the new manufacturing impulse. It is to this city, how- 
ever, that railroad development in the central portion of 
Essex County must be credited. These railroads, as later 
described, were incorporated as the Newburyport Railroad, 
the Georgetown Railroad, the Danvers and Georgetown 
Railroad, and the Danvers Railroad. 

For some time previous to the year 1846, the citizens 
of Newburyport had harbored a grievance against the 
Eastern Railroad and at last the plan was conceived of 
building a railroad that should connect the town with the 
Boston and Maine Railroad at Lawrence, and also open 
up transportation in the interior of the county through 
Georgetown, Groveland and Haverhill. The promoters 
of the new road aimed to control the traffic of the Mem- 
mac Valley and it was claimed that Newburyport thereby 
would regain in part her earlier importance as a terminal 
point for trade. The operation of a steamboat on the 
Merrimac river, between Haverhill and Newburyport, had 

(17) 



18 THE NEWBUEYPOET AND DANVEES EAILEOADS. 

proved a wise investment, and through the proposed rail- 
road it was hoped to obtain this traffic, and at the same 
time replace the heavy teaming between Lawrence and 
Newburyport by the improved methods of railroad trans- 
portation. 

The town of Georgetown, at this time, was heavily in- 
terested in the manufacture of boots and shoes, and as the 
railroad was to supply a means whereby the raw material 
and the finished product could be transported quickly, a 
large number of prominent citizens were interested in the 
enterprise, and it is largely due to subscribers in George- 
town, that the railroad was finally completed. Some of 
the early meetings, prior to the incorporation of the rail- 
road company, were held at Georgetown, and one of the 
first meetings after the incorporation was also held there, 
on September 17, 1846. Many of the annual meetings 
of the railroad were also held in Tenney's Hall in that 
town. 

On March 11, 1846, the Governor of Massachusetts 
approved an act establishing the Newburyport Railroad 
Company, as a corporation, the incorporators being Den- 
nis Condry, John Huse, Enoch S. Williams, John Wood 
and Edward S. Moseley. They were given the right to 
construct a railroad "from Newburyport to or near George- 
town Corner, . . . beginning at some convenient 
point between the Newburyport turnpike and the present 
Eastern Railroad Depot . . . thence southeasterly 
over or near Common Pasture . . . to a point near 
the head of the Downfall Road . . . thence contin- 
uing southwesterly crossing Parker River near Pearson's 
Mills, in By field, thence north of the Georgetown road, 
and passing near Dole's Mills in Georgetown, at or near a 
point of land of Daniel Pusey, about one-fourth of a mile 
northeast of Savory's Hotel in said Georgetown." The 
capital stock was to be two thousand shares of one hun- 
dred dollars par value. At the same time they were given 
the right to unite the Georgetown Branch Railroad, which 
was to run from Bradford to Georgetown Corner, and 
which had been chartered March 11, 1844, but not con- 
structed. The organization and location of the road was 



THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 19 

to be effected before September 1, 1847, and the construc- 
tion was to be completed before September 1, 1849. 

Preparatory measures were taken for early constructive 
work when a strong effort was made by some individuals 
to carry the road along the banks of the river through 
West Newbury. On May 9, 1848, the Newburyport 
Railroad Company was given the right of choice to pass 
through either West Newbury or Georgetown, for they 
were " authorized and empowered to change the location 
of their railroad . . . beginning at some convenient 
point between the Newburyport Turnpike, so called, and 
the present Eastern Railroad Depot, in or near Newbury- 
port; thence running westerly over or near Common Pas- 
ture, so called, and northerly of Turkey Hill, in the Town 
of Newbury, crossing Artichoke River and continuing on- 
ward between Archelaus and Pipe Stave Hills in West 
Newbury to some convenient place for crossing the main 
road leading from Newburyport to Bradford, thence cross- 
ing the same, and passing between said road and the Mer- 
rimack River ... to Bradford." This caused delay 
and led to new investigations. In order to determine the 
route which would best accommodate the inhabitants of 
the several towns in the valley of the Merrimac, and at 
the same time make a convenient line to connect the 
Eastern Railroad and Boston and Maine Railroad, nearly 
two months were spent in a thorough and minute survey 
of the territory by Mess. Parker and Felton. This resulted 
in the adoption of a line nearly corresponding with the 
first preliminary survey made in 1846 by a Mr. Wildes. 
Still an earlier survey had been made upon which to ob- 
tain a charter at the session of 1845, " when Mr. Wiggin 
and his associates travelled knee deep in snow." The 
delay in construction was caused not only by a possible 
change of location, but also by the great scarcity of money 
that prevailed during that year. 

In January, 1848, a mass meeting of the friends of the 
Newburyport, Georgetown, Lawrence and Lowell Rail- 
road, to run in connection with the Stony Brook road 
west an opposition road of the Newburyport Railroad 
was held in the Essex House, Lawrence, but nothing came 



20 THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVKRS RAILROADS. 

of the agitation and the proposed road was never char- 
tered. 

At the close of the year 1848, the paid in capital 
stock in the Newbnryport Railroad amounted to $4,140, 
and the expenditures amounted to $1,992.21, which was 
largely for engineering. The directors at this time were 
Charles J. Brockway, George J. Tenney, Charles S. Ten- 
ney, Joseph B. Morss, Richard Fowler, John Huse and 
Orin Weston. Only one of these had been an original 
petitioner for the founding of the corporation. Propo- 
sals for masonry and for grading the road to Georgetown, 
were received by George A. Parker, engineer, and held 
open till February 15, 1848, being finally awarded to 
Mess. Gilmore and Carpenter. 

The Newburyport Herald states that on February 15, 
1849, "ground was broken'' on the Newburyport Rail- 
road "about a mile and a half below Georgetown, near 
the house of Moses Thurlow. This is the deepest cut in 
the road, being through a gravel hill about 1000 feet, and 
in the deepest place 16 feet in depth." 

On April 9, 1849, the time in which the road was to be 
finished was extended one year to September 1, 1850, by 
the legislature. 

During the years 1848 and 1849, numerous editorials 
appeared in the Newburyport Herald describing in detail 
the advantages of the railroad and proving by figures that 
the road would pay good dividends, and at the same time 
the people of Newburyport were urged to subscribe liberally 
to the stock. Though many people in that city did subscribe 
money was not forthcoming in sufficient amount to meet 
the assessments, and the Herald in lauding the citizens of 
Georgetown for paying "for nearly cue-half the road," 
did not hesitate to say that " Newbury porters " were 
" hard to collect from" and styled them " croakers." These 
editorials were largely of no avail. Though "connection 
with the interior" had been talked about since 1824, 
no money was in sight now that the road had actually 
been commenced. 

The Herald, under date of May 11, 1849, says, "we 
passed over the road, on Saturday. Rather more than a 



THE NBWBTJBYPOET AND DANVERS BAILROADS. 21 

mile of it, and that the worst mile on the route, being the 
deepest and hardest excavation, about two miles below 
Georgetown, has been graded. The cost of grading and 
laying rails estimated at $4,000 a mile. The cost of grad- 
ing this the worst mile was $2,700, of which the contractor 
has taken $900 in stock. The iron for the road has been 
already purchased to be delivered on board in Wales, at 
$23.70 per ton the lowest point at which railroad iron has 
ever been sold since its first manufacture. . . . Never 
we repeat, was such a chance offered a seaport town be- 
fore, and if neglected now, never will it occur again. If 
through the indifference of some and the misguided enmi- 
ty of others, this opportunity should be lost, it will be 
repented of bitterly when repentance will be too late to 
save them from condemnation and punishment." Such 
was the support given by the Herald, in its desire to ob- 
tain subscriptions toward the cost of the railroad. 

In January, 1850 it was reported that the work on the 
railroad had been "prosecuted during the year as rapidly 
as the means of the company would permit, and at the 
present time, the whole section of eight miles and 179 rods 
from Newburyport to Georgetown is in such a state of 
forwardness that a few weeks of favorable weather will 
suffice to place it in running order. There has been ex- 
pended for graduation and masonry thus far, 129,794.39 
and for superstructure including iron, $27,716.25 ; for 
land, land damages and fencing, $4,069.53; for engineer- 
ing, $3,102.21; and for all other expenses, $1,822.28. Total 
expenditures, $66,504.66. The rails are lain on about 
seven miles and a half of the road, and the gravel trains 
are employed in finishing work." These rails weighed 50 
pounds to the yard, which was eight to ten pounds lighter, 
than rails ordinarily used on roads at that time. "On the re- 
maining portion of the road, about one mile, the road bed 
is finished, ready for the rails, which will be put down as 
soon as the weather permits." The capital stock paid in 
at this time amounted to only $47,987, so that a funded 
debt of $19,100, with interest at 6 per cent., was estab- 
lished. The capital stock was collected by assessments 
of ten dollars a share, for each of the last ten months in 



22 THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 

the year 1859, being payable to Thomas Davis, the first 
treasurer. 

On May 23, 1850, an agreement was entered into with 
the Eastern Railroad Company, " and a purchase was made 
of a part of their road bed and land on the 
westerly side of their track, from the junction of the two 
railroads to a point four hundred and forty feet south- 
west of the southerly end of the tunnel under High 
Street." The new railroad " also had the right to run its 
passenger trains into the depot of the Eastern Railroad." 
For this road bed and privilege of use of depot, the 
Newburyport company paid $ 2350. 

The Newburyport Herald, under date of May 23, 1850, 
says regarding the " opening of the railroad to George- 
town," that, " the first section of that improved commu- 
nication with the interior, which the citizens of Newbury- 
port to their injury, idly talked about and slumbered over, 
for thirty years, was opened yesterday, and we hope no 
long time will elapse before the comparatively small sum 
necessary for its extension to the upper lines will be 
raised. . . We were disappointed in our anticipations 
of making one of the company who passed over the road 
yesterday, but we learn that the reunion was a very pleas- 
ant affair, and that the citizens of Georgetown, with their 
accustomed public spirit, gave the visitors who went up a 
hearty greeting. Salutes were fired and a band of music 
was in attendance." 

The first notice of the train service on the railroad, 
published in the Herald, states that, if on and after Thurs- 
day, May 23d, Passenger and Merchandise trains will run 
as follows Leave Georgetown for Newburyport at 7 1-4 
A. M., 10 1-2 A. M. and 4 1-2 P. M. Leave Newbury- 
port for Georgetown 9 A. M., 2 1-4 P. M. 6 1-4 P. M. 
All the trains will stop at Pearsons' Mills Village. On 
Wednesday, May 22, the stockholders will pass over the 
road, and trains will run for their accommodation as fol- 
lows : Leave Newburyport for Georgetown 10 A. M., 1 P. 
M., 3 P. M., and 5 P. M. Leave Georgetown for New- 
buryport 12 M., 2 P. M., and 4 P. M. Stockholders can 
receive tickets by calling on Thomas Davis, at the Railroad 



THE NEWBTJBYPOBT AND DANYERS BAILEOADS. 23 

office, corner Essex and State Streets." In another issue, 
the paper informs the public that, " stages will be immedi- 
ately put on at Georgetown to run to Groveland, Bradford 
and Lawrence. The ride from Georgetown to Groveland 
will probably not require more than 20 minutes, to Brad- 
ford, 40 minutes, and to Lawrence perhaps one hour." The 
railroad schedules state that u stages from and for Haver- 
hill and North Andover connect with the trains at George- 
town." The Newburyport Herald in an editorial at this 
time, states that, " Capt. Micajah Lunt, William B. Ban- 
ister, C. J. Brockway, Capt. Joshua Hale, William Stone, 
John Wood, Robert Bayley and Richard Fowler," were 
the Newburyport citizens who were largely responsible 
for the completion of the road, and in applauding the 
citizens of Georgetown for their part in the enterprise, 
says that " George J. Tenney, of that town has been the 
Ajax of the concern, upon whose strong arm it has leaned 
in each moment of doubt and difficulty." 

Though the road ran about six miles in Newburyport 
the land damages were very small, as the way, princi- 
pally, was through rough back pastures. The rest of the 
road ran through better land, but the land damages were 
settled amicably. 

The first accident on the road, occurred July 18, 1850, 
when a train was thrown from the track, by coming in 
contact with a cow, and Benjamin Hilliard, the first con- 
ductor, in jumping from the platform of the passenger car, 
was struck by the car and instantly killed. As fences 
along the way were not constructed in some cases, the cows 
in feeding wandered on to the tracks, and it was no uncom- 
mon thing to strike two or three cows while on the way to 
Newburyport from Georgetown. The brakes never worked 
well on the locomotives, and as a brakeman had to shut on 
the brakes for each car, the train collided with the cows, 
even though they were noticed on the track some yards 
ahead. 

The early engines burned wood, mostly oak, sawed into 
two foot lengths. The town of Boxford, yearly supplied 
nearly 2000 cords of wood to the Newburyport and other 
railroads at this time. Though fairly good time was made, 



24 THE NEWBTTRYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 

when wood was burned, the slowness of the road was a 
standing joke. It is reported, that on one occasion the train 
was so late in arriving at Byfield, that many of the citi- 
zens gathered at the station to ascertain the cause of its 
tardiness. Much was their surprise, when at last, Nathan 
Carter, the second conductor on the road, was seen coming 
up the track with a halter thrown over the smoke stack of 
the engine, leading in the train. The brakes worked so 
badly, that the train ran into the Newburyport station at 
one time, and out through the back side of the building, 
before it was stopped. Another time the engine left the 
track at Georgetown and was buried in a gravel bank 
beside the track. 

The early engines all had names, the name being painted 
under the window of the cab, where now are the words 
"Boston & Maine." The " Bunker Hill" was the first freight 
engine, and the " Camilla," the first passenger engine. 
Afterwards were added the " Medford," " Rockingham," 
and "Cocheco." The railroad was a constant source of 
jokes and was used to advantage by Stephen Osgood of 
Georgetown, who wrote the following song which was 
given at many concerts in the neighboring towns, by the 
" New England Vocalists," a quartette composed of Miss 
Abbie Marvel, alto, Stephen Osgood, 1st tenor, A. P. 
Holmes, 2d tenor, and D. B. Tenney, bass. 

THE GEORGETOWN RAILROAD. 

With the history of the Georgetown Road, you all may be ac- 
quainted, 

From the time the ground was broke, until the depot here was 
painted, 

Some people may be ignorant of this prodigious track, 

But none will e'er forget it, who've been to Newburyport and back. 

CHORUS. 

O, the Georgetown Railroad is getting all the go, 

The Maine and the Eastern thej go so mighty slow, 

They may puff and blow and whistle, but 'twill never do to talk, 

They think it's against the law to run faster than a walk. 

The wonderful "Camilla," with the power of a crow, 

Can't run by "Bunker Hill," with the monument in tow. 

The " Medford" and the "Rockingham" are sure to spring a leak, O 

How I wish they'd get a cooking stove and throw away "Cocheco." 

Chorus, O ! the Georgetown Railroad, etc. 



THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 25 

Once on a time I took a ride, drawn by the "Bunker Hill," 

And it took us almost twenty hours to get by Pearson's Mill. 

I thought 't myself as I gazed out, if the miller'd only bought her, 

The trains would soon run regular, for he'd have 'em go by water. 

Chorus, O ! the Georgetown Railroad, etc. 

They have a traveller now and then, who lives to get clear through 
But when he gets to t'other end he don't know what to do, 
The people look so different, and he's grown so old and gray, 
He's sorry he didn't go afoot, or hire a horse and shay. 

Chorus, O! the Georgetown Railroad, etc. 

And when there comes a little snow, or chance, a heavy frost, 
Out turn a hundred shovellers, to find the train that's lost, 
A cure for this I could devise and help the cause of travel, 
'Twould be to have a shed built over, to keep out snow and gravel. 

Chorus, O! the Georgetown Railroad, etc. 

And when the train comes creeping in, O! what a row and racket, 
The passengers are growling round, "We'd better come with 

Brackett." 

And when to the little man in grey, you call on for a ticket, 
How he'll snap himself around to get it, for fear you'll go with 

Pickett. 

Chorus, O! the Georgetown Railroad, etc. 

O! when will men get confidence, and quiet all their fears? 
Why, when they burst the engines up and run the trains with steers, 
The cars will never get smashed up, nor the oxen melt their flues, 
And the so called engineers can be at home a making shoes. 

Chorus, O! the Georgetown Railroad, etc. 



The Georgetown Branch Railroad, chartered March 11, 
1844, was definitely brought to the attention of the pub- 
lic, on January 2, 1844, when a meeting of the friends of 
1 he road was held in Haverhill, to appoint committees, 
to plan for a survey and location, to gather statistics, and 
to consult <* the directors of the upper road. . . . 
There was some surprise at the meeting on learning that 
the directors of the lower road had already taken alarm 
and had written to the postmaster of Georgetown to have 
a committee appointed to meet them in making a survey 



26 THE NEWBTJRYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 

of a route for a branch to that road."* At a town meet- 
ing held in Haverhill, in 1848, Alfred Kittredge, J. H. 
Duncan, W. R. Whittier, Rufus Longley, and Caleb 
Hersey were chosen a committee " to appear before the 
General Court in aid of the petitioners for a railroad from 
Newburyport to Bradford." On May 22, 1850, a public 
meeting was held in Bradford " to take measures in aid of 
extending the Newburyport Railroad' from Georgetown 
to Bradford." 

The Haverhill Gazette, under date of January 18, 1851, 
"is happy to state that at a meeting of the Directors on Mon- 
day, the grading of the remaining section of six miles of 
the Newburyport Railroad from Georgetown through 
Groveland to the depot of the Boston and Maine in Brad- 
ford, was let to Messrs. Gilmore and Carpenter, the en- 
terprising and efficient contractors of the other portion of 
the road, who are already among its largest proprietors. 
It is to be constructed with the greatest possible dispatch, 
consistent with due economy." In the same newspaper 
under date of January 25, 1851, it appears that " the 
work of extending the New Railroad to this town, and 
the Boston and Maine has commenced. Gravel was 
broken in Groveland last week, and nearly 100 persons 
have located along the lines. Two large shanties have 
been erected and several houses and barns have been 
rented for their accommodation. Ground has been or 
will be broken at another place in Groveland the present 

*This railroad was chartered by "George J. Tenney, Samuel Lit- 
tle,Coleman Platt, Charles S. Tenney, and John B. Savory of George- 
town, George Savory and Jeremiah Spofford of Bradford, and Samuel 
E. Noyes of West Newbury." It was to run from the turnout track 
near the depot of the Boston and Maine Railroad in Bradford, east- 
erly, passing near the store of Leonard Johnson; then on the line 
of most suitable elevation, till it comes near the bank of the Merri- 
mack river, opposite to Silsby's Island, and so down said bank 
at such distance as may be found best, to Johnson's creek; 
thence northerly of the house of Stephen Parker, and up the 
valley of the most easterly branch of said creek, to the easterly side 
of the building of Benjamin Enoch Nelson, and on the best level to 
the line of Georgetown, near a stone bound on the road southerly 
of the house of Enoch Harriman, then northerly of the house of 
Orin Weston, to near the house of David Perkins; and then south- 
westerly on the most convenient ground to such place as shall be 
found most suitable for a depot at or near Georgetown corner." 
They were given the right to found a corporate union with the 
Boston and Maine Railroad. 



THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 27 

week, and the work will be commenced at the principal 
cutting at the woods near Johnsons' Creek in Bradford in 
a few days. Such is the character of the soil that the 
work of grading has been contracted for at the very low- 
est rate, or about 15 1-2 cents per yard, taking all risk of 
rock and hard pan. It is intended to follow the river 
bank very closely through Bradford, passing under the 
travelled road, near Haverhill Bridge, and joining the 
Boston and Maine at the side track near the present depot." 

The Haverhill Gazette, during the year 1851, printed 
many editorials of great length, going into details con- 
cerning this road and its prospects, and railroads in gen- 
eral, in the endeavor to arouse enthusiasm among the peo- 
ple of Haverhill and Bradford, who were as backward in 
subscribing to the railroad stock as has been the people of 
Newburyport. One of these editorials brings out the in- 
teresting fact, that fully 31,850 passengers, 106 a day, 
had been carried over the road from Newburyport to 
Georgetown to date, and also, that 130,000 had been paid 
by the people of Georgetown to get the railroad. The 
activity of the editor was stimulated about this time by 
renewed efforts of the supporters of the Georgetown and 
Lawrence Railroad, which had been chartered May 2, 
1849. This road was to run from, and in connection with, 
the Newburyport Railroad in Georgetown, through Box- 
ford and North Andover, and connect with the Essex 
Railroad, " near the north parish in Andover." The Es- 
sex Railroad had been opened in the summer of 1848, 
from the " North River in Salem to Methuen," at a cost of 
$500,000. The beginning of efforts in behalf of the Box- 
ford route was at a meeting of the stockholders at the 
house of John Brown, in West Boxford, at 2 P. M. on 
August 27, 1850. 

The Lawrence Courier immediately took up the fight 
for the " Boxford route," maintaining that Lawrence, and 
not Haverhill was the objective point in either case. The 
Courier argued, that, " by the Boxford route," the dis- 
tance was only seventeen miles to Lawrence, and the 
road would tend to strengthen the " Essex Road," and at 
the same time receive from the ' Essex Road essential aid 



28 THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANYBES BAILEOADS. 

in return, which a stronger and more independent company 
might not be so ready to grant." The Haverhill Gazette 
had from the first favored the road through West Newbury, 
but it now fought bravely for the Groveland route. 

By the last of August, 1850, the re-survey of the road, 
by J. N. Cunningham, engineer of the Newburyport Rail- 
road, had been completed, "and the plan and profile," 
were "in preparation." "The route has been greatly im- 
proved in several places," says the Gazette, " more es- 
pecially in following the river bank closely, by which 
much damage to land is avoided, an entire level ob- 
tained for 21-2 miles, below the Bradford depot, and a 
depot obtained at Haverhill Bridge. By this change a 
much better road bed is obtained, as the bank is generally 
of sandy alluvium deposited by the river, and like all lev- 
ees along great rivers, is generally higher than the back- 
ground of coarser materials, entirely dry, and is almost uni- 
formly twenty feet above high tide, and very little of it 
has been covered by any freshet, but twice for a century. 
With very moderate expense compared with any other 
route the whole rise and fall of the road might be reduced 
to little more than the difference of elevation between the 
river bank and Georgetown depot about 50 feet. A good 
view of any town or city, while passing along a railroad, 
is very seldom obtained. This road by this arrangement 
will be a most remarkable exception, as regards Haver- 
hill, for almost every building in the town will be seen 
from the cars, as they run along the opposite bank, form- 
ing a most beautiful real panorama." So level was this 
route, that the road was almost ready for the rails with- 
out labor, nearly the distance of 5 1-2 miles to George- 
town. When completed, the grade from Georgetown to 
Haverhill was 26 feet to the mile. The route through 
Boxford to North Andover, was 6 1-2 miles and 50 feet 
in length ; ^rade not exceeding 35 feet, and the estimated 
cost was $92,000, ready for the cars. 

In the Courier, under date of September 7, 1850, we 
have a fair sample of the sort of editorial written at that 
time. *' The Haverhill Gazette continues its clatter about 
the great business which the town of Bradford would afford 



THE NEWBUBYPOBT AND DANVEBS BA1LBOADS. 29 

to a railroad from Newburyport ... it is all pure moon- 
shine, but for today alone." The editorial goes on to say 
that Lawrence in " ten years will contain more people than 
Newburyport, Bradford, Georgetown, Groveland and 
Haverhill combined have now," and in conclusion remarks 
that the " Gazette harps on beautiful scenery," and wishes 
to be informed what that has " got to do with freight," 
and continuing states that if the Bradford road is adopted 
" the stock of the Newburyport Railroad and the Newbury- 
port Turnpike Road will forever stand on a par, which 
being interpreted, means a right smart slice below zero. 
Give us no road at all rather than such a road." Some 
Newburyport Railroad shares were sold, at this time, for 
$25 per share. On September 14, 1850, the Gazette re- 
turns the Courier's fire. " The editor of the Lawrence 
Courier has again mounted his high heeled shoes, and is 
dealing out his commands where our railroad shall go, as 
though he were the real " money king" of railroads ... we 
have hitherto dealt with him in sober argument", and have 
" within a week or two published facts enough to blow all 
his flummery sky high." In conclusion the editor writes 
if Haverhill gets the road they " will double the amount 
of cash Lawrence gave the Boston and Maine," and com- 
pliments Mr. Cunningham " for his independence " in 
favoring the Bradford route. 

At the annual meeting of the Newburyport Railroad 
Company, held at the depot in Newburyport on Septem- 
ber 21, 1850, it was shown by the treasurer's report that, 
" of the capital stock about $70,000 has been paid in, and 
that about $120,000 has been expended, most of which 
excess has been raised on bonds and mortgage of the road." 
This meeting decided in favor of the route to Haverhill by 
the way of Groveland, after many eloquent speeches," 
and the examination of detailed * statements." By the 
Haverhill Gazette of November 28, 1850, it appears that 
a meeting of gentlemen interested in its extension to the 
Boston and Maine was held on Friday last in the depot in 
Georgetown which promises the most favorable result to 
the completion of the road, $21,000 of new stock for this 
purpose has been taken in Newburyport and Newbury and 



30 THE NEWBTJRYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 

$7000 in cash or land damage is secured in Grovel and, 
which with a most noble and generous proposition has been 
acceeded to by most of the land holders, of taking $15,000 
of new stock for the purpose of completing the road, and 
rendering both the stock and bonds available in the market, 
will if the proposition is accepted to, bring the means ap- 
plicable to the completion of the road up to 145,000, with 
what will be taken by contractors for grading and materials, 
is considered a good basis for putting the road under con- 
tract." 

The assessments for the extension were at five different 
times, the first one of 10 per cent, being payable February 
20, 1851, the second of 20 per cent, payable March 20, 
the third of 20 per cent, payable April 21, the fourth at 
20 per cent on May 20, and the fifth of 30 per cent on 
June 20. To the very last the Gazette " strikes hard" for 
the road, and maintained that it would always pay good 
dividends, claiming that even before the extension the 
road paid running expenses, and with the Haverhill con- 
nection, dividends could be easily earned. By July 21, 
1851, the extension to Bradford was well under way. 

On September 1, 1851, the road bed " had been com- 
pleted from Georgetown to Haverhill bridge," but was not 
in good running order the entire distance to Bradford. 
The fifteen miles from the Eastern Railroad station in 
Newburyport to the Boston and Maine station at Bradford, 
had cost about $225,000, or "$15,000 a mile with equip- 
ment complete." This was believed to have been " lower 
than the cost of an}' other road in New England." The 
money market had been tight, which forced the directors 
to sacrifice much on " the discount on the sale of the com- 
pany's bonds," and the land damages had amounted to more 
than $25,000, " being more than double the amount which 
men well acquainted with the value of the property along 
the line, estimated at the commencement of the work." 
The Gazette in a very strong editorial scores the a warder 
of damages, and among other instances, cites a decision 
whereby " two acres of rather thin, sandy land half a mile 
from any road," cost $1165. In many cases, farmers, see- 
ing a chance to recoup themselves for heavy taxes, carried 



THE NEWBUEYPORT AND DANVEES EAILEOADS. 31 

their cases before a jury and were awarded several times the 
value of their land. It was said that the two miles in Brad- 
ford caused more trouble than all the rest of the railroad. 

September 15, 1851, a train was run tf from the bridge 
to Georgetown," to accomodate the stockholders who at- 
tended the annual meeting, it being " the first time the 
passenger cars have run to Haverhill," according to the 
Gazette. While the road was opened to Bradford for public 
travel on September 22, 1851, the trains did not run 
regularly until the latter part of October, and for the first 
'* five or six months after the opening, it was operated to 
much disadvantage. A portion of the road bed was at 
sub-grade ; the depot buildings were not completed ; and 
the arrangements which the directors had been able to 
effect with the long lines of road at the termini were un- 
satisfactory and unfavorable." 

At this time the " running expenses of the road, includ- 
ing salaries of the superintendant and treasurer, fuel, oil, 
etc., engineer, fireman, conductor, brakeman, switch-men, 
ticket masters, road master and three men, two repair 
hands, sawing wood, etc., amounted to $37.59 a day." The 
total income amounted to $83.05 per day. The " furniture 
of the road" at this time consisted of " Three Locomotive 
Engines, Three Passenger Cars, One eight wheel Baggage 
Car, one four wheel Baggage Car, Four eight wheel House 
Freight Cars, Two four wheel House Freight Cars, Four 
eight wheel Platform Cars, Two four wheel Platform Cars, 
Nine Gravel Cars, Two Hand Cars, and One Iron Car." 
The capital stock of the Newburyport Company when 
united with the Georgetown Branch Railroad Company 
was $300,000, and only $131,000 was paid in, while the 
total cost of the 14 miles and 3073 feet from Newbury- 
port to Bradford was $255,613.88. 

The road was hardly completed before Haverhill began 
to find fault because all the freight for that town had to 
be carted across the bridge, for the right to extend the 
road across the river into Haverhill was not granted till 
March 16, 1855. This resulted in a great loss of freight 
traffic for the railroad. 

The arrangements that had been made in 1850 with the 



32 THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVEBS RAILROADS. 

Eastern Railroad, for the use of its road bed and station in 
Newburyport, were not satisfactory to the Eastern, and 
the Newburyport Railroad was notified that u on and after 
November 26, 1853" they would be obliged " to start all 
their trains from their own depot." At this time an effort 
was made to obtain permission from the legislature to 
extend the road to the Merrimac river at Newburyport, 
hoping to get all the river traffic, and at the same time ob- 
tain a very central location for a new station, but the bill 
was entered too late for legislative action that year, and 
in addition the Eastern Railroad refused to waive their 
rights, and in consequence the plan was abandoned for the 
time, but on March 28, 1854, this extension was granted. 

The first station in Newburyport was a cheap structure, 
and was located outside the settled part of Newburyport, 
southwest from High street, in rear of the tunnel and was 
reached by running over the Eastern Railroad for about 
one mile. In March, 1854, authority was given to cross 
the Eastern Railroad tracks, and a station was then built 
near the mall on High street which is now used as the Bos- 
ton and Maine freight depot. The only station between 
Newburyport and Georgetown was at " Pearsons' Mills," 
now known as Byfield. Benjamin S. Rogers was the sta- 
tion agent for many years. The Georgetown station was 
located nearly where the freight house now stands, and 
the track was covered the length of the station. After 
the Danvers and Georgetown Railroad was united with 
the Newburyport Railroad, the station was moved to the 
present location. The stations on the " extension to Brad- 
ford" have remained practically the same. George P. 
Carleton was the first agent at Groveland. The first sta- 
tion agent at Georgetown was George Spoffoid, known on 
account of his small stature as "Little George the Giant." 
He was the son of Dr. Amos and Irene Dole Spofford, and 
brother of Dr. Richard Spofford of Newburyport. The 
second agent was Albert Carleton, who served seven years, 
and the third, S. Page Lake of Topsfield. 

With the mention of the great damage done by the 
heavy freshet the spring of 1852, the worst since 1785, 
the first agitation for a road to run from Groveland, " three 




GEORGETOWN RAILROAD STATION 
Erected in 1850. From photograph taken about 1865 




GEORGETOWN RAILROAD STATION 
Erected in 1850. From photograph taken about 1865 



THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVEES RAILROADS. 33 

miles to West Newbury," was begun in the Haverhill Ga- 
zette, but this did not come to anything till June 12, 1869, 
when the West Amesbury Branch Railroad Company was 
given the power to construct such a road. 

In the Haverhill Gazette of September 10, 1853, we 
have the following account of a serious accident. " On 
Wednesday afternoon, as a special train on the Newbury- 
port and Georgetown, was making preparations to return 
from Groveland with a picnic party from Newburyport, 
the boiler of the engine burst, killing the fireman, Leander 
Spofford of Georgetown, formerly of the Merrimack House 
in this town. At the time of the explosion he was attending 
to his duties and was blown some 150 yards into an adjoin- 
ing field, and breathed but a few minutes after assistance 
reached him." The engine that exploded was called the 
' Bunker Hill," and was a ten-ton engine, constructed in 
Philadelphia in 1841, that had been used on the Fitchburg 
Railroad. 

It is told of one farmer in Groveland, who was very 
much frightened at the trains, that when he had occasion 
to cross the track on his way to market, he would stop his 
team some hundred yards from the crossing and go ahead, 
on foot, to see if all was clear. If he failed to discover a 
train approaching he would put his ear to the rails to ascer- 
tain if a train was in the distance, and failing to detect any 
sound by the rails, he then would run back to the team and 
race his horse across the track. 

From the common expression that the Bradford Branch 
of the Newburyport Railroad was not worth "a peanut," 
the name " peanut train" has been handed down year after 
year, applying to that branch. 

A Georgetown lady relates that from her father's invest- 
ment of $3800 in the stock of the railroad, he received her 
free passage to and from Newburyport, where she attended 
school, and as that answered for dividends, he was offered 
an old engine for his principal. Many of the investors did 
not even get a free ride on the railroad for their money. 
The same lady recalls on returning one night from New- 
buryport in a snow storm they were stalled all night in a 
snow drift, and enjoyed it greatly, for Ole Bull, the great 



34 THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 

violinist,who was touring the country at this time, had taken 
the train for Boston to fill an engagement that evening, 
but instead he gave his concert on the train to the great 
enjoyment of the imprisoned passengers. 

Charles S. Tenney, superintendent, under date of 
" Georgetown, Sept. 19, 1851," gives the following sched- 
ule of trains : 4< On and after Monday, September 22, 
1851, cars will leave Georgetown for Newburyport at 7 
A. M. to connect with the 8 A. M. train to Boston. Leave 
Newburyport for Bradford at 7.35 a. m. to connect with 
the 8.30 for Lawrence and Lowell." The fare from New- 
buryport to Byfield was fifteen cents ; to Georgetown, 
twenty-five cents ; to Groveland thirty-three cents ; and to 
Bradford, forty cents. This road, as completed, could pay 
4 per cent, said the directors, if the Company had not been 
obliged to discount their bonds to finish the road. Of the 
$40,000 issue of bonds, $20,000 had been sold and the 
balance were placed as collateral. 

The first activity for a railroad through Topsfield to 
Danvers was launched in earnest, on March 16, 1844, when 
the Georgetown and Danvers Railroad Company was 
chartered by thirteen Danvers and three Georgetown citi- 
zens, to run from " some convenient point in the central 
part of the village of Georgetown, thence southerly through 
the villages of Topsfield, Danvers Plains and South Dan- 
vers, and thence to Salem to unite with the Eastern Rail- 
road." This enterprise apparently did not extend beyond 
the initial movement, for we hear no more of it though it 
was originally promoted to run in connection with the 
Georgetown Branch Railroad. 

On May 7, 1851 the Danvers and Georgetown Railroad 
Company was chartered by John Wright and AsaPingree 
of Topsfield, and Samuel Little and Henry Poor of George - 
town. Three men and " their associates" were given the 
power to " construct and maintain a railroad, commencing 
at some convenient point in Georgetown, thence running 
through Rowley, Ipswich, Boxford, Topsfield, Wenham, 
or any of said towns to the village of North Danvers, there 
to enter upon and unite with the Essex Railroad at some 
convenient point." The capital stock was to be $130,000, 



THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 35 

and the road must be completed by May 7, 1854. From 
the fact that the incorporaters were given the right to run 
through Rowley and Ipswich, we have reason to believe 
that, as is commonly understood, the first intention was 
to run the road across Hoods Pond in Topsfield. This 
plan was favored by those who felt sure that the harvest- 
ing of ice and its transportation by the cars would prove 
valuable. The road was to cross the pond from the Box- 
ford and Ipswich side and strike Topsfield at what is 
now known as Kimball's Point, thence to Bixby's Corner, 
so called, across Gallop's brook and under Great hill, pass- 
ing through the village back of the Academy hill, and so 
along to Dauvers. When this route was abandoned, 
numerous Topsfield citizens who owned land over which the 
road was to pass, refused to pay for the stock to which 
they had subscribed. Considerable trouble was occasioned 
by their action and in order to discover its legality, those 
who refused to subscribe, paid twenty dollars each for a 
legal decision which was apparently favorable to them. 

The next plan of location was through the village of 
East Boxford, but as the people here failed to subscribe 
as freely as those near where the road now passes, the 
route was changed. Singularly enough, the man who 
promised to purchase the largest number of shares, if the 
road went as he wished, failed in the end to purchase any 
and, adding insult to injury, received an enormous dam- 
age for his land. So much for promises. The total land 
damages of the Danvers and Georgetown Railroad 
amounted to $15,473.42. 

At the annual meeting of the Newburyport Railroad 
Company held in September, 1851, at the City Hall in 
Newburyport, the "Act passed by the last Legislature, en- 
titled an Act concerning the Danvers and Georgetown 
Railroad," was accepted and the directors " were requested 
to make such arrangements with the Danvers and George- 
town Railroad ... as they shall deem proper," and fur- 
ther they were " requested to petition the next Legislature 
for authority to unite the Newburyport Railroad Company 
with the Danvers and Georgetown, ..." provided the 
Danvers and Georgetown join in such application." 



36 THE NEWBURYPORT AND DAN VERB RAILROADS. 

During the month of September, 1851, ' several capi- 
talists of Salem and Danvers made advances to the Dan- 
vers and Georgetown to procure an alteration in their 
charter to build from Georgetown to South Reading," and 
this was favored as it would give Salem the "third line of rail- 
way from that city to Boston." This suggestion was not 
adopted by the directors of the Danvers and Georgetown, 
which had been organized in September with William D. 
Northend of Salem, as president, and William L. Weston 
of Danvers, as treasurer and clerk, but it was the begin- 
ning of the movement for the Danvers Railroad Company 
which was incorporated the next year. 

Various citizens of Georgetown, not satisfied with their 
share, as individuals, in the construction of the Newbury- 
port Railroad, in their zeal and anxiety for more railroad 
connections, called a special town meeting for August 4, 
1851, " to see if the town will vote to authorize their 
treasurer to subscribe for fifteen shares in the Danvers and 
Georgetown Railroad and appropriate the stock now 
owned by them in the Manufacturer's Bank in payment, 
the dividends of railroad stock to be appropriated for the 
support of Schools." It proved to be a very lively meet- 
ing, but as the plan was favored by the more wealthy and 
influential citizens, the motion was carried and the sub- 
scription accomplished. This stock was carried as an as- 
set of the town till 1862, when it disappears from the 
town accounts, without comment. It was not uncommon 
for towns to subscribe to stock, for it was argued that 
railroads were but modern highways, and that no one ever 
doubted the rights of towns to construct highways, and 
" that what is to be for the benefit of the whole commu- 
nity, should be paid for by the whole community." En- 
couraged by the action of the town, many private citizens 
subscribed to the stock, and in most cases lost their entire 
savings. Numbers of people in the towns along the line 
took one or two shares, many with the idea that they 
would lose their investment, but satisfied to spend that 
amount for the benefit to come from the railroad. Many 
farmers believed that the coining of the road would put 
an end to their market at Salem, believing that they would 



THE NEWBURYPOBT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 37 

sell nothing, and that in addition other towns would com- 
pete successfully for the home market. In a poem by 
Stephen Osgood of Georgetown, supposed to be the inter- 
pretation of a dream, wherein he saw many different indi- 
viduals pass before him, occur the following lines : 

" Then came with slow and lingering walk 
Signers for the Georgetown Railroad Stock. 
With careworn looks and hair turned gray, 
(They'd hoped in vain, the road would pay) 
And sung as they passed, with voices faint, 
" Bad is the Road " and " Old Complaint." 

On May 21, 1851 the West Newbury Railroad Com- 
pany was chartered to run in connectiou with the Dan- 
vers and Georgetown " from the passenger depot ... in 
Georgetown, to Rocks Bridge, in West Newbury, a dis- 
tance of 5 1-2 miles. The capital stock was to be $50,000. 
The Haverhill Gazette describes this as a "very bold 
project," and continuing says that the ''ground is uneven 
and rocky, and would cost high to grade," and that the 
elevation of West Newbury above the Merrimack, nearly 
forbids the approach of a railroad so as to cross the river 
from that quarter, with the object in ' view to accommo- 
date West Amesbury." On May 21, 1851, the West 
Newbury and the Danvers and Georgetown were given 
the right to unite. The West Newbury road was never 
financed, dying a natural death like many another enter- 
prise founded on similar dreams. 

Under date of August 4, 1852, the Danvers and 
Georgtown Railroad Company, informs the stockholders 
that " 450 shares of the capital stock," has been '* sub- 
scribed for." In September, 1852, a meeting was held in 
Danvers, says the Haverhill Gazette, where $15,000 was 
subscribed for the stock. It continues : " the ancient 
intercourse with Salem will again be placed on the most 
convenient footing. The writer well remembers when 
long processions of country sleighs, gave employment to 
half-a-dozen taverns between Haverhill and Salem, over 
roads now overgrown with grass. Four hours were then 
consumed in the journey at the old five mile jog of farm 
horses." 



38 THE NEWBTJRYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS 

The Danvers Railroad Compaq was chartered March 15, 
1852 and was authorized to unite with the Danvers and 
Georgetown Railroad Company, under the name of the 
latter. In the following June the stockholders of the Dan- 
vers and Georgetown authorized their directors to " lease 
their railroad to the Boston and Maine or Eastern Rail- 
roads." All the stock required by the charter was sub- 
scribed for at this time, but evidently neither the Boston 
and Maine nor the Eastern cared to assume the rest of the 
stock, for neither would entertain the proposition to lease 
the road. 

In the Salem Gazette, of April 7, 1853, under the head- 
ing Topsfield, April 6, we read that, " the ground is being 
broken today for the making of the Georgetown and Dan- 
vers railroad. There will be a new location of railroad 
from Danvers to South Reading, which makes a new route 
from Newburyport to Boston through Topsfield. Will not 
this be 'first rate' for Topsfield." At about the same 
date, " the contractors commenced work at North Danvers." 
The first work in Topsfield on the grading was begun in 
what is known as " Colrain," and Benjamin P. Adams, 
postmaster for many years, threw out the first gravel. 
The shovel he used is still in existence. He also filled the 
same role at North Danvers, so called, when the first work 
was done on the plains below the Putnamville station, the 
gravel for filling being taken from the pits on the neigh- 
boring hillside. 

On May 27, 1853, an agreement was entered into by 
the Newburyport Railroad, the Danvers .and Georgetown, 
and the Danvers Railroad, wherein it was agreed " to run 
their cars " over each others' tracks, and no others, except 
the tracks of the Boston and Maine, and it also was agreed 
to make the fare from Haverhill to Boston, not less than 
by the Boston and Maine. They were to divide all fares 
" pro rata," and pay extra for cars exceeding three passen- 
ger and one freight car per day. This agreement was to 
continue in force 100 years, and was to be void if an agree- 
ment between the Danvers and Boston and Maine Rail- 
roads was not executed in 60 days. This agreement was 
executed and signed by Charles J. Brockway, the first 



THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 39 

president, and M. E. Hale, the second treasurer of the 
Newburyport Railroad ; William D. Northend, the first 
president, and William N. Cleaveland, the second treas- 
urer of the Danvers and Georgetown Railroad ; and Wil- 
liam D. Northend, the first resident, and George F. 
Choate, the first treasurer of the Danvers Railroad. In 
consequence of this agreement, the power given on May 
2, 1853, was lost whereby the three roads might unite 
under the name of the Newburyport Railroad Company 
and receive subscriptions to their capital stock from the 
Boston and Maine, the Eastern, and the Essex Railroads 
to " an amount not exceeding $40,000." 

On January 28, 1854, the time "for construction" of 
the Danvers and Georgetown was extended to September 
1, 1854. By May 27, 1854, eight hundred tons of rails 
had arrived and the " process of putting them down " 
was " about to commence." Andrew Gould of Topsfield 
obtained the contract to supply the sleepers and to con- 
struct the fences for the railroad. The sleepers were of 
chestnut and cost 25 cents each. They came from a grove 
which he purchased in Derry, N. H. ; some of the other 
material came from his land in Boxford. He received his 
pay in bonds. The Irishmen employed in the making of 
the roadbed were brought into Topsfield in 50 tipcarts, 
just at the edge of evening, and in the middle of the long 
line, perched high above the others on a great pile of 
bedding, rode one lone Irish woman. They used the 
southerly store, in what is now Bailey's Block, for mess 
room, and occupied the present Grange banquet hall, on 
the floor above, for their sleeping quarters. Later they 
occupied shanties located above the railroad bridge which 
crosses West street. It was reported that one of their 
number was murdered here, but no proof remains. The 
superintendent of the gang, one Mead, encountered an 
obstacle when he proceeded to break ground through the 
land of a Topsfield man who had objected ver}* strenuously 
to the advent of the railroad. This man, who tipped the 
scales at over two hundred pounds, as a last resort, had 
calmly seated himself directly on the centre line of the 
proposed road, immediately in front of the approaching 



40 THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 

builders, apparently for the purpose of making Mead and 
his gang cease work. But Mead was equal to the occa- 
sion and though the task appeared difficult, he succeeded 
without much apparent effort in picking up the obstruc- 
tion as he would a baby and placing it gently down on the 
other side of the fence. The work was then resumed. 

The Salem Gazette informs us that on August 12, 1854, 
i( the cars ran for the first time into the village of Tops- 
field from Georgetown." In the Gazette of August 19, 
1854, under the Topsfield items, we learn that " our 
Georgetown, Topsfield and Danvers Railroad is just draw- 
ing to a completion. The whistle of the engine has for 
the first time within a week disturbed the quiet slumbers 
of our village. The rails are now laid as far as the Ipswich 
River, south of the village one mile. In one week more 
the rails will be laid as far as North Danvers, and by the 
first day of September the cars will commence running 
over the road, which will be a day of much interest to the 
towns through which it passes. This road is said to be 
one of the best graded roads in the country, and from 
present appearance, promises all that its friends ever 
claimed for it." On August 31, 1854, says the Gazette, 
4< the passenger cars on the Danvers and Georgetown 
Railroad ran for the first time between Topsfield and 
Georgetown, to carry a party of one hundred and fifty to 
a picnic in Little's Grove." 

On September 1st the railroad was opened, in connection 
with the Danvers Railroad, through to South Reading, 
and the Topsfield correspondent of the Salem Gazette 
gives us a lengthy account of the opening. He writes : 
" I took the cars at Topsfield earl}" in the afternoon . . . 
large numbers had assembled to witness our departure and 
to congratulate us on the prospect of the pleasure of the 
excursion. We glided finely along and the first place of 
particular note that we came to was what was formerly 
called Blind Hole, but latterly named Putnamville. There 
we passed through a formidable ledge, of the hardest 
granite . . . after a little delay at Porter's plain, we 
passed on to North Danvers, where several hundred had 
assembled to witness our arrival, which was greeted with 



THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 41 

cheers. From North Danvers we started for Tapleyville, 
and on our arrival at the depot we were hailed with much 
joy. One demonstration was by a noble fire company, out 
on duty, waiting our arrival. From hence we passed on 
to that famous place, which has been visited by thousands 
the past summer, called " Needham's Hill." Here we had 
an opportunity to witness what skill, perseverance and 
industry had accomplished to divide this monster of a hill 
and let the iron horse pass on without molestation.* 
The next place of note that we arrived at was that 
famous place known to the ancients as the Devil's Dishful, 
but to modern travellers as Brookdale.f A few puffs of 
the iron horse brought us to Lynnfield depot. At this 
place we found flags flying, and numbers had assembled 
to greet us onward. From this place we moved smoothly 
on and shortly arrived at South Reading, where we stopped 
for the space of an hour to wood up . . . We then started 
homeward bound, and arrived safely at our place of desti- 
nation." 

The Directors, with a few fiiends, after returning to 
Georgetown, made the opening an 4< occasion of a very 
pleasant dinner party." The road was not opened for 
public travel, however, until October 23, 1854. 

On March 3, 1854, the Chebacco Branch Railroad Com- 
pany, Number Two, was chartered, to run ' from Essex to 
the Danvers and Georgetown Railroad, in Wenham, or 
Danvers, with authority to cross the Eastern Railroad, and 
enter on said Eastern Railroad and said Danvers and 
Georgetown Railroad. " This road was never constructed, 
dying without a struggle. 

The Salem Gazette, under date of October 31, 1854, 
describes the route " over the new railroads " from Salem 
to Boston. The Salem and Lowell, which was opened 
Aug. 1, 1850, was used to West Danvers, " then the 
Salem train is attached to another from Newburyport, and 
in this conveyed to South Reading, then to Boston." The 
station mentioned by the correspondent from Topsfield as 

From another source we learn that on this excursion the travel- 
lers were obliged to get out and push the train over the grade. 
tNow known as West Peabody. 



42 THE NEWBURYPOKT AND DANVEBS RAILROADS. 

" Brookdale," is described as " the settlement about the 
woolen factory, and part of West Danvers commonly 
called the Dishful ' we believe. " 

Warren Nichols, for many years employed on the rail- 
road, ran the first train out of Topsfield that went to 
Little's Grove in Georgetown. The freight engine which 
was employed in the construction of the road was called 
*' Baldpate," and was run by Ellis Dorman. It was said 
that this engine could go regardless of the rails, making 
as good time in a rocky pasture as along the laid rails. 
And it was well that it was so, for the first line of track 
was " fearfully and wonderfully put together." 

In February, 1855, the business of the Danvers and 
Georgetown ' was suspended for a large portion of the 
month ... on account of the destruction of the river 
bridge at Topsfield by a freshet." Benjamin Poole of that 
town, and shortly afterwards to be the second president of 
the railroad, was moving into town during that month and 
was obliged to cart his furniture from Putnamviile over 
the road to Topsfield. On February 9, 1855, this road 
was given the power to form a corporate union with the 
Newburyport Railroad Company, under that name which 
was done, and thereafter the entire road to Danvers was 
known as the Newburyport Railroad. 

It is to the Boston and Maine Railroad that credit must 
be given for the completion of the Danvers and George- 
town Railroad, as is shown in a report of an investigating 
committee of the Boston and Maine, presented to the stock- 
holders on September 29, 1855. " In 1854 no road in the 
country was in better condition than the Boston and 
Maine . . . The condition of the money market had become 
very unfavorable for unfinished railroads, and a disposition 
of distrust towards them daily increasing, the directors of 
this road conceived it to be their policy to sustain and push 
through to completion the Danvers and the Danvers and 
Georgetown which was to connect it with the Newbury- 
port Railroad. The Danvers and Georgetown had im- 
ported their iron, but were unable to pay for it, and 
authority was given the president to advance the money to 
pay the cost and duties. In pursuance of this, he paid for 



THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 43 

the iron as it arrived, a sum of $70,000, retaining the iron 
as security for the advance. This loan was intended to be 
temporary but as the Danvers and Georgetown could not 
proceed without the iron to lay down, after some inter- 
mediate negotiations and action not necessary to be recited, 
this $70,000 finally (August, 1854) was converted into a 
note of that corporation with indorsers, due twelve months 
from date. The Danvers road by this time was experienc- 
ing the difficulties of the money market and called on this 
road to make an advance. On November 21 and 23, and 
December 15, this road advanced $45,060 to the Danvers 
as prepayment of rent until 1862. These extraordinary 
advances exhausted the immediately available funds, and 
for the purposes of a dividend, five days after this last pay- 
ment, the Treasurer borrowed money on the notes of the 
corporation as well as discounting some of the Notes Re- 
ceivable. Thus was inaugurated the policy of borrowing 
to pay dividends, when earnings were greatly in excess of 
the legitimate expenditures of the road." The Newbury- 
port Railroad also was loaned |>26,400 on notes at this 
time. The report goes on to tell why the Boston and 
Maine helped the Danvers and Georgetown, saying that 
*' the committee express their regret that a rivalry in busi- 
ness between the Eastern Railroad and the Boston and 
Maine should ever have led these corporations into the 
policy of building or sustaining roads from one line to the 
other whose legitimate business was inadequate to their 
support, and which could only become profitable or valu- 
able by diverting traffic from the other great road leading 
to Boston." It it said that the Boston and Maine and 
Eastern railroads spent $2,500,000 in fighting each other. 
In 1858, there was considerable talk about turning the 
Danvers and Georgetown over to the bondholders, and 
they in turn, not seeing any chance to get any money for 
paying the interest on the bonds, conceived the plan of 
tearing up the iron and selling it with the other property 
of the road. Several editorials appeared in the newspapers 
concerning this proposition. It was finally decided that 
as the Boston and Maine had breathed life into the road, 
and as it could pay running expenses, they would keep it 



44 THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 

going. An effort also was made at this time to unite the 
Danvers and Georgetown, which was made a part of the 
system of the New bury port Railroad, with the Boston and 
Maine, but it was not successful. Some of the bonds were 
taken at this time for seventy-five cents on the dollar, but 
the Boston and Maine gave only sixty cents on the dollar, 
in 1860, when it took the lease of the road. 

Stephen Osgood, of Georgetown, tells us in one of his 
poems, supposed to have been the interpretation of a dream, 
just how the public regarded the Boston and Maine, and 
we can see how unjust this sentiment was, and realize that 
today the sentiment against the road is prompted on just 
as unfair grounds. He relates : 

" I then discovered in my dream 

An unknown monster moved by steam, 

Spitting smoke and fiery streams 

And breaking forth in hellish screams. 

Cattle and men it inward hurled 

And threatened to engulf the world. 

My curiosity took wing 

On seeing this infernal thing, 

To learn its mission and its name, 

Where it was bound and whence it came. 

Nor did I long remain in doubt 

For a demon stuck his nozzle out 

And wrote in fiery letters plain, 

B. & M. ' Boston and Maine.' 

The people yelled with indignation, 

4 Tis the spirit of that corporation ! 

'Twas born/ cried out unearthly legions, 

4 Down deep in the infernal regions 

And if not saved by long probation 

That place will be its destination ! ' 

In front, and laughing at the sport, 

Was one marked Danvers and Newburyport. 

The B. & M. with swaggering gait 

Moved forward toward the tempting bait, 

Opened its jaws to swallow down 

The unlucky Danvers and Georgetown, 



THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVER8 RAILROADS. 45 

But found him, although j r oung and slim, 
Quite too many guns for him. 
The monster tried, but all in vain, 
To swallow the little one again. 
Said Spool, with one derisive laugh, 
You don't catch this old bird with chaff, 
You will soon discover, with dismay 
That swallowing railroads will not pay.' " 

A Topsfield man, although having received large dam- 
ages for the land taken by the road, was much opposed to 
it, and attributed all calamities, even the weather, to the 
corporation. It is said that if he found any of his hens 
dead, either inside the coop or out, he would present the 
dead bird to the attorney with a claim for^damages against 
the railroad. He termed the locomotives " smoke-carts," 
and as he reserved a right of way across the railroad from 
one of his pastures to the other, he made it a point to 
cross in front of the train so that it would be obliged to 
stop for him to pass. 

In 1845, the first agitation for a road from Danvers to 
the line of the Boston and Maine at South Reading, now 
Wakefield, was started. On November 7th of that year, 
a large meeting was held in Lynnfield for the purpose of 
arousing enthusiasm, and at other dates meetings were 
held in the different towns along the proposed line. This 
early movement was not fruitful. On March 15, 1852, 
William D. Northend, George J. Tenney, Asa Pingree, 
Joseph S. Black and Gilbert Tapley, were incorporated as 
the " Danvers Railroad Company," with the power to con- 
struct a railroad from " some convenient point on the line 
of the Danvers and Georgetown Railroad in North Dan- 
vers, thence running through the towns of Reading, Lynn- 
field, and South Reading, or either of said towns, to unite 
with the Boston and Maine Railroad, or the South Read- 
ing Branch Railroad, at some convenient point in said 
South Reading," with a right to cross the Essex and 
Salem and Lowell Railroads. The capital stock was to 
be $100,000. Under the section on the Danvers and 
Georgetown, the relation of the Boston and Maine toward 



46 THE NEWBTJRYPORT AND DANVER8 RAILROADS. 

the Danvers Railroad is also treated. The ground was 
first broken on August 8, 1853 and in the Salem Gazette of 
the following day we read that, " a large number of per- 
sons assembled at Locust Dale, West Danvers, yesterday 
afternoon for the purpose of joining in the ceremony of 
4 breaking ground ' for the commencement of the Danvers 
Railroad. A circle being formed, the President of the 
Company, W. D. Northend, Esq., invited Hon. C. W. Up- 
ham to open the services, by throwing the first shovel full. 
To this request, Mr. Upham acceeded, with a brief and 
humorous remark or two. . . . Mr. Northend then took 
hold, and other gentlemen by his invitation, and the carts 
were soon filled with their first load, which was taken 
from land of Mr. Elijah Pope. Meanwhile the ladies of 
the neighborhood had accomplished the task which they 
had undertaken at a few hours' notice, of preparing a col- 
lation, which they had set out in a pleasant locust grove 
on the farm of Mr. Elias Needham, and which, from its 
abundance, excellent quality, and neat arrangement, did 
great credit to their hospitality, good housewifery, and 
good taste. The invitation being announced by the presi- 
dent, the company repaired to the tables, where they 
found a bountiful supply, and were waited upon by their 
fair and hospitable entertainers." 

The contract for grading and masonry was let to Murphy 
and Quealy. 

The Danvers and the Danvers and Georgetown railroads 
were given the power, on April 30, 1852, to form a corpo- 
rate union under the name of the Danvers and George- 
town Railroad, and also were given power to enter on 
the Newburyport Railroad at Georgetown, and in addition 
could lease their roads to the Eastern or to the Boston and 
Maine. The charter of the Danvers Railroad was peti- 
tioned for by the directors of the Danvers and George- 
town for the purpose of extending their railroad to the 
line of the Boston and Maine at South Reading. On ac- 
count of negotiations between the Danvers and George- 
town and the Eastern Railroad companies, the subscrip- 
tion books of the Danvers Railroad were not opened the 
first year. In 1852 so small a part of the stock re- 



THE NEWBUKYPOBT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 47 

quired by the charter was subscribed for that the directors 
redoubled their already strenuous efforts to secure addi- 
tional subscriptions, and after a time became satisfied that 
it would be impossible to obtain the required amount on 
the line of the railroad, and therefore, in January, 1853, 
they applied to the directors of the Boston and Maine for 
assistance, but without success. In February, following, a 
bill was put before the Legislature to allow a consolidation 
with the Danvers and Georgetown and the Newburyport 
Railroads, and requesting authority for the company to 
receive subscriptions to their capital stock from the Boston 
and Maine to an amount not exceeding $ 40,000. The 
Eastern Railroad made a strong effort in both branches of 
the Legislature to prevent the passage of this bill, but 
finally offered to withdraw opposition on condition that 
the company should have the same authority to receive 
subscriptions from the Eastern and the Essex Railroad 
Companies as from the Boston and Maine. The bill, as 
amended, was passed to be enacted May 2, 1853. Appli- 
cation was then made to the Boston and Maine to avail 
itself of the authority conferred by the act. This it de- 
clined to do, but at last offered to take a lease of the Dan- 
vers Railroad, provided an agreement could be made with 
the Danvers and Georgetown and Newburyport for the 
joint operation of their respective railroads. This arrange- 
ment was made, and on May 30th a lease of the Danvers 
to the Boston and Maine was executed for one hundred 
years. 

The Boston and Maine agreed to pay at the rate of 5 
per cent per annum on the cost of the railroad, payable 
semi- annually, the cost of the road being limited to $150,- 
000, and also agreed to render to the Danvers Railroad 
Company a report of all the receipts and expenditures one 
month after the make up of their annual accounts, and if 
it appeared that they had received more than the cost of 
maintenance, they were to return the excess to the Dan- 
vers Railroad Company. The Danvers Railroad, on its 
part, was to execute $1*25,000 of notes or obligations, with 
interest coupons ; these and the coupons were to be en- 
dorsed by the Boston and Maine, and paid by them at 



48 THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 

maturity. The cost of the Danvers was limited to $150,- 
000, although it was capitalized for only $100,000, but 
with the ending of the year 1854, shortly after the cars 
had commenced running for public travel, the nine miles 
and 1048 feet had cost $118,031.36, which did not include 
many damage suits against the road, nor were the stations 
completed. The next year the cost was brought up to 
$195,414.17, and in 1860 it was $236,277.36, and of the 
capital stock only $ 65,580 had been paid in; the rest was 
charged to a funded and a floating debt. While the Dan- 
vers and the Danvers and Georgetown were opened for 
inspection on August 31st and September 2d, 1854, they 
were not opened for public travel till October 23d, 1854. 

The Boston Transcript of October 24, 1854, says : " It 
was a great day for the hard working citizens of several 
towns of Essex County on Monday, October 23d, when a 
new route between Boston and Newburyport was opened 
to the public. This road connects with the Boston and 
Maine at South Reading [Wakefield], and passes through 
Lynnfield, Tapleyville, North Danvers, Topsfield, Boxford, 
Georgetown, Newbury and Newburyport. We understand 
that a large number of persons from Georgetown, Boxford 
and Topsfield, who had never travelled with a steam horse, 
ventured the experiment of jumping on and trying him. 
Several hardy, healthy looking strangers were seen gazing 
at the new goods in the shop windows in this city after 
the trains arrived. The * old folks ' and the young folks 
got home without any damage to ' life or limb,' and were 
highly delighted with the new conveyance." 

The schedule of trains on and after Oct. 23d was as 
follows : Trains leave Newburyport for Boston at 7.45 
and 11 A. M., 1.45 and 5 P. M., arriving at Boston at 9.19 
and 12.40 A. M. and 3.23 and 6.40 P. M. Trains leave 
Boston for Newburyport at 8.05 A. M. and 12 M.; 3 and 
5.30 P. M., arriving at Newburyport at 9.43 A. M., 1.33, 
4.33 and 7.04 P. M. This made the trip from Boston to 
Newburyport last about one hour and thirty-four minutes, 
and it was accomplished by wood-burning engines. In 
1858 a saving of 36 per cent., or $1500 a year, was accom- 
plished by the substitution of coal for wood. The fare 




TOPSFIELD RAILROAD STATION 
Erected in 1854. From photograph taken about 1872 




EASTERN RAILROAD STATION AT NEWBURYPOKI 
From a wood engraving made in 1854 



THE NEWBTJRYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 49 

was nearly the same as it is to-day. Though many said 
the road could never pay, others were more hopeful, and 
said in its favor that the road passed through " the village 
of Byfield, that has much improved within the last half 
dozen years, and Georgetown, that is full of Yankee shoe- 
makers, . . . and Boxford, where lots of ship lumber is 
shipped from, and Topsfield, that is now reached by the 
steam horse for the first time," and continuing, said that 
'* the new road is in prime order, and is furnished with a 
lot of first-class cars and obliging conductors." 

Engines were changed at North Danvers, but the cars 
ran through from Newburyport to Boston. 

After the Danvers and Georgetown became a part of 
the Newburyport Railroad Company, that company's 
credit seems to have vanished, for the third President of 
the road, George Cogswell of Bradford, together with 
George J. Tenney and Samuel Little of the directors, were 
obliged to become personally responsible for all bills. 
Though the Newburyport Railroad Co. gave a note July 
14, 1855, for 24 months, to the Boston Locomotive Works, 
the release from that company was to Cogswell, Tenney 
and Little for all "right and title in two locomotives 
called the Newburyport and the Yankee with their ten- 
ders." Those engines cost 16000, and when it is under- 
stood that a good engine today costs from $12,000 to 
$15,000, the directors of the Newburyport Railroad cannot 
be considered extravagant. All the coal shipped to the 
railroad, was consigned to Tenney, Little and Cogswell, it 
costing all the way from $3.00 to $5.50 per ton. These 
three also owned the freight cars, for George Cogswell re- 
ceived from the railroad $33.33, for the use of 1-3 of five 
freight cars from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15, 1856. The shippers 
along the line of the road were given annual passes in con- 
sideration of their freight business. One man, for a loan 
of $400, received a pass for one year for himself and fam- 

% 

The Newburyport Railroad, through its president, 
George Cogswell, under date of Dec. 17, 1855, reported 
as follows regarding the lease agreement of 1853 : 
" some two years since the Boston and Maine Railroad con- 



50 THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 

tracted through the Danvers Railroad Company, to give 
to the trains of the Newburyport Railroad some important 
privileges over their railroad for the business to and from 
Boston, which contract was for the term of one hundred 
years; and made at the solicitation of the Boston and 
Maine. Your Directors have already had ground for com- 
plaint. ... On the fourteenth day of July, 1855, the Bos- 
ton and Maine Railroad and the Eastern Railroad Com- 
pany made an indenture, each with the other, by the terms 
of which the through business between Boston and the 
different stations upon the line of the New bur port Rail- 
road is parceled out and divided between them." 

This agreement, taken as a whole, meant that anything 
above the actual expense, could not come back to the New- 
buryport or the Danvers Railroads, and that all business 
from Haverhill to Boston was to be considered as Boston 
and Maine business, and all from Newburyport to Boston 
as the Eastern business. The Boston and Maine, in their 
agreement, had promised the Newburyport Railroad, that 
their trains should be run express to Boston from South 
Reading. This they did not do, and the Legislature, at 
last, passed an act compelling them, which act was not re- 
pealed for several years. The Danvers also made trouble 
for the Boston and Maine, as they had refused to pay for 
the increase of expense over the sum set for the outside 
cost of the road. They also taxed them with the fact that 
they were not consulted regarding the agreement with the 
Eastern and that they were not paying any attention what- 
ever to the time advertised for the starting of the New- 
buryport trains from Boston. An appeal was made to 
the legislature to put the matter into the hands of the 
County Commissioners of Essex County. This was strong- 
ly fought by the Boston and Maine and was of considera- 
ble importance in the legislative session of that year. 
There is an abundance of material in relation to these con- 
troversies. During the controversy, however, the Boston 
and Maine acknowledged that their only reason for help- 
ing this " middle road " was " as a means of offence and 
defence, against the Eastern, if occasion should require 
its use." On May 30, 1857, an act was passed in favor of 



THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 51 

the Danvers Kailroad, but it was repealed March 10, 
1860, as a lease of both the Newburyport and the Danvers 
was made stronger for the Boston and Maine at this time. 

The Eastern Railroad, during the few months prior to 
the lease of 1860, had cut the prices on freight just one- 
half, making it impossible for the Newburyport to get any 
business from the city of Newburyport. The latter rail- 
road therefore was limited to Haverhill for its principal 
freight receipts from which city it was carrying about 
6,000 cases of shoes per month. On November 3, 1859, 
at a meeting held in Georgetown, the directors of the New- 
buryport Railroad Company were " unanimously " au- 
thorized " to lease the road" and on February 21, 1860, the 
road was leased to the Boston and Maine for one hundred 
years. The directors of the Newburyport Railroad, not 
exceeding five in number, " were to be allowed at all 
times, to pass free over said railroad," and the Boston and 
Maine agreed " to advance and pay the sum of 1225,000," 
which was payable on bonds due at future dates. Some 
of the bondholders had obtained these bonds as low as 
10 per cent., and by this lease the Boston and Maine stood 
back of all the bonds, which amounted to about $400,000, 
and a third of which were held by the Boston and Maine. 
The stock at this time sold for about one dollar a share. 
The total cost of the Newburyport Railroad, 14 miles and 
3073 feet in length, and the Danvers and Georgetown, 
12 miles and 2095 feet in length, which composed the 
Newburyport Railroad Company, amounted to $597,386.33, 
as is shown in the report for 1860. 

From October 1, 1854, till November 30, 1855, the re- 
ceipts of the Newburyport Railroad were $39,030.97 from 
passengers, express business, etc., and $11,844.91 from 
freight, or a total amount of $50,875.91. The expense 
of operating had been : For wages, salaries, repairs on 
road and incidentals, $17,582.03; for fuel, $13,368.94; 
oil, $819.40 ; repairs of locomotives and cars, $3,164.67 ; 
and for taxes and insurance, $157.96 ; or a total ex- 
pense of $35,093, leaving net earnings of $15,782.91. 
The interest on the funded and floating debt amounted to 
$15,369.43, and the net balance therefore was $413.48. 



52 THE NBWBURYPORT AND DANVER8 RAILROADS. 



The cost of the road at this time was as follows : 

DR. 

Engineering, $ 13,154.82 

Land, land damages and fences, 65.286.41 
Graduation and masonry, 197,456.30 

Superstructure and iron, 175,427.68 

Station buildings, fixtures, 19,723.62 

Locomotives, 30,872.46 

Passenger and baggage cars, 10,850.00 
Merchandise cars, 15,977.01 

Interest and other expenses of 
construction, 



Newburyport machine shop, 

Notes receivable, 

Cash, 

Balance, sundry amounts, 



Stock, 

Mortgage bonds, 

Notes payable, 

Income, 

Balance of sundry accts., 



58,505.76 
5,369.63 

$14,020.61 

17.93 

6,244.12 



CB. 

$218,950.02 

137,200.00 

220,677.16 

6,404.61 

29,674.56 



$592,623.69 



20,282.66 



$612,906.35 



$612,906.35 



On Oct. 11, 1855, the whole amount of the liabilities of 
the directors of the Newburyport Railroad Company for 
notes and debts of said company, unsecured, was as fol- 
lows : George J. Tenney, $66,111.95 ; Samuel Little, 
$21,856.63; Samuel Little, G. J. Tenney and Thomas 
Perley, $11,970 ; Thomas Perley, $3,870 ; and J. S. Black, 
$2,786.63 ; total, $106,595.21. 

The salaries and wages of the road were as follows : 



Train Men. 

2 Passenger conductors, 
1 Freight conductor, 

8 Engineers, 

3 Firemen, 

1 Baggage master, 

1 Baggage master, 

1 Brakeman, passenger train, 

1 Brakeman, freight train, 



Per month. 
$50.00 
85.00 
60.00 
30.00 
85.00 
26.00 
30.00 
30.00 



THE NBWBUBYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 53 



Newburyport Station. 

1 Freight clerk and ticket seller, 

1 Station agent, 

1 Switchman and baggage-master, 

1 Watchman, 

2 Wood sawers, 

1 Signal man, Eastern Kailroad crossing, 



Byfield Station. 



1 Station agent, 



Georgetown Station. 

1 Station agent, 
1 Switchman, 

Groveland Station. 
1 Station agent, 

Haverhill Bridge Station. 
1 Station agent, 

Bradford Junction Station. 

1 Ticket seller our proportion, 
1 Switchman and wood-sawer, 

Boxford Station. 
1 Station agent, 

Topsfield Station. 
1 Station agent, 

North Danvers Station. 

1 Station agent our proportion, 
1 Flagman and wood-sawer, 

Bepairs of Engines and Cars. 

1 Machinist, 

1 

1 Carpenter, 

1 Blacksmith, 

1 * 

Repairs of Track. 
13 men. average per month. 



$50.00 
40.00 
85.00 
26.00 
26.00 
10.00 



$16.67 



$39.00 
35.00 



$27.00 



$39.00 



$5.00 
30.00 



$8.67 



$26.67 



$8.67 
26.00 



$45.50 
39.00 
45. BO 
34.66 
29.25 



$28.50. 



54 THE NEWBURYPORT AND DANVERS RAILROADS. 

Officers. 

George Cogswell, President, $1,200.00 per year. 

A. Kimball, Jr., Superintendent, 1,500.00 " 

M. E. Hale, Treasurer and Clerk, 1,000.00 
A. W. Greenleaf, Ass't in Treasurer's 

office (Ticket Dept.), 50.00 * 

For the fourteen months ending October 31, 1855, the 
total number of passengers carried on the road with regu- 
lar tickets was 97,760; on season tickets, 12,270; a total 
of 110,036. The number of miles travelled by regular 
ticket passengers was 1,018,524; estimated number of 
miles by season ticket and miscellaneous passengers, 
127,828; total miles, 1,146,352. The number of miles 
run by passenger trains was 63,584; by freight trains 
12,480 ; total 76,064. 

The Danvers and the Danvers and Georgetown Rail- 
roads both began to run trains before their stations were 
finished. The Danvers, according to the lease made with 
the Boston and Maine, was to have a station house at 
North Danvers, Tapleyville, the junction of the Danvers 
and the Salem and Lowell, Lynnfield Centre, and South 
Reading. The present Danvers Junction station was built 
in 1887 ; the Collins Street in 1895 ; and the Lowell Street 
in 1894. 

When the Danvers and Georgetown was first operated, 
there was some opposition to stopping the trains at South 
Georgetown, as it was so near the Georgetown station. 
John A. Lovering of South Georgetown accordingly placed 
a building on his own land convenient to the track and 
this was used as a station for several years, though a flag 
station. For a short time this stop was discontinued, and 
another used about one-eighth of a mile lower down the 
track. The present South Georgetown station was built 
in 1893. 

The present Boxford station is the original building that 
was erected in 1853. It differs from other stations on the 
line in that it was built to accomodate the family of the 
agent. The first agent was S. Page Lake of Topsfield who 
was successively followed by John Hale, jr., Samuel Mc- 
Kenzie, William J. Badger, Charles W. Gardner and Albert 



THE NEWBTJBYPOBT AND DANVEB8 BAILBOADS. 55 

G. Hurlburt. At the beginning of the Civil War several 
regiments were quartered on the old Boxford training 
ground near the railroad and a side track and small sta- 
tion were built for their accomodation. 

The Topsfield station was formerly on Main street. The 
new station on Park street was built in 1897. Topsfield 
used to be the watering place for the Danvers and George- 
town engines, the water supply being taken from Price's 
hill, so called. Fred Merriam, the first station master, oc- 
cupied that position for many years. In his spare moments 
he used to make cigars in the station, and sold them about 
the town. 

John W. Pillsbury and Batchelder were two of 

the early conductors, and Joe Hoyt was an early brakeman. 
William Smith, engineer, and James Carey, fireman, 
operated one of the early engines. 

On September 7, 1905, the Newburyport Railroad Com- 
pany, voted to pay three dollars a share for all outstanding 
stock, and on October 11, 1905 the Danvers Railroad 
Company took the same action. The president, treasurer 
and directors of these companies at that time were the 
officers of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Most of the 
stock was purchased, but few of the certificates were found 
to be in existence. On September 28, 1906, the Boston 
and Maine Railroad was authorized to issue $306,000, 20 
year, 4 per cent, bonds to acquire title to the Newburyport 
Railroad, and also to issue $152,000, 4 per cent. 20 year 
bonds to acquire title to the Danvers Railroad. These 
roads accordingly passed out of existence forever. 



JOHN LEWIS OF MARBLEHEAD, MASS., AND 
SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 



BY GEORGE HARLAN LEWIS OF LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 



The parentage and former residence of this John Lewis 
are unknown. He may have come from New Hampshire 
or the eastward. There was a John Lewis of Marblehead, 
who was a seaman, and during the Revolution, master of 
the schooner " Warren." He first appears as marrying 
the widow Abigail Hulin. The date of his death and of 
that of his wife are not known. 

Thomas Wood of Marblehead was a widower, having 
been twice married. His second wife died the 17 day 3 
month, 1723. He made a pre-nuptial agreement with 
Elizabeth Bartlett on August 23, and married her Sept. 
23, 1723. She was the daughter of William and Sarah 
Bartlett of Marblehead, bapt. Sept. 16, 1694. Her father, 
in his will proved April 14, 1735, leaves " to my son-in- 
law Thomas Wood and his wife Elizabeth, six acres of 
land on the highway to Boston and half a cow lease." 
(Essex County Probate records, v. 320, p. 185). Their 
children were : (1) Abigail, bapt. June 17, 1724 ; d. y. ; 
(2) Rebecca, bapt. Jan. 30, 1725-6 ; m. Edw. Hales ; (3) 
Elizabeth, bapt. Mar. 24. 1727-8 ; d. y. ; (4) Elizabeth, 
bapt. Apr. 27, 1729; (5) Abigail, bapt. Sept. 5, 1731 ; m. 
1st, Peter Hulin, m. 2d, John Lewis ; (6) William, bapt. 
Nov. 11, 1733 ; (7) Martha, bapt. Nov. 9, 1735. After 
the death of Elizabeth, Thomas Wood married, fourth, 

Sarah , and on May 27, 1761, they conveyed to Peter 

Hulin of Marblehead " one messuage being half of the 
house I live in, it being the northeast end of said house 
and being in Marblehead, also a piece of land at the north- 
east of said house to my barn." (Essex County Deeds, 
Vol. 110, p. 43). 

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AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 57 

Abigail, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Wood, and 
Peter Hulin, both of Marblehead, were married in Salem, 
March 1, 1749, and had four or more children : (1) John ; 
(2) Abigail, bapt. Nov. 19, 1758; m. John Chandler ; (3) 
Elizabeth, m. John Pattin ; (4) Mary, m. John Bailey. 

Thomas Wood, sailmaker, died between Dec. 25, 1764, 
the day he made his will, and Sept. 9, 1765, when it was 
probated, leaving *' my dwelling room and little room ad- 
joining, one-half the cellar, garden and barn, with all my 
movables, to my daughter Mary Dove, who is sole execu- 
trix." The remainder of the estate was to be divided 
among his children. Essex County Probate records, Vol. 
342, p. 320. On Nov. 20, 1765, Mathew Tarney and his 
wife Mary, Edward Hales and wife Rebecca, John Lewis, 
fisherman, and wife Abigail, Jane Girdler and Sarah Hud- 
son, widows, of Marblehead, for 56, 8d., conveyed to 
John Green of Marblehead " the southwest part of the 
dwelling house of our Honoured father Thomas Wood, 
deceased, at the little harbor in Marblehead with piece of 
land adjoining thereto the whole bounded Northeasterly by 
other parts of said house now belonging to John Lewis 
and on every other part by the highway together with the 
barn late of said Thomas, situate on a rock to the north- 
east of said house." Essex County Deeds, Vol. 117, p. 
192. 

After the death of Peter Hulin, his widow Abigail 
(Wood-Hulin) married, Nov. 26, 1765, John Lewis, in 
Marblehead. 

Children of John and Abigail Lewis : 

2 REBECCA, bapt. Feb. 16, 1767; m. Joseph Girdler. 

3 MIRIAM, bapt. Sept. 20, 1767. 

4 EDWARD, b. Nov. 17, 1767. 

5 SARAH, bapt. Apr. 29, 1770. 

6 ELIZABETH, bapt. Sept. 22, 1771. 

On May 24, 1794, John Ruling and Sarah, his wife, 
John Pattin and Elizabeth his wife, John Chandler and 
Abigail his wife, John Bailey and Mary his wife, all of 
Marblehead, for $150 paid by Edward Lewis, mariner, 
conveyed "all the northeast end of a certain dwelling 



58 JOHN LEWIS OP MABBLBHBAD, MASS., 

house with the land under same, also all the land to the 
northeast thereof and the said end belonging, situate at 
the northerly part of said town of Marblehead, near the 
little harbor, so called, bounded northwesterly on the 
highway, westerly on land formerly Hales, southeasterly 
on the way to water, and southwesterly on the other end 
of the house or however otherwise the said end of the 
house is bounded or reputed to be bounded. The prem- 
ises being the same which our late father Peter Huling, 
deceased, purchased of Thomas Wood of Marblehead, de- 
ceased, as will appear by deed. Lib. 110, p. 43." Essex 
County Deeds, Vol. 162, p. 240. Edward Lewis also bought 
of Thomas Grant, on June 15, 1795, for 38, a lot of 
land near the old Meeting house. Essex County Deeds, 
Vol. 159, p. 120. 

4 Edward Lewis, born Nov. 17, 1767, in Marble- 
head, was owner and master of a whaling vessel, and was 
lost at sea in 1810, at the age of 43 years. He married, 
first, in Marblehead, Aug. 17, 1790, Mary Bray, by whom 
he had : 

7 JoHN,-bapt. Jan. 13, 1793; d. young. 

Edward Lewis married, second, in Marblehead, Nov. 
20, 1794, Lydia, daughter of John and Lydia (Orne) 
Lefavour, who was born in Marblehead Jan. 20, 1777. 
She was appointed administratrix of his estate and filed 
a bond Dec. 2, 1811, "as she was about to remove out of 
the State before the next probate court sitting in the 
county." In the inventory of the appraisers of this es- 
tate appear the following items : 

The northeast end of a small dwelling house sit- 
uate in the northern part of Marblehead and 
land under and adjoining, $400.00 

A small piece of land near the old meeting house, 150.00 

She removed to Pawtucket, R. I., where she died Feb. 
28, 1820, at the home of her brother David Lefavour, 
and Ralph H. French was appointed administrator, who 
filed an inventory of her estate, showing four undivided 
fifths of a small dwelling house near little harbor, $150, 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS, 59 

and a small piece of land opposite the old meeting house, 
175. 

Children of Captain Edward and Lydia, born in Mar- 
blehead : 

8 LYDIA, b. Feb. 4, 1796; d. at Bridgewater, Mass., Sept. 8, 1885 ; 

m. Jesse Lord. 

9 EDWARD, b. Nov. 10, 1798; was mate in the schooner Joachim, 

and never heard from after sailing in July, 1821. 

10 BETSEY, b. Dec. 4, 1799; m. Daniel Horton; lived and d. March 

6, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa. 

11 JOHN, b. Oct. 31, 1801; d. June, 1842. Followed the sea, mar- 

ried somewhere, and left a family. 

12 THOMAS, b. May 12, 1803. 

13 JOSHUA ORNE, b. Oct. 4, 1804; m. 1st, AbbyKelley; m.2d, Sarah 

P. Pratt, who d. July 4, 1868; m. 3d, Lucy Whiting, and d. 
May 19, 1877. Will filed in Worcester county. 

14 EGBERT GIRDLER, b. Aug. 3, 1806; d. July 29, 1870; m. Almira, 

dau. of Samuel Arrington of Pawtucket, R. I. 

15 JOSEPH WILLIAM, b. Sept. 9, 1808; d. Aug. 17, 1809. 

12 Thomas Lewis, born May 12, 1803, in Marble- 
head, was a manufacturer of cotton machinery, and 
resided at Sutton, Worcester County, Mass., and re- 
moved to Pawtucket, R. I., in 1836, where he remained 
until after the death of his wife, when he removed to 
Bridgewater, Mass., where he died March 7, 1876. He 
married at North Providence, R. I., March 18, 1828, Bet- 
sey Eddy, daughter of Richard and Abigail (Eddy) An- 
thony of Providence, R. I. She was born in Coventry, 
R. I., Jan. 28, 1805, and died at Pawtucket, June 24, 
1868. 

Children of Thomas and Betsey Eddy : 

16 EDWARD LUTHER, b. Jan. 6, 1829, at Valley Falls, R. I.; d. unm. 

Dec. 21, 1894, in Worcester, Mass. 

17 RICHARD ANTHONY, b. Sept. 14, 1830, in Sutton, Mass. 

18 CYRUS ANTHONY, b. Mar. 31, 1832, in Graf ton, Mass. ; m. Sarah 

Brooks Wiley, and d. Nov. 4, 1894, in Bridgewater. 

19 MARY CARPENTER, b. Oct. 21, 1833, in Sutton; m. Rev. James 

Dingwell; resides at Bridgewater. 

20 LYDIA LEFAVOUR, b. June 23, 1835, in Sutton; unm.; residei 

at Bridgewater. 



60 JOHN LEWIS OF MARBLEHEAD, MASS., 

21 SARAH ABIGAIL, b. March 20, 1837, in Pawtucket, R. I. ; unm. ; 

resides at Bridgewater. 

22 ELIZA TAFT, b. March 1, 1839, in Pawtucket; d. y. 

23 THOMAS FATBHAM, b. Aug. 11, 1841, in Pawtucket; d. y. 

24 JAMBS HENRY, b. July 23, 1844, in Pawtucket. 

25 JOHN STREET, b. May 18, 1848, in Pawtucket; m. Evelyn Scott, 

and d. Aug. 1, 1889, in Minot, N. Dak. 

17 Richard Anthony Lewis, born Sept. 14, 1830, 
in Sutton, Mass., was a merchant and jeweller for many 
years in Philadelphia, Pa. He married Sarah Patterson, 
daughter of George and Mary Ann (Gibbs) Hale of Prov- 
idence, R. L, born there Sept. 18, 1833, and died May 10, 
1889, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is now living at Bridge- 
water, Mass. 

Children of Richard Anthony and Sarah Patterson, all 
born in Philadelphia, Pa. : 

26 ELIZABETH EDDY, b. Sept. 4, 1856; m. Mar. 6, 1879, CarletonM. 

Moody. Had: Lewis Ferry, Elizabeth Hail. 

27 GEORGE HAIL, b. May 22, 1859; d. Mar. 2, 1880; grad of U. 

of Pa. 

28 ARTHUR PATTERSON, b. Nov. 4, 1861; m. June 27, 1899, Clara, 

dau. Wm. A. and Adeline Fleck. Had: Mabel, Sarah, 
George. 

29 FREDERICK ANTHONY, b. Jan. 18, 1864; d. Feb. 10, 1864. 

30 HENRY ANTHONY, b. Feb. 16, 1865; m. Mar. 25, 1890, Susan Til- 

lie, dau. James Russell and Susan Harris. Had: Elizabeth, 
Susanna, Henrietta. 

31 FRANK NICHOLS, b. May 6, 1868; m. Eliza Kaymond Adams. 

32 WALTER GIBBS, b. Oct. 8, 1873; m. Apr. 30, 1900, Mary Emma, 

dau. William and Emma Warfield Eastwick. Had: Dora- 
thea, Richard, Walter. 

24 James Henry Lewis, born July 23, 1844, in 
Pawtucket, R. L, married, June 12, 1879, at Detroit, 
Mich., Carolyn Mary Randall, born June 10, 1850, in 
Hamilton, Canada, daughter of James and Caroline (Burn- 
ham) Randall. He enlisted in the llth regiment R. L, 
Vol. Infantry in 1862 for 9 months. Went to Ann Arbor, 
Mich., Nov., 1869, to join his brother in business and 
thence to Detroit, removing from there in 1876 to join 
his brother in business in Philadelphia, and in 1878 re- 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 61 

moved to Boston where he has been a traveling salesman 
with Messrs. Carter, Rice & Co. for 27 years. Resides at 
Wollaston, Mass. 

Children of James Henry and Carolyn Mary : 

33 GEORGE RANDALL, b. Mar. 22, 1881, in Bridgewater, Mass.; 

Harvard College, 1902 ; mining engineer. 

34 KENNETH BURNHAM, b. Dec. 28, 1882, in Bridgewater; m. June 

26, 1906, in Wollaston, Mollie Fairbanks, b. in Wollaston, 
Mass., Sept. 13, 1881; Harvard College, 1904; with the 
U. S. Steel Corporation at Worcester, Mass. 

35 CARL ANTHONY, b. Aug. 26, 1884, in Wollaston, Mass., 

Harvard College, 1905; mining engineer at Durango, Mexico. 

36 MARION EDDY, b. Oct. 7, 1886, in Wollaston; m. Mar. 5, 1909 at 

Wollaston, Charles R. Capon; b. in Toronto, Canada, Feb. 
18, 1884, son of William Benjamin and Charlotte E. (Lom- 
bard) Capon. 

37 JAMES HENRY, b. July 3, 1890, in Wollaiton. 

38 CAROLYN HUNTLEY, b. June 8, 1892, in Wollaston. 



CAPTAIN EDMUND LEWIS OF MARBLEHEAD, 
MASS., AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 



BY GEO. HARLAN LEWIS OF LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 



1 Captain Edmund Lewis was of French origin. 
His family came from Paris, France, to the island of Mar- 
tinique, W. I., where all save Edmund and a younger sis- 
ter were drowned by a tidal wave or great storm. With his 
sister he removed to New Orleans and thence to New 
York and from there in 1760 to Boston. He then came 
to Marblehead where some French families resided, and 
soon after his sister died at the age of 16 years. During 
the War of the Revolution he was a prisoner at Halifax, 
N. S., and with eight ship captains escaped through the 
mouth of a drain, taking refuge under a dory, while the 
English fired over them. He was also on board the " Tom- 
ahawk," and taken prisoner after peace was declared. He 
married, Oct. 19, 1769, Tabitha, daughter of John and 
Miriam (Rhodes) Russell of Marblehead, who received her 
father's mansion house by his will. She was baptized 
July 5, 1752, and died at Danvers, Aug. 28 (g. s. 29), 
1814, aged 62 years (Mhd. rec.). Capt. Lewis was a ship 
master and died June 8 (g. s.) (June 10, family records) 
1805, aged 57 years. 

Children of Captain Edmund and Tabitha (Russell) 
Lewis : 

2 ELIZABETH or BETSEY, b. Aug. 29, 1770; m. Jan. 27, 1795, Capt. 

Philip Besom, at Marblehead. 

3 EDMUND, b. Feb. 11, 1772, family rds. (Feb. 1. Mhd. rd.) 

4 MIRIAM, b. Mar. 12, 1774, d. young. 

5 MIRIAM R., b. April 21, 1776, family rds. (1775. Mhd. rds.); d. 

unm. suddenly, Feb. 24, 1832. 

6 TABITHA, b. Oct. 21, 1777; m. (int. Sept. 14, 1800), Peter Le Bre- 

ton of Newburyport. 
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AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 63 

7 MARY or POLLY, b. Nov. 7, 1779, family rds. (bapt. June 13, 

1779, Mhd. rds.); m. John Russell, Sept. 8, 1805, family rds. 
Oct. 20, 1805, church rd. ; d. 1846. 

8 JOHN, b. June 27, 1781; d. young. 

9 HANNAH, b. Feb. 12, 1783; m. Oct. 30, 1803, James Lovett; d. 

April 15, 1871. 

10 REBECCA, b. Jan. 15, 1785: m. (int. April 20, 1808), Capt. George 

Barker, jr. 

11 JOHN, b. Jan. 8, 1786 (bapt. Feb. 11, 1787, Mhd. rds.); d. June 

22, 1809, in Ship Orient at Havana, Cuba. 

12 CHARLOTTE, b. Aug. 4, 1789; m. Judge Woodruffe and d. Aug. 

2, 1822. 

13 MARY CAROLINE, b. Jan. 4, 1791 ; m. Feb. 7, 1809, William C. 

Rogers, of Lewisville, Ky. 

14 WILLIAM RUSSELL, b. July 29, 1794; d. July 17, 1825, at Havana, 

Cuba. 

15 A CHILD, bapt. Sept. 30, 1801. 

3 Captain Edmund Lewis born Feb. 11, 1772, 
married Jan. 19, 1793, Abigail Bigelow Prentiss, daughter 

of Joshua and (Bubier) Prentiss of Marblehead. 

She was born March 12, 1776, and died Nov. 9, 1851. 
He was a shipmaster and died Dec. 2, 1820, at New Or- 
leans, La., of a fever. 

Children of Captain Edmund and Abigail Bigelow 
(Prentiss) Lewis : 

16 EDMUND, b. March 25, 1793; drowned Oct. 15, 1810, from Brig 

Dido on his passage home from Archangel. 

17 JOSHUA PBENTISS, b. Sept. 26, 1795; d. Mar. 23, 1796. 

18 JOSHUA P., b. Jan. 31, 1797; d. unm. Jan. 22, 1823, on his pas- 

sage from Havana to Leghorn with Capt. Baker of Salem. 

19 JOHN, b. Feb. 25, 1799. 

20 ABIGAIL, b. Dec. 7, 1800; d. Oct. 3, 1803. 

21 PBENTISS, b. Oct. 26, 1802 ; d. Feb. 23, 1803. 

22 PHILIP BESOM, b. Jan. 16, 1804; m. Maria Bonney and d. Nov. 

13, 1877; no heirs. 

23 ABIGAIL B., b. Jan. 22, 1805; m. July 5, 1829, Geo. Cummings, 

of Cambridge, and d. Mar. 10, 1887; no heirs. 

24 HENRY PRENTISS, b. Jan. 21, 1807; d. Oct. 23, 1861; m. Annie 

Chaffin and had: Edwin, Abby A. and Fredericka N. 

25 WILLIAM K., b. May 16, family rd., May 9, 1809, Mhd. rd.; d. 

Dec. 1, 1810. 



64 CAPT. EDMUND LEWIS OF MAEBLEHEAD, MASS. 

26 HARRIET C., b. May 9, family rd., May 18, 1813, Mhd. rd.; m. 

William Chenery and d. Dec. 22, 1896. 

27 WILLIAM E., b. Aug. 14, 1815; d. unm. Mar. 14, 1842. 

28 TABITHA R., b. Aug. 14, 1815; m. David Simpson and d. Feb. 3, 

1897. 

29 CHARLOTTE CAROLINE, b. May 6, 1821, family rds., 1819, Mhd. 

rds.; m. Horatio Simpson of Roxbury. 

19 John Lewis born Feb. 25, 1799, married April 
26, 1826, Mary Haskell, and died May 10, 1885. 
Children of John and Mary Haskell Lewis : 

30 ABIGAIL PRENTISS, b. Sept. 3, 1826; d. Oct. 3, 1826. 

31 EDMUND, b. Oct. 12, 1828; m. Feb. 15, 1865, Mrs. Mary A. S. 

Marlin. 

32 THOMAS HASKELL, b. Nov. 1 1-14, 1830 ; d. Feb. 23, 1898. 

33 JOSHUA PRENTISS, b. July 28, 1833; m. Sept. 27, 1870, Deborah 

Green. 

34 MARY ABBY, b. July 1, 1836; d. unm. Oct. 30, 1865. 



JOHN LEWIS OF LYNN, MASS., TORY IN THE 
REVOLUTION, AND SOME OF HIS 
DESCENDANTS. 



BY GEORGE HAKLAN LEWIS OF LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 



1 John Lewis, a Commissioner in the King's customs, 
lived in Lynn, and family tradition has it that his house 
was on what is now South Common street and that the es- 
tate extended to the ocean. He was a loyalist and during 
the Revolution his estate was confiscated, and it is said 
was bought by the Lindseys who were his relatives by 
marriage. He was prominent in freemasonry and was an 
officer of the first Grand Lodge which was organized im- 
mediately after his arrival in Halifax. He also was a 
prominent churchman of St. Paul's in Halifax. The fol- 
lowing account of his family is abstracted from records 
kept by himself and descendants. 

"New York, Oct. 6, 1780. My Dear Wife departed 
this life in full assurance of a better, about three quarters 
past 12 o'clock in the morning and was decently interred 
in Trinity Church yard the following evening by a num- 
erous acquaintance much lamented by all who had it. 
Her grave is easily known, and directly in the range of the 
Church steeple and the upper end of the sugar house on 
the opposite side of the churchyard near about the middle 
between both her grave is easily known by two grave 
stones at her feet, the inscriptions [of which are] Mrs. 
Jane Daw and Mrs. Hannah Simons; [and] further known 
by her headstone on which is this inscription : 

To the Memory of Sarah Lewis wife of John Lewis from 
Lynn in New England who departed this life Oct. 6, 
1780. Aged 36 years. 

(65) 



66 JOHN LEWIS OF LYNN, MASS. 

" Halifax, June 2, 1784. I was married to Mrs. Ann 
Jones of New York by Rev. Mr. Wingate Weeks, assis- 
tant preacher at St. Paul's, Halifax. 

" Halifax, Nov. 26, 1789. Ann my Dear Wife de- 
parted this life at 9 o'clock in the morning and on the 
Sunday following she was decently interred followed by a 
respectable number of acquaintances to her grave." 

On the stone is the following inscription : 

"To the Memory of Mrs. Ann Lewis Wife of John 
Lewis, who departed this life Nov. 26, 1789. Aged 60 
years." 

" Halifax, May 16, 1792. This morning at half past 
five o'clock Our Dear and Honored Father departed this 
transitory life in the full assurance of a better. On the 
following Saturday at half past 5 in the afternoon he was 
interred with all imaginable decency, the funeral was pre- 
ceded by the several lodges of Masons, and followed by 
a great number of the respectable inhabitants of Halifax, 
his friends and acquaintances. He died a good Christian, 
an obliging friend, a tender parent to the end." 

John Lewis and Sarah Lindsey were married in Lynn, 
Sept. 25, 1764, by Rev. John Treadwell of the Old Parish. 

Children, christened by Rev. Mr. (Wingate) Weeks at 
Marblehead : 

2. LYDIA, b. April 26, 1765. " New York, Feb. 1, 1781. Lydia mar- 
ried Andrew Wilson, a native of Denmark, by Rev. Samuel 
Seabury, Rector of Westchester in the Parish of New York. 

" Feb. 15, 1782. John Wilson their son was born and Mr. 
Amaziah Chase and Mr. John Harrison were God fathers 
and Mrs. Harrison stood God Mother. 

* August 3, 1783. John Wilson, Lydia's son, departed this 
life about eleven o'clock at night, and about this time re- 
ceived account of Lydia's husband dying suddenly at St. 
Lucie, an Island in the West Indies. 

" Monday, Nov. 17, 1783. John Robinson was married to 
Widow Wilson by the Rev. Benj. Moore, Rector of New York, 
and on tuesday next day after the wedding we embarked 
on board the Kepple for Halifax, N. S. 

41 Know all men by these Presents, that we John Lewis of 
the City of New York, Cordwainer and Francis King of the 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 67 

same place, Vintner, are held and firmly bound unto our 
Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of 
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King Defender of the 
Faith, &c. in the sum of Five hundred Pounds, current 
money of the Province of New York, to be paid to his said 
Majesty or his heirs and successors. For the which Pay- 
ment well and truly to be made and done, we do bind our- 
selves and each of us, our and each of our Heirs, executors 
and administrators, and every of them firmly by these 
Presents, sealed with our seals, dated the 15th day of Novem- 
ber, in the 24th year of his said Majestys Reign A. D. One 
thousand seven hundred eighty-three (1783). 

The condition of this Obligation is such That whereas the 
above bounden John Lewis hath obtained a License of Mar- 
riage for John Robinson of the City of New York, mariner, of 
the one party and Lidia Wilson of the same place, widow, of 
the other Party, now if it shall not appear hereafter, that 
they or either of them the said John Robinson & Lidia 
Wilson have any lawful Let or Impediment of Pre-contract, 
Affinity or Consanguinity, to hinder their being joined in 
the Holy Bonds of Matrimony and afterwards their living 
together as Man and Wife. Then this Obligation to be 
void and of none Effect, or else to stand, remain, abide and 
be in full Force and Virtue. 

Sealed and delivered John Lewis (Seal.) 

in the Presence of Francis King (Seal.) 

Samuel Bayard, Jun. 

" Nov. 24, 1784. My Daughter Lydia was delivered of 
a son called Robert at St. Andrews, Passamaquoddey. 

"St. Andrews, Passamaquoddy, Sept. 24, 1789. My Daugh- 
ter Lydia Robinson was delivered of a daughter and called 
her Lucinda." John Lewis' Records. 

John Robinson died at St. Andrews, N. B., in 1807. and his 
widow died there in 1820. Both are buried there. After the 
death of her husband she brought her eight children to 
Lynn, Mass. 

3. ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 5, 1766; returned from Halifax, N. S., to 
Lynn, where she m., Dec. 17, 1792, John Alley, jr., who d , 
May 16, 1844. She d. July 31, 1831. Children, born in 
Lynn : (1) John, b. Nov. 1, 1793; d. April 10, 1794; (2) John 
Lewis, b. Sept. 18, 1796; (3) Evelina, b. Jan. 24, 1799 ; d. 
Oct. 12, 1800; (4) Charles L., b. Jan. 24, 1802; d. July 15, 
1831. 



68 JOHN LEWIS OF LYNN, MASS. 

4. SARAH, b. Mar. 5, 1770; m. William George Laven, b. 7 day, 8 m, 

1766, son of William and Georgianna Laven, and descended 
from William Laven of Comtersherd, in the Parish of Dept- 
ford, near Totness. She d. July 22, 1796, at Aylesford, N. 
S. He d. Sept. 15, 1851, at Halifax, N. S., aged 85 y. Had: 
(1) William Henry; (2) James William; (3) James. 

5. JOHN LINDSEY, b. Jan. 25, 1772, shipmaster, and settled in 

Portland, Me.; m. 1st Rebecca, dau. Rev. John Thomas 
Brown of Falmouth, Me. Had: (1) William Brown Lewis, 
b. Feb. 6, 1803; d. unm. He m. second, June 19, 1806, Mrs. 
Mary, widow of Lemuel Bryant, and d. in 1825 in Portland, 
Me. Had: (2) Caroline Lucy, b. Dec. 23, 1808; unm., lived 
in Newton, Mass.; (3), Francis Watts, b. April 24, 1810; d. 
at sea Feb. 1846, and had dau., Fanny A.; (4) Sarah, b. Sept. 
14, 1817; m. 1st, H. Cushman, and had two daughters; m. 2d, 
Jan. 2, 1882, Dr. Israel P. Warren, editor of the Christian 
Advocate of Portland, Me. ; (5) Susan Elizabeth, b. Aug. 6, 
1820; m. Capt. C. M. Davis, and d. in 1860. No chn. 

6. SUSANNAH, b. Oct. 28, 1774; m. Nov. 20, 1794, in Lynn, John 

Brown Newhall, b. in Lynn, Feb. 10, 1773, s. of Andrew and 
Susannah Newhall. He d. Apr. 18, 1833; she d. March 10, 
1837. Had, born in Lynn: (1) John Brown, b. July 17, 
1795; d. Aug. 4, 1825; (2) Sally, b. Oct. 21, 1796; d. Oct. 31, 
1797; (3) Isabel, b. Oct. 31, 1797; d. Oct. 2, 1799; (4) Anna, 
b. Oct. 2, 1799; d. Nov. 25, 1800; (5) Andrew, b. July 10, 
1801; d. Jan. 1, 1803; (6) Sally, b. July 25, 1802; (7) Mary 
Ann, b. June 17, 1813. 



RECORDS OF THE VICE - ADMIRALTY COURT 
AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 



THE CONDEMNATION OF PRIZES AND RECAPTURES OF THE 
REVOLUTION AND THE WAR OF 1812. 



(Continued from Vol. XLV, page 332.) 



Sloop, no name, loaded with lumber, captured with no 
person on board and no papers, early in June, 1782, in 
Boston Bay, by H. M. S. Chatham. 

Shallop, no name, libel filed June 29 th , 1782, by H. M. S. 
of War the Albany. A claim was filed on behalf of Wil- 
liam Sherlock, and evidence showed that the shallop had 
been captured and plundered by the Americans, when she 
was carried into Penobscott. 

A Shallop retaken from the Americans. Libel Sept. 3d, 
1782, by Henry Vogle, Lieut, of Militia in the County of 
Lunenburg. 

Sundry Goods taken out of a Brig at Sea, Peter Coffin, 
master, libel filed April 16 th , 1783, on behalf of the Pri- 
vateer schooner Dreadnaught. 

Proceedings, etc. upon the Petition of Richard John 
Uniacke, Esq r , one of the Advocates and Proctors of the 
said Court in behalf of Isaac Baxter, Roger Perkins and 
others of the Militia at Liverpool, 2d Jan., 1784. Petition 
filed and entered and order made thereon as on file. Mon- 
day 5 th Jan. The Petition, order and return thereon read. 
The return of the Militia acting in the capture of the 
schooners Dolphin and Swallow also read. Decree pro- 
nounced as on file. 

(69) 



70 BECORDS OF THE VICE- ADMIRALTY COURT 

Proceedings, etc., upon the petition of John Creighton, 
Esq r , Colonel of the Militia of the County of Lunenburg, 
in behalf of himself and others of the said Militia, captors 
of the Brig Kitty, John Palmer, master. May 6 th , 1784. 
Petition filed, etc. May 10 th , Petition order and return 
read. The return of the Militia acting in the capture of 
the Brig Kitty also read. Decree pronounced as on file. 

Proceedings, etc., upon the Petition of John Creighton, 
Esq 1 , Colonel of the Militia of the County of Lunenburg 
in said Province in behalf of himself and others of the said 
Militia, captors of the Brig Sally, Moses Tinney, master, 
May 10, 1784. Petition order and return read, the return 
of the Militia acting in the capture of the Brig Sally also 
read. Decree pronounced as on file. 

A small schooner, name unknown. A recapture. 
" David Munro being duly sworn deposeth that in his 
Passage from Canso to this place he was taken by the 
Schooner called the Resolution of Boston on or about the 
25 th June last, that one Morgan, who commanded this 
Rebel Privateer, told the Deponant that they had taken a 
Schooner up the Bay of Chaleure, & that a ship had taken 
her from them, that the schooner belonged to a Scotchman 
up the Bay, can't recollect his name, that he the Deponant 
supposes the schooner brought in by the ship Jack is the 
same schooner the Rebels had taken, & further that he 
heard some of the men also on Board said Rebel Privateer 
say they had taken a schooner in the Bay of Chaleure, & 
had loaded her out of a store belonging to a Scotchman up 
the Bay." 

Two Sloops and a Schooner, names unknown, a recap- 
ture. John McCleod, Fred Bottelier and James Coney, 
owners. " James Coney master of the Schooner Susannah, 
being duly sworne deposeth, That on the 21 st of August 
last he sailed from Lunenburg in said schooner, loaded 
with boards and Shingles, That the next day, a little be- 
fore daylight, they saw a Privateer, about 2 Leagues S. S. 
E. from Halifax Light House, That they Chased the Susan- 
nah about two hours, when they came up with and took 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 71 

possession of the Schooner, and took out the Deponant, and 
carried Him on Board the Privateer, and kept Him about 
half an Hour, That they then returned the Deponant on 
Board his own Vessell, and took out two of the Privateer's 
people who had been left on Board, & then ordered the 
Deponant to make sail, & come alongside the Privateer, 
which he did, That the Captain of the Privateer then told 
the Deponant that he had discovered a sail, and told the 
Deponant to keep in Shore, & that if he saw the Privateer 
make sail he might make the Best of his way into any Port 
he pleased, That the Privateer did after that make sail, & 
the Deponant saw a Brig, Standing for the Privateer, and 
he then steered in for Prospect with the Susannah, That 
the next day, be-ing the 23 d at Night, Captain Crymes 
came into Prospect and sent his people and brought the 
Susannah under His Stern, till he came into Halifax, but 
put no prize master or any other person on board the 
schooner, That the two sloops, one owned by John McCleod 
and the other by Frederick Bottalier & John Wooden were 
both taken by the same Privateer at the same time the 
Susannah was, That they were in Prospect and came to 
Halifax with the Susannah and Brigantine Observer, and 
the deponant further deposeth that the Privateer's people 
took nothing out of the Schooner except one pound of 
chocolate and a little sugar, and the master of the Priva- 
teer told the Deponant He did not Want His Vessel as she 
was old and Leaky, That the Two Sloops were taken first." 
An 8 th was decreed to the captors the brigantine Observer. 



CAPTURES AND RECAPTURES CONDEMNED DURING THE 
WAR OF 1812.* 



ABIGAL (89f ), ship, G. Johnson, master, Liverpool to 
Norfolk, captured Sept. 21, 1812 by Poictiers. Restored 
on payment of costs. 

*See also Marine Notes at Salem (1812-1815), Essex Institute Hist. 
Colls., Vol. XXXVI, p. 285, et seq. 

tThis number is the case number of the original file now preserved 
at Halifax. See Essex Institute Hist. Colls., Vol. XLV, p. 28. 



72 RECORDS OF THE VICE- ADMIRALTY COURT 

ACTIVE (399), ship, E. Altberg, master, Gottenburg to 
Boston, captured Sept. 20, 1813 by Epervier. Cargo : 
iron. 

ACTRESS (39), sloop (privateer), 48 tons, Geo. Lums- 
den, master, from Newhaven, cruizing, captured July 18, 
1812 by Spartan. Cargo: guns, ammunition and provi- 
sions. Taken into New Brunswick. 

ADELINE (103), brig, N. Harding, master, recaptured 
Aug. 23, 1812 by Statira. 

ADVENTURE (538), schr., 121 tons, J. Martin, master, 
Hayti to Bristol, R. I., captured June 15, 1814 by Liver- 
pool Packet (privateer). Cargo : 101 hhds. & 20 bbls. 
molasses, 70 or 80 thousand weight sugar, 12 thousand 
weight coffee and 40 hides. Restored. 



(197), brig, F. Hocquard, master, London to 
Newf d Land, recaptured Apr. 28, 1813 by La Hogue. 
Cargo : teas and dry goods. 

AGNES (137), ship, J. Barnet, master, recaptured Jan. 
27, 1813. 

ALBION (633), brig, 133 tons, Edw d Robertson, mas- 
ter, Lisbon to Bourdeaux, recaptured Sept. 21, 1814 by 
Jaseur. Cargo : sugar and coffee 

ALERT (431), sloop, A. Child, master, captured Oct. 
19, 1813 by Boxer. Cargo : pitch and molasses. 

ALEXANDER (240), ship, B. Crowninshield, master, 
20 guns and 130 men, from Salem, cruising, captured Apr. 
12, 1813 by Rattler and Bream. Taken into New Bruns- 
wick. 

ALFRED (482), brig (privateer), 216 tons, P. Bessom, 
master, 16 guns and 94 men, from Salem, cruising, cap- 
tured Feb. 23, 1814 by Epervier. 

ALIANZA (395), ship, J. E. Estella, master, captured 
Sept. 16, 1813 by Shannon. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 73 

ALICIA (93), brig, Geo. Meiers, master, Kennebec to 
St. Bartholomews, captured Oct. 1, 1812 by Statira. Car- 
go : lumber, sheep, soap and fish. 

ALLIGATOR (349), sloop, 28 tons, S. Hamlen, master, 
from Barnstable, fishing, captured Aug. 7, 1813 by Matil- 
da (privateer). Cargo : codfish and stores. 

AMAZON (649), ship, 233 tons, Jn Raines, master, 
London to Quebec, recaptured Oct. 22, 1814 by Bulwark. 
Cargo : flour and bread. 

AMBITION (107), brig, 139 tons, Benj n Shaw, master, 
Baltimore to Boston, captured Sept. 12, 1812 by Orpheus 
and Maidstone. Cargo : 804 bbls. of flour. 

AMBITION (411), sloop, C. Vandine, master, captured 
Sept. 22, 1813 by Statira. 

AMELIA (338), sloop, 79 tons, J. Skidmore, master, 
New Haven to New Brunswick, captured Aug. 5, 1813 by 
Retrieve (privateer). Cargo: flour and corn, restored. 

AMELIA (499), sloop, 49 tons, R. G. Cornwall, mas- 
ter, New York to Providence, captured May 15, 1814 by 
Bulwark. Cargo : rye flour, bread, hams and pork. Taken 
into Liverpool. 

ANITA (587), brig, 198 tons, Spanish, Fran 5 Ornes, 
master, Boston to Havannah, captured Aug. 9, 1814 by 
Leander. Cargo : ballast. 

ANN (429), brig, 120 tons, J. H. Winther, master, 
Cape Ann to St. Bartholomews, captured Oct. 20, 1813 by 
Retrieve (privateer). Cargo : corn, bread, onions and 
potatoes. 

ANN (36), brig, McDonald, master, recaptured 

, 1812 by Chub. 



ANN (438), brig, W Bartlett, master, recaptured Nov 
4, 1813 by Jaseur. 



74 RECORDS OF THE VICE-ADMIRALT? COURT 

ANN (207), schr., 142 tons, J. B. Allison, master, 
from New Orleans, captured May 5, 1813 by Nymphe, 
Shannon, Tenedos and Emulous. Cargo : cotton, lead and 
skins. 

ANN (500), sloop, 67 tons, Sam 1 Drinkwater, master, 
East Port to Boston, captured May 19, 1814 by Shannon 
(privateer). Cargo : 200 boxes tin, copperas and hard- 
ware. Taken into Liverpool. 

ANNA (298), brig, 125 tons, - - Martinez,master, New 
Haven to La Guira, captured July 13, 1813 by Maidstone, 
Poictiers and Nimrod. Cargo: 870 bbls. flour, 40 half 
bbls. beef, 142 firkins lard, 76 drkins butter, 110 boxes 
soap and 30 bbls. gin. 

ANNACONDA (385), brig, N. Shaller, master, captured 
July, 1813 by Sceptre and Squadron. 

ANSON (113), schr., 97 tons, John Smith, master, Bos- 
ton to Baltimore, captured Oct. 19, 1812 by Liverpool 
Packet (privateer). Cargo : salt, china and vinegar. 

ANTELOPE (561), schr., 73 tons, Elizabeth City, N. C. 
to Portland, captured July 18, 1814 by Tenedos. Cargo : 
348 bbls. flour and some tar. 

APOLLO (102), ship, Cock well, master, recap- 
tured Aug. 13, 1812 by Statira 

APPOLLO (142), sloop, 54 tons, J. Smith, master, N. 
Carolina to Boston, captured Mar. 20, 1813 by Sir John 
Sherbrooke (privateer). Cargo : 2000 bushels of corn. 

ARAB (230), schr., 350 tons, D. Fitch, master, from 
Baltimore, captured Apr. 3, 1813 by San Domingo, Marl- 
borough, Statira, Maidstone, Fantome and Mohawk. Car- 
go : flour. 

ARGO (121), brig, W. Middleton, master, recaptured 
Sept. 3, 1812 by Plumper. Taken into New Brunswick. 



: 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 75 



ARGUS (74), schr. (privateer), 21 tons, W. Heath, 
master from Boston, cruising, captured July 17, 1812 by 
Indian and Plumper. Cargo : guns, ammunition and pro- 
visions. Taken into New Brunswick. 

ARISTOMENUS (57), ship, I. W. Brewster, master, from 
Liverpool, captured Aug. 5, 1812 by Africa, Little Emu- 
lous, Nymph and Acasta. Restored on payment of costs 

ARMISTICE (527), schr., S. Delano, master, Boston to 
East Port and Machias, captured June 12, 1814 by Retal- 
iation (privateer). Cargo : pork, tar, beef, butter, hogs 
fat, cheese, shoes, chocolate, candles, wine, gin, vinegar, 
cordials, bitters, cordage, earthen ware, soap, flour meal, 
leather, cotton cards, ginger, flax, saddle trees, apples, 
paper, rice, pease, 30 kegs tobacco, 24 bbls. gunpowder, 3 
boxes ball cartridges, a large chest of medicines and sun- 
dry other articles. Taken into Liverpool. 

ARMISTICE (681), schr., 140 tons, John Williams, 
master, Charles town to New York, captured Dec. 24, 1814 
by Junon. Cargo : cotton, rice and copper. 

ATLANTIC (415), brig, Anderson, master, recap- 
tured Oct. 11, 1813 by Maidstone and Poictiers. 

ATLAS (691), schr., 40 tons, Alexander Livingston, 
master, Elizabeth City to Newberry Port, captured Feb. 
9, 1815 by Dove (privateer). Cargo : 150 bbls. flour and 
12 tierces rice. Taken into Liverpool. 

AURORA (476), schr., R. McKenzie, master, Mount 
Desert to Boston, captured Jan. 6, 1814 by Wolverine 
(privateer). Cargo : cord wood. Taken into Liverpool. 

BAINBRIDGE (59), ship, R. Gray, master, Liverpool to 
Philadelphia, captured Aug. 19, 1812 by Belvidera. Re- 
stored on payment of costs. 

BALTIC (418), ship, 262 tons, J. Jameson, master, St. 
Ubes to Boston, captured Oct. 16, 1813 by LaHogue. 
Cargo : salt. Restored. 



76 RECORDS OF THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT 

BEE (632), schr., 20 tons, Elisha Burnham, master, 
Halifax to Cape Ann, captured Aug. 28, 1814 by Rifle- 
man and Peruvian. Cargo : dry goods. Taken into St. 
John, N. B. 

BEE (544), schr., J. L. Coleby, master, captured July 

3, 1814 by Rolla (privateer). Taken into Liverpool. 

BEE (550), schr., captured July 6, 1814 by Nymphe. 

*' BELFAST (169), schr., 124 tons, P. Pendleton, master, 
for Penobscot, captured Apr. 7, 1813 by Retaliation (pri- 
vateer). Cargo : ballast. 

BELLE (257), schr., 105 tons, F. R. Steinhaven, mas- 
ter, Madeira to Egg Harbour, captured June 8, 1813 by 
Spartan, Statira and Martin. Cargo : ballast. 

BELLISLE (14), brig, 119 tons, Wm. Brown, master, 
Havannah to Salem, captured July 15, 1812 by Emulous 
Cargo : molasses, logwood, sugar and coffee. 

BENJ N FRANKLIN (122), ship, 270 tons, Ja s Whelan, 
master, Liverpool to Philadelphia, captured July 9, 1812 
by the Collector of Halifax. 

BETSY (70), schr., 127 tons, W m Orne, master, Naples 
to Boston, captured Aug. 30, 1812 by Acasta. Cargo : 
brandy. 

BETSY (316), schr., 117 tons, Moses Hall, master, 
Tortola to Portland, captured July 14, 1813 by Bream. 
Cargo : 65 punch 5 rum. Taken into New Brunswick. Re- 
stored. 

BETSY (520), schr., R. Bears, master, captured June 

4, 1814 by Recruit. Cargo : 100 bbls. flour. 

BETSY (611), sloop, 38 tons, B. Parker, master, from 
Nantucket, fishing, captured Sept. 2, 1814 by Lively (pri- 
vateer). Cargo : fish, oil, salt and fishing stores. Taken 
into Liverpool. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 77 

BETSY (620), schr., H y Geyar, master, Boston to 
Machias, captured Sept. 10, 1814 by Alban. Cargo: flour 
and provisions. 

BETSY (616), ship, 333 tons, W. H. Bennett, master, 
from Calcutta on a coasting voyage, recaptured Sept. 7, 
1814 by Pylades. Cargo : pepper and bettle nuts. 

BETSY (159), sloop, 45 tons, J. T. Barney, master, 
Warren to Havannah, captured Mar. 26, 1813 by Sir Jn 
Sherbrooke (privateer). Cargo: cheese, tobacco, provi- 
sions, leather, shoes, lumber, &c. 

BETSY (161), sloop, 45 tons, L. Forsyth, master, Pro- 
vidence to New London, captured Mar. 31, 1813 by Sir 
Jn Sherbrooke (privateer). Cargo : 4 tons hemp and 46 
bales cotton 



BETSY (253), sloop, 93 tons, N. Walton, master, Bos- 
ton to Waldeborough, captured June 6, 1813 by Retrieve 
(privateer). Cargo : 50 bushels corn and ballast. 

BETSY (464)., sloop, 98 tons, E. Tibberts, master, 
Waldeborough to Boston, captured Dec. 10, 1813 by 
Wolverine (privateer). Cargo: cord wood. Taken into 
Liverpool. 

BETSY & JANE (428), schr., S. Brown, master, cap- 
tured Oct. 21, 1813 by Majestic. 

BIKD (181), schr., 80 tons, J. Hammond, master, 
Frenchman's Bay to Spanish Main, captured April 18, 
1813 by Emulous. Cargo : 3700 hhd. staves and 20,000 
shingles. Taken into New Brunswick. 

BLACK SWAN (652), brig, 125 tons, Jacob McDaniel, 
master, Boston to Havannah, captured Oct. 24, 1814 by 
Maidstone. Cargo : lumber and dry goods. 

BLONDE (108), schr., G. H. Gilbert, master, recaptured 
Oct. 17, 1812 by Acasta. 



78 RECORDS OP THE VICE- ADMIRALTY COURT 

BOLINA (47), ship, 260 tons, John Fairfield, master, 
Gibraltar to Salem, captured Aug. 10, 1812 by Morgiana. 
Cargo: wines, salt, oil, capers, matts and baskets, anchovies, 
and f 6061 1-2. 

BOXER (549), schr., Gr. N. Davis, master, captured 
July 8, 1814 by Rolla (privateer.) 

BRANCH (223), schr., 78 tons, H. Luskin, master, Bos- 
ton to Deer Island, captured Apr. 26, 1813 by Bream. 
Cargo : ballast; Taken into New Brunswick. 

BRITTANNIA (80), ship, - - Eddington, master, re- 
captured Sept. 4, 1812 by Junon. 

BUCKSKIN (76), schr. (privateer), 39 tons, Isaac 
Bray, master, from Newberry Port, cruising, captured 
Aug. 8, 1812 by Statira and Colibrie. Cargo : guns, am- 
munition and provisions. 

BUNKER HILL (148), schr., 29 tons, B. Boddely, mas- 
ter, New Berry to New York, captured Mar. 10, 1813 by 
Liverpool Packet (privateer). Cargo : 12 tons plaister. 
50 boxes chocolate, 3 bbls. pork, 10 hhds. rum, 2 boxes & 
2 cases hats, some shoes & cloth and 100 handspikes. 

BUNKER HILL (54), schr. (privateer), 175 tons, Jacob 
Lewis, master, from New York, cruizing, captured Aug. 
21, 1812 by Belvidera. Cargo : guns, ammunition and 
provisions. 

Buzi (588), schr., a tender belonging to his Majesty's 
ship Dragon under the command of Ge Pierson, act 8 
Lieut, of said ship Dragon, captured June 19, 1814 by Al- 
bion, Asia, Severn, Loire, Jaseur, St. Lawrence, Regulus, 
Melphomene, Brune, Manly, Etna and Dragon. Cargo : 
20 hhds. tobacco capt d in the waters of the Chesapeake 
11 June by the Dragon, Acasta, Loire, Narcissus, Jaseur, 
and St. Lawrence being previous to the capture of the 
Buzi and put on board the said schr. Buzi. 

CALEDONIA (629), ship, W m Macfarlane, master, 
Greenock to Montreal, recaptured Sept. 22, 1814 by 
Nymphe. Cargo : flour, bread and coals. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 79 

CALMAR (473), sloop, D. Maloney, master, captured 
Dec. 17, 181 3 by Curlew. 

CALSON (293), schr., J. Alson, master, captured July 
6, 1813 by Weazel (privateer). 

CAMDEN (389), schr., 105 tons, B. Dowers, master, 
Boston to Penobscot, captured Aug. 31, 1813 by Dart 
(privateer). Cargo : ballast. Taken into New Brunswick. 

CANDELARIA (518), sloop, 92 1-2 tons, Eman 1 Fer- 
nandez, Havannah to Boston, captured May 19, 1814 by 
Superb. Cargo: 12 half boxes sugar, 125 casks and 14 
q r casks molasses. Restored. 

CARAVAN (332), brig, 110 tons, J. Snow, master, Anti- 
gua to Portland, captured Aug. 7, 1813 by Retrieve (pri- 
vateer). Cargo : molasses and some rum. Restored. 

CARL GUSTAFF (306), ship, 374 tons, G. B. Baker, 
master, New York to Beaufort, N. C., captured June 14, 
1813 by Statira and Martin. Cargo : ballast. Restored. 

CARLOTTA (259), brig, J. DeLonza Carvatho Souza, 
master, Porto Rico to Philadelphia, captured June 22, 
1813 by Spartan, Statira and Martin. Cargo : some money, 
48 bbls. rice and 20 bbls. coffee. 

CAROLINE (171), brig, 195 tons, John Homer, master, 
Wilmington to Boston, captured Apr. 11, 1813 by La 
Hogue. Cargo: 1508 bbls. tar, 170 bbls. turpentine, 8 
bbls. pitch and 10 of rosin. 

CAROLINE (194), schr., 25 tons, A. Burgess, master, 
North Carolina to Mass. Bay, captured Apr. 18, 1813 by 
Sir John Sherbrooke (privateer). Cargo : corn and beans. 
Taken into Liverpool. 

CATALINA (497), brig, 160 tons, J. F. Cerrero, master, 
St. Domingo to New Bedford, captured May 13, 1814 by 
Superb. Cargo : 245 hhds. molasses and 600 hides. Re- 
stored. 



80 BKCOBDS OF THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT. 

CATALINA PATRIOTA (394), ship, J. Riva, master, cap- 
tured Sept. 16, 1813 by Shannon. 

CATHARINE (199), brig, C. Hammond, master, St. Bar- 
tholomew to London, recaptured May 2, 1813 by La- 
Hogue. Cargo : rum, etc. 

CATHARINE (470), schr., J. Church, master, captured 
Dec. 4, 1813 by Majestic and Junon. 

CATHARINE (29), (letter of marque), 281 tons, F. A. 
Burnham, master, from Boston, cruising, captured July 26, 
1812 by Colibrie. Cargo : guns, ammunition and provi- 
sions. 

CENTURION (164), schr., 56 tons, C. Blanchard, mas- 
ter, Charlestown, S. C. to Providence, R. I., captured Apr. 
2, 1813 by Atalante. Cargo : 120 bales cotton. 

CERES (68), ship, S. Webber, master, Liverpool to Bos- 
ton, captured Aug. 31, 1812 by Spy, store ship. Restored 
on payment of costs. 

CHANCE (354), brig, W. Rodgerson, master, Working- 
ton to Mirimachie, recaptured Aug. 13, 1813 byLaHogue 
and Tededos. Cargo : ballast. 

CHARLES (658), brig, 137 tons, J. Everett, master, St. 
Johns, N. B. to Barbadoes, recaptured Nov. 5, 1814 by 
Saturn. Cargo : fish and lumber. 

CHARLES (539), schr., Jn Brown, master, captured 
June 26, 1814 by Rolla (privateer). 

CHARLES (432), sloop, 95 tons, J. Cook, master, Occra- 
coke to St. Johns, New Brunswick, captured Oct. 4, 1813 
by Paz. Cargo : 679 bbls. flour. 

CHARLES (461), sloop, 75 tons, J. Andrews, master, 
Kennebeck to Boston, captured Dec. 10, 1813 by Wol- 
verine (privateer). Cargo : 18 ft. timber, 30 ft. boards, 
and 10 staves. Taken into Liverpool. 

(To be continued.) 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS, 

1697-1768. 



(Continued from Vol. XLV, page 



"Lisbon, 24 July 1742. 
* c Mess 18 Benjamin Pickman & Com. 

Gentlemen : We have not had the Pleasure To write 
you since 24 May last year having till now never 
had an Opportunity of Selling the Loggwood. Att 
last 'tis sold & herein include the amount Sale rendring 
the Neat Proceed thereof. R s 132 $ 827 which as soon as 
[53] the money is in Cash shall remitt the same with the 
whole Ballance of your account to Mess r8 Lane, Smethurst 
& Caswall so as Wee did the R s 600 $ 000 on the 2 d May 
last year of which we hope you have had a Regular acco" 
of in due time. 

Here are at present severall Vessels with Fish but it is 
all old and Sold at all Sort of Prices. The first new Fish 
that arrives will without all doubts obtain an Exceeding 
good Markett. We remains with Proffers of our services* 
Gentlemen 

Your most Humble serv* 

Klemeke & Tonniel 
Ex c for London 66 1/2 
For Amst m 46 2/8 g s 
D r 

Mess r Benjamin Pickman & C Their Acco tt 
To 152 Moy's Salt as P r Ace" R s 268 $ 898: 

Cash to Capt. Joseph Grafton 42 $ 000 

His Pilot inward bound 2 $ 880 

Vice Consul in Belan inward D 6 $ 660 > 

Passport 9 $ 000' 

A Qua r Cask of White Wine 25 $ 600 > 

20 Chests of Fruit as f Acco" 85 * 851 

14 Jarrs of Oil with dispatch 9 $ 00& 

(81) 



82 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

Port Charges to Lisbon in & outw d 

bound 20 $020 

Assisting the Capt. & serving the Ship 20 1 000 
Ballance R s 685 $ 552 which we remitt 

with the first Packett to Mess" Lane, 

Smethurst & Caswall 685 $552 



R s 1171 $4456 

O 

By Freight 1661 q tls Fish att 3/ f Q* 

249.3 att 66 3/8 f Mill" II s 900 f 880 

The neat proceed of a Parcell of Beans & 

Forn Escritors as f Acco" 140 I 099 

The neat Proceed of 209 lbs Fish as f D 134 $477 



R s 1174 $ 1456 

Errors Excepted 

Klemeke & Tonniel 

[54] Power of attorney given by James Venton to 
John Hazzell of St. Martin to demand what is due him in 
Salem from Capt. John White or Capt. Benjamin Evis, 
and to give a true account " of my Effects shipped by me 
from St. Martin to s d Capt. White." Also to receive one 
half money due from Evis, which Richard Andrews, his 
former attorney, was to receive, also from Peter Dismount, 
the whole to be placed in the hands of John Fairweather. 
Dated St. Martins, July 21, 1744. Witnesses : George 
Batchelder, John Sluman. 

Protest. John Beadle, master of the schooner Four 
Brothers, made declaration that Sept. 27, 1744 he sailed 
from Carlisle Bay, in Barbadoes, for Salem, and on the 
evening of Sept. 14 " in Latitute 41.11 Long. 66. 26 West 
of London met an exceeding hard Gale of Wind at East 
North East & in it lost his Fore Mast & Bowsprit & flying 
Jibboom & Jibb & Spritsail & Mainstay sail & having got 
into shoal Water was obliged to Anchor about ten o'Clock 
at night & Rode 'till about seven o'Clock in the morning 
the wind encreasing he lost his small Anchor & about 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL BECOBD8. 83 

twenty Fathom of Cable & arrived in Salem Harbour the 
thirtyeth of October last." Dated Nov. 2, 1744. 

[55] Cap 1 Richard Derbys Acco u with Christopher 
Almy. Dec r 9, 1743 

D' 

To 33 Thousand Shingles at 20 82. 16 

To 27 HHds Rum at 16 432. 

To 30 HHds D at 15 450. 

To 50 Hoops 1. 

To Court Charges $ Acco" 136. 

To paid M r Wilkinson Hire of his j 

Sloop ] 
To 24 HHds Rum at 16 384. 

To 4 lb Nails . 4 



1495. 
To Cash paid you 201. 6 



1696. 6 

To Ballance due which is to be shipp d ) 

in Mollasses when falls to 8/f) Gallon \ 200. 



1896. 6 

C r . 

Dec. 19, By Cap* Stockings order on me j 595 5 

accepted ) 

By Cash 40 Pistoles 180. 
By Lumber to Cap* Roger 64. 1 

By Cash Rec d 100. 

By Cash paid Carnave 100. 

By Cash 46 Pistoles 207. 

By Cash 40 Pistoles 180. 

By Cash 20 Moydores at 7 f 140. 

By Cash in Sillver 230. 



1896. 6 



84 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

Christopher Almy's receipt for .200 with 15 Empty 
hogsheads which he promises to ship in molasses when 
falls to 8/ ^ Gall or in cotton for account of Richard 
Derby and Timothy Orne in company. 

Bill of Exchange, dated Harbour Grace, Oct. 10, 1744, 
forty days sight draft by Geo. Garland for Geo. Butler, 
executor to James Butler, deceased, to Mrs. Mary Collas 
for 5. " To Mess rs Rich d Tarr's Son Jones & Rogers 
Exec rs to Cap* Davis Estate." 

Indenture, between Robert Vicary of St. Johns, New- 
foundland, and Nathaniel Ingersoll of Salem, mariner, the 
former to be apprenticed to said Ingersoll for the term of 
three years from Sept. 14, 1744. [56] Witnesses : W. 
Keen, Richard Nixon. 

Indenture, between Andrew Slewman, a minor, son of 
Thomas Slewman of Salem, coaster, and John Scolly of 
Salem, sailmaker, the former to be apprenticed to said 
Scolly for the term of 6 years and 5 months from Mar. 15, 
1739. Witnesses : Joseph Buffum, John Higginson. 

[57] Elisabeth Helleur, wife of Thomas Landhetteren, 
and guardian of William Landhetteren puts said William 
as an apprentice to Capt. John Adams of New England, 
mariner, for the term of seven years. Witnesses : Phi : 
Robins, E. DuBre. [written in French.] 

Capt. John Adams, for ,10, assigns the said servant, 
William Landhetteren, to Joshua Ward, June 15, 1743. 
Witness : Jeremiah Lee. On Oct. 6, 1743, Joshua Ward 
for to same amount assigns the said servant to Nathaniel 
Ingersoll. 

[58] Protest. Simon Bradford, master of the sloop 
Greyhound, made declaration that on Nov. 11, he sailed 
from Philadelphia for Boston, and on the 17 th about Lat- 
itude 40, " they met with a very hard Gale of Wind about 
Northwest whereby the Vessell shipp'd severall Seas which 
fill'd the Deck & caused the Vessell to spring a Leak so 
that they kept at the Pumps from Six of the Clock in the 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 85 

morning & could not make the Pumps suck nor free her 
before twelve and that they arrived in Beverly Harbour 
the twenty third of the same month at night." Dated, 
Nov. 25, 1745. Daniel Traske, mate, and Benjamin Hil- 
ton, mariner, also made oath to the above. 

Protest. Capt. Ebenezer Ellinwood, master of the 
schooner Success, made declaration that on Oct. 12, 1745 
he sailed from Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, for Marblehead, 
and on Nov. 18, 4< they had a very hard Gale of Wind at 
West N. West, northerly in Lat : 39 : 12 : 11, [59] Longit d 
65 : 20 which obliged them to lay under a three Reiff'd 
foresail & continued four Days when a Sea broke in upon 
them, stove the Boats, broke down their Breastworks & 
Coops Shattered the Bulkhead of the Vessell whereby they 
took in so much water between Decks that it came into 
the Hold, shifted it, and Damaged their Goods. And 
after they got before it they scudded forty four Hours un- 
der their Bare Poles being constantly under Water while 
the Weather lasted. And that they arrived in Salem Har- 
bour on the Evening of the twenty seventh day of Novem- 
ber currant." Nov. 28, 1745. Andrew Stone and John 
Hilton, two of the mariners, made oath to the above. 

Bill of exchange, dated St. Eustatia, Dec. 18, 1745. 
Adoniram Collins to Samuel Gatman, <10 : 14s. Leeward 
Island currency, " at the Rate any goods shipped from 
hence to New England produces, Value Received from him 
in St. Christopher for the Use of the Brig* Volant," on 
Henry Gibbs & Co., owners of the Brigantine Volant. 
Endorsed to Capt. Benj a Comp a , owners snow Sea Horse. 
Protested at the request of Thomas Lee of Salem, mer- 
chant, on Feb. 13, 1745, Henry Gibbs of Salem, merchant, 
refusing to accept. Protested also against Adoniram Col- 
lins, the drawer of the bill. Witness : William Pynchon. 

[60] John Bond's receipt to Samuel Carrell for one 
note on Thomas Walker for 5 bushels, 1 peck of wheat ; 
one on James Thomson j r for 3 to be paid in grain at 
market price ; one on Joseph Woodward for 15s : 2d cur- 
rency ; and one on Richard Reaper for 50s. in grain at mar- 
ket price. Dated Feb. 10, 1745-6. 



86 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

As also 289 lb Sugar at 12* f lb 

282 of Pott Iron at 7 d In Grain 10. 6 d Cash 
To Desk at <7, Grain or 6, 10/ Cash 
To 1 Table 4 In Grain 3 : 10/ in Cash 
To 52 Bushells of Salt @ 5/ 

Received the above from Cap* Carrell to be sold for 
Grain or money. I say receivd ^ Jn Bond. Feb. 18, 
1745-6. 

John Bond's receipt to Capt. Samuel Carrell, list of 
debts, amounting to 127: 2s : 3d, to be collected, 10% 
to be deducted for collecting. Feb. 13, 1745-6. 

John Bond's note to Capt. Samuel Carrell for 58 : 13s. 
3d. in corn at 2s *$ bushel or in wheat at 4s. to be paid 
Apr. 30, 1740, if not demanded then, to be limited till 
Dec. 25. Datedj Feb. 13, 1745-6. Witness: James 
D unbar. 

[61] Capt. Edward Rooke, master of the sloop Rachel, 
30 tons, made declaration that on Feb. 12 they sailed 
from Manticook River, Maryland, for Salem, and on Feb. 
18, about Lat. 41, 20, " they met with a Violent Gale of 
Wind at South & by West Shipped severall Seas & made 
much Water in the Hold and the Gale continuing with a 
great Swell from the Southern Board kept the Pumps go- 
ing till four o'Clock afternoon when the water came up 
very white so that they Judged their Salt was melted. 
They then Steared northward under a double Riefed main- 
sail & arrived in Salem Harbour on Sunday the ninth of 
March instant." Walter Rench, mate, also made oath to 
the same, Mar. 10, 1745. 

Protest. Capt. Nathaniel Ingersoll, master of the sloop 
Swallow, made declaration that in February he sailed 
from Salem and on the 28 th in Lat. 16, 50, about 25 leagues 
from the Island of Antigua, "they met with a French 
Privateer Sloop mounting ten Carriage & Twenty swivell 
Guns, having on Board 150 men [62] & Commanded by 
Mons r Palanchey & that the same Sloop from about eight 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 87 

o'Clock in the morning chased them till five in the after- 
noon & that upon their coming up & firing of three Shot 
(having no possible way of Escape) they struck, where- 
upon they were taken by said Privateer Sloop & Carried 
into Martineco on the second day of March following 
where their said Vessell & Cargo were condemned as a 
Lawfull Prize." James Foster, mate, also made oath to 
the same, Apr. 16, 1746. 

Protest. Capt. John Jones, late master of the schooner 
Industry, about 50 tons, Capt. John Skinner and Samuel 
Lee, Esqrs., owners, made declaration that he sailed from 
Lisbon on Oct. 4, for Marblehead, with a cargo chiefly 
salt, and that in Lat. 42, 40, Long. 65 1/2, he 4< met with 
bad weather & very hard Gales of wind & after beating 
on some time he was blown of the Coast of New England 
& in Latitude of Antigua met with a French Privateer 
Sloop comanded by Mons r Joseph Kettell who, after chas- 
ing the Schooner about an Hour & an half & firing seven 
Carriage Guns (there being no possible way of Escape) 
took the said Schooner, carried her into Martineco where 
the said Vessell & Cargo were condemned as a Lawfull 
Prize and that the Declar 1 in Capt. Hawkins arrived in 
Marblehead Harbour the day first mentioned." [63] Sam- 
uel Ruck, one of the mariners, also made oath to same, 
June 28, 1746. 

Letter of administration upon the estate of William 
Stanclift, of Middletown, Conn., granted to James Stan- 
clift, July 1, 1746, by Joseph Buckingham, Esq r , Judge of 
Probate, Hartford Co., Conn. 

[64] Protest. Jonathan Webb, late master of the 
sloop Lynn, 66 tons, made declaration that, on May 22, 
he sailed from Salem with a load of fish for St. Eustatia 
and on June 21 in Lat. 17, 35, he was "Chased Fired at 
come up with & taken by a French Privateer Sloop of 
three Cariage & two Swivel Guns & Comanded by Mons r 
Montard who sent the Declarant and Sloop into St. Bar- 
tholomews where they left the Declarant & immediately 



88 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

proceeded with the said Sloop & Cargo to Gaudelope for 
Condemnation." Thomas Foster, one of the mariners, 
also made oath to the same, May 22, 1746. 

Protest. Henry Donaldson, master of the brigantine 
Sarah, 100 tons, made declaration that on June 29, he sailed 
from Peliment River, Maryland, loaded with tobacco, for 
London, on July 9 put into Hampton on James River, 
Virginia, for sailors and bread, and on July 31st, sailed 
with 9 hands. On Aug. 3, Lat. 36. 67 N. and 211 miles 
" to the Eastward of Cape Henry they met with hard 
Squawls of Wind at West N West with Sharp Thunder 
Lightning & Rain when they found the Vessell made ten 
Inches of Water in an Hour more than usuall which 
obliged them to put her before the Wind & set both her 
pumps at Work which much fatigu'd & discouraged them, 
whereupon at the Importunity & Threats of most of the 
people he consented the next morning to bear away for 
Boston in New England not being acquainted with any 
other Harbour on that Coast & that they were often obliged 
to bear away before the wind [65] in Order to Hoist up 
the Pumps to drive out the lower Boxes choaked with Bal- 
last & the Staples drawn out & that they were obliged to 
pump two or Three Hours before they could make it suck 
& that on the eighteenth of the same month they made 
Land about four Leagues to the Northward of Cape Anne, 
that they strove hard that Day to beat into Cape Anne 
Harbour the wind being at North N East but unable to 
Effect it they were forced to come to an anchor toward 
night within about half a mile of a Rock called Salt Rock 
the wind blowing hard with much Rain they were obliged 
to keep six hands constantly tending the Pumps & draw- 
ing the Boxes before they could free her she having for a 
good part of the Time three or four Foot Water in the 
pump Well & that on the nineteenth of the same month 
about eight o' Clock in the morning they got a man out of 
a fishing Vessell with much Difficulty to pilot them & 
were about to heave up their Anchor but fearing that the 
Vessell might cast the wrong way & fall upon the Rocks 
the Pilott by Comon Consent cut the cable and brought 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 89 

them safe into Marblehead about two o'Clock in the after- 
noon refusing to carry them to Boston the weather being 
thick & rainy." Edmund Lambert, chief mate, Henry 
McLachlane, second mate, also made oath, Aug. 20, 1746. 

Bill of exchange, dated St. John's, Newfoundland, Aug. 
6, 1746. Forty days sight draft, Robert Miller, on Joseph 
Houghland, merchant, on Cottons Wharf, London, for 
54 : 13s : to Benjamin Pickman & Co. Endorsed to 
Lane & Caswell by Benjamin Pickman and Co. 

Bill of exchange, dated St. Johns, Newfoundland, Aug. 
6, 1746. Forty days sight draft, William Dinham on 
Masters & Ballard, London [66] for <172 : 17s. : 6d, to 
Benjamin Pickman & Co. Endorsed to Lane & Caswell 
by Benjamin Pickman & Co. 

Richard Andrews' order on John Salmon of Boston in 
favor of Capt. Richard Darby for ,45. Dated, Salem, 
Sept. 12, 1746. 

Protest. Moses Sweet, master of the snow Sea Horse, 
60 tons, made declaration that on Apr. 6, he sailed with a 
cargo of sugar and molasses from St. Anne's, Jamaica, for 
Salem, with 8 men on board, and on the 28 th in Lat. 38. 36 
and Long. 67. 31 " they met with a violent Gale of wind 
from E. S E. to E. N E. which blew so hard that they lay 
by under their Foresail till five O'Clock in the Evening 
when the Gale encreasing they reifed their mainsail & Set 
them. And that in handling the Foresail they Shipp'd a 
large Sea that almost washed the men all overboard & 
shifted the Cargoe between Decks & in the Hold. That 
one or more Hogsheads of molasses between Decks was 
Stove & lost before they could be secured and what other 
Damages the Vessell & Cargo had suffered was done by 
the af ores d Stormy wind. And that they arrived in Salem 
Harbour the Day first before mentioned." [67] Philip 
Cowen, mate, and Edward Gillam, a mariner on board, 
made oath to same, May 4, 1747. 

Protest. Thomas Church, master, William Pecks, mate 



90 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

and James Cambell, sailor, of the sloop Leopard, 60 tons, 
with five men, made declaration that they sailed from 
Placentia, Newfoundland, July 7, for Philadelphia. The 
next day " the Weather came up very thick & foggy & 
Continued so till the nineteenth day of July Currant ex- 
cept only about four Days clear Weather in the whole 
Time. That during said foggy & thick Weather the said 
Sloop met with Contrary Winds & Calms & By Means 
thereof & the Currants the said Sloop was drove to the 
Northward up the Bay of Funda which was more than two 
Degrees further to the northward than they apprehended 
she could be which they found when the Weather cleared 
away on said nineteenth day of July. And further that the 
Ratts on Board said Sloop had greatly demolished the said 
Sloops Store of Candles which when said sloop sailed from 
Placentia as afores d they apprehend was sufficient to carry 
them from thence to Philadelphia. That on the Seven- 
teenth day of July Curant they found themselves quite 
out of Candles and for the want thereof and their Water 
falling short they were Necessitated to put into Marble- 
head to provide themselves with Candles & Water before 
they could further prosecute their Voyage to Philadelphia. 
Their Water on Board when they sailed from placentia be- 
ing also in their Judgment sufficient to perform their Voy- 
age to Philadelphia." July 23, 1747. 

[68] Protest. John Foster, master of the schooner 
Benjamin, 40 tons, made declaration that Sept. 9, he 
sailed from St. Christopher's, with six hands, and a cargo 
of rum and molasses, for Salem. On Sept. 12, in Lat. 23. 
57, " they met with a Violent Hurricane which lasted 
Twenty four Hours the Wind veering from West to South 
& Carried away their flying Jibboom, Square Sail Yard & 
foretopmast and that in the Storm they Shipp'd many 
great Seas one of which carried one of their Hands over 
Board & struck the Vessell so Violently that it Stove one 
of the Hogsheads of Molasses marked TXA No 2 and that 
on the Twenty third of the same month in Lat. 38. 20 they 
met with another violent Storm wherein they Shipped 
many Seas some of which carried off another of the Hands 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 91 

& another carried away their Boat, Cabbouze & one Car- 
riage Gun. And that for the safety of themselves their 
vessell & Cargo they stove one Hogshead of molasses 
marked S. P. No. 1 2 II marked IXA No 1 & two others 
II & that after the Storm they made the best of their Way 
for the port of Salem where they arrived the day tirst 
mentioned." Joseph Mascoll, jr., mate, also made oath to 
the same, Sept. 19, 1747. 

Protest. Henry Williams, master, of the sloop Anne, 
made declaration that on Sept. 9, [69] they sailed for Sa- 
lem and on the 23 d in Lat. 39. 40 & Long. 70. 10 West 
" they met with a violent Storm which lasted about eight 
Hours (the Wind at S S West) & very great Seas 
which obliged them to Scudd under their Reif 'd Foresail. 
That the Gale encreased so as to split their Foresail and 
that then they were forced to scudd under their bare poles. 
That the Vessell made bad Weather so that they shipp'd 
a Sea which carried overboard two of their men their Boat 
& Carpouse, Stove in one Side of their upper Works 
broke their Boom & Struck the Vessell in so violent a 
manner that the Pumps were Started almost out of the 
Holds. That the Violence of the Storm Shifted their 
Hold & Stove about twenty Hogsheads of Molasses and 
finding that they had four Feet of Water in the Hold & 
the Vessell lying under Water they were obliged to cut 
away their mainmast with all their Rigging & Sails upon 
which she righted & after the Storm abated they made the 
best of their Way for Salem. And that they arrived in 
Salem Harbour the thirtieth of said September toward 
Night." Oct. 3, 1747. 

Protest. Gaven Drayton, master, and John Cawl, mate 
of, the schooner Mary, 45 tons, made declaration that 
on Oct. 20, they sailed with 2 hands besides themselves, 
from Boston for Louisburg, loaded with cider, roots, 
pitch and tar, oysters, bundles of hay on deck, with a 
quantity of freight in hogsheads, cases and bundles, and in 
Lat. about 42, on the 24 th " they met with a Violent hard 
Gale of Wind veering from E N East to North which 
lasted about 50 Hours & that on the 27 th of the same 



92 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL BECOKDS. 

month they met with another hard Gale of Wind Veering 
from E S E. to North & lasted about 45 Hours, and that 
on the first of November Currant they met with another 
Violent Gale of Wind at North which lasted about 50 
Hours & that in each of- the Gales aforesaid they were 
obliged to lay to under a three Reif d Foresail and that in 
the last Storm of Wind they were obliged to throw four 
Bundles of Hay overboard. That the Clasp of the Goose 
Neck broke. The Violence of the Wind Split the Fore- 
sail That the Schooner sprung a Leak in the Counter 
about eight in the Evening following. That the Deck was 
kept constantly full of water. That they drove before the 
last Gale with the Head to E N E. 24 Hours & to the 
Norwest 26 Hours till they came to Lat. 41. 59 Cape Cod 
then bearing W. N West from them. That the Schooner 
proved very Leaky [70] so that they were obliged to put 
away for the nearest Harbour & that they arrived in Mar- 
blehead the fourth of November Currant about Three of 
the Clock afternoon." Nov. 5, 1747. 

Deposition of John Matchet, Philip Babson, Samuel Al- 
len and Samuel Morgaridge, dated Montserat, Dec. 23, 
1746, that they knew " the Sloop La Fortune brought into 
this Island by his majestys Snow man of Warr called the 
Saxon, & that said Sloop was called the Williard Com- 
manded by Jacob Parsons, that it was built in Cape Anne 
& that one William Parsons a merchant in Cape Anne 
was Sole Owner of said Sloop & that the said William 
Parsons sent her from Cape Anne to the Island of Barba- 
does with a Cargo and that said Sloop was taken in her 
Voyage to Barbadoes aforesaid as the said Jacob Parsons 
told these deponants." Sworn before John Bastone, Dec. 
23, 1746. 

Protest. Thomas Desmere, master of the schooner 
Joseph, 45 tons, made declaration that on Oct. 7, he 
sailed from Barbadoes, with four hands, with a cargo of 
rum and sugar for Marblehead, and on the 19 th in Lat. 
35 1-3 N & Long. 61 1-2 they "met with Stormy 
Weather & very hard Gales of Wind at Norwest which 
lasted four Days. And they were obliged the whole Time 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 93 

to Lay to under a three Reef 'd Foresail. That there was 
very great Seas & that they Shipp'd many of them which 
wreck'd the Schooner so that she proved very leaky. And 
that after the Storm they made the Best of their Way for 
Marblehead. And that they arrived into Marblehead 
Harbour on the fifth of November Currant." Nov. 6, 
1T47. 

[71] Note, Jan. 22, 1742, Bartholomew Browne to 
John Cann of Salem, tailor, for ^5. Witness: Keziah 
Magery. 

Deposition of John Phippen and Richard Downing of 
Salem, that on Oct. 11, 1739 they were present at the wed- 
ding of Nathaniel Pike and Mrs. Abigail Phippen both of 
Salem, Rev. John Sparhawk performing the ceremony, and 
that " the said Nathaniel Pike and his said wife lived to- 
gether as Husband & wife for the space of Five years & 
upwards and within that Time had three Children And 
that afterwards the said Nathaniel Pike received an En- 
signs Commission in the Expedition against Cape Breton 
where he went in that Capacity in the Regiment under the 
Command of Col Choate, and there died in October 1745." 
Sworn before Benjamin Browne and Ichabod Plaisted, 
Justices of the Peace, June 24, 1748. 

Protest. Andrew Tucker, master of the schooner En- 
deavour, 80 tons, made declaration that he sailed from 
Port Royal in Jamaica, Aug. 23, " and endeavoured to 
beat thro' the Passage (commonly call'd y e Windward 
Passage) till the 10 th of September but meeting with hard 
Gales of Wind & a Lee Currant fell to Leward of the 
Port Royall he came from And judgeing he could not 
beat thro' said Passage he bore up & came through the 
Gulf. And further sayeth that on the 8 th Day of Octo- 
ber instant he met a violent Gale of Wind from the E. S. 
E. to the SW. in the Lati de 32 & 7 Long de 76 & 49. In 
the Stress of the Storm carryed away his Bowsprit about 
6 in the morning split the Jibb to pieces & lost considera- 
ble of the Rigging started one or both Horse Pieces & 
open'd the Wood Ends at the Stem And about ten at 



94 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

Night split the Foresail & handed it & about 11 at Night 
shifted the after Hold by which he supposes to have lost 
considerable of the Cargoe of Molasses by Reason they 
pumpt Molasses Mixt with Water from that time till ab 
nine of the Clock next Day before the Pump suckt And 
some time between the Hole's shifting & Sun rise next 
Day the Sea washt the small Anchor from the Bow the 
tenth day we mended the Foresail eleaventh day ab 7 
morning got out that Part of the Bowsprit was left & cut 
it of made a Bumkin & fixt it patent up a Jibb & set it y e 
13 day & made what Sail we could & arrived in Salem 
Harbour the twenty ninth day of October instant after- 
noon." 

[73] Oct. 13, 1749. Thomas Adden, mate, and Fran- 
cis Low, cooper, made oath to the same, Nov. 2, 1749, be- 
fore Benj a Browne, Justice of the Peace. 

Protest. James Peirce, master of the schooner Tryall, 
60 tons, made declaration that on Sept. 19, " we came to 
sail with the wind at S. W. and on the twentieth of Sep- 
tember we were within four or five mile of Sheepscot 
River and then the Wind took us at N. & by East & blew 
so hard that we could not carry any Sail but was oblig'd to 
lay too under a double ref'd Foresail for forty eight Hours 
And then the Weather clearing up we stood in for the 
Land the Wind to the Westward and we stood in N West 
and the first Harbour we could make was Mentinnecus we 
got into the Harbour the 22 d Day of the month and rid 
by our small Anchor the Wind at N. E. the 24 th Day very 
hard Wind bad Weather & a large Sea we let go our 
Sheat Anchor and on the 26 th in the morning she parted 
both Cables & drove on Shore upon the Rocks the Wind 
held to the Eastward. We hyred fifteen Fishermen to as- 
sist us in Sweepping for our Anchors which we purchased 
& then hall'd the Vessel in to the Harbour the 30 th of 
September we warpt out by the Help of the Fishermen 
that we hyred & came to Sail about Eight aClock in the 
morning stood to the Westward & about Nine in the 
Evening came to Anchor in Sheepscoat River." Oct. 30, 
1749. 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 95 

Power of attorney given by Thomas Loring jr. of 
Hingham, Suffolk Co., trader, to Samuel Thaxter of 
Hingham, gentleman [74], Dec. 21, 1749. Acknowledged 
before Benj a Lincoln, Justice of the Peace, Dec. 21, 1749. 
Witnesses : Benj a Lincoln, Isaac Smith. 

Samuel Stacey of Marblehead, gentleman, receipt to 
William Luscomb and John Turner, both of Salem, 
joyners, for X850, "old Tennor Bills of Creditt, " dated 
Sept. 23, 1749. Witness : John Chipman. 

Note for XI 8, dated Haverhill, Oct. 28, 1749, Joseph 
Tyler to John Crowninshield. 

[75] Bond. Joseph Pierpont of Halifax, Nova Scotia, 
merchant, principal, and Benjamin Ives of Halifax, Esq., 
surety, to James Foster of Salem, mariner, for <230, dated 
July 7, 1750. Payment to be made three months from 
date. Witnesses: John Byrne, Thomas Warden. 

James Foster of Salem, gives power of attorney to Capt. 
Richard Darby of Salem, merchant, to collect from Joseph 
Pierpont and Benjamin Ives, 115. Dated Nov. 2, 1750. 
Witnesses : James Grant, Samuel Daland. 

Bill of exchange, dated Barbados, Oct. 6, 1749. Fif- 
teen days sight draft by Edward Ling on Capt. Joseph 
White to Nehemiah Ordway & Co. of Amesbury, owners 
of the schooner Sarah Salsbury, for 120, " for value 
received of Capt. Winthrop." Witnesses: Jonathan 
Bayly, Jonathan Barnard, Samuel Went. Protested at 
Salem, Nov. 3, 1750, by Reuben Morrill, one of the com- 
pany mentioned. 

[76] Protest. David Fry, master of the sloop Jubi- 
lee, David Matterson, mate, Paul Roads, pilot, and John 
Rouse, Jr., Charles Bennet, James Goshot, made declara- 
tion that on the 11 th Oct. last they Set Sail from N. York 
in said Sloop bound for Chinecto in Nova Scotia with a 
Pilot on board that on y e 21st of y e same month at 7 a. m. 



96 ESSEX COUNTY NOTABIAL BECOBDS. 

made land (being in Latitude 43. 56 & Long. 64. 49 by 
account) that bore about N. E. at 4 Leagues distance 
that upon Enquiry the Pilot told us it was Mantinicas 
then the Wind being S.S. E. the Weather being Cloudy & 
like to be stormy and the Pilot telling of us there was a 
good Harbour which he was well acquainted with we 
stood in for the Land with a small Breeze till twelve a 
Clock then not liking the Look of the Land put about & 
Stood to the South West Wind S. S. E. a fresh Breeze, at 
two y e Southermost Land bore East about three Leagues 
distance at Six the Wind abated began to Rain and at 
eight had Rain and almost Calm at nine Wind N. and by 
E. small Breeze Steerd S E and by E at y e Rate of two 
nott & half & att one y e Wind began to blow hard & half 
an hour after blew very hard & we were obliged to hand 
y n Jibb & Lay too under ballanced Mainsail the Wind 
increas'd & Ver'd to N. N. W. & Continued very thick & 
Rain'd till Eight A. M. & at nine Snow'd very hard the 
Sea was all of a Breach & the Wether very thick about 
ten y e Cal'd out we were just on Shore when we went 
forward & saw a Ledge of Rocks just ahead we hailed 
down our Mainsail hoisted y e Foresail & put the Helm 
hard a Weather & in Wearing the Sea Struck us upon 
the Weather Quarter, fill'd our Decks & broach'd her too 
& the Wind Split our Foresail in Pieces & drove our 
Stern upon the Ledge of Rocks about two miles & half 
from the Island & beat of her Ruther & Keel & finding 
the Vessel a sinking we were oblig'd to take ourselves to 
our Boat & to get to the Shore in order to save ourselves 
where through much Difficulty we Arriv'd the Sloop was 
afterwards drivin toward the Island & was there Stove in 
Pieces against the Rocks what of the money was on board 
we Endeavour'd to Save & believe there is upwards of 
Four Thousand Dollars we tarried on y e Scale Island 
Seventeen Days & y e Eighteenth three Schooners belong- 
ing to Manchester came & took us of & brought us to 
Manchester on Sunday the Eleventh Instant." Nov. 13, 
1750. 

(To be continued.) 




BRIGADIER-GENERAL FRANCIS S. DODGE, 
Paymaster-General in the United States Army. 



HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 

OF THE 

ESSEX INSTITUTE 

VOL. XLVI. APRIL, 1910 No. 2 

FRANCIS SAFFORD DODGE, 

BRIGADIER GENERAL IN THE UNITED 
STATES ARMY. 



BY MRS. MARY HUNT (WESTON) DODGE. 



General Francis Safford Dodge was the eldest child of 
Francis and Rebecca (Brown) Dodge, and was born on 
Sept. 11, 1842, at the farm on Hathorne Hill in Danvers, 
Mass., to which his father had brought his young bride in No- 
vember of the preceding year. His paternal grandparents 
were Eben and Joanna Dodge of Salem, and he also was 
descended from Col. Robert Dodge of Hamilton, who 
mustered his company upon hearing of the battle of 
Bunker Hill, and reached Charlestown in two hours, it is 
said. His farm is now the property of the Myopia Hunt 
Club, and of its patriotic owner, Gail Hamilton has writ- 
ten at length. General Dodge's maternal grandparents 
were Joseph and Rebecca (Appleton) Brown of Ipswich. 

Hathorne hill in Danvers was part of a grant of land 
made by the town of Salem to William Hathorne, 
who built a house there before 1647. After 
successive ownerships, the hill came into the possession of 
Francis Dodge in 1856, and in 1874 was sold by him to 
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as a site for the 
Danvers Insane Hospital. The house in which General 
Dodge was born was in an excellent state of preservation 
at the time of its removal in 1875 and is still standing but 

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98 FBANCIS SAFFORD DODGE, 

divided into three smaller houses now situated about a 
mile from the hill. The door knocker which formerly 
belonged to the old house has been placed on the door of 
the Nurse's Home, which occupies very nearly the original 
site. 

Francis S. Dodge graduated from the Holten High 
School in Danvers in 1860, and then attended the Acade- 
my at Henniker, N. H. On returning home for the sum- 
mer vacation in 1861 he would have enlisted in the army 
at once save for the opposition of his family on account of 
of his youth. Having passed his nineteenth birthday, on 
Oct. 9th, 1861 he was enrolled as a private in Co. F. 
23 rd Regiment, Mass. Vol. Infantry. This company was 
largely recruited from the Union Drill Club of Salem, 
and had for its sponsors many of the representative men of 
that city. On Oct. 7, 1861, Gov. John A. Andrew com- 
missioned the officers of the company as follows: George 
M. Whipple, Captain ; Charles H. Bates, 1st Lieutenant, 
and George R. Emmerton, 2d Lieutenant. The company 
went into camp on Oct. 18th at Lynnfield, where it 
joined the rest of the 23rd Regiment of Infantry, whose 
commanding officers were John Kurtz, Colonel ; Henry 
Merritt, Lt.-Colonel (who was killed in action very early), 
-and Andrew Elwell, Major. On Nov. llth the regiment 
left for Annapolis, Maryland, embarking shortly after, 
under sealed orders, for what proved to be the Burnside 
expedition to North Carolina. In some reminiscences 
written forty-three years later, this fleet is recalled as of a 
most nondescript makeup and none too sea-worthy, but 
after being buffeted by storm and tempest, it eventually 
succeeded in conveying the troops to their destination. 

On the 8th of February, 1862, an advance by land be- 
gan, the first engagement being that of Roanoke Island, 
followed by the capture of Newbern, Morehead City, 
Beaufort, Fort Macon, and all the eastern coast of North 
Carolina, except Wilmington. Major Whipple writes as 
follows of the baptism of fire for this young volunteer : 
" At the battle of Newbern, N. C., for the time being, I 
was within a few feet of Dodge. A shot of some kind 
struck his musket, breaking it quite in two. The barrel 



BY MRS. MARY HUNT (WESTON) DODGE. 99 

fell to the ground, and the impact was so severe that 
Dodge thought he was shot. I thought so as well. He 
was for the time stunned, and turned to me, hardly know- 
ing what he was doing, and handed me the broken breech 
of his rifle. I threw it on the ground, and said, ' If you 
are wounded, go to the rear.' He did so, but in a few 
minutes brave fellow that he was returned to his place, 
saying that he was not hurt." The wound was found to 
be but a slight abrasion of the skin. 

The battles of Kingston, Whitehall, and the raid at 
Goldsboro, N. C., followed during the year 1862; the regi- 
ment remaining in North Carolina and Virginia during 
1863. On Dec. 23, 1863, Francis S. Dodge was pro- 
moted to 2d Lieutenant of the 2nd U. S. Colored Cavalry, 
taking part with his regiment in the summer of 1864 in 
the battle of Drury's Bluff and several skirmishes near 
by, and in the trenches before Petersburg. He was de- 
tailed on the staff of Brig. Gen'l C. J. Paine, as acting 
ordnance officer, retaining this position until the cessa- 
tion of hostilities. He was engaged in the battle of New- 
market, Fort Harrison, and Fair Oaks, Virginia, both of 
the Fort Fisher expeditions, and in all the fights and skir- 
mishes in which the Division was engaged during the 
march to Raleigh, North Carolina. It is to be regretted 
that a record of a brave act at Fort Fisher in connection 
with the explosion of a powder magazine cannot be given. 
A friend and eye-witness, Captain Hughes of England, 
who related the daring deed, is dead, and no accurate ac- 
count, either private or official, is known. 

Lieutenant Dodge was promoted to Captain of the 2nd 
U. S. Cavalry on July 6th, 1865, and served with his reg- 
iment in Texas during the summer, but was compelled to 
go to the hospital at New Orleans in the fall of that year. 
He was then placed on duty in the Freedmen's Bureau at 
Assumption Parish, Louisiana, serving through December 
until mustered out of the volunteer service, Feb. 12th, 
1866. 

Four years' service in the Civil War evidently had not 
impaired his taste for military life, and in July, 1866, 
after a few months spent at his Massachusetts home, he 



100 FRANCIS SAFFORD DODGE, 

received the appointment of 1st Lieutenant in the regular 
army. The following tetter, written by General Paine, 
proves that at this early age he showed some of the sol- 
dierly qualities that were conspicuous in later years. 

" Francis S. Dodge, late Captain 2nd U. S. Cavalry, 
served on my staff as Division Ordnance Officer in the 
Army of the James in 1864, and through the North Caro- 
lina campaign. He was a very valuable officer, unremit- 
ting and efficient in his attention to his proper duties, and 
courageous, ready and zealous to perform any work useful 
to the service. He well deserves the reward of a commis- 
sion in the Regular Army. He entered the service as an 
enlisted man in the 23d Mass. Volunteer Infantry in '61, 
and served continuously and always with credit until hon- 
orably discharged in 1866. 

CHARLES J. PAINE, 

Late Bvt. Maj.-Gen'l Vols." 

Joining the 9th U. S. Cavalry at New Orleans, in Feb- 
ruary, 1867, Captain Dodge was assigned to Company D. 
The following April he went to Fort Hudson, and July 31, 
1867 when twenty-four years of age, he became Captain of 
Co. D, 9th Cavalry, taking station at Fort Stockton in 
April, 1868. Here he remained until the fall of 1873, be- 
ing in command of the post a part of that period. Gen. Fran- 
cis Moore, U. S. A. whose friendship dated from their ap- 
pointments as young Lieutenants, has lately furnished an ac- 
count of life at Fort Stockton, in its frontier days. He 
says : " Situated on a high barren mesa three or four thou- 
sand feet above the sea level it is about half way between San 
Antonio and El Paso. Freighters and the few settlers of 
that period needed protection from the marauding bands 
of Indians that infested the mountains. In this dry, pure 
atmosphere with rain falling sometimes only once a year, 
there was very little vegetation, a company garden four 
miles away furnishing a few vegetables for the troops." On 
one occasion when Captains Moore and Dodge went to the 
mountains south of Fort Stockton with their troops, to get 
some timber for a company building they discovered twin 
mountain peaks heretofore unnamed. They received the 



Br MRS. MARY HCTNT (WESTON) DODGE. 101 

name and are probably still known as " Dos Panchos" 
the two Franks. Five years were spent at this remote 
post with two or three leaves of absence to break the mo- 
notony. Dependant upon each other for social diversions, 
officers and their families formed life-long friendships in 
the close companionship of a frontier post. Life at this 
high altitude proved very beneficial for a pulmonary 
trouble with which Captain Dodge was threatened during 
his early manhood. 

During the next few years he was stationed at Fort Mc- 
Kavett, Fort Concho and Fort Clark, Texas; Fort Sill, 
Indian Territory ; and Fort Union, New Mexico, from which 
posts there were frequent campaigns against the Indians. 
The temptation to explore valuable mining land on the In- 
dian reservations was too great for the white man to resist, 
and the Indian's fondness for game lured him into forbid- 
den fields in the white man's domain hence arose dis- 
putes and often serious disturbances which nothing but 
the firm hand of the Government, in the shape of troops, 
could quell. The law was made for the white man, how- 
ever, and in the adjustment of difficulties, Government 
pledges were broken, and poor " Lo" often failed to get 
fair play. There were two courses open, the extermina- 
tion or civilization of the Indian and at this time there 
seemed to be a leaning towards the former course. 

Captain Dodge was at Fort Wallace (named for Gen. 
Lew Wallace), Kansas, in 1876 and a part of 1877. Re- 
turning to his post at Fort Union, New Mexico, a distance 
of 300 miles, in the summer of 1877 he wrote : " The 
weather pleasant, the trail good, plenty of water and grass 
for the troop horses. What more could a cavalry man 
wish ?" In the autumn his troop was ordered on a scout 
in the Nimbus mountains and serious trouble occurring 
about this time on the Rio Grande border, about some salt 
mines, Captain Dodge left Ojo Caliente with two com- 
panies for Fort Bliss, and Socorro. 

In the spring of 1878 Captain Dodge was in camp on 
the La Plata river, in south western Colorado. His com- 
pany was then ordered to camp on the Las Animas river, 
Colorado, where it remained during the ensuing summer 



102 FRANCIS SAPFOBD DODGE, 

in the usual scouting duties of that period ; thence, in 
September, to Pagosa Springs, where he commanded the 
cantonment at that place until the following July. Cap- 
tain Dodge's marriage to Miss Mary Hunt, daughter of 
William Low and Louise (Page) Weston took place in 
Danvers, Mass., Dec. 3rd, 1878. 

He was ordered to the Ute country in Northwestern 
Colorado in July, 1879, his instructions from the com- 
manding officer of the District of New Mexico being to 
scout in the Middle Park and towards the Ute reservation 
" with a view to prevent any collision between the settlers 
and Indians." These Indians were the White River Utes. 
Leaving Fort Garland about the middle of July his route 
took him through Saguache, Fair Play and Breckinridge, 
and he arrived at his supply camp at the crossing of Grand 
River, near the mouth of Troublesome Creek, early in 
August. After spending nearly two months in scouting 
and listening to reports on the situation from both Indians 
and white men, he returned to his supply camp towards 
the last of September. Here he found an order 
directing him to " return with the least possible 
delay to the White River Agency and break up any unlaw- 
ful trading establishments found in the vicinity, as well as 
to cause the return of the Indians who were off their 
reservation." 

Captain Dodge's account taken from a private letter is 
as follows : 

"I left camp on the morning of the 1st of October, 
about half past six, and had marched about ten or twelve 
miles when I found, sticking up in a piece of sage brush 
in the road a slip of paper containing the following : " To 

Capt. commanding Co. . Hurry up, the troops 

have been defeated at the Agency. E. C. C." Re-inf ore- 
ing the guard with the train and ordering them to close up 
as fast as possible I pushed forward to Hayden, on Bear 
River, which I found deserted. While waiting here for 
the train to close up, one of the couriers, John Gordon, 
sent out from the intrenched command, came in accom- 
panied by several citizens and from them I learned the 



BY MRS. MARY HUNT (WESTON) DODGE. 103 

exact situation. Major Thornberg's command, consisting 
of two companies of the 5th Cavalry and one of the 3rd, 
had been defeated by the Indians who were reported to 
number at least 300. Thornberg had been killed, Captain 
Payne and Lieutenant Paddock wounded, ten soldiers and 
teamsters killed and about thirty others wounded. The 
command had been driven back on the wagon train when 
they had made the best defense possible and were still in- 
trenched surrounded by Indians, and the situation was ex- 
tremely desperate. To attempt any relief of the beleag- 
uered camp during day-light would be rash and foolhardy 
as the Indians were known to outnumber the troop six to 
one, and it seemed impossible to approach the camp with- 
out being discovered. A forced march during the night and 
an attempt to reach the distressed command before day- 
light was therefore the only alternative. Even in this we 
would probably fail if our intention were discovered by the 
Indians. 

" My train having closed up, I pushed forward again 
down Bear River, until 4.30 in the afternoon, when I went 
into camp, making all necessary disposition for a night's 
rest. I did this in order to deceive any Indian spies who 
might be watching me. At 8.30 I was again on the march, 
having filled the haversacks with rations and issued extra 
ammunition. The train, with a small guard, was ordered 
to make the best time possible to Captain Price's supply 
camp, a part of Thornberg's command on Fortification 
Creek, and with one officer, Lieutenant Hughes, four citi- 
zens, and thirty-five soldiers, I started south to aid the 
poor fellows in the trenches. I realized that it was a des- 
perate undertaking, but had no choice left me unless I 
acted in a cowardly manner. I was fortunate in having a 
good guide, and leaving the road we took a trail through 
the mountains. 

" Fortune favored us. The night was cool, with a full 
moon, and a slight shower just at dusk had laid the dust 
and made the marching as pleasant as possible under the 
circumstances. Not a sign of the Indians was discovered 
until we came within four miles of the battlefield, when 
we ran upon the dead bodies of three men lying in the 



104 FRANCIS S AFFORD DODGE, 

road a most ghastly sight. These poor fellows were on 
the way to the Agency with annuity goods, etc., and had 
gone into camp. Their wagons were burned, and they had 
been murdered without provocation. Just at day-light 
we neared the intrenchments and succeeded in getting in 
without trouble. The Indians seemed to be entirely taken 
by surprise, not knowing what to expect next ; but this 
suspense was of short duration, and they commenced 
pouring in showers of lead, which speedily drove us to 
whatever cover was at hand. Unfortunately we could not 
protect our horses, and of forty-two animals which I took 
in only four were left, all of which were wounded. 

" The command was corralled on a small plateau on the 
right bank of Milk Creek and about one hundred yards from 
it, while some five hundred yards farther back a mountain 
afforded the Indians ample protection without being ex- 
posed themselves. On the south side the mountains were 
higher and more rugged, still within easy range of their 
rifles. At night we procured a supply of water for the 
next twenty-four hours, hauled out the dead animals and 
strengthened the position. A few Indians would occa- 
sionally crawl up the creek bottom, apparently within a 
hundred yards of us, and open fire. Only one man was 
wounded in going for water, although the party sent out 
for the purpose was frequently fired upon. Our food was 
hard tack and raw bacon. The nights were cool, but fires 
would have been unsafe, even could they have been had. 
Every one was cheerful, joked, laughed, and made the best 
of the bad situation. We had forty-two wounded, of 
whom many preferred remaining in the pits to going under 
medical treatment. General Merritt's command of the 5th 
Cavalry, after a forced march from Rawlins, came in on 
the morning of the 5th, relieving us from our awkward 
situation. The attack on Major Thorn berg was cowardly 
in the extreme, and more treacherous than cowardly. The 
Indians had made friendly visits to his camp, learned his 
intentions, and then attacked him without warning." 

General Merritt went on to the agency with his troops, 
arriving on Oct. llth, and found a scene of desolation. 
After the death of Major Thornberg, Captain Payne of 




BIRTHPLACE OF BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANCIS SAFFORD DODGE 
Hathorne Hill, Danvers, Mass. 




PARLOR IN THE BIRTHPLACE OF BRIGADIER GENERAL DODGE 
Hathorne Hill, Danvers, Mass. 



BY MRS. MARY HUNT (WESTON) DODGE. 105 

the 5th Cavalry succeeded to the command, until Captain 
Dodge's arrival in the intrenchments. On the 10th of 
October he was ordered by General Merritt to take the 
remnant of Captain Payne's command, with his own, to- 
gether with the wounded, back to Rawlins, Wyoming, 
where he arrived on the 19th of October, and received a 
hearty welcome from Colonel Brackett of the 3rd Cavalry. 
A round of applause was started for both the colored sol- 
diers of Captain Dodge's company and the white ones of 
Captain Payne's. After a rest of two days, he was on his 
way back to his original station, Fort Union, New Mexico. 

In a general order issued by the Department Commander 
of Missouri, relating to this affair, he said : " With true 
soldierly devotion and by the exercise of great skill and 
prudence, he marched at once through a region swarming 
with hostile Indians, and succeeded in joining and so far 
succoring the threatened troops, having suffered in so do- 
ing the loss of all his horses. The report in which this 
result is announced is written with the severest brevity, 
and shows that Captain Dodge, in addition to his other 
qualities, possesses that perfect modesty which should 
always characterize the true soldier." 

The following letter of congratulation from General 
Crook was very much prized by Captain Dodge : 

" Rawlins, Wyoming Territory, 

October 8th, 1879. . 
Capt. Francis S. Dodge, 9th Regt. Cavalry : 

Your recent gallant, rapid and successful march and 
charge to the relief of Capt. Payne and his command, 
surrounded by a largely superior force on Milk River, 
Colorado, affords me an opportunity which I seize with 
pleasure to tender to you and your command my hearty 
congratulations and thanks. This daring march, in the 
face of imminent danger, to the relief of your comrades 
in arms, whose condition was critical, if not desperate, has 
made for yourself and your company a record of which 
every brave soldier may well be proud. 

Very sincerely your friend, 

GEORGE CROOK, Brig. Gen'l. 



106 FBANCIS SAFFOKD DODGE, 

Captain Dodge was bre vetted, received a vote of thanks 
from the Wyoming legislature for his assistance, and also 
received a medal of honor from Congress some years 
later. He remained at Fort Union a few weeks while 
waiting for horses to remount his company, and then pro- 
ceeded to Fort Bayard for field duty again. The Depart- 
ment Commander of Missouri made a most complimentary 
endorsement of Captain Dodge's official report of his 
movements between Sept. 25th and Oct. 19th, when it was 
forwarded to Washington to the General of the Army. 
A recommendation was added that some recognition of his 
bravery be taken by the government, but it was not until 
Captain Dodge reached Fort Bayard, N . M., on Dec. 23d, 
that he was officially notified of his reward a promotion 
to Major in the Pay Department. The telegram announc- 
ing it was as follows : 

" Washington, Dec. 20th, 1879. 
To Capt. F. S. Dodge, 9th Cavalry: 

The President wishes to make you a Christmas present 
in the form of an appointment of Paymaster. The vacancy 
does not occur until Jan. 1st, 1880. It will therefore be 
a New Year's gift. Please acknowledge receipt. 

E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General." 

His appointment as major and paymaster having been 
unanimously confirmed by Congress, after transferring 
his company property at Fort Union, he was ordered to 
Washington. A public reception was planned for him by 
some of the citizens of Danvers during a short visit at 
his old home, but although a survivor of four years ser- 
vice in the Civil War and the more recent Indian cam- 
paigns, he quailed at the prospect of appearing before a 
public audience bent on honoring him as a hero, and the 
reception was given up. His first station as a paymaster 
was in San Antonio, Texas, which he reached in May 
1880. His experience as a cavalry officer did not come 
amiss in the early pay trips to the isolated posts of west- 
ern Texas. Railroads had not yet penetrated the magni- 
ficent distances much beyond San Antonio, consequently 



BY MRS. MARY HUNT (WESTON) DODGE. 107 

his trips had to be made in the accustomed manner of 
those days, the paymaster, with his clerk and safe, riding 
in a Dougherty ambulance drawn by four mules. The 
escort wagon, with a sergeant, corporal, ten men, and the 
baggage, followed in the rear. All, including the ambu- 
lance driver an important member of " the outfit " being 
well armed for an attack by highwaymen, or Indians was 
always a possibility. Major Dodge's clerk was his brother, 
Mr. Eben Dodge, whose faithful services covered a period 
of about twenty-five years. He died in Boston on Dec. 
17th, 1907. Holly, a faithful colored man, who had 
shared the hardships of Indian campaigns with Major 
Dodge, was also a member of " the outfit," riding with 
the ambulance driver. Muddy roads, so impeded their 
progress that sometimes only a few miles an hour could 
be made, the entire trip often consuming three months. 
Treacherous mountain streams also had to be reckoned 
with. Returning from the Guadaloupe mountains in 1880 
they were upset in Limpia Creek, where the water had 
suddenly risen four feet, with a very swift current. The 
men escaped with a wetting, but their guns, blankets and 
trunks were soaked, though not materially damaged. 

In 1886, after six years duty in Texas, Major Dodge 
was ordered to New York City where he remained four 
years. A four months leave spent in Europe, was fol- 
lowed by a station in Walla Walla, Washington, for four 
years. After a short stay at Leavenworth, Kansas, he 
was detailed in January, 1896, as chief paymaster of the 
Department of Texas, where he remained until the break- 
ing out of the Spanish War in 1898. He was then trans- 
ferred to Atlanta, Georgia, as chief paymaster of the 
Department of the Gulf. He served in this department 
until ordered to Santiago, Cuba, and thence to Porto Rico 
in July 1898. Sailing from New York on the Break- 
water, he left Fortress Munroe on the 7th of Aug., 1898, 
with 18 safes containing a million dollars stowed away in 
two state rooms. Arriving in the harbor of Santiago, 
they met a ship load of troops, the 71st New York, going 
out, bound for Montauk Point, the order for the pay- 
ment of the troops having been issued before the some- 



108 FRANCIS SAFFORD DODGE, 

what abrupt termination of hostilities. Later it was 
learned that 13,000 troops had already been sent North 
without their pay which made it necessary for the pay- 
masters to follow them up. 

The confusion and mismanagement which characterized 
the scenes on shore during the earlier stages of the war 
extended to the orders for paying the troops. An order 
to return to New York would be received only to be 
countermanded, and followed by another to proceed to 
Porto Rico in turn to be countermanded. Major Dodge 
was still on shipboard, floating in the filth of Santiago 
harbor on the 23d when yellow fever made its appearance. 
The apprehension he felt about being stricken with the 
disease seemed to be not for himself so much as for the 
safety of the money if he should be taken ill. The vol- 
unteer paymasters were most excellent men, but lacke d 
experience in the responsibility for receipting so large a 
sum of money. An order for the paymasters to be trans- 
ferred from the Breakwater to the steamer Orizaba had 
been received and finally after a long exasperating delay 
in this fever-infected locality, an order, issued by command 
of the President, released them. Writing on board the 
steamer Orizaba, which sailed on the 26th of August for 
New York, Major Dodge wrote : " It seems to me that 
when the fever attacks a man lightly at first, it is apt to 
end seriously." A prophetic remark in view of his own 
case, about a year later, in Havana. "The cruiser Panther 
came in and anchored along beside us the night before we 
left. She stirred up the mud and water with her screw, 
and the stench was almost unbearable. I could just taste 
it all night. I generally felt pretty well, but for a couple 
of days I thought I was really going to be ill. Had a 
headache and was feverish. I knew it would not do to 
give up so took some quinine and said very little about 
it. I felt better as soon as we got out to sea." The ship 
Orizaba, on which they came north, had been lying at an- 
chor for about 37 days with steam up, until she had 
burnt up all her coal. When it was finally decided to use 
her, there was no coal aboard, and time was lost in re- 
coaling. " The bottom of the ship was so foul that in- 



BY MRS. MARY HUNT (WBSTON) DODGE. 109 

stead of making 12 or 14 knots an hour she only made 7 
or 8." This protracted sea voyage would have been most 
beneficial to all on board had the food been palatable, but 
the ship having been four months away from New York, 
the meat was tainted and other food unfit to eat. " The 
rolling of the ship stirred up the drinking water so that 
it was simply liquified mud and not fit to drink. Last 
Sunday was a pretty stormy day, enough to make the 
officers of the ship anxious. The ship is light, her screw 
away out of the water and she rolls worse than the New 
York, which you may remember. Two or three of us 
came near having serious accidents. I got thrown across 
the saloon striking my leg against one of the benches and 

came near breaking it. Major turned a somersault 

over two other paymasters, and got up with a badly braised 
shoulder, and there were minor accidents. We have 
been on this trip since the 17th of July, having travelled 
over 5000 miles and thus far have done nothing . 
I have not had a single letter since I left New York. We 
don't hear what the terms of peace are." 

The camp at Montauk Point, which was reached on 
Sept. 4th, seemed healthy compared to Santiago harbor, 
but there was much sickness, discomfort and confusion. 
Here the delayed payments were being made under Col. 
Sniffen. From October to December, Major Dodge re- 
mained in New York, slowly regaining his health which 
had become affected by his summer's experience. He was 
then detailed as chief paymaster, Department of Colora- 
do, for a few months. 

The paymaster who was ordered to pay the three mil- 
lion dollars allotted by our government to the Cuban army 
having been taken ill, Major Dodge was detailed in his 
place, reaching Havana harbor early in May, 1899. The 
money was on the transport Burnsidein Havana harbor, 
when Major Dodge took charge. The names of 39,000 
Cuban soldiers were on the pay rolls, and as about nine- 
tenths of them could not write their own names, some 
trouble was anticipated in its distribution. The amount 
decided upon was $75.00 per man. An important condi- 
tion imposed by the United States was that the soldiers 



110 FRANCIS SAFFOBD DODGE, 

should appear in person and give up their arms at the time 
of receiving the money. It was at first supposed that 
they would be concentrated at some place near Havana, 
but it was later decided that the payments should be made 
in various localities on the island and by several officers 
assigned for the purpose. The payment of the Cuban 
Army began on the 27th of May in Havana, about one 
hundred and twenty-five men appearing in the first few 
days. Says Major Dodge : " We have taken in about 125 
stands of arms, mostly Remington rifles. There was great 
opposition on the part of the officers of the Cuban Army 
to having their men paid individually. They wanted to 
disburse these funds themselves, and get a good " rake 
off." They were somewhat disgruntled when they found 
how it was to be done and worked against the officers in 
charge of the money. 

On June 1st, Major Dodge was relieved by Major Lord 
and assigned as chief paymaster, Division of Cuba, which 
proved a permanent assignment. He took up his duties 
at Quemados, a suburb of Havana, about 8 miles away. 
Writing of the food in the country he says : " Ham three 
times a day, boiled, embalmed beef, and lettuce 
served hot, I do not know whether they bake it or boil 
it. They can even spoil canned baked beans. I am living 
principally on bread and syrup. Butter does not keep in 
this climate or else there is none sent down that is fit to 
eat. It is poor fare and I am as nearly starved to death 
as I ever was in my life, but it is the best that can be had." 

Early in the fall Major Dodge changed his residence 
from Quemados to the Lieutenant Governor's palace in 
Havana. The city had become so clean and healthy by 
this time owing to the thorough work of Dr. Gorgas, that 
mails coming from United States by way of New Orleans, 
Tampa or Key West, were fumigated and somewhat de- 
layed by the process, but it was thought to be a necessary 
precaution. However, the Major wrote to friends at home : 
" I expect next year will be the time to look out for the 
fever, and a man who has not a reasonable amount of sand 
in his composition had better not take his chance in Cuba." 

The payment of the Cuban army had been finished and 



BY MRS. MARY HUNT (WBSTON) DODGE. Ill 

the balance of the money turned over to him for the pay- 
ment of the United States troops. Later in the fall, the 
fever having increased, with his customary devotion to 
duty Major Dodge wrote, " It is the sickly season, and it 
would not look well to ask to be relieved at this time. 
When a man dies he has had yellow fever, but if he gets 
well he has had malarial fever." 

After a two months leave of absence in the spring of 
1900, spent in the States, Major Dodge returned to Havana 
in June, to complete his tour of duty. As the season ad- 
vanced, it being sultry and rainy, yellow fever increased 
and an epidemic was predicted. The sanitary department 
increased its force, buildings were most thoroughly disin- 
fected, but in spite of the most active measures the dis- 
ease progressed, claiming many victims. The mortality 
report however showed the disease to be of a mild type. 
One officer after another in the Lieutenant-Governor's 
palace, where the officers were located, became ill, some of 
the cases proving fatal. The record for Oct. 2nd, 1900, 
showed 96 deaths. Major Dodge writes, " This morning 
another case was taken from the signal officer's office, 
which adjoins mine on one side. It is getting pretty near 
home now and we may all be ordered out into the coun- 
try." From the mess where Major Dodge took his meals 
four officers were taken to the hospital about the same 
time. Major Dodge was the only one of the four who 
survived the disease. He wrote on the 19th of October, 
" I have graduated from the yellow fever hospital with a 
white certificate, as an immune, in my pocket. I was in 
the hospital when Major - - and his wife died . . . and 
am glad to be out. There is no telling where there is a 
safe place in this city." Although Major Dodge had a 
mild attack of the disease, he probably left the hospital too 
soon in order to escape the depressing environment, and 
his recovery was retarded in consequence. The statement 
made by him the year before, that a mild case at first, often 
proved a serious one, was true in his own experience. He 
went out to the suburb, Vedado, where there was good 
air, during his convalescence, but the subtle poison lin- 
gered in his system rendering him unfit for duty until his 



112 FRANCIS S AFFORD DODGE, 

presence was needed for work, owing to a scarcity of 
officers. 

On Feb. 2nd, 1901, Major Dodge became Lieutenant- 
Colonel and Deputy Paymaster General. It was expected 
when he was promoted from a Cavalry Captain to Major 
and Paymaster in 1880, that this promotion would hasten 
his advancement, but unfortunately, owing to the slow 
promotion in the pay department it delayed it. He had 
remained a Major 21 years up to this time. Had he re- 
mained in the cavalry arm of the service he would have 
reached the grade of Colonel and probably a higher rank, 
fully a year sooner than he became a Lieutenant-Colonel. 
At the expiration of his tour of duty in Cuba, in the spring 
of 1901, he returned to New York, where he was detailed 
as chief paymaster of the Department of the East, re- 
maining until January, 1904. At this time President 
Roosevelt's policy did not favor the promotion of a Civil 
War veteran to the head of a department unless his age 
permitted him to serve four years in that department. 
There remained not quite three years for Colonel Dodge 
to reach the age limit for compulsory retirement. 

On the retirement of General Bates, Jan. 23, 1904, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Dodge became Colonel and Assistant 
Paymaster General, and on the same day he received the 
appointment of Paymaster General with the rank of Briga- 
dier General. Senator Root, who was Secretary of War 
at the time, and several prominent general officers, most 
heartily recommended this promotion, in recognition of 
Colonel Dodge's services during his forty years in the 
army. He assumed his new duties in Washington on 
January 24th and remained the Paymaster General until 
his retirement for age on Sept. llth, 1906. Upon his re- 
tirement the "Army and Navy Journal" in a review of 
his career mentioned among other events in General 
Dodge's life his duty in Havana during the yellow fever 
epidemic. It says : 

' He contracted the disease, and gave proof that his 
courage under fire was equalled by his bravery in the 
presence of a yet more deadly foe. General Wood said of 
him at that time, 'His record here only adds another 



B5T MRS. MARY HCJNT (WESTON) DODGE. 113 

chapter to his long, excellent and distinguished record of 
military service.' General Dodge's service as head of the 
Pay Department has been characterized by an intelligent 
attention to detail that has resulted in lasting good to the 
Army. . . . He is the first Paymaster General to prefer 
charges against an officer for duplicating his pay accounts. 
For his unfailing courtesy, kindness and justice he will 
long be remembered by the many friends whom his fine 
qualities have won for him. " 

After his retirement he bought a house in Washington, 
expecting to make it his home, but the exposures and 
hardships of his long army career had begun to tell upon 
his constitution, at best never robust. The change was 
noticeable soon after returning from Cuba, but the dis- 
ease progressed very slowly. About the time of his re- 
tirement it assumed a more serious form and gradually 
sapped his vitality until his death on February 19th, 1908. 
In his new home, the first which he could hope to call a 
permanent one, he fitted up a room entirely with military 
trophies, swords, guns, medals, the various commissions 
received during his service in the army and a flag, all of 
which, with his military books, he bequeathed to the Dai- 
vers Historical Society. The flag, in whose defence he 
had so often risked his life, was so arranged th at he could 
look upon it in his last conscious moments. 

He was a man of rugged conscientious nature, fearless 
and outspoken in his intolerance of deceit, dishonesty, and 
shams. A high sense of honor in public and private life, 
loyalty to his country and his friends, and justice and con- 
sideration towards his business associates, were marked at- 
tributes of his character. His last resting place is on a 
knoll overlooking the Potomac and the city, in the new 
section of the beautiful National Cemetery at Arlington. 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS, 
1697-1768. 



(Continued from Vol. XL VI, page 96.) 



[77] Protest. William Harris, master of llie brig 
Rebekah, John Thomas, mate, and Edward Jarvis, mari- 
ner, made declaration that on Oct. 14, they sailed from 
Surrinam to Boston, meeting with contrary winds most of 
the passage and reaching the New England coast on Nov. 

26, " having the Wind at W. S. W. & Clear Weather at 
noon we had a good Observation & found ourselves to be 
in the Latitude of 42 & 10 & at 10 a Clock P. M. the 
wind Shifted to N. E. & by N blew exceeding hard we 
steer'd in West and at 4 a Clock A. M. on the 28 th of 
November in Latitude (Dead reckoning) 42-27 North in 
Longitude 64-30 West from the Lizard and we continued 
to run in West till six a Clock and it being exceeding 
thick Weather we lay too with the Head to the North- 
ward seeing not any Land at 4 a Clock A. M. saw the 
Breakers under our Lee & before we could ware the Ves- 
sel she struck on Plumb Island Beach in Ipswich Bay & 
remains there now under Care of a number of sufficient 
Men, the Vessel's Deck being Strain'd & sundry Butts 
started." Nov. 29, 1750. 

James Lindall's receipt to Capt. John White S r for 72s- 
5d. silver money, being in lieu of 27 : 3s. old Tenor 
due on the voyage schooner Lusitania, 1743, in full, " ex- 
cept the Table he is to return to me." Dated Salem, Dec. 
10, 1750. 

[78] Power of attorney given by Joseph Maule of 
Philadelphia, mariner, to his wife Hannah, of Lynn, Nov. 

27, 1749. Witnesses : Peter Groves, John Brown. Ac- 
knowledged before Joshua Maddox, Justice of the Peace. 

(114) 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 116 

Marblehead, June the 4 th 1750 
SIR : 

I could not come to Salem a Saturday as I propos'd 
being not well but I shall depend upon your Son Sam 11 
Giles to proceed the Voyage and Shall put him in pay the 
5 th of June at 25 old Tenor p r month, and at the End of 
y* Voyage a Beaver Hat. I am just going to Boston as 
soon as I come home we'll draw y e Contract send an An- 
swer by y e Bearer I am your humble 

Servant 

WILLIAM ORNE. 
To M r James Giles 
att Salem." 

[79] Power of attorney given by Benjamin Bray of 
Salem, mariner, to Thomas Poynton of Salem, mariner, 
to receive " all sums of money as shall appear to be due 
for the wages of my son Robert Bray Late of Salem, affore- 
said Marriner, who was Impressed for His Majestys Ser- 
vice & Did Duty on board his Maj' ts Ship the Elizabeth 
& Sailed in said Ship from Jamaica on a cruize in 1748 
or 1749 and died there." Dated, June 15, 1751, and ac- 
knowledged before Joseph Bowditch, Justice of the Peace. 
Witnesses : William Lander, John Leach, Jr. 

Thomas Gunter's receipt to Capt. Jonathan Gardner 
for XI 71 : 8 s : by order of James Grant of Halifax. Dated 
Boston, June 7, 1751. 

Protest, Edward Holland, master of the sloop Willing- 
mind, William Hodgekins and John Hodgekius, mariners, 
made declaration that on July 27, " they came from 
Sheepscoat in s d Sloop & about one a Clock in the morn- 
ing on the 29 th we sprang a Leak (and having lost one of 
our Pumps by a Mast we had on Deck falling against it) 
we could not free her with the other Pump & then we 
began Bail which we did for about four Hours & the 
Water still increasing upon us and a Violent Gale of 
Wind at E. S. E. In the morning on the thirtieth we 
stood in for Salem & just after we arriv'd within Bakers 
Island the Sloop overset upon which we took to our Boat 
& got safe on Board a schooner Samuel Dogget [80] 



116 ESSEX COUNTY NOTABIAL RECOKD8. 

Master whereby we were sav'd losing all Papers accompts 
& other things belonging to us except what we had on 
our Backs." July 31, 1751. 

Malachy Salter, jr.'s receipt to John Gardner ,126, on 
account of Mrs. Elizabeth Neal of Edenton in North Caro- 
lina, " it being her part of the neat proceeds of a parcel of 
Lignum Vitse consigned to me from St. Martins by her 
late Husband Capt. John Neal/' Dated, Boston, Oct. 
29, 1747. 

Bond. Stacey Woodell of Salem, mariner, to William 
Pynchon of Salem, gentlemen, ,26 : 13 s : 4d, dated May 
23, 1751, for an adventure on the schooner Endeavour, 
Andrew Tucker, master, bound from Salem to Barbadoes. 
Witness : Oliver Fletcher. 

[81] Fifteen days sight draft on Capt. Joseph White 
for 120 to Nehemiah Ordway & Co. of Amesbury, own- 
ers of the Schooner Sarah Salsbury, " for Value he rec'd 
of Capt. Winthrop True." Dated Barbadoes, Oct. 6, 
1749. Witnesses : Jonathan Bagley, Jonathan Barnard, 
Samuel West. Protested by Reuben Morrill, one of the 
owners of the Schooner Sarah Salsbury, Nov. 13, 1750, 
said White being abroad and his wife refusing to honor 
it. 

[82] Note given by Thomas Sanders, of Charles Co., 
Maryland, planter, to Samuel Barton & Co., merchants of 
New England, for 28 : 9s : 8d. Gives bonds to amount 
of 60. Dated Mar. 10, 1749. Witnesses: John San- 
ders, Jonathan Webb. 

Thomas Ringgold's receipt to Capt. Daniel Mackey for 
sales for account of Joshua Hicks, merchant, in Salem, 
May 30, 1751. " 18 bb s Syder as lodged in my Ware 
house whether full or not did not examine. 8 bb s Mack- 
rell taken same Way. A Parcell of Chairs, Rundletts and 
Pales & Sugar Boxes left in the same Ware house alledg'd 
by the Capt. to be 2 Doz n & 4 Chairs, 3 Doz" 2 Gall n Caggs. 
113 Gall n Ditto, 2 Doz n 8 Gall Ditto, 9 Doz n and 9 Buck- 
etts, 14 Sugar Boxes, 2 half Bushels 48 lb Chocolate & 6 p r 
Stelyards." 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTABIAL RECORDS. 117 

Protest William Start of Ipswich, master of the 
schooner May Flower, loaded with dry fish, in Ipswich 
harbor, made declaration that, on Aug. 3, '* being well 
mor'd with two Anchors & well fastned to a stage head 
with sundry Fasts But by a Strong Gale of Wind in the 
Night & the Tide was drove so nigh the stage head 
that when the Tide went out she broke her Fasts & fell 
over into the Channel by which he supposes some of the 
Fish to be damaged,'' Aug. 4, 1752. 

[83] Protest. Thomas Kymball of Marblehead, Mas- 
ter of the Ship Prince William, loaded with dry goods from 
London, made declaration that in Long. 40-50 West & Lat. 
43 North on Aug. 20, they " met with a Gale of Wind at 
E. N. E. in which Time ship't abundance of Water and 
sprung a Leak so that we were obliged to pump eveiy half 
Hour and suppose some of the Cargoe to be damaged." 
Sept. 1, 1752. 

" Jamaica, St. James's Aug*. 3 d , 1749. 
S r I rec'd your Favour & am much obliged to you for 
your kind Correspondence in giving me an ace* of the 
Place you are in. I am Sorry I can't write to your Sat- 
isfaction in sending you money. Rich d Brown who was to 
have your Land went under Pretence to look at it not- 
withstanding y e punctual agreement you made with him 
for the Land & then would not purchase it I have since 
that offer'd it to Kimble Booth & several others but have 
had no Purchasers I am sorry your Health would not 
admit of your Stay as I had a very good Cargo of Iron 
come soon after you went from Hence, if you have any 
Thoughts of coming Back I believe it might be in my 
Power to recommend you so as to be of great service to 
you. If you should not have any Thoughts of coming & 
should your Land remain unsold I doubt not but you'l 
extend so far in ordering me y e money I am in advance 
for you as you are sensible I was to advance for the good 
Wishes I had for your Health & am 

S r Your hum ble Servant 

Ja 8 Lawrence." 



118 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

" Sence my last by Cap* Jefferson I was speaking about 
you to [84] M r Prioliau he say if you have a mind to 
come over & keep Store he will supply you with what 
Goods you want which will be a great advantage to you 
as they have large Quantity from M r James Crockatt 
1 now consign to them & their Friend Mr. James 
Crockatt & find they have dealt hitherto with a great 
Deal of Honour. If you have no Thoughts of going off 
would advise you to come over for several here that was 
very poor when you went from Hence are said to be in 
good Circumstances (Viz*) Hurlock who livd at Barnetts 
Book-keeper. I enclose you Thorn* Bulls Indenture who I 
have sent for his Health & desire you will be as Assistant 
as you can to him in getting his Health & sending him back 
again. I have inclosed another Indenture to M r Benjamin 
Prescott who is recommended by Cap* Tucker who is y e 
Bearer of this. I am unacquainted with the Gent n but as 
I am inform'd he trades largely here doubt not but he 
will have frequent Opportunity's in getting him over. If 
he shou'd not hope you will. I wish you all the Satisfac- 
tion where you are as you can desire & am 

S r Your Very hum ble Ser vt 

JAMES LAWRENCE. 

To M r Robert Boden at M r Benj a Hollowels 
merch* in Boston." 

Thomas Bull's order on Jeams Lawrence to pay to 
Sam 11 Ropes 94 "for my Board & other Charges." 
Dated, Salem, Sept. 15, 1750. 

Deed. Nathauiell Bartlet of Marblehead, innholder, 
and wife, for 75, to John Turner of Salem, housewright, 
one sixty-third part of a tract of land granted by the 
General Court to the Inhabitants of Marblehead lying on 
Pesumscot river, back of Falmouth and North Yar- 
mouth, in York Co., known by the name of 
New Marblehead, about 360 acres, consisting of 
Home Lot No. 17, with all common land belonging to 
same. [85] Oct. 28, 1747, signed by Nathaniel Bartlet 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 119 

and wife Jane. Witness : Peter Briggs and Isaac 
Turner. Acknowledged, at Marblehead, Oct. 30, 1747, 
before Samuel Lee, Justice of the Peace. 

Deed. Thomas Frothingham of Marblehead, gentleman, 
and wife Tabitha, for <40, to Samuel Turner of Marble- 
head, joiner, one sixty-third part of New Marblehead in 
York Co., consisting of Home Lot No. 59, in to first Di- 
vision, Lot No. 3, in to second Division of Lands, etc., 
Signed June 1, 1752. Witnesses : John Bayley, 
mac Turner. Acknowledged at Marblehead, June 9, 1752. 
before Joshua Orne, Justice of the Peace. 

Bill of Exchange, dated Marblehead, Aug. 18, 1753. 
Forty days sight draft by Geo. S l . Barbe for X100, on 
Jonathan Gurnell & Co., merchants, London, to John 
Barton. Endorsed to William Crook, druggist, in Aus- 
tin Fryers, London, by John Barton, dated Salem, Sept. 
12, 1753. 

Protest. James Davis, master of the snow Tartar, 110 
tons, made declaration that on Oct. 3, he sailed from 
Salem for Bilboa with a load of merchantable fish, and on 
the 7 th at 10 o'clock in Lat. 42. 22 4< on the Western Part 
of Brownes Bank, he had a Gale of Wind at West to N. 
N. West sailing under Mainsail and Foresail at 11 o'clock 
hal'd up mainsail Scudded under the Foresail, the Gale so 
strong could not hand the Mainsail the Buntlings & Leese- 
lings parted & before we could get down the Main Yard 
the Mainsail blew from the yard, and then we us'd our 
Endeavours to hand the Foresail but the Gale increas'd 
to such a violent Degree that parted the Sail from the 
Yard so that we were obliged to scud under our bare 
Poles. At two o'clock P. M. we broached too with two 
men at Helm, with the Helm hard a Weather, the Snow 
would not ware but lay under Water on her Beam Ends 
for some considerable time and to secure our Lives, Ves- 
sel, & Cargoe was oblig'd to cut away our Mainmast, by 
w ch we lost our main topsail, main top gallant sail, the 
whole of our main Shrouds lower & upper & most of the 
Running Rigging ; and when the weather abated the Ves- 



120 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

sell righted, we try'd the Pumps, found we had consider- 
able Water in the Hold & therefore suppose some of the 
Cargoe damag'd and was oblig'd by what little Sail we 
could make to try for the first good Harbour [87] to refit, 
and arriv'd at Salem Harbour," Oct. 13 th . Joseph Mot- 
ley, mate, and John Smethurst, boatswain, also made oath 
to the same. 

Bill of exchange, dated Halifax, Nova Scotia, Dec. 13, 
1752. Thirty days sight draft by William Nesbit, for 
30, on Col. Henry Conyngham, New Bond St., London, 
to Capt. Benjamin Ives. Endorsed by Benj a Ives. Pro- 
tested Apr. 18, 1753, at request of Thomas Lane of Lon- 
don, merchant, by William Tudman, notary, and again, 
on Apr. 27, for want of effects. [88] 

Protest. William Hamilton, master of the sloop Mary 
Ann, made declaration that on Dec. 10, he sailed from 
New London, with a cargo of grain, and came to anchor 
in Martha's Vineyard, at the Harbour called old Town, & 
there lay fourteen Days with other Vessels waiting Op- 
portunity to come over the Shoals the Wind continuing 
about W. N. W. & then came over the Shoals in Company 
with other Vessels & on the 25 th had a hard Gale of Wind 
at S. E. lay too under the Foresail 'till that was torn to pieces 
then lay too under a balanc'd Mainsail, the Sea making a 
Breach over us for about Six Hours whereby our Cargoe 
is considerably damag'd & to refit was oblig'd to make the 
first Harbour & arriv'd at Marblehead this 26 th Day of 
December." Dec. 27, 1753, William Tripp, mariner, also 
made oath to the same. 

Protest. Benj* Ober, skipper of the schooner Ipswich, 
made declaration that on Jan. 21 st < a fishing on what [89] 
is called Cape Ann Ground, We made Sail to come into 
Harbour but before we could get to the Land a sudden an 
extream hard Squall or Gale of Wind took us at N. N. 
W. & split our Foresail, we landed our Sails as soon as 
we could & let go our Anchor about four mile from Cape 
Ann Harbour about seven o'clock P. M. rid till ten o'clock 
that night, then drifted "till four o'clock next day, 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 121 

not being able to get in our Cable & Anchor by Reason of 
Ice ; & while we drifted a Sea struck our Starboard Quar- 
ter & beat our Chimney to pieces & stove a Chest in the 
Cabbin & then we saw the land of Cape Codd Distance 
about two miles the Sea running exceeding high we were 
oblig'd to cut our Cable for Safety of our Lives & Vessel 
made Sail & arriv'd in Beverly Harbour the 25 th of this 
instant January," Jan. 26, 1754. Benj* Ellenwood and 
Andrew Ellin wood, mariners, also made oath to the 
same. 

Protest. Charles Parker, master of the sloop Dolphin, 
made declaration that on Mar. 13, he sailed from Massa- 
pungo Inlet in Virginia and on Apl. 18, " met with a 
hard Gale of wind at W. N. W. in Mass* Bay, within 
Cape Cod, & a large Sea which wash'd fore & aft, where- 
by he supposes the Cargoe to be damaged." Apr. 24, 
1754. Fortunatus Mayhew, pilot, also made oath to the 
same. 

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[91] Cap fc . William Masury to D. Dandiran 

Debtor Creditor 

1754 

Jan. 7, Cash in Ready Money 1200 1753 

Mar. 15. To 15 hhg. of Sugar at 72 1080 9br 30 

By 16 Pipes Wine at 

2280 150, 2400. 

To an order from Cap*. Jos. Peirce 56.2 

Part hyre of a Punt & Negro 36. 



2372 2 
To Cash for the ballance 27 18 



2400. 

This account Thus Settled together Errors Excepte d 
Surrinam March ye 16th 1754. 

D. DANDIBAND. 

Protest. Stephen Boy, master of the sloop Boonaven- 
dure. " Stephen Liggarel chief Captain, having been left 
taking Care of what Cargoe was sav'd," made declaration 



122 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

that on Oct. 3, they sailed from S* Domingo with 99 
hogsheads of molasses, bound for Cape Breton, and on 
Nov. 13, 1753," the Wind increased to such a Degree at 
N. N. E. that forc'd the sloop on shore on the Isle of Sa- 
bles & stove her to pieces whereby we were oblig'd to 
tarry on the Island all the past Winter ; and when the 
Vessel wreck'd we us'd our Endeavours to save what of 
the Cargoe we could with the Assistance of the English 
have sav'd about Sixty Hogs^ which remains there with 
Cap* Stephen Leggarel ; and on the 30 th Day of April 
was taken of said Island by one John Punchard in a fish- 
ing Schooner who put me on board one Jonathan Cook 
in another fishing Schooner bound direct from said Salem 
where he arrived the 16 th Day of this instant May." May 
17, 1754. 

[92] Power of attorney given by William Heylager 
of Beverly, mariner, to Capt. Nathaniel Ingersol of Salem, 
mariner, to settle all accounts beween himself & Cap*. John 
Wendall of Boston, merchant, " as well ace* 8 in his own 
name, as in Company with his Son deceas d ." Dated 
Mar. 1, 1754. Witnesses : Robert Roberts and Josiah 
Orne. 

[93] Power of attorney given by Jane Lesbirel, widow 
of Thomas, formerly of Jersey and late of New England, 
mariner, to John Shier of Jersey, mariner, to receive from 
John Touzel of Salem or any others all money due her as 
widow of sd Lesbirel and guardian of his children. May 
25, 1754. Signed and sealed in Jersey '< where no stamps 
are used." Witnesses : James Lampriere, Gideon Vellene- 
fue. Acknowledged before Tho s LeBreton, Notary Public. 

[94] Letter from William Masury to M r Dondoron, 
dated Salem, Dec. 9, 1754. " I gave a Power to Cap* 
Morong to receive the Sugars or the Value in Money 
which I left in your Hands when I last came from Surri- 
nam (the effects of Cap* Richard Darby) which I sup- 
posed he would have brought home ; but as Providence 
took him from hence & you could not pay it safely to M r 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 123 

Ropes (the Mate) I have now given Power to Cap 1 Richard 
Darby the Owner of the Interest to receive the same for 
which End he has impower'd Cap* Solomon Davis to re- 
ceive it, & by his Power to give you a Discharge your 
Compliance herewith will oblige. P. S. Your ace. under 
y r hand I herewith Send 15 hog d Sugar 1080 Gil d 
part punt hyre 36 

Ball* due 1116 Gilders " 

[95] Power of attorney given by William Masury of 
Salem, mariner, to Capt. Richard Darby of Salem, mer- 
chant, to collect from D. F. Donderon or any others owing 
him in Surrinam, especially 1116 Gilders in said Don- 
deron 's lands. Dated Dec. 4, 1*754. Witnesses : Richard 
Lee, Josiah Orne. Acknowledged before Joseph Bow- 
ditch, Justice of the Peace. 

Power of attorney given by Richard Darby of Salem, 
merchant, to Solomon Davis Jr. of Gloucester, mariner, to 
collect from M r Donderon for Capt. W m Masury, dated 
Jan. 6, 1755. Witnesses : John Crownsheild, Benj a 
Herbert. 

[96] "S r : The favour I desire is to be Satisfyed if 
any of the Family of the Knights belonging to Moulstham 
in the Parish of Chelmsford in the County of Essex are 
liveing in Boston in New England and who they have De- 
puted their Agents in England to act for them by Letter 
of Attorney. S r y r hum Serv* 

Fitz Walter 

Aprilly 28, 1724." 

" M r Jon* Dean who had these papers recorded Say the 
above Letter Came to Cap* Benj a Mulberry of Boston from 
M r Fitz Walter." 

" New England Manchester y e 16 June 1725 
M r Walter 

S r we have viewed your Letter to Cap* Mulberry de- 
sireing him to enquire after the family of the Knights that 



124 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

originally came to Boston in New England for w ah we re- 
turn you hearty thanks. S r Our great Grandfather M r 
William Knight in the beginning of the Settlement of this 
Country came from Great Brittain to Boston & Settled in 
The Town of Linn adjoyning to Boston & Died in Linn 
Leaveing one son & two daughters his son named John 
our Grandfather went home for England & left one Son in 
New England John Knight our Father and other Children 
being all deceased & there is onely remaining three sons & 
four Daughters of our Father John Knight and Great 
Grand Children to our Great Grandfather M r William 
Knight Concerning our Grandfather M r John Knight y* 
went home for England we are Informed that he Married 
there & Died w th out Issue in England & have no advice to 
this day whether he recover'd that Estate that he went to 
England in Order to Recover or w* Estate was left by him. 

S r we earnestly request the favour of you to give us ad- 
vice per Cap* Mulberry or any other opportunity for New 
England Concerning the Estate. 

Inheritances belonging to the Knights & we shall take 
Care to send all proper papers & Records to you as shall 
be needfull & proper promiseing to make full Satisfaction 
to you for all your Care Costs & Trouble nought else but 
am 

y r humble Servant 

Jn Knight 

S r of all the Letters y* were Sent to 
New England we never Saw any but your few 
Lines to Cap Mulberry." 

[97] "Manchester New England Jan y 22, 1742-3 
M r Flagg Sir according to your desire in your of Sep- 
tember the 9 Last I have ritt to you that I John Knights 
am the eldest son of John Knight, the Carpenter, Deceas d 
which was the son of John Knight, y e mason, w ch was 
Son of W m Knight the mason w ch Came from old England 
with his Family to New England hi the first Settlement of 
this Country in the time of the Persecution in old Eng- 
land and he brought over four Children two Sons & two 
Daughters the names of the Sons were Francis and John 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTABIAL BECORDS. 125 

& y e Daughters names were Johanny & Mary these Came 
over with him and in prossess of time the two Sons of 
William Knight returnd to England the said Francis died 
haveing no Issue and y e Said John went into England 
again in the time of the Civill war Listed himself under 
one Coll Blendett in the Service of the Parliament was 
att abington when Prince Maurice was in the Service but 
was Lett out by Blandett that he Continued in the Ser- 
vice of the Parliament four years that he then married & 
Came into New England with his wife where he had five 
Children three Sons & two Daughters John his Eldest Son 
william & Joseph Emma & Martha and that he went again 
to old England a widdower about y e year 1672 to gett the 
Estate w ch his father left There he married again & Died 
there haveing no Issue I have sent a Letter of Denolige 
to M r Fitz Walter to prove my Relation and he hath gott 
the Letter & the Evidence Sworn in the Letter & y e Evi- 
dence names were George Hull & Thorn 8 Ramitt both de- 
ceas d Cap* Mulberry brought the Letter from Walter & 
Carried my Denolige bac to him & Gave them to the said 
Walter & the said Walter said at the Receiveing the Let- 
ter that I was the Heir of the said Estate and said he 
would Come over & Settle with me (N. B.) here is a 
Coppy of his Own handwriting of Fitz Walter to me. M r 
Flagg, S r be pleas'd to Send me as Soon as you Can Con- 
veniently your Sentiments of the Case & youl Obleidge 
Yours 

John Knight." 

" Decemb r 24, 1742 
" M r Knight. 

S r this is to Acquaint you the Letter of Attorney that 
you sent to me I could do nothing with itt being Trouble- 
some times so I thought Propper to Employ an Attorney 
about itt he wants to know your Pedigree by what au- 
thority you Claim how long you have been out of Old 
England together with other Remarkable transactions that 
was done by any of your ancestors and others that Livd 
there to any of w h M r Holland Can give no Ace as also 
whether you had any other Brothers living & where, if 



126 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

any, your age & whether you are the Eldest or youngest 
son and so forth tho the Esq may have a full account of 
all the above yett we Cannot apprehend that he will in 
any wise own or acknowledge any part thereof further 
than he is Compei'd thereto I shall shortly make the best 
Enquiry can be made in the premisses & Expect the Infor- 
mation as soon as you Can Conveniently send so I desire 
if you please to send the ace of all to me for we Expect 
to Sail in about a Month or Six weeks time the Coppy of 
this Letter the Attorney had from the Esq 
From your humble Servant 

W m Holland. 

" P. S. From on board the Wilmington Hen : Darling 
Com d now Lying att Portsmouth " 

[98] Deed. John Knight of Plainfield, Conn., eldest 
son of John Knight, late of Manchester, Mass., and heir- 
at-law to a freehold estate in Moulstham, alias Waltham, 
in the Parish of Chelmsford, Great Britain, which has 
been in possession of Fitz Walter, Esq., etc., for .100, 
sells to Jonathan Dean of Plainfield, Conn., his interest 
and claim in said property, Dec. 31, 1754. Witnesses : 
William Williams, Miriam Kile. Acknowledged at Plain- 
field, Conn., Jan. 1, 1755, before John Smith, Justice of 
the Peace. Tho s Fitch, Governor of Conn., certifies to 
said Smith's qualification as Justice, by Geo. Willys, sec- 
retary, Jan. 14, 1755. 

[99] Bond. John Knight of Plainfield, Conn., to Jona- 
than Dean of Plainfield, who also has power of attorney 
from him, Knight " to execute a more full or ample deed 
of conveyance if demanded by said Dean." Dated, Dec. 
31, 1754. 

Protest. Samuel Allen, master of the schooner Rain- 
bow of Manchester, [100] against loss and damage to 
schoooner or cargo. Dated Mar. 3, 1756. 

Indenture, Feb. 1, 1755, between Thomas Hill and 
Capt. John Hilton, said Hill to put his son Stephen as 
apprentice to said Hilton for 9 years, to learn navigation. 
Witness : Pollard Edmondson. 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECOBD8. 127 

M r W m Hylegers new Ace* Curr* with John Wendell. 
Dr 

1755 To ball* of his old ace* Setled 82 9.10 1/4 

July To Cash p d Cap* Fuller for a Hh d 

Mol 8 old Short to M r Lillie 7 7. 8 

To 26.13.4 omitted charging for 

the Sloop Young Williams entry 26 13. 4 
To a bad Debt contracted w* Jn 

Stuart 4 17. 2 1/4 

To Interest of my Money several 

years 6 13. 4 



128. 1. 4 1/2 

Cr. 

By ball a Sloop Williams after ace* 9. 4. 

By n* proceeds Sundries w ch remain of 

his Effects as p r ace* Sales rendred 16 18 4 3/4 

By Cash of Cap* Ingersol od times 58 16 11 3/4 

By one T s Sugar of Cap* Ingersol 15 6. 

By Cap* Ingersol's Note on Mef rS Greenleaf 

accepted to pay me y e ball a 27 16 



128. 1. 4 1/2 
Boston Aug* 6 th 1756 

Errors Excepted, 

f John Wendell. 

John Wendell's receipt to Capt. Nathaniel Ingersoll for 
order on Stephen & W m Greenleaf, for 27 : 16s. "which 
is in full of all ace* 8 with M r W m Hyleger of the Island 
of St. Eustatia, except a parcel of Oak Boards remaining 
in his Hands w ch he is to deliver to my order." Witness : 
Stephen Greenleaf. 

[101] Shipped by Eleazer Dean, jun r of Salem, on the 
sloop Ann, Thomas Gwinn, master, now in the harbor of 
Swansey, bound for Barbados, " an Iron-grey Gelding 
about fourteen Hands & an half high with a White Starr 
in his forehead bought of Nathan Green of Narragansett," 
to be delivered to Edward Long, merchant there, " Freight 



128 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

free with Primage and average." Dated Swansey, Oct. 
28, 1752. 

Protest. Capt. David Masury, late master of sloop 
Victory, about 90 tons, Bezaleel Toppan, owner, made 
declaration that on Dec. 14, he sailed from Salem with 8 
hands, with cargo of fish and lumber for St. Eustatia, West 
Indies, " but by reason of Currents and contrary Winds 
they fell to Leward of St. Eustatia," Jan. 9, in Lat. 18 
about noon " they discovered a Sloop bearing down upon 
Them which they made Sail from as fast as they could, 
notwithstanding which before Night She came up with 
them, after firing several Shot at them (there being no 
possible way of Escape) They Struck to her, She being a 
French Privateer Sloop Comanded by one Powell Mou- 
strong of about 150 Tons with eight Carriage & 20 Swivel 
Guns and about 150 Men, the s d Privateer took out s d 
Declarant the mate & one man more from s d Sloop and 
put on board s d Sloop Victory Six or Seven of their own 
Men & went with both Vessels to S Thomas's a Danish 
Island Where they took out the Cargo from s d Sloop and 
sent it away in other Vessels some to the windward and 
some to the Leward French Ports (as they understood) s d 
Privateer also plundered & Striped s d Sloop Victory of 
good part of her Sails & Riging and after a few Days sayled 
on another Cruise leaving s d Sloop at an Anchor in S 1 
Thomas's Harbour and this Declarant [102] further saith 
that not being able to fit out s d Sloop & to bring her away 
he sold s d Sloop unto one Lucas De Went for an hundred 
and Seventy Pounds Sterling eight Pounds of which he re- 
ceived in Cash and the remainder in a Bill of Exchange 
drawn in favour of s d Declarant on M r Ter Borch, Mer- 
ch* in Amsterdam, which he is ready to ace* for either to 
the Insurers or the former Owner of s d Sloop and Cargo, 
and this Declarant Saith that on the Second of April inst 1 
he took his Passage from S* Thomas's with Cap* Israel 
Lovett & arrived at Salem y e 24 th ." Apr. 25, 1757. 
Thomas Ropes and Charles Brown, two of the mariners, 
made oath to the same. 

(To be continued.) 



MATTHEW WOODWELL OF SALEM, MASS., 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 



BY W. H. WOODWELL OP CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO. 



The name Woodwell is occasionally spelled Woodell or 
Woodwill on the early records, and no doubt was con- 
fused at times with Wardwell. It is distinct from the 
latter, and probably not derived from the same origin. 
Woodwell, it is believed, came from " Woodwail " or 
41 Woodwaill," an old English name for the whippoorwill. 
The name Woodwell, continues to exist in England, though 
it is by no means a common one. 

The first person of this name in America was Matthew 
Woodwell, who settled in Salem, in the Colony of Massa- 
chusetts Bay, prior to 1660, and who was probably the an- 
cestor of all the Woodwells in the United States. 

1 Matthew Woodwell was born in England be- 
tween 1620 and 1630, and established a home in Salem; 
between the years 1650 and 1660. It appears from the 
Essex Registry of Deeds that John Ruck of Salem, mer- 
chant, conveyed to Matthew Woodwell, land adjoining 
South river, August 8, 1660, and again August 19, 1663. 
A small house was built upon this two-acre lot in 1660, 
and in 1691, when Matthew Woodwell died, this house 
came into the possession of his son, Matthew. 

He was first mentioned as a seaman, and was a brick- - 
maker in 1663. He died in 1691, leaving a wife Mary,, 
who was named in his will of December 28, 1690, proved 
June 30, following. His estate was appraised at 180> 
pounds sterling. 

Children, all born in Salem : 

2 SAMUEL, b. Oct. 3, 1659. 

3 MARY, b. Dec. 3, 1661; d. in infancy. 

(129) 



130 MATTHEW WOODWELL OF SALEM, MASS., 

4 JOSHUA, b. Dec. 3, 1661; d. in 1701. 

5 JOHN, b. May 9, 1665. 

6 MARY, b, Oct. 26, 1667. 

7 MATTHEW, b. Oct. 4, 1668; d. 1701-1702, leaving a wife Ann, who 

administered on his estate. 

8 MARGARET, b. June 4, 1671; m. John Robinson of Salem, June 

18, 1694. 

9 ELIZABETH, b. May 5, 1674. She was a witness in the witch- 

craft trial of Giles Cory in 1692. 

10 DORCAS, b. about 1676; m. Stephen Chapman, Nov. 5, 1707, and 

had Margaret and Mary. 

11 LYDIA, bapt. May, 1685; d. Oct. 25, 1686. 

2 Samuel Woodwell, born in Salem, Oct. 3, 1659. 
He was mentioned as a glover in 1689, when he purchased 
land from Thomas Maule, and in 1695 was the owner of 
a brick-kiln, possibly succeeding his father in that business. 
He was one of the proprietors of the common lands in 
Salem. He married Thomasine Stacy, daughter of Thomas 
and Susannah Stacy, about 1684, and died Dec. 15, 1697, 
leaving a widow and eight children, all born in Salem. 

Children : 

12 SAMUEL, b. Jan. 14, 1685. 

13 JOHN, b. July 2, 1687. Had: Mary, bapt. Nov. 3, 1706; but 

wife's name is unknown. 

14 GIDEON, b. Jan. 30, 1688 ; m. Mary Tongue, in Boston, June 1, 

1713. 

15 JOSEPH, b. Sept. 25, 1690. 

16 BENJAMIN, b. Dec. 28, 1691. 

17 JONATHAN, b. April 5, 1693. 

18 ELIZABETH, b. 1695 ; m. Paul Langford, at Boston, Dec. 4, 1716. 

Had : Elizabeth, b. Jan. 10, 1719, who was probably pub- 
lished with Robert Bond, Dec. 5, 1746. 

19 DAVID, b. Nov. 17, 1697. 

5 John Woodwell, born May 9, 1665 ; married 
Elizabeth Stacy, daughter of Thomas and Susannah Stacy. 
He was called a glover in 1693, when he purchased land 
and a house from Mary Williams and Benjamin Marston. 
This was the house occupied by Roger Williams prior to 
his banishment, and was later sold by John Woodwell to 
Elizur Keysor. 



AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 131 

He was administrator of the estate of his brother, 
Joshua, in 1702. His wife, Elizabeth, was baptized in the 
First Church, Salem, May 2, 1697. 

12 Samuel Woodwell, born in Salem, Jan. 14, 
1685 ; married Elizabeth Carrell (or Carrill), April 16, 
1715. On Oct. 3, 1731, he transferred his membership 
from the First Church, Salem, to the church at Hopkin- 
ton, Mass. Later he probably went to Hopkinton, New 
Hampshire, as the records of the first meeting of the 
grantees of that town, held Feb. 14, 1736, show that sev- 
eral persons, including Samuel Woodwell, were granted an 
equal lot in the new township upon payment of five 
pounds each. 

Children, all born in Salem : 

20 ELIZABETH, bapt. Feb. 1, 1719. 

21 MARY, bapt. July 2, 1721. 

22 SAMUEL, bapt. June 28, 1724. 

15 Joseph Woodwell, born Sept. 25, 1690. He was 
married by Rev. Cotton Mather to Sarah Clarke, widow of 
Josiah Clarke of Bridgewater, May 26, 1720. She was 
probably a second wife, as the record of births, Boston, 
shows that his son, Joseph, was born in 1713. He was a 
witness to the will of Dr. Increase Mather, dated at Bos- 
ton, Jan. 4, 1719. 

Children : 

23 JOSEPH, b. Jan. 16, 1713. 

16 Benjamin Woodwell, born Dec. 28, 1691. He 
married Alice Johnson, daughter of Isaac and Alice 
(Taylor) Johnson of Charlestown, Nov. 1, 1715. He was 
a sailor, and died of small-pox, Jan. 17, 1721 or 1722, 
leaving a widow and three children. 

Children, born in Charlestown : 

24 ALICE, bapt. June 8, 1718; m. Samuel Griffin, Nov. 30, 1738. 

25 GIDEON, bapt. Oct. 9, 1720. 

26 ELIZABETH, bapt. Sept. 30, 1722. 



132 MATTHEW WOODWELL, OP SALEM, MASS., 

17 Jonathan Woodwell, born April 5, 1693. He 
was a mariner. He married Priscilla Stacy, daughter of 
William Stacy, Dec. 24, 1715, and was administrator of 
the estate of his father-in-law in 1723. He was a member 
of the First Church, Salem. He died in 1737. 

Children, all born in Salem : 

27 JOHN, b. Nov. 22, 1719. 

28 JOSEPH, b. July 22, 1722. 

29 JONATHAN, b. Aug. 7, 1726. 

30 STACY, b. Jan. 19, 1729. 

19 David Woodwell, born Nov. 17, 1697. He was 
a member of the company commanded by Col. Thomas 
Westbrook, from July to December, 1722, raised for the 
defence of the frontier. From August, 1723, to Novem- 
ber, 1724, he was enrolled in the company of Lieut. James 
Armstrong. He moved to Hopkinton, Mass., about 1730, 
and in 1737 was one of the original proprietors of Hop- 
kinton, New Hampshire. There he built a block-house, 
known as Woodwell's garrison. His name is signed to a 
petition, dated Oct. 27, 1757, asking for an act of incor- 
poration for the town. He was a charter member of the 
First Church, Hopkinton, N. H., and was elected deacon 
in 1760. His wife Mary died in prison at Quebec, where 
she had been taken by Indians. 

Children : 

31 THOMASINE, b. Jan. 28, 1728-29. 

32 MARY, b. April 30, 1730. 

38 BENJAMIN, b. Dec. 4, 1735. He was probably a Revolutionary 
soldier in the company of Stephen Kent of Essex County, 
Mass. 

34 LYDIA, b. June 13, 1739. 

35 THOMAS, b. Oct. 19, 1741. 

36 DAVID. 

25 Gideon Woodwell, born in Charlestown, Mass, 
was baptized Oct. 9, 1720. He was left an orphan when 
two years old, and was taken to Newbury at the age of 
eight. In 1744-1746 he was enrolled in the company of 
Col. Gerrish, and took part in the expedition under com- 



AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 133 

mand of William Pepperell, which captured Louisburg. He 
was First Lieutenant of a company in the regiment of 
Col. Jonathan Bagley, stationed at Fort William Henry 
on Lake George in 1756. During the summer of that 
year he was commissioned by Gov. Shirley, then comman- 
der in chief of the British forces in North America, and 
placed in charge of the ship-carpenters, who built three 
sloops and several hundred whale-boats for the transporta- 
tion of troops and supplies to Ticonderoga. He was two 
years in this service. In 1757 he was enrolled in the 
" Alarum list of Foot Company in Newbury of which 
Joseph Coffin is Captain." 

He was captain of a company of men from Newbury 
who marched to Cambridge on the alarm of April 19, 
1775, and remained there for six days, when they returned 
to Newbury with leave. 

He established the Wood well shipyard about 1762, and 
from that year to 1773 built fifty-two vessels. The yard 
was closed during the Revolution, and from 1783 to 1790 
ten vessels were built, his son John and son-in-law Enoch 
Hale being associated with him. 

He married, first, Hannah , who died July 20, 

1772; and second, Ruth Goodwin, on July 31, 1781. He 
died August 24, 1790, and is buried on Old Burying 
Hill, Newburyport. 

Children, all born in Newbury: 

37 ELIZABETH, b. March 26, 1740 ; m. Nathaniel Hunt, Aug. 26, 

1760. He was with Capt. Gideon Woodwell at Fort William 
Henry and at Crown Point. 

38 HANNAH, b. Oct. 3, 1743; d. Feb. 26, 1794. 

39 ALICE, b. Nov. 5, 1746; d. March 15, 1816. 

40 SARAH, b. Oct., 1748. 

41 GIDEON, b. Aug. 24, 1750. 

42 JOHN, b. Feb. 7, 1752. 

43 ESTHER, b. May 28, 1754. 

44 ABIGAIL, b. May 28, 1754; m. Jonathan Pearson, jr., Nov. 2, 

1779. He was a Revolutionary soldier in the company of 
Capt. Richard Titcomb. 

45 MARY, bapt. Feb. 19, 1758. 

46 ISAAC, bapt. June 29, 1760. 

47 LYDIA, bapt. July 25, 1762; living in 1840. 

48 JACOB, b. April 30, 1764. 



134 MATTHEW WOODWELL, OF SALEM, MASS., 

27 John Woodwell, born in Salem, Nov. 22, 1719. 

He married Elizabeth , and had four children, all 

born in Salem and baptized in the First Church. 

Children : 

49 ELIZABETH, b. 1742. 

50 MABY, b. 1743-1744. 

51 PBISCILLA, bapt. Oct. 13, 1745. She possibly married Jonathan 

Glover, Nov. 28, 1763. 

52 JOHN, bapt. Feb. 4, 1749-50. 

32 Mary Woodwell, daughter of David Wood- 
well, born at Hopkinton, Mass., April 30, 1730. She was 
captured by the Indians April 22, 1746, and taken by 
them to Canada, where she was held a prisoner for three 
years, when her liberty was purchased with funds raised 
by her father in several New England towns. An account 
of her capture is given in the histories of New Hampshire 
by Sanborn, McClintock, and Belknap. She married, first, 
Jesse Corbett, in 1755, and they had two children. Her 
husband was drowned in attempting to swim the Warner 
river ; and she married, second, Jeremiah Fowler, by 
whom she had five children. She died at Canterbury, 
N. H., Oct. 3, 1829, in her one hundredth year. 

Children : 

53 JOSIAH COBBETT, born about 1756. He was in the company of 

Captain Joshua Bayley at Bennington, Vt., his company 
being enlisted about July 20, 1777; later he was enrolled in 
the company of Captain John Hale, Col. Henry Gerrish's 
regiment, called out to reinforce General Gates. He and his 
family joined the Shaker society at Enfield in 1792, and his 
son Thomas became a famous Shaker physician. 

54 JESSE COBBETT. 

55 JONATHAN FOWLEB, b. April 11, 1764. He was a deacon and 

prominent member of the First Baptist Church, Hopkinton, 
N. H. He m. Hannah Eastman in 1784, and they had eleven 
children. He d. in 1840, ae. 76. 

56 FOWLEB. 

57 FOWLEB. 

58 FOWLEB. 

59 FOWLEB. 




AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 135 

40 Sarah Woodwell, born in Newbury, October , 
1748. She married John Stickney, son of Caleb and 
Sarah (Titeomb) Stickney, about 1770. He was a cabinet 
maker, surveyor of lumber, and clerk of the market. He 
was held in high esteem as a citizen and honored with 
public offices. She died Feb. 11, 1800, and he died June 
1, 1828. 

Children, born in Newbury : 

60 JACOB, b. July 28, 1774; d. Jan. 20, 1866. He was a man of 

strict integrity, and was elected for sixty-seven consecutive 
years to offices of trust. Beginning with his 21st year, he 
took the official oath 223 times. He m. Betsey Pike, July 7, 
1796, and had Sally, Betsey, John Fernald (b. Nov. 4, 1801, 
and d. 1902), William, Jacob, Mary Ann, Caleb, Emily, and 
Fanny. 

61 GIDEON WOODWELL, b. Sept. 28, 1775; d. in Calais, Me., March 

28, 1862. He was a merchant, and m. Lydia Lunt Oct. 25, 
1798. Had: Sarah, Gideon, Lydia, Gideon, Mary, Jane and 
Lavinia. 
02 JOHN, b. Nov. 23, 1777; d. June 4, 1800. 

63 SARAH, b. Aug. 31, 1780; d. Feb. 13, 1794. 

64 CALEB, b. Feb. 23, 1786; d. May 9, 1811. 

65 ENOCH, b. Dec. 20, 1789; d. Sept. 7, 1855. A merchant. He m. 

Sarah Knapp, and had : Edward S., William Wyer, Sarah E. 

41 Gideon Woodwell, Junior, born in Newbury, 
August 24, 1750. He was one of a party of seventeen 
men who captured the British ship " Friends," off Plum 
Island in 1776. He served in the navy during the Revo- 
lution and War of 1812. In early life he learned the 
trade of ship-carpenter from his father, and in 1797 he 
helped build the frigate Constitution. In 1812, when 
that famous vessel made her escape from a British fleet, 
he was on board as ship-carpenter. 

He married Sally Bray of Newburyport, Dec. 3, 1775, 
and she died in 1824, aged 71 years. He died June 21, 
1840, aged 90 years. 

Children, born in Newbury : 

66 GIDEON, b. 1776; d. May 10, 1797, while in the navy. 

67 BENJAMIN, b. 1778. He was carpenter's mate in the navy, and 

d. May 8, 1801. 



136 MATTHEW WOODWELL OF SALEM, MASS., 

68 JACOB. 

69 POLLY, b. 1785. 

70 BETSEY, b. Aug. 9, 1789; m. Abner Pearson, March 4, 1810. Had, 

born in Newbury: (1) Betsey, b. Dec. 31, 1811; m. David 
Junkins, 1831, and moved to Portsmouth, N. H. They had 
six children: George P., W. Wallace, Albert R., Edwin D., 
Mrs. John Carter, and Mrs. Emma L. Manent. Betsey Jun- 
kins died June 30, 1900. (2) Abner Warner. (3) George 
Phippin. (4) Stephen Burdett. (5) Mary Frost, b. July 4, 
1821. (6) Harriet Eliza; married a Wheelock. 

71 SUSANNA; m. Stephen Burdett, Nov. 13, 1808. 

72 SALLY. 

73 (" Mrs. Robinson"). 

42 John Woodwell, son of Captain Gideon Wood 
well, born in Newbury, Mass., Feb. 7, 1752. He was 
associated with his father and Enoch Hale in carrying on 
the industry of shipbuilding, under the firm name of 
" Woodwell & Hale." The yard was unoccupied for a 
few years after the death of Captain Gideon Woodwell. 
During this time John Woodwell built a few vessels on 
the Kennebec River, near Bath, Maine. 

At the beginning of the 19th century he and his sons, 
John, David and Gideon, re-established the business in 
Newbury. From the year 1800 to 1853 they built nearly 
one hundred vessels, varying in size from 50 to 300 tons 
register. In 1799, John, and his brother Gideon, had a 
contract to build half a war vessel for the government, 
William Cross building the other half. 

He married, first, Mercy Beal, April 26, 1774 ; she was 
the mother of his first four children. She died Nov. 28, 
1782, and he married, second, Elizabeth Titcomb, Nov. 14, 
1784, by whom he had three sons. He died Feb. 12, 1822. 

Children, all born in Newbury : 

74 JOHN, b. Sept. 20, 1776; d. in infancy. 

75 MERCY, b. May 4, 1777. 

76 HANNAH, b. Nov. 7, 1779; m. Benjamin Goodwin, Nov. 7, 1799. 

and d. Dec. 20, 1800. 

77 ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 20, 1782; d. Jan. 4, 1786. 

78 JOHN, b. Nov. 13, 1786. 

79 DAVID, b. Feb. 17, 1788. 

80 GIDEON, b. Dec. 15, 1790. 



AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 137 

43 Esther Woodwell, born in Newbury, May 28, 
1754. She married John Shackford, and removed to 
Eastport, Maine, about 1786. Their first three children 
were born in Newbury and the others at Eastport. Three 
children reached the age of 87 years.* 

Children : 

81 JOHN, b. July 1, 1782; d. 1869. 

82 WILLIAM, b. Nov. 23, 1783 ; d. March 28, 1870. 
88 SAMUEL, b. June 22, 1785; d. Aug. 21, 1786. 

84 SAMUEL, b. Sept. 28, 1786; d. Aug. 31, 1820. He served in the 

U. S. Navy. 

85 JACOB, b. Jan. 28, 1790; d. June 19, 1869. 

86 HANNAH, b. May 17, 1791. 

87 ESTHER, b. May 21, 1793; d. Aug. 30, 1880. 

88 SARAH, b. Feb. 23, 1795; d. March 23, 1846. 

89 GIDEON, b. Dec. 5, 1796; d. July 16, 1799. 

90 JEREMIAH, b. Aug. 31, 1798; d. Sept. 13, 1800. 

45 Mary Woodwell, daughter of Captain Gideon 
Woodwell, born in Newbury, 1758. She married Enoch 
Hale, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Pettengill) Hale, 
October 25, 1781. He was born Dec. 10, 1757, and was 
a descendant of Thomas Hale, who was prominent in the 
early history of Newbury. 

Enoch Hale served in the Revolutionary army, and was 
a shipbuilder associated with Captain Gideon Woodwell. 
He died Nov. 10, 1825 ; his wife Mary died Sept. 7, 1807. 

Children, all born in Newbury : 

91 POLLY, b. Oct. 21, 1782; d. in infancy. 

92 BENJAMIN WOODWELL, b. May 17, 1785; m. Eunice Goodwin, 

Jan. 2, 1810. He served in the Mass. Legislature in 1838- 
1839, and was a Justice of the Peace at Newburyport. 

* Judge Samuel Shackford of Winnetka, 111., was a grandson of 
Esther Woodwell and John Shackford. He was born in Eastport, 
Maine, Feb. 22, 1821, and died Dec. 19, 1908, in his eighty-eighth 
year. During his young manhood he was a sea captain in the coast- 
ing trade, removing to Chicago in 1853, where he engaged in the 
commission business. After the great fire of 1871 he moved to 
Winnetka, where he was prominent in public affairs, serving numer- 
ous terms as alderman, as member of the board of county commis- 
sioners, and of the board of education, and was police magistrate 
twelve years. He married Mary M. Tinkham of Portland, Maine, in 
1851, and they had several children and grandchildren. His wife 
died in 1906. 



138 MATTHEW WOOD WELL OF SALEM, MASS., 

93 POLLY, b. Feb. 18, 1787; d. unm., Oct. 11, 1853. 

94 HANNAH WOOD WELL, b. March 19, 1789; d. unm., Dec. 29, 1872. 

95 ALICE, b. May 26, 1791; d. unm., May 28, 1828. 

96 ENOCH, b. March 1, 1793; m. Eliza Lunt, April 27, 1817. He 

served in the Mass. Legislature, 1845-1850, and held public 
offices in Newburyport. He was a fish dealer. 

97 WILLIAM, b. March 19, 1796; m. Elizabeth Goodwin, Jan. 10, 

1819. He was a wood and coal dealer. 

98 SAMUEL, b. March 31, 1798; m. Dorcas Lunt, Aug. 15, 1824. He 

was a coal dealer. 

99 DAVID, b. Dec. 4, 1800; m. Hannah Lunt, May 10, 1827. He was 

a grain merchant, and living in 1875. 

100 ISAAC, b. Feb. 17, 1803; d. unm., Feb. 17, 1872. He was a grain 

merchant, in partnership with his brother David. 

48 Jacob Wood well, born in Newbury, April 30, 
1764. He married, first, Sarah Davis, March 20, 1798. 
She was born March 23, 1767, and died Feb. 20, 1814. 
He married, second, Mrs. Lydia Willett, June 15, 1816. 
He died May 16, 1834. 

Children, born in Newbury : 

101 SABAH DAVIS, b. Feb. 19, 1799-1800; d. Apr. 9, 1877. 

102 JOHN STICKNEY, b. Jan. 25, 1802; d. April 6, 1836. 

103 MARTHA DAVIS, b. June 15, 1805; d. Dec. 20, 1813. 

104 CALEB STICKNEY, b. July 15, 1807. 

49 Elizabeth Woodwell, daughter of John Wood- 
well of Salem, born in 1742. She married Benjamin Bab- 
bidge of Salem, a mariner, a son of Captain John Bab- 
bidge, Oct. 21, 1762. 

Children, all born in Salem : 

105 ELIZABETH BABBIDGE, b. 1763; m. 1st, William Gotten, July 

27, 1788. He was a mariner and d. in Java in 1791. She m. 
2d, Thomas Williams, a mariner, Nov. 12, 1797; she d. May 
6, 1811. 

106 BENJAMIN BABBIDGE, b. 1765. He sailed as master of a ship 

in 1811, and was never heard from. In 1793 he m. Mary 
Phippen of Salem, and had: John Phippen and Mary Ade- 
laide. 



AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 139 

107 JOHN BABBIDGE, b. June, 1767. He was one of the firm of 

Hawkes & Babbidge, shipbuilders. He d. March 26, 1860, 
aged 93 years. He ni. Sarah Becket of Salem in 1789, and 
had: John, William, Benjamin, Sarah, Nancy, Elizabeth, 
Charles, Lydia, Mary, Charles and Susanna Archer. 

108 SUSANNA BABBIDGE, b. 1769; m. Col. Samuel Archer, 3d, of 

Salem, June 23, 1789, and d. Nov. 25, 1807. 

50 Mary Woodwell, daughter of John Woodwell 
of Salem, born 1743-44. She married Samuel Archer, jr., 
Aug. 31, 1762, and lived in Salem. He was a merchant 
and a descendant of Samuel Archer who took the free- 
man's oath on Oct. 19, 1630. She died Aug. 31, 1812, 
the fiftieth anniversary of her wedding-day. 

Children, all born in Salem : 

109 SAMUEL ABOHEB, b. Jan. 25, 1763; m. Sarah Woodbury of 

Salem, Nov. 16, 1788, and had: John Woodwell, Samuel H. 

110 JOHN WOODWELL ABCHEB, b. Apr. 1, 1765; d. Feb. 7, 1782. 

111 WILLIAM ABOHEB, b. April 2, 1767. 

112 GEOBGE ABCHEB, b. April 27, 1773; d. Aug. 2, 1790. 

113 MABY ABOHEB, b. April 1, 1776; d. Sept. 29, 1796. 

114 NATHANIEL ABOHEB, b. March 1, 1779; d. Aug. 8, 1780. 

115 ELIZABETH ABOHEB, b. July 9, 1783 ; d. Dec. 2, 1802. 

68 Jacob Woodwell, son of Gideon Woodwell, jr., 
was born in Newbury about 1780. He had a son, Jacob, 
jr., who worked in the Woodwell shipyard in 1818. The 
Newbury records show : " Achsah Woodwell, wife of 
Jacob, died March 25, 1823." 

Child : 

116 JACOB.* 

69 Polly Woodwell, daughter of Gideon Woodwell, 
jr., was born in 1785. She married Nicholas Lattime, 
Sept. 28, 1806. He was born at Port le Brean, France, 
and left an orphan at an early age. He ran away to sea and 
was brought to Newbury on a vessel from that port. He 
was a mariner and was drowned at sea Jan. 19, 1822, when 
about 45 years of age. She died Jan. 20, 1866. 

*We do not have record proof of this line but it is probably correct. 



140 MATTHEW WOODWELL OF SALEM, MASS., 

Children, born in New bury : 

117 JAMES, b. 1808; d. Dec. 3, 1870. Had: George, James Henry, 

Mary Julia and Lizzie. 

118 NICHOLAS, b. 1810; d. March3, 1900. Hem. Wheeler, and 

had: Stephen Decatur, Nicholas, Clinton Preble, Hartwell 
Leroy, Sarah, Aldis Warren, George Whitfield, MaryAbbie. 

119 GIDEON WOODWELL, b. March 15, 1814; d. May 29, 1893. He 

m. Lydia Hunt, dau. of Nathaniel Hunt and Mercy (Wood- 
well) Hunt, Nov., 1836, and had: Mary Woodwell, Gideon 
Woodwell, Andrew Leach, Benjamin Hunt, Lydia Mary, 
Charles, Hannah Leach, Harriet Ann, Emma Louisa, Fred- 
erick Augustus, Frank Lewis. 

120 POLLY, b. Sept 10, 1816; d. Oct 13, 1819. 

75 Mercy Woodwell, daughter of John Woodwell, 
born in Newbury, May 4, 1777 ; married Nathaniel B. 
Hunt, Feb. 25, 1796. He was born Nov. 20, 1770, and 
died Sept. 14, 1842, aged 72 years. She died April 17, 
1849 at the same age. They had thirteen children, all of 
whom married, and whose average age was 67 1-2 years. 

Children : 

121 ELIZABETH W., b. March 27, 1797; m. John Hughes, and d. 

April 5, 1874. 

122 NATHANIEL, b. Dec. 20, 1798; m. Mary P. Clark, March 18, 

1821, and d. June 6, 1860. He was a master mariner. 

123 BENJAMIN G., b. Dec. 81, 1799; m. 1st, Sarah A. Haslett, Nov. 

14, 1827; 2d, Hannah J. Thurlow, 1838, and 3d, Caroline A. 
Lunt (Bailey, Disney), July 5, 1870. He was a shipwright, 
and d. Jan. 13, 1888. 

124 JOHN W., b. Sept. 22, 1803; m. Martha Burns, and d. June 2, 

1882. He was a shipwright. 

126 ISAAC J., b. June 20, 1805 ; m. Mary J. Platte, Sept. 27, 1829, 
and d. Nov. 27, 1876. He was a shipwright. 

126 DAVID W M b. May 20, 1807; m. Elizabeth Brackett, Oct. 25, 

1829, and d. Feb. 24, 1886. 

127 GIDEON W., b. July 16, 1809; m. Mary W. Brown, Feb. 5, 1834, 

and d. May 10, 1867. 

28 MERCY B., b. June 10, 1811; m. Benjamin Russell, Dec., 1835, 

and d. Feb. 27, 1841. 

29 WILLIAM, b. July 15, 1813; m. Eliza Leach, and d. April 12, 

1878. He was a ship joiner and carpenter. 



AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 141 

130 HANNAH, b. Aug. 3, 1815; m. Andrew Leach, Aug. 24, 1840, and 

d. Feb. 8, 1901. 

131 LYDIA, b. June 20, 1817; m. Gideon W. Lattime, Nov., 1836, 

and d. July 18, 1903. 

132 MARY W., b. June 21, 1820; m. John Fenno, and d. Sept. 6, 

1852. 

133 CHARLES W. T., b. July 12, 1825; m. Frances J. Emery, Nov. 

25, 1856, and d. April 3, 1887. He was a shipjoiner and ship 
carpenter. 

78 John Woodwell, junior, born Nov. 13, 1786. 
He was a shipbuilder, associated first with his father, and 
later with his brothers David and Gideon. For a number 
of years he was Captain of militia; in 1812-1814 his com- 
pany being enrolled in Lt. Col. Ebenezer Bale's regiment. 
Upon the incorporation of Newburyport as a city in 1852, 
he was a member of the first Common Council, Hon. Caleb 
Gushing being the first mayor. He also held the offices of 
surveyor of lumber and overseer of the poor several 
terms. 

He married, first, Mary Lunt, Dec. 26, 1815 ; she died 
July 22, 1818. He married, second, Nancy Denny of 
Warner, Mass., Aug. 19, 1820. His third wife was Sarah 
Ann Tappan, a widow with one son, Joseph Tappan. 
They were married Jan. 25, 1841, and he died April 13, 
1861, at the age of 75 years. 

Children, born in Newbury : 

134 JOHN TITOOMB, b. 1817; d. Sept. 11, 1818. 

135 JOHN, b. about 1825. 

136 NANCY DENNY, b. May 7, 1821. 

137 GEORGE W., b. July 1, 1828. 

138 WILLIAM, b. 1842; d. in infancy. 

139 WILLIAM TITCOMB, b. 1845; d. 1868. 

79 David Woodwell, grandson of Captain Gideon 
Woodwell, born in Newbury, Feb. 17, 1788. He was a 
ship carpenter and shipbuilder all his life. He married 
Joanna Cook Atkinson, daughter of Michael Atkinson, of 
Newbury, and a descendant of John Atkinson who was 
born in Boston about 1639, and who settled in Newbury 
in 1662. Sarah Mirick, wife of John Atkinson, is said to 



142 MATTHEW WOODWELL OF SALEM, MASS., 

have been descended from a long line of Welsh kings. He 
died Jan. 27, 1857. 

Children, all born in Newbury : 

140 DAVID TITCOMB, b. Oct. 7, 1820. 

141 ELIZABETH ANN, b. May 30, 1822; m. Daniel G. Tilton, June 

22, 1843. He was a grocer, and kept store on Federal street, 
Newburyport, continuously from 1835 till 1901, dying when 
nearly 84 years of age. They had three sons and five daugh- 
ters. She d. Sept. 16, 1862. 

142 JOSEPH ATKINSON, b. Aug. 14, 1824. 

143 FANNY DENNY, b. Sept. 22, 1826; d. unm., March, 1905. 

144 CHARLES HENRY, b. March 18, 1828. 

145 BENJAMIN ATKINSON, b. Sept. 24, 1830, and d. at sea in 1884. 

He was a mariner. He enlisted in the Union Army, being a 
member of Co. F., Fourth Mass. Cavalry. He m. Hannah 
Small. 

146 GEORGE EDWARD, b. Sept. 20, 1833; d. May, 1887. He was a 

journalist and in 1876 was night editor of the Chicago Tri- 
bune. He m. Martha Ellen Strout, and had: Charles. He 
also married a second time. 

147 MICHAEL TITCOMB, b. Feb. 16, 1838; d. Oct. 17, 1838. 

148 ALBERT AUGUSTUS, b. Apr. 27, 1840; m. Mary Haskell, and 

had : Albert, who died when about 25 years of age. He was 
a mariner and served in the Navy during the Civil War. He 
d. Dec. 2, 1871. 

80 Gideon Woodwell, son of John Woodwell, born 
Dec. 15, 1790. He was a shipbuilder with his brothers 
John and David ; was a skillful and industrious mechanic 
and drew most of the plans for the vessels they built. In 
1827 the three brothers built the Parker River Bridge in 
Newbury. 

He married Lucretia Baker, daughter of Robert Baker 
of Manchester, Mass., Jan. 6, 1822. He died March 22, 
1871. 

Children, all born in Newbury : 

149 ROBERT BAKER, b. Nov. 7, 1822. 

150 GIDEON, b. Dec. 11, 1823; d. May 30, 1824. 

151 GIDEON, b. Sept. 11, 1825. 



AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 143 

152 LUCRETIA BAKER, b. Sept. 24, 1828; m. Albert Little Wood- 

man, March 2, 1854, and bad : Charles Albert, b. Dec. 26, 
1854, d. Sept. 5, 1855; and Lizzie May, b. Oct. 11, 1856. 

153 ELIZABETH TITCOMB, b. April 6, 1832; d. Aug. 7, 1849. 

154 LUCY BAKER, b. Nov. 3, 1833; d. Dec. 26, 1852. 

104 Caleb Stickney Woodwell, born July 15, 
1807. He was the son of Jacob Woodwell, and married 
Hannah Floyd, probably about 1830. 

Children, born in Newbury : 

155 CALEB S., JR. He was a farmer, and was killed in a railroad 

accident, April, 1881. Had 3 chn. who d. young. 

156 HANNAH JANE, m. Walter S. Keysor, Sept. 17, 1859, and d. in 

Buenos Ayres, South America, about 1882. 

157 LEWIS F., b. May 7, 1840; d. Jan. 4, 1880. He was a shoemaker, 

and lived in Newburyport. He m. Kate S. , and had: (1) 

Kate G., b. July 22, 1869; d. April 22, 1908. (2) William E., 
b. Dec. 6, 1866, and now lives in Newburyport. 

158 EDWARD F M b. 1842; drowned at sea in 1863. 

159 HORACE D. Was last heard from in Buenos Ayres, South 

America. 

116 Jacob Woodwell, Jr., born about 1800. He 
He married Sally, or Sarah Proctor. She died in New- 
buryport, March, 1861. 

Children, born in Newbury : 

160 JACOB AMBROSE, b. Aug., 1825, or 1826. 

161 MARY JANE, m. James Noyes, a farmer, and lived in Newbury. 

She d. in 1898, leaving children and grandchildren. 

135 John Woodwell, 3rd, born about 1825. He 
was associated with his cousin, Joseph A. Woodwell, in 
the express business for twenty-five years, the firm name 
being John Woodwell & Co. He was alderman from 
Ward Two in 1879-1880, and also served in the State 
Legislature. He married Miriam . 

Children : 

162 A son, who d. in infancy. 

163 MIRIAM ADELAIDE, m. Charles Thurlow of Newburyport, and 

had 6 chn. 



144 MATTHEW WOODWELL OF SALEM, MASS., 

136 Nancy D. Woodwell, born May 7, 1821 ; died 
in Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 2, 1904. She married Horace 
Plumer, who was born in Newbury, April 26, 1821, and 
who died in Evansville, Ind., Jan. 30, 1860. 

He was a lawyer, located first at Bolivar, Tenn., and 
later at Evansville, where he practiced law up to the time 
of his death. Their first child was born at Bolivar, and 
the other two at Evansville. 

Children : 

164 GEORGIA W., b. Feb. 22, 1846; m. John Denny Colby, Nov. 5, 

1866, and had: (1) John D., b. July 28, 1867; d. Sept. 30, 

1867. (2) John D., b. July 31, 1868; d. Dec. 11, 1885. (3) 
Nannie D., b. Apr. 18, 1870; d. Sept. 23, 1890. (4) Georgianna 
P., b. Jan. 8, 1872; d. Oct. 2, 1885; (5) Horace P., b. Oct. 4, 
1873; m. Laura J. Plumer, and had, Laura Jane Plumer 
Colby, b. May 29, 1909. (6) Morrill, b. Aug. 22, 1875; d. 
Aug. 13, 1890; (7) Clarence, b. Mar. 1, 1878; m. Elizabeth 
Irene Clarke, Oct. 1, 1907, and had : Elizabeth Irene, b. June 
28, 1909. (8) Mary, b. May 20, 1882. (9) Jane P., b. May 
20, 1884. (10) Albert P., b. April 24, 1886. (11) Mehitable 
T., b. June 16, 1888. 

165 JANE PLUMER, b. Feb. 8, 1852; d. March 21, 1887. 

166 HORACE PLUMER, b. Aug. 12, 1859; d. Dec. 31, 1897. 

137 George W. Woodwell, son of Captain John 
Woodwell, was born July 1, 1828. He learned the trade 
of ship-carpenter, working in the Woodwell yard. For 
some years he was engaged in farming in Newbury, and 
later was proprietor of the City Hotel, Newburyport. He 
was one of the overseers of the poor for that city about 
fifteen years, being chairman of the board several terms. 
He served two terms in the Massachusetts State Legisla- 
ture (1867-1868). 

He married Elizabeth Chicken, and died March 3, 1905. 
Children : 

167 JOHN, d. in infancy. 

168 JOHN, d. in infancy. 

169 CHARLES, d. SB. abt. 20 y. 

170 GEORGE W. Was one of the life saving crew at the Plum 

Island station for several years, and died in 1906. 



AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 145 

14O David Titcomb Woodwell, born in Newbury 
Oct. 7, 1820. He learned the trade of ship-carpenter, 
working in the Woodwell yard several years. He made 
a number of trips to sea in fishing vessels, and was for a 
few years a master mariner. Later he engaged in the 
hardware business in Market square, Newburyport, deal- 
ing especially in ship chandlery. He was also part owner 
and manager of a number of vessels. 

He held numerous public offices in the city, being sev- 
eral times elected common councilman and alderman, was 
city assessor, a member of the school board for six years, 
and was agent of the board. He served two terms each 
in the State Legislature and Senate. He was also a direc- 
tor of the Public Library, a director of the Ocean Na- 
tional Bank and the Five Cents Savings Bank. 

He married Mary Newman Haskell in 1843 ; she was a 
daughter of Captain Jacob Haskell, and a descendant of 
William Haskell, one of the first settlers of Gloucester. 
He died Nov. 27, 1884. 

Children, born in Newbury and Newburyport : 

171 WILLIAM HASKELL, b. Sept. 9, 1844. 

172 Louis EUGENE, b. Apr. 11, 1847. 

173 DAVID EDWABD, b. March 31, 1849. 

174 ELBRIDGE GALE, b. August 29, 1853. 

175 FRANK ARCHER, b. August 30, 1858. 

176 ANNA EUNICE, b. Dec. 19, 1860; d. April 24, 1863. 

177 HERBERT NEWMAN, b. Nov. 16, 1865. 

178 MARY LOISE, b. Dec. 2, 1867. 

142 Joseph Atkinson Woodwell, born August 14, 
1824. In early life he made a few trips to sea, and later 
was in the express business with his cousin John Wood- 
well. He was alderman from Ward One in 1878. He 
married Hannah D. Newcomb of Wellfleet, Mass., Nov. 
19, 1848, and in 1908 they celebrated the sixtieth anni- 
versary of their wedding. He died Dec. 1, 1909, in New- 
buryport. 

Children, born in Newburyport: 

179 EMMIE LOUISE, b. Aug. 19, 1849; m. Charles E. Hale. Had : 
(1) Charles E. W. Hale, b. Feb. 24, 1882; (2) Joseph W. L. 
Hale, b. Aug. 30, 1886. 



146 MATTHEW WOODWELL OF SALEM, MASS. 

180 ELBRIDGE GALE, b. June 23, 1851; d. March 27, 1852. 

181 ELIZABETH TITCOMB, b. Feb. 19, 1856; d. July 8, 1864. 

182 MABY HASKELL, b. April 3, 1861; m. George E, Carter, Dec. 5, 

1885. 

183 FLORENCE AMELIA, b, June 24, 1868; d. Jan. 6, 1875. 

144 Charles Henry Woodwell, born March 18, 
1828. He was a journalist ; was connected with several 
Boston papers, and at the time of his death was one of the 
proprietors and editor of the Worcester (Mass.) Gazette. 
During the Civil War he enlisted in the Fifth Mass. In- 
fantry, and later went south as war correspondent for the 
Boston Post. He held offices in the Boston Press Club, 
Boston Printers' Union, Massachusetts Editors and Pub- 
lishers' Association, and the Franklin Typographical Soci- 
ety, and was a member of the Masonic order. 

He married Lois Constant Haskell, a sister of his broth- 
er David's wife. He died in 1871. 

Child: 

184 ANNA EUNICE, b. Oct. 8, 1854; d. April 21, 1857. 

149 Robert Baker Woodwell, born in Newbury, 
Nov. 7, 1822. He worked in the Woodwell shipyard 
from his early manhood until the business was discontin- 
ued in 1852. Later he removed to East Boston, working 
at his trade on many famous vessels at that place and in 
Charlestown. He married Lucy Jane Wells, daughter of 
Samuel W. Wells of Newbury, June 7, 1848. He died 
at East Boston, May 19, 1905, his widow dying the fol- 
lowing year. 

Children : 

185 ELIZABETH TITCOMB, b. Sept. 15, 1849; d. Dec. 22, 1849. 

186 SAMUEL WILLIAMS, b. May 18, 1851; d. Aug. 18, 1881. 

187 LUCY ELIZABETH, b. April 1, 1853. She is a teacher in the 

public schools, East Boston, Mass. 

151 Gideon Woodwell, Junior, born Sept. 11, 
1825. He also worked in the Woodwell shipyard, learn- 
ing the trade under his father's tuition. When the busi- 
ness was discontinued he moved to Lynn, where he found 



AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 147 

employment with other shipbuilders. Later he worked 
in the Charlestown Navy Yard, where he was stricken 
with apoplexy in his sixtieth year. 

He married Eunice Adams Thurlow, daughter of Cap- 
tain Joseph L. Thurlow of Newbury, November 28, 1850, 
and died Oct. 15, 1884. 

Children : 

188 JOHN BAKER, b. Sept. 22, 1855; d. May 31, 1859. 

189 RUTH ADAMS, b. Aug. 27, 1865. She is a teacher of music and 

elocution, and in 1908 was one of the faculty of Carleton 
College, Farmington, Missouri. 

160 Jacob Ambrose Wood well, born in 1825 or 
1826. He married Viola Felt, who lived but a few years 
after their marriage. He married, second, Caroline Smith 
Masters, daughter of Charles Masters of Newburyport, 
August 4, 1856, and they removed to Norwalk, Ohio. He 
died July 5, 1872. 

Children, born in Norwalk, Ohio : 

190 GEORGE MASTERS, b. May 13, 1857. He is now (1909) Superin- 

tendent of Schools, Princeton, Maine. 

191 IDA CAROLINE, b. Aug. 28, 1859 ; d. July, 1868. 

171 William Haskell Woodwell, born in New- 
bury, Sept. 9, 1844. He graduated from Bowdoin Col- 
lege in 1869, and from the Andover Theological Seminary 
a few years later, and is a Congregational clergyman. He 
married Martha Haskell, daughter of Ezra and Emily 
(Haskell) Haskell, March 19, 1873. 

Children : 

192 JULIAN ERNEST, b. Jan. 7, 1874. 

193 EVA CECILIA, b. March 2, 1878; Mt. Holyoke College, 1900. 

194 WILLIAM HERBERT, b. May 5, 1881. 

195 ARCHER ROSOOE, b. May 23, 1883. He is employed in the U. S. 

Geological Survey at Washington, D. C. 

196 CAROLUS SYLVESTER, b. Feb. 9, 1889. Now (1909) a student at 

Columbia University. 



148 MATTHEW WOODWELL OF SALEM, MASS., 

172 Louis Eugene Woodwell, born April 11, 
1847. For a number of years he was engaged in farming 
at West Newbury, Mass. He married Ruth Lunt, Aug. 
18, 1870. 

Children : 

197 MARY ALICE, b. Aug. 18, 1873 ; m. George E. Nicklas, July 16, 

1902. Had : Ruth, born June 10, 1907. 

198 EMMA LOISE, b. May 4, 1878; m. Arthur J. Foster, Aug. 8, 1903. 

199 Louis BROWN, b. April 6, 1886; d. Aug. 15, 1908. 

173 David Edward Woodwell, born March 31, 
1849. He has been engaged in farming and fruit grow- 
ing in California and at Sunnyside, Washington. He mar- 
ried Julia Smith, Feb. 8, 1881. 

Children, two who died in infancy, and : 

200 ARTHUR HOWARD, b. Dec. 1, 1881. He is a mining engineer. 

201 MABEL FLORENCE, b. April 20, 1880. 

202 LENA TITCOMB, b. May 9, 1891. 

174 Elbridge Gale Woodwell, born August 29, 
1853. He is a banker in Newburyport, and has been con- 
nected with the Ocean National Bank and the Merchants 
National Bank successively for forty years. 

He married Florence Sargent, August 3, 1876. 
Children, two who died in infancy, and : 

203 FEROLINE, b. Sept. 10, 1887; m. James Swenson, Feb. 24, 1908. 

175 Prank Archer Woodwell, born August 30, 
1858. He is a druggist at Newburyport. He married 
Annie MacLaren, Jan. 1, 1883. 

Child, born in Newburyport : 

204 FLORENCE, b. April 11, 1886. 

177 Herbert Newman Woodwell, born Nov. 16, 
1865. He began to work for the Towle Silver Manufac- 
turing Co. at an early age, and learned the various branch- 
es of the manufacture, designing and engraving of silver- 
ware. He was one of the organizers of the Newburyport 



AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 149 

Silver Co., and at the time of his death was one of its 
managers. 

He married Frances Noyes, Sept. 30, 1895, and died 
Feb. 18, 1907. 

Children, born in Newburyport : 

205 DAVID NEWMAN, b. July 9, 1897; d. March 19, 1899. 

206 ROLAND HOETON, b. May 16, 1900. 

192 Julian Ernest Woodwell, born at Wells, 
Maine, Jan. 7, 1874. He graduated from the Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology in 1896, and is a mechanical 
and electrical engineer. He was for ten years in the gov- 
ernment service at Washington, D. C., from which posi- 
tion he resigned to engage in business in New York City 
as consulting engineer. He married Edith L. Washburn, 
Sept. 14, 1897. 

Children, born in Washington, D. C. : 

207 ETHEL GLADYS, b. Aug. 21, 1898. 

208 THORNTON LESTER, b. Jan. 14, 1901. 

209 DAVID TITCOMB, b. Feb. 12, 1906. 

194 William Herbert Woodwell, born at Pahala, 
Hawaii, May 5, 1881. He graduated from Tabor Academy, 
Marion, Mass., in 1898, and from the Law Department of 
George Washington University in 1906. He was city at- 
torney, Sapulpa, Okla., in 1907-1908, and is now practic- 
ing law at Carlsbad, New Mexico. He married Eva May 
Higbee, July 31, 1907. 

Child, born at Alamogordo, New Mexico : 

210 ARCHER GIDEON, b. Oct. 17, 1908. 



RECORDS OF THE VICE - ADMIRALTY COURT 
AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 



THE CONDEMNATION OF PRIZES AND RECAPTURES OF THE 
REVOLUTION AND THE WAR OF 1812. 



( Continued from Vol. XL VI, page 80.) 



CHA S FAWCETT (83), ship, J. Colburn, master, captured 
Sept. 6, 1812 by Emulous. Restored on payment of costs. 

CHARLOTTA (419), ship, 208 tons, B. Ellstrom, master, 
Landscrona to Rhode Island, captured Oct. 11, 1813 by 
Comet. Cargo : iron, steel, glass, linen and other mer- 
chandize. Restored. 

CHARLOTTE (606), brig, 176 tons, Ezekiel Allen, mas- 
ter, Antiqua to Port Glasgow, recaptured Aug. 31, 1814 
by Wasp. Cargo : 42 punch 5 , 116 tierces, 27 bbls. sugar, 
2 hhds. & 17 punch 5 rum, 20 hhds., 33 tierces coffee and 
20 punch 5 molasses. 

CHASE (125), schr., 98 tons, S. York, master, Portland 
to Norfolk, captured Dec. 9, 1812 by Liverpool Packet 
(privateer). Cargo : lumber. 

CHESAPEAKE (241), frigate, [James] Lawrence, master, 
36 guns and 380 men, from Boston, cruising, captured 
June 1, 1813 by Shannon. 

CHILI (452), ship, 260 tons, R. Gardner, master, Nan- 
tucket, on her return from a whaling voyage, captured 
Dec. 2, 1813 by Nimrod and Albion. Cargo : 500 bbls. 
sperm oil and 500 bbls. flour, the flour was taken out of a 
sloop by the Nimrod and put on board the Chili. 

(150) 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 151 

CHRISTIANA (246), brig, 132 tons, C. Finlay, master, 
in possession of a privateer called the Teazer, captured 
June 16, 1813 by Borer and Wasp. Cargo : lumber. Ves- 
sel restored. 

CIDA DE DE LEIRIA (554), brig, 230 tons, J. J. Claudio, 
master, Lisbon to Boston, captured June 26, 1814 by Fan- 
tome. Cargo : wool, salt, wine, juniper berries, 25 merino 
sheep. Taken into St. John's, N. B. Cargo restored. 

CLARA (513), schr., J. Newman, master, captured May 
23, 1814 by Niemen. 

COD HOOK (699), ship, recaptured bet. 1st and 30th 
Sept., 1814 by a conjunct military & naval force. Taken 
into Castine. 

COLUMBIA (134), schr., 87 tons, S. T. Wheldon, mas- 
ter, Richmond to Boston, captured Dec. 18, 1812 by Liver- 
pool Packet (privateer). Cargo : flour and tobacco. 

COLUMBIA (227), schr., 39 tons, D. Carle ton, master, 
Penobscot to Martinique, captured May 10, 1813 by Rat- 
tler. Cargo: lumber and potatoes. Taken into New 
Brunswick. 

COLUMBIA (212), brig, 98 tons, S. Holland, master, 
Savannah to Boston, captured May 15, 1813 by Sir John 
Sherbrooke (privateer). Cargo : 173 bales cotton and a 
quantity of reeds. 

COMET (690), schr., 66 tons, Eben Cushman, master, 
New Bedford to Elizabeth City, captured Jan. 13, 1815 by 
Rolla (privateer). Cargo : 1000 bushels salt and 3 boxes 
merchandize. Taken into Liverpool. 

COMMERCE (262), brig, 185 tons, T. Collinck, master, 
Philadelphia to Gottenburg, captured May 30, 1813 by 
Spartan, Statira and Martin, Cargo: 498 bales cotton 
and 3000 staves. 



152 RECORDS OF THE VICE- ADMIRALTY COURT 

COMMERCE (545), brig, 195 tons, James Ives, master, 
Liverpool to Halifax, recaptured May 2, 1814 by Superb. 
Cargo : dry goods, hardware and cordage. 

COMMODORE BARRY (201), sloop, 25 tons, cruising, 
captured July 19, 1812, by Spartan and Maidstone. Taken 
into St. Johns, N. B. 

CONCORDIA (55), ship, A. Adams, master, from Liver- 
pool, captured Aug. 4, 1812, by squadron. Restored on 
payment of costs. 

CONDEDOS ARCOS (601), ship, 210 tons, T. de Mello, 
master, Bahia to New Haven, captured Aug. 20, 1814, by 
Saturn, Forth and Loire. Cargo, 100 chests tea, 50 cases 
sugar, 6000 arabos of fustic, and 90 chests sheet iron. 
Restored. 

CONSOLATION (178), sloop, 70 tons, David Joy, master, 
New York to Nantucket, captured April 15, 1813, by Liv- 
erpool Packet (privateer). Cargo, 200 bbls. flour, 1 pipe 
gin, 1 hhd. tobacco, 6 d salt, and 15 bbls. pork. 

CONSTELLATION (548) schr., W. Barnes, master, cap- 
tured July 8, 1814, by Retaliation (privateer). Taken 
into Liverpool. 

CORDELIA (13), brig, 197 tons, Jos h Kilby, master, 
Figuera to Boston, captured July 16, 1812, by Emulous. 

COSSAC (182), schr. (privateer), Jn Upton, master, 
from Salem, cruising, captured Apr. 4, 1812, by Emulous. 

CRANBERRY (187), schr., cut out of Bass Harbour, cap- 
tured , 1813, by Rattler and Bream. Cargo : beef, 

pork, and other articles taken from on board a vessel that 
was not seaworthy. Taken into New Brunswick. 

CUBA (245), ship, 176 tons, Ge Thomas, master, New- 
haven to Portland, captured June 6, 1813, by Dart (pri- 
vateer). Cargo: 1600 bbls. flour. Taken into New 
Brunswick. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 153 

CURLEW (27), brig (privateer), 278 tons, W m Wyer, 
master, from Boston, cruising, captured July 24, 1812, by 
Acasta. Cargo: guns, ammunition and provisions. 
Taken into possession for the use of the King's service. 

CYNTHIA (675), schr., 95 tons, Sam 1 Cross, master, New 
York to New Providence, captured Dec. 2, 1814, by Holla 
(privateer). Cargo : rye, grain, flour, lumber, cotton 
wool, juniper berries, &c. 

DAEDALUS (623), schr., Joseph Myrrick, master, Port 
au Prince to New York, captured Sept. 18, 1814, by 
Niemen. Cargo : coffee. 

DALKARLEN (577), brig, 224 tons, Johan Magnus Berg, 
master, Amsterdam to Boston, captured Aug. 5, 1814, by 
Leander. Cargo: iron and steel. Restored. 

DANTZIC (496), brig, J. Reid, master, Bath to Bermu- 
da, captured May 9, 1814, by Fan tome. Cargo : lumber, 
boards, staves and shingles, Taken into St. Johns, N. B. 

DART (356), schr., W. Glover, master, Boston to Port- 
land, captured Aug. 9, 1813, by Broke (privateer). Cargo: 
flour, rye, coffee and corn. 

DEBORAH (390), schr., 41 tons, H. Snow, master, Chassit 
to Saco, captured Sept. 1, 1813, by Dart (privateer). 
Cargo : some corn, little salt, and a few apples. Taken 
into New Brunswick. 

DEFIANCE (184), schr., 113 tons, T. Altham, master, 
Castine to Boston, captured Mar. 31, 1813, by Bream. 
Cargo : cordwood. Taken into New Brunswick. 

DEFIANCE (502), schr., S. Marshal, master, captured 
May 19, 1814, by Shannon (privateer). Taken into Liv- 
erpool. 

DEFIANCE (172), sloop, 104 tons, T. J. Farrow, master, 
Wiscasset to New York, captured Apr. 4, 1813, by Liver- 
pool Packet (privateer). Cargo : spars, oaks, timber and 
lumber. 



154 RECORDS OP THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT 

DEFIANCE (542), sloop, 62 tons, E. Sterling, master, 
captured June 3, 1814, in a harbour of New Haven by the 
boats of the Liverpool Packet (privateer). Cargo : 400 
bbls. flour, 2 doz. chairs and a waggon. 

DEFIANCE (581), sloop, 46 tons, Mulford Howes, mas- 
ter, Chatham to a fishery, captured Aug. 3, 1814, by Live- 
ly (privateer). Cargo : salt and fishing stores. Taken 
into Liverpool. 

DEFIANCE (573), sloop, E. Sterling, master, captured 
, 1814, by Superb and Sylph. 



DELAWARE (578), schr., 79 tons, Joseph Merrihew, 
master, Wilmington to Cuba, captured Aug. 2, 1814, by 
Acasta and Menelaus. Cargo : 546 bbls. fine flour, 39 
kegs crackers, 6 half bbls. flour and 60 boxes soap. 

DEL CARMEN (260), schr., J. Ivinada, master, New 
York to Havannah, captured June 14, 1813, by Spartan, 
Statira and Martin. Cargo : 405 boxes soap. Restored. 

DELPHIN (231), brig. A. C. De Selvia, master, New 
York to Oporto, captured May 19, 1813, by La Hogue. 
Cargo : corn, rye, beef, pork and candles. Restored. 

DESLESDERNIER (536), schr., J. Shackford, master, 
Boston to St. Andrews, captured June 22, 1814, by Tene- 
dos. Part of cargo restored. 

DIAMOND (383), brig, 229 tons, A. McLelland, master, 
Antigua to Portland, captured Aug. 16, 1813, by Fly 
(privateer). Cargo : 143 puncheons molasses. Restored. 

DIANA (90), ship, A. Wilson, master, Jamaica to Glas- 
gow, recaptured Sept. 20, 1812, by San Domingo. 

DIANA (565), sloop, 69 tons, W m Paynter, master, 
Philadelphia to Havannah, captured July 19, 1814, by 
Acasta. Cargo : 480 bbls. flour. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 155 

DIOMEDE (206), brig, 233 tons, J. Bruce, master, Salem 
to Manilla, captured May 10, 1813, by Nymphe and La 
Hogue. Cargo : redwood, indigo, sugar, tea, oil and ships' 
blocks. 

DIOMEDE (510), schr. (privateer), 150 tons, Jn Crown- 
inshield, master, 33 men and 3 long 12 pounders, from 
Salem, cruising, captured May 28, 1814, by Rifleman. 
Cargo : 6 or 7 trunks of goods taken out of a British 
vessel, the Cod Hook. 

DISPATCH (175), brig, 168 tons, H. Bancroft, master, 
Boston to Cadiz, captured Apr. 16, 1813, by La Hogue. 
Cargo : 5650 bushels corn and 60 bbls. rye flour. Restored. 

DISPATCH (430), brig, J. Thompson, master, recaptured 
Oct. 25, 1813, by Albion. 

DIVINA PASTOKA (381), ship, 385 tons, J. G. Colado, 
master, Havannah to New York, captured Sept. 1, 1813, 
by Statira. Cargo : hides, sugar, molasses and coffee. 

DOLPHIN (38), schr. (privateer), 26 tons, John Wood- 
berry, master, from Portsmouth, cruising, captured Aug. 
12, 1812, by Earl of Moira. Cargo : guns, ammunition 
and provisions. 

DOLPHIN (41), schr. (privateer), 43 tons, W m Dyer, 
master, from Boston, cruising, captured Aug. 13, 1812, by 
Colibrie and Maidstone. Cargo : guns, ammunition and 
provisions, 

DOLPHIN (362), schr., 67 tons, R. O. Bean, master, 
Portland to Boston, captured July 29, 1813, by Dart 
(privateer). Cargo : cordwood. Taken into New Bruns- 
wick. 

DOLPHIN (653), schr., 28 tons, Stephen Thomson, mas- 
ter, Boston to Bath, U. S., captured Oct. 22, 1814, by 
Lunenburg (privateer). Cargo: 23 bars iron. Taken 
into Lunenburg. 



156 RECORDS OF THE VICE- ADMIRALTY COURT 

DOLPHIN (382), sloop, E. Johnston, master, captured 
Aug. 16, 1813, by Fly (privateer). 

DOMINICA (540), schr., F 8 Beaufew, master, captured 
May 22, 1814, by Dotterell, Majestic and Morgiana. Car- 
go : 15 casks claret wine, 23 hhds. tobacco, 80 tierces rice, 
4 cases musquets, 11 cheese, some rosin and black varnish. 

DON CARLOS (337), schr., 118 tons, P. Miguel, master, 
Boston to Halifax, captured Aug. 12, 1813, by Weazel 
(privateer). Cargo : flour and shocks. Restored. 

DORIS (79), ship, 202 tons, S. Chamberlain, master, 
Londonderry to Philadelphia, captured Aug. 28, 1812, by 
Nymphe. Cargo: ballast. 

DOVE (135), schr., 77 tons, W m Rogers, master, Phila- 
delphia to Gloster, captured Dec. 17, 1812, by Liverpool 
Packet (privateer). Cargo : Indian corn. 

DOVE (485), schr., Benj n Barber, master, captured Nov. 
27, 1813, by Martin. Taken into St. Johns, N. B. 

DOVE (614), schr,, 31 tons, D. Gorham, master, New 
York to Rhode Island, captured Aug. 28, 1814, by Lively 
(privateer). Cargo : 575 bushels corn and 15 bbls. flour. 
Taken into Liverpool. 

DOVE (634), schr., 24 tons, John Proctor, master, near 
Salem, fishing, captured Sept. 21, 1814 by Lunenburg 
(privateer). Cargo: 1 bbl. oil and some green fish. 

DRAKE (424), sloop, 89 tons, R. Middlebrook, master, 
Newbury to New York, captured Sept. 2, 1813 by Belvi- 
dera. Cargo : 99 bbls. rosin and 7 bbls. spirits and tur- 
pentine. Vessel burnt. 

DROMO (613), schr., 27 tons, J. Parker, master, from 
Yarmouth, fishing, captured Sept. 2, 1814 by Lively (pri- 
vateer). Cargo : salt, fish and fishing stores. Taken into 
Liverpool. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 157 

DUCK (214), ship, T. Selly, master, Waterford to New- 
f d land, recaptured May 18, 1813 by Bold. Cargo : pro- 
visions. 

EAGLE (664), schr., 70 tons, captured in Long Island 
Sound, Oct. 17, 1814 by Narcissus and Dispatch. Cargo : 
8 guns mounted and 6 casks pistol stocks. 

EASTERN STAR (56), ship, 217 tons, Sam 1 Medcalf, 
master, Corrunna to New York, captured Aug. 17, 1812 
by Africa. Cargo : ballast and $ 21,813. 

ECLIPSE (570), sloop, captured July 10, 1814 in the 
harbour of the Chesapeake, the tobacco taken out of store 
houses and vessels sailing under the American flag which 
were burnt. Captured July 2, 1814 by Albion, Dragon, 
Acasta, Loire, Severn, Narcissus, Jaseur and St. Lawrence, 
33 hhds. tobacco. Captured July 10, 1814 by Albion, 
Dragon, Loire, Severn, Jaseur and St. Lawrence, sundry 
dry goods. 

ECONOMY (123), brig, 80 tons, R. Homes, master, Alex- 
andria to Boston, captured Nov. 18, 1812 by Liverpool 
Packet (privateer). Cargo : flour, corn and segars. 

EDWARD (409), brig, J. Garrison, master, recaptured, 
, 1813 by Fantome. 



EDWARD & HIRAM (120), schr., 108 tons, E. Raymond, 
master, Nan tucket to Kennebeck, captured Nov. 10, 1812 
by Liverpool Packet (privateer). Cargo : leather, cheese, 
&c. 

ELEANOR (75), schr., 66 tons, T. Atkin, master, Porto 
Rico to New Haven, captured July 31, 1812 by Africa 
and Shannon. Cargo: 47 casks rum. 

ELIPSE, PEACOCK, MADISON (626), schrs., captured, bet. 
Aug. 1 and 31, 1814, in the Potomack and Patuxent riv- 
ers, by a conjunct expedition of naval and military force. 
Cargo : 510 hhds. tobacco. 



158 RECORDS OF THE VICE- ADMIRALTY COURT 

ELIZA (158), brig, 105 tons, Resquil, master, St. 

Kitts to London, recaptured, Mar. 31, 1813 by La Hogue. 
Cargo : rum. 

ELIZA (136), schr., 90 tons, P. Joy, master, Philadelphia 
to Boston, captured Dec. 30, 1812 by Liverpool Packet 
(privateer). Cargo : flour, leather and gin. 

ELIZA (34), schr., S. Roberts, master, recaptured , 

1812 by Chub. 

ELIZA (541), schr., 100 tons, B. Driggs, master, Wil- 
mington to Halifax, captured July 1, 1814 by Armideand 
Endymion. Cargo : flour and tar. 

ELIZA (566), schr., 41 tons, Ab m Merrit, master, New 
York to East Port, captured July 3, 1814 by Rifleman. 
Cargo : 1500 bushels corn. Taken into St. Johns, N. B. 

ELIZA ANN (669), sloop - Hogg, master, New Bed- 
ford to New York, captured Oct. 31, 1814 by Minerva (pri- 
vateer). Cargo: Indian corn. Taken into Liverpool. 

ELIZABETH (371), brig., A. Halson, master, rec aptured 
Aug. 26, 1813 by Shelbourne. 

ELIZABETH (374), sloop, at anchor back of Moose 
Island, captured Aug. 25, 1813 by star (privateer). In 
ballast, no papers of any kind or people on board. 

ELLEN (288), brig., Ja s Asken, master, St. Bartholo- 
mews to Portland, captured July 7, 1813 by La Hogue 
Cargo : 280 hhds. molasses. Restored. 

ELVIRA (404), sloop, captured Sept. 19, 1813 by Or- 
pheus. 

EMELINE (467), sloop, 44 tons, O. Adams, master, New 
York to Rhode Island, captured Dec. 13, 1813 by Rover, 
Valiant, Statira and Loup Cervier. Cargo : 240 bbls. 
flour. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 159 

EMPEROR (210), schr., North Carolina to Boston, cap- 
tured May 10, 1813 by Ramilies and Orpheus. Cargo : 
Indian corn. 

ENDEAVOUR (359), sloop, 104 tons, N. Stover, master, 
Castine to Boston, captured Aug. 17, 1813 by Curlew and 
Nymphe. Cargo : corn and wood. Wrecked by coming 
into H x harbor. 

ENIGHETON (586), brig, 180 tons, Swedish, J. A. Doltz, 
master, St. Andrews to Philadelphia, captured Aug. 7, 
1814 by Niemen. Cargo : plaister paris and hardware. 

ENTERPRISE (4), brig, 193 tons, F. Bourne, master, St. 
Ubes to New York, captured July 7, 1812 by Ringdove. 
Cargo : salt. 

ENTERPRISE (218), schr., 225 tons, T. A. Morgan, mas- 
ter, 4 guns and 100 men, from Salem, cruising, captured 
May 21, 1813 by Tenedos and Curlew. 

ENTERPRISE (457), schr., J. Plumpley, master, Boston 
to Philadelphia, captured Dec. 8, 1813 by Wolverine 
(privateer). Cargo : salt. Taken into Liverpool. 

ENTERPRISE (463), schr., 119 tons, R. Stevens, master, 
Boston to Bath, captured Dec. 16, 1813 by Shannon (priv- 
ateer). Cargo : ballast. Taken into Liverpool. 

ENTERPRISE (608), schr., 26 tons, Barnstable to Wash- 
ington, captured Aug. 30, 1814 by Niemen. Cargo : 400 
bushels salt and 4 bbls. glauber salts. 

EPOSY MINA (372), schr., J. D. Olagubel, master, La 
Guira to New York, captured Aug. 26, 1813 by Statira. 
Cargo : hides and indigo. 

ERIE (576), schr., 76 tons, John Hearn, master, Havannah 
to Baltimore, captured Dec. 11, 1813 by Sophie. Cargo : 
sugar and coffee, this cargo was unladen in the Chesapeake 
and afterwards sent to Bermuda, the vessel was employed 
in the Chesapeake as a tender to his Majesty's squadron 



160 RECOKDS OF THE VICE- ADMIRALTY COURT. 

ESPERANZO (487), schr., 70 tons, J. Massa, master, 
Porto Rico to New London, captured Mar. 29, 1813 by 
Belvidera. Cargo : coffee, hides, cocoa and hats. Re- 
stored. 

EUNICE (249), schr., 139 tons, A. R Riggs, master, St. 
Ubes to Boston, captured June 18, 1813 by Wasp. Car- 
go : salt. 

EUNICE (523), sloop, 57 tons, Eb r Hill, master, N. Yar- 
mouth to Boston, captured June 10, 1814 by Shannon 
(privateer). Cargo : cord wood. Taken into Liverpool. 

EUPHEMIA (370), schr., 90 tons, J. D. Maria, master, 
Havannah, to Boston, captured Aug. 27, 1813 by Majes- 
tic. Cargo : copper and logwood. 

Ex BASHAW (535), sloop, M. Robinson, master, cap- 
tured June 23, 1814 by Bulwark. 

EXPEDITION (185), sch., 125 tons, A. Brooks, master, 
Boston to East Port, captured Apr. 11, 1813 by Rattler 
and Emulous. Cargo : gin, tobacco, flour, meal, wine and 
sundry other articles. Taken into St. Johns. 

EXPERIMENT (503), schr., 40 tons, Z. Lovell, master, 
Barnstable to New York, captured May 13, 1814 by Bul- 
wark. Cargo : fish and oil. 

EXPERIMENT (270), sloop, J. Boardman, master, Ma- 
chias to Portsmouth, captured June 24, 1813 by Dart (Pri- 
vateer). Cargo : coffee and sundry articles. Taken into 
New Brunswick. 

EXPERIMENT (689), sloop, 91 tons, Peter C. My rick, 
master, New York to Nantucket, captured Jan. 21, 1815 
by Lunenburg (privateer). Cargo : flour, corn, oats, but- 
ter, candles, &c. Taken into Lunenburg. Restored. 

FABIUS (85), ship, 460 tons, J. Manson, master, Amelia 
Isl d to Portsmouth, captured Sept. 6, 1812 by Shannon. 
The cargo claimed as being the property of British sub- 
jects was restored to the claimant. 

( To be continued. ) 



GROVELAND LOCALITIES AND PLACE-NAMES. 



COMPILED IN 1854 BY ALFRED POORE, M. D. 



AQUEDUCTS. There are a few short ones in Groveland. 
One from the spring on the corporation which supplies 
water for Rev. B. Morse and J. V. Rogers ; one from a 
spring in the hill by Peabody's corner which gives water 
to Seth Kimball and D. M. Felch, and Rev. Dr. Perry has 
one in his pasture on the north side of Hardy's hill. P. 
Hopkinson also has one in his pasture on the south side 
of Hutchins' hill. 

ARGILLA SWAMP is a meadow with low land north of 
the county road through which Trout brook passes. We 
know not why it is called by this name. 

ARTHUR'S SEAT is a place in Novelty Squid where Ar- 
thur P. Hardy, the basketmaker, lived a few years, but 
afterwards removed his house to the street and lived on 
Capt. J. Tenny's land, a little east from a point opposite 
John Colby's residence. 

ATWOOD'S COURT is situated between the houses of 
Aaron Atwood and Ardis Walsh on Main street. 

BAILEY MEADOW, so called by William Balch since his 
father bought it of Samuel Bailey, belonged to Ezra 
Rolf, whose daughter Mary married Samuel Bailey, and is 
situated east of Seven Star street and near J. B. Little 
street. 

BARE HILL is situated east of Moses Adams' house, and 
is the most southern peak of the high land between Bare 
Hill and Seven Star streets. It was so named because it 
was not covered with wood in the first settlement of the 
town. 

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162 GROVELAND LOCALITIES AND PLACE-NAMES, 

BABE HILL STREET, laid out about 1775, extends from 
Burbank's corner by the westerly side of Bare hill to 
Male's corner. 

BASKING PLACE, so called, is by a bound stone, between 
Holmes' rock and Federal City, on the old road. 

BEAVER BROOK rises near the upper parish church in 
West Newbury, runs through the meadow and Crane Neck 
pond in a southeasterly direction to Newbury line, then 
on the line between West Newbury and Newbury about 
one mile, and crosses the Groveland line at the bound 
stone where the three towns meet. Thence in Groveland 
it runs southwesterly about 75 rods through Crane mead- 
ows and empties into Parker river near the Gunning rocks. 
It is also said the beaver dammed Trout brook southwest 
of King street. 

BOXFORD ROAD. That street from Factory corner near 
Peabody's corner and the westerly side of Johnson's pond 
was formerly the main road from East Bradford to West 
Boxford, but since the new one by Burns' was made, near- 
ly all travelers go that way. 

BOYNTON'S CORNER, where King and County streets 
cross, and where Enoch Harriman now lives, was so called 
because Samuel Boynton and his son Eliphalet, quakers, 
lived there at one time. 

BRIDLE PATHS. These may be seen in the pine woods 
and other parts of the town, most of them now made wide 
enough to haul out wood with any wagon. 

BROAD STREET extends from Main street, near Charles 
Wallingford's house, across Seven Star street to Query 
corner on Main street. It was laid out over the Tenny 
lot in 1853, and from Seven Star street to Query corner. 

BROWN ISLAND ROAD is a narrow, crooked old way 
from Hale's corner to Crane Neck road in West Newbury, 
extending to the West Newbury line, 1 61-320 miles, with- 
out a single house ever having been built on it. It was 



BY ALFRED POOBE, M. D. 163 

called by this name on account of the upland on the south 
side of this road being called Brown island, meadows sur- 
rounding on all sides. 

BUMPERS is a rocky tract of land on the border of 
Georgetown, west of Federal City, where the boys of 
Groveland have been in the habit of gathering nuts. Some 
suppose that a man by this name lived or owned land near 
there, and others think the name came on account of its 
being very rocky land. 

BURBANK'S CORNER, at Thomas Burbank's, where In- 
dustry street and County road meet. 

BURBANK'S DISTRICT, so called, on account of the 
schoolhouse being near the old Burbank place. The first 
house was placed on Bare Hill road, opposite M. Adams' 
house, where it stood until about 1796, when it was re- 
moved to the field north of the county road, about 15 rods 
northeast of Burbank's corner. There it stood until 1833, 
when it was sold to W. N. Chase and the present house 
built on the common, where it now stands at the beginning 
of Industry street. 

BURBANK'S LANE is a passage from Main street to the 
old settlement where the late Maj. Samuel Burbank lived. 
Sometimes it is called Pecker's lane, because B. C. Pecker 
lived there some years. 

BUTTON WOOD VALLEY, so called, sometimes by those 
who lived on King street, was the valley near the Congre- 
gational church. It received its name on account of the 
common and street below it being ornamented with this 
noble tree, but this species (Platanus Occidentalis) of the 
plane tree has been infected with some unaccountable dis- 
ease at different times since it has been cultivated in this 
part of the country. In 1842, as in England and Scot- 
land in 1809-14, the infection began to show, since which 
many have decayed so that the sight of them is not so 
agreeable, and most of them have been removed, and elm, 
maple and other trees substituted. 



164 GROVELAND LOCALITIES AND PLACE-NAMES, 

BUZZEL'S BRIDGE is the name of a small bridge over 
Trout brook, on County road. 

BYFIELD STREET is the way from Male's corner past E. 
S. No}'es' to the parish, which is composed of a part of 
Newbury and a part of Georgetown called Byfield. 

CANNON HILL is situated on High street, 75 rods from 
Foster's corner. This elevation is so called because here 
is placed a piece of ordnance with which the young pa- 
triots on that rising ground wake up the drowsy conserva- 
tives of the valley at an early hour on the annual return 
of our glorious day of Independence. 

CEMETERY. This place of burial is north of Main street 
with an entrance between William and William S. Balch's 
residences. The old part was given to the parish by Dea. 
Ezekiel Jewett. An enlargement was first made on the 
westerly and northerly sides in 1838 and in 1852 an- 
other enlargement was made on the northerly side. 

CHAIN FERRY. This way of conveyance over the Mer- 
rimac was established by Capt. B. Parker, Peter Parker, 
Capt. D. Mitchell and Sylvanus Hardy. After that Dr. J. 
Spofford and Dr. B. Parker became owners of a part of 
Capt. B. Parker's share. Ferrying commenced Apr. 28, 
1826. Charles, son of Capt. Mitchel was ferryman the 
first years. The ordinary length of time in crossing the riv- 
er is about five minutes, with the chain boat which is used 
except in high water in the spring and fall season. Five 
boats for the chain have been used and four small ones for 
carriages. The property remains in the families of the 
original owners and until lately has been a great income 
to them, although their neighbors spoke very discouraging- 
ly of their enterprise at the beginning. 

CHENEY HILL is the elevation between Main street and 
the river, southwest of Jennings's Notch. It is owned by 
John Parker and Capt. B. Parker's wife. It is so called 
because formerly owned by Peter Cheney, who sold it to 
Moses Parker in 1791. 



BY ALFRED POORE, M. D. 165 

COLD SPRING, in Capt. Oliver Pillsbury's pasture. East 
of J. B. Little road and near the line of W. Newbury. 

COMMON FIELD. Northeast of Cottle's Ferry lane 
towards West Newbury, a tract of land is called by this 
name, it having been in the first years of the town owned 
in common, but now generally fenced. 

CONGREGATIONAL COMMON was laid out when the sec- 
ond meeting house of the parish was built in 1790, and 
the natural lay of the run filled to the level of Main street 
with a water course bridged over. 

CORPORATION COMMON is situated in front of the 
Church, now in possession of the Independent society. It 
was laid out by a company of men composed of Dr. J. 
Spofford, Dea. N. Ladd, Capt. William S. Balch and Dr. 
Benjamin Parker, commonly called " the corporation," who 
bought a tract of land of Phineas Parker in 1832, laid 
out Elm and Ash streets and sold out the house lots on 
these streets. The elms were set on the common in 
1832. 

COUNTY ROAD, the longest road in Groveland, extend- 
ing from Johnson's pond to the West Newbury line, dis- 
tance 5 1-8 miles. 

COTTLE'S FERRY formerly was at the lower part of the 
town. The lane that leads to the landing, called Ferry 
lane, west of the old Bailey lot, still remains open. This 
ferry was established in 1745 by Thomas Cottle, who lived 
opposite the lane on the Haverhill side of the Merrimac. 

CRADLE ROCK, so called, on account of its shape and 
position, is a boulder which may be seen in Eldred S. 
Parker's pasture, south of Capt. Stickney's house. 

CRANE MEADOWS are in the southeasterly part of the 
town on the borders of Parker river and Crane pond, a 
boggy and desolate part of creation. 

CRANE POND is surrounded by the Crane meadows 
through which Parker river runs. 



166 GEOVELAND LOCALITIES AND PLACE-NAMES, 

CROSS STREET, extending from School street to Pleasant 
street was laid out in 1853 by the town. 

DAGON MEADOW. This is the name given to that part 
of the meadow between the county road and Joseph B. 
Little road, owned by John Hopkinson. 

DARK HOLLOW is a place on Salem street in the wood 
where the old path turns off towards the Basking place. 
It was so called on account of the trees in the valley be- 
ing so large and thick that it was quite darkly shaded in 
the daytime. At present the wood is all cut off at this 
place. 

DEAD HILL is situated north of Johnson's pond mostly 
in Bradford. 

DUTCH'S DISTRICT, named for Rev. Mr. Dutch, who 
lived in that school district. 

ELM CORNER is 96 rods from Kimball's corner, where 
a large elm tree stands on the acute angle of the old Salem 
and New Boxford roads. 

ELM STREET, easterly of Corporation common extends 
from Main Street to George Huntress' place. 

ENTERTAINMENT COURT, between the Russel house and 
George Hudson's store, is on Main street, near the Ferry. 

FACTORY CORNER is on Parker street, where the County 
road intersects. 

FEDERAL CITY is a place on the border of Georgetown 
where a few generations of Hardys lived, but they left 
the settlement several years ago, and now there are no 
families living on that old way. It is about six furlongs to 
the westward of Holmes' rock on Salem street, known at 
Georgetown corner by the name of Hampshire. 

FEDERAL MEADOW is a peat meadow owned by Aaron 
Atwood and others which is on the border of Groveland 
near Federal city, from which a branch of Greendale 
brook takes its rise. 



BY ALFRED POORE, M. D. 167 

FISHING GROUNDS. The only place of consequence 
where shad, bass and salmon are caught in Groveland is 
on William Balch's land, with an entrance from Main 
street, through the Gale Pass, where his nephew T. H. 
Balch, has followed the business up to this time. For- 
merly the shore in many places was occupied by fishermen, 
those who owned the land on the river receiving consid- 
erable income. About 1825, 15 seines were constantly 
used during the fishing season on the Merrimac near 
Groveland, 7 on the Haverhill side, and at the following 
places on this side, viz : Tadpole place, 2 owned by Rich- 
ardsons, Hopkinsons & Baileys, Elm Place, 2 owned by 
Saverys, Palmers, Tenneys, Woods, etc.; Wm. Balch's 
place, 1 owned by Balch and Philip Tenney; Shadpoint, 1 
owned by John Goodrich and afterwards by others, and at 
the Flatts owned by Parker and Hinds. 

FLATS. That part of the old Parker lot next to the 
Merrimac river which is frequently covered with water is 
called the flats. On account of the rile in the river when 
this land is overflowed a better quality of grass and a 
larger burden is produced than from the lowlands around 
ponds. 

FOSTER'S CORNER is at the entrance of High Street on 
King street, 58 rods from Peter Parker's corner, and 145 
rods from Chain Ferry. 

GALE PASS. At the easterly end of Perry's walk, 78 
rods from Peter Parker's corner on Main street, is a pas- 
sage between the hills, and the elevation now called Picnic 
hill has been known by this name. It was so named on 
account of a man by the name of Gale having once re- 
sided in a small cottage on the northeasterly side of the 
way. Tradition says that this man belonged to the re- 
markable jury all but two of whom committed suicide. 

GREAT ROCK, on Capt. John Stickney's land, near his 
house on the southerly side of County street. 



168 GROVELAND LOCALITIES AND PLACE-NAMES, 

GREENDALE BROOK is a brook which rises in George- 
town near Federal city, runs through the forests crossing 
Salem road, and empties into Johnson's brook, below the 
factory, at the South side of County road. At some places 
in this brook the water is very clear and cool. It is 2 
miles in length, and is shaded with forests, but previous to 
1800 some of the valley of this brook was cleaned of the 
wood, and presented a beautiful green meadow. 

GROVE STREET, extending from Elm street to Chestnut 
street, was laid out by the town in 1853. 

MALE'S CORNER is in the southeasterly part of the 
town where six roads meet. 

HALE GATE MEADOWS are those that are sometimes 
called Crane Neck meadows, which are approached by 
passing through the gate at the mouth of Brown Island 
road near Quaker Hale place. 

HARDY'S HILL, sometimes called Mr. Perry's hill, on 
account of his owning the land on the side next to the vil- 
lage, and formerly called Cub hill. 

HARRIMAN'S BROOK, commences in the meadows south 
of Bare hill, runs through land of the Harriman's, east of 
the hill, crossing Seven Star road and empties into Saw- 
mill brook. 

HAY SCALES. Moses Parker owned the scales used in 
those days, which occupied a place on the Common in 
front of where Mr. Perry's house now stands. After the 
house was built, they were removed to the northerly side 
of his store. The next place of weighing was near D. B. 
Stickney's, where the more modern and convenient balances 
were used. Capt. Benj. Parker does most of the weighing 
of hay, coal, and other heavy articles, and there are other 
balances at Kimball's corner. 

HEIGHTS. That part of the village including Chestnut 
street east of the Ferry, is called the Heights. It was laid 
out by Dr. Spofford and others, and sold in lots. The land 
was bought of Aaron Atwood. 



BY ALFRED POORE, M. D. 169 

HEMLOCK BANKS is a place below Crane pond on Park- 
er river. 

HIGH STREET extends from Foster's Corner over Can- 
non hill to Rollins's common. 

HOBSON LOT containing 260 acres, was laid out to 
widow Ann Hobson. It was bounded by the river 44 
rods, on one side by Thomas Kimball and by Johnson's 
brook, a part of the river, and extended back to Johnson's 
pond. The Mullikins soon came into possession of a part 
of it and later the Kimballs owned considerable of it. 

HOME MEADOWS lie west of J. B. Little road and a few 
rods from Joseph Bank's residence. 

INDIAN HILL is situated near Johnson's pond, between 
the new and old Boxford roads. 

INDUSTRY STREET extends from Rollins's corner to 
Burbank's corner. 

JENNING'S NOTCH, east of Cheney hill, is so called from 
an early owner. Moses Parker bought the place and left 
it to his daughter Sarah. 

JEWETT'S CROSSING is where the Newburyport railroad 
crosses the highways near Eben P. Jewett's house on Milk 
street and County road. 

JOHNSON'S BROOK, in the westerly part of the town, is 
the outlet of Johnson's pond, and is 2 7-16 miles in length, 
and empties into the Merrimac river. 

JOHNSON'S POND is in the southwestern corner of the 
town, more than half of it lying in Boxford. The dis- 
tance around it is 3 1-2 miles, it being considerably larger 
since the Factory Co. has overflowed the low lands on the 
Boxford side. 

JUNCTION CORNER is where Ash, Perry, School, Milk 
and Liberty streets meet. 



170 GROVELAND LOCALITIES AND PLACE-NAMES, 

KIMBALL'S BROOK rises in Bradford, crosses Salem 
street near Groveland, passes through the old Kimball lot, 
Nath 1 Parker's bark mill, crossing Parker street where it 
empties into Johnson's Brook, near Morse's corner. 

KIMBALL'S CORNER is where Salem street crosses Par- 
ker street. Here years ago Daniel Kimball kept a public 
house, where teamsters and travellers stopped on their way 
to and from Salem. Hence the name. 

KIMBALL LOT, most of which is in Bradford, extended 
from the river to Johnson's Pond, bounded on the Mighill 
lot, inherited by the Woodmans, on one side, and Hobson, 
afterwards owned by the Mullikens and Kimballs, on the 
other side. 

KING STREET is the direct way from Peter Parker's 
corner past Boynton's corner to Georgetown, so named 
from ' King Philip,*' a nickname given to Philip Hardy, 
who lived in Enoch Harriman's house. 

LANDINGS on the Merrimac in Groveland are at Cot- 
tie's Ferry, Chain Ferry, Greenough's lumber yard near 
their residence, and sometimes at William Balch's fishing 
ground. Formerly Petty's Ferry and Shadpoint, where the 
ferry way and shipyard were, were used for that purpose. 

LIBERTY STREET, built by J. B. Hardy in 1853, extends 
from J unction corner to Ridge Hill corner. 

THE JOSEPH B. LITTLE ROAD was laid out in 1534, and 
extends from the upper parish church in West Newbury 
past Hale's corner in Groveland to Georgetown corner. 

LITTLE PONDS, two small basins of water without either 
inlet or outlet to them, in the woods near Salem street, 
owned by Cyrus K. Ordway of West Newbury and others. 

LONG MEADOW extends from Bare hill across King 
street to the sawmill dam near Jewett's Crossing, from 
which much good peat has been dug this year (1854) on 
account of the high price of fuel. 



BY ALFRED POORE, M. D. 171 

MAIN STREET, which extends from Bradford to West 
Newbury, is sometimes called the Newburyport road, and 
that part along by the river, Water street. It was laid out 
probably about 1662, and is over two miles in length. 

MILK STREET extends from Junction corner to Salem 
street, and is so called by Dr. Spofford because so many 
cows belonging to the village are driven to pasture 
through this street. It is also called Jaques road, on ac- 
count of Parker Jaques and his father having lived there. 

MORSE'S CORNER, where Parker street meets Main 
street, so called because families of this name have lived 
on this corner for many years. 

MUCK MEADOW, in the Stickney and Worcester lots, 
from which Spofford brook takes its rise, is situated south- 
east of Main street, opposite Perry's walk. 

MUTTON PIE SWAMP is situated in the woods north of 
County road and between Jewett's crossing and Zachery 

path, where, it is said, a man by the name of Jaques 

carried a mutton pie and camped out a number of days and 
nights at the time of the Revolution to escape going into 
battle with a company from this town. 

NEGRO POST. This was a guidepost which stood on 
the southwesterly corner of Main and King streets, which 
was the production of a fanciful genius by the name of 
William Blodget, who lived in this place previous to 1800. 
On it was painted a negro, with the following inscription : 

" Ten miles to de port,* 
Six miles to de spring, t 
Two coppers, Masser, 
Me tell you agin." 

NELSON'S HILL is situated on the Nelson lot, near the 
West Newbury line, northwest of Wallingford's hill. 

*Newburyport. 
tBrown's Spring. 



172 GBOVELAND LOCALITIES AND PLACE-NAMES, 

NELSON'S LOT. This original lot is next to the West 
Newbury line, and has been owned since the earliest set- 
tlement by the descendants of Joseph Richardson, who 
married into the Nelson family. 

NOVELTY SQUID, southeast of Dagon meadow, is in 
William Balch's pasture. 

NOYES'S CREEK or BROOK is sometimes called Pearce's 
creek, from a more recent owner. One branch of this 
brook rises in Groveland and the other in West Newbury, 
runs by the brickyard, and empties into the Merrimac at 
the boundary between Groveland and West Newbury. 

PALMER'S BROOK or CREEK, so named because it passes 
through the old Palmer lot, has two branches, which unite 
with other smaller branches in the meadow back of Wm. 
S. Balch's and Charles Wallingford's residences. 

PARKER'S BROOK rises in the small meadow back of T. 
Stacy's house, crosses School and Ash streets, and empties 
into the Merrimac back of Capt. B. Parker's place. 

PETER PARKER'S CORNER is marked by a stone in the 
ground, with P. P." on the top, which is on a level with 
the corner of his land. 

PARKER COURT is between the Parker mansion and the 
house which Mrs. Gile now occupies. 

PARKER LOTS. Although the Parkers did not settle in 
Bradford until some time after the lands were divided, 
they have been the owners of a large part since they have 
lived here. They settled on the lot of Samuel Phillips, 
" east of Johnson's Brook," and the original places of 
both Parker settlers are owned by their descendants to 
this day, Stephen Parker, where his ancestor lived, and 
Mrs. Pemberton on the old place of her first ancestor in 
this town. 

PARKER RIVER, which rises in Boxford, runs through 
Georgetown and Groveland and empties into Plum Island 
river. 



BY ALFRED POOBE, M. D. 173 

PARKER STREET extends from Morse's Corner to the 
Boxford line, so named because the Parker family has 
owned a large part of the land. It was the most flourish- 
ing part of the town, when the tanning and currying busi- 
ness was good. 

PEABODY'S CORNER is where the County road crosses 
Salem street. 

PECKER STREET extends from Main street to Liberty 
street. It also has been called Burbank's lane. 

PEMBERTON PLACE, near Worcester street, where a cel- 
lar on the old Worcester lot shows where a John Pember- 
ton probably lived. 

PERRY'S WALK, situated on the northwesterly side of 
Main st., from Peter Parker's corner to William Balch's 
house, was made at the suggestion of the Rev. Dr. Perry 
soon after he was settled in the parish. 

PERRY STREET extends from Foster's corner on King 
street to Ash street. It was laid out in 1853, through land 
of E. S. Page and John Parker, Rev. G. B. Perry, Aaron 
Atwood, N. Ladd and corporation land, and was made by 
Samuel F. Barker, the road builder of Andover, in 1853-4. 

PHILLIPS LOT was a tract of land that was granted to 
Rev. Samuel Phillips on the east side of Johnson's brook, 
where the first Parkers settled. 

PICNIC HILL is between Main street and the river N.W. 
of Gale's pass where Mr. Balch permitted social parties to 
hold their picnics, so called, that were so fashionable in 
this region in 1840-50. It is a beautiful pine grove with a 
foot path from a gate about a furlong from Peter Parker's 
corner. 

PLEASANT STREET is situated on a tract of land called 
the "Phineas Parker lot," which was laid out and che house 
lots sold by Esquire Ladd in 185-. The town accepted 
the laying out of this with Cross street in 1853. 



174 GROVELAND LOCALITIES AND PLACE-NAMES, 

POMP'S ORCHARD is situated southwest of Samuel Har- 
riman's residence, which was formerly owned by the Afri- 
can of this name. 

PROSPECT BLUFF is a steep hill opposite Ezra Hardy's 
residence on King street. 

QUERY CORNER is on the corner of Main and Broad 
streets and was so named on account of the many inquiries 
made by travelers for the way to Haver hill. 

RIDGE HILL CORNER is where Liberty and Main streets 
meet. 

RIDGE HILL is a narrow ridge between Main street and 
the river, extending from where E. T. Curtis lives to John 
Pemberton's place. 

ROCKY BROOK rises in the lowland in West Newbury 
and empties into Sawmill brook. 

ROCKY WOODS in the back part of the town, east of 
King street extend nearly to Hale's corner, and the pas- 
tures east of Sawmill brook beyond the J. B. Little road 
are called Rocky pastures. 

ROGERS LOT, next east of the Phillips lot, granted to 
Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, was about 150 rods wide on the riv- 
er and contained 300 acres. It was laid out previous to 
1658. He, as well as Mr. Phillips, probably sold out his 
land for others to improve in a few years after the grant. 

ROLLIN'S COMMON is a corner cut off when the street 
was widened, from Foster's corner to Burbank's corner 
near the Rollins place at the entrance to Worcester street. 

ROUND HILL, one of the highest hills in Groveland, is 
situated on the Bailey lot, southwest of Wallingford hill. 

SALEM STREET is in the southwestern part of the town 
and extends from the line of Bradford near William 
Brown's house to the Georgetown line, near Holmes' rock, 
the whole distance in Groveland being a little over 2 miles. 



BY ALFRED POORE, M. D. 175 

SANDY BROOK is a small run in the southeasterly part 
of the town coming from Jaques meadow, crossing Brown 
Island road near the line of West Newbury and empties 
into Crane brook. 

SAND HILL is on Parker street above Solomon H. Par- 
kers residence where sand is obtained for mortar used in 
masonry. 

SAVARY'S LANE is a bridle path which extends from 
Main street near John Tappan's house towards the back 
part of the town. 

SAWMILL BROOK. Besides Trout brook, which is some- 
times called by that name, there is one in the eastern part 
of the town rising inE. Boynton's land and emptying into 
Crane pond. 

SCANTY POINT is on the Merrimac river nearly opposite 
Uriah Hopkin son's house. 

SCRAGUM. A tract of woodland on the West Newbury 
line between J. B. Little's and Brown island roads is called 
by this name. 

SEVEN STAR STREET is situated in the eastern part of 
the town and extends from Ralf's corner to Hale's corner, 
a distance of about two miles. 

SHAD POINT is on the Merrimac river in the rear of Dr. 
Spofford's residence. 

SHIP YARDS. Vessels have been built in Groveland at 
Shad point, at Chain Ferry, near Capt. D. Mitchel's, oppo- 
site the John Page and Woodbridge Parker houses, in front 
of Uriah Hopkinson's house, and at Johnson's brook. Dea. 
P. Carleton occasionally built small boats at his house and 
hawled them to the river. 

SLATE QUARRY is situated on the western side of Che- 
ney hill on the shore of the river. Here Henry C. Parker 
has prepared this material for the market, it being used for 
the under-pinning of buildings and other similar purposes. 

SMITH'S HILL is situated on the line of West Newbury, 
southeast of the almshouse. 



176 GROVEL AND LOCALITIES AND PLACE-NAMES, 

SMALL Pox GRAVEYARD is on the easterly side of Milk 
street now the crossing of County and Milk streets. 

SPOFFORD'S BROOK rises in Muck meadow and empties 
into the river, near Shad point. 

SPRINGS. Chalybeate springs have been discovered on 
the land belonging to the Savary family in the rear of the 
residences of the late Esquire G. Savary's and also at 
Esquire Stephen Parker's. 

SPRING HILL is situated west of Salem street between 
Kim ball's corner and Peabody's corner. 

STICKNEY BOWLDER, see Cradle rock. 

STICKNEY LOT was between the Hardy lot on the west- 
erly side and Worcester lot on the easterly side and is 
partly owned by the descendants of the first of the name. 

TENNEY'S CORNER is near Capt. John Tenney's residence, 
where the County road crosses Seven Star street, on the 
old Tenny lot. 

TENNEY LOT was bounded by Palmer's brook and Seven 
Star street on the easterly side and the Jewett lot on the 
westerly side. Elder Samuel Tenney's house, which stood 
northeast of Charles Wallingford's house, was perhaps the 
first one built on the lot. Considerable of this lot is now 
in the hands of Elder Tenney's descendants. 

TIMOTHY HILL is between John Brown, jr.'s and Hardy 
hill, so named because Timothy Hardy once owned the 
land. 

TOWN ROAD, from Seven Star road to the West New- 
bury line, was widened and straightened in 1849. 

TROUT BROOK, sometimes called Sawmill brook, is 
formed by a number of branches aniting in the pasture 
back of Jonathan B. Hardy's residence, and emptying into 
Johnson's brook, near the old fulling mill. 

TRUDLE HOLE is a soft, spongy place, near Sawmill 
brook, on the west side of J. B. Little road, which may 
be shaken by jumping upon it. 



BY ALFRED POORE, M. D. 177 

UNION STREET was laid out by Mr. Perry from King 
street through his land. 

VILLAGES OF GROVELAND are the following : The Main 
street from Paul Page's residence to Ridge hill and back 
on King and Milk streets as far as Foster's corner and the 
residence of J. Brown, jr., which includes about a third 
part of the inhabitants of the town, may be considered as 
one village. The street from Ralf's corner to West New- 
bury and back to Levi B. George's, as another, which is 
called Savary's, or Stickney's, and sometimes the Lower 
Village. Kimball's Corner, or South Groveland as it is 
sometimes called, is the third. There are smaller settle- 
ments at Parker street, from Morse's corner to Sandy hill ; 
a place near Boynton's corner, since the Mormon religion 
was introduced into this vicinity, has been called sometimes 
Nauvoo ; the vicinity of Burbank's corner is sometimes 
called 4< Goose hill way." The town road near Thomas 
Woods is often called '* Pudding bag lane," and the main 
street, from David W. Hopkinson's to W. N.Hopkinson's, 
is sometimes called "below zero." 

WADING PLACE. This is south of County road, be- 
tween Tenny's corner and the site of Joseph Bailey's 
house, where the brook was crossed in the old path before 
the road was laid out previous to 1790-5. 

WALLINGFORD HILL is where the almshouse is located 
on Town road. 

WHARF. No extensive provision has been made for 
landing from the Merrimac river. There has been a tem- 
porary wharf for the steamboats and where the vessels 
were built. The remains of one still exist on the lower 
side of the Chain ferry. 

WOODMAN LINE. This was sometimes called the boun- 
dary between the two parishes of Bradford, that is, the 
line between the original lots of widow Ann Mighill, 
whose daughter married Jonathan Woodman, and whose 
descendants now own a part of it, and Thomas Kimball, 
in the East Parish. 



MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 2. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 



THE accompanying map includes that section of Mar- 
blehead lying between Pleasant and Washington streets 
and the harbor and westerly of Waldron street to the 
western end of Rowland's hill. This was the western 
part of the section of the town known as " Newtown " a 
hundred years ago, the bridge on Washington street, at 
School street, indicated on the map, being called ' New- 
town bridge." 

Rowland's hill was so called, probably, because Richard 
Rowland lived at its eastern end. It was called Newtown 
hill at one time. This was laid out and granted as 
" recompense " land in 1726. 

The original road into the town ran on the south side 
of Rowland's hill, a little higher than the present Prospect 
street This was the way in 1677, but soon after the 
course was changed to the north side of the hill where 
Pleasant and Washington streets now run, except at the 
western part, above the " workhouse rocks." The dotted 
lines show where the street now runs, and the continuous 
lines the former location. The eastern end of Vine street 
and the short narrow court near " workhouse rocks " are 
parts of the original way. 

Washington street was the ancient way to Marblehead. 
It was called the road to Marblehead in 1727; country 
road or main street in 1736; street leading out of town 
in 1815 ; the main street in 1827 ; and Washington street 
in 1848. 

Waldron street was a way from the earliest settlement. 
It was called the way to or through the fish fence lands in 
1734 ; Waldron's lane in 1754 ; street leading to the fish 
fences in 1797; highway in 1807; and Waldron street in 
1880. The northern end of Waldron's court was laid out 

(178) 



BY SIDNEY PEBLEY. 179 

by the owners of the Andrews lot, to reach the rear of the 
lot, before 1734 ; and was subsequently extended, from 
time to time, as needed. It was called Waldron's court 
as early as 1842. 

The part of Gregory street included in this section had 
its beginning in the right of way granted by John Wal- 
dron (shown on the map) to Rev. Samuel Willard, Feb. 
21, 1682,* in order that Mr. Willard might reach his 
lot from the highway. It was called the road leading 
through the fish fences in 1808 ; road or way to the fish 
fences in 1811 ; and road leading to the fish yards in 1852. 

Barnard street was a way leading between the rope- 
walksf in 1764. It was called the way to the ropewalk 
in 1827 ; ropemaker's court in 1845 ; Barnard street in 
1852 ; and the road or way between the ropewalk of the 
Marblehead Cordage Company and Hawkes' ropewalk in 
1853. 

Hawkes street was called the highway leading from Red- 
stone cove to the hay scalesj in 1810, and Hawkes street 
in 1867. Hawkes' court was so called in 1867. 

South street was called the street leading from Reed's 
corner to the South schoolhouse in 1802 ; and South street 
in 1880. 

Rowland street was laid out in 1 726, and was called the 
road over Rowland's hill in 1845. 

Prospect street was so called in 1847. 

Chestnut, Commercial and Cottage streets were so called 
respectively in 1852. 

Lindsey street was called a new street about 1854. 

The harbor was so called in 1715 ; Marblehead harbor 
in 1735 ; and the harbor of Marblehead in 1739. 

Robert Bartlett and Nathaniel Walton and Martha Mun- 
joy lots. These lots belonged to Rev. William Walton of 
Marblehead very early. He died in October, 1668, intes- 
tate, leaving widow Elizabeth and several children. The 
next year the county court ordered that the widow should 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 34, leaf 258. 

tOn either side of what is now Barnard street were ropewalks, 
the longest being six hundred and seventy-five feet in length. 

JThe hay scales were on the eastern corner of the junction of 
Washington and Prospect streets. 



180 MABBLBHBAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 2. 

have the use of the estate as long as she lived. She was 
appointed administratrix of the estate, and in that capacity r 
for forty pounds worth of debts due to creditors of the es- 
tate, paid by her son Nathaniel Walton and her daughter 
widow Martha Munjoy, conveyed to them the eastern half 
of the premises, with the old barn thereon, being the lot 
on the map marked Nathaniel Walton and Martha Mun- 
joy, April 18, 1677 ;* and they owned it in 1700. 

Rev. William Walton's widow died in 1682, and the 
surviving children agreed, March 29, 1683, that their sister 
Mary's husband, Capt. Robert Bartlett of Marblehead, yeo- 
man and fisherman, should have one half of this lot where 
his dwelling stood, he having paid twenty pounds of debts 
due creditors of Mr. Walton's estate,f and the other half 
of this lot to said Nathaniel and Martha, they to satisfy 
the remaining creditors. In 1700, the whole title to this 
lot was apparently in Captain Bartlett. Nothing more is 
known of the Bartlett house or its location. 

Estate of Richard Rowland House. This was the home- 
stead of Richard Rowland of Marblehead, planter, as early 
as 1648. He died in the summer of 1685, his will, dated 
April 24, 1685, being proved June 30, 1685. He devised 
this estate to his son John Rowland and the latter's male 
children. John Rowland died, leaving no issue, before 
Dec. 4, 1693, when administration upon his estate was 
granted. This real estate reverted to his father's heirs, 
subject to the rights of John Rowland's widow, Abi- 
gail Rowland. Sept. 3, 1715, dower was assigned to her, 
who was then Mrs. Cane, out of this " ancient homestead," 
as it was called in the return of the commissioners making 
the assignment. The east end of the " old dwelling 
house," as it was called, and that part of the lot was as- 
signed to her, the well, cellar and oven to be used in com- 
mon with the other owners of the house. The whole of 
this estate was divided among the heirs Nov. 3, 1719, 
when the house was gone apparently. J 

James Smith House. This estate was probably the prop- 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 76. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 47. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 36, leaf 170. 



BY SIDNEY PBELEY. 181 

erty of Erasmus James of Marblehead, as his widow, Jane 
James of Marblehead, for fifty-six shillings, conveyed it 
with the house to James Smith of Marblehead, husband- 
man, 6: 6: 1660.* Mr. Smith died in the winter of 
1660-1, having in his will, dated 9:9: 1660, and proved 
27 : 4 : 1661, devised this house and lot to his wife Mary 
for her life or widowhood, and at her marriage or death to 
his son James Smith, and after the latter's death to his eld- 
est son James Smith. James Smith,sr., of Boston, for ninety- 
five pounds,mortgaged the house and land to William Green- 
ough, jr., of Boston.* James Smith of Boston, mariner, 
owned it in 1713 ; and Capt. James Smith of Marblehead, 
mariner, for three hundred and fifteen pounds, conveyed 
the house and land to Richard Crafts of Marblehead, 
shoreman, Dec. 7, 1714. f The house was then occupied 
by James Stone. Mr. Crafts mortgaged the house and 
land to Mr. Smith Aug. 6, 1716 ;{ and Mr. Smith probably 
foreclosed the mortgage before Aug. 12, 1734, when James 
Smith of Marblehead, yeoman, conveyed the land with the 
buildings thereon to John Oulton, esq., of Marblehead, 
who already had it in his possession. The house was 
gone apparently before Sept. 1, 1736, when Mr. Oulton 
mortgaged the land.|| 

Estate of Nicholas Andrews House. This lot of upland 
and meadow belonged to William Barber of Marblehead, 
fisherman, as early as 1651, and after about 1655 to his son 
Thomas Barber, who removed to Charlestown, where he 
was a cooper. Robert Brooks owned it before 1660. He 
was of Plymouth, and married Elizabeth, daughter of 
Governor Winslow ; and after the death of Mr. Brooks she 
married Capt. George Curwin of Salem. The next owner 
was Thomas Waymouth, of Marblehead, fisherman, who 
Jan. 3, 1666-7, mortgaged it, with " my now dwelling 
house" thereon, to Moses Maverick of Marblehead.^ April 
15, 1667, Mr. Waymouth conveyed the house and land to 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 130. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 30, leaf 129. 
J Essex Registry of Deeds, book 30, leaf 127. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 66, leaf 261. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 72, leaf 41. 
HEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 10. 



182 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 2. 

Mr. Maverick,* and Mr. Maverick conveyed the same es- 
tate to Thomas Rose of Marblehead, 27: 6: 1668.* Mr. 
Rose was a fisherman, and, for eighty pounds, conveyed the 
house and lot to Nicholas Andrews of Marblehead, fisher- 
man, March 5, 1676-7. | Mr. Andrews died in the sum- 
mer of 1698 ; and in his will, dated March 15, 1696-7, and 
proved Sept. 5, 1698, he devised his real estate to his wife 
Elizabeth for her life with power to convey to either of 
their children when they became of age. She exercised 
this authority to some extent, but retained the house itself 
as long as she lived. She died about 1728 ; and in 1729 
" ye old mansion house of the deceased," as it was then 
called, was valued at twenty-five pounds. The estate was 
divided May 8, 1730, and the " old mansion house" and 
land under and around it was assigned to Mary, wife of 
William Bartlett-J Mrs. Bartlett died, possessed of the 
estate, in 1748, when the house was occupied by her 
son Nicholas Bartlett, who was a mariner. To Nich- 
olas, his brothers and sisters, William Bartlett of Bev- 
erly, mariner, John Bartlett of Marblehead, fisherman, 
Andrew Woodbury of Beverly, mariner, and wife Mary, 
George Jackson of Marblehead, mariner, and wife Bethiah, 
William Hylegar of Marblehead, merchant, and wife Han- 
nah, Joseph Carder of Marblehead, shoreman, and wife 
Elizabeth, released their interest in the homestead Sept. 3, 
1748. Nicholas Bartlett became a shoreman, and, for 
one hundred and fifty pounds, conveyed to Jonathan 
Bartlett of Marblehead, shoreman, the lot and " buildings" 
thereon, Feb. 21, 1774. || The house was gone before Nov. 
14, 1801, when Jonathan Bartlett conveyed the land, for 
four hundred and thirty-five dollars, to Thomas Barker of 
Marblehead, mariner.^f 

Samuel Nicholson Lot. The trustees for the commoners 
of Marblehead granted this lot of land and rocks to Samuel 
Nicholson Aug. 14, 1695 ; and it was owned by him in 1700. 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 40. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 152. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 57, leaf 159. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 95, leaf 208. 
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 133, leaf 34. 
IfEssex Registry of Deeds, book 169, leaf 169. 




BY SIDNEY PERLBY. 183 

John Waldron House. Samuel Doliber of Marblehead 
conveyed to John Waldron of Marblehead, fisherman, this 
dwelling house and lot of land, " as it is laid out," June 
20, 1651.* Mr. Waldron married Dorothy Dollever, 
probably daughter of Samuel Doliber, in November, 1653, 
and lived here, becoming a blacksmith and anchorsmith. 
Mr. Waldron died possessed of the estate in 1702, his 
will, dated Dec. 17, 1701, being proved June 8, 1702. 
The eastern end of the house was constructed of stone. 
In his will, Mr. Waldron reserved for the use of his wife 
the western end of the house and that part of the land ; 
the eastern end of the house and lot he gave to his son 
John Waldron, together with half of the lower barn in 
the meadow and half of the fishing stage, flake yards, and 
all other lands ; to his son Thomas he gave the other half 
of the estate, provided that if Thomas died, leaving no 
issue, the property should go entirely to John. He also 
bequeathed to John the smith's shop, wrought anvil and 
tools, reserving for his (testator's) son Thomas, a cast 
anvil, one pair of bellows and an old vise, providing that 
Thomas within seven years took up and followed the 
trade of a smith and used the tools. Apparently, Thomas 
died without issue, and the estate came into the possession 
of John Waldron. The dwelling house, outhouses, com- 
monage and land adjoining was valued at two hundred 
and sixty pounds. Apparently, the house stood only a 
few years longer. 

Eunice Willard Lot. This lot belonged to John Wal- 
dron of Marblehead, fisherman, Feb. 26, 1660, when he 
staked it out to John Webb alias Evered of Boston, mer- 
chant, and partner ; and two days later, for one hundred 
pounds, a deed of it was executed.! Sept. 4, 1679, Ed- 
ward Tyng, sr., esq., of Boston, and wife Mary and Jona- 
than Tyng of Dunstable, gentleman, and Edward Tyng, 
jr., of Boston, merchant, for love, conveyed the lot to 
Eunice, daughter of said Edward and Mary Tyng, and 
wife of Rev. Samuel Willard of Boston, and her issue.J 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 67. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 86. 
J Essex Registry of Deeds, book 24, leaf 277. 



184 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 2. 

Feb. 21, 1682, Mr. Waldron conveyed to Rev. Samuel 
Willard a right of way over his land to this lot, saying 
that this lot had been "made over" to Mr. Willard,* and 
the title to the lot was apparently in Mrs. Willard in 1700. 



NEWBURYPORT IN THE REVOLUTION. 
HISTORICAL NOTES. 



In Committee of Safety, Cambridge, June 21, 1775. 
Resolved, that Joseph Adams Driver of the Stage from 
Newbury be and he is hereby Directed to transfer back to 
Newbury Eliz h Rogers (who as she says) is the wife to 
Will m Rogers First Sergeant in the 63 Regiment of Foot 
now in Boston and deliver her to the care of the Selectmen 
of s d Newbury who are Hereby Directed to Provide for 
her and her child at the expense of the Colony. 

To the Selectmen of Newbury. 

Mass. Archives, Vol. 138, p. 166. 

January 26, 1766. Committee of Safety in Newbury 
Port is ordered to take William Ervin, Henry Wilkinson, 
mariners, John Gopety, rope maker, John Wilson, nailor, 
Joseph Lasky, mariner, James Kendal, weaver, John Mc- 
Manus, carpenter, and Robert Hale, Cook, lately taken 
prisoners in the ship Jenny and brought into Gloucester, 
and put them to such employment as they are qualified or 
if necessary confine them in goal. 

Mass. Archives, Vol. 165, p. 407. 

March 23, 1776 the above prisoners were ordered to be 
released. 

Mass. Archives, Vol. 164, P- 



*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 34, leaf 258; and Marblehead tow a 
records. 



NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX 
COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. 



( Continued from Vol. XL V, page 348.) 



To be Lett at Newbury, A new Schooner, just launch'd 
about 100 Tons Burthen, well found, and will be ready to 
sail in a Week's Time : Any Person inclined to hire said 
Schooner, by applying to Thomas Bazin of said Newbury, 
or the Printers hereof, may be further inform'd. 

Boston Evening Gazette, July 23, 1759. 

June 23 By order of Admiral Coates on the 5th of 
February last, Capt. Usher of His Majesty's sloop Viper, 
went into Monto Christi harbour, to take a list of the 
English vessels there, and they then amounted to 29 viz. 
8 belonging to Rhode Island, 7 to New York, 4 to Boston, 
4 to New London, 3 to Salem, 1 to Marblehead, 1 to Vir- 
ginia, and 1 to Bermuda. Most of them were cleared out 
for Monto-Christi, in ballast, 5 with lumber, some had no 
clearances and others had been obliged to put in there (as 
they pretended) having fallen to leeward of the ports they 
were bound for. 

Boston Evening G-azette, July 30, 1759. 

The 18th Instant the House of the Widow Saunders at 
Cape Ann was struck by Lightning, and receiv'd consider- 
able Damage : several Persons that were in the House 
were knock'd down and stunn'd for some Time, but all of 
them are well recover'd. 

Boston Evening G-azette, July 30, 1759. 

By Capt. Sheperd who arrived here last Thursday in 21 

Days from Barbados we have in a List of Prizes carried 

into Martineco, between the 7th of June, and the 2d of 

July, the Sloop Andego, Lovett, from Salem, for Antigua. 

Boston Evening G-azette, Aug. 20, 1759. 

(185) 



186 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 

Mr. Wm. Silsby late belonging to a Fishing Schooner, 
owned by Mr. Timothy Orne, and others of Salem, ar- 
rived there last Friday from Louisbourg, but last from 
Halifax : He says That about 35 Leagues to the W. of 
Louisbourg within about a League of the Shoar he was 
taken in said Schooner by the Shallop we have so often 
heard of, and carried to a Harbour about 25 Leagues 
from Louisbourg ; that the Frenchman kept them 48 hours, 
and then gave them their Boat, having carried them with- 
in about 22 Leagues of Louisbourg it being then about 
Sun-set, and the next Day they got to Louisbourg ; that 
they had but 3 small Arms, with which they defended 
themselves 1/4 of an Hour, and received no Damage, but 
wounded the Master of the Shallop in the Hand, and 2 of 
his Men in the Head, and as the Frenchmen said kill'd one ; 
the Shallop had 22 Hands, 1 Swivel Gun, 1 Blunderbuss, 
and about 30 Small Arms : When Silsby was taken, they 
were in sight of a Schooner, which the Frenchmen said 
was one the Fishing Vessels they took before, and by the 
Appearance of her, she was tho't to be the Schooner late 
belonging to Stephen Higginson, Esq : &c. of Salem, a 
very fine Sailor ; and the Frenchmen said she was cruising 
to take 4 Vessels if possible, before she returned, and had 
on board 56 Men, 4 Carriage and 6 Swivel Guns; these 
People were taken off Tar Bay: The Shallop and Schoon- 
er came out from near White-Head, as Mr. Silsby sup- 
poses. The Schooner at this Time was in Pursuit and 
within half a Mile of a Schooner and its tho't took her ; 
there were also 2 more schooners near, belonging to Salem, 
one of which was bound home, but is not arrived, so that 
its fear'd she is also taken. The Frenchmen said they had 
taken no more Fishermen or any other Vessel, since they 
took the Three some Time ago belonging to Salem ; and 
that they were afraid to attack the Provision Vessels. 
Boston Evening Gazette, Sept. 3, 1759. 

Boston, September 10. The following is a list of the Ves- 
sels lately taken by a French Privateer schooner called Maria, 
earryiny two 1 Pounders ; 3 Swivel Gruns, with a Number of 
small Arms, and about 70 Men, commanded by Paul Le 




NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 187 

Blanc, fitted out from a French settlement, between, the West 
part of Canso, and Cape Louis which Vessels were carried 
into White Head Harbor, about 5 Leagues to the Westward 
of Canso viz. 

Schooner George from Salem, a Fisherman, taken, Aug. 
9th, 1759, Jacob Clark Master Schooner Swallow, from 
ditto, ditto, taken the same Day Schooner Sparrow, from 
Salem, Fisherman, taken the 15th, Tobias Davis [and five 
others.] 

The Number of Persons taken in the above Vessels, 
were sixty Men, two Women, and two Children, whom 
they releas'd on the 26th of August, giving them the Fish- 
ing Schooner, Three Sisters, in which they arrived at Hal- 
ifax, on Wednesday, the 29th. From Halifax the said 
Schooner sail'd for Salem, with 29 of the People, three of 
whom went on board a Vessel in the Bay bound here, who 
arrived on Monday last. 

Boston G-azette, Sept. 10, 1759. 

We hear from Newbury, that one Day last Week, a 
young man being at Work on the Steeple of a Meeting 
House there, fell from thence, and dashed his Brains out 
in an Instant. 

The same Day, a boy was drowned at the above place. 
Boston Gazette, Sept. 17, 1759. 

Run away the 12th Instant from his Master Joseph 
Gould of Lynn, a Negro Man named George, formerly be- 
longing to Isaac Royal 1, Esq. of Medford who had on when 
he went away, a stripe worsted cap, a coarse Linen fly 
coat, red waistcoat, a Fustian Pair of Breeches, Yarn 
Stockings, and a Pair of Shoes. His stature is short and 
small, speaks broken English, his Age between thirty and 
and forty Years. Whoever will apprehend and take up 
said Negro, or bring him to me his said master, shall have 
Two DOLLARS and all necessary charges paid. 

JOSEPH GOULD. 
Lynn, Sept. 15, 1759. 

Boston Gazette, Sept. 17, 1759. 



188 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 

To be sold by Makepeace and Obadiah Hasten in New- 
bur y, a two deck'd Vessel now on the stocks, about 150 
Tons Burthen, may be compleated in less than a Month, if 
requir'd : The said Vessel can be well recommended. 
Boston Evening Gazette, Oct. 1, 1759. 

By a Master of a Vessel who was taken in his Voyage 
to the West Indies and is returned in a Vessel from Anti- 
gua to Portsmouth, we learn that the following Vessel 
was taken and carried into Martinico, between the 27th of 
July and 20th of August, viz. Sloop Lydia Webster 
from Salem for 'Statia. 

Boston Evening Gazette, Oct. 8, 1759. 

Last Thursday morning Capt. Snowden in a Brig from 
Lisbon bound to Rhode-Island, who has been out 29 Days, 
was cast away to the Eastward of Cape Ann : the Vessel 
and Cargo, consisting of Wine and Salt, intirely lost ; and 
the Mate and one of the Hands drowned Capt. Obrian 
in a Ship from Antigua bound to Piscataqua, drop'd An- 
chor in the Storm a little Distance from the Wreck, and 
just touched on the Rocks, but observing a Snow run bold 
in for Salem Shoar, cut his Cables and followed her, by 
which Means he sav'd his Ship from being wreck'd. 

Boston Evening Gazette, Oct. 8, 1759. 

There is a Tavern newly set up, the Sign of the Bear, a 
little below where the Sign of the Cross was in Fish-Street, 
very commodious, for New bury, Ipswich, Cape Ann or Sa- 
lem People ; or any that passes these Ferry s where they may 
be very reasonably entertained by John Wright, innholder. 
Boston Evening Gazette, Oct. 8, 1759. 

We hear from Newbury, a town which has been always 
distinguish'd for their Loyalty, to their King and Zeal for 
the true Interest of their Country, expressed their Joy 
for the late glorious News of the Reduction of QUEBEC, 
by the brave General WOLFE, which they received by 
the Post on Friday Evening, when the Bells immediately 
began to ring ; and the next Day, the Cannon from the 



NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 189 

Wharfes and Vessels were fired three several Times. 
Monday Morn was usher 'd in by a Discharge of Cannon ; 
the Gentlemen of the town having appointed to dine in 
Publick ; there was an elegant Dinner provided, and an 
Ox roasted for the Populace. A Royal Salute was fired 
at Twelve o'clock, and on drinking the King's Health 
after Dinner. The whole was conducted with Decency, 
and concluded in the Evening with Illuminations, Bonfires, 
fireworks, &c. 

Boston Evening Gazette, Oct. 22, 1759. 

Broke out of a Pasture in Ipswich on the 28th oi October 
last, a small black Mare, about 9 Years old, that Paces and 
Trotts, had her Two fore hoofs something broken. Whoever 
takes her up and brings her to Mr. Thomes Welch of Charles- 
town, shall be handsomely rewarded. 

Boston Evening Gazette, Nov. 12, 1759. 

Last Thursday Evening departed this Life, at Marble- 
head, by a violent Fever, Capt. Greenfield Hooper, eldest 
Son to the Honourable Robert Hooper, Esq ; of that Town. 
He was a young Gentleman of an unspotted Character : 
remarkably beloved by all that knew him, and as univer- 
sally lamented. At the age of 23 Years he had acquired 
all those Qualities that made him dear to his Acquaintance 
and would have rendered him a Blessing to the Place he 
lived in. We hear his remains are to be interred next 
Tuesday. 

Boston Evening Gazette, Nov. 19, 1759. 

Stole from Nathaniel Henchman, jun. of Lynn in the 
County of Essex, or Friday Evening of the th instant, A 
dark Chestnut coloured Mare, about 14 Hands high, and 
about 10 Year sold, with a Blaze in her Face ; her Mein cut 
off, and a short Tail, she Paces and Trotts well ; also a black 
Leather Saddle, with a quilted Dearskin Seat, a dark blue 
Cloth Housen, bound with Russet Leather ; Whoever has or 
shall take up said Mare, and will bring her with the Saddle 
to said Henchman, shall be by him handsomely rewarded, 
and all necessary Charges paid. Lynn, Nov. 17, 1759. 
Boston Evening Gazette, Nov. 19, 3759. 



190 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 

Last Wednesday Night a Fishing Schooner belonging 
to Cape-Ann got on Ipswich Bar and was lost, but the 
People saved Another Fishing Schooner belonging to 
the same Place foundered at Sea, the People lost. A 
Third belonging to the same Place lost on the Isle of Sa- 
ble, the People saved. 

Boston Evening Gazette, Nov. 26, 1759. 



ADVERTISEMENT 

Whereas the Proprietors of the Common Lands of New 
Marblehead, in the County of York, at their meeting by Ad- 
journment the "24ith of May last, agreed upon and ordered a 
Tax of 91. 10s. to be paid on the said Propriators in Pro- 
portion to their respective Interests in said Lands being as- 
sessed at 30s. each Original Right \ viz. 18 thereof for as- 
sisting the inhabitants to Support Preaching there : The resi- 
due to discharge the Proprietors Debts for repairing High- 
ways, $c. to be collected by Mr. John Wright, and paid into 
the Proprietors Treasury by the First Day of October then 
next and now past; which Tax was published by posting the 
same at the said New Marblehead, and in the Shire Town of 
the County of York, and inserted in one of the publick News- 
papers more than Sixty Days before the first Day of October ; 
yet many of the said Proprietors have neglected to pay the 
same: Notice is hereby given "That the Assessors of the 
said Tax have agreed to meet at the dwelling of Mr. John 
Read, Innholder in Marblehead, in the County of Essex on 
Thursday the \lth Day of April next, at Four of the Clock 
Afternoon, then and there by publick Vendue,to sell for Pay- 
ment of said Tax and necessary intervening Charges, so much 
as shall be necessary, of the Common Lands, belonging to the 
Home Lots, following, viz. No. 2 drawn by Galley Wright, 
No. 4 ty George Pigot, No. 14 by Nicholas Edgcomb, No. 16 
by James Sharer, So. 18 by Benjamin Dogde, No. 2% by 
Richard Reed, No. 27 by Moses Galley, No. 31 by James 
Skinner, No. fyl by John Oulton, Esq., No. Jfl by Joseph 
Griffin, No. 48 by Joseph Smethurst, No. 63 by Andrew 
Tucker, No. 56 by John Holman, No. 62 by Isaac Turner, 



NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 191 

unless Payment be made before that Time, to the said John 
Wright, or to Mr. William Goodwin Treasurer to said Pro- 
prietors. " 

Boston Evening Gazette, Dec. 17, 1759. 

Tuesday the llth ultimo, departed this Life, DR. JON- 
ATHAN PRINCE of Salem, in the 26th Year of his Age; 
His Death is greatly lamented. 

Boston Evening Gazette, Dec. 24, 1759. 

A Chest with same Clothing, left in a Store ; the Owner 
may have it again, paying the Charges, by enquiring of Hen- 
ry Titcomb of Newbury. 

Boston Evening Crazette, Dec. 31, 1759. 

Last Monday Evening, Capt. Willis arrived here after 
a tedious Passage of 32 Days from Louisbourg, having met 
with very hard Gales of Wind, and bad Weather, which 
drove him to the Southward as far as Lat. 36. On the 
27th of December coming over the South Shoal of Georges 
in six fathom Water and bad Weather he spoke with Capt. 
Randell in a Sloop laden with Salt, from St. Martins 
bound to Newbury : who told him he had been out 35 
Days and had likewise met with terrible Weather, in which 
he sprung his Mast, had his Sails almost tore to Pieces, 
and lost above 200 Bushels of Salt ; his Men were all 
froze, except two, and were not able to stand the Deck ; 
but what made his Condition still worse was their being 
almost destitute of Provisions, having been at an Allow- 
ance for some Time, and no Candles on board. Capt. 
Randell beg'd of Capt. Willis not to leave him, but a 
Snow Storm and hard Gale of Wind coming on soon after, 
Capt. Willis was drove out of Sight, and saw nothing of 
him after. 

Boston Evening Grazette, Jan. 14, 1760. 

Lost between Salem and Boston, or at Boston, the 16th 
instant, a midling S&fd Silver Watch, with a Iron Wier 
Chain, and the Inside glazed ; If any person has taken up 



192 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 

said Watch, and will bring it to the Printer's hereof, they shall 
have Three Dollars Reward. 

Boston Evening Gazette, Jan. 21, 1760. 

We hear from Wenham, That about the 15th of De- 
cember ult. Ruth Porter a Girl about 13 years of Age, 
Daughter of Mr. Daniel Porter of that Town, was taken 
ill with the Small Pox, her Parents (not in the least sus- 
pecting her Illness to be the Small Pox) sent for Dr. Ca- 
leb Ray of Danvers, who concluded she had a Fever, but 
in 4 or 5 Days Time, an Eruption of Pussule's breaking 
out in her Face, Breast, Arms, &c. convinced the Doctor 
of his Mistake ; but too late for him or the Famity to es- 
cape the Infection, of which they were all Partakers, and 
of which the abovesaid Mr. Porter died the 5th Instant 
much lamented ; He has left a sorrowful Widow and five 
small Children, who have all had the Distemper, and are 
getting up again. The said Dr. Ray died the 10th Inst. 
in the 33d Year of his Age, much lamented ; as a kind 
Husband, a tender Father, a good Friend and skilful 
Physician. 4 Tis remarkable the said Porter lived in a re- 
mote Part of that Town, where there had been no Travel- 
ler, nor had they brought any Thing into the House which 
could communicate the abovesaid Distemper ; neither had 
his Daughter been out of Town, or scarcely from Home 
for four Months past. 

Boston Evening Gazette, Jan. 28, 1760. 

Last Lord's-Day Morning Sen'night about 3 o'clock an 
Earthquake was perceived at Salem, Newbury and other 
adjacent Towns in the County of Essex ; the Noise was 
loud, and continued a considerable Time, but was attended 
with little or no shaking at those Places. 

Boston Evening Gazette, Feb. 11, 1760. 

(To be continued.) 



HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 

OF THE 

ESSEX INSTITUTE 

VOL. XLVI. JULY, 1910 No. 3 

THE HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF 
GROVELAND, MASS. 



COMPILED IN 1854 BJ ALFRED POORE, M. D. 



The following account of the houses and buildings in 
the town of Groveland was prepared in 1854 by the late 
Alfred Poore, M. D. while he was living in that town. The 
manuscript seems to have been revised from an earlier 
collection of notes made by him which is now in the pos- 
session of the Essex Institute and as here printed is prob- 
ably in the completed form intended by the author. The 
material, however, has been arranged alphabetically by 
streets as they are named at the present time, but the 
names of the owners are those who were in possession in 
the year 1854. The description of the houses follows the 
natural order of their location on each street. 

BARE HILL ROAD. 

ADAMS, MOSES, residence of, since his birth, on Bare 
Hill st A Marsh lived and died here about 75 or 100 
years ago and after that Mr. Adams' grandfather, Samuel 
and father Samuel died here. Other occupants have been: 
Mrs. Mace, at 3 different times after 1827. The house 
was probably built before 1760. 

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194 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OP GROVELAND, MASS,, 

HARRIMAN, NATHANIEL, old place of, on Bare hill, now 
a part of Samuel Harriman's farm. The house that stood 
on this place was built by Nathaniel, son of Moses Har- 
riman, about 1810. Here he lived until his death in 1822. 
Other occupants : J. C. Hoyt, 5 years when first married, 
also John S. Plummer when first married ; Isaac Adams, 
1835-41 ; Samuel Harriman, 1841-2, until he built his 
house, and after that pulled down the old house and used 
the material in his buildings. 

HARRIMAN, SAMUEL, residence of, since Aug., 1842, on 
Bare Hill road. This house was built by Bradstreet Plum- 
mer for Mr. Harriman in 1842, on the old cellar where 
stood the dwelling which was built by Mr. Harriman's 
grandfather, Moses Harriman, before he was married. The 
land belonged to the latter's father. He occupied it until 
1784, then his widow lived there 17 }~ears, after which it 
was removed to Georgetown by Stephen Wood. Since 
that time it has been owned by Lake. 

HARRIMAN, CHARLES, residence of, since his marriage, 
on Bare Hill road. Nathaniel Harriman, jr. probably lived 
in a house on the site of the present dwelling from about 
1750 until he died. Later, Abraham Burbank resided 
here, until he went to J. Colby's place. The present house 
was built in 1784 by Nathaniel Plummer, who lived in it 
a few years. Then Rev. Mr. Dutch bought and owned it 
about 8 years, his parents occupying it until his mother 
died. Dea. Jackman next bought it and resided there, 
1796-1801, when he went to West Haverhill. Samuel, son 
of Moses Harriman, then bought it and lived there till he 
died, and it is now occupied by his widow and his son 
Charles. 

HARDY, MOSES, residence of, since 1845, at the corner 
of Bare Hill st. and Seven Star road at Bale's corner. This 
place is owned by David Hardy, but the old house on this 
site which was taken down was probably owned by the 
first Samuel Hale. The shop which stands at the east of 
the house was once used by a wheelwright and the cham- 



BY ALPEED POOBE, M. D. 195 

her in the shop used by Mr. Hardy for a shoemaker's 
shop, was at one time a schoolroom. The present house 
was built by a Plummer, whose brother Stephen lived in 
it from about 1780 to 1798, when he went to Derry, N. H. 
Aaron Chapman from Boxford next owned it and lived 
there until about 1805, when he went to West Haverhill. 
Silas Hardy bought it and resided there nearly all of 
the time until 1844. Other occupants : Jonathan Jewett, 
before S. Hardy, lyear; Jonathan Parsons; George W. 
Cunningham ; Isaac Adams, 1830-3 ; Leonard Wood. 

BROAD STREET. 

GEORGE, LEVI B., residence of, since 1844, on Broad 
st. The land was bought of the heirs of Joseph Poor's 
wife, and Mr. George built his house in 1844. 

BYFIELD STREET. 

NOYES, ENOCH S., residence of, since Sept., 1847 on 
Byfield st. This house was built for him in 1847, by 
Isaac Poor, on land bought of Jonathan Hale. 

SATJNDERS, EZEKIEL, residence of, since Apr., 1833, on 
Byfield st. It is said that Samuel Hale built the western 
part of this house in 1723, where he resided until he died 
in 1772. Then Eliphalet, his son, who built the eastern 
part lived there till he died, about 1802, when Solomon, 
son of Eliphalet, resided at this place. After he died, 
about 1820, his widow occupied the western part until 
1838, and she sold it to Mr. Saunders in 1832. Other 
occupants : Benjamin Hardy ; Stephen Harvey, who mar- 
ried Eliza, daughter of S. Hale ; Nathaniel Andrews, at 
the same time as Harvey ; and Enoch S. Noyes, 1838-47. 

CENTRE STREET. 
Now comprising Boxford Road and County Road. 

RICKER, ALEX. C., residence of, since Apr., 1852, on 
County road. Solomon Tenny built this house, the frame 
of the house and barn being raised on June 15, 1761. 



196 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GROVELAND, MASS., 

Here he lived from June 15, 1762 until he sold it in 181- 
to his grandson, Capt. John Tenny, who occupied it from 
1820-1. The latter sold it to the town of Bradford in 
1821, and after the division of the town Bradford and 
Groveland, sold out to Mr. Ricker in 1851. Occupants 
besides above : Samuel, son of Solomon Tenny, 1786-97; 
and Savary, another son, when first married; Benjamin 
Burbank, 1818-22; Benjamin Hardy; Samuel, a brother 
to B. Burbank, 1819 ; Samuel Kimball ; Moses Cole, 1826- 
32 ; Benjamin Chase ; Jedediah Saunders ; James Currier; 
David Hardy, 1840-51. Since Mr. Ricker has owned it, 
John O. Brown, 1852-4; Thomas N. Crombee, 1852-3; 
Robert R. Keen, Mar. to July, 1854 ; Joseph R. Willis ; 
George W. Hills. 

BROWN, JOHN O., residence of, in Alex. C. Ricker's 
house on County road. 

BURBANK, THOMAS, residence of, since his birth, at 
Burbank's corner. This is the place where Eleazer Bur- 
bank probably settled about 1707. He died in 1759, since 
which time his son John and grandson Nathan have lived 
and died there. Now Thomas, son of Nathan, with his 
family, lives on the place. Paul Stickney resided in the 
house a short time about 1835, and Leonard Hardy, 1845- 
8. 

STICKNEY, JOHN, CAPT., residence of, since he was mar- 
ried in Jan., 1816, on County road, west of Burbank's 
corner. He built this house on his father's land in 1815. 

STICKNEY, MOSES, residence of, since his marriage on 
Jan. 18, 1853, westerly of his father's house on County 
road. This house, which Mr. Stickney built in 1852, 
stands on the site of an old house, a part of which is re- 
moved to the opposite side of the street and repaired for 
a carriage house. The old house was occupied by his 
grandfather and perhaps others of the Stickney family 
before him, and here he lived and died. Thomas W., son 
of Joseph M. Stickney, lived in the old house from 1844-5. 



M. D. 197 

HARDY, JOHN B., residence of, on County road, since 
1829. From where John Page's shop now stands, Mr. 
Hardy removed a building which, with additions, made 
his present dwelling. Benj. G. Hinkson once lived there 
a short time. 

HARDY, JONATHAN B., residence of, since Apr., 1854, 
in a house that he made from a shop which belonged to 
Holmes, and stood in Georgetown, on Salem road. He 
removed and set it on land that he bought of his father. 

FACTORY or THE GROVELAND MILL COMPANY, on 
Johnson's brook. This building stands where Carleton's 
Grist mill formerly stood and was originally built for a 
Machine shop, with a Brass Foundry, by W m Perry, about 
1840. Afterwards it was owned and occupied by Swett 
& Perry of Exeter for the manufacture of shoe thread and 
twine, and in March, 1853, they sold out the concern to the 
present company, viz. : E. A. Straw and M. G. J. Tewksbury 
of Manchester, N. H., and Nathaniel Webster of Amesbury, 
who manufacture meal bags without seams. They enlarged 
the building in 1854 and put in steam power to be used 
when the water fails in dry time ; length 142 ft. by about 
an average of 50 ft. in width. 

FOUNDRY. A brass foundry was made and used by 
W m Perry before 1840 (the frame was raised Apr. 2, 1837), 
and before that Stephen Foster and perhaps others used 
to manufacture bells and buckles in the Groveland part of 
Bradford. 

OCEAN HOUSE, on the shore of the Factory mill-pond 
of the Groveland mill company, was built in 1843 for 
two families. It has been let to the following persons : 
W. L. Parker, 1844-6 ; William Lacock, an Englishman ; 
John Bean, 1844-6 ; William Walker, and afterwards Jos- 
eph Benson, who married William Walker's widow ; Dan- 
iel Dodson ; Quealy & Murphy, when they were building 
the Newburyport railroad; Samuel B. Jones in 1852; 
George N. Kimball, 1852-3 ; Thomas W. Perkins, 1852-3 ; 



198 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GROVELAND, MASS., 

William Nichols in 1853; Edward F. Tuttle, 1853-4; 
Joseph F. Tuttle and E. B. Stickney. 

STICKNEY, ERASTUS B., residence of, at the Ocean 
house near the factory, since May, 1854. Mr. Stickney 
has a house lot on Chestnut St., where he is building a 
cellar. 

BALCH, BENJAMIN, late residence of, on Factory corner, 
now owned by the Groveland Mill Company. Formerly 
this place was owned by Daniel, son of Robert Mulliken. 
The house was made, with additions, from the house 
owned by Ephraiin Hardy that stood near Jewett's cross- 
ing. Mr. Mulliken left it to his daughter who married 
Benjamin Balch for her second husband and they lived 
there until they removed to Bradford to live with their 
daughter Morse, in 1845. Since that, the occupants have 
been James A. Banks, 1845 ; William Moore, 1846 ; James 
Spurr, 1847 ; Enoch H. Kimball, 1850; Benajah Burns, 
1851-2 ; William Reed ; John H. Hardy, 1852-3 ; and John 
W. Kelly, 1852. 

BAILEY, NATHANIEL, the sheepskin dresser, lived on 
the old Boxford road near the factory corner until he went 
to live with David Spofford, his wife's father, in Town- 
send. 

PEABODY, CHARLES, residence of, since 1845, on the 
old Boxford road, near Peabody's corner. Near where 
this house was built in 1845 was a house, it is said, which 
was occupied by Thomas Kimball, who was shot by the 
Indians and his wife and children carried to Andover. 
Mr. Kimball's Blacksmith shop stood on the opposite side 
of the way. 



CHESTNUT STREET. 

HOPKINSON, EDWIN, residence of, since Nov. 3, 1851, 
on Chestnut st. The house was built in 1851. 



BY ALFRED POOBE, M. D. 199 

LANGLET, WARREN, house of, where Rev. Mr. Wasson 
now lives on Chestnut St. His brother Frank built this 
housein 1850, before he went to California. The carpenter 
was Eli Knox. 

GOODWIN, ELEAZER P., residence of, since 1853, in the 
house that he built in the winter of 1852-3, corner of 
Chestnut and Perry sts. 

CROSS STREET. 

FEGAN, JOHN, residence of, since Mar. 11, 1853, on 
Cross st. Mr. Fegan moved into this house the next day 
after Moses D. Morse left it. The latter built it from a 
building brought from the Porter place in Bradford and 
lived in it from June, 1 852, until he removed to Haverhill. 

ELM PARK. 

Now comprising Ash Street, Elm Street, and Common 

Street. 

LADD, NATHANIEL, DBA., office of, on Elm st., near his 
residence. He gives his attention to surveying, probate 
and other business which may be required of a Justice of 
the Peace, and is Secretary and Clerk of a number of in- 
stitutions. The building was originally used by him for a 
blacksmith's shop but removed a short distance when the 
common was laid out by the Corporation. Gorham P. 
Tandy manufactures shoes in the other part of the build- 
ing, where others besides himself have heretofore carried 
on that business ; also John Downing carried on the tail- 
oring business here in 1847. 

Goss, ALLEN H., residence of, since Mar., 1842, on Elm 
St., which he bought in 1842. William Henry of Boxford 
built it in 1832 to let, and the following have been the 
occupants, viz.: Edwin Hopkinson, 1832 ; John Goss ; 
Allen H. Goss, when married, 1834-8 ; William Churden, 
an Irish tailor; Samuel B. Hardy; William Hopkinson, 
1834-40 ; William Lydston, 1837-41 ; Thomas M. Hop- 



200 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GROVELAND, MASS., 

kinson, 1843-4 ; William Fowler, 1844-5 ; Mrs. Kimball, 
George Huntress' daughter ; widow of William Danf orth ; 
J. B. Sanborn, Dec., 1851, to July, 1854. Mr. Goss kept 
a livery stable here ten years, but has removed this busi- 
ness to Haverhill, and lets his stable to Clarke & Rund- 
lett. Mr. Sanborn's place of business is on Ash St., op- 
posite Goss' house, where he has carried on blacksmithing 
most of the time since July, 1849. This shop was built 
in 1837. William Lydston worked here about three years, 
and then R. P. Hovey occupied it as a wheelwright shop 
for several years. It is now owned by George Hudson. 

HOPKINSON, WILLIAM, residence of, since Nov., 1840, 
on Elm st. He built the house in 1840. 

TANDY, GORHAM P., residence of, since 1836, on Elm 
st. He built a house in 1835 and lived in it from Sep- 
tember to December, when it was destroyed by fire. In 
1836, he built the present dwelling on the same site. He 
has let a part of this house to Benjamin K. Hovey, 
1836-7; Rev. Mosley Dwight, a short time in 1837 ; Rev. 
Apaulus Hale, 1837-9 ; Rev. William Ramsdell, Barak 
Bragdon, 1841-5. 

HUDSON, GEORGE, residence of, since Nov. 6, 1849, 
when his house was built on Ash st. The house frame 
was raised on July 16th, Isaac Poor, Carpenter. 

STICKNEY, LEONARD W., residence of, since May 28, 
1849, on Ash st. A building was put up by Mr. Stick- 
ney near his father's house on Cannon hill, in 1845, a 
part of which he used as a shoe manufactory until the 
winter of 1848-9, when he removed it to the present loca- 
tion and made it into a dwelling house, using a part of the 
addition for his old business. Mr. Stickney removed to 
Illinois on Oct. 24, 1854. Orren L. Gatchel lived in the 
house with him a few months before Sept. 5, 1854 and 
Luther K. Pemberton moved into the house on Sept. 28, 
1854. 



BY ALFRED POORE, M. D. 201 

CLARKE, ELIJAH, residence of, since 1837, on Elm 
st. This cottage was made from a building made by Wil- 
liam Hopkinson, in which he manufactured tobacco. Next 
his brother Ira used it for a currier's shop, near W. S. 
Balch's; after that, T. Greenough, together with J. I. 
Ladd, moved it to where N. H. Griffith's shop stands and 
made a trading shop of it ; then Elijah Clarke, jr., bought 
and removed it to his land, in 1837, and has, by enlarging, 
made a dwelling for his parents. 

CLARK, ELIJAH, JR., residence of, since June, 1842, on 
Elm st. The house was made from a building which 
stood near Manly Hardy's house, which was built first for a 
storehouse and for ship carpenter's tools, etc., by Jona- 
than Stevens. Uriah Hopkinson was employed to make it 
into a dwelling, and since that he has built a barn and 
other additions. Mr. Clark bought the land of the cor- 
poration. 

ROGERS, JAMES V., residence of, since 1851, on Ash st. 
This house was built in 1844 by Dr. Spofford, and R. P. 
Hovey occupied it until he died in 1850. After that, 
Rev. B. Morse owned it a while and sold to Mr. Rogers, 
who built an addition in 1854. Other occupants : Robert 
Bulmer, 1850 ; Mrs. Almyra Swett, 1851 ; and George W. 
Rice, 1851-3. 

INDEPENDENT CHURCH, situated between Ash and Elm 
sts. , with corporation common in front, was owned by the 
Methodist Society until the present occupants took pos- 
session of it in 1853. It was built in 1833, the frame 
being raised on May 11 of that year, at a cost of about 
12500, and in 1853-4 it was thoroughly repaired inside. 

MORSE, BRYAN, REV., residence of, on Ash st., opposite 
the church, where he formerly preached. He built this 
house and occupied it Oct. 24, 1848. Mr. Morse has let 
the basement of his house to John Cabban, Henry Story, 
Moses D. Morse, and Benjamin Morse, his cousin, 1853-4. 



202 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GROVELAND, MASS., 

HARDY, LUTHER, residence of, Ash st, since Nov. 2T, 
1843. Gardner Spofford built this house for a currier's 
shop, above William Parker's house on Parker street, and 
in 1843 Mr. Hardy removed it to the present place, and 
has since lived there. 

BURBANK, JOHN T., residence of, since June, 1846, Elm 
st. Mr. Burbank bought his land of " the corporation " 
and removed his house from Main st., where J. Morris 
Spofford's house stands, on June 20, 1846. It came into 
his possession from his wife's father. 

HUNTRESS, GEORGE, residence of, since 1849, on Elm 
st. The frame was raised on June 4, 1849, and B. E. 
Merrill was the carpenter. 



GARRISON STREET. 
Formerly named High Street. 

FOSTER MANSION, on High st, was, it is said, a garri- 
son house. Here Samuel Wood lived after he was married 
to Ruth, widow of Joseph Hardy, in 1749, who probably 
came into possession of it through her husband. It was 
a part of the original Hardy lot, and since the house was 
first built there have been many additions made to it. 
Stephen Foster married Mr. Wood's daughter and resided 
there till he died, and since then his children and grand- 
children have owned and lived in it. About a score con- 
stantly dwell in this mansion. Among the occupants since 
S. Foster have been his son Samuel, 1807-9 and 1829, 
until he died, since then his widow and children ; Nathan 
Ordway, about 1820; Abner Bailey, 1818-9; William 
Hopkinson, 1826-9; William Fields; Jonathan Langley, 
1827 and 1831-4 ; Benjamin F. Howard; Thomas Savary, 
about 1836 ; Burton E. Merrill, 1838-40 ; John Page, 
1834-9 ; widow of L. Hovey, 1839-42 ; James L. Wales 
and Dean Parker, since his marriage ; Charles B. Somes, 
1852-54; James N. Jameson and Eben S. Page; also 
David Palmer. 




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JAMESON, JAMES N., residence of, since 1853, in one 
part of the Foster mansion, High st. 

PARKER, DEAN, residence of, on High st., in the Foster 
mansion, since Apr., 1841. 

RENTON, JOHN A., residence of, since his house was 
built in 1846, on High st. Others who have occupied 
this house with him: George W. Hills, 1849-51 ; David 
Erving, 1848-9 ; Robert Bulmer, 1851 ; widow of William 
Danforth, 1851-2 ; and now his sister, Rebecca D. Palmer. 

RENTON, RICHARD, residence of, since Nov. 14, 1832, 
on High st. The old house which was taken down in the 
spring of 1854 was built by Samuel Stickney in 1703-4, it 
being probably the second house on the Stickney lot, built 
of plank, with one end of brick. An addition was made 
to the first part when Capt. Thomas Stickney was mar- 
ried, about 1762. Capt. Stickney died there, and upon 
the death of his widow in 1815, Dea. Daniel, his son, 
bought it, and immediately sold it to Phillip Tenny, who, 
in turn, sold it to Aaron Atwood, in 1820. Mr. Atwood 
owned and occupied it till 1830. Other occupants : Eli- 
phalet Danforth, 1816-20 ; William N. Chase, 1830-2 ; 
Mancil Hardy, about 1826 ; Benjamin Howard. William 
Craton once owned the place. Mr. Renton's daughter, 
Mrs. Martino, has built a new house a few feet back of 
where the old one stood. The frame was raised on May 
30, 1854, and they moved in the 13th of October follow- 
ing. 

RENTON, GEORGE K., has built a house on High st., 
which was commenced in the autumn of 1853, and occu- 
pied on Oct. 19, 1854. Henry L. Hovey moved in June 
8, 1855. 

STICKNEY, JOSEPH M., residence of, since 1806, on 
Cannon hill, High st. In 1806, about the time of Mr. 
Stickney's second marriage, he made the easterly part of 
his house from a small building used by Dea. P. Carleton 



204 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GBOVELAND, MASS., 

when they were building the meeting house in 1790, and 
afterwards, before the meeting house was warmed by 
stoves, as a place to keep warm between services on Sun- 
day. It has since been enlarged. Others who have occu- 
pied it have been William N. Chase, who married Stick- 
ney's daughter, 1832-4 ; and Mrs. Sarah Smith, a short 
time after Mr. Chase moved out in Sept., 1834. 

SAWYER HOUSE is situated on Cannon hill, High st., and 
is owned by Reuben Sawyer and his sister, widow of Samuel 
Ordway. It was owned many years ago by Samuel Stick- 
ney, a descendant of the original settler on the lot. After- 
wards Nathaniel Balch bought it and lived there until 
1799, when he sold it to Lt. Silas Hopkinson, who occu- 
pied it 20 years. Jacob Sawyer of Newbury bought it in 
1817-8, lived there about 10 years, and after he died it 
was divided among his children. Others who have occu- 
pied the house are the following : Dr. Seth Jewett, with 
his father-in-law Balch ; Samuel, son of Mr. Balch, before 
Dr. Jewett ; William Hopkinson, 1815-8 ; Eben Hopkin- 
son, about seven years, previous to 1820 ; Samuel Bur- 
bank, 1820-1 ; Mancil Hardy ; Jonathan Langley, 1825-6, 
1828-31, and 1834-6; William Sawyer, son of Jacob; 
Luther Hardy, 1827-8 ; Sewall Hardy, 1833-4, at the 
time the house caught fire ; Hiram Rogers ; Enoch 
Adams ; William Fowler, 1835-8 ; John P. Richardson ; 
Isaac Adams, 1841-3 ; Josiah L. Ricker, about 1842 ; 
Rufus H. Wood; John Hammond; John S. Ricker; 
Charles P. Savary ; Alexander C. Ricker ; George An- 
drews, 1851 ; Charles W. Wentworth, 1852-3 ; Elbridge 
A. Richardson, Apr. to Aug., 1853 ; and Richard Renton, 
while his new house was building, in 1854. 

LANGLEY, JONATHAN, residence of, since Apr. 30, 1845, 
by Rollins's corner, High St. He built his house in 
1844-5, on land which his wife had of her father. Charles 
Hardy was the carpenter. This year (1854) he is build- 
ing a barn near Rollins. 

NEWTON, LAVINIA, WIDOW, residence of, since 1841, 
north of Rollins corner. Rev. William Balch bought this 



BY ALFRED POOBE, M. D. 205 

place for his son Nathaniel, who lived there from the time 
of his marriage. Jesse Atwood bought it about 1783. 
He resided there until about 1800, and then Jonathan, son 
of Dea. William Balch, bought and occupied it until he 
died, on Apr. 4, 1838. His widow and her daughter, 
Smith owned it until she also died, on July 15, 1850. 
Jonathan Balch's son resided on the place, 1829 and 
1838-9. Capt. John D. Cook bought and occupied the 
place in 1838, then sold out to Silas H. Newton, who re- 
sided here from 1841 till Aug., 1852, and whose family 
still reside here. 

GROVE STREET. 

STICKNEY, JOSEPH P., residence of, since Sept. 27, 1851, 
on Grove st. Mr. Stickney built this house on land that 
he bought of Dr. Spofford, N. H. Griffith and others, in 
1851. Mr. Felch was the carpenter. 

MORRILL, STANWOOD R. He bought his house of W. 
Reed when the latter left town in June, 1854. The house 
was built by Reed in 1851, and the shop in 1852. Mr. 
Felch was the carpenter. 

SANBORN, JEREMIAH B., residence of, since the summer 
of 1854, in the house on Grove St. owned by S. R. Mor- 
rill. 

GARDNER STREET. 
Now comprising Liberty Street and Perry Street. 

CLARK, JUDITH, WIDOW, bought of Mr. Perry 1-4 acre 
of land on the northerly side of Perry st., built a house, 
and moved into it Sept. 5, 1854. 

BRAGDON, BARAK, residence of, since 1845, south of 
Corporation Common. Mr. Bragdon built his house on 
land that he bought of the corporation in 1845. He is a 
blacksmith, and his shop is on Junction corner. 



206 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OP GROVELAND, MASS., 

MITCHELL, CHARLES, residence of, since Dec. 2, 1853, 
in the house that he built on Liberty street in 1853. The 
house was raised in June, and the barn was raised on Jan. 
20, 1854. Eli Knox was the carpenter. 



J. B. LITTLE ROAD. 

BANKS, JOSEPH, residence of, since May, 1849. Mr. 
Banks bought his cottage of John George's mother and 
removed it from West Newbury to land that he had of 
Moody M. Palmer, which is a part of the old Bailey lot 
on J. B. Little st. 



COLBY, ELIPHALET H., residence of, since 1848, at 
Hale's corner. Many years ago David Hale built a house 
on the spot where this one now stands, one end of which 
was composed of brick that was made, it is said, on Brown 
Island. After Mr. Hale died his son Jonathan, the Quaker, 
took down the old house and built the present one in 1805. 
Upon his death, his widow lived in it, and Eben, son of 
Jonathan, sold it to Mr. Colby in 1847. The following, 
besides the above, have occupied it, viz : David Sawyer, 
1 year ; Sarah, daughter of Stephen Morse, 2 years ; Sam- 
uel Adams, jr., 1831-3 ; Follansbee Noyes, 1833-4 ; Jacob 
Hurl, 1835-6; Jonathan Langley, 1836-8; Eliphalet Sar- 
gent, 1838-45 ; True Brown, 1845-7 ; James Griffith ; Jo- 
seph Hoyt, 1847-8 ; and Benj : F. Crombee, since 1851. 

BAPTIST MEETING HOUSE. This house formerly stood 
at Hale's corner, on the point of land now owned by 
Charles Harriman, made by the Byfield and Georgetown 
roads. 

HOYT, JOHN C., residence of, on J. B. Little road, since 
Apr., 1837. Occupants of this house have been : Mr. 
Hoyt, 2 years from the time it was built in 1832 ; Enoch 
S. Noyes, 1835-7; also at same time, Josiah Plummer and 
Albert, son of Thomas Nelson. 



BY ALFBED POORE, M. D. 207 

BROWN, JOSEPH N., residence of, since 1834, on J. B. 
Little st. Probably Eldad Cheney, who came to Brad- 
ford about 1710 lived on this place. After that, Ichabod, 
son of Eldad, lived there, who died about 1796, aged 87 
years. Then Daniel, son of Ichabod, resided there until 
he died. Soon after that Mr. Brown bought the place. 
At one time Samuel Jewett lived there. 

KING STREET. 

THE PARKER STORE on the east corner of Main and 
King streets is an enlargement of the building which his 
grandfather built. The original building was 40 by 20 
feet and stood 26 feet west of the present location until 
1849, when it was removed, raised 4 feet, placed over a 
cellar, made 30 feet wide, lengthened on Main street to 70 
feet, new roofed, and so arranged inside as to be conven- 
ient for the display of goods. A greater variety of goods 
cannot be found. It was here that his father and grand- 
father formerly kept a store of a similar character. 

SOMES, CHARLES B., residence of, King st., since June, 
1854. 

VESTRY OF THE CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY, situated 
near the church, was built originally on Union street, be- 
tween Hovey and Hopkinson, in 1837, and in 1849-50 
was removed, repaired and enlarged to twice its size. 
Since the town was incorporated it has also been used for 
town meetings. 

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH EDIFICE, situated on the 
North Easterly side of the common near Peter Parker's 
corner at the entrance of King street, was built on the 
common fronting Main st. in 1790. It was repaired and 
modernized inside in 1835-6 and removed from the com- 
mon to the present place in 1849. It was then thoroughly 
repaired, outside and inside, with additions, increasing the 
pews 16 in number. 



208 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GROVELAND, MASS., 

PERRY, G. B., REV. DR., residence of, since 1817, on 
King st. Mr. Perry built his house in 1816-7, and it is 
the first brick house built in this town. 



BALCH, JONATHAN, residence of, since Sept. 2, 1839, 

-on King st. Mr. Balch built the house in 1839, the shop 

in 3849, and the barn in 1852. Other occupants have 

been: G. N. Parker, 1841-2 and 1845 ; A. M. Merrill and 

E. S. Page, 4 months in 1843 and C. P. Savary, 1850-2. 



ACADEMY, MERRIMACK, erected in 1821 on King st. 28 
rods from P. Parker's corner. The frame was raised July 
7, 1821, and Nov. 14, the building was dedicated. Land 
was bought of Moses Parker. The size of the building 
was 24 by 40 ft., two stories, the upper one in one room 
called the academy hall and the lower one divided by the 
entry into two rooms and the same order remains to this 
day. The frame and much of the lumber was rafted down 
the Merrimac river from Goffstown, N. H. Sylvanus 
Hardy was the master builder. 



QUIMBY, JOHN N., residence of, since 1831, on King 
st. The house was built by Capt. Goss for his nephew, 
John E. Goss, in 1826. The cellar was made by Elijah 
Clark and James Hardy and the frame was raised on Apr. 
18, 1826. J. E. Goss resided there until 1831, when Mr. 
Quimby bought it. Others who have occupied it have 
been : Hannah Ordway, at same time as Goss ; Samuel 
Williams, 1835 ; Widow of Leonard Hovey, 1836 ; Widow 
of William Balch, 1843; and Widow of William Danforth, 
1845-8. 



HUNTRESS, A. J., residence of, since Dec. 31, 1850, on 
King st. The house was built by B. E. Merrill in 1850, 
on land bought of Mr. Perry. Mr. Huntress manufac- 
tures shoes in Mechanics Hall, Main street. 

( To be continued. ) 



JOURNAL OF COL. ARCHELAUS FULLER OF 

MIDDLETON, MASS., IN THE EXPEDITION 

AGAINST TICONDEROGA IN 1758. 



FROM THE ORIGINAL FORMERLY IN THE POSSESSION OF 
MRS. MARTHA J. AVERILL OF MIDDLETON. 



Col. Archelaus Fuller was the son of Benjamin and 
Mary Fuller, and was born May 4, 1727, in Middleton. 
He married first, Aug. 10, 1752, Hannah Richardson, and, 
second, April 17, 1759, Mrs. Betsey (Dale) Putnam of 
Danvers. He saw service in the French and Indian war, 
and in 1759 was lieutenant in the local military company. 
February 1st, 1775, he was chosen representative from 
Middleton to the Provincial Congress to be held at Cam- 
bridge. He was acting 2nd major of his regiment at the 
battle of Lexington, and was made 1st major of the 8th 
Essex Co. regiment on Feb. 8, 1776. On the 26th of the 
following June he became lieutenant-colonel in Col. Wig- 
glesworth's regiment, and died of small pox Aug. 25, 
1776, at Charles town, N. H., during the campaign against 
Ticonderoga. 



The towns marched thro Middleton, Lynnend, Reding, 
Whoborne, Lexintown, Concord, Sutbury, Molbrowe, 
Westbuary, Susbrery, Worster, Lister, Spenser, Brook- 
field, Wearriene, Cold Spring, Hadley, Northampton, Paun- 
tusek, Grean bush, Flat Bush, Albany, Wiseconna, Skena- 
eat, Halfmoon, Stellwarter, Saratoge, Fortmeler, Fort 
Edward, Lake George, Ticonderog. No further that way, 
But returned To the Lake again. 

May y e 25, 1758. A cornet of a company of men one- 
100 commanded By Capt Andrew Fuller in Conlo Bagly's 
Rigament. 

(209) 



210 JOURNAL OF COL. ARCHELAUS FULLER 

May y e 25. We marched from Middleton about fore 
o'clock & arived at Linend about darck at Lanlord Brown's 
whear we tared all night. 

The 26 was a Rane morning. We tared about tow ours 
thar, that morning the company marched. I went back 
after som men thet ded not come up that knight. I found 
the men and came up weth the compenay at Concord, 
tarred all knight at Landlord Ros. 

Satterday y e 27, We marched to Sutbrey, halted at 
Landlord rises, from thence we marched to mr houes at 
Molbrey, arived there about foor aclock, whear we tarried 
all knight. 

Sonday y e 28, we went to meten- Mr. Simen [?] Minerd 
Preached his tex was in theseloneas y e l c 2 v in the after- 
noon we marched to Westbery, holted at Landlord agors, 
then marched to Shusebrey to Capt. Stones whear we 
tared all knight, from thence to Woster. 

Monday ye 29 th when we took out our stors, marched 
about about three miles, tared all knight. 

tuesday y e 30 we marched to Lecter, to Landlord Limes, 
halted ther, marched from thence to Capt. Buckminsters. 
Dined there, marched to Newcome, loged there. 

31, from thence to Wier Reaver, halted from thence to 
Colspring to CaptDevits, halted, it was a vary rane Day, 
tarad thare all knight. 

Ye 1 Day of June. We marched from Devits, went to 
Hadley, Logeg thar. 

the 2 nd Day we was Belated out theare. 

3d Day we stead thar, feared Exseding well, tared there 
till the six Day of June. Marched ouer then to North 
hamton, beleted, out there. 

7, where we Renewed ouer Stors & soldiers & Bul- 
lets for them that had goons. 

the 8 day we tared thare. 

the 9 day we marched out of Northaraton, and 
marched about twelve miles to the Cafe house, so called, 
holted thare and dined about tow a clock, wheare all 
knight. 

10 day, we marche in the morning about three miles, 
halted, marched about foore miles, wheare we dined, 



OF MIDDLETOX, MASS. 211 

marched about six miles, bolted thare, camped thar all 
knight, we had very good camps all the way when wanted 
them, tow compenies In Camp neare by. 

Sunday ye 11 day we marched in the morning abouet 
thre mils, halted and eate brekforst marched about fore 
mils, holtted whear we dind. mached, it thondred and 
rain were queck. We holted whear we had good camps, 
marched and had bad travele, fine land all the way 
threw the wods arived at pantosek* before knight, had 
good camps all our men well, but only one or tew a lettel 
lame by sprane and tew men we left at Hadley sek. then 
a verey fean morneing we marched five mils to another 
fort, holted, from thence about 15 mils Place wheare a 
hous wafs Burnt down a lettell while afore by the Indjons. 
that day we had verey bad traueing, and camped thare. 

Tuesday ye 13 marched about 14 mils to the half way 
hous, colled on the grat Rod wech we rejoist to there 
tared all knight. 

Wensday y e 14, marched to greanbush holted a lettell 
Before we came into the town till the Riggemint coame 
up then marched in to town in order. Drew Stors for 
Seven Dais taried thare all knight. 

Thursday y e 13 we marched to the flats above Albeany 
about 7 mils whear we tared all knight. 

Friday ye 16 we tarred all night. 

Satherday we Rescued 50 gonsmore, tared all night. 

Sonday y e 18 day we tared there, went to meting mr. 
Cleauelandf Prct which was our chaplan his text was in 
Dutrenom ye 23 C & 12 vearse. Went to meting in the 
afternon. 

Monday y e 19 day we marched went over thereto Al- 
bany side whear we Reseavd Eleuen more arms then 
marched with the hoi bettaleon threw Miscoyeung to Sen- 
acade wheare we taried all knight, it was about 20 miles, 
it was a very fine place, very good land, it lais upon the 
Mohock River so called. 

Tuesday ye 20, we tared there all day. 

Wednesday ye 21, we tared thar all day, and took out 
stors for seven days. 

* In another account, " cant husik fort." 

t Rev. John Cleaveland of Chebacco Parish, Ipswich. 



212 JOURNAL OP COL. ARCHELAUS FULLER 

Thursday ye 22, before day thare came Orders for one 
company & half to march to the half Moon, thare came 
in nus that thare was an army of frinch and ingains 
comen down. 

friday (23) we tarade thar all day and all knight. At 
night thar came nues in to march to fort Edward. 

Sattarday y e 24, we mostered very early in the morning 
in order to march about nine of the clock, one of Cap* 
Taplins men was exercising the firlock, shot one of Capt 
Morses men, threw the body so that he died in about tow 
ouers, shot one more threw the leg, shot one more threw 
the gacet,* all at one shot. We did not march that day. 

Sunday y e 25 we marched to the half nione. it was a 
uery hot day we arrived thuir about one half an hour ni 
whear we was obliged to mak our tents it did rain ther 
som that knight. 

Monday ye 26. I was verry porly it wassa rane morn- 
ing we taraid thair all knight. 

Tuesday y e 27. We marched very early in the morn- 
ing to Stell Warter holted thear and took out our pack out 
of the waggans and got them into a scow and Insin Holt, 
went with them about fore mills that knight sent the packs 
of tham that was sick and not abal to carray tham, we 
marche up the Rever and incamped thair whear the scow 
stoped. 

Wensday y e 28. Ouer Company marched very aily in 
the morning. I went in the scow weth the pack up to 
Saratoga, arrived thair about one o'clock, wheare we took 
out Stores for tow dais marched out about one mile 
wheare we camped all knight. 

thursday y e 29. It was a very Plesent morning then we 
marched for fort Miller and arrived thear about eleave 
o clock holted whar we had batos to carraw ouer packs up 
to fort Edward arriued here befor night with the hoi Rigo- 
ment. 

Friday y e 30. We tared there and took out stors for 
teen Days. 

Satterday y e July y e 1 we marchd weth the Reigge- 
ment up to the laeake wheare fort Weillam hennary was 

* Jacket. 



OF MIDDLETON, MASS. 213 

taken the year before by the french whear we Jeained the 
army which was very numeres with a number of battoes 
and a larg artelerey we took out six tents. 

Sunday y e 2. We tarrad thair all day and Had preche 
ing thair all knight Rained som that knight. 

Monday y e 3. We tare thear that day and laded our 
battos. 

Tuesday y e 4. We had orders to fet eury theing and 
dres five dais proueshions and be ready to strik our tents 
by 4 a clock the nex morning. 

Wensday y e 5. We struck our tents very early in the 
morning it was a very pleseint time for us. Not very hot. 
We went do wen to the battos the hoal army pushed of the 
boats about six a clock which was not much less than 
twenty thousand men, a very plesent sit the army in good 
helth and hy spiret we went along the lak within about 8 
or 10 mils that night haled our battos and whalbots up to 
the shoer and holted about thre or foor ours orders then 
come for eury man to go abored a emedeatly we pushed 
of, roed tords the landing place whear we landed aboet 
nine a clok, a thorsday morning we came up in sit of the 
landing wheare the frenche had a wery larg encampmant. 
We draw'd up our Rigements, lading pone ouer ors while 
the battos came up then there was ordors for landing. 
Mag r Roggors* with the Rangers & the batomen in whal- 
bots Landed with the gratest Dexterity, the french came 
downe from theare incampments thay flared upon them 
Kelled one ingon and som frenchman thay set thair block 
house a fire Left thear tent but Destroyed som of thair 
proueson and Lecars and fled in a grat horay Magor Rogers 
and the Rangers pursewed them we recovered a grat deele 
of wine and brandy shepe torkes & hens lost no men, about 
2 a clok the general and Lord How marched with a grat 
part of the army tords the fort threw the woods wheare 
the french and Ingons had watad by the accont we haue, 
theare was about thre thousands they Killed Lord How 
the first shot. Som others whiche was Lamente very 
much thru out the army we had a very smart ingagement 
the fire was so smart for som time that the earth trembled 

*Major Robert Rogers. 



214 JOURNAL OF COL. ARCHELATJS FULLER 

we Killed and took about 300 hondred Droue them back 
again. Lef* Hutchinson and myself took thre frenchmen 
preseners the engagemen held until all most son down 
we brott in weth the gard one hundred persons Our 
general and our Cornel and som thouzand ded not com in 
that night, com the next morning very early with more 
preseners. 

Friday y e 7 the army marched from the Landing our 
Kigemeint marched on the western sid of the lake bolted 
Lay down to rest before dark orders came for to march 
on. we marched threw a Large brook uery bad to pas 
about half the Rigament got to the meils* I was last 
and lay Down with the other part of the Reg vary wet 
and cold. 

Saterday y e 8 very early in the morning we marched 
after the Regimint came up with them whear we gained 
the army and now corns on the soreful acount thes onfor- 
tenat day Mag r Rogers was orered in furst Line then the 
prouenshuls was ordred in a line from Lake to Lake then 
the Regelars was to march threw we to open to the right 
and left in order for them to fors the Brest work we had 
ordered to keep our ground in order for a resarve fier 
But before the Reagelers came up the fier began very hot 
the Regalors hove down thair pak and fixed their bayarnits 
came up in order stod and fit very coragerly our men 
droed up very ner and was ordered to make a stand the 
fit came on very smart it held about eaght ours a soref ull 
Sit to behold the Ded men and wounded Lay on the ground 
hauing Som of them legs thir arms and other Lims broken 
others shot threw the body and very mortly wounded to 
hear thar cris and se thair bodis lay in blod and the earth 
trembel with the fier of the smal arms was a mornfull our 
as ever I saw we marched of the grownd before dark, down 
to the mils whear we went from in the Day down thair to 
rest but before day we saw the men marching we got up 
and loked round and found that the army was chefly gon 
we marched after the army came down to the landing bef or 
Sonris pased by wouned men all the way I was very wek 
& outdon for want of 

*Mills. 



OF MIDDLETON, MASS. 215 

Sonday the 9 we embarked very early with our army 
for Lake George whear we went from Arifed thar before 
night and peched our tents. 

Monday ye 10, we holed som of our bots and land som 
of our cannans and som of our boms then mortars & 
some other thengs. 

Tuesday y e 11, we tared and sent up one Hondred men 
to one of the Hands in the Lake : 

Wenesday y e 12. Tared theire, their came up carts to 
carray some of the whal lots to fort Edward in order to 
go to the garman flats. Some of the artellery and some 
of mortars and shels for thar was a talk of the ingans and 
french coming over them. Bradstret went that way which 
thair was no moving for in the army thar went some of 
the Rigamat that way. 

Thursday y e 13, we tared thar we was ordered to work 
up pone the hill in order to build a Fort, men worked 
very dul. 

Friday y e 14. We tared thair onlad our battos with pro- 
nesan and other Stors. 

Saterday y e 15, we continued thair. 

Sonday y e 16. We Stell remane thair, the building of 
the fort was put by. 

Monday y e 17. Our advanc gard on the island spied a 
whal bot they took one of our whal bots and went out 
and took them, thay said that thay Desarte from the 
french and that the french had but ten thousand thair, 
when our men Ingaged the fort. If our men had got up 
thair artlery, they mit took the fort as well as not. We 
haled up the bott and was ordred to buld a brest work 
al round our campments. 

Tusday ye 18 the Brestwork continud buldin. thar 
was thre of our men got in laid in the woods 7 days 
2 was wonded thay was very hongry had no pro- 
neshen only a letl flour thay put in to water to drenk. 

Wensday y e 19, thair came in a man that was lost the 
forst day we had our fit he leved the hoi of the time on 
gren leves and nuts he saw no bereys 3 days before he 
came in he saw 3 Ingons which gave him chas he run and 
fell down under a log and got clear . he came in bear feet 



216 JOURNAL OF COL. ARCHELAUS FULLER 

and bear leg he loke like a corps we was building a stor- 
hous and ospetell and finshin the brest work. 

Thursday y e 20, our order for some time had been to 
gard the carts and wagons that day thair was a party 
went out very early in the morning to go down before 
the wagans they was beset befor they got to the half wa 
brok wfhere] Coll Nikelsis Rigament lay he sent 
out a paty to help them. Cap* gone and Cap* Dakens [?] 
and Capt Larane and 14 men was keled and scalped 2 
Leftn* one Insin the wagons and a skut with tham went 
that morning from the lak down to tham that morning 
and com uppon tham very onexpected and tuk up the 
ones that was keelled. 

Friday y e 21, we tared thare nothing extrodnry 

Sataday y e 22, no nus we tared thar. 

Sonday y e 23, we had precheing 2 very good Sarmints. 

Monday y e 24, our sutler was com up 1 went to work 
to mak a hous for him to put his stors in. 

Tuesday y e 25 I went to work upon the osptel with 
Lef* Book worked thar that day in thar was one of the 
Reglars condemned to be hanged that day and was hanged. 

Wensday y e 26, I worked upon the same ospetel. 

Thorsday y e 27 the hoi army was ordered under arms 
to man the Brest work and for the General to vew them 
nothan extrodnary hapened that day. 

Friday y e 28, thes day at night thear keam in nus to 
the Genrel that the inemy had walaid our carts & Wagans 
and had cot of and destroyed a large number men about 
20 found ded a number more mesing about 15 wonded 
Keled and taken 2 found scalped. About 140 oxen keled 
a large quantity of stors and proueshens taken and 
destroyed. Mager Rogers & Mager Putnam was ordred 
down the lak with 700 men in order to go as far as Saba- 
day pint there to strik acrost our to South Bay to met the 
inemy if poseble. 

Saterday y e 29 thar was a parte Sent Down to the plas 
whear the meschef was don belo the half way brok at 
night thare came in nus from the battos that Rogers went 
of in that the party that was left with them desovered a 
large number of battos Coming uppon them which thay left 
the battos and it was said that the battos was taking. 



OF MIDDLETON, MASS. 217 

Sunday y e 30, before it was day there was a party 
mostle containing about two hundred commanded by Coll 
Liman in the afternone thear was 200 mor sent after 
them that night thar came in nus that the batos was not 
cot of and Likewis that Magor Rogers and Magor Put- 
nam had retorned to the battos had discovered the Ene- 
my but was tow lat they only see tham off in the bay see 
some of the woman in the battos going off with the ene- 
my. 

Monday y e 31. Some of Rogersis party Brot in one 
of the Regelars which had Desarted som tim be for 
Some of the battos came in of the party that was sent out. 

Tusday y e fust day of August thay was ordred back 
the hoi of them. Orders was for a party of 800 to go to 
the half way broak take with them thre dais provisson and 
thair tents thar to reman tel forder orders. He hear they 
Descovred the Enemy thar a Sonday last. Likwis thair 
came thre of Rogerses men that was taking last Wenter on 
the Lak on the eise. they say thay was in Canaday 
when the nus came that our army was Landed at ticonter- 
oge they said that our Army consisted of thorty thousand 
men which thair was a grat tumult they raised all the men 
that was able to go and they that Refused thay put into a 
presen some of them they Hanged they say that the 
hoi of tham was not sarten. They say that Mount Calm 
arrived at tianteroge a Sonday morning with 6000 men. 
When thay found that our Army Was Com of thair was 
grat Regoising they are got down to the plase whear we 
landed very numres making exceding strong. 

Wensday the 2 this day the party that Coll Liman com- 
manded Down the Lake came in one of the battos went 
by the party in the Night when thay went down the lak 
the wind being very [strong] thay never see the party nor 
herd them thay went up so ner whear the french whar 
that thay saw the tents whear thay war landed. 

Tusday y e 5 we hear no grat mater of Nus. 

Wensday y e 6, we hear that thay ar making grat pre- 
pation to Com to our army. 

Thorsday y e 7. We heard nothing Extrodnary. 

Friday y e 8 Whe had nus from Col Brodstreet that 



218 JOURNAL OF COL. ARCHELAUS FULLER 

he had took Fort Frontenac and lost but thre men and 
seven wounded he took 4 vesels 4000 wat of beuer 100 
peses of Conan thar was in the fort the Let n governor 
154 men the govner has to Redein Col Scilo the Rest 
to Redem our men. 

Monday the 21 of August I droed Prousens for myselfe 
and Joseph Whepel that belongs to Cap ts Whepel's com- 
pany. 

Monday ye 28. I droed prouesens for myself an 
Whepel and Hascol belonged to Cap tn Whepal. 

Saterday y e 9 I droued Pronesens for ten men of Coll a 
Bagly's Reg* 

Sonday y e 10. Mr. More preached with us in the af- 
ternoon. 

Monday ye 11. No nus. 

Tusday y e 12. Coll Bradstret Come into Albany and 
Brings News that he has Brot back to the Caring Pleas 
his men and what thengs he cold that he took, left them 
wel thear. 

Wensday, ye 13. No Nus. Remarkebel. 

Thursday y e 14, Mr. Morel & Capt. Foster set out in 
order to Go to the Lake again. 

Friday y e 15 Coll Hore & Daniel Foster found a swam 
of bes. 

Saterday y e 16. We had newes that that was Five 
Rege m Com from Cape [Breton] arrived at Boston in or- 
der to Com up to the lak. 

Monday y e 17, the men came down seek from lak wery 
fast. We heard it was a uery Seekly time with the 
Prounshels. 

Monday y e 18 thar went by a grat del of prouesens and 
other Stors in order to go to tiantroge again. 

Tusday y e 20 I Red to town se som men that came 
down from the Lake that Belonged to our Reg* 

Thorsday y e 21 I was not well. Had a Pain in my 
hed and Back. 

Friday y e 22. I was Better. 

Saterday y e 23. No nus. 

Sonday y e 24. Docter Tomson & Ensin Daues Came 
down from the Lak with Sek men likwis brot orders for 
me [to] stay and help take car of the Sek. 



OF MIDDLETOST, MASS. 219 

Monday y e 25. We went down to Albany weth the 
men and Droed prouesen for them. 

Tusday y e 26. I got some of them Descharged. 

Wensday y e 27. My Father came up to se me. brogt 
nus that Timothey Buxton & Joshua Holt & gethro 
Tomos was Ded & that my cheldren was well & brogt me 
som money. Thes Day Docter Tomson cam hear to Bord. 

Thorsday y e 28 my father went Horn thar cam down 
more sek men which was Discharged 

Friday y e 29. Daniel Foster went horn to Andever 

Sasterday y* 30. No nus. 

Sonday y e 1 Day of October. No nus. 

Monday y e 2. I went tew Sanacety* with Dockter 
Tomson. 

Tusday y e 3. I came back to my quarters. No nus 
ex trod nary. 

Wensday y e 4, the Troops arrived from Cape breton at 
Albany, Generel Amhurst set out to the Lak with heis 
Bagesf 

Arived that Night at faretoga hes trops Incampt At 
gren Boosh. 

Thorsday y e 5, the general arrived at the Lak. 

Friday y e 6, he tared there 

Satarday y e 7 he fat out back towards Albonay. Lodged 
at faretoga all knight. 

Sonday y e 8 he arived at Albony with all his bage.f 

Monday y e 9. I drew pronesens for the seek men 
that come down. Abner Stiles fet out from green bush 
in order to go home the Expedeshon against the Naros 
and Crown Point thogt to be over for thes yer. We 
hear that the french and Engans ear comeng upon our 
men at the careing place up the Mohock Rever, whear our 
men are houlding a fort. 

Tusday y e 10, tew Regements marched threw Albany in 
order to go to the caring plas. 

Wensday y e 11. No nus. 

Satarday y e 12, thre Compnaes of the Granedeas 
marched to the Caring plas. 

Thursday y e 13, thar came nus that ther was not any 

*Schenectady. tBaggage. 



220 JOUKNAL OF COL. AKCHELAUS FULLER. 

truth in that mis of the french comen to the careing plas. 

Friday y e 14 thar came down Daniel Wilkins, Joshua 
Wright, John Bingam and John Lethe by, all Belonging 
to Capt. Fuller's Company. 

Satarday y e 15. the granadears cam Back to Albany. 
that Knight the Long Barcks by the mels Was bornt 
down. 

November. Thorsday y e 2 our Regement cam to Al- 
bany. 

Friday y e 3, We Droed Pronven for foer dais for our 
Company and Retoined our gons & tents. 

Saterday y e 4. We inached to Cantrwhok* about 20 
mils. Holted thar. tared all knight. 

Soinday ye 5. We marched to Sheffield about 22 miles. 
It was a Raine Day and bad traveled. We Loged at Lan- 
lord Roben's. 

Monday y e 6. We marched about 6 miles to Landlord 
Couses. Went to Dener ther I got a hors ther. Went 
back about 7 mils bogt the hoi of the Company to Sheffield 
Tared there all Knight. 

Tusday y e 7. George Spence met me weth a hors. 
Went through the Grenwode that day, Lodged at glases 
whear Capt. Fuller had a hors. 

Wensday y e 8. We set out that day. We went to 
Kengstown, tared there all night. 

Tharsday y e 9. We arrived at Woster at Landlord 
Bronksf?] tared all night. 

Friday y e 10. We arrived at Bedford, tared all knight. 

Saterday y e 11. We arrived at Midilton Whear we 
marched from first at our own former Dwelling Plases. 

*Kinderhook. 



Estate of Henry Russell. / Eli as 




PART OF MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. No. 3 



MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1TOO. NO. 3. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 



THE accompanying map represents that portion of Mar- 
blehead bounded on the southwesterly side by Waldron, 
South, Washington and Essex streets, on the northwest 
by Elm street, on the northeast by Watson, Rockaway, 
Washington and Hooper streets, and on the southeast by 
the harbor ; and having an area of about forty acres. 

On this map the present boundaries of Washington 
square are marked by four large dots. This was known 
as Roads' hill in 1678, and subsequently as Windmill hill 
and Training field hill. The hill was probably the train- 
ing field from the early settlement of the town, though 
the deeds do not give it the name of the training field until 
1725, and continued to be so called until 1845 at least. 
It was known as the common in 1698, the mall in 1820, 
and Washington square since 1834. In 1698, the pound 
for the reception of stray animals was standing here 
where it is marked on the map. 

This was known as Windmill hill from 1680 to 1757, 
because it was the site of a windmill for grinding corn. 
The owners of the mill were Mr. William Bowditch, Mr. 
John Devereaux, Mr. Richard Knott, James Dennis and 
Samuel Morgan. The mill was constructed by Mr. John 
Wilcott of Newbury, a millwright. The following is an 
accurate copy of the contract for its construction, copied 
from the original instrument on file in the office of the 
clerk of courts at Salem : * 

Articles of agreement Betwixt Mr John Wilcott of Newberry, 
millwright on one- part and Mr William Bowdetch Mr John Dev- 
ereaux M r Richd Knott James Dennis and Samuel Morgan on the 
other part : 

Imp 8 fd John Wilcott doth promife bargain and agree with the 

*Court files, book 33, leaf 36. 
(221) 



222 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3. 

aforefd William Bowditch and company to frame, build, erect and 
fett up att Marblehead upon the hill called Rodes hill a windmill 
which mill is to be round, twenty six foot through nineteen foot be- 
twixt joynts with a flat roof, and to be houfed from the weather and 
the fd Wilcott is att his owne charge to procure all the faid materi- 
alls appertaining to the faid mill excepting the milstones which the 
fd Bowdish and Company engage to find and bring in place which 
mill is to be made all of good substantiall timber and to be com- 
pleatly finished, and the fd Wilcott engages to do all to ye turning of 
the key and make the fd mill fufficient as it shall prove its felfe in 
working; And laying of the hafke in the fd mill shall caufe it to be 
fufficiently underpinned for the fecurity of ye mill which windmil 
is to be fett up and compleatly finished and fett to worke att or be- 
fore the last of Decembr next enfuing 

The fd Bowdish and Company do for and in confideration of y e 
faid worke well, truly and faithfully performed by the faid Wilcott 
engage to pay to him or his order the full and juft fumme of eight 
fcore pounds the one moyty or halfe to be paid in filuer, the other 
halfe in fish or any goods which the faid Wilcott shall have occafion 
for att money price, the one third to be paid att or before the last of 
May next the other third att the raifing of the faid mill, the last 
third when the fd mill is compleated and finished of which part the 
fd Bowdish being owner of halfe engages to pay halfe the other per- 
fons an eight a piece according to their propriety in the sd mill 

The fd Wilcott doth by thefe engage to make the whole worke 
fubstantiall and considerable and after the finishing of the worke to 
fett the fd mill to worke and to attend a weeks time for triall of y e 
mill and engages her to be fufficient and having done all things nec- 
effary to her to make good in that time any defects which shall 
happen by his default in the worke 

The fd Bowdish doth engage to find and bring in place two fub- 
stantiall milstones made of Burrs for which the other owners are 
engaged according to their proportion to pay him in money twelve 
pounds ten shillings, himselfe to beare the other part, and all the 
afor[faid] owners do engage to provide men and neceffary materialls 
for raifing of the fd mill to helpe the sd Wilcott at fuch times as he 
shall defire 

Whereas the fd Bowdish engages to find milstones att fuch a price, 
the other Owners oblige themfelves to pay unto Mr Wilcott five 
pounds in filver of that forty pound part mentioned in the fecond 
Article, and the fd to be deducted out of their goods part for a right 
understanding thereof, the sd Bowdich is to pay thirty five pounds 
in filver, and forty five pounds in goods the other owners are to pay 
forty five pounds in money and thirty five pounds in goods to the 
fd Wilcott or his order 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 223 

To the performance of all which abovefd premifes the faid persons 
"by thefe prefents do bind and oblige themfelves their Heirs, Execu- 
tors and Affignes each to other. In witnefs of which the fd persons 
have fett to their hands this fix th of March one thoufand fix hun- 
dred and feventy -^ 

Signed and delivered John Woollcot 

in the presence of us W m Bowditch 

Samuel Cheever John Dever # marke 

Mofes Mavericke Rich: Knott 

John Elathorp James Dennes 

Samuel Morgan 

Mr Samuel Cheevers and Mr Mofer made oath yt that they were 
prefent & faw abovefd figne and Deliver each to other this 

writing as ther Covenant Taken upon upon oath 24: 1 mo: 80 before 
me W m Hathorne mft 

All the owners, except Capt. William Bowditch, worked 
upon the mill in its construction. 

After the mill was finished, it was tried, and found to 
be faulty in several ways by William Traske, John Traske, 
Simeon Booth, Joshua Buffum and Edmond Bridges, who 
were chosen to test it. They took up the stones, and 
found that the nick and rine needed flowering, and the 
stones to be hung true. They also found that the nicke 
and spindle were insufficient in both weight and work- 
manship ; that the building was not sufficiently under- 
pinned nor tightly covered ; and that one of the main posts 
of the mill house was broken ; also that the hopper and 
many of the utensils were insufficient. The owners refused 
to pay for the construction, and Mr. Wilcott brought a 
suit against them to recover what was due to him. 

On June 26, 1680, Thomas Robbins, John Buffum, Wil- 
liam Trask and Walter Fairfield examined the mill and 
found it not fit for use in grinding meal, and that it would 
cost more to make it fit to grind corn than the mill was 
worth ; its vanes, arms and sails and upper running gears be- 
gin insufficient. The mill had nothing " to stop her or to 
command her with in a gale of wind," and seven men 
" could not turn her to the wind." Many interesting de- 
positions are on file with the papers in the case ; one of 
them being that of William Poate, who testified that he 



224 MAHBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3. 

heard John Wilcott, jr., say that the mill would never 
amount to '* nothing," and that they didn't care so long 
as they got their money ; did not care if the Devil had 
the mill if they got their money. 

The windmill was used apparently for several years, 
although originally so defective that the plaintiff lost his 
suit in the action referred to. 

Nathan Bowen of Marblehead, shopkeeper, conveyed 
one-third of the windmill in Marblehead, nigh the road 
that leads from Marblehead to Salem, etc., and one-third 
of the bolting mill therein standing and one-third of the 
land thereto belonging, Nov. 2, 1723, to Stephen Minot, 
jr., of Marblehead, merchant,* and on the same day another 
third to John Oulton of Marblehead, merchant. f 

What is now Washington street, which runs over this 
hill on the northwesterly side of Abbot hall, was the orig- 
inal road running through the town. It was called ye 
way going out and into ye town of Marblehead in 1700 ; 
the main street, 1753 ; the main road leading into Mar- 
blehead, 1783 : the main street leading out of town, 1808 ; 
the main street leading from training field hill to the 
South schoolhouse, 1818 ; the street or way up to Training 
field hill, so called, 1820 ; the highway over training field 
hill, 1827 ; and Washington street in 1835. 

Middle street was called the middle street in 1767; a 
way leading into Marblehead, 1783 ; the middle street 
leading from the training field hill to the South school- 
house, 1804 ; the main street leading to the South school; 
house, 1813 ; and Middle street in 1828. 

South street was called ye highway in 1720 ; the main 
street, 1722 ; street or southernmost way that leads into 
the said town of Marblehead, 1778 ; a street leading from 
Read's corner to the South schoolhouse, 1802 ; street lead- 
ing from the South schoolhouse to Coney lane, 1805 ; and 
South street in 1859. 

Tucker street was early in use. It was called ye broad 
highway going into town in 1715 ; the street or lane, 
1721 ; the main street, 1751 ; lane leading to Nixis cove, 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 43, leaf 181. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 43, leaf 182. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 225 

1780 ; the southeasterly highway leading over training 
field hill, 1787 ; and Tucker street in 1825. 

Main street was left as a passage way when the adjoin- 
ing lots were granted about 1690. It was called a narrow 
lane that leads towards Mr. Trevetts, 1721 ; a lane or 
alley, 1753; Boden's lane, 1771; the street leading to the 
main street, 1780 ; and Mason street in 1873. 

Basset street was an ancient way. It was called a back 
way next Skinner's wall in 1724 ; the back lane, 1727 ; 
the way at the bottom of Severit's hill, so called, 1785 ; 
the highway leading to where Blaney's tanyard formerly 
stood, 1844 ; and Basset's lane in 1875. 

The two other ways leading over Severett's hill were 
in existence as ways or lanes from about 1717, and that 
portion shown on the map much earlier. 

Pleasant street was laid out about 1770. It was called 
a highway running from Frog lane, so called, to the way 
leading from the back side of the town to Newtown 
bridge, in 1772; and the new lane in 1798. The dotted 
lines show where it now runs. The little square at its 
western end indicates the site of the Mugford monument. 

Waldron street was a highway as early as 1664. It 
was called the street or highway leading to the fish 
fence in 1744; the way leading through the fish fence 
lands, 1744 ; the way to and through the fish fence lands, 
1746 ; Coney lane, 1753; and Waldron street in 1872. 

Lee street was a highway as early as 1664. It was 
called the King's highway in 1725 ; and the street leading 
down to Nick's cove, 1793. The easterly part of this 
street was called a highway leading to the fish fence near 
Neck's cove in 1796 ; the way leading from Boden's look- 
out to Freemasons' hall, 1835 ; and street or highway lead- 
ing from Barker's wharf, so called, to Training field hill, 
1835. The way was named Lee street as early as 1831. 

Gregory street was in existence as early as 1728 ; and 
was called a street in 1785. It was called a way leading 
from the fish fence to Coney lane in 1824. East of Wal- 
dron street it was called Gregory street in 1896. 

Water street was so called in 1880. 

Hooper street was the ancient way to Nick's cove, and 



226 MAKBLBHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3. 

was called a street or highway in 1715 ; and Hooper 

street in 1867. 

Rockaway street was a lane as early as 1664 ; and was 

called ye narrow lane in 1684; ye highway in ye narrow 

lane, 1685; street or lane, 1688; Martin's lane, 1699; 

Codner's lane, 1708 ; Crooked lane, 1731 ; Frog lane, 

1772 : and Rockaway street in 1877. 

Watson street was co-existent with Rockaway street. 

It was called ye narrow lane in 1684; ye highway in ye 

narrow lane, 1685 ; Codner's lane, 1708; Frog's lane, 

1772 ; and Watson street before 1897. 

Elm street was the ancient way against the common 

land. It was called ye highway in 1721 ; the back street, 

1785 ; and Elm street before 1897. 

Essex street is ancient. It is mentioned as the way 
leading from the back side of the town to Newtown 
bridge in 1772; the way leading from the main street to 
the back street, 1785 ; and Essex street before 1897. 

The harbor was called the great harbor as early as 
1664, to distinguish it from the little harbor ; but since 

1730 it has been known as the harbor. 

The place marked on the map " The Lookout " is the 
highest part of the hill, and it was to this place that the 
people came for the first sight of incoming vessels. It 
was the " lookout " place, and remained open for a hun- 
dred years after the first settlement of the town. A way 
to its highest part, from both north and south, however, 
has remained open to this day. After John Boden received 
a grant of land on its western side it became known as 
Boden's lookout ; and, in 1822, it was called the South 
lookout, a name indicative of another place used for the 
same purpose. 

On the eastern side pf the narrow passage leading over 
the rough ledge from Lee street to the " lookout," at the 
place marked with a circle (o) on the map, once stood a 
house known as the *' case of drawers." It was burned in 
the great fire, April 11, 1792.* Another house, located 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 167, leaf 234. The Salem Gazette, 
for April 17, 1792, contained the following account of this conflagra- 
tion: 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 227 

at the sharp sign (#) on the map, was known as the 

FIRE AT MARBLEHEAD. 

MARBLEHEAD, April 14, 1792. 

Early in the evening of last Wednesday, a very alarming fire began 
in the dwelling-house of Mr. James Bowler, and entirely consumed 
it, four other dwelling houses, and several shops and barns. This 
melancholy event was occasioned by a child of Mr. Bowler's who 
had, unobserved, taken a lighted candle into the closet of an upper 
chamber, and there by some means caught a bundle of laths on fire. 
The child, frightened at the mischief, shut the doors of the closet 
and chamber, and ran below; but, too young to be aware of the con- 
sequences, and afraid of correction, as he has since confessed, con- 
cealed the circumstance; and it was some time after he had come 
down, that a neighbor, who had seen the fire spreading through the 
upper part of the house, informed the family of their danger. Mr. 
Bowler's dwelling-house and a bake-house under the same roof were 
very soon wholly involved in the flame; and with the most timely 
assistance that could be afforded him he was able to save only a 
part of his furniture and goods, and suffered the additional loss of 
many valuable articles and papers. The fire, spreading at first in 
the direction of the wind, caught a dwelling-house near to Mr. Bow- 
ler's; and, very soon after, three other dwelling-houses opposite to 
his buildings and separated only by a very narrow street. The 
burning flakes flying from the houses on fire and continually falling 
upon a long range of wooden buildings and to a great distance, ex- 
cited the most distracting apprehensions among the people assem- 
bled and obliged many of them, for the preservation of their own 
goods, to withdraw their help from the immediate sufferers. A 
brick warehouse, standing upon a wharf, at the foot of a rocky de- 
scent from Mr. Bowler's and the wooden roof which was contiguous 
to his house, also took fire ; and a number of large warehouses on 
the same wharf, were thought to be in great danger. The inhabi- 
tants had been very early assembled with the three engines belong- 
ing to the town; but the men were comparatively few in number, a 
great proportion of the inhabitants being at sea. The wells in the 
neighborhood were soon exhausted of water; and the tide being 
out, much time and labor were required to supply the engines from 
the harbor. Many women, with uncommon strength and fortitude, 
lent their assistance in this work; and in this extremity it was gladly 
accepted. But the utmost efforts of the inhabitants, thus divided 
in the objects of their attention, and weakened by their fears, ap- 
peared to be unequal to the occasion. Their relief, however, was at 
hand : a great number of worthy inhabitants of Salem, on the first 
notice by the appearance of the fire and the ringing of the bells, set 
off from there with three engines, and in less than an hour arrived 
with them at Marblehead. Their order, readiness and vigor, had the 
desired success ; and by about an hour's unremitted exertions with 
the favor of a fall of rain, several dwelling-houses in the most im- 
minent danger were preserved, and the further spreading of the fire 
prevented. This timely and generous assistance from Salem, in all 
human probability, saved the town of Marblehead from suffering, in 



228 MAKBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3. 

" cruet house." It was four stories in height, and was 
owned as late as 1824 by Dr. John Drury. 

The dagger (f) on the map marks the site of the South 
schoolhouse. 

Elias Taynour House. This was the estate of Thomas 
Taynour as early as 1661. John Gatchell, sr., of Marble- 
head, released the lot to Thomas Tainer of Marblehead, 
fisherman, Jan. 29, 1671,* though it does not appear how 
Mr. Gatchell had any interest in it. Mr. Taynour lived 
here, and died before Dec. 14, 1687, when administration 
was granted upon his estate. The house and land were 
then valued at thirty-four pounds. The estate then be- 
came the property of Elias Taynour, son of the deceased. 
Elias Taynour lived here, and died before March 5, 
1717-8, when his widow, Mary Taynor, was appointed ad- 
ministratrix of his estate. She died before April 8th 
following. The house was then called " an old house." 
Elias Taynour had two children, Elizabeth and Mary. 
Elizabeth married George Peak, and died before 1719, 
leaving a son Elias Peak. Mary married John Cogswell 
of Marblehead, sadler. A division of the real estate was 
made Dec. 27, 1721 ; and the land and house were as- 
signed to Elias Peak.f Mr. and Mrs. Cogswell lived 
there, however, and Elias does not appear again in the 
records, probably having died. Mr. Cogswell and his 
family were living in the house in 1723,^ but how much 
longer the house stood is unknown to the writer. 



addition to its other late misfortunes, a very extensive ravage by fire. 
The important service is most heartily acknowledged, and will be 
verygratefully remembered by the inhabitants. 

Mr. Bowler's loss is estimated at one thousand pounds. Mrs. 
Giles, a widow, lost a comfortable dwelling-house, and almost all 
her furniture, and is in great distress. The other buildings burnt 
were not very valuable. 

It is remarkable, that from the commencement of the settlement 
in this town until the late event (which is a period of above 160 
years) no instance has happened of the entire loss of a dwelling- 
house by fire. 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 144. 

t Probate records. 

^Deposition of John Whiger of Marblehead and his wife Bethiah, 
March 23, 1722-3. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 229 

Christopher Codner House. This house and lot of land 
belonged to Henry Pease of Marblehead July 10, 1656, 
when he conveyed them to Christopher Codner of Mar- 
blehead.* Mr. Codner died before Sept. 27, 1660, when 
his widow, Mary Codner, was appointed administratrix of 
his estate. His widow agreed to marry Elias White of 
Marblehead, mariner, and for the benefit of Mr. Codner* s 
two children, Mr. White and Mrs. Codner joined in a 
conveyance of the house and land of the deceased to 
John Devorix and Christopher Lattamore, both of Mar- 
blehead, mariners, in trust, June 25, 1661.f Christopher 
Codner of Marblehead, fisherman, the son of the deceased, 
became of age in 1679, and Aug. 15, 1679, he acknowl- 
edged that he had received possession of the house and 
land, according to the order of the court, from John Dev- 
orix, sr., and Richard Knott.J Just before March 2, 
1707, he took the old house down, and built a new "small" 
house upon the same cellar. April 9, 1713, Mr. Codner 
sold the new house and land to Joseph Swett, jr., of Mar- 
blehead, cordwainer. || Though the new house was small, 
the original house must have been smaller according to 
the depositions of Christopher Codner and his daughter 
Rachel, dated June 13, 1715. Mr. Codner deposed that 
the bounds of Taynor's land next this lot were as follows : 
" y e northern corner bound of y e messuage where Joseph 
Sweatt now dwells . . is a firme rock fast in y e ground 
about three foot or Thereabouts northward or norwest- 
wards from y e houfe . . nigh to y 8 dwelling place of Elias 
Taynor & . . that y e ground Ceil of y e old leantow ad- 
joyning to y e old houfe standing in y e same place & ouer 
y e same Cellar as where y e s d Joseph Sweats houfe now 
stands said vpon y e rock herein beforemeutioned and 
was y e foundation of y corner of y e Leantow where y e 
Side Cill & y e End Cill met & that . . this Deponent pof- 
sefst y e said mefsuage to y e Said rock as a Corner bound 
as af ores d for nigh Forty year together peaceably." Rachel 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 34. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 32. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 128. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 20, leaf 119. 
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 25, leaf 171. 



230 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3. 

Codner deposed " that She having dwelt many years in y e 
old houfe aboue mentioned & that some yeares agone when 
her father built y e new house he throwing vp Some gravel 
or dirt by Inlarging y e Cellar y e corner bound rock above- 
mentioned was Couered with y e gravel wherevpon there 
hapened a dispute betwixt Elias Taynor & this deponents 
father & mother about y e bounds vntill they heav'd off y e 
Grauel that Covered y e rock being y e corner bounds af oresd 
& finding y e rock y e dispute was Ended & all quiet."* 

John Brintnall House. That part of this lot lying north- 
erly of the dashes was a part of the estate of Henry Pease 
of Marblehead, who conveyed it to Christopher Codner of 
Marblehead July 10, 1656.f Mr. Codner died before Sept 
27, 1660, when his widow, Mary Codner, was appointed 
administratrix of his estate. His widow agreed to marry 
Elias White of Marblehead, mariner, and for the benefit 
of Mr. Codner's two children, Mr. White and Mrs. Cod- 
ner joined in a conveyance of the house and land of the 
deceased to John Devorix and Christopher Lattamore, 
both of Marblehead, mariners, in trust, June 25, 1661. J 
Christopher Codner of Marblehead, fisherman, the son of 
the deceased, became of age in 1679, and Aug. 15, 1679, 
he acknowledged possession of the house and land, accord- 
ing to the order of the court, from John Devorix, sr., and 
Richard Knott. Mr. Codner, for twenty pounds and 
fifteen shillings, conveyed this part of the lot to John 
Roades, sr., of Marblehead, mariner, Jan. 20, 1685. || Mr. 
Roads conveyed it, for twenty-three pounds, to John 
Brintnall, " sometime of Marblehead, now of Winnisimet," 
glazier, Jan. 1, 1695.^ 

That part of the lot lying southerly of the dashes was 
a part of the lot of John Gratchell of Marblehead very 
early. For ten pounds, he conveyed it to Henry Maine of 
Marblehead April 30, 1683,** and Mr. Maine, for a simi- 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 29, leaf 276. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 34. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 32. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 128. 
||Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 119. 
IfEssex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 146. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 96. 



** 




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DIVISION OF ESTATE OF JOHN YABSLEY, 1741 



BY SIDNEY PEBLEY. 231 

^ 

lar consideration, conveyed it to John Roads, jr., of Mar- 
blehead Nov. 29, 1684.* Mr. Roads was a mariner, and 
for eleven pounds, conveyed it, with a small triangular- 
shaped strip of land adjoining next to the lane to Mr. 
Brintnall, who was still of Winnissimet, Oct. 3, 1699, when 
Mr. Roads is called " senior."-)- In the same instrument, 
conveying the title, John Legg of Marblehead, merchant, 
released his interest in the property. 

Mr. Brintnall built a house and barn upon the lot, and 
for two hundred pounds, conveyed the land and buildings 
to John Yabsley of Marblehead, mariner, Sept. 16, 17084 
Mr. Yabsley died before March 5, 1717-8, when adminis- 
tration upon his estate was granted to widow Susannah 
Yabsley. At that time the house was appraised at one 
hundred and thirty pounds, the barn ten pounds and the 
land seventy pounds. The estate was not divided, how- 
ever, until Dec. 16, 1741, when the barn and eastera- half 
of the house and the land under and on three sides was 
assigned to Elizabeth, wife of Andrew Lee of Marblehead, 
fisherman, a daughter of the deceased, and the western end 
of the house and the land under and on three sides of it 
to Thomas Yabsley of Marblehead, mariner. A plan of 
this division, made Dec. 16, 1741, and recorded in the reg- 
istry of deeds, is given on the opposite page, having been 
reduced to one-half of the original size. 

Thomas Yabsley, for five pounds, conveyed his half of 
the house to widow Mary Andrews of Marblehead, pro- 
viding, however, that if the grantee died before the grantor 
the estate should revert to him, Dec. 19, 1741 ;|| and the 
next day they married together. Mr. Yabsley died before 
Feb. 19, 1746, when his widow, Mary Yabsley, conveyed 
the same estate to John Caswell of Marblehead, fisherman.^f 
The house was standing in 1774, when John Caswell of 
Marblehead, shoreman, still owned the western half. 

Jonathan Corwin House. John Gatchell owned and lived 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 13. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 5. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 132. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 86, leaf 9. 
IIEssex Registry of Deeds, book 84, leaf 147. 
lIEssex Registry of Deeds, book 88, leaf 235. 



232 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3. 

on this lot as early as 1652 and as late as 1664, and Jona- 
than Corwin, esq., of Salem, merchant, owned it in 1689. 
Judge Corwin owned a house upon the lot which was 
" demolished " before Jan. 21, 1709, when he conveyed 
the lot to Richard Skinner of Marblehead, mariner.* The 
exact location of the house is not known, and the location 
given on the map is approximate only. 

Estate of John Russell Lot. This was a part of the 
four -acre lot of John Gatchell of Marblehead, planter, as 
early as 1661 ; and he conveyed this part of his lot to his 

son Thomas Gatchell of , tailor, on or before Jan. 

29, 1671. With his wife Waybrough and his son Thomas 
and wife Sarah, for eighteen pounds, he conveyed the lot 
to Henry Russell of Marblehead, fisherman, Dec. 28, 
1681.f Mr. Russell died before 26 : 4 : 1683, when ad- 
ministration upon his estate was granted to his widow 
Elizabeth Russell, and the lot was a part of his estate in 
1700. 

Estate of William Browne Lot. This, " the westermost 
hill that lieth before John GachePs," was granted by the 
town of Marblehead to George Chine May 19, 16524 
John Codner subsequently owned it ; and William Browne 
of Marblehead brought a suit-at-law against him. In this 
suit Mr. Browne recovered judgment, and to satisfy the 
execution issued thereon this land was set off to Mr. 
Browne in or before 1683. Mr. Browne died in February, 
1683-4, when this lot of two acres was appraised at eight 
pounds. The land belonged to Mr. Browne's estate until 
Oct. 12, 1700, when his sons, William, Thomas and John, 
conveyed it to their sister Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Sev- 
eritt of Marblehead, fisherman. 

This hill has been known by the names of its various 
owners and others who lived near it, namely, Chin's, Gat- 
chell's and Severitt's, the latter name continuing through 
the last two centuries. 

William Furnace House. On this lot a house was built 
by John Gatchell, sr., of Marblehead, or Jonathan Gat- 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 22, leaf 29. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 79. 
t Marblehead town records. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 37, leaf 181. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 233 

chell, before May 24, 1681, when John Gatchell conveyed 
the land on which the house stood, to Jonathan Gatchell 
of Marblehead, joiner.* Eight days later, Jonathan Gat- 
chell conveyed the dwelling house and shop or working 
house and lot to William Furnace of Marblehead, tailor, f 
The committee of the commoners of Marblehead conveyed 
this lot to John Gatchell, sr., Feb. 14, 16844 The house 
stood some years after 1700, but was probably removed 
before the division of his estate in 1743. 

Richard tikinner House. John Gatchell, sr., of Marble- 
head built his house on this lot before 1651 ; and March 
15, 1670-1, the town of Marblehead granted a part o f it 
to him,J there being no record before that date showing 
how and when he obtained that part where his house was 
built. He probably removed the house in or before the 
spring of 1673, and had built a new frame before Aug. 
15, 1673, when the town of Marblehead sold the land to 
him.J Mr. Gatchell lived there in 1681 ; and probably 
disposed of the estate soon after the death of his wife in 
1684. 

Madam Elizabeth Corwine of Salem, widow of George 
Corwine, deceased, owned the lot and house thereon, "for- 
merly called Jn Gachell's new house," Sept. 16, 1693, 
when she conveyed it to Richard Skinner of Marblehead, 
fisherman, for forty-five pounds. Deacon Skinner died 
March 9, 1726-7 ; and the lot was assigned to his daugh- 
ter Tabitha, wife of Capt. Joseph Smethurst. A house 
then stood upon the lot, but whether or not it was the 
Gatchell house is not known . 

John Kelly House. John Kelly of Marblehead, fisher- 
man, built a dwelling house upon this lot before Feb. 5, 
1689-90, when the trustees for the- commoners of Marble- 
head granted this lot of land to him.J Mr. Kelly died 
before May 13, 1718, when administration upon his estate 
was granted to his widow, Rose Kelly. The estate was 
divided Feb. 1, 1732, and the western two-thirds of the 
" old house " was assigned to John Kelly of Marblehead, 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 4. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 5. 
JMarblehead town records. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 140. 



234 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3. 

fisherman, son of the deceased, and the eastern third to his 
son Samuel Kelly of Marblehead, fisherman. A plan of 
the estate was made at the time of the partition, showing 
the divisions, and filed with the return of the commis- 
sioners making the partition. It is reproduced on the 
opposite page, having been reduced one-half in size. These 
two owners apparently took the old house down the next 
year. 

John Legg House. There was a house upon this lot be- 
fore 1664 ; and John Clements, sr., of Marblehead, fish- 
erman, conveyed the house and land to Maj. William 
Hathorne, sr., esq.* The deed is dated Nov. 2, 1677, but 
the sale occurred before 1664. For twenty-one pounds 
and ten shillings, Mr. Hathorne conveyed the house, 
orchard, garden and lot to John Roads of Marblehead, 
mariner, 16 : 11 : 1664. f Mr. Roads sold the same estate 
to Capt. John Legg of Marblehead, merchant, Dec. 23, 
1698 ;J and, for seventy pounds, Mr. Legg conveyed to 
John Roads, sr., of Marblehead, fisherman, son of the 
former owner of that name, the said garden, orchard and 
pasture, with the house and barn thereon, April 29, 1708. 
Mr. Roads (also, Rhodes) died in 1725, his will, dated 
Oct. 28, 1721, being proved Sept. 10, 1725. He devised 
all his estate to his wife Susannah for her life, and at her 
decease to his three children, John Rhods, Benjamin 
Rhodes and Sarah Rhods, the sons of his deceased son 
Samuel Rhods, and the testator's nephew, Thomas Rhods. 
The "old dwelling house" was then appraised at forty 
pounds and the land under and around it at one hundred and 
twenty pounds. The executor of Mr. Rhodes' will con- 
veyed to Ebenezer Hawkes, jr., of Marblehead, blacksmith, 
the lot and the " old house " thereon, then occupied by 
Pearce Poor, Jan. 25, 1731. || Mr. Hawks conveyed the land 
and the " old mansion house " to Samuel King, jr., of Mar- 
blehead, gentleman, Jan. 10, 1738. || The house was then 
occupied by Mr. King. Mr. King apparently removed the 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 167. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 127. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 225. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 22, leaf 66. 
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 77, leaf 222. 




DIVISION OF ESTATE OF JOHN KELLY, 1732 



BY SIDNEY PBBLEY. 235 

old house and built a new house on the lot some time be- 
fore his death, which occurred in the winter of 1748-9. 

At the spot marked with an asterisk (*) on this lot on 
the map was a private burial ground of the Roads family. 
It had been in use probably for many years before 1700 ; 
and when the son, John Roades, of Marblehead, shore- 
man, conveyed this part of the lot of land to George Tar- 
rant of Marblehead, merchant, Jan. 3, 1717-8, the rights 
of both parties to bury their dead in the burying place of 
the grantor and his ancestors, were reserved.* This burial 
place is again mentioned in the deed given by the Com- 
monwealth of Massachusetts to Joseph Church, conveying 
a lot of Michael Coombs adjoining, July 10, 1782.f 

Nicholas Tucker House. The trustees for the common- 
ers of Marblehead conveyed this lot to Nicholas Tucker 
of Marblehead, fisherman, Jan. 23, 1695-6. J Upon the 
land he built a house in which he lived. He died Feb. 3, 
1716-7, having devised his house and land under and 
around it to his wife for her life, and, after her decease, 
to his sons George and Nicholas. The widow probably 
died before 1753, when the house and lot were divided. 
The house was then called the " old mansion house," and 
it had a stack of chimneys. How much longer it stood is 
not known. 

Phebe Brintnall House. John Copp of Marblehead 
owned this house and the northwestern end of the lot in 
1671, and lived there. March 15, 1670-1, the commoners 
granted to him the southeastern part of the lot, and it was 
laid out to him April 10 folio wing. J For eighty-two 
pounds and ten shillings, he conveyed the house and lot to 
Capt. George Corwin of Salem, merchant, Mar. 21, 1673. 
This was probably a mortgage, as a suit was brought by 
Captain Corwin against Mr. Copp, in which judgment was 
obtained, and to satisfy the execution which was issued 
upon the judgment this house and lot were taken. The 
estate was in the possession of Paul Maverick Nov. 22, 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 33, leaf 70. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 139, leaf 187. 
JMarblehead town records. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 180. 



236 MABBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3. 

1684, when Captain Corwin conveyed the house and lot 
to Lt. John Smith of Winnissimet, in Boston.* Captain 
Smith, still of Winnissimet, for love, conveyed the house 
and land to his daughter Phebe, wife of John Brintnall of 
Marblehead, Jan. 19, 1 690-1. f In addition to the house 
already on the lot, Mr. and Mrs. Brintnall built a small 
house thereon. Mr. Brintnall was a glazier, and he re- 
moved to Winnissimet before Oct. 15, 1706, when he and 
his wife Phebe conveyed the lot, with both houses on it, 
to Ambrose Boden of Marblehead, fisherman.^ Mr. Boden 
died June 1, 1728 ; and the southeastern half of the house 
and land, the house being divided through the " stack of 
chimneys," the front door being opposite the " stack of 
chimneys," on Mason street, was assigned to the widow 
of the deceased as part of her dower, Feb. 9, 1729. She 
died March 31, 1746, and the entire estate then came into 
the possession of the eldest son, Benjamin Boden, who 
lived there. Benjamin Boden, for one hundred and forty 
pounds, sold the " old house " and lot to Ebenezer Stacey 
of Marblehead, merchant, Oct. 8, 1770. Mr. Stacy died 
late in 1771, when the house was occupied by William 
Quiner. In his will, Mr. Stacy devised this house and land 
to Ebenezer Stacy, son of his son Ambrose Stacy, who 
was then under age. Ebenezer lived in Lynn, being a 
cordwainer, and conveyed to Nicholas Tucker of Marble- 
head, mariner, this " small old house " and lot Jan. 22, 
1779.|| Mr. Tucker died Dec. 19, 1801 ; and the house 
was gone before 1822, while the premises belonged to Mr. 
Tucker's estate.^]" 

Richard Trevett House. Richard Trevett of Marblehead, 
cordwainer, built a house upon this land before April 1, 
1695, when the commoners of Marblehead granted the 
lot to him.** He probably removed the old house before 
his death, which occurred in 1749. 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 129. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 152. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 159. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 129, leaf 17. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 136, leaf 191. 
TfEssex Registry of Deeds, book 232, leaf 7. 
**Marblehead town records. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 237 

Estate of Samuel Waldron House. The northeastern 
part of this lot, within the dashes, was granted and laid 
out by the selectmen of Marblehead to James Stilson of 
Marblehead, cordwainer, Feb. 11, 1682-3 ;* and on the 
same day that part lying south of the dashes was laid out 
by the selectmen to John Palmer.* Mr. Stilson built a 
house and shop upon his part of the lot ; and, for forty 
pounds, conveyed the estate to Samuel Waldron of Mar- 
blehead, anchorsmith, Feb. 26, 1685-o.f Feb. 5, 1689-90, 
the trustees for the commoners of Marblehead conveyed to 
Mr. Waldron land on the western side of his lot westerly 
of the dashes, one-half of a rod wide and two rods and 
six feet in length.* Mr. Waldron died possessed of the 
lot Dec. 8, 1691, at the age of thirty-four. The build- 
ings and land were then appraised at forty-six pounds. 
The real estate was devised by Mr. Waldron's will to his 
wife Miriam and her child, which she was then carrying. 
If she died without children, then it was to go to his 
brothers and sisters, Rebecca Stevens, John Waldron, 
Joseph Waldron, Thomas Waldron, Sarah Waldron and 
Joanna Waldron. The widow, Miriam Waldron, married, 
second, Benjamin Henley April 12, 1694 ; and he proba- 
bly died about 1702. She married, third, Abraham Las- 
here Sept. 29, 1704. How much longer the house stood 
is not known. The southern portion of the lot had come 
into the possession of Samuel Waldron apparently some 
time before his death, and was afterwards identified with 
that estate. 

Estate of Richard Rowland House. This small house 
was built on the town's common by Richard Rowland of 
Marblehead, husbandman, just before March 15, 1689, 
when he mortgaged it, for fifteen pounds and twelve shil- 
lings, to Eramus James of Marblehead, merchant. $ Mr. 

Rowland then lived in the house. He died , 16 9-, 

and his widow and administratrix, Lucy Rowland, mort- 
gaged it, for eighteen pounds and twelve shillings, to 
Capt. John Legg of Marblehead, merchant, Nov. 21, 

*Marblehead town records. 

tEssex Kegistry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 76. 

JEssex Eegistry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 162. 



238 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAK 1700. NO. 3. 

1692.* Mrs. Rowland married, secondly, Gregory Cod- 
ner of Marblehead, and, for twenty-seven pounds, con- 
veyed the house to Richard Skinner of Marblehead, mar- 
iner, Nov. 27, 1702. f The trustees of the commoners 
granted the land under and around the house to Mr. Skin- 
ner March 13, 170 2-3. J Deacon Skinner died, possessed 
of the house and lot, March 9, 1726-7. The estate was 
divided Nov. 16, 1734, and this house and lot were as- 
signed to the deceased's son James Skinner, esq., of Mar- 
blehead^ who, for two hundred pounds, conveyed the 
house and lot to William Croft of Marblehead, gentleman, 
April 1, 1745.|| Mr. Croft died before May 6, 1765, 
when administration upon his estate was granted. The 
mansion house, garden, etc., were appraised at sixty-six 
pounds, thirteen shillings and four pence. Widow Eliza- 
beth Roads of Marblehead, formerly widow of Mr. Croft, 
for eighty pounds, conveyed to John Smethurst of Mar- 
blehead, cordwainer, the " small old house," shop and 
land, Oct. 20, 1784.^f The house was gone apparently 
before Sept. 29, 1795, when Mr. Smethurst sold the land. 

Timothy Goodwin House. John Leach of Marblehead 
built a house upon that part of this lot of land lying 
westerly of the dashes, and had not finished it when he 
died in 1688. His widow Sarah married Timothy Good- 
win of Marblehead, mason, and to him the trustees for the 
commoners of Marblehead conveyed the lot March 30, 
1691.J Mrs. Goodwin, as administratrix of her former 
husband, Mr. Leach, with her then husband, for forty- 
eight pounds, conveyed the house and land to Nathaniel 
Walton of Marblehead, ship-carpenter, Dec. 12, 1698 ;** 
and four days later, Mr. Walton, for a similar considera- 
tion, reconveyed the same estate to Mr. Goodwin. ff 

That part of the lot lying easterly of the dashes was a 
part of the lot sold by the town of Marblehead to Thomas 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 91. 

fEssex Registry of Deeds, book 16, leaf 157. 

JMarblehead town records. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 67, leaf 167. 

|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 89, leaf 209. 

lEssex Registry of Deeds, book 142, leaf 265. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 148. 
ttEssex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 154. 



BY SIDNEY PEELEY. 239 

Candigh of Marblehead, mariner, Dec. 11, 1677.* For 
five pounds, Mr. Candish conveyed this part of the lot, 
being a part of his garden, to Mr. Goodwin March 3, 
1696-7.1 

Mr. Goodwin died Sept. 25, 1701. The house and 
land adjoining were then valued at ninety-five pounds. 
Samuel Goodwin of Marblehead, mariner, son of the de- 
ceased, released to his sister Mary, wife of Ebenezer 
Stacy of Marblehead, cooper, his interest in the house and 
land under and around it March 10, 1723-4.J The widow 
of Timothy Goodwin had occupied the house since her hus- 
band's death. How much longer the house stood is not 
known. 

Thomas Candish House. This was a part of the lot sold 
by the town of Marblehead to Thomas Candigh Dec. 11. 
1677.* Mr. Candege built a house upon the lot and lived 
in it, being a fisherman. He died late in 1713. In his 
will, dated Aug. 21, 1713, and proved Dec. 31, 1713, he 
devised his estate to his wife Sarah for her life, and at 
her decease to his sons Thomas Candige and James Can- 
dige. The dwelling house and land were appraised in 
1713 at ninety pounds. The widow died in August, 1737, 
and the " old dwelling house " and land were then valued 
at one hundred and eighty pounds. The house and land 
became Thomas' wholly, and the house was probably gone 
before 1758, when he died. 

Richard Skinner House. This lot was sold by the town 
of Marblehead to Richard Skinner March 13, 1682-3.* 
Mr. Skinner was a mariner, and built a house upon the 
land. This was his homestead ; and he died, possessed of 
it, March 9, 1726-7. Ebenezer Burrill, esq., of Lynn, 
guardian of Deacon Skinner's two children, John and 
Alice Skinner, conveyed the '* mansion house," with a 
warehouse and barn, to Jonathan Proctor of Marblehead, 
shoreman, May 24, 1743. How long the house stood 
after this date is not known, but certainly for many 
years. He was living in the house in 1759, and was 

*Marblehead town records. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 218. 
{Essex Registry of Deeds, book 54, leaf 54. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 86, leaf 23. 



240 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3. 

then a merchant. In 1795, the " old cellar of the house 
formerly belonging to Jonathan Proctor, deceased," is 
mentioned.* 

Estate of Thomas Nicholson House. This lot was sold by 
the town of Marblehead to Thomas Nicholson of Marble- 
head, a mariner, March 13, 1682-3. f Upon this land he 
built a house, in which he lived. He died before Jan. 2, 
1693-4, when administration upon his estate was granted 
to his widow Elizabeth Nicholson, who married Richard 
Crofts thirteen days later. The house and lot were then 
appraised at sixty pounds. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 
Nicholson, married, first, John Westlake May 24, 1705 ; 
and, second, Samuel Harris of Marblehead, joiner, Oct. 
20, 1715. Mr. and Mrs. Harris conveyed the house and 
land to Richard Dana of Marblehead, gentleman, Sept. 24, 
1731 ;J and ten days later Mr. Dana reconveyed the estate 
to Mr. Harris. The house was originally twenty-four 
feet long and thirty-three feet wide, and fronted on what 
is now Lee street. The chimney was wholly on the out- 
side of the western end, near the front. Mr. Harris added 
to the northwestern end of the house twenty feet, and of 
the width of the house. This addition caused the chim- 
ney to be near the middle of the house, which was 
afterwards known as a double house. Mr. Harris died 
in the spring of 1739, his will, dated Feb. 23, 1738, being 
proved April 19, 1739. His " mansion house," one part 
of which was then in the possession of Nicholas Girdler, 
was appraised at five hundred pounds. In his will he de- 
vised " my late mansion house," shop, barn and land to 
his three daughters, Tabitha, Elizabeth and Ann. A divi- 
sion of the estate was made May 10, 1751, and the old 
part of the house was assigned to Tabitha, wife of Increase 
Gatchell of Marblehead, yeoman, and the new part to 
Anna, wife of Samuel Gatchell of Marblehead, shoreman. || 
A plan was made showing the division of the estate at 
the time of the partition, and was recorded with the 

*Essex Kegistry of Deeds, book 163, leaf 127. 
tMarblehead town records. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 78, leaf 56. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 78, leaf 57. 
t! Essex Registry of Deeds, book 100, leaf 138. 




fir. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 241 

record of the partition in the registry of deeds.* It is 
reproduced on the opposite page, having been reduced 
one-half in size. How much longer the old house stood is 
unknown. 

John Roades House. This lot of land was early owned 
by Emanuel Clarke, and he conveyed it to Joseph Bowd 
in or before 1664. Mr. Bowd was " a liquor stiller," and 
lived in Marblehead. The house was occupied by Robert 
Sweete May 24, 1666, when Mr. Bowd mortgaged the 
estate to William Bartholomew of Boston, merchant;! 
and Mr. Bowd, who had become a yeoman, conveyed the 
house and land to Mr. Bartholomew May 20, 1671. $ Mr. 
Bartholomew conveyed the house, land, orchard, yard, 
well, etc., to John Williams of Boston, butcher, Oct. 9, 
1676 ; and Mr. Williams, for twenty pounds, conveyed 
the house and land to John Furbush of Marblehead, hus- 
bandman, Oct. 31, 16 7 8. || For forty-nine pounds, Mr. 
Furbush conveyed the house and lot to John Roades, jr., 
of Marblehead, fisherman, Aug. 14, 1683.^f Mr. Rhodes 
died in 1725, his will, dated Oct. 28, 1721, being proved 
Sept. 10, 1725. In his will, he devised his real estate, 
after the death of his widow, Susannah Rhodes, to his 
children, John, Benjamin and Sarah Rhods, the sous of 
his deceased son Samuel Rhods, and Thomas Rhods, 
nephew of the testator. The " old dwelling house," as it 
was then called, was appraised at forty pounds, and the 
land under and around it at one hundred and twenty 
pounds. The widow probably died before Sept. 15, 1758, 
when this part of the real estate was divided. The house 
was twenty-eight feet long and sixteen feet wide, and 
stood end to the street, and about seventeen feet here- 
from. On the rear was a leanto eight feet wide, and 
running the whole distance of the back end of the house. 
In this division the house, leanto and lot were assigned to 
the heirs of John Roads, deceased (probably the son 

*Essex Kegistry of Deeds, book 100, leaf 140. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 120. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 120. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 159. 
H Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 11. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 91. 



242 MAEBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3. 

John). A plan of the premises, showing the parts 
into which they were divided, was filed with the return of 
the commissioners appointed to make partition in the pro- 
bate court. This plan is reproduced on the opposite 
page full size. In 1760, this building was partly gone, 
and the part left was called " a piece of an old dwelling 
house."* John Roads, fisherman, John Martin, fisherman, 
and wife Sarah, and Anne Roads, singlewoman, all of 
Marblehead, for forty-eight pounds, conveyed to Dr. 
Humphrey Devereux of Marblehead four-fifths of this 
lot, with " an old building thereon late the mansion house 
of John Roads, deceased," Dec. 7, 1764. f John Roads' 
widow, Sarah Roads, married John LeCraw of Marblehead 
Feb. 17, 1756, and lived in this house until said Dec. 7, 
1764, when she released her dower interest in the prem- 
ises to Doctor Devereux. f The other one-fifth interest 
was owned by Stephen Roads of Marblehead, fisherman, 
who released the " old building . . . late the mansion 
house of John Roads, deceased," to Doctor Devereux 
Dec. 12 17664 Probably the building was taken down 
immediately by Doctor Devereux. 

William Woods House. This lot of meadow land be- 
longed to Edmund Nicholson at the time of his death, in 
1660. His widow and administratrix, Elizabeth Nichol- 
son of Marblehead, her brother Frances Simpson, and Mr. 
Nicholson's sons, Christopher Nicholson and Joseph 
Nicholson, conveyed this land, with the two dwelling 
houses, cowhouse and workhouse thereon, to Capt. 
George Corwin of Salem, merchant Sept. 3, 1664. 
For seventy pounds, Captain Corwin conveyed the 
land "w'th such dwelling house or out houses, 
that are now standing thereupon," to William Woods 
of Marblehead, fisherman, Aug. 7, 1669. || The lower 
house was probably taken down before 1700. Mr. 
Woods died in 1708 ; and the house, barn and land were 
then appraised at two hundred pounds. His widow and 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 109, leaf 68. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 115, leaf 147. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 119, leaf 276. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 103. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 85. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 243 

administratrix, Mary Woods, conveyed to his son-in-law 
Richard Skinner of Marblehead, mariner, " y e large 
dwelling house " and this lot of land on which it stood, 
Nov. 28, 1711.* Deacon Skinner died March 9, 1726-7, 
having in his will devised '* y e house w cl1 was my Father 
Wood's Mansion house" and land adjoining to his son 
John Skinner. The house and lot were then appraised at 
two hundred and thirty pounds. Capt. John Skinner died 
May 22, 1747; and his estate was divided April 13, 1761. 
His house was then occupied by William Revell (or 
Ravell) and others. The house, barn and land under and 
adjoining were appraised at that time at one hundred 
pounds ; and in the division were assigned to William Skin- 
ner of Marblehead, merchant, son of the deceased. Dec. 1, 
1761, William Skinner mortgaged the house and land, 
still occupied by William Ravel and called "Woods 
house ," to Samuel Gardner, esq., of Salem. f Mr. Gard- 
ner evidently foreclosed the mortgage, and died, possessed 
of the estate, April 7, 1769. The " old house," as it was 
called, was the in then possession of Daniel Scandlin, and 
with the land was valued at eighty pounds. This prop- 
erty was included in the residue of the estate which Mr. 
Gardner devised, in his will, to his sons, George, Weld and 
Henry Gardner. For one hundred pounds, these three 
devisees, who were all of Salem, merchants, conveyed the 
house and land to Dr. Humphrey Devereux, jr., of Mar- 
blehead June 20, 1769. J Doctor Devereux died, pos- 
sessed of the estate, Dec. 3, 1773. The house was stand- 
ing the next year, but how much longer it stood is un- 
known. 

John Waldron House. That part of this lot lying east- 
erly of the dashes belonged to John Devereux, sr., of Mar- 
blehead, yeoman, Nov. 5, 1692, when he conveyed it, for 
thirty pounds, to John Waldron, sr., of Marblehead, an- 
chorsmith. 

That part of this lot lying westerly of the dashes 

*Old Norfolk Registry of Deeds, book 4, page 141. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 109, leaf 251. 
tEssei Registry of Deeds, book 122, leaf 17. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 105. 



244 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3. 

belonged to John Waldron, sr., very early. He worked in 
his shop, near his house, making anchors and doing 
general blacksmithing. He died in 1702, having de- 
vised to his wife Dorothy all his estate for her life for 
the maintenance of herself and her daughter Sarah Ste- 
phens, who was under age. He devised the eastern 
stone end of the house, after the widow's decease, 
to his son John. The house, land around it, etc., 
were appraised at two hundred and sixty pounds. 
John Waldron, the son, was also a blacksmith, and 
lived here, having become the sole owner of the house 
and land around it. He died in December, 1743, having 
devised one-eighth of his real estate to his daughter Mary 
Webber, and the remainder to Thomas Waldron, John 
Waldron and Sarah Ashton, equally. This, called his 
"mansion house," was appraised at seventy pounds, and 
the shop, bellows, etc., at five pounds. The executors of 
the estates of John Waldron and Thomas Waldron, both of 
Marblehead, gentlemen, deceased, for five hundred pounds, 
conveyed this house and land to Abraham Mullett of Mar- 
blehead, fisherman, Nov. 10, 1746.* Mr. Mullet lived 
here, and died before Feb. 2, 1767, when administration 
upon his estate was granted to widow Mary Mullet of 
Marblehead. The " mansion house," barn, shop and land 
were then appraised at two hundred and sixty-six pounds, 
thirteen shillings and four pence. The house was stand- 
ing in 1794, and was gone before April 1, 1797, when 
widow Mary Briton and widow Hannah Ellidge, both of 
Danvers, two of the children of Abraham Mullet, de- 
ceased, conveyed two fifth interests in the land " where 
the mansion house of our father Abraham Mullet former- 
ly stood."! 

John Legg Houses and Estate of William Pote House. 
That part of this lot lying northerly of the dashes belonged 
to Francis Johnson in 1666 ; and to William Poate of 
Marblehead as early as 1671. Mr. Poate died possessed 
of it before Sept. 21, 1696. His widow, Ann Poate, was 
appointed administratrix of his estate; and, for twelve 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 89, leaf 140. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 161, leaf 300. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 245 

pounds, she conveyed to Capt. John Legg of Marblehead, 
merchant, that part of the lot lying northwesterly and 
northeasterly of the house, Nov. 17, 1698. * That part of 
the lot Captain Legg owned until after 1700. The house 
and the land under and immediately around it was owned 
by William Pote, evidently a son of the deceased owner. 
Mr. Pote was a fisherman, and removed to Falmouth, 
before Nov. 10, 1730, when, for two hundred and eighty- 
five pounds, he conveyed the house and land to Benjamin 
Hendley of Marblehead, shoreman.! The house was then 
occupied by William Bowell. Mr. Hendley, for one hun- 
dred and twenty-five pounds, conveyed the house and land 
to Joseph Lindsey, of Marblehead, joiner, Feb. 6, 17474 
Mr. Lindsey died, possessed of the estate, in the autumn 
of 1764, having devised it in his will to his wife Rebecca. 
The mansion house, barn and land were then appraised at 
two hundred and fifty pounds. The widow probably died 
before May 30, 1793, when the estate was divided. The 
house had been built upon, so that the old house was only 
"the old end or ell part" of the mansion house then upon 
the land. In the division, this old part was assigned to 
Thomas Vinning of Marblehead, blacksmith, and his wife 
Mary. The old house thus lost its identity. 

The middle section of this lot and the house thereon 
were owned early by Peter Miller of Salem, and he con- 
veyed the same estate to Thomas Hawkins of Marble- 
head Jan. 15, 1677.|| Mr. Hawkins conveyed the same to 
Joseph Hallett of Marblehead, mariner, July 25, 1684. ^[ 
For forty pounds, Mr. Hallet conveyed "our house" and 
land to Capt. John Legg of Marblehead, merchant, Sept. 
21, 1696.** Colonel Legg died Oct. 8, 1718 ; and this 
house and land were assigned in the division of his estate 
Feb. 27, 1718-9, to his granddaughter, Jane Brown, spin- 
ster, ff How much longer this house stood and its exact 
location are unknown. 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 225. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 52, leaf 222. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 104, leaf 66. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 157, leaf 52. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 178. 
1[Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 4. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 201. 
Registry of Deeds, book 35, leaf 156. 



246 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3. 

The southeastern section of this lot was in the posses- 
sion of John Bartlett Jan. 12, 1671, when the selectmen 
of Marblehead and the committee of the commoners sold 
and laid out the lot to him, the cartway to go between the 
house and garden.* The house was already upon the lot 
at that time. John Bartlett was a mariner and lived here. 
For twenty-one pounds, he conveyed the house, barn and 
land to Capt. John Legg of Marblehead, merchant, Oct. 
21, 1696.f For a similar consideration, Captain Legg re- 
conveyed the same property to Mr. Bartlet Nov. 20, 
1701.J Mr. Bartlett died in 1724 or 1725, his will being 
proved Aug. 13, 1725. The dwelling house and land were 
then valued at seventy pounds, and the house probably 
stood but a few year longer. 

William Nick House. This lot belonged to William 
Nick of Marblehead, fisherman, very early. He owned 
the house and land in 1682 ; and died possessed of it in 
October, 1683. The dwelling house and outhouses with 
the orchard and the field towards the northwest side of the 
house were appraised at two hundred pounds. In his will 
he gave the house and land to his brothers John Nick and 
Christopher Nick for their lives and then to "the children." 
In 1696, the house was "old" and in very bad condition. 
It was probably gone soon after 1700. 

John Bassett Lot. William Nick of Marblehead, fisher- 
man, owned this land quite early, and conveyed the lot, 
with the shop thereon, to John Bassett, jr., of Marblehead, 
cooper, Oct. 12, 1682. Mr. Bassett owned it until after 
1700. 

*Marblehead town records. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 200. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 231. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 109. 



FAMILIAR WAYS OF EAST ANGLIA. 



BY PAULINE WILLIS. 



"Norfolk and Suffolk near, so named of the sites, 
Adorned every way with wonderful delights 
To the beholding eye, that every where are seen, 
Abounding with rich fields, and pastures fresh and green, 
Fair havens to their shores; large heaths within them lie, 
As nature in them strove to shew variety." 

Drayton. 

To one whose native land is New England, and the 
greater part of life having been spent there, a visit to 
East Anglia has an indescribable charm. Interesting 
thoughts and memories are recalled by the remarkable re- 
semblance of this part of England to our own home-land 
we are struck by it at every turn. This is scarcely to be 
wondered at, for we know that a very large number of the 
first settlers in New England came from Norfolk, Suffolk 
and Essex, and also from Lincolnshire. These were most- 
ly men of rugged and masterful character, and they must 
needs have been so to have attempted such a migration in 
those days. 

There had been many years of unrest before they left, 
and changes had taken place in the religious and political 
world. Old traditions of the spiritual and civil life had 
been cruelly uprooted, and new thoughts were working in 
men's minds. With the hope of gaining liberty to live 
according to their conscience and their own ideas of govern- 
ment, they bravely took their fortunes in their hands, and 
with their families crossed the seas. 

Happily for us they brought with them the desire to 
preserve and hand down the domestic ways of their form- 
er home. We their descendants have therefore a special 
thrill of pleasure in visiting this corner of the country 
from whence they came, and seeing where our own cus- 
toms originated. 

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248 FAMILIAR WAYS OF BAST ANGLIA 

As we travel through these counties, and chiefly in 
Norfolk, we are constantly coming across familiar sights, 
and names also, such as Hingham, Groton, Sudbury, Ded- 
ham, Ipswich, Lynn and others. 

Our ancestors planted and laid out their farms, cut the 
roads and built their houses (some of them fortunately re- 
main with us today), after the manner of the old land. 
Roughly-made stone walls they had dividing property, 
instead of the time-honoured hedges of England. 

East Anglia is distinctly an agricultural and pastoral 
district. Its limits have never been clearly outlined, but 
we know that it embraces Norfolk and Suffolk, as well as 
parts of Essex Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire where old 
Boston is. 

We find stone and brick for building where we were 
forced to use timber, but in Norfolk when the houses are 
covered with stucco, it is often painted our well-known 
colonial yellow colour. In King's Lynn, the old Inn op- 
posite the Custom house is like this, and the interesting 
Custom House itself might well have been copied in our 
Salem, and served Hawthorne as a model for his story. 
This Lynn is very like a New England town. Outside 
blinds, not so common in other parts of England, are found 
here and actually the same queer little catch to hold them 
them back that still remains on our older houses. We find 
in Norfolk the long slanting roof almost to the ground on 
the north side, a wise protection which was adopted in 
the new world also, against cold winter winds. In turn- 
ing to that quaint little book, " Sketches of a New Eng- 
land Village in the Last Century," published in 1838, we 
find this description of the home of the authoress : " It 
was a tolerably large house, two stories in front, full of 
windows to admit all the genial influence of the South, 
while on the North it sloped down so that one might lay 
his hand on the roof. These old-fashioned houses are 
fast disappearing from our country." It is pleasant to 
think they are still to be found in East Anglia, indeed 
many of the houses there recall those of such towns as Salem 
Portsmouth or Newburyport. Squarely built with fine 
large rooms on either side of the entrance, and with a cen- 



BY PAULINE WILLIS. 249 

tral staircase. The front porches are much the same, and 
sometimes posts outside with chains hanging from them, 
form a certain barrier against intruders. How well we 
know these I 

All over the country we see churches very near togeth- 
er, even in small hamlets as at the Raynhams, a South, 
East and West parish. This reminds us of our Andover 
with its three parishes also, and many other places in New 
England. Our forefathers were a religious people. We 
may mention a coincidence connected with the towns just 
spoken of. The first minister of Andover was Rev. Sam- 
uel Phillips, whose descendants and family name will ever 
be remembered there. His great grandfather came from 
South Raynham. 

The county of Norfolk is known to be famous for its 
churches, and their wonderful architecture. Most of them 
are ancient, dating even to Saxon days, as the one at Great 
Dunham. Many of the parish records preserved in them 
contain entries of our own families. In these very build- 
ings our ancestors were baptized at the fonts that are still 
standing. They worshipped there, came to be married 
there, and before burial were brought there too. Now they 
lie in God's acre that adjoins. The grave-yards strike us 
as so familiar. There was one in old Boston that the 
writer visited, and might well have imagined herself in 
New England, at Salem, Marblehead or the old Granary 
in our Boston, but particularly was this one like the Pen- 
tucket enclosure at Haverhill. The same fondness for 
verses and Scriptural texts is noticeable. In wandering 
through them, one longs to read the story on the lichen- 
covered stones. Alas ! the storms of centuries have well- 
nigh obliterated all but a letter here and there, which ex 
cites the curiosity of the genealogist even more. The few 
dates that can be partly read, tell of a time far back in 
those days when the relations of those very ones who lie 
there, were crossing the great ocean to their new home. 
Longfellow's lines come back to us : 

"Who are in these graves, we know not, 
Only know they are our Fathers." 



250 FAMILIAR WAYS OF EAST ANGLIA 

We notice a kindliness about the people of Norfolk, and 
thrifty, simple homelike ways, even an intonation in the 
voice that appeals to us. All is so like our typical old 
New Englanders. Certain expressions that are used 
strike a soft note in our hearts, we know some of them so 
well. Mr. Dutt in his book, " Highways and Byways in 
East Anglia," tells of the road-mender who said to him : 
4 kinder thowt as how we should have some rain afore 
night." Another tells you of the age he will be : " come 
next December ;" someone else, that you " didn't ought" 
to do this or that, and not to be l< hurrisome." Dr. Jess- 
opp, the Vicar of Seaming, gets the following from an 
old man who was known to be given to swearing, "I 
didn't mean 'em all to be damned as you may say, but 
somehow it kind o' came handy like whereby you was 
helped along when you was in want of a word and couldn't 
stop noways." We hear old English words among the 
people there, such as lt housen" for houses, and the h is 
never dropped by the pure race of that part, as is common 
with the uneducated elsewhere in the country. 

It is also curious and interesting how one finds among 
the poorer classes everywhere, many habits and modes of 
speech that were used by their superiors in former days. 
These were copied and retained by them, handed down and 
remain. The poor are more conservative, old-fashioned 
and simpler than the rich. Their lives being spent in a 
narrower circle and surroundings, they are less influenced 
by the ever-changing ideas that are taken up by the more 
idle and restless ones in the world. 

Superstition and the strange belief in witchcraft still 
lingers in that West country. It shows us where the roots 
lay that sent their off-shoots to our shores, and led to such 
horrible doings in early days. From Dr. Jessopp in his 
" Arcady" we can learn more of this. Someone has writ- 
ten : " There is a sort of evening shadow over the past." 
This seems more true when from a distance we try to pic- 
ture to ourselves scenes of other days. To visit the very 
spots, however, where given events took place, particular- 
ly in a country like England where changes come more 
slowly, then the former times seem conjured up clearly be- 



BY PAULINE WILLIS. 251 

fore us. We can picture to ourselves how our ancestors 
lived and the scenery they looked out upon is spread be- 
fore us now, almost, if not entirely unchanged since their 
day. This is especially the case when we are dealing with 
counties so agricultural as East Anglian ones. Genera- 
tion after generation cultivates the land exactly as those 
before them have done, and the cattle and sheep feed on 
the same pastures. 

The boundaries marked out in Domesday Book, dat- 
ing from the grand survey in 1086 in William the Con- 
queror's time, are still existing. There is a restful and 
abiding sense of stability in looking at these ancient land- 
marks. In Oxford, a well-known field called " Port Mea- 
dow," down in the direction of Fair Rosamond's Bower, 
was given, the records tell us, by the Conqueror to the 
people of that old town. It was to be always a common 
or recreation ground, and so it has remained to this day, 
not encroached upon by any buildings. 

To return to East Anglia. We find the ancient inns, 
those posting houses with their curious signs, are little al- 
tered from the days when our ancestors knew them. One 
or two may be mentioned where we may find a kindly 
welcome still. ' The Crown" at Fakenham, The George" 
at Swaffham, and The Globe" at King's Lynn. Each 
has its history, and is a good starting place for many an 
interesting excursion. 

One morning in August while cycling from the sleepy 
town of S waff ham towards Ray n ham, the road lay through 
lovely woods and the whole surroundings brought An- 
dover to one's mind. It might have been Indian Ridge or 
the Old Railroad. The pines and firs filled the air with 
their delicious perfume, and beneath them the ferns grew 
high. The same white and purple wild flowers and the 
thistles that we know, grow by the roadside, and beside 
the foot-paths along the high-roads trodden down by the 
feet of the shepherds who have gone daily over them. We 
see a little of what might be called untidiness, nature left 
to her own sweet will, in East Anglia. There is not the 
cleanly swept and garnished look so characteristic of other 
parts of England. It is, however, infinitely more beautiful, 



252 FAMILIAR WAYS OF EAST ANGLIA. 

the God of nature speaks to us in all this loveliness. 
Man's hand and design are not everywhere apparent. One 
reason for this may be, that the soil of Norfolk, for instance, 
is not so rich and yielding as in some places, and the 
farmers have had to mix and fertilize it with great care 
and pains. These farmers rank as high as any others, but 
their work has been greater than with many. And in this 
may be found one more resemblance to our people of New 
England, where too a hard and barren soil had to be first 
worked upon. Those early settlers brought courage and 
perseverance from their old home. Their descendants 
have an inheritance that is not to be despised, but rightly 
honoured and preserved. 

It might be good for us to go back in spirit and in prac- 
tice, to some of the simpler, sterner ways of former days, 
to be more like those who have left a proud and enduring 
name, not to be forgotten. With a certain satisfaction we 
may follow Washington Irving and "Look to England 
with a hallowed feeling of tenderness and veneration as 
the land of our forefathers, the august repository of the 
monuments and antiquity of our race, the birthplace and 
mausoleum of the sages and heroes of our paternal his- 
tory." 



NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX 
COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. 



(Continued from Vol. XL VI, page 192.) 



Ran away from Thomas Poynton of Salem, a Negro Fel- 
low, about 25 Years of Age, a short Thick-set Fellow, not 
very black, something pitted with the Small-Pox, speaks 
bad English ; Had on when he went away, a dark colour'd 
Cloth Coat, lined with red Shalloon, with Mettal Buttons, 
a blue Sailor's Jacket, and a flowered German Serge Jacket, 
black knit Breeches, a Pair grey Stockings newly stock'd, 
an old Beaver Hatt, and an old Drab Great Coat ; Any 
Person that shall take up said Negro, and convey him to 
Salem, or secure him in any Goal, shall be well rewarded, 
and all necessary Charges paid. 

N. B. All Masters of Vessels and others are cautioned 
against harbouring, concealing or carrying off the said 
Negro, as they would avoid the Rigour of the Law. 

THOMAS POYNTON. 
Boston Evening Gazette, Feb. 11, 1760. 

It is His Excellency Governor POWNALL'S Orders, 
That all the Recruiting Officers in the County of Essex 
and York, for the ensuing Campaign, make a Return to me 
at Newbury, once a Week, of what Men are recruited, set- 
ting forth the Regiment of Militia they belong to ; as also 
by what recruiting Officers they are raised ; and that the 
Commissary of Musters certify on the back of the Muster 
Rolls, that he delivers to the Recruiting Officer the parti- 
cular Number it contains. 

N. B. In applying to me in Newlury, with their Mus- 
ter Rolls properly avouched, they will receive the other 
Five Dollars and Bounty Note. 

JOSEPH INGERSOLL, Colonel. 
Boston Evening Gazette, Feb. 26, 1760. 
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254 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 

To be Sold by JOSEPH GOULD of Lynn, a likely spry 
Negro Woman 19 Years of Age, exceeding strong and healthy ; 
she is very good for Cookrey or Dairy ; with a female child 
8 Months old ; Also a likely Negro Girl 8 Tears of Age. 
Also a Parcel of choice good Wheat by Wholesale or Retail, 
Sheeps Wool and Cotton Wool by the Hundred or smaller 
Quantity Coffee, 5s ^ 4c. by the Dozen Old Tenor, Tea and 
Chocolate, ground G-inger at 6s by the Dozen, and all Sorts 
of Spices ; and sundry Sorts of English and West India 
G-oods, too many to le here enumerated. Also a Two-Mast 
Boat, Boston built, with all her Appurtenances ; and also a 
Moses Boat. All to be Sold cheap for Cash, short Credit, 
or Treasurers Notes, $c, c. 

Boston Evening G-azette, Feb. 25, 1760 

In an account of the great fire in Boston whereby 349 
buildings were destroyed appears the following paragraph: 
An Hon. Gentleman* in a neighbouring Town, upon 
hearing of the distressing Circumstances of many of the 
Sufferers in the late terrible Fire, was so touch'd with 
Sympathy that he immediately inclos'd an Order to his 
Friend here for 100 Bushels of Corn, to be distributed 
among those of them that were in the greatest Necessity. 
Boston Evening G-azette, Mar. 2^, 1760. 



Captain William Davis arrived at Cape Cod last Tues- 
day in 28 Days from St. Kitts. He advises us of the fol- 
lowing Captures: Moody from Newbury for the West 
Indies, taken and retaken twice. 

Boston Evening G-azette, Mar. 24, 1760 

Monday last died at Salem, in the 66th Year of his Age, 
Jonathan Pew Esq.; one of his Majesty's Officers of the 
Customs, at the Port of Salem. 

Boston Evening G-azette, Mar. 31, 1760. 

*Coll. Benj. Pickman of Salem, is written in the margin of the 
issue in the library of the Essex Institute. 



NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 255 

NEW YORK, March 31 

Monday last the Privateer Ship St. George, James 
Devereux Commander, returned here from an unsuccess- 
ful Cruize of 13 Months ; Last Tuesday Week he met 
with the Schooner Neptune, from the West Indies, bound 
for, and belonging to Cape Anne, in Distress, having lost 
her Rudder, Captain Devereux supplied her with some 
Necessaries, and put an Officer and four Men on board 
her, when she proceeded on her voyage. 

Boston Evening Gazette, Apr. 7, 1760. 

Capt. Brown, who was a Passenger on board Capt. 
Bradford, came to Town from Newbury, where he arrived 
in 18 Days from Eustatia, and informs that Capt. Turel 
and Cook from Salem have lately been taken and carried 
into Martineco. 

Boston Evening Gazette, Apr. 14, 1760. 

Came to the House of the Subscriber, on the 4th Inst. a 
Negro Man, aged about 50, a thick sett Fellow, of about 
5 Feet Stature ; Had on an old Felt Hat, a white mill'd 
Cap, a red Shag Great Coat, a green Jacket, an old checkt 
Shirt, and a Pair of black Cloth Breeches. Said Fellow 
says he belongs to Mr. John Green of Concord, who has 
given him a Pass to obtain Business. His Master may 
have him again paying the Charges. 

Ipswich April 10m 1760. 

THOMAS BORDMAN. 
Boston Evening Gazette, Apr. 14, 1760. 

To be Sold, or Let into the Province Service, by Joseph 
Cottle of Newbury ; A new Snow about 175 Tons Burthen 
now lying at the Long Wharf in said Town, and has been 
only a three Months Voyage to St. Martins for Salt. 

Boston Evening Gazette, Apr. 14, 1760. 

By Capt. Watts in 11 Days from Louisbourg, but last 
from Halifax in 8, we learn, That a small Privateer of 6 
Guns, out of the Gut of Canso, has taken a large Schooner 
belonging to Mr. Kingsbury of Newbury (bound from 
Philadelphia for Quebec) William Campbell Master. 

Boston Evening Gazette, May 19, 1760. 



256 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 

About ten Days ago there were 2500 and odd Shad 
Fish taken out of Merrimack-River, by one single Draft of 
a Net. 

Boston Evening Gazette, May 26, 1760. 

Notice is hereby given, That on the Day of the Date 
hereof, a Spar or Piece of Timber, (suppos'd to be for a 
Ship's Mast) measuring about 70 Feet in Length, and be- 
tween 2 & 3 Feet Diameter at the Butt, drove on Shore 
on Nahant Beech in Lynn, and taken up and secured by 
Daniel Bassett of said Lynn. The Owner thereof by ap- 
plying to said Bassett, and paying the Charge of this Ad- 
vertisement, and for securing the same, may receive it 
again. 

Lynn, May 20, 1760. 

Boston Evening Gazette, May 26, 1760. 

These are to give Notice, That Joseph York and John 
Griffin, both of Glocester in the County of Essex, on the 
16th Day of June Currant, inlisted with me the Subscriber 
into His Majesty's Provincial Service for the total Reduc- 
tion of Canada, and receiv'd five Dollars each ; and they 
have both since that Time Deserted. These are therefore 
to warn all Persons not to entertain or conceal them or 
either of them ; and if any Persons shall so do, they may 
depend upon being prosecuted with the utmost Rigor of 
Law. And if any Persons will apprehend them, or either 
of them, so that they be convey'd to his Majesty's 
Castle William, they shall have all their necessary Charges 
paid, and shall have the further Sum of Forty Shillings, 
Lawful Money paid them (for each of the said Deserters) 
by Humphrey Bradstreet, Capt. 

Boston, June 30, 1760. 

Boston Evening Gazette, July 7, 1760. 

On Monday last died at Cambridge, after a lingering In- 
disposition, in the 27th Year of his Age, Samuel Epes, 
Esq ; of Ipswich, the last surviving Heir of the late Honor- 
able Symonds Epes Esq ; and of the present Consort of 
the Rev. Mr. President Holyoke. 

Boston Evening Gazette, July 7, 1760. 
(To be continued.) 



RECORDS OF THE VICE - ADMIRALTY COURT 
AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 



THE CONDEMNATION OF PEIZES AND RECAPTURES OF THE 
REVOLUTION AND THE WAR OF 1812. 



(Continued from Vol. XL VI, page 



FACTOR (88), ship 291 tons, S. Lowe, master, Oporto 
to Norfolk, captured Sept. 7, 1812 by Liverpool Packet 
(privateer). Cargo : wine and jewellery. This ship was 
plundered at sea of $30,000 and some wine on Aug. 20, 
by the ship Hero of London, bound to Quebec. Taken 
into Liverpool. Cargo restored to Portuguese owners. 

FAME (672), sloop (privateer), captured Nov. , 
1814 by militia of Yarmouth. Taken into Yarmouth. 

FAIR PLAY (365), sloop, captured July 25, 1813 by 
Boxer. Taken into New Brunswick. 

FAIR TRADER (73), schr. (privateer), 29 tons, John Mor- 
gan, master, from Salem, cruising, captured July 16, 1812 
by Indian. Cargo : guns, ammunition and provisions. 
Taken into New Brunswick. 

FAIR TRADER (680), sch., 29 tons, Joseph H. Allen, mas- 
ter, New Bedford to New York, captured Dec. 6, 1814 by 
Rolla and Liverpool Packet (privateers). Cargo: rice, 
wine, salt, candles and fish. Taken into Liverpool. 

FALUN (479), schr., A. Thompson, master, Halifax to 
U. S., captured Jan. 21, 1814 by Retaliation and Liverpool 
Packet (privateers). Taken into Liverpool. Restored. 

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258 RECORDS OF THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT 

FAME (167), sloop, Gr. Walden, master, New Port to 
New York, captured Apr. 1, 1813 by Sir John Sherbrooke 
(privateer). Cargo : 193 bbls. rosin, 2 pipes brandy and a 
cable. 

FAME (504), sloop, Aron Clarke, master, captured May 
14, 1814 by Liverpool Packet (privateer). 

FAME (516), sloop, 85 tons, N. Locke, master, New 
Port to Ocracock, N. C., captured May 31, 1814 by En- 
dymion. Cargo : 1900 gal. spermaciti oil. 

FAME (564), sloop, 48 tons, Tim y Folger, master, Bos- 
ton to Nantucket, captured July 23, 1814 by Spencer, 
Nymphe and Leander. Cargo : beef and pork. Restored. 

FANNY (284), brig, 146 tons, Ja s Breath, master, New 
Haven to Halifax, captured July 8, 1813 by La Hogue. 
Cargo : 1050 bbls. flour. 

FANNY (313), brig, James Moffat, master, Morris River 
to Philadelphia, captured July 22, 1813 by Statira. 

FANNY (15), ship, Coleton, master, Port Glasgow 
to St. Johns, recaptured July 19, 1812 by Colibrie. Car- 
go: dry goods valued at 7800. 

FAVORITE (607), brig, 158 tons, W. Ayton, master, 
Calcutta to Port Jackson, N. South Wales, recaptured 
Sept. 2, 1814 by Alban. Cargo : tea, sugar, rice and peice 
goods. 

FAVOURITE (173), schr., 67 tons, Ge West, master, 
Plymouth to East Port, captured Apr. 5, 1813 by Valiant. 
Cargo : 2248 bushels corn, 50 bushels pease, 1 bbl. hogs 
lard, 374 Ib. hams, 42 bbls. tar and 180 bushels flaxseed. 

FEDERAL (104), brig, 115 tons, Sam 1 Swan, master, 
Africa to Boston, captured Sept. 17, 1812. Cargo : ivory, 
cam wood, coffee, palm oil, old copper and some remains 
of the outward cargo ; dry goods and provisions. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 259 

FENELON (126), schr., 109 tons, T. Ropes, master, 
Baltimore to Boston, captured Dec. 16, 1812 by Liver- 
pool Packet (privateer). Cargo : flour and corn. 

FIDELIA (221), ship, 243 tons, A. Gardner, master, 
New York to Cadiz, captured May 19, 1813 by Orpheus 
and Ramilies. Restored. 

FINANCIER (443), sch., A. Webber, master, captured 
Nov. 9, 1813 by Shannon (privateer). 

FINLAND (276), ship, 245 tons, W m Chapman, master, 
Alexandria to Halifax, captured May 20, 1813 by Marl- 
boro, Victorious, Barrossa, Narcissus and Junon. Cargo : 
2327 bbls. flour and 220 bbls. flour. Restored. 

FIRMINA (674), ship, 260 tons, Antonio Jose Fereira, 
master, Boston to Amelia Islands, captured Nov. 23, 1814 
by Maidstone, Junon, Arab and Curlew. Cargo : ballast. 
Restored. 

FLASH (526), sloop, Ja s Barstow, master, captured June 
7, 1814 by Niemen and Saturn. 

FLIGHT (310), schr., Kelly, master, Bourdeaux to 

Baltimore, captured Apr. 12, 1813 by Spartan and Vic- 
torious. Cargo : 60 chests & cases of merchandize, 1 
cask glasses, 2 bags gloves, china, oil, 62 casks brandy and 
52 hhds. wine. 

FLOR DE LISBOA (258), brig, F. D. Viena, master, 
Porto Rico to Philadelphia, captured June 2, 1813 by 
Spartan, Statira and Martin. Cargo : sugar and rice. 

FLOR DE MAR (353), ship, 311 tons, J. J. N. Carvallo, 
master, Fayal to Boston, captured Aug. 16, 1813 by La 
Hogue. Cargo : 74 pipes wine, 60 tons redwood and 
33391. 

FLOR DE TEJO (327), brig, P. J. Mezado, master, Ba- 
tavia to Providence, captured July 31, 1813 by Manly. 
Cargo: camphor, sugar, coffee, nutmegs and dragons 
blood wine. Restored, except 14 casks wine. 



260 RECORDS OF THE VICE-ADMIRALT F COURT 

FLOWER (414),schr., 26 tons, A. B urges, master,Roches- 
ter to Manchester, captured Sept. 14, 1813 by Star (pri- 
vateer). Cargo : fish. 

FORTUNE (131), schr., 114 tons, Ja s Crocker, master, 
Machias to Boston, captured Aug 28, 1812 by General 
Smyth (privateer). Cargo : 72,955 ft. of boards and 6 
puncheons of rum. Taken into New Brunswick. 

FORTUNE (393), schr., B. Bates, master, fishing voyage, 
captured Aug. 31, 1813 by Boxer. Cargo : mackarl and 
codfish. Taken into New Brunswick. 

FORTUNE (2), ship, 317 tons, D d Stickney, master, Cape 
De Verds to Newbury Port, captured June 25, 1812 by 
Belvidera. Cargo : 184 moys salt. 

FOUR BROTHERS (112), schr., 134 tons, J. Coombs, 
master, Machias to New York, captured Oct. 16, 1812 by 
Liverpool packet (privateer). Cargo : 95 ft. of lumber. 

FOUR BROTHERS (330), schr., R. Sinclair, master, re- 
captured Aug. 4, 1813 by Emulous. 

FOUR FRIENDS (534), schr., W. Shackleford, master, 
captured June 15, 1814 by Shannon (privateer). 

FOUR SISTERS (24), ship, 204 tons, W. C. Williams, 
master, Lisbon to New York, captured July 19, 1812 by 
Ringdove. Cargo : ballast. 

Fox (631), schr., at Machias, captured Sept. 8, 1814, 
by Bacchante, Tenedos, Rifleman and Pictou. Cargo : 
beef and pork, taken in Machias at the capture of that 
place and put on board the Fox. Taken into St. Johns, 
N.B. 

Fox (684), sloop, 52 tons, Samuel Swasy, master, New- 
berry Port to Elizabeth, N. C., captured Dec. 5, 1814 by 
Rover (privateer). Cargo : salt, potatoes, &c. Taken 
into Liverpool. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 261 

FRANKLIN (294), schr., H. Nickerson, master, from 
George's River, captured July 3, 1813 by Weazel (pri- 
vateer). 

FRANCKLIN (448), sloop, 80 tons, S. B. Vail, master, 
George's Town to New York, captured Nov. 23, 1813 by 
Belvidera. Cargo : rice, cotton, and some poles. 

FRANCISCA DE PAULA (525), brig, 90 tons, Frederica 
Arenos, master, Havannah to Boston, captured June 4, 
1814 by Nimrod. Cargo : 145 hhds. molasses, including 
Capt" Adventure. 

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS (170), ship, 328 tons, El- 

dred, master, Cadiz to New Port, captured Apr. 9, 1813, 
by Sir John Sherbrooke (privateer). Cargo : 99 casks 
salt and 5 p s Spanish clothes. Restored. 

FREE PORT (379), sloop, A. Dyer, master, captured 
Aug. 4, 1813 by Broke (privateer). 

FRIENDSHIP (72), schr. (privateer), 22 tons, A. Rich- 
ard, master, from Boston, cruising, captured July 19, 1812 
by Indian. Cargo: guns, ammunition and provisions. 
Taken into New Brunswick. 

FRIENDSHIP (91), schr., 98 tons, S. Cook, master, 
Charleston to New York, captured Sept. 11, 1812 by Bel- 
videra. Cargo : 260 bales of cotton. 

FRIENDSHIP (139), schr., 114 tons, P. Gibbs, master, 
Oporto to Boston, captured Mar. 5, 1813 by Liverpool 
packet (privateer). Cargo : ballast. 

FRIENDSHIP (322), schr., 97 tons, J. Smith, master, 
Union River to Beversby, captured July 13, 1813 by Ma- 
tilda (privateer). Cargo : cord wood, bark and shingles. 

FRIENDSHIP (348), schr., 74 tons, D. Rider, master, 
Province Town to Penobscot, captured July 28, 1813 by 
Fly (privateer). Cargo : ballast. 



262 RECORDS OF THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT. 

FRIENDSHIP (345), sloop, 100 tons, S. Dackendoff, mas- 
ter, Black Rock to East Port, captured July 6, 1818 
by Boxer. Cargo : flour and tar. Taken into New 
Brunswick. 

FRIENDSHIP (402), sloop, captured July 11, 1813 by 
La Hogue. 

FYLINDA (646), sloop, 40 tons, Peter Burr, master, 
Fairfield Black Rock to Rhode Island, captured Oct. 1, 
1814 by Liverpool packet (privateer). CargoJ: Indian 
corn and rye, abt. 1400 bushels. Taken into Liverpool. 

GALLOWAY (638), ship, captured Sept. 17, 1814, at 
Penobscot, by united naval and military force. Cargo : 
wine and spirits taken from the Decatur and other Ameri- 
can vessels destroyed at Penobscot and put on board the 
Galloway. 

GAMALA LA DELSO (403), brig, 162 tons, C. C. Berg, 
master, Gottenburg to Rhode Island, captured Sept. 19, 
1813, by High Flyer tender to San Domingo. Cargo : 
tons iron, 6 tons steel, 17" tons allum, 300 boxes glass and 
24 boxes iron plates. Vessel and part cargo restored. 

GANNETT (358), schr., 35 tons, J. Marble, master, 
from Hingham, fishing, captured Aug. 12, 1813, by Cur- 
lew and Nymphe. Cargo : Codfish. 

GARDINER (455), snip, J. Ray, master, captured Dec. 
4, 1813 by Loire and Ramilies. 

GENERAL GREEN (145), sloop, 83 tons, J. P. Hand, 
master, Boston to Albany, captured Mar. 8, 1813 by Liv- 
erpool packet (privateer). Cargo : 1 ton iron, 180 boxes 
herrings, 1000 quintals fish, 85 hhds. N. E. rum and 5 
boxes sugar. 

GEN L HODGSON (219), sloop, 61 tons, - - Agustus, 
master, Halifax to Martinique, recaptured May 19, 1813, 
by Sir John Sherbrooke (privateer). Cargo : fish, lumber 
and prize goods. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 263 

GENERAL MARION (450), schr., Smith, master, 

captured Dec. 1, 1813 by Ramilies, Loire and Endymion. 

GEN L PUTNAM (662), schr. (privateer), J. Evans, mas- 
ter, 4 guns and 41 men, from Salem, cruising, captured 
Nov. 8, 1814 by Leander. 

GEORGE (5), brig, 149 tons, J. Robertson, master, 
Rochelle to New York, captured July 8, 1812, by Guer- 
riere. Cargo : brandy, wines, silks and dry goods. 

GEORGE (23), brig, 211 tons, C. F. Tucker, master, 
Messina to Salem, captured July 17, 1812, by Emulous. 
Cargo : wine, brandy, juniper berries, sewing silk, essence 
lemmon, oil and nuts. 

GEORGE (30), brig, T. Gossard, master, Poole to Nova 
Scotia, recaptured July 22, 1812 by Maidstone. 

GEORGE (692), brig, 172 tons, Jacob Almy, master, 
George Town to New Bedford, captured Feb. 16, 181 5, by 
Dove (privateer). Cargo : 330 tierces rice, 20 hhds. mo- 
lasses and 2 M. reeds. Taken into Liverpool. 

GE WASHINGTON (215), schr., 105 tons, S. Sterns, 
master, Bermuda to New Haven, captured May 1, 1813 
by Retaliation (privateer). Cargo : ballast. Restored. 

GEORGIANA (64), ship, E. Chamberlain, master, Liver- 
pool to Norfolk, captured Aug. 28, 1812, by Nymphe. 
Restored on payment of costs. 

GIFT (686), schr., 41 tons, Josiah Turner, master, Bos- 
ton to Charlestown, captured Jan. 16, 1815 by Rover 
(privateer). Cargo : beef, pork, soap, earthenware, salt, 
cards oil, herrings, saws, baggs, &c. Taken into Liver- 
pool. 

GLEANER (25), sloop (privateer), 56 tons, J. Robinson, 
master, from Kennebeck, cruizing, captured July 23, 1812 
by Colibrie. Cargo : guns, ammunition and provisions. 
Taken into the Provincial service. 



264 RECORDS OF THE VICE- ADMIRALTY COURT 

GLEANER (679), sloop, 70 tons, Timothy Chapman, 
master, New York to East Haddam, captured Dec. 3, 1814 
by Holla (privateer). Cargo : flour, rye and other arti- 
cles. Taken into Liverpool. 

GOOD HOPE (645), schr., captured Sept. 26, 1814 by 
Loire. Cargo : spirits of turpentine and shingles. Taken 
into Liverpool. 

GOSSAMER (32), ship (Letter Marque), 228 tons, 
Cha s Goodrich, master, from Boston, cruising, captured 
July 23, 1812 by Emulous. Cargo : guns, ammunition 
and provisions. 

Gov E PLUMER (233), schr., J. Mudge, master, 6 guns 
and 50 men, from Newhampshire, cruising, captured May 
27, 1813 by Sir John Sherbrooke (privateer). 

GOVERNOR SHELBY (557), schr., 185 tons, J. Newman, 
master, New York to Amsterdam, captured July 13, 1814 
by Narcissus and Saturn. Cargo: 121 hhds. tobacco and 
6000 Ib. tobacco stems. 

GRACE (40), brig, Bartlet, master, St. Marys to 
England, recaptured Aug. 7, 1812, by Chub. 

GUERRIERE (683), brig, 169 tons, Francis A. Burnham, 
master, 4 guns and 60 men, from Portsmouth, cruising, 
captured Jan. 3, 1815, by Junon. 

GUSTAYA (255), brig, 123 tons, C. Swenburg, master, 
Boston to Madeira, captured June 22, 1813 by Sylph. 
Cargo : 200 bbls. beef & pork, 157 kegs butter, 5 pipes 
gin, 118 bbls. tar and 25 bbls. pitch. 

GUSTAVA (430), schr., 88 tons, Just Nelson Berg, mas- 
ter, St. Bartholomews to Boston, captured Jan. 22, 1814 
by Retaliation and Liverpool Packet (privateers). Cargo : 
54 hhds., 19 ts., 32 bbls. molasses, 2 bbls. coffee and 2 
bbls. sugar. Taken into Liverpool. Restored. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 265 

HALIFAX (656), packet, ship, Hogg, master, 

Aberdeen to Halifax, recaptured Oct. 30, 1814 by Bul- 
wark. Cargo : dry goods, flour, oatmeal, cordage, &c. 

HANNAH(495), brig, Connelley, master, Demerara 

to Bermuda, recaptured Apr. 30, 1813 by Martin. Cargo : 
rum and molasses. 

HANNAH (366), schr., 46 tons, A. Johnston, master, 
Boston to Thomas Town, captured Aug. 3, 1813, by 
Boxer. Cargo : corn. Taken into New Brunswick. 

HANNAH (303), sloop, 71 tons, J. Smith, master, 
Frenchmans Bay to Nantucket, captured July 10, 1813 
by Retrieve (privateer). Cargo : lumber. 

HARE (53), brig, 246 tons, Cha 5 Bertoddy, master, 
Naples to Boston, captured Aug. 1, 1812 by Belvidera. 
Cargo : brandy, silks, sweet oil, cream of tartar, soap and 
15 bales of feathers. 

HARLEQUIN (650), schr. (privateer), 232 tons, Elishu 
D. Brown, master, 10 guns and abt. 117 men, from Ports- 
mouth, cruising, captured Oct. 23, 1814, by Bulwark. 

HARRIET (417), brig, coasting vessel, captured June 8, 
1813 by Victorious and the blockading squadron of the 
Chesapeake. 

HARRIET (275), schr., A. Winnerholt, master, New- 
f d land to London, recaptured June 28, 1813 by Dover. 
Cargo : oil and sealskins. 

HARRIET (321), sloop, J. Collins, master, Penobscotto 
Portland, captured July 13, 1813 by Matilda (privateer). 
Cargo : fish, pickled and smoak'd. 

HAZARD (575), schr., 30 tons, D. Gorham, master, 
Matomken, Md., to Boston, captured July 24, 1814 by 
Acasta. Cargo : corn and flour. 



266 RECORDS OF THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT 

HECTOR (155), brig, 258 tons, P. Newford, master, 
Dublin to Quebec, recaptured Aug. 23, 1812 by Plum- 
per. Cargo : ballast. Taken into New Brunswick. 

HECTOR (203), brig, 156 tons, Escopinische, mas- 
ter, Havannah to New York, captured Apr. 30, 1813 by 
Spartan. Cargo : sugar and coffee. 

HELEN (590), ship, 237 tons, Tho s Holmes, master, 
Havannah to Greenock, recaptured Aug. 16, 1814 by 
Wasp. Cargo : sugar and logwood. 

HENRIETTA (62), ship, Mason, master, recaptured 

Aug. 25, 1812 by Emulous. 

HENRY (252), schr., 89 tons, J. Merryman, master, 
Passamaquaddy to Boston, captured June 19, 1813, by 
Matilda (privateer). Cargo : boards. 

HENRY (37), ship, Jackson, master, recaptured 

Aug. 11, 1812 by Emulous. 

HENRY (198), ship, 181 tons, B. Gardiner, master, Liv- 
erpool to Boston, captured Apr. 28, 1813 by La Hogue. 
Cargo : earthen ware and salt. Restored. 

HENRY GILDER (562), brig, 194 tons, Sam 1 Newson, 
master, 8 twelve and 2 long nine pounders, 45 men, New 
York to Bourdeaux, captured July 12, 1814 by Niemen. 
Cargo : ballast. 

HERALD (591), schr. (privateer), 231 tons, John Miller, 
master, had 60 men and 8 guns mounted at time of cap- 
ture, pierced for 18 guns, captured Aug. 15, 1814 by 
Armide and Endyrnion. 

HERCULANEUM (519), brig, 111 tons, And w Smith, 
master, Hayti to Boston or Madeira, captured June 6, 
1814 by Nimrod. Cargo : 19801 gal. molasses and 19 
hhds. sugar. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 267 

HERMAN (279), ship, 413 tons, A. Horn, master, Balti- 
more to Lisbon, captured June 24, 1813 by Barrossa, Vic- 
torious, Narcissus, Success, Emulous, Diomede, Diadem, 
Atalante, Laurestinus, Mohawk and Moselle. Cargo : 
5426 bbls. flour and 500 half bbls. flour. 

HERO (264), brig, 165 tons, R. Stanworth, master, Lim- 
erick to Lisbon, recaptured June 12, 1813 by Martin, 
Spartan and Statira. Cargo : beef, pork and provisions. 

HERO (388), schr., E. Langdon, master, Kennebeck to 
Boston, captured Aug 29, 1813 by Dart (privateer). 
Cargo, ballast. Taken into New Brunswick. 

HERO (441), schr., Merrihew, master, captured 

Nov. 14, 1813 by Belvidera. 

HERO (547), schr., Peter Lurvey, master, captured 
July 3, 1814 by Retaliation (privateer). Taken into Liv- 
erpool. 

HERO (481), sloop, Ge Fishley, master, captured Jan. 
13, 1814 by Hare (privateer). Taken into St. Johns, 
N. B. 

HERO (671). sloop, Burrows, master, captured be- 
ginning of Nov., 1814 by Tenedos. Taken into Barring- 
ton. 

HESPER (26), brig, 264 tons, E. Isley, master, Liver- 
pool to Norfolk, captured July 20, 1812 by Ringdove. 
Cargo : ballast. 

HETTY (261), brig, 151 tons, H. Skinner, master, Ma- 
deira to Philadelphia, captured June 1, 1813 by Spartan, 
Statira and Martin. Cargo : ballast. 

HIBERNIA (604), schr., 69 tons, W. Fountain, master, 
Philadelphia to Boston, captured Aug. 21, 1814 by Nie- 
men. Cargo : 641 shocks and 300 bdls. hoops. 



268 RECORDS OF THE VICE- ADMIRALTY COURT 

HILAND HILL (610), sloop, 18 tons, T. L. Davy, mas- 
ter, New York to New Port, captured Aug. 29, 1814 by 
Lively (privateer). Cargo: b 20 bushels Indian corn. 
Taken into Liverpool. 

HIRAM (12), schr., 182 tons, Josiah Orne, master, 
Lisbon to Salem, captured July 18, 1812 by Spartan, Em- 
ulous. Cargo: fruit, also $13,107. 

HIRAM (92), schr., 195 tons, John Hays, master, Paler- 
mo to Philadelphia, captured Sept. 12, 1812 by Belvidera. 
Cargo : brimstone, salt petre, drugs, oil, soap and feathers. 

HOLSTEIN (488), schr., 113 tons, M. Bates, master, Man- 
tanza Island, Cuba, to Rhode Island, captured Mar. 28, 
1813 by Belvidera. Cargo : molasses. 

HONESTUS (66), ship, 300 tons, J. Stevens, master, St. 
Ubes to New Bedford, captured Aug. 24, 1812 by Nymphe. 
Cargo : salt. 

HOPE (543), brig, J. Strang, master, Teneriffe and Bon- 
aventure to London, recaptured June 29, 1814 by Holla 
(privateer). Cargo : 60 casks Teneriffe wine and Barilla. 

HOPE (595), schr., 33 tons, Dewson, master, Boston 
to Machias, captured Aug. 16, 1814 by Liverpool Packet 
(privateer). Cargo : 30 bbls. flour, 36 bbls. pork, 149 kegs 
tobacco, 10 boxes candles and 5 casks shoes. 

HOPE (328), ship, 164 tons, J. Jordan, master, Lisbon 
to Boston, captured Aug. 2, 1813 by Manly. Cargo: fruit, 
whalebone and wine. 

HOPE (368), ship, 416 tons, J. Emery, master, Lisbon 
to New Port, captured Aug. 28, 1813 by Loup Cervier. 
Cargo: salt. Restored. 

HOPE (678), sloop, 42 tons, Geo. W. Dennison, master, 
Providence to New York, captured Dec. 4, 1814 by Liver- 
pool Packet (privateer). Cargo : salt, candles and codfish. 
Taken into Liverpool. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 269 

HOPE FOR PEACE (315), shallop, E. Crowel, master, 
Mass. Bay to Halifax, captured July 18, 1813 by Capt. 
McPherson and 2 Co. Militia. 

HOPPET (426), brig, 150 tons, C. F. Sandstrom, master, 
Gottenburg to Boston, captured Oct. 25, 1813 by Rom- 
ulous. Cargo : iron, allum, bale goods and glass. Restored. 

HOWE (154), brig, 162 tons, J. Askew, master, Penzance 
to Pictou, recaptured Sept. 5, 1812 by Plumper. Cargo : 
ballast. Taken into New Brunswick. 

HUNTER (150), sloop, 33 tons, M. Peck, master, Edgar 
Town to Boston, captured Mar. 11, 1813 by Retaliation 
(privateer). Cargo : 2400 bushels corn and 3M staves. 

HUNTRESS (442), sloop, J. Currie, master, captured 
Nov. 11, 1813 by Borer and Valiant. 

HTJSAREN (440), brig P. T. Isnardon, master, St. Bar- 
tholomews to New Haven, captured Nov. 14, 1813, by 
Jaseur. Restored. 

HUSSAR (514), schr. (privateer), Fr 8 . Jenkins, master, 
97 men, cruising, captured May 25, 1814 by Saturn. 

IDA (602), brig, 180 tons, Pearce, master, 10 car- 
riage guns, 18 16 pounders and 64 men, Boston to France, 
captured Aug. 9, 1814 by Newcastle. 

ILLUMINATOR (11), brig, 254 tons, Rob* Patterson, 
master, Havannah to Boston, captured July 11, 1812 by 
Emulous. Cargo : molasses, sugar, hides and coffee. 

ILLUMINATOR (11), brig, 254 tons, R. Patterson, mas- 
ter, Havannah to Boston, captured July 11, 1812 by Em- 
ulous. Cargo : molasses, sugar, coffee and hides. Restored. 

INDUSTRY (377), schr., F. Webster, master, captured 
Aug. 20, 1813 by Broke (privateer). 

INDUSTRY (435), schr., T. Rice, master, captured Nov. 
3, 1813 by Arab. 



270 RECORDS OF THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT 

INDUSTRY (619), schr., Moses Brown, master, Halifax 
to Newberry Port, captured Sept. 10, 1814 by Lively 
(privateer). Cargo : dry goods. Taken into Liverpool. 

INDUSTRY (687), sloop, cargo of Oliver Slate, master, 
New York to Sag Harbour, captured Jan. 16, 1815 by 
Rover (privateer). Cargo ; flour, cyder, gin, &c. Taken 
into Liverpool. 

INVINCIBLE (593), ship, Peter Destebecho, master, 
Charlestown to New York, recaptured Aug. 16, 1814 by 
Armide, Cargo : 7 7 boxes sugar and part cargo ship Helen 
found on board. 

INVINCIBLE (593), ship, 331 tons, Peter Destebecho, 
master, 16 carriage guns and 60 men, Charlestown to 
New York, captured Aug. 16, 1814 by Armide, Endymion 
and Pique. Cargo : 314 tierces and 103 half tierces rice. 

ISABELLA (304), brig, 128 tons, P. Slaygur, master, Al- 
gesiras to Boston, captured July 19, 1813 by Pictou. 
Cargo : wine, silk, oil and cork. 

JAMES (622), schr., Eli Crawford, master, Washington 
to New York, captured Sept. 5, 1814 by Niemen. Cargo : 
185 bbls. flour. 

JANE (660), brig, 224 tons, David George, master, 
Liverpool to New Brunswick, recaptured Nov. 9, 1814 by 
Maidstone. Cargo : salt. 

JANE (459), schr., no person on board, captured Dec. 
10, 1813 near Cape Ann, by Wolverine (privateer). Car- 
go : cord wood. Taken into Liverpool. 

JANE (65), ship, N. Thomas, master, to New York, 
captured Aug. 27, 1812 by Colibrie. Restored on payment 
of costs. 

JANE (451), sloop, 65 tons, J. Brown, master, Cape 
Cod Bay to Boston, captured Dec. 6, 1813 by Majestic, 
Junon. Cargo : cord wood and bark. 



AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 271 

JANE (579), sloop, 70 tons, Geo. Gramsby, master, 
Porto Rico and Wilmington, captured Aug. 2, 1814 by 
Acasta. Cargo : sugar and hides. 

JANE (668), sloop, 65 tons, Josiah Snow, master, Bos- 
ton to Harps well, captured Nov. 12, 1814 by Rover 
(privateer). Cargo: ballast. Taken into Liverpool. 

JANUS (530), sloop 77 tons, P. Justin, master, New York 
to New Port, captured June 14, 1814 by Liverpool Packet 
(privateer). Cargo : 700 bbls. flour. Restored. 

JANUS (572), sloop, P. Justin, master, captured , 

1814 by Niemen. 

JEFFERSON (318), schr., 99 tons, J. Colcord, master, 
Boston to Prospect, captured July 12, 1813 by Bream. 
Cargo : ballast. Taken into New Brunswick. 

JENNETT (176), brig, J. Pritchard, master, East Port to 
Chesapeake, captured Apr. 12, 1813 by Junon. 
Cargo : lumber, beef, bread, herrings, candles and soap 
butter. 

JERUSALEM (380), ship, 750 tons, Panagi Corcori, 
master, Havannah to Boston, captured Sept. 3, 1813 by 
Majestic. Cargo: 2000 boxes sugar, a number bbls. sugar, 
200 bags coffee, 200 quintals copper, 150 hides, 5000 
horns and 4 boxes tapes. 

JERUSHA (336), sloop, W. Freeman, master, captured 
July 11, 1813 by La Hogue. 

JOANNAH (242), schr., 48 tons, A. Newcomb, master, 
Boston to East Port, captured June 1, 1813 by Dart (pri- 
vateer). Cargo : 1589 bushels corn. Taken into New 
Brunswick. 

JOHN (45), brig, 164 tons, John Alden, master, Liver- 
pool to Portland, captured Aug. 15, 1812 by Maidstone 
Cargo : salt and earthen ware. 



272 RECORDS OF THE VICE- ADMIRALTY COURT. 

JOHN (168), brig, 130 tons, C. Woodward, master, New 
York to Portland, captured Apr. 5, 1813, by Liverpool 
Packet (privateer). Cargo : 1056 bbls. flour. 

JOHN (515), sloop, J. L. Stover, master, captured May 
18, 1814 by Shannon (privateer). 

JOHN ADAMS (317), brig, 223 tons, John Goold, master, 
Portland to St. Bartholomews, captured July 11, 1813 by 
Retrieve (privateer) and Rattler. Cargo : lumber, stares 
and shingles. Taken into New Brunswick. Restored. 

JOHN & MARY (437), brig, T. Collins, master, recap- 
tured Oct. 29, 1813, by Loup Cervier. 

JNO & MIRIAM (375), schr., S. Rhodes, master, captured 
Aug. 20, 1813 by Broke (privateer). 

JOSEPH & MARY (693), brig, 267 tons, Stephen Stan- 
ton, master, Prince Edw^ Island to Falmouth, recaptured 
Jan. 24, 1815, by Bulwark. Cargo : lumber. 

JUANA (208), sloop, Avery, master, Havannah to 

New Port, captured May 1, 1813, by Spartan. Cargo: 
coffee, raisins and campeachy wood. Restored. 

JUDITH (627), captured Aug. 20 or 21, 1814 by Espoir. 
Cargo : brandy, spirits, coffee, cotton, tobacco, nails, iron, 
&c. 5 taken from prize schr. Hornet and transshipped into 
the Judith. 

JUDITH (444), scnr., M. Fowler, master, captured Nov. 

7, 1813 by Shannon (privateer). 

JULIAN (117), schr., 80 tons, D. Hallet, master, Boston 
to New York, captured Nov. 13, 1812 by Liverpool 
Packet (privateer). Cargo : salt, oil and fish. 

JULIAN (471), schr., E. Foster, master, captured Dec. 

8, 1813, by Martin. 

(To be continued.^ 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS, 

1697-1768. 

(Continued from Vol. XL VI, page 128.) 



Protest. Andrew Wilson, Master, and Henry Swan, 
mate, of Sloop Brunswick made declaration that on July 
15, they sailed with 4 hands besides themselves from 
Boston for the West Indies, laden with lumber, and 
on the 27 th in Lat. 39.3 North & Long. 63.39 they 
sprung a leak and put back to Boston. On the 28 th in 
Lat. 40.23 & Long. 64.32 they had 4 feet of water in the 
hold " and not being able to free her with their Pumps & 
to Save their Lives by Lightning the Vessel they hove 
overboard the Deck Load of Lumber and on the 30 th of s d 
July She filled with Water & they were obliged to go be- 
fore the Wind while they came into the Lat. of ab* 43 & 
Long d 64 & seeing a Vessel thes d Master with four Hands 
went in their Boat to get Relief from s d Vessel, leaving the 
mate on board, but it growing foggy they lost sight of the 
s d Sloop and got on board of a Schooner one Pinson Bick- 
ford Master and about 52 Hours after the s d Mate met 
with a fishing Schooner belonging to Salem Sam 11 Carryl 
Master & geting on board s d Schooner & there being no 
possibility of Saving s d Sloop they took out the Sayls, 
Rigging [103] and one Anchor and left s d Sloop." Aug. 
8, 1757. 

Power of Attorney given by Mary Cranch of Boston, 
widow, to John Touzel of Salem, goldsmith. [104] Apr. 
27, 1756. Witnesses : Dan 11 Ropes, Allen Putnam. Ac- 
knowledged before Joseph Bowditch, Justice of the Peace. 

Halifax, July 18, 1757. The memorial of Joseph Mas- 
coll, jr., late master of the Schooner Love, lately libelled 
in the Court of Vice Admiralty by William Nesbitt, Esq r 

(273) 



274 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

at the relation of John Scafe, Esq r , commander of His 
Majesty's Sloop of War called the Vulture. That he had 
not violated any of the acts of trade or navigation, that 
he took in his homeward bound cargo of molasses and 
some bags of cotton wool at S* Eustatia, the steamer being 
legally cleared, as appears by a Dutch clearance filed in 
court, that he intended to have landed the said cargo at 
Salem. Further that at the time of his illegal seizure he 
had the necessary [105] clearances and passports, also 
the register, but they were taken when the schooner was 
confiscated and not allowed to be brought into court, by 
which he was prevented from entering his cargo at the 
custom house there. Said Mascoll asks that an appeal be 
granted by the Court. Memorial prepared by Geo. 
Suckling, advocate for said Mascoll. Certificate signed 
by John Collier, Judge of the Court of Vice Admiralty, 
that the Memorial was read in Court and rejected, " it 
containing no matter in the Prayer thereof (except the 
Request for Copies of the Papers) but what was imperti- 
nent." Sept. 13, 1T57. 

[106] Protest. Benj a Galley, master or skipper of 
the Schooner Joseph, owned by Col. Jeremiah Lee of 
Marblehead, made declaration that being fishing on the 
Grand Bank on Aug. 23, 1757, in Lat. 44.47 at anchor, 
" they saw a Sloop that they judged to be a French Pri- 
vateer and when they first saw her She was standing upon 
the Wind but she soon bore down upon Them and as they 
had not time to weigh their anchor They cut away about 
a quarter part of their Cable with their Anchor and ran 
away to the westward and then the s d Sloop hall'd upon a 
Wind & went away and they with s d Schooner arrived in 
Marblehead harbour this morning." Sept. 29, 1757. 
Benjamin Marston and Nathaniel Man also made oath to 
the same. 

Protest. Richard Manning, late master of the Schooner 
Benjamin, Edw d Cox, mate and Benjamin Leach, mariner, 
made declaration that they sailed from Salem about July 
11, with a small breeze, bound for Barbadoes, and on the 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 275 

21 st at 6 o'clock, <4 bearing W. B. S. made this Island dis- 
tant nine Leagues or thereabouts, and at Seven at Night 
handed small Sayls and at half an Hour after ten the 
same night They saw a Sayl to the S. W. which they 
Imagined to [107] be a French Privateer and from such 
apprehensions They steered more to the Northward in 
order to Clear the s d Sail and then hall'd the Wind again 
but the Current seting to Leeward, and night deceiving 
them They got nearer the Shoales than they imagined and 
on monday the s d Schooner Struck on a Shoale lying off 
Cave Bay and notwithstanding all the Efforts & Industry 
of these appearers they could not get her off but that She 
has become a Wreck and gone to pieces by reason of which 
the chief est or major part of her Cargo were entirely 
lost." Barbadoes, Aug. 23, 1757, before Richard Hus- 
bands, Esq r , Notary Public. 

Portlege bill for Sloop Victory for an intended voyage 
to the West Indies, David Masury, Master. 



Mens Names 



When Sta- When Time What Whole Wages 

Shipp'd tions Dis- In Ad- Wages Due 



David Masury Oct. 21 Master 

Sami Moses Nov. 22 Mate 

Thos Ropes DO Cooper 

Saml Bagnell DO 29 Seam 

Solo Driver Deer 7th DO 

Jona Fisk DO ye 6*h DO 

Cha. Brown Nov. 24 Boy 




9.12. 



The Sum deducted out of the Sale of the Sloop which was eight Pounds Ster- 
ling is not equal to my Gomissions for the Same. 

| 

The above Sum that is due is expected to be paid out 
of the Bills that the Sloop was sold for. 
Errors Excepted ^ David Masury. 

[108] Shipped by Benj a Pickman on Schooner Benja- 
min, Richard Manning, master, now in Salem harbor, 
bound for Barbadoes, 37 Hh ds fish and 10 bar 13 Pork 2 
Q* es Cusk, marked B. P. and S. P., dated Salem, June 27, 
1757. 



276 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

Note, dated Mar. 12, 1741/2. Richard Brett to Capt. 
Herbert Thorndike, 24 bushels, 1 1/2 pecks wheat by the 
last of July next. Witnesses : Hanson Harrison, James 
Quensbury. Endorsed to John Turner by Herbert 
Thorndike, Salem, Apr. 27, 1742. Endorsed to "the 
bearer" by John Turner, Salem, Dec, 3, 1757. 

[109] Note, dated Nansemy, Charles Co., Maryland, 
Mar. 13, 1741/2. Hanson Harrison to Capt Herbert 
Thorndike, 55 bushels of merchantable wheat by July 
25 th . Witnesses : Brackinbry Patch, Joshua Thorndike. 
Endorsed by Herbert Thorndike to John Turner, dated 
Salem, Apr. 27, 1742. Endorsed by John Turner to 
bearer," dated Salem, Dec. 3, 1757. 

Invoice of a cargo of goods Landed with Hanson Har- 
rison from on board the Schooner Sea Flower, Capt. Her- 
bert Thorndike, commander, for sales and returns at the 
risk of said Thorndike, allowing the s d Harrison 10 % for 
selling and receiving and 10 % for wastage, viz.: 

Gall 

One bar 11 Moll a Containing 32 1/2 

One bar u Wine 32 

One D Codfish, 30 11 Sugar 8 1/2 bush 11 Salt 
Mem Molasses to Sell a 4/6 f : Wine 6/ f Gall 
Pickled Codd at 3 d V lb Sugar at 1/3 f . Dry Cod at 3 d 

11) 

For Wheat allowing 4/ ^ Bushel as *$ agreement 
March 13, 1741 

Sell Salt at 5/ f bush 1 

Oct. 20, 1748, Benjamin Pickman, of Salem, made oath 
before William Shirley, Esq., Governor, and Thomas Lech- 
more, jr., Collector of Customs of Salem, "that the 
Schooner Love of Salem whereof Josiah Orne is at pres- 
ent Master being a square Stern'd Vessel of the Burthen 
of about Eighty Tons was built at Salem afores'd this 
present year," 1748, that he and Nathaniel Ropes and 
Josiah Orne are the present owners, and that no foreigner 
directly or indirectly has any interest in her. According 
to an act for preventing fraud and regulating abuses in 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 277 

the Plantation trade, made in the 7 th and 8 th years of the 
Reign of William III. 

[110] Certificate, dated Salem Custom House, Dec. 
31, 1751, that Gamaliel Hodges is now Master of the 
within named Schooner. 

Certificate, dated Jan. 6, 1752, that Josiah Orne sold 
his interest in the Schooner to Nathaniel Ropes. Wit- 
nesses : John King, Francis Cabot. 

Certificate, dated Mar. 8, 1757, that Joseph Mascoll is 
now Master of the within named Schooner. 

Certificate from the Court of Vice Admiralty, Nova 
Scotia, that the above papers were not exhibited to the 
Court before the decree and could not be taken into con- 
sideration. Dated July 20, 1757. 

Note, dated Damariscotty, Aug. 4, 1754. John Simp- 
son to Caleb Maddocks for 1 : 4s: 6 d. Endorsed to 
Ichabod Smith by Caleb Maddocks. Endorsed to Benja- 
min Pickman, Esq. by Ichabod Smith. 

Note, dated Damariscotty, Aug. 5, 1754, John Simpson 
to Stephen Hodgden for 4: 4s. Endorsed to Ichabod 
Smith of Berwick by Stephen Hodgden, dated Boston, 
Sept. 25, 1755. Endorsed to Benj a Pickman, Esq. by 
Ichabod Smith. 

[Ill] Shipped by James Brown in the Snow Appollo, 
Henry Scott, Master, now in Boston Harbor bound for 
Greenock, 19 barrels of "Train Oyle" and 1200 Horns, 
to be delivered to John Brown, jr. in the Gorbels, Glas- 
gow, he paying freight at the rate of X3 ^ ton for the 
oil and 18 d ^ Hundred for the Horns, with primage and 
average. Dated Boston, Jan. 8, 1757. 

Protest. William Carmichael, master of the Snow 
Queensberry of Elym, Great Britain, made declaration 
that they sailed from Liverpool about Jan. 29, laden with 
salt, bound for Virginia, and on Mar. 12 in Lat. 41.37 and 



278 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

Long. 32.18 West about 11 o'clock at night " with a very 
severe Squall of Wind w* Thunder & Lightning they 
carried away the fore Yard split the fore Topsail fore sail 
& Fore Stay Sayl, and on or about the 11 th of April They 
saw a Sloop and making my Signals of Distress s d Sloop 
bore down to them and Hoisting out their Boat to go on 
board to get some water the Fast broke and they lost her, 
and on Sunday April y e 16 th being in Lat. 36.20, Long. 
63.30 it blowing excessive hard & the Sea running very 
high they carried away the Mainmast & the Main Top- 
mast & Top Gall* Mast broke [112] In two or three 
pieces & in the fall carried away the Rail of the Quarter 
Deck part of the Gunwale & tore y e mainsail to pieces 
with her Rowling draw'd out most part of the Chain 
Slate (?) Bolts which caused her to make a great deal of 
Water and wasted much of their Cargo & our Men & 
Boys being very sickly that when it blew hard it was with 
great difficulty that all Hands could keep her free & being 
short of Provisions & Water were forced to bear away 
for the first Port they could make to repair the damages 
they had sustained and arrived at Salem afores d on Sun- 
day the Seventh Instant." Dated May 8, 1758. 

Protest. Thomas Poynton, master of the ship Essex, 
150 tons, made declaration that on Mar. 19 he sailed 
from Oporto to Salem loaded with salt and bale goods, 
and on the 21 st in Lat. 42.16 and Long. 11.18 "they met 
with a large Sea which carried away their Derrick and 
that on monday the tenth of April being in Lat. 39.59, 
Long. 48.12 they had a very hard Gale of Wind and lay- 
ing too under their Foresail a Sea struck them which 
carried both their Boats overboard split the Foresail dam- 
aged the Foremast broke the spare Topmast and shifted 
the Hold and therefore supposes some of the Cargo may 
be damnified, and he arrived at Salem this Day." [113] 
May 16, 1758. John Jones, mate, and Edw d Smith, 
boatswain, also oath to the same. 

Note, for one month, dated New London, Sept. 30, 1752. 
Thomas Allen to James Thomas of Salem for 232. En- 
dorsed to Benjamin Pickman, Esq. by James Thomas. 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 279 

Bill of exchange. Thirty days' sight draft of George 
Allen on Van Microft & Hopkins, merchants in London, 
to Thomas Poynton for .23 : 3 s. Dated Porto, Mar. 14, 
1758. Endorsed to Lane & Booth by Thomas Poynton. 

Bill of exchange. Sixty days' sight draft of Theodore 
Godet on Nicholas Noording of Amsterdam, to Capt. 
Philip Sanders, jr., for 345 guilders, 12 stivers. Dated 
St. Eustatia, Aug. 27, 1757. Endorsed to Willoughby 
Toppan, merchant, Salem, by Philip Sanders, jr. [114] 
Endorsed to Eb r Putnam by Willoughby Toppan. En- 
dorsed to Rich d Smith by Ebenezer Putnam. Endorsed 
to Allen & Marlar " in account with Scott & McMichael," 
by Richard Smith. Endorsed to Geo. Clifford & Sons by 
Allen & Marlar, London, Nov. 25, 1757. Protested, Feb. 
3, 1758, at Amsterdam, by George Clifford & Sons, 
George, John and Henry, of Amsterdam, merchants, for 
non-acceptance and non-payment, before Hermannus de 
Wolff, jr., Notary Public. 



[115] Protest. Nicholas Girdler, jr., master of the 
Schooner Elizabeth of Marblehead, 60 tons, made decla- 
ration that on Aug. 10, he sailed with 8 hands from Mar- 
blehead to the fishing banks, and on Aug. 17 being on St. 
Peter's Bank at anchor, " our Cable dealt & we lost about 
20 fathom of Cable with an anchor and that on the 7 th 
Day of Sept. Instant being a fishing at Anchor upon bank 
verd We saw a Ship which We took to be a french man 
of War at less than a mile distant bearing down upon us 
having a Sch r with her which We took to be a Sch r which 
she had taken which occasioned our Cutting our Cable to 
run from her. She still pursued us and fired a Shot at 
us, but we out Sayling her she left pursuing us and bore 
down to the Sch r She had with her and that on or ab* y e 
14 th Instant our Vessel sprang a Leak which obliged us to 
come home without making up our fare of Fish and on 
this Day arrived at Marblehead afores d ." Aug. 10, 1758. 
Nath 11 Dennen and Sam 11 Groe, two of the fishermen, 
made oath to the same. 



280 ESSEX COUNTY NOTABIAL RECOBDS. 

Note, dated Mar. 1, 1758. Michael Herbert to Philip 
Crisfeald for 8 : 25 : in corn, pork or wheat on or before 
Nov. 10. Witness : Cuthbert Herbert. 

[116] Note, dated North Carolina, May 24, 1758. 
Corn 5 Campbell to Capt. John Simons, for 150 barrels of 
good merchantable tar or " pay the value in Proclamation 
money at Market Price." Witness: Valentine Wade. 

Note, dated May 26, 1758. David Rogers to Capt. 
John Symonds for ,6 : 8s. North Carolina money. 

Note, dated St. Mary's Co., Mar. 4, 1758. Arnold 
Livers to Andrew Tucker for 43 bushels of Indian corn 
at or before Jan. 25. Endorsed by Andrew Tucker. 

Note, dated Mar. 7, 1758. Will Deacon to Capt. An- 
drew Tucker for 23 bushels of Indian corn. Endorsed by 
Andrew Tucker. 

Note, dated Manchester, Apr. 28, 1756, Notley Gold- 
smith to Edward Raymond of Beverly, for 44 bushels of 
wheat to be delivered at Boston, Marblehead, Salem, 
Beverly, Manchester, or Cape Ann, at or before Sept. 1, 
Raymond to pay freight. Witnesses: John Lee, jr. and 
Benjamin Kimball. 

William Hopper's receipt, dated Feb. 4, 1757, to Capt. 
George West for 2 pipes of Fyal wine " which I promise 
to return to Col. Benj a . Pickman, or dispose of for his 



[117] Protest : Benj a Lovett, Master of the Schooner 
Fair Lady of Salem, made declaration that on Nov. 11, 
1758 he sailed from Salem for Monto Christi, West In- 
dies, but on account of calms and strong westerly cur- 
rents was forced to leeward and on Nov. 27, in Lat. 20. 
10 N & Long. 65 W. " they got on Shore upon a place 
called the Plate Wreck and there lay about six Hours, and 
carrying out their Anchors and endeavouring to heave off 
their Vessel their Cables parted, but they got clear leav- 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 281 

ing both their Anchors and the greatest part of their Ca- 
bles." Jan. 20, 1759, Andrew Herrick, mate, and Mat- 
thew Bootman, mariner, made oath to the same. 

Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatius, Feb. 4, 1758. 
Sixty days sight kraft of Kalph Sampson on Thomas & 
Adrian Hope, merchants, in Amsterdam, to Benjamin 
Pickman, Esq., in London, for ,112 : 10 s., in account 
with Lewes Pucch (?). Endorsed to W m Eppes, Esq. by 
Benjamin Pickman. Endorsed to Morgan Thomas & Co. 
by W m Eppes. Protested by Thomas & Adrian Hope, at 
Amsterdam. Witnesses: Mashn Mollend and Jacobus 
Jacobs. [Protest in Dutch] 

[118] Protest: Crispus Brewer, Master of the 
Schooner, Two Brothers, 40 tons, made declaration that 
on Feb. 13 he sailed from Monto Christi, with 6 hands, 
for Salem and on the 20 th in Lat. 32. 42 N. & Long. 72. 
tj W. "the Wind blowing very hard at S. E. They sprang 
a Leak so as that they were obliged to keep one Pump 
constantly at work all the remainder of their passage till 
they arrived this Day in Salem Harbour afores'd." Mar. 1, 
1759. Habackkuk Bowditch and Asa Leech, two of the 
mariners, also made oath to the same. 

Bill of Exchange dated St. Eustatius, Feb. 1, 1758. 
Sixty days sight draft of Jan de Windt on Abraham Van 
Hoboken of Amsterdam, to Capt. David Neal in London, 
for 50. Endorsed to Richard Leechmere by David 
Neal. Endorsed to Sol Davis by Richard Lechmere. 
Endorsed to John and Jonathan Simpson by Sol . Davis. 
[119] Protested Nov. 2, 1758, at Amsterdam, by Jan 
Willem Nagel, of Amsterdam, merchant, Abraham Van 
Hoboken refusing to accept because " the Funds ly in 
England in the Ships brought up and at the Day of fall- 
ing due one must address Himself at Mefs rs Henry & 
Peter Muilman & Son." Witnesses : Cornells Jan van 
Teylingen and Hendrick Ziudeshoff. Protested, Jan. 4, 
1759 in London by Robert Plumsted of London, mer- 
chant, who declared that although the original bill was 



282 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

made payable in London to Him remitted and become 
due, yet he had no provision for payment. The same 
answer was given when the bill was presented to Henry 
& Peter Muilman & Son, and protest was made against 
the drawer. Witnesses : John Clement, John Burnham. 

[120] Charges of the foregoing Bill of Exchange. 
A Bill of Exchange, 50.00 

At 10 per cent. Damages 5. 

Interest from 1 June 1758 to 1 May 1759 

is 11 11 mo. Int. 2.15 

Charge Protest 13.1 



58. 8. 1 

Protest. Richard Derby, jr., master of the Brig Nep- 
tune of Salem, 140 tons, made declaration that on July 
23, he sailed from Monti Chris to with 10 hands and on 
Aug. 12 th arrived at Salem, that the vessel proved very 
leaky " and her Mainmast sprung and is not fit to proceed 
on her intended Voyage to Gibralter without taking out 
some part of her Cargo to repair her. "Aug. 13, 1759 
Henry Elkins also made oath to the same. 

Protest. Joseph Lambert master of the Brigantine Mary 
& Sarah of Salem, 70 tons, and made declaration that on 
Aug. 6, he sailed from Monte Cristo, with 6 hands, bound 
up the Straights of Gibralter ' but said Vessel proving 
very leaky and her sayles Bad and being unfit to proceed 
s d Voyage they put away for Salem and on the 26 th of 
August they got on Shore upon the back of the Vineyard 
and laid there about four Hours, that they apprehend she 
has received considerable Damage in the Bottom and they 
arrived at Salem last night." Sept. 1, 1759. [121] Wil- 
liam Sluman, mate, also made oath to the same. 

Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatia, Feb. 24, 1758. 
Thirty days' sight draft of Simon de Grauff on N 8 Doek- 
scheer, merchant, of Amsterdam to Jeremiah Peniston 
in London, for .11. 5s. Endorsed to Thomas Sackwood by 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTAEIAL KECOBDS. 283 

Jeremiah Peniston. Endorsed to Richard Derby by 
Thomas Sackwood. Endorsed by Richard Derby jr. to 
Samuel and Thomas Smith. Endorsed by Jn. & Pet: 
Wickoff to De Berdt & Burkitt. [122] Protested, at Lon- 
don, Feb. 10, 1759, at request of De Berdt & Burkitt of 
London. Harmon & Berens, of London, to whom N s 
Dockscheer of Amsterdam desired application to be made, 
answered that the bill could not be paid because the 
goods for the amount of the bill were detained in Eng- 
land. Witnesses : David Elias, W m Crofts. 

4.3 John & Pet. Wickoff' s receipt to 

2.6 Dutch Postage Sam 11 . Smith for 14 : 4s : 9 d for 

5 Dutch Protest the above protested bill. 
3. Postage back 

14.9 

Bill 11.5.0 

Damage 20 f c* 2.5.0 
Charges 14.9 

14.4.9 

Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatius, June 5, 1758. 
Sixty days sight draft by Jan de Windt and Simon de 
Grauff on N s Dockscheer of Amsterdam to Anthony Pas- 
caud in London for 60. Endorsed to Richard Derby, jr. 
by A. Pascaud. Endorsed to Samuell & Thomas Smith 
by Sam 11 Smith. Endorsed to De Berdt & Burkett by 
Jn & Pet : Wickoff. Protested Mar. 16, 1759 in London 
at the request of De Berdt & Burket, by George Schutz, 
Notary Public, who went to the house of Hermon & John 
Berends and speaking to a clerk showed the original bill 
drawn on M r N Docksheer in Amsterdam, and also the 
original protest made in Amsterdam Jan. 9 by Solomon 
Darper Notary Public for non-acceptance, and demanded 
payment. They refused for reasons " the Goods for 
which the same was drawn for, is detained here in Eng- 
land." 



284 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

0.4.3 This Protest 

6. Dutch Protest 

3.6 D Postage 

3. Postage of this 

16.9 

Receipt, dated Philadelphia, Aug. 8, 1759, to Sam 11 
Smith 72 :16s : 9d in full. 

Bill 60. 0.0 
Damages 20 ty 12. 0.0 
Charges 16.9 



72.16.9 

Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatius, Sept. 29, 1758. 
Sixty days sight drafts by Preter Runnels, Jr., on W m de 
bruyn Daniels, merchant in Amsterdam, to Adolphus Ro- 
sevelt. Endorsed to Timothy Orne by Adolphus Roose- 
velt. Endorsed to Thomas Lane & Benj a Booth by Tim- 
othy Orne. Protested Dec. 29, 1758, at Amsterdam. 
Witnesses [124] Martin Moller and Jacobus Jacobs. [Pro- 
test in Dutch], 

Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatius, Sept. 12, 1758. 
Sixty days' sight draft by Jacob 3 Sem. Doneker on Abra- 
ham ten Borch of Amsterdam to Oliver Oyen in London 
for 117 : 3 s : 9 d. Endorsed to Timothy Orne by Oliver 
Oyen. Endorsed to Thomas Lane & Benj a Booth by 
Timothy Orne. Protested Dec. 29, 1758 in Amsterdam. 
Witnesses : Martin Moller and Jacobus Jacobs. [Protest 
in Dutch] 

* Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatius, Aug. 22, 1758. 
Sixty days' sight draft by [125] Nicholas Heyliger and 
Joh s Aertsen on Abraham Terborch of Amsterdam, to 
Richard Darby in London for 100. " Signed in blank," 
Richard Darby. Endorsed to W m Baker, Esq., by Francis 
Shaw. Also another bill of a like amount drawn Aug. 
23, 1758. Protested in London at request of W m Baker, 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL BECOED8. 285 

Esq r , of London, merchant, by Benj a Bonnet, Notary Pub- 
lic, who went to the house of John & Wolf ert van Hemest 
& Dirk Cloes Lutkeman, merchants, in old Broad Street, 
but payment was refused for want of orders, Mar. 1, 1759. 
Witnesses : William Wallis and John Laron. 

Protested Dec. 1 and Dec. 28, 1758, in Amsterdam at 
request of Daniel Crommelen of Amsterdam by Daniel 
Vanden Brenk, Notary Public [126] who showed the bill 
of exchange to Abraham Ter Borch for acceptance. He 
answered that the effects are detained in the English Har- 
bour but to address him when the bills fall due at the 
house of John & Wolfert Van Hemast & Dirk Cloes 
Lutkeman in London. Witnesses: Hendrick Wychoff, 
Paulus Jacobus Schellus. 

M r Francis Shaw D r to W m Baker for 

Principal Sum Charges & Commissions on y e 

two annexed protested Bills of 100 each ) 200. 

Charges of Protest in Amsterdam for non-ac- ) 

ceptance 4.12 ) .4.3 

D in London for non Payment .8.9 

my Commissions ^ ^Cent % 1. 

201.13.0 

Interest on s d Bills to Aug* 20 7.15.4 

Damage at 10 f o* 20. 

229. 8.4 

Francis Shaw's receipt to Richard Derby in full, dated 
Boston, Aug. 24, 1759 

Interest on s d Bills from 28 Dec r being the time they 
were protested to this Day is 6 M at 6 ^ Cent is 6. 
Damages 20 

Bill of Exchange dated St. Eustatius, Aug. 24, 1758. 
Sixty days sight draft by Nicholas Heyliger and Joh. 
Aertson on Abr a Ter Borch, merchant, Amsterdam, to 
Richard Derby in London for 100. Endorsed to James 
Freeman by Richard Derby. Endorsed by James Free- 
man. Endorsed to W m Baker, Esq. by Green & Boyl- 
ston. Protested at London, Feb. 2, 1759, at request of 



286 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

W m Baker, Esq r , of London, merchant, by Benj a Bonnet 
of London, Notary Public, for want of orders. 

[127] 

London, 9 th Feb. 1759 
D r To W m Baker 

For Nicholas Heyleger & Joh s Aerston's first Bill Dated 
S* Eustatius Aug* 24, 1758 on Abraham Ter Borch in 
Amsterdam, Returned under Protests for non 
Acceptance and non Payment .100 

For Comission 1/2 $ Cent .10. 

For Cost of Protest in Amsterdam /4 .3. 8 

For D in London 5. 3 



100.18.11 

Green & Boylston's receipt to Capt. Richard Derby in 
full, dated Boston, Aug. 28, 1759. 

To ye Bill 100.18.11 

To Damage at 10 f Cent 10. 1.10 

To Interest at 6 PC nine months 3. 9. 



114. 9. 9 

[128] Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatius, Nov. 23, 
1757. Sixty days' sight draft by Nicolas Heyleger and 
Joh s Aertsen on Abraham Ter Borch, merchant, Amster- 
dam, to Richard Derby in London for 44. Endorsed to 
Richard Smith by Richard Derby. Endorsed to Ald n 
James Dunn by Richard Smith. Protested, July 13, 1758 
in Amsterdam, at the request of Geo. Clifford & Sons. 
Witnesses : Hendrick Zuederhoff and Dirk Bas Bucker. 

Same Bill, endorsed to John Puget by James Dunn. 
Protested July 13, 1758 in London, at request of John 
Puget, of London, merchant. Payment refused for want 
of orders. 

[129] Bill 44. 

Protests 10.10 

Interest & Damages 

at .20 f Cent 8.16. 



53. 6.10 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 287 

George Bryan's receipt to Richard Smith for 53. 6.10 
in full for the above Bill in behalf of James Dunn Esq. of 
Dublin. Dated Philadelphia, Mar. 22, 1759. 

Henry Laughton jun r 's receipt to Capt. Richard Derby 
for the same in behalf of Richard Smith. 

Bill of Exchange dated St. Eustatius, Aug. 1, 1758. 
Sixty days' sight draft by OLiv: Oyen on the Heirs of 
Pere Armyot, merchants, Amsterdam, to Joseph Mottey 
in London, for <80. Endorsed to Peter Frye by Joseph 
Mottey, dated Salem, Dec. 14, 1758. Protested, May 1, 
1759, at Amsterdam. [Protest in Dutch] [130] Protested 
July 9, 1759 at request of Lane & Booth, of London, mer- 
chants, by William Tudman, Notary Public, who presented 
it to Isaac Ferrier in London. Refused for want of orders. 

Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatius, Aug. 1, 1758. 
Sixty days' sight draft by Simon de Graff and Bernard & 
James Ferrier on Jean Texier, Amsterdam, to Joseph 
Mottey in London, for 150. [131] Endorsed to Daniell 
Mackey by Joseph Mottey. Endorsed to William Den- 
nie by Daniell Mackey. Endorsed to W m Baker Esq., 
merchant, by W m Dennie. Protested Dec. 29, 1758, at 
request of Daniell Crommelin of Amsterdam, merchant, 
by Daniel Vanden Brink, Notary Public, who presented it 
to Jean Ferrier. He answered that he could not accept 
"because the English do detain the Fonds," but to address, 
when the bill is due, Peter Simond in London. Protested, 
Mar. 2, 1759 in London, when Peter Siraond refused for 
want of orders. 

[132] Bill 150. 

Damages 15. 

Interest to Aug. 21 4.4.10 

Charge Protesting 1.3 11 

Postage 9. 



170.17.9 

W m Dennie's receipt to Capt. Joseph Mottey in full for 
the above bill. 

Protest. Michael Driver, late Master of the Schooner 
Three Brothers of Salem, about 55 tons, owned by Rich- 
ard Derby of Salem, made declaration that on July 27, 
1759 he sailed, with 4 hands, from St. Eustatius to lee- 



288 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL EECORDS. 

ward with a valuable cargo of Fish, Wine, Oyle, Raisins 
& Lumber and on July 28 they "were chased by an Eng- 
lish Privateer Schooner called the King of Prussia Com- 
manded by Capt. James Snellock, own'd (as they under- 
stood by one John Smith and others of Antigua) and as 
soon as s d Privateer came near enough she fired at Them, 
and upon her firing they hoisted an English Ensign, the 
s d Privateer notwithstanding fired nine Shot at Them, and 
upon their Striking to Her s d Privateer ordered s d Master 
and Boat on board who accordingly went on board with 
two of his men, and they keeping s d Master & men on 
board s d Privateer, the Captain sent his Lieut, and some 
of his men on board s d Schooner which They called the 
Prize sometime after they suffered s d Master to return to 
his Schooner who found that s d Privateers men had taken 
into their possession a quantity of Fish and took out of s d 
Masters Chest and Trunk seven Hundred and ninety Sev- 
en pieces of Eight and carried them away, and then a 
Prize master being put on board, They were ordered to 
Tortola but on Sunday following were ordered to Spanish 
Town there to wait until the Privateer came to Them upon 
which They asked Them why They might not go to Tor- 
tola being the first port Capt. Snellock answered with an 
Oath that he would send them to Antigua where he knew 
the Schooner would be condemned, and upon Wednesday 
the first of August They arrived at Spanish Town where 
s d Privateer men took out of s d Schooner Fish, Mackrel, 
Wine, Oyle, and Raisins as much as they Pleased and on 
Fryday following the Lieut, ordered [133] s d Master to 
go to Antigua in the Prize but refused to let any of his 
men go with them, s d Master asked the reason of all this 
Piratical Conduct, s d Lieut, answered it was by their Cap- 
tain's order and that when s d Vessel arrived at Antigua 
on the tenth of August s d Master was contrary to his Will 
and desire kept onboard three Days and no Boat suffered 
to come along side or speak to him but after he went on 
Shore, He found the Conduct & Behaviour of the Captain 
before and his Owners now such He was convinced He 
should get nothing by tarrying there, and so left s d Schoon- 
er & Cargo on their Hands, and proceeded home to his 
owners in s d Salem." Dec. 10, 1759. 
(To be continued.) 




THE JOSEPH SAVORY HOUSE, GROVELAND, MASS. 
(See page 299.) 




THE PALMER-BROWN HOUSE, GROVELAND, MASS. 
(See page 303.) 



HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 

OF THE 

ESSEX INSTITUTE 



VOL. XL VI. OCTOBER, 1910 No. 4 

THE HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF 
GROVELAND, MASS. 



COMPILED IN 1854 BY ALFEED POORE, M. D. 



Continued from Vol. XL VI, page 208. 



TYLER HOUSE, opposite Foster's corner on King st, 
belongs to John, son of Peter Parker, sr. This house was 
originally built by Abraham Adams near Lovering's cor- 
ner in Georgetown, and Capt. Benjamin Adams sold it to 
Samuel Tyler, in 1814, who removed it to this place and 
resided here until 1824. Moses Parker bought and re- 
paired it and it has been leased to the following families : 
William Balch; Varnum Marsh ; Luther Hardy, 1838-40 ; 
Charles Fairbanks, 1838-40; John A. Renton, 1841-3; 
John Brown, jr., 1840-5 ; John Jameson, 1840-3 ; Leverett 
W. Tyler, in the summer of 1845; Eben S. Page, 1845-6 ; 
Gilman N. Parker, since 1845 ; widow of William Balch, 
again, 1846-8 ; Albion M. Merrill, 1849-52 ; and Chas. P. 
Savary, since Dec., 1852. 

PARKER, ELDRED S., residence of, since his marriage, 
on King st. Thomas Merrill, at the time of the Theolog- 
ical controversy with Rev. Mr. Balch of this town, re- 
moved to Georgetown, selling out to Bradstreet Parker, 
who occupied the house until he died. His son, Dr. Benj. 



290 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GROVELAND, MASS. 

Parker, returned from the south and spent his last days 
here, and the place is now occupied by his son Eldred S. 
A new barn was built in 1852. 

JOHNSON, SAMUEL, residence of, previous to 1810, in 
a small building that stood near the southeast corner of 
E. S. Parker's house. It was fitted up by Bradstreet 
Parker and was where Abraham Tyler lived for a short 
time. Dr. Benjamin Parker took it away when he came 
into possession of it, after his father's decease. 

ATWOOD, JOSHUA, formerly a residence of, on the 
northeast side of King st. and north of Nathan Sargent's 
residence. Before he went to Pelham, N. H., he was a 
blacksmith, his shop being opposite the house. While the 

house was standing, probably about 1780, Adams 

lived there, before he went to Henniker, N. H. 

ATWOOD. Other places where families of this name 
have lived are at the Isaac Hardy place on King st., be- 
yond B. Gr. Hinkson's where John At wood lived before 
he went into the French War, in a house that stood be- 
tween the residence of Bailey Greenough and widow of 
Daniel Hardy, on Main st., where Samuel Atwood lived 
before 1780, his widow afterward living in the westerly 
end of Clough & Mulliken's blacksmith shop. 

SARGENT, NATHAN, residence of, since 1849, on King 
st. This house was built by Jacob Hardy, jr., on land 
that he bought of his father in 1827. Here he lived from 
that time until he went to the West. Ira Hardy then 
resided there 6 months, in 1848-9, before Mr. Sargent 
bought the place. 

HARDY, JACOB, late residence of, where his children 
now live on King st. The occupants are Ezra, his son, in 
one part, and Jacob, with his sister Priscilla, in the other. 
This house was built by Joseph, son of Jacob Hardy, 
whose house, before he built this about 1720 or before that, 
stood back of where N. Sargent now lives. A man by the 
name of Mulliken was accidentally killed in raising it by 



BY ALFBED POORE, M. D. 291 

a portion of the frame falling upon him. After Joseph died, 
his son Joseph, grandson of Jacob, son of Joseph, and 
the children of Jacob have occupied it until now. 

HARDY, PHINEAS B., residence of, since he built his 
house on King st., in 1844. 

HARDY, PHINEAS, residence of, since he built his house 
in 1816 on King st. Mr. Hardy's ancestor, Thomas Har- 
dy, jr., formerly lived in a house which stood here. A 
part of this house has been let to his aunt, Jerusha Pear- 
sons ; Leonard Hardy; Luther Hardy, 1825-6; and his 
sons Newman B. and P. Braman. 

BACON FARM, situated between King and Milk streets. 
The house was built by Dea. P. Carlton for Josiah Bacon 
about 1800. It stands nearly opposite Phineas Hardy's 
and has been owned by the Bacons and let most of the 
time. It is now owned by Doc 1 Joseph Fisk of Salem. 
The occupants have been Elijah, son of Andrew Hardy, 
about 12 years, until he went to Stoddard, N. H. ; Samuel, 
son of J. Bacon ; Phineas Hardy ; Joseph, son of Joseph 
Hardy ; Danforth Butrick ; Samuel, son of Stephen Hardy ; 
James Merrill, about 1825 ; Paul Stickney ; Niles Hardy ; 
Widow Mace, 1827-8; Abner Chase, 1831-2; Leonard 
Hardy ; Isaac Hunt, about 1845-7 ; Josiah G. Hardy, to 
1850;Thos. N. Crombee, 1850-2; Mancil Hardy, until he 
died Nov. 30, 1852 ; and Fisher Metcalf . 

HABDY, CALVIN, residence of, since his father died, on 
King st., occupied by himself and Tyler. Joshua Hardy, 
their father, built the house in 1802 and lived there until 
he died in 1843, and his widow occupied it until 1852. 
Other occupants : Phineas Hardy, 1813 ; Samuel Tyler, 
1814; Widow Jerusha Pearson; Luther Hardy, 1826-7. 

HARDY, JONAS, old place formerly of, on east side of 
King st., near the brook on Calvin Hardy's land. It was 
the place where Jonas, son of Thomas Hardy, built a 
house and after he died his sons Jonas and Stephen lived 
there. 



292 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GROVELAND, MASS., 

COOK, SARAH, Widow, residence of, opposite E. Harri- 
man's, corner of King st. and County road. A house 
which belonged to the widow of Benjamin Hardy (proba- 
bly her third of his estate) stood here and she later mar- 
ried Edmund Cheney and they resided here also. After 
the old house was gone, Niles, son of Joseph Hardy, about 
1826, built the present house and lived in it about 2 years. 
Next, Henry, son of Enoch Harriman, resided there until 
Thomas Merrill bought the place. Upon the death of Mr. 
Merrill his widow married Charles Cook who died, and 
now she still lives here, with her son John Merrill, in one 
part. Other occupants have been : Leonard Hardy ; Oil- 
man Hull; Benjamin F. Emerson; Gilbert P. Hardy, 
1836-7 ; William Ricker, 1837-9 and 1842-6 ; Eben J. 
Hardy ; John O. Brown, 1850 ; Jonathan B. Hardy, win- 
ter of 1853-4. 

HARRIMAN, ENOCH, residence on Boynton's corner, 
King st., since 1837. This place was formerly owned by 
Phillip, son of Benjamin Hardy, who was nicknamed " King 
Phillip." Samuel Boynton afterwards lived there ; then 
his son Eliphalet, until he went to the West. Other oc- 
cupants : James Cheney, widow of Thomas Knight, who 
was Samuel Boynton's daughter; Jonathan H. Hale; H. 
Harriman ; Leonard Hardy ; Elbridge G. Wardwell, 1838- 
9 ; Wm. Goodrich, 1839-40. 

MARDEN family, former residences of. Among them 
was one on King st. in an orchard about 15 rods south- 
east of E. Harriman's house, which is still called the 
Marden orchard. 

HARDY, ELIZABETH D., widow, residence of, since Mar. 
1835, with the exception of one year, on King st. This 
house was originally built by Capt. Goss for a carpen- 
ter's shop and stood nearly in front of Dea. Benj. Bur- 
bank's house on Main St. Mr. Sewall Hardy, her husband, 
removed it and made it into a dwelling house. Since his 
death his widow and children have lived there. 



BY ALFRED POORE, M. D. 293 

RICKER, JOSIAH L., residence of, since 1848, on King 
st. This is the third house standing on this spot. The 
first was taken down, and the second was Simon Hardy's 
house which was blown away in the gale of Sept. 14, 
1812. The present house was built by S. Hardy, soon 
after his other house was destroyed, and he occupied it 
until he died. Others that have resided here have been : 
Mancil Hardy; Reuben Sawyer, 1828-9; Se wall Hardy, 
1827-32 and 1834-5; Humphrey H. Nichols, Benjamin G. 
Hinkson, nearly all of the time from 1833 until he went 
to Georgetown in 1849. Mr. Ricker sold this place to 
John Hinkson Hardy in 1855, and has gone to Haverhill 
to live. 

COOK, JOHN, residence of, on his father's place King 
st. Joseph, son of Joseph Hardy, bought the house that 
stood where Leonard Balch's house now stands, removed 
it to its present location, and repaired it. Here he lived 
until he went to the West, in 1837, except one year, when 
he lived on the Bacon farm. Next, Joseph Hale from 
B oxford bought the place, and lived there about two years 
and then sold to Capt. John D. Cook in Apr., 1839. Mr. 
Hale lived here from 1831 to 1852, excepting the year 
1846, when Sewall Hardy occupied it and died there, 
Mr. Cook at that time residing in Newburyport. Others 
who have occupied it have been : Jonathan Stevens, about 
1820 ; Jonathan Chapman, who married Thomas Knight's 
daughter ; Bailey Hardy and Niles Hardy (sons of Joseph 
Hardy), before they went to the West. 

HINKSON, BENJAMIN G., residence of, since Apr., 1852, 
on King st., Mr. Hinkson and J. C. Jones owning it 
jointly. Joseph Hardy built this house about 1795 and 
lived in it until he built that now owned by Capt. Cook. 
He was called " Rocky " Joseph Hardy to distinguish 
him from others of the same name, because he went out 
and settled in this rocky part of Bradford. The next 
owner was Pomp Hardy ; then Benjamin Hardy resided 
there (with an exception of 3 years) from Dec., 1806, 
until within two months before he died in 1850, and 



294 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GROVBLAND, MASS. 

his son Samuel B. lived with him about 16 years. In 1850 
Samuel B. Hardy went to Salt Lake. Nathaniel Holmes 
was the next occupant, 1850-1. Others who have lived 
there : David, son of Benjamin Hardy, 1815-8 ; John B. 
Hardy, 1819-21 and 1823-4 ; Gilbert P., another son of 
Benjamin Hardy, 1829-31; Aaron W. Nelson, 1827-30 
and 1840 ; Leonard Hardy. 

HARDY, MANCIL, lived about 2 years on the westerly 
side of the way, southwesterly of B. G. Hinkson's, be- 
fore reaching the Isaac Hardy place, in a house that he 
made of a shop that belonged to Bailey Hardy. He sold 
it to J. B. Hardy, who, with it, made an addition to his 
house. 

HARDY, ISAAC, site of, in an old orchard which belongs 
to Enoch Harriman, on the westerly side of King st., 
and southwest of B. G. Hinkson's house. Edward 
Cheney lived there before he went to the place now 
owned by widow Cook, and John Atwood, jr. resided 
there before 1756. 

ORDWAY, JONATHAN, an ancient residence of, on the 
west side of King st., north and not far from John and 
George Harriman's residence. He had a son, it is said, 
by the name of Eliphalet, and perhaps an Ebenezer. 

HARRIMAN, GEORGE, residence of, since spring of 1853, 
on his father's place, King st. 

HARRIMAN JOHN, residence of, since Apr., 1849, on 
King st. This place of his father's is owned and occupied 
by Mr. Harriman and his brother George. It was for- 
merly owned by Andrew, son of Jacob Hardy, and after 
he died, Ann, his widow lived there until she went to 
Stoddard, N. H., to live, with her sons Jacob, Josiah and 
others. Elijah remained, and then sold out about 1798 
to Enoch Harriman, who built the present house on the 
old cellar, in 1821. After Mr. Harriman died, his son J. 
K. Harriman resided there till 1849. Other occupants : 
Enos Hardy; William Adams's daughters, Molly and 
Susie in 1796 ; William Rogers, 1851-2. 



BY ALFRED POOEE, M. D. 295 

MAIN STREET. 

RICHARDSON, DAVID, residence of, since Apr., 1821, 
near the West Newbury line on Main st. The Richard- 
sons have owned this place, with the exception of about 
2 years when T. Wood owned it, since they came to 
Groveland. Joseph, grandfather of Mr. Richardson, built 
the present house about 1790, on the site of an old one 
that his ancestor's owned and occupied. Other occupants 
have been : Thomas Wood, 1819-21 ; John, son of Fol- 
lansbee Noyes ; Josiah L. Ricker ; Mrs. Smith, in 1838, 
and since 1851 ; William G. Eaton, 1840-9, and his son 
Elbridge A., 1850-1 and the summer of 1852. 

NOYES, FOLLANSBEE, widow of, residence of, since Oct., 
1843 on Main st. This house was built in 1785 by Dan- 
iel Richardson, who died Jan. 7, 1841. Since then his 
children have occupied it ; Mr. Noyes in the eastern part 
and Hannah Richardson in the other part. Follansbee 
Noyes died Nov., 1853, and Thomas N. Crombee moved 
in soon after. Mrs. Noyes's uncle John came to live in 
the house in 1805, but died soon after, when his son 
John P. was about two years old. 

DWINELL PLACE, old site of, where James Dwinell's 
house stood on the south side of Main st., about 25 rods 
from West Newbury line. After him his son Jonathan 
lived there before it was sold to James Wallingford, in 
1821. The land is included now in the Wallingford place. 

WILLEY, SAMUEL, residence of, since 1849, at the old 
Platts place, northwest of Main st. Mr. Willey's 
place formerly belonged to Jonas Platts, who lived in a 
garrison house that occupied this site, which his grand- 
daughter built about 1790. After he died, his son, Jonas 
Platt, jr., lived here until he died. Other occupants: 
Moses Jaques, 1802-3 ; Enoch Adams, who married Mr. 
Willey's daughter, previous to 1849 ; Henry B. Hun- 
tress, 1850-1 j and Gecrge II. Chase. 



296 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GROVEL AND, MASS., 

WALLINGFORD, OLD, HOUSE where widow Freeman 
lived on the southerly side of Main st. Mrs. Freeman's 
grandfather built and lived in this house, and the latter 
generations have always lived here. Some other families 
who have resided here have been : John Rogers ; Follans- 
bee Noyes, 1839-43 ; Joseph Reed ; Samuel Willey, 1848- 
9 ; George Simpson, 1850 ; Alexander King, 1851 ; Joseph 
Banks ; and now his brother William Banks. 

SAUNDERS HOUSE, on Main st., John, son of Ensign 
Caleb Hopkinson, probably built this house and lived here 
until he went to Maine with his sons. After that Stephen 
Morse resided here until he died ; then his children sold 
it to Moses Saunders in 1804, who lived here from 1808 
until his death. It is now owned by Nathaniel H. Per- 
kins, who lived there a while. The house has been leased 
during the past 25 or 30 years to the following persons : 
Caroline Saunders and sister ; William Griffith, until 1824 ; 
William Vickery; Elijah Clark, 1825-6; Nathaniel Per- 
kins ; Eliphalet Danf orth, twice ; John Hardy ; James 
Burrill; Francis Pillsbury ; William N. Chase, 1829-30; Pat- 
rick Johnson ; John P. Richardson, about 1830-7 ; Thomas 
Kimball, about 1830 : Follansbee Noyes, 1832-4 ; Thomas 
N. Crombee, 1832-3; John Bean; William Fowler, 1833- 
5 ; Warren F. Smith, 1834-6 ; Thomas Johnston ; James 
Griffith; Joseph Banks ; Otis K. Peabody, 184T-50 ; J. B. 
Johnston, since marriage, and his widow, after she came 
back to live in Groveland from 1847 to 1853. Nathaniel 
H. Griffith bought the house at auction on Dec. 1, 1854. 

GRIFFITH, WILLIAM, residence of, since 1824, on Main 
st. He built this house in 1824 on land that he bought 
of Moses Saunders. 

HOPKINSON, DANIEL, residence of, since his birth, on 
Main st. Caleb Hopkinson, sr., probably lived in this 
house when he first came to town, and his son Caleb also 
lived here and left it to his son David. David gave a part 
of the house and land to each of his two sons, Nathaniel 
and Daniel, and each of these brothers gave his part to a 



BY ALFRED POORE, M. D. 297 

son, who, upon marriage, built an addition to both parts of 
the house. Daniel, son of Daniel, occupies the south- 
western part. His son Walter H. lived in it from 

1847-8. 

HOPKINSON, JOHN, residence of, since his birth, on Main 
st. He lives in that part of the house with his cousin 
Daniel which his father Nathaniel occupied. His son 
David W. lived there 1828-34, and James Griffith, about 
1847. 

HOPKINSON, WALTER H., residence of, since Apr. 22, 
1848, on Main st. This house was built by Howard, who 
married his sister, in 1840 and resided there until 

1848. 

RICHARDSON, JOHN, residence of, since June, 1819, on 
Main st. Moses Saunders built this house in 1790, and 
lived there until he sold it to John Whittier in 1805. 
The latter occupied it until 1818 and then sold it to Mr. 
Richardson. John P. Richardson lived here about 1828 
and Priscilla Tenny about 1830. 

HOPKINSON, DAVID W., residence of, since 1834, on 
Main st. Mr. Hopkinson owns a part of the old Bailey 
lot and Capt. Jonathan Bailey, sr., built the present house, 
upon the site of the original one, it is said, about 1762. 
After he died William, his son, came into possession of 
the house and a part of the land belonging to the estate, 
which he left to his heirs. William Bailey kept a public 
house at this place at one time. Mr. Hopkinson bought 
this place in 1 827, and before he moved into it the follow- 
ing were occupants: Rev. Nathan Ames, about 1818 ; 
William Little ; Samuel Willey, 1818-23 ; Samuel, son of 
Benjamin Burbank, about 1822 ; John Shoff ; Elijah Clark, 
1823-5 ; Lt. Silas Hopkinson, 1823-8 ; John B. Hardy, 
1825-6 ; Richard Renton, about 1826 ; Eliphalet Danforth, 
about 1825 and 1828; widow Savary Tenny, about 1827; 
widow of John Whittier, again ; Capt. Isaac Knapp ; 
Priscilla Tenny, 1833-4 ; Patrick Johnson ; Jonathan Balch, 
1833-4 ; Nelson F. Vance ; John S. M. Colby was there in 
1834 ; William Hatch ; George P. Edney. 



298 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GROVELAND, MASS. 

BAILEY, JOSEPH, formerly the residence of. This lot on 
which D. W. Hopkinson's house stands was first owned 
by Dea. Joseph, son of Richard Bailey. After he died his 
son Elder Richard Bailey owned and occupied it, then 
Jonathan, son of Dea. Richard owned and occupied that 
part of the lot on Main st. and Joseph, son of Dea. Rich- 
ard, had the backside of the lot. The latter built a house 
on the County road where he resided until he died and 
left it to his son, Job, who sold to Edmund Little of West 
Newbury about 1794. David Foot owned the house after- 
wards and resided there about twenty years. Other occu- 
pants were Abel Saunders, about 1814 ; Gideon Barker ; 
about 1816, Cornelius Baker, until 1819 ; and Isaac 
Adams, 1819-24, when the house was sold and removed. 

BAILEY, WIDOW ELIZABETH, residence of, Main st., 
since she came to live with Jonathan Bailey. Edward 
Wood, it is said, built this house, which stands on the 
easterly side of the Wood lot. Jonathan Bailey, jr., lived 
in this house until he died, then his son Jonathan until 
he died and now his widow resides there. It was proba- 
bly built about the same time as other houses which had 
one brick end like this, namely one at Hale's Corner, one 
on the Stickney lot (1703) and one in East Haverhill. 
Priscilla Tenney lived in it about 1832. 

PALMER, MOODY M., residence of, since 1845, on Main 
st., on the old Bailey lot. He built his house in 1845 and 
the corn barn in 1854. 

HARDY, CHARLES, residence of, since 1829, on Main 
st. He built this house and with him have lived Levi B. 
George, a few weeks in 1835, and his brother Daniel, 
when first married, about six months. Mr. Hardy's 
moral courage was sufficient to get the frame of this house 
raised without ardent spirits, which was a remarkable 
thing for that time. 

STICKNEY, THOMAS W., residence of, since Jan., 1851, 
in one of Charles Hardy's houses, on Main st. This house 
was built by Mr. Hardy on land that he bought of Thomas 



BY ALFRED POOEB, M. D. 299 

Savary, in 1835, and let to his brother Daniel until 1841 ; 
to Mary, widow of Christopher Randall, 1841-2 ; John Put- 
nam from New bury port, into winter of 1842-3 ; Charles 
G. Savary, 1843-5 ; and George S. Walker, 1845-51. 

WALKER, GEORGE S., residence of, since Jan., 1851, on 
Main st. Mr. Walker built this house in 1850 on land 
which he bought of his mother. A French family* lived 
in a house that stood on this site about 1760. Later an 
Irish family by the name of Dunlap. 

WOOD lot where Thomas Wood formerly resided and 
now owned and occupied by his daughter Betsey and Mr. 
Foster, on Main st. This lot has been owned by the 
Wood family ever since the town was settled. The orig- 
inal house stood in front of the present one and about half 
way between this house and the street. Mr. Wood built this 
house in 1787. Others who have occupied it : David 
Gile, about 1806-13 ; William Griffith, sr., about 1814 ; 
Isaiah Jewett, about 1814-22 ; David Richardson, fall of 
1822 ; Samuel Thomson ; Thomas Wood, about 1823 ; 
Rev. Thomas W. Gile, 1823-6, 1828-33, and after that his 
widow, 1849-50 ; Capt. A. I. Stickney about one year 
when first married ; Priscilla Tenney, 1834-5 and 1836-7 ; 
Benjamin K. Hovey, 1837, to the present time ; Waterman 
Reed, 1842-5. 

SAVARY, JOSEPH, residence of, since Apr., 1823, on 
Main st. The ancestors of Mr. Savary have lived proba- 
bly on this place since they came to Groveland, previous 
to 1690, viz : William, Thomas, son of William, Capt. 
John, son of Thomas, and Maj. Thomas, son of Capt. 
John, who built the present house, in 1791. It was an 
enlargement of the old house, which, perhaps, was the 
first house on the place. When Maj. Thomas Savary 
died it was divided, and Joseph owns the south part 
where he lives, and Mrs. Pearson, another of his children, 
the north part. Other occupants, since 1833 : Joseph 
Greely, 1834 ; Albert Hills, 1835 ; William Bartlett, 
1836 ; and Mrs. Walker. 

Perhaps Peter Bloften, French Acadian. 



300 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GROVELAND, MASS., 

SAVARY, GEORGE, HON., widow of, residence of, since 
1826, on Main st. This house was built by Esquire 
Savary in 1825-6, and he lived here until his death in the 
spring of 1854. His widow and children still occupy it. 
Mr. Savary's boot and shoe manufactory is north of his 
residence, where his father formerly carried on the same 
business in company with Frank. They were both in 
business with their father before he died. The building, 
with additions, was made from a shop that he bought of 
Isaiah Jewett. The firm also keep a variety store. 

WOOD, MOSES, JR., formerly residence of, on Main st., 
owned by Sarah, his widow, and Joseph P. Stickney, who 
married his daughter, Mrs. Woods. Moses Wood, sr., 
built this house in 1780, where he and his son Moses lived 
until they died. Then his widow resided there until 1851, 
and J. P. Stickney from 1844 until he built his new house. 
Others who have occupied it : widow of Savary Tenny, 
about 1825 ; Phineas Balch, about 1826 ; Priscilla Tenny, 
1830-2 ; George W. Johnston, 1813 ; Stephen Danforth, 
1833-8 and 1840-3; George E. Wood, 1837-40, when he 
died ; Rufus H. Wood, another son ; John Lydston, a few 
months in 1852 ; Stephen B. Danforth, 1851-4 ; Amos P. 
Chase, 1851-3 ; Alfred Willis, 1852-3 ; Mrs. Mary Bailey, 
April to June, 1853 : Eben S. Page, Sept., 1853 May, 
1854; John Hardy; Mr. Daniels, June 2, 1854. 

TAPPAN, JOHN, residence of, since 1832, except one 
year, on Main st. This house stands where there was one 
in 1730, occupied by Joseph Carleton, jr. The present 
one was built by Ens. Samuel Hopkinson, who occupied 
it until he died. Since then the following have resided in 
the house : Jonathan Savary ; Nathaniel Wallingford, 
about 1798-1808, who kept goods and traded in one part 
of the house: David Sawyer, about 1810; David Saun- 
ders ; Samuel Tyler, about 1813 ; Dea. N. Ladd, 1811-16 ; 
David Walker, 1815-29, and his widow until 18 38 ; Elijah 
Clark, 1816; Savary Tenny, 1824 ; William H., son of 
Benjamin Balch, 1825-7 ; Priscilla Tenny and widow of 
Savary Tenny, 1829-30 ; Isaiah Jewett ; Eben Jaques, 



BY ALFKED POORE, M. D. 301 

about 1832; William Bartlett, 1835 ; Stephen Danforth, 
1838-40; John Dresser; Joseph P. Stickney, in 1844; 
J. Sidney Morse, and the widow of Leonard Hovey. 
Mr. Tappan manufactures shoes in a shop on Savary's 
lane, near his house. 

SAVARY, GEORGE T., residence of, on Main st, since 
his marriage on Feb. 9, 1851, in a house that was built in 
1850 on land that he bought of his father-in-law, J. 
Tappan. 

STICKNEY, D. B., COL., residence of, since Apr. 9, 1852, 
on Main st. Col. Stickney built this house a few feet 
northeast of that which he formerly occupied in 1851-2. 
The carpenters were Charles Hardy, B. E. Merrill and 
Charles A. Shaw. It was commenced, raised, finished, 
and moved into on Friday. 

STICKNEY, DANIEL, DEA., formerly residence of, on 
Main st. This place is south of his son's house, and was 
built by Eben, son of Samuel Hopkinson, probably before 
his father died. He lived there until about 1788, when 
he sold it to his brother Silas, about the time he was mar- 
ried, who resided there until he sold it to Dea. Stickney, 
in April, 1799. The latter died in 1840, and his widow 
and son, D. B. Stickney, occupied it until she died, in 

1852. The son built his new house, owned now by Col. 
D. B. Stickney and his sister, Mrs. Balch, and his part is 
occupied by Samuel W. Perkins, and her part by her son, 
W. H. Balch. In 1823-4, an addition was made to that 
part which the colonel occupied, which he sold to Gid- 
dings and removed to West Newbury, when he built his 
new house in 1852. The old part now standing was re- 
paired before being occupied by the present families. E. 
A. Richardson occupied the Colonel's part from Aug. 12, 

1853, to Sept. 19, 1854. 

DANFORTH, STEPHEN, residence of, since 1843, Main 
st. He built his house on land that he bought of Moses 
Wood. 



302 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GROVELAND, MASS., 

HUTCHINS' LOT, on which is Hutchins' hill and the 
meadow owned by George Savary's heirs, named for the 
first owners, is probably next east of Palmer's lot. It is 
said that the house stood where Stickney & Balch's shop 
now stands on Main street. 

STICKNEY & BALCH. From 1831-42, D. B. Stickney 
and William S. Balch manufactured boots and shoes in 
the shop which they built in 1830, where Stickney and 
his sons are now located, near Query corner, on Main st. 
They have given up the business, but still own the shop. 
Balch's part is occupied by his son, William Heman. The 
shop was built by D. B. Stickney and William H., son of 
Benjamin Balch, in 1826, who occupied it until 1830. 

WOODMAN, IRA L., residence of, since Nov., 1844, on 
Main st. This house was built by William H., son of 
Benjamin Balch, who resided in it until 1831. Catherine 
Coker of West Newbury resided in it about four years, 
then Nelson S. Vance owned and occupied it from 1833- 
44. He sold it to Mr. Woodman, who had lived in it 
about six months, having previously lived in West New- 
bury. John E. Brown also resided there in 1844-5. 

EATON, WILLIAM G., residence of, since 1849, corner 
of Main and Broad sts. The house was built in 1827 by 
Nathan Hardy on land bought of Moses Wood. Nathan 
Hardy was drowned while trying to walk on the water, 
and after he died his widow continued there until 1842. 
Next Benjamin K. Hovey owned it and lived there until 
1847, when Thomas W. Stickney bought it and resided 
there till he sold to the present owner. Others who have 
occupied it have been : William Lucy ; Levi B. George, 
1837-44; Eliphalet Sargent ; John Felton, who married 
E. Sargent's daughter ; J. K. Harriman ; N. H. Wood, 
about 1845; also John Page, 1843; John Townley, from 
his marriage to 1852, when he removed to Town street; 
and David Eaton, Mr. Eaton's father, winter of 1852-3. 

JOHNSTON, JOHN, residence of, since Mar. 20, 1882, in 
the William Tenny house on Main st. About 1770, 



BY ALFBED POORE, M. D. 303 

Nicholas Wallingford built and occupied this house, then 
Moses Savary resided there after his marriage. Abel 
Saunders owned and occupied it from 1794 to about 1799, 
and sold it to William Tenny, who lived there until he 
death in 1848. Other occupants : Runnels Foster, before 
1794; Edward Sargent; John Jennings; Mr. Black, 
about 1793. 

TENNY, PBTSCILLA, residence of, in a lot on Query 
corner, since 1838. Her house was made from a shoe- 
maker's shop, which belonged to Charles Wallingford, on 
land that belonged to Nathan Hardy's heirs. 

BROWN, JOHN, CAPT., residence of,since 1831,on Main st. 
Probably this is the place where the Palmers lived when 
they first came to East Bradford. The present house was 
built by Samuel Palmer,where an old one stood, and when 
he died he left it to his son William, who sold out and went 
to Hopkinton, N. H., in 1815. Jonathan Walker owned 
it until 1831, and resided there at one time. Before Mr. 
Brown bought it in 1831, the occupants were : William 
Griffith, 1814 ; John Woodman, from West Newbury ; 
Capt. James Edney, about 1816, who went to Greenland, 
N. H. ; John Edney ; Samuel Poor ; Jacob Rogers, from 
Boston ; Col. D. B. Stickney, 1822-4 ; Nathan, son of 
Samuel Hardy, 1822-7 ; John B. Hardy, 1824-5 ; Jere. 
Tyler; Mancil Hardy; Eliphalet Danforth. Now Stan- 
wood R. Morrill occupies one part. 

PARKER, GEORGE S., residence of, since his marriage, 
on Rolf's corner, Main st. This corner was named from 
the fact of Ezra Rolf's house having occupied the site of the 
present dwelling. After Rolf left, a widow Abbot, with 
her children, James and Sally, occupied it ; then, about 
1772, Joseph Barker, a tailor, of whom Caleb Foot 
learned the trade. Next, Dea. T. Tenny and Samuel 
Palmer were joint owners, whose sons, Silas Tenny and 
William Palmer, lived in it when they were first married. 
Runnels Foster lived there a while, then his son Moses 
bought the place and built the present house from a shop 



304 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS OF GROVELAND, MASS. 

that he bought of William Little. He occupied it till his 
first wife died. Moses, jr., his son, lived there from May, 
1831, to July, 1851, and then George S. Parker, who mar- 
ried the daughter of Moses Foster, jr., occupied it. On 
Sept. 20, 1854, he removed to the Johnston house, and 
Moses Foster, jr., removed back. 

TENNY, PHILIP, late residence of, on Main st., where 
his widow and children now live. Dea. Philip, grand- 
father of Philip Tenny, probably built this house and re- 
sided there until he died, when his son, Dea. William 
Tenny, came into possession of it. The latter's son 
Philip occupied it as long as he lived. Others who have 
occupied a part of the house have been : Mrs. Mace, 
1826-7; Charles Hardy's mother, about 1828 ; Nathaniel 
H. Griffith, summer of 1836 ; Mr. Tenny's sister Priscilla, 
1837-8 ; Daniel Atwood, from 1838 until he went to East 
Haverhill in 1842, and since he came back ; Wm. Hatch. 
The shop that formerly stood on the opposite side of the 
street was used by D. Atwood for a while about 1840. 

WALLINGFORD, CHARLES, residence of, since married, 
on Main st. Dea. Thomas Tenny formerly owned this 
place, which he probably bought of his father, Daniel, son 
of Elder Samuel Tenny, enlarging the house and residing 
in it until he died. Then his son Silas lived at this place 
till he went to Chester, N. H., in 1804. Rev. Mr. Dutch 
bought the place and sold it again before long to Nathan- 
iel Wallingford, who occupied it until he built the house 
where his daughters now live, in 1831. Following are 
among the other occupants : Moses Atwood, who married 
Dea. T. Tenny's daughter, lived here when his daughter 
Harriet, who married Rev. Mr. Newell, was born, in 1793 ; 
Moses Foster, about 1800-2 ; Eben Hopkinson, jr., about 
1805-7 ; Charles Stevens ; Leonard Wood ; Nathaniel H. 
Griffith, 1836-40; Benjamin K. Hovey ; Aaron Hardy; 
Charles W. Hopkinson, 1843-4; Edward Hills, 1840-53 ; 
Widow Anna B. Johnson, after she returned from Lowell, 
and S. D. Irving. Mr. Wallingford manufactured boots 
and shoes in his shop near his house for a number of years 
previous to 1854. 

( To be continued.) 




PLAN OF MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. No. 4. 



MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 4. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 



THAT part of Marblehead which is included between 
Hooper, Rockaway and Watson streets on the west and 
State and Mugford streets on the east and between Green 
street on the north and the harbor on the south is shown 
on the map on the opposite page. The map is based on 
actual surveys and title deeds, and is drawn to a scale of 
three hundred feet to an inch. It shows all the houses 
that were standing upon that portion of the town in 
1700. 

State street was a highway as early as 1665, when it 
was called a highway that goes down to ye harbor. It was 
called Norden's lane in 1725 ; highway leading down to 
the new wharf in Codner's cove in 1726 ; King street in 
1729 ; and State street after the war of the Revolution. 

Mugford street was called the lane or highway that 
leads to ye comon or woods in 1667 ; a highway in 1684; 
ye highway or street that leads up to the new meeting 
house in 1717 ; Queen street in 1734 ; the street leading 
from the town house to the ferry, so called, in 1757 ; and 
Mugford street as early as 1844. 

Green street was the old ferry road, and was called the 
highway which goes to the ferry in 1724 ; the street in 
1725; the street leading from the new meeting house up 
to the ferry, so called, in 1773 ; and Green street before 
1882. 

Elm street was called the lane or highway that leads to 
ye comon or woods in 1667 ; the highway, 1696 ; ye high- 
way on ye back side of ye town, 1711 ; the Back street, 
1727 ; and Elm street since 1831. 

Watson street was an old way and was called a lane 
very early. It was named Watson street before 1882. 

(305) 



306 MABBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 4. 

Rockaway street was an old way, and was called a lane 
in 1737; Frog lane, 1761 ; and Rockaway street before 
1882. 

Hooper street was the ancient way to Nick's cove ; and 
was called ye highway in 1723 ; the highway leading 
down to ye cove, 1727; the street leading down to Nick's 
cove, 1728 ; the main street, 1797; and Hooper street as 
early as 1831. 

Washington street was a highway or street in 1665 ; 
and was called the town highway, 1667 ; the main street 
of ye town of Marblehead, 1721 ; the main street leading 
to the town house,* 1794 ; and Washington street as early 
as 1859. The triangle in which the old town house stands 
was called Market square in 1856, and Washington 
square in 1875. 

Water street was called the street leading up to the hill 
from the cove in 1836 ; the highway near the head of the 
cove, 1847 ; and Water street, formerly called Fel ton's 
hill," in 1790. 

Front street was in use about 1700, but the time of its 
origin is not exactly known. It was called a highway in 
1707 ; way leading from Nick's cove to Codner's cove, 
1727; ye way leading to the new wharf, 1728 ; the street 
leading to Nick's wharf, 1729 ; street leading from cove 
to cove, 1731 ; highway or street leading from Neck's 
cove to the new wharf, 1746 ; Fore street, 1761 ; the 
street leading to new wharf from upper wharf, so called, 
1819 ; and Front street as early as 1824. 

The braces marked " a " show where Darling street 
runs. It was laid out about 1730; and was called Cross 
street in 1733; New street, so called, 1777; Darling's 
lane, 1788 ; and Darling street before 1882. 

The brace marked " b " shows where Hanover street 
begins. This was laid out as a private way, sixteen feet 
in width, by Stephen Minot, Esq., of Marblehead, through 
his land, in 1728 ; and was called Hanover street as early 
as 1729. 

Summer street was laid out and so named before 1882. 
The braces marked l< e " shows where it runs. 

* This was the old town house, built in 1727, and now standing. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 307 

The braces marked " c " show where Pleasant street 
now runs. It was a private way, fifteen feet wide, in 
1715, and was laid out as a public way about 1772. It 
was called a lane in 1787 ; a highway, 1791 ; and Pleasant 
street before 1882. 

The braces marked " d " show where Harris street runs. 
The eastern portion of this way was first laid out, Aug. 
23, 1736, in the division of the estate of John Northey, 
two rods wide, to reach the rear land, and was at first 
called a drift way.* It was called a passage way leading 
to Northey's orchard in 1748 ; a road leading to Northey's 
land in 1753 ; Northey's lane in 1803 ; the way leading 
from the main street to Northey lot, so called, in 1807 ; 
Harris court in 1844 ; and Harris street in 1879. f 

The harbor was so called as early as 3 665. It was 
called the great harbor in 1725 ; and Marblehead harbor 
in 1811. 

The cove at the foot of State street was called the 
cove in 1725 ; and Codner's cove in 1731. Oct. 21, 
1662, at a town meeting, the commoners agreed " that 
the Cove lying between John Codners and John Northies 
stage, shall be for a common landing place for the use of 
the public good of the Towne forever." This agreement 
was signed by Moses Maverick, Joseph Dolliber, John 
Peach, sr., Christopher Lattimore, John Waldron, John 
Codner, John Bar toll and five others in the name of all 
of the commoners. J 

The cove at Water street was called the cove in 1683 ; 
and Neck's cove in 1728. On the eastern side of this 
cove was the ancient fishing stage of William Neck, being 
called his old stage in 1683. This was called the eastern 
stage and fish flakes in 1708. At that time there was a 
warehouse there, also. In 1805 this was the location of 
the town landing. 

John Codner House. John Codner of Marblehead had 
his fishing stage at this cove as early as 1662. He owned 

* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 86, leaf 34. 

tThe burial ground on Harris street was laid out soon after the 
second Congregational meetinghouse was built, probably about 1725. 
\ Marblehead town records. 



308 MAKBLEHEAD IN THE TEAR 1700. NO. 4. 

this tract of land before 1696, probably as early as 1662 ; 
and died possessed of the house and lot in the winter of 
1709-10 ; his will, dated Jan. 19, 1709-10 being proved, 
March 28, 1710. His estate was divided in the winter of 
1725-6, the mansion house and land adjoining, being as- 
signed to his son-in-law William Blackler and his wife 
and children, William, John, Elias and Elizabeth, the pa- 
rents having a life estate, and the children the remainder 
in fee. The house was gone in 1732 ;* when the Bladders 
made a division of the estate. 

John Bartoll House. John Bartoll of Marblehead, fisher- 
man, owned this house and that part of the lot of land 
lying westerly of the dashes, in 1692, and bought the 
triangular piece easterly of the dashes, for two pounds 
and eight shillings, of John Codner of Marblehead, March 
28,1696.1 The house was standing Sept 1, 1712, when 
Mr. Bartoll and his wife, Christian, for love, conveyed 
to his son Thomas Bartoll of Marblehead, fisherman, the 
northwest lower room of our dwelling house, etc., and 
land and frame of a house at ye northwest end of said 
house and a garden spot adjoining.^ How much longer 
the old house stood is unknown. 

Daniel Shapley Rouse. This was the lot of land that 
the commoners of Marblehead conveyed to Widow Susan- 
nah Burdun of Marblehead before Sept. 21, 1692, when, 
for twenty-five pounds, she conveyed the land with the 
house thereon, in which she then lived, to Daniel (David ?) 
Shaply of Marblehead. David Shapley (spelled in the 
probate papers, Saply) of Marblehead, fisherman, died 
possessed of the house and lot, before Dec. 30, 1720, 
when administration upon his estate was granted to his 
son Richard Shapley of Marblehead, fisherman. The 
house and land were then appraised at fifty pounds. 
Widow Shapley was in possession of the estate in 1717, 
and probably Mr. Shapley died in or before that year. 
He was living in 1707. Richard Shapley died in or be- 
fore 1746, and "the old house and rocks whereon it 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 105, leaf 54. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 45. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 26, leaf 137. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 28, leaf 11. 




DIVISION OF THE ESTATE OF SAMUEL REED, I 732. 



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PLAN OF THE ESTATE OF STEPHEN MINOT, 1728 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 309 

stands " were appraised at fifteen pounds. The house 
was gone soon after. 

John Legg House. This lot of land was in the posses- 
sion of John Legg of Marblehead before 1672; and he 
died, possessed of it, with the dwelling house thereon, in 
the spring of 1674. He devised his estate to his three 
sons, Samuel, John and Daniel. Daniel was the youngest 
son, and died, without issue, March 16, 1690. Samuel and 
John divided the estate between them, and this lot, with 
the stone house thereon, was released to John.* Col. 
John Legg lived in Marblehead, being a merchant, and 
died Oct. 8, 1718, at the age of seventy-three. By his 
will, and probably by purchase, this house and land came 
into the possession of John Legg of Boston, merchant, 
who conveyed the land and *' old stone house " thereon to 
Stephen Minot of Marblehead, merchant, May 26, 1727.f 
Mr. Minot conveyed the stone house and land adjoining 
to his brother George Minot of Marblehead, merchant, 
Sept. 12, 17284 A plan accompanying this conveyance is 
reproduced from the record of the deed on the opposite 
page. The " new way " marked on the plan is a part of 
what is now known as Hanover street. The stone house 
was about thirty-three feet long and twenty feet wide, 
and faced the cove. George Minot took down the old 
stone house, and built a new house upon the lot which 
house was unfinished Dec. 31, 1731, when, having re- 
moved to Boston, he conveyed the land and building to 
John Palmer of Marblehead, merchant. 

Nathaniel Norden Lot. This lot of meadow land was 
probably granted by the town of Marblehead to Christo- 
pher Lattimore of Marblehead, and he died possessed of 
it in 1 690. The title then passed to Capt. Nathaniel Nor- 
den, who owned it in 1717. 

John Codner Lot. John Codner owned this lot quite 
early, and died possessed of it in the winter of 1709-10. 

Samuel Reed House. This lot of land and the lot of 
Erasmus James adjoining belonged to Erasmus James of 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 1. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 49, leaf 220. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 51, leaf 128. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 61, leaf 14. 



310 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 4. 

Marblehead very early. He sold the land and the house 
thereon to his son-in-law Richard Reed of Marblehead, 
fisherman, but died, about 1660, before a deed of the 
estate had been passed. Jane James, the widow of the 
deceased, was appointed administratrix of his estate June 
26, 1660 ; and, June 16, 1665, she gave Mr. Reed a deed 
of the estate.* Mr. Reed was living in 1678, but proba- 
bly died a few years later. He was succeeded upon the 
estate by Samuel Reed of Marblehead, apparently his son. 
Samuel Reed evidently built as a tavern the house shown 
on the map. In the rear, connected with the house by 
three steps, was the kitchen, a building nearly as large on 
the ground as the house itself. Tradition states that this 
was not only the kitchen, but the quarters of the slaves 
owned by Mr. Reed. Mr. Reed died Dec. 4, 1718, at the 
age of fifty-seven. His real estate was divided by deed 
March 25, 1732. The northeasterly half of the house 
was released to his widow Mary ; and the southwesterly 
half of the " mansion house " and land, with an old shop, 
was released to his son John Reed of Marblehead, shore- 
man.f Accompanying the record of these releases is a 
copy of a plan showing the division of the estate^ which 
is here reproduced. The house measured about forty- 
eight by twenty feet, and the kitchen about forty by fifteen 
feet. At the time of this division the street line was 
changed to the present line. The continuous line on the 
north and east were the street lines at that date ; and the 
dotted lines are the present lines to which they were 
changed. This was a knoll, and the old road ran around 
it ; subsequently the street was straight and the town 
house was left on one side. Mary Reed, widow of Samuel 
Reed, married, secondly, Nicholas Andrews, Nov. 28, 
1721 ; and he died in 1730. She survived him, and died, 
his widow, in the winter of 1740-1. Her son Samuel 
Reed of Marblehead, cordwainer, conveyed two-fifths of 
the dower part, for sixty-two pounds, to his brother John 
Reed of Marblehead, who was then a butcher, Jan. 11, 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 110. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 61, leaf 156. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 61, leaf 159. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 311 

1741.* Samuel's brother, Richard Reed of Marblehead, 
gentleman, for twenty pounds, conveyed his fifth to John 
on the same day.f John Reed then conducted a tavern 
in the house ; and died in 1764. The mansion house and 
barn and land were then valued at three hundred and 
ninety pounds. The estate came into the possession of 
his son, John Reed of Marblehead, mariner, who died in 
the winter of 1777-8, having devised the income of his 
estate to his wife Agnes (Annis), who subsequently mar- 
ried Ebenezer Foster. After her decease, he gave the 
absolute title to John Reed Malcom and Elizabeth Mal- 
com, children of his sister Mary, who had married Alex- 
ander Malcom of Marblehead, mariner, both of whom 
having died before 1771, the date of the will. For 
twenty-one pounds and twelve shillings, John Reed Mal- 
com of Marblehead, mariner, Samuel Ashton of Marble- 
head, fisherman, and wife Elizabeth, and widow Mary 
AbbotJ of Marblehead conveyed the estate to Elbridge 
Gerry, Esq., of Marblehead, June 14, 1783. Ebenezer 
Foster of Boston, blacksmith, and his wife Annis, admin- 
istratrix of the estate of John Reed, for forty-three 
pounds and four shillings, released the house and land to 
Mr. Gerry June 16, 1783. || The house was then called 
u an old dwelling house." For twenty-five pounds, Mr. 
Gerry conveyed to Robert Hooper, Esq., of Marblehead, 
the land under the northeasterly end of the house, reserv- 
ing *' the Liberty of taking down and removing the said 
dwelling house from said granted land when he or they 
shall see fit within twelve months from the date hereof,'* 
July 5, 1783.^1 The house was probably taken down 
within the twelve months. 

Erasmus James House. This lot was a part of the land 
owned by Erasmus James very early ; and by him sold to 
his son-in-law Richard Reed. Mr. James died, about 
1660, before a deed of it was executed. Jane James, 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 129, leaf 219. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 129, leaf 220. 
tDaughter of Alexander and Mary Malcom. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 141, leaf 21. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 141, leaf 198. 
IFEssex Registry of Deeds, book 141, leaf 13. 



312 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 4. 

widow of Erasmus Jarries, was appointed administratrix 
of his estate June 26, 1660 ; and June 16, 1665, she gave 
Mr. Reed a deed of the house and land.* Mr. Reed con- 
veyed the house and this part of the lot to his brother-in- 
law, Erasmus James of Marblehead, ship-carpenter, 14 : 
12 : 166 7.f The purchaser was living in the house at 
that time, and continued to do so. Administration upon 
his estate was granted Sept. 4, 1717. He had built a 
"mansion house " at the eastern end of the lot. The old 
house and a strip of land two rods wide on which it stood 
was then appraised at one hundred and twenty pounds. 
Benjamin James of Marblehead, cordwainer, son of the 
deceased, had brought suit against his father's estate, and 
recovered judgment, which was satisfied by his mother, 
Joanna James, administratrix, conveying to him this house 
and land around it May 13, 1721. J Benjamin James, for 
one hundred and forty pounds, conveyed the house and 
land to James Houlton of Salem new precinct, husband- 
man, May 12, 1721. The house was then occupied by 
Christopher Slade. Mr. Houlton died in 1722 ; and his 
son, James Houlton of Salem, husbandman, for ninety- 
five pounds, conveyed one-half of the messuage to Jacob 
Fowle of Marblehead, joiner, March 9, 1729. || Ebenezer 
Procter of Salem, cordwainer, and wife Mary, daughter 
of the deceased James Houlton, conveyed to her brother 
James Houlton her part of the estate June 22, 1730.1^ 
Joseph Holton, jr., of Salem, cordwainer, son of the de- 
ceased, for twenty-five pounds, conveyed to Mr. Fowle 
one-sixth of the estate March 15, 1731.** David Felton 
of Salem, carpenter, and wife Sarah, for a similar consid- 
eration, conveyed one-sixth of the house and land to Mr. 
Fowle Dec. 7, 1739.ff Richard James of Marblehead, 
mariner, released his interest in the estate to Mr. Fowle, 
for ten pounds, May 21, 1747.JJ The house was then 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 110. 

tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 49. 

JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 39, leaf 50. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 39, leaf 49. 

HEssex Registry of Deeds, book 52, leaf 135. 

HEssex Registry of Deeds, book 58, leaf 44. 

**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 60, leaf 107. 

ttEssex Registry of Deeds, book 86, leaf 147. 

J tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 52, leaf 157. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 313 

called " an old house," and Mr. Fowle probably took it 
down soon after, erecting a new one in its place. 

Samuel Reed House. This lot was a part of the estate 
of Erasmus James of Marblehead, who died in 1660. His 
widow, Jane James, had this lot and died possessed of 
it in 1669. This is probably the lot of land described in 
the inventory of her estate as the land by the pound, and 
valued at five pounds. By agreement between her son 
Erasmus James and her daughter Hester, wife of Richard 
Reed, this lot became the property of Hester, June 30, 
1669. The title to it descended to Hester's son, Samuel 
Reed of Marblehead, mariner, who owned the lot in 1700. 

Estate of William Nick Lot. This lot belonged to Wil- 
liam Nick of Marblehead at an early date ; and he died 
possessed of it in 1683. This lot, called the garden, was 
appraised at five pounds. His widow Mary married 
George Jackson of Marblehead, chirurgeon, in 1690, and 
she was in possession of the lot in 1700. 

Estate of William Nick House. William Nick owned 
this lot quite early, and died possessed of it in the autumn 
of 1683. He devised it to his wife Mary, for her life, 
and then to his children William and Susannah. His wife 
Mary survived him, and married, secondly, Dr. George 
Jackson of Marblehead, and upon this lot they built a 
dwelling house, which they called their " new dwelling 
house" in 1691. The daughter Susannah married Jacob 
Fowle Oct. 31, 1700, and she and her brother William 
divided their part of their father's estate Sept. 18, 1708, 
Susannah releasing to William the southern part of the 
premises with the house, barn, etc., thereon.* The house 
was standing some years after this date. 

John Brown House. This lot early belonged to William 
Nick. Mr. Nick died in 1683, and his widow was his ex- 
ecutrix. She married Dr. George Jackson of Marblehead, 
and they conveyed to Capt. John Brown of Marblehead, 
merchant, part of "our pasture " Aug. 16, 1691.f Captain 
Brown built a house upon the lot, and died May 17, 
1706. The house, barn and land were then valued at 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 51, leaf 176. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 43. 



314 MABBLEHEAD IN THE YEAB 1700. NO. 4. 

six hundred pounds. The house contained a parlor, kitch- 
en, hall and shop, and chambers and garrets, the build- 
ing being two stories in height. How long the house 
stood after this time is not known. In his will, Captain 
Brown, who was an Englishman, had devised the estate 
to his wife, who continued his business of a shopkeeper. 

William Waters House. This lot of land belonged to 
John Northey of Marblehead, planter, very early. He sold 
it, for twelve pounds, to William Waters of Marblehead, 
cordwainer, Aug. "21, 1684.* Mr. Waters built a house 
upon the lot, and died, possessed of the estate, in the spring 
of 1703, his will, dated March 16, 1702-3, being proved 
April 12, 1703. The dwelling house and garden were 
then appraised at one hundred and ten pounds. In his 
house the following rooms were mentioned : parlor chamber, 
porch chamber, kitchen, kitchen chamber, garrets and 
cellar. His widow, Mary Waters, who was the executrix 
of his will, for two hundred pounds, conveyed the land, 
house and blacksmith's shop (which had been built there- 
on) to John Curtis, jr., of Marblehead, fisherman, June 8, 
1723 ;f and, for two hundred and fifty pounds, Mr. Curtis 
reconveyed the same estate to Mrs. Waters Nov. 22, 1726 4 
For one hundred pounds, Mrs. Waters conveyed her man- 
sion house and land to her daughter Hannah and her hus- 
band Philip Tewksbury of Marblehead, fisherman, Oct. 
10, 1728. Mr. and Mrs. Tewksbury removed to Glou- 
cester, and, for one hundred and sixty-five pounds, con- 
veyed the mansion house and land to David LeGrallais of 
Marblehead, merchant, Feb. 5, 1733-4. || For two hundred 
pounds, Mr. LeGallais conveyed the dwelling house, barn 
and land to Alexander Watts, of Marblehead, merchant, 
May 1, 1748.^1" Captain Watts died in the summer of 
1772, his will, dated Jan. 6, 1763, being proved Sept. 
7, 1772. The mansion house, shop, barn and land, were 
appraised at six hundred and fifty pounds. In his will, 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 128. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 42, leaf 83. 
TEssex Registry of Deeds, book 47, leaf 165. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 62, leaf 139. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 64, leaf 121. 
IFEssex Registry of Deeds, book 97, leaf 155. 




BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 815 

Captain Watts devised the estate to his wife Rachel for 
her widowhood, and at her decease one-half to descend 
absolutely to her heirs-at-law, and the other half to his 
kinsman, Alexander Watts of London, England. In 
1789, the house was represented as large, much decayed and 
in great need of repair. April 13, 1795, the estate was 
divided, the widow probably having died. Alexander 
Watts took the western part of the lot, the shop, " linter " 
and barn ; and Mrs. Watts' heirs, Benjamin King of Salem, 
instrumentHnaker, and Mary Trusdale alias Mary Goes of 
New Haven, Conn., singlewoman, had the eastern part of 
the lot and the main part of the house. Mr. King and 
Mary Truesdell, for twelve hundred and fifty dollars, 
conveyed the house, with the kitchen end so called, to 
Samuel Turner of Marblehead, baker, March 31, 1798.* 
Mr. Watt, who was then living at Northan Place, Hert- 
fordshire, England, esquire, conveyed his half of the es- 
tate, shop, etc., to Mr. Turner Oct. 9, 1799.f Mr. Turner 
lived here, and carried on the baking business, which has 
been continued by him and his successors to the present 
time. He died in November, 1854, possessed of the es- 
tate, which was sold at auction, by the executor of his 
will, to Ambrose Allen of Marblehead, baker, April 16, 
18564 Mr. Allen died March 26, 1873 ; and the execu- 
tor of his will conveyed the house and land to William C. 
Fabens, Esq., of Marblehead Aug. 7, 1875. Mr. Fabens 
died Oct. 24, 1903; and the estate still belongs in his 
family. 

John Northey and Sarah Martin House. The lots 
marked John Northey and Sarah Martin, with the dwell- 
ing house thereon, were the property of John Northey of 
Marblehead, fisherman, in 1667. He subsequently built 
an addition to the house, and died possessed of the estate 
in the spring of 1691. The house and land were then ap- 
praised at one hundred pounds. He devised to his son 
John Northey the new part of the house, and that part of 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 164, leaf 34. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 165, leaf 147. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 530, leaf 253. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 943, leaf 233. 



316 MARBLEHEAD IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 4. 

the lot, the house apparently facing to the southeast. 
The old part of the house and that part of the lot he de- 
vised to his daughter Sarah Martin. 

Mrs. Martin was wife of John Martin, and after his 
decease she conveyed her part of the estate to her sons, 
Peter, Samuel, Robert and Thomas, she having only a life 
interest in the property, under her father's will, Nov. 20, 
1714.* 

John Northey, the son, died possessed of his part of the 
land before March 31, 1732, when administration was 
granted upon his estate. The house was gone, appar- 
ently, before that date. 

Hannah Knott House. Peter Greenfield owned this 
lot in 1667, and apparently died possessed of it be- 
fore 1691. His widow Hannah married, secondly, Rich- 
ard Knott ; and, thirdly, Joseph Sweat of Marblehead, 
cordwainer, before 1708. Mr. and Mrs. Sweat conveyed 
this land and house, " in which we now dwell," to their 
son-in-law Thomas Martin (who married Eleanor Knott), 
May 8, 1708. f Mr. Martin owned the lot of land in 
1716, but how long it stood is unknown to the writer. 

Robert Nicholson Lot. This lot was the property of 
Robert Nicholson in 1692 ; and he owned it in 1700. 

Roger Stevens Lot. This lot was granted by the trus- 
tees for the commoners to Roger Stevens of Marblehead, 
fisherman, Nov. 26, 1692 ;J and he owned the lot in 
1700. 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 27, leal 277. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 123. 
J Marblehead town records. 



RECORDS OF THE VICE - ADMIRALTY COURT 
AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 



THE CONDEMNATION OF PRIZES AND RECAPTURES OF THE 
REVOLUTION AND THE WAR OF 1812. 



(Continued from Vol. XL VI, page 272.} 



JULIAN (598), schr., 38 tons, Eppes Griffin, master, 
Boston to Machias, captured Aug. 6, 1814 by Borer. 
Cargo : flour, pork, beef, gin, meal, soap, candles, tobacco, 
shoes, tar and mustard. Taken into St. Johns, N. B. 

JULIAN (665), schr., 70 tons, John Darah, master, St. 
Vincents to Liverpool, N. S., recaptured Nov. 17, 1814 by 
her own crew. Cargo : 65 casks of rum. 

JULIANA SMITH (205), schr., 37 tons, H. Cooper, mas- 
ter, 3 guns and 31 men, from Boston, cruising, captured 
May 11, 1813 by Nymphe. 

JULIET (222), sloop, 92 tons, C. Southworth, master, 
Cuba to New Port, captured May 10, 1813 by Paz. 
Cargo : 113 hhds. and 19 tierces of molasses. 

KING GEORGE (355), brig, 204 tons, J. Thompson, mas- 
ter, from Liverpool, recaptured Aug. 18, 1813 by Recruit. 
Cargo: salt. 

LADY PREVOST (677), brig, 146 tons, Alex r Strang, 
master, Lisbon to St. Johns, Newf d land, recaptured Dec. 
8, 1814 by Nimrod. Cargo : salt. 

LANDRAIL (605), cutter, 90 or 100 tons, Lt. John Hill, 
master, 4 guns and 30 men, England to Gibralter, recap- 
tured Aug. 24, 1814 by Wasp. 

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318 RECORDS OF THE VICE- ADMIRALTY COURT 

LARK (247), schr., J. Terrio, master, recaptured June 
15, 1813 by Borer. 

LARK (229), sloop, 70 tons, J. Dodge, master, Ports- 
mouth to Penobscot, captured Apr. 19, 1813 by Bream. 
Cargo : 4 bags corn, 3 parcels cotton, 1 cask molasses and 
2 wheelbarrows. Taken into New Brunswick. 

LAURA JANE (460), schr., 73 tons, Milliken, mas- 
ter, Scarborough to Boston, captured Dec. 10, 1813 by 
Wolverine (privateer). Cargo : 50M ft. boards and 40M 
shingles. Taken into Liverpool. 

LAVINIA (300), ship, T. Connel, master, recaptured 
July 18, 1813 by Recruit. 

LAWRY (147), schr., 104 tons, J. Hilyard, master, Bos- 
ton to New York, captured Mar. 9, 1813 by Liverpool 
Packet (privateer). Cargo : china ware, 4 boxes glass, 80 
tons: 8 c : 1 qr: 16 Ibs. iron, 92 bbls. sugar and 2 trunks. 

LEGAL TENDER (698), brig, 116 tons, W m Irvine, mas- 
ter, Newf d land to Lisbon, recaptured Mar. 7, 1815 by 
Spencer. Cargo : 1640 quintals codfish, 676 gal. cod oil. 

LEONIDAS (295), sloop, E. Cummings, master, captured 
July 7, 1813 by Weazel (privateer). 

LEWIS (69), schr. (privateer), 36 tons, B. Pendleton, 
master, from Connecticut, cruising, captured Aug. 13, 
1812 by A. S. Hope. Cargo : guns, ammunition and pro- 
visions. 

LITTLE BILL (278), schr., John Roach, master, St. Bar- 
tholomews to N. Carolina, captured June 27, 1813 by 
Loup Cervier. Cargo : 105 hhds. & 163 bbls. sugar Mus- 
covado, 5 hhds. clayed d and 10 hhds. molasses. Re- 
stored. 

LITTLE JOE (111), schr., Ja s Fairweather, master, Bos- 
ton to New York, captured Oct. 17, 1812 by Liverpool 
Packet (privateer). Cargo : gum, myrrh, hops, allum, 
sugar and pepper. 




AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 319 

LITTLE SISTERS (401), schr., G. Montgomery, master, 
from Trinidad, captured Sept. 18, 1813 by Belvidera and 
Statira. Cargo : sugar. 

LIVELY (16), schr., 78 tons, Sam 1 Burgess, master, St. 
Bartholomews to Boston, captured July 12, 1812 by Emu- 
lous. Cargo : molasses, sugar and rum. 

LIVELY (305), schr., E. Forret, master, St. Thomas to 
Halifax, recaptured July 20, 1813 by Epervier. 

LIVELY (341), schr., 22 tons, G. Frim, master, Boston 
to Penobscot, captured July 24, 1813 by Fly (privateer). 
Cargo : iron, turpentine, coffee, rum and gin. 

LIVELY (522), sloop, 70 tons, Jn M. Loring, master, 
North Yarmouth to Boston, captured June 7, 1814, by 
Shannon (privateer). Cargo: cord wood. Taken into 
Liverpool. 

LIVELY (654), sloop, 38 tons, Barzilla Adams, master, 
New Bedford to George Town, captured Oct. 26, 1814 by 
St. Lawrence. Cargo : 300 bushels salt and 200 bushels 
potatoes. 

LIVEEPOOL PACKET (274), ship, S. Nichols, master, 
captured June 30, 1813 by Dover. Restored. 

LIZARD (483), schr. (^privateer), 60 tons, B. Cook, mas- 
ter, 2 guns and 32 men, from Salem, cruising, captured 
Mar. 5, 1814 by Prometheus. 

LOGAN (583), sloop, 31 tons, Chas. Willoughby, mas- 
ter, Newhaven to New London, captured July 29, 1814 
by Lively (privateer). Cargo : 225 bbls. flour. Taken 
into Liverpool. 

LOUISA (702), brig, 65 tons, William Newel, master, 
Gibralter to Greenock, captured Mar. 26, 1815 by Maid- 
stone. Cargo : 60 pipes & 90 hhds. Tenerrffe wine and 500 
boxes raisins. Restored. 



320 RECORDS OF THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT 

LOUISA (340), sloop, P. Erquinigo, master, Laguira to 
Providence, captured Aug. 3, 1813 by Martin. Cargo : 
hides and indigo. 

LOYAL SAM (250), ship, J. Mclntire, master, recap- 
tured June 16, 1813 by Sir John Sherbrooke and Matilda. 

LUCIA (695), sloop, New York to New Bedford, cap- 
tured Dec. 3, 1814 by Liverpool Packet, Rolla (privateers), 
Dec. 30, 1814 taken possession of by Curlew. Cargo : 
cyder, gin and apples. Vessel lost on Ragged Islands near 
Shelburne. 

LUCRETIA (119), schr., 97 tons, John Hunt, master, 
Boston to Savannah, captured Nov. 11, 1812 by Liverpool 
Packet (privateer). Cargo: beef, candles and butter. 

LUCY (237), brig, J. Hutchinson, master, recaptured 
May 25, 1813 by Shannon. 

LUCY (192), schr., Boston to East Port, captured Mar. 
30, 1813 by Rattler. Cargo : 9 puncheons gin taken out 
as prize. Taken into New Brunswick. 

LUCY (637), schr., 30 tons, from Newberry Port, fishing, 
captured Sept. 15, 1814 by Lunenbury (privateer). Cargo : 
a few hhds. salt. Taken into Lunenburg. 

LYDIA (133), schr., 89 tons, J. Rich, master, Buckstown 
to Baltimore, captured Oct. 24, 1812 by General Smyth 
(privateer). Cargo : boards and fish. Taken into New 
Brunswick. 

LYDIA (162), schr., 113 tons, A. Burt, master, Warren 
to Havannah, captured Apr. 4, 1813 by Liverpool Packet 
(privateer). Cargo: boards, hoops andshooks. 

LYDIA (352), schr., 74 tons, J. Walker, master, from 
Harwich, fishing, captured Aug. 7, 1813 by Matilda 
(privateer). Cargo : codfish and oil. 




AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 321 

LYNX (236), schr., 225 tons, E. Taylor, master, Balti- 
more to Bordeaux, captured Apr. 3, 1813 by LaHogue, 
Maiiborough, St. Domingo, Statira, Maidstone and Fan- 
tome. Cargo : cotton, coffee and sugar. 

MACDONOUGH (659), brig (privateer), 180 tons, Joseph 
Weeks, master, 60 men, and pierced for 16 guns, had only 
5 mounted when captured, from Portsmouth, cruising, 
captured Nov. 1, 1814 by Bacchante. 

MAGDALENA (533), schr., 62 tons, J. Nyman, master, 
Boston to Halifax, captured June 5, 1814 by Martin. 
Cargo: 150 bbls. flour and 50 bbls bread. Restored. 

MAGNET (18), ship, 172 tons, T. Drew, master, Belfast 
to New York, captured July 18, 1812 by Ringdove. 
Taken into possession for the use of the King's service. 

MALAREN (344), brig, 139 tons, P. Jostrand, master, 
Portsmouth to St. Bartholomews, captured July 14, 1813 
by La Hogue. Cargo : staves, lumber and hoops. 

MALCOLM (1), brig, 197 tons, J. Jordan, master, Madeira 
to Portland, captured June 24, 1812 by Belvidera. Cargo : 
19 pipes, 8 half pipes and 16 quarter pipes of wine. 

MANCHESTER (302), brig (a packet), R. Elphinstone, 
master, recaptured June 18, 1813 by Maidstone, Poictiers 
and Nimrod. 

MANHATTON (453), sloop, D. Gladding, master, cap- 
tured Dec. 3, 1813 by Nimrod. 

MARGARET (694), brig, 119 tons, Francis Leavitt, mas- 
ter, St. Johns to West Indies, recaptured Feb. 23, 1815 by 
Bui ward. Cargo : lumber, fish and staves. 

MARGARET (486), schr., P. Sparling, master, recaptured 
Mar. 16, 1813 by Maidstone and Belvidera. 

MARGARET (422), sloop, 123 tons, J. Dunn, master, 
St. Johns to West Indies, recaptured Oct. 10, 1813 by 
Martin. Cargo : fish and lumber. Taken into New Bruns- 
wick. 



322 RECORDS OF THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT 

MARIA (289), brig, 110 tons, G. Wierman, master, 
Stockholm to Boston, captured June 24, 1813 by Bold. 
Cargo : iron and steel. Taken into New Brunswick. 

MARIA (94), ketch, Bunker, master, captured 

, 1812. Cargo: 24 pipes Fayal wine, 86 bbls. coffee 

and 2 hhds. coffee damaged. 

MARIA (624), schr., New Port, R. I. to New York, 
captured Sept. 4, 1814 by Nimrod. Cargo : salt, fish and 
oil. 

MARIA (9), ship, 344 tons, J. C. Norden, master, Cadiz 
to New York, captured July 13, 1812 by Emulous. Car- 
go : ballast and 14 bales cloth and $30,993. 

MARIA FRANCISCA (509), brig, Nicholas Calveras, mas- 
ter, Havannah to Boston, captured May 4, 1814 by 
Curlew. Taken into Shelbume. Ship and part cargo 
restored. 

MARIA FREDERICA (559), brig, Wigle Swart, master, 
Amsterdam to Boston, captured July 14, 1814 by Seahorse 
and Peruvian. Cargo : gin and other articles. Restored 

MARIA WINDSOR (160), schr., 131 tons, J. Fish, mas- 
ter, North Carolina to East Port, captured Mar. 29, 1813 
by Sir. Jn. Sherbrook (privateer). 

MARINER (386), brig, T. Fraser, master, recaptured, 
Aug. 29, 1813 by Poictiers. 

MARINER (31), ship, Lygett, master, Glasgow to 

St. Andrews, recaptured July 22, 1812 by Colibrie. 

MARQUIS DE SOMERLOUS (6), ship, 359 tons, T. Mor- 
iarty, master, Civita Vichia to Salem, captured July 10, 
1812 by Atalanta. Cargo : brandy, wines, silks and dry, 
goods. 

MARTHA (22), schr., J. Darley, master, recaptured, July 
18, 1812 by Paz, 




AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. 323 

MARY (10), brig, 200 tons, W. G. Weld, master, Gib- 
ralter to Boston, captured July 17, 1812 by Spartan. 
Cargo: wines, currants, juniper berries and marino wool. 

MARY (140), schr., 97 tons, J. Matthews, master, New 
Haven to Bait., captured Mar. 23, 1883 by Sir John Sher- 
brooke (privateer). Cargo: 350 bushels corn, 15 hhds, 
sugar, 200 cheese and 10 bbls. apples. 

MARY (200), schr., D. Jones, master, captured, Mar. 
27, 1813 by Lt. Sweeney, Corn 8 . Officer at St. John. Cargo : 
Boap, candles, tea, cheese, rum, brandy, tobacco, butter, 
smoak'd herring and codfish. 

MARY (378), schr., Pyam Prince, master, captured Aug. 
7, 1813 by Broke (privateer). 

MARY (391), schr., 36 tons, H. Walker, master, Boston 
to Halifax, captured Sept. 10, 1813 by Wolverine (priva- 
teer). Cargo : bread, flour and tobacco. Vessel and part 
cargo restored. 

MARY (400), schr., 61 tons, C. Tiedeman, master, Hayti 
to Boston, captured Sept. 13, 1813 by Sylph. Cargo: 
sugar and coffee. 1-3 restored. 

MARY (643), schr., 92 tons, R. Burrows, master, Hali- 
fax to Martinique, recaptured Oct. 6, 1814 by Wasp. 
Cargo : fish and flour. 

MARY (531), ship, Moore, master, Waterford to 

Quebec, recaptured June 1, 1814 by Martin. Cargo: 
flour. 

MARY (281), sloop, 43 tons, M. Thurlo, master, Boston 
to Kennebeck, captured July 4, 1813 by Retaliation 
(privateer). Cargo : rice, molasses, glass and other articles. 
Taken into Liverpool. 

MARY (326), sloop, F. Glawson, master, recaptured 
July 27, 1813 by Nimrod. 



324 RECORDS OP THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT. 

MARY (475), sloop, 91 tons, S. Farrow, master, Pe- 
nobscot to Boston, captured Jan. 6, 1814 by Wolverine 
(privateer), Cargo : cord wood. Taken into Liverpool. 

MARY ANN (28), schr., Dugas, master, Halifax to 
Quebec, recaptured July 23, 1812 by Maidstone. 

MARY ANN (466), sloop, 50 tons, E. Lewis, master, 
New York to Rhode Island, captured Dec. 22, 1813 by 
Liverpool Packet (privateer), Cargo : 300 bbls. of flour. 

MARY ELIZABETH (78), brig, 167 tons, C. Crandal, 
master, St. Ubes to Portland, captured July 8, 1812 by 
Indian. Cargo: ballast and $2313. Taken into New 
Brunswick. 

MASSACHUSETTS (397), ship, 286 tons, B. Weeks, mas- 
ter, Lisbon to New York, captured Sept. 11, 1813 by 
Canso. Cargo: 396 moys salt. 

MAY FLOWER, (339), sloop, A. Barnes, master, New 
York to Boston, captured July 31, 1813 by Matilda (pri- 
vateer). Cargo : 600 bushels corn and 14 bbls. rye 
flour. 

MEDIL PADRIA (423), brig, 70 tons, Occracock to 
Halifax, captured Oct. 5, 1813 by Conflict. Cargo : 750 
bbls. flour. 

MELANTHO (95), ship, 402 tons, Wm. Davidson, master, 
Chili to Baltimore, captured Sept. 17, 1812 by Spartan, Sta- 
tira, Acasta, Nymphe, Orpheus, Maidstone, Aeolus and 
Emulous. Cargo : 229 tons copper, 9 bales of furs and 
f43,000. 

MENTOR (651), ship, 227 tons, Isaac Balston, master, 
Portsmouth to Quebec, recaptured Oct, 27, 1814 by 
Maidstone. Cargo : beef, pork, bread and some rum. 

MENTOR (335), sloop, 56 tons, J. Perry, master, 
Province Town to New Bedford, captured July 11, 1813 
by La Hogue. Cargo : lumber. 

(To be continued.) 




ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS, 

1697-1768. 

(Continued from Vol. XL VI, page 288.) 



[134] Dec. 8, 1759, Michael Driver made deposition 
in effect as above ; before Samuel Cur wen, Justice of the 
Peace ; also Ebenezer Tozier, mate [135] deposed to same, 
and that " Capt. Driver intervened with the Prize Master 
and had his Leave that I might go with him to Antigua 
in the Prize, but some of the People saying it was Capt. 
Snellocks Orders that none should go but Capt. Driver 
and that if any but he went they swore by God they 
would throw him overboard upon this I was prevented, 
and none of us suffered to go in the Prize but Cap*. Dri- 
ver who sayled for Antigua on Sunday following. Then 
being destitute of Frend and employment I took the 
first Opportunity and returned to Salem." 

Invoice of merchandize shipped by Richard Derby on 

the schooner Three Brothers, bound for St. Eustatia. 

To 23 Q r Cask of Vidonia Wines @ 40 920 

To 60 bar 11 Mackrel at 6.10 390 

To 70 Cask Raisins @ 11.10 770 

To 80 Cases of Oyle @ .7 560 

To 80 Q ts Merch bl Cod @ 6. 5 500 

To 40 Shingles @ .80 160 

To 1400 Hoops @ 50/ 35 

To ll c 1 Pot Iron @ 8. 90 

3425 

Reduced to Lawful M 457.13.4 

Acknowledged at Salem, June 18, 1759 by Michael 
Driver. 

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326 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

[136] Account of goods on schooner Three Brothers : 
Thirty five & a q r Q ts of Cod fish 5.5 175.1.3 

Seven Casks & ten Jarrs of Raisins @ 12 and 5 134. 
Two Hhd s of Wine at 60 120. 

One & a half bar 11 Mackrel a 8 12. 



To Comission on above @ 5 

Insurance 20 f C* 

To freight of above Goods 




555.7.3 



The above ace*, is in old Tenor w ch reduced into Sterling 
@ 10 for one 55.10.9 

Dec. 12, 1759, Michael Driver made oath that the 
above goods were his own property, which were seized by 
the privateer King of Prussia, July 28, 1759. 

The following is a true account of the cost of the 
above schooner, attested by Richard Derby, Jan. 17, 
1760: 

To the Value of the Sch r when sayled at least 533.6.8 
To the amount of the Cargo as *$ Invoice 457.13.4 

To Charge of Lading s d Cargo for Labour, ) 

wharfage and truck ) 30. 

To Port Charges 8 9 bar 1 Beef & Pork @ 60/ 35. 
To Mens Wages from y e 15 th May 1759 to y e j 
28 th of July the time w n s d Pirates took her [ 
at 20 f months. ) 48.10 

To 6.0.0 Bread at 24/ to victualling Fish and ) 

Oyle60/ J 10.4 

1114.14 
To Prem of Insurance on the whole at 20 *$ cent. 

222. 14. 4 Pollicy 2-8 222.17 

To Charges for Advice, Protest, Notary &c 10. 

To Comissions on 1114.14 @ 5 $ c 55.14 

To D on 222. 17 Prem of Insurance 



1 f cent. ] 2.4.9 




ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 327 

To Damages already sustained by s d Snellocks' J 
Piratical Conduct three hundred Pounds > 
in lawful money. ) 300. 



1705.9.9 

Reduced into Sterling is 1279.2.33-4 

To the Master Adventure as pr. acct. annext ) 

and attested to in Sterling j 55.10 



1334.13. 

[137] Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatius, Aug. 3, 
1758. Sixty days' sight draft by Jan. Cadetton Heirs of 
Peter Amyol & Co. of Amsterdam to Joseph Motty in 
London for 80. Endorsed to Daniell Mackey by Joseph 
Motty. Endorsed to W m Dennie by Daniell Mackey. En- 
dorsed to W m Dennie by Daniell Mackey. Endorsed to W m . 
Baker, Esq., merchants, London, by W m Dennie. Protested, 
Dec. 28, 1758, in Amsterdam. Protested, Nov. 1, 1759, 
in London and refused for want of orders. 
[138] M r W m Dennie D r to W m Baker for Charges of 
y e annexed Protested Bill for 80. 

Charge of Protest in Holland for non ac- ) 3.8 

ceptance 4/ j 

D r . in London for Non Payment 53. 

My Commission 1-2 f Cent. 8. 

80.16.11 

W m Dennies' receipt to Capt. Daniell Mackey in full 
for the Bill Indorsed by him to me. 

Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatius, Aug. 1, 1758. 
Sixty days' sight draft by Simon de Grauff and Bernard, 
and James Fexien on Jean Taxier of Amsterdam to Dan- 
iell Mackey in London for 200. Endorsed to W m Webb 
by Daniel Mackey. 

[140] Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatius, Oct. 3, 
1758. Sixty days' sight draft by Jeremiah Peniston on 
Hermon van Yrendoon, merchant, Rotterdam, to Samuell 
Bacon in London, for 78. Endorsed to Lane & Booth 
by Samuel Bacon. Protested Feb. 8, 1759, at London, 
and refused for want of orders. 



328 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

Bill for X50, same as above, to Fitch Pool in London. 
Endorsed to Timothy Orne by Fitch Pool. Endorsed to 
Thomas Lane and Benj a . Booth by Timothy Orne. Bill 
for .133 : 6s : 8, dated Sept. 8, same as above, to Timo- 
thy Orne, "for value received of George Dodge." En- 
dorsed to Lane & Booth. 

Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatius, Sept. 12, 1758. 
Sixty days sight draft by Jacob Sam 11 Doneker on Abra- 
ham Ter Borch, Amsterdam, to Timothy Orne in Lon- 
don. Endorsed to Lane & Booth. Protested, Dec. 29, 
1758, at Amsterdam. [Protest in Dutch.] 

Protest. Jonathan Mason, master of schooner Beaver 
of Salem, made declaration that on Dec. 26, he sailed from 
St. Eustatia for Monto Christo, with some empty casks 
and cash, and on Dec. 29, he "was chased and several 
times fired upon by a Spanish Vessel commanded by one 
Francis Besento who called himself a Guarde Coast, being 
then about five Leagues distant from the Island of Porto 
Rico, He was then obliged to strike to Him and after tak- 
ing Him & his men out of his Vessel, treating the s d men 
in a barbarous Manner by slaping and beating them they 
carried s d Schooner into Porto Rico puting Him the s d 
master into a close Goal and keeping Him there thirteen 
Days with two men that were there confined for murder 
and puting the men into other Goals & some time after 
(upon pretence of suspecting they were coming to trade 
upon their Coast) They condemned s d Vessel to be a Prize 
with every Thing belonging to her, taking from s d master 
& men about thirteen Hundred pieces of Eight, and ordering 
them to be imprisoned five months and after keeping them 
near five months, suffered them to buy a Canoe, and they 
came away & arrived at St. Thomas's the 22 d day of May, 
and from thence they went to Santa Croiz and took their 
Passage for Salem, in Capt. Jn Gardner and arrived at s d 
Salem, ye 24th Instant." June 25, 1760. [146] Joseph 
Eedy, one of the mariners, also made oath to the same. 

Protest. Samuel Carl ton, master of the schooner Dol- 
phin of Salem, 40 tons, made declaration that on May 7 
he sailed from Grand Terre in the West Indies for Salem, 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 329 

and about 3 hours after he sailed "was chased fired at & 
was obliged to Strike to a French Privateer Sloop called 
the Maria Renomee commanded by Master Gaster and took 
the Declarant and all his People out of their Vessel and 
carried them to Martineco and as they understood carried 
the Vessel to Dominco and after Six Days they got on 
board of a Cartel Vessel bound to Antigua, and then got 
out of s d Vessel on board a Boat bound to S* Eustatia and 
arrived there the 26 Day of s d May and thence took his Pass- 
age Home to Salem in Capt. Baker bound to Marblehead 
and arrived there this Day." July 1, 1760. Thomas Frye, 
mate, also made oath to the same. 

[147] Note, dated Monto Christo, Dec. 14, 1758, by 
John Coterel to Capt. Benj a . Davis for nineteen pieces of 
Eight ''being so much Mr. Morrow owed s d Davis." En- 
dorsed to Capt. Michael Driver "upon M r Andrew Presson's 
acc't," by Benj a Davis. 

Bill of Exchange, dated Halifax, Nova Scotia, 19, 1759. 
Thirty days sight draft by Joshua Mauger on M rs Sarah 
Nicholson & Co., London, to Michael Fanning for 67. En- 
dorsed to William Vans by Michael Fanning. Endorsed to 
Lane and Booth by William Vans. 

[149] Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatia, Oct. 18, 
1758. Sixty days sight draft by William Heyliger on Tho- 
mas & Adrian Hope in Amsterdam, to Samuell Bacon in 
London for 31: 13s, "value rec'd from Cap* Henry Col- 
lins." Endorsed to Lane & Booth by Samuell Bacon. Pro- 
tested at Amsterdam, Feb. 29, 1760. 

Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatius, Oct. 20, 1758. 
Sixty days sight draft by Joh s & Raapz* Heyliger on Tho- 
mas & Adrian Hope of Amsterdam to Samuell Bacon, 
"for 31: 13s, value received of M r Henry Collins." 

[149] Protested, Feb 29, 1760 at Amsterdam. [Pro- 
test in Dutch.] 

Bill of Exchange, dated St. Eustatius, Oct. 13, 1758. 
Sixty days sight draft by Peter Runnel jun r , Peter Heyli- 



330 ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 

ger, Abraham Cool and Adolphus Rosswell on W m de 
bruyn Daniels, merchant, Amsterdam, to Samuell Bacon 
in London for 63: 5s: 71-2d "for value rec'd from Henry 
Collins". Endorsed to Lane and Booth by Sam 11 Bacon 
Protested in Amsterdam, Feb. 26, 1766. [Protest in Dutch] 

[ 150] John Hathorne, master of the sloop Adventure 
of Salem, 80 tons, made declaration that on May 22, 
he sailed from Salem for St. Eustatia in the West Indies 
laden with fish, and lumber and on June 28, in Lat. 18. 
20. Long. 60. "They were chased by two French Privateer 
Sloops and a Schooner & finding They came up very fast 
about four O'clock we threw the Lumber off the Deck, 
and then We sayled as fast as either of them at Eight o' 
Clock at Night one of the Sloops and the Schooner gave 
over chasing us, about 10 o'Clock it growing Calm one of 
the Sloops Thomas Hasten Master belonging to Martineco 
[came] up to us & took us, and took the Declarant and 
all the men (except two) on board the s d Privateer and 
carried Them to Martineco where she arrived the third of 
July, and carried their s d Sloop to Domineco where they 
understood by the Mate who was left on board her that 
they had hailed her up in order to take out the Mast, and 
the Declarant saith he was imprisoned Six Days at Mar- 
tineco and on the ninth of s d July he went from thence on 
a flagg of Truce and arrived at S* Kitts the 12 th and then, 
took his Passage to St. Eustatia and arrived there the same 
day and on y e 22 day Sayled in the Ship Pheenix for St. 
Martins and on the Second of Aug 8 * following from thence 
to Boston and arrived there the 22 d Instant." Aug. 23,, 
1760. [151] David Mackee, mariner, also made oath to 
the same. 

Note, dated Nevis, Feb. 12, 1759. Tho. Woollward to 
Capt. John Bowditch,for 48: 15s. 

Note, dated Jan. 10, 1759. Th Abbott to Capt. John 
Bowditch, for 20, current money, or good molasses. En- 
dorsed at Salem, Nov. 6, 1759 to Eben r Bowditch, jr. by 
John Bowditch. 






ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 



381 



[152] Account of sales of 2124 3/4 English Quintalls of 
dried Cod Fish made out here in Portugeeze weight. 1764 
Quin 168 Rec'd in the month of Nov br & Dec br last from 
Gloucester in Cape Ann ^ the Snow Sea Nymph W m 
Dolliver Master for the proper ace* of M r . Epes Sargeant 
merch* there Viz* 



1368 1/4 Sold out of Warehouse @ 3-200 4378-400 

22 D very Inferior @ 1-600 35-200 

368 3/4 Sold at y e rate of 2600 free of Duty 

& Charges w ch it paid 958-750 

5 Perquisites 

1764 Portugeeze Quintalls 5372-350 

Charges viz* 

To Primage on the Fish @ 6 f Quintal 12-748 
To Contribution @ 10 *$ D 21-245 

To People working aboard Boat hire disem- 
barking Cart hire to the Warehouses Pileing 
Vendage Warehouse hire & other Expences 
on 1390 1/4 2 18 at 250 f Quintal 347-562 

To Comm 8 on the Sales <8> 2 1/2 f C* 134-308 

515-805 
The neat Proceeds being R 8 4865-487 

I carry to the Credit of Mr Epes Sargent in his ace* 
Current save Prejudice ^ Errors 

Lisbon, the 17 July 1756 

For M r Ja 8 Watts 

Jn Watts 

M r Epes Sergeant Jun r 
Deb r 
1756 

Jan y 10 th To the Amount of 240 Moyes of Salt 
on the Sea Nymph as ^ per Invoice sent 289-500 

To the amount of her part Charges & what 
supply'd the Captain with as f ace* Sent 220-044 



332 



ESSEX COUNTY NOTARIAL RECORDS. 



To your Proportion of the Fine paid when 
the Mate was taken out of the Vessel as ad- 
vis'd you in my letter of this Date 
Feb y 24. To Cash p d Sam 11 Turner's Bill in 

favour of Jam 8 Nash 
To D W m Baker Esq r in favour of 

Bristow's Ward & Comp y 
To D Thomlinson Freeotheck & 
Comp y in favour of Mess rs John 
Dorrier & Comp y ^ L 150 Lt rK at 
64 5/8 for ace* of Mess Simpson's 
To James Gyfford's Bill in favour of 
said S r Samuel & Thomas Fludyer 
Esq r< $ XlOOSter* 64 1/4 account 
of M rs Sarah Oxnard 

not To 1/2 Ballance of this ace* which 
remitted I shall remit M r Sam 11 Turner 

not To 1/2 Ditto which I shall remit W m 
remitted Baker Esq r . 

To Comm 8 for recovering & paying 

& remiting 

To Broak 6 on 847-200 1/8 f Cent 
To Postage of Letters from London 



[153] His ace* Currant 

1756. 
Jan ry 10 th 



Cred 1 



By freight of 288 1/2 Q les Fish f 
the Sea Nymph 104-909 @ 2 s 
is <28.17 a 66 f 

July. By N* Proceeds of 2124 3/4 2 le " of Fish 
^ the Snow Sea Nymph qp account 
of Sales 



Lisbon the 17 th July 1756 
Errors Excepted 

for M r Ja 8 Watts 

Jn Watts 
(To be continued) 



11-300 

1308-667 
1307-393 

557-060 

373-540 
423-600 
423-600 

43-938 
1-059 
1-846 

4961-547 



105-060 

4856-487 
4961-547 



REVOLUTIONARY ORDERLY BOOK OF CAPT. 

JEREMIAH PUTNAM OF DANVERS, MASS. 

IN THE RHODE ISLAND CAMPAIGN. 



JULY 10, 1779-DECEMBER 19, 1779. 



FROM THE ORIGINAL IN POSSESSION OF THE ESSEX 
INSTITUTE 



Capt. Jeremiah Putnam was the son of Jonathan and 
Sarah (Perley) Putnam of Danvers, where he was born 
Oct. 31, 1737. He saw military service in 1756 at Crown 
Point in the company of Capt. Andrew Fuller, and in 1759 
he enlisted in Col. Plaisted's regiment. He was a member 
of Capt. Jeremiah Page's company at the Lexington alarm 
and after the fight enlisted in the army and rose to the 
rank of captain. In 1777, while serving as ensign hi Col. 
Hutchinson's regiment, he was taken prisoner at Long 
Island. His exchange was effected the last of February, 
1778 and March 14th, following, he was commissioned as 
a captain in Col. Nathaniel Wade's regiment, serving in 
Rhode Island for the remainder of the year. In June, 1779, 
he appears as captain in Col. Nathan Tyler's regiment of 
Essex County men to serve in the Rhode Island campaign. 
His military service in the Revolution seems to have ended 
in December of that year. 



Head Quarters, Providence 10th July 1779. Field offi- 
cers of the Day to morrow Coll Jackson Details of the 
Gaurds Coll Jacksons Regiment to furnish the Main 
Gard Coll Tylers Regiment to furnish 1 Sub 1 Sergt 1 

(333) 



334 REVOLUTIONARY ORDERLY BOOK OF 

Corporal and 15 Privates as a Gaurd for the Redoubts on 
the West Side of the Bridge an Adjutant or a Commis- 
ioned officer of militia to attend at 10 oColock for the Pur- 
pose of Taking Generall orders Details, &c 

llth July 1779 All Parties sent from the out Posts 
must be Supplied with so much Provisions as will Main- 
tain them Untill they return home for the future they will 
not bee Premited to Receiue any Provisions from the Mag- 
azine at Providence 

July 13th 1779. When the Commanding officers at the 
Severall out Posts send officers to Providence they are 
Desired to Direct those officers to Call at the Adjutants 
Generals office and take Coppies of the Generall orders 
which are Issued Daily 

July 14th 1779. At a brigade Court marshel of which 
Leiutenant Coll Onley Was President John Deruse of Coll 
Angells Regiment was tried for Deserting to the Enemy & 
Carrying with him a Gaurd Boat : the Person being Brought 
Before the Court Plead Guilty-the Court therefore Cen- 
tence him to Suffer Death the Generel appro vs of the Sen- 
tence of the Court Joseph Thrasher of Coll Angell Regt 
Tried by the above Court for Desertion found Guilty & 
Sentenced to be Whipped one Hundred Lashes on his Bare 
Back the General Approve the of the Sentence and orders 
it to be Inflicted Imedately 

July 17th 1779. For the future not any amminitions 
to be Issued to any of the Troops in the Department with 
out a Special order from head Quarters 

18th July 1779 A Generall Court Marshal to sett to 
morrow to morning at 9 oClock to Try Such Persons as 
Shall be Brought Before them Coll Elliot President Coll 
Grains Detaichment to Furnish to furnish two Captains & 
four subbaltons for members of the Court the Adjutant of 
of Coll Eliots Regiment to See the Court Properly Attended 
Capt Fish is appointed to act as Inspector to the massa- 
chusetts melitia & is to be obeyed as Such he will review 
the the Armes & Amunition of these Regiments & Report 
their Condition to the General 

July 19th 1779 the monthly alterations to be Inserted 
in the Return of the 23d Instant at Wich Time a Return 




CAPT. JEKEMIAH PUTNAM OF DANVERS, MASS. 335 

of the Clothing Armes Accoutrements &c in Each Regi- 
ment will be made The Commanding officers of Regiments 
& Corps are Desired to Pay particular attention to the 
form orders respecting the accuracy of their Returns & to 
send them of their Regimental Returns with Duplicates to 
the adjutant General office by Saturday noon at furthest 
Blanks for Returns of arms Amminition &c will be Deliv- 
ered Upon Application being made to the Adjutant Gen- 
eral 

The number of Men from Each County To be Formed 
into Companys as here follows Commissioned officers Not 
included 

County of Suffolk 95 Company 

County of Essex 119 Company 

County of Middlesex 100 Company 

County of Worcester 124 Company 

County of Hampshire 102 Company 

County of Plimoth 74 Company 

County of Barnstable 38 
County of Bristol 69 

Total 107 to be formed in one Company 

County of York 45 

County of Cumberland 44 

Total 89 to be formed in one Company 

Total from the Several Countyes 800 men 

20 ye July 1779 A Rebublication Salute of Thirteen 
Pieces of Artillry to be fired at Each Port from Tiver- 
town to Newtown Inclusive exactly at one oClock to 
Morrow in the Same maner and form as that on the 5th 
Instant in hounour of the Glorious Success* of the Armes 
of the United States in the Reduction of Strong Parts one 
Gill of Rum to be Issued to All the Troops as Soon as 
the Feu de joy is over. 

21st July 1779 The General Congratulates the Army 
upon the Glorious Success of Brigaders General Wayne, 
and the Gallant Troops under his Command in taking by 
assult the enemy Fortification parts And with pints of 
the Bayonets alone Forcing the Garison to Surrender at 

* Battle of Stony Point, N. Y., on July 15th, 1779. 



336 REVOLUTIONARY ORDERLY BOOK OF 

Discretion not one Man escaping this Signall & Brilliant 
Victory Was Gained with the Los of But Four men Kil- 
led and Ge 1 and fifteen Slightly Wounded while on the 
part of the Enemy five hundred Solders and Twenty Offi- 
cers Waire Killed Wounded and taken Prisoners with all 
their Canon Arms and Millitery Stors and Provisions. 

July 22d 1779 A General Court martial held the 20 
Instant of which Col Eliot was President James Stanford 
of Coll Jacksons Regt Was tried and for insolting and 
Abusing Serg Rolf found Gilty And Sentenced to recive 
Seventy five Lashes on the naked Back the General appro- 
ves of the Above Cort and orders the punnishment in- 
flicted to Morrow Morning at the Gard Mounting Thomas 
Pindinghass of Coll Ellots Regt tryed by the Above Cort 
Martal for Desarting From the Said Regt And etending 
to go to the Enemy on Rhodisland also for Desarting from 
Late Col. Lees Regt. March 1778 found Gilty of Diserting 
from both Regt and sentenced to suffer Death the Ge 1 Ap- 
roves of the Sentence of the Cort the time of Excution 
will be Apinted in futer Orders the Ginerel Cort martial 
of which Col Eliot Was president is Disolved. Col. Bartons 
Corps to March Immediately To pawtucket with his Camp 
Equipage 

Extract from General Washington order of the 14 July 
1779 

Congress has bin Plesed to pas the Following Resolves 
In Congress 6th Juley 1779 

Resolved that in Consideration of their Extraordy Du- 
ties and Serves the officers In the Army of the State 
Sarving as Sub and Brigad Inspectors B alowed the 
Formr three Rations a day and forrage for thr horses 
and the latter tow Rations A Day and Forrage for tow 
horses in lew of former Rations And forrage Both as 
Officers in the Line as inspectors thre Sibstances Money 
as officers in the Line to remain as heretofore Juley 4th, 
1777. The General Request the Commanding Officers 
of their Regt Who have furnished Men for Guard to 
Send without Delay to the Agt General Certificates of 
the time of Servis for which they are Respectively En- 
gaged. 



CAPT. JEREMIAH PUTNAM OF DANVERS, MASS. 337 

July 24th 1779 In consequence of an order of Con- 
gress what each Soldier who inlist to Serve during the 
War before the 23d Jan. Last Shall Be Allowed Gratuity 
of one hundred Dollars The Commanding Officers of 
the Regt And Corps in the Department Are Desierd to 
Make an Exact Return of the naims of all Such Includ- 
ing the non Commissioned Officers These returns to Be 
wrote in a Fair And Correct Manner Distinguishing their 
Respective Companys and to be Delivered Emediatly to 
Major Andrew Brown Commasary of Muster Who is to 
take the Muster in Futer att Providence Artificers are 
not to be Included in Above Mentioned Returns For the 
Commanding officer of the Galley is to Examin all Bots 
& Vessels Passing from Providence down the Bay he will 
When Ref ratory Oblige them to Bring too and Send them 
under A Guard to the Generel 

Camp Providence Juley 23d 1779 The Regiment 
under My Command are to Be Formed in to Seven Comp y 
Those Whose from the County of Middlesex to form one 
Company under the Command of Capt Hovey thos from 
the County of York and Suffolk to form one Company to 
Be Commanded By Lut Lincol these from the County of 
Waster to form one Company under the Command by 
Lut Coburn Those from the County of Essex to form a 
Company under the Com d of Leut Kimball those from 
the County of Plymoth to form One Company to Be 
Commanded by Lut Weston Those Men Belongin to 
Coll Jacobs Regt and those Belonging to the State of 
New Hampshire to form one Company to Be under the 
Command of Lut Loring and Those from the County of 
Hamshere to form another company under the command 
of Lut Smith Whom I apint to Do the Duty of an Adgt 
to my Regt until further Orders and he the said Smith is 
to Be accordingly Obayed as Agt 

Said Companys to Remain in the Afoesaid position till 
Other Wise ordered or their Command Superseded the 
officers Commanding Companys Will se their Men 
Equiped With Arms fit for Action and twelv Rounds of 
Cathroges each that they do Not Allow their Men to 
Strole from the Camp By Day or Night that they Se their 



REVOLUTIONARY ORDERLY BOOK OF 

Men Keep Clean and that Thayre Provision is well 
Kooked which will Contribute Much to their health. 

NATHAN TYLOR COL 

Camp at Providence July 25 1779 Regemental orders 
That a Subolton officer one Serg one Corp Inspect the 
Camp of My Regt Tomorrow that they se all the tents 
struck the straw and ground under the tents sun'd Pro- 
vided the Wather is fair to se the tents Properly Pitched 
Again the Parade Clerd of all filth By the Collamon that 
they Provid proper Volts and order the filth Covred 
Morning Noone & Night that the Officers of Companys se 
their Rouls air Called three times a Day Viz Morning Noone 
and Night that there Be no Firing in Camp Without Or- 
ders thair fore. 

NATHAN TYLOR COLL. 

Juley the 25 1779. Field Officer of the Day tomor- 
row Coll Jackson the Main Guard to concist 
of 1 Capt 2 Lieut 3 Sergt 3 Copl 2 d and fifs Pri- 
vates 45. The West Redoubt Guard 1 Sub. 2 Sergt 
2 Corp 2 Drum and fife. Private 30 Bacon Redoubt 1 
Sub 1 Sergt 2 Corp 1 Drum or fife 20 Privates Totel 1 
Capt 4 Sub 6 Sergt 7 Corp 4 Drums and fifes 95 Pri- 
vates The Main Guard to Be furnished by Coll Jackson 
Regt the tow Redoubts Guard to Be furnished By Col 
Tylor Regt of Milita The Agdt General will fix the spot 
for the Bacon Guard and order the Spot for the Posting 
Centenls the Guard to Paraid Punctiey at 8 o'Clock every 
morning Three Commisend Officers from Col Jackson 
Regt to Met as a Committy att 3 O'Clock this aftur Noon 
at Commasarey Weeds Store for the purpose of Examin- 
ing into the State of a Quantity of Provison in the Store. 

Juley 27 1779 The Commanding Officer of Regt and 
Corps will order their Pay Masters to Make up their Rx- 
pective Regtl Abstracts for the Month of May June and 
Juley in the Saim Manner And form of With those of 
the Last Payment when properly overlooked they aire to 
Be Delevered for Examination to the D y Pay Master Gen- 
eral Who will thair upon Draw the Warrent after which 
they Are to Be Presented to the Generel Who Will Sign 
them in Order For Payment. 






CAPT. JEREMIAH PUTNAM OF DANVERS, MASS. 

Juley 28 1779 The officers and the soldiers of the 
New Hampshire Regt Lately arived in Camp aire to Pa- 
rade Imediatly att the Market house with their Arms and 
Cutriments and Baggage they Aire to March to Tever- 
town that flat Bottom Boats will Be Provided att the 
Bridge to Carey them. 

July 31 1779 In order to haif the Accounts of the 
Commasary Generel of Military Stors properly setled and 
Adjustd And to the end that those Who have Demands 
Upon the Publick May be Payd thair Just Due the Gen- 
erel has Requected Mr Joseph Russell Mr Nathaniel 
Mumfard and Medcalf Bowler to Set as a Commity to 
Adit the Accompts of that Department All partyes are to 
Meet att Mr Mumfords Store at 8 A Clock on Monday 
Morning Next And And the Committee Are Desired to 
Continue their Seson Until The Bisnes is finished When 
they will Plese to Report the Whole of thair Proceed- 
ing to the Gen. Lieut Coll Money will order the whole 
of the Detachment of New Hampshere Regt Latiy ordered 
to March att Brake of Day To Morow for Tivertown 

Juley 31 1779 Regimential Orders A Regimential 
Court Marshal to Set on Monday Morning Next at Nine 
OClock to try William Wescot A Solder hi my Regt And 
such Other Prisoners As Shall Brought Before them Capt 
Hovey President the the Adgt to Furnish four Subolton 
from my Regt for Members of the Cort and to Se no Sol- 
der is to leve Camp to cook or Lodg Nor to Absant with 
out Leave from the Commanding Officer of his Company 
and that Not to Exced Twenty four hours And that No 
Solder Be permited To hier his tower on Guard Done By 
Another No Private property Is to Be Plundered or Stole 
By Any of the Regt from the inhabetents or others on pain 
of the Severest Punishment the Officers will se Orders 
Punctually O Bayed as thay will Be Accountabel for the 
Neglect or Disobediance of Orders in thair Men Occasined 
By the Innetention of Officers. 

Head Qr. Providence August 2d 1779. The Bacon Re- 
doubt Guard is to Be incresed to 1 S. 2 L, 2 C. 1 D. 30 P. 
Att the Cort house in Providence A Generel Cort Marshal 
to Set Next Wensday Morning 10 of Clock to try Such 



340 BEVOLTJTIONABY OBDEBLY BOOK OF 

Prisoners as Shall Be Brought Before them all Evidence 
And persons to atend the Court Coll Jackson President 
Col Ellott Lut Coll Cobb Major Bradford Major Perkins 
Major Flagg Major Lymon And one Capt Col Levingston 
Regts one Do from Col Webbs one Do from Col Jacksons 
Regt One from Col Greens Re And one Do from Col Ty- 
lors Regt to Set As Members of the Above Court Judge 
Advocate Capt North to get Lovell to Atend the Court 

August Ye 3d 1779. the Issuing Com m is to order 
three Days Salt Met One Day Salt fish to the Troups 
weakly until further Orders 

August 2 1779 Att A Regimentil Cort Marshal 
Which Was Ordered this Day Att 9 of Clock for the trial 
of Such prisoners As Shall Be Brought Before them Capt 
Hovey president Lut Loring Lt Kimbal Lt Flecher And 
Lt Weston Members of the Cort Being Duly Formid and 
Sworn William Wescoat Solder of Lut Corborns Compy 
Col Tylors Regt was Brought before them for Absenting 
him Self From Camp With out Leve the Prisoner Pled 
'Gilty and Laid Himself att the Courts Mercey The Above 
Court waiing the Matter are of oppinion that Sd Prison- 
er Ought to Receive ten Lashes on his Naked Back The 
Above Cort is Ajorned to 8 of Clock to Morrow Morning 

Camp Providence Augt Ye 2d 1779 I Aprove of the 
Above Sentance of the Court Marshall and orders the 
prisoner Wilm Wescot To receive his punishment as with 
in Menshend att Sunset This Evening att the Whiping 
Post in Frunt of the Regt Nathan Tylor Coll 

Augt 6th 1779 the Generil is Astonished to Be Cedi- 
bly informd that A Boat from Brestol Aftour the Moon 
War up Rowd to this Town from Warrin without Being 
Haild from Any of Senternil Guard Boats or Any of the 
posts Between that Place and Providence And Evin when 
thair Was not Notis By any Senternil of Guard Every 
Officer And Solder Last Night on Duty on flot and on 
Shore Must take Shaim to them Selves for the Remisness 
of thair Duty to prevent the Like in futer And to Wipe 
of A Stain of so Unmilitary A Dye The Gel Expects the 
utmost Vigilence And Alartness will Constantly and 
Emediately Be Observid By every Officer And Soldier in 






CAPT. JEREMIAH PUTNAM OF DANVERS, MASS. 341 

the Armey if the Round Pattrol Guard Boats And Senter- 
nels will Do thair Duty Complaints of the Like kind will 
Never Be Maid Officer Should Consider thair air but few 
Worse dims then to Suffer them Selves to B e surprised 
Upon thair Posts And the Gel has that Confidence in 
them that to Beleve that this short reprouf Will Be Sur- 
ficent to Caus Every Benifit Wished from thair Wachful- 
ness Upon Duty three Comisond officers from Col Jack- 
sons Regt to met att the Comasarys Store att three O 
Clock this Afternoon for the purpose of Examining in to 
A State of A Quantity of flower in Sd Store 

Camp att Providence Augt 6th 1779 Regementel 
Orders The Capt of Commanding officer of Company 
or part of Company In My Regement are to Make one Mus- 
ter Roul Delivered you Excepting the Necesary Variation 
Viz As to Time Place Naims &c And have Sd Rols Com- 
pleted So as to Muster your Men on Tuesday Next Att 
four of Clock in the Aftour Noon And the Officers are to 
Se thair Men upon Paraid with thair Arms Clothing and 
Themselves Clen as the officers will Be A countable for 
thir Neglect of thar Men that thay Consin Any of thair 
Men in the Western Redoubt Guard house whom they 
Shall Se or Be propperly informed of that Enten the in- 
clossers of Any of the inhabitents Whair thair aire Either 
Appels or Any kind of fruit or Any kind of Corn Grain 
or Sauch with out Leve of the command Officer of thair com- 
pany And the Oner of the field or Guard And Send in thair 
Crime in Writing to the officer of the Guard if thay air 
Charged with Taking Any thing there from Mentioned if 
Not Charged them With Disobedience of Orders 

NATHAN TYLOR COL 

Head Qr Augt 8th 1779 In concequence of the Ex- 
trem Bad Weather Last Night the Generel Orders one 
half Gill of rum to Every Man in Comp Cort Marshal of 
Which Lt Col Ward President held att Est Greenich 28 
ult Benj. Twichell Was tryed and Convcted of Mutany 
Sentenced to Suffer Death the Ge 1 in Concequence of 
Brig 1 Ge 1 Starks And field Officers of the 2d Rodisland 
Regt air Plesd to Pardon the Prissoner Acordingly par- 
doned And ordered to Return to his Dutey Benj Fowler 



342 REVOLUTIONARY ORDERLY BOOK OP 

of the sd Regt tryed By the Sd Court Marshall And found 
Gilty of the 5th Artical of the 18 section of the Artical 
of War is Sectenced to Receive one hundred Lashes on 
his Naked Back the Ge 1 Aprove of the Sentence of And 
orders it to Be Executed att Such tim and Place as the 
Commanding Officer of Regt shall Direct 

Head Qr providence Augt the 11 1779 George 
Millon Solder in the 2d Rodisland Regt tryed att A Late 
Ge 1 Court Mashall Whair of Coll Jackson Was president 
For Mutiny is found Gulty of the Saim and is Sentenced 
to Suffer Death the Gen 1 Aprovs of the Sentence of the 
Court Marshall and will Order the Saim to Be Excuted 
on Munday Sennit the Agt General will Aquaint the 
prisoner with the sentence of the Court that he May pre- 
pair for Death 

Camp at providence Augt llth 1779. Regementel 
Orders Capt Fish is Apinted to the Command of the Com- 
pany in My Regt From the County of Worcester Until 
further orders And he is to Be Obeyed Acordingly the 
Regement to Muster to Morow Morning att 10 of Clock 
fore noon the officers will se thair Mens Clothing and 
Arms att Muster The New Guards to turn out on the 
paraid att half Aftour Seven to morrow morning 

NATHAN TYLER COLL 

Head Q. Providence Augt 12 1779 In Consequence 
of the Extrem Bad Weath Last Night And this Morning 
The Ge 1 orders one half gill of Rum to Be isued to 
every Man in Camp. 

Head Qr Providence Augt 17 1779 The Monthly Al- 
ternations to be Incerted in the Return of the 20 Instant 
at the Same time a Return of Clothing Armes and Am- 
munition Accutrements &c Will be made out and Sent to 
the Adjt Generals also Together with the Details of the 
Regementals Returns Extracted from Gen 1 Washingtons 
orders of the 29 of July 1779 by the Establishment of 
the Army Each Regement is to Consist of Eight Battal- 
lion Companys of Light Infantry Consequently the Re- 
turns of the Army Should be Conformidable therin to 
and Altho the Lite Infantry are Drafted According to 
the Strength of the Regt the Returns are to be Made in 
the following order Light Infantry Company. 



CAPT. JEREMIAH PUTNAM OF DANVERS, MASS. 343 

1 Compleat Company The Regt which have only 
Col Two field officers must 

4 Capt be Drawn up in the f ollow- 
Major ing order Light Infantry 

3 Capt 1 Capt 

Company 6 Capt 

Lt Col 4 Capt 

5 Capt Lt Col 3 Capt 

2 Capt Major 5 Capt 

2 Capt 

When a Regt furnishes part of a Company of Light 
Infantry that Number is Returned fit for Duty and as 
many as are wanting to Compleat are to be Inserted in 
proper Collums for Example if the Regiment furnishes 
2 Sargt 1 d & f and 38 Rank and File Wanting to 
Compleat by wich Means the Light Infantry is always 
to be Kept Compleat is Returned fit for Duty : When 
a Regiment furnishes no Light Infantry all that is 
Light Infantry officers that Remains in the Battallion 
must be placed in the Companys wich wants Officers 
and be Return with them and the full Complyment 
wanting to Compleat The field and Regemental Staff 
officers Should be Returned in their Respective Col- 
lums opposit to the Company the other Staff officers as 
B Majors Adecamps Bri e Quartemt &c With the Regi- 
mental Staff are to be Inserted at the Bottom Of the Regi- 
mental Returns of the Staff amongst the officers Casul- 
ters 

Head Quarters Providence Augt 19 1779 At a Regi- 
mental Court Martial Where of Capt Fish Was President 
Was Tryed Jeames Hamilton for Stealing and absenting 
him Self With out Leave the prisoner being Brought 
before the Court Pleads Guilty the Court upon Due Con- 
sideration Sentenced him to Receive Forty five Lashes on 
his Naked Back and Monthly Stopage is to be Made by 
the Pay Master out of his Wages to be paide to Capt 
Hovey To the amount of four Pounds Ten Shillings for 
the Expence of taking the Prisioner 

Head Quarters August 20th 1779 When Vegetables 
can be Provided the Commissaryes to Issue half a peck 



344 REVOLUTIONARY ORDERLY BOOK OF 

of unions potatoes Beets or Carrots pr Week to Each 
man in lue of three pints of pease or beans Twelve bushel 
and half of Either of the Vegetables above mentioned is 
an aduquant allowance for one hundred men pr week and 
so in proportion for a greater or lessor Number George 
Million Soldier of Coll Agells Regt now under Sentence 
of Death for mutiny is in Consequence of His humble pe- 
tition respited from Execution for one week from Mon- 
day Next 

Providence August 23d 1779 Regemental Orders 
that a Regemental Court Martial be a Mediately formed 
To try Such Prisoners as Shall be brought be fore them 
ENOCH PUTNAM LT COLL 

After Regemental orders for August 23d 1779 for 
Col Tylers Regt and for the four weeks Malitia under the 
Command of Coll Putnam Commanding officers of Com- 
panyes are desired to see that their mens Armes and Ac- 
coutriments are Cleand and put in the best order for Im- 
mediate Action and that their orderly Sergt bring no Men 
on parade in future with dirty Armes Every non Comis- 
soned officer and Soldiers is to furnish him Self Imediatly 
with an oyl rag in his Cartridge box for neglect of this 
order officers Comd g Companyes will be Answerable the 
Col is Supprised to se Sentinals Setting down on their post 
and others with their Armes ordered Every Commissoned 
and None Commissioned officer Either on Guard Riding 
or walking with in the Suburbs of the Camp is to pay Pe- 
cular attention to all Sentinals that they Salute officers 
properly and are Alert on their Posts The Col with 
astonishment has had repeated Complaints of Soldiers 
Robing and Abusing Marketters also of Robing Oarchards 
he is determined to Punish all Such Offenders with the 
Greatest Severity. The Col Expects the utmost Vigilence 
and Alertness will Constantly and Imediatly be observed 
by Every officer and Soldier and by their Solderlike Be- 
haveryor and Good Conduck make it appear to the In- 
habitants of this State that they are Came to defend and 
not to Plunder them all officers Commanding guards are 
to Send in their Reports of Guards to the officer of the 
Day by Seven o Clock in the Morning that no officer nor 



CAPT. JEREMIAH PUTNAM OF DANVERS, MASS. 345 

Soldier may plead Ignorance ofthese orders they are to be 
read Twice a Day for two Days likewise at the head of 
Col Tylors Regt and the four Weeks Militia at Evening 
and Morning Rool Call 

Head Quarters Providence August 24d 1779 The Fa- 
tigue to Get their Brakfast be fore they Parade and to 
March from thence at seven o Clock to their work From 
thence they are not to be Dismist till Ho Clock and not 
to Go to Work for the afternoon till two o Clock and to 
be Dismist at Sun Set 

Head Quarters Providence August 25 1779 A Return 
of all the ordinance & Military Stores to be Delivered to 
D A General Coll Peck on Saturday morning 10 o Clock 
A Return of Armes Now in Store Distingushing those 
that cannot be Repaired at this Armours to be Delivered 
to D A Gen 1 To Morrow in the fore noon Advertisement 
Lost the 21th Instant a Number of Continettal Bills to 
the Amount of about 200 Dollars With a Number of Pa- 
pers Contained in half Sheets of Papers Who Ever has 
found the Same and Will Return it to the Subscriber 
Shall Be handsomly Rewarded 

SAMUEL ADAMS S G HOSPITAL 

Head Quarters Providence August 29th 1779 George 
Milleman A Soldier in Colo Angels Regt Tryed at a Late 
General Court Martial and Sentenced to Suffer Death 
Respeted from Execution until Monday 13th of Septem- 
ber The Commissary having Represented that their are 
Extrodinany Quantity of Rum Issued at Some of the out 
Posts To Regulate the Allowence in future the General 
orders one half Jill to be Isued at Day Brake In Very 
wet weather one half Jill is to be Isued in the Evening at 
the Discression of the Commanding officer Col Barton De- 
tached Corps of Light Infantry When on Command Down 
on the Bay Acordingly to Draw Provisions at any of 
the out Posts When the Col is in Want of Provitions he 
will Apply to the officers Commanding the Poasts if that 
officer is Superior to Col Barton the Commisiary will 
Recive the Commanding officers orders to Supply Col 
Bartons Returns Signed to the Commisarys is Sufficient 

Camp at Providence August ye 30th 1779 Regemen- 



346 REVOLUTIONARY ORDERLY BOOK OP 

tal orders the Commanding Officer of Each Company in 
my Regt and of the four Weeks Militia in this Camp are 
to Make up Muster Rools of their Respective Companyes 
for the Completion By Thursday Night next except the 
Remarks : Sd Rolls to be maid Agreable To the forms 
of the other Rolls made For Mustering s d Regt the officer 
Will Se their Men and Armes are Clean When they ap- 
pear on the Parrade for Muster Which is to be on Friday 
Next It is With reluctance in Respect orders but ob- 
serving the Guards Stroling Contary to orders I once 
more Strickly for Bid the men being premitted to Leave 
the Guards to Strole to their Tents on any Pretence 
What Ever their Mess Mates are to Carrie their Provis- 
ions to them 

NATHAN TYLER COLL 

Head Quarters Sept 3d 1779 To prevent any Mistake 
in Regard to the future Isuing of Rum the Commanding 
officers at the out Posts are Strickly to a Bide by the 
order of the 29th of August Last and Make their Re- 
turns to the Isuing Commisaryes accordingly as the 
Troops at Providence from Their Distance from the En- 
emy are not Necessiated to be under Armes before Day: 
Guards and Fatigue Parties only are to Receive one half 
jill of Rum Daily in Wet weather or other Extrodinary 
occations the General Will order one half Jill of Rum to 
the Troops off Duty at Providence 

Camp at Providence Sept 3d 1779 At a Regimental 
Court Martial held for the Trial of Such Prisoners as 
Shall be brought before them by order of Coll Tyler 
Capt Sparrow President The Court being formed and 
Sworne was Tried Joseph Laflin of Capt Fishes Compt. 
for Disobedience of orders and Neglect of Duty The 
Prisoner Pled not Guilty Evidence being Sworn and Ex- 
amined the Court are of oppinion that the Prisioner Be 
Repremanded at the head of the Regt : by the Commander 
of the Regiment ; Capt Edward Sparrow President the 
Coll Aproves the Sentence of the Court and orders it Ex- 
ecuted at Roll Call 

Head Quarters Sept 4th 1779 Major General Stuben 
Inspector General of the Armies of the United States will 




CAPT. JEREMIAH PUTNAM OP DANVEBS, MASS. 347 



reviue Coll Sherburnes Regiment to Morrow morning at 
ten o Clock & Coll Webbs Regiment to morrow at 1 o 
Clock P M The Barren will then Proceed by water to 
Grenwich and on monday morning at ten o Clock will 
Review Col Greens Regement & Col Angels at Hunts 
Tavern on the Rhode between Greenwich and North 
Kingston at wich Place the Regiment will be Paraded 
percisely at the time Above Mentioned the Command- 
ing Officer of Each Regement will have a Return of 
their Regements and Commanding officer of Each Com- 
pany will have a return of his Company to Present to the 
Barren at the Tune of Inspection 

Camp Providence Sept 4th 1779 Regemental orders 
for Col Tylors Regiment Lieutmant Thomas Covell is to 
du Duty in Capt Howells Company in Said Regement 
until further orders and is to be obayed accordingly 

Head Qr Providence Sept 7 1779 Major William 
Bradford of Coll Sherburns Regment is Apinted Brigad 
Major and inspector to Brigad Generel Starks Brigad he 
is To Be Respected accordingly the Commanding officers 
of the Severel Regt in Generel Starks Brigad will Make 
thair Returns immediately to the Ge 1 And Not to head 
Quarters as Usel 

Head Qr Sept llth 1779 George Milleman Sol- 
der in Coll Angels Regt Tryed att A Generel cort Mar- 
tial for mutynay And Sentened to Suffer Death is further 
Respited from Execution until Monday the 27 of this 
Instant Sept 

H Quarters Sept 12th 1779 Col Tylors Regt And The 
four Weaks Militia Are to turn out To Morrow Morning 
one our Before Day Light with thair arms and Accotra- 
ments thair Packs Done up Net in thair Tents Ready to 
March att the Shortis Notis 

(To be continued.) 



THE BUTTON FAMILY OF HAVERHILL. 

COMPILED BY DAVID W. HOYT. 



1. Matthias 1 Button, of Boston, Ipswich, and Ha- 
verhill ; m. 1st, before 1633, LETTUCE [or LETTYSSE] 

; 2d, before Nov., 1639, JOANE , [widow of 

JOHN THORNTON, of Ipswich] ;* 3d, before 1654, TEA- 
OLE f- , who d. Feb. 4, 1662-3 [Hv.] ; 4th, June 9, 
1663 [Hv.], ELIZABETH 2 WHEELER (John 1 , of Newbury) 
[widow of THOMAS' DUSTON]. He was of Boston as early 
as 1633 ; J of Ipswich as early as 1639, where he was a 
commoner in 1641 ; removed to Haverhillas early as 1650. 
Matthias and wife Lettuce were admitted to the Boston 
church, Jan. 26, 1633. He d. Aug. 13, 1672 [Hv.] ; 
inventory of estate, April 14, 16 74. Wid. Elizabeth, d. 
July 16, 1690 [Hv.]. 

Children : 

2. MARY', b. ; bp. Feb. 23, 1633-4 [Boston] ; m. Dec. 6, 1652 

[Hv.], EDWARD YEOMANS. Births of six children on Hv. 

* At Ipswich is recorded,Nov. 16,1639, the sale of land and house which fell into 
the hands of Matthias Button by marriage of Joane, late wife of John Thonton, 
his wife Joane consenting to the sale. 

In 1659, Matthias Button sued John Godfrey for " the fireing of his chimney, 
which caused the burning of my house and the death of my wife." His third 
wife, Teagle, was then living, hence it must have been either Joane or Lettuce 
whose death was caused, more than five years, perhaps ten years, before 1659. 

t Spelled also Tegell and Tegle. 

$ Drake's Boston gives him as one of those who "are known to have been in 
Salem and about the north side of Massachusetts Bay, before and in the year 1629 ; 
consequently before the settlement of Boston." The " Outline Sketch of the 
Earliest Descendants of Matthias Button " by A. Button, Grand Rapids, Mich- 
igan, 1889, states that he came with Gov. Endicott, and setled in Salem, Sept. 6, 
1628 ; that he removed to Haverhill in 1646. [We find his name at Ipswich in 1648.] 
Chase's Haverhill gives the same items on the authority of Rev. Thomas Cobbett, 
and states that Matthias Button was "a Dutchman," that he lived in four different 
parts of Haverhill, and that his thatched house was burnt in 1671. 

Wyman states that an Edward Yeomans, with wife Susanna, was in Charles- 
town in 1650, and the house where he lived was sold in 1653. An Edward Yeomans 
m. June 12, 1652 [Boston], Elizabeth Joslin ; son Edward, b. May 6, 1657 [Boston] ; 
wid. Elizabeth m. May 9, 1662 [Boston], Edward Kilby. The Edward of Boston was 
evidently a different person from the one of Haverhill ; bnt which one was of 
Oharlestown does not appear. Both were apparently of about the same age, b. 
about 1630. 

(348) 



THE BUTTON FAMILY OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 349 

records, 1653-4 to 1663-4 ; a dau. d. Apr., 1667. Button states 
that this family removed to Plainfield, Conn. 

8. DANIEL', b. , [by first wife] ; bp. Feb. 22, 1634-5 [Boston] ; 

probably d. young. 

4. SABAH 2 , b. ; m. Jan. 6, 1673 [Hv.], JAMES KINGSBERY. 

Births of six children on Hv. records, 1675-90. 

5. HANNAH*, b. May 11, 1652 [Hv.] ; [probably by 3d wife.] 

6. DANIEL 2 , b. April 10, 1654 [Hv.], [by 3d wife] ;* killed at Bloody 

Brook, Sept. 18, 1675 ; inventory estate Sept. 25, 1677. "His 
brother Kinsbury " is mentioned. 

7. ABIGAIL 2 , b. June 16, 1656 [Hv.]. 

8. MATTHIAS 8 , b. March 17, 1657-8 [Hv.] ; m. Nov. 24, 1686 [Amesb. 

and Hv.], MARY NEFP of Hv. Children: Daniel, 8 b. Sept. 20, 
1687 [Hv.] ; Matthias, 3 b. Nov. 22, 1689 [Hv.]. Button states 
that the family removed to Plainfield, Conn., and that Mat- 
thias* d. there in 1725. A lot was drawn in Haverhill, on 
Matthias Button's right as commoner, as late as 1721. 

9. PETER, 2 b. July 17, 1660 [Hv.]. Button states that he m. about 

1689, MARY LAMPHERE (George, of Westerly), and had chil- 
dren b. at Westerly, R. I., or Stonington, Conn. 

10. PATIENCE, 2 b. June 1, 1662 [Hv.], [by 3d wife] ; d. Oct. 30, 

1662 [Hv.]. 

11. [MARY,* b. about 1664, by 4th wife ?] f 

Recorded as son of Teagle. The mother of Hannah is not named. The birth 
of Sarah is not recorded, but the probate records prove that she was the daughter 
of Matthias and either Teagle the third wife or Joane the second wife. 

t The Wheeler will, 1668, mentions grandchildren Thomas and Elizabeth, and 
Mary (Button?), children of his daughter Elizabeth Button. As the writer of the 
" Earliest Descendants of Matthias Button" was apparently unaware of the fact 
that Elizabeth Wheeler's first husband was Thomas Duston, the Wheeler will led 
to two erroneous inferences : first, that Matthias Button had a daughter Elizabeth 
who m. John Kingsbury and Peter Green ; and, second, that his daughter Han- 
nah m. Thomas Duston. The wife of John Kingsbery and Peter Green was Eliza- 
beth Duston-, and the wife of Thomas Duston was Hannah Emerson. 

If the will is correctly interpreted, as given above, Matthias Button must have 
had two daughters named Mary, one by the first wife and one by the fourth, both 
per haps living in 1668, one of them about thirty years older than the other. Such 
plication of names is occasionally found on old records. 

h e probate records seem to show that Daniel's estate was divided, about 1677, 
among four "children of Matthias Button " ; if so, either Hannah, Abigail, and the 
second Mary d. young, or all the children did not share in the division of the 
estate. So far as the records show, there may have been five own brothers and 
sisters, and two half-sisters, of Daniel, living in 1677. 



THE DUSTON FAMILY OF HAVERHILL. 

COMPILED BY DAVID W. HOYT. 



1. Thomas 1 Duston,* of Dover, Kittery and Ports- 
mouth, b. about 1606 ; m. ELIZABETH 2 WHEELER (John 1 of 
Newburyf). He was of Dover in 1640 ; of Kittery 1650- 
4, and constable there in 1652 ; of Portsmouth, 1660. 
He d. before March, 1662. Wid. Elizabeth m. June 9, 
1663 [Hv.], MATTHIAS 1 BUTTON of Haverhill^:. She d. 
July 16, 1690 [Hv.]. Adm. estate of Thomas 1 of Kittery 
was granted to his son Thomas of Haverhill, June 8, 
1703. 

Children : 

2. THOMAS', b. ; m. Dec. 3, 1677, HANNAH* EMEBSON.+ 

3. ELIZABETH*, b. ; m. 1st, before 1664, JOHN KINGSBKBBY, 

who d. Jan. 23, 1670 [Hv.]; 2d, Dec. 11, 1672 [Hv.], PETEB 
GBEEN. One child by 1st husband, b. 1664; three by 2d 
husband, b. 1673-7, Hv. records. Elizabeth Button deeded 
land to son-in-law Peter Green, Dec., 1673; two Kinsbery 
witnesses. 

2 Thomas 3 Duston (Thomas 1 ) of Haverhill, b. ; 

m. Dec. 3, 1677 [Hv.], HANNAH* EMERSON (Michael 1 ), 
the heroine of the *' Dustin massacre," in 1697. He was of 
Haverhill as early as 1676, when he was sent to Marlboro 
as a soldier from Hv. Will April 15, 1724; Nov. 27, 
1732. Will of wid. Hannah Sept. 19, 1733 ; March 6, 
1737-8. Children: 

* Also written Dustin, Dusten, Damon and Dunston. 

fThe Wheeler will, 1668, mentions his daughter Elizabeth Button and grand- 
children, as giyen under Button family (see previous page). 

tA deposition of two women, found on the probate records of New Hampshire, 
dated 1678, states that Elizabeth Duston once said that the house of her first bus- 
band, Thomas Dnstin, was burned, so that they had to mortgage and afterwards 
sell house and land to obtain necessities. The deposition also mentions her sec- 
ond husband, Button, and her son, Thomas Duston. 

(350) 



THE DTTSTON FAMILY OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 351 

HANNAH', b. Aug. 22, 1678 [Hv.]; m. CHENEY*; living in 

1733. 

ELIZABETH', b. May 7, 1680 [Hv.]; m. Dec. 27, 1698 [Hv.], STE- 
PHEN 2 EMERSON (Robert 1 )-, 14 children on Hv. records, b. 
1699-1723. She d. Jan. 4, 1746 [Hv.]. He d. April 20, 1758 
[Hv.]. 

MARY 3 , b. Nov. 4, 1681 [Hv.]; d. Oct. 18, 1696 [Hv.]. 

THOMAS 3 , b. Jan. 5, 1683 [Hv.]; m. MARY INGALS.-^ 

NATHANiEL 3 , b. May 16, 1685 [Hv.]; m. 1st, MARY AYER; 2d, 

June 8, 1726, LYDIA BOND.+ 
9. JOHN', b. Feb. 2, 1686 [Hv.]; d. Jan. 28, 1689-90 [Hv.]. 

10. SARAH 3 , b. July 4, 1688 [Hv.]; m. March 10, 1708-9 [Hv.], JOHN 

WATTS. 11 children on Hv. records, b. 1709-10 to 1730-1; liv- 
ing in 1738.t 

11. ABIGAIL 3 , b. Oct., 1690 [Hv.]; m. before 1716, SAMUEL WATTS, 

6 children on Hv. records, b. 1716 to 1726-7. She d. May 5, 
1727. t [Hv.] 

12. JONATHAN 3 , b. Jan. 15, 1691-2 [Hv.] ; m. 1st, ELIZABETH WATTS; 

2d, Feb. 20, 1732-3, SARAH PATTEE.+ 

13. TIMOTHY', b. Sept. 14, 1694 [Hv.]; m. Nov. 7, 1718, SARAH 

JOHNSON.-f 

14. MEHITABLE, b. Sept. 14, 1694 [twin, Hv.]; d. Dec.16, 1694 [Hv.]. 

15. MARTHA 8 , b. March 9, 1696-7 [Hv.]; killed by the Indians when 

her mother was taken captive, March 15, 1696-7 [Hv.]. 

16. LYDIA", b. Oct. 4, 1698 [Hv.]; m. Nov. 15,1721 [Hv.], JOHN 

SANDERS, JR.; 14 children on Hv. records, b. 1722-3 to 1743. 

7 Thomas 3 Duston (Thomas 2 , Thomas 1 ), of Haver- 
hill, b. 1683 ; m. about 1718, MARY INGALS, who d. Oct. 
29 [or 9], 1732 [Hv.]. He was Thomas, Jr. 1704-32. 
Will Sept. 12, 1755 ; March 31, 1767 ; no wife mentioned. 
He d. Feb. 24, 1767 [Hv.]. 

Children : 

17. ABIGAIL 4 , b. Dec. 14, 1718 [Hv.]; m. Oct. 25, 1739 [Hv.], JONA- 

THAN WEBSTER. 12 children on Hv. records, b. 1739-40 
to 1762. 



#A Thomas Cheney m. May 17, 1726 [Hv.] Hannah Stevens ; 5 children on the Hv. 
records, b. 1728-9 to 1737-8, one of them named Duston; perhaps grand-children 
of 4 Hannah', who would have been sixty years of age when the youngest was 
born. Hannah Stevens was probably the daughter of John* Jr. and Mary* 
(Bartlett), b. March IK, 1704-5 [Hv.]. 

fin their mother's will, 1733, both Sarah and Abigail are named "Watts alias 
Messer." 



352 THE DUSTON FAMILY OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 

18. THOMAS*, b. Dec. 23, 1720 [Hv.]; m. Oct. 23, 1746 [Hv.] ABIAH 

GUILD. He was JR. 1741-67; dead in 1772, leaving children: 
Mary b , Stephen*, Ebenezer*, Amos*, and Abiah b . Thomas*, 
son of Thomas, Jr. bp. Nov. 6, 1748 [Hv.]. 

19. OBADIAH 4 , b. March 17, 1723-4 [Hv.]; living in 1755; dead in 

1773, leaving sons: Obadiatf, David 5 , and Simeon.* 

20. CALEB 4 , b. Aug. 28, 1726 [Hv.]. Caleb, of Salem, N. H., m. May 

24, 1758 [Hv.], PHEBK MARBLE; living in 1773. 

21. JOSHUA 4 , b. Jan. 8, 1728-9 [Hv.]; m. Nov. 8, 1764 [Hv.], RACHEL 

JACKMAN; residence Haverhill. He d. Aug. 5, 1771 [Hv.]. 
Wid. Rachel appointed adm. estate, Aug. 30, 1771. 4 chil- 
dren on Hv. records, b. 1765-70; all living in 1789. 

22. STEPHEN 4 , b July 18, 1732 [Hv.]; d. Aug. 24, 1750 [Hv.]. 

8. Nathaniel 3 Duston (Thomas 2 , Thomas 1 ), of Ha- 
verhill, b. 1685; m. 1st, before 1712, MARY AYER, who 
d. April 17, 3725 [Hv.] ; 2d, June 8, 1726 [Hv.],LYDiA' 
BOND (Joseph 2 , John 1 ). He was Sen. 1740-56. 

Children : 

23. MABY 4 , b. Feb. 8, 1711-2 [Hv.]; prob. m. June 14, 1733 [Hv.], 

JETHRO CLOUGH; 3 children, b. 1734-5 to 1741-2, on Hv. 
records. 

24. JOHN 4 , b. July 3, 1714 [Hv.]; m. April 4, 1738 [Ex.], MAROY 

MORSE of Boxford; 3 children on Hv. records, b. 1739- 
1742.* 

25. TIMOTHY 4 , b. Dec. 20, 1716 [Hv.]. 

26. THOMAS 4 , b. Dec. 20, 1716 [Hv.] [twin] ; d. Feb. 25, 1716-17 [Hv.]. 

27. NATHANIEL 4 , b. Feb. 25, 1718-9 [Hv.] [by 1st wife], m. 1st, 

April 28, 1742 [Hv.], TBIPHENA HASELTINE, who d. Jan. 3, 
1759 [Hv.]; 2d, Nov. 22, 1759 [Hv.], SARAH GAGE. Will 
Jan. 6, March 22, 1762. 7 chil. by 1st wife, 1 by 2d wife, on 
Hv. records, b. 1743-60. He was jr. 1740-1756; d. Feb. 17, 
1762 [Hv.]. 

28. LYDiA 4 , b. Sept. 22, 1728 [Hv.] [by 2d wife]; prob. m. Oct. 13, 

1748 [Hv.], JAMES KIMBALL of Bradford. 

12. Jonathan^ Duston (Thomas 2 , Thomas 1 ), of Ha- 
verhill, b. 1692; m. 1st, before 1715, ELIZABETH WATTS ; 
2d, Feb. 20, 1732-3 [Hv.], SARAH PATTEE. He was ap- 
parently living in 1757, when his son was jr. on the 
records of births of his children. 

Children : 

*The baptism of 4 children of John Dustin, 1745-48, appears on the Hv. vital 
records; but whether of 24 John4 or 37 John4 does not appear. 



THE DUSTON FAMILY OP HAVERHILL, MASS. 853 

MKHiTABLE 4 , b. Aug. 8, 1715 [Hv.] ; prob. m. Feb. 24, 1736-7 

[Hv.], JONATHAN MARSH. 
HANNAH 4 , b. May 8, 1717 [Hv.]; prob. m. Feb. 19,1734-5 [Hv.], 

JOSHUA PAGE. 
JONATHAN*, b. July 4, 1719 [Hv.]; m. 1st, Feb. 17, 1746-7 [Hv.], 

SUSANNA FABNOM, who d. Aug. 22, 1757 [Hv.] ; 2d, March 

15, 1759 [Hv.], RUTH PEBBY. Six children by 1st wife, b. 

1747-57, and 8 by 2d wife, b. 1760-76. He was Jr. 1740-57, 

and perhaps later. 

32. DAVID 4 , b. Jan. 30, 1721 [Hv.]; m. March 22, 1743-4 [Hv.], 

ELIZABETH MOBBILL. 4 children on Hv. town and church 
records, b. 1745-53, the oldest b. in Newbury. 

33. ELIZABETHS b. June 11, 1724 [Hv.] [by 1st wife]. 

34. WALKER EzEKiEL 4 , b. March 8, 1734 [Hv.] [by 2d wife]. 

13. Timothy* Duston (Thomas, 2 Thomas 1 ), of Ha- 
verbill, born 1694 ; m. Nov. 7, 1718 [Bd.], SARAH JOHN- 
SON, who died July 20, 1735 [Hv.]. Adm. of his estate 
granted son Samuel, March 20, 1741-2 ; estate divided, 
1743. 

Children : 

35. SAMUEL 4 , Dr., b. Feb. 10, 1719-20 [Hv.] ; m. ab. 1743, RUTH ; 

a physician; living in 1748. No children on Hv. records. 

36. PAUL 4 ; b.Sept. 24, 1721 [Hv.]; living in 1743; no children on 

Hv. records. 

37. JOHN 4 , b. March 31, 1724 [Hv.]; d. July 8, 1797 [Hv.]. See 24 

John 4 . 

38. LYDiA 4 , b. Sept. 11, 1726 [Hv.]; m. March 20, 1745-6 [Hv.], 

ITHAMAB 3 EMEBSON (Stephen?, Robert 1 ). He was appointed 
guardian of (40) James 4 , July, 1748. No children on Hv. 
records. 

39. SABAH 4 , b. Feb. 23, 1728-9 [Hv.]; m. Jan. 30, 1745-6 [Hv.], ED- 

MUND MOOEBS, or MOBES. One child on HaverhiJl record, 
b. 1749. 
40. JAMES 4 , b. June 28, 1734 [Hv.]; living in 1748. 



INDEX. 



Abbott, Abbot, , 

303. 

James, 303. 

Mary, 311. 

Sally, 303. 

Thomas, 330. 
Abigal (ship), 71. 
Acasta (frigate), 153, 

154(2). 

Acasta (ship), 75-78, 
157, 265, 271, 324. 
Active (ship), 72. 
Actress (privateer), 

72. 
Adams, , 290. 

A., 152. 

Abraham, 289. 

Barzilla, 319. 

Capt. Benjamin, 
289. 

Benjamin P., 38. 

Eliza Raymond, 60 . 

Enoch, 204, 295. 

Isaac, 194, 195, 204, 
298. 

Capt. John, 84(2). 

Joseph, 184. 

M., 163. 

Molly, 294. 

Moses, 161, 193. 

O., 158. 

Samuel, 193 (2), 
345. 

Samuel, jr., 206. 

Susie, 294. 

William, 294. 
Adden, Thomas, 94. 
Adeline (brig), 72. 
Adventure (schr.), 72. 
Adventure (sloop), 

330. 

Aeolus (brig), 72. 
Aeolus (ship), 324. 
Africa (ship), 75, 157 

(2). 
Agnes (ship), 72. 

Agors, , 210. 

Agustus, , 262. 

Alban (ship), 77, 258. 



Albany (ship of war), 

69. 

Albion (brig), 72. 
Albion (ship), 78, 150, 

155, 157(2). 
Alden, John, 271. 
Alert (sloop), 72. 
Alexander (ship), 72. 
Alfred (privateer), 

72. 

Alianza (ship), 72. 
Alicia (brig), 78. 
Allen, , 15, 16. 

Ambrose, 315. 

Ezekiel, 150. 

George, 279. 

John, 15, 16. 

Joseph H., 257. 

Samuel, 92, 126. 

Thomas, 278. 
Allen & Marlar, 279 

(2). 
Alley, Charles L., 67. 

Evelina, 67. 

John, 67. 

John, jr., 67. 

John Lewis, 67. 
Alligator (sloop), 73. 
Allison, J. B., 74. 
Almy,Christopher,83, 
84. 

Jacob, 263. 
Alson, J., 79. 
Altberg, E., 72. 
Altham, T., 153. 
Amazon (ship), 73. 
Ambition (brig), 73. 
Ambition (sloop), 73. 
Amelia (sloop), 73(2). 
Ames, Rev. Nathan, 

297. 
Amyol, Peter & Co., 

327. 
Amherst, General, 

219. 
Andego (sloop), 185. 

Anderson, , 75. 

Andover, Mass., 27. 



Andrew, Gov. John 

A., 98. 
Andrews, , 179. 

Elizabeth, 182. 

George, 204. 

J., 80. 

Mary, 231. 

Nathaniel, 195. 

Nicholas, 181, 182 
(2), 310. 

Richard, 82, 89. 
Angell, Col., 344(2), 

345, 347(2). 
Anita (brig), 73. 
Ann (brig), 73(3). 
Ann (schr.), 74. 
Ann (sloop), 74, 127. 
Anna (brig), 74. 
Annaconda (brig), 74. 
Annapolis, Md., 98. 
Anne (sloop), 91. 
Anson (schr.), 74. 
Antelope (schr.), 74. 
Anthony, Abigail(Ed- 
dy), 59. 

Betsey Eddy, 59(2). 

Richard, 59. 
Apollo (ship), 74. 
Appollo (sloop), 74. 
Appollo (snow), 277. 
Arab (schr.), 74. 
Arab (ship), 259, 269. 
Archard, Samuel, 7. 
Archer, Elizabeth, 
139. 

George, 139. 

John Woodwell, 
139(2). 

Mary, 139. 

Nathaniel, 139. 

Samuel, 139(2). 

Col. Samuel, 3d, 
139. 

Samuel, jr., 139. 

Samuel H., 139. 

William, 139. 
Arenos, Frederica, 

261. 

Argo (brig), 74. 
(355) 



356 



INDEX. 



Argns (privateer), 75. 
Aristomenus(ship),75. 
Arlington, 113. 
Armide (ship), 158, 

266, 270(2). 
Armistice (schr.), 75 

(2). 
Armstrong, Lieut. 

James, 132. 
Arrington,Almira, 59. 

Samuel, 59. 
Ashton, Elizabeth, 

311. 

Samuel, 311. 
Sarah, 244. 
Asia (ship), 78. 
Asken, James, 158. 
Askew, J., 269. 
Atalanta (ship), 80, 

267, 322. 
Atkin, T., 157. 
Atkinson, Joanna 

Cook, 141. 

John, 141(2). 

Michael, 141. 

Sarah Mirick, 141. 
Atlanta, Ga., 107. 
Atlantic (brig), 75. 
Atlas (schr.), 75. 
Atwood, , 290. 

Aaron, 161, 166, 168, 
173, 203(2). 

D., 304. 

Daniel, 304. 

Jesse, 205. 

John, 290. 

John, jr., 294. 

Joshua, 290. 

Moses, 304. 

Samuel, 290. 
Aurora (schr.), 75. 
Averill, Mrs. Martha 
J., 209. 

Avery, , 272. 

Ayer, Mary, 351, 352. 
Ayton, W., 258. 

Babbidge, Benjamin, 

138(2), 139. 
Charles, 139(2). 
Elizabeth, 138, 139. 
John, 139 (2). 
Capt. John, 138. 
John Phippen, 138. 
Lydia, 139. 
Mary, 139. 
Mary Adelaide, 138. 



Babbidge, Nancy, 139. 
Sarah, 139. 
Susanna, 139. 
Susanna Archer, 

139. 

William, 139. 
Babson, Philip, 92. 
Bacchante (ship), 260 

321. 

Bacon, J., 291. 
Josiah, 291. 
Samuel, 291, 327(2), 

329(3), 330. 
Badger, William J., 

54. 
Bagley, Bagly, Col., 

209, 218. 
Jonathan, 116. 
Col. Jonathan, 133. 
Bagnell, Samuel, 275. 
Bailey, Bayley, Bay- 
ly, , 167. 

Abner, 202. 
Wid. Elizabeth, 298. 
Job, 298. 
John, 57(2), 119. 
Jonathan, 95, 298 

(3). 
Capt. Jonathan, sr., 

297. 

Jonathan, jr., 298. 
Joseph, 177, 298(2). 
Dea. Joseph, 298. 
Capt. Joshua, 134. 
Mary, 57, 300. 
Nathaniel, 198. 
Kichard, 298. 
Dea. Richard, 298 

(2). 

Elder Richard, 298. 
Robert, 23. 
Samuel, 161(2). 
William, 297(2). 
Bainbridge (ship), 75. 
Baker, Capt., 63, 329. 
Cornelius, 298. 
G. B., 79. 
Lucretia, 142. 
Robert, 142. 
William, 284(2), 285 

(2), 286(2), 327, 

332(2). 
Balch, , 167, 173, 

204. 

Mrs., 301. 
Rev., 289. 



Balch, Benjamin, 198 

(2), 300, 302(2). 
Jonathan, 205(2), 

208(2), 297. 
Leonard, 293. 
Nathaniel, 204, 205. 
Phineas, 300. 
Samuel, 204. 
T. H., 167. 
W. H., 301. 
W. S., 201. 
William, 161, 164, 
167(2), 170, 172, 
173, 208, 289(2). 
Dea. William, 205. 
Rev. William, 204. 
William H., 300, 302 

(2). 
William S., 164, 172, 

302. 
Capt. William S., 

165. 

Baltic (ship), 75. 
Balston, Isaac, 324. 
Bancroft, H., 155. 
Banister, William B., 

23. 
Banks, Bankes, James 

A., 198. 
Joseph, 169, 206(2), 

296(2). 

Mrs. Lydia, 4. 
William, 296. 
Barber, Benjamin, 156. 
Thomas, 181. 
William, 181. 
Barker, Elizabeth, 13. 
Capt. George, jr. ,63. 
Gideon, 298. 
Joseph, 303. 
Samuel F., 173. 
Thomas, 182. 
Barnard, Jonathan, 95, 

116. 
Barnes, A., 824. 

W., 152. 
Barnet, J., 72. 
Barney, J. T., 77. 
Barrossa (ship), 259, 

267. 

Barstow, James, 259. 
Bartholomew, Henry, 

5. 
William, 241(3). 

Bartlett, Bartlet, , 

12, 264. 
Elizabeth, 56. 






Bartlett, Jane, 119. 

John, 182, 246(4). 

Jonathan, 182(2). 

Mary, 182(2), 351. 

Nathaniel, 118(2). 

Nicholas, 182(3). 

Robert, 10, 12, 14, 
179. 

Capt. Robert, 12, 
180(2). 

Lt. Robert, 14. 

Sarah, 56. 

W., 73. 

William, 56, 182(2), 

299, 301. 
Bartoll, Christian.308. 

John, 12, 307, 308. 

Mary, 12. 

Parnall, 12. 

Thomas, 308. 

William, 12. 

William, jr., 12. 
Barton, Col., 336, 345 
(3). 

John, 119(2). 

Samuel & Co., 116. 
Bassett, Daniel,256(2). 

John, 246. 

John, jr., 246(2). 
Bastone, John, 92. 
Batchelder, , 55. 

George, 82. 
Bates, General, 112. 

B., 260. 

Charles H., 98. 

M., 268. 

Batter, Edmund, 2. 
Baxter, Isaac, 69. 
Bayard, Samuel, jr., 

67. 

Bazin, Thomas, 185. 
Beadle, John, 82.; 
Beale, Beal, , 11. 

Martha, 11. 

Mercy, 136. 

William, sr., 11(2). 
Bean, John, 197, 296. 

R. O., 155. 
Bears, R., 76. 
Beaufew, Francis, 156. 
Beaufort, 98. 
Beaver (schr.), 328. 
Becket, Sarah, 139. 
Bee (schr.), 76(3). 
Belfast (schr.), 76. 
Belle (schr.), 76. 
Bellisle (brig), 76. 



IKDBX. 

Belvidera (frigate), 

160. 

Belvidera (ship), 75, 

78, 156, 260, 261(2), 

265, 267, 268(2), 

821(2). 

Benjamin (schooner), 

90, 274, 275. 
Benjamin Franklin 

(ship), 76. 

Bennet, Bennett, 

Charles, 95. 

W. H., 77. 

Benson, Joseph, 197. 
Berg, C. C., 262. 

Johan Magnus, 153. 

Just Nelson, 264. 

Bernard, , 327. 

Bertoddy,Charles,265. 
Besento, Francis, 328. 
Bessom, Besom,P.,72. 

Capt. Philip, 62. 
Betsy (schr.), 77. 
Betsy (ship), 77. 
Betsy (sloop), 76(4), 

77(3). 
Betsy & Jane (schr.), 

77. 

Bickford, Pinson, 273. 
Bingham, John, 220. 
Bird (schr.), 77. 
Bishop, Townsen, 2. 
Black, Mr., 303. 

J. S., 52. 

Joseph S., 45. 
Black Swan (brig), 77. 
Blackler, Elias, 308. 

Elizabeth, 308. 

John, 308. 

William, 308(2). 
Blanchard, C., 80. 

Blandett, , 125. 

Blendett, Col., 125. 
Blodget, William, 171. 
Bloften, Peter, 299. 
Blonde (schr.), 77. 
Boardman, Bordman, 
J., 160. 

Thomas, 255. 
Boddely, B., 78. 
Boden, Ambrose, 236 
(2). 

Benjamin, 236(2). 

John, 226. 

Robert, 118. 
Bold (ship), 157, 322. 
Bolina (ship), 78. 



357 

Bond, John, 85, 86(3), 

352. 

Joseph, 352. 
Lydia, 351, 352. 
Robert, 130. 

Bonfield, , 11. 

George, 11. 
George, sr., 11. 
Rebecca, 11. 
Bonnet, Ben jamin,285 , 

286. 

Bonney, Maria, 63. 
Boober, see Bubier. 
Boonavendure(sloop), 

121. 
Booth, Benjamin, 284 

(2), 328. 
Kimble, 117. 
Simeon, 223. 
Bootman, Matthew, 

281. 
Borer (ship), 151, 269, 

317, 318. 

Boston, Mass., 38. 
Boston & Maine Rail- 
road, 19, 26, 27,29, 
38(2), 39-55. 
Bottalier, Frederick, 

71. 

Bottelier, Fred, 70. 
Bourne, F., 159. 
Bowd, Joseph, 241(4). 
Bowdin, Francis, 14. 
Bowditch, Ebenezer, 

jr., 330. 

Habackkuk, 281. 
Capt. John, 330(3). 
Joseph, 115,123,273. 
William, 221(2), 222 

(7), 223. 
Capt. William, 8, 

223. 

Bowds, Micha, 11. 
Bowen, Nathan, 224. 

Bowler, , 228. 

James, 227(5). 
Medcalf, 339. 
Boxer (schr.), 72, 78. 
Boxer (ship), 257,260, 

262, 265. 

Boxford, Mass., 23,27, 
28, 34, 35, 39, 48, 
49, 53, 54, 172. 
Boy, Stephen, 121. 
Boynton, E., 175. 
:tv Eliphalet, 162, 272. 
| Samuel, 162, 292(2). 



858 



INDEX. 



Brackett, , 25. 

Colonel, 105. 

Elizabeth, 140. 
Bradford, Capt., 255. 

Maj., 340. 

Simon, 84. 

Maj. William, 347. 
Bradford, Mass., 18, 
19, 23, 25-32, 34. 

Bradstreet, , 11, 

215. 

Col., 217, 218. 

Humphrey, 256. 

John, 10, 11(2). 

Moses, 11. 
Bragdon, Barak, 200, 

205(2). 

Branch (schr.), 78. 
Bray, Benjamin, 115. 

Isaac, 78. 

Mary, 58. 

Robert, 116. 

Sally, 135. 

Bream (brig), 152, 153. 
Bream (ship), 76, 78, 

271, 318. 

Breath, James, 258. 
Brett, Richard, 276. 
Brewer, Crispus, 281. 
Brewster, I. W., 75. 
Bridges, Edmond,223. 
Briggs, Peter, 119. 
Brintnall, , 231(2). 

John, 230(2), 236(3). 

Phebe, 235, 236(3). 
Bristow, Ward & Co., 

ooo 

Briton, Mary, 244. 
Brittannia (ship), 78. 
Brock way, C. J., 23. 

Charles J., 20, 38. 
Broke (privateer), 158, 
261, 269, 272, 323. 
Brooks, , 18, 220. 

A., 160. 

Robert, 181. 
Brown, , 16, 210. 

Capt., 255, 313, 314. 

Mr., 303. 

Maj. Andrew, 337. 

Charles, 128, 275. 

Elishu D., 265. 

J., 270. 

J. jr., 177. 

James, 277. 

Jane, 245. 

John, 27, 80, 114. 



Brown, Capt. John, 
303, 313. 

John, jr., 176, 277, 
289. 

John E., 302. 

John O., 196(2), 292. 

Rev. John Thomas, 
68. 

Joseph, 97. 

Joseph N., 207(2). 

Mary W., 140. 

Moses, 270. 

Rebecca, 68. 

Rebecca (Appleton), 
97. 

Richard, 117. 

S., 77. 

True, 206. 

William, 16, 76, 174. 
Browne, , 15. 

Bartholomew, 93. 

Benjamin, 93, 94. 

Elizabeth, 232. 

John, 232. 

Thomas, 232. 

William, 15, 232(7). 
Bruce, J., 155. 
Brune (ship), 78. 
Brunswick(sloop),273. 
Bryan, George, 287. 
Bryant, Lemuel, 68. 

Mary, 68. 
Bubier, Boober, , 

Joseph, 13, 14(2). 
Mary, 14. 
Buckingham, Joseph, 

87. 
Buckminster, Capt., 

210. 
Buckskin (privateer), 

78. 

Buffum, John, 223. 
Joseph, 84. 
Joshua, 223. 
Bull, Thomas, 118(2). 
Buhner, Robert, 201, 

203. 
Bulwark (ship), 73(2), 

160(2), 265(2),272, 

321. 

Bunker, , 322. 

Bunker Hill (priva- 
teer), 78(2). 
Burbank, Abraham, 

194. 



Burbank, B., 196. 
Benjamin, 196, 297. 
Dea. Benj., 292. 
Eleazer, 196. 
John, 196. 
John T., 202(2). 
Nathan, 196(2). 
Samuel, 196, 204(2), 

Maj. Samuel, 163. 

Thomas, 163, 196(2). 
Burdett, Stephen, 136. 
Burdun, Wid. Susan- 
nah, 308. 
Burgess, A., 79, 260. 

Samuel, 319. 
Burnham, Elisha, 76. 

F. A., 80. 

Francis A., 264. 

John, 282. 
Burns, , 162. 

Benajah, 198. 

Martha, 140. 
Burnside (transport), 

109. 

Burr, Peter, 262. 
Burrill, Ebenezer,239. 

James, 296. 

Capt. Theophilus,6. 
Burrows, , 267. 

R., 323. 
Burt, A., 320. 
Butler, George, 84. 

James, 84. 

B utrick, Danf orth ,291 . 
Button, A., 348. 

Abigail, 349(2). 

Daniel, 349(5). 

Elizabeth, 348, 349 
(2), 350(4). 

Hannah, 349(3). 

Joane, 348(4), 349. 

Lettuce, 348(3). 

Mary, 348, 349(3). 

Matthias, 348(6), 
349(9), 350. 

Patience, 349. 

Peter, 349. 

Sarah, 349(2). 

Teagle, 348(2), 349 

(2). 

Buxton, Timothy,219. 
Buzi (schr.), 78(3). 
Byfield, Mass., 18, 24, 
32, 34, 49, 53, 164. 
Byrne, John, 95. 



INDEX. 



859 



Cabban, John, 201. 
Cabot, Francis, 277. 
Cadett, Jan, 327. 

Caine, , 10. 

Caledonia (ship), 78. 
Galley, Benjamin,274. 

Moses, 190. 
Calmar (sloop), 79. 
Calson (schr.), 79. 
Calveras, Nicholas, 

322. 

Camden (schr.), 79. 
Camilla, 24. 
Campbell, Cambell, 
Cornelius, 280. 

James, 90. 

William, 255. 
Candelaria (sloop),79. 
Candish, Candege, 
Candige,Candigh, 
, 239(2). 

James, 239. 

Sarah, 239. 

Thomas, 239(5). 

Cane, , 180. 

Cann, John, 93. 
Canso (ship), 324. 
Capon, Charles R., 61. 

Charlotte E. (Lom- 
bard), 61. 

William Benjamin, 

61. 

Caravan (brig), 79. 
Carder, Elizabeth, 
182. 

Joseph, 182. 
Carey, James, 55. 
Carl Gustaff (ship), 

Carleton, Carlton, Al- 
bert, 32. 
D., 151. 
George P., 32. 
Joseph, jr., 300. 
Dea. P., 175, 203, 

291. 

Samuel, 328. 
Carlotta (brig), 79. 
Carmichael, William, 

277. 

Caroline (brig), 79. 
Caroline (schr.), 79. 

Carpenter, , 20, 

26. 



Carrell (or Carrill), 
Carryl,Elizabeth, 
131. 

Samuel, 85, 273. 

Capt. Samuel, 86(2). 
Carter, Mrs. John,136. 

Nathan, 24. 
Carter Rice & Co., 61. 
Carvallo, J. J. N., 
259. 

Caswell, Caswall, , 

81, 82. 

John, 231(2). 
Catalina (brig), 79. 
Catatina Patriota 

(ship), 80. 

Catharine (brig), 80. 
Catharine (letter of 

Marque), 80. 
Catharine (schr.), 80. 
Cawl, John, 91. 
Centurion (schr.), 80. 
Ceres (ship), 80. 
Cerrers, J. F., 79. 
Chaffin, Annie, 63. 
Chamberlain, E., 263. 

S., 156. 

Chance (brig), 80. 
Chandler, Abigail, 57. 

John, 57. 
Chapman, Aaron, 195. 

Jonathan, 293. 

Margaret, 130. 

Mary, 130. 

Stephen, 130. 

Timothy, 264. 

William, 259. 
Charles, William, 4, 

11. 

Charles (brig), 80. 
Charles (schr.), 80. 
Charles (sloop), 80(2). 
Charles Fawcett 

(ship), 150. 
Charlestown, Mass., 

97. 

Charlotta (ship), 150. 
Charlotte (brig), 150. 
Chase, Abner, 291. 

Amaziah, 66. 

Amos P., 300. 

Benjamin, 196. 

George H., 295. 

W. N., 163. 

William N., 203, 

204(2), 296. 
Chase (schr.), 150. 



Chatham (ship), 69. 
Cheever, Samuel, 223 

(2). 

Cheney, Chenery, 
Daniel, 207. 

Edmund, 292. 

Edward, 294. 

Eldad, 207(2). 

Hannah, 350. 

Ichabod, 207(2). 

James, 292. 

Peter, 164. 

Thomas, 351. 

William, 64. 
Chesapeake (frigate), 

150. 
Chesapeake (ship), 

265. 
Chicken, Elizabeth, 

144. 

Child, A., 72. 
Chili (ship), 150. 

Chin, , 232. 

Chine, George, 232. 
Chipman, John, 95. 
Christiana (brig), 151. 
Choate, Col., 93. 

George F., 39. 
Chub (schr.), 158. 
Chub (ship), 73, 264. 
Church, J., 80. 

Joseph, 235. 

Thomas, 89. 
Churden, William, 

199. 
Cida de de Leiria 

(brig), 151. 
Clara (schr.), 151. 
Clark , 201. 

Elijah, 208, 296, 297, 
300. 

Jacob, 187. 

Judith, 205. 

Mary P., 140. 
Clarke, Aron, 258. 

Elijah, 201. 

Elijah, jr., 201(2). 

Elizabeth Irene, 144. 

Emanuel, 241. 

Josiah, 131. 

Sarah, 131. 
Clarke & Rundlett, 

200. 

Claudio, J. J., 151. 
Cleaveland,Rev.John, 
211. 

William N., 89. 



860 



INDEX. 



Clement, Clements, 
John, 282. 

John, sr., 234. 
Clifford, George, 279. 

George & Sons, 279 
(2), 286. 

Henry, 279. 

John, 279. 

Clough, Jethro, 352. 
Clough & Mulliken, 

290. 

Coates, Admiral,. 185. 
Cobb, Lt. Col., 340. 
Oobbett, Rev. Thomas, 

348. 
Coburn, Lt., 337. 

Cockwell, , 74. 

Cod Hook (British 

vessel), 155. 
Cod Hook (ship), 151. 
Codner, , 229. 

Christopher, 230(5), 
239(8). 

Gregory, 238. 

John, 9(2), 232, 307 
(2)-309. 

Mary, 229, 230(2). 

Rachel, 229, 230. 
Goes, Mary, 315. 
Coffin, Joseph, 133. 

Peter, 69. 
Cogswell, , 49(2). 

George, 49(2), 64. 

John, 228(3). 
Coker, Catherine, 302. 
Colado, J. G., 155. 
Colburn, J., 150. 
Colby, Coleby, Albert 
P., 144. 

Clarence, 144. 

Eliphalet H., 206 
(2). 

Elizabeth Irene, 144. 

Georgianna P., 144. 

Horace P., 144. 

J., 194. 

J. L., 76. 

Jane P., 144. 

John, 161. 

John D., 144(2). 

John Denny, 144. 

John S. M., 297. 

Laura Jane Plumer, 
144. 

Mary, 144. 

Mehitable T., 144. 

Morrill, 144. 



Colby, Nannie D., 144. 
Colcord, J., 271. 
Cole, Moses, 196. 

Coleton, , 258. 

Colibrie (ship), 78, 80, 
155, 258, 263, 270, 
322. 

Collas, Mrs. Mary, 84. 
Collier, John, 274. 
Collinck, T., 151. 
Collins, Adoniram, 85 

(2). 

Henry, 330. 
Capt. Henry, 329. 
J., 265. 
T., 272. 

Columbia (brig), 151. 
Columbia (schr.), 151 

(2). 

Comet (schr.), 151. 
Comet (ship), 150. 
Commerce (brig), 151, 

152. 
Commodore Barry 

(sloop), 152. 
Conant, Roger, 2. 
Concedes Arcos(ship), 

152. 

Concordia (ship), 152. 
Condry, Dennis, 18. 
Coney, James, 70(2). 
Conflict (ship), 324. 
Connel, T., 318. 

Connelley, , 265. 

Connunght, Roger, 2. 
Consolation (sloop), 

152. 
Constellation (schr.), 

152. 
Constitution (frigate), 

135. 

Conyngham,Col. Hen- 
ry, 120. 

Cook, Capt., 255, 293. 
B., 319. 
Charles, 292. 
J., 80. 
John, 293. 
Capt. John D., 205, 

293. 

Jonathan, 122. 
S., 261. 
Sarah, 292. 
Cool, Abraham, 330. 
Coombs, J., 260. 
Joshua, 15. 
Michael, 235. 



Cooper, H., 317. 
Copp, John, 235(2). 
Corbett, Jesse, 134 
(2). 

Josiah, 134. 

Thomas, 134. 
Corborn, Lt., 340. 
Corcori, Panagi, 271. 
Cordelia (brig), 152. 
Cornwall, R. G., 73. 
Cory, Giles, 130. 
Corwin,Corwine, Cap- 
tain, 236, 242. 

Judge, 232. 

Elizabeth, 233. 

George, 233. 

Capt. George, 235 
(2), 242. 

Jdnathan, 231, 232. 
Corwithen, David, 4. 
Cossac (privateer), 

152. 

Coterel, John, 329. 
Gotten, William, 138. 
Cottle, Joseph, 255. 

Thomas, 165. 

Couses, , 220. 

Covell, Lt. Thomas, 

347. 

Cowen, Philip, 89. 
Cox, Edward, 274. 
Coyte, John, 15. 
Crafts, Richard, 181 

(2). 

Grain, Col., 334. 
Cranberry (schr.),152. 
Cranch, Mary, 273. 
Crandal, C., 324. 
Craton, William, 203. 
Crawford, Eli, 270. 
Creighton, John, 70 

(2). 

Crisfeald, Philip, 280. 
Crockatt, James, 118 

(2). 

Crocker, James, 260. 
Croft, Crofts, Richard, 
240. 

William, 238(3),283. 
Crombee, Benj. F., 
206. 

Thomas N., 196,291, 

295, 296. 
Crook, General, 105. 

George, 105. 

William, 119. 
Cross, Samuel, 153. 




Cross, William, 136. 
Crowel, E., 269. 
Crowninshield, 
Crownshield, B., 
72. 

John, 95, 123, 155. 
Crymes, Captain, 71. 
Cuba (ship), 152. 
Cummings, E., 318. 

George, 63. 
Cunningham, ,29. 

George W., 195. 

J. K, 28. 

Curlew (brig), 159. 
Curlew (privateer), 

153. 

Curlew (ship), 79, 159, 
259, 262, 320, 322. 
Currie, J., 269. 
Currier, James, 196. 
Curtis, E. T., 174. 

John, jr., 314. 
Curwen,Curwin,Capt. 
George, 181. 

Samuel, 325. 
Gushing, Hon. Caleb, 

141. 
Cushman, Eben, 151. 

H., 68. 
Cynthia (schr.), 153. 

Dackendoff, S., 262. 

Daedalus (schr.), 153. 

Dakens, Capt., 216. 

Daland, Samuel, 95. 

Dalkarlen (brig), 153. 

Dana,Richard, 240(2). 

Dandiran, D., 121(2). 

Danforth, Eliphalet, 

203, 296, 297, 303. 

Stephen B., 300(2), 

301(2). 

William, 200, 203, 
208. 

Daniels, Mr., 300. 
William de bruyn, 
284, 330. 

Dantzic (brig), 153. 

Danvers, Mass., 17(3) 
55, 97(2). 

Danvers & George- 
town Railroad, 17, 
32, 35, 38-55. 

Danvers Historical 
Society, 113. 

Danvers Insane Hos- 
pital, 97. 



INDEX. 

Danvers Railroad, 17, 

38, 39-55. 
Darah, Capt. John, 

317. 
Darley, J., 322. 

Darling, Darlins, , 

126. 

George, 4. 
George, sr., 3, 6. 
James, 3(2), 6, 7(2). 
Katherine, 7. 
Darper, Solomon, 283. 
Dart (privateer), 79, 
152, 153, 155, 160, 
267, 271. 

Dart (schr.), 153. 
Davidson, William, 

324. 

Davis, Capt., 84. 
Capt. Benjamin, 

329(2). 

Capt. C. M., 68. 
G. N., 78. 
James, 119. 
Sarah, 138. 
Solomon, 281(2). 
Capt. Solomon, 123. 
Solomon, jr., 123. 
Thomas, 22(2). 
Tobias, 187. 
Capt. William, 254. 
Davy, T. L., 268. 
Daw, Mrs. Jane, 65. 
Dawes, Ensign, 218. 
Deacon, Will, 280. 
Dean, Eleazer, jr., 

127. 
Jonathan, 123, 126 

(3). 

Deborah (schr.), 153. 
Defiance (schr.), 153. 
Defiance (sloop), 153 
(2), 154(3). 

Devitts, Devits, , 

210. 

Capt., 210. 
Del Carmen (schr.), 

154. 

Delano, S., 75. 
Delaware (schr.), 154. 
Delphin (brig), 154. 
Dennen, Nathaniel, 

279. 

Dennie, William, 287 
(2), 327(4). 

Dennis, , 9. 

Amos, 9, 11(2). 



861 

Dennis, James, 11(2), 

221 (2),223. 
Dennison, George W., 

268. 

Denny, Nancy, 141. 
Derby, Darby, Rich- 
ard, 84, 283, 284 
(2), 285(3), 286(2), 
287, 325, 326. 
Capt. Richard, 83, 
89, 95, 122, 123(2), 
286, 287. 
Richard, jr., 282, 

283(2). 

Derry, N. H., 39. 
Deruse, John, 334. 
DeSelvia, A. C., 154. 
Deslesdernier (schr.), 

154. 

Desmere, Thomas, 92. 
Destebecho, Peter, 

270(2). 

Dever, John, 223. 
Devereaux, Devereux, 

Devorix, , 12, 

13(2). 

Captain, 255. 
Doctor, 242(3), 243. 
Mrs. Ann, 13. 
Humphrey, 13(2). 
Dr. Humphrey, 242, 

243. 

James, 255. 
John, 12, 22(12),229, 

230. 
John, sr., 229, 230, 

243. 

Joseph, 13. 
Ralph, 13. 
Robert, 12, 13(4). 
DeWent, Lucas, 128. 
Diadem (ship), 267. 
Diamond (brig), 154. 
Diana (ship), 154. 
Diana (sloop), 154. 
Dido (brig), 63. 
Dingwell, Rev. James, 

59. 

Dinham, William, 89. 
Diomede (brig), 155. 
Diomede (privateer), 

155. 

Diomede (ship), 267. 
Dismount, Peter, 82. 
Dispatch (brig), 155 

(2). 
Dispatch (ship), 157. 



362 



INDEX. 



Divina Pastora (ship), 

155. 
Dod, Sarah, 8. 

Dodge, , 98, 99. 

Captain, 100(2), 101 
(4), 102(2), 105(3), 
106(3). 

Colonel, 112(2). 
General, 97(2), 112, 

113. 

Lieut., 99. 
Major, 107 (3), 108(2), 
109(3), 110(4), 111 
(6), 112, 130. 
Benjamin, 190. 
Eben, 97, 107. 
Francis, 97(2). 
Capt. F. S., 106. 
Francis S M 98, 99, 

100. 

Capt.Francis S., 105. 
Francis Safford, 97. 
George, 328. 
J., 318. 
Joanna, 97. 
Mrs. Mary Hunt 

(Weston), 97. 
Rebecca (Brown) ,97. 
Col. Robert, 97. 
Dodson, Daniel, 197. 
Dolliber, Doliber,Dol- 
lever, Dorothy, 
183. 

Joseph, 8(2), 307. 
Samuel, 183(2). 
William, 331. 
Dolphin (schr.), 69, 

328. 
Dolphin (privateer), 

155(2). 
Dolphin (sloop), 121, 

156. 

Doltz, J. A., 159. 
Dominica (schr.), 156. 
Donaldson, Henry, 88. 
Don Carlos(schr.),156. 
Donderon, Dondoron, 

, 122, 123(2). 

D. F., 123. 

Doneker, Jacob Sam- 
uel, 328. 

Doris (ship), 156. 
Dorman, Ellis, 42. 
Dorrier, John & Co., 

332. 

Dotterell (ship), 156. 
Dowers, B., 79. 



Downing, , 3(2), 

4, 14(2). 

Emanuel, 3, 7. 

John, 199. 

Richard, 13, 93. 
Dove, Mary, 57. 
Dove (privateer), 75, 

263. 

Dove (schr.), 156(4). 
Dover (ship), 265. 
Dragon (ship), 78(4), 

157(2). 

Drake (sloop), 156. 
Drayton, Gaven, 91. 
Dreadnaught (priva- 
teer schr.), 69. 
Dresser, John, 301. 
Drew T., 321. 
Driggs, B., 158. 
Drinkwater, Samuel, 

74. 

Driver, Michael, 287, 
325(2). 

Capt. Michael, 329. 

Solomon, 275. 
Dromo (schr.), 156. 
Drury, Dr. John, 228. 
DuBre, E., 84. 
Duck (ship), 157. 

Dugas, , 324. 

Dunbar, James, 86. 
Duncan, J. H., 26. 

Dunlap, , 299. 

Dunn, J., 321. 

James, 286(2), 287. 

Dunston, , 350. 

Duston, Dustin, , 

350(2). 

Abiah, 351. 

Abigail, 351(2). 

Amos, 351. 

Caleb, 352(2). 

David, 352, 353. 

Ebenezer, 351. 

Elizabeth, 349, 351, 
353. 

Hannah, 350(3), 353. 

James, 353(2). 

John, 351, 352(3), 
353. 

Jonathan, 351-353. 

Joshua, 352. 

Lydia, 351-353. 

Martha, 351. 

Mary, 351(2), 352. 

Mehitable, 351, 352. 



Duston, Nathaniel, 

351, 352 (2). 
Obadiah, 352(2). 
Paul, 353. 
Ruth, 353. 
Dr. Samuel, 353. 
Sarah, 351, 353. 
Simeon, 352. 
Stephen, 351, 352. 
Thomas, 348, 349(3), 
350(7), 351(4), 352. 
Thomas, jr., 351. 
Timothy, 351-353. 
Walker Ezekiel,353. 
Dutch, Rev. Mr., 166, 
194, 304. 

Dutt, , 250. 

Dwight, Rev. Mosley, 

200. 
Dwinell, James, 295. 

Jonathan, 295. 
Dyer, A., 261. 

William, 155. 
Eagle (schr.), 157. 
Earl of Moira (ship), 

155. 

East Anglia, 247. 
Eastern Railroad 17, 
19, 22, 32(5), 34, 
38-55. 
Eastern Star (ship), 

157. 

Eastman, Hannah, 134. 
Eastwick, Emma War- 
field, 60. 
Mary Emma, 60. 
William, 60. 
Eaton, David, 302. 
Elbridge A., 295. 
William G., 295,302. 
Eclipse (sloop), 157. 
Economy (brig), 157. 

Eddington, , 78. 

Edgcomb, Nicholas, 

190. 
Edmondson, Pollard, 

126. 

Edney, George P., 297. 
Capt. James, 303. 
John, 303. 
Edward (brig), 157. 
Edward & Hiram 

(schr.), 157. 
Eldy, Joseph, 328. 
Elathorp, John, 223. 

Eldred, , 261. 

Eleanor (schr.), 157. 



INDEX. 



363 



Elias, David, 283. 
Eliphinstone, R., 321. 
Elipse (schr.), 157. 
Eliza (brig), 158. 
Eliza (schr.), 158(4). 
Eliza Ann (sloop), 158. 
Elizabeth (brig), 158. 
Elizabeth (schr.), 279. 
Elizabeth (ship), 115. 
Elizabeth (sloop), 158. 
Elkins, Henry, 282. 
Ellen (brig), 158. 
Ellenwood,Ellinwood, 

Andrew, 121. 
Benjamin, 121. 
Capt. Ebenezer, 85. 
Ellidge, Hannah, 244. 
Elliot, Eliot, Ellott, 
Col., 334(2), 336 
(3), 340. 

Ellstrom, B., 150. 
El Paso, 100. 
Elvira (sloop), 158. 
Elwell, Andrew, 98. 
Emeline (sloop), 158. 
Emerson, Benjamin 

F., 292. 

Hannah, 349, 350. 
Ithamar, 353. 
Michael, 350. 
Robert, 353. 
Stephen, 351, 353. 
Emery, Frances J., 

141. 

J., 268. 
Emmerton, George R., 

98. 

Emperor (schr.), 159. 

Emulous (ship), 74,76, 

77, 150, 152(2), 

160, 260, 263, 264, 

266(2), 267-269(2), 

319, 322, 324. 

Endeavour (schr.), 93, 

116. 
Endeavour (sloop), 

159. 
Endicott, Endecott, 

Capt., 2. 
Gov., 348. 
John, 2. 

Endymion (ship), 158, 
258, 263, 266, 270. 
Enigheton (brig), 159. 
Enterprise (brig), 159. 
Enterprise (schr.), 159 



Epervier (ship), 72(2), 

319- 
Epes, Samuel, 256. 

Symonds, 256. 
Eposy Mina (schr.), 

159. 

Erie (schr.), 159. 
Erquinigo, P., 320. 
Ervin, see Irving. 
Escopinische, , 

266. 
Esperanzo (schr.), 

160. 

Espoir (ship), 272. 
Essex Railroad, 27,34, 

39-55. 

Essex (ship), 278. 
Estella, J. E., 72. 
Etna (ship), 78. 
Eunice (schr.), 160 

(2). 
Euphemia, (schr.), 

160. 
Evans, J., 263. 

Evered , 183. 

Everett, J., 80. 

Evis, , 82. 

Capt. Benjamin, 82. 
Ex "Barshaw (sloop), 

160. 
Expedition (schr.), 

160. 
Experiment (schr.), 

160. 
Experiment (sloop), 

160(2). 



pabens, Mr., 315. 

William C., 315. 
Fabius (ship), 160. 
Factor (ship), 257. 
Fair Lady (schr.), 280. 
Fair Play (sloop), 257. 
Fair Trader (schr.), 

257(2). 
Fairbanks, Charles, 

289. 

Mollie, 61. 
Fairfield, John, 78. 

Walter, 223. 
Fairweather, James, 

318. 

John, 82. 
Falun (schr.), 257. 
Fame (sloop), 257, 258 

(4). 



Fanning, Michael, 329 

(2). 

Fanny (brig), 258(2). 
Fanny (ship), 258. 
Fantome (ship), 74, 
151, 153, 157, 321. 
Farnom, Susanna, 353. 
Farrow, S., 324. 

T. J., 153. 

Favorite (brig), 258. 
Favourite (schr.), 258. 
Federal (brig), 258. 
Fegan, John, 199(2). 
Felch, , 205(2). 

D. M., 161. 
Felt, Viola, 147. 
Felton, , 19. 

David, 312. 

John, 302. 

Sarah, 812. 

Fenelon (schr.), 259. 
Fenno, John, 141. 
Fereira.Antonio Jose, 

259. 
Ferguson, Archibald, 

9. 
Fernandez, Emanuel, 

79. 
Ferrier, Bernard, 287. 

Isaac, 287. 

James, 287. 

Jean, 287. 

Fexien, James, 827. 
Fidelia (ship), 259. 
Fields, William, 202. 
Financier (schr.), 259. 
Finland (ship), 259. 
Finlay, C., 151. 
Firmina (ship), 259. 
Fish, Capt., 334, 342, 
343(2), 346. 

J., 322. 

Fishley, George, 267. 
Fisk, Jonathan, 275. 

Dr. Joseph, 291. 
Fitch, D., 74. 

Thomas, 126. 
Fitchburg Railroad, 

33. 
Flagg, , 124. 

, sr., 125. 

Flash (sloop), 259. 
Fleck, Adeline, 60. 

Clara, 60. 

William A., 60. 
Fletcher, Flecher,Lt., 
340. 



364 



INDEX. 



Fletcher, Oliver, 116. 
Flight (schr.), 259. 
Flint, , 8. 

William, 5, 8. 
Flor DeLisboa (brig), 

259. 
Flor De Mar (ship), 

259. 
Flor De Tejo (brig), 

259. 

Flower (schr.), 260. 
Floyd, Hannah, 143. 
Fludyer, Samuel, 332. 

Thomas, 332. 
Fly (privateer), 154, 

156, 261, 319. 
Folger, Timothy, 258. 
Foot, Caleb, 303. 

David, 298. 
Forest Kiver, 2(2), 5 

(2), 6, 12. 
Forret, E., 319. 
Forsyth, L., 77. 
Forth (ship), 152. 
Fortune, Mary, 8. 
Fortune (schr.), 260 

(2). 

Fortune (ship), 260. 
Foster, Capt., 218. 

Mr., 299. 

Annis, 811. 

Arthur J., 148. 

Daniel, 218, 219. 

E., 272. 

Ebenezer, 311(2). 

James, 87, 95(2). 

John, 90. 

Moses, 303, 304. 

Moses, jr., 304(3). 

Runnels, 303(2). 

S., 202. 

Samuel, 202. 

Stephen, 197, 202. 

Thomas, 88. 
Fountain, W., 267. 
Four Brothers (schr.), 

82, 260(2). 
Four Friends (schr.), 

260. 
Four Sisters (ship), 

260. 

Fowle, Mr., 312(3), 
313. 

Jacob, 312, 313. 

Susannah, 313(2). 
Fowler, , 134(4). 

Benj., 341. 



Fowler, Jeremiah, 134. 

Jonathan, 134. 

M., 272. 

Richard, 20, 23. 

William, 200, 204, 

296. 

Fox (schr.), 260. 
Fox (ship), 260. 
Fox (sloop), 260. 
Francisca De Paula 

(brig), 261. 

Francklin(sloop), 261. 
Franklin (schr.), 261. 
Fraser, T., 322. 
Frederick Augustus 

(ship), 261. 
Free Port (sloop), 261. 
Freeman, Mrs., 296 
(2). 

James, 285(2). 

W., 271. 

French, Ralph H., 58. 
Friends (ship), 135. 
Friendship (schr.),261 

Friendship (priva- 
teer), 261. 
Friendship (sloop), 

262(2). 

Frim, G., 319. 
Frost-fish brook, 6. 
Frothingham, Tabi- 

tha, 119. 
Thomas, 119. 
Frye, Fry, David, 95. 
Peter, 287. 
Thomas, 329. 
Fryers, Austin, 119. 
Fuller, Capt., 127, 220 

(2). 
Capt. Andrew, 209, 

333. 
Col. Archelaus, 209 

(2). 

Benjamin, 209. 
Mary, 209. 
Furbush, John, 241 

(2). 
Furnace, William,232, 

233. 
Fylinda (sloop), 262. 



Cage, Sarah, 352. 

Gale, , 7, 9, 167. 

Ambrose, 3(2), 7(2), 
9(2). 



Galloway (ship), 262 

(2). 
Gamala La Delso 

(brig), 262. 
Gannett (schr.), 262. 
Gardiner (ship), 262. 
Gardner, Gardiner, 
A., 259. 

B., 266. 

Charles W., 54. 

George, 243. 

Henry, 243. 

John, 116. 

Capt. John, 6, 328. 

Capt. Jonathan,115. 

R., 150. 

Samuel, 243(3). 

Thomas, 2. 

Weld, 243. 

Garland, George, 84. 
Garrison, J., 157. 
Gaster, Capt., 329. 
Gatchell, Gachel, Ga- 
chell, Gatchel, 
, 10, 232. 

Anna, 240. 

Increase, 240. 

Jeremiah, 10(3), 11 
(2). 

John, 10(2), 11. 230, 

231, 232(2), 233(2). 
John, sr., 228(2), 

232, 233(3). 
Jonathan, 232, 233 

(2). 

Orren L., 200. 
Samuel, 240. 
Sarah, 232. 
Tabitha, 240. 
Thomas, 232(2). 
Waybrough, 232. 
Gates, General, 134. 
Gatman, Samuel, 85. 
General Green(sloop), 

262. 
General Hodgson 

(sloop), 262. 
General Marion 

(schr.), 268. 
General Putnam (pri- 
vateer), 263. 
General Smyth (pri- 
vateer), 260, 320. 

George, , 195. 

David, 270. 
John, 206. 



INDEX. 



865 



George, Levi B., 177, 

195, 298, 302. 
George (brig), 263(4). 
George (schr.), 187. 
George Washington 

(schr.), 263. 
Georgetown, Mass., 
17(3), 18(9), 19(2)- 
55, 163, 164, 166, 
168, 170, 172. 
Georgetown Branch 
Railroad, 18, 25, 
34-55. 

Georgetown & Law- 
rence Railroad, 
27. 
Georgetown Railroad, 

17, 24, 25. 

Georgiana (ship), 263. 
Gerrish, Col., 132. 
Col. Henry, 134. 
Gerry, Elbridge,Esq., 

311. 

Geyar, Henry, 77. 
Gibbs, Henry, 85. 
Henry & Co., 85. 
P., 261. 

Giddings, , 301. 

Gift (schr.), 263. 
Gilbert, G. H., 77. 

Gile, Giles, , 172, 

228. 

David, 299. 
James, 115. 
Samuell, 115. 
Rev. Thomas W., 

299. 
Gillam, Edward, 89. 

Gilmore, , 20, 26. 

Girdler, Ann, 240. 
Elizabeth, 240. 
Jane, 57. 
Joseph, 57. 
Nicholas, 240. 
Nicholas, jr., 279. 
Tabitha, 240. 
Gladding, D., 321. 
Glawson, F., 323. 
Gleaner (sloop), 264. 
Gleaner (privateer), 

263. 
Glover, Jonathan, 13 4. 

W., 153. 

Godet, Theodore, 279. 
Godfrey, John, 348. 
Goldsmith, Notley, 
280. 



Gone, Capt., 216. 
Good Hope (schr.), 

264. 

Goodrich, Charles, 
264. 

John, 167. 

Wm., 292. 

Goodwin, , 238(2), 

239(2). 

Benjamin, 136. 

Eleazer P., 199. 

Elizabeth, 138. 

Eunice, 137. 

Ruth, 133. 

Samuel, 239. 

Timothy, 238(2), 
239. 

William, 191. 
Gopety, John, 184. 
Gordon, John, 102. 
Gorgas, Dr., 110. 
Gorham, D., 156, 265. 
Goshot, James, 95. 
Goss, , 200. 

Capt., 208, 292. 

Allen H., 199(2). 

J. E., 208(2). 

John, 199. 

John E., 208. 
Gossamer (letter of 

Marque), 264. 
Gossard, T., 263. 
Gott, , 12. 

Deacon, 13. 

Charles, 12. 
Gould, Goold, An- 
drew, 39. 

John, 272. 

Joseph, 187(2), 254. 
Gov. Plumer (schr.), 

264, 
Governor Shelby 

(schr.), 264. 
Grace (brig), 264. 
Grafton,Capt. Joseph, 

81. 

Gramsby, George,27l. 
Grant, James, 95, 115. 

Thomas, 58. 
Grauff, Simon de, 327. 
Gray, R., 75. 
Greely, Joseph, 299. 
Green, Col., 340, 347. 

Deborah, 64. 

John, 57, 255. 

Nathan, 127. 

Peter, 349(2), 350. 



Greenfield, Hannah, 

316. 
Peter, 816. 

Greenleaf, , 127. 

A. W., 54. 
Stephen, 127(2). 
William, 127. 
Greenough, Bailey, 

290. 
T., 201. 

William, jr., 181. 
Greyhound (sloop), 

84. 
Griffin, Capt. Eppes, 

317. 

John, 256. 
Joseph, 190. 
Samuel, 131. 
Griffith, James, 206, 

296, 297. 
N. H., 201, 205. 
Nathaniel H., 296, 

304(2). 

William, 296(2), 303. 
William, sr., 299. 
Groe, Samuel, 279. 
Groveland, Mass., 17, 
23, 26, 28, 29, 30, 
32, 33(2), 34, 53, 
161, 162(2), 163, 
165-167(2), 172(3), 
193(2), 289-304. 
Groves, Peter, 114. 
Guerriere (brig), 264. 
Guerriere (ship), 263. 
Guild, Abiah, 351. 
Gunter, Thomas, 115. 
Gurnell, Jonathan & 

Co., 119. 

Gustava (brig), 264. 
Gustava (schr.), 264. 
Gwinn, Thomas, 127. 
Gyfford, James, 332. 

Hale, Hales, Mr., 293. 

Alice, 138. 

Rev. Apaulus, 200. 

Benjamin Wood- 
well, 137. 

Charles E., 145. 

Charles E. W., 145. 

David, 138(2), 206 
(2). 

Eben, 206. 

Lt. Col. Ebenezer, 
141. 

Edward, 56, 57. 



866 



INDEX. 



Hale, Elbridge Gale, 

146. 

Eliphalet, 195(2). 
Eliza, 195. 
Elizabeth (Petten- 

gill), 137. 
Elizabeth Titcomb, 

146. 
Enoch, 133, 136, 137 

(2), 138. 
Florence Amelia, 

146. 

George, 60. 
Hannah Woodwell, 

138. 

Isaac, 138. 
Capt. John, 134. 
John, jr., 54. 
Jonathan, 195. 
Jonathan H., 292, 

206(2). 
Joseph, 293. 
Joseph W. L., 145. 
Capt. Joshua, 23. 
M. E., 39, 54. 
Mary, 137. 
Mary Ann (Gibbs), 

60. 

Mary Haskell, 146. 
Polly, 137, 138. 
Rebecca, 57. 
Robert, 184. 
S., 195. 
Samuel, 137, 138,194, 

195. 

Sarah Patterson,60. 
Solomon, 195. 
Thomas, 137. 
William, 138. 
Halifax, N. S.,69, 257, 

317. 
Halifax (packet ship), 

265. 

Hall, Moses, 76. 
Hallet, Hallett, D., 

272. 

Joseph, 245(2). 
Halson, A., 158. 
Hamilton, Gail, 97. 
Jeames, 343. 
William, 120. 
Hamlen, S., 73. 
Hammond, 0., 80. 
J., 77. 
John, 204. 
Hand, J. P., 262. 
Hannah (brig), 265. 



Hannah (schr.), 265. 
Hannah (sloop), 265. 
Harding, N., 72. 

Hardy, , 166, 195. 

Wid., 292. 
Aaron, 304. 
Andrew, 291, 294(2). 
Ann, 294. 
Arthur P., 161. 
Bailey, 293, 294. 
Benjamin, 195, 196, 

292(2), 293, 294(2). 
Calvin, 291(2). 
Charles, 204, 298(2), 

301, 304. 

Daniel, 290,298, 299. 
David, 194, 196, 294. 
Eben J., 292. 
Elijah, 291, 294. 
Elizabeth D., 292. 
Enos, 294. 
Ephraim, 198. 
Ezra, 174, 290. 
Gilbert P., 292, 294. 
Ira, 290. 

Isaac, 290, 294(2). 
J. B., 170, 294. 
Jacob, 290(3), 291, 

294(2). 

Jacob, jr., 290. 
James, 208. 
John, 296, 300. 
JohnH., 198. 
John B., 197(2), 294, 

297, 803. 

John Hinkson, 293. 
Jonas, 291. 
Jonathan B., 176, 

197, 291, 292. 
Joseph, 202, 290, 

291(3), 292, 293(5). 
Joshua, 291. 
Josiah, 294. 
Josiah G., 291. 
Leonard, 196, 291(3), 

292(2), 294. 
Luther, 289, 291, 

202(2), 204. 
Mancil, 203,204, 291, 

293, 294, 303. 
Manly, 201. 
Moses, 194. 
Nathan, 302(2), 303 

(2). 

Newman B., 291. 
Niles, 291, 292, 293. 
P. Braman, 291. 



Hardy, Philip, 170, 
292. 

Phineas, 291(4). 

Phineas B., 291. 

Pomp, 293. 

Priscilla, 290. 

Ruth, 202. 

8., 195, 293. 

Samuel, 291, 303. 

Samuel B., 199, 294. 

Sewall, 204, 292, 293 
(3). 

Silas, 195. 

Simon, 293. 

Stephen, 291(2). 

Sylvanus, 164, 208. 

Thomas, 291. 

Thomas, jr., 291. 

Timothy, 176. 
Hare (brig), 265. 
Hare (privateer), 267. 
Harlequin (privateer), 

265. 

Harriet (brig), 265. 
Harriet (schr.), 265. 
Harriet (sloop), 265. 
Harriman, , 168. 

Charles, 194(2), 206. 

E., 292(2). 

Enoch, 26, 162, 170, 
292(2), 294(2). 

George, 294(3). 

H., 292. 

Henry, 292. 

J. K., 294, 302. 

John, 294. 

Moses, 194(3). 

Nathaniel, 194(2). 

Nathaniel, jr., 194. 

Samuel, 174, 194(5). 
Harris, , 240(5). 

James Russell, 60. 

Samuel, 240. 

Susan, 60. 

Susan Tillie, 60. 

William, 114. 
Harrison, , 66. 

Hanson, 276(4). 

John, 66. 
Harvey, Stephen, 195 

(2). 

Harwood, Henry, 7. 
Haseltine, Triphena, 

352. 
Haskell, , 218. 

Emily (Haskell),147. 

Ezra, 147. 



INDEX. 



367 



iskell, Capt. Jacob, 

145. 

Lois Constant, 146. 
Martha, 147. 
Mary, 64, 142. 
Mary Newman, 145. 
William, 145. 
Haslett, Sarah A., 140. 
Hasten, Obadiah, 188. 
Hatch, William, 297, 

304. 

Hathorne, John, 330. 
William, 4, 97, 223. 
Maj. William, sr., 

234(2). 

Haverhill, Mass., 17 
(2), 23, 25, 27, 29, 
30, 31, 37, 38, 51, 
167. 

Hawkes, Hawke, Eb- 
enezer, jr., 234(2). 
Moses, 9. 
Hawkes & Babbidge, 

139. 

Hawkins, Capt., 87. 
Thomas, 245(2). 

Hawthorne, , 248. 

William, 5. 
Hays, John, 268. 
Hazard (schr.), 265. 
Hazzell, John, 82. 
Hearn, John, 159. 
Heath, W., 75. 
Hector (brig), 266(2). 
Helen (ship), 266,270. 
Heman, William, 302. 
Henchman,Nathaniel, 

jr., 189(2). 

Hendley, Henley,Ben- 
jamin, 237, 245(2). 
Henrietta (ship), 266. 
Henry, William, 199. 
Henry (schr.), 266. 
Henry (ship), 266(2). 
Henry Gilder (brig), 

266. 

Herald(privateer),266. 
Herbert, Benjamin, 

123. 

Cuthbert, 280. 
Michael, 280. 
Herculaneum (brig), 

266. 

Herman (ship), 267. 
Hero (brig), 267. 
Hero (schr.), 267(3). 
Hero (ship), 257. 



Hero (sloop), 267(2). 
Herrick, Andrew,281. 
Hersey, Caleb, 26. 
Hesper (brig), 267. 
Hetty (brig), 267. 
Hewett, , 14. 

William, 14(2). 
Heyliger, Heylager, 
Hyleger, Hannah, 
182. 

Joshua, 329. 

Nicholas, 284, 285, 
286(2). 

Peter, 329. 

William, 122, 127(2), 

182, 329. 

Hibernia (schr.), 267. 
Hicks, Joshua, 116. 
Higbee, Eva May, 149. 
Higginson, John, 84. 

Stephen, 186. 
High Flyer (tender), 

262. 
Hiland Hill (sloop), 

268. 
Hill, Hills,Albert,299. 

Ebenezer, 160. 

Edward, 304. 

George W., 196, 203. 

Lt. John, 317. 

Stephen, 126. 

Thomas, 126(2). 
Billiard, Hilyard, 
Benjamin, 23. 

J., 318. 
Hilton, Benjamin, 85. 

John, 85. 

Capt. John, 126(2). 

Hinds, , 167. 

Hinkson, B. G., 290, 
294(2). 

Benjamin G., 197, 

293(2). 

Hiram (schr.), 268(2). 
Hobson, , 170. 

Ann, 169. 
Hocquard, F., 72. 
Hodgekins, John, 115. 

William, 115. 
Hodgden, Stephen, 

277(2). 

Hodges, Gamaliel, 277. 
Hoeman, Edward, 8. 

Hogg, , 158, 265. 

Holgrave, John, 2. 
Holland, , 125. 

Edward, 115. 



Holland, S., 151. 

William, 126. 
Hollowels, Benjamin, 

118. 
Holman, John, 190. 

Holmes, Homes, . 

8, 197. 

A. P., 24. 

John, 8(2). 

R., 157. 

Nathaniel, 294. 

Thomas, 266. 
Holstein (schr.), 268. 
Holt, Hannah, 11. 

Joshua, 219. 

Nicholas, sr., 11. 

Holton, Houlton, 

James, 312(3). 

Joseph, jr., 312. 
Holyoke, Rev., 256. 
Homer, John, 79. 
Honestus (ship), 268. 
Hooper, Capt. Green- 
field, 189. 

Robert, 189, 311. 
Hope, A. S., 318. 

Adrian, 281(2), 329 
(2). 

Thomas, 281(2), 329 

(2). 

Hope (brig), 268. 
Hope (schr.), 268. 
Hope (ship), 268(2). 
Hope (sloop), 268. 
Hope for Peace (shal- 
lop), 269. 
Hopkinson, , 167. 

Caleb, 296(2). 

Caleb, sr., 296. 

Charles W., 304. 

D. W., 298. 

Daniel, 296(2), 297 
(3). 

David, 296(2). 

David W., 177, 297 
(2). 

Eben, 204, 301. 

Eben, jr., 304. 

Edwin, 198, 199. 

Ira, 201. 

John, 166, 296, 297. 

Nathaniel, 296, 297. 

P., 161. 

Samuel, 301. 

Ens. Samuel, 300. 

Silas, 301. 

Lt. Silas, 204, 297. 



368 



INDEX. 



Hopkinson, Thomas 
M., 199. 

Uriah, 175(2), 201. 

Walter H., 297(2). 

William, 199, 200, 
202, 204. 

W. N., 177. 
Hopkinton, N. H.,132. 
Hopper, William, 280. 
Hoppet (brig), 269. 
Hore, Col., 218. 
Horn, A., 267. 
Hornet, (schr.), 272. 
Horton, Daniel, 59. 
Houghland, Joseph, 

89. 

Hovey, Capt., 337,839, 
340, 348. 

Benjamin K., 200, 
299, 302, 304. 

Henry L., 203. 

L., 202. 

Leonard, 208, 301. 

R. P., 200, 201. 
Howard, , 297. 

Benjamin, 203. 

Benjamin F., 202. 
Howe, , 210. 

Lord, 213(2). 
Howe (brig), 269. 
Howell, Capt., 347. 
Howes, Mulford, 154. 
Hoyt, David W., 348, 
350. 

J. C., 194. 

Joe, 55. 

John C., 206(2). 

Joseph, 206. 
Hudson, George, 166, 
200(2). 

Sarah, 57. 
Hudson, Fort, 100. 
Hughes, Captain, 99. 

Lieutenant, 103. 

John, 140. 

Hulin, Huling, Abi- 
gail, 56, 57. 

Abigail Wood, 57. 

Elizabeth, 57. 

John, 57(2). 

John Chandler, 57. 

Mary, 57. 

Peter, 56(2), 57(2), 
58. 

Sarah, 57. 
Hull, George, 125. 

Gilman, 292. 



Humphries, Humph- 
reys, , 1, 2, 3 

(2), 4. 

John, 1(2), 2(2), 7. 
Hunt, Benjamin G., 
140. 

Charles W. T., 141. 

David W., 140. 

Elizabeth W., 140. 

Gideon W., 140. 

Hannah, 141. 

Isaac, 291. 

Isaac J., 140. 

John, 320. 

John W., 140. 

Lydia, 140, 141. 

Mary W., 141. 

Mercy B., 140. 

Mercy (Woodwell), 
140. 

Nathaniel, 133, 140 
(2). 

Nathaniel B., 140. 

William, 140. 
Hunter (sloop), 269. 
Huntress,A. J., 208(2). 

George, 166,200,202. 
Huntress (sloop), 269. 
Hurl, Jacob, 206. 
Hurlburt, Albert G., 
54, 55. 

Hurlock, , 118. 

Husaren (brig), 269. 
Husbands, Richard, 

275. 

Huse, John, 18, 20. 
Hussar (privateer), 

269. 
Hutchinson, Col., 333. 

Lieut., 214. 

J., 320. 



|da (brig), 269. 
Illuminator (brig), 269 

(2). 
Indian (ship), 75, 257, 

261, 324. 
Industry (schr.), 87, 

269(2), 270. 

Industry (sloop), 270. 
Ingals, Mary, 351. 
Ingersoll, Ingersol, 

,84. 

Capt., 127(3). 
Joseph, 253. 
Nathaniel, 84(2). 



Ingersoll, Capt. Nath- 
aniel, 86,122,127. 
Invincible (ship), 270 

(2). 
Ipswich, Mass., 34, 

35(2), 188. 
Ipswich (schr.), 120. 

Ireson, , 12. 

Benjamin, 12(2). 
Irving, Irvine, Ervin, 
Erving,David,203. 
S. D., 304. 
Washington, 252. 
William, 184, 318. 
Isabella (brig), 270. 
Isley, E., 267. 
Isnardon, P. T., 269. 
Ives, Benjamin, 95(2), 

120. 

Capt. Benjamm.120. 
Ivinada, J., 154. 

Jack (ship), 70. 
Jackman, Dea., 194. 

Rachel, 352. 
Jackson, , 266. 

Col., 333(2), 336, 338 
(3), 340(2)-342. 

Bethiah, 182. 

George, 182, 313. 

Dr. George, 313(2). 

Mary, 313. 
Jacobs, Col., 337. 

Jacobus, 284(2). 
James, Mr., 311. 

Benjamin, 312(2). 

Erasmus, 181, 237, 
309, 311, 312(2), 
813(2). 

Jane, 18, 310, 311, 
313. 

Joanna, 312. 

Richard, 312. 
James (schr.), 270. 
Jameson, J., 75. 

James N., 202, 203. 

John, 289. 
Jane (brig), 270. 
Jane (schr.), 270. 
Jane (ship), 270. 
Jane (sloop), 270, 271 

(2). 

Janus (sloop), 271(2). 
Jaques, , 171. 

Eben, 300. 

Moses, 295. 

Parker, 171. 




INDEX. 

Jarvis, Edward, 114. Joslin, Elizabeth, 348. 

Jaseur (ship), 72, 73 Jostrand, P., 321. 

(3), 157(2), 269. Joy, David, 152. 

Jefferson, Capt., 118. P., 158. 

Jefferson (schr.), 271. Juana (sloop), 272. 

Jenkins, Francis, 269. Jubilee (sloop), 95. 
Jennett (brig), 271. 
Jennings, John, 303. 



Jenny (ship), 184. 
Jerusalem (ship), 271. 
Jerusha (sloop), 271. 
Jessopp, Dr., 250(2). 
Jewett, Eben P., 169. 

Dea. Ezekiel, 164. 

Isaiah, 299, 300(2). 

Jonathan, 195. 

Samuel, 207. 

Dr. Seth, 204(2). 
Jno. & Miriam (schr.), 

272. 

Joachim (schr.), 59. 
Joannah (schr.), 271. 
John (brig), 271, 272. 
John (sloop), 272. 
John & Mary (brig), 

272. 
John Adams (brig), 

272. 
Johnson, Alice, 131. 

Alice (Taylor)^131. 

AnnaB., 304. 

Francis, 8(2), 244. 

G., 71. 

Hannah, 8. 

Isaac, 131. 

Leonard, 26. 

Patrick, 296, 297. 

Samuel, 290. 

Sarah, 351, 353. 
Johnston, A., 265. 

E., 156. 

George W., 300. 

J. B., 296. 

John, 302. 

Thomas, 296. 
Jones, , 84. 

Mrs. Ann, 66. 

D., 323. 

J. 0., 293. 

John, 278. 

Capt. John, 87. 

Samuel B., 197. 
Jordan, J., 268, 321. 
Joseph (schr.), 92, 

274. 

Joseph & Mary (brig), 
272. 



Judith (schr.), 272. 
Judith (ship), 272(2). 
Julian (schr.), 272(2), 

317(2). 
Juliana Smith (schr.), 

317. 

Juliet (sloop), 317. 
Junkins, Albert R., 

136. 

Betsey, 136. 
David, 136. 
Edwin D., 136. 
George P., 136. 
W. Wallace, 136. 
Junon (ship), 75, 78, 
80, 259(2),264, 270, 
271. 
Justin, P., 271(2). 

Keen, Robert R., 196. 

W., 84. 

Kelly, Kelley, , 

259. 

Abby, 59. 

John, 233(4). 

John W., 198. 

Rose, 233. 

Samuel, 234. 
Kenclal, James, 184. 
Kent, Stephen, 132. 
Kepple (ship), 66. 
Kettell, Joseph, 87. 
Keysor, Elizur, 130. 

Walter S., 143. 
Kilby, Edward, 348. 

Joseph, 152. 
Kile, Miriam, 126. 
Kimball, Kimbal, 

Kymball, ,169, 

170, 200. 

Lt., 337, 340. 

A., jr., 54. 

Benjamin, 280. 

Daniel, 170. 

Enoch H., 198. 

George N., 197. 

James, 352. 

John, 11. 

Mary, 11. 

Samuel, 196. 

Seth, 161. 



369 

Kimball, Thomas,117, 
169, 177, 198, 296. 

King, , 4. 

Mr., 315. 
Alexander, 296. 
Benjamin, 315. 
Francis, 66, 67. 
John, 277. 
Samuel, jr., 234(3). 
King George (brig), 

317. 

King of Prussia (priv- 
ateer), 288, 326. 
Kingsbury, Kingsber- 

ry, Kinsbury, , 

255, 349. 
James, 349. 
John, 349(2), 350. 
Kittredge, Alfred, 26. 
Kitty (brig), 70(2). 

Klemeke, , 81, 82. 

Knapp, Capt. Isaac, 

297. 
Sarah, 135. 

Knight, , 8, 123 

(2)-125. 
Wid., 292. 
Elizabeth, 8. 
Emma, 125. 
Francis, 124, 125. 
Johanny, 125. 
John, 124(8), 125(3), 

126(4). 
Joseph, 125. 
Martha, 125. 
Mary, 125. 
Thomas, 292, 293. 
William, 124(3), 125 

(2). 

Knott, Eleanor, 316. 
Hannah, 316. 
Richard, 221(2), 223, 

229, 230, 316. 
Knox, Eli, 199, 206. 
Kurtz, John, 98. 



Lacock, William, 197. 
Ladd, Esquire, 173. 

J. L, 201. 

N., 173. 

Dea. N., 165, 300. 

Dea. Nathaniel, 199. 
Lady Prevost (brig), 

317. 

Laflin, Joseph, 346. 
LaFortune (sloop), 92. 



370 



INDEX. 



La Hogue (ship), 72, 
75, 79, 80, 154, 155 
(2), 158(2), 258, 
259, 262, 266, 271, 
321(2), 324. 

Lake, , 194. 

S. Page, 32, 54. 
Lambert, Edmund,89. 

Joseph, 282. 
Lamphere, George, 

349. 

Mary, 349. 

Lampriere,James,122. 
Lander, William, 115. 
Landhetteren, Elisa- 
beth Helleur, 84. 
Thomas, 84. 
William, 84(3). 
Landrail (cutter), 317. 

Lane, , 81, 82. 

Thomas, 120, 284(2), 

328. 

Lane & Booth, 279, 
287, 327, 328(2), 
329(2), 330. 

Lane & Gas well, 89(2). 
Langdon, E., 267. 
Langford, Elizabeth, 

130. 

Paul, 130. 
Langley, Jonathan, 

202, 204(2), 206. 
Warren, 199. 
Larane, Capt., 216. 
Lark (schr.), 318. 
Lark (sloop), 318. 
Laron, John, 285. 
Lashere, Abraham, 

237. 

Lasky, Joseph, 184. 
Lattime, Aldis War- 
ren, 140. 

Andrew Leach, 140. 
Benjamin Hunt,140. 
Charles, 140. 
Clinton Preble, 140. 
Emma Louisa, 140. 
Frank Lewis, 140. 
Frederick Augus- 
tus, 140. 
George, 140. 
George Whitfield, 

140. 

Gideon W., 141. 
Gideon Woodwell, 

140(2). 
Hannah Leach, 140. 



Lattime, Harriet Ann, 

140. 

Hartwell, Leroy, 140. 
James, 140. 
James Henry, 140. 
Lizzie, 140. 
Lydia Mary, 140. 
Mary Abbie, 140. 
Mary Julia, 140. 
Mary Wood well, 140. 
Nicholas, 139, 140 

(2). 

Polly, 140. 
Sarah, 140. 
Stephen Decatur, 

140. 
Lattimer, Lattamore, 

Lattimore, ,15 

(3), 16(2). 

Christopher, 15(2), 

229, 230, 307, 309. 

Laughton, Henry, 287. 

Laura Jane (schr.), 

318. 
Laurestinus (ship), 

267. 

Laven, Georgianna,68. 
James, 68. 
James William, 68. 
William, 68(2). 
William George, 68. 
William Henry, 68. 
Lavinia (ship), 318. 
Lawrence, James, 117, 

118(2), 150. 
Lawrence, Mass., 17- 

19, 23, 27, 29, 34. 
Lawry (schr.), 318. 

Leach, Leech, , 

238. 

Andrew, 141. 
Asa, 281. 
Benjamin, 274. 
Eliza, 140. 
John, 238. 
John, jr., 115. 
Sarah, 238. 

Leander (brig),73, 153. 
Leander (ship), 258, 

263. 

Leavitt, Francis, 321. 
LeBlanc, Paul, 187. 
LeBreton, Peter, 62. 

Thomas, 122. 
Lechmore, Thomas, 

jr., 276. 
LeCraw, John, 242. 



Lee, Col., 336. 

Andrew, 231. 

Elizabeth, 231. 

Jeremiah, 84. 

Col. Jeremiah, 274. 

John, jr., 280. 

Kichard, 123. 

Samuel, 87, 119. 

Thomas, 85. 
Leechmere, Richard, 

281(2). 
Lefavour, David, 68. 

John, 58. 

Lydia, 58. 

Lydia (Orne), 58. 
Legal Tender (brig), 

818. 

LeGallais, David, 314. 
Legg, Captain, 245, 
246. 

Colonel, 245. 

Daniel, 9(2), 309. 

John, 9(5), 10, 231, 
234, 244, 309(2). 

Capt. John, 234(2), 
237, 245(2), 246. 

Col. John, 309. 

Samuel, 9(2), 10,309. 

Capt. Samuel, 9. 
Legg's Hill, 5(2), 6. 
Leggarel, Capt. Ste- 
phen, 122. 

Leonidas (sloop), 318. 
Leopard (sloop), 90. 
Lesbirel, , 122. 

Jane, 122. 

Thomas, 122. 
Letheby, John, 220. 
Lewis, Capt., 62. 

Abby A., 63. 

Abigail, 57(2), 63. 

Abigail B., 63. 

Abigail Bigelow 
(Prentiss), 63. 

Abigail Prentiss,64. 

Ann, 66. 

Arthur Patterson, 
60. 

Betsey, 59, 62. 

Carl Anthony, 61. 

Caroline Lucy, 68. 

Carolyn Huntley,61. 

Carolyn Mary, 61. 

Charlotte, 63. 

Charlotte Caroline, 
64. 

Cyrus Anthony, 59 t 



INDEX. 



371 



Lewis, Dorathea, 60. 
E., 324. 

Edmund, 62-64. 
Capt. Edmund, 62 

(4), 63(2). 
Edward, 57(2), 58 

(3), 59. 

Capt. Edward, 59. 
Edward Luther, 59. 
Edwin, 63. 
Eliza Taft, 60. 
Elizabeth, 57, 60,62, 

67. 

Elizabeth Eddy, 60. 
Fanny A., 68. 
Francis Watts, 68. 
Frank Nichols, 60. 
Frederick Anthony, 

60.J 

Fredericka N., 63. 
George, 60. 
George Hail, 60. 
George Harlan, 56, 

62, 65. 

George Randall, 61. 
Hannah, 63. 
Harriet C., 64. 
Henrietta, 60. 
Henry Anthony, 60. 
Henry Prentiss, 63. 
Jacob, 78. 
James Henry, 60(2), 

61(2). 

John, 56(4), 57(3), 
59, 63(3), 64(2), 
65(3), 66(3), 67(3). 

John Lindsey, 68. 

John Street, 60. 

Joseph William, 59. 

Joshua Orne, 59. 

Joshua P., 63. 

Joshua Prentiss, 63, 
64. 

Kenneth Bnrnham, 
61. 

Lydia, 59(2), 66(4). 

Lydia Lefavour, 59. 

Mabel, 60. 

Marion Eddy, 61. 

Mary, 63. 

Mary Abby, 64. 

Mary Caroline, 63. 

Mary Carpenter, 59, 

Mary Haskell, 64. 

Miriam, 57, 62. 

Miriam R., 62. 

Philip Besom, 63. 



Liverpool Packet (pri- 
vateer), 72, 74, 78, 
150-154, 156, 157 
(2), 158, 257(3)-262 
(2), 264, 268(2), 
271, 272(2), 318, 
320(3), 324. 



Lewis, Polly, 63. 
Prentiss, 63. 
Rebecca, 57, 63. 
Richard, 60. 
Richard Anthony,59 

60(2). 

Robert Girdler, 59. 
Sarah, 57, 60, 65, 68 Liverpool Packet 

(2). (ship), 319. 

Sarah Abigail, 60. Livers, Arnold, 280. 
Sarah Patterson, 60. Livingston, Leving- 

ston, Col., 340. 
Alexander, 75. 
Lizard (schr.), 319. 
Locke, N., 258. 
Logan (sloop), 319. 

' - '"-), 78(2), 
2), 262- 



Susan Elizabeth, 68. 
Susanna, 60. 
Susannah, 68. 
Tabitha, 62. 
Tabitha R. , 64. 
Tabitha 
62. 



Thomas, 59(3). 
Thomas 
60. 



(Russell), Loire 

152, 



264. 



Fayrham, Long, Edward, 127. 

Henry Follansbee, 
Thomas Haskell,64. 17. 

Walter, 60. Longley, Rufus, 26. 

Walter Gibbs, 60. Longfellow, , 249. 

Lord, Jesse, 59. 
Loring, Lt., 337, 340. 
John M., 319. 
Thomas, jr., 95. 
Louisa (brig), 319. 
Liggarel,Stephen,121. Louisa (sloop), 320. 

Lillie, , 127. Loup Cervier (ship), 

158, 268, 272, 318. 
Love (schr.), 273, 276. 



William Brown, 68. 
William E., 64. 
William R., 63. 
William Russell, 63. 
Lewis (schr.), 318. 



Lime, , 210. 

Lincol, Lt., 337. 

Lincoln, Benj., 95(2). Lovell, , 340. 

Lindall, James, 114. 



Z., 160. 
Lindsey, Joseph, 245 Levering, John A., 



(2). 

Rebecca, 245. 
Sarah, 66. 
Ling, Edward, 95. 

Little, , 49(2). 

Edmund, 298. 
Samuel, 26, 34, 49 

52(2). 
William, 297, 304. 



54. 
Lovett, , 185. 

Benjamin, 280. 

Capt. Israel, 128. 

James, 63. 
Low, Francis, 94. 
Lowe, S., 257. 
Loyal Sam (ship), 320. 
Lucia (sloop), 320. 



Little Bill (schr.), 318. Lucretia (schr.), 320. 
Little Emulous (ship), Lucy, William, 302. 



75. 



Lucy (brig), 320. 



Little Joe (schr.), 318. Lucy (schr.), 320 (2). 
Little Sisters (schr.), Lumsden, George, 72. 

319. 

Little's Grove, 40, 42. 
Lively (schr.), 319 (3). 



Lunenburg (priva- 
teer), 155, 156,160, 
320. 

Lively (sloop), 319(2). Lunt, Dorcas, 138. 
Eliza, 138. 
Hannah, 138. 



Lively (privateer), 76, 
154, 156(2), 268, 
270, 319. 



Lydia, 135. 



372 



INDEX. 



Lunt, Mary, 141. 

Capt. Micajah, 23. 

Ruth, 148. 
Lurvey, Peter, 267. 
Luscomb, William,95. 
Lusitania (schr.), 114. 
Luskin, H., 78. 
Lydia (schr.), 320 (3). 
Lydia Webster(sloop), 

188. 
Lydston, John, 300. 

William, 199, 200. 

Lygett, , 322. 

Lyman, Lymon, Col., 
217(2). 

Maj., 340. 

Lynde, Symond, 11. 
Lynn, Mass., 4(6), 65- 

68. 

Lynn (sloop), 87. 
Lynnfield, Mass., 41, 

45, 48. 
Lynnfield Centre, 

Mass., 54. 
Lynx (schr.), 321. 

McCleod, John, 70, 

71. 
McDaniel, Jacob, 77. 

McDonald, , 73. 

Macdonough (brig), 

321. 

Mace, , 193. 
Mrs., 304. 
Wid., 291. 

Macfarlane, Wm., 78. 
Mclntire, J., 320. 
Mackey, Mackee, 

Capt. Daniel, 116, 

327(6). 

Daniell, 287(2). 
David, 330. 
McKenzie, R., 75. 

Samuel, 54. 
McLachlane, Henry, 

89. 

MacLaren, Annie,148. 
McLelland, A., 154. 
McMauus, John, 184. 
Macon, Fort, 98. 
McPherson, Capt., 

269. 
Maddocks, Caleb, 277 

(2). 

Maddox, Joshua, 114. 
Madison (schr.), 157. 
Magdalena(schr. ), 



Magnet (ship), 321. 
Maidstone (ship), 74 

(2), 75, 77, 152, 

155, 259, 263, 270, 

271, 319, 321(3), 

324. 

Maine, Henry, 230(2). 
Majestic (ship), 77, 

80, 156, 160, 270, 

271. 

Makepeace, , 188. 

Malaren (brig), 321. 
Malcolm (brig), 321. 
Malcom, Alexander, 

311. 

Elizabeth, 311. 
John Reed, 311(2). 
Mary, 311. 
Maloney, D., 79. 
Man, Nathaniel, 274. 
Manchester(brig),321. 
Manent, Mrs. Emma 

L. 5 136. 
Manhatton (sloop), 

321. 
Manly (ship), 78, 259, 

268. 
Manning, Richard, 

274, 275. 
Manson, J., 160. 
Manticook River, Ma- 
ryland, 86. 
Marble, J.,262. 

Phebe, 352. 
Marblehead, Mass., 

1(2), 4(2), 5, 6(2), 

56-64, 178, 221, 

305-316. 

Marden, , 292. 

Margaret (brig), 321. 
Margaret (schr.), 321. 
Margaret (sloop), 321. 
Maria (brig), 322. 
Maria (ketch), 322. 
Maria (privateer), 186. 
Maria (schr.), 322. 
Maria (ship), 322. 
Maria Frederica(brig), 

322(2). 
Maria Renomee 

(sloop), 329. 
Maria Windsor 

(schr.), 322. 
Maria, J. D., 160. 
Mariner (brig), 322. 
Mariner (ship), 322. 



Marlborough (ship), 

74, 259, 321. 
Marlin, Mrs. Mary A. 

S., 64. 

Marquis DeSomerlous 
(ship), 322. 

Marsh, , 193. 

Jonathan, 352. 
Varnum, 289. 
Marshal, S., 153. 
Marston, Benjamin, 

130, 274. 

Martha (schr.), 322. 
Martin, J., 72. 
John, 242, 316. 
Peter, 316. 
Robert, 316. 
Sarah, 242, 315, 816 

(2). 

Thomas, 316(2). 
Martin (ship), 76, 151, 
154, 156, 179(2), 
259, 265, 267(2), 
272, 320, 321(2), 
323. 

Martinez, , 74. 

Martino, , 203. 

Marvel, Abbie, 24. 
Mary (brig), 323. 
Mary (schr.), 91, 323 

(6). 

Mary (ship), 323. 
Mary (sloop), 323(2), 

324. 
Mary & Sarah (brig- 

antine), 282. 
Mary Ann (schr.),324. 
Mary Ann (sloop), 

120, 324. 
Mary Elizabeth (brig), 

324. 

Mascoll, Joseph, 277. 
Joseph, jr., 91, 273, 
274(2). 

Mason, , 266. 

Jonathan, 328. 
Massa, J., 160. 
Massachusetts (ship), 

324. 

Masten, Thomas, 330. 
Masters, Caroline 

Smith, 147. 
Charles, 147. 
Masters & Ballard, 89. 
Masury, Magery, Da- 
vid, 275(3). 
Capt. David, 128. 



INDEX. 



373 



Masury, Keziah, 93. 
William, 122, 123. 
Capt. William, 121, 

123. 

Matchet, John, 92. 
Mather, Rev. Cotton, 

131. 

Dr. Increase, 131. 
Matilda (privateer), 
73,261, 265, 266, 
320, 324. 

Matilda (ship), 320. 
Matterson, David, 95. 
Matthews, J., 323. 
Mauger, Joshua, 329. 
Maule, Hannah, 114. 
Joseph, 114. 
Thomas, 130. 

Maverick, , 3(3), 

182(2). 
Eunice, 14. 
Moses, 3, 4, 7(2), 8, 
9-11, 14, 223, 307. 
Paul, 235. 
May Flower (schr.), 

117. 
May Flower (sloop), 

324. 
Mayhew, Fortunatus, 

121. 

Medcalf , Samuel, 157. 
Medil Padria (brig), 

324. 

Meiers, George, 73. 
Melantho (ship), 324. 
Mello, T. de, 152. 
Melphomene (ship), 

78. 

Menelaus (ship), 154. 
Mentor (ship), 324. 
Mentor (sloop), 324. 
Merriam, Fred, 55. 

Merrihew, , 267. 

Joseph, 154. 
Merrill, A. M., 208. 
Albion M., 289. 
B. E., 202, 208, 301. 
Burton E., 202. 
James, 291. 
John, 292. 
Thomas, 289, 292. 
Merrimac River, 17, 

19, 32. 
Merrimack Academy, 

208. 

Merritt, Merrit, Gen- 
eral, 104(2), 105. 



Merritt, Abraham, 158. 

Henry, 98. 

John, 9(2), 

Nicholas, 9. 
Merry man, J., 266. 

Messer, , 351. 

Metcalf, Fisher, 291. 
Mezado, P. J., 259. 
Middlebrook, R., 156. 
Middleton, W.,74. 
Middleton, Mass., 209 

(4). 

Mighill, Ann, 177. 
Miguel, P., 156. 
Milleman,George, 345, 

347. 

Miller, John, 266. 
Peter, 245. 

Robert, 89. 

Milliken, , 318. 

Millon, George, 342, 

344. 

Minerd.Simen [?],210. 
Minerva (privateer), 

158. 
Minot, George,309(2). 

Stephen, 306, 309. 

Stephen, jr., 224. 
Mitchell, Mitchel, 
Capt., 164. 

Charles, 164, 206. 

Capt. D., 164, 175. 
Moffat, James, 258. 
Mohawk (ship), 74, 

267. 
Moller, Martin,284(2). 

Montard, , 87. 

Montcalm, , 217. 

Montgomery, G., 319. 
Moody, , 254. 

Carleton M., 60. 

Elizabeth Hail, 60. 

Lewis Ferry, 60. 
Mooers, Edmund, 353. 
Moore, 323. 

Captain, 100. 

Rev. Benjamin, 66. 

Gen. Francis, 100. 

Thomas, 7. 

William, 198. 

More, , 218. 

Morel, , 218. 

Morehead City, N. C., 

98. 
Morgan, , 70. 

John, 257. 

Samuel, 221(2), 223. 



Morgan, T. A., 159. 
Morgaridge, Samuel, 

92. 
Morgiana (ship), 78, 

156. 

Moriarty, T., 322. 
Morong, Capt., 122. 
Morrill,Elizabeth,853. 
Reuben, 95, 116. 
S. R., 205. 
Stan wood R., 205, 

303. 
Morrow, Mr., 329. 

Morse, Morss, , 

198. 

Capt., 212. 
Rev. B., 161, 201. 
Benjamin, 201. 
Rev. Bryan, 201(2). 
J. Sidney, 301. 
Joseph B., 20. 
Marcy, 352. 
Moses D., 199, 201. 
Sarah, 206. 
Stephen, 206, 296. 
Moselle (ship), 267. 
Moseley, Edward S., 
18. 

Moser, , 223. 

Moses, Samuel, 275. 
Motley, Joseph, 120. 
Mottey, Joseph, 287 

(5), 327. 
Moustrong, Powell, 

128. 

Mudge, J., 264. 
Muilman, Henry, 282. 

Peter, 282. 
Mulberry, Capt., 123, 

124(2), 125. 
Capt. Benjamin, 123. 
Mullett, Mullet,Abra- 

ham, 244(4). 
Mary, 244. 
Mulliken, Mullikin, 

, 169, 170,198, 

290. 

Daniel, 198. 
Robert, 198. 
Mumfard, Nathaniel, 

339. 
Munjoy, Martha, 179, 

180(3). 

Munro, David, 70. 
Munroe, Fortress, 107. 

Murphy, , 46. 

Myopia Hunt Club,97. 



374 



INDEX. 



Myrick, Myrrick, Jo- 
seph, 153. 
Peter C., 160. 



Narcissus (ship), 78, 
157(2), 259, 264, 
267. 

Nash, James, 332. 
Neal, Neale, Capt. 

David, 281(2). 
Mrs. Elizabeth, 116. 
John, 5. 

Capt. John, 116. 
Neck, William, 307. 
Needham, Elias, 46. 
Needham's Hill, 41. 
Neff, Mary, 349. 

Nelson, , 172. 

Aaron W., 294. 
Albert, 206. 
Benjamin Enoch,26. 
Thomas, 206. 
Neptune (brig), 282. 
Nesbit, William, 120, 

273. 

New Brunswick, 320. 
New England, 6. 
New York, 107. 
Newbern, N. C., 98. 
Newbury, Mass., 19, 
29,162(2), 164,188. 
Newburyport, Mass., 
17(6), 18(2) 55, 
171, 184. 

Newburyport & 

Georgetown Rail- 
road, 33. 

Newburyport Kail- 
road, 17, 19, 20(2), 
26, 27, 28, 29(2), 
33, 38, 39-55. 
Newburyport Silver 

Co., 148, 149. 
Newburyport Turn- 
pike, 19, 29. 
Newcastle (ship), 269. 
Newcomb, A., 271. 
Hannah D., 145. 
Newell, Newel, Rev., 

304. 

Harriet, 304. 
William, 319. 
Newford, P., 266. 
Newhall, Andrew, 68 

(2). 
Anna, 68. 



Newhall, Isabel, 68. 
John Brown, 68(2). 
Mary Ann, 68. 
Sally, 68(2). 
Susannah, 68. 
Newman, J., 264. 
Newson, Samuel, 266. 
Newton, Lavinia, 204. 

Silas H., 205. 
Nichols, Col., 216. 
Humphrey H., 293. 
S., 319. 
Warren, 42. 
William, 198. 
Nicholson, Christo- 
pher, 242. 
Edmund, 242. 
Elizabeth, 240(2), 

242. 

Joseph, 242. 
Judah, 14. 
Robert, 316. 
Samuel, 182(2). 
Sarah & Co., 329. 
Thomas, 240(3). 
Nick, Mr., 313. 
Christopher, 246. 
John, 246. 
Mary, 313(2). 
Susannah, 313. 
William, 313(5), 246 

(3). 

Nickerson, H., 261. 
Nicklas, George E., 

148. 

Ruth, 148. 

Niemen (frigate), 153. 
Niemen (ship), 151, 
159(2), 259, 266, 
267, 270, 271. 
Nimrod (ship), 74, 
150(2), 261, 266, 
317, 321(2), 322, 
323. 

Nixon, Richard, 84. 
Noording, Nicholas, 
279. 

Norden, , 9. 

J. C., 322. 
Nathaniel, 9(2). 
Capt.Nathaniel,309. 
Norman, Jonathan, 

11(2). 

Richard, 11. 
North, Capt., 340. 
North Andover,Mass., 
23, 27, 28. 



North Carolina, 98. 

Northend, , 46. 

W. D., 46. 
William D., 36, 39 

(2), 45. 
Northey, John, 307, 

314, 315(3), 316. 
Noyes, E. S., 164. 
Enoch S.,195(2),206. 
James, 143. 
John, 295. 
Follansbee, 206, 295 

(3), 296(2). 
Frances, 149. 
Samuel E., 26. 
Nyman, J., 321. 
Nymphe (ship), 74-76, 
78, 155, 156, 159, 
258, 262, 263, 268, 
317, 324. 

Qber, Benjamin, 120. 
Obrian, Capt., 188. 
Observer (brigantine), 

71(2). 

Olagubel, J. D., 159. 
Oliver, Thomas, 10. 
Onley, Lt. Col., 334. 
Ordway, Cyrus K., 

170. 

Ebenezer, 294. 
Eliphalet, 294. 
Hannah, 208. 
Jonathan, 294. 
Nathan, 202. 
Nehemiah & Co.,95, 

116. 

Samuel, 204. 
Orient (ship), 63. 
Orizaba (ship), 108. 
Orizaba (steamer),108 

(2). 

Orne, Joshua, 119. 
Josiah, 122, 123,268, 

276(2), 277. 
Timothy, 84, 186, 

284(4), 328(3). 
William, 76, 115. 
Ornes, Francis, 73. 
Orpheur & Maidstone 

(ship), 73. 
Orpheus (ship), 158, 

159, 259, 324. 
Osgood, Stephen, 24 

(2), 37, 44. 

Oulton, John, 181(2), 
190, 224. 



INDEX. 



375 



Oxnard, Mrs. Sarah, 
332. 

packet (privateer), 

318. 
Paddock, Lieutenant, 

103. 
Page, E. S., 173, 208. 

Eben S., 202, 289, 
300. 

Capt. Jeremiah,333. 

John, 175, 197, 202, 
302. 

Joshua, 353. 

Paul, 177. 

Paine, Payne, Captain, 
103, 104, 105(3). 

Gen., 100. 

Brig. Gen. C. J., 99. 

Charles J., 100. 

Palanchey, , 86. 

Palfrey, Peter, 2. 
Palmer, , 167,303. 

David, 202. 

John, 9, 70, 237,309. 

Moody M., 206, 298. 

Rebecca D., 203. 

Samuel, 303(2). 

William, 303(2). 
Panther (cruiser), 108. 

Parker, , 19, 167, 

172, 173(2). 

B., 76. 

Capt. B., 164(3),172. 

Dr. B., 164. 

Capt.Benjamin,168. 

Dr. Benjamin, 165, 
289, 290. 

Bradstreet, 289,290. 

Charles, 121. 

Dean, 202, 203. 

E. S., 290. 

Eldred S., 165, 289, 
290. 

G. N., 208. 

George A., 20. 

George S., 303, 304. 

Gilman N., 289. 

Henry C., 175. 

J., 156. 

John, 164, 173, 289. 

Moses, 164, 168, 169, 
208, 289. 

Nathaniel, 170. 

Peter, 164, 170, 173. 

Peter, sr., 289. 

Phineas, 165, 173. 



Parker, Sarah, 169. 

Solomon H., 175. 

Stephen, 26,172,176. 

W. L., 197. 

William, 202. 

Woodbridge, 175. 
Parsons, Jacob, 92(2). 

Jonathan, 195. 

William, 92(2). 
Patch, Brackinbry, 

276. 

Pattee, Sarah,351,352. 
Patterson, R., 269. 

Robert, 269. 
Pattin, Elizabeth, 57. 

John, 57(2). 
Paynter, Wm., 1'54. 
Paz (ship), 80, 317,322. 
Peabody, Charles,198. 

Otis K., 296. 
Peach, Alice, 12. 

John, 4, 12. 

John, jr., 3. 

John, sr., 3, 307. 
Peacock (schr.), 157. 
Peak, Elias, 228(3). 

George, 228. 

Peirce, Pearce, , 

269. 

James, 94. 

Capt. Joseph, 121. 
Pearson, Pearsons, 
Mrs., 299. 

Abner, 136. 

Abner Warner, 136. 

Betsey, 136. 

George Phippin, 
136. 

Harriet Eliza, 136. 

Jerusha, 291(2). 

Jonathan, jr., 133. 

Mary Frost, 136. 

Stephen Burdett, 

136. 
Pearson's Mills, 18, 

22, 32. 

Pease, Henry,229, 230. 
Peck, Pecks, Col.,345. 

M., 269. 

William, 89. 
Pecker, B. C., 163. 
Pedrick, , 15, 16. 

John, 15(3), 16(2). 
Pemberton, , 172. 

John, 173, 174. 

Luther K., 200. 
Pendleton, B., 318. 



Pendleton, P., 76. 
Peniston, Jeremiah, 

282, 283, 327. 
Pepperell, William, 

133. 

Perkins, David, 28. 
Nathaniel, 296. 
Nathaniel H., 296. 
Roger, 69. 
Samuel W., 301. 
Thomas W., 197. 
Perley, Sidney, 1, 178, 

221. 

Thomas, 52(2). 
Perry, - 168(2), 

177, 205, 208. 
Rev. Dr., 161, 173. 
Rev. G. B., 173, 

208(2). 
J., 324. 
Ruth, 353. 
William, 197(2). 
Peruvian (ship), 76, 
322. 

Peter, , 12. 

Hugh, 13(2). 
Rev. Hugh, 12. 

Petherick, ,15,16. 

John, 15. 
Pew, Jonathan, 254. 

Phillips, , 174. 

Samuel, 172. 

Rev. Samuel, 173, 

249. 

Phippen, Mrs. Abi- 
gail, 93. 
John, 93. 
Mary, 138. 

Pickett, , 25. 

Pickman, Benjamin, 
81(2), 275-277(2), 
278. 

Col. Benjamin, 280. 
Benjamin & Co., 89 

(4). 

Pictou (ship), 260,270. 
Pierpont, Joseph, 95 

(2). 

Pierson, Geo., 78. 
Pigot, George, 190. 
Pike, Betsey, 135. 
Nathaniel, 93(3). 
Pillsbury,Francis,296. 
John W., 55. 
Capt. Oliver, 165. 
Pindinghass, Thomas, 
336. 



376 



INDEX. 



Pingree, Asa, 34, 45. 
Pique (ship), 270. 
Pitman, , 8(4). 

Abiel, 8. 

Charity, 8(2). 

John, 8(3). 

Joseph, 8(2). 

Mary, 8. 

Thomas, 7(2), 8(3). 

Thomas, jr., 8, 9. 

Thomas, sr., 8. 
Pitt, William, 15. 
Plaisted, Col., 333. 

Ichabod, 93. 
Platts, Platt, Platte, 
Coleman, 26. 

Jonas, 295. 

Jonas, jr., 295. 

Mary J., 140. 
Plummer, Plumer, 
, 195. 

Bradstreet, 194. 

Georgia W., 144. 

Horace, 144(2). 

Jane, 144. 

John S., 194. 

Josiah, 206. 

Laura J., 144. 

Nathaniel, 194. 

Stephen, 195. 
Plumper (ship), 74, 

75, 266, 269. 
Plumpley, J., 159. 
Plumsted, Robert,281. 
Poate, Pote, Ann, 244. 

William, 223, 244(3), 

245(2). 
Poictiers (ship), 71,74, 

75, 321, 322. 
Pool, Fitch, 328(2). 
Poole, Benjamin, 42. 
Poor, Henry, 34. 

Isaac, 195, 200. 

Joseph, 195. 

Pearce, 234. 

Samuel, 303. 
Poore, Alfred, M. D., 

161, 193(2), 289. 
Pope, Elijah, 46. 
Porter, Daniel, 192(3). 

Euth, 192. 
Porto Rico, 107. 
Pownall, Governor, 

253. 

Poynton, Thomas, 115, 
253(2), 278, 279(2). 
Pratt, Sarah P., 69. 



Prentiss, (Bu- 

bier), 63. 

Abigail Bigelow,63. 
Joshua, 63. 
Prescott, Benjamin, 

118. 

Presson, Andrew, 329. 
Price, Captain, 103. 
Prince, Dr. Jonathan, 

191. 

Pyam, 323. 

Prince William (ship), 
117. 

Prioliau, , 118. 

Pritchard, J., 271. 
Proctor, Procter, 

Ebenezer, 312. 
John, 156. 
Jonathan, 239, 240. 
Mary, 312. 
Sally, 143. 
Sarah, 143. 
Prometheus (ship), 

319. 

Providence, R.I.,333, 
334, 337-339, 340- 
345(2 )-347. 
Puget, John, 286(2). 
Pusey, Daniel, 18. 
Punchard, John, 122. 
Putnam, Major, 216, 

217(2). 
Allen, 273. 
Mrs. Betsey (Dale), 

209. 

Ebenezer, 279(2). 
Lt. Col. Enoch, 344 

(2). 
Capt. Jeremiah, 333 

(2). 

John, 299. 
Jonathan, 333. 
Sarah (Perley), 333. 
Putnamville, Mass., 

38, 40, 42. 
Pylades (ship), 77. 
Pynchon, William, 85, 
116. 

Quealy, , 46. 

Quealy &Murphy,197. 
Queensberry (snow), 

277. 
Quemados, Havanna, 

110(2). 
Quensbury, James, 

276. 



Quimby, , 208. 

John N., 208. 
Quiner, William, 236. 

Rachel (sloop), 86. 
Rainbow (schr.), 126. 
Raines, John, 73. 
Ramilies (ship), 159, 

259, 262, 263. 
Ramitt, Thomas, 125. 
Ramsdell, Rev. Wil- 
liam, 200. 
Randall, Randell, 

Capt., 191(2). 
Caroline(Burnham), 

60. 

Carolyn Mary, 60. 
Christopher, 299. 
James, 60. 
Mary, 299. 
Rattler (brig), 152. 
Rattler (ship), 151, 

160, 272, 320. 
Rattler & Bream 

(ship), 72. 

Ravel, William, 243. 
Ray, Dr. Caleb, 192(2). 

J., 262. 

Raymond, E., 157. 
Edward, 280(2). 
Reaper, Richard, 85. 
Rebekah (brig), 114. 
Recruit (ship), 76,317, 

318. 
Reed, Read, Reid,Mr., 

312. 

Abigail, 12. 
Agnes, 811. 
Ester, 12. 
Hester, 313(3). 
J., 153. 
John, 190, 310(2), 

311(8). 
Joseph, 296. 
Mary, 310. 
Wid. Mary, 310. 
Richard, 190, 310, 

311(2). 
Samuel, 12(2), 310 

(3), 311, 813. 
W., 205(2). 
Waterman, 99. 
William, 198. 
Regulus (ship, 78. 
Rench, Walter, 86. 

Renton, , 203. 

George K., 203. 



INDEX. 



377 



Renton, John A., 203, 

289. 
Richard, 203, 204, 

297. 
Resolution (schr.), 70. 

Resquil, , 158. 

Retaliation (priva- 
teer), 75, 76, 152, 
257, 263, 264, 267, 
269, 323. 

Retrieve (privateer), 
78(2), 77, 79, 265, 
272. 
Revell, William, 243. 

Rhodes, Rhods, , 

234, 241. 

Benjamin, 234, 241. 
John, 234, 241. 
S., 272. 

Samuel, 234, 241. 
Sarah, 234, 241. 
Susannah, 241. 
Thomas, 234, 241. 

Rice, , 210. 

George W., 201. 
T., 269. 
Rich, J., 320. 
Richard, A., 261. 

Richardson, , 167. 

Mr., 295. 
Daniel, 295. 
David, 295, 299. 
E. A., 301. 
Elbridge A., 204. 
Hannah, 209, 295. 
John, 297. 
John P., 204, 296, 

297. 
Joseph, 172, 295. 

Ricker, , 196(2). 

Alexander C., 195, 

196, 204. 
John S., 204. 
Josiah L., 204, 293, 

295. 

William, 292. 
Rider, D., 261. 
Rifleman (ship), 158, 

176, 260. 
Rifleman (sloop of 

war), 155. 
Riggs, A. R., 160. 
Ringdove (brig), 159. 
Ringdove (privateer), 

260, 267. 
Ringdove (ship), 321. 



Ringgold, Thomas, 

116. 

Riva, J., 80. 
Roach, John, 318. 

Roads, Roades, , 

235. 

Anne, 242. 

Elizabeth, 238. 

John, 234(4), 235, 
241(2), 242(5). 

John, jr., 231(3), 
241. 

John, sr., 230(2). 

Paul, 95. 

Sarah, 242. 

Stephen, 242. 

Susannah, 234. 
Roanoke Island, 98. 
Roberts, Robert, 122. 

S., 158. 

Robertson, Edward, 
72. 

J., 263. 

Robbins, Robins, , 

220. 

Philip, 84. 

Thomas, 223. 
Robinson, , 136. 

J., 263. 

John, 66, 67(3), 130. 

Lucinda, 67. 

Lydia, 67(2). 

M., 160. 

Robert, 67. 
Rocks Bridge, 37. 
Rodgerson, W., 80. 

Rogers, , 84, 201, 

217. 

Major, 216(2), 217. 

Benjamin S., 32. 

David, 280. 

Elizabeth, 184. 

Rev. Ezekiel, 174. 

Hiram, 204. 

J. V., 161. 

Jacob, 303. 

James V., 201. 

John, 296. 

Major Robert, 213 
(3), 214. 

William, 156, 184, 
294. 

William 0., 63. 
Rolf, Sergt., 336. 

Ezra, 161, 303(2). 

Mary, 161. 



Rolla (privateer), 76 
(2), 78, 80(2), 151, 
153, 257, 264, 268, 
320. 

Rollins, , 204. 

Romulous (ship), 269. 
Rooke, Capt. Edward, 

86. 
Roosevelt, President, 

112. 

Adolphus, 284(2). 
Root, Senator, 112. 

Ropes, , 123. 

Daniel, 273. 
Nathaniel, 276, 277. 
Samuell, 118. 
T., 259. 

Thomas, 128, 275. 
Rose, Thomas, 182(2). 

Ross, , 210. 

Rosswell, Adolphus, 

330. 

Rouse, John, jr., 95. 
Rover (privateer), 260, 

263, 270, 271. 
Rover (schr.), 158. 
Rowell, William, 245. 

Rowland, , 3, 10 

(2). 

Abigail, 7, 10, 180. 
John, 7(2), 10(2), 

180(3). 

Lucy, 237, 238. 
Richard, 3(5), 5, 7 
(4), 10(3), 12, 178, 
180(2), 237(3). 
Rowley, Mass., 34, 35. 
Royall, Isaac, 187. 

Ruck, , 10. 

John, 129. 
Samuel, 87. 
Runnels, Runnel, 

Peter, jr., 329. 
Preter, jr., 284. 

Russell, , 9. 

Benjamin, 140. 
Elizabeth, 9, 232. 
Henry, 232(2). 
John, 62, 63, 232. 
Joseph, 339. 
Miriam(Rhodes),62. 
Tabitha, 62. 
Thomas, 8(2). 

Sackwood, Thomas, 

282, 283. 
St. Barbe, George,! 19 



378 



INDEX. 



St. Domingo (ship), 

321. 
St. George (privateer), 

255. 
St. Lawrence (ship), 

78, 157(2). 

Salem, Mass., 4(4), 5, 
34, 36, 86, 97, 188. 
Sally (brig), 70(2). 
Salmon, John, 89. 
Salter, Malachy, jr., 

116. 

Sampson, Ralph, 281. 
Samuel D o g g e t 
(schr.), 115. 

Sanborn, , 200. 

J. B., 200. 
Jeremiah B., 205. 
Sanborn, McClintock 

& Belknap, 134. 
San Domingo (ship), 

74, 154, 262. 
Sandin, Arthur, 4. 
Sandstrom, C. F,, 269. 
Santiago, 107. 
Sarah (brigantine), 88. 
SarahSalsbury(schr.), 

95, 116(2). 

Sargent, Sargeant, 
Sergeant,Mr. ,290. 
E., 302. 
Edward, 303. 
Eliphalet, 206, 302. 
Epes, 331(3). 
Florence, 148. 
Nathan, 290(3). 
Saturn (ship), 80, 152, 

259, 264, 269. 
Saunders, Sanders, 

, 185, 195. 

Abel, 298, 303. 
Caroline, 296. 
David, 300. 
Ezekiel, 195. 
Jedediah, 196. 
John, 116. 
Moses, 296(2), 297. 
Philip, jr., 279. 
Capt. Philip,jr.,279. 
Thomas, 116. 
Savory, Savary, Sa ve- 
ry, , 167, 176, 

177. 

Esquire, 300(2). 
C. P., 208. 
Charles G., 299. 
Charles P., 204, 289. 



Savory, Frank, 300. 

G., 176. 

George, 26, 302. 

Hon. George, 300. 

George T., 301. 

Capt. John, 299(2). 

John B., 26. 

Jonathan, 300. 

Joseph, 299(2). 

Moses, 303. 

Thomas, 202, 298, 
299(2). 

Maj.Thomas,299(2). 

William, 299(2). 
Sawyer, David, 206, 
300. 

Jacob, 204(2). 

Reuben, 204, 293. 

William, 204. 
Saxon(man of war), 92. 
Scafe, John, 274. 
Scandlin, Daniel, 243. 
Sceptre (ship), 74. 
Scilo, Col., 218. 
Scolly, , 84. 

John, 84. 
Scott, Evelyn, 60. 

Henry, 277. 
Scott & McMichael, 
279. 

Scruggs, Scrugs, , 

1, 2(3). 

Thomas, 1(2), 2(2). 
Seabury, Rev.Samuel, 

66. 

Sea Flower(schr.),276. 
Sea Horse (snow), 85, 

89. 

Seahorse (ship), 322. 
Sea Nymph (snow), 

331(2), 332. 
Searl, John, 15(2). 
Selly, T., 157. 
Severitt, , 232. 

Thomas, 232. 
Severn (ship), 78, 157 

(2). 
Shackf ord,Esther,137 . 

Gideon, 137. 

Hannah, 137. 

J., 154. 

Jacob, 137. 

Jeremiah, 137. 

John, 137(3). 

Samuel, 137(2). 

Judge Samuel, 137. 

Sarah, 137. 



Shackf ord, W., 260. 

William, 137. 
Shaller, N., 74. 
Shannon (privateer), 
74, 153, 159, 160, 
259, 260, 272(2), 
319. 

Shannon (ship), 72,74, 
80, 150, 157, 160, 
320. 
Shapley, Shaply,Wid., 

308. 

Daniel, 308(2). 
Richard, 308(2). 
Sharer, James, 190. 
Shaw, Benjamin, 73. 
Charles A., 301. 
Francis, 284, 285(2). 
Shelbourne(ship),158. 
Sheperd, Capt., 185. 
Sherburn, Col., 347(2). 
Sherlock, William,69. 
Shier, John, 122. 
Shirley, Gov., 133. 

William, 276. 
Shoff, John, 297. 
Silsby, William, 186 

(3). 
Simons, Mrs. Hannah, 

65. 

Capt. John, 280. 
Simond, Peter, 287(2). 

Simpson, , 332. 

David, 64. 
Frances, 242. 
George, 296. 
Horatio, 64. 
John, 277(2), 281. 
Jonathan, 281. 
Sinclair, R., 260. 
Sir John Sherbrooke 
(privateer), 74, 77 
(2), 79, 151, 258, 
261, 262, 264, 320, 
322, 323. 

Skidmore, J., 73. 
Skinner, Deacon, 233, 

238, 239, 243. 
Alice, 239. 
H., 267. 

James, 190, 238. 
John, 239, 243. 
Capt. John, 87, 243. 
Richard, 232,233(2), 
238(2), 239(3), 243. 
William, 243(2). 



INDEX. 



379 



Slade, Christopher, 

312. 

Slate, Oliver, 270. 
Slaygur, P., 270. 
Sluman, Sleuman, An- 
drew, 84. 

John, 82. 

Thomas, 84. 

William, 282. 
Small, Hannah, 142. 
Smethurst, ,81, 82. 

John, 120, 238(2). 

Joseph, 190. 

Capt. Joseph, 233. 

Tabitha, 233. 

Smith, , 181(3), 

205, 263. 

Captain, 11, 236. 

Lt., 337(2). 

Mrs., 295. 

Andrew, 266. 

Edward, 278. 

Ichabod, 277(4). 

Isaac, 95. 

J., 74, 261, 265. 

James, 11, 180, 181 
(5). 

Capt. James, 7, 11, 
181. 

James, sr., 181. 

John, 74, 126(2),288. 

Lt. John, 236. 

Julia, 148. 

Mary, 181. 

Richard, 279(2), 286, 
287(2). 

Samuel, 283(4), 284. 

Mrs. Sarah, 204. 

Thomas, 283(2). 

Warren F., 296. 

William, 55. 
Snellock, , 327. 

Capt., 825. 

Capt. James, 288(2). 
Sniffen, Col., 109. 
Snow, H., 153. 

J., 79. 

Josiah, 271. 
Snowden, Capt., 188. 
Somes,Charles B.,202, 

207. 

Sophie (ship), 159. 
South Reading.Mass., 
38, 40, 41, 48, 50, 
54. 



Southworth, C., 317. 
Souza, J. De Lonza 

Carvatho, 79. 
Sparhawk, Kev. John, 

93. 

Sparling, P., 321. 
Sparrow, Capt., 346. 

Capt. Edward, 346. 
Sparrow (schr.), 187. 
Spartan (ship), 72, 76, 
79, 151, 152, 154, 
259(2), 266, 267(2), 
268, 272, 323, 324. 
Spence, George, 220. 
Spencer (ship), 258. 
Spofford, Dr., 168,171, 
175, 201, 205. 

Dr. Amos, 32. 

David, 198. 

Gardner, 202. 

George, 32. 

Irene Dole, 32. 

Dr. J., 164, 165. 

J. Morris, 202. 

Jeremiah, 26. 

Leander, 33. 

Dr. Richard, 32. 

Spool, , 45. 

Spurr, James, 198. 
Spy (store ship), 80. 
Squadron (ship), 74. 
Stacey, Stacy, ,16. 

Ambrose, 236. 

Ebenezer, 236(5), 
239. 

Elizabeth, 130. 

Henry, sr., 8. 

Mary, 239. 

Priscilla, 132. 

Samuel, 16, 95. 

Susannah, 130(2). 

T., 172. 

Thomas, 130(2). 

Thomasine, 130. 

William, 132. 
Stanclift, James, 87. 

William, 87. 
Stanford, James, 336. 
Stanton, Stephen, 272. 
Stanworth, R., 267. 
Star (privateer), 158, 

260. 

Stark, Brig. Gen., 341. 
Start, William, 117. 



Statira (ship), 72, 73 
(2), 74(2), 76, 78, 
79(2), 151,154,155, 
158, 159, 258, 259, 
267(2), 321, 324. 
Steinhaven, F. R., 76. 
Sterling, E., 154(2). 
Sterns, S., 263. 
Stevens, Stephens, 

Charles, 304. 
Hannah, 351(2). 
J., 268. 
John, jr., 351. 
Jonathan, 201, 293. 
Mary, 851. 
R., 159. 
Rebecca, 237. 
Roger, 316. 
Sarah, 244. 

Stickney, , 177, 

196, 198, 204. 
Capt., 165. 
Capt. A. I., 299. 
Betsey, 135. 
Caleb, 135(3). 

D. B., 168, 301, 802 
(2). 

Col. D. B., 301(3), 

303. 
Dea. Daniel, 203, 

301(2). 
David, 260. 

E. B., 198. 
Edward S., 135. 
Emily, 135. 
Enoch, 135. 
Erastus B., 198. 
Fanny, 135. 
Gideon, 135(2). 
Gideon Woodwell, 

135. 

Jacob, 135(2). 
Jane, 135. 
John, 135(2). 
Capt. John, 167,196. 
John Fernald, 135. 
Joseph M., 196, 203 

(2). 
Joseph P., 205(2), 

300(2), 301. 
Lavinia, 135. 
Leonard W., 200(3). 
Lydia, 135. 
Mary, 135. 
Mary Ann, 135. 
Moses, 196. 
Paul, 196, 291. 



380 



INDEX. 



Stickney, Capt. 

Thomas, 203 (2). 
Thomas W.,196,298, 

302. 

William, 135. 
William Wyer, 135. 
Sally, 135. 
Samuel, 203, 204. 
Sarah, 135(2). 
Sarah E., 135. 
Sarah (Titcomb), 

135. 

Stickney & Balch, 302 
(2). 

Stileman, , sr., 7. 

Stiles, Abner, 219. 
Stilson, James, 237(2). 
Stockton, Fort, 100(3). 

Stoddard, , 3. 

Solomon, 3. 
Stone, Capt., 210. 
Andrew, 85. 
James, 181. 
William, 23. 
Story, Henry, 201. 
Stover, J. L., 272. 

N., 159. 
Strang, Alexander, 

317. 
J., 268. 

Straw, E. A., 197. 
Strout, Martha Ellen, 

142. 

Stuart, John, 127. 
Stuben, Maj. Gen., 

346. 

Success (schr.), 85. 
Success (ship), 267. 
Suckling, George,274. 
Superb (ship), 79(2), 

152, 154. 
Susannah (schr.), 70 

(2), 71(4). 
Swallow (schr.), 69, 

187. 

Swallow (sloop), 86. 
Swampscott, Mass., 1. 
Swan, Henry, 273. 

Samuel, 258. 
Swart, Wigle, 322. 
Swasy, Samuel, 260. 
Sweeney, Lt., 323. 
Swenburg, C., 264. 
Swenson, James, 148. 
Swett, Sweatt, Sweet, 
Sweete, Mrs. Al- 
myra, 201. 



Swett, Joseph, 229(2), 

316. 

Joseph, jr., 229. 
Moses, 89. 
Robert, 241. 
Swett & Perry, 197. 
Sylph (ship), 154, 264, 

323. 

Symonds, Capt. John, 
280. 



Tainer, Thomas, 228. 
Tandy, Gorham P., 

199, 200. 

Tapley, Gilbert, 45. 
Tapleyville, 41, 48, 54. 
Taplin, Capt., 212. 
Tappan, Toppan, Mr., 
301. 

Bezaleel, 128. 

J., 301. 

John, 175, 300. 

Joseph, 141. 

Sarah Ann, 141. 

Willoughby, 279(2). 
Tarney, Mary, 57. 

Mathew, 57. 
Tarr, Richard, 84. 
Tarrant, George, 235. 
Tartar (snow), 119. 
Taxier, Jean, 327. 
Taylor, E., 321. 
Taynor, Taynour, 
Elias, 228(4), 229, 
230. 

Elizabeth, 228(2). 

Mary, 228(3). 

Thomas, 228(2). 
Teazer (privateer), 

151. 

Tededos (ship), 80. 
Tenedos (frigate), 159. 
Tenedos (ship), 74(2), 
154, 260, 267. 

Tenney, Tenny, , 

49(2), 167. 

Elder, 176. 

Charles S., 20, 26, 
34. 

D. B., 24. 

Daniel, 304. 

G. J., 52. 

George J., 20, 23, 
26, 45, 49, 52. 

Capt. J., 161. 

Capt. John, 176,196. 



Tenney, Philip, 167, 

203, 304(3). 
Dea. Philip, 304. 
Priscilla, 297(2)-300 

(2), 303, 304. 
Samuel, 176, 196, 

304. 
Savary, 196, 297, 

300(3). 

Silas, 303, 304. 
Solomon, 195, 196. 
Dea. T., 303, 304. 
Dea. Thomas, 304. 
William, 302, 303. 
Dea. William, 304. 

Ter Borch, , 128. 

Abraham, 328. 
Terrio, J., 318. 
Tewksbury, Hannah, 

314. 

M. G. J., 197. 
Philip, 314. 
Thaxter, Samuel, 95. 
Thomas, George, 152. 
James, 278(2). 
Jethro, 219. 
John, 114. 
N., 270. 

Thomlinson, Freeo- 

theck & Co., 332. 

Thompson, Thomson, 

Dr., 218, 219(2). 
A:, 257. 
J., 155, 317. 
James, jr., 85. 
Samuel, 299. 
Stephen, 155. 
Thornberg, Major, 

103(3), 104(2). 
Thorndike, Herbert, 

276(2). 
Capt. Herbert, 276 

(4). 

Joshua, 276. 
Thornton, John, 348 

(2). 
Thurlow, Thurlo, 

Charles, 143. 
Eunice Adams, 147. 
Hannah J., 140. 
Capt. JosephL.,147. 
M., 323. 
Moses, 20. 

Thrasher, Joseph,334. 
Three Brothers 
(schr.), 287, 325, 
326. 



INDEX. 



381 



Three Sisters (fishing 

schr.), 187. 
Throgmorton's cove, 

12. 

Tibberts, E., 77. 
Tiedeman, C., 323. 
Tilton, Daniel G., 142. 
Tinker's Island, 12. 
Tinkham, Mary M., 

137. 

Tinney, Moses, 70. 
Titcomb, Elizabeth, 

136. 

Henry, 191. 
Capt. Richard, 133. 
Tomahawk (ship), 62. 
Tongue, Mary, 130. 

Tonniel, , 81, 82. 

Topsh'eld, Mass., 34 
(3), 35(2), 38(3), 
40, 48, 49, 53. 
Torizel, John, 122, 

273. 

Townley, John, 302. 
Townsend, E. D., 106. 
Tozier, Ebenezer, 325. 
Trask, Traske, Capt. 

2(3). 

Daniel, 85. 
John, 223. 
William, 223(2). 
Tread well, Rev. John, 
66. 

Trevett, , 225. 

Richard, 236(2). 
Trevie, Trefey, Annis, 

11(2). 

Thomas, 11. 
Tripp, William, 120. 
True, Capt.Winthrop, 

116. 
Truesdell, Trusdale, 

Mary, 315(2). 
Tryall (schr.), 94. 
Tucker, Captain, 118. 
Andrew, 15(2), 93, 

116, 190, 280(3). 
Capt. Andrew, 280. 
C. F., 263. 
George, 235. 
Nicholas, 235(3), 

236(2). 
Philip, 15. 
Tudman, William, 

120, 287. 
Turel, Capt., 255. 



Turner, Mr., 315. 
Isaac, 119(2), 190. 
John, 95, 118, 276 

(4). 

Josiah, 263. 
Samuel, 119, 315, 

332(2). 
Tuttle, Edward F., 

198. 

Joseph F., 198. 
Twichell, Benj., 341. 
Two Brothers (schr.), 

281. 

Tyler, Tylor, Col., 
33S, 338, 340(2), 
344, 345, 347. 
Abraham, 290. 
Jere., 303. 
Joseph, 95. 
Leverett W., 289. 
Col. Nathan, 333, 
338(2), 340-342, 
346(2). 
Samuel, 289, 291, 

300. 

Tyng, Edward, 183. 
Edward, jr., 183. 
Edward, sr., 183. 
Eunice, 183. 
Jonathan, 183. 
Mary, 183(2). 

Underwood, James, 

10. 
Uniacke, Richard 

John, 69. 

Upham, , 46. 

C. W.,46. 
Upton, John, 152. 
Usher, Capt., 185. 

Vail, S. B., 261. 

Valiant (ship), 158, 
258, 269. 

Vance, Nelson F.,297. 
Nelson S., 302. 

Vandine, C., 73. 

Van Microft & Hop- 
kins, 279. 

Van Yrendoon, Her- 
mon, 327. 

Vans, William,329(2). 

Vellenefue, Gideon, 
122. 

Venton, James, 82. 

Vickery, Vicary,Rob- 
ert, 84. 



Vickery, William,296. 
Victorious (ship), 259 

(2), 265, 267. 
Victory (sloop), 128 

(2), 275. 

Viena, F. D., 259. 
Vinning, Thomas,245. 
Viper (sloop), 185. 
Vogle, Henry, 69. 
Volant (brigantine), 

85(2). 
Vulture (sloop), 274. 

Wade, Col. Nathan- 
iel, 333. 

Valentine, 280. 
Wakefield, Mass., 48. 
Walden, G., 258. 
Waldron, , 184. 

Dorothy, 244. 

Joanna, 237. 

John, 179, 183(10), 
237, 243, 244(4), 
307. 

John, sr., 243, 244. 

Joseph, 237. 

Miriam, 237(2). 

Samuel, 237(6), 

Sarah, 237. 

Thomas, 183(5),237, 

244(2). 

Wales, James L., 202. 
Walker, Mrs., 299. 

David, 300. 

George S., 299(2). 

H., 323. 

J., 320. 

Jonathan, 303. 

Thomas, 85. 

William, 197(2). 
Wallace, Gen. Lew, 

101. 
Wallingford, ,296. 

Mr., 304. 

Charles, 162, 172, 
176, 303, 304. 

James, 295. 

Nathaniel, 300, 304. 

Nicholas, 303. 
Wallis, William, 285. 
Walsh, Ardis, 161. 
Walter, , 123. 

Fitz, 123(2), 125(5), 

126. 

Walton, Elizabeth, 
179. 

Mary, 180. 



382 



INDEX. 



Walton, N., 77. 

Nathaniel, 8, 179, 
180(3), 238(2). 

Kev. William, 179, 

180(2). 
Ward, Captain, 7. 

Lt. Col., 341. 

Joshua, 84(2). 

Samuel, 3-5. 

Capt. Samuel, 7. 
Warden, Thomas, 95. 
Wardwell, Elbridge 

G., 292. 
Warren, Frank, 199. 

Dr. Israel P., 68. 
Warren (schr.), 56. 
Washburn, Edith L., 

149. 

Washington,Gen.,342. 
Wasp (brig), 160. 
Wasp (ship), 150, 151, 

266, 317, 323. 
Wasson, Kev. Mr., 

199. 
Waters, Mary, 314. 

William, 314. 
Watts, Watt, Capt., 
255, 314, 315. 

Mr., 315. 

Abigail, 351. 

Alexander, 314,315 
(2). 

Elizabeth, 351, 352. 

James, 331, 332. 

John, 331, 332, 351. 

Samuel, 351. 
Waymouth, , 181. 

Thomas, 181. 
Wayne, Brig. Gen., 

335. 
Weazel (privateer), 79, 

156, 261, 318. 
Webb, Col., 340, 347. 

John, 183. 

Jonathan, 87, 116. 

William, 327. 
Webber, A., 259. 

Mary, 244. 

S., 80. 
Webster, F., 269. 

Jonathan, 351. 

Nathaniel, 197. 

Weed, , 338. 

Weeks, B., 324. 

Joseph, 321. 

Rev. Mr. Wingate, 
66(2). 



Welch, Philip, 14. 

Thomes, 189. 
Weld, W. G., 323. 
Wells, Lucy Jane, 146. 

Samuel W., 146. 
Wendall, Wendell, 
John, 127(3). 

Capt. John, 122. 
Wenham, Mass., 12, 

34, 41. 

Went, Samuel, 95. 
Wentworth, Charles 

W., 204. 
West, George, 258. 

Capt. George, 280. 

Samuel, 116. 

WestNewbury, 19(3), 

26, 33, 37, 162(3), 

165(3), 172(2), 174. 

West Peabody, Mass., 

41. 
Westbrook, Col. 

Thomas, 132. 
Wescot, Wescoat, Wil- 
liam, 339, 340(2). 
Westlake, John, 240. 
Weston, Lt., 337, 340. 

Louise (Page), 102. 

Mary Hunt, 102. 

Orin, 20. 

Orrin, 26. 

William L., 36. 

William Low, 102. 

Wheeler, , 140, 

349(2). 

Elizabeth, 348-350. 

John, 348, 350. 

Wheelock, , 136. 

Whelan, James, 76. 
Wheldon, S. T., 151. 
Whiger, Bethiah, 228. 

John, 228. 

Whipple, Capt., 218 
(2). 

Major, 98. 

George M., 98. 

Joseph, 218(2). 
White, , 116. 

Capt., 82. 

Elias, 229(2), 230(2). 

Capt. John, 82. 

Capt. John, sr.,114. 

Capt. Joseph, 96, 

116. 

Whiting, Lucy, 59. 
Whittier, John,297(2). 

W. R., 26. 



Wierman, G., 322. 

Wiggin, , 19. 

Wiggles worth, Col., 

209. 
Wilcott, , 223. 

John, 221(3), 222(8), 
223. 

John, jr., 224. 

Wildes, , 19. 

Wiley, Sarah Brooks, 

59. 

Wilkins, Daniel, 220. 
Wilkinson, , 83. 

Henry, 184. 
Willard, , 184. 

Eunice, 183. 

Rev. Samuel,179(2), 

183, 184(2). 
Willett, Mrs. Lydia, 

138. 

Willey, Willys, 
George, 126. 

Samuel, 295(3)-297. 
William (sloop), 127. 
Williams, Abraham, 
10. 

Enoch S., 18. 

Henry, 91. 

John, 75, 241(2). 

Mary, 130. 

Roger, 130. 

Samuel, 208. 

Thomas, 138. 

W. C., 260. 

William, 126. 
Williard (sloop), 92. 
Willingmind (sloop), 

115. 
Willis, Capt., 191(3). 

Alfred, 300. 

Joseph R., 196. 

Pauline, 247. 
Willoughby, Charles, 

319. 
Wilmington Hen 

(ship), 126. 
Wilson, Widow, 66. 

A., 154. 

Andrew, 66, 273. 

John, 66(2), 184. 

Lidia, 67(2). 
Winnerholt, A., 265. 
Winslow, Governor, 
181. 

Elizabeth, 181. 
Winther, J. H., 73. 



INDEX. 



383 



Winthrop, Capt., 95. 

Governor, 3. 
Wolfe, General, 188. 
Wolverine (privateer), 
75, 77, 80, 159,270, 
818, 323, 324. 
Woollward, Thomas, 
330. 

Woods, Wood, , 

167, 202, 243. 

General, 112. 

Mrs., 300. 

Abigail, 56(2), 57. 

Betsey, 299. 

Edward, 298. 

Elizabeth, 56(4), 57. 

George E., 300. 

John, 12, 18, 23. 

Leonard, 195, 304. 

Martha, 56. 

Mary, 12(2), 243. 

Moses, 301, 302. 

Moses, jr., 300(2). 

Moses, sr., 300. 

N. H., 302. 

Rebecca, 56. 

Rufus H., 204, 300. 

Samuel, 202. 

Sarah, 800. 

Stephen, 194. 

T., 295. 

Thomas, 56(3), 57 
(4), 58, 295,299(2). 

William, 12, 56, 242 

(3). 

Woodbury, Woodber- 
ry, Woodbery, 
Andrew, 182. 

John, 2, 155. 

Mary, 182. 

Sarah, 139. 
Wooden, John, 71. 
Woodman, , 170. 

Mr., 302. 

Albert Little, 143. 

Charles Albert, 143. 

Ira L., 302. 

John, 303. 

Jonathan, 177. 

Lizzie May, 143. 
Woodruffe, Judge, 63. 
Woodward, C., 272. 

Joseph, 85. 
Woodwell, Woodell, 
Abigail, 133. 

Achsah, 139. 

Albert, 142. 



Woodwell, Albert 

Augustus, 142. 
Alice, 131, 133. 
Ann, 130. 
Anna Eunice, 145, 

146. 

Archer Gideon, 149. 
Archer Roscoe, 147. 
ArthurHo ward, 148. 
Benjamin, 130-132, 

135. 
Benjamin Atkinson, 

142. 

Betsey, 136. 
Caleb S., jr., 143. 
Caleb Stickney, 138, 

143. 
Carolus Sylvester, 

147. 

Charles, 142, 144. 
Charles Henry, 142, 

146. 
David, 130, 132(2), 

134, 136(2), 141(2), 

142, 146. 

David Edward, 145, 

148. 

David Newman, 149. 
David Titcomb, 142, 

145, 149. 
Dorcas, 130. 
Edward F., 143. 
Elbridge Gale, 145, 

148. 
Elizabeth, 130(2), 

131(3), 133, 134, 

136, 138. 

Elizabeth Ann, 142. 
Elizabeth Titcomb, 

143, 146. 
Emmie Louise, 145, 

148. 

Esther, 133, 137(2). 
Ethel Gladys, 149. 
Eva Cecilia, 147. 
Fanny Denny, 142. 
Feroline, 148. 
Florence, 148. 
Frank Archer, 145, 

148. 

George Edward,142. 
GeorgeMasters, 147. 
George W., 141, 144 

(2). 
Gideon, 130-138,135, 

136(3), 141, 142(3). 



Woodwell, Capt. 

Gideon, 183, 136 

(2), 137(2), 141. 
Gideon, jr., 135, 139 

(2), 146. 

Hannah, 133, 136. 
Hannah Jane, 143. 
Herbert Newman, 

145, 148. 
Horace D., 143. 
Ida Caroline, 147. 
Isaac, 133. 
Jacob, 133, 136, 188, 

139(3), 143. 
Jacob, jr., 139, 143. 
Jacob Ambrose, 143, 

147. 
John, 130(3), 132, 

133(2), 134(2), 136 

(6), 138-142(2),144 

(2), 145. 

Capt. John, 144. 
John & Co., 143. 
John, 3rd, 143. 
John, jr., 141. 
John Baker, 147. 
John Stickney, 138. 
John Titcomb, 141. 
Joseph A., 143. 
Jonathan, 130, 132 

(2.) 
Joseph, 130, 131(3), 

132. 
Joseph Atkinson, 

142, 145. 

Joshua, 130, 131. 
Julian Ernest, 147, 

149. 

Kate G., 143. 
Kate S., 143. 
John, 130. 
Lena Titcomb, 148. 
Lewis F., 143. 
Louis Brown, 148. 
Louis Eugene, 145, 

148. 

Lucretia Baker, 143. 
Lucy Baker, 148. 
Lucy Elizabeth, 146. 
Lydia, 130, 132, 133. 
Mabel Florence,148. 
Margaret, 130. 
Martha Davis, 138. 
Mary, 129(2), 130(2), 

131, 132(2), 133, 

134(2), 187, 139. 
Mary Alice, 148. 



384 



INDEX. 



Wood well, Mary Jane, 

143. 

Mary Loise, 145. 
Matthew, 129(6), 180. 
Mercy, 136, 140. 
Michael Titcomb, 

142. 
Miriam Adelaide, 

148. 

Nancy D., 144. 
Nancy Denny, 141. 
Polly, 136, 139. 
Priscilla, 134. 
Robert Baker, 142, 

146. 

Roland Horton, 149. 
Ruth Adams, 147. 
Sally, 136. 
Samuel, 129, 130(2), 

131(3). 



Woodwell, Samuel 

Williams, 146. 
Sarah, 133, 185. 
Sarah Davis, 138. 
Stacey, 116, 133. 
Susanna, 136. 
Thomas, 132. 
Thomasine, 132. 
Thornton Lester, 

149. 

W. H., 129. 
William, 141. 
William E., 143. 
William Haskell, 

145, 147. 
William Herbert, 

147, 149. 
William Titcomb, 

141. 
Woodwell & Hale,136. 



Wright, Calley, 190. 

John, 34, 188, 190, 
191. 

Joshua, 220. 
Wyer, William, 153. 



Yabsley, John,231(2). 

Mary, 231. 

Susannah, 231. 

Thomas, 231(3). 
Yeoman, Edward, 348 
(5). 

Elizabeth, 348. 

Susanna, 348. 
York, Joseph, 256. 

S., 150. 

Young William 
(sloop), 127. 




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