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THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
VOL. XLIX 1913
SALEM, MASS.
PRINTED FOR THE ESSEX INSTITUTE
1913
CONTENTS.
Almanacs, Extracts from interleaved, kept by John White
of Salem, 92
Almy, William, of Lynn, Sandwich and Portsmouth (R. I.),
The ancestry of. By G. Andrews Moriarty, jr., A. M., 172
Andover, Mass., A genealogical-historical visitation of. By
Alfred Poore, M. D. (Continued), . . 50, 161, 239, 305
Browne, Benjamin F. Youthful recollections of Salem
(Illustrated), 193, 289
Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Military records relating to, . 95
Essex County, Newspaper items relating to (Continued), 81, 136, 275
"Federal Street," Origin of the hymn-tune. By Henry K.
Oliver, M. D., 184
Gardner, Samuel, of Salem, Diary for the year 1759, . . 1
Hoyt, David W. Early Whittiers, Widgers and Whittakers
in Essex County, 37
Killam genealogy. By Sidney Perley, 210
Lavalette family, The Newburyport branch of the. By
M. V. B. Perley, 125
Military records relating to Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, now
the town of Essex, 95
Moseley, Capt. Joseph, of Salem and his ancestors. By G.
Andrews Moriarty, jr. A. M. (Illustrated), ... 177
Moriarty, G. Andrews, jr., A. M. Capt. Joseph Moseley of
Salem and his ancestors (Illustrated), .... 177
Moriarty, G. Andrews, jr., A. M. Genealogical notes on
Rer. Samuel Parris of Salem Village, .... 354
Moriarty, G. Andrews, jr., A. M. The ancestry of William
Almy of Lynn, Sandwich and Portsmouth (R. I.) . . 172
Moriarty, G. Andrews, jr., A. M. The Turners of Barbados. 347
New England, English notes about early settlers in. By
Lothrop Withington (Continued), 253
Newspaper items relating to Essex County (Continued), 81, 186, 275
Norfolk County, Old, Deeds, 1671-1689, 23
Oliver, Henry K., M. D. Origin of the hymn-tune " Federal
Street," 184
Parris, Rev. Samuel, of Salem Village, Genealogical notes
on. By G. Andrews Moriarty, jr., A. M., 854
Perley, M. V. B. The Newburyport branch of the Lavalette
family 125
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Perley, Sidney. Killam genealogy, 210
Perley, Sidney. Northfields, Salem, in 1700 (Illustrated), 186, 356
Poore, Alfred, M. D. A genealogical-historical visitation of
Andover, Mass., in the year 1863. (Continued), 50, 161, 239, 305
Revolution, Auction sales in Salem, of shipping and merchan-
dise, during the, 97
Salem and vicinity, Seamen from, impressed by British war
vessels, 321
Salem, Auction sales of shipping and merchandise, during
the Revolution, 97
Salem, Diary for the year 1759. By Samuel Gardner, . 1
Salem, Northfields, in 1700. By Sidney Perley (Illustrated), 186, 356
Salem town records (Concluded), 65, 145, 257
Salem, Youthful recollections of. By Benjamin F. Browne
(Illustrated), 193, 289
Seamen from Salem ami vicinity impressed by British war
vessels, 321
Turners of Barbados. By G. Andrews Moriarty, jr., A. M., 347
White, John, of Salem. Extracts from interleaved almanacs
kept by, 92
Whittiers, Widgers and Whittakers in Essex County. By
David W. Hoyt, 37
Withington, Lothrop. English notes about early settlers in
New England (Continued), 253
THE OLD HOUSE
Built in Salem in (684 by John Ward and removed in 1910 to the
grounds of the Essex Institute. The building has been restored and part of
the interior equipped with 17th century furniture and utensils. In the fore-
ground is the mile stone inscribed " S JUNE YE I I, 1707 I " which for-
merly stood near "the big tree ", one mile from Salem on the old Boston road.
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. XLIX. JANUARY, 1913 No. 1
DIARY FOR THE YEAR 1759 KEPT BY
SAMUEL GARDNER OF SALEM.
Samuel Gardner was the son of Jonathan and Eliza-
beth (Gardner) Gardner and was born in Salem, Aug. 2,
1740. He was designed for the ministry and graduated
from Harvard College in 1759, but his health being poor
he left home for a sea voyage and died Feb. 4, 1762, of
small pox at Monte Christi. The diary is contained in
an interleaved copy of Ames' Almanac for 1759, now
preserved by the Essex Institute in the Wheatland MSS.,
Vol. /, leaf 10.
Jan. 1, 1759. Had a horse sent to carry me home.
Kneeland not very willing. Went home and found my
sister Betty had been quite Sick, but was a little better.
3. Went to Danvers to Ordination. Saw M r Symms
there, very good. Mr. Holt was ordained Pastor over the
2 d Church in Danvers. The persons that assisted at the
Ordination were M r Barnard who began with prayer, M r
Philips preached, M r Clark gave the charge, M r John
Chandler gave the Right Hand of Fellowship and the
whole was conducted with great Decorum and very good
Entertainment was made for Scholars. Deacon Pickering
sent a letter to the Councell, and it was voted it should
not be read. He was there himself, but they would not
admit him into the Councell.
N. B. M r Holt voluntarily gave in a Confession of his
Faith. About a dozen of Scholars there. Mr. Philips text
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was in proverbs XI Chap : ye latter part of the 30 verse.
Died at Salem M rs Gray wife to Benj.
4. Fair aprilish Day. Sir Foster here and dined with
me. At Night a grand Ball at the Disolution. Fine !
8. Saw Jos. Linch and the old man.
10. Went to Middleton to Ordination in a chair with
Pickman. Got home between 10 and 11, but coming home
it rained furiously and we were furiously wet. I went to
another ordination, which was at Middleton where M r
Smith was ordained Pastor. M r Emerson began with
Prayer, M r Clark preached, his Text was in John, 1 Chap.
16 & 17 verses. M r Philips gave the charge, M r Chip-
man concluded with Prayer and M r Gushing gave the
right hand of Fellowship. All was carried on with De-
cency, tho' the house was exceeding Dull. We Dined at
Jim Fullers. After supper we went down to Ezra Put-
nams, the place provided for Scholars, but spent the Even-
ing at Mr. Jacob Fullers, accompanied with about half a
dozen Scholars. Saw Mr. Jackson at Ordination.
11. Master Walter I hear has good Luck.
12. Clarke in town, went to see my chum P. M. : and
from thence went with Chum to Night meeting. Died at
Danvers, Miss Symonds.
15. Went to the Watrf.
16. Sailed from Salem, Cap* Williams.
17. I went to an Instalment at Stoneham where M r
John Serls took upon him the pastoral Charge of the
Church and Congregation there. The only difference in cer-
emony between an Ordination and an Instalment is in Lay-
ing on of the Hands. M r Parsons of Newbury prayed,
M r Emerson of Maiden preached, his Text Collosians, 1
Chap. 28 verse a very Calvinistical Discourse and I believe
all that assisted were pretty full in that Scheme. M r Cook
gave the charge, M r Sherman concluded with prayer and
M r Robie gave the right hand of Fellowship. M r Serls
was a Settled Minister at Sharon, but the cause of his
leaving them I never heard. Few Scholars there. There
was an ordination at Newtown in New-hampshire, where
M r Eames was settled in minsterial office.
18. Mr. Allen was married to M" Gardner. Mr.
KEPT BY SAMUEL GARDNER OF SALEM. 3
Luck's vessel sailed. Cotton came to see and lodged with
me.
19. Cotton and myself dined at Col. Pickman's.
Buried at Salem, M r Diman. Nescio.
20. Fair and very cold which makes a Body feel it.
Cotton went from our house, I know not where. Cap*
Geboe in a Snow & Cap* Crowninshield in a Brig arrived.
21. M r Barnard preached, his Text A. M. Ephesions,
v. 18, against drunkenness and gluttony. Cotton at meet-
ing P. M. Contribution for Mr. Barnard.
22. 150 was gethered yesterday.
23. Recieved a Letter from my Friend Clarke. Buried
at Salem, M r Hooper.
25. Continued exceeding cold, the Harbour froze over
last Night. Cotton yet in town. Buried at Salem, Miss
Davis.
26. A very Bad Snow Storm. A Salor coming from
a vessel in the Harbour was as nigh as four pence to a
groat of being drowned.
28. Went to Danvers, M r Smith preached there.
Dined with him at Uncle Osbourn's and saw a letter by
him to Clarke.
29. Went to M r Eppes' in the Evening, craizy Cotton
says Vans.
30. M r Holt moved to Danvers.
31. There was an ordination at Boxford and there
being a great weight of Snow then upon the Ground I
thought it best to tarry at home. However they ordained
M r Holyoke which makes the fifth ordination this month.
Feb. 2. My brother Sailed from Salem. Between 2 &
3 o'clock P. M., there was a violent Shake of an Earth-
quake.
3. Went to and dined with my Frind Clarke at Dan-
vers. Coming home Stopt to see Master Wyer, at uncle
Osbourn's.
4. M r Barnard's Text, it being Sacrement Day, was
that famous prophecy of Jacob's, Genesis, xxxxix, 10 ;
P. M., his Text was in xxxvi Chap, of Job, 24, 25 and
part of 26 Verses with peculiar Reference to the late
Shaking Alarm. Capt. Masury sailed.
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5. Sent C e's Poem to my Chum.
6. Went to the Deacon's.
7. Went to Cambridge, measels very thick, the Presi-
dent dismisses those that have not had them, few Scholars
have, at the Seat of the Muses, my Brother returned to
Salem for fear of a Snow-Storm, tho' it snowed but little.
8. Capt. Putnam arrived at Salem. The measels very
thick at Cambridge, and for this reason the Corporation
have Broke up the College 3 weeks in consequence of
which determination I went to Salem.
9. The most part of the way on foot, met Coffin and
Merrill on the Road. Carried them down to Salem, in the
Evening went to the Deacon's. There was there Moody
and Wingate.
10. All four of them went home.
11. Died at Cambridge of the measels Miss Betty
Epes aged 22 years.
14. Went to M r Diman's lecture upon the necessity of
the new Birth, Text 11 Corinth, v : 5.
17. A very pleasant & Spring-like Day, sent a letter to
Clarke.
18. Cap* Lambert arrived at Salem.
19. In the Evening I went to Andross, he being his
own man.
21. Rev. M r Barnard at our house, very sociable.
23. my father come from Boston. Cap* Carlton ar-
rived at Salem. Died at Danvers, Madam Hubard, mother
to the Rev d M r Clarke's Lady.
27. Went to Andover to see the Rev. M r Symms.
Spent the Time charmingly.
28. I returned to Salem, It being exceeding pleasant,
tho bad riding. P. M. went to Lecture. M r Barnard
preached after he had waited some time for M r Smith.
Mar. 1. Went to Cambridge with Joseph. Harry
Appleton is returned from Sea, and I saw him at Pick-
man's Chamber.
2. I seem to be out of my Element having lived from
Coll : so long ; pritty many Scholars down.
3. M r Barnard brot his Son yesterday, and today he
went home, I saw him at the Steward's. Cap* Neal who
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arrived at Salem Feb. 26, in 15 Days from Monto Christo,
brings advice, that the Fleet in the west-Indies, had made
a feint attack upon Marteneco, and from thence went to
Gaudeloup and took Basterre the chief port, but I did not
hear any particulars. Feb. 28, Cap* Bruler arrived from the
same place who confirmed the above important News.
Richard Leachmere, Esq., Collector of his majesty's
Costoms at the Port of Salem, Seized the Schooner Sarah,
Barthololemew Putnam Master, he having Run all the
Goods before as I was Informed by M r Wyer.
N. B. This vessel came from Monti Christo and on
some pretence M r Leachmere would not enter them, there
was three or four more which came from the same place,
when I came from Salem which was the first Day of
March, whether he has Entered them, or what is become
of them I have not been so happy as to hear.
5. A very Bad Snow-Storm which lasted all Day, at
night cleared up. Town-meeting here.
6. Fair and Colder. A. M. Cloudy. Great Burthen
of Snow fell yesterday.
7. Fair and exceeding Cold ; almost froce my Fingers,
it may be owing to the pleasant weather, we have lately
had. Heard from home, by Coffen who stop'd there.
8. Agreably supprized with the presence of Sir Wyer
at my Chamber.
9. Quater-Day but very little regarded. Put in Com-
mons hodie.
12. Had Pudding in Commons, my Chum went to Boston.
13. My Chum's Birth Day, 19 years of age. Supped
upon Fish bot' of Hovey. Sir Shaw I hear is Down.
14. Considerable quantity of snow fell last night. Sir
Dix I hear is in Town but have not seen him. The Rev'd
Mess Holyoke and Smith in Town, and they are this
Evening to make their Entertainment togeather.
15. Pickman went to Boston, brot' news that M r Cush-
ing is Judge instead of M r Gibb's. Scholars formed them-
selves into a company, chose their officers.
19. Pickman went to Boston, brot news that 4 vessels
from Monti Christo are taken, 2 belonging to Salem, oh 1
dear.
6 DIARY FOB- THE YEAR 1759
20. M r Stephen Higginson in Town.
21. Finished reciting, the D r gave us good advice.
23. Spent the Evening at the Buttery, M r Watson
being there, a Tragidy acted.
24. M r Watson over at Colleg. I sent a letter home by
him.
26. My Chum went to Newton to get Cyder.
27. M r Watson at my Chamber, received a Letter from
home by him.
29. Went to Boston & to Lecture, received a Letter
from home. No Bottles to be had.
30. Died at Salem, Miss Elizabeth Orne.
Died at Salem March , Miss Poat aged about 90 years.
Died at Salem March , Madam Smith alias Mother No-
Nose, aged 69.
April 1. This morning coming from prayers heard that
there was a murder committed at Salem last Friday night,
a Boy of about 14 years old. Impatient to know farther.
2. The Corporation met. Sir Foster at my Chamber.
3. Mr. Watson at my chamber in the Evining &
Supped, this morning we hear the long-expected Comet
was discovered at Boston.
4. Pickman went home. I sent a letter home by him.
The Comet was Seen by Mr. Winthrop this morning.
5. observed as a Fast. M r Appleton preached, this
morning saw the Comet.
6. Saw the Comet again. Pickman returned, brot' me
a Letter, the Boy's Name that was killed is E bourn. Aunt
IngersoFs Negro is put in jail on suspicion of being con-
cerned.
7. Began to Bottle Cyder Yesterday & finished to Day.
9. John Appleton came from Salem, all well, Supped
on Robens which my Churn and Wingate Killed. Died at
Cambridge, Miss Watson.
10. A Committe of the overseers met. Supped on the
Leaving at Russels Chamber, aunt Ingersols Negro out of
Jail. A Fray between Some Scholars and Townsman, as
there was one yesterday between Some Soldiers, and Cap
Anger. Six of the former were put in jail, and tried
before Judge Danforth.
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11. Went to Miss Watson's Burial. Heard from home.
12. Cap* Derby arrived at Salem.
14. The Freshmen's Class placed and put up in the
Chappel. Appleton I hear is going on Board the province
Ship.
16. My Father came to Cambridge and brot' The agre-
able news of my Brother's arrival as well as Cap* Darby's
at Salem, and say's there is nothing further found out
concerning the murder, the next Day I went down to Bos-
ton to see him, and met him coming over. I went over
to Boston, Dined at Will. Webb's, Stopt in Charleston
to see Sir Foster and Rode up with Tho s Fessenden.
18. My Chum and Goodale went Home. Sent a Letter
home. Chum Williams here.
20. Died at Salem, John Cabot, a Boy of about 11
years old.
21. Sir Toppan at my Chamber.
24. Mr. Wintbrop began his Lectures. Overseers meet.
25. Goodale return'd. Cap* Dean arrived at Salem
26. Cap* Mason arrived at Salem.
28. Sir Lovell offered a Confession, and was restored
to his College Privileges, my Chum return'd and brot' me
a Letter.
29. In the Evining Saw a Comet which is supposed to
be the same which was seen the 3 d and 4 th Instant
30. Sir Treadwell in town, and Dined with me at the
Stewards, and lodg'd with Bliss. Saw the Comet again.
Mr. Winthrop has no Lectures becaus of this. Died at
Salem, April , Cap* Andrew Tucker.
May 1. In the Evening went down to Peck's Chamber.
3. M r Barnard in town in his way to Boston. Master
Sewall in Town, something of a Horse race in Town.
Plckman was at Boston, and by M r Epes who was there,
he learnt that M p Vans has been turned out as Naval
Officer, and M r Turner placed in his Room, and what is
more remarkable, That M r Nutting had a commission sent
him to be Naval Officer and accordingly went to take the
Oath, but M r Turner obtained another Commission which
surplanted Mr. Nutting. Sam 11 Holdman was married
to Miss Hunt, both of Salem.
8 DIARY FOR THE YEAR 1759
4. After Prayers went to Jun r Warren's and then to
Supper, and in our way there met M r Vassal, looking out
for the Comet, talked with him about it. Miss Nancy
Fay er weather was thrown out of a Chair and broke one
of her Arms and Bruised her considerable, this happined
at Newton. D r Kneeland was with her.
5. Pickman went Home with M r Minet, who preaches
there to-morrow. Pickman might have been so kind as to
let us have known it. Three Men and one Woman, all of
Maiden, who were going from Boston, Home in a small
Boat, by a sudden gust of Wind, the Boat overset, and the
three Men were drown'd, the woman was taken up and is
likely to do well.
6. Sir Lovell taken into full communion with the
Church here.
7. finished Breakf easting at my Chamber and left off
going to Commons in the Hall.
9. The anual Dudleian Lecture, M r Gay preach'd. Sir
Epes, Williams, Wyer and Stone were at my Chamber. A
pritty full Lecture, Pickman returned and brot me a letter
& Bundle.
10. My Brother and two youngest Sisters here, very
unexpected.
12. Harry Appleton return'd.
13. M r Appleton expounded A M and administered
the Sacrament. I staid. Harry Appleton at my Chamber
in the Evining.
14. Harry Appleton hear has got the Measels.
15. The Court opened, I heard M r Appleton pray ;
Miss Higginson and Polly Sewall in Town, went down to
M r Appleton's to wait upon them up to College, they
came up, went into the Library, &c. Saw M r Harry Ap-
pleton with the measels.
16. Coll Brattle dined at the Stewards.
17. Watched with Henery Appleton, Leonard with
me.
18 Breakfasted at M r Appleton's, drank Tea with
Pickman. M" Sewall and Otis There, heard that M r
Higginson was chosen Representative Last wensday.
21. Went to Boston with Pickman and Trumble,' and
from there went to Medford to Buring (M rs Turell).
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22. An Examination this Day. I amongst them. W m
Pickman in town, we hear M r Walter has got home.
Prisca Holyoke and Sally Barnard here.
23. Every Body mute.
24. W m Pickman and Cap* Robinson at College. I saw
them at Pickman's Chamber. Pickman went home P M.
Sent a Letter Home by him.
25 Rode down to Charleston with M r Jackson to Find
my great Coat, walk'd up, A M. went home P M. my
Brother coming for me. Pickering likewise comes home.
Walk'd down to the Warf. . Saw M r Pickman and Cap*
Robinson. Cap* Darby Sailed but return'd.
26. Cap* Darby attempted to get out but return'd and
drank Tea at our House. Rode to Danvers with my
Father with the New Horse.
27. Arrived at Salem, Cap Deadman.
28. Went on Board Cap* Darby's Vessel. He attempt-
ed again, but met with the same luck. In the Evening
went to Androsses.
29. Coffin & Davis din'd at our house. Coffin Sen r
and Hedge up at Pickering's. Magnus Barbecuus hodie.
Cap* Darby and Cap Geboies Saled from Salem.
30. Went over North field & from thence to Danvers.
dull Election.
81. In the Evening went to Chum's. Come home
with M" Williams. New Counsellors are Chambers Rus-
sel, Icabod Pleastead, Peter Oliver, Thomas Hubard,
Esq rs
June 1. Was a Cloudy lowering Day, another Bar-
becue down at the Fort.
3. Cap n Elkins Arrived at Salem.
5. Went to Cambridge, met Barret in Lynn, my
Brother dined at the Stewards with me, Pickering and
Pickman came likewise, Goodale went home.
6. Went to M r Jackson and got two notes for Repairs.
Cap n Darby's Snow arrived at Salem.
7. D r Wigglesworth sent for me, for not attending his
Lecture last Tuesday, when I had my Brother here, and
what is worse would not hear my Excuse, hard I Injured
innocence. George Gardner Came. Appleton with him,
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who could not return Because of the weather. A very
Bad Storm, Wind exceeding high at N E. Bad for vessels
at Sea, my Brother perhaps, Lord preserve him.
8. The Storm continues with great Violence, the last
quarter Day, we are likely to enjoy. The Company chose
new officers.
11. By the Newspaper I learn that there are sundry
Vessels taken going to and from Monto Christo, perhaps
my Brother's amongst them. Take him under thy care,
O Lord !
12. My Chamber is a wite washing. By Miss Gibbs
who is from Salem we hear that it was certainly Dover
who Killed the Boy the last of March, by his own Con-
fession.
13. Barnard came from Salem, my Brother is got
home (Deo gratias). confirms the accoant we had yester-
day. M r Winthrop had a Lecture P. M. concerning the
late extraordinary phenomina which happened on the 10
of May.
15. Went to Charlestown P. M. & to Lecture there.
M r Jackson preach'd. B UT when we were coming home
the chair broke and hove us both out (Clarke) but thro*
the Q-oodness of G-od we neither of us was hurt. W m Pick-
man in Town.
16. Sent a Letter home to my Father by M rs Gibbs.
17. M r Appleton preach'd all Day in his usual exposi-
tory Manner.
19. Died at Salem, M" Mary King (Andrews).
20. Had an ill turn last Night & am much Indisposed
to Day. W m Pickman and Cap* Robinson & Dannils who
trot things for Pickman in Town. Says my brother had
not got in but it was my Cousin John Gardner, a sad
Disappointment.
21. Dr. Wiggles worth gave our class his Farewell dis-
course & a very good one it was.
22. Col. Pickman and his lady in town.
23. Went to Salem on a Horse of Putnams, sent him
home. Our Folks dull thinking my Brother is carried to
Jamaca. But we refresh'd by News Cap- Mason brot,
who arrived in the Evening.
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24. My Brother arrived at Salein having been detained
a Day by an English privateer on some pretence or other.
25. Went on the Water, a fine Campaign, went on
Shore at Baker's Island.
27. Mesured for my Cloths. Cap n Harthorn arrived
at Salem.
28. M r Barnard preach'd, 1 Epistle John 22, it being
a Day of Humiliation and Prayer.
29. Went to Cambridge, Set off at 4 with my Father
we having our Validictory Oration pronounced which was
finely performed.
30. Returned to Salem with my Father. Master Epes
at Cambridge.
July 3. A M. went to M r Diman's meeting it being
Minister's Meeting. M r Bradstreet preach'd. about Night
went up to my Chums, and by him I learn our Respond-
ents were appointed yesterday, he came from Cambridge
to Day.
8. M r Bay ley of Hampton Falls preach'd, M r Barnard
having gone to York.
10. There came news that three of our Fishing
Schooners were taken by a Shallop of Canso. One of the
Schooners belonged to Cap Darby, the other one to M r
Cabot, the other to M r Orne. there was about 20 Men
abord all three, all of which belonged to the lower Par-
ish. July 20 they all arrived at Salem in Cap Darby's
Schooner, the Shallop that took them not knowing what
to do with them, nor where to carry them, and so they
put them on bord this vessel she being the meanest of
them, two of the Men were Wounded but not bad.
11. The famous Case between Col Pickman and M r
Pickering tried. I was there. The Deacon lost. Brot
in 75 Damages. John Bowditch was married to Mary
Carlton, both of Salem.
12. The Deacon made a full recantation. Rode up to
Aunt Osbourns about Noon, in the Evining went down to
Miss Crowninshield's.
13. Come to Cambridge with my Father, and with
him went to Boston, and return'd with him again to Cam-
bridge.
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15. Fair and Muggy Hot, we were all Muggs hodie.
17. My Father and Mother come, 10 at Night. M r
Very come from Salem, turn'd out to help him.
18. The Day is Come. Cloudy but excessive Hot.
Commencement Weather, I to my great Sorrow quite 111,
so as to come from Meeting P. M. I went down to M rs
Hastings and took a vomit, my Frolick Spoilt.
19. Grand Dance in the Hall, poor I quite Sick, my
Class-Mates come to see me.
20. Took one of D r Kneeland's infusions, it never
work't. Examining to Day.
21. Come home, vale College, vale to Cambridge, some-
thing tired a Riding.
22. I staid at Home and took Physick of D r Putnam,
which work'd. M r Diman & Gilchrist Sick, had no
meetings.
24. Madam can ride out, tho' she can't go to Meeting.
Davis in Town in his way to Glocester. Call'd at our
House with Pickman and Pickering.
25. Here I am, but whare next and what to follow, is
quite uncertain.
26. Cap n Josua Grafton arrived at Salem.
27. M r Gibbs Goods Sold at vendue, I bot a few
Books. Goodale is to keep School in town I believe.
29. Bill Checkley at our Meeting with Judge Lynde.
Cap. Porter arrived at Salem. Cap. Barrey arrived at
Salem.
30. Cap Elkins Arrived at Salem.
31. The President & his Lady rode along. News that
the Brest Fleet Consisting of 30 Sale & 100 Transports
have got out, where bound is a Secret. Some Preparations
are here Making.
Aug. 3. M r Grant in Town. My Father return'd,
Ticonderoga we hear is deserted and other News. Trade
flourishes at Salem, foreigners bring their Goods here.
There is in our harbour 6 or 8 Topsail vessels besides a
great number of other vessels.
6. M r Grant here and bid us farewell. I was sur-
prised to hear that the courtship which has subsisted for
this long time between M r Bickford and Moly Crowning-
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sheild is now broke off on some triffling pretence, he has
not been there this 8 Nights, all I hope for the best.
7. In the Evening went out on the water on a Cam-
pain with young Company.
8. Yesterday we heard Niagara is taken, there being
800 in the fort.
9. Went to my old Chum Pickering's. He is engaged
to keep School at Manchester. Nat Ingersol courts one
of his Sisters.
12. Had the Colick last night and to Day so as to be
detained from Meeting to my sorrow. Cap n Darby ar-
rived, unexpected.
13. Cap n Patterson arrived.
16. Ives' Farm sold at vendue. Cap n Darby bot it
for 950.
20. Cap Putnam arrived at Salem.
22. Went to Boston with my Brother. Heard a bad
Story about Potter.
23. Returned to Salem by Cambridge. Saw there
my Classmates Jones and Kingsbury, dined at Bradish's,
M r Barnard there.
24. Went on a Campain to Nahant. I went with Miss
Sally Marston, spent the Evening at M r Walter's. When
I came home heard of the Sudden Death of Cap n Thomas
Dean who drop down Dead without Speaking, a little
after 8 P. M. He came home as well to all appearance
as ever, and fell down Dead without speaking a word.
25. Cap Josiah Orne arrived at Salem.
26. Cap Dean buried and exceeding large Buring,
above 400.
29. Cap n s Fraser, Lee and Stone Sailed from Salem.
31. Supp'd at my Brother Jon a on Fish. Cap n Darby's
son is not well. We learn that the Shallop [mentioned
July 10th] fitted out one of the Sconers, and that she took
one David Felt belonging to this town. She gave them
her Boat, in which they found way to get Home. There
were other schooners in sight so that we wait to hear
further. Cap Lambert Arrived this day from Monte
Christo.
July or August. Died at Cape Francois, Benj* Gerrish
14 DIARY FOB THE YEAR 1759
of Salem. He went to Sea, and was taken, with Cap
Josiah Orne, and went to the Cape as an Hostage for the
Ransom of the vessel. He died three Days before Cap n
Orne arrived there for to pay the Mony.
Sept. 3. A famous Ball this Night. Went to M r Hig-
ginsons. Arrived at Salem, Robert Fry in Cap Darby's
Schooner, she has been taken again by the same enemies.
They gave him his vessel again. They have taken 9 Sail
besides the above, two belong' d to Boston, one from
London, the rest were fishing vessels belonging to this
town. Uncle Gardner has lost one, M r Barton one, &c.
Tis very remarkable that Fry should have his vessel given
him twice.
4. Rode with M rs Gardner on an errand to Danvers.
M r Darby so well as to go out. Walked this evening with
Pickman. He sets out for New-Haven tomorrow.
5. My Sisters went to Boston, as also my Father.
Went to M r Barnard's. He had Company. Went to the
Burying Place to Peruse Grave-Stones. M r Daniel Gard-
ner of Danvers (my uncle) died, he was born December
15th, 1709.
7. Received a Letter from Davies. Goodale opened
his School.
8. Went to y e Burying of Uncle Daniel. M r Clark
Pray'd. Saw Putnam there. Betty and Lydia got Home.
10. Cap 8 Williams & Brow Sailed.
13. Richard Darby jun r was married to Lydia Gard-
ner, my Sister. M r Tho 8 Ropes Died, he has lately re-
turn'd from Sea, he was taken the last voyage. He mar-
ried one of Deacon Bickford's Daughters, who has lately
lost his Son Pinson Bickford, who died at St. Estatia. He
went Cap George Crowninshield's Mate.
14. Richard Darby & Lydia Gardners Nuptials were
performed. M r Barnard did the needful.
15. Company dined at our house, Guns fired at Morn-
ing, Noon & Night, Colours flying. Cap Dodge of Salem
arrived.
16. Lydia walk'd Bride. I with her, arm ejus sorore.
M r Barnard preached excellently as is usual. Company
in the evening.
KEPT BY SAMUEL GARDNER OF SALEM. 15
18. Will : Cook was married to Sarah Very.
19. Cap Bates arrived at Salem.
24. Quaker Meeting here.
25. Had a Letter from Clark. He tells me of M rs
Minot's Death, of the Examination of the Undergraduates,
&c. In the Evening walk'd. Saw Goodall. We with
others, drank a Glass of Wine at Miss Hannah, a trick I
never did before. Pickman returned from New-haven last
Thursday. He brot me a Theses and Questions.
26. The case between Poyington and Smith to be tried
at Newbury Court. Cap. John Crowningsheild sailed.
28. Went on Bord Cap* Webb he going out.
29. M re West at our House. She is M r Grant's third
Daughter, and married very well in Connecticut.
Sep. Died at Casco Bay, M r Stephen Minot. He was a
resident at College, a very good preacher.
Oct. 1. Miss West at our house again.
2. Ministers meeting, M r Chipman preach'd. P. M.
went over to Smalls. M r Barnard invited me to dine with
the Ministers, but I refused to comply with his Invita-
tion.
4. Cloudy and windy Storm. Ship came in here in
distress. I saw drunkeness in Perfection, who were Sport
of the thoughtless, the Pity of Sober Minds.
5. Down at Cap Darby's in the Evening. Went on
Bord Crowningsheild who arrived to Day. Cap Gebois
arrived at Salem Harbor.
6. Went on Bord Cap Darby he going, but did not by
reason of the wind. Davies in the Evining came to keep
Sabbath with me.
10. Determined to go to Sea with Cap Darby quite
Suden as well as unexpected. Preparing for it. We wait
for nothing but a wind. M r Watson Broke his Leg. M r
Walter at our House for me to join a Club, but I reserved
to act another Scene.
11. Went to Cambridge to get my Dyaploma signed.
12. Breakfast at the Presidents. Just as I came out
of Cambridge heard of the glorious News of the Surrender
of Quebeck. I brot it first to Salem. Great Rejoicing.
19. Fine Fair wind at N. W. Sailed from Salem. May
16 DIABY FOB THB YBAB 1759
I be the Care of God throughout this Voyage. Very Sick.
Cap Josiah Orne Saled the Same Day we did.
20 I prodigious Sick, no Comfort at all.
21* I remain very Sick, the first Sabbath I have been
absent from Church this long time. Little Sleep m the
22. Spoke with a Schooner from Cape Ann. Good
weather, little better, but quite sick yet.
24. A little better contented.
25. A Salors Life is a poor Life.
26. Spoke with a Ship from London to Boston. Mess..
Hibbert and Wippel who were Passengers come on Bord us.
31. Fair pleasant weather. If it were always So a
Seafaring Life would be tollerable. We have not had 2
Hours Contrary wind sence we sailed from Salem, a
great Favour.
Nov. 1. Roast Ducks for dinner.
3. Continues still good weather, with a fresh Brease.
P. M. saw the Island of St. Marias.
8. Quite Sick again toDay.
10. They killed Saunder's Goat.
12. At 10 A. M. Saw a Sail Standing to the S. W. we
fired a Shot at her. She then hoisted Dutch Colours. I
am Quartered at the aftermost Gun and its opposite on the
Quarter Deck, with Cap 1 Clefford. At Night had Apple-
Dumplins for Supper.
13. I have entertain'd myself with a Romance, viz. the
History of the Parish Girl.
15. Between 2 and 3 this morning we saw two Sail,
In the morning they chased us. The Ship fired 3 Shot at
us which we returned. They came up with us, by Reason
of a Breaze which She took before we had it. She proved
to be the Ship Cornwall, from Bristol bound to the Coast
of Africa, in company with her consort the snow Diamond
Cap John" King.
22. Just as the Sun set the Captain discovered Land.
At 4 in the morning Saw the Land again.
23. At 8 Clock 3 Tereffa Boats came out after us.
They fired at us, which we return'd as merry ly. They
were Glad to get away as well as they Could. We Stood
KEPT BY SAMUEL GARDNER OF SALEM. 17
after one, but it is almost impossible to come up with them,
Paratical Dogs. At 2 P. M. came to anchor in Gibralter
Bay. The Boat went on Shoar but I staid on Board.
24. I on Board. The Active Frigate went out on a
chase. Dined with M r Elkins on little Fish that we bot
of a Spanard. Gans fired at the Spanish Batteries. Si-
mon Gord on Board. He is one of them that went with
Lynch. P. M. went on Board the Grand Segemor with
Cap Darby and Ross. He had thoughts of Buying her.
She mounts 18 Guns and has a very fine Towerton.
25. Cap Clefford on Board A. M. the Cap* staid on
Board which is his usual Practice on Sundays. P. M. one
M r Jackson, formerly belonging to Plimouth, came on
Board. He is now mate of a Brig bound for England.
He seems to be a very Clever Man. I sent a Letter Home
by the way of Cadez which I hope they will receive.
26. Went on Shoar it being the first time. We did not
travel about much, by reason of the Rain. Went up to
M r Lynch's Broker. He is Blest with a pritty Wife and 3
fine Children tho' he is none of the Handsomest. Dinedfat
M r Lynchs with Miss Mackintosh, Davies & the two Cap ts
Ropes. They are immoderate Drinkers, Nay some of them
Glory in being Drunk. Saw Cap* Clefford on the Mole.
27. The Cap went on Shoar. The Prize from Malaga
came down.
28. Went on Shoar and dined at M r Lynchs, Cap 1
Clefford went with us. Saw the Soldiers in the Garrison
exercise. They had a cruel Fellow for an Officer, for he
wipt them Barbarously.
29. Went on Shoar, I with 3 Cap ts up to the New Mole
and there went on Board the Prize that was taken under
the Pope's Colors. She was from Domingo loaded with
Sugar. Likewise we went on Board another Prize taken
under Spanish Colours. The Hennington Frigat lay
there. We dined at M r Lynches. After dinner we went
and Saw the Poor Soldiers lick'd again. This Day Cap
Darby Made a Beginning to sell his Cargo. Comeing
from the Mole we saw a Jewes Burying. They appeared
very devout and Sang as they went along. This morning
Cap Jones in a London Ship in the Bay Died, and was
carried on Shoar. He is to be buried tomorrow. He was
18 D1AR5T FOR THE TEAR 1759
as well as ever he was in life last Saturday. This Day
M r Elkins commenced 21 years old.
30. In the morning Cap* Derby delivered Sugar, after
that we went on Shoar and dined at M r Lynch's. St. An-
drews Day. Several had their Crosses in their Hats. At
night came on Board and Supped heartily on fried Fish.
Cap Derby received an answer from Cadez. Our Letters
were to go in Cap Dixon who was to be ready in a few Days.
Dec. 3. Cap* Clefford came off to us this morning, and
invited Cap* Derby and myself to dine at his Brothers.
Accordingly we went and were entertained with an Ele-
gant Dinner. He has a fine Woman for his Wife ; his
first and Second Leiutenant dined with him, and the doc-
tor of the Regiment. The Dinner consisted of following
Dishes, viz. a very fine Fish boiled with fish Sauce and
Butter, Boil'd fowls and Bacon, boil'd Leg of Mutton,
with Caper Sauce, Greens, Potatoes, &c. A very Fine
Roast Turkey, Cranberry Tarts, &c. &c. &c. We had like-
wise very good Licquors, Viz. Madeira, Sherry, Bristol
Bear, and Punch. The whole of the Entertainment was
very gentil. Cap Clefford belongs to Sir David Cunning-
ham's Regiment.
4. Went on Shoar, and dined at M r Lynches, with the
family. This Day the Trial of the Popes Ship came on.
They Petitioned for 2 Months more Time, which is agre-
able to us, for we Stand a better Chance of Selling our
Sugar he having 400 of Board.
5. I Staid on Board P. M. we took a Sail in our little
Boat around the Shipping. There is in the Bay, the
Gurnesey of 50 Guns, with Gibralter and Kennington
Frigates.
6. Went on Shoar and dined at M r Lynch's. We
went with Cap* Ross to his Brother's House. We were
invited to dine with him. Cap Ross and I went to the
Spanish Popish Church, and it happened that they were
just burying a dead Body. I there saw Superstition and
Idolitry to that degree, that it made me feal what I cant
discribe. The Church is Considerable well f urnish'd with
Images, there is the 12 Apostles and our Savior which
were given by Mary Queen of Scots.
t. The Cap* of a London Ship came under our Steam
KEPT BY SAMUEL GABDNER OF SALEM. 19
in a Spanish Boat with 3 Spanards. They refused carry-
ing him on Board his Vessel according to agreement. He
left his great Coat in the Boat, he not paying them. They
carry 'd it off. Our Boat carry 'd him on Board his vessel.
It just then beginning to Blow betwen 9 & 10 as near as
I remember which increased to a very great degree, so that
a Snow that layd just a Head off us, parted her Cables,
and came directly down in our Horses. We as soon as
we Saw her drive cut away our Small Cable end by reason
of that She went Clear of us without any damage on either
Side. We had not been in this condition above 6 or 8
minutes before we parted our best Bower, and drove di-
rectly down aboard a Small Brig which lay a little to Le-
ward of us. We received some Damage. We sprung
our Bowsprit and broke our Shanchings and the Quarter
Deck. We had no sooner got Clear, but we fell foul of
the above mentioned Snow which beat up a little a Stearn
of us. She having a good Anchor on her Bows. Our
Cat Head took his Quarter by which our Cat Head was
broke. Our out licker which was a crotchet yard took his
small Boat which hung on his Side, and Stove it all to
pieces. Our Boat which also hung on our Side Stood a
very narrow Chance of being Served the Same, but as it
happened very luckily, we got clear of him without any
further Damage. We observed the Master and his Mate
Crying and wringing their Hands. We then Hoisted our
fore Stoysal, and a bit otf the main sail and Stood over to
the Spanish Line which drove to. The ground is very
soft so that She cant possibly do any great Damage. We
then went down and eat a Mouthfull of Victuals, it being
now Dinner time. The Captain after that went on Shoar,
with the long boat and Moses & brot off an Anchor, and
an Hauser, but just as He came on board, the Guernsey's
Boat sent by Cap* Millbanks came down to our assistance
and brot with them a fine New Hauser which the Captain
bent to the Anchor he brot of and carryed it out a Stearn.
The Man of war's Boat afterward went and brot our sheet
Anchor and so we then waited till morning.
8. Sunday. Cap Derby went on Board a Sette which
lay a little a Stearn of us which he suspected had cut our
Wasp which was made fast to them. His Suspiscion*
20 DIARY FOR THE YEAR 1759
were not without Ground for he soon discovered the
Peice, with which he gave some of them a flogmg. They
all took to their Hole and laid over their Hatches, bo
Cap* Derby came off from them. A thieving Crew they
are here.
9. I turned out at 2 Clock in the morning bne had
not then began to right, likewise at 4 which was about
high water She did not fleet. Cap* Derby then ordered,
the Man of War's long Boat to be fill'd with Sugar, She
cary'd 13 Hdds on Shoar, which were put into M r Lynch's
Store. The Guernsey's Boat then went on board their own
Ship Cap* Derby came off. He hired a Schooner to take
Sugar on board and gives them 10 Dollars per Day.
(they not comeing directly the Cap 1 Sent our Moses after
them, which soon returned, and says the Spanards had gone
to Church it being some great Day amongst 'em) Cap*
Derby then went on Shoar and soon brot them on Board.
They took in about 30 Hdds. As soon as this was done we
went directly to heaving her off. The Guernsey's Boat
came again according to his promise with the same Crew.
The Leutenant, and Leutenant of Merines likewise came
along Side and Spoke very civily and obligeingly. And
by the Long Boats assistance under a kind Providence we
got off, and warp'd her up to the Mole, where Captain
Derby intends now to haul her in. It is now Ebb Tide,
and impossible to git her moved aright. We then went
to Cabin, after we had appointed a Watch and eat a
Mouthfull of Cheese. The Long Boat Staid with us. M r
Doane a Mate came in her both times. He has lost his
Thumb and two fingers. The boats Crew consisted of
about 8 or 10 Hands. The Spanish Schooner hauled up
along Side and we hoisted 10 or 12 Hdds out of her. She
being too Deep to go into the Mole to Land them all. The
long Boat went on Board there own Ship. Cap* Derby
gave M r Doane 10 Gall Cag of Brandy, and the Crew 3
Cobs and Some Sugar. They went away, with Promises
to call upon us. 1 am afraid too often. Our People went
on Shoar in the Afternoon for I suppose a little diversion.
We staid on Board. M r Jackson, mate of the little Brig
we ran foul of, says they received no damage save the
breaking their Flyining Gib Boom & Sprottle Yard.
KEPT BY SAMUEL GARDNER OF SALEM. 21
10. It still remains Wet and very uncomfortable
weather. Cap 1 Derby went on Shoar and hoisted out
them Hdds in the Schooner and put them in M r Lynche's
Store. I staid on Board all Day, it being dirty weather
and not having anything to do. Benj a Moses a Jew, a
Huckster in Gib r who bot' Sugar of Jopplin & Com y was
on Board of us. I had some Discourse with about his
Religion. He said that if Jesus Christ had been the
Messiah God would never have Suffered him to have been
crucified. Poor creature he errs greatly. 1 endeavored
to set him to rights, by telling that it was our Saviour's
Buisness in this world to undergoe those Sufferings. He
seemed to lay great Stress on this, and Said we Crucified
him, we Crucified him, and lifted up his Hands whereby
he represented it to us, which put me in Mind of the An-
cient Jews, his forefathers calling upon Pilate to have our
Savior Crucified desireing his Blood to be on them and
their Children which has justly provoked Almighty God to
leave 'em to their impenitent Infidelity, scattered up and
down all over this Universe which I urged on him, with
diverse others but he said for a Conclusion that his Father
& Grand-Father were Jews and so he would be, and if
they were gone to Hell he would go their too, which I
exposed as a great peice of Folly and Stupidity. In the
morning we heard a firing, and look'd out in the Gut and
there was a Snow there atacked by 3 of the Piratical
Tereffa Boats. The Cutter Schoon r , and Poeackra both
in the governments Service soon got under Sail. 3 Men
of War that lay in the Road manned their Barges and
sent them out, as did a Privateer. We could now perceive
her to have Struck and standing to the Cuta. This was
about 8 'C. They soon retook her. She Anchor'd at the
back of the Neck the wind not then permitting her to
come round. She had only 4 Swivels and 6 or 8 Men.
They very much bruised a Boy, which has sence died of
his wounds, after they had boarded them. It seem this
boy was Stationed at the Pendent Hallard's. He not being
ordered or not able to strick their Colures they did the
Buisness for him with an Iron Crow. It is said the person
that did it was a Mahonion but weather he is one that is
taken Prisoner I am not able to learn. They were not
22 DIAEY FOE THE YEAE 1759
able to git any of the Boats as I learn but they got some
Prisoners which were on Board the Snow, but how many
I cannot learn, but there was 2 Spanards Teriffa Born,
which it is hoped will meet with there just Reward, which
I should think would be nothing less than Hanging. Just
at Dark came on Board us too Gentlemen one of which is
an Offercer on board a Man of War, the other belongs to
the Granada in the King's Service, the former our People
say was in the Scurmish in some of the Barges, as the
Boats Crew that rowed him on board told 'em. If so he
could have given us a Relation of it but we not knowing
of it, & he not Speaking of it, prevented what would have
been very agreeable to me. The other belongs to Phila-
delphia and wants a Passage to America, which was their
Buisness on board of us. They staid but a few Minutes
on Board. Cap Derby told him he would give him a
Passage when ever he went, but when that would be was
very uncertain.
It is now between 9 & 10 Ck. at night which is latest
I have set up since I left Salem. I have been writing
down to Day Remarks which are very large, with what I
have put in my other Book. It now Rains and when it
will be good pleasant weather God only knows, but it has
been very excessive Rainy at Gibralter sence we have
been here. After that I went to Bed but could not Sleep
the Reason I know not. I went and walk'd on the Deck.
Showery in the Night.
11. Continues Rainy and wet weather went on Shoar
and dined at M r Lynch's. Had discourse with Sinto
Senannes. I am to go to the Senagoge next Sunday.
P. M. I went with Cap* Derby to his House and there
drank Coffee and Eat preserved Fruit call'd Bariherns,
Cherries, &c. Read at M r Lynchs. The Oeconomy of
Human Life and brotfrom thence a Pamphlet entitled Man
a Machine. I saw there an English Popish prayer Book.
The Snow that was taken yesterday, came from the Coast
of Africa. They found on Board when she was retook 8
or 10 of the Hands that belong'd to the Boats that took
them. The Master and Mate were carry 'd to Teriffa.
Died whilst I was absent, old Cap White's Wife
Died at Salem whilst absent, M rs Lee.
OLD NORFOLK COUNTY DEEDS.
1671-1689.
ABSTEACTED BY OTIS G. HAMMOND FROM THE RECORD
BOOK KEPT BY SAMUEL DALTON OF HAMPTON, N. H.,
44 COMMISSIONER" AND " RECORDER", NOW
PRESERVED IN THE STATE ARCHIVES
AT CONCORD, N. H.*
1670/71, January 31. Samuel Dudley of Exeter in the
River of Pascataway in New England, gentleman, with
the consent of his wife Elizabeth, to Cornelius Lary of
Exeter, " one House lott or Plantation which I the sayd
Samuell Dudly formerly Bought of Ralph Hall of Exetur
the sayd lott Runing six scor Rodd in length from the
waters side & in Bredth as itt was fenced in when I the
sd Sam 11 Dudly bought itt of the sd Ralph Hall, and
being Bounded to y e south west side with the Great pas-
ture of the sd Dudly and on the other side near a Creeck
Comonly Robert Smarts Creeck, and to the East ward
with the Salt River ;" witnesses, Ed. Smith, Moses Gil-
man ; acknowledged July 27, 1677.
1673, March 31. William Sanborn of Hampton, yeo-
man, to Peter Folsorn of Exeter, " a Certaine pcell of
Upland Containing twenty Acres more or lesse as itt is
layd outt lying and Being in the Towne of Hampton in
part of y* land appointed for a new plantation, the which
land lyeth westward from the Towne of Hampton Upon a
plaine Below the Saw mill Commonly Caled pickpocket
mill Abutting Upon Exetur line towards y e north only
Reserveing a way of two Rod wid Between Exetur line
& the sd land : and Buteth Upon Hampton Comons
For a description of this volume and biographical account of Samuel Dalton
see Putnam's Genealogical Quarterly Magazine, Vol. Ill, pp. 167-170.
(23)
24 OLD NORFOLK COUNTY DEEDS.
towards y e south, and is Bounded with y e land of Moris
Hobes towards the East, and y e land of Christophur Pal-
mer towards the west : be the same more or lesse as itt is
layd out" ; witnesses, Samuel Dalton, Benjamin Moulton ;
acknowledged Jan. 14, 1674/5.
1674, June 16. Ralph Hall of Exeter to Samuel Lea-
vitt of Exeter, one halfe of ten Acres of land w ch I for-
merly bought of Morrice Hobbs sen r of Hampton lying
and being in hampton bounds, in a Swamp Com'only
Called or knowne by the name of the Grassy Swampe
lying between the Land of Christophur palmer & Nath-
aniel Bachelder and lying on both sides of a Brook Run-
ing into Exetur River" ; witnesses, John Gilman, Edward
Oilman ; acknowledged June 18, 1674.
1675, June 25. John Young of Exeter to Peter Fol-
som of Exeter, ' two Acres of land w ch I Bought formerly
of nicholas Smith Dec d with one Dweling house & Barn
Upon y e same the Land being bounded (lying and being in
Exetur p r dict) as followeth viz* to the westw d with the
sayd Smiths House lott, to the northwest w th the land of
John Kiming, John Gillmans land south:" signed by John
Young and Sarah Young; witnesses, Edward Smith,
Ephraim Folsom ; acknowledged by John Young and wife
Sarah, June 28, 1675.
1678, Aug. 9. Anthony Stanyan of Hampton, gentle-
man, to Samuel Leavitt of Exeter, " Seaven Acres and a
halfe of marsh which 1 had Delivered to me by way of
Execution by a Judgment Granted to mee y e s d Stanyen
att Salisbury Courtt last past upon the Estate of m r
Charls Hilton of Exetur afore said which sd marsh is lying
and being at Lamprill River point soe Called in Exetur
aforesd, and takes the whole breadth from the River to
the Upland, and so Runes southward toward Lamprill
River Creek soe Called" ; witnesses, Edward Smith, Ed-
ward Gilman ; acknowledged Aug. 9, 1678.
1678, Sept. 20. William Fuller, sr., of Hampton,
locksmith, to Abraham Green, for a consideration
paid by Henry Green of Hampton, millwright, ' fower
Acres of Salt marsh lying and being in the Towne of
Hampton aforesayd : lying on the south side of y e falls
OLD NORFOLK COUNTY DEEDS. 25
River and is bounded with the marsh of the sd Henry
Greene towards the north end and the marsh of William
fifield towards the South, Abutting on the Maine River
towards the East, and other land West : more or less as itt
is layd outt" ; witnesses, Mehitable Dalton, Timothy Dai-
ton ; acknowledged Sept. 20, 1678.
1678, Oct. 30. Mark Roberts of Kittery, Maine, to
Samuel Leavitt of Exeter, yeoman, " all my right title and
Interest of three pcells of land thatt I and Alexsander
Denham bought of Abraham Drake of Hampton the which
land is lying and being in the above sd Towne of Exetur
viz : 45 Acres of Upland and Swampe lying in the two
Divisions Each Division being of Equall Bredth : about
fif tie Rod wide one part of the sd land is bounded with
land Inclosed now in the hands of Georg Jones towards
y e north : and so Extending Downe to m r whelewrights
Creeke towards the Towne, and other land of y e sd Jones
towards the south: Ittem y e other peece being on the north
side of Humphray willsons Bridg the Run being y e Bounds
of y e sd land and James Kids land lying on y e other sid
of the Run towards y e south : being bounded with other
land of y e sd Georg Jones towards the north as also one
quarter part of the Temple medow Com 'only so Called ;
be y e same more or lesse as itt is ; the one halfe of the
above sayd fortie five acres of upland and Swamp and the
one halfe of the above sayd quarter part of the Temple
medow : being my Right I Doe hereby sell the same unto
the sd Samuell Leavett" ; witnesses, John Gilman, Eliza-
beth Gilman, sen. ; acknowledged Oct. 31, 1678.
1679, June 23. Edward Gove of Hampton, husband-
man, and wife Hannah, to Caleb Perkins of Hampton, "a
Certaine tract of upland in Salisburie in y e County of
norfolk in the Collony afore sayd : in a Certaine place
Called by the name of Halls farme Containing thirteen
Acres, and three quarters being y e fourteenth lott in num-
ber lying between y e lots of Edmund Eliott now in pos-
sesion of william osgood sen r & the lott of Samuel Bus-
well as by the Towne Record will Appear Butting one
End upon Hampton line & the other End upon a High
way y* leadeth Downe into sd farme"; witnesses, Thomas
Philbrick, Joseph Dow ; acknowledged Dec. 10, 1679.
26 OLD NOBFOLK COUNTVT DEEDS.
1679, June 24. Isaac Green of Salisbury, planter, to
his brother, Abraham Greene of Hampton, "a Certaine
parsell of Upland and medow in thatt tract of land Corn-
only Called Halls farme and lands Adjacentt which is in
the Towne of Salisburie : and in perticuler the one halfe
of thatt land medow or marsh with all Rights priveledges
and Apertinances thereunto belonging what so Ever thatt
I Bought of Richard Dole sen r of Newbury in the County
of Essex Massachusets in New England merchentt which
bill of sale bears Date : may y e 14 th 1679" ; witnesses,
Nathaniel Weare, Thomas Chase ; acknowledged Aug. I4 r
1679.
1679, Aug. 14. Jacob Garland of Hampton, planter,
to Abraham Green of Hampton, "a Certaine parcel of
Upland and medow lying and being in the Towne of
Hampton being by Estimation fifty acres of Upland and
medow more or lesse as itt is layd out: being the one
Quarter partt of a farme Granted to m r Seaborn Cotton:
and by m r Cotton sould unto my ffather John Garland of
Hampton Deceased the whole farme Containing two hun-
dred Acres as Appears by the Grant in the Towne Rec-
ords: and layd outt att a plaine Comonly Called Hogpen
plaineandthe medow lying within the upland: and one
half of the sayd farme Given to mee the sayd Jacob Gar-
land and my Brother Peter Garland by the last will of
my father John Garland Deceased, and wee to have liber-
ty of the first Choise of our part of the sayd farme as Ap-
pears by the sayd will;" witnesses, William Marston,
Thomas Thurton; acknowledged Aug. 19, 1679.
1679, Nov. 10. Morris Hobbs, sen., of Hampton to
"my welbeloved Grand Child James hobes the son of
my son James hobes late Deceased and Sarah his wife,"
" my peece of Upland and Swamp, upon one End of
which my son James hobes Builded his house and Barne
m his life time the sayd tract of Upland and Swampe
tiemg by Estamation nine Acres more or lesse as itt
is: with all the Rights priveledges and Appertinances
there Unto Belonging the above sayd tract of land is
lying and Being in the above sayd towne of hampton in
the East field Comonly so Called, Abutting Upon a
OLD NORFOLK COUNTY DEEDS. 27
Comon way to the Beach on the north and land of John
Marston on the East and west and land sometimes John
Brownes on the south only itt is the true Intent hereof
thatt the above sayd Sarah hobes widow the late wife to
my son James Hobs and mother to my Grand Child James
Hobes : shall have the Sole and proper use of the above
sayd land and Swamp all Duering the tearme thatt she
shall Remaine a widow Butt after thatt she the sd Sarah
Hobes shall Dispose of her selfe in mariage or att the day
of her Death : which shall fall out first : then the above
sayd Upland and Swamp : to be and Remaine Unto my
above sayd Grand Child James hobs : provided allwayes:
and the tru Intentt hereof is thatt the above sayd James
hobs my Grand son shall pay or Cause to bee payd unto
my two other Grand Children Viz moris hobes and Sarah
hobes : the Children of my son James hobes : and Sarah
his wife : the some of twelve pounds : to Each of them Six
pound, in Good merchantable pay : att price Curantt to
bee payd to them when they shall arive to the age of
twentie one years if he the sd James hobes shall have pos-
session of the above sayd land and be not hindred by his
mothers possession of itt as above butt if itt bee not outt
of his mothers possession when they the sd moris and Sarah
Hobs bee twenty one years of Age then he is to pay the
second year after he possesse the land: Six pound unto
the sd Moris hobs and Six pound the third year unto the
sd Sarah hobes provided alwayes and the true Intent here-
of is thatt if the sd James Hobs shall Depart this life before
this payment Bee payd to the other two Children as above
sayd thatt then the Above sayd Moris hobes to have the
sayd land and to pay six pound unto his Sister Sarah hobs
as above sayd the above sayd James Hobes or moris hobs
above sayd According to whatt is above written To have
and to Hould * * * only the tru intentt of all
above written is thatt Henry Dow and John Marston both
or Either of them shall be as over seeres or f eofees of trust
for the sayd Children: in Case the sd land shall Come to
the sayd James Hobs Before he is twenty one years of
Age to see thatt itt bee Improved for the best for the Child
according to their Discretion and after hee is of age to see
28 OLD NORFOLK COUNTY DEEDS.
thatt y e s d James Hobes pay as above sd to his brother and
sister twelve pound as is above written or if he faile, then
the sayd over seers to Divid the sd land and Swamp
Equally between the sayd James Moris and Sarah Hobes
the above sayd three Children:" witnesses, Henry Dow,
John Sanborn, jr. ; acknowledged Dec. 22, 1679.
1679, Dec. 12. Thomas Page of Hampton, planter, to
Ephraim Marston of Hampton, " a Certaine tract of land
lying and being in y e Towne of hampton in the north
plaine Comonly so Called itt being a lot of upland Con-
taining Six Acres more or lesse as itt is layd out itt lying
Between y e land of Daniel Dow & John Redman Abutting
upon Comon land on the north East and south west ; "
witnesses, Henry Dow, Samuel Dow ; acknowledged Dec.
31, 1679.
1680, April 30. Philip Greeley of Salisbury to Capt.
John Gilman of Exeter, " three Acres of medow or marsh
land, lying near Lampriel River Mouth in Pascataway
River in the provenc aforesd Begining att y e head of y e
marsh up a Creek Comonly Called Lampil River Creek, &
so takeing y e one halfe of the marsh Doweard [w], Untill
or soe far as y e thre Acres of marsh aforesd shall Re-
quire to bee made Up & Compleated, itt being y e one
halfe of Six Acres of y e sd marsh or medow begining att
y e head of y e Creek marsh, & soe Downewards, the marsh
Being formerly som p* of y e posession of m r Edward Hil-
ton sen r Dec d ; " witnesses, Edward Smith, John Partridge ;
acknowledged Sept. 8, 1680.
1680, Aug. 3. Samuel Leavitt of Exeter to John Fol-
som, jr., of Exeter, one Halfe, of Seaven Acres & a
Halfe of marsh w ch I y e s d Sam 11 Leavitt bought of m r An-
thony Stanian of Hampton ; which sd marsh was Deliv-
ered to y e s d Stanyen by way of Execution by a Judgm*
Granted to him att Salisbury Court in the year one thou-
sand six hundred Seaventy & Eight, Upon y e Estate of
m^ Charles Hilton of Exetur aforesd, which sd marsh is
lying and being att Lamprill River point soe Called in
Exetur aforesd, and takes y e whole breadth from y e River
to y e upland & soe Runs south ward towards Lamprill
River Creek so Called; " witnesses, Edward Smith, Eliz-
abeth Gilman ; acknowledged Aug. 25 1680
OLD NOEFOLK COUNTY DEEDS. 2&
1680, Aug. 30. William Marston of Hampton, carpen-
ter to Daniel Lamparil [Lamprey] of Hampton, planter,
" a Certaine share of the Cows Comon in Hampton ac-
cording to the true Estamation thereof, with all Rights
and priveledges and Appertinances there Unto Belonging
as they are now in Being att the Date of these p r sents,
the which share of Comonage was one of the shares
Granted to Gilles fuller of Hampton Deceased, and by his
Heire Thomas Thurton Sould and Delivered Unto mee the
sayd william Marston the sayd share of the Cows Comon
Respectively with all Rights and priveledges there Unto
Belonging as above sd Unto the sd Daniel Lampariel ; ""
witnesses, Samuel Ayers, Philemon Dalton ; acknowledged
Aug. 30, 1680.
[1680, Oct. 7.]
To all Christian people to whom these p r sents shall
Come Know yee thatt wheras By the last will and testa-
ment of Brigett Clifford my Dear mother : thatt land
which was formerly the possession of my Dear father John
Huggins sen r of Hampton ; is now Given and Granted unto
mee John Higgins Jun r and to my Brother Nathaniel Hug-
gins to Us and our Heires for Ever ; I the sayd John Hug-
gins Doe by these p r sents Covenant with my Brother
Nathaniel Huggins : thatt he the sayd Nathaniel shall
quietly possesse and Injoy the whole teniment whear my
father lived lying near to Hampton landing place Both
Upland marsh and pasture land ; and thatt I will nott att
Any Time sell my parte from Him the sayd Nathaniel
butt thatt my sd Brother nathaniel shall quietly occupie
possesse and Injoy the same withoutt molestation or trouble
as itt was formerly in my fathers possesion, I have Here-
unto sett my Hand and Scale this seaventh Day of Octo-
ber 1680
Signed sealed & John Huggins [seal]
Conformed in the
p r sents of us
John Samborn
Nath 11 Weare
[Acknowledged Oct. 7, 1680.]
1680, Oct. 25. Edward Smith of Exeter to Peter Fol-
som of Exeter, " a Certayne Small tract of land and fflatts
30 OLD NORFOLK COUNTY DEEDS.
Lying and being in Exetur aforesd and Specified and
bounded as is hereafter Expressed Viz y e sd land & flats
being as was supposed partt of the House lott of John
fflollsham Sen r : y e sd peters ffather and by Vertue of an
Execution Granted to mee y e sd Edward Smith att the
last quarter Court att Hampton Upon the money or Estate
of y e sayd John ffollsham Sen r and now Delivered to mee
sd Smith by y e marshall of Hampton aforsd & Bounded
as followeth ; thatt is to say one part of the sayd Executed
land, lying below the path or high way as you Goe to y e
sd John ffollsham sen his house withe flats thereunto
adjoyning being Bounded to the north East with y e land
and flatts of m r Samuel Dudly and to the South west with
the land of m r Moses Gillman ; y e Remaining part of y e
sd land lying above the high way aforesd, and Abutting
to y e south East ag* y e sd way att y e one end, and so to
begin from a Rock about Eighteen foot from y e north
East End of y e sd ffollsham, sen his house and from thenc
to Run towards y e north west to a Certain Rock, Close by
an old dry stump & from thence Crossing to the north
East to a Rock near to m r Dudlys fence, with whose land
on thatt side itt is bounded"; signed by Edward Smith
and Mary Smith; witnesses, Edward Gilman, Biley Dud-
ley ; acknowledged by Edward Smith and wife Mary,
Oct. 25, 1680.
[1680, Nov. 5.]
Whereas by the last will and Testament of my Hon-
oured father John Cass late of hampton Deceased the
land Given to his two Eldest sons viz Joseph Cass and
Samuell Cass as by the sd will is more att large to be seen
and understood, and the sd Samuell Cass Being appointed
to Divide the said land into two parts Both Upland and
medow and then Joseph to make Choyce of his partt,
these p r sents wittnesseth that the sayd land hath been
Divided by my Brother Samuell Cass Acording to my
fathers last will and the Dividing bounds hath Been
shewed to mee the sd Joseph Cass this 26 Day of July
1680 and I the sd Joseph Cass have this Day made Choyce
of the north Division of all the Upland and medows on the
East side of the Country way According to the Bounds
OLD NORFOLK COUNTY DEEDS. 31
fixed by my Brother Samuell and on the westerly side of
the Country way I the sd Joseph have made Choyce of
the south Division bounded with the land of Thomas
Chase towards the south and the Country way East : Corn-
on land west and a way into the Comons towards the
North and my partt is as above mentioned I Doe by these
p r sents owne my selfe fully Satiesfied & Contented with
and to this Choyce and Agreement I have Subscribed my
hand and Seale, and my Brother Samuell Cass is to have
the other partt, and all the houses and Buildings there-
upon : for the which I Have taken bill Under his hand for
my partt & pportion of all the houses which my father
left as they are now in being : wittnes my hand & seale
this 5 of November 1680
Signed Sealed & Joseph Cass [seal]
Delivered in the
p r sents of Us
Samuell Sherburn
Philemon Dalton
[Acknowledged Nov. 5, 1680.]
[1680, Nov. 5.]
whereas by the last will and testament of my Honoured
iather John Cass Late of Hampton Deceased the lands
Given by the sd will Unto His two Eldest sons Viz Joseph
Cass and Samuell Cass was by the sd Samuell Cass to be
Divided into two parts and after Division the sayd Joseph
Cass was to make Choyce of his partt of both upland and
medow
These p r sents wittnesseth thatt the sd land Haveing
Been Divided according to the sd will and the Dividing
Bounds shewed unto the sd Joseph Cass the 26 Day of
July in the year of our Lord 1680 and the sd Joseph
haveing made Choyce of his partt as appears by a wright-
ing Under his hand & Seale Bearing Even Date with these
p'sents & I the sd Samuell Case Doe by these p r sents De-
clare my selfe well Satiesfied with his Choyce and Doe
Accept of the other partt of the land Vize the South partt
of all the Upland & medow that lyeth on the East side of
the Country way and with the north Division on the west
.side of the Country way and have taken into my partt all
32 OLD NORFOLK COUNTY DEEDS.
the houseing thatt are now in being into my partt : and
have Given to my brother Joseph security under my hand
for his partt of all the houses as they are now in being
and thatt my Brother Joseph shall peacably Injoy his
partt & thatt I Doe Rest Satiesfied with the other partt :
I have hereunto sett my hand and scale this 5 of Novem-
ber 1680 : with this pviso that my Brother Joseph Cass
shall have the use of all the Houseing both Dwelling house
& out houses this winter and the Easterly End of the
house untill the 24 Day of June next Insueing
Signed Sealed & Samuell Cass [seal]
Delivered in the
p r sents of us
Samuell Sherburn
Philemon Dalton
[Acknowledged Nov. 5, 1680.]
1680, Nov. 17. Henry Moulton and John Moulton r
both of Hampton, to James Chase of Hampton, " A Cer-
taine parcell of Salt marsh being about six Scor Rod more
or less as itt is Bounded with the marsh of John Redman
Ju r somtimes Edward Colcords on y e south and the fresh
medow of John fuller on y e north and marsh of John
Redman senio r on the west, and marsh sometimes Abra-
ham Perkinses on the East, the above sayd six scor Rod
be the same more or less as itt is so bounded : was some-
times Ed Colcord sen r and Destreigned by us the sd Henry
and John Moulton as Constables of y e aforesd Towne of
Hampton for Rates Due from the sayd Ed Colcord sen r ,
the abovesd James Chase to Have And to Hould and
peacably to Injoy the sayd parcell of marsh (which is
lying and being in the foresayd Towne of Hampton in a
place Called by the name of the spring marshes"; wit-
nesses, Henry Dow, Samuel Dow; acknowledged Nov. 17,
1680.
[1680/1, Jan. 6.]
"Articles of Agreement made and Concluded Upon
between Isaac Perkins of Hampton in the pvenc of new
Hampshier in new England Planter on the one partie, and
his son Ebenezer Perkins of the same Towne on the other
party, witnesseth thatt for and in Consideration of thatt
OLD NORFOLK COUNTY DEEDS. 33
love and naturall affection which I the sd Isaac Perkins
Doe bear Unto my son Ebenezer, and for his future set-
tlement in a way of Husbantry and for the Securing of a
Comfortable Livelyhood for my selfe and for my wife
Duering the terme of our lives Haue therefore settled my
Estate as followeth
first I the sd Isaac Perkins Doe Reserve in my owne
Hands & to my owne use and Disposall these follow-
ing pticulers, viz two Acres of Good marsh and Eighty
Acres of land lying westward att a place Called Hampton
new plantation and all my parte in the new Shipe build
this last year, and fortie pounds worth of Cattle, and one
of my best Beds, with all Bedding and furniture there
unto belonging to bee and Remaine to race and my wife
and to the longest liver of us and our Heires as wee shall
Dispose, and House Roome for us and the longest liver of us
Conveniant Dueriug our naturall life And all the Rest of
my Estate both Houses and lands medows marshes orch-
yards Gardens pastures and all my land in fence or lying
in Common with all other Towne Rights and priveledges
with their appertinances : and the Rest of my Cattle and
and moveables : within Dores & without Excepting whatt
shall bee Usefull for our subsistanc, I Doe by these p r sents
by way of a Deed of Guift pass over unto my son Ebene-
zer Perkins the sd Houses lands medows marshes orch-
yards Gardens pasture lands outt lands with the priviledges
and Appertinances thereof Unto the sd Ebenezer Perkins
to Have and to Hould to Him and His Heires for Ever,
and thatt the sd Ebenezer Perkins shall Hould possesse
ocupie and Injoy the same upon this tennour and Condi-
tion thatt he the sd Ebenezer His Heires and survivers
shall from time to time and att all times Hereafter main-
taine mee the sd Isaac Perkins and Susannah my wife
Duering the terme of our Naturall lives : with all things
nessisary and sutable to our age sexe and Condition both
In sicknes and in helth as long as wee shall live : and if
the sd Ebenezer His Heires or survivors shall faile in the
performanc of whatt is herein mentioned Concerning our
Comfortable rnaintinance, thatt then itt shall bee in the
power of the sd Isaac Perkins and Susanna his wife and
34 OLD NORFOLK COUNTY DEEDS.
the longest liver of Us to take any parte of the sayd land
marsh pasture or other appertinances and Dispose of the
same by Gift or Sale or other wayes for our Comfortable
maintinanc And Subsistanc Duering the terme of our
lives and the longest Liver of us : and for the Conforma-
tion of all above writtten Unto my Son Ebenezer Perkins
According to the termes above mentioned I the sayd Isaac
Perkins Have hereunto sett my Hand and Seale this Sixt
Day of January in the year one thousand Six Hundred
and Eighty : and in the thirtiy second year of the Reign of
our Sovereign lord King Charles the second &c.
Signed & Delivered Isaac Perkins [seal]
in the p sents Susanna X Perkins
o f us Her mark
Joseph Perkins
Susana X Hussey
Her mark
[Acknowledged Jan. 6, 1680/1.]
1680/1, Feb. 28. John Hug-gins of Newbury to John
Sleeper of Hampton, "a Certaine percell of upland and
medovv y* I Bought of nathaniel Boulter of Hampton &
was sometimes sould to the sd Boulter by John Barrat,
the sd Upland is fiftie Acres more or less as itt is layd
outt : and Halfe the medow be the same more or less : the
other halfe is now in the possession of Daniel Tilton of
Hampton as also I Sel Unto the sd John Sleeper my Dwel-
ing house or frame standing upon the sd land, the above
sd fiftie acres of upland is lying and being within the
bounds of the sd Towne of Hampton lying up Taylors
River by the Indian Graves Comonly so Called : the which
was Comonly Called James walls farme, and the sd land
was sometimes in the possession of John Legate of Exetur :
the sd land lyeth on the westerly side of Daniel Tiltons
land : and the sd medow Adjoyneth to the sd upland-"
witnesses, Henry Dow, Daniel Tilton, Samuell Dow ; ac-
knowledged March 1, 1680/1.
1681, April 2. Christopher Hussey of Hampton to his
son, John Hussey of Hampton, "one Halfe Acre of land
of my farm in Hampton Joyning to the falls River near
the old f eild in som Convenient place for the setting of a
OLD NORFOLK COUNTY DEEDS. 35
Grist mill as also the p r viledg of y e sd falls River so far as
I am Concerned in sd River for makeing a Dam for sayd
mill as also the priviledg of a Convenient way to sd mill
for those that shall Have occation, for Ever ;" witnesses,
Mehitable Dalton, Elizabeth Dalton ; acknowledged, April
2, 1681.
1681, June 3. John Marian of Hampton, yeoman,
" Considering my p r sentt state with Regard to my Great
age and weakness, & Considering thatt both my selfe and
wife may stand in need of Helpe and suport by Reason of
our Great Age and infermity," to his sons-in-law, Henry
Dearborn and Isaac Godfrey, " unto the sayd Henry Dear-
barn His Heirs and Assignes the one halfe or more of my
Salt marsh lying on the south side of the falls River in
Hampton, the sayd part being nine Acres more or lesse,
bounded with a Great Creek towards the west : and so Ex-
tendeth East ward towards Hampton River, and is bounded
with marsh of John Cliffords towards the South: and
marsh of Thomas Evans Towards the north, being the
East End of my Lott of marsh thear ; Also I Doe sel Un-
to Isaac God free the west End of the sayd lott of marsh
Containing near nine Acres more or lesse as itt is, the
which is Bounded with marsh of John Clifford towards y e
south and marsh of Tho Evans towards the north : Abut-
ting Upon m r Husseys farme towards the west ; and the
above sayd Creek which Devideth between this part and
Henry Dearborns part towards the East, and I Doe like-
wise sell unto the sayd Isaac Godfrey : annother parcell of
marsh Containing six acres more or less lying on the north
side of the falls River being bounded with the sayd River
towards the west & south and East in part ; and the
marsh of Anthony Taylor towards the north ;" witnesses,
Mehitable Philbrick, Mehitable Dalton ; acknowledged
June 3, 1681.
1681, June 18. Thomas Marston of Hampton to his
son James Marston, *' three acres of my House lott : viz
the north End thereof : bounded with the land of Thomas
Pag towards the west, and towards y e north and bounded
with the Comon way by the Rocks towards the East ; and
the other part of my lott still in my own possession towards
36 OLD NORFOLK COUNTY DEEDS.
the South ; Be the same more or less as itt is so bounded,
upon which land my sayd son James hath built a Dwell-
ing House : Ittem Six Acres of Salt marsh lying near the
Clambanks : being the south west side of my marsh thear,
Abuting upon the River with both Ends : and bounded
with my marsh towards the north East, Ittem one share of
the ox Comon According to the Extent of itt, and halfe a
share of the Cows Common, and all my Right title and In-
terest in fortie Acres of land lying towards Exetur att a
place Called brid hill : on the north East side of the way :
being the first lott towards Hampton according to the lay-
ing outt : more or less as itt is, the sayd land marsh and
Comonage Respectively (all lying in the Bounds of the
Towne of Hampton) f witnesses, Mehitable Dalton, John
Dal ton ; acknowledged June 22, 1681.
1689, Aug. 31. John Bray of Middletown, Monmouth
county, N. J., planter, to John Sleeper of Exeter, yeoman,
" all that tract of land cituate lying and being in the bounds
of Exeter in New England Joyning to y e meadows & to
Moses Gillman land containing fourscore acres be the same
more or lesse to gether with all liberties previledges and
apertinances to y e same belonging or in any ways apper-
taining;" signed by John Bray and his mother, Mary
Whitlock ; witnesses, Benjamin Hull, Edward Slater, Dan-
iel Clemens, Benjamin Randolph ; acknowledged Aug. 31,
1689.
EARLY WHITTIERS, WIDGERS AND WHIT-
TAKERS IN ESSEX COUNTY.
COMPILED BY DAVID W. HOYT.
THE WHITTIER FAMILY.
1 John 1 Whittier, who owned land in Ipswich in
1635, was early of New bury, died at sea, Feb., 1678-9,
without leaving a family [Old Families of Salisbury and
Amesbury, page 357]. Currier's History of Newbury
states that he was "prest" in 1675 and '76, during King
Philip's War.
2 Abraham 1 Whittier,* of Salem, Marblehead,
and Manchester, " fisherman," born about 1604-'9f, mar-
ried, 1st, before 1639, - - ; 2d, about 1650-'53,
Mary , who was born about 1634. He was taxed
in 1637 as a resident of Marblehead, when it was a
part of Salem ; also in 1648, when it was set off from
Salem ; was of Marblehead as late as Dec., 1652, when
he sold dwelling house and land there ; removed to Man-
chester and was constable there in 1658. He is men-
tioned on the Salem court records in 1638, and nearly
every year for the next ten years. His wife is mentioned
in 1639, '40, and '44, without giving her name.
In June, 1656, he entered a suit against Robert Gray,
*The following spellings of tbe name have been observed on the Manchester
town, Salem court, and other ancient records: Wheter, Whitear, Whiteare. Whit-
eerj WhiUere, Whitehaire, Whitehare. Whitehear, Whiteheare. Whiteor, Whiter,
WTiiteryre,WMtfyear, Whiteyeart, Whithaire, Whithare, Whithear, Whitheare,
Whithe\re, Wttitier, Whittare, Whitteere, Wliitter, Whittere, Whitteyere, Whit-
year, Whltyeare. Whytheare, Wtyare, Whichar, Whicher, Whitckar, Whitchtar,
Whitcher and Witchar. The name of Abraham Whittier can be clearly distin-
guished from the various spellings of the name of Abraham Whit taker, on the
original records, though the two are often confounded by later writers, and
sometimes on indexes of old records.
tHia age is given as " about three score years," and his wife Mary's as about
30 years, Nov., 1664 ; but hia age is given as '' about 60 years " in June, 1669.
(37)
o8 EARLY WHITTIEES, W1DGEBS AND WH1TTAKEKS,
for leaving bis son, John " Whithare," servant of Gray, in
Virginia. The verdict was that John was to be brought
back to New England by the last of the next April.
In November, 1663, Abraham " Whitheare " had a dis-
pute about a son with John West, who " bid him take
his sun and hang him about his neck." Whittier ordered
West out of his house, and a quarrel ensued, which was
brought before the court in November, 1664, his wife
Mary being a witness.
Nov. 26, 1674, George Keaser and John West "of the
Creeke " testified to the nuncupative will of Abraham
" Whitteere," dated Aug. 6, 1674. Inventory of estate,
Aug. 22, 1674. He gave five shillings apiece to the two
children by his first wife, without giving names ; one-
half of land and house to his son Edward, who was ap-
pointed administrator ; and the other half to his second
wife during her life, to bring up the children had by her,
and at her death to be equally divided among them. It
appears that, in his life time, Abraham had made use of
5 belonging to his son John, and the court ordered that
the 5 be paid to John at the age of 21 years, "more
than the proportion with the rest upon the division of the
estate."
Widow Mary married, before 1682, John Knight, was
again a widow in 1702, and was living in 1712.
The fragmentary records lead to the following incom-
plete record of
Children :
3. JOHN 2 , b. probably 1635-'45; was in Virginia in 1656, as above,
but probably d. before the birth of the other John 2 .*
4. ELIZABETH 2 , b. probably before 1644; mentioned in 1656. An
Elizabeth " Whithear " was a witness at Bass River (Bev-
erly), in 1669.
5. A CHILD*, b. probably before 1650, by the first wife, living in
1674; unless Edward was a son of the first wife, assuming,
also, that 3 John 2 was dead in 1674. t
*The John who was in Virginia in 1656 could not have been the John who was
under 21 years of age in 1674. Two or three instances have been found in early
New England history where two brothers bearing the same name were li vine at
the same time :-Symonds, Littlefield, and perhaps Sargent They wire however
distinguished by 1st and 2d, Elder and Younger, or Senior and Junior
tlpswich Court, 1658, Peeter Whithaire* was a witness. The name" Thomas
Whittiers appears once on the Manchester town records in 1699/ boundary of
BY DAVID W. HOYT. 39
6. EDWARD 2 , b. before 1(554 [by the second wife?]. In Dec., 1674,
Edward " Whitteere " of Beverly, ' seaman," mortgaged
one-half of twenty-five acres of land in Manchester, grant-
ed to him by the will of his father, Abraham 1 , "all he died
possessed of." Edward d. before Dec., 1681, without wife
or children ; and the mortgage was discharged by his brother
Isaac as late as Sept., 1718.
7. JOHN 2 , b. 1653-60, by 2d wife. In Dec., 1681, he slated that his
brother Edward was dead, and that there was no person
left to pay him the legacy and debt due him at the age of
21, by order of the court; but he d. Dec. 29, 1681, with-
out wife or children. Inventory, June 26, 1682; administra-
tion granted to John Knight and wife Mary (his mother),
June 27, 1682; payments due to his brothers Isaac and
Abraham, at the age of 21.
8. WILLIAM 2 , b. ; by 2d wife; for in Feb., 1711-12, lie, then of
Brookhaven, Long Island, deeded his share of the estate to
his brother Isaac, of Manchester, " fisherman," who was
to care for his mother, widow Mary Knight.
9. ISAAC 2 , b. after 1661; m. before 1714, Elizabeth . His
name frequently appears on the Manchester records from
1694 to 1723, as surveyor of highways and fences, juryman,
selectman, assessor, constable, field driver, one of a com-
mittee to divide common lands, etc. His right to land
granted to his mother (probably in 1677) is mentioned in
1694-5. His name also appears frequently on the records of
deeds at Salem, where he is usually called "fisherman,"
sometimes "husbandman," and occasionally "weaver."
Will, of Manchester, Aug. 29, Nov. 4, 1745; inventory of
estate, Nov. 28, 1745. He gave all his property to his wife.
Administration of estate of widow Elizabeth was granted
to David Larcum, of Beverly, Dec. 21, 1747. No children.
10. ABRAHAM*, b. after 1661 ; mentioned in 1682, but no other
record found ; possibly the same as William, whose name
is not mentioned in 1682, where it apparently should ap-
pear. There was an Abraham in Heverly, 1716-24, but the
name is plainly " Whiticur."
It will be seen that no descendants of the third gener-
ation of this branch of the family have yet been found.
It is possible that William 2 or Abraham 2 may have left
children ; and the two children by the first wife have not
yet been fully accounted for.
40 EARLY WH1TTIEBS, WIDGEHS AND WHITTAKEES,
Thomas 1 Whittier, of Salisbury and Haverhill, born
about 1620-22, m. Ruth Green [not Rolfe], and left
many descendants. He was apparently younger tban 1
John 1 and 2 Abraham 1 , but he was not the son of either.
Recent researches in England [Gen. Reg., 1912, p. 251]
prove that he was the son of Richard Whittier of Sarum
(Salisbury), Wilts, and his wife, Mary Rolfe, sister of
John Rolfe. Thomas Whittier was therefore the nephew
of John Rolfe of Salisbury and Newbury, with whom he
came to this country, as his " servant."*
Three generations of the descendants of Thomas Whit-
tier are given in "The Old Families of Salisbury and
Amesbury." Elizabeth and Abraham " Whittier," in the
third and fourth lines of the note on p. 358 of that work
should be Whittaker.
THE WIDGER FAMILY.
The WIDGER family (spelled also Wiger, Widgear, Wid-
iger, Widgier, and Widgerly), appeared in Marblehead in
the last of the 17th and the first of the 18th century.
The sound of the name seems to be so much like that of
Whiteher as to suggest the query whether they may not
have been originally the same name. No evidence of re-
lationship has been found, however, in this country. It
is well known that Whiteher and Whittier are tne same
name. 4< Wh " seems to be essential in nearly every spell-
ing of Whittier or Whiteher ; but the " h " is not found
in any spelling of Widger.
James Widger " took the oath of fidelity to Massa-
chusetts at Pemaquid in 1674. Administration of estate
of a James Widger, or Widgerly, of Marblehead, was
granted in 1723 ; perhaps the one who died in 1721, at
the age of 32 years. There are other Widger probate
records later, in the 18th century. The Marblehead rec-
*Richardand John Whittier mentioned in the will of John Rolfe were not
BY DAVID W. HOYT. 41
ords give: John 4 * Widgier " married Bethia Sweet,
Nov. 12, 1685 ; also John < ; Widgier " married Elizabeth
Owen, July 23, 1706; the marriages of James and Wil-
liam "Widger" in 1712; the births of children of Wil-
liam " Wiger " in 1714 and 1716 ; with many other rec-
ords of later date. William " Widger " was a soldier
in 1776 and a prisoner in the Old Mill Prison in 1779 ;
also Thomas Widger was prisoner there, exchanged in
1777 ; both of Marblehead. The name also appears on
the Manchester and Newburyport records in the last por-
tion of the 18th century.
THE WHITTAKER FAMILY.
1 Abraham 1 Whittaker,* of Rowley and Haver-
hill, "carpenter," born about 1626 ; married, March 19,
1655-6 [Hv.], Elizabeth 2 Simons (William 1 ). She was
born about 1635, and died died Nov. 5, 1683 [Hv.].
From the records of the Ipswich court we learn that
Abraham " Whitacre " or " Whiteker " was servant or
apprentice of Joseph Jewett of Rowley in 1651. He is
also mentioned in 1652, and on the records of the Salis-
bury court in 1654. His autograph is spelled " Ab.
Whitticker" in 1655. He was in Haverhill as early as
1656, perhaps before that time ; built a house there.
1660-'68 ; took oath of allegiance at Haverhill Nov., 1677,
He died May 5, 1701 [Hv.]. Administration of estate
granted to eldest son, Abraham, May 19, 1703 ; but he
Spelled also Whitaker, Whiteker, Whitticker, Whittiker, Whitacre, Whitt-
acre, Whitacker. Whittaclcer, Whiticar, Whitticar, Whitticer, Whittyker, Whiti-
cur, Whiteker, Whitecar, etc.
Austin's " Allied Families " states that he was the son of another Abraham ;
who was b. abo.it 1604, probably of Haverhill. This error is doubtless based upon
Joshua Coffin's " Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk " Gen. Reg. 1S54, which
gives "Abraham Whitaker, ae. 60 in 1664." It was Abraham Whittier of Man-
chester, not Abraham Whittaker of Haverhill, who was b. about 1604. Pope has
fallen iuto the same error of confounding the two Abrahams. Both Coffin and
Savage give Abraham " Wbiteyear " or ' Whitehaire " (Whittier) ae. 60 in 1669.
We have not seen Sen. or Jun. used on the records earlier than 1677, when 2
Abraham 2 was about 20 years old. We have no hesitation in considering the 1
Abraham* given above the founder of the Haverhill family, and have made the
number signifying the generation one less, in all cases, than in the " Allied Fam-
There were Whittakers In Concord and Rehoboth, Mass., before 1700; but we
have found no evidence of connection with the Haverhill branch.
42 EARLY WHITTIERS, WIDGERS AND WHITTAKERS,
neglected it so long that son William was appointed, Sept.
7, 1713, the former administrator surrendering power.
1 Children :
2. ABRAHAM 2 , b. Feb. 28, 1656-7 [Hv.]; m. 1st, April 6, 1682, Han-
nah Bean; 2d, Sept. 7, 1694, widow Sarah Archer; 3d,
Dec. 27, 1704, widow Huldah Kingsbury.
3. WILLIAM*, b. Dec. 21, 1658 [Hv.]; m. 1st, Jan. 15, 1684, Sarah
Emerson; 2d, Jan. 23, or 28, 1702-3, widow Mary Corliss.
4. ISAAC 2 , b. July 30, 1661 [Hv.]; no further record found.
5. HANNAH 2 , b. April 15, 1664 [Hv.]; d. July 30, 1664 [Hv.].
6. JACOBS b. May 26, 1665 [Hv.]; m. June 14, 1693, Mary Web-
ster.
7. HANNAH 2 , b. Sept. 16, 1668 [Hv.]; d. Sept., 1668 [Hv.]
S. ELIZABETH 2 , b. Jan. 26, 1669-70 [Hv.]; no further record found.
9. HENRY 2 , b. Sept. 24, 1672 [Hv.]. His father was appointed ad-
ministrator of his estate, March 27, 1695.
10. HANNAH 2 , b. March 19, 1674-5 [Hv.]; no further record found.
11. JOHN*, b. Aug. 27, 1679 [Hv.]; no further record found.
2 Abraham 2 Whittaker (Abraham 1 ) of Haver hill
and Salem, born 1657 ; married, first, April 6, 1682 [Hv. ],
Hannah Bean (John 1 )* of Exeter, who was killed by In-
dians July 18, 1692 [Hv.] ; married, second, Sept. 7,
1694, Sarah Trask (Henry) [widow of John Archer], of
Salem, in Lynn, who was also killed by Indians, in Joseph
Bradley 's garrison house, Feb. 8, 1703-4 ;f married, third,
Dec. 27, 1704 [Hv.], Huldah 2 Corliss (George 1 ) [widow
of Samuel Kingsbury]. Abraham and wife Huldah were
*Her mother, Hannah, was dau. of Nicholas Listen.
t Pike's Journal states that 13 persons were then killed, and 5 carried away.
Mirick doubts the truth of this statement; on the ground that six Indians could
not have killed thirteen persons, that Pen hallow does not mention the fact, and
that only one death of a white person is recorded on the the town records. It
should be remembered that the " persons " were nearly all women and children,
nearly all the men having gone out to work that afternoon, and that the vital
records of the town are far from being complete.
Austin's " Allied Families " prints a statement made in 1841 by Ede Whitta-
ker, who was 14 years of ajre when his grandfather Jonathan died, in 1786, and
therefore must have obtained the details of the massacre from him. This shows
that more were killed than the one Indian and one white roan mentioned by
Chase and others. Jonathan saw his mother killed and scalped, and was himself
then a boy about 8 years old struck on the head with a tomahawk and left for
dead.
March 6, 1705. the town of Haverhill voted to " pay ' Doctr Bradstreet' for
what he did for Abraham Whittaker's children towards their cure ; and also te
pay John Stephens sen. for digging a grave for some of the said Whittaker's fam
ily, which were killed by th-3 Indians." The grave was probably for his wife
Sarah who was killed about a y ear before the vote was passed, and perhaps for
Anna (not for his wife Hannah, as given in Chase's Historj.) The children cured
Jonathan, and perhaps Hannah, then about 16 years old.
were J<
BY DAVID W. HOYT. 43
both living in 1733 ; but he died before 1748. Either he
or his father served in King Philip's War, Aug., 1676. He
took the oath of allegiance at Haverhill, Nov., 1677 ; was
of Salem in 1695-6 ; but was probably a <l snow-shoe
man " in Haverhill in 1710.
Children :
12. ABRAHAM 8 , b. May 20, 1683 [Hv.]; taken captive by the Indians
Aug., 1691,* and was still missing in 1701. An Abraham
44 Whittecer" m., Dec. 17, 1716, Lydia Stone, in Beverly.
13. JOHN 3 , b. March 1, 1684-5 [Hv.].t There was a John Whitaker
of Ipswich [No. 89], with wife Mary, who had children b.
172441 ; but the dates are late for 13 John :i .
14. JACOB 3 , b. April 22, 1687 [Hv.]; d. May 29, 1687 [Hv.].
15. HANNAH 3 , b. April 21, 1688 [Hv.]; m. Holdridge Kelly of
Stratham, N. H.; both living in 1748-9 [N. H. Deeds].
16. A CHILD 3 , b. May, 1690 [by 1st wife]; d. Oct. 29, 1693 [Hv.].
17. JONATHAN 3 , b. Aug. 7, 1696 [Hv.] [by 2d wife]; m. Nov. 5,
1718, Abigail Lambert; removed to Norwich, and afterwards
to Stafford, Ct. His descendants are given in Austin's
" Allied Families. 1 ' See 2 Abraham 2 , Note.
18. ANNA 3 , b. Aug. 20, 1698 [Hv.]; probably killed with her moth-
er,* in 1703-4.
This date has been printed 1697 by the State of Mass. ; but it can be read
either 1691 or 1697, on the original petition of " Onesepberus Mash, Stephen Dow,
Sarah haiues, widow, and Abraham Whitticer" of Haverhill,dated April 17, 1701,
asking that measures be taken to secure the return of sir children taken by the
Indians from Haverhill " such as are yet wanting," and giving ages and dates of
capture. Three of them were plainly taken in the Dustin massacre, 1697 and two
in 1696; but the Whittaker (spelled Whittier in Eg. Ant. 1899. p. 61), due has been
written over with a pen by some one who evidently thought the year should be like
the other three, all of whom were taken in March, not August. The true date is
settled by the age given, 8 or 9 years, when taken in connection with the date of
birth. We have been unable to find evidence that any one of the other flve ever
returned. It is certain that the Haines brothers, Jonathan and Joseph (not
Thomas, as Chase's Hist, gives it) captured in 1696, never returned ; and we find
no later mention of the other three : Daniel Bradly, Abigail Kimball and Philix
tA" Joseph " Whittaker, aged eleven, was taken captive by the Indians in
the fall of 1695, but escaped the next spring and returned to Haverhill. Chase's
History of Haverhil), pp. 179-183. Chase also tells a story of the courtship and
marriage of " one Joseph Whittaker" and Mary Whittaker, soon after, pp. 200-1.
As the age corresponds, John and " Joseph "'were probably the same person.
The only Mary on the records of about that age is 21 MARYS, b. 1689, his cousin.
We find no record of such a marriage, but two of her brothers married their
cousins.
iThe " Anna Whittaker ' mentioned in connection with the massacre of the
family of Rev. Mr. Rolfe in 1708 (Chase's Haverhill, p. 221j was undoubtedly
HANNAHS CORLISS (daughter of John* Corliss and step-dan, of 3 WILLIAM*
WHITTAKEB), b. 1691-2, m. 1st, JOHN HIND, 2d., OLIVER HEYWARD, d. Sept. 8, 1764
in her 74th year, in Brookfleld (Not 15 Hannahs Whittaker, b. in 1688), nor ' 8 Anna 3 ,
b.1698, as given by Austin.) One of her sons was named Corliss Hind (Gen. Reg.
1865, p. 59). 8he is said to have bad 112 descendants at the time of her death.
The names Hannah and Anna are sometimes used interchangeably as above,
on old records ; but it must have been 15 Hannah, and not 18 Anna, who m. Hol-
dridge Kelly, for the deeds relate to property of the Bean family.
44 EARLY WHITT1ERS/WIDGERS AND WHITTAKERS,
3 William 2 Whittaker (Abraham 1 ), of Haverhill,
born 1658; married, first, Jan. 15, 1684 [4-5?] [Hv.],
Sarah Emerson (Robert), who died Aug. 20, 1702 [Hv.];
married, second, Jan. 23 or 28, 1702-3 [Hv.], Mary Wil-
ford [widow of John Corliss].* She was the " cousin "
mentioned in the will of Josiah Gage, in l7l7.f He took
oath of allegiance at Haverhill, Nov., 1677 ; was living
there in 1724, and probably in 1730. A William, either
he or his son William 3 , was "a snow shoe man " in 1710.
A William was in the northwest part of Haverhill in
1711, and in the west part in 1723.
Children :
19. WiLLiAM 3 , b. Dec. 4, 1685 [Hv.]; m. 1st, Mehitable Herriman;
2d, Dec. 21, 1752, widow Susanna Bradley.
20. SARAH', b. June 5, 1687 [Hv.]. A Sarah m., before 1709,
Stephen Johnson.
21. MABY 3 , b. May 14, 1689 [Hv.]. [See 13 John*, Note.]
22. RuTH 3 , b. June 11, 1691 [Hv.]. A Ruth m. June 11, 1719 [Hv.],
Ephraim Clark.
23. HANNAH 8 , b. Aug. 7, 1693 [Hv.]; probably d. young.
24. STEPHEN 3 , b. March 13, 1695-6 [Hv.]; m. April 2, 1728, 37 Han-
nah 3 Whittaker.
25. PsisciLLA 3 , b. March 13, 1695-6 [twin] [Hv.]. A Priscilla m.,
Dec. 4, 1718 [Hv.], Jonathan Clark.
26. ELIZABETH 3 , b. April 7, 1698 [Hv.].
27. DANIEL 3 , b. Dec. 14, 1699 [Hv.]; m. 1st, Dec. 18, 1729, 36 Mehit-
able 3 Whittaker; 2d, in 1756, Mary Emerson.
28. THOMAS*, b, Jan. 21, 1701-2 [Hv.] [by 1st wife]. His father,
Wm. 2 was appointed administrator of his estate, May 8, 1724.
20. RACHEL 3 , b. Nov. 4, 1703 [Hv.] [by 2d wife]. A Rachel m.,
April 16, 1724 [Hv.], John 4 Currier.
30. SusANNA 3 , b. Jan. 13, 1705-6 [Hv.].
31. HANNAH 3 , b. Feb. 20, 1707-8 [Hv.J.
32. ABRAHAM 8 , b. April 17, 1711 [Hv.].
8te P- ch dren, under 18 years of age. (See
BY DAVID W. HOYT. 45
6 Jacob 2 Whittaker (Abraham 1 ), of Haverhill ;
born 1665 ; married, June 14, 1693 [Hv.], Mary' Web-
ster (Stephen 2 , John 1 ). He was a soldier, 1668-9 ; died
Oct. 9, 1742 [Hv.]. Widow Mary died Jan. 30, 1763
[Hv.].
Children :
33. MARY 3 , b. Jan. 1, 1693-4 [Hv.]; lived in Hv.; " spinster;" will
Dec. 7, 1767; Aug. 31, 1772.
34. ABIGAIL 3 , b. Sept. 17, 1696 [Hv.] ; ni. Doyne, of Suncook;
dead in 1767.
35. SAMUEL^, b. April 21, 1699 [Hv.]; not mentioned in Mary's
will, 1767. He was of Hv. in 1738, when he received his
father's homestead by deed; he to pay a sum to the four
daughters of Jacob 2 . There was a Samuel in Hv., 1737-
'57.
36. MEHiTABTE 3 , b. Aug. 4, 1701 [Hv.]; m. Dec. 18, 1729 [Hv.], 27
Daniel 3 Whittaker.
37. HANNAH 3 , b. Sept. 20, 1705 [Hv.]; m. April 2, 1728 [Hv.], 24
Stephen 3 Whittaker.
12? Abraham 3 Whittaker (Abraham 2 , Abraham 1 ?),*
of Beverly [born 1683?] ; married, Dec. 17, 1716 [Bv.],
Lydia Stone. Lydia " Whitecar " recognized covenant
with Beverly church and child baptized, Aug., 1718. He
died before 1734, perhaps before Dec., 1724. She was
dead in 1754. A Lydia " Whitecar " married, Dec. 8,
1724 [Bv.], Edward Whittington, of Marblehead.
Child :
38. ABRAHAM 4 , b. Sept. 29, 1717 [Bv.]; bp. Aug., 1718 [Bv.]. John
Moulton, of Wenham, was appointed his guardian, June 24,
1734. The name is given " son Abiah " in one place; but
the original may be read either Abra or Abi " Whitticer."
In 1754, Abraham "Whiticur" of Beverly, "cupper"
[cooper], sold to David Ellinwood land in Bv., of which he
was sole owner, " descended " to him by right of his
mother, Lydia Whiticur, late of Beverly, deceased.
The above arrangement assumes that 12 Abraham' returned from captivity,
of which we have no direct proof. See p. 43. The second wife of 2 Abraham'
was of Balem, and he was living there during a portion of the time that his son
was in captivity. It is possible that the Beverly man did not belong to the
Haverhill family.
46 EARLY WHITTIERS,- WIDGERS AND WHtTTAKERS,
19 William 3 Whittaker (William 2 , Abraham 1 ), of
Haverbill, born 1685 ; married, first, Mehitable Herri-
man* ; married, second, Dec. 21, 1752 [Hv.], Widow
Susanna Bradley.f [See 3 William 2 ] He was living m
1762 ; was William, junior, in 1724, and probably later.
Children :
39. SARAH 4 , b. Nov. 10, 1710 [Hv.]. A Sarah m., Feb. 5, 1735-6
[Hv.], Samuel Hadley.
40. DAVID*, b. April 2, 1712 [Hv.]; m. April 20, 1738, Ann Cle-
ment.
41. JONATHAN 4 , b. May 31, 1714 [Hv.]; m., April 14, 1737, Low
Simons.
42. JOSEPH 4 , b. March 23, 1716 [Hv.]; m. Oct. 6, 1741, Hannah
Guile.
43. MEHETABLE 4 , b. March 29, 1717-8 [Hv.] . A Mehetable m.,
Aug. 6, 1740 [Hv.], John Simons.
44. Rura 4 , b. April 28, 1720 [Hv.]. A Ruth m. April 23, 1751 [Hv.],
John Attwood, of Hampstead.
45. ANN 4 , b. Sept. 14, 1722 [Hv.] ; d. Sept. 19, 1723 [Hv.].
46. ANN 4 , b. April 27, 1725 [Hv.] ; d. Sept. 23, 1737 [Hv.], of "throat
distemper."
47. THOMAS 4 , b. May 1, 1727 [Hv.]; living in Hv. in 1752 ; received
land in Plaistow. A Thomas m., July 22, 1756 [Hv.], Re-
becca Webster, of Plaistow. [See 49 Thomas 4 .]
24 Stephen* Whittaker (William 2 , Abraham 1 ), of
Haverhill and Plaistow, born 1696 ; married, April 2,
1728 [Hv.], 37 Hannah3 Whittaker. She was living in
1762, but dead in 1767; he was of Plaistow, both dates.
Children :
48. " JoAL' 14 , b. May 30, 1728 [Hv.]; d. Dec. 18, 1736 [Hv.]4
49. THOMAS 4 , b. Oct. 20, 1729 [Hv.]; living in 1767. [See 47
Thomas 4 .]
50. STEPHEN 4 , b. Oct. 5. 1732 [Hv.]; d. Dec. 13, 1736 [Hv.]4
*MATTHEW HERRIMAX of Hv. m. ELIZABETH SWAN in 1673. Children : Mat-
thew Jr., b. 1673-4; Elizabeth, b. 1675, m. Thomas Gordon of Exeter, 1699, d. before
1732: Hannah, b. 1677: Mary, b. 1679, m. Timothy French of Salis., 1704-5; Marga-
ret, b. 1681, m. Daniel Gordon of Kingston. 1708, widow in 1732; Abigail, b. 1683,
m. Samuel Jndkius of Kingston ; Mehetable, b. 1686, m. Win Whittaker, Jr., liv-
ing in 1732 ; John, b. 168S; Leonard, b. 1689-90; Nathaniel, b. 1692, d. 1695 ; Richard,
b. 1694-6 ',Abiier,\>. 1699.
tA Suaanua, dau. of Thomas Staples, bp. Jan. 9, 1697-8 (Hv.). John Bradley
m. Sept. 16, 1724 (Hv.), Susanna Staples, perhaps the above.
(Stephen Whittaker lost three children by "throat distemper," in 1736.
BY DAVID W. HOYT. 47
51. NATHAN 4 , b. Aug. 12, 1735 [Hv.]; d. Dec. 28, 1736 [Hv.].
52. SARAH*, b. July 28, 1738 [Hv.]; m. William Clement; living in
1767.
53. PEisciLLA 4 , b, Feb. 27, 1740-1 [Hv.]; m. Micajah Morrill; living
in 1767.
54. MOSES*, b. Feb. 3, 1743-4 [Hv.]; living in 1767. A Moses m.,
July 9, 1767, Rachel Griffin; 3 children recorded at Atkin-
son, b. 1768-75.
55. HANNAH 4 , b. May 6, 1748 [Hv.]; living in 1767, name Whittaker.
27 Daniel 3 Whittaker (William 2 , Abraham 1 ), of
Haverhill, Flaistow, and Atkinson), born 1699 ; married,
first, Dec. 18, 1729 [Hv.], 36 Mehitable' Whittaker, who
died Sept. 11, 1754 [PL] ; married, second, Mary Emer-
son, int. Oct. 23, 1756 [And.]. He was on the New
Hampshire side of the line in 1741. Will, May 18, Aug.
29, 1770 ; mentioned wife Mary ; of Atkinson.*
Children :
56. SARAH 4 , b. July 6, 1730 [Hv.]; d. Feb. 22, 1736-7 [Hv.].
57. MARY 4 , b. Dec. 27, 1731 [Hv.; d. Feb., 1736-7.
58. SAMUEL 4 , b, ; bp. Sept., 1736 [Hv.]; d. Feb., 1136-7.
59. DANIEL 4 , b. ; bp. Sept., 1736 [Hv.]; d. Feb., 1736-7.
60. PETER 4 , b. Jan. 7, 1738-9 [PI.]; bp. Jan., 1738-9 [Hv.]; soldier,
Hv., 1758; not mentioned in wills, 1767 and 1770.
61. HERITABLE", b. Dec. 6,1742 [PI.]; bp. Dec., 1742 [Hv.]; m. -
Hadley; living, " only dau.," in 1767, but dead in 1770,
leaving daus. Tamar and Mehitable Hadley, and " reputed
son," Jonathan Eaton, Jr.
40 David* Whittaker ( William*, William 2 , Abra-
ham 1 ), of Haverhill, born 1712 ; married, April 20, 1738
[Hv.], Ann Clement. He was of East Haverhill in 1741 ;
died April 24, 1752 [Hv.] ; administration of estate
granted widow Ann, June 8, 1752. She married, Oct.
16, 1755 [Hv.], Robert Calfe of Chester, N. H. (origi-
nally called Cheshire), and he was appointed administra-
tor of her former husband's estate in 1759.
Children :
62. ANNA 6 b. May 6, 1740 [Hv.].
68. SOLOMON*, b. Jan. 11, 1741-2 [Hv.]; d. July 13, 1745 [Hr.].
Daniel Whittaker lost all his children (four) by the " throat distemper," in
the same week, Feb. 1736-7. From Nov. 1735 to Dec. 1737, 266 children died of this
disease in Haverhill. (Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 1, pp. 10-13.)
48 EARLY WHITTIEBS, WIDGEBS AND WHITTAKERS,
41 Jonathan* Whittaker (William*, William*,
Abraham*), of Haverhill, North Parish, Plaistow, born
1714; married, April 14, 1737 [Hv.]. Low Simonds.*
He was on the New Hampshire side in 1741.
Children :
64. WILLIAM^, b. Oct. 8, 1738 [PL] ; bp. Aug. 8, 1742 [Hv. N. Par-
ish]. It was probably this William who m. Susanna John-
son, settled in S. Weare, N. H., and removed to Peering.
Eight children, b. 1762-'84, given in History of Weare.
65. JONATHAN 5 , b. Dec. 10, 1740 [PL]; bp. Aug. 8, 1742 [Hv.]; d.
July, 1751 [PL].
6. ELIZABETH 5 , b. June 30, 1743 [PL]; bp. July 3, 1743 [Hv.].
67. CALEB 5 , b. July 4, 1745 [PL]; bp. July 7, 1745 [Hv.]. He was
probably the Caleb who m., 1st, Susanna ; 2d, Rachel
. settled in S. Weare, N. H., and removed to Goshen.
Four children, b. 1776-'94, given in History of Weare.
68. MEHiTABEL 5 , b. May 17, 1747 [PL]; bp. July 12, 1747 [Hv.].
69. MosES 5 , b. May 22, 1750 [PL] ; probably d. young.
70. MosES 5 , b. July 25, 1758. [PL].
42 Joseph 4 Whittaker ( William*, William 2 , Abra-
ham 1 *), of Haverhill, born 1716; married. Oct. 6, 1741
[Hv.], Hannah Guile of Ipswich. He died Sept. 27, 1774
[Hv.] ; will, April 14, Nov. 7, 1774. Widow Hannah
died Sept. 15, 1781 [Hv.] ; administration of estate of
Widow Hannah granted James Whittaker, Feb. 5, 1782 ;
inventory estate, Feb. 3, 1782.
Children :
71. EBENEZEB 5 , b. July 11, 1742 [Hv.]; d. Oct. 13, 1753 [Hv.].
72. ASA 5 , b. Sept. 25, 1744 [Hv.]; living in 1774. It was probably
he who m. Sarah Hardy of Bradford, removed from Hv. or
Plaistow to S. Weare, N. H., before 1770; d. 1825. Ten
children, b. 1769-'88, given in History of Weare. A son,
Asa 6 , b. 1776, m. Sarah 7 Colby ( Winthrop 9 , Gideon 5 , Sam-
uel 4 ), b. 1779.
73. JOSEPH 5 , b. Jan. 1, 1746-7 [Hv.]; living in 1774.
74. E8THEB 5 , b. March 27, 1749 [Hv.]; m. June 2, 1768 [Hv.], Zech-
ariah Johnson of Salem [N. H.]; living in 1774.
75. ELISHA*, b. May 31, 1751 [Hv.]; d. Sept. 8, 1753 [Hv.]
76. DAVID*, b. Aug. 24, 1753 [Hv.]; living in 1774.
*A Jonathan in. Feb. 24, 1774, ELIZABETH DODOJR; 4 children recorded at At-
kinson, b. 1775-84. If a second mariiage of the above, he was then 60 years of
age.
BY DAVID W. HOYT. 49
77. JAMES 5 , b. Jan. 12, 1756 [Hv.]; probably m., Get. 27, 1778
[Hv.], Susanna Simmonds. He was a soldier in the Revolu-
tionary war, settled in Deering, N. II., after the war; died
there May 12, 1835. A son, Peter 9 , served in the war of
1812. [Hayward's History of Hancock, N. H.].
78. EBENEZER 6 , b. May 15, 1758 [Hv.] ; living in 1774.
79. WILLIAM 5 , b. March 0, 1761 [Hv.]; living in 1782. A William
m., Feb. 11, 1794 [Hv.], Sally Harriraan of Plaistow, and d
July 14, 1814 [Hv.]; 7 children on Hv. records, b. 1794-1804.
80. PETER- , b. Sept. 17, 1764 [Hv.] ; m. Sept. 30, 1794 [Hv.], Sally
Duston. He d. Nov. 22, 1829 [Hv.]; 7 children on Hv. rec-
ords, b. 1795-1811.
47 or 49 Thomas 4 Whittaker ( William* or Steph-
en*, William 2 , Abraham 1 ), of Haverhill and Atkinson, born
1727 or 1729; married, July 22, 1756 [Hv.], Rebecca
Webster of Plaistow.
Children :
81. MARTHA"; b. Nov. 4, 1757 [Hv.].
82. NATHAN 5 , b. April 6, 1761 [Hv.]
83. ASA*, b. March 7, 1764 [At.].
84. REBECCA*, b. June 14, 1767 [At.].
85. SAMUEL*, b. March 13, 1770 [At.].
86. ISRAEL 5 , b. Feb. 14, 1772 [At.].
87. STEPHEN% b. Jan. 18, 1774 [At.].
88. SABAH% b. July 27, 1777 [At.].
89 John Whittaker of Boston and Ipswich, born
; married Mary - . He mortgaged land in Ips-
wich, ''peruke maker," 1734-'40. He probably died
Aug. 5, 1747 [Ip.]* A Mary int. m. Sept. 8, 1751 [Ip.],
to Daniel Warner.
Children :
90. JAMES, b. March 9, 1724 [Boston]; d. Feb. 21, 1737 [Ip.], "a.
13 y."
91. MARY, b. June 13, 1727 [Boston]. A Mary of Ip. m., Oct. 2,
1744 [Boston], Ebenezer Blair.
92. JOHN, b. July 7, 1734 [Ip.]; bp. Feb. 4, 1734-5 [Newbnry]; prob-
ably d. Sept. 22, 1758 [Ip.]*
93. JAMES, b. Dec. 12, 1741 [Ip.].
*The Ipswich records give "John d. Aug. 5, 1747" and "John d. Sept. 22,
1788." As the record of this family is incomplete, it is uncertain whether it be-
longs to the Haverhill branch, bee 13 John*.
A GENEALOGICAL -HISTORICAL VISITATION
OF ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR
1863.
BY ALFEED POORE, M. D.
(Continued from Volume XLVIIL, page
After leaviDg Mr. Hayward's, the road winds around
the southern side of the hill and Mr. Goldsmith's is
reached. He is sick, so did not stop there. William
Mears, who is in 14th Regt, Co. H, occupies the place
where his father lived since marriage, and was born there
Sept. 29, 1831. He married Almira H., daughter of Sam-
uel and Martha (Hodgdon) Pearce, who was born in
South Berwick, Me., July 2, 1831. Children, Walter
Badger, b. Dec. 10, 1852; Emily, b. Aug. 2, 1855 ; Mar-
tha, b. Apr. 6, 1857 ; William Henry, b. Nov. 26, 1859.
Moses Mears, shoemaker, resides in the next house,
which he built in 1855 on his father's land. He was born
June 11, 1827 ; married, 1st, Rebecca Elder, b. St. Albans,
Me., and d. May 10,' 1859, aged 33 years ; mar. 2d, Han-
nah Ring, born Deerfield, N. H., May, 1836. Children :
Lily Augusta, d. young ; Adeline Augusta, b. Mar. 7,
1850 ; Phebe Ann, b. Aug. 8, 1852 ; Joshua, b. Apr. 6,
1853 ; Ella Rebecca, d. young. Mr. Mears' mother re-
sides in his family, and his father, Zebadiah Mears, was
son of Samuel and Rebecca (Brown) Mears, b. Dra-
cut, 1766, and d. May 10, 1850 ; mar. 1st, Eliza Butters,
of Andover, by whom he had Zebediah, Eliza, Mehitable,
Daniel, Harriet, Adeline, Emily, Warren ; mar. 2d, Sarah,
dau. John and Esther (Furbush) Wood, b. Andover, Mar.
4, 1803, by whom he had Sarah, b. Jan. 11, 1822, mar-
William P. Tucker; Walter, b. Nov. 26, 1824, mar. Ame
(50)
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 51
lia Veasey, and d. Aug., 1849, leaving children, James,
Walter and Alfred ; Moses, b. June 11, 1827; Louisa
Frances, b. May 10, 1829, mar. Jeremiah Elwell, resides
Springfield, and has children, Louisa and Edward Albert
and Nellie; William; Clarissa Badger, b. Feb. 11, 1834,
mar. James C. Knight, resides Stoneham, and has chil-
dren, Emma, Lizzie and William Emery ; Milton, b. Mar.
28, 1837, mar. Susan Fellows, resides North Andover,
and has children, Franklin, Mary Ann and Alfred Cutler ;
Albert Francis, b. Sept. 18, 1839, mar. Mary Anna, dau.
Franklin and Abby (Lyman) Toogood, b. Chester, Mass.,
Mar. 20, 1843; Joshua B., d. young. Old Mrs. Mears'
husband came from Wilmington, where he resided when
his first two children were born. He bought the land of
Jonathan Abbott, grandfather of Stephen D. Abbott.
Called on Mr. William, son of Robert and Lydia Allen,
who was born in Tewksbury on Jan. 18, 1828, and who
says he has resided here since Apr. 11, 1853. Bennet
was here this year. John Caldweli Starks, the butcher,
and others, have lived here. Marland owned it at one
time. There was formerly a place north of Allen's where
Black Lucy lived. Mr. Allen's father died when he was
very young and his mother was daughter of Russell
Mears. Mrs. Rebecca Allen was born in Wilmington,
Jan. 28, 1826. Their child, Mary Jane, was born Feb. 9,
1854. Samuel Eames works for them.
Called on Thomas Baker Poor in Ballardvale, who says
he came here from the place now occupied by Wyman
Gleason, near Marland's mill on the road from Andover
to Lawrence. His father, Daniel Poor, built the house
and also built the house in which he resided in 1836.
They commenced digging for a house on the Plain and
when digging a well got down fifty feet, left it one night
and in the morning their picks, bars, etc., were buried.
Poor, Blanchard & Co. bought of Esquire Rogers the mill
privilege and laid the foundation of one-half of the present
brick mill for a paper mill, the eastern end, but before the
mill was finished they formed a new company called the
Ballardvale Co., which was composed of Daniel Poor,
Abel Blanchard, John Marland and Ab. J. Gould. Mr.
52 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
Poor died in 1846, Blanchard sold out and is now in New
York, John Marland left about 1853 and resides on High
St., Andover, and Thomas B. Poor entered the Company
about 1838 and left in 1862. Others who have been
connected with the Company are Daniel Poor, jr., Law-
rence Whittaker, Andrew Scott, Archibald Scott, Moses
Barnes, Joshua Ballard, son of Capt, Francis Cogswell
well and Charles Barnard. J. Putnam Bradlee, is the prin-
cipal owner now.
The wooden building was built about 1844 and was
originally used for cotton and worsted manufacturing.
The machinery was all imported and this factory was the
first place in America where delaine was made, about
1845. It was manufactured later in Hookset by the same
company, of which John Marland was agent, and this
company also carried the business to Manchester. J. S.
Young, who last carried on this business here, started the
same work at Pacific mill, Lawrence. The stone building
was built by John Marland and others, and locomotives
were manufactured here, as well as shoes, and carriages.
One Tyre, who manufactured shoes here, now has a factory
in South Andover.
The Whipple File Co., which makes machine cut files,
is the first successful concern of this sort in the world.
It was established in 1859, when the firm purchased the
building, and it was run by steam by two engines of sixty
horse power each. It is a most wonderful enterprise and
its success is largely due to the energy of William P.
Pierce, Esq., a Boston dry goods merchant, the son of
Jacob Willard Pierce of Newburyport. The capital stock
of the company is now $200,000 and over three hundred
men and boys are employed there. This is the only place
in the world where files are cut by machinery, and much
money has been lost in England in experiments, all declar-
ing it to be impossible to manufacture them in this way.
Whipple, the inventor, is now residing in Cambridge,
Mass., but while he invented the cutting, there have been
added to the process rolling and grinding by an entirely
new method. The development of this enterprise bids
fair to make Ballardvale, which has long languished in
ANDOVEB, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 53
obscurity, a Sheffield of America. The company is about
to establish steel works to manufacture the steel, a build-
ing 200 x 75 feet being in process of construction. About
300 dozen a per day are turned out and in a short time
2000 dozen per day of saw or three-quarter taper files
.will be the output. The operation of the horse rasp
machine alone will strike the observer as one of the great-
est curiosities, almost eclipsing the wood screw invention.
The workmen are paid partly by the day, ten hours, and
partly by the piece, and the majority come from Andover.
At the present time there are thirty-two patents connected
with the business. One of their machines grinds 500
dozen three quarter taper files per day. They make their
own machines, and cut about three tons of steel per day.
Each day's work is sent to the sales room at 34 Kilby St.,
Boston, and the demand is greater than can be supplied.
Charles Stewart has a restorator, which is run by Sam-
uel Fish. He has been in the business since Dec. 20,
1862, in the basement of Mrs. Scott's building. Hugh
O'Donnell has kept the Lafayette bowling saloon since
Jan., 1863, in the Alley house, which was built by Benja-
min Burtt about 1848, opposite the district schoolhouse.
Butchers : James O'Donnell of Wilmington has run a
cart into Ballardvale since 1858 ; W. D. Stark resides
here and has had a stall since 1854, but began to drive a
cart here since 1843 ; the Baileys of North Andover came
here previous to that time.
Bakers : Moody Russell drives for Simms of Lawrence
twice a week and Mr. Scripture from Lowell every Mon-
day ; Albert Bond goes through once a fortnight.
Fish dealers : Daniel Mears, River St., for several
years and Joseph Russell in Scotland district about three
years.
Blacksmith, David Poland ; carpenters, Milton Moore,
and those who work in the file factory ; West India goods,
Andrew Morrison and Blunt & Co. ; millinery and fancy
goods, John Morrison; postmaster, I. O. Blunt; milk
dealers, Dea. Dascomb, Herman P. Chandler, and, since
1852, Henry E. Haywood.
Called upon Dea. Gould and Capt. J. Ballard. The
54 A GENEALOGICAL^HISTOBICAL VISITATION OF
latter says that Black Lucy Foster was given to Mrs. Job
Foster, who married, second, a Chandler, and who left
Black Lucy an acre of land about twenty rods from the
brook. Lucy's house was built about 1815 and she resided
there until about 1845. She died about 1850, aged about
70 years. In the winter of 1838-9, Capt. Ballard hired
the saw-mill at Ballardvale.
Ballardvale postoffice was established about 1844 or 45
and Wm. Colder was the first postmaster.
Called on John Marland who said the flannel factory
was completed in 1835, and the firm consisted of Gould,
Newman and others, with a capital of $32,000. Mr. Mar-
land bought half of the stock and in 1836 the capital was
doubled. They received all the gold medals for eighteen
years.
Called on Mr. Goldsmith. Thomas C. Foster was born
here. Mr. Goldsmith bought the house of Apthorp a little
before he was married, and Levi Trull moved out at that
time. Mr. Goldsmith was the son of Isaac and Patty
(Burnham) of Dunbarton, and grandson of William, and
was born on Feb. 25, 1803, where Mr. Caldwell resides on
the turnpike. Mrs. Goldsmith is Lydia, daughter of
Joseph and Hannah (Burnham) Favour, a cousin of Mr.
Goldsmith, who was born in Weare, N. H., on Oct. 11,
1801. Child : Maria Lucinda, b. here Jan. 26, 1836.
They also have two children that they have had since they
were young, namely, George Henry Goldsmith, who came
from Tewksbury on May 8, 1853, and Abby Cordelia
Goldsmith, daughter of William Henman, who was born
in Waterford, Me., May 27, 1849 and came here in 1853.
Benjamin Abbott was here in 1838-9 and Herman Dane
in 1836-7. Dea. Eaton Green, who now resides in Nathan
Abbott's red house resided here in 1839-43 and John
Trampleasure, now in the Vale, was here Sept., 1845-1848.
Called on James Connell, farmer for Mr. Ellis. His
wife says they have resided there since the spring of 1861,
having removed from Concord, Mass. He was born in
Paisley, Scotland, about 1830, the son of William Connell,
and came to America on July 4, 1859. Mrs. Connell was
born in Glasgow, Scotland, about 1835, the daughter of
Atf DOVER, MASS., IN THE UEAR 18G3. 55
Robert and Amelia (Shields) McDermott, and came to
America with her husband. Children : William, b. Con-
cord, Oct. 16, 1859; Robert, b. Concord, Feb. 1, 1861;
James Andrew, b. Andover, June 26, 1862. Timothy
Lynch lived here previous to Connell, and then went to
Dr. Whiting's.
Called on Mrs. John Edwin Farnham, who says that
they have resided in this house since June, 1858 and came
from the house where Shaw, the superintendent, now re-
sides, that is, the cottage below Ellis's. They had resided
there three years and it was there that they tirst began to
keep house. Mr. Farnham was born in South Andover, on
Dec. 20, 1826, and his father was a conductor who was
killed on the railroad. Edwin Farnham, the father, was
the son of Dea. Jedediah and Susanna (Johnson) Farn-
ham and was b. Aug. 4, 1800 and d. Mar. 13, 1841. His
wife, Martha Jane Farnham was the daughter of Robert
demons and granddaughter of Capt. John and Priscilla
demons, born in Tyngsboro, N. H., on Nov. 2, 1834.
Children: Frances, b. Jan. 29, 1855; Susan Levina, b.
Dec. 9, 1856 ; Mary Gertrude, b. May 7, 1858 ; Morris
Damon, b. June 12, 1860; Nellie Davis, b. June 21, 1862.
Before the Farnhams came to this house, a Mr. Kelley
from Wilmington lived here, who afterward went to Lynn.
Mrs. Farnham's father also resided here, 1856-7, when he
removed to Scituate. He came from Brentwood, N. H.,
and had charge of the station all the time the road ran past
the house on the opposite side where Donnel now resides.
After the road was removed to the Vale he kept a board-
ing house, near the factory counting room, which is now
cut up into tenements. This house belongs to the Btd-
lardvale company and it is understood that it was a stable
in the factory yard ; then it was used as a dye house and
removed on to the plain and has been used for the clerk
of the factory. Mr. Dorr, a clerk, lived there, and Joseph
Hall, a native of Boston, also occupied it. He married a
rich lady in New Orleans and afterward died on his way
to California.
Called at Mr. Charles Spofford's. His wife, Helen
Frances, says they moved into this house after Davis
56 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
moved out, in Oct., 1862 from West Amesbury. He was
a machinist in the file factory, and was born in Andover
in 1831, the son of Solomon Spofford. Mrs. Spofford was
daughter of Humphrey and Sarah (Peaslee) Nichols, and
was born in West Amesbury on June 7, 1835. Children :
John Edward, b. in Groveland, Aug. 30, 1855 ; Florence
Nichols, b. in West Amesbury, Apr. 3, 1862. Norman
Macomber boards here. He came from Richmond, Me.,
originally, but from Boston to Ballardvale in Oct., 1862.
His wife was Adeline, daughter of Henry Thurston.
On May 11, went to Ballardvale and called on T. B.
Poor. Joseph Clark was a trader and occupied the two
story building close to the bridge, now owned by Wm. H.
Putnam. He went to Lowell. He also at one time had a
store near the school house in what is called the Pierson
house, owned by the Ballardvale company. He came
probably from Tewksbury.
William S. Dole kept store with Andrew B. Stimpson
on the eastern corner of the bridge, in a building that was
erected by John Marland. They sold the business to Cal-
der, who ran it until he sold to Samuel Southwick & Son.
In 1860, the latter removed their goods to Lawrence.
Isaac O. Blunt has kept the postoffice since Sept. 6,
1853, and William Calder previous to that, in whose store
it was kept. Commenced to run the cars on the west side
of the river, July 4, 1848. There has been a flag station
since the trains ran to Andover, tended by Mr. Clement,
and Mr. Densmore, George Foster ran an express, 1849-
54, and also John A. Griffin, who sold out before he died
and moved to North Andover. I. A. Farley, who is now
steward for the seminary, ran it until I. O. Blunt took
charge of it, Sept., 1852, and in 1852, Farley sold to
Cooper, who is now in Lawrence. He soon sold to Kil-
ham, and A. H. Brown had run it since 1858.
Abel Blanchard kept the Ballardvale House, which was
the old Ballard house with a large addition owned by the
Ballardvale Company, for about two years from Feb.,
1851. Others who have had charge of it are Mr. Weston
at Lowell, Mr. Rider of Boston, Hiram Hill of Boston and
William Beadle, who came from Rochester, N. H., Dec.
25, 1839 and is now there.
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 57
Charles Frye, the shoe dealer in Lawrence, in company
with Osgood, son of Dea. Dascomb, who is now in Cali-
fornia, commenced trade in a building of the same shape
and size of that in which Blunt's store is located. They
continued until the building and goods were mysteriously
burned in 1849. John S. Haskius from. South Andover,
clerk for old John Derby and Benjamin, his son, started
a store in the new building and kept it until W. H. and G.
N. Burtt, sons of Jedediah, at Hackett's pond, took it.
Benjamin Dearborn and William H. Burt, started a store
in a building now owned by the Whipple File Co., near
the schoolhouse building. Dearborn had been a mason in
Ballardvale and had come from Epping, N. H. He soon
returned to his trade and went to Saugus. W. H. Burt
is now at work for Shattuck & Co., South Lawrence, and
G. N. Burt is in the meat and provision business in
Lowell.
About the time Southwick left, the Ballardvale Com-
pany fitted up a store in the brick building close to the
bridge, which goods they later sold to Blunt and turned
the building into tenements. Joshua Milton Blunt, son
of Samuel P., of Andover, commenced to keep store where
he now is in the autumn of 1860. He served his appren-
ticeship with Albert Abbott. Andrew Morrison, who now
owns the building, was a gardener from Scotland. Israel
W. Putnam of Andover also had a store here. He was
formerly employed in the mill, and his store was in the
building now occupied by Andrew Morrison and he con-
tinued until William Morrison came here. Andrew
Stimpson's widow kept a millinery store. She married
John Flint, president of the Andover bank, and the busi-
ness was carried on by R. M. Wilford, who came from
Oberlin, Ohio, and went to South Danvers. William
Fletcher was in it a while and John Morrison took the
business in Sept., 1858.
Gilbert Barnard, who was in the shoe business in Ando-
ver, built a shop now vacant, on Main St., next below
Blunt's store, and had a man keep a stock of boots and
shoes there for three or four years about 1845-50. Rich-
ard Pinch, who is now in the west, occupied the small
58 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OP
building standing near by the bridge, which was after-
wards used as a beer shop.
James Walton, an English wool sorter, went into the
shoe business about 1856 with Archibald Scott, a boss
weaver from Scotland, in the basement of the building
now occupied by Fisk and owned by widow Jeannette M.
Scott, Archibald's mother. Scott afterwards went to
Globe village, Southbridge, and died. J. W. Barnard of
South Andover, bought them out and put in Alexander
Robb to run the business, 1856-57, but there has not been
any shop of that kind here since.
The first livery stable was run by Arthur N. Bean in a
building that he erected near the hotel, and which is now
used by Stark as a slaughter house. James Wheeler,
whose father was proprietor of the Mansion House in
South Andover, had a stable at the Ballardvale House
about the time Bean commenced, that is, Nov., 1847.
After he closed up, Bean occupied that place until he
built the present stable in May, 1857. He keeps from ten
to twenty-five horses.
Timothy Saunders of Tewskbury was the first black-
smith. He occupied a machine shop that his brother Ziba
Saunders bought of the Ballardvale company and removed
to River street. He ran this business from 1835 to 1887,
when he took David Bland, who had worked for him four
months, into partnership. David Poland built his shop
about 1850 on land that was then owned by Ezra Pray
and he is now the only blacksmith in the place. James
Perkins took Saunders' business, and he later went to
Tewksbury and was succeeded by William Ross.
John Frye and Henry Abbott built a tannery about
1860, tanning and dressing lace leather for belting, but
left in the spring of 1863.
Mr. Clark says that Timothy Ballard's mother was
sister to old Nehemiah Abbott who owned a part of the
mill. Both the saw and the grist mills were burned
about 1815, but were rebuilt. Mr. Clark's father was
born in Tewksbury and was descended from Richard,
whose family settled in Watertown. His grandfather
was Nathaniel, son probably of Benjamin and he married
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 59
Molly Wyman. Children : Nathaniel, who had Nathaniel
and Hannah by his first marriage, and married, second,
a Whitmore ; Peter, who married a Kittredge, and died
in Tewksbury ; John, who died in the French war or
before he reached home ; Mary, who married a Gray and
had Moses and John, and married, second, Jesse Holt and
had Mary and Hannah ; Hannah married a Marshall arid
settled in Kingsbury ; Benjamin, married, and has a grand-
daughter, Mrs. Mann, living ; William, who married
Rebecca Ballard, settled where Pills bury now resides,
near Mr. N. Clark's and later went to Coos, where he
died ; Abijah, the youngest child, was b. in Tewksbury,
May 11, 1742 and'd. May 24, 1818 ; mar. Hannah, dau.
Eben Abbott, who was b. Jan. 27, 1752 and died July 24,
1816. They settled on the place where their son Nathan
now resides, which be bought of Nehemiah Abbott.
Children : Hannah, b. Aug. 12, 1778, mar. Nathaniel Hay-
ward of Reading ; Abijah, b. Aug. 3, 1780, d. unmarried
in New York state ; John, b. July 20, 1782, mar. Lydia,
wid. Samuel Upton, and dau. Aaron Frost of Tewksbury
and settled in Carlisle ; Nathan, b. May 16, 1784, mar.
Persis, dau. Isaac and Persis (Stevens) Farnum, b. North
Andover, Mar. 6, 1799, have always resided on the place,
and their children are Nathan Franklin, b. May 8, 1824
and Martha Ann, b. July 5, 1828, mar. Elbridge Gerry
Hall of Conn., resides in California ; Lydia, b. July 17, 1788,
mar. Nathan, s. Benjamin and Phebe (Chandler) Ames,
deputy sheriff of Lincoln Co., residing at Bath, Me., and
later New York, and died Apr., 1851, leaving children,
William Jenks, Mary C., Isaac, Margaret W. and Julia ;
Mary, b. Nov. 25, 1790.
Nehemiah Abbott, who now resides with Mr. Bradley
Pearsons in West Andover, is a grandson of Nehemiah
Abbott who owned the mill in Ballardvale. Nathaniel
Holt first occupied the house at the fork of the road
about 1800, then Levi Trull, Augustus Harraden of Wil-
mington, Jonathan Abbott and Samuel Burr. The flannel
factory is operated by Josiah P. Bradley of Boston, with
175 to 200 hands, mostly Scotch, English and Irish. The
delaine business stopped about 1850, and they now manu-
60 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
facture between five and ten hundred thousand yards per
year. An engine is used when the water is low in the
autumn. Pay day at the file factory was the second Mon-
day of the month and at that time Louis Weil has for a
year or more come over from North Andover to sell
clothing. Nicholas Tuttle, who was connected with the
file factory, died Apr. 25, 1863, at New Orleans. He
came from Effingham, N. H., to North Andover, where
he lived thirty years, and enlisted in Co. B., 50th Regt.
Louis Weil married his daughter.
Called on Rev. Mr. Green who says that the society is
called the Ballardvale Union Society and has had preach-
ing since about 1848. On Dec. 31, 1854, the church
organized with fifty members and on Apr. 1, 1855, Rev.
Henry Solomon Green, who had been preaching since
Sept., 1850, settled here. This was the year when a
freshet broke the reservoir at Foster's Pond, the water
rising so that it was four feet high on the dam, breaking
the latter so that the mill was obliged to stop a month
or two. Mr. Green was settled in Lynnfield over
twelve years, and until he came here a Methodist preacher
filled the office. He owns his house and planted an orchard
on the north side about 1855. His father was born in
England and his mother was a Broad from Scotland, and
they both died when he was very young, having located
in Boston.
Mr. Bean trades in horses and within six years has
bought about three hundred from Canada and Vermont.
Hector P. Lynn, who kept a tailor's shop, built the shop
which John Morrison now owns, in 1847, where he also
lived. After a trip to California, he occupied the store
until Wilford came in, but has since been in Lawrence.
Joseph Brown, the only harness maker in Ballardvale has
been here since 1843. He came from Mason, N. H., but
he and his brother, the expressman, were born in Danvers.
Asa H. Brown has been in the express business since Apr.,
1857.
The schoolhouse that was burned was built in 1847 and
stood one year. The Methodist church was built in 1851,
the society first holding meetings in depot hall. The
Episcopal church was organized about 1848.
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 61
John Ellis was the son of John and Elizabeth (Swet-
raore) Ellis, and was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, Eng.,
May 24, 1819. His grandfather was Valentine Ellis and
his mother was daughter of George Swetmore. He came
from Stone, Staffordshire, Eng., to Montreal in 1842,
where he remained until 1847, and then came to Boston.
He has been here since Aug., 1854 and has officiated at the
Methodist church since 1860. His wife was Elizabeth,
daughter of Joseph Lawton, and granddaughter of Joseph
and Elizabeth (Ellis) Lawton, and was born in Stone,
Staffordshire, Eng., July 10, 1818. Mrs. Ellis' mother
was Elizabeth, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Bostock)
Nichols.
James Holmes is one of the oldest residents from Eng-
land. He resides near the church and is now in England,
buying machinery and worsted for the Pacific mills.
Others are Thomas Rating, wool washer, Robert Stott,
spinner, and Henry Bingham, warp dresser. When Mr.
Walton first came to Ballardvale, the white boarding
house was full of Yankee boarders. Hayman was a paint-
er about 1850, who came from Salem and went to Califor-
nia from Ballardvale.
June 18th, after breakfast at Benjamin Stevens' where
I stayed over night. Capt. Ballard says that Caesar Dole,
the colored man who once lived beyond Valpy's many
years ago lived on Rattlesnake Hill road. His children
were Elsie, who died unmarried in the ulmshouse and
Dudley, who also died unmarried.
Called on Capt. Foster, who says that his uncle William
Foster owned the place where Goldsmith now resides and
his father, Timothy Foster, lived there when he was born.
Mr. Foster's father's brothers, Joseph and William, lived
in Boston and Cambridge. Harrison Grey Otis married
two of William's daughters.
Asa A. Abbot says that Andrew Allen owned and lived
on land that bordered on a bridle way that ran down from
near Dr. Whiting's house to meet the bridle way to the
plain. This was sold to Ephraim Abbott in 1707 by the
widow Elizabeth Allen and her children, Elizabeth, An-
drew and Sarah. Andrew Foster's land bounded it, as
also did Flagg's meadow, on the west of the way to
62 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
Robert Russell's meadow. After Ephraim Abbott died,
his son Daniel, a blacksmith, resided there until he died,
without children, and his heirs, who were his brothers
and sisters, sold the place. Some of the brothers settled
in Amherst and New Ipswich, N. H. Benjamin Holt
bought a part of it and it is now owned by Nathan B.
Holt. Some of the old garden is owned by Sylvester
Abbott, including an old bell pear tree ; on every old
farm there was a bell swash and winter pear tree. About
eight rods northwest of the old garden are two mounds
which are said to be the graves of an Indian chief and his
squaw. The house was on the part that was bought
by Asa Abbott, who married Daniel's sister Elizabeth, and
it was hired by one Johnson. Then it was moved off
about 1790, one part across the meadow to make the
lower part of Goldsmith's house, and the other part to the
turnpike, and was used as a schoolhouse until about 1803,
when the red schoolhouse was built. A woman by the
name of Russell cut her throat west of the garden on the
Allen place.
A. A. Abbott says that Benjamin Holt lived on the
Whiting place with his nephew Henry, son of Joseph.
The Allen house was haunted. Benjamin Holt saw a
whole lot of evil spirits, after it was made into a school-
house. Between Bronnell's or Goldsmith's house and
Isaac Goldsmith's residence and about thirty rods from
Bronnell's is where Pomp Lovejoy, a colored man, slave
of Capt. William Lovejoy, who was bought in Boston
when about nine years old, lived. Dea. Lovejoy owned
the land and gave Pomp his liberty. Pomp lived in the old
house until it burned about 1773, then his neighbors and
friends built a new one for him, which he occupied until
he died at the age of 102. His wife whose name was
Rose Coburn, died soon after aged about 90. They had
no children. Pomp assisted in slaughtering, drove a
baker's cart, and officiated with the fiddle at social gather-
ings on election days. This part of William Lovejoy's
place went to Capt. Henry Abbott's wife, and now William
Phillips Foster owns it. There formerly was a tobacco
press near the house.
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 63
As one enters Woburn street, between the houses of
Daniel P. Abbott and Oliver H. Perry, the first house is
the residence of Elijah Brownell, owned by Asa Gold-
smith, a brother to Isaac. It was built by Nathan Gold-
smith, his brother, about 1835. The first place on Rattle-
snake hill mill road is where John Dunlap lived between
the hills in the triangle on the road and the path that goes
to the mill. An old grist mill which was out of use as
long ago as 1805, was here and the building was after-
ward removed to Stephen D. Abbott's and occupied as a
woodhouse. Next comes the Butter's house owned now
by William R. Boy n ton, and the land joins Cald well's
farm. Benjamin Butters, who once resided in the old
house at Manning's place, built this house and resided in
it until he died.
Stayed at A. A. Abbott's until after dinner, then went
down to Ballardvale and up to Nathan Clark's, where
Mrs, Mann was visiting and she said that she cooked the
first meal eaten by the workmen on the mills.
Eben H. Bickford went to board with Mr. Ballard in
1814. He came from Salem and had graduated from
Harvard and studied law, but did not practice. He has
travelled in Europe and Asia and all over the United
States. Mrs. Scott is the next oldest resident in the
Vale, and Mrs. Gilman Davis, who was visiting at Mrs.
Clark's, the next. William Ferguson's two children were
the only ones in the village when Mrs. Mann came, Oct.,
1831, but now there are three schools. Daniel Poor, sr.,
and Abel Blanchard started the foundation for a paper
mill, but John Marland came home from England and
they changed their plan, Blanchard selling out. John
Marland was the principal member of the firm. Daniel
Poor, sr., built the first dwelling house. Whittaker from
England, who was an overseer in the finishing room of the
the flannel, lived first in the brick house, the smallest
near the factory and the first one in the village. Mr.
Whittaker is a very large man and now lives in Saugus.
One Barron lived in one part about the time Mr. Whit-
taker did, who came from England and is now in the
west with his daughter. She was Sally Lord, and her
64 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTOBICAL VISITATION.
mother married a Howard for her second husband. The
widow of Alexander Morrison, a Scotchman, now resides
there, also one Holmes and Walter Murray, who married
daughters of Mrs. Morrison reside there.
John Trampleasure resided in the third house, which
was built for one Scot. He was an overseer in a weaving
room, and bought the house soon after it was built and
occupied it until about two years before he died. His
widow now resides there. After the railroad was brought
through the village, this house was moved back a foot
and a basement put in.
Took a walk toward the Wilmington line and came to
the old cellar where the Joseph Foster house stood on the
east side of the street, just out of sight of Mr. Allen's
house. Then past the brook that comes from Foster's
pond and into the woods, and past the path down to the
pond, to a level road where the Eames and Pearsons
reside. On returning, entered the road near Rattlesnake
hill, which runs northeasterly making an acute angle with
this. On the easterly side is the mill dam where the grist
mill, formerly stood, which has been raised to hold water
for the Ballardvale Company and it now contains many
more acres than the fifty covered by the original pond.
From this height can be seen the winding course of the
brook from the pond around one side of the hill, nearly
to Chandler's bridge. Over the pine woods can be seen
the tops of some of the buildings in Ballardvale, the roof
of the old South church and some of the buildings on the
turnpike south of Seminary Hill and in Wilmington,- but
south and west is a dense forest.
(To be continued.)
SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
TOWN MEETINGS, VOLUME II.
(Continued from Volume XL VIII, page 356.)
M r Edm Batter p r Con tr Cred*
*> deputy ship 78 & other disbursm ts as p r
Acc 9:11:04
Geo : Booth Joynor D r
To paid Manaf Marston : 4:4
To p d by ph. Cromwell ^ Acc : 2
To Jn Norman Cons 1 0:13:0
To : p d f> m r Jn Higginfon : 05 :
To Cap 1 Jn price p d y u 2 : 00 :
3:04: 8%
D r 17 : 2 mo
a bill Edw Flint Con 5 8' 4 d
a bill pet Chever y e 23 : 9 : 80 54 5 d
3:03: 9
Geo. Booth Joynor p r Cont r Cred*
1678 ^ worke upon the Towne houfe ^ Acc 3:7:6
*$> Work vpon y* Towne houfe f> Acc 1679 3:0:0
6: 7: 6
M r Jn Gidny D r
To a bill to Jn procture for 8 : : 00
To a bill to Ely Geoyles for 4 : 8 : 00
31 : 10 : 79 both bills returned & a bill charged
Vpon Con s Edw Flint for 12 : 08 : 00
M r Jn Gidny p r Contra Cred*
^ boards for Towne houfe 2 : 16 :
$ expence of Comittys : 07 : 6
|>> expence of Selectmen 78 9 : 04 : 6
12: 08:0
(65)
66 SALEM TOWN BECORDS.
[287] Att a metting of the Select men 22 : 11 : 1678
being p r sent Agred y* the forty foure acres of
Land on ryall Side referued by the
Cap* Jn Cor win Select men the last yeare for the vfe of
mr Jos Graften tne Q Nabouring familys on Royall
KffbStoJ Junr Side & the 5 Nabouring familys in the
Edw flint North field as Exsprefd in the leafe, be
Jno Higginfon ^yd Qut distinct b y it Selfe & Cap* Jn
Corwin Sam 11 Gardner Jun r Jn Higginfon Jun r Sam u
Gardner Sen 1 & Bartholmew Gidny is apointed to lay it
out as they shall Se Caufe
Voated on the afirmatiue
Agred y* the land lying betwene the land of Nath Putt-
man & Nath 1 Felton w ch was let out to Edward flint Jer h
Neale & Company as p r leace apeares, be layd unto them
forth with & m r philip Cromwell Edward flint, m r Jn a
Hathorne Leu* Jn Pickring, Leu* Leach Frances Nurfe
& Israll porter is apointed to lay it out to the Leacees
aforesaid
Voated afirmative
Constable Jos h Rea gaue Acc y* Sarj fuller has Killed
3 wolues for w ch he is to be alowed according to law.
Ther will Be Dew to frances Skery 5 U . 0. for Keping
Sarah Lambert when March Next is out.
Granted Liberty to Cap* Richard More to fence in his
wiues & Son Calebs Graues about fourten fott in lenght &
about ten fott in Breadth
It is ordered y* no man p r sume to Cutt any young Tres
upon the Comon upon the penalty of twenty shill gs for
Euery Tree & the Select men doe apoint m r ph. Cromwell
Leu* Jn Pickring Jer Neale & Jn Marston Jun' to Se to
the Execution of this order and doe herby impower them
or any of them to Seiz all young wood they find y* was
Cutt of from the Comon either in the woods or on any
Sled or Cart, the one halfe ther of for themfelues & the
other halfe for y c pore of the Towne
Att a metting of the Select men 29 : 11 : 1678 being
p r sent Agred y* the forty foure acres
of Land on Royall Side referued & al-
Capt Jno Corwin lotted in t]ie leajfe made to j n o Q rene
mr Jos Graften T T i T -r i T i t -r n
mr ph. Cromwell Ja Leach Jn Bacheldor and Jn a
SALEM TOWN RECORDS. 67
Leu* Leach Tomkins Jun r by the Select men the
Edw U fl?nt rdDOT last y eare unto Geo Jacobs Sen r Jn
Jn Higginson Tomkins Jun r Jn Waters Jn foster
Jun r Sam 11 foster Leu 6 R d Leach Jn
Leach Jn Grene Jn Bacheldor Jos Bacheldor and Abra-
ham Warren Shall be now letten & Sett to leace unto the
aforsaid Geo Jacobs Jn Tomkins Jn Waiters Jn foster
Sam 11 Foster Leu 1 R d Leach John Leach Jn Grene Jn
Bacheldor Jos Bacheldor & Abraham Warren or the Major
part of them for the Space of nine hundred ninety & nine
yeares as the Select men can agree
Voted afermative
Granted Leaue to Jer Neale to Cutt a finall farme upon
y e Comons
[288] 29:11:1678 Agree! y* all the Comons on
Royall Side which has bin letten out to leafe by the Select
men the last yeare & this shall be deliuered & poflesion
Giuen unto the leafers or Tenants & Cap 1 Jn Corwiu m r
Jos Graften Sam 11 Gardner Jun r & Jn Higginson Jun r
are apointed to doe it as Sone as Conveniently the} r can.
And accordingly the 31 ll mo 1678 S d partys aboue
apointed went to Royall Side & deliuered poffesion accord-
ing to Leafe
Att a metting of the Selectmen being p r sent ye 1 : 12
1678
c t j o c . Then Resaued of Jn Gene Jn Leach
mr Jos GrafteiT n J D Bacheldor & John Tomkins Jun r
ph. Cromwell the Sume of twenty pounds in mony for
theire first .y eai ' 68 rent for R y a11 ' Side
being for the yeare 1678 according to
leace baring date 1 st : 12 rao 1677.
Agred y i Jn Grene Jn Leach Jn e Bacheldor & Jn -
Tomkins Jun r haue liberty granted them to Sett up a
pound on Royall Side according to law
Att a metting of the Selectmen 5 : 12 : 1678 being
p r sent Then Resaued of m r Jn Turner three
pounds in mony it being for his first
mrGraften yeares R ent for Bakers Island for the
mr ph. Cromwell yeare 1678 : acording to leafe baring
Samii Gardner date 19 . 12 . 1677
68 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
Edw flint Abated to petter Cheuers 5 s of his
Jn<> Higginson Country rate to Const r Curtice
Att a metting of the Select men 17 : 11 : 1678 being
p'sent Agred w th Rich d Stackhoufe that he
shall kepe the fery goeing ouer to Beu-
Cap* Jn Corwin er ]y f or & during the Space of fiue
% pro* yeares to begin the 7 : 11 1678 (y is
Leu* Leach y e time when the last years agrement
Samii Gardner ended) & to End on the 7 : 11 : 1683
jnoVigg'inson & the Said Richard Stackhoufe doth
Ingage himfelfe heires Executors ad-
miniftrators & afTignes that he will Suficently kep the S d
fery w ih boats & hands as occation shall require & that he
or they shall & will truly pay or Caufe to be paid unto
the Towne of Salem or ther order the full & Just Sume
of three pounds in Currant mony of N Eng ld ||^ annum ||
for the first two yeares & fiue pounds in Currant mony of
New Eng 1 * ffi annum for the last three yeares (y e words
$ r annum ware Interlined befor Signing) & the Select
men doe Ingage that the Towne of Salem shall Continue
the fery to the Said Stackhoufe for & during the aforsaid
Terme of fiue yeares, or In cafe of None p r formance the
ielectmen doe Ingage to free him from the Rent from the
time it may be taken away from him & this Rent to be for
the vse of a Gramer Scholemaster from yeare to yeare :
As wittnesse his hand Richard Stackhoufe
[289] Att a metting of the Select men 17 : 12 : 1678,
being p r sent as p r Con tr
Then Resaued of Cap* Geo. Corwin three pounds in
mony it being for his first yeares Rent for the Islands
caled the Great & litle mifery for the yeare 1678 acording
to leace baring dat : 19 : 12 : 77
Allowed Rich d Ives wife 20 s for her Charge & Trouble
about Eliz b Shelden, & paid hr by a noate to Dan 11 An-
drews
Agred w th Rich d Ives wife to kepe Eliz h Shelden & her
Child for Said Sheldens Laboure, untill she runn away
from her.
Abated to Ely r Hathorne 6 s being his minifters rate to
phipeny
SALEM TOWN EECOKD8. 69
Abated to Joseph Miles his Country rate 5 s to Curtice.
Agrd y* (wheras m r Da niell Eps is to haue 60 11 ^ an-
num for kep Schole as p r agrement, & he haueing Resaued
of his Scholers as p r his Acc 17 11 : 19 s : 10 d towards the
first halfe yeare being for y e yeare 1678/79 begining 10
August 78) m r Daniell Eps shall be paid 12 11 : : 2 d out
of the mony Resaued for Rent for that End of Jn Gren
& Comp u Jn Turner & Cap* Geo. Corwin w ch is in full
for his halfe yeare ending 10 : 12 : 1678
I Daniell Eps doe accknowlige y* I haue Resaued of
the Select men of Salem twelue pounds in mony in full
for keping a Gramer Schole in Salem from 10 : 6 mo 78 to
the 10: 12: 78
I say Resaued p r me of the money Resaued for Rent
for this end as wittnesse my hand 17 : 12 : 78
Daniel Epes Jun r
Agred by the Select men that Rob* Stone shall be paid
by the towne 50 s for the Caring away of John Mackrell
& his family to black point to be paid as the rates Run
15 : 1 : 79/80 Rob Stone D r a bill charged
vpon W m Curtice Con s 1 : 10 : 00
To a bill Charged vpon Ja Poland Cons* 1 : 00 : 00
2 : 10 : 00
[290] Constable Daniell Andrews & Constable Jos
Huchefon D r to y e Rates Comitted to them in yeare 1677
as apeares 15 leaues backward li s d
381 : 02: 03
ouer charged by m r Lindoll in difburst m 000 : 16 : 92
381 : 18 : 05
wch recipt are in sd Andrews hand
p d to the trefurer by Dan 11 Andrews as foil
, p d to Doct r Jn Barton in mouy as p r
Trefurers ord r & Bartons recipt 6 11 17 s
w ch is p* of mony rate 6 : 17 : 00
, p d W m Wainwrightin mony as p r Trefu-
rers ord r & Nurfes recipt 36' 6 d \v ch is
p* of mony rate 01 : 16 : 06
70 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
p d to in r Jn Turner for Disbursm* on man
of Warr 13 : 04 : 04
pd Tho fuller for being a Trop r & goeing to
Andiuor 00 : 10 : 00
3& p d An* Buxton for disbursm ts as p r his
recipt 02 : 05 : 00
m p d Jn Porter in p* for a horfe in second
disbursm 01 : 09 : 00
p d to m r Th Gardner as Rates run for dis-
bursmen* on the man of warr 06 : 07 : 06
f& p d Jn Hathome as the rates Run for
disbursmen 8 upon the man warr Katch 06 : 15 : 00
^ p d Sam 11 Gardner Sen r for disbursement
on man warr 06 : 07 : 06
*$ p d Israll porter 5 s Jn Leach 5 8 for goe-
ing to Andiuer 00 : 10 : 00
^ p d Sam 11 Aborne for a musket alowed in
last disbursm* 5 01 : 05 : 00
<j> p d Cap* Jn Price in part for disbursm ts
on man of warr 03 : 00 : 00
$ p d M r Batter for remaind r of Disb t8 on
Eastern pore 05 : 04 : 09
^> p d dito Batter for Disburst on man of warr 06:07:06
^ Dan 11 Andrew alowed in Disburst 8 00 : 05 : 00
^ p d Jn Higginson Jun r in part for
Disbursm* on man of warr Katch Cap*
Maning Comand r 09 : 00 : 00
^ p d Nich Howard for so much alowed him
in last disb* s 00 : 06 : 00
$ Tropers Jn Putm n Is Cooke w m Trask &
w ra Of borne 01 : 00 : 00
^ paid to Capt* Jn Corwin w ch is for 6 of
y e 13 guns alowed by the Country in y e
Acc of great Disbursments 00 : 00 : 00
$ p d fuller for y e Countrys part of a wolfe 00 : 10 : 00
*$> p d Ed Bushop for a horfe 3 11 p d Jn Small
for disburs* 13 s 03 : 13 : 00
& is 2 Recipts 92 : 05 : 02
ye recipt he has 3
95 : 05 : 02
SALEM TOWN RECORDS. 71
p d Tim Lindall for disbursm* on man of
warr Katch 09 : 14 : 01
p d to m r Batter for Acc major Gugin <$
Trefurers order 06 : 00 : 00
92 : 05 : 02
1g> p d to Jn Higinson 3 11 dew to y e towne
from the Con try for 3 U alowed in the
pore eastern bill 03 : 00 : 00
p d by Daniell Andrews toward the Towne
Disbursm ts
to Jn Puttman for his fortification 07 : 13 : 00
to dito Puttman for his part of meting houfe
fortification 03 : 00 : 00
to paid Lew* Thomas Puttman in part of his
Disbursm ts 03 : 15 : 00
to paid farmer Porter for ther fortification 12 : 08 : 00
to Jn Porter for timber 03 : 00 : 00
to paid Lew* Leach in part of Disbursm ts
for fortifications 04 : 15 : 00
to paid Nath felton for Disbursm u on forti-
fications 10 : 06 : 00
to paid Fr Nurfe for fortification worke 05 : 06 : 00
to paid Sam 11 Eborne Sen r for Cart & man 2d 00 : 10 : 00
to paid Sam 11 Eborne Jun r for f ortificat n &
highways 00 : 14 : 00
to p d Tho Preffon for worke on fortification 00 : 10 : 00
to p d Jn Trask for fortification worke 00 : 16 : 09
to p d Jn Lomes 24 s 6 d Jn Peafe fen r 5 s Sam 11
Gaskin 24 s 02 : 13 : 06
to p d Ely Geoyles : 5 U 13 s Jos Southerick 18 8 06:11:00
to p d Dan 11 Southerick : 21 s John JBlethen 8 s
Jn Small 5 8 01 : 14 : 00
to p d Jn Hill : 4 s Isack Cooke : 8 11 8 :
W m Trask 18 s 9 d 09 : 10 : 09
to p d Goody True for kep* Eliz : Shelding 01 : 00 : 00
tp> under pining the towne houfe 30 s p d
Alixt : mackmaly 43 s 03 : 13 : 00
f p d Sarj : fuller for a wolfe 20 s 01 : 00 : 00
ty p d Jer. Meacharn for fortification worke 01 : 06 : 00
72 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
^ p d to Tho Bouinton 5 s abated to Rob*
Peafe 23 s 01 : 08 : 00
V abated w m Randoll 11 s 6 d abated Tho
Golthite 10 f 6 d 01 : 13 : 00
V abated Tho Howard 11' 83 : 08 : 00
V Fran 01 Nurfe for fortification worke 6 s 00 : 06 : 00
[291] Constable Jos Huchefon D r to his u s d
p'portion of the || Country || Rates for y e
year 1677 79 : 03 : 06
To his proportion of the towne Rate 40 : 08 : 00
To his proportion of the Minesters Rate
with over plus 13 : 14 : 03
Minest r Rate 133 : 05 : 09
to Cap* Brown 12 : 12 : 6
to y e towne 01 : 01 : 9
13 : 14 : 3
Res d upon the Towne Acc for fortifications &c
^ p d to Tho fuller Sen r for his fortification : 5 : 09 :
p d Nat Ingerson for fortification worke 4:12:0
p d Jos Rea for dito : 5 11 10 s Nat Putman for
dito 5 U 9 s 10 : 19 :
all thefe for disburst on ye meting houfe fortification
p d Nat Putman 22 s Nath. Ingerson 9 s Rich d
Huchefon 15 s 02 : 06 :
p d Jos Huchefon 32 s 6 d Jos : Holton 7 s Jos
Rea U 8 02 : 13 : 6
p d Jos Holton sen r 10 s 00 : 10 :
<$ abatm* to Job Swinerton sen r 20 s 01 : 00 : 00
$ abatm* to Isack Goodale 5 s 00 : 05 : 00
towne fortification payd severall
$ Jona : Walcott for fortification of y e
towne 01 : 13 :
f, Rich d Leach 23 s Zach r Goodale 6 s Hen r
Keney 8 s 01 : 17 :
$ w m Sibley 27" Jn fuller 20 s 6 d Lott Kel-
4 d 02 : 11 : 6
SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
out of L* Tho Puttnams fortification
V Jn Leach 8 s Jn forman 2" 00 : 10
ty a bull hired to goe with y e heard 1679 01 : 00
$ Jon* Knights 12" Tho Keney 6 s Jn Keny
6 old Keny 3- 01 : 07
$ abatement of his owne & others Rates
26 : 12 : 79/80 09 : 08
$ Jer* Watt's 4 8 for work at meet 8 houfe
fortification
^ Rob Moulton 10 8 town f ortifi c Edw Bufhop
4 s wood
Mofes Aburne abated
46 : 01
: 04
: 14
0:05
47 : 04
00
00
00
00
00
Res d upon y e Country Acc
p d by Trefures order to Hen r Bragge as rates
run : 06 : 06 : 08
p r paid to Tho Haynes 25 s for disbursm* 8 01 : 05 : 00
in first disb one halfe
p d Jos. Holton for disbursments 00 : 12 : 6
pd m r ^rm Browne Sen r for difburft m vpon
the man of warr Ketch 12 : 15 : 00
p d ^ Cap* W m Browne for difburft m vpon the
man of warr as p r his Resc* May 16 : 79 07 : 11 : 04
p d Cap* W m Browne for dif burftments vpon
the man of warr Keatch as p r his Res*
May 22 : 79
p d 3 troopers viz An* Nedam : Jon. Knights
& Thorn 5 Wilkins 5 s p r
p d Joshua Rea out of dif burst m 5 s & 2 s
dated May 27 : 79
p d to the treafure* in money as p r his Res r
p d Jn Fuller 5" for goeing to Andiuer
22 . 9 . 81
p d Jn Hathorne p d in rate pay ^ m r Jo
Hull Treasur' bill the summe of 8 : 19 : 09
ut
00
11
15
V4:
00
00
07
00
15
07
00
49
10
10
00
05
00
58 : 15 : 07
SALEM TOWN BECORDS.
01:
00
13:00
05 : 00
01
04
3
12
03 :00
10 :00
07: 06
12 :06
11:6
11 . 12 . 81
p d Jo. Hathorne money 22 s f> bill from m r
Hull treasur 1 in rate paye is
pd Hen r Keney 5' allowed in Salem dif burst mtl
Towne 20 . 3 . 84
p d abated out of rates for Sanfords farme
^ 3 11 mony p d m r St Sewall in Rate pay is
by abatement of his owne Rates
by his p* of y e minifters Rate p d m r Browne
by Mendame at Ipswedge & goeing pambula-
tion
Rec d A bill w th abatements for y e ballance of
Acc
[292] Constable Elyazer Geoyles D r to
his proportion of Rates Comitted to him in y e
yeare 1676 as apeares 401eaues backward 430 : 18 : 01
Res d *$> Seuerall payments to the Towne & Country as
apeares 40 leaues backward 303 : 16 : 10)^
y e Recipt are in Geoyles hands
^ paid to m r William Hirst for disburst
upon man of warr 06 : 07 : 06
^ paid to m r Jn Ruck for part disburst
upon man of warr 05 : 00 : 00
<$ abatements ^ Acc the 11 : l mo 79/80 his
owne rates & others with Consid r in his
own for transportation 10 : 09 : 00
li s d
324 : 13 :
This Bill Bindeth mee Eleazer Geoyles Constable my
heires Execut Adminestrators or Assignes to paye or
<Caufe to bee payd vnto the towne of Salem or theire order
the Just & full Summe of Ninetey fiue pounds fiue Shill-
ings now Justley remaining due to the Towne of Salem
for rates Committed into my hands Anno: D: 1676,
Whatt part of the aboue sayd Summe is due to the Coun-
try I doe hereby Engage and binde myselfe my heires Ex-
scut Adminestrators or Assignes to paye or Caufe to
bee payd vnto the Treasur 1 of the Country, in rate paye,
SALEM TOWN RECORDS. 75
According as the law or warrants doth direct; the remain-
der to bee payd vnto the towne or theire order, both & all
which payments to bee truley payd & fulley Compleated
att or before the first of October next Ensuing the date
heareof : & in Cafe the Treasur r shall for beare the towne
vntill the first of March next Ensuing, y* then the Towne
shall Alfo for beare and Exersise there patience towards
him vntill that tyme as Wittnefs his hand this 15 th March
1679/80
Eli Giles
C rd f. his proportion of y e 40 11 allowed li
f, y e Country 12 : 00 : 00
m r Eleazer Geoyles C rd f a Rec* from m r
Jn Hull Treasur r 57 : 03 : 08^
Att a metting of the Selectmen : 26 : 12 : 1678 being
p r sent Rich d Prince Cred* *$ paid by his
Cap* Jn Corwin Dro J s - Prince to Manafeth Marston
m r Graften for Iron worke for y e South feild Gates
Lew^ h Leach mWe11 15 * ^ tO be P aid b ^ ^ towne
Samii Gardner D r to a bill Charged vpon Cons 1 Ja:
Edw Flint Poland 1 : march 79/80 15 s 6 d
Granted to Cap 1 Geo Corwin a bill
upon Constable Jn Norman for 4 : : w ch is in Con-
lideration of a bill giuen him by Earth 1 Gidny to the
Cons tr in the ll mo 1673 & it not being paid he returned it,
& had y e bill aboue Exsp rd Abated to Robt* Peafe Jun r
all his rates to Andrews he being under age 77
Abated to W m Randoll halfe his rates to Andrews 77
Abated to Tho Golthite halfe his rates to Andrews. 77
Abated to Jn Home of his rates to Dauid Phipeny 3 9 :/78
Abated to Tho : Howard II 8 of his rates to Andrews. 77
Abated to W m Smith 14 8 of his rates to Skery. 1676 :
Agred y* ther shall be a towne Metting Warned on
Lect r day next y e 5 th of March to be held on thirsday
13 th march for y e Choyce of Selectmen, & Constables for
this Towne, & that a freemans metting be warned on S d
Lecture day to be held on Saterday the 8 th of March for
the Nomination of Magestrates Choyce of a County Tref-
urer & a Comiflioner to resaue the Voates
76 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
[292 a ] Att a freemens melting 8 March 1678/9
Chofen for a Comiffioner to Gary in the Voates for Nomi-
nal of Magestrates & Choyce of a County Trefurer at the
Mettiug of the Comifioners of this County M r John
Hathorne
Att a Gener 11 Towne Meeting
The 13 th of the l mo 1678/9
Chofen For Select men for the Yeare Enfuing
Cap 1 John Corwin M r John Turner
Cap* W m Browne M r John Higginson
Cap 1 John Price John Hathorne
M r Phillip Cromwell
Chofen for Constables
For the Towne For the Farmes
Edward Flint Job Swinerton Jun r
James Poland James Simons
Nehemia Willowbey
Peter Chevers
Voated that it is left to the Selectmen, to giue our
Neighbours of Beverlye, An Anfwer to there petition for
an Explanation of the Towne Grant to Beverlye Respect-
ing the lines Betweene Wenham & Beverlye and Manchef-
ter & Beverlye
Voated that Goodm Skerye is defired to Keepe Sarah
Lambert Six Weekes, and in the meene tyme the Select
men are Impowred to Agree (with some pfon to Keepe
her) as they Can
Voated that the Selectmen haue the Same power
y 1 they had the last Yeare ; And haue power Granted
them to call all Constables to Accomp 1 that are Indebted
to the towne and to Sue such as are behinde
Voated that itt is left to the Selectmen to Agree with
Thomas Greene aboute Keeping Sarah Lamberts child &
grant him some further allowance or take the child & agree
with some other perfon to Keepe itt
[293] Voated that m r Samuell Gardner sen r m r Elea-
zer Hathorne L* Thomas Puttnam Daniell Andrew L 1 Jer
Neale & John Marfton Jun r are chofen a Commitey to
Search for Towne land within the Bounds of Salem : &
SALEM TOWN RECORDS. 77
haue the same power the former Commitey had : which
ware chofen vs. Decem br 73
Voated that y e Selectmen are delired to Coniider of y e
motion of m r Bartholmew Gedney aboute Grants of Land
to m r Clarke & the Petilion of L 1 John Pickering & John
Norton for land & to make returne thereof to the Towne
Att a Metting of the Selectmen 17 th 1 : 1678/9 John
t T Hathorne is Chofen to Keepe the Towne
Cap 1 Jno Corwm r .
Cap* W m Browne Bookes for the Yeare Insueing
Cap* Jno Price The Selectmen doe order y* all Swine
Srph: Cromwell which g oe " the Commol > sha11 bee
mr Jn Higginfon sufficiently Yoaked & Ringed by the
Jn<> Hathorne twenty e six daye of March Next : on
the penaltye of twelue pence ^ daye for Euery such
defect and that all & everye such Swine, as shall from y e
tyme aboue mentioned, bee found in anye mans Garden
or incloafure not yoaked & Ringed as aboues d shall bee for-
feited the one halfe to the poore of the Towne & the other
halfe to the perfons apoynted to Execute this order & to
that end haue Chofen & impowred John Cooke John
Glouer and Math Done fulley to Execute the fame : Viz :
to take vp all Swine y* from tyme to tyme thay shall finde
vnyoaked or vnriuged Either on the Towne Commons :
or in any mans garden or inclosfure, requireing sattiafac-
tion According to the aboues d order & in Cafe they shall
at any tyme refeaue information from any perfon of swine
soe tranfgrefing they shall forthwith repaire to the Said
place & Execute there office : itt is to bee vnderstood that
anye man keeping Swine in his owne incloafure thay are
not to bee Seized Edw Woolen is alfo chofen to Execute
this order
Chofen For Sur Vayers of Fences
In the North Feild : Eleazer Gedney & Isack Cooke
In the South Feild : Edw Flint & John Marfton Jun r
Without the Bridge W m Traf k & John Loonies
Within the Bridge Jn Rogers & Jer. Roggers
Ordered that all Fences Bee made vp Forthwith
Chofen for Ouerfeeires of the highwayes
From the Bridge to the lower End of y e Towne m r
Tym Lindell & m r Edw Grouer
78 SALEM TOWN KECORDS.
From y e Bridge aboue or without itt : Caleb Buffom &.
Dan 1 Sutherick
[293 a ] M r John Cromwell is Chofen Sealer of waites
& Meafures for this prefent yeare (In prefence of Con-
ftable peter Chevers) And the Confta bl to Giue him
Notice thereof &c
Chofen For the Cording of Wood for this Yeare John :
Ely & Math Doue
Itt is Agreed that there shall bee a Wickett doore
made in the East & West doore of the Meeting houfe ;
And Cap* W m Browne & Cap John Price are Apoynted
to Gitt itt donne. Likewife to Gitt stone steeps to the
doores, and to Repayre y e Metting houfe as theere shall
bee occation
Itt is agreed that the line shall bee Runne Betweene
Salem and Linn : Townes from the Vpper end of the long
ponde to a tree in the middle of the Island in M r Hum-
phreys ponde & from thence to the leaven mens Bounds
& from thence to a fmall White Oake on the South Syde
of the Riuer neere vnto John Phelps his houfe And that
there shall notice bee Giuen to the Select men of linn,
that they send some of there Inhabitants to meete with
some of the Inhabitants of Salem (aboute Eight of the
Clock in the Morning the first thurd day of the weeke in
Aprill next, itt being the first day of the said M) att the
Vper End of the Aboues d longe ponde by the Bound
Tree, on the right hand of the Country highwaye from
Salem to linn : And itt is agreed that Cap* John Price
m r John Turner m r John Higginfon & John Hathorne
togather with m r Bartholmew Gedney m r Sam 11 Gardner
sen r & L 1 John Pickering ; theefe or any foure of them
are heare by Apoynted & Impowred to meete with linn
Men to procecute & finish y e aboues d worke for the Set-
tling the Bounds Betweene Salem & linn Townes
Agreed to defer itt Vntill y e next day being the Second
day of Aprill
Itt is Agreed that there shall bee a Towne Meeting
Warned to bee held on Thursday Come Seauen Night
Being the Twentye Seauenth daye of this Instant M of
SALEM TOWN KBCORDS. 79
March. To Confider how to Rayse m r Higginfons Main-
tenance this yeare For the Choyce of a Clarke of the
Markett and a Sealer of Leather & to Chofe a Conftable
in the Roome of Edward Flint who Refuseth to searve
in that office
Res d of Thomas Dixey Jun r fiue shillings in money for
the Rent of the Ferry in the yeare 1678
Res d of Jacob Barney Fourtey shillings in money in
part payment of y e foure pounds due to the Towne for
land Sould him by the Committe
[294] Whearas wee whofe names are vnder written
Being Chofen by Salem and linn to Runn & Settle the
Bounds Betweene our abouesaid Respectiue Townes : viz :
from the Vper End of the longe ponde, to the Isl d in M r
Humphreys ponde and from thence to the feauen Mens
Bounds ; & from the feauen mens Bounds to a pine tree
marked with Six markes vpon a Hill Northerlye from the
S d Bounds and from thence to a fmall Whitte Oake by
the Side of Ipswich Riuer ; aboute three or Foure fcore
pole aboue the Saw mill against John Phelps his houfe
the particuler Bounds betweene the abouesaid heade
bounds are aboute twentye pole diftant Each from other
and are Either a p r cell of stones & a stake in the middle
of them, or stones layde vpon a Rock, or a stake driuen
downe and the Earth digged vp aboute itt and this Con-
clution & Settlement as abouesaid to Remaine vnalterable
vnlefs by the Mutuall Agrement of Both Townes as
abouesaid ; they shall see Caufe Otherwayes to determine
In Wittnefs whearevnto wee haue heare sett to our hands
this 18 of Aprill 1679
This agrement was signed in a paper which is Keep*
amonge the Records
For Linn For Salem
William Bafsett Samuell Gardner Sen r
Mathew Farengtone John Price
John Burrall Bartholmew Gedney
Samuell Jonfon John Higginfon
John Pickering
John Hathorne
30 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
Alt a Towne Meeting March 27 th 1679 Cap* Jn
Corwin p r Voate Chofen Moderator
Voated that the Towne will Allow twenty shill g s p r
Annum to one y* may bee agreed withall for a Whipper
and the Select men are defired to agree with a Sutable
perfon for that purpose
M r John Cromwell is Chofen Clarke of the Markett for
this yeare
Nath 1 Beadle & Jos Home are Chofen Sealers of leather
for this Yeare
Edw Flint Accep ts of the Constables office
Att a Metteing of the Select men Aprill 10 : 79 all
being preient
John Bullock & John Marfton Jun r are Chofen Ser-
vay rs of the Fences in the South Feild
[295] Agreed with M r Franc 68 Skery to Keepe Sarah
Lambert & her Child feauen M From the twelue day of
March last paft & doe promife him in behalfe of the Towne
that hee shall bee payde whatt may bee Equall for itt ;
And bee Cleared from her at y e End of the S d tyme if
hee deiires itt
Agreed with Walter Skiner to Keepe the Towne hearde
of Cowes for three shillings & Six pence p r heade to bee
payde by the Owners of the s d Cowes, & hee is to begin
the one and twenty th of Aprill & to Continue vntill the
Twenty fourth of October
Cap 1 John Corwin m r Phillip Cromwell L* Thomas
Puttnam m r Nath 1 Puttnam L* John Puttnam : L* Rich*
Leech m r Israeli Porter & m r Dan 1 Andrews thefe bef ores d
Gen u or the Maj r part of them are Chofen to goe in
perambulation with Beverlye the twenty second day of
Aprill For the Settlement of the Bounds Betweene the
Rock on the East Syde of the Riuer knowne by the name
of Bafs Riuer, And the Stumpe which is in the Swampe
that Runeth out of Laurance Leach his Meadow : & No-
tice to bee giuen Beverlye to Attend itt.
(To be continued.)
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO
ESSEX COUNTY.
(Continued from Volume XL VIII, page
We hear that Capt. Adams of and for Old York, from
this Place, was lately cast away on the Salvages off Cape
Ann, and the People, Eight or Nine in Number, were all
drowned and the vessel stove to pieces.
Boston Gazette, Jan. 17, 1763.
Stray'd or Stolen from the Subscriber in Danvers the
first instant, a light Bay Mare, about 15 Hands high, no
Artificial Mark, she both Paces and Trots but chuses the
former. Whoever will return, or give Information of the
said Mare, so that she may be again obtain'd shall be well
rewarded, and have all necessary Charges paid by
Ebenezer Jacob.
Danvers, Jan. 2, 1763.
Boston Gazette, Jan. 24, 1763.
Whereas Edmund Wright, late of Newbury Mariner
deceased, sometime in the Year 1760 bought of some
Person in this Province, a Set of Bills of Exchange for
One Hundred and Twenty Pounds Sterling ; which Bills
were forwarded to Mr. Duff, Merchant in Guadaloupe,
but by some Accident never came to his Hands, and the
whole Set are lost. This is to desire any Person who has
any Knowledge of the said Set of Bills, that they would
be so good as to inform the Subscriber or the Printers
hereof which will be a Deed of Charity done to a Number
of Fatherless Children, and gratefully received by
DESIRE WRIGHT
Widow of the Deceased.
Newbury, Jan. 10, 1763.
Boston Gazette, Jan. 24, 1763.
(81)
82 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
Last Week died at his Lodgings in Fleet-Street, aged
90, Mr. Benjamin Brown, a Native of Salem, in New
England.
Boston Gazette, Feb. 14, 1763.
Tuesday last the Honourable His Majesty's Council made
Choice of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Barnard, of Salem, to
preach before the General Court or Assembly of this
Province, on Wednesday of the 25th Day of May next,
being the Day appointed by the Royal Charter for the
Election of Councillors.
Boston Gazette, Feb. 21, 1763.
The Committee appointed by the Great and General
Court, to Farm out the Duties of Excise on Tea, Coffee,
and China Ware, in the County of Essex, the current
Year, will attend that Service on Tuesday the 15th Day
of March next at three o'clock Afternoon at the House of
Mrs. Hannah Pratt, Inn holder in Salem.
By Order of the Committee.
NATHANIEL ROPES.
Salem, February 16th, 1763.
Boston Q-azette, Feb. 21, 1763.
To be Sold, or Lett, a Sugar House in Salem, with all
necessary Utensils for Refining Sugar. Enquire of Ben-
jamin PicJcman, Esq.
Boston Gazette, Feb. 21, 1763.
Capt. Allen in a Schooner from Martinico to Cape Ann
was taken a short Time after she left that Place by a
Spanish Privateer, but the Men soon after rose upon the
Spaniards and carried the vessel into St. Kitts and she is
since arrived at Cape Ann.
Boston G-azette, March 21, 1763.
Marblehead, March 25, 1763.
This Morning departed this Life in the 45th Year of
her Age, after a long and languishing Illness, Mrs. RCTTH
HOOPER the amiable and virtuous Consort of the Hon.
ROBERT HOOPER, Esq. ; and eldest Daughter of JOSEPH
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 83
SWETT, Esq. ; of this Town deceased ; who deserves if any
ever did, a Character replete with ev'ry Virtue. Who
triumphed at Death, thro' a strong Faith, and a well spent
Life: Whose Memory- will be ever dear to all that had
the Pleasure of her Acquaintance ; and to whom nothing
can represent her in a more favorable and affectionate
View than her most endearing Life has done
To the Poor, the Loss of a kind Benefactress
To her Acquaintance, the Deprivation of a firm Friend-
To her Family, an irreparable Breach.
Boston Gazette, Apr. 4, 1763.
Newlury, March 19, 1763.
This Day died here in the 71st year of his Age, Capt.
John Crocker, a Gentleman that was well known in the
Town of Boston, where he formerly lived, and was for
many Years in the London Trade. He was universally
beloved and esteemed for his remarkable Honesty and
good Nature, and other Amiable Qualities. The memory
of the Just is blessed.
Boston Gazette, Apr. 4, 1763.
We hear that a vessel bound from Gibraltar for Salem,
lately founder'd off the Western Islands; but the crew
saved themselves by taking to their Boat, and got safe to
Fyal.
Boston Gazette, Apr. 4, 1763.
Deserts from his Majesty's Corps of Rangers com
manded by Major Joseph Gorham, on the 23rd of April
1763, Samuel Howard, a private born in Ipswich, in New
England, aged 20 Years, by Trade a Cordwainer, 5- Feet
8 Inches high, fair Complection, well made, very short
Hair, smooth Face ; Had on when he deserted a whitish
coloured Jacket pretty much wore, and Breeches of the
same Colour.
Whoever apprehend said Deserter and secures him, so
that he may be had again, by applying to Lieutenant
James Johnston of the above Corps, now in Salem, shall
be handsomely rewarded, and have all reasonable charges
paid them.
84 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
N. B. All Masters of Vessels and others, are hereby
cautioned against harbouring, concealing or carrying off
the above Deserter, on Penalty of Law.
Boston Gazette, May 9, 1763.
For the Public Benefit ;
The Subscriber having proved the following to be an
effectual Way of destroying Caterpillars, chooses this
Method for making of it Publick, viz.
Take a Pole of a proper Length to reach the Caterpil-
lars Nest, and fasten some Oakum to the End of it, which
dip into Lamp Oyl, and breaking the Nest let the Oyl
drop in among the Caterpillars, and it will infallibly kill
them.
Salem, May, 1763. R. DERBY.
Boston Gazette, May 23, 1763.
Thursday last Francis Brown was convicted before the
Court of Assize at Ipswich of stealing a large Quantity of
Goods, which he sold at Marblehead, Nevvbury, &c. It
being a second Conviction, he was sentenced by the Court
to sit on the Gallows with a Rope about his Neck for the
Space of one Hour, to be whipt thirty Stripes, and pay
treble Damages. He says he was born in Lisbon, speaks
broken English, and has been a great Thief.
Boston Gazette, June 20, 1763.
Whereas in the Night after the Eighth Day of this
Month my House was broken open, and sundry Goods stolen,
among which was black, crimson and luff coloured Breeches
Patterns, Pieces of Scotch Lawn, white Thread Stockings,
Renting, Linen and Silk Handkerchiefs in Pieces, Stock Tape
and sundry other Articles. Any Person that will give In-
formation so that the Goods may be found, and the Thief
bro't to Justice, shall be handsomely Rewarded by me.
STEPHEN CROSS.
Newbury, June 21, 1763.
Boston G-azette, June 27, 1763.
In Capt. Jarvis came Passengers two Gentlemen who
lately went from these Parts to receive Episcopal Ordina-
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 85
tion, one of them to be Missionary at Marblehead, and the
other at Sy ins bury in Connecticut
Boston Gazette, June 27, 1763.
We hear from Ipswich, that on Friday last, four Chil-
dren, two Boys and two Girls, were in a Canoe which
accidently overset and three of them were drowned, one of
the Boys was saved tho' almost lifeless. The Method of
rubbing with Salt ought never to be neglected on such Occa-
sions.
Boston Gazette, July 4, 1763.
We hear from Marblehead, that on Wednesday the 3d
of this Instant, the House of the Rev. Mr. Barnard, was
struck with Lightning: It came down the Side of the
Chimney tearing some of the Shingles off the Roof, and
ran into the lower Room, ripp'd up the Wainscoating
nigh the Fire-place, where was a Sconce Glass, and sev-
eral brass Knobs, which very evidently diverted the
Course of the Lightning ; it proceeded to a Closet, and
broke some China Ware therein, then went out of the
House just ripping off the upper Part of the Cellar
Door. A Bowl which stood in the Closet had a Hole
thro' it the Bigness of a Knitting-Needle, occasioned by
the Lightning At the same Time a Cooper's Shop was
struck in the same Town, the Chimney was beat in close
to the Roof ; providentially the Workmen just before
went out of the Shop, whereby they escaped being hurt.
Boston Gazette, Aug. 15, 1763.
The following Remonstrance being sent to the Publish-
ers with a proper Recommendation, is entitled to a Place in
their Paper.
A REMONSTRANCE from a Member and one of the
Deacons of the first Church in Salem, to the Congregational
Churches in this Province, wherein they are desired to take
Notice of the very great Disorder committed by two of their
Churches, viz. the Third and First in Salem.
In the printed Narratives of Salem First Church con-
troversy dated 1734, you see that the said first church waa
laid under a censure by a very large and venerable coun-
86 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
cil of churches, who were called here and employed by
those gentlemen who called themselves aggrieved brethren
of said church in that day. Who after obtaining a dis-
mission from the church by their council settled them-
selves into a distinct church state by themselves, in the
year 1739, with the Rev. Mr. John Sparhawk, their first
pastor over them, which is now Mr. Barnard's church.
Notwithstanding which, and notwithstanding their repre-
senting the said first church in Salem as obstinate and
impenitent in scandal, in a thousand printed narratives
all over the province, they would now be in the place and
wear the character of the said first church. . . . But can
there be greater indecency, can there be greater disorder,
or can anything be more ridiculous, than for us to slip our
neck out of the collar, and they to run their head into
it ? ... This extraordinary conduct transacted the last
year, Mr. Barnard's church taking our name, our only
proper name of distinction, and all the name that ever we
had, and my young brethren being willing to give it up,
and so to take their name, is I think a call in providence,
more now than ever, to publish in this extraordinary man-
ner the principal matters of the said first church's contro-
versy from first to last. About the year 1725, our then
paper currency had sunk in its value. A motion was
made in behalf of our minister that his salary might be
made good ; but a vote could not be obtained for so much
as the one-half of the fall of money. There was indeed
some loose talk of making his salary good by contribu-
tion ; but because he look'd upon this as a loose, precari-
ous method of amendment, and not inclining to come into
it, his adversaries were very angry with him. Here the
controversy began. The people refusing to pay their min-
ister his just dues. A minor part indeed, were for pay-
ing him his just dues, and a great number of others too
who did not pay a tax big enough to be voters in a parish
meeting. His adversaries sin was greatly aggravated, as
his salary at best was very small, but about .540. our now
old tenor, and the parish one of the richest in the prov-
ince, and but one minister in it. After this his adversaries
contended with him for not carrying on the fortnight lec-
ture ; forgetting that he told them at his settlement that
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 87
he could not engage to preach a lecture, the parish being
so large and so many families to visit. Happy might it
have been for the said aggrieved brethren formerly who
were the first founders of Mr. Barnard's church, if they
had been so wise as to have asked their council, if wrong-
ing their minister of part of his laboured wages, as they
were parishioners, ought to be any bar to their contending
with him for not preaching a lecture, as they were church
members. Had they done this, doubtless the council would
have told them with one voice, that as they were the same
persons, they must first cast the beam out of their own
eyes, and that to do justice was more acceptable to the
Lord than sacrifice. A sad neglect this, in all respects,
being the principal part of the merits of the cause. De-
frauding their minister, the concealing of which and not
mentioning it in the printed narratives, rendered them
partial and unfaithful, quite the reverse of their titles.
However, on they went, flush'd with success and applause
for themselves, and a censure of the church as above ;
insomuch, that they thought they had a right to do almost
anything; for on the 18th day of April, 1735 (after they
had obtained a dismission from the corrupt church with
abundance of religious solemnity, and been instrumental
of a number of churches withdrawing communion from
the first church in Salem), they were for joining with the
church again in a sudden unexpected manner. Accord-
ingly they put a secret plot in execution, sent out some
of their number, who flew about town like spirits, about
one of the clock on said day, and told so many of the
standing part of the church as they met with, that there
was to be a meeting of the church at 4 of the clock the
same afternoon, in order to dismiss the pastor. But the
motion being so rash, and contrary to all rules of reason,
and attended with such inconsistencies and absurdities,
nobody minded it. However they met by themselves, de-
clared in their entry that all the brethren in the land
qualified to vote were duly notified, voted the minister's
dismission ; then voted that they would ask council about
it, after they had already done it in their way. Immedi-
ately upon this a parish meeting was called, for the par-
ish's concurrence with the church's votes, the parish com-
88 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
mittee being of their own party, and in nine days the min-
ister and about three quarters of the church, and three
quarters of the parish (including the non-voters and the
poor) were turned out of the parish meeting-house by
their adversaries and took possession of it for themselves.
Soon after this a copy of their sham church votes were
carried to the general court to get their sanction upon
them, and the court believed them ; coming from such
great men. For my part I wonder the court had not sus-
pected them, or at least laughed at them, the cart being
put before the horse ; the vote for asking council about
dismissing the minister being past after they had actually
dismissed him in their way. Anon they proceeded to
settle a minister by themselves, and called us to no more
of their church meetings, which proves their withdrawing
from the church according to their council's advice, and
on the 8th day of December settled their first minister.
Soon after this, our deacon, who had possession of our
church's plate and lands, taking notice that our adversa-
ries prospered in their way, gave out that he believed
they would get our estate from us ; accordingly, the next
sacrament day, he set our communion table naked, for
which sacrilegious action the church censured him, and he
left us. Ths next summer he, at the instigation of our
powerful adversaries, sued us in his private capacity as
possessor of the land, because our deacons took the crop,
and by the help of false witnesses, corrupt pleadings, and
tampering with some of the members of the court, finally
recovered against us ; and the said third church's deacons
have kept it from us ever since, notwithstanding it had
been improved by the deacons of the first church in Salem,
for their service as deacons, above a hundred years, which
suit cost us in the law about ,300. our now old tenor.
And when Mr. Leavit was ordained, a number of our ad-
versaries, several of them justices and members of Mr.
Barnard's church, came into our meeting-house, and made
a very great disturbance, talking and threatening with
very menacing countenances ; and when one of the minis-
ters desired silence, and was going to begin the exercise,
some of the justices told the sheriff to stop him ; accord-
ingly he threw his hat in his face, drove the minister out
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 89
of the pulpit, and sneaked away. You will be very care-
ful, I hope, not to establish wickedness, confusion and
disorder, here in Salem, instead of reproving it. Those
of you who may be concerned in the ordination of Mr.
Huntington, are entreated to call the church, over which
he is to be ordained, by her proper name, viz, the first
church in Salem, because she was settled in August, 1629,
and at no other time, soon after the English set footing
in New-England ; whereas the church of which the Rev.
Mr. Thomas Barnard is pastor was settled into a distinct
church state, on the aforesaid 8th day of December, 1736,
and at no other time. You are not to be governed by the
corrupt humours and follies of men, but by the rules of
reason and truth. You must not forget that God is a God
of order and not of confusion in all his churches. Some
silly people say that churches changing their names is an
immaterial thing, not worth minding ; but they consider not
the impossibility of the first church's being the third, or
the third church's being the first ; or in other words, that
a daughter cannot be older than her mother. Nor do they
consider that if Mr. Barnard's church may take the first
church's name for the sake of the first church's estate,
any other churches may do the like ; and that if churches
may change their names from such worldly motives, vil-
lains also may do the same things for the same reasons.
Further, let us suppose, Rev. Elders and Brethren, that
if a number of churches should think it their duty to
examine into Mr. Barnard's church's principles and prac-
tices, and upon finding them bad, should proceed to cen-
sure them, and that in the character of the first church in
Salem, would not the former councils, who censured the
first church in Salem, and printed it in a thousand narra-
tives, be deem'd numskulls, not able to distinguish be-
tween first, second, third, &c., or the latter council mad-
men, not caring what they did. Your duty is plain, Thou
shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart. Thou shalt in
anywise rebuke thy neighbor and not suffer sin upon
him. And in case of obstinacy you are to withdraw
from every brother that walketh disorderly. But if you
refuse to pay a reverential regard to such sacred texts as
hese, you will offend the holy spirit, whose resentment I
90 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNT Y.
must leave. The first church in Salem, of which I am a
member, have acknowledged their faults for which they
were censured, and mentioned the particulars ; and all
the churches that withdrew communion from us have re-
stored us to their charity again : What remains is, that
Mr. Barnard's church should acknowledge this, according
to God's word, James v. 16, mentioning the particulars,
after the example of Achan, St. Paul, &c., that it may be
known what their meaning is, and that they and we should
wear our proper name of distinction, for its not a far-
thing's matter what name or number a church bears, pro-
vided they are but steady and honest. I have nothing
against Mr. Barnard's church's having part of our church's
estate, provided they will make God's word their rule,
but if they refuse to do this they ought not so much as
to be numbered at all with our New-England churches.
Beware of a common error, ballancing sin with sin, espec-
ially after we have paid our debt. Mr. Barnard's church's
being called upon to confess their faults frankly, is a
notable criterion of their principles, whether they are
Armenians or Christians. An Armenian is a proud crea-
ture, his great concern is to have honour from men, will
therefore attend honourable duties, but can't abide to con-
fess a fault and make restitution. He sets up his blind
carnal reason above divine revelation, and dislikes the
soul humbling doctrines of the gospel. Dear Sirs, don't
conduct in anything contrary to God's word and your own
light, there is nothing so dangerous ; this quenches the
spirit. As he is a most powerful Being to effect the
greatest good in the fallen children of men, so he is most
tender and delicate when grieved. Among the multitudes
of sinners in the world that will not that Jesus Christ
should reign over them, and that die in their sins, there
is here and there an instance from whom the Holy Spirit
withdraws his gracious influences, leaving conviction of sin
upon their minds accompanied with despair. These have
the beginning of hell torments in the present life, whose
greatest complaint is, that they have sinned against light.
Tim Pickering.
Salem, Sept. 9, 1763.
The Boston Evening-Post, Sept. 19, 1763.
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 91
SALEM, October 1, 1763.
ON Wednesday last the Rev. Mr. John Huntington, late
of Norwich in Connecticut was ordained Pastor of the 3d
Church of Christ in this Town, in the Place of the late Rev.
Mr. Leavitt deceased. The Rev. Mr. Diman of this Town
began with Prayer ; the Rev. Mr. Lord of N orwich preach d
an excellent Discourse from 2 Psm 5. 22. "Keep thy self
pure." The Rev. Mr. Clarke of Danvers gave the Charge ;
the Rev. Mr. Peraberton of Boston prayed af ter the charge ;
and the Rev. Mr. Barnard of this Town gave the Right
Hand of Fellowship. The whole Affair was carried on and
attended with great Decency and Solemnity.
Boston Gazette, Oct. 3,1763.
On the 29th ult. as a Boat from Haverhill, having on
board 7 or 8 Men, six Women, and 6 Horses, was crossing
the River at Mullican's Ferry, one of the Horses beat a
Hole through the Bottom of the Boat, by Means of which
it immediately sunk ; but notwithstanding those fatal Con-
sequences which might naturally have been expected from
such an unforeseen Accident, they all got ashore in Safety,
except a Woman belonging to Andover, who was drowned.
Boston Gazette, Oct. 10, 1763.
On Thursday last at Amesbury, as two Men were riding
on one Horse, he happen'd to take Fright at a Dog,
whereby the Men were thrown off, one of which died upon
the Spot, and the other had his Shoulder split and was
otherwise so terribly bruised that his Life is despar'd of.
Same day also one Grimes, of Haverhill, had his Leg
broke, by means of falling under a Cart Wheel.
Same Day Mrs. Abigail Emerson, of that Town, was
deliver'd of three Children, 1 Boy and 2 Girls ; but they
not surviving, were all intered in one Coffin.
Boston G-azette, Oct. 10, 1763.
(To be continued.)
EXTRACTS FROM INTERLEAVED ALMANACS
KEPT BY JOHN WHITE OF SALEM.
Aug. 24, 1774. The Regular Soldiers came to town
from Winter Island by Gen. Gage's order to prevent our
Town Meeting, but were ineffectual being too late and
returned before they reached the Town House.
Sept. 1st and 2nd. Two or three thousand men came
to Cambridge to demand the Powder which the Troops
took from the Province Store House and demanded the
new Councillors Laws to be returned to Governor Gage.
April 19, 1775. The Regular Troops began the Quar-
rel by Firing on our Men in Lexington.
June 7, 1775. The 7th of this Month was the time of
the Bunker Hill Fight
June 12, 1775. The People of this Place with their
Small Arms took a Tender Schooner which came here to
protect Capt. Ichabod Jones in carrying from here such
Lumber as the Admiral now in Boston wanted for the
Siege. In the engagement were killed and died with
their Wounds, Viz. on the Tender the Captain More, since
dead, one Marine killed one ditto wounded. Of the Peo-
ple here, Viz. Mr. Neal and Colbroth Dead and Capt.
Avery of Connecticut with Avery the Tender's Captain
obliged to be in the Fight on his Deck, killed.
June 22, 1775. Took Capt. Ichabod Jones in the
Woods Wednesday Night last and brought him to his
House.
Oct. 10, 1775. A small Ship of War came in to our
Harbour off the Watch-House Point and Fired on a
Schooner which was armed by this Country. We of this
town carried down to the Point two Field Pieces and fired
several shot at the Man of War, which obliged her as
soon as the tide permitted to go off. No man killed on
either side as we know of. David Ne wall's hand bio wed
off in loading one of our Cannon.
March 2nd, 1776. March 2nd the Continental Troops
(92)
EXTRACTS PROM INTERLEAVED ALMANACS. 93
began to Cannonade and Bombard Boston Continued for
three nights successively. Saturday night we fired on
Boston from our Lines and Sunday Morning the 17th
March the Regulars went out of Boston.
Sep. 15, 1776. Capt. Warren sailed. Returned soon
without Guns being chased by a King's Frigate and threw
them overboard and narrowly escaped.
This Fall the Regulars took Possession of New York.
November. Took Fort Washington.
Dec. 1st, 1776. Great Dearness of Provisions owing
to the great quantity of Paper Money which depreciates
fast, especially the Article of Salt which sells at 12 shil-
lings per Bushel. I hope some way may be hit upon favor-
able to restore Peace to this Land.
Dec. 12, 1776. This Summer and Fall has been sever-
all smart Skirmishes between the King's Troops and the
Americans but no General Battle yet. I certainly hear
this day the Regulars have Rhoad Island in Possession.
Turns out True.
Dec. 21, 1776. The Inhabitants of this Town Salem
are so mutinous they threaten me for selling the Salt at
12 shillings per Bushel. May the Tumult of the People
be stilled by Him who ruleth the Rageing of the Sea.
December 26th, 1776. General Washington obtained
a Victory over part of General How's Army, the Hessian
Division and took 900 prisoners near Delaware River.
Sept. 5th, 1778. The Franklin arrived from her Cruise.
Sept. 6th, 1778. In the morning the Prize Master came
to Salem with the account of the prizes being at Plym-
outh.
Oct. 26, 1778. Brig Franklin sailed from Salem.
Nov. 3, 1778. The French Fleet sailed from Boston.
Nov. 7, 1778. I hear a British 64 Gun Ship ashoar at
Cape Cod.
This entry is the last recorded, referring to Revolution-
ary battles, but in 1778, in his diary, John White writes
under date of
Dec. 31st, We shall forever have Reason (I fear) to
lament our Gloried Revolution because I have only
changed Taskmasters, the later the worse because they
94 EXTRACTS FROM INTERLEAVED ALMANACS.
are poor Creatures. Our Country is too poor to be a
separate Nation. In 1775 April 19th was the first of our
Battling with the English Troops sent here for to keep us
in subjection to their unreasonable demands in taxation,
etc. All or chiefly the men of Knowledge made no Re-
sistance to Government and therefore men of little or
no Knowledge that took part in the opposition to Brittain
were preferred to places in our Government. Thus come
in Men, poor, without Moral Virtue, Blockheads, etc., in
Government. The High Sheriff of this Country is a
Tanner, two Magistrates one a Tanner, the other a
Joiner, neither of them could speak or read English, of
this Town both . . . Why I describe our Condition in
the above manner is because it is impossible such men
without education should be equal to the Business. I bless
God it is no worse with me, but I am too Proud easily to
submit to such things. I am now above 66 years old and
am glad and rejoyce my Trial is allmost over.
Oct. 29-30, 1789. President Washington was in Town
bound Easterly.
MILITARY RECORDS RELATING TO CHEBACCO
PARISH, IPSWICH, NOW THE TOWN
OF ESSEX, 1744-1748.
The following records are taken from an account book
kept by Capt. Jonathan Burnum of Chebacco Parish,
which was presented to the Essex Institute by Miss Eveline
Bradley of Rockport. Captain Burnum was the son of
John and Elizabeth (Wells) Burnum and was born in
Chebacco Parish about 1686 where he died April 3,
1773. His son Jonathan was in the Louisburg Expedi-
tion in 1745 and his grandson Jonathan served in the
second expedition in 1758. As no muster rolls showing
the file who enlisted in the first expedition have been
preserved, the following memoranda have greater interest.
An a Counpt of such men as are jmprest or Detacht
into his maiestyes saruice In the year 1744 whose names
are under written that are under my Command Belonging
to Chebaco Compeny.
Ebenezer Cogswel Joseph emerson
Daniel Androus Benjamen Androus
humphery williams Isaac pockter
mosis foster junr Nathan Story
these whos names are a boue written ware Imprest into
his majestyes sarvis June y e 5, 1744
Imprest Into his maiesties sarvis thomas poland June
y* 18, 1745
thomas Burnum y e 3 d was Imprst into his Majestyes
Sarvics July y e 27, 1745
Benjamen procter & John uarny was Imprest into his
Majesties Sarvis Apriel y e 28, 1746
Samuel Gidding and Samuil Story was Imprest Into his
Majesties Sarvis July y e 16, 1746.
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96 MILITARY RECORDS RELATING TO OHEBACCO PARISH.
Nathan Burnum was Imprest Into his Majesties Sarvia
July y e 16, 1746 and nathan Burnum And Caleb Burnum
hiered Caleb Androus to goe into the Sarvice & gave him
thirty eight pounds old tener paid equally between them
David Low juner was Imprest into his Majesties Ser-
vice In march, 1748.
Daniel Low was Imprest into his Majesties Service May
y e 11, 1748
June y e 2, 1746 then Receued of Jeremiah Lufkiu two
guns which I imprest and Delivered to two of his Sons
that went to the Cape britton expedition
Receued of Jeremiah Lufkin a Catreg Box
Reciued of william Allin a Catreg Box
Receued of Cap n Jeremiah Foster a gun which I
Imprest And Deliuered to Thomas Grotten which went
In the Cape Britton Expedition
Receved of m r Solomon Giddings Thomas Grottons
Cattreg Box
An a Counpt of men Imprest into his Majesties Service
by Cap* Jonathan Burnum Imprest in May 1748 who
paid forty pounds a peace in Bils of Credit old tenor
Receued of Joseph Andreus for his son Joseph
forty pounds 40-0-0
Receiued of Thomas lufkin for his son Thomas
forty pounds 40-0-0
Receiued of Stephen Bormum forty pounds 40-0-0
Receiued of Nathaniel Cavis forty pounds 40-0-0
John lul hiered into his Maiesties Service May
the 24 1748 and I paid him sixty pounds old
tenner 60-0-0
William Kimbol hiered into his Maiesties Ser-
vice may the 24, 1748 and I paid him sixty
pounds old tenner 60-0-0
A List of Such as ware Delinquent on Training: Day
October y e 80, 1749
Thomas Giddings Joseph Perkins
benjamin burnam John foster Jun r
John Cogswell Isaac Marshall
Solomon Giddings Joseph Rust
Elezar Crafts Stephen Jones
CAPT. JOSEPH MOSELEY
) 1760 - 1799
Master mariner of Salem. From a photograph in possession of the Essex Institute.
A pastel portrait, signed "VI. I 797", is in possession of Mrs. S. M. Hurd of Orleans, Mass.
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. XLIX. APRIL, 1913 No. 2
AUCTION SALES IN SALEM, OF SHIPPING
AND MERCHANDISE, DURING
THE REVOLUTION.
During the period of the Revolutionary War, Joseph
Grafton of Salem, in addition to other commercial activi-
ties, carried on an auctioneering business. His auction-
eers were John Warden and W. P. Bartlett and the
sales usually were conducted on various wharves or in
stores about Salem but sometimes took place in Beverly,
Ipswich and Newburyport. The records of these sales
between Oct., 1776 and Oct., 1780, kept in three folio
account books, some years ago fell into the hands of
Matthew A. Stickney of Salem, and at the sale of his
autographs and manuscripts, in December, 1907, were
purchased by the Essex Institute. A few leaves are
missing at the beginning of the first volume and the earli-
est recorded sale is " No. 3." In the following abstracts
all names of vessels and owners have been preserved but
only now and then will be found the name of some person
who purchased merchandise although in every instance
the name of the purchaser appears in the original books
of record. These sales supply much information as to the
names, tonnage and cargoes of prizes brought into Salem
harbor. In abstracting the sales the long lists of mer-
chandise have been greatly condensed and the items here
printed have been selected to show the diversified charac-
ter of merchandise offered at public sale during the Revo-
lution and also the range of prices prevailing at different
times. Where several lots of the same commodity are
(97)
98
AUCTION SALES IN SALEM
sold at the same time, an average price is here given. In
this connection the following scale of depreciation of the
paper money in use will be value.
SCALE OF DEPBECIATION.
Agreeable to an Act of the Commonwealth of Massachu-
setts passed September 29, 1780, to be observed as a
.Rule for settling the Rate of Depreciation on all Con-
tracts, made on or since the first Day of January,
1777
One hundred Dollars in Gold and Silver in January, 1777
being equal to One hundred and five Dollars in the
Bills of Credit of the United States.
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven.
January
February
March
April
105
107
109
112
May
June
July
August
115
120
125
150
September
October
November
December
175
275
300
310
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight.
January
February
March
April
325
350
375
400
May
June
July
August
400
400
425
450
September
October
November
December
475
500
545
634
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Nine.
January
February
March
April
742
868
1000
1104
May
June
July
August
1215
1342
September
October
1800
2030
1477
November
2308
1630
December
2593
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty.
January
February
2934
3322
March
April
3736
4000
From April 1st 1780 to April 20th, one Spanish milled
Dollar was equal to Forty of the old Emission.
April 25th
April 30th
May 5th
May 10th
May 15th
May 20th
42
44
46
47
49
54
May 25th
May 30th
June 10th
June 15th
June 20th
August 15th
60
62
64
68
69
70
Septemb. 10th 71
Octob. 15th 72
Novem. 10th 73
Novem. 30th 74
February 27th
1781 75
DURING THE REVOLUTION. 99
One Dollar and Seven-eights of a Dollar in the New
Emission equal to One Dollar in Specie, from the 27th
of February 1781 to the 1st of May following ; from
the 1st to the 25th of May, Two and one Quarter of the
New Emission for one in Specie ; from the 25th of May
to the 15th of June, Three of the New Emission for
one in Specie ; and from the 15th of June to the 1st of
October, Four of the New Emission equal to one in
Specie.
Oct. 24, 1776. Sold by order of the agent, Capt. Peter
Lander of Salem, at Dalton's wharf, Newburyport, viz .:
Ship " Bacheldore," 600, to Elias Basket Derby; 262
hhds. Muscovado sugar, at 45s. per cwt. ; 20 hhds. clayed
sugar at 52s. per cwt. ; 34 puncheons rum, at 6s. 4d. per
gal. ; 2 pipes Madeira wine, at 7s. per gal. ; 4 casks coffee,
at 5s. 4d. per Ib. Total, 8763. 18. 7.
Oct. 29, 1776, Sold at Mr. Flagg's store, Salem, the
cargo of the brigantine " Mary Ann," viz. : black, blue, red
and blue, green and scarlet druggets, at 3s. 2d. to 9s. 9d.
per yd. ; blue, claret and white shalloons, at 126s. per
piece ; green, blue and yellow, and scarlet figured stuffs, at
5s. 6d. per yd. ; grey, crimson and scarlet whitney, at 32s.
per yd. ; black, chocolate colored, pink, green and yellow
duroys, at 4s. per yd. ; blue, green and chocolate russel,
at 5s. ; a mattress bed, 15. Total, 5445. 13. 5^.
Oct. 29, 1776. Sold at Mr. Flagg's store on account of
Jacob Ashton, merchant, of Salem, viz. : 40 reams paper,
at 34s. and 14 gro. playing cards, at 16s. Total, 187. 8. 0.
Oct. 29, 1776. Sold out of brigantine "Mary Ann"
viz. : 798 bags hulled oats, at 8s. 6d. Total, 342. 5. 3.
Nov. 12, 1776. Sold on account of N. Sparhawk, mer-
chant, of Salem, at Ipswich, viz. : 29 hhds. rum, at 7s.
per gal. Total, 1048. 9. 6.
Nov. 19, 1776. Sold by order Capt. Samuel Williams,
agent for the privateer schooner " Dolphin", Capt. Leach,
part of the cargo of the ship '* Sally," taken by the
" Dolphin," viz. : 264 boxes Lisbon lemons, at 5. 10. ;
47 boxes Portugal onions (not sold) ; 8 bbls. currants, at
100 AUCTION SALES IN SALEM
lid. per Ib. ; 20 cases salad oil, at 4. 5s. ; 12 bbls. best
velvet corks, at 4s. per. gro. Total, .1711. 12. 9.
Nov. , 1776. Sold by order of Capt, Samuel Wil-
liams, agent for the privateer schooner " Dolphin," Capt.
John Leach, the cargo of the brigantine " Royal George",
viz. : 13 boxes candles, at 8d. per. Ib. ; 12 boxes soap, at
6d. per Ib. ; 101 firkins butter, at 15d. per Ib. ; 4 bbls.
bread, at 25s. per cwt. ; 82 tierces pork, at 6. 15. ; 83
bbls. beef, at 3. 3. ; 7 bbls. split pease, at 13s. per bush. ;
87 bbls. oatmeal, at 18s. 6d. per. bbl. Total, 1478.16.0.
Nov. 27, 1776. Sold by order of Capt. Samuel Wil-
liams, agent for the privateer schooner " Dolphin", the
cargo of the schooner " Prosperity," viz.: linen, at 9s.
9d. ; crimson tamey, at 6s. ; shalloons, at 5s. 3d. ; striped
camble tee, at 4s. 9d. ; flowered, striped and blue and red
calico, at 10s. ; catgut, at 4s. 3d. per yd. ; silk thread ;
brimstone ; cinnamon ; cloves ; mace ; pepper ; cod hooks,
at 12s. 6d. per gro. ; indigo ; letter paper, gilt and plain ;
tea, at 4 per bag ; singing books ; sugar, at 17s. per
loaf ; cod lines, at 6s. 9d. per line ; pease, at 2 per bag ;
coffee, at 46s. per. bag; bag of powder, at 2. 18. ; rum,
at 7s. per gal. ; molasses, at 3s. 8d. per. gal. ; schooner
"Prosperity," with appurtenances, 39, to Henry Rust.
Total, 348. 14. 8.
Nov. 26, 1776. Sold by order of the owners of the
privateer sloop " Rover, " Capt. Forrester, viz. : brigantine
" Mary and James," 150 tons, with appurtenances, boat,
etc., 730, to M. Brimmer; brigantine "Good Intent,"
110 tons, with appurtenances, 680, to M. Brimmer;
brigantine " Mary Ann," 90 tons, with appurtenances,
630, to Benjamin Call ; sloop " James," 80 tons, with
appurtenances, 200, to J. Dean; 60 chaldron sea coal,
at 6. 18. ; brown earthen ware, at 3, per crate ; white
earthen ware, at 11, per crate ; beef, at 63s. per bbl. ; 5
paint pots ; hand screws and jack screw ; anchors and
cordage ; pepper, at 3s. 3d. per Ib. ; brass compass,
2. 6. ; 16 ft. boat, 5. 0. ; common compass, 12s.
Total, 2908. 15. 6.
Nov. 27, 1776. Sold by order of Capt. Samuel Wil-
liams, agent for the privateer " Dolphin," viz. : brigantine
" Royal George," with appurtenances, 420, to Joshua
DURING THE REVOLUTION. 101
Dodge ; one 3 pd. cannon, 75. 0. ; anchors, cordage,
buoy, jack and pennant, compass, etc. Total, 668. 2. 1.
Nov. 28, 1776. Sold by order of Capt. Samuel Wil-
liams, agent for the privateer schooner , commanded
by William Calton, viz. : schooner " Dragon," lying at
North Bridge, Salem, with appurtenances, 195, to -
Adams ; 140 quintals fish, at 32s. Total, 390. 2. 8.
Jan. 6, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Samuel Williams
agent for the privateer schooner tl Harlequin," Capt. John
Tucker, part of the cargoes of the brigantine " Betsey,"
and snow " Mercury," viz. : pictures ; looking glass ;
glass lamp, 1.4.0; tin pans; brushes; candle sticks;
tin kitchen, 10s. 6d. ; cheese toaster; bottles ; 17 bottles
tea, at 19s. ; 7 cases gin, at 4. ; tin fish kettle, decanters
and glasses ; 4 green chairs, at 15s. ; 7 canvass bottom
chairs, at 2s. ; yellow ware ; jugs ; 4 horn lanthorns, at
21s. ; box pickles ; back gammon table ; 290 Ib. loaf sugar,
atlSd. Total, 238.5.8.
Jan. 7, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Samuel Williams,
in behalf of the owners and people of the privateer
schooner ** Dolphin," Capt. John Leach, viz. : 130 quar-
ter casks Lisbon wine, at 11. 6. ; 1 cask red port wine,
16. 10. ; 5 bbl. bread, at 20s. ; 13 flasks oil, at 2s. ; sheet
lead ; water hose ; pewter dishes ; cordage, etc. Total,
1476. 11. 6.
Jan. 9, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Samuel Williams,
agent for the privateer schooner " Harlequin," Capt. John
Tucker, viz. : sago, butter, candles, linseed oil, wooden
compass, dish matts, cod lines, salt, rice, dye wood; 2
pairs brass blunderbusses, 3. 18. ; 23 guns, at 3. 6. ;
6 pistols, 12. 12.0 ; 30 bottles rack, at 6s. 6d. ; 4 green
jackets, at 1. 10. 0; 10 striped jackets, at 14s.; 6 pr. blue
drawers, at 9s. ; 2 drums, at 10s. ; 5 water casks, at 16s.
6d. ; 10 cutlasses, at 8s. ; nuts, oatmeal, sugar ; pennant,
15s. ; 5 powder horns, at 4s.; 33 cases gin, at 3. 18. 0;
160 Ib. coffee, at 21d. ; 431 Ib. soap, at 13d. ; 442 Ib.
hand cuffs, at 9 l-2d. ; 452 Ib. sheet lead, at Is. ; 306 Ib.
chain, at Is. 6d. ; 35 Ib. twine, at 4s. lOd. ; 65 Ib. white
paint, at 17d. ; 57 Ib. red lead, at 8d. ; 44 Ib. candles, at
10 l-2d. Total, 556. 4.4.
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Feb. 4, 1777. Sold by order of Joshua Ward, agent
for the privateer schooner " Sturdy Beggar," Capt. Ed-
ward Rolland, articles taken from the snow " Lion," viz. :
sails, shrouds, blocks, rigging, cables; keg turpentine,
1. 2. 0. ; 4 anchors, 3078 Ib. at 4 l-2d. per Ib. ; 1 pr. 2
pound cannon, 10. 0. 0; 1 hhd. tobacco, 2681 Ib. at
10 l-2d. Total, X 536.11. 6.
Feb. 5, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Samuel Williams,
agent for the privateer schooner [Harlequin ?] Capt. John
Tucker, viz. : snow Mercury," with appurtenances,
900, to P. Tefan ; brigantine "Betsey," with appurten-
ances, 750, to George Cabot; 2 pair 3 pound cannon,
,135 ; 3 pair 2 pound cannon, 64 ; 3 anchors, 28. 15 ;
5 pair swivels, 38. 8. ; 2347 Ib. bread, at 3 l-2d.; 2
hhds. tobacco, 2422 Ib. at 6 l-2d. ; 9 hhds. tobacco, 9586
Ib. at 5 l-2d. ; 7 bbls. flour (224 Ib. to bbl.), at 52s. per
bbl. ; 3 bush, pease, at 8s.; 21 bunches of grape shot, a
suite of colours, scale beam ; 1 bbl. tar, 1 tub pitch ; 18
tierces rum, 891 gals, at 5s. lid. ; 3 kegs yellow paint,
176 Ib. at 8d. ; 20 cases gin, at 66s. per case ; 20 hhds. rum,
2258 gals, at 6s. 2d. ; 7 casks claret wine, at 8. Total,
3656.6.3.
Feb. 18, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Samuel Wil-
liams, agent for the privateer schooner " Harlequin,"
Capt. John Tucker. Articles taken from the brigantine
" Betsey" and snow " Mercury," viz. : 3 casks bread, at
4; 3 cases gin, at 69s. ; 1 pr. pistols, 6. 6. ; sails, rig-
ging, blocking, rum, furnace and boiler, beef, pork, ham-
mocks, etc. Total, 299.10. 11.
Feb. 19, 1777. Sold by order of Jonathan Goodhue,
agent for the sloop " Rover," Capt. Simon Forrester, part
of the cargo of the brigantine " Mary and James," viz. :
36 sword hangers, at 9s. ; 36 doz. jack knives, at 4s. 9d.
per doz. ; 10 doz. carving knives, at 7s. per doz. ; ladies
pocket books, raizors, twine, white rope ; 533 gro. home
buttons, at Is. lOd. ; 29 sails. Total, 174. 11. 2.
Feb. 20, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Joseph Lambert,
agent for the privateer schooner "Liberty," Capt. J.
Pierce, viz. : schooner " Tryan," with appurtenances,
150, to Alexander Rose; 4 hhds. rum, 418 gals, at 6s.
DURING THE REVOLUTION. 103
8(1. ; gin, candles, twine, cases of bottles, bread, water
casks, etc. Total, .324. 6. 2.
Memorandum : that eleven leaves cut out recorded the
sale of the brigantine " Friends" and cargo at Beverly,
sold by Mr. Bartlett, auctineer, the owners collecting the
account, and John Dyson settling with Joseph Grafton.
Mar. 25, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Joseph Lam-
bert, agent for the privateer sloop " Revenge," Capt. Ben-
jamin Dean, part of the cargo of the ship 4< Royal Char-
lotte," viz. : 54 hhds. beans, at c5 per hhd. ; 19 hhds.
oats, at <4 per. hhd. ; candles; 9 kegs tripe, at 14s.; 126
Ib. ham, at 14d. ; 3 bottles anchovies, at 12s. 6d. ; Ches-
hire cheese ; tin and iron kitchen ware ; china water plates,
glass mugs, wine glasses, decanters, flint glasses, green
glasses, white wash basins, glass lamps, china blue and
white ware, hats, boots, 6 bdles. hair powder, saddle cloths,
girts, wafers, isinglass, starch, bluing, indigo, almonds,
brushes, combs, olives, capers, vinegar, oil, earthen ware,
ladies side hunting saddle, <21. 10. 0; 18M. lOd. nails at
30s. Total, 1048. 4. 9.
Mar. 27, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Joseph Lam-
bert, agent for the owners, officers, and seamen of the
privateer sloop " Revenge", Capt. Benjamin Dean, part of
the cargo of the prize ship " Royal Charlotte," viz. : jack
and furniture, X13; wine glasses, handkerchiefs, gloves,
2 suits boys clothes, at 8; ribbon, tapes, etc., aprons,
silk hose, blue and white shoes, stays ; 24 pr. brown thread
hose, at 19s. ; 12 pr. cotton hose, at 21s. ; jar of raisins,
15s. ; 2 bdles. currents, 2 bdles raisons, flint beer glasses,
mustard bottles ; calico, at 14s. 9d. ; 24 yds. garlix, at 6s.
2d. ; linen at 20s. 9d. ; cambric, at 32s. ; tallow, at 8d. ;
butter, at lOd. ; sugar, at 2s. 6d. ; 18 pr. shoes, at 12s. ;
cheese, at 18d. ; wax, at 4s. ; 38 casks pease, at 76s. ;
beans, at 5s. per bush.; bread, at 42s. per cwt. ; flour at
30s. per cwt. Total, 4125. 7. 11.
May 6, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Joseph Lambert,
agent for the privateer sloop " Revenge," the remainder
of the cargo of the prize ship " Royal Charlotte," viz. :
26 casks porter, at <5 ; 4 doz. port wine, at 52s. per
doz. ; 18 doz. claret wine, at 63s. per doz. ; 24 doz. cham-
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pagne wine, at 36s. per doz. ; 4 doz. Malaga wine, at 55s.
per doz. ; 12 grindstones, at 45s. ; 10,000 hoops, at 5 ;
graplin, 1. 16. 0. ; 1 bbl. pitch, XI ; 2 bags oakum, at 8s. ;
sheet lead, at 75s. per cwt. ; 15 gals, vinegar, at Is. 4d.
Total, 545. 7. 1.
May 8, 1777. Sold by order and on an account of Capt.
Arthur Heline, late commander of the brigantine " Three
Friends," captured by the brigantine " Tyrannicide," Capt.
John Fiske, viz. : 18 kegs whole pease, at 8s. 6d. ; 93
small kegs split pease, at 7s. 6d.; 17 bags bread, at 42s.
Total, 85. 17. 9.
May 15, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Joseph Lam-
bert, agent for the privateer sloop * Revenge," Capt. Ben-
jamin Dean, viz. : ship " Royal Charlotte," 300 tons,
with appurtenances, 1300, to Henry Mitchell ; 8 sails,
brass compass, 2. 2. 0. etc. Total, 1417. 11. 0.
May 15, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Joseph White,
agent for the owners, viz. : privateer sloop " Revenge,"
1510, to Andrew Cabot ; 5 bbls. pork, at 7. 10. ; 3
bbls. beef, at 6, etc. Total, 1559. 11. 0.
May 15, 1777. Sold by order of Stephen Cabot, agent
for the privateer sloop " Rover," Capt. Abijah Boden,
viz. : ship "Duke Leinster," with appurtences, 1370, to
Henry Mitchell ; sails, water casks, misc. supplies, etc.
Total, 1508. 0. 6.
May 27, 1777. Sold by order of William Gray on
account of " Hon ble Rich d Derby Jun r Esq r ," viz. : 1 cask
porter, 2. 15. 0. ; 14 bbls. herrings, at 42s. ; 7 boxes pic-
kles, at 2. Total, 47. 13. 0.
June 5, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. George Cabot,
viz. : privateer sloop " Revenge" with appurtenances,
370, to George Cabot; 3 iron cannon, at 20 ; 6 wooden
cannon, at 14s. Total, 431. 1. 0.
August, 1777. Sold on account of Capt. Stephen Hig-
ginson, viz. : 1 gro. playing cards, at 28s. per doz. ; 4
boxes prunes, at 7.5.0. ; 2 hhd. white wine, at 22s. per.
gal. Sold on account of Capt. M. Salter, viz : 5 pr.
sheets, at 7. 15. ; 8 table cloths, at 14s. ; damask gown,
13 ; velvet hood, surtoot, check shirts, calico gown,
aprons, silk mitts, etc. Sold on account of M r Lafitte,
DURING THE REVOLUTION. 105
viz : white wine, at 7s. per bottle; claret wine, at 6s. per
bottle ; Alicant wine, at lls. ; 4 cases brandy, at 42s. per
gal. ; 3 pr. 4 pound cannon, at 225, per pr. ; lOd. nails,
at 2s. lOd. per pd. ; 4d. nails, at 4s. 2d. per pd. ; box 8 x
10 glass of 100 squares, at Is. lOd. per sqr.
Aug. 22, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. B. Putnam in
behalf of the owners, viz. ; privateer sloop " Rover,"
1600, to B. Putnam.
Aug. 25, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Peter Lander,
agent for the privateer brigantine <l Sturdy Beggar,"
Capt. Edward Holland, viz. : brigantine " Christian,"
1020, to Jonathan Payson ; ship " Cornwall" 1620, to
Jonathan Payson ; 11 small arms, at 75s. ; 2 pr. brass
blunderbusses, at 9 ; 2 pr. ditto, at 13 ; 6 cutlasses,
at 16s. ; " dipsey lead and line," 3 ; ship bell, 5 ; pair
swivels, 24 ; long boat, 4; sails, cordage, etc. Total,
3465. 6. 6.
Aug. 25, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Joseph Lee,
agent for the privateer brigantine , Capt. Cole, viz. :
brigantine " Lovely Nancy," 1250, to A. Cabot; sails,
cables, etc. Total, 1539. 14. 0.
Aug. 25, 1777. Sold by order of Capt. Samuel Wil-
liams, viz.: brigantine "Rising Sun," 2320, to Capt.
Stephen Higginson ; schooner u Two Friends," to Capt.
John Tucker. Total, 3050.
Mar. 14, 1778. Sold by order and on account of E. H.
Derby, viz. : white linen, at 16s. per yd. ; linen handker-
chiefs, at 69s. per doz. ; silk hose, at 52s. per pr. ; 98
bdles. sewing silk, at 12, per pd. ; 5 casks indigo, at 24s.
per pd. ; black serge denim, at 24s. per yd. ; 126 blue
longton, at 12s. etc.
June 19, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. Jonathan In-
gersoll, viz. : linen, at 24s. per yd. ; scarlet coat and
and breeches, 14 ; white coat, waistcoat and buff
breeches, 31 ; corduroy breeches, 5. 15. 0. ; 25 jackets
(bound black), at 48s. ; red and white calico, at 34s. per
yd. ; 25 bdles hair pins, at 2s. 3d. ; cream tartar, at 7s. 6d.
per Ib. ; 20 pair men's shoes, at 1. 4s. per pd. ; cheese,
at Is. per Ib. ; cable, at 11, per cwt. Total, 971. 12. 3.
June 28, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. J. Nichols,
106 AUCTION SALES IN SALEM
viz.: buff breeches (pattern), 2.8.0.; black breeches
(pattern), ,3. 6. 0. ; thread hose, at 37s. per pr. ; 4 vols.
Chesterfields' Letters, 6.6.0.; 3 muskets, at 5 ; 7
swivels, at 22 ; 33 pound carriage guns, at .16. 10. ;
4 four pound cannon, at .30; sails, rigging, etc. Total,
776.16.3.
July 24, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. William Pick-
man, viz.: broad cloth, at 7; mixed serge at 11s.;
sheeting at lls. 6d. ; tweeling, at 2s. ; oznabrig, at 3s. ;
white shalloon, at 10s. 6d. ; buckram, at 12s. ; White's best
tenent saws, at 26s. ; key hole saws, at 2s. ; soup spoons,
at 54s. per doz. ; brass knob locks, at 1 ; brass knob
latches, at 12s. ; brass cup latches with two ring handles,
at 9s. ; brass knob latches with bolts, at 5s. 3d. ; Prince's
metal candlesticks, at 2. 12. 0. per pr. ; long planes, at
12s. ; molding planes, at 4s. ; smoothing planes, at 7s. ;
drawing knives, at 6s. 6d. ; shoemaker's hammers, at 4s.
2d. ; black shoe buckles, at 48s. per doz. ; sleeve buttons,
brass knobs, sash pulleys, shutter bolts, H hinges, chest
hinges, shirt buttons, steel plate hand saws, sailor's palms,
thumb latches ; cooper's axes, at 21s. ; broad axes, at 21s.
Total, 2060. 8. 6.
Aug. 20, 1778. Sold by order of Mr. Chever, viz. :
Ige. pewter dishes, at 30s. ; pewter plates, at 14s. ; caned
back chairs, at 7s. 6d. ; mahogany framed chairs with red
bottoms, 14s. ; black backed chairs, 16s. ; green easy chair,
12; settee, scarlet cloth, 8.4.0.; mahogany table,
16. 10. 0. ; japanned table, 13s. ; mahogany card table,
6; black walnut desk, 6.18.0.; 4 ft. round table,
6; 3 ft. round table, 24s. ; suite of calico curtains and
valance, 3. 18. 0. ; Scotch carpet, 6. 10. 0. ; large looking
flass, <10; red bed with curtains and silk quilt, 69 ;
pewter cheese plates, at 2s. Id. Total. 412. 13. 9.
Sept. 15, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. Edward Gibaut,
viz. : brigantine Mary," 70 tons, 590, to J. Nichols.
Sept. 17, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. Stone, viz. :
privateer schooner " St. Pex," 45 tons, with her swivels,
etc., as arrived from cruise, 7450. to J. Nichols. The
owners remain the same as before except Capt. Thorndike's
1-8, bought by Jonathan Ingersoll, 2-32, John Gardner,
1-32, and Joseph Graf ton, 1-32.
DURING THE REVOLUTION. 107
Sept. 30, 1778. Sold by order of Joshua Dodge, viz. :
schooner " Nancy," 85 tons, 1600, to Joshua Dodge.
Sept. 30, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. John Buffing-
ton, viz.: 3 doz. colored silk handkerchiefs, at 26, per
doz. ; 5 bdles pins, at 4, per bdle. ; patch, at 50s. per
yd.; velvet, at 60s. per yd. ; blankets, at 5. 10. per pr.
Total, 518. 18. 6.
Oct. 5, 1778. Sold by order of Nathan Pierce, viz :
schooner " Hawk" and stores as she came from her cruise,
800, to Isaac Needham.
Oct. 6, 1788. Sold by order of Mrs. Hardy, viz. : 6
green cane chairs, at 52s. ; 7 round red back chairs, at
22s.; bureau.' and drawers, 8; and household utensils
and clothing. Total, 572. 4. 0.
Oct. 8, 1778. Sold by order of Capt Joseph Lambert,
viz. : 440 Ib. gun powder in 8 casks, at 17s. per Ib. ; cask
rum, 36 gal. at 37s.; Hadley's quadrant, 12; cordage,
sails, etc. Total, 963. 9. 0.
Oct. 14, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. George Dodge,
viz.: pork, at 35, per tierce; beef, at 12, per bbl.;
flour, at 24, per bbl.; molasses, at 33s. per gal. Total,
454. 14. 0.
Oct. 27, 1778. Sold on various accounts, viz. leather
gloves, white leather aprons, snuff box ; leather breeches,
4. 10. 0; black Princes' stuff breeches, 2. 2. 0; black
silk breeches, 6. 12. 0; camblett cloak, 22 ; Bailey's
Dictionary, 4. 12. ; yellow and white calico, at 54s.
per yd.; umbrella, 7. 10.0.; pine table, 14s.; maple
table, 4 ; needles, at 31s. per M. ; Irish linen, at 23s. per
yd. ; duck, at 15s. per yd. ; feathers, at 26s. per Ib. To-
tals, 883.19.7.
Oct. 27, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. William Pick-
man, viz. : brigantine ' Hector," 140 tons, 1700, to
John Dyson.
Oct. 28, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. Edward Gibaut,
viz. : ship " William and Ann," 1-4 to Joseph White,
for 875; 34 to George Dodge, for 2625. ; brigautine
"Ann," 1150, to Capt. Kendall; 414 bbls. herrings, at
8. 16. 0; 12, 3 pound cannon, at 120 ; 3, 4 pound
cannon, at 150 ; 6 pr. swivels, at 42 ; quantity of
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handcuffs ; iron tiller, 31 ; anchor with iron stock,
7. 4. ; 17 bbls. beef, at 17. 10. ; 6 bbls. flour^at 19 ;
19 sails ; 26 small arms, at 6 ; 4 blunderbusses, at
10.10.0; 13 pistols, at 6; 2 quadrants, at 16; 4
pennants ; one quarter waggoner, 3 ; 4 bags musket
balls, at 5 ; 5 casks powder, 484 Ib. at 12s. per Ib. ; can-
dles, at 7s. per Ib. Total, 13,104. 5. 3.
Oct. 28, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. Jonathan In-
gersoll, viz.: brigantine "Mary and Ann," 75 tons,
1120, to J. Nichols ; schooner " William and Edward,"
55 tons, to John Francis Loudon and Stephen Conte ;
ship's stores; stove, 6. 12. 0; 1161 Ib. tobacco, at 2s.
6d. Total, 4014. 13. 6.
Oct. 29, 1778, Sold by order of Capt. Jonathan In-
gersoll, viz. : brigantine " Sea Flower," 1880, to An-
drew Cabot; brigantine "Julius Caesar," 4500, to
Thomas Russell ; 1458 quintalls fish, at 6. 10. ; cable, at
28, per cwt., etc. Total, 16,865.
Oct. 31, 1788. Sold at Beverly by order of Capt. Wil-
liam Langdon, viz. : privateer sloop " Polly," 50 tons,
with her stores, 700, to Andrew Cabot ; 15 small arms,
at 8. 10. ; 24 pr. handcuffs, at 15s. ; 3 tomahawks, 6s.
8d. ; 8 cutlasses, at 1. 10. 0.; arm chest, 1 ; 25 water
casks, at 33s. ; pork, at 35, per bbl. ; beef, at 19, per
bbl. ; 100 swivel shot, at 15d. ; 108, 4 pound shot, at 6s. ;
spy glass, 40. Total, 2432. 1. 6.
Nov. 4, 1778. Sold by order of Mess. Andrews and
Ward, viz.: a horse, 24, and wagon, 45.
Nov. 4, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. Silsby, viz. :
schooner "Congress," 1275, to E. H. Derby ; 2 prs. dou-
ble fortified 3 pound cannon, with ladles, at 240, per pr. ;
227 shot, at 3s. 9d. each ; cordage, rigging, sails, etc. ; 6
powder horns, 6. 18. ; 8 match stocks, 2. 2. ; 4 toma-
hawks, 3. 3. 0; 116 Ib. powder, at 19s. per pd.; 1 Doc-
tor's box, 10 ; 42 Ib. coffee, at 9s.; bread, at 11. 10. 0.
per cwt. Total, 3020. 17. 3.
Nov. 12, 1778. Sold by order of Mess. Silsbee and
Mason, agents for privateer schooner " Congress," Capt.
Samuel Hobbs, viz. : brig " Otter," 2300, to Stephen
Roach ; 300 Ib. beaver, at 48s. ; 58 bags feathers, 2233 Ib.
DURING THE REVOLUTION. 109
at 26s. ; English duck ; Hadley's quadrant with book of
directions, 20; quarter waggoner, 4 ; rat and mouse
trap, 6. 15. ; 90 cat skins, at 22s. ; 38 red fox skins, at
23s.; 3 silver gray fox skins, at 56s. ; 21 fisher skins, at
lls. ; 85 musksquash skins, at 5s. 6d. ; 33 mink skins, at
6s. 6d. ; 35 otter skins, at 50s. ; 250 martin skins, at 12s.
6d. ; 840 moose skins, at 60s. ; 20 bear skins, at 44s. ;
rigging, cables, etc. ; stove, 10 ; 115 Ib. sheet lead, at
2s. Id. ; 98 Ib. powder, at 16s. Total, 11,591. 8. 7.
Nov. 12, 1778. Sold by order of the agent of the
privateer schooner " Lexington," Capt. Jo. Cook, viz. :
brigantine "Betsey," 2100, to Stephen Roach; 1435
quintals fish, at 7. 12.; bbl. pickled fish, 8 ; bbl. pork,
at 25 ; etc. Total, 13,042. 18. 0.
Nov. 12, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. Stephen Hig-
ginson, viz. : brigantine " Rhoda," with her appurte-
nances, 1400, to William Gray.
Nov. 12, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. J. Nichols,
viz. : 440 bush, salt, at 81s. ; 70 Ib. Jesuit's bark, at
22s. ; 3 doz. bottles, tincture of bark, at 30s. per bottle ;
roll brimstone, at 21, per cwt. 5 jugs sweet oil, at 4.
Total, 2212.18.6.
Nov. 12, 1778. Sold by order of Jerathmiel Pierce,
viz.: 81 Ib. tea, at 75s. Total, 303. 15. 0.
Dec. 22, 1778. Sold by order of Capt. J. Buffinton,
viz.: brig "South Carolina Packet," 3525, to J. Nich-
ols. ; 10 bbls. sugar, at 45, per cwt. ; 10 1-2 bbls. coffee,
at 12s. perlb. ; 5 casks tobacco, 4731 Ib. at 24, per cwt. ;
90 Ib. chocolate, at 12s. ; 781 bush, salt, at 72s. Total,
9603. 15. 6.
Jan. 7, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Jonathan Inger-
sol and Capt. Bowditch, agents for the privateer brig
"Monmouth." viz.: snow " East India Packet," 3850,
to E. H. Derby ; 3920 Ib. sarsaparilla, at 7s. 3d. per Ib. ;
186 deer skins, 368 Ib. at 16s. ; 1 azimuth compass, 21 ;
24,652 ft. mahogany, at Is. 5d. ; 11 tons logwood, at
24 ; 5 swivels, at 18 ; etc. Total, 8158. 3. 2.
Jan. 7, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Edward Gibaut
and Edward Rouling, agents for the privateer ship " Bun-
ker Hill," viz. : schooner " Delaware," 4000, to Capt.
Silsbee ; sails, etc. Total, 4920. 14. 0.
110 AUCTION SALES IN SALEM
Feb. 25, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Leach, agent
for the privateer schooner " Sweat ;" brigantine " Peggy,"
170 tons, X3140, to Mons. Montaudeveet ; sloop 'Ar-
gyle," 70 tons, 1650, to Capt. Joseph Orne ; sloop Wil-
liam/' 65 tons, .1560, to Jerathmiel Peirce. Total,
6350.0.0.
Feb. 25, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. John Buffinton,
viz.: the "True American," 5150, to William Gray ; 4
pairs 4 pound cannon, at 350, etc. Total, 6815. 0. 0.
Feb. 25, 1770. Sold by order of N. Goodale, agent for
the privateer brig " Franklin," viz.: ship u Meredith,"
197 tons, 5600, to Richard Derby, jr. ; brig " Eliza-
beth," 133 tons, 4750, to John Harris ; brig " Sally,"
90 tons, 3150, to Elias Haskett Derby. Total, 13,
500. 0. 0.
April 9, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Benjamin
Hodges, agent for the ship " Cromwell," viz. : sails and
rigging. Total, 562. 5. 0.
April 21, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Daniel Hath-
orne, agent for the privateer schooner " Roebuck," viz. :
sails and rigging. Total, 286. 0. 0.
April 21, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Jonathan
Gardner, agent for the privateer schooner " Roebuck,"
viz.: privateer schooner " Castor," 13,050, to E. H.
Derby, less 1% commission and 2 advertisements.
May 18, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Jonathan Gard-
ner, agent for the privateer brig " Franklin," viz. : pri-
vateer schooner " True Blue," 10,100, to Capt. William
Creed ; ship " Meredith's" cables, etc. ; brig Elizabeth's,"
shrouds, sails, etc. ; less advertisements in three newspa-
pers, 21. 10. 0, commission, etc. Total, 11,460. 0. 0.
May 18, 1779. Sold by order of Joseph Henfield,
agent for privateer schooner Sweat," viz. : schooner
" Elizabeth," 70 tons, 2750, to William Cole.
May 27, 1779. Sold by order of the agent of the
privateer schooner "Sweat," Capt. John Leach, viz.:
sloop "Phenix," 60 tons, 8400, to Capt. J. Orne.
May 27, 1779. Sold by order of the brigantine " Fox,"
Capt. Edward Allen, viz.: brig Fox," 12,400, to
Stephen Higginson; new mainsail, 290. Total, 12
900. 0. 0.
DURING THE REVOLUTION. Ill
May 27, 1779. Sold by order of Aaron Wait, agent
for the privateer schooner " Greyhound," viz. : schooner
"Squirrel," 40 tons, ,1560, to Benjamin Wormstead.
June 1, 1779. Sold at Beverly, by order of the owners
of the brigantine " Union," Capt. William Langdle, viz. :
schooner ' Redland," 70 tons, 5300, to Mons. Lion; 1
iron stove, 12. 10. ; equipment, etc. Total, 5592. 0. 0.
June 10, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Jonathan Webb,
agent for the letter of marque brigantine " Saratoga,"
viz.: brigantine <4 Pallas," 130 tons, 14,000, to A.
Cabot. Less commission, 140; advertisements in
3 newspapers, 19; paid Hacker for hawking, 1.
June 10, 1779. Sold by order of Mess Flagg and
Burchmore, agents for the privateer ship " Pilgrim,"
viz. : brigantine " Hopewell," 130 tons, 8200, to
William Gray; sails, cables, etc. Total, 13,530. 0. 0.
June 10, 1779. Sold by order of the agents of the
privateer schooner " Roebuck," Capt. William Gray ;
viz.: brigantine " Vigilant," 115 tons, 9100, to Capt.
William Creed ; schooner Polly," 70 tons, to Capt. Peter
Lander ; 3 bbls. tar, at 46 ; 3 bbls. pitch, at 46 ; sails,
etc. Total, 15,736. 0. 0.
June 23, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. N. Silsbee,
agent for the privateer ship " Hunter," Capt. N. Browne,
viz. : The " Eagle," pilot boat, 55 tons, 11,500, to E.
H. Derby.
June 30, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Jonathan In-
gersoll, agent for the ship " Hunter," Capt. N. Browne,
viz. : sloop " Speedwell," 80 tons, 2950, to Capt. Wil-
liam Creed; privateer brig "Lord Hillsborough," 120
tons, 8500, to E. H. Derby; 33 small arms, at 8; 2
wall pieces, at 9 ; 2 cohorns, at 12. 10. ; 2 pr. 4 pound
cannon, at 500, per pr. ; 5 pr. 3 pound cannon, at 200,
per pr. ; 54 gals, rum, at 6 ; 100 Ib. powder, at 27s. ; sails,
etc. Total, 18,400.
June 30, 1779. Sold by order of the agents of the ship
" Black Prince," Capt. Nathaniel West, viz. : a long boat,
100 ; 2 boxes of instruments, 420 ; etc. Total, 611.
July 15, 1779. Sold by order of the agent of the
schooner " Centipede," viz.: brigantine " Joannes,"
5000, to William Creed.
112 AUCTION SALES IN SALEM
July 15, 1779. Sold by order of Mess. Silsbee and
Knight, agents for the privateer brigantine " Fame," Capt.
S. Hobbs, viz. : sloop " Invincible," 80 tons, 4100, to
Capt. Silsbee; 11 bdles. beaver, 612 Ib. at 12 ; 47 white
fox skins, 1. 16. ; 146 sables, at 1. 10. ; 10 silver gray
sables, 6 ; 18 cross fox skins, at 3. 5. 0; 11 red fox
skins, at XI. 16. ; 6 wolf skins, at 4 ; 48 otter skins, at
4 ; 236 seal skins, at 3 ; 21 wolverene skins, 1 ; 82
caribou skins, at 6. 10. ; sails, etc. Total, 17,250. 0. 0.
July 15, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Robert Stone,
viz.: sloop "Sally," 2060, to William Becket.
July 15, 1779. Sold by order of the agents of the
brigantine " Franklin," viz. : brigantine " Charming
Polly," 1160, to Jonathan Waldo.
July 29, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Edward Gibaut,
agent for the " Salem Packet," Capt. Joseph Cook, viz. :
brigantine "Lively," 120 tons, 4700, to William Creed;
654 Ib. cheese, at 6s. 6d. ; brass stove, 60 ; 2 sides bacon,
71 Ib. at 9s. ; 3 shoulders bacon, 51 Ib. at 10s. ; sails, cord-
age, etc. Total, 5478.
July 29, 1779. Sold by order of Mess. Stone and Hen-
field, agents for the privateer schooner " Centipede,"
viz.: sloop "Good Intent," 60 tons, 3250, to William
Becket; sloop " Diligence," 40 tons, 2150, to William
Becket; cables, etc. Total, 7274.
July 29, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Silsbee, agent
for the privateer schooner ' Roebuck," Capt. William
Gray, viz. : schooner Liberty," 50 tons, 6400 staves and
2750 Ib. beeswax, 10,000.
July 29, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Silsbee, agent
for the brigantine " Fame," Capt. S. Hobbs, viz. : schooner
"Industry," 80 tons, 3300, to Capt. Silsbee; brigantine
" Jenny," 110 tons, 2750, to Mons. Gurnet, i
July 30, 1779. Sold by order of Mess Burchmore and
Flagg, agents for the privateer ship * Pilgrim," viz. : brig-
antine " Endeavour," 110 tons, 2050, to Uriah Oakes ;
ship Eliza and Ann," 200 tons, 6300, to William Gray ;
brass stove, 55 ; 9 casks tobacco, at 17. 10 per cwt. ;
1 English ensign, 30 ; 3 colours, 24; sails, cannon and
equipments, etc. Total, 11,287.
DURING THE REVOLUTION. 113
Aug. 10, 1779. Sold by order of Mess. Norris and
Lambert, agents for the privateer schooner "Swett,"
viz.: brigantine "Hope," 120 tons, 2550, to Jerathmiel
Peirce; brigantine " Flora," 100 tons, 2800, to Joseph
Ingraham; brigantine "Speed," 105 tons, 3600, to R.
Leach ; sails, cannon, etc. Total, 12,300. 10. 0.
Aug. 10, 1779. Sold by order of Mess. Leach and
Buffington, agents for the privateer schooner " Tiger,"
viz. : brigantine " Two Brothers," 200 tons, 5300, to
Capt. R. Leach ; ship William," 180 tons, 4100, to
Capt. William Orne ; fishing nets, cod lines, rigging, etc.
Total, 10,230.0.0.
Aug. 17, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Nathaniel Sils-
bee, agent for the brigantine 4< Fame," viz. : belts of
wampum, 9; clothing, tunic, salmon nets, beaver traps,
40 small arms, at 4 ; 6 bear skins, at 5. 15. 0; bear's
grease, iron harpoons, rigging, water casks, etc. Total,
3300.
Aug. 17, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. N. Silsbee,
agent for the privateer schooner " Roebuck" ; viz. : grap-
nels, at 40, per cwt. ; grindstones, at 9. 10. ; bar lead,
at 29, per cwt; 1 cask brandy, 108 gals., at 36s. Total,
1012. 0.0.
Aug. 18, 1779. Sold by order of Mess. Stone and Hen-
field, agents for the privateer schooner " Centipede,"
viz. : rigging, ratling, hawsers. "27 squares of Glass &
Frames," 52; tar, tobacco; cask Spanish brown, 100 ;
sails, small arms ; bbls. pork, 70. Total, 2771. 0. 0.
Aug. 18, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. S. Forrester,
agent for the privateer brigantine " Monmouth," viz. :
iron, at 37, per cwt. ; molasses, at 72s. per gal. Total,
344. 0. 0.
Aug. 19, 1779. Sold by order of Mess. Rowland and
Bowditch, agents for the brigantine " Wild Cat," viz. :
brigantine " Mercury," 100 tons, 4900, to John Petten-
gell ; ship " Ocean," 220 tons, 8300, to Capt. Fisk ; sails,
anchors ; 2 kegs paint, 88 ; cable, at 53, per cwt. To-
tal, 17,200.
Aug. 19, 1779. Sold by order of Mess. Edw. Allen and
Forrester, agents for the ship <4 Oliver Cromwell," viz. :
114 AUCTION SALES IN SALEM
16 jugs gin ; 2 bags tobacco ; 24 silk handkerchiefs, at 6
each; muslin, calico, clothing, etc. Total, 1480.
Aug. 19, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. S. Williams,
agent for the privateer " Black Prince," viz. : 2 casks
beef ; 1 stove, cordage, etc. Total, 137. 18. 0.
Aug. 20, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. J. Lambert,
agent for the privateer *' Maccaron," viz. : schooner
' Porcupine," 55 tons, 3900, to J. Norms; small arms,
cannon, etc. Total, 4422. 10. 0.
Aug. 20, 1779. Sold by order of Mess Grant & Good-
ale, agents for the privateer brigantine " Franklin," viz. :
ship "Industry," 180 tons, 6800, to J. Waldo ; brigan-
tine "Active," 100 tons, 3450, to John Waitt ; swivels,
at 42 ; cohorn, at 42 ; sails, anchor, etc. Total,
13,280.
Aug. 20, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Silsbee, agent
for the privateer schooner u Roebuck," viz.: ship "Ra-
chel," 200 tons, 8200,' to E. H. Derby.
Aug. 20, 1779. Sold by order of Mess Felt and Tucke,
agents for the privateer ' Revenue," viz. : schooner
William," 50 tons, 2550, to Capt, N. Silsbee.
Aug. 20, 1779. Sold at Beverly, by order of Mess.
Burchmore and Flagg, agents for the privateer " Pilgrim,"
viz.: bark " Success," 150 tons, 7000, to Daniel Mc-
Neill ; brigantine " Two Brothers," 120 tons, 4000, to
Capt. R. Stevenson ; 6 pair 4 pound cannon, at 850 ;
sheet lead, at 50, per cwt ; 4 bbls. powder, at 7. 6. 0.
per Ib. ; side lanthorns, 50; 4 sweeps, 6. 10.0.; hen
coops, sails, rigging, etc. Total, 22,669. 0. 0.
Aug. 20, 1779. Sold by order of Mr. Archer, agent for
the privateer "Fryal," viz. : schooner "Chatham," 40
tons, 1450, to Thomas Knox.
Aug. 20, 1779. Sold at Beverly, by order of Capt. S.
Cleveland, viz. : brigantine Nostra Signora," 4450, to
William Gray; sails, cable, etc. Total, 6084. 0. 0.
Sept. 1, 1779. Sold by order of Mess. Norris and Lam-
bert, agents for the schooner " Sweet," viz. : ship
Friendship," 200 tons, 8600, to Capt. J. Orne; cannon,
sails, rigging, etc.; 2 English ensigns, at 75 ; 24 pr.
handcuffs, at 33s. ; 170 Ib. shackles, at 9s.-perlb. ; scrapers,
DURING THE REVOLUTION. 115
lamp black, match rope, small arms, cutlasses, etc. Total,
13,900.
Sept. 1, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. N. Silsbee, agent
for the brigantine " Fame," viz. : brigantine " Obsti-
nate," 120 tons, 4450, to Capt. N. Silsbee ; sloop " Dis-
pute," 70 tons, 4500, to E. H. Derby ; 38 chaldrons coal,
at 70. Total, 11,537.
Sept. 13, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Jona. Inger-
soll, viz. : brigantine " Rhd," 70 tons, 3150, to Joseph
Grafton.
Sept. 13, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Simon Forres-
ter, agent for the privateer brigantine " Monmouth," viz. :
one spy glass, 51; 2 spades, at 3. 10s.; sails, small
arms, shot, etc. Total, 1150.
Sept. 13, 1779. Sold by order of Joseph Henfield,
viz.: schooner "Polly," 1550, to Capt. David Inger-
soll ; 6496 ft. boards, at 40, per M ; 25 hund. clapboards,
at 50s. per hund. ; shot, at 15, per cwt. Total, 1980.
Sept. 15, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. John Collins,
agent for the brigantine " Fame," viz. : ship " Prosper,"
220 tons, 9700, to J. Grafton; beef, cordage, rice, 7
cannon, at 170 ; brass stove, 78, etc. Total, 11,730.
Sept. 15, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. J. Ingersoll,
agent for the schooner " Lexington," viz. : brigantine
"Pitt," 140 tons, 8000, to Robert Bayley; pots, grind-
stones, oil casks at 75s. ; water casks at 12. 10s. ; harpoons,
spears, etc. ; sails, whale boat, 31; 115 gals, rum, at
105s. Total, 10,770.
Sept 15, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. R. Stone, agent
for the schooner " Centipede," viz. : cordage, bread, sails,
24 seines, at 14. 10s. ; a salmon seine, at 42 ; large
seine, 300; 9 seal seines, at 10; cask nails, 215;
sweet oil, traps, etc. Total, 1830.
Sept. 29, 1779. Sold by order of agents of the priva-
teers " Cromvoll," " Roebuck " and " Neptune," viz. :
sloop "Favorite," 13,000, to Capt. Edw. Allen; 4 pairs
31b. cannon, at 600 ; 55 Ib. indigo, at 114s. ; 6 casks
rice, at 120; 143 Ib. powder, at 9; 51 Ib. bayberry
wax, at 31s. Total, 17,973.
Sept 29, 1779. Sold by order of Mess. Mason and
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Webb, agents for the ship "Pickering," viz. : brigantine
" True Briton," 70 tons, 4100, to George Dodge ; cord-
age, swivels, anchors, sails, etc. Total, ,4980.
Sept. 29, 1779. Sold by order of Mess Tucker and
9 agents for the ship " Harlequin," viz. : schooner
"Rambler," .10,800, to William Shillaber ; 20 cwt.
cables, at 80 ; twine, bread, powder, oil paint, ensign
and pennant, 80; 1 bbl. pork, 70. Total, 13,370.
Settled with Mr. Gibbs.
Sept. 29, 1779. Sold by order of the owners of the
schooner " Greyhound," viz. : schooner " Greyhound,''
10,000, to Aaron Wait.
Sept. 29, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Nathaniel
Silsbee, agent for the privateer " Roebuck," viz. : 3 casks
peas, at 32 ; leather, oakum, bbl. beef, 60 ; 76 gals,
brandy, at 4. 10s. ; tin sauce pan, 2. 2s. ; axes, adz,
drawing knives, 6 pr. boots at 16; sheep skins, stock-
ings, shoes, blankets, gloves ; pennant, 20 ; ensign, 28 ;
jack, 5 ; nets, sails, etc. Total, 1699. 2s.
Oct. 8, 1779. Sold by order of Mess. Norris and Hen-
field, agents for the schooner " Sweet," viz. : brigantine
"Sally," 200 tons, 10,000, to Joseph White; rigging,
gaskets; 4 colours, 53; cable, anchors, sails; bbl. tar,
100 ; coals, etc. Total, 14,697.
Oct. 11, 1779. Sold at Beverly by order of the agent
of the privateer , Groves, commander, viz. :
schooner "Revenge," 70 tons, 4200, to Thomas Knox ;
2 pr. 3 pound cannon, at 660 ; one iron hearth, 230 ;
5 bags bread, water casks, grappling and buoy, powder
horns, wooden guns, etc. Total, 8266. 10s. Settled
with Capt. N. Leach.
Oct. 14, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. Edw. Allen,
agent for the ship " Cromwell," viz. : blunderbusses, small
arms, 10 pr. pistols, at 22. 10s. ; match rope, linch pins,
lanterns, 2 speaking trumpets, at 28; 43 pr. shackles,
155 six pound shot, at 34s. ; 180 bbl. headed shot, at 30s. ;
648 Ib. grape shot, at 9s. 3d. ; 40 double headed shot, at
30s. ; 56 water casks, at 15; 380 Ib. powder, at 11. 10s.
Total, 6877.
Oct. 19, 1779. Sold by order of William Orne, agent
DURING THE REVOLUTION. 117
for the privateer <4 Tyger," N. Brookhouse, commander,
viz.: schooner " William," 70 tons, 3900, to Thomas
Knox ; 4 pr. swivels, at 40; iron hearth, 390; cable,
stove, sand glasses, small arms, boat, 60 ; blocks, paint,
etc. Total, 6661.
Oct. 23, 1779. Sold by order of the agents of the ship
'* Pickering," viz. : sloop " Pomona," 90' tons, 8900, to
Jonathan Mason ; copper hearth, 410 ; 123 Ib. lead, at
14s.; 22 small arms; 22 pistols, 21 cutlasses, powder
horns, cartouch boxes ; drum, 30 ; hand spikes and spears,
round shot, sails, rigging, 95 Ib. coffee, at 15s. ; 21 gal.
molasses, at 84s. ; powder, etc. Total, 19,780. Settled
with Capt. Jonathan Mason.
Oct. 23, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. E. Rowland,
agent, for the ship " Jack," viz. : snow " William " (hull
only), 1600, to H. Rust ; shrouds at 63, per cwt. ; rigg-
ing ; bell, 66 ; anchors, spars, sails, tables, chairs, powder,
etc. Total, 20,381.
Oct. 26, 1779. Sold by order ot agents of the ship
" Harlequin," viz. : snow " Beaver," 12,000, to William
Shillaber ; schooner " Charming Polly," 7200, to Robert
Shillaber; rigging; painters' grindstone, 5 ; flour, pease,
beef, iron nails; lot of sea cows teeth, 20; bbl. pitch,
92 ; 2 shovels, 22 ; 140 bunches traces, at 4. 10s. ; lot
sea cow hide, 129 Ib. powder, at 10. 10s. ; cable, sails,
salt fish; hanging compass, 3. 12s. Total, 26,879. 14. 6.
Settled with Mr. Gibbs.
Oct. 26, 1779. Sold by order of agents of schooner
" Hornet," Robert Brookhouse, commander, viz. : snow
"Egremont," 12,300, to George Dodge, jr.; 3 pots, at
50; iron hoops, hand pumps, cooper's tools; spy glass,
300 ; iron harpoons, 100 ; 61 iron bound casks, at 10 ;
28 iron bound butts, at 32; sails, powder, etc. Total,
16,118.
Nov. 2, 1779. Sold by order of agents of schooner
"Centipede," viz. : brigantine "Cato," 80 tons, 6100,
to William Creed ; cutter sloop " Flying Fish," 65 tons,
9100, to E. H. Derby; brig Dolphin, 70 tons, 7500, to
John Brooks. Total, 23,975. Settled with Capt.
Robert Stone and Jonathan Henfield.
118 AUCTION SALES IN SALEM
Nov. 2, 1779. Sold by order of agents of brigantine
Monmouth," viz. : ship " Dorset," 200 tons, 12,000,
to Jacob Welch; sails, cable, etc. Total, 15,230. Settled
with Capt. S. Forrester.
Nov. 2, 1779. Sold by order of H. Rust, agent for the
privateer sloop ' Bodervine," viz. : sloop " Bodervine,"
8100, to Nathan Nichols; cannon, swivel, 168 round
shot, at 17s.; 34 pr. handcuffs, at 29s.; small arms;
bundle of spears, 21 ; 117 casks powder, at 10. Total,
15,700.
Nov. 2, 1779. Sold by order of Mess. Cole and Blyth,
agents for the brigantine " Brandy wine," viz. : brigantine
" Brandy wine," 3350, to James Barr.
Dec. 2, 1779. Sold by order of Capt. George Dodge
and Capt. Nathaniel Silsbee, agents for the brigantine
"Neptune" and brigantine "Fame," viz.: brigantine
"Anticosti," 10,800, to Col. Ralph Cross ; sails, cable,
etc. Total, 12,448.
Dec. 15, 1779. Sold by order of agents of ship " Terri-
ble " and schooner " Swett," viz. : sloop " Revenge," 90
tons, 11,100, to Francis Cabot; small arms, cordage, 5
pr. 3 pounder cannon, at 2300; 154 three pounder shot,
at 28s. ; iron chain, 354 Ib. at 23s. ; cask vinegar ; 6 spears.
31 ; sheep skins and match rope, dark lantern, etc,
Total, 26,100.
Feb. 9, 1780. Sold by order of agents of ship Har-
lequin," viz. : 1 Ib. rhubarb, 13. 10s. ; bdle. liquorice,
9. 15s. ; 1 Ib. mace, 50 ; 3 pr. black silk stockings, at
42 ; 2 Ib. cloves, at 40 ; 4 Ib. netmegs, at 50 ; 3 doz.
rolls pomatum, at 4. per doz. ; 7 Ib. allspice, at 44s. ;
2 Ib. cinnamon, at 63 ; box rappee [snuff], 9 ; 13 Ib.
ginger, 7. 10s.; suite curtains, 165; sails; ream cart-
ridge paper, 29; Madeira wine, at 40, per doz.; port
wine, at 35, per doz. ; bbl. beef, 115 ; nail rods, at
115 cwt. ; 3 pr. cloth shoes, at 30 ; beer, at 22, per
doz.; empty bottles; 136 gals, port wine, at 7. 15s.; 5
cannisters rappee, at 9; 2 bladders snuff, at 26; 7
papers tobacco, at 5. 10s. ; starch, soap, lamp black;
powder, at 115s. per Ib. ; yellow ochre, at 12s. per Ib. ;
22 rolls paper hangings, at 12 ; barley, etc. Total,
47,384. 7. 2.
DURING THE REVOLUTION. 119
March 21, 1780. Sold by order of Capt. Edward Allen,
agent for the ship " Oliver Cromwell," viz. : 2 boxes con-
taining time glasses ; 2 tubs pitch, 90 ; 1 binnacle and
drum, 3; cask butter, 148 Ib. at 30s.; cask oatmeal,
70 ; sugar, at 25s. per Ib. ; 200 gals. N. E. rum, at 8 ;
boards, salt, chest carpenter tools, etc. Total, 4112.
Mar. 23, 1780. Sold by order of owners of schooner
"Greyhound," viz. : 9 bolts duck, at 350; 306 Ibs.
powder, at 8 ; swivel guns, wall piece, small arms, pis-
tols, drum, cannon, etc. Total, .11,197. Settled with
Capt. Benj. Goodhue.
Mar. 31, 1780. Sold by order of Capt. Edward Allen,
viz.: sloop "Race Horse," 30,000, to Capt. Richard
Derby ; 2 bbls. beef, at 190; swivel guns, small arms,
etc. Total, 30,280.
Apr. 28, 1780. Sold by order of agents of brigantine
"Tyger," viz. : one ox, 585 (1950 dollars), to John
Leach ; schooner " Success," 4000 to Ichabod Nichols.
Total, 4636.
Mar. 31, 1780. Sold by order of Elias Hasket Derby,
viz. : sloop " Flying Fish," 16,500, to Miles Greenwood.
April 8, 1780. Sold by order of Mess. Thompson and
Vermonnet, viz. : schooner "Salem," 4400, to Samuel
Gridley.
May 31, 1780; Sold by order of agents of the brigan-
tine "Tyger," viz. : schooner "Prosper," 22,500, to J.
Waitt; sails, anchors, hose; copper stove, 90 ; copper
boiler, 88; iron bound hhds., water casks, tar, etc.
Total, 35,630. Settled with George Williams.
May 31, 1780. Sold by order of agents of the schooner
"Centipede," viz. : sloop " Methuseleh," 12,500, to
George Dodge. Settled with Capt. Bowditch.
June 16, 1780. Sold by order of Capt. Henry Wil-
liams, viz.: brigantine "Henry" 15,500, to Moses
Brown ; 6 woodea guns, 210. Total, 16,143.
June 16, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
brigantine " Tyger," viz. : brigantine " Polly," 120 tons,
35,000, to William Gray, 3 d ; sails, cables; 2 sweeps,
32 ; copper stove, 300 ; ensign, 160. Total, 48,230.
Settled with George Williams, jr.
120 AUCTION SALES IN SALEM
June 16, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
schooner " Centipede," viz. : sloop " Placentia," ,12,400,
to Henry Williams ; cordage, etc. Total, 13,555. Set-
tled with Capt. H. Bowditch.
July 13, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
schooner "Centipede," viz. : ship "Polly" 40,000 (to
be paid in 35 days), to Jonathan Ingersoll ; cables, at
600 per cwt. ; 1 pr. 4 pounder cannon, 4100; sails ;
481b. feathers, at 10, per Ib. ; small arms.; salmon net,
120. The commission was 1 per. cent, as usual, and
Hacker was paid 12, for " Hawking," i. e. crying the
sale about the streets. Total, 60,680. Settled with
Daniel Hathorne.
July 13, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
ship Brutus," viz. : cables, at 300, per cwt. ; 1 stream
anchor, 460 ; copper stove ; bottles ; keg brimstone ;
cannon; powder, at 10, per Ib. ; looking glass, 420;
297 round shot, at 48s. each ; 2 cask bread, 75; paint;
lamp and priming wires : cartridge paper ; gun aprons,
55 ; sails; sugar, at i60, per cwt.; 2 bbls. flour at
220; nails, etc. Total, 43,520. Settled with W.
Prosser.
July 13, 1780. Sold by order of David Felt, agent for
the schooner "Dolphin," viz.: a shallop, 3350, to
Nathan Perkins ; sails, small arms, compass, anchor, etc.
Total, 5020.
July 25, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
brigantine " Saratoga," viz. : brigantine " Joseph,"
21,000, to John Fisk; pitch, candles, beef, grapling pot,
stove, cordage, etc. Total, 2460. Settled with E. Em-
merton.
July 25, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
brigantine " Tyger," viz.: brigantine " Ann" 35,500, to
George Williams, jr. ; sails, cables ; bbl. tar, 1950. Total,
41,480. Settled with George Williams, jr.
July 25, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the brig-
antine Lincoln," viz. : 2 casks powder, 465 Ib. at
11 ; small arms, blocks, rigging, 200 four pound shot, at
75s. Total, 8140. Settled with Capt. John Fiske.
July 25, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the ship
DURING THE REVOLUTION. 121
" Brutus," viz. : hull of ship " Argyle," .9400, to Jona-
than Waldo; 14 lots rigging, at 200, per cwt. ; iron
hearth and 2 pots, ,1050; iron strap blocks, fish hooks,
iron strapped dead eyes, anchors, shrouds, sails, case of
instruments, case of pocket instruments, Collins' 2 vols.
on Anatomy, 70 ; book on surgery, 95. Total, 38,930.
July 25, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the bri-
gantine " Griffin," viz. : brigantine " Favorite," 10,500,
to Josiah Orne, cable, cannon, bbl. turpentine, 220 ; rig-
ging, keg paint, 105. Total, 17,860. Settled with
Peter Lander.
July 25, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the ship
" Neptune," viz. : sloop Flying Fish," 27,000, to
Samuel Cabot; cannon, small arms, etc. Total, 28,770.
Aug. 15, 1780. Sold by order of J. B. Millett, viz. :
schooner " Susannah," 7800, to Benjamin Needham ;
rigging, sails, etc. 7835. 10s.
Aug. 15, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
schooner "Surprise," viz.: schooner " Fly," 8800, to
Caleb Lowring ; schooner "Delight," 27,000, to David
Felt ; cannon, swivel guns; 52 gal. rum, at 16; small
arms, drum, 30 ; 2 kegs molasses, 80; beef and provi-
sions, firkin butter, 70 ; 5 lanterns ; 24 1-2 doz. small arm
cartridges, at 50s. per doz.; 260 Ib. powder, at 8 ; 31
bags langrage, 25; bread, at 110, per cwt.; English
ensign, 110; sails, etc. Total, 45,930.
Aug. 26, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
brigantine " Fortune," viz. : brigantine " Fortune,"
21,200, to - - Dyson.
Aug. 29, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
ship " Jack," viz. : snow "Portsmouth," 130 tons, 28,
500, to George Dodge, jr. ; brigantine " Mary," 160 tons,
27,200, to George Williams, jr. ; sloop "Providence,"
75 tons, 14,000, to Joseph Lambert ; anchors, rigging,
lampblack, sheet lead, small arms, bread, 11 kegs varnish,
at 50 ; sails, cannon, etc. Total, 103,353. Settled
with Richard Ward.
Aug. 29, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
brigantines " Hasket and John." viz. : snow " Hero," 200
tons, 44,500, to E. H. Derby ; 3 pair 6 pounder cannon,
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at .4400 per pair ; 80 six pd. shot, at 6. 10s. ; 45 six pd.
double headed shot, at 9 ; split peas, barley, 1 cask
pickled herrings, .105 ; flour, oatmeal, mustard, 1 cask
tallow, ,135; 1 keg yellow ochre, 165; 1 keg red
ochre, 100 ; red lead and brushes, 1 keg oil of tar, .35 ;
chest carpenter's tools, complete, 950 ; 465 Ibs. sheet lead,
at 50s. ; bag of musket balls, canvass chair, handcuffs,
spun yarn and gaskets, cordage, mops and scrubbing
brushes, iron stocked anchor, 330; pikes, boat hooks and
grains, 200 ; nails, cross cut saw ; English ensign, 320 ;
English jack, 100; lot of bowls and plates; spyglass,
250; sails, awning; 2 bbls. blubber, 31. 10s.; boat,
1150. Total, 87,970. Settled with Capt. John Collins.
Aug. 29, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
brigantine " Fortune," viz. : ship " Porteus," 9000, to
Joseph Russell ; 4 pr. blunderbusses, at 100 per pr. ;
rigging, shrouds and stays, match rope, sails; 8 water
casks at 30 ; boat and 2 sails, 850, etc. Total, 83,
480. Settled with Joseph Lambert.
Aug. 30, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
ship " Essex," viz. : ship "Esther," 160 tons, 46,000,
to Holton Johnson; ship "Mary," 320 tons, 106,000, to
William Creed ; 5 bags bread, at 150 per cwt.; Madeira
wine, at 28 per gal. ; Sherry wine, at 20 per gal. ; 180
Ib. powder, at 11 ; 1 pr. 4 Ib. cannon, 3500; cable,
anchors, lampblack, rosin, leather and gun aprons, worms,
ladles and sponges, 49 double headed shot, at 7. 10s. ;
135 round shot, at 55s.; 3 pr. brass blunderbusses, at
125; 6 blunderbusses, 225; 3 bbls. beef, at 330; 3
bbls. flour, at 225 ; 1 bbl. pease, 120 ; 4 casks porter,
at 300; sails; 3 English ensigns, 305 ; 3 pouch tubs,
55; Hong boat, 1125; 1 bbl. pitch, 240; 3 hhds.
rum, at 23, per gal. ; etc. Total, 243,170. Settled
with Capt. Wm. Creed.
Aug. 31, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
ship Brutus," viz. : ship New Adventure," 200 tons,
50,500, to Wm. Carlton; cannon, cable, sails, 5 casks
powder, at 10, per Ib. ; 1 deer skin, 18, etc Total,
78,550.
Aug. 31, 1780. Sold by order of Capt. Samuel Wil-
DURING THE REVOLUTION. 123
Hams, viz. : 6 casks powder, 100 gals, linseed oil, at
21; 70 gal. raw oil, at 12; Spanish brown, at 110
per cwt. Total, 3061.
Sept. 13, 1780. Sold by order of Mess Samuel Carlton
and Edward Gibaut, agents for the brigantine " Hasket
& John," viz. : sloop u Scourge," 51,000 ; cannon, small
arms, bullet moulds, 3 kegs paint, 160 ; 1 bbl. pork,
500 ; 1 tierce beef, 430"; 1 bbl. flour, 160 ; sails, etc.
Total, 57,060.
Sept. 27, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
ship "Pickering," viz.: brigantine "Rodney," 120 tons,
90,000, to George Williams; brigantine "Myrrh,"
25,000, to W. P. Bartlett. Total, 113,750. Settled
with Capts. G. & S. Williams.
Sept. 27, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
brigantine " Fame," viz. : brigantine " New Adventure,"
150 tons, 30,000, to Henry White &Co. ; rigging, paint
stone and mullet, muskets, sails, cable, etc. Total, 14,
020. Settled with William West.
Sept. 27, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
schooner Cutter," viz. : ship " Sophia" (hull), 29,000.
to Joshua Ward; 37 water casks, at 50; towline, at
300, per cwt. ; cables, at 540, per. cwt.; anchors ; 168
gal. red. wine, at 12,100; 3 bbls. beef, at 460;
shrouds and stays, at 300, per cwt. ; flour, salt, butter,
candles, at 5. 5s. per Ib. ; sails, rigging ; iron hearth,
480. Total, 135,058. Settled with Joseph Henfield.
Sept. 29, 1780. Sold by order of Mess Pickman &
Jenks, viz. : box soap, candles, box tongues, 2 casks vin-
egar, at 3, 18s. per gal. ; 3 rolls paper hanging, 45 ;
butter, 2 boxes pipes, hats, white lace, at 4. 4s. per yd. ;
handkerchiefs, white sarsnett, at 15, per yd. ; black
catgut, at 8, per yd. ; buttons, 11 proof glasses, at
11. 8s.; 1 doz. spoons, 31 ; silk hose, at 100, per
pr. ; buckram, tammey, shalloon, silk twist, brown Hol-
land, stripped Holland, white silk gloves, at 42, per pr.;
silk mitts, knee garters, hat cords, cotton hose, 2 bdles
thread, etc. Total, 11,879.
Oct. 6, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
schooner " Cutter," viz. : sloop "Grey hound," 80 tons,
124 AUCTION SALES IN SALEM.
38,500, to Benjamin Moses ; rigging, sails, 6 casks salt,
at 575 ; 11 bags salt, at 130. etc. Total, 46,810.
Settled with Joseph Henfield.
Oct. 6, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the brig-
antine " Dolphin," viz. : brigantine " Good Intent," 90
tons, 28,000, to John Buffington; 9 bags hops, at 90 ;
rigging ; 5 bbls. beef, at 315; sails, cheese, butter, cable,
etc. Total, 47,640. Settled with John Buffinton.
Oct. 13, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
ship " Pickering," viz. : brigantine "Venus," 24,500, to
Joseph Chipman, 1 pair 9 Ib. short cannon, 6000 ; small
arms, cutlasses, tomahawks, pistols, handcuffs, round
shot, cannister grape, language, copper stove, English
ensign, 220 ; 1 bbl. pork, 620 ; sails, etc. Total,
38,063. Settled with Mess. George and Samuel Wil-
liams.
Oct. 18, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
sloop " Morning Star," viz. : schooner " Halifax Rover,"
10,500, to Robert Stone ; small arms, rum, musket balls,
flour, butter, candles, cannon, swivels, etc. Total, 15,770.
Settled with Robert Stone.
Oct. 18, 1780. Sold by order of the agents of the
schooners " Dolphin" and " Delight," viz. : schooner
Dolphin," 21,500, to N. Silsbee ; schooner " Delight,"
32,500, to Nathan Goodale; cannon, powder, 21 small
arms, 18 cutlasses, box handcuffs and tomahawks, coffee,
candles, 1 bbl. beef, 460; 1 bbl. pork, 750, etc. Total,
75,400. Settled with David Felt.
Oct. 18, 1780. Sold by order of Mess. Carlton &
Pickman, viz. : 8 hampers cheese, at 100 ; 19 skins
Brazil tobacco, at 52. Total, 5,400.
THE NEWBURYPORT BRANCH OF THE
LAVALETTE FAMILY.
BY M. V. B. PERLEY.
1 Peter Lavalette* was the immigrant ancestor of
this family. Our only knowledge of him, as an individ-
ual, is traditional, and chiefly the memory (1865) of a
Mrs. Taplin, of Newburyport, whose family and Peter's
occupied tenements in the same house at the same time.
She knew him from boyhood.
She said he was bright and smart. He came from
Marseilles, France, to Newburyport, a voyager, when
about ten years old, with Capt. Jackman. He had high
family connections ; was dressed in a black velvet suit,
with knee-buckles, ruffled silk shirt, and had silver
buckles on his shoes. Again he sailed with Capt. Jack-
man, this time for Marseilles, to visit his widowed mother.
On the voyage he fell sick, and upon his arrival there was
given an express conveyance to her home, some eighteen
miles distant. Thus the father of a widely influential
family ! It may be that he voyaged to America for his
health ; three of his children died young. He returned
to France probably sometime during the year following
the birth of his last child, but 1 find no Capt. Jackman
among the clearances in The Newburyport Herald for
1815.
Peter Lavalette married, 9 Jan., 1806, Elsey Noyes
Howard, of Newburyport, born there 12 July, 1784, to
Nathaniel Howard, rope-maker [son of Benjamin and
Millie (Swett) Howard] and Molly Noyes [daughter of
The data here presented have been furnished largely by members of the
Lavalette family; and in any conflict with the public records the authority of
the family has been followed.
The name Lavalette is derived from the old French word vol. The transla-
tion of val is valley or dale ; of la-vaLette, the small valley or dale ; and of
Lavalette, dalesman.
(125)
126 THE NEWBUBYPOKT BKANCH
William and Mary (Pike) Noyes] , married 12 May, 1784.
Her father lived in Lime street, near Beck, and died of
consumption. She died in Newburyport, 23 Nov., 1829,
at the age of forty-five years. Elsey was an earnest
helper of Mrs. Elizabeth Greenleaf, city missionary, and
was efficiently active at the extensive conflagration of
1811 in Newburyport, in ministering comfort to the suf-
ferers. She was a woman of deep and ardent piety, and
showed her faith by her works.
Children of Peter and Elsey Lavalette :
2. NATHANIEL HOWARD, b. 20 March, 1808.
3. CHARLES, b. 9 Nov., 1809; [11 Nov., 1809. Newbury rec.]
4. WILLIAM NOTES, b. 12 June, 1812; d. unm., of consumption, in
1857, The family ; of strangulary, 4 March, 1859, aged 45
years. Npt. rec.
5. MARY,* b. Dec., 1814; d. 11, bur. 13, April, 1816, aged 16
months.
2 Nathaniel Howard Lavalette was born in New-
buryport, 20 March, 1808. He was a ship-blacksmith. In
1836, he owned a home on Franklin street, Newburyport.
His health failing, he and his uncle, Capt. Philip Carrell,
bought in equal shares the " Davis Farm," in Linebrook
Parish, Ipswich, and there spent the remainder of their
lives.
Capt. Carrell was born 19 June, 1778, to John and
Sarah, in Newburyport. He was a cooper by trade and a
captain in the militia. He married, 17 Sept., 1800, Sally
Cheever, born 23 March, 1781, and died 4 July, 1840,
aged 59 years. He sold his Newburyport home, 20 April,
1841. He died in Linebrook, 25 March, 1849, aged 71.
They had no children, and took Mrs. Nathaniel H. Lav-
alette, when she was four years old, and cared for her as
daughter of Levi, who married Judith Howard, sister to Elsey Noyes Howard
who married Peter Lavalette. Mr. Badger's wife was Lucy Jane Sylvester, a
daughter of Edmund, who married Mary Howard, another sister to Elsey. Wash-
ington P. Pickardof Ipswich married Sarah Elizabeth Howard a daughter of
William, brother to Elsey. Thus the ancestors of the " cousins " werebrother
and sisters to Elsey Noyes Lavalette, and not her children. Further, the records
do not furnish any other children in this family beyond those named above;
and, too, Mrs. Bourne (family 25) writes that her grandfather " had no sisters "
none in maturity.
OP THE LAVALETTB FAMILY. 127
their own ; certain it is, that Mr. and Mrs. Lavalette ten-
derly cared for him in his age and sickness and burial.
The " Davis Farm " house was abandoned for the
farmhouse of the Dodge farm adjacent, when the latter
was purchased of Charles Augustus Conant, 25 May, 1870.
Mr. Lavalette died, of pneumonia, Monday, 6 Dec.,
1886. His business from 1840 had been farming, though
in connection with it, for many years, he carried on an
extensive trade in wood and timber.
Mr. Lavalette married, in Newburyport, 16 Nov., 1831,
Elizabeth Carrell Cheever, bora 10 Aug., 1809, to John
and Eunice (Moulton) Cheever, of Newburyport. Eunice
Moulton's parents were Aaron and Anna. Aaron Moulton
served through the whole war of the Revolution. Mrs.
Swain (family 2T) writes : il Grandma Lavalette was a
woman of ability, strongly religious, and patriotic in the
highest degree," and quotes her : " I give my three sons
to my country, and 1 wish my other sons were old enough
to go."
Children of Nathaniel H. and Elizabeth C. Lavalette,
the first five born in Newburyport, the others in Ipswich,
Line brook Parish:
6. CHARLES CARROLL,* b. 24 Sept., 1832 ; d. 14 Dec., 1835, aged 3
years 3 months.
7. NATHANIEL, b. 20 Aug., 1834.
8. CHARLES CARROLL!, b. 25 Sept., 1836.
9. MARY NOTES, b. 12 Aug., 1838; d. 17 July, 1839.
10. PHILIP CARROLL!, b. 14 Aug., 1840; d. 6 June, 1864.
11. PIKE NoYEst, b. 7 Aug., 1842; d. 21 Sept., 1864. He m., 13
June, 1861, when her parents were of Linebrook, Charlotte
Frances Spiller, b. in Danvers, to Rev. Richard Pulsifer and
Charlotte (Jewett) Spiller. She married, 2d, George Whit-
ten, her cousin (family 8).
12. SARAH CARROLL, b. 6 May, 1844.
The writer has no doubt that the spelling of this name should be Carrell,
with an e, the French form, in remembrance of their lamented uncle, Capt.
Philip Carrell, but the children all spell it with an o.
tThe three sons mentioned above, Charles, Philip and Pike, were devoted to
their country's service by a mother's prayers. Philip enlisted in Co. H, 1st Hy.
Art. Mass. Vols., 5 July, 1861, and was shot 19 May, 1864,sothat he died in Washing-
ton, D. C., 6 June, 1864. Pike enlisted in Co. A, 1st Hy. Art. Mass. Vols., 6 July.
1861, and, taken prisoner only a few days before the expiration of his term of
enlistment, wasted in the Andersonville prison pen till his death, 21 Sept., 1864.
Charles enlisted in Co. C, 32d Mass. Vol. Infantry; re-enlisted 1 Jan., 1864, and
was discharged 29 June, 1865, but for flfty-tlve days he remained in Harwood
Hospital, not being able to return home. He was shot through the hand at
Spottsylvania and never enjoyed a well day after the war.
128 THE NEWBUBYPORT BRANCH
13. JOHN CHEBVBR, b. 14 March, 1846.
14. WILLIAM HOWARD, b. 18 March, 1851.
15. ALICE, b. 2 Oct., 1853.
16. ELIZABETH ANN, b. 15 Feb., 1857.
3 Charles Lavalette was born 9 Nov., 1809. He
was a sea-captain and brought many " curios " from
China, notably two tea-sets for his wife and wife's sister
Elizabeth. He went down with his ship, 4 Aug., 1841.
He married, 1 Aug., 1839, Eunice Cheever, sister to Mrs.
Nathaniel H. Lavalette. She was born 2 Nov., 1816, and
married, second, Charles Whitten, an Englishman, pub-
lished 4 May, 1842. By him she had George, born 3 Jan.,
1844, and Reuben Henry, b. July, 1845. She died of
consumption, in Newbury, 25 Nov., 1847, at the age of
thirty-one years. Her son, George Whitten, m. in Stone-
ham, 16 Feb., 1867, Mrs. C. F. Lavalette, widow of Pike
N. She d. in Lynn, 21 Nov., 1908, the mother of Charles
Pike, b. 3 Jan., 1870, in Stoneham, and Clara Lillian and
Lotta Anna, born in Lynn. Mr. Whitten, by trade a
morocco dresser, now retired, resides in Lynn.
Capt. and Eunice Lavalette had only one child :
17. CHARLES, b. 8 Jan., 1841, in the Lavalette home, Franklin
street, Newburyport, where his cousin, Charles Carroll
Lavalette, was born.
7 Nathaniel Lavalette was born in Newburyport,
20 Aug., 1834. He was a baker by trade. He indulged in
a fishing trip occasionally for his health or recreation. In
an ice-storm, 1 March, 1859, he met the fate of his vessel.
He married, in Gloucester, 26 Nov., 1856, Catherine
McDonald, of Casco, N. S., when she was nineteen years
old. His widow married, in Gloucester, 26 March, 1860,
when she was twenty-two, James Henry Hambling, of
Robinson, Me., who was twenty-three years old. His
parents were Henry and Mary. He was lost on Georges
Bank in 1861. She married, third, E. K. Smart, and they
became pioneer settlers of Kinsley, Kansas. There she
was widowed again, and removed to Richmond Point, Cal.
OF THE LAVALETTB FAMILY. 129
Nathaniel and Catherine had only one child, who, ac-
cording to the Gloucester records, was *' John C.," but it
is understood the mother changed the name, upon the
death of her husband, without changing it upon the
records of the town, and the child grew up and did busi-
ness by the name of
18. NATHANIEL, b. 7 Dec., 1858.
8 Charles Carroll Lavalette was born in New-
buryport, 25 Sept., 1836. For his service in the Civil
War, see note f in family 2. He died 30 April, 1881, of
erysipelas. He married 22 Feb., 1865, Charlotte Eliza-
beth Pickard, who was born 2 Oct., 1845, and upon the
death of her mother was adopted by her grandfather,
David Pickard. She married, second, 7 Dec., 1882, Franz
Joseph Peissig, born 9 Jan., 1833, in Tetschew, Bohemia,
Austria. He is a weaver by trade, now many years re-
tired, in Exeter, N. H.
The children of Charles C. and Charlotte E. Lavalette
were born in Ipswich, Linebrook Parish :
19. Lois ELLSWORTH, b. 5 May, 1867; d. 7 May, 1867.
20. PHILIP CARROLL, b. 14 June, 1868; d. 2 Oct., 1868.
21. LINDA CARROLL, b. 3 Nov., 1871.
12 Sarah Carroll Lavalette was born in Ipswich,
Linebrook Parish, 6 May, 1844, and 17 Feb., 1866, mar-
ried Cyrus William Conant, who was born 16 July, 1837,
to Dea. William Foster and Martha (Perley) Conant. His
service in the Civil War is traced in the Perley Family
History and Genealogy, page 336. He died 26 May,
1905 ; she died at the residence of her son Alton, in
Arctic, R. I., 19 Nov., 1906.
Children of Cyrus W. and Sarah C. Conant :
22. ALTON LAWRENCE, b. 6 Nov., 1868.
23. WILLIAM HERBERT, b. 11 June, 1881.
13 John Cheever Lavalette was born 14 March,
1846. He learned the carpenter's trade, and in 1871
purchased the Millett homestead, adjoining his parents'
farm. He married, 10 May of that year, Abbie Ann
130 THE NEWBURYPORT BRANCH
Mooar,* born 18 April, 1844, to John and Mary Ann
(Conant) Moore* of his native parish. Some six months
later they removed to Boston, where he resumed his
trade, and both are active in church work. Their home
is Dorchester. Their only child is :
24. ERNEST BURTON, b. in Linebrook, 17 May, 1872. Ernest was a
bright, progressive lad. He studied twelve years in Boston
schools, graduated at college, was ordained a preacher of
the Word, and, after four years, a deacon. His first pastor-
ate was at Middleton, Mass. In 1899, he went to India, a
missionary, where he fell sick without hope of recovery.
14 William Howard Lavalette was born 18
March, 1851. He succeeded his father on the farm. He
was a deacon in the local church. Some twelve years ago
he sold the farm to Libie J. Wood and removed to Bos-
ton, where he entered upon the labors of his brother,
John C. He is now living in Maiden, Mass., but em-
ployed as before. He married in Derry, N. H., 16 June,
1875, Charlotte Elizabeth Pace, of Derry, born 28 Nov.,
1854, to Leonard and Mary (Griffin) Pace. She died in
Linebrook, 9 March, 1891. Mrs. Lavalette had ability
beyond her education. She wrote all the pieces recited
by her children at the Sunday school concerts. She loved
to aid in making children happy and true. Dea. Lavalette
married, second, 5 July, 1903, Miss Myra Jane Loomer,
born 12 Oct., 1858, to John and Mary Elizabeth (Hat-
field) Loomer, of Advocate, N. S.
Children of William H. and Charlotte E. Lavalette :
26. GERTRUDE EMMA, b. 16 March, 1876.
28. HOWARD WESLEY, b. 1 Oct., 1879.
27. EDITH ALICE, b. 2 Oct., 1881, who graduated at the Manning
High School, Ipswich, 1899, and at the Salem Normal School
1902. She taught her first year in Rowley, and has been
employed in the Braintrees, Mass., the while since. She
is now in the new Abraham Lincoln school, East Braintree.
28. RAY EMERSON, b. 20 Feb., 1891, who enlisted as an apprentice
seaman in the U. S. Navy, 14 Aug., 1907, during his minor-
ity. His mark for the period was "excellent." He now
has a clerkship in Boston.
*These names are spelled as found upon the records. About this time the
Mooar genealogy was published and the spelling changed.
OP THE LAVALETTE FAMILY. 131
15 Alice Lavalette was born in Linebrook, 2 Oct.,
1853; She married, 20 Jan., 1876, Frank Melvin Vining,
a shoemaker, born in Lynn in 1854, on or before 13 Aug.,
when his mother died, to John B. and Mary Elizabeth
(Weed) Vining. He was brought up by his grandmother,
Mrs: Jeremiah Ellsworth of Rowley, Linebrook Parish.
Mrs. Vining was a member of the Methodist church and
of the Rebekahs, I. O. O. F. She died in Ipswich of
cerebral hemorrhage, 11 Jan., 1907. The only child of
Frank M. and Alice Vining is :
29. ROSCOE HOWARD, b. in Georgetown, Mass., 19 Aug., 1887;
graduated at the Manning High School, Ipswich, 1904. He
was employed by the United States, as teacher of English,
in the Porto-Rican Department of Education, Penuelas, P.
R., a year. Since then he has been student and teacher
alternately, till now he is hopeful of a diploma at Dart-
mouth. He is now principal of the Union school, Tilton,
N. H. three hundred pupils.
16 Elizabeth Ann Lavalette was born in Line-
brook, 15 Feb., 1857, and married 6 Oct., 1880, David
Tullar Perley, as his third wife. Mr. Perley's children
by his other wives were Oscar Wentworth, David
Sydney, Roscoe Damon, M. D., and Carolyn Sophronia.
They are sketched and pictured in the Perley Family
History and Genealogy, page 534, et seq.
Children of David T. and Elizabeth A. Perley, born in
Linebrook Parish :
30. CHESTER GABFIELD, b. 13 Nov., 1881.
31. MABEL ALICE, b. 19 Aug., 1883.
82. BERTHA CHEEVER, b. 18 Oct., 1886.
33. HARRISON OTIS, b. 30 Sept., 1888; d. 9 Feb., 1890.
34. HELENS LOUISE, b. 13 July, 1891, who studied in the Manning
High school, Ipswich, till removing to Newton, Mass., with
her mother. She graduated at the Newton High school,
1910; then she studied music in Boston, and is now a suc-
cessful teacher of piano in Newton.
17 Charles Lavalette, born 8 Jan., 1841, upon the
death of his father, was adopted by Charles Hardy of
Hampton Falls, and his name became Charles Lavalette
132 THE NBWBUKYPOBT BRANCH
Hardy. The History of Hampton Falls records that Charles
L. Hardy enlisted in the English army during the Crime-
an War. He served in India sometime during his enlist-
ment. He served ten years, returning in 1868. He lived
a number of years in Exeter, N. H. and died there in May,
1883. He was early a farmer and latterly merchant in
tin wares and kindred merchandise. He married in Liver-
pool, England, Oct., 1865, Jane Williams, daughter of
William and Ann Williams of Rhyl, Wales. She died in
Hampton Falls, 10 June, 1884.
Children of Charles L. and Jane Hardy :
36. WILLIAM, who d. in infancy.
36. ANNIE, who died at 8 years.
37. MABEL CHEEVEB, b. 15 Jan., 1871.
88. CHARLES WILLIAMS, b. 27 Nov., 1872.
39. GEORGE, who d. at 11 years.
18 Nathaniel Lavalette, born 7 Dec., 1858, mar-
ried Carrie Smith, of Kinsley, Kansas, who was born 30
March, 1863. On her eighteenth birthday her husband
was thrown from a colt he was breaking, and died in fifty-
seven hours of the injury received, 1 April 1881.
Her posthumous child :
40. NATHALIE, d. of cholera-infantum, at the age of two years.
She married 2d, a Winslow, and removed into Mexico.
21 Linda Carroll Lavalette, born 3 Nov., 1871, in
Linebrook, removed with her widowed mother to Exeter,
N. H., and graduated at the Robinson Seminary, 1891.
She married 29 May, 1905, Frank Wesley Swain, who
was born in Kittery, Me., 28 Dec., 1861, to Charles W.
and Elizabeth M. (Leigh) Swain. She has been very
helpful in the preparation of these pages. Mr. Swain is
by trade a carpenter-contractor, but during the last three
years has been janitor of the Rockingham County court
houses, at Exeter and court messenger. He is a Past
Grand of Sagamore Lodge of Odd Fellows, Exeter, Past
Patriarch of Hunt's Encampment, Hampton, and Vice-
President of the Exeter Rifle Association. Their home is
Exeter, N. H.
OF THE LAVALBTTE FAMILY. 133
22 Alton Lawrence Conant, born 6 Nov., 1868,
in Linebrook, is a telegrapher, but is now employed by
the N. Y. N. H. and H. R. R., as director of the tower
signals at Pontiac, R. I. He resides in Pontiac with a
summer home at Apponaug. He married 6 Oct., 1891, in
Brooklyn, N. Y., Adeline Gary, who was born 26 Oct.,
1872, to Claudia and Frank Gary, who is assistant super-
intendent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in
New York City. She was a milliner.
Child of Alton L. and Adeline Conant :
41. EDNA CHEEVEB, b. 11 Nov., 1893, in Willimantic, Ct.
23 William Herbert Conant, was born 11 June,
1881, in Linebrook, and 4 Nov., 1902, married Gennie
Grace Proper, of Millwood, Rowley, at the residence of
Dea. John H. Tenney. She was born in Gloversville, N. Y.,
4 June, 1884, to Arthur Eugene and Josephine (Ray-
mond) Proper. Mr. Conant succeeded to the parental
farm. Selling that he removed from town. He is now
employed by the Bay State Electric Railway Co., at East
Bridge water, Mass.
Children of Wm. H. and Gennie G. Conant :
42. RUTH FOSTER, b. 30 May, 1903.
43. ABTHUB HERBERT, b. 17 Nov., 1904.
44. ROGEB GABY, b. 5 April, 1906 ; d. 14 Sept., 1906.
45. ESTHEB ADELAIDE, b. 13 June, 1908.
25 Gertrude Emma Lavalette, born in Linebrook
Parish, Ipswich, 16 March, 1876, married in Freeport,
111., 20 Jan., 1903, Charles Wesley Bourne, born in New
Castle, New Brunswick, Canada, 10 Aug., 1875, to Charles
Foster and Angelina (Call) Bourne. Mr. Bourne is a
locomotive engineer. Their home is Van Buren, Ark.
Children of Charles W. and Gertrude E. Bourne :
46. MANLY PHELPS, b. 6 Nov., 1903, in Freeport, 111.
47. HAZEL ANGELINA, b. 17 Aug., 1906, in Freeport, 111.
48. EDITH CHABLOTTE, b. 24 April, 1909, in Fort Smith, Ark.
26 Howard Wesley Lavalette was born in Line-
brook Parish, 1 Oct., 1879, and married in Hillsgrove,
R. I., 4 Aug., 1902, Blanche Ball, born 24 Nov., 1879, in
134 THE NEWBURYPOBT BRANCH
Linwood, Mass., to Theophilus C. (born in Block Island)
and Mary C. (Saunders, born in North Kingston) Ball.
He is a machinist by trade.
Children of Howard W. and Blanche B. Lavalette :
49. THEODORE WESLEY, b. 23 Nov., 1903, in Hillsgrove, R. I.
50. HOWARD PAUL, b. 17 Nov., 1906, in Hillsgrove, R. I.
51. Lois CATHARINE, b. 28 July, 1910, in Auburn, R. I.
52. ERNEST WILLIAM, b. 25 Aug., 1911, in Auburn, R. I.
30 Chester Garfield Perley, born in Linebrook
Parish, 13 Nov., 1881, was educated in the Manning High
School, Ipswich, and is a graduate of the Salem Commercial
School. Resigning a clerkship in Boston, he engage in
farming and cattle brokerage with his brother D. Sydney.
In 1911 he purchased in Danvers and established a cattle-
exchange and milk-farm supply. He married, in Ipswich,
26 April, 1905, Sadie Louise Dow, an Ipswich school
teacher, born in Kensington, N. H., 31 Aug,, 1882, to
Fred Howard and Clara Isabella (Austin) Dow.
They have only one child :
53. ELIZABETH ISABELLA, b. 15 Feb., 1906.
31 Mabel Alice Perley, born 19 Aug., 1883, is a
graduate of the Manning High School, Ipswich. She
married, in Ipswich, 6 June, 1905, Rev. John Edward
Charlton, Methodist Episcopal clergyman, born in Leeds,
Yorkshire, England, 2 April, 1878, to Jonathan, a travel-
ing agent for a wholesale tea and coffee house, and Jane
(Walton) Charlton. Mr. Charlton prepared for college
at Wesleyan Academy, 1900; graduated at Boston
University, 1904 ; received the degree S. T. B., 1906, and
A. M., 1908. He is now located in Salem with the Wes-
ley M. E. Church.
Children of Rev. John E. and Mabel A. Charlton :
54. DOROTHY ELIZABETH, b. 3 Feb., 1909, at Xewton, Mass.
55. GRACE ELEANOR, b. 1 Jan., 1911, at Worcester, Mass.
32 Bertha Cheever Perley, born in Linebrook
Parish, 18 Oct., 1886, was graduated at the Manning High
School, Ipswich, 1905, studied in Boston University, and
graduated at the Wheelock Kindergarten, 1908. She
OF THE LAVALETTE FAMILY. 135
married 18 Oct., 1910, William Clarke Moulton, born 26
May, 1887, to Charles Bruce and Georgianna (Colby)
Moulton. He is a graduate of the Hampstead (N. H.)
High School, and of the Massachusetts College of Phar-
macy, 1908, and is now a pharmacist in Millbury, Mass.
Child of Wm. C. and Bertha C. Moulton :
56. ESTHER ELIZABETH, b. 19 Aug., 1911.
37 Mabel Cheever Hardy was born 15 Jan., 1871,
and upon the death of her mother, made her home with
Mrs. Peissig (family &), at Exeter, N. H. She graduated
at the Robinson Seminary, Exeter, 1889, and married 26
July, 1897, Herbert A. Campbell, and now lives in
Amherst, Mass.
Children of Herbert A. and Mabel C. Campbell :
57. PAUL, b. Sept., 1898.
58. DONALD.
59. DAVIS.
60. MARGARET.
38 Charles Williams Hardy, born, 27 Nov., 1872,
in Hampton Falls, N. H., graduated at the Boston Latin
School, 1895, and studied physical culture at Harvard
College. He was physical director of the Y. M. C. A.
gymnasium, in Lima, Ohio, later in Richmond, Va., and
is now in Springfield, Mass. He married, 8 Dec., 1895, in
Everett, Mass., Mary Gushing Nute, born in Boston, 16
Feb., 1876, to Asa Byron and Mary Emmaline (Miller)
Nute. Their home is in Wilbraham, Mass.
Children of Charles W. and Mary C. Hardy :
61. HELEN ELIZABETH, b. 28 Feb., 1897.
62. MABEL EVELYN, b. 5 March, 1898.
63. PHILIP CAMPBELL, b. 12 March, 1899.
64. GORDON STODDARD, b. 3 Oct., 1900; d. 28 Dec., 1900.
65. JOHN GLADSTONE, b. 6 Oct., 1901.
66. CHARLES WILLIAMS, b. 8 Oct., 1902.
67. MARION MANVILLE, b. 11 Oct., 1904.
68. EDITH CHARLOTTE, b. 15 Jan., 1906.
69. CARROLL LAVALETTE, b. 11 Feb., 1907.
70. MAXINE BYRON, b. 20 May, 1908.
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO
ESSEX COUNTY.
(Continued from Volume XLIX, page 91.)
The TITLE PAGE to the following Piece, intitles it to
a Place in this GAZETTE.
Messieurs PRINTERS.
Please to publish a second Remonstrance from the same
Brother of the First Church in Salem.
To the Congregational Churches in this Province.
Be pleased to take Notice of the following Disorders with
which the Third Church in Salem, of which Rev. Mr. Thomas
Barnard, and some of his Church at least are chargeable, that
were not mentioned in the former Remonstrance, Printed in
the Evening Post, No. 1463.
ABOUT 40 years ago two cow-leases were given by the
commoners of Salem to the ministry of the first parish,
and one to the Rev. Mr. Dimari's parish, the reason of
giving two leases to the first parish was, because it was
expected there would be always two ministers in it, being
so very large. But as soon as Mr. Barnard's church had
got a minister settled, near 27 years ago, both cow leases
(with a strong hand) were taken from our minister, and
given to Mr. Sparhawk, who kept them as long as he
lived ; and after him Mr. Barnard has done the same thing
hitherto : whereas they should have allowed our minister
one of them, he being the other parish minister. A second
trespass followed this, for in the year 1752, a member of
Mr. Barnard's church, a member of Mr. Diman's church,
and another gentleman, of their own heads, as they were
overseers of our poor, were pleased to take about Forty
Pounds old tener of the income of our poor's land, and
gave it to their favourite ministers in building their half
(136)
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 137
fence, between the said ministry land, and a lot of land
given by our commoners to the poor of Salem. I opposed
it what I could, as I was an overseer with them, but could
not prevent the trespass, I being but one, and they three.
The next time I was chosen an overseer of the poor in
1757, finding that the said three gentlemen had determined
not to restore the misapplied money, nor that Mr. Barnard,
nor Mr. Diman, who reaped benefit by this misapplication,
ever intended to do it, nor their parishes ; I wrote a letter
of complaint to the second church in Danvers, in severe
language (too severe indeed) upon which this brother in
Mr. Barnard's church sued me, and made me an offender
for a few words, being encouraged thereto and assisted by
his brethren ; and to give his action the better complection,
several of his brethren (that were justices too) actually
prevailed with the giddy populace of Salem, in a town
meeting, to give public thanks by vote to these overseers,
for doing what they had done ; the vote was the more
rude, as there was not a syllable in the warrant for any
such thing, and 6 or 7 years too after the trespass was
committed. Mr. Barnard himself was present when this
absurd vote was passed ; but instead of reproving the
people for it, he graced it with a smile. Mr. Barnard and
Mr. Diman, and some members of their churches, to cover
their two trespassing brethens sin, and their own withal,
tell the inhabitants of the town (who seem willing to be
deceived) that the poors land lets better now, than it did
before it was separated from the ministry land, as so is a
benefit ; I own it. But if they were honest men, would
they not tell the people that the poors land would let
every whit as well if one half of this divisional fence was
made by the ministers or their parishes, and not for our
poor to do it all ? Mr. Barnard and Mr. Diman tell us
also, that it would be very hard for them to be at charges
about this half fence, because their improvement of the
ministry land is only temporary! But is it not much
harder for our poor widows that keep a cow (who have
the first right to the poors land) to be obliged to make the
ministers half fence, who have not so much as a temporary
improvement of the ministry land ? How sad is it, that
138 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
ministers should offer such fallacious excuses to cover the
sin of themselves and their party. I was desirous to read
the above to the council who ordained Mr. Huntington, Mr.
Barnard and Mr. Diman and their Delegates being pre-
sent ; but the council thought it was not proper, which
made me sorry, because of the trouble of printing it.
However they allowed me to read the substance of what
follows : Many seem glad to hear of peace again in Salem ;
but when things are laid open, purity is found wanting.
The peace of Christ's Kingdom, you know, is always pre-
ceeded by purity ; where there is peace without purity,
the strong man armed keepeth his palace and reigns. The
Devil cares not how zealous we are for the duties of the
first table, provided the duties of the second table are
neglected. This was the temper of the Scribes and Phari-
sees in Christ's time ; they were very zealous for keeping
the fourth commandment, but altogether as bad with
respect to the fifth, for they made thai void by tradition.
What I earnestly desire, is that you, or some of you,
would speedily tell my brethren, that it is by no means
proper for them to alter their church records from the
first church to the third ; but to let them remain as their
late pastor the Rev. Mr. Learnt left them. And tell Mr.
Barnard's church that their name or number must be de-
termined by the date of their settlement, which was on the
8th day of December, 1736. See Rev. Appletorfs Sermon
at the ordination of Mr. John Sparhawk, their first pastor.
And that it is a shame for them so much as to desire to
stand in the character of the first church in Salem ; especi-
ally since the first founders of their church have with so
great a solemnity procured a censure of the first church
in Salem, and that if they should stand in this character,
their printed narratives pointing against them, will be
always reporting lies. Mr. Barnard and his church, sen-
sible of some of their glaring absurdities, would fain
persuade people to believe, that they and we were all one
and the same church, till the last year : If so, how comes
it to pass that when they called and settled their pastors,
one after another, that they did not ask us to their church
meetings? Besides, what horrid prevarication is this,
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 139
that they should be the busy instruments of a number of
churches withdrawing communion from the first church in
Salem, while they never intended it themselves ? Poor
creatures ; how they wring and twist and run into fresh
absurdities, to get rid of former ones. You must separate
yourselves from these men, and not partake with them in
their sin ; but keep yourselves pure, according to the Rev.
Mr. Lord's excellent advice to our new ordained Minister,
and the congregation. Thus I have informed you that
part of your body is very corrupt. Pray, Rev. Elders
and Brethren, take care of yourselves ; know ye not that
a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. But if you can
put up with such a long train of moral evils, mentioned in
this and the other remonstrance, with what face can you re-
quire a young woman to stand in the broad alley and there
confess fornication, that has contracted marriage with a
man who dies and leaves her with child before the minis-
ter has pronounced them man and wife ? Would not this
be straining at a knat and swallowing a camel with a
witness ? Many tho'tless people say, that its pity to rake
up old things, lest it should make new troubles. But they
should know that no sin unrepented of, &c. is ever old in
the DIVINE MIND. Our provinces should consider this,
who have greatly wronged many hundreds of thousands of
orphans, helpless persons, generous creditors, and salary
men, by means of their awful breaches of their public
faith, with respect to their paper currencies.
Our depreciating paper currency formerly, or false
balances, was the means that the first founders of Mr.
Barnard's church and others with them, made use of to
wrong their minister; for they voted him but 20 when
60 was his due. See the other remonstrance. Mr. Barnard
is an ingenious man ; but he is now in good bread, and
seems loth to affront his people by telling them plainly of
these public sins. I don't wonder at it indeed so much,
because he is partner with them in some of their sins.
Five of the neighboring ministers have slightly reproved
them for some of their abominations, but then they hold
communion with them, before they have so much as ac-
knowledged their faults, or made the least restitution. Is
140 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTS'.
not this doing and undoing and daubing with untempered
mortar ?
So long as you hold communion with Mr. Barnard's
church, they are induced to think that they stand right. I
hope that none of you will any longer be cruel to them.
Salem, Sept. 30, 1763.
Tim Pickering.
Boston Gazette, Oct. 10, 1763.
Essex ff. Ipswich, October 28, 1763.
ONE Francis Brown, a Portugueze, imprisoned for
Theft, broke out of the Goal in this Town the last Night,
and escaped. He is about Thirty Years of Age, of some-
thing more than midling Size, lightish Completion, somewhat
Pocksfretten. Had on when he went away, Part of a Chain
and Foot Lock ; and for Cloathing, Sea Jacket, light coloured
blue Breeches, and a striped Worsted Gap. Whoever shall
take up said Brown, and secure him in any of His Majesty 1 s
Goals, shall have Ten Dollars, Reward, and all necessary
Charges paid, by
ROBERT HALE, Sheriff.
Boston Gazette, Oct. 31, 1763.
Newbury, November 3d, 1763.
Saturday last died here in the 21st Year of his Age,
Mr. JOHN NEWMAN He commenced Batchelor of Arts at
Harvard College in July, 1762. And had for some Time
before his last Illness been Master of the Grammar School
in this Town He had a good natural Capacity, and being
of a studious Turn of Mind made considerable Progress in
several branches of Learning. He was amiable in his
Temper, modest and ingenuous in his Deportment, which
procured him the Regard of those who had the Opportun-
ity of an Acquaintance with him ; he was sober in his Dis-
position and prudent in his Conduct ; the particular
Course of his Studies since he left College has been
turned to Divinity, to which sacred Profession, had he
lived to devote himself from his early Piety and exemplary
Life, he would probably have adorned the Religion of his
divine Master, and benefited Mankind in their most inter-
esting Concerns. The just Expectations of his Friends
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 141
from him in his future Life, which are now blasted in the
Bud, would render them inconsolable ; but the Prospects
which the Tenor of his Life and Conversation afford them,
serve to alleviate their Grief by adding a comfortable
Hope to the other Motives of Christian Resignation.
" Death that doth Sin and Sorrow thus prevent
4< Is the next Blessing to a Life well-spent."
Boston G-azette, Nov. 7, 1763.
Marblehead, October 28, 1763.
On Saturday last died here the amiable, and truly vir-
tuous Consort of WILLIAM BOURN, Esq. : She was a
Lady who greatly adorned every Character of domestic, as
well as social Life ; her Death must therefore prove a
Loss great and extensive.
Boston Gazette, Nov. 7, 1763.
In Compliance with a Request from a Number of the
Signers for Lands on St. John's River, in Nova Scotia, sig-
nifying in said Request that they having had Advice from
Halifax, of a new Governor's Arrival, on which Account
the Petitioners apprehend it expedient for said Signers to
Petition the Court of Halifax for a Title to said Lands :
The said Petitioners also apprehending the Notice given
to the Settlers on said River not to proceed, a Sound
without any visible Substance, or Matter of Discourage-
ment, although it may have that Effect on some, and since
a Petition cannot with Propriety be presented to the Court
of Halifax or elsewhere, without a Vote of said Signers,
it is their Request to have a Meeting called as soon as
may be,
THEREFORE the Signers for Lands on St. John's
River abovesaid, are hereby notified to meet at the House
of Mr. John Hale. Innholder in Boxford, on the last
Tuesday of November Instant, at Two of the Clock in the
Afternoon, to act on such Articles as they shall think
proper, when met, respecting our procuring a Title to said
Lands, or to pass any other Votes that may be deem'd
proper at said Meeting, by said Proprietors.
SOLOMON WOOD, Signers Clerk.
Dated, Boxford, November 3, 1763.
Boston G-azette, Nov. 7, 1763.
142 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
His Majesty's ship Jamaica is to be stationed at Marble-
head or Salem.
Boston Gazette, Nov. 14, 1763.
Lynn, Nov. 11, 1763.
Ran-away from his Master, Mr. Ezra Newhall, of Lynn,
Cordwainer, an Apprentice Lad, named Jacob Dunnell,
about 20 Years of Age, small of Stature, fair Complection,
with light blue Eyes, and light brown Hair cut short on
the Crown of his Head ; Had on when went away, a Cloth
colour'd Broad Cloath Coat, with brass Buttons a blue
Ratteen Jacket, and either a pair of black Everlasting
Breeches, or Cloth colour'd Leather ones. Whoever shall
take up said Run away and bring him to his said Master
at Lynn, shall have Eight Dollars Reward and all necessary
Charges paid, As tis strongly suspected he will go to Sea,
all Masters of Vessels and others are hereby caution'd
against harbouring, concealing or carrying him off, as they
would avoid the Penalty of the Law.
Boston G-azette, Nov. 14, 1763.
Custom House, ) ^ , na
Port of Salem \ December 26,
WHEREAS it has been represented to the Right
Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's
Treasury, that many Vessels trading to the Plantations
not belonging to the King of Great Britain and returning
with Cargoes of Rum, Sugar, and Molasses, have found
Means to smuggle the same into his Majesty's Colonies,
without paying the King's Duty. THIS is to inform all
Masters of Vessels using the said Trade, that they are
hereby strictly required on their Arrival here, to enter or
report their Ships and Cargoes at the Custom House, when
proper Officers will be put on board such Vessels, to see
that the Act of the Sixth of his late Majesty King GEORGE
the Second (imposing a Duty on all foreign Rum, Sugar,
and Molasses) be in all it's Parts fully carried into Exe-
cution. By Order of the Surveyor-General,
J. COCKLE, Collector.
J. DOWSE, Surveyor $ Searcher.
Boston G-azette, Jan. 2, 1764.
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 143
The Surveyor General has appointed John Nutting,
Esq. ; to be King's Gauger, and Weigher for the Port of
Salem.
Boston Post, Jan. 2, 1764.
PHILIP GODFRID KAST,
Has lately imported from LONDON, a very large as-
sortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES, Chymical and Galen-
ical, which he will SELL by Wholesale or Retail, at his
Shop at the Sign of the Lyon and Mortar, in Salem.
Among which are,
Turlingtons Balsom of Life Teeth-Drawers of different
Batemans Pectoral Drops sorts.
British Oyl Marble Mortars
Stoughtons Elixer Salutis Double-flint Bottles from
Hoopers Female Pills half Ounce to a Quart,
Lockyer ditto with Glass Stoppers
Annodyne Necklaces for the Hungary and Lavender
easy breeding of Childrens Waters, Eau de Luce
Teeth Essences Burgumot
Bezoar Oriental Verd Civit and Musk
Blood Stones Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace,
Best cut Smelling Bottles of and Nutmegs.
different sorts Allum, Copperas, Brimstone,
Best and common Lancets Redwood and Logwood.
Ditto in Nourseskin Cases Best Pott-ash
Compleat Setts of Pocket White Sugar Candy
Instruments in Pouches, Salt Petre, &c. &c.
tipt with Silver.
Jt^^Gentlemen Practitioners and others will be used
as well by Letters, as if present themselves.
Boston G-azette, Jan. 23, 1764.
Ipswich, January 28, 1764.
Last Tuesday Morning died here, and Yesterday was
decently interr'd, Mr. Matthew Whipple, in the 79th Year
of his Age, and after he had for more than forty-nine
Years, used the Office of a Deacon well, to the third Church
in this Town : During which Time, he hath also in his
private Capacity been exemplary in many Christian Vir-
144 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
tues : especially Zeal for the publick Worship of God,
Courage and Faithfulness to rebuke Sin, Integrity, Sin-
cerity, Benevolence, and remarkable Hospitality : Which
last mentioned Virtue can be testified to by many of higher
and lower Degree, who have frequented the Road by his
House. He has left a virtuous Widow, with whom he
had liv'd in Wedlock fifty-three Years, and a letter Name
than of Sons and Daughters, from his well known amiable
Qualities.
Boston Gazette, Jan. 30, 1764.
A most Shocking Murder :
On Thursday the 19th ultimo, the following awful Ac-
cident happened in the North Parish of Danvers, viz. One
Mrs. Hannah Hutchinson, a Widow Woman, having Oc-
casion to go to a Neighbour's House in the Beginning of
the Evening, left at Home only two Children, a young
Woman of about 23 Years of Age, and a Lad of 17 (own
Sister and Brother). On one of the Family's Return not
long after, they were presented with the awful Spectacle
of the abovesaid young Woman lying murdered upon the
Floor, her Head being almost sever'd from her Shoulders,
and very much bruised and massacred ; Upon which the
Neighbours were call'd in, and some Time was spent in
Searching for the Boy, who at length was found drowned
in the well ; he is supposed first to have murdered his Sis-
ter in this barbarous Manner. By the Instruments that
lay by, it appears that he first knock'd her down with a
Gammerill, then run a Fork into her Neck and Face in
several Places ; not finding this enough to effect his Pur-
pose, he chop'd her Head almost off with an Axe, and
struck her with it, as appears by the Wounds and Bruises,
20 or 30 Times : And then, to escape the Justice of Man,
threw himself into the Well and so put an End to his own
miserable Life. It is supposed that some Quarrel had
happened between them, (they being alone) which was
the Cause of this dismal Catastrophe. The Jury after
sitting some Time, bro't him in Non compos mentis.
Boston Gazette, Feb. 6, 1764.
(To be continued.)
SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
TOWN MEETINGS, VOLUME II,
( Continued from Volume XLIX, page SO.')
M r Samuell Gardner sen' L 1 John Pickering & Edw :
Flint are Chofen to goe along with the Selectmen in per-
ambulation to Settle the Bounds betweene Marbleheade
& this towne and thay or the maj r part of them haue full
power soe to doe & thursdaye the first day of May is
agreed vpon to Meete Some of Marblehead aboute nine of
the Clock in the foore none att George Darlings house to
Attend the Aboues d worke
Agreed with m r John Turner (For to paye vnto m r
John Higginfon sen r his Maintenance due to him from the
Towne for this Yeare ;) vpon the Same Conditions m r
John Higginfon & m r Sam 11 Gardner Jun r payde itt the
laft Yeare
Att a Metteing of the Selectmen Aprill 14 th
There shall bee a Metting of the Fremen Warned by
the Constable, to bee held at the Vfuall place of Metting
on the thurd day of May Next, aboute nine of the Clock
For the Choyce of Gou r Dep ty & Asistants. Alfo for Dep-
utys for y* Courte
Att a Metting of the Selectmen Aprill 23 all being
prefent
M r Edm Batter is D r to a bill charged vpon Cons tr
Jn Norman (Fourtey shillings) to bee Allowed out of
the Ouerplus of his Rates
nott payd by Con Jno Norman
m r Higginfons Rate was Made & the Severall Con-
stables are Debt r there proportions as p r Contra
(145)
146 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
[296] Constable Edw Flint D r
Min r : p* Towns p
to his proportionof y e Minesters
Rate to bee p d m r Jn Turner 37 : 10 : 00
D 1 to his Ouerplus to bee p d the
Towne 2 : 02 : 02
Cons* Nehemia Willowbey D r to
his proportion of the M r :
Rate to bee p d m r Jn Turner 35 : 10 : 00
To his Ouerplus to bee p d to
the Towne 2 : 16 : 00
Cons* James Poland to paye m r
Turner 38 : 00 : 00
To paye the Towne the Ouer-
plus being 3 : 13 : 00
Const: Peter Chevers to paye
m r Turner 38 : 00 : 00
To paye the towne the Ouer-
plus being 2 : 16 : 06
Conft: James Symons to paye
m r Turner 26 : 00 : 00
To paye the Towne the Ouer-
plus being 2 : 02 : 00
Cons* Job Swinterton Jun r to
py. m r Turner 4 : 10 : 00
To : paye the Towne the Ouer-
plus being 1 : 00 : 00
180 : 00 : 00 14 : 09 : 08
Att a Meetting of the Selectmen Aprill 24 th all p r sent
butt Cap* Corwin & m r Turner
Agreed with Elizabeth Mackmaley to Keepe Rebek :
Outon vntill one m After her lyeing in vpon the Condi-
tons follow lng Viz for Two shill 83 Six pence p r weeke ;
Excep* for one fortnight att her lyeing in for which tyme
she shall haue Eight shillings p r weeke fiue shill g8 whereof
shall bee in money Likewife shee shall haue one y d &
a halfe or two y ds of Red Gotten Vpon which aboues d
Condittions shee is to Free & cleare the Towne from any
SALEM TOWN RECOBDS. 147
further Charge or troble Either Concerning her or her
Child dureing the abousaid Terme of tyme
payd by Cap* Brown 20s io^d The Towne haueing left
Cap H p?fce nS n 9 9 the Cafe of Tho : Green to
more the Select men, Wee haue
Cap* Brown 7 4^ determined that thomas
Capt Price 5 8 GreeQ pr Reson Q ^
51 11 Nefsesyty att present shall
bee Allowed p r the Towne Fiffty shillings & cleared from
his Rates
Agreed with Good Tree for his Bull to goo with the
heeard of Cowes this Summer for twenty shill gs to bee p d him
Att a Metting of the Select men May 22 th 1679 Chofen
& Impowred Cap 1 John Price & m r Jn Turner to goe in
perambulation with linn men from the Vper End of the
long pond to Ipswich River & to take whatt hands with
them may bee Nefsesary to Reuew the late made bounds
& wee Apynt the fiueteenth of may the Aboves d work
shall bee Attended or vpon the Next Sutable weather
The fiueteenth of May the worke aboue s d was Attended
by Salem & lin who went in perambulation & renewed
the Bounds lately Agreed upon Betweene Both
[297] Constable Daniell Andrew D r To his proportion
of y e Country Rates As Appeares fower
Leaues Backward 154 : 03 : 00
To : the towne for Cred* giuen him out
of Doct r Welds his difburstments p r the
Country 00 : 10 : 00
To : Some men added vnder y e Acc
of Rates y u gathered 00 : 00 : 00
To : his proportion of y e towne Rates 78 : 06 : 06
To : his proportion of the minesters
debt* & ouer plus 17 : 07 : 06
min es Rate
to Cap* Browne 15 : 17 : 6 250 : 06 : 06
to y e towne 1 : 10 :
17 : 07: 6
148 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
Payde vpon the Countrys
Acc 4 Syd es BW 95 : 5 : 2
Payde vpon the Townes
Acc 4 Sydes BW 83 : 14 :
P d more to the Country as p r a Res* of Cap* W m
Browne for difburst mt8 vpon the man of warr & is in full
29 : 7 mo 4 : 19 : 05
P d the Treafur r in diiburst m for m r Symonds : 10 : 00
to payd Some body short to make vp the
Acc of diiburst mt to y e Country : 09 : 04
to p d severall for fortification worke 2 : 06 : 06
to dif burst for lowring y e flowre of y e
meeting houfe & worke donne at the pillers 1 : 11 : 00
p r abated for Tho Howard more 01 : 08 : 00
20 : 12 : 79/80 to abatements of his owne
or Others Rates 10 : 10 : 02
to mony difburst at beverly 5 s 8 d & att
boston 3 d 00 : 13 : 00
p r Attending 7 days att y e Gen 1 Courte for
y e towne 00 : 17 : 06
Att a Gen 1 Towne Metteing att Marblehead March 24 th
78/9 Itt was Agreed that m r Samuell Ward & m r John
Legg are Chofen this present yeare for to Runn the
Bounds betweene Salem & Marblehead
This is a tru Copye taken out of the Towne booke by
order of y e Selectmen Sign ed p r Rich d Knott
Wee whofe names are vnder written being Chofen by
our Respectiue Townes ; for the Settlement of the Bounds
betweene our Townes : Viz : from a stumpe of a white
oake tree Southwards of George Darlings houfe aboute
twenty pole thence alonge Southerlye of the Coy-pond to
a Red Oake : from the Red Oake to a Warnutt Tree
Some thinge neere the same Range, from y e white Oake,
and from thence to an Old Red Oake tree, by the Syde
of Thomas Pittmans Salt Marf h : vnto all which aboues d
Bounds wee haue layde stones & are the Bounds betweene
m r Humphreys Farme and the Fifftye Akers belonging to
the Coy-pond : which Fifftye Akers lyes in Salem Town-
ship Likewise wee doe Confirme the Antient Bounds of
8ALEM TOWN RECORDS. 149
the Farme viz : from the white oak stumpe Southward of
George Darlings to the Cliffs or Runn of water by the
Seea & doe Settle itt as the Vttmost Extent of Marble-
head Townshipp On that Syde or part in Wittnefs wheare-
vnto wee haue sett our hands this 11 May 1679
Samuell Ward Jn Corwin
John : Legg W m Browne Jun r
Thefe signed for Marblehead Ph. Cromwell
Jno. Higginson
Jn Hathorne
Sam 1 Gardner sen r
John Pickering
Thefe aboue named signed For Salem
The Originall paper of which this is a Copye is amonght
the paper Records
[298] Att a Metteing of the Select men of Beverlye
Aprill 22 th 79 Jn Rayment sen r John Dodge sen r Wil-
liam Rayment Peter Woodbury L* Paul Thorndick &
Andrew Ellett, ware Chofen & Apoynted to goe in per-
ambulation with our Neighboures of Salem in the Bounds
betweene them & Vs According to Notice giuen vs by
them Viz from the Rock at the heade of Bafs Riuer to
the pine stumpe by the swampe that runeth out of Law-
rence Leachs Meadow
This was signed p r Andrew Ellett
Recorder
Wee whofe names are vnder Written being by the
Apoyntment of the selectmen of our Respectiue townes
Meet to goe In perambulation in the Bounds Betweene
our said Townes From the Rock att the heade of Bafs
Riuer to the pine stumpe by the Swampe that Runeth out
of Lawrance Leaches Meadow haue Accordingly gone
the said perambulation & Renewed the s d Bounds : Viz :
the Rock & stumpe ; And made Two Bounds vpon the
line betweene the Abouesaid Bounds as neere as wee Could
guefse to bee Rectified if found amifs vpon more Exact
tryall which line Bounds are the one a heape of stones att
aboute a Miles diftance from the Rock and the Other two
fmall White Oakes Marked; with a heape of Stones
150 SALEM TOWN EECOBDS.
aboute One of them, att aboute a Miles diftance from the
pine Stumpe in Confirmation heareof wee haue heare vnto
sett our hands Aprill 28 th 1679
For Beverly For Salem
Jn Rayment Jn Corwin
Paul Thorndick Tho. Puttnam
John Dodge Ph. Cromwell
W m Rayment Rich : Leech
Andrew Ellet Jn Puttnam
Pet : Woodbury Israeli Porter
The original paper is amonght y e paper Records
Att a Metting of the Freemen May 3 rd 1679 Chofen
For Deputyes to Attend the Gen 11 Courte for the Yeare
Cap* John Corwin & Cap* John Price
Att a Metting of the Select May 13 th all present butt
m r Jn Turner
Chofen to prosecute all the lawes of the Country : & all
orders of the Towne Relating to horfe Kind or neate
Cattle Edm Briges & Jn Bu[torn]
m r Fran es Neale his petition is granted to abate his
Country rate to William Curtice Constable
Abated William Tayler the whole of his Rates to Con st
Skerye
The Selectmen gaue theere Confent that Edm Briges
should sitt in that seate in the gallery : wheare sarj* Lake
lately dec d vsed to sitt
[299] Att a Metting of the Selectmen May 19 th 79
And 20 th
Abated Cons* Andrews Eleuen s & six pence out of
Charles Phillips his Rates vpon Condittion Phillips forth-
with payes the Country Rate to the Cons*
L* John Puttnam & m r Dan 1 Andrews are Chofen to
Attend the Gen 1 Courte to Manage the Busfnefs betweene
Salem & Wenham Concerning the Bounds of townfhip
Cap* John Price is Chofen & desired with what speede
may bee to fitt the Towne houfo Chamber soe as may bee
Convenyent for the Courte to meete theere
Agreed with Joseph Huchefon for his Bull to goe with
SALEM TOWN RECORDS. 161
the hearde vntill the last of September for which hee is to
bee p d or Allowed twenty shillings in his Towne Acc of
Rates
Att a Metting of the Towne the 14 th June 79
Chofen for the Jury of Tryalls
m r Hen. Bartholmew m r Jn Sanders m r Jos Ward
m r Hill rd Veren m r Ben : Gerish m r Fr. Nurce
Tho : Puttnam Jun r
Att a Metting of the Selectmen July 8 th all present
butt Ca : Corwine
Whearas Joseph Bachelder was Rated heare in the
yeare 77 & itt Apeareing that hee p d some small Rate
that yeare in beverlye & liued theere for a tyme we there-
vpon haue taken of his Rates to Const Dan 1 Andrews all
butt fiueteene shillings w ch hee payde & is dd Cons 1 An-
drews 12 : 11
Att a Metting of the Select men August 9 th 1679 all
being present butt Cap 1 John Corwine & Cap 1 Browne
To the Constables of Salem You are hereby required
in his Maj estys name, to warne thurteene men Euery night
to Watch & to bee Exact to see the full Number Appeares
& attends ; the one halfe att lest to bee sober honest men
& houfehoulders ; one of which y u shall Committ the
Charge & Care of the Watch vnto, & warne them to bee
very Carefull to Examine any night walkers, strangers or
others who are abroad att vnsesonable howres, and to se-
cure any suspitious perfon that Cannot giue a good Acc
of theere buifnefs, & to the vttermost of theere Endeaver
to bee Carefull to prevent fires being made or sett vnto
the towne by Euell Instruments that may seeke our Ruin
likewife to Attend all other Dutys the law Requires of
You
haueing Res d Information by way of Complaynt against
Tho : Vealey for Entertaining strangers to dwell as inmates
for one Weeke or more without giueing notice (to the
select men in being) of the same & finding itt soe by his
own Confession, hee only pleading Ignorance of the towns
Order wee for the first Convixtion admonish & fine him
152 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
twenty shillings, & giue him warning to bee more Care-
full for tyme to Come, who promifes the select men nee
will
[300] Att a Metting of the Committee of Malitia
Commilion" and select men of the Towne August 13 th
1679
It is ordered that there shall not any Indian lodge with-
in the towne one night: Butt shall depart out of the
Towne by son setting ; And shall not returne againe into
the Towne againe vntill son Riseing. And iff any indian
after publishing heareof shall presume to breake this order
hee shall bee aprehended & secured in prifon : Either by
the Watch or any other person Whatt soever ; & in the
Morning shall bee carried Before Outhorytye & punished
According to his or theire desearts
Whearas by sad Experience the want of Sutable persons
(before Apoynted) to manage Matters in Cafe of fire, in
other places hath been Exceeding prejuditiall
Itt is theerefore ordered & wee doe heareby apoynt &
Impower the Selectmen of the towne for the tyme being,
alfo m r Bartholmew Gedney & m r Sam 1 Gardner sen r to
manage and Act in all Matters therein ; And all or any
of them as Occation shall bee haue heareby full power to
require Sutable alistance when any fires may breake out :
& to giue direction what shall bee donne, Either for blow-
ing vp of houfes or puling them downe or whattsoever
elce according to theere best difcretion may bee nefsesary.
Att a Metteing of the select men August 13 th 1679 all
being present but Cap* Jn Corwin & m r ph. Cromwell.
Itt is ordered that there shall bee prouided vpon the
townes Acount soe many hooks & Instruments as may bee
nelsesary in Cafe of fire
Itt is agreed that the order Concerning Lathers (made
8 sep* 77) the Constables of the Towne shall see itt is
obfarved : or take the penaltye after 25 th of this Instant
m And that penaltye shall bee tenn shillings for Euery
weekes Neglect
The Gentlemen whofe names are vnder written are
def ired to Gett & lay in store (for Six m tyme ffollow*)
SALKM TOWN JRECORDS. 163
fiueteene Barrells of powder that iff the Towne haue Oc-
cation thay may bie in a Redynefs for there vfe, the Towne
payeing for them if thay vfe them
Viz : M r W m Browne sen r 6 Barrells
Cap* Geo. Corwin 3 Barrells
Cap 1 W m Browne 2 B.
m r Jn Turner 2 Barrells
m r Edm Batter 1 B
Maj r Hathorne 1 B
All thefe aboues d Gen H haue benne spoaken with & haue
promifed to doe it
M r William Browne sen r m r W m Browne Jun r m r
Edm Batter thay are def ired to prouide for the towns
vfe Two or three doz n of Seder Bucketts which may bee
in a Redinefs for the Townes vfe for the present ; & vntill
leather Bucketts may bee gott or procured
Itt is ordered that the Constable shall make a strict
Inquisition throughout there whole deuifions, to know
whether any of the Inhabitants haue taken in or Enter-
tayned any Inmates ; And to Returne the names (of any
soe tranfgrefsing) to the Select men
[301] Constable James Poland D r to his proportion
of y* Country Rate payable to the
Treafur r 48 11 00- 00 d
li s d
To his Ouerplus to the Towne 23 : 11 : 04
Con* Nehe r Willowbey D r to his p'
of Country Rate payable to
the Treafu r 43 : 00 : 00
To his Ouerplus to paye the towne 24 : 03 : 02
Cons* Peter Chevers D r to his p* of
Country Rate payable to the
Treafurer 42 : 00 : 00
To his ouerpluse to paye the Towne 20 : 02 : 08
Con 8 Ja : Symonds D r to his p* of
y e Country Rate payable to
the Treafur 61 41 : 00 : 00
To his ouerplus to paye the Towne 16 : 06 : 04
Con 1 Edw : Flint D r to his p* of
y* Country Rate payable to the
Treafur er 50 : 00 : 00
154 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
To his ouerplus to pay the Towne 23 : 18 : 06
Con 8 Job Swinerton D r to his p*
of y e Country Rate payable to
the Treafur er 40 : 00 : 00
To his ouerplus to the towne 14 : 05 : 00
"264:00:00 U 121: 19:00
Goody Mackmalley is Cred r $ Keeping Rebecka Outon
from y e 24 April to the IB August & her child 2 : 11 : 00
p r Keep Rebecka Outon 8 weekes more at 2 s p r : 16 : 00
D r Money at m r Verens p d her 00 : 05 : 00
1 B Come of Cap* Jn Price 00 : 03 : 06
severall things of Cap* W m
Browne 00 : 14 : 00
m r Willowbey Cons* a bill Giuen 01 : 08 : 06
2:11: 00
D r p d by cap* W m Browne 16 8 )
f Sam 1 Wakefeild 20 s for a V 1 : 16 : 00
fine )
Cred* f Keeping Reb : Outon from y e 13 th
oct to 5 Jan 1 : 00 : 00
4 : 07 : 00
Abated W m Stacys Rates for this yeare to Con s Nehe :
Willowbey 5 s
Franc 68 Skery is D r to a bill Charged vpon Peter Che-
vers Con 8 for fiue pounds out of the overplus of his
Country Rates for Keeping Sarah Lambert in ye Yeare
1678
Att a Metting of the Select men 14 : 6 : 79 all present
butt Cap* Jn Corwin & m r Turner
Samuell Wakefeild haueing Entertained as an Inmate
(a frenchman : Viz Claudius Bouen) for a Conf iderable
tyme as Appeared by Sufficient Wittnefs. Alfo by his
owne Confession For which Offence wee fine him twentye
shill 3 to bee p d in money
Wee haue ordered W m Lord to ringe the Bell att fiue a
Clock in the morneing for one m tyme att which tyme
the watch shall break vp
SALEM TOWN RECORDS. 155
Dauid Hartshorne is admitted to Continue in the Towne
dureing the Selectmens pleasure
[302] Peter Chever Coruplayning against John Robin-
fon for not Clearing his trench or draine through his land ;
to the greate dammage of the Sayd Chevers, And finding
that them houfe lotts ware granted vpon that Condittion,
to keepe a draine open soe that thay might nott damnifye
one another ; Wee there vpon haue apoynted m r John Tur-
ner & m r John Higginson to see that Condittion performed
by John Robinfon or any other y* doth or shall neglect
there duty therein
Att a Towne Meeting the 23 August 1679 Chosen for
Commiiioner or Eight man for this yeare M r Bar th Gedney
23 : 6 mo : Att a Meeting of the Select men, and Com-
misfion r or 8 th man
By Vertue of a Warrant from the Country Treasurer
to take a list of all Male perfons with an Estimation of all
Estates & to make return to there Sheire Townes
Wee make returne thereof as Followeth : Viz : three
Hundred Heads or Male persons, And the Estates of the
Towne amounts vnto fourtey one pounds According to
law ; Which makes in the whole Sixtey Six pounds, And
wee doe defire the Commifion r s of the respectiue Townes
in this Countye would bee pleased to Confider our greate
Lofses and make a Sutable abatement for them
Att a Meeting of the Select men 29 September 1679
Chosen to Run a West line from the Stumpe y* is in the
Swampe by Lawrance Leach his Meadow (soe called) M r
Phillip Cromwell Lt. John Higginson Lt. John Puttnam
& m r Daniell Andrew
And itt is ordered that notice bee giuen to wenham men
to Attend the same vpon the sixt day of October next to
meete att Daniell Andrews house, aboute eight of the
clocke in the morning only to see or make tryall how a
west line will run
Agreed that the Constables watch shall still Continue &
156 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
y* Six men shall watch euery night, the Major part where,
of shall bee houfe houlders and sober men
Att a Meeting of the selectmen 14 : 8 : 79
M r Jn Higginson & Jn Hathorne is chosen to Reckon
with m r Dan 11 Epps and to paye him whatt is due to him
for the last halfe yeare
M r Jn Galley being admitted an Inhabitant within this
Jurisdiction and desireing to Hue in this towne ; Wee
grant his request
Goodm Beachum is desired to sitt behinde the pulpett
in y e meeting houfe And Thomas Flint sonne to the late
deceased W m Flint shall sitt in that seate wheare Goodm
Beachum did sitt.
Due to Docter Weld for his Attendance vpon, & admin-
estring vnto, the Familey of John Homans, in the tyme of
there vifettation with y e fmall pox Fifftye shillings in or
as money payd by bill to Con 8 Job Swinerton 9 : ll mo
M r Samuell Gardner sen r is Chosen to goe to the Gen 1
Courte to manage the Case betweene Salem & wenham
M r Phillip Cromwell & Jn Hathorne are Chosen to Ad-
uise & Assist Goody Olliuer in the sale of her land to pay
her debts due to the towne &c
[303] I Daniell Epes doe Acknowledg that I haue
Reseaued of the Select men of Salem Tenn pounds Foure-
teene shill 88 in Money which is in full for Keeping a gram-
er Scoole in Salem from the 10 th of the 12 mo 1678 to the
10 tk of the Sixt m 1679 I say Res d p r mee of the Money
Reseaued for Rent (for this End) In the Yeare 1678
Daniel Epes
Att a Towne Meeting the 3 Nouem br 1679
John Hathorne p r voate Chosen Moderator
Voated & Chofen to searve vpon the Jury of Tryalls ;
M r Samuell Gardner sen r
M r Jos Hardye sen 1
M r William Boudich
M r Richard Croad
M r Joseph Hutchefon
M r John Leach L t8 sonne
M r Benj. Pickman
SALEM TOWN RECORDS. 157
Voated & Chofen to Searve vpon the Grand Jury :
L* Thomas Puttnam
Sarj. Tho : Fuller
M r Whitte
M r Geo : Keazer
M r Jer : Meachum
M'Tho: Rix
M r Nath 1 Felton
The Select men haueing Vewed & Confidered of that
small p r cell of land, John Norton petitioned for, on the
further Syde of the bridge amought the rocks ; Vnto
which wee make this return that itt is our Aprehention
that that place will bee as Little prejudice to the towne to
beftow vpon him as most other places And that itt may
not be vnsutable to Accomodate him theerewith prouided
itt bee giuen to him & his wife dureing both there Hues
and after them both to Fall to his heires forever ; and that
Itt shall not bee in there power to sell or any other wayes
difpofe of itt ; And iff thay doe not build vpon itt within
three yeares and Improue itt themfelues, or iff heareafter
haueing built shall leaue itt : Itt shall then fall to the
towne againe without being purchased by the towne
Voated that John Norton shall haue the land hee peti-
tioned for, According to the returne of the Selectmen.
Voated that Fran C8 Skery & L* John Pickering shall
laye out the land Granted to John Norton :
Voated that there shall bee a towne Rate made to An-
swer the debts of the towne
Voated that the Selectmen shall take in the Severall Ac-
counts of perticuler men vnto whome the towne is in Debt
& to make a Rate Sutable to Answer them
Voated that m r Jn Higginfon Jun r shall haue Libertye
to sett a Stable vpon the townes land att the End of his
Garden where the Selectmen shall Judge most Sutable,
Dui %lng the townes pleasure
M r Norice his cafe & condittion is left to the selectmen ;
& to make a supply to him Accordinglye vntill next March
towne Meeting wheare his cafe is againe to bee propownded
to Confideration
[304] Voated that Wheareas M r Edmond Batter
158 SALEM TOWN BECOKDS.
formerly had libertye granted him, to Sett a Warehoufe
vpon the towns land, att the Coue neere the Meeting houfe,
the Same libertye is Yett granted him to lett his house
stand during the townes pleasure
Att a Meeting of the Select menNouem br 3 d 1679
Agreed with Elnor Bath to Keepe Sarah Lambert & her
Child for & dureing the terme of one yeare from this pre-
sent day which will bee vntill the 3<* of Nouem br 1680.
And to prouide for her & her child Meate drink & Ap-
parell washing and lodging Convenyent for them dureing
the sayde tyme. And iff she then returne her to the
Towne, to deliuour her & her child in as good Condittion
for Cloathing as shee tooke her In Confideration of which,
wee doe Engage & promife her in the behalfe of the towne,
Seauen pounds in some good good paye as the rates Run
which agreement Elnor Bath signed in the presence of the
Selectmen & the Originall is amought the paper Records
Att a Meeting of the Freemen Nouem br 10 d 1679 Chos-
en for Commifion ers for the towne for this Yeare W r Wil-
liam Browne sen r m r Edm Batter & m r Bar* Gedney
Att a Meeting of the Selectmen Nouem br 1679 To all
whomesoever this may Concerne this may Certyfye that
William Bath & his wife hath taken Sarah Lambert & her
child to Keepe (only for one yeare) After which tyme
wee doe Engage in the behalfe of the Towne, to Reseaue
her & her child againe, vnlefse there be any further Agree-
ment made, And doe heareby declare that as itt was nott
in our Intention thereby to cleare Salem from any future
charge concerning her, soe shall & doe looke att her as a
burden belonging vnto our towne & doe heareby fulley
Cleare Beaverly or any other place from any charge that
may Arise from William Bath & his wiues haueing taken
her.
The Copye of this was signed f*> Jn Hathorne ^ order
of y* Selectmen & deliuour ed to W m Bath & his wife
W m Hollis petitioned for some prouif ions for his releife ;
hee being goeing with his Famylye to liue in the Estward
part. Wee grant him in the behalfe of the towne one
SALEM TOWN RECORDS. 159
quarter of Beefe m r Cromwell will delivour him & tenn
shill 88 in money for Corn
Chofen & Impowred Cap* Ge : Corwin m r Edm Batter
Cap 1 John Corwin & Cap* W m Browne or Either of them
to Sue & fulley prosecute Jn Fisk in behalfe of the
Towne
Cap 1 John Price m r Jn Higginson & Jn Hathorne are
defired chosen & Impowred to Sue & prosecute the sev-
erall Constables that are Indebted to the towne
[305] Chofen For Tythingmen
lnip r
1 Hen ry Rennolds from the bridge to the lane by Rob
Kitchings y e N syde of y e way
2 L l John Pickering from W m Beanes & Rich Adames
to Jn Masons y e S syde of y e way
3 Manafes Marston for that deuif ion of houfes on the
land y t was m r Jn Rucks
4 Jn Mafcoll Jun r from Abra : Coles to m r Batters on
the N syde of the waye
5 Jn Home from Jn Masons to Tho : Crom wells on
the S syde of the waye
6 Symon Home from Cap* Prices to W m Browns Cor-
ner on y e N Syde
7 Sam 1 Archer from Edm Moulds to Ja : Polands on
y e SSyde
8 Nath 1 Beadle from Sam 1 Princes to Sam 1 Gardner
.sen r on y e N syde
9 Jn Rogers from Dan 11 Romballs & Jn Higginsons
to Rich Princs & Jn Ingersons
10 Jer e Neale from m r Jn Higginsons sen 1 to our
ferry by Beverlye
11 Thos Gegglessen* from Jon. Eager to Jn Becketts
by y e seea & in the feilds
12 Edw : Wolland f rom Jou Eagers to And r Wood-
bury s & from Jn Robinsons to Rich Robberts
13 Tho : Searles from Jn Becketts & Andrew Wood-
burys to Jn Cliffords
14 : 15 Rich. Huchefon & Jon Walcott for the farme
village to Edw. Bushops
16 : 17 : 18 Edw : Beachum Jn felton & Jn Tomkins
Jun r for the N feild & all to Proctures
160 SALEM TOWN BECOBDS.
19 Jn Loomes for the Glafse houfe & houfes Adja-
cent
20 L* Rich d Leach for Royall Syde
21 Jn Gingell for Wills Hill
22 Tho. Gold from Jn Proctures to Tho : Golds
23 Thomas Stacey Miller from the Mill vpon the S
Riuer to Jn Blaynees
The 24 th of the 9 mo 1679
Cap* Geo Corwin is D r for what heeRes d of Con st Tho:
Flint more then hee was formerly Charged withall as p r
Res d 16 s 8 d
Const Thomas Flynt is Cred r
li s d
p r a bill p d Ja : Browne Glezier 2 10 : 00
p r a Res* p d Cap* Geo Corwin 16 : 08
p r m r Sam 11 Gardner Jun r p d 4 18 : 06
p r abated vpon a Rate for m r Aliens farme
p r payd Jn Hathorne for Sam 1 Gardner Jun r 1
10
01:10
13: 00
00:00
Cons* Thomas flint is discharged from his rates & his
Acc is Ballanced with the Towne
Cap* Jn Price is D r p r a bill to Jn Procture 9 11 :
00 :00
D r for Jer Neale for Cap* Nicho 1 Maneing hee engaged
5 : 9 : 77 3 : 10 : 00
for Edw flint Constable for Rates 3 : 16 : 00
Cred r p r payd Sy m Booth for town
houfe worke 02 : 00 : 00
Cred r p r his Deputyship 1679 9 : 00 : 00
^ Sundry Acc brought in more
17 : 12 : 79 6 : 04 : 09
15 : 04 : 09 15 : 04 : 09
f, Beefe p d Tho Greene 0:09: 00
<|j& p d Eleaz r Giles for stone steeps
to y e meet ing houfe 1 : 00 : 00
1 : 09 00
18 : 13 : 09
(To be continued.)
A GENEALOGICAL -HISTORICAL VISITATION
OF ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR
1863.
BY ALFRED POORE, M. D.
(Continued from Volume XLIX., page 64>)
At the Butters place is a Lombardy poplar, at the
corner of the house and a well near by. Here the road
divides, one going to the east past Rufus F. Caldwell's
and the other northerly toward N. B. Abbott's. Went
toward the east and called on Mrs. Lucinda (Butters)
Caldwell, who says that her father Benjamin Butters
enlarged and finished the Butters house which was
originally erected by the neighbors and friends of a man
by the name of Ash. The latter married a Marshall of
that vicinity but soon left the place and went to
Boston. Benjamin Butters lived in Moses Abbott's
house when Mrs. Caldwell was born Apr. 14, 1783. In
1791, when she was twelve years old, they removed
from Dr. Whitney's small house to the new place, where
he died in Aug., 1821. His wife died in Dec., 1840.
After Mr. Butters died, his widow lived there, a Mr.
Lanegan who came from New Hampshire boarding there,
until 1838, when Mrs. Caldwell came. Lanegan died in
Wilmington. Mrs. Caldwell lived there until Dec., 1859,
a year before her husband, Samuel Caldwell, died. She
has since let it to Jeremiah Millett, Oct., 1857 to Oct.,
1862, and Isaac Holt until the winter of 1862-3, but in
Apr., 1863 she sold it to Richard Boynton of Ballardvale.
Her father Benjamin Butters was son of William and
Elizabeth (Jaquith) Butters of Wilmington, and he mar-
ried Elizabeth Stimpson, sister to Thaddeus, and John,
(161)
162 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
from Reading, who lived near the pond in West Reading.
He was in the Revolution and served at Bunker Hill.
When first married they resided with his father and had
horn there: Mehitable, who married Lemuel Parker,
Esq., of Pepperrell and second, Dea. Jonas Parker of the
same town ; and Elizabeth, who married Zebediah Mears
and settled on Preston's plain, Andover. When Mr.
Butters came to Andover, he worked for Lt.-Gov. Phillips
several years. His children born after Mrs. Caldwell were
Benjamin, who was a ship master when twenty-one years
old, married Elizabeth Butterfield of Medford and died in
New York city, leaving no children, the widow afterward
marrying a How. Martha, the fifth child, married Capt.
John P. Clisby of Medford, a pilot who owned a lighter
and freighted to the distilleries, who died in Illinois and
she died in Medford. They had sixteen children, half of
whom died before the mother, but there are five in the
south, among whom Joseph is a rich man, having learned
the printer's trade of Dea. Gould of Andover and became
the best compositor they had. Since 1850 he has built a
large printing establishment in Macon, Georgia, at a cost
of $10,000, and edits and publishes a newspaper. Aaron
Warner, another son of Capt. Clisby is an orthodox minister
in Marianna, Florida, and was formerly in Tallahassee ;
Alonzo and Ripley A. own a large flour business in Illinois ;
John, the eldest son, is a planter in Alabama ; Martha mar-
ried a McCalpin, son of the Rev. Mr. McCalpin, and lives
in Alabama ; Mary, another sister, is probably unmarried.
George, the youngest son of Benjamin Butters' children,
married Nancy Cotterill in New York state and resides
on her father's place in Copenhagen, Lewis Co., N. Y.
About the last of June, I860, Asa G. Sheldon, farmer,
of Wilmington, bought the corn fodder of Mr. Ellis and
cleaned out the barn, an hundred or more rats infesting
the premises of William Allen.
On River street, Ballardvale, Reuben Flynn resides in
the corner block with a brick basement, owned by Esquire
Cogswell. He came from the block beyond the Schooner
block in the summer of 1860. He was born in the parish
of Glonton, Co. Cork, Ireland about 1810, son of Thomas
and Nancy (Callihan) Flynn, and his wife was Mary,
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 163
daughter of William and Ellen (Leahy) Barrett, and born
in Bally mony parish, Co. Cork, about 1828. They were
married Sept. 12, 1843 in parish of Glonton, where they
resided until two children were born and another was
born tn Cork, but they all died before they came to Amer-
ica. They arrived July 3, 1851 and came to Ballardvale
from Boston that month, residing here ever since. Chil-
dren : William, b. 1853 in the south end of this building ;
David, d. young; Mary Ann, b, Sept. 11, 1857 ; Reuben,
b. Feb. 8, 1863.
Widow Hannah Moore, who works for Mr. Ellis, resides
in the high part and has a son Fred, born about 1855.
John McEnroe is also in the same tenement.
Thomas Keirnan and wife Margaret, the latter sister to
John McEnroe, occupied another tenement. Next is John
Ooyl and wife Ann, whose son Peter works in a bake-
house in Wilmington, and have also two other children,
Rose and Ann. Patrick McEnroe came from the Schooner
block to the house next to Coyl in the autumn of 1862.
He is the son of John and Katharine McEnroe and was
born in Co. Cavan, Ireland, in 1831, where his great
grandfather and great great-grandfather were born. His
wife Ellen was daughter of James and Elizabeth (Hart)
McManus, and was born in Co. Sligo, Ireland, but brought
up in England. He came to America in 1856, landing in
New York, Feb. 12, and she came in Sept., 1854 ; they were
married and resided in Lawrence. Children : Elizabeth
Ann, b. Ballardvale, May 15, 1858; John Bernard, b.
Dec. 28, 1860, d. young.
Joseph Russell, jr., next in the tenement, moved from
Scotland district in Andover, in June, 1861. He works
in the file shop, but was formerly a shoemaker. He is
son of Joseph and Sarah (Harrington) Russell, and was
born in Lincoln, May 6, 1830. His wife Martha Jane
was daughter of Warren and Abigail (Moore) Mears,
and was born Jan. 29, 1833 in a house next to N. Clarke's
house. Children: George Webster, b. in her mother's
house in Ballardvale, July 31, 1853 ; Ira Warren, b.
Tewksbury, Jan. 10, 1857 ; Newton, b. in Stephen Ab-
bott's house, May 28, 1859; Charlotte and Martha Luella,
b. Sept. 3, 1861.
164 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OP
William Lawrence came from Pierson street, Andover,
to this block in Mar., 1863. He was son of William
Lawrence, and born in Forkhill parish, Ireland, about
1839. He came to America in Mar., 1860. His wife
Mary was daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann (Little)
Smith, b. in the same place in 1838. Their child, Mary
Ann, was born on June 21, 1861, on Pierson street, where
Frank Williams now lives.
In the store building is Francis Breen who came from
Lowell to Ballardvale and his wife Mary (McQuade),
Breen, both of whom work in the mill. Children : John
Henry and Hannah Maria, both born in Lowell. Ann,
widow of John McQuade, lives in the family. She was
born about five miles from Enniskillen, [Ireland] and had
a son Michael, who was killed in the Mexican war.
Widow Jane Gibbs occupies the upper part of the
store building and has a son Thomas, born about 1848,
and two boarders, Ellen Jane Shaw and Letitia Winton,
all of whom are Scotch. The western part of the base-
ment is occupied by William D. Stark as a meat store.
Mary, widow of Joseph Kelly, lives in the north side
of the basement of Caleb Abbott's house, which is on the
west side of River street. She moved here in May, 1863,
having formerly lived in the tenement Mr. Howard now
occupies. She came from Ireland in 1861, her only child
having been in the village since 1858. She was the
daughter of Matthew and Mary (Gavin) Fairley and was
born in the parish of Milo, Ireland, where also her daugh-
ter Margaret was born about 1840.
Caleb Abbott, a shoe manufacturer, lives in a house
which he bought of Mrs. John Flint, removing from
Dover, N. H., the day before Thanksgiving, 1861. He
was born in North Andover, in 1810, the son of Timothy
and Jerusha (York) Abbott. His wife Francis was born
in Methuen in 1817, the daughter of George W. Parker.
Her father was son of John and Lydia (Morrill) Parker
and her mother Fanny was daughter of Aaron and Phebe
(Morse) Noyes. Children, all born North Andover:
Frances Jerusha, b. 1837, mar. Hamilton LeBreton Moul-
ton, a machinist, of New Hampshire, resides in Canton,
N. Y., and have Walter Harrison, b. Dec., 1856, and
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 165
Lizzie Bell, b. 1858, in North Andover; Lillie Jane, b.
1843, mar. James W. Hoyt of Rochester, N. H., a harden-
er in the file shop, resides in the old Ballard house, and
have Ida Frances, b. Dover, N. H., July, 1859 ; Andrew
Jackson, b. Dec., 1845, resides with his brother-in-law in
New York, learning the trade of machinist ; Marcus W.,
died young; Ella Florence, b. Aug. 14, 1853. One Small
left this house before Mr. Abbott moved in and went to
Charlestown or Cambridge.
Edwin Buckley lives in Caleb Abbott's tenement east
of his residence, moving in Jan., 18G3 from Mrs. Scott's
building where they had lived two years, selling shoes in
one part. They had previously occupied a house between
Poland's blacksmith shop and Mr. Frye's house. Mr.
Buckley is son of William and Hannah Buckley and was
born in Tongtown, Lancashire, Eng., Feb. 20, 1825. His
father was son of John and Sarah Buckley and his mother
was daughter of James Dearden. He came to America
Oct. 20, 1845, landing in Boston, and came immediately
to Ballardvale, where his brother-in-law, George Hunt
was living in a house then owned by Webster but now
by Richard Boynton. He learned the shoemaker's trade
and opened a shoe store in May, 1854 in Savory's building
in Lawrence. In Aug., 1858, he commenced business in
the building now owned by John Frye, then owned by
widow Barnett, where he remained until 1859. His wife
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Janet McCall, was born
two and one-half miles from Glasgow, Scotland, June 14,
1834. Her father was son of Duncan and Sarah (Mun-
roe) McCall and her mother was daughter of Arthur and
Margaret (Gilmore) Forbes. She came to America, Oct.
20, 1855, and since marriage they have resided in the little
house rear of Frye's. Their child, Janet Beatrice was
born June 4, 1860.
John Buckley resides in the house owned by Abiel
Saunders, who owns the blacksmith's shop, and came here
Nov. 16, 1859 from the stone building on the corner of
this street from near Stowe, Nov., 1857. Mr. Grant, who
is now near N. Clark's, was here Nov., 1857-9 and Ten-
son, a carriage maker, was here a while in 1859 and pre-
vious to that Saunders, the blacksmith, was here. Mr.
166 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
Buckley is son of James and Alice (Bottomley) Buckley,
and was born in Standidge, parish of Saddleworth, York-
shire, Eng., May 7, 1818. He came to America in May,
1847 and his wife and two children came in November of
the same year. His wife was Mary, daughter of William
and Hannah (Bottomley) Kenworthy, born in Castleshaw,
Saddleworth parish, Yorkshire, Aug. 8, 1807. They
settled for a time in Connecticut before coming to Bal-
lardvale. Children, b. Marlearthnook, Saddleworth parish ;
Alice, b. May 27, 1842 ; Charles Henry, b. Jan. 21, 1845.
Edward Scott has been here since Mar., 1862, when
they removed from Mr. Young's house on this street. His
father was born in Milltown parish, Co. Westmead, Ire-
land, about 1825. Mr. Scott came to America in June
1854, and his wife Catherine was daughter of John and
Honora (Cox) McNamara, born in the same place, about
forty miles from Dublin about 1828. They first lived in
"Weare village, coming to Ballardvale, Apr. 10, 1860.
Children: Patrick, b. Milltown, about 1853; Honora, b.
Weare village, Jan., 1856 ; John, b. Feb., 1858 ; James,
b. Feb., 1860; Mary Elizabeth, b. Ballardvale, May,
1862. Widow Jackson lived in this house before they
moved here.
James Riley and wife Sarah live in the south part of
the stone house, also Patrick Slaven and wife Margaret
(McQuade) have been here since May, 1863. Michael
McGovern lives in the north part of the house built by
Dea. Eaton Green in 1843, on the east side of the stone
house. He came from Dorchester to Ballardvale, June,
1863. He was born about 1820 near Enniskillen, Ireland,
and his wife Elizabeth was daughter of Patrick and
Mary (Lyle) Smith, born in Co. Mead, parish of Balla-
bough, about 1830. Children : Thomas, b. Dorchester,
Nov., 1862 ; five others who died young.
James Caffrey, who lives in the east part of the same
house, came in Feb., 1863, from the old schoolhouse
toward N. Clark's where they lived about seven months
when they came from Lowell. He was born in Ireland
about 1827. This wife Jane is daughter of Thomas and
Margaret (Grouney) Smith and was born in Dublin,
Ireland, about 1835. She came to America with her
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 167
parents. Her child Owen was born in Lowell, July, 1860.
Joseph Moore lives in the north part of the house next
to Caffrey's, coming to this house in May, 1863, from the
White block. They had also lived in the Kittredge
house on the road to Andover and in the Kittery schooner
house at Ballardville. His wife is Ellen, daughter of Ed-
ward and Ellen Clareden, who was born in Durham, Co.
Durham, Eng., about 1839. Their child Sarah Jane was
born in Haverhill in 1857.
Thomas Cavanaugh came into this house on Feb. 11,
1863. He was in Tewksbury a time after he came to
America, coming to Ballardvale in Aug., 1848. He is son
of Thomas and was born about 1820. His wife Ann was
daughter of Barney and Eliza (Law) McEnroe, and was
born in Fort Frederick, Co. Caven, Ireland. Children :
Michael, b. 1842 ; Barney, b. July 7, 1848 in West An-
dover, five weeks before they came to Ballardvale ; Mary
Elizabeth, b. Aug., 1849 ; Thomas, b. 1851. They have as
boarders, Margaret, Mary and Bridget McEnroe, nieces of
Mrs. Cavanaugh and their cousin, Julia Riley.
James W. Dearborn lives in the two little windows
house which he bought in 1862, having removed from the
house that he sold to Pierce situated on the street near
Blunt's store, Nov., 1862. He is son of Alvah and Sarah
(Leavitt) Dearborn, and was born in Effingham, N. H.,
Apr., 1822. His wife was Clara, daughter of Nathaniel
and Mary (Larrabee) Estes, who was born in Salem, July
10, 1821. Children: Philinda H., b. Salem, Aug., 1844,
who is now keeping house for her grandfather Dearborn
in North Hampton, N. H. ; Benjamin A., b. Salem, Mar.
10, 1847 ; Clara H., b. Salem, June 22, 1849 ; Isabella, b.
Saugus, July 3, 1853; James F., died young; Alvah, b.
Saugus, Jan., 1857; William H., died young; Josiah, b.
Saugus, Aug. 3, 1861. Mr. Dearborn is a mason in the
file shop, coming from Saugus, Nov., 1861. In their house
Edwin Buckley lived a few months before widow Parker
came in this south part.
Fanny, widow of George Washington Parker, was in
the house where Cavanaugh lives Aug., 1860 to Feb.,
1863. She came from South Andover where Benjamin
Hayward resides, and now has as boarders, Hiram Tirrell
168 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
from Canada and Lyman Grover. Mrs. Parker's husband
was born in Dracnt in 1783, son of John and Lydia (Mor-
rill) Parker, and he died in Dracut. Mrs. Parker is
daughter of Aaron and Phebe (Morse) Noyes, born in
Methuen, May 16, 1793. Children: Fanny, who married
Caleb Abbott ; Eliza Jane, b. Methuen, 1820, mar.
Nathaniel Dearborn of Effingham; George Washington, b.
Methuen, 1823, mar. and resided in North Andover ;
Anna, b. Billerica, Sept. 7, 1836.
John Ogden resides in John Young's house, which he
occupied Apr., 1862, coming from Providence, R. I. He
is son of John and Elizabeth Ogden, and was born in
Manchester, Eng., about 1838. His wife is Mary,
daughter of Edmund and Esther (Parsonby) Barker, and
was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, Eng., 1819. They
came to America in 1850. Children : Benjamin, died
young ; Sarah, b. Sheffield, died young ; Emma Esther,
b. Sheffield, 1842. Edward Scott, who resides in the
stone house, was here before they came here.
Sylvanus Perry, son of Thomas Perry, from Prince Ed-
ward Island, came to board with his wife's mother in
1862, she being daughter of Thomas Ready. Catherine,
widow of Thomas Ready, son of Michael, was born in
Co. Deprara, parish of Ballyneal, and she came to America
in Nov., 1854. Her husband died about 1836. She is
daughter of James and Margaret (Collan) Percil, born in
Wanegap parish, Co. Waterford, in 1803. Children :
Margaret, mar. Patrick Luby, but her husband is dead
and she resides in Boston ; Michael, married and has four
children, resides Provincetown ; Mary, b. 1828, parish of
Ballyneal, unmarried ; John, in Worcester Insane asylum ;
James, resides Lynn and has children, Thomas, Mary and
Terry; Katherine, b. parish of Ballyneal, 1836; Ellen,
mar. Charles Lane, resides Provincetown. Mrs. Ready
came to Ballardvale in May, 1858, and has lived in the
house with a brick basement owned by John Abbott.
Patrick O'Halloran came into this house in May, 1863,
from the Schooner block where they lived three years.
They came from South Andover village to Ballardvale in
1857. He was son of James and Mary (Barrett) O'Hal-
loran and was born about twenty-one miles from Cork,
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863 169
Ireland, about 1818. He came to America, July 4, 1847 and
to Andover about 1850. His wife is Johanna, daughter of
Patrick and Margaret (Carroll) O'Keefe, and was born in
the parish of Glynnrouah, Co. Limerick, about 1825.
Children : Mary, b. Apr. 13, 1844 ; Margaret, died young ;
Patrick, b. Boston. Aug. 6, 1847 ; Bridget Ann, b. Andover,
Aug. 8, 1849; Johanna, b. Andover, Nov. 10, 1851;
Margaret, b. Dec. 17, 1853 ; James, Elizabeth and Eleanor,
all died young. James Riley removed from this house into
the stone house when Mr. O'Halloran moved here.
Nathaniel F. Dearborn's family reside in the house
which his wife owns, which was removed from North An-
dover and repaired in 1848. His father was Edward,
and he was born in Effingham in 1820, and is cousin to
James Dearborn. His wife is Eliza, daughter of George
W. Parker, who was born Nov. 28, 1827. Children :
Sarah Maria, b. North Andover, Mar. 26, 1842, mar. John
B. Williams of New York city, a bookkeeper ; John Sias,
b. North Andover, Nov. 8, 1844 ; who is in Co. H., 14th
Regt., at Harper's Ferry ; Dorothy Ann, died young ;
James Edward, b. Ballardvale, June 17, 1851.
Abraham Bailey, came from Bradford in Yorkshire,
Eng., to Ballardvale in 1861 ; sailed from Liverpool,
Christmas morning and arrived at Boston five and a half
weeks after and in February arrived here. He first lived
in Richard Boynton's house near where they now reside.
Came here Apr. 28, 1863, a month after they bought the
house of Robert Stott. The latter made an addition to
what he bought of George Shaw, who commenced the
house. Mr. Bailey's parents were Thomas and Mary
(Pickles) Bailey and his wife Sarah is daughter of Thomas
and Jane (Yeadon) Wilson, b. Kirtestall, Co. Yorkshire,
Eng., near Leeds, Apr. 8, 1827. Mr. Bailey was born at
Bearleywoodhead, near Otley, Co. Yorkshire, nine miles
from Bradford, Eng., June 17, 1826. Chn : Elizabeth, b.
Mar. 24, 1851; Walker, died 'young; Harper, b. Oct. 31,
1853 ; Henry, died young; Jesse, b. Apr. 28, 1858. He
married first, Sarah Gothrope, by whom he had Oliver
who died young, and Joseph, b. July 24, 1846 in Wisdin,
Yorkshire. Mrs. Bailey married first, James Slater, by
whom she had a daughter Alice, b. Bradford, Feb. 14, 1847.
170 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OT
Daniel Mears, half brother to William and Moses r
resides next. His wife was Mary Jackson. Children at
home : Lizzie Frances and John Larkin and in Co. H., 14th
Regt. is Charles and in Co. L, llth Regt. is Daniel.
Philip Welch lives nearly opposite D. Mears', in a
house owned by Richard Boynton. Came to New York,
Nov., 1862, and to Ballardvale in December. Chn:
Hannah Stasha, b. Swansey, July 27, 1858 ; Wm., died
young ; and John, b. Liverpool, Oct., 1861. Mr. Welch is
son of William and Hannah Stasha (Henneby) Welch,.
b. in Tipperary Co., at Clanmel, about 1833. His wife
was Margaret, daughter of Morris and Hannah (Welch),
McCarthy who was born in South Wales at Swansey
about 1840, but of Irish descent.
Richard Boynton has lived in this house where Philip
Welch resides since 1847. He is a wool sorter and was
born in Snape, near Durham, Yorkshire, in 1806, the son
of John and Margaret (Taylor) Boynton. He came to
Boston, Feb. 22, 1848. His wife was Katherine, daughter
of Joseph and Mary (Frederick) Shappel, b. Jordon, near
Brussells, in 1806. Chn : Rosella, b. Belgium, about 1825,
mar. 1st, John Pennington, by whom she had Mary, b.
1850, Margaret, b. 1854, Rosella, b. 1858, and mar. 2d,
John Leonard. The back part of the house in which they
reside was a part of Capt. Ballard's old house and brought
here in 1840.
David Priest resides in the rear of Mr. Boynton's resi-
dence. He came here in May, 1862, from Middletown,
Orange Co., N. Y., is the son of William and Ann
(Frogget) Priest, and was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire,
Eng., in 1824. Mrs. Priest is Sarah, daughter of Sleigh
and Sarah (Wilson) Roland, and was born in Sheffield in
1829. Chn : Elizabeth Ann, b. Pittsburgh, Pa., June 7,
1845; Martha Rowland, b. Alleghany, Pa., Sept., 1847 ;
Sarah, b. New York, N. Y., Mar., 1849 ; William Amos,
b. Jersey City, Aug., 1852 ; Ann, b. Ramapo, N. Y.,
1854 ; Sleigh Rowland, b. Stamford, Conn., Aug., 1856 ;
David, b. Middletown, N. Y., Aug., 1858 ; Sam. Law, b.
Middletown, July, 1861. He is a steel maker and has
been in America since 1842 and his family came in 1843.
Robert Stott came to reside here in Oct., 1858, the year
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 171
he built his house and has owned the land since 1853,
having bought of Dr. Johnson just before he died. He is
son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Haworth) Stott, and was
born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, July 12, 1814.
Mrs. Stott is Jane, daughter of George and Elizabeth
(Wild) Walker and a sister to Mrs. Jabez Wood, born in
Ashton, Eng., Sept. 12, 1814. She came to America in
1844 and here the same year. Three children were born in
North Andover and Thomas was born Sept. 12, 1847 in
Ballardvale. After his marriage he lived in the house
where Jabez Wood resides about two years, then moved
to North Andover, and lived in Bailey's, which was com-
menced by Israel Norwood in 1848 and finished by Mr.
Stott. Mrs. Mary Lucis was there Nov., 1858-9, John
McEnroe, 1859-60, Frances, wife of Warren Mears, 1860-
63.
Called on Isaac Goldsmith who says that his grandfather
William Goldsmith resided where Caldwell now resides
and owned all the land from Scotland schoolhouse nearly
to Woburn St. One of his daughters married a Langdon
and settled in New Boston. She came to Andover in
1845, when she was ninety-four years old, being on the
road eight days, and died in Essex soon after. Isaac, his
father, came from West Andover in May, 1819, after L.
Trull moved out. Mr. Goldsmith worked about twelve
years for William Ferguson, who had hired the saw and
grist mill of Timothy Ballard and Rogers about fifteen
years before. An Elbridge Trull tended the mill before
Ferguson. William Rogers came into possession of it
through his wife and sold it to Poor & Blanchard.
The house which formerly stood where Pearson built
was burned when Mr. Goldsmith was nine years old in
the spring of 1812, and David Blunt who was there at the
time, rebuilt it. The Academy was burned about 1800.
Henry Smith, next to O. H. Perry, built his house in 1846.
Mr. Brownell resides in a house that Isaac Goldsmith
built in 1839-40, for his brothers Asa and David, and their
father Isaac lived there until just before he died. Arnold
Holt, William Lovejoy, Charles, son of William Gold-
smith, in 1859 have lived there.
(To be continued.)
THE ANCESTRY OF WILLIAM ALMEY OF LYNN,
SANDWICH AND PORTSMOUTH (R. I.).
BY G. ANDREWS MORIARTY, JR., A. M.
One of the most distinguished families of colonial
Rhode Island was the Almey family, whose members were
merchants of 18th century Newport and opulent planters
with great estates scattered throughout Newport County
and the neighboring Massachusetts county of Bristol.
From this family descended Elizabeth Almey of
Newport the daughter of Job Almey, Esq., a wealthy
merchant, who by her marriage with the Hon. William
Ellery of Newport became the mother of one of the most
distinguished of Rhode Island statesmen, William Ellery,
the signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the
great-grandmother of another distinguished native of New-
port, Rev. William Ellery Channing. Other members of
the family attained great prominence in Rhode Island his-
tory, notably the two sons of the first William Almey ;
to wit: Major Job Almey of Tiverton and Christopher
Almey, Esq. of Portsmouth, who held the highest offices
in the Rhode Island colony. He was a Deputy and As-
sistant, and upon the fall of Sir Edmund Andros, was
chosen Governor of Rhode Island, which office he refused,
inorder that he might go to England, as agent for the
Colony, to present to William and Mary, an address in
defence of the Charter of 1663.
The distinguished position of this family makes the
history of its progenitor and his ancestry of very great in-
terest and especially so to the people of Essex County, in-
asmuch as William Almey was one of the first settlers of
Lynn, Massachusetts. He appears to have come to New
England in the Winthrop company for as early as 14
June, 1631 he was living in Lynn, when he was fined 11
(172)
THE ANCESTRY OF WILLIAM ALMEY, 173
shillings for taking away Mr. Glover's canoe without leave.
He had a case in court against Edward Johnson on 1 July,
1634. That same year he appears to have returned to
England ; for in 1635 we find him, aged 34 years, sailing
from London, on the ship " Abigail," for New England,
with his wife, Audry, aged 32 years and his two children
Ann and Christopher, aged eight and three years
respectively. He once more returned to Lynn, but this
time his stay was short for in 1637 he, together with
nine other Lynn or Suugus men, was granted what is
now the town of Sandwich, by Plymouth Colony. These
Lynn men at once removed to their new grant and
founded the town of Sandwich on Cape Cod. But Almey
was not contented here and there is evidence to show that
he had left Sandwich as early as 7 December, 1641, while
on 28 November, 1643 the town of Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, granted him eight acres, and henceforth until his
death in 1677 he resided in that town. In 1655 he was
a freeman there and a Commissioner (Deputy) from
Portsmouth in 1653, and on 4 June, 1660, a Deputy War-
den. He continued, until his death, to hold minor offices
in the town, but does not seem to have been active in
public life, although his birth and position would have
entitled him to such, and he is always referred to in the
records as " Mr." William Almey or William Almey
" gentleman."
Being a descendant, I was much interested in the
question of his ancestry, and was rewarded by discover-
ing, a few months since, that he appears in the Herald's
Visitation of Northamptonshire for 1619. Inasmuch as
the early settlers of Lynn came largely from Leicester-
shire and as the men who were associated with Almey in
the settlement of Sandwich, were all Leicestershire men, I
became convinced that the original home of William
Almy was in that County and, upon examining the Lei-
cestershire marriage licenses, I was rewarded by finding
the following entry :
" William Almey, gentleman, of South Kilworth and
Audry Barlowe of Lutterworth 1626," it being one year
before the birth of his eldest child, Ann, as shown in the
174 THE ANCESTRY OF WILLIAM ALMEY,
sailing list above mentioned. The will of Christopher
Almey, gentleman, of South Kilworth dated 2 October,
1624, proved 29 October, 1624, was printed in Putnam's
Genealogical Quarterly some years since. In it he
mentions his brothers Edward Hodin of Rugby and
William Almey of Bitteswill, his only son, William Almey,
his daughter Mary Almy, his daughter Joan Paule and
her husband John Paule together with their children
William, Christopher and Richard Paule. An examina-
tion of the Calender of Wills, of the Archdeaconry of Lei-
cester, shows that while the name Almey occurs frequently
in other Leicestershire parishes, there was none other of
the name was settled at South Kilworth, which is a small
parish, in the neighborhood of Lutterworth, on the North-
amptonshire border. Here then we have the marriage of
William Almey and his father's will, establishing the fact
that he was the son of Christopher Almey of South Kil-
worth and that his wife, Audry, was Audry Barlowe of
Lutterworth, whom he married in 1626 and had by her a
daughter Ann, born in 1627 and a son Christopher, born
in 1631 or 1632, the latter fact making it probable that
he either left England in 1631 or else that he was
accompanied to New England, upon his first removal
thither, by his wife Audry.
The following pedigree is given in the Visitation of
Northamptonshire for 1619 under the name of " Almey of
Badly."
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176 THE ANCESTRY OF WILLIAM ALMEY,
Here then, we have our William Almey of Lynn and
later of Portsmouth, R. I. and an examination of Leices-
ter records enables us to give more data and supply
approximate dates to the above pedigree. From the
Marriage Licenses we learn that Christopher Almey of
South Kil worth, had another wife, a widow Ann Greene,
of Hurley in Warwickshire, whom he married in 1606,
some four years after the birth of our William Almey.
Joan (Wale) Almey, the widow of Thomas of Dun ton,
made her will in or about 1587, so we may conclude that
the first John Almey of Dunton, who heads the pedigree,
was living in or about 1520. His wife was born Reig-
nolds, which is a very ancient name in Leicestershire.
With regard to Tobias Almey, the cousin of the emi-
grant, who appears to have been a London merchant and
to have married a Bassano of London, the Bassano pedi-
gree, which appears in the London Visitation for 1633-34,
shows that her father, Edward, was the son of Geronimo
Bassano, of London, who was the son of Antonio Bassano,
a Venetian, evidently a Venetian merchant domiciled in
London.
A careful and intelligent search of the Leicestershire
records should enable the Visitation pedigree to be carried
back for a number of generations further and much data
could be obtained, as is shown by the Calender of Leices-
ter Wills, concerning the maternal lines of the Lynn emi-
grant.
CAPT. JOSEPH MOSELEY OF SALEM AND HIS
ANCESTORS.
BY G. ANDREWS MORIARTY, JR., A. M.
The Peace of Paris in 1783 marked the close of an
epoch in the commerce of Salem. Henceforward the old
Salem trade with the West Indies, which had existed ever
since the founding of that town, was closed to the merchants
of the new republic ; and, for a moment, it must have
seemed as though Salem commerce had received its death
blow ; but this situation did not long continue, for under
the leadership of the Derby family, the merchants and
mariners of the ancient town built up a new and far more
important trade with China, India and Europe than the
old Barbadoes trade had been in its palmiest days, and
Salem entered upon the period of its greatest prosperity
and importance.
Among the brave men who carried the flags of the
Salem merchants to the remotest corners of u the seven
seas," none was more respected and honored than Capt.
Joseph Moseley, one of the most skillful of the Salem
master mariners at this period, who, had his career not been
cut short by untimely and unjustified violence, would, doubt-
less, have been one of the great merchants of that period.
The appearance of Captain Moseley in Salem was due to that
trade which the Salem merchants had carried on, from
time immemorial, with tidewater Virginia and old Albe-
marle. Sprung from one of the oldest and most aristo-
cratic families of the Virginian tidewater, but from a
younger branch whose scanty means compelled him to
make his own way, Captain Moseley came, as a young
man, to Salem on one of the Yankee vessels that traded
with Albemarle in or about the year 1780. His skill as a
navigator soon commended him to the Salem merchants
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178 CAPT. JOSEPH MOSELEY OF SALEM
of that day, and his marriage, in 1782, with Elizabeth
Crowninshield, connected him with some of the most im-
portant merchant families of Salem, including the Derby
family, from whom his wife descended.
He entered the service of William Gray, jr., and com-
manded his brig " Volant," and in 1792 we find him
sailing for the Derbys as mate of the " Grand Turk," on
her voyage to Calcutta, while, in 1793, he was her captain
on a voyage to St. Petersburg. Captain Moseley was much
trusted by the Derbys, for whom he made many voyages,
his last being in the brig " Enterprise " in 1799. On 16
July, 1799, while in the North Sea, he was hailed by a
privateer showing the Dutch colors. Captain Moseley,
trumpet in hand, mounted the quarter-deck to answer the
hail ; at that moment, and without further warning, the
privateer fired a broadside and Captain Moseley, exclaim-
ing " I am a dead man," fell and instantly expired. The
author of this wanton outrage proved, upon further in-
vestigation, to have been an old friend of the captain, and
he expressed great regret for his hasty and ill-advised
action. Rev. William Bentley, in his diary, speaks of the
event and made it the subject for prayer, while the re-
spectful manner in which that clergyman writes of Captain
Moseley, although the latter was an ardent churchman,
shows in what respect he was held in the community. By
this unfortunate accident his wife and infant children were
left in straightened circumstances.
Captain Moseley was a consistent member of the
Church of England, as was fitting in a descendant of the
Virginia cavaliers, and owned a pew in St. Peter's
church, where he constantly attended when in Salem.
THE ANCESTRY OF CAPT. JOSEPH MOSELEY.
The year 1649 marked the lowest ebb in the fortunes
of the house of Stuart. In that year the martyred King,
condemned by a pretended "High Court of Justice,"
sealed his devotion to the Church of England on the scaf-
fold at Whitehall, and his loyal followers fell upon evil
days. But if the dissenters were lording it at home, it
was far otherwise in His Majesty's loyal colony of Vir-
ginia. Upon the receipt of the news that King Charles
AND HIS ANCESTOKS. 179
had been murdered, the House of Burgesses proclaimed
King Charles II, and stout old Sir William Berkeley, the
governor, issued his famous proclamation inviting all
loyal cavaliers to seek refuge in Virginia. It came in a
time of dire need, and the loyal gentlemen and merchants
of England flocked into the tidewater country, in such
numbers, between 1649 and 1660, as to give to that sec-
tion of Virginia the characteristics that it has since re-
tained.
Among the gentle families of England none were more
loyal and active in the King's cause than the Moseleys of
Moseley Hall in Lancashire and Rolleston, in Stafford-
shire. Sir Oswald, of Rolleston, concealed King
Charles II upon his place after the fatal struggle at Wor-
cester and the confiscation of the Moseley estates tells the
tale of their unfaltering loyalty to the King. The family
is a very ancient one in Lancashire, being descended from
one John de Bilston de Moseley, who flourished in the
reign of King John. In later times many of its members
acquired great wealth as London merchants, notably Sir
Nicholas Moseley, who was Lord Mayor of London in the
time of Queen Elizabeth.
In the year 1649, William Moseley, "gentleman " and
" merchant," first appeared in Lower Norfolk County,
Virginia. He was an English merchant from Rotterdam,
and tradition says that he fled to Holland upon the tri-
umph of the roundheads, and that he removed thence in
the cavalier emigration to Virginia. At all events, he
arrived at the time in Lower Norfolk, bringing with him
his wife and two sons, a retinue of ten servants, his coat
of arms, and many old family pictures, which were pre-
served, until about seventy years ago, at the family seat
of Rolleston Hall, in Princess Ann County. The pedigree
therefore commences with :
1 William Moseley, merchant, from Rotterdam,
Holland. On 30 November, 1649, he was given the plan-
tation of George Heigham, On 12 August, 1649, Henry
Mountfort, merchant, of Rotterdam, gave a power of
attorney to William Moseley, merchant, in " ye Virgin-
ias," while on 26 March, 1650, he was given 550 acres to
transport himself, his family and servants into Virginia.
180 CAPT. JOSEPH MOSELEY OF SALEM
His estate, afterward famous as " Rolleston Hall," so
called from the family seat in Staffordshire, was situated
on the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth river, in that part
of Lower Norfolk County that, after 1691, lay in Princess
Ann County. On 10 : 1 mo : 1652, ' William Moseley
late of Rotterdam in Holland in ye ptes beyond ye seas
Mercht. and now resident of ye East Branch of ye Eliza-
beth River in Lower Norfolk " exchanged jewels, valued
at 612 gilders, with Capt. Francis Yardley (son of the
governor, Sir George) of Lynnhaven Parish for live stock,
and in July, 1650, Mistress Moseley addressed a most in-
teresting letter to Captain Yardley, giving a careful descrip-
tion of the jewels, which appear to have been very beau-
tiful and valuable, including a diamond hat clasp, emerald
and sapphire rings, etc. From this letter we learn that
the jewels were the personal property of Mistress Mose-
ley, and that she had once made a journey from Rotterdam
to the Hague regarding them. The exigencies of the
wilderness life had compelled them to exchange these
jewels for more prosaic but also more useful live stock.
Mr. Moseley, upon his arrival in Virginia, was at once
elected a commissioner or justice of Lower Norfolk, an
office of great importance and dignity in Virginia, inas-
much as the administration of the county lay in the hands
of the commissioners. He held this office from 16 March,
1649, to 26 April, 1655. His will was dated 29 June,
1655, and proved 15 August, 1655. He left the greater
part of his estate to his elder son William, while to his
second son Arthur he left the land " bought of George
Kempe, surveyed by Mr. Emperor, when I was in Eng-
land." He married Susanna , who is said, probably
without reason, to have been a Dutch lady of rank, and
had issue :
2. WILLIAM, of Rolleston Hall, Lower Norfolk county. He was an
ardent churchman and a commissioner for Princess Ann
County. His wife, Mary, was the daughter of Capt. John
Gookin of Nansemond and the niece of Major Gen. Daniel
Gookin of New England. From this marriage descends the
elder branch of the family long seated at Rolleston Hall in
Princess Ann Co.
3. ARTHUR, b. in Holland before 1638.
AND HIS ANCESTORS. 181
4. SUSANNA, m. 1st Robinson; m. 2d Cosker, and came
to Virginia.
3 Arthur Moseley of Lower Norfolk County, be-
came a great planter in that part of the county which,
after 1691, was called Norfolk County and in latter life
resided in the town of Norfolk. On 5 June, 1676,
he represented Lower Norfolk in the famous House of
Burgesses, called that year by Sir William Berkeley, at
the beginning of Bacon's Rebellion, and to which house
Bacon himself was returned as a member. His will, on
file at Portsmouth, Va., was dated 1 Feb., 1700, and
proved 15 May, 1703. Married, probably as his second
wife, Ann,* daughter of Richard Hargrave of Lower
Norfolk. He had issue :
5. JOSEPH, of Norfolk County m. Blandina .
6. BENJAMIN, of Princess Ann County, m. Elizabeth Sayer.
7. WILLIAM, of Norfolk and Princess Ann Counties.
8. ARTHUR, settled in Henrico County. Ancestor of the Moseleys
in that section.
9. EDWARD, of Princess Ann County; m. Mary, daughter of Tully
Emperor. They were the parents of Tully Moseley and
ancestors of William D. Moseley, the first governor of Florida.
10. GEORGE, of Princess Ann County.
11. MARY, m., but name illegible in the will.
12. SUSANNA, married Pierce.
13. AMOS, of Princess Ann County.
14. ANTHONY, of Princess Ann County.
15. LUKE, of Princess Ann County, m. Ann .
13 Amos Moseley of Princess Ann County, younger
son of Arthur, and as such mentioned in his will. He
removed to Princess Ann County and settled on the estate
of his kinsman, Col. Edward Moseley of Rolleston, at
Newtown, in the Parish of Lynnhaven. On 7 July, 1725,
he was chosen tobacco commissioner for Princess Ann
County, and on 1 January, 1723, under sheriff of the
county. On 6 September, 1738, he had permission to
keep an ordinary at Newtown, and on 4 April, 1739, he
was constable of Newtown. Married, about 1705, Eliza-
beth, daughter of Tully Emperor, gentleman, of the East-
ern Branch of the Elizabeth river in Lynnhaven parish.
He probably married 1st, a daughter of Sarah Pigot, by her second husband,
Simon Hancock, of Lower Norfolk.
182 CAPT. JOSEPH MOSELEY OF SALEM
On 1 January, 1723, " Amos Moseley and Elizabeth, his
wife, daughter and legatee of Mr. Tully Emperor dec.' 1
petitioned for a division of said Emperor's personal estate
[Princess Ann Minute Book, No. Ill, p. 191]. Amos
and Elizabeth (Emperor) Moseley had at least :
16. EMPEBOB, b. after 1701 and before 12 Sept., 1722.
17. JOSEPH, b. after 1701 and before 12 Sept., 1722.
The will of Tully Emperor names these children, call-
ing Emperor, distinctly, the child of his daughter, Eliza-
beth Moseley, but owing to the fact that his daughter,
Mary, married Edward, brother of Amos Moseley, it is
difficult to assign all the Moseley grandchildren of Tully
Emperor to their respective parents. Amos Moseley
married, second, after 1 January, 1723, and before 1 Feb.,
1737, Deborah .
16 Emperor Moseley, born between 1701 and 1722,
of Newtown, Princess Ann County. He first appears in
the county records 2 March, 1742. He inherited his
father's property at Newtown and was a ship-builder.
About the year 1755, he removed from Princess Ann
County to Pasquotank County, North Carolina, settling
at Nixonton, a town in that county, about 12 miles from
Elizabeth City, situated on the Little River, which sepa-
rates Pasquotank from Perquimans County. He first
appears in the Pasquotank records in December, 1756.
On 9 January, 1765, he was granted a lot at Nixonton, on
the river front, on condition he erect a warehouse and
wharf. On 9 April, 1765, administration on his estate
was granted to his widow, Elizabeth. He married Eliza-
beth about 1750, and after his death she married,
second, Todd, probably Robert Todd, a merchant of
Norfolk. She was living as late as 28 December, 1783,
as on that date she joined her son, Emperor Moseley of
Pasquotank in buying eleven negroes. Emperor and
Elizabeth ( ) Moseley had issue :
18. EMPEBOB, of Nixonton, N. 0., b. about 1752. He was a master
mariner and merchant at Nixonton. Married, about 1775,
Mary, widow of William Taylor, of Pasquotank County.
His descendants resided in Elizabeth City. Capt. Emperor
Moseley visited Salem and was well known there. In a let
AND HIS ANCESTORS. 183
ter, dated February, 1782, he speaks of making the journey
from Salem to Nixonton on horseback, being three weeks
on the way.
19. JOSEPH, b. 1760.
20. MARY, m. Capt. Nathaniel Cook; said to have lived near Salem.
21. THOMAS (?).
22. ELIZABETH(?), m. , and d. about 1783.
19 Capt. Joseph Moseley of Salem, Mass., was
born about 1760 (passport), and died 16 July, 1799. He
removed to Salem, Mass., and married, 20 October, 1782,
at St. Peter's Church, Salem, Elizabeth, daughter of John
and Mary (Ives) Crovvninshield, and sister of the eminent
Salem merchant, Clifford Crowninshield. On 6 Novem-
ber, 1799, administration on his estate was granted to his
brother-in-law, Clifford Crowninshield. Capt. Joseph and
Elizabeth (Crowninshield) Moseley had issue :
23. ELIZABETH, b. 25 July, 1783; m. 22 Feb., 1807, Thomas West
of Salem.
24. MABY, b. 5 August, 1784; m. 17 Jan., 1808, Thomas Russell of
Salem.
25. ABIGAIL, b. 2 June, 1786; m. 26 Dec., 1806, John Moriarty,
*' Esquire," of Salem. He was born in Salem in 1788, the
son of Capt. Thomas and Deborah (Bowditch) Moriarty.
They were the parents of John Moseley Moriarty, M. D.,
and Joseph Moseley Moriarty, M. D., both of whom were
port physicians of Boston.
26. JOSEPH, b. 8 October, 1787; m. 14 November, 1816, Martha Long.
27. EMPEROR, b. 12 September, 1789 ; d. 21 October, 1806, while on
a voyage to Calcutta.
28. NANCY, b. 25 May, 1794: m. 27 June, 1819, Capt. John Candler,
jr., of New York City.
29. CLIFFORD CROWNINSHIELD, b. 10 March, 1797.
30. MARTHA, b. 19 May, 1798; unmarried in 1830.
NOTE: The portraits of the first William Moseley,
his wife Susanna, and their two sons, Arthur and William,
together with the portraits of the members of the elder or
Rolleston branch were, until recently, preserved at
Norfolk. The family is one of the very few American
families that have an unbroken line of portraits from the
emigrant to the present day. The author has in his
possession, photographs of the portraits of the first two
generations of the family.
ORIGIN OF THE HYMN-TUNE "FEDERAL
STREET."
BY HENRY K. OLIVER, M. D., SON OF THE COMPOSER.
It was a part of the daily programme of the " Boston
Peace Jubilee " of 1872, inaugurated by P. S. Gilmore,
to close each day's work with a hymn-tune. x On the
' President's Day " (so called because of the presence of
President Grant) the Coliseum building, in which the
concerts were given, was crowded with an immense mul-
titude, forty thousand people being in the audience, and
twenty thousand in the chorus and orchestra. The well-
known " Federal Street " was the tune for the day, and,
when its turn came, Mr. Zerrahn, the conductor, beckon-
ing out from the crowd of singers its composer, Henry
K. Oliver, of Salem, a man well advanced in years,
led him to the conductor's stand and gave him the baton.
At its signal the great organ gave its mighty utterance,
and then chorus and orchestra, and the audience, which
rose, took up the strain ; and never was a hymn given
forth in such a swelling volume of harmony ; the multi-
tude seeming thoroughly familiar with it and prepared to
sing its simple, artless, yet grand measures. I doubt
whether a dozen persons in the whole assemblage knew
how the tune came into being. It was of this wise. The
composer had, after his graduation from college, held vari-
ous positions, from teacher to Treasurer of Massachusetts,
and had been much before the public, yet he had been
always, from childhood, devotedly fond of music. When
he entered college his father, wholly unmusical, pro-
hibited his attempting to play any instrument ; his musi-
cal proclivities seem to have come from his mother, she
being a fine singer, and singers were all the eight chil-
dren, save one. But the prohibition of the father was
ineffectual, and the son became familiar with half-a-dozen
instruments between flute and organ. He did not at-
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ORIGIN OF THE HYMN-TUNE " FEDERAL STREET." 185
tempt composition till he was thirty-one years old, when,
one afternoon, in his library, he read to its close Theo-
dore Hook's novel, " Passion and Principle," an affecting
story terminating with the saddest results. Laying down
the volume, and thinking of what he had read, there
came into his mind the lines of Mrs. Steele's hymn, ' So
fades the lovely, blooming flower."* As he repeated the
verse an unbidden melody came with it, and sitting down
to a piano-forte in the room he harmonized the melody,
and put it on paper, with a change of the initial word of
the verse from " Then " to " See." When thus scored,
the composer threw the paper into the drawer of his table.
There it remained a couple of years, when Dr. Lowell
Mason came to Salem to teach music to classes of both
young and adult. Towards the close of the course, Dr.
Mason asked if any pupil had ever attempted composi-
tion, and, if so, he said he would be happy to examine it.
The tune in the drawer at once came to the composer's
mind, and it was placed in Dr. M.'s hands. On returning
it the latter asked permission to use it in his forth-coming
work called " Boston Academy's Collection of Church
Music." Assent being gladly given, it was necessary to
give the tune a name. The first impulse of the composer
was to give it the name of his wife, but the lack of
euphony therein forbade. * Sally " (Cook) would not
answer. He tried in various forms to poetize the name, but
in vain ; so he decided to call the tune after the name of
the street in Salem, in a house upon which she was reared,
wooed, won, and married ; and from which, to the music
of the same tune, she was, many years afterwards, buried.
" Federal Street " proving an acceptable tune, it was
followed by Harmony-Grove, Morning, Walnut-Grove,
Merton, Vesper, Hudson, Bosworth, Salisbury-Plain, sev-
eral Motets, and Anthems, and a Te Deum. The author,
subsequently, gathered these into a book published by
Ditson & Co. (120 pp.), to which was added " Oliver's
Collection of Church Music " (360 pp.) by the same
publishers.
*This poem ii found in Vol. II of " Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, by
Theodosia. London MDCCLX." It ia entitled, " To the same " (Amira) " on
the Death of her Child."
NORTHF1ELDS, SALEM, IN 1700. NO. 3.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
THIS part of North Salem comprises a series of lots-
laid out at the Great cove, running from Liberty Hill
avenue to Waters river.
Highways were laid out in several directions among the
lots in the northfield, when it was originally divided.
The one shown on the map, across the northwestern
part of the territory, was called, in 1688,' a highway that
runs through the lots down to the river.
Another apparent highway is indicated by the double
row of dots crossing Liberty Hill avenue. This is not
only suggested by the physical conditions, but by records.
The present main street leading from Salem to Danvers
is shown by the parallel rows of dashes to the southwest
of the territory.
Great cove was so called as early as 1663, and has kept
its name ever since that date.
The river was known as Williston river very early and
was so called as late as 1688. It was called North river
in 1694. It is now generally known as Danvers river, or
on the southwestern side at this place, being the mouth of
Waters river, as Waters river.
Simon Orne Lot. This lot early belonged to Rev. Hugh
Peter, and has been known ever since as " Peter's neck."
After Mr. Peter returned to England, in 1642, it was
treated as the property of Dea. John Orne, one of the
agents of Mr. Peter. Deacon Orne was a carpenter and
he gave the lot, by deed, to his son Simon Orne May 25,
1681.* Simon Orne owned it in 1700.
Estate of Bartholomew G-edney Lot. This lot of marsh
was owned by John Gedney, sr., of Salem, vintner,
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 117.
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PLAN OF NORTH SALEM IN THE YEAR 1700. NO. 3.
NOBTHFIELDS, SALEM, IN 1700. NO. 3. 187
March 25, 1667, when he gave it, by deed, to his son CoL
Bartholomew Gedney of Salem, shipwright.* Colonel
Gedney died Feb. 28, 1697-8, and the title to the land
remained in his estate in 1700. It was appraised at three
pounds.
Joseph Orne Lot. This is the little hill, known as
Liberty Hill park, at the base of which is the spring
which has been extensively known since the first settle-
ment of the town. It was known as Goodale's spring for
more than a half-century after the beginning of the set-
tlement by the English, then called Peter's spring for a
number of years, and for a hundred years last past has
been known as " Cold spring." This land was apparently
very early the property of Robert Goodale, and in 1684
it was conveyed by Dea. John Orne to his son Joseph,
being described as " a knoll of land lying by a spring
commonly called ' Goodale's spring.' "f Joseph Orne
owned the lot in 1700.
Joseph Orne Lot. This lot was owned by John Higgin-
son before 1679, and John Orne, sr., of Salem, house-
carpenter, conveyed it to his son Joseph Orne of Salem,
cordwainer. in 16844 It belonged to Joseph Orne in 1700.
Benjamin Orne Lot. This lot was granted to John
Norman, sr., probably in or before 1636, and he built a
house upon it immediately. He occupied it, and in 1640
conveyed the house and land to Rev. Hugh Peter. Mr.
Norman continued to live there, however, until 1647.
"Old" George Wright then lived in the house for a
while. When the place was sold to Mr. Peter no deed
passed, although the consideration for the title was paid.
Dea. John Orne, one of the agents of Mr. Peter, took
possession of the estate and kept it. Deacon Orne was
in possession of it in 1676, and he conveyed it to his son
Benjamin Orne of Salem Oct. 20, 1679. The latter owned
it in 1700. The house was gone apparently before 1679. ||
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 8.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 126.
(Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 126.
Ipswich Quarterly Court files, volume 43, leaf 110.
Illpswich Quarterly Court files, volume 43, leaves 110-120.
188 NORTHFIELDS, SALEM, IN 1700, NO. 3.
Estate of John Neale Lot. This lot was early the lot of
Mr. Herbert, and was owned by John Neale, sr., from
1652.* Mr. Neale died, possessed of it, May 12, 1672.
The lot was then valued at twenty-five pounds. In his
will, he devised it to his son John Neale. The son died
Nov. 11, 1679 ; and the lot was then appraised at thirty
pounds. It belonged to his estate in 1700.
John Foster Lot. Robert Goodale of Salern, husband-
man, owned this lot in 1663 ; and, for twenty-nine pounds
and ten shillings, conveyed it to Nicholas Manning of
Salem, gunsmith, June 7, 1667.f Mr. Manning, for fifty
pounds, conveyed it to Samuel Beadle of Salem, turner,
Aug. 14, 1676. J Mr. Beadle, being then a vintner, for
seventy pounds, conveyed it to John Foster, jr., of Salem,
planter, Oct. 24, 1681. Mr. Foster owned it in 1700.
Robert Pease Lot. Thomas Reed of Salem, planter,
owned this lot, Jan. 2, 1663-4, when, for eleven pounds,
he conveyed it to Richard Richards of Salem. || Mr. Rich-
ards became a planter, and, for a similar consideration,
conveyed the lot to Robert Pease of Salem, weaver, Jan.
16, 1667.1 Mr. Pease owned it in 1700.
John Tompkins Lot. This lot belonged to John Tomp-
kins in 1700.
Nathaniel Silsly Lot. This lot originally was a part of
the ten-acre lot of Joseph Boyce ; and in 1700 it belonged
to Nathaniel Silsby.
Joseph Boyce Lot. This lot belonged to Henry Bar-
tholomew in 1663 and 1667; and Joseph Boyce died pos-
sessed of it in the winter of 1694-5. In his will he devised
it to his grandson Joseph Boyce, who owned it in
1700.
Isaac Reed Lot. This lot belonged to Thomas Reed,
early, and to Isaac Reed in 1700.
John Foster Lot. This lot belonged to John Foster (?)
in 1700.
*Deposition of John Massey and Jeremiah Neale, Dec. 13, 1699.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 2%2.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 176.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 139.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 24.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 6.
IFEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 28.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 189
John Small Lot. This lot belonged to John Small (?)
in 1700.
Henry West Lot. This lot was owned early by George
Williams of Salem, who died in the autumn of 1654. The
lot was then valued at five pounds. The overseers of his
estate, Jeffrey Massey and Henry Skerry, sr., conveyed it
to Nathaniel Felton, sr., of Salem, about 1660 ; and Mr.
Williams' son John, of Salem, who, with his mother, was
an executor of the will and also the devisee of the real es-
tate, also gave a deed of the same to Mr. Felton, June 21,
1691,* Lieutenant Felton, who was then of Salem, hus-
bandman, for thirty pounds and twelve shillings, conveyed
it to Henry West, jr., of Salem, cordwainer, Sept. 21,
1699 ;f and Mr. West owned it in 1700.
At the northeasterly corner of this lot was a parcel of
salt marsh, of three-fourths of an acre, granted by the
town of Salem to George Emery of Salem, chirurgeon.
Doctor Emeiy conveyed it to Samuel Ward of Boston,
cooper, Dec. 4, 16734
Mary Jones Lot. This was a part of the ten-acre lot of
Robert Butten, who conveyed it very early to Henry
Skerry sr., of Salem, cordwainer. Mr. Skerry conveyed
it to Thomas Gardner, jr., of Salem before 1658, and Mr.
Gardner conveyed this half of the lot to Hugh Jones of
Salem April 13, 1674. || Mr. Jones died in 1688, and his
sons John Jones and Samuel Jones released their interest
in his estate to their mother, Mary Jones, March 20,
1695-6 fl[ and the lot probably belonged to her in 1700.
John Small Lot. This was the eastern half of the ten-
acre lot of Robert Butten, who conveyed it very early to
Henry Skerry, sr., of Salem, cordwainer.** Mr. Skerry
conveyed it to Thomas Gardner, jr., of Salem, before
1658, and Mr. Gardner conveyed this half, probably, to
Thomas Brackett of Salem, planter, who, for seven pounds,
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 36.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 167.
iEssex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 81.
See Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 83.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 54.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 201.
*See Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 83.
190 NORTHFIELDS, SALEM, IN 1700, NO. 3.
conve}'ed it to John Small of Salem, planter, May 14,
1671 ;* and he owned it in 1700.
Stephen Small House. William Towne of Salem, gar-
dener, owned this lot very early, and, for six pounds, con-
veyed it to Harry Bullock of Salem Nov. 19, 1652.f Mr.
Bullock died in 1657. Widow Alice Bullock, with the
consent of her father, William Flint, conveyed to Henry
Cooke of Salem all land in the Northfield, in Salem, which
belonged to Henry Bullock, jr., late deceased, Aug. 22,
1657.J Mr - Cooke died Jan. 14, 1661-2 ; and his widow
and administratrix, Judith Cooke, conveyed the lot to
John Small of Salem, planter, May 17, 1667. Mr. Small
conveyed it to his son Stephen Small of Salem, with the
house that the grantee built and the new end of my own
dwelling house and the land they stand on, March 10,
1687-8 :|| Stephen Small was a yeoman, and died in 1722,
having, in his will, devised all his houses, barn and land
to his son Samuel Small. How much longer the buildings
were standing is unknown.
George Jacobs House. This house and lot belonged to
Richard Waters of Salem Nov. 25, 1658, when he con-
veyed the estate to George Jacobs of Salem, husband ma n.^f
Mr. Jacobs gave his son George Jacobs, jr., one-half of
his land, providing the grantee would manage his affairs
and cultivate the farm, etc., and at the decease of the
father and mother, George to have the other half, Jan. 12,
1673.** The son erected a dwelling house upon the lot
and had partly finished it, March 31, 1677, when a new
agreement was made with Daniel Andrew, Jacob Barney,
-sr., and Thomas Ives, on behalf of the son, and by its
terms the house the latter had erected should be removed
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 99.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 15.
} Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 39.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 13.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 52. See deed of John Bul-
lock of Salem, brewer, for twenty-seven pounds, to Philip English
of Salem, merchant, May 10, 1694, recorded in Essex Registry of
Deeds, book 10, leaf 99; and deed from Philip English for fifty pounds,
-to John Jacobs of Salem, Aug. 1, 1706, recorded in Essex Registry of
Deeds, book 20, leaf 41.
f Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 9.
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 49.
Drawn and engraved by O. W. H. Uphar
THE GEORGE JACOBS HOUSE.
Now in the town of Danvers. From this house George Jacobs, "the witch",
was taken in I 692 for trial and execution.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 191
from the land within one year.* George Jacobs, the
father, became a victim of the witchcraft delusion and
was executed Aug. 19, 1692. In his will he gave his wife
Mary, the use of his estate for her life, and then his son
was to come into possession of the homestead, and all the
buildings thereon, the house that the son George had
built had probably remained upon the land. After the
death of the son George, the estate was to go to his son
George. The estate was valued at this time at forty-five
pounds. George Jacobs, jr., died in 1717 ; and his son
George removed to Wells, Me., and conveyed the estate,
it is said, to his brother John Jacobs, yeoman, in 1718. f
John Jacobs lived here, and died in the spring of 1764.
Subject to certain interests of his wife Lydia, he devised
the house and to his son Ebenezer Jacobs. Ebenezer
lived there, being a yeoman, and died in 1793. He de-
vised the homestead to his son Ebenezer, who was, also,
a yeoman, subject to the dower of his widow Elizabeth in
the western part of the house and land. Ebenezer Jacobs,
jr., died in the winter of 1801-2, and dower was assigned
to his widow in the eastern half of the house and land.
Thus, for some years, the two widows were in the occu-
pancy of the house and land around it. Upon the division
of the real estate, in 1814, the western half was assigned
to Ebenezer's son Jonathan Jacobs and tho eastern part to
son John. Nathan Felton, Esq., of Danvers, administra-
tor of the estate of Ebenezer Jacobs of Danvers, yeoman,
conveyed the reversion of the part of the homestead
assigned as dower to his mother Eunice to Jonathan
Jacobs, William Jacobs and Allen Jacobs, all of Danvers,
yeomen, Dec. 13, 1824 ;:{: and apparently Jonathan and
William released to Allen. Jonathan Jacobs, who owned
the western half of the house and land, died Dec. 29,
1831, possessed of it ; and his administrator, William Jacobs
of Danvers, yeoman, conveyed it to Allen Jacobs of Dan-
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 149.
tSee Essex Registry of Deeds, book 33, leaf 223, for deed of George
Jacobs of Wells, York county, for one hundred pounds, that part
of the house called the * gunn room' 1 and land around it, dated July
16, 1718.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 239, leaf 127.
192 NORTHFIELDS,' SALEM, IN 1700. NO. 3.
vers, yeoman, Jan. 21, 1833.* Thus, both parts of the
estate came into the possession and ownership of Allen
Jacobs. Upon his death, many years later, the house and
lot became the property of his son William A. Jacobs, who
still owns and lives upon the place.
Nathaniel Tompkins Lot. This lot belonged to John
Tompkins in 1658. He died in 1681, and the estate
descended to his son Nathaniel, who owned it in 1700.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 268, leaf 106.
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VOL. XLIX. JULY, 1913 No. 3
YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM.
WRITTEN BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE IN 1869.*
Born nearly seventy-six years ago, in the neighborhood
of the Common, my recollections of that neighborhood
seem to me to be very vivid ; yet, looking back through
that long vista of years, it must not be supposed that I
claim to have made no mistakes. Where I have any
doubts, I have expressed myself doubtfully. My purpose
is to confine myself mainly to the period between 1798
and 1810, though my subject may sometimes carry me
outside of that period.
There were five tanneries near the Common in my
childish days. Nathaniel Richardson had carried on one
in East, now Forrester street. It was then familiarly
called Gutter lane. Mr. Richardson had been then a short
time dead, having been killed in moving a building, Jan.
25th, 1796. He was a native of Woburn, and his wife
was Eunice Putnam, from Danvers. His house is now
occupied by his descendant, James A. Gillis, Esq. He
left a daughter and five sons. One of his sons settled in
Spain as a merchant, one, Joshua, went to Portland,
Maine, and has died within a few years, another Jesse,
was a merchant in Salem and president of an insurance
company, whose office was in the Franklin building. My
earliest recollection of him is, that he was a ship chandler
*These "Recollections" were written for "The Salem Gazette" and were printed
in its columns in 1869.
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and general trader in Neptune (now Derby street), on
the south side, a fine building west of Union wharf. His
wife was Eunice, daughter of Joshua Dodge, and she died
Oct. 20th, 1812, aged 34. Jesse died Feb. llth, 1814,
aged 37. Another son of Nathaniel, was William P., a
shipmaster and merchant, in Salem. His wife was Debo-
rah, daughter of Edward Lang. They have descendants
in Illinois. He lived in the house on Essex street, now
occupied by Capt. John Hodges, built by Clarke Gayton
Pickman, in 1761.
Richardson's tannery had been that of John Ives, whose
administratrix sold it to Miles Ward in 1769, and Ward
sold it to Richardson in 1770. The land on the north
side of Forrester street was in the early possession of Wm.
Lord, who sold it in 1659 to Henry Bartholomew, an
eminent citizen of Salem. Henry gave it to his son-in-
law, Nehemiah Willoughby, in 1689, and Francis Wil-
loughby, his administrator, sold it March, 1719-20, to Benj.
Ives, and from him it came to John Ives.
When I first knew the tannery, there was a windmill
on it for grinding bark, the only windmill at that time
in Salem. Many years after this, one of the stones of the
barkmill was over the gutter opposite, near the East
school house, as a stepping stone. The street, till I had
nearly attained manhood, had no other house than Rich-
ardson's and the two corner houses. Then Jeremiah
Emerton, who for many years was the master of the
town's poorhouse, in our vernacular the work' us on
the Common, erected a house on the north side, next east
of the tannery. His wife was a widow Ives, and by Ives
she had one son, John, a very promising young man, a
clerk and supercargo. He sailed I think the day of his
marriage, and died on the voyage. I presume that Emer-
ton obtained the land through his wife. The East school-
house was removed there in the spring of 1803, on land
purchased of Mr. Elkins. It had stood on the south side
of the Common, nearly opposite Daniel C. Manning's
house, near by a pond into which I remember seeing an
officer of the Salem Artillery fall, while marching near
the edge, to the manifest derangement of his hat, plume
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 195
and sword, and the soilment of his breeches, coat, stock-
ings and gaiters.
The school was kept by Mr. Edward Lang, who had
been a silversmith. When he was removed as teacher
there was much excitement in the town and an angry
correspondence in the newspapers, his removal being
charged on the Republican party, then supreme in town
affairs, as having been made for political reasons, he being
a Federalist. He was a very worth}' man, as I well
know, but from what I knew of the school I presume the
times and teaching had overtaken him in the race and left
him far behind. He was afterwards a clerk in the Essex
Bank, till the time of its collapse from empty vaults and
depleted cash boxes.
The tide water often came up as far as Richardson's
and beyond. There was a ropewalk at the foot of the
street, running over the marsh to the water, carried on by
one of the ropemaking family of Foyes. It was destroyed
by fire June 21, 1811, and Foye went to Portland. The
elder Foye, father of this man and some others, was not
a native of Salem, but carried on a ropewalk in my early
boyhood on the southerly side of Essex, near English
street, which extended from Essex street southerly to the
water. It was called sometimes, Orne's walk, Gray's
walk and Foye's walk, and had been (I think) the proper-
ty of Clifford Crowninshield, who was a son of Dr. John
Casper Crowninshield, the first emigrant of the name to
New England. He is said to have been educated at the
Leipsic University, and to have left Germany in conse-
quence of a duel. He married a daughter of a Capt.
Allen, of Lynn Spring. His sons were John and Clifford
and perhaps others. Elizabeth Orne advertised, in August,
1791, the ropewalk extending from the way (now Essex
street) to the channel of the harbor. I believe it was then
purchased by Wm. Gray and carried on for him by Foye.
The lower part of Derby street was then not opened, and
I remember that after it was opened, in 1803, there was
so little travel over it, that the lines were spun across the
street The way to the Neck then was from the foot of
Essex street by a way near the water, over which is now
196 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM
East Webb street. There was a gate at the bottom of
Essex street, which was know as old Neck gate to distin-
guish it from the present gate at the foot of Derby street.
Foye lived in a house on the north side of Essex street,
opposite the head house of his walk. His wife was a
widow Leadbetter, and she had by her first marriage a son
Daniel, of whom I have lost the trace. Philip English,
the sexton of the East church, lived near Foye's on the
site of the house of his descendant John Waters, recently
deceased. He was not descended from Philip the mer-
chant, but from an emigrant from Jersey connected with
the merchant.
At the bottom of the lane, facing west, stood the shoe-
maker's shop of Benjamin Brown who lived in the old
Gerrish house, next south of his shop, facing south, on
Essex street. An account of this house, and of the Ger-
rish family, may be found in the fifth volume of the
" Historical Collections of the Essex Institute." This
Benjamin was one of the descendants and occupied the
old house during his lifetime. He was what is called an old
fashioned man in every respect, old fashioned in his atten-
tion to business, old fashioned in his integrity and up-
rightness of character. As I do not believe these qualities
are extinguished or lessened in these days, I should prefer
to call him a good fashioned man. He was my early
shoemaker, and I know he made good, stout, substantial
shoes, one pair of which lasted a whole year ; but then it
should be remembered, that few boys of my time wore
shoes except in winter and cold days in spring and autumn ;
it was considered effeminate.
At the bottom of the street, likewise facing west, and
extending over the flats was the ropewalk of Foye &
Tuttle which was consumed by fire in 1811. A large
tunny fish was stranded on the flats near this ropewalk,
Sept. 10th, 1805. It weighed 925 Ibs., was 9 feet 5 inches
long, 7 feet and 2 inches in its greateat circumference,
and 27 inches in its least near the tail. Great crowds
went to see it, myself among the number.
The old English house on the corner of Essex and Eng-
lish streets was then standing, considerably time-worn but
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 197
still tenantable. It was a quaint old mansion, and must
once have been a stately and elegant one. A view of it
is given in Mr. Upham's work on witchcraft, in which he
has given so graphic an account of the state of society in,
and prior to 1692, and so exhaustive a description of the
witchcraft delusion, that I can conceive of nothing to be
written hereafter, which can add to the interest of the
narrative. I have lying before me a copy of a document
on file in the witch trials and which is rot quoted by Mr.
Upham, showing the flimsy and absurd nature of much of
the so called evidence presented against the poor victims
of fanaticism and blind credulity of the period. It also
marks the low state of female education then. It is a
return of a jury of examination, on the bodies of Bridget
Bishop alias Oliver, Rebeccah Nurse, Elizabeth Proctor,
Alice Parker, Susannah Martin and Sarah Good, to dis-
cover if there were any witch marks upon them ; and they
reported that they found upon three of them, preternatural
excrescences of flesh, not usual in women. This return
was made on the 2nd of June, 1692, about 10 in the morn-
ing ; and another return was made the same day about 4
in the afternoon in which some differences were dis-
covered. These returns were signed by John Barton,
chirurgeon and nine women of the principal families of
the town ; one of whom was presented in court in 1652,
for a violation of the sumptuary laws of that period, and
proving herself to be worth more than two hundred
pounds, was released. Of these nine women but one
signed her name, the others making their marks. John
Barton, the chirurgeon, was an eminent physician of the
period, I think the principal one. He was the son of
John Barton of Huntingdon, in England. Came to New
England, 1672, and married Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts.
He died in Barbadoes, Dec., 1694. His children were
John, born 3d January, 1677, Thomas, 17th July, 1680,
Zaccheus, 1683, and Samuel, 30th August, 1688, and from
Samuel the Salem Bartons are descended.
The old house in my boyhood was familiarly called
Touzel Castle, from John Tonzel, who married a daughter
of Philip English. Among its tenants, I remember John
198 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM
Bicksler and Benjamin Gardner. Bicksler was a German
and had a brewery at the eastern part of Derby street.
He sold his beer in Touzel Castle, and had also a cellar in
Derby street, near the head of Union wharf, at the door
of which he had a sign, on which was the picture of a
sailor, dressed in sailor toggery, holding in one hand a
goblet representing a glass of beer, a placard issuing from
his mouth,
" Brother sailors, walk down here,
And try a glass of my strong beer."
Poor Bicksler was inveigled by some Dowsterswivells,
into an attempt to transmute base metal into gold, and
turned his brewery into a laboratory, and sunk his proper-
ty, and left Salem, never more to be seen here. I think
it was in his time, that the shop which appears in Mr.
Upham's picture, was made in the castle.
Benjamin Gardner is remembered by me as "Fifer
Ben," as he fifed for the military companies. Benjamin,
his father, came to Salem about 1777, and died here in
1797, aged 77 years. He came here from Marblehead,
where he lived some time, and where he married his sec-
ond wife, having gone to Marblehead from Boston. He
had this son Benjamin, and a daughter Mary, who mar-
ried Abijah Hitchins. Father and son were rope makers.
The son married, June 1, 1783, Hannah Meek, and had
children baptized here at the East Church, Moses Meek,
Sarah, Benjamin, and Mary. He removed to Boston. At
the lower part of Derby street, Oliver & Whittemore had
a soap manufactory. Wm. Oliver was a marketman, and
a great favorite of the down town boys. He had been a
soldier under Washington, and for some good service had
received a medal, which he took great pride in wearing on
his breast on training days and other public occasions,
when he kept a table and sold confectionery, gingerbread,
and other edibles, and was very genial and pleasant to
boys, told them stories of the Revolutionary army, was
enthusiastic in his praise of General Washington, and
what pleased us better gave us good honest coppers worths
of the commodities he sold us. Whittemore removed to
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 199
Bridge street, and was for some time sexton of the First
church.
Inside of old Neck gate was a causeway leading to the
Neck ; it is now East Webb street. There were no houses
on the north side, I think, till Wm. Foye built his house
and ropewalk there. On the south side there were sev-
eral old houses, one or two of which were occupied by
negroes. Mumford, who lived near the turnpike, lived in
one of them, and worked at his trade as a carpenter in
the early part of 1800. Jimmy Campbell, occupied one
as a dance house, and sold his drinks from a beaufat, a
kind of closet then common in old houses, where the top
shelves were exposed to view, and on which were dis-
played his bottles and decanters. A man named Smith,
who had been a rope-maker, and who quit his honest oc-
cupation, kept a rendezvous in one for recruits for the
devil's army of drunkards. I remember his sign, of
which I believe the following is a pretty correct tran-
script :
SPIRITUAL PROFTE LICKERS.
SOALD HEAR BY E. SMITH.
Inside of new Neck gate was Wilson's brick yard to
the north, and some time afterwards Barker & Magoon
had a ship yard near the South river, where they built
many good vessels.
I return to Gutter lane. East of the schoolhouse there
was a large open field, extending to Essex street. Open,
except two wooden buildings on Essex street, one of
which was occupied by Jonathan Andrew, father of Gov.
John A. Andrew, as a grocery, and the other one, some
distance east of this, occupied for the same purpose by
another Jonathan Andrew, a cousin to the former one.
After the Governor's father removed to Maine, his cousin
Jonathan took his shop. This field belonged to William
Hathorne, and the tradition of my boyhood was, that on
that field, then part of the common lands, Governor En-
dicott cut the cross from the colors of the train band. I
attach but little credit to this assertion, as Dr. Bentley,
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who came to Salem in his manhood in 1784, and was
very industrious in collecting all the facts in relation to
the early history of the town, has not taken note of it.
The house on the corner near Essex street, now owned
by Capt. Wm. D. Waters, was built by Clifford Crownin-
shield in my boyhood, on the site of the old Ives man-
sion. I think it was not so large at first as it now is, but
has since been added to. Here stood an old house which
I think was partly occupied by Mr. Foote, a teacher, who
married a sister of Mr: Crowninshield. Clifford was son
of John C., who was the son of Clifford before named.
His mother was Mary Ives, who died 5th June, 1794,
aged 67. She left this son Clifford and five married
daughters and had lost two. Of the daughters, Anna
married Samuel Foote ; Martha, 1st, Benjamin Gale, 2nd,
Thomas Palfray ; Nancy, Wm. Molloy ; Abigail, Samuel
Very; Elizabeth, Joseph Moseley ;* Margaret, John Mur-
phy ; and Sally, James Devereux. Clifford was a mer-
chant and shipowner, and had his wharf and store a little
east (on Derby street) of Phillips wharf. He died June,
1809, aged 47, leaving no issue married Eliza, daughter
of Rev. Nath'l Fisher, rector of St. Peter's Episcopal
church. This reverend gentleman was born in Dedham,
Mass., and educated at Harvard College ; but travelling
through the Southern states, his health became impaired
and he went to Nova Scotia. Having regained his health,
he went to England, and was ordained in London, Sep-
tember, 1777, by the celebrated Dr. Low the, the then
Bishop of London. He tarried in London more than a
year, and then returned to Nova Scotia as an assistant to
the aged Dr. Wood, having charge of the church in An-
napolis Royal and Granville. Dr. Wood died in 1781,
and Mr. Fisher then embarked for Salem, having received
an invitation from the church here. He was captured on
his passage by a privateer from Portsmouth, and carried
into that place and confined and denied the liberty of pen
and ink, having been robbed of his books and most of his
wearing apparel. He was sent from Portsmouth to Bos-
*Joseph Moseley was a Virginian, and a very respected shipmaster. He had a
brother living in Virginia named Emperor, and a son born in Salem named for
his uncle, who died young. I think there must be a history attached to this
strange name, but if there is, I do not know it.
See Essex Institute Hist. Colls., Vol. 49, pp. 177-183. Editor.
BY BENJAMIN F. BKOWNE. 201
ton under guard, and was sent as a prisoner to Noddle's
island, now East Boston, and was confined from October
to January. Much indignation was manifested by the
people of Dedham at his confinement, and he was then
paroled to the limits of that town and forbidden to preach
or pray. He was tried in February and was set free.
He preached his sermon in St. Peter's church here, Feb-
ruary 24th, 1782. A manuscript now before me (written
by I know not whom), says that Mr. McGilchrist, his
predecessor, was obliged to suspend ministerial functions
in 1777, because the legislature passed a law prohibiting
the reading of the Episcopal service, under a penalty of
one hundred pounds and one year's imprisonment. Mr.
McG. died 19th of April, 1780, in the 73d year of his
age and the 34th of his ministry in that church, and it
goes on to say that when church services were resumed, in
1780, the church was in a very dilapidated state, from the
depredations of its violent and angry opposers, more than
six hundred panes of glass having been broken, besides
other injuries. The same manuscript has the following :
When I am dead, let no man say,
Here lies the best or worst of clay;
To stop the lye and save all charge,
I've drawn my character at large.
You'll say 'tis short, 'twas quickly done,
And all I mean should grace my stone.
Here lies honest Nat Fisher,
To all mankind a well wisher;
A man of five feet stature,
Or very near that matter;
Like Job, his comforts many,
Yet never lost a penny ;
A friend to every party,
Liv'd well and now sleeps hearty.
Perhaps you'll ask his riches,
How much besides his breeches ?
Just two pence was his portion,
Or some such little notion;
Yet blest by luck or some chance,
He died as rich as three pence.
Epitaph on N. F., wrote by himsetf.
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Mr. F. died very suddenly, Sunday, Dec. 20th, 1812,
after having performed the services in the church in the
forenoon. His daughter Crowninshield had no issue, and
his sons Nathaniel and Theodore died (I believe) unmar-
ried. They were young men of talents, and Theodore
had a fine taste for painting, and with more steadiness of
purpose, would probably have excelled in that art. I
suppose Mr. F. must have alluded to them as some of his
Job-like comforts. I was too young to have any personal
acquaintance with Mr. F., but from what I saw and heard
of him, I judge him to have possessed fair talents, to
have been of a genial temperament and of a social dispo-
sition, and as he said of himself, " a friend to every par-
ty," not severely orthodox in his religious opinions, and
not very strict in his observance of the ceremonies and
services of his church. A volume of his sermons was
published after his death, selected by the late Justice
Story, who was his parishioner and had a high opinion of
his merits as a sermonizer.
The house on the other side of Gutter lane and Pleas-
ant street, now occupied by the family of James B.
Briggs, was then occupied by the widow of Samuel Webb,
who bought it in 1767 of Sarah, administratrix of John
Ives, " the mansion house and land late my husband's."
Dr. Benjamin Kittredge, who had removed from Brook-
field, Mass., occupied the eastern part of the house and
had his pharmacy in a small shop to the northward of
that. Mrs. Webb was Hannah, daughter of John and
Hannah (Higginson) Ward. John was a peruke maker
(for in those days wigs were pretty generally worn), and
he at one time kept a tavern on the old road frora Salem
to Boston. His second wife was Martha Batter, daughter
of Edmund B. Hannah Higginson was daughter of
Nath'l H., who was son of Col. John and grandson of
Rev. John H. Nathaniel's wife was a daughter of Ben-
jamin and Hannah (Ruck) Gerrish. After the death of
Mr. Higginson, his widow married Edmund Batter, who
was a tanner and who lived on the corner of Washington
and Old Paved streets, on the site now occupied by Mr.
Lamson as a watch repairer's shop, and extending west to
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 203
the house lately David Putnam's. The house was con-
sumed by the great fire of 1774. By an agreement be-
tween Edmund and Hannah, dated 25th Sept., 1724, wit-
nessed by John Swinnerton, John Browne and John
Peirce, Edmund relinquishes all claim he might acquire
by the marriage to all estate now belonging to Hannah or
her children, and that he will provide sufficient meat and
drink for the three children till they are twenty-one or
are married, that is, give them board in his family frank
and free as his family fares ; and that the children, or any
of them, may have the use of the shop which is part of
his dwelling, free of rent, till the youngest of them shall
be twenty-one ; and Hannah agrees to pay all debts against
her out of her own estate, so that Edmund shall not be
liable for any of them.
These children married, viz : Hannah, John Ward ;
Mary, Nathaniel Andrew ; and Elizabeth, Obadiah Mors,
a jeweller, who I believe removed to Boston. Mrs. Webb
kept a huxter's shop in the northern part of her house,
fronting on Pleasant street. She was a very pleasant,
motherly lady, and kept for sale a great variety of arti-
cles wanted in a family. My errands to her shop were
very frequent, and my recollections of her are very pleas-
ant. She always gave honest weight, and never deceived
in her representations of the quality of her articles. She
was very particular in receiving and giving the exact
change. The decimal currency had just then been estab-
lished. Some cents, a few half cents, pennies, and New
England coppers were in circulation ; but accounts were
generally kept in pounds, shillings and pence. If an ar-
ticle was priced, four pence half penny, ninepence, or
thirteen penny happenny,and we could not make the exact
change, if the excess was on our side, she gave us some
small article a row or part of a row of pins, a cracker
or part of one as the case might be, and if the deficiency
was on our side, some little diminution in weight would
be made. Her daughter Hannah was married to Capt.
Joseph Hosmer, who I believe was a native of Connecti-
cut. I remember him as a smart, intelligent man I think
a shipmaster. He built the house now occupied by Judge
204 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM
Waters, which he sold to Walter Price Bartlett, 29th
March, 1800, who was an auctioneer in Salem. Bartlett
owned the house now in the ownership of Nathan Pierce,
and at one time had his auction room in what is now the
parlor. He also owned an old building next west, on the
corner of Essex and Liberty streets, and another south of
that on Liberty street. Edward S. Lang, son of Edward
the schoolmaster, before named, bought the old building
on the corner, which was moved off, and on the site he
built the present brick building now owned and occupied
by Henry J. Pratt as a drug store. This was in 1803.
Pierce's house was built in 1789. This property was in-
herited by Mr. Bartlett from the ancient, wealthy, and
respectable family of Prices, who were almost coeval with
the first settlement of the town, and from whom he was
descended. He was a worthy, respectable and active
business man, but became deranged and was boarded out
by his guardian in North Salem. Mrs. Webb had a son
Samuel who was a silversmith in Central street, on part
of the site of the present Central Building, but who in
his older and infirm days was an inmate of the family of
Dr. Benj. Kittredge. She had also a daughter, Priscilla,
who was engaged to Capt. Wm. Brown, who was lost in
a gale, Feb. 22d, 1802, which drove his vessel on Cape
Cod. On a bright and beautiful morning, three vessels
departed from Salem for Europe. They were the Ulysses,
Capt. James Cook, familiarly known as Dr. Cook, having
abandoned the medical for the maritime profession ; Bru-
tus, Capt. Wm. Brown, and the Volusia, Capt. Samuel
Cook, brother of Dr. C., and who died within a few years,
very aged, and who lived in Federal, near Dean street.
The next day came a violent storm, which stranded them
on Cape Cod. The Volusia, with part of her cargo,
was saved, but the others were lost. Of the Brutus
many were lost. One man was killed by the fall
of a yard before the vessel struck the shore ; one
was drowned while attempting to reach the shore ; and
the captain and six of the crew perished of cold and ex-
haustion after they had landed. One man was discov-
ered alive after having been buried in the sand and snow
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 205
thirty-six hours, but he died soon after he was removed.
I remember the gloom and sorrow that pervaded the town
when the news was received here nearly a week after the
sad catastrophe. 1 remember Capt. Brown very well, as
he was a frequent visitor in our family ; and I shared in
the general sorrow. His mother lived in Union street,
and he was descended from that Wm. Browne who mar-
ried Mary, the daughter of the first Philip English. Pris-
cilla kept to her first love, and was never married. Capt.
Hosmer, who married Hannah Webb, died in Norwich,
Conn. Dr. Kittredge, who lived in the eastern part of
Mrs. Webb's house, came to Salem, a young man recently
married. His father was a physician in Brookfield, Mass.
Dr. K. was not a member of the medical society, and
some people called him a quack, but an old and eminent
physician once said to me, " there is a good deal of quack-
ery among the best of us." If Dr. K. was a quack, he
somehow or other contrived to cure people whom other
physicians failed to cure. When I was older 1 knew him
well, my business leading to frequent intercourse with
him. My impression of him is that he was a man of a
very clear head, an intellect that comprehended the four
sides of a square quicker than most men, of a fair medi-
cal education, very expert in minor surgery, and skilful
in larger operations. He was ahead of the times in treat-
ing typhoid fever with nutriment and stimulants, and his
success in these cases gained him much reputation. Un-
der a rough exterior, he had a kind and benevolent dispo-
sition, and never failed in his attention and services to
the poor, from whom he could expect no remuneration.
This, and his carelessness in pecuniary concerns, prevent-
ed his accumulation of wealth, though he had a large
practice. He was the father of Dr. Benj. Kittredge, who
was killed by a fall from his horse some years since, at
Little Hock, Arkansas, and also of Dr. Edward K., who
resided at Lynn, and was well known in the neighborhood
as a speaker on temperance and other matters, and by his
quaint and witty contributions to the newspapers, over
the signature of " Noggs."
The land north of the Ives estate was Thomas Roots',
206 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM
who had a dwelling house on it, which he sold, with about
four acres of land to George Hodges in 1681. A century
after this, Francis Boardman, a shipmaster and whose
wife was a Hodges, bought of John Hodges part of this land
and erected the dwelling house now owned by Zachariah
Silsbee, his son-in-law. Benj. W. Crown inshield, who was
Secretary of the Navy under Mr. Madison's administration,
married his other daughter, and the son Francis survives.
In this house Mrs. Abigail Rogers kept, in my boyhood, a
school for young misses, and a famous one it was. Many
misses of the wealthiest families of Salem were day schol-
ars and many came from the neighboring towns and some
from a distance as boarders. She was the widow of Nath-
aniel Rogers, who had been the master of the Latin Gram-
mar School, and who was a native of Ipswich. I judge
from what I heard of her, that she was a very cultivated
lady, of good acquirements, a superior instructor, of great
skill and tact in managing her school, and of indomitable
energy and perseverance, who gained the love and respect
of her pupils, and who reared a family of four boys to
great respectability and usefulness.
The land north of Hodges' was early in possession of
Nathaniel Beadle, and north of that, John Archer, in 1697,
owned 3-4 of an acre of land. By covenant between his
sons Thomas and Benjamin in that year, his estate was di-
vided between them, and this lot is described as bounded
west on the Common, north on Madame Bradstreet's land ,
and south on Nathaniel Beadle's. It underwent some
changes in ownership after that before my knowledge of
it. Next to Captain Boardman's house was a narrow va-
cant piece of land belonging to one of the Hodges family.
It extended east to the water. Next to this, noi-th, was
the dwelling house of Joseph Vincent, with his rope-walk
extending to the water, with a platform on piles, extend-
ing, I think about half way to the opposite shore of the
neck. The workmen spun their lines the length of the
walk, and when the weather permitted, to the end of the
open platform. This and the neighboring walk of Thomas
Briggs, were busy places in those times. All the work be-
ing then done by hand, and not by machinery, a great
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 207
number of men were employed in the walks, and when a
cable was laid up at one of the walks, men from the others
came to assist.
During the building of the frigate Essex, in 1799, I, an
urchin, 6 years of age, was much interested in the proceed-
ings in these two walks, which were in my neighborhood,
and in which the cables and much of the cordage were
made. I remember when a cable was carried from Briggs'
walk to the frigate, we had quite a holiday in the neigh-
borhood. Many workmen were there, arranged two and
two, with a stick used in laying cables, and which I think
was called a woolering stick, resting on the right shoulder
of one and on the left shoulder of the other, on which the
cable rested, proceeded from the walk, with the American
flag displayed, preceded by one or more drummers and
fifers, playing " Yankee Doodle," to the unlaunched fri-
gate on the Neck. I have an impression that in some part
of the journey, the cable slipped and wounded one of the
workmen badly.
I remember the launch of the frigate Essex, which was
built on Winter Island in 1799, by a subscription of our
citizens, and presented to the government. Capt. Joseph
Waters, father of Judge Waters, superintended her build-
ing. I have said that I remember her launch, but I have
no distinct recollection of seeing her glide off the ways. I
was on one of the ramparts of Fort Pickering, and was
held up by my father to see her launched, but there was
such a crowd of people between me and the ship, that I
doubt if I saw her slip off. There were a few soldiers in
the fort, for it was during our quasi war with France, and
they were under command of Lieut. John Page, son of
Col. John Page of this town. I remember coming up from
the Neck through Derby street, and that the water had
been over the street, and was then even with the tops of
the wharves. In the file of the Salem Gazette of 1799, may
be found the advertisement of Enos Briggs, the builder
of the ship, who came here from Pembroke, Mass., who
lived at Stage Point, now Harbor street, his house is still
there, and who was the builder of many of our best ves-
sels, the rythmical reading of which, I quote from recol-
lection :
208 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM.
Next September is the time,
When we'll launch her from the strand,
And her cannon load and prime,
With tribute due to Tallyrand.
The successful cruise of this small frigate, commanded
by Capt. David Porter, in the Pacific ocean, and her gal-
lant defence, against the dastardly attack of two British
men of war, and capture in neutral waters, form a bright
chapter in American naval history.
It was during this time and while carrying cordage
from one of these walks, that I for the only time saw Billy
Dowst, the strong man of Salem. I copy from the Salem
Gazette of July 21, 1801, the following notice of him:
" He was a man of uncommon size and strength. He
was nearly 7 feet high and weighed 300 pounds. The
following instances will prove his great strength. He was
on board a privateer in the revolutionary war, which got
among the breakers off Cape Breton ; when it became nec-
essary immediately to cast anchor ; but there being none
upon deck, as many hands laid hold of one which was in
the hold, as could get at it, but could not start it; Dowst
pushed them aside, seized it himself, brought it on deck,
carried it forward, and held it upon the timber heads while
a cable was bent to it, when he threw it over, and saved
the vessel and the lives of the crew, as they were on the
point of dashing on the rocks. The anchor weighed seven
hundred weight. At another time, eight or ten hands were
sent to Becket's shipyard, from the well known privateer
ship Grand Turk, to bring up a foreyard for the ship.
Dowst was among them, but naturally of a dilatory dispo-
sition he did not at first take hold ; the others shouldered
it, but begun to stagger under it, and complained that
there were not enough to carry it, Dowst laughing at them,
told them he could carry it alone, on which they threw it
down, and he took it up and carried it to the shop, with-
out assistance. At another time, when he attended the
fish flakes at Windmill point, he was directed by his em-
ployer to go for a jackass which was in an adjoining field.
When Dowst got him to a partition fence, being in rather
a lazy mood, to save himself the trouble of letting down
the bars, he took the beast and lifted him over and then
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 209
got upon his back, and rode him to the place where he
was to be employed. He once raised from the ground the
anchor of the prize ship Rocharapton, which weighed 1700
pounds and which four men had immediately before en-
deavored in vain to lift on a bet. Being at Bilboa last
war, in a privateer, an English vessel came in, which had
in its crew a professed bully, who was challenging every
one to combat, and hearing of Dowst, sent a particular chal-
lenge to him. They met, and the Englishman, who was
superior to our Sampson in the art of boxing, knocked
him down three times, and the last time twisted his fingers
into his hair to gouge him, when Dowst gave him a blow
upon his arm which broke it, and with another blow broke
in three of the bully's ribs, who it was said died of his
wounds. Dowst, with his amazing strength, was remark-
ably good-natured and tender in his feelings, and rather
of an indolent habit ; but when he was roused to anger,
or to exertion, his efforts were irresistible. He enjoyed
through life a large share of health. For three months
before his death he had been afflicted with the dropsy,
but appeared to have considerably recovered, and the last
day of his life he walked abroad the greater part of the
day, according to his usual habit, but the next morning
his wife found him dead in his bed."
(To be continued.)
KILLAM GENEALOGY.
BY SIDNEY PEKLEY.
THE name of this family has been and is now variously
spelled. The following forms appear in the records :
Calem, Kalem, Keilim, Kellam, Kellem, Kellim, Kilham,
Killarn, Killem, Killiam, Killim, Killum and Kulem.
It has been said that this family originated in the West
Riding of Yorkshire, England, where the parish of Kil-
ham exists ; and the present writer suggests that the
county of Suffolk may be the place.
AUSTIN KiLLAM 1 , the progenitor of the American fam-
ily of Killam or Kilham, was probably born about the year
1595, and probably came to America in the " Mary Anne,"
of Yarmouth, being examined, May 11, 1637, as " desir-
ous to goe to Salam in the New E." At a town meeting,
held Aug. 7, 1637, 4< Augustin Kelharn is admitted for
inhabitant & is to haue a q r ter of an acre before Easties
house." He was subsequently granted (?) a ten-acre lot,
which he exchanged for a lot on Cape Ann Side before
June 26, 1638.* April 17, 1639, Austen Calem and Wil-
liam Browne were engaged by the town of Salem to keep
the goats for that year. Jan. 21, 1639-40, the town grant-
ed to Austen Kellham thirty acres of land.
In the spring of 1640, Mr. Killam removed to Ded-
ham, and he and his wife were received into the Dedham
church Aug. 28, 1640. He was chosen ' measurer " for
the town Jan. 12, 1640-1. The family removed to Wen-
ham in 1648, or the spring of 1649, and were admitted
to the church May 31, 1649.
Mr. Killam served on the trial jury at the Salem quar-
terly court, June 26, 1649; and was sworn constable of
*Salem town records, of that date.
(210)
KILL AM GENEALOGY. 211
Wenham in the same court the next Christmas day. In
1652, his wife was presented for wearing a silk hood ; but
the case was continued, nothing more concerning it ap-
pears on record, and apparently the matter was dropped.
Mr. Killam served on the grand jury in 1655, 1657 and
1658. In the latter year a suit was brought against him
and his son Daniel and son-in-law Richard Hutton by Wil-
liam Browne to recover for the rent of a farm in Wen-
ham.
In 1653, the people of Wenham contributed to the
support of Harvard college, and Mr. Killam and his sons
Daniel and John are on the list of donors. Of the twen-
ty-five persons who thus contributed only four gave more
than Mr. Killam. He also gave liberally to the support
of the church, and he was one of the two collectors of
the salary of the minister in 1659. He was also one of
the committee of three chosen to build the meetinghouse,
in December, 1660, and it was erected upon his land.
Mr. Killam married Alice in England about 1618.
He died in Wenham June 5, 1667, at about seventy years
of age.
Mr. Killam made his will only three days before his
death. The following is an exact copy of the original
document, which is on file in the probate office at Salem :
2d of the 4 th mo : 1667 The Laft will & Teftament of Auftin Kil-
lim
I Being Sick & weake of Body yet of pfit memory Comit my Soull
into the hands of the Etternall God & father in Jefus Chrift & Dif-
pofe of my Eftate as ffolloweth
Imprimife I Giue to my welbeloued wife all my Catle & fwine
& moneable Goods alfo I Giue my Dweling Houfe & Land therevnto
Belonginge (Except Six Akres which I haue alridy Giuen to my Son
Lott) both vpland & medow for the terme of hir life (vnlefe fhee
fhall haue need to fell any of the Afforefaid medow for hir vfe) &
then my will is that it fhall be my Son Lotts But if he Dy' Before
his mother my will is that fhee fhall haue the Sole Difpofeing of it
to whom fhee think meet, alfo my will is that my Son Lott fhall
haue fine Akres of Lande Betwin Ipfwich lyne & the Sawepit vnlefe
his Brother John fhall Giue him an Affureanc of flue Akers in the
neck of which my Son lot hath now pte in his poffefon & for the
Reft of my farme both vpland & medow that is not now in my pof-
212 KILL AM GENEALOGY
fefon I haue formerly Difpofed of it & my will is that there be no
alteraton of any pte of it vnlefe the aforefaid fiue Akres (by the
fawe pit) to my fon Lot & further I make Choice of my welbeloued
wife to be Sole Exetrex to this my will
Sealed & Subfcribd
in the prfent of AUSTEN A KILLEM (SEAL)
THO : FFISKE his marke
RICHARD R H HUTTN
This will was proved in the Ipswich quarterly court,
Sept. 24, 1667, upon the oaths of Thomas Fiske and
Richard Hutten, the witnesses. Upon the same day, and
in the same court, the inventory of the estate, dated June
11, 1667, was filed. The witnesses to the will were the
appraisers. The original return of the appraisers is on
file in the probate office at Salem, and the following is an
accurate copy of it :
An Inuentory of the Estate of Auften Killim taken this ii th of 4 th
1667
Imprimiss an howfe & twenty two Akres of vpland
& medow with the Crop 76
ItCatle 2800
It Swine 03 00
It Bed & firniture 08 00
It one Cubbord 00100
It one Cheft 00080
It one Table 00040
It one powdering tubb 00 06
It Bras pewter & Iron pot 03000
It Cottn wooll & yarne 01120
It Seuerall other vtelfes 01000
122000
Prized By
RICHARD HUTTN
& THO: FFISKE
This inventory was sworn to by Daniel Killam and Mr.
Charles Gott in Ipswich quarterly court Sept. 24, 1667.
Mr. Killam 's wife survived him, and died, his widow,
July 18, 1667. Her will, dated fifteen days prior to her
decease, is on file in the probate office at Salem, and the
following is an exact copy of the original document :
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 213
I Allace Killom widdow to ye lately deceafed Auftin Killum, be-
ing under the aflicting hand of god & not knowing how foone god
may put a period to my dayes upon Earth, & now being (through
the mercy of god) in my right fences doe Judge it meet to make my
laft will & Teftament: this third of July. 1667. which is as follow-
eth viz:
Imprimis I give up my foule to ye ever bleffed god through Jefus
x* my deare Savior (who hath purcheffed mee w th his moft pretious
blood) my body I giue to bee decently buried in the Earth their to
remaine till the gennerall refurrection As for my outward eftate
wch god (of his goodneffe) hath lent mee, I will that my debts bee
paid in the firft place for wch end I put all my crop upon the ground,
into the handes of my fonne Daniell to locke after it, & to difpofe
of it for the paying my ingagemts, in cafe y* should fall short y l it
will not accomplifh y e whole, it is my will it bee made up out of my
other eitate, my debts being paid I will That my daughter Elizabath
Hutten have my bed on wch I ordinary lye together w th all the ap-
purtenances belonging thereto, hir daughter Elizabeth haue my
scarfe my daughter Sarah Fifke have foure poundes paid to hir my
daughters mary & Ruth each of y m three poundes my Daughter
Daniells wife ten shillings my Granddaughter Mary Killum my
flaggon, Thefe legacies being paid I will all the reft equally to bee
devided amongft my fonnes & daughters my Sonne Lott to have as
apart of his my intereft I have in his maire wch i s three pounds I
will alfo y* mr Charles Gott together with my sonne Daniell fee that
this will & Teftamt bee carefully attended To ye Confirmation of
ye whole & every part hereof I fet to my hand this third of July
1667.
ANTIPAS NEWMAN marke marke
Wittneffe CHARLES GOT Senir DANIEL DD KILU ALAOE + KILLUM
his hir
This will was filed at the same time as that of her hus-
band. Upon the same day, and in the same court, the in-
ventory of her estate, dated July 10, 1667, was filed.
The appraisers were Richard Kimball and Thomas Fiske.
The original return of the appraisers was written on the
same sheet of paper as that of the estate of her husband,
and the following is an accurate copy of it :
An Inuentory of the Eftate of the widow Killim
s
Imprimis one Carpet Cloath 4 6
It on Inglifh Sardg Gowne 03 00
It one french Sardg Gowne 02150
214 KILLAM GENEALOGY
It one Sardg Hood 00160
It one Cottn waftcoat 0007
It on vnder Coate 00 06
It one white Apron 00090
It one white Cubbard Cloath 00016
It one peice of Carpitin 00 00 6
It one neck Handkercheife 00 02
It one Band & Drefing 00016
It one Stuffe Coate 00050
It one paire of Cottn Sleeues 00 01
It two fpoons 00 6
It Corne vpon the land 18 6
9080
10th 5 mo: 1667. the widows Debts
RICHARD KEMBALL which Doe Appeare
& THO: FFISKE amounts to the Sum of
101-06 8i
This inventory was also sworn to by Daniel Killam and
Mr. Charles Gott in the Ipswich quarterly court, Sept. 24,
1667.
Their children were as follows :
2 i. DANIEL*, born about 1620. See below.
3 n. ELIZABETH 2 , married Serg. Richard Hutten of Wenham,
husbandman, about 1650; she was living in 1667; and he
died June 22, 1713, in his ninety-sixth year.
4 in. MARY 2 , probably died young.
5 iv. JoHN 2 , born about 1627. See below.
6 v. RuTH 2 , probably died young.
7 vi. LoT 2 , born Sept. 11, 1640, in Dedham. See below.
8 vn. SARAH 2 , born Jan. 4, 1641-2, in Dedham; married Dea.
William Fiske of Wenham Jan. 15, 1662-3; he died Feb.
4, 1727-8, aged eighty-four; and she died, his widow,
Jan. 26, 1737-8, in her ninety-eighth year.
CORP. DANIEL KILL AM 2 , born about 1620. He was a
husbandman, and lived at first in Wenham, where he was
constable in 1653 and gatherer of the salary of the min-
ister in 1662. About 1676, he removed to Ipswich, but
returned to Wenham after 1693.
BY SIDNEY PEKLEY. 215
Mr. Killam married, first, Mary, daughter of Thomas
Safford of Ipswich, Oct. , 1648. He married, second,
about 1678, Elizabeth, widow, respectively, of Humphrey
Gilbert, William Eeyner and Henry Kimball. She was
the wife of Daniel Killam in 1679 and 1686. " Mary
Smith," wife of Daniel Killam, died in Wenham Sept. 7,
1696. He married Mary, widow of Alexander Maxcy,
about 1697. Mr. Killam died in Wenham March 21,
1699-1700. His widow Mary lived in Wenham, and died
May 1, 1726.
Children, born in Wenham :
9 i. DANIEL 3 , born May 15, 1649. See below.
lOii. ELIZABETH 3 , married John Gilbert of Ipswich Sept. 27,
1677.
11 in. THOMAS 8 , born about 1653. See below.
12 iv. JOHN 3 , born Jan. 13, 1654-5.
13 V. JOSEPH 3 .
14 vi. SARAH 3 , born Nov. 29, ] 661; married Nathaniel Cook of
Deerfield June 21, 1687, in Ipswich.
15 vn. HANNAH 3 , born Dec. 21, 1664 ; married John Loverell of
Piscataqua March 1, 1686, in Ipswich.
16 vin. RuTH 3 , born Oct. 9, 1666.
17 ix. DEBORAH 3 , born Dec. 28, 1668 ; admitted to church in
Wenham.
5
JOHN KiLLAM 2 , born about 1627. He lived in Wen-
ham ; and was constable in 1658 and 1659. He married
Hannah, daughter of John and Ann Pickworth of Man-
chester about 1659 ; and she died before 1682.
Children, born in Wenham :
18i. HANNAH :I , born April 29, 1660.
19n. SAMUEL 3 , born Aug. 1, 1662. See below.
20 in. ANN 3 , born March 4, 1673; probably married Samuel Mas-
tus Dec. 25, 1698.
21 iv. BENJAMIN 3 , born Feb. 3, 1674.
LOT KiLLAM 2 , born in Dedham Sept. 11, 1640. He
was a husbandman, and lived in Salem Village Oct. 26,
1682, when he sold his dwelling house and land there.
216 KILLAM GENEALOGY
He married Hannah Goodale of Salem May 22, 1666 ;
and she was his wife in 1682.
Children, born in Salem :
221. HANNAH 3 , born March 16, 1666-7.
23n. JAMES 3 , born May , 1669; died May , 1669.
24 in. EPHBAIM 8 , born June , 1672; died June , 1672.
25 iv. RUTH", born Sept. , 1673; died same day.
26 v. RuTH 3 , born Jan. 15, 1675.
9
DANIEL KiLLAM3, born in Wenham May 15, 1649. He
was a husbandman, and lived in Ipswich. He married
Sarah (Geare), widow of John Fairfield of Ipswich April
13, 1673. She died in Wenham Jan. 20, 1715-6 ; and he
died there Aug. 29, 1734, at the age of eighty-five.
Children, born in Ipswich :
271. MARY 4 , born March 10, 1673-4; unmarried in 1721.
28 n. DANIEL*, born March 8, 1676. See below.
29 in. JOSEPH 4 . See below.
30 iv. WILLIAM*, born July , 1680. See below.
31 v. SARAH 4 , unmarried in 1721; admitted to Wenham church
Jan. 28,1728.
32 vi. HANNAH 4 , born May 1, 1683 ; unmarried in 1721; married
John Moulton, jr., of Wenham Feb. 26, 1729-30.
11
THOMAS KILLAMS, born about 1653. He was a yeo-
man, and lived in Wenham until 1702, when he bought
one hundred acres of land in Boxford of Zerubabel Endi-
cott, and removed thereto. He married Martha, daughter
of John and Elizabeth Solart of Wenham before 1682.
He died in 1725, having given his farm by deed to his
sons Thomas Killam and John Killam.
Children :
331. THOMAS*, born about 1685. See below.
34 ii. SAMUEL". See below.
35 in. JOHN 4 , born Nov. 3, 1695, in Wenham. See below.
36 iv. DANIEL 4 , born May 25, 1698 ; died in Wenham Oct. 20,
1699.
37 v. DANIEI/, born Aug. 14, 1700, in Wenham.
BY SIDNEY PEliLEY. 217
19
SAMUEL KILLAM% born in Wenham Aug. 1, 1662. He
was a housewright, and lived in Wenham. He married
Deborah about 1694. He died in Wenham Feb. 13,
1744-5; and she died, his widow, in Wenham, Feb. 25,
1746.
Children, born in Wenham :
381. HANNAH 4 , bora March 22, 1695-6.
3911. JOHN 4 , born Sept. 7, 1698.
40 in. BENJAMIN 4 , born Feb. 6, 1700-1.
41 iv. JOSEPH*, born April 1, 1706; cordwainer, tradesman and
weaver; lived in Gloucester; married Dorothy be-
fore 1745; she was his wife in 1783; and he died in the
Second parish in Gloucester March 12, 1806, lacking
only twenty days of being one hundred years of age.
42 v. NATHANIEL 4 , born Sept. 1, 1711. See below.
43 vi. ABIGAIL 4 , born March 23, 1714.
44 vn. EBENEZEK 4 , born Jan. 9, 1719-20. See below.
28
DANIEL KILL AM 4 , born March 8, 1676. He was a hus-
bandman, and lived in Wenham, except in 1712, when he
was living at the Hamlet, in Ipswich. He married Eliza-
beth Ramsdell of Wenham Jan. 7, 1702-3, in Ipswich;
and died in Wenham March 20, 1745-6, at the age of
seventy. She survived him, and died, his widow, June 22,
1751.
Children, born in Wenham :
45i. DANIEL^, born Oct. 18, 1703. See below.
46 ii. ANNA 5 , born March 16, 1705; admitted to the church in
Wenham July 7, 1723; and was living in Wenham, an-
married, in 1746.
47 in. JOHN*, born April 24, 1710. See below.
48 iv. ELIZABETH*, born Nov. 11, 1712; admitted to the church
in Wenham April 10, 1737; married John Rogers Feb.
13, 1748-9.
29
JOSEPH KiLLAM 4 was a husbandman, and lived in Ips-
wich. He married Margaret Haggett of Wenham (pub-
lished Nov. 11, 1717). They were living in Ipswich in
218 KILLAM GENEALOGY
1744. He probably died in 1763, and she was of Ipswich,
his widow, in 1764.
Children, born in Wenham :
49~i. SARAH 5 , born Jan. 10, 1720-1; died Feb. 9, 1720-1.
50 II. JOSEPH 5 , born June 9, 1722 ; died at the Hamlet, in Ips-
wich, of consumption, Sept. 30, 1771, aged fifty. The
following entry, crossed out, appears on the Ipswich
town records: ' Joseph Killam published to Elizabeth
Floyd March 18, 1749." They were probably married,
and she was living in 1764.
51 in. MARGARET 5 , born Jan. 2, 1726-7; married Nathaniel Brown
of Billerica (published Nov. 17, 1752); and they were
living there in 1764.
30
WILLIAM KiLLAM 4 , born in Ipswich, July -, 1680.
He was a husbandman, and lived in Ipswich. He married
Abigail Stevens of Wenham Jan. 15, 1705-6, at Beverly.
He died Nov. , 1734, and was buried at the Hamlet.
She survived him, and was living in Ipswich, his widow,
spinster, in ] 746.
Children :
52 i. ABIGAIL 6 , born Oct. 23, 1706, in Ipswich; died young.
53 II. ELIZABETH 5 , born Dec. 26, 1707, recorded as born in Wen-
ham ; admitted to the church in Wenham May 17, 1724;
and was living in Ipswich, unmarried, in 1746.
54 in. ABIGAIL 5 , born Jan. 27, 1709-10, recorded as born in Wen-
ham; and lived in Ipswich, unmarried, 1746.
55 iv. JOSEPH 5 , born Feb. 26, 1711-2, recorded as born in Wenham;
died young.
56 v. SARAH 5 , married Lewis Martin March 12, 1750-1 ; and they
lived in Ipswich in 1761.
57 vi. WiLLiAM 5 , born Feb. 1, 1720-1, recorded as born in Wen-
ham; .lived in Ipswich; died in 1745; administration
upon his estate was granted to his mother Sept. 10, 1745.
33
THOMAS KiLLAM 4 , born about 1685. He was a yeo-
man, and lived in Boxford. He married Sarah Maxcy
April 8, 1712 ; and died Nov. 26, 1742, aged fifty-seven.
She died, his widow, April 2, 1768, at the age of ninety.
They were buried in Middleton.
BY SIDNEY PBRLBY. 219
Children, born in Box ford :
581. EBENEZER 5 , born Aug. 26, 1714. See below.
59 n. SARAH 5 , born Nov. 1, 1716; married Nathaniel, son of
Joseph and Mary Peabody of Middleton Oct. 27, 1737.
He was born in Boxford Oct. 7, 1710; and died in 1796.
34
SAMUEL KiLLAM 4 , was a yeoman, and lived in Boxford
until about 1735, when he settled in Wilmington, Mass.
He married Grace, daughter of Zerubabel and Grace
(Symonds) Endecott of Boxford Dec. 21, 1715. They
were living in Wilmington in 1740.
Child, born in Boxford :
601. SAMUEL 5 , born Dec. 4, 1716.
35
JOHN KiLLAM 4 , born in Wenham Nov. 3, 1695. He
was a husbandman, and lived in Boxford. He married
Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Porter) Symonds
of Boxford Feb. 3, 1724-5, and died Jan. 15, 1738-9, at
the age of forty-three. She survived him.
Children, born in Boxford :
611. ABIGAIL 5 , born Nov. 30, 1725; married Capt. Israel Her-
rick of Topsfield June 22, 1749; and lived in Boxford.
62 n. JOHN 5 , born May 1, 1729. See below.
63 in. MARY 5 , born Oct. 7, 1731; married Benjamin Thompson
of Wilmington July 26, 1758.
42
NATHANIEL KiLLAM 4 , born in Wenham Sept. 1, 1711.
He was a husbandman, and lived in Ipswich. He married,
first, Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Fairfield of
Wenham Jan. 8, 1734-5, in Ipswich. She was born in
Wenham Sept. 25, 1711, and died in Ipswich Nov. 26,
1736. He married, second, widow Sarah Fellows of
Ipswich July 22, 1738.
Child, born in Wenham :
641. MART*, born Oct. 6, 1735.
44
EBENEZER KILLAM*, born in Wenham Jan. 9, 1719-20.
220 KILLAM GENEALOGY
He was a cooper, and lived in Wenham. He married
Mary Gilbert of Ipswich Nov. 12, 1741 ; and they were
living in Wenham in 1747.
Children, born in Wenham :
65i. SAMUEL 5 , born Nov. 20, 1743.
66 ii. DEBORAH 6 , baptized Nov. 22, 1747.
45
DANIEL KILLAMS, born in Wenham Oct. 18, 1703.
He was a husbandman, and lived in Wenham. He married
Rebecca Frost of Ipswich April 5, 1726. She was ad-
mitted to the church at Wenham Jan. 14, 1728 ; and died
in Wenham, of putrid fever, May 30, 1787, at the age of
eighty-three. He died there twelve days later (June 11,
1787), at the age of eighty -three.
Children, born in Wenham :
67i. DANIEL 6 , born March 11, 1727. See below.
68n. KEBECOA", born March 18, 1729; married Andrew Cole of
Beverly July 21, 1751; she was admitted to the church
in Wenham Aug. 19, 1753, and they were living there in
1788.
69 in. JONATHAN 6 , born April 21, 1732; died Oct. 6, 1740.
70 iv. HANNAH 6 , born Dec. 21, 1734; married Benjamin Lovett of
Beverly March 13, 1754 ; and they were living in Beverly
in 1788.
71- v. MEHiTABLE 6 , born Aug. 23, 1738; admitted to the church
in Wenham May 7, 1758, and died Dec. 25, 1759.
72 vi. LYDIA, born June 21, 1741; died Aug. 21, 1741.
73 vii. JONATHAN 6 , born Nov. 22, 1747. See below.
47
JOHN KILLAMS, born in Wenham April 24. 1710.
He was a weaver and yeoman, and lived in Wenham. He
married, first, Sarah Patch of Wenham Jan. 8, 1740. She
died Oct. 5, 1742, at the age of twenty-seven, and he
married, second, Mary Poland of Ipswich (published April
3, 1743). She died Oct. 8, 1770 ; and he married, third,
Anna Dodge April 23, 1771. Mr. Killam died in Wenham
Jan. 24, 1774, at the age of sixty-three. His wife Anna
survived him, and probably married Skipper Dodge of
Wenham Oct. 3, 1776.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 221
Children, born in Wenham :
74i. JOHN 6 , born Aug. 16, 1740. See below.
75 n. _ (infant), died Feb. 5, 1743-4.
76 in. SARAH 6 , born Jan. 17, 1744-5; died young.
77 iv. ELIZABETH 6 , born Sept. 26, 1746.
78 v. HKPziBAH 6 , born July 9, 1748; married John Woodbury of
Ipswich Oct. 29, 1769.
79 vi. SARAH", born April 24, 1750; probably married Abiel Lee
of Manchester Jan. 2, 1772.
80 vn. MARY 6 , baptized May 10, 1752; married William Woodbury
of Ipswich Jan. 12, 1773.
81 vin. AsA 6 , born May 28, 1754. See below.
58
EBENEZER KILLAM S , born in Boxford Aug. 26, 1714.
He was a yeoman, and lived in Boxford. He married,
first, Hannah Lummux of the Hamlet, in Ipswich, in 1738
(published Nov. 19, 1738) ; and she died Aug. 27, 1766,
aged fifty-two. He married, second, widow Mary Peabody
July 9, 1767. He conveyed his farm to his son Thomas
in 1771, and died Oct. , 1778, at the age of sixty-four.
She survived him.
Children, born in Boxford :
82 I. MARY 6 , born Feb. 2, 1739-40; probably died young.
8311. HANNAH", born Sept. 25, 1742; died young.
84 in. THOMAS'", born March 25, 1745. See below.
85 iv. NATHANIEL 6 , born June 22, 1747; baptized at Topsfield
Aug. 5, 1753.
86 v. SARAH', baptized in Topsfield May 4, 1750; married James
Brown of Wilton, N. H., Jan. 18, 1768; and was living
in 1778.
87. vi. HANNAH 6 , born June 9, 1755; her father, in his will, com-
mended her faithful service in his family, both before
and after her marriage, and bequeathed to her, among
other property, his chaise; married Nathaniel Gould of
Topsfield Nov. 20, 1777.
62
ENS. JOHN KILLAMS, born in Boxford May 1, 1729.
He was a farmer, and lived in Boxford. He married
Priscilla, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fisk) Brad-
street of Topsfield June 12, 1764. She was born in
222 KILLAM GENEALOGY
Topsfield Jan. 8, 1745 ; aad was admitted to the First
church in Boxford July 3, 1768. She died in 1807 ; and
he died Oct. 11, 1818, at the age of eighty-nine.
Children, born in Boxford:
881. ANNA 6 , born March 23, 1765; married Stephen Peabody
Dec. 13, 1785; and she was living in 1810.
89 n. PmsciLLA 6 , born Nov. 25, 1766; married Phineas Foster
of Salem May 7, 1795; and lived in Boxford.
90 in. JOHN 6 , born Aug. 21, 1768; died at sea, unmarried.
91 iv. ABIGAIL 6 , born April 3, 1770; married Benjamin Upton of
Reading July 10, 1798; and was his wife in 1810.
92 v. ELIZABETH 6 , born Feb. 16, 1772; married Billy Bradstreet
of Topsfield June 20, 1805.
93 vi. MoLLY 6 , born Sept. 14, 1774; married Francis Curtis of
Boxford Jan. 11, 1798; and died there Dec. 31, 1847, at
the age of seventy-three.
94 vn. JOSEPH 6 , born May 9, 1777. See below.
95 viii. SAMUEL 6 , born April 2, 1779. See below.
96 ix. OLIVER 6 , born June 16, 1781. See below.
97 x. As A 6 , born June 20, 1785 ; served in the army in the War
of 1812; came home and helped his father and left home
to go to Boston. He was never heard from again by any
of his family or friends.
67
DANIEL KiLHAM 6 , born in Wenham March 11, 1727.
He was a cordwainer and yeoman, and lived in Wenham,
where he was admitted to the church Sept. 23, 1759. He
married, first, Hannah Dodge of Beverly Jan. 30, 1752 ;
and she died July 26, 1759. He married, second, Elizabeth
Kimball of Wenham Jan. 30, 1760 ; and she was admitted
to the church in Wenham April 20th following. She
died June 11, 1782 ; and he married, third, Mary Patch
(published Oct. 25, 1783). He died in Wenham, of
asthma, June 20, 1789, aged sixty-two. His wife Mary
survived him, and was living in Wenham, his widow, in
1798.
Children, born in Wenham :
981. DANIEL', born Jan. 15, 1753; graduated at Harvard Col-
lege in 1777; studied medicine with Doctor Holyoke;
and, became an apothecary in Newburyport. He was
a member of both branches of the state legislature and
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
223
of the governor's council. He returned to Wenham
about 1795, and remained there during the rest of
his life. He was found dead in his garden, having died
suddenly, by " an affection of the heart," Oct. 12, 1841,
at the age of eighty-eight.
99 II. JOHN', born Sept. 18, 1755. See below.
100 in. JOSHUA 7 , baptized July 8, 1759; died July 29, 1759.
101 iv. HANNAH 7 , born Jan. 8, 1761; lived in Wenham; and died,
unmarried, of consumption, Sept. 14, 1806, aged forty-
five.
102 v. ELIZABETH 7 , born Dec. 27, 1762; died, unmarried, Jan.
12, 1795, aged thirty-two.
103 vi. ABRAHAM 7 , born Feb. 19, 1765. See below.
104 vn. JOSHUA 7 , born June 4, 1767; died Aug. 10, 1767.
105 vin. HERITABLE 7 , born Aug. 13, 1768; married John Newman
of Gloucester Aug. 12, 1796.
106 ix. SARAH 7 , born Nov. 16, 1770; died Aug. 25, 1773.
107 x. REBECCA 7 , born Feb. 9, 1773; married Jonathan Dodge
jr., of Hamilton April 30, 1793. They lived in Glouces-
ter in 1799.
108 xi. SARAH 7 , born Jan. 12, 1770; died Jan. 4, 1795.
73
JONATHAN KiLLAM 6 , born in Wenham Nov. 22, 1747.
He was a yeoman, and lived in Wenham. He married
Elizabeth Davis Aug. 19, 1768 ; and died May 27, 1782,
at the age of thirty-five. She survived him, and was his
widow, of Beverly, in 1792.
Children, born in Wenham :
1091. ELIZABETH 7 , born April 7, 1769; lived in Wenham, un-
married, in 1796; probably married William Herrick
April 26, 1797.
110 n. DANIEL 7 , born Jan. 8, 1773, died May 28, 1782.
Ill in. JONATHAN 7 , born May 15, 1775; tailor; lived in Wenham
in 1796.
112 iv. TAMMY 7 , born July 2, 1777; lived in Wenham; and died,
ummarried April oO, 1827, aged forty-nine.
HANNAH 7 , born Sept. 12, 1782; living in 1788.
113 v.
74
JOHN KiLLAM 6 , born in Wenham Aug. 16, 1740. He
was a yeoman, and lived in Wenham until about the time
of the Revolution, when he removed to Coxhall, Me.,
224 KILLlM GENEALOGY
and before 1782 to Yarmouth, Shelburne county, Nova
Scotia. He married Joanna Parrot April 23, 1765 ; and
died before 1823.
Children :
1141. JOHN', born Dec. 16, 1765, in Wenham.
115n. ABRAHAM 7 , born April 19, 1767. See below.
116 in. IsAAC 7 , born in 1771. See below.
117 iv. DANIEL 7 , baptized in Wenham Sept. 22, 1782.
81
ASA KiLHAM 6 , born in Wenham May 28, 1754. He
was a housewright, lumber merchant and wharfinger, and
lived in Salem, except in the earlier portion of his life he
lived at Newfoundland. At the age of fourteen he was
apprenticed to Barnabas Herrick of Salem to learn the car-
penter's trade. A short time before the battle of Lex-
ington, William Lilly of Salem hired young Killam to go
to Newfoundland to work at his trade for six months, and
soon after the battle of April 19th, although under age,
with his master's consent, he went to Newfoundland with
Mr. Lilly and his family, among whom was a young
woman, whom Asa married three or four years later. He
remained in Newfoundland till August, 1779, laboring at
his trade, not only on houses and buildings, but on British
ships of war and prize vessels, and on barracks for the
use of British soldiers. During this time he was in the
family and service of Mr. Lilly. In August, 1779, he
embarked, with his wife and some property, in a British
armed ship for St. Eustatia, in order to obtain a passage
from thence to Massachusetts ; and early in 1780 arrived
in Salem. He subsequently held office in the militia and
voted for many years, when (in 1803) his citizenship was
called in question. This matter was carried to the su-
preme judicial court, and resulted, after three years, in the
establishment of his citizenship in an elaborate, interest-
ing and important opinion covering thirty-three pages. *
Two interesting affidavits of these facts are recorded in
the registry of deeds at Salem. That of Peter Murray
is as follows : f
*Asa Kilham versus Benjamin Ward, jr., et all., 2 Massachusetts Reports, 23&
fEssex Registry of Deeds, book 174, leaf 73.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 225
I Peter Murry of Salem in the county of Efsex, cooper, being of
lawful age do testify and say, that in the month of March, one thou-
sand seven hundred and seventy-five, I sailed from the Port of Salem,
on a voyage to the West Indias and from thence we sailed to New-
foundland to the port called Habour Grace and arrived there which
was sometime in the month of July or August in the same year at
that time I found Asa Killam there & he was at that time at work
for William Lilly and made his home at said Lilly's, and that I re-
mained there about one month, when I left the said Killam there at
that place and that whilst I was there the said Killam told me that
he was employed by the said Lilly. I further say that the said Kill-
ham lived with Barnabus Herrick of said Salem as an apprentice
before I saw him at Newfoundland, and further saith not.
PETER MURRAY.
This was sworn to in Salem Dec. 17, 1803.
The other is that of William Lilly, and is as follows : *
District of Conception Bay in Newfoundland The Deposition of
William Lilly of Harbour-grace in Newfoundland Efqr Certifyeth
to whom it may concern That in the month of April in the year
1775, about a week after the battle of Lexington when all ranks and
conditions of men were in a ftate of distraction, and knew not
where to go or what to do, Asa Killam of Salem in the Co of Efsex,
then an apprentice to m r Herrick, my then Neighbour, who workd
on my houfe in Salem, and being in want of a perfon of his occupa-
tion, I prevaild on mr Herrick to let him the sd Killam go with me
to Newfoundland to build me a houfe, which he accordingly did.
mr Henry Gardner and his family came at the fame time, at which
time it was all our hopes that peace would foon be restored, at
this time Polly Leech lived in my family, and was afterwards Maried
to the faid Asa Killam by a minister of the church of England in my
prefence, that as foon as an opportunity offered the faid Killam took
his wife and the little property he earned at his trade, and went on
board the ship Hope, Capn Roberts, at the hazard of being taken,
to return to his native country That during the whole time of his
being in this country, except one year, he was building a Houfe at
Portdegrace in this district, he was chiefly employed by me, so that
no perfon could be a better Judge of his dispofition towards his na-
tive country than myfelf, although common prudence enjoind him
to silence in every other place except my own houfe, and that he
always manifested a constant and uniform attachment to his own
country, and from his peaceable and engageing behaviour he was
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 177, leaf 16.
226 KILDAM GENEALOGY
importuned by many as well as myself to tarry untill the returns of
peace, as the danger of fuch a voyage was great; But his heart and
mind was fixd on his native land, so far from attaching himfelf to
the British caufe, that I am confident it never entered his thoughts,
on the contrary I have overheard him fay that he was forry that he
was not there to prove his attachment, that he never work'd on any
of the King's works, his principle employment was House work,
his attachment to Polly Leech might have commenced previous to
his coming from Salem, unknown to me as fhe lived in my family at
the time he workd at my houfe with his mafter. The above citation
is the truth, and I am happy to have it in my power to convince his
opponents, that the faid Asa Killam never did an act in this country
to my knowledge to forfiet his allegiance to the American States
given under my hand at Harborgrace in Newfoundland this tenth
day of June in the year of our Lord one thoufand eight hundred and
five W m LILLY
This was sworn to at Harbor Grace, District of Concep-
tion Bay, Newfoundland, June 10, 1805.
Mr. Kilham married Mary Leech Jan. , 1779, in
Newfoundland. He died in 18 ; and she died in Salem,
his widow, of old age, March 17, 1839, at the age of
eighty-four.
Children :
118 i. ASA 7 . See below.
119n. JOHN 7 , born April 24, 1783, in Salem.
120 in. MABY 7 , born Oct. 16, 1784, in Salem; unmarried in 1814.
121 iv. DANIEL 7 , born March 16, 1787, in Salem; living in 1814.
122 v. Ruin 7 , born May 13, 1788, in Salem; married Benjamin
Barker July 10, 1814.
123 vi. ROBERT 7 , born July 29, 1790, in Salem.
124 vn. GEORGE WASHINGTON^ born March 2, 1797, in Salem;
cordwainer; lived in Roxbury in 1823; married widow
Rebecca G. Fisher Feb. 22, 1821.
84
THOMAS KiLLAM 6 , born in Boxford March 25, 1745.
He was a yeoman, and lived in Boxford. He married
Sarah, daughter of Timothy and Sarah (Smith) Fuller of
Middleton Sept. 24, 1771. She was born in Middleton
March 6, 1752 ; and was admitted to the First church in
Boxford Dec. 6, 1778. He died in the winter of 1780-1.
She survived him, and married, secondly, Samuel Wilkins,
jr., of Middleton July 14, 1785.
BY SIDNEY PBKLEY. 227
Children, born in Boxford :
125 i. PoLLY 7 , baptized Aug. 29. 1773; married (when she was
of Middleton) Dr. George Whitefield Sawyer of Ipswich
March 27, 1800.
126 n. SARAH 7 , baptized Dec. 3, 1775; died young.
127 in. SARAH 7 , baptized Nov. 28, 1779; she lived in Ipswich in
1801; married (when she was of Middleton) John Saw-
yer of Ipswich April 24, 1803.
94
JOSEPH KiLLAM 6 , born in Boxford May 9, 1777. He
was a yeoman, and lived in Boxford. He married Nabby,
daughter of Henry and Abigail (Porter) Bradstreet of
Topsfield Jan. 1, 1801. She was born June 6, 1778. He
died Dec. 31, 1815, aged thirty-eight. She survived him,
and lived in Georgetown, after 1844, dying, his widow,
Nov. 17, 1865, at the age of eighty-seven.
Children, born in Boxford :
1281. NABBY 7 , born Feb. 4, 1801; died Nov. 4, 1804.
129n. JOSEPH 7 , born Feb. 23, 1803. See below.
130 in. JOHN 7 , born April 4, 1804. See below.
131 iv. CHARLOTTE 7 , born Feb. 25, 1806; married Charles Nel-
son of Georgetown (published Sept. 17, 1830); and was
living in 1866.
132 v. SYRENA 7 , born Oct. 26, 1807; married, first, Rev. Jehiel
Smith of Haverhill (published March 10, 1832); and,
second, George Dickie; and lived in Mentor, O., and
Georgetown, Mass.
133 vi. ABIGAIL PORTER ? , born April 15, 1810; married Harrison
B. Spofford of Rowley Nov. 3, 1835; and died May 2, 1868.
134_vn. HOSEA CHAUNCEY 7 , born Dec. 29, 1812. See below.
95
SAMUEL KiLLAM 6 , born in Boxford April 2, 1779. He
was a farmer, and lived in Boxford. He married Lois
Holt of Reading (published Jan. 29, 1807). He died
May 28, 1839, at the age of sixty ; and she survived
him, dying, his widow, Feb. 27, 1874.
Children, born in Boxford :
1351. Lois 7 , born March 19, 1808; married William H. Herrick
of Boxford April 16, 1828; and she was his widow in 1874.
186 H. MARY 7 , born Oct. 19, 1809; married Benjamin Holt, jr.,
of Reading May 9, 1829; and she was his widow in 1874.
137 in. SAMUEL 7 , born Nov. 26, 1811. See below.
228
KILLAM GENEALOGY
138 iv. PBISOILLA', born May 30, 1814; lived in Boxford, unmar-
ried, in 1874.
189 v. ALATHBA 7 , born Dec. 4, 1816 ; married John Curtis of
Middleton May 6, 1841; and died May 11, 1881.
140 vi. JOSEPH ELBBIDGE*, born Feb. 16, 1819; educated in the
public schools of Boxford and in the Topsfield acade-
my; studied medicine with Dr. George Cogswell of
Bradford and at Dartmouth college, and graduated
from the medical department of the University of the
City of New York, with the degree of M. D., in 1846.
He practised medicine in Somerville, Charlestown and
Boston for eighteen years. In 1853, he was chosen
president of the Mystic River Corporation, and held that
position in connection with his professional practice for
eleven years. He then (in 1864) retired from practice
and devoted himself exclusively to the work of the cor-
poration until his decease. He had his name changed
from Killam to Bartlett in 1845.
141 vii. GEORGE BuRCHMORE 7 , born July 12, 1821. See below.
142 vin. FRANCIS AUGUSTUS PEABODY 7 , born Sept. 11, 1823. See
below.
143 ix. SARAH HENRIETTA ELIZABETH ? , born Jan. 23, 1826;
married Freeborn B. Smith of Reading, where they
were living in 1874.
144 x. CYRUS 7 , born Jan. 23, 1829 ; educated in the public
schools of Boxford, at the academies of Topsfield,
Mass., and Pembroke, N. H., Bradford seminary, and
under the private instruction of Rev. William S. Coggin
of Boxford. He studied medicine with Dr. George
Cogswell of Bradford, at the Berkshire medical school,
and in the medical department of Harvard college,
graduating from the latter institution with the degree
of M. D. in 1852. He practised medicine in Newton
and Charlestown six years. He was then assistant
physician at the asylum for the insane at Northampton,
Mass., for ten years (until 1868), and for the next
twenty-five years was the superintendent and physician
of the Minnesota State Hospital for Insane, at St.
Peter. He resigned his position and subsequently lived
in Minneapolis, confining himself to consultating prac-
tice and his duties as professor of mental diseases in
Hamline University. He married Miss Abbie P. Burn-
ham of Hartland, Vt., Aug. 10, 1869; and died Dec. 26,
1906, at the age of seventy-seven. He had his name
changed from Killam to Bartlett.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
229
96
OLIVER KiLLAM 6 , born in Boxford June 16, 1781. He
was a farmer, and lived in Boxford. He married, first,
Betsey Gould May 25, 1817 ; and she died June 17,
1827, at the age of thirty-four. He married, second,
widow Eunice Damon April 17, 1828. He died Oct. 10,
1865 ; and his wife Eunice survived him, dying, his
widow, June 6, 1875.
Children, born in Boxford :
1451. ANGELINA', born April 1, 1818; married Thomas Matthews
of Boxford, mariner, Aug. 2, 1843; he was born in Salem ;
and lived in Boxford.
146 ii. OLIVER PORTER', born Aug. 29, 1819. See below.
147 in. WILLIAM ENDICOTT', born Aug. 10, 1822. See below.
148 iv. ELIAS CORNELIUS', born May 26, 1825; lived in Wisconsin
in 1865.
149 v. PHEBE 7 , born June , 1827; died Oct. 20, 1827.
150 vi. JOHN LEONARD', born Sept. 20, 1828; farmer; lived in
Boxford and North Andover; married Sarah Fiske of
Danvers; she died July 3, 1910; and he died March 11,
1913, at the age of eighty-four. They had no children.
151 vii. ELIZA 7 , born May 4, 1831; married Benjamin J. Balch of
Topsfield.
152 vin. CHARLES WARREN T , born April 10, 1837; lived in Maiden
and Chelsea.
99
JOHN KiLLAM 7 , born in Wenham Sept. 13, 1755. He
was a yeoman, and lived in Alfred, Me., in 1799. He
married Mehitable Babson (published Feb. 21, 1778).
He was living in York county in 1819.
Children :
1531. ISAAC 8 . See below.
154 n. DANIEL 8 . See below.
155 in. SUSAN HAYES", married Killam before 1846.
156 iv. REBECCA FROST", lived in Beverly ; and died, unmarried,
Jan. 27, 1879.
157 v. HANNAH", lived in Wenham; and died, unmarried, April
7, 1850.
158 vi. HERITABLE", married Smith; and died before 1835.
103
CAPT. ABRAHAM KiLHAM 7 , born in Wenham Feb. 19,
230 KILLAM GENEALOGY
1765. He was a mariner and merchant and lived in
Beverly. He married, first, Elizabeth Lovett of Beverly
Oct. 3, 1798 ; and she died Jan. 5, 1803, at the age of
twenty-four. He married, second, Louisa Bridge March
29, 1807. He died, of lung fever, Nov. 22, 1834, at the
age of sixty-nine, and his wife Louisa survived him, and
died, his widow, Feb. 27, 1857.
Children, born in Beverly :
1591. ELIZABETH 8 , born July 19, 1799; died Nov. 5, 1803.
160n. 8 (son), died Jan. 21, 1801, being a few hours old.
161 in. 8 (son), died in 1802, a few minutes after its birth.
162 iv. EDWARD 8 , born Dec. 9, 1807. See below.
163 v. ELIZABETH LOVETT S , born April 10, 1810; died Sept. 24,
1828, aged eighteen.
164 vi. CHARLES ABRAHAM S , born Feb. 9, 1812. See below.
165 -vii. DANIEL 8 , born Dec. 19, 1813; died, of hydrocephalus,
April 7, 1826, aged twelve.
166 vni. AUSTIN DANIEL*, born July 25, 1817. See below.
115
ABRAHAM KILLAM?, born in Wenham April 19, 1767.
He married , and died before 1823.
Children :
167 i. IsAAO 8 , lived in Boston, blacksmith, in 1823.
116
CAPT. ISAAC KILLAM?, born in 1771. He was a mari-
ner, and lived in Salem until 1814, when he removed to
Topsfield and became a yeoman. He was one of the three
proprietors of the Topsfield Academy in 1830. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Woodbury Dec. 24, 1800, in Hamilton ;
and committed suicide in Topsfield March 18, 1840, at
the age of sixty-eight. She removed to Salem, and died,
his widow, April 1, 1857.
Adopted child :
1681. MARY L. F. 8 , born about 1824; died of typhus fever, in
Topsfield, Aug. 7, 1842, at the age of eighteen.
118
ASA KILLAM?, born in Newfoundland, probably, about
1780. He was a housewright, and lived in Salem. He
married Hannah, daughter of David and Martha (Henfield)
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 231
Neal Feb. 13, 1803. He died in 1813. She survived
him, and married, secondly, Stephen Richardson Nov. 28,
1813.
Children :
1691. AsA 8 , born about 1804 ; died in Salem April 29, 1829, aged
twenty-five.
170 ii. MABY S , married Matthew Mansfield Games Dec. 10, 1833.
129
JOSEPH KILLAM?, born in Boxford Feb. 23, 1803. He
was a yeoman, and lived in Boxford until after 1838. He
soon after became a trader, and removed to Amesbury.
He married Mary Ann Fowler of Amesbury (published
March 25, 1836) ; and died Aug. , 1873. She died, his
widow, Jan. 22, 1893.
Child :
171 i. *, lived about two years.
130
CAPT. JOHN KiLLAM 7 , born in Boxford April 4, 1804.
He was a house wright and lived in Boxford until about
1837, when he settled in Georgetown. He married Mary,
daughter of Enoch and Sarah Harriman of Bradford Dec.
21, 1835. She was born in Bradford March 18, 1809,
He died May 25, 1883, at the age of seventy-nine. She
survived him, and died, his widow, June 2, 1891, aged
eighty-two.
Child :
172 i. 8 , died young.
134
HOSEA CHAUNCEY KILLAM?, born in Boxford Dec. 29,
1812. He was a yeoman, and lived in Georgetown. He
married Mary Jane, daughter of Parker and Hannah
(Wilkins) Spofford of Georgetown June 17, 1845. She
was born in Georgetown Dec. 3, 1821. He died Nov. 10,
1887, at the age of seventy-four.
Children, born in Georgetown :
1731. UBEBT A. 8 , born Aug. 12, 1851. See below.
174 n. MARY ELLA*, born Nov. 1, 1860; married Harold F.
Blake of Haverhill Sept. 13, 1880. They live in George-
town.
232
KILLAM GENEALOGY
137
SAMUEL KiLLAM 7 , born in Boxford Nov. 26, 1811. He
was a yeoman, and lived in Boxford. He married, first,
Mary K. Towne Sept. 2, 1841. She was born Feb. 4,
1818, in Boxford ; and died March 26, 1850. He married,
second, Rebecca Frances, daughter of Aaron and Betsey
(Foster) Spofford of Boxford Nov. 26, 1851. She was
born in Boxford Feb. 4, 1824. He died Jan. 19, 1892,
aged eighty. She died in Salem, his widow, Nov. 26,
1911, at the age of eighty-seven.
Children, born in Boxford :
175 i. MARY ELIZABETH", born Aug. 20, 1842 ; married John P.
Millett of Rowley; and was his wife in 1892.
176 ii. SAMUEL HORACE 8 , born Oct. 4, 1844; master mariner;
never married; lost at sea on or about Feb. 1, 1871, at
the age of twenty-six.
177 in. JOSEPH WARREN S . born July 26, 1846; lived in Reading
in 1892; and was living in 1911.
178 iv. WILLIAM HERRIOK S , born Feb. 17, 1848; lost at sea, with
his brother Horace, on or about Feb. 1, 1871, at the age
of twenty-two.
179_v. CAROLINE BARTLETT*, born Oct. 20, 1852 ; died Feb. 24,
1857.
180 vi. PHINEAS SPOFFORD S , born Jan. 10, 1855. See below.
181 vn. AMOS F. 8 , born Nov. 30, 1856; musician ; lives in Danvers;
married Lena W. Trask.
182 vin. FRANCES E. 8 , born Sept. 14, 1858; lives in Salem, unmar-
ried.
183 ix. CLARA H. 8 , born Aug. 25, 1860; married Dr. Martin V. B.
Morse of Marblehead; and lives in Manchester, N. H.
184 x. FRANKLIN W. 8 , born Oct. 17, 1861; lived in Boxford in
1911.
185 xi. Lois HERRiCK 8 , born Aug. 3, 1863; married Edward Hay;
and lives in Salem.
186 xn. HARRIET JENNIE", born Sept. 20, 1865; married Owen W.
Mills; and lives in New Wilmington, Pa.
187 xin. NETTIE A. 8 , born Oct. 18, 1869; married Albert G. Hurd;
and lives in Millbury, Mass.
141
GEORGE BURCHMORE KILLAM?, born in Boxford July
12, 1821. He was a farmer, and lived in Boxford. He
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 233
married Elizabeth Davis Aug. 16, 1856, and she died
March 21, 1905.
Children, born in Boxford :
188 i. CAROLINE BABTLEir 8 , born June 28, 1857 ; married Her-
bert Wilkins of Middleton.
189 n. GEORGE EDWIN", born April 8, 1859. See below.
190 in. ALTHEA CURTIS", born Feb. 5, 1861; married Jenkins;
and lives in Lebanon, Ind.
191 iv. SOLON SMITH", born Sept. 3, 1863; barber ; lived in Bever-
ly; died, unmarried, Jan. 17, 1890.
192 v. SARAH BETSEY", born Sept. 21, 1865; married Ogden
of Danvers.
193 vi. JOHN LEWIS*, born Feb. 3, 1868 ; died Aug. 29, 1875.
194 vn. CYRUS E. 8 , born May 13, 1877 ; lives in Boxford.
142
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS PEABODY KiLLAM 7 , born in Box-
ford Sept. 11, 1823. He was a carpenter and lived in
Manchester. He married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of
George P. and Sally Martin of Manchester Nov. 18, 1847.
he was born in 1827 ; and died July 18, 1901. He died
May 17, 1909, aged eighty-five.
Children, born in Manchester :
195 i. AUGUSTUS MARTIN", born Jan. 2, 1849 ; living in Manches-
ter in 1910.
196 ii. LEWIS 8 . See below.
197 in. CYRUS B. s , lived in Manchester in 1909.
146
OLIVER PORTER KILLAM?, born in Boxford Aug. 29,
1819. He was a farmer, and lived in Boxford. He mar-
ried Catherine C. Kimball March 21, 1843; and died
April 30, 1892. She died Nov. 16, 1892.
Children, born in Boxford:
1981. HORACE AUSTIN", born Sept. 3, 1845; served in the Civil
war; and died, of typhoid fever, at Annapolis, Md., Oct.
4, 1864, aged nineteen. Buried in West Bozford.
199 n. CHARLES OLIVER", born Jan. 6, 1848. See below.
200 in. HENRY M. 9 , born Dec. 7, 1851. See below.
201 iv. WILLIAM H. 8 , born Feb. 20, 1855; died Aug. 15, 1857.
202 v. CATHERINE C. 8 , born July 15, 1858; married Edward E.
Pearl of Bozford Sept. 8, 1879.
234 KILL AM GENEALOGY
147
WILLIAM ENDICOTT KiLLAM 7 , born in Boxford Aug.
10, 1822. He was a shoemaker and farmer, and lived in
Boxford, where he held several prominent town offices.
He married Elizabeth D., daughter of Israel and Nancy
Wiggin Sept. 20, 1846; and died Nov. 8, 1877, aged
fifty-five. She survived him, and died, his widow, July
11, 1900.
Children, born in Boxford :
2031. HARRIET ELIZABETH 8 , born Aug. 26, 1848 ; married George
L. Emerson of Haverhill Dec. 7, 1871; and lives in
Haverhill.
20411. SUSAN ELMIRA S , born April 27, 1851; married Fred H.
Wilkins of Middleton Sept. 25, 1879.
205 in. LEWIS", born March 29, 1853. See below.
206 iv. MiNOT 8 , born Sept. 18, 1855. See below.
207 v. DAYTON 8 , born Jan. 12, 1860. See below.
208 vi. CHESTER 8 , born Aug. 20, 1862. See below.
209 vii. THOMAS PERLEY S , born Oct. 28, 1865. See below.
153
ISAAC KiLLAM 8 , lived in Kennebunk, Me. ; married
; and died before 1835.
Children :
2101. OLIVE 9 , married Stone; and was his widow, of Ken-
nebunk, in 1879.
211 n. HANNAH 9 , married Noah Nason of Westborough; and was
living in 1835.
212 in. SUSANNAH 9 , married Shannon ; and was of Kenne-
bunk, his widow, in 1879.
154
DANIEL KiLLAM 8 , lived in Alfred, Me. He married
Caroline Spencer ; and died in 1846.
Child :
213 i. JOHN AusTiN 9 . See below.
162
EDWARD KILHAM S , born in Beverly Dec. 9, 1807. He
was a mariner and merchant, and lived in Beverly. He
married Elizabeth ; and died Oct. 13, 1854. She
survived him, and was his widow in 1877.
BY SIDNEY PEELEY.
235
Children, born in Beverly :
214 I. EDWARD AUSTIN 9 , born Nov. 4, 1833; living in 1877.
215n. CHARLES HARRINGTON 9 , born March 27, 1835; living in
1856.
216 in. DANIEL ABRAHAM 9 , born about 1840; living in 1856.
217_ IV . DANIEL 9 , born Aug. 4, 1837; died Oct. 9, 1838.
218 v. DANIEL A. 9 , born July 18, 1840. See below.
219 vi. GEORGE WiLLiAM 9 , born May 10, 1843; died, of dysen-
tery, Sept. 11, 1843.
220 vn. LUCY (LIZZIE), born about 1844, adopted daughter, aged
under eighteen in 1854.
164
CHARLES ABRAHAM KILLAM S , born in Beverly Feb. 9>
1812. He was a merchant, and lived in Lowell in 1835,
in Boston in 1843, in Wenham in 1857, and afterwards
in Beverl} T . He married Hannah Fiske Conant March
11, 1847 ; and died Nov. 27, 1865, aged fifty- three. She
survived him, and was his widow in 1910.
Children, born in Beverly :
2211. 9 (son), stillborn Feb. 26, 1848.
222 n. MARY BRIDGE 9 , born Feb. 14, 1849; married Dodge.
223 in. ANNA FiSK 9 , born about 1851 ; unmarried in 1910.
224 iv. CHARLES AUSTIN 9 , born about 1853; living (in Boston?)
in 1910.
225 v. BETSEY LovEir 9 , born about 1855; unmarried in 1910.
226 vi. ELIZABETH HELEN 9 , born Feb. 12, 1858; unmarried in
1910.
227 vn. HENRIETTA BRIDGE 9 , born Dec. 24, 1862; unmarried in
1910.
166
AUSTIN DANIEL KILLAM*, born in Beverly July 25,
1817. He was a merchant, and lived in Beverly. He
was a merchant in Boston in 1843. He married Susanna
C. in 1844. She was born in Exeter, N. H. He died
Oct. 24, 1887, at the age of seventy. She survived him,
and died, his widow, April 1, 1905.
Children, born in Beverly :
228 i. ALFRED AUSTIN', born Aug. 24, 1844; died young.
229 ii. JOSEPH CHADWIOK 6 , born Nov. 21, 1846; living in Bever-
ly in 1905.
230 m. LOUISA BRIDGE 9 , born Sept. 26, 1848; lived in Beverly,
unmarried, in 1905.
236 KILLAM GENEALOGY
231 iv. ANNIE M. 9 , lived in Beverly, unmarried, in 1905.
232 v. SUSAN C. 9 , probably died in 1905.
233 vi. ALFRED C. 9 , lived in Springfield, Mo., in 1905.
234 vii. ELEANOR B. 9 , lived in New York City, unmarried, in
1905.
235 vin. FRANCES R. 9 , lived in Beverly, unmarried, in 1905.
152
UBERT A. KILL-AM*, born in Georgetown Aug. 12, 1851.
For many years he was cashier of the Merrimack Nation-
al Bank in Haverhill, where he resides. He married
Allie, daughter of William Cleaveland and Susan M.
(Goodale) Gould of Topsfield.
Child, born in :
2361. 9 .
180
PHINEAS SPOFFOBD KILLAM, born in Boxford Jan.
10, 1855. He lived in Reading in 1892. He married
Florence E. Gould May 15, 1877 ; and died about 1900.
Children :
2371. MARY Lois 9 , born April 25, 1878, in Boxford; married
Baker; and lives at Hough's Neck, Mass.
238 n. FLORENCE 9 , married Fields; and lives in Beading.
239 in. EDITH 9 , lives in Reading.
240 iv. ELSIE M. 9 , lives in Reading.
241 v. CLARA 9 , lives in Reading.
242 vi. PniNEAs 9 , lives in Reading.
189
GEORGE EDWIN KILLAM S , born in Boxford April 8,
1859. He lived in Boxford; and married Addie J. .
He died Oct. 21, 1906 ; and she survives him.
Children, born in Boxford :
2431. ELMER BARTLETT S , born April 1, 1891.
244n. ETHEL MARION", born Nov. 13, 1894.
196
LEWIS KiLLAM 8 , lived in Manchester ; married Eunice
Child:
245 i. FREDERICK A. 9 , lived in Manchester.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 237
199
CHARLES OLIVER KiLLAM 8 , born in Boxford Jan. 6,
1848. He lived in Wenham ; and married Helen L. .
He died March 27, 1893 ; and she survived him.
Children :
246 i. HORACE AUSTIN 9 , lives in Wenham.
247n. HATTY S. 9
248 in. FRED PARKER S , born Feb. 3, 1876; lives in Wenham.
249 iv. NORA A. 9 , born Sept. 17, 1879.
200
HENRY M. KILLAM S , born in Boxford Dec. 7, 1851.
He is a farmer, lives in Boxford, and has been married
three times.
Children:
2501. MYRON. 9
251 II. OLIVER. 9
252 in. DANA. 9
253 IV. FLORENCE. 9
254 V. ETHEL. 9
255 vi. AUSTIN. 9
256 VII. LEONARD. 9
257 VIII. ELIZABETH. 9
205
LEWIS KiLLAM 8 , born in Boxford March 29, 1853.
Carpenter and builder, and lives in Haverhill. He mar-
ried Bessie Kennedy.
Child :
258 i. FORREST', married ; lawyer in Boston; lives in
Haverhill.
206
MINOT KiLLAM 8 , born in Boxford Sept. 18, 1855.
He is a street car conductor, and lives in Haverhill. He
married Sarah Whittier of Boxford.
Child :
2591. ALICE 9 .
207
DAYTON KiLLAM 8 , born in Boxford Jan. 12, 1860. He
was a picture frame maker, and lived in South Hampton,
N. H. He married Elizabeth ; and died about 1900.
238 KILLAM GENEALOGY.
Child:
260 i. MABEL 9 , married Luke Moran; and lives in Amesbury.
208
CHESTER KILLAM S , born in Boxford Aug. 20, 1862.
He is a farmer, and lives in Boxford. He married Min-
nie A., daughter of Cyrus and Clara (Buckminster) Tidd
of Georgetown June 9, 1886.
Children, born in Boxford :
2611. CARL 9 , born May 1, 1887; graduated at Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1909; and is assistant secretary of the Young
Men's Christian Association at Saratoga Springs, N. Y-
262n. RAYMOND 9 , born Dec. 17, 1888.
263 in. FLORENCE 9 , born Oct. 20, 1890; is a stenographer at
Salem.
264 iv. JOHN LEONARD 9 , born Oct. 8, 1892.
265 v. PAUL LESTER 9 , born June 11, 1894.
266 vi. HORACE NEWOOMB 9 , born March 16, 1896.
267 vii. DWIGHT LEWIS 9 , born May 11, 1899.
268 vin. CLARA ELIZABETH 9 , born Nov. 4, 1903.
269 ix. HAZEL IOLA S , born July 9, 1910.
209
THOMAS PEELEY KILLAM S , born in Boxford Oct. 28,
1865. He is a farmer, and lives in Boxford. He mar-
ried Lillian, daughter of Walter French of Boxford.
Child, born in Boxford :
2701. LuOY 9 , born Sept. , 1889; married Robert Parkhurst of
Boxford Sept. , 1911.
213
JOHN AUSTIN KILLAM?, lived in Saco, Me. He mar-
ried Caroline Spencer about 1858. She died before 1879.
Children :
2711. ROSCOE G. 10 , born about 1859; living in 1879.
272n. GEORGE A. 10 , born about 1861; living in 1879.
218
DANIEL A. KILHAM*, born in Beverly July 18, 1840.
He lived in Beverty, and married A. Adeline . She
died in or before 1880.
Child :
2731. GRACE P. 10 , born Jan. 11, 1867.
A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION
OF ANDOVER, MASS, IN THE YEAR 1863.
BY ALFRED POORE, M. D.
(Continued from Volume XLIX, page
Mears' house stands on land that they probably had of
Cummings and formerly stood on the corner. Chickering
built the brick basement house and store, the wooden
factory, etc. The house in which Asa H. Brown lives
was built in 1841 by Charles French, and Richard Boyn-
ton's house was built for John L. Webster who sold to
Mr. Boynton and is now in Lawrence. The house in
Boynton's yard was Capt. Ballard's old house, which was
taken down in 1840. Eaton Green built the house next
south of the stone house in 1843. Widow Marshall's
family resided in the house next to the mill. On the east
side of the Mears place there was once an orchard. At
first the old house of Dea. H. Ballard used to stand in the
field back of it.
Buildings erected by Chickering before 1852 : Widow
Erving's house south of Asa H. Brown's, about 1840 ;
wooden factory next to the store ; Dr. Chute house, now
Shaw's, before 1845 ; Long block ; the house next to
Potter's ; house with steep roof where the counting room
is ; plain story and a half house, two tenements, down the
river ; Hiram O. Tuttle built the stone house after the
machine shop was built, about 1850-5 ; house next south
of the store ; the house for Bean ; added a story to Mar-
land's house; made a tenement back of the Green house
of Marland's for his workmen ; cottage which was the
depot about 1845 ; story and a half house on the right
next to the Methodist church for a clothier ; the first
(239)
240 A GBNEALOGICAD-HISTORICAL VISITATION OP
schoolhouse ; Schooner block, just before the machine-
shop company failed ; house of two tenements made of
another building which stood northeast of the counting
room house.
Mr. Chickering moved into his present house in Nov.,.
1841, from the house opposite, which he built in 1835.
A schoolhouse moved from North Andover was on this
site, and is now a recitation room in the rear of Phillips
Academy. Maj. Gleason's house was built in 1833-4 ;,
Nathaniel Swift's in 1832 ; Dea. Amos Abbott's, 1832-3 ;
Baptist church built 1834, which year Mr. Chickering dis-
solved partnership with Capt. N. Whittier.
The store on Woburn street that Mr. Chickering's
father kept stood in North Andover and was removed to
Andover village and is on the west side of Brook street,,
now occupied by Edward McDewell as a dwelling. Mr.
Chickering's father used to keep tavern in North Andover
below where butcher Bailey resides. Capt. Nathaniel
Whittier built the woodwork of the brick factory. Cald-
well & Barker did the woodwork on the machine shop,
also the addition to the tavern. Capt. Job Abbott had
the house furtherest down the bank of the river built for
his daughter Dole, also the other two there were built by
Caldwell & Barker.
From Mr. Chickering's went toward Ballardvale
through Woburn street, which commences just west of
the Catholic church, with Capt. O. H. Perry's house on
the right and Mr. Abbott's on the left.
Henry Smith has resided on the west side since Sept.,
1846, when he built on land bought of Daniel Abbott.
He is son of Samuel and Abigail Smith, born in London-
derry, N. H., in March, 1803. His wife, Mary French, is
daughter of Jonathan and Martha (Whittemore) Mace,
born in Andover, Apr., 180T, and resided in Tewksbury
when first married. Children : Henry, b. Tewksbury r
1836 ; Charles, b. in the Levi Davis house in Ballardvale
toward Tewksbury, in 1840 ; Albert, b. 1844 on High
street, in Phebe Jenkins' old house, which has been re-
placed by a new house owned by Philip Colby.
After passing old orcharding on both sides and coming
to dense woods at the west, the house of Mr. Goldsmith
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 241
is on the easterly side, where the road which crosses
South street between Pearson and Haywood commences.
Silas Brownell came from the house on Seminary hill
where Sweeny now lives in Nov., 1859, having lived there
one year. He came to Andover, Mar. 23, 1857, and re-
sided in Mr. Ellis' house, formerly the depot. He is son
of Perry and Ruth (Smith) Brownell, born in Westport,
Mass., Apr. 9, 1816, and his wife is Sarah, daughter of
William and Sarah (Gordon) Wild, born in Boston, May
9, 1821. Children : William Henry, b. Boston, Feb. 7,
1841, died young; George Allen, died young ; Elijah, b.
Boston, June 4, 1844 ; Mary Susan, b. Oct. 24, 1847, died
young ; Sarah Elizabeth, b. Nov. 20, 1849 ; Louisa Jose-
phine, b. Boston, June 26, 1851 ; John Dyer, b. Charles-
town, died young ; Charles Henry, b. Boston, Apr. 15,
1856; James Harvey, b. Ballardvale, Aug. 25, 1858;
George Wild, b. in this house, Dec. 16, 1860 ; Adeline
Frances, b. Mar. 20, 1863. Charles Francis Goldsmith
moved out of this house about one week before they came
in.
John Marland laid an aqueduct the year his house was
built, which comes from the land that he bought of John
Hackett. About 1858, an oak was struck by lightning
and the aqueduct broke. Old Abiel Abbott owned all the
land from Woburn street to the pond, from Pomp's place
to Isaac Goldsmith's house. Passing Chandler's bridge
over the brook which flows from Foster's pond, James
Macaboy's is reached. He has resided there since 1863,
having come from Lawrence. He is son of James Macaboy
and was born about 1835. Came to America in May,
1861, and settled first in Lawrence. He is a machinist.
His wife Mary is daughter of John and Elizabeth (Karl)
Macaboy, not near kin, born in county Down, about
fifteen miles above Belfast, about 1834. Children : Fran-
cis, b. Banbridge, near where his father was born, Christ-
mas, 1857 ; Elizabeth, died young.
Mrs. Bird was Margaret Thompson, whose husband
bought their house of Ken worthy, an Englishman, about
1854. Mr. Bird died Oct. 4, 1860. Allen Bigelow,
Thomas Dunn and John Townley have also lived here.
Mr. Bird was born in Dublin about 1805, came to Ameri-
242 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
ca about 1850. Mrs. Bird was born about 1815 in Deny
county, parish of C lardy, in the north of Ireland ; came
here about 1835. Lived fiistin North Andover. Child:
Lawrence, b. North Andover, 1850. Thomas Phillips and
wife Martha, an old couple, have boarded with widow
Bird about a year. He works in the file shop. They are
English from Yorkshire. Ascending the hill, the bound
between Andover and Wilmington is reached.
Widow Rebecca M. Woodlin, whose husband William
Henry was killed on the railroad Nov. 27, 1851, while he
and his children were taking a sleigh-ride Thanksgiving
forenoon. The train from Salem struck them. The sleigh
was smashed, but the horse was not hurt. Others were
injured, and Laura Isabella, aged about four years, was
killed. Mr. Woodlin was son of Dr. Woodlin, and his
mother Mary, after his father died, when he was about
three vears old, married Job Trago. Mr. Woodlin was
born at Tobacco Stick, Frederick county, Md., July 10,
1811. He came to New England when twenty-one
years old, and was an overseer on the Boston and
Maine railroad when the road was building through
Andover. He married Rebecca Messer, daughter of Wil-
liam and Rebecca Manser (Messer) Burtt, born Oct. 19,
1818, on the Wilmington side of the road in the old house
on this farm which stood on the other side of the road
and about thirty rods west of the present house, which
was built about 1830. It was first a cottage made from
a hop house and enlarged once before it was raised to a
two story house, about 1849. About fifty acres of the
farm is on the Andover side and about twice as much
more on the Wilmington side. Children : Euselia Vic-
toria, b. Andover, Oct. 21, 1838, died young ; William
Henry Burton, b. July 10, 1840, mar. Abba Augusta,
daughter Dea. Eaton Green of Andover, and resides with
his mother; Parmenes Elgin, b. Nov. 15, 1842, who is
in Co. H, llth Regt., and has been in fourteen battles, the
last at Chancellorsville ; Mary Georgiana, b. Canaan, N.
Y., May 23, 1845 ; Laura Isabella, b. July 2, 1847 ;
Adoniram Lloyd, b. Wilmington, Apr. 15, 1852. This
farm was formerly owned and occupied by Mr. Ford, and
Mrs. Woodlin's grandfather William, who married a
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 243
Harnden, bought it of Esquire Ford, and died here. Wil-
liam and his brother, Brown Burtt, had the place a while,
then William bought out Brown and died here on May 3,
1860, and she died Dec. 17, 1857.
William Burtt, jr., who married Rebecca M., daughter
of Phineas and Rebecca (Manser) Messer, was born in
Methuen and settled on his father's farm. Children : Mrs.
Woodlin ; Wm. Cadwallader, b. Aug. 10, 1822, who d.
Nov. 21, 1857, unmarried. William Burtt, sr.'s, chil-
dren : Brown, who married first a Kidder of Tewksbury,
second, a Saunders, and died in Tewksbury, and left a
daughter Angelina, by his second wife, who married her
cousin, Daniel Pratt, jr., the clockmaker ; William ; Han-
nah, mar. Benjamin Eames of Wilmington, and had Han-
nah, Benjamin, Jonathan, James and Vashti ; Delia, mar.
Daniel Pratt, sr., thfe old clockmaker, settled in Reading,
and had Delia, who married Benjamin Boise ; Thomas,
mar. Eunice Nichols, settled in Reading, and had Eunice,
Elizabeth, Jane, Delia, Ford, Augusta, Henry and James,
besides a daughter who died young ; Cadwallader F., died
unmarried in Boston. Mrs. Woodlin says she can
remember when there were only the grist and saw mills
and Timothy Ballard's house here.
Daniel Mears' house was built by Mr. Bates about 1840,
who lived in it a while, then sold it to Harper Bean, and
Mr. Mears bought it in the spring of 1854. Samuel Up-
ton was killed in the saw mill a little while before the
mill was taken down. Harper Bean lived in Mr. Boyn-
ton's house about one year before he went to Weare. D.
Mears' father's house stood in the corner on the opposite
side of the street. Dame Holt sold the land where the
house now stands to Mears. The house with a brick base-
ment was built by D. Mears the year the old railroad was
built, who lived there about five years, then sold it to
John B. Abbott, near the Scotland schoolhouse, and it has
been let to widow Ready and William Riley. Barker of
North Andover built River street. John Marland bought
the land of William Rogers, Esq., and built the store-
house and Long block. Israel Putnam built Abbott's
house, and Abiel Saunders built and owns the house next.
Milton Moore built his house. The stone house was built
244 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
by Hiram Tuttle, a mason of North Andover, and Dr. E.
Green the house next south, same year the factory was
built and sold to Andrew Stimpson. Thomas Cavanaugh
bought his house of Mr. Watson of Lawrence in 1863,
who had it of George Murphy. John Young, a Scotch-
man, built the Ogden house. James Dearborn resides in
a house built by John R. Mason, who lived there three or
four years, and sold it to Mr. Calder of Salem. Nathaniel
F. Dearborn built the house he resides in, and Robert
Stott the house in which Bailey lives.
Called on Mrs. Milton Moore, who said that their house
was built in 1840, and that they moved here from the
large, brick house where Butler resides. They boarded
in the White block before they began to keep house in
Ballardvale, having come from Peter boro, N. H. in 1839.
Mr. Moore is son of John and Emily (Stark) Moore, and
was born in Manchester, N. H., in 1808, his mother being
a granddaughter of Gen. Stark. Mrs. Moore is Abigail
Ann, daughter of Aquilla and Eunice (Jocelyn) Martin,
bom in Amesbury, Feb. 13, 1812. Her mother was
daughter of John and Lucy (Loudon) Jocelyn of Pem-
broke. Children: Charles, watchmaker, b. Lowell, June
13, 1831, mar. Mary A. Whitman of Waltham, where they
reside, his wife's brother having a share in the watch fac-
tory ; Orin, died young ; Adeline Augusta, b. Lowell, Dec.
27, 1834, mar. John Porter, city marshal of Lawrence,
and stable keeper, child, John Stark, b. 1855 ; Laura
Albina, b. Peterboro, N. H., Nov. 7, 1837, mar. Henry
Bacon Brown of Maiden, a school-teacher, and also a
musician in the army, 1861-2, now at Holmes Hole, Mar-
tha's Vineyard, child, Edwin Stiles, b. Illinois, 1859 ;
Annie Frances, b. May 31, 1839, resides unmarried at
Stoneham ; Charlotte, b. May 18, 1841, mar. George Tur-
geson of St. John, N. B., a carriage maker, resided in
Lawrence, child, Leona May, b. Lowell, May 17, 1861 ;
George Newton, b. Jan. 31, 1845, and his twin brother,
John Milton, who is in the factory forging files ; Mary
Etta, b. May 5, 1846 ; Edna Vena, b. June 27, 1848.
Called on A. H. Brown who says he came from Ando-
ver village to Ballardvale in May, 1840 and was in the
factory packing room sixteen years. He moved into this
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 245
house in 1844, the house having been built in 1841 by
Charles French, who went west. At first five families
occupied it, but later Joshua Ballard, jr., agent for the
Ballardvale Company lived in one part and Moses D.
Barnes, clerk in the counting room, in the other. The
clerks here have been Barnes, who died in Dudley, at his
father's, Francis Cogswell, Joseph Dorr, who went to New
York, Samuel Hall, who came from New Orleans, Samuel
Phillips, jr. ; now cashier of the Maverick Bank, Boston,
and John E. Farnham. Agents, John Marland and J.
Putnam Bradley, the latter since 1840, and he had also
been treasurer twenty years.
Called at the first house on the bank near Ellis', High
street, a Mr. Southwick's family, wife Lucy and daughter
Eliza. He is a designer of the machines in the file shop.
James Munroe Fessenden came from Rochester, N. H.,
to Ballardvale, in Apr. 1862, but he was here a short time
1859-60. He is superintendent of the file shop. He is
son of Ichabod and Rebecca (Munroe) Fessenden, and was
born in West Cambridge, in 1816. He is collecting the
names of Fessendens of this vicinity for Thomas Fessen-
den, M. D., of Lewiston, Me., postmaster there and brother
of William Pitt Fessenden of Maine. His wife is Eliza,
daughter of James and Sarah (Emery) Tebbets, and was
born in Rochester, N. H., Dec., 1820. Children : William
Comston, b. Nov. 29, 1847 ; George Russell, b. Dec. 6,
1839; Alice and James died young.
Mr, Hyde removed from this bank in the spring of
1862 to Boston, but he still works in the file shop and
boards at Mrs. Mann's. His wife is a spiritualist. Samuel
Walton, machinist, came to Ballardvale in April, 1863,
and is son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Diggles) Walton,
born in Bury, Lancashire, Eng., 1817. He came to New
York, Apr. 28, 1837. His wife is Fanny, daughter of
Peter and Mary (Nuttall) Diggles, born in Darwin, Lan-
cashire, Eng., in 1821, who came to America with her
parents in July, 1831, and resided in Lowell until her
father died in 1848 ; her mother died the year following.
Her father was a block printer. Children : Samuel,
died young; Mary Frances, b. Worcester, died young;
Sarah Ann, b. Lowell, Aug., 1847 ; James Diggles, b.
246 A GENEALOGICAlA-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
New Sharon, Me., Oct. 22, 1850 ; Edward, died young.
Mr. Walton's father died in England, but his mother who
is about ninety years old, came with all but one of her
seven children to America, and now resides with her
daughter Hindle in New Sharon, Me. Mrs. Erving's
father built this house 1847-8, for her before she was
married to Mr. Dole, the store keeper.
William Thompson came from Halifax, West Riding of
Yorkshire, Eng., in 1854. He is son of Richard and
Tabitha (Deardon) Thompson, and was born in 1821.
His wife is Hannah, daughter of Caleb and Mary (Batty)
Harrison, born in Halifax in 1817. They came to Bal-
lardvale, June 8, 1854. Children : Mary Jane, b. Eng-
land, Aug. 4, 1843, mar. William Kenworthy from Lan-
cashire, Eng., and resided in Lowell, child, Mary Ann ;
Ellen and Mary Jane, died young ; Richard, b. Ballardvale,
1858.
Boarding at Thompson's, Plain street, is Elizabeth
(Smith) Dransfield, who was born in County of Maid,
parish of Harristown, Ireland, Apr. 15, 1828, daughter
of Thomas and Mary (Curman) Smith. She came to
America in 1838, and Mr. John Dransfield, born in For-
brah, West Riding of Yorkshire, Eng., came in June, 1858
from Huddersfield, son of John and Sarah (Wildsmith)
Dransfield.
James Shaw has lived in the cottage beyond Mr. Ellis',
since July 1, 1858, having moved from widow Rhodes!
house where they resided three years. He is superinten-
dent of the woollen mill. He is son of James and Hannah
Shaw and was born in Saddleworth, Eng., May 10, 1822,
coming to America with his parents when he was about
three years old. His wife was Matilda, daughter of John
and Susan (Schofield) Armitage, who was born in Leeds,
West Riding of Yorkshire, Eng., Nov. 27, 1826, and came
to New York, Oct. 13, 1843. Children: James Arthur, b.
Ware Village, where they lived seven years, Feb. 23,
1853 ; Susan, died young; Mary Emma, b. Dec, 1, 1860.
Widow Catherine Hutchinson lives in a small house
near the bridge. Children : Charles Regan, by her first
husband, b. 1850 ; Elizabeth.
John Trampleasure, Tewksbury street, has lived in
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 247
Mrs. Scott's house since Oct., 1858, having moved from
the house where Poland, the blacksmith then lived. He
came from Woonsocket, R. I., in 1857. He is son of
Nicholas and Phillipa (Ball) Trampleasure, and was born
in Cornwall, near Plymouth, Eng., July, 1807. Carne
first to Quebec and lived in New York City until married.
His wife!is Elizabeth, daughter of William and Hannah
(Batty) Eastwood, who was born in Norton village, near
Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, Eng., Sept. 30,
1804. Came to New York the same year her husband
arrived. Children : Jane Ann, b. Glenham, Fishkill
County, N. Y., Apr. 20, 1836, mar. Stillman Ralph Tay-
lor, b. Warren, Vt., and had Waldo Henry, b. Mendon,
Mar. 8, 1855, and Elias Trampleasure, b. Apr. 6, 1859 ;
Thomas Edward, woolsorter, b. Glenham, Dec. 15, 1838,
mar. . Helen Amelia, dau. Horace M. and Ann Helen
(Maxey) Pierce, b. Woonsocket, R. I., Apr. 25, 1842,
child, Edward Horace, b. Apr. 19, 1862. Frye, the tanner,
formerly occupied this house.
William P. Moore, file cutter, resides in the north end
of the house now owned by Thomas Baron, which has a
basement where of late J. O. Mears, son of W. Mears, had
a shoe shop. He is son of Elisha and Ellen Moore, and
was born in Bolton, Eng. His wife is Esther, sister to
John Ash worth, and daughter of Thomas and Eliza
(Hardy) Ashworth, born in Bolton, Apr. 17, 1833. She
came with her parents when she was fourteen years old
and resided in Portsmouth, N. H., and they now live in
Lawrence. Came to Ballardvale in Sept., 1859, from
Rochester, N. H., and have been in this house since May,
1861, and previously in Oilman Davis' house. Lewis
Clark lives also in this house, having come in 1861 from
his father's in Tewksbury. He is a file cutter, son of
Capt. Peter and Letitia (Baldwin) Clark, born in Tewks-
bury, Apr. 14, 1830. His wife Elizabeth Jane, is daugh-
ter of Thomas and Sarah (Howarth) Barren born North
Andover, Oct. 7, 1837. Her parents came from Lancashire,
Eng. , her mother being a cousin of Dr. Howarth of Ando-
ver. Child : Lewis Barron, b. Apr. 26, 1862. Richard
Pinch, who married Mrs. Clark's sister, resided here,
1860-61. William Braddock Oreen, engineer in the file
248 A GENEALOGICAI>-HISTOKICAL VISITATION OF
shop, lives in the southwestern part of this house. He
came from Kingston, R. I., in April, 1859, to widow Burr's
house, then moved to John Morrison's, over the store. He
is son of Joseph and Sarah Green, and was born in Kings-
ton, Mar. 25, 1833. His wife Rebecca is daughter of Noah
and Lucy (Card) Horton and was born in Kingston, June
1, 1833. Her grandfather Card weighed 375 pounds and
was a tailor. Children : Lucy, died young ; Mary Augusta ;
"William O., died young ; Willis Anderson, b. Ballardvale,
Mar. 23, 1861. Mr. Baron bought this house of the Bal-
lardvale Company about 1842 and occupied it until he
moved to West Rosedale, Fon-du-lac Co., Wis., in Aug.,
1861. Others who have resided here are : William Fletcher,
Walter Murray, Richard Pinch, Caleb Parker and Archi-
bald Higgins, who married Mr. Baron's daughter Hannah.
Thomas Barren's children : Charles Howarth, b. South
Andover, mar. Anna, dau. John Drayton and resided in
Dedham, a carpenter ; Lucy Ann, married Richard Pinch
of England ; Elizabeth Jane ; Hannah, mar. Archibald
Higgins, who is of Irish parentage and came from Gilbert-
ville; Ellen Ashworth; Mary Emma, died young.
Mrs. James Scott lives next. Her husband was Andrew,
son of James, a cabinetmaker, of Glasgow, Scotland, and
Jane (Ritchie) Scott, who was born in Glasgow in 1800.
He came to Nova Scotia in 1826, and to Ballardvale when
the shops were opened, as overseer of the looms. He died
in 1850. Mrs. Scott is Janetta, daughter of Archibald
and Jane (Thorn) Morrison, and was born in Blintyle, ten
miles up the Clyde from Glasgow, in 1800. She came to
America in 1827. Children : John, d. 1839 ; James, b. Mar.
1821, mar. Catherine Sloan of Cambridgeport and lived at
Globe Village, Southbridge, overseer, Mary Jane and An-
drew ; Jane, b. 1823, mar. Hector P. Lynn, who built John
Morrison's house ; Andrew, b. 1826, mar. Maria Clement
of Amesbury and died 1861, leaving Clara Marie ; Archi-
bald, b. Andover, 1828, d. 1861, mar. Sarah Parker of
England, children : Emma, Janet Morrison, Mary and Ellen
Susan ; Robert, carpenter, b. 1830, probably killed at Bull
Run, in. Co. E., 14th N. Y. Regt. ; William Ritchie, b.
1834, printer at Buffalo, until he joined 27th N. Y. Bat-
tery ; Joseph, b. 1837 : Jesse M., b. 1838, accidentally shot
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAH 1863. 249
at Fort Albany, having gone from Amesbury, where he was
a coachmaker, with Co. E., 14th Regt. Mrs. Scott lived
where Shaw now resides two years. Mr. Calhoun lived
in Scott's former house when the machine shop was first
started. The old blacksmith shop of Saunders' was a part
of the mill of Timothy Ballard.
Peter Murphy moved with his large family to Clarkville,
near Globe Village, after he had built a house opposite
Saunders' shop on River street. His son George married,
first, Abby Ann, daughter of Capt. William Abbott, who
worked in the saw mill, and he married the second time
and committed suicide by cutting his throat at Clarkville.
Esquire Cogswell lived in the house where A. H. Brown
now resides, when he was clerk of the Company. Dr.
Clark had the Shaw house built for him by the Ballard-
vale Company, removing from the bank. James Scott and
John Frye also resided on the bank. Mrs. Scott's son
Joseph is the carpenter in the factory.
Elisha Moore, brother of William P., has been here
since he was married in Nov., 1860. He was born in
Bolton, England, Mar. 5, 1837, came to America with his
parents in 1849, and is now a machinist in the file shop,
having charge of the annealing department. Mrs. Sarah
Ann Moore is daughter of John and Mary (Ashworth)
Stott, niece to Robert Stott, who was born in Rochdale,
Lancashire, Erig., in 1840, came with her parents, leaving
England, Apr. 24, 1847 and arriving in Boston early in
June. Her parents now reside in Lowell, but first went
to North Andover, living there three years, and working
in Milton mills about five years. Child : Mary Ellen, born
in Lowell, May 11, 1862.
Michael Mclnroe, Plain street, lives nearly in front of
Mrs. Scott's house, in a house now owned by George Fos-
ter, Esq., of Andover. He moved here in May, 1863,
from Thomas Cavanaugh's house on River street. His
father is dead, but his mother lives in Cavanaugh's house.
He was born in 1838, came to America in 1857. His wife
is a daughter of John and Bridget Kirby, who was born
in Cork county, parish of Whitekill, in 1837, and she
came to America, July 24, 1849. Children : John, b.
Ballardvale, July 24, 1861 ; Mary, b. 1862.
250 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
John Callahan lives in Foster's house, having come from
Lowell about Mar., 1863. He is son of Thomas and Mary
(Flaherty) Callahan born in County Sligo, Ireland, about
1830, and came to America from Manchester, Eng., about
1858. His wife is Mary, daughter of Owen and Mary
Mulligan, born in the parish of Kish, County Sligo, Ire-
land, who came to America in 1856. Children : Thomas,
b. Lowell, 1860 ; Mary, b. 1862.
James Holmes moved into the house owned by John
Horn, June 27, 1860. He is son of John and Sarah
Holmes, born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng., Feb. 29, 1811,
and came to America about 1845. His wife is Mary,
daughter of Alex and Nellie (Bigger) Morrison, born in
Hardwick, Eng., in 1818. Children : Ellen Ann and Joseph
Morrison, b. Ballardvale, Mar. 5, 1849 ; Sarah Frances, b.
Aug. 12, 1857 ; Mary Agnes, b. Mar. 22, 1860.
John Bancroft lives next to Mr. Holmes, moving in
July 8, 1862, from Lowell. He is son of Thomas and Ann
(Siddel) Bancroft, born in Manchester, Eng., in 1829, and
came to Anerica in 1853. His wife was Mary Eliza,
daughter of John and Margaret (Hagerty) McKeigen,
born in Antrim Co., Ireland, parish of Dunluce, May 18,
1836. She came to America in 1853. Children : Helen, b.
Lowell, died young ; Thomas Chandler, b. 1859 ; William
Henry Alden, who was named for the minister of the First
Baptist church of Lowell, b. 1860 ; Ann Frances, b. 1863.
Michael Noon, who lives in the house with Mr. Bancroft,
is son of Michael and Sibbe (McCune) Noon, and was
born in Galway county, parish of Tume about 1836. He
came to America in July, 1858 from Manchester, Eng. His
wife is daughter of Terrence and Bridget (McCarmer)
Home, who was born in Sligo county, parish of Kish,
about 1833. She came from Manchester, May, 1857.
Children : James, b. Manchester, Eng., 1856 ; Mary, b.
Lowell, Apr. 20, 1859; Michael, b. 1860; Thomas, b.
July 20, 1862.
Solomon Westall, who also lived in this bouse, is a file
cutter and came here Mar. 12, 1862. He is son of David
and Susan Westall, born in England, Sept. 14, 1841, and
came to America in 1844 with his parents who reside in
Lawrence. His wife is Mary, daughter of John and Mary
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 251
(Pryor) Robb, born in Arbroath, Eng., July, 1840, and
came with her parents to America in 1853.
William Darwin Stark, the butcher, resides opposite
the Methodist church. He bought the house of William
Calder of Chelsea in 1859, who bought of Henry A. Gould
in 1852. It was built by Jones Davis. Mr. Stark also
owns a house east of N. Clark's, which he bought of
Thomas B. Murray, a painter, of Chaiiestown. He came
from Vermont in 1853, and has occupied the depot house,
Caleb Abbot's house, where John Frye now resides, and
the Ballard house owned by Kittredge. His wife is
Martha Ann, daughter of Obadiah and Martha (Tenny)
Perry, who was born in Temple, N. H., Dec. 10, 1842.
Her father died in Temple and her mother was daughter
of John and Lucy (Reed) Tenny, who is now living in
Littleton at the age of ninety-two years. She had a
brother Dr. Asa who probably went West, and Thomas,
who lately died in Westford. They were Millerites and
had ascension robes made in 1843. After his marriage in
Nov., 1843, Mr. Stark resided first in South Andover in
Enoch Abbott's house about a year, then bought the house
near Mrs. Pasha on Summer street. Children : John
Spalding, b. Sept. 10, 1844 ; William, died young ; Carrie
Elizabeth, b. Mar. 3, 1854.
William Hoi worth resides in the cottage house next
above Mr. Stark's, which is now owned by Lawrence
Whitaker, who lived there until he went to Potter Hill,
R. I., in 1862. He came here from Bradford, Eng., in
1862. He is son of Henry and Mary Holworth, and was
born in Horton, Eng., in 1833. His wife Ann is daughter
of Richard and Hannah Simpson, born in Golgotha, ten
miles from Manchester, Eng., about 1834. Child :
Manasseh, b. Bradford, 1852, by his first wife, Mary Ann,
who died in 1858.
Thomas B. Poor married in 1843, Bulah French, who
died Jan., 1856. Mrs. Daniel Poor's mother's mother was
Betsey Decrow.
Rev. Mr. Ellis married, first, Elizabeth Broadhurst, who
died when her daughter Emily was five years old, Apr.
27, 1859, aged twenty-seven years. Emily married Joseph
Lawton, jr., of Stone and left a daughter Annie Elizabeth,
252 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION.
born 1856. Mr. Ellis's second child was Mary Jane, born
1858, who married William Elley, son of Charles Bromley
of Stone, and resides opposite where Mr. Ellis was brought
up on the homestead of his father. By his second mar-
riage, Mr. Ellis had Frederick Lawton, born in Stone in
1836 ; Mathew Henry, b. Montreal, Can., Dec. 12, 1844;
Charlotte Augusta, b. Boston, Mar. 11, 1847.
James Ashworth is in the 14th Regt., and resides in the
cottage house on the north side of the street, having moved
from the house where J. A. Morrison's store now is, in
1861. His wife is Ellen, daughter of John and Nellie
(Coleman) Gray, who was born in the parish of Tarlah,
Co. Waterford, about 1835, and came to America in 1852.
Her grandfather was Edward Gray. Child : Sarah Ellen,
b. May, 1860. Mrs. Gray was born in Tarlah, the daughter
of Daniel and Nellie (Hoar) Coleman, and came to Amer-
ica, Christmas, 1857. Her husband died in Ireland about
1852. Their children : Ann, mar. Richard Butler, and
resides in Australia ; Mary, mar. James Boot, resides in
Lawrence ; and Mrs. Ashworth.
George William Riley resides in the large house, built
by John Ray of Cambridge in 1848, which he bought in
1862. He is a wool dealer, and was a wool sorter in Bal-
lardvale as early as 1845. He is son of Thomas and Har-
riet (Strickland) Riley of England. His wife is Elizabeth,
daughter of George and Sarah (Barker) Fletcher, born in
Keithley, Yorkshire, Eng., Dec. 22, 1826, and came to
New York, Mar. 29, 1848 and to Ballardvale, the April
following, with her parents. Mr. Riley kept house first in
the old schoolhouse, then in the white boarding house, in
C. Abbott's house, was in Brooklyn, N. Y. a year, and then
in Mrs. Rhoades house. Children : Thomas, b. Nov. 29.
1850 ; George Parker, b. Dec. 6, 1852 ; Edwin Strickland,
b. Nov. 27, 1854 ; Sarah Harriet, b. Dec. 5, 1856 ; Eliza-
beth, died young ; Jane Elizabeth, b. Mar. 12, 1860 ; a son,
b. June 23, 1863. Working for them is Bridget, daughter
of Martin and Ellen (Reed) Brennan, who was born Jane,
1839 and came to America in July, 1858.
(To be continued.)
ENGLISH NOTES ABOUT EARLY SETTLERS
IN NEW ENGLAND.
COMMUNICATED BY LOTHROP WITHINGTON.
(Continued from Vol. XLVII, page 60.)
PETER.
STORTFORD, Court at, 17 October, 1620. JohnTuer,
Surrogate.
Layndon. Mr. Hugh Peter, schoolmaster, to show li-
cense. Appearance, license exhibited, and dismissal.
Commissary Court of the Bishop of London for Essex $
Herts, Liber officium, 1616-1621, p. 188.
CHELMSFORD, Court at, Tuesday, 21st July, 1629,
before the Lord Commissary and me Edm. Tillingham,
Registrar.
Rayleigh. Mr. Steven Vassall, rector, and Thomas
Caston and John Ougham, churchwardens, summoned for
suffering one Mr. Peter, a suspended minister, to preach
in their church, not showing his license. Appearance and
answer that the said Mr. Peter did preach in their church
about two rnoneths agoe but doe not know nor ever heard
that he was suspended & that in tymes past he was Curate
in this parish & was then comf ormable to the Orders of the
Church which was the cause that moved them to suffer him
to preach there, & that if they had known he had been
suspended they would not have permitted him to preach.
Whereupon the Judge dismissed them with warning. 2s.
Ditto, Ditto, 1628-1630, p. 63.
MORTON.
Thomas Morton, Clifford's Inne, London, Gent. Will
23 August, 1643 ; proved 9 August, 1660. To settle estate
for nearest kindred. To Couzin Germon Tobias Milles
(263)
254 ENGLISH NOTES" ABOUT EARI/X SETTLERS
and to Neece Sara Bruce, Widdowe, all estate in my
lands &c. in New England in America hereafter in these
presents mencioned " That is to say All that my Estate
Right, title and Interest of in or vnto All that one parcell
of land within the Province of Carlile contayninge five
thousand Acres Scituate on the East side of the River
Quiliepiocke and extendinge foure Miles alonge by the
side of the said River from the foote thereof into the
Lands And alsoe all that my Estate Right title and Inter-
est in another parcell of Land in the said Province of
Carlile Contayninge other five thousand Acres scituate on
the west side of the said river Quiliepiocke and extending
from the foote thereof foure miles alonge by the side of
the same River vp wards And alsoe all my Estate right
title & Interest in one parcell of Land in the Province of
Ligonia contayninge two thousand Acres lyinge on Casco
Bay next vnto the River Pesumskegg And alsoe all my
Estate Right title and Interest of in and vnto All these
two Islands in Casco Bay neare to Pesumskegg River
called the Clapp board Islands And alsoe all that my Es-
tate Right, title and Interest of in and with All that on
Island called Martin's Vineyard scituate and being on the
Southerne Side of Cape Codd and neere vnto the Narohi-
ganses Bay " to said Tobias Millis [sic] and Sarah Bruce
and their heires forever. Executors : said Tobias Milles
and Sarah Bruce. Witnesses : William Woodnard, ser-
vant to Mr. Fryer, Thomas Fr} 7 er. Proved by Sarah Wil-
son als Bruce one of the executors. Proved 10 March
1661 by Tobias Wills [sic], the other executor. [" Thomas
Morton, late of the City of London, but deceased over
seas." Prolate Act Book."]
Nabbs, 221.
MORTON. The will here presented is that of the notorious and
indefatigable adventurer who was a veritable thorn in the flesh of the
Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies for some twenty odd years.
Opinions, contemporary and otherwise, differ as to how fully he
deserved the treatment he received and it is quite evident that the
charges brought against him were never those upon which he might
quite justly have been accused but always, as Maverick, one of the
kindliest of those who have written of him, says " mere pretences."
The same writer adds that the real offence was " he had touched
them too neare."
IN NEW ENGLAND. 255
One characteristic he had which was a rarity in those days, namely
a sense of humor, and his book, " The New English Canaan" printed
in Amsterdam in 1637, lampoons in most amusing fashion, under
fictitious names, many of those in authority and Maverick calls it "the
truest description of New England as it then was that euer I saw."
It is the more difficult to form a fair estimate of the man because
most of the testimony concerning him is that of men whom he was
continually annoying by flouting their authority, defying their power
and worst of all ridiculing upon every opportunity. It is very cer-
tain however that he was a "vulgar Royalist libertine, thrown by
accident into a Puritan community," that " he largely became an
object of aversion because he used the Book of Common Prayer,"
was a born Bohemian and an extremely reckless but highly amusing
man, an old debauchee and a tipler but it is noticeable that his per-
secutors were not confined to the Puritans and that his own fellow-
churchmen took their part in it.
Briefly stated his career begins with his advent in 1622 in the
44 Charity," at which time he settled at Weston's plantation at Wessa-
guscus about the end of May, if we may accept his own statement.
In September of the following year Sir Ferdinando Gorges sent his son
Robert with a colony to be planted in Massachusetts, which he did,
near the present Quincy Point bridge but he appears to have become
disgusted and returned home the next year, leaving a few of his fol-
lowers, who were reinforced in the early summer of 1625 by Wollaston
with three or four partners and thirty servants or apprentices.
This colony led by Morton became very riotous and were accused
of selling powder and fire-arms to the Indians and refused utterly to
listen to expostulation against this practice.
Ma-re-Mount as Morton calls the settlement or Merrie-Mount as it
is called by Bradford, was raided in 1628, the expedition being con-
ducted by Myles Standish, and Morton was imprisoned at Plymouth.
Deportation to England followed soon but partly because of the
weakness of the charges laid against him and partly because of the
great interest felt by Gorges in the settlement of New ?]ngland and
consequently in the glowing tales of the country which Morton had
to tell, nothing seems to have been proved against him and he made
his way back, much to the disgust of the Massachusetts authorities
and he again regained his old haunts at Mt. Wollaston and resumed
his wild ways.
Upon the arrival of Winthrop in June, 1630, new orders for his
apprehension were issued, Endecott having shortly before tried to
do so and failed, and again he was deported, and more vain charges
were laid at his door with equally little effect.
Gorges and Captain John Mason were endeavoring to overthrow
the Massachusetts charter and Morton was engaged as attorney in
the matter. In this he seems to have shown ability as after a time
256 ENGLISH NOTES ABOUT EABLY SETTLERS.
it was accomplished and in 1635 the charter was declared void. Sir
Ferdinando Gorges was Lord of the Province of Maine and Morton
was the first to sign as witness of his proclamation.
Morton was familiar with the territory granted to Gorges as he
had forstalled the Plymouth station on the Kennebec river, having
made his way there in 1626 or 1627 and it would appear from his will
that he claimed a grant of land on the shore of that river. The Pro-
vince of Carlile he mentions was one of three tracts, running back
from the sea, of which the most easterly one was held by the Earl of
Arundel, the next to the west by Gorges, while still to the west of
this lay the lands of the Earl of Carlile.
These grants are shown on a map published in Sir William Alex-
ander's, " Encouragement to Colonies", printed in London in 1624 and
reprinted by the American Antiquarian Society (vol. VI, October
number, p. 44). The river Quillepiocke was doubtless the Kennebec
of Qunni-pi-ohki (i. e. Long water-place), as named by the Indians.
Nothing more is heard of Morton until 1643 when he appeared in
Plymouth and was allowed to remain for the winter, being probably
much broken down and without resources. The following June he
made his way to Maine, eluding a warrant for his arrest, but did not
stay there as in August he was in Rhode Island.
Within a month he had been arrested and was in custody in Boston
on a charge framed by Winthrop that " he made a complaint against
us at the Council Board." This he denied and they could not prove
but he was thrown into prison and notwithstanding a most humble
petition for release he was kept there about a year, it would appear
under most distressing conditions as to food and warmth so that he
was completely broken down and finally was allowed to go with a
fine of 100. He went to Agamenticus and soon died in 1645.
No evidence can be found that any of the land he leaves in his will
was formally conveyed to him and at least in the case of the Marthas
Vineyard tract it would seem that any such grant was nullified.
Gorges claimed the Vineyard and the Elizabeth Isles but in 1635 the
Council for New England conveyed to William, Earl of Stirling*
Pemaquid on the Maine coast, also Long Island with a number of
smaller islands, while in 1641 the Earl sold for 40 to Thomas Mahew
of Watertown, Nantucket and several other islands and Mahew was
subsequently granted Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Isles.
Mahew's son took up his abode at the Vineyard in 1642 and was
drowned on his way to England in 1657 so that if he had any claim upon
any part of the Island, Morton does not seem to have prosecuted it.
This account of his career is condensed from Bradford's Letter
Book, Winthrop's History, Samuel Maverick's " Description of New
England," Morton's * New English Canaan," The Prince Society's
publication for 1883, (vol. 10), and the Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian Society. Note by Henry W. Belknap.
SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
TOWN MEETINGS, VOLUME II.
( Continued from Volume XLIX, page 160.)
The ballance of this acc is p d in next acc in Booke of
accompts
L* Jn Higginson is D r p r a bill to Jno. Proc-
ture 05 : 00 : 00
Crd HP worke donne <g> cart for y e towne to li s d
24 agust 81 1:9:3
L l Jn Higginson is Cred r p r severall dif-
burst mt for the Towne as p r his Acc 3 : 10 : 09
5 : 00 : 00
This acc is settled in y e book of acc
John Hathorne is Cred r p r dif burst for ye
towne as p r his Acc vpon file with 2*
added for paper &c 2 : 05 : 06
Debt 1 to a bill charg ed vpon Con 3
Willowbey 1 : 4:0
Debt r to a bill charg* vpon Cons
Chever 1 : 01 : 6
2 : 05 : 6
[306] Att a Meeting of the Selectmen Nov br 25 1679
The Selectmen doe Aproue of & Confent vnto m r Rich
Croad his continueing to Keepe a publiqe houfe to sell
beare & Syder
The Selectmen Confent vnto & aproue of Serj Jn
Clifford to keepe a victualling houfe att winter Isl d at y*
seson of way ing fish
(257)
268 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
Cap 1 Marshall D r to a bill Charged vpon Const bl Nehe-
miah Willoughbey for 36 s in money w ch is for Dif burst-
ments of the Committee which was to end thofe differ-
ences betweene Salem Beverlye & wenham
Whearas Gilbert Tapley formerlye had liberty both
from the Hon r Courte & likewife from the selectmen of
the towne, to draw beeare, Wee doe alfo still Approue of
his Keeping a Victualling houfe.
Att a Meeting of the Selectmen Decem br 5 1679 By
Vertue of a Warrant from the Treasurer of the Country
to make one single Country Rate to bee payd in graine
&c & halfe a Rate to bee p d in money : Likewife one sin-
gle Rate p r order of y e Towne, which sayd Rates are as
Followeth
Cons* Edw. Flint D r Country Rate 1811 Town Rate,
18 : 18 : 11 Ouerplus Co : R ' 9 : 15 : 7
Con s Job Swinerton D r Country Rate 151i Town Rate
13 : 05 : 3 Ouerplus Co R 5 : 00 : 5
Con s James Simonds D r Country Rate 151i Town Rate
14 : 11 : 9 Ouerplus Co R 6 : 17 : 8
Con s Nehe m Willowbey D r Country Rate 18 Towne Rate
16 : 13 : 3 Ouerplus Co R 5 : 19 : 11
Con s James Polland D r Country Rate 18 Towne Rate
17 : 16 : 4 Ouerplus Co. R 8 : 07 : 9
Con s Peter Chevers D r Country Rate 15 Towne Rate
15 : 13 : 4 Ouerplus C. R 7 : 16 : 9
To pay the Treasurer 991i the Remainder to ye Towne.
Eleazer Geoyles is Chofen Ouerfeere of y e highway es
from the bridge to linn or Reding Bounds, and is ordered
forthwith to mend the way goeing ouer Butts Brooke.
And is heareby Impowred to Imprefs what hands shall bee
nefesary to Accomplish the same.
Ens's 11 Nath 1 Felton is Chofen ouerseere of the high
ways from M r Gardners brooke to m r Endecotts playne :
& is ordered forthwith to mend Rom Bridge and the waye
att the hill Adjoyning, & is heareby Impowred to Imprefs
w* hands shall bee nefsesary to Accomplish y e same
Nath 1 Puttnam is Chofen ouerseere of the highwayes att
the Village & is ordered forthwith to mend Ingersalls
SALEM TOWN RECORDS. 269
Bridge :& is heareby Impowr ed to Imprefe what hands
shall bee nefsesary to Accomplish the Same
L* Tho : Puttnam is Chofen ouerseers of the highwayes
att y e village & is ordered forthwith to mend the Bridge
att Beauer Dam, & is heareby Impowred to Imprefs w*
hands shall bee Nefsesary to Accomplish the same
Serj. Fuller is Chofen ouerseere of y e highwayes att
the village & is ordered forthwith to mend the bridge att
Beachy Brooke vpon Andiuer Road & is heareby Im-
powred to Imprefs w* hands shall bee Nefsesary to Accom-
plish the same
[307] This Bill bindeth me Ezekiell Nedam Cord-
wind 1 of linn to paye or Caufe to bee payd vnto the
Selectmen of the Towne of Salem : or there order in
behalf e of the Towne : the Just and full Summe of twen-
tye pounds in Merch 8 prouifions. Viz : fix pounds thurteene
shillings & fowre pence p r Annum for three Yeares
Ensueing the date hereof : prouided & itt is agreed that
iff George Wiett for whome the abouesayd debt of twentye
pounds is payd ; shall depart this liffe before the first
yeare bee Compleated then only the first payment which
is dd before signeing of Fifftye seauen shillings payd by
Ezekiell Nedham shall stand in force or bee due to the
Towne : if after the first yeare, then only the first payment
to bee Compleated, if hee Hues out the fecond yeare then
the Summe of thurteene pounds six shillings & eight
pence to bee payd vnto the towne of Salem, And if hee
Hue out the full Terme of three yeares, then the full
summe of twentye pounds to bee payd as aboue sayd,
which payment of prouifions to bee att the same price
the Country Rate Runns ; And iff Geo : Wiett shall att
any tyme before the aboue sayd terme of three yeares
bee Expired paye vnto Ezekiell Nedham the abouesayd
summe of twenty pounds that att that tyme hee shall &
heareby stands Ingaged then to difcharge the full Summe
of twenty pounds as abouesayd to the towne of Salem
And if the s d Eze. Nedham shall paye in porke itt shall
bee taken att three pence p r Ib Iff in Beefe itt shall bee
payd att two pence halfe penny ^ Ib And vnto the true
260 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
performance heareof I doe binde my selfe my heires
Execu trs Adminestrators & assignes as wittnefs my hand
Salem, 6 of Decem br 1679 this was signed p r Ezekiell
Nedhani
Witnefs John Price ) In y e p r sence of the Selectmen
Jn Hathorne \ The originall is amonght y e paper
Records
Att a Meeting of the Selectmen 31 : 10 : 1679 all being
present Butt Cap* Jn Corwin & Cap* W m Browne
Charged a bill vpon the Conftables to paye vnto severall
men that worked att the gutt, eueryone there proportions
According to m r Phillip Cromwells order, who was ouer-
feere of y e s d worke & gaue in a perticuler Acc thereof
the whole summe Amounted to 4 11 : 02: 00
Charged a bill vpon the Const bls to paye vnto Severall
men for worke donne on Reding highway Eueryone there
proportion, According to L* John Pickerings, order ; who
was Ouerfeere of y e s d worke, & gaue in a perticuler Acc
thereof ; the whole summe Am to I 11 : 15 : 00
Charged a bill vpon y e Const bls to paye vnto severall
men for worke donne att Rom Bridge & m r Gardners
Bridge, Eueryone there proportion According to order
from Ensign Feltons who was ouerseere of s d worke &
gaue a p r ticuler Ace thereof ; the whole summe Amounted
to 2 11 : 05 : 00
Abated m r John Gedney sen r out of his Country Rates 5 s
Jn Tawley was sent for before the selectmen, for
Rescauing into his ffamyley, & Entertayning of, Thomas
Boyden, without Libertye first obtaynecl, wheare vpon m r
Tawley Ingages to secure the towne from any dammage
or Charge that may arife there vpon
[308] Walter Skiner is D r li s d
To 4 B Corne of Jn Hathorne : 12 : 00
To : a bill Con s Poland 31 : 10 1 : 00 : 00
To : a bill Con s Searle for 2 : 00 : 00
To : a bill Con 8 Chevers 16 : 2 2 : 00 : 00
To : p d by Jo : Hathorne 6 s : 06 : 00
To p d you by m r Jon a Corwin 1 : 08 : 00
Sett to next year acc 7 : 00 : 00
SALEM TOWN RECORDS. 261
P r Contra Cred*
P r Being Belman from the tyme y e Con s watch Left
vntill the l d Maye w" y e Con 8 watch is to
begine 7 U : 00 : 00
M r Fran 65 Skery is D r
To a bill Charged vpon Con st Peter Chevers which is
in full of all Acc or demands Concerning li s d
Sarah Lambert 31 : 10 rao : 1679 4
P r a bill vpon Con s Chevers more
P r Contra Cred
P r Acc giuen in Concern 1 " 8 Sarah Lambert 4
P r Carting boards to the town houfe
15
15
08
03
00
00
00
00
00
00
5
Salem January 5 th 1679/80
Itt is agreed betweene the Selectmen of Salem, in y e
Behalf e of the towne of Salem aforesayd, on the one p te ;
And Rich d Tree & Johanah Tree his wiffe off Salem, one
the other p te ; viz that y e sayd tree & his wiffe doe Ingage
to, and with y e selectmen of Salem, in behalfe of the
towne of Salem Afores d ; that thay will Keepe Rebecka
Howton dureing her liffe tyme, and her Young Childe
which shee now hath, vntill shee bee of the age of Eigh-
teene yeares and finde them both dureing the sayd Terme,
with Meate drink & apparell wafhing & lodging sutable
& nefsesary for them ; And they doe Ingage and binde
themselues heires Execut & Admin est to saue the towne of
Salem harmelefs from all manner of Charge whattsoever
that may Come to the towne of Salem, by meanes of s d
Rebecca Howton ; from this day forwarde dureing the
whole Terme of her liffe ; And of her Child from this daye
forward vntill shee bee of the full age of Eighteene
Yeares, For and in Confideration of which thay shall haue
what service the s d Howton & her Child are capable of
dooirig and alfo shall haue the bill of Ezekiell Nedhams,
giuen the towne for George Wiett, or what Remaines due
there of being Seauenteene pounds three shillings payable
to the towne. According to the Condittions In the sayd
262 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
bill giuen. And Recorded in Salem towne Booke, And
vnto the tru performance of which aboues d agreement
the Selectmen of the towne doe order the Recording the
same, And Rich d Tree & Johanah Tree his wiffe haue
both sett to theere hands for the performances of the
agreement on there p te the daye And yeare aboue written
Signed & deliuered in The Marke O of
the presence of Richard Tree
William Browne Jun r The mark of
John Higginfon Jun r Johanah S Tree
John Hathorne
The originall paper of which this is a Copye is amonght
the paper Records
[309] Whearas John Bullocke was Imprefsed into the
Country service against the Indians and was therein Sore-
lye wounded to the very greate hazerd of his liffe, and
being thereby difabled from getting a liuelihood for him-
self e much more for a ffamilye in any labourious Calling,
hee still Remayning a Creeple, & vnder great & greuious
Affliction by that meenes ; the Confideration whereof hath
Moued our harts not only to pittey him, butt alfo to Con-
lider of some way Sutable for one in that diftrefsed Con-
dittion, whearby hee may bee able to gitt a liueing, and
not d if courage him & others y* may bee called forth vpon
Service for there Country heareafter
Wee doe therefore grant him Libertye to sett vp &
keep a Cooks Shoop in the towne, And likewife to draw
wine &c if the Countye Courte shall see caufe to aproue
of, and Confirm e him therein
This aboues d was granted att a Meeting of the Select-
men January the 9 th 1679/80
Att a Meeting of the Selectmen 26 Jan 16 T9 all pres-
ent p* of the tyme
Res d of John Greene Jn Leach Jn Bacheldor & John
Tomkins Jun r the Summe of Twenty pounds in Money for
there Second yeares Rent for Roy all Syde being for the
Yeare 1679 According to leece bearing Date 1: 12: 77
Likewise then Reseaued of George Jacobs sen r and the
rest of the Eleven who hired fourtey fowre Ackers, viz
SALEM TOWN RECORDS. 263
foure akers ^ man the Summe of fiue shill 8 & six pence
which is for there first yeares Rent of land on Roy 1 Syde
the Leace bear mg Date 29 : 11 : 78/9
Joshua Rea Con 8t is D r 1678
To : his proportion of y e m r Rate & ouerplus 14 : 00 : 00
To his proportion of y e Country Rate 28 : 00 : 00
To his proportion of y e County Rate to
mars h Skery 3
To : his ouerplus of Country & Co : Rates 9 : 04 : 00
54 : 04 : 00
D r more *$ severall y u took Rates of 01 : 15 : 00
55 : 19 : 00
28 : 2 : 79 Cred
20 : 11 : 79 P r a Res* from m r Jn Hull Treasur money &
other pay as the rates Run 28 : 00 : 00
6 : 1 : 78/9 P r a bill p d L 1 Rich Leach
17 : 12 : 78 00 : 19 : 03
P r abatem 1 to L* Tho Puttnam & Son Jun r 00 : 10 : 00
P r abatements the 26 : 11 : 79 as f> Acc 01 : 07 : 06
P d m r Sam 11 Gardner Jun r for y e minesters
rate 13 : 10 : 00
P d Marshall Skery for y e County rate 3 : 00 : 00
47 : 06 : 09
P r abatements more the 21 : 11 : 80 00 : 10 : 06
47 : 17 : 03
P r Killing a woolfe in y e yeare 1676 1 : 10 : 00
49 : 07 : 03
[310] Tho. Searle Con 8 is D r 1678
To his proportion of the Minesters Rate 88 : 00 : 00
To his ouerplus of y e ministers Rate 02 : 03 : 07
To his proportion of the Co : Rate 33 : 00 : 00
To his proportion of pay to marsh 1 Skery
for County 4 : 00 : 00
To his ouerplus to bee pd the towne 10 : 02 : 06
87 : 06 : 01
264 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
Reckoned with Tho : Searle Con 8 1 : No br 80
and all Acc cleared.
Res d p* a Res* from m r Sam u Gardner for the
Minesters Rate 17 : 5 : 79 38 : 00 : 00
Res d p r a Res* from m r Jn Hull Treasurer
Aprill 28 : 79 N 403 33 : 00 : 00
Res d p r payd Marshall Skery for the Countye
as p r his Res* 24 : 4 : 79 04 : 00 : 00
Res2 p r p d m r Grafton f bill 26 : 11 : 79 01 : 11 : 06
Res 5 <> abatements y r own & others Rates 2 : 14 : 00
79 : 05 : 06
Res d $ a bill p d Walter Skiner 2 : 00 : 00
Res d V Allow for tranfportation : 05 : 00
Res d $ p d John Roggers f> bill : 13 : 06
82 : 04 : 00
1 : 9 : 80 Res f, money Reseud 50 s adv
25 s abatements 27" l d 5 : 2 : 01
87 : 06 : 01
John Greene : Cons* is D r 1678
To : his proportion of y e minesters Rate 17 : 00 00
To : his ouerplus of y e minesters Rate 00 : 11
To : his proportion of y e Country Rate 28 : 00
To : his proportion to pay Mars h Skery for
y e County 03 : 00
To : his ouerplus of Co & County Rate 07 : 14
09
00
00
00
56 : 05 09
28 : 2 : 79 Cred* p r a Res* from m r Jo : HuU
treasurer for money & other pay as y e
rates Run 28 : 00 : 00
p r 2 Res* from Marshall Skery for County 3 : 00 : 00
26 : 11 : 79 p r m r Jo : Higginson for min rs
Rate as f, R 17 : 00 : 00
p r Abatements made him as p r Acc 3 : 02 : 00
51 : 02 : 00
SALEM TOWN RECORDS. 265
p r abated Tho Howards rates 9 8 )
p r abatement for ben 3 Scarletts rates 8 8 f : 17 : 00
p r Tho West, Estate to y e m" rate abated 00 : 03 : 00
52 : 02 : 00
21 : 11 : 80 money p d 55 s for : for 4" 03 : 9 d 4 : 03 : 09
56 : 05 : 09
Jn green is aquitted from his rates 21 st ll mo 1680
M r John Turner Acknowledged that hee Reseaued (p r
the Townes order) Fourtey Two pounds tenn shill g8 &six
pence of m r John Higginson & m r Sam 11 Gardner, which
abouesayd summe of money was putt into there hands to
Incourage them in payeing the money due from the towne
to m r Jn Higginson sen r for the yeare 1678 and is now
deliuoured to m r John Turner only vpon the same Con-
dittions. And m r John Turner to returne the same
againe when the yeare 1679 is finifhed & m r Jn Higgin-
son & m r Sam 11 Gardner are heareby aquitted from itt
[311] Att a metting of the Selectmen 6 : 1 : 1678/9
The Contribution for the pore Cred* ^ bal-
lance of the Acc made vp 28 : 10 : 78
as $ Contra 15 . 12 : 10
$> Contribution from 28 : 10 : 78 to 2 : 1 :
78/9 07 : 06 : 08
22 : 19 : 06
D r to Seuerall distributions as p r Contra :
to 6 : 1 : 78/9 07 : 10 : 00
6 : 1 1678/9 So ther remaines dew in m r
Verins hands 15 : 09 : 06
& ther is in m r Verins hands of what was left
of the Contribution w ch was for Hen r
Mofes 01 : 00 : 05
D r 6 : 1 : 78/9 giuen a noat to W m Cock for
5 W Hollis 3 8 00 :08 : 00
m r Norrice 5 s Homans famylye 31 s 01 : 16 : 00
Adam Gold 12 d Goody Olliver 5 s 00 : 06 : 00
266
SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
Horn an for wood 7" 6 d Goody Hollis 3 s
Homan More for severall perticulers ^>
brays wife
m r Norrice 5 s Goodm Olliuer 3 s
Lent Goodm Oliuer, & his Widdow at sev 1
tymes
m r Norrice at seuerall tymes more
Sam 11 Pickmans wiffe
Allex r Mackmalley at severall tymes
Goody Case at severall tymes
Cr d p r Contribution from 2 : l mo
78/9 to the 2 d of October
1679 25 : 02 : 05
p r the Acc as aboue 16 : 09 : 11
Crd. 41 : 12 : 04
Dr. 12 : 17 : 00
00 : 10
00:
00:
02:
03 :
01:
01:
01 :
10
08
03
10
00
05
00
12: 17
06
00
00
06
00
00
00
00
00
28 : 15 : 04
27 : 8 : 1679 Reckoned & wee finde theere
Remaines in m r Verens hands of the
poores money
28 : 15 : 04
Att a Metting of the Selectmen 27 : 8 : 79 wee order
a diftribution as follows
27 : 8 Wid Smith 10" Wid Harvey 10 a
Wid Rich 10 s
Wid Mackmaley 10 s Wid Pickman 10 s Ben :
Felton 10"
Goody Cafe 10 Goody Cash 10" Wid
Craniver 10 s
Goody parnell 10 s
28 : 8 Goody Batter 10 s W m Hollis 10 8
29:9 m r Edw Norrice for 1 hogg & a q r ter
Beefe &c
For Eebecka Outon in her sicknefs to goody
Mackmaley
01
10
10
01
10
00
01
00
10
10
00
00
5
1
00
00
00
00
2
10
00
10
00
SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
267
Lent Goody Olliuer 9" Jos Aliens wiffe 10'
Goody Mackmaley for beck Outon 5 s
Goody Olliuer p d Ebz Geoyles
The money in hand as aboue is 28 : 15 : 04
More Contribution from 27
Oct to 17 : 12 11 : 03 : 09
p r more repayd by goody olliuer 2 : 19 : 6
: 19 : 00
: 05 : 00
10 : 04 : 00
: 07 : 00
10 : 11 : 00
42 : 18 : 07
Remaynes in m r Verens hands the 17 : 12 : 79 li s d
f, bill 32 : 07 : 07
All that feauenteene psons should haue 10 8
f> \v ch is 8 : 10 :
17 : 12 : 79/80
[312] Att a meting of the Selectmen 23 : 6 : 78
Cap* Corwin distributed of the contribution mony
mr cro'mwell to m r Edw : Norice being
Leu* Leach very 111 02 : 00 : 00
Samll Gardner
Ed flint
Jn Higginson
at a meting of Selectmen 14 : 7 : 78
distributed
widow Collins
widow Smith
widow Crankier
widow Starr
widow : Rich
widow : Harny
widow Hun
widow Richards
m r Norice
Benj. Felton
11 : 8 : 78 giuen to m r Norice
at feuerall
to widow Hun
to widow Pickworth
m r ph. Cromwell
Sam" Gardner
Jn Hathorne
10
<n
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
0^
2
10
10
05 : 00. : 00
268
SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
to m r Norice
: 10 :
to Good m Oliuer
: 08 :
to Goody Rich
to Jn Ely
to m r Norice more at
: 05 :
: 07 :
feuer 11
1 : 00 :
05 : 10 : 00
12 : 10 : 00
The Acc of Contribution from the 12 th May 78 to the
28 December 1678 w th 12 8 6 d upon y* ball of the Acc
ouer leafe is 28 : 2 : 10 d
paid out as aboue 12 : 10 : 00
So that ther remaines in stocke 15 : 12 : 10 Reckoned this
28 : 10 mo 1678
distributed 28 : 10 : 1678
To : widow Smith : 10 : 00
To widow Craniuer : 10 : 00
To widow Starr : 06 : 00
To widow Rich : 10 : 00
To widow Harney : 10 : 00
To widow Richards : 06 : 00
To Goodm Felton : 10 : 00
To widow Hun : 10 : 00
To widow Pickworth : 10 : 00
li
04
s
02
d
00
23 : 11 : 78 ordred to Jos Gatchells wife
20 $ noat to m r Verin
to baxters dafter shelden 10 s Goody Rich-
ards : 10 s
to Jn Ely 2 s m r Norice 5 s Goody Rich 3 s
Goody Gold 3 s
To Goody Richards 10 8 Goody Gold 5 s
> 3 : 08 : 00
7 : 10 : 00
mr Batter
Cap* Jn Corwin
mr Samli Gardner
LeiftJno Pickring
Bartho Gedny
& dacon Verin
[313] 31 December 1677
att A meeting of the select men being
preesent
was distributed to the severall widdows
underneath mentioned out of the Con-
tributions for the poore
SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
269
tto widow Collins
tto widdow rnofes
tto widdow Cranever
tto widdow Rich
tto widdow pickworth
tto w m hollis his witfe
tto widdow Smith
tto widdow Starr
tto widdow pethricke :
7 : 11 : 1677
Tho : Oliu r is granted
13 : 12 : 1677
To : Widdow : Moises
To : Widdow : Craniv r
To : Widow Hun
To : Widdow : Richards
To : ditto : Richards
To : Widdow : Harny
To : Widdow : Star
To :y e Widdow: Hu[n]
To : y e Widdow : Rich
To : Widdow : Smith
To : y e widdow : Collins
To : widdow : pickworth
To : y e Widdow : pethrick 00 :
14 th 1 : 1677/8
To Widdow Richards 00 15 : 00 ")
: 6 : 00
: 10 : 00
: 12 : 00
: 10 : 00
: 10 : 00
: 10 : 00
: 08 : 00
: 11 : 00 li s d
: 05 : 00 4 2 : :
00 : 05 : 00 *
00 : 10 : 00
00 : 10 : 00
00 : 05 : 00
00 : 05 : 00
00 : 10 : 00
00 : 06 : 00
00 : 08 : 00
> 04 : 15 : 00
00 : 05 : 00
00 : 10 : 00
00 : 06 : 00
00 : 05 : 00
00 : 05 : 00
00 : 05 : 00
08 : 17 : 00
To widdow Rich 00
05 : 00
Tho : oliu r 00
04: 00
Benjamin Felton 00
Widdow : Craniv r 00
05:00
05 : 00
Widdow : Smith 00
Widdow : Moises 00
05 : 00
05 : 00
* 03 : 02 : 05
Widdow : Harny 00
Widdow : pickworth 00
Widdow : Eastick 00
05 : 00
05: 00
05 :00
Widdow : Collins 00
03: 05
"11 : 19 : 05
270
SALEM TOWN RECOKDS.
17 : may 1678
To : Goody Harney 00 : 08 : 00
To Goody Rich 00 : 06 : 00
To : widow Craniuer 00 : 08 : 00
To widow Starr 00 : 06 : 00
To widow Smith 00 : 06 : 00
To widow : Hun 00 : 07 : 00
To : widow : Richards 00:12: 00
To : widow Mofes 00 : 06 : 00 i- 5 : 00 : 00
To : widow Collins 00 : 06 : 00
To: widow : PickworthOO : 06 : 00
To : widow : Estick 00 : 05 : 00
To : w m Hollice 00 : 08 : 00
To : widow Sibly 00 : 06 : 00
To Goodm felton 00 : 05 : 00
Jn Meckeny 00 : 05 : 00 ^
[314] 31 december 1677
the selectmen Having taken Acco* of what hath been
Contributed for the Releif of the poore found In the dea-
cons hands the Summ of 5 U : 4 s : ll d
& have distributed as on the other side 4 : 2 : 00
1 : 2 : 11
Remaine still In the deacons hands 22 B ll d
The ace" of Contribution to y e poore as aboue to y e 30 th
10 : 1677 is 05 : 04 : 11
& from y e 6 : 11 : 1677 to y" 10 th 1 :
1677/8 is 06 : 14 : 06
"11 : 19 : OS
The acomp* of Contribution to the pore as aboue from
the : 10 th 1 st 77/8 to 12 th May 1678 05 : 12 : 06
[315] 10 th : February : 1680
I Daniell Epes doe acknowledge that I haue receu ed of
the Selectmen of Salem Sixteene pounds in money which
is in full for Keeping a Grammer fcoole In Salem from
the 10 of August to the 10 of february 1680 I say rec d
out of the money payd for rent for this end of John
Hathorne
SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
271
DaniellEpes Jun r
I daniell Epes doe acknowledge y* I haue rec d of y*
select men of Salem fourteen pounds thirteen shillings &
six pence w ch is in full for keeping a Gramar school In
Salem from the 10 of February to y e 10 of August 1681
I say rec d out of the mony paid for rent for this end of
John Hathorne
Daniell Epes Jun r
I Dan 11 Epes doe acknowledge that I haue recieu d of
the Selectmen of Salem thirteen pounds flue shillings w ch
is in full for keeping a Gramar School in Salem from the
10 of August to the 10 of February 1681 as alfo four
pounds fiue shillings, w ch is in full satisfaction for lofs in
acc ts from y e beginning of the world to this day I say rec d
the aboues d out of the money payd for Rent for this End
of John Hathorne
Daniell Epes Jun r
I Dan 11 Epes do acknowledge that I haue Rec d of y e
Selectmen of Salem Eleuen pounds, Eleuen shillings and
ten pence, w ch is in full for Keeping a Gramar School in
Salem, from the 10 of February to the 10 of August 1682
I say Rec d the aboues d out of y e Money payd for Rent for
this End of Jn Hathorne
Daniel Epes Jun r
[316] M r Will Brown is D'
feu r all men
Jerm : Butnam
Nath Bartlet
Rich Hide
Tho Watfon
G & R Gardn r
Jn Beram
Tho Gigls
M r Z. Endecot
M r Georg Corwin D r
Joseph Swafy
Tho Robins
Georg Smith
wt he haue rec d of
:5
0:5
: 7
6
: 7
1 : 3
: 5
:5
: 7
3:4
6
: 8
: 12
: 5
272 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
Fr Collenr : 7:6
Rich Sibly 0:5:0
1 : 17 : 6
Ed : Batter D r :
Georg Dean 1 P shoos 5 s 0:5:0
Jofeph Hardinge 1 : 0:0
Jn Kitchin 0:12:0
Rob Gray at 18 d ^ : 12 :
Jn Williams : 8:0
Samll Cutler : 8:0
Sam 1 Williams : 4:6
James Und r wood 3 : 00 : 00
Ed Gaikell : 12 : 00
Fr Norton 1 : 1:0
And Woodbary : 17 :
8 : 19 : 6
M r Price D r
Humphrey Coombs : 6:0
Jn Tomkins : 10 : 00
16: 00
Reed $ fo much pd to Phill li s d
Cromwell p d to m r Higgenfon 06 : 00 : 00
1661 Accounted with w m Flint Reft to him is 1 : 12 : 7
Reed $ fev pd to m r Price 1 : 12 : 7
Acc tt with Ben Felton due from is 13 : 4
Ed Bif hop D r 1 : 3 : 10
[317] Acc tt of Edward Bifhop Constable County rate
1661 is Debt
Att a Meeting of the Selectmen 26 : ll mo 1679/80 all
being prefent
Constable William Curtice is Debt r
To : his proportion of the minefters
rate 37 : 0:0
To : his Ouerplufs of his propor-
tion 01 : 19 : 6
38:19:6 38:19:06
SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
273
To : his Country Rate 36 11 And County Rate 4 11 40 : 00 : 00
To Ouerplufs of the Country & County rates 14 : 08 : 06
W m Curtice Con st Cred r
28: 2 79 P r ru r Jn Hull Treasur r as ^ 2 \
j. - Res s money & other paye as the >
rates run )
f} Marshall Skery for the Countye
$ Glez r Browne in money & rate paye
^ m r Jn Higginfon for the niines tr8 rate
^ Abatements as p r Acc
f abated Jos Miles 5 8 pet. [Chevers] 5 s
f) Entertain Bette Sheldon [tornjeeks
f Mak ln * Latches &c for the Meet ing houfe
dores
^ his owne rates abated 26 s W m Sweetland
abated 12 s
6-1 78/9 f, p d Rob Stone 30 s f> p d M r
Jn Higginson 19 s
15. 179/80 ^ Sam 1 Stone 5 8 abated Benj
Keazer 5 8
Const. Dauid Phipeny is Debt r
To : his proportion of y e rninesters rate &
ouerplufs
To : his. Country rate 35 h County rate 4 li
Ouerplufs of both II 11 : II 8 : 00
93 : 08 : 00
36
00
00
04
00
00
02
04
08
37
00
00
03
11
06
00
10
00
00
15
00
01
02
00
01
18
00
87
01
02
02
09
00
89:
li
39 :
50:
10: 02
s d
01 : 03
11:00
89 : 12 : 03
Cred r
28: 2 mo 79 $ : m r Jn Hull as 1p 2 Res money
& other paye 35 : 00 : 00
1:7 $ : Marshall Skery for the County
rate 04 : 00 : 00
m : m r Jn Higginson for the mines 1 " rate 36 : 00 : 00
274 SALEM TOWN RECORDS.
f : Cap* Jn Corwin 4 U 6 : 4 d L* Earth :
Gedney 35 s 06 : 01 : 04
$ : his Acc of abatements & W m Lord 7 s 06 : 18 : 03
$ Acc for tranfportation 00 : 05 : 00
$ Cap* Jn Corwin more 01 : 07 : 08
Cons* Da : Phipenye is aquited from his
rates
89 : 12 : 03
The Selectmen of the Towne of Salem did Confent vnto
y e Sale of a tenn Aker lott (by Widow Olliuer) vnto
Jn Eleven According Vnto an order of the || county ||
Courte
(End of Volume H.)
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO
ESSEX COUNTY.
(Continued from Volume XLIX, page
Last Thursday evening about 9 o'Clock, in a sudden
Squall of Wind, a small schooner belonging to Beverly,
and bound for Pownal borough, having a Number of Pas-
sengers on board, was cast on a Ledge of Rocks off Cape
Ann, when the Master and five Men were drowned.
Boston Gazette, May 17, 1762.*
Public Notice is hereby given, That the Proprietors of the
Common Lands in New Marblehead, so called, in the County
of Cumberland, at their legal Meeting by Adjournment the
28th Day of August, A. D. 1760, agreed upon and ordered
<152 10s. to be assessed on them, according to their respec-
tive Interest in said Lands, to be collected by John Ingalls,
and paid into the Proprietors Treasury by the ~LQth Day of
December then next ; and at a legal meeting the 9th Day of
July A. D. 1761, they agreed upon and ordered a Tax of
<54 18s. to be assessed on them as aforesaid, to be collect-
ed by Samuel Turner, and paid into the Proprietors Treas-
ury by the tenth Day of December, A. D. 1761, and at
another Meeting on the twelfth Day of January last, they
ordered a further Tax of .183 to be assessed on them as
aforesaid (for the Uses in the several Votes mentioned) and
to be collected also by the said Ingalls, and paid into the
Proprietors Treasury by the first day of April then next and
last past : The first of these Taxes was assessed at 60s. the
second at 18s. and the last at X3 each Original Right ; which
said several Taxes have been duly published and notified ac-
cording to Law ; Yet many of said Proprietors have not
*Tbe fourteen items in the year 1762 that follow were accidentally omitted
from the regular chronological order.
(275)
276 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
paid said several Sums, but still neglect and delay to pay
them; Wherefore the Assessors of the said several Taxes
have agreed to meet at the Town House in Marblehead, in
the County of Essex, on Thursday the 9th Day of Septem-
ber next (and from Day to Day) at 11 of the Clock before
Noon : Then and there to sell for Payment of the Arrears of
any of the said several Taxes and Charges so much of delin-
quent Proprietors Common Lands there as shall be sufficient
for that purpose : which the Delinquent Proprietors are
hereby cautioned to prevent by making Payment before that
Time, to the said Collectors, or Mr. William Goodwin, Pro-
prietors Treasurer.
Marblehead, May 12, 1762.
N. Bowen
pr. Assessors.
Boston G-azette, May 17, 1762.
TO BE SOLD BY Stephen Deblois Jun'r. At the
Golden Eagle in Boston ; And George Deblois, At his
Shop in Salem. Choice Bohea Tea per Quantity, the best
French Indigo, brown Sugars per Barrel, London and Po-
land Starch, Spices, &c. Neat Steel House Jacks, best
Hardmetal Plates and Dishes, all Sorts of common Pew-
ter Wares, London Wool, Cotton and Clothier's Cards,
English and G-erman Steel, Nails, Tax and Brads of all
Sorts, Cod, Mackrell and other Lines, Fish Hooks of all
Sizes, Smith's Anvils and Bench Vices, 5 by 7, 6 by 8, 7
by 9, and 8 by 10 Bristol Crown Glass, Duck, Pedgion,
Bird, Goose and Brant Shott, Sickles, Scyths, Scyth
Stones per Box, Boxes of Tin Plates, Bed Screws, neat
Steel Andirons, Shovell and Tongs, with the greatest Va-
riety of Hard Wares, &c. as can be met with in any
Store in Town. CHOICE VELVET CORKS. N.B.
Ready Money ONLY.
Boston Gazette, May 17, 1762.
Capt. Cotnam of Salem has arrived at Casco Bay in a
mast ship commanded by Capt. Darling.
* Boston G-azette, May 31, 1762.
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 277
NEW YORK, May 24. On Monday last arrived the
Schooner Jolly Robin, Peter Havens, Master, in 20 Days
from Tortola. In this Vessel came Passenger, the Hon.
Samuel Pickman Esq. Governor of Spanish Town, who
next Day took his Passage in a Schooner for Salem. In
the Lat. of 19 Capt. Havens was chased by a Privateer
Sloop but escaped by Favour of the Night.
Boston Gazette, May 31, 1762.
The following Affair which lately happened at Danvers
in the County of Essex, is related as Fact As three
Children were sitting at a Door of a House an Adder
came from a Pond that was about 20 Rods distant, and
seized the Hand of one of the Children about two Years
old, and swallowed it as far as the Wrist, and immediate-
ly twisted its Tail round the Childs Legs ; upon which
the other two Children ran into the House affrighted,
where 2 or 3 Women who ran to the Door, and discovered
the Child in the above Condition, when one of the Women
squeez'd the Throat of the Adder, by which the Child
was cleared ; the Woman carried the Child into the House
when the Adder Chaced her round the Room several
Times, but being disappointed of it's Food turned about
and biting itself swelled to a considerable Degree, and
died : The Child was not poisoned, nor did it receive
any harm.
Boston G-azette, June 7, 1762.
On Monday May 31 died of Convulsions, the Rev. Mr.
Benjamin Bradstreet, Pastor of the 3d Church in Glou-
cester, in the 57th Year of his Age and 34th of his pub-
lic Ministry.
Boston G-azette, June 14, 1762.
Ran-away from Jonathan Norwood, a Negro Man Ser-
vant, named Newport, about 5 Feet 8 Inches high, well
built, an active Fellow, about 27 Years Old, speaks good
English, and plays upon a Fiddle : Had on when he went
away a black Wig, a long blue Jacket, a Calico Waist-
coat, a Pair of Snuff-colour'd Thickset Breeches, a Pair
of strait narrow Trowsers, light stockings, Pumps and
278 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
Silver Shoe Buckles. Whoever shall apprehend said
Negro and bring or give Information to me, so that I may
have him again, shall have Eight Dollars Reward, and all
necessary Charges paid by
JONATHAN NORWOOD.
All Masters of Vessels and others, are hereby cau-
tioned against harbouring, concealing or carrying off said
Servant, on Penalty of the Law.
Gloucester, June 8, 1762.
Boston Gazette, June 21, 1762.
Boston, June 18, 1762.
Province of Massachusetts Bay,
Court of Vice- Admiralty,
All Persons claiming Property in the Schooner Barce-
lona, Apparel, Furniture and Appurtenances, seized by
James Cockle Esq ; Collector of his Majesty's Customs for
the Port of Salem, for Breach of the Acts of Trade ; are
hereby notified to appear at a Court of Vice-Admiralty,
to be holden at Boston, for the said Province, on the 29th
of June Instant, at Nine o'Clock before Noon, to show
Cause if any they have why the said Schooner and Ap-
purtenances should not be adjudged to remain Forfeit,
pursuant to an Information filed in said Court for that
Purpose.
per Curiam, WM. STORY, D. Reg.
Boston Gazette, June 28, 1762.
William Davenport, who kept the Crown Tavern in
Newbury, formerly the House where Mr. Choat kept, and
afterwards Capt. Newhall ; Informs the Public, That he
has Remov'd a few Doors from said Tavern, to his own
House, at the Sign of General Wolfe, where all his former
good Customers, and other Gentlemen, may depend on
being treated with the utmost Civility,
Boston Gazette, Aug. 2, 1762.
We hear a Snow is arrived at Cape Anne with 150
Passengers on board from Newfoundland.
Boston Gazette, Aug. 9, 1762.
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 279
[On Wednesday last] the Rev. Mr. William Whitwell
was ordained Colleague Pastor with the Rev. Mr. John
Barnard, of the First Church in Marblehead.
Boston G-azette, Aug. 30, 1762.
Letters have been received from two Hostages belong-
ing to Salem, who are confined in the Goal at Cape Fran-
cois : Their Complaints are great, that they are treated
ill by Reason that the Ransom Money has not been sent
for their Release ; These Letters were dated in July last,
and came in the Flag of Truce, that lately arrived at
Rhode Island But to prevent the imputation of any
Blame on the Owners of the Vessels for which the said
Persons went as Hostages, we are desired to inform the
Public. That upon the Arrival of one of the Vessels into
Salem the Master informed his Owner of her being taken,
that he ransomed her and engaged with the Hostage to
come himself with the Ransom Money, and redeem him ;
Whereupon the Owner and another Gentleman who had
likewise a Hostage in the same Place, applyed to the
Government for Liberty for a Vessel to proceed to Cape
Francois, with a Flag of Truce, with Money to discharge
the Prisoners Liberty being granted, the Orders of the
Government were strictly adhered to in every Respect ;
and the Return of the Vessel has been expected for some
Days but by Capt. Ellery who arrived here last Tuesday
in 18 Days from New-Providence, we have Advice, that
the said Vessel is taken & carried in there by Capt.
M' Daniel in a Privateer of that Place. By which Means
the Hostages undergo great Hardships, and are used with
greater Cruelty, on a Suspicion that the Owners of the
Vessels neglect to send for them.
We hear that Capt. Rogers in a Sloop belonging to
Newbury, and Capt. Hales in another Sloop belonging to
Piscataqua on their passage from St. Kitts were both taken
by a small French Privateer of 4 Guns, and ransomed.
Boston Gazette, Aug. 30, 1762.
Good Accommodations For weary Travellers, and ele-
gant Entertainment for promoting good Fellowship. Read,
Gentlemen, and be informed, That BENJAMIN CHO AT,
having a Desire to promote his own Profit, by an assidu-
280 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
ous Attention to your Convenience and Pleasure, has
opened an INN at the SIGN of the BUNCH OF
GRAPES in Newbury, near the Ferry, where he will take
pleasure to make that Stage agreeable. Here Gentlemen,
is good WINE and PUNCH to Refresh your Spirits, and
clean Beds to rest your tired Limbs : a commodious Stable
for your Horses, with full Racks, and every other Care
necessary to enable them to perform their Journey's with
Spirit. His HOUSE is pleasantly situated, and his whole
Attention will be exerted to procure Satisfaction to those
who will favour him with their Company. Do not depend on
this Advertisement alone, but come and prove it's Truth,
where you shall be well served, and be heartily welcome.
Boston Gazette, Aug. 30, 1762.
To be Lett for a Number of Years as may be agreed
upon the Islands called, Moultorfs Great and Little Misery,
lying in Salem Harbour, containing about 90 Acres, div-
ided by a Stone Wall into five Pasture Divisions, besides
Mowing Land, watered by a Pond in the Middle of the
Island, which affords Water in the driest Seasons ; with a
good Well besides : Has on it, a good new House & Barn ;
the House every way prepared for the Dairy Business.
It is well accommodated with a Landing-Place, by a Cove,
with a fine Sandy Beach at the Head thereof. The two
Islands are joined by a Bar, dry at Low Water. The
whole is about one Mile distant from the Main, and about
three Miles from Marblehead and Salem Towns. Any person
who have a Mind to hire the same, must apply to Benjamin
Marston of Marblehead, Owner of the Premises, of whom
they may farther inform themselves concerning the same.
Boston Gazette, Feb. 20, 1764.
The Jamaica Man of War stationed at Salem and Mar-
blehead is arrived at New York, and will proceed to her
station immediately.
Boston G-azette, Feb. 27, 1764.
Jolley Allen, at his shop near the draw-bridge, Boston,
advertised " Women's calimanco Shoes of all sizes, made
by the Neatest Workmen at Lynn, at 38s. per Pair, and
cheaper by the quantity."
Boston Gazette, Mar. 19, 1764.
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNT?. 281
Ran away from his Master Capt. Andrew Tucker of
Marblehead, a Servant Boy, named Anthony Peirce, about
14 Years of Age, pretty much Pock-broken, and wears
black Hair. Had on when he went away, a light colour'd
Jacket, and red Bayes under one, and wears a Cap. Who-
ever shall take up said Boy, and bring him to the Master,
shall have FOUR DOLLARS Reward, and all necessary
Charges paid.
Boston Gazette, April 16, 1764.
Just Imported from LONDON, In Capt. Coffin, by John
Appleton, And to be Sold at his Shop in Salem ; A Gen-
eral Assortment of India and English GOODS among
which are the following Articles, which he sells at the
very lowest Prices for Cash by Wholesale and Retail.
Broad Persians, Alamodes, Black Sattins, Alamode for
black Handkerchiefs, Calicoes and Chints, Printed Linens,
Silk for Cardinals and Trimmings, Fashionable Ribbons,
White Gauze, Taffities, Silk Handkerchiefs, Linen and
Cotton ditto, Checks of all Sorts, Cotton Hollands, Cotton
Gowns, Irish Linens, Irish Sheeting, Dowlass, Cotton
Velvet, Silesia Tandems, Lawns, Cambricks, Long Lawns,
Cloutings, Ravens Duck, Ticklenburg, Oznabrigs, Cam-
blets strip'd and plain, Tammies, Shalloons, Calimancoes,
Broad Cloths, Serges, Half Thicks, Red Bayes, Black and
colour'd Crapes, Colour'd Brilliants, Sprig'd Mecklen-
burgs, Miffinets plain & sprig'd, Poplins, Cyprus, Hat
Crapes, Gloves & Mitts of all sorts, Buckrams, Bed Ticks,
Knit Patterns for Waistcoat and Breeches, Hose of all
Sorts, Nankeens, Flannels and embossed Serges, Napkin
Diaper, Table Cloths, Russia Diaper, Thread Qualities,
Corde Braids, Tapes, Gartering, White Lace, Black ditto,
Sewing Silk, Mens Soles, Buttons, Silk Twist, Silk and
Hair, Worn ens Satten Hatts, Wide and narrow Dimities,
White Tabby, Pins, Fans, Writing Paper, Cartridge &
Press Paper, Combs, Ink Powder, Glass, Kippen's Snuff,
Pepper, Green & Bohea Teas, &c. &c. &c.
N. B. His Customers need not apprehend any Infec-
tion in the Goods, as they never was landed in Boston.
'Boston Gazette, May 21, 1764.
282 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
On Friday the llth Instant died at Ipswich, in an Ap-
oplectic Fit, John Wainwright, A. M. aged 41 Years, Son
of the late Col. Wainwright : He survived his Wife but
one Year, and left six young Orphans.
Boston Gazette, May 21, 1764.
The Proprietors of that Part of Coxhall, so called, in the
County of York, purchased by Roger HasJcins and 36 others,
of Harlackindine Symonds, are hereby notified that at their
Meeting by Adjournment at Ipswich, May 13, 1763 they
agreed upon and ordered a Tax of 12s. to be laid on each
100 Acre Right in said Tract, and at a further Adjourn-
ment on the 6th Day of October last, they agreed upon
and ordered a further Tax of 6s. on each 100 Acre Lot in
that Tract, making in the whole 18s. on each 100 Acre
Right, and in that Proportion, for defreying the necessary
Charges which have already arisen, or may hereafter arise
in bringing forward a Settlement of said Lands, and to be
paid to Capt. Frances Goodhue, of Ipswich, their Treasurer.
The Purchasers subject to said Taxes are as folio wings,
viz :
Acres Acres
Roger Haskins 200 Richard Walker 300
Edward Bishop 200 John Brownfarmer 300
William Baker 200 Nathaniel Brown 300
George Herrick 100 Zechariah Herrick 109
Thomas Edwards 100 Thomas Higginson 100
Samuel Ingalls, jun. 200 John Staniford 200
John Low, jun. 200 Thomas Low 200
William Dixee 200 Samuel Ingalls 100
Thomas Shepherd 200 Robert Lord, jun. 100
William Goodhue 500 Robert Bradford 100
Samuel Giddings 200 Nicholas Woodbury 100
Barnard Thorn 100 Mark Haskell 100
Michael Farlow 200 William Haskell 100
Meshack Farlow 200 William Cleaves 100
Moses Bradstreet 200 John Harris 600
Matthew Perkins 200 John Burnam 600
John Giddings 200 Nathaniel Rust 200
Paul Thorndike 200 Andrew Elliott 100
Isaac Fellows 300
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 283
And the said Proprietors are hereby notified, that if
they fail to make such Payment within the Time limited
by Law for Payment thereof, so much of their Common
Land belonging to such delinquent Rights will be sold,
as will be necessary for Payment thereof according to an
Act of this Province, made in the 26th Year of the Reign
of King Q-eorge the Second, entitled An Act in Addition to
an Act intitled An Act directing how Meetings of Propri-
etors of Lands lying in common may be called.
Ipswich, March 26, 1764.
Boston G-azette, May 28, 1764.
Ran-away from his Master William Bourne, Esq., in
Marblehead, on the 12th of May, an apprentice Boy named
Charles Taylor, of about 12 Years of Age ; he had on
when he went a waistcoat, dark Kersey Breeches, a
check'd Shirt, and grey Yarn Stockings ; he has light
brown Hair, thinish Face, and has had the Small Pox.
Whoever will return said Apprentice to his Master, or
secure him in any of his Majesty's Goals within this Pro-
vince, shall receive of his said Master SIX DOLLARS
Reward, and have all necessary Charges paid them.
Boston G-azette, July 2, 1764
On the 24th of February last, the Parsonage House
wherein the Rev. Mr. Webster of Salisbury lived, was con-
sumed by Fire ; occasioned as is supposed, by a Spark's
passing thro' a Crack in the Chimney into a back Chamber :
and tho' this happened about Noon, yet the Fire had got
such head before it was discovered, as that all attempts to
extinguish it, or save any Thing considerable out of the
Chambers were ineffectual. All the wearing Apparel of
the Family, except what they had on, and almost all the
Household Goods and Furniture were burnt. So that
exclusive of the House which belonged to the Town, it's
said, Mr. Webster had wearing Apparel and Household
Goods to the Value of several Hundred Pounds L. M. con-
sumed in the Fire ; and having Ten Children, and a Wife
big with another, to cloath and support out of a very
moderate Salary, his Case certainly must be deplorable.
Boston Gazette, July 9, 1764.
284 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
Taken up on Nahant Beach, in Lynn, on Wednesday,
the 18th Instant, four Sparrs of about 20 Inches Diame-
ter, and about 60 Foot in Length ; the Owner may have
them by paying the Costs ; inquire of Nathan Breed of
said Lynn, or of Capt. Nathaniel Q-reenwood of Boston,
for further Information.
Boston G-azette, July 23, 1764.
Stray'd or stolen out of a Pasture belonging to Colonel
Pickman of Salem, the 17th of July Instant, a Bay Mare,
with a cut Main, and a Bust on the near Side of the
Hind Flank. Whoever shall take up said Mare, and
bring her to said Pickman, or to James Trumball, of
Charlestown, shall be well rewarded, and have reasonable
Charges paid.
N. B. Said Trumball has a Quantity of Sole Leather
and Deer Skins to dispose of, at a reasonable Rate.
Boston G-azette, July 30, 1764.
The Sloop Falmouth, Capt. Goodhue, which sail'd from
Ipswich for Dominica the 5th of April last, on the 10th
of the same month, being in Lat. 36, sprung a Leak and
the Water kept increasing, till the 23d of April, when
they cut away her Mast; notwithstanding which, on the
9th of May in Lat. 30 she sunk. The Capt. and 6 others
took to their Boat, with such Necessaries as they could
get at, and after being toss'd upon the Ocean for 28 Days
in the Utmost Danger of perishing, they arrived at Monto
Christi, in perfect Health, tho' greatly fatigued.
Boston G-azette, July 30, 1764.
Imported in the last Ships from London and Bristol, and
to be Sold by Samuel Cottnam, At his new Store, in
Salem, next Door to the Impost-Office, opposite the
main Street leading to Marblehead, to which he is lately
removed ;
A large and general Assortment of English and India
Goods, suitable to all Seasons. Nails of all Sorts ; as also
choice Philadelphia Flour and Bar Iron, at the very lowest
Prices for Cash or short Credit.
Boston G-azette, July 30, 1764.
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 285
Among the letters remaining in the Boston post office
July 30th were letters for Nathaniel Allen, Gloucester ;
Samuel Darby, Lynn; and William Kingston and James
Morton, both of Marblehead.
Boston Gazette, Aug. 6, 1764.
Thomas Porter,
Collector of the Duties of Excise for the County of
Essex, hereby gives public Notice to all Persons, as well
Licensed as Permitted, to sell Rum, and other Spirits dis-
tilled, and Wine, in said County, that he will attend at
the Times and Places following, to receive the Duties of
Excise from them respectively due, viz. On Thursday
the 27th Day of September Current, at the House of Mr.
John Reed, Innholder in Marblehead. On Friday the 28th
Day of the same Month, at the House of Mrs. Hannah
Pratt, Innholder in Salem. On Tuesday the 2d Day of
October next, at the House of Capt. William Davenport,
Innholder in Newbury-Port. On Wednesday the 3d Day of
the same Month, at the House of Capt. Smith, Innholder
in Ipswich. On Tuesday the 9th Day of the same Month,
at the House of Mr. Benjamin Ingalh, Innholder in An-
dover. On Wednesday the 10th Day of the same Month,
at the House of Mrs. Hannah Foster, Innholder in Haver-
hill. And on Friday the 12th Day of the same Month, at
the House of Mr. Joseph Tarbox, Innholder in Gloucester,
by Nine of the Clock in the Forenoon, on each of said Days.
And all Persons concerned, are desired to give their
Attendance punctually, at the aforesaid Times and Places.
Danvers, September 10, 1764.
Boston O-azette, Sept. 17, 1764.
Saturday last one Mr. Cole, a Mariner, going to Mar-
blehead, where he belong'd, his Horse stumbled, threw
him off, broke his Neck, and kill'd him instantly.
Boston Gazette, Sept. 21, 1764.
SALEM, September 27, 1764.
Messieurs Edes and G-ill,
You informed the publick, in your last paper of the
decent interment of the remains of Mr. Ellis Callender of
286 NEWSPAPER ITEMS EELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
Boston, and that the same was conducted according to an
agreement lately enter'd into, by a great number of the
most respectable inhabitants there. But as the publick
has not as yet, been favoured with the third article of the
agreement refer'd to ; we have annexed a copy of it, and
desire you would afford it a place in your next, with the
following remarks upon the beneficial tendency thereof.
To these, may be subjoin'd, some considerations, which
added to the negative means, already so seasonably pro-
pos'd and prosecuted, may probably point out a positive
method of promoting the general welfare.
The article refer'd to runs thus
" We will not on occasion of any funeral give gloves,
" excepting to the bearers, and for the death of any rela-
'* tion, within the degree of husband and wife, parent and
" child, brother and sister, will make use of no other
" mourning, than a weed in the hat, or a crape round the
"arm or a black bow or rose of ribbons or some other
" material on the breast for men ; and a black bonnet,
" gloves, ribbands, and hankerchief for women For rela-
" tions, in any remoter degree of kindred, we will use no
" mourning at all."
Upon which we would observe, that a punctual compli-
ance of one of the subscribers, upon the above-mention'd
first occasion, and (as we since hear) of some others,
gives us here much satisfaction, and encouragement to
expect that every other subscriber, who may be unhappily
call'd to the like compliance, may as strictly adhere to his
own agreement, being very confident that a few examples
would have a tendency to promote the design'd spread of
frugality through the province upon all similar occasions ;
and in this town and county in particular, where we have
much reason to confess, that the extravagance of other
places, has been heretofore but too exactly copied ; but
now we believe all well disposed persons among us will
heartily concur with the prudent resolution express'd in
the fore recited article, and as near as may be imitate the
laudable example set them in the metropolis.
We have reason to think that the Gentlemen subscribers
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 287
were not induc'd from any want of ability to support the
usual expence formerly attending funerals, or from a par-
cemonious spirit, but rather that they have enga^'d in
those measures of frugality and good economy, from a
sincere concern for the publick ; well judging that if the
expensive taste of their fellow citizens and others, should
be further countenanced by the cogent example of some
persons who can well bear an expence which would prob-
ably ruin others, many under the present general decay of
trade thro' the province, must become a burthen to the
community, as its apparent, some heretofore have become,
through a vain ambitious humour to copy the example of
their wealthy neighbours, tho' to their own destruction.
Those who know that the whole produce of land and
sea, proper for export to our mother country, together
with all the bullion and exchange, which we obtain from
the few branches of our commerce, is absorb'd in our re-
mittances for those commodities which we are really in
want of ; and that the whole is by no means sufficient ;
will be at no loss to determine, that every practicable
scheme of lessening the consumption of all unnecessary
articles, not produc'd or manufactur'd among us, is salu-
tary to the publick. The present, we are informed, is so
far from being the effect of any resentment of what some
have been apt to stile a partial treatment of the interest
of the Northern Colonies, when in competition with that
of the Sugar Islands : that it is in substance the same
with what was nearly carried into execution upwards of
twenty years past, when this province was judg'd by some
discerning persons to be in much more flourishing circum-
stances than at present : but (as the wise man long since
observ'd) there is a time for all things ; and the wise and
prudent will watch and improve those seasons most favour-
able to their designs.
We are but too sensible, that there are seldom wanting
objectors to every projection of public utility ; nor should
we be much surpriz'd to find some very interested persons
opposing the present, tho' there is the highest probability
(if steadily pursued) of its producing the most beneficial
effects. By it we hope the most extravagant will be
288 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
taught lessons of frugality in their other articles of ex-
pence, besides that of funerals, the folly of which being
evident, will probably give them so clear of an apprehen-
sion of things, that they'll begin (and perhaps with rea-
son) to suspect themselves, as much mistaken in some
other parts of their conduct, and to resolve upon further
amendments,seeing it not only excuseable but even reputa-
able and laudable : then each individual being ransomed
from the tyranny of fashion, will be free to act as his cir-
cumstances may require, and such freedom can scarce be
purchased too dear ; as it has a necessary tendency to de-
liver a community from bondage, ever consequent upon
the value the Imports much exceeding that of the Ex-
ports ; and therefore we may conclude, that it would be
very happy not only for this colony, but likewise for its
creditors, the British merchants, should our imports by
any means be curtaiPd, till such time as the value of ex-
ports should be respectably increas'd, of which, as we
have not at present so much as a distant prospect : our
highest prudence will consist in contracting our wants in
every possible respect, or in endeavouring the supply of
them by the labour of our hands, upon the materials to
be produced from the fertile soil which indulgent nature
has so largely supplied us with.-
The first part of this advice, we don't expect without
much reluctance to be put in practice, though never so
apparently necessary ; to the latter, we frequently hear
the trite objection of the want of hands, and the high
price of labour among us. In order to take off the force
of this, which we see ourselves oblig'd to refer to a future
paper ; we shall endeavour to point out, agreeable to our
proposal, some positive means (notwithstanding the com-
paratively few hands we are at present furnish'd with), of
gradually promoting the real advantage of this and the
neighbouring colonies, and that of our mother-country,
e^er to be esteem'd, we hope, by the colonists, as the basis
and security of their civil and religious Rights and Liber-
ties. P. P.
Boston Gazette, Oct. 1, 1764.
{To be continued.)
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WESTERN VIEW OF WASHINGTON SQUARE, SALEM, FROM THE ENGRAVING MADE
ABOUT 1838 BY S. E. BROWN FOR BARBER'S HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
SOUTHEASTERN VIEW OF BEVERLY AND THE ESSEX BRIDGE FROM THE
ENGRAVING MADE ABOUT 1838 BY S. E. BROWN FOR BARBER'S
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
HISTOKICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
E8SEX INSTITUTE
VOL. XLIX. OCTOBER, 1913 No. 4
YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM.
WRITTEN BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE IN 1869.
{Continued from Volume XLIX, page 09.)
St. Catherine's day was a gala day with the roperaakers.
In the Roraish calendar she is the saintly patroness of
that class of women, who in legal phrase are denominated
spinsters, but our ropemakers believed that the empress
Catherine of Russia, to encourage the manufacture of
cordage in her dominions, went to a rope walk and spun
several lines with her own hands, and they therefore
adopted her as the patroness of ropespinners, and the
Romish festival of St. Catherine, 25th of November, as
their day of celebration. On that day no work was done
in the walks, but American and Russian flags were dis-
played from their roofs ad libitum. There were generally
a procession in the early part of the evening, a salute at
intervals from cannon planted on the common, and an
entertainment by the owners in their dwellings to a circle
of their frie nds and patrons, and a liberal table spread for
the workmen in the walks, where song, story, wassail and
mirth abou nded.
u There was a sound of revelry that night."
" Gunpowder treason was also generally celebrated by the
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290 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM,
workmen of the rope walk. This, as your readers proba-
bly know, was a celebration of the alleged attempt of Guy
Faux or Fawks, to blow up the Parliament and destroy
the royal family of Great Britain, 5th of Nov., 1605, and
when by an act of Parliament was required to be spent in
public thanksgiving by the churches and people subject
to the English throne. There is no evidence that it was
ever observed in our churches, but I think it was early
made an occasion of fun and frolic by many of the people.
A cart was provided, in which was placed an ejngy to
represent the pope, and another to represent Guy Faux,
and in this cart were several musicians with drums, fifes
and fiddles. The people assembled on the common, and
at the proper time the procession started, composed of a
large number of men and boys, among whom the rope-
makers were conspicuous. The procession passed through
various parts of the town, halting at residences and where
crowds of people were assembled, and the music would
resound, and a number of voices would strike up the refrain.
Don't you remember, the fifth of November,
Of gunpowder treason the plot ?
I know of no reason, why gunpowder treason,
Should ever, ever be forgot.
Chink, chink, chink,
Give a little money, to buy a little drink,
when a box or plate would be passed round and the
contributions taken up. After passing through the town,
the procession would go to the Neck or Great Pasture,
where on some eminence were deposited a number of tar
barrels and other combustibles, which were set fire to,
and the pope and Guy underwent an auto de fe. The
people then dispersed, and the leaders and musicians re-
tired somewhere to be regaled with the chink, chink,
chink, money. This celebration has dwindled down, to
the burning on the hills, by the boys, of a few combusti-
bles, which generally occasions an alarm of fire, and I
believe even this was omitted the last 5th of November,
when all the boys as well as men were too much interested
in the election returns to think of the pope or Guy Faux,
or the apocryphal history of the hellish plot.
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 291
Joseph Vincent, the proprietor of this rope walk, was
born in Kittery, in the State of Massachusetts, District
of Maine, 7th March, 1738, and died at Salem, 6th No-
vember, 1832, having attained the great age of 94 years
and 7 months. His father was Matthew Vincent, who
was born in Tuscany, and came to Kittery in the palmy
days of the Pepperells and Frosts, when Kittery and the
opposite town of Newcastle, N. H., were very important
fishing and commercial places. He was a boat builder,
and he settled and married there. His son Joseph carried
on the manufacture of cordage there, but was burnt out
and came to Salem, before the war of the Revolution. He
took a very decided and active part on the side of the
patriots, joined the army under Washington, as a volun-
teer, equipped, at his own expense, a number of his
apprentices, who joined the army, supplied the army
before Boston with matchrope and the boats with cordage.
He also supplied with cordage two sloops of war that
were built at Newburyport. For all this he never received
adequate compensation, taking in pay continental money
which rapidly depreciated. He was a marked man in my
day, for his generous hospitality, his perfect uprightness
of character, his unostentatious charities, his great intelli-
gence, and for the frank expression of his opinions. His
son, Joseph, succeeded him in business in the same walk,
and he possessed many of the characteristics of his father.
He likewise attained to a long life, dying over 90 years of
age.
Next to Mr. Vincent's on the north, lived his son-in-law
Thomas Briggs, who was also a manufacturer of cordage.
It was a small, but comfortable house of wood, but is not
there now. His ropewalk was east of this, the head house
being where the house of the late Edward D. Kimball
now is. This walk likewise extended to the water, with
a platform continuation over the water, like Mr. Vincent's.
Briggs court, now Briggs street, was laid out by him,
extending to about two-thirds of its present length.
There was a bench at the bottom of it, for the rest of the
numerous people who promenaded it, and for their re-
freshment, near it, a small house kept by a nice old lady
named Mack, who sold cakes and ale. Brigg's walk was
292 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM,
bought after his death, which happened in March, 1803,
when he was aged 45, by Wm. Stickney, who removed it
in parts to Bridge street. Mr. Briggs had a private
cemetery, bordering on the court, in which several of his
family were interred, and he had likewise a nursery for
young poplar trees. There were several of these nurseries
in the town, the poplar having been about that time in-
troduced, and being a very graceful tree of rapid growth,
was a great favorite, but its decay proved as rapid as its
growth ; it soon lost its beauty, and most of them were
cut down and the nurseries abandoned. North of Mr.
Brigg's house, stood the bakehouse of Benjamin Brown.
I remember the bakehouse but not the man. He could
not have been long gone, for he advertised ship bread and
crackers for sale at his bakehouse near the Common, in
1791. I do not know anything more of him. Mr. Briggs
left an only child, Anna, who married Jabez Baldwin,
who erected the present Baldwin house. Baldwin was
not a native of Salem, but came here a young man, and
established himself as a jeweller, and kept his shop on part
of the land where now is West place. He was an enterpris-
ing man, and kept a much larger stock of goods than any
other person in the same line in town, and manufactured
a large quantity of silver spoons and other articles of
silver. He had a number of apprentices who boarded in
his family, and as they passed two or three times a day
over the Common, the path leading from the first opening
in Newbury street, by the town pump, opposite the
Franklin Building, to his house, was the best trodden on
the Common. Two of his early apprentices are still living,
viz. : George Baker, at Providence, R. I., and Stephens
Baker, at Beverly, and also one who came a few years
later, James Gould, at Baltimore. Mr. Baldwin built the
brick house a little north of Mr. Brigg's house, subsequent
to 1806, in which he afterwards lived, and in which he
died, and which his widow and daughter now occupy.
While carrying on business in Salem, Baldwin established
in Boston, the house of Baldwin & Jones, of which Shreve,
Stanwood & Co., are the successors. Baldwin's store in
Salem, was entered by thieves the night of October 25,
1805, and jewelry worth $3000 and over, stolen. This
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 293
was a very large robbery for Salem, and, as I remember,
caused much excitement. The robbers were never dis-
covered, but some months after, about seventy of his
watches, and a considerable part of his jewelry were found
secreted in the garret of the small pox hospital in great
pasture ; and on the 19th of April, following, four boys
discovered in a hollow tree in North Salem, into which
they had chased a squirrel, the remainder of the watches.
Mr. Baldwin died Nov. 8th, 1819.
I come now to Andrew street, of which I gave an
account not long since in your paper and will now recap-
itulate. The land through which the street is laid out,
was early the property of Capt. Joseph Gardner, son of
Thos. G. the first settler. Capt. G. who is spoken of by
the early chroniclers as the brave Capt. Gardner, com-
manded one of the Salem companies in the Narragansett
fight, 1675. See Felt's Annals, 1st edition, page 251.
In this fight he was slain. His wife was Anna, daughter
of Emanuel Downing and brother to the famous Sir
George D. She afterwards became the second wife of
Governor Bradstreet, and as his widow sold it to Joseph
Andrew, in February, 1710-11. In the deed it is de-
scribed as a piece of land and low mowing land containing
3 3-4 acres, bounded south with land of Christopher
Babbidge, east with a lane or highway though now within
the fence running from Hodges' cove to another cove nigh
Col. Higginson's pasture, north by land of Deliverance
Parkman, and west by the Common or training field,
being land which Capt. Joseph Gardner purchased of
Wm. Browne, Esq. and Mr. Russell, and by his last will
conveyed to me. John Gardner as administrator of
Jonathan Andrew advertised this land for sale in 1788,
as containing 4 1-2 acres, and the survey made by Gen.
Gideon Foster in 1802, confirmed this last measurement.
Joseph Andrew left this by will to his son Nathaniel A.,
and he bequeathed it to his son Jonathan A., who here
carried on the tanning business, till his death, in 1781.
The property was afterwards purchased by William
Browne and sons, who carried on tanning here, until
1802, when Andrew street was opened, and the land
divided into lots for sale. The tannery was where the
294 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF' SALEM,
house of Charles H. Miller, Esq. now stands, extending
a little east over part of what is now the street. Houses
were soon begun to be erected in the street. The first
one I remember, was built by John Clark, a carpenter;
Perley Putnam built the one lately owned by his family ;
Capt. Samuel Masury, that which until lately was owned
by his children. This was a plastered house at first, and
the first one I remember to have seen. There were after-
ward many built in this way, but the plastering did not
stand well, and it was taken off and the house clapboarded.
The late William Ropes built the house his widow now
occupies, quite early. Lemuel Payson, who was a hatter,
and had his factory in the rear of the building next west
of the Bowker Building, built the three-story house on
the south side. Samuel Henderson, shipwright, owned
the house in which his family a long time dwelt. Loammi
Coburn built the brick house, which was afterwards Elijah
Fuller's. Mr. Goss, grandfather of Francis P. G., owned
the next one east ; a widow Patterson, one east of that,
which is not there. The last one on that side was removed
from Central street to make room for the Central Build-
ing, erected by W. S. Gray and Benj. H. Hathorne, in
1805. This was a house belonging to and occupied by
Joseph Young, hatter, and organist of St. Peter's church,
who died April 21, 1803, aged 46. On the north side,
were two or three small houses that are not there now.
The house on the western corner of Andrew street, where
it intersects with Milk, was Horton's seed house, which
was removed there and made into a dwelling house. Dr.
Benjamin Kittredge owned and occupied it till his death.
John Pellett, from Connecticut, had a school in one of
the rooms in 1807. Next west stood a one-story house,
owned and occupied by George Underwood, whose wife
was a Wood, of North Salem. She kept a small shop in
the house, which was liberally patronized by Master Pel-
lett's scholars and the neighbors. The house lately Caleb
Webster's, now owned by F. C. Butman, was a store-
house in Curtis street, removed to Andrew street in 1802
or 3, and fitted into a dwelling house, by two men, masons,
who came from the neighborhood of Albany, and did not
remain here long. They were Samuel and Timothy Tibbetts.
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 295
Capt. Benjamin Babbidge bought this house of the
Tibbetts, and occupied it some years. He sailed from
Salem, in command of a vessel, in 1811, and was never
more heard from. His son, John 13., married Sarah,
daughter of Francis Pulsifer, a cabinet maker iu Williams
street, and died at City Point, Virginia, where he was in
command of a vessel, August 2nd, 1826. This house had
at first a flat roof, covered with tar, paper and gravel, but
it did not keep out the water.
I have known the tide to come up frequently to Milk
street and beyond. The land has been filled up since.
There was a spring of water a little east of the street,
abounding in fine water, and it was often overflowed by
the tide water, and after that had subsided, the spring
water was fresh and palatable. To the east of that I have
picked blackberries, and at the bottom near the tide was
a row of stunted juniper trees. The south side of Andrew
street extended much farther to the east than it now does.
The old stone wall w r hich marked its eastern boundary
was (I think) as far east as the branch of the Eastern
railroad now is, or beyond. It then formed a cove, called
in Mrs. Bradstreet's deed, " another cove," but which I
always heard called Shallop cove, and was told it was so
called because the people in the earlier times laid their
shallops up there to winter. The house on Pleasant
street, now James Trefren's, was begun in 1799 and fin-
ished in 1800. It was erected by Wm. Brown and his
son Benjamin, who occupied the western tenement.
Joseph Vincent, jr., who had married Wm. Brown's
daughter Hannah, in 1798, occupied the eastern one till
his death. Pleasant street, from this point to Bridge
street, had then recently been laid out, and there was but
one small house north of this, occupied by a Reeves
family, till we entered Bridge street ; on the north side
was an open field belonging to Col. Benjamin Pickman.
Through this Pickman street was subsequently laid out,
and afterwards Spring street. Pickman street was not at
first open to Winter street, but soon was, and David Rob-
bins built the brick house recently owned and occupied
by the family of Mr. Israel Ward. Mr. Robbins was a
mason, and at one time commanded the Mechanic Light
296 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM,
Infantry. The two brick houses in that part of the street,
east of Pleasant street, were built soon after the street
was opened, also some houses of wood, about 50 years
ago. Mr. Wm. B. Parker, who lived in the street, had a
vessel built on the low land on the south side of the
street, which was successfully launched. I think she was
100 tons burthen or more, and was a West India trader.
Spring street was opened some years later, and Matthew
Vincent, son of Joseph, had a house and cordage factory
there. The factory was afterwards used for the manu-
facture of duck, by a Mr. Johnson. All this land, north
of Mr. Trefren's house, was the pasture of the Ship
Tavern, which stood on the site of the present West
block. It was owned by the Gedney family till 1698,
when in March of that year, Samuel Gedney > physician,
only son of Bartholomew Gedney, Joshua Grafton, mar-
iner, and Hannah, his wife, daughter of B. G., Lydia
Corwin, widow, also daughter of B. G., Bethiah and De-
borah, single, also daughters of B. G., sell for 180, to
Deliverance Parkman, all of Salem, their moiety of the
messuage, called the "Ship Tavern," in the tenure of
Francis Ellis, and also their moiety of the pasture belong-
ing to it, nigh the Training Common, bounded, west,
partly on land of Major Wm. Browne and partly on land
of John Neal ; south, on Madam Bradstreet's land and
partly on the Common ; east, partly by Salt Water and
partly by Major John Higginson's land ; and northerly
with the highway, the pasture containing 12 acres. Bar-
tholemew Gedney was a physician, Colonel of the regi-
ment, and held many responsible offices. He married
Hannah Clark in 1662, and he died in 1698. He was son
of John G., who was licensed to keep a tavern in 1639,
and perhaps on the spot where the " Ship Tavern " stood.
The " Ship Tavern " was kept by John Stacy in 1692,
Francis Ellis in 1693, and Henry Sharp in 1700. The
old house was torn down in 1743, and an elegant mansion
erected on the spot by John Turner. It was afterwards
owned by Nathaniel West, and was converted into the
Mansion House Tavern in 1833 since destroyed by fire.
Deliverance Parkman was a leading man and merchant in
Salem. His residence was in the old Clark house, where
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE.
Shepard's block now is. He had four wives, viz., Sarah
Veren, Mehitable Wait of Maiden, Margaret Gardner,
and Susannah Gedney. By his three first wives he had
children, of whom Mehitable, by his second, married
Rev. George Curwin, of whom the Curwins of the present
day are descendants. He died Nov. 14th, 1715. Major
afterwards Colonel John Higginson, whose pasture
was east of this, was grandson of Rev. Francis H. and
son of Rev. John Higginson. It fronted on Bridge street,
then Ferry lane. Benjamin Gerrish owned the land east
of this, bounding west by Col. Higginson. At his death
it was divided into two lots, the western one of which
became the property of his daughter Lydia, the wife of
John Browne, and the eastern one fell to his son Benja-
min G., who sold it to Richard Derby, who sold it to
Capt. John Osgood, who built the wharf at the bottom of
it, long known as Osgood's wharf. James Browne, son
of elder John B., at his death in 1675, owned a piece of
land near Planter's Marsh, as did also his brother John,
the whole six acres, which I think may have been this
Gerrish lot.
I know nothing of the Read lot, before Pierce and
Wait, who owned it in my early boyhood, and built the
storehouse near the bottom and also the wharf. They
were merchants and owned vessels, some of which came
to their wharf there. I remember one lying there during
the long embargo. They had also a wharf above the
North bridge, and south of that a storehouse, in which
was their counting-room, which are now occupied as
Phelps's sash and blind factory. Jerathmael Pierce's
house was that now occupied by the family of George
Nichols, No. 80 Federal street, and Aaron Waite's resi-
dence is now occupied by his daughter, Mrs. Nathaniel L.
Rogers, 376 Essex street.
The lands on the north side of Ferry lane were early
in possession of Francis Skerry, John Gedney, sr., Philip
Cromwell, Smith, Curwin, and others. Skerry, by will
in 1684, gave a portion of his land, after his wife's de-
cease, to his kinsman, Henry Lunt of Newbury, who, in
1702, sold it to John Ropes of Salem, who, in 1713, sold
it to Joseph Andrews, stating it contained two acres,
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and was bounded by the highway going down to Beverly
ferry, north by Francis Skerry, west by a highway run-
ning along by the North river, and south by land of
Thomas Elkins, sr.
Before there were any streets opened, except the main
one, from the meeting house to the town swamp, now
Washington Square, the intercourse between the inhab-
itants in the different parts of the town was by canoes,
of which many were kept, and by highways on the banks
of the rivers, or across lots. There was much opposition
to the erection of the bridge to Beverly, by persons inter-
ested in property on the North river, who feared that
navigation would be impeded thereby, and their property
on both sides of the river lessened in value. The bridge
was built, notwithstanding their opposition. They then
had another bridge built at what is now Danversport, over
Frost Fish river, as a free one, hoping it would draw
travel from Essex bridge, which was a toll one. Its influ-
ence in this direction was very small, and it has always
gone by the name of " Spite bridge." After the Newbury-
port Turnpike was built, the Eastern Stage Company ran
one or two of their coaches over it to Topsfield, thence
to Salem, and thence to Boston, while other of their
coaches came by the more direct road over Essex bridge.
Many years after the erection of Essex bridge, one of its
prominent opponents wished to go East, and booked his
name at the stage office, for what he supposed to be the
morning coach through Topsfield. A coach called for
him in early morning and he snugly ensconced himself in
it. In the dim light he did not perceive his error until
he heard its rumbling on the planks of the bridge, when
he caused it to stop by shouting to the driver, with many
expletives, " that he never had and never would cross
it," and walked back to his house above the centre of the
town, to have better luck it may be hoped the next day.
The bridge was first opened for travel Sept. 24th, 1788.
It furnished an incentive to improvements and added to
the value of estates in that section of the town. Winter
street was opened to Bridge street, as was Brown to
Pleasant street, and as I have said, the northern part of
Pleasant to Bridge street. Hay scales were erected in
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 299
Winter street in 1789. They stood nearly opposite Judge
Story's, now Dr. Amos Johnson's house. It is a fact not
generally known, that Judge Story, in March, 1803, was
appointed naval officer of the port of Salem and Beverly,
and was confirmed by the Senate. He was then a young
man, striving to attain business and a status at the bar,
in spite of the opposition of its members of older station
and acknowledged capacity. He was tempted by present
ease and comfortable emoluments to accept the office, but
some of his friends, who foresaw brighter prospects in
the future, dissuaded him. Had he yielded to his own
impulse, they would probably never have heard of the
eloquent and learned lawyer and the profound jurist.
On the south side of Bridge street, near to the bridge,
stood three very ancient houses of the primitive style of
building, with diamond-shaped panes for windows, set in
leaden sashes, clay-lined, between the outer and inner
boardings, the backs of the ovens outside the houses, the
doors through which the good wives placed their beans
and Indian bread in the ovens, opening into the capacious
fireplace, that would take a four foot stick into its large
iron andirons and leave room enough at its sides to ac-
commodate several stools on blocks, on which the children
sat to work or study in the evenings, by the light from
open lamps, hung from the crane, tilled with fish, or, as it
was called, blubber oil. I remember the latchstrings at
the outside of the door, to lift the large wooden latch
that fastened it, as was directed in one of our early chil-
dren's books, " pull the bobbin and the latch will fly up."
I remember the projecting second stories, the long, steep
roof, that came down almost to the ground, in the rear,
the low, but comfortable rooms, with their large beams
overhead, and well do I remember the kind-hearted hospi-
tality of one of them, the parents of my school and play-
mate, early bereft of reason and lost to the world. The
one nearest the bridge was inhabited by several families
of whom I know but little ; the second was the old house
of John Massey, who kept the ferry to Beverly. It was
then occupied by the families of Ward and Waters. The
third was the house of John Symonds, who died Oct. 31,
1791, aged 100, and who, Mr. Bentley said, was the de-
300 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM,
scendant of the man " who with his own hands felled the
trees, hewed the timbers, and erected the house from
which this John was buried." Many will remember this
house as occupied by a Mr. Fish, whose sign was " Cold
Beer by " preceding the figure of a fish. These houses
are now demolished, but the well of the Symonds house
remains. Pierce and Waitt built 'their storehouse and
wharf at the bottom of their lot, when I was a young
school boy, but there was no house on the south side of
the street till Capt. Osgood built his wharf and opened
the way to it. Josiah Richardson about this time built
the brick house which was destroyed by fire a few years
since. He was a butcher, lived in Elm street, and built
the plastered house that now remains there, and is, I be-
lieve, the only one that now remains in town. His slaugh-
ter house stood over the water, east of Capt. Peabody's
wharf. About the same time Thaddeus Gwinn removed
his ropewalk from near Williams to Bridge street, and
built a wooden dwelling house, near Richardson's.
On the north side of Bridge street, and near the bridge,
stood a group of three or four old houses. In one of
them lived a man who sold cake and ale, who had an
enormously swollen leg. He had been a sailor, and had
probably contracted the elephantiasis in some of the West
India Islands, where it is very common. We boys said
and thought that he had a veritable wolf in his leg. In
my early remembrance, Win. Lemon built a plastered
house on the rise of ground there, which may be there
now. It was afterwards offered for sale by Holder Slo-
cum, of Dartmouth, Mass. Lemon was an upholsterer,
and had his shop in the old Gardner building, which stood
where the East India Marine building now is. He mar-
ried Mary, the youngest daughter of John Gardner, who
was a widow Hersey. He had a brother, who married a
Giles, of Beverly, but I do not remember him in Salem
long. West of these houses was a lot of land, about five
acres, which belonged to the Derby heirs. It had been
surveyed and laid out into building lots, but no bnilding
was on them. It is understood that before there was
any building in Chestnut street, a number of gentlemen,
who afterwards built there, contemplated building on this
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 301
land, but could not agree upon a price. I remember the
first house erected in Chestnut street, by a Mr. Symms,
who did not remain in Salem long. It now forms the
rear part of Mrs. Cole's house. The second one was
built for Mr. James Bott, and is that now occupied by
Miss M. Taylor and Mr. Jacob S. Haskell.
From this Derby lot to March street the land was va-
cant. Thomas March Woodbridge opened March street
and built the brick house at the corner of it, and removed
into it from his house now occupied by Dr. Edward Fitz-
gerald, No. 16 Walnut street. This house, 1 have been
told, was owned and occupied by his father, Deacon
Woodbridge, who had a tannery near to the brick store
at the head of Peabody's wharf. Deacon Joshua Ward
had a tannery west of this, whose house, just east of the
iron foundry, was destroyed by the Liberty street fire in
1815. The brick house in Bridge street would have been
a stately and elegant house in any part of the town, but
seemed out of place in this almost vacant street. As was
said of another such house, in another such place, "that
it looked as if it had strayed from some populous city and
stopped in the country to take an airing." But a popu-
lous neighborhood is near and around it now. It was
subsequently owned and occupied by Capt. Franklin H.
Story, Capt. John Winn, a Mr. Dodge, and others, and
was for some time unoccupied, and had the reputation of
being haunted. Mr. Woodbridge had a tannery north of
this house, on March street, that was superintended by
his brother, Jackson Woodbridge. Joseph Gardner built
a house on March street, in 1801, north of the tannery,
and established there his bakery, and there he set up his
wooden horses, which were the delight and admiration of
all the boys of my time, and on 'lection, thanksgiving,
and other public days, he opened his house for the enter-
tainment of the public. He was an active, energetic,
genial man, who dealt in other commodities than bread
and 'lasses cakes, though for these he had his full share
of custom, his carts going every day around Salem and
to Beverly. He was the fifth in descent from Thomas
Gardner, who was a leading and wealthy man in Salem
in 1637, or earlier.
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There were about a dozen of his wooden horses, sad-
dled and bridled, each one attached to the outer end of a
shaft, the other end of which was attached to an upright
revolving post, which was turned either by a horse or by
boys within the ring. Each rider was furnished with a
pointed rod, with which he endeavored to gain a ring,
which was protruded from a post in the course. If he
gained a sufficient number of rings, the ride was a free
one ; if not, a few cents were paid for it. After being
used in this way for about thirty years, they were sold,
and one of them served for many years as a sign for his
son Samuel's stable. On Thanksgiving, and other public
days, Gardner's was a favorite place of resort for boys,
and boys of larger growth, who, if they lived in these
days, would have large hirsute appendages, to roll nine-
pins, shoot at turkeys, and chase greased pigs. Joseph
died Nov. 10th, 1830, aged 63.
From this point [S. Gardner's in March street] to Co-
nant street, I remember but one small house, inhabited by
a Mr. Noyes, who was a ropemaker, and sexton or tithing
man of the Tabernacle church. But, early, Thaddeus
Gwinn removed his ropewalk from Williams to Bridge
street, near this point, and William Stickney removed his
from Briggs's land, and Stephen Whitmore and Joshua
Safford built their's, all on the north side of the street.
Conant street was a cart way to the old farm house near
the North river, which had been the property of Mr.
Saunders, the father of Major John Saunders, the first
captain of the Salem Light Infantry. He also owned an
ancient house on Essex street, which was removed to make
place for the elegant mansion erected by E. Hersey Der-
by, Esq., and now occupied by Richard S. Rogers, Esq.
Capt. Benjamin Webb, who had been the keeper of the
Sun Tavern, where Bowker's block is, and of the old
Ship Tavern, near where the Essex House now is, retired
from business early in the century and removed to the old
farm house. Captain John Peters occupied a house on
the eastern corner of Conant and Bridge streets, as a shop
and dwelling. The other buildings on this side of the
street, except near the western end, are too recent in their
erection, say within 65 years, for me to know much about
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 303
them. From Osgood's, on the south side of the street,
west of the house now occupied by the family of Henry
T. Mansfield, was vacancy. This house I think was built
before Osgood's. It was inhabited and I believe owned
by Samuel Curvvin Ward, the father of the late George
A. Ward. He then kept a hardware and chandlery store
in Neptune street. There was then no house between his
and my father's in Andrew street. We supplied it with
milk, and 1 was the carrier. I remember the long and
dreary walk, particularly when the snow was piled up six
or eight feet by the fences on the side of the road, as it
often was in winter. Quite soon from this time, two men
from the country, named Dwinnell and Quimby, built a
house near to the corner of Pleasant street. The house
on the corner of Bridge and Pleasant streets, now occu-
pied by Mr. George Hodgkins, was built by Mr. Isaac
Smith, who lived, I think, somewhere near Norman street.
I believe he occupied it a time. I remember it in the oc-
cupancy of Capt. Richardson and others, and then in the
ownership of Mr. Benjamin Smith, who had a lumber
yard on one of the wharves and who had a house on
the southern side of Essex street, now owned and occu-
pied by Wm. P. Endicott, Esq.
This house (in Bridge street) was subsequently owned
and occupied by Mr. Peter E. Webster. Next west of
this was a house occupied by Capt. Melville, who com-
manded a coaster from hence to Boston. It was in a yard
in the rear of this house that I first saw the wooden horses
of Mr. Gardner, who I believe occupied the house. He
had removed them here from North Salem. West of this
I remember only an old house, that was propped up to
prevent its falling, and a house where cakes and ale were
sold. On the north side of the street, near the river's
bank, stood the house of Mr. Needham, a Friend, who
had been a coastwise trader to Philadelphia; and just
east of him a house occupied by a Mr. Webb, whom I re-
member as a drummer for the Cadets and other compa-
nies. Next west of Needham's was a sand bank running
down to the river ; and by the river's edge was a footpatli
leading to Guppy's bank, where the Looby asylum now
is. This uncouth name was derived from a family named
304 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM.
Guppy, who were in Salem in 1647 or '48. None of that
name have lived here for many years, but there were very
recently, and I believe now are, some of that name at
Dover, N. H. I used this footpath when I went to the
school of Mr. Parker, where I learned a little Latin and
less Greek, at the foot of Washington street, and re-
member a fine spring of water, at which I often slaked
my thirst, and which I think must have been near the
northern wall of the jail.
All the streets leading from Bridge street, north and
south to the rivers, have been opened since my remem-
brance, except possibly Nor they street. I think that had
been then recently opened as a street, as there was no
house in it when I first knew it. The land had for sev-
eral generations been in the Northey family. There had
been a cartway running through it to Windmill Point,
where had been for a long time a windmill, but I believe
it was not there when the street was opened. The first
house was built by a Mr. Wood bury, a carpenter, and
this house was the scene of a delusion, which, in 1692,
might have culminated into a very serious one. A young
woman who dwelt there claimed to be, or others said she
was, bewitched. It was soon noised around town, and
people went to visit her. From evening to evening the
crowd increased, till finally she was removed from town.
It was said the selectmen ordered her removal. I made
my way, one evening, to her room, where she was on a
bed, passive and quiet. Men and women (among the
men two clergymen) were sitting gravely around, who
appeared to be believers and very much interested. I saw
nothing more, but a man who was near me said he saw an
invisible spirit near her and troubling her. While I saw
no demonstrations of demonology, I saw demonstrations
of turbulence, riot and mischief in the crowd around and
outside the house. I believe her removal cured her, as
probably the witches had lost the power of flying through
the air on broomsticks, and could not follow her to
Maine.
(To be continued.)
A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION
OF ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863.
BY ALFRED POORE, M. D.
(Continued from Volume XLIX, page
Mrs. Rhodes resides on Central street, where her hus-
band, who deceased Jan. 20, 1858, built the house in 1847
and occupied it until June, 1854. Child : George Edwin,
b. Sept. 19, 1856. Her husband was James, son of
Matthew and Anna Rhodes, born near Bradford, Yorkshire,
Eng., about 1810,' and he came to America about 1837.
His first wife was Sarah Brethrick, who left no children.
Living with her is Beatrice Nisbet, daughter of William
and Margaret (Young) Nisbet, who was born in Hawick,
Roxburghshire, Scotland, Apr. 30, 1829 and came to
America, July 8, 1854. Mrs. Rhodes' mother, lives with
her. She was a daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth
(Wayne) Barker, born in Keithley, Yorkshire, Mar. 17,
1797, and came to America in 1849. Her husband George,
was a woolsorter, the son of Samuel and Jane Fletcher,
born in Halifax, Eng., Jan. 22, 1797 and died Nov. 23, 1862.
Children : Jane, b. 1822, mar. James Rhodes ; William,
mar. Elizabeth Keating of Leeds, but of Irish descent ;
John, mar. Bathsheba Schofield, from Halifax, resides in
Trenton, N. J., music teacher, with children Ada, Frank
and Ellen ; Edwin, who died on way to California, Oct.,
1854, married Jane Mullard, who married again in Cali-
fornia ; Elizabeth, mar. George Riley ; Emma, mar. James
Walton ; Sarah Ann, mar. David Howarth, the druggist in
Andover. Eight elm trees were set in front of Mr. Riley's
in the spring of 1863.
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Henry Bingham resides above Wiley's in the house
which he built in 1848 on land which belonged to Samuel
and William Abbott. Mr. Bingham is a dresser in the
flannel mill. He was born in 1818, and brought up in
England, although his father was of Dublin, Ireland. He
came to America in July, 1843. His wife Ann was
daughter of George and Elizabeth (Wilde) Walker, who
was born in Droylsden, Lancashire, Eng., in 1817 and
came to America in the autumn of 1844. Children : Hannah
Elizabeth, b. 1846 ; John William, b. Jan. 22, 1848 ;
George H. and Henry F., died young. When first mar-
ried they lived on River street where her brother John
Walker now resides.
Warren Hears' house on Tewksbury street was built
in 1844 on land bought of Herman Chandler, he having
previously lived in the Flint house near N. Clarke's. He
is son of S. Hears and was born July 4, 1810. His wife
Abigail is daughter of William and Abigail (Hardy)
Moors, born at Chester, N. H., Har. 10, 1809. Children :
Warren, mar. Frances Platt, an English girl, and is now in
the 14th Regt. ; Martha, mar. Jo. Russell ; Harriet, mar.
Andrew Jackson Hatch of Andover,and is in the 14th Regt. ;
Joseph, mar. Sarah Jane Warren ; Elizabeth, mar. Samuel
Prescott Farnham and is in the same Co. at war ; Char-
lotte, mar. Webb Bell ; Calvin ; Abby Ann, b. Feb., 1850.
John Morrison, Plain street, has occupied the building
next to the railroad since Sept., 1858, which building was
erected in 1849 by Hector P. Lynn, and has carried on the
tailoring business. He is son of Alexander Horrison and
was born in Hawick, Scotland, Oct. 7, 1833. His wife
Elizabeth is daughter of George and Elizabeth (Wild)
Walker, born Droylsden, Apr. 30, 1832. Children : Ada
Elizabeth b. Dec. 8, 1852; John William, b. Oct., 1854;
Nellie Elizabeth, b. June, 1857 ; Anna Haria, b. Apr. 29,
1863. He bought this building in 1860.
John Ashworth, who resides in the upper part of John
Morrison's house, came in May, 1863, from Lawrence. He
is a brother of Mrs. W. P. Morse, and was born about
1837, coming to this country with his parents at the age
of eight years. His wife is Mary Ann, daughter of
Matthew and Eliza (Pope) Berry, who was born nea'
MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 307
Cork, Ireland, Aug., 1837, and came to this country with
her parents about 1850.
The Davis place was commenced by his wife's father
Isaac Mace, who came from Tewkesbury, cut the lumber
on the spot and built his house, where he died aged over
ninety years. His son Jonathan Mace afterward lived
there and Levi Davis married his daughter. On the north
side of the street at Mr. Hayward's there was a milestone
indicating 21 miles from Boston, dated 1719.
Deacon Gould says that among the printers who learned
their trade of him were : William Trotter Porter, who was
editor of the New York " Spirit of the Times ;" John C.
Allen, of Allen & Farnham of Cambridge ; John F. Trow
of New York ; Joseph Griffin of Brunswick, Me. ; Samuel
Morrill and William H. Ward well ; Charles Griffin, who
published a paper in Worcester; Joseph Clisby; and
George Brown, foreman of Baker & Goodwin's job office.
William Mallison, River street, who is to remove to
Groveland, July 1, says the mills were begun just a year
ago and he came into this house on Jan. 20, 1862, from
the house which Thomas Cavenaugh then bought. He
came from England to Mrs. Burr's house on the corner
near the tavern, where he lived two years. He landed at
New York on Nov. 7, 1854. Mr. Mallison is son of
Joseph and Ruth (Farrar) Mallison, born in Huddersfield,
Yorkshire, Nov. 17, 1821, and grandson of John and
Nanny Mallison. His mother was daughter of Joshua
and Mary Farrar and all his ancestors were residents of
Huddersfield and vicinity. His wife Jane is daughter of
William and Sarah Bergen, born at Huddersfield, Jan. 29,
1852. Children : Frances, b. Apr. 22, 1855 ; William, died
young ; Jane, b. Oct. 23, 1858 ; James Henry, b. Dec. 14,
1861.
Andrew Morrison, the storekeeper, has lived in the
building where his store is located since he was married,
Feb., 1853. Israel W. Putnam built this building and used
the store part for a restorater, until he went to California.
William H. Putnam, his brother, kept a grocery store
there about two years, selling out to William Morrison,
who continued until his death in Jan., 1853. Andrew
Morrison hired the place and in Dec., 1859, bought it of
308 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OP
the widow of Israel Putnam. When William Putnam left
he went into trade at Chaiiestown, but now is in Andover.
Mr. Morrison was born in Hawick, in the south of Scot-
land in 1821. His wife Agnes, daughter of William and
Jane (Crawford) Stevens, was born in Paisley, Scotland,
Apr., 1832. She came to Boston in Sept., 1851 and to
Ballardvale from Lowell in 1854. She is daughter of
William and Jane (Crawford.) Stephenson and a sister to
Mrs. William Connell.
Hannah Partington, Plain street, came to Ballardvale in
Oct., 1862 from Lawrence. She was born in Manchester,
Eng., July 24, 1813 and arrived in New York, Dec. 4,
1860, and is daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Wilde)
Marsden. Her husband was Ralph, son of John and
Catherine Partington, who was born in Salford, just over
the bridge from Manchester, and dieii Nov. 26, 1859,
aged fifty-three years. Children : Mary Ann, b. 1830, mar.
James Cheatham, and lives in Manchester, Eng., with
children, Ralph, Elizabeth, Hannah and Fanny ; John, b.
Nov., 1832, rnar. Jane Murphy, and resided in Lawrence,
where he died in 1862, leaving children, Isaac and Lillie ;
Elizabeth, mar. John Thorpe, resides in Boston with chil-
dren, William, Hannah and Elizabeth ; Joseph, mar. Anna
Wright of London, Eng., lives in Manchester with children,
Joseph and Maria ; Ralph, who resides in Lawrence and
mar. Elizabeth Blythe from Nova Scotia ; Hannah ; James,
who is in the 4th Regt. ; Caroline ; Thomas and William
Henry. Mrs. Partington's husband was a manufacturer
of fireworks.
In the same house lives William Wigfall, filecutter,
having been here since Feb. 1863. He came from Provi-
dence, R. L, in Mar., 1862, and arrived in America in May,
1854. He is son of William and Maria Wigfall, born in
Sheffield, Eng., about 1817. His wife Sarah is daughter of
John and Anna Oldham, who was born in Sheffield, Eng.,
about 1817. Children: Ann, b. in Sheffield, mar. Samuel
Skelton and d. Feb. 18, 1855, aged twenty years; Wil-
liam ; John ; George died young ; Maria, b. Feb., 1849 ;
Elizabeth, b. 1848 ; George Henry ; Anna, b. Providence,
Feb. 26, 1856.
Henry Atwood Bean came into the house on Andover
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 309
street, June 1, 1863, from South Andover, and lie lived
here when his first wife was alive. They came from the
State almshouse, where they lived four years, he working
as an engineer, in the spring of 1863. He is a machinist,
and is now a repair hand in the file shop. He married
first, Lucy Ann, daughter of John Montgomery of Man-
chester, N. H., who died May 3, 1857, by whom he had
Charles Henry, b. Lowell, Apr. 17, 1854, and Abby Ge-
neva, b. North Andover, May 15, 1856, the latter now
residing with her uncle, Samuel Bean, as his own child.
Mr. Bean is son of Levi and Mary (Phelps) Bean, b. West
Andover, Aug. 7, 1828. He once kept tavern at North
Andover. His wife, Oriette Ellen, daughter of John
Smith and Lucy Ann Kimball, was born in Newburyport
on Oct. 29, 1837, where her father and mother were both
born. Her father was son of Moses and Elizabeth (Gold-
smith) Kimball and her mother was daughter of James
and Charlotte (Adams) Johnson.
Joseph Cowther, an Englishman, came to America about
1857.
Widow Harriet Bisbee Gile, who has resided in Mrs.
Ann Irving's house since January, 1862, came from Benj.
Burtt's house opposite the schoolhouse, where they re-
sided, July, 1858, to Jan., 1862. They have also resided
in the White block, and in the house that Eaton Green
built and sold to Goodhue, now owned by William Phil-
lips Foster, Central street, which latter was the first place
they lived in at Ballardville, in May, 1855. They came
from South Andover, Roger Blood's house, near Nathan
Frye's. Her husband, Joseph Stevens Gile, was a mason,
the son of George and Clara (Durgin) Gile, who was
born in Durham, N. H., Aug. 25, 1825. Mrs. Gile is
daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Dingley) Chandler,
born in Minot, Me., June 26, 1827. Children : Mary
Salome, b. Lee, N. H., Apr. 11, 1849 ; Joseph William, b.
Sept. 18, 1851 ; Hattie Lizzie, b. Jan. 7, 1853 ; Ida Etta,
b. Dec. 3, 1855 ; George, died young ; Clara Louisa, b.
May 12, 1858 ; Laura Luella, b. Sept. 3, 1860 ; Effie
Emma, b. Sept. 27, 1862. Mr. Gile died Nov. 20, 1862.
Asa Hutchinson Brown, Andover street, came into this
house Dec., 1844, from the White boarding house, where
310 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
they had taken boarders four years. They came from
Danvers to Ballardvale in Dec., 1840, and lived in the
Skinner house, opposite Capt. T. C. Foster's, from Apr.,
1833 to 1838. Mr. Brown is son of Eben and Emma
(Cross) Brown, born about 1797. His wife is Amanda,
daughter of Aaron and Susan Parker, born in Cavendish,
Vt. , and granddaugnter of Aaron and Lydia (Spaulding}
Parker, who went from Westford.
Joseph Brown came into this house Aug., 1847, from
the brick boarding house, having moved here from Mason,.
N. H., where they had lived thirteen years. Thornton^
an Englishman, moved out when they came into the
house. Mr. Brown is son of Eben and Emma Brown,
born in Danvers, Oct., 1799. His wife is Lucy Almira,
daughter of Joseph and Emma (Baldwin) Parker, who
was born in Cavendish, Vt., Feb., 1807, and granddaugh-
ter of Isaac and Emma (Caffeen) Baldwin. Emma's
father was the first settler in Cavendish, Vt. Children :
Marcella Lucy, b. Jan., 1830, mar. Francis C. Kelley of
Amesbury, a carriage maker, who worked in Ballardvale
when the machine shop was used for that purpose, and
have children : Arthur Willard, b. 1860 ; Sarah Augusta,
dressmaker in Newton, b. Aug., 1832 ; Emma P., died
young ; Julia Maria, b. Jan., 1841 ; Mary Frances, b. 1845*
Henry Edward Grandy, machinist, Andover street,
came here from Cambridgeport in July, 1862. He is an
only child, the son of Henry Grandy, born in Wayland r
Aug. 12, 1829, and his mother's name was Rebecca
Moore. His father died when he was six years old. His
wife is Paulina Atwood, daughter of John and Elizabeth
(Gould) Horton, who was born in Eastham in 1833.
Children : Henrietta, b. Orleans, Feb. 19, 1854 ; Edward
Franklin, b. Charlestown, June 13, 1858; George Albert,
b. Somerville, July 2, 1860 ; Lizzie P., died young.
William Nelson Linnell came here from Boston, the
son of Solomon and Polly Linnell, and was born in Or-
leans. Matthew Winton has his cabinet and paint shop
in the building in which Polland's shop is located, and
James Cousins occupied it until about 1859. Mr. Poland
commenced his business of blacksmithing in the lower
part the same time that Saunders commenced.
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 311
Widow Ellen Waterhouse, who works in the mill, lives
in the basement of the Pearson house, owned by the Bal-
lardvale Company, north of the schoolhouse. She was
born in Dewsbury, near Leeds, Yorkshire, Eng., about
1883, having come here since Nov., 1862. Her husband
was George, and she has a son, John Henry, who works
in the file shop.
Charles Fail-burn is son of George and Elizabeth (Rip-
ley) Fairburn, born about two miles from Dewsbury, in
1834, and came to America in 1862, landing at New York
on Sept. 5. His wife Sarah was born in Henley, York-
shire, Eng., in May, 1837. Child : Friend, b. Jan., 1861.
Mrs Fairburn is daughter of George and Emma (Bebier)
Moulton. They resided with Mr. Ibbetson, whose wife
is sister to him, until they came here.
Alexander Ross was born in Sutherlandshire, at Dun-
roben, Scotland, Apr. 17, 1816, came to America in 1832,
first to Nova Scotia, then to Salem in 1855, to Andover,
Apr. 17, 1860, and to Ballardvale in Nov., 1861. John
Moore, who lives in the old schoolhouse, moved out of
this house when he came in. He is son of George and
Ann (Ross) Ross. Isabella, his wife, is daughter of
Alexander and Christie (Monroe) Graham, born in Pic-
tou, Nova Scotia, May 17, 1828. Her father was nine
years old when his father, David Graham, came from near
Mr. Ross' native place. Mr. Ross is a teamster at the
factory. His first wife was Ann Faulkner, by whom he
had Jane, b. Burncoat, N. S., July 20, 1846 ; 'Christie, b.
Sept. 9, 1850 ; Thomas, b. June 20, 1853, who is with the
woman who brought him up from the time he was eight
weeks old, when his mother died. By second wife he
had Maria, b. May 11, 1856; Monroe, b. Dec. 25, 1860.
Mrs. Sarah Richardson came from Lowell to Ballard-
vale. Her husband, Abraham Richardson, went to Cali-
fornia in the spring of 1852. He was born in Lancashire,
Eng. Mrs. Richardson is daughter of Joseph and Sarah
Sutleff, born in Lancashire, Eng., in 1817, came to Boston
in 1843. Children : Mary, b. 1828, mar. Charles Chris-
teen from England and went to Bangor, Me., in 1863 ;
Ann, died young; Abraham, b. Apr. 7, 1842, was in Co.
F, 16th Regt., and discharged June 18, 1862.
312 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
John Henry Horn, Andover street, has been here since
Nov., 1861, having come from Graniieville, Westford.
They lived in Ballardvale once before, leaving in May,
1860, to go to Westford. The house which they own was
built by Mr. Horn and Parker Fletcher about 1847. Mr.
Horn is a blacksmith in the file shop. He is son of
Richard and Mary (Taylor) Horn, and was born in Strat-
ham, N. H., July 6, 1829, and came to Ballardvale when
they got out the stone for the machine shop. His wife
is Emma Ann, daughter of Thomas aud Love (York)
Frost, born in Bethel, Me., Mar. 27, 1833, and came to
Ballardvale in 1848. Children: Byron Fairfield, b.
Westford, May 3, 1851 ; Emma Serena, b. Stratham,
N. H., June 10, 1853 ; Ida Frank, b. Dix Island, Me.,
Aug. 16, 1857 ; Mary Jane, b. Feb. 24, 1860. Mrs. Horn's
mother, Love, is daughter of Thomas and Abigail (York)
York, born 1800, Her father and mother were cousins
and she has been in Ballardvale about fifteen years. Mrs.
Horn is an only child.
Alex. Christie came to this house in 1863 from South
Andover. He is son of John Christie, born in Preston-
holme, Midlothian Co., Scotland, in 1833. Mrs. Christie
is Mary, daughter of John Cochran, who was born four
miles from Cork, Ireland, and came to America in 1855.
Child: Leonard, b. Aug. 7, 1862.
Edwin Price came here from Nashua, N. H., in March,
1861. He is a file cutter, son of Elihu and Sarah Ann
(Westley) Price, and was born in Wolverhampton,
Staffordshire Co., Aug., 1816. He came to America in
June, 1842. His wife is Eliza, daughter of Benjamin and
Sarah (Jones) Banks, born in Bilston, County of Stafford-
shire, England, Sept., 1819. Children : Sarah Ann, b.
Sept., 1840; Martha J., died young; Edwin, b. Lowell,
June, 1844 ; Benjamin Banks, b. Philadelphia, Pa., July,
1846 ; Alexander, b. Nashua, N. H., Apr., 1848 ; Eliza J.,
died young; Cyrus Elihu, b. Apr., 1862.
William Beadle has been in his house on Andover
street since Jan., 1860. He is son of John and Mary
(Finniley) Beadle, born in Hoden, Yorkshire, Eng., and
came to America the year Polk was elected, landing in
Boston from the ship " Samuel Hicks." His wife is
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 313
Claramon, daughter of Thomas and Susan (Frost) Teel,
born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1830. They came here
from Rochester, N. H. They have as boarders Henry A.
Stone and Edmund M. Fessenden, nephew to J. Munroe.
They have to work for them Edward Welch.
Nancy Galliger came from Lawrence, April, 1862, and
Margaret Cavanaugh, daughter of Thomas, was born in
Dingley, County Gary, Ireland, and came to America
about 1860.
John Day lives in the south part of the old Ballard
house, and came from Rochester, N. H. He was born in
Sheffield, Eng., June 28, 1808, and came to America
about 1841. His wife, Mary Lizzie, is daughter of John
and Mary Wondell, born in Dover, N. H., March, 1822.
Children : William Harrison, born Great Falls, N. H.,
Nov., 1846 ; Mary Jane, b. May 25, 1847 ; Richard Ed-
ward, b. 1849 ; Susan Lizzie, b. Mar., 1851 ; George
Franklin, b. 1852; Katie and Charles M., died young;
Emily, b. 1856.
Aaron Chambers, an Englishman, has lived in the north
part of the Tavern house since Nov., 1862, coming from
Springfield. He was son of Joseph and Amelia (Firth)
Chambers, born in Sheffield, Eng., Aug., 1828, and came
to America when seventeen years old. His wife is Mary
Elizabeth, daughter of James and Hannah (Ward) Carle-
ton, or Kilton, born in Buckland, near Shelburne Falls,
Mass., in 1828. Children : Amelia Jane, b. Jan., 1849 ;
Roselyn Ann, b. Dec., 1850 ; Charles James, b. Water-
bury, Conn., Dec., 1852 ; George Aaron, b. Mar. 17,
1857 . Mr. Chambers' mother is daughter of Peter and
Sarah (Cox) Firth, born in Sheffield, Eng., Jan. 29,
1798.
Aaron Chambers' brothers and sisters were : Rawson,
b. Springfield, 1816, d. 1843, in Taunton ; Sarah Ann,
mar. William Quilling ; Charles and George, died young ;
Sarah, mar. James Chatterton and had eight children, and
died aged 34 years ; Henry and Moses live at Columbus,
Ohio ; Samson and Abraham died young. His mother is
the widow of Samuel Hill, and she came with her son
Aaron.
314 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OP
Joseph Ragan, Andover street, came here from Water-
bury, Conn., in March, 1862. He was born in County
Limerick, Ireland, about 1839, and came here with his
mother Mary when quite young. His wife Mary was
daughter of John Flaherty by his wife Mary Bradley,
and was born in Cork, Mar. 12, 1841. She came to
America in 1851. Children : John Joseph, b. Williams-
burg, N. Y., Sept., 1860; William Elsworth, b. Ballard-
vale, Nov. 27, 1862.
William S. Wescott came from Sing Sing, N. Y., in
1861, where he was born in 1832, the son of Levi and
Catherine Wescott. His wife Margaret is daughter of
Peter and Elizabeth (Corsa) Birdsall, born in Sing Sing^
in 1833. Children: Ella, b. 1857 ; Lizzie, b. July 1,
1861.
George Leach came from England and is a hardener in
the file shop. His wife is Ellen, daughter of James
Migram, who was born in Ireland and came to America
about 1852. Children : Sarah Elizabeth, b. Providence,
R. I., 1859 ; James William, b, 1862.
Zoa, widow of John Mann, was born in Tewksbury,.
March, 1799, the daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Ful-
ler) Clark. Her grandfather Benjamin and Nathaniel
Clark's father were brothers. Mr. Mann was son of Eben
Mann of Salem. She lived in the Ballard house when he
died, and afterwards built her house in 1847-8, moving
into it about Feb. 1, 1848, the same year that Dole's
house on High street was built. Boarders at this house
are Eben Hunt Bickford, born in Salem, July 1, 1789,
graduate of Harvard ; Lucy Ann Clark, daughter of
Ambrose and Rhoda (Saunders) Clark, who was born in
Tewksbury in 1836 ; Ellen L. Morrison, daughter of
William H. and Mary (Stickney) Morrison, born about
1845 ; Amos Hyde.
William Allen is son of William and Elizabeth (Gray)
Allen, and he was born in Manchester, England, in 1822,
and came to Boston in 1847. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Samuel and Maria (Ward) Carter. Children:
John William, b. East Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1858 ; Anna
Elizabeth, b. 1861; and Edward, b. 1863.
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 315
Widow Mary Finn owns and resides in the house next
north of the Webster house, where Allen is. It was built
by Eben, son of Timothy Bailey, and he was already to
move into it just before he died, in the autumn of 1847.
It was sold to George Pearson, an Englishman, who
worked in the factory, and he lived there six years ; then
Colder, the trader, bought it, and Mrs. Finn bought it in
1860. Oliver Kenyon, from Rhode Island, once occupied
this house, which was originally a wheelwright shop.
Mrs. Finn is daughter of William and Mary (Flood)
Quinn, and was born at Imley, Ireland, about 1810. Her
husband, Michael Finn, died in Kilfinlan, County Limer-
ick, about 1840. She arrived in New York, Apr. 5,
1854, and came to Ballardvale in June, 1855. Children:
Mary, mar. George Hunt, who d. 1863, leaving Joseph,
Mary Jane, Ellen and George, b. 1862 ; Margaret, mar.
Ned fionner ; William, who went to Lowell ; Bridget,
who went to Illinois ; Catherine, b. 1843.
Samuel Downing bought his house of his father-in-law,
Timothy Bailey, having lived there since April, 1853.
The house was built by Eben, son of Timothy Bailey.
Samuel Downing is the son of Samuel and Ruby (Frye)
Downing, born in Frye Village in 1821, and his wife is
Rebecca Hildreth, daughter of Timothy and Lydia (Blood)
Bailey. Children : Eliza Rebecca, b. 1846 ; Eben Bailey,
b. Aug., 1847 ; George Samuel, b. Feb., 1850 ; Horace
Frye, b. June 27, 1852; Laura Augusta, b. Oct., 1854 ;
Albert Henry, b. March, 1857 ; Gertrude Emily, b. July,
1860.
Mrs. Finn's boarders : John Sands has been here since
Oct., 1862, having come from Scotland in May. He was
born in 1825. Lawrence Ryan, born in Kilfinlan, County
Limerick, Ireland, in 1845, the son of Lawrence and
Margaret Quinn, the latter having been here since 1854.
Edward Quillinen, born in 1840. Patrick Cosgrove, b.
in Ireland about 1833, and has been in America since
1863. Charles Connors, born 1846, came from Boston in
1863, whose parents were born in Ireland. Eliza, wife of
Edward Quillinen, and daughter of Patrick and Bridget
(Casey) Finn.
316 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
t Widow Edmund Farrell, Centre street, lives in the house
on the west side, near the brook. Thomas King built the
house and Farrell bought it in 1853, and it is now owned
by his son Patrick. Mr. Farrell was son of John and
Hannah (Healing) Farrell, was born in Kilfinlan in 1800
and died Nov. 4, 1858. His wife is Mary, daughter of
John and Eliza (Higgins) Finn. Children : John and
Richard, died young ; Hannah, b. 1834, mar. Peter No-
lan, lives in Ballardvale ; Patrick, b. 1838 ; John, b. 1840 ;
Elizabeth, b. 1843 ; Mary, b, 1846 ; Edmund, b. 1848.
Boarders : John Kenin, John Shea and William, Mary
and Margaret Fitzgerald.
John Caffrey is son of Owen and Ann Gibney, and was
born in County Mead in 1825. He came to America in
1848. He came from Tewksbury in March, 1863, to the
house south of Mrs. Farrell's, and has worked for James
Bailey several years. This house is owned by Thomas
Caffrey, a brother, and it originally belonged to Arthur
N. Bean, the stable-keeper. Mrs. Caffrey is Bridget,
daughter of Henry and Ellen (Flemming) Little, born in
Dublin, July 7, 1825, and came to America when ten
years of age. Children : James, b. Oct. 29, 1851 ; Ellen,
died young ; Margaret, b. Dec., 1855 ; Mary, b. May 11,
1858 ; Jennie, b. Aug. 23, 1860 ; Ellen, b. Apr. 7, 1863.
Mr. Caffrey's mother was born in 1783, and has been here
since Dec., 1851. Children: Mary, mar. Mr. McDole
and lives in Ireland ; Thomas, lives in Tewksbury ; Mar-
garet, mar. Patrick Caffrey in Haverhill ; Ann, mar. John
Coyl, who is lame, lives on River street ; Patrick, died
unm. ; Bridget, mar. John Lynch, a Protestant from the
north of Ireland ; William, mar. Ann Tye, and lives on
Oak street ; Kate, mar. Patrick Connors, and lives in
Haverhill; Owen.
James Joyce came here from North Andover in August,
1852, and is son of Redman and Catherine Joyce. He
was born in Tallow, County Waterford, Ireland, about
1815, and has been in America since May, 1845. His
wife is Catherine, daughter of Patrick and Catherine
(Murray) Slattery, who was in the same parish. Chil-
dren: Redman, b. Tallow, Jan., 1846 ; Mary, b. North
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 317
Andover, Nov. 25, 1847 ; William, b. Dec., 1849; John,
b. 1851 ; Charles, b. Feb., 1853 ; Katie, b. July 26, 1853 ;
James, b. Sept. 7, 1855 ; Morris, b. Feb. 9, 1858 ; Nellie,
b. Oct. 4, 1861 ; Patrick, b. Jan. 6, 1863.
Carleton Orlando Parker lived in the north side of the
house that Erastus Gile built about 1845. He is a car-
penter, and is now in Co. B, 14th Regt. He is son of
Carleton and Mary (Abbott) Parker, and was born in
Charlestown, June 24, 1823. His wife Patience is daugh-
ter of Daniel and Abigail (Johnson) Newell, who was
born in South Berwick, Me., May 28, 1822. Children :
John Crombie, b. Dec. 10, 1846 ; Ella Jane, b. Sept. 20,
1848 ; Martha Isabelle, b. Oct. 25, 1851 ; Clara Augusta,
b. Oct. 21, 1853; Lillia Eveline, b. Oct. 18, 1856; and
Lizzie Alice, b. Sept. 5, 1860. Mr. Parker's father was
born in Mt. Vernon, N. H., and his mother was cousin to
Asa A. Abbott. The first bowling alley was built about
1848, and it was attached to this house by Erastus Gile
about 1858. Benjamin Burt of Tewksbury now owns
it, and Hugh O'Donald runs it.
John Leonard has been in the Alley house since Feb.
1, 1862, moving from the small house west of the bridge,
where they settled two years before upon coming here
from Lawrence. He is a blacksmith in the file factory,
son of William and Mary Elizabeth (Smith) Leonard,
and was bom in Windsor, Eng., in 1830. He came to
America in 1845. His wife is Rosella, daughter of
Joseph and Catherine (Shapel) Shapel, born in Brussels,
Dec., 1825, and came to America in 1848. Mrs. Leon-
ard's mother was Catherine Frederick, who married, first,
Ira Shapel, who died in Brussels, after which she married
Richard Boynton. Mrs. Leonard married, first, John
Pennington, who was born in Dolphinelra, County Dur-
ham, Eng., and died in Lawrence in 1858.
Patrick Duffy lives next to the bowling alley. He is
son of Patrick and Margaret C. D. (Cavanaugh) Duffy,
born in parish of Dumour, County Sligo, about 1820,
and came to America in 1846, arriving in Canada. He
came to Ballardvale from Pawtucket, R. I., in March,
1863, having been discharged from the 29th Rhode Island
318 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OP
Regiment. His wife is Mary, daughter of Matthew and
Bridget (Redington) Fallen, born in county of Roscom-
mon about 1833, and came to America in 1846. Children :
Joseph, b. Lawrence, May 11, 1851 ; Thomas, b. Maiden,
Feb. 15, 1853 ; Mary, b. 1855 ; James, b. 185T ; Cordace,
b. Oct., 1859; Margaret, b. May 1, 1861; Anna Maria,
b. Aug. 20, 1863.
John Hanin, born in 1835, and his wife Mary, born in
1840, have been in this country three months.
John Beecher came here from Providence, R. L, in
March, 1861, and is a tile forger. He is son of John and
Lydia (Haigh) Beecher, and was born in Leeds, Eng., in
1831. He arrived Mar. 16, 1849. His wife Ann was
daughter of Richard and Mary (Shepherd) Blackburn,
born in Manchester, Eng. Children : George, b. Man-
chester, N. H., May 9, 1860; Samuel, b. Ballardvale,
Aug. 24, 1862.
Joseph Hadfield came from Manchester, N. H., in 1862,
the son of Cornelius Andrew and Anna (Caldwell) Had-
tield, and was born in Staleybridge, Cheshire, Eng., July
11, 1828. He came to America in 1847, arriving in New
York, Dec. 1. His mother is Hannah, daughter of Joseph
*and Sarah (Hollins) Caldwell, who was born in Holm
Frith, Oct. 4, 1800, and came to America with him. Her
children : Elizabeth, Eben, John, William, Mary and
Charles, all died young; Levi, b. 1840, who is in Co. D,
97th Penn. Regt. ; Sarah Hannah, b. 1845. His wife
Mary is daughter of Edward and Mary Ann (Ogg)
Blyth, born in Hull, Eng., 1830. Children : Mary Han-
nah, Joseph E., Charles, Sarah, died young; Nellie, b.
Providence, Jan. 2, 1860 ; Levi Edward, b. 1862.
John Farmer, filesmith, came here from Manchester,
N. H., in July, 1861. He is son of Joseph and Susanna
(Barber) Farmer, and was born in Birmingham, War-
wickshire, Eng., Nov. 17, 1816. He arrived in New
York, Sept. 23, 1848, and in Ballardvale, July 5, 1861.
His wife Elizabeth was daughter of William and Maria
Wigfall, born Sheffield, Yorkshire, in 1817. They have
had twenty-two children, but only the following are liv-
ing: Thomas, b. Sheffield, Apr., 1848; Elizabeth, b.
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 319
Manchester, N. H., Feb. 8, 1855 ; Emily, b. Providence
R. L, Mar. 17, 1857.
Thomas Skidmore came from Boston, Sept., 1861, and
has gone to Pawtucket. He is son of Daniel and Rosanua
Skidmore, who Avas born in Liverpool, Eng., and came to
America in 1854. His wife is Sarah, daughter of Thomas
and Ann (Jones) Millington, who was born in Liverpool,
July, 1836. Children : Lydia Ann ; Agnes Ann ; Ger-
trude, died young ; Thomas Arthur, b. Boston, 1860 ;
Sarah Elizabeth, b. July, 1862.
Warren Mears, jr., who is now in Co. H, 14th Regt, is
son of Warren, and he was born in 1827, and came here
in 1824. His wife Frances is daughter of Peter and
Mary Platt, and was born in Ashton, Lancashire, Eng.,
in 1824. Children: Eliza Ann; Thomas William, b.
1849 ; Mary Levina, b. Auburn, Me., 1850 ; Hugh Frank-
lin, b. 1861. Saw at Mr. Mears his brother Joseph's wife,
Sarah Jane, daughter of Charles and Lavina (Hobbs)
Warren, and was born in South Berwick, Me., Mar. 17,
1844.
Matthew Winton is son of Robert and Letitia (Mellen)
Winton, and was born in the north of Ireland, April 14,
1824. He came to Boston, Dec. 26, 1848. His wife
Jane is daughter of David and Letitia (Kelly) Shaw, who
was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1826, and came to America
in 1834. Mr. Winton is a painter and cabinet maker. Chil-
dren : Letitia, died young ; Robert John, b. Boston, 1851 ;
Ellen Jane, b. New York, 1853 ; David James Shaw, b.
Reading, 1855 ; Matthew, b. Boston, 1857 ; Mary Eliza-
beth, b. 1859 ; Eliza Ann, b. 1861 ; George Henry Ellis,
b. 1862.
John Trampleasure came from Callington, Cornwall,
Eng., and landed in Canada in 1832. He is son of Rich-
ard and Phillipa (Ball) Trampleasure, and was born July
27, 1808. His grandfather was clerk of the Established
Church, and his mother was daughter of Richard and
Susan Ball of the parish of South Hill. James Noon
came Trom Leicester, Eng., arriving in Boston, Sept. 20,
1846. He is son of William, jr., and Mary (Clark)
Noon, and was born in Leicester, June 14, 1803. His
320 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION.
mother was daughter of James Clark. He came here in
1849.
Edward Mason, who works in the file shop, is son of
Thomas C. and Phebe (Wardwell) Mason, and was born
in Andover in April, 1831. His wife, Louisa Ellen, is
daughter of John Ford and Samantha (Norton) Good-
rich, who was born in Addison, Vt, Jan. 14, 1832. Chil-
dren : Edward Milo, b. July 9, 1857; Elvin Goodrich,
b. Sept. 10, 1859.
William Fletcher, wool sorter, brother of Mrs. Rhodes,
lives in her house. His wife Elizabeth is daughter of
Thomas Keating by his wife Eliza Hogan, and she was
born in Leeds, Eng., in 1831, arriving in New York, Sept.
9, 1842. with her parents. Children: Elizabeth Ettie,
b. May 15, 1852, died young; William Parker, b, Oct.
21, 1853 ; Martha Jane, died young ; Mary Ada, b. 1859 ;
George Edwin, b. Aug. 28, 1862.
Henry William Webster has lived in the house oppo-
site Mrs. Rhodes since May, 1863. He is a bookkeeper
and came from New York. He was born in London in
1830, came to America about 1850. His wife Josephine
is daughter of Joseph Washburn, and was born in Sing
Sing, N. Y., in 1836. Children : Sarah Virginia, b. Sing
Sing, N. Y., in 1853 ; Ida Harriet, b. 1855 ; George Al-
fred, b. Middletown, N. Y., 1857.
William Graham Welch came from Amesbury, June
10, 1854, the son of John and Mary (Graham) Welch,
born Carlisle, Eng., Feb., 1816. He came to America
about 1841. His wife Mary is daughter of James and
Martha (Beach) Davlin, and she was born in Boothbay,
near Carlisle, Eng., coming to America in 1838. Children:
William James, died young ; Robert B., b. Willimantic,
Conn., Jan. 23, 1843, enlisted in the 8th Mass. Regt., and is
now in Co. K, 13th N. H. Regt. ; John Graham, b. New-
port, R. I., Aug., 1847 ; Bartel, died aged fourteen years ;
Martha Elizabeth, b. Sept., 1850 ; Mary Ann, b. Dec.,
1852 ; William James, b. Aug., 1855. This house was
built by two carpenters, Butler and Little, who sold out
and went to California.
(To be continued.)
SEAMEN FROM SALEM AND VICINITY IM-
PRESSED BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS,
18001813.
The following list of impressed seamen is taken from
a contemporaneous manuscript which was presented to
the Essex Institute in 1881 by George B. Jewett of
Salem. Additional information taken from the files of
the Salem Register, March 20 to July 17, 1813, has been
appended in the form of foot notes. The Salem Gazette
of the same period leaned toward a pro-British policy,
and in its issues of March 30 and April 17, 1813, it crit-
icised the accuracy of a number of the impressment
records printed by the Register. Biographical matter of
interest appears in these supplementary statements, which
usually quibble with the main question of fact. Essen-
tial differences are here incorporated. Official reports
with lists of names and a short summary of the circum-
stances of each impressment may be found in the Execu-
tive Documents of the 8th Congress, 1st session ; the
9th Congress, 1st session ; the 10th Congress, 1st session ;
the Executive Reports, llth Congress, 2nd session ; and
12th Congress, 1st session.
ELIAS ABBOTT.*
BENJAMIN ARCHER, taken by the Cresant Frigate, Capt.
Carthew.
BENJAMIN ARCHER, taken from Henry Rust, by the Am-
buscade, Jenkins, Commander, who tore Archer's Protec-
tion to pieces ; on his asking him not to do it, he seized
*ELIAS ABBOTT, impressed and kept two years on board the
Franchise, leaving his wife and family in Salem. Register.
JOSEPH ARBINGTON, impressed on Grand Bank, kept a short time,
ran away, and returned in a Salem vessel. Register.
(321)
322 SEAMEN FROM SALEM AND VICINITY
Archer by the hair of his head & kicked him headlong
[upon the deck]. [See also Rufus Wilkins.]
THOMAS ASHBY, born in Salem, son of Jonathan Ash-
by, taken out of Mr Grays Bark, Jeffrey, Master. Ab-
sent several years & has never returned. Said not to
have been impressed.
CHARLES ATKINSON, taken from Capt. Cartwright of
Newbury Port.
GEORGE ATKINSON.
BENJAMIN BACON,* born in Salem.
DANIEL BACON, born in Salem, son of Daniel Bacon,
now absent & has been 8 years ; taken from Capt. Cart-
wrightf of Newbury Port.
SAMUEL BECKFORD, taken from Henry Rust, by the
Ambuscade, Jenkins, Commander.J
FRANCIS BELFREY, Salem.
WILLIAM BENSON, Salem, eleven years in the service &
still is absent.
FRANCIS BERSY,|| a Frenchman by birth, lived in Salem.
JOHN BISHOP, born in Salem, taken out of a Fishing
Schooner.!"
*BENJAMIN BAGOJT, was on shore in the West Indies, getting
water, where he was impressed and kept four years. He was taken
by the Spaniards in South America, stripped naked with the rest of
his company, and driven into the interior of the country, up the
river La Platte. He was exchanged as an English prisoner, and went
on board an English man of war, from which he ran away. Register.
tShip Alexander. Register.
^Detained a short time and escaped. Register.
FRANCIS BELFBBY, impressed and kept about three years, ran
away, got to Newyork, where he died in the Hospital. Register.
|| FRANCIS BBASEY, a naturalized citizen, impressed on board the
British ship of war , Capt. Whitby; an opportunity offering he
swam away, was retaken, and treated most cruelly by Capt. Whitby,
the Englishman who killed Peirce in the Harbour of New-York.
When he was brought on board, Whitby sent for the Doctor of the
ship, and ordered him to blister Brasy from the neck down to the
thighs, adding, "I'll prevent you from running away in future."
When the blisters had rendered him very sore, the Doctor was or-
dered to bleed him ; he was accordingly bled till he could hardly
move. Register.
the Grand Bank, Escaped. Register.
IMPRESSED BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS. 323
THOMAS BRAGG, Salem man.
ZACHY BRAY, Salem.
JOHN BROWN, of the Lawrence family. Last that he was
seen was on board a man of war, a 74. He informed that
20 Americans were on board the same ship, all impressed.
JAMES BYRNS, born in Salem.
JOHN CALLUM, son of David Callum, born in Salem,
now absent & has been for many years.
JOSEPH GARY, of Beverly, Mate of Schooner Betsy,
John Leach, master, of Salem, impressed* by his Majes-
ty's Ship Diligense, detained 10 weeks, regained his lib-
erty by swimming ashore.
JOHN CHADWICK.
TIMOTHY CHALLIS, taken out of the Golden Age, of
Salem, by the Cambrian Frigate. Belonged to Ipswich.
DANIEL CHEVER, son of James & brother to James Che-
ver, jr., of Salem.
SAMUEL CHEVER, Salem, told Mrs. Tink that he was im-
pressed when Henry Tink was.
*From Leach's schooner. Register.
HENRY BUFFUM, killed on board an English man of war fighting
with a nation in amity with this country. Register. [Henry Buff urn
was in the brig Essex, Capt. Green, belonging to William Orne, Esq.,
in the year 1790. He ran away from her at Falmouth, England,
and shipped on board a British man of war. Gazette.]
ALEXANDER BUCIIANNAN, a Scotchman, married in Salem, has
been impressed several years, now on board the Eolus. Register.
GEORGE GUILDS, a young seaman born in Salem, was impressed
iuto an English ship, from which he ran away, and was again taken;
and among other cruel things to punish and retain him, he was
branded with the name of the ship. In another attempt to escape,
with three or four others, by swimming, they were discovered and
fired upon from the ship, and one or two were shot in the water,
one failed in swimming, but Childs, who was known to be one of
the best of swimmers, with one other, after being in the water
five hours, reached shore, and returned home. Soon after, in a
voyage to the West Indies, he fell into port with the same ship,
and in that situation he was drowned by the side of his own vessel.
It was supposed by his shipmates that he threw himself over, and
that the motive was fear of being again taken on board the man of
war, as he was heard to say that he would choose to drown him-
self, rather than be again taken on board the ship. Register.
324 SEAMEN FEOM SALEM AND VICINITY
ISAAC CLARK, married Robert Perkins' Daughter, born
in Randolph, County of Norfolk ; whipped three times ; 2
dozen each time ; kept 9 weeks on allowance of one bis-
cuit & pint of water for 24 hours ; he served them 3 1-2
years, was wounded, & finally discharged last April, 1812,
Taken from the Jane of Norfolk.
JOHN CLEMMONS, impressed.
JAMES CLIFF of Salem, impressed by the Cambrian, kept
a short time & discharged.
JOSEPH CLIFF, impressed on board the Fox, wounded at
Isle France, afterwards taken in an English prize &
killed by the Malays after serving them 4 years.
PETER CLIFF, impressed from the Independence, Capt.
Rogers.
JOSEPH CLOUTMAN, son of Joseph Cloutrnan of Salem.
v JOSEPH COFFIN, born in Newbury Port, from Mr. Grays
vessel, by the Red Wing, Usher, Commander.
WILLIAM COLLET, * impressed May 26, 179T, from the
JOHN COFFIN, born in Newburyport, had been a mariner on
board the ship Bradford, of Newbaryport, stranded on the shores
of Lematt was put on board the schooner Two Brothers, of and
bound to Salem, Glover, master, by the American consul at Alicant.
On the 2d of May, 1807, was boarded by his majesty's brigantine
cutter Redwing. The officer ordered Coffin to make haste, pack up
his clothes and get into the boat. Capt. Glover remonstrated with
the officer on the inhumanity of adding to the distresses of the un-
fortunate, and showed him Coffin's protection from the custom
house at Newburyport. The officer replied that he had orders to
take him, and must have him. Capt. Glover, his mate, and two of
his people, made oath to these facts before the proper authority,
on their return to Salem. We believe he has since returned.
Begister.
*Born in New York. Pressed at Tranquebar (a neutral port.)
Register.
DAVID COLLUM, impressed and detained three years, made an
attempt to escape in an open boat, was fired at, forced to return,
and was whipped ; afterwards was ashore in a boat after water,
ran away, and went on board a Salem vessel. The captain thought
it imprudent to keep him, as the British searched every vessel
which sailed from the port, but put him on board a southern ves-
sel, where he concealed himself until she was out at sea. He re-
turned to his native town, and learnt that his mother had died a
IMPRESSED BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS. 325
Ship Recovery, Joseph Ropes, Master, by the British Frig-
ate Orpheus. An American with a Protection. Capt.
observed he had no doubt he was American, but he
wanted men & would have them.
GEORGE CON WAY, Salem.
JOHN CONWAY,* number of years in their service & has
never returned.
SAMUEL CONWAY* was impressed on shore at Barbadoes
in May, he believed, 1812, on board an English Brig of
war of 18 guns. On his refusing to do duty was flogged.
Had a protection & a certificate which he shew to the
Captain. States this himself.
JOHN CuRwiN.f
MORRIS CURWIN4 Salem.
JOHN D ALTON, twice impressed, son of Sarah Dalton,
escaped by swimming.
SAMUEL M. DALTON, || born in Salem, his Mother, now
short time before, most evidently of grief for the loss of her son,
for in her last sickness her conversation was mostly about him.
Register.
*Only sons of the widow Conaway. Register.
tJoHN CUBWIN, impressed by the Morgiana, leaving a wife and
two children. Upon the declaration of war he refused to fight
against his country, and, after being kept two years, was sent away
at Halifaz. Register.
^MORRIS CUBWEN, impressed at Lisbon, after fighting the press
gang. Got clear through the intervention of a Salem gentleman
then at Lisbon. Register.
JOHN DALTON, impressed in 1810. He says in his letter to his
mother, dated on board the Inflexible, July 21st, " I have been
impressed ever since the 26th of March last, having lost my protec-
tion. I have made application to the Consul for my clearance, who
informs me that I must have a fresh protection from the custom
house, with a certificate of your marriage, sent to the admiral. I
am very anxious to return to my own country to see my friends,
and I hope none of them will ever be so unfortunate as to be in
my situation." Register.
IISAMUKL M. DALTON. We have seen five letters from him dated
on board different ships. He received 4< duly authenticated proof'
of being an American several times. Evidence of his birth, by the
Town Clerk, and of his baptism by Doctor Barnard, together with
certificates from the principal merchants of Salem, were sent oat
326 SEAMEN FROM SALEM AND VICINITY
living, was the Daughter of Capt. Moses; has sent five
sets of papers, certificates, &c., has been absent ten years
and is still detained on board the Brig Elk, Capt.
Coglan.
NOAH DABBORN, impressed in 1806 from the Brig Venus,
of Penobscot, on board the Grenada, Sloop of War. Kept
16 months & ran away. Impressed again on board Lea-
hoge in 1809, from the ship Argo of Boston, Capt. Peter-
son. Kept 18 months & ran away. Tore his American
protection which was from the Custom House in Castiue.
Informed himself.
WILLIAM DAWSON, born in Salem, sailed from Boston in
a Schooner, Capt. Mackey, for Trinity, Martinico. While
on shore for the Captain, himself & the boats Crew &
many other Americans were seized, committed to Goal,
next day, carried on board the Bula Frigate, Capt. Salis-
bury, carried to St. Pierries, put on board Guard Ship with
100 Americans. Then taken on board the Bula again.
Next day carried in to Port Royal where he was put on
board the Ship Boyn, a 98, Adml. Jarvis. Was kept two
or three months. Finally escaped by swimming. The
other Americans were drafted into different Ships. They
shew their protections to the Admiral who treated them
with the utmost contempt. They told him they were
Americans. He told them he would make good English
men of them. Dawson was impressed again, but was
released. One other was taken out of the same vessel.
JOHN DORMAN, of Kennebunk, was impressed near
twenty years ago. Gave himself up since the war and
was discharged from the Goshawk, a ten gun Brig, and
arrived in the Danger.
THOMAS DRIVER, detained six years and was then killed
five several times; upon their being shewn to the Admiral he de-
clared them to be unsatisfactory, and finally told Dalton that he
should not go, for, said the Admiral, " I do not see any reason why
you should not serve his Majesty as well as myself." This case
clearly shows the utter falsity of the assertion of Mr. Pickering,
that " men are always delivered up on duly authenticated proof."
Register.
JOHN DOVE, impressed a number of years ago, and never re-
turned. Register. [Was an apprentice in Marblehead. Gazette.]
IMPRESSED BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS. 327
or died. Killed on board British ship Goliah,* born in
Salem.
THOMAS DUCKINFIELD,! born in Salem, son of J. Duck-
infield.
WILLIAM DUCKINFIELD,! born in Salem, son of J.
Duckinfield.
ISRAEL EATON, J three years impressed, got clear at
Halifax.
JOHN EATON, native of Massachusetts, from the schoon-
er Messenger ; impressed by the Malampus.
DANIEL EDY, born in Salem, impressed by Adml. Jar-
vis' Fleet.
ELIJAH ELDRIDGE, son of Joshua E., impressed out of
Bark Pompy, atCadez ; escaped by further evidence being
furnished that he was born in Salem.
BENJAMIN ELLEDGE, born in Marblehead, lived in
Flint's house, Salem.
RICHARD ELLEDGE, born in Marblehead, lived in Flint's
house, Salem, taken from Capt. Philip Saunders.
JOSEPH EMERSON, cousin to the Shillabers.
JOHN ERVING, Salem man, 3 years in the service, in-
formed Crowninshield himself.
JOHN FAIRFIELD, has been detained many years, the
last accounts the Frigate he was in was missing.
JOHN FELT, Salem, escaped.
THOMAS FITHIN, Custom House protection, Philadel-
phia.
ISRAEL FOSTER, born in Beverly, impressed from Mr.
Gray's Schooner Rachel ; soon discharged.
* Lost an arm during an action with a French ship and died of
the wound. Register.
tlmpressed a number of years ago and never returned. Register.
EDWARD DUKANT, impressed and kept tive months, ran away up
the Mediterranean. Register.
tlmpressed in England. Register. [A Marblehead man. Gazette.}
JOSEPH ELSON, impressed eight or nine years ago, an only son.
His fate is unknown. Register.
JOHN FAIBFIELD, a promising young man, impressed twenty
years ago. Every thing was done for his release to no effect; he is
supposed to have perished in an English ship which was cast away
on the coast of Sumatra. Register.
328 SEAMEN FROM SALEM AND VICINITY
WILLIAM FOSTER, born in Beverly, impressed from
Capt. William Lander.
WILLIAM FOSTER,* born in Reading, had lived with"
Mr. Chad wick from 17 years old to 21 years old.
EZEKIEL FOWLER, son of Ezekiel, born in Salem, twice
impressed.
PETER FREEMAN, formerly lived with Mr. Manning,
impressed 14 years ago, now detained on board the Dra-
gon, 74.
GEORGE FRIEND, Salem, never heard of after he was
impressed.!
JOHN FULLER, taken from ship Martha, Capt. Prince,
born in Salem, still detained.
ZENA GADSHALL, taken from Ben Shellaber, liberated
at Norfolk, from a captured vessel since the present war.
JOHN GALE,^ impressed May 31, 1797, from the Ship
Recovery, Joseph Ropes, Master, by the British Frigate
Orpheus. An American, with protection. Capt. observed
he had no doubt he was American, but he wanted men &
would have them.
WILLIAM FILBY, naturalized and married in Salem, has a wife
and child; still detained. Begister.
*WILLIAM FOSTER, born in Reading, served his time in Salem,
pressed and kept 18 months, from a Salem ship, Capt. Edwards, in
Havannah, by the Wolf frigate, shifted to the Malabar, ran away
from her when lying in Hampton Roads. He had a protection which
was torn up. Begister. See also Rufus Wilkins.
t An Englishman, who has recently been in Salem. Begister.
$JOHN GALE, born in Maryland, pressed a few days after Wm.
Callet, from the same ship, of which he was carpenter, in Madras
roads, by a Lieutenant of a 74 gun ship, Admiral Rancer. The
officer observed that he had no doubt that Gale was an American,
but his protection was not regular. In the boat that came to press
Gale was John Brown of Salem, well known to many on board the
Recovery. Brown informed that there were twenty Americans on
board the Admiral's ship, all pressed men. Application was made
to the admiral for the release of Gale, to which he replied, that he
wanted the man, and should keep him, and that Gale's protection
he was told was not regular. He was asked if his officer was to be
the sole judge ? Yes, said he, and I understand the man has wages
due him, which must be paid. The wages were demanded, and
threats that the sails, anchors, &c, should be taken away unless
IMPRESSED BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS. 329
JONATHAN GALLAWAY,* from the Mary & Eliza, Ben-
jamin Upton, Master, born in Salem.
WILLIAM GiDDiNS,f Salem man, escaped.
WILLIAM GLOVER, Salem, Nov., 1809, at sea from
Ship Commerce, Capt. McGee ; on board the Royal Wil-
liam. Had a protection.
AMOS NEWHALL,impressed Nov. 1, 1808, in the Downs
from the Alexander. On board the Antelope. Protection
from the Custom House, Salem.
FRANCIS Goss,;f born in Marblehead, impressed from
Welcome Return.
JOSEPH GOULD, son of Nathaniel, born in Salem. I
doubt whether he was impressed.
WILLIAM GREENE EATON, born in Beverly, had been
impressed on board of English men of war twice. Sailed
out of Boston ; detained short time.
BENJAMIN HANCOCK, born in Pennsylvania, impressed
out of the Ship Jane of New York, on board British
Sloop of War Echo & treated very ill. Has since been
impressed out of the Golden Age, of Salem, on board the
British Frigate Le Dedaneous.
JOHN HANDLEY, on board the Repulse, 74, R. H.
complied -with. The ship however went off before the demand
was complied with. Register.
SAMURL GALE, impressed and kept four years. Wrote to his
mother from Surrinam, requesting certificates of his nativity. In a
letter dated 13th January, 1808, to his mother, he says, "they say
that you heard from me, and are concerned for my fate, which makes
me very anxious to see you. I was impressed on board an English
man of war four years since, was taken by a French frigate, from
which I ran away, and got on board an American vessel, and have
arrived at Newyork. I am very poor, and very sick of a fever."
Register.
*Escaped. Register.
tHas been absent eight years, his fate unknown. Register.
JMosEs Goss, born in Marblehead, lived in Salem, impressed
from the Welcome Return at the Isle of Bourbon, above three years
since, by the brig of war Staunch, had a protection. Never since
heard of. Register.
JOHN HENDLKY, taken several years ago, by the Repulse, from
a French vessel, when returning to this country. Still detained.
Register.
380 SEAMEN FROM SALEM AND VICINITY
Mowbray, letter from him in 1812. Taken on board a
French vessel.
CAPT. JAMES HANSCOM, had two men taken from him,
both with American Protections, their names not recol-
lected. One of them was born at the South Shore & was
taken out of the Schooner Mary. The other out of the
Schooner Union, of Salem. The boarding officer did not
doubt that he was an American. He had a wife and three
children ; has never heard of him since.
JOHN HARTHORNE, near Mr. H.'s meeting house, born
in Salem.
ABEL HEASKELL, impressed from Capt. Chapman.
JONATHAN HENFIELD, Salem man, escaped (believed
not to have been impressed).
JOHN HIERS, of Danvers, impressed out of a Salem
vessel.
SAMUEL HILL,* born in Salem, still detained ; mother
so states.
JOHN HOLDEN, a native of Salem. See William Storey's
deposition.
JEREMIAH HOLMES, native of Massachusetts, from the
schooner Messenger, by the Malampus.
RUFUS HORTON, impressed twice, and escaped both
times.
EDWARD HuLiN,f born in Salem, from Capt. Silsbee,
who declared to the Capt. that H. was born within a
*SAMUEL HILL, been detained thirteen years, still absent, his moth-
er has not been able to learn what ship he is on board of. Register.
t EDWARD HULEN, taken from a ship in the East Indies, com-
manded by Capt. Nath'l Silsbee. The ship that impressed him had
at the time fifty more than her complement, but her commander
ordered his lieutenant to take one at least from every vessel in port.
Capt. Silsbee assured the Capt. that Hulen was born and brought
up in his neighborhood, that he had always known him, that he
would give a bond in any amount signed by the first merchants in
Bombay, to send any documents that the captain might require to
prove him to be a native of Salem; that his mother was totally de-
pendent on him for her support. The captain admitted that he
was an American, but said, " when a man comes aboard my ship
he does not leave it until peace." Register.
JEBEMIAH KEALMEB, impressed from the schr. Messenger, by the
Melampus. Register.
IMPRESSED BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS. 331
stones throw of himself. The Capt. gave Silsbee to un-
derstand if he said much he would take more.
ROBERT HUSSEY, impressed from Capt. Chapman.
THOMAS INGALLS, Salem, escaped.
JOHN JOHNSON was discharged from the Goshawk &
arrived in the Ganges after being absent 8 years.
MICHAEL JOHNSON, taken out of the Betsy of Salem,
June 6th, 1810, in the North sea, John Florence, Master
by the Urgent.
JAMES KELLY, mate of the Brig Love & Unity.
CHRISTOPHER KILBY, lived in Salem, born in Hingham.
JAMES KINSLEY, impressed from the brig Cynthia,* J.
H. Andrew, Master ; born in Salem.
HENRY LAMBERT, son of John Lambert, Salem.
Louis LANGDON,! a Dane, impressed from the America,
Dec. 1, 1799, Joseph Ropes, Commander has a regular
Danish Protection.
SAMUEL LARRABEE (twice impressed). Impressed from
the Brig Cynthia, J. H. Andrew, Master; born in
Salem4
JOSEPH LAWRENCE, impressed May 3, 1801, at Liver-
pool, on board the Active.
JOHN LEACH, native of Massachusetts, from the schoon-
er Messenger ; impressed by the Malampus.
BENJAMIN LEARABEE, born in Danvers, still detained
& has been many years ; has sent repeatedly to his friends
for evidence of his birth & Citizenship. Had been im-
pressed before & detained 5 years & discharged as an
American. Had his discharge with him.
"Taken from the Cynthia by the Curio. Register.
ILEWIS LANGDON, a Dane, sailed in ship America in 1809. Two
English midshipmen about 16 years old, came on board the Amer-
ica, and ordered all hands mustered on deck. These young chaps
made the examination, and selected Langdon, who had a regular
Dutch protection. The officer of the America did not suffer them
to take Langdon away, but acquainted the captain of the frigate
with what had been done. In a short time came a Lieutenant from
the frigate, with a number of men, with orders from their Captain
to give Langdon up immediately, or they would take him by force.
They took him, and he was seen afterwards in Malta. Register.
^Detained three years and escaped. Register.
332 SEAMEN FROM SALEM AND VICINITY
ALFRED LITTLE, born in Beverly, impressed from Capt.
William Lander.
ARCHIBALD McMiLLAN, married a Daniels in Salem ;
many years detained.*
DANIEL McMiLLAN, son of John McMillan, deceased,
now absent and has been many years ;f evidence of his
birth, in Salem, furnished several times.
JOHN McPfiERSON, son of John, born in Salem. Im-
pressed out of a Vessel belonging to Portland, 16 years
ago. The last his parents heard from him he was on board
the British Ship Northumberland.
WILLIAM McPnERSON,J son of John McPherson, his
mother was named Webb. He was born in Salem, im-
pressed out of a Boston vessel. Was on board the Leopard
when she attacked the Chesapeake. He refused to assist
in butchering his Countrymen & was ordered in Irons, &
afterwards chastized in the most inhumane manner ; he
escaped by swimming.
DANIEL MANNING, born in Salem, son of Joseph Mans-
field's wife. Detained but short time.
JOHN MANNING, son of Richard, born in Salem, de-
tained but a short time.
ANDREW MANSFIELD, born in Lynnfield, son of An-
drew M., married Robert Foster's Grand Daughter, Sally
Gray ; taken from Parsons' vessel, Boston ; was in the
Battle of the Nile ; detained 6 years and 7 months.
DAVID [MARCELL?], was impressed in the Isle of
France, sailed in the Prudent, 1804. The vessel was
condemned & he was impressed on shore in 1810, kept
two years & seven months.
HENRY MATTHEWS, Salem, still detained.
JOHN MELZARD, born in Marblehead, impressed out
of a Salem vessel 9 years ago & never returned, his
brother gives the information.
*Escaped. Eegister.
tlmpressed in 1804. Eegister. [Taken from the ship Rachel of
Salem. Gazette.}
JBorn in Salem. His protection was pronounced by the British
midshipman to be a forgery, and torn up before his face. Eegister.
RIOHABD MELZABD, born in Marblehead, lived in Salem, taken
nine years ago, still detained. Register.
IMPRESSED BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS. 883
THOMAS MIDDICK, impressed near 9 years ago ; still
detained.
MICHAEL MILLINGTON, of Cambridge, impressed on
board a 74, about eight years since, run away, was taken,
brought back & flogged two or three times, still detained.
Was taken from a Boston vessel.
JOSEPH MIRE, an inhabitant of Salem, we believe he
was a Dane by birth. Taken from the Ship Hope at sea,
James Barr, Master, 1807, by the Red Wing Cutter,
Usher, Commander.
JAMES MITCHELL,* impressed from Joseph Ropes, in
India, at Iranque Bar.
JOSEPH MOLDING, Salem, taken 6 or 7 years ago, still
detained ; mother living in Salem.
JAMES T. MORE, of Salem, has been impressed four
times, once in Liverpool, once going up the Channel, &
once in North Seas, & once in Kingston, Jamaica ; on
board Sanspirel, 84, Lord Seamons, detained six months
& discharged.
JAMES MORGAN, believe from T. Perkins vessel.
JAMES MURRY, born in Salem, son of Samuel Murry,
cooper.
DAVID NEWHALL, son of David Newhall, born in
Salem.
*JAMES MITCHELL and JOHN RUSSBLL, of the ship Recovery of
Salem, pressed about two months after the above, in Calcutta,
both having paper protections. Application was made to the Hon.
Capt. Cook, who would not look at the protections, neither would
he deign to speak to the applicant. Three years after the ship
John was boarded near the entrance to Calcutta river, by a boat in
which was Mitchell, who plead hard for them to make application
for his release. It was done to no effect. Register.
GEOBGE MORGAN, still detained. Register. [Left Salem 13 years
ago and went to Philadelphia, whore he was married. Gazette.]
RICHARD MUBBAY, impressed three times, and kept eighteen
months at one time. Run away when the English ship was at Hal-
ifax. Register.
AMOS NEWHALL, impressed Nov. 1, 1808, in the Downs, from the
Alexander, on board the Antelope, had a protection from the Cus-
tom House in Salem. Register.
334 SEAMEN FROM SALEM AND VICINITY
JOHN NEWHALL,* brother to David Newhall, born in
Salem.
WILLIAM OWENS, born in Salem, been absent several
years, now on board man of war.
MARTIN PAIN,| impressed from Capt. Thomas Perkins'
vessel, the Brig Cynthia, J. H. Andrew, Master ; born in
Salem.
BENJAMIN PALFRAY (born in Salem), after being de-
tained many years & making several unsuccessful at-
tempts to escape, in the last attempt was drowned.
THOMAS PARSONS, married a Clark of Salem.
SAMUEL PEABODY, son of Samuel Peabody, Salem ;
killed on board man of war 4 Taken out Brig Sukey,
Forrester's vessel.
JAMES PEARSON, from Chadwick's vessel.
JOSEPH PEARSON, impressed out of the Sally & Betsy,
of Boston, Joseph Ingersoll, Master.
JONATHAN PERKINS of Salem, taken out of the Golden
Age, of Salem, by the Cambrian Frigate.
NATHANIEL PERRY, born in the United States, in
Roxbury or thereabouts, and taken from Capt. Bryant, of
the Barque Active of Salem.
SAMUEL PERRY, a blackman, native American, taken
from Capt, Silver in 1811.
WILLIAM PHILLEY, from Chadwick's vessel ; a natural-
ized citizen.
PETER PITTS of Baltimore was discharged and arrived
in the Ganges.
JACOB POLAND, once impressed from the Mary & Eliza
at sea, B. Upton Master, by the Nymph Frigate, detained
about one month. When in port found means to get in-
formation to the American Consul, who cleared him. Was
twice impressed in Malta and afterwards released. They
*JOHN NEWHALL, impressed and kept on board eleven years. He
lost his arm in an engagement with the French, and is now in an
English hospital. Register.
JONATHAN OSBOBN, impressed, kept eighteen months, ran away
in the West Indies, where he died. Register.
tlmpressed by the Curio. Register.
JKilled on board an American vessel by a fall from the masthead.
Gazette.
IMPRESSED BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS. 335
attempted to destroy his protection. They did destroy
Joseph Moulding's, and by that means he has been de-
tained to this day if alive. Informe me himself.
JAMES PROCTER,* impressed & flogged called a
Dain'd Yanky raskell.
SAMUEL RUCK, Salem, escaped.
JOHN RUSSEL, impressed from Joseph Ropes, in India,
at Iranque Bar. [See James Mitchell.]
WILLIAM RUSSELL, impressed & held 8 years.
JOHN SEVIA, belonged to the Eastward, impressed in
Cape Goodhope, Brig Eunice, Swett, in 1795.
SAMUEL SHEPARD,! impressed from the Brig Cynthia,
J. H. Andrew, Master ; born in Salem.
PETER SHILLABER,| born in Middleton, on board man
of war 5 years, attempted to escape, caught and whipped
severely.
WILLIAM SLEUMAN, Salem, escaped.
*JAMES PROCTOR, impressed, and presumed to insist that he was
an American, for which he was flogged and called a " damn'd yan-
kee rascal." This is a common appellation which is used almost
universally by the British officers. Register.
tSAMUEL SIIEPARD, son of Jeremiah Shepard, impressed and de-
tained more than a year, and was finally discharged, after great
exertions on the part of his friends in Salem. Mr. Shepard was
impressed at sea from brig Cynthia together with 3 other Ameri-
cans, all having protections. Register.
JPETER SHILLABER, impressed and kept five years; escaped.
Register.
WILLIAM STRONG, born in Marblehead, but has lived in Salem
with his mother eight years. He is now about twenty years of age.
He sailed from Salem in the brig Betsy, Ropes, and was impressed
in Trinidad and kept on board the English brig Martha; from this
vessel he was shifted to the Swinger man of war. In a letter dated
Aug. 3d, 1810, he says, " Dear mother, I inform you that I have had
the bad fortune to be impressed on board the brig Martha, and am
now on board the Swinger man of war." Here he staid seven
months and got clear by swimming five miles. Two other Ameri-
cans attempted to escape at the same time by swimming, one of
whom was drowned. Strong and his companion got on shore almost
exhausted, and was met by a negro, who threatened to carry them
back, and said he would carry them to his Majesty. The negro
making the attempt to seize them, and they finding that life or
336 SEAMEN FROM SALEM AND VICINITY
GEORGE SLATOR,* married in Tewksbury ; on board of
Unity Frigate.
JAMES SMITH, Salem, impressed 9 years ago, still de-
tained.
THOMAS SMITH, born in Salem, detained seven years,
escaped by swimming from a Frigate in Plymouth ; was
once ketched, carried back & flogged through the fleet.
Joseph L. Lee brought him home & gave this informa-
tion. Gracious God !
DANIEL SMOTHERS, impressed on board the Ned. See
his letter to his mother.
BENJAMIN SUTTON, impressed by the Squirrel, a 20
Gunship, in Kingston, Jamaica.
WILLIAM SWANEY, taken out of the Betsy of Salem,
June 6th, 1810, in the North sea, John Florence, Master,
by the Urgent.
BENJAMIN SWASEY, Salem man.
RICHARD SWASEY. f
RICHARD SWASEY, JUNR.
death was in their own hands, Strong took out his jack-knife and
killed the negro, and set off for the woods. A year or two after he
was again impressed, and put on board another man of war, from
which he also ran away. He was impressed and ran away eleven
times. He once ran away with an Englishman, and were both
taken, tried for their lives, and condemned to be hanged. The rope
was put round their necks, the cap pulled over their eyes, the gun
was fired, and his companion was hauled up to the yard arm, but
Strong had received a pardon-, From the frigate he was removed to
the prison on shore and kept several days, and put on board another
man of war from which he ran away. He was taken again, and on
account of a sore leg was discharged in a foreign country, totally
destitute, and was obliged to ship on board the United States, Com-
modore Decatur, and arrived in the United States. It is to be wished
that the Americans who find the press-gang on board to take them
from their ships, would use a dirk in their own defence. A few such
instances would deter the rascals from coming on board. Register.
*Lived in Salem, impressed twelve or fourteen years ago by the
Unity frigate ; still absent.
WILLIAM SMITH, escaped by swimming. Begister.
tRiCHABD SWASEY, has been impressed three times, and has been
on board seven of their vessels still absent. Register.
IMPRESSED BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS. 337
FRANCIS SYMONDS,* born in Salem, son of Jonathan,
taken out of a Fishing Schooner.
HENERY SYMONDS, detained six years & was then killed
or died ; killed on board British ship of war ; born in
Salem.
JAMES SYMONDS,! born in Northfields, Salem, son of
Jonathan, detained nearly 3 years. He was flogged for
attempting to get away, most unmercifully.
JOSEPH SYMONDS,^ born in Northfields, Salem, son of
Jonathan, detained nearly 3 years.
THOMAS SYMONDS, born in North Fields.
FRANK TALBOT, man of colour, born in Salem, still
Impressed on Grand Bank, got clear at Halifax. It is but two
or three years since that a Salem fishing boat went down to Halifax,
as a cartel in time of peace, to bring up sixteen men belonging to
Marblehead & Beverly, which had been taken from our fishing
vessels on Grand Bank. The Salem men were all absent or had run
away. Register.
t JAMES SYMONDS, impressed in Liverpool, papers sent on to Mr.
Lyman, who says in his letter that he cannot be released because
the lords of the admiralty say that they have legal evidence of his
being an Englishman. Register.
JJOSEPH SYMONDS, cast away in Christiansand, went to Liverpool
in England, where he was impressed on the 21st of Feb., 1809; he
had a regular protection. He was not able to obtain his discharge
from Mr. Maury, the American consul at Liverpool. Mr. Lyman,
our consul at London, demanded his release also from the Lords of
the Admiralty, who gave answer, that they had legal evidence of his
being a Welchman, and that he should not be discharged. He was
shifted to several vessels, and a favourable opportunity offering, he
made his escape and got on board an American vessel. Search was
made, and the British officer carried him back, where he was
whipped in a manner scarcely ever surpassed for cruelty. In 1812
he received his discharge. Register.
FBANCIS TALBERT, in a letter to his father dated on board the
Bellerophon, June 16, 1911, he says, "I have wrote several letters
to you, dear father, these five years past, and have never received
an answer from you, which makes me think you have entirely for-
gotten me. I have lost my protection, and was impressed on board
an English man of war, where I have remained ever since; so dear
father I hope you will use your utmost endeavors with Mr. George
Lee, towards getting me clear." In a Postscript he informs his
father that he goes by the name of Francis Thomas. We under-
388 SEAMEN FROM SALEM AND VICINITY
detained, has written several times for evidence of his be-
ing born in the United States. Secy, of State sent to
William Safford for evidence of his being a citizen.
ROBERT TATUM, impressed 4 years ago & still detained,
born in Salem.
SELA THOMAS of Boston, impressed by the Polyphemus.
ANDREW THOMPSON, Salem, escaped.
BENJAMIN P. THOMPSON, born in Marblehead, taken
from the Ship Exetor, belonging to Mr. Derby, Salem.
Impressed aboard the Princess Frigate, a Guard Ship. Was
discharged in about a week ; had a protection : they swore
he was an English man.
GEORGE L. THOMPSON, born in Hartford, Connecticut,
lost his right leg in an action with a French frigate, then
was discharged. Sailed out of Salem with William Lan-
der.*
WILLIAM THOMPSON, married a Tucker, born in Salem;
impressed on board the Princess.
THOMAS THORNTON, taken from Ship Martha, Capt.
Prince, born in Salem, still detained. Took the Deposi-
tion of Thornton's Sister to the fact & that the last heard
of him he was on board the Thunderer.
CORNELIUS TILTON, of Martha's Vineyard, impressed
by the Polyphemus.
HENRY TINK,| born in Salem.
SAMUEL TINK,| born in Salem.
[ALFRED TITTLE, see Ruf us Wilkins.]
DANIEL TUCK, born in Beverly, served his time in
Salem with William Safford, Baker.
SAMUEL TUCK, born in Beverly. Impressed from Mr.
Gray's Schooner Rachel ; run away.
stand that it is a very common practice for the British officers to
change the names of the impressed Americans ; two of our respect-
able townsmen who have been impressed, had their names altered
and entered on the muster roll, and from them we learn this piece
of villainous policy. Register.
*Has never returned. Register.
tOnly sons of Mrs. Tink, still detained, leaving the mother with-
out this necessary support. Register. [Henry, son of Thomas Tink,
sailed in 1806 in the ship Traveller, Ward, master, for India.
Gazette.]
IMPRESSED BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS. 339
JOHN UNDERWOOD, born in Salem. Jacob Crownin-
shield & others got him clear in New York.
JOSEPH UPTON,* son of Paul, born in Salem, escaped
by swimming.
BENJAMIN VANDERFORD, impressed from the Liberty,
Lambert. Served 8 years, discharged since the war.
JAMES VENT,| born in the United States, taken from
Capt. Bryant, of the Barque Active of Salem.
EPHRAIM VERY, son of E. Very, born in Salem, died
shortly after his impressment, with grief.
JAMES VILEY, impressed out of the Sally & Betsy, of
Boston, Joseph Ingersoll, Master.
THOMAS VINCENT, son of Joseph Vincent, born in
Salem.
BENJAMIN WEBB,} son of B. Webb, born in Salem,
impressed 7 years since.
THOMAS WEBB, son of Benjamin Webb.
VALENTINE WEBB, Salem.
JAMES WEST, do not know.
JOSEPH WEST, born in Beverly, impressed from Capt.
Thomas Perkins' vessel, Wm. & Charles.
Impressed in 1810 by the Spitfire the officer destroyed the pro-
tection kept 18 months. Register.
tKept a considerable time, got clear by the intervention of a
Salem captain, who happened to meet with him abroad. Register.
DANIEL VERY, born in Danvers, taken from the ship Hazard, in
the year 1805, and kept about four months. The English captain
told him that he would never release him, for he was a good seaman
and worth keeping. He escaped by swimming a mile and a half.
Register.
JHeard of him three years ago from on board the Isis, not re-
turned. Register.
Impressed in March, 1806, on board his majesty's sloop of war
Osprey, Timothy Childs commander. Protection from the custom
house at Salem, certificates of his birth and baptism, and affidavit
of his mother, were sent out five or six times. We have heard
he finally ran away and got home. Register.
THOMAS WHIDDIOK, impressed thirteen years ago, the only son
of Mrs. Whiddick, who is now in the almshouse. She attempted
to relate the circumstances, but could only add " poor Tom, it was
his first voyage, I tried to dissuade him from going, I shall never
see him more." Register.
340 SEAMEN FROM SALEM AND VICINITY
JOHN WHIPPLE, from the Brig Humbird, in Malta, 7
years since ; evidence of his being an American sent out
3 times ; still absent.
EBENEZER WHITEFOOT,* born in Salem, never returned,
impressed many years since.
EBENEZER WHITEFOOT, JUNR., Salem born, impressed
in Calcutta, detained 3 years, escaped by swimming, was
in the water 5 hours.
RUFUS WILKINS,!, born in Salem, son of Reuben, taken
by the Crescent Frigate, Capt. Carthew.
JOSEPH WILLSON, born in Salem, absent many years,
supposed to be dead.
Also Charles Burhill, Daniel Boardman, Edward Dalton,
John Davidson, Wm. Green Eaton, Holten Fowler, Timo-
thy Gillis, Joseph Henderson, JohnKeef, John Newton,
Nathaniel Perry, Wm. Queirs, Wm. Rhodes, John Smoth-
ers, Joseph Spencer, Obed Thomas, Samuel Webb and John
Ward. We have heard the names of a considerable number
of others, but not being taken down at the time, they are
forgotten. Those who know of the impressment of any
American Seamen from the town whose names have not
yet been given in our list, are requested to give informa-
tion at this office.
In the year 1794, five men were taken from the boats
of the ship Henry, of Salem. Capt. Gibaut, while sweep-
*Detained three years, escaped by swimming. Was in the water
five hours. Register. [Sailed from Beverly in the brig Rambler,
Thorndike, master. Gazette.]
tRuFus WILKINS, BENJ. ARCHER, ALFRED TITTLE, and WM.
FOSTER, sailed from Salem in the ship Mary, Capt. Lander, which
ship was cast away on the coast of Holland; they took passage on
board a New Bedford vessel for home she was met at sea by the
British frigate Crescent, and all the above were impressed, notwith-
standing they had protections. Wilkins and Archer were not de-
tained long but Foster and Tittle, two very worthy young men
belonging to Beverly, were detained 18 months, notwithstanding
proof of their nativity was immediately and repeatedly forwarded.
IMPRESSED BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS. 341
ing for an anchor in Table bay. Several days afterwards
the Henry was taken possession of by officers of the
English ship, while getting under way for America, and
detained until Capt. Gibaut paid the wages of the men.
Three years afterwards one of these men was seen at
Tranquebar, and informed that he was the only one of the
five then living. Salem Register.
IMPRESSED SEAMEN.
Capt. Jeduthan Upton, jr. (late commander of the Pri-
vate armed brig Hunter) who arrived from England in
the cutter Admittance, has furnished us with the follow-
ing list of American Seamen on board the British Prison
ship San Antonio, of Chatham, who had been impressed
into the British service, and have been delivered up from
British ships, as prisoners, since the war. These unfor-
tunate men, who have been discharged from impressment
and thrown into Prison, requested Capt. Upton to publish
this list, that their friends in the United States might be
acquainted with their fate. Besides these, there were on
board the other Chatham Prison ships 320 Americans dis-
charged in a like manner, and an immense number on
board the Prison ships at Portsmouth and other places in
England. Four Hundred Americans were discharged
from the Toulon Blockading fleet alone. Notwithstanding
the great number given up, it will be seen by the follow-
ing list that a still greater number were left on board the
ships from which they were discharged.
Names. Nativity. Ships Left. No. Years. No. Left.
Levi Oar
New York
Ruby
18
1
Charles Pardit
New Orleans
Orion
8y. 6m.
8
Edward Robinson
Maryland
R. William
ly. 6m.
18
John Barnard
Virginia
Polyphemus
3
6
John D. Kirk
New York
Implacable
7
John Ball
Rhode Island
Argo
3
7
Andrew Mellson
Do.
Do.
1
William Prince
New York
Ceres
4
2
342
SEAMEN FROM SALEM AND VICINITY
George Nellom
James Magrah
John Boyd
Elijah Armstrong
Ezra Knight
Timo. Stanwood
Daniel Davis
Asa Pendleton
John Nichols
Samuel Johnson
William Golliver
Jona Ludlow
Tobias Carline
Jona Goleman
Joseph Williams
Lewis Mulden,
Samuel Wright
William Gunnil
James Buntin
James Turnbolt
Oliver Johnson
Henry Stags
Joseph Thomas
John Nald
Gideon Raymond
Charles Gray
James Marfold
Daniel Corben
Joshua Anderson
Asa Buddington
Robert Roberts
John Wright
John Ferguson
Peter Mills
Emerson Clark
John Rose
Edward Robbins
Jesse Connor
John Bogart
John Thompson
James Carver
W. Whitman
Richard Carr
John Barer
Philadelphia
Do.
5
New York
R. William
1
6
Massachusetts
Le Loir
4
5
Maryland
Victory
8
Massachusetts
Do.
6
Do.
Aboukir
3
8
Do.
Do.
3
Do.
Do.
3
Do.
Do.
3
Rhode Island
Viego
5
7
Massachusetts
do.
2
do.
do.
2
New York
Orion
8
6
New Jersey
do.
ly. 6m.
Massachusetts
Comet
4
2
Virginia
do.
ly. 6m.
Rhode Island
do.
ly. 6m.
New York
Romulus
2
2
Philadelphia
do.
4
Carolina
do.
4
Massachusetts
do.
4
do.
do.
2
do.
do.
1
New York
Pomona
ly. 6m.
New Orleans
Argo
6y. 6m.
Maryland
Salvador
15
New Hampshire
do.
15
Philadelphia
do.
15
Maryland
Salvador
15
Carolina
Stag
15
New York
do.
ly. 6m.
3
Virginia
do.
6
Massachusetts
Tyger
2
14
New Orleans
do.
2
New York
do.
2
Massachusetts
Doris
5
7
do.
Elephant
lOy. 6m.
3
Virginia
Partridge
5
1
New York
Implacable
3
Massachusetts
Aveus
18
New York
Ulysses
5
5
Massachusetts
Salvador
1
Carolina
do.
1
Massachusetts
G. Phoenix
14
1
IMPRESSED BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS.
343
William Riley
New Jersey
Circe
5
4
David Cutter
Massachusetts
Salvador
1
John Dtistin
Maryland
Dedham
2
John Mills
New Hampshire
Belle Poole
ly. Cm.
3
William Perkins
do.
do.
do
Jos. Commacy
Massachusetts
New Jersey
do
Edward Price
Maryland
Circe
1
2
Jacob Evans
New York
Mars
3
Amos Beane
Massachusetts
do.
2
Peter Henry
New York
do.
2
Samuel Dilton
New Jersey
do.
2
Andrew Wolfe
Maryland
do
8
Thomas Landers
Virginia
do
2
Thomas Courtiss
Massachusetts
do
8
John Burnett
do
do
8
Henry Tink
do
Pembroke
4
9
Wm. Fillebrown
do
Cresy
ly. 6m.
3
Henry Perkins
do
do
do
Joseph Williams
Vermont
do
do
George Butler
Maryland
do
do
William Nuns
Philadelphia
Barrosa
6
John S. Thomas
Virginia
Mindon
4
Wm. Smith
Newyork
Doris
4y. 6m.
7
George Davis
do
Salvador
1
Joseph Williams
Rhode Island
Comet
2
Jos. Benjamin
Pennsylvania
Antelope
7
1
James Barret
Massachusetts
Albicore
2y. 6m.
2
David Burnham
do
do
do
Prince Francis
do
do
5
John Best
N.Y. (dead inpris-
on, Portsmouth) do
7
Fred Johnson
Connecticut
Antelope
15
Thomas Gilbert
Newyork
do
4
Benj. Church
Rhode Island
Victory
5
Peter Patterson
Philadelphia
do
4y. 6m.
Freeman Call
Massachusetts
La Hogue
3
James M'Donald
New York
Tweed
10
John Horsman
Maryland
La Hogue
3
Russell Brama
Connecticut
do
ly. 6m.
Ephraim Pardit
Vermont
do
3
York Buntin
New Jersey
do
6
Jeremiah Muss
do
do
8
James Burk
New Hampshire
Jason
ly. 6m.
1
John Martin
Massachusetts
Rosamond
ly. 6m.
2
344
SEAMEN FROM SALEM AND VICINITY
Benj. Robinson
Massachusetts
Royal William
6
William Lubner
do
do
6
Thomas Booth
Maryland
La Hogue
3
John Abbott
do
do
3
Henry Mitchel
do
do
3
John Rice
do
do
3
Wm. Johnson
Massachusetts
Antelope
12
William Denham
do
La Hogue
10
Thomas Mitchel
do
Salvador
2
Jos. Anderson
Maryland
Rodney
8
5
John Wright
Virginia
Mars
3
Benjamin Ball
New Hampshire
Victory
8
Benj. Church
Rhode Island
do
5
John Pool
Maryland
Java
5
John Davis
Philadelphia
Pherus
6
Wm. Scribner
Connecticut
do
7
James Williams
Pennsylvania
do
2
Sison Smith
Newyork
do
1
Dan. Simmonds
Philadelphia
Salvador
ly. 6m.
Wm. Sanderson
Maryland
Christian 7th
1
17
William Davis
do
Desiree
2
William Hogan
do
do.
10
James Lathrope
Massachusetts
Polyphemus
1
John Hadley
Newyork
R. William
1
William Carney
Delaware
Alfred
8
Lewis Leicester
Virginia
Ulysses
5
Morris Little
Maryland
do
9
Wright Church
Newyork
do
7.
Freeman Marsh
do
do
7
William Brown
Connecticut
do
6
John Covel
Massachusetts
La Hogue
ly. 6m.
John Dunstan
Rhode Island
Trinklou
1
Salem .Register, July 17, 1813.
The following narrative of one of the above impressed
Americans will shew not only the disgraceful manner in
which they have been forcibly dragged into a foreign
service, but the cruel treatment they received in conse-
quence of refusing to fight against their country.
I, JOHN NICHOLS, a native of Durham, State of Mas-
sachusetts, relate and say, that I sailed from Portland in
IMPRESSED BY BRITISH WAR VESSELS. 345
the ship Franklin, commanded by James Marks, as Chief
Mate, bound to Liverpool, where we arrived the seventh
day of February, 1810. The same day I was taken by a
Press Gang, coming from my boarding house to the ship,
and carried by them to the rendezvous, Cooper's Row,
and detained one night. The next morning 1 gave the
Lieut, my Protection, and at the same time stated to
them that I was Chief Mate of the Ship ; also Capt.
Marks and Mr. Porter, supercargo, came & were refused
admittance. I then asked the Lieut, for my Protection ;
he answered " 1 will give it to you with a Hell to it,"
and immediately tore it up before my face, and sent me
on board the Guard Ship Princess, where I remained one
week, and then was sent round to Plymouth on board the
Salvador Guard Ship ; remained there one month, after
which I was drafted on board the Aboukir 74, where 1
remained 3 years and fourteen days, in which time I was
stationed on hoard a gun boat, and was in the grand bat-
tle between the Russians and the French in the month of
June, 1812. Also in the meantime I wrote to my father
in Durham a great number of times, and received a num-
ber of answers, with a Protection The American Consul
then applied for my discharge, which was granted, as I
understand, but kept from me until the war broke out. I
then determined to give myself up as a prisoner of war,
let the consequence be what it would. Consequently on
the 28th Oct. I went to the Captain and gave myself up
as a Prisoner of war, and refused to do any more duty.
Then he told me I was an Englishman, and if I would
not do duty he would flog me ; and ordered me in Irons
and kept me in Irons 24 hours, after which I was taken
to the gangway and received one dozen with the cat on
my bare back. The Captain then asked me if I would go
to duty, I told him no, I would sooner die first. He then
put me in irons again for 24 hours, and once more
brought me to the gangway, and received as before, with
the same questions arid answer as preceded; and the same
was repeated four days successively, and I received four
dozen on my naked back. After the fourth day I was a
prisoner at large. The 26th day of Dec. I was sent to
prison without my clothes, they being refused me by the
846 SEAMEN FROM SALEM AND VICINITY.
Capt. after abusing me in the most insulting manner, and
all I ever received for my servitude was fourteen pounds.
During impressment, I have used my best endeavours to
escape.
JOHN NICHOLS.
Witness JED. UPTON.
Salem Register, July 17, 1813.
We have received the following from Mr. DANIEL
VERY, whose impressment, as stated in the Register, the
Gazette has contradicted :
MR. PALFRAY Mr. Gushing in his paper states that
I was not impressed by the English If I was not, I
should be glad to know what impressment means. For
I declare upon my honour, that I was taken out of the
ship Hazard in the year 1805, put on board of his majes-
ty's ship of war, and the captain called me (and others
taken from the Hazard) upon the quarter deck, and de-
manded my protection ; and after I handed it to him he
told me he would take care of it, and that I was a d d
Irish Yankee, and I had as good a right to serve his maj-
esty as he had ; he said he would not release me, but I
should do my duty on board said ship ; I told him I was
a prisoner, and wished to be used as such. He then or-
dered the boatswain's mate to start me to my duty, and
after I received two or three clips, I made myself as con-
tented as I could till I had an opportunity to swim for my
life and liberty, by which means I made my escape, after
swimming more than a mile ! They did release a part of
the Hazard's crew, but the captain said that he would not
release those who were able to do their duty, and said,
" Damn the American protections ; I can buy as many of
them as I want for 4/6 a piece."
DANIEL VERY.
Salem Register, May 1, 1813.
THE TURNERS OF BARBADOS.
BY G. ANDREWS MORIARTY, JR., A. M,
In the " Historical Collections " for July, 1912, I con-
tributed an article showing that Capt. John Turner of
Salem, who built the " House of the Seven Gables," was
the son of Robert Turner, the Boston cordwainer, and
was not the son of John Turner of Barbados. Recently
I made a pilgrimage to that island for the purpose of
clearing up several ancestral problems, one of which was
the relationship of the Salem John Turner to his Barba-
dian namesake, for I was convinced that the family tra-
dition of a connection with Barbados had some truth
in it.
My search was well rewarded so far as the Turners
were concerned, but before proceeding with that matter
I should like to call attention to a curious error in the
History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Compa-
ny. In volume I, page 111, we are told that Robert Tur-
ner joined the company in 1640, and then a biography of
Robert Turner, the Boston vintner, is given. Now on
page 134 of the same volume we are told that Robert
Turner again joined the company in 1643, the entry
reading, " Robert Turner (1643). He joined the Military
Company of the Massachusetts in 1640. See page 111."
The writer evidently has confused the two Robert Tur-
ners, both contemporaries and both residents of Boston,
one a vintner, the other a shoemaker. This second entry
evidently refers to Robert Turner, the shoemaker, who
became a member of the company in 1643.
To return to the records preserved at Bridgetown in
Barbados. The first item of interest is regarding Major
Charles Redford of Salem, who married Elizabeth (Rob-
erts), widow of Capt. John Turner of Salem, on 19 June,
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348 THE TURNERS OF BARBADOS,
1684. By reference to my former article in the " Collec-
tions" for July, 1912, it will be seen that his stepson,
Col. John Turner, was given administration on his estate
in the year 1692. Now in the Parish Register of St.
Michael's Parish, Barbados, we find that " Major Charles
Redford was buried on 11 August, 1691," which enables
us to fix the date of his decease exactly, and shows that
he died, probably with the fever, at Bridgetown.
I now come to the main part of my article, namely, the
question of the kinship of the Salem and Barbadian Tur-
ners. A reference to the will of Robert Turner, the
" shoemaker" of Boston, 1651, discloses a bequest to
Abigail Death, " daughter of my brother Peter Turner."
Let us now examine the following will of " John Turner
of the Parish of St. Phillip in the Island of Barbadoes,
gentleman." In this will he bequeaths to his daughter
Ann, an annuity to be looked after by her sister, Mrs.
Mary Rouse, and her brothers, Abel and Regnold Al-
leyne ; to his " beloved sister Abigail the now wife of
William Deeth" he leaves a <50 annuity, and <50 each
to her three daughters, Elizabeth, Patience and Abigail.
All the rest of his estate, which was very large, is left
to his two daughters, Abigail and Mary Turner, his two
" sons in law " (viz. stepsons) " Abel and Regnold Al-
leyne of this Island gentlemen to be overseers and guar-
dians to my daughters," and Regnold Alleyne to continue
for two years as manager of his estate. This will, dated
6 October, 1673, and proved 26 Nov., 1673, proves that
the John Turner of Barbados was indeed a kinsman of
the Salem John Turner, only instead of being his father,
as Mr. Sargeant maintained, he was his cousin.
The will of William Death of St. Phillip's parish,
planter, was dated 9: 12 mo : 1701/2, and proved 15
July, 1702. He bequeathes to his grandchildren, Eliza-
beth and John Todd, and to his daughter Patience, the
relict of John Taylor, and Abigail, the now wife of
George Brathwaite, and makes his friend and kinsman,
John Hunt, merchant, and William Curtis, jr., planter,
his executors.
Thomas Todd of St. John's parish, planter, in his will
BY G. ANDREWS MORIARTY, JR., A. M. 349
of 20 March, 1686, proved 5 July, 1687, bequeathes to
his son, John Todd, under age, his daughter, Elizabeth
Todd, under 18 years, to his sister Elizabeth Hunt, his
brothers Joseph Todd, Thomas and Richard Eastwick,
and his cousin Katherine Eastwick.
The will of Regnold Alleyn of 16 June, 1650, proved
14 June, 1652, leaves to his wife Mary Alleyn, his sons
Abel, Reynold and Dix Alleyne, and the child his wife
was pregnant with.
From the Parish Register of St. Phillip's we have the
following : Abigail Turner, aged about 19 years, was
baptized 17 September, 1676, and Mary Turner, aged
about 17 years, was baptized 17 September, 1676. On
19 September 1676, Tobias Frere married Abigail Tur-
ner, and on 18 February, 1676/7, Thomas Spyer married
Mary Turner. On 28 April, 1670, Mary Turner was
buried at St. Michael's, and Ann Turner, on 27 Decem-
ber, 1674, while on 9 January, 1657, a child of Capt.
John Turner was buried in St. Michael's church. On 14
December, 1662, Richard, son of Richard Turner, was
baptized at St. Phillip's, and on 2 January, 1678, Richard
Turner married Dorothy Compton in that parish and had :
Peter, baptized 28 March, 1680 ; John, baptized 8 April,
1683, and Elizabeth, baptized 8 March, 1684.
There are other Turner wills and parish entries pre-
served at Bridgetown, some of which undoubtedly refer
to this particular family, but the connection cannot be
traced.
The will of Regnold Alleyn of St. Phillip's, gentleman,
dated 25 October, 1675, proved 27 August, 1676, be-
queathed to Elizabeth and Edward Skeat, children of
Col. Edward Skeat, to his sister Mrs. Mary Rons and my
sister Elizabeth Alleyn (i. e. wife of Col. Abel), to his
brother Abel Alleyn, to Mrs. Mary Skeat, to Mr. Alleyn
Culpepper and Francis Culpepper, to William Death, to
Joseph James, and to his nephew Regnold Alleyn.
On 12 October, 1666, John Turner of St. Phillip's,
merchant, sold to Abel Alleyn of St. Michael's, gentle-
man, for <5728, one half a plantation in the parish of
St. Andrew, in all 421 acres, which became famous as
350 THE TURNERS OF BARBADOS,
Mt. Alleyne, the seat of the baronets of that name who
descended from Col. Abel.
Thomas Spyer of St. James, Esq., and his wife, Mary,
sold, on 24 November, 1682, the plantation of John Tur-
ner, in the parish of St. Phillip's, consisting of 209 acres,
with sugar mills, houses, etc., 49 negro men, 37 negro
women, 14 negro boys, 10 negro girls, 11 negro boy chil-
dren, 4 negro girl children, Jack Flash, his wife and three
children.
On 17 March, 1679, Tobias Frere and Abigail, his wife,
and Thomas Spyer and wife Mary, all of St. Phillips, sold
for 5,000 Ibs. of muscovado sugar, 12 acres in that parish.
The will of Thomas Spyer of St. James, Esq., dated 28
Nov., 1682, proved 4 December, 1682, bequeathes his
plantation of Mount Stanfast to his daughter, Mary (Mt.
Stanfast is still a noted plantation of the Alleyne family),
to his daughter, Elizabeth, his plantation in St. Phillips,
and to his daughter, Rebecca, his Fontabell plantation
(afterwards the seat of Government House and now a
suburb of Bridgetown on the coast), and his houses in
Bristol city (England). He also bequeaths to his wife,
Mary, to his brother-in-law, Abel Alleyne, Esq., to Major
Thomas Rous and his wife, and to his brother-in-law To-
bias Frere.
From the above data preserved in the public buildings
at Bridgetown, in Barbados, the following genealogy
may be deduced :
1 Turner, of England. Married and had is-
sue :
2. PETER.
3. ROBERT, the shoemaker of Boston, New England, who married
Elizabeth Freestone of Boston. (For his descendants, see
the " Historical Collections " for July, 1912.)
2 Peter Turner. Mentioned in the will of his
brother Robert of Boston, in 1651. Married and had
issue :
4. JOHN, of St. Phillip's, Barbados.
5. ABIGAIL, m. William Death, gent., of St. Phillip's.
6. RIOHABD (?), of St. Phillip's.
BY G. ANDREWS MORIARTY, JR., A. M. 351
4 Capt. John Turner of "Three Houses" in the
parish of St. Phillip's, in the Island of Barbados. He
was early in Barbados, and is probably the John Turner
of St. Michael's who, on 19 September, 1659, sold the nine
acres he lived on at St. Michael's to Robert Scott, and
Abel Alleyne was a witness. He was a very rich and
important sugar planter and merchant, with large estates
in St. Phillip's and St. Andrews' parishes. He is probably
the John Turner who, on 16 August, 1653, gave a bond
to John Richards of Boston to deliver him 22,848 Ibs. of
muscovado suger " at the Indian Bridg [Bridgetown] or
some convenient storehouse at the hole [Holetown] in
this Island of Barbadoes." On 9 Jan., 1668, he bought
of his cousin, Capt. John Turner of Salem, one-quarter
part of the ketch Speedwell, lying in Salem harbor. He
was beyond all doubt one of the richest and most impor-
tant merchants of his time at Barbados. He married,
between 16 June, 1650, and 1656, Mary Skeats, widow
of Capt. Regnold Alleyne of Barbados. Capt. Alleyne
was one of the most important of the early Barbadians.
He came out in the service of the Earl of Carlisle, and
was a member of the Council in 1630. He was the leader
of the Puritan party on the Island, and was expelled and
his estates were confiscated by Lord Willoughby of Par-
ham. He subsequently returned with Sir George Ayscue,
the parliamentary admiral, and was slain while attempt-
ing to land to attack the royalists. His son, Major Abel
Alleyne of Mount Alleyne, was a member of the Council
and a leading magnate in the Island. His great-grandson,
Sir John Gay Alleyne of Mount Stanfast, was created a
baronet, and the pedigree of the family is to be found in
the peerage, the present representative being Sir John
Gay Newton Alleyne, Bart, of Chevin Belper, Derby-
shire. Capt. John Turner made his will 6 Oct., 1673,
proved 26 November, 1673. By his wife Mary (Skeat)
Alleyne he left issue :
7. ANN, b. about 1653; probably died unm.
8. ABIGAIL, b. about 1656.
9. MARY, b. about 1658.
5 Abigail Turner married William Death, gentle-
352 THE TURNERS OF BARBADOS,
man, of St. Phillip's parish, Barbados. She is mentioned
in the will of her uncle, Robert Turner of Boston, ances-
tor of the Salem family, dated 14 August, 1651, as Abi-
gail Death, daughter of his brother Peter Turner. Wil-
liam Death's will was dated 9 Feb., 1701-2, and proved
15 July, 1702. He also was a large sugar planter in St.
Phillip's. Issue :
10. ELIZABETH, b. before 1673; m. Thomas Todd of St, John's,
and d. before 1687, leaving issue: Elizabeth and John Todd,
alive on 9 Feb., 1701-2.
11. PATIENCE, b. before 1673; m. John Taylor, who d. before 9
Feb., 1701-2.
12. ABIGAIL, b. before 1673; m. as his second wife George Braith-
waite of St. Phillip's. The Braithwaite family of St. Phil-
lip's is one of the oldest and most aristocratic of the Bar-
badian families. John Braithwaite of " Three Houses " in
St. Phillip's, born in 1721, was for many years the colonial
agent at London, and there is a handsome mural tablet to
him in St. Michael's Cathedral at Bridgetown.
6 Richard Turner of St. Phillip's, in 1662, was
probably another son of Peter. He married and had
issue :
13. RICHARD, bapt. 14 Dec., 1662. Probably m. Dorothy Compton,
2 January, 1678, and had: Peter, bapt. 28 March, 1680;
John, bapt. 8 April, 1683; and Elizabeth, bapt. 8 March,
1684.
8 Abigail Turner born about 1656, baptized at
St. Phillip's, 17 Sept., 1676. Married, 19 September, 1676,
Tobias Frere, Esq., of Christ Church. The Frere family
is one of the aristocratic and ancient families of the Island.
In June, 1720, John Frere, possibly the son of Tobias
and Abigail (Turner) Frere, was President of the Coun-
cil and acting Governor. The family, in addition to their
extensive Barbadian estates, also possessed a large estate
in Surinam. Issue :
14. JOHN, bapt. 17 July, 1677, St. Michael's.
15. TOBIAS, bapt. 7 Feb., 1680-1, Christ Church; buried, St. Phil-
lip's, 22 Aug., 1681.
16. THOMAS, bapt. 28 April, 1684, Christ Church; buried, Christ
Church, 25 April, 1687-8.
BY Q. ANDREWS MORIARTY, JR M A. M. 353
17. HESTER, bapt. 13 Jan., 1687, Christ Church.
18. ELIZABETH, bapt. 22 June, 1691, Christ Church.
19. ABIGAIL, bapt. 7 March, 1694-5, Christ Church.
20. REBECCA, bapt. 7 Feb., 1698-9, Christ Church.
21. WILLIAM, bapt. 4 April, 1700, Christ Church.
9 Mary Turner horn about 1658, baptized at St.
Phillip's 17 Sept., 1676. Married, 18 Feb., 1676-7, Col.
Thomas Spyer, Esq., of Mount Stanfast, St. Andrew's
Parish. Thomas Spyer was one of the wealthiest and
most important planters at Barbados, as is shown by his
will which is a very long document, in which he disposes
of his plantations, negroes, plate, jewels, etc. This will
is dated 28 November, 1682, and was proved 4 December
1682. Issue :
22. MA BY.
23. ELIZABETH.
24. REBECCA.
24 Rebecca Spyar married William Terril, Esq., of
Cabbage Tree Hall, and had issue one daughter :
25. MARY TERRIL.
25 Mary Terril married John Alleyne of 4< Four
Hills," in St Andrew's Parish, Esquire, a member of
Magdelen College, Oxford. He was the son of Hon.
Regnold Alleyne, Esq., of lt Four Hills,'' and the grand-
son of Major Abel Alleyne, the stepson of John Turner.
Issue :
26. REYNOLD.
27. SIR JOHN GAY ALLEYNE, first baronet.
28. MARY, m. Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, Bart, of Levell Hill.
29. REBECCA, m. William, Viscount Folkestone, afterwards Earl
of Radnor.
A full account of the Alleyne family will be found in
the 1904 edition of Burke's Peerage, page 35, where,
however, the name Robert Spiar is substituted for that of
Thomas Spiar.
NOTE : The John Turner who appears as a Boston merchant in Aspin wall's
Notarial Records and who seems to have removed to Barbados about 1640 was
probably the above Capt. John Turner of " Three Houses".
GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON REV. SAMUEL
PARRIS OF SALEM VILLAGE.
BY G. ANDREWS MORIARTY, JR., A. M.
In Waters' Gleanings, Vol. I, pages 143 and 144 will
be found the will of John Parris, Esq. of Barbados, dated
15 May, 1660, proved 23 October, 1661. This will I
also found at Barbados but proved at that Island, 20
August, 1660, it being a Barbadian custom to prove their
wills at the Island and then to forward them for probate
to the Perogative Court in England.
In a note by the late John Ward Dean in the Gleanings,
Vol. I, page 144, he quotes Deane's History of Scituate
as saying that Thomas Parris of Scituate, born at
Pembroke on 8 July, 1701, was the son of a Thomas
Parris who came in 1683 from London to Long Island
and who subsequently settled at Pembroke, Mass., in
1697. This Thomas was the son of John Parris a dis-
senting minister of Ugborough, near Plymouth, England,
who was the son of Thomas, a merchant of London. This
last named Thomas had a brother John, a merchant and
planter of great wealth, who deceased in Barbados in 1660.
His original will is now (1831) in the possession of Rev.
Martin Parris of Marshfield. Mr. Dean adds that the Rev.
Samuel Parris of Danvers of witchcraft notoriety appears
to have been the son of Thomas Parris of Barbados, who
died in 1673. The following will is that of the above
mentioned Thomas Parris, father of our Danvers minister.
The will of Thomas Parris, Esq re of Barbados,
bequeathes to his eldest son John Parris, now in England,
his property in England and Ireland, the deeds of which
are held by Capt. Richard Tilden, merchant of London.
To the four children of my said son John, namely,
Thomas, Ann, Elizabeth and A Parris, all under
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON REV. SAMUEL PABEIS. 355
age ; to Ann the wife of my son John ; to my brother in law
Mr. John Oxenbridge of New England and his wife
Susanna ; to my friend Madam Mary Kingsland ; to Mr.
Jacob Legcy senior ; to my friend Capt. Richard Tilden
of London ; to my friend Mrs. Avis Wrightman of Lon-
don ; to my neice Mrs. Sarah ; to Mrs. Mary
Cage, wife of Tobias Cage, Esq. ; to Samuel Parris, my
son, all my estate here in Barbados, including my store
house at Reeds Bay ; to Thomas, the eldest son of my son
John Parris. Dated 21 August, 1673 ; proved 2 Septem-
ber, 1673.
This is clearly the will of the father of Rev. Samuel
Parris of Danvers and from it we learn that his sister
Susanna was the Susanna whom Savage gives as the
third wife of John Oxenbridge. It would also appear
that the above testator was the brother of John Parris
of Barbados, the testator of 1660. The name still sur-
vives at Barbados where members of the family are own-
ers of large sugar plantations.
NORTHFIELDS, SALEM, IN 1700. NO. 4.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
This part of Northfields is now partly in the town of
Peabody.
The North river was so called in the earliest settlement
of the town. It has also been called other names from
time to time in the distant past ; as ye mill pond of ye
mill in 1669 ; the river or mill pond in 1674 ; the mill
river in 1681 ; Trask's mill pond river in 1695 ; the salt
water in 1707 ; the mill pond in 1727 ; etc.
Central street was an original highway, and ran along
by the general fence at the western end of Northfields.
It was called ye highway as early as 1664 ; ye lane or
highway in 1681; ye road or highway in 1682; the
country road in 1726 ; and Central street as early as
1882.
School street was also a very early highway. It was
called ye highway in 1685 ; the path in 1707 ; a lane or
highway in 1790 ; Dark lane in 1798 ; the road leading
from Obadiah Groce's corner to Frye's mills in 1801 ;
street from North street to Frye's mills in Danvers in
1806; the road to Frye's mills in 1808 ; schoolhouse lane
in 1833, and School street as early as 1851.
Tremont street followed its present lines except at the
brook where the high land was followed because the val-
ley of the brook where the street now crosses was very
deep. This, also, is an original road. It was called the
highway which goes through the ten-acre lots in 1661 ; a
highway in 1700 ; highway leading to the fulling mill in
1731 ; the road in 1733 ; the road leading into the field in
1748 ; the highway leading by Stone's lot in 1761 ; a way
which runs through the Northfield in 1774 ; the proprie-
tors' road in 1783 ; the cross lane leading from Danvers
to Salem in 1795 ; the way leading from ye Northfield to
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Prescott's burying ground in 1801 ; the way leading from
ye Northfield in 1801; Blind way, so called, in 1802;
Dark lane in 1802 ; a private way leading to Salem in
1805 ; the Northfield road in 1814 ; and Tremont street as
early as 1850. Some forty years ago Tremont street was
straightened, a bridge being built over the brook where it
is now located. From that time, the crooked part of the
highway was little used, and known as Tremont place,
and the eastern part, later, as Love lane. This was dis-
continued as a highway in or before 1886.
The northerly highway was very ancient, and is men-
tioned in the deeds as late as 1899.
Liberty Hill avenue is an ancient way ; and was called
the highway leading to Cold spring, so called, in 1793.
The parallel dotted lines indicate the location of North,
Gardner and Liberty streets and Sparrow lane. North
street was laid out about 1758. It was called ye way to
Waters', so called, in 1759 ; the highway leading from
the Great bridge through the Northfield in 1760 ; a high-
way leading from Salem to the new mills, so called, in
Danvers, in 1770 ; the road leading to the new mills in
Danvers in 1791 ; the road leading from the North
bridge to Danvers in 1794: ; North street in 1806 ; the
main road leading to the Iron factory in 1814 ; road from
Salem to Danvers in 1815 ; the road leading to Danvers
neck, so called, in 1829; the main road to Danvers in
1832 ; and the old road leading from North Salem to the
New mills, so called, in Danvers, in 1847.
The gravel pit on North street, opposite Nursery street,
is mentioned in the deeds as early as 1832.
Buffum street, northerly of School street, was laid out
as early as 1805, when it was called a new road. A deed,
dated in 1806, mentions it as a cart path leading from
North street to " Cannaday."
Symonds street was at first called Coney lane.
Walnut street was a way in 1742 ; a highway in 1743 ;
was called a drift road in 1766 ; the proprietors' road in
1778; the lane in 1802; and Walnut street as early as
1849.
Fulton street was so called in 1844.
358 NORTHFIELDS, SALEM, IN 1700. NO. 4.
Wallis street grew out of the location of Monumental
cemetery in 1832. A way from the northern corner led
to Tremont street and from the southwestern corner down
to the Wallis mill dam. This was widened and a strip
taken from the cemetery to connect the two parts before
1843, when it was called Wallis street.
Harris street was so called as early as 1854.
English and Webster streets were both so called in
1866.
Upton street was so called in 1869.
Elm street was called by that name in 1887.
James Symonds Lot. That part of this lot lying be-
tween the dashes was early the estate of Col. Bartholo-
mew Gedney, esq., of Salem. He died Feb. 28, 1697-8 ;
and, March 9, 1698-9, his only son, Samuel Gedney, and
daughters, Hannah, wife of Joshua Grafton, Lydia, widow
of George Corwin, and Bethiah Gedney and Deborah
Gedney, all of Salem, for sixty-four pounds, conveyed it
to James Symonds of Salem, joiner.*
The remaining portions of the lot belonged to Mr. Sy-
monds in 1698.
The whole lot was his in 1700.
Henry Lunt Lot. Samuel E bourn, sr., of Salem, hus-
bandman, sold this lot to Francis Skerry of Salem, but
no deed of it was delivered to him. Mr. Skerry died in
1684, having, in his will, devised this lot, called " Mar-
shall's lot," to his kinsman Henry Lunt. It contained
ten acres, and was then valued at thirty pounds. Subse-
quently, Mr. Ebourn executed a deed of it to Mr. Lunt
Jan. 24, 1693-4 ;f and Mr. Lunt owned it in 1700.
Hannah Roach Lot. This lot was owned possibly by
William Plasse of Salem, blacksmith, and, if so, it proba-
bly descended to (his daughter?) Alice, wife, first, of
Thomas Weekes (Wickes) of Salem, and, second, of
Nicholas Potter. She died in Salem Jan. 26, 1658. Nich-
olas Potter was called its owner in 1676 ; and, after his
death, which occurred Oct. 18, 1677, by agreement of his
heirs (Aug. 14, 1697), his land came into the possession
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 308.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 260.
BY SIDNEY PERLBY. 859
of his daughter Hannah, wife of William Roach of Truro,
on Cape Cod, whale fisherman, who owned it in 1700.
Hannah Swinnerton Lot. This lot belonged to Job
Swinnerton as early as 1681. Mr. Swinnerton gave it to
his son John Swinnerton, who died before Feb. 24, 1693,
when the latter's brother, Job Swinnerton of Salem, re-
leased it to the deceased's widow and executrix, Hannah
Swinnerton.* She owned it in 1700.
John King Lot. This lot belonged to Thomas Gold-
thwaite in 1659. He died in March, 1682-3, having, in
his will, devised it to his son-in-law, John King, sr., of
Salem. Mr. King owned it in 1700.
Caleb Buffum Lot. This lot belonged to Thomas
Goldthwaite in 1659. He died in March, 1682-3, having,
in his will, devised it to his son-in-law, John King, sr., of
Salem.
Mr. King conveyed that part of the lot lying southerly
of the dashes to Caleb Butfum of Salem, yeoman, Dec.
31, 1691.f
For ten pounds and ten shillings, Mr. King conveyed
to Mr. Buffum that part of the lot lying northerly of the
dashes Feb. 26, 16994
Mr. Buffum owned the entire lot in 1700.
John LoomiB Lot. This lot of thirty acres consisted of
three ten-acre lots. That part lying northerly of the road
and southerly of the road and westerly of the dashes
early belonged to Edward Gaskill of Salem, ship carpen-
ter. He conveyed it to John Williams of Salem, fisher-
man, Sept. 19, 1659.
The remainder of the lot was the property of John
Kitchen of Salem, shoemaker, in 1659 ; and Mr. Kitchen
and his son-in-law John Sanders of Salem, seaman, con-
veyed it to Mr. Williams 8:5: 1661. ||
Mr. Williams became a yeoman, and conveyed the en-
tire lot to John Loom is of Salem, seaman, Jan. 10,
Mr. Loomis owned it in 1700.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 160.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 170.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 23.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 72.
HEssex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 66.
f Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 76.
360 NORTHFIELDS, gALEM, IN 1700. NO. 4.
Job Swinnerton Lot. This lot probably belonged to
Edward Gaskill in 1661, and to Job Swinnerton in 1669.
Mr. Swinnerton owned it in 1700.
John Waters Lot. This lot belonged to Henry Trask
in 1659 ; and Josiah Southwick of Salem, husbandman,
conveyed it to John Waters, jr., of Salem Sept. 22, 1697.*
Mr. Waters owned it in 1700.
Samuel Q-askill Lot. This lot belonged to John Alder-
O
man very early, and to Henry Trask in 1659. Samuel
Gaskill, sr., of Salem, husbandman, owned it in 1697 ;
and conveyed it to his son Samuel Gaskill, jr., of Salem
March 15, 1698-9.f It belonged to the son in 1700.
Caleb Buffum Lot. That part of this lot lying easterly
of the dashes was the property of Thomas Spooner as
early as 1659, and was in the possession of his widow
Elizabeth Spooner in 1672. William Trask owned the
entire lot in 1691, when he died. His executors, Anna
Trask, his widow, and son William Trask, both of Salem,
for eighteen pounds, conveyed it to Caleb Buffum of
Salem, yeoman, March 2, 1695-6 ;J and Mr. Buffum
owned it in 1700.
John Trask Lot. That part of this lot lying easterly of
the dashes belonged to Thomas Spooner in 1659. He died
in 1664 ; and his widow, Elizabeth Spooner, the adminis-
tratrix of his estate, conveyed it, for seven pounds and
ten shillings, to John Trask of Salem May 11, 1672.
The remainder of the lot belonged to Mr. Trask at that
time, and he owned the whole lot as late as 1700.
Jeremiah Meachem and George Locker Lots. These lots
constituted Marshall's lot, so called. Jt early belonged to
Lawrence Southwick of Salem, who was banished from
the colony because he was a Quaker, and died on Shelter
Island, at Long Island, in the spring of 1660. In his
will, he devised it to his son-in-law, Henry Trask, who
had a house upon it in or before 1661. The house was
gone before April 30, 1694, when he was dead. His heirs
divided the real estate June 18, 1694, and the eastern
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 16.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 206.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 72.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 150.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 3G1
part of the lot was released by Joseph Foster and wife
Anna, daughter of Mr. Trask, and by Jeremiah Meachem,
jr., in behalf of his children by Mary, daughter of Mr.
Trask, to Sarah Archer, another daughter of Mr. Trask.*
Sarah Archer married Abraham Whiticar and with him
conveyed her part of the lot to George Locker of Salem
Jan. 15, 1695-6/f
Daniel Southwick, sr., of Salem was given, in the will
of his father, Lawrence Southwick, the right to mow one
load of hay each year on the Marshall lot.f He released
to Mr. Locker his interest in this part of the lot, except
one-half of an acre at the north end, but now belonging
to Mr. Locker, who now released it to Mr. Southwick,
Jan. 12, 1696-7.
The eastern part of the lot belonged to Mr. Locker in
1700.
The western part of Marshall's lot was released by
Joseph Foster and wife Anna and Sarah Archer, daugh-
ters of Mr. Trask, to Jeremiah Meachem, jr., on behalf
of his children whom he had by Mary, another daughter
of Mr. Trask, June 18, 1694. || The title was in Mr.
Meachem in 1700.
Daniel Southwick Lot. That part of this lot lying east-
erly of the dashes probably belonged to Thomas Gardner
in 1658.
That part lying westerly of the dashes probably be-
longed to Henry Phelps of Salem, husbandman, Jan. 3,
1658, when, for nine pounds, he apparently conveyed it
to Edward Gaskill of Salem. T If this was the Phelps
ten-acre lot, Josiah Southwick, at that time, had a piece
of land at the southern end of it.
The whole lot probably belonged to Daniel Southwick
in 1700.
Samuel Stone House. This was the homestead of Wil-
liam Bacon of Salem, who died in 1653. In his will, he
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 79.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 60.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 157.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 49.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 79.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 48.
362 NORTHFIELDS, SALEM, IN 1700. NO. 4.
devised his house and land to his only child, a minor son,
Isaac Bacon. The house and land were then valued at
fifty pounds. The widow lived here with her son Isaac,
and died in 1655. Isaac Bacon conveyed the place to
William King and Mrs. King's brother Robert Stone,
June 19, 1665. Mr. King died in 1684, having, in his
will, devised his half of the house and lot to his wife
Katherine for her life, and then one-half of it was given
to the testator's sons, either the oldest or the youngest,
that hath, in " my " brother's judgment, most need of it,
and the other half to whom Mrs. King might will it ; and
she was given power to sell the real estate. The house
is mentioned in the inventory of the estate as a " little
dwelling house. " Mr. Stone died in 1690 ; and in the
division of his real*estate his half of the property, which
was appraised at one hundred pounds, was assigned to his
eldest son Samuel Stone, Feb. 6, 1693-4. Three days
later, Mrs. King conveyed her husband's half of the estate,
for one hundred pounds, to Samuel Stone of Salem, yeo-
man, the owner of the other half.* Thus the entire
estate passed to Mr. Stone. He owned the land for many
years after 1700, but the house was apparently gone soon
after that date.
Abel Gardner Lot. Thomas Gardner of Salem owned
this lot in 1644. He let the land for some years, espec-
ially to John Pudney for seven years March 5, 1672.f
Mr. Gardner died Dec. 29, 1674. Lt. George Gardner,
late of Salem, now of Hartford, merchant, and Samuel
Gardner of Salem, mariner, executors of the will of their
father, Thomas Gardner, deceased, conveyed this land to
Dr. John Swinerton of Salem July 19, 16784 and Doctor
Swinerton reconveyed it to Samuel Gardner, son of the
deceased, July 22, 1678. Samuel Gardner, jr., died
Oct. , 1689, having, in his will, devised the lot to his
son Abel Gardner, who owned it in 1700.
Hugh Pasco Lot. This was a part of a ten-acre lot of
Richard Bishop of Salem, husbandman, in or before 1654.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 63.
tSalem Quarterly Court files, book 27, leaf 59.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 3.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 4.
BY SIDNEY PERLBY. 863
In 1659, he had conveyed it to John Pease of Salem,
yeoman. Mr. Pease removed to Enfield, and conveyed
the lot, with the barn thereon, to Hugh Pasco of Salem
Nov. 13, 1682.* The land belonged to Mr. Pasco in
1700.
William Osborn Lot. This was a part of a ten- acre lot
of Richard Bishop of Salem, husbandman, in or before
1654, and in 1659 he had conveyed it to John Pease of
Salem, yeoman. For fourteen pounds, Mr. Pease conveyed
this lot to William Osborn of Salem, husbandman, Oct.
24, 1681.f It belonged to Mr. Osborn in 1700.
Jacob Head House. This was a part of a ten-acre lot
of Richard Bishop of Salem, husbandman, in or before
1654, and in 1659 he had conveyed it to John Pease of
Salem, yeoman. Robert Pease, son of John Pease, then
late of Salem, conveyed the house and lot to John Bul-
lock of Salem, innholder, Aug. 24, 16824 Mr - Bullock
died in 1694 ; and the executors of his will, Edmund
Flint, yeoman, and Stephen Sewall, both of Salem, con-
veyed the house and lot to Jacob Reed of Salem, hus-
bandman, June 18, 1695. Mr. Reed died, possessed of
the estate, in 1745, having, in his will, devised this house
and lot to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Trask of
New Salem, blacksmith alias husbandman. For fifty
pounds, Mr. and Mrs. Trask conveyed this " small dwell-
ing house " and lot to Amos Foster of Salem, husband-
man, Sept. 17, 1745. || Mr. Foster, for one hundred and
fifty pounds, conveyed to Isaac Cooke of Salem, mariner,
the land with the house thereon Oct. 19, 1749.^[ How much
longer the house stood is unknown to the writer.
Estate of Isaac Cooke Lot. This was a part of a ten-
acre lot of Richard Bishop of Salem, husbandman, in or
before 1654, and in 1659 he had conveyed it to John
Pease of Salem, yeoman. Mr. Pease, for forty shillings,
conveyed it to Isaac Cooke of Salem April 6, 1672.** He
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 68.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 80.
{Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 110.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 302.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 96, leaf 200.
lEssex Registry of Deeds, book 96, leaf 151.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 153.
364 NORTHF1ELDS, SALEM, IN 1700. NO. 4.
died in the autumn of 1692 ; and the lot belonged to his
estate in 1700.
Samuel Gardner Lot. This was a part of a ten-acre
lot of Richard Bishop of Salem, husbandman, as early as
1654. He conveyed that part of this lot lying northerly
of the dashes, for four pounds and ten shillings, to Sam-
uel Eborne of Salem, husbandman, April 7, 1659.* Mr.
Eborne (Aborn) conveyed the lot to Samuel Gardner of
Salem May 23, 1696.f
That part of this lot lying southerly of the dashes and
running to the highway, being two rods wide at the high-
way, was a part of the lot that Richard Bishop conveyed
to John Pease of Salem, yeoman, in or before 1659, and
a part of the lot that Mr. Pease conveyed to Hugh Pasco
of Salem Nov. 13, 1682.J Mr. Pasco conveyed this strip
to Mr. Gardner July 4, 1696.
Mr. Gardner owned the whole lot in 1700.
Josiah Southwick Lot. This lot was the property of
Richard Bishop of Salem, husbandman, in 1659 ; and, for
thirty-eight pounds, he conveyed it to Josiah Southwick
of Salem, husbandman, Dec. 30, 1670. || Mr. Southwick
died in 1692. This lot was valued at forty pounds at that
time. The real estate was divided among the children,
Feb. 28, 1693-4, and this lot was assigned to his eldest
son, Josiah Southwick, who owned it in 1700.
Samuel Graskill Lot. This lot belonged to Samuel Gas-
kin or Gaskill as early as 1670 and as late as 1700.
Abel Gardner House. This lot belonged to Thomas
Gardner Dec. 29, 1674, when he died. The house was
then called the " old dwelling house," and the house,
orchard and land were appraised at thirty pounds. Lt.
George Gardner, late of Salem, then of Hartford, mer-
chant, and Samuel Gardner of Salem, mariner, executors
of the will of their father, Thomas Gardner, deceased,
conveyed the house and lot to Dr. John Swinerton of
Salem July 19, 1678 ;1f and Doctor Swinerton reconveyed
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 57.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 65, leaf 193.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 68.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 65, leaf 193.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 85.
TTEssex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 3.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 365
the same estate to Samuel Gardner, son of the deceased,
July 22, 1678.* Samuel Gardner, jr., died Oct. , 1689,
and this estate came into the hands of the deceased's son
Abel Gardner, who owned the estate in 1700. The house
was probably gone soon after that date, and Mr. Gardner
owned the lot for many years afterward.
William Osborne Lot. This lot perhaps belonged to
Samuel Gaskin in 1682, and to William Osborne in 1697
and 1700.
Samuel Stone Lot. This lot belonged to Robert Stone
in 1682. He died in 1690, and the lot was then owned
by his eldest son, Samuel Stone, in 1695 and 1700.
William Osborne Lot. Benjamin Gerrish of Salem,
merchant, for twenty pounds, conveyed this lot to William
Osborne of Salem, husbandman, March 9, 1682-3 ;f and
Mr. Osborne owned it in 1700.
Elizabeth Q-oodale Lot, This lot belonged to Edward
Beacham in 1682, and to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of
Zachariah Goodale, sr., of Salem, in 1700.
Nathaniel Tompkins Lot. This lot belonged to John
Tompkins at the time of his death in 1681 ; and it de-
scended to his son Nathaniel Tompkins, who owned it in
1700.
John Macmillian Lot. This lot of land was a part of
a ten-acre lot of Thomas Spooner, who was deceased in
1681. John Ruck of Salem, merchant, conveyed to his
son Thomas Ruck land formerly of my father Spooner,
Dec. 6, 16874 Thomas Ruck was of Salem, merchant,
and conveyed it to John Mackmillian of Salem, carpenter,
May 25, 1693 ; and it belonged to Mr. Mackmillian in
1700.
Caleb Buffum Lot. That part of this lot lying north-
easterly of the dashes perhaps belonged to John Hill in
1675, and subsequently to the estate of Thomas Spooner,
who was deceased in 1681. It descended to his " son " John
Ruck in or before that date, and was the property of the
latter's son, Thomas Ruck of Salem, who conveyed it to
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 4.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 116.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 166.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 108.
366 NORTHFIELDS, SALEM, IN 1700. NO. 4.
Caleb Buffum in or before 1693. Mr. Buffnm owned it
in 1700.
That part of the lot lying southwesterly of the dashes
belonged to John Pease, sr., of Salem, yeoman, who, for
twenty-seven pounds and four shillings, conveyed this
part of the lot to Caleb Buffum of Salem, carpenter, Oct.
23, 1681.* Mr. Buffum owned this part of the lot in 1700.
Samuel Gardner Lot. This lot belonged to John
Pease, jr., of Salem, joiner, Aug. 22, 1682, when, for
fifty-two pounds, he conveyed the lot to John Marshall of
Salem, merchant.! Mr. Marshall mortgaged the estate
to John Nelson of Boston, merchant, Jan. 11, 1683 $ and
Ele de Boone Repose of Salem conveyed the lot to Capt.
Samuel Gardner of Salem Jan. 28, 1691. Samuel
Gardner owned the lot in 1700.
This lot was located on a hill called Bumbo hill a cen-
tury and a third ago or more.
Hugh Pascoe Lot. John Pease, sr., of Salem owned
this lot in and before 1682. He removed to Enfield and
conveyed it to Hugh Pascoe of Salem, mariner, Nov. 13,
1682. || Jan. 5, 1697-8, when he was called a fisherman,
Mr. Pascoe conveyed it, probably in mortgage, to Col.
John Hathorne, esq., of Salem, merchant,lf and Colonel
Hathorne released it to Mr. Pascoe Sept. 1, 1699.** Mr.
Pascoe owned it in 1700.
Caleb Buffum Lot. Caleb Buffum owned this lot as
early as 1682, and as late as 1700.
Jacob Reed Lot. This lot was owned early by John
Pease. He died, and his son Robert Pease conveyed it
to John Bullock of Salem, innholder, Aug. 24, 1682. ff
Mr. Bullock died in 1694; and Edward Flint of Salem,
yeoman, and Stephen Sewall of Salem, executors of his
will, conveyed this lot to Jacob Reed of Salem, husband-
man, June 18, 16954$ Mr. Reed owned it in 1700.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 65.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 60.
{Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 123.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 31.
IIEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 68.
ITEssex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 131.
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 178.
t tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 110.
JJEssex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 302.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 367
Job Swinnerton Lot. This lot belonged to Job Swinner-
ton as early as 1664, and as late as 1700.
John Burton House. This lot belonged to Joseph Pope
of Salem, husbandman, who conveyed the house, orchard
aud land to John Burton of Salem, planter, July 18,
1664.* Mr. Burton owned the estate in 1700, but the
house was probably gone soon after.
Estate of Isaac Oooke Lot. This lot apparently belonged
very early to Henry Birdsall, and he died possessed of it
in 1651. Nathan Birdsall of Salem, probably his son,
conveyed it to Henry Cooke of Salem Feb. 16, 1654. f
This was called a part of the Cow Pen lot. Mr. Cooke
died in 1661, and his widow, Judith Cooke, of Salem, for
a legacy of twenty-two pounds due from his father's es-
tate to him, conveyed to her son Isaac Cooke this lot
April 14, 16634 Isaac Cooke died possessed of the lot
in the autumn of 1692 ; and it belonged to his estate in
1700.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 30.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 26.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaves 67 and 68.
INDEX
Abbott, Abbot, Abott,
- , 240, 243.
A. A., 62, 63.
Abby Ann, 249.
Abiel, 241.
Albert, 57.
Amos, 240.
Andrew Jackson,
165.
Asa, 62.
Asa A,, 3, 7, 61.
Benjamin, 54.
C., 252.
Caleb, 164, 165, 168,
251.
Daniel, 62(2), 240.
Daniel P., 62.
Eben, 59.
Elias, 321(2).
Elizabeth, 62.
Ella Florence, 165.
Ellie Jane, 165.
Enoch, 251.
Ephraim, 61, 62.
Fanny, 168.
Frances Jerusha,
164.
Francis, 164.
Hannah, 59.
Henry, 58.
Capt. Henry, 62.
Jerusha(York), 164.
Capt. Job, 240.
John, 168, 344.
John B., 243.
Jonathan, 51, 59.
Marcus W., 165.
Moses, 161.
N. B., 161.
Nathan, 54.
Nehemiah,58, 59(3).
Samuel, 306.
Stephen, 163.
Stephen D., 51, 163.
Sylvester, 62.
Timothy, 164.
William, 306.
Capt. William. 249.
Abigail (ship), 173.
Aborn,Aburn,Eborne,
,6.
Moses, 73.
Samuel, 35, 70, 858
(2), 364(2).
Samuel, jr., 71.
Samuel, sr., 71.
Aboukir(ship),342(4),
345.
Active (brigantine),
114.
Active (ship), 331, 334,
339.
Adams, Adames, ,
101.
Capt., 81.
Richard, 159.
Admittance (cutter),
341.
Africa, 16, 22.
Albicore (ship),343(4)
Alden, William Hen-
ry, 250.
Alderman, John, 360.
Alexander, Sir Wil-
liam, 256.
Alexander (ship), 322,
329, 333,
Alfred (ship), 344.
Allen, Alleyn, Al-
leyne, Allin, ,
2, 51(2), 62(2), 64,
160, 195, 267.
Capt., 82, 195.
Abel, 348(2), 349(3),
351.
Col. Abel, 349, 350.
Maj. Abel, 351, 353.
Andrew 61(2).
AnnaElizabeth,314.
Dix, 349.
Edward, 113, 314.
Capt. Edward, 110,
115, 116, 119(2).
Elizabeth, 61(2),
314, 349.
Elizabeth (Gray),
314.
John, 853.
Allen, John C., 307.
Sir John Gay, 351
(2), 853.
John William, 314.
Jolley, 280.
Joseph, 267.
Lydia, 51.
Mary, 349, 351, 353
(2).
Mary Jane, 51.
Mary (Skeat), 351.
Nathaniel, 285.
Rebecca, 51, 353.
Regnold, 348(3), 349
(4), 353(2).
Capt. Regnold, 351.
Robert, 51.
Sarah, 61.
William, 51, 96, 162,
314(2).
Allen & Farnham,307.
Alley, , 53.
Almy, Almey, ,
175(3), 176.
Agnes, 175.
Alice, 175.
Andrew, 175(2).
Ann, 173(2), 174, 176
Audry, 173(2), 174
(2).
Christopher, 172,
173, 174(3), 175,.
176.
Dorcas, 175.
Elizabeth, 172, 175.
George, 175.
Joan, 174, 175(2).
Joan (Wale), 176.
Job, 172.
Maj. Job, 172.
John, 175(3), 176.
Mary, 174(2).
Matthew, 175.
Robert, 175.
Thomas, 175(3).
Tobias, 175, 176.
William, 172(3), m
(5), 174(3), 175(3) r
176(2).
(368)
INDEX.
369
Ambuscade (ship),
821, 322.
America (ship), 331.
Ames, , 1.
Benjamin, 59.
Isaac, 59.
Julia, 59.
Margaret W., 59.
Mary C., 59.
Nathan, 59.
Phebe (Chandler),
59,
William, 59.
Amesbury (Mass.), 37.
Anderson, Joseph, 344.
Joshua, 342.
Andover (Mass.), 4,
239, 305.
Andrew, , 175.
Agnes, 175.
J. H., 331(2), 334,
335.
Gov. John A., 199.
Jonathan, 199, 293
(2).
Joseph, 293(2).
Mary, 203.
Nathaniel, 203, 293.
Nicolas, 175.
Thomas, 175.
Andrews, Androus,
, 75(4), 108,
150, 151.
Benjamin, 95.
Caleb, 96.
Daniel, 68-71, 76,
80, 95, 147, 150,
151, 155(2), 190.
Joseph, 96(2), 297.
Andros,Andross, ,
4,9.
Sir Edmund, 172.
Anger, Capt., 6.
Ann, Cape, 16.
Ann (brigantine), 107,
120.
Antelope (ship), 329,
333, 343(3), 344.
Anticosti (brigantine)
118,
Appleton, , 6, 7,
8 (4), 9, 10.
Rev., 138.
Harry, 4, 8(4).
Ilenery , 8.
John, 6, 281.
Apthorp, , 54.
Archer, , 114.
Benjamin, 206, 321
(2), 322, 340.
John, 42, 206.
Samuel, 159.
Sarah, 42, 361(2).
Thomas, 206.
Argo (ship), 326, 341
(2), 342.
Argyle (ship), 121.
Argyle (sloop), 110.
Armitage, John, 246.
Matilda, 246.
Susan (Schofield),
246.
Armitrong, Elijah,
342.
Arrington, Joseph,
321.
Ash, ,161.
Ashby, Jonathan, 322.
Thomas, 322.
Ashton, Jacob, 99.
Ashworth, Eliza (Har-
dy), 247.
Ellen, 252(2).
Esther, 247.
James, 252.
John, 247, 306.
Mary Ann, 306.
Sarah Ellen, 252.
Thomas, 247.
Aspinwall, , 353.
Atkinson, Charles, 322
George, 322.
Atwood, John, 46.
Austin, , 41, 42,
43.
Aveus (ship), 342.
Avery, Capt., 92.
Ayers, Samuel, 29.
Ayscus, Sir George,
351.
Babbidge, Capt. Ben-
jamin, 295.
Christopher, 293.
John, 295.
Sarah, 295.
Babson, Mehitable,
229.
Bachelder,Bacheldor,
John, 66, 67(4),
262.
Joseph, 67(2), 161.
Bachelder, Nathaniel,
24.
Bacheldore (ship), 99.
Bacon, , 181, 362.
Benjamin, 322(2).
Daniel, 322(2).
Isaac, 362.
William, 361.
Badger, , 126.
Charles, 126.
Bailey, Bayley, ,
11, 53, 107, 171,
240, 244.
Abraham, 169(3).
Eben, 315(2).
Elizabeth, 169.
Harper, 169.
Henry, 169.
James, 316.
Jesse, 169.
Joseph, 169.
Lydia (Blood), 315.
Mary (Pickles), 169.
Oliver, 169.
Rebecca Hildreth,
315.
Robert, 115.
Sarah, 169(3).
Thomas, 169.
Timothy, 315(3).
Walker, 169.
Baker, , 236.
George, 292.
Mary Lois, 236.
Stephens, 292.
William, 282.
Baker & Goodwin, 307.
Baker's Island, 11.
Balch, Benjamin J.,
229.
Eliza, 229.
Baldwin, , 272.
Anna, 292.
Emma (Caff een),310
Isaac, 310.
Jabez, 202(4), 293.
Baldwin & Jones, 292.
Ball, Benjamin, 344.
Blanche, 133.
John, 341.
Mary C. (Saunders)
134.
Phillipa, 319.
Richard, 319.
Susan, 319.
Theophilus C., 184.
370
INDEX.
Ballard, , 56, 63,
251.
Capt., 52, 54, 61,
170, 239.
H., 239.
Capt. J., 53.
Joshua, 52.
Joshua, jr., 245.
Rebecca, 59.
Timothy, 58, 171(2),
243, 249.
Ballardvale, 52, 54.
Ballardvale Co., 51,57.
Bancroft, Ann Fran-
ces, 250.
Ann (Siddel), 250.
Helen, 250.
John, 250.
Mary Eliza, 250.
Thomas, 250.
Thomas Chandler,
250.
William Henry Al-
den, 250.
Banks, Benjamin, 312.
Eliza, 312.
Sarah (Jones), 312.
Barbados, 347.
Barcelona (ship), 278.
Barer, John, 342.
Barker, , 243, 305.
Abraham, 305.
Benjamin, 226.
Edmund, 168.
Elizabeth (Wayne),
305.
Esther (Parsonby),
168.
Mary, 168.
Ruth, 226.
Barker & Magoon,199.
Barlowe, Audry, 173,
174.
Barnard, , 1, 3(3),
4(2), 7, 10, 11(2),
13-15, 86(2)-89(2),
90(3), 136-140.
Dr., 325.
Rev., 4, 85, 91.
Charles, 52.
Gilbert, 57.
J. W., 58.
John, 341.
Rev. John, 279.
Sally, 9.
Barnard, Rev. Thom-
as, 82, 89, 136.
Barnes, Frances Cogs-
well, 245.
Moses, 52.
Moses D., 245.
Barnett, , 165.
Barney, Jacob, 79, 190.
Barr, James, 118, 333.
Barrett, Barret, Bar-
rat, , 9.
Ellen (Leahy), 163.
James, 343.
John, 34.
Mary, 162.
William, 163.
Barrey, Capt., 12.
Barren, Baron, ,
63, 248(2).
Anna, 248.
Charles Howarth,
248.
Elizabeth Jane,247,
248.
Ellen Ashworth,248
Hannah, 248(2).
Lucy Ann, 248.
Mary Emma, 248.
Sarah (Howarth),
247.
Thomas, 247(2), 248.
Barrosa (ship), 343.
Bartlett.Bartlet, ,
103.
Abbie P., 228.
Cyrus, 228.
Joseph Elbridge,
228.
Nathaniell, 271.
W. P., 97, 123.
Walter Price,204(2).
Bartholomew, Bar-
tholmew, Henry,
151, 188, 194.
Barton, , 14.
Elizabeth(Roberts),
197.
John, 197(3).
Dr. John, 69(2).
Samuel, 197.
Thomas, 197.
Zaccheus, 197.
Bassano, Antonio, 176.
Dorcas, 175, 176.
Edward, 175, 176.
Bassano, Geronimo,
176.
Bassett, William, 79.
Basterre (W. I.), 5.
Bateman, , 143.
Bates, , 243.
Capt., 15.
Bath, Elnor, 158(2).
William, 158(3).
Batter, , 70, 71,
159, 266, 268.
Edmund, 65, 145,
153(2), 157, 158,
159, 202(2), 203,
272.
Hannah, 203.
Martha, 202.
Beachum, Beacham,
, 156(2).
Edward, 159, 365.
Elizabeth, 365.
Beadle,Claramon,313.
John, 312.
Mary (Finneley),
312.
Nathaniel, 80, 159,
206.
Samuel, 188.
William, 56, 312.
Bean, Beane, , 43,
58(2), 60, 239.
Abby Geneva, 309.
Amos, 343.
Arthur N., 58, 316.
Charles Henry, 309.
Hannah, 42(2).
Harper, 243.
Henry Atwood, 308,
309.
Levi, 309.
Lucy Ann, 309.
Mary (Phelps), 309.
Oriette Ellen, 309.
Samuel, 309.
William, 159.
Beaver (snow), 117.
Becket, Beckett, ,
208.
John, 159(2).
William, 112(3).
Beckford, Bickford,
, 12.
Dea., 14.
Eben H., 63.
Eben Hunt, 314.
INDEX.
871
Beckford. Pinson, 14.
Samuel, 322.
Beecher, Ann, 318.
George, 318.
John, 318(2).
Lydia (Haigh), 318.
Samuel, 318.
Belfrey, Francis, 322
(2).
Belknap, Henry W.,
256.
Bell, Charlotte, 306.
Webb, 306.
Belle Poole (ship),
343(2).
Bellerophon (ship),
337.
Benjamin, Joseph, 343.
Bennet, , 51.
Benson, William, 322.
Bentley, , 299.
Dr., 199, 200.
Rev. William, 178.
Beram, John, 271.
Bergen, Jane, 807.
Sarah, 307.
William, 307.
Berkeley, Sir Wil-
liam, 179, 181.
Berry, Eliza (Pope),
306.
Mary Ann, 306.
Matthew, 306.
Bersy, Francis, 322.
Best, John, 343.
Bethrick, Sarah, 305.
Betsey (brigantine),
101, 102(2), 109.
Betsy (ship), 323, 331,
335, 336.
Beverly (Mass.),76(2),
80(2), 103, 148-151,
158, 159.
Bicksler, John, 198.
Bigelow, Allen, 241.
Bingham, Ann, 306.
Elizabeth, 306.
George H., 806.
Hannah, 306.
Henry, 61, 306(2).
Henry F., 306.
John William, 806.
Bird, , 241.
Lawrence, 242.
Margaret, 241, 242.
Birdsall, Elizabeth
(Corsa), 314.
Henry, 367.
Margaret, 814.
Nathaniel, 367.
Peter, 314.
Bishop, Bushop, Brid-
get, 197.
Edward, 70, 73, 159,
272(2), 282.
John, 322.
Richard, 362, 363(3),
364(3).
Black Prince (priva-
teer), 114.
Black Prince (ship),
111.
Blackburn, Ann, 318.
Mary (Shepard), 318
Richard, 318.
Blake, Harold F., 231.
Mary Ella, 231.
Blanchard, , 52,
63.
Abel, 51. 56, 63.
Bland, David, 68.
Blaynee, John, 160.
Blethen, John, 71.
Eleven, John, 274.
Bliss, , 7.
Blood, Roger, 309.
Blunt, , 57(3),167.
David, 171.
I. O., 53, 56.
Isaac O., 56.
Joshua Milton, 57.
Samuel P., 67.
Blunt & Co., 53.
Bly, John, 78, 268(2).
Blyth, Blythe, ,
118.
Edward, 318.
Elizabeth, 308.
Mary, 318.
Mary Ann (Ogg),
318.
Boardman, , 206.
Daniel, 340.
Francis, 206.
Boden, Capt. Abijah,
104.
Bodervine (privateer
sloop), 118(2).
Bogart, John, 342.
Bond, Albert, 53.
Bonner, Margaret,315.
Ned, 315.
Boot, James, 252.
Mary, 252.
Booth, George, 65(2).
Symon, 160.
Thomas, 344.
Boston (Mass.), 4, 5
(3), 8(2), 7(4), 11,
13, 14(2), 16, 140-
144, 148, 276, 280.
Bott, James, 301.
Boulter, Nathaniel,
34(2).
Bourne, Bourn, ,
126, 133.
Angelina (Call),133.
Charles Foster, 183.
Charles W., 133.
Charles Wesley,183.
Edith Charlotte, 133
Gertrude E., 133.
Hazel Angelina, 133.
Manly Phelps. 133.
William, 141, 283.
Bovinton, Thomas, 72.
Bowditcb, Boudich,
, 113.
Capt., 109, 119.
Capt. H., 120.
John, 11.
William, 156.
Bowen, Bouen, Claud-
ius, 154.
N., 276.
Boxford (Mass.), 3,
141(2).
Boyce, Boise, Benja-
min, 243.
Delia, 243.
Joseph, 188(3).
Boyd, John, 842.
Boyden, Thomas, 260.
Boyn (ship), 326.
Boynton, , 243.
Catherine, 170, 317.
John, 170.
Margaret (Taylor),
170.
Richard, 161, 166,
169, 170(2), 239,
817.
Rosella, 170.
William R., 63.
Brackett,Thomai, 180
372
INDEX.
Bradford, , 256.
Robert, 282.
Bradford (ship), 324.
Bradish, , 13.
Bradley, Bradly, Dan-
iel, 43.
Eveline, 95.
J. Putnam, 52, 245.
John, 46.
Joseph, 42, 43.
Josiah P., 59.
Mary, 314.
Susanna, 44, 46.
Bradstreet, , 11,
295, 296.
Dr., 42.
Gov., 293.
Madame, 266.
Abigail (Porter),
227.
Anna, 293.
Rev. Benjamin, 277.
Billy, 222.
Elizabeth, 222.
Elizabeth (Fisk),
221.
Henry, 227.
John, 221.
Moses, 282.
Nabby, 227.
Priscilla, 221.
Bragg, Bragge, Hen-
ry, 73.
Thomas, 323.
Brathwaite, Abigail,
348, 352.
George, 348, 852.
John, 352.
Brama, Russell, 343.
Brandywine (brigan-
tine), 118(2).
Brasy, Brasey, ,
322.
Francis, 322.
Brattle, Col., 8.
Bray, , 266.
John, 36(2).
Zachy, 323.
Breed, Nathan, 284.
Breen, Francis, 164.
Hannah Maria, 164.
John Henry, 164.
Mary (McQuade),
164.
Brennan, Bridget,252.
Brennan, Ellen (Reed),
252.
Martin, 252.
Breton, Cape, 96(2).
Bridge, Briges, Ed-
mond, 150(2).
Louisa, 230.
Briggs, Anna, 292.
Enos, 207.
James B., 202.
Thomas, 206, 291
(2), 292(4).
Brimmer, M., 100(2).
Bristol (Eng.), 16.
Broad, , 60.
Broadhurst, Eliza-
beth, 251.
Bromley, Charles,252.
Mary Jane, 252.
William Elley, 252.
Bronnell, , 62(2),
171.
Brookhouse, N., 117.
Robert, 117.
Brooks, John, 117.
Brow, Capt., 14.
Brown, , 205.
Capt., 72, 147(2).
A. H., 56, 244, 245,
249.
Amanda, 310.
AsaH., 60,239.
Asa Hutchinson,
309, 310.
Benjamin, 82, 196,
292, 295.
Eben, 310(2).
Edwin Stiles, 244.
Emma (Cross), 310
Francis, 84, 140(2).
George, 307.
Hannah. 295.
Henry Bacon, 244.
James, 221.
John, 282, 323, 328
(2).
Joseph, 60, 310.
Laura Albina, 244.
Lucy Almira, 310.
Marcella Lucy, 310.
Margaret, 218.
Moses, 119.
Nathaniel, 218, 282.
Sarah, 221.
Brown, William, 159,
271, 295(2), 344.
William, jr., 262.
Capt. William, 204
(2), 205.
Browne, , 74.
Capt., 148, 151.
Benjamin F., 193,
289.
Eleazer, 273.
James, 160, 297.
John, 27, 203,297(3).
Lydia, 297.
Mary, 205.
Capt. N., 111(2).
William, 205, 210,
211, 293(2).
William, jr., 149,
153.
William, sr., 73, 153
(2), 158.
Capt. William, 73(2),
76-78, 148, 153,
154(2), 159, 260.
Maj. William, 296.
Brownell, Adeline
Frances, 241.
Charles Henry, 241.
Elijah, 62, 241.
George Allen, 241.
George Wild, 241.
James Harvey, 241.
John Dyer, 241.
Louisa Josephine,
241.
Mary Susan, 241.
Perry, 241.
Ruth (Smith), 241.
Sarah, 241.
Sarah Elizabeth,
241.
Silas, 241.
William Henry, 241.
Bruce, Sarah, 254(4).
Bruler, Capt., 5.
Brutus (ship), 120,
121, 122, 204.
Bryant, Capt., 334,
339.
Buchannan, Alexan-
der, 323.
Buckley, Alice (Bot-
tomley), 166.
Charles Henry, 166.
Edwin, 165, 167.
INDEX.
378
Buckley, Elizabeth,
165.
Janet Beatrice, 165.
Hannah, 165.
James, 166.
John, 165(2), 166.
Mary, 166.
Sarah, 165.
William, 165.
Buddington, Asa, 342.
Buffington, , 113.
Capt. J., 109.
John, 124(2).
Capt. John, 107,
110.
Buffum, Buffom, Ca-
leb, 77, 359(2),360,
366(3).
Henry, 323(2).
Bula (ship), 326(2).
Bullock, Alice, 190.
Harry, 190.
Henry, jr., 190.
John, 80, 262.
John, 363, 366.
Bunker Hill (priva-
teer ship), 109.
Buntin, James, 342.
York, 343.
Burchmore, , 111,
112, 114.
Burhell, Charles, 340.
Burke, Burk, ,
353.
James, 343.
Burnett, John, 343.
Burnham, Burnam,
Burnum, Capt.,
95.
Abbie P., 228.
Benjamin, 96.
Caleb, 96.
David, 343.
Elizabeth (Wells),
95.
Jonathan,95(3),282.
Capt. Jonathan, 95,
96.
Nathan, 96(2).
Thomas, 95.
Burr, , 248, 307.
Samuel, 59.
Burrall, John, 79.
Burton, John, 150,
367.
Burtt, Burt,
(5).
Angelina, 243.
Augusta, 243.
Benjamin, 53, 309,
317.
Brown, 243(2).
Cadwallader F.,243.
Delia, 243(2).
Elizabeth, 243.
Eunice, 243(2).
Ford, 243.
G. N., 57(2).
Hannah, 243.
Henry, 243.
James, 243.
Jane, 243.
Jedediah, 57.
Rebecca M.,243.
Rebecca Manser
(Messer), 242(2).
Thomas, 243.
W. H., 57(2).
William, 242(2), 243
(2).
William, jr., 243.
William, sen., 243.
William Cadwalla-
der, 243.
William H., 57.
Buswell, Samuel, 25.
Butler, , 244, 320.
Ann, 252.
George, 343.
Richard, 252.
Butnam, F. C., 294.
Jeremiah, 271.
Butten, Robert, 189(2)
Butterfield, Elizabeth,
162.
Butters, Butter, ,
63.
Benjamin, 63, 161
(2), 162(2).
Eliza, 50.
Elizabeth, 161,162(2)
Elizabeth(Jaquith),
161.
George, 162.
Lucinda, 161.
Martha, 162.
Mehitable, 162.
Nancy, 162.
William, 161.
Buxton, An, 70.
, 243 Byrns, James, 323.
Cabot, , 11.
A., 105, 111.
Andrew, 104, 108(2).
Francis, 118.
George, 102, 104.
Capt. (ieorge, 104.
John, 7.
Samuel, 121.
Stephen, 104.
Cadiz (Spain), 17, 18.
Caffrey, Ann, 316(4).
Bridget, 316(2).
Ellen, 316(2).
James, 166, 316.
Jane, 166.
Jennie, 316.
John, 316.
Kate, 310.
Margaret, 316(2).
Mary, 316(2).
Owen, 167, 316(2).
Patrick, 316(2).
Thomas, 316(2).
William, 316.
Cage, Mary, 355.
Tobias, 355.
Calder, , 56, 244.
William, 56, 251.
Caldwell, , 54, 63,
171.
Hannah, 318.
Joseph, 318.
Lucinda (Butters),
161(2).
Rufus F., 161.
Samuel, 161.
Sarah (Hollins),318.
Caldwell & Barker,
240.
Calfe, Robert, 47.
Calhotin, , 249.
Call, Benjamin, 100.
Freeman, 848.
Callahan, John, 250.
Mary (Flaherty),
250(2).
Thomas, 250(2).
Callender, Ellis, 285,
286, 287, 288.
Callet, William, 328.
Calley, John, 156.
Callum, Calem, ,
210.
874
INDEX.
Callum, Austen, 210.
David, 323.
John, 323.
Calton, William, 101.
Cambrian (ship), 323,
324, 334.
Cambridge (Mass.), 4
(4), 6, 7, 9, 11(5)-
18, 15(2).
Campbell, Davis, 135.
Donald, 135.
Herbert A., 135(2).
Jimmy, 199.
Mabel C., 135.
Margaret, 135.
Paul, 135.
Canso (N. S.), 11.
Card, , 248.
Carline, Tobias, 342.
Carlton, Carleton,
, 124.
Capt., 4.
Hannah(Ward),313.
James, 313.
Mary, 11.
Mary Elizabeth,313.
Samuel, 123.
William, 122.
Carnes, Mary, 231.
Matthew Mansfield,
231.
Carney, William, 344.
Carr, Richard, 342.
Carrell, Capt., 126.
John, 126.
Capt. Philip, 126,
127.
Sarah, 126.
Carter, Elizabeth,314.
Maria (Ward), 314.
Samuel, 314.
Carthew, Capt., 321,
340.
Cartwright, Capt.,
322(2).
Carver, James, 342.
Gary, Adeline, 133.
Claudia, 133.
Frank, 133.
Joseph, 323.
Casco Bay (Me.), 15.
Case, , 266(2).
Samuell, 31.
Cash, , 266.
Cass, John, 30, 31.
Cass, Joseph, 30(4),
31(6), 32(3).
Samuell, 30(3), 31
(4), 32.
Caston, Thomas, 253.
Castor (privateer
schooner), 110.
Cato (brigantine),117.
Catherine of Russia,
289.
Cavanaugh, , 167.
Ann, 167.
Barney, 167.
Margaret, 313.
Mary Elizabetb,167.
Michael, 167.
Thomas, 167(8).
Thomas, 244, 249,
307, 313.
Cavis, Nathaniel, 96.
Centipede (schooner),
111, 115, 117, 119,
120(2).
Centipede (privateer
schooner), 112,
113.
Ceres (ship), 341,342.
Chadwick, , 328,
334(2).
John, 323.
Challis, Timothy,323.
Chambers, Aaron,
313(2).
Abraham, 813.
Amelia (Firth), 313.
Amelia Jane, 313.
Charles, 313.
Charles James, 313.
George, 313.
George Aaron, 313.
Henry, 313.
Joseph, 313.
Mary Elizabeth,313.
Moses, 313.
Rawson, 313.
Roselyn Ann, 313.
Samson, 313.
Sarah, 313.
Sarah Ann, 313.
Chandler, , 54, 64,
241.
Hannah (Dingley),
309.
Harriet Bisbee, 309.
Herman, 306.
Chandler, Herman P.,
53.
John, 1.
Capt. John, jr., 183.
Nancy, 183.
Samuel, 309.
Channing, Rev. Wil-
liam Ellery, 172.
Chapman, Capt., 330,
331.
Charlestown (Mass.),
7, 9, 10.
Charlton, , 134.
Dorothy Elizabeth,
134.
Grace Eleanor, 184.
Jane (Walton), 134.
Jonathan, 134.
Mabel A., 134.
Rev. John E., 134.
Rev. John Edward,
134.
Charming Polly (brig-
antine), 112.
Charming Polly
(schooner), 117.
Chase, , 42(2), 43.
James, 32(2).
Thomas, 26, 31.
Chatham (schooner),
114.
Chatterton, James,
313.
Sarah, 313.
Cheatham, Elizabeth,
308.
Fanny, 308.
Hannah, 308.
James, 308.
Mary Ann, 308.
Ralph, 308.
Checkley, Bill, 12.
Chever, Cheever, ,
106, 155, 257, 260,
261, 273.
Daniel, 323.
Elizabeth, 128.
Elizabeth Carrell,
127.
Eunice, 128.
Eunice (Moulton),
127.
James, 323.
James, jr., 323.
John, 127.
INDEX.
375
Chever, Peter, 65, 68,
76, 78, 146,158-155,
258, 261.
Sally, 126.
Samuel, 323.
Chesapeake (ship),
332.
Chesterfield, ,106.
Chickering, , 239,
240.
Childs, George, 323
(2).
Timothy, 339.
Chipman, , 2, 15.
Joseph, 124.
Choat, , 278.
Benjamin, 279.
Christeen,Charles,311
Mary, 811.
Christian (brigantine)
105.
Christian 7th (ship),
344.
Christie, Alexander,
312.
John, 312.
Leonard, 312.
Mary, 312.
Church, Benjamin,
343, 344.
Wright, 344.
Chute, Doctor, 239.
Circe (ship), 343(2).
Claredon, Edward,
167.
Ellen, 167(2).
Clark, , 1, 2, 14,
15, 58(2), 63, 247,
314, 324, 334.
Doctor, 249.
Abijah, 59(2).
Ambrose, 314.
Benjamin, 5, 8, 59,
314.
Elizabeth Jane, 247.
Emerson, 342.
Ephraim, 44.
Hannah, 59(2), 296.
Isaac, 324.
James, 320.
John, 59(2), 294.
Jonathan, 44,
Joseph, 56, 814.
Letitia (Baldwin),
247.
Clark, Lewis, 247.
Lewis Barren, 247.
Lucy Ann, 814.
Lydia, 59.
Martha Ann, 59.
Mary, 59(2), 320.
N.,59, 163,165,166,
251.
Nathan, 59(2), 63.
Nathan Franklin,
59.
Nathaniel, 58, 59(2),
314.
Peter, 59.
Capt. Peter, 247.
Rebecca (Fuller),
314.
Rhoda (Saunders),
314.
Richard, 58.
Richard Pinch, 247.
William, 59.
Zoa, 314.
Clarke, , 2, 3(3),
4, 10, 77, 175(2)
Rev., 4, 91.
Matthew, 44.
N., 306.
Cleaves, William, 282.
Clement, , 56.
Ann, 46, 47.
Marie, 248.
William, 47.
Clemens, Clemmons,
demons, Daniel,
36.
John, 324.
Capt. John, 55.
Priscilla, 55.
Robert, 55.
Cleveland, Capt. S.,
114.
Cliff, James, 324.
Joseph, 324.
Peter, 324.
Clifford, Clefford,
Capt., 16, 17(3),
18(2).
Brigett, 29.
John, 35(2), 159.
Serj. John, 257.
Clisby, Aaron War-
ner, 162.
Alonzo, 162.
John, 162.
Clisby, Capt. John P
162.
Joseph, 162, 307.
Martha, 102(2).
Mary, 162.
Ripley A., 162.
Cloutman, Joseph,
324(2).
Coburn, Loammi, 294.
Rose (negro), 62.
Cochran, John, 312.
Mary, 312.
Cock, William, 265.
Cockle, J., 142.
James, 278.
Cod, Philix, 43.
Coffin, , 4, 5(2), 9,
41.
Captain, 281.
John, 324(2).
Joseph, 324.
Joshua, 41.
Coggin, Rev. William
S., 228.
Coglan, Capt., 326.
Cogswell, Cogswel,
Esquire, 162, 249.
Ebenezer, 95.
Francis, 52.
Dr. George, 228(2).
John, 96.
Colbroth, , 92.
Colby, Philip, 240.
Sarah, 48.
Colcord, Ed.,sr.,32(2).
Edward, 32.
Colder, , 315.
William, 54.
Cole, , 118, 285,
801.
Capt., 105.
Andrew, 220.
Abraham, 159.
Rebecca, 220.
William, 110.
Coleman, Daniel, 252.
Jona., 342.
Nellie (Hoar), 252.
Collenr, Frederick,
272.
Collet, William, 324.
Collins, , 121, 267,
269(3), 270.
Capt. John, 115,
122.
376
INDEX.
Collum, David, 324.
Comet (ship), 342(3),
343.
Commacy, Joseph,
343.
Commerce (ship), 329.
Compton, Dorothy,
349, 352.
Conant, , 133.
Adeline, 133.
Alton, 129.
Alton Lawrence,
129, 133.
Arthur Herbert,133.
Charles Augustus.
127.
Cyrus W., 129.
Cyrus William, 129.
Edna Cheever, 133.
Esther Adelaide,
133.
Hannah Fiske, 235.
Gennie G., 133.
Martha (Perley),
129.
Roger Gary, 133.
Ruth Foster, 133.
Sarah C., 129.
Dea. William Fos-
ter, 129.
William Herbert,
129, 133.
Congress (privateer
schooner), 108.
Congress (schooner),
108.
Connell, , 54, 55.
James, 54.
James Andrew, 55.
Robert, 55.
William, 54, 55, 308.
Connor, Connors,
Charles, 315.
Jesse, 342.
Patrick, 316.
Conte, Stephen, 108.
Conway, Conaway,
, 325.
George, 325.
John, 325.
Samuel, 325.
Cook. Cooke, , 2.
Capt., 333.
Doctor, 204.
Henry, 190, 367.
Cook, Isaac, 70, 71,77,
363(2), 367.
Capt. James, 204.
Capt. Jo., 109.
John, 77.
Capt. Joseph, 112.
Judith, 190, 367.
Mary, 183.
Capt. Nathaniel,
183, 215.
Capt. Samuel, 204.
Sarah, 215.
William, 15.
Coombs, Humphrey,
272.
Cooper, , 56.
Corben, Daniel, 342.
Corliss, , 44.
Hannah, 43.
Huldah, 42.
John, 43, 44.
Mary, 42.
Cornwall (ship), 16,
105.
Corwin, see also Cur-
win.
Corwin, Corwine,
Capt., 146, 151,
267.
Georg, 271, 358.
Capt. George, 68,
69, 75, 153, 159,
160(2).
Capt. John, 66(3),
67(3), 68, 70, 75-
77, 80(2), 149, 150
(2)-152, 154, 159,
260, 267, 268, 274
(2).
Jonathan, 260.
Lydia, 296, 358.
Cosgrove, Patrick,315.
Cosker, - , 181.
Susanna, 181.
Cotterill, , 162.
Nancy, 162.
Cottnam, Cotnam,
Captain, 276.
Samuel, 284.
Cotton, , 3(6), 26.
Seaborn, 26.
Cousins, James, 310.
Covel, John, 344.
Cowper, , 175.
John, 175.
Cowther, John, 309.
Coyl, Ann, 163(2),316.
John, 163.
Peter, 163.
Rose, 163.
Crafts, Eleazer, 96.
Craniver, Craniuer,
Cranever, ,
89, 266-270.
Creed, Capt. William,
110, 111(2), 112,
117, 122(2).
Cresant (ship), 321,
340(2).
Cresy (ship), 343(4).
Croad, Richard, 156,
257.
Crocker, John, 83.
Cromwell, , 159,
267.
John, 78, 80.
Ph., 149, 150, 152.
Philip, 65, 66(3), 67
(2), 68, 75-77, 80,
155, 156, 260, 267,
272, 297.
Thomas, 159.
Cromwell (privateer),
115.
Cromwell (ship), 110,
116.
Cross, Col. Ralph,118.
Stephen, 84.
Crowninshield, ,
11,195,206, 327.
Capt., 3.
Abigail, 200.
Anna, 200.
Clifford, 183, 195(2),
200(2).
Benjamin W., 206.
Eliza, 200, 202.
Elizabeth, 178, 183,
200.
Francis, 206.
Capt. George, 14.
Jacob, 339.
John, 183, 195.
Capt. John, 15.
Dr. John Casper,
195, 200.
Margaret, 200.
Martha, 200.
Mary (Ives), 183.
Moly, 12.
INDEX.
377
Crowinshield, Nancy,
200.
Sally, 200.
Crowningshield(ship),
15.
Culpepper, Alleyn,
349.
Francis, 349.
Cummings, , 239.
Cunningham, Sir Da-
vid, 18.
Currier, , 37.
John, 44.
Curio (ship), 331,334.
Curtis, Courtiss, Cur-
tice, Alathea, 228.
Francis, 222.
John, 228.
Molly, 222.
Thomas, 343.
William, 69, 150,
272, 273.
William, jr., 348.
Curwin, see also Cor-
win.
Curwin, Curwen,
297.
Rev. George, 297.
John, 325(2).
Mehitable, 297.
Morris, 325(2).
dishing, , 2,5,346.
Cutler, Samuell, 272.
Cutter, David, 343.
Cutter (schooner),
123(2).
Cynthia (ship), 331(3),
334, 335(2).
Dalton, , 99, 325.
Edward, 340.
Elizabeth, 35.
John, 36, 325(2).
Mehitable,25, 35(2),
36.
Philemon,29. 31,32.
Samuel, 23, 24.
Samuel M., 325(2),
326.
Sarah, 325.
Timothy, 25.
Damon, Eunice, 229.
Dane, Herman, 54.
Danforth, Judge, 6.
Danger (ship), 826.
Daniels,Dannils, ,
10, 332,
Danvers(Mass.), 1(2),
2, 3(3), 4, 9(2), 14
(2), 137, 144, 277,
285, 356, 357.
Darling, Captain, 276.
George, 145, 148,
149.
Dascomb, Deacon, 53,
57.
Osgood, 57.
Davenport, William,
278.
Davidson, John, 340.
Davis, Davies, - ,
3, 9, 12, 14, 15, 17,
55, 126, 127, 307.
Daniel, 342.
Elizabeth, 223, 233.
George, 343.
Gilman, 63, 247.
John, 344.
Jones, 251.
Levi, 240, 307.
William, 344.
Davlin, James, 320.
Martha (Beach),
320.
Mary, 320.
Dawson, William, 326
(2).
Day, Charles M., 313.
Emily, 313.
George Franklin,
313.
John, 313.
Katie, 313.
Mary Jane, 313.
Mary Lizzie, 313.
Richard Edward,
313.
Susan Lizzie, 313.
William Harrison,
313.
Deadman, Capt., 9.
Dean, Deane, ,
354.
Capt., 7, 13.
Capt. Benjamin, 103
(2), 104.
Georg, 272.
J., 100.
John Ward, 354(2).
Capt. Thomas, 13.
Dearborn, Darborn,
,57.
Alvah, 167(2).
Benjamin, 57.
Benjamin A., 167.
Clara H., 167.
Dorothy Ann, 169.
Edward, 169.
Eliza, 169.
Eliza Jane, 168.
Henry, 35(2).
Isabella, 167.
James, 169, 244.
James Edward, 169.
James F., 167.
James W., 167(2).
John Sias, 169.
Josiah, 167.
Nathaniel, 168.
Nathaniel F., 169,
244.
Noah, 326.
Philinda IT., 167.
Sarah (Leavitt),167.
Sarah Maria, 169.
William H., 167.
Dearden, Hannah, 165.
James, 165.
Death, Deeth, Abi-
gail, 348(2), 350-
352(2).
Elizabeth, 352.
Patience, 348, 252.
William, 348(2)-o52.
Deblois, George, 276.
Stephen, jr., 276.
Decatur, Com., 336.
Decrow, Betsey, 251.
Dedham (ship), 243.
Delaware (schooner),
109.
Delight (schooner),
121, 124(2).
Denham, Alexsander,
25.
William, 344.
Densmore, , 56.
Derby, Darby, - ,
14, 177, 178(2),
300, 338.
Capt., 7, 9(5), 11(2),
13(3), 14, 15(3), 17
(2), 18(3)-20(6)-
22(2).
Benjamin, 57.
378
INDEX.
Derby, E. H., 105,108,
117, 121.
E. Hersey, 302.
Elias Basket, 99,
110, 119,
John, 57.
R., 84.
Richard, 14,104,297.
Capt. Richard, 119.
Richard, jr., 14, 110.
Samuel, 285.
Desiree (ship), 344(2)
Devereux, James,200.
Sally, 200.
Diamond (snow), 16.
Dickie, George, 227.
Syrena, 227.
Diggles, Fanny, 245.
Mary (Nuttall), 245.
Peter, 245.
Diligence (sloop), 112.
Diligense (ship), 323.
Dilton, Samuel, 343.
Diman, - , 3, 4, 11,
12, 136, 137(2),
138.
Rev., 91, 136.
Dispute (sloop), 115.
Ditson & Co., 85.
Dixey, Dixee, Thom-
as, jr., 79.
William, 282.
Dixon, Capt., 18.
Doane, - , 20(2).
Dodge, - , 127, 235,
301.
Capt., 14.
Skipper, 220.
Anna, 220(2).
Elizabeth, 48.
Eunice, 194.
George, 107, 116,
119.
George,jr., 117, 121.
Capt. George, 107,
118.
Hannah, 222.
John, 150.
John, sr., 149.
Jonathan, jr., 223.
Joshua, 101, 107(2),
194.
Mary Bridge, 235.
Rebecca, 223.
Dole, , 240, 246(2),
314.
Caesar (negro), 61.
Dudley (negro), 61.
Elsie (negro), 61.
Richard, sr., 26.
William S., 56.
Dolphin (brig), 117.
Dolphin (brigantine),
124.
Dolphin (privateer
schooner), 99(2),
100(3), 101,102(2).
Dolphin (schooner),
120, 124(2).
Domingo, 17.
Donnel, , 55.
Doris (ship), 342, 343.
Dorman, John, 326.
Dorr, , 55.
Joseph, 245.
Dorset (ship), 118.
Dove, John, 326.
Matthew, 77, 78.
Dover, , 10.
Dow, Clara Isabella
(Austin), 134.
Daniel, 28.
Fred Howard, 134.
Henry, 27, 28(2), 82,
34.
Joseph, 25.
Martha, 44(2).
Mary, 44.
Sadie Louise, 134.
Samuel, 28, 32, 34.
Stephen, 43, 44(2).
Downing, Albert Hen-
ry, 315.
Anna, 293.
Eben Bailey, 315.
Eliza Rebecca, 315.
Emanuel, 293.
Sir George, 293.
George Samuel, 315.
Gertrude Emily,
315.
Horace Frye, 315.
Laura Augusta,315.
Rebecca Hildreth,
815.
Ruby (Frye), 315.
Samuel, 315(2).
Dowse, J., 142.
Dowst, Billy, 208, 209.
Doyne, , 45.
Dragon (schooner),
101.
Dragon (ship), 328.
Drake, Abraham, 25.
Dransfield, Elizabeth
(Smith), 246.
John, 246(2).
Sarah (Wildsmith),
246.
Drayton, Anna, 248.
John, 248.
Driver, Thomas, 326.
Duckinfield, J., 327(2).
Thomas, 327.
William, 327.
Dudley, Dudly, ,
30.
Biley, 30.
Elizabeth, 23.
Samuel, 23(3), 30.
Duff, , 81.
Duffy, Anna Maria,
318.
Cordace, 318.
James, 318.
Joseph, 318.
Margaret, 318.
Margaret C. D.
(Cavanaugh), 317.
Mary, 318(2).
Patrick, 317(2).
Thomas, 318.
Duke of Leinster
(ship), 104.
Dunlap, John, 63.
Dunn, Thomas, 241.
Dunstan, John, 344.
Durant, Edward, 327.
Dustin, Duston, ,
43, 44.
John, 343.
Sally, 49.
Dwinnell, Dunnell,
, 303.
Jacob, 142.
Dyson, , 121.
John, 103, 107.
Eager, Jonathan, 159
(2).
Eagle (pilot boat),lll.
Eames, , 2, 64.
Benjamin, 243(2).
Hannah, 243(2).
INDEX.
879
Eames, James, 243.
Jonathan, 243.
Samuel, 51.
Vashti, 243.
East India Packet
(snow), 109.
Eastward (ship), 335.
Eastick, , 269,
270.
Eastwick, Katherine.
349.
Richard, 349.
Thomas, 349.
Eastwood, Elizabeth,
247.
Hannah (Batty),247.
William, 247.
Eaton, Israel, 327.
John, 327.
Jonathan, jr., 47.
WilliamGreene,329,
340.
Echo (ship), 329.
Edes, , 285-288.
Edwards, Capt, 328.
Thomas, 282.
Edy, Daniel, 327.
Egremont(snow), 117.
Elder, Rebecca, 50.
Eldridge, Elijah, 327.
Joshua, 327.
Elephant (ship), 342.
Eliza and Ann (ship),
112.
Elizabeth (brig), 110
(2).
Elizabeth (schooner),
110.
Elk (ship), 326.
Elkins, , 17, 18,
194.
Capt., 9, 12.
Thomas, sen., 298.
Elledge, Benjamin,
327.
Richard, 327.
Ellery, Captain, 279.
Elizabeth, 172.
William, 172(2).
Ellett, Andrew, 149
(2), 150.
Ellinwood, David, 45.
Elliot, Elliott, An-
drew, 282.
Edmund, 25.
Ellis, , 54, 55, 61,
162, 163, 241, 245,
246, 251, 252.
Charlotte Augusta,
252.
Elizabeth, 251.
Elizabeth (Swet-
more), 61.
Emily, 251.
Francis, 296(2).
Frederick Lawton,
252.
John, 61(2).
Mary Jane, 252.
Mathew Henry,252.
Valentine, 61.
Ellsworth, Jeremiah,
131.
Elson, Joseph, 327.
Elwell, Edward Al-
bert, 51.
Jeremiah, 51,
Louisa, 51.
Nellie, 51.
Emerson, , 2(2).
Abigail, 91.
George L., 234.
Harriet Elizabeth,
234.
Joseph, 95, 327.
Mary, 44, 47.
Sarah, 42, 44.
Emery, Dr., 189.
George, 189.
Emmerton, Emerton,
E., 120.
Jeremiah, 194(2).
Emperor, , 180.
Elizabeth, 181, 182.
Mary, 181, 182.
Tully, 181(2),182(3).
Endeavour (brigan-
tine), 112.
Endicott, Endecott,
, 255, 258.
Governor, 199.
Grace (Symonds),
219.
William P., 303.
Z., 271.
Zerubabel, 216, 219.
England, 17.
English, , 197.
Mary, 205.
Philip, 196, 197, 205.
Enterprise (ship),178.
Eolus(ship), 323.
Epps, Epes, Eppes,
, 3, 7, 8, 11.
Betty, 4.
Daniel,69(3), 156(2),
271(2).
Daniel.jr., 69,271(4).
Erving,see also Irving.
Ewing, , 239, 246
(2).
John, 827.
Essex Co., 26, 275.
Essex (ship), 122, 207,
208, 323.
Estes, Clara, 167.
Mary (Larrabee),
167.
Nathaniel, 167.
Esther (ship), 122.
Eunice (ship), 335.
Evans, Jacob, 343.
Thomas, 35(2).
Exeter (N. H.), 23(6),
24(8), 25(2), 28(5),
29(2), 80, 34, 36
(3).
Exetor (ship), 338.
Fairburn, , 311.
Charles, 311.
Elizabeth (Kipley),
311.
Friend, 311.
George, 311.
Sarah, 311.
Fairfield, John, 216,
327(2).
Mary, 219.
Nathaniel, 219.
Sarah, 219.
Sarah (Geare), 216.
Fairley,Mary (Gavin),
164.
Matthew, 164.
Fallon, Bridget (Red-
ington), 318.
Mary, 318.
Matthew, 318.
Falmouth (ship), 284.
Fame (brigantine),
112, 118, 115(2),
118, 123.
Fame (privateer brig-
antine), 112.
380
INDEX.
Farley, , 56.
I. A., 56.
Farlow, Meshack, 282.
Michael, 282.
Farmer, Elizabeth.
318(2).
Emily, 319.
John, 318.
Joseph, 318.
Susanna (Barber),
318.
Thomas, 318.
Farnham, Farnum,
, 55(3).
Edwin, 55,
Elizabeth, 306.
Frances, 55.
Isaac, 59.
Dea. Jedediah, 55.
John E., 245.
John Edwin, 55.
Martha Jane, 55.
Mary Gertrude, 55.
Morris Damon, 55.
Nellie Davis, 55.
Persis (Stevens), 59.
Susan Levina, 55.
Susanna (Johnson),
55.
Samuel Prescott,
306.
Farrar, Joshua, 307.
Mary, 307.
Ruth, 307.
Farrell, Edmund, 316
(2).
Elizabeth, 316.
Hannah (Healing),
316.
John, 316(2).
Mary, 316(2).
Patrick, 316(2).
Peter Nolan, 316.
Richard, 316.
Farrington, Fareng-
tone, Matthew,79.
Faulkner, Ann, 311.
Favorite (brigantine),
121.
Favorite (sloop), 115.
Favour, Hannah Burn-
ham, 54.
Joseph, 54.
Lydia, 54.
Fawks, Guy, 290(4).
Fayerweather, Nan-
cy, 8.
Federal Street (hymn-
tune), 184.
Fellows, Isaac, 282.
Sarah, 219.
Susan, 51.
Felt, , 114, 293.
David, 13, 120, 121,
124.
John, 327.
Felton, , 268, 270.
Ensign, 260.
Lieut., 189.
Benjamin, 266, 267,
269, 272.
John, 159.
Nathan, 191.
Nathaniel,66,71,157.
Ens. Nathaniel, 258.
Nathaniel, sen., 189
Ferguson, John, 342.
William, 63, 171.
Fessenden, Alice, 245.
Edmund M., 313.
Eliza, 245.
George Russell,245.
James Munroe, 245.
Ichabod, 245.
Rebecca (Munroe),
245.
Thomas, 7, 245.
William Comston,
245.
William Pitt, 245.
Fields, , 236.
Florence, 236.
Fifield, William, 25.
Filby, William, 328.
Fillebrown, William,
343.
Finn,Bridget (Casey),
315.
Catherine, 315.
Eliza, 315.
Eliza (Higgins),316.
John, 316.
Margaret, 315.
Mary, 315(3), 316.
Michael, 315.
Patrick, 315.
William, 315.
Firth, Amelia, 313.
Peter, 313,
Sarah (Cox), 313.
Fish, , 300.
Jonathon, 13.
Samuel, 53.
Fisher, Eliza, 200.
Nathaniel, 202.
Rev. Nathaniel,200,
201, 202.
Rebecca G., 226.
Theodore, 202.
Fisk. Fiske, 58.
Capt., 113.
John, 120, 159.
Capt. John, 104,
120.
Sarah, 213, 214, 229.
Thomas, 212(2)-214.
William, 214.
Fithin, Thomas, 327.
Fitzgerald, Dr. Ed-
ward, 301.
Margaret, 316.
Mary, 316.
William, 316.
Flagg, , 61, 99(2),
111, 112, 114.
Flaherty, John, 314.
Mary, 314(2).
Flash, , 350.
Jack, 350.
Fletcher, , 305.
Ada, 305.
Bathsheba, 305.
Edwin, 305.
Elizabeth, 252, 30
(2), 320.
Elizabeth Ettie, 320.
Ellen, 305.
Emma, 305.
Frank, 305.
George, 252, 305.
George Edwin, 320.
Jane, 305(3).
John, 305.
Martha Jane, 320.
Mary Ada, 320.
Parker, 312.
Samuel, 305.
Sarah Ann, 305.
Sarah (Barker),252.
William, 57, 248,
305, 320.
William Parker,320.
Flint, , 164, 327(2).
Alice, 190.
Edmund, 363, 366.
INDEX.
881
Flint, Edward, 65(2),
66(3)-68(2), 75-77,
79,80,145,146, 153,
160, 258, 267.
John, 57, 164.
Thomas, 156, 160(2).
William, 156, 190,
272.
Flora(brigantine),113.
Florence, John, 331,
336.
Floyd, Elizabeth, 218.
Fly (schooner), 121.
Flying Fish (cutter
sloop), 117.
Flying Fish (sloop),
119, 121.
Flynn, David, 163.
Mary, 162.
Mary Ann, 163.
Nancy (Callihan),
162.
Reuben, 162, 163.
Thomas, 162.
William, 163.
Folkstone, Rebecca,
353.
Folsom, Follsham,
Ephraim, 24.
John, jr., 28.
John, sr., 30(4).
Peter, 23, 24, 29, 30.
Foote, , 200.
Anna, 200.
Samuel, 200.
Forbes, Arthur, 165.
Janet, 165.
Margaret (Gilmore),
165.
Ford, ,242, 243.
Forman, John, 73,
Forrester, , 113,
834.
Capt., 100.
Capt. S., 118.
Capt. Simon, 102,
115.
Fortune (brigantine),
121(2), 122.
Foster, , 2, 6, 7,
61,64,241,250.
Capt., 61.
Amos, 363.
Andrew, 61.
Anna, 361(2).
Foster, George, 5, 6,
241.
Gen. Gideon, 293.
Hannah, 285.
Israel, 327.
Capt. Jeremiah, 96.
Job, 54.
John, 67, 188.
John, jr., 67, 96,188.
Joseph, 61, 64, 361
(2).
Lucy (negro), 54.
Moses, jr., 95.
Phineas, 222.
Priscilla, 222.
Robert, 332.
Samuel, 67(2).
Capt. T. C., 310.
Thomas C., 54.
Timothy, 61.
William, 61(3), 328
(2), 340.
William Phillips,
62, 309.
Fowler, Ezekiel, 328
(2).
Holten, 340.
Mary Ann, 231.
Fox (brig), 110.
Fox (brigantine), 110.
Fox (ship), 324.
Foye, , 195(3),
196(2).
William, 199.
Foye & Tuttle, 196.
Franchise (ship), 321.
Francis, Prince, 343.
Francois, Cape, 13.
Franklin (brig), 93(2).
Franklin (brigantine),
112.
Franklin (privateer
brig), 110(2).
Franklin (privateer
brigantine), 114.
Franklin (ship), 345.
Fraser, Capt., 13.
Frederick, Catherine,
317.
Freeman, Peter, 328.
Freestone, Elizabeth,
350.
French, Bulah, 251.
Charles, 239, 245.
Lillian, 238.
French, Timothy, 46.
Walter, 238.
Frere, Abigail, 349,
350, 353.
Abigail (Turner),
352.
Elizabeth, 353.
Hester, 353.
John, 352(2).
Rebecca, 353.
Thomas, 852.
Tobias, 349, 350(2),
352(3).
William, 353.
Friend, George, 328.
Friends (brigantine),
103.
Friendship (ship),114.
Frost, , 291.
Aaron, 59.
Emrna Ann, 312.
Love (York), 312.
Rebecca, 220.
Thomas, 312.
Fry, Frye, ,14,165
(2), 247.
Charles, 57.
John, 58, 165, 249,
251.
Nathan, 309.
Robert, 14.
Fryal (privateer), 114.
Fryer, , 254.
Thomas, 254.
Fuller, ,70.
Serg., 66, 71, 259.
Elijah, 294.
Gilles, 29.
Jacob, 2.
Jim, 2.
John, 32, 72, 73, 328.
Sarah (Smith), 226.
Thomas, 70.
Serg. Thomas, 157.
Thomas, sr., 72.
Timothy, 226.
William, 24.
C. Phoenix (ship),
342.
Gadshall, Zena, 328.
Gage, General, 92(2).
Josiah, 44(2).
Gaikell, Edward, 272.
Gale, , 329.
882
INDEX.
Gale, Benjamin, 200.
John, 328(4).
Martha, 200.
Samuel, 329.
Gallaway, Jonathan,
329.
Galliger, Nancy, 313.
Ganges (ship),331,334.
Gardner, ,2,14(2),
258, 260.
Captain, 293(2).
Abel, 362, 364, 365.
Anna, 293(2).
Benjamin, 198(4).
Betty, 1, 14.
Daniel, 14(2).
Elizabeth (Gard-
ner), 1.
G.,271.
George, 9.
Lieut. George, 362,
364.
Hannah, 198.
Henry, 225.
John, 10, 106, 293,
300.
Jonathan, 1.
Capt. Jonathan, 110
(2).
Joseph, 301, 302.
Capt. Joseph, 293
(2).
Lydia, 14(3).
Margaret, 297.
Mary, 198(2), 300.
Moses Meek, 198.
JR., 271.
Samuell, 1, 67(3),68,
75, 159, 264, 265
(2), 267(2), 268,
302(2), 362(3), 364
(3), 365, 366.
Capt. Samuel, 366.
Samuell, jr., 66, 67,
145, 160(2), 213,
362, 365.
Samuel, sr., 66, 70,
76, 78, 79, 145,
149, 152, 156(2).
Sarah, 198.
Thomas, 70, 293,
301-303, 361, 362
(2), 364(2).
Thomas, jr., 189(2).
Garland, Jacob, 26(2).
Garland,"John, 26(2),
Peter, 26.
Gaskill, Edward, 359,
360, 361.
Samuel, 364.
Samuel, jr., 860.
Samuel, sen., 360.
Gaskin, Samuel, 71,
364, 365.
Gatchell, , 268.
Joseph, 268.
Gedney, Gidney, Bar-
tholomew, 66, 75,
77-79, 152, 155,
158, 268, 274, 296
(2).
Col. Bartholomew,
187, 358.
Bethiah, 358.
Deborah, 358.
Eleazer, 77.
Hannah, 296, 358.
John, 65(2), 260,
296.
John, sen., 186,297.
Lydia, 358.
Samuel, 296, 358.
Susannah, 297.
George II (England),
Gerrish, , 202.
Benja[min], 13, 151,
202, 297(2), 365.
Hannah (Ruck),202.
Lydia, 297.
Gibaut, Geboe, Capt.,
3, 9, 15, 340, 341.
Capt. Edward, 106,
107, 109, 112, 123.
Gibbs, Gibb, , 5,
10(2), 12, 116, 117.
Jane, 164.
Thomas, 164.
Gibney, Ann, 316.
Gibraltar, 21, 22.
Gibralter (frigate), 18.
Giddings, Giddins,
John, 282.
Samuel, 95, 282.
Solomon, 96(2).
Thomas, 96.
William, 329.
Giggles, Gigls, Geg-
gles, Thomas, sr.,
159, 271.
Gilbert, Elizabeth,215
(2).
Humphrey, 215.
John, 215.
Mary, 219.
Thomas, 343.
Gilchrist, , 12.
Gill, , 285, 286,
287, 288.
Giles, Gile, Geoyles,
Guile, ,74,300.
Clara Louisa, 309.
Ebenezer, 267.
Effie Emma, 309.
Eleazer, 65, 71, 74
(2), 75, 160, 258.
Erastus, 317(2).
George, 309(2).
Hannah, 46, 48.
Harriet Bisbee, 309
(2).
Hattie Lizzie, 309.
Ida Etta, 309.
Joseph Stevens, 309
(2).
Joseph William,
309.
Laura Luella, 309.
Mary Salome, 309.
Gillis, Eunice, 194.
James A., Esq., 193.
Jesse, 193, 194.
Joshua, 193.
Timothy, 340.
Gilman, Edward, 24
(2), 30.
Elizabeth, 28.
Elizabeth, sr., 25.
John, 24(2), 25.
Capt. John, 28.
Moses, 23, 30, 36.
Gilmore, P. S., 184.
Gingell, John, 160.
Gleason, Major, 240.
Wyman, 51.
Gloucester (Mass.),
12, 277, 278.
Glover, , 173.
Capt., 324(2).
John, 77.
William, 329.
Godfrey, Godfree,
Isaac, 35(2).
Golden Age (ship),
323, 329, 334.
INDEX.
Goldsmith, , 50,
54(5), 61,62, 171,
240.
Abby Cordelia, 54.
Asa, 62, 171.
Charles, 171.
Charles Francis,241
David, 171.
George Henry, 54.
Isaac, 54, 62, 63,
171(3), 241.
Maria Lucinda, 54.
Nathan, 63.
Patty Burnham, 54.
William, 54, 171(2).
Golthite, Thomas, 72,
75, 359(2).
Goliah (ship), 327.
Golliver, William,342.
Good, Sarah, 197.
Good Intent (brigan-
tine), 100, 124.
Good Intent (sloop),
112.
Goodale, , 7(2), 9,
12, 14, 15, 114.
Elizabeth, 365.
Hannah, 216.
Isaac, 72.
N., 110.
Nathan, 124.
Robert, 187, 188.
Zachariah, 72, 365.
Goodhue, , 309.
Captain, 284.
Capt. Francis, 282.
Jonathan, 102.
William, 282.
Goodrich, John Ford,
320.
Louisa Ellen, 320.
Samantha (Norton),
320.
Goodwin, William,
276.
Gookin, Maj. Gen.
Daniel, 180.
Capt. John, 180.
Mary, 180.
Gord, Simon, 17.
Gordon, Daniel, 46.
Thomas, 46.
Gorges, Sir Ferdinan-
do, 255, 256.
Robert, 255.
Gorham.Maj. Joseph,
83.
Goshawk (ship), 326,
331.
Goss, , 294.
Francis, 329.
Francis P., 294.
Moses, 329.
Gothrope, Sarah, 169.
Gott, Got, Charles,
212, 213, 214.
Charles, sen., 213.
Gould, Gold, ,54,
268(2).
Dea., 53, 162, 307.
Ab. J., 51.
Allie, 236.
Adam, 265.
Betsey, 229.
Florence E., 236.
Hannah, 221.
Henry A., 251.
James, 292.
Joseph, 329.
Nathaniel, 221, 329.
Susan M. (Goodale),
236.
Thomas, 160(2).
William Cleveland,
236.
Gove, Edward, 25.
Hannah, 25.
Graf ton, Graf ten, ,
67, 75, 264, 267(2).
Hannah, 296, 358.
J., 115.
Joshua, 12, 296,358.
Joseph, 66(2), 67(2),
68, 97, 103, 106,
115.
Graham, Alexander,
311.
Christie (Monroe),
311.
David, 311.
Isabella, 311.
Granada, 22.
Grand Segemor(ship),
Grand Turk (ship),
178, 208.
Grand y, Edward
Franklin, 310.
George Albert, 310.
Henrietta, 310.
Grandy, Henry Ed-
ward, 310.
Lizzie P., 310.
Paulina Atwood,
310.
Rebecca, 310.
Grant, , 12(2), 15,
114, 165.
Ulysses S., 184.
Gray, - , 2, 38, 59,
322, 324, 327, 338.
Ann, 252.
Benjamin, 2.
Charles, 342.
Edward, 252.
Ellen, 252(2).
John, 59, 252.
Mary, 252.
Moses, 59.
Nellie (Coleman),
252.
Robert, 37, 272.
Sally, 332.
W. S., 294.
William, 104, 109,
110, 111, 114.
Capt. William, 111,
112.
William, jr., 178.
William, 3d, 119.
Great Britain, 142.
Greeley, Philip, 28.
Green, Greene, Grene,
,60.
Capt., 323.
Rev., 60.
Abba Augusta, 242.
Abraham, 24, 26(2).
Ann, 176.
Dr. E.,244.
Eaton, 166, 239, 242,
309.
Dea. Eaton, 54.
Henry, 24, 25.
Henry Solomon, 60.
Isaac, 26.
John, 66, 67(4), 69,
262, 264, 265.
Joseph, 248.
Lucy, 248.
Mary Augusta, 248.
Rebecca, 248.
Ruth, 40.
Sarah, 248.
Thomas, 76,147,100.
384
INDEX.
Green, William Brad-
dock, 247, 248.
William O., 248.
Willis Anderson,
249.
Greenleaf, Mrs. Eliz-
abeth, 126.
Greenwood, Miles, 119
Capt. Nathaniel, 284.
Grenada (ship), 326.
Greyhound (privateer
schooner), 111.
Greyhound(schooner)
116(2), 119.
Greyhound (sloop),
123.
Gridley, Samuel, 119.
Griffin, Charles, 307.
Joseph, 307.
John A., 56.
Rachel, 47.
Griffin (brigantine),
121.
Grimes, , 91.
Groce, Obadiah, 356.
Grotten, Thomas, 96
(2).
Grover, Edward, 77.
Lyman, 168.
Groves, , 116.
Guadeloupe (W.I.), 5.
Gugin, Maj., 71.
Gunnil, William, 342.
Guppy, , 303, 304.
Gurnesey (man of
war), 18, 19. 20(2).
Gurnet, , 112.
Gwinn, Thaddeus,
300, 302.
Hacker, , 111,120.
Hackett, John, 241.
Hadfield, Anna (Cald-
well), 318.
Charles, 318(2).
Cornelius Andrew,
318.
Eben, 318.
Elizabeth, 318.
John, 318.
Joseph, 318.
Joseph E., 318.
Levi Edward, 318.
Mary Hannah, 318
(2).
Hadfield, Nellie, 318.
Sarah, 318.
Sarah Hannah, 318.
William, 318.
Hadley, , 47, 107,
109.
John, 344.
Mehitable, 47.
Samuel, 46.
Tamar, 47.
Haggett, Margaret,
217.
Haines, Jonathan, 43.
Joseph, 43.
Sarah, 43.
Thomas, 43, 73.
Hale, Hales, Captain,
279.
John, 141.
Eobert, 140.
Halifax (N. S.), 141
(3).
Halifax Rover (schoo-
ner), 124.
Hall, , 25, 26.
Elbridge Gerry, 59.
Joseph, 55.
Ralph, 23(2), 24.
Samuel, 245.
Hambling, James, 128.
James Henry, 128.
Mary, 128.
Hampton (N. H.), 23
(4), 24(6), 25(4),
26(6), 28(4), 29(6),
30(3)-32(5), 33, 34
(7), 35(4), 36(2).
Hampton Falls (N.
H.), 11.
Hancock, , 181.
Benjamin, 329.
Sarah, 181.
Simon, 181.
Handley, John, 329.
Hanin, John, 318.
Mary, 318.
Hanscom, Capt. James
330.
Hardinge, Joseph, 272.
Hardy, Hardye, ,
107.
Annie, 132.
Carroll Lavalette,
135.
Charles, 131.
Hardy, Charles L.,
132(2).
Charles Lavalette,
131.
Charles Williams,
132, 135(2).
EdithCharlotte,135.
George, 132.
Gordon Stoddard,
135.
HelenElizabetb.,135.
Jane, 132.
JohnGladstone,135.
Jos., sr., 156.
Mabel Cheever, 132,
135.
Mabel Evelyn, 135.
Marion Manville,
135.
Mary C., 135.
Maxine Byron, 135.
Philip Campbell,
135.
Sarah, 48.
William, 132.
Hargrave, Ann, 181.
Richard, 181.
Harnden, , 243.
Harlequin (privateer
schooner, 101(2),
102.
Harlequin (ship), 116,
117, 118.
Harny, , 267-269
(2), 270.
Harraden, Augustus,
59.
Harriman, Herriman,
Abigail, 46.
Abner, 46.
Elizabeth, 46.
Enoch, 231.
Hannah, 46.
John, 46.
Leonard, 46.
Mary, 231.
Margaret, 46.
Matthew, 46.
Matthew, jr., 46.
Mary, 46.
Mehitable, 44, 46(2).
Nathaniel, 46.
Richard, 46.
Sally, 49.
Sarah, 231.
INDEX.
385
Harris, John, 110, 282
Harrison, Caleb, 246.
Hannah, 246.
Mary (Batty), 346.
Hartshorne, David,
155.
Harvey, , 266.
Haskell, Heaskell,
Abel, 330.
Jacob S., 301.
Mark, 282.
Haskins, John S., 57.
Roger, 282(2).
Hastings, Mrs., 12.
Hatch, Andrew Jack-
son, 306.
Harriet, 306.
Hathorne, Harthorn,
Capt., 11.
Maj., 153.
Benjamin H., 294.
Daniel, 120.
Capt. Daniel, 110.
Eleazer, 68, 76.
John, 66, 70, 73, 74,
76(2),77(2)-79,149,
156(3), 157-160(2),
262, 267, 270, 271
(3), 330.
Col. John, 366.
Joseph, 260.
William, 199.
Havens, Captain, 277.
Peter, 277.
Hawk (schooner),107.
Hay, Edward, 232.
Lois Herrick, 232.
Hayman, , 61.
Haynes, see Haines.
Hayward, Heyward,
, 50, 307.
Benjamin, 167.
Henry E., 53.
Nathaniel, 59.
Oliver, 43.
Hazard(ship),339,346.
Hector (brigantine),
107.
Hedge, , 9.
Heigham, George, 179.
Helme, Oapt. Arthur,
104.
Henderson, Joseph,
340.
Samuel, 294.
Hendley, John, 329.
Henfield, , 112,
113, 116.
Jonathan, 117, 330.
Joseph, 110, 115,
123, 124(2).
Henman, William, 54.
Hennington (frigate),
Henry, Peter, 343.
Henry (brigantine),
119.
Henry (ship), 340, 341.
Herbert, , 188.
Hero (snow), 121.
Herrick, Abigail, 219.
Barnabas, 224, 225
(2).
Elizabeth, 223.
George, 282.
Capt. Israel, 219.
Lois, 227.
William, 223, 227.
Zechariah, 282.
Hersey, Mary, 300.
Hibbert, , 16.
Hiers, John, 330.
Higgins, Archibald,
248(2).
Hannah, 248(2).
John, jr., 29.
Higgiuson, Iliggen-
son, , 8, 14,
79, 145,147,179,202
(2), 272.
Col., 293.
Elizabeth, 203.
Rev. Francis, 297.
Hannah, 202, 203.
John, 65-67(2), 68
(2), 71, 75-79, 145,
149, 155, 156, 159
(2), 187, 265(2),
267, 273(3).
John, jr., 66,67, 70,
157, 262.
John, sr., 145, 169,
265.
Col. John, 202, 297.
Lieut. John, 155,
257(2).
Maj. John, 197, 296.
Rev. John, 202,297.
Joseph, 264.
Mary, 203.
Higginson, Nathaniel,
202.
Stephen, 6, 110.
Capt. Stephen, 104,
105, 109.
Thomas, 282.
Hill, Amelia (Firth),
313.
Hiram, 56.
John, 71, 365.
Samuel, 313, 330(2).
Hilton, Charles, 24,28.
Edward, sr., 28.
Hind, Corliss, 43.
John, 43.
Hirst, William, 74.
Ilitchings.Abijah, 198
Mary, 198.
Hobbs, llobs, Hobes,
James, 26(3), 27
(4), 28(2).
Moris, 24(2),27(2),28.
Morris, sr., 26.
Capt. S., 112(2).
Capt. Samuel, 108.
Sarah, 26, 27(5), 28.
Hodges, , 206(3),
293.
Capt. Benjamin, 110.
George, 200, 303.
John, 206.
Capt. John, 194.
Hodin, Edward, 174.
Hogan, Eliza, 320.
William, 344.
Holden, John, 330.
Holdman, Samuell, 7.
Hollis, Hollice, ,
266, 269, 270.
W., 205.
William, 158, 266,
269.
Holmes, , 64.
Ellen Ann, 250.
James, 61, 250.
Jeremiah, 330.
John, 250.
Joseph Morrison,
250.
Mary, 250(2).
Sarah, 250(2).
Holt, , 1(2), 3,243.
Arnold, 171,
Benjamin, 62(3).
Benjamin, jr., 227.
386
INDEX.
Holt, Hannah, 59.
Henry, 62.
Isaac, 161.
Jesse, 59.
Joseph, 62.
Lois, 227.
Mary, 59, 227.
Nathan B., 62.
Nathaniel, 59.
Holton, Joseph, 72,73.
Joseph, sr., 72.
flolworth, Ann, 251.
Henry, 251.
Manasseh, 251.
Mary, 251.
Mary Ann, 251.
William, 251.
Holyoke, , 3.
Doctor, 222.
Rev., 5.
Prisca, 9.
Homan, , 265, 266
(2).
John, 156.
Hook, Theodore, 185.
Hooper, , 3, 143.
Robert, 82.
Ruth, 82.
Hope(brigantine),113.
Hope (ship), 225, 333.
Hopewell (brigantine)
111.
Home, Horn, , 250.
Bridget (McCar-
mer), 250.
Byron Fairfield,312,
Emma Ann, 312.
Emma Serena, 312.
Ida Frank, 312.
John, 75, 159, 250,
John Henry, 312.
Joseph, 80.
Mary Jane, 312.
Mary (Taylor), 312.
Richard, 312.
Symon, 159.
Terrence, 250.
Hornet (schooner),
117.
Horsman, John, 343.
Horton, , 294.
Elizabeth (Gould),
310.
John, 310.
Lucy (Card), 248.
Horton, Noah, 248.
Paulina Atwood,
310.
Rebecca, 248.
Rufus, 330.
Hosmer, Hannah, 203,
205.
Capt. Joseph, 203,
205.
Hovey, , 5.
How, , 162.
General, 93.
Elizabeth, 162.
Howard, , 64, 164.
Benjamin, 125.
Elsey Noyes, 125,
126(5).
Judith, 126.
Mary, 126.
Millie (Swett), 125.
Nathaniel, 125.
Nicholas, 70.
Samuel, 88.
SarahElizabetb.,126.
Thomas, 72, 75, 148,
265,
William, 126.
Howarth, Doctor, 247.
David, 305.
Sarah Ann, 305.
Howton, , 261(2).
Rebecka, 261(2).
Hoyt, Ellie Jane, 165.
Ida Frances, 165.
James W., 165,
Hubard, Madam, 4.
Thomas, 9.
Huggins, John, 29(2),
34.
John, sr., 29.
Nathaniel, 29(5).
Hulen, Hulin, Ed-
ward, 330(2).
Richard, 330(2).
Hull, , 74.
Benjamin, 36.
John, 73, 263, 264,
273(2).
Joseph, 264.
Humbird (ship), 340.
Humphrey, , 78,
79, 148.
Hun, ,267(2), 268,
269, 270.
Hunt, , 7.
Hunt, Elizabeth, 349.
Ellen, 315.
George, 165, 315(2).
John, 348.
Joseph, 315.
Mary, 315.
Mary Jane, 315.
Hunter (privateer
ship), 111(2).
Hunter (ship), 341.
Huntington, , 138.
Rev. John, 91.
Hurd, Albert G. , 232.
Nettie A., 232.
Hussey, , 35.
Christopher, 34.
John, 34.
Robert, 331,
Susana, 34.
Hutchinson, Hutchi-
son, Hucheson,
Catherine, 246.
Hannah, wid., 144.
Joseph, 69, 72(2),
150, 156.
Richard, 72, 159.
Hutton, Elizabeth, 213
(2), 214.
Richard, 211, 212(3),
214.
Hyde, Hide, , 245
(2).
Amos, 314.
Richard, 271.
|bbetson, , 311(2).
Implicable (ship),341,
342,
Independence (ship),
324.
Industry (schooner),
112.
Industry (ship), 114.
Inflexible (ship), 325.
Ingalls,Benjamin,285.
John, 275(2).
Samuel, 282.
Samuel, jr., 282.
Thomas, 331.
Ingersall, Ingersal,
Ingersoll, Inger-
son, , 6(2),
258.
Capt. David, 115.
Capt. J., 115.
INDEX.
387
Ingersall, John, 159.
Jonathan, 120.
Capt. Jonathan, 105,
106, 108(2), 109,
111, 115.
Joseph, 334, 339.
Nathaniel, 13, 72(2).
Ingrahnm, Joseph,
113.
Invincible (sloop), 112.
Ipswich (Mass.), 37,
140, 143, 147, 282
(2), 283.
Irving, see also Erving.
Irving, Ann, 309.
Isis (ship), 339.
Ives, , 13, 194.
Benjamin, 194.
John, 194(2), 202.
Mary, 200.
Richard, 68(2).
Sarah, 202.
Thomas, 190.
Jack (ship), 117, 121.
Jackman,Capt. 125(3).
Jackson, ,2, 9(2),
10, 17, 20, 166.
Mary, 170.
Jacobs, Jacob, Allen,
191, 192.
Ebenezer, 81,191(3).
Ebenezer, jr., 191.
Elizabeth, 191.
Eunice, 191.
George, 67, 191.
George, jr., 190,191.
George, sr., 67, 262.
John, 191(2).
Jonathan, 191(2).
Lydia, 191.
Mary, 190, 191.
William, 191.
William A., 192.
Jamaica, 10.
Jamaica (ship), 142.
James, Joseph, 349.
James (sloop), 100.
Jane (ship), 324, 329.
Jarvis, Adrnl., 326(2),
327.
Capt. 84.
Jason (ship), 343.
Java (ship), 344.
Jeffrey, , 322.
Jenkins, ,233,321,
322.
Althea Curtis, 233.
Phebe, 240.
Jenks, , 123.
Jenny (brigantine),
112.
Jewett, George B.,
321.
Joseph, 41.
Joannes (brigantine),
111.
Jocelyn, Eunice, 244.
John, 244.
Lucy (London), 244.
John (ship), 333.
Johnson, Johnston,
Jonson, , 62,
296.
Dr., 171.
Charlotte (Adams),
309.
Dr. Amos, 399.
Edward, 173.
Fred, 343.
Holton, 122.
James, 309.
Lt. James, 83.
John, 331.
Lucy Ann, 309.
Michael, 331.
Oliver, 342.
Samuel, 44, 79, 342.
Susanna, 48.
William, 344.
Zechariah, 48.
Jolly Robin(ship),277.
Jones, , 13.
Capt., 17.
George, 25(3).
Hugh, 189.
Capt.Ichabod,92(2).
John, 189.
Mary, 189.
Samuell, 189.
Stephen, 96.
Jopplin & Co., 21.
Joseph (brigantine),
120.
Joyce, Catherine, 316
(2).
Charles, 317.
James, 316, 317.
John, 317.
Katie, 317.
Joyce, Mary, 316.
Morris, 317.
Nellie, 817.
Patrick, 317.
Redman, 316(2).
William, 317.
Judkins, Samuel, 46.
Julius Caesar (brigan-
tine), 108.
Kast, Philip Godfrid,
143.
Katch (man 'war), 70
(2), 71, 73(2).
Kealmer, Jeremiah,
830.
Keating, Kating, Eliza,
820.
Elizabeth, 305, 320.
Thomas, 01.
Keazer, Keaser, Hen-
jamin, 273.
George, 38, 157.
Keefe, John, 340.
Keirnan, Margaret,
163.
Thomas, 163.
Kelly, Kelley, ,
55.
Arthur Willard,310.
Emma P., 310.
Francis C., 310.
Holdridge,43(2).
James, 331.
Joseph, 164.
Julia Maria, 310.
Marcella Lucy, 310.
Margaret, 164.
Mary, 164.
Mary Frances, 310.
Sarah Augusta, 310.
Kempe, George, 180.
Kendall, Capt., 107.
Kenin, John, 316.
Kennedy, Bessie, 237.
Kennington (frigate),
18.
Kenworthy, , 241.
Hannah (Bottom-
ley), 166.
Mary, 166.
Mary Ann, 246.
Mary Jane, 246.
William, 166, 246.
Keney, Keny, ,73.
388
INDEX.
Keney, John, 73.
Henry, 72, 74.
Thomas, 73.
Kenyon, Oliver, 315.
Kid, James, 25.
Kidder, , 243.
Kilby, Christopher,
331.
Killam, see also Cal-
lum
Killam, Killum, Kil-
ham, , 56, 210
(3), 213, 229-331
(2), 235.
A. Adeline, 238.
Abbie P., 228.
Abigail, 217, 218(3),
219(2), 222.
Abigail Porter, 227.
Abraham, 223, 224,
230.
Capt. Abraham,229.
Addie J., 236.
Alace, 213.
Alathea, 228.
Alfred Austin, 235.
Alfred C., 236.
Alice, 211(2), 212,
213, 237.
Allie, 236.
Althea Curtis, 233.
Amos F., 232.
Angelina, 229.
Ann, 215.
Anna, 217, 220, 222.
Anna Fisk, 235.
Annie M., 236.
Asa, 221, 222, 224
(2), 225(2), 226(2),
230, 231.
Augustin, 210.
Augustus Martin,
ooq
Austin, 210(2)-213,
237.
Austin Daniel, 230,
235.
Benjamin, 215, 217.
Bessie, 237.
Betsey, 229.
Betsey Lovett, 235.
Carl, 238.
Caroline, 234, 238.
Caroline Bartlett,
232, 233.
Killam, Catherine C, ,
283(2).
Charles Abraham,
230, 235.
Charles Austin, 235.
CharlesHarrington,
235.
Charles Oliver, 233,
237.
Charles Warren,229.
Charlotte, 227.
Chester, 234, 238.
Clara, 236.
Clara Elizabeth, 238
Clara H., 232.
Cyrus, 228.
Cyrus B., 233.
Cyrus E., 233.
Dana, 237.
Daniel, 211(2)-215
(2), 216(4), 217(2),
222(2), 223(2), 224,
229, 230, 234, 235.
Daniel A., 238.
Daniel Abraham,
235.
Dayton, 234, 237.
Deborah, 215, 217,
220.
Dorothy, 217.
Dwight Lewis, 238.
Ebenezer, 217, 219
(2), 221.
Edith, 236.
Edward, 230, 234.
Edward Austin,235.
Eleanor B., 236.
Elias Cornelius,229.
Eliza, 229.
Elizabeth, 213, 214,
215(2), 217(2), 218
(2), 221, 222, 223
(2), 230, 233, 234,
237(2).
Elizabeth D., 234.
Elizabeth Helen,
235.
Elizabeth Lovett,
230.
Elmer Bartlett, 236.
Elsie M., 236.
Ephraim, 216.
Ethel, 237.
Ethel Marion, 236.
Eunice, 229, 236.
Killam, Florence, 236,
237, 238.
Florence E., 236.
Forrest, 237.
Frances E., 232.
Frances E., 236.
Francis Augustus
Peabody, 228,233.
Franklin W., 232.
Fred Parker, 237.
Frederick A., 236.
George A., 238.
George Bnrchmore,
228, 232. -
George Edwin, 233,
236.
George Washington,
226.
George William, 235.
Grace, 219.
Grace P., 238.
Hannah, 215(3), 216
(3), 217, 220, 221
(3)-223(2), 229,230,
234.
Hannah Fiske, 235.
Harriet Elizabeth,
234.
Harriet Jennie, 232.
Hattie S., 237.
Hazel lola, 238.
Helen L., 237.
Henrietta Bridge,
235.
Henry M., 233, 237.
Hepzibah, 221.
Horace Austin, 233
237.
Horace Newcomb,
238.
Hosea Chauncey,
227, 231.
Isaac, 224, 229, 230,
234.
Capt. Isaac, 230.
James, 216.
Joanna, 224.
John, 211(2), 214,
215(2), 216(2), 217
(2)-219(2)-223, 224
226, 227, 229.
Capt. John, 231.
Ens. John, 221.
John Austin, 234,
238.
INDEX.
889
Xillam, John Leonard,
229, 238.
John Lewis, 233.
Jonathan, 220(2),
223(2).
Joseph, 215, 216,
217(2), 218(2), 222,
227(2), 231.
Joseph Chadwick,
235.
Joseph Elbridge,
228.
Joseph Warren, 232.
Joshua, 223(2).
Lena W., 232.
Leonard, 237.
Lewis, 233, 234, 236,
237.
Lillian, 238.
Lois, 227(2).
Lois Herrick, 232.
Lot, 72, 211-215.
Louisa, 230.
Louisa Bridge, 235.
Lucy, 238.
Lucy (Lizzie), 235.
Lydia, 220.
Mabel, 238.
Margaret, 217, 218.
Martha, 216.
Mary, 213, 214, 215
(2), 216, 219(2),
220(2), 221 (3), 222,
226, 227, 231(2).
Mary Ann, 231.
Mary Bridge, 235.
Mary Elizabeth, 232,
233.
Mary Ella, 231.
Mary Jane, 231.
Mary K., 232.
Mary L. F., 230.
Mary Lois, 236.
Mehitable, 220, 223,
229(2),
Minnie A., 238.
Minot, 234, 237.
Molly, 222.
Myron, 237.
Nabby, 227(2).
Nathaniel, 217, 219,
221.
Nettie A., 232.
Nora A., 237.
Olive, 234.
Killam, Oliver, 222,
229, 237.
Oliver Porter, 229,
233
Paul Lester, 238.
Phebe, 229.
Phineas, 236.
Phineas Spofford,
232, 236.
Polly, 225(2)-227.
Priscilla, 221, 222,
228.
Raymond, 238.
Rebecca, 220, 223.
Rebecca Frances,
232.
Rebecca Frost, 229.
Rebecca G., 226.
Robert, 226.
Roscoe G., 238.
Ruth, 213, 214, 215,
21(5(2), 226.
Samuel, 215, 216,
217, 2111(2), 220,
222, 227(2), 232.
Samuel Horace, 232
Sarah, 213, 214, 215,
216(2), 218(3), 219
(3), 220, 221(3),
223(2), 226, 227
(2), 229, 237.
Sarah Betsey, 233.
Sarah Henrietta
Elizabeth, 228.
Solon Smith, 2o8.
Susan, 229.
Susan C., 236.
Susan Klmira, 234.
Susan Hayes, 229.
Susannah, 234.
Susannah C., 235.
Syrena, 227.
Tammy, 223.
Thomas, 215, 216(3),
218, 221(2), 226.
Thomas Perley,234,
238.
Ubert A., 231, 236.
William.216, 218(2).
William Endicott,
229, 234.
William Herrick,
232.
KimbaIl,Kimbol, Kern-
ball, Abigail, 43.
Kimball, Catherine C.,
233.
Edward D., 291.
Elizabeth, 215, 222.
Elizabeth (Gold-
smith), 309.
Henry, 2J5.
John Smith, 309.
Lucy Ann, 309.
Moses, 309.
Oriette Ellen, 309.
Richard, 213, 214.
William, 90.
Kiming, John, 24.
King, Cajt. John, 16.
John, sen., 359(3).
Katherine, 302.
Mary (Andrews), 10.
Thomas, 316.
William, 362.
Kingsbury, , 13.
Iluldah, 42.
Samuel, 42.
Kingslaiui, >iary, 355.
Kingston, William,
285.
Kinsley, James, 331.
Kirby, , 249.
Bridget, 249.
John, 249.
Kirk, John D., 341.
Kitchen, Kitching,
John, 272, 359.
Robert, 159.
Kittery (Me.), 25.
Kittredge, ,59,201.
Dr., 205.
Dr. Benjamin, 202,
204, 205, 294.
Dr. Edward, 205.
Kneeland, , 1.
Dr., 8, 12.
Knight, , 112.
Emma, 51.
Ezra, 342.
James C., 51.
John, 88, 89.
Jonathan, 13(2).
Lizzie, 51.
Mary, 39(2).
William Emery, 51.
Knott, Richard, 148.
Knowles, Sir Charles,
353.
Mary, 353.
390
INDEX.
Knox, Thomas, 114.
116, 117.
Lafitte, , 104.
La Hogue (ship), 326,
343(6), 344(6).
Lake, Serg., 150.
Lambert, , 113,
114, 339.
Capt., 413.
Abigail, 43.
Henry, 331.
Capt. J., 114.
John, 331.
Joseph, 121, 122.
Capt. Joseph, 102,
103(3), 104, 107.
Sarah, 66, 76(2), 80.
154, 158(2), 261(2).
Lampriel, Daniel, 29
(2).
Lamson, , 202.
Lander, Landers,
Capt., 340.
Capt. Peter, 99, 105,
111.
Thomas, 343.
William, 338.
Capt. William, 332.
Lane, Charles, 168.
Ellen, 168.
Lanegan, , 161.
Lang, Deborah, 194.
Edward,194, 195,204.
Edward S., 204.
Langdle, Capt. Wil-
liam, 111.
Langdon, , 171(2).
Louis, 331(3).
Capt., William, 108.
Larcum, David, 39.
Larrabee, Learabee,
Benjamin, 331.
Samuel, 331.
Lary, Cornelius, 23.
Lathrope, James, 344.
Lavalette, , 125(3),
127(3), 128, 130.
Deacon, 130.
Alice, 128, 131.
Blanche B., 134.
C. F., 128.
Catherine, 129.
Charles, 126, 128(2),
131.
Lavalette, Charles C.,
129.
Charles Carroll, 12j,
(4), 128, 129.
Charlotte E., 129,
130.
Edith Alice, 130.
Elizabeth Ann, 128,
131.
Elizabeth C., 127.
Elsey, 126.
Ernest Burton, 130.
Ernest William,134.
Eunice, 128.
Gertrude Emma,
130, 133.
Howard Paul, 134.
Howard W., 134.
Howard Wesley,
130, 133.
John C., 129, 130.
John Cheever, 128,
129.
Linda Carroll, 129,
132.
Lois Catharine, 134.
Lois Ellsworth, 129.
Mary, 126(2).
Mary Noyes, 127.
Nathalie, 132.
Nathaniel, 127, 128,
129(2), 132.
Nathaniel H., 127,
128.
Nathaniel Howard,
126(2).
Peter, 125(3), 126(2).
Philip Carroll, 127
(3), 129.
Pike N., 128.
Pike Noyes, 127(3).
Kay Emerson, 130.
Sarah, 126.
Sarah Carroll, 127,
129.
Theodore Wesley,
134.
William H., 130.
William Howard,
128, 129.
William Noyes, 126.
Lawrence, Joseph,331.
Mary, 164.
Mary Ann, 164.
William, 164(2).
Lawton, Annie Eliza-
beth, 251.
Elizabeth (Ellis),61.
Emily, 251.
Joseph, 61 (2).
Joseph, jr., 251.
Leach, Leech, ,113.
Capt., 99, 110.
Lt., 66, 67, 68, 71,75,
267.
Ellen, 314.
George, 314.
James William,314.
John, 66, 67(4), 70,
73, 119, 262, 323,
331.
Capt. John, 100,101,
110.
Lt. John, 156.
Lawrence, 80,149(2),
155.
Mary, 226.
Capt. N., 116.
Polly, 225, 226.
Capt. R., 113.
Richard, 72, 150.
Lieut. Richard, 67
(2), 80, 160, 263.
Sarah Elizabeth,
314.
Leachmere, , 5.
Richard, 5.
Leadbetter, , 196.
Daniel, 196.
Leavitt, Leavit, ,
88.
Rev., 91, 138.
Samuel, 24(2), 25,
28(2).
Le Dedaneous (ship),
329.
Lee, , 22.
Capt., 13.
Abiel, 221.
George, 337.
Joseph L., 336.
Capt. Joseph, 105.
Sarah, 221.
Legate, John, 34.
Legcy,Jacob,sen.,355.
Legg, John, 148, 149.
Leicester, Lewis, 344.
Lemon, , 300.
Mary, 300.
William, 300(2).
INDEX.
391
Leonard, , 8.
John, 317.
Mary Elizabeth
(Smith), 317.
Rosella, 170, 317(2).
William, 317.
Leopard (ship), 332.
Lexington (privateer
schooner), 109.
Lexington (schooner),
115.
Liberty (privateer
schooner), 102.
Liberty (schooner),
112.
Liberty (ship), 339.
Lilly, William, 224,
225(2), 226.
Lincoln (brigantine),
120.
Lindell, Lindall, Lin-
doll, , 69.
Timothy, 71, 77.
Linnell, Polly, 310.
Solomon, 310.
William Nelson,810.
Lion, , 111.
Lion (snow), 102.
Listen, Hannah, 42.
Nicholas, 42.
Little, , 320.
Alfred, 332.
Bridget, 316.
Ellen (Flemming),
316.
Henry, 316.
Morris, 344.
Lively (brigantine),
112.
Locker,George,361(2).
Lockyer, , 143.
London (Eng.), 14, 16-
18, 143.
Long, Martha, 183.
Loomer, John, 130.
Mary Elizabeth
(Hatfield), 130.
Myra Jane, 130.
Loomis, Lomes,
Loomes, John, 71,
77, 160, 359.
Lord, Rev., 91, 139.
Robert, jr., 282.
Sally, 63.
William,154,194,274.
Lord Hillsborongh,
(privateer brig),
111.
London, John Fran-
cis, 108.
Love & Unity (ship),
331.
Lovejoy, Deacon, 62.
Pomp (negro),62(4).
William, 62, 171.
Capt. William, 62.
Lovell, , 7, 8.
Lovely Nancy (brig-
antine), 105.
Loverell, Hannah, 215.
John, 215.
Lovett, Benjamin,220.
Elizabeth, 280.
Hannah, 220.
Low, David, 96.
David, jr., 96.
John, jr., 282.
Thomas, 282.
Lowring, Caleb, 121.
Lowthe, Doctor, 200.
Lubner, William, 344.
Luby, Margaret, 168.
Patrick, 168.
Lucis, Mary, 171.
Luck, , 3.
Lucy (negro), 51, 54
(2).
Ludlow, Jona., 342.
Lufkin, Jeremiah,
96(2).
Thomas, 96(2).
Lul, John, 96.
Lummux, Hannah,
221.
Lunt, Henry, 297, 358
(2).
Lyman, , 337(2).
Lynch, Lynche,Linch,
, 17(5), 18(3),
20-22(2).
John, 316.
Joseph, 2.
Timothy, 55.
Lynde, Judge, 12.
Lynn, Hector P., 60,
248, 306.
Jane, 248.
Lynn (Mass.), 9, 76(2),
79, 142, 147, 172,
284.
Macaboy, Elizabeth
(Karl), 241.
Francis, 241.
James, 241(2).
John, 241.
Mary, 241.
McCall, Duncan, 165.
Elizabeth, 165.
Janet, 165.
John, 165.
Sarah (Munroe), 165
McCalpin, ,162(2).
Martha, 162.
Maccarou (privateer),
114.
McCarthy, Hannah
(Welch), 170.
Margaret, 170.
Morris, 170.
McDaniel, Capt., 279.
McDermott, Amelia
(Shields), 55.
Robert, 55.
McDewell, Edward,
240.
McDole, , 316.
Mary, 316.
McDonald, Catherine,
128.
James, 343.
Mace, , 307.
Isaac, 307.
Jonathan, 240, 807.
Martha (Whitte-
more), 240.
Mary French, 240.
McEnroe, Mclnroe,
Ann, 167, 249(3).
Barney, 167.
Bridget, 167.
Eliza (Law), 167.
Elizabeth Ann, 168.
Ellen, 163.
John, 163(3), 171,
249.
John Bernard, 163.
Katherine, 168.
Margaret, 163, 167.
Mary, 167, 249.
Michael, 249.
Patrick, 163.
McGee, Capt, 329.
McGilchrist, , 201
McGovern, Elizabeth,
166.
392
INDEX.
McGovern, Michael,
166.
Thomas, 166.
Mack, , 291.
McKeigen, John, 250.
Margaret ( Hagerty ),
250.
Mary Eliza, 250.
Mackey, Capt., 326.
Mackintosh, , 17.
Mackmalley, Mack-
maley, , 154,
266, 267.
Alexander, 71, 266.
Elizabeth, 146.
McManus, Elizabeth
(Hart), 163.
Ellen, 163.
James, 163.
McMillan, Archibald,
832.
Daniel, 332.
John, 332.
Mackmillian, John,
365.
McNamara,Catherine,
166.
Honora (Cox), 166.
John, 166.
McNeill, Daniel, 114.
Macomber, Adeline
(Thurston), 56.
Norman, 56.
McPherson, , 332.
John, 332(3).
William, 332.
McQuade, Ann, 164.
John, 164.
Michael, 164.
Mackrell, John, 69.
Madison, , 206.
Magrah, James, 342.
Mahew, , 256.
Thomas, 256.
Malabar (ship), 328.
Malaga, 17.
Malampus (ship), 327,
330(2), 331.
Maiden (Mass.), 2, 8.
Mallison, Frances,307.
James Henry, 307.
Jane, 307(2).
John, 307.
Joseph, 307.
Nanny, 307,
Mallison, Kuth (Far-
rar), 307.
William, 307(3).
Manchester (Mass.),
13, 37(3), 76.
Mann, , 59, 63(2),
245.
Eben, 314.
John, 314(2).
Zoa, 314(2).
Manning, Maning,
, 63, 328, 332.
Capt., 70.
Daniel, 332.
Daniel C., 194.
John, 332.
Nicholas, 188.
Capt. Nicholas, 160.
Richard, 332.
Mansfield, , 332.
Andrew, 332(2).
Henry T., 303.
Joseph, 332.
Sally, 332.
Marblehead (Mass.),
37, 141, 142, 145
(2), 148(2), 149,
275, 276, 279, 280,
281, 283.
Marfold, James, 342.
Marcell, David, 332.
Marian, John, 35.
Marks, Capt., 345,
346.
James, 345(2).
Marland, , 51(2),
54, 239.
John, 51, 52(3), 54,
56, 63(2), 241, 243,
245.
Mars (ship), 343(8),
344.
Marsden, Hannah, 308.
Hannah (Wilde),
308.
Joseph, 308.
Marsh, Mash, Alice,
175.
Freeman, 344.
Lawrence, 175.
Onesepherus, 43.
Marshall, , 59, 161,
239.
Captain, 258.
Isaac, 96.
Marshall, John, 366.
Marston, Benjamin,
280.
Ephraim, 28.
James, 35, 36.
John, 27(2). ;'
John, jr., 66, 76, 77,
80.
Manas, 65, 75.
Manases, 159.
Sally, 13.
Thomas, 35.
William, 26, 29(2).
Marteneco (W. I.), 5.
Marth (ship), 335,338.
Martha (ship), 328.
Martin, Abigail Ann,
244.
Aquilla, 244.
Eunice (Jocelyn),
244.
George P., 233.
John, 343.
Lewis, 218.
Mary Elizabeth,233.
Sally, 233.
Sarah, 218.
Susannah, 197.
Mary (brigantine),106,
121.
Mary (ship), 122, 330,
340.
Mary and Ann (brig-
antine), 108.
Mary and James(brig-
antine), 100, 102.
Mary and Eliza (ship),
329, 334.
Mary Ann (brigan-
tine), 99(2), 100.
Mary Anne (ship), 210.
Mascoll, John, jr.,
159.
Mason, , 108, 115.
Capt., 7, 10.
Edward, 320.
Edward Milo, 320.
Elvin Goodrich,320.
John, 159(2).
Captain John, 255.
John R., 244.
Jonathan, 117.
Capt. Jonathan,117.
Louisa Ellen, 320.
Dr. Lowell, 185.
INDEX.
393
Mason, Phebe (Ward-
well), 320.
Thomas C., 320.
Massey, Jeffrey, 189.
John, 188, 199.
Masury, Capt., 3.
Capt. Samuel, 294.
Matthews, Angelina,
229.
Henry, 332.
Thomas, 229.
Maury, , 337.
Maverick, , 254,
255.
Samuel, 256.
Maxcy, Alexander,
215.
Mary, 215.
Sarah, 218.
Meacham, Meachum,
Jeremiah, 71.
Jeremiah, jr., 157,
361(2).
Mears, , 50, 51,
239, 243.
Abby Ann, 306.
Abigail, 306.
Abigail (Moore), 163
Adeline, 50.
Adeline Augusta, 50.
Albert Francis, 51.
Alfred, 51.
Alfred Cutler, 51.
Calvin, 300.
Charles, 170.
Charlotte, 806.
Clarissa Badger, 51.
Daniel, 50, 53, 170
(2), 243(2).
Eliza, 50.
Eliza Ann, 319.
Elizabeth, 162, 306.
Ella Rebecca, 50.
Emily, 50(2).
Frances, 171, 306,
319.
Franklin, 51.
Harriet, 50, 306.
Hugh Franklin,319.
J. O., 247.
James, 51.
John Larkin, 170.
Joseph, 306, 319.
Joshua, 50.
Joshua B., 51.
Mears, Lily Augusta,
50.
Lizzie Frances, 170.
Louisa Frances, 51.
Martha, 50, 306.
Martha Jane, 163.
Mary, 170.
Mary Ann, 51.
Mary Levina, 319.
Mehitable, 50.
Milton, 51.
Moses, 50, 51, 170.
Phebe Ann, 50.
Rebecca (Brown),
50.
Russell, 51.
S., 306.
Samuel, 50.
Sarah, 50.
Sarah Jane, 306,319.
Thomas William,
319.
W., 247.
Walter, 50, 51.
Walter Badger, 50.
Warren, 50, 163, 171,
306(.2), 319.
Warren, jr., 319.
William, 50, 51, 170.
William Henry, 50.
Zebadiah,50(2), 162.
Zebediah, 162.
Meekeny, John, 270.
Medford (Mass.), 8.
Meek, Hannah, 198.
Mellson, Andrew, 341.
Melville, Captain, 303.
Melzard, John, 332.
Richard, 332.
Mendame, , 74.
Mercury (brigantine),
113.
Mercury (snow), 101,
102(2).
Meredith (ship), 110
(2).
Merrill, , 4.
Messenger (ship), 327,
330(2), 331.
Messer, Phineas, 243.
Rebecca (Manser),
243.
Methuseleh (sloop),
119.
Middick, Thomas,333.
Middleton (Mass.), 2
(2).
Middleton (N. J.), 36.
Migram, Ellen, 314.
James, 314.
Miles, Joseph, 69,273.
Millbanks, Capt., 19.
Miller, Charles H.,
294.
Millett, J. B., 121.
Jeremiah, 161.
John P., 23'2.
Mary Elizabeth, 282.
Millington, Ann
(Jones), 319.
Michael, 833.
Sarah, 319.
Thomas, 319.
Millis, Tobias, 253,
254(2).
Mills, Harriet Jennie,
232.
John, 343.
Owen W., 232.
Peter, 342.
Mindon (ship), 343.
Minot, , 8, 15.
Stephen, 15.
Mins, William, 343.
Mire, Joseph, o33.
Mirick, , 42.
Mitchell, Henry, 104
(2), 344.
James, 333(2), 335.
Thomas, 344.
Mowbray, R. II., 830.
Molloy, Nancy, '20Q.
William, 200.
Monmouth (brigan-
tine), 118.
Monmouth (privateer
brig), 109, 113,
115.
Montaudeveet, ,
110.
Monte Christo (W.I.),
1, 5(2), 10, 13.
Montgomery, John,
809.
Lucy Ann, 309.
Movar, Abbie Ann,
130.
Moody, , 4.
Moore, Moors, More,
Capt., 92.
394
INDEX.
Moore, Abigail, 306.
Abigail Ann,244(2).
Abigail (Hardy),
306.
Adeline Augusta,
244.
Annie Frances, 244.
Caleb, 66.
Charles, 244.
Charlotte, 244.
Edna Vena, 244.
Elisha, 247, 249.
Ellen, 167, 347.
Emily (Stark), 244.
Esther, 247.
Fred, 163.
George Newton, 244
Hannah, 163.
James T., 333.
John, 130, 244, 311.
John Milton, 244.
Joseph, 167.
Laura Albina, 244.
Mary A., 244.
Mary Ann (Conant),
130.
Mary Ellen, 249.
Mary Etta, 244.
Milton, 53, 243, 244
(2).
Orin, 244.
Eebecca, 310.
Capt. Richard, 66.
Sarah Ann, 249.
Sarah Jane, 167.
William, 306.
William P., 247,249.
Moran, Mabel, 238.
Luke, 238.
Morgan, George, 333.
James, 333.
Morgiana (ship), 825.
Moriarty, Abigail, 183.
Deborah(Bowditch)
183.
G. Andrews, jr.,172,
177, 347, 354.
John, 183.
John Moseley, M.
D., 183(2).
Capt. Thomas, 183.
Morning Star (sloop),
124.
Morrill, Micajah, 47.
Samuel, 307.
Morrison, , 64.
Ada Elizabeth, 306.
Agnes, 308.
Alexander, 64, 250,
306.
Andrew, 53, 57(2),
307(2), 308.
Anna Maria, 306.
Archibald, 248.
Elizabeth, 306.
Ellen L., 314.
J. A., 252.
Jane (Thorn), 248.
Janet, 248.
John, 53, 57, 60,248,
306(2).
John William, 306.
Mary, 250.
Mary (Stickney),314
Nellie (Bigger), 250.
Nellie Elizabeth,
306.
William, 57, 307.
William H., 314.
Morse, Mors, Clara
H., 232.
Elizabeth, 203.
Dr. Martin V. B.,
232.
Obadiah, 203.
W. P., 306.
Morton, ,253,254,
255, 256(2).
James, 285.
Thomas, 253, 254.
Moseley, , 180(2),
181.
Abigail, 183.
Amos, 181(2),182(4).
Ann, 181(2).
Anthony, 181.
Arthur, 180(2), 181
(3), 188.
Benjamin, 181.
Belandina, 181.
Clifford Crownin-
shield, 183.
Deborah, 182.
Edward, 181, 182.
Col. Edward, 181.
Elizabeth, 178, 181
(2), 182(3), 183(3),
200,
Elizabeth (Crown-
inshield), 183.
Moseley, Elizabeth
(Emperor), 182.
Emperor,182(4),183.
Capt. Emperor, 182.
George, 181.
John de Bilston de,
179.
Joseph, 181-183,200.
Capt.Joseph,177(2),
178(3), 183.
Luke, 181.
Martha, 183(2).
Mary, 180, 181(2),
182(2), 183(2).
Nancy, 183.
Sir Nicholas, 179.
Sir Oswald, 179.
Susanna, 180,181(2),
183.
Thomas, 188.
Tully, 181.
William, 179(3), 180
(4), 181, 183(2).
William D., 181.
Moses, , 269(2),
270, 326.
Capt., 326.
Benjamin, 21, 124.
Henry, 265.
Mould, Edmond, 159.
Moulding, Molding,
, 833,
Joseph, 333, 335.
Moulton, Aaron, 127
(2).
Anna, 127.
Benjamin, 24.
Bertha C., 135.
Charles Bruce, 135.
Emma (Bebier),311.
Esther Elizabeth,
135.
Frances Jerusha,
164.
George, 311.
Georgianna (Colby)
135.
Hamilton LeBre-
ton, 164.
Hannah, 216.
Henry, 32(2).
John, 32(2), 45.
John, jr., 216.
Lizzie Bell, 165.
Robert, 73.
INDEX.
395
Moulton, Sarah, 311.
Walter Harrison,
164.
William Clarke,135.
Mountf ort, Henry, 179.
Mulden, Lewis, 842.
Milliard, Jane, 305.
Mulligan, Mary, 250
(2),
Owen, 250.
Muraford, , 199.
Munroe, J., 313.
Murphy, Abby Ann,
249.
George, 244, 249.
Jane, 308.
John, 200.
Margaret, 200.
Peter, 249.
Murray, Murry, James
333.
Peter, 224, 225.
Richard, 333.
Samuel, 333.
Thomas B., 251.
Walter, 64, 248.
Muss, Jeremiah, 343.
Myrrh (brigantine),
123.
Nahant(Mass.), 13.
Nald, John, 342.
Nancy (schooner), 107.
Nason, Hannah, 234.
Noah, 234.
Neal, Neale, , 92.
Capt., 4.
David, 230.
Francis, 150.
Hannah, 230.
Jeremiah, 66(2), 67,
76, 159, 160, 188.
John, 188, 296.
John, sen., 188.
Martha (Henfield),
230.
Ned (ship), 336.
Needham, Nedam,
, 73, 303(2).
Benjamin, 121.
Ezekiel, 259(2), 260,
261.
Isaac, 107.
Nellom, George, 342.
Nelson, Charles, 227.
Nelson,Charlotte,227.
John, 366.
Neptune (brigantine),
118.
Neptune (privateer),
115,
Neptune (ship), 121.
New Adventure (brig-
antine). 123.
NewAdventure(ship),
122.
New Hampshire, 32.
New Haven (Conn.),
14, 15.
New Jersey, 36.
New Jersey (ship),
343.
New York, 277.
Newall,Abigail(John-
son), 317.
Daniel, 317.
David, 92.
Patience, 317.
Newbury (Mass.), 12,
15,26,34 37(2), 140.
Newbury, 278, 280(2).
Newman, , 54.
Antipas, 213.
John, 140, 223.
Mehitable, 223.
Newport (negro), 277,
278.
Newton, John, 340.
Newton (Mass.), 6, 8.
Newtown (N. H.), 2.
Newhall, Amos, 329,
333.
Captain, 278.
David, 333(2), 334.
Ezra, 142.
John, 334(2).
Niagara, 13.
Nichols, Elizabeth, 61
Elizabeth(Bostock),
61.
Eunice, 243.
George, 297.
Humphrey, 56.
Ichabod, 119.
J., 106(2), 108, 109.
Capt. J., 105, 109.
James, 61.
John, 342, 344, 346.
Nathan, 118.
Sarah (Peaslee), 56.
Nisbet, Beatrice, 305.
Margaret (Young),
305.
William, 305.
Noon, , 250.
James, 250, 319.
Mary, 250.
Mary (Clark), 319.
Michael, 250.
Sibbe(McCune),250.
Thomas, 250.
William, jr., 319.
Norman, John, 65, 75,
145('.i), 187.
Norn's, Norice, ,
113, 114,110(o), 157,
265-267(2), 268(3).
Edward, *66, 267.
J., 114.
North Bridge (Salem),
101.
Northfields (Salem),
186, 356.
Nort humberland
(ship), 332.
Norton, Frederick,
272.
John, 77(2), 157(3).
Norwood, Israel, 171.
Jonathan, 277, 278.
Nostra Signora (brig-
antine), 114.
Nora Scotia, 141.
Noyes, , 302.
Aaron, 104, 168.
Fanny, 104, 168.
Molly, 125.
Molly (Pike), 126.
Phebe (Morse), 164,
168.
William, 126.
Nurse, Nurce, - ,
69.
Francis, 66, 71, 72,
151.
Rebeccah, 197.
Nute, Asa Byron, 135.
Mary Gushing, 135.
Mary Emmaline
(Miller), 135.
Nutt, Levi, 126.
Mary Ann, 126.
Nutting, , 7(2).
John, 143.
Nymph (ship), 834.
396
INDEX.
Qakes, Uriah, 112.
Oar, Levi, 341.
Obstinate(brigantine)
115.
Ocean (ship), 113.
O'Donald, Hugh, 317.
O'Donnell, Hugh, 53.
James, 53.
Ogden, , 233, 244.
Benjamin, 168.
Elizabeth, 168.
Emma Esther, 168.
John, 168(2).
Mary, 168.
Sarah, 168.
Sarah Betsey, 233.
O'Halloran, Bridget
Ann, 169.
Eleanor, 169.
Elizabeth, 169.
James, 168, 169.
Johanna, 169(2).
Margaret, 169(2).
Mary, 169.
Mary (Barrett), 168.
Patrick, 168, 169.
O'Keefe, Johanna,
169.
Margaret (Carroll),
169.
Patrick, 169.
Oldham, Anna, 308.
John, 308.
Sarah, 308.
Oliver, Olliver, ,
156, 265-268.
Bridget, 197.
Henry K., 184(2).
Peter, 9.
Sally (Cook), 185.
Thomas, 269(2).
William, 198.
Oliver Cromwell
(ship), 113, 119.
Orient (ship), 341, 342
(2).
Orne, , 11.
Capt., 14.
Benjamin, 187.
Elizabeth, 6, 195.
Capt. J., 110, 114.
John, 186, 187(2).
Joseph, 187(2).
Capt. Joseph, 110.
Josiah, 121.
Orne, Capt. Josiah, 13,
14, 16.
Simon, 186.
William, 116, 323.
Capt. William, 113.
Orpheus (ship), 325,
328.
Osborn, Osborne, Os-
bourn, , 3(2),
11.
Jonathan, 334.
William, 70, 363, 365
(2).
Osgood, , 303.
Captain, 300.
Capt. John, 297.
William, sr.,25.
Osprey (ship), 339.
Otis, , 8.
Harrison Grey, 61.
Otter (brig), 108.
Ougham, John, 253.
Outon, Beck, 267.
Rebeckah, 146, 154
(3), 266.
Owen, Owens, Eliza-
beth, 41.
William, 334.
Oxenbridge, John,
355(2).
Susanna, 355(2).
pace, Charlotte Eliz-
beth, 130.
Leonard, 130.
Mary (Griffin), 130.
Page, Col. John, 207
(2).
Thomas, 28, 35.
Pain, Martin, 334.
Palf ray, , 346.
Benjamin, 334.
Martha, 200.
Thomas, 200.
Pallas (brigantine),
111.
Palmer, Christopher,
24(2).
Pardit, Charles, 341.
Ephraim, 343.
Parker, , 126, 304.
Aaron, 310(2).
Alice, 197.
Amanda, 310.
Anna, 168.
Parker, Caleb, 248.
Carleton, 317(2).
Clara Augusta, 317.
Eliza, 169.
Eliza Jane, 168.
Ella Jane, 317.
Emma (Baldwin),
310,
Fanny, 164, 167, 168
(2).
Francis, 164.
George, 126.
George W., 164, 169.
George Washington,
167, 168(2).
John, 164, 168.
John Crombie, 317.
Jonas, 162.
Joseph, 310.
Lemuel, 162.
Lillia Eveline, 317.
Lizzie Alice, 317.
Lucy Almira, 310.
Lydia(Morrill),184,
168.
Lydia (Spaulding),
310.
Martha Isabelle,317
Mary (Abbott), 317
(2).
Mehitable, 162.
Patience, 317.
Sarah, 248.
Susan, 310.
William B., 296.
Parkhurst, Lucy, 238.
Robert, 238.
Parkman, Deliverance
293, 296(2).
Margaret, 297.
Mehitable, 297(2).
Sarah, 297.
Susannah, 297.
Parnell, , 266.
Parris, Ann, 354, 355.
Elizabeth, 354.
John, 354(4), 355(3).
Rev. Martin, 354.
Rev.Samuel, 354(2),
355.
Susanna, 355.
Thomas, 354(4), 355.
Parrot, Joanna, 224.
Parsons, , 2, 332.
Thomas, 334.
INDEX.
397
Partington, Anna,
308.
Catherine, 308.
Caroline, 308.
Elizabeth, 308(2).
Hannah, 308(2).
Isaac, 308.
James, 308.
Jane, 308.
John, 308(2).
Joseph, 308(2).
Lillie, 308.
Maria, 308.
Mary Ann, 308.
Ralph, 308(2).
Thomas, 308.
William Henry, 308.
Partridge, John, 28.
Partridge (ship), 342.
Pasha, , 251.
Pascoe, Hugh, 362,
363, 364, 366.
Patch, Mary, 222.
Sarah, 220.
Patterson, , 294.
Capt., 13.
Peter, 343.
Paule, Christopher,
174.
Joan, 174.
John, 174.
Richard, 174.
William, 174.
Payson, Jonathan,
105(2).
Lemuel, 294.
Peabody, Captain,300,
301.
Anna, 222.
Joseph, 219.
Mary, 219, 221.
Nathaniel, 219.
Samuel, 334(2).
Sarah, 219.
Stephen, 222.
Peabody (Mass.), 356.
Pearl, Catherine C.,
233.
Edward E., 233.
Pearson, Peirson, ,
56, 64, 71.
Bradley, 59.
George, 315.
James, 334.
Joseph, 334.
Pease, John, 363(4),
364, 366.
John, jr., 366.
John, sr., 71, 366(2).
Robert, 72, 188, 363,
366.
Robert, jr., 75.
Peck, , 7.
Peggy (brigantine),
110.
Peissig, , 135.
Joseph, 129.
Pellett, John, 294(2).
Pemberton, Rev., 91.
Pembroke (ship), 343.
Pendleton, Asa, 342.
Penhallow, , 42.
Pennington, John, 170,
317.
Margaret, 170.
Mary, 170.
Rosella, 170(2), 317.
Pepperell, , 291.
Percil, Catherine,168.
James, 168.
Margaret (Collan),
168.
Perkins, , 324.
Abraham, 32.
Caleb, 25.
Ebenezer, 32, 33(6),
34.
Henry, 343.
Isaac, 32, 33(4), 34
(2).
James, 58.
Jonathan, 334.
Joseph, 34, 96.
Matthew, 282.
Nathan, 120.
Robert, 324.
Susanna, 33, 34.
T. t 333.
Capt. Thomas, 334,
339.
William, 343.
Perley, , 181.
Bertha Cheever, 131,
134.
Carolyn Sophronia,
131.
Chester Garfield,
131, 134.
David Sydney, 131,
134.
Perley, David Tullar,
131(2).
Elizabeth A., 131.
Elizabeth Isabella,
134.
Harrison Otis, 131.
Helene Louise, 131.
Mabel Alice, 131,
134.
Roscoe Damon, 131.
Oscar Wentworth,
131.
Sidney, 186, 210,356.
Perry, , 108.
Dr. Asa, 251.
Martha Ann, 251.
Martha(Tenny),251.
Nathaniel, 334, 340.
Capt. 0. II., 171,
240.
Obadiah, 251.
Oliver H., 62.
Samuel, 334.
Sylvanus, 168.
Thomas, 168, 251.
Peter, i'eters, ,
253(2).
Rev. Hugh, 186,187,
253.
Capt. John, 302.
Peterson, Capt., 326.
Pethricke, , 269
(2).
Pettengell, John, 113.
Phelps, , 297.
Henry, 361.
John, 78, 79.
Phenix (sloop), 110.
Pherus (ship), 344(4).
Philadelphia (Pa.),22.
Philbrick, Mehitable,
35.
Thomas, 25.
Philley, William, 334.
Phillips, , 1(2), 2,
150, 162.
Charles, 150.
Martha, 242.
Samuel, jr., 245.
Thomas, 242.
Phipeny, David, 75,
273.
Lemual, 274.
Pickard, Charlotte
Elizabeth, 129.
398
INDEX.
Pickard, David, 129.
Washington P., 126.
Pickering, , 9(3),
11-13, 326.
Deacon, 1.
John, 79, 149.
Lt. John, 66(2), 77,
78, 145, 147, 159,
260, 268.
Timothy, 90, 140.
Pickering (ship), 116,
117, 123, 124.
Pickman, , 2,5(2),
6(2)-8(5), 9(4), 10,
12,14, 15, 123, 124,
266(2).
Col., 8, 10, 11, 284
(2).
Benjamin, 82, 156,
295.
Clarke Gayton, 194.
Samuell, 266, 277.
William, 9(2), 10
(2),
Capt. William, 106,
107.
Pickworth, , 267,
268, 269(3), 270.
, Ann, 215.
Hannah, 215.
John, 215.
Pigot, Sarah, 181.
Pierce, Peirce,Pearce,
, 167, 181, 300,
322.
Almira H., 50.
Ann (Helen (Max-
ey), 247.
Anthony, 281.
Helen Amelia, 247.
Horace M., 247.
Capt. J., 102.
Jacob Willard, 52.
Jerathmiel, 109,110,
113, 297(2).
John, 203.
Martha (Hodgdon),
50.
Nathan, 107, 204.
Samuel, 50.
Susanna, 181.
William P., 52.
Pilgrim (privateer
ship), 111, 112,
114.
Pillsbury, , 59.
Pike, , 42.
Pinch, Lucy Ann, 248.
Richard, 57, 248(2).
Pitt (brigantine), 115.
Pittman, Thomas, 148.
Pitts, Peter, 334.
Placentia (sloop), 120.
Plasse, Alice, 358.
William, 358.
Platt, Frances, 306,
319.
Mary, 319.
Peter, 319.
Pleastead, Icabod, 9.
Plymouth (Mass.), 17.
Poat, , 6.
Poland, , 165, 247,
260, 310.
David, 53, 58.
Jacob, 334.
James, 69, 75, 76,
146, 153, 159, 258.
Mary, 220.
Thomas, 95.
Polly (brigantine), 119
Polly(privateer sloop)
108.
Polly (schooner), 111,
115.
Polly (ship), 120.
Polyphemus (ship),
338(2), 341, 344.
Pomona (ship), 342.
Pomona (sloop), 117.
Pomp, , 241.
Pompy (ship), 327.
Pool, John, 344.
Poor, Poore, , 52,
251.
Alfred, M. D., 161,
239, 305.
Bulah, 251.
Daniel, 51(2), 251.
Daniel, jr., 52.
Daniel, sr., 63(2).
T. B., 56.
Thomas B., 52, 251.
Thomas Baker, 51.
Poor & Blanchard,
171.
Poor,Blanchard & Co.
51.
Pope, , 41.
Joseph, 367.
Porcupine (schooner),
114.
Porter, , 71, 345.
Capt., 12.
Adeline Augusta,
244.
Capt. David, 208.
Israel, 66, 70,80,150.
John, 70, 71, 244.
John Stark, 244.
Thomas, 285.
WilliamTrotter,307.
Porteus (ship), 122.
Portsmouth (R. I.),
172.
Portsmouth (snow),
121.
Potter, , 13, 239.
Alice, 358.
Hannah, 359.
Nicholas, 358(2).
Poyington, , 15.
Pratt, Angelina, 243.
Daniel, jr., 243.
Daniel, sen., 243.
Delia, 243(2).
Hannah, 285.
Mrs. Hannah, 82.
Henry J., 204.
Presson, Thomas, 71.
Pray, Ezra, 58.
Pri ce/ 272(2).
Capt., 147, 159.
Alexander, 312.
Benjamin Banks,
312.
Cyrus Elihn, 312.
Edward, 343.
Edwin, 312(2).
Elihu, 312.
Eliza, 312.
Eliza J., 312.
John, 79, 260.
Capt. John, 65, 70,
76-78(2), 147, 150
(2), 154, 159, 160.
Martha J., 312.
Sarah Ann (West-
ley), 312.
Priest, Ann, 170.
David, 170(2).
Elizabeth Ann, 170.
Martha Rowland,
170.
Samuel Law, 170.
INDEX.
399
Priest, Sarah, 170(2).
Sleigh Rowland.nO
William, 170.
William Amos, 170.
Prince, , 106, 107.
Capt., 328(2).
Joseph, 75.
Richard, 75, 159.
Samuel, 159.
William, 341.
Princess (ship),838(2),
345.
Proctor, Procter.Proc-
tnre, , 159.
Benjamen, 95.
Elizabeth, 197.
Isaac, 95.
James, 835(2).
John, 65, 160(2),257.
Proper, Arthur Eu-
gene, 133.
(-Jennie Grace, 133.
Josephine (Ray-
mond), 138.
Prosper (schooner),
110.
Prosper (ship), 115.
Prosperity (schooner)
100(2).
Prosser, W., 120.
Providence (sloop),
121.
Prudent (ship), 332.
Pudney, John, 362.
Pulsifer, Francis, 295.
Sarah, 295.
Putnam, Puttnam,
, 10, 14, 23,
174, 263.
Capt., 4, 13.
Dr., 12.
Capt. B., 105(2).
Bartholomew, 5.
David, 203.
Eunice, 193.
Ezra, 2.
Israel, 243,308.
Israel W., 57, 307.
John, 70, 71(2), 150.
Lt. John, 80, 150,
155.
Nathaniel, 66, 72(2),
80, 258.
Perley, 294.
Thomas, 150, 151.
Putnam, Lt. Thomas,
71, 76, 80, 157,259,
263.
William, 308.
William H. M 66,
807.
Quebec, 15.
Queirs, William, 340.
Quilinen, Eliza, 315.
Edward, 315.
Quilling, Sarah Ann,
313
William, 313.
Quimby, , 303.
Quinn, Lawrence, 315.
Lawrence Ryan, 315.
Margaret, 315.
Mary (Flood), 815.
William, 315.
Race Horse (sloop),
119.
Rachel (ship), 114,327,
332, 338.
Rambler (schooner),
116.
Rambler (ship), 340.
Rarasdell, Elizabeth,
217.
Rancer, Adml., 328(2).
Randoll, William, 72,
75.
Randolph, Benjamin,
36.
Ray, Rea, John, 252.
Joshua, 66, 72(2),
73, 263.
Rayment, John, 149,
150.
William, 149, 150.
Raymond, Gideon, 842.
Ready, , 168, 243.
Catherine, 168(2).
Ellen, 168.
James, 168.
John, 168.
Katherine, 168.
Margaret, 168.
Mary, 168(2).
Michael, 168(2).
Terry, 168.
Thomas, 168(2).
Recovery (ship), 325,
828(2), 333.
Red Wing (ship), 324,
333.
Redford.Maj. Charles,
347, 348.
Elizabeth( Roberts),
347.
Redland (schooner),
111.
Redman, John, 32(2).
Reed, Elizabeth, 363.
Isaac, 188.
Jacob, 363, 366.
John, 285.
Thomas, 188(2).
Reeves, , 295.
Regan, Ragan, Cath-
erine, 246.
Charles, 246.
Elizabeth, 246.
John Joseph, 314.
Joseph, 314.
Mary, 314(2).
William Ellsworth,
314.
Reignolds, , 175,
176.
Reynolds, Henry, 159.
Redman, John, 28.
Repose, Ele de Boone,
366.
Repulse (ship), 329(2).
Revenge (privateer
sloop), 103(3), 104
(3).
Revenge (schooner),
116.
Revenge (sloop), 118.
Revenue (privateer),
114.
Reyner,Elizabeth,215.
William, 215.
Reynolds, see Ren-
nolds.
Rhd (brigantine), 115.
Rhoda (brigantine),
109.
Rhodes, , 246, 252.
Anna, 805.
George Edwin, 305.
James, 305(2).
Jane, 305(2), 820.
Matthew, 305.
Sarah, 805(2).
William, 340.
Rice, John, 344.
400
INDEX.
Rich, , 266, 267,
268(3), 269(3), 270.
Richards, , 267,
268(3), 269(3), 270.
John, 351.
Richard, 188.
Richardson,Capt.,303.
Abraham, 311(2).
Ann, 311.
Deborah, 194.
Hannah, 231.
Josiah, 300(2).
Mary, 311.
Nathaniel, 198,
194.
Sarah, 311.
Stephen, 231.
William P., 194(3),
195.
Rider, , 56.
Riley, , 252.
Edwin Strickland,
252.
Elizabeth, 252(2),
305.
George, 305(2).
George Parker, 252.
George William,252.
Harriet (Strickland)
252.
James, 166, 169.
Jane Elizabeth,252.
Julia, 167.
Sarah, 166.
Sarah Harriet, 252.
Thomas, 252(2).
William, 243, 342.
Ring, Hannah, 50.
Rising Sun (brigan-
tine), 105.
Rix, Thomas, 157.
Roach, Hannah, 359.
Stephen, 108, 109.
William, 359.
Robb, Alexander, 58.
John, 251.
Mary, 250.
Mary (Pryor), 251.
Robbins, Robins, Da-
vid, 295(2).
Edward, 342.
Thomas, 271.
Roberts, Robberts,
Capt., 225.
Elizabeth, 197.
Roberts, Mark, 25.
Richard, 159.
Robert, 342.
Robie, , 2.
Robinson, , 181.
Benjamin, 344.
Capt., 9(2), 10.
Edward, 341.
John, 155(2), 159.
Susanna, 181.
Rochampton (prize
ship), 209.
Rodney (brigantine),
123.
Rodney (ship), 344.
Roebuck (privateer),
116.
Roebuck (privateer
schooner), 110(2)-
115.
Rogers, Roggers, ,
51, 171, 297.
Captain, 279, 324.
Abigail, 206.
Elizabeth, 217.
Jeremiah, 77.
John, 77, 159, 217,
264.
Nathaniel, 206, 297.
Richard S., 302.
William, 171, 243.
Roland, Rolland,Capt.
Edward, 102, 105.
Sarah, 170.
Sarah (Wilson), 170.
Sleigh, 170.
Rolfe, , 40.
Rev., 43.
John, 40(4).
Mary, 40.
Romball, Daniel, 159.
Romulus (ship), 342
(6).
Roots, Thomas, 205,
206.
Ropes, , 294,
335.
Capt., 17.
John, 297.
Joseph, 325, 328,
331, 333, 335.
Nathaniel, 82.
Thomas, 14.
William, 294.
Rosamund (ship), 343.
Rose, Alexander, 102.
John, 342.
Ross, , 17.
Capt., 18(2).
Alexander, 311(2).
Ann (Ross), 311.
Christie, 311.
George, 311.
Isabella, 311.
Jane, 311.
Maria, 311.
Monroe, 311.
Thomas, 311.
William, 58.
Rowling, Edward,109.
Rouse, Rous, ,
350.
Mary, 348, 349.
Maj. Thomas, 350.
Rover (privateer
sloop), 100.
Rover (sloop), 102,
104, 105.
Rowland, , 113.
Capt. E., 117.
RoyalCharlotte(ship),
103(3), 104.
Royal George (brigan-
tine), 100(2).
Royal William (ship),
329, 341, 342, 344
(2).
Ruby (ship), 341.
Ruck, John, 159, 365
(2).
Samuel, 335.
Thomas, 365(2).
Russell, Russel, ,
6, 62, 293.
Chambers, 9.
Charlotte, 163.
George Webster,
163.
Ira Warren, 163.
Joseph, jr., 163.
John, 333, 335.
Joseph, 53, 122, 163,
306.
Martha, 306.
Martha Jane, 163.
Martha Luella, 163.
Mary, 183.
Moody, 53.
Newton, 163.
Robert, 62.
INDEX.
401
Russell, Sarah (Har-
rington), 163.
Thomas, 108, 183.
William, 335.
Rust, H., 117, 118.
Henry, 100, 321,322.
Joseph, 06.
Nathaniel, 282.
Safford, Joshua, 302.
Mary, 215.
Thomas, 215.
William, 338(2).
St. Andrews, 18.
St. Estatia, 14.
St. Marias, 16.
St. Pei (privateer
schooner), 106.
Salem (Mass.), 3, 76,
78, 136, 151, 177,
186, 193, 257, 276,
280, 281, 284(2),
289, 321, 354, 356.
Salem Common, 193,
294.
Salem Harbor, 15.
Salem (schooner), 119.
Salem Packet (ressel),
112.
Salisbury, Capt., 826.
Salisbury (Mass.), 24,
37, 283.
Sally (brig), 110.
Sally (brigantine),116.
Sally (ship), 99.
Sally (sloop), 112.
Sally & Betsy (ship),
334, 339.
Salter, Capt. M., 104.
Salvador, 342(6), 343
(2), 344(2), 345.
Samuel Hicks (ship),
312.
San Antonio (ship),
341.
Sanborn, John M.,28,
29.
William, 23.
Sanderson, William,
344.
Sands, John, 315.
Sandwich (Mass. ),172.
Sanford, , 74.
Sanspirel (ship), 333.
Sarah (schooner), 5.
Saratoga (brigantine),
111, 120.
Sargeant, , 348.
Sau riders, Sanders,
, 16, 58, 243,
249, 302, 310.
Abiel, 165(2), 243.
John, 151, 359.
Maj. John, 302.
Capt. Philip, 327.
Timothy, 58.
Ziba, 58.
Savage, , 41, 365.
Sawyer, Dr. George
Whitefield, 227.
John, 227.
Polly, 227.
Sarah, 227.
Sayer, Elizabeth, 181.
Schofield, Bathsheba,
305.
Scott, , 53, 58, 63,
165,166,247,249(3).
Andrew, 52, 248(3).
Archibald, 52,58(2),
248.
Catherine, 166, 248.
Clara Marie, 248.
Edward, 166, 168.
Ellen Susan, 248.
Emma, 248.
Honora, 166.
James, 166, 248(2),
249.
Jane (Ritchie), 248.
Janet, 248.
Janet Morrison, 248.
Jeannette M., 58.
Jesse M., 248.
John, 166, 248.
Joseph, 248, 249.
Marie, 248.
Mary, 248.
Mary Klizabeth,166.
Mary Jane, 248.
Patrick, 166.
Robert, 248, 351.
Sarah, 248.
William Ritchie,
248.
Scourge (sloop), 123.
Scribner,William,344.
Scripture, , 53.
Sea Flower (brigan-
tine), 108.
Seamons, Lord, 338.
Searle, Serls, ,
2, 260.
John, 2.
Thomas,159,263,264.
Senannes, Sinto, 22.
Sevia, John, 335.
Sewall, , 7, 8.
Polly, 8.
Stephen, 74,368,866.
Shannon, , 284.
Susannah, 234.
Shappel.Shapel, Cath-
erine (Shapel),
317(8).
Ira, 317.
Joseph, 170, 317.
Katherine, 170.
Mary (Frederick),
170.
Rosella, 317.
Sharon (N. H.), 2.
Sharp, Henry, 296.
Shattuck & Co., 57.
Shaw, , 5, 55,239,
249(2).
David, 319.
Ellen Jane, 164.
George, 16ft.
Hannah, 246.
James, 246(2).
James Arthur, 246.
Jane, 319.
Letitia (Kelly), 319.
Mary Emma, 246.
Matilda, 246.
Susan, 246.
Shea, John, 316.
Shelding, Elizabeth,
71.
Sheldon, Asa G., 162.
Bette, 273.
Elizabeth, 68(3).
Shepard, Shepherd.
Jeremiah, 335.
Samuel, 335(3).
Thomas, 282.
Samuell, 31, 32.
Sherman, , 2.
Shillaber, Shellaber,
, 327.
Ben, 328.
Peter, 336(2).
Robert, 117.
William, 116, 117.
402
INDEX.
Shreve, Stanwood &
Co., 292.
Sibley, Sibly, ,
270.
Richard, 272.
William, 72.
Silsbee, Silsby, ,
108, 112.
Capt., 108-115, 124.
Nathaniel, 188.
Capt. Nathaniel, 118,
116, 118, 330(4),
331.
Zachariah, 206.
Silver, Capt., 334.
Simraonds, Daniel,
344.
Susanna, 49.
Simonds,seeSymonds.
Simpson, Ann, 251.
Hannah, 251.
Richard, 251.
Skeat, Edward, 349.
Col. Edward, 349.
Elizabeth, 349.
Mary, 349(2), 351.
Skelton, Ann, 308.
Samuel, 308.
Skerry,Skery, Skerye,
, 75, 76, 150.
Marshall, 263(3),
264(3), 273(2).
Francis, 66, 80, 154,
157, 261, 297, 298.
Francis, 358(2).
Henry, sen., 189(3).
Skidmore, Agnes Ann,
319.
Daniel, 319.
Gertrude, 319.
Lydia Ann, 319.
Rosanna, 319.
Sarah, 319.
Sarah Elizabeth,
319.
Thomas, 319.
Thomas Arthur, 319
Skiner, Walter, 80,
260, 264.
Slater, Slator, Alice,
169.
Edward, 36.
George, 336.
James, 169.
Sarah, 169,
Slattery, Catherine
(Murray), 316.
Slaven, Margaret (Mc-
Quade), 166.
Patrick, 166.
Sleeper, John, 34(2),
36.
Sleuman,William,335.
Sloan, Catherine, 248.
Slocum, Holder, 300.
Small, , 15, 165.
John, 70, 71, 189(2),
190(2).
Samuel, 190.
Stephen, 190(2).
Smart, E. K., 128.
Robert, 23.
Smith, , 2-6, 15,
229, 266, 267, 268,
269(3), 270, 297.
Capt., 285.
Abigail, 240.
Albert, 240.
Benjamin, 303.
Carrie, 132.
Charles, 240.
E., 199.
Edward, 23, 24(2),
28(2), 29, 30(4).
Elizabeth, 166, 246.
Freeborn B., 228.
Georg, 271.
Henry, 171, 240(2).
Isaac, 303.
James, 336.
Jane, 166.
Rev. Jehiel, 227.
Margaret (Grouney)
166.
Mary, 30(2), 164.
Mary Ann (Little),
164.
Mary (Curman),246.
Mary French, 240.
Mary (Lyle), 166.
Mehitable, 229.
Nicholas, 24(2).
Patrick, 166.
Samuel, 240.
Sarah Henrietta
Elizabeth, 228.
Sison, 344.
Syrena, 227.
Thomas, 164, 166,
246, 336.
Smith, William, 75,
336, 343.
Smothers,Daniel, 336.
John, 340.
Solart, Elizabeth, 216.
John, 216.
Martha, 216.
Sophia (ship), 123.
South Carolina Pack-
et (brig), 109.
Southwick, Souther-
ick, Sutherick,
, 57, 245.
Daniel, 71, 77.
Daniel, sen., 361(3).
Eliza, 245.
Joseph, 71.
Josiah, 360, 361, 364
(2).
Lawrence, 360, 361.
Lucy, 245.
Southwick & Son, 56.
Sparhawk, , 136.
John, 138.
Rev. John, 86.
N., 99.
Speed (brigantine),
113.
Speedwell(ketch),351.
Speed well(sloop), 111.
Spencer,Caroline, 234,
238.
Joseph, 340.
Spiller, Charlotte
Frances, 127.
Charlotte (Jewett),
127.
Rev. Richard Pulsi-
fer, 127.
Spitfire (ship), 339.
Spofford, , 56.
Aaron, 232.
Abigail Porter, 227.
Betsey (Foster),232.
Charles, 55.
Florence Nichols, 56
Hannah (Wilkins),
231.
Harrison B., 227.
Helen Frances, 55.
John Edward, 56.
Mary Jane, 231.
Parker, 231.
Rebecca Frances,
232.
INDEX.
403
Spofford,Soloraon, 56.
Spooner, Elizabeth,
360(2).
Thomas, 360(2), 365
(2).
Spyer, Spiar, Eliza-
beth, 350, 353.
Mary, 349, 350(4),
353(2).
Rebecca, 350,353(2).
Robert, 353.
Thomas, 349,850(3),
353(2).
Sqnirrel (schooner),
111.
Squirrel (ship), 336.
Stackhouse, Richard,
68(4).
Stacy, Stacey, John,
296.
Thomas, 160.
William, 154.
Stag (ship), 342(3).
Stags, Henry, 342.
Standish, Miles, 255.
Staniford, John, 282.
Stanian, Anthony, 28.
Stanwood, Timothy,
342.
Stanyan, Stanyen,
, 24, 28.
Anthony, 24.
Staples, Thomas, 46.
Susanna, 46(2).
Stark, , 58.
General, 244.
Carrie Elizabeth,
251.
John Caldwell, 51.
John Spalding, 251.
Martha Ann, 261.
W. D., 53.
William, 251.
William D., 164.
William Darwin,251
(2).
Starr, Star, , 267-
270.
Staunch (ship), 329.
Steele, , 185.
Stephens, John, sr.,42.
Stephenson, Agnes,
308.
Jane(Crawford),308.
William, 808.
Stevens, Abagail, 218.
Agnes, 308.
Benjamin, 61.
Jane (Crawford),
308.
William, 308.
Stevenson, Capt. R.,
114.
Stewart, Charles, 53.
Stickney, Matthew
A., 97.
William, 292, 302.
Stimpson, Andrew,
57, 244.
Andrew B., 56.
Elizabeth, 161.
John, 161.
Thaddeus, 161.
Stone, , 8, 112,
113, 234.
Capt., 13, 106.
Henry A., 313.
Katherine, 362.
Lydia, 43, 45.
Olive, 234.
Robert, 69(2), 112,
124, 273, 362, 365.
Capt. Robert, 115,
117.
Samuel, 273, 361,
862, 364, 365(2).
Stoneham (Mass.), 2.
Story, Justice, 202,
299(2).
Capt. Franklin H.,
301.
Nathan, 95.
Samuel, 95.
William, 278, 330.
Stott, Elizabeth (Ha-
worth), 171.
Jane, 171, 249.
Mary (Ashworth),
249.
Robert, 61, 169, 170,
244, 249.
Sarah Ann, 249.
Thomas, 171(2).
Stoughton, , 143.
Strong, William, 835
(2), 336(2).
Stuart, , 178.
Sturdy Beggar (pri-
vateer brigantine)
105.
Sturdy Beggar (pri-
vateer schooner).
102.
Success (bark), 114.
Success (schooner),
1 19.
Sukey (ship), 334.
Surprise (schooner),
121.
Susannah (schooner),
121.
Sutleff, Joseph, 311.
Sarah, 311(2).
Sutton, Benjamin, 33 6.
Swain, , 127, 132.
Charles W., 182.
ElizabethM.(Leigh)
132.
Frank Wesley, 132.
Swan, Elizabeth, 46.
Swaney, William, 336.
Swasey, Swasy, Ben-
jamin, 336.
Joseph, 271.
Richard, 336(2).
Richard, jr., 336.
Sweat (privateer
schooner), 110(3).
Sweeny, , 241.
Sweet, Bethia, 41.
Sweet (schooner), 114,
116.
Swectland, William,
273.
Swetmore, George,61.
Swett, , 335.
Joseph, 83.
Swett (privateer
schooner), 113.
Swett (schooner), 118.
Swift, Nathaniel, 240.
Swinerton, Swinner-
ton, Job, 72, 146,
154, 156 , 250, 258
859(2), 800, 367.
Job, jr., 76.
John, 203, 359.
Dr. John, 362, 864.
Swinger (ship), 385.
Sylvester, Edmund,
126.
Lucy Jane, 126.
Symms, , 1, 63,
801.
Rev.. 4.
404
INDEX.
Symonds, Simons, Si-
monds, , 2,
148.
Abigail, 219.
Abigail (Porter),
219.
Elizabeth, 41.
Francis, 337.
Harlackindine, 282.
Henery, 837.
James, 76, 146, 153,
258, 337(2), 358
(2).
John, 46(2), 299,300.
Jonathan, 337(3).
Joseph, 337(2).
Low, 46, 48.
Samuel, 219.
Thomas, 337.
Jalbot, Talbert, ,
337.
Francis, 337.
Frank, 337.
Tapley, Gilbert, 258.
Taplin, Mrs., 125.
Tarbox, Joseph, 285.
Tatum, Robert, 338.
Tawley, John, 260.
Taylor, Tayler, An-
thony, 35.
Charles, 283.
Elias Trampleas-
ure, 247.
Jane Ann, 247.
John, 348, 352.
M., 301.
Mary, 182.
Patience, 348, 352.
Stillman Ralph,247.
Waldo Henry, 247.
William, 150, 182.
Teel, Claramon, 313,
Susan (Frost), 313.
Thomas, 313.
Tefan, P., 102.
Temple, , 25(2),
Tenny, Tenney, John,
251.
Dea. John H., 133.
Lucy (Reed), 251.
Martha, 251.
Tenson, , 165.
Terrill, Tirrel, Hiram,
167.
Terrill, Mary, 353(2).
Rebecca, 353.
William, 353.
Terrible (ship), 118.
Thomas, Francis, 337.
Joseph, 342.
John S., 343.
Obed, 340.
Sela, 338.
Thompson, , 119.
Andrew, 338.
Benjamin, 219.
Benjamin P., 338.
Ellen, 246.
George L., 338.
Hannah, 246.
John, 342.
Margaret, 241.
Mary, 219.
Mary Jane, 246(2).
Richard, 246(2).
Tabitha (Deardon),
246.
William, 246, 338.
Thorn, Barnard, 282.
Thorndike, Thorn-
dick, , 340.
Capt., 106.
Paul, 149, 150, 282.
Thornton, , 310,
338.
Thomas, 330.
Thorpe, Elizabeth,
308(2).
Hannah, 308.
John, 308.
William, 308.
Three Friends (brig-
antine), 104.
Thunderer (ship), 338.
Thurston, Henry, 56.
Thomas, 26, 29.
Tibbets, Tebbets, Eli-
za, 245.
James, 245.
Samuel, 294, 295.
Sarah (Emery), 245.
Timothy, 294, 295.
Ticonderoga, 12.
Tidd, Clara (Buck-
minster), 238.
Cyrus, 238.
Minnie A., 238.
Tiger (privateer
schooner), 113.
Tilden, Capt. Rich-
ard, 354, 355.
Tillingham, Edmund,
253.
Tilton, Cornelius,338.
Daniel, 34(3).
Tink, , 323, 338.
Henry, 323, 338(2),
343.
Samuel, 338.
Thomas, 338.
Tittle.Alfred, 338,340.
Todd, Elizabeth, 182,
348, 349, 352(2).
John, 348, 349, 352.
Joseph, 349.
Robert, 182.
Thomas, 348, 352.
Tompkins, Tomkins,
John, 67, 188,192,
272, 857.
John, jr., 67(4), 159,
262.
Nathaniel, 192,365.
Toppan, , 7.
Toogood, Abby (Ly-
man), 51.
Franklin, 51.
Mary Anna, 51.
Touzel, , 197.
John, 197.
Towne, Mary K., 232.
William, 190.
Townley, John, 241.
Trago, Job, 242.
Mary, 242.
Trampleasure, ,
319.
EdwardHorace,247 .
Elizabeth, 247.
Helen Amelia, 247.
Jane Ann, 247.
John, 54, 64, 246,
247, 319.
Nicholas, 247.
Phillipa (Ball), 247,
819.
Richard, 319.
Thomas Edward,
247.
Trask, , 361.
Anna, 360, 361 .
Elizabeth, 363.
Henry, 360(3).
John, 71, 360, 863.
INDEX.
405
Trask, Lena U., 232.
Mary, 361.
Sarah, 42, 361(2).
William, 70, 71, 77,
360(2).
Traveller (ship), 338.
Treadwell, , 7.
Tree, , 147.
Johanah, 261, 262
(2).
Richard, 261,262(2).
Trefren, James, 295,
296.
Trinklow (ship), 344.
Trow, John F., 307.
True, , 71.
True American(ship),
110.
True Blue (privateer
schooner), 110.
True Briton (brigan-
tine), 116.
Trull, Elbridge, 171.
L., 171.
Levi, 54, 59.
Trumble, , 8.
Tryan (schooner), 102.
Trumbull, James, 284
(2).
Tuck, Tucke, ,
114.
Daniel, 338.
Samuel, 338.
Tucker, , 116
338.
Capt. Andrew, 71,
281.
Capt. John, 101, 102
(2), 105.
William P., 50.
Tuer, John, 353.
Turell, , 8.
Turgeson, Charlotte,
244.
George, 244.
Leona May, 244.
Turlington, , 143.
Turnbolt, James, 842.
Turner, , 7(2), 146
(5), 154, 350.
Abigail, 348(4), 349
(2), 350, 351(2),
852.
Ann, 348, 349, 351.
Dorothy, 349, 352.
Turner, Elizabeth,
848, 349, 350, 352.
Elizabeth (Roberts)
347.
John, 67, 69, 70, 76,
77, 78,145-147,150,
158, 155, 265(3),
296, 347-353.
Capt. John, 347(2),
349, 351(3), 353.
Col. John, 348.
Mary, 348(2), 849(3),
351(2), 353.
Mary (Skeat), 351.
Patience, 348.
Peter, 3-48, 349, 350
(2), 352(3).
Richard, 329(3), 352
(2).
Robert, 347(2), 348,
350(2), 352.
Samuel, 275.
Tuttle, Hiram, 244.
Hiram O., 239.
Nicholas, 60.
Tweed (ship), 343.
Two Brothers (brig-
antine), 113, 114.
Two Brothers (ship),
324.
Two Friends (schoon-
er), 105.
Tye, Ann, 316.
Tyger (privateer), 117.
Tyger (brigantine),
119(3), 120.
Tyger (ship), 342(3).
Tyrannicide (brigan-
tine), 104.
Tyre, , 52.
Ulysses (ship), 204,
342, 344(5).
Underwood, ,294.
George, 294.
James, 272.
John, 339.
Union (brigantine),
111.
Union (ship), 330.
United States (ship),
336.
Unity (ship), 336.
Upham, , 197,108.
Upton, Abigail, 222.
Upton,Benjamin, 222,
329, 334, 339.
Jeduthan, 346.
Capt. Jeduthan, jr.,
341(2).
Lydia, 59.
Paul, 339.
Samuel, 59, 243.
Urgent (ship),.'ttl, 336.
Usher, , 324,333.
Valpy, , 61.
Vanderford, Benja-
min, 339.
Vans, , 3, 7.
Varny, John, 95.
Vassal!, , 8.
Steven, 253.
Vealey, Thomas, 151.
Veasey, Amelia, 51.
Vent, James, 339.
Venus (brigantine),
124.
Venus (ship), 826.
Veren, Verin, ,
154, 265-268.
Deacon, 268.
Hillard, 151.
Sarah, '297.
Vermonnet, , 119.
Very, , 12.
Abigail, 200.
Daniel, 339, 346(2).
E.,339.
Ephraim, 839.
Samuel, 200.
Sarah, 15.
Victory (ship), 342(2),
343(2), 344(2).
Viego (ship), 342(8).
Vigilant (brigantine),
111.
Viley, James, 339.
Vincent, Hannah,295.
Joseph, 206, 291(5),
296, 339(2).
Joseph, jr., 295.
Matthew, 291, 296.
Vining, , 131.
Alice, 131.
Frank Melvin, 131.
John B., J81.
Mary Elizabeth
(Weed), 131.
Roscoe Howard, 131
406
INDEX.
Volant (ship), 178.
Volusia (ship), 204.
t, Col.,
282.
John, 282.
William, 69.
Waite, Wait, Waitt,
- , 297, 300.
Aaron, 111, 116, 297.
J., 119.
John, 114.
Mehitable, 297.
Wakefield, Samuel,
154(2).
Walcott, Jonathan,72,
159.
Waldo, J., 114.
Jonathan, 112, 121.
Wale, Joan, 175.
Thomas, 175, 176.
Walker, - , 171.
Ann, 306.
Elizabeth, 306.
Elizabeth (Wild),
171, 306.
George, 306(2).
Jane, 171.
John, 171, 306.
Richard, 282.
Wall, James, 34.
Walter, - , 2, 9, 13,
15.
Walton, -- , 61, 246
Edw
I ward, 246.
Elizabeth (Diggles),
245.
Emma, 305.
Fanny, 245,
James, 58, 305.
James Diggles, 245.
Mary Frances, 245.
Samuel, 245(3).
Sarah Ann, 245.
Ward, , 108, 338.
Benjamin, jr., 224.
George A., 303.
Hannah, 202, 203.
Hannah(Higginson)
202.
Israel, 295.
John, 202, 203, 340.
Jos., 151.
Joshua, 102,123,301.
Ward, Martha, 202.
Miles, 194(2).
Richard, 121.
Samuel, 148, 149,
189.
Samuel Curwin,303.
Warden, John, 97.
Wardwell, William
H., 307.
Warner, Daniel, 49.
Warren, , 8.
Capt., 93.
Abraham, 67(2).
Charles, 319.
Lavina (Hobbs),319.
Sarah Jane, 306,319.
Washburn, Joseph,
820.
Josephine, 320.
Washington, George,
93, 94, 198, 291.
Waterhouse,Ellen,311
George, 311.
John Henry, 311.
Waters, Watters, ,
354.
Judge, 203, 204, 207.
John, 67(2), 196.
John, jr., 360.
Capt. Joseph, 207.
Richard, 190.
Capt. William D.,
200.
Watson, , 6(4), 7,
15, 244.
Thomas, 271.
Watts, Jeremiah, 73.
Weare, Nathaniel, 26,
29.
Webb, , 116, 303,
332.
Capt., 15.
B., 339.
Benjamin, 339(2).
Capt. Benjamin, 302
Hannah, 202, 203,
205.
Capt. Jonathan, 111.
Priscilla, 204, 205.
Samuel,202,204,340.
Thomas, 339.
Valentine, 339.
William, 7.
Webster, , 165,
288(2).
Webster, Caleb, 294.
George Alfred, 320.
Henry William, 320.
Ida Harriet, 320.
John L., 239.
Josephine, 320.
Mary, 42, 45.
Peter E., 303.
Rebecca, 46, 49.
Sarah Virginia, 320.
Weekes, Alice, 358.
Thomas, 358.
Weil, Louis, 60(2).
Welch, Bartel, 320.
Edward, 313.
Hannah Stasha
(Henneby), 170.
Jacob, 118.
John, 170, 320.
John Graham, 320.
Margaret, 170.
Martha Elizabeth
320.
Mary, 320.
Mary Ann, 320.
Mary (Graham),320.
Philip, 170(2).
Robert B., 320.
William, 170(2).
William Graham,
320.
William James,320(2).
Welcome Return
(ship), 329(2).
Weld, Dr., 147, 156.
Wenham (Mass.), 76,
150, 156.
Wescott, Catherine,
314.
Ella, 314.
Levi, 314.
Lizzie, 314.
Margaret, 314.
William S., 314.
West, , 15(2), 38.
Elizabeth, 183.
Henry, jr., 189.
Capt.Nathaniel,lll.
James, 339.
John, 38(2).
Joseph, 339.
Nathaniel, 296.
Thomas, 183, 265.
William, 123.
West Indies, 5.
INDEX.
407
Westall, David, 250.
Mary, 250.
Solomon, 250.
Susan, 250.
Weston, , 56.
Wheatland, , 1.
Wheeler, James, 58.
Whiddick, , 339.
Thomas, 339.
Whipple, Whippel,
, 16, 52.
John, 340.
Matthew, 143.
Whitby, Capt., 322(3).
White, , 22, 106,
157, 244.
Capt., 22.
John, 93.
Joseph, 107, 116.
Capt. Joseph, 104.
White, Henry & Co.,
123.
Whitefoot, Ebenezer,
340.
Ebenezer, jr., 840.
Whiting, , 62.
Dr., 55, 61.
Whitlock, Mary, 36.
Whitman, Mary A.,
244.
W.,342.
Whitmore, , 59.
Stephen, 302.
Whitney, Dr., 161.
Whittemore, ,198.
Whittaker, Whitaker,
Whittiker, Whit-
acre, Whitticar,
Whitticer, Whiti-
eur, Whiteker,
Whitecar, 40-44,
63(3).
Abia, 45.
Abiah, 45.
Abigail, 45.
Abraham, 37, 39, 41
(6)-45(5), 861.
Ann, 46(2), 47.
Anna, 42, 43(4), 47.
Asa, 48(2), 49.
Caleb, 48(2).
Daniel, 44, 45,47(2).
David, 46-48.
Ebenezer, 48, 49.
Ede, 42.
Whittaker, Elisha, 48.
Elizabeth, 42,44,48.
Esther, 48.
Hannah, 42(3), 43,
44(3), 45-48(2).
Henry, 42.
Htildah, 42.
Isaac, 42.
Israel, 49.
Jacob, 42, 43, 45(2).
James, 48, 49(3).
Joel, 46.
John, 42-44, 49(4).
Jonathan, 42(3), 43,
40, 48.
Joseph, 43(3), 46, 48
(2).
Lawrence, 52, 251.
Lydia, 45(2).
Martha, 49.
Mary, 43(3)-45(3),
47(2), 49(2).
Mehitable, 44, 45,
46(2), 47(2), 48.
Moses, 47(2), 48(2).
Nathan, 47, 49.
Peter, 47, 49(2).
Priscilla, 44(2), 47.
Rachel, 44(2).
Rebecca, 49.
Ruth, 44(2), 46(2).
Samuel, 45(2), 47,49.
Sarah, 42, 44(2), 46
(2), 47(2), 49, 361.
Solomon, 47.
Stephen, 44-46(2),
49.
Susanna, 44.
Thomas, 44, 46(4),
49.
William, 42(2)-44(6),
46(2), 48(2), 49(2).
William, jr., 46.
Whitten, , 128.
Clara Lillian, 128.
Charles, 128.
Charles Pike, 128.
George, 127, 128(2).
Lotta Anna, 128.
Reuben Henry, 128.
Whittier, Whitteere,
Whiteyear, Whit-
haire, Whithare,
Whitcher, 87, 38,
40(4), 43.
Whittier, Abraham,
37-41(3).
Elizabeth, 38-40.
Edward, 38(2), 39
(8).
John, 37, 38(7), 39
(4), 40(2).
Mary, 37(2), 38(2).
Capt. Nathaniel,
240(2).
Peter, 38.
Hit-hard, 40(2).
Sarah, 237.
Thomas, 38, 40(5).
William, 39(3).
Wbittington, Edward,
45.
Whitwell, Rev. Wil-
liam, 279.
Wickes, Alice, 358.
Thomas, :J58.
Widger, Widgier, 40
(2).
James, 40(2), 41.
John, 41(2).
Thomas, 41.
William, 41(3).
Witt, George, 259(2),
261.
Wigfall, Ann, 308.
Anna, 308.
Elizabeth, 308, 318.
George, 308.
George Henry, 308.
John, 308.
Maria, 308, 318.
Mary, 308.
Sarah, 308.
William, 308(3),318.
Wiggin, Elizabeth D.,
234.
Israel, 234.
Nancy, 234.
Wigglesworth, Dr., 9,
10.
Wild Cat (brigantine),
113.
Wild, Sarah, 241.
Sarah (Gordon ),841.
William, 241.
Wiley, ,306.
Wilford, , 60.
Gilbert, 44.
Mary, 44(2).
R. M., 67.
408
INDEX.
Wilkins, Caroline
Bartlett, 233.
Fred H., 234.
Herbert, 233.
Keuben, 340.
Kufus, 322, 328, 338,
340(2),
Samuel, jr., 226.
Sarah, 226.
Susan Elmira, 234.
Thomas, 73.
William (schooner),
117.
William (ship), 113.
William (sloop), 110.
William (snow), 117.
William and Ann
(ship), 107.
William and Charles
(ship), 339.
William and Edward
(schooner), 108.
Williams, ,7-9,189.
Capt., 2, 14.
Ann, 132.
Capt. G., 123.
Capt. Henry, 119.
Capt. S., 114, 123.
Capt. Samuel, 99,
100(3), 101(4),102,
105, 122.
Frank, 164.
George, 119, 123,
124, 189.
George, jr., 119,
120(2), 121.
Henry, 120.
Humphery, 95.
James, 344.
Jane, 132.
John, 189, 272, 359
(2).
John B., 169.
Joseph, 342, 343(2).
Samuel, 124, 272.
Sarah Maria, 169.
William, 132.
Willoughby, Willow-
bey, , 154,257.
Lord, 851.
Francis, 194.
Nehemiah, 76, 146,
158, 194, 258(2).
Willson, Humphray,
25.
Joseph, 340.
Wilson, , 199.
Jane (Yeadon), 169.
Sarah, 169, 254.
Thomas, 169.
Wills, Tobias, 254.
Wingate, , 4, 6.
Winn, Capt. John,
301.
Winslow, , 132.
Winthrop, , 6, 7
(2), 10, 155, 172,
256(2).
Winton, David James
Shaw, 319.
Eliza Ann, 319.
Ellen Jane, 319.
George Henry, 319.
Jane, 319.
Letitia, 164, 319.
Mary Elizabeth,319.
Matthew, 310,31 9(2)
Robert, 319.
Robert John, 319.
Withington, Lothrop,
253.
Wolf (ship), 328.
Wolfe, Andrew, 343.
Wolland, Ed ward, 159.
Wondell, John, 813.
Mary, 313.
Mary Lizzie, 813.
Wood, , 171, 294.
Dr., 200,
Esther (Furbush),
50.
Jabez, 171(2).
John, 50.
Libie J., 130.
Sarah, 50.
Solomon, 141.
Woodbridge, Deacon,
301.
Jackson, 301.
Thomas March, 301
(2).
Woodbury, , 304.
Andrew, 159(2),272.
Elizabeth, 230.
Hepzibah, 221.
John, 221.
Woodbury,Mary, 221.
Nicholas, 282.
Peter, 149, 150.
William, 221.
Woodlin, , 243(2).
Abba Augusta, 242.
Adoniram Lloyd,
242.
Dr., 242.
EuseliaVictoria,242
Laura Isabella, 242
(2).
Mary, 242.
Mary Georgiana,
242.
Parmenes Elgin, 242
Rebecca M., 242.
Rebecea Messer,242
William Henry, 242.
William Henry Bur-
ton, 242.
Woodnard, William,
254.
Woolen, Edward, 77.
Wormstead, Benja-
min, 111.
Wright, Anna, 308.
Desire, 81.
Edmund, 81.
George, 187.
John, 342, 344.
Samuel, 342.
Wrightman, Avis,
355.
Wyer, -, 3, 5, 8.
Wyman, Molly, 59.
Yardley, Capt. Fran-
cis, 180(2).
Sir George, 180.
York, Abigail (York),
812.
Love, 312.
Thomas, 31*2.
York (Me.), 11.
Young, , 166.
J. S., 52.
John, 24(3), 168,
244.
Joseph, 294.
Sarah, 24(2).
Xerrahn, , 184.
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