THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
VOL. LI 1915
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SALEM, MASS.
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Salem, Massachusetts
CONTENTS.
Andover, Mass., A Genealogical-Historical Visitation of, in
the year 1863. By Alfred Poore, M. D. (Continued). . 306
Browne, Benjamin F. Youthful Recollections of Salem
(Continued) 53,297
Burrill, Burrell Family of Essex County, The. By Frank A.
Gardner, M. D 271
Cedar Pond Region, Salem, in 1700. By Sidney Perley
(map). 23
Derby, Perley, and Frank A. Gardner, M. D. Elisha Story of
Boston and Some of his Descendants (Portrait). . . 41
Endecott Lands, Salem, in 1700. By Sidney Perley (Illus-
trated) 361
Essex County, Mass., Newspaper Items Relating to (Con-
tinued) 131,290
Essex County, Mass., The Probate Records of (Continued). 57, 137
Fiske, Rev. Samuel, of Salem, Fragment of a Diary kept by,
1719-1721, 282
Gardner, Frank A., M. D. The Burrill, Burrell Family of
Essex County 271
Gardner, Frank A., M. D. and Perley Derby. Elisha Story
of Boston and Some of his Descendants (Portrait). . 241
Goldsmith Family Bible Record 216
Goodell, Abney Cheney, A. M. By George G. Putnam (Por-
traits). 201
Goodell, Abner Cheney, A Bibliography of. By Alice G.
Waters 210
Governor of New Providence, W. I., in 1702, The. By G.
Andrews Moriarty, Jr., A. M. (map) 1, 97
" Groton ", Salem, in 1700. By Sidney Perley (Illustrated). 257
Hardy Family of Bradford, Notes on the. By David W.
Hoyt 197
Hasket, Governor Elias, of New Providence, W. I., The Ad-
ministration of. By G. Andrews Moriarty, Jr., A. M.
(map) i, 97
Hoyt, David W. Notes on the Hardy Family of Bradford. 197
Jackson Family Bible Record. 216
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iv CONTENTS.
Kitchen Family of Salem, The. By G. Andrews Moriarty,
Jr., A. M. (Portrait). V. 126
Knowlton Family Bible Record. . . ', . . . . 216
Lesslie, James, of Topsfield, Mass., and Some of his De-
scendants. By M. V. B. Perley (Illustrated). . 233, 329
Moriarty, G. Andrews, Jr., A. M. The Governor of New
Providence, W. I., in 1702 (map) 1, 97
Moriarty, G. Andrews, Jr., A. M. The Kitchen Family of
Salem (Portrait). ', '. , , V . . . 126
Newspaper Items Relating to Essex County, Mass. (Con-
tinued) ; . . . . . 131, 290
Odlin Family Bible Record. . . . . . . 200
Perley, M. V. B. James Lesslie of Topsfield, Mass., and
Some of his Descendants (Illustrated). .' . . 233,329
Perley, Sidney. Cedar Pond Region, Salem, in 1700 (map). 23
Perley, Sidney. Endecott Lands, Salem, in 1700 (Illus-
trated). . ;.'.;* . 361
Perley, Sidney. * Groton ", Salem, in 1700 (Illustrated). . 257
Perley, Sidney. The Plumer Genealogy (Continued).
81, 161, 217, 313
Perley, Sidney. The Woods, Salem, in 1700 (Illustrated). . 177
Plumer Genealogy, The. By Sidney Perley (Continued).
81, 161, 217, 313
Poore, Alfred, M. D. A Genealogical-Historical Visitation
of Andover, Mass., in the year 1863 (Continued). . . . 306
Probate Records of Essex County, Mass. (Continued) . . 57, 137
Putnam, George G. Abner Cheney Goodell, A. M. (Por-
traits) 201
Salem, Cedar Pond Region, in 1700. By Sidney Perley (map). 23
Salem, Endecott Lands, in 1700. By Sidney Perley (Illus-
trated). 361
Salem, " Groton ", in 1700. By Sidney Perley (Illustrated). 257
Salem, The Woods, in 1700. By Sidney Perley (Illustrated). 177
Salem, Youthful Recollections of. By Benjamin F. Browne.
(Continued). * -".. . . ... .53,297
Story, Elisha, of Boston and Some of his Descendants. By
Perley Derby and Frank A. Gardner, M. D. (Portrait). 41
Smith Family Bible Record 200
Waters, Alice G. A Bibliography of Abner Cheney Goodell. 210
Woods, Salem, in 1700, The. By Sidney Perley (Illustrated). 177
JUSTICE JOSEPH STORY.
1779-1845
From the portrait by Osgood now in the possession of the Essex Institute.
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
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ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. LI. JANUARY, 1915 No. 1
THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
WEST INDIES, IN 1702.
THE ADMINISTRATION OF GOVERNOR ELIAS BASKET OF
SALEM IN THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY.
BY G. ANDREWS MORIARTY, JR., A. M.
In the Essex County Notarial Records*, under date of
Mar. 19, 1702, the Hon. Col. Elias Haskett Esquire ",
Governor of His Majesty's Colony, of New Providence (now
the Bahamas), in the West Indies, gave a power of attorney
to his loving friend Col. Samuel Browne, Esq., of Salem,
to collect his rents, sell his estate, etc., in Salem. This
Col. Elias Hasket was the son of Stephen Hasket of
Salem and the brother of the second Mrs. Roger Derby
and of Mrs. Richard Derby. In the winter of 1913-14,
Dr. Alfred Johnson of Boston visited Nassau and made some
inquiries for me concerning Colonel Elias. He found that
the records of New Providence do not go back of the
American Revolution, but he secured from a gentleman
on the island certain references to documents preserved in
the British Museum and the Public Record Office, London,
copies of which I procured and which form the body of
this article.
Stephen Hasket, the father of Elias Hasket, appears at
*See Essex Institute Hist. Colls., Volumes XLI and XLII.
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2 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
Salem in or about the year 1668. From a deposition of
his widow Elizabeth Hasket, taken at Salem, 30 May,
1698, it appears that he came from Henstridge, in Som-
ersetshire, that he had been an apprentice of one Mr.
Thomas Oburne, a chandler, at Exeter, and that he was
married to his wife in that city by one Doctor C la veil,
and that he had but one brother, Elias Hasket of Hen-
stridge. The researches of H. F. Waters, Esq., disclose
the will of Elias Hasket of Henstridge Marsh, yeoman,
dated 13 Feb., 1696, proved 12 May, 1698. The admin-
istration of this will was given to one Mary Crumsey,
wife of Lewis Crumsey, the niece and next of kin to said
Elias, in as much as the executrix, Mary, his widow, had
died before assuming the execution of the will. On 14
August, 1699, Elias Hasket, son of the brother and next
of kin of Elias Hasket, late of Henstridge Marsh,
brought suit against Mary Crumsey as executrix, and as
Mr. Waters points out, this Elias Hasket is undoubtedly
our Col. Elias Hasket, who was then in England, and the
paper sworn to in the Salem court by his mother was for
purposes of identification. Mr. Waters also found the
will of Stephen Hasket, the elder, of Marnhull in Dorset
(about five miles from Henstridge), a fuller, dated 24 May,
1648, proved 27 Feb., 1653. In this will he mentions
his sons Stephen, John and Elias. It seems probable,
therefore, that this Stephen was the father of Elias of
Henstridge and Stephen of Salem, but further research
should be made in these Dorset and Somerset parishes,
where the Haskets are to be found as far back as the time
of Elizabeth.
Our Stephen Hasket, then from Henstridge, appears in
Salem by 1668, where he is styled soap boiler and cap-
tain. He appears to have carried on the trade of a
chandler and at the same time he was captain of a trading
vessel. Capt. Stephen Hasket was employed to carry
stores around Cape Cod to the army at Narragansett in
1675, and he was present at the storming of the Narra-
gansett fort as one of Capt. Cur win's troopers. His wife
Elizabeth may have been born Langdon, for John Lang-
don by his nuncupative will bequeaths his entire New
England property to the children of Stephen and Eliza-
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beth Hasket, giving a larger portion to Elizabeth than to
the rest. On 30 May, 1698, Stephen Sewell, notary, cer-
tified that Stephen Hasket left only one son and five
daughters, which enables us to fix the number of his
children with certainty, as follows :
I. ELIZABETH, married, first, 6 June, 1684, William Dynn, of
Kinsale, Ireland, and Salem; secondly, in 1694, Roger
Derby, sr., of Salem.
ii. STEPHEN HASKET, born March, 1668-9; died within 14 days,
in. ELIAS HASKET, born 25 April, 1670. He became Governor of
New Providence, W. I.
iv. MARY, born 13 March, 1671-2; married Benjamin Pickman of
Salem,
v. SAB AH, born 5: 12 mo: 1673; married 29 July, 1702, Samuel
Ingersoll of Salem.
vi. HANNAH, married 11 May, 1704, Richard Symms.
vn. MARTHA, married 25 February, 1702, Richard Derby of Salem.
The second and only surviving son, Col. Elias Hasket,
is the person to whom the following documents refer.
Previously to his becoming governor of New Providence
he had commanded the Province Galley, and on 30 May,
1698, Col. John Hathorne testified that he was then in
Barbados. He appears to have sailed about this period
for various merchants of London, who recommended him
for the governorship of the Bahamas. As to his subse-
quent career I have been able to learn nothing, but I
think it doubtful if he ever returned to live in Boston, as
Savage states.
The island of New Providence over which Hasket was
called to rule must not be confused with Old Providence
in the Carribean, which is the island referred to by Win-
throp as ' Providence isle/' The first settlement upon
New Providence occurred in 1666, and for many years
subsequent the island was peopled by sponge fishers,
traders and pirates. Altogether it was a rough crew
over which Hasket was placed as ruler, with unfortunate
results. Whether he was a rogue and in conspiracy with
pirates I leave the reader of the following documents to
judge. Some of these papers have already appeared in
print in the publication of the Colonial Papers by the
British government, but inasmuch as there is nothing
4 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
there to show the connection between Hasket and New
England, it seems desirable to group these documents to-
gether with a brief account of the Hasket family. Most
grateful acknowledgments are due to Dr. Alfred Johnson
of Boston for securing references to the documents.
ARTICLES, DEPOSITIONS, &c., of the PEOPLE of
NEW PROVIDENCE in An Assembly held at NAS-
SAU, October the 5 th , 1701, Against (Cliag ^agttett,
Governor, Humbly Offered to the Conf ideration of
the Lords Proprietors, and the Right Honourable the
Commiffioners of Trade. And also Capt. Michael
Cole's Narrative taken on Oath before a Mafter in
CHANCERY. LONDON : Printed in the Year 1702.
To the Right Honourable the Commiffioners of Her Majef-
ttfs Council of TRADE.
The humble and juft Remonftrance of her Majefty's poor
diftrejjed Subjects the Inhabitants of Providence,
and the reft of the Bahama I/lands, late under the
Tyrannical and Arbitrary Grovernment of Elias Has-
kett, Commijfionate under the Lords Proprietors of
the f aid If lands.
Sheweth
That many and great have been the Grievances and
Oppreflions that we the faid Inhabitants have groaned
under from feveral former Governors for at leaft thefe feven
or eight Years laft paft, which with often and repeated
Supplications we addreffed the Lords Proprietors for Re-
lief therein, who have hitherto not fo much as taken no-
tice thereof, but on the Contrary our Original Petitions
and Complaints, figned under our Hands, have been
brought back by the fucceeding Governors, who have
made ufe thereof to Punif h the Perfons Petitioning, to
Terrify others to do the like for the future ; fo that at
prefent we are brought to that pafs that it is the greatest
of Crimes for the Injured to Complain.
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 5
This is the absolute Caufe and Occafion of our laying
before your Lordfhips our prelent State and Condition
under our late Governor fo much afore-mentioned (who
hath not yet been fix Months among us) omitting all our
former Miferies, which would be too tedious to enumer-
ate, but have been much of the fame Nature, as the fol-
lowing Articles will more fully demonftrate, all tending
to the fame end (viz.) Self-Intereft of the Governors, to
the Destruction and Ruin of the Subjects and Country.
A Breviate of thefundry Articles, f hewing the dbfolute and
neceffary Caufe and Reafons of depofing and taking
into Cuftody Elias Haskett, late Governor of Provi-
dence, $c., for his Arbitrary and Tyrannical Govern-
ment, until her Majefty and Lords Proprietors Pleaf-
ure be further known therein.
I. As the firft principal Introduction to the well-
being and Christian-like living of the Inhabitants in all
Governments, is by the Encouragement of the Church
and Ministry, he the faid Elias Haskett hath contrary- wife,
fome fmall time after his arrival here, deny'd the Country
to allow their Minister his conftant Sallary (and to that
purpose made void, by his own Power, an Act appointed
for the Confirmation thereof) which Sallary was raifed by
a Duty on Liquors and Sugars imported ; and he the faid
Elias Haskett, at his Arrival bringing a large Quantity of
both, the Duty of which amounting to a confiderable Sum
of Mony, was absolutely the Caufe and Reafon thereof ;
and hath proceeded to Villifie and Defame the prefent
Minister, a Man of Worth, threatning him to have him
Whip'd through the Town. That by thefe means the
Gofpel hath not been Preach'd, nor any Minifterial Func-
tion Exercifed amongft us for fome Months paft.
II. By his own Arbitrary Power and Authority he
hath illegally Taxed and Impofed upon Her Majefty's
Free-born Subjects and Inhabitants of this Government,
a Confiderable Quantity of Brazaletta-Wood, the chief
Commodity of the Country, to the value of Three Hun-
dred and odd Pounds, to be cut by them for his Use as a
Prefent, which he saith ought to be given to him, but
6 THE GOVERNOB OP NEW PROVIDENCE,
Extorted from the Poor Inhabitants, denying all Trade
and Commerce whatfoever till it was done.
III. Such People as would not Conform to thefe his
unlawful and untollerable Impof itions, he immediately,
on denial thereof, on any f ham Pretence puts into clofe
Prifon, and in Irons, where they were fo ftrictly Confin'd
that their neareft Friends and Relations are deny'd either
Sight or Converfation with them : By which barbarous
Ufage feveral Perfons have been forced for Safety of their
Lives, to Ranfom themfelves by large Sums of Mony,
fome a Hundred Pounds, and others Fifty, and fo propor-
tionable to their Abilities. And all this done, both
Imprifonment and Discharged, without any manner of
Procefs or Colour of Law whatfoever, but by his own
Arbitrary Power and Command.
IV. He demands the fifth Part of all Brazaletta-Wood,
cut for the ufe of the Lords Proprietors, contrary to all
former Inftructions given to any of their former Gov-
ernours, as alfo the f ixth Part of Tortois-Shell (takes the
fame Sum of the Inhabitants) never before fo much as
Demanded or thought of, to the great Discouragement of
the Inhabitants to seek or labour for thofe Commodities.
V. His Commiff ion and Inftructions, relating to the
Demanding of the aforefaid Duties, in behalf of the
Lords Proprietors, being required by the Council to be
Perufed and Recorded, as is ufually heretofore done by
all former Governours, was by him denied to be f hewed
or produced.
VI. He Impofeth excessive Poft Charges on all Ves-
sels Trading hither, contrary to all Laws heretofore made,
or any now in being ; both upon Strangers and Inhab-
itants, to the utter Ruin and Difcouraging of all Trade
and Commerce.
VII. He denies and makes Void all Acts heretofore
made in the time of the late Deputy Governor ; yet on
feveral Occafions, where any Laws made to ferve himfelf,
will allow of them.
VIII. Inftead of calling of an Affembly for to enact
new Laws or to confirm thofe heretofore made (which he
calls Illegal and Void), he prevents all further Meeting of
the Aflembly to regulate tbofe Matters, and threatened
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 7
the Speaker of the Affembly to Shoot him through the
Head for Speaking modeftly in behalf of the Country on
that Occaf ion, Proroguing and Diffolving at his own
Pleafure; and when an Act againft Monopolizing was
fent to him and Council from the Affembly for Confirma-
tion, he ordered it f hould not be Read, but Thrown from
the Board, and immediately Prorogues the Aifembly for
fix months.
IX. Whereas the principal Buflnefs of all Govern-
ments is the Keeping the Peace and Safety of Her Maj-
efty's Subjects ; he on the contrary, with his own Hands,
Beat and Abufed feveral Mafters of Veflels Trading to
to this Port, for only af king whether there was an Act
of the Country for the Exorbitant Fees impofed on them,
which by their unreafonable Largenefs were not to be
Demanded.
X. He being modeftly asked by fome indifferent Per-
fons how fuch unreafonable Fees and feveral Fines could
be impofed on Perfons contrary to Law, Made this f hort,
but Tyrannical Anfwer, That there is no Law in your
Country ; what cannot I do ?
XI. In a time of great Scarcity for Provif ions, when
the Inhabitants were ready to Starve, he Monopolized a
large quantity of Corn, and difpofed thereof to a Spanifh
and Portuguefe Ship, by which the faid Corn was
Tranfported out of this Government, to the great
Opprelfion of the Poor Inhabitants ; and did declare that
if the faid Corn were not Sold to himfelf, the Owners
f hould not have the Difpofal of it, and Traded himfelf
with the faid VefTel for a Considerable Value.
XII. He Demands and Receives from Six to Nine
Pounds for each Licenfe to Marry, and denies the Banns
of Matrimony to be Publif hed in Church according to
the Cannons thereof ; by which means the honeft Inten-
tions of feveral poor People, who cannot Comply with his
unreafonable Demands, may by fuch Methods be in a
manner forced to Live diforderly and incontinent Lives,
to the difcouragement of all Virtue and encouragement
of all Vice, and abfolutely Deftructive to all Governments.
XIII. Notwithftanding Her Majefty's Commiffions
granted to feveral Perfons here, for the executing the
8 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
Offices of Vice- Admiral Judge, and other Offices of the
Court of Admiralty, he hath Conftituted and appointed
the faid feveral Offices, by Virtue of his own Commiflion,
and in this, as well as in all other Courts of Judicature,
Acts by the same Arbitrary Power and Authority, as by
feveral Examples of that Nature, are ready to be made
appear.
XIV. To ftrike at the very Root of Trade, Intelli-
gence, Commerce, and all Correfpondence whatfoever be-
tween Merchants and all others, he, from the very firft
of his coming into this Government, intercepts Accompts,
Bills of Lading, and all other Papers of what Nature fo
ever, which he breaks open, and detains as he thinks fit ;
and to that purpofe impofed an unlawful Oath on all
Masters of the Vessels, to declare and deliver to him all
Letters they either bring in or carry out of the Government.
XV. What little Trade remains in the Government,
which daily decreafeth by the feveral illegal Impof itions
therein, is all Center'd in himfelf, no Perfon being fuf-
fered fcarce to ask the Price of a Commodity Imported,
before he hath refused to buy it.
XVI. To make appear what Regard he hath to Her
Majefty's Officers and Interest in this Government, he
most inhumanly Beats and Abufeth Her Majefty's Collec-
tor here, and Orders him to be put in Prifon and Irons,
and his Boat to be funk whenever he went on Board any
Vessel to Execute his Office.
XVII. After a Seizure made of a parcel of Claret
and Brandy, brought from the French Port of Cape Fran-
cois, on Hifpaniola, he Orders it to be Appraifed by Two
Perfons by him appointed for that purpofe, at an incon-
f iderable Value, and takes it all to himfelf, never fuffer-
ing a publick Sail to be made thereof, as is ufual in thofe
Cafes, that Her Majefty might not be Defrauded in Her
part of the true Value thereof.
XVIII. In a fmall time after, he Hires a Vessel him-
self, and gives Orders to the Commanders and Company,
privately, to cut a Load of Brazaletta-Wood amongft
fome of the Iflands of this Government, and the fame to
carry to the A fore faid French Port of Cape Francois, in
Hifpaniola, and there to be difpofed of, and Returns made
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 9
to him in Alamode-Silks and other French Goods, and
privately to be Landed in this If land ; and this fort of
Trading fo Prejudicial to Her Majefty's Intereft, breach of
fundry Acts of Parliament, and particularly contrary to
his own Oath taken as Governour, he had laid a Founda-
tion to be continued fo long as the Mafter and Company
fo Imployed thought fit, and Encouraged all the Men to
bring what Goods they pleafed for themfelves.
XIX. In Courts of Common-Pleas, and other Courts
of Judicature, Eftablished by the Laws of this Govern-
ment, coufiftent with the Laws of England, in thofe
Cafes he hath iinpofed double Fees for all Procefs and
Matters therein, and hath Constituted One of his own
Servants Clerk of all Courts, and prepofterouf ly to act
and plead as an Attorney alfo therein, denying any other ;
the whole Profits of which intollerable exorbitant Fees
by him fo irnpofed coming all to himfelf, by which means
Right and Juftice is bought and fold by him among us, to
our intollerable Grief and Oppreff ion.
XX. Whereas moft of the Inhabitants of this Gov-
ernment have, and conftantly have had, fundry parcels of
Brazaletta-wood cut in feveral of the adjacent If lands, to
bring to this Port for Trade and Exportation, he hath,
and by many Orders to that end to Mafters of Veffels
imployed in his Service, given Inftructions to take and
load the fame for his own proper Use, which can be no
ways better deemed than perfect Felony.
XXI. In all Matters and Proceedings of Government
he hath never fo much as advifed with or confulted his
Council, which by his Inftructions he ought to do, but
by his own arbitrary Power hath laid Embargoes, put out
Proclamations, and done feveral other Acts and Things,
and made it a high Crime for any one to ask the Reafon
thereof.
XXII. He hath taken up feveral Perfons on pretence
and fufpicion of Pyracy, on which account he made feiz-
ure, and took into his Cuftody all their Effects ; and after
a hard and fevere Ufage, and ftrict confinement in Irons,
being fufficiently harafTed, hath fent them private Notice
what Sum of Mony fhould purchase their Freedoms,
which accordingly when paid they have been discharged.
10 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
XXIII. He, by his private Letters wrote to fome of
his friends in England, gives them this Account, That he
had not been in his Government not quite two Months,
and yet had got two thoufand Pounds, and hoped by next
Spring to fend home ten thoufand Pounds, which he might
well do (were the Country worth fo much) by his illegal
Oppreff ions and Tyrannical Ways which he hath ufed, as
aforefaid, having in that little time he hath been here not
left Five hundred Pounds running Caf h on the whole
Ifland ; feveral times declaring publickly, That he would
not leave one Man in this Government worth a hundred
Pounds before he had done with them ; and in order
thereto hath Vilified and defamed the Inhabitants of this
Government (as by a Copy of his Letter dated in July
laft, directed To the Right Honourable the Lords of Her
Majejly's Council of Trade, will at large appear), under
the Title of Pyrates, Villains, and the moft fcandalous
People upon Earth, difobedient to all Law and Govern-
ment ; he by this means fuppofing to himself that after
fuch a Character given, neither her Majesty nor their
Lordships would hearken to any Complaints against him
from fo infamous a People as he described us to be, fo
that he might ftill, as he fuppofed and expected, perfevere
in his Villainous and Tyrannical Actions, to the utter
Kuin of this Government.
XXIV. And to put a fairer Glofs on all his arbitrary
Ways and Proceedings, he appoints a general Muster on
the 25th of September, 1701, and having designingly
drawn off the moft fubftantial and fenf ible Perfons of the
Country, orders a great quantity of Liquors to be given
to the remaining part of the poor ignorant People, who
having plentifully drank and intoxicated themfelves, a
Paper was produced to them to be f igned in the Name of
the whole Country, the Intent and Meaning of which was
not mentioned, but only told there was no Injury in it,
but it was for the Intereft of the Government, and refit-
ting of the Fortifications, upon which about twenty or
thirty illiterate Perfons figned it, without further exam-
ining. But when afterwards examined and difcovered, it
was an Addrefs to the Lords Proprietors, giving them
Thanks for making choice of fo good a Perfon as Elias
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Hazkett for their Governor, who corrected Vice and en-
couraged Virtue and Trade, with all other high Encomi-
ums, diametrically oppofite to the Rules and Methods he
hath ufed, as by the afore-recited Articles ; which poor
deluded People, finding how bafely they were Impofed
upon therein, their Hearts making their Hands Lyars
therein, are always ready to Teftifie the fame.
Thefe and many more Actions of the like Nature have
been done and exercifed by his Arbitrary and Tyrannical
Power, Deftructive to the Peace, Induftry and Pofterity
of this Settlement, which if not timely prevented, must
abfolutely have been ruined and deferted ; for who will
take Pains for that, which, when got, no man can call his
own ? Or who will Fight for that wherein he hath no
Intereft, but fuch as is fubject to the Will of another ?
The Antient Encouragement to Men that were to defend
their Countries was this, That they were to hazard their
Perfons (pro Arts $ Foris) for their Religion and their
Houfes ; but by this Arbitrary way which is Practifed
amongft us, our Religion, as in the firft Article afore-
recited, hath been obstructed to be Exercifed, and on the
other fide no Man hath had any Certainty of his Houfe,
or anything elfe to be his own. Thefe our prefent Griev-
ances we thought fit to lay before your Lordf hips, hum-
bly Requeuing you will pleafe to take into your ferious
Conf ideration fome proper and fpeedy Methods for our
future Safety and Prefervation, by reprefenting this our
condition to her Gracious Majefty and Council or Parlia-
ment, which your Lordf hips, in your Difcretion f hall
think mofl meet and Convenient, not only in the behalf
of our Selves, but for the Intereft of the Nation in gen-
eral, in Respect to its Trade. This Government being fo
advantageously f ituated by Nature, in the very Center of
America, may be made the Key of thofe Indies, a more
particular Account of which is already, as we fuppofe,
come to your Lordf hips : We f hall inf ift no further at
prefent. But for thefe and feveral other Reafons, too
tedious here to be Inferted, do Prefume it is the abfolute
Intereft of Her Majefty and Nation in general, conf ider-
ing the prefent Circumftances of Affairs in Europe, that
this If land of Providence, and Government thereof, be
12 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
Kept and defended from a Forreign Nation; and introduc-
tory, that its poor Inhabitants may be defended in their
Lives and Fortunes from fuch Grievances and Oppreffions
they have fo lately fuffered under, one great Caufe of
which we have just Reafon to fuppofe was the unhappy
arrival of Every here, together with the Dutch Wreck,
from both which the former Governors at that time hav-
ing gained a conf iderable Sum of Mony, which hath
made fo great a Noife in the World that the fucceeding
Governours promif ing to themfelves the like Succefs, and
being fruftrated therein, have betaken themfelves to all
illegal and irregular ways and means to ruin the Inhab-
itants to anfwer their own Ends, which hath caufed one
Remark to be made in this New Settlement, never known
in any other in America before ; That for this feven Years
paft there hath not come from any Forreign Part above
three families to fettle here, that have brought the value
of fifty Pounds with them ; and for no other Reafon than
the Avaritioufnefs of our Governours, who have created
a Terror in thofe who have only come to take a view of
our Country, with a def ign to have fettled among us.
Thus, with all due Obedience and Respect, we have laid
before your Lordship's our poor Condition, not doubting
your Lordf hip's fincere Aid and Affiftance from our
prefent Mifery, to future Happinefs : during which time
we patiently expect, but earnestly remain,
Your Lordf hip's humble Servants
and Petitioners.
Dated at Najfaw the
5th Day of October, 1702.
The Council for the Time being.
Ellis lAghtwood, Pref ident.
John Warren, Speaker of the Affembly
Richard Taliaferro,
Thomas Grower,
Head Hiding \
Thomas Williams,
Thomas Dalton t
Nicholas David.
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 18
A Copy of Haskett's Letter to a French Governor.
Worthy Sir,
The Honourable Character I have heard of you hath
imbolden me to give you this Trouble in praying your
Kindnefs to the Bearer who belongs to me, and I have
only sent him in this Imall Boat to advife your Honour
concerning Trade, which if you and my Self would fecure,
there is no Difpute but it would be very profitable to us
both.
So def ire you to fend me in Englif h a Letter, by reafon
no Perfon f hall fee it but my Self, What will fell with
You and the Prices you will take the Goods at, and alfo
what you can furnif h me with, and at what Rates. I
have fent you a very fmall Present, which is of the Growth
of this Place, Two Cedar Bed-fteads, altho' of fmall Value,
your acceptance fhall oblige me to be
Honoured Sir,
From the City of Najfau, Your moft Obedient Servant,
New Providence, E. Haskett.
Aug. 4, 1701.
This above-faid Letter I do upon Oath, before the
Pref ident and Council for the time being, declare to be
writ by the late Governor HasJcett' 's Order by me, and
figned by himfelf to the French Governor of Cape
France/way, to be fent in a Sloop on the faid HasketVs
Account, to the beft of this Deponent's Knowledge.
Roger Prydeaux, Naval Officer.
Sworn before the Prefident and
Council, Oct. 8, 1701.
Teftis, Tho. Gower, Seer, and Publick Not.
New Providence.
The Depofition of William Spatchers being of full
Age, declares upon Oath on the Holy Evangelift of Al-
mighty God. That he was Mafter of a Sloop called The
Robert and Martha, fome time in the Month of August,
1701, under the Command and Service of the late Gov-
ernor of Providence, Elias Haskett ; and that he this
Deponent did then receive Orders and Inftructions from
the faid Governor (as followeth) that is to fay, he the faid
14 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
Spatchers, as Commander of the faid Sloop, was to fail
from this Port of Providence to fome of the Bahama-
Iflands within this Government, and there to cut the faid
Sloop's Load of Firewood: But thofe Orders and In-
flructions given to this Deponent in Writing were only
to blind the World, for he the faid Governor Baskett did
verbally and pof itively order this Deponent, Commander
of the said Sloop, for to cut the faid Sloop's Loading of
Brazaletta-Wood, instead of the faid Firewood, and the
fame to carry in the faid Sloop to Cape Francois, being a
French Settlement on the If land of Hifpaniola, and the
fame there to be difpofed of by this Deponent Command-
er, as aforesaid, and the Produce thereof to be laid out
in French Commodities, as Alamode Silks particularly
ordered, with other forts of French Goods that he cannot
at prefent remember their Names, and thofe Goods to be
brought and landed privately, f hort of this Harbour ; and
that he this Deponent f hould in the Night fend him the
faid late Governor word thereof : And gave further In-
couragement to this Deponent to bring what Goods he
this Deponent and his Company thought fit from the
aforefaid French Port ; and that he would give this De-
ponent and Company Fifty per Cent advance : And fur-
ther this Deponent maketh Oath, That he the faid late
Governor gave this Deponent liberty to carry on this fort
of Trading as long as he thought fit.
William Spatchers.
Sworn before the Prejident and
Council, Nov. 7, 1701.
Tho. Gower, Cler. Confilii.
Najfau in New Providence,
Nov. 3, 1701.
Tabitha Alfoard being of full Age, and fworn upon the
Holy Evangelift of Almighty God, declares, That on or
about the Nineteenth of September, 1701, f he the faid
Deponent carried to Coll. Elias Haskett, late Governor of
Providence, at his Houfe, the Sum of Fifty Pounds, Prov-
idence mony, which faid Sum was as a Bribe for the
Inlarging of Coll. Read Elding, who was then a clofe
Prifoner and in Irons ; but when the faid late Governor
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 15
ffaskett went into his Chamber and found it was not as
much as he expected, he came out and delivered the faid
Sum unto the faid Deponent, telling her and fwearing,
That if the faid Coll. Read Elding did not send him Fifty
Piftols, being the Sum of Sixty feven Pounds ten Shil-
lings, that he f hould not be releafed. Whereupon the
Deponent, by Order of the faid Coll. Read Elding, was
forced to go to one Capt. G-eorge Graham to 'borrow the
reft, which made up the faid Sum of Sixty feven Pounds
ten Shillings, as afore-mention'd. And he the faid Gov-
ernor ffaskett was not contented with that Sum, but told
the Deponent, That Coll. Elding muft alfo fend him a
rich Ring and a piece of Plate of Value ; which faid
Ring and a Silver Tankard was carried and delivered by
the faid Deponent to him the faid Haskett for a Bribe, as
aforefaid ; and alfo the Deponent carried fome Pieces of
dry Goods, and a Set of Gold Buttons, and three Gold
Drops, all which was for the fame purpofe, as a Bribe.
And further, faith not.
Mark of
Tabitha X Alfoard.
Sworn before the Prejident and
Council for the time being.
Tho. Gower, Cler. Confil
New Providence.
The Deposition of M r Benjamin Griffin, being of full
Age, and fworn upon the Holy Evangelift of Almighty
God, declares, That fometime in the Month of Auguft,
1701, he then was one of the Sloop's Company, called
The Robert and Martha, whereof William Spatchers was
Commander, which faid Sloop was then under the Com-
mand and Service of the then Governor Elias Haskett of
New Providence ; and at the departure of our intended
Voyage to Cape Francois, a French Settlement on the
If land of Hijpaniola, he the faid Governor called together
in his Houfe, in a private Room, the faid Commander of
the faid Sloop and Company, of which this Deponent was
one, having first turn'd all other Company out of the
Room, he then declared to them the intent of the Voyage,
which was to this purpofe : Firft, That they f hould de-
16 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
part this Harbour of Providence to fome other of the
Iflands within the Jurifdiction of this Government, and
there to cut a Load of Brazaletta-wood, which was in his
Inftructions to the Commander of the Sloop (called Fire-
wood) ; the reafon of which, as the Deponent heard the
faid then Governor declare, was for fear leaft at any time
the Inftructions f hould be brought to Light or difcov-
ered ; which faid Load of Brazaletta-wood was to be car-
ried to the faid French Port of Cape Francois, as afore-
faid, there to be fold, and the Returns made back hither
in Alamode-Silks, both Black and Grey, Brandy, Claret,
and other French Goods, and that to be privately landed
f hort of this Harbour about four Miles. And the faid
then Governor did declare to the faid Commander and
this Deponent and the reft of the Company, That they
need not fear the King's Collector, that Old Rogue as he
call'd him, for he had him fecur'd a Prifoner in the Fort.
And further this Deponent sayeth not.
Benj. Grriffin.
Sworn before the President
and Council.
Tho. Gower, Cler. Oonfil.
Peter Oorene, a French Man, one that went in the faid
Sloop, swore as above, in the open Custom-Houfe, before
me.
John Graves, Collector.
Capt. COLE's Narrative.
June 26, 1701. I arrived at New Providence, Came
juft within the Point to anchor, the Governor's Boat
came aboard and requefted me af hore : I said I would
wait on him affoon as I was dreft, and could clean my
felf ; but before I cou'd he fired a Shot at me, but foon
after I was dreft, and waited on him. When I came
af hore he bid me welcome, but damn'd me, and ask'd,
why I did not come fooner ? I told him, I had not been
an hour and half at Anchor, and that I thought was time
little enough to clean and provide my felf to wait on
him ; He told me I f hould pay Eighteen Shillings for
the Shot ; I faid, it was not juft to ask it, for I was not in
fault. He churlif hly askt for all my Letters, and charged
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 17
me upon my Oath to deliver them every one in particular
to him. I faid, it was more than ever was demanded of me
before, under any Government where-ever I was. He
faid, he did not care, he would have them. I feeing no
Remedy laid them on the Table, and told him, as for the
Publick Letters he might do what he pleafed with them ;
but private and particular Letters of my own Bufinefs I
would not deliver. The publick Letters he opened, and
perufed ieveral of them before me.
About two hours after, I being in a publick Houfe
with him and a Gentleman of the Place (in Difcourfe)
faid, it was hard that every private Man's particular
Affairs fhould be known by the Publick; I chanced to
fay, 'twas a barbarous Act : One Mr. Lightwood faying
it was not just, the Governor prefeutly drew on him, and
fwore Damn him, he would murder him ; M r Lightwood
clafping hold of the Sword prevented him, fome others
aff ifting, but he ft ill fwore and damn'd that he would
murder fomebody or other if they fhould contradict him
in any fuch thing, for he would do what he pleafed.
About 4 in the Afternoon he met M r Graves the King's
Collector in the Street, and aiTa tilted him after this man-
ner.* You pitiful Cuftom-houfe Officer, you Rogue, if
ver you go aboard any Veffel before my Boat has been,
I'll Roaft you alive, you Dog. M r Graves anfwered, his
Commiffion ordered him to go aboard of all Veffels
within that Government when he thought it neceffary,
therefore he was obliged to do it. God damn you, you
Doof, reply M the Governor, I'll go aboard you, and fo fet
upon him and beat him with his Cane moft feverely ; M r
Graves endeavoured to defend off the Blows with his
Hat, but he with the one Hand took hold of his Hat, and
with the other beat him on the Head with the head of his
Cane, with which he bruifed him Very much. Both his
Eyes were black with the Blows, his right Hand he lamed
fo that he could not ufe it, and then committed him to the
Fort Prisoner, and ordered Irons to be put upon him, as
the Marf hal told me. The next day I went to M r Graves
*I did not see this Action, but was Credibly informal of the
Truth orTt.
18 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
in Prifon, and found him very much bruifed in his Head,
and other Places which he f hewed me ; his right Hand
lam'd fo that he was forc'd to wear it in the Bofom of his
Coat, it being very much fwell'd ; the Governor gave him
Liberty to come out of Prifon this Morning.
Saturday the 28 th I went to M r Graves to Enter, but
he was fo abufed that he could not write my Permit : I
did it as he Dictated, then he with much Pain f igned it.
Sunday the 29 th appear'd in fight 2 Sail which give
an alarum, being all at Arms in the Fort ; fome faid it
was a Red-Sea-Man : the Governor faid, I wish it may, he
f hall be very welcome ; but it proved a Portuguefe be-
longing to Agents who left her Negroes on Abbico, hav-
ing been in the Gulph and in great want of Provifions ;
he would not let any go aboard of her but his Creatures,
that he might Ingrofs all the Trade to himfelf : I had
feveral European Goods with Provifion of Carolina,
which he wanted. The Governor would have bought the
Provisions of me, but at half the Price ; I would not fell
it him, for which (I was informed) he fwore he would
be revenged on me,
Soon after the arrival of the Portuguefe, he endeav-
our' d to hire a Sloop to fetch his Negroes. The Governor
would not let any Body agree with him but whom he
pleafed ; at laft he agreed with M r Read Elding, who was
forced to promife to give the Governor one third of what
he f hould agree for, as I was inform'd, which was 200
Piftols ; they went for them, and in 3 days return'd back
again. In this time feveral arbitrary Actions were com-
mitted on the poor People, who brought fref h Provifions
to sell to the Portuguefe ; it being by the Governor's
Houfe where they came af hore, he feeing them took it
away and paid what he pleafed. If they went away
feemingly not contented, he would Swear and Damn he'd
cut off their Ears, as feveral told me.
Thurfday Aug. 3, was brought in a Bermudian Sloop,
which was taken by a Privateer which had the Governor's
Commiff ion, and Orders to bring in all Veffels they could
find among the Luccaa's Jf lands (except thofe that had
Clearings from England) as I was inform'd : They found
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 19
this Sloop in Lat. 21. 15. mending her Sails, which by
bad weather f he had fplit at Sea. They had nothing in
her but Provif ions for the Men. They took him by
force of Arms, and brought him here to condemn him as
Prize ; then put two of the Men Prifoners in the Fort
with Irons, after they had been before him ; and as his
accuftomed way was, Swears and Damns them, calling
them Thieves, Rogues, Dogs, with Threats that he would
put them to their Oaths against their Mafter, and God
damn him if he catch'd them in the leaft Tittle not agree-
ing he would cut their Ears off, whip them, and hang
them (as the Prifoners themfelves told me) ; the poor
People being thus affrighted he gave them their Oaths on
the Holy Evangelists ; and a Lad about 1 8 years of Age
being thus affrighted, did own that about two years ago
the Sloop took in about 800 Buf hels of Salt' at Turks
If land, which lies in Lat. 21 deg. 15 No. and not in the
Jurifdiction of that Government.
Friday the 4 th the Sloop was to be tried, the Jury was
fummoned, but no Declaration filed, the Defendant could
not know what he was accus'd of ; but the Declaration
was read in Court, and the Sloop accufed of Loading Salt
at Turk's If land : The Mafter could get no Body to
plead his Caufe, the People generally are fo afraid of the
Governor (he efpouf ing the Caufe and Profecution) fo
that they durft not fpeak or do Juilice in no Cafe, if he
dictated the contrary, as they told me and as my felf faw t
he ruling thofe poor People by fuch an arbitrary Power
that (if they f hould) befure in a f hort time after they
f hould be Gained and Abufed as the King's Collector
was : if not by fome Trick or other, inevitably ruined by
the Governor or his Creatures, as they said. The inno-
cent Mafter of the Sloop not being able to fpeak in his
own Caufe, got a weak Fellow to do it for him, when he
might there have pleaded his own Caufe. I askt why he
did not in a thing fo plain, where that Court had no Jurif-
diction ? He anfwered me, the Governor told him it
could not be ended this day for he wanted Evidence,
therefore he f hould ask time of the Court for the Mafter
of the Sloop, which he did ; the Court granted and ad-
journed till Monday the 7 th .
20 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
Saturday the 5 th Early in the Morning I went to the
Governor's Man, the Naval Officer, to know my Port-
Charges in his Office, intending to fail this day. He told
me it was 3?. 6*. I anfvvered, I never paid in any Port
where-ever I was more than 16s. He faid alfo I muft pay
70 pounds of Powder, or 3s. per Tun, which at 70 Tuns,
my Ships Burthen, is 10J. 10$. 1 faid it was very unjuft
fuch Port-Charges f hould be demanded of me, when Law
and Cuftom for the Place was no more than 15$. Naval-
Officers Fees, and half a pound of Powder per Tun ; or
in defect of Powder, at 2$. per hundred. He faid it was
in vain for me to difpute it, for the Governor fwore I
f hould pay it. Then I faid it muft be in fuch Arbitrary
Governments as this, other wife they would not exact it.
At 10 in the Morning the Governor went on board his
Ship, and hoifted his Flag, and hove his Ship athwart the
Harbour. Soon after he tired a Shot up the Harbour, and
then two more at my Ship ; and 1 was told he faid of me,
that I was a Prodigal Dog, fink him, I'll bear you out
iu't At length I was told it was to put out my Colours,
but my Men being gone about 5 mile for Dunnage, and 1
af hore with the Boy and Boat, so I had no Body to put
them out: I prefently order'd him aboard to do it, but
before he could the Governor fent his Boat with fix Men
imd by force took them away. The People told me of it ;
I faid, 'twas a Drunken Frolick, and to morrow they
would fend them again. The Governor came af hore. 1
did not go to ask for them, least his being hot in Drink
f hould quarrel with me ; he finding I did not come at 3
in the Afternoon fent for me, and churlif hly asked why I
would not pay my Naval-Officers Fees. I faid I was ready
to pay what the Law required, and more I ought not to
pay, for his Demands were unreafonable. He added, if
he had been there he would have broke my Head for fay-
ing, If I must pay it, it muft be by Arbitrary Power, and
not according to the Law. I faid I did not fay it to him,
but to his Man, the pretended Naval Officer. He fwore,
damn me, I f hould pay him prefently before I went
thence. I anfwered, 1 had not fo much Money about
me ; but if his Honour pleafed I would leave my Coat in
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 21
Pawn, rather than be Prifoner my felf till I fetched it.
He damn'd and curs'd me, and askt why I did not pay
my Powder-money ? I faid I was ready to pay what tho
Law of the Country required, which was half Ib. per Ton.
He fwore I f hould pay 1 Ib. for no Laws in that Country
was in force till he made them. Then I faid I was not
obliged to pay any thing but what was cuilomary. He
fwore I f hould pay what he pleafed ; I told him I was
ready to pay what he pleafed, let his Man the Officer give
me a Recept for it, that I might anfwer it to my Owners.
His Reply was, No, damn you for a Dog, he fhall not.
Then I faid, let me but bring two of my Men to justify
what I pay, I won't differ with your Honour. To which
he faid, No, you Dog, I will not neither, nor you fhall
not go to the Pond to load Salt. If your Honour had
told me fo at firft, I had taken other Meafures : When
your Honour told me I f hould have my Load of Salt at
5d. per Buf hel ready Mony, you told me of no fuch
thing. He fwore I f hould not go; I defired Capt.
Holmes and Capt. Edgle, Commanders of the Primroje
Brigantine of Briftol, to take notice of it, if my Owners
f hould call them to justify it ; there being feveral other
Gentlemen prefent, the Governor flew about Damning
and Swearing ; I thought it beft to be gone left I f hould
be abufed as the King's Collector was. At 6 in the
Evening I was fummon'd to wait on the Governor to
Church (the following day) which all the Inhabitants
are obliged to do, on pain of fuffering both in their Per-
fons and Interefts.
Monday the 7 th , at 6 in the Morning, I went to the
Naval Officer to clear, who demanded 3Z. 6s. for his Fees :
I defired the Particulars for what. He anfwered, he durft
not give it me, for he was but a Servant of the Governors,
and durft not do it, for he was ordered the Contrary. I
faid I would send my Mate with the Mony ; he faid, he
muft not take it of any Body but my felf, nor in prefence
of any Body. I then waited on the Court where I was
fummoned as a Jury-man in Tryal of the Sloop. The
Court being fate, the Governor came in and fet himfelf by
the Judge, and called for the Lift of the Jury ; and find-
22 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE, WEST INDIES.
ing my Name there ordered me to depart the Court. I
faid I was fummon'd a Jury-man ; he difmift me of that,
and bid me be gone. I def ired leave to ftay and hear the
Tryal, but he would not grant it : I was forced away. No
fooner was I gone, but he (wore I was an impudent Dog,
and that he would break my Head before I went thence,
before the. whole Court, as I was inform'd. After the
Governor had packed the Jury, he left them. On the
Tryal of the Mafter of the Sloop, his Attorny def ired
them to prove the Jurifdiction of that Place, Turks If land,
and by Evidence, if they would permit them, they would
prove the Lords Proprietors Patent did not Extend to
them, but 'twas not granted ; but f ham Instructions of
the Lords Proprietors were brought into Court, wherein,
as the Judge would have it, the Lords had ordered. That
if any Veffels Loaded there with Salt, they f hould be
Confiskated, which the Jury took for granted. The Maf-
ter and Attorny fpeaking in Defence of his Right, the
Judge ftruck his Hand on the Table and fwore, if they
fpoak a word more he would commit them both to Prifon.
as the Mafter told me ; fo Condemnation pafs'd upon the
Veffel, c. At Two in the Afternoon 1 fent my Mate
with 3Z. 6s. to pay my Naval-Officers Fees ; the Governor
told him it should not be received except I came my felf,
and called me Rogue and Villain feveral times, and fwore
he'd break my Head. I was forced to fend 70 Pound of
Powder, not daring to deny it leaft he f hould murder me,
having this day wounded a Man in two places in the Arm
with a Sword ; the Man was at leaft 65 years old, his
Crime was only being on the Guard, and letting the Cap-
tain of the Portuguese Ship go into M r Read Elding's
houfe, being just by where they landed. I carried my
Mate with me to def ire at the Secretary's Office the Act
of the Country for paying Port-Charges, to justifie before
iny Owners the Injuftice done them, but could not get it.
At 6 in the Evening I faw the Secretary go to the Gov-
ernor, and, as I judge, told him of it : The Governor
came to Town. Affoon as I faw him I made away from
him, forefeeing his barbarous Treatment.
(To be continued.)
CEDAR POND REGION, SALEM, IN 1700.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
THIS tract of about five square miles is about three
and one-half miles long and one and three-fourths miles
wide. It is bounded on the east by Summit street, on
the south very nearly by Lynnfield street, on the south-
west by the Lynnfield town line and on the north not far
from Forest and Winona streets. It is wholly included
in the present town of Peabody.
The two division lines, one in the Clark farm and the
other in the Humphrey farm, marked on the plan " The
Red Line," are so designated on the records just prior to
and after 1700. The original plan of the said divisions
probably showed these lines in red.
Summit street was the old road from Ipswich to Bos-
ton, and was laid out in 1643. It was called the Ipswich
highway in 1673 ; ye country road leading from Boston
to Ipswich in 1703 ; the Ipswich road in 1708 ; ye high-
way commonly called Ipswich- Bos ton road in 1754 ; and
Summit street as early as 1882.
Lynnfield street was an early road. It was called the
Reading highway in 1681 ; Reading road in 1703 ; the
road that leads to Reading in 1716 ; and Lynnfield street
as early as 1871.
Forest street was also in existence quite early. It was
called ye way which leads to Thomas Green's in 1702 ; a
highway in 1718 ; a great road in 1720 ; to the west of
Green's house it was called Cutler's way in 1726; the
country road or highway in 1733 ; the Lynnfield road in
1841 ; the Salem road in 1868 ; and subsequently Forest
street.
Winona street was a continuation of Forest street. It
was called the highway in 1722 ; the road leading to
Lynnfield in 1817 ; the Dishful road, so-called, in 1846 ;
and Winona street in 1882.
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24 CEDAR POND REGION, SALEM, IN 1700,
Lake street was laid out about 1850 ; and was called the
new road in Dishful in 1853 and the highway leading
from the Newburyport turnpike to Brookdale, so called,
in 1870. It was called Lake street as early as 1882.
The Boston and Newburyport turnpike, which is
shown on the plan by the parallel dotted lines, was laid
out in 1804 ; and was generally called the Newburyport
turnpike until a few years ago, when it received its pres-
ent name of Newbury street.
Sauntaug lake was called the pond in 1700 ; Hum-
phrey's pond in 1723 ; and Sauntaug lake as early as
1868.
Cedar pond was so called as early as 1677.
The great boulder known as Ship rock was so called
as early as 1812.* It is the property of the Essex Insti-
tute. The site of it is marked on the map by a circle.
Thaddeus Maccarty Lot. This, with the lot of Jere-
miah Meacham, comprised the grant made by the town of
Salem, through its representative, Jan. 23, 1636-7, to
Francis Johnson, the order being that he " shall haue
sixe acres of medow grownd & fowerteene acres of other
Grounds att Brookesby aforesaid wher his Cow house
now is, and nine score Acres more neare the Cedar Pond
aboue a mile distant from it."f
Mr. Johnson removed to Boston, being called a gentle-
man, when, April 16, 1689, he leased this lot to his son-
in-law, Thaddeus Maccarty of Boston, merchant ;{ and
the next day he conveyed the full title to Mr. Maccarty. J
Mr. Maccarty owned it until Aug. 17, 1703, when he
conveyed it to John Procter of Ipswich, husbandman.
This was known as "the Brooksby farm" in 1701.
Jeremiah Meacham House and Mill. This lot of land
was a part of the grant of land made by the town of
Salem to Francis Johnson Jan. 23, 1636-7.f Mr. John-
son, when he was of Boston, Sept. 8, 1673, conveyed this
lot to Isaac Meacham of Salem, husbandman. || For
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 197, leaf 77.
tSalem Town Records, volume I, page 38 (printed).
jEssex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 139.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 17, leaf 5.
!| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 25.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 25
sixty-four pounds, Mr. Meacham conveyed the lot to his
father Jeremiah Meacham of Salern Sept. 15, 1684.*
Jeremiah Meacham was a clothier and lived in Salem. He
erected a fulling mill upon this lot, and carried on busi-
ness here for several years before his death, which oc-
curred in 1695. In his will, Mr. Meacham devised " my
fulling mill with all Lands houf ing and previledges of
what nature soever thereunto belonging," to his son Jere-
miah Meacham. In the inventory of his estate, the full-
ing mill, house, barn, and the four acres of land were
appraised at forty-six pounds. Jeremiah Meacham, the
son, who lived in the house at the mill and pursued his
trade of a fuller, for eighty pounds, conveyed the house,
fulling mill, stream and lot to Benjamin Boyce of Salem,
cordwainer, Jan. 6, 1708.f Mr. Boyce lived in the house
and continued to work at his trade of a cordwainer. He
conveyed the house, fulling mill, stream and land to
Ebenezer Collins of Lynn, clothier, Jan. 12, 17 24-5 .
Mr. Collins lived here, and conveyed the house, barn,
fulling mill, stream and land to John Procter, jr., of
Salem, husbandman, Sept. 26, 1726. Apparently, the
mill was gone within two or three years from that date.
How much longer the house stood is unknown.
Robert Follett Lot. This was a part of the grant made
by the town of Salem to William Browne, esq., of Salem,
merchant, before 1661, but not laid out to him till after
that date. Mr. Browne conveyed it to Robert Follett of
Salem, fisherman, Sept. 21, 1678 ;|| and Mr. Follett be-
came a shoreman, and, for love, conveyed it (" my home-
stead ") to his two sons, Isaac Follett and Benjamin Fol-
lett, both of Salem, husbandmen, Aug. 3, 1704.^[
John Higgimon Lot. This lot of land was a part of the
grant made by the town of Salem to William Browne,
esq., of Salem, merchant, before 1661, but not laid out to
him until after that date. Mr. Browne conveyed it to
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 49.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 22, leaf 31.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 43, leaf 325.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 46, leaf 61.
IIEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 36.
lEssex Registry of Deeds, book 16, leaf 129.
26 CEDAR POND REGION, SALEM, IN 1700,
Robert Follett of Salem, fisherman, Sept. 21, 1678.* For
seventy pounds, Mr. Follett, then a husbandman, con-
veyed this lot to Maj. John Higginson, jr., of Salem,
merchant, March 27, 169 7.f Major Higginson owned it
(* my homestead ") in 1700.
Abraham Peirce Lot. This was the northwesterly por-
tion of the farm of Thomas James before 1660. He died
in the summer of 1666, possessed of the land. It came
into the possession of Thomas Scudder, apparently, im-
mediately after. Elizabeth Scudder married Henry Bar-
tholmew, and died Sept. 1, 1682. John Swinerton and
wife Hannah and Nehemiah Willoughby and wife Abigail,
all of Salem, the wives being daughters of Mrs. Barthol-
mew, conveyed an undivided half of the farm to their
brother Henry Bartholmew of Salem, who inherited the
other half, Nov. 9, 1687. J Henry Bartholmew, jr., of
Salem, merchant, conveyed the same one-half to Thomas
Scudder of Salem, mariner, May 24, 1688. George
Robinson of Boston, carver, and wife Sarah, executrix of
the will of Thomas Scudder, deceased, conveyed it to
Abraham Peirce of Salem, weaver, Feb. 1, 1699. |j Kath-
erine Bartholmew was then still alive, and entitled to her
dower. The farm belonged to Mr. Peirce in 1700.
Robert Stone Lot. This was the western corner of a
lot of land given by the town of Salem to Edmund Bat-
ter, after his farm was laid out, as an addition thereto. It
came into the possession of Isaac Burnap of Salem, who
conveyed it to Robert Stone and William King, both of
Salem, March 30, 1664.^[ Mr. King released his interest
in it to Mr. Stone May 20, 1676.** Mr. Stone died in
1690 ; and this part of the lot descended to his young son
Robert Stone, who owned it in 1700.
William Shaw Lot. That part of this lot which lies
northerly of the dashes was a part of the forty-acre lot
which was granted by the town of Salem to John Robin-
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 36.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 244.
J Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 89.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 91.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 286.
TEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 78.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 77.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 27
son Nov. 19, 1649 ;* and Mr. Robinson died possessed of
it in the autumn of 1653. His executor, Edmund Batter
of Salem, and the widow of the deceased, Eleanor Robin-
son, conve} r ed it to William Shaw of Salem, planter, May
21, 1669.f
That part of this lot lying southerly of the dashes was
a swamp, containing ten acres, which was granted by the
town of Salem to William Lord May 15, 16604 Wil-
liam Lord, sr., of Salem, cutler, for eight pounds, con-
veyed it to Mr. Shaw Feb. 7, 1670.
The entire lot belonged to Mr. Shaw in 1700.
Estate of John Small Lot. This was a part of the lot
granted to Philip Veren, at a meeting of the selectmen of
Salem Nov. 27, 1658 ;|| and Mr. Veren, who lived in
Salem, and was a wheelwright, conveyed it to John Small
of Salem, husbandman, Oct. 12, 1665.^" Mr. Small died
in 1688 ; and this lot belonged to his estate in 1700.
John Small Lot. This was a part of the lot granted to
Philip Veren, at a meeting of the selectmen of Salem
Nov. 27, 1658 ;** and Mr. Veren, who lived in Salem, and
was a wheelwright, conveyed it to John Small of Salem,
husbandman, Oct. 12, 1665.ft Mr. Small died in 1688,
having, in his will, devised the lot to his son Stephen's
son John Small, who owned it in 1700.
Elisha Kebbee Lot. This was a part of the lot granted
to Henry Cooke of Salem, slaughterer, at a meeting of
the selectmen of Salem Nov. 27, 1658 ;|| and he died on
Christmas day, 1661. The whole lot was appraised at
six pounds. The widow of the deceased, Judith Cooke,
or Elisha Kebbee, the husband of her daughter Rachel,
built a house on this part of the lot a few years later;
and Mrs. Cooke, for love, conveyed to Mr. and Mrs. Keb-
bee this part of the lot on which the house stood, being
her daughter's portion, Dec. 29, 1680, though it had
'Salem Town Records, volume I, page 160 (printed).
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 125.
ISalem Town Records, volume II, page 8.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 115.
USalem Town Records, volume I, page 220 (printed).
1i Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 5.
**Salem Town Records, volume I, page 220 (printed).
t tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 5.
28 CEDAR POND REGION, SALEM, IN 1700,
been long in the possession of the grantees.* They owned
it in 1700, when the house was apparently gone.
Estate of Isaac Cooke House. This lot was a part of
the lot granted to Henry Cooke of Salem, slaughterer,
at a meeting of the selectmen of Salem Nov. 27, 1658 ;f
and he died on Christmas day, 1661. Elisha Kebbee, a
joiner, who had married Rachel Cooke, daughter of the
deceased, released to Isaac Cooke of Salem, husbandman,
son of the deceased, this part of the lot and the dwelling
house thereon, Feb. 22, 16714 Isaac Cooke died in the
autumn of 1692 ; and the house and lot belonged to his
estate in 1700.
Robert Hill Lot. This lot was the northerly portion of
the lot of forty acres which was granted by the town of
Salem to John Hill Jan. 21, 1649-50, but was not laid out
until 1<358. Mr. Hill died in the autumn of 1680, pos-
sessed of the lot, which he described as being " forty
acres of land lying up in the woods by Samuell Cutler's."
It was then appraised at forty-five pounds. He devised
it, in his will, to his sons John and Robert. They ap-
parently divided the lot soon afterward, and Robert re-
ceived this part of it, lying northerly of the road. Robert
Hill owned it in 1700.
John Hill Lot. This lot was a part of the lot of forty
acres granted by the town of Salem to John Hill Jan. 21,
1649-50, and laid out in 1658. Mr. Hill died in the
autumn of 1680, possessed of the lot. In his will, he
devised it to his sons John and Robert. Apparently a
division was made soon afterward, John taking that part
of it which lay southerly of the road ; and John Hill
owned it in 1700.
David Foster Lot. This lot of land was the southern
part of the lot of twenty acres granted by the town of
Salem to George Ropes Feb. 4, 1638-9, in the following
language : " George Roppes is to have xx acres of land
to be layd out to him at his returne from old England." ||
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 129.
tSalem Town Records, volume I, page 220 (printed).
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 138.
8alem Town Records, volume I, page 220 (printed).
USalem Town Records, volume I, page 80 (printed).
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 29
Mr. Ropes was a carpenter, and died in 1670. His widow
And administratrix, Mary Ropes, for twenty-two pounds,
conveyed the lot to William Russell and Thomas Green,
both of Salem, Nov. 16, 1677-* Mr. Russell was a fish-
erman, and conveyed his undivided half of the lot to
Joseph Orne of Salem, cordwainer, Oct. 13, 1685.f Mr.
Green and Mr. Orne apparently made a division soon
after this date, and Mr. Orne received this part of the
lot. Mr. Orne (Home) conveyed his part to David Fos-
ter of Salem, for sixteen pounds, March 27, 1697 ; f and
Mr. Foster owned it in 1700.
Thomas Green House. This lot of land was the north-
ern portion of the lot of twenty acres granted to George
Ropes by the town of Salem Feb. 4, 1688-9. Mr. Ropes
was a carpenter, and died in 1670. For twenty pounds,
his widow and administratrix, Mary Ropes, conveyed the
lot to William Russell and Thomas Green, both of Salem,
Nov. 16, 1677. Mr. Russell was a fisherman, and he
conveyed his undivided half of the lot to Joseph Orne of
Salem, cordwainer, Oct. 13, 1685. f Mr. Green and Mr.
Orne apparently made a division soon afterward, and Mr.
Green received this part of the lot ; and on it erected a
dwelling house, and lived N there in 1700. How much
longer the house stood is unknown to the writer.
Joseph Orne Lot. This lot belonged to Thomas Green
of Salem, husbandman, May 31, 1679, || when he conveyed
it to Samuel Gaskill, sr., of Salem, yeoman. For seven-
teen pounds and sixteen shillings, Mr. Gaskill conveyed
it to Joseph Orne of Salem, shoemaker, July 10, 1697 fl[
and Mr. Orne owned the lot in 1700.
William Osborn Lot. This was one-half of the forty-
acre lot granted to John Ingersoll, upon his request for
planting land, by the town of Salem Nov. 19, 1649.**
Mr. Ingersoll died in 1683, possessed of this lot of "forty
acres of land in ye woods," which was then valued at
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 164.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 58.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 227.
Kssex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 164.
U Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 111.
^Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 69.
*Salera Town Records, volume I, page 160 (printed).
30 CEDAR POND REGION, SALEM, IN 1700.
thirty pounds. In his will he devised it to his wife
Judith. It came into the possession of their son John
Ingersoll, who died in 1694, when the lot was valued at
forty pounds. The estate was divided April 16, 1695,
and this lot was assigned to two daughters of the deceased,
Mary, wife of George Cox of Salem, mariner, and Ruth
Ingersoll. For forty-three pounds, they conveyed it to
William Osborn of Salem, husbandman, April 23, 1695 ;*
and Mr. Osborn owned it in 1700.
Ruth Westgate of Salem, for forty pounds, conveyed
toWilliam Osborn of Salem her half of said forty acres,
which was devised to her in the will of her father (appar-
ently the southern half), Jan. 21, 1690.f
Robert Wilson Lot. This lot of thirty acres was grant-
ed by the town of Salem to Christopher Waller of Salem,
tray maker, before Jan. 5, 1663, when he conveyed it, for
ten pounds, to Robert Wilson of Salem, planter. J He
died in 1681, possessed of the lot. In the inventory of his
estate, it was valued at thirty-eight pounds. The title
passed to his son, Robert Wilson, who owned it in 1700.
Benjamin Very Lot. This was a part of the grant of
land made by the town of Salem to Philip Verrin Sept.
11, 1637, in the following language : " m r Verrin is to
haue his farme of 160 akers next to m r Clarke on the
north side, laying down his former." Mr. Verrin died,
and his will was proved in the quarterly court here Jan.
2, 1650-1 ;|| but it has not been found, and its contents
are not known, except that he devised two acres of mead-
ow to his son Hilliard Verrin. Philip Verrin had proba-
bly died in or before 1649, and devised this farm lo his
wife Dorcas Verrin, as she conveyed it, for thirty-five
pounds, to Francis Perry of Salem, wheelwright, Oct. 3,
1649.^1 Mr. Perry conveyed it to Richard Way May 12,
1651.** Mr. Way removed to Dorchester, and, for ninety
pounds, conveyed it to Samuel Very of Salem Oct. 6,
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 184.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 186.
$Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 76.
Salem Town Records, volume I, page 57 (printed).
II Salem Quarterly Court Records, volume 1, page 205 (printed).
ITEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 8.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 9.
BY SIDNEY PBRLBY. 31
1656.* Mr. Very died in the winter of 1683-4, at the
age of sixty-four ; and this land was valued at seventy
pounds. By the terms of Mr. Very's will this part of
the lot became the property of his son Benjamin Very.
The southern portion of this lot, about twenty-eight
acres of it, was conveyed by Alice Very, sr., of Salem;
widow and executrix of the will of Samuel Very, deceased,
to their son-in-law James Cooke of Boston, mariner,
March 16, 1686. f It ran across the lot, from the Follett
lot to the cedar swamp. The lot was either conveyed by
Mr. Cooke to Mr. Very, or this deed conveyed a life
estate only.
Benjamin Very owned the whole lot in 1700.
Joshua Buffum Lot. This lot of seven and a half acres
of land was a part of the grant made by the town of
Salem to Philip Verrin Sept. 11, 1637. Mr. Verrin died,
probably in or before 1649, and the land became the
property of his widow, Dorcas Verrin. She conveyed it
to Francis Perry of Salem, wheelwright, Oct. 3, 1649 :$
and he conveyed it to Richard Way May 12, 1651. Mr.
Way removed to Dorchester, and conveyed it to Samuel
Very of Salem, husbandman, Oct. 6, 1656.* Mr. Very,
for seven pounds, conveyed to Joshua Buffum of Salem,
yeoman, this part of the lot Dec. 20, 1678 ;|| and Mr.
Buffum owned it in 1700.
Elizabeth Nurse Lot. This was a part of the one hun-
dred and sixty acres of land granted to Philip Verrin by
the town of Salem Sept. 11, 1637. Mr. Verrin died,
probably in or before 1649, and the farm became the
property of his widow, Dorcas Verrin. She conveyed it
to Francis Perry of Salem, wheelwright, Oct. 3, 1649;J
and he conveyed it to Richard Way May 12, 1651. Mr.
Way removed to Dorchester, and conveyed it to Samuel
Very of Salem Oct. 6, 1656.* Mr. Very leased this part
of the lot to his daughter Elizabeth and her husband
John Nurse for their lives March 7, 1678-9.^]" Mr. Very
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 77.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 70.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 8.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 9.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 26.
Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 5.
32 CEDAR POND REGION, SALEM, IN 1700,
died in the winter of 1683-4 ; and his widow, Alice Very,
conveyed this lot of forty acres to her daughter Elizabeth
Nurse, in satisfaction of a legacy given to her in the will
of her grandfather John Wood is of Salem, March 16,
1686 ;* and she owned it in 1700.
Eleazer Giles of Salem, yeoman, conveyed to John
Nurse of Salem, yeoman, two acres of meadow " within
y e farme of Samuel Verey lying by Cedar pond .
Referued out of y e said ffarme formerly by m r Phillip
Veren whoe was y e first poisefsor Thereof & lyes at y e north
end of y e great meadow on y e westward side of a brooke
that Runs Downe through y e meadow and is bounded
Northerly and westerly with y e vpland of y e said Samuel
Verrey Easterly with y e Brooke & Southerly with y*
meadow of y e said Verrey," March 28, 1681.f
Joseph Gould House. This lot was a part of the grant
made to Philip Verrin, by the town of Salem, Sept. 11,
1637. Mr. Verrin died, probably in or before 1649, and
the land became the property of his widow, Dorcas Ver-
rin. She conveyed it to Francis Perry of Salem, wheel-
wright, Oct. 3, 1649 ; J and he conveyed it to Richard
Way May 12, 1651. Mr. Way removed to Dorchester,
and conveyed it to Samuel Very of Salem, husbandman,
Oct. 6, 1656.|| Mr. Very, for fifty pounds, conveyed this
part of the lot to Thomas Gould of Salem, husbandman,
June 6, 1681 ;^f and Mr. Gould evidently erected a house
upon the lot immediately after. The house was occupied
by his son Joseph in the spring of 1690, when Mr. Gould
died. At that time the housing and land were valued at
one hundred pounds. Joseph Gould was a yeoman, and
lived in Salem. For five hundred and fifty pounds, Mr.
Gould conveyed the dwelling house and lot to James
Lindall, esq., of Salem Nov. 27, 1741 ;** and Mr. Lindall
died possessed of the estate May 10, 1753. The title
passed in some way to Caleb Nurse of Danvers, yeoman,
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 6.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 26.
| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 8.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 9.
H Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 77.
HEssex Registry of Deeds, book fi, leaf 4.
**Kssex Registry of Deeds, book 82, leaf 157.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 33
who conveyed it (no buildings being mentioned, but the
consideration being four hundred and fifty pounds) to
Nathaniel Nurse of Danvers, yeoman, April 13, 1785.*
Nathaniel Nurse conveyed the dwelling house and land
around it to Joseph Newhall, jr,, of Danvers, yeoman, ,
Nov. 1, 1787. f Mr. Newhall removed to Charlton, Mass.,
and conveyed the land and buildings to Nathaniel Nurse
of Danvers, husbandman, Oct. 31, 1793. J Mr. Nourse
conveyed the same estate to John Nourse of Danvers,
yeoman, March 30, 1802 ; and John Nourse conveyed
the house and land to his father, Nathaniel Nurse of Dan-
vers, yeoman, Sept. 19, 1808. || Nathaniel Nurse con-
veyed the lands and buildings to the town of Danvers,
for a town farm, June 27, 1809.^]" The old house stood
across the path, easterly from the present large brick
almshouse, which was erected in 1844. The old house was
taken down the next year.
On the brook, some thirty rods above the house, was a
saw mill, in 1690 and 1698 at least. At his decease, in
1690, the inventory of the estate of Thomas Gould men-
tions " one part of a saw mill, which was valued at ten
pounds.
Caleb Buffum Lot. This seven-acre lot was a part of
the grant made to Philip Verrin, by the town of Salem,
Sept. 11, 1637. Mr. Verrin died, probably in or before
1649, and the land became the property of his widow,
Dorcas Verrin. She conveyed it to Francis Perry of
Salem, wheelwright, Oct. 3, 1649 ;** and he conveyed it
to Richard Way May 12, 1651. ff Mr. Way removed to
Dorchester, and conveyed it to Samuel Very of Salem,
husbandman, Oct. 6, 16564J Mr. Very, for ten pounds,
conveyed this part of the lot to Caleb Buffum of Salem,
March 21, 1677-8 ; and Mr. Buffum owned it in 1700.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 146, leaf 111.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 147, leaf 62.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 157, leaf 127.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 170, leaf 187.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 184, leaf 154.
*U Essex Registry of Deeds, book 182, leaf 157.
* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 8.
ttEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 9.
tJEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 77.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 184.
34 CEDAR POND REGION, SALEM, IN 1700,
Mrs. Susanna Parkman Lot. This lot of land was the
southeast portion of the two hundred and thirty acres of
land granted by the town of Salem to William Clark
June 19, 1637.* Mr. Clark died in 1647, and this land
was a part of his estate. His widow Catherine Clark
apparently married John Gedney of Salem, vintner. Mr.
Gedney had two sons who married two daughters of Mr.
Clark. Bartholomew married Hannah and John married
Susanna. Mr. Gedney had acquired the title to the es-
tate, apparently, and, for love, conveyed it to his son
Bartholomew Gedney and his wife Hannah and his son
John's widow, Susanna Gedney, March 15, 1677-8. f Mrs.
Susanna Gedney married, secondly, Deliverance Parkman ;
and the two owners, Bartholomew Gedney and Mrs. Su-
sanna Parkman, had a partition of the estate made by
Capt. Samuel Gardner, Lt. John Pickering, John Trask
and Joseph Newhall Jan. 31, 1693. By an agreement in
writing, dated Jan. 20, 1697-8, Mrs. Parkman had this
portion of the farm,;): which was called the Pond farm ;
and she owned it in 1700.
Estate of Bartholomew G-edney Lot. This was the north-
west part of the two hundred and thirty acres of land
granted by the town of Salem to William Clark June 19,
1637, in the following words : " By the Towne in gen-
erall . . . Agreed that m r Clark shall have 200 acres by
the Sedar ponnd not exceeding 20 acres medow ; to be
Laid out according to the discretion of the Layers out."
A part of it happened to be laid out. by mistake, within
the bounds of Lynn. Mr. Clark died in 1647, and this
land, which was described in the inventory of his estate
as ." 200 acres of land neere Mr. Humfryes farme," was
appraised at twenty pounds. Catherine Clark, widow of
William Clark, apparently married John Gedney of Salem,
vintner. Mr. Gedney had two sons who married two
daughters of Mr. Clark. Bartholomew married Hannah
and John married Susanna. Mr. Gedney, apparently,
had come into the title of the farm, and, for love, he con-
*Salem Town Records, volume I, page 243 (printed).
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 4.
J Essex Registry of Deeds, book 18, leaf 137.
f Salem Town Records, volume I, page 243 (printed).
BY SIDNEY PERLBY. 35
veyed it to his son Bartholomew Gedney and wife Han-
nah and his son John's widow, Susanna Gedney, March
15, 1677-8.* Mrs. Susanna Gedney married, secondly, De-
liverance Park man ; and the two owners, Bartholomew
Gedney and Mrs. Susanna Parkman, had a partition of.
the estate, made by Capt. Samuel Gardner, Lt. John Pick-
ering, John Trask and Joseph Newhall, Jan. 31, 1693.
By an agreement in writing, dated Jan. 20, 1697-8, Col.
Bartholomew Gedney had this portion of the farm, which
was generally known as the Pond farm.f Colonel Gedney
died Feb. 28, 1697-8 ; and this lot was a part of his estate
in 1700.
James Menzies Lot. The records of the general court
for May 6, 1635, read as follows : " There is 500 acres
of land & a f reshe pond, with a little ileland conteyning
aboute two acres, graunted to John Humfry, Esq, lyeing
betwixte nore & west from Saugus, pvided hee take noe
pte of the 500 acres within 5 myles of any towne nowe
planted. Also, it is agreed, that the inhabitants of Saugus
& Salem shall have liberty to build stoore howses vpon
the said ileland, & to lay in such pvisions as they iudge
necessary for their vse in tyme of neede."J This tract of
land was laid out by William Trask, Nathaniel Turner,
Richard Wright and Abraham Palmer, whose return of
their doings is recorded in the records of the general court
for March 12, 1637-8, as follows: 4< It is agreed, that
M r Humfrey shall enioy the whole plaine on the east side
of the pond, & the plaine also at the north end, to the
length of a halfe a mile full, or more if the said plaines
stretch further, not exceeding a mile that wee intend ;
also, three quarters of a mile on the westerly side of the
pond, because the meadowes there lying may bee w th in the
said M r Humfreys his owne ground, and on the south
side of the pond to enioy the vpland & medows, w th that
meadow w ch is called by the name of Stones Meadow, &
the said vpland, w ch is a hill, not very broad, beyond
Stones Meadow, so called, to part the said ground of M r
Humfreys from Linn townes medowes, layd out to the
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 4.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 18, leaf 137.
^Records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, volume I, page 147
(printed).
36 CEDAR POND REGION, SALEM, IN 1700,
inhabitants thereof, all w cb said ground to bee his owne
as plaines, rocky ground, meadows, or swamps. Will:
Traske, Natha : Turner, Rich r d Wright, Abrah : Palmer."*
About half of this grant proved to be in Lynn and the
remainder in Salem. Only the Salem portion is shown
on the plan which accompanies this article.
This tract of land was delivered to Robert Saltonstall
of Boston, upon an execution issued upon the judgment
in an action brought by Mr. Saltonstall against Mr. Hum-
phrey, Dec. 6, 1642. For forty-six pounds, Mr. Salton-
stall granted one-half of " his ffarme called the Pond
ferme neere Salem (formerly m r Humphreys) " to Mr.
Stephen Winthrop of Boston, the vendee having the right
to renounce and the vendor to redeem the same, within
one year, the grant being by way of mortgage, Jan. 14,
1644-5 ;{ June 7, 1645, Mr. Saltonstall conveyed to Mr.
Winthrop the entire farm, absolutely, the estate being
described as " a certaine fferme called Ponds fferme to-
gether w th the buildings thereon & all meddowes & other
appurtenances thereto belonging according to the limits
sett by the Court in their grant to m r Humphrey at a
Genall Court held at Bost 12 (1) 1637. . . As also
the greate pond it selfe."J
In 1641, Mr. Humphrey returned to England, where
he died in or before 1661. The administrators of his
estate, Joseph Humphries and Edmond Batters, claimed
title to this tract of land, " about or by a pond of fresh
water nere Salem bounds," and filed a caveat in the reg-
istry of deeds at Salem, for that purpose, Nov. 19, 1661.
No attempt was made to recover it, beyond this notice,
apparently. Mr. Winthrop afterwards lived in the parish
of St. James, Westminster, England, and died before
1671; and, April 21, 1671, Judith Winthrop and
John Chamberlaine, two of the executors of his will,
conveyed this land to Edward Rainborow of London,
merchant. || After a few years, this tract of land came to
*Records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, volume I, page 226
(printed).
tSuffolk Registry of Deeds, volume I, page 57.
JSuffolk Registry of Deeds, volume I, page 60.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 28.
tl Suffolk Registry of Deeds, volume VIII, page 194.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 37
the possession of Mr. Winthrop's daughters, Judith, wife
of Richard Hancock of London, England, citizen and
cloth worker, and Margaret, wife of Capt. Edmund Willey
of London. Mr. Hancock and his wife Judith and Mr.
Willey and his wife Margaret made a division of the farm
in 1690 ; Mrs. Hancock receiving the southwesterly half,
which is the part in Lynn, and Mrs. Willey the north-
easterly half, which is the part in Salem. Captain Willey
and his wife Margaret (who had been wife of Henry
Ward, of Spittlefields, in the parish of Stepney, in Mid-
dlesex county, framework-knitter), conveyed her part of
the farm to James Menzies of Boston, gentleman, Aug.
23, 1698.* Mr. Menzies owned it in 1700.
Benjamin Allen Lot. This lot is a part of the large
tract of land granted by the general court to John Hum-
phrey in 1635 and 1637-8.f The larger part of the grant
happened to come within the Lynn bounds, and the lesser
portion in Salem. This part of the lot that belonged to
Benjamin Allen in 1700 was included in both towns, but
only the Salem portion is shown on the plan.
The Humphrey farm, or Pond farm, as it was called,
was delivered to Robert Saltonstall of Boston upon an
execution, issued upon the judgment in an action brought
by Mr. Saltonstall against Mr. Humphrey, Dec. 6, 1642.
For forty-six pounds, Mr. Saltonstall granted one-half of
the tract to Stephen Winthrop of Boston, in mortgage,
Jan. 14, 1644-5 ;J and June 7, following, Mr. Saltonstall
conveyed to Mr. Winthrop the entire farm. Mr. Win-
throp afterward lived in the parish of St. James, West-
minster, England, and died in or before 1671. April 21,
1671, Judith Winthrop and John Chamberlaine, two of
the executors of his will, conveyed the farm to Edward
Rainborow of London, merchant. || After a few years, it
came into the possession of Mr. Winthrop's daughters,
Judith, wife of Richard Hancock of London, England,
citizen and clothworker, and Margaret, wife of Capt. Ed-
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 188.
tRecords of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, volume I, pages 174
and 226 (printed).
^Suffolk Registry of Deeds, volume I, page 57.
Suffolk Registry of Deeds, volume I, page 60.
HSuffolk Registry of Deeds, volume VIII, page 194.
38 CEDAR POND REGION, SALEM, IN 1700,
mund Willey of London. They divided the farm in 1690,
Mrs. Hancock receiving that part of the land lying south
of the northeasterly line of this lot of Benjamin Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. Hancock conveyed her part of the farm to
John Pudney, sr., of Salem, yeoman, Oct. 27, 1693 $
and, the next day, Mr. Pudney, for two hundred and sev-
enty pounds, reconveyed it to Mr. Hancock.* Mr. and
Mrs. Hancock conveyed their part of the farm, for one
hundred and sixty-five pounds, to Col. Bartholomew Ged-
ney, esquire, Oct. 31, 1695. f Colonel Gedney died Feb.
28, 1697-8 ; and this part of his lot was conveyed by
Samuel Gedney, his only son and administrator of the
estates of Joshua Grafton and wife Hannah, daughter of
Colonel Gedney, widow Lydia Corwine, Bethiah Gedney
and Deborah Gedney, singlewomen, all of Salem, and
daughters of Colonel Gedney, for one hundred pounds, to
Capt. Benjamin Allen of Salem, mariner, Feb. 13, 1698-
9.J Captain Allen owned this part of the lot in 1700.
James Gould House. This lot of fifty acres was grant-
ed and laid out to John Browne, sr., by the town of Salem
Jan. 29, 1673, in the following language : '* Laid oute to
mr John Browne senr. fifty Acres of Land Bounded at
the Northwest End with a Rocke which is a bound Be-
tweene mr Humphries ffarme and the Land which was
Robert moultons formerly, & at the west southerly with
that Land which is Comonly Caled mr Humphryes ffarme
at the East Northerly with the Land which was formerly
Robert moultons at the south Easterly with the townes
Land and at those twoe Corners with twoe trees marked
the Easterly of which is a young white oake tree the west-
erly Corner with a great oake."* Mr. Browne lived in
Salem, and was a mariner. He conveyed this lot, as a
gift, to his son-in-law Samuel Gardner, jr., of Salem July
7, 1676.f Mr. Gardner conveyed it to James Gould of
Salem April 1, 16914 Mr. Gould was a wheelwright,
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 67.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 47.
$Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 264.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 138.
II Book of Grants, page 117.
ITEssex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 138.
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 48, leaf 260.
BY SIDNEY PBRLBY. 39
and erected a house upon the lot. He conveyed the house
and land around it, for three hundred pounds, to his son
James Gould, jr., of Salem, wheelwright, May 16, 1726.*
Mr. Gould lived there, and became a yeoman. He died in
the spring of 1771. In his will, he devised the estate to
his wife Margaret for her life, and at her decease he gave'
it to his four sons, Amos, James, Benjamin and Josiah.
The son Benjamin Gould was a blacksmith, and lived at
Hollis, N. H., April 20, 1772, when he released his inter-
est in the estate to his brothers James Gould and Josiah
Gould, both of Salem, housewrights ;f and Amos Gould,
who was a yeoman and lived in Henniker, N. H., released
his interest in the same, for thirty pounds, to his brothers
James and Josiah, Oct. 21, 17734 For one hundred and
fifty six pounds, James Gould and Josiah Gould conveyed
the farm and some land in Lynn to Elizabeth, wife of
Joshua Foster of Marblehead, tailor, April 13, 1774.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster removed to the farm, and lived there
four years. They conveyed it to widow Barbara Bullock
of Danvers June 6, 1778.|| Mrs. Bullock conveyed to
Isaac Twiss of Danvers, yeoman, the western half of the
land arid buildings Dec. 18, 1778 ;T and the eastern half
to William Twiss and Isaac Twiss, both of Danvers, yeo-
men, March 4, 1780.** How much longer the dwelling
stood, and its exact location, is unknown.
John Putney House. That part of this lot lying north-
erly of the dashes was granted to William Bowditch by
the town of Salem Oct. 13, 1649 ;ff and laid out to John
Putney Jan. 29, 1673, in the following words : " Laid
out to Jno Pudney that Land that was Granted to Wm
Bowdish thirty acres of Land Next to Robert moultons
Land only Leaving a high way betweene of that Rod
wide att the west southerly joining to the Land of mr
John Brownes at the south and east sides with the townes
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 48, leaf 260.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 130, leaf 230.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 132, leaf 173.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 137, leaf 2.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 136, leaf 45.
IFEssex Registry of Deeds, book 138, leaf 40.
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 138, leaf 81.
ttSalem Town Records, volume I, page 160 (printed).
40 CEDAR POND REGION, SALEM, IN 1700.
Land with trees marked at every Corner of Said Land/'*
Mr. Pudney was a husbandman, built a house on the lot,
and lived there. He died in the spring of 1712, having, in
his will, devised his homestead, house, farm, orchard and
about forty acres of land, to his son Jonathan Pudney, of
Salem, husbandman. The house was valued at ten pounds,
the " timber of an old barn, two shillings, and the land one
hundred and twenty pounds."
Mr. Pudney, for thirty-two pounds, conveyed the house
and land to William King of Salem, husbandman, June
11, 1712 ;f and Mr. King reconveyed the same estate to
Mr. Pudney Oct. 31, 1716. ;{: For three hundred pounds,
Mr. Pudney conveyed the homestead and buildings to his
two sons, Jonathan Pudney, jr., and Nathaniel Pudney,
Feb. 14, 1758. This is the last known of the house.
That part of this lot which is represented on the plan
as lying southerly of the dashes was granted by the town
of Salern to Thomas Green of Salem, husbandman, Aug.
15, 1674. || For twelve pounds, he conveyed it to widow
Remember Samons of Salem Oct. 1, 1678. ^f For ten
pounds, she conveyed it to John Cromwell of Salem,
slaughterer, April 29, 1680 :^[ and, for twenty pounds,
Mr. Cromwell conveyed it to John Pudney of Salem,
husbandman, March 19, 1682-3.**
Mr. Pudney was owner of both portions of this lot in
1700.
Book of Grants, page 117.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 26, leaf 149.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 31, leaf 147.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 110, leaf 157.
IjSalem Town Records, volume II, page 214.
^Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 84.
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 81.
ELISHA STORY OF BOSTON AND SOME OF
HIS DESCENDANTS.
COMPILED BY PERLEY DERBY, WITH ADDITIONS BY
FRANK A. GARDNER, M. D.
( Continued from Volume L, page 312.)
41. DANIEL, b. Feb. 18, 1784; m., in Beverly, Aug. 31, 1806, Betsy
Quiner, of Beverly. Children, b. in Ipswich, d. unm.:
(1) Ruthey, b. Aug. 30, 1807; (2) Eleanor Ingersoll, b. Jan
22, 1809; (3) William Gray, b. Dec. 11, 1810; (4) Joseph, b.
Apr. 23, 1816; (5) Isaiah, b. June 9, 1818; (6) Elizabeth,
b. Jan. 31, 1821; (7) Daniel, b. July 9, 1824.
42. JOANNA, b. Oct. 17, 1785; d. Aug. 18, 1786.
43. BETSY, b. May 1, 1787; d. Boston, Oct. 20, 1823; m. abt. 1811,
John Bullard of Brighton; removed to Richmond, Va.,
where he died, and she returned to Boston. Children :
(1) John; (2) William Story, merchant in Boston, m. Louisa,
dau. Prof. Andrew and Louisa Elliot Norton of Cambridge;
(3) Francis; (4) Stephen Hopkins, m. Elizabeth, dau.
Samuel A. and Mary Lyman Elliot.
12. ISAAC STORY, son of William, was born in Bos-
ton, Sept. 9, 1749, and died in Marblehead, Oct. 23, 1816
He removed to Ipswich with his father about 1766. Was
graduated at Princeton College, N. J., September, 1768,
where he prepared himself for the ministry, and after-
wards received a call to settle as colleague pastor with
Rev. Simon Bradstreet over the Second Congregational
Church in Marblehead.
The following extracts relative to his call and settle-
ment are copied from the records of that church : "Jan.
24, 1771. At a meeting of the 2d Church, held at the
house of Rev. Simon Bradstreet, he requested that the
church meet at his house Friday, Feb. 8, at 2 o'clock, P. M.,
(41)
ELI8HA STORY OF BOSTON
to bring with them writing votes to choose a Coleg to
be ordained with me in the work of the ministry, and
accordingly the church brought in there Votes at the
time and place and choice was made for Mr. Isaac Story
of Ipswich, in the County of Essex, by a unamass vote
to be a Colleg with me and to suckseed me in the minis-
try." This action was concurred in by the proprietors,
Feb. 8, 1771. Isaac Mansfield, Propr's Clerk.
A committee of five persons, consisting of Capt. George
Newmarch, Dea. Wm. Dolliber, Capt. Wm. Courtis, Dea.
Samuel Gatchell, and Dea. Jno. Pearce, were chosen to
wait on Mr. Story for his answer, which was as follows :
"To the Church and to the Proprietors of the New
Meeting House in Marblehead.
" Your joint and unanimous Choice of me as a Collegge
with the Rev d Mr. Bradstreet in the important work of
the Gospel Ministry justly calls for the most ' serious &
prayerful attention. When I first entered on this arduous,
yet glorious work, it was my fixed design, with submis-
mission to Heaven, not to settle in any place until I had
made a much greater progress in Divine studies & there-
by increased my abilities for so grate an undertaking.
Some special occurrences in Divine Providence which
have since taken place, have influenced me in a manner
to forget that design, that my mind might be as unbiassed
as possible in determining on the point of duty. I have
consulted my Parents and Friends on the important occa-
sion, but more especially have sought the council & di-
rection of Heaven, and do see it to be my bounden duty
to accept of your Call on the generous Terms you have
proposed suspending the whole upon this condition, that
a frequent interchange with ministers will not be offen-
sive ; without this in my younger years, I must be
Cramped in my studies hurt in my health & prevented
in my usefulness among you. I earnestly desire your
united prayers for me to the grate Father of Lights from
whence every good and perfect Gift proceeds. That I
may have an ample supply of every needed Grace out of
that inexhaustible fulness that is stored up in Christ ; that
we may be made mutual & lasting blessings to each other
& having served our generations according to the will of
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 8
Heaven in our respective Stations of life may meet with
your venerable Pastor in the Realms of immortal bliss &
be owned as the sheep of Christ in the grate day, is the
ardent wish of
'* Yours to Sarve in our common Lord.
Isaac Story,"
Marblehead, March th. 15, 1771.
April 30, 1771. At a meeting held at the house of
the Pastor, it was " Voted that Mr. Isaac Story be incor-
porated into this Church, agreeable to his desire, being
recomended from a church in Beathlem " [Bethlehem?].
The Ordination and Installation services were held
May 1, 1771. Rev. Dr. Pemberton, of Boston, served as
Moderator, and preached the sermon from Titus 2 : 15,
'* Let no man despise thee." Rev. Josias Sherman opened
with prayer ; Charge by Rev. Dr. Whittaker, of Salem ;
Right hand of Fellowship by Rev. Wm. Whitwell ; con-
cluding prayer by Rev. Mr. Bowen, of Boston. " The
singers began & finished with an anthem.''
Mr. Story continued his pastorate till February, 1802,
when he was dismissed, the church voting him a gratuity
of $400. His office as colleague was of short duration,
for the venerable Mr. Bradstreet was soon removed by
death, Oct. 5, 1771, the funeral ceremonies being per-
formed at the church,
Mr. Story married, Dec. 19, 1771, Rebecca, daughter of
the said Rev. Simon and Mary (Strahan Hills) Bradstreet,
who was born in Marblehead May 9, 1749, and died April
24, 1823. She left a will, made Nov. 4, 1819, proved
July 1, 1823, in which she mentions her son William, of
New York city, to whom she gave $1 ; her grandchildren,
the sons and daughters of the late Dudley Story Brad-
street ; Charles Edward and Isaac Story Whitwell, chil-
dren of the late William and Hannah Whitwell, $1
each; to William A., son of William and Hannah Whit-
well, " my library of 80 volumes " ; to grandchildren,
sons and daughter of Augustus and Ann D. Story, " all
the real estate I own in Darling's lane, Marblehead " ; to
Joanna Story, my youngest daughter, all the estate I now
occupy, late my father Bradstreet's, situated on the street
opposite Capt. John C. Blackler's house ; to Reb e ci i . \\ i
44 BLISHA STORY OF BOSTON
of Benjamin Emerson, of Gilmanton, N. H.; Sophia, wife
of Samuel Whit well, of Boston ; Joanna Story and Char-
lotte, daughters of the late William and Hannah Whit well ;
and son-in-law Samuel Whitwell of Boston, executor.
Mr. Story made his will June 7, 1814, proved January,
1817. To his wife Rebecca he gave all his plate, furniture,
and wearing apparel ; to the children of his late daughter
Hannah, wife of William Whitwell, deceased, $1,279.21;
to children of son Dudley Bradstreet Story, to daughter
Rebecca, wife of Emerson Porter of Gilmanton, N. H., to
children of son Augustus Story, resident of New York
city, to Sophia, wife of Samuel Whitwell, jr., Boston, to
daughter Joanna, to Samuel Whitwell, jr., in trust for son
William, to each of the foregoing one-seventh of his estate.
Children, born in Marblehead :
44. DUDLEY BRADSTREET, b. Jan. 16, 1773; removed to Louisiana,
where he died Aug. 19, 1819. In early life his name was
changed to Dudley Story Bradstreet, and his descendants
are known by that name. H. C., 1792. He m., Jan. 29,
1809, Eliza Dunlap. Children: (1) Rebecca, b. Dec., 1809;
m., 1851, her cousin Charles Edward, son of William and
Hannah Whitwell. (2) Dudley Story, b. May, 1811; d., La.,
July, 1854; physician. (3) Eliza Dudley, b. Aug., 1813; m.
Dr. Anson G. Henry. (4) William S., b. June, 1815; d.,
La., Sept., 1853; lawyer. (5) Isaac Story, b. March, 1817;
d.. La., 1850. (6) Sophia W., b. Dec., 1818; d. infancy.
45. ISAAC, b. Aug. 7, 1774; d. July 19, 1803, unm.
46. WILLIAM, b. Aug. 24, 1776; d. Newton, June 20, 1853; buried
in his father's tomb, in Marblehead.
47. HANNAH, b. Sept. 29, 1778; d. Dec. 18, 1816; m., Oct. 20, 1801,
by her father, to William, son of Samuel and Sarah Whit-
well, of Boston. Children: (1) William Augustus, b. Jan.
10, 1804; settled at Eastern; married Eliza Galvin of Calais,
Me. (2) Frederick Henry, b. Mar. 18, 1806; d. Mar. 20,
1816. (3) Charles Edward, b. June 3, 1808; m. Rebecca,
dau. of Dudley Story Bradstreet, his cousin. (4) Isaac
Story, b. May 25, 1810; d., Mississippi, Aug. 11, 1840; m.
Eloisa Roundhee ; child, Win. Isaac. (5) Charlotte, b. May
25, 1810; d. Apr. 4, 1830.
48. REBECCA, b. May 19, 1780; d. Jan. 1, 1845; m., 1st, Aug. 10,
1813, Emerson Porter, of Gilmanton, N. H.; m., 2d, Benj.
Emerson. No issue.
49. AUGUSTUS, b. May 17, 1783; d. Boston, Nov. 18, 1845; m., Sept.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 45
7, 1809, by Rev. Mr. Foster, to Ann Dana Winship. Chil-
dren : (1) Edward Augustus; m. Susan Dana Fuller; child:
Edward Augustus, b. Brighton, Aug. 10, 1842; m. Oct. 17,
1867, Virginia Smith, b. Weymouth, N. S., 1841. (2) Fran-
cis W. (3) John Miller Russell.
50. JOHN, b. Sept. 7, 1785; d. Feb. 25, 1786.
51. SOPHIA, b. Mar. 3, 1787; d. Boston, Jan. 3, 1868; m., Nov. 26,
1810, Samuel, son of Dr. Samuel and Lucy Tyler Whitwell.
Children: (1) Henry, b. Mar. 6, 1819; (2) Frederick A., b.
Mar. 10, 1820; (3) Sophia L., b. Sept. 13, 1821; (4) Samuel
Horatio, b. May 15, 1825.
52. MABY, b. Aug. 1, 1789; d. Oct. 17, 1795.
53. ALFBED, b. June 27, 1791; d. Sept. 16, 1791.
54. JOANNA APPLETON, b. Oct. 22, 1792; d. Apr. 7, 1872, unm.
19. JOHN RUDDOCK STORY, son of Elisha, was born
in Boston, Sept. 8, 1769, and died in Lynn, Nov. 1, 1846.
Mariner. He married, in 1795, Judith, daughter of
Elijah and Judith (Sargent) Mahew, of Gloucester, born
April 1, 1775, and died at Marblehead, Sept. 8, 1824.
Children :
55. JOHN, b. May 19, 1796; d. Lynn, Dec. 14, 1859; m. 1st, March
28, 1823, Nancy Blood of Hollis, who d. Dec. 14, 1839; m.
2d, Mar. 26, 1846, Catherine Putnam of New York. Chil-
dren by wife Nancy: (1) John Fitz Henry, b. Apr. 29,
1825; d. Aug. 29, 1825. (2) Wm. Fettyplace, b. Dec. 29,
1826. He went to San Francisco, where he buried two
children, returned in ill health, and died at the house of
his father-in-law, at Jamaica, L. I. He m. Mary Brinker-
hoff. She possessed a superior education; her father kept
a celebrated school for boys, and Mr. Story was a pupil and
a member of his family while his (Mr. Story's) mother ac-
companied her husband on his voyages. Children by wife
Catherine : (3) Carrie E., b. Sept. 21, 1847; d. Oct. 26, 1867.
(4) John R., b. Oct. 21, 1850.
56. EUNICE, b. Aug. 25, 1801; d. Apr. 25, 1829.
57. CHARLOTTE, b. Dec. 27, 1799; m., May 18, 1832, John Graves
of Marblehead. Child: John Story, b. Aug. 13, 1835; d.
Nov. 21, 1847.
58. EDWABD, b. Dec. 21, 1803; d., West Indies, Aug. 15, 1822.
59. ELLEN R., b. Sept. 19, 1810; m. Sept. 16, 1827, Stephen Carlton
of Chelmsford, who d. May 31, 1838. Children : (1) Eunice
Maria, b. Mar. 20, 1830; d. Oct. 15, 1831. (2) Stephen H., b.
Aug. 13, 1832. (3) Mary Jane, b. Sept. 25, 1834.
60. MABY F., b. Oct. 5, 1812; d. unm.
46 ELISHA STORY OF BOSTON
24. WILLIAM STORY, son of Elisha, was born at Mai-
den, Aug. 18, 1774, whither his father had temporarily
removed for the safety of his family during the Revolu-
tionary troubles in Boston. Removed from Marblehead
to Salem, where he died March 17, 1864. Master mari-
ner and merchant He married, Aug. 6, 1797, by Rev.
Ebenezer Hubbard, Elizabeth, daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Hulen) Patten of Marblehead, born Dec. 6,
1775 ; died in Salem, Feb. 22, 1856.
Children, born in Marblehead :
61. ELIZA ANN, b. Apr. 23, 1799; d. Salem, unm.
62. HELEN MARIA, b. Feb. 25, 1801; d. Nov. 11, 1840. She m., for
his second wife, Aug. 18, 1836, William, son of William and
Elizabeth (Buxton) Johnson, b. Danvers, June 6, 1796; d.
Salem, Sept. 5, 1837. No issue.
63. WILLIAM, b. May 4, 1802; d. Batavia, July 27, 1825.
64. JOHN PATTEN, b. May 28, 1805; m., Nov. 19, 1840, Elizabeth,
dau. of Francis and Nancy (Kenniston) Quarles, b. Strat-
ham, N. H., 1815. Lived Waukesha, Wis. Children: (1)
John Patten, b. Aug. 24, 1841. (2) William, b. Apr. 4, 1843.
(3) Francis Quarles, b. July 18, 1845; m. Charlotte F. Dev-
ereux. (4) Elizabeth Quarles, b. July 1, 1849. (5) Augus-
tus, b. Mar. 18, 1853; d. Jan. 28, 1863. (6) Anna Maria, b.
Mar. 19, 1861.
65. HENRIETTA, b. Dec. 18, 1807; d. July 1, 1864.
66. JOSEPH, b. July 30, 1809; d. Aug. 30, 1809.
67. MARY LOUISA ADELINE, b. Dec. 9, 1810.
68. AUGUSTUS, b. Apr. 6, 1812.
27. JOSEPH STORY, son of Elisha, was born Sept. 18,
1779, and died in Cambridge Sept. 10, 1845. He was
prepared for college at the academy in Marblehead, un-
der the tuition of Rev. Dr. William Harris, who was
afterwards called to the presidency of Columbia College,
N. Y. From his earliest years, through all his literary
and professional career, he was unrivalled for his inde-
fatigable industry and arduous labor. He entered Har-
vard College January, 1795, and at his graduation com-
menced the study of his profession under Chief Justice
Samuel Sewall in 1800. Mr. Sewall being chosen Judge
of the Supreme Court, Mr. Story removed to Salem, and,
January, 1801, entered the office of Judge Putnam, who
was afterwards chosen to the same bench. In his practice
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 47
Mr. Story soon became distinguished. In 1803 he was
appointed to the station of naval officer, which offer,
however, he declined. In 1806, he was chosen Repre-
sentative from Salem to the General Court, and in 1811
was elected Speaker ; and while holding that office he,
was appointed by President Madison an associate justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States, being the
successor of Judge William Gushing, who died that year.
He was a Fellow of Harvard College, and in 1829 was
appointed Dane Professor of Law in that institution, and
removed from Salem to Cambridge the September follow-
ing to assume the duties of his new position. The nu-
merous works he published on jurisprudence, in its vari-
ous branches, are monuments to his learning, industry,
and wonderful labor.
The following reminiscence of Judge Story was written
by Francis Bassett, Esq., for many years clerk of the U. S.
Circuit and District Court for Massachusetts. After speak-
ing of Daniel Webster and other notable men, he says :
<4 As I held the office of clerk of the Circuit Court, my
intimacy with Judge Story continued for many years and
until his death. On my first visit to Washington, in 1833,
I was received by Judge Story with great cordiality, and the
Supreme Court being then in session he kindly suggested
that I must have an interview with the Chief Justice before
I left Washington. Judge Story had a most exalted
opinion of Judge Marshall, and considered him to be the
most able Judge on the bench, and who could best fill the
place of Chief Justice. He requested me to call at his
lodgings some evening about nine o'clock, when the court
would have finished their consultations for the day, and
he and the Chief Justice would be together. I accordigly
called one evening and found both of them at leisure.
Judge Story seemed to be highly pleased to introduce "me
to the Chief Justice, and 1 passed an hour with them in
conversation. Marshall's appearance was dignified and
easy, and his conversation familiar and interesting. He
inquired about the speakers whom 1 had heard in Congress
and what subjects they had discussed, and various other
topics were suggested in conversation. In a few days
after he returned my call by leaving his card.
48 ELISHA STOTIY OF BOSTON
' When the office of Chief Justice became vacant by
the decease of Marshall, the ability, learning and experi-
ence of Story gave him the highest claims to be appointed
his successor ; but party feeling decided the choice, and
Taney was selected by President Jackson. Judge Story
continued on the bench several years longer, and I have
heard him say that he thought his situation more agree-
able, and his influence greater with his brethren, than if
he had been appointed Chief Justice. He said the court
had become so changed by the death of his contempora-
ries, and new men appointed to fill their places, that he
had concluded to resign, and I believe he had actually
prepared to send in his resignation a few d&js before he
died, which was about a fortnight after my resignation.
His intention was to devote the remainder of his active
life to the performance of his duties as the head of the
law school at Cambridge. He had great confidence in the
increasing utility of the law school, not only as a place
to acquire knowledge of law, but to instill into the minds
of young men, who came from all quarters of the Union,
correct notions of their political rights and duties, so
that when they settled in different parts of this extensive
country their influence might be felt in supporting our
republican institutions and in contributing to the stability
and perpetuity of our form of government."
Mr. Story was connected with the Unitarian Associa-
tion in 1826, as its vice-president, and was a frequent
contributor to the columns of the *' Christian Register."
He was one of the trustees of the Bunker Hill Associa-
tion ; a member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Soci-
ety, and was chairman of the first meeting gathered for
the purchase of Mt. Auburn, to be laid out as a cemetery,
and where his remains were afterwards deposited Sept.
12, 1845. He married, first, Dec. 9, 1804, by Rev. Na-
thaniel Fisher, Mary Lynde, daughter of Rev. Thomas
Fitch (eldest grandson of Lt. Gov. Oliver) and Sarah
(Pynchon) Oliver, who was born Dec. 20, 1781, and died
in Salem, June 22, 1805, without issue.
He married, second, Aug. 27, 1808, by Rev. Mr. Eaton,
Miss Sarah Waldo, daughter of Judge William, of the
Court of Common Pleas, and Sarah (Waldo) Wetmore
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 49
of Boston, Mrs. Wetmore was the granddaughter of
Brig.-Gen. Waldo, and related to Mr. Story's first wife by
marriage.
Children, by wife Sarah, born in Salem :
69. CAROLINE, b. June 7, 1810; d. Feb. 28, 1811.
70. JOSEPH, b. June 29, 1811; d. young.
71. MARY, b. Apr. 9, 1814 ; d. Mar. 28, 1815.
72. CAROLINE, b. Apr. 4, 1815; d. Sept., 1819.
73. MARY OLIVER, b. Mar. 10, 1817; d. Charleston, S. 0., Apr. 28,
1849; m., Oct. 17, 1844, by Rev. Mr. Newell, George Tick-
nor Curtis, of Boston. Children: (1) Joseph Story, b. July
23, 1845 ; (2) George, b. Jan. 28, 1847.
74. WILLIAM WETMORE, b. Feb. 12, 1819. Graduated at Harvard
College, 1838, and pursued the legal profession in Boston for
a few years. After which, possessing a talent and taste for
the fine arts, he became a successful student of sculpture,
pursuing his studies at Rome, Italy, where many fine speci-
mens of art have emanated from his skilful hands. He
also wrote a fine history of his father's professional life,
to which the compiler of this work is indebted for many
items of interest. He was married by Rev. Dr. Lowell,
Oct., 1843, to Emeline Eldredge of Boston. Four children:
(1) Joseph, b. Boston; d. Rome, Nov. 23, 184-. (2) Edith
Marion, b. Boston. (3) Thomas Waldo, b. London. (4)
Julian Russell, b. London.
75. LOUISA, b. May 21, 1821; d. Cambridge, June 9, 1831.
29. ISAAC, son of Elisha, born in Marblehead, Feb. 18,
1783 ; died Dec. 29, 1852 ; married by Rev. Samuel Dana,
April 7, 1813, to Sally M., daughter of Nathan, Esq. and
Elizabeth (Martin) Bowen.
Children :
76. MEHITABLE, b. Mar. 9, 1814.
77. SALLY ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 2, 1815.
78. WM. FETTYPLAOE, b. Apr. 17, 1816.
79. MARY BOWEN, b. June 30, 1817.
80. ISAAC, b. Nov. 4, 1818; m., Nov. 19, 1846, Elizabeth Woodbury.
Three children : (1) Isaac; (2) Thorndike; (3) a son, b.
Apr. 6, 1860.
81. HANNAH BOWEN, b. Sept. 2, 1820.
82. STEPHEN WHITE, b. ; d. Oct. 30, 1855.
83. JOSEPH; m. Caroline Wilbur of Boston. One child : Caroline.
84. FREDERICK MARION, b. ; d. Dec. 22, 1852.
50 BLISHA STORY OF BOSTON
34. HORACE CULLEN, son of Elisha born in Marble-
head, Jan. 20, 1792 ; died in New Orleans, July 26, 1823,
unmarried.
The following obituary notice is taken from a Salem
paper :
Died at New Orleans, July 26, 1823, of the prevail-
ing fever, Lieut. Horace C. Story of this town (Salem),
of the United Corps of Engineers. He was superin-
tendent of the fortifications erecting at Fort Plaquemine,
and had gone to New Orleans a week previous to his
death, on account of his indisposition.
His remains were interred with military honors by the
Louisiana Guards, attended by the officers of the United
States Army and Navy, the officers of the Louisiana
Legion, and a concourse of citizens.
Lieut. Story received his degree at Cambridge in 1811,
having finished his studies with the reputation of an ex-
cellent scholar. During the war he obtained a commis-
sion in the army, and in several actions, fighting in his
country's cause, sustained the character of a gallant sol-
dier. After the peace took place, he applied himself with
a praiseworthy ambition to the higher branches of science
connected with his military profession, and by his attain-
ments as a skilful engineer, realized the anticipations
which had been formed from his proficiency at the uni-
versity.
In addition to the fine abilities with which he was en-
dowed by nature, his graceful and refined behavior,
friendly, but not familiar, obliging, but not officious, con-
taining a proper self-respect, with a just regard to the
claims and rights of others, well entitled him to rank as
an accomplished officer."
From West Point records :
" Horace C. Story (Mass.), second lieutenant, Corps of
Engineers, llth March, 1814 ; brevet First Lieut, for
gallant conduct in sortie at Fort Erie, 17th September,
1814, and 1815 ; First Lieut, April, 1818. Died at New
Orleans, July 26, 1823. Graduated from Harvard Col-
lege, August, 1811."
Horace C. Story was aide to General Swift, senior of
General Scott. For a short time aide to General Miller.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 51
Mr. G. Gray met in the cars some time ago Gen'l Swift.
He spoke of Horace with great affection and admiration,
and said if he had lived he would have made one of the
most distinguished officers in the army. He was consid-
ered one of the best officers and superior in the Corps of
Engineers. Mr. Gray said when Horace left him he gave'
him a sword cane to keep until he saw him again, and
said, " When I take my degree at Harvard College I will
appear in whatever profession or business I am then pur-
suing, even if it is a blacksmith's apron." When he took
his decree he wore the full uniform as Aide to General
Swift."
Before he went to West Point he read law in the office
of Mr. Cummings, afterwards Judge, and Judge Pitman
of Rhode Island for a short time, their offices being at
that time together.
35. FRANKLIN HOWARD, son of Dr. Elisha, born in
Marblehead, March 6, 1795 ; died in Boston, Feb. 13, 1871.
Married, Dec. 2d, 1822, Elizabeth Gorham, daughter of
Samuel and Mary (Brooks) Gray of Medford, late of
Salem, born March 4th, 1809 ; died in Boston, Feb. 10th,
1885.
Children :
85. HOBACE CULLEN, b. Sept. 1, 1823; d. Mar. 25, 1847.
86. FRANKLIN HOWABD, b. Feb. 12, 1825, Salem; d. Boston, June
27, 1900; resided in Boston; m., Dec. 7, 1854, Adeline, dau.
of Eli and Mary (Pratt) Wainwright, of New York, b. New
York, Nov. 18, 1832; d. Stockbridge, Mass., Sept. 27, 1899.
Two children: (1) Elizabeth Gray, b. Oct. 16, 1855; m.
Edward Gray. (2) Marion Wainwright, b. Jan. 30, 1858; m.
Marie Louise Hunt, June 22, 1887; he died Aug. 22, 1907,
without issue.
40. WILLIAM, son of William, born in Ipswich,
July 27, 1782; died in Brighton, Mass., Dec. 18, 1812.
He was a tobacconist. Lived in Brighton, but transacted
his business in Boston. Married, Dec. 7, 1803, Anne
Kandall of Boston, born Aug., 1786 ; died in Cambridge-
port, March 21, 1839.
Children:
87. WILLIAM, b. Oct. 22, 1804; d. May 10 1837.
52 BLISHA STORY OF BOSTON
88. ROBERT RANDALL, b. Sept. 18, 1806; removed to Brooklyn,
N. Y.; m., Nov. 5, 1829, Adelia Ann, dau. of Reuben Mun-
son, of New York city. Ten children, b. in Brooklyn:
(1) Robert Hartley, b. Oct. 13, 1830; d. Jan. 16, 1832. (2)
Reuben Munson, b. Aug. 14, 1832; d. Mar, 10, 1833. (3)
Robert Randall, b. Apr. 17, 1834; m., Aug. 13, 1855, Martha
Ann, dau. of Robert Knight of Brooklyn; one child, Robert
Knight, b. Oct. 16, 1856. (4) Joseph Grafton, b. Mar. 18,
1836. (5) Adelia Ann Munson, b. Feb. 1, 1838; d. Aug. 6,
1839. (6) Wm. Norris, b. Jan. 28, 1840; d. Feb. 5, 1840. (7)
Adeline Joanna, b. Dec. 21, 1841 ; d. Mar. 12, 1842. (8)
Wm. Beale Lewis, b. Feb. 17, 1843. (9) Theodore Freling-
huysen, b. Aug. 80, 1845. (10) Charles Garrick Hanmer, b.
Feb. 11, 1853.
89. JOANNA MATILDA, b. Aug. 26, 1808; d. Apr. 16, 1851; m., Nov.
9, 1842, Moses Ricker of Cambridgeport. One child : (1)
Ellen Adelia, b. Dec. 18, 1843.
90. JOSEPH GBAFTON, b. Mar. 15, 1811 ; d. Sept. 10, 1813.
YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM,
WRITTEN BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE IN 1869.
(Continued from Volume L, page 296.)
The next was the old house of Mr. Win. Gray, who
was then an aged man, and who kept a shop in one part
of it. He had a son William, who was a painter, and
another, John, who was many years master of one of our
grammar schools and afterwards a police officer. Mr.
Benjamin Webb, a connexion of Capt. Benjamin, built a
house on this site some years ago. The next was a small
and rather old house, in which lived a worthy old widow
Bates, who was the grandmother of the late James R.
Buffum. Then came Southwick's alley, leading from
Essex to Forrester (Bath) street. It was three or four
feet wide, and was a very convenient avenue from
the Common and for the people north of it to Essex
street. Next to the alley was the house of Mr. John
Southwick, now owned by Mr. Thomas A. Covell. Mr.
Southwick was an instructor and a very successful one.
He had about eighty scholars, and he had the admirable
tact of governing this large number of boys, with a very
seldom resort to the cowhide ; but when he did use it it
was with no light hand. He was a Quaker, and went to
the Quaker meetings on Thursday, and we had our half
holidays on Thursday, instead of on Wednesday, as at
other schools. I went to him twice, and at one time his
school room was in the chamber of a building on Bath
street, the lower room unfinished, but was afterwards
converted into a dwelling house, subsequently owned and
occupied by Capt. Samuel Benson. At the other time his
school room was in the rear and nearly contiguous to his
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54 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM,
house. He had from time to time a number of young
seamen to learn navigation, and he was quite proficient in
mathematics. He assisted me in learning what little
French I once knew, but which has now gone to the re-
ceptacle of things lost on earth. He was at one time
elected a Representative to the General Court, but I think
he did not attend often, as I do not recollect any frequent
interruptions of school on that account, but the sessions
were not so long as they are now. On the whole, my
recollections of Master South wick are very pleasant.
We [Master South wick's schoolboys] had constant
feuds with Master Lang's scholars, which often culmi-
nated in fights, particularly in the winter season, when
the Common was covered with snow. We and they would
then erect forts of snow, which were fiercely attacked
and vigorously defended. If some unlucky boy of either
side was captured, he had to undergo the rough ceremony
of having his face washed with bits of ice, a frozen
snowball, or sometimes half a cracker. This was rather
a cruel operation, but it was not confined to one side.
My impression is that Master Lang's boys, being many of
them Wapping boys, or, as we called them, " Johnny-
cake-and-ashes-boys," being of rougher stamina, were the
most frequent victors, but we had some good fighters.
Next were two houses so nearly alike that they seemed
to be cast in the same mould. There was an open yard
between them, the main door of one opening to the east,
and of the other to the west. One was occupied by
Elijah Haskell, who had lost an arm and was an officer in
the customs. He had sons, William, Elijah, and Daniel
C., and several daughters. The other house was occu-
pied by two brothers, named Burrill, who were carpen-
ters. They did not live there a few years after, and I
knew William as living in Andrew street. In one of these
houses (I believe Haskell's) lived a Mrs. Harrington. She
was a Burrill, her first husband a Stocker. Her second,
Capt. Elisha Harrington, from Weston, Mass., was cast
away in a vessel he commanded, in 1800, near Savannah.
He was drowned, but the crew were saved. She had a
son, a bright, smart boy, who was a schoolmate of mine,
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 55
and who in early manhood went to Hartford, Conn., and
whom I last heard of as living in Baltimore. Mrs. H.
married again, and was the wife of Alden Burrill, a
stable keeper and stage proprietor, living in Marlborough,
now Federal street. Next were the barber's shop of Israel
Ward and the shoemaker's shop of Jacob Manning, on
part of the land covered by the Phillips schoolhouse. The
shops of the barbers in those days were places of resort
for persons to hear the news and the town gossip and to
discuss the various topics of the day and the political
affairs of the State and Nation. This shop of Ward's was
much resorted to, as was Blanchard's up-town, on part
of the now vacant land between Mrs. Orne's and Dr.
Loring's. In the latters shop was kept a journal of cur-
rent events, a copy of which I have.
The fashion of wearing wigs had not gone out in those
days, and in every barber's shop might be seen one or
more wooden blocks, on which they were dressed during
the week for " Sabba Day " use, most people having two.
These were frizzled, curled, and heavily powdered. You
could know an old man by his dress then, his wig, his
broad flapped coat, his long vest, with two pockets, ex-
tending over the tops of his thighs, his knee breeches,
and long stockings and square-toed shoes, with large
buckles, you could not mistake him. But now, " mut-
ton is often dressed lamb fashion ; " false teeth, dyed
hair, and youthful habiliments, seek to disguise the rav-
ages of age. But I think the boys easily detected the
attempted disguise. I was told by older persons that
about the middle of the last century the ministers, young
and old, wore these large wigs, and I heard that a young,
weazen-faced minister, appeared on exchange with an
older one, with a wig that nearly overshadowed his face,
and stood up in the pulpit and gave out the hymn, in a
shrill and childish voice, beginning thus :
" Like to an owl, an ivy bush,
Lord such an one am I."
The ludicrous effect was almost irresistible.
Jacob Manning, or Uncle Jake [in Essex street, be-
56 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM.
tween Newbury and Pleasant streets], was an infirm man,
very lame, and an industrious and faithful workman.
There were two bachelor brothers and three maiden sis-
ters who lived together in the house nearly opposite, now
occupied by Mrs. Joseph Hodges, 95 Essex street. One
other sister had married John Hodges, and she was the
only married member of the family. This couple were
the parents of Captains Benjamin, Gamaliel and George
Hodges, three of our most respectable and thrifty men
and shipmasters. They were all of great stature and of
large size. A friend of mine from the north of Ireland,
who came to Salem previous to 1800, told me that when
he landed at Union wharf among the first persons he
saw were these three brothers, and he thought they were
the veritable three sons of Anak, who were expelled
from Hebron. Of the Mannings, Capt. Richard, or
Squire Manning as he was called, had been a shipmaster,
but was then acting justice of the peace, and took cog-
nizance of all the petty offences of down town, and was
also a money lender and note discounter. He had also
been town treasurer, and had held other town offices.
Uncle Jake stitched and pounded away at his shoes from
morn to eve, and the sisters kept a shop in part of their
house. Being economical in their habits, they accumu-
lated a large fortune, and the gatherings of so many long
lives, for they all lived to be aged, enriched two of the
Hodgses, their nephews.
(To be continued.)
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY,
MASSACHUSETTS.
(Continued from Vol. L, page 336.^)
ESTATE OF WILLIAM PLASSE OF SALEM.
Inventory of estate of William Plasse, deceased, at the
house of Thomas Weekes (also Wickes and Wikes), 15: 2:
1646 (perhaps date of death), brought in 20 : 2 : 1646 : One
f etherbedd, twoe fether bolsters, one great Bible, one psalme
booke, one ould Chest, tooles that Richard Walters hath that
he must give accompt of. " And whereas ffyve pownds was
given to the sd Plasse by the Towne which I gathered up in
Corne for him, I did thus Discharge it, viz. : Imprimis By
so [much] unto my self for dyett & elce yt I had Laid out
befor y e Towne granted him 51i. y e some of 21i. & out of the
31i. Left I pd fo r 1 pr shoes, 6s. ; cloth to make him a Capp,
3s. 6d.; a pair of stockings, 2s. 4d. ; for steele Iron & Cole,
4s. ; total, 21i. 15s. lOd. ; spent in dyett, 21i. 4s. 2d. ; total,
51i." In hands of Richard Walters : One chere & stoole,
one an vile, 2 vices, one smale beakhorne, 2 hamers, one smale
and one great ; one old pair of Bellows, 18 files, 1 pr. vice
Tongs, 1 pr. snuffers with a bras chayne & 3 kegs, 2 storne
plates, 2 pr. & 1-2 of forging tongs, 2 match Locks, 2 stock
nail tooles, 2 brok Iron bolsters & a drill boxe, 7 forging hott
punches, 2 Iron wrenches, 1 brass Lampe, 1 litle hack-hamer,
2 pan bores & galloes, 25 smale Could punches, 1 burnishyng
steele & a harth staff, 3 hartopps prt. brok, 1 old pr. mittins,
1 turne vice, 5 fil hafts & a flatt bord, lOli. ; 8 oz. of old
bushell Iron, Hi., 8 oz. of Lead, one wrench for breech pi.
Charges of Thomas Weekes for William Plass in his sick-
ness : For Veale & Fowle, 5s. 2d. ; sugar, 4s. 9d. ; Bread,
Is. 2d. ; beare, Is. 7d. ; more for egges, 6d. ; spices, 6d. ; 2
weekes board before he fell sick, 9s. ; for a debt that I am
in gaged to Goodman Rumball before he fell sick, 3s. 6d. ;
coffin, 6s. ; bread and beare att his buryinge, 5s. ; for Good-
w ife Ager, Is. ; for the Grave makinge, Is. ; for wood &
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58 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
aleven dayes tendance as you inaye thinke meete,21i. 10s. 2d.;
more the towne is willing to allowe him for buriall & atend-
ance of him, 9s. lOd. ; total, 31i. Salem Quarterly Court
Files, vol. I y leaf 45.
ESTATE OF WILLIAM GOOG OF LYNN.
Inventory of William Goog brought in 30 : 4 : 1646, and
his widow Ann Goog (also Gouge) appointed administratrix.
Court gave her the goods for the bringing up of her three
small children. Salem Quarterly Court Record's, vol. 2, page
197.
Inventory taken 28 : 8 : 1645, by Nathaniell Handforth,
Francis Lightfoote and Francs Ingols : His purse and ap-
parrill, Hi. 4s. ; 1 house & lott & 2 ackers of medow and one
ten acker lott, 81i. ; 4 hoges, 21i. 10s. ; 5 bushels of wheate
Hi. ; ten bushels of indian Coren, Hi. 10s. ; the beddinge, 11,
18s. 8d. ; Flax in the bun[dle] , 14s. ; one cheste & a chaier
13s. 4d. ; 3 wheles, 7s. 6d. ; one handsaw & one wharte saw,
5s. ; one sword & a belte, 5s. ; one muskett & bandeleares,
Hi. ; one warming pan, 3s. ; one payer of bellis, Is. ; one
Friinge pan, 4s. ; one gridiron & recke hookes, 3s. 6d. ; one
peice of steele, 8d. ; soume ould leren, 2s. ; too ould howes,
2s. ; one reappinge hooke & a sith, 4s. ; gunpouder, 2s. 6d. ;
hay, 10s. ; a pece of wolen Cloth, 5s. ; a pece of lininge
Cloth, 14s. ; aleven pott hookes, 7s. ; one scellitt & posnitt,
3s. 6d. ; earthen pott, Is. 8d. ; 6 spoones, Is. ; 3 wood trayes
& 3 wood boules & 3 wood dishes, Is. 9d. ; one runlitt, Is. ;
paieles & tube, 3s. ; 2 bages, 2s. ; one ould chaier & stoole &
trunke, 2s. 6d. ; one old axe & other small thinges, 2s. 6d. ;
one Cow, 41i. 10s. Debts to be paid out of this, 41i. 9s. 7d. ;
total, 28H. 11s. 7d. Salem Quarterly Court Files, vol. I, leaf
49.
ESTATE OF JOHN THORNE OF SALEM.
" Salem the 27 of July : 1646 : wee whouse names are
heare vnderwritten being present with John Thome in the
time of his Sicknes and at that time when the sayd John
was in his perfect memory doe testifie that wee heard him
say thease woards vinsit that hee did giue unto Ann : Pall-
graue all his Estate of mony. goods, aparell. & debtts out of
which sayd aparell it was the will of the sayd John that John
Jackson Junio r : should haue his best Hatt and further
moure it was his will that James Thomas should haue som-
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 59
thinge out of his Estate if the said Ann Paulgraue so pleas-
eth."
her mark her mark
Witness : Elisabeth H Harwod, Margaret V Jackson,
her mark
Elisabeth E Esticke.
Sworn to 4 : 6 : 1646, by the witnesses.
Inventory taken Aug. 1, 1646, by Jefforie Massey, George
Emery and John Harbert, and sworn to before Jo. Endecott :
201i. of Indico at 3s. 6d. per li., 31i. 10s.; 1 Koule of Tobac-
co, containing 731i., at 4d. per li., Hi. 4s. 4d. ; 1 Roule of to-
bacco containing 791i. at 4d. per li., Hi. 6s. 4d. ; 81i. of tobac-
co in a Runlet at 4d. per li., 2s. 8d. ; 1 Greate Coate, Hi.; 1
Cloth Shute, 12s. ; 1 Stufe Shute, Hi. 2s. ; 1 Cloth Shute, Hi.;
2 Hatts, 12s. ; 2 shurts, 3 bands, 2 HandCarshers, 10s. ; 1 pr.
of mille stockings, 4s. ; 1 pare of yarne Stockings, 2s. ; 2
pare of Shues, 5s. ; 1 wast coate, Is. 6d. ; Carpenters tooules,
16s. ; in monny, 31i. 17s. 6d. ; 1 Sea bed and pillo, 7s. 6d. ; 1
bible and 1 Cap, 4s. ; 1 Musket, Bandileas, soard & rest, Hi.
6s. ; one aker and 3 quarters of Land, Hi. ; debts owing, 81i.
3s. 4d.; total, 271i. 16s. 2d.
Salem Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 53.
ESTATE OF RICHARD BARTHOLOMEW OP SALEM.
Will of Richard Bartholomew, in the form of a letter, and
addressed " To my Louinge Brother Henry Bartholomew" :
"Boston the 6 th : ll mo : 45
Brother Henry heare in Glossed is anotte of whatt estatte
I have shippt w th mee & whatt is here oweinge to mee : w th
whatt estatte I have shippt w th mee & whatt is here oweinge to
mee : w th what I owe in England w 011 is all I owe in the world as
I know off : these things only the bills of ex c I have Consigned
to m r Edward Shrimpton in London hee is y e brassiers bro
at Boston : to him I haue wrighte y* in Case god should not
bringe mee to London y* hee would vs these goods [to] pay
my debts & returne y e Remaynder to you : I should have
bine glad to have scene you before I went, butt if god should
not returne mee againe but take me away by death : my de-
sier is if the returns of these goods Come to yo r hand : that
they may be thus dispossed of : viz To yo r two children. 4 O 11
apeece to my bro willms 3 Children 20" apeece to my mother
if liveinge 10" to my m r Gearringe beinge very poore : 10"
& the remaynder of my estatte bee it whatt will more or
lesse all that is mine I dessier may be equally devided be-
60 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
tween o r bro Thomas : Abraham & Sister Sara, only what
Jacob Barney owes to mee I giue it to him, butt for any other
debts house ground &c devide as before, this is my desier &
that I would haue done if god shall please to take inee away:
I desier to Cast my self only uppo him & to rest myself only
in the armes of his mercy in Christ Jesus intreatinge of him
to stay my soule there in the worst howers even in death it-
self, vnto him I leaue you with yo r s to gather w th myself &
all his and rest : yo r f aythf ull and Lovinge Brother :
Richard Bartholmew."
Proved 4:6: 1646.
Inventory taken 27 : 5 : 1646, by William Hathorne and
Jefferie Massey : Parsell linen cloth, 501i. 12s. lid, ; parsell
wollon cloth and stockins, 301i. 9s. 6d. ; parsell of hatts, 10H.
12s.; parsell of boddis, 31i. 17s. 9d. ; parsell of shott, 31i.
12s. 7d. ; lead, 91i. 9s. lOd. ; parsell of stuffes and yearne,
301i. 5s. ; parsell of heaire bottoms, 31i. 4s. ; 4 chests of glass,
7li. ; 8 ferkins of sope, 41i. 8s. ; advance upon these goods,
the executor bearing the charge, 221i. 10s. ; 100 bushels of
malt, 14H. 16s.; 2 trunkes, 6s.; 3 ould sheetes with some
ould linen and other smale thinges in the ould trunke, Hi. 3s.
4d. ; an old flockbedd, 10s. ; 2 feather pillowes, 10s. ; 2 old
blanketts, 2s. 6d. ; one old hatchett, Is. ; a paire of bootes
and a paire of shooes, 14s. ; a house and one acre and halfe
of lande, 51i. ; ten acre lott, 61i. ; a Carbine, 18s. ; brass ketle
and scillett, 9s. ; a fire shouell and pott hangers, 3s. ; a ho we,
a frow, 4 wedges, a hammer and shoe home, 5s. ; total, 2061L
19s. 5d. Debts owing to him, 791L Is. 9d. Total, 2861L 9s. Id.
Salem Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 54.
ESTATE OF JOHN WEBSTER OF IPSWICH.
Inventory of John Webster's lands and goods sworn to
29 : 7 : 1646, by his widow, Mary Webster, who is appointed
administratrix. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 2,
leaf 5.
Petition of Mary, widow of John Webster, that her eldest
son, John, should have the land called the farm, of about 32
acres, which lyeth between Mr. Rogers oxe pasture and Thorn.
Bishop's farm, when he is twenty-one years, he to pay Nathan,
the youngest child, 51i. at fourteen years, or if he refuse,
then the 1-4 part of that land in kind or worth ; that Mary,
Stephen and Hannah may have the island bought of the widow
Andrews, in equal portions, when they shall be twenty-one ;
THE PROBATE RECOBDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 61
that Elisabeth, Abigail and Israeli have 20 nobles each, when
twenty-one ; the dwelling house and 6 acres of land tied to
make it good. The Court, Nov. 4, 1646, granted that the
estate be ordered as the widow desired and appointed her ad-
ministratrix, to give bond for security in such sum as the
next Ipswich court shall approve and receive of her the in-
ventory amounting to 1471i. 5s. Mass. Bay Colony Records,
vol. 2, page 184.
John Emery of Newbury married Mary, widow of John
Webster, late of Ipswich, and she had power from the Court
to administer and dispose of his goods to his children. Some
of the children now grown, almost ready to receive their
portions, John Emery petitions for liberty to sell the Island
which is devided to three of the children, and also the house
and 6 acres of land which was bound to make good the 20H.
to the other three, and upon grant of this, binds himself to
pay the children the full price he shall sell it at, and to the
other three children, who are to have 20 nobles, to make
good to them the 81i. apiece and to pay the daughters their
portions at eighteen and the sons at twenty-one years.
Mass. Archives, vol. 15B, page 147.
The above petition was granted Oct. 14, 1651. Mass. Bay
Colony Records, vol. 3, page 254.
ESTATE OF THOMAS CROMWELL OF NEWBURY.
Will of Thomas Croomwell brought in 29 : 7 : 1646 to be
proved, Gyles Croomwell objecting to it, court ordered Mr.
John Lowell and Mr. Edward Woodman to take an inventory
of the estate. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 2,
leaf 6.
The court held 6:5: 1647, addressed Mr. Woodman, say-
ing that the Ipswich court ordered Mr. John Louie and him-
self to take into custody the goods of Thomas Cromlom of
Newbury, deceased, that were in the hands of Samuel Scul-
lard, deceased. Not having done so, they are now ordered
to answer next court, and this order to be published next
lecture day. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 2, page
217.
ESTATE OF JOSEPH MORSE OF IPSWICH.
" The foure & twentith day of the second month Anno
Dm 1646 I Joseph Morse of Ipswich in New Engl : Planter
doe make & ordayne this my last will & Testament revoking
62 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
all other form wills by me made : Item I give vnto Dorothy
my loving wife my howse & lott & out howses bought of
Thomas Dorman. alsoe || my howse || & lott of about six
acres bought of the widdow Perkins, one Cow, and alsoe the
wholl bed & bedding that I lye vpon standing in the hall.
Item I give vnto my sonne Joseph Morse my best cloake
Item I give to my daughter Hannah my great bible which I
vse. Item I give to my wife Docter Prestons works and m r
Dykes besides her owne bibles the one greater and the other
smaller & one felling axe & one broad howe. Item I give
vnto my sonne John Morse my other howse & out howsing
with the lott containing about two acres, and alsoe to John
my sonne a lott of six acres butting vpon an end of the fore
named lott of two acres toward toward the North west and
to my sonne John my lott of ten acres neare Egipt River &
to John one yearling heiffer. Item I give vnto John Morse
all my apparrell vngiven & one yard of musk coloured broad
cloth Item I give to John Morse the || wholl || bed and all
the bedding he lyeth on standing in the parlour and one paire
of sheets & a pillow beere Item I give all my Tooles vn-
given to my sonne John Morse. Item I give to my sonne
John my barne with the ground thereto belonging bought of
ffrancis Jordan. Item I give to my sonne John all my marsh
containyng about five acres onely allowing vnto my wife the
one half e of the grasse growing vpon it from yeare to yeare
during her life My will is alsoe that John shall have halfe
of the grasse from yeare to yeare that may be mowen vpon
the lott given to my wife onely pviding that this shall not
hinder her either from felling or breaking it vp Alsoe my
will is likewise that the Cropp that shall arise of all my
ground planted or sowen this year shalbe equally divided
betweene my wife & my sonne John the charges of the same
equally borne by them Item I give to my wife the two first
payments for keeping the herd Item I give to my sonne
John the last pay for the herd keeping I appoint Dorothy
my wife to be sole executrix to this my last will And in
witnesse that this is my deed I have herevnto set my hand &
scale in the p r sence of these witnesses here vnder written."
Joseph Morse
Witness : Roger Lanckton, william (his mark) Gudder-
son, James Chute.
Proved 29 : 7 : 1646. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 18.
Inventory taken 28: 7: 1646, by Kobert Lord and Thomas
Dorman : a howse, 221i. ; in the hall : one table and a short
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 63
forme, 4 chaires, 6s. ; 5 bibles & some other bookes, 21i. ; 2
kettles, one brasse pot, Hi. ; 2 iron potts, 10s. ; 2 little pos-
netts, 3s.; 9 peeces of pewter, Hi.; one skim[mer], one
chafing dish, 2s. 6d. ; old frying pane & 1 gridiron, 5s. ; one
chirne, one barrell & keeler, 6s. ; one powdering tubb, 2 ba?-
rells & earthen pans, 10s. ; in the chainb. : 20 bushell of In-
dian corne, 21i. 10s. ; 2 bushells rnault, 8s. ; halfe bushell of
hemp seed, 2s. ; 6 small cheeses, 2s. ; 201i. butter, 10s. ;
hempe drest & undrest, 10s. ; an old bedstead, a flock bed,
coverlett & blanketts, 21i. 10s. ; in the little roome : one
bedsteed, a fetherbed, a rugg, one coverlett & 3 blanketts,
61i. ; a warming pan, 4s. ; 7 paire of sheets, 31i. ; 7 pillow
beers, 2 short table clothes, 2 table napkins , Hi. ; 2 chests &
one old trunke, Hi. ; one small table & 3 chaiers, 12s.; 4
Cushens, 6s. ; one yard brodcloth, 10s. ; his wearing appar-
rell, 41i. ; one sowe & two piggs, Hi. 13s. 4d. ; one Cowe & a
heiffer, 61i. 10s. ; 4 load of haye, 21i. ; about 6 bushells of
wheat not thresht, 18s. ; a howse & ground bought of wid-
dow Perkins, 91i. ; one other old howse & 8 acres of ground
& a barne, 81i. 10s. ; 10 acre of upland & 5 of marsh, 10H. ;
his axes & tooles, 21i. ; a muskett, bandaleers & rest, Hi. 4s. ;
total, 831i. Is. lOd. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 19.
ESTATE OF FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT OF LYNN.
" Dat : Linn Decemb : 10 : 1646 The last will & testi-
mone off ffrancis Lightfoote in pfect memory though weake
in bodye. I Doe bequeathe vnto my Brother John Light-
foote, off London, in case hee bee Livinge, or his children
Lawffullye begotten off his bodye, y e sum off one pounde
when ever it shall bee Demanded, & I Desyre yt all good
meanes maye be vsed to giue them Know Lidge off it. 21ye :
I Bequeath to my sister Isebell Lightffoote Liuing in Linck-
hornshire in ffrestone neare ouLde Bostone, one pounde, &
Doe Desyer shee maye haue notis off it, as soone as con-
veniently maye bee. 31ye : I Bequeath to mye Brother Pell,
one pounde. 41ye : I Bequeath to Samuell Cocket ffiue shil-
lings. 51ye : I Bequeath to Hannah Pell : ffiue shillings.
61ye : I Bequeath to Darytye whiting, one Lambe. 71ye : I
Bequeath to ELisabeth whiting, one Lambe. 81ye : I Be-
queath to Samuell Cobit, one Lambe. My will is to make
ray wife Executo r off all my Lands, & goods vndesposed off
I Owe to James Axe ffor tending mye sheepe y e Sumer tyme :
with y e month Octob, & one weeke : in November, onelye in
pte off payment I haue payed vnto him nineteen groats : &
64 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
eLeven pence, I owe him alsoe ffor y e winter Beffore Ite:
To M r George Burrell, 000906. Ite : To Goodm : Mans-
feilde when hee hath Caveyed three Loades off wood more
ffor mee 001000. Ite : To Allinn Bread 1 owe : 005
2. Dew to inee ffrom Samuell Bennit 19 4 Ite : ffrom
Hugh Alley 2 , one peck off indian corne. Ite : ffrom
Edward Iresoun 3 0. It : ffrom John witt Dew to mee
in p r sent monye 4 0."
francis lightfoote.
Witness : Nathaniel Handforth, Francis Borrell, Andrew
Mansfeild.
" I Likewise Doe Depute my Brother Handforth and my
Brother Pell as overseers.
Andrew Mansfeild."
Proved Dec. 29, 1646, by Nathaniell Handforth and Fran-
cis Borrell.
The Court confirmed Anne Lightfoot to be executrix of
her deceased husband's will.
Salem Quarterly Couri Files, vol. 1, leaf 57.
Inventory taken 21 : 10 : 1646, by Edward Burcham, Fran-
cis (his mark) Ingalles and Wm. (his mark) Tilton : His
purse and apparell, 21i. 12s. ; his house & 2 ackers of ground
it stands on, with 3 ackers of rnedow, 61i. 13s. 4d. ; too
kowes with Calfe, 91i. ; two yearlinge steares, 31i. 13s. 4d. ;
to this yeare Calves, 21i. ; 5 Sheepe, 51i. 5s. ; 2 lorn potes
and kettell, one war[m]ingpan, Hi. Is. ; one kettell & a lit-
tell pan, 5s. ; pewter prised at 18s.; one spitt & a smooth-
inge leron, 2s. ; one hogesheade, 2 tubes, 7s. 6d. ; one lan-
thoren, Is. 4d. ; one tube & one ould Chiste, 3s. 6d. ; one
loyne box & a littel trunke, 5s. ; one Joynt Chiste & a
Chayer, 14s. ; one trundell bed & a Foot path, 3s. 4d. ; one
payell & 4 trayes, 4s. ; 2 barrells, 2s. ; one axe, 2 howes &
one spaide, 5s. 6d. ; one wascote, 4s. ; too hoges, 31i. ; in
butter & Eages, 12s. ; one Chane, 2s. 6d. ; in earthern ware,
5s. 4d. ; one hand saw, one trauell, one pr. of tonges & frying
pan, & a broylinge leren, 6s. 4d. ; in Corn, English & indian,
21i. 10s.; flax in the bund[le], 10s. ; in bever, 5s. ; a weuers
loame & furniture belonging to it, Hi. 13s. ; 3 ould sithes &
2 leren wedges & a Hinge, 4s. ; linse yarn & Gotten yarn &
tow, 12s. ; flax seed & a bage & flax & yarn, 6s. 4d. ; hay, 21i.;
one littell gune, 8s. ; one bed & furniture, 31i. ; one box & one
Chayer, 2s. ; linse, Hi. 2s. 6d. ; one payer of stockings, 3s. 4d. ;
total, 51 li. 2d. Debts due to estate, Hi. 8s. 4d. Money
owing wife, Hi. Salem Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 58.
THE PROBATE KECOiiDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 65
ESTATE OF MARY HERSOME OF WENHAM.
Inventory of estate of widow Mary Hersorae of Wenham,
deceased, taken 2:7: 1646, by Esdras Eeade, John Faire-
filde, William Fiske and George Norton, presented 29 : 10 :
1G46 : A house and three Acres of ground Joy n ing to if,
Two Acres and halfe of it broken up or theree abouts, 41i.
5s. ; Halfe of the Corne growinge upon that two Acres an
halfe, with the other fruits, 21i. 10s. ; Ten Acres of upland
more with two Acres of middow lyinge Eeniotte, Hi. 5s.; a
Cowe, 41i. ; A Swine, 18s. ; Three sheets & a halfe, 15s. ; one
Bedsack, with two Boulsters, one Pillow, 10s. ; one old Cov-
erlett and one Old Blankett, 6s. 8d. ; two shifts, two Aporns,
a litie box with other small lininge, Hi. 2s. ; three Peticots,
16s. ; three old doublits, with one old shortt Cote, 5s. ; 2
wheles & a reele, 6s. ; a Brass Candlestick, Is. 4d. ; payre of
Cards, Is. ; a parsell of tow, 2s. ; two hatts, 6s. ; fower Bush-
els of Endian corne, 10s. 8d. ; three pecks of wheat, 2s. 9d. ;
three Baggs, 2s. 6d.; one peuter Plater, two spons, 2s. ; an
old Brass Pott and a skillett, 5s.; two bibles and two small
books with an Inkhorn, 10s. ; one fryinge pan, 3s. ; one old
Chest with a hammer with other old Iron, 2s. 6d. ; a matouke
and two old Howes, 3s. ; a Muskitt and a barrel of a litle
burden peece, 16s. ; three pots with butter and one Earthing
Pott, lls. ; two trayes, two Panns with a litle suit, Is. 8d. ;
two payre of shoos and Stockings, 5s. 4d. ; one Eundlitt,
lOd. ; a parsell of small Cheeses, Is. 8d. ; one Bundell of
lyning yarne, 5s. ; ladder, a forme, a Cooke & hine & a payre
of bodyes, 4s. 6d. Salem Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf
63.
ESTATE OF EMME MASON OF SALEM.
Inventory of estate of widow Emrae Mazon. deceased, 26 :
3 : 1646, taken by Georg Cor win and Walter Price. Sworn
in court, 30 : 10 : 1646 : All the lyning smalle & great, 21i. ;
1 boulster & 1 pillow, 13s. 8d. ; 1 f ether bed, 31i. 5d. ; 1 bed-
stead matt, and Cord, 7s.; 1 Red Eugg, 8s. & blanket, 4s. 6d.,
12s 6d. ; 1 blankett, 13s.; 3 ould Curtens, 18d., 14s. 6d.; 1
settle, 4s. 6d. ; a Chest, 5s., 1 box, 18d., lls.; a table boord,
4s., 2 payles, 2s. 4d., 6s. 4d. ; one trunk, 8d., a linsy woolsy
sutte, 10s., 10s. 8d. ; one carsy waskott, 12s., one pettycott,
12s., Hi. 4s. ; one sarfe, 16s. ; 2 ould wascots, 18d., 7s. 6d. ;
1 ould bodes, 8d., 1 stuff wascott, 2s. 6d., 3s. 2d. ; a Carsy
whood, 2s. 6d., a hatt, lls., 13s. 6d. ; in pewter, 9s. 7d., more
66 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
iii pewter, 4s., 13s. 7d. ; one brass cansteeke, 4s., a pestle &
morter, 3s., 7s. ; one ould warming pann, 3s. 6d., 1 hatchell,
2s. 6d., 6s.; 1 ould chafing dish, 10d., ladle, 6d., Is. 4d. ; a
sift, 15d., one skimer, 6d., Is. 9d.; one hake, 3s. 6d. ; tongs,
4d. ; grd. iron, 18d., 5s. 4d. ; one baking Iron, 2s. 6d., one
brass kytle, 16s., 18s. 6d. ; one Iron kytle, 10s. 10d., an Iron
pott, 2s., 12s. lOd. ; one brass skillett, 4s. 6d., another skil-
lett, 8d., 5s. 2d. ; one Iron Dogg., 2s., 9 books, 13s., 15s. ; 2
books, 4s., one byble, 9s., 13s. ; one salme booke, 16d., & a
sermon booke, 6d., Is. lOd. ; one lining wheele, ; one
Gotten wheele, 2s., a halfe pek, 6d., 2s. 6d. ; 6 boules, 2s., and
2 payles, 14d., 3s. 2d. ; 2 trayes, 6d., 3 platters, 2 wooden
dishes, 16d., Is. lOd. ; one erthen pann, 6d., 1 pot, 4d., a
brush, 8d., Is. 6d. ; in yaron, 16s. 8d., 16s. 8d. ; 2 cushings,
16d., Is. 4d. ; one house and an Acre of ground, 21i. 10s. ;
one smalle kow, 3H. 15s. ; in new fensing stuff, 12s. ; total,
251i. 16s. Court disposed of these goods according to law,
to the elder brother a double portion and the remainder to be
equally divided among the rest of the children. Salem
Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 59.
ESTATE OF EDWARD CANDALL OF SALEM.
Inventory of goods of Edward Candall, deceased Nov. 15,
1646, taken by John Bourne, William Ager and Peter Pal-
frey : 19 Bushell of Indian Corne which I bought of him
before his Departure at 2s. per bushel, Hi. 18s.; his close
being prised at 13s. ; total, 21i. 11s. Payd to severall men
for him before & after his Departure : to Mr. Price for
Shugr for him, 2s. 4d. ; Mr. Feald & Phillip Cromwell, 6s.
6d. ; William Willemore, 7s. 6d. ; Henry True, 3s. ; myself
for Logein and Diet, Hi. 8s. 2d. ; Buriall and Coffing, 13s.
6d. ; total, 31i. Is. Due to Mr. Emry for him, 3s. ; due to
me for him, 10s. Salem Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 60.
ESTATE OF MICHAEL SALLOWES OF SALEM.
" The last will and testam 1 of inichall Sallowes of Salem
bearing date the 14 th day of the nienth month Anno : 1646
I michall Sallowes sicke in bodie but in pfect memorie do
make this my last will and testam* in manner and form fol-
lowing viz. my debts paid and my funerall expences dis-
charged doe out of those goods w ch god hath gyuen vnto
[me?'] dispose of them after this manner fist I gyue vnto
micha Sallowes my youngest sonne the sume of eight pounds
for & towards the education of the said micha and doe de-
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 67
syre that Georg Emerie John Jacksonne and Jefferie Massey
will dispose of the said inicha and of the some afforsaid for
the welfarr of the aforesaid micha Sallowes. Itm I gyue and
bequeath vnto Martha Sallowes my daughter the some of six
pounds twoo pillow beeres a morter & a Jug pott w th my
ernest desyer that the said John Jacksonne shall bring vp
the said martha and iinproue the said six pounds for my said
daughters best advantage. Itm for the remainder of my
estate my will is it be equallie divided amongst the rest of
my Children viz. Thomas Sallowes, Robert Sallowes & John
Sallowes & Samuell Sallowes my sonnes and to Edward wil-
sone my sonne in law, by equall porcons And for the better
pformance of this my will & testam* I doe apoint for my
execute 1 Edward wilson my said sonne in law & Eobt Sal-
lowes my sonne & for ouerseers of this my will I doe desyre
the aboue said Georg Emerie John Jackson & Jefferie massey
in witnes whereof I haue herevnto put my hand the day &
yeare aboue writen." his mark
his mark michaell f Sallowes
Witness : Georg i Williams, John Tucker, Jefferie
massey, Georg Emery.
Proved 31: 10: 1646, by Georg Emery, Jeffery Massie,
Jno. Tucker. Salem Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 61.
The executors declined to serve, and Jeffery Massey, John
Jackson and George Emerie were appointed in their place.
28 : 10 : 1647, Mr. George Emorie and Jefferie Massie were
discharged upon request, and their account, under the hands
of Capt. Hathorne and Mr. Curwin, approved by the court.
John Jackson, the other executor, was continued, two of the
children being with him. Salem Quarterly Court Records
vol. 2, page 225.
ESTATE OF GEORGE POLLARD OF MARBLEHEAD.
" 3 month 13 da y 1646. I George Pollard of Marblehead
weake in body yet in perfect memory doe make this my last
will & testament first I bequeath my soule to God y l gaue it
& my body to be interred according to ye discretion of my
frends and for my temporal estate I dispose of it as follow -
eth Imprimis I giue to Goodman Tiler of linne the summe
of tenne pounds Also to John Hart y e younger the summe
of fiue pounds & to Christopher Nicolson the sonne of
Edmund Nicolson, the summe of fiue pounds, lastly
to see this my will performed I doe appoint Wm Wal-
ton of Marblehead my executor to see my debts payd the
68 THE PROBATE RECORDS OP ESSEX COUNTY.
remainder of my whole estate I give vnto y e sayd execu-
tor & also I doe in treat m r Mauerick & William Charles to
be assisting & helpefull to my sayd executor for ye recover-
ing of my debts In witnes heerof I haue heervnto set my
hand ye day & yeere aboue written." his mark
George Pollard
his mark hi s mark
Witness : Moses Mavericke, John I Hart, william W
Charles.
Proved 31 : 10 : 1646, by Moses Maverik. Salem Quarterly
Court Mies, vol. 1, leaf 64.
Inventory, all credits : Due from Willm. Walton, Moses
Mauerick, John Deuereux, Wm. Charles, David Carwithin,
Nicholas Merit, Ephm. Keene, Ralph Parker, George Vicary,
John Coit, Abraham Whitehear, George Chin, Richard Nor-
man, Richard Curtis, Edmund Nicholson, John Peach, sr.,
John Peach, jr., John Bartol, Thomas Pitman, John Hart,
Samuel Gatchel, John Gatchel, Thomas Sams, Arthur Sandin,
John Legg, Mary Hill, Nicolas Lisson, John Lyon, Wm.
Chichester, John Northy, Richard Cooke, Samuel Delabar ;
total, 601i. 4s. 3d. Due to John Deuereux for diet for two
years and a quarter, 171i. 12s. ; and to John Bartol for his
boy, 61i. Salem Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 65.
ESTATE OF JOHN SATCHWELL OF IPSWICH.
" ffebruary ii th 1646. The last will & Testament of me
John Satchwell of Ipswich though weake in body yet in
pfect sence & memory doe comend my soule to god who
gave it & my body to the dust whence it was at first till the
resurreccon which 1 doe expect. And for my estate I give
to my sonne Richard all my howses and land w th their
app r t e n a ncs except that pt of the 25 acre lott from the vper
end of the plowd land & soe downward to the sea, & six-
teene acres of pasture beyond muddy river pt of the ox pas-
ture towards Rowley which pcells of land I give to Johan
my wife during her naturall life and to her Issue if she have
any and for want of such yssue then to returne to Richard
my sonne his heires & Assignes : further it is hereby pvided
& my will is that Johan my wife shall have the vse of my
howses barne Cowhowse orchard halfe of my particular dur-
ing her naturall life, or vntill she can conveniently pvid
otherwise for her selfe. And my will is that if Richard shall
not marry w th Rebecca Tuttle which is now intended then
my wife shall have her being in the howse as is before men-
tioned during her life vnlesse she see good to dispose of her
THE PBOBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 69
selfe otherwise. But in case my sonne Richard should de-
cease w th out issue lawfully begotten of his body then my
will is that all that estate that is not given to his wife by
ioynture shall return e to Johan my wife if then living and
if both dept this life without issue then my will is that such
estate of land as remayne should be equally divided betweene
my brother & sisters' children that are here in New England.
I doe hereby give to my brother Theophilus Satchwell my
best cloth sute & coate To my brother Curwin my stuff sute
To my sister webster about seaven yards of stuff to make her
a sute and alsoe a yonge heiffer thought to be w th calfe ffur-
ther I doe hereby make my wife sole executrix & to receive
what is due to me & alsoe to pay if I doe owe any thinge to
any that is iustly due In wittnesse of this my last will &
Testament I doe hereto sett my hand the daye & yeare first
above written. Those words (of land as remaynes) were in-
terlined before the subscripcon hereof."
John Satchwell.
Witness : Jonathan wade, James Howe.
Proved Mar. 30, 1647, by the witnesses.
Inventory taken by Jonathan Wade and Thomas Hewlett :
one dwelling howse & home stall, with barne, cowhowse,
orchard yard wth the apprtnancs, lOOli. ; several pcells of
land, meadow & upland, 2071i. ; 6 oxen, 361i. ; 5 cowes, 251i. ;
one yearling, Hi. 10s. ; 3 calves, Hi. 10s. ; one heiffer, 21i.
15s. ; corne, not threshed, 51i. ; several pcells of corne, lOli. ;
sithes, 12s. ; carts & wheeles & irons belonging to them, 41i.
10s. ; plowes & plow irons, 21i. ; yoaks & chaines, 21i. 5s. ;
guns & swords, 51i. 12s. ; a swarme of bees, Hi. ; several bed
steeds, 21i. 6s. ; a sett of curtaines, Hi. ; a fetherbed & bol-
ster, 21i. 10s. ; a Coverlit, Hi. 16s. 8d. ; several blanketts, Hi.
10s. ; a fether bed & pillowes, Hi. 12s. ; a Coverlit, Hi. 5s. ;
a Coverlit, Hi. 5s. ; In stuff, 21i. 8s. ; Two blanketts, 18s. ; A
fether bed & bolster, Hi. 9s. ; Curtaines, valance & carpi t,
21i. 5s. ; matts & cords, 15s. ; sheets, pillowbeeres & several
lynen, 81i. ; Cushens, 12s.; a Chest, 14s.; a Chest, 8s. ; a
case of bottles, 6s. 8d. ; a Table, 10s.; several chaires, 8s.;
a Table & stoole, 13s. ; In brasse & iron potts, 81i. ; pewter
& brasse, Hi. 15s.; a frying pan, 7s. ; In England upon band,
I81i. ; swyne, 61i. ; dunge, 21i. ; powder, 8s. ; fire shovell,
tongs, spit, 6s. ; silver spoones, 15s. ; sawes, 10s. ; 4 bibles,
Hi. ; several bookes, 15s. ; hatts, Hi. ; Tramell & pott hooks,
6s.; flax seed & flax, Hi. 4s.; ropes, 16s.; Tubbs, churne,
barrell, Hi. ; other caske, 7s. ; a pistoll, 8s. ; In debts, 5H.
Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 22.
70 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
ESTATE OF MRS. CHAMBERLINE OF (IPSWICH?).
Mrs. Chamberline dying intestate, an inventory of her es-
tate, amounting to 321i. 4s. 5d. was tiled 30 : 1 : 1647. Or-
dered to be divided, two parts to the son and one part to the
daughter. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 7.
Mr. Whitingham and Joseph Medcalf e to be administra-
tors. Marke Symonds and Edward Browne to help divide
the goods. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 2, leaf 7.
ESTATE OF MICHAEL CARTHBIOK OF IPSWICH.
" I Michael Carthrick of Ipswich in New England Carpen-
ter being weake in body but of good memory thanks be to
the lord doe make & ordaine this my last will & Testament
in mann & forme following first I comitt my body vnto the
earth there to be interred decently according to the discre-
tion of myne executrix and my soule into the hands of god
that gave it and as for my outward estate as followeth
Imprimis I leave my wholl estate of which I am now
possessed in the hands of my wife to be improved by her
for her owne & my childrens good vntill my soime John shall
accomplish the age of 21 years alsoe I give vnto my sonne
John my howse wherein I now dwell with the barne out
howses fences & howslott w th all thapp r ten a ncs to them be-
longing and alsoe all other my lands & meadow of which I
am now possessed to him & his heires for ever when he shall
accomplish the age of one & Twenty yeares to be deliv r ed
vnto him in good condicon & repaire fitt for habitacon & vse
alsoe my minde & will is That my two childen John & Mil-
dred shalbe brought vp by my wife vntill the tyme of the
putting forth of my sonne or at his full age & vntill the
tyme of marriage or full age of my daughter Alsoe my will
is that my sonne John shalbe by my wife kept at schoole
pvided there be a schoole in the Towne where she liveth vn-
till the age of 14 or 15 yeares yet foe as that at tymes his
mother shall have power as the condicon of the family & her
necesseties shall require to take him off to be helpfull to her
in her businesse as the overseers & his mother shall see cause
further my will is that my sonne John at the age of 14 or 15
yeares as the overseers shall thinke good shalbe put out to
some trade and that his mother shall then furnish him with
dubble apparrell & pay vnto the overseers six 11 to be imployed
for his best advantage either for his putting forth or other-
wise according to the discretion of the overseers further I
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 71
giue vnto my daughter Mildred ten pounds to be paid vnto
her out of the movable goods according to the appoyntm* of
the overseers when she shall have accomplished the full age
of 21 yeares or at the day of her marriage she marrying
with the consent of the overseers & her mother : further in
case my wife shall marry whilst my children or either of
them be vnder age my will is that my wife & her husband
shall both stand bound to fulfill my will vnto my children
according to the true intent thereof and that her husband
shall agree with my overseers for the fulfilling of the same
in defect whereof or of the due vsage of my children or
either of them my overseers shall have power to dispose of
them by removing of them or otherwise soe as they may see
them supplied & educated according to the true intent of this
my last will & Testam* he or she paying according to the
pporcon of the charge that shall soe arise about the children
And further my will is that my wife shall not remove both
or either of my children out of this Jurisdiccon without the
consent of my overseers ffineally I doe make Sarah my lov-
ing wife sole executrix of this my last will & Testam* desir-
ing her to see all things therein to be pformed according to
my Intent & meaning therein specified as alsoe I doe appoynt
our reverend & faithfull Teacher m r John Norton & Robert
Payne oversers of this my last will & Testam* and in case of
the decease or departure of either or both of them I give
either or both of them power to appoynt an other or others
in his or their place or places In wittnesse to this my last
will & Testam* I have herevnto sett my hand & seale the 16 th
day of the eleventh month 1646."
Michael Carthrick.
Witness : Robert Lord, Edward Browne. Ipswich Deeds,
vol. 1, leaf 30.
Proved 30 : 1 : 1647, by the witnesses. Ipswich Quarterly
Court Records, vol. 1, page 7.
Inventory taken 25 : 11 : 1646, by Marke Symonds, Edward
Browne and Robert Lord : one great cubberd, Hi. ; an old
little table & 3 chaires, 4s. 6d. ; two wheeles, 6s. ; one paire
of tongs, one firepan, one andiron, 2 tramells, 1 spitt & one
gridiron & one paire of bellowes, 13s. ; a fowling peece, one
muskett, 2 swords, 2 paire of bandeleeres & 21i & halfe of
powder, 31i. 3s. ; 10 pewter dishes, 2 quart potts, one pint
pott, one beaker, a little pewter cupp, one chamb. pott, Hi.
8s.; a pewter salt, a brasse candlestick, a brasse pann, a
morter & pestle, 12s. 6d. ; a little kettle & two posnetts, 12s. ;
72 THE PROBATE RECORDS OP ESSEX COUNTY.
a great bible, psalme booke & an other booke, 10s. ; 3 gaily
dishes, an iron candlestick, 2 old lamps, 2s. ; 3 iron potts, 1
iron kettle & two paire of pott hooks, 21i. 4s. ; one powdering
tubb, 2 keelers, a kneeding trough & other lumber, Hi. 3s. ;
one bushell of mault & 20 bushells of indian corne, 31i. 4s. ;
one flock bedd & bolster, 2 blanketts, matt & bedsteed, Hi.
15s. ; hempseed, hopps & flax seed & leather, 8s. ; lOli. of
hempe undrest, 4s. 2d. ; 12 li. of linen yarne, Hi. ; two old
hogsheads, 2s. ; one bedsted in the parlor, Hi. 4s. ; one fether
bed way ing 58 li. at 14d. & 3 pound of f ethers, 31i. 10s. ; one
fetherbed and two boulsters weying 641L at 12d., 31i. 4s. ;
one paire of blankets and two coverlets, 21i. ; curtaines,
valents and hangings, 21i. ; 5 payer of sheettes, Hi. 15s. ; 4
tablecloaths, 8s. ; one cupboard cloth, 5s. ; 1 short diaper
table cloth, 6s. 8d., lls. 8d. ; two paire of pillow beeres, 9s. ;
6 old napkins and one towell, 7s. ; 3 shirts, 10s. ; his weare-
ing apparell, shooes, stockings & hatt, 41i. 10s. ; a warmeing
pan and a payer of tongs, lls. ; one chaire& 3 joyned stooles,
10s.; 2 chests & 3 boxes, Hi. ; a hatchett, 12s.; a looking
glasse & halfe houre glasse, 2s. 6d. ; 2000 of naiies, 10s. ; a
lanthorne, 2 beere vessells & beerestall, 6s. ; 200 of clap-
boards, 7s. ; 3 pitchforks & 2 rakes, 4s. ; one spade & shovell,
3s. ; several tooles sold to Jo : Catcham, 17s. ; one large
handsaw, 6s., 7 axes, 22s., Hi. 8s.; one twibill, 5s., one long
saw, 5s., one hand saw, 3s., 13s. ; 5 augers, 3s. 4d., 4 augers,
6s., 9s. 4d. ; 2 ham[mer]s & a holdfast & 16 planes, Hi. Is. ;
9 chissells, 7s., several small chissells, 3s., 10s. ; a shave, a
little square, a little sawe & a hatchett, 4s. ; an auger & a
frame sawe & hand saw, 4s. 4d. ; a frow, a mattock & a
square, 6s. 6d. ; a beetle ring & 4 wedges, 5s.; Tooles laid
by for willm Addams, 4s. ; two cowes, 91i. ; one steere, 21i.,
one calf e, 20s., 121i. ; 5 piggs, 71i. 10s.; 12 acres of land,
within the fence, 121L ; 26 acres of land, 41i. ; a grindstone,
winch & trough, 5s. ; the howse, barne, yards, garden & the
apprtences, 201L ; total, 991i. 2s. 6d. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1,
leaf 31.
Michaell Carthricke by his will gave his son John all his
houses and land, and the said John dying after he was
twenty years, Thomas Brigden, in right of Mildred, his wife,
only sister of John, and by whom Brigden hath children,
petitioned the court for due aud just relief. May 28, 1659,
ordered that Mildred, the only daughter of Michael Garth -
rick, and sister and heir to John, should have the estate
given to her brother, and to pay the widow of Carthricke
lOli. Mass. Bay Colony Records, vol. 4, page 377.
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 73
ESTATE OF MRS. ELIZABETH GOODALE OF NEWBURY.
Mr. Edward Rawson, Richard Kent and Henry Short of
Newbury appointed 6:5: 1647, administrators of the estate
of Mrs. Goodale until the General Court takes further order.
Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 2, page 217.
Petition of Abraham Toppan, in right of Susan, his wife,
and Thomas Milward and Richard Lowle, overseers to the
will of Elizabeth Lowle, and on her behalf, that as this
court, on their petition in 1647, granted unto Abraham Top-
pan, in right of Susan, his wife, and to Elizabeth Louie, ex-
ecutrix to the estate of her husband, John Louie, power of
administration to the estate of Elizabeth Goodale, their
mother, amounting to 191H. in money and about 301i. in
goods, and reserved liberty to John Goodall anytime within
three years to make challenge thereunto, now the time being
expired, and no record found of the court's grant, desire that
it may be entered on the records. Ordered May 27, 1652,
that the former grant be recorded. Mass. Bay Colony Rec-
ords, vol. 4, page 92.
ESTATE OF WILLIAM CLARKE OF SALEM.
Cp. Wm. Hathorne, Mr. Georg Corwin and his widow
Katherine Clerk, all of Salem, appointed 6:5: 1647, admin-
istrators of estate of William Clerk, late of Salem, deceased.
Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 2, page 219.
Inventory taken 25 : 4 : 1647, by William Hathorne and
sworn to by Mrs. Katherin Clerk, 9:5: 1647 : An eight pte
of a barke in Robert Lemmon his hands, 10H. 10s. ; an eight
pte of a barke in Mr. Gooses hand, 201i.; twoo thirds of a
shallop att marblehead in the hands of John Keagle, 71i. ; a
house & land neere Mr. Johnsons & 200 acres of land neere
Mr. Humfryes farine, 201i. ; a third of 9 acres of come upon
the ground, 31i. ; the houses & an acre of land neere Mr.
Brownes, 281i. ; three Cowes, 131i. 10s. ; 12 small swine, 61i. ;
pte of a bagg of Gotten, containing 1 hundred weight, 61i.
15s. ; 401i. of ginger at 9d. per li., Hi. 10s. ; 500 waight of
Tobacco in Mr. Peeters seller at 4d. per li., 81i. 6s. 8d. ; in
Mr. Downing's seller, lOOOli. of Tobacco at 4d. per li., 1611.
13s. 4d. ; one hogshead & pt. of 2 hogsheads of suger, being
about 7001L waight, 261i. 5s. In the Hall : One long table
& frame, 4 Joynt stooles & a bench, Hi. 13s. ; 1 Court cub-
berd & old cloth, 14s. ; 3 red Leather chaires, 13s. 4d. ; 1
short forme, 2s. In the Parlor: 1 Table, 3 formes & astoole,
74 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
14s. 6d. ; 1 halfe headed bedstead, 7s. ; 1 curtaine & vallance,
5s.; 1 feather bed & bolster, 21i. ; 1 straw bed & flocke bol-
ster, 7s. ; 1 white blanckett, 3s. ; 1 pr. of sheetes, 7s. ; 1
greene rugg, 14s. ; 1 other bedstead & mat, 7s. ; 1 Curtaine
& valance, 2s. ; 1 canvas flocke bed, 10s. ; 1 Feather bolster,
14s. ; 1 pr. of old sheetes, 4s. ; 2 old blancketts, 4s. ; 1 Red
Rugg, 8s. In the great Chamber : In a Deske in silver, 41i.
lls. 3d. ; in Wampon about 31i. worth, 31i. ; his deske, Hi. ;
3 Joynt stooles, 5s. ; 3 Leather stooles, 5s. ; 1 old Turky
carpet, 8s. ; in the Closett in Endico, 51i. ; trenchers & other
small things, 14s. In the hall Chamber : 1 table & forme,
10s. ; one old carpett, 3s. ; one Joyned bedstead, 14d. ; Car-
tines & vallances, 16s. ; 1 feather bed, 3H. ; 1 feather boul-
ster, 15s. ; four feather pillowes, Hi. ; 1 matt, 2s. 6d., 1 Ta-
pestry covering, Hi. 10s., Hi. 12s. 6d. ; 1 Round Table, 7s. ;
1 Cubberd cuishion, 2s. ; 1 greate blacke Truncke with locke
& key, 10s.; 1 great cuishion wrought with wosted with a
chaire covering, Hi. ; one sempiternum cubbord cloth with
silke frenge, Hi. ; 2 Cubberd cuishions of dammaske & one
needle worke one, Hi. ; 1 phylaselle cloake lined with plush,
31i. ; for Hi. of silke frenge, 10s. ; 3 say curtaines & a peece
of yallance, 15s. ; 3 red capps, 3s. ; 6 silver spoones & 2 small
peeces of plate, 31i. ; one small Truncke, 6s. ; one dussen of
diaper napkins & a table cloth, Hi. 4s. ; 1 dussen of
lockrum napkins & a table cloth, Hi. ; 1 dussen & of Hol-
land napkins wrought & a table cloth, Hi. 14s. ; a paire of
holland sheetes wth seaming lace, Hi. ; a dussen of to wells,
2s. ; 1 close stoole, 6s. In the Chamber over the kitchin : 1
great truncke, 2s. ; 10 pr. of sheetes, 51i. ; 2 dussen of flaxen
napkins & 2 table cloths, Hi. 4s. ; 3 dussen of old napkins,
10s.; 3 old Table clothes, 10s. ; 1 great chest, 14s.; 1 Tur-
key Carpitt, Hi. ; 1 old Carpitt, 8s. ; 1 great truncke with
some small things in the same, 12s. ; 1 bedstead, 5s. ; cur-
taines & vallance, 7s., 12s. ; a feather bed and boulster, 41i. ;
a covering & a blanckett, 8s. ; a fire shovell, tongs & a pr. of
andirons, 10s. ; in a low bedstead, 1 feather bed & boulster,
21i. ; a blanckett Rugg & a curtaine, 6s. ; a Cutlas & a leath-
er belt, 14s. 4d. ; 1 old quilt, 3s. 4d. ; a warming pan, 4s.
In the Garrett : 2 flocke beds & a boulster, 14s. ; a quilt &
a Rugg, 4s. ; some old tubs & Lumber, Hi. ; 3 bushells of
indian come, 8s. ; 16 bushells of wheat at 8d. per li., 21i. 15s.;
35 bushells of mault at 4s. per bushell, 7li. In the kitchiu :
20 pewter platters, 21i. 10s. ; 2 great plates & 10 little ones,
12s. ; 1 great pewter pott, 1 flagon, 1 pottle, 1 quart, 3 pints,
4 ale qrts., 1 pint, 6 beare cups, 4 wine cups, 4 Candlestickes,
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 75
5 Chamber potts, 2 pewter lamps, 1 tunnill, 6 sawcers & old
pewter, 31i. 18s.; China dishes, 12s. ; 1 great brasse Copper,
1 small Copper kittle, a great kettle, 1 brasse pan, 1 brasse
pott, 1 little kettle, 61i. 19s. ; Iron, 1 great pott, 3 hangers, 2
spitts, 1 treevett, a paire of tongs, 1 fire shovell, 1 peele, \
Jacke with some old Iron & tubs in the kitchin, 31i. 2s. 6d. ;
in the seller, hogsheads & old lumber, Hi.; a bible & Pur-
chas Pilgrimage, Hi. ; his wearing apparell, 61i. ; owing to
him per book, 310H. 13s. 5d., but what debts he oweth doth
not to us appeare ; total, 5861i. 2s. 2d. Salem Quarterly
Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 81.
Mrs. Katherine Clarke of Salem, widow, petitioned the
General Court about the settlement of her husband's estate
and it was referred to this court. Ordered 30 : 10 : 1647,
that the widow have 1501i. and the four younger children
have HOli., 401i. to be allowed toward their education, and
the remainder to be paid when of age or upon marriage.
The elder son to have a double pchon and his eldest son by
his former wife to have 201i., the oth r 10H. and shee that was
married in his life time, 51i." Salem Quarterly Court Rec-
ords, vol. 2, page 226.
ESTATE OF JOHN LOWELL OF NEWBURY.
Mr. Willia Gerish, Richard Lowle, Nicholas Noyse, John
Saunders and Richard Knight appointed 6:5: 1647, admin-
istrators of the estate of Mr. John Lowle, late of Newbury,
deceased, until the General Court takes further order. Salem
Quarterly Court Records, vol. 2, page 217.
" The Last will & Testament of John Lowle Late of New-
berry deceased made this nine & twentieth of the fowrth
mounth 1647
" That I John Lowle of Newberry beeing in Pf ect vnder-
standing knowing my ffrailty doe declare this to bee my last
will & Testa [m]ent : stedfastly believeing that when I goe
hence I shall rest in Glory through my Saviour the Lord
Jesus Ch*. As for the Estate the Lord hath given me heare
I thus dispose of it : I give vnto my wife Elizabeth Lowle
one halfe of my Estate whether it Consists in Goods within
or without Land Howses Cattell Howshowld stuff e med-
does land brocken or vnbrockne or what else Alsoe my said
wife to Chuse Twenty pownds out of the residewe of that
Estate w ch Came by her mother fformerly or latter. The rest
of my Estate to be devided Equally betweene my Sonn John
Lowle Mary Lowle Peter Lowle James Lowle Joseph Lowle
76 THE PKOBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
Beniamine Lowle & Elizabeth Lowle. Alsoe I doe Humbly
intreate these fiue rny Christian deare Loving ffreinds &
bretherne my brother william Gerrish Richard Lowle John
Sanders Richard Knight & Nicholas Noice to be my Exec
and Adm of this my last will & testament as alsoe to be the
ouerseers of my wife and Children in A ffreiudly Christian
way towards them and that yo u five showld take the advise
of our Elders ; in Cace any one of my first wifes Children
dye before theie have their portion in their hands that it be
equally devided amongst the rest that are Living the same
I say Concerning my second wifes Children Beniamine &
Elizabeth these portions for my Children to be paid them
when the Court Judge them wise, and able to manage an
Estate as theie shall receive information from sixe
of the wise Godly men of the Towne with the Elders.
Alsoe I will that before the Goods be devided that
my daughter Elizabeth shall take tenn pownds worth of her
owne mothers Clothers for her vse ; Alsoe that my daughter
mary take Twenty pownds worth of her owne mothers Cloth-
ers, Alsoe if my wife marry I will that my daughter mary
then shall Live with my Sister Johan Gerrish if my Sister
please ; if my daughter mary Chuse to Live with my sister
before my wife ; And that my two daughters shall have their
Thirty pownds worth of Clothers taken out before the Estate
be devided dated as above writne. In witnes wherevnto I
have put my hand this day and yeare above writne."
Jn Lowle.
Witness : Edmond Grenleife, Will : Gerrish, Robert Long.
Proved 27 ; 8 : 1647, by Edm. Greenleife and Willi. Gerish.
Inventory taken the last of June, 1647, by Edward Raw-
son, Thomas Miller (signed Milward) and Abraham Toppan :
his Wearing Apparell : 1 bl. wat grogrin Suite, Hi. ; a leather
Suite, Hi. 6s. 8d. ; a leather Jackett, 4s.; a bl. cloth Coate,
18s. ; an old bl. Cloake & suite, Hi. Is. 4d. ; a freeze Jackett,
4s. ; a lin coll Cloth Cloake, 18s. ; a lin coll Coate old, 7s. ; a
Bed wascoate & old dublet, 6s. 8d. ; a lin coll Jackett & hose,
15s. ; 2 hatts, 12s. ; a pr. of bootes, 10s. ; 4 pr. of shooes, 10s.;
4 p old stockings, 1 new pr., 12s. 6d. ; 4 shirts worne, 15s. ; 5
night Capps, 3s. 6d. ; 11 day Capps, lli. 3s. ; 6 bands, 1 pr. of
bootstopp, 7s. 6d. ; 6 old handcherkess, 2s. ; 2 Swords, 1 pr.
of bandaleeres, 1 muskett, 1 pistoll, 1 feather, 1 ponyard, 21i.
4s. 6d. ; total, lOli. 19s. 8d. In a little chamber : 1 pr. of
greene Curtaines & valiants wrought, 21i. 15s. ; a faire Cupp-
board Cloth, lli. ; 2 wrought Cushions, 1 chaire, 1 Case for
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 77
a chaire, Hi. 10s. ; I Carpett, Hi. ; 1 peece of greene searge,
8s. ; another pr of green Curtains & valiants, 13s. 4d. ; a
pcell of bookes, 31i. 7s. ; total, lOli. 13s. 4d. Lynnen : a
tufted hollaud wascoatt, 4s. ; an old holland shift, 2s. 6d. ;
2 old Linn, wascoats, 3s. 6d. ; a lardge diapr table Cloth, 10s:;
on doz: of diapr napkins, 12s. ; one pr. of fyne canvas sheets,
12s. ; 3 pr. of Canvas sheets, 18s.; 3 odd sheets old, 5s. 4d. ;
2 pr. of old sheetes, 4s. ; 2 Course towells, Is. 4d. ; 1 Callico
pillowby, 3s. 4d. ; on pr. of pillowbyes, 6s. ; a pr. of doulas
pillowbyes, 4s. ; 9 course napkins, 4s. ; 14 Course napkins,
7s. ; 5 other napkins, 3s. ; 17 quoifes, 1 ruffe, lls. 6d. ; 8
forehead clothes, 10s. ; a pcell of child bed linnen, biggins,
head bands, &c, 91i. ; one odd sheete, Is. lOd. ; 4 napkins, 1
Towell, Table cloth, 7s. 4d. ; a Table cloth & 3 broken peeces
2s. ; an old od sheet & 2 chese clouts, Is.; a pillowby, 2s.; an
old tablcloth & 2 napkins, Is. ; 2 old bands, 6d. j 9 pis of
yarne & a seive, 9s. 6d. ; 2 old Carpetts, 6d. ; 6 drink-
ing napkins, 2s. ; 1 pr. of holland sheets, Hi. 2s. ; of
; of Cou ; fine old od she[et], 8s. ; a
pr. of fine litle sheets, 13s. 4d. ; 2 p. of sheets, Hi. 12s. ;
a Table cloth & 12 napkins, Hi.; a diap Table cloth, 7 nap-
kins & one damask, Hi. ; a Table cloth, 2s. ; 18 napkins, 15s. ;
6 napkins, 3s.; 12 napkins, 4s. ; pr. of Scotches pillowb., 4s. ;
2 pr of holl pillowbyes, 16s. ; 5 smale pillowbyes, 10s. ; 1
pr. of cours pillowbyes, 4s. ; one half sheete, 4s. ; 2 Towells,
3s. ; a fine Cuppboard cloth, 8s. ; a fine plane Cupboard cloth,
6s. 8d. ; a long Towell, 2s. ; a pr. of [pill]owbyes, 4s. ; a
[sjheete, 6d. ; colld Cloake, 5s. ; 2 pinn cushions,
2s.; 3 sk of bl. woorsteed, 2s.; a flaring waskoate, 3s.;
a pr. of course sheets, 6s. ; a pr. of pillowbyes,
3s. 4d. ; a pr. of pillowbyes, 6s. ; an od sheete, 4s. ;
an od old sheete, Is. 6d. ; a pcell of old linnen, 2s. ; an old
table cloth, Is. ; 3 peeces of Cloth, Is. j an old wascoate, Is.
6d. ; total, 231i. 9s. 8d. Bedding : a featherbed, 41i. ; a greene
Kugge, Hi. 10s. ; a flocke bed, 18s. ; 2 feather bolsters &
one pillow, Hi. 10s. ; 2 pillowes & a bolster, Hi. ; a bolster
Case, 6s. ; a pr. of blancketts, 14s. ; a pr. of fine blan., Hi.
2s. ; a pr. of blancketts, 10s. ; an od blanckett, 4s. ; 6 Cush-
ions, Hi. ; a blew Rugge, 6s. 8d. ; a feather bed & two pil-
lowes, 41i. a pillow & pillowby, 2s. ; a flocke bed &
boulster & 3 old Coverleeds, Hi. ; one grene Coverleed
& 2 old Coverleed & 2 blankts, 16s. ; a Bed Kugge, 13s. 4d. ;
a feather bed, 31i. ; a flocke bed, 13s. 4d. ; 2 som e s te mantles,
6s. 8d. ; total, 241i. 3s. Other Apparrell : on grogd kertle &
goune, 31i. ; payer goune kertle, 21i.; a stamell bear : whitle,
78 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNT Y.
18s.; a Red p[a]yer peticoat, Hi. ; a Bed Cloth peticoat, Hi. ;
a Red mantle, 8s. ; 2 Swathing bands, 2s. ; a Coate & hoode,
12s. ; total, 91i. In pewter & brasse wth other necessary
[ut]ensills, &c : 21 peuter platters, 3 butter dishes, 7 por-
ringrs, 12 sasers, 1 flagon, 1 peuter Cupp, one salt celler, 2
Canstickes, 31i. 7s. ; 1 grt pott, 1 p po & 1 -innger, 5s. ;
3 brasse candsticks & one chamber pott, 6s. 6d. ; 2 brasse
scales & beames & on pr of sheres, 4s. lOd. ; 1 p of brasse
Snuffers, Is. 2d.; 2 iron candsticks, chafing dish, 2 skimers,
5s.; 2 steeling irons, a woodpress & brush, 6s.; one boule, 2
latt kiver, Is. 6d. ; one pr of bellowes, 2s. ; one Case of
boxes, 8s. ; one file, one draft shave, 2 hand Sawes, one
Augure, one plaine, 2 hamers, 2 chessell, one gouge, 3 aules,
a gimblett & 2 Rings, 13s. ; one pr. of Iron Andirns, one
fender, one Iron pott, pr of hangers & Hookes, tonnes & fire-
panne, a litle Crooke, Hi. 10s. ; on brasse ketle, 2 brasse
skilletts, 6s. ; 2 sithes & a Cutting knife, 3s. ; a Carte Roape,
5s. ; a brasse Copper, 2H. 10s. ; one Iron pott, 3 brasse potts,
one bellmetle skillett, on litle bell skillet, 31i. 4s. ; one grt
pr. of Iron doggs, 4 Spitts, 3 p of pott hangers, one grt
grid Iron, 2 frying panns & one dripping pann, Hi. 13s. 4d. ;
one pessell & morter, one pr. of bellowes, pott hookes, 2
brasse ketles, one Iron with stake & yarmo knife, Hi. 17s. ; a
boxe wth several pcells of smale things, 5s. ; Indian baskett
& some Smale things in it, 2s. ; a long brush & 2 other brush-
es, 2s. 6d. ; a deske, Is. ; 3 trunkes, 18s. ; a haire line, Is. ; a
Canne & powder & 61i. of bulletts & 51i. of shott, 6s. ; 3
lockes & a key, 3s. ; a boxe, 6d. ; a barrell & 51i. of brimston,
Is. ; a boxe 4 papers of needles, 4s.; a litle trunke, 2s. ; a
Lampe & Iron Candsticke, Is. ; a sell drink Cupp & a glasse,
Is. ; a chest, 15s. ; a pr of doggs, 5s. ; a brasse chaser, 5s. ; a
warming panne, 3s. 4d. ; several peeces of leather, 3s. 4d. ;
Several peeces of Iron & a hooke, 10s. ; 13 bushells of malte,
21i. 12s. ; a pcell of flaxe & hemp, 7s. ; 1200H. of nailes, 6s. ;
a bedsteed & 2 Joynt stooles, 5s. ; a search & a boxe, Is. 6d. ;
a flaskett, Is. ; a Casement Iron fendr, hookes, staples, old
Iron, nailes, boxes, 15s. ; 4 hogsheads & 3 barells, lls. ; a
seve, 8d. ; a Calves skin, Is. ; 2 old sithes, nibs & Rings, 3s.
6d. ; a bedsteed & 1 doz. half last, 6s. 8d. ; a pcell of orang &
yellow silk, 8s. ; 9 pr. of childrs gloves, 3s. ; a bundle of
lists, 3d. ; a looking glasse, 3s. 4d. ; 9 doz. of bl : button, a
swath, a pcell of cruell, threed & Silke, 8s. ; a tun ell, grater
& 3 Juggs, 3s. ; one Iron hooke, one grater, one , one do
f orke, 6d. ; a liske chaine, 2 old Rings, a gar-
den rake, 2 peuter one muskett, 31i. 2s. ; one
THE PROBATE BECOEDS OP ESSEX COUNTY. 79
pashall, one iron fire fork, 3s. ; one chare, one bedsteed,
on frame of a table, on flaskett, one Toe comb, Augur, pr of
sheres & peeces of Iron, 13s. ; 2 beere barrells, on hand
barr, one powdring tub & kiver, 2 churnes & other old tubbs^
wooden boule, 3 earthen potts, one Tunnrell, 3 chese vatts,'
one wood Cupp, 1 pecke & a halfe pecke, Hi. 9s.; 1 froe, a
peece of lead, one table chaire together, 7s. ; one kneading
trough, a beacke, 5s. ; one salt boxe, Is. ; one hedghooke, 2
Reaphookes, one pitchfork, one Spade & one Shovell, 10s.;
one doz & a half of trenchers, Is. ; one bedsteed, one Cradle,
3 trayes, one kiver, 10s. ; one wooden plough, one axe & a
ladder, 5s. ; one slidde & 3 yoakes, one 2 hand Ed sawe, a
chayne, one Carte & wheeles, Rinng pinns, lince pins & bands
wth a hatchett, 21i. 10s. ; a pitchforke, 2 hogsheads &
a butt, 8s. ; a winne sheete & some flaxe, 4s. ; a Still porrin-
ger & Saser, 13s. 6d. ; 4 Sackes, 8s. ; 5 leather baggs, 6s. 4d. ;
a little bagge, Is. 6d. ; a Grindstone, 6s. 8d. ; 3 howes, one
wedge, 2 ladders & a frame 14s. 6d. ; one plowe, one
share, 10s.; on harrowe, 12s. ; total, 40H. Is. lid. Catle: 2
Cowes, 10H. ; 2 oxen, llli. ; 2 3yers steres, 91i. ; a 2 yeere
steere, 21i. 10s. ; a yeere steere, Hi. 10s. ; 2 bull calves, 21i. ;
4 Swyne, 21i. 10s. ; total, 381i. 10s. House & lands : his
dwelling howse & 4 acr of Land, 261i. ; ye Corne on ye 4
acrs, 51i. 10s. ; another howse & two acrs of land, 71i. ; ye
Cropp of it, 31i. 10s. ; a barne wth halfe an acr & ye Cropp,
10H. ; 6 Acr of ground at 26s., 71i. 16s. ; The Cropp of it, 71i.
4s. ; 18 acrs at 10s. p acr., 91i. ; fence to it, 61i. ; 9 acrs of
land, Hi. 16s. ; 6 acrs of meadowe, 71i. 10s. ; 8 acrs of marsh,
21i. 13s. 4d. ; 13 acrs of marish, 31i. Is. 8d. ; 4 acrs of mead-
ow, Hi. 10s. ; total, 881i. 11s. Sum total, 245H. A bill of
chardge & expenses for ye funerall, advise, Counsell & phy-
sicke & proving ye will come to 61i.
Suffolk Co. Probate Files, Docket 61.
Petition of Wm. Gerrish, Richard Lowle, John Saunders,
Richard Knight and Nicolas Noyes shewing that the estate
of John Lowle, deceased, was divided by them and Elizabeth
Lowle, widow, between the widow and the children, only lOli.
worth of clothes which were given in the will to Elizabeth
Lowle, daughter to the widow, as is the will of the widow,
but the genuine interpretation of the will is that the father
intended his daughter to have the legacy out of her grand-
mother's clothes, which by this court was given to Elizabeth
Lowle, widow, and Susanna Toppan, daughter to Elizabeth
Goodale, deceased, who died intestate, and now the petition-
80 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
ers wish to know to which the court inclines and their order
shall be observed. Further that the two sons may be called
to know whom they will choose for guardians.
The court [May 13, 1648] decided that the clothes men-
tioned as given to Elizabeth Lowle (of her mother's clothes,
now living), is to be understood as the clothes of her grand-
mother, Elizabeth Goodale, and out of them she should be
satisfied. Richard Lowle appointed guardian to the children
and the petitioners at their request discharged. Mass.
Archives, vol. 15B, page 68.
Petition of Edmond Mores requesting the court that on
condition of the payment of the sum agreed upon to the
executors and overseers of John Lowle, deceased, as guardi-
ans to the children, the inheritance of the lands sold him
with the liberties mentioned in the sale, be confirmed to him.
Oct. 18, 1648, the petition was granted. Mass. Bay Colony
Records, vol. 2, page 254.
Mary Lowle, about seventeen years of age, daughter of
John Lowle, of Newbury, deceased, desiring to go to England
to some near friends of hers, from whom she received her
education, petitioned the court that a legacy of lOli. due unto
her from Richard Lowle, her uncle, either at the age of
twenty one or as this court shall determine, be paid unto her.
Oct. 15, 1650, the petition was granted. Mass. Bay Colony
Records, vol. 3, page 213.
Upon a motion made by Richard Lowle of Newbury,
brother to John, deceased, the court, 1 : 4 : 1653, gave full
power to either of the county courts, to appoint some person
to be guardian of James and Joseph Lowle, sons of John
Lowle, the said Richard by reason of sickness being incapa-
ble of looking after them further. Mass. Archives, vol. 15B,
page 24.
Acquittance of Phillip Nellson of Rowley, to Richard
Lowle and others, overseers of the will of John Lowle, de-
ceased, and Elizabeth Lowle, of all demands. Dated Feb.
20, 1666. Wit: Ezekiell Northend, John Pickard. Sworn
to Sept. 30, 1673, by John Pickard, and Sept. 29, 1674, by
Ezekiel Northend. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 3, page 326.
(To be continued.)
THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
( Continued from Volume L, page 356.)
196
THOMAS PLUMERS, born in Rowley, Mass., Feb. 18,
1719-20. He lived in his native town. The Byfield
church records read : " Thomas Plumer jr. sojourning
among us recognized the covenant Oct. 26, 1740."
He married Bethiah Tenney of Rowley Nov. 8, 1739 ;
and died May 12, 1770, at the age of fifty. She survived
him ; and died April 30, 1790, aged seventy-three.
Their children were born in Rowley, as follows :
4691. JOSEPH 6 , born Nov. 23, 1740. See family numbered "469."
470n. ASA', born Dec. 27, 1742. See family numbered " 470."
471 in. MOSES", born Jan. 24, 1744-5. See family numbered "471."
472 iv. STEPHEN 6 , born Feb. 1, 1746-7. See family numbered
472."
473 -v. SILAS', born June 21, 1750. See family numbered " 473."
474 vi. RUTH", born April 26, 1754; married Samuel Bacon Aug.
17, 1780; and lived in Rowley until about 1784, when
they removed to Templeton, Mass. He was a cord-
wainer, and was living in Weare, N. H., in 1792.
475 vn. THOMAS 6 , born March 10, 1756. See family numbered
" 475."
198
SAMUEL PLUMERS, born in Rowley, Mass., June 6,
1726. He was a yeoman, and lived on the homestead of
his father, in the west part of Rowley, now in George-
town. He was a large owner of real estate. At first he
belonged to the Congregational church in that parish, but
became prominent in the Baptist church there. He was
in Capt. Richard Thurston's Train Band, in the Second
(81)
82 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
Foot company, of Rowley, in 1757 ; and, in March, 1777,
was paid nine pounds by the town, as bounty, to go into
the Continental array to serve for three years or during
the war.
In the summer of 1769, his barn was set on fire by
lightning, and, with its contents, was wholly consumed.
Mr. Plumer married his cousin, Ednah (Plumer)
(188), widow of Daniel Poor, Feb. 28, 1754. Mr. Plumer
died July 18, 1807, at the age of eighty-one ; and she
died May 24, 1809, aged eighty-six.
Their children were born in Rowley (now George-
town), as follows :
476 i. SAMUEL 6 , born Dec. 21, 1754; yeoman; lived on his
father's homestead, in the West parish of Rowley
(now Georgetown); was insane at times; married
Sally Clough (published Oct. 20, 1792); she died
March 6, 1819, at the age of forty -nine; and he died
in 1841, childless.
477n. BENJAMIN 6 , born Sept. 1, 1756. See family numbered
"477."
478 in. EDNAH 6 , born Sept. 13, 1758; died, unmarried, suddenly,
Nov. 1, 1824, aged sixty-six.
479_ IV . SOLOMON 6 , baptized Sept. 23, 1764; died March 27, 1766.
202
ELDER ABEL PLUMER S , born in Rowley, Mass., Aug.
31, 1730. He was a yeoman; and lived in the west part
of Rowley until 1775, when he removed to Londonderry,
N. H., where he was an elder in the church.
He married, first, Mary Early of Berwick, Me. (pub-
lished Oct. 6, 1750) ; and she died in Londonderry June
4, 1794, at the age of sixty-five, He married, second,
Abigail ; and she died in Londonderry Jan. 16,
1818, at the age of eighty-five. He died in Londonderry
June 18, 1822, aged ninety-one.
Mr. Plumer's children were born in Rowley and were
as follows :
4801. NATHAN", baptized Dec. 8, 1751. See family numbered
" 480."
481n. 6 (son), stillborn Feb. 13, 1754.
482 in. OLIVE 6 , baptized April 6, 1755.
483 iv. ELiPHALKT 6 (Elizabeth?), baptized Jan. 15, 1758.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 83
484 v. DAvis 6 , baptized June 29, 1760; enlisted from London-
derry in 1777 or 1778 into the Continental service for
three years or during the war, and died in the service.
485 vi. PATTY 6 , baptized Sept. 26, 1762.
486 vn. ABEL S , baptized March 10, 1765. See family numbered
"486."
487 viii. ISAAC", baptized Jan. 20, 1771; lived in Londonderry;
married Betsey ; she died Dec. 6, 1850, aged sev-
enty-nine; and he died in Londonderry Jan. 22, 1855,
at the age of eighty-four.
206
JOHN PLUMER S , born in Rowley, Mass., Dec. 25, 1722.
He was a husbandman, and lived in Newbury.
He married Abigail, daughter of Richard and Sarah
(Emery) Dole of Newbury April 4, 1751. She was
born in Newbury April 14, 1727. He died Sept. 11,
1765, at the age of forty-two ; and she died, having been
his widow for forty-one years, May 24, 1807, at the age
of eighty.
Their children were born in Newbury, as follows :
4881. RUTH 6 , born Jan. 29, 1751; died, unmarried, July 9, 1628,
at the age of seventy-seven, in Guilford, N. H., where
she was staying with her niece Abigail (662), after
1771.
489n. SARAH 6 , born Jan. 22, 1752; married Nathan Kilborn
June 12, 1777.
490 m. ANNA 6 , born Sept. 10, 1754; died July 21, 1755.
491 iv. DAVID 6 , born Oct. 23, 1757. See family numbered "491."
492 v. ANNE 6 , born Jan. 7, 1761 ; married Thomas Kilborn of
Rowley Oct. 17, 1780.
207
JONATHAN PLUMERS, born in Rowley, Mass., April 13,
1724. He first settled in the West parish of Rowley, in
the Marlboro ugh district, and removed to Gloucester in
1749. After the death of his first wife, he removed to
Maryland, in 1753 or 1754, where he again married. He
subsequently emigrated to the western country," set-
tling in the western part of Pennsylvania. He lived
within three miles of Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh, where
his son George was born. He was a shoe-manufacturer
while he lived in Massachusetts, and after his removal to
Pennsylvania manufactured shoes, leather, etc.
84 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
He was commissary to General Braddock in his expe-
dition in 1755, and there is evidence that he was quar-
termaster in the army of General Forbes, which took
possession of Fort Duquesne, in November, 1T58 ; and
that he remained in Fort Pitt, under General Bouquet,
till in 1761.
When he was fifteen or sixteen years old, the cele-
brated evangelist Whitefield came to Newbury-port to
preach. Jonathan's father, though a member of the
church, was opposed to Whitefield and forbade his chil-
dren to attend the services conducted by Whitefield. But
Jonathan's mother was not prohibited from going, and
she took Jonathan with her. The boy was converted,
and in process of time went to the Oxford and Notting-
ham districts in Pennsylvania and Maryland, where he
in familiar intercourse with the Blairs, Finleys and other
great preachers of that region in those days, and by
means of an introduction given by one of them he mar-
ried in Cecil county, Md.
One time he owned the property in Pittsburgh, for-
merly known as the " Ewalt farm," having purchased it
from Colonel Croghan in 1761.* He subsequently recon-
veyed it, and removed to Long Run, in Westmoreland
county, that his sons might be free from the bad influ-
ences and examples then abounding in Pittsburgh. He
and all his sons by his second marriage were elders in the
Presbyterian church.
Mr. Plumer married, first, Mehitable, daughter of Lt.
Nathaniel and Mehitable (Spofford) Harriman of Rowley
June 6, 1744. She was born in Rowley March 10, 1727 ;
and died about 1751. She belonged to the church (now
in Georgetown) and was dismissed to the Fourth church
in Gloucester July 4, 1749. He married, second,
( ), widow of Ferrel of Frederic county, Md.
He died Dec. 15, 1803, at the age of seventy-nine.
Mr. Plumer 's children were as follows :
4931. NATHANIEL 6 , born March 1, 17445, in Rowley. See family
numbered "493."
See Lessee of Gratz v. Ewalt, 2 Binney (Pa.) 95 (1809).
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
85
494n. PAUL 6 , baptized Dec. 26, 1746, in Second church in Row-
ley (now in Georgetown). See family numbered "494."
495 in. JONATHAN", born about 1748. See family numbered
"495."
496 iv. WILLIAM', born in 1760 (1755?), in Fort Cumberland,
Md. See family numbered " 496."
497 v. GsoBGE 6 , born near Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh, Pa., in
17_. See family numbered 1 497."
498 VI. JAMES. 6
499 vii. THOMAS 6 .
500 VIII. NANCY 6 .
501 ix. SALLY".
502 X. REBECCA 6 .
220
MARK PLUMER*, born in Newbury, Mass., Jan. 2,
1733-4. He was a yeoman and cordwainer, and lived in
Newbury, on his father's homestead, on the Neck. He
was a party to a considerable number of real estate tran-
sactions.
He married Joanna, daughter of Nathaniel and Joanna
(Fosdick) Willet of Newbury Dec. 1, 1761. He died
Aug. 13, 1810, at the age of seventy-six ; and she died,
his widow, Aug. 5, 1817, aged eighty-three.
Their children were born in Newbury, as follows :
503 i. ELIZABETH 6 , born in 1762; married Amos Hale of New-
bury Oct. 17, 1786.
504n. MARY 6 , born June 1, 1763; baptized as " Molly" June
19, 1763; married Enoch, son of William and Judith
(Jaques) Dole of Newbury Sept. 26, 1784. He was
born in Newbury March 21, 1756; and died Dec. 24,
1829. She died Oct. 7, 1849, aged eighty-six.
505 in. LYDIA", born about 1766 ; baptized in Newburyport May
3, 1773; died Aug. 20, 1775.
506 iv. JOANNA 6 , born June 13, 1768; married Enoch, son of
Joseph and Martha (Brown) Jaques of Newbury
Feb. 9, 1797. He was born in Newbury Feb. 13, 1763.
Their daughter Anna founded the hospital at New-
buryport.
507 v. JoiiN , born Feb. , 1770. See family numbered " 507."
221
SAMUEL PLUMEB 3 , born in Newbury, Mass., June 16,
86
THE PLUMBE GENEALOGY.
1737. He was a carpenter by trade, and a man of large
size, six feet tall and well-proportioned. He lived on
Newbury Neck, until about 1767, then in Newburyport a
short time, and removed to Rowley in or before 1770,
where he settled on the easterly side of the highway
leading from Newbury to Rowley, near the Newbury line.
He owned considerable real estate.
He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Lt. Nathaniel
and Hannah (Hammon) Bradstreet of Ipswich May 31,
1764. She died in Rowley July 5, 1744 ; and he mar-
ried, second, Hannah Jewett of Ipswich May 28, 1776.
Mr. Plumer died, suddenly, April 13, 1817, in his
eightieth year. His wife Hannah survived him, and died,
his widow, Dec. 17, 1825, at the age of seventy-nine.
Mr. Plume r's children were born as follows :
5081. HANNAH 6 , born in 1764, in Newbury; baptized in New-
buryport Aug. 4, 1765; died, unmarried, Aug. 15, 1832.
509n. SAMUEL 6 , baptized in Newburyport Feb. 15, 1767 ; proba-
bly died young.
510 in. JONATHAN 6 , born in 1768; baptized Jan. 10, 1768. See
family numbered "510."
511 iv. SAMUEL*, born Nov. 30, 1769, in Rowley. Sse family
numbered < 4 511."
512 v. BBADSTBEET 6 , born in 1772, in Rowley; baptized June
21, 1772. See family numbered " 612."
513 vi. e , born July 3, 1774, in Rowley; died the same day.
514 vii. JosiAH 6 , born Oct. 13. 1778, in Rowley; probably of
Newburyport, tailor, in 1805; lived in Waterford,
Me.; married Sally Love joy; and probably had no
children.
515 vni. ELIZABETH 6 , baptized in Rowley March 11, 1781; mar-
ried Edmund Plumer (311).
516 ix. ABIGAIL 6 , born in 1785, in Rowley; married Nehemiah,
son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Annable) Johnson of
Rowley Dec. 6, 1820. He was born in Rowley in
1780, and died Dec. 9, 1866, aged eighty-six. She
died June 19, 1861.
517 x. MABY 6 , born about 1787, in Rowley; died of fever, unmar-
ried, Jan. 5, 1807, at the age of nineteen.
224
DANIEL PLUMERS, born in Newbury, Mass., about 1744.
He was a carpenter by trade, and from 1783 to 1791
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 87
called himself a chocolate maker. He lived in Newbury-
port, and attended the First Presbyterian church there.
Mr. Plumer married Jane, daughter of Dea. Samuel
and Sarah (Adams) Somerby of Newburyport (published
Sept. 7, 1771). She was born in Newbury March 31,
1748. He died Sept. 1, 1797, at the age of fifty-two;
and she died, in Newburyport, his widow, Nov. 5, 1832.
Their children were born in Newburyport, as follows :
5181. SARAH 6 , baptized June 30, 1773, in Newburyport; mar-
ried Thomas Smith June 26, 1794.
519 ii. DANIEL 6 , born Sept. 3, 1774; died, unmarried, March 30,
1813, at the age of thirty-eight.
520 in. SAMUEL SOMBREY", born Oct. 6, 1776. See family num-
bered "520."
521 iv. JONATHAN 6 , baptized Dec. 16, 1781.
227
BENJAMIN PLUMER*. Children :
5221. 6 .
523 II. 6 .
524 in. 6 .
525 iv. 6 .
526 v. ISAAC C. 6 , born about 1795, in Jefferson, Me. See family
numbered '* 526."
527 vi. JAMES 6 , born about 1802; lived in Damariscotta Mills,
Me., in 1882, at eighty years of age.
231
HENRY PLUMER 6 , born in 174-. He was a yeoman
and cooper; and lived in Hawke (now Danville), N. H.
He married Joanna Jones.
Their children were as follows :
5281. JOSEPH 7 , born Feb. 8, 1771, in Hawke. See family num-
bered "528."
529n. SAMUEL', born in 17. See family numbered "529."
530 in. ABIGAIL 7 , born Feb. 1, 1778 ; married Josiah Moulton.
He was born March 10, 1779. They removed to
Utah, and lived among the Mormons. They had sev-
eral children.
531 iv. HENRY 7 , born March 20, 1782. See family numbered
"531."
532 v. RicHARD 7 , born March 29, 1786. See family numbered
"581*
88 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
533 vi. PHILIP 7 , born Oct. 30, 1788(9?). See family numbered
"533."
534 vn. ANNIE 7 , married William Gilman. Their son John S.
Gilman married Joanna Plumer (1039); their daugh-
ter Mabala Gilman married Henry Plumer (1057);
and their son Franklin Gilman was a physician in
Worcester, Mass.
535 vin. JESSE 7 , born Sept. 21, 1794. See family numbered "535."
536 ix. JAMES 7 . See family numbered "536."
239
JOSEPH PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., Sept. 17,
1744. He was a trader, and lived in Newburyport. He
was a seaman on board of the frigate Alliance, which
belonged to the squadron under the command of John
Paul Jones in the war of the Revolution.
He married Hannah, daughter of Nathan and Sarah
Peirce of Newbury, Nov. 7, 1771. She was born in
Newbury March 20, 1751 ; and died in Newburyport
Aug. 1, 1799, at the age of forty-eight. He died in New-
buryport Dec. 25, 1809, aged sixty-five.
Their children were born in Newburyport, as follows :
5371. HANNAH 7 , born Oct. 8, 1773 ; died, unmarried, Aug. 20,
1799, at the age of twenty-five.
538n. SABAH T , born March 10, 1775; married Thomas Smith of
Newburyport June 26, 1794.
539 m. MABTHA 7 , born Feb. , 1777; died Nov. , 1779.
540 iv. JOSEPH 7 , born Oct. 22, 1781. See family numbered "540."
541 v. ENOCH 7 , born Nov. 22, 1783; married Mrs. Jane (Rous-
seau) Swain, daughter of Peter and Margery (Rob-
erts) Rousseau of Newburyport, Aug. 7, 1809. They
had no children.
542 vi. ELIZABETH 7 , born Aug. 22, 1785; died Aug. 3, 1799.
543 vn. NATHAN', born Nov. 2, 1787. See family numbered
"543."
241
SAMUEL PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., Oct. 14,
1749. He was a trader, and lived in Newburyport.
He married Dorcas, daughter of Joshua and Sarah
(Bartlett) Coffin of Newbury, Sept. 18, 1781. She was
born in Newbury Feb. 9, 1761 ; and died in Newburyport
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
89
March 2, 1801, at the age of forty. He died at Newbury
Newtown May 1, 1809, in his sixtieth year.
Their children were born in Newburyport, as follows :
5441. EDMUND 7 , born Jan. 28, 1782; died, unmarried, Jan. '-,
1806, at the age of twenty-three.
545u. SAMUEL 7 , born Dec. 28, 1783. See family numbered " 545."
546 in. MABG ABET 7 , born Dec. 11, 1785; married Col. Benjamin
Lord of Newburyport April 22, 1806 ; and she died
in Newburyport May 7, 1831, aged forty-five.
547 iv. ELIZABETH', born Aug. 3, 1787; married Asa Davis of
Bangor Sept. 6, 1813; and she died in Bangor Dec. 10,
1844, at the age of fifty-seven.
548 v. JONATHAN CoFFiN 7 , born Dec. 18, 1789. See family
numbered "548."
549 vi. NANCY 7 , born Aug. 16, 1791; died July 6, 1816, in her
twenty -fifth year.
550 vii. THOMAS 7 , born April 1, 1793. See family numbered
1 550."
551 viii. CHARLES 7 , born March 16, 1795. See family numbered
"551."
552 ix. MABY LEONABD ? , born Nov. 1, 1797; married Levi Cram;
and died Jan. 15, 1860, aged sixty-two.
553 x. DOBCAS 7 , born Oct. 2, 1800 ; married Daniel Parrish Pike;
and died March 10, 1832.
243
TRISTRAM PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., June 17,
1754. He lived in Newburyport, and was a truckman
and stageman. He drove a stage between Newburyport
and Boston for several years prior to 1799.
He married Miss Abigail Lord of Newburyport July 6,
1773. He died in Newburyport Aug. 20, 1798, aged
forty-four ; and she died, his widow, in Newburyport, Jan.
3, 1807.
Their children were born in Newburyport, as follows:
5641. WiLLiAM 7 , born Dec. 1, 1773; probably died before 1802.
555n. TBiSTBAM 7 , born April 25, 1775. See family numbered
" 555."
556 in. REBECCA 7 , born June 10, 1777; married Robert Harvey
Nov. 10, 1803.
557 iv. MABTHA 7 , born May 4, 1779; married Benjamin Whit-
more Aug. 5, 1802; and died June 30, 1805.
558 v. NATHANIEL', born Aug. 15, 1781; died June 20, 1782.
559 vi. NATHANIEL 7 , born June 19, 1783; died Sept., 1798.
90 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
560 -vii. MARY 7 , born June 14, 1785; married Nathaniel Harvey
Sept. 19, 1805.
561 viii. ENOCH 7 , born June 27, 1787. See family numbered U 561."
562 ix. ELIZABETH 7 , born June 3, 1789; probably married John
Johnson, jr., of Portland, July 22, 1810.
563 x. SALLY 7 , born Jan. 23, 1799, posthumous; living in 1802.
249
JOHN PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., Aug. 29,
1769. He was a yeoman, and lived in Newbury.
He married Nancy Bailey Dec. 20, 1792 ; and died
June 24, 1811, at the age of forty- one.
Their children were born as follows :
5641. THOMAS 7 , baptized in Newbury Nov. 17, 1793; died with-
in a year after his birth.
565 n. JOHN 7 , born In 1795; killed in battle of Bridgewater, with
General Brown, July , 1814, aged about nineteen.
566 in. CATHERINE 7 , born in 1797; married Greenough; and
lived in New Sharon, Me.
567 iv. PmsciLLA 7 , born in 1800; died young.
251
RICHARD PLUMER*, born in Newbury, Mass., April 6,
1773. He was a yeoman, and lived in his native town,
at the entrance to the Green.
He married Abigail, daughter of Capt. Jonathan and
Sarah (Dole) Poor of Newbury Jan. 8, 1795. Mr. Plumer
died in Newbury Dec. 2, 1852, at the age of seventy-nine.
She died there, his widow, Jan. 30, 1859, aged eighty-three.
Their children were born in Newbury,' as follows:
5681. RUTH DOLE 7 , born March 15, 1796 ; died, unmarried, Oct.
25, 1876, aged eighty. She was courted for about
thirty years by Nathaniel Dole, a near neighbor, who
came over to her house every evening, and sat and
chatted through the evening. The visits came to an
end, and she ever afterwards was cross and unpleasant.
569n. CATHERINE 7 , baptized April 22, 1798; died Aug. ,1798.
570 in. ABIGAIL 7 , born Dec. 11, 1801; married William, son of
William and Ednah (Thurston) Dole Dec. 2, 1842; he
died June 26, 1846, aged fifty-nine; and she died in
Newbury Feb. , 1887, aged eighty-five.
254
MOSES PLUMMEE 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., June 28,
1778. He was a house wright, and lived in Newburyport,
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 91
He married Jerusha Caswell of Newbury June 27,
1802. She was living in 1845 ; and he died in Newbury-
port June 21, 1852.
Their children were born in Ncwburyport, as follows :
5711. NANCY J. 7 , born Oct. 2, 1802; died, unmarried, in New-
buryport Nov. 22, 1824, aged twenty-two.
572 n. JEBUSHA 7 , born Nov. 2, 1803 ; married William Burbeck
Oct. 31, 1834; lived in Amesbury.
573 in. MOSES', born Oct. 8, 1805. See family numbered " 573."
574_ IV . MARY 7 , born May 6, 1808 ; died in 1820.
575 v. HARRIET NEWELL ? , born Dec. 22, 1810; married, first,
Philip R., son of Capt. William Remick May 24, 1836;
he died Oct. 26, 1850, aged thirty-eight; she married,
second, Sprague, son of Jacob and Eliza Chase July
2, 1863.
576 vi. THOMAS 7 , born Sept. 18, 1812. See family numbered
" 576."
577 vii. PHEBE LITTLE 7 , born May 6, 1815 ; died in 1832.
578 viii. LEONARD WrmiNGTON 7 , born Feb. 11, 1820. See family
numbered "578."
579 ix. RICHARD 7 , born Jan. 22, 1823; married Mary, daughter
of John and Margaret A. Crowley of Portsmouth
Nov. , 1852; he died Feb. 18, 1858, aged thirty-five.
They had no children.
580 x. JACOB WILLIAM ? , born March 25, 1825. See family num-
bered "580."
255
CAPT. NATHAN PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass.,
Feb. 19, 1784. He was a housewright by trade, but early
went to sea, and in the War of 1812 shipped in the de-
fence of his country. He was soon after taken prisoner,
and retained by the English at Bermuda. On his way
home, he was again captured, and imprisoned a second
time. After the war, he was for years* a ship master in
the West India trade, in the employ of John Wood.
About 1820, when the shores of the Spanish Main and
of some of the West India islands swarmed with pirates,
he was master of the schooner Boxer, which was boarded
and plundered of everything valuable by a piratical party
off the Isle of Cuba. At a later date, he had scarcely
eft port on a West India voyage, when a gale swept his
vessel of every spar, and he was forced to slowly work
92 THE PLUMEE GENEALOGY.
his way back with jury masts. After the decline of the
West India trade, in 1826, he resumed work at his trade.
He lived on High street, directly opposite Federal
street, until about 1809, when he moved across the street
to the southwest corner of High and Federal streets.
After living there nearly three years, he moved to the
next house. Five or six years later, he moved to the
corner of Liberty and Federal streets, where he afterwards
lived and died.
He was a man of medium weight and height ; a good
conversationalist ; forceful and plain in speech ; of sterl-
ing integrity ; Orthodox and consistent in religion ; a pil-
lar of his church ; full of patriotism and faith in God and
his country.
Captain Plumer married Alice, daughter of Samuel
and Sarah (Home) Avery of York, Me., May 20, 1805.
He died Oct. 17, 1865, at the age of eighty-one ; and she
died Nov. 20. 1873.
Their children were born in Newburyport, as follows :
5811. RUTH DOLE', born Jan. 6, 1806; married Samuel, son of
Samuel and Mary (Safford) Pettingell May 17, 1826.
He was born Oct. 31, 1804; and she died in 1872 or
1873, having had ten children.
582 ii. NATHAN THOMAS', born Nov. 24, 1807. See family num-
bered " 582."
583 in. RICHARD', born June 20, 1813. See family numbered
4 583."
584 iv. TIMOTHY Dow 7 [name changed to CHARLES HENRY by
the legislature], born Aug. 14, 1815. See family num-
bered " 584."
585 v. NATHANIEL DOLE', born March 24, 1818. See family
numbered * 585."
586 vi. ALICE AVERT', born Jan. 17, 1824; lived at 73 Federal
street, in Newburyport, unmarried, in 1890. For sev-
eral years she kept a private school.
587 vii. ANDREW JACKSON' (twin), born Jan. 20, 1826. See fam-
ily numbered ' 587."
588 vin. JOHN ANDREW' (twin), born Jan. 29, 1826; died on the
same day.
259
CAPT. JEREMIAH PLUMER*, born in Newbury, Mass.,
Nov. 18, 1778. He was a yeoman, and lived in Newbury.
BY SIDNEY PEBLEY. 93
He married Sally Ilsley. She died Oct, 14, 1836, aged
fifty-five ; and he died Jan. 12, 1859, at the age of eighty.
Their children were born in Newbury, as follows :
5891. MosES 7 , born Nov. 26, 1803. See family numbered " 589.''
590 ii. SOPHIA ANN 7 , born Sept. 29, 1806; married William
James, son of William and Sarah (Rundlett) Badger
Aug. 13, 1833; divorced; lived in Newburyport; no
children.
591 m. HARRIET', born Oct. 23, 1814; died Oct. 10, 1828.
262
EPHKAIM PLUMED, born in Newbury, Mass., Jan. 26,
1771. He probably lived in Boscawen, N. H.
He married Rachel, daughter of Nehemiah and Rachel
(Choate) Cogswell, May 31, 1792. He died May 6, 1793,
at the age of twenty-two. She remained his widow for sixty
years, and died Dec. 29, 1853, at the age of eighty-one.
Their child was born as follows :
5921. EPHRAIM 7 , born Aug. 29, 1793, posthumous. See family
numbered < 1 592."
263
JOHN PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., Aug. 10,
1774. He married Hannah, daughter of Benjamin and
Jane (Woodman) Jackson Jan. 1, 1799. She was born
Oct. 31, 1776 ; and died Aug. 24, 1824. He died Feb.
24, 1827, at the age of fifty-two.
Children :
5931. BiTFiELD 7 , born Nov. 9, 1799. See family numbered
" 593."
594n. NANCY 7 , born Sept. 7, 1801; married Daniel B., son of
Bodwell and Sally (Poor) Emerson. He was born
Nov. 16, 1799, and died at Biddeford, Me., May 8,
1860. She died March 11, 1854, aged fifty-two.
595 in. JEREMIAH^ born Oct. 8, 1803. See family numbered
"595."
596 iv. MARY 7 , born Aug. 25, 1805; married Charles, son of
Dyer and Sarah Abbot of Lowell, Mass. ; and died
Dec. , 1868.
597 v. HANNAH 7 , born March 31, 1807; died Sept. 9, 1823.
598 vi. FREDERICK J. 7 , born Sept. 15, 1809; died March 24, 1815.
599 vn. GEORGE W. 7 , born July 29, 1814; died July 10, 1841.
600 vm. FREDERICK T. 7 , born July 26, 1817; died Nov. 25, 1853.
601 ix. NATHAN 7 , born July 21, 1821; died Nov. 2, 1873.
94 THE PLUMBR GENEALOGY.
266
NATHAN PLUMER 6 , born in Boscawen, N. H., April 2,
1774. He lived on Fish street, in his native town, being
a farmer, and also engaged in lumbering. He was an
energetic and persevering business man and a good citi-
zen and highly esteemed. He served two terms in the
state legislature.
He married Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Grer-
rish) Ames June 14, 1804. She was born Nov. 15, 1780 ;
and died Feb. 25, 1842, at the age of sixty-one. He died
April 7, 1848, aged seventy-four.
Their children were born as follows :
6021. MEHITABLE 7 , born June 14, 1806; married, first, Joseph,
son of Jacob and Sarah (Ames) Gerrish Nov. 11,
1830 ; he was born June 22, 1807, and died Dec. 17,
1850. She married, second, Thomas Lyford of San-
bornton Nov. 16, 1854; and died at Fisherville Feb.
15, 1877, aged seventy.
603 IIt MABY 7 , born Jan. 16, 1810 ; married Fisher, son of
Thomas and Lucy (Foster) Ames of Canterbury Feb.
15, 1844. He was born Oct. 18, 1814.
604 in. ELIZA JANE', born Oct. 31, 1814; married Dearborn
Glines June 11, 1846 ; and died Sept. 2, 1877, in her
sixty-third year.
267
DANIEL PLUMER 6 , born in Somers worth, N. H., Feb. 1,
1760. He lived in Dover ; married Roberts ; and
died in or before 1796.
Children :
605 i. DANIEL'; lived in Alfred, Me., and had a son Eri.
606n. ANNA 7 ; living in 1796.
268
EBENEZER PLUMER 6 , born in Somersworth, N. H., Jan.
25, 1762.
He married Mehitable, daughter of Francis and Eliza-
beth (Fields) Warren. She was born in Somersworth.
Children :
607 i. BENJAMIN', born April 19, 1787. See family numbered
" 607."
608n. AvEBY 7 , born July 26, 1789. See family numbered "608."
609 in. OLIVER 7 , born June 20, 1792; died March 27, 1793.
BY SIDNEY PEKLBY.
95
610 iv. BETSEY 7 , born April 10, 1794; married William Kay of
Berwick; and died Jan. 24, 1864, in her seventieth year.
611 v. CAROLINE 7 , born Jan. 3, 1797; married John Hayes of
Dover.
612 vi. JOHN 7 , born Jan; 9. 1800; married Catharine Norris of
Portsmouth; and died Sept. 25, 1873, at the age of
seventy-three.
613 vn. MARY 7 , born May 15, 1802; married Daniel Rollins of
Somersworth Nov. 20, 1823; and lived in Dover in
1893. Their son Edward H. Rollins of Concord was
United States senator from New Hampshire.
614 viii. WILLIAM 7 , born Aug. 6, 1805; lived in Rollinsford, N.
H., in 1889; married Pamelia Waldron of Dover Feb.
22, 1833.
615 ix. FRANCis 7 , born Dec. 29, 1811; married Almira Otis; and
had a child, H. M. Plumer.
269
JOHN PLUMER 6 , born in Somersworth, N. H., Nov. 10,
1765. He lived in South Berwick and Alfred, in Maine,
and removed to Canaan, Me., where he spent the remain-
der of his life.
He married Sarah Noble. She died Aug. 12, 1841,
aged seventy- four ; and he died in 18 .
Children :
6161. NATHANIEL 7 , born Feb. 9, 1785, in Dover, N. H. See
family numbered " 616."
617n. BETSEY 7 , born Nov. 23, 1787; married Israel Mitchell
(published Dec. 1, 1810).
618 in. JOHN 7 , born April 26, 1789. See family numbered "618."
619 iv. MICHAEL 7 , born Feb. 23, 1793; married Lucy Gibbs of
Bridgton, M.; and had a child, H. N. Plumer.
620 v. SALLY 7 , born Jan. 28, 1795; married Simeon Chadbourn
Dec. 28, 1813.
621 vi. PoLLY 7 , born July 23, 1798; married Humphrey Chad-
bourne May 7, 1818.
622 vn. ANDREW 7 , born Dec. 30, 1800. See family numbered "622."
623 viii. EDWIN 7 , born Dec. 23, 1802; died March 15, 1839, aged
thirty-six, leaving no family.
621 ix. ISAAC 7 , born Sept. 12, 1806 ; was killed by a fall July 26,
1829, aged twenty-two. He had no family.
626 x. ALVAH 7 , born Jan. 17, 1809.
270
RICHARD PLUMEK G , born in Somersworth, N. H., Feb.
96 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
2, 1767. He lived at first in Dover, and soon removed
to Sandwich, N. H.
He married Anne Hoag of Dover ; and died about 1840.
Their children were born in Sandwich, as follows :
6261. ENOCH 7 ; settled in Vassalboro, Me.
627n. EPHBAIM'. See family numbered " 627."
628 in. JOHN'; settled in Vassalboro.
629 iv. CHARLES 7 ; settled in Vassalboro.
630 v. RiOHABD 7 . See family numbered " 630:"
631 vi. WiLLiAM 7 , born June 12, 1806. See family numbered "631."
682 vil. LYDIA 7 ; married Coffin.
633 vni. ALMiEA 7 ; married S. Hoit.
684 ix. SARAH 7 ; married Nathan Ferguson of Sandwich.
636 x. MARY 7 ; married D. George.
636 xi. ABIGAIL 7 ; married P. Bacon; and lived in Sandwich.
637 in. ELIZA'; married I. Scribner.
688 xni. MEBCY 7 ; never married.
639 xiv. 7 died young.
271
EPHRALM PLUMER*, born in Somersworth, N. H., April
16, 1769. He was a husbandman, and lived in Dover.
He married Judith Perkins of Dover July 21, 1791 ;
and died June 6, 1848.
Children :
640 i. POLLY 7 ; died, unmarried.
641n. PATTY 7 ; married Stephen Robinson.
642 in. JAMES 7 ; married Mary A. Roberts; and had no issue.
648 iv. JBREMY 7 . See family numbered "643."
644 v. LuoiNA 7 ; married John Linton.
646 vi. NANCY 7 ; married, first, Smith; and, second, David
Wilson.
646 vn. JOHN 7 ; went to Philadelphia to work in a cotton mill
for " Old Quaker Wendall," and died there; married
Putnam, in Philadelphia ; and had children.
647 vin. ROBERT 7 ; went to Philadelphia to work for " Old Quaker
Wendall" in a cotton mill ; married, lived and died
there. He had children.
648 ix. SusAN 7 ; married George Gilman.
649x. JuDiTH 7 ; married Walter Walsh; and removed to Min-
nesota.
650 xi. JANE 7 ; married Pepperell Frye.
651 xn. ABIGAIL 7 ; married Augustus Perkins.
(To be continued.')
tt*
EDWARD KITCHEN.
1700-1766.
From the portrait owned by Andrew W. Sigourney and deposited in
the Worcester Art Museum.
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. LI. APRIL, 1915 No. 2
THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
WEST INDIES, IN 1702.
BY G. ANDREWS MORIARTY, JR., A. M.
( Continued from Volume LI, page
He fent his Marf hal after me, who brought me back his
Prifoner. I forced my felf into a Houfe feeing the Gov-
ernor coming with his Cane to ftrike me ; the Governor and
Marf hal followed me, he beat me, pulling me by the Neck-
cloth, and the Marf hal by my arm, about the Floor, and abuf-
ing me in a moft barbarous manner, cutting my Face with
the Head of his Cane, and broke my Head fo that I bled
very much ; then committed me in Cuftody of his Mar-
f hal, and fent me aboard, Curf ing and Damning me after
his ufual manner, faying, I'll teach you to ask Queftions.
Tuefday, Aug. 8 th , being very much out of Order, I
fent my Mate af hore to clear, I being not able to go my
felf, he having given me fo many cruel Bruifes fo that my
Water looked like Blood. I was much afraid my Bruifes
would have proved mortal, being fo pained in my Head,
Back and Belly, I had been fo dragg'd about the Ground
by him and his Marf hal. When my Mate came before him
he curft him, and faid he would break his Head, therefore
bid him begone, as my Mate will juftifie : Then he fent
for me af hore by the Marfhal, but I was not in a Capac-
ity to come. He then fent his Boat with 5 Men and a
black Ruffin-Fellow Commander, a Molatto called Bevos,
who came in a robuil manner to my Cabbin-f ide, and faid,
the Governor ordered me to come af hore and bring my
Ship before the Fort. I thought he would ferve me as he
had done the Bermudian ; I told him I was not in a con-
(97)
98 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
dition to come I was fo abufed by him. He faid I muft,
if not they would fetch me : So with much Pain I went
to the Governor. He then, after his manner, abufed and
curft me, and faid, he'd teach me how to obey Commands.
I faid, 1 thought I was to obey the Laws : No, you Dog,
I'll make you bring your Ship before the Fort, or elfe it
f hall be worfe for you ; fo for fear of being murder'd by
this Barbarian, I order'd my Men to do it. He further faid,
I did not tell him when I took in Brazeletto-wood, and
for that my Ship was forfeited. I faid I had a Permit
from the King's Collector fo to do, and that I had done
nothing contrary to Law. He faid, I had cheated in the
weight, and I f hould land it and weigh it. I offered my
Oath, with the Gentleman's that 1 bought it off. But he
faid, he would take no Man's Oath. I left him, and my
Ship was brought down before the Fort ; and at two in
the Afternoon the Bermudian Sloop was exposed to Sail,
f he was bought for 335Z. Providence Mony.
~Wednefday the 9 th at 6 in the Morning I went to the
Governor before he was warmed with Drink, to get him
to accept the Peoples Oath I bought the Wood of, tho'
before it was never cuftomary ; at laft he faid he would,
but by God I f hould not go to the Pond to fetch Salt,
but f hould hire Sloops to fetch it ; and faid he would hire
me the Sloop which he took from the Bermudian the day
paft. I thanked him, and faid I would conf ider of it ;
was refolved to have nothing to do with him, who had no
Law but his Will. Capt. Doudle told him it was not
prudent to meddle with a London Ship, for I would furely
acquaint the Government in England of it ; he anfwered
he did not care, for he was far enough off them.
Thurfday the 10 th , the Gentlemen I bought the Wood
of gave their Oaths of the Weight, I alfo did mine ; all
this being out of Malice to put me to Trouble and
Charge, becaufe I would not fuffer my Owners and Self
to be cheated by him. And at 6 in the Morning I went
to the Governor to def ire him to let me go to take in Salt,
which I had bought and was ready to pay the Lords
Tenths. He faid, he'd confider of it, and bad me come
about two hours after : This delay was no other than to
force me to pick my own Pocket, and give him. He fent
one of his Creatures to me, who fpake that Language,
but I told him I could not do it. At the time appointed
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 99
I went to him again ; he then at lafl granted me liberty to
go on thefe Conditions, to fay you fhall take your Oath
that you fhall carry no Man's letters off this If land, but,
fhall first bring them to me to perufe them ; and that I
f hould pay for the Tenth of the Salt, after the Rate of
13 Pence half Penny per Bufhel, which I bought for 4d.
half penny ; but being in his Power, I was forced to
comply with that and more. He asked me to prefent him
with two Bever-Hats. I faid I had none ; he anfwered,
my Pilot had : I faid I muft pay him 50s. per Hat,
which would be 5. His Creature the Judge being by,
faid, what f ignifies 5Z., place it to Account. I faid my
Owners would not allow it me : The Governor fwore by
God he would have them, or I f hould not go ; fo to re-
deem my Self and Ship out of Confinement and Danger,
I was obliged to comply with his unjuft Demands. At 10
a Clock I fent a white Bever-Hat to him, he having a
black one before. I went not near him my felf, for gen-
erally in the Afternoon, with the addition of Drink, he's
by many degrees worfe than himfelf, who in his beft Tem-
per is the profligaleft Perfon I ever heard tell of : The
Inhabitants and Strangers are equally in danger of their
Lives, if they do not give away what they have to him,
or fell it at his own Rates. His Marfhal is one of
Every' s Crew, and now ftands outlawed by Proclamation
for helping to run away with the Ship from* Corona, as he
himfelf told me. His Villanies are very notorious, and
perhaps the only Recommendation, for fomething that has
no Remains of Confcience or Honefty, is the only proper
Inftrument for Haskettfs Actions.
Friday the 11 th , at 6 in the Morning, I went to the
Governor to fee if he would let me go ; I told him 1
brought Mony to pay : He then feem'd inclinable to it,
and foon after I paid him his Demands (being at his
Mercy) ; I requested a Receipt for the Sum, he gave me
one, but would not mention what Mony I paid him. He
told me I might have my Bever-Hats again ; I fent for
them, but he returned but One. I got my Clearings, and
bid Him and Providence farewel as long as he Governs.
Mich. Cole.
Jurat 18 die Maii 1702. Cor am
me Magiftro Concell.
S. Keck.
THE
MEMORIAL
OF
Elias Haskett, Efq;
GOVERNOUR
PROVIDENCE, &c
And alfb an ANSWER to a
LIBEL,
ENTITLED,
ARTICLE s,ando E POS i T ION s, of the Pco-
plc of Providence, againft the (aid Go vccnour.
TOGETHER,
With ait Anfwcr to the Narrative of Michael Cole,
by the faid Elias Hasten.
LONDON: Primed in the Year, MDCCIL
The Memorial of Elias Haskett, Esq.; Governor of the
Island of Providence, Part of Her Majesty's Domin-
ions, Craves leave to Represent,
That the faid Haskett, having had the Honour to receive
a Commiff ion for the Government of that Ifland about
the Twelfth Day of May, 1701, Safely arrived there and
carried with him his Wife and Family, and a conf iderable
Estate, conf ifting of Money, Goods, and Effects to the
value of Four Thousand Pounds, or thereabouts ; and
upon his Arrival there, applyed himfelf with the utmoft
diligence to the faithful difcharging the Duty of his
Office, and underftanding that many great abuses and
enormities were daily Committed there, as well in defraud-
ing His late Majefty, King William, of his Cuftomes and
other Juft Dues, as alfo in Violating in a notorious man-
ner the Laws relating to Trade, and that Pyracy was
there much encouraged and fecretly practifed, The faid
Governor did apprehend himfelf obliged in Duty to re-
form fuch Abufes and Enormities, and to bring the Of-
fenders therein to due Punif hment ; and in order there-
unto, the faid Governour having received Information
upon the Oaths of feveral Credible Peafons touching such
Offenders, he did caufe Profecutions to be fet on Foot and
carried on againft fuch Perfons as he had fuch juft
Ground to believe were moft notoriouf ly Guilt}* of fuch
ill Practifes, and hoped that by making fome Examples of
Juftice, others would be deterr'd for the future from the
like Courfes.
That particularly, the faid Governour did Caufe John
G-raves (Collector of the Cuftomes there) to be profe-
cutcd for divers great Frauds & Misdemeanors by him
Committed in his Office, and full Evidence was provided
to make out and prove the matters laid to his Charge.
That the faid Governour likewife procured a Sloop
called Success, belonging to Read Elding, to be feized for
breach of the Laws relating to Trade ; and the faid Sloop
was Condemned in the Court of Admiralty for that
Offence, and the faid Elding was by the faid Governors
Order under Profecution for Pyracy and other heinous
Crimes.
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102 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
That the faid Governour alfo caufed a Bond of Five
Hundred Pounds Penalty to be put in Suit againft Ellis
lAghtwood, conditioned for his delivering up Captain
Avery, a notorious Pyrate, to Juftice, which Bond was
forfeited by the faid Lightwoods procuring a Sloop for the
faid Captain Avery and Conveying him from the Ifland,
after His faid late Majesty's Proclamation was arrived
there for taking him.
That the faid Governour likewife procured a Sloop
called belonging to the faid Ellis Lightwood, to be
Seized for Trading againft Law, and Process was ordered
to be Commenced in the Admiralty-Court in order to the
Condemning the fame Sloop for that Caufe.
That the faid Governour by fuch his Vigorous Proceed-
ings againft the faid John Graves, Mead Elding and Ellis
Lightwood, who were the principal Offenders, and againft
feveral other Perfons for Crimes of the like Nature,
raifed their implacable Enmity againft him.
That the time for the Tryal of the faid Read Elding
for Piracy and other Offences, and likewife for Trying the
Validity of the Seizure of the faid Lightivoods Veffel, and
feveral other fuch Matters drawing near, and the faid
Offenders having Endeavoured by tenders of Bribes and
Prefents of great Value to bring the faid Governour to a
Connivance at their illegal Practifes, and to ftop fuch
Profecutions ; but finding fuch Endeavours fruitless, and
unfuccefsf ul, they were induced to make a defperate At-
tempt in order to procure their own Impunity.
That for fuch purpofe, and to fecure themfeives from
the Punif hments and Forfeitures which they apprehended
they were likely to fuffer and undergo for fuch their
Offences ; they enter'd into a Confpiracy with divers In-
habitants of the faid Ifland, who were their Accomplices,
and agreed to raife and ftir up an Infurrection in the said
Ifland, and to depofe and remove the faid Governor.
That in order to put fuch their Rebellious Def ign in
Execution in October laft, about four days before fuch
Tryals were to come on, they firft privately in the Night
time poffefs't themfeives of the Fort & Magazine at the
Town of Najffau (in the faid Ifland) by means of a fecret
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 103
Correfpondence which they had fet on Foot with fome
Perfons within the faid Fort : And foon after the Seizing
thereof, they March'd down with a conf iderable Body of
Men, whom they had Engaged to join in fuch their*
Traiterous Attempt ; and being Armed with Swords,
Guns, Piftols, and other Weapons, they forced open the
Houfe of the faid Governour, in the Town of Naffau, and
in a ^Rebellious and Hoftile manner affaulted the faid
Governour and his Attendants, and having grevouf ly
wounded him in the Head and other Parts, to the great
hazard of his Life, they carried him away Prifoner into
the Fort, and Kept him there confin'd in Irons ; and the
fame Night his Wife, Sifter, and Family were conflrain'd
for their Security, to fly into the Woods, and taking that
opportunity, they then rifled the faid Governour's Houfe,
and having broken open all his Chefts, Trunks, Boxes,
and Cabinets, they took away great quantities of Money,
as well Gold as Silver, belonging to the faid Governour,
and all his Houf hold-Goods, Plate, Furniture, Merchan-
dizes, and wearing Apparel ; and alfo poffefs'd themfelves
of his Commiff ion, Inftructions, and of all his Bonds,
Bills, and other Securities for Money, amounting in the
whole to the Value of Five Thoufand Pounds of his own
proper Eftate, bef ides the Monies then belonging to his
faid late Majefty, and the Lords Proprietors, to a great
value, and not fatiffied therewith, they likewife feized fuch
Bonds of Securities as they, or any of their Accomplices
ftood Bound in to the faid late King ; and after they had
detain'd the Governour three Days, or thereabouts in the
faid Fort, they remov'd him from thence to a fmall Houfe
about four miles diftant from the Town of Naffau, where
he was kept a clofe prifoner in Irons, under a Guard, for
the fpace of six weeks, and none of his Friends or Ac-
quaintances were permitted to have accefs to him, nor
was he fuffer'd to write, or to have Communication with
any Perfon ; and during great part of the time of fuch
his Imprifonment, they likewife kept his Wife and Sister
under Clofe Confinement.
That the faid Graves did propofe, and greatly prefs the
Murdering of the faid Governour, and offer'd himfelf to
104 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
be Executioner, but the Majority could not be prevailed
with to fuffer fo Barbarous an Act, and withheld the faid
Graves from putting that Villanous Defign in Execution.
That they alfo ahout the fame time Imprifon'd the Judge
of the Court of Admiralty, and the Judge of the Court
of Common- Pleas, and the Secretary of the faid If land,
and fundry other Perfons who they apprehended might
obftruct their Def igns, and kept them Prifoners in clofe
Cuftody until they had nigh Perif bed for Hunger, and
want of other Neceffaries ; nor would they fuffer them to
go at large until they had compell'd them to fwear that
they would not make any Difcoveries of fuch their Pro-
ceedings ; which Oath was Extorted from them by Men-
aces and placing Cock'd Piilols at their Breails, which
they threatened to Difcharge in Cafe of Refufal.
That during fuch Imprifonment of the faid Governour,
they likewife feized a Sloop belonging to him, called the
Succefs, whereof John Belcher was then Commander, and
took away, difpofed, and converted to their own ufe her
Lading, Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture.
That about the fame time, a f hip called the Providence-
G-alley Arriving there, whereof Benjamin Pittman was
Commander, they prevail'd with the faid Benjamin Pitt-
man to come Af hoar, upon pretence that the Governour
had occaf ion to Difcourfe with him, and having by that
means drawn him out of his faid Veffel, they feized his
Perfon, and fuch Mariners as came to Land with him,
and carried them Prifoners to the faid Fort, and detain'd
them there, and in the meantime they enter'd the faid
Ship, called the Providence- Galley, with their Swords
drawn, in a violent manner, and poffeffed themfelves of
her Lading, Tackle, Apparel and Furniture, which they
likewife carried away, and difpofed as they thought fit.
That after the faid Governour had been thus detained
by them in clofe Cuftody for fix weeks, they did at length
force him on Board a fmall ketch, without allowing him
a Servant to attend him, and deftitute of Cloaths and
other Neceffaries, from which ketch, by the Aff iftance of
one of the Seamen, with great difficulty, he made his
Escape.
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That fome time after the faid Governour's Departure,
they forced his Wife and Sister in a Barbarous Manner
on Board a Sloop in the middle of the Winter, without
allowing them to take their Apparel or other Neceffaries,
to the manifeft hazard of their Lives ; and the Sloop not
being able to bear the Sea in that Season of the Year,
were caft away, and the Paffengers were in the utmoft
danger of Perif hing, being thrown upon a Defart and
uninhabited Coaft, where they underwent Extream Hard-
f hips before they could meet with any Relief.
That the faid Governor hath met with all this hard and
barbarous Ufage for no other Reafon than becaufe he was
Impartial in the difcharge of his Duty in the faid Ifland,
and made Difcoveries of fuch Offences there as tended
greatly to Her Majefty's Prejudice, and are entirely de-
ftructive to Trade, and did his uttermoft to bring fuch
Offenders to Punif hment, and therefore humbly hopes
Her Majesty will be graciouf ly pleafed to take the faid
matters into her Serious Conf ideration, and as well to ufe
fome fpeedy and effectual means for the bringing fuch
Notorious Malefactors to Juftice, as alfo to take fuch
effectual Care for the redreff ing the Wrongs and Loffes
fuftain'd by the faid Governour herein, and for repairing
his ruin'd Fortunes and Eftate, as to Her Majefty's great
Wifdom and Goodnefs f hall feem meet.
An Anfwer to a LIBEL, Entitled, Articles, Depofitions,
&c., of the People of New Providence, in an Affem-
bly held at Najfau, October the 5 th , 1701, againfl
Elias Haskett, Governour. As alfo to the Narrative
of Michael Cole ; by the faid Elias Haskett.
Humbly offered to the Confederation of the Lords Proprie-
tors, and the Right Honourable the Commiffioners of
Trade.
MY LORDS,
My Reputation and Character being as Barbaroufly
Treated by the faid Pamphlet as my Perfon was by their
Outrage, fet forth in my Memorial, I f hould be remifs
both in Duty to Your Lordf hips, and Juftice to myfelf,
106 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
if I did not give a full Anfwer to the Accufations there-
in, Article by Article, which indeed are well nigh all
Composed of meer Allegations only, and those very falfe
and fcandalous : And the pretended Proofs, as to fome
Inf ignificant Facts therein fet down, are made by the
Perfons who were by the Confpirators fet free from Goal,
where moft of them lay for Crimes, by the Law Punif li-
able with Death, and who had alfo Shares .of the Spoils
they made upon me, and who were wholly under the
Power and Menaces of my Perfecutors ; and although it
is Impossible at prefent for me to make Proof of what I
f hall Infert in this my Defence, all my Written Vouchers
being Seized, and Detained from me, and I being forced
away (alone) from all living Vouchers, yet I do in the
Presence of Almighty God declare, that what I f hall fet
down f hall in all Things be the Truth, and nothing elfe.
MY LORDS,
The People that Inhabit this Colony are almoft all of
them fuch, who for feveral Enormous Crimes and Vil-
lanies, have either fled from or been thrnft out of all the
other Colonies in America. Their Method of Living has
been always upon Piracy and Plunder, and by defrauding
the Crown of its Dues, and the Proprietors of their Rents
and Perquif ites ; and there has been no Governour, before
myself, but who, either for his Profit or his Quiet, f hared
in, or at least conniv'd at their unjuft Practices. But,
upon my arrival there, I making it my Businefs to difcover
and prevent thefe Practices, as well for the Honour of the
King, the Lords Proprietors, and my felf, as for the Ben-
efit and good Government of the People : They foon
found I was not a Man for their purpofe, and the correct-
ing of their Crimes they have made mine, to which I
f hall truly anfwer as follows, viz.
To the first Article. That at my Arrival at Providence,
I found one Hatton to be Minifter there, and to be a Man
of very diffolute and lewd Life, and a Scandal to his
Robe ; however (there being no other) he Preached, and
Exercifed his Function as a Minifter amongft the People
for about two Months after my Arrival. But, upon Com-
plaint of the People that they could not pay fo much as
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 107
an Hundred and Sixty Pound per Annum, which was
allowed him by one Elding, in the abfence of the la ft
Governour, and upon Hattoris own Complaint, that he
could not without difficulty Collect and Receive the fame,
I and the Council fettled upon him an Hundred and
Twenty Pound per Annum by a Duty we laid on Liquors
for that Purpofe, but he thinking it not fufficient, retir'd
four Miles into the Country in a fullen Mood, and refufed
to do his Duty among the People for about six weeks ;
fometimes pretending himfelf Sick, and at other times
that his allowance was too fmall, although, bef ides the
Hundred and Twenty Pound which was to be paid him
Quarterly, he had the benefit of Burials, Chriftenings and
Weddings. And 1 never otherwife defam'd the faid Hat-
ton, than by often telling him of and chiding him for his
repeated Debauches and Lewdneffes, which indeed were
the occasion of many Diffenters dif like to the Church-
Government there : And thefe, and no other, are the
Reafons that there was no Church-Duty done for the time
aforefaid.
To the Second Article. That, in all the time of my
Government, I never laid any Tax whatfoever on the
People in Brazaletta Wood, or otherwife, to the value of
one Farthing, fave the Duty on Liquors, with the Concur-
rence of the Council, to pay the Minifler the faid One
Hundred and Twenty Pounds per Annum. And as for
the Brazaletta Wood which I received, it was from the
People of the If le of Ether a, who are Subjects of this
Province, and who are to pay the Lords Proprietors one
Penny per Acre Rents for the Lands they are poffeffed of,
and Money being very fcarce among them, I offer'd to
take the faid Rents in Brazaletta Wood for the ufe of the
Lords Proprietors, which the People gladly complied
with ; and 1 received the faid wood accordingly, and the
fame lay ready to be Ship'd for England on the Lords
Account, but is now feized among all other things by the
Confpirators, and divided among them. And I deny that
I Taxed the People with the faid Brazaletta Wood, or
any other Brazaletta Wood, or received the fame to my
own ufe as a Prefent, or any otherwife than as afore-
faid; or that I ever denied the People their Lawful
108 THE GOVERNOR OP NEW PKOVIDENCE,
Trade and Commerce upon account of the said wood, or
otherwife; but I as carefully as poffible always prevented
the unlawful Trade or Commerce of forne ill People,
which I fuppofe is the true occaf ion of Complaint in this
Article.
To the Third Article. As in this Article I am charged
with the greateft and moft notorious Crimes, fo it will
plainly appear that they are as greatly and notoriouf ly
falfe and fcancalous [we] 1 ; for I f hall herein fet down all the
Perfons who have been Imprifon'd together with the
Reafons of each Man's Imprisonment from my firft com-
ing to the If land until the Interruption of my Govern-
ment, viz. The firft were fowr Seamen belonging to the
Providenee Grally, for deferting the faid Gaily, and pub-
lickly declaring their Intent was to run away with the
fame, a Privateering in the Seas ; and Information there-
of being given to the Judge, they were Committed until
the Ship was fecured, and then they were difcharged
without any Prison-Fees. The next was John Graves, by
Virtue of a Writ upon a Bond of Five Hundred Pound
due to the Lords Proprietors, and afterwards charged in
Prifon for granting falfe Certificates, and alfo for the
Imbezelment of feveral Hundreds of Pounds of his Maj-
esty's Money, all which could have been fufficiently
proved ; but he pretended at his Tryal as others did, by
combining with the other Confpirators in the feizing the
Fort and Government, and he being confcious of his
Guilt, and that his Crime was very great, did, while he
was in Prifon, fend me feveral Proposals under his Hand,
and otherwife, that he and his Accomplices would raife
and give me feveral Hundred Pounds if I would either
wholly ftop, or alleviate their Profecution. which I with
Indignation rejected, having always preferr'd His Majes-
ty's Interest and the Lords Proprietors before any Pri-
vate Ends of my own. The next was Edward Holme*,
by Virtue of a Writ upon a Bond ; he continued in
Prison four or five Days, when he agreed to give Secur-
ity for performing the Condition of the faid Bond, and
thereupon was released, upon payment of about twenty
Shillings Prifon-Fees. The next were three Bermudian*,
who were Arrested in an Action of Trefpafs at the Suit
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 109
of the Lords Proprietors, there being fufficient Proof
against them, that about fix Months before their coming
to Providence, they cut and took away from some of the
Bahama If lands betwixt fifty and f ixty Tons of Braza-
letta Wood, without Entring, or paying any Cuftoms or
Dues for the fame, and unloaded the fame at Carefoa, a
Dutch If land, by which means His Majesty was defraud-
ed of Fifty Shillings per Ton, and the Lords Proprietors
of their Tenths. And this unlawful Trade is conftantly
practifed and carried on by the Bermudiam, which means
Her Majesty is wronged Yearly in her Cuftoms feveral
Thoufands of Pounds, and the Lords Proprietors of their
Dues, contrary to all Law, and feveral Acts and Orders
relating to Trade : Therefore thought my felf bound in,
Duty and Confcience to enquire into and Punif h thefe
Abufes, the better to prevent them for the future, they
have hitherto been too much conniv'd at. One of the
abovefaid Bermudiam, knowing upon a Tryal he could
not oppose the Proof which would be made againft him,
Petitioned me for forgivenefs, upon his paying for his
part of the wood that had been fo cut, as aforefaid, and
carried to Carefoa, the Dutch If land, upon which the same
was computed at Twenty five Piftoles, and I receiv'd the
fame for the ufe of the Lords Proprietors. The next was
one Jofias Simms, a Negro Man, Commander of a Sloop,
which was Seized and Condemn'd for having loaded on
Board her feveral Tuns of Fuftick wood and unlading it
at St. Thomas's, without entring, or paying any Cuftoms
for the fame, who forfeited his Bond of Fifty Pounds to
the Lords Proprietors, and he being in very indifferent
Circumftances, rather than lofe the whole Money by keep-
ing him in Prifon, I compounded the faid Bond for twen-
ty Piftoles, and receiv'd the fame accordingly for ufe of
the Lords Proprietors, and discharg'd him from Prifon.
That afterwards there we found divers Goods on the
If land, which proved to be unladen from the faid Sloop,
which gave Sufpicion that f he had taken them Paratically
from fome other Ship, and upon my farther and more
ftricter Search of the faid Sloop, feveral more Goods were
found concealed on Board the faid Sloop, which confirm'd
the Sufpicion, and upon Examination one of the Seamen
110 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
of the faid Sloop confessed they had robb'd a VefTel
among the Iflands of the faid Goods, and alfo taken out
fome of the faid Veffel's Men. Upon which I again Im-
prison'd the faid Negro Commander, and alfo the faid
Seamen, for Piracy ; but the reft of the Sloop's crew
were conveyed away by one Head Elding, who was owner
of the faid Sloop, and were conceal'd until Elding, with
the reft of the Confpirators, prevented the Tryals of him-
felf and the others by feizing the Government, as afore-
faid. The next and laft was the faid Read Elding, for
Piracy and divers other Crimes, who, together with the
rest of the Prifoners, was appointed to receive his Tryal
within four Days after the time they Seiz'd upon me and
ufurp'd the Government as aforefaid ; and this Elding,
who is now become one of the Accufers, knows very well
that during his Imprifonment he fent feveral Petitions to
me with Prefents, praying that he might be Banifh'd
from off the If land to some remote place, rather than
ftand his Tryal, or be fent for England, all which he alfo
knows I refufed, with a full Refolution he f hould receive
his Tryal, and if found Guilty, be fent for England ;
neither did I receive any thing of the faid Read Elding
as a Bribe, or a Prefent. And thefe were the whole
number that were Imprifon'd during my whole Govern-
ment, except two or three lewd women. And I do hereby
declare, and aver, that I never receiv'd any Sum or Sums
of Mony, or other Prefent or Bribe from the faid Perfons,
or any of them, for their being fet at Liberty from their
Imprifonments, or receiv'd any other Monej^s or Moneys-
worth from them, or any of them, upon any account
whatfoever other than as aforefaid.
To the Fourth Article. I defie my Accufers to prove
that I ever demanded any more than the Tenths of Bra-
zaletta wood in all the time of my Government. And it
is in my Instructions to demand and take the sixth part
of all Wrecks and Royalties belonging to the Lords
Proprietors (amongft which is included Tortoife-f hell),
though during my ftay on the If land there were fo few
Tortoifes taken that I only receiv'd five Pound for the
Dues thereof.
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. Ill
The Fifth Article. The Day of my Arrival at Provi-
dence, my Commiff ion and Inftructions were feverally
read at the Fort, before the whole People of the place,
affembled in their Arms ; nor is it to be imagin'd that I
could come and be receiv'd as their Governour without
communicating my Authority and my Inftructions. And
I was always ready and willing from time to time to f hew
them to the Council, or to have them Recorded if they
thought convenient, and the objecting the contrary is only
a boldly alledg'd Untruth.
To the Sixth Article. That the Port Charges for all
Veffels Trading to Providence are the very fame with
what are paid and taken at her Majefty's Cuftom-Houfe
at Barbadoes, and all other of Her Majefty's Plantations
in the Weft-Indies, and accordingly I caufed a Lift, or
Particular of all Fees taken at Her Majefty's faid Cuftom-
Houfe, and f igned by the Naval Officer of the faid Cuf-
tom-Houfe, to be fix'd up and publifh'd at the Port, that
no Perfon might be Impofed on therein. And I never
Authorized or was Privy to the taking of any greater, or
other Port Charges than is therein expreffed, and fet
down, nor are, or can the fame be contrary to any Law of
the If land.
To the Seventh and Eighth Articles. That upon the laft
Governour's deferting the If land, he deputed .Read Elding
in his place, and the faid Elding Arbitrarily, and by Cor-
ruption, made feveral Laws, the most of which were for
his own Benefit and Service, and wholly repugnant to the
Laws of England, and were refuf d to be confirm'd by
the Lords Proprietors. Soon after my arrival I call'd a
Council and Affembly, in order to propose and make fome
Laws for the better Government of the Place, and the
first thing that was moved and offered was a Lift of the
faid Laws, being in number about Twenty, made by the
faid Elding, the moft of which, for the Reafons aforefaid,
were rejected, and others of them Confirm'd, and feveral
new Laws made, which were thought be ft for the good
Government and Advantage of the People. Then was
produced to me a Lift of the poor People of the If le of
Ether a, and it was moved, that a Tax might be laid on
112 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
them of feveral Hundred pieces of Eight, as an Allow-
ance to the Council and Affembly at their Meetings, for
their time and trouble fpent therein ; which, as it was
propofed, would have been much more than any of them
could get at their Trades, which I thought to be fo un-
reafonable an Impof ition upon that poor People, and
there being none of them prefent at Providence to anfwer
for themfelves, I could not in Juftice but oppofe the fame,
whereupon they immediately, without any Confent, Ad-
journed themsefves for many Months.
That among the Acts made in Hiding's time, the Act
againft monopolizing (as the Articles term it) was one,
and that (among others) was not confirm' d by the Propri-
etors ; arid it was fo Penn'd, it was thought fit to be re-
jected.
To the Ninth Article. This Article is grounded wholly
upon my once fbriking with my Cane one Cole, an account
of which is hereafter fet forth in Anfwer to his Narrative
annexed to thefe Articles. And for all other Mafters of
Ships, I always treated them with all Imaginable Respect
and Candour, never offering to ftrike any other of them
whatfoever, or any ways to mif-ufe them either by Word
or Action.
To the Tenth Article. There can be no other Anfwer
given to this than that it is utterly falfe, nor is it, nor
can it be prov'd.
To the Eleventh Article. A Ship belonging to the King
of Portugal came from Porta-bella, bound for the Hava-
na, and had the MiiTortune to lofe her way and fall in
among the Bahama If lands, being loaded with Negroes,
and many Paffengers, who were almoft ftarved to Death ;
but by chance, a fmall Sloop meeting with her, f he was
convey'd into Providence, where the Captain of the faid
Ship applied himself to me for Protection and Relief,
both of which were granted him, though wholly againft
the Desires and Wif hes of the People of the Place ; who,
tho' they Knew all the Perfons on Board were ready to
Starve, demanded double and trebble Prizes for all ibrts
of Provif ions they ftood in need of ; fo I, to prevent fuch
Exorbitant Extortion, bought what was neceffary for the
fitid Ship: though at very Extravagant Prizes, they know-
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 113
ing it was for their ufe, and when he was furnif hed with
all things proper to carry him to his Port, I order'd and
appointed a Sloop to convey and Pilot him to the afore r
faid Port of Havana ; to do which I went through many
Difficulties, She having a large quantity of Money on
Board, the People of Providence contriv'd a great many
Stratagems in order to make a wreck of the faid Ship, but
all was prevented by the great Care I took therein ; one
of which Stratagems was as followeth, Read Elding came
to me and offered me a great Sum of Money if 1 would
give him the Liberty privately to make a Wreck of the
faid Ship, by fending his brother in the Night-time upon a
little piece of Board with a Hatchet, in order to dive
down and cut the Ship's Cable, that f he might drive
a-f hore, and by that means become a Wreck, but thefe
Barbarous Intentions I utterly rejected, which was very
much refented by the People, not being ufed to be debarred
of their ancient Cuftoms and Practifes. So that my hon-
efb relieving this diilreffed Ship hath been a mighty
Grievance to the People and the occaf ion of this partic-
ular Accufation ; for I never bought the Corn or other
things I furnif h'd her withal until after fhe came into
Port.
To the Twelfth Article. That when I arrived at Provi-
dence there were not above Twenty People Lawfully Mar-
ried, and the Wives of half of those Twenty were taken
from them by thofe that had more Strength and Riches
than the Huf bands, which daily occaf ion'd great Anni-
mof ities and Quarrels among them, and feveral difputes
at law. For Example, Elding forcibly took away the
wife of one Ferryman Trott. Ellis Lightwood (whom
now they call their Pref ident) deserted his own wife and
took the reputed wife of the late Governour Trott. One
Holmes took one Harris's wife and drove her Huf band off
from the If land. One Samuel Thrift forcibly took away
the wife of one Starr and detains her from him ; and
mofl of the reft live after the fame manner, by daily
changing of Wives and Miftreffes. Upon Information of
thefe, and fuch like diforderly ways of Living, I order'd
the Grand Jury to enquire into all fuch Disorders and
Irregularities ; fo that upon their firft Meeting they Pre-
114 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
fented about the number of Twenty of thofe Diforderly
Perfons, and fome Proceedings being fet on Foot in the
Court, in order to Punif h, and thereby prevent and regu-
late the fame, feveral Perfons, who were not willing to go
through their f hameful Tryals, Petition'd me to grant
them Licence to Marry the Women they had fo Inconti-
nently lived with, and the Charges of thofe that fo Peti-
tion'd what of their Petitions and Charges of the Court
amounted together to the Sum of three or four Pounds;
but for any Licence that was granted by me all the time
I was there, I do pof itively fay I never took more than
five pieces of Eight, which Fee is taken by all the Gov-
ernours throughout the whole Indies. But, after thefe
Licences were granted, the Minifter was fo covetous that
notwithftanding all 1 could do, he ref ufed to Marry thefe
poor People, if they could not prefent him with four and
twenty Shillings, fo that thofe who were not able to pay
that Sum were ftill left in their Incontinency, and upon
the complaint of this from feveral poor People, I my felf
paid for feveral of them that were def irous of Marriage.
To the Thirteenth Article. That before I came to the
If land of Providence, the Judge of the Court of Admir-
alty was forceably drove off from the If land, together
with all other CommifTion-Officers appointed from Eng-
land, and were moft Barbarouf ly treated by Read Elding
and his Creatures, during his Deputation from the late
Governour Well. But foon after my Arrival, the Judge
of the Court of Admiralty returned, and was confirmed
by me in his place, as were all others of the Aforefaid
Officers Commiff ion'd from England, until the time of
feizing me, as aforefaid. At which time they alfo feized
on and Imprifoned all the faid Officers, and kept them in
Prifon till they were almoft Starved ; declaring they
f hould die there, unlefs they would firft Swear to be true
to them the faid Conspirators, and never Reproach them,
or be WitnefTes of what they had done ; which Oath was
extorted from two of them with Piftols at their Breasts ;
the Judge of the Common-Pleas having a Piftol fired at
him, and very narrowly efcaped with his Life : And I
never Conftituted any of the Officers mention'd in this
Article by my own Com miff ion or Authority.
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To the Fourteenth Article. That I never demanded any
Oaths from Mafters of Ships, but fuch as the Law ftrictly
requires me to do, which is, That they f hould give an
account upon Oath how their Ships are Navigated, with
what laden, whether unloaded, broke Bulk, and fuch
other Questions as the Acts of Trade particularly name.
As for opening any Letters, I never opened any of Mer-
chants in Bulinefs, but fome Letters indeed were opened,
but they were fuch as I had great reafon to fufpect were
fent in order to foment and raife Rebellions in the faid
Government, the Contents of feveral of which were found
to be very reflecting on and leffening of the Interest and
Honour of the Lords Proprietors, and alfo abuf ive of
my felf, and contriving my removal from that Govern-
ment. Alfo I opened fome Letters that were directed to
notorious Pyrates, and they were accordingly found to
contain Inftructions and Contrivances for fetting on Foot
a Correfpondence between them and Pyrates of other
If lands ; which Correfpondence, if not thus difcovered,
might have been the utter Deftruction of the If land. And
this is the whole Truth and Reafon of the Charge in this
Article.
To the Fifteenth Article. This Article charges me with
feveral Illegal Impof itions, but they have not thought fit
to particularize one, and for all Goods that came into
Port (though I had an equal Liberty with the People to
bid for and buy them), yet I, for the most part, gave the
People Liberty to buy before me, and when they were
furnif h'd, fometimes I bought the reft.
To the Sixteenth Article. That there happening to be
an Alarm upon the fight of fome Veffels making to the
Town of Providence, I commanded the Officers to order all
the People into the Fort, in order to defend the place if
there f hould be occaf ion, and upon return of fome of the
faid Officers, they gave me an account that one Graves,
the Collector, hindred and detained about eight or ten of
our Men with himself, from coming to the Fort, and sent
me word he would not be obedient to my Commands, nor
would he be hinder'd from going off in a Boat, to fee
what Veffels they were that ftood off the Place, notwith-
ftanding I had order'd that no Boats f hould go on aboard
116 THE GOVERNOR OP NEW PROVIDENCE,
till fuch time as the Ships were under the Command of
oar Fort ; for that feveral Boats that have gone to meet
Veffels before they got into Port have been detained and
kept on Board feveral Pyrate Ships, and have not been
difeharged until fuch time as they have been furnif hed
with all things neceffary for their Pyratical Undertaking.
And accordingly, the said Graves had got the Boat ready,
and ordered the Men he had with him to go into her, in
order to go to the Ships, inftead of coming into the Fort
to aid and affift, if occaf ion, with the reft of the people;
whereupon I was neceff itated to go to the place where he
and the others with him were, and did, in Anger, drive
them all into the Fort with a fmall Cane ; and I believe
that (amongft the reft) fome blows might fall upon the
faid Graves, who, ever fince my coming to the Ifland,
had been a very ungovernable perfon, and of whom I had
continual Complaints, and at the fame time I ordered,
that if any Perfons offer 'd to go on Board the faid Veffels
without my leave, that they f hould Fire at the Boats.
And the faid G-raves was fome time afterwards Committed
to Prifon, upon Information given me upon the Oaths of
feveral perfons, that he had granted feveral falfe Certifi-
cates, and had conniv'd at the carrying on unlawful
Trades, and had defrauded the King of his Cuftoms to
the value of feveral Hundred Pounds, for which Crimes
he was to have been tried in a few days, if he and others
had not prevented it by the Confpiracy aforefaid : And
this is the true and only reafon of the Charge of this
Article.
To the Seventeenth Article. That a Seizure of Brandy
and Claret was made, as in the Article, and was after-
wards truly valued by two of the honefteft Men in the
place, viz., Jchn DoJJet, Esq., and the Judge of the Court
of Common-Pleas, who on their Oaths returned the true
Value of it, and did alfo publif h the Sale of the same ;
but no Man in the Place was capable of buying of it,
unlefs I would fell it by the Gallon ; fo I bought it my-
felf, and charg'd my felf Debtor to His Majefty for one
third part thereof, as the Law directs.
To the Eighteenth Article. That I had a Sloop, of which
one Spatchers was Mafter, on Board which I Ship'd ten
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 117
Negroes, and nothing elfe but Pro vif ions for them, and
gave Orders to Sail for Porto Prince, on Cuba, and there to
difpofe of the fame for pieces of Eight, Horses, or live
Oxen, and no other Commodities, neither did they bring
any elfe in return. The fecond Voyage fhe made was to
the If le of Ethera for a Load of Brazaletta Wood, which
fhe brought directly to Providence, having Orders from
me to do the fame. The third Voyage fhe made was to
another of the Bahama If lands, to load Salt, and the faid
Sloop, nor any other Veffel for me, or on my behalf, or
wherein I had or was to have any Intereft or Concern,
never did go to any other place, nor loaded nor unloaded
any other Goods than as aforefaid.
To the Nineteenth Article. That at my going to this
Government I took with me one Roger Prideaux, an At-
torney, who had ferved his Clerkf hip at Lyorfs-Inn, and
when I arriv'd conftituted this Perfon (who, without any
colour in the world, is term'd my Servant) Clerk of the
Courts, as being more knowing and practized in the Law
than any Perfon in this If land, there being none upon the
place that had been bred a Clerk ; and he alfo practifed
there as an Attorney ; and as for what Fees he receiv'd
for managing each Man's Bufinefs as an Attorney, I know
not, but as for the Fees of the feveral Courts, they were
the very fame with the Courts of England, and no other-
wife.
To the Twentieth Article. That I never order'd any
Brazaletta Wood to be brought from any of the If lands
to Providence, or elfewhere, but such as was the Lords
Proprietors Dues, and paid by the People for their Rents,
or elfe bought with my own Money ; and the Charge
herein is bafely falfe and fcaudalous.
To the Twenty-firft Article. Becaufe nothing I ought by
my Duty to have done might be omitted in my Accufa-
tion as not done, I prefume is the reafon of this Article ;
for in all publick Affairs relating to the Government, Em-
bargoes, Proclamations, c., I always advifed with and
had the Approbation of the Majority of the Council.
To the Twenty-second Article. This is fully anfwered in
my anfwer to the Third Article, being the very fame in
Subftance with this.
118 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
To the Twenty-second Article. That I brought with me
to Providence feveral Thoufand Pounds, as in my Memo-
rial, and I never fent an Hundred Pound of the Caf h of
the If land from thence. And as to any private Letters
to fuch purpofe, as in the Article mention'd, I appeal to
the fame (if they f hall appear to be mine) when pro-
duced, and whether the Character I gave in the Letter of
July to the Lords Commiff ioners of Trade of thefe Peo-
ple, or the ill Character and barbarous Treatment they
have given me, is moft true, I doubt not but in a little
time will evidently appear to Your Lordf hips.
To the Twenty Third Article. That when I was feized
and put in Prifon by the Confpirators, I was told by fev-
eral well-meaning People that they were very forry for the
111 Treatment I had by a few Villains (as they term'd
them), and that the moft of the People were fo well sat-
iffied with me, that they had refolved to make an Addrefs
of Thanks to the Lords Proprietors for fending me to
that Government, but the same was never, to my knowl-
edge, put in Act. And I was so far from contriving fuch
a thing my felf, in the manner as in the Article is fet
forth, or any other manner, that till then I never heard
of it, and if fuch Addrefs, or Paper, was ever (which
muffc be unknown to me) signed by any number of Peo-
ple on the faid If land, and if they repented of it after-
wards, fuch Repentance would (with Submiff ion) be very
proper to appear under their Hands as well as their Ap-
probation, as alledg'd.
And now I fhall prefume faithfully to acquaint your
Lordf hips what thofe Perfons are who have undertook
to call themf elves the Council of Providence, and have
fubfcrib'd thefe Articles.
Ellis Lightwood, the Pref ident, has been an old Pri-
vateer, and it can be prov'd by many Perfons that he was
one that harbour'd the Notorious Pirate Avery in his
Houfe for a conf iderable time before, and after the King's
Proclamation againft him arrived ; and tho' he was ac-
quainted with the faid Proclamation, at laft procured his
Efcape. And at the very time when he Ufurp'd this place
of Prelident, a Suit was depending againft him, and
profecuting by me in his late Majefty's Name, upon a
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 119
Bond given to His Majefty of the Penalty of Five Hun-
dred Pound, of which he had abfolutely broken the Con-
dition, and his Sloop was alfo under a Seizure, and to be
Tried in four Days for breach of Trade.
John Warren, an old Privateer, and under a Suit upon
Bond given to his Majesty of Five Hundred Pound Pen-
alty, the Condition whereof he had broken.
Richard Taliaferro, during all my Government Judge
of the Common-Pleas, was together with me feized by the
Confpirators, and Imprifoned, and cruelly ufed there for
ten Days, and they prefented a piftol to his Breaft, and
fired at him, which he put by with his Hand and fo faved
his Life. And all this was done to Compel him to ap-
prove their Undertaking, which he afterwards declared he
did only to fave his Life.
Thomas Grower was turned out of Commiff ion and be-
came miferably poor, even a very Beggar, and was there-
by prevailed with to do anything he f hould be put upon
that would get him fuftinance.
Head Elding, at this Usurpation, was his Majefty's
Prifoner, and to be tried for Pyrac} r , and of whofe Actions
I have before given an Account in my Anfwer to the
Articles.
Thomas Williams has been an old Privateer, and a Per-
fon fo illiterate that he cannot write his name.
Thomas Dalton, now Mafter of a fmall Bark, but for-
merly one who had ferved under Pyrats in the South tfeas,
and a Perfon of a very weak undeif landing.
Nicholas David, a poor Journy-tnan Carpenter, and
working for me at 2s. 6d. per Diem at the very time I was
Seized, and who had been formerly a Privateer.
Ob/ervations upon the Pretended Affidavit of Roger Pri-
deaux. This Prideaux (as before) was Clerk of the Courts,
and was Seized together with me, but what with their
Menaces, and a promife of a good Share in the Plunder
if he would joyn with the Confpirators, and Act his part
in Countenancing the matter, he complyed with them, and
was releafed, and accordingly he did own to me (with
tears) at New York, That he had received a great part of
the faid Plunder for his Services done for the Confeder-
ates, and on his knees begged I would forgive him, for
120 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
that, as he then declared, he was forced to do what he
did to fave his Life, meaning (I prefurne) thereby the
framing of this Letter, of which I could not then partic-
ularly ask him, not thinking I could ever have been
charged with fuch a Matter : Nor is the Letter and Affi-
davit anyways Conf iftent with one another, or with Rea-
fon, for the Letter is dated the Jfih Auguft, and I was not
Seized on till about the middle of October, .and it is very
ftrange that when Sloops are going off every Day that this
Letter, which feems to be a thing of fo much Confequence,
f hould lie dormant all that time and not be fent away ;
and it is as ftrange, that if I had any fuch Def ign, that I
f hould truft any Perfon with a concern fo great, when I
might fo eaf ily have concealed it as writing a fhort Letter
with my own hand. And if all thefe are not Circum-
ftances fufficient to difbelieve this Matter, I do aver, and
am ready to make Oath, That I never Signed any fuch
Letter as aforefaid, or caufed the fame to be wrote by the
faid Prideaux, or any other.
Observations on the pretended Affidavits of William
Spatchers, Benjamin Griffin, and Peter Corane. That
Spatchers was put in Prifon together with me, while his
wife (who was then big with Child) and f he with the
reft of his Family were Starving, and he owned to me
there in Prifon, upon the firft opportunity he had to fpeak
with me, that he was threatned that he f hould never
come out of that Prifon as long as he lived, and that his
Family f hould ftarve, if he would not fign a Paper then
brought to him, and ftand to it afterwards, which they
told him (for he cannot Read) was only to Certifie his
Approbation of depof ing the Governour, and this Paper
can be prefumeable to be nothing elfe but this pretended
Affidavit, which afterwards they have faid to be fworn
by him before the Pref ident and Council. And, if ill
ufage brought him to do this, it is moft likely that the
fame Method, or elfe good Rewards (for they ufed all
Stratagems) induc'd G-riffin and Corane to do the like.
Neither do they fay in any of the Affidavits that any of
the Def igns or Inftructions mentioned therein were actu-
ally perpetrated, or put in Execution ; nor do they give
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any reafons why they were not, though pretended to be
fet on Foot, and the laft directions given fo long before
the time of my being feized on.
Observations on the Affidavit of Tabitha Alford. That
this Woman was a bought Servant of Elding, the Ring-
leader of the Confpiracy, and was to be tryed for making
away with her Baftard-Child, which f he had by the faid
Elding, and confequently a woman abfolutely in his
power. However, true it is, as I have fet forth in my
Anfwer to the third Article, that Elding did offer me by
this Alford and other perfons, both Money and other
things to difcharge him from his Imprifonment without
Tryal, but I always refufed them with Indignation ; and
f he does not anywhere in her Affidavit fay that I receiv'd
any Moneys, or the other things therein mentioned from
her, but that f he carried fome, and delivered others, which
indeed was true, but they were as soon returned as deliv-
ered by her the faid Alford, with feveral Rebukes for
offering the fame.
Bef ides, if I had taken the Bribes here mention'd, I
muft certainly have done the Work they were given for,
that is, fet Elding at Liberty, which was never done till
the feizing of me as afore faid.
Note. This Affidavit is without any Date.
MY LORDS.
In the Rear of my Accufation I find a fenfelefs Story
call'd the Narrative of one Michael Cole, and does not in
any ways tend to the proving any of the Articles exhib-
ited againft me, but throughout it carries a most vehe-
ment Spirit of Malice upon the remembrance of a Cor-
rection I gave him for affronting and abuf ing me to my
Face in the grofeft manner imaginable. And, as too much
the greateft part of his Narration, he Swears as he is
Credibly inform'd, as he is told by feveral Persons, as they
faid, and as he believes, and fets forth long Difcourfes be-
tween him and my Man, and how far I shall be obliged
to anfwer every Idle Story every particular Perfon f hall
publifh of me, I leave to Your Lordf hips to determine.
But to what he has related, as to Facts within his Knowl-
edge, that are material (with Submiif ion) to make anfwer
122 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
unto, I beg leave to tell Your Lordf hips the following
Truths. Providence muft be allowed to be as conf idera-
bly Scituated as anyColony in the West-Indies, as well for
the advantage of England, as for the annoying and keep-
ing in awe the Spaniards, therefore the want of Inhab-
itants, and confequently of Force to make a good Defence
of it, made me always cautious how I fuffer'd anybody to
go off when Shipping came near the If land, till I had
them under the Command of the Fort, left I might either
lofe the People by an Enemy carrying them away, orfome
Treachery that may be ufed to Invite Pyrates or Strangers
to cut us off. This Cole came before the Place, and with-
uot f hewing any Colours, kept off a confiderable time ;
the Place was all Allarm'd, and the People in Arms ; dur-
ing which fufpence I fired a Shot, either to fend him
away or bring him af hoar, the laft of which it did, after
he had ftay'd off almoft two Hours, as he acknowledges
in his Narrative. But upon demanding the reafon why
he made no more hafle, he (with an Infolency unbecom-
ing him to offer and me to bear), with his Hat on, and a
fupercilious look, told me, That he knew the Indies, and
what Respect to pay, but where he found none due, he
thought none ought to be shewn. Notwithftanding such
a Provocation, I being always inclined to keep the People
in perfect Peace and Unity, I pass'd over that Affront,
and demanded his Letters : upon his delivery of which
(with no fmall reluctancy) I open'd feveral that were di-
rected to Perfons that I had great reafon to fufpect, and
found a Correfpondence carrying on between feveral Pri-
vateers and the Colony, which, if not prevented, muft of
courfe have ruined the Settlement, and thereby have been
an extraordinary lofs both to the Crown and Proprietors.
In a day or two afterwards, a Portuguefe Ship in Diftrefs
came in, who was amicably receiv'd by me and reliev'd ;
but upon fetting out a Proclamation, That no body f hould
go on Board without particular Leave, left the thinnefs of
the Grarrifon and our uncapablenefs of ref ifting an Enemy
f hould be known, he, this Cole: in the Night time, went
on Board, difcovered our Mifortunes, and inform'd him of
all the Particulars of the Place, an account of which the
WEST INDIES, IN 1702, 123
Portuguese Captain himself gave me the next day at
Dinner in my own Houfe. But when this Cole, a few
days afterwards, tore down a Proclamation I had order'd
to be fet up, bidding me to my Face, kifs his A , and
feveral other unsupportable Affronts, I was provok'd to
give him three or four Blows with a fmall Cane, and know
not but his Head might be broke, though he went away,
and feern'd to have little hurt thereby.
And as to the Bermudian Sloop in this Narration, I
f hall here faithfully relate the whole Fact, and fet down
the Reafons for and manner of her Seizure and Condem-
nation. Soon after my arrival at Providence, Informa-
tion was given me upon the Oaths of feveral Perfons, of
feveral Bermudian Sloops who had cut, and were cutting,
and taking on Board Brazeletta Wood from fome of the
remoteft of the Bahama If lands, without Entering and
Clearing, as the Law directs. Upon which I order'd out
a Sloop, with Commiff ion to Search among the faid
If lands, in thofe places of them where that fort of wood
and other Dying Woods grew, and where Salt was made
and Ambergreefe found ; and upon their fearch there they
found one Tucker on a Bermudian Sloop, cutting Braza-
letta Wood, but had taken little or none on board, being
just returned from St. Thomas's, a Danifh If land, to
which Place fome few Months before he had carried her
full of the faid wood, without Entring or Clearing, or
paying Her Majesty's Cuftoms, or the Lords Proprietors'
Dues, as Oath was made before me by a Perfon who was
then present on the Place, and pof itively fwore to that
Individual VelTel and to feveral of the Men taken on
Board her, for which reafon fhe was feized und brought
down to Providence. When I was told that this Tucker
and his Sloop had been long practifed in this Trade, for
that, about ten or eleven Months before that time, in the
time of the preceding Governour, and in the Salt Season,
without Entring or Clearing at Providence, he took in his
Load of Salt, and carry ed it out of that Government to
fome place where he could beft difpofe of it. And ac,
cordingly I found an Information thereof upon Oath-
Recorded in the Books, which had been made before my
faid Predeceffor (howbeit at that time the faid Tucker
124 THE GOVERNOR OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
and his VefTel made their Escape and could not be taken)
upon this the faid Sloop was libell'd by the Attorney-Gen-
eral for loading the faid Salt on board, contrary to Law,
and was brought to a Tryal at the Court of Admiralty,
before John Dogget, Esq., then Judge of the faid Court,
and upon full Evidence of the faid Tucker and his Mate's
Voluntary Confeff ing the feveral Charges in the Libel to
be true, the Jury found her Guilty, after which f he was
Condemn'd by the aforefaid Judge, who, at the fame time,
asked the Mafter if he would appeal to England, but he
did not, nor would appeal, knowing that feveral Bermu-
dian Veffels had been Condemn'd before for the fame Fact ;
bef ides, that had f he been Libell'd for the other Facts
before related, there was very fufficient proof againft her ;
and indeed, it has been the Common Trade and Practice
of the Bermudians for many Years paft to cut and carry
the faid Dying Wood to Carefoa and St. Thomas's, the
one a Dutch and the other a Danif h If land, contrary to
Law, and to Her Majesty's Lofs of forty or fifty f hillings
per Tun, bef ides the Tenths due to the Lords : And,
unlefs fome care be taken at Bermudas to prevent its In-
habitants Sloops going to the Bahama If lands, unlefs they
firit give fecurity there that they fhall take no fuch
Goods as aforefaid on board, without due Entrings and
Clearings, Her Majefty and the Proprietors will be con-
ftantly Robb'd and Wrong'd by them.
My Lords,
From the faid Articles and what I have laid down in
Anfwer to them, Your Lordf hips may pleafe to obferve.
First, A very extraordinary Malice from three or four
Perfons inftigated by my preventing them from commit-
ting feveral Crimes and Enormities, to which they have
been long innurr'd, And that they have induftriously fer-
mented it to fuch a degree that it has taken hold of fev-
eral of the People.
Secondly, That though they had all the opportunity
they could wif h for, even the whole People in their Pow-
er, Her Majefty's, the Lords Proprietors, and my own
Wealth, and alfo Time fufficient in their Hands, they have
WEST INDIES, IN 1702. 125
not fo much as attempted to prove a tenth part of what
they alledge.
Thirdly, That what they have endeavour'd to prove,
comes fo f hort of Proof that upon a ftrict Examination of
it, and what I have faid in anfwer, I think (with all def-
erence to your Lordf hips) it will appear to be little or
no Proof at all.
Fourthly, That the People never made any Remon-
ftrance to me of any Grievances or Oppreff ions, in order
to have them redrefs'd ; nor did any Dif like of me appear
in them till this Outrage was committed by a few of them
upon the Provocations aforefaid.
Fifthly, That they never reprefented thefe Grievances
to your Lordf hips, nor the Commiflioners of Trade, till
after they had seized on me.
Now (My Lords), If a few People Inftigated by Malice,
Interefl, or Revenge, f hall (as it were) Execute me, and
confifcate all I have in the World to their own Ufes, with-
out fo much as a Tryal, or a Complaint firft made to me,
or any of my Superiours, of their Injuries, and after Ex-
ecution fend me with my Accufations at my back from all
means of Justification, to wit, my Papers, and all Perfons
who could have been Witneffes for me : And if thefe
People f hall be Juftified in their Actions, I am fure Your
Lordfhips cannot be Infenfible to the Extraordinary In-
juftice that will thereby be done to Her Majefty and all
her Subjects : And that it may prove the Deftruction of
Her Majefly's Plantations and Colonies in all parts of the
World.
Wherefore I doubt not but Your Lordfhips will remedy
this unexampled Abufe, and do fomething for my Relief,
and the great Sufferings I have fuftain'd in my Perfon,
Eftate, and Reputation.
FINIS.
[Colonial Office Papers, 5,1261,126.]
THE KITCHEN FAMILY OF SALEM.
BY G. ANDREWS MORIARTY, JR., A. M.
ONE of the most prominent of the early merchant fam-
ilies of Salem at the close of the seventeenth century was
the Kitchen family, a family long extinct on the male line
and now almost forgotten, but which in its time stood
second to none among the early mercantile families which
built up Salem's trade long before the Derbys and Crown-
inshields had begun to figure as merchant princes.
1. JOHN KITCHEN, the first mention of whom we have
on 2Q March, 1635, when he embarked at Wey mouth,
England, as the servant (apprentice) of Zachery Bick-
nell (later of Wey mouth, Mass.), aged 21 years, appears
to have been born in or about the year 1619, for on
10 : 10 : 1661, he, aged about forty-two years, testified in
the case of Burton v. Porter. On 23 : 4 : 1642, he was
granted a 10 acre lot at Salem, and he joined the First
Church on 26: 12: 1642. He was a freeman 28 Feb.,
1643. From the first, Kitchen appears to have been a
stirring and bold character and appears frequently before
the Court for his boldness in speaking out his opinions. In
Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts it is recorded that
he was fined for showing books " which he was bidden to
show the Governour and no other." In spite of his quar-
rels with the Puritan authorities, he was frequently on the
jury, and on 19 : 9 : 1649, he was chosen constable of
Salem. A strong character and frequently at war with
the Bay government, Kitchen eagerly embraced the doc-
trines of the Quakers, of which sect his wife was a de-
voted adherent, and their names constantly occur among
those fined for failure to attend the Puritan Church. His
wife was the victim at this time of a brutal and ruffianly
attack at the hands of that zealous saint, Edmund Batter,
who found her, as he supposed, returning one morning
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BY Q. ANDREWS MORI ARTY, JR., A. M. 127
from a Quaker meeting. On 25 : 9: 1662, the Court,
" considering ye unworthy and malignant speeches and
carriages of John Kitchen in open Court doe see cause
to displace him from ye office of sargent of ye foot com-*
pany " and fined him 30 shillings. The persecution in-
flicted upon Kitchen and his wife for their religious opin-
ions was very severe, and he paid upwards of 40 ster-
ling in fines for the sin of being a Quaker. John Kitchen
was a cordwainer by trade, and died in 1675-6, leaving a
goodly estate including considerable realty, His will
was dated 20 Dec., 1675 ; proved 30 : 4 : 1676. In it he
leaves his house and land to his wife Elizabeth, his orchard
and other lands to his son Robert, and mentions his other
children. His inventory was taken on 30 : 4 : 1676, and
amounted to 398: 4: 00.
Kitchen appears to have had two wives, each named
Elizabeth, for upon 26 : 12 : 1642, John Kitchen and
wife were admitted to the First Church. After the word
'* wife " in the record is written the word " dead." Now
on 10 : 3: 1640, Elizabeth Saunders was admitted to the
First Church, and after her name is written, evidently
later on, " i. e. Kitchen." On 8 : 5 mo. 1661, " John
Kitchen, shoemaker, and John Saunders, seaman, son in
law to ye said John Kitchen," sold land to John Williams
of Salem in the North Fields. The will of John San-
ders, dated on 12 Oct., 1643, proved 28 : 10 mo. 1643,
mentions 4< my father in law Joseph Grafton." The will
of Joseph Grafton being defective, was not allowed, but
the heirs, on 26 June, 1681, agreed to divide the property
according to the will, and in the division we find a be-
quest to Robert Kitchen of 5, and to his three sisters of
20 shillings each. On 1 November, 1675, Elizabeth
Kitchen, aged 50 years, testified thus, showing she was
born in or about 1625. From the above it will appear
that she was undoubtedly the child of Capt. Joseph Graf-
ton, although somewhat older than most of his children,
and was probably the child of a first wife in England.
Elizabeth Kitchen, who should be venerated for her suf-
ferings at the hands of the Bay authorities because of her
Quaker principles, was alive as late as 3 March, 1678-9.
128 THE KITCHEN FAMILY OP SALEM,
Children by first wife Elizabeth :
2. ELIZABETH, bapt. 12 : 1 : 1643, First Church, Salem.
3. HANNAH, bapt. 12 : 1 : 1643, First Church, Salem.
He also had probably by this first wife :
4. JOSEPH, bapt. 20: 2: 1645; probably d. young.
5. JOHN, bapt. 12: 4: 1646; probably d. young.
6. MARY, bapt. 23: 2: 1648; m. 20 Feb., 1665, Timothy Robinson.
John and Elizabeth Sanders (Grrafton) Kitchen had :
7. ROBERT, bapt. 15: 2: 1655.
8. BENJAMIN, b. 28 : 6: 1660; d. 15: 7: 1660.
9. ABIGAIL, m., 3 : 4 : 1669, John Guppy.
10. PBISCILLA, m., Oct., 1672, Nathaniel Hunn of Boston.
7. LIEUT. ROBERT KITCHEN was baptized at the First
Church, Salem, 15 : 2 : 1658, and died there 28 October,
1712. He was an eminent citizen and merchant of
Salem, trading with Barbados and London. On 27 June,
1682, he was forepaan of a trial jury, and on 12 June,
1688, a selectman. On 28 July, 1692, he was chosen
town clerk, and again in 1694. He was lieutenant of the
Salem company in 1689. On 14 March, 1683/4, he tes-
tifies that about four years since he was in Barbados. He
appears to have been at that time master of a vessel trad-
ing with the West Indies. He gradually acquired great
wealth and became one of the leading merchants of Salem
in his time and was a close friend of the Sewells. On 28
April, 1690, one of his vessels which was acting as a
transport in the expedition against Port Royal, was cap-
tured by the enemy. He was buried in the family tomb
on Pickering Hill (Broad street), with the following in-
scription : " Here lyes inter'd ye body of Mr. Robert
Kitchen, who departed this life October ye 28, 1712,
aetatis 56." His will is dated 25 Feb., 1606/7; proved 1
January, 1712/13.
Robert Kitchen, contrary to the usual belief of such
persons as have investigated his life, had two wives. It
has been usually stated that he married only once, viz.,
Bethia, daughter of Dr. Daniel Weld of Salem. Now,
inasmuch as Bethia was born at Cambridge, 24 January,
1667/8, and as Robert Kitchen's wife was assigned a
BY G. ANDREWS MORIARTY, JR., A. M. 129
place in the " first pew seate of ye womens behind the
pews " on 31 May, 1681, it would appear that Kitchen's
wife at that time must have been somebody else. This
conclusion is confirmed in a petition of Timothy Lindall
(who married Robert Kitchen's daughter Bethia) dated
June, 1748, in his case against Edward Kitchen, in which
he states that his daughter had received a legacy from
her grandmother, Madam Bethia Kitchen, and that this
daughter was the only surviving descendant of Madam
Bethia with the exception of the said Edward. Yet we
know that at this time Edward's sister, Mary Turner, and
her children were living, and it is thus clear that she was
a daughter by a former marriage. Now Samuel Sewell,
in his Diary, under date of 24 Aug., 1688, records that
he travelled from Salem to Boston with the widow Board-
man and " Mr. Kitchen's daughter that he had by Mary
Boardman." This is clearly Mary, the daughter of Wil-
liam Boardman of Cambridge, born 9 March, 1656, whose
subsequent career has hitherto been unknown. Robert
Kitchen then married, first, before 31 May, 1681, Mary,
daughter of Major William Boardman of Cambridge, the
first steward of Harvard University, and married, second-
ly, before 17 July, 1688, Bethia, daughter of Dr. Daniel
Weld, A. B., of Salem, surgeon general to the New Eng-
land army at the great swamp fight in December, 1675.
Children of Robert and Mary (Boardman) Kitchen:
11. JOHN, bapt. April, 1683. He was living when his father made
his will, and had been residing some time in London. He
probably died without issue, as there is no further trace of
him in the Salem records.
12. ELIZABETH, bapt. April, 1683; d. before her father made his
will, s. p.
13. MARY, bapt. 27 May, 1684; m. Hon. Col. John Turner of
Salem, member of His Majesty's Council; d. at Ipswich be-
tween 16 Feb., 1768, and 29 Aug., 1768.
Children of Robert and Bethiah (Weld) Kitchen : .
14. ROBERT, bapt. July 17, 1688 ; d. young.
15. BETHIA, bapt. 10 Nov., 1689; m. (int. 27 May, 1714), as his sec-
ond wife, Hon. Timothy Lindall of Salem, speaker of the
Provincial Assembly in 1714. She d. 20 June, 1720, leaving
130 THE KITCHEN FAMILY OP SALEM.
him two daughters, Bethia and Mary Lindell, both of whom
died without issue.
16. ROBEBT, bapt. 11 June, 1699; d. 20 September, 1716, while an
undergraduate of Harvard University. In 1717, Rev. Cotton
Mather published a volume entitled "The Voice of the
Dove, with a Memoir of Mr. Robert Kitchen, Student of
Harvard."
17. EDWARD, bapt. 18 August, 1700.
17. EDWARD KITCHEN, an eminent Salem merchant,
whose portrait* accompanies this article, beside the large
estate he had in Salem, acquired extensive grants of land
at Oxford, Massachusetts, which eventually passed to the
Walcotts. He married, in 1730, Freake, daughter of
Josiah and Mary (Freake) Walcott. She died 17 Jan.,
1746/7. Edward Kitchen made his will 5 July, 1765,
proved 11 Sept., 1766. He bequeathed to his sister Mary
Turner, ,800, to his kinswomen, Mrs. Elizabeth Berr} r ,
Mary Bowditch and Eunice Balston, <66 : 13 : 4 ; to
Edward Kitchen Turner, son of John Turner, Esq., his
dwelling house ; to his aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner, and
his kinsman Capt. John Gardner ; to his kinswoman Mrs.
Ruth Putnam, and his kinsman Josiah Walcott. He left
in addition ,133: 6: 00 to the college at Cambridge,
and to Mrs. Sarah Thomas, wife of Mr. Nathaniel Thomas
of Marshfield, and to his housekeeper Mrs. Sarah Grant,
<40. The residue was left to his kinsman John Turner.
With Edward Kitchen this distinguished family of Salem
merchants became extinct. Its blood transmitted through
females is represented to-day by the Turner, Sargent, Bow-
ditch and Moriarty families.
Children of Edward and Freake (Walcott) Kitchen :
18. MARY, b. 2 Oct., 1732; d. 28 Oct., 1738.
19. ROBEBT, b. 1 Oct., 1735; d. 20 Dec., 1736.
*Now in the possession of Andrew W. Sigourney, Esq., of Worcester, by whose
consent the accompanying reproduction was obtained.
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX
COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS.
(Continued from Volume L, page
By Capt. Phillips who arrived here last week from
Newfoundland, we are informed, that four Men of War
were arrived there from England, and that one of them
had been to St. Peter's, where they sent in a Tender, who
seized three English and nine French Vessels, that were
trading there contrary to the late Treaty of Peace and
bro't them to St. John's ; that a French Man of War was
laying in the Harbour of St. Peter's at the same time, who
was ordered to depart immediately, otherwise the English
Commodore would send for them also ; upon which they
began to make Preparations for sailing. Two of the
Vessels that were seized belonged to Cape Ann the other
to Marblehead. 'Tis said the Governor of Newfoundland
was determined to prevent all Trade with the French in
those Parts for the future.
Boston Evening Post, July 22, 1765.
Capt. Grounsell, who is arrived at Marblehead from the
West Indies, informs that he spoke with Capt. Ball, of
this Port, 13 Days ago, bound for South Carolina from
the Coast of Guinea having on board about 200 Slaves.
We hear from Newbury, that one Brown, formerly
a Journeyman Barber in this Town, hanged himself there
on Monday last.
Boston Evening Post, August 19, 1765.
We hear from Haverhill, that last week a number of
Men were inlisted there, at Eight Dollars Bounty ; they
are said to be intended for an Independent Company, but
what Service they are to be employed in is only as yet con-
jectured ; however the People at that Place, to the num-
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132 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
her of upwards of 300, were so dissatisfied that they
waited upon the inlisting Officer in a body to enquire the
Reason of this Proceeding, but not receiving a satisfac-
tory answer, they peremptorily informed him that not
one Person who was so inlisted should be carried out of
the Place.
Boston Evening Post, September 9, 1765.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ANY Person
skilled in the Business of Chimney-Sweeping, that the In-
habitants of Marblehead are in want of such a Person ;
and any such one applying to the Selectmen of said Town
will find good Encouragement.
Boston Evening Post, September 23, 1765.
For some Days past there has been shewn in this Town
a remarkable large live Hog, whose weight is 973 Ib. is up-
wards of 10 Feet long from the Snout to the End of the
Tail, and in Height 4 Feet 2 Inches. It was raised at Cape
Ann, is between 2 and 3 Years old, and is thought to be
the largest ever seen in this Country.
Boston Evening Post, September 30, 1765.
1o Jacob Fowle and William Bourn, Esq'rs, the present
Representatives of the Town of Marblehead.
Gentlemen,
We the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the said
Town of Marblehead, in Town-Meeting assembled, the
Twenty fourth day of September, A. D. 1765, professing
the greatest Loyalty to our most gracious Sovereign, and
our sincere Regard and profound Reverence for the
British Parliament as the most powerful and respectable
Body of Men on Earth, yet, at the same time being
deeply sensible of the Difficulties and Distresses, to
which that august Assembly's late Exertion of their
Power, in and by the Stamp Act, must necessarily expose
us, think it proper, in the present critical conjuncture of
Affairs, to give you the following INSTRUCTION, viz.
That you promote, and readily join in, such dutiful
Remonstrances and humble Petitions to the King and
Parliament, and other decent Measures, as may have a
Tendency to obtain a Repeal of the Stamp- Act, or Alle-
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 133
viation of the heavy Burdens thereby imposed on the
American British Colonies. And for as much as great
Tumults, tending to the Subversion of Government, and
the great Keproach of the Inhabitants of this Province
have lately happened, and several Outrages committed by
some evil-minded People in the Capital Town thereof
You are, therefore, directed to bear your Testimony
against, and do all in your Power to suppress and prevent,
all riotous Assemblies and unlawful Acts of Violence
upon the Persons or Substance of any of his Majesty's
Subjects :
And that you do not give your Assent to any Act of
Assembly that shall imply the Willingness of your Con-
stituents, to submit to any internal Taxes, that are im-
posed otherwise than by the Great and General Court of
this Province, according to the Constitution of this Gov-
ernment.
Other Matters we leave to your Prudence, trusting you
will act, as we apprehend you have ever done, consistent
with Honour and Justice to your Constituents and with
due Regard to the publick Welfare.
Boston Evening Post, October 14, 1765.
We hear that Numbers of young Persons in the Coun-
try are joining in Wedlock, earlier than they intended,
supposing that the 1st of this Month, it would be difficult
to have the Ceremony without paying dearly for stamp-
ing : No less than 22 Couple were published on Sunday
last at Marblehead, intending Marriage on the same Ac-
counts.
Boston Evening Post, October 14, 1765.
At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Habitants
of the Town of Rowley, held October 10, 1765, Capt.
Daniel Spafford was chosen Moderator. Voted, That the
Hon. John Hobson, Esq ; Messrs. Nathaniel Mighill, Sam-
uel Northend, Jacob Jewett, Capt. G-eorge Jewett, Mr.
Thomas Lancaster, Thomas G-age, Esq; Mr. Abraham
Adams, John Pearson, Capt. John Northend, and Mr.
Thomas Merrill, be a committee to draw up instructions
for the Representative of this town at the great and gen-
eral court of this province, and report as soon as may be.
134 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTS'.
The committee appointed for the purpose aforesaid
unanimously reported the following Draft, which being
read, was unanimously accepted, viz.
To Humphry Hobson, Esq :
SIR, You will not interpret the manifestation of the
minds of your constituents, upon so alarming an occasion
as that of complying or refusing a compliance with a
Stamp-Act (so much agitated) as an effect of their dis-
trust of your ability or fidelity, but as a prudent step
taken, hereby to prevent all unwarrantable suspicions that
might arise hereafter, and to leave upon record a lasting
testimony to posterity, that we do not quietly, and for no
consideration, give up our and their inestimable Rights as
British subjects. Therefore, in reference to the Stamp-
Act, we would say That considering the present state of
the province as extremely low and destressed, occasioned
by the late expensive war, and the scant produce of some
of the necessaries of life for some summers past; for
which reason much of our money has been exported to
foreign parts, in exchange for necessary commodities ;
whereby we are so reduced, as scarcely to be able to sup-
port ourselves and throw off the yearly load of publick
tax : Considering the said act not only as unconstitu-
tional (as we apprehend) and an invasion upon our char-
ter rights and privileges, but so calculated as to carry off
perhaps the greater part of our medium of trade, which
as yet survives the above mentioned calamities ; Consider-
ing the said act, in its execution, as destruction of the
dearest part of our liberty ; by admitting it as lawful to
prosecute and punish the transgressors of it in the court
of admiralty, and so depriving us of the privilege of a
jury : And considering it in its probable consequences,
as an introduction to a train of other acts of a similiar
oppressive nature (each of which particulars pursued af-
fords a gloomy prospect), all the considerations though
but just hinted at, appear so weighty, that though we are
sensible a non-compliance must be attended with many
and grevious difficulties : yet, as a compliance threatens
utter ruin, we cannot, we dare not, and we instruct and
advise you not to give your consent for its taking place in
this province : But to make that vigorous opposition there-
to, as is requisite from the importance and moment of our
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 135
confirmed charter rights, and least inconsistent with due
deference paid to the British authority.
Further, we intimate our sentiments to you, that you
forbear acting in an application of the publick monies
towards a compensation of the loss which any private
person or persons may have sustained, or to any other use
than as has been usual.
You likewise have our consent and advice, to bear pub-
lick testimony against, and to go into all proper measures
to prevent such disorders and outrages as have been or
may be committed, contrary to the laws provided for pri-
vates quietly and peaceably enjoying each his own prop-
erty.
Attest. Humphry Hobson, Town-Clerk.
Boston Evening Post, October 21, 1765.
Whereas it has been currently, and injuriously reported,
that I the Subscriber have determined to take the Stamp
Paper and Use them in the Course of my Business, and that
if they were not to be obtained otherways, that I would send
to Halifax for them : which Report is a very great Mistake ;
for I have determined, and still determine, that I will not
take or use them, unless People in general do it, being under
no Necessity for such a Conduct in the Course of my affairs:
and I am fully convinced it is the Opinion of the People in
Trade in this Town to conduct themselves in the same Man-
ner, notwithstanding what has been said to the contrary.
Rob. Hooper.
Marblehead, 19 Octo. 1765.
Boston Evening Post, October 21, 1765.
At a meeting of the Freeholders and other inhabitants
of the Town of Salem, lawfully qualified to vote in Town
affairs at the Court-House (so called) in the same Town,
October 21, 1765, after the choice of the Hon. Benjamin
Pickman, Esq ; for Moderator of the Meeting, it was
among other things voted as follows, viz.
To Andrew Oliver & William Browne, JZsqs. Repre-
sentatives for the Town of Salem
Gentlemen, We the inhabitants of said Salem, being
fully convinced that the act lately pass'd by the Par-Par-
liament of Great Britain, commonly called the Stamp-
Act ; would if carried into execution be excessively griev-
136 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNT?.
ous and burthensome to the Inhabitants of this his Majes-
ty's loyal province ; and productive of the most fatal
consequences of our trade, as it must soon drain us of
the medium necessary for carrying it on and be injuri-
ous to liberty, since we are therein tax'd without our con-
sent, having no Representative in Parliament But if in
any sense we are supposed to be represented, most cer-
tainly it is by such only as have an interest in laying bur-
thens upon us/or their own relief. And further as we are
hereby deprived of another most valuable right, that of
trial by juries^ and instead of it, have the power of the
Courts of Admiralty further extended, which must be
destructive of Liberty.
As these are some of our sentiments of this Act, and
as we suppose it may be agreeable to you, to be acquaint-
ed with them, in the present extraordinary and critical
situation of our civil interests ; and we would as much
as possible prevent the mischiefs we apprehend must
arise from it ; and would give a public testimony of our
disapprobation thereof. We do hereby request you to do
every thing you legally and prudently may, towards ob-
taining a repeal of the STAMP ACT, trusting you will
use your whole influence on this important occasion, that
the evils we so justly dread may be avoided, which this
town must largely partake of beyond most others in this
government.
And whereas a riotous temper has unhappily prevailed
in several towns in this province to the subversion of
laws the terror of his Majesty's subjects and the de-
struction of private property, by which the public har-
mony has been broken, and our confidence in each other
greatly lessened and almost lost : And as internal dis-
cords and divisions have a tendency to prevent the repeal
and facilitate the execution of the Act, and to bring on
us the inconveniences we fear WE do further request
you, vigorously to pursue all such measures as tend to
suppress tumultuous proceedings to prevent lawless
outrage and violence and to promote public harmony,
order and tranquility.
Boston Evening Post, October 28, 1765.
(To be continued.)
THE PKOBATE BECOKDS OF ESSEX COUNTY,
MASSACHUSETTS.
(Continued from Vol. LI, page 80.)
ESTATE OF JOHN FAIRFIELD OF WENHAM.
" The 11 th day of the 10 mo December 1646 : To god be
the prayse, I John ffayrefeild beinge in perfect memory
though weake in Boddy doe make this my last will and Tes-
tament in manner & forme as followeth. ... I doe Give
and Bequeath to Elizabeth my beloued wife my pte of house
& ground which I haue in Coptnershipe with Joseph [Bat]ch-
elder to her & to her Heires foreuer Item : I doe giue vnto
my wife all my moueables within dores and without as
namely my Cowes Cattle Swine Corne Housall Implyments
and vtensels Bed bedinge Lininge Woollinge Brass Peuter
inony Debts and whatsoeuer is mine either in Possession or
accruinge or belonginge to me for her the said Elizabeth to
haue and inioy the same as her owne fee Simple to disposs
of at her pleasure without Interruption or molestation from
any other, and also my will is that my said wife shall haue
the vse and occupation of the house I now Hue in and the
ground Appertayninge thereunto and of my fear me had
from Salem ; vntill such time as Beniamen my yongest sonne
shall Come to twenty yeeres of Age ; And then my. ininde
and will is that this house & Land & my moueable Goods ||
then remaininge || shall all be equally in the proportion de-
vided, betwine my wife, and three Children || soe many of
them as shall then survive \\ . And further this is my will
that my wife shall see the bringinge vp of my Children
Christian Like and Honestly and alsoe the due disposall of
them vnto such honest occupations or lawefull Callings or
Conditions of life as she in her wisedom with the advice of
the supervisors of this my will shall esteem most meete, this her
said Care of them to extend towards my said Children vntill
my yongest son Beniamine Comes to twenty yeeres of age And
Likewise my will and pleasure is my sonne Walter shall rest
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138 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
himself satisfied with what I heere haue done as Concern-
inge him and to take it as my minde and advice that he
would ap prone hiniselfe dutifull vnto his Mother vpon whose
Curtisy he shall depend for ought elce he might expect ; Al-
soe my niinde is my said wife shall make no estripp or
wast of Timber fensinge, and shall keepe my said houses in
good & sufficient Keperrations and my ground sutably fenced
and inclosed accordinge as she finds the same duringe the
same space of Tearme, and in Cause she shall disposs her
selfe in inarryage that then she shall before the solemnisinge
of the same enter into sufficyent bond & security for the
fulfillment of this my will vnto the Supervisors, further my
minde and will is that for my gunes and swordes : my Chril-
drne shall haue the vse of them as need require Item I
giue vnto Mathew Edwards my Cossen Twenty Acres of vp-
land lyinge within my fearme had from Salem with two acres
of middow to be laid out most indifferently by my supvisors
to injoy it at one and twenty yeeres of Age. Item I Con-
stitute And ordayne Elizabeth my wife sole Executrix And
my Louinge and well approued freinds Mr. Henery Barthol-
omew of Salem and Robert t Hawes of Salem these two
Supvisars to this my last will and Testament. In witnes
where of I haue set to my hand and Seale."
his mark
John m Fairefild.
Witness : Jo. Fiske, William Fiske, Robert Hawes.
Proved 7:5: 1647, by William Fiske and Robert Hawes,
and 8:5: 1647, by Jo. Fiske. Essex County Quarterly Court
Files, vol. 1, leaf 77.
Inventory taken 23 : 10 : 1646, and sworn to by widow Eliz-
abeth Fairfield, 7:5: 1647 : One dwelling house, 71i. 10s. ;
seven tie five Acres of upland and seven acres of meddow, 2 Hi.
16s. ; fearme of Eightie Acres of upland and eight acres of
meddow, 61i. ; a Joynte purchase with Joseph Bachelder,
containing fortie eight Acres of upland and three Acres of
meddow & a dwelling house and a Cowhouse & Come sowed
upon it, lOli. ; wheat unthrashed, Hi. ; Rye unthrashed, Hi. ;
Indian corne, 81i. 15s. ; five loads of hay, 21i. 10s. ; three
cowes, 131i. 10s. ; three yeereling Calves, 41i. 16s.; one suck-
ing calfe, 8s. ; one fatt Hogge, 21i. 10s. ; one sow , Hi. 15s. ;
one hogg, Hi. 8s. ; two shotts, Hi. 4s. ; three piggs, Hi. 4s. ;
one feather bed & Bolster & five feather pillowes, 31i. ; under
bed, one greene rugge and one blankett, Hi. 12s. 6d. ; one
feather bed, one feather boulster and one flock boulster, 21i.
THE PROBATE .RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 139
5s. ; two coverlits, one pillow and two under Blankets, 16s.
6d. ; Greene lincye woolsie curtaynes and a darnick Vallience,
Hi. ; one Bedstead and cord, 5s. 6d. ; fowre payre of old
sheets, Hi. 4s. ; two sheets and a halfe of fine flax, Hi. 8s. ;
fowre pillowbeeres, 8s. ; two diaper boord clothes and one
little playne boord clothes, 10s. ; two diaper napkins and
three playne napkins, 4s. ; two hand towells & one old boord
Cloth, 4s. ; one great brass Kettle, 18s. ; one middle brass
kittle, 12s. ; one lesser brass kittle, 7s. ; one brass bakiuge
pann with a Cover to it, 7s. ; three brass skillitts and a brass
scommer, 5s. ; one small iron pott, 2s. ; five peuter dishes,
9s. ; two fruitt dishes and two sawcers, 3s. 6d. ; fowre peuter
porringers, 2s. 4d. ; one pinte pott of peuter, 2s. ; one double
salt of pewter, Is. 6d. ; one peuter Candlestick, Is. 8d. ; six
pewter spoones, 6d. ; a chamber pott of pewter, 2s. ; two
chests, 10s. ; three boxes, 3s. ; one cubbortt, 5s. 6d. ; two
payles, 2s. ; one beere barrell, 5s. ; one spitt, 2s. ; a payre of
andyrons, 3s. ; a gridiron, Is. 6d. ; a frying pan, Is. ; a payre
of tongs & fyre shovell, Is. 6d. ; a warming pan, 2s. 6d. ;
a muskett with a fyrelock, 14s. ; an old Eowlinge peece, 14s. ;
a pistoll dag, 5s. ; a sword and bandlears, 8s. ; a beetle &
fowre wedges, 4s. ; two old axes, 3s. ; a crosscutt saw, 8s. ; a
hand saw & two old shovells and payre of pinsons, 4s. ; twen-
ty-three harrow tines, 4s. 9d. ; three hanginge locks, 2s. ; an
iron foot, Is. ; two payre of hookes & eyes for a gatte, 2s. ;
a browne bill, 2s. ; an iron spade, 4s. ; twenty pounds of lead-
inge weights, 5s. ; old iron, 5s. ; three sickles, 2s. ; a Bible
with Bezes notes, 10s. ; a smoothing iron, 2s. ; a black stuff
sute, Hi.; an old jerkin and bretches of silke russet cloth,
12s. ; an old full coate and whood, Hi. ; an old Black hatt,
2s. ; a payre of boots, Is. 6d. ; a wicker fan, 4s.; a halfe bush-
ell and halfe peck measure, 2s. 6d. ; two old hoggs heads, 4s. ;
a barrell with a cover, 3s. ; hempe, 5s. ; two baggs, 2s. ; fower
trayes, 3s. ; a trundle bed, 5s. ; a broad box, 6d. ; a wheele
barrow, Is. 6d. ; fower old howes and an old garden rake, 3s. ;
a pitchfork and a dung f orke, 2s. ; a woollinge wheele and a
lingeinge wheele, 6s. 8d. ; a brason morter & pestell, 3s. ;
eighten pound of drest hempe, 12s. ; three old chayres, 3s. ;
two pott racks & a payre of bellowes, 5s. ; a lefcher sack and
an iron peele & some other old iron, 3s. ; a mattocke, 2s. 6d.;
total, 1131i. 3s. 7d. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1 ,
leaf 7 S.
2 cowes, 91i.; 3 steers and heighfers of 2 years old, 71i.
10s. ; 1 calfe under one yeere, 10s.; 1 hogge, 21i. ; a sowe and
a smale pigge, Hi. 4s. ; a bush, of Indian Corne, 3 bush, of
140 THE PROBATE BECOBDS OF ESSEX COUNT Y.
wheate ; total, 2011. 4s. ; for the keeping of the two Children,
the one 2 years & 5 months & the other 2 yeare, lOli. ; the
rent of the Farme & stock, per yeare, 81i. ; the wife's pte.,
41i. ; 1 child 5 inoneths, Hi. ; the estate being devided into
4 pts is to each, 91i. 12s. lOd. Essex County Quarterly Court
Files, vol. 1, leaf 79.
ESTATE OF CHRISTOPHER YONGS OF WENHAM.
" 9 th of 4 th 1647. I Christopher yongs of wenham in the
County of Essex in New England being at the day of the
date hereof in good & pfect memory (although weak in body)
blessing Almighty God therefore, doe make this my last will
& Testarn* in manner as followeth Iinp r imis I committ my-
selfe & mine into the hand of my gracious God & father in
Jesus Christ, to be disposed according to his good pleasure,
beseeching him for pdon of my sins , & relying on the merits
of Christ my Savior for a glorious resurection at the last
day. It. as concerning the outward goods of this life I
bequeath them as followeth as first of all that there be made
out of my Cloath, linin &c. two suits ||of Appel|| a peece for
each of my three Children ||to be sent into England w th them||
& then the rest of my Estate moveable and Immoveable to be
sold or disposed of according to the discretion of my execu-
tors, in pte towards the pviding for my Children whilest
heere remayning in this land, & the seasonable transporta-
tion of them ouer Sea into o r Native County vnto Greate
yarmouth in Norfk in old England, & the Residue that shall
remayne to be sent over vnto my feoffoes of Trust there, to
be imployed by them to the vse of my sd Children. It. my
will & mind is to bequeath my two daughters vnto my deere
mother in Law m ris Elvin in Greate yarmouth entreating her,
& my Zoving father in law m r Elvin her Husband, to take
care of them, at what time the providence of god shall bring
them ouer, when I due also hearby constitute my feofes of
trust together with m r John Philips of wenham or any one
of these at that time surviving to see to the dispose of these
my s d Children, & of what estate shall remaine to be dis-
tributed betwene them. And I doe bequeath my Son in
Special vnto the care of the sd m r John Philips if he shall
then Hue to be disposed of by him as his owne : these my
children to be sent ouer vnto yarmouth aforesd. to be dis-
posed of as specif yed. It. my will & desire is, that my chil-
dren during the time of there abode in this County shall
remayne with my two Sisters, the wife of Joseph Yongs, &
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 141
the wife of Thomas Moore of Salem, they to be allowed for
the time by my executors what may be convenient. It. I
giue my greate Bible to my daughter Sarah, and my lesser
bible to my daughter mary & a booke entitled Of Gods alsuffi-
ciency vnto Christopher my Son, to be carefully p r served for
them & to there use, to enjoy as a remembrance of my affec-
tion & welwishing towards them. & I giue my booke entitled
the Deceitfulriess of mans Heart to my deere freind Ezdras
Kead as a testimony of my love towards him. lastly I doe
heereby constitute & ordeyne my trusty & welbeloued freind
m r William Browne of Salem, Ezdras Kead of Wenhain, &
the wife of Joseph yongs of Salem executors to this my last
will to see to the dispose & transportation of my children,
|| towards my buryall & paym* of my debts || & to the Sale &
dispose of niy estate as heerein is specifyed. & for ther
paynes & expences thereabouts my will & mind is, they
should haue reasonable satisfaction out of my s d goods,
giueing an accompt heereof vnto my Supvisor & finally I doe
heereby make my beloved freind M r Hennery Bartholmew
Supvisor of this my will."
Christopher Yongs [seal]
Witness : John ffiske, Edward spouldyng.
Proved 7:5: 1647, by Edward Spouldyng, and 8 : 5 : 1647
by John ffiske. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1,
leaf 82.
Inventory taken July 5, 1647, by Phinehas Fiske, William
Fiske and Edward Spolding. Sworn to 7 : 5 : 1647, by Esdras
Read, executor : A dwelling House wth five acres of ground
Joyning to it & ten acres more Remote, 81i. 10s. ; one acre &
Quarter of Come on the ground, Hi. 10s. ; Two Cowes, 91i.
10s. ; One Swine, 10s. ; One Lome wth ye Gares belonging to
it & seven Reeds, fowre beinge Hernest & two brassen Reeds
hernest, 31i. 10s. ; One Bedstead & Cords, 12s. ; Curtains &
Yalliants, 5s. ; One f etherbed & Boulster & three f ether Pil-
lows, 31i. 10s. ; One old Rugg, 9s. ; Two old Chests, 4s. ;
Three Iron Potts & two payre of pothooks & a brass Skillett,
Hi. ; One Postiron, a hale & a how, 5s.; Two old axes wth
some old Iron, 2s. ; One Muskett & Rest, 16s. ; One Pewter
basen, a drinkinge pott, three platters, three old saucers, a
salt & an old Porringer, 10s. ; One Bakinge Pan, 6d. ; Two
Lamps, 2s. ; Spoons, Trenchers & Dishes & pipking, Is. 6d. ;
a Box with some Salt, 6d. ; Two Chayres, Is. 6d. ; a Settle,
3s. 4d. \ a Spade, 3s. 4d.; Three trayes, two payles & a
boule, 3s. 2d. ; a Table & Minginge trough, 3s. 4d. ; a Look-
ing Glass, 6d. ; a Smoothing Iron & three knives, 3s. ; two
142 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
bibles & some other old bookes, 13s. 4d. ; one Hogshead wth
Certaine hempe & flax, 5s. ; two Boxes with some other old
things, 5s. 9d. ; Corne, 4s. ; a hammer, 6s. ; a pichforke, Is. ;
two payer of sheets wth other Lininge, 19s. ; five yards &
halfe of serge & lace, Hi. ; a payer of gloves & some hoss
yarne, 5s. 4d. ; line sowinge thrid & a Ruff, 2s. ; Fower
bredthes of old stuff, 5s. ; one payer of upper bodyes, Is. ;
Cartine Tape, Is. 6d. ; a bearinge Cloth, 10s. ; Three Peticots,
fowre wescots, a whood & an Apren, 21i. 13s. ; Three black
wrought Coifes, three Cut worke Coifes, a silke Cap, seven
Cross Clothes, two handkerchiefe, three Aperns, a stuff Cap,
Hi. 5s. ; a Diaper Boordcloth & halfe a dozen diaper napkins,
Hi. ; two yards of Holland & five other psels of new lininge,
12s. ; Certaine Lininge for a Child, 16s. ; Three Sheets & a
peece of new cloth, Hi. 5s.; Certaine other Lininge, 2s. Black
thrid & Gray, Is. 6d. ; a weskott, Is. 6d. ; Two hatts, 10s. ;
Fowre yards of Carsy, Hi. ; a yard & halfe of Carsy, 7s. 6d. ;
a payre of stuff Briches and a peece of Stuff of the same,
Hi. ; Silke & Buttons, Is. ; a Gowne, 15s. ; a Doublett,
Briches & Cott and two payre of Lynings and some other old
Clothes, 14s. ; a payre of Stockings, Is. ; an old Straw bed
and Creadle Rugg with an old Bed Rugg, 6s. ; a Shurtt, 2s.
6d. ; a Butter Pott, Is. ; a persell of Goods sent over this
yeere from Ingland, 2s. 5d. ; a Einge of a beetle, Is. ; an old
Coat, Is. ; Poultry, 3s.; total, 511i. 11s. Essex County Quar-
terly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 83.
The petition of the executors of Christopher Yonge, late
deceased, to have liberty to place the children in this country
and not to send them to old England as expressed in the
will, was granted 26 : 10 : 1648. Salem Quarterly Court Rec-
ords, vol. 3, leaf 3.
ESTATE OF EDITH SMITH.
Will of Edith Smith, made 3: 12mo : 1642, proved 9:
5mo : 1647, by oath of John Robinson. Salem Quarterly
Court Records, vol. 2, page 218.
ESTATE OF GILES BADGER OF NEWBURY.
" The 29 th day of June in the yeare of our Lord 1647 I
Giles Badger of Newbury being sick in body but of pfect
memory thankes be given to god And I doe ordaine & make
my last will & Testam* in mann & forme as followeth first I
give & bequeath my soule to god & my body to the earth to
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 143
be buried in hope to be raised againe in the resurrection by
Jesus Christ my saviour secondly I give & bequeath to my
wife two parts of my estate if she remaine vnmarried & my
will is that my child should have one part the which part my
will is should be paid to my sonne when he is 18 yeares of
age the benefitt of it to be improved for bringing vp vntill
he be 18 yeares of age Likewise my will is that if my wife
doe marry againe that then my wife shall have the one halfe
& my sonne the other halfe to be paid to him when he is 18
yeares of age and soe likewise the benefit of it to be im-
proved for his maintenance. Likwise I doe desire my Chris-
tian frends my father Grreenleff Daniel Perce & Henry Short
& Bichard Knight to diuide my estate betweene my wife &
child." Giles Badger
Witness : Bichard Knight, william Ilesley, Henry Somerbe.
Proved 28 : 7 : 1647, by Bichard Knight. Ipswich Deeds,
vol. 1, leaf 33.
On 27 : 1 : 1649, Mr. Symonds ordered to take the oath of
the other witness. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1,
page 15.
Inventory taken Sept. 12, 1647, by Lt. Edmund Greenleff,
Henry Short, Daniel Pearce and Bichard Knight : Two
Coates, Hi. ; one short coat, 10s. ; one cloth sute, Hi. 4s. ;
one stuff sute, Hi. ; one paire of cloth hose, 13s. ; one leather
sute, Hi. 10s. ; one leather jackett, Hi.; one blew wastcote,
10s. ; a paire of drawers, 3s. ; 2 paire of bootes, one paire
of shoes, 18s. ; 4 paire of stockins, 10s. ; 2 sutes, 2 hatts,
one cap, Hi. ; a muskett, sword, bandaleeres, Hi. 8s. In the
Chamb : one bed, one bowlster, 2 pillowes, a paire of blank-
etts, a paire of sheets, one coverlet & curtins, 71i. 5s. ; one
paire of sheets, Hi.; one sheet, 5s.; 2 chests, Hi. 4s.; a
warming pan, 7d. ; a Cubberd, 2 boxes, Hi. ; a little wheele,
4s. ; 2 pillow beeres, 10s. ; the board cloth, 3 napkins, 10s. ;
a diap. board cloth, 8s. ; in linen yarne 121i., Hi. 4s. In the
loft : 121i. of cotten wooll, 12s. ; a Pcell of hempe & flax
undrest, 6s. ; apeeceof sole leather, 9s.; a churne, halfe
bushell & a peck, 6s. ; 3 barrells, 2 firkins, 7s. ; 3 little ves-
sel Is, 5s. ; 2 sives, a chest & other luinb., 5s. ; 81i. shott, 2s.
8d. ; 5 sacks, 12s. ; a great bagg, 6s. ; a bushell of mault,
4s. In the fire roome : a table, 4 chaires, 9s. ; a cushen
stoole, 3s. ; two stooles, 2s. ; two kettles, Hi. 16s. ; two
skilletts, 5s. ; an iron pott & pott irons, 10s. ; a glasse bowle,
beaker, Jugg, 3s. ; Three silu. spoones, Hi. ; a morter & pes-
tle, a scum., 5s. ; 6 porringers, 3 saucers, 7s.; Splatters, a
144 THE PROBATE RECORDS OP ESSEX COUNTY.
bason, 9s. ; a chamb. pott, 2 candlesticks, 6s. ; 2 beakers &
a bowle, 5s. ; a quart pott & a pint pott, 7s. ; 3 little dishes,
6 spoones, 3s. ; a salt seller, a tunell, a great dowrubb, Is. ;
6 wooden dishes, 2 ladles, 4s. ; 2 wooden platters, a peele,
4 earthen panns, a frying pan, 2 bellowes, other lumb., a
fire pan & tongs, 7s. ; 31i. of powder, 6s. ; 4 axes & other
tooles & 4 sawes, 31i. ; a spade & a shovell, 4s. ; 3 pitchforks,
3 rakes, 4s. ; 3 yoaks, a chayne, 2 plowes, 19s. ; a cart &
wheeles, 16s. ; 2 Sithes, 5s. ; 2 oxen, 15H. ; a Cowe, 2 year-
lings, a calfe, 191i. ; 3 piggs, Hi. 15s. ; In powltry, 5s. ; Corne
in the barne, 161i. 10s. ; In land & howsing, 601i. ; 5 caske,
17s. ; one mattock, one holdfast, 4s. ; a tow combe & pessell,
5s. ; 3 sives, 3s. ; hay, 51i. ; In the seller in barrells & other
lumb., Hi. ; dung, 10s. ; 2 wedges & a betle ringed, 6s.;
bookes & gloves, lls. ; total, 1531L 9s. 8d. Soe that all reck-
nings on his books being cleare remaines owing 2411. 9s. 8d.,
which being taken out of the 1531i. 9s. 8d., there remaines in
estate to be divided 1291L Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 33.
Kichard Browne's bond, dated Mar. 27, 1655, to pay his
wife's son, John Eager, 341i. at eighteen years of age, besides
the half of the land left by the latter's father. Ipswich
Quarterly Court RecordSj vol. 1, page 49.
ESTATE OF ROBERT HUNTER OF ROWLEY.
" this 5 th of the 6 th month 1647. I Robert Hunter weake
of body but of pfect memory praysed be god doe make &
ordayne this to be my last will & Testament, first all my
debts being paid I leave my howse & lott to my wife Mary
Hunter for Terme of her life. Item all my goods within the
howse I give to my wife Item I give vnto Thomas Birkby
one little brown e heifer that corns two yeares and my shop
geare. Item I give vnto some poore in the Church of Rowley
ten pounds to be paid out of two mares of which ten pounds
ten shillings I give to Richard Clarke Ite ten shillings to
John Dresser Item to John Burbant 10 8 . Item to willm
Jackson 10 8 . Item to Jane Grant I give 10 s . Item to Sisly
wood 10 s . Item to Margaret Crosse 10 8 . Item I give to
william Stickne 20 8 . & all my workiday clothes Item to
Thomas Elethorp 10 s . Item I give to m ris Shove 40 8 . which
I desire may be for helping her sonne when he is to ||goe||
[to] Cambridg Item 1 give to John Trumbell 20 s . Item to
Edward Sawier 10 s . Ite to Thomas Tenny I give 10 8 . and
the remainyng 20 s of the 10 l I give to m ris Shove Item as
THE PEOBATB RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 145
for all the rest of my goods & Chattells I leave vnto my wife
Mary Hunter whom I make sole executrix of this my last
will & Testament.' 7 Eobert Hunter.
Witness : Humfry Kayner, Maximilian (his mark) Jawet.
"Mernorand for the Inheritance of my howse & lott In
case Abell Langley settle here & carry well towards his Dame
my minde is that he shall have the Inheritance of them, but
if not then I leave it to be disposed of by the Church for the
vse of the poore of Eowley Item it is the will of the said
testator that if the abovesaid Abell Langley have a call to
goe for England to settle any estate he hath there that then
he shall have libty to goe and returne but in case he goe &
doe not returne to live here in such convenient tyme as may
be thought fitt by the Church then the said Abell Langley
shall not have power to sell or dispose of the Lott or howse
but they shall fall into the hands of the Church at Rowley
to be disposed of as abovesaid."
Proved 28 : 7 : 1647. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 25.
ESTATE OF LUKE HEARD OF IPSWICH.
" The last will of Luke Herd Latly deceased about the
Imprimis I give vnto my eldest sonne John Herd ten
pounds to be paid him at the age of 21 yeares Item I doe
give vnto my sonne Edmund five pounds to be paid him at
the Age of 21 yeares Item I give my bookes vnto my two
sonnes to be equally parted betweene them Alsoe this is my
will y* my two sonnes be brought vp to writing & to reading
& then when they shalbe fitt to be putt forth to such trades
as they shall Choose. Alsoe I make my loving wife Sarah
Herd my sole executrix. Thus much as abovesaid was ex-
prest by the above named Luke Herd in the p r sence of vs."
[no signature.]
Witness : John (his mark) Wyatt, Simon Tompson.
Proved 28: 7: 1647, by the witnesses. Essex County
Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 94.
Inventory taken by James How, Thomas Hewlett and
John Wyatt : shopp Tooles, 61i. ; all kinde of iron tooles,
41i. 14s. 6d. ; iron potts, a posnett & a kettle, Hi. 2s. ; a
brasse kettle, 15s.; 12 pewter dishes & other pewter, 21i.
lls. 6d. ; wooden ware, 6s. ; fether bedds & bolsters, 61i.
10s. ; a rugg, coverlett & curtins, Hi. 14s. ; apparrell, 61i.
16s. ; bookes, 41i. 10s. ; linen, 21i. 9s. ; cotten wooll, 6s. ; a
great chest, 2 boxes & chaires, Hi. Is. ; a muskett & pistolett,
146 THE PROBATE RECORDS OP ESSEX COUNTY.
sword, bandaleers & powder, Hi. 16s. 8d. ; scales & waites,
Hi. ; sackes a half bushell & a peck, 10s. ; three Cowes &
three steeres of 3 yeare old & two steeres of 2 yeare old &
a heffer, 361i. 15s. ; swine, Hi. ; corne, wheate & indian, 51i.
Is. ; total, 841i. 17s. 8d. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 33.
Bond of Joseph Bexby (also Bigsby) of Ipswich, husband-
man, and Sarah (her mark) Heard (also Herde), widow, to
Ipswich court, for 301i., dated 15 : 10 : 1647. Wit : Margaret
Rogers and John Rogers. Condition : Parties intend to
marry each other; the two children (sons) of said Sarah and
her late husband Luke Heard of Ipswich, linen weaver, to
be well brought up, be taught to read and write, at the age
of thirteen at the furthest to be apprenticed to such trades
as Mr. Nathaneel Rogers, their grandfather Wyat and En-
signe Howlet ordain, and that they be paid at the age of
twenty-one the 151i. given to them by the will of their father,
viz : lOli. to the elder and 51i. to the younger, and the books
bequeathed them by their father ; that 51i. be paid to the
children of said Sarah if living, she to divide it according to
her discretion, equally, or to give the whole to the younger,
if the elder be better provided for ; and that the land in
Asington, in Suffolk, England, which was to be Sarah's after
the decease of her mother, the tenure of which was not cer-
tainly known by them, if the land was not entailed, to be
Sarah's solely, the said Joseph Bigsby to have no right in it
on account of marriage. Essex County Quarterly Couvt Files,
vol. 1, leaf 95.
Petition of Nathaniel Rogers and John Wiatt, under the
will of Luke Heard and above bond, requesting General
Court to fulfil will of deceased, Joseph Bigsby being gone
out of the country without giving notice of his return.
Ordered, attachment of estate of Joseph Bigsby to the
amount of the children's legacies, his estate being so weak-
ened that the petitioners fear for the security of the chil-
dren's property. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1,
leaf 96.
ESTATE OF SAMUEL SCULLABD OF NEWBURY.
" In the name of god amen In the Twenty seaventh day
of March in the yeare of our lord 1647 I Samuell Scullard
being sick in body but of pfect memory thanks be given to
god ; And I doe ordaine & make my last will & Testament
as followeth first I bequeath my soule to god & my body to
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 147
the earth in hope to be raised againe in the resurreccon by
Jesus Christ my saviour Secondly I give & bequeath all my
estate to my wife & children that is to say one halfe to my
wife & the other half to my two Children Mary & Sarah by
equall porcons and my will is y* if my wife be now with
child & bring forth a sonne then my will is that my estate
be diuided into three parts and my sonne to have one part my
wife one part & my two daughters one part to be equally
divided betweene them But if my wife bring forth a daugh-
ter then my will is that my estate yet should be diuided into
three pts my wife to have one part & my two daughters to
have two parts to be equally diuided betweene them Now
my will is that my childrens porcons should be improved for
the bringing vp of my children vntill they be twelve yeares
of age and after the Twelve yeares to be improved to their
advantage vntill they be eighteene yeares of age the two
daughters or three before, if they be married and the sonne
at one & Twenty and then to be paid to they themselves.
And for that forty pounds which I am to have of my wives
father Richard Kent at his decease of my wives porcon my
will is that my wife should have Thirty pounds of it her self e
besides. And I doe not account yt w th my other estate and
for the other ten pounds of it to be equally diuided betweene
the Children. Likwise my will is that if any one of my
children die that then that porcon is to be diuided equally
betweene my wife & children. Likewise I doe desire iny
three frends Henry Short Richard Kent Jun & Richard
Knight to see that this my will & Testament be pformed."
[No signature.]
Witness : John Swee'tt, w m Moneday.
Proved 28 : 7 : 1647, by Henry Short and Richard Knight.
Inventory taken Apr. 7, 1647, by Stephen Kent, John
Merrell and John Emery : 5 oxen at 61i. 10s., 321L 10s. ; 2
cowes at 41i. 10s., 91i. ; 1 steere, 31i. 15s. ; a bull & heffer, 41i.
10s. ; 4 yearlings, 51i. 10s. ; 2 calves, Hi. 16s. ; 14 bushells of
corne at 3s. 6d., 21i. 9s. lOd. ; a cart & irons, lli. 10s. ; a plow
& cart Irons, lli.; 2 sithes, 2s.; 15 acres of land at the
New Towne, 10H. ; 6 acres of salt marsh, 31i. ; debts due to
him, 21i. 8s. ; 2 Cowes at 41i. 10s., 91L ; 3 hoggs, 51i. ; 5
shotes with five piggs, 51i. ; a hogg of bacon, 21i. 10s. ; a
fetherbed & two boulsters, 21i. 10s. ; a rugg & hangings, lli. ;
3 sheets & 2 pillowties, lli. ; a Iron kettle, lli. 5s. ; a brasse
pott & potsnet & hookes, 14s. ; 4 pewter dishes & 3 small
ones, 12s. ; a frying pan, 2s.; a muskett, sword & bande-
leers, 18s. ; wooden vessells, 12s. ; leather, lli. 6s. ; a howse
148 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
& barne & orchard, 91i. ; 12 acres of ground with the fenc-
ing, 15H. ; 9 acres of ground, 41i. 10s.; 13 acres of ground,
91i. 10s. ; 6 acres of meadow at the little river, 81i. ; 20 acres
of salt marsh, 51i. ; total, 991L 19s. ; due unto her from her
father at his decease whereof lOli. is due unto the children,
40H. ; total, 1391L 19s. ; debts that are owing from him, lOli.
18s. 4d.
Ipswich Deeds , vol. 1, leaf '27.
Administration granted 28 : 7 : 1647, to John (his mark)
Bishop and Rebecca (her mark) Bishop, his wife. The houses
and lands to be divided between said John and his wife and
the two children. The cattle and the rest of the stock for
John and his wife to take as they were appraised. Henrye
Short, Rich. Knight and Rich. Kent were ordered to dispose
of half of the houses and lands of Samuel Scullard for the
good of the children. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol.
Samuell Denise of Woodbridge in the province of New
Jersey acknowledged the receipt from John Bishop, si 1 .,
sometime of the Island of Nantucket, of " fortie od pounds,"
in behalf of his wife Sarah Dennis, formerly Sarah Scullard,
it being her share given unto her by her father Samuel Scul-
lar. The 51i. given her by her grandfather Richard Kent
included in the value. Dated Sept. 19, 1670. Witness:
Richard Dole, Wm. Chandler.
Jno. Roffe of the Island of Nantucket acknowledged the
receipt from Jno. Bishop, sr., sometime of the Island of Nan-
tucket, of " forty od pounds," in behalf of his wife Mary
Rolfe, formerly Mary Sculler, it being her share given unto
her by her father, Samuell Sculler. The 51i. given her by
her grandfather Richard Kent included in the value. Dated
Sept. 19, 1670. Witness : Wm. Chandler, Nathaniell Clark,
Richard Dole.
Ipswich Deeds, vol. 3, page 162.
ESTATE OP GEORGE ABBOT OF ROWLEY.
Marke Symonds appointed 28 : 7 : 1647, administrator of
the estate of George Abott, late of Rowley. The will re-
ferred to General Court. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records,
vol. 1, page 10.
Nuncupative will of George Abbott of Rowley sent here
from General Court, 28 : 10 : 1647, ordered that it shall
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 149
stand ; and after paying legacies to the children, the remain-
der shall remain in hands of Marke Simons of Ipswich, ac-
cording to the will, to be disposed of to the children, who
are to choose their guardians, etc. Marke Simons to have
4d. and the wintering of two cows. Salem Quarterly Court
Records, vol. 2, page 224.
Inventory taken Aug. 30, 1647, by Sebastan Brigham,
Thomas Barker, Mathew Boyes and James (his mark C)
Barker : all his aparell. Hi. 10s. ; in silver, Hi. 3s. ; one
Gold Einge, 10s. ; two greene Coverings, 16s. ; one featherbed
& two pillows & one Bolster, Hi. 9s. ; three flock bolsters,
one Coverlett & one Blankett, 11s.; two flocke beds,
6s. ; seaven Sheets, two tablecloths, Seven pillowbers, nine
napkins, two Aprons, 4 handkerchifes with other small
linen, 41i. 6s. ; fower Course Sheetes, 7s. ; one Trunke, 5s. ;
two hogsheads & one Barrell, 5s.; one keiler, Is.; one
kilne haire, 4s. ; one whip saw & one Croscutt saw, 8s. ;
two black Gownes, 12s. ; one Satten Capp & white thred, 4s. ;
one pillowbeere & other lininge, 5s. ; one Steele mill, Hi. 10s.;
one Steele Trape, 10s. ; three brand Irons, fower wedges, one
fire shovell & other Iron, Hi.; two tramels, one bar of Iron &
one Gridiron, 8s. ; thirty eight pound of pewter, Hi. 12s. ;
one silver ringe & spoone, 5s. ; two friing pans, 4s. ; one
brasse pott & one Iron pott, 15s. ; three kettles, Hi. 2s. ; one
Skillet & two Chafing dishes, 3s. ; one warming pan, 3s. ;
three paire of Scales & weights, 9s. ; one brasse morter &
pestle, 5s. ; one Skimer, Is. ; one paire of horse bits with
buckles & furrells, 3s. 6d. ; one nest of boxes with things in
them, 5s. ; one Little Gun with bandelers, 5s. ; one Spitt &
one brush bill, 3s. ; one head peice & one axe with some other
things, 5s. ; one bushell & half of oatemeale and one Tub,
7s. ; one Chest & one Churne, 3s. 6d. ; one bowle, fowre
trayes & one tunnell, 4s. ; one flockbed, two Curtains & one
pillow, 10s. ; one drinking pott & one Jugg, 3s. ; three Leath-
er bottles, 5s. ; thirty bookes, Hi. 10s. ; the dwelling house &
land with the Apurtenances, 301i. ; two black Steeres, 91i. ;
two younger Steeres, 61i. ; one yearling Steere, 21i. ; one
Calfe, Hi. ; two Cowes, 91i. ; all the Corne & hay, 81i. ; one
Sow & three piggs, Hi. 10s. ; Some Land at Newbery, 21i. ; one
yoake & chaine, 4s. ; one brasse Ladle, 8d. ; all the ffowle
aboute the house, Is. ; all the hops & flaxe, 7s. 6d. ; one
Chaire & two Cushions, 3s. ; one Short Sithe & old Iron, 2s.
6d.; total, 951i. 2s. 8d. Debt owing to the deceased, of
Steven Kent of Newbery, 7s. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 61.
150 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
Humphry Rayner (also Reiner) and Thomas Mighill were
chosen guardians by the children of Georg Abott, late of
Rowly, 28 : 1 : 1648. The overplus of Georg Abbot's chil-
dren's estate is left in the hands of Marke Symonds, execu-
tor of Georg Abott. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol.
1, page 13.
Guardians, Humfrey Reyner and Thomas Mighell, con-
firmed by Salem and this court. They acknowledged the
receipt of 531L, the children's portions, divided as follows :
George, 161i., Nehemyah, 211i., Thomas, jr., 161i. Ipswich
Quarterly Court Records, vol. 2, leaf 12.
On Mar. 28, 1654, Mr. Reyner presented Nehemiah Abbott
and Thomas Abbott, jr., who acknowledged that they had
received satisfaction from Mr. Humphry Reyner and Thomas
Mighill, guardians to the children of Georg Abbott, for their
portions. Thomas Abbott, sr., and Nehemiah Abbott testified
that their brother, George Abbott, had satisfaction also. The
guardians were discharged. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records,
vol. 1 , page 45.
ESTATE OF RICHARD BARTLETT OF NEWBURY.
" The testimony of william Titcombe & Anthony Somers-
by concerning the last will & testament of Richard Bartlett
sen of Newbury deceased the 20 th of May 1647 About a
month before he deceased we being with him & two of his
sonnes being p r sent he being very ill & had bene weake all
the spring finding in himselfe that he was not like to con-
tinew he desired vs to take notice what his mind was con-
cerning that small estate he had how he would dispose of it.
As for his sonne John Bartlett he had done for him more
then for the rest of his children & at that tyme did not dis-
pose any to him. To his sonne Christofer Bartlett he did
bequeath the debt which latly he had borrowed of him which
was five bushells of wheat if soe be it should please the lord
to take him away at this sicknesse or ells if he should lye
longe vizitted his necessity would require that he should pay
it againe. To his daughter Johan wife of williain Titcombe
he bequeathed one paire of new shoes for herselfe & her foure
daughters each one a paire of shoes And all the rest of his
goods & chattells that were not disposed of he bequeathed
wholly to his sonne Richard Bartlett whom he made his sole
heire & executor. I Anthony Somersby the next day Pswaded
him to give somthing to his sonne John Bartlett his answere
THE PKOBATB KECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 151
was that he had bene with his sonne Kichard Batlet this
twelve month & all that he had was to little for to give him
seing he had bene weake & ill & could doe little but lay vpon
his sonnes charges ; besides said he if I should lye longe
sick I shalbe chargable to Kichard & not to any of the rest
and for John I have done more form r ly yet I will give him
the warming pan and vpon his sonnes request he gaue him
a great bible : this he spake being in pfect memory & soe
continewed to the last breath.
"I Edward Rawson wittnes to the last pt of the will that I
often heard the said Kichard Bartlett sen (the tyme of his
sicknesse) say he would & did give all to his sonne Kichard
Bartlett 29 th Septemb 1647. This was before the witness
Edward Rawson."
The first part of this will proved 28 : 7 : 1647, by Mr.
Rawson, the whole by Anthony Somersby. Ipswich Deeds,
vol. 1, leaf 25.
Inventory of estate of Kichard Bartlett of Newbury , shoe-
maker, deceased May 21, 1647, taken by William (his mark)
Titcombe, John Batlett & Anthony Somersby : in leather,
21i. 15s. ; his wearing apparrell , Hi. 4s. ; 2 paire of canvas
sheets, Hi. Is. ; one old shirt & a napkin, 2s. Id. ; one old
coverlet & a blanket, Hi. ; one old flock bed & a bolster, Hi.;
one old great kettle, 12s. ; one paire of pott hangers, Is. 4d. ;
one brasse pott, 10s. ; two little kettles, 5s. ; one small brasse
morter, 7s. 6d. ; one warming pan, 6s. ; one great bible, 12s. ;
some other small books, 7s. ; one Cow, 41i. 5s. ; one heiffer,
Hi. 15s. ; his working geare and lasts, 4s. ; old pewter plat-
ters and an old pint pott, 2s. ; one spit & frying pan, 3s. 6d. ;
one small muskett, 9s. ; one paire of bellowes, Is. ; bushell
bagg, 2 old chests, a stone bottle & a halfe bushell bagg, 5s. ;
his debts, 41i. 19s. ; in silv., 21i. 5s. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1,
leaf 26.
ESTATE OF MATTHEW WHIPPLE OF IPSWICH.
" Month 3 : day 7 : 1645. In the name of god amen. I
Mathew whipple of Ipswich in New England being by reason
of p r sent sicknesse much increasing vpon me seriously ad-
monished of my mortality yet through the mercy of god
inioying pfect memory & good vnderstanding after humble
acknowledgm* of the great pacience & rich mercy of god to
me a most vnworthy siner all my life longe and the Com end-
ing of my spirit to his grace in Jesus Christ my body after
my decease to Cornly buriall in the earth out of which it was
152 THE PKOBATE KECOttDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
taken in hope of resurreccon vnto eternall life and my deare
children to the everlasting blessing of their heavenly father
I doe hereby dispose of that estate which the lord hath gra-
tiously given vnto me as followeth vnto my eldest sonne
John Thre score pounds to my sonne Mathew forty pounds
To my sonne Joseph forty pounds vnto my daughter Mary
Twenty pounds vnto my daughter Anna Twenty pounds
vnto my daughter Elizabeth Twenty pounds vnto our rev
Elders m r Nathaniel Rogers and rn r John Norton to either of
them forty shillings To the poore of Ipsw ch forty shillings.
In case my estate be found to exceed these sumes the one
halfe thereof I give to my eldest sonne John the other halfe
to my two yonger sonnes. In case my estate fall short of the
aforesaid sumes the decuct shalbe out of the porcons of all my
children equally my will is that none of my children shalbe
disposed of in marriage or service but by the approbacon &
consent of the p r sent Elders & my deare brother John whip-
pie I leave the disposing of my three sonnes to the care of
my executors whom I name & desire to be m r Nathan: Rogers
m r Norton m r Robert Payne & my brother John Whipple.
In wittnes hereof I have set to my hande the day & yeare
above written." Mathew whipple
Witness : John Norton, John whipple.
< Month the 9 th 13 th day 1646 I having by the pvidence
of god changed my estate by marriage since the making of
the writing above I doe give vnto my wife Rose the sume of
ten pounds to be paid her p r sently after my decease leaving
vnto her all the goods or estate that she had before marriage
And this being done I will that the writing above should
stand in full force & vertue as my last will & Testament ;
further declaring my meaning to be that the porcons of my
sonnes be paid at the age of one & Twenty yeares and my
daughters at the age of Twenty : and the mann r of the dis-
posing my estate for the best accomplishment of the intent
of my will I comitt vnto my above-named executo rs or any
other matter that may be forgotten to be by them ordered
and because they may be removed or diminished by death or
any other departure I hereby give them power that the re-
mayning numb shall choose a supply in that case to fill vp
the numb except he that is removed shall appoynt an other
in his roome. And this whole writing to wit that part that
was write the 7 th day of the 3 month 1645 and this addicon
I make & declare to be my last will & Testament being of
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 153
good vnderstanding & memory setting herevnto my hand."
his mark
Mathew whipple
Witness : Theophilus wilson, Thomas Knowlton.
Proved 28:7: 1647, by Theophilus Wilson and Thomas
Knowlton.
Inventory taken the 24 : 9 : 1646, by Eobert Payne and
John Whipple : In the hall : three musketts, three paire of
bandaleeres, three swords, two rests, 31i. ; one fowling peece,
Hi. ; a costlett, pike & sword, Hi. ; one rapier, 5s. ; one hal-
berd and one bill, 4s. ; thre brasse potts waying 681L at 9d.,
21i. lls. ; one old brasse pott, 2s. 6d. ; 5 kettels and a potlid,
waying 581i. at 16d., 31i. 17s. 4d. ; one copper waying 401L,
21i. ; 5 posnetts, 12s. ; 85 peeces of pewter waying 1471i. at
16d., 91i. 16s. ; 4 pewter candlesticks, 10s. ; 2 pewter salts,
5s. ; 2 pewter potts, one cupp and a bottle, 4s. 6d. ; one pew-
ter flagon, 7s. ; 21 brasse alchimic spoones att 2d. ob [4s. 4d.
ob. in margin] the spoone, 41i. 4s. of. ; 9 pewter spoones at 18d.
p dosen, Is. Id. ; one pestel & morter, 5s. ; 5 ehaffeing dishes
and a skimmer, 14s.; 7 peeces of latten, 7s. ; 2 paire of cob-
irons, one fire pan, 2 paire of tongs, one fire forke & one fire
iron, wayeing 58 at 4d., 19s. 4d. ; 4 spitts waying 201i. at
6d., 10s. ; 2 warming panns, 14s. ; 2 iron dripping panns, 6s. ;
one silv. bowle & 2 silv. spoones, 31i. 3s. ; one paire cobirons
with brasses, 6s. ; 711i. of ne w iron at 5d. a li., Hi. 12s. 6d. ;
381i. in wedges & one hare at 4d. a li., 14s. 3d. ; 4 hoops 241i.
at 5d. 10s. ; 55 li. of old iron at 3d., 13s. 9d. ; 7 howes & 2
spades, 10s. ; 29 bookes, 41i. 8s. 6d. ; 6 dozen of trenchers,
3s. ; 4 trayes & a platter, 5s. ; 3 Juggs, 3s. 6d. ; one earthen
salt & 1 pan & potts, 3s. ; 3 cheese mootes & two cheese
breads, 3s.; one Cowle, one paile, two bowles, 4 dishes, 5s. 6d.;
one halfe bushell, peck & halfe peck, 4s. 6d. ; one bowle & 3
sives, 4s. 6d. ; 3 barrells, 7s. ; 2 firkins, one chirne, 4s. ; 2
frying panns & one trevitt, lls. 8d. ; 2 bottles & 2 jacks, 4s. ;
2 spades, 8s. ; 2 brode axes & 4 narrow axes, 18s. ; 2 mat-
tocks, one spitt & a spoone, 10s. ; 4 brode hatchetts, 2 bills
& a beetle & a masons ham., 13s. ; 2 iron dibbles, a trowel
and shovel tippe, 2s. 6d. ; 3 payer of tramels, one iron
barre, 12s. ; one paire of bellowes, one grediron, one paire of
sheers & one smoothing iron wth one heater, 6s. ; 2 paire of
pott hooks, 1 brasse ladill, 3s. 4d. ; 2 keilers, 4s. ; 2 formes,
one dresser, 2 chaires, one long boarded chest, lls. 6d. ; one
crow, one andiron, one mathook, one fireforke waying 241L at
4d., 8s. In the parlor : one joyned table, 3 chests, Hi. 12s. ;
154 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
one chest with glasse, 21i. ; one paire of cobirons wth fire
pann & tongs, 12s. ; one clock, Hi. ; 4 chest locks & 4 box
locks & 6 paire of joints, 7s. 6d. ; one stain ell bearing cloth,
Hi. ; one baies bearing cloth, 8s. ; two cloakes, 31i. ; one old
coate, 10s. ; one sute, Hi. ; one dublett & jackett, Hi. 4s. ; one
leather sute, Hi. 6s. 8d. ; one leather dublett, 14s. ; 2 hatts,
7s. ; 2 paire of gloves, 2s. 4d. ; 2 p of stockins, 4s. ; 3 paire
of sheetes, 31i. 10s. ; 2 paire of sheetes, Hi. 4s. ; 3 paire of
sheetes, Hi. 2s. ; one diap. table cloth & 2 dozen diap. nap-
kins, 21i. 6s. 8d. ; 2 table clothes, Hi. ; one little table cloth,
7s. 6d. ; two old table clothes, 4s. ; 21 napkins at 9s. p doz.,
15s. 9d. ; one paire pillow beeres, 6s. 8d. ; 2 paire of pillow
beeres, 8s. ; one laced cubbord cloth & one fringed, 8s. ; one
laced cubbord cloth, 6s. ; 4 towells, 6s. ; 3 shirts, lli. ; 4 rem-
nants of holland & sackcloth, 12s. 6d. ; one silke girdle, 2s.
6d. ; one feather bedd, one bolster, 9 pillows, waying 106H.
at 22d., 51i. 6s. ; one paire blanketts, one coverlett, 21i. 10s. ;
3 flockbedds & 3 flock bolsters, 51i. 8s. ; one flockbedd &
bedstead and one bolster, lli. ; one paire of sheets & one pe.
pillow beeres, 6s. In the chamb. over the parlor : 3 flock
bedds & 3 bolsters, 41i. 6s. ; 5 blanketts, lli. ; 4 old coverletts,
Hi. 10s. ; one rugg, lli. ; one paire of curtins & vallence, lli.
5s. ; one cupboard cloth, 4s. ; 4 cushens, 3s. ; one paire of
curtins, 12s. ; 7 Childrens blanketts, 7s. ; one pillion cloth
& foot stool e, 6s. 8d ; 6 sithes, 6s. ; 5 crosse cutt sawes, 18s. ;
4 stock locks, 6s. 8d. ; 3 garden rakes, 4s. ; 2 adds, 2 hand
sawes, a mattock, one ax & a spade, 18s. ; 4 howes, 5s. 4d. ;
one vise, 10s. ; one frow, ope bill & a joyners saw, 6s. ; 6
iron candlesticks, 12 chissells, 6 sickles & one dozen of
augurrs & 3 shaves, lli. 5s. 6d. ; 3 old axes, 6 pitchforks, one
iron peele wth other implements, Hi. ; 2 bedsteeds & 2 bed
lines, 14s.; 20 empty hoggsheads, 21i. ; 2 linen wheeles &
one cotton wheele & a baskett, 9s.; one bed line, one haire
line & one cart rope, 6s. ; one paire of great scales & 15 lead-
en waites, lli. 4s. ; 6 window curtaines, lli. ; 2 stooles & thre
cushens, one paire of bellowes, cradle rugg, 16s. ; one seller
with glasses, 5s. ; one trunk and 2 boxes, 8s. ; 2 grindstones,
10s. ; one plow, one cart, 1 slead, lli. 12s. ; 3 chaines, 2
shares, one coulter, lli. 7s. ; 3 yoakes, 9s. ; six bullocks, 361i.;
3 cowes, 141i. 10s. ; 4 heffers, 121i. 30s. ; in corne, llli. 7s.
6d. ; his dwelling howse wth 4 acres of ground with a barne
& other out howses, 361i. ; a six acre lott, one 4 acre lott and
six acres of marsh, 171i. ; his farme contayning 160 acres of
upland with meadow belonging to the same, contayning about
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 155
30 acres with a frame upon it, 361i. 10s. ; six acres of marsh,
with other wast ground adjoining thereunto, in all about 20
acres, 211. ; a harrow, 6s. 8d.; total, 28711. 2s. Id.
Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 28.
ESTATE OF RICHARD WOODMAN OF LYNN.
" The will of Richard woodman of the Towne of Lynn
deseced as followeth Being spoken to by Nicholas || Potter ||
to make his will [he] said that hee would make his will and
being asked by John Gillow too whome hee would giue his
goods said that hee would giue fower pounds to the Elders of
lynn fortie shilings apeece, and ||all|| the rest of his goods
hee would giue to Joseph Redknap Richard moore and ||to||
his master John Gillowe, equally to either of them alike and
y* Joseph Redknap he did make his exequtor. Witnesses to
this will John Gillow & Richard moore witness that Joseph
Redknap is the executor. John Gillow."
Order of court, allowing the will, signed by Henry Bar-
tholomew. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 89.
Proved 30 : 10 : 1647, by John Gillo and Rich. Moore.
Joseph Redknap swore to the inventory. Salem Quarterly
Court Records, vol. 2, page 226.
ESTATE OF JOHN PRIDE OF SALEM.
John Pride of Salem died intestate, and his widow brought
in an inventory of his estate, the last, 12m: 1647.
Court ordered distribution to his son, under twenty-one
years, 81i., and two daughters, under eighteen years, 41i.
each. The mother was to bring them up. House and land
bought of Mr. Holgrave security. Salem Quarterly Court
Records, vol. 2, page 225.
Inventory : One dwellinge house, one barne and worke
house with foure Akers of land adjoyninge to it, 161i. ; maish
and uplande grounde uppon the necke beinge the one halfe of
that sometime belonginge to Mr. Holgraue, 81i. 15s. ; one
halfe aker of marsh and halfe an aker of upland, 111. 10s. ;
two Cowes and one heighfer of two yeares old, 131i. ; three
Calves of this yeare, 31i. ; one hogge and two shotts, 21i. 17s.
6d. ; foure ewe gotes and 2 lambes, 21i. ; one fether bed, one
bolster, foure pillowes, one Rugge, one pr. blanketts, 51i. ;
two old Rugges, two course beds, one blanket and one bol-
ster, 12s.; three pr. of sheetes, Hi. 13s. 4d.; for other smale
lenen in the same chest, Hi. 10s. ; bands and capps, 10s. ;
156 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNT*.
wearinge apparrell, 61i. ; one brass kettle, 1 lettle brass pott
and one Iron pott, Hi. 4s. ; thirtie and seaven dozzen of earth-
en ware, 41i. 12s. 6d. ; warminge pann and three pewter cupps,
6s. 8d. ; leade and other earthen ware, Hi. 7s. ; a bible and
other books and a glass, 12s. ; two fryinge panns, 7s. ; one
Fowlinge peece, one muskett rest and sword, 21i. 10s. ; a pr.
of pot hookes and hangers, 7s.; foure Axes, a spade and a
pieke Axe, 14s. ; two table boords, two chests, two boxes with
chaires and stoole, Hi. 18d. ; one bed steed and a trundle bed-
steed, 10s. ; fifteene Akers of Lande on Cape An side, 91i. ;
for wheate, barly, Pease and Indian Come, 31i, ; total, 881i.
16s. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 88.
ESTATE OF RICHARD BAILEY OF ROWLEY.
" Rowley 15 of the last 1647. I Richard Baly sick in
body but of perfect memory praysed be God doe ordeine and
make this my last will and Testament first I comende my
soule into the hands of God in faith of a ioyfull resurrec-
tion throw our Lord Jesus Christ And as concerning my
outward estate ffrst my minde and || will is that all my (j
lawfull debts be paid and discharged. Ite my will is that
fforty and tow pounds I giue vnto my sonn Joseph Baly but
in case my wife should be with Child then my will is that
the said sum of tow and forty pounds be deuided, and one
third part thereof my other child shall haue it Item my will
is that my Child shall haue a fether bedd in part of the saide
portion also one Great Bible and Practicall Catachisme Ite
my will and minde is that if my wife Edna Baly marry
againe and hir husbande proue vnlouing to the Child or
Children or wastefull then I giue power to my Brother James
Baly and Micael Hobkinson with my wife hir Consent to
take the Child with his portion from him and so to dispose
of it for the Best behoofe of the children with my wifes
consent Ite I giue my house and lott vnto my son Joseph
Baly after my wife hir dissease Ite I giue to my Son tow
stuffe Sutes of Cloaths and my best Coate, and a Cloath sute
and my best hatt, and I giue to my Brother James Baly a
great Coate one paire of buck lether Breches and a paire of
Bootes one little Booke I giue to my nephew John Baly I
giue vnto Thomas Palmer one Gray hatt one Cloath dublit
and an old Jackit and a paire of Gray Breeches Ite I make
my wife Edna Baly executrix of this my last will and Testa-
ment Memoradad and I giue eleuen shillings which is owing
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 157
to me from M r Bogers Ipswich and m r Johnson vnto the
poore of the Towne." Kich baly.
Witness : Humfrey Beyner, willem Cavis.
Proved 28 : 1 : 1648, by Humphry Beynor, and 29 : 1 :
1648, by Jeames Bay ley.
Inventory taken 23 : 6 : 1648, by Joseph Jewitt, Maxemil-
lean Jewett and Mathew Boyes, allowed 27 : 7 : 1648 : In
rnonyes, 21i. 12s. ; one Box and small things in it, Hi. ; two
stuffe sutes of Cloathes, Hi. 10s. ; one Gray hatt, 10s. ; one
Cloath Suite, Hi. 10s. ; one peece of fustian, 6s. ; one Cloath
Coate, Hi. 6s. ; two Childes Mantles, 15s. ; ticking for two
boulsters, 10s. ; one paire of Brasse Scales and weights , 6s.
6d. ; two Couerletts & two Buggs, 21i. 15s. ; fiue Blanketts,
Hi. lls. ; fiue Pillowes, lls. ; one feather bed tick, 7s. ; one
Brasse Pott & a Still, Hi. 19s.; a Parcell of old Cloathes,
Hi. ; a Bagg wt some Gotten woole, 12s. ; a Bagg wt. Inke
stuffe, 7s. ; foure Cushings & a leather girdle, 5s. ; an old
Coate, 3s. ; two Basketts wth six pounds of Cotton yarne,
15s. ; in little stone potts, 4s. ; two Bed Coords, 2s. ; one Bar-
rell, Is. ; one trough wt. Leather satchels & baggs, 14s. ; one
sword, 5s. ; one Muskett wt. bandiliers, Hi. ; one Brasse Mor-
ter & Pestill, 3s. 4d. ; one Lanterne, Is. ; in Brasse, 31i. 12s. ;
one Iron Pott, 12s. ; one Fouleing peece, 15s. ; in Puter, Hi.
18s. ; one Case of Bottles, 5s. ; a Parcell of Bookes, 21i. 12s.
6d. ; two Chests, lls. ; fiue Cushings, 7s.; in Iron tooles, Hi.
14s. ; in milke vessell, 9s. 6d. ; a paire of Bellowes, 6d. ; a
stoole, a Box and a Dreaping Pan, 10s. ; one dwelling house,
lOli. ; one Barne, 51i. ; broken up land, meadows & Comons,
141i. ; in Corne and hay, 81i. ; in Cattle, 221i. 10s. ; in Swine,
Hi. 10s. ; in Linen, 31i. 15s. ; three Temses, 3s. ; one feather
bed wt. boulsters & other bedding, 41i. 5s. ; a Churne and
Iron Pott wt. some Puter, and two wheeles, 17s. ; total, 106H.
8s. lOd.
Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 98.
For explanation of the order given by the court Oct. 27,
1648, in answer to a petition received of Edney Bayly, widow,
of Eowley, and final determination of the case, it is ordered
May 3, 1649, that the 461i. given by Wm. Halsteed to her
son, Joseph Bayly, by Eichard Bayly, deceased, remain in
the hands of Ezekiell Northin, her present husband, until
he shall be twenty one, and then so much be paid him as the
will of Wm. Halsteed appoints ; that Joseph's portion out of
his father's estate shall be 411i., which is two thirds of the
158 THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
estate, and shall also remain in the hands of Ezekiel Northin
until he is fourteen years. Ezekiel Northin to give security
to the next Ipswich court. Mass. Bay Colony Records, vol. 3,
page 148.
Joseph Bayly of Rowley acknowledges the receipt from
Ezekiell Northend of Rowley, his father-in-law, of " all my
whole portion given me by the will of my ffather Richard
Bayly which portion was ordered by the Generall Court &
apoynted to be forty one pound or there abouts which was
two thirds of the estate, and alsoe of a legasie of nyne
pounds foure shillings, given by my unckle william Halsted,
also all rents of my whole portion and of the aforesayd lega-
sie since I was of the age of forteene years." Dated Nov.
14, 1667. Witness: Phillip Nellson, Elizabeth Nellson,
ffrancis Tildisleg. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 3, page 78.
ESTATE OF FRANCIS LAMBERT OF ROWLEY.
" The last will of ffranciss Lambertt of Rowley made upon
the 20 th day of September : 1647 : Ip 8 1 giue my soule and
bodye to the allmightye god : tt I giue vnto my wife my
house ; and land ioyneinge therevnto with six acers of land
lately bought of Joseph Juitt : as alsoe all the meadowes
and gates which doth belonge vnto the sayd house ; all which
I giue vnto hir dureing hir naturall life tt I giue vnto my
eldest sonne all the aforesayd house and land with gates and
meadowes after the death of Jane my wife : provided that
my eldest sonn John doe pay vnto Ann Lambert Jonathan
and Gersome Lambert (all beinge my Childeren) fiue pounds
to bee equally devided amongest them tt : It is my will
that Jane my wife and Thomas Barker shalbe the executers
of the rest of my estate as alsoe to haue the ordering and
disposeinge of my childeren : except my sonne Thomas which
I freely giue vnto my Brother Thomas Barker to order and
dispose of tt I giue vnto my daughter Ann fortye shillings
to be payed by my executers ether att marriage or when
shee is att eighteene yeeres of age : tt : In Case my sonne
John should dye before the time come wherein he should be
possessed of my house and land then it is my will : that my
sonne Jonathan shall haue it ; but if by providence it be soe
ordered that my sonne Jonathan be brought vp att schoole and
soe pceed to be a scholler then my house and land with gates
and meadowes shall be my sonne Gersomes."
[No signature.]
Witness : Edwarde Carlton, Thomas Barker.
Proved 28 : 1 : 1648,by Edward Carlton and Thomas Barker.
Essex County Probate Files, Docket 16,178.
THE PROBATE EECOKDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 159
ESTATE OF THOMAS FIRMAN OF IPSWICH.
Inventory of Mr. Thomas Firman, deceased, received
April 13, 1648, and his widow Sarah Firman appointed ad-
ministratrix. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 13.
Inventory taken 10 : 2 : 1648, by Edward Browne, Thomas
By shop and Rob[er]t Lord : In the Chamber : one Bedsted,
curtaynes & Vallans, Hi. 10s. ; A small fetherbed & boulster
& one pillowe, 21i. ; a Coveiiett & Rugg & Matt, Hi. 10s. ; A
Trundlebed fflockbed & boulster, 2 blankets & an ould rugg,
Hi. 10s. ; a payre of darnicle Curtaines & Vallens, 12s. ; A
small Trunke, 4s. ; A Baskett, Is. ; one ould Trunke & 2 ould
boxes,4s.; one half headed Beadsteed & Coarde, 6s. ; one ffether-
bed & Coverlett, 41i. ; one Trunke, 12s. ; one Chest of boxes
& an ould box, 12s. ; hookes and Eyes, 3s. In the Parlor :
A Table & 3 Joyne stooles, 9s. ; 6 Cushions, 12s. ; 2 Chayres,
4s. ; A paire of Brasse Scales & Brasse wayghts & 141i. Lead
waight, 17s. ; 6 Pewter platters, one bason & other pewter, in
all aboute 381L, 21i. 4s. ; eleven bookes, Hi. 15s. ; A paire of
Andirons, 10s.; 2 greate Chests, Hi. ; A remnant of stuffe, 6
boxes & 8 thred lases & some small things, 8s. ; 7 silver
Spoones & 2 broken ones, 21i. 5s. ; Seven fflaxen Sheetes at
15s. p paire, 21i. 12s. 6d. ; one paire of Sheetes, Hi. ; 2 paire
ould Sheetes, 14s. ; 2 paire Pillowbeeres, 15s. ; one Course
Pillowbeere, 2s. ; 3 Table Clothes, Hi. 2s. ; 2 dozen & twoe
napkins, Hi. 4s. : 3 dozen of Trenchers, Is. 8d. In the
kitchinge : A Copper bakeing pan & a fish plate, 16s. ; 2 fry-
inge pans, 5s. ; A dripping pan, 5s. ; 5 Brasse Panns, Hi. 13s.
4d. ; A Brasse Pott & 3 kettles, 31i. ; one Iron Pott & 2 p
pothookes & 2 Tramells, Hi. ; An ould warmeing pan, 4s. ; A
Brasse Skim er & Ladle, 2s.; 3 Posnetts, 10s. ; A Morter &
Pestle, 4s. ; 2 Iron Candlesticks, Is. ; A paire Andyrons, fire
pan & tonges, 15s. ; Earthen ware & wooden dishes, 7s. ; one
Iron peele & Iron spade, 4s. ; Powder blew, 3s. ; one Spitt &
Gridiron, 3s. 6d. ; 2 barrells, a Powdering Tub & other Lum-
ber, 16s. ; A wheele & 5 ould Chaires, 7s. ; 2 Smoothing Irons,
2s. ; 2 haire Sy ves & a tiffeny sive, 3s. ; an Axe & an Iron
Beame & wooden Scales, 10s. ; An ould Sawe, Is. 6d. ; A
Blacke Cowe, 41i. 5s. The Dwelling House, 151i. The howse
y t was Goodman Procter's, 181i. 10s. ; one Hogge, 13s. 4d. ; 2
Pyllows & a cradle Rugg, 6s. 8d. In Debts to be gathered
up aboute 91i.; total, 891i. 15s. 6d. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1,
leaf 46.
160 THE PROBATE EECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
ESTATE OF JOHN BALCH OF SALEM.
" The last will & tesem* of John Balch of salem bearing
date the 15 th day of may 1648 I John Balch sicke in bodie
but in pfect memorie doe make this my last will & testam*
in manner & forme following my debts paid & funeral ex-
pences discharged those goods w ch god hath gyven me it is
my will to dispose of them as followeth : Imprimis I gyve
vnto Annis Balch my loveing wife the Eoome newly built
w th twentie Akrs of land of w ch 4 akres to be in till and also
4 Akres of meadowe w th some pt of the barne to lay in her
fruits and halfe of the great fruit trees for & during the life
of the said Annis Itm I gyve vnto my said wife my best
bed w th all Conuenienc furniture there vnto belonging & one
fourth pt of all my houshould goods except the rest of my
beding & alsoe 2 Cowes by name Reddie & Cherie & one
yearling heaffer ffurther my will is that soe long as my said
wife shall Hue my said sonnes shall sowe or plant 2 akres of
the afforesaid 4 akers for my said wife for the term of 7
years and after thatt my sonne Beniamin shall doe all him-
selfe Item I gyue & bequeth to benimin Balch my oldest
sonne one halfe of my farme to him & his heires for euer as
also twoe yoake of oxen 1 Cowe one third of my yong Cat-
tall & of the mare Coalt w th one fourth pt of my houshould
goods & halfe the great fruit trees & after the decease of my
said wyfe my will is that the said Beniamin shall haue them
all w th all those he hath planted himself e.
Item my will is thatt all my Corne growing vpon the
ground shall be equallie deuided into 4 equally pts amongst
my wife & Children Itm I gyve vnto John Balch my second
sonne one fourth pt of my farme and one yoake of oxen one
third of my yong Cattell & mare Coalt one fourth of my
houshould goods & halfe of all the yong aple trees vndis-
post of and one Cowe I gyve to Freeborne Balch my yong-
est sonne one fourth pt of my ifarme one youke of oxen &
one Cow I bred vp for him one third of the yong Cattell |j
& one third of the mare || & one fourth of my houshould
goods & halfe the yong Aple trees betwixt him & his brother
John equallie to be diuided & further my will is that Annis
my wife & Beniamin my sonne shall be executo rs to this my
last will & testamt & my loveing frends John Portor & wil-
liam woodberie shall be ouerseers of the same in wittnes
herof I haue herevnto put my hand the day and year aboue
written." Jo. Balch.
Witness : Peter Palfrey, Nicholas Patch and Jefferie Massey.
THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
(Continued from Volume LI, page 96 J)
282
JOSEPH PLUMBED born in Rochester, N. H., in 1752 ;
baptized July 26, 1752. He lived in Rochester, N. H.,
where he was an overseer of the poor and an assessor of
the town. He was a private in the company of Capt.
David Place, which marched to Portsmouth, and served
about five weeks on Seavey's Island, starting Oct. 23,
1775, on the occasion of the startling report that a Brit-
ish fleet was about to attack Portsmouth, and General
Sullivan was dispatched by Washington to defend the
harbor. The company went from there to take part in
the siege of Boston, when the expected fleet did not ar-
rive. He was one of the citizens of the town who, Oct.
15, 1776, agreed that "to the utmost of their power, at
the risk of their lives and fortunes, with arms," they
would "oppose the hostile proceedings of the British
fleets and armies against the United American Colonies."
Mr. Plumer married Hannah Bickford of Rochester
Nov. 30, 1778. She died Feb. , 1811 ; and he died
April 27, 1821, aged sixty-nine.
Their children were born as follows :
652 i. BETSEY T , born in 1779; married Levi Jones of Rochester
Oct. 15, 1801: and died Nov. 1, 1815, aged thirty-six.
653n. SALLY'.
654 in. JOHN 7 , died at the age of eleven.
655 iv. HANNAH 7 , born in 178- ; died June 24, 1800, aged twelve.
283
HON. BEARD PLUMER*, bom in Rochester, N. H., Aug.
12, 1754. He lived in his native town, where he was a
(161)
162 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
selectman and prominent man. With many others, Oct.
15, 1776, he agreed that to the utmost of his power, at
the risk of his life and fortune, with arms, he would op-
pose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and
armies against the United American Colonies.
He married Susanna, daughter of Capt. Jonathan Ham,
Sept. 7, 1780. She was born Oct. 9, 1762 ; and died
Feb. 20, 1803. He died Sept. 5, 1817 (Oct. 7, 1816 ?).
Their children were born in Rochester, as follows :
656 i. JONATHAN', born May 6, 1782. See family numbered
i{ 656."
657n. ENOCH', born May 31, 1784; married Frances Wheat of
New Geneva, Pa., where he died, without issue, in
1824.
658 in. JOSEPH 7 , born Aug. 13, 1786. See family numbered
" 658."
659 IV . BETSEY 7 , born Sept. 26, 1788; married Joshua Gr. Hall of
Wakefield, N. H., Sept. , 1807; and died Aug. 9,
1865, in his seventy-seventh year.
660 v. JOHN 7 , born April 25, 1791; died, unmarried, at Milton,
N. H., Sept. 25, 1817, at the age of twenty-six.
661 vi. SusAN 7 , born March 21, 1795; married Adam Brown in
Milton; lived in Wolfboro', N. S.; and died Nov.
15(?), 1829, at thirty -four years of age.
662 vn. BEARD 7 , born Aug. 8, 1797; died, unmarried, Sept. 5,
1817, at the age of twenty.
285
EPHRAIM PLUMER 6 , born in Rochester, N. H., in 1766 ;
baptized Nov. 2, 1766. He was a private in Capt. An-
drew Pierce's military company, and served from May 24
to July 3, 1814. He lived in his native town.
He married Anna (Mary ?) McDuffee of Rochester
Feb. 25, 1790. He died about 1843.
Children :
663 I. BETSEY 7 , born in 1791; died, unmarried, in 1812.
664 II. RiOHABD 7 , born in 1792; lived in Milton, N. H.; and mar-
ried Mary Clark.
665 in. DANIEL 7 , born in 1794; lived in Milton ; married Eunice
Card of Milton; and died in 1872.
666 iv. SusAN 7 , born in 1796; married Benjamin Deland.
667 v. LYDiA 7 , born in 1798; married Daniel (Thomas?) Legro
of Lebanon, Me.; where they lived and died.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
163
668 vi. JAMES 7 , born in 1800; lived in Milton; married Betsey
Deland of Brookfield; and died in 1856.
669 vii. EPHBAiM 7 , born in 1804; lost an arm in a cider mill ; and
died, unmarried, in 1824, at the age of twenty.
670 vni. SAMUEL', born in 1806; lived in Milton; married Eliza
Ricker of Milton; and died in 1881.
671 ix. ABIGAIL 7 , born in 1809; married Ebenezer Brock of
Lebanon, Me., where she lived.
672 x. ALLEN 7 , born Feb. 2, 1812; married Abigail J. Pendergast
Jan. 23, 1842, in Barrington.
286
EBENEZER PLUMER 6 , born in Rochester, N.H., in 1769 ;
baptized Nov. 26, 1769. He settled on the old home-
stead of his father in Rochester, and lived and died there.
He was a corporal in Capt. Andrew Pierce 's military
company, and served from May 24 to July 3, 1814.
He married Ruth Dole of Newburyport, Mass. She
was born in 1778, and died in 1846.
Children :
6731. RnoDA 7 , born in 1792; married James Gerrish; and died
in 1872.
674n. JEBEMIAH 7 , born in 1794. See family numbered " 674."
675 in. BENJAMIN 7 , born in 1796; settled near his brother Jere-
miah on the old homestead, in Rochester ; married
Sarah Roberts of Rochester Jan. 30, 1820; she was
born in 1796, and died in 1881; and he died in 1850.
They had a child, who died in infancy.
676 iv. CAROLINE 7 , born in 1810; married Henry (Hervey?)
Home; he died in 1834; and she died in 1879.
288
DODOVAH PLUMER 6 , born in Rochester in 17 . He
married Temperance Bickford.
Children :
6771. SAMUEL', born April 6, 1790, in Lee, N. H. See family
numbered "677."
678 n. SALLiE 7 ; married Ichabod Hayes of Farmington.
291
SYLVANUS PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., Sept.
12, 1750. He was called " esquire," and lived in St.
John, Nova Scotia.
164 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
He married Sarah Bournel ; and died in Sheffield, Sun-
bury county, N. B., in the winter of 1806-7. She sur-
vived him.
Children :
6791. JOHN'; living in 1805.
680 n. JAMBS'; under twenty-one in 1805.
681 in. AMASA 7 ; under age in 1805.
682 iv. REBECCA 7 ; married Elisha Edwards Freeman.
683 v. ANNA 7 ; under age in 1805.
684 vi. LAviNiA 7 ; under age in 1805.
294
NATHAN PLUMER*, bora in Newbury, Mass., Dec. 5,
1755. He was a distiller, and lived in Newburyport.
He married widow Abigail Delamore June 19, 1780.
Child, born in Newburyport :
6851. REBECCA 7 , born Sept. 25, 1785.
298
Gov. WILLIAM PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass.,
June 25, 1759. He removed with his parents to Epping,
N. H., when nine years of age, in 1768, and resided
there until his death. He was a lawyer by profession.
He was a member of the New Hampshire house of rep-
resentatives for several years, being speaker for two
years, and a state senator, serving as president two years.
In 1791 and 1792, he was a member of the convention
which formed the present constitution of the state ; and
was for some years solicitor for the County of Rocking-
ham. He was senator of the United States congress from
1802 until 1807 ; and governor of New Hampshire in
1812, 1816, 1817 and 1818. His last public position was
presidential elector, in 1820. On account of ill-health,
he declined further public duties.
Governor Plumer was a man of literary tastes, and
wrote much. His series of paperg, over the signature of
" Cincinnatus," had a wide circulation and were much
admired. He was a member of many literary, historical
and antiquarian societies, and the first president of the
New Hampshire Historical Society.
In person, he was tall and erect, of dark complexion,
face long and thin, with black hair and eyes. In his last
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 165
days, his gray locks, the undimmed eye and the dignity
of his person made him an attractive figure and a " grand
old man."
He married Sarah, daughter of Philip and Sarah
(Shatswell) Fowler of Newmarket, N. H., Feb. 12, 1788.
She was born in Newmarket June 22, 1762. He died in
Epping Dec. 22, 1850, at the age of ninety-one. She
survived him, and died April 1, 1852, in her ninetieth
year.
Their children were born in Epping, as follows :
6861. WILLIAM', born Feb. 9, 1789. See family numbered "686."
687n. SALLY FOWLER', born Nov. 17, 1790; married William
Claggett of Portsmouth, N. H., May 20, 1816; and
she died in Portsmouth, childless, Sept. 18, 1818, in
her twenty-eighth year.
688 in. SAMUEL', born Dec. 19, 1792. See family numbered
"688."
689 iv. GEORGE WASHINGTON 7 , born Feb. 4, 1796. See family
numbered "689."
690 v. JOHN JAY 7 , born Dec. 26, 1799; died, unmarried, May 2,
1849, in his fiftieth year.
691 vi. QuiNTus 7 , born May 5, 1805; died May 29, 1805.*
302
SAMUEL PLUMER 6 , born in Newburyport, Mass., Feb.
4, 1767. He married Betsey Cilley ; and died in Epping,
N. H., Oct. 17, 1850, at the age of eighty-three.
Children :
692 i. JOSEPH CILLEY ? ; married Sally Shaw.
693n. NANCY 7 .
694 in. ELSIE 7 .
695 IV. POLLY 7 .
696 v. REBECCA 7 ; married Daniel Ladd.
697 VI. HARRIET 7 .
698 vii. BETSEY 7 ; born July 13, 1802; married her cousin George
Washington Plumer (689).
303
COL. DANIEL PLUMER 6 , born in Epping, N. H., June
18, 1770. He married Sarah, daughter of Simon and
Judith (Perkins) Drake of Epping, Dec. 8, 1794. She
*See Portsmouth Journal of Aug. 6, 1859, for a notice of his
gravestone.
166 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
was an aunt of the late historian Samuel Gardner Drake
of Boston, and was born in Epping Sept. 27, 1772. Her
father built the first two-story house erected in Epping.
Mr. Plumer died at Epping March 16, 1852, at the age
of eighty-one ; and she died June 26, 1852, in her
eightieth year.
Children :
6991. DAVID DOLE', born April 24, 1795.
700 ii. ABRAHAM 7 , born Sept. 21, 1796; owned the homestead of
his grandfather Drake in Epping; colonel.
701 in. SAMUEL 7 , born July 20, 1800; married Elizabeth Ann
Martin.
702 iv. DANIEL 7 , born Nov. 12, 1802 ; married.
306
ASA PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., Dec. BO, 1762.
He was a trader, and lived in Portland, Me.
He married Alice, daughter of Moses and Sarah
(Noyes) Ilsley, Sept. 26, 1784.
Children :
703 i. MOSES ILSLEY 7 , born in 1789. See family numbered
" 703."
704n. ASA G. 7 .
705 in. RuFus 7 .
706 IV. ANDREW 7 .
707 V. ELVIBA 7 .
708 VI. SABAH 7 .
709 VII. HABBIET 7 .
310
JOSEPH PLUMER 6 , baptized in the First Presbyterian
Church in Newburyport, Mass., Sept. 9, 1770. He mar-
ried Mary Bradbury ; and lived in Portland, Me.
Children :
710!. 7.
711n. - 7 .
311
EDMUND PLUMER*, born in Newbury, Mass.,- Aug. 12,
1772. He was a husbandman, and lived in Newbury,
about midway between the Lower and Upper greens. He
was somewhat eccentric and covetous. A story is told of
BY SIDNEY PBRLEY. 167
him showing the latter characteristic. He owned some
land bordering on Merrimack river. Logs came down
the stream with freshets in the spring. It was under-
stood, at least, that if logs were hauled up out of the
water for safe-keeping, and not claimed by the owner
before the succeeding autumn, they belonged to the
owner of the land. One summer, having some logs thus
secured, he thought he would not wait till fall, but hauled
the logs to his house in the summer. He was taken quite
sick soon after, and his conscience so troubled him for his
theft, that he ordered his sons to haul them back to the
river, which was done, but as soon as he was able to be
out again his old love for the logs returned and they were
again hauled to his house.
He married Elizabeth Pluiuer of Rowley (515) in 1804
(published Oct. 29, 1803). He was insane for some
years before his death, which occurred in Newbury Oct.
24, 1846, at the age of seventy-four.
Their children were born in Newbury, as follows :
7121. JULIAN', born July 27, 1805.
713 II. GREENLEAF 7 , born Aug. 28, 1807. See family numbered
"713."
714 in. MATILDA', born July 24, 1809.
715 iv. MARY 7 , born May 8, 1811; died Jan. 30, 1833, at the age
of twenty-one.
716 v. CABOLINE 7 , born Aug. 20, 1813.
717 vi. FBANCis 7 , born July 27, 1815; died, unmarried, Jan. 7,
1871, aged fifty-five.
718 vn. MosES 7 , born April 24, 1817. See family numbered "718."
719 vin. DANIEL BARBER 7 , born Sept. 16, 1820; died Oct. 12, 1822,
aged two years.
720 ix. DANIEL 7 , born Dec. 10, 1823. See family numbered "720."
317
ISAIAH PLUMER*, born in Newbury, Mass., March 22,
1782. He lived in his native town.
He married Anna, daughter of John and Molly (Em-
ery) Chase, Dec. 31, 1823. She was born in Newbury
March 25, 1794. He died May 18, 1863, at the age of
eighty-two ; and she died April 8, 1869, at the age of
seventy-five.
168 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
Their children were born in Newbury, as follows :
721 i. CHARLES EDWARD', born Oct. 10, 1824; died, unmarried,
in 1855.
722n. NATHAN CHASE', born July 4, 1826; died Sept. 22, 1828,
aged two years.
723 in. MARTHA FOSTER' (twin), born April 3, 1830; non compos
mentis ; died at the almshouse, unmarried, Jan. 5,
1878, aged forty-seven.
724 iv. LUTHER CALVIN' (twin), born April 3, 1830; died at the
almshouse, in Peabody, of consumption, Nov. 14,
1891, at the age of sixty-one. He was mentally de-
ficient, and had been at the almshouse in Peabody for
about twenty years, He was very industrious.
320
ABRAHAM PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., Sept. 1,
1787. He was a farmer and lived in Newbury, next to
the estate of Nathaniel Dole, until 1823, when he sold
out to Albert Plumer, who built a new house on the site.
Abraham Plumer then removed to Rindge, N. H.
He married Hannah, daughter of Paul and Hannah
(Long) Hale of Newburyport, May 14, 1809. She was
born March 15, 1788.
Their children were born as follows :
725 i. HANNAH MATILDA', born Nov. 29, 1809, in Newbury.
726n. CHARLES EDWIN', born Dec. 7, 1811, in Newbury. See
family numbered "726."
727 in. MARY ANN', born Dec. 12, 1813, in Newbury; married
Obediah, son of Benjamin and Lovey (Leavitt) Glines
of Northfield, N. H., May 26, 1836; he was born in
Northfield Feb. 9, 1804; she died there Feb. 23, 1871;
and he died there March 24, 1893, aged eighty-nine.
They had ten children.
728 iv. SARAH STOCKER', born March 14, 1816, in Newbury.
729 v. ELIZA LAWRENCE', born Aug. 27, 1818, in Newbury.
730 vi. MARIA MADEN T , born April 14, 1820, in Newbury; mar-
ried .
731 vii. ABRAHAM FOSTER', born Aug. 22, 1822, in Newbury.
732 vin. WILLIAM HENRY', born Aug. 1, 1824.
738 ix. CAROLINE AUGUSTA', born April 2, 1826.
734 x. BENJAMIN WOOD', born Jan. 16, 1828.
735 xi. ISAAC AUGUSTUS', born Nov. 24, 1830; died when about
seven years old.
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736 xii. CLEMENTINE SABBINA ? (twin), born April 22, 1832 ; died
when about two years old.
737 xni. ANGELINE SopmA 7 (twin), born April 22, 1832; died when
about two years old.
326
MOSES PLUMER 6 , born Jan. 3, 1 772, probably in Fal-
mouth (Portland), Me. Remarried Abigail Smith; and
died Dec. 13, 1847, at the age of seventy-five.
Children :
7381. MARY ANN SMITH', born Dec. 22, 1799; married Capt.
James R. Dockray July , 1825; he was born at
Newport, R. I., in 1797; she died March 15, 1854, aged
fifty-four ; and he died Sept. , 1868.
739 II. ELIZA', died young.
740 in. HABBIET BOYNTON', born Aug. ,1802; married Capt.
William Horsey of Charlestown, Mass., in 1822; he
died in Charlestown in 1848; and she died March ,
1883, at the age of eighty.
741 iv. SAMUEL', died young.
742 v. ELiAs 7 , died young.
743 vi. GsoBGE 7 , died young.
744 vii. EDMUND SMITH 7 , born in 1806; died in New York July ,
1832.
745 vni. DORCAS FICKETT T , born Jan. 30, 1808; married Silas J.
Wilbur Dec. 5, 1881; he was born in Sidney, Me., May
30, 1802; and he died June 20, 1873, aged seventy-one.
746 ix. JOHN WEBB SMITH ? , born in 1810; died at sea in 1824.
747 x. SAMUEL MOTLEY ? , born Oct. , 1812. See family num-
bered "747."
748 xi. JANE 7 , born Aug. 15, 1814; married Capt. Henry Thurs-
ton of Portland, Me., June 14, 1846; and he died Feb.
9, 1860.
749 xii. JOSEPH 7 , born Dec, 22, 1817. See family numbered "749."
327
WILLIAM PLUMER*, born Nov. 17, 1774, probably in
Falmouth (Portland), Me. He married Margaret Morrill
April 12, 1798 ; and died Feb. 1, 1808, at the age of
thirty-three. She was his widow in 1823.
Children :
7501. WILLIAM', born Feb. 5 (6?), 1801. See family numbered
"750."
170 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
751 II. ESTHER 7 , married John Thomas; and died without issue.
752 in. MARGARET' ; married William Coffin.
328
JOHN PLUMER 6 , born Nov. 18, 1778, probably in Fal-
mouth (Portland), Me.
He married Eleanor Haskell. She died in 1815 ; and
he died May 8, 1816, at the age of thirty-seven.
Children :
7531. ELEANOR'; married Dr. John Coe; and died Jan. 3, 1882.
754 ii. ELIZA 7 ; married Daniel Gilbert; she died at the age of
twenty-five; and he died in New Orleans Sept. 28,
1837.
755 in. NANCY 7 ; married Wood.
756 iv. JOHN 7 , died at sea in early life.
757 v. ELiAs 7 , died at the age of twenty-five.
758 vi. PAMELiA 7 , born March 12, 1811; married Charles E.
Beckett; he died Sept. 9, 1866, aged fifty-four; and
she died July 19, 1880, at the age of sixty-nine.
759 vii. CAROLINE F. 7 ; married Thomas Sawyer; and died in
1867, at the age of fifty-four.
331
BENJAMIN PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., April
29, 1751. He was a yeoman, and lived in Newbury. He
was in the army of the Revolution two years, leaving it
just before his marriage. He was first on duty at Chel-
sea, to learn how many of the dead British soldiers were
brought off Bunker hill after the battle.
He married Sarah, daughter of Abraham and Mary
(Adams) Adams of Newbury May 15, 1777. She was
born in Newbury March 3, 1756 ; and died there Jan.
22, 1812, in her fifty-fifth year. He died there Oct. 19,
1817, at the age of sixty-six.
Their children were born in Newbury, as follows :
7601. ENOCH', born Oct. 24, 1777. See family numbered " 760."
761 ii. WILLIAM', born Aug. 11, 1781; never married ; strayed
from home March 18, 1821, and was never heard
from; supposed to have died at Fort Ann in 1822(?).
762 III. DANIEL', born April 28, 1783 ; never married ; lived in
Newbury; was known as '* Master Daniel Plumer,"
having taught school in Newbury in early life ; was
a man of about two hundred and forty pounds
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 171
weight and of great strength. He died worth a
hundred thousand dollars, which he made by farm-
ing, having one of the finest and most productive
farms in Oldtown. He saved all he could, and thus
amassed his fortune. He invested his profits in good
stocks, and in order to collect his dividends, which
were payable in Boston, he walked there and back,
a distance each way of thirty-eight miles. It was his
practice to start off early in the morning, walk to
Ipswich; take breakfast with some friend or acquaint-
ance, and then continue his journey to Boston. The
total expense of the entire trip probably seldom ex-
ceeded fifty cents. He died, unmarried, in Newbury,
Dec. 27, 1862, at the age of seventy-nine.
332
WILLIAM PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., where
he was baptized Sept. 16, 1753. He was a farmer, and
lived in Newbury. He was in the army which captured
Burgoyne.
He married Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Dorcas
(Perkins) Foster of Ipswich, Dec. 20, 1791. She was
born June 10, 1759 ; and died Oct. 6, 1798, at the age
of thirty-nine. He survived her until Nov. 16th follow-
ing, when he died, at the age of forty- five.
Their children were born in Newbury, as follows : -
7631. ISAAC', born Sept. 15, 1793; died in Boston April 25,
1815, at the age of twenty-one.
764n. NATHANIEL', baptized in Newbury May 15, 1796 ; died in
Newbury Feb. 19, 1810, aged fourteen.
765 in. SALOME', baptized March 19, 1797; died in Ipswich, un-
married, at the age of about forty.
343
JOSHUA PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., where he
was baptized Jan. 17, 1768. He lived in Newbury and
Newburyport.
He married, first, Hannah Safford of Rowley Dec. 17,
1793 ; and, second, Jane Jewett of Ipswich Feb. 16, 1808.
He died April 30, 1842.
Children :
7661. MARY 7 ; married David North; and lived in Vermont.
172 THE PLUMEB GENEALOGY.
767n. MARGARET JANE', born Nov. 1, 1811, in Newburyport;
died at the age of two years.
768 in. MARGARET HAZEN ? , born Aug. 6, 1815, in Newburyport;
married Benjamin H. Jacques Dec. 17, 1835.
345
SETH STOKER PLUMER*, baptized in the First church
in Newbury, Mass., July 11, 1773. He rarely used his
middle name. He was a felt-maker and hatter, and lived
in Newburyport, on Washington street.
He married, first, Patty Knowlton Sept. 2, 1796 ; and,
second, widow Eunice March Jan. 7, 1799. He died
July 16, 1805.
Mr. Plumer's children were born in Newburyport, as
follows :
7691. MOSES' (twin), born March 9, 1800; lost his mind, and
died in the Ipswich insane asylum.
770n. DAVID' (twin), born March 9, 1800; died Oct. 2, 1800.
771 in. ELIZABETH 7 , born Jan. 28, 1802; died about 1872.
772 iv. CAROLINE 7 , born Feb. 22, 1804; married David E. Cutler
July 10, 1823.
347
EBENEZER PLUMER 6 , baptized in the First church in
Newbury, Mass., April 8, 1777. He was a trader, and
lived in Newburyport.
Mr. Plumer married Hannah, daughter of Rev. John
Adams, a Methodist clergyman, of Newbury June 16,
1831. Mr. Plumer died July 2, 1857 ; and she survived
him and died before the year was out.
Their children were born in Newburyport, as follows :
7731. EBENEZER 7 (twin), born Sept. 15, 1832; died Nov. 29,
1837.
774__ n . SARAH Coss 7 (twin), born Sept. 15, 1832; married Enoch
George, son of John and Sarah Adams, June 16, 1863;
and died Feb. 11, 1858.
366
NATHANIEL PLUMER*, born May 29, 1764. He mar-
ried Susanna, daughter of Rev. Nicholas Folsom. She
died May 22, 1829 ; and Mr. Plumer died June 13, 1853,
at the age of eighty-nine.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
173
Their children were born as follows :
7751. JOHN 7 , born Feb. 7, 1791; died Jan. 5, 1808, at the age of
sixteen.
776n. NATHANIEL', born Feb. 19, 1793. See family numbered
" 776."
777 in. SALLY MERRILL 7 , born April 27, 1795; married David
Ames, jr., of Campton Feb. 27, 1826. She died Jan.
4, 1838; and he died July 26, 1859.
778 iv. NICHOLAS FoLSOM 7 , born July 20, 1797. See family num-
bered " 778."
779 v. POLLY P. 7 , born June 11, 1800; married Aaron Sleeper of
Bristol; and died Nov. 3, 1859.
780 vi. JESSE 7 , born July 23, 1802. See family numbered " 780."
781 vii. DAVID BURLEIGH T , born June 25, 1806. See family num-
782 vm. JOHN 7 , born Sept. 11, 1808. See family numbered " 782."
783 ix. GEORGE W. 7 , born May 4, 1812 ; died July 4, 1817.
367
MOSES PLUMER 6 , born Oct. 20, 1765. He married
Nancy Fox of Meredith, N. H., Sept. 10, 1808. She died
March 6, 1857 ; and he died June 14, 1859, at the age of
ninety-three.
Their children were born as follows :
ESTHER 7 , born July 28, 1810; died March 6, 1830, at the
age of nineteen.
BETSEY GORDON ? , born Aug. 12, 1811 ; married Simeon
Gate Drake March 14, 1848.
LoviNA 7 , born June 3, 1815; married Thomas Galley, son
of Joseph and Betsey (Galley) Burleigh, Feb. 11, 1836.
MOSES 7 , born Dec. 23, 1817. See family numbered " 787."
JOHN AMBROE 7 , born Sept. 26, 1821(7?). See family
numbered "788."
7841.
785 ii.
786 in.
787 iv.
788 v.
369
JESSE PLUMER 6 , born Feb. 6, 1768. He was a yeo-
man, and lived in Meredith, N. H. He married, first,
Sally, daughter of Taylor and Rachel (Taylor) Pearson.
She was born Jan. 18, 1778, and died March 13, 1830.
He married, second, Molly, widow of Josiah Burleigh,
and sister to Mr. Plumer's first wife. She died Sept. 7,
1836, at the age of sixty-seven. He married, third,
Phebe, daughter of Capt. Aaron and Mary (Barter) San-
174 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
born, and widow of John Sanborn. Mr. Plumer died
Oct. 23, 1839, at the age of seventy -one.
The children of Mr. Plumer were born as follows :
7891. WILLIAM', born June 8, 1800. See family numbered
" 789."
790 ii. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN', born Aug. 16, 1802. See family
numbered "790."
791 m. NANCY', born July 23, 1804; married, first, Nathaniel,
son of Ebenezer and Abigail (Barker) Eastman, Dec.
28,1830; he died May 7, 1869; she married, second,
Chase, son of Samuel and Eunice (Chase) Jaques,
Sept. 28, 1871; and she died Nov. 28, 1876, at the age
of seventy-two.
792 iv. HANNAH P. 7 , born Oct. 31, 1806; married John Calvin,
son of Ebenezer and Hannah (Haynes) Gove, May 18,
1837.
798 v. MABK 7 , born Feb. 19, 1809. See family numbered ' 793."
794 vi. SOPHIA 7 , born Sept. 26, 1811 ; died Nov. 14, 1833, at the
age of twenty -two.
795 vn. JONATHAN PKAKSON 7 , born Nov. 6, 1815; died Aug. 29,
1818, aged two.
370
AMOS PLUMER 6 , born Sept. 11, 1769. He was a yeo-
man, and lived in Meredith, N. H. He married Abigail
Gilman, daughter of Jonathan and Abigail (Gilman)
Edgerly, Jan. 11, 1829. She died Feb. 9, 1835, at the
age of thirty-nine ; and he died June 17, 1850, at the
age of eighty.
Their children were born as follows :
7961. AMOS 7 , born Feb. 17, 1830; died Feb. 18, 1830.
797n. NATHANIEL 7 , born Oct. 27, 1834; died Aug. 22, 1835.
371
NATHAN PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., Oct. 3,
1772. He married Hannah, daughter of Dea. Samuel
and Judith (Clifford) Lane, July 23, 1793. She was
born Oct. 15, 1777 ; and died Jan. 14, 1850, at the age
of seventy-two. He died July 5, 1850, at the age of sev-
enty-seven.
Their children were born as follows :
7981. SAMUEL 7 , born Sept. 25, 1794. See family numbered "798."
BY SIDNEY PEELEY.
175
799 ii. PoLLY 7 , born March 1, 1796; died, unmarried, July 3,
1836, at the age of forty.
800 in. ABIGAIL S. 7 , born Dec. 16, 1798 ; married Ira Sanborn.
801 iv. NATHAN 7 , born Dec. 8, 1800; died May 14, 1828, at the
age of twenty-seven.
802 v. DAVID 7 , born April 7, 1803 ; married Deborah Cooley;
and had no children.
808 vi. LANE 7 , born July 22, 1805. See family numbered "803."
804 vii. MOSES GiLMAN 7 , born Dec. 11, 1807; married Smith;
and died in New Hampton.
805 vni. CHARLES H. 7 , born March 6, 1812. See family numbered
" 805."
373
PARKER PLUMED, born May 20, 1777. He married
Mary, daughter of John Hubbard, and widow of John
Ambrose, Nov. 17, 1811. Mr. Plumer died Dec. 12, 1861,
at the age of eighty-four.
Their children were born as follows :
8061. 7 , died young.
807n. 7 , died young.
808 in. JOHN 7 , probably died young.
809 iv. LuOY 7 .
810 v. MARY 7 , died, unmarried.
811 vi. SARAH ELIZA ? ; married, first; ; and, second,
Hanson.
812 vn. JOHN H. 7 ; resided in Sandwich, N. H.
374
STEPHEN PLUMER C , born in Sanborn ton, N. H., March
14, 1779. He married Polly, daughter of Samuel and
Nancy Berry, Dec. , 1808. She was born in Newfield,
Me., Oct. 22, 1787. He died June 26, 1858, at the age
of seventy-nine ; and she died Sept. 22, 1864, aged seven-
ty-six.
Their children were born as follows :
8131. CYNTHIA 7 , born Sept. 24, 1811; died Dec. 13, 1832, at the
age of twenty-one.
814 ii. FREEMAN BEBBY ? , born May 10, 1815; married Eliza A.,
daughter of Rev. Stephen Coombs, April 6, 1845; and
176 THE PLUMBB GENEALOGY.
died March 27, 1866, at the age of fifty. They had no
children.
815 in. EBENEZEB FoLSOM 7 , born Aug. 23, 1817. See family
numbered " 815."
816 IV . SALLY MERRILL', born Aug. 10, 1819; married Nathaniel
Farnham, son of James and Eunice (Farnham) Wad-
leigh. He was born Aug. 12, 1816; and died Sept. 8,
1879.
375
RICHARD PLTJMER S , born June 10, 1781. He married
Sally Fox. She was born March 6, 1791. He died Jan.
28, 1861, at the age of seventy-nine; and she died Nov.
23, 1865, at the age of seventy-four.
Their children were born as follows :
8171. NANCY F. 7 , born March 31, 1809; married, first, Moses
K., son of James and Rebecca (Kimball) Cawley (Gal-
ley?), Feb. 21, 1833; he died April 23, 1843. She mar-
ried, second, Rev. Leland Huntley July 29, 1849; and
he died June 16, 1861, at the age of seventy.
818n. FANNY 7 , born Jan. 10, 1812; married William Brier, son
of Joseph and Sarah (Emery) Huse, Dec. 15, 1833.
819 in. LAURA 7 , born May 28, 1814; married, first, Josiah, son of
Josiah and Molly (Pearsons) Burleigh, Nov. 14, 1833;
he died Feb. 1, 1834; she married, second, Thomas
Jefferson, son of David Philbrick, Dec. 4, 1834; she
died July 29, 1837, at the age of twenty -three; and
Mr. Philbrick died Sept. 23, 1877.
820 rv. MARY 7 , born Aug. 11, 1816; married, first, Jonathan, son
of Jonathan and Abigail (Gilman) Edgerly, Feb. 1,
1866; he was born April 3, 1797; he died Oct. 3, 1875;
she married, second, William, son of Caleb and Sarah
(Cass) Eaton(?), Oct. 8, 1878.
821 v. JOSEPH 7 , born Oct. 11, 1820. See family numbered "821."
822 vi. SARAH HiLL 7 , born July 16, 1825; married Cyrus H., son
of John S. and Abigail (Taylor) Lane, Oct. 25, 1848.
He was born June 11, 1824.
823 vn. LUTHER', born March 14, 1828. See family numbered
l < 823."
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(To be continued.)
THE WOODS, SALEM, IN 1700.
THE WOODS, SALEM, IN 1700.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
THIS article includes about five square miles of terri-
tory ; its extreme length being upward of three miles,
and its width more than two miles. It is entirely within
the western portion of the town of Peabody ; the easterly
end reaching nearly to the Newburyport turnpike, and the
southerly side to about Winona street. The Salem Vil-
lage line is shown by a series of dashes running westerly
to the Seven Men's bounds.
Lowell street is an ancient way, and was called a way
in 1737 ; Salem road in 1774 ; the Reading road in 1834 ;
and Lowell street as early as 1871. About 1800, the
road was considerably straightened at the Gardner farm,
the old part being known as Bow street as early as 1882.
West street was an early continuation of Forest street,
and on it were several ancient houses. The eastern end
of Winona street was called ye highway leading to Moul-
ton's in 1755. West street was called ye highway in
1681 ; ye country road going to Reading in 1 701 ; the
lane in 1769 ; a lane or highway in 1790 ; and West
street as early as 1874.
Taylor street is an old way, being a portion of the
ancient road past Moulton's. It was called Taylor street
for the first time in 1890.
Pine street was called the highway in 1805 ; the road
leading from Danvers to Lynnfield meeting house near
the hosiery factory, so called, in 1846 ; Lynnfield road in
1864 ; the highway leading to Lynnfield Centre in 1867 ;
the highway leading from Peabody to Lynnfield in 1874 ;
and Pine street in 1874.
The northwestern portion of Lake street was called
the road lately made from the Danvers cotton factory to
old Reading road in 1816 ; and its easterly portion was
(177)
178 THE WOODS, SALEM, IN 1700,
called a new road in 1853 ; and the new road leading near
the Winona mills in 1868. It was called Lake street as
early as 1882.
Birch street was used some years before 1735. It was
called the highway in 1768 ; and Birch street in 1882.
Russell street was laid out by a jury, Capt. Henry
Herrick, foreman, in 1741 ; and was called the paper
mills road in 1870 ; and Russell street as early as 1882.
Goodale's lane was so called as early as 1882.
An ancient road has been discovered through the ex-
amination of these land titles, leading from what is now
the Square in Middleton to Reading and Boston. It can
be traced more than a mile in Peabody ; and its course is
shown on the map. It was called Boston Path in 1697,
and probably as early as 1665 ; and a path leading from
Wills hill to Reading in 1733. Some portions of it are
still used, but a considerable part is overgrown with
shrub oaks. Running southerly, it crosses Lowell street
just within the town of Lynnfield.
" Dishful " is a name given to the place where five
highways meet near a pond at the western end of Winona
street. It was so called as early as 1846.
" The seven men's bounds " has been the name of the
bound that marks the angle in the line between the towns
of Peabody and Lynnfield since 1649 at least. It is de-
scribed as " a tree called seven men's bounds " in 1686 ;
it consisted of a ' large heap of stones " in 1733 ; and is
described as a ' heap of stones called the seven men's
bounds " in 1761. The pile of rocks are now more or
less scattered, though some remain. A split granite mon-
ument was erected to mark the angle some seventy years
ago, and it is now the bound. It is about nine inches
square and some twenty inches in height. On its western
side is cut the letter L and on its eastern side the letter D.
Ipswich river at this place was so called as early as
1649. It was described as " a brook called Ipswich river"
in 1674 ; and " a brook known as Ipswich river " in
1699.
Norris' brook was called "Phelps his brook " in 1662 ;
and Norris' brook in 1680. In 1834, it is described as the
brook running from the cotton factory to Phelps' mills.
BY SIDNEY PERLBY. 179
Benjamin Pope House. This farm, which was princi-
pally in Lynn, was owned and occupied by Benjamin
Pope as early as 1692. He died in 1702, possessed of
the estate. At this time the house, barn and one hun-
dred and sixty acres of land were appraised at two hun-
dred and fifty pounds. The house had two rooms on the
front on the first floor, and a leanto. The homestead was
assigned, in 1704, to Benjamin Pope, eldest son of the
deceased. Benjamin Pope of Salem, husbandman, con-
veyed four-fifths of the farm of one hundred and fifty
acres of land in Salem and Lynn to William Upton and
Joseph Ebourn, both of Salem, husbandmen, July 29,
1706.* How long the house stood after this date is un-
known to the writer.
Samuel Gardner House. At a meeting of the freemen
of Salem, Feb. 29, 1663-4, it was " ordered that all the
lande vndifpofed from m r Humphoryes hill to the feauen
mens bounds and all on the other fide of the riuer within
the townes bounds is left to the felect men to difpose of
for makinge good former grants or to acomadate others
as they f hall fee ocafion."f
In 1665, in satisfaction of rights which he had bought
of various persons, a large tract of land, much more
than the amount stated, was laid out to Lt. George Gard-
ner. A public record of it was not made, apparently,
until 1697 ; and the following record appears to be the
only descriptive one of the laying out :
'* By vertue of an Order from the Selectmen of Salem
Directed unto Jeffry Mafsey Lt George Gardner and my-
self or unto any two of vs to lay out unto Seuerall per-
fons Severall Pcells of Land Between Humphrys farm
and the farm formerly belonging to Phelps on this Side
Ipfwich River So Called near the Seven mens bounds wee
accordingly Laid out unto L fc George Gardner one hun-
dred & ninety acres of s d land which was for Seuerall
grants which he Bought of Seuerall perfons amounting
unto Soe much adioyning unto his own land & is bound-
ed as followeth viz To the Widow pope Geoyles Cory
Humphry 5 farm & to lynn Bownds & the Seuen mens
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 69.
tSalem Town Records, volume II, page 57.
180 THE WOODS, SALEM, IN 1700,
bounds a little pine by Boston path : & a little red oak
by Boston path : and a Little white oak having Goodman
Buxton on the west a great white Oak at the Riuer Good-
man Buxtons land on y e west lying unto linn bounds : I/
Gardner forty Pole by y e riuer unto Samuel Gardners
bounds : Samuel Gardner & John Robinfons land on the
East vnto a pine tree on the head of John Robinfons land
and a Little red oak & a great white oak between John
Rubton & John Robinfon & L 1 Gardner a little Walnut
John Robton on the East an oak standing near L* Gard-
ners meadow : The Returne of the laying out of this
land I formerly gaue in vnto the Selectmen of Salem
" attest Nath 11 Putnam
Salem 24 th September 1697
"The aboue being a True Copy taking out of my Booke
of Entry 3 of laying out severall parcells of land & Entred
in y e Day of it : when it was done, w ch was in y e year
1665.
" At a meeting of the Selectmen February 8 th 169
" The aboues d ordered to be entred.
" Examined & Compared w th the Originall
" Attft Jn Croade Cler
Salem"*
Upon this tract of land, Lieutenant Gardner erected,
*>f substantial oak, a good-sized two-story dwelling house,
probably about 1670. At first, it had no leanto, that
part of the present house having been added much later,
probably at about the time of the Revolution.
The estate was leased to Thomas Gould, who was its
possessor when Mr. Gardner died, Aug. 20, 1679. In his
will, he devised it to his son Samuel Gardner, after the
death of the widow. At this time, the farm was said to
contain about four hundred acres, and, with the dwelling
house and outhousing and twelve acres of meadow in
Reading, was appraised at three hundred and twenty
pounds. Thomas Gould continued to occupy the estate
as late as 1685.
Captain Gardner diedFeb. 24, 1724 ; and, in his will,
he devised the house and land around it to the three
*Book of Grants, page 155.
BY SIDNEY PBRLBY. 181
sons of his deceased son Capt. John Gardner, John,
Daniel and Samuel Gardner. Jan. 9, 1733, the estate was
divided. John Gardner, yeoman, and Samuel Gardner,
gentleman, both of Salem, conveyed their shares to their
brother, Daniel Gardner of Salem, gentleman.*
Daniel Gardner lived in this ancient house most of his
life ; and died Sept. 15, 1759, having, in his will, devised
the estate to his sons Samuel and John Gardner. In the
inventory of his estate the farm is described as containing
two hundred and twenty acres of upland and meadow,
and, with the buildings, was appraised at seventeen hun-
dred and sixty pounds.
John Gardner died before July 9, 1768, and Samuel
Gardner bought of John's heirs their interests in the
estate, f Samuel Gardner lived here all of his life. He
conveyed the house and land around it, amounting to one
hundred and fifty acres, to his sons Asa and George Gard-
ner, for forty-two hundred dollars, April 14, 1808. f
October 14th, following, George Gardner released to Asa
Gardner the dwelling house and land around it; and Asa
lived there during his life, dying there March 9, 1858.
He had no children, and his widow, Mary A. Gardner,
conveyed the homestead to Bowman Viles of Peabody
Oct. 18, 1871.|| Mr. Viles died Nov. 2, 1896 ; having, in
his will, devised the estate to his wife Hannah M. Viles.
She died Nov. 30, 1898 ; and, in her will, she devised the
property to her son Gardner A. Viles, the present owner.
Abel Gardner Lot. This lot of land was a part of the
land early granted by the town of Salem to Thomas Gard-
ner, the planter, who died Dec. 29, 1674. It came into
the possession of his son Samuel probably before the de-
cease of the father. Samuel Gardner died in October,
1689, having, in his will, devised it to his son Jonathan.
Jonathan Gardner died about 1693, having, in his will,
devised it to his brother Abel. Lt. Abel Gardner of Salem
owned it until 1705.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 65, leaf 174.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 141, leaf 259.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 183, leaf 237.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 185, leaf 259.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 837, leaf 174.
182 THE WOODS, SALEM, IN 1700,
William Russell Lot. This lot of land was a part of
the land early granted by the town of Salem to Thomas
Gardner, the planter, who died Dec. 29, 1674. It came
into the possession of his son Samuel probably before the
decease of the father. Samuel Gardner died in October,
1689, having, in his will, devised it to his son Jonathan.
Jonathan Gardner died about 1693, having, in his will,
devised it to his brother Abel. Lt. Abel Gardner of Salem,
yeoman, conveyed it to William Russell of Reading, for
sixty pounds, Nov. 21, 1694 ;* and Mr. Russell owned it
until 1713.
Joseph Pope Lot. John Robinson of Topsfield, hus-
bandman, owned this lot of seventy acres, Feb. 20, 1671-2,
when he conveyed it to John Porter, sr., of Salem. f Mr.
Porter was a yeoman, and died possessed of the lot Sept.
6, 1673. In the inventory of his estate this lot is valued
at forty pounds. Mr. Porter's widow and executrix,
Mary Porter, conveyed it to Thomas Gardner, jr., the
husband of her daughter Mary, June 28, 1678.J Lt.
Thomas Gardner of Salem died possessed of it Nov. 16,
1695 ; and Capt. William Bowditch of Salem, mariner,
the administrator of his estate, for sixty pounds, conveyed
it to Joseph Pope of Salem, yeoman, Aug. 1, 1698. It
belonged to Mr. Pope in 1700.
Nathaniel Pope Lot. This lot of thirty acres was grant-
ed by the town of Salem to Richard Hollingworth April
11, 1674 ;|| and Mr. Hollingworth, who was then of
Salem, mariner, conveyed it to Thomas Flint and widow
Gertrude Pope, both of Salem, May 11, 1674.1 The in
terest of Thomas Flint probably passed to Mrs. Gertrude
Pope, the other owner ; and, in consideration of love, she
conveyed it to her grandson Nathaniel Pope of Salem Oct.
23, 1699.** Nathaniel Pope owned it in 1700.
Joseph Pope and Benjamin Pope Lot. This lot of twen-
ty acres was granted by the town of Salem to John
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 89.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 151.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 19.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 179.
II Salem Town Records, volume II, page 59.
f Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 66.
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 235.
BY SIDNEY PBRLEY. 183
Tompkins April 11, 1674 ;* and Mr. Tompkins, who was
then of Salem, husbandman, for ten pounds, conveyed it
to Joseph Pope and Benjamin Pope, both of Salem, farm- s
ers, June 16, 1675.f Joseph Pope and Benjamin Pope
owned the lot in 1700.
John Buxton Lot. This lot of thirty acres was granted
by the selectmen of Salem to Anthony Buxton April 11,
1674. f Mr. Buxton died in the early summer of 1684,
having, in his will, devised this lot to his son John Bux-
ton. The lot was then valued at thirty pounds. John
Buxton lived in Salem, and owned the lot in 1700.
Estate of John Upton House. That part of this lot
which lies between the dashes was the eighty-acre lot
granted by the town of Salem to Daniel Rumball March
4, 1643-4. Mr. Rumball was a blacksmith and lived in
Salem. For ten pounds, he conveyed the land to John
Upton of Salem, husbandman, April 6, 1662. ||
That part of the lot lying southerly of the southern
dashes was granted by the town of Salem to Henry Bul-
lock Oct. 13, 1649.^J Mr. Bullock lived in Salem, and
was a husbandman. He conveyed the land to John Up-
ton, who was then living at Hammersmith (Saugus), Dec.
26, 1658.** On this lot Mr. Upton built a dwelling house,
probably soon after his purchase of the land and before
1665 ; and this house is still standing in excellent condi-
tion. It was built originally with a pitch roof, having
three gables. The gables at the easterly and westerly
ends were about twenty feet in width at the floor of the
attic, measuring from the front. The length of the house is
about thirty-eight feet, and the total width thirty-one feet ;
and the rear part of the house, about ten feet in width,
was covered by a pitch roof with the gable to the north,
the ridge pole running to and meeting that running east
to west midway and at the same height. The roof was
changed to its present form, probably about the time of
*Salem Town Records, volume II, page 56.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 119.
tSalem Town Records, volume II, page 59.
Salem Town Records, volume I, page 126 (printed).
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2. leaf 46.
f Salem Town Records, volume I, page 160 (printed).
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 47.
184 THE WOODS, SALEM, IN 1700,
the Revolution. The front rooms have been modernized
by furring out the walls and ceiling, thus hiding the pro-
jecting timbers. The fireplace in the kitchen measured
seven feet and three inches in length and about four feet
in height. The most interesting feature here, however,
is the hearth, measuring eight and a half feet in length
and projecting into the room five and a half feet. It is
laid with brick set edgewise, and shows that it has been
much used. In the old tavern days, the . kitchen must
have been a busy place.
That part of the lot lying northerly of the northern
dashes was common land of the town in 1662 ; and it
became the property of James Hagg of Salem, planter,
For twenty pounds, Mr. Hagg conveyed the land to John
Upton of Salem, farmer, Nov. 27, 1671.*
Thus, Mr. Upton became the owner of the entire lot.
He lived here until his death, which occurred July 11,
1699. In his will, to his sons William and Samuel Upton
he devised the estate, which was appraised at one
hundred and twenty pounds, and commonly known as
" Wood hill." They made a division of the homestead
April 6, 1708, and the buildings and land around them
were assigned to William Upton.f For one hundred and
forty pounds, he conveyed the estate to his son Paul
Upton of Salem, yeoman, April 12, 17394 Paul Upton
died in 1750 ; and his son Ezra Upton bought the inter-
ests of the other heirs of Paul in the spring of 1774.
Ezra Upton had already turned his house into a tavern.
His father died when Ezra was twelve years of age ; and
he had done all a boy could to carry on the farm. In
1774, he was only thirty-six, and how much earlier than
that date he had conducted an inn is unknown to the
writer. He continued the business in connection with his
farming until his death, which occurred Feb. 19, 1787.
At that time, there were two barns upon the place, the
one now gone standing in front of the present barn and
just easterly of the house. The homestead, which was
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 132.
fEssex Registry of Deeds, book 61, leaf 40.
U: Essex Registry of Deeds, book 74, leaf 274.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 133, leaf 127.
BY SIDNEY PBRLEY. 185
valued at six hundred and sixty pounds, was divided Nov.
14, 1793, the western half of the house and land around
it being assigned to Jesse Upton, son of the deceased, and
the eastern half to the widow of the deceased, Mehitable,
who had married, secondly, Daniel Putnam in 1788. The
business of the tavern was continued by Jesse Upton and
his mother, even after her marriage with Mr. Putnam.
Jesse Upton died in the winter of 1824-5, having, in
his will, devised the estate to three of his sons, Eben,
Ezra and Jesse Upton. The estate then came into the
possession of his brother, David Upton, esq., of Danvers,
who died, intestate, Aug. 30, 1836. The tavern farm, as
it is called in the inventory of his estate, was then ap-
praised at twenty-seven hundred dollars. Lucy, wife of
Daniel Nutting of Gardiner, Me., and Phebe, wife of
James W. North of Clinton, Me., daughters of the de-
ceased, released their interest in the estate to David Up-
ton of Reading, Mass., Aug. 19, 1837 ;* and Mr. Upton
conveyed to Daniel Brown, jr., yeoman, and Daniel P.
King, esq., both of Danvers, " a certain farm in Danvers,
called the Tavern farm," etc., Dec. 7, 1837. f Daniel
Brown of Peabody, Daniel A. Brown of Boston and
Elizabeth U. King of Peabody conveyed "the Upton
tavern farm " and buildings thereon to James P. King of
Peabody, yeoman, May 20, 18744 Mr. King conveyed
the same estate to Ingalls K. Mclntire of Salem Sept. 16,
1885. Mr. Mclntire died there, being a yeoman, March
12, 1888 ; and his only child, Frank K. Mclntire, has
since then owned and occupied the place.
This tavern was conducted as late as 1819, and probably
much later.
Dr. William Bentley, in his Journal, mentions dining
there occasionally during the thirty-six years that he
resided in Salem. June 2, 1810, he wrote: "Our
first stop was at Upton's tavern in the point of Danvers
between Lynnfield & Reading Precinct We found the
Son upon the same spot in which I found the mother 30
years ago."
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 302, leaf 97.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 303, leaf 196.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 915, leaf 22.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1158, leaf 122.
186 THE WOODS, SALEM, IN 1700,
Joseph Pope Lot. This lot belonged to Joseph Pope at
the time of his death in 1667 ; was in the possession of
his widow in 1676 and 1681 ; and passed to his son
Joseph Pope, who owned it in 1700.
The Meadow of Richard Bishop and Company. At a
meeting of the selectmen of Salem, Nov. 27, 1658, ' Its
ordered that the layers out of land shall with the first
optunity lay out ... to " Philip Veren, Henry Cooke
and John Hill " each of them foure Acres of that meadow
layd out to Jn : Hill before for vpland : Jn Hill to
haue the first of it. Item y l Richard Bishop, Elias mason,
Thomas Robins for West, [John Bacbiler] Joseph Boyse
John Kichin, & Henry Renalls. shall haue the Remainder
of the meadow abouesd, to the sum of fower Acres
apeece if it hold out, or else to be divided equally be-
twixt them, & if they take som pte in the swampe then to
haue so much the more (as make vp the value of those
that haue 4 Acres apeece aboue granted) if it be there to
be had. This wee doe declare as o r minds 'that the nine
psons aboue specified shall haue that meadow abouesd : to
be equally deuided amongst them [togeather with the
swampe that runeth vp neare to Nicholas Phelps
farme]."* At a meeting of the selectmen, ten days
later, there was " Graunted to Anth Buxston 4 acres of
meadow next to that Graunted to Rich Bishop & Compa-
ny ... Graunted to Nath ffelton foure Acres of meadow
togeather with Antho Buxston if it be to be hade, this
is satisfied. Graunted to Hen : Skery foure Acres of
meadow togea[ther] with Antho Buxston if it be there
to be hade."f
There are but few deeds on record transferring these
meadow lots. Robert Goodell of Salem conveyed to his
daughter Sarah, wife of John Bacheler of Wenham, one
and one-half acres of meadow, u bounded by Isaack
Goodell's meddow east & west, & on y e south upon the
comon," Sept. 20, 1665 ;{ and Mr. Bacheler conveyed it
to Lott Killum of Wenham Nov. 16, 1666. Thomas
*Salem Town Records, volume I, page 220 (printed).
tSalem Town Records, volume I, page 221 (printed).
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 28.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 54.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 187
Robbing of Salem conveyed to John Trask of Salem,
yeoman, five or six acres of meadow, near Ipswich river,
4< bounded sotherly with a brook that runs down frqm
the Widdow Pope's farm, by y e south end of y e pr'misses,
& easterly it is bounded with a river that runs into Ips-
wich river, northerly with som medow formerly of Elias
Mason, now the meddow of Caleb Buffum, which bounds
y e premises p'tly on y e northerly side & on y e west with
y e meddow of Josiah Sothwick " (acknowledged) Dec.
28, 1676 ;* and Mr. Trask conveyed it to Thomas Haines
of Salem March 1, 1681.f Judith Cook, widow of Henry
Cook of Salem, slaughterer, conveyed to her son-in-law
Elisha Kebee and wife Rachel, her daughter, six acres of
meadow, ** bounded eastwardly upon y e brook comonly
caled by y e name of Mr. Norrice brook, westerly upon y e
upland called Pope's upland, northerly upon y e meddow
caled Henry Rennals meddow, & southwardly on y e med-
dow of Isaac Cooke," Dec. 29, 16804 Thomas Robbins
of Salem conveyed to Lott Killum of Salem two and one-
half acres of meadow, bounded ' westerly upon the up-
land of the Widdow Pope, & northerly upon y e meddow
of Isaack Cook, easterly upon the brooke caled Norrice's
brook, sotherly upon the meddow of Henry Renols,"
Nov. 17, 1681. William Pinson consented to this sale,
the meadow having been formerly sold to Thomas Rob-
bins, the grantor, by Mr. Pinson's uncle Robbins, Nov.
20, 1681. Mr. Killum conveyed this lot to Elisha Kebby
of Salem on the twenty-first of the same month ;f and
Mr. Kebby conveyed it to Stephen Smale of Salem on the
same day. || Josiah Southericke of Salem, yeoman, con-
veyed to Elisha Kebbee of Salem one and one-half acres
of meadow, ' bounded northerly upon y e line & upon y e
land of Robert Goodale, westerly on y e land of Gartrude
Pope, southerly upon y e land of y e sd Elisha Kebbee,
easterly on the brooke called Norrice his brooke," Nov.
18, 1681.1
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 16 .
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 13.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 129.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 30.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 31.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 130.
188 THE WOODS, SALEM, IN 1700,
Thomas Flint Lot. This lot apparently belonged to
Thomas Flint in 1700.
Joseph Pope House. This lot of upwards of a hundred
acres was granted by the town of Salem to Rev. Edward
Norris, the pastor of the church at that time, Jan. 21,
1639-40.* Mr. Norris, when still " minister and teacher
to the church of Salem/' for twelve pounds, conveyed
the lot to Eleanor Trustier, widow of Thomas Trustier,
late of Salem, deceased, Aug. 7, 1654. f .Mrs. Trustier
evidently built a small house upon the land ; and died,
possessed of it, the next spring. The land with the hous-
ing was appraised at twenty pounds in the inventory of
her estate. In her will, she devised this estate to her
sons Henry and Nicholas Phelps. The interest of Nicho-
las undoubtedly passed to his brother Henry Phelps when
it was taken, in 1660, to pay the fines levied upon Nicho-
las for being absent from religious services in the meeting
house and for being a Quaker. Henry Phelps conveyed
the bouse, orchard and land to Joseph Pope of Salem,
husbandman, July 18, 1664.J Mr. Pope died in the
spring of 1667 ; having, in his will, devised to his eldest
two sons, " Joseph and Beniamen pope the House in which
I now dwell together with the Land or farme on which it
standeth with all the apurtainances ther to belonging to
them and to ther heirs foreuer thay to Inioy the same
after ther mothers deceas : prouided and it is my will that
thay shall pay to my two yongest sonns Enos and 8am-
uell pope twenty pounds a peece within two years after
thay shall Inioy the same the house and Land abouesaid
to stand as security for the payment of the said Legase to
my two yonger sonns." Benjamin Pope apparently re-
leased his interest in this estate before 1700, when it be-
longed to his brother Joseph Pope. Joseph Pope died
Feb. , 1711-2, having, in his will, devised the estate to
his eldest son Joseph. The ancient house was probably
gone soon afterward.
There was a saw mill upon this lot in 1681 and 1702;
owned by Joseph Pope and Benjamin Pope, brothers. It
*Salem Town Records, volume I, page 97 (printed).
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 24.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 89.
BY SIDNEY PBBLBY. 189
was called, in 1702, " an old saw mill," and valued at
sixteen pounds.
Thomas Flint House. The eastern part of this lot was
the western portion of a lot of one hundred and fifty
acres granted by the town of Salem in 1636 to Mrs. Ann
Higginson, widow of Rev. Francis Higginson, the first
teacher of the church in Salem, provided she returned to
Salem. She was then living in Charlestown. This tract
of land was laid out to her in 1637, the order therefor
being dated Feb. 20, 1686-7. She died in New Haven,
Conn., in 1640 ; and her son Rev. John Higginson, who
was then pastor of the church at Guilford, Conn., con-
veyed the whole lot to John Pickering, for thirteen
pounds, March 23, 1651.* Mr. Pickering conveyed it to
John Woody (Woodis ?) and Thomas Flint Oct. 18, 1654. f
Mr. Flint apparently bought out Mr. Woodis' interest in
the land, as Mr. Flint afterward is recognized as its sole
owner, and at the death of Mr. Woodis, in the spring of
1659, he owed the estate six pounds and ten shillings,
which was his one-half of the price paid for the Higgin-
son lot.
The western portion of this lot was a part of the land
laid out to Robert Goodale of Salem, farmer, Feb. 13,
1651 $ and, for twenty pounds, Mr. Goodell conveyed
this part of his lot to Thomas Flint of Salem, farmer,
Jan. 6, 1662.
Mr. Flint died April 15, 1663, possessed of the Good-
ell part of this lot and the entire Higginson land, which
was then valued at one hundred and twenty pounds. This
lot became the property of his son Thomas Flint, who
built upon it a house in which he lived. Thomas Flint
died May 24, 1721, possessed of the house and land
around it ; but how much longer the house stood is un-
known to the writer.
Within the bounds of this lot at its southern side was
two acres and ninety-one square rods of meadow, entirely
surrounded by Flint's land. This belonged very early to
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 9.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 26.
JSalem Town Records, volume I, page 171 (printed).
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 76.
190 THE WOODS, SALEM, IN 1700,
Robert Goodell, who sold it to Giles Corey about 1662.
This was conveyed by Mr. Corey, in the general convey-
ance of all his property, made while he was in jail, to
his sons-in-law William Cleeves of Beverly and John
Moulton of Salem April 24, 1692.* Mr. Cleeves was a
seaman and Mr. Moulton a cordwinder, and, for five
pounds, two shillings and sixpence, they conveyed the
meadow to Thomas Flint and Joseph Flint, both of Salem
Village, Nov. 24, 1692. f Capt. Thomas Flint, aged about
sixty-eight years, deposed about this meadow and some
meadow on the south side of this lot as follows, viz. :
" that thofe meadows lying below my houfe betwixt my
land and y e land formerly mr Blackleeaches on y e Left
hand of y e highway as I goe to Joseph Pop's Sawmill on
both Sides of y e Brook called Blackleaches meadows Was
Occupied & pofsefsed by Robert Goodale as his owne
meadows belonging to y e aboves d land which he bought of
Said Blackleaches for many yeares, & that y e said Goodale
was in quiet peaceable pofsefsion of y e Said meadows for
near threefcore yeares past untill Said Goodale Sold Said
land & meadows to Giles Corey about fifty years Since
who Enjoyed & pofsefsed them So long as he liued but
after Said Coreys death my Brother Joseph fflint & my
Selfe bought part of Said meadow " in 1692. Zachariah
Goodale, aged seventy-three years, and Robert Moulton,
aged sixty-nine, deposed the same. All three deponents
made oath to the truth of their statements Sept. 2, 17124
Joseph Flint House. This lot was the eastern portion
of the lot of one hundred and fifty acres granted by the
town of Salem in 1636 to Mrs. Ann Higginson, widow of
Rev. Francis Higginson. It was laid out to her in the
same year, the order therefor being dated Feb. 20, 1636-7.
She died in New Haven, Conn., in 1640 ; and her son,
Rev. John Higginson, who was then pastor of the church
at Guilford, Conn., conveyed the lot to John Pickering,
for thirteen pounds, March 23, 1651. Mr. Pickering
conveyed it to John Woody (Woodis?) and Thomas Flint
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 46.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 54.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 26, leaf 172.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 9.
BY SIDNEY PEBLEY. 191
Oct. 18, 1654.* Mr. Flint apparently bought Mr. Woodis'
interest in it before 1659 ; and died, possessed of the lot,
April 15, 1663. Upon division of the property of Mr.
Flint, June 30, 1674, this portion of it became the sole
property of Joseph Flint, son of the deceased, who was
born in 1662, and married in 1685.
When and by whom the house on this lot was built is
unknown, but in the inventory of the estate of Joseph
Flint, who died, possessed of the house and land, in 1710,
the house is described as " a dwelling old house, much
out of repaire," and valued at twenty-five pounds. Dower
was set off to his widow April 18, 1721. The house was
standing at that date. A lower room in the east end, a
chamber in the west end and cellar under ye great room
are mentioned. The estate passed to his eldest son Joseph
Flint. The house was gone apparently a few years later.
Humphrey French Lot. This lot consisted of three
strips of meadow and ten acres of woodland ; and they
were part of the land granted by the town of Salem to
Edward Giles in 1636. He sold it to Mr. Blackleech,
who sold it to Robert Goodell of Salem, husbandman.
Mr. Goodell conveyed it to Giles Corey of Salem, yeoman,
March 15, 1659-60.f Mr. Corey conveyed the strips of
meadow to his daughter Mary, wife of John Parker, and
to her husband, May 20, 16814 Mr - and Mrs - Parker
died before Feb. 11, 1697-8, when their eldest son, John
Parker, conveyed his interest in this meadow land to
Humphrey French of Salem, tailor.J Their son Joseph
Parker of Salem released his interest to Mr. French Nov.
20, 1702. Their daughter Martha Parker released her
interest to Mr. French in 1703. |j Their daughter Mercy
Parker released her interest to Mr. French April 10,
1706. Their daughter Margaret Parker released her
interest to Mr. French Oct. 14, 1706.1
The ten acres of woodland was conveyed by Giles Corey
in the general deed he gave, while in jail, to his sons-in-law
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 26.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 69.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 140.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 20.
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 22.
IFEssex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 21.
192 THE WOODS, SALEM, IN 1700,
William Cleeves of Beverly and John Moulton of Salem,
yeomen, April 24, 1692.* Mr. Moulton of Salem, cord-
wainer, and his wife Elizabeth, conveyed it to Mr. French
April 23, 1695 ;f and he owned it in 1700.
Humphrey French Houses. The northerly part of this
lot was a part of the lot of fifty acres which was granted
by the town of Salem to Edward Giles (which was prob-
ably part of the sixty acres which was laid out to him in
1636). He sold it to John Blackleech of Boston, mer-
chant ; and Mr. Blackleich conveyed it, for three pounds,
to Robert Goodell of Salem, husbandman, Oct. 31, 1653.J
For thirty pounds, Mr. Goodell conveyed it to Giles Corey
of Salem, yeoman, March 15, 1659-60.
The southerly part of this lot was a part of the fifty
acres of upland and meadow which was granted by the
town of Salem to John Alderman in 1636. He died in
the summer of 1657, having, in his will, devised his real
estate to Ezra Clapp, son of Edward Clapp, and Nathaniel
Clapp, son of Nicholas Clapp, all of Dorchester. For fifty
pounds, they conveyed the lot to Mr. Corey July 24, 1663. ||
That part of this lot lying northerly of the dashes,
containing ten acres, was conveyed by Mr. Corey, in con-
sideration of love, to his daughter Mary, wife of John
Parker, and to her husband, May 20, 1*6 81. If Mr. and
Mrs. Parker died before Feb. 11, 1697-8, when their eld-
est son, John Parker, conveyed his interest in this ten
acres to Humphrey French of Salem, tailor.^]" Their son
Joseph Parker of Salem released his interest to Mr. French
Nov. 20, 1702.** Their daughter Martha Parker released
her interest to Mr. French in 1703.ft Their daughter
Mercy Parker released her interest to Mr. French April 10,
1706.** Their daughter Margaret Parker released her
interest to Mr. French Oct. 14, 1706.^
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 46.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 186.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 20.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 69.
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 108.
ITEssex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 140.
** Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 20.
ttEssex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 22.
Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 21.
BY SIDNEY PEELEY. 193
That part of this lot lying southerly of the dashes was
conveyed by Giles Coree, as he was " lying under great
trouble & affliction throogh w ch I am very weake in body
but in perfect memory, Knowing not how Soone I may
depart this life," for love to his sons-in-law, William
Cleeves of Beverly and John Moulton of Salem, yeomen,
my lands in Salem, etc., reserving a life estate, April 24,
1692.* Mr. Corey was in the jail at this date, having
been arrested for witchcraft six days previous. He was
not pressed to death, however, until Sept. 19th, following.
This conveyance was made, it is said, that he might save
his property from being taken by the crown. A division
was made by Mr. Cleeves and Mr. Moulton, and this part
of the lot, with the buildings thereon, became the prop-
erty of Mr. Moulton. Mr. Moulton lived in Salem, being
a cordwainer, and with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of
Giles Corey, conveyed this part of the lot and the build-
ings to Mr. French April 23, 1695.f
Thus Mr. French became the owner of the entire lot.
He died in the autumn of 1712, but whether the house
was then standing is not known by the writer.
The three-fourths acre of land on the opposite side of
the way was a part of the same lot as the part of this
lot lying northerly of the dashes, which came into the
possession of Giles Corey in 1659-60. His daughter
Mary's husband, John Parker, had a dwelling house on
this lot of three-fourths of an acre of land before May
20, 1681, when Mr. Corey conveyed the land to his said
daughter and her husband. $ They died before Feb. 11,
1697-8, when their eldest son, John Parker, conveyed his
interest in the same property to Humphrey French of
Salem, tailor. J Their son Joseph Parker of Salem re-
leased his interest to Mr. French Nov. 20, 1702. Their
daughter Martha Parker released her interest to Mr.
French in 1703. || Their daughter Mercy Parker released
her interest to Mr. French April 10, 1706. Their daugh-
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 46.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 186.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 140.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 20.
IIEssex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 22.
194 THE WOODS, SALEM, IN 1700,
ter Margaret Parker released her interest to Mr. French
Oct. 14, 1706.*
Henry Crosby Home. This lot of three acres was a
part of the fifty acres which was conveyed by Ezra
Clapp, son of Edward Clapp, and Nathaniel Clapp,
son of Nicholas Clapp, all of Dorchester, to Giles
Corey of Salem, yeoman, July 24, 1663.f Mr. Corey,
in consideration of love, conveyed to his daughter Deliv-
erance, wife of Henry Crosby of Salem, and to him " and
her lawful natural children," this three acres " and dwel-
ling house standing near sd land, in Salem, to bee his sd
Crosbee's during my life, and y e ground it stands on with
a way to it," April 26, 16864 The house disappeared
before June 16, 1705, when John Moulton of Salem, hus-
bandman, for three pounds, conveyed the land to Hum-
phrey French of Salem, who owned the land ad joining.
Giles Corey had conveyed to Mr. Moulton his reversion-
ary interest in the land April 24, 1692. ||
Nathaniel Howard House. The northerly part of this
lot was a part of the lot of fifty acres which was granted
by the town of Salem to Edward Giles in 1636. He
sold it to Mr. Blackleech ; and Mr. Blackleech sold it to
Robert Goodell of Salem, husbandman. Mr. Goodell
conveyed it to Giles Corey of Salem, yeoman, March 15,
1659-60.^
The southerly part of this lot was a part of the fifty
acres of upland and meadow which was conveyed by
Ezra Clapp, son of Edward Clapp, and Nathaniel Clapp,
son of Nicholas Clapp, all of Dorchester, to Mr. Corey,
July 24, 1663.f
This lot was included in the general deed which Mr.
Corey gave, while in jail for witchcraft, to his sons-in-
law William Cleeves of Beverly and John Moulton of
Salem, yeomen, April 24, 1692. || Mr. Cleeves and his
wife Margaret, for fifty pounds, conveyed the land and
two dwelling houses thereon to Nathaniel Howard of
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 21.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 108.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 72.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 13.
y Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 46.
HEssex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 69.
BY SIDNEY PBRLEY. 195
Salem, yeoman, June 25, 1697.* Mr. Howard erected a
small dwelling house upon the lot, probably immediately
after his purchase of the land. He sold the house and
land around it to William Curtis of Salem, carpenter,
Jan. 19, 1 701-2. f How much longer the house stood is
uncertain.
Robert Moulton Lot. This lot of upland and meadow
was a part of the lot of fifty acres of upland and meadow
which was conveyed by Ezra Clapp, son of Edward Clapp,
and Nathaniel Clapp, son of Nicholas Clapp, all of Dor-
chester, to Giles Corey of Salem, yeoman, July 24, 16634
Mr. Corey conveyed to Robert Moulton of Salem this lot
of meadow " on y e western Side of y e brooke from John
Moultons Land to y e lower End of y e great meadow to
y e Stake Sett in by the brooke at y e lower End of y e Said
meadow and alfoe take in So much of y e upland on y e
outside of y e meadow westerly to y e heap of Rocks in y e
Hollow & So thence streight downe to y e meadow & so
along by y e meadow Side as ffarr as y e meadow doth Ex-
tend from y e Said Rocks which are laid for bounds in y 6
hollow downe to y e Stake by y e brooke Side & from y e
heap of Rocks which are on y e western Side on y e vpland
downe to y e Said meadow alfoe the meadow on y e East-
erne side downe from y e vpper End into y e Coue within
my land to a Stake driuen in by y e meadow & from yt to
a growing maple Tree markt & from thence to a Stake
driuen on y e other Side of y e Coue & from that Stake to
an other Stake neere to a point of my upland by y e Lower
Row of Springs Westerly & So Streight to a Stake by
y e brooke Side alfoe a little Island of vpland which lyes
within y e Said meadow," reserving the brush growing
on the island for twelue months, May 20, 1681. This
meadow belonged to Mr. Moulton in 1700.
John Moulton and Thomas Flint House. This lot of
one hundred acres was granted to Robert Moulton in
1636, by the town of Salem. He died in the spring of
1655. There was " housing " upon this farm at the
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 40.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 118.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 108.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 46.
196 THE WOODS, SALEM, IN 1700.
time of his death ; and the land and housing were then
valued at thirty-five pounds. In his will, he devised as
follows : " My farme I Leaue with my sonne [Robert]
till my grandsonne Robert Moulton be twenty one yeares
old & then he is to Enjoy the one halfe with the Apple
trees, & After his father & mothers death to Enjoy the
farme wholly, & in Case my Grandsonne Robert dye first
that it fall in like manner to his next Elder brother & soe
successively if he That Enjoyes it have no issue." The
son Robert died in 1665, possessed of the estate, on which
he lived. " The farm and housing " were then appraised
at one hundred and twenty pounds. In his will, he be-
queathed to bis son Robert Moulton five pounds, and de-
vised to ' my two yonger sons John and Joseph my now
dwellinge house with all the lande and meadow with all
oth r apurtenances therevnto belonginge after the decease
of my wife, . . and in case either of my sons John or
Joseph should die before theire mother then my will is
that my son Samuell shall inioy the p* of my house and
lande giuen to the ptie deceased." For thirty pounds,
Joseph Moulton conveyed his half of the farm to Capt.
Thomas Flint of Salem, carpenter, June 29, 1680 ;* and
a division was made between John Moulton and Captain
Flint, but the document of partition became " lost or
burned," and the agreement was redrawn and executed
March 2, 170T-8.f John Moulton had the eastern end of
the lot, with the house and other buildings thereon. How
long the old house stood after that date is unknown to
the writer.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 19.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 29, leaf 44.
NOTES ON THE HARDY FAMILY OF BRADFORD
PUBLISHED IN ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTOR-
ICAL COLLECTIONS, VOLUME XL VII.
BY DAVID W. HOYT.
Page 175.
84 iv. EBENEZEB 4 , b. Nov. 7, 1728; probably m., May 21, 1747,
SUSANNA RUSSELL.
Pages 178-9.
37. ZACHARiAH 3 HARDY (John 2 , Thomas 1 ). Wife Hep-
zibah d. March 31, 1749 [Tks.], aged 54 y. He m., 2d,
Feb. 21, 1751 [Tks.*], PRUDENCE STEVENS, who was
living in 1763. He d. Oct. 14, or 15, 1763 [Tks.]. Will
dated March 4, proved Nov. 7, 1763.
Children :
1231. JOHN*, b. 1716; m., March 1, 1743, ABIGAIL KIDDEB
(not " June 20, 1746, SARAH BABKEB ").
124 n. ABIGAILS born 1718, etc.; living in 1763; omit "proba-
bly."
125 in. RuTH 4 , b. 1720; m., Feb. 6, 1739-40 [Tks.], THOMAS
FBENCH; living in 1763.
126 iv. NEHEMIAH"; adm. est, Feb. 27, 1748; inventory, Nov. 28,
1748.
127 v. ELIZABETH 4 , b. 1725; m. June 12, 1745 [Tks.], BENJAMIN
PIKE; living in 1763.
128 vi. NATHANIEL*, b. 1727; d. Oct. 21 or 25, 1748 [Tks.]; will
dated Oct. 7, proved Nov. 21, 1748. No children.
128a vii. MABY 4 , b. Sept. 12, 1729 [Tks.]; m. Nov. 26, or 27. 1755
[Tks.], WILLIAM HUNT; living in 1763.
128b vm. SABAH 4 , b. July 23, 1735 [Tks.]; m. Oct. 3, 1759 [Tks.],
DB. NATHAN CUTLEB; living in 1763.
*Tewk8bury Vital Records.
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198 NOTES ON THE HARDY FAMILY OP BRADFORD.
Page 282.
Children of (78) Job 4 and Hannah Hardy :
217a in. JANE 6 , b. March 10, 1749 [Tks.]. Others as printed, ex-
cept change of Roman numerals, making VIII chil-
dren.
Page 283.
Children of (81) Gideom and Mary Hardy :
2231. THOMAS 5 , b. Jan. 18, 1744 [Tks.].
224n. DAVID 5 , bp. Sept. 7, 1746 [Tks.].
Page 283.
Children of (82) Reuben 4 and Elizabeth Hardy:
227a i. ISRAEL 5 , b. ; d. Dec. 23, 1750 [Tks.].
227b ii. Lois f , b. ; d. Dec. 22, 1750 [Tks.].
227c in. MooDY 5 , b. Aug. 22, 1751 [Tks.]. Others as printed, ex-
cept Roman numerals.
Page 284.
Insert the following :
84 ?. EfiENEZER 4 HARDY (probably Thomas*, William*,
Thomas 1 *), of Tewksbury and Billerica, born 1728 ; mar-
ried May 21, 1747 [Tks.], SUSANNA RUSSELL.
Children :
240a i. A CHILD 5 , stillborn Feb. 9, 1749 [Tks.].
240b II. A CHILD 5 , stillborn April 2, 1750 [Tks.].
240c in. PHEBE 5 , b. May 7, 1751 [Tks.].
240d iv. SAMPSON 5 , b. Dec. 30, 1753 [Tks.].
240e v. SusANNA 5 , b. June, 1756 [Bil.].
240f vi. HANNAH 5 , b. Oct. 27, 1758 [Bil.].
246g vn. EBENEZEB 5 , b. Oct. 17, 1761 [Bil.].
240h vm. JOHN 5 , b. July 1, 1764 [Bil.].
Page 284.
102. JAMES* HARDY, of Bradford and Tewksbury.
died Nov. 12, 1792 [Tks.], aged 93 years. Widow Han-
nah died June 13, or 23, 1797 [Tks.], in her 91st year.
Children :
2411. ABIGAILS, b. 1728; probably m. April 30, 1750 [Tks.]'
GABDNEB PAGE.
NOTES ON THE HARDY FAMILY OF BRADFORD. 199
244 iv. AsA 5 , b. 1733; d. Jan. 27, 1797 [Tks.].
245 v. ZiLPAH 5 , b. 1734; probably m. May 30, 1753 [Tks.], SAM-
UEL FARMER.
247 vii. JAMES, JR. S , b. 1739; probably m. April 19, 1764 [Tks.],
JEMIMA PALMER. Children recorded at Tewksbury,
b. 1765-'76.
250 x. HEPSEBATH 5 , b. 1745; d. July 4, 1750 [Tks.].
251 xi. PETER*, b. 1748; probably m. Jan. 24, 1771 [Tks.], DOR-
CAS JONES of Dracut. Children recorded at Tewks-
bury, b. 1772-'92.
251a xn. DAVID 5 , b. Dec. 12, 1750 [Tks.].
Page 287.
Insert the following:
123. JOHN* HARDY (Zachariah 3 , John 2 , Thomas 1 ), of
Tewksbury, born 1716; married March 1, 1743 [Tks.],
ABIGAIL KIDDER. He died April 29, 1801 [Tks.].
Children :
285a I. JOHN 5 , b. March 13, 1744 [Tks.]; d. Feb. 16, 1764 [Tks.].
285b n. ABIGAIL 5 , b. May 7, 1746 [Tks.]; probably m. July 7,
1774 [Tks.], SAMUEL OBER, 2D.
286c in. HEPZEBAH 5 , b. Jan. 27, 1748 [Tks.]; probably m, Aug. 17,
1775 [Tks.], MOSES WORSTER, JR.
286d iv. NEHEMiAH 5 , b. April 25, 1751 [Tks.].
286e v. NATHANIEL 5 , b. Sept. 19, 1753 [Tks.]; probably m. March
6, 1776 [Tks.], SARAH WORSTER. She d. Nov. 30,
181 1 [Tks.], aged 60 y.
286f vi. ZACHARiAH 5 , b. Aug. 15, 1755 [Tks.]; d. Jan. 3, 1774
[Tks.].
286g vn. WILLIAM 6 , b. Feb. 12, 1758 [Tks.] ; probably m. July 9,
1778 [Tks.], HANNAH HIDE. He d. Nov. 19, 1832
[Tks.].
286h vni. A CHILD 5 , stillborn, July 4, 1760 [Tks.].
286i ix. JOHN 5 , b. Feb. 6, 1766 [Tks.].
Page 287.
Omit "123?" For "(Zachariafc, John 2 , Thomas 1 )",
substitute (parentage unknown). Omit " and Tewksbury."
For "b. 1716" substitute b. about 1726. Omit "but
should be 80," etc.
ODLIN FAMILY BIBLE RECORD.
Original is in the Possession of the Essex Institute.
Martha Odlin Born 21 day of February in the year 1768
about seven a Clok at Night on Soundy
March 29 1771 Anna Pearcen Odlin was Born on fride
about for a Clock in the after noon
April 18 1774 Elezebeth Odlin born on tusday night
Bety Died May 9th 1806 Aged 32 years
Augst 26 1782 John folsom was Born about for a Clock on
Mondy
June 15 th 1791 Mary Anna was Born
Emelin Folsom Odlin born March 31, 1829
Carlin Frances Odlin Born October 28 1831
SMITH FAMILY BIBLE RECORD.
Original is in possession of Miss Eliza Caldwell of Rockport.
Probably an Ipswich family.
Children of Nathaniel Smith and wife Mary, who were
married May 30, 1765. She died March 29, 1808, aged 53
years.
Sarah, b. March 4, 1766.
Mary, b. Sept. 11, 1767.
Infant, b. and d. April 15, 1769.
Nathl., b. Oct. 3, 1770.
Joseph, b. Nov. 14, 1772.
Hannah, b. Nov. 26, 1774.
Ephraim J. f b. May 15, 1777 ; d. Nov. 7, 1778.
Elizabeth, b. May 14, 1780.
Ephraim, b. Jan. 20, 1782 ; d. Oct. 30, 1783.
Lois Coffin, b. Sept. 7, 1784 ; d. Oct. 29, 1805.
Ephraim. J., b. Sept. 4, 1786.
William, b. Nov. 13, 1788.
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ABNER CHENEY GOODELL
1831 - 1914
From a photograph taken about 1872.
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. LI. JULY, 1915 No. 3
ABNER CHENEY GOODELL, A. M.
18311914.
BY GEORGE G. PUTNAM.
Abner Cheney Goodell, lawyer, antiquarian, historian
and scholar, was born in Cambridgeport, Oct. 1, 1831,
and passed away July 19, 1914, in Salem, of which city
he had been a resident since early childhood. Practically
his whole life, it may be said, was passed in the city of
Salem, and he " played in his time many parts " that
brought him prominently before the public.
Mr. Goodell was descended in the seventh generation
from Robert and Katherine (Kilham) Goodell of Den-
nington, Suffolk, Eng., who sailed from Ipswich, Eng.,
April 30, 1634, in the ship " Elizabeth," William An-
drews, master, and settled in Salem, Mass., whence they
soon removed to a place on the Ipswich river in that part
of Salem which is now Danvers. Robert Goodell brought
over, beside his wife, his three children, Mary, aged four
years, who married John Pease and became the founder
of the Pease family in New England ; Abraham, aged
two years, who died young ; and Isaac, aged six months,
whose descendants still own the ancestral acres in Dan-
vers. To this family was added, among other children,
another son, Zachariah Goodell, who was born in 1639,
and who married Elizabeth, only daughter of Edward
Beauchamp of Salem. Through this union Abner C.
Goodell traced his line of descent. Joseph, son of Zacha-
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202 ABNER CHENEY GOODELL, A. M.,
riah, had, by his wife, Mary, a son Joseph, who, as a lad,
was placed under the guardianship of Ezekiel Cheever
(son of the noted schoolmaster, Ezekiel Cheever, sen.,)
and who married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Eliza-
beth (Witt) Goodell of Marlborough, Mass. Azubah,
daughter of this Joseph, was the mother of Robert B.
Thomas the famous almanac maker.
Joseph Goodell of the fifth generation, son of Joseph
and Elizabeth (Goodell) Goodell, married Ann Hopkins,
and had Zina Goodell, who married Joanna Cheney,
daughter of Ebenezer and Abigail (Thompson) Cheney
of Mendon (now Milton), Mass. Their son, Abner Cheney
Goodell, born in North Orange, Mass., Feb. 9, 1805, was
named after his mother's brother, Abner Cheney, a grad-
uate of Dartmouth college in 1796, an accomplished clas-
sical scholar and schoolmaster, who died at Charlestown,
New Hampshire, Nov. 11, 1797, aged 32, "widely
lamented."
Abner C. Goodell, sen., became a noted inventor. He
invented the first printing press that printed both sides
of a sheet at once ; a process for preparing copper and
steel for engraving, a tricycle, and machines for making
kegs, shoe pegs, tin tubes, pump logs, cutting steel, etc.
He removed to Salem in 1837, and died there March 27,
1898. He married Sally Dodge Haskell, daughter of
Aaron and Eunice (Dodge) Haskell, and a descendant of
William and Mary (Tybott or Tibbetts) Haskell. Her
mother was the daughter of Barnabas Dodge of Ipswich
and Hamilton, and Elizabeth Giddings, his wife, whose
mother, Sarah Burnham, was a sister of the mother of
Nathan Dane, the founder of the Harvard Law school.
One of Eunice's brothers, Oliver Dodge, was graduated
from Harvard University in 1788, and became a minister
in Pomfret, Conn., while another brother, Paul Dodge, a
graduate of Brown University, was a distinguished law-
yer in Vermont. Through these various lines, represent-
ing as they do some of the oldest and most prominent
families in New England, Mr. Goodell inherited his dis-
tinguished traits of character and intellect. Not long
after his birth his parents removed to Ipswich, but re-
turned to Cambridgeport, and in 1837 finally came to
BY GEORGE G. PUTNAM. 203
Salem, where he attended the public schools, graduating
from the High School at the head of his class. Among
his classmates were the brothers Judge William G. Choate
and Hon. Joseph H. Choate, and the late Hon. Darwin E.
Ware. During the following two years he assisted bis
father in the machine shop, but in the meantime, and even
before leaving school, carried on his studies privately in
Latin, French, and mathematics, and in English litera-
ture. Although he never entered college, he nevertheless
acquired an equivalent classical education.
In 1849, Mr. Goodell entered the law office of his
youngest maternal uncle, George Haskell of Ipswich,
who died in the autumn of 1898, aged 89, the Nestor of
the bar. Under his uncle's instruction he devoted him-
self particularly to the study of the law governing real
estate. He finished his law studies in Salem with North-
end & Choate, and was admitted as an attorney and coun-
sellor at the November term of the Supreme Judicial
Court in 1852. In January, 1853, he began practicing
in Lynn, Mass., where he remained until 1858, having a
large docket of miscellaneous cases. In 1856 he was
appointed, and the next year elected, Register of the then
newly organized Court of Insolvency for Essex county,
which was merged with the Probate Court in 1858. He
was elected Register of the Courts of Probate and Insol-
vency for Essex county, and held the office continuously
for twenty years, from January, 1858, by re-election. He
discharged the duties of the office with ability and gen-
eral satisfaction.
At a public dinner tendered the Hon. Dean Peabody
upon his retirement from the office of Clerk of the Courts,
by the members of the Essex Bar, the following letter
from Mr. Goodell was read :
... " Your special guest and I are the only survivors of
the coterie of lawyers settled as practitioners in Lynn 44
years ago. Jeremiah Stickney, Thomas B. Newhall, James
R. Newhall, Benjamin F. Mudge, William Howland and
Isaac Brown, successively have responded to the inevitable
summons to another Bar, in which no plea by attorney is
allowable, and where every case is tried by the record.
" As I look back through the vista which extends from that
204 ABNER CHENEY GOODELL, A. M.,
time to the present, I find it hard to realize that it is actually
I who have lived so long and survived so many of the able
men that have maintained the reputation of the Essex Bar.
" I was admitted to the Bar before Mr. Justice Fletcher of
the Supreme Judicial Court in Essex county, November term,
1852, and, if I reckon aright, there then stood on the rolls
of our Association 69 names ahead of mine. To-day, if I
have not miscounted, not more than 14 of these 69 survive,
at the head of whom, in point of seniority, stands the name of
my revered and beloved uncle, Hon. George Haskell of Ipswich,
whose pupil I was, and who now fills the place then held by
the late venerable Asa Andrews a connecting link between
the bar of this century and the old lawyers of the Province.
" Of all my brethren near my own age, none ever enjoyed
my confidence and respect more fully than did the gentleman
whose name and career are to be especially honored to-night.
This is a strong avowal, I know ; for, besides Phillips, whose
spotless character and eminent professional services in high
public station in our own Commonwealth and elsewhere are
almost beyond the emulation of the most sanguine aspirant
but whom I except of his seniority we have with us yet
Endicott, of local and national fame; Safford, the model
magistrate; Gillis, one of the most accomplished, and, I
dare say, the best beloved of all; and Kobinson, with whom,
though he practices in another county, it is an honor to have
been associated in any fellowship.
" When Brother Peabody was called to the office which he
has recently laid down, 1 think the general feeling of those
who knew him best was that he would prove the ideal clerk.
His long and varied practice formed an excellent foundation
for the development of that kind of skill which enables its
possessor to bear to the Court the relation which Bacon de-
scribes as its most useful arm, and his clean, legible chirog-
raphy, an index to his character, gave the promise which his
now completed records have fulfilled for the benefit of pos-
terity. Litera scripta manet.
" Though long secluded from active practice by labors un-
dertaken gratuitously in a different direction, but to the same
great end, I have never lost an interest in my chosen vocation
nor my affection and esteem for those of brethren towards
whom those sentiments have only deepened with increasing
years. Hence, I trust, I may be excused for obtruding this
unsolicited tribute to the dear friend and brother whom we
all esteem, and who, so far as I know, never had an enemy.
" Cordially yours,
CHENEY GOODELL, JR."
BY GEORGE G. PUTNAM. 205
As the first Register of Insolvency and also the first
Register of Probate and Insolvency in Essex county, Mr.
Goodell's work in organizing the office, in drafting the
forms, and in beginning the records, was no small under-
taking, and reflects great credit on his executive and legal
skill, especially as the labor of completing the unfinished
records of two of his predecessors in the probate office
devolved upon him. Upon assuming the office of Register
of Probate and Insolvency, he gave up his law office in
Lynn, and ever afterwards devoted himself to his official
duties, to his private business, and to literary labors.
As a lawyer, Mr. Goodell was very successful, and in
his criminal practice never lost a case. His business,
however, was very largely in the civil branch. In the
Supreme Judicial courts he won some notable trials. Of
his reported cases, the most important is Harvey vs. Mos-
ley, in which was decided for the first time the question
of age of consent of marriage in Massachusetts; and
Commonwealth vs. Hitchings, which is recognized as a
leading case and cited as an authority both in this country
and in Great Britain. Only a short time before the death
of President William H. Niles of the Essex Bar, and
since the death of Mr. Goodell, President Niles said to
the writer : " Mr. Goodell was a great lawyer, and that
fact will appear stronger in time to come than it does
now."
After giving up his regular law practice, he was called
upon occasionally for legal advice in important cases in-
volving the ancient law and court practice of colonial and
provincial times. This he did officially as editor of the
Acts and Resolves of the Province of Massachusetts Bay,
and professionally for the use of students of history. Mr.
Goodell was appointed by Gov. Andrew one of the com-
missioners to prepare for publication a complete copy of
the statutes and laws of the Province of Massachusetts
Bay, from the time of the Province charter to the adop-
tion of the constitution of the Commonwealth, This was
in 1865, and in 1868 he, with Ellis Ames, was appointed
a commission to print these records. This work went on
with several interruptions until 1890. In 1890 a new
commission was appointed for this work, of which Mr.
206 ABNEE CHENEY GOODELL, A. M.,
Goodell was one, and continued for about six years, Mr.
Goodell being the editor of the work. In all he was con-
nected with this work for some thirty years, but owing to
interruptions, the real working time for the eight volumes
was reduced to less than nineteen years. During fourteen
years of this time neither Mr. Goodell nor Mr. Ames
received any compensation for their labor, and only a
small sum for personal expenses. After 1879, Mr.
Goodell made this work his chief employment and devoted
much time to it.
In connection with his work on the Province Laws,
Mr. Goodell encountered much opposition from various
sources. Some of it, it is alleged, was from those who
wanted the work placed in the hands of politicians ; other
opposition came from those who never had any experience
in such work and thought that it could be done off hand like
any other collating. The only real criticism of value was
that Mr. Goodell added altogether too copious notes and
comments to the Province Laws, until the notes became
more voluminous than the original text. This work,
however, he felt needed to be done, and it was certainly
well done. Whatever other criticism may be offered, it
is admitted on all sides that the volumes constitute a
monument to the indefatigable labors of the editors and
is an historical production which will increase in value as
time passes.
Mr. Goodell was especially proficient in English litera-
ture and history, a taste for which he had acquired from
his mother. He read the standard poets when very young,
and committed many of their poems to memory. He
was especially fond of Milton and Pope, and readily
quoted selections applicable while engaged in conversa-
tion. Under the late Napoleon H. Jerome, the editor of
Wanostrocht's French grammar, he took a course in
French, thus gaining access to new fields of literature,
which were extremely useful to him in later years. En-
dowed with a retentive memory and a mind of singular
power and comprehension, he was not only versed in gen-
eral and classical literature, and in modern and ancient
history, but was interested in the natural sciences. As a
conversationalist, he was brilliant and charming. He was
BY GEORGE G. PUTNAM. 207
a fluent writer, a great lover of books, and the owner of
one of the finest private libraries in the State, which was
especially strong in books relating to witchcraft. He was
elected a member of the New England Historic Genea-
logical Society, Aug. 6, 1862, a life member in 1863, a
director in 1884, and president, to succeed the late Mar-
shall P. Wilder, in January, 1887. He served in the
presidency until June 22, 1892, when he resigned with
all his official associates, being succeeded in the chair by
Gov. William Claflin. He was a life member and senior
vice president of the Essex Institute, one of the oldest
and foremost members of the Massachusetts Historical
Society and of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
To all of these he had long been a frequent and valued
contributor. From Amherst College he received the
honorary degree of A. M. in 1865. He was also a mem-
ber of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity of Harvard Uni-
versity, a corresponding member of the historical societies
of New York, New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island,
a member of the Old Colony Historical Society of Taun-
ton, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was a member of the Society of the Sons of the Rev-
olution and of the Prince Society, and he had been a
trustee of the Peabody Academy of Science of Salem,
and also had been its secretary since February, 1867, when
he was appointed to the board by its founder, George
Peabody of England.
Mr. Goodell's writings outside the notes and articles
connected with his great life work, the Province Laws,
consisted chiefly of addresses and papers on historical,
genealogical and kindred subjects. Some have been
favorably noticed in England as well as in this country.
Of late years his published papers were mainly historical.
In 1874 he delivered the first of a series of commemora-
tive addresses on events connected with the American
revolution. This was followed by other addresses by dis-
tinguished orators. His paper entitled '* The Centennial
Anniversary of the Meeting of the Provincial Assembly
in Salem, Oct. 5, 1774," was delivered before the Essex
Institute, and afterwards published in the New England
Historic Genealogical Register. He delivered an address
208 ABNER CHENEY GOODELL, A. M.,
at the dedication of the court house in Salem in 1860 ;
and another at the semi-centennial celebration, in 1871, of
the founding of the Essex Historical Society out of
which grew the Essex Institute. He also delivered an
oration by invitation of the New England Historic and
Genealogical Society in February, 1888, in commemora-
tion of the ratification of the constitution of the United
States by the Massachusetts convention in 1788 ; and
another at the Old South Meeting House, Boston, Nov.
27, 1895, before the Society of Colonial Wars, in com-
memoration of the 600th anniversary of the first sum-
moning of citizens and burgesses to the Parliament of
England, wherein a comparison is made between the
legislatures of Great Britain and Massachusetts. This
last was well received both in this country and in England.
Numerous other papers, addresses and articles for various
historical and patriotic societies, and reviews of historical
works prepared by him have appeared in different publica-
tions. For some years he was engaged in preparing for
publication a history of the Salem witchcraft, which, out-
side of the Province Laws, he deemed his most important
and interesting work. For this work he imported a large
number of rare and expensive volumes relating to the sub-
ject. Had he lived to write this history no doubt it would
have been the tl last word " upon the subject. One result
of his studies upon Salem witchcraft was an address given
by him before the Danvers Historical Society, in 1892,
when that body commemorated the outbreak of the witch-
craft delusion in 1692 in Salem village, now Danvers.
In 1865 Mr. Goodell became president of the Salem and
South Danvers Street Railway Company, which, after an
existence of twenty months, had accumulated a debt of*
$40,000. He continued at the head of that enterprise nine-
teen years, reorganizing and economizing the management
of the road and building extensions to North Salem and
Salem Willows. By his efforts the value of the stock,
which was comparatively worthless, was raised to $200
per share. During the last four years of his presidency,
the stock paid twenty-two per cent, dividends and earned
thirty per cent, annually.
In 1865, also, he was chosen an alderman of the city
ABNER CHENEY GOODELL
1831 1914
From a photograph taken in I 903.
BY GEORGE G. PUTNAM. 209
of Salem by unanimous vote on all of the tickets. He
served one year, and among other things drew the ordi-
nance establishing a board of water commissioners, defin-
ing their duties, etc. The board was chosen that year,
and thus Mr. Goodell was instrumental in instituting the
water system of Salem, which was his object in accepting
nomination to the board of aldermen.
In politics he was first a Free Soiler, but since the
organization of the party he had been a Republican. He
had never accepted any other political office, however,
though urged to do so. He proposed the first line of
electric railway between Salem and Marblehead, but was
refused a location. When the first experimental tele-
phone line was operated in Massachusetts, between Boston
and Salem, by Alexander G. Bell of Salem, in 1877, Mr.
Goodell was enthusiastic in predicting its future useful-
ness and financial success, and at the first experiment in
Salem in February he embodied these sentiments in a set
of resolutions which were adopted at the meeting.
Mr. Goodell was a warm friend, a polished and courtly
gentleman, and a loyal, public-spirited, progressive citi-
zen. Domestic in his tastes, he delighted in a quiet life,
and found the greatest enjoyment in his family and with
his books. The latchstring of his door was always out
and he always gave a cordial welcome to his friends.
Towards the last of his life for a long time he was unable
to get about readily out of doors, but in his home he found
an unalloyed pleasure with those near and dear to him
and among the books in his library. He knew the loca-
tion of every volume and could readily direct his caller
to them, if he could not get them himself.
Mr. Goodell was married Nov. 26, 1866, to Martha
Page Putnam, daughter of Alfred and Mary (Page) Put-
nam of Danvers, Mass., a granddaughter of John Page
of Danvers and a great-granddaughter of Lieut. Col.
Jeremiah Page, of Revolutionary fame. Mrs. Goodell
survives her husband, with two sons : George Haskell
Goodell of St. Paul, Minn., born Dec. 26, 1870, and
Alfred Putnam Goodell, born Feb. 18, 1875, a brother,
Zina Goodell, and two sisters, Miss Annie Goodell and
Mrs. Mary G. Ward all living in Salem.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ABNER CHENEY GOODELL.
COMPILED BY ALICE G. WATERS.
Biographical notice of the officers of probate for Essex
County, (in Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. 2 (1860),
pp. 157-166, 213-226 ; v. 3 (1861), pp. 1-11, 147-154; v. 4
(1862), pp. 97-112, 267-271.)
Biographical notice of Alonzo Lewis, (in Essex Institute
Historical Collections, v. 3 (1861), pp. 34-37.)
Biographical sketch of Thomas Maule, Salem, with review
of early Antinomians of New England, (in Essex Institute
Historical Collections, v. 3 (1861), pp. 238-253.)
Puritans and Separatists ; Non-conformists of Massachu-
setts Bay and Separatists of Plymouth Colony, (in Essex In-
stitute Historical Collections, v. 4 (1862), pp, 145-157.)
Condensed report of a paper on the Puritan and Cavalier.
(in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, v. 17
(1863), pp. 283-284.)
Review of the FortPopham celebration (1862). (in Essex
Institute Historical Collections, v. 5 (1863), pp. 175-192.)
Account of Salisbury, Massachusetts. Deprint from Essex
Institute Proceedings, v. 3 (1864), pp. 261-266.
Remarks on May-day, (in Essex Institute Proceedings,
v. 4 (1864), pp. xxi-xxiv.)
Potter family records, (in New England Historical and
Genealogical Register, v. 18 (1864), pp. 150-153.)
Remarks on " New England heraldry.' 7 Deprint from
Essex Institute Proceedings, v. 3 (1864), pp. 225-228.
Essex County Quarterly Court Records (1637-1641). (in
Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. 7 (1865), pp. 17-19,
87-90,129-132, 185-192, 233-240, 273-280; v. 8 (1866), pp.
63-64, 123-128, 189-192).
Hutchinsons of Salem, (in New England Historical and
Genealogical Register, v. 19 (1865), pp. 18-20.)
Hymn, (in Order of exercises at the delivery of the
eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, in Salem, Massachusetts, June
1, 1865.)
Early New England papers from the British public ar-
chives, (in Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. 9
(1868;, pt. 2, pp. 81-90.)
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ABNER CHENEY GOODELL. 211
Progress of sacred music in New England. Deprint from
Proceedings of Essex Institute, v. 5 (1868), pp. 188-190.
Condensed report of original paper.
Condensed report of a paper on the history of psalmody
and hymnody in New England, (in New England Historical
and Genealogical Register, v. 23 (1869), pp. 224-225.)
Acts and Resolves, public and private, of the Province of
Massachusetts Bay, to which are prefixed the charters of the
Province with notes. Boston, 1869-1895. vols. 1-5, 7 and 8. f.
Edited and annotated by Mr. G-oodell.
Review of Upham's Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather.
(in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, v. 24
(1870), pp. 213-214.)
The Interdependence of Science and History. Address
before the Essex Institute on the semi-centennial anniversary
of the formation of the Essex Historical Society. S alem,
1871. 23 pp. 4.
Remarks on the progress of legislation in Massachu setts
from 1692 to 1780. (in Essex Institute Bulletin, v. 3 (1871),
pp. 157-160.)
Address before the Essex Institute, Oct. 5, 1874, at the
centennial anniversary of the meeting of the Provincial As-
sembly in Salem, Oct. 5, 1774. Salem, 1874. 60 pp. 4.
Same, (in Centennial orations, 1875, pp. 5-30.)
Same, (in Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. 13
(1875), pp. 1-52.)
Same, (in New England Historical and Genealogical
Register, v. 29 (1875), pp. 341-366.)
Remarks on some Indian skeletons found at Marblehead.
(in Essex Institute Bulletin, v. 6 (1874), pp. 182-183.)
Trip to the far Southwest. Clippings from Salem Regis-
ter, June and July, 1875. Library of Essex Institute.
Report of heraldic committee on the question " Was John
Leverett a knight?" Boston, 1881. 22 pp. 8. Deprint
from New England Historical and Genealogical Register,
July and October, 1881.
Letter to the Salem Observer relating to proceedings of the
Republican caucus in Representative District No. 6 and ask-
ing support of Mr. Zina Goodell [1882]. Broadside 34 1/2
x 11 3/4 cm.
Letter in Salem Observer to supporters of Mr. Zina Goodell ,
candidate for Representative District No. 6. Salem [1882?] .
Broadside 14 x 38 cm.
Who has been defrauded ? Zina Goodell 's supporters or
his defrauders ? Letter to the editor of the Gazette, Nov.
6 [1882?]. Broadside 39 x 19 cm.
212 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ABNER CHENEY GOODELL.
Account of the seals of the judicial courts of the Colony
and Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1680-1780. Boston,
1883. 12 pp. pi. 8.
Same, (in New England Historical and Genealogical Reg-
ister, v. 37 (1883), pp. 349-358.)
Same. Cambridge, 1883. 16 pp. pi. 8. Reprinted, with
alterations, from Proceedings of Massachusetts Historical
Society.
Charges against Samuel Adams, (in Massachusetts His-
torical Society Proceedings, v. 20 (1883), pp. 213-223.)
Remarks on Oyer and Terminer. (in Massachusetts His-
torical Society Proceedings, v. 20 (1883), pp. 331-332.)
Trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phyllis,
slaves of Capt. John Codman, who murdered their master at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1755, with account of other
punishments by burning in Massachusetts. Cambridge, 1883.
39 pp. 8.
Witch trials in Massachusetts, (in Massachusetts Histor-
ical Society Proceedings, v. 20 (1883), pp. 280-326, illus.)
Further notes on the history of witchcraft in Massachu-
setts. With plate of the Act of 1711 and appendix of docu-
ments, etc. Cambridge, 1884. 52 pp. pi. 8.
Reasons for concluding that the Act of 1711, reversing
the attainders of the persons convicted of witchcraft in
Massachusetts in 1692, became a law. Cambridge, 1884.
21 pp. 8.
Boston Massacre. Boston, 1887 11 pp. 8. Reprint
from Boston Daily Advertiser, June 3, 1887.
The Sharpies pictures. Boston, 1887. 17 pp. 8. Re-
print from Boston Post, Feb. 2, 1887.
Address delivered before the New England Historic Gene-
alogical Society, at its annual meeting January 4, 1888. Bos-
ton, 1888. 18 pp. 4.
Century on Monday since Massachusetts adopted the Federal
constitution, commemorative address. Clipping from Boston
Weekly Post, Feb. 10, 1888. Library of Essex Institute.
Mr. Waters' English researches. Boston, 1888. 7 pp. 8.
Deprint from New England Historical and Genealogical Reg-
ister, Jan., 1888.
President's address to the council of the New England
Historic Genealogical Society, Jan. 14, 1889. Boston, 1889.
36 pp. 8.
Remarks on 1660 reprint of Massachusetts ordinances.
(in Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 4
(1889), pp. 411-412.)
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ABNER CHENEY GOODELL. 213
On the origin of the towns in Massachusetts, (in Massa-
chusetts Historical Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 5 (1890),
pp. 320-331.)
Remarks on the visit of Courtemanche to Massachusetts.
(in Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 5
(1890), pp. 421-423.)
Report to the Governor and Council of work on publica-
tion of Province Laws. Salem, 1890. 14 pp. 8.
Letter on the genesis of the township in Massachusetts.
(in Adams, C.F. Genesis of the Massachusetts town, 1892,
pp. 41-44.)
Same (in Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings,
ser. 2, v. 7 (1892), pp. 211-214.)
President's address to the council of the New England
Historic Genealogical Society, Jan. 14, 1889. Boston, 1892.
36 pp. 8.
Valedictory address to the New England Historic Genea-
logical Society, 22 June, 1892. Boston, 1892. 15 pp. 8.
Witchcraft considered in its legal and theological aspects.
An address delivered before the Danvers Historical Society,
Feb. 29, 1892. (in Salem Press Historical and Genealogical
Record, v. 2 (1892), pp. 151-167.)
Address (in Essex Institute. Memorial of Henry Wheat-
land, 1893, pp. 9-17.)
Same, (in Essex Institute Historical Collections, v. 30
(1893), pp. 135-143.)
Press notices and reviews of volume seven of the Province
Laws. Boston, 1893. Clippings. Library of Essex Insti-
tute.
Remarks on an early Chart of Boston harbor, (in Massa-
chusetts Historical Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 8 (1893),
pp. 228-230.)
Remarks on the history of the law as to the censorship of
the press in Massachusetts, (in Massachusetts Historical
Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 8 (1893), pp. 271-273.)
Obituary notice of Dr. Henry Wheatland. (in New Eng-
land Historical and Genealogical Register, v. 48 (1894), pp.
226-228.)
The repulse of Beaucourt, an episode of New England his-
tory. Verses read at the annual dinner of the Colonial So-
ciety of Massachusetts, Nov. 21, 1894. [Boston, 1894.]
15 pp. 8.
Beverly and the settlement at Bass River, (in Colonial
Society of Massachusetts Publications, v. 1 (1895), pp. 77-
84, illus.
214 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ABNER CHENEY GOODELL.
Captain John Quelch, the pirate, (in Colonial Society of
Massachusetts Publications, v. 3 (1895), pp. 71-77.)
Complete list of the attorneys-general and solicitors-gen-
eral of Massachusetts, 1686-1780. Cambridge, 1895. 9 pp. 8.
Deprint from Proceedings of Massachusetts Historical Soci-
ety, June, 1895.
Continental congress in Rehoboth. (in Old Colony His-
torical Society Collections, 1895, pp. 46-58.)
John Saffin and his slave Adam, (in Colonial Society of
Massachusetts Publications, v. 1 (1895), pp. 85-112.)
John Saffin's tomb and family, (in Colonial Society of
Massachusetts Publications, v. 1 (1895), pp. 358-363.)
Massachusetts House Journals, 1644-57. (in Colonial So-
ciety of Massachusetts Publications, v. 3 (1895), pp. 205-
207.)
Notice of W. Noel Saiusbury. (in Massachusetts Histori-
cal Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 10 (1895), pp. 156-162.)
Original minutes of the Bristol county conventions held
at Taunton, 1774-5. (in Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Publications, v. 1 (1895), pp. 162-181, 254-257.)
Remarks on Antinomianism and Quakers, (in Colonial
Society of Massachusetts Publications, v. 1 (1895), pp. 132-
145.)
The Society of the Cincinnati, with fac-simile of early
paper, (in Colonial Society of Massachusetts Publications,
v. 1 (1895), pp. 238-254.)
Remarks on a manuscript index to the Colony Laws, (in
Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 10
(1896), pp. 547-548.)
Address, (in Massachusetts Society of Colonial Wars
Year Book, 1897. v. 3, pp. 46-77.)
Address, Boston, Nov. 27, 1895, before the Society of
Colonial Wars in Massachusetts, in commemoration of the
sixth hundredth anniversary of the first summoning of citi-
zens and burgesses to the Parliament of England. Boston,
1897. 36 pp. 8. With notes.
Communication on doings of Boston Tea Party, (in Co-
lonial Society of Massachusetts Publications, v. 5 (1897),
pp. 56-58.)
Remarks on Paul Dudley's Commission, (in Massachu-
setts Historical Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 12 (1897), pp.
51-54.)
Remarks on the claim of Parliament to bind the colonies.
(in Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 11
(1897), pp. 368-371.)
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ABNBR CHENEY GOODELL. 215
Communication on Massachusetts Kecords. (in Colonial
Society of Massachusetts Publications, v. 5 (1898), pp. 132-
135.)
Remarks on a number of the Winthrop papers, (in Mass-
achusetts Historical Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 13 (1899),
pp. 327-337.)
Salutation to the colonial flag of Massachusetts [Salem,
1898]. 7 pp. 4.
Remarks on a pen and ink copy of a bill of credit, (in
Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 13
(1899), pp. 147-156.)
Remarks on presenting the original draught of the Address
to the People of the United States, 1845. (in Massachusetts
Historical Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 12 (1899), pp. 425-
429.)
Remarks on Toppan's Memoir of Edward Randolph, (in
Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 13
(1899), pp. 286-298.)
First meeting house in Salem, Massachusetts. Reply to
certain strictures made by Robert S. Rantoul in his powerful
defence of the old Salem relic [Salem, 1900]. 68 pp. 8.
Tribute to Edward Gr. Porter, (in Massachusetts Histori-
cal Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 13 (1900), pp. 445-448.)
Remarks on coat armor and heraldic emblems, (in Massa-
chusetts Historical Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 14 (1901),
pp. 434-437.)
Remarks on Daniel Webster's quotations, (in Massachu-
setts Historical Society Proceedings, ser. 2, v. 15 (1901), pp.
166-168.)
Land at Salem Willows to be sold. Salem [1903]. llpp.
illus. 16. Descriptive circular.
Address of greeting from Essex Institute to Lynn Histori-
cal Society on occasion of tenth anniversary celebration, Dec.
18, 1906 [Salem, 1907?]. 7pp. 8.
KNOWLTON FAMILY BIBLE RECORD.
Original in possession of Mrs. Alberta Knowlton of Rockport.
Probably a Hamilton family.
Malachi Knowlton, b. Jan. 10, 1759 ; d. Sept. 13, 1830, in
Gloucester. Abigail Knowlton, b. Sept. 6, 1762 : d. Aug. 21,
1839. Children :
Michael, b. May 24, 1782.
Azor, b. March 15, 1784.
Lavinia, b. Aug. 26, 1788.
Ivers, b. Feb. 15, 1790 ; d. Dec. 21, 1842.
Marcy, b. Nov. 12, 1800.
Anna, b. Feb. 3, 1802.
GOLDSMITH FAMILY BIBLE RECORD.
Original in possession of Howard Goldsmith of Gloucester.
Probably a Manchester family.
Nehemiah Goldsmith, b. July 13, 1778 ; m. Elizabeth Kit-
field, May 7, 1801. She was b. March 6, 1779, and d. Feb. 9,
1818 ; married, 2nd, Betsey West, June 14, 1819, who was
b. Feb. 3, 1793.
Children :
Nehemiah, b. Jan. 15, 1801 ; d. Oct. 4, 1803.
Edward, b. Sept. 10, 1803.
Elizabeth, b. July 19, 1805.
Nehemiah, b. Sept. 19, 1808.
Seth, b. Feb. 19, 1810.
Anna Hooper, b. Jan. 27, 1814.
Lucy Story, b. Feb. 8, 1816.
Betsey West, b. March 2, 1820.
Mary Hanson, b. Sept. 18, 1822.
JACKSON FAMILY BIBLE RECORD.
Original is in possession of Mrs. Elisabeth J. Howe of Rockport.
Joseph Jackson married Mrs. Anna Sawyer, Aug. 25,
1770, she bom April 20, 1745.
Children, born in Boston :
Joseph, b. May 6, 1772.
Polly, b. March 13, 1774.
George Washington, b. Jan. 26, 1776 ; d. March 9, 1794,
Lydia, b. March 20, 1778 ; d. July 16, 1778 with Small Pox.
Henry, b. Sept. 12, 1779 ; d. Feb. 19, 1780 with Quinsy.
Sally, b. May 21, 1781.
James Sawyer, b. 1785 ; d. Sept. 1801 in Cuba.
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THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
BY SIDNEY PEBLEY.
( Continued from Volume LI, page 176.)
377
JOSEPH PLUMER 6 , born in Henniker, N. H., in 1787.
He lived in Henniker, on his father's homestead, and was
a highly respected and substantial citizen. He married
Sarah, daughter of Hezekiah Purinton of Henniker. She
died June 24, 1845 ; and he died May 27, 1871, at the
age of about eighty-three.
Their children were born in Henniker, as follows :
8241. IBA 7 , born June 6, 1810. See family numbered 824."
825 ii. RoxY 7 , married Samuel Rollins, a native of Hopkinton;
and she died Oct. 10, 1855.
826 in. HAZEN K. 7 , born July 17, 1820; lived in Henniker; at one
time he was captain of the rifles; farmer, mechanic,
mover of buildings and cider manufacturer; married
Laura Piper April 23, 1845; she was born in Henniker
Dec. 13, 1821. They had an adopted son, Joseph O.,
who died March 20, 1867.
827 iv. JOHN K. 7 , born July 8, 1829. See family numbered "827."
380
DAVID PLUMER 6 , born in Henniker, N. H., July 10,
1794. He lived in Henniker, where Ira Plumer resided
in 1880, and was one of the most substantial farmers and
citizens of the town. He married Mary, daughter of
Samuel and Betsey (Sargent) Kimball of Henniker July
20, 1815. She was born in Henniker Feb. 20, 1798. He
died July 24, 1869, at the age of seventy-five; and she
died Nov. 12, 1874, at the age of seventy-six.
Their children were born in Henniker as follows :
8281. WILLIAM K. 7 , born Oct. 10, 1815. See family numbered
" 828."
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218 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
829n. GEORGE W. 7 , born in 1819. See family numbered "829."
830 in. 7 , born Feb. , 1825; died July 31, 1825.
392
JOHN GREENLEAF PLUMER S , born in Newbury, Mass.,
Dec. 25, 1819. He was a fish-dealer in Newburyport.
He married Clara Poor.
Their children were born as follows :
831 i. CLARA GREENLEAF ? , died young.
832 ii. CATHARINE MARIOTT', born July 7, 1847; married Hiram
Gilmore, son of Hiram and Emeline (Feltch) Janvrin,
Dec. 25, 1867; and lived in Somerville.
394
JEREMIAH PmMER 6 , born in Scarboro', Me., Nov. 8,
1747. He married Sarah Eldridge Nov. 9, 1767. She
was born on Cape Cod. He died Jan. 9, 1822, at the age
of seventy-four ; and she died about 1838, aged ninety-six.
Their children were born as follows :
8331. WILLIAM', born Sept. 28, 1769; married Lydia Estes.
834n. JEREMIAH', born Jan. 8, 1771. See family numbered
" 834."
835 in. SARAH 7 , born Dec. 1, 1772 ; married Capt. William Mar-
shall of Saco.
836 iv. TIMOTHY 7 , born Aug. 21, 1774. See family numbered "836."
837 v. ANNA 7 , born July 10, 1776; married Joseph Libby; and
settled in Pownal, Me.
838 vi. MARY 7 , born March 9, 1778; married Robert Tongue Dec.
22, 1799.
839 vn. HANNAH 7 , born June 11, 1779; died young.
840 vin. AARON 7 , born March 14, 1780 ; died young.
841 ix. JosHUA 7 , born Feb. 19, 1782. See family numbered "841."
842 x. DANIEL 7 , baptized Oct. 10, 1784; died young,
843 xi. MOSES 7 , born Sept. 20, 1788. See family numbered "843."
395
AARON PLUMER 6 , born in Scarboro', Me., Feb. 27,
1750. He lived in Scarboro' ; and married Lydia Libby
Oct. 15, 1770.
Their children were born as follows :
8441. SARAH 7 , baptized Oct. 13, 1771; married Adams in
Wales, Me.
845 ii. DANIEL 7 , died young.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
219
846 in. DoRCAs 7 , baptized March 12, 1775 ; married, first, Walter
Higgins; and, second, Frank Libby.
847 iv. DAVID 7 , baptized Oct. 13, 1776; married Abigail(?) Has-
kell.
848 v. LYDiA 7 , baptized Aug. 22, 1779; married Haskell.
849 vi. ELIZABETH 7 , baptized May 27, 1781.
850 vn. AARON 7 , baptized in 1784. See family numbered 4 '850."
851 vni. MARTHA 7 , baptized Nov. 12, 1786.
852 ix. ISAAC 7 (twin), baptized Feb. , 1792.
853 x. ABIGAIL 7 (twin), baptized Feb. , 1792; married
Merrill.
854 xi. MARY 7 ; married Lumbard.
855 xn. RnoDA 7 , died Dec. 12, 1870.
396
JESSE PLUMER 6 , born in Scarboro', Me., March 14, 1754.
He lived in Raymond, Me. ; and married Mary Davis
Sept. 6, 1773.
Their children were born in Raymond, as follows :
8561. CHARLOTTE 7 ; married Ruf us Libby Dec. 13, 1798.
857 n. JESSED born in 1775; married Mary Marwick of Ray-
mond about 1798.
858 in. ABRAHAM 7 , born about 1775. See family numbered "858."
859 iv. MosES 7 , born about 1780. See family numbered **859."
860 v. WiLLiAM 7 , born in 1782. See family numbered " 860."
861 vi. GiBEON 7 ; married Lydia Davis of Raymond Nov. 24, 1811.
They had no children.
862 vii. SAMUEL 7 . See family numbered ' 862."
863 vin. MARY 7 ; married James St. John Nov.(?) 12, 1808.
864 ix. DANIEL 7 (twin).
865 x. LYDiA 7 (twin); married Buckley.
866 xi. DAVID 7 , died young.
400
CHRISTOPHER PLUMER S , born Aug. 25, 1762. He was
a farmer, and lived in Gorham, Me., near " White Rock."
He married Rebecca Libby Oct. 11, 1785.
Their children were born in Gorham, as follows :
8671. ESTHER 7 ; married Joseph Muzzey; and had no issue.
868 n. MARY ? ; married Solomon Crockett; and had no issue.
869 in. REBECCA 7 ; married Daniel Davis of Gorham; and had
no issue.
870 iv. ANNA 7 , died, unmarried.
220 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
871 v. ELIZABETH 7 ; married Russell Cole; and had no issue.
872 vi. CHRISTOPHER'. See family numbered <l 872."
878 vii. ISAAC 7 , born Dec. 31, 1795. See family numbered "873."
401
AT PLUMER 6 , born Aug. 22, 1764. He married Eliza-
beth Plumer (415) March 15, 1787.
Their children were born as follows :
8741. HANNAH 7 , born May 20, 1787; married William Plumer
(860).
875n. POLLY', born Dec. 22, 1789 ; married Thomas Libby
Dec. 4, 1809 ; and she died April 27, 1841. They had
twelve children.
876 in. MosES 7 , born Aug. 28, 1791; went West; never married.
877 iv. JEAN 7 , born Feb. 23, 1794 ; married, first, Harris Seney ;
and, second, Stephen Holt: and lived in Saco.
878 v. PEGGIE 7 , born March 30, 1796; married Groghu.
879 _vi. ELIZABETH 7 , born April 3, 1798.
880 vii. AARON 7 , born March 20, 1800.
881 vm. MIRIAM', born April 29, 1802; married Stephen Dole of
Westbrook.
882 ix. Ai 7 , born April 12, 1804.
883 x. ALVIN 7 , born March 16, 1807; married Sally Weeks of
Gorham.
884 xi. JAMES MADISON 7 , born June 20, 1809; married Ellen
Plumer ( ) of Westbrook Oct. 22, 1829.
885 xii. SARAH CnEEVERs 7 , born Aug. 9, 1811; married Joseph
Boucher.
405
ROBERT PLUMER S , born at Cape Elizabeth, Me., March
1, 1761. He settled in Durham (Pownal or Danville) ;
and lived in Portland in 1829. He married, first, Abigail
(Zilpah?) Farr Aug. 29, 1786 ; she was born at Eastham,
Mass., Nov. 3, 1768 ; and died at Dover, Me. ; he married,
second, Amy Hoyt ; and, third, Nancy Mitchell. He died
in March, 1840.
The children of Mr. Plumer were born as follows :
5861. WILLIAM', born May 26, 1787, in Royalsborough, now
Durham, Cape Elizabeth; lived in Athens, Me. ; and
had sons Loren and Horace. Loren lived in Dover,
Me., or Foxcroft, and had three children. Horace
had three sons.
BY SIDNEY PERLBY. 221
887n. LucY 7 , born Sept. 17, 1789, in Durham; married John
Merrill of Durham.
888 in. JOHN 7 , born June 25, 1791; died about 1803.
889 iv. ABIGAIL 7 , born Feb. 16, 1792; married Josiah True; and
removed to Ohio.
890 v. ZiLPHiA 7 , born Jan. 21, 1794; married John Robinson;
and lived in Guilford, Me.
891 vi. HENRY 7 , born Dec. 18, 1796. See family numbered "891."
892 vn. MosEs 7 , born April 21, 1798; died, unmarried, at the age
of twenty-two.
893 vin. JAMES 7 , born July 17, 1801. See family numbered " 893."
894 ix. JOHN 7 . See family numbered " 894."
895 x. DOLLY 7 ; married Nathaniel Parker.
409
EDWARD PLUMER S , born May 27, 1755. He lived in
a log house in Danville, near his brother William. He
married Deborah Bragdon of Scarboro' Dec. 10, 1781.
Their children were born as follows :
8961. MEHITABLE BKAGDON 7 , baptized Sept. 15, 1782; married
Otis Royal.
897n. SALLY 7 , baptized Dec. 15, 1783.
898 III. EDWARD 7 .
410
WILLIAM PLUMER', born in Scarboro', Me., Dec. 14,
1756. He was a farmer, and settled in Danville, now
Auburn, Me, He married Abigail, daughter of Thomas
and Ann (Simonton) Jordan of Cape Elizabeth, March
2, 1786 ; she was born in 1758. She died in October,
1839 ; and he died in January, 1840, at the age of eighty-
three.
Their children were born as follows :
8991. ANN 7 , born July 28, 1785; married Capt. Ebenezer Wood-
bury of Westbrook. He was a master-mariner, and
lived at " Duck pond village." She died July 29,
1852.
900n. ELIZABETH 7 , born March 24, 1787; married Hugh Wood-
bury.
901 in. THOMAS J. 7 , born June 9, 1789. See family numbered
" 901."
902 iv. ABIGAIL', born Sept. 2, 1791; died, unmarried, June 3,
1863, aged seventy-one.
222 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
903 v. WILLIAM', born July 28, 1793. See family numbered
" 903."
904 vi. SARAH', born Jan. 14, 1795; married William Larrabee ;
and lived in Hartland, Me.
905 vn. JANE 7 , born March 20, 1800; married Capt. William Hun-
newell.
906 vin. HANNAH 6 , born Feb. 6, 1803; married William Penley;
and lived in Danville.
907 ix. TIMOTHY 7 , born July 6, 1804; died Nov. 25, 1804.
412
JOHN PLUMER 6 , born in Scarboro', Me., May 16, 1760.
He was a farmer, and settled in Freedom, Me. He mar-
ried, first, Phebe Gould ; and, second, Abigail Gould.
The children of Mr. Plumer were born as follows :
9081. AARON 7 , born in 1792, in Freedom; lived in Montville,
Me., and married Hannah Catlin. He died in Mont-
ville Jan. 15, 1860.
909n. SAMUEL 7 , born June 17, 1793, in Freedom. See family
numbered " 909."
910 III. JOHN 7 .
911 IV. JANE 7 .
912 v. WiLLiAM 7 ; lived in West Troy, Me.; and died, unmar-
ried, Sept. , 1889, aged about ninety.
918 VI. ROXANNA 7 .
914 VII. ABIGAIL 7 .
915 VIII. ISAIAH 7 .
916 ix. JEREMIAH 7 , born Aug. 14, 1805. See family numbered
"916."
917 x. RuFus 7 , born in Freedom. See family numbered " 917."
918 XI. HANNAH 7 .
919 xii. OLIVER 7 , born in Freedom. See family numbered "919."
920 xni. DORCAS 7 ,
921 xiv. ELIZABETH 7 , born March 14, 1819, in Freedom; married
Brintnall Searle Jan. 14, 1837.
417
AAEON PLUMER S , baptized July 10, 1768. He settled
in Albion, Me., and married Mary Ballard April 1, 1793.
Their children were born as follows :
9221. AARON 7 .
923n. JOHN ; .
924 in. Ai 7 .
925 iv. ERASTUS 7 ; lived in Scarboro', Me.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
223
ELLIOT PLUMER S ,
farmer, and lived in
West.
Their children were born as follows :
424
bom in Scarboro', Me. He was a
Raymond, Me. He married Jane
9261.
927II.
928 in.
929 iv.
930 v.
931 vi.
932 vn.
LYDIA 7 , born March 1, 1800; married Major Whitmore;
and lived in Standish.
OLIVE', born Jan. 5, 1802; married John Fields Nov. 26,
1818.
AARON 7 , born June 30, 1804. See family numbered "928."
MARY 7 , born Sept. 5, 1806; married Asa Harmon April
28, 1828.
ELIOTT 7 , born Dec. 27, 1808. See family numbered "930."
EZEKIEL HANSON 7 , born April 10, 1811; died Oct. , 1815.
ELI ? , born Sept. 2, 1813. See family numbered " 932."
933 .viii. ROBERT 7 , born Dec. 1, 1815. See family numbered "933."
435
DR. JOSHUA PLUMER S , born in Gloucester, Mass., Jan.
20, 1756. He married Olive, daughter of Rev, Isaac and
Ruth (Elizabeth ?) (Plumer) Lyman of York, Me., May
27, 1777. She was born in York March 17, 1755 ; and
died in Salem, Mass., Feb. , 1802.
Their children were born as follows :
9341. SOPHIA 7 , born Sept. 6, 1778.
935 ii. CAROLINE 7 , born Jan. 13, 1780; died, unmarried, May 15,
1854, at the age of seventy-four. She gave Plummer
Hall in Salem, to the Athenaeum, and also established
the Plummer Farm School and the Plummer Profes-
sorship of Morals at Harvard College.
936 in. ERNESTUS AUGUSTUS', born Nov. 2, 1781; received a
classical education and was fond of literature; be-
came a lawyer, but subsequently followed mercantile
pursuits; was a man of integrity and social and be-
nevolent; died Sept. 28, 1823, at the age of forty-one.
937 iv. OOTAviu's 7 , born Sept. 27, 1783.
938 v. THEODORE PARSONS ? , born June 11, 1785.
939 vi. LYMAN', born Dec. 27, 1786, at Salem.
940 vii. OLiviA 7 , born Nov. 24, 1789, in Salem.
440
CAPT. WILLIAM STEVENS PLUMER 6 , born in Glouces-
ter, Mass., June 5, 1766. He was a sea captain, and
224 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
lived in Boston. He married Catherine Marriot ; and
died at sea in 1800. She survived him, and died in Bos-
ton in 1828.
Their only child was
9411. CATHEBINB MABIOTT ? ; married William P. Matchett, jr.
454
ADDISON PLTJMEK, ESQ. 6 , born in Gloucester, Mass., in
1784. He married Mary ; and died Nov. 17, 1835.
She survived him.
Their children were as follows :
9421. '.
943 n. f.
944 m. 7 .
945 iv. 7 .
946 v . 7 .
947 vi. 7 , born in 1828.
460
BEMSLEY PLUMBED born in Rowley, Mass., and bap-
tized in the church in Byfield Jan. 2, 1731-2. He was a
yeoman, and lived in Rowley. He married, first, Abi-
gail, daughter of John Wheeler of Rowley, Sept. 14,
1756. She died July 19, 1759, at the age of twenty-
eight. He married, second, Sarah, daughter of Daniel
and Mary (Lull) Pearson of Rowley Oct. 29, 1761. He
was living in 1764, and she in 1775. He was admitted
to the Byfield church July 4, 1762.
The children of Mr. Plumer were as follows : *
9481. 7 , born June 16, 1752 ; died on the same day, a few
hours after it was born.
949 n. ABIGAIL 7 , baptized in the Byfield church July 4, 1761.
950 in. MABY 7 , baptized in Byfield church Jan. 20, 1765; married
John Tirrell.
951 iv. DANIEL 7 . See family numbered ' 951."
952 v. JANB 7 , born July 17, 1772; married Jesse, son of Jesse
and Mollie Tirrell of Londonderry; he was born Sept.
24, 1776; and she died July 17, 1852, on her eightieth
birthday.
He probably had other children than those mentioned above, a
son Edward and a daughter who married a Frescott.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 225
469
JOSEPH PLUMEK G , born in Rowley, Mass., Nov. 23,
1740. He was a cooper, and lived in Barre, Mass., in
1792. He married Hannah, daughter of Capt. Benjamin
Lee of Barre. Mr. Plumer died in 1814.
Their children were as follows :
9531. As A 7 ; married, lived in Canada and Ohio, and had three
children.
954n. OBER 7 .
955 in. ALPHEUS 7 . See family numbered "955."
956 iv. JOSEPH 7 ; killed by fall of a tree when fourteen years old.
470
ASA PLUMER 6 , born in Rowley, Mass., Dec. 27, 1742.
He entered the army at the age of sixteen, and was at
the siege of Louisburg. He was a cordwainer, and lived
in Haverhill, Mass. He married, first, Sarah Burpee
(published Aug. 1, 1769) ; and she died Dec. 30, 1769,
at the age of nineteen. He (then of Rowley) married,
second, Betsey Gage of Bradford, Sept. 1, 1774 ; and she
died Oct. 2, 1775, at her father's house in Bradford. Mr.
Plumer married, third, Mary, daughter of Joseph and
Mehitable (Marsh) Haynes of Haverhill, April 20, 1778.
She was born April 14, 1738, and was living in 1801.
He died Dec. 20, 1800, at the age of fifty-seven.
The children of Mr. Plumer were born in Haverhill,
as follows :
9571. 7 , born Dec. , 1769; died Jan. 9, 1770.
958 ii. BETSEY GAGE T , born Aug. 29, 1782; married Appleton
Swasey of Haverhill Jan. 16, 1802.
959 in. SARAH 7 , born Feb. 18, 1785; married James Walker of
Salem, N. H., Dec. 6, 1804.
960 iv. HiRAM 7 , born March 25, 1787. See family numbered "960."
961 v. MARY HAYNES 7 , born Aug. 19, 1791; married Thomas
Pearson of Salem Aug. 30, 1810.
962 vi. JOSEPH 7 , born March 11, 1796. See family numbered
" 962."
471
MOSES PLUMER 6 , born in Rowley, Mass., Jan. 21,
1744-5. He was a wheelwright, and lived in his native
town as late as 1774 ; in Bradford in 1776 ; in Andover,
226 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
1779-1798 ; and in Londonderry, N. H., in 1800. He
married, first, Hannah Hale (published March 6, 1770) ;
and she was living in 1792. He married, second, Phebe
Poor of Methuen Nov. 22, 1796. He died in Methuen.
He was a large owner and dealer in real estate.
The children of Mr. Plumer were born as follows :
9631. SALLY 7 , born Aug. 2, 1771, in Bradford.
964n. PoLLY 7 , born April 4, 1774, in Bradford.
965 in. MosKS 7 , born Feb. 2, 1786(?), in Methuen. See family
numbered "965."
966 iv. DAVID 7 , born March 23, 1798, in Andover. See family
numbered "966."
967 v. PHEBE OsGOOD 7 , born July 14, 1799, in Londonderry.
968 vi. ENOCH 7 , born Oct. 9, 1801, in Londonderry. See family
numbered "968."
472
STEPHEN PLUMER**, born in Rowley, Mass., Feb. 1,
1746-7. He was a wheelwright, and lived in Bradford
most of his life, spending his last years in Londonderry,
N. H. He married Martha Hale of Bradford May 24,
1781. She died in Londonderry May 6, 1835, at the age
of eighty-five ; and he died there Dec. 2, 1835, aged
eighty-eight. He was a large land owner.
Their children were born in Bradford, as follows :
9691. WiLLiAM 7 , born Oct. 9, 1782; lived in Derry; representa-
tive ; and died in Derry Oct. 8, 1862, at the age of
eighty.
970 n. DEBOBAH 7 , born Sept. 7, 1784 ; married John Dwinnells
of Londonderry March , 1808; and died in Derry.
473
SILAS PLUMER 6 , born in Rowley, Mass., June 21, 1750.
He was a cordwainer, and lived in Bradford and Haver-
hill as well as his native town. He married, first, Joanna
Barker (Chandler) of Andover Oct. 5. 1778 ; and she
died. He married, second, Mary Adams of Rowley Feb.
5, 1784; and she died in 1795. He died in Philadelphia
in 1824(6?).
Mr. Plumer's children were born as follows :
9711. POLLY 7 , born Dec. 7, 1779, in Bradford; married John
Dow of Haverhill Sept. 27, 1804.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
227
972n. JOHN 7 , born Jan. 16, 1781, in Bradford; died, unmarried,
in Havanna.
973 in. THEODORE 7 , born April 12, 1785, in Bradford. See fam-
ily numbered " 973."
974 iv. FREDERICK^ born July 3, 1787, in Bradford; clergyman;
married, first, Catharine Singleton; and, second,
Rachel Hathaway; and died May 26, 1854, leaving a
child.
975 v. SOPHIA 7 , born Nov. 27, 1790, in Rowley; married Daniel
Buswell April 13, 1809; and she died in Philadelphia
May 5, 1824.
976 vi. HENRY 7 , born Feb. 22, 1793, in Haverhill. See family
numbered "976."
977 vn. P AMELIA 7 , born March 22, 1796, in Haverhill; married
David Gannett, in Gloucester, N. J.; and she died
Dec. 10, 1847.
978 vni. CHARLES 7 , born May 7, 1803, in Haverhill; clergyman;
married Eleanor Gardner; and died Sept. 28, 1834
(1824?), leaving two children.
475
THOMAS PLUMER S , bom in Rowley, Mass., March 10.,
1756. He fought in the battle of Bunker hill. He was
a wheelwright, and lived in Haverhill. He married Eliz-
abeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth (White) Chandler
of Haverhill Sept. 12, 1780. After her father's death,
she had been adopted by her uncle, Rev. James Chandler
of the West parish of Rowley. Mr. Plumer died Dec.
21, 1836, at the age of eighty; and she died in Haverhill
Jan. 11, 1839, aged seventy-eight. He owned considera-
ble real estate.
Their children were born as follows :
9791. FARNHAM 7 , born Dec. 17, 1780, in Rowley. See family
numbered " 979."
980n. JOHN CHANDLER 7 , born May 25, 1783, in Haverhill. See
family numbered " 980."
981 in. MARY 7 , born June 21, 1785, in Haverhill; married John
Marsh of Haverhill Dec. 29, 1811; and he died in
Haverhill July 12, 1849. John J. Marsh, Esq., of
Haverhill was their son.
982 iv. ELIZABETH WHITE?, born Aug. 22, 1789, in Haverhill; and
died in Haverhill, suddenly and unmarried, April
26, 1830, at the age of forty.
228 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
983 -v. ANNA 7 , born April 3, 1793, in Haverhill; married Samuel
Hale of Haverhill May 3, 1820; and she died Jan. ,
1875.
984 vi. THOMAS', born June 3, 1795, in Haverhill; died July 2,
1795.
477
BENJAMIN PLUMER S , born in Rowley, Mass., Sept. 1,
1756. He was a yeoman ; and lived in Rowley. He
married Abigail Savory of Bradford Jan. 28, 1812 ; and
died Nov. 18, 1823. She survived him.
Their children were born in Rowley, as follows :
9851. JOHN SAVOBY ? , born May 24, 1813. See family numbered
"985."
986n. SALLY CLOUGH 7 , born May 4, 1815; married John Knap
Sept. 30, 1836; and died May 19, 1842(6?).
987 in. JOSIAH CoNVEBS 7 , born Dec. 15, 1817. See family num-
bered "987."
988 iv. MARY BACON 7 , born May 3, 1824; married Charles Osted
Ames of Woburn.
480
NATHAN PLUMBED born in Rowley, Mass., where he
was baptized Dec. 8, 1751. He removed to Londonderry,
N. H., with his father, in 1775 ; and was a soldier of the
Revolution. He lived in Auburn, N. H.
Child :
9891. 7 ; was a physician in Auburn for many years, and died
about 1885.
486
CAPT. ABEL PLUMER 6 , born in Rowley, Mass., where
he was baptized March 10, 1765. He married, first,
Elizabeth Hall. She was born in Haverhill, Mass. ; and
died Nov. 16, 1806, aged thirty-four. He married, sec-
ond, Mary Anderson of Londonderry, N. H., Sept. 8,
1824; and she died Feb. 21, 1832, at the age of forty-
five. Capt. Plumer died Nov. 3, 1841, aged seventy-six.
Child :
9901. ABLEY 7 , born in 1797, in Londonderry; lived in his native
town, of which he was a selectman, and died Jan.
10, 1879, at the age of eighty-one.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 229
491
DAVID PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., Oct. 23,
1757. He was a yeoman, and lived in his native town,
on the homestead of his grandfather. He married Han-
nah, daughter of Allen and Martha (Fowler) Perley of
Ipswich, Mass., Dec. 8, 1785. She was born in Ipswich
Nov. 27, 1765. He died April 30, 1847, at the age of
eighty-nine; and she died May 3, 1849, aged eigh ty- three .
Their children were born in Newbury, as follows :
991 i. ABIGAIL 7 , born Sept. 27, 1786; married Dudley Ladd,
Esq., of Meredith, N. H., June 26, 1811.
992n. DAVID', born Jan. 11, 1789. See family numbered "992."
993 in. STEPHEN 7 , born July 9, 1793. See family numbered "993."
493
MAJ. NATHANIEL PujMEE 6 , born in Rowley, Mass.,
March 1, 1744-5. He was a yeoman ; and settled in
Bradford, Mass., having married Hannah . His
father lived in Penny slvania, and in the autumn of 1788
Nathaniel and his brother Jonathan visited him. The
family tradition of the meeting is treasured yet with
affectionate interest. The sons were so much pleased
with the country that they decided to settle there. They
removed to Pittsburgh in the same fall. In a letter to
his brother Paul, dated Dec. 29, 1788, Nathaniel request-
ed him to sell his property, so that he could have the
money with which to buy a farm. He also stated that
he wanted a watch, for he had sold his for fifty bushels of
wheat and a gallon of whiskey; he also wanted the
brasses, lock and hinges for a desk and hinges for a
table ; also a great bible very much, for he thinks his
sight has failed ; also a wagon to be sent out by Amos
Whitmore, who will take it out for the use of it ; and also
two heavy chains from one axle to the other, so he can
make a strong draught chain of them. March 17, 1789,
Nathaniel bought of Daniel Shawhan three hundred and
ninety-eight acres of land on * 4 Coal hill," a portion of
which was recently the home of C. S. Fetterman, a great-
grandson of Mr. Plumer.
Major Plumer was a large owner of real estate both
before and after his removal to Pennsylvania.
230
THE PLTJMER GENEALOGY.
Their children were born in Bradford, as follows : *
9941. BETSY 7 , born March 24, 1769; married Samuel Adams of
Rowley Aug. , 1786.
995 ii. HiTTY 7 , born March 19, 1771; married Jesse Pearson of
Newbury June 25, 1788.
996 in. SAMUEL 7 , born Oct. 6, 1772.
997 iv. NATHANIEL 7 , born Aug. 14, 1775.
494
MAJ. PAUL PLUMER 6 , born in Rowley, Mass., where he
was baptized in the Second church (now in Georgetown)
Dec. 28, 1746. He lived in Newbury, Mass., was a large
owner of real estate, and a yeoman and shipwright. In
1803, he was called " esquire ".
He married Hannah, daughter of William and Mary
(Dole) Woodbridge of Newbury April 19, 1770. She
was born June 1,1751; and died Oct. 31, 1827, aged
seventy-six ; and Major Plumer died Jan. 25, 1831, aged
eighty-four.
Their children were born in Newbury, as follows :
9981. JOSEPH DOLE 7 , born Jan. 20, 1771. See family numbered
" 998."
999n. ANNA WooDBBiDGE 7 , born Oct. 13, 1772; insane; died,
unmarried, Aug. 4, 1816, aged forty-four.
1000 -m. PAUL 7 , born Sept. 3, 1774. See family numbered "1000."
1001 iv. WiLLiAM 7 , born April 30, 1776; died, unmarried, Jan.
31, 1846, in his seventieth year.
1002 v. RiCHABD 7 , born Aug. 13, 1780; died, unmarried, Oct.
22, 1806, at the age of twenty-six.
1003 vi. SiLAs 7 , born Feb. 5, 1783. See family numbered "1003."
1004 vii. HERITABLE 7 , born Oct. 1, 1785; died, unmarried, Jan.
20, 1847, aged sixty-one.
1005 vin. JONATHAN 7 , born Aug. 11, 1788; died, unmarried, Jan.
26, 1819, at the age of thirty.
1006 ix. NATHANIEL 7 , born Sept. 7, 1791; went away from home
when twenty-five, and died at New Orleans in 1825.
495
JONATHAN PLUMER 6 , born in Rowley, Mass., about
1748. He was a blacksmith, and lived in Newburyport,
Mass., until the autumn of 1788, when, with his brother
*They had a child die in Bradford Oct. , 1778.
BY SIDNEY PEBLEY. 231
Nathaniel, he visited his father in Pennsylvania. Being
pleased with the country, he decided to settle there, and
did so, having become involved, and sold his house and
lot to Simeon Plumer March 31, 1788.* Jonathan wrote
to his brother Paul, in a letter dated July 5, 1789, that
" I now live near to my fathers where I built me a house
and a shop. Work most of my time at my trade and get
provisions for my work. I have got a famous field of
corn as ever I saw, and expect to raise enough for my
family. We get most excellent fish such as perch, pickerel
and catfish and salmon, which I dined on this day. Nat.
has bought a fine farm sixteen miles from here" got
some good tools except bellows and wants Paul to go to
David Morrills and buy him a bellows pipe and send it
on, he will send back a buckskin, wants him to go to
Mycalls and get him an account book and an alphabet and
tell him he will call and settle the next time he is in
Newburyport, which will be in twenty or thirty years at
the longest ! ! wants to hear the news about the neighbors
and mentions several sends his love to a Capt. Longfellow
and wants him to come out to keep school, and will guaran-
tee him thirty pounds a year and board, tells about a good
trade he made swapping wagons with a Doctor Adams, on
his way out I suppose, for he says the wagon went so hard
that the Doctor's horses got so poor that they died after
they got there. He also writes to Paul to know if he can
get a boat builder to go out there, for he will have a saw
mill finished soon, and could have all the work he wanted.
Mr. Plumer married, first, Anna, daughter of William
and Ann (Poor) Brown July 15, 1773. She was born
March 30, 1746. He married, second, .
Mr. Plumer's children were born in Newburyport, as
follows :
10071. JOSEPH BROWN ? , born May 4, 1774; died Feb. 25, 1787.
1008n. LYDIA LEIGHTON ? , born Aug. 6, 1776; died July 11, 1777.
1009 in. JOHN', born Aug. 18, 1778.
496
ELDER WILLIAM PLUMER 6 , born in Fort Cumberland,
Md., in 1760 (1755?). He served in the Revolutionary
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 149, leaf 49.
THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
war ; and was at one time stationed in the block house
which stood on the site formerly occupied by the mansion
of the late General Robinson, in Allegheny, near the foot
of Federal street, because of the aggressions of the In-
dians.
Mr. Plumer married, in the home of Col. John Orms-
by, in Pittsburgh, Feb. 27, 1781, Miss Catharine McAllis-
ter of Long Run, and lived there several years. Then
he went to Greersburg, Beaver county, Pa., now Darling-
ton, Lawrence county, at the urgent request of ministers
and others, to board students attending the Presbyterian
school then in existence at that place. After the school
had been broken up and transferred to Canonsburg he
built a batteau, put his family and goods on board, and
descended the Ohio river to Red Bank, Ky., where he
landed. But the surrounding country disappointed him,
and he turned his boat upstream, pushing it with poles,
and landed some eighteen miles above Marietta, Washing-
ton county, Ohio, where he made his home. He traded a
great deal along the Ohio and Kanawha rivers in a keel
boat. He must have removed to or near Logstown, for
he there built, in the winter of 1793-4, several boats for
transportation of Wayne's army to Fort Washington.
Directly after Wayne's crushing defeat of the Indians,
emigration became active towards the upper valley of the
Beaver, and Mr. Plumer must have followed, as he was
one of the three elders ordained in the congregation
known as the " Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian church," or-
ganized in 1798 by the Presbytery of Ohio, and he was
of the very first settlers there.
His wife died some time between 1824 and 1830. In
1833, he visited his daughters at Charleston, now West
Virginia, and while there was seized with cholera and
died. The inscription on his tombstone is as follows :
In memory of William Plumer
Born in Fort Cumberland, Maryland, 1755.
Died, July 8th, 1833, in Charleston, Virginia.
His children call him blessed.
Proverbs xxxi: 28.
(To be continued.)
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PAGE OF A SERMON BY REV. GEORGE LESSLIE,
WRITTEN IN STENOGRAPHY.
JAMES LESSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
BY M. V. B. PERLEY.
THE learned research of Rev. George Lesslie and his
faith in the origin and form of his name, and in his
right to coat-armor, demand recognition. He invariably
employed two esses in his sign-manual and impressed his
seal with a griffin.
This Anglo-Saxon name in Hungary, its native home,
was Us lyn (castle-on-lake), and it went into England,
about 1067, with Bartholomew de Lislyn, a scion of Hun-
garian nobility, upon the recall of Prince Edward, " the
Outlaw," to the English throne by the decrepit King Ed-
ward, " the Confessor." The recall miscarried ; the king
and the prince both died soon after the arrival of the
prince and his family in England ; but Margaret, daughter
of the prince, married Malcolm III, Canmore, King of
Scotland, and Bartholomew trusted his fortune with the
fortune of the re-established king.
King Malcolm, recognizing Lislyn's nobility and learn-
ing, persuaded of his prowess and valor, and realizing the
great value such a personage would be to the Crown,
granted or leased to him a large tract of land in county
Aberdeen, the equivalent, no doubt, of an earldom, and
so conferred upon the possessor the highest rank below
the royal family. The high consideration and courtesy of
the king gave the Hungarian courtier a local habitation
and a surname Bartholomew of the leased land t which
NOTE. The following persons have given material aid in this
compilation: President Homan of Willamette University, Salem,
Ore. ; Ex-President Whitaker of Willamette University and Libra-
rian Lockwood, Wesleyan Hall, Boston, Mass. ; Mr. J. P. Litchfield,
historian of the M. E. Memorial Church, Salem, Ore.; C. E. Leslie,
Esq., St. Johnsbury, Vt.; Freeland D. Leslie, M. D. (No. 173); Hor-
ace G. Leslie, M. D. (No. 126); Mrs. Esther I. Blackwell (No. 96);
and Mrs. Helen M. Worthen (No. 124).
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234 JAMES LESSLIE OP TOPSFIELD, MASS.
in the Old or Norman French, the polished language in
England at that time, and the fruitful mother of patro-
nymics, is lesse for leased, and ley, lea, or lie for land,
which anglicized became Lesslie ;* and Bartholomew de
Lesslie and his wife became the Adam and Eve of the
race of Lesslies.
The Lesslie coat of armsf for Aberdeen, Scotland, the
plainest and therefore the oldest and freighted with great-
est honor, is silver, on a bend embattled blue, three buckles
gold ; the crest a griffin ; motto : " Hold fast." This
shield is indeed martial, and eminently characteristic of
this clan, as illustrated in the call home of Gen. Alexan-
der Leslie to organize an army against Cromwell's relig-
ious war, and in placing Gen. David Leslie as Field-
Marshal at Dunbar, against Cromwell himself.
This quotation from the extensive foreign correspond-
ence of Horace G. Leslie, M. D. (No. 126), is pertinent
here :
u Many branches of the family live in England and Ire-
land, and their pedigrees are easily traced to this original :
Bartholomew, founder, died 1121.
Malcolm, charter, died 1165.
Norman, charter, died 1224.
Norino (Norman?), charter, died 1248.
Sir Norman, died 1282.
*Col. Charles Leslie, K. T., says in his three-volumed history of
British Leslies, quoting Vesstigan's poem, a Leslie's duel with a
foreign knight:
Between the Lessley and the mair
He slew the knight and left him there.
The Colonel also says : '* It is beyond doubt that Bartholomew
did obtain from the King a grant of land in county Aberdeen."
Vol.1, p. 6.
tThe totem of the clan Leslie is a GOLD BUCKLE. Two shields
bearing different ordinaries are of very high antiquity one, as
above, with an embattled bend, or military scarf; the other with a
fesse or belt, eminently chivalrous, indicating the office of a chap-
eron, perhaps, to the Queen, the motto * Grip fast " to the belt, his
caution in case of danger. The other motto, "Hold fast," is per-
haps more military, as " Hold the fort." About the year 1500 this
male descent lapsed, and the inheritress adopted the lozenge-shaped
escutcheon.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 235
Sir Andrew de Leslie, who married Mary,
daughter of Sir Alexander Abernothy, and
received the baronies of Ballinbreich,
Cairny and Rothes. His greatgrandson
William had a son George, who died 1467,
and who was great-great-grandfather of the
celebrated Gen. Alexander Leslie.
Sir Andrew, 1325-1353.
Sir Andrew, 1353-1398.
David, died 1439.
" No name stands higher in Scotland than Leslie."
1. JAMES LESSLIE, the immigrant, father of Rev.
George Lesslie, styled " Rev." in " Contributions to the
Ecclesiastical History of Essex County " and in Gage's
" History of Rowley," was son of a Scotch covenanter,
who lived in Coleraine,* county Londonderry, Ireland.
The name is now (1912) known in that vicinity, f He
came to this country in 1729, with wife Margaret (Shee-
rar), and located in Topsfield, where maybe he lived till
the last half of the year 1754. His son bought land in
*The level area in the northwesterly part of the town of Topsfield,
lying west of the B. & M. R. R. tracks and south of the land of the
late Arthur W. Phillips, has long been known as " Coleraine."
Mention of this locality name appears in a deed as early as 1797,
conveying land at this point. The appearance of this unusual name
at once suggests a connection with the Irish home of James Lesslie,
and who probably lived in this locality which lies on both sides of
the Topsfield-Boxford boundary line. James Lesslie paid taxes
in Boxford in 1740 and 1741, and those years only. The Topsfield
assessors' records do not go back far enough to absolutely prove a
Topsfield residence for him.
tMr. Maxwell Given wrote to Dr. Leslie (No. 126), from Cole-
raine, Ire., 27 Feb., 1906, I have just discovered that the Leslie
family is descended from Henry Leslie, who became bishop of
Down and Connor 4 Nov., 1635. He was son of James, grandson
of George, 4th Earl of Rothes, by his second wife, Agnes Summer-
ville."
Super-Registrar S. Lecky wrote from Coleraine, Ire., on 25, 3,
1912 : " The name once resided in Castletoodry, near here, but not
now. Grandchildren are in Kilcanny, Coleraine. The name is
mentioned in lists of aldermen and representatives in Parliament.
Ireland had no public vital records till 1864, when compulsory reg-
istration began."
236 JAMES LESSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
Linebrook* for a house, 1 Jul} T , 1753, and when the
house was finished in 1754, father, mother and son occu-
pied it, and Mr. James Lesslie and his wife had or were
given charge of the communion table, Tuesday, Dec. 31,
of that year. On 20 March, 1763, it was voted that he
keep the key of the meeting-house, sweep it six times a
year, and bring water for baptisms, for one pound a year.
Giving Mr. Lesslie the service of making ready the table
was wise, especially in winter and stormy weather, since
the deacons lived one and a half and two miles away. It
was no interference with their office, but lessened the
work or care of busy men. ' Father Lesslie " died 12
May, 1763. The date of mother Lesslie's death is not
recorded.
Children of James and Margaret Lesslie, born in Ire-
land :
2. ELIZABETH, d. 21 Sept., 1736, in Topsfield.
3. JAMES, d. 30 Sept., 1736, in Topsfield.
4. ESTHER, m. 17 March, 1737-8, Hugh Lynde; lived in Topsfield,
where her servant, a child, d. 8 or 18 Aug., 1760, and she d.
2 Oct., 1778.
5. JOSEPH, m. 27 March, 1755, Mercy Dresser. He was taxed in
Topsfield, 1761, 3s. lOd. 2f., and his meeting-house rates
were abated, 1761, 6s. 4d. "About 1764," reads Felt's
History of Ipswich, " Joseph, brother of Rev. George
Lesslie, returning to West Ipswich from a residence at St.
John's, was drowned, with his wife and seven children."
These baptisms and deaths of their children are recorded:
James, bapt. 11 Jan., 1756, d. 10 Oct., 1756 Linebrook rec.;
James, bapt. 10 April, 1757, d. 26 Sept., 1758, aged 18
months, of " convulsion fits " Byfield Chh. rec.; Lynde,
bapt. 13 May, 1759; Joseph, bapt. 10 Aug., 1760 Topsfield
rec.; Mary, bapt. 2 Oct., 1763 Boxford 1st Chh. rec.
6. GEORGE, b. 25 Nov. 1727.
*The citizens of South Rowley and West Ipswich met and re-
solved to establish a territorial parish, 12 April, 1744. The pro-
posed parish was incorporated 5 June, 1746. The incorporated
territory was named, 27 June, 1747, Linebrook Parish, because of
these streams in its boundary line: Ipswich River, Gravelly brook,
Bull brook, Batchelder's brook, Strait brook and Hewlett's brook.
While the corporate function of the parish has been ignored, the
territory has been called Linebrook.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 237
6. REV. GEORGE LESSLIE, A. M., was the fifth child
of James and Margaret (Sheerar) Lesslie, and was born
25 Nov., 1727, and, as the History of Washington, N. H.,
reads, in Coleraine, Ireland. He was brought to America
in 1729, or, as per Rev. J. S. Griswold's " New Hamp-
shire Churches," " came from Ireland, when he was
eighteen months old, with his parents, who located in
Topsfield." He fitted for college,* it is presumed, under
Rev. John Emerson, minister of Topsfield. In 1748 he
was teaching school in Boxford, and seems to have taught
there previously for several years. He graduated from
Harvard College, Wednesday, 6 July, 1748. His class had
twenty -four members, of whom were George Leonard and
Artemas Ward, afterwards congressmen ; Perez March
and John Rand, librarians ; and seven gospel ministers,
including Jacob Gushing, S. T. D., and " Georgius Less-
lie." All but Ward, Brown and Samuel French took the
master's degree.
Mr. Lesslie was admitted to membership in the Tops-
field church on profession of faith, 5 March, 1749, and
there is no doubt that he studied divinity with his early
instructor, Rev. Mr. Emerson. He began to preach at
Linebrook, 14 Aug., 1748, the sixth Sabbath after his
graduation ; and when he began to preach as a candidate
for the Linebrook pastorate, 19 March, 1749, he had
supplied there thirty-one Sabbaths, and twenty-nine of
them before he joined a church, according to the following
record :
" At a legal Parish meeting 21 March, 1748-9, Thomas
Potter, moderator, Mark Howe, clerk, voted that Abrm
How have for his keeping Mr. Lesslie for time past seven
pounds old tenor 07-00-0 ; Voted to give to Mr. John
Smith for keeping Mr. Lesslie 3 Sabbaths fifteen shillings
old tenor, 0-15-0 ; Voted to allow Mr. Lesslie six pounds a
Sabbath for the time past, before he began upon probation
with us which was ye 3d Sabbath in March current," viz.,
the 19th. His call to settle was accepted 16 Aug., 1749.
*Harvard College records Mr. Lesslie's birth-date as 25 Nov., 1727;
his age at matriculation, 16 years, 8 months; and his entrance into
college, 26 Feb., 1745, six months after he registered as belonging in
Topsfield.
238 JAMES LESSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
Mr. Felt's History of Ipswich records that Mr. Leslie,
" having preached one year," was ordained and installed
pastor of the Linebrook church, 15 Nov., 1749, the day
of the organization of the church.
The Parish record in this relation reads : " Sept. 21,
John Smith, moderator, Voted, Mr. Lesslie's ordination
to be, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1749 ; Voted, Mr. Wiggles-
worth, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Wally, all of Ipswich, Mr. Jewett
and Mr. Chandler of Rowley, Mr. Parsons of Byfield,
Mr. Emerson of Topsfield, be the ministers with their
messengers that are to assist in ordaining Mr. George
Lesslie ; Voted the following a committee to invite the
ministers : Thomas Potter, John Abbott, Jonathan Bur-
pee, Isaac Davis, James Hibbert."
Mr. Lesslie's dismission from the Topsfield church was
Friday, 6 Oct., 1749. His settlement at Linebrook was
700, old tenor, or $311.08, and his salary was to be
100 lawful money and twelve cords of wood.
Mr. Lesslie exchanged land with his parish, 1 July,
1753, for land " to set a house on," but he recorded none
of the deeds given him, and we have no knowledge of his
realty purchases. The land adjoining the meeting-house,
given to the parish 13 Feb., 1743, by Joseph Metcalf,
was bounded on the north by land of Nathaniel Brad-
street. The location of the land exchanged with the
parish, in 1753, was on the north, " adjoining the parish
land at the westerly end of said parish land." The land
exchanged (leased for 999 years, for a cemetery) was 19
rods long and 2 3-4 rods wide and contained 53 square
rods ; the land " to set a house on " began at Wicom's
corner and ran southwest 23 rods 7 feet, then westerly 2
rods 2 feet, then easterly 16 rods, then 12 rods to the
first mentioned bounds, containing 107 square rods. He
built a two-story house and a barn on it. They stood a
few rods west of his meeting-house. The house was 40
by 20 feet and the barn 44 by 23 feet. The house, some
years ago, was burned down, as was his second house,
in Washington's great conflagration, and the barn,
some years later, tumbled down. He sold his entire in-
terest there, 13 Sept., 1780, to Elijah and Allen Foster,
both of Ipswich, for 80. The sale included the home-
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 239
stead, 107 square rods ; also a piece of land he bought of
Knowlton ; also another piece westward of the above,
bounded by Capt. Thomas Foster, westerly by a proprie-
tors' road, northwesterly by Jeremiah Ellsworth, north-
erly by New Road, easterly by county road, southerly
and easterly by parish land ; also another piece on the
opposite side of the county road. He sold land in Box-
ford, "4 1-2 acres and 17 poles," for X200, to Thomas
Peiiey, jr., 2 March, 1780.
We cannot locate his home during the period between
his ordination in 1749 and the building of his house in
1753-4. He had a school in Linebrook in 1752, a fact
that argues a home there. We may conclude that the
family, parents and son, removed to Linebrook, as soon
as practical, after his settlement, and possibly occupied
the house that stood some distance back of the New
cemetery a Conant home, which some years later was
sold to John Peiiey, sr., and removed to its present loca-
tion (1915), the second house west of Garrette's hill.
His school doubtless began before 1752. Many stu-
dents resorted to his home for instruction. In modern
phrase, his home was a popular boarding school. He
taught the useful sciences and fitted young men for col-
lege and for the ministry. Here are a few names, be-
tween 1752 and 1759, that are found in the parish rec-
ords : Symonds, son of Capt. Baker ; Asa, son of Sam-
uel Bradstreet ; Timothy and Andrew Fuller ; Thomas
Stickney ; Samuel Perley ; Thomas Gowing ; Moses Nich-
ols ; Samuel Porter ; and Mark Howe, who paid 6 for
six months' tuition.
Mr. Lesslie was one of the organizers of the Essex
North Association of Ministers. His is the sixth name
signed to their covenant. The Association met with him
13 Nov., 1770, when the matter of Rev. Christopher B.
Marsh's church was considered and the action of the
church was unanimously sustained.
Mr. Lesslie' s publications were confined to occasional
sermons. Of those one was in possession of Horace G.
Lesslie, M. D., of Amesbury (No. 126), two are in the
Essex Institute, and there was one preached at Seabrook
(now Hampton Falls) at the ordination of one of his
240 JAMES LBSSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
divinity students, Samuel Perley, 31 Jan., 1765. One of
the sermons preserved in the Essex Institute was preached
in the North Parish Church of Newburyport, 12 Aug.,
1779. The day was Thursday, and probably the sermon
was a part of the usual lecture service. The topic was,
44 The nature and tendency of the sin of selfishness."
The text was 2 Timothy, 3:2: '* For men shall be lovers
of their ownselves." It was a war sermon. He says :
44 Fourthly, what we have heard points out one special
ground or reason of the perils and distresses of the pres-
ent day. . . . Criminal self-love is at the bottom of the
present unnatural contest between these states." The
discourse is unimpassioned, logical, and sharply forceful ;
it is a Christian minister rebuking the heinous sin of the
British ministry. It expressed the prevailing sentiment of
the general public, and immediately appeared in print.
He left also two sermons in stenography, a page of which
is here shown, same size as the original.
Mr. Lesslie attended Ezra Ross at the gallows, in
Worcester, 2 July, 1778. Ezra's parents were members
of Mr. Lesslie 's church, and Ezra, of course, was a mem-
ber of the church society. Ezra was sixteen years of
age, the youngest of seventeen children, of whom nine
were then living, and four of the nine were in the war.
Returning from his first enlistment, young Ezra fell sick
in Brookfield, Mass., and was nursed to health in the
home of Mr. John Spooner. Mr. Spooner was a retired
lumberman, passively disposed and of simple tastes. His
wife was Bathsheba, daughter of Chief-Justice Ruggles.
She never knew the want of a luxury that money could
buy and was haughty and imperious, and the house was
divided against itself. On Ezra's return from his second
enlistment, gratitude prompted him to visit his benefac-
tress. He was youthful, had a fine physique, and stature
far beyond his years ; he was active, social, witty, hand-
some ; she was artful, seductive, profligate. Mr. Spooner
was in her way and he was removed. Four persons were
arrested, including Mrs. Spooner and young Ezra. The
trial was short and the way to the gallows was short.
Several petitions, because of her delicate condition and
of his youth and accidental knowledge of the deed, were
AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 241
of no avail. Linebrook was stricken with profound grief ;
the church appointed a day of fasting, humiliation and
prayer, which was solemnly kept.
Mr. Lesslie was a justice of the peace, probate attorney
and conveyancer. His work is often met with in the
records. He wrote a very legible hand, very suited to
please copyists. He seems to
have cared little to record his
own deeds, and the sources of
only two pieces, as above, are
known, except a right in
Bull brook pasture, given to his homestead by the Com-
moners, the line on the north side of the road beginning
about eight rods on the west side of Egypt River bridge,
and so across said river till it comes to a stake and stones
forty-two rods from the first bound. Former owners had
digged a well there and a parish committee adjusted the
cost, and also 26 March, 1764, employed Thomas Foster
to fence in the right, before 20 April, with a lawful rail
fence. He built thirty-six rods, showing the river there
then to have been about one hundred feet wide.
During Mr. Lesslie's pastorate the population of his
parish diminished greatly. One very apparent cause was
the formation of a colony in New Brunswick, which took
his own brother, his wife's parents and uncles and others.*
Yet Mrs. Ruth Conant, daughter of Dea. Philemon Fos-
ter and mother of Dea. William Foster Conant, furnishes
a creditable labor for the Master. She wrote : " The
church was embodied of thirteen male members. In that
year twenty-two members were added. From 1749 to
1770 forty-six members were added, making eighty-nine
in all. There is no account of other additions during
Mr. Lesslie's pastorate."
Besides the diminution of population, there came the
depreciation of paper money, and as a climax, the parish
declined to make up the deficiency. Mr. Lesslie's affairs
were precarious, beyond the power of common faith.
Raymond's "Saint John River" says: "Many of the settlers
of the Maugerville township came, in 1762-1763, from Rowley,
Mass. There were Burpees, Barkers, Terleys, Jewetts, Palmers,
and others."
242 JAMES LESSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
He had arrived at Troas ; he heard a voice from Wash-
ington, N, H., " Come over and help us," and it seemed
to him a fruitful relief. He thereupon determined upon
a dismission from the pastorate, 22 Oct., 1779, a council
convened 4 Nov., 1779, advised that the pastorate be
dissolved, 30 November, the date that had been agreed
upon by the church and the pastor. His transfer of
membership was 10 Dec., 1779. His wife asked for a
transfer of her membership to Washington on 3 Aug.,
1780, which was voted 11 Sept., 1780.
Once, during Mr. Lesslie's pastorate at Linebrook, the
distinguished pulpit orator and nation-wide evangelist,
Rev. George Whitefield, preached. The attraction at
Linebrook may have been the common factor in Calvin-
istic Methodism and Presbyterian Calvinism. The date
of the occasion is unknown. A forenoon in September,
1770, Mr. Whitefield dedicated the South meeting-house
in New Rowley, now Georgetown. The exact date of
that important event is also unknown. It is judged that
the day of dedication at New Rowley, which Gage's His-
tory of Rowley says may have been 12, 13, or 22,
Wednesday, Thursday or Saturday, would have been op-
portune for the great occasion at Linebrook. The church
was early filled to repletion, and the multitude, some 2000
to 3000 persons, was obliged to occupy the open field.
On the Ellsworth road, north side, 14 rods from the cor-
ner at the county road, is a large flat rock or ledge, with
perpendicular front, that became the improvised pulpit of
the reverend clergyman. It was beautifully situated to
the open field and afforded a fine opportunity for his
stentorian voice and impressive eloquence. The ledge is
known as " Pulpit Rock." This brief episode was told
the writer by his uncle John Perley, whose father owned
a residence, half a mile perhaps from the meeting-house ;
also by Nathaniel and Ephraim Foster, both octogenarians
now (1913), whose grandfather owned a house and
reared a family about eighty rods from " Pulpit Rock."
Later their grandfather Allen Foster owned the Lesslie
homestead. Those gentlemen were familiar with the
territory and knew well its colloquial history.
Mr. Lesslie and his family left Linebrook for Wash-
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 243
ington, N. H., 6 March, 1780. They were nine days
making the journey of eighty miles. At that time there
were no public roads worthy the name. Intelligence from
the country around was only occasional. Only once in
two or three months was news received from Boston.
Washington was originally Monadnock, No. 8. It was
settled in 1768, and called "Camden, and 13 Dec., 1776,
was incorporated as Washington. By a vote of the town
proposals were made to Mr. Lesslie in September, 1779 ;
his salary was to be fifty-five pounds, payable in rye at
four shillings per bushel, corn at three shillings, beef at
two and one-half cents per pound, and pork at four
cents per pound, with other eatables and wearing apparel
at equivalent rates, and his settlement was to be two
hundred acres of land, " to him and his heirs forever,"
as provided in the town grant to the first minister. Rev.
Mr. Kindall was chosen to transmit the proposals. Rob-
ert Mann was to wait on Mr. Lesslie the first week in
November for his answer. The agreement was made and
the people of Washington by subscription furnished
money to transfer his effects. In 1794 the town voted to
pay his salary in money.
His privations the first year were great. Provisions,
in many instances, could not be obtained without going
from thirty to forty miles. His first winter was unusually
long. Snow fell 19 October, two feet deep, and* remained
till late in the next spring. During that spring, twenty-
seven of his people's cattle died of starvation. Mr.
Lesslie lost his only cow. Fasting and prayer were ob-
served on account of the sad prospects. One whole win-
ter his family was without salt, and a bushel in the spring
cost $5.
The church was organized 9 May, 1779, but its original
records for the first twenty years are lost. Mr. Lesslie
was installed its pastor 12 July, 1780, in a barn belong-
ing to John Safford, when the pastor was fifty-three years
old. He was known as " Priest Lesslie," the common
title of the day.
The first move to build a meeting-house was in 1785.
The timbers were got out in 1786, all cut and hewed in
the old of the moon in September and October, and the
244 JAMES LESSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
building was finished in 1789, when the town raised 80
for the purpose. Mr. Lesslie's son David was the first
sexton, and served the first year for 3*. Qd.
Mr. Lesslie's character was essentially Scotch strong,
courageous, active, efficient, stable, true. He had faith
in his ability to do whatever he undertook. Very few
persons have had better visible ground of faith than he
had. He belonged to that brilliant Scotch-Irish intellect
that planted the Presbyterian faith in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, and gave us our twenty-seventh national
president. He worked harmoniously with Congregational
Calvinism, as might be expected, and was regarded as a
strong defender of the faith.
Early in his ministry he formulated, as follows, his
faith and practice : " I take God, the Father, to be my
chief good and highest end ; I take God, the Son, to be
my only Lord and Saviour ; I take God, the Holy Spirit,
to be my Sanctifier, Teacher, Guide and Comforter ; I
take the Truth of God to be my rule in all my actions ; I
take the people of God to be my people in all conditions.
I do likewise devote and dedicate unto the Lord my whole
self, all that I am, all that 1 have, and all I can do. This
I do deliberately, sincerely, freely and forever." His
recognition of Young's " Column of true majesty in
man," in covenanting with himself, is an act sorrowfully
unusual, but worthy of the man. It shows his estimate
of individual effort and character ; it shows his lofty as-
piration and purpose, his implicit trust in the Scriptures
and their Author, how a man ** may be thoroughly fur-
nished unto all good works."
His environment was unequal to his ability. He would
have adorned a college professorship and won distinction
as a barrister. He was a clear thinker and writer, and
was held in high repute as a logician ; he was among the
strongest defenders of the faith in the sphere of his
labors.
Felt's History of Ipswich says of him : " He fitted
many pupils for college, and others for the ministry. He
had a strong mind, was a noted scholar, and a pious
minister." Rev. James Bradford, in Gage's History of
Rowley, says : " He possessed a powerful intellect, was
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 245
an eminent scholar, and a pious and useful minister." Rev.
J. F. Griswold, in New Hampshire Churches, writes :
** He was a man of correct sentiments, a good scholar,
and of studious habits, conscientious, of strict integrity,
and had the confidence of his people." His life with his
people was a constant benediction. He preached morality,
by word and conduct, as fundamentally essential to a cor-
rect religious life a life that was his. His people had
great cause to rejoice in his labors and to revere his
memory.
Soon after Mr. Lesslie left Linebrook, he was invited
to a professorship in Dartmouth College, says a family
tradition. In this regard, President Tucker of the Col-
lege, 21 Feb., 1900, wrote: " I have not been able to
find any trace of such appointment. This, however, is
purely negative testimony, for our records from 1770 to
1780 are very meagre." We understand that the college
was then engaged in making history more than in writing
it. The history, however, is quite adequate to our pur-
pose. The President, Rev. Dr. Wheelock, died 24 April,
17 T9, leaving the presidency, the Dartmouth pulpit and
the chair of divinity vacant. The presidency was imme-
diately occupied by the Doctors son John, who had been
educated in the college and been a tutor there, and who
had been a politician of honorable distinction and an
officer in the Revolutionary army ; the pulpit was occu-
pied by the eminent evangelist, Sylvan us Ripley ; but the
chair of theology remained vacant till 1782. Recalling
now that Mr. Lesslie received proposals from Washing-
ton in September, 1779, made arrangements with Mr.
Robert Mann in the first week in November, was dis-
missed 30 November, and left Linebrook 6 March, 1780,
Mr. Lesslie and the Dartmouth professorship were brought
face to face in the eye of the alert young president.
Mr. Lesslie's ability, learning, scholarship, classical
repute, his school fitting for college and the ministry, his
status among literary men and his Presbyterian views
were a temptation to the college, and aptly support the
tradition. Mr. Griswold says he declined the professor-
ship on account of " the encouragement he had given
the Washington people to settle with them." Yes, but
246 JAMES LBSSLIE OP TOPSFIELD, MASS.
that " answer " or agreement with Mr. Mann in Novem-
ber could not be evaded. He must decline the chair.
In the fall of 1790 appeared a Catholic missionary,
Rev. John Thayer, later Catholic priest of Boston. He
was a native of Boston, had traveled in Europe, and
sojourned in Rome. He died in Limerick, Ire., 26 Nov.,
1815. Rev. Dr. Bentley's diary, Salem, Mass., March 26,
1791, says, Mr. Thayer challenged all the Protestant
clergymen to a doctrinal disputation ; that he announced
a proposed conference with Rev. George Lesslie ; that the
latter did not appear till later. Let that be so, the
delay was probably occasioned by the deep snows and
driving storms incident to those months in our early
years.
Mr. Thayer says :* " The occasion of my discussion
with Mr. Lesslie was an advertisement I published a few
weeks after I returned to my native town, 24 Nov., 1790.'*
Mr. Thayer offered in the Boston G-azette to preach in any
adjoining town and answer questions; he offered, 26
Jan., 1791, to preach, or debate, or print in any newspa-
per that would furnish space. To the last proposition the
G-azette agreed, and " soon after " Mr. Thayer published
his first paper a statement of doctrinal belief, covering,
in book form, five duo-decimo pages.
Mr. Lesslie headed his reply with this sentiment and
obeyed the precept :
Unus apex verbi ratione valentior omni,
Milleque decretis conciliisque prior.
He covered three pages. He stated the topic and the
criterion. In that he was fair, judicious, wise. He pro-
posed "The Pope's Infallibility," and announced that
" No arguments will be looked upon and treated as worthy
of notice but such as are evidently drawn from and
grounded upon the sacred Scriptures of the Old and New
Testaments."
Mr. Thayer's rejoinder covered twenty-eight pages, as if
" By apostolic blows and knocks
He'd prove his doctrine orthodox."
*Mr. Thayer's pamphlet may be found in the Boston Athe-
naeum. (Tr. B. 149, p. 393.)
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 247
He stated that Mr. Lesslie's fourth objection, which
he takes for granted, is what all Catholics deny, viz. :
" That the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are
a complete and perfect rule of faith. On the contrary,
the doctrine of our church is that the word of God is the
complete and perfect rule of our faith, which word we
contend is not wholly contained in the Scriptures, but is
in part transmitted to us in the traditions of the
church."
Thus the doughty challenger was vanquished by his
own admission. Imagine a man discussing religion with-
out Scripture, only as it served him. He admitted that
Scripture alone did not support his dogma. He taught
an insufficiency of Scripture contrary to St. Paul (2 Tim.
3 : 16), and he taught traditions, as did the Jews whom
Jesus rebuked (Mark 7 : 7) ; and Mr. Lesslie retired
from the contest. In October, 1811, Dr. Bentley wrote
in his Diary : " Mr. Leslie's manners were singular, but
Mr. Thayer, the Catholic convert, told me his mind was
powerful," significant remark ! Thayer had met Lesslie.
It is very probable that the " proposed conference " re-
ferred to above was not " proposed " by Mr. Lesslie. He
might not have known of the challenge at all, since news,
in dead of winter, reached Washington not oftener than
monthly. He was considered strong in defence of the
doctrines of his church, and was, no doubt, urged to the
war of words.
Mr. Lesslie married 26 Oct., 1756, Miss Hephzibah
Burpee, youngest daughter of Dea. Jonathan and Mehit-
able (Jewett) Burpee of Rowley -Linebrook, Rev. Jede-
diah Jewett of Rowley officiating. Her parents and uncle
were among the early settlers of New Brunswick,* Can-
ada. She was born in Rowley, 31 March, 1738, and died
in Washington, N. H., 11 April, 1814. Mr. Lesslie was
pastor at Washington twenty years till he died, 11 Sept.,
Raymond's "Saint John River" says: Dea. Jonathan Burpee,
first deacon of the Linebrook church, became also first deacon of
the First church in Maugerville, N. B. His grandson David was
sheriff of county Sunbury and the first school-teacher in New
Brunswick. Among his descendants was Hon. Isaac Burpee, min-
ister of customs, and E. R. Burpee, manager of the l< Western Ex-
tension 1 ' railroad.
248 JAMES LESSLIB OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
1800, when he was seventy-three years old. The town
voted a headstone for his grave and the following epi-
taph :
" He was a man of brilliant genius and great learning,
and eminent for piety and morality."
Dr. F. D. Leslie (No. 173) saw the stone, 18 Sept.,
1904, in a good state of preservation, but tipped over,
and the lot moss-covered. He set the stone in cement
and seeded the ground good for another century.
Eight of their children were born in Rowley and one
died there, the ninth was born in Washington. The
hours and minutes of their births are on record. On the
list of these births the numbers before the months are
respectively the days of the births and the baptisms. The
latter were all on Sundays.
Their names are erroneously printed in Ipswich vital
records, where George's birth-date is given to David, and
David's birth-date and George's name are omitted.
Children of Rev. George and Hephzibah Lesslie :
7. GEORGE, 7: 26, P. M., 12-15 Jan., 1758.
8. DAVID, 6: , A. M., 17-17 Dec., 1758.
9. JAMES, 10: 24, A. M., 10-15 March, 1761.
10. JONATHAN, 1: , A. M., 5-5 June, 1763.
11. WILLIAM, 3 : 15, A. M., 4-10 Aug., 1766.
12. HEPHZIBAH, 3: 30, A. M., 19-25 March, 1770.
13. JOSEPH, 12: 26, , 28 Feb.-6 March, 1774.
14. MEHITABLE, 5: , A. M., 5-6 Sept., 1778.
15. ELIZABETH, b. 27 May, 1782; lived in Washington, where she
d. in old age.
7. GEORGE LESSLIE was born 12 Jan., 1758, and
went to Washington with his parents, at the age of
twenty-two. He married, 28 Oct., 1787, Miriam Burpee
of that place. She was born in Rowley in 1761 (bap-
tized 28 June), to Sergt. David and Sarah (Barker) Bur-
pee. The sergeant was first cousin to her husband's
mother. He sold his homestead on " Proprietor's Road,"
2 April, 1783, and removed to Washington, N. H. George,
jr., was a farmer in Henniker, N. H., where he died 2
April, 1813, and his widow 13 Dec., 1817.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
249
Children of George, jr., and Miriam Lesslie :
16. POLLY, b. May, 1788; m. Greenleaf.
17. HANNAH, b. 26 Sept., 1789; m. John Hartshorn.
18. DAVID, b. 7 May, 1792; m. Patty Greenfield.
19. GEORGE, b. 31 March, 1794; m. Lucy Stearns.
20. HEPHZIBAH, b. 27 May, 1796; m. 10 Aug., 1828, Abraham Kim-
ball, b. 4 Oct., 1800, to Abraham and Esther, of Henniker.
21. MARTHA, b. 30 April, 1798 ; m. Levi Washington.
22. SALLY, b. 13 Oct., 1800; m. Bartlett Mack.
23. BETSEY, b. Oct., 1804; m. Hardy.
8. DAVID LESSLIE was born in Rowley, 17 Dec., 1798,
went to Washington with his parents, and married Mar-
garet
Children of David and Margaret Lesslie :
24. POLLY, b. 3 April, 1792, in Washington.
25. GEORGE, b. 1794, in Washington, and, it is said, settled in the
West.
26. CLARISSA, b. 6 Oct., 1796; m. Chafy, and resided in Ver-
mont.
27. DAVID, b. 16 Oct., 1797, in Washington.
28. NANCY, b. 24 May, 1803, in Washington; d. 4 April, 1804.
29. BENJAMIN F., b. 10 Feb., 1805, in Washington; resided in Kal-
amazoo, Mich.; d. in the Civil War.
9. JAMES LESSLIE was born in Rowley, 10 March,
1761, and married in Bradford, Mass., Feb., 1780
(CH. BD. 1781), Hannah Blaisdell, and lived in Washing-
ton, N. H.
Children of James and Hannah Lesslie :
30. JOHN, b. 3 April, 1781, in Bradford.
31. JONATHAN, b. 11 Aug., 1784, in Washington.
32. WALKER C., b. 28 May, 1787, in Washington.
33. ROXANNA, b. 4 July, 1789, in Washington; m. a Miller; d. in
Flatbush, N. Y.
34. CYRUS, b. 12 Nov., 1791, in Washington; m. Hannah ;
lived in Lowell, Mich., and had Hannah, Irene, Martha,
James, Mary, Sophronia, Cynthia, Walker, and Nancy
Jane, b. 8 Feb., 1834, who m. at North Bend, Philip Kring,
a lawyer, of Mayfield, county Fulton, N. Y.
35. IRENE, b. .
36. JAMES, b. 1798, in Acworth; in War of 1812 when about 13
years old.; m., when about 40 years old, Eliza Chadwick,
250 JAMES LESSLIE OP TOPSFIELD, MASS.
and had (a) Mary, who d. y. ; (b) Abigail, who m. a Har-
vie, lived in Northfield, N. Y., had one dau., who m. and
d.; (c) Charles, who was in the war and d. in California;
(d) Waker, in lumber trade in N. Y. State; (e) Eliza, b. 11
April, 1854, in Benson Centre, county Hamilton, N. Y., m.
at Cranberry Creek, N. Y., John Henry Schulz, a farmer,
and had a child that d. in Oakland three years before she
wrote; (f) James, of Jacksonville, Florida; (g) Frank, liv-
ing in Minneapolis, 1913; (h) William.
10. JONATHAN LESSLIE was born in Rowley, 5 June,
1763, and died there 5 Nov., 1771. Miss Sarah Shedd's
poem, recited at some occasion in Washington, reads :
All Mr. Lesslie's children sleep in hallowed ground within
the town limits. Jonathan was buried in the " Line-
brook Cemetery," land leased for 999 years in Rowley-
Linebrook (see above), but Mr. J. Coggin Conant informs
me that all the burials there were removed. This is not
" The Old Cemetery," Ipswich-Linebrook.
11. WILLIAM LESSLIE was born in Rowley, Mass., 4
Aug., 1766. He married 27 Feb., 1791, Mary Chase,
born 17 Aug., 1773, to Samuel, 3d, and Elizabeth (Leet)
Chase of Cornish, N. H., and resided there for a time.
Samuel, 3d, her father, was a first settler and a Revolu-
tionary soldier. Mary died 28 June, 1797, aged 23
years. William's sister, Mehitable, then for a while kept
house for him. He married again, and his second wife,
Sarah, died 27 May, 1828. He was a blacksmith by
trade, and was skillful with all kinds of mechanic's tools.
He invented or improved many implements of home in-
dustry, and Aunt Esther (No. 96) compliments the Less-
lie cheese-press as a success. The invention of cut nails
is ascribed to him, and it is certain that William Lesslie
of Ticonderoga, county Essex, N. Y., blacksmith, sold, 7
Feb., 1814, to his son Samuel C. Lesslie, of Claremont,
N. H., husbandman, for $500, a certain l( nail shop " and
machinery thereto belonging, in Beverly, county Essex,
Mass. He acknowledged the sale the same day, Claremont,
N. H., 7 Feb., 1814, and the deed was received for record
at Salem, Mass., 21 Nov., 1814.
Aunt Esther writes : Grandfather never went west
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
251
further than New York. He lived on the banks of the
Hudson river, not far from Albany ; there Mary Ann was
drowned, three years old. He was at our house when
brother John was a few weeks old. His wife had died
the May before. He got places for all his children before
he came to Salem. His declining years were spent in
and around Boston. Father visited and found all his
half-brothers and sisters, except Catherine, whose family
had moved some distance away, after his return from
Salem to Claremont, in 1829. One of the half-brothers,
she wrote, was a painter in Syracuse.
Children of William and Mary Lesslie :
37. SAMUEL CHASE, b. 17 Sept., 1791, at Cornish.
38. MART,* b.
39. ELIZABETH B.,* b. 16 Nov., 1793, or 16 March, 1794.
40. GEORGE, b. 14 April, 1796; d. 13 Sept., 1819.
Children of William and Sarah Lesslie :
41. WILLIAM H., b. 10 May, 1814.
42. MARY ANN, b. 13 April, 1816; d. 22 May, 1819; drowned in the
Hudson river.
43. JAMES P., b. 28 Nov., 1817.
44. GEORGE C., b. 5 May, 1820.
45. SARAH ANN, b. 30 March, 1822.
46. CATHARINE, b. 24 April, 1824.
47. MARGARET AMANDA, b. 19 March, 1826,
12. HEPHZIBAH LESSLIE was born in Rowley, 19
March, 1770. She married Isaac French of Washington,
N. H., who was born 22 Dec., 1765, to Elijah and Mary
(Clark) French of Braintree, Mass. They settled in
Washington, where he died 7 July, 1816, and she 10
April, 1864, aged 94 years.
Children of Isaac and Hephzibah French :
48. HEPHZIBAH, b. 25 Nov., 1789; d. 6 Sept., 1821.
49. POLLY, b. 28 Nov., 1791; d. Sept., 1832.
60. LUOINDA, b. 17 Jan., 1794; d. 9 Dec., 1876.
51. SUSAN, b. 1 Feb., 1795; d. 31 Jan., 1825.
52. ABIGAIL, b. 3 Jan., 1796; d. 30 Aug., 1833.
53. GARDNER L., b. 21 Feb., 1800; d. 26 April, 1822.
*These two names are probably the same person. Mary Elizabeth
(diminutive Betsey) was a common combination of those days.
252 JAMES LESSLIB OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
54. SALLY, b. 1 Nov., 1802; d. 9 Dec., 1834.
65. HARVEY A., b. 12 Oct., 1804; d. at Vera Cruz, Mexico.
56. SYLVIA, b. 3 May, 1807.
57. LUTHER M., b. 11 Sept., 1809; d. 26 Dec., 1833.
These children all married.
13. JOSEPH LESSLIE was born in Rowley, 28 Feb.,
1774. He married, 26 Nov., 1801, Rebecca Farrington.
He was a teacher and farmer, and resided in Claremont,
then in Cornish, where he died 10 April, 1852, and his
wife 14 April, 1851, aged 66 years. He was, sometime
after 1812, employed by Hon. William Jarvis as shepherd.
Mr. Jarvis was eight years Consul General to Spain under
Jefferson, during which time he sent a number of speci-
mens of the Spanish merino breed of sheep to this coun-
try at places between Maine and Pennsylvania. At the
close of his term he brought home with him a good-sized
flock, and at Weathersfield, Vt., began raising and intro-
ducing the breed country-wide. Mr. Lesslie's ability
commended him to the position of head shepherd.
Children of Joseph and Rebecca Lesslie, born in Clare-
mont, the last three in Cornish :
58. MEHITABLE ALMIRA, b. 10 April, 1803.
59. GEORGE WILLIAM HENRY, b. 29 April, 1804.
60. ELVIRA MATILDA, b. 13 March, 1806; ra. Sylvanus Harlow;
lived in Cornish ; left issue.
61. ALONZO RANSON, b. 6 March, 1808.
62. PALMIRA MELINDA, b. 20 Feb., 1810.
63. PRUDENCE MARIA, b. 27 April, 1812; m. (1) Horace Goodhue;
(2) S. B. Pattee, and lived in Enfield, N. H. She had no
children [Lowell rec. Horace Goodhue m. Patience Risby,
b. in Lowell.]
64. HARRISON, b. 27 June, 1814.
65. ELIAKIM STEPHEN, b. 19 Feb., 1816; was a saddler in Haver-
hill, N. H., and Parishville, N. Y.; m. (1) Marion Blaisdell,
and had two daughters, Helen, who m. a Pease and had
two sons: Leslie (M. D., Dunkirk, N. Y.), and Lutie; and
Julia, who m. a Gwin and had Marion and Allenette; m. (2)
Frances , and had Mattie and Bertha, who m. a Jones,
and lived in Parishville, N. Y.
66. THOMAS HORACE GOODHUE, b. 5 Feb., 1818.
67. JOSEPH Lucius, b. 15 Sept., 1821.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 253
68. CHARLES EDWIN, b. 22 June, 1823.
69. NORM AN LEBOY, b. 8 Aug., 1825; was a dentist in Leominster,
Mass.; m. Sarah Woodbury, and adopted a daughter Laura.
14. HERITABLE LESSLIE was born in Rowley, Mass.,
5 Sept., 1778, and married John Pressy of Claremont.
They had children : Lucinda ; Emeline, who married a
Dean ; and Malvina Amanda, born 26 Oct., 1811. This,
says Aunt Esther, was the girl that father brought up
she was his cousin.
17. HANNAH LESSLIE was born 26 Sept., 1789. She
married, 3 March, 1814, John Hartshorn of Henniker and
lived there. She was living in 1880. Her husband died
27 July, 1863.
Children of John and Hannah Hartshorn :
70. LEVI, b. 2 June, 1815; m.. 7 Sept., 1841, Maria Needham of
Middleborough, N. H.; lived in Washington; manufac-
turer of woolen goods, treasurer of Sullivan county, 1873-
1875, deacon of Congregational church from 6 May, 1853,
legislator, 1874 ; no children.
71. WORCESTER, b. 23 March, 1817; m. 14 Nov., 1842, Sarah Wood-
worth of South Boston; locomotive engineer, first ensign
of grenadiers, Congregational deacon from 19 Feb., 1855,
till his death, 13 Jan., 1880; his wife d., leaving children:
Sarah Frances, George Edgar, Emma Jane, Mary Elizabeth.
72. LORIN (twin), d. 3 Sept., 1820.
72a. LUCINDA (twin); m. 19 Oct., 1848, S. Churchill of Nashua.
73. ELIZA, b. 7 May, 1822; unm., 1880.
74. CAROLINE C. (twin), b. 16 Feb., 1828; m. Alonzo Lull of
Unity.
74a. HIRAM C. (twin), b. 16 Feb., 1828; d. 1 Jan., 1832.
75. MARIA, b. 1 Dec., 1830; m. 21 Oct., 1852, J. M. Perkins of
Unity.
76. CASSANDRA, b. 25 June, 1833; unm., 1880.
18. DAVID LESSLIE was born in Henniker, 7 May,
1792, and married there, 10 May, 1818, Patty Greenfield
of the same place. He enlisted, at Henniker, as private,
in Capt. Benjamin Bradford's company, Col. McCobb's
45th U. S. infantry, from 6 Nov., 1812, to 15 Dec., 1813.
He re-enlisted 30 June, 1812, and had $200 bounty; en-
listed a third time, 15 Dec., 1813, for one year. He was
in the battle of Plattsburg, N. Y., and was discharged at
254 JAMES LESSLTE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. A warrant was issued, 16 Nov.,
1852, to David, for 160 acres of bounty land, on account
of the above service, and he was allowed a pension, 17
April, 1871, when he was seventy-eight and a resident of
Johnson township, county Lagrange, Ind. They were
living in Warner, N. H., in 1880, having had, as per his-
tory of the town, several children, but I find only this one.
Child of David and Patty Lesslie :
77. CHABLES W., b. about 1819.
19. GEOKGE WASHINGTON LESSLIE was born in Hen-
niker, N. H., 31 March, 1794. He married, first, 22
Feb., 1821, Gratia Ann Bartlett. His second marriage
was in Cornish, N. H., 14 Sept., 1824, to Lucy Stearns,
both of Cornish. She died 28 June, 1861, in Meridian,
Mich. He married, third, in Warner, N. H., 12 Feb.,
1863, Orra McAlpine, born in Hopkinton, N. H., 13 May,
1814, to Daniel, a farmer, and Abigail (Gould) McAlpine.
She died 1 March, 1894, aged 79 years, 9 months, 19 days.
He enlisted in Capts. Bradford's and Flander's compa-
nies, 45th regiment, U. S. infantry, from 1 March, 1812,
to 31 May, 1813, and from 1 June, 1813, to 30 April,
1814. George Lesslie enlisted 1 April, 1813, and 28
Feb., 1814, for one year. He was discharged at Sackett's
Harbor. A warrant was issued to him 11 Feb., 1851,
for 160 acres of bounty land for the service. He died 2
Nov., 1886, and his widow Orra was allowed a pension,
on her application, dated 11 Nov., 1886, when she was
seventy-two, and a resident of Warner.
Children of George and Gratia A., Lucy, and Orra
Lesslie :
78. GBATIA ANN, b. 9 May, 1825, in Cornish; d. 19 Aug., 1901.
She m., 25 Sept., 1845, Emery Hardy, a farmer, who was b.
in Hopkinton, N. H., to Ozias Hardy, 12 July, 1821, and d.
in Meridian, Mich., 10 Aug., 1881. Children: (a) Lucy
Maria, b. 27 July, 1846, in Warner, N. H., and d. 6 Feb.,
1906; (b) George Edson, b. 30 June, 1848, in Warner; (c)
Charles Freeman, b. 16 Sept., 1850, in Warner; (d) Clara
Ann, b. 24 Oct., 1858, in Meridian, Mich.; (e) George Ed-
son, lived in Haslett, county Ingraham, Mich., and (says
David Leslie) d. in Leslie, same county, a few years ago,
for whom the town was named.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 255
79. MAHALA, b. 6 March, 1828, in Cornish; d. 16 March, 1908, in
Warner. She was Lucy (Steams') daughter. She m., in
Hopkinton, Lemuel Hardy, who was b. 24 Aug., 1817, in
Warner, and d. there 13 Feb., 1900. He was a farmer, and
son of Silas and Katie (Kimball). Children: (a) Ira
Joseph, b. 18 May, 1852, who m. 13 May, 1881, Celia F.
Getchell, who d. 29 Aug., 1908, in Contoocook, N.H. They
had three children: (1) Emma Addie, b. 5 March, 1883;
d. 22 Nov., 1902; m. 31 Nov., 1899, Fred J. Chase; had
Emily Althea, b. 14 April, 1901; (2) Elsie Belle, b. 9 Dee.,
1890, d. 7 May, 1891; (3) Elsie Belle, b. 24 Aug., 1893; m. 22
May, 1912, Wm. F. Hale, (b) Addie, b. 24 Sept., 1858; d.
24 Nov., 1861. (c) William, b. 13 May, 1863; d. 24 Aug., 1892.
80. WILLIAM HENRY, b. 7 May, 1832, in Cornish.
81. NELSON DANIEL, b. 15 July, 1835, in Cornish; enlisted in
Meridian, Mich,, 14 Sept., 1861, as private in Co. B, 2nd U. S.
sharp-shooters, and served till 3 Jan., 1862, when he d.
in the regimental hospital at Washington, D. C. He never
married.
82. LORENZO BUELL, b. about 1840.
83. JOSEPH, b. in Cornish; d. in Warner, aged 10 or 12 years.
27. DAVID LESSLIE was born in Washington, N. H.,
16 Oct., 1797. From that date to his 23d year, when he
was licensed to preach, we find no recorded knowledge
of his life what school he attended, or Bible Institute ;
by whom he was licensed, and where he preached the first
two years ; when and where he married ; where his chil-
dren were born, save one. Searching therein is like St.
Paul's asymtote (2 Tim., 3 : 7), ' ever learning, and never
able to come to a knowledge of the truth."
We know, however, that the baby David was contem-
poraneous three years with his grandfather, and probably
in the same house. It is not all imagination that the
aged man often prayed a divine afflatus to crown his
grandson's pliant life. Later, no doubt, the boy had
access to the college books of his grandfather, and still
later he may have attended school ; several of the older
academies report that his name is not on their lists of
students. Wilbraham Academy, Gaylord W. Douglass,
head-master, reports as the others, and adds : " Wilbra-
ham Academy was first started at Newmarket, N. H., in
1817, and continued there till 1824, when it was moved
256 JAMBS LESSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
to Wilbraharu, Mass., where Jason Lee was a student in
1830. Mr. Leslie may have studied at Newmarket, but
we have no record of the 400 students enrolled there
between 1817 and 1823."
The Newmarket institution was located about sixty
miles across the State, was known among the people as
" The New England Conference School," and appears to
have been very popular. This school may have been the
strong influence that carried young David from the
Presbyterianism of his grandfather to the Methodism of
Wesley and Whitefield.
Entering now the province of records and facts, we
find in Rev. Nathan F. Carter's " New Hampshire Native
Ministry," that Mr. Lesslie preached in Canada, Ver-
mont, and Massachusetts, before joining the Mission of
Oregon, and that the following itineraries in the States
were his:
Mr. Lesslie was licensed to preach in 1820, but where
he labored the first two years following we have no
knowledge. In 1822, June 29, he was admitted, on trial,
a member of the New England Conference at Bath, Me.,
and was appointed to the itinerancy of Barre, Vt. The
next year, 1823, he was appointed to Athens, Vt. In
1824, June 22 or 27, he was ordained deacon, by Bishop
Hedding, at Barnard, Vt., and was appointed to the itin-
erancy of Craftsbury and Derby, with the assignment of
Justin Spaulding as an assistant. In 1825,* he was re-
turned to Barre. In 1826, June 11, he was ordained
Elder, by Bishop George, at Wilbraham, Mass., and re-
ceived the appointment to Brookfield, Vt., with George
Southerland as an assistant. In 1827 and 8 he was itin-
erant at Moretown, Vt. In 1829 and 30 he was super-
numerary, and so finished his preaching service in that
State. Of these years, 1829-30, and those above, 1820,
1821, his labors are not recorded ; but if he labored in
Canada (and there is very slight doubt of it), it must have
been during one of these periods or both.
*E. E. Leslie, Esq., of St. Johnsbury, Vt., wrote that Mr. Lesslie
was made a Mason by Rural Lodge, No. 66, of Plainfield, Vt.,
"initiated" 24 Nov., 1825; "passed" 29 Dec., 1825; "raised" 26
Jan., 1826.
(To be continued.)
"GROTON", SALEM, IN 1700.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
THE name of this portion of Salem, in 1700, has been
called " Groton ", because that was the name given by
Emanuel Downing to his great farm of more than three
hundred acres which is included in this area. The terri-
tory included in this article is two and a quarter miles in
length, nearly one and one-half miles in width, and has an
area of three and one-third square miles. It extends east
and west from one hundred rods easterly from Proctor's
crossing to the West Peabody junction railroad station
and southerly and northerly from about Forest street to
about Andover street (formerly the Andover turnpike).
The southern line of Salem Village is shown by the
broken line.
The ancient Ipswich road, laid out in 1643, runs across
the eastern end. This is now known by two names, that
part running northeasterly from Proctor's crossing as
Prospect street, and that running southerly from Proc-
tor's crossing as the Ipswich road in 1740, and later as
Lowell street. What is now called Prospect street was
known as the country road in 1700 ; and was called Pros-
pect street as early as 1882.
Low r ell street was called ye highway, in 1681 ; the path
leading from the county road unto Anthony Needham's,
in 1700 ; ye country road, in 1701 ; the highway leading
from Anthony Needham's unto Salem Towne, in 1701 ;
the town highway that leads from Salem to Captain
Flint's, in 1721 ; the highway leading to Joseph Pope's,
in 1734 ; Reading road, in 1740 ; the road leading from
Salem to Reading, in 1802 ; the road leading to Salem,
in 1805; the road leading from Reading to Salem, in
1806 ; the county road, in 1808 ; and Lowell street as
early as 1858.
(257)
258 "GROTON", SALEM, IN 1700,
Forest street is an old road ; and was called the coun-
try road or highwa}% in 1733 ; the highway leading from
Zachariah King's to George Southwick's, in 1799 ; the
road or highway leading from Zachariah King's, in Dan-
vers, to Lynnfield, in 1800 ; and Forest street in 1882.
The street up Mount Pleasant is called Felton street.
There was early a way between Forest and Lowell
streets, shown on the map by broken parallel lines, which
was known as Cutler's way in 1729.
Proctor's brook was called the fulling-mill brook in
1740, and is generally known as Proctor's brook.
The western portion of the lot of John Felton and
others is on the highest part of what is now known as
Mount Pleasant. It was formerly called Hog hill, being,
perhaps, a hog pasture in early times. It is one of the
few hills of original Salem which are more than two
hundred feet in height above sea level.
The location of the Boston and Newburyport turnpike,
laid out in 1804, is shown on the plan by parallel dotted
lines.
Charles Downing Farm (" Groton"). The town of
Salem granted three hundred acres of land to Robert
Cole Dec. 21, 1635, in the following words : "That m r
Cole shall haue a farme of three hundreth acres in the
place where his catle are by Brooksby, And Captaine
Traske & y e rest of the Surveyors are to lay it out and
bound y* according to y r discretion, pvided in Case m r
Cole be disposed to pte w th y* by Sale that he make his
first proper] vnto the towne vpon reasonable tearmes be-
fore he offer y* vnto any other."* A week later the
town " Granted vnto Robt Cole his heires and assignees
three hundreth acres of land whereof fortye acr[es] is
Marshe fitt to be mowed lying and being abou[t] 3 myles
from Salem West ward vpon a freshe w[ater] brooke
called the North brooke."* This included the Roger
Morey land.
Mr. Cole sold this farm to Emanuel Downing of Salem
before July 16, 1638, when the town granted to Mr.
Downing one hundred acres of land on the southwest
Salem Town Records, volume I, page 11 (printed). v
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 259
side of Mr. Cole's farm, " next vnto Roger Maury his
farme."* Oct. 17th following the town of Salem passed
the following vote : " Whereas there was graunted to
M r Emanuell Downinge one hund. acres of land adioyn-
ing to M r Coles farme w ch hee purchased lying on the
Southwest side of the said ffarme, next vnto Roger
Maury his farme. The towne hath thought good to
graunt to the said M r Emanuell Downinge one hund.
acres of land one the north side of the said ffarme pur-
chased of M r Coles, next adioyning to the said farme
whereby the ffarme may be comodious to him. And the
former Graunt of one hund. acres is reversed."!
Dec. 27, 1638, the town of Salem passed the following
vote : " Whereas there were former graunts of Land to
M r Emanuel Downinge of ffiue hundred acres neere vnto
M r [Humphreys] || Bishops || ffarme & one hundred there-
of taken in exchange of one hundred acres to be added
to that ffarme w cb bee purchased of M r Coles, the said M r
Downing finding the said ffarme vnfitt for husbandry in
regard of want of plow land, we haue vpon his request
graunted vnto him one hundred acres more to be adioyned
to the said ffarme whereby hee may be encouraged to
plowing, for w ch hundred acres hee doth hereby resigne
vp vnto the towne one hund. acres more of his ffirst
graunt of 500 acres so that there is now remayning vnto
M r Downing but 300 acres thereof.":}:
Mr. Downing named this estate 4< Groton." William
Flint lived upon it about 1648 ; and his son Thomas
Flint lived here from 1649 to 1653.|| John Proctor of
Salem hired and lived upon the farm from about 1666
until his execution for witchcraft in 1692. Thomas Pres-
ton subsequently lived upon it. Benjamin Proctor then
possessed it until Sept. 13, 1700, when Thorndike Proctor
of Salem, yeoman, bought it of Charles Downing of Lon-
don, England, esquire, grandson of Emanuel Downing,
*Salem Town Records, volume I, page 71 (printed).
tSalem Town Records, volume I, page 72 (printed).
JSalem Town Records, volume I, page 76 (printed).
Essex County Quarterly Court Records and Files, volume I, page
213; Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 5.
I! Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 6.
260 " GROTON ", SALEM, IN 1700,
who had died.* In this conveyance, the estate is described
as a farm of three hundred acres of land, in Salem, " upon
or near a fresh water brooke Commonly Called the north
brooke in the prefent tenure and Occupation of Benjamin
Procter his afsigne or afsignes now being and was for-
merly the farme of Emanuel Downing of Salem aforesaid
Gent Deceafed Grandfather of the Said Charles Downing
purchafed by the Said Emanuel Downing of one Robert-
Cole vnto whome the Same was granted by the Said
town of Salem," in 1635, bounded " Southeasterly in
part with the land of Joseph Home and partly by
Reeds ffarme from a Stump Standing on the South Side
of the brooke unto a black Oake being a bound marke
between the said Reeds ffarine and the lands of
James Howlton northeasterly with the Common lands of
the Said towne of Salem from the aforesaid black oake
tree unto a black oake Stump on the northerly
Corner of the Said ffarme and from thence South-
westward unto a white oak tree Standing on the
Rocks and from thence northwestward unto a Swamp
white oake Stump Standing about twenty Poles on
the northerly Side of the way leading to Anthony
Neadharns and from thence South westward unto a white
oak tree standing Southerly from the meadow and from
thence Southeasterly unto a dry blacke oake tree and
from thence near the Same Courfe unto a white Oake tree
and from thence unto the first bounds mentioned to wit
the Stump Standing on the Southerly Side of the brooke,"
with all houses, buildings, etc., thereto appertaining; also,
the one hundred acres of land granted by the selectmen
of Salem to my grandfather Emanuel Downing July 16,
1638, " next adjoyning the abouefaid ffarme lying on the
Southwest Side thereof next unto Roger Morey's ffarme
and ... all other lands granted by the Select men of the
Said towne of Salem to lye adjoyning to the.Said ffarme."t
Samuel Stone Lot. Francis Skerry of Salem, husband-
man, owned this lot Dec. 26, 1662, when he conveyed it
to William King and Robert Stone, both of Salem4 Mr.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaves 5 and 6; book 17, leaf 7.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 17, leaf 7.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 78.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 261
King died in 1684 ; and his widow and executrix, Kath-
erine King, for nineteen pounds, conveyed Mr. King's
one-half of the lot to her nephew, Samuel Stone of Salem,
bricklayer, eldest son of her said brother Robert Stone,
Feb. 10, 1893-4.* Robert Stone died in the spring of
1690 ; and in the division of his estate, Feb. 6, 1693-4,
the deceased's undivided half of this lot was assigned to
his said son Samuel. Samuel Stone thus became the
owner of the entire lot, which was his in 1700.
Samuel Cutler Lot. This lot of thirty acres was
granted by the town of Salem to Samuel Cutler " neare
Jn Ing T sons and franc Nurce their farmes in Conf id r acon
yt Land form r ly Graunted to his p r defefor Baxter to-
geather with an Adicou to himfelue wh the towne feeth
good to bestowe on himfelue, and what is Remay[n]inge
refferd to be left to the next towne meetinge for Zacharie
Marsh," Sept. 12, 1668.f Mr. Cutler owned the lot in
1700.
Samuel Frayl Lot. This lot was conveyed by widow
Susannah Goose of Boston, widow Abigail Hutchinson of
Boston, John Langdon of Boston, sailmaker, and wife
Sarah, and widow Esther Eastwick of Salem, for fifty
pounds, to Samuel Frayl of Salem, wheelwright, June 1,
1678.J Mr. Fray! owned it in 1700.
John Marsh Lot. John Marsh owned this lot of land
in 1660 ; and it probably became the property of his son,
John Marsh, after his death in the autumn of 1674.
John Marsh owned it in 1700.
William G-edney Lot. This lot of land was granted by
the town of Salem to John Gedney Jan. 1, 1637-8, in the
following words : " Graunted to John Gedney 80 acres
of land whereof six acres of it are medow, lying neere to
M r Gardner & is to be layed out according to former
order." || Mr. Gedney was a vintner, and lived in Salem.
He gave this lot to his son John Gedney of Salem, mari-
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 63.
tSalem Town Records, volume II, page 106.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 18, leaf 99.
JSee deposition of Zachariah Marsh, son of the first John Marsh,
as to bounds of the farm, sworn to Sept. 14, 1685. Essex Regis-
try of Deeds, book 8, leaf 182.
USalem Town Records, volume I, page 63 (printed).
262 "GROTON" SALEM, IN 1700,
ner, by deed, Aug. 28, 1667.* The latter died in 1684,
possessed of this tract of land, which is described in the
inventory of his estate as follows : "80 acres of upland
8 acres of medow scituate among the farmes." It was
then valued at ninety pounds. His son Nathaniel Gedney
of Salem, mariner, released his interest in it to the latter's
brother William Gedney of Salem Nov. 23, 1696.f John
Gedney's widow Susannah Geduey was appointed admin-
istratrix of his estate, and afterward married . Deliverance
Parkman of Salem, merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Parkman
released the lot to her son William Gedney Sept. 18,
17044
Charles Downing Lot. This lot of land was granted by
the town of Salem to Roger Morey June 25, 1638, in the
following words : " Graunted to Roger Maury a stripe
of meadow contayning 2 acres & halfe or thereebouts &
one acre & a halfe or thereabouts of vpland lyinge
betweene the ifarmes of Robt Moulton & John Gedney."
Roger Morey removed from Salem in 1642 or 1643, and
this lot came into the possession of Emanuel Downing.
Nathaniel Felton, aged eighty-five, deposed *' y 1 soon after
Roger Morrey removed from Salem w ch was before y e
year 1644 I" heard that he "had sould his land in y e
woods unto m r Emanuel Downing" and "a parcell of
upland & swamp & meadow land being a part of & Be-
longing to y e s d Morreys Land and lyeth at y e westerly
End of m r Downings farme lying in y e Township of
salem about 3 miles westerly from y e town." I " having
lived a near neighbour to s d farme about 55 years never
heard or understood y* y e s d morreys land was claimed or
pofsefsed but only by y e tenants living vpon m r Downings
farme in y e right of m r Downing as belonging to his
farme & to my certain Knoledge y e Prockters who have
Liued upon y e s d Downings farme about 30 years haue
during y e time of their abode upon the said farme Im-
proued y e said Morreys land as Belonging to rn r Down-
ing." I Samuel Cutler, sr., aged about seventy-one, de-
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 20.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 194.
SEssex Registry of Deeds, book 16, leaf 136.
Salem Town Records, volume I, page 71 (printed).
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 5.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 263
posed " y l in severall years at severall times before y e
year " 1652 " I wrought with William fflint upon a farm
w th in y e township of salem w ch he hired of m r Emanuel
Downing lying about three miles westwardly from y e
Town & I then heard y* Roger Morrey when he Remoued
from salem sold his Land in y e woods vnto m r Emanuel
Downing " and " a certain pcell of upland swamp & mead-
ow on y e westward end of s d farme & allso a percell of
meadow lying near unto moultons & aldermans farme
which was called by y e name of moreys land was y n
claimed & pofsefsed by y e s d William fflint as a part of
m r Downings farm he y n lived upon & which hath been
pofsefsed by y e Procters as tenants for above thirty years
Last past & I never Knew it claimed or pofsesd by any
since y e year " 1649, " but only as a part of s d farm by
y e tennants living upon y e same."* Em Harwood, aged
seventy-two, deposed that from 1649 to 1653 "I liued
w th Thomas fflint upon a farm within y e Township of
salein which he hired of m r Emanuel Downing lying
about three miles westwardly from y e town & I then
heard y* Roger Morrey when he removed from Salem sold
his land in y e woods unto m r Emanuel Downing & ...
y* a certain pcell of upland swamp and meadow on y e
westwardly End of y e afores d farm & also a percell of
meadow lying near unto Moultons & Aldermans farm which
was called by y e name of Morrey s land was then claimed
& pofsefsed by y e s d Thomas Flint as a part of m r Downings
ffarme he then Liued on & w ch y e procters as Tenants
have lived upon for above thirty years last past."f All of
these witnesses made oath to their statements Sept. 18, 1700.
No deed of this lot from Mr. Morey is known to exist.
From Emanuel Downing the title to the Downing farm
descended to his grandson Charles Downing, Esq., of
London, England. In the latter's deed of that farm to
Thorndike Procter of Salem, yeoman, this lot, called
three acres of meadow, was included. It is described as
lying " betwixt the lands of Robert Moulton and Hum-
phrey French." The date of this deed is Sept. 13, 1700.J
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 5.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 6.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 17, leaf 7.
264 "GROTON", SALEM, IN 1700,
Abel Gardner House. This lot of land was granted by
the town of Salem to Thomas Gardner, for one hundred
acres, Feb. 20, 1636-7.* Feb. 24, 1637-8, " Ther is
granted vnto M r Garner an adicion of land to his farme
to make it vsefull not exceeding 20 acres. "f At a meet-
ing of the selectmen of Salem, Aug. 31, 1649, there was
" Granted to mr Gardner a small peece of medow con-
taining about an acre lying vpon the north side of his
farme adioyning to it."J Whether these last two
named grants of land were ever laid out to Mr. Gardner
is doubtful. He died Dec. 29, 1674. This tract of
land of one hundred acres was then valued at one hun-
dred pounds. His sons, Lt. George Gardner, late of
Salem, but then of Hartford, Conn., merchant, and Sam-
uel Gardner of Salem, mariner, as executors of their
father's will, conveyed this land to Dr. John Swinerton
of Salem July 19, 1678, and Doctor Swinerton con-
veyed it to Samuel Gardner of Salem, mariner, three days
later. || Samuel Gardner died Oct. , 1689, having, in
his will, devised this farm to his son Lt. Abel Gardner.
Lieutenant Gardner evidently erected the house that sub-
sequently stood upon this land. It was similar to the
George Gardner house and had a leanto. He lived in
Salem, being an yeoman, and conveyed one half of the
buildings and land around them to his son Thomas Gardner
of Salem, wheelwright alias husbandman, March 28, l729.^|
Lt. Abel Gardner died Nov. 10, 1739, possessed of the
other half of the farm, which he devised, in his will, to
his son Abel Gardner of Salem, blacksmith. This half
was then appraised at two hundred and sixty-six pounds.
Abel Gardner, for three hundred and seventy pounds,
conveyed this half of the farm to his brother Thomas
Gardner, who owned the other half, April 1, 1742.**
Thomas Gardner lived here, and died about 1753, intes-
tate. The farm, then including one hundred and twenty
*Salem Town Records, volume I, page 37 (printed).
tSalem Town Records, volume I, page 66 (printed).
ISalem Town Records, volume I, page 159 (printed).
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 3.
HEssex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 4.
11 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 78, leaf 220.
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 82, leaf 115.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 265
acres, and the buildings were appraised at four hundred
and eighty pounds. His children conveyed their interests
in the farm to their brother Thomas Gardner of Danvers,
husbandman, as follows : Eunice, wife of Jonathan
Tucker of Salem, cordwainer, May 15, 1758 ;* Mary,
wife of Humphrey Marsh of Danvers, yeoman, Jan. 31,
1761 ;f Sarah, wife of John Walcut of Danvers, cord-
wainer, Feb. 24, 1761 ;J and Ebenezer Gardner of Rox-
bury, potter, April 16, 1763. The other brother, Israel
Gardner of Danvers, potter, died in the spring of 1771,
having devised, in his will, one-third of his interest in
this farm to his wife Elizabeth, and two-thirds to his
brother Thomas Gardner, who owned the remainder of
the farm. Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner's interest probably
came into the ownership of Thomas Gardner. Mr. Gard-
ner died Sept. , 1788, having, in his will, devised this
estate to his sons James and John. In the inventory of
his estate the " Land lying south of the highway with
the Buildings thereon containing about 128 acres " was
appraised at three hundred and eighty-four pounds.
James Gardner was a mariner and lived in Salem ; and,
for five hundred dollars, he released his interest in the
estate to his brother John Gardner, jr., of Danvers, gen-
tleman, who had been devised the estate with him, May 15,
1800.|| John Gardner lived in this house and died here
April 12, 1823, having, in his will, devised his homestead,
containing about thirty acres, with the buildings thereon, to
his wife Mehitable (Goodale) Gardner. She married, sec-
ondly, Samuel Taylor of Danvers, yeoman, April 5, 1829 ;
and Mr. Taylor and herself conveyed the land and build-
ings to John Gardner Walcott of Danvers, cordwainer,
March 28, 1840.^]" Mr. and Mrs. Taylor continued to live
in the house until May 14, 1846, when she died from the
effects of falling upon the steps. The house was occupied by
William Skerry in October, 1854, when it was set on fire,
by a man who had formerly worked there, and destroyed.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 104, leaf 267.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 109, leaf 107.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 107, leaf 188.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 114, leaf 15.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 166, leaf 235.
IFEssex Registry of Deeds, book 370, leaf 285.
266 "GROTON", SALEM, IN 1700,
Anthony Needham, jr., House. This lot belonged to
Anthony Needham, sr., of Salem, yeoman, as early as
1674, being the westerly portion of his homestead. He
conveyed this lot to his son Anthony Needham, jr., Dec.
30, 1685.* The son built the house now standing upon
the lot immediately. It is a fine specimen of the archi-
tecture of that period. Mr. Needham lived here and was
a yeoman. He died in the winter of 1757-8, having, in
his will, devised the estate to his son Jasper Needham.
Jasper Needham died April 3, 1794, having, in his will,
devised his ' homestead farm " to his son Stephen Need-
ham. Stephen Needham died Dec. 28, 1801, having, in
his will, devised to his son Jasper Needham all his land
and buildings in Danvers, subject to the improvement of
one-half of it by his widow during her life. Jasper
Needham died June 26, 1807, intestate. The homestead
land and buildings were then appraised at twenty-three
hundred and sixty dollars. The estate came into the
ownership of his son Elias Needham, who died, possessed
of it, Feb. 27, 1885. In his will he devised it to his son
Joseph Shed Needham. Joseph S. Needham died May
29, 1900, having, in his will, devised the ancient house
and the corner of his homestead where the house stands
to his daughter Sarah Jane Clarkson Needham. Miss
Needham was a renowned school teacher, and died, un-
married, Aug. 30, 1914, possessed of the estate. In her
will, she devised the use of it to her sisters, Mrs. Augusta
L. Arvedson of Peabody and Mrs. Minna P. Brooks of
Haverhill, for their lives, and at the death of the survivor
of them it is to go to her three nieces, Mary Alice Tay-
lor, Mattie Brooks and Julia Brooks in fee simple.
Isaac Needham House. This lot belonged to Anthony
Needham of Salem, yeoman, as early as 1674. He con-
veyed it to his son Isaac Needham about 1690, f though
the existence of the deed has not been discovered. Isaac
built a house upon the lot immediately, and lived here,
being a husbandman. He conveyed the estate to his son
John Needham of Salem, husbandman, April 1, 1740.f
The father continued to live there until his decease in
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 61.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 79, leaf 1.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 267
1742.* For four hundred and twenty pounds, John
Needham conveyed the lot and buildings to Ebenezer
Goodell of Salem, innholder, May 26, 1746.f Mr. Good-
ale became a farmer, and owned the house and land
around it in 1750. How long the house stood after that
date is unknown to the writer.
Anthony Needham, sr., House. This lot was a part of
the homestead of Anthony Needham, sr., as early as 1674.
He lived in the house which stood upon this lot.
The southern corner of the lot, on the road, within the
dashes, was early the property of John Herod. It be-
longed to Joseph Procter of Ipswich Nov. 5, 1681, when
he conveyed it to Anthony Needham ;f and from that
time it was a part of the homestead of Mr. Needham.
Mr. Needham died in 17 , and how much longer the
house stood is unknown to the writer.
John Proctor House. This was two-thirds of a lot of
twenty-three acres of land which was early the property
of John Herod. It belonged to Joseph Proctor of Ipswich
in 1681 ; and to John Proctor of Salem, yeoman, Jan. 10,
1688-9, when the latter gave a deed of it, with his house
thereon, to his wife and children.^ Soon after the execu-
tion of Mr. Proctor, for alleged witchcraft, Aug. 19,
1692, his body was brought home and buried on the
northeast corner of this lot.|| The house and lot were
subsequently owned by Mr. Proctor's son John. The
house was probably gone soon after 1700.
John Felton and James Houlton Lot. This lot was a
part of the homestead of Anthony Needham, sr., as early
as 1674. He conveyed it to John Felton and James
Houlton, both of Salem, Jan. 20, 1692-3.^
John Felton, John Houlton, Nathaniel Felton, jr., and
Nathaniel Felton, sr., Lot. This lot was granted by the
town of Salem to William Giggles before Jan. 24, 1677-8,
when it was possessed by Nathaniel Putnam of Salem,
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 84, leaf 71.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 88, leaf 113.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 48.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 123.
II See pamphlet relative to the burial place of John Proctor, by
William P. Upham.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 26, leaf 231.
268 "GROTON", SALEM, IN 1700,
yeoman.* Mr. Putnam conveyed it to John Felton,
James Houlton, Nathaniel Felton, jr., and Nathaniel Fel-
ton, 3d, May 12, 1696 ;f and they apparently owned it in
1700.
Henry Houlton House. The northwestern two-fifths of
this lot was conveyed by Joseph Houlton, sr., yeoman, to
his son Henry Houlton Sept. 22, 16944 Henry Houlton
had built a house upon the lot.
The remainder of the lot was conveyed to Henry
Houlton of Salem, yeoman, by Thomas Haines of Salem,
maltster, and wife Sarah, Oct. 29, 1697.
Henry Houlton owned the estate in 1700. How long
the house stood is unknown.
Nathaniel Felton Houses. This lot was originally grant-
ed to John Thorndike, and returned to the town by him.
It was then granted in parts at several times, from 1637
to 1640, to the widow Felton and her son Nathaniel Fel-
ton. A house was built upon the lot, probably about
1644, and it stood some seventy years, but its location is
unknown, perhaps being near the southeastern corner of
the lot.
Nathaniel Felton died July 30, 1705, at the age of
ninety, having in his will devised to his eldest daughter,
Elizabeth Watkins, " a desolate & solitary widow, &
under great bodily weakness & never gave her any land,"
his dwelling house and land thereto belonging for her life
and then to his two sons John and Nathaniel. The dwel-
ling house, barn and ten acres of land adjoining were
then appraised at seventy pounds. Mrs. Watkins did not
live in this house, however.
The second house to be built upon the premises was
probably the house where James E. Reynolds now lives.
The house faces due south ; and was originally about
one-half the size it is now. The eastern portion, including
the front door and hall, constitutes the original house. It
always had a leanto, which apparently projected as an ell
at the western end. The house is said to have been erect-
*Salem Town Records, volume II, page 268.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 4.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 24, leaf 187.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 24, leaf 188.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 269
ed in 1674; and the manifest age is fully that. One of
the rare features of the house is the small size and shape
of many of its windows, being about three feet in height
and sixteen or seventeen inches in breadth. The kitchen
fireplace is six and one-half feet in length, inside meas-
urement, four feet and nine inches in height clear, and
two and one-half feet deep. The hearth is of brick,
seven feet and ten inches in length and projects into the
room fifteen inches. An ordinary sized person can stand
within the fireplace and look up the flue above him to
the clear sky, apparently being able to walk from the fire-
place over the shelving bricks nearly to the roof.
This house was probably built for Mr. Felton's son
John, upon his marriage with Mary Tompkins. John
Felton died Feb. 19, 1717-8 ; and the estate passed to his
son Samuel Felton, who lived here, being an yeoman.
Samuel probably added to the house the present western
end; and died Oct. 5, 1772, at the age of ninety, having
devised the western end to his son Samuel and the rest
to his son Zachariah. The son Samuel evidently became
the owner of the whole house. He was a yeoman, and
lived here. He died in February, 1782, having devised
the estate to his son Asa, subject to the right of the widow
to occupy the eastern or old half of the house, etc. Asa
Felton was a yeoman, and lived here. He died July 16,
1800, his homestead of twenty acres of land and the build-
ings being valued at nine hundred dollars. He died in-
testate : and the western half of the house was assigned
to his widow as a portion of her dower. The eastern and
old portion of the house came into the possession of Mar-
tha P. Felton, daughter of the deceased. She married
Moses W. Wilson, who died in Georgia, of yellow fever,
Nov. 1, 1840. She survived him ; and conveyed the east-
ern or old part of the house to Thomas Reynolds of Salem,
tanner, Aug. 14, 1865.* Mr. Reynolds died April 30,
1885 ; having, in his will, devised his real estate to his
son George, subject to the life occupancy of the testator's
son, James E. Reynolds of the southerly front room on the
first floor of the house and one acre of land James now
lives there.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 687, leaf 272.
270 "GROTON", SALEM, IN 1700.
The house occupied by Mrs. Rhoades was built about
1683, for the home of Nathaniel Felton's son Nathaniel,
upon the latter' s marriage. The house faces due south, and
was originally only about one-half its present size. The
old part is the eastern portion, including the front door
and hall wa}'. Nathaniel lived here, and died in Janu-
ary, 1733-4; having, in his will, devised the house and
land around it to his son Jonathan Felton, who then
dwelt here. The date of death of Jonathan Felton is
unknown ; and the place was owned subsequently by his
son Nathaniel Felton, who died Feb. 8, 1776. The build-
ings and ten acres of land around them was then valued
at one hundred and ten pounds. In his will he devised
the estate to his son Nathaniel, who died, possessed
of it, May 20, 1836. In his will he devised it to his
son Nathaniel. Colonel Felton was a yeoman, and lived
here. He died Nov. 15, 1865, having, in his will, devised
the house and land to his sons, William H. Felton and
Nathaniel Ward Felton. William H. Felton, who died
here, being a yeoman, conveyed his half of the house and
land to his brother Nathaniel April 27, 1874.* Nathaniel
W. Felton conveyed it to his sister, Mrs. Harriet Rhoades
of Peabody Aug. 10, 1908.f Mrs. Rhoades still resides
in the ancient house.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1049, leaf 128.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1932, page 214.
THE BURRILL, BURRELL FAMILY OF ESSEX
COUNTY.
BY FRANK A. GARDNER, M. D.
1. GEORGE BURRILL, the head of what has been
termed by some, ** The Royal Family of Lynn ", owing
to the large number of prominent members of it, partic-
ularly during the eighteenth century, was born in
England about 1591. The following record of his
marriage license gives us a clew regarding his place
of residence in England. ' In Boston, England, Jan-
uary 12, 1626, George Burrill of Boston, ae 35, and
Mary Cooper of Appley, ae 20." His name first
appears in the court records of Essex County, 28 : 1 mo.,
1637, when he was defendant in a civil action brought by
" Ricr. Beefer."* In the next session of the court, 27:
4 mo., 1637, George Burrill brought civil action against
Mr. Humphrej^e, Esq.f He received a grant of 200
acres of land in Lynn in 16384 On the 9 : 5 mo., 1645,
Mr. George Burrill, sr., Mr. Daniel King and William
Ivorie (also Avery) were presented for putting cattle
into the general field before the corn was gathered.
" Mr. George Burrill " was one of the creditors to the
estate of Francis Lightfoot in 1646. || He was a member
of the grand jury in 1650.1 On the 30 : 9 mo., 1652, he
brought suit against Joseph Jenkes, sr. and jr., for
debt.** He was a member of the jury of trials on the
6 : 1 mo., 1653-4. j-f His wife died in the 6th month,
*Essex County Quarterly Court Records (published volume), v. I,
p. 5.
Mbid, v. I, p. 6.
SIbid, v. II, p. 270.
J6id, v. I, p. 81.
\\Ibid, v. I, p. 103.
^Ibid, v. I, p. 204.
**Ibid, v. I, p. 272.
v. I, p. 326.
(271)
272 THE BURRILL, BURRELL FAMILY
1653,* and he died a few months later. His will was
dated October 18, 1653, and the inventory of his estate
bore the date of 21: 4 mo., 1654. In his will he gave
the house in which he lived (on the west side of Tower
Hill), with the farm, outbuildings and barn, to his son
Francis. The house in which Francis formerly dwelt he
gave to his son John, together with the land around it
and several other lots of land. He divided his livestock
among his three sons and allotted to them his silverware.
This will was found to be " imperfect " in respect to
executors, and his three sons were appointed administra-
tors.! The inventory showed the estate to be worth
,848:10:00.1
Children :
2. FRANCIS, b. about 1627. (See below.)
3. GEORGE, b. . (See below.)
4. JOHN, b. about 1631. (See below.)
2. FRANCIS BURRILL, son of George and Mary
(Cooper) Burrill, was born in England about 1627. His
name first appeared in the records as one of the witnesses
to the will of Francis Lightfoot, dated December 10,
1646. J He was a member of the trial jury, 29: 9 mo.,
1653, and was made constable in Lynn, 26 : 4 mo., 1655. ||
24 : 4 mo., 1656, he was sworn as clerk of the market.^"
He served on the grand jury 30 : 9 mo., 1658, and in June,
1659. He witnessed the will of George Farr of Lynn,
July 1, 1662, and that of William Rooten in the follow-
ing year. In 1664 and 1665 he was a member of the
jury of trials. In April, 1667, he was one of the ap-
praisers of the estate of Robert Mansfield of Lynn.** He
deposed in 1690 that his age was about sixty-three years.ff
He, with the consent of his wife Elizabeth, sold three
acres of salt marsh in Lynn to Samuel Burrill, " shooe-
*Lynn Records.
tQuarterly Court Records, v. I, pp. 351-5.
ZIbid, v. I, p. 103.
Essex Antiquarian, v. VII, p. 178.
\\Ibid, v. VIII, p. 169.
Mbid, v. IX, p. 61.
Quarterly Court Records, v. Ill, p. 403.
ttQuarterly Court Files.
OF ESSEX COUNTY. 273
maker", November 12, 1697.* He died November 10,
1704, aged seventy-eight years, f and was buried in the
Old Western Cemetery in Lynn. His will, dated Octo-
ber 12, 1704, was probated November 30, 1704. He made
bequests to his wife Elizabeth, sons James and Joseph ;
grandson Moses, son of his son Moses ; daughters Eliza-
beth Farr, Liddiah Dix and Esther Cowdrey, and grand-
son John Farr, son of his daughter Elizabeth. His son
Joseph was appointed executor, and his two kinsmen,
John and Theophilus Burrill, overseers.:]: The inventory,
dated November 24, 1704, showed property valued at
<224 : 17 : 084 His widow was probably the Elizabeth
Burrill who died in Lynn, April 22, 1716, aged eighty-
two,! an d whose gravestone is standing in the Old West-
ern Cemetery in Lynn.
Children :
5. SAMUEL, b. about 1654; d. about May 7, 1674. Samuel, aged
above 17, and his brothers James, aged 13, and Joseph,
aged 12, were arrested for throwing snowballs in 1671.
6. ELIZABETH, b. 1: 10 mo., 1655; m., in Lynn, July 28, 1680, Ben-
jamin Farr, son of George. t She d. in Lynn, and was bur-
ied Mar. 11, 1687.t
7. JAMES, b. 21: 10 mo., 1657. t He was alive in 1704, at the time
of his father's death.
8. JOSEPH, b. 18: 10 mo., 1659. t (See below.)
9. MARY, b. May 16, 1661; d. 17: 2 mo., 1667. t
10. LYDIA, b. 13: 4 mo., 1663; t m. in 1692, John Dix of Reading;
son of Ralph and Esther Dix. II She d. in 1692.
11. HANNAH, b. 19: 1 mo., 1664; d. Sept. 21, 1686. t
12. MARY, b. Feb. 7, 1667; 1" d. Feb. 17, 1667.1T
13. DEBORA, b. 23: 5 mo., 1669;t d. Aug., 1669. t
14. MOSES, b. 12 : 2 mo., 1671. t (See below.)
15. Lois, b. 27 : 11 mo., 1671 ;t d. before 1704.
16. Child, b. 6 : 8 mo., 1672; d. 6 : 8 mo., 1672. t
17. HESTER, b. 15 : 11 mo., 1673. t m. William Cowdrey of Reading,
son of Nathaniel and Mary (Batchelder) Cowdrey.** He
*Essex Deeds, book 14, leaf 132-3.
tLynn Records.
JEssex Probate Files, p. 4236.
Quarterly Court Records.
|| Eaton's History of Reading, p. 62.
TO. E. Hist. Gen. Register, v. 5, p. 94-5.
**Eaton's History of Reading, p. 59.
274 THE BURRILL, BURRELL FAMILY
was b. in 1666. She d. in Reading, June 3, 1698.* They
had two daughters : Elizabeth, who m. a Swan; and Su-
sannah, who was born March 4, 1696-7,* and m. Joseph
Burrill, of Boston, Nov. 7, 1723.*
18. SARAH, b. April 11, 1676; d. Dec. 21, 1676.t
19. SAMUEL, b. (stillborn) April 22, 1677.t
3. GEORGE BURRILL, son of George and Mary
(Cooper) Burrill, was a cooper in Boston. He married,
before 1653, Deborah Simpkins, daughter of Nicholas
Simpkins (the first commander of the fort on Castle
Island, Boston Harbor) and his wife Isabel. He owned
several 16ts of land in Boston. His wife evidently died
before him, as she is not mentioned in his will, which
was dated October 4, 1693, and was probated in Suffolk
County, July 14, 1698. He divided his house between his
two sons, giving George the front half and Samuel the
rear. Others mentioned in the will were : daughter Sarah,
wife of John Souther of Boston, and grandchild Abra-
ham Gourden. The inventory dated July 21, 1698,
showed an estate to the value of .172 : 11 : 06, of which
the lands and houses amounted to X160.J
Children :
20. GEORGE, b. Feb. 13, 1653; m. Mary . He was a tailor in
Boston. Letters of administration were granted to his
widow Mary, Nov. 30, 1719, and Feb. 12, 1719-20. Mary
Burrill and John Burrill, administrators, presented an in-
ventory amounting to 183:07:08. One item paid out was
76:06:00 to Samuel Burrill to clear a mortgage, etc. Under
date of Aug. 11, 1735, we read, " widow Mary Burrill and
his son George Burrill who are since deced without fully
administering thereon." James Burrill, tailor, of Boston,
was appointed administrator. In 1737 the property was
valued at 350 and declared incapable of division among the
heirs of George Burrill, * without prejudice to or spoiling
the whole, 71 therefore the administrator * charges himself
with the real estate of said deceased. "|| (For names of
children, see Boston Records.)
*Reading Records.
tLynn Records.
^Suffolk Prob. Rds., book 8; leaves 267 and 277.
Idtd, book 21, leaves 549 and 627.
II Suffolk County Probate Records, vol. 33, leaf 208.
OF ESSEX COUNTY. 275
21. SAMUEL, b. Jan. 10, 1656; m. Martha . He was a sailmaker
in Boston. He died about 1740, having become " aged and
infirm." He left a wife and three daughters: Martha
Lewis, Deborah Prince and Katherine Barton. His grand-
son, Ezekiel Goldthwait, was appointed executor.*
22. SABAH; m. John Souther of Boston, blacksmith. She was
mentioned in her father's will.
22a. DEBORAH, b. Dec. 17, 1668; d. before 1693.
23. JOSEPH, b. July 27, 1674; probably d. before 1693, as he was
not mentioned in his father's will.
4. LIEUT. JOHN BUKRILL, son of George and Mary
(Cooper) Bun-ill, was born about 1632. Several depo-
sitions made in court between 1665 and 1691 place the
year of his birth between 1632 and 1635. He was a
maltster and tanner. He was chosen a member of the
jury of trials in 1659 and again in 1662.f He was a
constable in Lynn in 16634 In the last named year
John and his wife " Loois," with many other persons,
testified in favor of Mary Longley. He served on a
coroner's jury, April 13, 1665.|| On the 26 : 9 mo., 1667,
he and Andrew Mansfield served as attorneys of the se-
lectmen of Lynn in the Quarterly Court. He was chosen
selectman of Lynn in 1678,^f and was one of the " seven
men " to receive the Indian deed of Lynn, September 4,
1686,** He held many other offices, including clerk of
the market six years, surveyor of highways, commissioner
of assessments, etc.ff He also represented Lynn in the
General Court.ff The town voted permission to Lieutenant
John and his son John Burrill, jr., to set up a pew in the
meeting house, January 8, 1692.f f He was a lieutenant
in the militia, although no record of his commission has
been found.
" Jno Burrill, Lyn," was made a freeman Feb. 16,
^Suffolk Co. Probate Records, vol. 35, leaves 333-5.
tQuarterly Court Records, v. II, p. 182, and v. Ill, p. 6.
tlbid, v. Ill, p. 103.
I6id, v. Ill, p. 112.
\\Ibid, v. Ill, p. 282.
^Ibid, v. Ill, p. 455.
**" Indian Land Titles", by Sidney Perley, pp. 68 and 70.
ttLynn Records.
276 THE BURRILL, BURRELL FAMILY
1685-6.* May 12, 1697, he conveyed to his son, Capt.
John Burrill, jun., of Lynn," two pieces " where my said
son . . . now lives," measuring together eleven acres.f
He married May 10, 1656, Lois, daughter of William and
Ann Ivory of Lynn and died in the spring of 1703, and
in his will, dated April 13 of that year, he mentions his wife
" Loiss ", daughters Ruth Burrill and Sarah Pickering, and
sons Samuel,Theophilus, Ebenezer and John.J The inven-
tory, dated May 19, 1703, showed an estate valued at
,1158 : 01 : 00. The property was divided between his
wife and children. He gave the homestead to his son
Samuel, reserving one end for the use of his wife during
her life-time.:): His wife Lois died September 5, 1720,
aged eighty years.
Children :
24. JOHN, b. Oct. 15, 1658. (See below,)
25. SARAH, b. 16, 3 mo., 1661; m. in Salem, June 14, 1683, John
Pickering, son of John and Alice (Flint) Pickering. Hon.
Timothy Pickering, a colonel in the American Revolution,
an intimate friend of General Washington and a member of
his cabinet, was their grandson. She died in Salem, Dec.
27, 1714, and her husband, John Pickering, died June 19,
1722.
26. THOMAS, b. Jan. 7, 1663. Probably d. young, as he was not
mentioned in his father's will.
27. ANNA, b. Sept. 15, 1666; m. July 24, 1695, Josiah "Rhoads",
son of Constable Henry Rhodes, of Lynn.|| He was b. in
Lynn, 2 mo., 1651, and m., 1st, Elizabeth Coots, July 23,
1673. Shed, in Lynn, Oct. 19, 1694. || Josiah "Rods",
"old", d. in Lynn about 23: 3 mo., 1734. ||
28. THEOPHILUS, b 15: 5 mo., 1669. || (See below.)
29. Lois, b. 27: 11 mo., 1671; m. at Boston, June 5, 1695, Samuel
Sprague of Woburn.
30. SAMUEL, b. ; d. May 7, 1674.
31. SAMUEL, b. April 20, 1674. (See below.)
32. MABY,b. Feb. 18, 1676; d. unmarried, Oct. 26, 1694. ||
33. EBENEZER, b. July 13, 1679. (See below.)
*Shurtleff 's " Records of Massachusetts Bay," v. V, p. 544.
tEssex Deeds, v. 13, p. 164.
tEssex County Probate Files, No. 4241.
Salem Records.
II Lynn Records.
OF ESSEX COUNTY. 277
34. RUTH, b. May 17, 1682; m. May 9, 1705, Capt.(?) Benjamin Pot-
ter, son of Robert and Ruth (Driver) Potter.* He was b. in
Lynn, April 11, 1680. He d. in Lynn, April 25, 1745.
Ruth Potter, widow," d. in Lynn, Oct. 23, 1771.*
8. JOSEPH BURRILL, son of Francis and Elizabeth
Burrill, was born in Lynn, 18 : 10 mo., 1659. He was a
soldier in King Philip's war in August, 1676, f and was
made a freeman about 1690. He married in Salem, Oc-
tober 28, 1686, Dorcas 4< Newbury," probably the daugh-
ter of Richard Newberry, of Weymouth. Joseph Bur-
rill, husbandman, with the consent of his wife Dorcas,
sold a lot of land on Hart's Lane, in Lynn, to Captain
Theophilus Burrill (No. 28), January 11,1716-74 March
5, 1722-3, he exchanged with the last named Theophilus
Burrill, 9 acres, 30 poles of land, for 8 acres which had
been laid out to John Burrill, Esq. (No. 24). Among
the other lots of land sold to him was one described as
*' two acres of land on ye old way that formerly led from
ye Ferry to ye old meeting-house," which he sold to
Matthew Breed, March 18, 1728-9, for 50:00:00.1
His wife died April 7, 1722, aged 59, and he died De-
cember 1, 1736, at the age of 77.* His son 'Joseph, of
Boston, was appointed administrator, March 25, 1737.
As the oldest son Samuel was " non comp." ment. and
hath been so for many years," the selectmen of Lynn
signed a paper approving of the appointment of Joseph
as administrator. The inventory, dated April 12, 1737,
gave the value of the estate as .1200:13:08. The
estate was divided June 21, 1738. ^f Samuel, the oldest
son, received two-fifths, and the other three-fifths he ap-
portioned to Joseph Burrill, Hannah Burrill, alias Cri-
side, and Mary Alley Burrill, alias " Roass " (Ross).
Children :
35. HANNAH, b. Oct. 26, 1687; m. int. Lynn, July 30, 1720, John
Criside, " a stranjour that Came from Great Brittaine."
Their daughter, Sarah " Chresdee," m. in Haverhill, Dec.
*Lynn Records.
tN. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., v. 41, p. 273, and v. 43, p. 274.
{Essex Deeds, book 37, leaf 143.
I6i<Z, book 78, leaf 104.
y Essex Registry of Deeds, book 59, leaf 86.
f Essex County Probate Files, No. 4247.
278 THE BURRILL, BURRELL FAMILY
15, 1743,* Joseph Attwood. Hannah probably d. before
1741, and this daughter Sarah was the Sarah " Chowdey "
who received in that year one-third of the real estate of her
uncle Samuel Burrill (No. 37). This Sarah m., as stated
above, Joseph " Attwood", Dec. 15, 1743, and Feb. 21,
1743(4), Joseph Atwood, w. Sarah, of Haverhill, " g. dau.
of Mr. Joseph Buirill, late of Lynn," conveyed to Henry
West of Lynn, for 90, five lots of land which were " part
of ye estate of Sam'l Burrill, uncle of the sd. Sarah."
36. DORCAS, b. Aug. 29, 1689; probably d. young.
37. SAMUEL, b. Nov. 16, 1691; as mentioned above in connection
with the settlement of his father's estate; he was insane
for many years. He died 27 : 10 mo., 1738, and his brother-
in-law, Andrew Ross, was appointed administrator, Feb. 5,
1738. The estate, valued at 541: 14: 02, was divided April
15, 1741, between Sarah Chowdey (see notes under No. 35),
Mary Ross and Joseph Burrill.
88. SARAH, b. Nov. 15, 1693;t d. Jan. 5, 1693-4.
39. SARAH, b. Oct. 24, 1696 ;t probably d. young.
40. JOSEPH, b. July 2, 1699; m. in Boston, Nov. 6, 1729, Jane Webb.
Joseph Burrill, shipwright, of Boston, wife Jane consenting,
sold to John Burrage of Lynn, " one full fifth part of all the
real estate of my hon. father, Joseph Burrill, late of Lynn,
dec." As administrator of his father's estate, he sold and
to Richard Peppoon of Lynn, April 4, 17384
41. FRANCIS, b. Aug. 21, 1701; probably the Francis who d., " a
young man ", 19, 5 mo., 1731. His brother, Joseph Burrill
of Boston, shipwright, was appointed administrator Sept.
12, 1738.
42. ESTER, b. Aug. 21, 1701.
43. MARY ALLEY, m. Andrew Ross. He was a " wiggmaker n or
peruke-maker in Boston. June 25, 1740, they sold to Jonas
Clark of Boston " the easterly end of all that certain dwel-
ling-house in Lynn, with easterly half of barn . . . which
was late ye estate of Joseph Burrill, late of Lynn, yeoman,
dec., and was set off to ye sd Mary as part of her portion."
April 21, 1742, they sold to Henry West of Lynn, their
"right in ye dwelling-house where we now live; being ye
whole of the Easterly end with one third part of the West-
erly end," also 9 acres of land, etc.
*Haverhill Records.
tLynn Records.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 103, leaf 181.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 82, leaf 114.
OF ESSEX COUNTY. 279
14. MOSES BURRILL, son of Francis and Elizabeth
Burrill, was born in Lynn, 12 : 2 mo., 1671, and married
Dorcas .
Children :
44. MOSES, b. Dec. 17, 1693; d. Jan. 2, 1693-4.
45. MOSES, b. Aug. 20, 1696.*
24. CAPT. JOHN BURRILL, son of Lieutenant John
and Lois (Ivory) Burrill, was born in Lynn, October 15,
1658. He served in King Philip's war, his name appear-
ing in a list of soldiers under Captain Samuel Brockle-
bank, dated June 24, 1676. He was paid <3: 06: 00
for this service, and the same is shown in an assignment
of wages dated Aug. 24, 1676. His brother Ebenezer
(No. 33) was granted lot number 92 in " Souhegan
West," for his brother, John Burrill. He was a member
of the troop in Lynn in 1679. He was appointed by the
Governor and Council, June 14, 1690, lieutenant of a
foot company under the command of Captain John Floyd.
In the spring of 1691 he was commissioned Captain of
the Lynn Foot Company. In 1691 he was chosen town
clerk and selectman of Lynn, serving with great credit
for thirty years. He was town treasurer two years and
assessor the same length of time. He was Speaker of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1705 and
1711-20, a total of ten years. During the period of his
service in this high office many important measures were
acted upon, notably the controversy over the currency of
the Province, which finally resulted in the establishment
of a public bank. Miss Ellen Mudge Burrill, in her
excellent account of members of this branch of the fam-
ily, published in the Register of the Lynn Historical So-
ciety, No. XI, pp. 80-82, refers to his service as Speaker
as follows : " As already shown, John Burrill, jr., was
Speaker during this time, and as such must have had a
great deal of influence. He also must have been a man
of great diplomacy, for he was idolized by the members,
and yet enjoyed the esteem of both royal governors, his
appointment as presiding officer being approved by them
each year. Governor Dudley himself said ' that post of
*Mentioned in will of grandfather Francis Burrill (No. 2).
280 THE BURRILL, BURRELL FAMILY
honor and trust had never been better filled, more wisely
and prudently managed than by him.' He was well ac-
quainted with parliamentary forms and filled the chair
with dignity and authority. In consideration of his long
and good service to the Province, a resolve of 1715-16
granted him five hundred acres of land in the township
of Rutland." In 1720 he was elected Councillor, serving
that year and the following. Miss Burrill states that he
was appointed " Justice of the Peace June 12, 1701, June
30, 1702 ; Special Justice of the Inferior Court of Com-
mon Pleas, October 26, 1716, September 16, 1715 ; Judge
of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County
of Essex, July 15, 1720, remaining on the bench until
his death; Special Justice of the Superior Court of Judi-
cature, October 24, 1712."
He owned much real estate in Lynn, and sold fifteen
acres to Joseph Mansfield, senior, and Samuel Burrill,
June 29, 1699, for <30 and twenty bushels of " mault."*
He married in Lynn, July 28, 1680, Mary Stower, daugh-
ter of Richard and Joanna Stower. f She was born in
Charlestown, February 9, 1654. He contracted small-pox
during the epidemic in December, 1721, and died on the
tenth of that month. His will, dated December 6, 1721,
was probated March 26, 1722. He gave to his wife Mary
" the improvement of all the housing where I now live,"
the land lying in the field below the house, the pasture,
his part of the house in Boston, and other real estate ;
also one-half of his movable estate excepting his bills and
bonds, 50 being paid to relatives in legacies. To his
brother Theophilus, brother Ebenezer, and children of
his deceased brother Samuel (the children " counting as
one "), he gave a double portion of his estate, and to his
sisters Pickering and Potter, a single portion each. He
gave '* to the Church of Christ in Lynn forty pounds
towards the furnishing the table of the Lord there." To
Rev. Nathaniel Henchman, pastor of the church, he gave
ten pounds. He gave one-half of his farm in Rutland
to John Burrill, son of his brother Ebenezer, and the
Essex County Registry of Deeds, book 26, leaf 170.
tLynn Records.
OF ESSEX COUNTY. 281
other half to Grover Pratt and Michael Swicher. To
Sarah Burrill, daughter of his brother Samuel, he gave
<200 and <20 out of his movable estate, to be paid when
she comes to the age of eighteen or time of marrying. A
note from " the Uphams of Maiden " he gave to his
wife, also as much wood as she shall need. A bequest of
ten pounds was made to the poor of Lynn. According
to a deposition of Richard Johnson, preserved with his
will, he gave his silver-headed rapier to his brother Eben-
ezer. He named his brother Theophilus as his sole exec-
utor. The inventory of his estate, dated March 26,
1721-2, showed real estate valued at <2051 : 15 : 00, and
personal at ,532 : 19 : 14.* His widow Mary died May
22, 1728, and was buried in Charlestown.
Child :
46. RUTH, b. May 17, 1682 ;t d. young.
28. COLONEL THEOPHILUS BURRILL, son of Lieuten-
ant John and Lois (Ivory) Burrill, was born in Lynn, 15,
5 mo., 1669. In the records of the earlier part of his
life he was generally called tanner, later yeoman, and
during the latter part of his life esquire. His first wife
was Lydia Gathercole, whom he married at Boston July
5, 1694.f She was born in Boston in 1666, and died
June 11, 1726, aged sixty.f He married, second, Nov. 6,
1727, Hannah Charnock, widow of Captain John Charnock
of Boston, whom she had married in Boston in 1721. She
was born a Holyoke, daughter of Elizur Holyoke and sister
of Rev. Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard College.:):
He was a member of the trial jury at the Superior Court,
November 8, 1694. March 10, 1700-1, he was chosen
town treasurer.
* Essex County Probate Files, No. 4242.
tLynn Records.
JThe Heraldic Journal, v. Ill, p. 107-8.
(To le continued.)
FRAGMENT OF A DIARY KEPT BY REV.
SAMUEL FISKE OF SALEM, 1719-1721.
ORIGINAL NOW IN POSSESSION OF THE AMERICAN
ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.
March 5, 1719. now the Brethren Dismissed from this
Church together w t M r Andrews, a member of Topsfield
Church & y e Rev d M r Stanton entered solemnly into
Coven* w l God & one another : M r Blowers began w*
o
Prayer & then their Dismission & covenant being read &
they signed their Covenant : & then I commended them
to God in prayer.
Mar. 6. I married Peter Silver & Eliz. Carton.
Mar. 8. I preached from 84 Psalm, 20. A fair but
cold day. Now I Enlisted y e Congregation to Holy sab-
batism & mentioned y e proposed and appointed Lecture :
Mary wife of Tobias Davis renewed her covenant and
had her four sons : vs* Tobias, William, John & Thomas
Baptised, also I baptised Esther Daughter of Israel &
Sarah Williams & Sarah daughter of William & Mary
Bartlett. Now I proposed to the Congregation to begin
their Lecture y e 11 th Instant : once a fortnight.
M ch 11, 1719. I now preached my first Lecture from,
11 Heb. 25, 26. A Great Congregation : the Ministers
Dined with me. Now there was a Session of y e General
Assembly.
M ch 15. I preached from 84 Psalm 20, & finished this-
Subject, also from 1 John 4, 19 : A fair Day after y e
bad weather we have had : and a Good Day I hope to me
& y e Congregation.
M ch 16. I rode to Boston : Visited my Friends &
returned on Saturday.
Mar ch 22. I preached at M r Stantons from 1 John 4,
19, and att home from 112 Psalm 20, Last clause. Read
a Proclamation for a General Fast to be on April 2 Next..
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Mar. 24. I marry ed John Swasey & Sarah Archer.
Mar ch 25. Our Lecture, M r Prescott preached.
Mar ch 29. I preached from 21 Prov. 2 : A Cold Day :
Now I Baptised John of John & Eliz th Phippen & Anna
of Benj & Ann Ives.
Ap 1 2, 1719. A Gen 11 Fast. I preached from 1 Sam 1
12, 20, 21, 22.
Ap 1 5, 1719. Sac* Day. I preached from 50 Psalm
5 : I Baptised Rebecca Daughter of Ebenez r & Rebecca
Glover. Now I communicated y e Letter of y e East n Chh,
6 y e Church delegated Deacon Marston, Col. Higginson
& Col. Brown.
Ap 1 8. Now M r Rob. Stanton was Ordained. Doc.
Cott n Mather preached, gave the Charge, M r Blowers
Gave y e right hand of Fellowship : the Doc r & he & M r
Barnard & 1 Imposing hands. The Gov r was psent.
Ap 1 12. 1 preached at M r Stantons from 50 Psl. 5 &
13 Matt. 52.
Ap 1 14, 1719. This Day Died Cap n John Brown after
a long, languishing Illness : A Great Blow this is to his
Family & to this town Especially : Will God bless his
remaining children, Especially with spiritual blessings :
and will God bind up a family by them to himself and to
the Browns which may be in business, & blessing to the
Name & town.
Ap 1 15. I went to Beverly Lecture.
Ap 1 19. This Day I preached on Occasion of Capt n
Brown's Death from 14 Job, 14 : I Baptised Sam 1 son
of Benj & Smith & Sarah Daughter of Isaac and
Hannah Hacker & propounded this Hannah Hacker her
desire to come to the Lords Table.
Ap 1 20. Now Capt n Brown was Interred : A Great
Funerall : Gov r Shute was att it being on his Journey
to Piscataqua : Will God rebuild this broken family &
by y m rebuild this Town.
Ap 1 22. Lecture Day : I preached from 31 Job, 23.
A Good Assembly.
Ap 1 25. I was taken very ill in y e morning : was thor-
oughly wrought upon by Vomiting & Purging volunta-
rily : slept well on the following Night & Preached
heartily y e next Day, vit.
284 FRAGMENT OF A DIAUY OF KEV. SAMUEL FISKE.
Ap 1 26. I preached from 21, Prov. 2 : Capt n Pickman
Deceased this morning abt. 6 Clock morning : a Good
and Usefull man : left a numerous family : will God pre-
serve & provide for them : Be the Husband of y e Widow
too, as y e Father of y e Fatherless. Will God spare this
Town & Parish & shew us why he thus sorely breaks &
contendeth with us & reform us: I am pretty well but
Tired.
Ap 1 28. Now Capt n Pickman was buryed : his Broth r
came in from Sea y e latter end of Last week, not time
enough to see him. A stormy, cold week. Very un-
seasonable weather.
May 3 d . Sacr* Day. I preached from 21 Prov. 2 &
68 Psalm 5, this last on Captain Browns, Especially Capt n
Pickmans Death. Now I rec d to Communion Hannah
Wife of George Hacker & propounded y e desire of Mar-
tha, wife of Isaac Cook, to renew her Cov* and Come to
y e Lords Table.
May 6. Lecture Day. M r Blowers preached.
May 10. I preached from 9 Matt. 13. M r Stantons
people were att our meeting. I Baptised Thomas, Mercy
and Mary, children of Thomas & Mercy Cole & Abigail,
Daughter of Clement & Susannah English : And I pro-
pounded y e desire of Susannah, wife of Henry West, to
renew her covenant with God & approach to y e Lords
Table.
May 13. M r John Brown was ordained Pastor of
Haverhill : M r Symmes Preached, and Gave the
Charge.
May 15. I marryed James Foster & Margarett Pratt
and Isaac Turner & Mary Pratt, two sisters.
May 17. I preached from 35 Job, 6, & 8 Rom., 6 : I
Received Martha wife of Isaac Cook to Communion, she
renewing her Covenant ; & I Baptised her child named
Robert, also I now Baptised Susanna, Daughter of Rich-
ard & Elizabeth Pike.
May 20. Lecture Day. I preached from 2 Tim. 2, 19.
May 21. I marryed Peter Webb & Bridge tt Moor.
May 24. I preached from 8 Romans, 6. A Cool Day.
May 25. I marryed Thomas Humphry and Eliz th Ash-
by, both of this Town.
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May 27. The Generall Election: a rainy Day : not-
withstanding y e Faction so prevalent in Boston Provi-
dence very mercifully Overruled y e Election.
May 30. I returned home, a fair day : a plentifull rain
this Week.
May 31. M r Edw d Wigglesw th preached for me.
June 3. M r Clark Preached my Lecture.
June 5. I marryed Dan 1 Webb & Elizabeth Ropes.
June 7. Sac* Day. I preached from 3 Gal. 13, and 11
Matt. 6. Received to Communion : Susannah Wife of
Henry West & Mary Wife of Thomas Coles. I pro-
pounded y e desire of Mary Wife of Thomas Sluman, to
enter into Cov* and be Baptised.
June 10. I preached M r Blowers his Lecture, 1 Jo n
4, 19.
June 14. I preached from 2 Peter, 3, 11 : and now I
Baptised : Ebenezer, Benjamin, & Hannah, children of
George >& Abigail Peal : and stayed the Breth n of y e
church to propound y e desire of our Sister Eliz th Pierce
to be recommended to y e Church att Newbury l mo to
Communicate w* y m & y e Chh. Granted to her.
June 17. Lecture Day. I preached from 2 Tim. 2, 19.
June 21. I preached from 2 Peter, 3, 11. I pro-
pounded y e Desire of Mercy, wife of Thomas Cole, to
come to y e L dB Table.
June 28. I preached att Beverly from 12 Excle. 13.
I putt by my Lecture w c w ld be on Wednesday next.
July 1. Commencement. A fine cool day.
July 2. M r Solomon Stoddard preached.
July 3. I returned home, having seen Broth r Fisk,
Sister Marsh, &c. att Boston.
July 5. Sacram* Day. I preached from 2 Peter, 3,
11 : and from 3 Malachi, 14 : rec d to Communion Mercy,
wife of Thomas Cole, and Mary, wife of Thomas Sluman
Entered into Cov* & was Baptised.
July 12. I preached from 3 Mai. 14, & 119 Psalm, 1.
I now propounded y e Desire of Eliz th wife of John Tailer
to enter into Covenant & be Baptised & her children. A
misty rainy Day, Uncomfortable.
July 14. The Inferior Courtt satt here.
July 15. Lecture Day. M r Stanton preached.
286 FRAGMENT OF A. DIARY OF REV. SAMUEL FISKE.
July 16. I marryed John Pool of Gloucester & Eliz :
Holmes of this Town.
July 19. I preached from y e Epistle of Jude, v se 19.
July 22. I went over to Beverly to Assist att prayer
att the house of Capt n Herrick : on acct. of his wife who
is very melancholy & was very uneasy in prayer, but she
grew very sensible afterw ds and Discoursed freely : I
Lodged att M r Blowers that Evening.
July 26. I preached att M r Stantons from 119 Psalm,
1. M r Sever preached for me from 1 Cor, 15, 58 : Eliz-
abeth, y e wife of John Tailer, Enter d into Cov* w* God
& was Baptised, also had her children John, William &
Mary Baptised. Now I read to the Church a letter from
the Chh. of Wenham Inviting y e psence & assistance of
y* Pastor & Delegates of this Church att a Council to be
convened on y e 29 Instant : att Wenham : and
July 29. The Pastor & Delegates went and mett the
Pastors & Delegates of y e first & fourth Churches in Bos-
ton & y e first Church in Beverly and after having y e Case
Justify ed the whole process of y e Chh. in Wenham and
condemned too M r Wise his proceedings in y e Case, att
Night I returned with the Delegates of y e Church.
Aug. 2. I preached from y e Epistle of Jude, v 86 19,
Sac* Day. A fair Day, Especially the After Part of It.
Aug. 4. I went to a ministers meeting at M r Chip-
mans.
Aug. 5. I went to Braintrey with M r Clark : found
my Brother Marsh in a hopef ull way.
Aug. 9. I preached att the Village from 12 Eccle. 13.
Aug. 12. Lecture Day. M r Prescott Preached.
Aug. 16. I preached from 8 John, 51, and Baptised
Benj, son of Nath 1 & Hannah Osgood & Hannah Daugh-
ter of Thomas & Hannah Field : a very hot Day.
Aug. 17. Now M r Thomas Flynt of this town went
out after dinner into the field, well as he had been some
time before and Died suddenly in a fainting fitt. He was
at meet 8 yesterday. The Lord awaken me & this place
hereby.
Aug. 19. M rs Holyoke was Buryed. I was a Bearer.
Aug. 23. I preached from 39 Psalm, 4 : and Baptised
Mary Daughter of Paul & Mary Langden, Mary of John
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<& Mary Bullock, & Mary of Jonath n & Mary Verry.
This Night Col Brown had a Daughter Born.
Aug. 26. Lecture Day. I preached from 7 John, 16.
Aug. 30. I preached in y e morning att M r Stantons from
-8 Rom. 6, afternoon att home from 3 Philip, 18, 19, and
Baptised Abigail Daughter of Col. Sam 1 & Abigail Brown :
& rec d to Communion Abigail Wife of Joh Twist &
propounded Widow Abigail Elkins to enter into Covenant.
[Leaves missing.]
Nov. 6 [1720]. Sac* Day. I preached from 3 Gal. 13.
M r Hillhouse preached for me in y e afternoon. Now I
rec d to the Lords Table John Hearson, Hannah wife of
Daniel Darling, Elizabeth Butler. Propounded the Desire
of Thomas Symonds to Enter into Cov* & his Wife
Elizabeth to renew her Cov* & John Gavet to renew his
Cov* I have been very ill this last week, and am now
much indisposed. ,
Nov. 7. last night I was very bad but am better this
morning.
Nov. 8. I took a Dose of Physick att night when I
went to Bed. Captain Q-ere Died this morning a pson
of G* w th & much Lamented.
Nov r 13. I preached from 51 Psalm, 10. Now I
propounded y e Desire of M r Mackay to renew his Baptis-
mal Cov* &c. I am 111 this evening with a sort of rheu-
matic pain in my head & neck, as I have been constantly
this fortnight past.
Nov r 16. Lecture Day. M r Ward of Wenham Pastor
Elect preached.
Nov. 18. Now this Evening I marryed Thomas Dean
& Martha Gillingham.
Nov. 20. I preached from 51 Psalm, 10, and now
Thomas Symonds Ent d Cov* and was Baptised, also his
Wife Elizabeth rec d Bap. Cov* and their Children
James, Sam 1 , Thomas, Benjamin & Elizabeth were Bap-
tised. Also John Gavet rec d Bap* Cov* & had his Daugh-
ter Mary Baptised. Also Rebecca, wife of James Grens-
lette, who was Baptised at Reading, rec d Bap* Cov* & had
her Children James, Rebecca, Abigail & Elizabeth
Baptised. Will God please to Bless them indeed & make
them Blessings : and psuade others to come in.
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Nov. 24. This morning very early I was called to
visitt Manasseh Marston who was Dying he deeply
lamented & bitterly bewailed his former life & himself
now was under deep Concern about his soul, as he was
on Monday last when I visited him. I hope God Granted
him repentance unto life, he solemnly charged his wife
& family to fear God & Give up themselves to him, he
warned his neighbours round ab* him to take warning by
him and Disired me from him to speak this to y m he
looked very Earnestly on them while I repeated to them
what he said :
Nov r 27. I preached att Beverly from 5 Matt. 20.
M r Blowers preached with us : It was a very cold Day
indeed.
Nov r 30. Lecture Day. M r Fresco tt preached : foul
weather this afternoon.
Dec r 4. Sac 1 Day. I preached from 51 Psalm, 10, &
finished my discourses on this subject. Now I Baptised
Thomas, son of Edward & Remember Norrice, also Re-
becca, Daughter of Samuel & Rebecca Phippen.
Dec. 8. I marryed Thomas Blaney & Desire Dean.
God preserve him from Quakerism & her from following
him therein.
Dec r 11. Now J Baptised Isaac, son of Isaac Jun r &
Sarah Williams.
Dec r 18. I preached att M r Stantons. I propounded
for him the desire of Eliz : Gerrish to renew her Bap-
tismal Covenant, also he propounded for me the Desire
of Eliz : Daughter of James Lindall to renew her Bap-
tismal Cov* & Come to the Lords Table, also y e desire of
Sarah Best to Enter into y e Bapt 1 Covenant & be Baptised.
Dec. 23. Att Evening I visited Mary, Daughter of
Tamiswood Modgey, who lay very sick of a fever and
nigh to Death. She Died that night.
Dec r 25. I preached from 36 Ezck. 27. Will God
Give the Blessing. A very rainy & a stormy tempestous
Day.
Dec r 27. I waited on y 6 Inferior Court now held here
and prayed with them in y e morning.
Dec. 28. Lecture Day. I preached from 119 Psalm,
115, before y e Court, the Ministers Dined w th the Court.
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Jan. 1, 1721. Sac* Day. I preached in y e morning
from 2 Cor. 5, 17. A New Y" sermon. Now I rec d to
full Estate & Communion Elizabeth Eldest Daughter of
our Brother James Lindall.
Jan. 15. Now William Mackay received his Baptismal
Covenant and his Child was Baptised Daniel. Also I now
Baptised William, son of Richard and Hannah Ropes. Also
I propounded Sarah Phippen to come to y e Lords Table.
Jan. 25. Went to Wenham to the Ordination of M r
Robert Ward. A great Concourse of People. M r Rogers
of Ipswich gave y e Charge & M r Fitch of y e Same
Church y e Right hand of Fellowship. M r Webb of Bos-
ton lodged with me.
Jan. 29. I preached att M r Prescotts and he preached
for me and propounded y e Desire of Ruth, Daughter of
Samuell Ruck, to come to the Lords Table.
Feb. 2. I went to Marblehead Lecture. Mr. Barnard
preached.
Feb. 5. Now I received to Communion Sarah Phippen
& Ruth Ruck, and Baptised Amme, Daughter of Sam 1
and Amme Swazey :
Feb. 8. Lecture Day : M r Henchman of Lynn
preached for me.
Feb. 12. Baptised Abigail, Daughter of John and
Abigail Blowers.
Mar. 4. A very Great storm of Wind & some snow.
Excessively Cold.
Mar. 7 [ ] M r Nath 1 Higginson was taken w th
fitts [ ] had three this Day: he was thus [ ]
morning : much out of his head & Reason & so Continued
w th out any sleep and Dyed on March 10 ab* Sun Setting
having before his Death seen Considerable of his Reason
tho he could not speak to us saving that he asked me
[ ] with and certain. An awfull Providence this is
to him and family, Mad m Higginson & the family of Hig-
ginson.
March 13. M r Nath 1 Higginson was decently Interred.
Will God sanctify this surprising Death to this place.
March 14. Doctor Oliver Noyes being taken with y e
Dead Palsy Died this Evening lying ill but 24 hours. He
never spoke after he was first stricken with it.
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX
COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS.
(Continued from Volume LI, page 136.)
Last Week died at Marblehead Mrs. Sarah Smethurst,
Consort of Mr. Joseph Smethurst of that Place, and eldest
Daughter of Mr. Thomas Jackson, Distiller, of this Town.
Boston Evening Post, November 4, 1765.
Stray'd away or stollen at Lynn, the 15th of October
last, a higli-cou raged Bay Mare, about 14 Hands and a
half high, a white Stripe in her Face, a natural Pacer,
and about 8 Years old ; if any Person will bring said
Mare to John Boyce living in said Lynn, or to me the
Subscriber at Smithfield, shall have Two Dollars Reward,
and all necessary Charges paid by Enoch Sprague.
Boston Evening Post, November 25, 1T65.
We hear a Ship from the Granades bound to Piscataqua
got ashore on Plumb Island, but received little or no
Damage.
Boston Evening Post, December 9, 1765.
Portsmouth, N. Hampshire, Dec. 13. We hear that
Captain Ball's ship which was lately cast ashore on Plumb
Island will be entirely lost, but most of the cargo saved.
Last Wednesday se'night, being the day after the snow
storm we had here, a great number of wild Geese flew
over this town, on their way as is supposed to a warmer
climate, but having tarried too long in this cold country,
or the winter setting in sooner than they expected, many
of them lost their way, and had such a quantity of ice on
their wings that they could not reach any farther than
Newbury-Port, where we hear, 3 or 400 was taken up in
the river there, most of which were alive. One person
took up as many as sold for 150 Massachusetts old tenor.
Boston Evening Post, December 16, 1765.
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NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 291
We hear that in the Storm we had last Tuesday se'nnight
a Fishing Schooner belonging to Marblehead was cast
away on Cape Cod and all the People, 7 or 8 in Number,
lost.
Boston Evening Post, December 16, 1765.
Last Week two fishing Vessels arrived at Cape Ann
from the Grand Banks ; they inform that great Numbers
of French Ships were Fishing on the Banks, who were
very insulting, and did considerable Damage to many of
our Fishermen by running foul of their Vessels, &c.
They also inform', that on Tuesday se'nnight they met
with a very violent Gale of Wind, in which they had the
Misfortune to have two Men washed overboard from each
of their Vessels, among whom was the Skipper of one of
them.
Boston Evening Post, December 16, 1765.
We hear from Ipswich, that on Monday last died there
the Hon. JOHN CHOATE, Esq ; one of his Majesty's
Council for this Province. Judge of Probate, and one of
the Justices of the Inferior Court for Essex County.
Boston Evening Post, December 25, 1765.
Portsmouth, Jan. 3. The Boston Post did not come in
till 10 o'clock this morning. He has been ever since
Tuesday morning from Boston, detain'd two hours at
Charlestown Ferry, which is almost froze over ; did not
reach Newbury till 1 o'clock on Wednesday and that
Ferry being near froze over, he could not cross it till
yesterday noon, and then with the utmost difficulty was
bro't in a float, but obliged to leave his horse at New-
bury, and get another this side, which he was forced to
lead great part of the way.
Boston Evening Post, January 6, 1766.
The Creditors of Nathan Waite, who is an insolvent
Debtor, are desired to meet their Trustees at the Town-
House in Marblehead, on Thursday the 13th Day of Feb-
ruary next, at Eleven of the Clock beforenoon ; to give
necessary Directions to the said Trustees : And the said
292 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
Creditors are desired then and there to bring in and prove
their several Claims. And all Persons indebted to the said
Waite are desired to pay the same to the said Trustees,
on or before the said Day, or they will be sued therefor.
And at the same Time and Place will be SOLD to the
highest Bidder, for the Benefit of said creditors, the Island
called Catt's Island, at the mouth of Marblehead Harbour,
and a small Piece of Ground on Siverit's Hill, so called,
in said Marblehead.
Boston Evening Post, January 20, 1766.
Friday last Capt. Hathorne arrived at Salem from the
Granades, and after he had been to the Custom House and
entered his Vessel, it was reported his Papers were
stamp'd, upon hearing of which the Selectmen of the
Town were applied to by a number of the Sons of Lib-
erty, desiring them to send to the Custom House for those
Marks of Slavery that they might see them, having had
nothing of the Kind among them till then. The Gentle-
men at the Office readily delivered them up, when they
were brought upon the Parade and there exposed to pub-
lic View, then carried to the London Coffee House, where
were assembled a large Company of respectable People
(on the Occasion) who soon came to the following Re-
solves, viz. 1. That these Marks of Tyranny were by no
Means to be lodged in a public Office. 2. That they to-
gether with a Jackboot, (out of which the D 1 was
peeping) should be affixed to a long Pole and carried thus
between Heaven and Earth (as fit for neither) near to the
common Whipping Post. But some objecting that they
did not deserve so much Honor as to be fixed to it ; it was
then agreed they should be burnt nigh it ; which was ac-
cordingly done by a Bonfire prepared for that Purpose,
amidst the loud Huzzas of the Assembly, and the Ashes
scattered in the Air: After which the Populace imme-
diately dispersed without doing any harm or making any
Disturbance. A number of Gentlemen returned to the
Coffee House, spent the Evening, and drank several loyal
Toasts, such as long Life and Prosperity to his Majesty
King George the Third ; Destruction to the Stamp Act, &c.
Boston Evening Post, February 3, 1766.
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Last Monday two Men were taken up and committed
to Goal at Newbury Port, for passing counterfeit Dollars.
Boston Evening Post, February 3, 1766.
Extract of a Letter from Salem, Feb. 6, 1766.
" I was apprehensive among other ill Effects of the
Stamp Act that some Distributors would not adhere to
their Oaths, but take all Advantages of Persons applying
for said Papers ; an Instance has occur'd that confirms me
in that Opinion ; I have a Vessel arrived from the Gren-
ades, and observing in the Captain's Account he charged
me with XI. 3s. 6d. paid for Stamp-Papers, I examined
him strictly upon it, he produced his Clearance, which was
stamp'd in two Places IIII. Paper I d . For this he told
me he was obliged to pay the Distributor 2<. 3d. Sterling,
as he did for every other Sheet he was obliged to take for
Cockets, &c. This is a moderate Advance thought by that
honest Distributor, viz. Three Times as much as he ought
to have take."
Boston Evening Post, February 10, 1766.
A Gentleman from Marblehead informs us, that on
Thursday last Capt. Bowden arrived there from Halifax,
& having expos'd stamped News Paper, which he brought
from thence, the Populace assembled to the Number of
several Hundreds on the Training-Hill (so called) where
they soon erected a stately Bonfire, with a Staff in the
Centre, whereon they hoisted the Object of their Dis-
pleasure, and the whole was consumed amidst the loudest
Acclamations of Loyalty to the King, and Love to their
Country. After this they retired to a Tavern, where
many Toasts expressive of their Regard to the happy
Constitution procur'd by their Ancestors, were drank ;
and Peace and good Harmony crown'd the Night.
We hear that on Wednesday last his Excellency, with
the Advice of his Majesty's Council, was pleased to ap-
point the Hon. Nathaniel Ropes, Esq., to be Judge of
Probate and first Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
for the County of Essex, in the Room of the Hon. John
Choate, Esq ; deceased. Also, to appoint the Hon. Wil-
294 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY.
Ham Bourn, Esq ; to be a Justices of Court of Common
Pleas for the same County.
Boston Evening Post, February 10, 1766.
We hear the Rev. Mr. Edward Barnard of Haverhill,
is chosen to preach the Sermon at the anniversary Elec-
tion of Counsellors for this Province in May next.
Boston Evening Post, February 24, 1766.
PORTSMOUTH, New-Hampshire, Feb. 28. Yesterday
five Barrels of Bisket, bro't from Newbury Port, was
seized by the Selectmen in this town and sent to the
Work-house, for the use of the Poor, which wanted near
one third of the weight required by the new Act.
Boston Evening Post, March 3, 1766.
Salem, March 1, 1766. All Persons who have Ac-
coumpts open with John Pratt, Margaret Pratt, or their
Daughters Maverick, Hannah, and Abigail Pratt, all of
said Salem, deceased, are desired soon to settle the same
with Ruth Jeffey, Executrix.
Boston Evening Post, March 3, 1766.
Messi'rs Printers, Nothing as yet having been inserted in
any of the Papers, relative to the Opposition that Newbury-
Port has made against the late detestable S p A t, who
have distinguished themselves as much (if not more) than any
Town in the Province, according to their Number, your insert-
ing the following will oblige some of your constant Customers.
On Feb. the 26th 1766, the Sons of Liberty got intel-
ligence of a Stamp Paper, they immediately went in
Pursuit after it, and found in the Hands of Mr. John
B rdm-n a stamp Clearance from Halifax to the West-
Indies, for the Schooner Defiance, with 70,000 Boards,
50,000 Shingles, and 10 Horses in said Clearance, which
they demanded of the said John ; and after some Debate
with great Reluctance he delivered the said Clearance,
saying, D -n it, there is .40 gone; they then carried
the said John before a justice, where he was sworn before
some Hundreds, that he had no other stamp Papers, nor
knew of any other in Town, nor would make use of any
again untill allow'd by the Province ; they then dismist
him with three Cheers. The next day his Effigie was
hung on Liberty- Tree near the lower Long Wharf, the
NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 295
detestable Clearance was fix'd on a Pole with a Chain,
carried thro' the Town with Drums beating, and Flag
flying, and other Music ; at 4 o'clock the Effigie was let
down, and that, with the Clearance, was burnt under the
Tree of Liberty, in the midst of the Acclamations of a
vast Number of Spectators, who then gave three Cheers,
and with the roaring of the Drums dispersed ; the whole
was conducted with the utmost Decency and Order.
Boston Evening Post, March 10, 1766.
TO BE SOLD by the Subscriber A Fine Farm about
twenty Miles from Boston, and within an Hour's Ride of
three Sea-port Towns, (viz.) Salem, Marblehead, and Bev-
erly, containing about Four hundred Acres of choice
Land, with three Dwelling-Houses situated for the Re-
ception of three Families, two of them being at each End
of the Farm, and the other about the Middle ; one of
them a genteel House, with a Kitchen, Barn Stables, &c.
calculated for a Gentleman of Fortune. The Farm is
divided into seventeen Partitions, each Partition, except
two small ones of about two Acres, having a Stream of
Water running through them which has not been known
to dry up in the dryest Season. The whole Farm is in-
closed with a Stone Wall between six and seven Feet
high, well built. William Burnet Browne.
Boston Evening Post, March 10, 1766.
By His EXCELLENCY FRANCIS BERNARD, Esq r
Captain-General and Governor in Chief, in and over his
Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-
England, and Vice- Admiral of the same.
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS a Representation hath been made to me by
the Hon. John ^Temple, Esq ; Surveyor-General of his
Majesty's Customs for the Northern District of America,
that a certain small Schooner, on the 9th of March In-
stant, put into the Harbour of Newbury-Port, below the
Town, and went out again the next Morning, which oc-
casioned a Suspicion that there had been Goods landed
from the said Schooner contrary to Acts of Trade ; where-
upon Mr. William Jenkins, an Officer of the Customs sta-
tioned at Newbury-Port aforesaid, did the next Day with.
296 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY'.
a Boat and some Men proceed to Salisbury Beach, and
there found and seized four Barrels of Sugar, three
Tierces and Twelve Hogsheads of Molasses ; but the tide
not serving till late in the Evening to bring the Boat and
Goods up to Town, the same were beset by six Boats full
of armed Men in Disguise, which took the Boat and Goods
from the said Officer by Force, together with the Boat he
went down in, leaving him and his Men on the Beach all
Night in a Snow Storm.
And whereas it is of great Importance to the Peace
and Order of this Government, and to the carrying into
Execution within the same, the several Acts of Parlia-
ment for regulating the Plantation Trade, that such high
handed Offenders should be brought to speedy and con-
dign Punishment:
I Have thought fit with the Advice of his Majesty's
Council to issue this Proclamation, hereby requiring all
Justices of the Peace, all Sheriffs and their Deputies, and
all Civil Officers in their several Districts and Depart-
ments within the said Province respectively, to use their
utmost Endeavours for discovering, apprehending, and
bringing to Justice the several Offenders aforementioned,
or any of them, and also to support and maintain the
Officers of the Customs in the Recovery of the said Ves
sel and Goods, and in all Matters relative thereto in the
duo Execution of their Office. And I do hereby
promise a Reward of Fifty Pounds, to be paid out
of the public Treasury, to any Person or Persons who
shall inform against or discover any one or more con-
cerned in these riotous and unlawful Proceedings, so that
he or they shall be convicted. And if the informer shall
have been an Accomplice or any Ways engaged in the
Offence aforesaid, he shall receive his Majesty's Pardon
and be also entituled to the Reward above-mentioned, upon
Conviction of the Party informed against as aforesaid.
Given under my Hand at Boston, the 15th Day of March,
1766, in the Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
GEORGE the Third, ly the Grace of GOD, of Great-Britain,
France, and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, c.
Fra. Bernard.
By His Excellency's Command, A. Oliver, Seer.
Boston Evening Post March 17, 1766.
HISTOKICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE
VOL. LI. OCTOBER, 1915 No. 4
YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM.
WRITTEN BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE IN 1869.
{Continued from Volume LI, page 56.)
Next to these shops of Ward and Manning, in Essex
street, was a house inhabited by Capt. Win. Ropes and
family, and later by Mr. Nichols, a shoemaker and sexton
of the East church ; and next to that an old house inhab-
ited by an eccentric old Scotchman, Capt. John McMel-
lon. He was very fond of playing practical jokes. He
put one on to me, very much to my chagrin. He had
some ducks swimming on one of the Common ponds, his
garden bordering on the Common. He said to me, " Boy,
if you will go over and drive my ducks home, I'll give
you what you never did see and never will see." Pleased
to earn anything, I waded into the pond, drove out the
ducks, put them in driving order and drove them home.
When I delivered them to the captain at his back door,
he praised me as a good boy, and said, I thank you, and
that's what you never did see and never will see." I had
to choke my rising resentment, for I feared him, but went
away with the resolution that he might take care of his
ducks in the future without my assistance. He after-
wards removed to Derby street, and lived several years
as a respectable man for aught I know.
The next house was occupied by two old ladies, named
Philpot and Gale. Samuel Very built a house on its
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298 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM,
site, which was afterwards owned and occupied by the
widow Sarah Johnson, from Marblehead.
On the corner of Essex and Pleasant streets, the house
now standing was occupied by Capt. James Archer who
commanded a coasting sloop between Salem and Boston,
and by his sister, widow Millett. This had been the
house of Deacon Prince, of the East church, and in this
house, it was said, the Council at the ordination of one
of the pastors of the East church was held and the dele-
gates were entertained. The house on .the corner of
Pleasant and Bath streets was owned and occupied by
Capt. Nathaniel Knight, who was a shipmaster and after-
wards wharfinger of Derby wharf. It was not a modern
house then, and is not much altered in appearance now.
Some houses were built in Bath street, after the Common
was levelled, and I remember among their inhabitants,
widow Roundy, from Beverly, mother of Capt. Charles,
Jonathan Mansfield, a tailor from Lynn, and whose
shop was on Water, now Derby street, and Mr. Harvey
Brown, a teacher, who was one of three male children at
a birth, and who all lived to an advanced age, Eppes, the
last survivor, having died in Boston, November, 1868. I
also recollect a family named Flint, and the three-story
house occupied by Col. Samuel Archer, and later by Capt.
Henry Elkins, who had been a shipmaster, and after-
wards a Judge of the Court of Sessions, and was then
Naval Officer of the Port of Salem and Beverly. His
only child, Harriet, married Col. Enoch Cutler, of the
U. S. Army. In 1791, Capt. Elkins commanded the brig
Harriet, of Salem, which was wrecked in the Tex el,
March 21st of that year, and he alone of the ship's com-
pany was saved. He was saved by clinging to a horse
which swam ashore.
Previous to 1802, the Common was uninclosed, and
horses, cattle, ducks, geese, hens, and stray pigs, had free
range. There were five small ponds, very shallow and
muddy, two others had been previously filled up. There
were several hillocks, and the southeast corner was always
inundated after a heavy rain, and after the subsidence of
much of the water, a considerable pond remained, which
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE, 299
was called Flag pond. Mr. Bentley says he had seen the
men who had cut flags and hoops on the Common, and
also that Madam Babbidge before named said that she
had frequently picked her basket of berries on it. At
the close of the last century the militia of Salem had
become disorganized and was destitute of officers. At
the last regimental parade, it is said, that but one com-
missioned officer appeared on parade, and he a captain.
In the spring of 1801, orders were issued by General
Gideon Foster, commanding the Division, to a number of
influential gentlemen of the town, to enroll all subject
to military duty, to form them into companies, and to call
meetings for choice of officers, This was done, and at a
meeting of these officers E.Hasket Derby was elected to the
command of the regiment, and Wm. Prescott and Benjamin
Pickman as Majors. Mr., afterwards Judge Prescott, was
then a lawyer in Salem, and here his son, the historian, was
born. Col. Derby was a very public-spirited gentleman,
and immediately agitated the project of levelling the
Common. A subscription was started by him, in which
he was liberally seconded by the citizens ; a generous sum
was subscribed, the town granted permission, and the
work was commenced and vigorously pursued under the
direction of Col. Derby. The work of levelling was
completed the following spring, and the land was sown
with oats. The earth taken from the hillocks was suffi-
cient to fill up the ponds. The whole was enclosed with
a railing of oak, and the walks were planted on each side
with a row of young poplar trees. There were four
gateways, north, east, south and west. The west and
east gates were highly ornamented with arches, carvings,
etc. (particularly the west one), which were designed and
executed by Mr. Samuel Mclntire, a very ingenious me-
chanic and architect of Salem. These were erected some
three or four years after the levelling and railing. At
the completion of the work in 1802 the Common was
called Washington Square, although the word Square as
applied to it is a misnomer, as the form is more nearly a
triangle. Among the items of expenses were, twenty
dollars for drink.
300 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALOI,
Early in the winter of 1807, I was passing across the
Common, and in the imperfect light of the early dawn I
perceived what appeared to- be two men suspended on a
gallows. On a nearer view, I found they were effigies
hung to a slight frame. One was dressed as an elderly
man, in a camlet cloak, spectacles on nose, and a placard
on his breast, inscribed " Killing no murder." The other
was dressed as a genteel man, in the costume of the day.
The one was intended to represent Chief Justice Parsons,
and the other Thomas O. Selfridge, a lawyer of Boston.
The cause of this was briefly as follows : The Republi-
cans of Boston celebrated the 4th of July preceding, and
dined together. A dispute arose between the caterer and
the committee, and Selfridge, as attorney, had the busi-
ness of the committee in his hands. An angry newspaper
controversy took place between the Hon. Benjamin Aus-
tin and Selfridge. Mr. Austin was a well-known political
writer for the Boston Chronicle and other papers, over
the signature of " Honestus." His son Charles, a youth,
about 19 years of age, a student of Harvard College,
met Selfridge, I think in State street, and attempted ^to
chastise him. Selfridge drew a pistol and shot Charles
through the body, who immediately expired. In Self-
ridge's justification it was said that he retreated from
Austin and shot him in self-defence. The affair took on
a party character, and the Republicans were very indig-
nantly excited about it. Selfridge's trial took place the
autumn following, and he was acquitted. Judge Par-
sons's charge to the jury was said to be very much in
favor of the accused, and was very severely commented
on in the Republican papers and by the party generally.
I think I have given a substantially correct account of
this affair, though I don't remember to have read an ac-
count of it since the time of its occurrence. I believe
that Selfridge was the father of Capt. Selfridge of the
U. S. Navy. The effigies were soon cut down, as was
said, by some workmen from Deacon Adams's cabinet-
maker's shop.
In the year 1806, June 16th, I witnessed the total
eclipse of the sun. I was in Derby street, and saw the
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 301
cows go home from the Neck, though it was then in the
forenoon. The total darkness lasted about four minutes.
Many stars were seen, and the morning star shone very
bright.
The Common on a general training day or other public
gala day presented a very animated scene. Refreshment
tents were planted on each side of New bury street, both
sides of Bath street, and on the south side of Brown
street, in which were for sale various kinds of spirituous
liquors and various kinds of food and confectionery. In
some, fiddles and other musical instruments were being
played to attract customers, to the music of which men
and boys would be dancing without. Of more humble
character, would be tables and stands of oysters and other
commodities, to which customers were called by loud
outcries. Gambling tables, dice boards, and roulette and
wheel-of-fortune tables, not sparsely varied the scene.
Here might be seen boys and men throwing props, pitch-
ing coppers, and gambling in various ways. Fights were
not infrequent, and attracted large crowds, to whom a
cracked pate or a bloody nose seemed to give great satis-
faction. Spirituous liquors were freely served to the
man or boy who could pay for them ; there was no other
restriction, and as may be well imagined, the fruits of
intemperance were apparent. Those times are happily
gone, and it is hoped never to return, though 1 must con-
fess that I thought them jolly at the time. Happy was
the boy then who had a pistareen (20 cents) in his
pocket on training morning, and happy he, who had es-
caped the temptations of the day, if his pockets were
lighter, could lay his head on the pillow with no unquiet
reflections and could enjoy a quiet and refreshing sleep ;
less happy he to whom the sober second thought of the
morning came with the parched mouth, the aching head,
and the rue of the previous day's debauch. We have
improved in external decency since that time, and I hope
in morals. Salem has improved in many things since that
time, maugers and croakings of those who have indulged
in the habit of croaking till it has become morbid peo-
ple who were born bilious and have bad digestion.
302 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM,
When I first began to look about me and comprehend
a little of what was around me, say in 1800. Salem con-
tained 9457 inhabitants. In 1810 we had increased to
12,609, and I suppose we have now 25,000 or more.
These ten years were years of great commercial prosperi-
ty, for, in consequence of the wars of Europe, American
vessels had the larger part of the carrying trade of the
world. During this period real estate increased in value,
to nearly what it is worth now. Then succeeded the em-
bargo, non-intercourse and war, and we remained station-
ary; real estate depreciated, and commerce from that
time to this has gradually decayed : but other interests
have sprung up, to more than compensate the loss. Then
we had one small duck factory ; now, I believe our cotton
factories put bread into more mouths than our commerce
did in the most palmy days. Then, we had no means of
communication with Boston, but with a few stage coaches,
which were dragged on their lumbering way around
through Maiden and Medford, for the turnpike was not
then built. Contrast that with the multitude of steam
cars of the present day, ramifying at short intervals to
every point of the compass. Then we had no police or
police regulations, a few ancient men were the constables,
made so because the emolument yielded them a scanty
support. Disorderly persons thronged our streets, fights
between the boys of different sections of the town were
common, and frozen snowballs, stones and brickbats, were
hurled with no heed to consequences, and no one to inter-
fere to prevent the riotous affrays. Then our streets
were little attended to. Some man was chosen surveyor
of the highways, and he occasionally employed a few
men to work out their tax, and some few others to haul
on and spread some rotten rock and gravel, but in general
the streets were very badly drained, and they were almost
always very muddy. There were no brick sidewalks, the
first one being laid in 1803, and they were not very nu-
merous twenty years after that. At the close of 1802,
some individuals, at their own expense, erected some
street lamps, few and far between, and the town agreed
to have them lighted, and in a few years, in a n't of
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE.
303
economy or parsimony, to which municipal authorities of
these days are not very subject, they were taken down,
and were not relighted till 1835. Dry goods stores were
scattered about the town, many of them being kept in
part of the residences of the proprietors. One of the
principal ones, General Amos Hovey's, was in Neptune
street, near Gardner's distillery, and another, Mr. Mans-
field's, was in Summer street, on part of the ground oc-
cupied by Mr. John P. Peabody's new house.
Then, some of the buildings jutted out ten or twelve
feet beyond the present line of the street, and so recently
as 1845 the houses of Capt. John Dwyer and the Warden
house, on Essex street, were moved back ten feet, and the
old building, so well known to the children of that neigh-
borhood and period, where they bought candy, nuts, gin-
gerbread, and other nice copper worths, from Ma'am De-
land and Sally Bacon, and which was in front of Mr.
Charles Farrington's house, was demolished. Then we
had one mail a day to and from Boston, and the letters
for Danvers, Middleton, Topsfield and Boxford, came to
this office and were detained till called for. Then we
had to wait five or ten days from the delivery of the
President's message till we received it. Then the emolu-
ments of the office were not sufficient to induce a one-
armed constable, to whom it was offered, to accept it, as
they would not support his family. Then railroads and
steam cars had not been dreamed of, except possibly by
Friar Bacon or the Marquis de Worcester, and even Bish-
op Wilkins, who said the time was coming when a man
bound on a journey would call for his wings as he then
did for his horse, in his brightest visions did not foresee
the time when a girdle would be put around the world
that would flash intelligence to distant points in forty
minutes.
I have before stated that there were no houses in
Bridge street, except five or six very old ones, and that
none of the streets, save two that now intersect it, were
opened. North Salem, except on the line of North street,
was pasture land, on which I have often picked berries
and dug yellow dock root. Mason street was Paradise
304 YOUTHFUL RECOLLECTIONS OF SALEM,
road, a favorite promenade for the boys and girls, and
where barberries grew in abundance. Harmony Grove
was a wild pasture, and School street was Dark lane, with
scarcely a house on it. Carl ton ville was the Quaker
pasture, in which a few Friends pastured their horses,
and the out of town Friends theirs, when they came to
"tugrnutton " and their other meetings. Now it is cov-
ered with houses and tanneries, and I suppose that the
smallest one there turns out more leather than did the
ten that were in town sixty years ago. Then the process
had probably not much improved since that of Simon of
Joppa, but now, by the use of hot liquors and chemicals,
it is turned out much more expeditiously. Nauvoo, or
Picker ingville, was then Broad Fields, with not a house
there ; now it is covered with handsome buildings occu-
pied by a thrifty population.
Previous to 1806, there was a road to Marblehead in
South Fields, but not the broad and noble Lafayette street
that is there now. The road to Marblehead was by the
grist mills, now removed, and I heard an old farmer from
Danvers, when the Normal and High Schools were con-
templated, threaten to apply for an injunction, as he said
that was the county road to Marblehead. In 1806, E.
Hersey Derby and others petitioned to have a bridge built
from the foot of Central St., then Market St., to South
Fields. This met with great opposition and town meeting
after town meeting was held on the subject. Though a
boy, I took a strong interest in the subject and joined in
the great excitement that existed. The town finally
voted to have the bridge built. The vote on the question
was, for, 341 ; against, 184 ; and the bridge was accord-
ingly built. At this time there were a few houses on
Harbor street, and a very few elsewhere in South Fields.
Stage Point, which, I have heretofore said, had been the
property of the Browne family, extended along the river
where Peabody street now is, to the point below the cot-
ton factory, and was used as a yard for building ships by
Enos Briggs, who built the frigate Essex, and he had his
house, as did also his son Samuel his, on Harbor street,
both now standing.
BY BENJAMIN F. BROWNE. 305
The opposition to the bridge was made principally by
the owners of the lands and wharves above it, but the
event proved that instead of lessening, it increased the
value of their lands. South Salem then commenced to
grow, and has continued and will continue to grow, and
is now the most beautiful portion of the town.
Then we had three grammar schools and one Latin
grammar school, and a few private schools. The school-
houses were old, the benches inconvenient, the masters,
though worthy men, were behind even those times ; the
school books very few, and in some cases two or three
scholars had to use the same book. There were no pri-
mary schools, no schools for girls, and the only chance of
instruction the girls had was in an hour's attendance in
the boys' school when the boys were dismissed. The only
branches taught were the three R's, " reading, 'riting and
'rithmetic." Grammar was untaught, although they were
called grammar schools, and geography was an unknown
study. These schools turned out many excellent writers,
in which respect our present schools are, I think, deficient.
Yet from these schools came many of our successful mer-
chants, our excellent shipmasters, our skillful artisans,
and our respectable citizens. They made the best use of
small opportunities.
A GENEALOGICAL -HISTORICAL VISITATION
OF ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863.
BY ALFRED POOEE, M. D.
(Continued from Volume L, page 264')
The mill house was built about 1790, and among those
who occupied it within his recollection were Carleton
Parker, Levi Trull, Peter Dane, widow Clark, and one
Stone, an Irishman.
Among slaves owned in Andover were Prince, father
of Peter, who married the Clark girl. Prince was a ser-
vant of Timothy Ames, a captain in the Revolutionary
army. Salem and his wife Ream, both from Africa, were
parents of Prince, and servants of Rev. Mr. Phillips, the
first minister. Pomp, who was bought in Dracut by
Deacon Love joy, and Rose, his wife, who was servant of
Mr. Chadwick in Boxford. Titus, and Rose, his wife,
who lived near the seminary.
Mr. Mace, who settled on Tewksbury street, was a na-
tive of New bury port, and married a Miss Shedd of
Tewksbury.
A. A. Abbott says that Marr's swamp took its name
from an African by that name who owned it at one time.
Caesar Simpson, who lived where James Brown now re-
sides ; was from Africa. He was very conscientious, and
one week he lost the track of time and worked all day
Sunday until his neighbors informed him what day it
was. He kept the next day as Sunday. His wife was
Dinah, and the road there is called Dinah road.
The Lowell Railroad was opened from Wilmington to
Andover on Aug. 8, 1836. Edward Sweeney, aged six-
teen years, was run over near Ballardvale and killed,
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A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION. 307
Sept. 20, 1848. The house where Fessenden now resides
on High street was built by one Benson for Enoch Lewis.
Andrew B. Stirnpson, who came from New York to
Andover in 1836, was born in Hebron, Me., where his
grandfather owned nearly all of the township. He ex-
changed his farm, now occupied by J. J. Pearson, with
John Marland, for the goods in the store on the corner of
River street, and with one Dole from Haverhill, made
additions to the stock. The firm later was Calder and
Dole, and they sold out to Southwick & Son. Mrs. Stimp-
son had a fancy goods store at her house.
Miss Thompson, from Tewksbury, had a shop built for
her in the rear of the French house, where she carried on
a millinery business.
Mr. Walton is son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Diggles),
and was born in Bury, Lancashire, Eng., in 1817. He
landed at New York Apr. 28, 1837. Mr. Fessenden, son
of Ichabod and Rebecca (Munroe) Fessenden, was born
in 1816. He is superintendent of the file shop.
Mr. Cavanaugh is son of Thomas and Margaret (Brad-
ley) Cavanaugh. George Murphy built his house about
1840. John, son of George and Elizabeth (Wildes)
Walker, was born in Aston in 1823, and came to America
in 1844. His wife Ruth is daughter of William and Mary
Mitchell, who was born in Lancaster, Eng., in 1826. He
is a weaver. Children : Isaac Thomas, b. Portsmouth,
N. H., 1853 ; George Albert, b. September, 1855 ; Fred-
erick William, b. 1858 ; Ralph Lincoln, b. Portsmouth,
1860; Mary Elizabeth, b. 1863.
Joseph Moore, who resides in the northern part of
Thomas Cavanaugh's house, is son of John and Sarah
(Howe) Moore, and was born near Exeter, in Devonshire,
Eng., in 1826. He came to America in 1848, landing at
St. Johns, N.B., and came to the States on Aug. 26, 1856.
His wife Ellen was daughter of Edward and Ellen Kearns.
John Donnelly, who boards with Leonard on Centre
street, is son of Patrick and Hannah McMann Donnelly,
and was born in Milltown, Armah County, Ireland, in
1840. He came to America when six years old with his
parents, his father now residing in New York.
308 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
The house where Jabez S. Wood and Walker live was
built in 1845.
Ralph Partington's wife Elizabeth was daughter of
John and Elizabeth (Carr) Blyth, who was born in Gall-
ashiels, Scotland, July, 1845.
John Curry is a watchman for the Whipple File Com-
pany, and is son of William and Mary (Cassidy) Curry.
He was born in Ireland Nov. 10, 1826, and landed in
Quebec in 1834, coming to Lowell on June 16 of that
year. His wife Lorinda is daughter of James and Alice
(McMann) McMorrow, who was born in Ballyshannon,
December, 1831. Children : William and Alice, b. Feb-
ruary, 1853; Margaret, b. January, 1855; James, b. July
20, 1856 ; Charles, b. Dec., 1858; John Edward, b. 1861.
Sylvanus, son of Thomas and Ducet (Curtis) Perry,
was born at Prince Edwards Island in 1836.
The oakum mill was burned in 1853, and the White
boarding house in 1850-1.
Called upon Mr. Lombard, who says his name is Rob-
ert Robinson, son of Timothy Hall and Elizabeth (Robin-
son) Lombard, and was born in Springfield, June 2, 1840.
He came to Ballardvale Apr. 6, 1863. His wife Sarah is
daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Frith) Leeson, and was
born in York, Eng., Dec. 7, 1840, coming to America in
1842 with her parents.
Mr. Drew is son of Fernando Cortez and Mary (Taylor)
Drew, and was born in Exeter, N. H., in 1839, coming to
Ballardvale in October, 1862. His wife Mary Elizabeth is
daughter of Artemas and Lorinda (Healy) Parker, and was
born in Chelmsford in 1843. Children : Mary Elizabeth,
b. Manchester, Nov., 1860, and Charles' G., died young.
James Milton Hollingworth, son of George and Betty
(Rotliff) Hollingworth, was born in Huddersfield in 1807.
He came to America when he was sixteen years old and
lived near Oxford. His wife was Lucy, daughter of
Curtis and Loranah (Purinton) Swett, who was born in
Windham, Me., in 1807. He came from Fitchburg to
Ballardvale in July, 1863. Child : Mary Frances, b.
Templeton, June, 1850. His first wife was Mary Shaw,
who died in 1848, aged thirty-nine years, by whom he
had : Frederick M., who married Almira Litch ; Wash-
ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 809
ington Irving, b. Oxford, married Jenny Martin and lives
in Fitchburg with children Walter and Charles ; Benja-
min F. ; James Byron, married Anna Jane Smith of
Fitchburg; David Milton, married Mary Thompson and
lives in Fitchburg ; Hannah F., Georg;e, and John Q.
History of the Ballardvale school district, taken from
the report of a committee appointed April 5, 1852 : The
town of Andover, in November, 1837, voted to set off
from Osgood district, John Marland, Daniel Poor, N. D.
Barnes, Andrew Scott, Joseph Clark, H. P. Chandler,
Levi Davis, S. L. Barnes, John Harraden, as a separate
district. The first meeting was held Feb. 25, 1838, and
the first school was opened in the building owned by
John Marland, near the junction of the roads leading to
Andover and Tewksbury. In 1845, this building was
purchased by the district. In 1848, a new schoolhouse
was built at a cost of between five and six thousand dol-
lars. It was of two stories, with stores in the basement.
The old building was sold for $400. The new building
was destroyed by fire in February, 1849, and another of
the same size erected, which is still standing. The build-
ing committee was E. Green, B. P. Pillsbury, Enoch
Lewis, C. L. Dearborn and J. S. Rand. J. S. Hoskins
commenced keeping store here in 1 849, and the Ballard-
vale Union society rented the hall March 20, 1851.
Owing to business depression after the house was built,
it was in the opinion of some that a mistake had been
made in cost and location. The debt of the district was
such that it was hard to get money, and they were obliged
to pay a high rate of interest, with a large bonus. In June,
1851, they were obliged to pay 800 bonus and nearly $50
for travelling expenses to hire money, and at that time
were in debt -17000. About 150 pupils attended the school.
The eastern part of the brick mill was built in 1835
and the western part in 1839. The gas ell was where
the delaine was singed, and it was first lighted by gas in
1859. In one of the buildings a picnic was held on July
4, 1860, before it was opened. The engine company had
their present engine, named " Ballardvale," for the occa-
sion, and marched to town and back in uniform. The old
engine was named the " Cataract," and was bought in Bos-
310 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF
ton. There was preaching in the white boarding house
occasionally on Sunday evenings, until the first school-
house was built. There have also been debating clubs, and at
the time the machine shop started there was a reading room
in the hall which was made in the addition to the tavern.
Mrs. Sarah, widow of Stephen Densmore, came from
Methuen to Ballardvale in 1848. He was born in Sidney,
Me., and died in February, 1852. She is a daughter of
Dea. Eben and Phebe (Russell) Lovejoy, her mother
being a daughter of John Russell of Scotland district,
and born in 1807 in West Andover, where Mr. Carooth now
resides. Her only child was Ann Eliza, b. Boston, 1833,
who married Isaac Octavius, son of Samuel Phelps and
Persis (Bodwell) Blunt, who was born in Scotland district
in 1827. Their children were: Annie Marie, b. Oct.,
1854 ; Frederick Octavius, b. Dec., 1858 ; William Pierce,
died young. Dea. Eben Lovejoy was son of Jeremiah
and Dolly (Ballard) Lovejoy. Mr. Densmore's mother
was Ann Butterfield. Mr. Blunt's boarders were his
brother Joshua Milton,wife Lydia Ann and daughter Maria.
John Nevil came to Ballardvale in August, son of Henry
and Elizabeth (Turner) Nevil, and was born in Stafford-
shire, Eng. At the age of two years, he came to America
with his parents, in 1816. His wife Margaret was daugh-
ter of John and Sarah (White) Buchanan, and was born
near Dublin, Ire., in 1827. She came to America in
April, 1840. Children : Elizabeth, died young ; Sarah
Elizabeth, b. 1848; Margaret Ann, b. 1850; Josephine,
b. 1852; Matilda, b. 1855 ; John Henry, b.1857 ; Joseph
and Augusta, died young.
Joseph Morley, who came from Amesbury to this house
July 20, 1863, was son of Robert and Ann (Barleigh)
Morley, and was born in England in 1826. He came to
America about 1857. His wife Ann is daughter of Sam-
uel and Elizabeth (Arkley) Bottomley, and was born in
Ashton, Lancashire, Eng., in 1826. They had one child,
Henry, who died young.
In the Nevil family is a colored boy, Charlie Johnson,
an orphan from the asylum in New York, who has been
with them since September, 1859.
William Bell came from Lawrence, a wool sorter, son
ANDOVER MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 311
of Edward and Ann Bell, who was brought up in Brad-
ford, West Riding of Yorkshire, June 27, 1822, having
been christened at Bingley church. He came to America
in July, 1848. His wife Louisa is daughter of William
and Amelia (Butler) Pierce, and was born in Mulchshum,
Wiltshire, Eng., twelve miles from Bath, in 1828, and
came to America in 1848. Children : Alfred William,
b. Wilmington, March, 1853 ; Amelia Butler, b. Lowell,
Feb., 1857.
A record of Nathan and Lucy (Ballard) Chandler's
family: N. Chandler died Jan. 27, 1837, aged eighty
years, and his wife Lucy died June 8, 1827, aged sixty-
seven years. Cecelia Macauley's husband, John Macauley,
died in Boston in 1860. She had three children who died
young. She was the daughter of John and Mary Neary,
and was born in Drumore, Ire., about 1825. Charles Frye
kept store with Dascomb when Rider kept the Ballardvale
house. Hector P. Linn, son of Walter, carried on the
tailoring business from 1842 to 1845. Mrs. Watson was
a dressmaker, who occupied the long building next to Mr.
Linn's house. Samuel Southwick and his son Samuel A.,
left Ballardvale in July, 1859. The second addition to
the first brick mill was made in 1839.
Monday, Nov. 2, 1863, went to Andover, had supper at
William Allen's, near Ballardvale, and the next day, at 9
A. M., started toward Boston to call on Henry Sheldon in
Wilmington. He had gone to Cambridge market, so went
to Woburn Centre and called upon Mr. Boutelle. He
was not at his house on top of Prospect hill, but I saw
him near the depot and talked with him on genealogy.
He says he is engaged on the Burke and Alvord families,
and that Mr. Sewall is writing a history of Burlington
and Woburn. Mr. Wyman, the present town clerk of
Woburn, is somewhat interested in the history of towns
and genealogies. Called on Mrs. Marston, who owns the
house next to George L. Hunt's in Charlestown.
Nov. 5, 1863, came to board with the widow Boynton
on Lowell street, Ballardvale. Alexander Winning has
resided in the first house on the street from Capt. Pills-
bury's toward Hackett's pond since about 1851. He
came from the house where Adding Smith now resides in
312 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION.
West Andover, which place they occupied about 1840.
Mr. Winning is a native of Billerica, son of John and
Elizabeth (Parker) Winning, his mother being a daughter
of David Parker. His wife Mary Ann is daughter of
Dea. John and Mary (Hay) Murray, who was born in
Charlestown. Their children are Mary Lizzie, b. April,
1843, and Martha Caroline, b. 1845. Alfred, son of Isaac
and Eliza (Chaff ee) Brown, born in 1838, came from
Billerica in December, 1862 ; is a carpenter in the file
shop, and boards with Mr. Winning. This place formerly
belonged to the old Upton farm, and Mr. Winning bought
it of Edward, son of Abiel Upton, who built the house.
George Upton has resided in his house since he was
married. He is son of Abiel and Mary Upton, and was
bom here in 1799. His wife is Elizabeth, daughter of
Ezekiel and Hannah Hardy, who was born in 1800 in
North Andover, at the ferry. Sutton's factory is oppo-
site her father's house, where her brother now resides.
Her grandfather Hardy died near Frye village. He had
three wives, and his children were : Daniel, who went to
Canada about 1805 and has not been heard from ; Ezekiel,
Mrs. Hardy's father, who died in September, 1862, aged
eighty-six years ; Elizabeth, who married Peter Matthew
and settled in Salem ; Martha ; Friend, who settled in
Dracut, and had sons Isaac and John and a daughter who
married Philip Stevens of Andover. Ezekiel Hardy
married, first, Hannah Clark, from Saco, Me., who died
in September, 1832, aged about sixty years, and he mar-
ried, second, Hannah Stiles of Wilmington, who died in
November, 1858, without children. Children : Lavina,
married John Starker from Ireland and lives in Haver-
hill ; Elizabeth (Mrs. Upton) ; Isaac Moore, born in
North Andover and lives on his grandfather's place ;
Boynton, who resides on the homestead of his father,
married Mary Carleton ; Emily, married Daniel Luke,
from Nova Scotia, who was born in Ireland, and lives in
Lowell; Franklin, married Lucy Swanson of Newbury,
and lives in Littleton, N. H. ; Hiram, married Charlotte
McGee, resided in North Andover, and died suddenly in
May, 1863, leaving four children and a son who died young.
(To be continued.)
THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
(Continued from Volume LI, page
The children of Mr. Plumer were as follows :
1010 I.
101111.
1012 in.
1013 iv.
1014 v.
1015 vi.
CATHERINE 7 , born in 1782.
JONATHAN 7 ; studied at Greersburg and afterwards at
Canonsburg and was licensed to preach the gospel;
graduated at Princeton; preached about a year; and
died of consumption about 1808.
7^
ROBERT 7 .
7
JOHN MCALLISTER 7 , born Dec. 29, 1799, in Greersburg.
He lived near Marietta, O., his parents residing with
him. He was a man of integrity and consistent
Christian character ; his neighbors valued his coun-
sel and sought his sympathy in their afflictions. He
married Jane Hamilton Fulton in 1831; and she died
in 1888. Mr. Plumer died, after a blindness of five
years, at his home, near Lower Newport, Washing-
ton county, O., May 10, 1889, at the age of eighty-
nine. They had three sons and a daughter.
1016 vii. WILLIAM SWAN : , born July 25, 1802, in Greersburg. He
went to Kanawha county, Va., and studied with
Doctor McElheny, and graduated at Washington Col-
lege, in Lexington, Va., in 1823, and at Princeton
Theological Seminary in 1826, being licensed to
preach at Monmouth, N. J. He began his ministry
as an evangelist at Warrenton, N. C., and in the ad-
jacent region, and also at Danville, Va. He married
Mrs. Eliza G. Hazen of Hillsboro', N. C., in 1829;
and then became pastor of Briery church, Charlotte
county, Va. In 1831, he became a pastor in Peters-
burg, Va., and in 1834 accepted a call to the First
(313)
314 THE PLUMBR GENEALOGY.
church of Richmond, Va., where he remained thir-
teen years, exerting a wide influence. He established
the Watchman of the South in 1837, and was its ed-
itor eight years. In 1847, he accepted a call to the
Franklin Street church, Baltimore, where he remained
for seven years. In 1854, the General Assembly
meeting in Buffalo elected him to the chair of Sys-
tematic and Pastoral Theology in the Western Theo-
logical Seminary at Allegheny; and while performing
those services he was pastor of the Central Presby-
terian church of Allegheny. In 1862, he resigned
both professorship and pastorate, and went to Phila-
delphia, where he remained until the close of the
war. From 1865 to 1867, he was pastor of a church
in Pottsville, Pa. In the latter year he was called to
the chair of Didactic Theology, in the Theological
Seminary of the Southern Presbyterian church at
Columbia, S. C., where, after a number of years, he
retired as Professor Emeritus. He was an incessant
worker and able preacher, and had a thorough knowl-
edge of the Bible. His wife died Oct. 30, 1878; and
he died at the Union Protestant Infirmary, Balti-
more, Oct. 22, 1880, at the age of seventy-eight. One
of his children married Douglass Plumer of Colum-
bia, S. C., and another married S. S. Bryan of Alle-
gheny.
497
HON. GEORGE PLUMER 6 , born within three miles of
Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh, Pa., in 17 . He was a mem-
ber of congress from Pennsylvania in the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth congresses. He resided in Westmoreland
county, about twenty-five miles from Pittsburgh. He
married .
Child :
10171. 7 ; married Smith.
507
JOHN PLUMER 6 , born in Newbury, Mass., Feb. 1, 1770.
He was a yeoman, and lived in Newbury. He married
Sarah, daughter of John and Mary (Little) Moody April
24, 1796. She was born Jan. 23, 1772 ; and died in
1853. He died June 21, 1861, at the age of ninety-one.
BY SIDNEY PEELEY. 315
Their children were born in Newbury, as follows :
10181. JOHN MooDY 7 , born March 2, 1797. See family numbered
" 1018."
1019n. JOANNA 7 , born Oct. 2, 1798; married Nathaniel Grant,
son of Samuel Spiller of Rowley, April 11, 1827; lived
in Boxford; she died in 1850.
1020 in. JONATHAN 7 , born Jan. 7, 1801; died Jan. 27, 1806.
1021 iv. AMOS MOODY 7 , born Nov. 4, 1802; died Jan. 5, 1822.
1022 v. SARAH 7 , born Nov. 1, 1804; lived in Newbury; and died,
unmarried, Oct. 9, 1841, aged thirty-six.
1023 vi. LYDiA 7 , born Dec. 28, 1806; married Silas Pearson Dec.
26, 1832.
1024 vii. MARY 7 , born Sept. 5, 1808; married, first, Eleazer F.
Keyes of Orford, N. H., March , 1834; and, second,
Benjamin Spiller; and she was the latter's widow in
1857.
1025 vin. REBECCA 7 ; married, first, Ebenezer S. Keyes Nov. 30,
1830; and, second, Joseph Oliver.
510
JONATHAN PLUMER S , born in Rowley, Mass., in 1768 ;
baptized Jan. 10, 1768. He married Hannah Jewett; and
died in Waterford, Me., at the age of eighty-five.
Children :
1026 i. STEPHEN 7 ; went to Kansas, and died there, He had
children, who went to California.
1027 n. MARK 7 ; died when about ten years old.
1028 III. EDNAH 7 .
1029 iv. 7 (daughter) ; died unmarried.
511
SAMUEL PLUMER, born in Rowley, Mass., Nov. 30,
1769. He settled in Waterford, Me. ; and married Eliza-
beth Jewett.
Children :
10301. DANIEL 7 ; died in Waterford.
1031 n. EBEN 7 ; died in Waterford.
1032 in. SAMUEL 7 ; died in Waterford.
1033 iv. CYRUS 7 ; lived in Bath, Me., about 1882.
1034 v. GEORGE 7 ; lived in Waterford about 1882.
1035 vi. EDWIN 7 ; died unmarried.
1036 vii. 7 (daughter).
1037 vni. 7 (daughter).
316 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
512
BBADSTEEET PLUMER 6 , born in Rowley, Mass., in 1772.
He was a yeoman, and lived in his native town. He
married, first, Hannah Todd June 21, 1798 ; and she
died Dec. 26, 1799. He married, second, Anne, daughter
of James and Anna (Sawyer) Todd July 7, 1801. He
died Nov. 17, 1851, in his eightieth year ; and she died
May 25, 1858, at the age of eighty-five.
The children of Mr. Plumer were born in Rowley, as
follows :
10381. SYLVIA', born Jan. 21, 1799; died Aug. 6, 1815.
1039n. NANCY', born July 27, 1802 ; died, unmarried, June ,
1859, aged fifty-six.
1040 in. ELIZABETH BKADSTBEET', born March 4, 1804; married
Capt. Benjamin H. Smith of Rowley Nov. 2, 1826.
1041 iv. BBADSTBEET 7 , born Dec. 26, 1805. See family numbered
" 1041."
1042 v. JONATHAN 7 , born Dec. 29, 1807. See family numbered
" 1042."
1043 vi. JAMES TODD ? ; born Jan. 9, 1810; married, first, Mary
Harris, daughter of Joshua Jewett, Jan. 1, 1839 ; she
died June 3, 1844, aged thirty-five; he married, sec-
ond, Martha, daughter of Harris, and widow of
Bullen, Jan. 17, 1847. He had no children.
1044 vii. SAMUEL 7 , born Aug. 31, 1811. See family numbered
"1044."
1045 vni. MEHiTABLE 7 , born July 6, 1816; married Oliver Atkin-
son, son of Achilia and Nancy (Staples) Rundlett Oct.
29, 1844. He was born in Tamworth, N. H. t June 10,
1820.
1046 ix. DANIEL 7 , born Aug. 31, 1820; died March 9, 1844, aged
twenty-three.
520
SAMUEL SOMBRBY PLUMER 6 , born in Newburyport,
Mass., Oct. 6, 1776. He lived in his native town. He
married, first, Mary Edwards Sept. 29, 1801. She died,
and he married, second, Mary Chase of Hampstead, N. H.,
Oct. 26, 1813. She died Oct. 25, 1816, at the age of
thirty-four ; and he married, third, widow Lovey Edwards
Dec. 21, 1825.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 317
The children of Mr. Plumer were born in Newbury-
port, as follows :
1047 i. DANIEL', born June 2, 1803; married Sarah Scott June
7, 1825; and died in 1853.
1048n. MARY CHASE T , born Oct. 13, 1816; married Greenleaf
Boardman.
1049 in. LYDIA JANE T , born Oct. 10, 1826; died young.
526
ISAAC C. PLUMER 6 , born in Jefferson, Me., about 1795.
He married twice, and died April 18, 1881.
Children :
10501. 7 .
1051n. 7 .
1052 in. 7 .
1053 iv. 7 .
1054 v. 7 .
1055 vi. 7 .
1056 vn. 7 .
1057 vim. 7 .
1058 ix. 7 .
1059 x. 7 .
1060 xi. ISAAC F. 7 , born Feb. 22, 1854; was living, unmarried, in
Chelsea, Me., about 1882.
528
JOSEPH PLUMER 7 , born in Hawke (now Danville),
N. H., Feb. 8, 1771. He married Hannah Elkins Jan. 20,
1803. She was born Oct. 21, 1778. He died April 9,
1842, at the age of seventy-one.
Children :
10611. RICHARD S , born Nov. 25, 1805. See family numbered
" 1061."
1062 n. JOANNA", born Dec. 10, 1807, at Gilmanton, N. H.; mar-
ried John S. Gilman in 1835; and she died in Moul-
tonboro' Sept. 24, 1872.
1063 in. SALLY 8 , born Nov. 3, 1810, in Gilmanton; married John
L. Osgood of Gilford, N. H.; and died at Laconia,
May 25, 1856, at the age of forty-five.
1064 iv. JAMES 8 , born Dec. 15, 1815, in Laconia. See family
numbered * 1064."
1065 v. LYDiA 8 , born Aug. 6, 1818.
1066 vi. JOSEPH 8 , born Dec. , 181-, in Belmont, N. H. ; died
young.
318 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
529
SAMUEL PLUMERS born in 17 . He married Eliza-
beth Norris.
Children :
10671. JOSEPH A. 8 , born Oct. 27, 1800. See family numbered
" 1067."
1068 ii. SAMUEL 8 , born in 1804. See family numbered "1068."
531
HENRY PLUMER T , born March 20, 1782. He married
Sarah Piper, who was born Jan. 12, 1784.
Children :
10691. JOHN C. 8 , born Jan. 9, 1804, at Gilford, N. H. See family
1070n. JONES", born March 1, 1807, at Gilford. See family
numbered " 1070."
1071 in. WILLIAM', born Sept. 4, 1808. See family numbered
41 1071."
1072 iv. LEVi 8 , born July 14, 1812.
1073 v. SARAH*, born Aug. 1, 1814; married Joseph Stevens in
1832.
1074 vi. ABIGAIL*, born March 23, 1818; married Abel Davis, jr.,
% in Winchester, N. H. He died there Aug. 29, 1877.
1075 vii. HENRY 8 , born Sept. 24, 1820, at Gilford. See family
numbered " 1075."
1076 vni. SUSAN H. 8 , born July 2, 1823(8?), at Gilmanton Iron-
works; married Ira M. Flanders Nov. 10, 1850. He
was in the army, and died at Washington May 17,
1863.
1077 ix. APHIAH T. 8 , born Sept. 17, 1826; married, first, Joseph
C. Sawyer in 1849; and, second, Henry Aldrich March
1, 1855.
532
RICHARD PLUMER T , born March 29, 1786. He mar-
ried Mary Perry.
Children :-
10781. HiRAM 8 , born Oct. 12, 1809. See family numbered
" 1078."
1079 n. BETSEY S , born Jan. 11, 1811; married Richard W. Crane.
1080 in. HENRY', born May 20, 1814. See family numbered
"1080."
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 319
1081 iv. MARY J. s , born July 19, 1817; married Rev. Daniel
Batchelder of Campton, N. H., Jan. 28, 1851.
1082 v. RICHARD J. 8 , born July 25, 1819. See family numbered
" 1082."
1083 vi. JOSEPH F. 8 , b. July 11, 1822.
1084 vii. GEORGE W. S. 9 , born Aug. 3, 1825. See family numbered
"1084."
533
PHILIP PLUMER 7 , born Oct. 30, 1788(9 ?). He married
Betsey Randlett, at Gilmanton, on Thanksgiving day,
Nov. , 1811 ; and died in Groton, N. H., Sept. 2,
1863.
Children :
10851. JOSIAH R. 8 , born May 18, 1812. See family numbered
11 1085."
1086 n. HENRY 8 , born Oct. 27, 1813; died Sept. 28, 1860, aged
forty -six.
1087 in. CHARLES 8 , born Jnne 21, 1815; died in Hebron, N. H.,
May 20, 1883, at the age of sixty-seven.
1088 iv. WILLIAM R. 8 , born April 29, 1818. See family numbered
l 1088."
1089 v. GEORGE 8 , born Jan. 24, 1821. See family numbered
" 1089."
1090 vi. HARRISON S , born March 26, 1823. See family numbered
" 1090."
1091 vii. MARY ANN 8 , born Aug. 23, 1825.
1092 vin. PmLiP 8 , born Feb. 6, 1828.
1093 ix. BETSEY 8 , born Nov. 25, 1829, in Groton; married Willard
Putney of Bridgewater, N. H., Oct. 29, 1856. He
was born at Wentworth, N". H., July 4, 182S.
1094 x. HORACE 8 , born April 3, 1833, in Groton. See family
numbered " 1094."
535
JESSE PLUMER 7 , born Sept. 21, 1794. He married,
first, Sarah, daughter of Humphrey and Margaret Nichols
of Bennington, Vt., Jan. 2, 1818 ; and, second, Polly
Edmonds (Emmons?) of Gilmanton.
Children :
10951. MARIA M. 8 , born Oct. 2, 1818; married Samuel B. Grant
of Gilford, N. H., Nov. 17, 1836.
1096n. ELMiRA 8 , born Aug. 30, 1822, in Salem, Mass. ; married
Simeon Bardwell March 16, 1842.
320 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
1097 in. SARAH JANE', born April 8, 1833; married William
Mudgett, at Laconia, N. H., April 5, 1866; and died
Nov. 24, 1879, at the age of forty-six.
536
JAMES PLUMER?; married Abigail Upton of Salem,
Mass.
Child :
10981. WILLIAM GARDNER", born Feb. 20, 1822, in Salem. See
family numbered " 1098."
540
JOSEPH PLUMER T , born in Newburyport, Mass., Oct. 22,
1781. He was a merchant, and lived in his native place.
He married Miss Anna Cram of Exeter, N. H., Sept. 4,
1809 ; and died in 1856.
Their children were born in Newburyport, as follows :
10991. ANNA 8 , born Oct. 16, 1811; married John G., son of John
and Elizabeth Flanders of New York Oct. 23, 1856 ;
she survived him, and lived in Brooklyn.
llOOii. JOSEPH CRAM", born May 2, 1813; lived in Exeter, and
probably never married.
543
NATHAN PLUMER T , born in Newburyport, Mass., Nov.
2, 1787. He married Abigail Stimpson.
Child :
1101 i. EDWARD PAYSON", born Sept. 17, 1817; lived in East
Medway.
545
SAMUEL PLUMER 7 , born in Newburyport, Mass., Dec.
28, 1783. He removed to Bangor. He married Lucy
Dent, daughter of Talbot, in 1816 ; and died at
Alexandria, Va., Feb. 9, 1843(8?).
Child:
11021. KATE*; married William MacLeod; and lived in Wash-
ington, D. C.
548
JOSHUA COFFIN PLUMER T , born in Newburyport, Mass.,
Dec. 18, 1789. He lived in Boscawen, N. H., until 1829,
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 321
when he removed to Bangor, Me. He was a man of cul-
ture and active in citizenship. He married, first, Eunice
Knight March 21, 1816 ; and she died March 10, 1828.
He married, second, Sophia Wilkins, daughter of Timothy
and Abigail (Wilkins) Dix, Dec. 25, 1828. She was
born in Boscawen May 1, 1800. Mr. Plumer died in
Bangor Dec. 10, 1844; and she died Jan. 26, 1865.
Children :
11031. CALEB K. 8 , born Dec. 5, 1816; died Oct. 28, 1818.
1104n. CHARLES F. 8 , born Jan. 4, 1819 ; died Sept. 4, 1820.
1105 in. LUCBETIA A. 8 , born Aug. 22, 1820; married &ev. Charles
Temple; and died at Otsego, Mich., Dec. 3, 1864.
1106 iv. LOUISA", born Aug. 26, 1822; died, unmarried, July 12,
1876.
1107 v. WILLIAM LAURENS S , born May 11, 1824. See family
numbered 4 < 1107."
1108 vi. CATHARINE K. 8 , born April 29, 1826; died Nov. 26, 1828.
1109 vn. EUNICE 8 , born Sept. 16, 1827; died Jan. 10, 1828.
1110 vni. GEORGE Dix 8 , born March 8, 1830; died, unmarried, of
yellow fever, in Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 12, 1873.
1111 ix. FREDDIE S (twin); died in infancy.
1112 x. EDDIE" (twin); died in infancy.
1113 xi. FRANCES M. POMEROY S , born Dec. 23, 1833; married
Edward Little Pickard Dec. 25, 1856; and lived in
Bangor.
1114 xn. LUCY HARTWELL 8 , born July 6, 1836; married John B.
Chapin Aug. 20, 1868.
1115 xni. EDWARD D. 8 ; died Feb. , 1844.
1116 xiv. JOHN ADAMS", born May 4, 1841. See family numbered
" 1116."
1117 xv. CATHARINE MUNROE S , born April 29, 1845; lives in Au-
burndale, Mass.
550
THOMAS PLUMER", born in Newburyport, Mass., April
1, 1793. He married, first, Elizabeth Greenleaf Noyes,
July 12, 1821. She died, and he married, second, Mary
Melick May 7, 1829. Mr. Plumer died at St. John,
N. B., Jan. 10, 1861.
Children :
11181. THOMAS 8 , born Jan. 31, 1822; died Feb. 2, 1822.
1119n. JOHN NOTES 8 , born March 1, 1823; died Aug. 27, 1837.
822 THE PLUMEK GENEALOGY.
1120 in. ELIZABETH JANE", born Oct. 25, 1824; married Whit-
comb Fairbanks; and lived in St. John, N. B.
1121 iv. HENRIETTA 8 , born Nov. 13, 1827; died Oct. 28, 1828.
1122 v. THOMAS 8 , born Feb. 4, 1830; died March 12, 1831.
1123 vi. EDMUND 8 , born May 5, 1831; died July 18, 1832.
1124 vii. MARY CRAM S , born Sept. 25, 1832; married her cousin
William L. Plumer (1107).
1125 vm. EMILY 8 , born Oct. 19, 1834; died Feb. 8, 1836.
1126 ix. SARAH MELINDA", born April 28, 1837.
1127 x. SOPHIA 8 , born July 16, 1838; married J. B. Hawes of St.
John Feb. 18, 1863.
1128 xi. ELLEN HUMBERT S , born Sept. 20, 1840; married William
MacKintosh Welsh of St. John Sept. 10, 1864; and
lived in Liverpool, England.
1129 xii. JOHN THOMAS", born May 19, 1844. See family numbered
u 1129."
1130 xin. ALICE ZERVIAH S , born Dec. 13, 1847; married James
Bell Sinclair of St. John Nov. 29, 1873; and lives in
Liverpool, England.
1131 xiv. MARGARET^, born March 23, 1851; died April 25, 1852.
551
CHARLES PLUMER T , born in Newburyport, Mass., March
16, 1795. He married Sarah Merrill Kimball of Hop-
kinton, N. H. ; and died in Bangor Sept. 15, 1849.
Children :
1132 i. ELIZABETH S ; married Calvin Hervey of Belfast, Me.
1133 ii. MARY'; married Joseph Titcomb of Newburyport, Mass.
1134 in. CHARLES A. 8 ; lives in New York city; married Lavinia
Roberts; and had a son, Charles Arthur, born in 1870.,
555
TRISTRAM PLUMER T , born in Newburyport, Mass.,
April 25, 1775. He lived in Epping, N. H. ; and mar-
ried Nancy Bond of Newburyport Jan. 31, 1806.
Child :
11851. JANE 8 , born Jan. 12, 1811, in Newburyport.
561
COL. ENOCH PLUMER T , born in Newburyport, Mass.,
June 27, 1787. He lived in Newburyport ; and married
Miss Mary Gordon June 15, 1807. He died June 4,
1831 ; and she died about 1855.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 323
Their children were born in Newburyport, as follows :
11361. WILLIAM 3 , born Jan. 8, 1808. See family numbered
"1136."
113711. ENOCH 8 , born Nov. 28, 1809; married Martha Smith,
daughter of Obadiah and Martha Horton, Dec. 6,
1831; and she died Sept. 18, 1841, at the age of
thirty-one.
1138 in. MARY GORDON", born May 15, 1812; married Stephen
Bartlett of Eastport, Me,, April 3, 1832.
1139 iv. GORDON 8 , born March 3, 1814; died July 28, 1816.
1140 v. CAROLINE SMITH S , born Nov. 20, 1815.
1141 vi. ELIZABETH DEAN S , born Nov. 21, 1817; died, unmarried,
Dec. 5, 1839, aged twenty-two.
573
MOSES PLUMER 7 , born in Newburyport, Mass., Oct. 8,
1805. He married Ann Doyle Nov. 25, 1830 ; and died
in 1837.
Children :
11421. PHEBE ANN S , born March 14, 1832; married Horace, son
of Nathaniel and Ann Brown March 14, 1854.
1143 ii. MosEs 8 , born Sept. 8, 1834.
1144 in. NANCY HORTON S , born Feb. 10, 1837; married John, son
of Daniel and Margaret Wilson March 16, 1854; and
he died April 27, 1855.
576
THOMAS PLUMER?, born in Newburyport, Mass., Sept.
18, 1812. He lived in or near Philadelphia, Pa., and
married Mary Jane Crockett of Philadelphia Oct. 8, 1850.
Children (sons) :
11451. 8 .
1146n. .
1147 in. 8 .
1148 iv. 8 .
H49_v. 8 .
1150 vi. 8 .
578
LEONARD WITHINGTON PLUMER?, born in Newbury-
port, Mass., Feb. 11, 1820. He married, first, Isabella
Crawford. She died, and he married, second, Maria
Crawford July , 1855.
324 THE PLUMEE GENEALOGY.
Children :
11511. ISABELLA CRAWFORD', born July 7, 1848.
1152 ii. LUTHER BOUTELLE*, born July 17, 1856.
1153 in. LEONARD".
580
JACOB WILLIAM PLUMER T , born in Newburyport,
Mass., March 25, 1825. He married Louisa Plane of
Charleston, S. C., in 1854.
Children :
11541. 8 , born in 185- ; died before 1859.
1155n. LouiSE 8 , born Aug. 16, 1857.
1156 in. ".
582
NATHAN THOMAS PLUMER?, born in Newburyport,
Mass., Nov. 24, 1807. He was a carpenter, and worked
at building both houses and ships. When about four-
teen, he became cook on a schooner on a voyage to the
West Indies. He then sailed before the mast until he
became of age, and after that time he sailed as a ship-
carpenter, generally on trips from New Orleans to Lon-
don with cargoes of cotton and tobacco.
He married Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Meriam
(Cheever) Noyes April 28, 1833. She was born in 1812.
He then stayed at home a number of years before he
went to sea again. In 1849, he went to California, as a
ship- carpenter, on the brig James Caskie, Oliver H. Jones,
master, and soon after that date, in San Francisco, he
assisted Samuel H. Jones of South Boston, Mass., who
superintended the work, in building the " Young Amer-
ica," which was taken in sections to Toboga Island, at
Panama, where they set it up. This was the first steam-
boat built in the Province of Panama.
He left the sea in 1861 or 1862, and lived in his native
Newburyport for several years, and then lived in Law-
rence for several years. His wife died in Lawrence in
1874, living there for several years before she died.
While residing there, he worked for the Essex Company,
having care of the canal. He also assisted Dea. Benja-
min Coolidge in the survey of the South canal when that
BY SIDNEY PEBLEY. 325
was built. He afterwards lived in Woburn, Mass., with
a daughter.
Children :
11571. CHARLES", born in 1834; died in infancy.
1158 ii. HANNAH NOYES S , born April 13, 1835, in Newburyport;
married Charles, son of Alfred Putnam of Andover
in 1853.
1159 -in. NATHAN', born May 19, 1837. See family numbered
" 1159."
1160 iv. CHARLES HENRY S , born in 1838; died Sept. 20, 1839,
aged ten months.
1161 v. SARAH CARROLL*, born Aug. , 1841; married William,
son of Elbridge Joslyn of Lawrence.
1162 vi. LUCY ANN 8 , born Dec. 24, 1844; married Baldwin Cool-
idge of Lawrence; and lived in Boston.
583
HON. RICHARD PLUMER T , born in Newburyport, Mass.,
June 20, 1813. He lived in his native town; and was a
dry-goods dealer. He loved life and humanity, and was
always benevolent. He had a broad sympathy, and early,
against opposition and contempt, allied himself with
the abolition and temperance movements. He was
always a staunch supporter of Garrison, and his purse
and house were always open freely to the workers for
humanity, but no more than to the fugitives who wan-
dered in wildernesses, forded morasses and swam rivers
in their flight from Southern slavery to Northern free-
dom. When at last popular opinion changed and the
Republican party was organized for freedom, he became
a local leader in politics. For twenty years he was in
different branches of the city government, acting for the
poor, and schools, and in the city council. He served the
state one year in the senate, and voluntarily retired ; and
for eight years was postmaster.
Mr. Plumer married Miss Mary, daughter of Amos and
Mary (Gage) Home of Hanover, N. H., Feb. 26, 1836 ;
and died Jan. 23, 1881, at the age of sixty-seven. His
wife survived him.
Their children were born in Newburyport, as follows :
11631. MARY HORNE* (twin), born March 12, 1837 ; died March
16, 1837.
826 THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
1164n. JAMES RICHARD 3 (twin), born March 12, 1837; married
Emeline Augusta, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah
Goodwin Aug. 2, 1860. He was mate of a vessel,
which was lost, with all the crew, in September, 1868,
when on a voyage from Norfolk, Va., tothe West
Indies, with a general cargo, being overloaded.
Their child died at the age of about three years.
1165 in. MABY ALICE", born June 23, 1839; died Oct. 23, 1840.
1166 iv. NATHAN 8 , born Feb. 25, 1842; died June 22, 1842.
1167 v. FREDERICK 8 , born Jan. 9, 1844; died April 2, 1862, aged
eighteen.
1168 vi. GEORGE HALEY S , born April 28, 1847. See family num-
bered " 1168."
1169 vn. WENDELL PHILLIPS", born April 14, 1852. See family
numbered " 1169.'*
1170 vni. FRANK HORNE S , born April 27, 1857. See family num-
bered "1170."
584
CHARLES HENRY PLUMER 7 , born in Newburyport,
Mass., Aug. 14, 1815. He was a mariner, and lived in
his native town. He married Elizabeth Burnham Jan. 4,
1845. He was lost at sea in September, 1868; and she
died in Newburyport in April, 1893.
Their children were born in Newburyport, as follows :
1171 i. ALEXANDER BRAGG S , born July 8, 1846.
117211. CHARLES ANDRE w 8 , born May 27, 1848; married Rhetta
B., daughter of Isaac and Sarah Titcomb July 17,
1879.
1173 in. JAMES PETTINGELL S , born Oct. 4, 1852. See family
numbered " 1173."
1174 iv. HENRY JOHNSON 8 , born Sept. 8, 1857.
585
NATHANIEL DOLE PLUMER T , born in Newburyport,
Mass., March 24, 1818. Mr. Plumer married Caroline
Augusta, daughter of William Hall, April 25, 1839. He
went fishing several years. He had a bronchial trouble,
which entirely left him when he was on the salt water,
and this was the reason of his spending so much of his
time on the ocean. Leaving his family in Newburyport,
he went to California for his health, and kept a large
grocery store for three or four years at Knights ferry,
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 327
about one hundred and twenty miles from San Francisco,
He died at Knights ferry in October, 1860.
Their children were born in Newburyport, as follows :
1175 i. CAROLINE AUGUSTA 8 , born June 19, 1839.
1176 n. CHARLES WILLIAM S , born Dec. 4, 1840; was lost at sea;
he sailed from Boston or New York for Australia,
and went on board a ship at Australia to go to San
Francisco, and was never heard from again.
1177 HI. MARY ALICE S , born Nov. 28, 1842; married John B.
Carpenter Jan. 6, 1870; and he died July 22, 1888.
1178 iv. MARGARET ADELAIDE**, born May 7, 1844.
1179 v. NATHANIEL DOLE", born July 7, 1846; died in infancy.
58T
ANDREW JACKSON PLUMER 7 , born in Newburyport,
Mass., Jan. 29, 1826. He married, first, Elizabeth Ann,
daughter of Ebenezer and DrusillaAmes of North Haven,
Me., April 25, 1850. She died, and he married, second,
Eliza Ann Moore of Springfield.
Children :
11801. FRANK KIDDER", born Feb. 25, 1851; died April 7, 1857.
1181n. GEORGE 8 , born in 1853; died Oct. , 1854.
1182 in. HARRY 8 , born about 1872.
1183 iv. FRED S , born about 1874.
589
MOSES PLUMER T , born in Newbury, Mass., Nov. 26,
1806. He lived in his native town ; and married Elvira,
daughter of John and Margaret (Lunt) Adams Dec. 6,
1831. She was born in Newbury April 10, 1810. He
died Jan. 4, 1850, at the age of forty-six ; and she died
June 5, 1866, aged fifty-six.
Their children were born in Newbury, as follows :
11841. JEREMIAH", born Oct. 8, 1835; died, unmarried, April
20, 1874, at the age of thirty-eight.
1185n. LEONARD 8 , baptized July 8, 1838.
592
EPHRAIM PLUMEE ? , born Aug. 29, 1793. He married
Lucy, daughter of Henry and Mary (Foster) Gerrish
Jan. 11, 1821. She was born Sept. 30, 1803 ; and died
328
THE PLUMER GENEALOGY.
March 29, 1879. He died July 20, 1872, at the age of
seventy-eight.
Children :
11861. POLLY LITTLE", born Nov. 23, 1821; married Henry L.
son of Paul and Jane (Pearson) Dodge June 17,
1841.
1187u. ABIEL G. s , born May 24, 1824. See family numbered
"1187."
1188 in. PLISCILLA PEARSON", born May 28, 1826; married
Luther, son of Richard and Susanna (Chandler) Gage
March 2, 1859; he was born Aug. 19, 1809.
1189 iv. HELEN ELIZABETH", born March 26, 1834.
1190 v. FRANCES ANN", born Nov. 18, 1837; married Albert, son
of Thomas and Joanna Reed Nov. 26, 1864.
593
BITFIELD PLUMER T , born Nov. 9, 1799. He married
Susan, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Morrill) Chad-
wick Nov. 2, 1835. She was born May 16, 1804. He
died Oct. 23, 1875, at the age of seventy-five ; and she
died Oct. 27, 1882, aged seventy-eight.
Children :
11911. HANNAH M. 8 , born Sept. 5, 1836; died June 13, 1838.
1192 ii. FRANK J. B , born Feb. 16, 1844. See family numbered
"1192."
595
JEREMIAH PLUMER T , born Oct. 8, 1803. He married
Electa, daughter of Noble and Mary (Dewey) Day of
Springfield, Mass., April 23, 1843. He died July 13,
1867, from injuries received by a boiler explosion in
Lancaster, Pa.
Children :
1193 i. ELIZABETH HAMLiN 8 , born June 14, 1845; married Wil-
liam, son of Chauncey B. and Celia B. (Sibley) Fow-
ler Dec. 25, 1869.
1194n. GEORGE \V. 8 , born Aug. 26, 1846; died Aug. 4, 1849.
1195 in. MARY FRANCES" (twin), born June 12, 1849; died Aug.
29, 1850.
1196 iv. FRANK 8 (twin), born June 12, 1849; died June 20, 1849.
1197 v. MARY FRANCES', born March 30, 1854.
(To be continued.)
JAMES LESSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
BY M. V. B. PERLEY.
( Continued from Volume LI, page $56.)
In the earliest period be might have joined in lasting
friendship with Jason Lee, a native preacher of Stan-
stead township or Stanstead Plain, and missionary to the
Indians there. When Mr. Lesslie went to Derby in 1824,
the old friendship would certainly be renewed. So when
Mr. Lee had determined upon a two-years' course of
study at Wilbraham, in 1829-30, Mr. Lesslie took up the
itinerancy of Mr. Lee for the while. This friendship,
maybe, joined the men in labors for the Master, in Oregon.
In 1831, Mr. Lesslie entered the regular itinerancy in
Massachusetts, and was appointed to Granville. In 1832,
he was appointed to Westfield ; in 1833, to Northampton ;
in 1834, to Worthington ; and in 1835-6, to Fair-Haven
Village. Thus his labors closed in the East. His large
circuits, forty to fifty miles in extent, required more time
on the road than could be given to sermonizing. His
study appears to have been in the saddle. The long
horseback rides in northern Vermont were replaced, year
by year, by circuits more centralized and labor more local.
For sixteen years he met all the requirements of his tedi-
ous labors, in matters of planning and skill in executing ;
in preparing his messages and his persuasive cogency in
presenting them ; in his physical ability to endure fatigue
and the storms and cold of the long winter. So when in
Springfield, Mass., 13 July, 1836, he offered himself to
the Conference sitting there, a missionary to Oregon, the
offer was at once accepted. He was made an assistant to
Rev. Jason Lee, who went from Stanstead Plain and es-
tablished the mission in 1834, and had charge of all the
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330 JAMES LBSSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
affairs of M. E. interest. The voyage around Cape Horn
was long, tedious, perilous. The autumn was given to
preparation. Mrs. Lesslie visited her aged mother and
her sisters, Mrs. Pierce, wife of Rev. Thomas C. Pierce,*
and Miss Esther Kinne, who were living in Lynn, Mass.
Mr. Lesslie wrote that 4 < on 22f Jan., 1837, they em-
barked from Boston," on board the ship Sumatra, him-
self, his wife, their three daughters, and the companion
passengers to the same terminus, Mrs. Margaret Smith
and Rev. H. K. W. Perkins.
There is nothing unusual related of the voyage. How-
ever, Mr. Lesslie wrote of his wife : " The deprivations
and trials of a long sea- voyage were by her endured in
such a manner as reflected credit upon her Christian char-
acter." Via the Sandwich Islands, they arrived at Fort
Vancouver, 7 Sept. and at their destination with the Wil-
lamette tribe of Indians, at Chemekete, now Salem, 20
Sept., 1837. This Willamette family then numbered
sixty souls, including native children, indians and white
persons about equal. Mr. Lesslie was to be the local
preacher of this family, thus affording Mr. Lee ampler
time to superintend the work in other families and the
growing and onerous duties in the territorial and various
M. E. interests. Mrs. Lesslie, says her husband, " imme-
diately entered upon the work of faith and labor of love ;
she collected around her a number of children, to whom
she imparted the first principles of literary and religious
knowledge and those principles which lay the foundation
of female character and usefulness. Thus she continued,
till the autumn of 1839, when brought suddenly to the
very door of death."
When these two campaigners came together in council,
business revived, the future was mapped and action
planned. There were the fur-companies, the trappers,
the settlers, the Canadians, the Americans, the Catholics,
the Protestants, and above all, the interests of the several
missions each anxious and working for his own. Poli-
tics was an exotic plant of rapid growth ; political jeal-
*Mr. Pierce was preaching in Lynn, Mass., that fall and had his
home there many years. His mother Kinne died there in 1854.
tOthers give other dates, as 7, 20, 27 Jan.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 331
ousies became more and more expressive, the shadows of
coming events deepened. The remedy for the malady
contained two ingredients piety and patriotism, Deity
and the United States government. Mr. Lee resolved to
visit the government at Washington and present his case
for aid, leaving the method to be employed to the wisdom
of Congress. He appointed Mr. Lesslie to the superin-
tendency of the missions.
On 20 March, 1838, Mr. Lee sailed for the United
States. The Great Northwest was then considered a for-
eign country and the Mission a foreign field. Thomas H.
Benton, thirty years in the U. S. Senate, said the proper
boundary of the States on the west was " the peaks and
ridges of the Rockies."
Thus when Mr. Lesslie had been hardly six months in
this field he became superintendent of all the M. E. in-
terests in the great Northwest and preacher to the Willa-
mette settlement, the centre of Mr. Lee's " Methodist
Society."
Mr. Lee's choice, reads historian Hines, " was in every
way a suitable one. Mr. Lesslie was a man of good
ability, of considerable culture, of clear judgment, of
great stability of character, and had had considerable ex-
perience, as pastor in charge of important fields in New
England, before his appointment as missionary to Oregon.
The carefulness of his supervision of every interest com-
mitted to him thoroughly vindicates the sagacity of Mr.
Lee in his selection for that important post."
The fall of 1839, Mr. Lesslie drafted a memorial for
Congress, wherein he set forth the salubrity of the cli-
mate, the wealth stored in soil, forests and streams, the
political situation, and the bounden duty of national
action to conserve so great an acquisition. The memorial
was considered in convention, and with a few slight
changes was unanimously adopted. It was signed by Mr.
Lesslie and more than seventy other leading citizens, and
sent on its nation-wide mission.
Right following his appointment, he began to acquaint
himself with the extent of his vineyard, the progress
made, the method employed, the spirit, purposes and
needs of the vineyard dressers, and to acquaint them
332 JAMES LESSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
with his purposes for the near future. In August of that
year (1838) "the lonely missionaries at the Dalles were
cheered by his visit to them," a distance of over 100
miles from his Willamette home.
In December of that year began and continued through
the winter of 1838-9, wrote the historian, *' one of the
most remarkable seasons of revival ever recorded in that
territory, Mr. Leslie, the leading spirit, preaching with
earnestness and power." A large number of natives and
settlers was added to the church. Zion's Herald (1839,
p. 155) records, that " Mr. Lesslie's two oldest daughters
were converted and joined the class."
In the winter of 1840-41, Ewing Young died and left
a large property, with no government to probate it. This
imperative need of public authority in law moved the
settlers to action in re. A mass-meeting was called for
17 and 18 Feb., 1841, to establish a Primary Civil Gov-
ernment. The influence of the revival was marked. Rev.
Jason Lee, who had then returned from his two-year
sojourn in the East, was chosen chairman of the conven-
tion, and Rev. Gustavus Hines, later the historian, secre-
tary. Committees on constitution and laws and on nom-
inations of state officers were selected. The next day the
convention mustered the entire community ; every inter-
est was represented, and it looked like a hard day's work
for all. Mr. Lee was excused as chairman, and Rev. David
Lesslie was chosen to that office. Rev. Sidney Smith was
chosen secretary to act with Mr. Hines. The power be-
hind the gavel was alert, efficient, judicious, deliberative,
and the gavel prevailed. The committee on law was to
report later. Mr. Lesslie was chairman by adjournment
in June and October.
Several political " jealousies " deferred the election of
governor. Ira L. Babcock was chosen supreme judge
with probate powers. He was instructed to act in ac-
cordance with the laws of New York State. He settled
the Young estate, and also the estate of Mr. Lesslie's son-
in-law, Cornelius Rogers, and others, in course. Other
officers were chosen clerk of courts and public recorder,
high sheriff and constables. The officers elect qualified
the same day. Chairman Lesslie administered the oath
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 333
of office to each, and a Primary Government of the Peo-
ple of Oregon was established.
That was a proud day for Mr. Less lie when he stood
in that assembly and his common-sense statecraft
improvised and administered the oath of office and es-
tablished the first civil authority in the great foreign
Northwest. That important state document is now a
ready reference for fact and authority, signed in legal
form : David Lesslie, chairman; Gustavus Hines, Sidney
Smith, secretaries.
Mr. Lesslie, Jason Lee and Harvey Clark draughted
and administered the oath of office to the government
elected, 2 May, the next year. He was, too, a leading
influence in forming the constitution of Oregon as a state.
All parties used their circumstances and ability to hold
the territory and establish a state. It appears to an im-
partial reader of the history that no one man " Saved
Oregon." Mr. Lesslie stood in the very threshold of the
undertaking. His was an initial activity, and these facts
constrain us to write Mr. Lesslie among the very chief est
apostles of Oregon's salvation.
After his wife's death in 1841, Mr. Lesslie had no
special mission, and it was necessary for him to make
some suitable provision for his five motherless daughters,
whose ages ran from fifteen years to infancy. He con-
cluded to place his daughters in the Methodist Mission
home school in Honolulu, S. I. Satira, the oldest, of fine
physique and wisely considerate, advised with Mr. Rogers,
and they agreed to accompany Father Lesslie to Baker's
Bay, Columbia River, where he was to take passage for
Honolulu, go on board the ship with him, be married
there, and take back the two younger girls, while he jour-
neyed with the two older ones to school. The plan ma-
tured, and Rev. J. P. Richmond, M. D., married them.
Mr. Lesslie had the sorrows and losses common to hu-
manity. In December, 1839, his house and all his per-
sonal effects were burned. Zion's Herald, page 155, says :
" His children had not a change of clothing left. The
loss was more severe because of his wife's serious illness."
More than three years later, his daughters, Aurelia and
Satira, the latter's husband, and three other passengers, in
334 JAMES LESSLTE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
a large canoe, with a crew of five Indians, were journey-
ing to the Dalles on the Columbia River. At the head of
the rapids above the Willamette Falls, on 2 Feb., 1843,
four of the men stepped ashore, to let the canoe down
several rods further by means of a rope. By the sheerest
accident the men fell into the river, letting go the rope,
when instantly the canoe shot down the cataract with all
on board. All were drowned. At this time Aurelia was
two years old, Helen four, and the marriage of Satira was
only the September before.
There is no need to write further of Mr. Lesslie's ex-
ecutive ability, his sagacity, and devotion in religious
matters. '* He was seventeen years an itinerant among
our own people and the Indians of the territory." He
performed one term of ministerial service in Oregon City,
and was fifteen years a superannuate, though making the
best possible use of his failing health and strength to
serve his generation.
Mr. Hines wrote, 1868 : " Perhaps the incipient meas-
ures which led to the establishment of a institution of
learning are to be attributed more to him than to any
other individual now living. The first school for higher
education on the Pacific coast was the Oregon Institute at
Salem. The initial steps for the establishment oi' it were
taken 17 Jan., 1842, at a meeting called for the purpose
by Rev. Jason Lee, at which he presided. Mr. Lesslie
was placed on the very first committee ; he was second on
a committee of nine who were to act as trustees and start
the enterprise. In the canvass for money, Messrs. Lesslie,
Lee and J. B. Judson subscribed $500 each ; others sub-
scribed $300, $200, $100, etc. ; all heartily aided accord-
ing to their means."
The "Methodist Society/' organized 25 Dec., 1837, by
Rev. Jason Lee, and fostered and represented by Mr.
Lesslie's Willamette church, took charge of the school, 26
Oct., 1842. About September, 1849, it passed under the
control of the Oregon and Mission Conference, which had
grown out of Mr. Lee's " Methodist Society." The school
began its first term in the winter of 1844-5. At the first
it taught branches, primary, academic, collegiate ; 12 Jan.,
1853, it was incorporated as Willamette University, with
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 335
colleges of Arts, Law, Medicine, Music. The charter
named the first Board of Trustees and Mr. Lesslie as its
President. He received an annual election to that office
till his death, except one year, when his family sojourned
at the Sandwich Islands in quest of health. History says :
" He has ever been rightly esteemed as the father, the
patriarch of the institution. He has been president of the
Board of Trustees of the University to the present time
[1868], and has proved himself worthy of the honor."
Some have written me of Dr. Lesslie ; others of Father
Lesslie. I feel no risk in writing both titles correct.
That the college has not recorded the degree is not proof
that it was not conferred. Many, very many, important
matters of the old colleges not to speak of later ones
are not recorded. Ten years of Dartmouth's early records
are meagre indeed ; an alumnus of Harvard was called
there as tutor, but there is no record of it ; Rev. J. W.
Healy, D. D., M. D., "had the degree conferred I know,"
wrote Dr. Streiby of Straight, but there is no record of
it. President Fletcher Homan of 'Willamette wrote, in
1914, " Degrees granted years ago by colleges often were
not recorded, and it is altogether probable that Father
Lesslie had such a degree, as he was a prominent man in
Oregon." He then added on his own account : " I have
no objection to your appending the D. D. to his name as
he was worth}' of the distinction, and none will object."
So we write it : Rev. David Lesslie, D. D.
The other title, used above by President Homan, and
by several others of my correspondents, is more gratify-
ing, more significant of the man, more enduring, and a
prouder fame Father Lesslie I It was born of popular
sentiment and appreciation while he was living, and pre-
vails to-day, half a century thereafter. This apostrophy
to Father Lesslie is not unjust to others : Doctor Less-
lie ! first in revivals, first in statecraft, first in education,
and, as Father Lesslie, first in the hearts of his people !
Father Lesslie married, in the spring of 1826, Miss
Mary Amelia Kinne (pronounced in two syllables), the
fourth daughter of Hon. Bradford Kinne "of Plainfield,
Vt. Mr. Kinne was prominent in church and town
affairs and judge of the superior court, born 2 Dec., 1764,
336 JAMES LESSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
in Preston, Ct, and died, it is said, in Plainfield, Vt., in
1828. Mrs. Lesslie's mother was Sally (Parkhurst) Kinne,
born in Plainfield, Ct, Sept., 1770 ; married, June, 1791,
and died in Lynn, Mass., 24 Jan., 1854, aged 83 1-3 years.
Mrs. Lesslie's sisters were: Sally, born 28 June, 1796 ;
Esther, bom 1809 or 10 ; and perhaps Jemima, born 12
May, 1804, married Rev. Thomas C. Pierce, born in
Quincy, Mass., 5 Dec., 1790, to Richard and Sarah
Pierce. Mrs. Lesslie was born 10 Feb., 1802, and was
known in her girlhood as Polly. She died -in the Willa-
mette station, Oregon Territory, 15 Feb., 1841, and her
husband says *' was buried beneath the oak and the ever-
green on the 17th." In an extended notice of her death :
" Her physical constitution was delicate, and she enjoyed
but indifferent health at best. She was converted at
twenty years and lived a conscientious Christian. She
had an apt faculty to teach and govern. She was truly a
helpmeet to her husband in his most arduous and perplex-
ing work. * * * She was a most faithful and affection-
ate wife, a fond and discreet mother, a devoted Christian,
and a self-sacrificing missionary of the cross. "
Mr. Lesslie married, second, in 1844, Mrs. Adelia (Jud-
son) Olley, born about 1812, in Vermont, who went a
missionary from Hartford, Ct. She was the widow of
Rev. James Olley, a local preacher, a carpenter by trade,
who joined the mission in 1839, and earned his title by
his ability and ministerial labors. He was drowned in the
Willamette River, a few miles above Chemekete (Salem),
11 Dec., 1843. " She was a most estimable and devoted
lady, and to a beautiful old age illustrated the Christian
character and life in the society of the capital of Oregon."
She died in April or May, 1890, aged 78 years.
Father Lesslie died 1 March, 1869, and was buried in
the Odd Fellows' cemetery at Salem, Oregon, with his
first wife and his two children, Sarah A. and Emma H.
Children of David and Mary A. Lesslie :
84. SATIBA, b. about 1827; d. in the Falls accident, 2 Feb., 1843;
m. on shipboard, 1 Sept., 1842, Cornelius Rogers, a school,
teacher and independent missionary. He died in the Falls
accident. The probate valuation of his estate was ($1500
less '$700) $800, which went to his father's family, in Utica,
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 337
N. Y. [Jacob Rogers, a native of Stonington, Ct., a tanner
and currier by trade, who sojourned in Springfield, Mass.,
and settled in Utica, may have been an ancestor of Cor-
nelius.]
85. SARAH, b. about 1829. She attended the mission school at
Honolulu with her sister; entered upon a rapid decline, d.
in Oct., 1843, at the age of 14, and was buried in the mis-
sion cemetery.
86. MARY AMELIA, b. 20 (Genella writes 24) Jan., 1832; d. 29 April,
1857; finished her education at Willamette and taught there
several terms; m. George Hosmer Jones, b. New York, 31
Aug., 1822, and d. in Salem, Ore., 9 Aug., 1904. He was a
capitalist and engaged in real estate. Mary Genella, their
only child, b. 14 April, 1857, in Salem ; now living in Los
Angeles, Cali.; m., in Salem, 26 July, 1882, Gideon Jasper
Parker, b. 22 Oct., 1842, in Iowa, and engaged in real es-
tate. Beulah Helen, their only child, b. 27 Jan., 1888, in
Lewiston, Idaho; m. 9 Sept., 1909, in Westminster, B. C.,
William J. Cloninger, b. in Oregon, 27 Jan., 1878; engaged
in mercantile pursuits. Their children are : Corinne Vesta,
b. Salt Lake City, 12 Sept., 1910, and Anita Helen, b. in
Oregon, 29 Jan., 1912.
87. MELVILLE C., b. probably in 1834; d. in the summer or fall of
1836. Mrs. Lesslie wrote her sister, 2 April, 1838, * Two
years ago my dear little son was living."
88. ELLEN. A correspondent speaks of a b. and a d. in Honolulu;
see account of voyage, above. Ellen may be meant for Helen.
89. HELEN JEMIMA, b. June or December, 1839; d. in January,
1890 or 1891. She would have been with her sisters at the
Falls, but her neighbors wanted her to stay and visit there
awhile.
90. AURELIA, b. Feb., 1841; d. at the Falls, 2 Feb., 1843.
Children of David and Adelia (J. O.) Lesslie :
91. SARAH A., b. 12 Aug., 1847; d. 17 Aug., 1853.
92. EMMA H., b. April or May, 1850; d. 7 Oct., 1854.
30. JOHN LESSLIE was born in Bradford, Mass., 3
April, 1781. He* married in Beverly, Mass., 19 April,
1807, Sally French, daughter of the widow Sarah. John
was a mariner. Administration of his estate was granted
his widow Sally, 18 Jan., 1814.
*John, No. 30, and " Beverly John " are possibly not identical.
William and Samuel C. in Beverly thus may have been uncle and
cousin.
338 JAMES LE8SLIB OP TOP8FIELD, MASS.
Children of John and Sally Lesslie:
08. Sarah (born about 1812,) was baptized in Beverly, 22 May,
1831. She was a school-teacher, and married 25 Nov., 1847,
aged thirty-five, Jeremiah Porter, 2nd, widower, aged
thirty-three, a cordwainer, son of Joseph and Anna.
37. SAMUEL CHASE LESSLIE was born in Cornish,
N. H., 17 Sept., 1791, and died in Patten, Me., 20 April,
1845. He married 25 Dec., 1816, Mary Eliza Thomas of
Claremont, N. H., who was born 26 Nov., 1792, and died
in Patten, 29 Dec., 1846. He was a husbandman when,
in 1814, he bought his father's nail shop, but it did not
prove a permanent calling. He was a millwright by trade
and established grist-mills in many places. On promise
of a long job, he removed his family so as to be at home.
He built mills in Salem, Danvers, Medford, Roxbury, and
Marblehead, and " I think/' wrote his daughter Esther,
" in Boston." She wrote : '* He built the lead factory in
Salem, the first sheet lead roller mill ever built in the
United States, and was there when grandfather visited us
in 1828, but removing the very last of 1829, was again in
Claremont in January, 1830. In 1881, he went to Lin-
coln, Me., and built a mill. The run of stones was made
in the state prison yard at Charlestown, Mass. Then he
built in Bangor, Dixmont, Exeter, and Dexter. In the
spring of 1835, the agent of Patten township went to
Lincoln for the millwright, who went and built Patten's
mills, while the boys, William and James, cleared the be-
ginning of a farm, which he and his family occupied in
April, 1836." He was many years a taverner there, built
his hostelry now standing (1913), and spelled his name
with two esses Lesslie.
Children of Samuel C. and Mary E. Lesslie :
04. WILLIAM, b. 29 Jan., 1818.
95. DAVID T., b. 19 July,1819; went to West Point Military Acad-
emy, enlisted in the Mexican War, and d. at Matamoras, 20
Jan., 1847.
90. ESTHER IVES, b. 28 Oct., 1821.
97. JAMES B., b. 23 June, 1823; d. in Bangor, 27 Feb., 1900.
98. SAMUEL CHASE, b. 2 Oct., 1826.
99. JOHN P., b. 13 Sept., 1828.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 339
100. SYLVESTER ZINA, b. 11 July, 1831.
101. MARY ELIZABETH, b. 5 June, 1835; d. 28 April, 1857; m.,
June, 1854, Levi Blake of Patten, and had (a) Ella, who m.
Edwin Palmer, and (b) Amy, who m. a Colson.
39. ELIZABETH B. LESSLIE was born 16 March, 1794,
and married 15 Dec., 1811, Aaron West of Claremont,
who died 10 Nov., 1841.
Children of Aaron and Elizabeth B. West :
102. JOHN, who m. Rebecca Ellis.
103. MARY L M who m. Amos Noyes, and had Edwin, who m. Eva
Gill of Chicago, and Abbie J., who m. Sylvester S. Jack-
man and had three children.
104. JANE A., who m. William Brooks of Claremont and had only
an adopted daughter.
105. WILLIAM, who m. Hannah Carter of Hanover, N. H., and had
one daughter, Elizabeth J.
106. MORRIS, d. young.
107. GEORGE M., who m. Eliza A. Boyd of Golden City, Colo., and
had Maggie and Leslie.
108. CHARLES, b. 8 Nov., 1829. He m. Lucretia Wright of East
Boston. They had only one child William. He m. Jennie
Hall of Lowell, and they lived with his parents. Mr. Les-
lie m. a second time, and had one child. One of these chil-
dren d. some years ago, and the other lately, at the age of
47 years. Mr. Leslie was a shipwright, then merchant in
lumber, then several years on the police force. He is now
retired.
109. ELIZABETH MARIA, who. m. Seth Paul of Claremont, 25 Oct.,
1855, and had (a) Georgietta Estelle, b. in Lawrence, Mass.,
13 Aug., 1858, m. Dr. Irving S. Cook, settled in Georgiaville,
R. I., and had a girl and two boys; and (b) Arthur Henry,
b. Waltham, Mass., 9 Dec., 1859.
48. HEPHZIBAH FRENCH was born in Washington,
N. H., 25 Nov., 1789. Her familiar name was " Hepsy."
She married 15 Feb., 1814, in Washington, Luther Mellen
of that place, who was born 21 Sept., 1778, in Warwick,
Mass., to Samuel Mellen. She died 6 Sept., 1821 ; he
married, second, Mary Ann McKean, born in Nashua,
N. H., 27 Jan., 1816, to Samuel and Betsey (Bowers) Mc-
Kean. He died 24 Oct., 1865 ; she, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Crane, 9 April, 1902.
340 JAMES LESSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
Children of Luther and Hepsey Mellen :
110. LUTHER ADAMS, b. 3 Nov., 1816; d. 14 Sept., 1902.
111. SARAH LKTITIA, b. 15 Sept., 1819.
Children of Luther and Mary A. Mellen :
112. GEORGE LESLIE (named for Rev. George), b. 22 April, 1840;
living (1914) in Washington.
113. MARY FRANCES, b. 10 Feb., 1844; m. 10 Feb., 1870, Orlando
Thatcher Crane, who was b. in Bradford, N. H., 26 July,
1831, to Joshua, a farmer, and Sally Crane, formerly of
Braintree, Mass. He was a blacksmith in Washington,
where he d. 2 Feb., 1907. She is living on the old home-
stead with her son, her only child, Edwin Mellen, b. 20
Jan., 1871.
114. LUTHER EDWIN, b. 18 Oct., 1848. He graduated, in 1875, at
Pennsylvania College, with the degree of D.D. S., and is
in practice in Manatee, Florida; m. 18 Oct., 1876, Ellen
Maria Ellis, b. in Milford, Mass., 23 Nov., 1848, to Washing-
ton and Amanda (Howard) Ellis. Their children: (a) Grace
J, Ellen, b. 29 Sept., 1877, in Keene, N. H.; d. 4 Jan, 1879 ; (b)
Maude Ellis, b. 27 Nov., 1879, in Middlebury, Vt.; (c) Philip
Edwin, b. 6 Oct., 1883, in Middlebury, educated in Middle-
bury College and Pennsylvania College, where he took,
1907, the degree of D. D. S.; in practice in Middlebury; m.,
in Albany, N. Y., 24 Dec., 1908, Mary Wheaton Hager, b.
South Deerfield, Mass., 19 Jan., 1879, to Dexter Fairbanks
and Abigail Wheaton (Perry) Hager; one child: Richard
Hager, b. Middlebury, 23 Oct., 1909, of whom all are living;
and (d) Henry Luther, b. 4 Jan., 1889.
58. MEHITABLE ALMIRA LESSLIE, of Cornish, N. H.,
was born in Clarernont, N. H., 10 April, 1803, and mar-
ried (int. 30 Oct.), 1824, Ira Mitchell of Framingham,
Mass., who was born 20 Oct., 1799. She died 21 Dec.,
1831. His second wife was Fannie Clement, born 8
March, 1808 ; married (int. 26 May), 1833.
Children of Ira and Mehitable A. Mitchell :
115. GEORGE L., b. 14 Feb., 1826.
116. EDWIN C., b. 17 Dec., 1827.
117. Lucius FRANKLIN, b. 29 Jan., 1830.
Children of Ira and Fannie Mitchell :
117a. CLEMENT BARTLETT, b. 13 Aug., 1835.
117b. CHARLES THOMAS, b. 26 July, 1837; d. 26 July, 1838.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 341
117c. FRANCES ELLEN, b. 11 Jan., 1840.
117d. HERBERT WALLACE, b. 16 Oct., 1847.
59. GEOKGE WILLIAM HENRY LESSLIE was born in
Claremont, N. H., 29 April, 1804. He was a shoemaker
by trade a considerable business in his day. He mar-
ried, 18 Dec., 1828, Mehitable Williams, born in Plain-
field, N. H., 13 April, 1807, to Atwood, a farmer, and
Mary (Peake) Williams, who were married 13 July, 1786.
He settled in Newbury, Vt., where he died 21 Sept., 1885,
and his widow 13 March, 1890, aged eighty-two years,
eleven months. The Passumpsic railroad crosses the site
of his first home near the present station. Squire Leslie
was essentially a public man. He was a justice of the
peace, was often a juror, and many terms on the school
board. He was actively identified in the organization of
the Newbury Seminary, and gave liberally to it in its
infancy. Probably no other citizen of the town has been
so widely and pleasantly remembered by the old seminary
students. They frequented his office, read the New York
Tribune (always on file) and discussed current topics.
He was " active, honorable, influential, highly respected."
Children of George W. H. and Mehitable Lesslie :
118. GEORGE, d. in infancy.
119. ADALINE, d. in infancy.
120. LUCY, d. in infancy.
121. JANE, b. 13 May, 1831.
122. MARY PEAKE, b. 26 March, 1833.
123. EMMALINE, b. 7 May, 1835.
124. HELEN MARIA, b. 14 July, 1843.
125. GEORGE WILLIAM, b. 14 Oct., 1847.
61. ALONZO RANSOM LESSLIE was born 6 March, 1808.
He was a farmer in Haverhill, N. H., and Newbury, Tops-
ham, and again Newbury, Vt. He married Martha G.
Clark of Newbury, bom 27 Sept., 1812, to Jonathan and
Mary (Flanders) Clark. He died 5 Feb., 1857 ; she 3
Jan., 1865, in Topsham.
Children of Alonzo R. and Mary G. Lesslie :
126. HORACE GRANVILLE, b. in Haverhill, N. H., 13 April, 1842.
127. MARY MARIA, b. in Topsham, 12 Nov., 1849.
62. PALMIRA MELINDA LESSLIE was born 20 Feb.,
342 JAMES LESSLIE OP TOPSFIELD, MASS.
1810, in Claremont, N. H., and died in Concord in Sept.,
1 896. She married, first, at Grafton, N. H., Thomas J.
Caswell of Concord ; second, at Concord, Leavitt C. Vir-
gin ; and third, J. C. Harrington. She was a doctress of
wide practice and reputation for skill. Thomas Jefferson
Caswell was born in Taunton, Mass., and died in Con-
cord, N. H., in 1853.
Children of Thomas J. and Palmira M. Caswell:
128. LEBOY, b. in Grafton, where he died.
129. WEALTHY, b. in Richmond; d. in Concord, aged 7 years.
130. JOHN HABBIMAN, b. in Grafton, 17 Oct., 1839. His wife,
Cetina Inez Fellows, b. in Danbury, N. H., 29 July, 1843, to
Stephen and Sabia (Kilton) Fellows, m. in Grafton, 25 Oct.,
1863. He was in the 3d N. H. Vols. and 1st Heavy Artillery
at Hilton's Head and Washington forts respectively. He
worked over fifty years for the Abbot-Downing Co., Concord,
at carriage painting and lettering. Had: (1) Frank J., b.
24 Sept., 1864; (2) Howard F., b. 1 April, 1866; (3) Emma
J., b. 12 July, 1880.
131. ELZADIA, b. in Concord.
64. HARRISON LESSLIE was born in Claremont, N. H.,
27 June, 1814, and died in Cornish, N. H., 26 Oct., 1887.
His wife Betsey was born in Rochester, Mass., 1819, and
died in Cornish, 14 Jan., 1879, aged sixty years. He was
a teacher and farmer.
Children of Harrison and Betsey Lesslie :
132. CHABLES R., b. in Cornish, where he d. 30 Aug., 1873, aged
27 years ; m., aged 20 y., 14 Feb., 1866, Frank L. Bartlett,
aged 21 y., at Cornish. He enlisted in the 2nd Co. N. H.
Hy. Arty.; mustered in 18 March, 1864; out 11 Sept., 1865.
133. WASHINGTON IBVING, b. in Cornish in 1843, a farmer; m., in
Chester, N. H., 6 April, 1870, Mrs. Sarah Isabell Bailey, b.
in 1839 at Chester or Springfield, Vt., to David and Lydia
(Pain) McAllester. Had: b. in Cornish, (1) Minnie, b. 3
Feb., 1871, who d. as Annie, 5 Feb., 1871, ae. 2 days; (2)
Herbert I., b. 6 Sept., 1872, who m. in Cornish, 5 Nov.,
1892, Ellen M. Nelson, SB. 15, domestic, b. in Bridgewater,
Vt., to Curtis S., se. 42, and Mary A. (Metcalfe) Nelson, SB.
35; (3) Lillian L, b. 18 Aug., 1875, who d. 19 Aug., 1876.
66. THOMAS HORACE GOODHUE LESSLIE was born 19
Feb., 1818. He was a blacksmith by trade, a machinist,
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 343
and a " 49er." lu that year he went to California, where
he contracted typhoid fever and died. He married in
Lowell, 5 Aug., 1845, Elzadia Moody Smith, operative,
born 3 Feb., 1821, in New Hampton, to Obediah Colby and
.Betsey (Sanders) Smith. Mrs. Lesslie married, second,
in Lowell, 4 Jan., 1857, Alden Gifford, aged 49, a ma-
chinist, born in Wentworth, N. H., to Isaac aad Polly
Gifford ; she married, third, 9 Nov., 1859, Calvin T. Cham-
berlain, aged 36, an undertaker, born in Chelmsford,
Mass. Mrs. Chamberlain is now living in Lowell in the
ripe old age of ninety-four years.
Child of Thomas H. G. and Elzadia M. Lesslie :
134. EMMA ROXANNA, b. in Lowell, 29 Nov., 1845; d. aged 10 y.
67. JOSEPH Lucius LESSLIE was born in Cornish,
N. H., 15 Sept., 1821. He was one of the three Cornish
brothers Lucius, Edwin and Leroy who, it is said,
were at one time tailors in Lowell, Mass. A vision of
clothing ready made warned them, and Lucius became a
minister, Edwin a photographer, and Leroy a dentist.
Where Lucius studied for the ministry is not known to
us. He held a pastorate of the Universalist church in
Hartland, Vt., and Ernest A. English of that town point-
ed out, in 1913, the house in which he lived a pastor. He
was pastor at Troy, N. H., at the time of his death, 18
July, 1861. He married, in Hartland, 14 Oct., 1851,
Mary Livermore, daughter of Joseph and Jerusha (Mer-
ritt) Livermore. His widow married, second, Reuben
Allan Richardson, 1 Feb., 1873, in Gardiner, Me., and had
one child, Allan Livermore, born in South Gardiner, 18
March, 1874.
Children of Joseph Lucius and Mary Lesslie :
135. LIZZIE MARIA, b. in Lowell, 30 Oct., 1854, and died there 27
July, 1856.
136. SELWYN GOODHUE, b. in Lowell, 20 June, 1859.
68. CHARLES EDWIN LESSLIE was born 22 June, 1823,
at Cornish, N. H. He married, in Acton, Mass., 9 Nov.,
1846, Olivia Abigail Poole, born in Barton, Vt, 21 April,
1827, to William W. and Olivia (Huggins) Poole, and
died in Dracut, Mass., 30 Jan., 1890. It is said he was
344 JAMES LESSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
a photographer, and later cultivated a fruit farm in Dra-
cut. He died in St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Children of C. Edwin and O. Abigail Lesslie :
137. HORACE GOODHUE, b. in Acton, 16 Dec., 1848; m. in Lowell,
June, 1874, Patience Risby, b. in Lowell, and is now (1913)
in California. His sister mentions no children.
138. ORIELLA CORA, b. in Lowell, 1 Jan., 1852; m. in Maiden, while
living in Lowell, 10 June, 1891, Stephen Henry Sawtell, b.
in Chelsea, Aug., 1838, and d. in Lynn, 20 Dec., 1896. He
had dining rooms in Lynn. They had no children.
139. A SON, b. in Lowell, 4 Oct., 1859.
77. CHARLES W. LESLIE was born in Henniker. He
was an overseer in mills. He married, 23 Jan., 1843,
Lucy Jane Brown of Henniker, born 19 Aug., 1820, to
Jacob (Thomas?) and Mercy (Estes) Brown, and died in
Pennacook, N. H., 2 Sept., 1859. [Mercy died 5 March,
1868. Jacob had a second wife, Harriet Fox of Hadley,
Mass. He was one of 22 children, 11 boys and 11 girls.]
We have no data of Charles' second wife, except that
Mary H. B. wrote that she had three half sisters, one liv-
ing (1915) in Washington, D. C.
Charles W. enlisted in Co. D, llth N. H. Vols. ; age,
43; residence, Hillsboro; mustered in 29 Aug., 1862 ; dis-
charged, disabled, 5 May, 1863, at Hampton, Va. ; died 9
July, 1884, Chelsea, Mass.
Children of Charles W. and Lucy J. Leslie :
140. GEORGE HABVEY, b. in Henniker, 1 June, 1844; d. there 20
Aug., 1845.
141. JULIA FRANCES, who m. No. 82.
142. HENRY, who died in Worcester, Mass., several years ago.
143. ELLEN JANE, b. 12 Feb., 1856; d. 6 July, 1908. She was
adopted by a family named Hoyt in Hillsboro. She m.
Francis Alphonso Mount. They had three boys and a girl,
all b. in Great Falls, N. H. The daughter m. George Mars-
ton, and they live in Manchester, having a boy and a girl.
144. MARY H. B., b. 15 Aug., 1859. When about 3 weeks old her
mother died, and when 14 months old she was adopted by
George and Lydia Mary (Buzwell) French of Tilton, N. H.
They changed her name to Mary H. B. French. Mr. French,
a mill overseer, d. 7 Nov., 1893. She lives in Tilton.
80. WILLIAM HENRY LESLIE was born 7 May, 1832.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 345
He was employed by the Concord railroad and the B. &
M. system, in the same office forty years, retiring in 1910.
He now in Hudson enjoys a ripe old age. He married
Betsey A. McAlpine (a sister to Orra, family 19), who
was bora in Hopkinton, 2 June, 1821, and died 6 June,
1903, in Hudson, where her remains repose.
Child of William H. and Betsey A. Leslie :
145. CHARLES CLEMENT, b. 27 May, 1854. He m. 1st, 10 June,
1877, Lucy E. Smith, who was b. 3 Feb., 1857, and d. 21
Feb., 1878. He m. 2d, 16 Dec., 1880, Eliza B. Webster, who
was b. 14 July, 1862. She is secretary of Echo Rebekah
Lodge, I. O. O. F., and librarian cf the Hudson Public
Library* Mr. Leslie is another standard railroad man, in
Nashua. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow. His only
child is Eugene William, b. 10 April, 1882, who is assistant
cashier of the Nashua Trust Co., and is a Mason and an
Odd Fellow. He m., 14 Sept., 1905, Lettie V. Shepard, b.
29 Aug., 1885, and they have two children : Eleanor Sybil,
b. 8 Oct., 1906, and Gordon Charles, b. 27 May, 1911.
82. LOEENZO BUELL LESLIE, born about 1840, died
in Nashua, June, 1885. He was a steam engineer. When
of Warner, 2 April, 1863, he married there his cousin,
Julia Frances Leslie, of Henniker, born in Boston, No.
77. They had one child, and were divorced. She mar-
ried, second, a Chase, and third, a Frazer. She had a
child of each name. " The daughter " is Mrs. Sadie
Hartson, R. F. D., No. 1, Drummond's Corner, Contoo-
cook, N. H. She has two boys. Lorenzo married, sec-
ond, Mrs. Mattie (Harvey) Emery of Pembroke, and had
two children. He married, third, in Manchester, Caroline
Devinger, born in Canada, died in Concord, 1899. Her
parents were Peter and Jane (Cutler) Devinger.
Children of Lorenzo B. and Julia F., Mattie, Carrie
Leslie :
146. WALTER, b. 24 July, 1867; d. 25 March, 1869.
147. CORA, daughter of Mattie, d. y.
148. MATTIE; m. 1st, Bert Drowne, lived in Warner and Barre,
Vt. ; m. 2d, Frank George.
149. ARTHUR ERNEST, son of Caroline, b. in Hooksett. He is a
general painter. He m. in Boston, 11 April, 1909, Alma
Pearl True, b. in St. Johnsbury, 30 May, 1883, to Adna
346 JAMES LESSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
Dennison and Miranda (Witherbee) True. They have one
child: Edna Caroline, b. in Boston, 9 July, 1910.
94. WILLIAM LESLIE was born 29 Jan., 1818 ; died
in Clyde, Kan., 18 June, 1899. He was a farmer in
Patten, Me., and married Sarah Kneeland.
Children of William and Sarah Leslie :
150. LUCY CAROLINE, b. 14 Feb., 1843; d. 22 Sept., 1875; m. 7 Dec.,
1865, Alfred Herman Rowe of Harrison, Me. He m., 2d,
widow Mary I. Leslie, No. 152. Had : (1) Herman Leslie,
b. Harrison, 22 Nov., 1866; m. Emilie Waters of Patten, and
had Mabel, Lewis, Roger, Barbara, Alfred, Cedric, Eleanor,
Alfred, and four others. (2) Henry Clayton, b. in Patten,
13 Dec., 1867; m. Alice Waters of Patten; no issue. (3)
Bertrand Charles, b. 18 Jan., 1869. (4) Alfred Herbert, b.
20 July, 1872. (5) Elizabeth Gleason, b. 29 June, 1874;
m. Edwin S. Woodbury of Patten.
151. MELVIN, b. 1846; served in Civil War; d. 14 Feb., 1873, aged
28; m. Mary Inez Stimpson. She m., 2d, A. H. Rowe, No.
151. Had : (1) Arthur Cheney, b. 4 May, 1871; d. 4 May,
1899. (2) Melvin Wilson, b. 19 Nov., 1872, in Patten; was
mail-carrier; m. 12 Jan., 1895, in Patten, Effie Gertrude An-
derson, b. Patten, 25 March, 1875, to David and Frances
Jane (Botting) Anderson (No. 140); no children.
152. CHARLES FULLER, b. 16 April, 1847, in Patten; d. in Clyde,
Kan., 30 May, 1912.
153. HATTIE, b. about 1849; d. 28 Oct., 1861, aged 12 yrs.
154. WM. PEABODY, b. about 1 Jan., 1851; d. 11 Sept., 1852, in
Patten, aged 1 yr. 9 mos.
155. WM. PEABODY, b. in Patten; d. 13 Jan., 1882.
.96. ESTHER IVES LESLIE was born 28 Oct., 1821.
She married, 31 March, 1846, Luther Blackwell, born 26
March, 1818, in Fairfield, Me., and died 1 Aug., 1865, in
Patten. He was a carpenter and a farmer. ' Aunt Es-
ther " was her family historian. From memory she wrote
extensively, reciting and explaining much family history
to Dr. F. D. Leslie, No. 173, as herein quoted. She died
in Patten, 28 Nov., 1911.
Children of Luther and Esther Ives Blackwell :
156. SAMUEL THOMAS, b. 9 Sept., 1850, in Patten. He has kept, at
the same place, Central Sq., East Boston, a boarding house
and restaurant for 27 years. He m., 23 March, 1879, Alice
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 347
Maria Billings, b. 1 Jan., 1858. Had: (1) James Edward,
b. 15 Feb., 1880, now unm.; (2) Louisa Wyman, b. 3 Aug.,
1885, now m.
157. RUSSEL CHASE, b. in Patten, 10 Jan., 1853. He is a clerk in
the furniture trade in Seattle, Wash., and is unm.
158. EMMA JANE, b. 25 Nov., 1856, and d. in 6 years.
158. MARY ELIZA, b. 10 July, 1860, and d. in 1 year.
160. MARIETTA, b. 16 Jan., 1863. Was by trade a dressmaker, and
d., unm., at the age of 39 years.
97. JAMES BOLLOCK LESLIE was born in Claremont,
N. H., 23 June, 1823, and died in Bangor at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Mitchell, 27 Feb., 1900, and was bur-
ied in Patten. He was employed twenty-five years by
William McCrillis of Bangor to explore, survey and esti-
mate the value of forests in Maine and New Brunswick,
and to care for the same as a practical lumberman. He
married, first, Cynthia Kneeland, born 4 July, 1826 ; died
in 1880 in Patten ; married, second, Margarette Sanlieur,
born in Nova Scotia in 1850.
Children of James B. and Cynthia Leslie :
161. JAMES WARREN, b. in Patten, 30 Jan., 1851; d. in Bangor, 4
May, 1911; was an operator in real estate and lumber; m.
1st, May, 1876, in Mattawamkeag, Me., Clara Ella Joy, who
d. 6 June, 1888, dau. of Edmund and Eliza (Richardson)
Joy; m. 2d, Mrs. Frances Jane (Batting) Anderson (No.
135); no children. Children by 1st wife: (1) Mary Louise,
b. 7 March, 1877; (2) Raymond Everett, b. 15 May, 1878;
(3) Cora Mabel, b. 18 Oct., 1880 ; (4) Emery Closson, b. 25
Feb., 1883; (5) Edmund Warren, b. 22 Aug., 1885; (6) a
son, b. at the death of his mother and adopted by his aunt,
Mrs. Rives Mitchell.
162. DAVID T., b. 2 Nov., 1853; d. in 1856.
163. LOUISA CUMMINGS, b. 27 July, 1855 ; m. 10 Sept., 1879, Rives
Mitchell; adopted Rives Herbert Mitchell, b. 15 June,
1887(?); living in Bangor, Me.
164. CHARLES ARTHUR, b. 23 Oct., 1857; said to be living in Sha-
ron, Mass.; m. MannieH. Saulin, 8 Jan. ,1884. Had: (1) Eva
Maud, b. 20 Sept., 1884; (2) Ethel Louise, b. 15 Aug., 1890.
165. SAMUEL CHASE, b. 13 Feb., 1859; m., Nov., 1883, Julia A.
Meniner, and had Freeman Chase, b. Nov., 1884.
Child of James B. and Margarette Leslie :
16C. ESTHER ISABELLA, b. in Nova Scotia, 15 Aug., 1882.
348 JAMES LESSLTE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
98. SAMUEL CHASE LESLIE was born in Salem, Mass.,
2 Oct., 1826, and died in Spokane, Wash., 17 June, 1906.
He married in Patten, 14 Oct., 1852, Mary Ann Dolbier
of North New Portland, Me., who died in Spokane, 12
Sept., 1899. His parents moved to Lincoln, Me., in 1830,
and in 1836 to Patten. He attended school in those
towns and a year in Patten Academy, and then was em-
ployed by a lumber concern. His family went to Kings-
field, Me., in 1856, and engaged in farming and lumber-
ing, and ten years later to Eustis. In 1870 he went to
Lewis ton for the better educational privileges for his
children. In 1891, he went to Spokane, where some of
his children were already located.
Children of Samuel C. and Mary A. Leslie :
167. MABY ELDOBA, b. in Patten, 5 Oct., 1853 ; m. 1st, in Lewiston,
Me., 11 May, 1873, DeForest M. Nelson; m. 2d, 1 Jan., 1895,
Henry Pendleton Hull of Kendrick, Idaho.
168. SAMUEL CHASE, b. in Patten, 12 July, 1855. After his school-
ing, he began clerking in a grocery and became a partner.
Later he engaged in real estate and lumbering in Bangor.
He d. in Lewiston, 8 Oct., 1908.
169. ELIZA EMMA, b. 16 April, 1859; m. 21 June, 1881, Joseph Henry
Fisher. Their home is in Lewiston, Me. Had: (1) Joseph
Otto, b. 31 March, 1882; grad. at the U. S. Naval Academy,
Annapolis, Md., 1902; post grad. 1907; 1914 commanding
4th squadron of submarine flotilla; watch officer on the
Raleigh at Corea in Russian- Japanese war; chief engineer
on the Arethusa when the U. S. fleet made its famous
voyage around the world; the Navy chooses ten alumni
yearly for special study; his investigation saves thousands
of dollars yearly in the handling and use of coal. (2) Wal-
ter Leslie, b. 6 Feb., 1884; grad. at Bates College, 1906;
teacher in Carl Schurz High School, Chicago. (3) Leslie, b.
21 Oct., 1886; d. 11 Jan., 1890. (4) Jeremy, b. 6 June, 1887;
grad. Lehigh University, 1911; now (1914) with Chicago,
Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway. (5) Franklin, b. 8
Nov., 1888; grad. Chicago University, 1912; University of
Maine, 1913; began medical practice 9 Feb., 1914; located
in Lewiston, Me. (6) Harold, b. 15 Dec., 1891; d. 20 March,
1901. (7) Esther Emily, b. 24 Feb., 1899.
170. ESTHEB EMILY, b. Kingsfield, 16 April, 1859; became a suc-
cessful insurance-business woman in New York State and in
AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 349
Spokane, Wash.; m. in Rathdrnm, Idaho, 2 April, 1892,
James N. Glover of Spokane.
171. MINA BELLE, b. in Kingsfield, 8 Oct., 1862; educated in High
School, Lewiston; m. in Lewiston, 9 Jan., 1889, Lester A.
Rowell, contractor and builder of Berlin, N. H. Had: (1)
Mina, b. in Lewiston, 27 Dec., 1889; grad. Spokane High,
and took a teacher's state diploma, 1813; now teaching in
Aberdeen, Wash. (2) Edna, b. in Berlin, N. H., 26 Oct..
1891; grad. Spokane High, 1909, and is of Class '15 in Whit-
man College, Walla Walla. (3) Leslie Eugene, b. in Berlin,
N. H., 31 July, 1896; grad. Spokane High, 1913; is bank
clerk at Spokane, where Mrs. Rowell now resides.
172. DELIA ANN, b. in Kingsfield, 3 Aug., 1864; educated at Lew-
iston High; m. in Lewiston, 11 June, 1890, Edwin A. Smith
of Auburn, Me. In 1892, the family removed to Spokane,
their present home. Their child, Edith Dorcas, b. Auburn,
24 March, 1892, grad. at Spokane High, 1910; at Whitman
College, 1914, and same year at Whitman Conservatory of
Music; is now a member of the faculty.
173. WILLIAM FRANKLIN, b. in Eustis, 13 Aug., 1867; grad. Lew-
iston High; began hardware trade in Lewiston, and in 1891
continued in Spokane; m. in Spokane, 2 May, 1900, Inez
Leone Maxwell of Lewiston, Me., who d. 1 July, 1910.
Had: (1) Mary Louise, b. 23 July, 1901. (2) Maxwell Frank-
lin, b. 24 Oct., 1902. (3) Inez Leone, b. 13 Aug., 1904. (4)
Marian Chase, b. 19 Sept., 1906. (5) Mildred Dorcas, b. 29
May, 1908.
99. JOHN P. LESLIE was born 13 Sept., 1828, and died
4 March, 1888. He married in October, 1854, Sarah
Elizabeth Gary, who was born in January, 1835, and died
3 May, 1876. While wrestling in his boyhood, he broke
his leg, and was lame ever after. He conducted a country
store in Patten, Me., for many years. He was " quiet, indus-
trious, and upright in all his business and social relations."
Children of John P. and Sarah E. Leslie :
174. CORA WALKEB, b. 26 June, 1856; m. 19 Oct., 1879, Charles
Warren Wescott, b. 4 April, 1855. Had: (1) Winifred Eliz-
abeth, b. 24 Aug., 1880; m. 17 Dec., 1877, Herbert Nelson
Gardner of Patten. (2) Lena May, b. 24 Nov., 1883; d. 29
March, 1885. (3) Thurman Gary, b. 27 Feb., 1887; m. 15
April, 1914, Daisy Holt of Raleigh, N. C. (4) Stanley Les-
lie, b. 26 Jan., 1889. (5) Clifford Walker, b. 10 Jan, 1891.
(6) Chester Eads, b. 4 Aug., 1893 ; d. 11 April, 1895.
350 JAMES LESSLIE OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
175. LENA COLUMBIA, b. 24 July, 1858; d. 21 April, 1885; m. 23 May,
1880, Willy Tool Cobb of Patten, who was b. 23 May, 1854,
and had Lena Columbia, b. 5 April, 1885, who. m. Jesse Ed-
ward Cunningham, b. 17 May, 1873, and had Dorothy Lou-
ise, b. 18 June, 1908.
176. ILBKB EADS, b.26 July, 1863; m. 1st, 19 Dec., 1885, Agnes L.
Whitehouse, who d. 24 Oct., 1886; m. 2d, 2 Feb., 1889, Fran-
ces Ethel Wheaton, who was b. 23 June, 1867, and had
Cora Agnes, b. 26 Oct., 1889.
100. SYLVESTER ZINA LESLIE was born in Lincoln,
Me., 11 July, 1831, and died in Hyde Park, Mass., 18
Dec., 1901. He was a stair-builder and woodworker. He
married, 5 Oct., 1855, Isabell Leigh ton Huston, who was
born in Clinton, Me., 21 Jan., 1835, and is living in Hyde
Park. Her father, Samuel Huston*, was born in Clinton,
15 March, 1805. and died in Patten, 21 Oct., 1893 ; her
mother was Harriet Tuttle, born in Pittsfield, Me., 5
Aug., 1810, married 4 Dec., 1829, and died in Patten.
Children of Sylvester Z. and Isabell L. Leslie :
177. FBKBLAND DAVID, b. inPatton, 29 June, 1858.
178. IDA MAY, b. in Patten, 5 Feb., 1860; d., unm., in Hyde Park,
2 April, 1914.
121. JANE LESLIE was born in Newbury, 13 May, 1831,
and died there 2 Nov., 1913. She married, 4 July, 1852,
Edwin Reuben Cobleigh, a lawyer in West Concord, Vt.,
born 25 Dec., 1830, in St. Johnsbury, to Reuben Boyce and
Mehitable (Adams) Cobleigh, and died 9 Sept., 1857.
Children of Edwin R. and Jane Cobleigh :
179. A SON, who d. young.
180. HEBBKBT EUGENE GORDON, b. in St. Johnsbury, 20 Nov.,
1854; m. Ruhamah Batchelder James, b. in Newbury, 29
May, 1856, to Alvah Chase and Nancy White (Peach) James.
Had: (1) Alvah Edwin, b. in Newbury, 19 Feb., 1890; (2)
George Leslie, b. 4 Oct., 1897.
122. MARY PEAKE LESLIE was born in Newbury 26
March, 1833. She married in Newbury, Vt., 19 Sept.,
1854, Samuel Wells, born in Milton, Vt., 23 Sept., 1821,
and died 30 Jan., 1878.
*A member of the Masons 66 years, and at death was probably
the oldest Mason in the State.
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 351
Children of Samuel and Mary P. Wells :
181. A SON, b. in 1859; d. in infancy.
182. DORA, b. 4 Oct., 1862. Lives in Chicago, 111.
183. WILLIAM, b. 25 March, 1868; d. 24 March, 1869.
184. EMMA LESLIE, b. 11 June, 1871. Lives in Chicago, 111.
123. EMMALINE LESLIE was born in Newbury, Vt.,
7 May, 1835, and married in Montpelier, 22 Aug., 1855,
Stephen Freeman, born in Barre, 18 April, 1821, to
Stephen, a lawyer, and Esther (French) Freeman. Free-
man, Jr., was treasurer of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Ins.
Co., and practiced law for the company, making a spec-
ialty of insurance law. He died in Montpelier, 13 April,
1872. [Mr. Freeman's first wife was Lucy Elizabeth
Harthan, born in Chicopee, Mass., 28 Sept., 1832; mar-
ried there 2 Nov., 1853 ; died in Ogdensburg, N. Y., 22
Aug., 1859 ; only child, Lizzie May, born 31 Oct., 1856,
and married George W. Leslie, No. 125.] Mrs. Freeman
has one of Rev. George Less lie's Thanksgiving sermons
in the original manuscript.
Children of Stephen and Emmaline Freeman :
185. MARY LESLIE, b. in Montpelier, 1 Aug., 1865 or 6; m. Moses
French of Solon, Me. Had: (1) Esther Dora; (2) Roger
Maitland.
186. STEPHEN, b. in Montpelier, 12 Dec., 1869; m. Josephine Wal-
ter of Wabash, Ind. Lives in Syracuse, Ind. Had: (1)
Stephen; (2) Lucy; (3) Margaret.
127. HELEN MARIA LESLIE was born in Newbury 14
July, 1843, and married 7 Jan., 1880, as the third wife
of, Silas Worthen, who was born in Orange, Vt., 27
March, 1826, to Samuel and Susan (Owen) Worthen.
[Samuel was born near Newport, N. H., a territory sparse-
ly settled, 28 April, 1797 ; went to Barre, Vt, when four
years old, was a farmer, and died 1 July, 1882. Silas
Worthen married, first, Abigail Curtis, both of Orange,
15 Nov., 1850, who died 20 Feb., 1855, aged twenty-five
years and ten months, leaving one child, Emma, born 15
Nov., 1851, and married Edwin Cutler, 7 Oct., 1874;
married, second, Mrs. Eliza Perkins, 1 March, 1857, who
died 18 Nov., 1878, aged fifty years and ten months, leav-
ing child Altie May, born 9 June, 1868, and married,
352 JAMES LE88L1E OF TOPSFIELD, MASS.
1912, a Gove of E. Calais, Vt.] Mr. Worthen was a
farmer in Newbury, where he died 3 May, 1889. There
were no children by the last marriage.
128. GEORGE WILLIAM LESLIE was born in Newbury,
Vt., 14 Oct., 1847. He occupied a clerkship in the Na-
tional Life Insurance Company of Vermont. He married
in Montpelier, 11 April, 1880, Lizzie May Freeman, born
in Ogdensburg, N.Y.,31 Oct., 1856, to Stephen and Lucy
Elizabeth (Harthan) Freeman (No. 123).
Children of George W. and Lizzie M. Leslie:
187. HARTHAN FREEMAN, b. in Montpelier, 28 April, 1881. He oc-
cupies the clerkship vacated by his father in the National
Life Ins. Co.
188. MARGARET EMMA, b. in Montpelier, 15 June, 1883. She is a
stenographer for the Fidelity Ins. Co. of Montpelier. Both
she and Harthan reside with their mother.
126. HORACE GRANVTLLE LESLIE, M. D., was born in
Haverhill, N. H., 13 April, 1842, and died in Amesbury,
Mass., 22 Aug., 1907. He married in Salisbury, now
Amesbury, 28 Feb., 1866, Helen Matilda Glines, born in
Northfield, N. H., 11 Sept., 1844, to Obediah, a farmer,
and Mary Ann (Plummer) Glines. Mrs. Leslie is living
in Amesbury. Doctor Leslie was associate surgeon in the
army of the Tennessee. He began the practice of medi-
cine in 1868. He was an agricultural and literary lec-
turer, a magazine writer and poet, and was state repre-
sentative in 1890 and 1891. He was consulting surgeon
of the Anna Jaques hospital and consulting physician of
the Danvers Insane Hospital. He was also president of
the local Park Association, trustee of the Amesbury Pub-
lic Library, member of the American Medical Association,
the Massachusetts and North Essex Medical Societies, the
Arizona Natural Historical Society, and president of the
Bartlett County and Village Improvement Societies. He
was a 32nd degree Mason, held several offices, and many
years was Prelate. He was chief of the . Scotch Clan of
Leslies in the United States from 1897. He was "over
six feet tall and squarely built."
We had valuable correspondence with him, and recent-
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 353
ly his widow placed all his voluminous American and
English correspondence at our service.
Children of Horace G. and Helen M. Leslie :
189. GRACE LEANORA, b. in Pennacook, N. H., 2 Feb., 1867.
190. HERBERT GRANVILLE, b. in Amesbury, 14 Aug., 1871. He
prepared for college at the Lyndonville (Vt.) Institute, and
graduated from the Harvard Medical College, 1897. He is
in medical practice in Amesbury, where he has been school
physician, on the school board and board of health. He
m., 7 June, 1900, Lila Blanche Hardy, b. in Beverly, 22
Feb., 1879, to William Bray and Sadie Jane (Stevens)
Hardy. Had: (1) Gretchen Walgrave, b. 13 May, 1901; (2)
Paul Hardy Granville, b. 9 June, 1903.
127. MARY MARIA LESLIE was born in Topsham, Vt.,
12 Nov., 1849. She married in Lynnfield, Mass., 10 Nov.,
1875, George Oilman Adams, who was born in Salmon
Falls, Me., 26 Aug., 1850, to Benjamin Gilman and
Sophia (Nutter) Adams. Mr. Adams is an architect in
Lawrence, Mass. They have no children.
136. SELWYN GOODHUE LESLIE was born in Lowell,
20 June, 1859, and died in Auburn, Me., 26 Nov., 1899.
He had four trades shingle-sawyer, edge-trimmer on
shoes, stationary engineer, and cabinet-maker. He was a
few years a manufacturer of furniture in Gardiner. He
married, first, in Hallo well, Me., 26 June, 1880, Annie
Louisa Jackson, who died 5 Jan., 1894, in Gardiner. He
married, second, Hattie A. Withers, born in Nashua, N. H.,
15 Nov., 1861, and now living.
Children of Selwyn G. and Annie L. Leslie :
191. HATTIE MARY LIVERMORE, b. in So. Gardiner, 12 May, 1883;
d. 23 July, 1889.
192. EDGAR SELWYN, b. in So. Gardiner, 24 March, 1881; m. in
Manchester, X. H., 4 May, 1905, Elizabeth Moulton Lang-
maid, b. to Edward and Jacintha Maria Langmaid. He is
a photographer and lives in Manchester, N. H. Had: Dor-
othy May, b. 6 June, 1906.
153. CHARLES FULLER LESLIE, M. D., was born in
Patten, Me., 16 April, 1847, and died in Clyde, Kansas,
30 May, 1912, of heart failure. He was educated in
Patten Academy, of which he was principal a few years
354 JAMES LESSLIE OF TOPSF1ELD, MASS.
later. He then studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, N. H.
He studied medicine at Dartmouth and at Bowdoin,
where he received the degree of M. D. He practiced
eight years in Sunapee, N. H., and two in Windsor, Vt.
His failing health took him to Clyde, Kan., where he prac-
ticed twenty-six years, including the day before his death.
He was a member of the International Association of
Railway Surgeons. He joined the Congregational church
when about sixteen, the Presbyterian in Clyde, and for
fifteen years was ruling elder. He married in Cornish, 4
May, 1875, Miss Ellen Janet Balloch, who wavS born 30
Sept., 1849, and died in Clyde, 14 July, 1913. She was
daughter of William and Nancy Jane (Dem ing) Balloch.
Children of Charles F. and Nancy J. Leslie :
193. WILLIAM BALLOCH, b. in Sunapee, 2 March, 1878, and is a
lawyer in Clyde; unm.
194. ALICE CHASE, b. in Sunapee, 3 Sept., 1880; unm.
178. FBEELAND DAVID LESLIE, M. D., was born 29
June, 1858. When eleven years old, he went with his
parents to Boston ; studied in the public schools, including
the English High, and graduated from the Boston Uni-
versity School of Medicine, with the degree of M. D., in
1879. He began practice in Clinton, Mass., June, 1880,
and continued five years ; then went abroad and took
special courses in the hospitals of Vienna, Berlin, Heidel-
berg and Paris, himself and wife spending two years in
Europe. In 1888, he located permanently in practice of
medicine in Milton, Mass., where he has served on the
board of health and two terms on the school board. He
is a member of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical
Society, of Macedonian Lodge of F. and A. Masons, of
which he was the first Master, and of Dorchester Lodge
of I. O. O. F. He was District Deputy Grand Master of
the Fourth Massachusetts Masonic District for 1913-14.
As a physician he has an extensive practice.
He married, 14 Sept., 1881, Georgianna Shepard of
Canton, Mass., born there 25 April, 1852, to James Strat-
ton and Mary (Belcher) Shepard.
We are indebted to Dr. Leslie for the complete line of
descendants of William Leslie, No. 11. The doctor very
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 355
generously placed to our use all his valuable Leslie col-
lections.
Children of Dr. Freeland D. and Georgianna Leslie :
195. BERNARD SUEPARD, b. in London, Eng., 2 Dec., 1886; was
educated in the Milton public schools and the private
schools of Prof. Hopkinson and Prof. De Meritte of Bos-
ton, and grad. at the Mass. Institute of Technology with
degree of S. B., in 1908. He is engaged with the United
States Shoe Machinery Co. of Boston, Chicago, and Beverly.
196. H6wARD CLIFFORD, b. in Milton, 4 Nov., 1888. At twelve,
entered Milton Academy, and grad. in 1907; then entered
Class J ll of Harvard University and took degree of A. B. ;
is engaged in banking in Boston.
197. FREELAND HUSTON, b. in Milton, 7 Nov., 1890. He was edu-
cated in the Milton public schools and Milton Academy;
then Harvard, class '12, with degree A. B. ; then two years
with "Tech;" grad. 1914 with S. B.; is with the Subma-
rine Signal Co., Boston.
THE LESLIE FAMILY IN ESSEX COUNTY, NOT
DESCENDED FROM JAMES, OF TOPSFIELD.
BY M. V. B. PERLEY.
BENJAMIN LESLIE was born in Derryfield, N. H., 24
May, 1776, and died 27 March, 1835. He is understood
to have been a pensioner. He married, first,* in Chester,
N. H., 15 Nov., 1798, Sally Flint, born in Wilmington,
Mass., 15 March, 1774, to David and Mary. She died in
Haverhill, Mass., 2 April (not 21 Aug.), 1828, aged 54
years. This couple sold real estate in Haverhill, Mass.,
22 Aug., 1817, and signed the deedf Benjamin (without
the F. or Franklin) and Sally Leslie. Benjamin married,
second, in Haverhill, 15 Dec., 1828, Lydia Bradley, who
died 13 Feb., 18544
Children of Benjamin and Sally Leslie :
1. SALLY, b. in Newport, Vt., 20 Nov., 1799.
2. NANCY, b. in Whitehall, N. Y., 26 June, 1802. Her birth is
registered in Danvers, Mass. She m. in Haverhill, Dec.,
1823 (Haverhill rec., 22 Dec., 1824), John Harwood (not
Howard), b. to Ezra and Nancy, 14 Aug., 1799. [Hezekiah
Flint was made guardian of John Harwood, 15 years old,
son of Ezra, 4 Aug., 1814. Probate Rds., Vol. 386: 61.]
Had, born in Haverhill: (1) Frances, b. 18 Feb., 1824. (2)
Harriet Brown, b. 2 Dec., 1827; d. in Maiden, 20 Sept.,
1840. (3) Ezra Orin, b. 25 Jan., 1830. (4) Louisa, b. 21 Oct.,
1832. (5) Lydia Ann, b. 26 Nov., 1835; d. 26 Dec., 1836. (6)
Andrew Jackson, b. 18 Dec., 1837.
NOTE. Mr. C. A. Harwood of Lynn, Mass., wrote: " This family
of Leslies came from the Scotch Highlands." From Benjamin's
several sojourns he seems to have been a millwright, and took his
family with him on long jobs.
*Haverhill rds. read: m. Sally Flint [before 1813].
t Registry of Deeds, book 214: 133.
JEssex County Probate Files, Nos. 16725 and 45259.
(356)
THE LESLIE FAMILY IN ESSEX COUNTY. 357
3. Louis, b. in Derryfield, 3 Oct., 1805.
4. [MATTHEW F., b. ; m. in Salem, Mass., 27 Aug., 1832, Car-
oline H. Nichols.]
5. MARY, b. in Bradford, Mass., 27 Aug., 1810. [Mary m. in
Haverhill, 21 Nov., 1837, Moses Harriman.]
6. Benjamin Franklin, b. Haverhill, 24 Jan., 1813.
CHARLES LASLIE, aged 25, of Lowell, born in Nova
Scotia, married in Nashville (New Nashua, N. H.), 29
Nov., 1851, Lucinda A. Burbank, aged 19, of Lowell,
born in Chatham, N. H. Had : (1) Jennie, b. 14 Aug.,
1852; (2) Lucinda, b. 10 Oct., 1855.
CHARLES LESLIE, painter, born in Lowell; married
Sophia . Had : (1) Sophia, b. in Lowell ; m. (se. 25)
1855, Carl August Siegesmond (se. 32), musician, b. in
Germany. (2) Mary Jane, b. in Lubec, Me. [1834] ; m.
(8e. 18), 25 April, 1852, George S. Kames (83. 25), actor.
(3) John, b. in Orford, N. H. [1835]; machinist; m.
(33. 33), 1868, Catherine E. White. (SB. 22), b. in Bath,
N. H., to Peter and wife Rebecca. (4) Arabella Victoria,
b. 19 Nov., 1844.
GEORGE LESSLIE, b. 14 Feb., 1826; d. 14 June, 1844,
in Framingham, Mass.
GEORGE LASLIE of Cambridge, Mass., m. in Maiden,
Mass., 1 Oct., 1825, Sally Upham of Maiden, b. 7 Feb.,
1806, to Ezra Upham of Herkimer, N. Y., and wife Su-
sannah Smith of Coleraine. N. E. Hist. Gene. Reg., Vol
23. Had :
1. SUSAN ELVIRA, of Newburyport, m. 9 Feb., 1854, Frederick
Warren Baker, machinist, b. 5 Aug., 1829.
2. SARAH AMELIA, b. in Lynn, 3 Sept., 1834; m. in Lowell, 8
July, 1861, George M. Munn, gunsmith.
GEORGE LASLY and four other persons from Gray, Me.,
and two others from New Gloucester, went into Rustford
in 1786. In 1787, Lasly moved his family there. In
358 THE LESLIE FAMILY IN ESSEX COUNTY,
1790, by the U. S. census, the family of " George Lasly "
consisted of 1 male over 16 years of age, 2 under 16, and
1 female. " It is almost certain " that he was a Revolu-
tionary soldier. In 1794, his total state tax was 5s. 5d. ;
poll, 10*. ; real estate, 3. 2d. 2/. ; personal, Is. 4d. 2/.,
and only 3 of the community each paid more. In 1796
his state tax was |1.05. He was a subscriber (second
on the list), in 1795, for a town incorporation. He died
in 1800.
In 1803-4, Amasa Lesley and William Lesley, who
were orphans at 14 and 16 years, are called sons of the
old settlers. In 1807, both were petitioners for the in-
corporation of their church. It is reported that William
went to New York, married, and died there without
issue. Amasa married Abigail Thomas of Sidney, Me.
They had children : William Lafayette, b. 28 July, 1830,
in Waterville or Carmel, Me., and died in Haverhill, Mass.,
29 July, 1900, aged 70 years, 1 day. His wife was Sarah
E. Lewis, a native of Sidney, Me. Their son is Perley
Leslie of Haverhill, president of the Leslie Dry Goods
Co. Perley Leslie's first wife was Catherine W. Board-
man, born in Haverhill, and died there 24 Jan., 1907.
His second wife is Annie G. Morse, who is also a native of
Haverhill. Joseph, brother to William Lafayette, married
Sarah Dudley, and had Eugene, oldest son (now of Granby ,
Colo.), and Alice Bradford, who, born in Danforth, Me.,
31 Oct., 1860, married L.R. Tucker of Basalt, Colorado.
JONAS LESLEY, according to the U. S. census of 1790,
was living then in Raby, now Brookline, N. H., having a
family of one male over 16 years, three males under 16,
and four females. Jonas Lesley of Newburyport married
there, 6 Dec., 1801, Susannah Lindsey. Jonas, innkeeper:
sold real estate, 12 Sept., 1805, for $900, to Joseph Bart-
lett of Newbury, yeoman. Children, born in Newbury-
port : (1) George Lindsey, 6 Oct., 1802 ; (2) Susannah
Caroline, 26 Dec., 1803; (3) Wm. Henry, 9 Nov., 1806.
JOSEPH LESLIE, married 26 Dec., 1808, in Seabrook,
N. H., int. in Newburyport, Hannah Raymond of Hamp
NOT DESCENDED FKOM JAMES, OF TOPSFIELD. 359
ton Falls, doubtless daughter of Lt. Joseph Raymond of
Hampton Falls, who married 16 April, 1784, Hannah
Dodge. Had :
1. HANNAH DODGE, b. 2 July, 1810.
2. JOSEPH RAYMOND, b. 2 March, 1812.
3. EUNICE DODGE, b. 10 Feb., 1818.
4. SARAH SMITH, b. 18 June, 1820; d. 2 April, 1821.
5. SARAH ELIZABETH, b. in Brookline. N. H., 14 Jan., 1828; m.
in Brookline, 27 April, 1852, Newton Worcester Colburn,
b. in Brookline, 29 April, 1827. Had (1) Nellie, b. 21 Oct.,
1860; m. 10 April, 1888, John Dobson. (2) Grace E., b. 14
Oct., 1862.
JOSEPH LESLIE had in Hollis, N. H., a family of two
males over 16 years, one male under, and three females,
1790. -U.S. Census.
SAMUEL LESLIE, a cooper, married (int. in Newbury-
port) Betsey Swain. He enlisted 10 Jan., 1 814 as a sergeant
in Capt. Mclntosh's company, U. S. Light Artillery, and
died in the service in the line of his duty 29 Dec., 1814.
Act of 16 April, 1816, a certificate for $66 per annum
from 15 Feb., 1815, to 15 Feb., 1820, or five years' half-
pay in lieu of bounty land on account of his service,
issued 12 Aug., 1817, to Betsey Lesley, guardian of his
four children Lucy Ann, Edward Swain, Betsey, and
Mary Stone, of Essex County, Mass. No further data
on file.
Children, born in Newburyport :
1. LUCY ANN, b. 17 April, 1802; m. 25 June, 1826, George Fitz.
2. EDWARD SWAIN, b. 14 July, 1804, of Lowell; m. in Newbury-
port, 27 May, 1830, Sarah Frothingham ; and had: (1) Ed-
ward, 6 Jan, bp. 19 May, 1833 ; d. 20 June, 1834, as. 1 yr. 5
mos.; (2) Sarah, bp. 19 July, 1835; (3) Edward, bp. 18 Jan.,
1838; (4) Mary Ann, bp. 15 , 1840; (5) Elizabeth, bp.
19 Nov., 1843; (6) Lucy Maria, b. 11 June, 1846.
3. ELIZABETH SMITH, b. 10 Oct., 1807; m. 3 Jan., 1847, Charleg
Butler, widower, ae. 55, baker, son of Nathaniel and Ann.
4. MART STONE, b. 18 June, 1811; d. 30 Nov., 1838.
360 THE LESLIE FAMILY IN ESSEX COUNTY.
JAMES C. LESLIE, Newton Ave., Lynn, came from
Scotland abeut 1888 ; has six children : Alfred C., David
M., I. Isabelle (professional nurse), James, and William
S. His father Andrew he left in Scotland, and his
grandfather, also named Andrew.
OWEN W. LESLIE, Lynn (1913), had a father Simeon
and grandfather Jacob. His great-grandfather was first
cousin to Col. Leslie of North Bridge fame, Salem.
Owen's brothers : George, of Milford, Mass., and Theo-
dore of Brooklyn, N. Y.
EDWARD J. LESLIE and John P., Lynn (1913), and
Edward James and Robert, Swampscott, are brothers.
W. PARKER LESLIE, of Gloucester (1913), had father
John Thomas, of Liverpool, N. S., and uncles John, Ed-
ward, Stephen, at the same address.
JAMES LESLIE, Lynn, came from Scotland 25 years
ago (1913) ; married, and had children ; a widower now.
He left in Scotland a father, Joseph, and an uncle Hugh.
FRANK P. LESLIE, of Lynn, came from Scotland six
years ago (1913), with wife and children : John, Alice,
Ethel.
ENDECOTT LANDS, SALEM, IN 1700.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY.
THE tract of country which this article comprehends
is nearly all within the present town of Danvers, and
extends from the main river on the east nearly to the
Boston & Maine Railroad on the west, a distance of about
two and a half miles, and from Mount Pleasant, or Hog
hill, on the south to Crane brook on the north, a distance
of about one and a quarter miles, and contains an area
of three square miles. It is denominated Eodecott
Lands " because it comprises the lands in that region
owned by Gov. John Endecott. There were four tracts
of land here originally, the Orchard farm, being the
great tract of land between the rivers, the Chickering
farm, the Governor's plain and the " Small lots." The
Orchard farm, of about three hundred acres, called by the
Indians Wahquainesehcok, and by the English Birchwood,
was granted by the general court to Governor Endecott
July 3, 1632 ; the Chickering farm, of about three hundred
acres, was granted by the town of Salem to Townsend
Bishop Jan. 11, 1635-6 ; the Governor's, or Endecott's,
plain, of about two hundred acres, was granted by the
town of Salem to him Jan. 27, 1636-7 ;* and the " Small
lots " comprised a number of ten acres lots granted to
several persons and laid out to Governor Endecott as he
had bought their rights. The boundary line between the
" Small lots " and the Governor's plain ran in the direction
of the line now dividing Danvers and Peabody and a little
north of it. The original boundaries of these several
grants were changed somewhat by the Endecotts.
To determine the boundaries of the Bishop grant or
Nurse farm next the land of Nathaniel Putnam, a com-
mittee was appointed by the general court Oct. 12, 1678,
Salem Town Records, volume I, page 35 (printed).
(861)
362 ENDECOTT LANDS, SALEM, IN 1700,
and a survey was made by Jonathan Danforth of Billerica
Dec. 9, 1678, In 1681 a dispute again arose and the
Salem quarterly court settled it by following the old line
instead of the brook, the line running straight from the
hemlock tree to the bridge. The plan of the surveyor is
reproduced herewith of the same size as the original. *
Waters river, on the south, was called by the Indians
Soewamapenessett river ; and was known to the English
as Cow-house river, in 1632 ; westerly of the highway it
was called a brook running down to Rum bridge, in
1684 ; a creek or salt water, in 1720 ; the brook, in 1753 ;
the river, in 1790 ; the creek, in 1807 ; and Waters river,
in 1851.
Crane river, on the north, was called by the Indians
Conamabsqnooncant river : and was known to the English
as Duck river, in 1632 ; and Crane river as early as 1650.
There were early two bridges over Crane river and
one over Waters river. April 26, 1658, at a general
town meeting in Salem, there were appointed " Surueio r *
for the bridges about the Gou'nors farm."f The bridge
over Waters river was called Rum bridge as early as
1669 ; and the bridge over Crane river at Pine street
was constructed of wood and called Hadlock's bridge as
early as 1678 ; and the bridge over Crane river at Ash
street was there as early as 1692.
The old " back way " through North fields, which
skirted the low marsh lands, crossed Waters river some
thirty rods down the stream from the present Sylvan
street, at a fording place, and thence proceeded to the
bridge or ford at what is now Ash street. This was prob-
ably the oldest way of the region.
Prospect street was a part of the ancient Ipswich road,
which is said to have been laid out in 1643. It was
called ye country highway called Boston road, in 1686 ;
ye country road leading towards Boston, in 1691; ye
country road leading from Ipswich to Boston, in 1701 ;
Ipswich road, in 1733 ; and Prospect street in 1885.
*See files of the Salem Quarterly Court, volume XXXV, leaves 111-
115.
tSalem Town Records, volume I, page 215 (printed).
BY SIDNEY PBRLEY. 363
That part of Sylvan street which lies southerly from
Ash street was a part of the old Ipswich road ; and was
called ye country highway, in 1684 ; ye country road, in
1691 ; ye common road which goes to Ipswich, in 1692 ;
Ipswich highway, in 1698 ; ye great road, in 1720 ; Bos-
ton or Ipswich road leading to Phillips', in 1735; Ipswich
road, in 1748 ; the old Ipswich road, in 1836 ; the road
that leads to Danvers plains, in 1839 ; and the road lead-
ing from the Collins house to Danvers plains, in 1839.
That part of Sylvan street which lies northerly of Ash
street was laid out by the county commissioners May 25,
1839. The whole length was called Sylvan street as early
as 1854.
That part of Andover street extending from Prospect
street towards Salem was laid out early ; and was called
the Salem road, in 1691 ; ye country road, in 1701 ; the
county highway leading from Salem to Ipswich, in 1705 ;
ye road that leads to Salem, in 1722; and Andover street
as early as 1882.
The old clay-pit lane, running from the old back road
to Andover street, was called a highway in 1702 ; a lane
running from ye clay pits as the fence now stands to ye
county highway, in 1705 ; ye highway that leads to Cow-
house river, in 1722 ; and Clay-pit lane as early as 1722.
Cross street was laid out before 1733, when it was
called ye lane leading to Ipswich road ; and it was called
Cross street as early as 1882.
Andover street, from Prospect street westerly, shown
on the plan by parallel lines of dashes, was laid out as a
turnpike road to Andover in 1804 ; and was called a
highway in 1805; the road formerly the turnpike, in
1843; Essex turnpike, in 1847; and Andover street as
early as 1863.
Running westerly from Andover street, as shown on
the plan, was early a lane leading by the house of Henry
Houlton to the great pasture on the northwestern slope
of Hog hill.
Endecott street was laid out as a street and so called
as early as 1856.
Pine street is an ancient road and was called the An-
364 ENDECOTT LANDS, SALEM, JN 1700,
dover highway or road, in 1699 ; Andover road, in 1700 ;
the old road, in 1839 ; and Pine street as early as 1844.
It is said that originally the street was straight, and ran
from the present angle in it crossing Houlton street where
the Methodist church stands in Tapleyville.
Collins street was laid out as early as 1837, when it
was called the road leading by the house of Jesse Tap-
ley; Collins' road so called, in 1849; and Collins street
as early as 1856.
Ash street was a part of the ancient Ipswich road and
was called ye county road in 1678, and Ash street as early
as 1854.
Adams street was so called as early as 1861.
Hyde street was laid out about 1870.
Estate of John Endecott Houses. This neck of land was
the same which was granted by the general court, July 3,
1632, to Gov. John Endecott in the following words :
" There is a necke of land lyeing aboute 3 myles from
Salem, cont aboute 300 ac of land, graunted to Capt Jo :
Endicott, to enioy to him & his heires for euer, called in
the Indean tonge Wahquainesehcok, in English Birch-
wood, bounded on the south side with a ryver called in
the Indean tounge Soewamapenessett, comonly called the
Cowe House Ryver ; bounded on the north side with a
ryver called in the Indean tongue Conamabsqnooncant,
comonly called the Ducke Ryver ; bounded on the east
w th a ryver leadeing vpp to the 2 form ryvers, w ch is
called in the Indean tongue Orkhussunt, otherwise
knowen by the name of Wooleston Ryv r ; bounded on
the west with the maine land."*
Upon this land, Governor Endecott immediately plant-
ed an orchard, and it was afterwards known as the
Orchard farm. Governor Endecott removed to Boston in
1655, and died there March 15, 1664-5. In his will, he
devised the farm, after the decease of his wife, to his
sons John and Zerubbabel. It was appraised at this date,
with the housing, orchards and fences thereon, at five
hundred and fifty pounds. John died, without issue, in
^Records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, volume I, page 07
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BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 365
February, 1667. Apparently Zerubbabel Endecott built,
just before his death, the house now belonging to William
C. Endicott, Esq., and died in January, 1683-4. In his
will, Zerubbabel Endecott devised the farm to his two
sons John and Samuel Endecott and the heirs of their
bodies. In the appraisal of Zerubbabel Endecott's estate,
taken March 4, 1696-7, it was valued at fifteen hundred
pounds, and described as follows : " The ffarme called
oarchard ffarme being by estimation aboute three hundred
acres of upland swamps and marishes together with all
the buildings fences and privillages there unto belonging :
in the Tenure and occupation off waiter phillips."
Capt. John Putnam, sr., deposed, Aug. 8, 1705, ' that
being a Retainer to Gov r Endicotts family about
fifty years ago & being Intimately acquaint* with
the Gov r himself & with his son m r Zerobabell
Endicott Late of Salem Dec d who succeeded in his
fathers Right & Lived & Dyed on the farme Called
orchard farme in Salem the said Governo r Endicott
did often times tell this Deponant That he did account
the neck of Land granted him by the Countrey to be his
orchard farme & the Land granted him by y e Town of
Salem he Called his Two hundred acres & another percell
of Land The Small Lotts & the Land Bought of m r
Chickering he called Chickerings farmes & m r Zerobabell
Endicott his Son in his Lifetime often Told this Depo-
nant that he accounted only y e Said Neck of Land to be
y e orchard farme & the other percells of Land before
mentioned he called them as his father had Done," etc.*
The Orchard farm was divided by John Endecott and
Samuel Endecott March 26, 1691, Dr. John Endecott
taking this portion of it, with the buildings thereon.
The ancient house was standing, apparently, as late as
1712. In 1684, in the inventory of the estate of Zerub-
babel Endecott, it was called " the old house. " At that
time the new house was so called, and it had in it a
hall, parlor, kitchen and chamber. It was originally
little more than one-half the size of the present house,
the western rooms, upstairs and down, having been added,
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 40.
366 ENDECOTT LANDS, SALEM, IN 1700,
in 1762 ; and the leanto was extended some four feet
more in the rear at the same time.*
Doctor Endecott died in London, England, where he
lived, about 1694 ; and his widow Anna Endecott and
children, Robert Edwards and Anne, came to America.
They divided the estate July 4, 1720, Samuel Endecott,
husband of Anne, being assigned that part with the
house thereon, apparently, though no mention is made of
buildings in the record. f Mrs. Anne Endecott died in
May, 1723 ; and her three children, John, Sarah and
Samuel, divided the estate Dec. 11, 17564 They all
lived in Danvers, Sarah being unmarried and her brothers
yeomen. To John was assigned the dwelling house and
land under and around it. John Endecott lived here and
died May 11, 1783 ; having in his will devised the estate
to his son John, subject to the improvement of the widow
of the deceased during her widowhood of the easterly end
of the house, namely, cellar, lower room, chamber and
garret. Dec. 8, 1790, John Endecott, the son, mortgaged
the estate to the inhabitants of the South parish, in Dan-
vers. To foreclose this mortgage, possession was secured
by judgment in the court of common pleas Sept. 25,
1792. Mr. Endecott released his interest in the premises
to his sons Samuel Endecott and John Endecott, jr.,
both of Salem, mariners, Sept. 10, 1793. || The
inhabitants of the South parish released their interest
in the estate to Samuel and John Sept. 23, 1793.^[
Samuel Endecott became a merchant, and died May 1,
1828. His children, Elizabeth Endicott, William P.
Endicott, Esq., Martha, wife of Francis Peabody, Esq.,
and Clarissa, wife of George Peabody, and widow Eliza-
beth Peabody, all of Salem, and Timothy Endicott of
Sterling, joined with his brother John Endicott of Dan-
*William C. Endicott, Esq., writes concerning this house: "I
have heard from three generations that this present house was built
about 1712, and that what timbers could be used from the Govern-
or's house were used in its construction. 1 '
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 38, leaf 79.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 106, leaf 71.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 151, leaf 290.
IIEssex Registry of Deeds, book 157, leaf 28.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 156, leaf 251.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 36T
vers, mariner, and conveyed the estate to Charles Saun-
ders of Cambridge, esquire, Dec. 31, 1829.* For four
thousand dollars, Mr. Saunders conveyed it to William
Johnson of Salem, mariner, Nov. 11, 1830. f Mr. John-
son, for four thousand dollars, conveyed the farm and
buildings to Abijah Porter of Danvers, yeoman, July 21,
18364 Mr. Porter, for four thousand dollars, conveyed
the same estate to his son Isaac Porter of Danvers, yeo-
man, Feb. 20, 1841. Isaac Porter, for a similar consid-
eration, conveyed the estate to Benjamin Porter of Dan-
vers, Nov. 18, 1845. || Benjamin Porter conveyed the
estate to John Mason of Salem March 15, 1851 fl[ and
Mr. Mason conveyed it to John Sparhawk, jr., of Mar-
blehead March 23, 1354.** Mr. Sparhawk conveyed it
to John S. Ives of Salem Aug. 12, 1862 ;ff and Mr.
Ives conveyed it to James B. Curwen of Salem Aug. 28,
1862.JJ Mr. Curwen conveyed it to James Bridges En-
dicott and William Endicott Oct. 31, 1862. James B.
Endicott lived in Victoria, on the Island of Hong Kong,
merchant, at the time of his decease, Nov. 5, 1870 ; and
George Farley Heard, the executor of his will, conveyed
his half of the estate to William Endicott, formerly of
Danvers, but then of London, England, the owner of
the other half, Feb. 2, 1874. |||| William Endicott made
his will, while " temporally residing at 28 Saville Row in
the County of London," England, May 4, 1892 ; and died
in Salem, Mass., July 3, 1892, having devised this estate,
with the house thereon, to his cousin, William Crownin-
shield Endicott, jr., " in the hope that the devisee and
his descendants will keep the property in the family.'*
The devisee now owns it.
Dr. William Bentley records in his Diary, under date
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 255, leaf 126.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 257, leaf 303.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 293, leaf 39.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 322, leaf 275.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 361, leaf 104.
IFEssex Registry of Deeds, book 448, leaf 37.
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 492, leaf 64.
t tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 641, leaf 118.
JJEssex Registry of Deeds, book 642, leaf 57.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 644, leaf 85.
II II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 907, leaf 273.
368 BNDECOTT LANDS, SALEM, IN 1700,
of Sept. 21, 1796, a tramp through the Orchard farm ;
and he speaks of the site and environment as follows :
" We found that this house, gone before the memory of
any persons living, was upon the descent of the hill fac-
ing southward. The place of the cellar, which is to be
seen, is distinguished by an apple tree growing on it.
Behind was a building for the family servants and domes-
tic laborers, the place of which is now to be seen. There
is a fine prospect in front, and a gentle descent to a little
creek, in which the governor kept his shallop. Tradition
says there was a walk to this place, with damson trees
and grape vines so thick that a person might walk unob-
served. These have all been gone for many years. This
place was called the Governor's orchard, as he planted
early trees around his house. There is only one tree left,
which bears the Sugar pear, and, by tradition, was planted
in 1630. It is in front of the site of the house, it rises
in three trunks from the ground, and is considerably
high. . . . There is a beautiful spring near Crane river,
just before we came to the gate on the road."* Under
date of July 26, 1802, Doctor Bentley wrote concerning
the site of the governor's house : " The old cellar is
filled up and the stones sold/'f
Estate of Samuel Endecott Lot. This was a part of the
Orchard farm of Gov. John Endecott, which, had been
granted to him by the general court July 3, 1632. Gov-
ernor Endecott died March 15, 1665 ; having, in his will,
devised this farm to his sons John and Zerubbabel Ende-
cott. John died, without issue, in February, 1667.
Zerubbabel Endecott died possessed of it in January,
1683-4, having devised it, in his will, to his two sons John
and Samuel Endecott and the heirs of their bodies. These
brothers made a division of the farm March 26, 1691, and
this portion was assigned to Samuel Endecott. Mr. En-
decott went away in August, 1692, and never returned.
He was regarded as dead and the lot as the property of
his wife and children in 1700. His wife married Thorn-
dike Proctor of Salem, husbandman, Dec. 15, 1697, and
*Diary of Rev. William Bentley, volume II, page 197.
tDiary of Rev. William Bentley, volume II, page 441.
BY SIDNEY PEBLEY. 369
his children, the eldest being only fourteen, were Samuel,
Ruth and Hannah.*
Thorndike Proctor House. This was one of the ten-
acre lots that were granted to Richard Norman and others
very early, and they sold the same to Gov. John Endecott.
It was regranted to Governor Endecott by the town of
Salem Feb. 5, 1643-4. f
Governor Endecott had a servant named Benjamin
Scarlet, and to him he gave this lot for his life. Governor
Endecott removed to Boston in 1655, and died there
March 15, 1665. In his will, he gave certain real estate,
which included the reversion of this lot, to his sons John
and Zerubbabel and the survivor of them. John died,
without issue, in February, 1667, and Zerubbabel died in
January, 1683-4. In his will, Zerubbabel Endecott de-
vised this lot to Benjamin Scarlet for his life and the re-
version remained in the estate until the latter's decease.
In 1685, it was called " Benjamin Scarlet's plantation."
Benjamin Scarlet lived in the dwelling house which
stood on this lot, and he conveyed his life interest in the
property to Samuel Endecott, second son of Zerubbabel
Endecott, deceased, and his wife Hannah, Jan. 9, 1691-
24 In this deed, the grantor says of himself, that he
had "liued as a Seruant with mr John Endecott Esquire
Sometimes Gouernour in New England and Served him
near upon thirty yeares for and in Confideracon whereof
the Said Gouernour Endecott gaue unto me ... a Cer-
taine Tract of land in " 1650, containing ten acres,
" which land hath Euer Since been pofsed by me y e Said
Benjamin Skarlett and it lyeth at head of Cow houfe
Riuer bounded On y e north with y e land of inr Endecott
Called Oarchard farme on y e South with y e high way lead-
William C. Endicott, Esq., writes that the house of Zerubbabel
Endecott stood on this lot, and in it lived Zerubbabel Endecott, his
son Samuel Endecott and his grandson Samuel Endecott. After the
house had been vacant and uninhabitable for many years, it was
pulled down, and the Sprague house built upon its site. People
came from far and near and carried away the quaint tiles which
surrounded the fireplace.
tSalem Town Records, volume I, page 124 (printed).
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 123.
370 ENDECOTT LANDS, SALEM, IN 1700,
ing to y e Salt Water One y e west with y e Roadway lead-
ing to Salem and On y e East with y e Salt Water," having
been given to me for my life, and in case of my leaving
no posterity to whom I might bestow it, do therefore
convey it, with the improvements I have made thereon,
by building or otherwise.* Benjamin Scarlet probably
died before July 25, 1698, when Zerubbabel Endecott of
Topsfield, administrator with the will annexed de bonis
non of his father, said deceased Zerubbabel Endecott, for
thirty-five pounds, conveyed it to Stephen Sewall of Salem,
merchant.f For eighty pounds, Major Sewall conveyed
it to Thorndike Proctor of Salem, husbandman, Sept. 22,
1699 ;J and Mr. Proctor owned it in 1700. How long
the house stood is unknown.
Sarah Prince House. This was a part of the " small
lots " of land which Gov. John Endecott bought of
various persons whose names are now unknown. He died
in Boston March 15, 1665, having in his will devised this lot
to his son Zerubbabel. Zerubbabel Endecott died possessed
of it in January, 1683-4, having in his will devised it to his
sons John and Samuel. For four pounds, they conveyed
it to Sarah (Rea) Phillips, widow of Jacob Phillips, of
Salem April 6, 1691. She married James Prince the
next year, and owned the lot in 1700. There was a small
dwelling house upon it in 1705, which was probably built
in 1691. She conveyed the house and land, for twenty
pounds, to Tabitha Phillips of Salem April 2, 1705. ||
Miss Phillips died in the spring of 1718 ; having in her
will devised the house and land to her brothers Walter
Phillips and James Phillips. The house was gone before
1758.
Joseph Buxton Lot. This was a part of the " Small
lots " of land which Gov. John Endecott had bought of
various persons. He died in Boston March 15, 1665,
having in his will devised this lot to his son Zerubbabel.
Zerubbabel Endecott died possessed of it in January,
. Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 128.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 52.
$Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 230.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 242.
l| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 34, leaf 168.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 371
1683-4, having in his will devised it to his sons John and
Samuel. John Endecott went to London, England, where
he lived; and Samuel had either purchased the interest
of John in the property or utterly ignored such interest
in Samuel Endecott's deed of this lot to Joseph Buxton
of Salem, husbandman, Jan. 11, 1691-2.* Samuel Ende-
cott was of Salem, yeoman, and the consideration of this
conveyance was twenty-four pounds. Mr. Buxton owned
the lot in 1700.
James Houlton Lot. This was a part of the " small
lots " of land which Gov. John Endecott bought of vari-
ous persons. He died in Boston March 15, 1665, having
in his will devised the lot to his son Zerubbabel. Zerub-
babel Endecott died possessed of it in January, 1683-4,
having in his will devised it to his sons John and Samuel.
Samuel Endecott apparently purchased his brother John's
interest in the lot, which he conveyed, for twenty pounds,
to James Houlton of Salem April 21, 1686.f Mr. Houl-
ton owned it in 1700.
John Felton and James Houlton Lot. This lot belonged
to Gov. John Endecott, who died in Boston March 15,
1665, possessed of it. In his will, he devised it to his
son Zerubbabel. Zerubbabel Endecott died possessed of
it in January, 1683-4, having in his will devised it to his
sons John and Samuel. They lived in Salem, and for
twelve pounds, sixteen shillings and six pence, conveyed
it to John Felton and James Houlton of Salem Jan. ,
1691-2. | These grantees owned the land in 1700.
John Felton Lot. This land belonged to Gov. John
Endecott very early. He died in Boston March 15, 1665,
having in his will devised it to his son Zerubbabel. Ze-
rubbabel died possessed of it in January, 1683-4, having
in his will devised it to his sons John and Samuel. Sam-
uel Endecott apparently purchased his brother John's in-
terest in the lot, which he conveyed to John Felton of
Salem May 6, 1686. f Mr. Felton owned the lot in 1700.
Walter Phillips House. This was a part of the " Gov-
ernor's plain," which was early granted to Gov. John
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 36.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 30.
872 BNDBCOTT LANDS, SALEM, IN 1700,
Endecott. He died in Boston March 15, 1665, possessed
of it, having in his will devised it to his son Zerubbabel.
Zerubbabel Endecott died possessed of it in January,
1683-4, having in his will devised it to his sons John and
Samuel. John Endecott went to London, England, where
he lived and died ; and Samuel Endecott, his brother,
conveyed the lot to Walter Phillips of Lynn March 14,
1684-5.* In this deed, Samuel Endecott covenants to
hold the grantee harmless from any claim or interest of
his brother John Endecott. Mr. Phillips built a house
upon the lot, in which he conducted a tavern. The rooms
consisted of a parlor and kitchen and parlor chamber and
kitchen chamber. Mr. Phillips died possessed of it in
November, 1704, having in his will devised it to his son
James. " The Dwelling houfe & Land with y e Barne and
appertenances " were then appraised at one hundred
pounds. James Phillips lived here and continued the
business of an innholder, and died possessed of the prem-
ises in 1743. In his will, he devised one-half of the
house and barn and land to his wife Sarah, and the other
half to his daughter Hannah, who married Dr. Amos Put-
nam of Salem. Mrs. Phillips released her one-half inter-
est in the homestead to her daughter Hannah and her
husband Doctor Putnam Sept. 7, 1753. f Mrs. Putnam
died Oct. 2, 1758, leaving her husband and three children,
James Phillips Putnam, Hannah, wife of Nathan Putnam,
and Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Oliver of Marblehead.
Doctor Putnam remarried, and probably lived in this
house while it continued to exist. It was apparently re-
moved in 1805, when the estate was owned by the heirs
of Mrs. Putnam, Amos Putnam, Esq., Dr. James Phil-
lips Putnam and widow Elizabeth Oliver, all of Danvers.
John Felton Lot. This land early belonged to Grov.
John Endecott, who died in Boston March 15, 1665, hav-
ing in his will devised it to his son Zerubbabel. Zerub-
babel Endecott died possessed of it in January, 1683-4,
having in his will devised it to his sons John and Samuel.
Samuel Endecott apparently purchased his brother John's
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 72.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 99, leaf 240.
BY SIDNEY PEKLEY. 373
interest in the lot, which he conveyed to John Felton of
Salem Jan. 22, 1684.* Mr. Felton owned it in 1700.
Samuel Wakefield Lot. This land early belonged to
Gov. John Endecott, who died in Boston March 15, 1665,
having in his will devised it to his son Zerubbabel. Ze-
rubbabel Endecott died possessed of it in January, 1683-4,
having in his will devised it to his sons John and Samuel.
Samuel Endecott apparently purchased his brother John's
interest in the land, which he conveyed to Samuel Wake-
field of Salem, tailor, Jan. 9, 1691-2. f Mr. Wakefield
owned it in 1700.
Samuel Endecott Lot. This lot of land was partly of
the plain and partly of the " small lots " of Gov. John
Endecott who died in Boston March 15, 1664-5, having in
his will devised it to his son Zerubbabel. Zerubbabel
Endecott died possessed of it in January, 1683-4, having
in his will devised it to his sons John and Samuel. John
Endecott became a physician and settled and died in
London, England. Samuel Endecott owned this lot in
1700.
Rebecca Sheldon House. This lot of land belonged to
Gov. John Endecott who died in Boston March 15, 1664-
5, having in his will devised it to his son Zerubbabel.
Zerubbabel Endecott died possessed of it in January,
1683-4, having in his will devised it to his sons John and
Samuel. John Endecott became a physician, and settled
and died in London, England. Samuel Endecott conveyed
the lot to William Sheldon of Salem July 2, 1689. Mr.
Sheldon built a house upon the land, in which he lived.
He died in 1694, having in his will devised the house and
land to his wife Rebecca. She died between 1716 and
1720, having devised the house and land to her daughter
Hephzibah, who had married Skelton Felton May 29,
1712. Robert Endecott of Salem, only son of Dr. John
Endecott, and Samuel Endecott, only son of Samuel En-
decott, confirmed the title to Skelton Felton, who was then
of Salem, husbandman, July 26,17164 Mr. Felton lived
here, and conveyed the house, barn and land to Samuel
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 31.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 142.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 30, leaf 111.
374 BNDECOTT LANDS, SALEM, IN 1700,
Felton and Malachi Felton of Salem, yeoman, March 19,
1743-4,* and removed to Rutland. Samuel and Malachi
Felton divided the lot March 18, 1746, the land under and
around the buildings being assigned to Samuel, but the
buildings were assigned to both,f and liberty was given
for their removal within three years and one month.
They were probably removed before that time had ex-
pired.
Samuel Nurse and John Tarball Lot. This land belonged
to Gov. John Endecott who died in Boston March 15,
1664-5, having in his will devised it to his son Zerubba-
bel. Zerubbabel Endecott died possessed of it in Janu-
ary, 1683-4, having in his will devised it to his sons John
and Samuel. Samuel Endecott apparently became owner
of the whole title, and, for seven pounds and ten shillings,
conveyed the lot to Ephraim Sheldon of Salem, husband-
man, Sept. 14, 1692.:f Mr. Sheldon, for nine pounds,
conveyed the lot to Samuel Nurse of Salem Village, yeo-
man, June 24, 1696. Mr. Nurse conveyed one-half of
the lot, for four pounds and ten shillings, to his brother-
in-law John Tarball of Salem July 1, 1696. || Samuel
Nurse and John Tarball owned the lot in 1700.
John Tarball and Samuel Nurse Lot. This land belonged
to Gov. John Endecott very early. He died in Boston
March 15, 1664-5, having in his will devised it to his son
Zerubbabel. Zerubbabel Endecott died possessed of it in
January, 1683-4 ; and his son Zerubbabel Endecott, as
administrator of his estate with the will annexed, for
forty pounds, conveyed that part of the lot lying south-
westerly of the dashes to John Tarball and Samuel Nurse,
both of Salem, husbandmen, Sept. 25, 1697 ;! and the
remainder of the lot Dec. 26, 1698.** The grantees owned
the lot in 1700.
Estate of Thomas Preston Lots. The two narrow strips
of land of the estate of Thomas Preston and a small lot
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 88, leaf 247.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 89, leaf 221.
{Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 203.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 171.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 187.
IfEssex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 84.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 114.
BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 375
easterly between the lots of Samuel Nurse were a part of
the tract of land granted by the town of Salem to Town-
send Bishop of Salem Jan. 11, 1635-6 ; and Mr. Bishop
conveyed it to Henry Chickeringof Dedham Oct. 6, 1641.
Mr. Chickering sold it to Gov. John Endecott Oct. 4,
1648 ; and Governor Endecott gave it to his eldest son
John Endecott, confirming the gift by his will, which was
dated May 2, 1659, and proved Oct. 17, 1665. John
Endecott, the son, married Elizabeth Howchins and died
in 1667, having in his will devised this land to her. She
married, secondly, Rev. James Allen of Boston ; and Mr.
Allen conveyed this land to Francis Nurse of Salem April
29, 1678.* Mr. Nurse conveyed this part of his lot to his
son-in-law Thomas Preston of Salem Jan. 27, 1689-90.f
Mr. Preston died in 1697, and it apparently belonged to
his estate in 1700.
Samuel Nurse Lots. Samuel Nurse's two strips and
square lot of land and a lot on each side of the small lot
of the estate of Thomas Preston were a part of the tract
of land granted by the town of Salem to Townsend Bishop
of Salem Jan. 11, 1635-6 ; and Mr. Bishop conveyed it to
Henry Chickering of Dedham Oct. 6, 1641. Mr. Chick-
ering sold it to Gov. John Endecott Oct. 4, 1648 ; and
Governor Endecott gave it to his eldest son John Ende-
cott, confirming the gift by his will, which was dated May
2, 1659, and proved Oct. 17, 1665. John Endecott, the
son, married Elizabeth Howchins and died in 1667, having
in his will devised this land to her. She married, sec-
ondly, Rev. James Allen of Boston ; and Mr. Allen con-
veyed it to Francis Nurse of Salem April 29, 1678.* Mr.
Nurse conveyed it to his son Samuel Nurse of Salem Jan.
27, 1689-90 ;f and they belonged to Samuel Nurse in
1700.
John Tarbell Lots. John Tarbell's two long strips of
land and a lot next the lot of the estate of Thomas Pres-
ton and another next the lot of Jonathan Putnam were
portions of a tract of land granted by the town of Salem
to Townsend Bishop of Salem Jan. 11, 1635-6 ; and Mr.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 189.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 151.
376 BNDECOTT LANDS, SALEM, IN 1700,
Bishop conveyed it to Henry Chickering of Dedham Oct.
6, 1641. Mr. Chickering sold it to Gov. John Endecott
Oct. 4, 1648; and Governor Endecott gave it to his eld-
est son John Endecott, confirming the gift in his will,
which was dated May 2, 1659, and proved Oct. 17, 1665.
John Endecott, the son, married Elizabeth Howchins and
died in 1667, having in his will devised this land to her.
She married, secondly, Rev. James Allen of Boston; and
Mr. Allen conveyed it to Francis Nurse of Salem April
29, 1678.* Mr. Nurse conveyed these parts of his lot to
his son-in-law John Tarbell (Tarvell) of Salem Jan. 27,
1689-90 ;f and they belonged to him in 1700.
John Tarbell House. This lot of land was a part of the
tract of land granted by the town of Salem to Townsend
Bishop of Salem Jan. 11, 1635-6 ; and Mr. Bishop con-
veyed it to Henry Chickering of Dedham Oct. 6, 1641.
Mr. Chickering sold it to Gov. John Endecott Oct. 4,
1648; and Governor Endecott gave it to his eldest son
John Endecott, confirming the gift by his will, which was
dated May 2, 1659, and proved Oct. 17, 1665. John En-
decott, the son, married Elizabeth Howchins and died in
1667, having in his will devised this land to her. She
married, secondly, Rev. James Allen of Boston ; and Mr.
Allen conveyed it to Francis Nurse of Salem April 29,
1678.* Mr. Nurse conveyed this part of his lot to his
son-in-law John Tarbell (Tarvell) of Salem Jan. 27, 1689-
90.f Mr. Tarbell immediately built a house upon the lot
and -lived here. The house faced what is now Hyde
street, and its rear roof also covered a broad leanto. It
was the ordinary large house of the period.
Mr. Tarbell died in the spring of 1715, having in his
will devised his real estate to his sons Cornelius and
Jonathan. Jonathan Tarbell died in 1718, and his por-
tion, by an agreement made in his lifetime apparently,
became the property of his brother Cornelius Tarbell, the
owner of the other half interest. Eventually, it became
the property of Caleb Nurse, jr., of Danvers, yeoman,
who conveyed it, with the house and barn thereon, to
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 189.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 152.
BY SIDNEY PEELEY. 377
Gilbert Tapley of Danvers, housewright, April 14, 1770.*
Gilbert Tapley conveyed the house, barn and land to Asa
Tapley of Danvers, yeoman, Aug. 25, 1783 ;f and Asa
Tapley died possessed of the estate July 22, 1836, having
in his will devised it to his six sons, Daniel, Asa, Gilbert,
Nathan, Perley and Jesse. The title finally came into
Gilbert A. Tapley of Danvers, who, for six hundred dol-
lars, conveyed the land and buildings to Caroline C.
Soper, wife of Jeremiah Soper of Salem, Dec. 14, 1864.J
Mrs. Soper lived here, and conveyed the land and build-
ings to John M. Kelley of Danvers Nov. 7, 1868. Mr.
Kelley removed the old house.
Estate of Thomas Preston House. This lot of land was
a part of the three hundred acres granted by the town of
Salem to Townsend Bishop of Salem Jan. 11, 1635-6 ;
and Mr. Bishop conveyed it to Henry Chickering of Ded-
ham Oct. 6, 1641. Mr. Chickering sold it to Gov. John
Endecott Oct. 4, 1648; and Governor Endecott gave it
to his eldest son, John Endecott, confirming the gift by
his will, which was dated May 2, 1659, and proved Oct.
17, 1665. John Endecott, the son ; married Elizabeth
Howchins and died in 1667, having in his will devised this
land to his wife. She married, secondly, Rev. James
Allen of Boston ; and Mr. Allen conveyed it to Francis
Nurse of Salem April 29, 1678.|| Mr. Nurse's son-in-law
Thomas Preston built a house upon this part of the farm,
which Mr. Nurse conveyed to him Jan. 27, 1689-90.^]"
Mr. Preston died in 1697, and his estate owned the lot in
1700. The house was probably then standing.
John Tarbell and Samuel Nurse Lot. This land belonged
to Gov. John Endecott very early. He died in Boston
March 15, 1665, having devised it to his son Zerubbabel.
Zerubbabel Endecott died possessed of it in January,
1683-4 ; and his son Zerubbabel Endecott, as administra-
tor of his estate with the will annexed conveyed this lot
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 129, leaf 285.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 137, leaf 170.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 678, leaf 254.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 807, leaf 128.
I Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 189.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 151.
378 BNDECOTT LANDS, SALEM, IN 1700,
to John Tarbell and Samuel Nurse, both of Salem, hus-
bandmen, Dec. 26, 1698.* The grantees owned it in 1700.
Jonathan Putnam Lot. This was a part of the great
tract of land granted by the town of Salem to Townsend
Bishop Jan. 11, 1635-6,f and a part of the Orchard farm
of Gov. John Endecott. Mr. Bishop conveyed his farm
to Mr. Henry Chickering of Dedham Oct. 6, 1641 ; and
Mr. Chickering sold it to Governor Endecott Oct. 4,
1648. The latter conveyed it to his son John Endecott,
and confirmed the gift by his will. Governor Endicott
died March 15, 1664-5. His son John married Elizabeth
Howchins and died in 1667, having devised this
land to his wife. She married, secondly, Rev. James
Allen, pastor of the First Church in Boston ; and Mr.
Allen sold it to Jonathan Putnam of Salem, husband-
man, about 1678, and gave him a conveyence of it May
6, 16974 Mr. Putnam owned it in 1700.
John Presson Lot. This was a portion of the grant of
land by the town of Salem to Townsend Bishop of Salem
Jan. 11, 1635-6 ;f and Mr. Bishop conveyed it to Henry
Chickering of Dedham Oct. 6, 1641. Mr. Chickering
sold it to Gov. John Endecott Oct. 4, 1648 ; and Gov-
ernor Endecott conveyed it to his eldest son, John Ende-
cott, and confirmed the gift by his will, which was dated
May 2, 1658, and proved Oct. 17. 1665. John Endecott,
the sosp, married Elizabeth Howchins and died in 1667,
having devised this land to his wife. She married, sec-
ondly, Rev. James Allen of Boston ; and Mr. Allen con-
veyed this land to Francis Nurse of Salem April 29,
1678. Mr. Nurse died Nov. 22, 1695 ; and in the di-
vision of the real estate this lot became the property of
his son John Nurse, sr., of Salem, yeoman. For ten
pounds, he conveyed it to John Presson of Salem Village,
planter, April 20, 1699. || The lot belonged to Mr. Pres-
son in 1700.
Samuel Nurse, Jr., Lot. This was a part of the grant
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 18, leaf 114.
tSalem Town Records, volume I, page 15 (printed).
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 159.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 189.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 253.
BY SIDNEY PBBLEY. 379
of land by the town of Salem to Townsend Bishop of
Salem Jan. 11, 1635-6 ;* and Mr. Bishop conveyed it to
Henry Chickering of Dedham Oct. 6, 1641. Mr. Chick-
ering sold it to Gov. John Endecott Oct. 4, 1648 ; and
Governor Endecott conveyed it to his eldest son, John
Endecott, confirming the gift by his will, which was dated
May 2, 1659, and proved Oct. 17, 1665. John Endecott,
the son, married Elizabeth Howchins and died in 1667,
having in his will devised this land to his wife. She
married, secondly, Rev. James Allen, pastor of the First
Church in Boston ; and Mr. Allen conveyed this land to
Francis Nurse of Salem April 29, 1678.f Mr. Nurse
died Nov. 22, 1695 ; and in the division of the real estate
this lot became the property of his son John Nurse, sr.,
of Salem, yeoman. For ten pounds, he conveyed it to
Samuel Nurse, jr., of Salem, husbandman, April 19,
1699.J Tne lot belonged to Samuel Nurse, jr., in 1700.
Samuel Nurse House. This was a part of the grant of
land by the town of Salem to Townsend Bishop of Salem
Jan. 11, 1635-6, in the following words :
11 of the II" 1 moneth 1635
Graunted by the ffreemen of Salem the day and yeare above
written vnto m* Townsen Bishop of the same his heires and as-
signees for ever one fearme conteyning three hundredth acres, but-
ting vpon mr Endicotts farme on the east, and fowre hundreth
pooles in length, and six score poles in breadth, that is to say six
score and fowre at the west end and one hundredth and sixteene at
the East end, bounded by the water, betweene the fearme of the
executors of mr Skelton, and him at the North East corner of his
farme, And hath there allowed, from mr Endicotts farme, eight
acres for an high way, is bounded again at the South west Corner
by the brooke, pvided alwayes that in Case of Sale, the towne of
Salem to haue the first proffer of yt before any other.
John Endicott Roger Conant
Thomas Gardiner Jeffry Massy
Edm. Batter*
Mr. Bishop conveyed the farm to Mr. Henry Chicker-
ing of Dedham Oct. 6, 1641 ; and the farm was let to
*Salem Town Records, volume I, page 15 (printed),
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 189.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 268.
380 ENDECOTT LANDS, SALEM, IN 1700,
Richard Ingersoll. Mr. Chickering sold it to Gov. John
Endecott Oct. 4, 1648. This latter deed conveyed the
land and houses thereon. Governor Endecott conveyed
the estate to his eldest son, John Endecott, and confirmed
the gift by his will, which was dated May 2, 1659, and
proved Oct. 17, 1665. In 1659, the same "houses"
were thereon that were there eleven years before. John
Endecott, the son, married Elizabeth Howchins and died
in 1667, having devised this farm to his wife. She mar-
ried, secondly, Rev. James Allen, pastor of the First
Church in Boston. Feb. 29, 1671, a " dwelling house '*
was on the lot,* and Nov. 3, 1676, there was a " farm
house " upon it.f Mr. Allen conveyed this lot to Fran-
cis Nurse of Salem April 29, 16784 Dec. 30, 1684, Mr.
Nurse conveyed to Mr. Allen, of whom he had bought
this farm, forty-five acres on the south side of it,
and, two acres at the northwest corner of the farm,
though nothing more seems to have been done in refer-
ence to those parts of the farm. Mr. Nurse lived here,
and, having passed through the terrible experiences of
the Witchcraft delusion, died Nov. 22, 1695. The estate
was divided, and this part, with the buildings, came into
the ownership of Samuel Nurse, son of the deceased.
Benjamin Nurse of Framingham released to his brother
Samuel Nurse of Salem Village his part of their father's
homestead June 3, 1695 ;|| and Michael Bowden of Mar-
blehead, planter, who had early lived in Topsfield and
married Sarah Nurse, daughter of the deceased, for four
pounds, released his interest in the homestead of his
father Francis Nurse, deceased, to his brother Samuel
Nurse of Salem Village Dec. 30, 1695.^" Francis Nurse
of Reading, son of Francis Nurse, deceased, conveyed his
lot of fifteen acres out of the homestead (which has not
been located) to his brother-in-law John Tarbell of Salem
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 84; Suffolk Registry of
Deeds, book 8, page 80.
tSuffolk Registry of Deeds, book 9, page 406.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 189
Suffolk Registry of Deeds, book 13, page 238.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 171.
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 176.
BY SIDNEY PBRLBY. 381
Village Aug. 30, 1697.* Samuel Nurse died Dec. 10,
1716 ; and the estate descended to his son Samuel Nurse,
who lived upon it. The son Samuel died in the spring of
1740, having in his will devised this real estate to his sons
Samuel and Francis. A division was made between them
May 17, 1740, and Samuel released to his brother Fran-
cis, both of whom were of Salem, yeomen, the house and
barn and the home lot of twenty acres.f Francis Nurse
lived here, and died, possessed of the buildings and land,
in the spring of 1780, having in his will devised his real
estate to his son Benjamin Nurse. In the inventory of
his estate the homestead is described as ' about 71 acres
of Land situate in Said Danvers with a Houfe & Barn on
the same," and was valued at thirty-one thousand, nine
hundred and fifty dollars. Benjamin Nurse removed to
Merrimack, N. H., being an yeoman, and conveyed this
farm, with the buildings thereon, to Phineas Putnam of
Danvers, housewright, Feb. 3, 17844 It then contained
about fifty-eight acres of land. Mr. Putnam's son Mat-
thew Putnam lived upon the farm ; and Mr. Putnam
conveyed to Matthew one-undivided-half of the house and
other buildings and land Dec. 17, 1793. Mr. Putnam
conve} 7 ed to Matthew the other half of the land and build-
ings Jan. 17, 1816.|| Matthew Putnam died Dec. 25,
1828, having devised all his real estate to his son Mat-
thew. The son Matthew Putnam lived here, and died
Oct. 23, 1872. The title to the estate descended to his
only child Orin Putnam, who died June 10, 1885, intes-
tate. His heirs, sons Charles O. Putnam and Horace G.
Putnam and daughters Adelaide E. Hayes (wife of Henry
Hayes) and Ella Florence Prentiss, widow of Caleb Her-
vey Prentiss, all of Danvers, son Albert E. Putnam of
Farmington, N. H., son George F. Putnam of Lynn, and
Lydia Putnam, as guardian of Ernest E. Putnam and
Lydia P. Putnam, minor children of the deceased's son
conveyed the estate to Calvin Putnam of Danvers May 9,
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 2.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 79, leaf 121.
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 137, leaf 194.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 157, leaf 120.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 209, leaf 11.
382 BNDECOTT LANDS, SALEM, IN 1700.
1888.* Calvin Putnam died Nov. 14, 1904 ; and the
executor of his will, Charles P. Searle of Boston, con-
veyed the estate to William B. Sullivan, Esq., of Danvers
Dec. 20, 1905. f Mr. Sullivan conveyed the same build-
ings and land to John Shea of Danvers on the same day4
Mr. Shea conveyed the estate to Miss Sarah E. Hunt of
Salem Feb. 14, 1907. The Rebecca Nurse Memorial
Association having become incorporated, Miss Hunt con-
veyed the property to it April 30, 1908.||
This association was formed primarily to preserve the
ancient Nurse homestead. The house has been put into
its original condition so far as it was proper under the
circumstances to do so. Originally, it consisted of the
eastern end, including the front entry and chimney, but
not the leanto. The leanto and the western end were
added some years after it was built. The fireplace is
very large, and has the very exceptional feature of a
hearth nearly a foot below the level of the kitchen floor.
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1714, page 452.
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1807, page 234. Four days previ-
ously, Edward Ernest Putnam and his sister Lydia A., who had
married Josiah P. Hayward of Maiden, having now become of age,
had released to Mr. Sullivan their interest in the premises as heirs
of Orin Putnam. Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1807, page %S2.
J Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1808, page 24.
Essex Registry of Deeds, book I860, page 284.
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1915, page 180.
INDEX.
Abbott, Abbot, Ab-
ott, , 14ft,
150.
A. A., 306.
Charles, 93.
Dyer, 93.
George, 148, 150.
John, 238.
Mary, 93.
Nehemiah, 150.
Sarah, 93.
Thomas, jr., 150.
Thomas, sr., 150.
Abernothy, Sir Al-
exander, 235.
Adam (slave), 214.
Adams, Addams,
, 218, 300.
Dr., 231.
Abraham, 133, 170.
Benjamin Oilman,
353.
Betsy, 230.
C. F., 213.
Elvira, 327.
Enoch George, 172
George Gilman, 353
Hannah, 172.
John, 172, 327.
Rev. John, 172.
Margaret ( Lunt ) ,
327.
Mary, 170, 226.
Mary (Adams),
170.
Mary Maria, 353.
Mehitable, 350.
Samuel, 212, 230.
Sarah, 87, 170,
172, 218.
Sarah Cobb, 172.
Sophia (Nutter),
353.
William, 72.
Ager, , 57.
William, 66.
Alderman, , 263.
John, 192.
Aldrich, Aphiah T.,
318.
Henry, 318.
Alford, Tabitha, 14,
15, 121.
Allegheny (Pa.), 232
Allen, Benjamin, 37
(2), 38.
Capt. Benjamin, 38
Elizabeth, 375-380.
Rev. James, 3^75-
380.
William, 311.
Alley, Hugh, 64.
Alliance (frigate) ,88.
Ambrose, John, 175.
Mary, 175.
Ames, Charles Os-
ted, 228.
David, jr., 173.
Drusilla, 327.
Ebenezer, 327.
Elizabeth Ann, 327
Ellis, 205, 206.
Jane (Gerrish), 94
Mary Bacon, 228.
Sally Merrill, 173.
Samuel, 94.
Sarah, 94(2).
Timothy, 306.
Andover, 306.
Anderson, David, 346
Effie Gertrude,
346.
Frances Jane
(Botting), 346,
347.
Mary, 228.
Andrews, Andrews,
Andrew, ,
60, 282.
Governor, 205.
Asa, 204.
William, 201.
Ann, Cape, 131, 132.
Annable, Sarah, 86.
Archer, Capt. James,
298.
Archer, Col. Samuel,
298.
Sarah, 283.
Arkley, Elisabeth,
310.
Arvedson, Mrs. Au-
gusta L., 266.
Ashby, Elizabeth,
284.
Attwood, Joseph, 278
Sarah, 278.
Austin, Benjamin,
300.
Charles, 300.
Avery, Captain, 102,
118.
Alice, 92.
Samuel, 92.
Sarah (Home), 92
Axe, James, 63.
B abbidge, Madam,
299.
Babcock, Ira L., 332.
Bacon, , 204.
Friar, 303.
Abigail, 96.
P., 96.
Ruth, 81.
Sally, 303.
Samuel, 81.
Badger, Eager, ,
143, 144.
Giles, 142, 143.
John, 144.
Sarah ( Rundlett ) ,
93.
Sophia Ann, 93.
William, 93.
William James, 93.
Bahamas (W. I.), 1,
3, 4, 14.
Bailey, Baly, ,
156.
Edna, 156, 157.
James, 156, 157.
John, 156.
Joseph, 156-158.
(383)
884
INDEX.
Bailey, Nancy, 90.
Richard, 156-158.
Sarah Isabell, 342.
Baker, Capt., 239.
Frederick Warren,
357.
Susan Elvira, 357.
Symonds, 239.
Balch, Annis, 160.
Benjamin, 160.
Freeborne, 160.
John, 160.
Ball, Captain, 131.
Ballard, Dolly, 310.
Lucy, 311.
Mary, 222.
Balloch, Ellen Ja-
net, 354.
Nancy Jane (Dem-
ing), 354.
William, 354.
Balston, Eunice, 130.
Bardwell, Elmira,
319.
Simeon, 319.
Barker, Abigail, 174.
James, 149.
Sarah, 148, 197.
Thomas, 149, 157,
158.
Barleigh, Ann, 310.
Barnard, , 283,
289.
Rev. Edward, 294.
Barnes, N. D., 309.
S. L., 309.
Barney, Jacob, 60.
Barter, Mary, 173.
Bartholomew, .
59.
Abraham, 60.
Abigail, 26.
Elizabeth, 26.
Hannah, 26.
Henry, 26, 59 (2),
138, 141, 155.
Henry, jr., 26.
Katherine, 26.
Richard, 59(2), 60.
Sarah, 60.
Thomas, 60.
William, 59.
Bartlett, Batlett,
Christopher, 150.
Frank L., 342.
Gratia Ann, 254.
Bartlett, John, 150.
John, 150, 151(2).
Joseph, 358.
Mary, 282.
Mary Gordon, 323.
Richard, 150, 151.
Richard, sr., 150,
151.
Sarah, 88, 282.
Stephen, 323.
William, 282.
Bartol, John, 68(2).
Barton, Katherine,
275.
Bassett, Frances, 47.
Batchelder, Bachiler,
Bachelder, Rev.
Daniel, 319.
John, 186(2).
Joseph, 137, 138.
Mary, 273.
Mary J., 319.
Sarah, 186.
Bates, , 53.
Batter, Edmund. 26,
27, 36, 126, 379.
Batting, Frances
Jane, 347.
Baxter, , 261.
Beaucihamp, Ed-
ward, 201.
Elizabeth, 201.
Beckett, Charles E.,
170.
Pamelia, 170.
Beefer, Ricr., 271.
Belcher, John, 104.
Mary, 354.
Bell. Alexander G.,
209.
Alfred William,
311.
Amelia Butler, 311
Ann, 311.
Edward, 311.
Louisa, 311.
William, 310.
Bennit, Samuel, 64.
Benson, , 307.
Capt. Samuel, 53.
Bentley, , 299.
Dr. William, 185,
246, 247, 367,
368.
Benton, Thomas H.,
331.
Bernard, Francis,
295, 296.
Berry, Elizabeth, 130
Nancy, 175.
Polly, 175.
Samuel, 175.
Best, Sarah, 288.
Beverly, John, 337.
Bevos (mulatto), 97.
Bickford, Hannah,
161.
Temperance, 163.
Bicknell, Zachery,
126.
Billings, Alice Ma-
ria, 347.
Birkley, Thomas, 144
Bishop, Bishops,
, 148.
Humphrey, 259.
John, 148.
John, sr., 148.
Rebecca, 148.
Richard, 186.
Thomas, 60, 159.
Townsend, 361,
375-379.
Bixby, Bigsby, Jos-
eph, 146.
Blackleache, Black-
leeache, Black-
leeche, Black
leich, , 190-
192, 194.
John, 192.
Black ler, Capt. John
C., 43.
Blackwell, Alice Ma-
ria, 347.
Emma Jane, 347.
Esther Ives, 233,
346.
James Edward, 347
Louisa Wyman,347.
Luther, 346.
Marietta, 347.
Mary Eliza, 347.
Russel Chase, 347.
Samuel Thomas,
346.
Blair, , 84.
Blaisdell, Hannah,
249.
Marion, 252.
Blake, Amy, 339.
Ella, 339.
INDEX.
385
Blake, Levi, 339.
MarvElizabeth,339.
Blauchard, , 55.
Blaney, Thomas, 288.
Blood, Nancy, 45.
Blowers, - , 282-
286, 288.
Abigail, 289(2).
John, 289.
Blunt, Ann Eliza,
310.
Frederick Octa-
vius, 310.
Isaac Octavius, 310
Joshua Milton, 310
Lydia Ann, 310.
Maria, 310.
Per sis ( Bodwell ) ,
310.
Samuel Phelps, 310
William Pierce, 310
Blyth, Elizabeth,
308(2).
Elizabeth (Carr),
308.
John, 308.
Boardman, Catherine
W., 358.
Greenleaf, 317.
John, 294.
Mary, 129.
Mary Chase, 317.
Maj. William, 129.
Bodwell, Persis, 310.
Bond, Nancy, 322.
Borrell, Francis, 64
(2).
Boston, 132, 212, 214.
Betting 1 , Frances
Jane, 346.
Bottomley, Ann, 310.
Elizabeth (Ark-
ley), 310.
Samuel, 310.
Boucher, Joseph, 220.
Sarah Cheevers,
220.
Bouquet, General, 84.
Bourne, Bourn,
John, 66.
William, 132, 194.
Bournel, Sarah, 164.
Boutelle, , 311.
Bowden, Capt., 293.
Michael, 380.
Sarah, 380.
Bowditch, Bowdish,
, 130.
Mary, 130.
William, 39(2).
Capt. William, 182.
Bowen, Beverend, 43.
Elizabeth (Mar-
tin), 49.
Nathan, 49.
Sally M., 49.
Bowers, Betsey, 339.
Boxer (schooner), 91
Boyce, Boyse, Boyes,
Benjamin, 25.
John, 290.
Joseph, 186.
Matthew, 149.
Boyd, Eliza A., 339.
Boynton, , 311.
Bradbury, Mary, 166.
Braddock, General,
84.
Bradford, Capt. Ben-
jamin, 253.
Eev. James, 244.
Bradley, Lydia, 356.
Margaret, 307.
Bradstreet, , 43.
Asa, 239.
Dudley Story, 43,
44(3).
Eliza, 44.
Eliza Dudley, 44.
Elizabeth, 86.
Hannah (Ham-
mon), 86.
Isaac Story, 44.
Mary ( Strahan
Hills), 43.
Nathaniel, 238.
Lt. Nathaniel, 86.
Kebecca, 43, 44(3).
Samuel, 239.
Eev. Simon, 41-43
(2).
Sophia W., 44.
William S., 44.
Bragdon, Deborah,
221.
Breed, Bread, Allen,
64.
Matthew, 277.
Brigden, Mildred, 72.
Thomas, 72.
Briggs, Enos, 304.
Samuel, 304.
Brigliam, Sebastan,
149.
Brinkerhoff, , 45.
Mary, 45.
Brock, Abigail, 163.
Ebenezer, 163.
Brocklebank, Capt.
Samuel, 279.
Brooks, Jane A., 339.
Julia, 266.
Mary, 51.
Mattie, 266.
Mrs. Minna P., 266.
William, 339.
Brown, Browne,
, 73, 131, 144,
237.
Capt., 284.
Col., 283, 287.
General, 90.
Abigail, 287(2).
Adam, 162.
Alfred, 312.
Ann, 323.
Ann (Poor), 231.
Anna, 231.
Benjamin F., 53,
297.
Daniel, 185.
Daniel, jr., 185.
Daniel A., 185.
Edward, 70, 71, 159
Eliza ( Chaff ee),
312.
Eppes, 298.
Harriet, 344.
Harvey, 298.
Horace, 323.
Isaac, 203, 312.
Jacob, 344(2).
James, 306.
John, 39, 284.
John, sr., 38.
Capt., John, 283
(3).
Lucy Jane, 344.
Martha, 85.
Mercy (Estes), 344
Nathaniel, 323.
Phebe Ann, 323.
Eichard, 144.
Col. Samuel, 1, 287.
Susan, 162.
Thomas, 344.
William, 25(2),
135, 141, 231.
386
INDEX.
Brown, William Bur-
net, 295.
Bryan, S. S., 314.
Buchanan, John, 310.
Margaret, 310.
Sarah (White),
310.
Buckley, , 219.
Lydia, 219.
Buffum, Caleb, 33
(2), 187.
James R., 53.
Joshua, 31(2).
Bullard, Betsy, 41.
Elizabeth, 41.
Francis, 41.
John, 41(2).
Louisa, 41.
Stephen Hopkins,
41.
William Story, 41.
Bullen, Martha, 316.
Bullock, Barbara, 39.
Henry, 183.
John, 286.
Mary, 286(2).
Burbank, Lucinda A.,
357.
Burbant, John, 144.
Burbeck, Jerusha, 91.
William, 91.
Burcham, Edward,
64.
Burgoyne, , 171.
Burleigh, Betsey
(Galley), 173.
Joseph, 173.
Josiah, 173, 176
(2).
Laura, 176.
Lovina, 173.
Molly, 173.
Molly ( Pearsons ) ,
176.
Thomas Galley, 173
Burnap, Isaac, 26.
Burnham, , 202.
Elizabeth, 202, 306.
Sarah, 202.
Burpee, David, 247.
Sergt. David, 248.
E. R., 247.
Hephzibah, 247.
Isaac, 247.
Jonathan, 238, 247
(2).
Burpee, Mehitable
(Jewett), 247.
Miriam, 248.
Sarah, 225.
Sarah (Barker),
248.
Burrage, John, 278.
Burrill, , 54 (2),
55, 273.
Alden, 55.
Anna, 276.
Debora, 273.
Deborah, 274, 275.
Dorcas, 277 (2) -279.
Ebenezer, 276, 279-
281.
Elizabeth, 272, 273,
277, 279.
Ellen Mudge, 279.
Ester, 278.
Francis, 272, 277-
279(2).
George, 64, 271,
272(2), 274, 275.
George, sr., 271.
Hannah, 273, 277,
278, 281.
Hester, 273.
James, 273(2), 274.
Jane, 278.
John, 272(2), 273,
277.
John, jr., 275, 279.
Capt. John, 276(3)
279.
Lt. John, 275(2),
279, 281.
Joseph, 273(2)-
275, 277(4).
Katherine, 275.
Lois, 273, 275, 276.
Lois (Ivory), 279,
281.
Lydia, 273, 281.
Martha, 275(2).
Mary, 271, 273(2),
274, 276, 280(2),
281.
Marj Alley, 277,278
Mary (Cooper),
272, 274, 275.
Moses, 273(2), 279
(3).
Ruth, 276, 277, 281.
Samuel, 272-278,
280(2), 281.
Burrill, Sarah, 274-
276, 278, 281.
Susannah, 274.
Theophilus, 273,
276(2), 280, 281.
Capt. Theophilus,
277.
Col. Theophilus,
281.
Thomas, 276.
' William, 54.
Burton, , 126.
Buswell, Buzwell,
Daniel, 227.
Lydia Mary, 344.
Sophia, 227.
Butler, Amelia, 311.
Ann, 359.
Charles, 359.
Elizabeth, 287.
Elizabeth Smith,
359.
Nathaniel, 359.
Butterfield, Ann,
310.
Buxton, , 180.
Anthony, 183, 286.
Elizabeth, 46.
John, 183.
Joseph, 370, 371.
a alder & Dole, 307.
ildwell, Eliza, 200.
Galley, Cawley, Bet-
sey, 173.
James, 176.
Moses K, 176.
Nancy F., 176.
Rebecca (Kim-
ball), 176.
Candall, Edward, 66.
Cape Ann, 131, 132.
Card, Eunice, 162.
Carlton, Carleton,
Edward, 158.
Ellen R., 45.
Eunice Maria, 45.
Mary, 312.
Mary Jane, 45.
Stephen, 45.
Stephen H., 45.
Carltonville, 304.
Carooth, , 310.
Carpenter, John B..
327.
Mary Alice, 327.
INDEX.
387
Carr, Elizabeth, 308.
Carter, Hannah, 330.
Kev. Nathan F.,
256.
Carthrick, John, 70,
72.
Michael, 70-72.
Mildred, 70-72.
Sarah, 70-72.
Carton, Elizabeth,
282.
Carwinthin, David,
68.
Gary, Sarah Eliza-
beth, 349.
Cass, Sarah, 176.
Cassidy, Mary, 308.
Caswell, Cetina
Inez. 342.
Elzadia, 342.
Emma J., 342.
Frank J., 342.
Howard, 342.
Jerusha, 91.
John Harriman,
342.
Leroy, 342.
Palmira Melinda,
342.
Thomas J., 342.
Thomas Jefferson,
342.
Wealthy, 342.
Catlin, Hannah, 222.
Catt's Island, 292.
Cavanaugh, ,
307.
Margaret (Brad-
ley), 307.
Thomas, 307(2).
Cavis, William, 157.
Cedar Pond Region
(Salem), 23-40.
Chadbourne, Hum-
phrey, 95.
Polly, 95.
Sally, 95.
Simeon, 95.
Chadwick, , 306.
Eliza, 249.
Samuel, 328.
Sarah, (Morrill),
328.
Susan, 328.
Chaffee, Chafy, ,
249.
Chaffee, Clarissa, 249
Eliza, 312.
Chamberlain, Cham-
berline, , 70.
Calvin T., 343.
Elzadia Moody,
343.
John, 36, 37.
Chandler, , 238.
Elizabeth, 227.
Elizabeth (White)
227.
H. P., 309.
Rev. Jame, 227.
Joanna Barker,
226.
John, 227.
Lucy (Ballard),
311.
Nathan, 311.
Susanna, 328.
William, 148.
Chapin, John B., 321.
Lucy Hartwell,
321.
Charles, William, 68
(2).
Charlestown Ferry,
291.
Charnock, Hannah,
281.
Capt. John, 281.
Chase, Anna, 167.
Eliza, 91.
Elizabeth (Leet) ,
250.
Emily Althea, 255.
Emma Addie, 255.
Eunice, 174.
Fred J., 255.
Harriet Newell, 91.
Jacob, 91.
Julia Frances, 345.
John, 167.
Mary, 250, 316.
Molly (Emery),
167.
Samuel, 3d, 250
(2).
Sprague, 91.
Cheever, Elizabeth,
202.
Ezekiel, 202.
Ezekiel, sr., 202.
Meriam, 324.
Cheney, Abigail
(Thompson),
202.
Abner, 202.
Ebenezer, 202.
Joanna, 202.
Chichester, William,
68.
Chickering, , 365.
Henry, 375-380.
Chin, George, 68.
Chipman, , 286.
Choate, John, 291,
293.
Joseph H., 203.
Rachel, 93.
Judge William G.,
203.
Choate, Northend &,
203.
Chowdey, Sarah, 278
(2).
Chresdee, Sarah, 277.
Churchill, Lucinda,
253.
S., 253.
Chute, James, 62.
Cilley, Betsey, 165.
Claflin, Gov. Wil-
liam, 207.
Claggett, Sally Fow-
ler, 165.
William, 165.
Clapp, Edward, 192,
194, 195.
Ezra, 192, 194,
195.
Nathaniel, 192,
194, 195.
Nicholas, 192, 194,
195.
Clark, Clarke, ,
23, 30, 75, 285,
286, 306(2).
Catherine, 34(2).
Hannah, 34(2),
312.
Harvey, 333.
Jonas, 278.
Jonathan, 341.
Joseph, 309.
Katherine, 73, 75.
Martha G., 341.
Mary, 162, 251.
Mary ( Flanders ) ,
341.
388
INDEX.
Clark, Nathaniel, 148
Kichard, 144.
Susanna, 34(2).
William, 34(2), 73.
Clavell, Doctor, 2.
Cleeves, Margaret,
194.
William, 190-194.
Clement, Fanny, 340.
Clifford, Judith, 174.
Cloninger, Anita
Helen, 337.
Beulah Helen, 337.
Corinne Vesta,
337.
William J., 337.
Clough, Sally, 82.
Coal hill, 229.
Cobb, Lena Colum-
bia, 350(2).
Willy Tool, 350.
Cobit, Cocket, Sam-
uel, 63(2).
Cobleigh, , 350.
Alvah Edwin, 350.
Edwin Reuben,
350.
George Leslie, 350.
Herbert Eugene
Gordon, 350.
Jane, 350.
Mehitable (Ad-
ams, 350.
Reuben Boy ce, 350.
Ruhama,h Batch-
elder, 350.
Codman, Capt. John,
212.
Coe, Eleanor, 170.
Dr. John, 170.
Coffin, , 96.
Dorcas, 88.
Joshua, 88.
Lydia, 96.
Margaret, 170.
Sarah (Bartlett),
88.
William, 170.
Cogswell, Nehemiah,
93.
Rachel, 93.
Rachel (Choate),
93.
Coit, John, 68.
Colburn, Grace E.,
359.
Colburn, Nellie, 359.
Newton Worces-
ter, 359.
Sarah Elizabeth,
359.
Cole, , 259.
Elizabeth, 220.
Mary, 284, 285.
Mercy, 284(2),
285(2).
Michael, 97-99,
105, 112, 121-123.
Capt. Michael, 4,
16.
Robert, 258, 260.
Russell, 220.
Thomas, 284(2),
285(2).
Collins, Ebenezer, 25.
Colson, Amy, 339.
Conant, , 239.
J. Coggin, 250.
Roger, 379.
Ruth, 241.
William, 241.
Cook, Cooke, Geor-
gietta Estelle,
339.
Henry, 27, 28, 186,
187.
Dr. Irving S., 339.
Isaac, 28, 187, 284
(2).
James, 31.
Judith, 27, 187.
Martha, 284(2).
Rachel, 27, 28, 187.
Richard, 68.
Robert, 284.
Cooley, Deborah,
175.
Coolidge, Baldwin,
325.
Benjamin, 324.
Lucy Ann, 325.
Coombs, Eliza A.,
175.
Rev. Stephen, 175.
Cooper, Mary, 271,
272, 274, 275.
Coots, Elizabeth, 276.
Corene, Corane, Pe-
ter, 16, 120.
Corey, Cory, Coree,
Deliverance, 194.
Elizabeth, 193.
Corey, Giles, 179, 190
-195.
Margaret, 194.
Mary, 191-193.
Corwin, Corwine,
George, 65, 73.
Lydia, 38.
Covell, Thomas A., 53
Cowdrey, Elizabeth,
274.
Esther, 273.
Hester, 273.
Mary Batchel-
der), 273.
Nathaniel, 273.
Susannah, 274.
William, 273.
Cox, George, 30.
Mary, 30.
Cragham, Colonel, 84.
Cram, Anna, 320.
Levi, 89.
Mary Leonard, 89.
Crane, , 339.
Betsey, 318.
Edwin Mellen, 340.
Joshua, 340.
Mary Frances, 340.
Orlando Thatcher,
340.
Richard W., 318.
Sally, 340.
Crawford, Isabella,
323.
Maria, 323.
Criside, Hannah, 277.
John, 277.
Crode, John, 180.
Crockett, Mary, 219.
Mary Jane, 323.
Solomon, 219.
Cromwell, Crom-
lom, , 234.
Gyles, 61.
John, 40.
Philip, 66.
Thomas, 61(3).
Crosby, Crosbee,
, 194.
Deliverance, 194.
Henry, 194.
Crosse, Margaret,
144.
Crowley, John, 91.
Margaret A., 91.
Mary, 91.
INDEX.
389
Crowninshield, ,
126.
Crumsey, Lewis, 2.
Mary, 2.
Cummings, Judge, 51.
Cunning-ham, Doro-
thy Louise, 350.
Jesse Edward, 350.
Lena Columbia,
350.
Curry, Alice, 308.
Charles, 308.
James, 308.
John, 308.
John Edward, 308.
Lorinda, 308.
Margaret, 308.
Mary (Cassidy),
308.
William, 308(2).
Curtis, Courtis, Abi-
gail, 351.
Ducet, 308.
George, 49.
George Ticknor,
49.
Joseph Story, 49.
Mary Oliver, 49.
Kichard, 68.
William, 195.
Capt. William, 42.
Curwin, Curwen,
, 67, 69.
Captain, 2.
James B., 367.
Curwin, see also
Corwin.
Gushing-, Jacob, 237.
Judge William, 47.
Cutler, , 23.
Caroline, 172.
David E., 172.
Edwin, 351.
Emma, 351.
Col. Enoch, 298.
Harriet, 298.
Jane, 345.
Dr. Nathan, 197.
Samuel, 28, 261
(2), 262.
Sarah, 197.
Dalton, Thomas,
12, 119.
Dana, Rev. Samuel,
49.
Dane, , 202.
Nathan, 202.
Peter, 306.
Danforth, Jonathan,
362.
Danvers, 361.
Darling-, Daniel, 287.
Hannah, 287.
Dascomb, , 311.
David, Nicholas, 12,
119.
Davis, Abel, jr., 318.
Abig-ail, 318.
Asa, 89.
Daniel, 219.
Elizabeth, 89.
Isaac, 238.
John, 282.
Levi, 309.
Mary, 219, 282.
Rebecca, 219.
Thomas, 282.
Tobias, 282(2).
William, 282.
Day, Electa, 328.
Mary (Dewey),
328.
Noble, 328.
Dean, Desire, 288.
Emeline, 253.
Thomas, 287.
Dearborn, C. L., 309.
Defiance (schooner),
294.
Delamore, Abigail,
164.
Deland, , 303.
Benjamin, 162.
Betsey, 163.
Susan, 162.
Deming, Nancy Jane,
354.
Dennis, Denise, Sam-
uel, 148.
Sarah, 148.
Densmore, Ann Eli-
za, 310.
Sarah, 310.
Stephen, 310.
Derby, , 126.
Col., 299(2).
E. Hasket, 299.
E. Hersey, 304.
Elizabeth, 3.
Martha, 3.
Perley, 41.
Derby, Richard, 3.
Mrs. Richard, 1.
Roger, 3.
Mrs. Roger, 1.
Devereux, Charlotte
F., 46.
John, 68(2).
Devinger, Caroline,
345.
Jane (Cutler), 345.
Peter, 345.
Dewey, Mary, 328.
Diggles, Elizabeth,
307.
Dinah (negro), 306.
Dix, Abigail (Wil-
kins), 321.
Esther, 273.
John, 273.
Liddiah, 273(2).
Ralph, 273.
Sophia Wilkins,
321.
Timothy, 321.
Dobson, John, 359.
Nellie, 359.
Dockray, Capt.
James R., 169.
Mary Ann Smith,
169.
Dodge, Barnabas, 202
Elizabeth, 202.
Eunice, 202.
Hannah, 359.
Henry L., 328.
Jane (Pearson),
328.
Oliver, 202.
Paul, 202, 328.
Polly Little, 328.
Dogget, John, 124.
Dole, , 307.
Abigail, 83, 90.
Ednah (Thurston)
90.
Enoch, 85.
Judith (Jaques),
85.
Mary, 85, 230.
Miriam, 220.
Molly, 85.
Nathaniel, 90, 168.
Richard, 83, 148,
Ruth, 163.
Sarah, 9fl.
390
INDEX.
Dole, Sarah (Em-
ery), 83.
Stephen, 220.
William, 85, 90(2).
Dolliber, Dolbier,
Delabar, Mary
Ann, 348.
Samuel, 68.
William, 42.
Donnelly, Hannah
McMann, 307.
John, 307.
Patrick, 307.
Dorman, Thomas,
62(2).
Dosset, John, 116.
Doudle, Captain, 97.
Douglass, Gaylord
W., 255.
Dow, John, 226.
Polly, 226.
Downing-, , 73.
Charles, 258, 259,
260, 262, 263.
Emanuel, 257-260,
262, 263.
Doyle, Ann, 323.
Drake, Betsey Gor-
don, 173.
Judith (Perkins),
165.
Sarah, 165.
Simon, 165.
Simeon Cate, 173.
Samuel Gardner,
166.
John, 144.
Dresser, Mercy, 23J>.
Drew, , 308.
Charles G., 308.
Fernando Cortez,
308.
Mary Elizabeth,
308(2).
Mary (Taylor),
308.
Driver, Kuth, 277.
Drowne, Bert, 345.
Mattie, 345.
Dudley, Paul, 214.
Sarah, 358.
Dunlap, Eliza, 44.
Dwinnells, Debo-
rah, 226.
John, 226.
Dwyer, Capt. John,
303.
Dykes, , 62.
Dynn, Elizabeth 3.
William, 3.
Early, Mary, 82.
Eastman, Abigail
(Barker), 174.
Ebenezer, 174.
Nancy, 174.
Nathaniel, 174.
Eastwick, Esther,
261.
Eaton, Rev. , 48.
Caleb, 176.
Mary, 176.
Sarah (Cass), 176.
William, 176.
Edgerly, Abigail
(Gilman), 174,
176.
Jonathan, 174, 176
(2).
Mary, 176.
Edgle, Captain, 21.
Edmonds, Polly, 319.
Edwards, Lovey, 316.
Mary, 316.
Matthew, 138.
Elding, , 113.
Eead, 12, 18, 22,
101, 102, 107,
110-114, 119,121.
Col. Eead, 14, 15.
Eldridge, Emeline, 49
Sarah, 218.
Elethorp, Thomas,
144.
Elizabeth (ship), 201
Elkins, Abigail, 287.
Hannah, 317.
Harriet, 298.
Capt. Henry, 298
(2).
Elliot, Elizabeth, 41.
Mary Lyman, 41.
Samuel A., 41.
Ellis, Amanda (How-
ard, 340.
Ellen Maria, 340.
Washington, 340.
Ellsworth, Jeremiah,
239.
Elvin, , 140.
Emerson, , 238.
Benjamin, 44(2).
Bodwell, 93.
Daniel B., 93.
Rev. John, 237(2).
Nancy, 93.
Rebecca, 43, 44.
Sally (Poor), 93.
Emery, Emry, Emo-
rie, , 66.
George, 59, 67(3).
John, 61, 147.
Mary, 61.
Mattie (Harvey),
345.
Molly, 167.
Sarah, 83, 176.
Endicott, Endecott,
, 204, 364,
368.
Anna, 366.
Anne, 366.
Clarissa, 366.
Elizabeth, 366, 375-
380.
Hannah, 369.
James Bridges,
367.
John, 59, 364-366,
368-380.
John, jr., 366.
Capt. John, 364.
Dr. John, 365, 366,
373.
Gov. John, 361, 364,
365, 368-380.
Martha, 366.
Robert, 373.
Robert Edwards,
366.
Ruth, 369.
Samuel, 365, 366,
368-374.
Sarah, 366.
Timothy, 366.
William, 367.
William Crownin-
shield, 365, 306,
369.
William Crownin-
shield, jr., 367.
William P., 366.
Zerubbabel, 364,
365, 368-374, 377.
English, Abigail, 284.
Clement, 284.
INDEX.
391
English, Ernest A.,
343.
Susannah, 284.
Essex (frigate), 304.
Estes, Lydia, 218.
Esticke, Elizabeth,
59.
Every (ship), 99.
Ewalt, , 84.
Fairbanks, Eliza-
beth Jane, 322.
Whitcomb, 322.
Fairfield, Fairefild,
, 137, 140.
Benjamin, 137.
Elizabeth, 137,138.
John, 65, 137, 138.
Walter, 137.
Farmer, Samuel, 199.
Zilpah, 199.
Farnham, Eunice,
176.
Farr, Abigail, Zil-
pah, 220.
Benjamin, 273.
Elizabeth, 273(2).
George, 272, 273.
John, 273.
Farrington, Charles,
303.
Rebecca, 252.
Fellows, Cetina Inez,
342.
Sabia(Kilton),342.
Stephen, 342.
Felt, , 238.
Feltch, Emeline, 218.
Felton, , 268,
269.
Col., 270.
Asa, 269(2).
Elizabeth, 268.
Hepzibah, 373.
John, 258, 267(2)-
269(2), 271-273.
Jonathan, 270.
Malachi, 374.
Martha P., 269.
Mary, 269.
Nathaniel, 186, 268
(3), 270.
Nathaniel, jr., 267,
268.
Nathaniel, sr., 267.
Nathaniel, 3d, 268.
Felton, Nathaniel
Ward, 270(2).
Samuel, 269(3)
374.
Skelton, 373.
William H., 270
(2).
Zachariah, 269.
Ferguson, Nathan, 96
Sarah, 96.
Ferrel, , 84.
Fessenden, , 307
(2).
Ichabod, 307.
Rebecca (Mun-
roe), 307.
Fetterman, C. S.,
229.
Field, Felds, Feald,
, 66.
Elizabeth, 94.
Hannah, 286(2).
John, 223.
Olive, 223.
Thomas, 286.
Finley, , 84.
Firman, Sarah, 159.
Thomas, 159.
Fisher, Eliza Em-
ma, 348.
Esther Emily, 348.
Franklin, 348.
Harold, 348.
Jeremy, 348.
Joseph Henry, 348.
Joseph Otto, 348.
Leslie, 348.
Rev. Nathaniel, 48.
Walter Leslie, 348.
Fisk, Fiske, ,
285.
John, 138, 141.
Phinehas, 141.
Re^v. Samuel, 282.
William, 65, 138,
141.
Fitch, , 289.
Fitz, George, 359.
Lucy Ann, 359.
Flanders, Anna, 320.
Elizabeth, 320.
Ira M., 318.
John, 320.
John G., 320.
Mary, 341.
Susan W., 318.
Fletcher, Justice,
204.
Flint, , 298.
Capt., 257.
Alice, 276.
David, 356.
Hezekiah, 356.
Joseph, 190, 191.
Mary, 356.
Sally, 356.
Thomas, 182, 188-
191, 195, 259,263
(2), 286.
Capt. Thomas, 190,
196.
William, 259, 263
(2).
Floyd, Capt. John,
279.
Follett, Benjamin,
25.
Isaac, 25.
Robert, 25(2), 26.
Folsom, Rev. Nicho-
las, 172.
Susanna, 172.
Forbes, General, 84.
Fort Popham, 210.
Fosdick, Joanna, 85.
Foster, Rev. , 45.
Allen, 238, 242.
David, 28, 29.
Dorcas ( Perkins ) ,
171.
Elijah, 238.
Elizabeth, 39.
Ephraim, 242.
Gen. Gideon, 299.
James, 284.
Jonathan, 171.
Joshua, 39.
Mary, 171, 327.
Nathaniel, 242.
Philemon, 241.
Thomas, 241.
Capt. Thomas,
239.
Fowle, Jacob, 132.
Fowler, Celia B.
(Sibley), 328.
Chauncey B., 328.
Elizabeth Hamlin,
328.
Martha, 229.
Philip, 165.
Sarah, 165.
INDEX.
Fowler, Sarah,
(Shatswell), 165.
William, 328.
Fox, Harriet, 344.
Nancy, 173.
Sally, 176.
Frazer, Julia Fran-
ces, 345.
Frayl, Samuel, 261
(2).
Freake, Mary, 130.
Freeman, Elisha
Edwards, 164.
Emmaline, 351.
Esther (French),
351.
Josephine, 351.
Lizzie May, 3 5 1,3 52.
Lucy, 351.
Lucy Elizabeth,
351, 352.
Margaret, 351.
Mary Leslie, 351.
Eebecca, 164.
Stephen, 351(4),
352.
French, Abigail, 251.
Elijah, 251.
Esther, 351.
Esther Dora, 351.
Gardner, 251.
George, 344.
Harvey,i 252.
Hephzibah, 251
(2), 339.
Humphrey, 191-
194, 263.
Isaac, 25-1.
Lucinda, 251.
Luther, 252.
Lydia Mary (Buz-
well), 344.
Mary (Clark), 251.
Mary H. B., 344.
Mary Leslie, 351.
Moses, 351.
Polly, 251.
Roger Maitland,
351.
Ruth, 197.
Sally, 252, 337.
Samuel, 237.
Sarah, 337.
Susan, 251.
Sylvia, 252.
Thomas, 197.
Frith, Sarah, 308.
Frothingham, Sarah,
359.
Frye, Charles, 311.
Jane, 96.
Pepperell, 96.
Fuller, Andrew, 239.
Susan Dana, 45.
Timothy, 239.
Fulton, Jane Hamil-
ton, 313.
Gage, Betsey, 225.
Luther, 328.
Mary, 325.
Priscilla Pearson,
328.
Richard, 328.
Susanna (Chand-
ler), 328.
Thomas, 133.
Gale, , 297.
Galvin, Eliza, 44.
Gannett, David, 227.
Pamelia, 227.
Gardner, , 180,
261.
Captain, 180.
Abel, 181, 264(3).
Lt. Abel, 181, 182,
264(3). -
Asa, 181.
Daniel, 181.
Ebenezer, 265.
Eleanor, 227.
Elizabeth, 130 V 265.
Frank A., M. D.,
41, 271.
George, 181.
Lt. George, 179,
180, 264(2).
Herbert Nelson,
349.
Israel, 265.
James, 265.
John, 181, 265(4).
Capt. John, 130,
181.
Jonathan, 181, 182.
Mary, 182.
Mary A., 181.
Mehitable (Good-
ale), 265.
Samuel, 179-182,
264.
Samuel, jr., 38.
Gardner, Capt. Sam-
uel, 34, 35.
Thomas, 181, 182,
264(4), 265, 379.
Thomas, jr., 182.
Lt. Thomas, 182.
Winifred Eliza-
beth, 349.
Garrison, , 325.
Gaskill, Samuel, 29.
Gatchel, John, 68.
Samuel, 42, 68.
Gathercole, Lydia,
281.
Gavet, John, 287(2).
Mary, 287.
Gearringe, , 59.
Gedney, Bartholo-
mew, 34(3), 35.
Col. Bartholomew,
35, 38.
Bethiah, 38.
Catherine^ 34(2).
Deborah, 38.
Hannah, 34 (2), 3 5,
38.
John, 34(4), 35,
261(4), 262(2).
Lydia, 38.
Nathaniel, 262.
Samuel, 38.
Susanna, 34, 35,
262.
William, 261, 262
(2).
George, Bishop, 256.
D., 96.
Frank, 345.
Mary, 96.
Mattie, 345.
Gere, Capt., 287.
Gerrish, Elizabeth,
288.
Henry, 327.
Jacob, 94.
James, 163.
Jane, 94.
John, 76.
Joseph, 94.
Lucy, 327.
Mary (Foster), 327
Mehitable, 94.
Rhoda, 163.
Sarah (Ames), 94.
William, 75, 76
(8), 79.
INDEX.
293
Getchell, Celia F.,
255.
Gibbs, Lucy, 95.
Giddings, Elizabeth,
202.
Sarah, 202.
Gifford, Alden, 343.
Elzadia Moody,
343.
Isaac, 343.
Polly, 343.
Giggles, William, 267.
Gilbert, Daniel, 170.
Eliza, 170.
Giles, Edward, 191,
192, 194.
Eleazer, 32.
Gill, Eva, 339.
Gillingham, Martha,
287.
Gillis, , 204.
Gilman, Abigail, 174,
176.
Annie, 88.
Franklin, 88.
George, 96.
Joanna, 88, 317.
John S., 88, 317.
Mahala, 88.
Susan, 96.
William, 88.
Gillow, John, 155
(3).
Glines, , 168.
Benjamin, 168.
Dearborn, 94.
Eliza Jane, 94.
Helen Matilda, 352.
Lovey (Leavitt),
168.
Mary Ann, 168,
352.
Obediah, 168, 352.
Glover, Ebenezer,
283.
Esther Emily, 349.
James N., 349.
Rebecca, 283(2).
Goldsmith, Anna
Hooper, 216.
Betsey, 216.
Betsey West, 216.
Edward, 216.
Elizabeth, 216(2).
Howard, 216.
Lucy Story, 216.
Goldsmith, Mary
Hanson, 216.
Nehemiah, 216(3).
Seth, 216.
Goodell, Goodale,
Abner Cheney,
201-215.
Abner Cheney, jr.,
204.
Abner Cheney, sr.,
202.
Abraham, 201.
Alfred Putnam,
209.
Ann, 202.
Annie, 209.
Azubah, 202.
Ebenezer, 267.
Elizabeth, 73, 79,
80, 201.
Elizabeth (Witt) ,
202.
Elizabeth (Good-
ell), 202.
George Haskell,
209.
Isaac, 186, 201.
Joanna, 202.
John, 73, 202.
Joseph, 201, 202.
Katherine (Kil-
ham), 201.
Martha Page, 209.
Mary, 201, 202.
Mary G., 209.
Mehitable, 265.
Robert, 186, 187,
189-192, 194, 201.
Sally Dodge, 202.
Sarah, 186.
Susan, 73.
Susanna, 79.
Zachariah, 190,
201, 202.
Zina, 202, 209,
211(3).
Goodhue, Horace,
252(2).
Patience, 252.
Prudence Maria,
252.
Goodwin, Benjamin,
326.
Emeline Augusta,
326.
Hannah, 326.
Goog, Gouge, ,
58.
Ann, 58.
William, 58(2).
Goose, , 73.
Susannah, 261.
Gordon, Gourden,
Abraham, 274.
Mary, 322.
Gould, Abigail, 222,
254.
Amos, 39.
Benjamin, 39.
James, 38(2), 39.
James, jr., 39.
Joseph, 32(2).
Josiah, 39.
Margaret, 39.
Phebe, 222.
Thomas, 32, 33, 180
Gove, Altie May, 352.
Ebenezer, 174.
Hannah (Haynes),
174.
Hannah P., 174.
John Calvin, 174.
Gower, Thomas, 12-
16, 119.
Gowing, Thomas,
239.
Grafton, Elizabeth,
127, 128.
Hannah, 38.
Joseph, 127.
Capt. Joseph, 127.
Joshua, 38.
Graham, Capt. Geo.,
15.
Grant, Jane, 144.
Maria M., 319.
Samuel B., 319.
Sarah, 130.
Graves, Charlotte, 45
John, 16-18, 45,
101-104, 108, 115,
116.
John Story, 45.
Gray, Edward, 51.
Elizabeth, 51.
Elizabeth Gorham,
51.
G., 51.
John, 53.
Mary (Brooks), 51.
Samuel, 51.
William, 53(2). <
394
INDEX.
Green, E., 309.
Thomas, 23, 29, 40.
Greenfield, Patty,
249, 253.
Greenleaf, Greenleff,
Greenleife, ,
143, 249.
Edmond, 76.
Lt. Edmund, 143.
Polly, 249.
Greenough, , 90.
Catherine, 90.
Grenslette, Abigail,
287(2).
James, 287(2).
Rebecca, 287(2).
Griffin, Benjamin,
15, 16, 120.
Grxswold, Rev. J. F.,
245(2).
Rev. J. S., 237.
Groghu, , 220.
Peggie, 220.
Groton (Salem),
257-259.
Grounsell, Captain,
131.
Gudderson, William,
62.
Guppy, Abigail, 128.
John, 128.
Gwin, Allenette, 252.
Julia, 252(2).
Marion, 252.
H acker, George,
284.
Hannah, 283(2),
284.
Isaac, 283.
Sarah, 283.
Hager, Abigail
Wheaton (Per-
ry), 340.
Dexter Fairbanks,
340.
Mary Wheaton, 340
Hagg, James, 184.
Hale, Amos, 85.
Anna, 228.
Elizabeth, 85.
Elsie Belle, 255.
Hannah, 168, 226.
Hannah (Long),
168.
Martha, 226.
Hale, Paul, 168.
Samuel, 228.
William F., 255.
Hall, Betsey, 162.
Caroline Augusta.
326.
Elizabeth, 228.
Jennie, 339.
Joshua G., 162.
William, 326.
Halsteed, William,
157, 158.
Ham, Capt. Jona-
than, 162.
Susanna, 162.
Hammon, Hannah.86.
Hancock, Judith,
3(2), 38.
Richard, 37 (2), 38.
Handforth, Nathan-
iel, 58, 64(2).
Hanson, , 175.
Sarah Eliza, 175.
Harbert, John, 59.
Hardy, , 198(2),
199, 249, 312(2).
Abigail, 197-199.
Addie, 255.
Asa, 199.
Betsey, 249.
Boynton, 312.
Celia F., 255.
Charles Freeman,
254.
Charlotte, 312.
Clara Ann, 254.
Daniel, 312.
David, 198, 199.
Dorcas, 199.
Ebenezer, 197, 198
(2).
Elizabeth, 197,198,
312(3).
Elsie Belle, 255(2).
Emery, 254.
Emily, 312.
Emma Addie, 255.
Ezekiel, 312(3).
Franklin, 312.
Friend, 312.
George Edson, 254
(2).
Gideon, 198.
Gratia Ann, 254.
Hannah, 198(3),
199, 312(3).
Hardy, Hepzibah,
197, 199(2).
Hiram, 312.
Ira Joseph, 255.
Isaac, 312.
Isaac Moore, 312.
Israel, 198.
James, 198, 199.
Jane, 198.
Jemima, 199.
John, 197-199(4),
312.
Lavina, 312.
Lemuel, 255.
Lila Blanche, 353.
Lois, 198.
Lucy, 312.
Katie (Kimball),
255.
Mahala, 255.
Martha, 312.
Mary, 197, 198,
312.
Moody, 198.
Nathaniel, 197, 199.
Nehemiah, 197,
199.
Ozias, 254.
Peter, 199.
Phebe, 198.
Prudence, 197.
Reuben, 198.
Ruth, 197.
Sadie Jane ( Ste-
vens), 353.
Sampson, 198.
Sarah, 197, 199.
Silas, 255.
Susanna, 197, 198
(2).
Thomas, 197-199
(2).
William, 198, 199,
255.
William Bray, 353.
Zachariah, 197,
199(3).
Zilpah, 199.
Harlow, Elvira Ma-
tilda, 252.
Sylvanus, 252.
Harmon, Asa, 223.
Mary, 223.
Harmony Grove, 301.
Harraden, John,
309.
INDEX.
395
Harriet (brig), 298.
Harriman, Mary, 357.
Mehitable, 84.
Moses, 357.
Lt. Nathaniel, 84.
Harrington, , 54
(2), 55.
Capt. Elisha, 54.
J. C., 342.
Palmira Melinda,
342.
Harris, , 113.
Martha, 316.
Eev. William, 46.
Hart, John, 67, 68,
(2).
Harthan, Lucy Eliza-
beth, 351.
Lucy Elizabeth,
352.
Hartshorn, Hartson,
Caroline C., 253.
Cassandra, 253.
Eliza, 253.
Emma Jane, 253.
George Edgar, 253.
Hannah, 249, 253.
Hiram C., 253.
John, 249, 253.
Levi, 253.
Lorin, 253.
Lucinda, 253.
Maria, 253(2).
Mary Elizabeth,
253.
Sadie, 345.
Sarah, 253.
Sarah Frances, 253.
Worcester, 253.
Harvey, Harvie, Ab-
igail, 250.
Mary, 90.
Mattie, 345.
Nathaniel, 90.
Eebecca, 89(2).
Harwood, Andrew
Jackson, 356.
C. A., 356.
Elizabeth, 59.
Em., 263.
Ezra, 356.
Ezra Orin, 356.
Frances, 356.
Harriet Brown,
356.
Harwood, John, 356.
Louisa, 356.
Lydia Ann, 356.
Nancy, 356(2).
Haskell, ,54,219
Abigail, 219.
Aaron, 202.
Daniel C., 54.
Eleanor, 170.
Elijah, 54(2).
Eunice (Dodge),
202.
George, 203, 204.
Lydia, 219.
Mary (Tybot or
Tibbetts), 202.
Sally Dodge, 202.
William, 54, 202.
Hasket, Haskett,
, 4, 99, 101.
Elias, 2, 101, 105.
Col. Elias, 1-3, 14.
Gov. Elias, 1, 3-22,
97-125.
Elizabeth, 2(2), 3
(2).
Hannah, 3.
John, 2.
Martha, 3.
Mary, 2, 3.
Sarah, 3.
Stephen, 1-3(2).
Capt. Stephen, 2.
Hathaway, Kachel,
227.
Hathorne, Captain,
67, 292.
Col. John, 3.
William, 60, 73.
Hatton, , 106, 107
Haverhill, 131.
Hawes, J. B., 322.
Eobert, 138.
Sophia, 322.
Hay, Mary, 312.
Hayes, Adelaide E.,
38.
Caroiine. 95.
Henry, 381.
Ichabod, 163.
John, 95.
Sallie, 163.
Haynes, Haines,
Hannah, 174.
Joseph, 225.
Haynes, Mary, 225.
Mehitable (Marsh)
225.
Sarah, 268.
Thomas, 187, 268.
Hayward, Josiah P.,
382.
Lydia A., 382.
Hazen, Eliza G., 313.
Healy, Rev. J. W.,
335.
Lorinda, 308.
Heard, Herd, Herde,
, 146.
Edmund, 145.
G(*>rge Farley, 367.
John, 145.
Luke, 145, 146.
Sarah, 145, 146.
Hearson, John, 287.
Hedding, Bishop, 256
Henchman, , 289.
Eev. Nathaniel,' 280
Henry, Dr. Anson G.
44.
Eliza Dudley, 44.
Herod, John, 267(3).
Herrick, Capt., 286.
Capt. Henry, 178.
Hersey, Harriet
Boynton, 169.
Capt., William, 169.
Hersome, Mary, 65
(2).
Hervey, Calvin, 322.
Elizabeth, 322.
Hibbert, James, 238.
Hide, Hannah, 199.
Higgins, Dorcas, 219.
Walter, 219.
Higginson, , 289.
Col., 283.
Ann, 189, 190.
Eev. Francis, 189,
190.
John, 25.
Maj. John, jr., 26.
Eev. John, 189,190
Nathaniel, 289(2).
Hill, John, 28(2),
196.
Mary, 68.
Mary Stratham, 43
Eobert, 28(2).
Hillhouse, , 287.
396
INDEX.
Hines, , 334.
Gustavus, 333.
Kev. Gustavus, 332.
Hoag, Anne, 96.
Hobkinson, Michael,
156.
Hobson, Humphrey,
134, 135.
John, 133.
Hodges, , 56(2).
Capt. Benjamin, 56
Capt. Gamaliel, 56.
Capt. George, 56.
John, 56.
Mrs. Joseph, 56.
Holgrave, 155
(2).
Hollingworth, Almi-
ra, 308.
Anna Jane, 309.
Benjamin F., 309.
Betty (Rotliff) ,
308.
Charles, 309.
David Milton, 309.
Frederick M., 308.
George, 308, 309.
Hannah F., 309.
James Byron, 309.
James Milton, 308.
Jenny, 309.
John Q., 309.
Lucy, 308.
Mary, 309.
Mary Frances, 308.
Mary Shaw, 308.
Richard, 182.
Walter, 309.
Washington Irv-
ing, 309.
Holmes, , 113.
Captain, 21.
Edward, 108.
Elizabeth, 286.
Holt, Daisy, 349.
Jean, 220.
Stephen, 220.
Holyoke, , 286.
Rev. Edward, 281.
Elizur, 281.
Hannah, 281.
Homan, Pres., 233.
Pres. Fletcher, 335
(2).
Hooper, Robert, 135.
Hopkins, Ann, 202.
Home, Amos, 325.
Caroline, 163.
Henry, 163.
Hervey, 163.
Joseph, 29, 260.
Mary, 325.
Mary (Gage), 325.
Sarah, 92.
Horton, Martha, 323.
Martha Smith,
323.
Obadiah, 323.
Hoskins, J. S., 309.
Houlton, Howlton,
Henry, 268(3) 363.
James, 260, 267
(2), 268, 371.
John, 267.
Joseph, sr., 268.
Hovey, Gen. Amos,
303.
How, Howe, Abra-
ham, 237.
James, 69, 145.
Mark, 239.
Sarah, 307.
Howard, Amanda,
340.
Nathaniel, 194,195
Howchins, Eliza-
beth, 375-380.
Howland, William,
203.
Howie tt, Ensign, 146
Thomas, 69, 145.
Hoyt, Hoit, , 344
Almira, 96.
Amy, 220.
David W., 197.
S., 96.
Hubbard, Rev. Eben-
ezer, 46.
John, 175.
Mary, 175.
Huggins, Olivia, 343.
Hulen, Elizabeth, 46.
Hull, Henry Pendle-
ton, 348.
Mary Eldora, 348.
Humphrey, Humfrye,
Humfry, , 23,
24, 34-36, 38, 73,
179, 271.
John, 35-37.
Humphrey, Thomas,
284.
Hunn, Nathaniel, 128,
Priscilla, 128.
Hunnewell, Jane,
222.
Capt. William, 222.
Hunt, George L., 311.
Marie Louise, 51.
Mary, 197.
Sarah E., 382.
William, 197.
Hunter, Mary, 144,
145.
Robert, 144, 145.
Huntley, Rev. Leland,
176.
Nancy F., 176.
Huse, Fanny, 176.
Joseph, 176.
Sarah (Emery),
176.
William Brier, 176.
Huston, Isabell
Leighton, 350.
Samuel, 350.
Hutchinson, ,
126, 210.
Abigail, 261.
|llsley, Ilesley, Al-
ice, 166.
Moses, 166.
Sally, 93.
Sarah (Noyes),
166.
William, 143.
Ingersoll, Inger-
sons, John, 29,
30, 261.
Judith, 30.
Mary, 30.
Richard, 38.
Ruth, 30.
Samuel, 3.
Sarah, 3.
Ingols, Frances, 58,
64.
Iresonn, Edward, 64.
Ives, Ann, 283.
Anna, 283.
Benjamin, 283.
John S., 337.
Ivory, Ivorie, Ann,
276.
INDEX.
397
Ivory, Lois, 276, 279,
281.
William, 271, 276.
Jackman, Abby J.,
339
Sylvester S., 339.
Jackson, President,
48.
Anna, 216.
Annie Louisa, 353.
Benjamin, 93.
George Washing-
ton, 216.
Hannah, 93.
Henry, 216.
James Sawyer, 216.
Jane ( Woodman ) ,
93.
John, 67(3).
John, jr., 58.
Joseph, 216(2).
Lydia, 216.
Margaret, 59.
Polly, 216.
Sally, 216.
Thomas, 290.
William, 144.
James, Alvah Chase,
350.
Nancy White
(Peach), 350.
Buhamah Batchel-
der, 350.
Thomas, 26.
James Caskie (brig),
324.
Janvrin, Emeline
(Feltch), 218.
Hiram, 218.
Hiram Gilmore, 218
Jaques, Anna, 85.
Benjamin. H., 172.
Chase, 174.
Enoch, 85.
Eunice (Chase),
174.
Joanna, 85.
Joseph, 85.
Judith, 85.
Margaret Hazen,
172.
Martha ( Brown ) ,
85.
Nancy, 174.
Jaques, Samuel, 174.
Jarvis, William, 252.
Jeffey, Ruth, 294.
Jenkes, Joseph, 271.
Jenkins, William, 295
Jerome, Napoleon
H., 206.
Jewett, Juitt, ,
238.
Elizabeth, 315.
Hannah, 86, 315.
Capt. George, 133.
Jacob, 133.
Rev. Jedediah, 247.
Joseph, 157, 158.
Joshua, 316.
Mary Harris, 316.
Maximilian, 145,
157.
Mehitable, 247.
Johnson, , 73,
157.
Abigail, 86.
Dr. Alfred, 1.
Charlie (negro),
310.
Elizabeth, 90.
Elizabeth (Bux-
ton), 46.
Francis, 24(2).
Helen Maria, 46.
John, jr., 90.
Nathaniel, 86.
Nehemiah, 86.
Richard, 281.
Sarah, 298.
Sarah ( Annable ) ,
86.
William, 46(2),
367.
Jones, Bertha, 252.
Betsey, 161.
Dorcas, 199.
George Hosmer,
337.
Joanna, 87.
John Paul, 88.
Levi, 161.
Mary Amelia, 337.
Mary Genella, 337.
Oliver H., 324.
Samuel H., 324.
Jordan, Abigail, 221.
Ann (Simonton),
221.
Jordan, Francis, 62.
Thomas, 221.
Joslyn, Elbridge, 325.
Sarah Carroll, 325.
William, 325.
Joy, Clara Ella, 347.
Edmund, 347.
Eliza (Richard-
son), 347.
Judson, Adelia, 336.
J. B., 334.
, George S.,
357.
Mary Jane, 357.
Kay, Betsey, 95.
William, 95.
Keagle, John, 73.
Kearns, Edward, 307.
Ellen, 307(2).
Kebbee, Kebby, Eli-
sha, 27(2), 28,
187(2).
Rachel, 27, 28, 187.
Keck, S., 99.
Keene, Ephraim, 68.
Kelley, John M., 377.
Kenniston, Nancy, 46
Kenniston, Nancy,
46.
Kent, - , 147.
Richard, 73, 147,
148.
Richard, jr., 147.
Stephen, 147, 149.
Keyes, Eleazer, 315.
Mary, 315.
Kidder, Abigail, 197,
199.
Kilham, Killum,
Katherine, 201.
Lott, 186, 187.
Kilton, Sabia, 342.
Kimball, Abraham,
249(2).
Betsey ( Sargent) ,
217.
Esther, 249.
Hephzibah, 249.
Katie, 255.
Mary, 217.
Rebecca, 176.
Samuel, 217.
Sarah Merrill, 322.
Kindall, Rev., 243.
398
INDEX.
King, Daniel, 271.
Daniel P., 185.
Elizabeth N., 185.
James P., 185.
Katherine, 261.
William, 26, 40, 260.
Zachariah, 258.
Kinne, , 330.
Bradford, 335.
Esther, 330, 336.
Jemima, 336.
Mary Amelia, 335.
Polly, 336.
Sally, 336.
Sally (Parkhurst),
336.
Kilborn, Anne, 83.
Nathan, 83.
Sarah, 83.
Thomas, 83.
Kitchen, Kichin,
, 126, 127.
Abigail, 128.
Benjamin, 128.
Bethia, 128, 129.
Bethia (Weld),
129,
Edward, 129, 130.
Elizabeth, 127-129.
Elizabeth Sanders
(Graf ton), 128.
Freake, 130.
Hannah, 128.
John, 126-129, 186.
Joseph, 128.
Mary, 128-130(2).
Mary (Board-
man), 129.
Priscilla, 128.
Eobert, 127-130
(2).
Kitfield, Elizabeth,
216.
Knap, John, 228.
Sally Clough, 228.
Kneeland, Cynthia,
347.
Sarah, 346.
Knight, Eunice, 321.
Martha Ann, 52.
Capt. Nathaniel,
298.
Richard, 75, 76, 79,
143, 147, 148.
Eobert, 52.
Knowlton, , 239.
Abigail, 216.
Alberta, 216.
Anna, 216.
Azor, 216.
Ivers, 216.
Lavinia, 216.
Malachi, 216.
Marcy, 216.
Michael, 216.
Patty, 172.
Thomas, 153.
L ambert, Lambertt,
, 158.
Ann, 158.
Frances, 158.
Gersome, 158.
Jane, 158.
John, 158.
Jonathan, 158.
Thomas, 158.
Lancaster, Thomas,
133.
Lanckton, Roger, 62.
Lane, Abigail (Tay-
lor), 176.
Cyrus H., 176.
Hannah, 174.
John S., 176.
Judith (Clifford),
174.
Samuel, 174.
Sarah Hill, 176.
Lang, , 54.
Langdon, Langden,
Elizabeth, 2.
John, 2, 261.
Mary, 286(2).
Paul, 286.
Sarah, 261.
Langley, , 145.
Abel, 145.
Langmaid, Edward,
353.
Elizabeth Moulton,
353.
Jacintha Maria,
353.
Larrabee, Sarah, 222.
William, 222.
Leavitt, Lovey, 168.
Lee, , 331.
Capt. Benjamin,
225.
Lee, Hannah, 225.
Jason, 256, 329,
333.
Rev. Jason, 329,
332, 334.
Leeson, Sarah
(Frith), 308.
Thomas, 308.
Leet, Elizabeth, 250.
Legg, John, 68.
Legro, Daniel, 162.
Lydia, 162.
Thomas, 162.
Lemmon, Robert, 73.
Leonard, , 307.
George, 237.
Lesslie, Leslie, Les-
ley, Lasly, ,
247(4), 330, 331,
333, 334, 336, 344,
347.
Col., 360.
Dr., 235(2).
Father, 333, 335,
336.
Priest, 243.
Squire, 341.
Abigail, 250, 358.
Adaline, 341.
Adelia (Judson)
Olley, 336, 337.
Agnes, 235.
Ag-nes L., 350.
Gen. Alexander,
234, 235.
Alfred C., 360.
Alice, 360.
Alice Bradford, 358
Alice Chase, 354.
Alma Pearl, 345.
Alonzo Ranson,
252, 341(2).
Amasa, 358(2).
Andrew, 360(2).
Sir Andrew, 235
(3).
Annie, 342.
Annie G., 358.
Annie Louisa, 353.
Arabella Victoria,
357.
Arthur Cheney, 346
Arthur Ernest, 345.
Aurelia, 333, 334,
337.
INDEX.
Lesslie, Bartholo-
mew, 234(3).
Benjamin, 249, 356
(2).
Benjamin Frank-
lin, 357.
Bernard Shepard,
355.
Betsey, 249, 342,
359(3).
Betsey A., 345.
C. E., 233.
C. Edwin, 344.
Caroline, 345.
Caroline H., 357.
Catharine, 251(2).
Catherine E., 357.
Catherine W., 358.
Charles, 250, 357
(2).
Col. Charles, 234.
Charles Arthur,
347.
Charles B., 342.
Charles Clement,
345.
Charles Edwin,
253, 343.
Charles Fuller,
346, 353.
Charles W., 254,
344(3).
Clara Ella, 347.
Clarissa, 249.
Cora, 345.
Cora Agnes, 350.
Cora Mabel, 347.
Cora Walker, 349.
Cynthia, 249, 347.
Cyrus, 249.
David, 248(3),
235, 249(3), 253-
256, 333, 336,
337.
Gen. David, 234.
Eev. David, 332,
335.
David M., 360.
David T., 338, 347.
Delia Ann, 349.
E. E., 256.
Edgar Selwyn, 353
Edmund Warren,
347.
Edna Carolina, 346
Lesslie, Edward, 359
(2), 360.
Edward James,
360(2).
Edward Swain,
359(2).
Edwin, 343(2).
Effie Gertrude,
346.
Eleanor Sybil, 345.
Eliakim Stephen,
252.
Eliza, 249, 250.
Eliza Emma, 348.
Elizabeth, 236,
248, 359.
Elizabeth B., 251,
339.
Elizabeth Moul-
ton, 353.
Elizabeth Smith,
' 359.
Ellen, 337.
Ellen Jane, 344.
Ellen Janet, 354.
Ellen M., 342.
Elvira Matilda,
252.
Elzadia Moody,
343 (2).
Emery Closson,
347.
Emma H., 336, 337.
Emma Roxanna,
343.
Emmaline, 341,351
Esther, 236, 250
(2), 253, 338,
346.
Esther Emily, 348.
Esther Isabella,
347.
Esther Ives, 338
(2), 346.
Ethel, 360.
Ethel Louise, 347.
Eugene, 358.
Eugene William,
345.
Eunice Dodge, 359.
Eva Maud, 347.
Dr. F. D., 248,346.
Frances Jane
(Batting) An-
derson, 347.
Lesslie, Frances
Ethel, 350.
Frank, 260.
Frank L., 342.
Frank P., 360.
Freeland D., M.
D., 233, 355.
Freeland David,
350, 354.
Freeland Huston,
355.
Freeman Chase,
347.
George, 235(2),
236, 238, 248
(3), 249(2), 251,
254, 341, 357(2),
358, 360.
George, jr., 249.
Rev. George, 233,
235-237, 246, 248,
340, 351.
George C., 251.
George Harvey, 344
George Lindsey,
358.
George W., 351,
352.
George Washing-
ton, 254.
George William,
341.
George William
Henry, 252, 341
(2).
Georgianna, 354,
355.
Georgius, 237.
Gordon Charles,
345.
Grace Leonora,
353.
Gratia Ann, 254
(2).
Gretchen Wai-
grave, 353.
Hannah, 249(2),
253, 358.
Hannah Dodge,
359.
Harrison, 252,342.
Harthan Freeman,
352.
Hattie, 346.
Hattie A., 353.
INDEX.
Lesslie, Hattie Mary
Livermore, 353.
Helen, 252, 334.
Helen Jemima, 337.
Helen M., 353.
Helen Maria, 341,
351.
Helen Matilda, 352.
Henry, 235.
Hephzibah, 247,
248(2), 249, 251.
Herbert Granville,
353.
Herbert I., 342.
Horace G., 353.
Horace G., M. D.,
233, 234, 239.
Horace Goodhue,
344.
Horace rGranville,
341, 352.
Howard Clifford,
355.
Hugh, 360.
I. Isabella, 360.
Ida May, 350.
Ilber Eads, 350.
Inez, 346.
Inez Leone, 349(2)
Irene, 249(2).
Isabell Leighton,
350.
Jacob, 360.
James, 235 (4) -237,
248-250, 329, 338,
360(3).
James B., 338(2).
James Bollock, 347
James C., 360.
James P., 251.
James Warren, 347
Jennie, 357.
Jane, 341, 350.
John, 249, 251, 337,
338, 357, 360(2).
John P., 338, 349,
360.
John Thomas, 360.
Jonas, 358.
Jonathan, 248-250.
Joseph, 236(2),
248, 252, 255, 358
(2) -360.
Joseph Lucius, 282,
343.
Lesslie, Joseph Ray-
mond, 359.
Julia, 252.
Julia A., 347.
Julia Frances, 344,
345.
Lena Columbia,
350.
Leroy, 343(2).
Lettie V., 345.
Lila Blanche, 353.
Lillian I., 342.
Lizzie Maria, 343.
Lizzie May, 352.
Lorenzo Buell, 255,
345.
Louis, 357.
Louisa Cummings,
347.
Lucinda A., 357(2).
Lucius, 343(2).
Lucy, 249, 254,341.
Lucy Ann, 359(2).
Lucy Caroline, 346.
Lucy E., 345.
Lucy Jane, 344.
Lucy Maria, 359.
Lucy (Stearns),
255.
Lydia, 356.
Lynde, 236.
Mahala, 255.
Malcolm, 234.
Maunie H., 347.
Margaret, 236, 249.
Margaret Amanda,
251.
Margaret Emma,
352.
Margaret (Sheer-
ar), 235, 237.
Margarette, 347
(2).
Marian Chase, 349.
Marion, 252.
Martha, 249(2)
Martha G., 341(2).
Mary, 235, 236, 249,
250(3), 251(2),
343, 357.
Mary Amelia, 335,
337.
Mary Ann, 251(2),
348, 359.
Mary Eldora, 348.
Lesslie, Mary Eliza,
338.
Mary Elizabeth,
339.
Mary H. B., 344
(2).
Mary I., 346.
Mary Jane, 357.
Mary Louise, 347,
349.
Mary Maria, 341,
353.
Mary Peake, 341,
350.
Mary Stone, 359
(2).
Matthew F., 357.
Mattie, 345(2).
Maxwell Franklin,
349.
Mercy, 236.
Mehitable, 248, 250,
253, 341.
Mehitable Almira,
252, 340.
Melville C., 337.
Melvin, 346.
Melvin Wilson, 346.
Mildred Dorcas,
349.
Mina Belle, 349.
Minnie, 342.
Miriam, 248, 249.
Nancy, 249, 356.
Nancy Jane, 249.
Nelson Daniel, 255.
Norino, 234.
Norman, 234.
Sir Norman, 234.
Norman Leroy, 253
O. Abigail, 344.
Olivia Abigail, 343.
Oriella Cora, 344.
Orra, 254(2).
Owen W., 360.
Palmira Melinda,
252, 341.
Patience, 344.
Patty, 249, 253, 254
Paul Hardy Gran-
ville, 353.
Perley, 358.
Philip King, 249.
Polly, 249(2).
INDEX.
401
Lesslie, Prudence
Maria, 252.
Raymond Everett,
347.
Rebecca, 252.
Robert, 360.
Roxanna, 249.
Sally, 249, 337, 338,
356(3), 357.
Samnel, 359.
Samuel C., 250, 337.
Samuel Chase, 251,
338(3), 347, 348
(2).
Sarah, 250, 251,
253, 308, 337, 338,
346, 358, 359.
Sarah A., 336, 337.
Sarah Amelia, 357.
Sarah Ann, 251.
Sarah E., 358.
Sarah Elizabeth,
349, 359.
Sarah Isabell, 342.
Sarah Smith, 359.
Satira, 33 3 (2), 334,
336.
Selwyn Goodhue,
343, 353.
Simeon, 360.
Sophia, 357(2).
Sophronia, 249.
Stephen, 360.
Susan Elvira, 357.
Susannah, 358.
Susannah Caro-
line, 358.
Sylvester Zina,
339, 250.
Theodore, 360.
Thomas H. G., 343.
Thomas Horace
Goodhue, 252,
342.
W. Parker, 360.
Waker, 250.
Walker, 249.
Walker C., 249.
Walter, 345.
Washington Irv-
ing, 342.
William, 235, 248,
250(4), 251(3),
337, 338, 346, 358.
Lesslie, William Bal-
loch, 354.
William Franklin,
349.
William H., 251.
William Henry,
255, 344, 358.
William Lafayette,
358.
Wm. Peabody, 346
(2).
William S., 360.
Leverett, John, 211.
Lewis, Alonzo, 210.
Enoch, 307, 309.
Martha, 275.
Sarah E., 358.
Libby, Anna, 218.
Charlotte, 219.
Dorcas, 219.
Frank, 219.
Joseph, 218.
Lydia, 218.
Polly, 220.
Rebecca, 219.
Rufus, 219.
Thomas, 220.
Lightfoot, , 63,
64.
Ann, 64.
Francis, 58, 63, 64,
271.
Isabel, 63.
John, 63.
Lightwood, , 113.
Ellis, 12, 17. 102,
113, 118.
Lincoln, Abraham,
210.
Lindall, Lindell, Be-
thia, 129(2), 130.
Elizabeth, 288, 289.
James, 32, 288, 289.
Mary, 130.
Timothy, 129(2).
Lindsey, Susannah,
358.
Linn, Hector P., 311.
Walter, 311.
Linton, John, 96.
Lucina, 96.
Lisson, Nicholas, 68.
Litch, Almira, 308.
Litchfield, J. P., 233.
Little, Mary, 314.
Livermore, Jerusha
(Merritt), 343.
Joseph, 343.
Mary, 343.
Lockwood, Librarian,
233.
Lombard, Lumbard,
, 219, 308.
Elizabeth (Robin-
son), 308.
Mary, 219.
Robert Robinson,
308.
Sarah, 308.
Timothy Hall, 308.
Long, Hannah, 168.
Robert, 76.
Longfellow, Capt.,
231.
Longley, Mary, 275.
Lord, Abigail, 89.
Col. Benjamin, 89.
Margaret, 89.
Robert, 62, 71, 159.
William, 27.
William, sr., 27.
Loring, , 55.
Lovejoy, , 306.
Dolly (Ballard),
310.
Eben, 310(2).
Jeremiah, 310.
Phebe (Russell),
310.
Sally, 86.
Sarah, 310.
Lowell, Lowle, Rev.,
49.
Benjamin, 76(2).
Elizabeth, 73, 75,
76(2), 79, 80(2).
James, 75, 80.
John, 61,75(2), 76,
79, 80(4).
Joseph, 75, 80.
Mary, 75, 76, 80.
Peter, 75.
Richard, 73, 75, 76,
79, 80(4).
Luke, Daniel, 312.
Emily, 312.
Lull, Alonzo, 253.
Caroline C., 253.
Mary, 224.
Lunt, Margaret, 327.
402 INDEX.
Lyford, Mehitable, 94 McMorrow, James, Mason, Elias, 186,
Thomas, 94. 308. 187.
Lyman, Rev. Isaac, Lorinda, 308. Emme, 65(2).
223. Madison, President, John, 367.
Olive, 223. 47. Massey, Massie, Mas-
Ruth Elizabeth Mahew, Elijah, 45. sy, Jeffery, 59,
(Plrnner), 223. Judith, 45. 60, 67(2), 160,
Lynde, Esther, 236. Judith (Sargent), 179, 379.
Hugh, 236. 45. Matchett, Catherine,
Lyon, John, 68. Mann, , 246. 224.
Robert, 243, 245. William P., jr., 224.
McAllester, David, Manning, , 56 Mather, Cotton, 130,
342. (2), 297. 211, 283(2).
Lydia (Pain), 342. Jacob, 55(2), 56. Matthew, Elizabeth,
Catharine, 232. Capt. Richard, 56. 312.
McAlpine, Abigail Mansfield, Mans- Peter, 312.
(Gould), 254. feilde, , 64, Maule, Thomas, 210.
Betsey A., 345. 303 - Mawry, Roger, 259
Daniel, 254. Andrew, 64(2), 275 (2), 262.
Orra, 254, 345. Isaac, 42. Maverick, Mauerick,
Macauley, Cecelia, Jonathan, 298. , 68.
31 1 Joseph, 280. Moses, 68(2).
John 311 Robert, 272. Maxwell, ,235.
Maccartv Thaddeus Mar Wehead, 42, 131- Inez Leone, 349.
24m 133 ' 135 211 ' Meacham, Isaac, 24.
McCobTb, Col., 253. ?J ark ( **?\> 2l2 ' Jeremiah, 24<2),
McCrillis, William, Marl a A n n d / , John ' 307 T 25 ' . v
347 ' 309(2). Jeremiah, jr., 25.
MpHnflW A*, 1R9 Marriot, Catherine, Melick, Mary, 321.
McDuffee, Anna, 162. 224 Mellen, Ellen Maria,
Mary, 15,3 Marry> Mary (Hay)> 34Q
McEme^v~Dr <m 312 ' Geor ^ e Leslie ' 340 '
McGee CharlottV Marsh ' March > ' Grace Ellen ' 340 '
312 Charlotte ' 285, 286. Henry Luther, 340.
XfpTnti T?T. Q ^V TT Eev ' Christopher, Hephzibah, 339.
Mclntire, Frank K., 239 Hepsey, 340.
T JJS; Eunice, 172. Luther, 339, 340.
c k\ Humphrey, 265. Luther Adams, 340
Samuel, 299. Joh 22? 261 (2) Luther Edwin, 340.
Mack, Bartlett, 249. John j., 227 . Mary A., 340.
bally, 249. Mary> 227> 265 Mary Ann> 339
Mackay, , 287. Mehitable, 225. Mary Frances, 340.
Daniel, 289. Perez, 237. Mary Wheaton,
William, 289. ^ Zachariah, 261(2). 340.
McKean, Betsey Marshall, Judge, 47, Maude Ellis, 340.
(Bowers), 339. 48. Philip Edwin, 340.
Mary Ann, 339. Capt. William, 218. Richard Hager,
Samuel, 339. Marston, , 283, 340.
MacLeod, Kate, 320. 311. Samuel, 339.
William, 320. George, 344. Sarah Letitia, 340.
McMann, Alice, 308. Manasseh, 288. Meniner, Julia A.,
McMillon, Capt. Martin, Elizabeth, 49 347.
John, 297. Elizabeth Ann, 166 Menzies, James, 35,
McMorrow, Alice Jenny, 309. 37.
(McMann), 308. Marwick, Mary, 219. Merrill, , 219.
INDEX.
403
Merrill, Abigail, 219.
John, 147, 221.
Lucy, 221.
Thomas, 133.
Merritt, Merit, Jeru-
sha, 343.
Nicholas, 68.
Metcalf, Medcalfe,
Joseph, 70, 238.
Mary A., 342.
Mighill, Mighell, Na-
thaniel, 133.
Thomas, 150.
Miller, General, 50.
Eoxanna, 249.
Thomas, 76.
Millet, , 298.
Milward, Thomas,
73, 76.
Mitchell, Betsey, 95.
Charles Thomas,
340.
Clement Bartlett,
340.
Edwin C., 340.
Fanny, 340(2).
Frances Ellen, 341.
George L., 340.
Herbert Wallace,
341.
Ira, 340.
Israel, 95.
Louisa Cummings,
347.
Lucius Franklin,
340.
Mary, 307.
Mehitable Almira,
340(2).
Nancy, 220.
Hives, 347(2).
Rives Herbert, 347.
Euth, 307.
William, 307.
Modgey, Mary, 288.
Tamiswood, 288.
Monroe, Rebecca, 307
Moody, John, 314.
Mary (Little), 314.
Sarah, 314.
Moore, Moor, Mores,
, 141.
Bridget, 284.
Edmond, 80.
Moore, Eliza Ann,
327.
Ellen, 307.
John, 307.
Joseph, 307.
Richard, 155.
Sarah (Howe), 307.
Thomas, 141.
Morey, Morry, Roger
258, 260, 262(3),
263.
Moriarty, , 130.
G. Andrews, jr., A.
M., 1, 97, 126.
Morley, Ann (Bar-
leigh), 310.
Henry, 310.
Joseph, 310.
Robert, 310.
Morrill, David, 231.
Margaret, 169.
Sarah, 328.
Morse, Annie G.,
358.
Dorathy, 62.
Hannah, 02.
Joseph, 61(2), 62.
Moult on, , 87,
177, 263.
Abigail, 87.
Elizabeth, 192, 193.
John, 190-196.
Joseph, 196.
Josiah, 87.
Robert, 38, 39, 190,
195, 196, 262,263.
Samuel, 196.
Mount, Ellen Jane,
344.
Francis Alphonso,
344.
Mount Pleasant, 258
(2).
Mudge, Benjamin F.,
203.
Mudgett, Sarah Jane,
320.
William, 320.
Munn, George M.,
357.
Sarah Amelia, 357.
Munson, Adella Ann,
52.
Reuben, 52.
Murphy, George, 307.
Murray, John, 312.
Mary Ann, 312.
Muzzey, Esther, 219.
Joseph, 219.
My calls. , 231.
Nassau (W. I.), 1, 4.
12-14, 102-104.
Nauvoo (Salem), 304.
Neary, Cecelia, 311.
John, 311.
Mary, 311.
Needham, Anthony,
257(2), 260.
Anthony, jr., 266.
Anthony, sr., 266,
267.
Elias, 266.
Isaac, 266(2).
Jasper, 266(3).
John, 267.
Joseph Shed, 266
(2).
Maria, 253.
Sarah Jane Clark-
son, 266.
Stephen, 266.
Nelson, Nellson,
Curtis S., 342.
DeForest M., 348.
Elizabeth, 158.
Ellen M., 342.
Mary A. (Met-
calf e), 342.
Mary Eldora, 348.
Philip, 80, 158.
Nevil, Augusta, 310.
Elizabeth (Tur-
ner), 310.
Henry, 310.
John, 310.
John Henry, 310.
Joseph, 310.
Josephine, 310.
Margaret, 310.
Margaret Ann, 310.
Matilda, 310.
Sarah Elizabeth,
310.
Newbury, Newberry,
Dorcas, 277.
Richard, 277.
Newbury, 131.
Newburyport, 294.
Newell, Reverend, 49.
404
INDEX.
Newhall, James K.,
203.
Joseph, 34, 35.
Joseph, jr., 33.
Thomas B., 203.
Newmarch, Capt.
George, 42.
New Providence (W.
I.), 1, 3-22, 97-
125.
Nichols, , 297.
Caroline H., 357.
Humphrey, 319.
Margaret, 319.
Moses, 239.
Sarah, 319.
Nicolson, Edmund,
67, 68.
Christopher, 67.
Niles, William H.,
205.
Noble, Sarah, 95.
Norman, Richard, 68.
Norris, Norrice, ,
187.
Catharine, 95.
Edward, 288.
Rev. Edward, 188.
Elizabeth, 318.
Remember, 288.
Thomas, 288.
North, David, 171.
James W., 185.
Mary, 171.
Phebe, 185.
Northend, Northin,
Edna, 157.
Ezekiel, 80, 157,
158(2).
Capt. John, 133.
Samuel, 133.
Northend & Choate,
203.
North Salem, 303.
Northy, John, 68.
Norton, Prof. An-
drew, 41.
George, 65.
John, 71, 152.
Louisa, 41.
Louisa Elliot, 41.
Noyes, Noice, Abby
J., 339.
Amos, 339.
Edwin, 339.
Noyes, Elizabeth
Greenleaf, 321.
Eva, 339.
Hannah, 324.
Joseph, 324.
Dr. Oliver, 289.
Mary L., 339.
Meriam (Cheever),
324.
Nicholas, 75, 79.
Sarah, 166.
Nurse, Nurce, Ben-
jamin, 380, 381.
Caleb, 32.
Caleb, jr., 376.
Elizabeth, 31(2),
32.
Francis, 375-381.
Frank, 261.
John, 31, 33.
John, sr., 378, 379.
Nathaniel, 33.
Rebecca, 382.
Samuel, 374, 375,
377-381.
Samuel, jr., 378-
379.
Sarah, 380.
Nutter, Sophia, 353.
Nutting, Daniel, 185.
Lucy, 185.
Ober, Abigail, 199.
Samuel, 199.
Oburne, Thomas, 2.
Odlin, Anna Pearcen,
200.
Betty, 200.
Caroline Frances,
200.
Elizabeth, 200.
Emeline Folsom,
200,
John Folsom, 200.
Martha, 200.
Mary Anna, 200.
Oliver, Lt. Gov., 48.
A., 296.
Andrew, 135.
Elizabeth, 372.
Mary Lynde, 48, 49
Nathaniel, 372.
Sarah ( Py nchon ) ,
48.
Oliver, Rev. Thomas
Fitch, 48.
Olley, Adelia (Jud-
son), 336.
Rev. James, 336.
Ormsby, Col. John,
232.
Orne, , 55.
Joseph, 29(3).
Orne, see also Home
Osborne, William,
29, 30(2).
Osgood, Benjamin,
286.
Hannah, 286.
John S., 317.
Nathaniel, 286.
Sally, 317.
Otis, Almira, 95.
Owen, Susan, 351.
Rage, Abigail, 198.
Gardner, 198.
Lt. Col. Jeremiah,
209.
John, 209.
Mary, 209.
Palfrey, Peter, 66,
160.
Pallgraue, Ann, 58,
59.
Palmer, Abraham,
35, 36.
Edwin, 339.
Ella, 339.
Jemima, 199.
Thomas, 156.
Parker, Artemas,
308.
Beulah Helen, 337.
Carleton, 306.
David, 312.
Dolly, 221.
Elizabeth, 312.
Gideon Jasper, 337
John, 191-193.
Joseph, 191-193.
Lorinda (Healy),
308.
Margaret, 191, 192,
194.
Martha, 191-193.
Mary, 191-193.
Mary Elizabeth,
308.
INDEX.
405
Parker, Mary Genel-
la, 337.
Mercy, 191-193.
Nathaniel, 221.
Ralph, 68.
Parkhurst, Sally, 336.
Parkman, , 262
(2).
Deliverance, 34, 35,
262.
Susanna, 34 (2), 3 5.
Parsons, , 238.
Chief Justice, 300
(2).
Partington, Eliza-
beth, 308.
Ralph, 308.
Patch, Nicholas, 160.
Patten, Elizabeth
(Hulen), 46.
John, 46.
Pattee, Prudence Ma-
ria, 252.
S. B., 252.
Paul, Arthur Henry,
339.
Elizabeth Maria,
339.
Georgietta Estelle
339.
Seth, 339.
Payne, Pain, Lydia,
342.
Robert, 71, 152,
153.
Peabody, , 204.
Clarissa, 366.
Dean, 203.
Elizabeth, 366.
Francis, 366.
George, 207, 366.
John P., 303.
Martha, 366.
Peabody, 23, 177.
Peach, John, jr., 68.
John, sr., 68.
Nancy White, 350.
Peake, Mary, 341.
Peal, Abigail, 285.
Benjamin, 285.
Ebenezer, 285.
George, 285.
Hannah, 285.
Pearson, Daniel, 224.
Hitty, 230.
Pearson, J. J., 307.
Jane, 328.
Jesse, 230.
John, 133.
Lydia, 315.
Mary (Lull), 224.
Molly, 173, 176.
Rachel (Taylor),
173.
Sally, 173.
Sarah, 224.
Silas, 315.
Taylor, 173.
Pease, Helen, 252.
John, 201.
Mary, 201.
Leslie, 252.
Lutie, 252.
Pell, , 63, 64.
Hannah, 63.
Pemberton, Rev. Dr.,
43.
Pendergast, Abigail
J., 163.
Penley, Hannah, 222.
William, 222.
Peppoon, Richard,
278.
Perkins, , 62, 63.
Abigail, 96.
Augustus, 96.
Dorcas, 171.
Eliza, 351.
Rev. H. K. W., 330.
J. M., 253.
Judith, 96, 165.
Maria, 253.
Perley, Allen, 229.
Hannah, 229.
John, 242.
John, sr., 239.
M. V. B., 233, 329,
356.
Martha (Fowler),
229.
Samuel, 239, 240.
Sidney, 23, 81, 161,
177, 257, 313, 361.
Thomas, jr., 239.
Perry, Abigail Whea-
ton, 340.
Ducet (Curtis),
308.
Francis, 30-33.
Mary, 318.
Perry, Sylvanus, 308
Thomas, 308.
Peter (negro), 306.
Peters, , 73.
Pettingell, , 92.
Mary (Safford),92
Ruth Dole, 92.
Samuel, 92(2).
Phelps, , 178, 179
Eleanor, 188.
Henry, 188.
Nicholas, 186, 188.
Philbrick, David, 176.
Laura, 176.
Thomas Jefferson,
176.
Phillips, Philips,
, 204.
Captain, 131.
Rev. 306.
Arthur W., 235.
Hannah, 372.
Jacob, 370.
James, 370, 372.
John, 140.
Sarah, 372.
Sarah (Rea), 370.
Tabitha, 370.
Walter, 365, 370-
372.
Philpot, , 297.
Phippen, Elizabeth,
283.
John, 283(2).
Rebecca, 288(2).
Samuel, 288.
Sarah, 289(2).
Phyllis (slave), 2 12.
Pickard, Edward Lit-
tle, 321.
Frances M. Pome-
roy, 321.
John, 80.
Pickering, , 280.
Alice (Flint), 276.
John, 189, 190, 276
(3).
Lt. John, 34, 35.
Sarah, 276.
Timothy, 276.
Pickman, Capt., 284
(2).
Benjamin, 3, 135,
299.
Mary, 3.
406
INDEX.
Pierce, Peirce, ,
330.
Abraham, 26(2).
Amelia (Butler),
311.
Capt. Andrew, 162,
163.
Daniel, 143(2).
Elizabeth, 285.
Hannah, 88.
Jemima, 336.
John, 42.
Louisa, 311.
Nathan, 88.
Richard, 336.
Sarah, 88, 336.
Eev. Thomas C.,
330, 336.
William, 311.
Pike, Benjamin, 197.
Daniel Parrish, 89.
Dorcas, 89.
Elizabeth, 197, 284.
Richard, 284.
Susanna, 284.
Pillsbury, Capt., 311.
B. P., 309.
Pinson, William, 187.
Piper, Laura, 217.
Sarah, 318.
Pitman, Pittman,
Judge, 51.
Benjamin, 104.
Thomas, 68.
Place, Capt. David,
161.
Plane, Louisa, 324.
Plass, Plasse, Wil-
liam, 57(2).
Plumer, Plummer,
, 82-84(2),
86, 87(4), 94, 96
(3), 163,166,175
(3), 218, 224(2),
225, 228, 313(2)-
315(2), 317, 323,
324.
Aaron, 219-220, 222
(3), 223.
Abel, 82, 83.
Capt. Abel, 228.
Abiel G., 328.
Abigail, 82, 83, 86,
87, 89, 90(2), 96
(2), 163(2), 164,
Plumer, Abigail, 169
219(2), 221(3),
222(2), 224(2),
228, 229, 318,
320(2).
Abigail Gilman,
174.
Abigail S., 175.
Abigail Zilpah,
220.
Abraham, 166, 168,
219.
Abraham Foster,
168.
Addison, 224.
Ai, 220(2), 222.
Albert, 168.
Alexander Bragg,
326.
Alice, 92, 166.
Alice Avery, 92.
Alice Zerviah, 322.
Allen, 163.
Almira, 95, 96.
Alpheus, 225.
Alvah, 95.
Alvin, 220.
Amasa, 164.
Amos, 174(2),
Amos Moody, 315.
Amy, 220.
Andrew, 95, 166.
Andrew Jackson,
92, 327.
Angeline Sophia,
169.
Ann, 221, 323.
Anna, 83, 94, 162,
164, 167-218, 219,
228, 230, 231, 320
(2).
Anne, 83, 96, 316.
Annie, 88.
Aphiah T., 318.
Arley, 228.
Asa, 81, 166, 225
(2).
Asa G., 166.
Avery, 94.
Beard, 161, 162.
Bemsley, 224.
Benjamin, 82, 87,
94, 163, 170, 228.
Benjamin Frank-
lin, 174.
Plumer, Benjamin
Wood, 168.
Bethiah, 81.
Betsey, 83, 95(2),
161-163, 165(2),
225, 230, 318,319
(2).
Betsey Gage, 225.
Betsey Gordon, 173
Bitfield, 93, 328.
Bradstreet, 86, 316
(2).
Caleb K., 321.
Caroline, 95, 163,
167, 172, 223.
Caroline Augusta,
168, 326, 327.
Caroline F., 170.
Caroline Smith,
323.
Catherine, 90(2),
95, 224, 237, 232,
313
Catharine K., 321.
Catharine Mariott,
218, 224.
Catharine Munroe,
321.
Charles, 89, 96, 227,
319, 322, 325.
Charles A., 322.
Charles Andrew,
326.
Charles Arthur,
322.
Charles Edward,
168.
Charles Edwin,
168.
Charles F., 321.
Charles H., 175.
Charles Henry, 92,
325, 326.
Charles William,
327.
Charlotte, 219.
Christopher, 219,
220.
Clara, 218.
Clara Greenleaf,
218.
Clementine Sabri-
na, 169.
Cynthia, 175.
Cyrus, 315.
INDEX.
407
Phimer, Daniel, 86,
87, 94(2), 162,
166, 167, 170,218
(2), 219, 224,
315-317.
Col. Daniel, 165.
Daniel Barber, 167.
David, 83, 172, 175,
217, 219(2), 226,
229(2).
David Burleigh,
173.
David Dole, 166.
Davis, 83.
Deborah, 175, 221,
226.
Dodovah, 163.
Dolly, 221.
Dorcas, 88, 89, 219,
222.
Dorcas Fickett,
169.
Douglass, 314.
Eben, 315.
Ebenezer, 94, 163,
172(2).
Ebenezer Folsom,
176.
Eddie, 321.
Ednah, 82(2), 315.
Edmund, 86, 89,
166, 322.
Edmund Smith,
169.
Edward, 221(2),
224.
Edward D., 321.
Edward Payson,
320.
Edwin, 95, 315.
Eleanor, 170(2),
227.
Electa, 328.
Eli, 223.
Elias, 169, 170.
Eliphalet, 82.
Eliza, 96, 163, 169,
170.
Eliza A., 175.
Eliza Ann, 327.
Eliza G., 313.
Eliza Jane, 94.
Eliza Lawrence,
168.
Plumer, Elizabeth,
82, 85, 86(2), 88-
90, 167, 172, 219,
220 (3) -222, 227,
228, 315, 318, 322,
326.
Elizabeth Ann, 166,
327.
Elizabeth Brad-
street, 316.
Elizabeth Dean, 323
Elizabeth Green-
leaf, 321.
Elizabeth Hamlin,
328.
Elizabeth Jane, 322
Elizabeth White,
227.
Ellen, 220.
Ellen Humbert,
322.
Elliot, 223(2).
Elmira, 319.
Elvira, 166, 327.
Emeline Augusta,
326.
Emily, 322.
Enoch, 88, 90, 96,
162, 170, 226, 323.
Col. Enoch, 322.
Ephraim, 93(2),
96(2), 162, 163,
327.
Erastus, 222.
Eri, 94.
Ernestus Augustus
223.
Esther, 170, 173,
219.
. Eunice, 162, 172,
321(2).
Ezekiel Hanson,
223.
Fanny, 176.
Farnham, 227.
Frances, 162.
Frances Ann, 328.
Frances M. Pome-
roy, 321.
Francis, 95, 167.
Frank, 328.
Frank Home, 326.
Frank J., 328.
Frank Kidder, 327.
Fred, 327.
Plumer, Freddie, 321.
Frederick, 227, 326
Frederick J., 93.
Frederick T., 93.
Freeman Berry,
175.
George, 83, 84, 169,
314, 315, 319,327.
George Dix, 321.
George Haley, 326.
George W., 93, 173,
218, 319, 328.
George Washing-
ton, 165(2).
Gibeon, 219.
Gordon,, 323.
Greenleaf, 167.
H. M., 95(2).
Hannah, 86(2), 88
(2), 93(2), 161
(2), 168, 171,
172, 174, 218, 220,
222(3), 225, 226,
229(2), 230, 315-
317, 324.
Hannah M., 328.
Hannah Matilda,
168.
Hannah Noyes, 325
Hannah P., 174.
Harriet, 93, 165,
166.
Harriet Boynton,
169.
Harriet Newell, 91.
Harrison, 319.
Harry, 327.
Hazen K., 217.
Helen Elizabeth,
328.
Henrietta, 322.
Henry, 87(2), 88,
221, 227, 318(3),
319.
Henry Johnson,
326.
Hiram, 225, 318.
Hitty, 230.
Horace, 220, 319.
Ira, 217(2).
Isaac, 83, 95, 171,
219, 220.
Isaac Augustus,
168.
Isaac C., 87, 317.
408
INDEX.
Plumer, Isaac C., 37,
317.
Isaac F., 317.
Isabella, 323.
Isabella Crawford,
324.
Isaiah, 167, 222.
Jacob William, 91,
324.
Jane, 87, 88, 96,
169, 222 (2) -224,
322.
Jane Hamilton,
313.
James, 85, 87, 88,
96, 163, 164, 221,
317, 320.
James Madison,
220.
James Pettingell,
326.
James Kichard,
326.
James Todd, 316.
Jean, 220.
Jeremiah, 93, 163,
218, 222,327,328.
Capt. Jeremiah, 92.
Jeremy, 96.
Jerusha, 91(2).
Jesse, 88, 173(2),
219(2).
Joanna, 85(2), 87,
88, 315, 317.
Joanna Barker
(Chandler), 226.
John, 83, 85, 90(2),
93, 95(3), 96(2),
161, 162, 164, 170
(2), 173(2), 175,
221(2), 222(3),
227, 231, 314.
John Adams, 321.
John Ambrose, 173.
John Andrew, 92.
John C., 318.
John Chandler, 227
John Greenleaf,
218.
John H., 175.
John Jay, 165.
John K, 217.
John McAllister,
313.
John Moody, 315.
Plumer, John Noyes,
321.
John Savory, 228.
John Thomas, 322.
John Webb Smith,
169.
Jonathan, 83-87,
229, 230(2), 231,
313, 315(2), 316.
Jonathan Coffin,
89.
Jonathan Pearson,
174.
Jones, 318.
Joseph, 81, 87, 88,
(2), 161, 162,
166, 169, 176,
217, 225(3), 317
(2), 320.
Joseph A., 318.
Joseph Brown, 231
Joseph Cilley, 165.
Joseph Cram, 320.
Joseph Dole, 230.
Joseph F., 319.
Joseph O., 217.
Joshua, 171, 218.
Dr. Joshua, 223.
Joshua Coffin, 320.
Josiah, 86.
Josiah Convers,
228.
Josiah R., 319.
Judith, 96(2).
Julian, 167.
Kate, 320.
Lane, 175.
Laura, 176.
Lavinia, 164, 322.
Leonard, 324, 327.
Leonard With,ing-
ton, 91, 323.
Levi, 318.
Loren, 220.
Louisa, 321, 324
(2).
Lovey, 316.
Lovina, 173.
Lucina, 96.
Lucy, 95, 175, 221,
327.
Lucy Ann, 325.
Lucy Dent, 320.
Lucy Hartwell,
321.
Plumer, Lucretia A.,
321.
Luther, 176.
Luther Boutelle,
324.
Luther Calvin, 168.
Lydia, 85, 96, 162,
218(2), 219(3),
223, 315, 317.
Lydia Jane, 317.
Lydia Leighton,
231.
Lyman, 223.
Mahala, 88.
Margaret, 89, 169.
170, 322.
Margaret Adelaide,
327.
Margaret Hazen,
172.
Margaret Jane,
172.
Mark, 85, 174, 315.
Maria, 323.
Maria M., 319.
Maria Maden, 168.
Martha, 88, 89,
219, 226, 316.
Martha Foster,
168.
Martha Smith, 323.
Mary, 82, 85, 86,
90, 91(2), 93-96,
162(2), 166, 167,
171(2), 175(2),
176, 217-219(5),
222-228, 315, 316
(2), 318, 321, 322,
325.
Mary A., 96.
Mary Alice, 326,
327.
Mary Ann, 168,
319, 352.
Mary Ann Smith,
169.
Mary Bacon, 228.
Mary Chase, 317.
Mary Cram, 322.
Mary Frances, 328
(2).
Mary Gordon, 323.
Mary Harris, 316.
Mary Haynes, 225.
Mary Home, 325.
INDEX.
409
Plumer, Mary J.,
319.
Mary Jane, 323.
Mary Leonard, 89.
Matilda, 167.
Mehitable, 84, 94
(2), 230, 316.
Mehitable Brag-
don, 221.
Mercy, 96.
Michael, 95.
Miriam, 220.
Molly, 85, 173.
Moses, 81, 90, 93,
167, 169, 172,173
(2), 218-221,225,
226, 323(2), 327.
Moses Oilman, 175.
Moses Ilsley, 166.
Nancy, 85, 89, 90,
93, 96, 165, 170,
173, 174, 220,
316, 322.
Nancy F., 176.
Nancy Horton,
323.
Nancy J., 91.
Nathan, 82, 88, 93,
94, 164, 174, 175,
228, 320, 324-326.
Capt. Nathan, 91.
Nathan. Chase. 168.
Nathan Thomas,
92.
Nathaniel, 84, 89
(2), 95, 171-174,
230(2), 231(2).
Maj. Nathaniel,
229.
Nathaniel Dole,
326, 327.
Nicholas Folsom,
173.
Ober, 225.
Octavius, 223.
Olive, 82, 223(2).
Oliver, 94, 222.
Olivia, 223.
Pamelia, 95, 170,
227.
Parker, 175.
Patty, 83, 96, 172.
Paul, '85, 229, 230,
231(3).
Maj. Paul, 230.
Plumer, Peggie, 220.
Phebe, 173, 222,
226.
Phebe Ann, 323.
Phebe Little, 91.
Phebe Osgood, 226.
Philip, 88, 319(2).
Polly, 95, 96, 165,
175(2), 220, 226
(2), 319.
Polly Little, 328.
Polly P., 173.
Priscilla, 90.
Priscilla Pearson,
328.
Quintus, 165.
Kachel, 93, 227.
Eebecca, 85, 89,
164(2), 165, 219,
315.
Rhetta B., 326.
Rhoda, 163, 219.
Richard, 87, 90-
92, 95, 96, 162,
176, 230, 317,
318, 325.
Richard J., 319.
Robert, 96, 220,
223, 313.
Roxanna, 222.
Roxy, 217.
Rufus, 166, 222.
Ruth, 81, 83, 163.
Ruth Dole, 90, 92.
Ruth Elizabeth,
223.
Sallie, 163.
Sally, 82, 85, 86,
90, 93, 95, 161,
165, 173, 176,
220, 221, 226,317
Sally dough, 228.
Sally Fowler, 165.
Sally Merrill, 173,
176.
Salome, 171.
Solomon, 82.
Samuel, 81, 82(2),
85-89, 163(2),
165(2), 166, 169,
174, 219, 222,
230, 315, 316,
318, 320.
Samuel 'Motley,
169.
Plumer, Samuel
Somerby, 87,316
Sarah, 83, 87, 88,
94-96, 163-166,
170, 217, 218(3),
222, 224, 225(2),
314, 315, 317-319.
Sarah Carroll, 325.
Sarah Cheevers,
220.
Sarah Cobb, 172.
Sarah Eliza, 175.
Sarah Hill, 176.
Sarah Jane, 320.
Sarah Melinda, 322
Sarah Merrill, 322.
Sarah Stocker, 168.
Seth Storer, 172.
Silas, 81, 226, 230.
Simeon, 231.
Sophia, 174, 223,
227, 322.
Sophia Ann, 93.
Sophia Wilkins,
321.
Stephen, 81, 175,
226, 229, 315.
Susan, 96, 162(2),
328.
Susan H., 318.
Susanna, 162, 172.
Sylvanus, 163.
Sylvia, 316.
Temperance, 163.
Theodore, 227.
Theodore Parsons,
223.
Thomas, 81(2), 85,
89-91, 227, 228,
321(2)-323.
Thomas, jr., 81.
Thomas J., 221.
Timothy, 218, 222.
Timothy Dow, 92.
Tristram, 89(2),
322.
Wendell Phillips,
326.
William, 85, 89, 95,
96, 165, 169-171,
174, 218-222, 226,
230, 232, 318, 323
Elder William, 231
Gov. William, 164.
410
INDEX.
Plumer, William
Gardner, 320.
William Henry,
168.
William K, 217.
William L., 322.
William Laurens,
321.
William R., 319.
Capt. William Ste-
vens, 223.
William Swan, 313.
Zilphia, 221.
Pollard, George, 67,
68.
Pomp (negro), 306.
Pool, Poole, John,
286.
Olivia Abigail, 343.
Olivia (Huggins),
343.
William W., 343.
Poor, Poore, Abigail,
90.
Alfred, M. D., 306.
Ann, 231.
Clara, 218.
Daniel, 82, 309.
Ednah (Plumer)
82.
Capt. Jonathan, 90.
Phebe, 226.
Sally, 93.
Sarah (Dole), 90.
Pope, , 179, 187.
Benjamin, 179,
182, 183, 188.
Enos, 188.
Gertrude, 182, 187.
Joseph, 182, 183,
186(2), 188(2),
190, 257.
Nathaniel, 182.
Samuel, 188.
Popham, Fort, 210.
Porter, , 126.
Abijah, 367.
Anna, 338.
Benjamin, 367.
Edward G., 215.
Emerson, 44(2).
Isaac, 367.
Jeremiah, 338.
John, 160.
John, sr., 182.
Porter, Joseph, 338.
Mary, 182.
Rebecca, 44(2).
Samuel, 239.
Sarah, 338.
Potter, ,210,280
Benjamin, 277.
Nicholas, 155.
Robert, 277.
Ruth (Driver), 277
Thomas, 237, 238.
Pratt, Abigail, 294.
Grover, 281.
Hannah, 294.
John, 294.
Margaret, 284,294.
Mary, 51, 284.
Maverick, 294.
Prentiss, Caleb Her-
vey, 381.
Ella Florence, 381
Prescott, , 224,
283,286, 288,289
Judge, 299.
William, 299.
Presson, John, 378.
Pressy, Emeline, 253
John, 253.
Lucinda, 253.
Malvina Amanda,
253.
Mehitable, 253.
Preston, Doctor, 62.
Thomas, 259, 374,
375, 377.
Price, , 66.
Walter, 65.
Pride, , 155.
John, 155.
Prideaux, Roger, 13,
117, 119.
Primrose, (brigan-
tine), 21;
Prince, , 298.
Deborah, 275.
James, 370.
Sarah, 370.
Prince (negro), 306
(3).
Proctor, Procter,
, 262, 263,
369.
Benjamin, 259, 260.
John, 24, 259, 267.
John, jr., 25.
Proctor, Joseph, 267
(2).
Thorndike, 259,
263, 369, 370.
Province Galley
(ship), 3, 104,
108.
Purinton, Loranah,
308.
Sarah* 217.
Putnam, , 96,
372.
Judge, 46.
Adelaide E., 381.
Albert E., 381.
Alfred, 209, 325.
Amos, 372.
Dr. Amos, 372.
Calvin, 381, 382.
Catherine, 45.
Charles, 325.
Charles O., 381.
Daniel, 185.
Edward Ernest,
382.
Elizabeth, 372.
Ella Florence, 381.
Ernest E., 381.
George F., 381.
George G., 201.
Hannah, 325, 372.
Horace, G., 381.
James Phillips,
372.
Capt. John, sr.,
. 365.
Jonathan, 375,378.
Lydia, 381.
Lydia A., 382.
Lydia P., 381.
Martha Page, 209.
Mary (Page), 209.
Matthew, 381.
Mehitable, 185.
Nathan, 372.
Nathaniel, 180,
267, 268, 361.
Orin, 381, 382.
Phineas, 381.
Ruth, 130.
Putney, Pudney, Bet-
sey, 319.
John, 39(2), 40.
John, sr., 38.
Jonathan, 40.
INDEX. 411
Putney, Jonathan, Ehoads, Rhodes, Rogers, John, 146.
jr., 40. , 270. Margaret, 146.
Nathaniel, 40. Anna, 276. Nathaniel, 146, 152
Willard, 319. Elizabeth, 276. Satira, 336.
Pynchon, Sarah, 48. Harriet, 270. Satira (Lesslie),
Henry, 276. 334.
Quarles, Elizabeth. Josiah, 276. Rolfe, Roffe, John,
46. Richardson, Allan, 148.
Francis, 46. 343. Mary, 148.
Nancy (Kennis- Allan Livermore, Rollins, Daniel, 95.
ton), 46. 343. Edward H., 95.
Quelch, Capt. John, Eliza, 347. Mary, 95.
214. Mary, 343. Samuel, 217.
Quiner, Betsey, 41. Richmond, Rev. J. P., Rooten, William, 272.
333. Ropes, Roppes, Eli/a-
ft ainborow, Edward, Ricker, Ellen Adelia, beth, 285.
36, 37. 52. George, 28, 29.
Rand, J. S., 309. Eliza, 163. Hannah, 289.
John, 237. Joanna Matilda, Mary, 29(2).
Randall, Anne, 51. 52. Nathaniel, 293.
Randlett, Betsey, Moses, 52. Richard, 289.
319. Rider, , 311. William, 289.
Randolph, Edward, Ripley, Sylvanus, Capt. Win., 297.
215. 245. Rose (negro), 306
Rantoul, Robert S., Risby, Patience, (2).
215. 252, 344. Ross, Roass, An-
Rawson, Edward, 73, Robbins, Robins, drew, 278(2).
76, 151. Thomas, 186, 187. Ezra, 240.
Raymond, Hannah, Robert and Martha, Mary Alley, 277,
358, 359. (sloop), 13-15. 278.
Lt. Joseph, 359. Roberts, , 94. Rotliff, Betty, 308.
Lydia, 219. Lavinia, 322. Roundy, Roundhee,
Rayner, Reiner, Rey- Margery, 88. , 298.
ney, Reynor, Mary A., 96. Capt. Charles, 298.
Humphrey, 145, Sarah, 163. Eloisa, 44.
150, 157. Robinson, , 204. Rousseau, Jane, 88.
Rea, Sarah, 370. General, 232. Margery (Rob-
Read, Reade, Esdras, Eleanor, 27. erts), 88.
65, 141. Elizabeth, 308. Peter, 88.
Ream (negro), 306. George, 26. Rowe, A. H., 346.
Redknap, Joseph, John, 26, 27, 142, Alfred, 346(2).
155. 180, 182, 221. Alfred Herbert,
Rehoboth, 214. Mary, 128. 346.
Remick, Harriet Patty, 96. Alfred Herman,
Newell, 91. Sarah, 26. 346.
Philip R., 91. Stephen, 96. Alice, 346.
Capt. William, 91. Timothy, 128. Barbara, 346.
Reynolds, Renalls, Zilphia, 221. Bertrand Charles,
Rennols, Renols, Robton, Rubton, 346.
George, 269. John, 180. Cedric, 346.
Henry, 186, 187. Rogers, , 60, 157, Eleanor, 346.
(2). 238, 289, 333. Elizabeth Gleason,
James, 269. Cornelius, 332, 346.
James E., 268. 336, 337. Elizabeth J., 216.
Thomas, 269. Jacob, 337. Emilie, 346.
412
INDEX.
Eowe, Henry Clay-
ton, 346.
Herman Leslie,
346.
Inez, 346.
Lewis, 346.
Lucy Caroline, 346.
Mabel, 346.
Mary I., 346.
Roger, 346.
Rowell, Edna, 349.
Leslie Eugene, 349.
Lester A., 349.
Mina, 349.
Mina Belle, 349.
Rowley, 133-135.
Royal, Mehitable
Brag-don, 221.
Otis, 221.
Ruck, Ruth, 289(2).
Samuel, 289.
Ruggles, Chief Jus-
tice, 246.
Bathsheba, 240.
Rumball, , 57.
Daniel, 183.
Rundlett, Achilla,
316.
Mehitable, 316.
Nancy (Staples),
316.
Oliver Atkinson,
316.
Russell, John, 310.
Phebe, 310.
Susanna, 197, 198.
William, 29(2),
182.
Saffin, John, 214(2)
Safford, , 204.
Hannah, 171.
John, 243.
Mary, 92.
Saihsbury, W. Noel,
214. ,;
St. John, James, 219.
Mary, 219.
Salem (negro), 306.
Salem, 23-40, 53-56,
135, 136, 177-196,
214, 361-382.
Salem Village, 257.
Salem Willows, 215.
Salisbury, 210.
Sallowes, John, 67.
Martha, 67.
Michael, 66 (2), 67
(2).
Robert, 67(2).
Samuel, 67.
Thomas, 67.
Saltonstall, Robert,
36, 37.
Samons, Remember,
40.
Sams, Thomas, 68.
Sanborn, Capt.,
Aaron, 173.
Abigail S., 175.
Ira, 175.
John, 174.
Mary (Barter), 173.
Phebe, 173.
Sandin, Arthur, 68.
Sanlieur, Marga-
rette, 347.
Sargent, , 130.
Betsey, 217.
Judith, 45.
Satchwell, Johan, 68,
69.
John, 68, 69.
Richard, 68, 69.
Theophilus, 69.
Saulin, Mannie H.,
347.
Saunders, Sanders,
Betsey, 343.
Charles, 367.
Elizabeth, 127,128
John, 75, 76, 79,,
127(2).
Savage, , 3.
Savory, Abigail, 228.
Sawtell, Oriella Co-
ra, 344.
Stephen Henry,
344.
Sawyer, Sawier, An-
na, 216, 316.
Aphiah T., 318.
Caroline F., 170.
Edward, 144.
Joseph C., 318.
Thomas, 170.
Scarlet, Skarlett,
Benjamin, 369,
370.
Hannah, 369.
Schulz, Eliza, 250.
John Henry, 250.
Scott, General, 50.
Andrew, 309.
Sarah, 317.
Scribner, Eliza, 96.
I., 96.
Scudder, Elizabeth,
26.
Thomas, 26(2).
Scullard, 'Sculler,
, 147.
Mary, 147, 148.
Samuel, 61, 146,
148.
Sarah, 147, 148.
Searle, Brintnall,
222.
Charles P., 382.
Elizabeth, 222.
Selfridge, Capt., 300.
Thomas O., 300.
Seney, Harris, 220.
Jean, 220.
Sever, , 286.
Sewall, Sewell, ,
128, 311.
Major, 370.
Samuel, 129.
Chief Justice Sam-
uel, 46.
Stephen, 3, 370.
Shatswell Sarah, 165.
Shaw, Sally, 165.
William, 26, 27.
Shawhan, Daniel,
229.
Shea, John, 382.
Shedd, , 306.
Sarah, 250.
Sheerar, Margaret,
235, 237.
Sheldon, Ephraim,
374.
Henry, 311.
Hephzibah, 373.
Rebecca, 373.
William, 373.
Shepard, Georgian-
na, 354.
James Stratton,
354.
Lettie V., 345.
Mary (Belcher),
354.
INDEX.
413
Sherman, Kev. Josi-
as, 43.
Short, Henry, 73,
143, 147, 148.
Shove, , 144(2).
Shrimpton, Edward,
59.
Shute, Gov., 283.
Sibley, Celia B., 328.
Siegesmond, Carl
August, 357.
Sophia, 357.
Sigourney, Andrew
W., 130.
Silver, Peter, 282.
Simonton, Ann, 221.
Simpkins, Deborah,
274.
Nicholas, 274.
Simpson, Caesar,
306.
Sinclair, Alice Zer-
viah, 322.
James Bell, 322.
Singleton, Catha-
rine, 227.
Skelton, , 379.
Skerry, Skery, Fran-
cis, 260.
Henry, 186.
William, 265.
Sleeper, Aaron, 173.
Polly P., 173.
Sluman, Mary, 285
(2).
Thomas, 285(2).
Small, Smale, John,
27(2).
Stephen, 27, 187.
Smethurst, John,
290.
Sarah, 290.
Smith, , 96, 175,
200, 314.
Abigail, 169.
Anna Jane, 30.
Adding, 311.
Benjamin, 283.
Capt. Benjamin H.,
316.
Betsey ( Sanders ) ,
343.
Delia Ann, 349.
Edith, 142.
Edith Dorcas, 349.
Smith, Edwin A.,
349.
Elizabeth, 200, 316.
Elzadia Moody,
343.
Ephraim, 200.
Ephraim J., 200
(2).
Hannah, 200.
John, 237, 238.
Joseph, 200.
Lois Coffin, 200.
Lucy E., 345.
Margaret, 330.
Mary, 200(2).
Nancy, 96.
Nathaniel, 200(2).
Obediah Colby, 343
Samuel, 283.
Sarah, 87, 88, 200.
Sidney, 333.
Rev. Sidney, 332.
Susannah, 357.
Thomas, 87, 88.
Virginia, 45.
William, 200.
Somerby, Somersby,
Somerbe, Antho-
ny, 150, 157.
Henry, 143.
Jane, 87.
Samuel, 87.
Sarah (Adams), 8 7
Soper, Caroline C.,
377.
Jeremiah, 377.
Souther, John, 274,
275.
Sarah, 274, 275.
Southerland, George
256.
South Rowley, 236.
Southwick, Sothwick,
Southerwicke,
George, 258.
John, 53, 54.
Josiah, 187(2).
Samuel A., 311(2).
Southwick & Sons,
307.
Spafford, Spofford,
Capt. Daniel, 133
Mehitable, 84.
Sparhawk, John, jr.,
367.
Spatchers, -, 116,
120.
William, 13-15, 120
Spaulding, Spolding,
Spouldyng, Ed-
ward, 141(2).
Justin, 256.
Spiller, Benjamin,
315.
Joanna, 315.
Mary, 315.
Nathaniel Grant,
315.
Samuel, 315.
Spooner, Bathsheba,
240.
John, 240.
Sprague, , 369.
Enoch, 290.
Stanton, , 283-
288.
Rev., 282(2).
Robert, 283.
Staples, Nancy, 316.
Starker, John, 312.
Lavina, 312.
Starr, , 113.
Stearns, Lucy, 249,
254, 255(2).
Stevens, , 312.
Philip, 312.
Prudence, 197.
Sadie Jane, 353.
Stickney, Stickne,
Jeremiah, 203.
Thomas, 239.
William, 144.
Stiles, Hannah, 312.
Stimpson, , 307.
Abigail, 320.
Andrew B., 307.
Inez, 346.
Stocker, , 54.
Stoddard, Solomon,
285.
Stone, , 306.
Robert, 26(2), 260,
261(2).
Samuel, 261(3).
Story, , 43, 44,
49.
Judge, 47, 48.
Adeline, 51.
Adeline Joanna,
52.
414
INDBX.
Story, Adella Ann,
52.
Adella Ann Mun-
son, 52.
Alfred, 45.
Ann Dana, 43, 45.
Anna Maria, 46.
Anne, 51.
Augustus, 43, 44
(2), 46(2).
Betsy, 41(2).
Caroline, 49(4).
Carrie E., 45.
Catherine, 45.
Charles Garrick
Hanmer, 52.
Charlotte, 45.
Charlotte F., 46.
Daniel, 41(2).
Dudley Bradstreet,
44(2).
Edith Marion, 49.
Edward, 45.
Edward Augustus,
25(2).
Eleanor Ingersoll,
41.
Elisha, 41, 45, 46
(2), 49, 50.
Dr. Elisha, 51.
Eliza Ann, 46.
Elizabeth, 41, 46
(2), 49.
Elizabeth Gorhani,
51.
Elizabeth Gray, 51.
Elizabeth Quarles,
46.
Ellen E., 45.
Emeline, 49.
Eunice, 45.
Francis Quarles,
46.
Francis W., 45.
Franklin Howard,
51(2).
Frederick Marion,
49.
Hannah, 44(2).
Hannah Bowen, 49
Helen Maria, 46.
Henrietta, 46.
Horace Cullen, 50,
51(2).
Story, Isaac, 41-44
(2), 49(3).
Isaiah, 41.
Joanna, 41, 43, 44.
Joanna Appleton,
45.
Joanna Matilda,
52.
John, 45(2).
John Fitz Henry,
45.
John Miller Rus-
sell, 45.
John Patten, 46
(2).
John R., 45.
John Ruddock, 45.
Joseph, 41, 46(2),
49(3).
Joseph Grafton, 52
(2).
Judith, 45.
Julian Russell, 49.
Louisa, 49.
Marie Louise, 51.
Marion Wain-
wright, 51.
Martha Ann, 52.
Mary, 45(2), 49.
Mary Bowen, 49.
Mary F., 45.
Mary Louisa Ade-
line, 46.
Mary Lynde, 48,
49.
Mary Oliver, 49.
Mehitable, 49.
Nancy, 45.
Rebecca, 43, 44(2).
Reuben Munson, 52
Robert Hartley, 52.
Robert Knight, 52.
Robert Randall, 52
(2).
Ruthey, 41.
Sally Elizabeth, 49.
Sally M., 49.
Sarah Waldo, 48,
49.
Sophia, 45.
Stephen White, 49
Susan Dana, 45.
Theodore Freling-
huysen, 52.
Thomas Waldo, 49.
Story, Thorndike, 49.
Virginia, 45.
William, 41, 43, 44
(2), 46(3), 51(3)
William Beale
Lewis, 52.
William Fetty-
place, 45, 49.
William Gray, 41.
William Norris, 52.
William Wetmore,
49.
Stower, Joanna, 280.
Mary, 280".
Richard, 280.
Streiby, Dr., 335.
Success (sloop), 101,
104.
Sullivan, General,
161.
William B., 382.
Sumatra (ship), 330.
Summerville, Agnes,
235.
Swain, Betsey, 359.
Jane ( Rousseau ) ,
88.
Swan, Elizabeth, 274
Swanson, Lucy, 312.
Swasey, Swazey, Am-
me, 289(2).
Appleton, 225.
Betsey Gage, 225.
John, 283.
Samuel, 289.
Sweeney, Edward,
306.
Swett, Curtis, 308.
Loranah (Purin-
ton), 308.
Lucy, 308.
Swicher, Michael, 281
Swift, General, 50,
51.
Swinerton, Hannah,
26.
John, 26.
Dr. John, 264.
Symmes, Simms,
, 284.
Hannah, 3.
Josias (negro),
109.
Richard, 3.
INDEX.
Symonds, , 143.
Benjamin, 287.
Elizabeth, 287(3).
James, 287.
Mark, 70, 71, 148-
150.
Samuel, 287.
Thomas, 287(3).
Talbot, Lucy Dent,
320.
Taliaferro, Kichard,
12, 119.
Taney, , 48.
Tapley, Asa, 377.
Daniel, 377.
Gilbert, 377.
Gilbert A., 377.
Jesse, 364, 377.
Nathan, 377.
Perley, 377.
Tarbell, Tarball, Tar-
veil, Cornelius,
376.
John, 374-378, 380.
Jonathan, 376.
Taunton, 214.
Taylor, Tailer, Abi-
gail, 176.
Elizabeth, 285,286
John, 285, 286(2).
Mary, 286, 308.
Mary Alice, 266.
Eachel, 173.
Samuel, 265.
William, 286.
Temple, Eev. Charles
321.
Lucretia A., 321.
Tenny, Bethiah, 81.
Thomas, 144.
Thayer, , 247.
Rev. John, 246.
Thomas, Abigail, 358
Azubah, 202.
Esther, 170.
James, 58.
John, 170.
Mary Eliza, 338(2)
Nathaniel, 130.
Robert B., 202.
Sarah, 130.
Thompson, Tompson,
, 307.
Abigail, 202.
Thompson, Mary, 309
Simon, 145.
Thorndike, John, 268.
Thome, John, 58(2).
Thrift, Samuel, 113.
Thurston, Ednah, 90.
Capt. Henry, 169.
Jane, 169.
Capt. Richard, 81.
Tibbetts, Tybot,
Mary, 202.
Tildisleg, Francis,
158.
Tiler, , 67.
Tilton, William, 64.
Tirrell, Jane, 224.
Jesse, 224(2).
John, 224.
Mary, 224.
Mollie, 224,
Titcomb, Titcombe,
, 150.
Isaac, 326.
Johan, 150.
Joseph, 322.
Mary, 322(2).
Sarah, 326.
Rhetta B., 326.
William, 150, 151.
Titus (negro), 306.
Todd, Anna (Saw-
yer), 316.
Anne, 316.
Hannah, 316.
James, 316.
Tompkins, Thomp-
kins, John, 183.
Mary, 269.
Tongue, Mary, 218.
Robert, 218.
Toppan, Abraham,
73, 76.
Susan, 73.
Susanna, 79.
Trask, Traske, Capt.,
258.
John, 34, 35, 187.
William, 35, 36.
Trott, , 113.
Governor, 113.
Ferryman, 113.
True, Abigail, 221.
Adna Dennison,
346.
Alma Pearl, 345.
True, Henry, 66.
Josiah, 221.
Miranda (Wither-
bee), 346.
Trull, Levi, 306.
Trumbell, John, 144.
Trustier, Eleanor,
188.
Thomas, 188.
Tucker, , 123,
124.
President, 245.
Alice Bradford, 358
Eunice, 265.
John, 67.
Jonathan, 265.
L. R., 358.
Turner, , 129, 130
Edward Kitchen,
30.
Elizabeth, 310.
Isaac, 284.
John, 130(2).
Col. John, 129.
Mary, 129(2), 130.
Nathaniel, 35, 36.
Tuttle, Harriet, 350.
Rebecca, 68.
Twiss, Isaac, 39.
William, 39.
Twist, Abigail, 287.
John, 287.
Upham, Ezra, 357.
Sally, 357.
Susannah, 357.
William, 267.
Upton, , 185.
Abiel, 312(2).
Abigail, 320.
David, 185.
Eben, 185.
Edward, 312.
Elizabeth, 312(2).
Ezra, 184, 185.
George, 312.
Jesse, 185(2).
John, 183, 184.
Lucy, 185.
Mary, 312.
Mehitable, 185.
Paul, 184.
Phebe, 185.
Samuel, 184.
William, 179, 184.
416
INDEX.
yeren, Verrin, Dor-
cas, 30-33.
Hilliard, 30.
Philip, 27(2), 30-
33, 186.
Very, Verry, Alice,
31, 32.
Benjamin, 30, 31
(2).
Elizabeth, 31, 32.
Jonathan, 287.
Mary, 287(2).
Samuel, 30-33, 297.
Vicary, George, 68.
Viles, Bowman, 181.
Gardner A., 181.
Hannah M., 181.
Virgin, Leavitt C.,
342.
Palmira Melinda,
342.
V^fade, Jonathan, 69
Wadleigh, Eunice
(Farnham), 176.
James, 176.
Nathaniel Farn-
ham, 176.
Sally Merrill, 176.
Wakefield, Samuel,
373.
Wainwright, Adeline,
51.
Eli, 51.
Mary (Pratt), 51.
Waite, Nathan, 291.
Walcott, Walcut,
, 130.
Freake, 130(2).
John, 265.
John Gardner, 265.
Josiah, 130(2).
Mary (Freake),
130.
Sarah, 265.
Waldo, Brig.-Gen., 49
Sarah, 48, 49.
Waldron, Pamelia,
95.
Walker, , 308.
Elizabeth (Wildes)
307.
Frederick William,
307.
George, 307.
Walker, George Al-
bert, 307.
Isaac Thomas, 307.
James, 225.
John, 307.
Mary Elizabeth,
307.
Ralph Lincoln, 307.
Ruth, 307.
Sarah, 225.
Waller, Christopher,
30.
Wally, , 238.
Walsh, Judith, 96.
Walter, 96.
Walter, Walters, Jos-
ephine, 351.
Richard, 57(2).
Walton, , 307.
Elizabeth (Dig-
gles), 307.
Samuel, 307.
William, 67, 68.
Ward, , 287, 297.
Artemas, 237(2).
Henry, 37.
Israel, 55.
Margaret, 37.
Mary G., 209.
Robert, 289.
Warden, , 303.
Ware, Darwin E.,
203.
Warren, Elizabeth
(Fields), 94.
Francis, 94.
John, 12, 119.
Mehitable, 94.
Washington, George,
161.
Levi, 249.
Martha, 249.
Washington (D. C.),
243.
Waters, , 212.
Alice, 346.
Alice G., 210.
Emilie, 346.
H. F., 2.
Watkins, Elizabeth,
268.
Watson, , 311.
Way, Richard, 30-33.
Webb, , 289.
Governor, 114.
Webb, Benjamin, 53.
Capt. Benjamin, 53
Daniel, 285.
Jane, 278.
Peter, 284.
Webster, , 69.
Abigail, 61.
Daniel, 47, 215.
Eliza B., 345.
Elizabeth, 61.
Hannah, 60.
Israel, 61.
John, 60(2), 61.
Mary, 60(2), 61.
Nathan, 60.
Stephen, 60.
Weeks, Weekes,
Wickes, Wikes,
Sally, 220.
Thomas, 57(2).
Weld, Bethia, 128,
129(2).
Dr. Daniel, 128,
129.
Wells, , 351.
Dora, 351.
Emma Leslie, 351.
Mary P., 351.
Mary Peake, 350.
Samuel, 350, 351.
William, 351.
Welsh, Ellen Hum-
bert, 322.
William MacKin-
tosh, 322.
Wendall, , 96(2).
West, Aaron, 339.
Betsey, 216.
Charles, 339.
Eliza A., 339.
Elizabeth, 339.
Elizabeth J., 339.
Elizabeth Maria,
339
George M., 339.
Hannah, 339.
Henry, 278 (2), 284,
285.
Jane, 223.
Jane A., 339.
Jennie, 339.
John, 339.
Leslie, 339.
Lucretia, 339.
Maggie, 339.
INDEX.
417
West, Mary L., 339.
Morris, 339.
Susannah, 284, 285.
William, 339(2).
West Ipswich, 236.
Westcott, Charles
Warren, 349.
Chester Eads, 349.
Clifford Walker,
349.
Cora Walker, 349.
Daisy, 349.
Lena May, 349.
Stanley Leslie, 349.
Thurman Cary,
349.
Winifred Eliza-
beth, 349.
Westgate, , 30.
Kuth, 30.
Wetmore, Judge Wil-
liam, 48.
Sarah Waldo, 48,
49.
Wheat, Frances, 162.
Wheatland, Dr. Hen-
ry, 213.
Wheaton, Frances
Ethel, 350.
Wheeler, Abigail,
224.
John, 224.
Wheelock, Kev., 245.
John, 245.
Whipple, Anna, 152.
Elizabeth, 152.
John, 152, 153.
Joseph, 152.
Mary, 152.
Matthew, 151-153.
Kose, 152.
White, Catherine E.,
357.
Elizabeth, 227.
Peter, 357.
Eebecca, 357.
Sarah, 310.
Whitefield, , 84.
Rev. George, 242.
Whitehouse, Agnes
L., 350.
Whiting, Dorothy, 63.
Elizabeth, 63.
Whitingham, , 70
Whitmore, Maj., 223.
Amos, 229.
Benjamin, 89.
Lydia, 223.
Martha, 89.
Whittaker, Whita-
ker, , 233.
Rev., 43.
Abraham, 68.
Whitwell, Charles
Edward, 43, 44
(2).
Charlotte, 44(2).
Eliza, 44.
Eloisa, 44.
Frederick A., 45.
Frederick Henry,
44.
Hannah, 43, 44(4).
Henry, 45.
Isaac Story, 43, 44.
Joanna Story, 44.
Lucy Tyler, 45.
Rebecca, 44(2).
Samuel, 44(3), 45.
Samuel, jr., 44.
Dr. Samuel, 45.
Samuel Horatio, 45
Sarah, 44.
Sophia, 44(2).
Sophia L., 45.
William, 43, 44(4).
Rev. William, 43.
William A., 43.
William Augustus,
44.
William Isaac, 44.
Wigglesworth, ,
238.
Edward, 285.
Wilbur, Caroline, 49.
Dorcas Fickett, 169
Silas J., 169.
Wilder, Marshall P.,
207.
Wildes, Elizabeth,
307.
Wilkins, Bishop, 303.
Abigail, 321.
Willamette (Ore-
gon), 330.
Willemore, William,
66.
Willet, Joanna (Fos-
dick) , 85.
Willet, Nathaniel, 85
Willey, Capt. Ed-
mund, 37, 38.
Margaret, 37(2).
Williams, Atwood,
341.
Esther, 282.
George, 67.
Isaac, 288.
Isaac, jr., 288.
Israel, 282.
John, 127.
Mary (Peake),341.
Mehitable, 341.
Sarah, 282, 285.
Thomas, 12, 119.
Willoughby, Abigail,
26.
Nehemiah, 26.
Wilson, Wilsone, Ed-
ward, 67(2).
Daniel, 323.
David, 96.
John, 323.
Margaret, 323.
Martha P., 269.
Moses W., 269.
Nancy, 96.
Nancy Horton, 323.
Robert, 30(2).
Theophilus, 153.
Winning, Alexander,
311.
Elizabeth (Par-
ker), 312.
John, 312.
Martha Caroline,
312.
Mary Ann, 312.
Mary Lizzie, 312.
Winship, Ann, Dana,
45.
Winthrop, , 3.
Judith, 36, 37(2).
Margaret, 37(2).
Stephen, 36, 37(2).
Wise, , 286.
Witherbee, Miranda,
346.
Withers, Hattie A.,
353.
Witt, Elizabeth, 202.
John, 64.
Wood, , 170.
Jabez S., 308.
418
INDEX.
Wood, John, 91.
Nancy, 170.
Sisly, 144.
Woodbridge, Hannah,
230.
Mary (Dole), 230.
William, 230.
Woodbury, Wood-
berie, Ann, 221.
Capt. Ebenezer,
221.
Edwin S., 346.
Elizabeth, 49, 221.
Elizabeth Gleason,
346.
Hngh, 221.
Laura, 253.
Sarah, 253.
William, 160.
Woodis, John, 32,
189-191.
Woodman, Edward,
61.
Jane, 93.
Richard, 155.
Woods, The (Salem),
177-196.
Woodworth, Sarah,
253.
Worcester, Worster,
Marquis de, 303.
Hepzebah, 199.
Moses, 199.
Sarah, 199.
Worthen, Abigail,
351.
Altie May, 351.
Eliza, 351.
Emma, 351.
Helen M., 233.
Helen Maria, 351.
Worthen, Samuel,
351.
Silas, 351.
Susan (Owen), 351
Wright, Lucretia, 339
Richard, 35, 36.
Wyat, Wyatt, Wiatt,
, 146.
John, 145, 146.
Wyman, , 311.
Young, Yongs,
140-142.
Christopher, 140-
142.
Joseph, 140, 141.
Mary, 141.
Sarah, 141.
Ewing, 332.
Young America
(ship), 324.
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