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ESSEX INSTITUTE 



HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



VOL. LIY 1918 




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SALEM, MASS. 

PRINTED FOR THE ESSEX INSTITUTE 
1918 



NBWOOMB & GAUSS, .PRINTERS 

SALEM, MASS. 



CONTENTS 



Andover, A Genealogical-Historical Visitation of, in the year 1863. 
By Alfred Poore, M. D. (Continued), . . . 138, 246 

Belknap, Henry W. Lambert Family of Salem, Mass. (Illustrated), 

49, 187 

Belknap, Henry W. The Wife of Thomas Lord of Hartford, 94 

Bentley, William, D. D. Diary of an old New England Minister 
(Illustrated), 1 

Boston and Lowell Railroad, Nashua and Lowell Railroad, and 
Salem and Lowell Railroad. By Francis B. C. Bradlee (Il- 
lustrated), 193, 321 

Bradlee, Francis B. C. The Boston and Lowell Railroad, Nashua 
and Lowell Railroad, and Salem and Lowell Railroad (Illus- 
trated), 193, 321 

Bradlee, Francis B. C. The Salem Iron Factory (Illustrated), 97 

Christie, Francis A. Diary of an old New England Minister (Illus- 
trated), 1 

Edmunds, John H. Documents relating to Marblehead, Mass., 

22, 181, 276, 317 

English Ancestry of the Stratton Family, .... 177 

Essex County, Mass., Newspaper Items relating to (Continued), 

188, 251 

Genealogical-Historical Visitation of Andover, Mass., in the year 
1863. By Alfred Poore, M. D. (Continued), . 138, 246 

Hathorne: Part of Salem Village in 1700. By Sidney Perley (Illus- 
trated), 115 

Howe, James, of Ipswich, and some of his Descendants. By M. V. 
B. Perley (Illustrated), 33, 145, 257, 853 

Lambert Family of Salem, Mass. By Henry W. Belknap (Illus- 
trated) 49, 187 

Lord, The Wife of Thomas, of Hartford. By Henry W. Belknap, 94 

Lowell Railroad, Boston and. By Francis B. C. Bradlee (Illus- 
trated), 193, 321 

Marblehead, Mass., Documents relating to. Copied by John H. 
Edmunds 22, 181, 276, 317 

Newspaper Items relating to Essex County, Mass. (Continued), 

188, 251 

(iii) 



IT CONTENTS 

Perley, Martin T. B. James Howe of Ipswich and some of his De- 
scendants (Illustrated), .... 33, 145, 257, 353 

Petley, Sidney. Center of Salem Village in 1700 (Illustrated), 225 

Perley, Sidney. Hathorne : Part of Salem Village in 1700 (Illus- 
trated) 115 

Perley, Sidney. The Plains : Part of Salem in 1700 (Illustrated), 289 

Poore, Alfred, M. D. A Genealogical-Historical Visitation of An- 
dover, Mass., in the year 1863 (Continued), . . 138, 246 

Salem in 1700, Part of : The Plains. By Sidney Perley (Illustrated), 

289 

Salem Iron Factory. By Francis B. C. Bradlee (Illustrated), 97 

Salem Village in 1700, Center of. By Sidney Perley (Illustrated), 

225 

Salem Village in 1700, Part of : Hathorne. By Sidney Perley (Illus- 
trated), 115 

Stratton Family, English Ancestry of, 177 




REV. WILLIAM BENTLEY, 0. D. 

1759-1819 
From the portrait by Frothingham owned by Peabody Museum, Saler 



HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 

OF THE 

ESSEX INSTITUTE 

VOL. LIV. JANUARY, 1918. No. 1 

THE DIARY OF AN OLD NEW ENGLAND 
MINISTER.* 



BY FRANCIS A. CHRISTIE, OF THE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, 
MEADVILLE, PENNA. 

The morbid emotional self-consciousness of such a jour- 
nal as David Brainerd's was not likely to find imitation 
in the active seaport society of Salem. But journals were 
kept there. Hawthorne began one at the tender age of 
twelve with the motive of self-improvement in expression, 
and the practised ease he gained appears in the later note- 
books, which are cherished illustrations of his grave and 
graceful style as well as of the artist's propensity to 
transmute experience into symbol and dream. The Salem 
boy doubtless did not know that his most eminent elder 
townsman was an indefatigable diarist, jotting down in 
careless, awkward language matter not meant for an 
imaginative version of life. Certainly too the older 
Salem diarist was not recording his spiritual condition. 
The Reverend William Bentley, a short and portly cler- 
gyman, living an unhampered celibate life, was wont to 
close days of phenomenal industry by hasty and incisive 
records of event and comment. After his vigorous walk 

The Diary of William Bentley, D. D., Pastor of the East Church, 
Salem, Mass., 4 vols. Published by The Essex Institute. Vol. 1, 
1905, pp. xliii, 456; Vol. II, 1907, pp. 506; Vol. Ill, 1911, pp. 601; 
Vol. IV, 1914, pp. 737. 

(1) 



2 THE DIARY OF 

in the early morning he had stood at a desk all the fore- 
noon working on sermons and correspondence, on manu- 
script text-books in science or languages, on scripture 
commentaries, local history, critical reviews of books 
read, on bi-weekly summaries of home and foreign news 
to be printed in the newspapers, on parochial records 
minutely exact as to family occupation and personal cir- 
cumstance. Other hours were given to private pupils, to 
parish visits, to care of the poor and sick, to catechizing 
the young or attending the School Board, or to watching 
with an eager and accurate eye every detail of local indus- 
try, politics, health, and weather. An unflagging curi- 
osity made him familiar not only with the virtues and 
vices of his community, but also with twenty languages, 
ancient and modern, and therefore with the ways of men 
afar in space and time. In the evening he was occasion- 
ally something like a University Extension lecturer, and 
when he got to his bedtime-diary he did not relax into 
sentimental self-contemplation. His attention was still 
on the not-self. In youth, to be sure, he had begun to 
make record of his moral experiences, but after some 
hundreds of pages had abandoned the practice. " Cool 
reflection told me a few devout prayers, and well con- 
ceived reflections were better than whole volumes of con- 
fessions of feelings and vanity. Passion should be de- 
scribed, not lamented. Resolutions should be noticed not 
as made but kept" (Diary, II, 277). 

Introspection, then, finds no place in the four substan- 
tial volumes of diary, which cover a period of thirty-five 
years (1784-1819). Even when unhappy relations with 
his father and brothers extort expressions of pain and 
vexation, he is brief and objective, recording painful 
facts but not his self-pity. Eager he was, undoubtedly, 
for public recognition of his abilities and accomplish- 
ments, but he is silent about praise, and leaves unmen- 
tioned an honor conferred by a Pennsylvania college, and 
the handsome offer of the Presidency of the University 
of Virginia. When at his life's end Harvard College 
tardily bestowed the degree of Doctor of Divinity, he 
records the event and the fact that his heterodoxy had 
been an obstacle, but he made not the slightest comment. 



AN OLD NEW ENGLAND MINISTER. 3 

Undoubtedly too he was a man of warm and tender 
affections, but only rarely did he yield to their sweet 
pressure when the diary was opened. Once indeed he 
did, with words of touching, unselfish solicitude, record- 
ing the marriage of his dear young pupil and friend, 
Hannah Crowninshield, and again when Captain Benja- 
min Hodges was taken with a bleeding of the lungs : " I 
never was more alarmed. I never before felt such sym- 
pathy. My tears flowed silently but plentifully. As I 
resisted them the waves rose." These volumes reveal 
many things about the wealth and poverty of the com- 
munity, yet they all but conceal his own anxieties from 
financial hardship and wholly ignore his own persistent 
benevolences which made the hardship more painful. The 
very omissions reveal the finer traits of the man. Surely 
a sensibility deep and fine lay back of his cherished reti- 
cence, his seemingly complete absorption in outward 
things of social progress, his collector-passion for coins, 
medals, curiosities,, portraits, and engravings, and his 
obsession by an interest in genealogies. Some senti- 
ments were inhibited by a Stoical ideal. In verses (for, 
being without a sense of humor, he occasionally indulged 
in doggerel), a young lady, who asked why he neglected 
to marry, is told : 

" Reason I followed ; 
But without fire, Love's but a name ; 
Reason is cool, deliberate, wise ; 
'Tis only passion fans the flame " (1, 82). 

Cool, deliberate, wise ; therefore, whatever his preju- 
dices, a man of large and generous policy. The revival- 
istic preaching of Spaulding, a clerical neighbor, was 
anathema to him, but he urged the negroes of Salem to 
attend it, since it was suited to their temperament, and 
he regretted the final institution of a separate meeting 
for negroes (IV, 621). Wholly averse to the system of 
the Episcopalians, he was a genuine friend and neighbor 
to them. When Bishop Seabury passed through Salem, 
Bentley politely got himself presented (I, 268), and A. 
V. Griswold, Bishop of Rhode Island, on being coldly 



4 THE DIARY OF 

received by the Salem rector, found cordial hospitality 
in Bentley's home. The conspicuous illustration of this 
temper is shown by his relations to the Catholics. Sig- 
nificantly, it was to him that the Rev. John Thayer, a 
Yale graduate converted to Romanism, appealed in 1790 
for a list of Salem Catholics and for aid in finding a 
place for worship. Bentley secured co-operation and pro- 
tection from the selectmen and wrote in reply : " It is 
my desire that every man enjoy his religion not by tolera- 
tion, but as the inalienable right of his nature " (I, 162). 
Thayer was a presumptuous and cantankerous guest of 
Bentley for several days, even expecting his host to be 
Responsor in the Mass and to arrange for the sale of a 
batch of propagandist Catholic pamphlets which he left 
at his departure (I, 165). While glad to be rid of this 
uncomfortable missionary, Bentley readily aided the 
Spanish Consul and Dr. Francis Matignon in establishing 
Catholic worship in Boston, securing a contribution of 
fifty dollars from a family in his own parish. " We 
ought," he notes, " to do everything which can encourage 
the liberality in France and Spain by which the Protestant 
religion may be more fully tolerated" (III, 23). In 1803 
Bishop Carroll of Maryland, with two priests, one of 
them being Cheverus, gave him pleasure by a visit in 
Salem (III, 55), and in 1811 Bishop Cheverus, again a 
welcome guest, had Bentley for an auditor at a sermon 
which the Protestant pastor enjoyed and approved (IV, 
20). At a later time the Catholics of Salem were grate- 
ful for Bentley's trouble in procuring a hall for their 
celebration of the Mass (IV, 552). When an Irish 
pauper died in the poor house, Bentley conducted the 
funeral, conscientiously using such scripture as the Roman 
Breviary provided, and resorted to Bourdaloue and Mas- 
sillon for the sermon. On the same day he entertained 
two Catholic Indian chiefs of the Penobscot tribe, and at 
parting gave them from his cabinet a crucifix, two mass- 
books, and plaster images (IV, 502). In view of the 
sturdy intensity of his rationalistic convictions, these inci- 
dents evidence a generous ability to transcend prejudice. 
Moral guardian of a parish and having a mind habit- 
uated to expression by incessant practice, Parson Bentley 



AN OLD NEW ENGLAND MINISTER. 5 

did not fail to provoke resentment. Strength of conscience 
gave him calm, unyielding courage in the personal diffi- 
culties resulting from a sermon in 1788, when he pro- 
tested against the violation of law by a ship's clearing 
for the slave trade (I, 104, 105, 106, 123) ; but there 
were other episodes which led him to resolve on " pru- 
dence in my conversation and great caution in my at- 
tachments " (1, 119). After five years of ministerial 
experience, he emphatically determines to use cautious 
self-restraint, to " join the serpent to the friendly re- 
prover " (I, 134), and he records the sober calculation 
which made him enter into friendships which would other- 
wise be uncongenial (I, 177 ; IV, 290). This discipline 
of self in public intercourse accounts, perhaps, for many 
things in the diary. Salem households accustomed by 
tradition to look back on Dr. Bentley with profound 
veneration have been scandalized by the gossiping dis- 
respect and caustic ascerbity of these notes. The reader's 
attention passes over the words of praise given to neigh- 
bors and parishioners as a thing expected, but is startled 
by such acidities as the obituary comment, " all sense 
but common sense " (I, 38), or the verdict, " not a man 
for God, or for society, and his passions make him terri- 
ble to himself " (I, 169), or the comment on a colleague 
in the School Committee, " the monkey shows his tail " 
(IV, 7), or again, " a fanatic of the first chop " (IV, 54), 
" Morse and his gang " (IV, 130), a true brat of the 
troublesome father " (IV, 526). Political partisanship and 
theological animus inspired many paragraphs of con- 
temptuous or hostile disparagement. It was a time when 
men were embroiled, and the era of good feeling later 
brought corrections and reconciliations. In all instances, 
too, we may reflect that this lonely celibate, deprived of a 
listening domestic ear, needed a safety valve for the arti- 
ficial repression prudently adopted out of doors. The 
diary was such an escape from unnatural tension. 

In 1790 Salem was relatively a place of importance, 
with a population of 7,921, about half that of Boston. 
In theory 1,277 persons were supposed to worship in the 
East Church, though the church could not hold them all. 
The large numbers of young people in Dr. Bentley's 



6 THE DIARY OF 

catechizing classes show that he was in fact pastor to the 
whole district, though few indeed were the actual com- 
municants sixteen in 1785 (I, 20), and sixty-three in 
1802 (II, 408). There were long-standing historical 
reasons in this neighborhood for this decline of the 
ecclesiola in ecclesia, but it marks also a decline in spirit- 
ual experience. The absorbing interests of politics and 
war at the end of the colonial period had been followed 
by a time of lethargy and moral weakness, particularly 
among the men, old and young. In 1808 Bentley notes 
that " all the Congregational Churches in Boston have 
not so many male members as one Church half a Century 
ago did contain " (III, 382), and in 1813, commenting 
again on this fact, he reflects that " the passions are sel- 
dom admitted to be doorkeepers " (IV, 152). In the 
ninety years of its history before 1808 the East Church 
of Salem had only fifty-eight male members, though the 
women counted four times that number (III, 382). In 
1809, out of resentment at the minister's politics, the 
only male communicant besides the Warden left to join 
another society and the Warden staid at home. Bentley 
made a sad appeal to his hearers " not to leave him and 
a reputable Church of females unsupported " (III, 473). 
The parishioners were coopers, ropemakers, black- 
smiths, carpenters, shoemakers, a few shopkeepers, many 
mariners, of whom fifty-nine were captains of vessels, and, 
because of the perils of the sea, there were many widows 
(I, 222). A large proportion were house-owners, and 
several families were of large wealth. In older Salem 
parishes there was still greater wealth. William Gray 
amassed three millions, but that fortune was transferred 
to Boston. The ship-owner, Elias Haskett Derby, dying 
in 1799, left an estate of a million dollars, and his son 
Richard, making the grand tour in Europe, was received 
at foreign courts, and came home laden with works of 
art (III, 55). In 1817 Captain Forrester died as the 
richest man in Salem, with an estate of $1,400,000 (IV, 
463). In 1815 George Crowninshield, Bentley's own 
parishioner, professed to have loaned a million to the 
United States treasury. The average conditions were 
surely comfortable in a town which voted to tax itself 



AN OLD NEW ENGLAND MINISTER. 7 

$6,000 for the expense of funeral honors to George 
Washington (II, 327). In the exceptional time of the 
great embargo in 1809 there was a temporary distress., 
The richer citizens met the emergency with a soup-house 
at which a thousand applicants were well fed (III, 412, 
414), and a fund was raised to supply each one with a 
loaf of bread a day. William Gray gave two barrels of 
flour a week and stood ready to give one a day (III, 409). 
At all times, indeed, there were straitened households 
where the cruel sea made so many widows. A few rich 
citizens seem to have provided perhaps inadequately 
the thousand or so dollars a ye&r raised for their relief 
(IV, 371, 499), and some of them made the warm- 
hearted Bentley the agent of their philanthropy (III, 
139, 140, 141). Improvidence and intemperance brought 
some to the Charity House ; but in those days of churches 
which had been town churches the minister was a familiar 
guest there and the inmates had seats in the church. 

In spite of the general ease, the occasional distin- 
guished wealth, and the ready philanthropy, Salem was 
reprehensible in the support of its ministers. As an 
associate pastor Bentley began with a salary of 130 
($433.), and as sole pastor had 160 ($530.), which in 
1804 was raised to S800. (Ill, 108). This was, as Bent- 
ley observes in 1817, " one of the smallest in Essex " (IV, 
490). The salary at the North Church was $1,200. In 
1817 he had cause to feel the insufficiency of salary, for 
at that time food and fuel were exceptionally dear (com- 
pare the market prices (IV, 434). On coming to Salem 
Bentley had been promised a "settlement" of 200, one- 
half being paid at once, the rest being due after a year. 
At that time such a settlement was advantageous as capi- 
tal, owing to the rapid increment of wealth, but twenty 
years later this had ceased to be the case, and ministers 
preferred a larger annual salary without the initial settle- 
ment (III, 168). However, the second instalment of 
Bentley's settlement was never paid, and in 1817, after 
his long and eminent service, the parish owed him not 
only the hundred pounds but salary for two years, or 
$2,000 in all. In addition the minister had had to pay 
part of the cost of the church music, and only gifts from 



8 THE DIARY OP 

friends had saved him from immediate suffering (IV, 
484, 490). The over-generous minister waived half of 
the debt, but with extraordinary meanness the congrega- 
tion, on hearing of these private donations, deducted 
them from the parochial debt and paid him only $800. 
(IV. 496). It is easy to imagine the difficulty for a man 
with dependent relatives, an impulsively generous friend 
of the poor, and a passionate collector of expensive for- 
eign books. 

The activity of the pastor of the East Church was not 
confined to his parish. He was an apostle of culture. 
From his other merciless industry he found time for 
private pupils, in some cases for charity's sake, and in 
the School Committee he showed, no doubt, an irrepressi- 
ble zeal that could hardly be restrained to the just limits 
of a member's share in counsel. He was as strenuous 
about style of penmanship and methods of teaching spell- 
ing as he was in the issues of national politics and 
spelling seems to be the beam in his own eye. On his 
arrival in Salem in 1783 there was only one public school, 
containing both the elementary grade and the "Grammar" 
School which prepared for college. These students of 
Latin were few, seven in 1792, but the number seems to 
vary with the efficiency of the teacher. A considerable 
list of Latin authors was read, while Greek seems to be 
studied only for the sake of the New Testament (I, 275, 
399 ; II, 12, 31, 146, 215). The course which Bentley 
provided for his private pupil, Charles Jackson, in 1787, 
covered English Grammar, Rhetoric, Literary History, 
the range of Latin authors now read in school and col- 
lege combined, and something of the realia of ancient art 
and science. But nothing more 1 In the common public 
school teaching was limited to the three R's, the girls 
attending only from eleven to twelve, or in summer, when 
days were longer, also from four to five in the afternoon 
(III, 39). School development was rapid. Already in 
1791 there were four public schools with five teachers (I, 
275), and in 1803 the attendance was about six hundred, 
half of them girls. Before 1805 the common school 
teacher's salary was a beggarly hundred dollars, but then 
$150. was demanded. The Grammar School master was 



AN OLD NEW ENGLAND MINISTER. 9 

better off with $500. (in 1796, II, 175). The heart of 
pity goes out to the woman teaching a country school for 
four shillings sixpence a week and clamoring for a living 
wage of ten and six, or seventy-two cents more than her 
weekly board (III, 230). Private schools were equally 
numerous, four in 1798, and the new ones added in 1803 
and 1804 engaged masters at the respectable salaries of 
$1100. and $900. (Ill, 2, 92). 

This was not a democratic system of education, but 
democracy in Salem was not yet. It was a long climb 
from the lower level of popular culture to the intellectual 
life of the " educated," and the fact has its bearings on 
the ecclesiastical history of the town. In the higher 
circles there were men of eminent ability, not only those 
who, like the Pickerings and Crowninshields or Judge 
Story, rose to high public station in the nation's life, but 
also some men of marked scientific talent, like Captain 
Gibaut and Nathaniel Bowditch. To Bentley, who was 
over-conscious of his own academic privileges, Bowditch 
was objectionable as a self-taught youth and the unlawful 
heir of a fame that should have been Gibaut's, but in the 
end Bowditch's great mathematical eminence and his 
remarkable scientific library dominated the parson with 
respect. Lawyers and doctors were a learned class, but 
Bentlej' is dubious concerning the scholarship of the clergy 
both in Salem and elsewhere. We seem to be always 
hearing of a decline in clerical scholarship, of old and now. 
So Bentley looked back to the ministers of an older day 
as of higher learning (III, 88, 189) : " I know not one 
Hebrew Scholar in New England, nor one Orientalist. . . . 
In Theology, few are acquainted with any but the few 
books of the day, and no Ecclesiastical Historian do I 
know that has consulted the best writers of this descrip- 
tion." This was said in 1805. Soon, indeed, he found 
foretokens of a day of scholarship and intellectual life. 
He seemed to know the importance of the enterprise of 
Welles, scholarly bookseller in Boston, who in 1806 made 
the first importation, not on orders but for general sale, 
of German classical and critical works. The great efflo- 
rescence of New England culture which came in part 
from the invasion of this new interest was a promised 



10 THE DIARY OP 

day into which Bentley was not to enter, but the histo- 
rians of it have reason to think of Bentley in connection 
with it. His correspondence with European scholars 
enabled him to furnish George Ticknor with letters of 
introduction in 1815, and in that year also Edward Ever- 
ett, appointed to the college chair that was " to connect 
Greek Literature with Biblical Criticism," promptly in- 
formed Bentley that the subject of his inaugural oration 
would be the authority of the Homeric poems. Remem- 
bering Emerson's great passage about the birth of a Peri- 
clean age for New England which began with Everett's 
exposition of Wolff and Heyne, attention underscores the 
entry : I sent him Wolf and Heyne " (IV, 319). (Note : 
The text has Heman ; a probable error.) 

Indications of the growth of culture are abundant in 
the diary of this devotee of knowledge. On his travels 
he was keenly interested in the rise of circulating and 
public libraries (II, 49). A circulating library was 
opened in Salem in 1790, consisting chiefly of novels and 
works of science. When sold and dispersed in 1818 this 
had nearly seven thousand volumes (I, 136 ; IV, 546). 
Of earlier origin Salem had also a small " Social Library" 
and a joint stock Philosophical Library, a share in which 
cost Bentley .9 and involved annual assessments not 
inconsiderable (I, 151, 152, 369). In 1810 these two 
were joined in the Salem Athenaeum, the standards of 
which may be judged from the purchases it made at the 
sale of J. S. Buckminster's books in 1812: "Stephens 
Thesaurus for 225 dollars, Wettstein 50, D. Griesback 25 
D." (IV, 112). Rich families, Derby and Pickering, im- 
ported European books, and Bowditch had a collection of 
mathematical works unsurpassed elsewhere (IV, 444) ; 
but the richest private library was Bentley's own, nearly 
half of which he gave to Allegheny College, then recent- 
ly founded in the village of Meadville, Pennsylvania. 
The oldest college building fittingly bears the name of 
Bentley Hall. He loved to acquire books, he loved to 
make presents of them ; poetry to young ladies, sermons 
and the like to adults (I, 19, 40, 63, 97, 111). 

Bentley's interests were versatile and included the arts. 
As a local historian he prized the portraits of old worthies, 



AN OLD NEW ENGLAND MINISTER. 11 

but he had a critical appreciative taste for the manner as 
well as the subject of a painting. He knew what painters 
were " wretched daubers at best " (III, 470). His hosta 
knew that exhibition of their engravings made entertain- 
ment for him, and a secular dissipation in Boston consist- 
ed for him in the critical inspection of the religious paint- 
ings in churches, the portraits in the Court House, the 
works of art in Bowen's Museum. Popular interest in 
painting began in Salem when E. H. Derby brought from 
Italy a Neapolitan named Corne, who made an indifferent 
living by indifferent portraits and exhibitions of pano- 
ramas. Having no originality, he copied his panoramic 
scenes from engravings. His best success was in his 
painting of ships. " In every house we see the ships of 
our harbour delineated for those who have navigated 
them. Painting before unknown is now common among 
our children " (III, 68, 275, 481). The pupils, however, 
did not arrive at fame. One became a sign-painter, 
another died early from drink, and Hannah Crowninshield 
married. Music made greater progress, and a chapter in 
the history of music in America might be written from 
the profuse entries of the diary concerning hymnody, 
choirs, and singing-schools. The minister's interest in 
music is ardent and constant, but his taste is for music 
that shows only moderate improvement on the bald har- 
monies of Puritanism. An ampler development began 
when in 1797 a music teacher, Holyoke, formed a society 
for instrumental music. " Music has ever been low in 
this place," Bentley had said, but now it was no longer 
true (II, 247 ; III, 292). The day came at last when 
there was an Oratorio of Sacred Music in the First 
Church, December 1, 1812, and the clerical connoisseur 
pens an acute criticism. In December, 1817, the Salem 
Handel Society is more successful, and repeats the per- 
formance a month later (IV, 135, 492, 496). After that 
the oratorio was an annual affair, a solemn affair, indeed, 
with the clergy presiding. Bentley knew that music was 
a civilizing influence. " Our fathers mistook the power 
of Musick for the work of the Devil, when if theyhad taught 
the Indians music and made violent agitation accompa- 
nying shouts, clapping of hands as in David's time, they 



12 THE DIARY OP 

might have done more to gain the Indians than by all 
their practices " (IV, 560). Bentley never saw grand 
opera. 

All these are high things, and what of play ? Certainly 
life was not tame and monotonous. There was the thrill 
of maritime adventure and the tales of captains home 
from the Mediterranean or the Orient. There was the 
turbulence of politics through the hot passions of Feder- 
alists and Republicans. There wa6 the spectacle of Na- 
poleonic wars abroad, the pinch of Berlin and Milan 
decrees felt at home, the excitement of the Embargo, the 
approach and the anxious experience of war. All this is 
in the diary, but also the chronicle of amusements. This 
avid observer of life lists the " puerile sports " of New 
England the succession of skating and sledding, marble 
time, tops in April, shuttlecock in May, then bat and ball 
and rickets, kites in autumn, and finally football for adults, 
though " the bruising of shins has rendered it rather dis- 
graceful to those of better education " (I, 254). No 
dry-as-dust this bookish celibate, this caustic moralist. 
He seems to be saying, Mirth, admit me of your crew ! 
How many picnics of young folks he managed, leader of 
what he styles their gambols ! He frowns on the low 
tavern-drinking, dancing, and gambling of election day 
(II, 92), but watches with serene pleasure the innocent 
mirth with which Marblehead makes holiday after ordain- 
ing its new minister, noting the fishermen at athletic 
sports, and the free negroes merry at their dancing (II, 
397). And shall not the heirs of Puritanism dance ? It 
was a vexed question. Militia balls had long been known, 
and balls for the birthdays of Washington and Adams. 
Most towns in fact had Assembly Halls for dancing, and 
our pastor inspects them on his travels (e.g., II, 17, 232). 
All this, however, implies a world that had slipped from 
Puritan control. But even this minister indulgently con- 
nives at a dancing-class for sea-captains' daughters, under 
prudent regulations (1789, I, 81), and resents the local 
gossip censorious of the dance permitted in Captain 
Boardman's house (I, 119, 122). His artistic eye finds 
pleasure at sight of a circle of girls dancing. " How 
beautiful if this exercise were only a domestic amuse- 



AN OLD NEW ENGLAND MINISTER. 13 

ment " (II, 296). In truth it is a valued accomplish- 
ment. " It were to be wished that it made a part in every 
education for more reasons than one, and that it might not 
be overrated '' (I, 176). In 1798 a marked change came 
over Salem society. Two dancing-schools came into 
existence, one of them conducted by a prudent English 
gentleman married to a daughter of the musician Hoi- 
yoke, and therefore to be trusted by social circles to which 
he belonged. Whereas formerly only one family of the 
East Church went to an assembly, every ball and assem- 
bly now drew many, especially the ball of Mr. Turner's 
dancing-class. In 1801 the minister records that all fam- 
ilies are agog with expectation of the dancing-school ball. 
" The great attention shews that the subject is not very 
familiar to us " (II, 268, 322, 401). Three years later 
the clergyman feels it an honor to be invited to Turner's 
ball (III, 120), but he knows the limits of professional 
propriety and censures the Boston clergyman who is 
rumored to have taken part in a set dance. " A violation 
of the antient rule ought not hastily to have been prac- 
tised. Archbishop Fenelon would have told him, let them 
dance, but do not dance yourself " (II, 363). Let them 
dance but Puritan reluctance lingers. Mr. Nathaniel 
West's ball for the younger children of the dancing-class 
was "at the request of his wife " (II, 372). Would Mr. 
West describe so meekly the conjugal pressure? 

But the theatre ! For that too threatens to invade 
Puritan precincts. In 1792 Salem is agitated by rumors 
of that which agitates Boston the demand for a theatre, 
the united opposition of the clergy, the strife of opinions, 
the plea of one that pulpit dullness could be corrected by 
lessons of the stage, the Rev. Dr. Beattie's severe re- 
joinder that the theatre is not the School of Divines, the 
Governor's final order that the Sheriff shall obstruct the 
theatre as a direct violation of law (I, 340, 414, 415). 
A few months later Bentley hears that a French opera has 
been performed in Boston : " a curious progress of the- 
atrical exhibitions, which it has been said are intended to 
assist the pulpit." The Boston theatre came to pass in 
December, 1793, and Bentley nihil humani alienum 
kept informed as to its prospects, its choice of plays, the 



14 THE DIARY OF 

merits of the actors. Visiting Boston in 1795, he makes 
a daytime inspection of the interior of the theatre. It 
is a pleasant building, but he has seen no other theatre 
and withholds his judgment (II, 127). Vain are the 
efforts made to induce clergymen to attend performances. 
" They feel the Compliment of a Visit to the Theatre, as 
our Country Gentlemen used to receive the news of a 
Visit to their Minister " (II, 132). 

Salem itself was in danger. Even while Boston was 
fighting the innovation (1792), strolling actors came to 
Salem " to act comic, sing sailor's songs, and dance jigs 
for the amusement of all who will pay three shillings," 
and an audience of one hundred was well pleased. This, 
Bentley saw, was the entering wedge. An actress, Mrs. 
Solomon, was there in 1794, " complimented upon her 
performing a Low character very well " (II, 80), and on 
March 3 a series of performances began, passionately ad- 
vocated and eagerly expected by some, so that tickets 
" afforded matter for profitable speculation." Bentley 
learns that the acting is not notable, and records that 
after a few performances the company broke up, " all of 
them loaded with debts they will never discharge " (II, 
81). Again in 1797 a series of mean performances failed 
after eight nights, chiefly because the people " have not 
the money to spare so often as three times a week." The 
difficulty is economic, not moral, but Bentley could not 
approve even a schoolmaster's dramatic exhibition, since 
it ** tended to introduce a love of the theatre and to form 
those manners which we ought to detest. Our manners 
change and our evils will multiply " (II, 299). Yet was 
it so? His opinion wavered later. Chronicling balls and 
theatres, he felt constrained to admit that " whatever be 
our fears, the town never had less open vice in it than at 
the present time " (II, 401). But he did not surrender. 
After an ironical note of the praise of horse races and 
theatres as revivals of Greek civilization, he concludes : 
" Everything of this nature may be relatively good, es- 
pecially when congenial with national manners and edu- 
cation. The theatre and the race were refinements upon 
savage customs among the Greeks. With us they are 
triumphs over the character which our country has been 



AN OLD NEW ENGLAND MINISTER. 15 

taught to love. In one case they exalt " (IV, 59). The 
reader can extend that sentence. 

We infer, then, a simple, grave, and relatively innocent 
society beginning to enter upon higher intellectual life 
and relaxing its prejudices against worldly amusements. 
Over against this we must set revelations of the vice of 
drunkenness which are appalling. Bentley himself is 
evidently appalled. No Puritan tradition vetoed indul- 
gence. When the East Church was enlarged in 1770, the 
Church Committee contracted to furnish the workmen 
with thirty gallons of rum. " On Wednesday (August 
22, 1787), we had a funeral celebrated in the Church of 
England, quite in West Indian taste. The Singers were 
Bacchinalians from Marblehead, who were entertained 
with punch in the Organ loft, which gave the true air 
to their music, to the no small satisfaction of the devout 
men who gave the invitation" (I, 72). As is well known, 
intemperance came in like a flood with the Revolution, 
the temperance reform came after Bentley's death. 
The indices of these four volumes are inadequate for 
measuring all the painful facts recorded. Young and 
old, rich and poor, men and women are victims of alcohol. 
Many are the accidental deaths due to the scourge. 
Drowned at last, says Bentley in one case. Many the 
insanities and suicides. Alienists who now emphasize 
the connection of insanity with intemperance will find 
data for their thesis in these records. The evil went on 
increasing over the country because of " the little retail- 
ing shops which offer the temptation " (IV, 501). 

Would that the diarist's fixed determination and dis- 
ciplined habit had been at times relaxed that we might 
read his heart more deeply than is allowed by the sharp 
brief comments made for the relief of fretting cares in 
these wearier hours at the close of day. Did not his 
valiant hope and faith have to strain against a world 
crude and sordid as seen by the vision of the world his 
energies sought to build ? Is there not something wistful 
and sad masked behind the resolute, confident, eager 
vitality of his portrait ? What gospel had the good par- 
son for our raw human material that is so resistant to 
the form of spiritual personality ? As a young man he 



16 THE DIAKY OF 

championed an advanced radicalism, the earlier Arminian- 
ism of his neighborhood having developed, in his case, 
into an eighteenth century Rationalism held with a sharp 
definition and explicitness that was uncommon in America. 
His elder colleague at once censured him for spreading 
new doctrine (I, 23), and much later (1808) the Salem 
Q-azette from political animosity, to be sure linked his 
name with that of Thomas Paine. Lending a work by 
the Deist Tindal and Ethan Allen's Oracles of Reason 
made him suspected of a more pronounced infidelity 
(I, 82). Such books did not represent his mind. Like 
his intimate friend James Freeman, he had at the outset 
of his career set aside the doctrine of the Trinity and 
adopted the humanitarian view of Jesus ; yet he was a 
Bible Christian, reading the Bible with the sympathies of 
ethical Rationalism. He was in the beginning enough of 
a propagandist to distribute Hazlitt's sermons and other 
English Unitarian literature which he received from Haz- 
litt He gave most favor to minor tracts of Priestley, 
which he recommended to his friend Hodges as contain- 
ing " all you may want to know of the simple doctrines 
of Christianity. Your own good heart will supply the 
rules for practice " (I, 111). This sympathy with Priest- 
ley and Freeman shows us his attitude to doctrine. The 
attitude of soul, which is more significant than doctrinal 
apprehension, is revealed by his custom of giving to every 
catechumen Zollikofer's Exercises of Piety, " which had 
been printed at my request " (II, 191). Doubtless it was 
by his counsel that the Salem School Committee in 1808 
gave Zollikofer's Exercises as a school prize (III, 186). 
Apart from the eighteenth century argumentation which 
it implies as the ground of faith, Zollikofer's devotional 
book might well be read today as a pure and kindling 
expression of Christian piety. It was, we may judge, 
Bentley's canon in religion, though he had known of the 
German's glow of feeling and excellence of style which 
won the praise of Goethe in his Dichtung und Wahrheit. 
Specific doctrinal opinions are less interesting than 
Bentley's open-minded search for truth and his fidelity to 
a mission of preaching character as salvation. For the 
ministry he demands a man " who, upon the full convic- 



AN OLD NEW ENGLAND MINISTER. 17 

tion of a future moral retribution as the great point of 
Christian faith, preaches with sober regard to the virtu- 
ous happiness of mankind, being able to abandon without 
reluctance all worldly interest which may interfere with 
the conscientious discharge of his duty " (I, 121). "1 
have adopted many opinions abhorrent of my early preju- 
dices, and am still ready to receive truth upon proper 
evidence from whatever quarter it may come. I think 
more honor done to God in rejecting Christianity itself 
in obedience to my convictions than in any fervor which 
is pretended towards it, and I hope that no poverty which 
I can dread or hope I can entertain will weaken my reso- 
lutions to act upon my convictions. The only evidence I 
wish to have of my integrity is a good life, and as to 
faith, his can't be wrong whose life is in the right " (I. 
98). It was his defect to know nothing of Edwards and 
to be incapable of understanding the intransigent Hop- 
kinsian preaching of his day, stigmatizing it as New 
Light, Mysticism, ridiculous doctrines of grace, religious 
frenzy. It was the defect of the Hopkins ians to have 
none of his ecclesiastical breadth and to acknowledge as 
religious only men of hectic temperament. For the con- 
troversy which began in 1815 he had no great interest 
Though as a young man he had shown propagandist zeal 
for Unitarian views, he seems to have developed another 
attitude natural to his office as minister to the Eastern 
parish of Christians living in Salem. It was his duty to 
edify this section of the community in religions faith and 
moral strength, and not to use his pulpit in the interest 
of party or dogmatic views which would divide the com- 
munity. This is said without knowledge of his sermons, 
but it is not merely interpretation or surmise. It is the 
exact meaning of words he used in reviewing his ministry 
(IV, 352), and the implication of many other comments. 
No one could fail to know what his personal convictions 
were, but his aims as a pastor were not those of a theolog- 
ical partisan. When therefore Jedediah Morse and the 
Panoplist summoned the orthodox to come out of these 
inclusive neighborhood churches and be clean by theo- 
logical separateness, when Channing's letter to Thatcher 
appeared and the Unitarian controversy opened, the pas- 



18 THE DIARY OF 

tor who had served the Eastern parish of Salem for 
thirty-two years had little party spirit and spoke of the 
matter in what might be thought curiously local terms. 
His response to the situation is chiefly one of vexation 
that his orthodox neighbor, Worcester, should desert the 
ideals of the ancient order for the role of a theological 
partisan (IV, 342). Some illusion there was in this phrase 
" ideals of the ancient order " but the fact stands 
that Congregationalism was a polity without prescription 
of theological system, and that from its ancient New 
England history it had preserved the consciousness of 
being the general church in which, now that men dis- 
agreed, citizens of various theological sympathy could 
meet for the quest of a Christian heart and life. Parishes 
might vary theologically, but they kept fraternity and 
their ministers associated in one Association this being 
about the only form of denominationalism that existed. 
If, as in Reading, 1790, an Hopkinsian pastor was settled 
in a "liberal" neighborhood, a man like Bentley could 
only say, "at present we are the sport of the ignorant," 
and try to make the best of it (I, 177). There might be 
discomfort, as when his Hopkinsian neighbor in the South 
Church in Salem was intrusively concerned for souls go- 
ing to ruin under the preaching of the East Church (I, 
176 ;) but the liberal pastor held to the ideal of commu- 
nity churches and tried to keep confidence in its success. 
The great menace to these parish churches was from 
the invasion of the so-called sects, Baptists, Methodists, 
Universalists, or such house-meetings as were occasional- 
ly gathered by unlearned and intruding Hopkinsian itin- 
erants of revivalistic type (e. g., I, 104, 108). There 
was no disposition to be rigidly exclusive to a properly 
qualified preacher from without the fold. A Methodist 
or Universalist might be invited to preach. If the Rev. 
John Murray was denied a pulpit and had to get a hear- 
ing in the Court House, it was not because of his doctrine, 
but because of his lack of education, his attacks on the 
clergy and his lack of ordination (I, 107, 112, 113). 
The growth of sects was partly due to a fact not directly 
of a religious character. The hereditary parish churches 
were suffering from the social shift that followed the 



AN OLD NEW ENGLAND MINISTER. 19 

Revolution. In snch churches dating from a period when 
society had an aristocratic organization, the seating of 
the members indicated the social gradation. The wealthy 
old families had pews on the floor of the church and 
gradations were visible there while the poorer people 
sat in the galleries. This could hold only when class 
divisions were meekly accepted. After the Revolution a 
restless democratic temper grew among the poorer people, 
and newcomers to growing towns refused the old social 
subordination in church. Originally the preaching could 
appeal to all, for it was rehearsal of Bible texts that all 
knew. Now that a freer intellectual sermon was attempt- 
ed in a time of growing inequality of culture, the occu- 
pants of the gallery were not moved by that which edified 
the dignitaries in the chief seats, In Boston the galleries 
of old churches became empty (II, 127, 425). The low- 
est class of people in Boston, says Bentley in 1795, neglect 
public worship, and those who go to church are found in 
the Baptist and Universalist meetings. There the galler- 
ies are thronged. In 1807 he writes; "The Rational 
Congregations have thin galleries. Even hired servants 
of both sexes, but especially of the females, stipulate for 
night Lectures (i. e., revival meetings) when they agree 
for their wages. I do not know a reputable family in 
town that carries all its servants with them to the public 
worship " (III, 271). This social cleavage was accentu- 
ated by the bitter opposition of the Congregational clergy 
to Jeffersonian Democracy. The name of Jefferson was 
to the despised sects a symbol of religious liberty ; to the 
poor and socially disesteemed it meant political equality. 
Baptist and Universalist preachers were champions of 
Republicanism ; the standing order revelled in Federalist 
denunciation of Jefferson's radicalism. The poorer and 
uneducated, especially when they were newcomers in an 
old town, shunned the church home of the upper class, 
and the growth of sects particularly in the case of the 
Baptists was such as to excite alarm (II, 409, 419, 432 ; 
III, 4, 66, 82, 157, 469 ; IV, 385). The need of prose- 
lyting for the sake of church building led the sects into 
exasperating methods. " Sects in their infancy," Bentley 
observed, "are much like children, very cross and peev- 



20 THE DIARY OP 

ish. They have strong passions and little judgment, have 
many faults and yet many efforts before they get strong 
and make the world think favourable of their strength " 
(III, 167). 

Bentley, as we have seen, was distinguished by a toler- 
ant spirit, in spite of the rude remarks he put into his pri- 
vate notes. Among the Congregationalist clergy also he 
was exceptional by a fervid devotion to the party of Jef- 
ferson. He refused therefore to be prejudiced against 
Baptists. He had a good opinion of their integrity, and 
only lamented that their preachers were so notably ignor- 
ant (III, 28, 85). When a small Baptist church was 
built in Salem, in 1804, he believed the competition would 
never be dangerous. He would even welcome the case of 
such sects being more powerful, since they would thus 
restrain the spirit of persecution, or, as he said another 
time, promote a balance of power (III, 82, 119, 297). 
But he is soon aware of their rapid growth. In 1808 he 
estimates that Baptist societies in Massachusetts are half 
as numerous as the Congregationalists. Methodists also 
increased (III, 345). But Bentley would not allow him- 
self to become sectarian. " If the Baptists refuse our 
communion, let us not follow their example." "I love 
principles, but hate fanaticism " (III, 241). 

The proud old parishes thus were losing social control. 
They were not an organized denomination. They had no 
corporate and concerted strength. They agreed only in 
parish laws, as Bentley said, and they were falling into 
theological parties Old Calvin is ts, Hopkinsians, and lib- 
erals who might be variously named as Sublapsarians, Ar- 
minians, Unitarians (III, 346). 

Into the liberal Arminian region of eastern Massachu- 
setts after the Revolution came pastors educated in Yale 
or under the influence of Edwards's theology. It was 
they who conceived the project of making a denomination. 
The Hopkinsians, beginning with Hopkins himself, in- 
clined to sectarian separation, but they were held in some 
control by the redoubtable Jedediah Morse, who had more 
of the old Calvinist temper. Morse from the beginning 
in those days of constitution-making hoped to make a 
denomination that, like the Connecticut Consociation. 



AN OLD NEW ENGLAND MINISTER. 21 

could be in affiliation with the Presbyterians south of 
New England. It was necessary therefore to strengthen 
conservatism in the neighborhood, and he worked frankly 
and persistently for that end. He hoped to include all, 
but his chief anxiety was over the Hopkinsians. A new 
theological school was a part of his plan, and he managed 
to unite two rival projects, Old Calvinist and Hopkinsian, 
in the Andover foundation. So in the end his denomina- 
tional plan was a union of these two parties with a sacri- 
fice of the liberal wing. Bentley sees the process going 
on and is fully aware of the meaning of the steps taken. 
Of Morse he is always abusive and beyond bounds. It 
may be said in apology that Morse had made himself odi- 
ous to Bentley by his fanatic attacks on the order of Ma- 
sons, Bentley being an enthusiastic Mason, and by his 
haughty and rancorous Federalism, Bentley being an 
enthusiastic Republican. This is but to say that the hor- 
ribly embroiled conditions of those times, when the clergy 
were politicians as well as pastors, explains the sins of 
ecclesiastics who were struggling with a difficult church 
problem. The unexampled bitterness of political strife 
came to an end in 1814. The era of good feeling in pol- 
itics began. But the problem of church organization was 
still on hand, and the habitual passionateness found fur- 
ther exercise with the rending of parishes and the system 
of exclusion and denunciation. In all this Bentley had 
no part. A happy death saved him from that necessity. 
But if the situation had been in his control, the schism 
would never have come to pass. 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, 
MASSACHUSETTS. 



COPIED FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BY JOHN 
H. EDMUNDS FOR THE LATE FREDERICK L. GAY. 



[7 March 1643/4.] 
To the Honoured Court* 

May it please this Honoured Court to take into your 
serious Consideration, the necessitye of secureing the 
Harbor of Marblehead : not only in regard of the danger, 
which the inhabitants are exposed unto, wantinge all 
meanes to defend themselves against the assault of the 
weakest enemie : but especially in regard of the Great 
detriment ; that probably may come to the whole coun- 
trie, in case the Harbor be left open. We desire not to 
prescribe any thinge to your wisdomes, but (that wee may 
discharge our dutie, which wee owe to ye Countrye, & 
have peace in our owne consciences (if wee should suffer) 
that wee have not bin negligent in seekinge meanes for 
owr preservation :) wee are bold to mind you of that 
which wee beleeve you are fully pers waded is verye 
needf ull to bee don, & also hope wilbe readye to doe : 
which though it should be neglected, yet we hope the 
Lord will appoint salvation for wals & bulwarkes : for 
whose guidance of you, in all your counsels that they may 
tend to his glorye, & the welfare of his people committed 
to your care, they shall never cease to pray who are 
Your humble petitioners 

Wm Walton 

Moses Mavericke 

in behalf of 
the inhabitants of Marble-head 

*See Mass. Bay Records, vol. 2, p. 60. 
(22) 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 23 

vot was conceived the petitioners may have leave to 
fortifi themselves by a breast work or otherwise and that 
the court give order for two gunns to be delivered unto 
them with convenient Ammunition suitable thereto. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 67, p. 90. 

[6 May, 1646.] 

To the General Court the humble 
petition of the Inhabitants of 
Marble head.* 

Whereas there come yeerly into our plantation many 
fishermen that are strangers, & have formerly done us 
very much dammage in the consuming of our firewood, 
stage timber & flakestuffe ; we could not but expresse the 
sence we have therof, & to that end for the preventing 
of the like detriment, we entered an action against the 
Masters of the voyages the last Court at Salem whose 
desire that before any farther proceedings they might 
speak with the Marchants theyr owners who have mani- 
fested theyr willingnes to give us satisfaction for the 
wrong that however we sustayne, yet have to bring us 
any customes for future times. Our & humble request 
the rf ore is that this Honoured Court would be pleased 
to establish some order whereby from henceforth we may 
be [ena]bled to releive ourselves in cases of this nature. 
Your humble petitioners 

William Walton John Hart 

Moses Mavericke Wm Barber 

Francis Johnson Willm Charles 

David Carwethen Abraham Whiteheare 

John Bartoll John Peach Jr 

John Peach Sen. John Legg 

John Lyon Walsingham Chilson 

Arthur Sandin Thomas Sam 

Mass. Archives, vol. 60, p. 35. 
*See Mass. Bay Records, vol. 2, p. 147. 



24 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHBAD, MASS. 

[1668/1669] 

To the Honoured Generall Court assembled at Boston : 
The Humble petition of the Inhabitants of Marble- 
head Humbly Sheweth* 

Whereas your petitioners have resided under your 
good government by the prudent administration whereof 
and the blessing of the Most High thereupon, wee have 
injoyed peace & tranquilitie ; and particular encourage- 
ment for the imployment of fishery, which the situation 
of the place wholly unfitt for husbandry doth nessesarily 
put us upon, though not without many dfficulties and 
hazzards of our persons and estates, And being now 
credibly informed of the Intents to raise upon all goods 
exported and imported one per cent as also two pence per 
bushell on all graines imported from the neighbour Col- 
lonies, Whereby our nessesaries for our imployment 
Cloathing and provisions will bee unavoidably raised to 
such a rate : that being disabled from getting a Comforta- 
ble lively hood here. It must needs make more roome in 
our thoughts for the prefers and Invitations which so 
lately had somm of us elsewhere to the southward, The 
knowledge of the said purpose and Act which hath so 
many greivances entayled to It puts us upon addressing 
our selves to this honoured Court, humbly Craving that 
you would bee pleased to take the matter into more seri- 
ous Consideracon and a few Queries which wee crave 
leave to propound before the said Act be putt in force. 

1st. Whether this will not bee an exceeding great ob- 
strucktion to all traffiq ue and Commerce which is the great 

The Mass. Bay Records contain the following references to this 
petition and to others from Salem, Springfield, Northampton and 
Hadley : 

May 19, 1668. Proposed in Deputies a duty of 2% on imports and 
exports. . . . Not consented but referred to a Joint Committee with 
the Magistrates. 

May 20, 1668. Magistrates refer to above Committee to report at 
next Session. 

Nov. 7, 1668. Enacted as above and 3 pence per bushel on wheat 
and other graines. 

Nov. 9, 1668. Abated under certain conditions to 1% and 2 pence. 

May 19, 1669. Taking notice of sundry complaints . . . imports 
1 penny for 20s. 

Oct. 8, 1672. Action on pieces of 8 as suggested. 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 25 

staff of this Collony It being often profest by Merchants 
that free trade hath bin the great motive to draw them 
hither. 

21y Whether this Answers the proper ends of Cus- 
toms which wee conceive have bin raised for the main- 
taining of men of warr against forraine invasions and 
whether this laid upon our selves by our selves may not 
yet bee monopolized afterwards by such as may not bee 
so acceptable to us. 

31y Whether this will not Cast the burden of pub- 
lique Charges; (An Equall share whereof wee have bin 
willing to defray) upon seamen, tradesmen and fishermen, 
who nessesarily take their supply from the Merchants in 
the said goods and provisions advanced according to the 
custom paid and so not felt by the merchant himselfe. 

41y Whether it bee prudent by such a Law to exas- 
porate the neighbour Collonies against us, An Amicable 
Compliance with whom wee have found so needful, re- 
ceiving so large a supply from them, that wee cannot 
carry forward our trade abroad without it. 

51y Whether it bee now a season to settle Customs 
among our selves when new yorke is laying all downe and 
setting up a free trade and the other Collonys are Con- 
triving a way to set up trade and fishing among them- 
selves to prevent sending their provisions hither which 
wee so much need. 

61y Whether it will not require so many Collectors & 
Waiters that little will really returne to publique use. 

71y Whether Customs though layd on wine tobacco 
and things not Essentiall to life were ever wont to bee 
layd on corne and such nessesaries without which wee 
Cannot possibly subsist. 

Sly Whether the fish that woe take by our owne In- 
dustry and spend our whole tyme about may not as well 
bee Custom free though Exported as the Corne the farmer 
raises in the Collony, since fish is the only great stapple 
which the Country produceth for forraine ports and is so 
benefitiall for making returnes for what wee need ; and if 
the nessesity of the Country call for further supply it 
may be raised one mony imported by causing peices of 
eight vizt Pillar Mexico and Sivill to bee valued at six 



26 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 



shillings per piece and so to pass, which may cause plenty 
of it amongst us wee would request the whole matter 
with all the consequences thereof might bee well weighed 
and the said Act about Customs might bee nulled and 
repealed and wee shall ever pray &c. 



Moses Mavericke 
Samuell Cheever 
Samuell Ward 
Rich. Norman 
Sam Morgan 
Ambrose Gale 
Nicholas Meriot 
Jo. Peach Seni. 
Jo. Peach Ini. 
Wm. Charles 
Mark Pittman 
Geo. Godfreie 
Joseph Dallabar 
Christo. Latemore 
James Smyth 
Tho. Pittman sinr 
John Devorex 
Rich. Rowland 
Jon. Codner 
William Beale 
Jo. Gatchell sino. 
Jon. Legg sino. 
Nathan. Walton 
Josiah Walton 
Samuel Walton 
Samll Leach 
Samuell Mavericke 
Timothy Roberts 
William Nik 
Erosemus James 
Joseph Boude ? 
Edward? Red 
John Waldron 
Charles Gren 
Samuell Rusell 



Matthew Clarke 
James Merrike 
Samuell Condy 
William Browne 
John Legg junior 
William Hewett 
William Cauke? 
Josias Codner 
Neckles Pecket 
Samuel Meret 
Thomas Taner 
John Hart sen. 
John Noerte ? 
Henrie Rousell 
William Carter 
Thomas Souden 
Sam. Nicholson 
Emman. Preist 
Peter Greenfield 
Gregory Codner 
Thomas Boden 
Will. Edwards 
Henrey Trevet 
Will. Stephens 
Edw, Goss 
Rich. Meeck 
Tho. Hore 
Wm. Woods 
Elias White 
Rob. Rowles 
Jno. Prust? 
Tho. Ellus 
William Paw ? 
Owen Hendry? 
Jno. Harris 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 27 



Edmundt Gall 
Christover Necke 
Robert Knight 
James Denis 
Jeremiah Gachell 
John Stasie 
Thomas Rose 
Thomas Pitman 
Will. Peach 
Richd Hudson 
Henrey Codner 
Richd Thistle 
Sam. Causey 
Joseph Nicholson 
Waltr Munjoy 
James Watts 
Richard Read ? 
William Bound 
Jeffrey Thissell 
Richard Clattary 
John Brimbelcome 
John Roberts 
John Treby 
Andrew Tucker 
William Poat? 
Thomas Dood ? 
John Pittman 
William Lightfoot 
John Gruff 
John Wattes 
John Roads 
Nickhollas Andrewes 
Samuell Hudson 
John Stevenes 
Samuel Sandee 



Josiah Brown 
George Pike 
Joseph Boobyar 
Edw. Winter 
James Baxter 
Jeremiah Gatchell 
Tobias Whitfield 
Ed. Forster 
Will. Davis 
Gabrill Holman 
Vincen Stilson 
Rich. Woods 
Jno. Smith 
Vincen Stilson Jun. 
Crist. Huxtable 
Jno. Furbush 
Henry Coomes 
Jno. Gatchell Junr. 
Phillip Brimblecum 
Richard Downing 
Hennery Stasea 
Robert Bartlet 
William Woods Juner 
Richard Woods 
Thomas Tayner 
Josias Codner 
Elias Henlee 
John Trebe? 
James Edwards 
Phillip Hardee 
Larence Firnes? 
John Pedricke 
John Allin 
Tho. Smith 
Thomas Dixie 
Mass. Archives, vol. 60, p. 39. 



marblehead 2 november 75 
to the honnerd major generall now sitting at Salem 

according to your honners warrant wee have given here 
a true list of the mens names impresd here at marble- 



28 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

head according to your honners warrant for the coun- 
tries sarvis and for this present expedishtion : as allso for 
there clothing wee doe certifie to your honner that thay 
are to the beast of our apprehenshons generally well 
clothed and for armes wee doe certifie to your honner 
that thay are all of them well provided with fier lock 
musketts powder baggs bullets and powder : as for cutt- 
lesses and swords wee doe certifie your honner that wee 
can not geett them : if wee could have gott them wee 
would : nothing else at present of weagt your honners 
humble 

servant to command 

Richard Norman, 
vis Lenord Bellriner James Watts 

Augustaines Firker George Miskell ? 

Fetter Carrey Robartt Cockes 

Ephraim Fetter Colle 

David Shaplee Robartt Hinnes 

Thomas Russell Charles Green 

Hennery Codnor John Latterme 

Edward Severy 

Mass. Archives, vol. 68, p. 38. 

[Dec. 2, 1675] 

A list of the names of the Soldiers returned as Im- 
pressed for the service of the Country out of Essex 

from Marble head 

Leonard Belle inde James Watt 

Augustus Firkwell George Mitchel ? 

Peter Carry Robert Cocke 

Ephraim Jones Peter Cole 

David Shaplee Robt Heinne 

Thomas Russell Charles Green 

Henry Codnor Jno Latterme 

Edwd Severy 
Cutlasses & swords wanting 

Mass. Archives, vol. 68, p. 98. 

A list of the Nams of Captein Gardeners soulders for 
this present expedishon 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 29 

Marbellhead 

Fetter Coll Ephraim Jones 

Henery Codner Lenerd Belinger 

Auguster Ferker Philip Brock 

David Shapligh Thomas Weymouth 

Fetter Carey Thomas Weymouth 

Robert Cooks Thomas Russell 

Edward Severy 
men wanting of ther company 

Mass. Archives, vol. 68, p. 93. 

A Lyst of Capt Joseph Gardiner Company that were 
wounded and Slayne of his Company, some the 16 De- 
cember & Other 19th December 75 

Abra. Switchell of Marblehead Slayne 
Robert Cocks of Marblehead wounded 

Mass. Archives, vol. 68, p. 



To the Constables of Marblehead 

These require you in his majestys name on sight hereof 
to summon require & serve William Phelps and William 
Punshin, so as that they make their personal appearance 
before the Council to sitt in Boston on theire Adjourn- 
ment on the sixth instant at one of the clocke in the Af- 
ternoon to answer for their neglect of Duty & refusing 
obediance to the late Impress for the Service of the 
Country though horses provender Amunition &c was 
provided with all things for a march to marl borough 
whereby the Country was much disapointed making the 
returne heereof bringing them with you heereof not to 
fail Dated in Boston this 3rd of March 1675/6. 

Edward Rawson Secretary 

By order of the Council. 
[Backed] These 

for the Constables 

of Marblehead 

Hast 

post 

hast 



30 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

The Constable of Lyn is required in his majestys name 
to Convey this letter for the Countrys Service. 

per Edward Rawson Secretary 

[Endorsed] Marble head impressment warrant [Seal] 
Mass. Archives, vol. 68, p. 



At a Councill held in Boston 23 march 1675/6 Where- 
as several considerable persons have made aplication to us 
and proposed it as a very nescesary expedient for the 
publike welfare, and particularly for the security of the 
whole county of Essex & a great part of Middlesex from 
inroads of the common enemy, That a line or fence of 
stockades or stones (as the matter best suits) to be made 
about eight foot hiye ; extending from Charles River, 
where it is navigable, unto Concord River not far from 
Georg farley house, living in Billerky ; which fence as 
the Councill is informed is not in length above twelve 
miles ; a goode parte wherof is allready don by large 
ponds ; that wil conveniently fall in the line, & upon this 
fence severall inhabitants belonging to Watertown, Cam- 
bridge, Wooburne & Bilerekey, are already seated ; (as 
is judged about half the distance,) and upon Merrimack 
river on the west side are planted the townes of Andever 
Wamesit Bradford & Newbury, unto the Sea & upon 
Charles river are planted part of Watertown Cambridge 
& Charlestown unto the bay ; by which means the whole 
tract wilbe environed, for the security & safety (under 
God) of the people, their houses goods & cattel ; from 
the rage and fury of the enimy For the prosecuting this 
proposall to effect, (which the Council apprehend is of 
Great Concernment.) 

It is ordered that the several townes that fall within 
this tract above mentioned ; vizt Salem, Charles towne, 
Cambridge, Watertowne, Ipswich, Newbury, Rowly, 
Linne, Andever, Topsfield, Reding, Wooburne, Maldon, 
Billerekey, Gloster, Beverly, Wenham, Manchester, Brad- 
ford & Meadford ; doe each of them choose one able & 
fitt man as their Commissioner, which commissioners are 
all ordered to meet at Cambridge upon the last day of 
May at 8 of the clock in the morning & from thence to 
proceed (taking such guides & helpes as are nesisary) and 
take an exact survay of the place proposed for the line 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 31 

and to offer unto the Counsel in writing an expedient 
how the same may bee prosecuted & effected & what pro- 
portion will fall unto every towne included within the 
same, wherein respect is to bee had to the quality of es- 
tate & number of the inhabitants, within the said townes, 
& also to propose wais & methoods how the said line or 
fence shal be made, maintened & defended ; for the ends 
intended, And the Returne to be made to the Counsel as 
soon as may bee And the Counsell doe further declare & 
promise that thay are & wilbe ready at all times to pro- 
mote & incourage this Affayre, and to make such further 
orders & give such other directions as may best conduse 
to the effectual prosecution and finishing the said worke : 
provided allways & it is herby intended that all charges 
respecting this affaire bee defrayed by the inhabitants in- 
cluded within this line according to a due & equall pro- 
portion; as the said Commissioners or the greater number 
of them shall determine ; and this order is to bee forth- 
with printed & sent by the Secretary to the Constables & 
Selectmen of every [one] of the townes above named to 
bee put in execution accordingly 

By the Council Edward Rawson Secretary 

Mass. Archives, vol. 68, p. 174- 

Gentlemen 

Having received an order from your selves being im- 
powered and authorized by the Counsill to inquire into 
the state of our Towne of Marble-head, and know our 
apprehensions concerning a Line of Stockades or Stone- 
work to run from some part of Charles River to Merri- 
mack River, In answer* hereto Wee apprehend the run- 
ning of such a Line no sufficient security for the Townes 
Cattel & Planting against the Common enemy, in regard 
Merrimack River is fordable in severall places & also 
whatever seeming benefit may be hoped for by the fence, 
will no wayes counterbalance the vast charge of making, 
maintaining, and defending such a fence, a proportion of 
which charge will bee too great a burden for our Poverty 
to stand under ; and can therefore by no means consent 

*Answers from Rowley, March 24; Ipswich, March 23; Lynn, 
March 27; Salem, March 28; and Newbury, March ; are in the 
same volume. 



82 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

to the said Proposal! ; And Conceive it not needfull to 
send a Commissioner to Cambridge, as being a superfluous 
charge to be laid upon our Towne, having in this paper 
given in the result of our apprehensions to which we 
refer such as may be concerned therein : 

Dated March: 28 : 1675/76 in the behalf and with the 
consent of the Selectmen and inhabitants of Marblehead 
Moses Mavericke Recorder 
Mass. Archives, vol. 68, p. 180. 

Report of Committee on Essex County defences to 
Councill, dated Salem 29, March, 1675/6, by 

John Appleton 
John Putnam 
Thomas Chandler 

" Att Marblehead wee find noe fortification & that the 
Inhabitants Judge itt needless." 

Mass. Archives, vol. 68, p. 18^-6. 

To the Constable of Marblehead 

By vertue of an order to us directed for the Impresing 
of Six men for the Countries Service theise are therefore 
to require you forthwith to Imprese theise men whose 
names are under written to serve the Country according 
to the warrantt above said : and for soe doing this shall be 
your sufficient warrant : given under our hands : this 20th 
day of August 1676 : 

Moses Mavericke 
Samuell Ward 
Richard Norman 
John Legge 
The Comittee of Malitia for Marblehead. 

Richard Rowland Junior Henery Richard or Sam- 
or Senior uell Russell 

Mr Moore John Peach Senior 

William Stevens: or Eliezer Eaton or Thomas 
Thomas Smith Rummery 

John Lattemer John Wolcott or William 

Thomas Pitman Junior or Phelps 

Senior William Punchion 

Mass. Archives, vol. 69, p. 50. 
(To be continued.) 



JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH AND SOME OF HIS 
DESCENDANTS. 



BY M. V. B. PERLEY. 



In the possession of the Ipswich Historical Society is 
an old account book formerly the property of James Howe, 
the emigrant ancestor, in which, not long before 1690, he 
inscribed the following record : 

" Robert Howe lived in Hatfield-B road-Oak, county 
Essex, England, where Sir Francis Barrington lived in 
Woodrow-Green ; James, son of said Robert, in a place 
called Hockerill [or Bockerill], in Bishop-Stortford, in 
the happy and gracious reign of King James I." 

The name How or Hoo is said to be of English deriva- 
tion, and to signify a high place, a hill, critically a hill in 
a valley. De la How, " from the hill ", was originally 
the name of the family. How also signifies knowe, 
whence Knolls, Knowles, Knox and Kneeland. 

The totem of the How coat of arms 
is the wolf's head ; and of the several 
arms, bearing that emblem, we select 
this one for this branch, because it 
once belonged to a How family of 
county Essex, England : " Argent, a 
chevron between three wolves' heads 
couped sable. Crest : Out of a ducal 
coronet or a unicorn's head gules, at- 
tired and crined of the first" 

James Howe first appears at Roxbury, where, with 
Abraham Howe, probably a brother, he was made a free- 
man, 17 May, 1637. During the next few years he was 
sometime in Salem, finally removing to Ipswich, where 
he was serving on the jury in December, 1641. Rev. 
John Norton, the minister of Ipswich, had asked the 

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34 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

town to reserve " at the Farms ", now Linebrook*, two 
farms for some friends in England, whom he thought 
would come over. The friends declined the venture, and 
on motion of Mr. Norton, one of the farms was granted 
to James Howe, 11 June, 1650. The other William 
Norton sold to Abraham Foster, 7 July, 1659. They 
contained 100 acres each. 

During that decade there were, in " Ipswich-Farms ", 
south of the Ipswich-Rowley boundary line and north of 
the Cochichawick-Agawam Indian trail, the present An- 
dover-Ipswich road through Linebrook, three farms, 
roughly outlined thus : Henry Batchelder's, containing 
about 80 acres, extending from Bullbrook pasture, in- 
cluding " Hucttlebery Hill ", " joining upon the land 
betwext Rowley and Ipswich ", to the present Newbury- 
port Turnpike ; then Abraham Foster's of 100 acres, 
extending to the present New cemetery;! then James 
Howe's of 100 acres, reaching to the common lands north 
of Baker's, now Hood's pond. 

James Howe bought, 3 July, 1651, about 21 acres in 
three pieces adjoining Mr. Winthrop's and Mr. Sy mends' 
farms. He also bought salt marsh, six acres, next Ipswich 
Hundreds, 7 Feb., 1647. 

James Howe's first house was built on the grant of 
1650. Its location or exact site we do not find recorded. 
John Howe, sr., disclaimed " any right in the first house 
my father built on his farm in Ipswich or any housing or 
land there ". The new house was built before 1688, 
probably soon after the contract for the barn in 1683. 
The front door was driven full of nails, to prevent the 
Indians cutting through. James Howe, jr., lived in a 

*The western part of Ipswich began to be called " Ipswich 
Farms," or " The Farms," about 1650, when the records begin to 
speak of "pprieties " there. The western parts of Ipswich and of 
Rowley were incorporated a territorial parish, 5 June, 1746, which 
some time later was named Linebrook Parish. In 1814, the territo- 
rial function of the parish ceased by legislative act. The Ipswich 
part of the parish is " Linebrook " ; the Rowley part, " Millwood". 

fThe territory of Linebrook Parish has had three cemeteries: 
the westernmost, on land given by John Perley, 1725, called the 
Old cemetery; the one the Parish bought of Rev. Geo. Lesslie, 
1763, called the Linebrook cemetery; and the New one, so cal ed, 
established by the town in 1888. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 



35 




THE ABRAHAM HOWE HOUSE, BUILT IN 1711. 

small house not to be confused with the first dwelling. 
Abraham Howe, jr., built his house in 1711. Three of 
these four houses James Howe, sr., was familiar with, 
and two were known to the early boyhood of the writer. 
The Howe estate of late years has been known as the 
homestead of Mrs. Eliza Howe Perley, whose father 
Aaron descends from James Howe, senior. The 
Abraham Howe house, built in 1711, formerly stood 
where the present barn stands, and was taken down about 
1850. The " witch house ", in which lived James and 
Elizabeth Howe, formerly stood in the rear of the present 
house, the cellar being marked by a slight depression in 
the ground 196 feet over the knoll northeast from the 
well and 95 feet northwest from the oak tree. The de- 
pression has long been known in the family as " Mary's 
hole ", having been named for Mary, the daughter of 
James Howe, who devotedly served him during his blind- 
ness and old age. The " old house ", occupied by James 
Howe, senior, probably stood near the fence south of the 
barn (see Essex Deeds, 27 : 173), and the " new house ", 
where Abraham Howe, senior, lived in 1688, formerly 
stood across the present highway some thirty feet in the 
rear of the house of late years known as the Emerson 
Howe place (see Ipswich Deeds, 5 : 440). It had a long 
sloping roof and was taken down in 1840. A barn 42 
feet long and 22 feet wide with 12 foot posts was erected 
in 1683. 



86 . JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

James Howe was a weaver by trade. He was one of 
the surveyors that laid out, in the spring of 1653, the 
Andover road that passed his house and over Winthrop's 
Plain, that adjoined the Howe homestead. He was a 
commoner in 1641 ; a Dennison subscriber, 1648 ; had a 
share in Plum Island, 1664, and was tithingman in 1677. 
He was on jury panels, 1637. 1638 ; trial juror, 1641, 
1646,1647, 1659,1661, 1662 ; constable of Ipswich, 1646, 
and grand juror, 1663. His public service diminished 
after his removal to " The Farms " six miles from the 
town's centre. 

His will was drawn 12 Jan., 1699-1700. In it he con- 
firms to his son James, housing and lands and meadows, 
which, given by deed, he had before that time and ever 
since possessed and enjoyed, and other movable estate, 
and also gives him X10. He had already given to John, 
his son, of Topsfield, real and personal estate ; also to 
daughters Mary, wife of Nehemiah Abbot, Rebecca, wife 
of Stephen Barnard of Andover, and to daughter Sarah 
Bridges and her daughter Sarah Preston ; and " whereas 
Son Abraham has taken good care of his father and mother 
in their old age ", he gave to him houses, barns, orchards, 
tillage lands, pasture lands, and meadow grounds in 
Ipswich, that is to say, said parents' home lot, bounded 
by Timothy Perley's land, that which was Winthrop's 
farm and Mr. Norton's farm formerly : also all the plain 
.and the old lot meadow and upland that belonged to said 
parent and not given. away by said parent, bounded by 
the upland by Nehemiah Abbot, senior's, land easterly : 
by James Howe, junior's, land westerly by stakes and 
stones fixed : all which is partly within the fence and 
partly without the fence, bounded by Ipswich commons on 
the westerly side : and by Rowley line on the northerly side. 

James Howe, senior, died Sunday, 17 May, 1702,* 
aged 104 years, having lived in three centuries. His 
wife, Elizabeth Dane, only daughter of John Dane, of 

*Jndge Sewall records in his Diary: 

14 May 19, 1702, Mr. James How, a good man, of Ipswich, 104 
years old, is buried. Died, I think, on Lord's-Day night, jast about 
the time the News of the King's Death was brought from Madera." 
King William died 8 March, 1702. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 37 

Roxbuiy, died 21 Jan., 1693-4. Probably Mr. Howe's 
early Ipswich home was with, or neighbor to, Rev. Fran- 
cis Dane, who removed to Andover in 1648, nearly two 
years before Mr. Howe went to " the Farms ". 
Children of James and Elizabeth Howe : 

2. JAMES, b. abt. 1635 or 36. 

3. JOHN, b. abt. 1637. 

4. MARY, b. abt. 1638; m. 14 Dec., 1659, Nehemiah Abbot, son of 

George, of Rowley. He was b. in England ; commoner of 
Ipswich, 1664; freeman, 1669; deacon of Topsfield church; 
settled a farmer in Ipswich-Farms, on a part of his wife's 
father's estate, now the Lauer farm, on Newbury road, just 
north of the Old cemetery. He d. March, 1706-7. They 
had three children: two Maries, b. 1660 and 1665, and Ne- 
hemiah. 

5. SARAH, b. abt. 1644 (aged about 20 y. in 1664); m. 5 Dec., 

1666, John Bridges, a blacksmith of Andover, and after 1690 
of Mendon ; had daughter Sarah, who m. a Preston. 

6. ABRAHAM, b. abt. 1649; d. 21 Jan., 1717-18. 

7. REBECCA, b. abt. 1651; d. 15 April, 1725; m. 1 May, 1671, 

Stephen Barnard, b. 1649, a weaver in Andover, who d. 12 
July, 1722, in his 74th year. Children: , b. 1672; John, 
b. 1674; Hannah, b. 1677-8 or 1678-9; Nathaniel, b. 1682; 
James, b. 1686; Robert, b. 1689. 

2. JAMES HOWE, JR., was born in 1635 or 1636, since, 
according to court depositions, he was " about 30 " in 
1666, and about 34 " on 28 Sept., 1669. He was blind, 
so he had to be led, at the age of fifty. He died 15 Feb., 
1701. He married, 13 April, 1658, Elizabeth Jackson, 
daughter of William and Joanna of Rowley. She was 
condemned as a witch, during the witchcraft frenzy of 
1692, and departed this life 19 July of that year.* His 
will, dated 19 Nov., 1701, confirms to his daughter Eliza- 
beth Jackson's children what he had given her, devises to 
his daughter Deborah six acres in the West meadow, be- 
queaths to his grandson James 25, when twenty-one 
years old, and to his granddaughters Martha and Sarah 
Howe, 20*. each when eighteen years old or married. He 
gave to his other two daughters, Mary and Abigail, " for 

See a full account of her trial in Perley's " Short History of 
Witchcraft." 



38 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

their pains and care that they have taken of me for sev- 
eral years and their labor for my maintenance", my house, 
barn, orchard, lands, salt marsh in Rowley, and movables 
indoor and out, and appointed them executresses. He 
signed his will James How, but it was proved, 11 Mar., 
1701-2, as the will of James Howe, jr. The witnesses 
were Abraham, sr., Abraham, jr., and John Howe. 

The inventory of his estate, made 3 Mar., 1701 or 
1702, by John and Abraham Howe, amounted to X158. 
!., as per their items : 

Wearing apparel, 700 
Books, Bibles and sermon book, 1 

Feather bed and bedding, 8 

Chests, table, chairs and such, 3 

6 acres in the West Meadows, 18 

Salt marsh in Rowley, 16 

Meadow ... yt ... 18 acres 40 

Cow and mare, 3 
The homestead, upland and meadow, orchard and buildings 60 

Children of James, jr., and Elizabeth Howe : 

8. JAMES, d. in July, 1664. 

9. ELIZABETH, b. 1 June, 1661; m. Caleb Jackson, son of Nicho- 

las, of Rowley.* 

10. MARY, b. 25 Feb., 1664; d. "a blind maid," in Rowley, 27 Jan., 

1731. 

11. DEBORAH; m. 11 May, 1685, Isaac Howe of Roxbury, son of 

Abraham, jr., and had (b. in Roxbury), Abraham, b. 24 
Oct., 1689, and Abigail, b. 4 Feb., 1692. 

12. JOHN, b. 17 April, 1671. 

13. ABIGAIL, b. 3 Dec., 1673 ; d. 16 Jan., 1753, "an old maid." 

3. CAPT. JOHN HOWE was born about 1637. His 
youth seems full of roguish activity, an activity that fre- 
quently brought him before the Quarterly Court at 
Ipswich. He unlawfully rode Poor's mare, 30 Oct., 1656, 
and Peter Cooper's in 1658. A poetic effusion of his 
slandered the town and Thomas Baker in 1664. He tres- 
passed on Daniel Hovey in 1667. But in 1681 he became 
town constable of Topsfield. 

His homestead was in the northern part of the town, 
on a road leading from Ipswich Farms to Topsfield, cross- 

*The Howes and Jacksons were neighbors. 



AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 39 

ing the town line near the second bound-stone east of 
Baker's, now Hood's, pond ; traversing the west side of 
Winthrop's meadow ; crossing Hewlett's brook, and pass- 
ing the home-site of Joseph Smith, the Mormon's grand- 
father. His sister-in-law, the alleged witch, passed that 
way with the constable that fateful Sunday morning of 
her arrest. There is "a brook hard by my dwelling 
house ". A little north of that brook is a rise of ground 
on the east side of the old road, where only a few years 
ago was an old cellar. 

Captain Howe married Mary Cooper of Rowley, born 
2 : 4 m. (June), 1642, to Peter, a neighbor of his youth. 
The wife of John Howe was presented in court, May, 
1663, " for wearing a silk scarf and silver bodkin, when 
she was a widow." She was discharged. There was 
more of the silk scarf hi Sept., 1664. His wife Mary 
died 2 Mar., 1676-7, in Topsfield. He married, 2nd, be- 
fore 20 Dec., 1686, Sarah Towne, born 26 April, 1657, 
to Edmund and Mary (Browning) Towne. He and his 
wife joined the Topsfield church 19 July, 1685. He made 
a marriage agreement, 25 Dec., 1706, with Mrs. Sarah 
Dennis, widow of Thomas, of Ipswich, with whom he 
had been published 7 Dec., 1706, at Ipswich, providing 
for her, if she became his widow the marriage soon to 
take place. 

His will, made 19 May, 1725, when he was " far ad- 
vanced in years ", signed " John How, Senior ", proved 
23 Dec., 1728, makes no mention of a marriage agree- 
ment, but provides well for a prospective widow, as wills 
generally do. He died 16 Dec., 1728, in his 92nd year.* 
Of his thirteen children, only six are mentioned in his 
will : Sarah, John, Anne, Joseph, Lydia and Benjamin. 

Children of John and Mary and Sarah Howe : 

14. SABAH, b. 12 May, 1665. In May, 1683, she engaged, as servant 
for one year, to June, 1684, with Jacob Adams of Newbury. 
She had been from home a year, before she let herself to 
Adams, whose home was ten miles from her father's, She 
left Adams after a while, and Francis Thnrley entertained 

The following are guesses at his age from court records: 23 in 
1663; 30, 33 in 1674; 35, 33, 36 in 1675; 90, 91 in 1728, which makes 
his birth in 1640. 



40 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

her. Adams sued Thurley for entertaining a fugitive from 
service. The Justice ordered her return. Then John Howe 
of Topsfield, an attorney, her father, appeared in her be- 
half, and entered an appeal. He said the girl was under 
age, but over sixteen years, and could not make a valid 
agreement without his consent. She m. 2 Mar., 1684, John 
Thurlow, b. 25 Mar., 1660, to Francis and Anne (Morse) 
Thurlow of Newbury. Had: (1) Mary, b. 10 Feb., 1686; (2) 
Sarah, b. 3 Oct., 1689 ; (3) Anne, b. 29 Feb., 1691; (4) Lydia, 
b. 20 Aug., 1695; (5) Bethia, b. 3 Mar., 1697-8; (6) Hannah, 
b. 9 Sept., 1701; (7) Martha, b. 14 Nov., 1707. 

15. MARK, b. 17 Dec., 1666. 

16. JOHN, b. 3 Mar., 1669-70. 

17. ANNE, b. 1 or 6 Mar., 1672. 

18. SAMUEL, b. 27 Mar., 1676. 

19. JOSEPH, b. 28 April, 1679. 

20. MAKY, b. 31 Jan., 1681. 

21. ELIZABETH, b. 22 Mar., 1682. 

22. LYDIA, b. 20 Dec., 1686; d. 14 May, 1731-2. Her estate was 

valued 71. 5s. 2d. Her brother Benjamin gave bond as 
adm. 29 May, 1732. Her son Isaac Cummings, "as she 
called him," was b. 8 Dec., 1712. Isaac, of Falmonth, m. 
14 Jan., 1730-1, Mary Curtis, and d. inFalmouth, of small- 
pox, 12 Nov., 1731. Isaac, of Falmouth, carpenter, for 32, 
sold or mortgaged half of his land in Falmouth to Zaccheus 
Perkins of Topsfield, 1 Jan., 1730. 

23. BENJAMIN, b. 5 or 8 Jan., 1687-8. 

24. HANNAH, b. 1 Mar., 1690-1; d. 1 Nov., 1695. 

25. ABIGAIL, b. 6 Aug., 1692. 

26. JOSEPH, b. 30 Sept., 1697; d. 27 Feb., 1742; m. wid. Phebe 

Goodhall, 2 April, 1729, who d. 5 June, 1737. His will, 
drawn 14 Jan., 1741-2, proved at Ipswich, 29 Mar., 1742, calls 
him yeoman and very sick, nominates his cousin, Isaac 
Commings, alias Howe, as executor, and gives him the es- 
tate. The inventory, made by Thomas Hewlett, Thomas 
Perkins and David Balch, 13 April, 1742, contains the fol- 
lowing items: 

Note of band 12 

Wearing apparel 5 

20 or 30 poles of land near Clark's bridge, in Tops- 
field 2 10 

Rights in several lots on south side the river 5 

Old book 5 

Legacy due from Benj. Howe 15 

An old musket and an old hogshead 1 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 41 

6. ABRAHAM HOWE was born about 1649, according 
to a court guess of 20 y. in 1669. Another court guess, 
however, of 34 in 1686, makes the year 1652. He died 
21 Jan., 1717-18. He married, 26 Mar., 1678, Sarah 
Peabody, who died 29 Sept., 1732, in her 81st year. He 
occupied the ancestral estate in Ipswich-Farms. A seat 
was assigned him in the Topsfield meeting-house in 1700. 
In 1715, his minister's tax* for himself and son was 
eleven shillings. By articles of agreement signed by the 
widow Sarah and her seven children (Probate Docket, 
14,030), she had left in the hands of her son Mark 200, 
her thirds of the estate. 

Children of Abraham and Sarah Howe : 

27. LOVE, b. 15 Jan., 1678; d. 9 Aug., 1762; m. Samuel Porter of 

Salem, 15 Sept., 1722. She adm. upon her husband's estate 
6 Nov., 1749. Personal estate, 231. 19*. 9d. A part of the 
assets was a "negro man". She leased of John Fowler, 
Ipswich, 20 Feb., 1752, a tenement "the west end that was 
my father's, the two lower rooms, and the part of the cel- 
lar that was my mother's thirds as a facility in educating 
her boys in Rev. Geo. Lesslie's home-school. Her son Sam- 
uel attended the Lesslie school. 

28. INOBEASE, b. 12 April, 1680. 

29. SAMSON, b. 13 Nov., 1682. 

30. ABRAHAM, b. 27 June, 1686. 

81. ABIJAH, b. 17 Aug., 1689; m. (int.) 23 June, 1721, in Ipswich, 
Hannah Dow, b. 3 Oct., 1697, to Thomas and Susannah Dow. 

32. ISRAEL, b. 24 Jan., 1692-3. 

33. MABK, b. 25 Mar., 1695. 

12. JOHN HOWE was born in Ipswich-Farms, 17 April, 
1671, and died there 22 May, 1697. He was a farmer, 
and married in his 19th year Hannah Brown, daughter of 

*The tax list of the Topsfield church for " the Farms " : 1715. 

Samuel Perley and his son John 12 shillings 

Abraham How and his son 11 

Stephen Perley and Timothy Perley 7 

Daniel Foster 6 

Abraham Foster 5 

Caleb Foster 5 

Jacob Foster 5 

Isaac Foster 4 

Thomas Potter 4 

Samuel Potter 3 

Nehemiah Abbott and his son John 3 



42 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

Nathaniel, of Haverhill, whose surname many searchers 
have sought in vain. 

In the settlement of the estate the widow's bond names 
only one surety, " Nathaniel Brown of Haverhill ". In 
the Howe family account book in the possession of the 
Ipswich Historical Society are numerous references to 
" cosen Brown " (1697), " weaving for mary brown " 
(1698), "plowing for hanah How" (1698), "cousen 
Hannah How " (1698), "Receaved of my cousen nathan- 
iell brown money upon my cousen hannah account" (1698) 
" payd to mary brown Is. 6d." (1698), etc. Nathaniel 
Brown, "carpenter living in Bradford ", sold dwelling 
house and land in Haverhill, 11 Sept., 1700, by mort- 
gage. No further record of him appears. Mary Brown 
may have been a daughter and so sister of Hannah Howe. 
8he witnessed, 22 Nov., 1698, the signing of Hannah 
Howe's lease of her farm to Joseph Knowlton. 

After the settlement of the estate and the lease of the 
farm, the widow Hannah removed to Haverhill, presuma- 
bly to live with her father, and it was here that she was 
courted by Ephraim Roberts of Haverhill, son of Robert 
and Susannah Roberts of Ipswich, a cooper by trade, 
whose first wife, Dorothie Hendricks, had died 9 Jan., 
1701-2. The Old Norfolk County records preserve the 
following entry : " Jan. 10th, 1702, Ephraim Roberts of 
Haverhill, widower, was married to Hannah Howe, of 
Haverhill, widow, p. me Robert Pike ; and he declared 
that he did renounce meddling with her estate." This 

O 

record suggests a " smock marriage." Salisbury, where 
the marriage before the civil magistrate took place, is 
about fifteen miles distant from Haverhill, and the time 
was the depth of winter. There were already seven chil- 
dren in the family, including an infant born 15 Apr., 1701. 
By the second marriage there were two children Patience, 
b. 5 July, 1703, and Mary, b. 27 Oct., 1705. Ephraim 
Roberts made his will, which was proved 10 July, 1738. 
The widow Hannah removed to Methuen, where she lived 
with her son Dea. James How and daughter Martha 
Howe, who was unmarried and was " helpful to me in my 
old age and sickness." Her will was dated 22 March, 
1744-5, and probated 13 May, 1745. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 43 

Children of John and Hannah Howe : 

34. MARTHA, b. 13 Jane, 1691; d. unm. 

35. SARAH, b. 8 Feb., 1692-3; d. 21 Jan., 1714-15; m. 28 Feb., 1711- 

12, Thomas Wood, b. Rowley, 4 Nov., 1689. He m. twice 
after, and d. 10 Jan., 1765, See deed, Thomas Wood to 
Abraham Howe, 18 April, 1734. 

36. JAMES, b. 29 Mar., 1694-5. James Howe, over 14 years of age, 

son of John Howe, late of Ipswich, chose, 8 Feb., 1711-12, 
Ephraim Roberts, his father-in-law, of Haverhill, to be his 
guardian. Probate Records, 310: 396. 

16. JOHN HOWE was born in Topsfield, 3 Mar., 1669- 
70, and married 27 Sept., 1697, Sarah Cave of Topsfield, 
who died his widow, 6 May, 1730 (Topsfield Ch. Rds.). 
They joined the Topsfield church 30 June, 1706. He was 
a selectman of Boxford in 1713. The part of Boxford 
in which he lived became a part of Middleton, upon the 
set-off and incorporation of that town in 1728. 

Children of John and Sarah Howe, born in Boxford : 

37. MARK, b. 18 April, 1701. 

38. MARY, b. 3 April, 1703; m. in Andover, 13 Jan., 1730-1, Samuel 

Farnum of Andover. 

89. SARAH, b. 8 Jan., 1705-6; m. 25 April, 1733, Ebenezer Stiles of 
Middleton. 

40. JOHN, b. 6 Mar., 1708-9. 

41. ZERUIAH, b. 15 May, 1715; m. in Middleton, 21 April, 1737 

Paul Averill, a farmer, b. in Topsfield, 16 Dec., 1711; 8 chil- 
dren; d. in the winter of 1805-6. 

42. JOSEPH, b. 7 Oct., 1719. 

23. BENJAMIN HOWE was born 5 or 8 Jan., 1687-8. 
He married in Topsfield, 6 Dec., 1711 (1710. c. B.), Alice 
Bridges. They joined the Topsfield church 28 April, 
1717. He settled his sister Lydia's estate. They re- 
moved to Sutton, Mass., in 1738. 

Children of Benjamin and Alice, born in Topsfield : 

43. BENJAMIN, b. 20 April, 1712; d. yonng. 

44. SARAH, b. 22 Oct., 1713; d. 2 Sept., 1734, in Topsfield. 

45. BENJAMIN, b. 6 Oct., 1717. 

46. JAMES, b. 20 July, 1719. 

47. SAMUEL, b. 11 Feb., 1725. 



44 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

28. INCREASE HOWE was born in Ipswich-Farms, 12 
April, 1680, and died 29 Jan., 1754. He married, first, 
Mary Whipple, int. 23 April, 1709, who died 31 Aug., 
1721. He married, second, Mrs. Susannah Kinsman, 
int. 10 Aug., 1723. He was a taverner and a very influ- 
ential citizen, socially and officially. His will was proved 
11 Feb., 1754. It mentions wife Susannah and daughters 
Priscilla, Susannah and Elizabeth, and sons Joseph, the 
elder son, and John. 

Children of Increase and Mary and Susannah Howe : 

48. PBISCILLA; m. 24 June, 1731, Joshua Wilson of Exeter, N. H. 

49. MAKY, bp. 11 Oct., 1713; m. 20 May, 1731, Jacob Brown. The 

wife of Jacob Brown, jr., of the Hamlet, d. 5 Aug., 1736. 

60. JOSBPH, bp. 7: 7 mo., 1718; d. 30 Jan., 1725-6. 

51. SARAH, bp. 12 July, 1724; d. 4 Sept., 1724. 

62. SUSANNAH, bp. 13 Feb., 1725; m. 10 Feb., 1747-8, Samuel 
Swazey. 

53. ELIZABETH, bp. 7 Mar., 1730; m. (int.) 23 May, 1747, Thomas 
Board man. 

64. JOSEPH, bp. 4 Sept., 1737; d. 25 Mar., 1762, aged 25 y.; fitted 
for college at the Feoffee's school, Ipswich; grad. at Har- 
vard; taught the Feoffee's school; m. (int.) 9 Dec., 1758, 
Elizabeth Berry, dau. of Thomas Berry, Hon., Col., M. D. ; 
d. 16 May, 1759, aged 22. Joseph, "schoolmaster", made 
his will 6 Mar., 1762; it was proved 6 April, 1762. His wife 
Elizabeth, " by and with consent of my husband," made 
her will 11 May, 1759, giving "estate that came to me by 
my honored mother's will "; paid her own funeral expenses; 
gave husband 133, 6s. 8d., and " my silver poringer "; my 
brother John, my silver tankard; South Church in Ips- 
wich, 6. 13s. 4d., supplementing her father's gift for plate; 
mother Howe, a handsome ring; sister Swazey, green damask 
gown; sister Boardman, dark gingham gown; my honored 
mother, Elizabeth Berry, the remainder. 

54a. JOHN, bp. 4 Nov., 1744; d. 2 Aug., 1752. 

29. SAMSON HOWE was born in Ipswich-Farms, 13 
Nov., 1682. He was brought up by his grandfather, Lt. 
Francis Peabody of Topsfield, who devised to him land 
there. Mr. Howe received, in 1718, upon the death of 
his father, his share of the paternal estate. In July, 1728, 
at Killingly, Ct., he and his wife Alice deeded to Thomas 
Perley all their right and interest in property that had 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 45 

been his brother Nathaniel's of Boxford, and described in 
a deed from " our honored father, John Perley." A pa- 
per, without date, probably written about the time Sam- 
son settled in Killingly, empowered his father Abraham, 
as his attorney, to manage his estate and " concarns." 
Miss Larned's History of Windham County, Ct., says: 
Mr. Howe settled in " Nashuway ", between Quinnabaug 
and French River, beyond Connecticut's limit, though 
reckoned in Killingly, 1708, and was a proprietor in Kil- 
lingly, 1709, thus arguing a return to Boxford, for his 
betrouthed. 

Samson Howe married, in Boxford, 8 June, 1710, Alice 
Perley, daughter of John and Mary (Howlett) Perley, of 
Boxford. She joined the First church in Boxford, 1706, 
and died, in Killingly, 19 July, 1746, in her 66th year. 
Samson brought a letter from the Woodstock church and 
joined the Killingly church, 19 Oct., 1715, the day that 
church was organized. He died in Killingly, 3 Sept., 
1736. He was a captain, and held his commission from 
the English crown, and was the first man buried with 
military honors in that town. He left a large estate. His 
widow had half the land. But if she married she was to 
have 80 ; and outliving her second husband, she could re- 
turn to the old homestead, if she wished. The value of his 
stock was 236 ; his armor, 25; his two negroes, 200. 
Of the negroes, his son Samson had " Leah ", and Perley 
had " Caesar ". 

He was chosen clerk of the first meeting of the inhab- 
itants, to form a religious society in the northern part of 
Killingly. He was one of the committee to lay out the 
ministerial lands 150 acres ; to raise the meeting-house 
before winter set in ; to lay the meeting-house floor and 
to seat the meeting-house. The North Society of Kil- 
lingly, afterwards called Thompson Parish, was formed 
23 Jan., 1730; the ordination was 25 Feb., 1730, with 
these members : Marston Cabot, pastor-elect : Benjamin 
Bixby, Samson Howe, and 24 others. 

Mr. Howe was influential in establishing the state line 
that fixed the northern boundary of the county ; he was, 
in 1729, one of a committee on roads ; about 1726, was 



46 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

licensed taverner ; in 1715, he and Comfort Starr* bought 
the Whiting 1000-acre farm, to which Samson, son of 
Rev. Perley Howe, succeeded, taking the share his grand- 
father owned. 

Children of Samson and Alice Howe : 

55. PEBLEY, b. 1711. 

56. ALICE; m. (int.) in Dudley, 7 Mar., 1789-40, Thomas Newell. 

57. SAMSON. 

30. LIEUT. ABRAHAM HOWE was born 27 June, 1686 > 
and died 6 Mar., 1770, in the place of his birth, the 
Farms. He married, 31 Jan., 1712, Hephzibah An- 
drews, who was baptized 5 July, 1691, and died 13 April, 
1753. She united with the church 30 Aug., 1719. This 
is the man who built his house and had it ready for his 
bride, on the orchard land purchased in 1711. He was a 
farmer. His will is dated 11 Mar., 1762. He was lieu- 
tenant in the militia. 

Children of Abraham and Hephzibah Howe : 

58. MERCY, b. 3 Mar., 1713-14; m. (int.) 15 July, 1738, John Fow- 

ler, jr., of the Farms. 

59. JEMIMA, b. 6. 12m., 1715-16; d. 20 June, 1795; m. 23 July, 1776, 

Jeremiah Smith of Linebrook Parish. He lived next east 
of the school house, and gave the land it rests upon so long 
as used for school purposes. He was b. 11 Nov., 1712, to 
John and Hannah, and d. 24 May, 1795. 

60. HEPHZIBAH, b. 26 Feb., 1717-18; joined the church 27 June, 

1742; d. 30 Nov., 1781; m. 1 Feb., 1753, Daniel Kimball of 
Linebrook Parish. 

*This historical note suggests a colony from Ipswich-Farms and 
vicinity. Comfort Starr's wife was niece of Samson Howe's wife 
(See p. 13, Perley Family History and Genealogy). John Younglove 
of the Farms and Isaac Jewett of Rowley " followed Samson 
Howe." The first regular datable settler in Thompson was Rich- 
ard Dresser of Rowley, who, in 1708, married Mary Peabody of 
Rowley, and had Jacob, born 1710, the first white male child born 
in the town. Dresser sold his " Nashuway " estate to Samson 
Howe. He died a few days after 9 July, 1728. Jacob, when only 
18, "worked with a will," with cart and oxen, in building the meet- 
ing-house. He was Parish Clerk in 1741 and many following years, 
and was often in other offices. Benjamin Bixby from Topsfield was 
the first settler on Brandy Hill. Jacob Bixby, his nephew, and 
Nathaniel Brown of Killingly settled around there between 1721 
and 1726. Was he the Nathaniel Brown of Family 12? 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 47 

61. SABAH, bp. 4. 12 m., 1719; m. 4 Aug., 1771, Caleb Pool of 

Gloucester. 

62. RUTH, b. 19 April, 1722; m. (int.) 10 Jan., 1741, Samuel Perley, 

a neighbor. See Perley Family History and Genealogy, 
p. 47. 

63. ABEAHAM, b. 2 Jan., 1724-5. 

64. ELIZABETH, b. 30 Sept., 1728; m. 26 Dec., 1761, Nimphas Sta- 

cey, of Gloucester; joined the church 27 June, 1742. 

32. DR. ISRAEL HOWE was born 24 Jan., 1692-3, and 
died 15 July, 1740. He was a physician in Andover, 
locating there about 1718. He married (int.) 4 Sept., 
1714, Mercy Warner of Ipswich, who died 20 Oct., 1765, 
aged 79 years. His widow Mercy settled the estate. The 
inventory, dated 6 May, 1 741 : 3 acres, with houses and 
barn, 175; money on bond, 32. 11. ; total, 415. 7*. 
6d. 

Children of Israel and Mercy Howe : 

65. ISRAEL, bp. 12 Feb., 1715-16, in Topsfield. 

66. KETUBAH, bp. 5: 3 m., 1717, in Ipswich; d. Andover, 30 June, 

1786, aged 69 ; m., in Andover, Philemon Chandler, jr., 26 
Nov., 1739. Children: John, b. 26 April, 1740; d. 5 Jan., 
1766; Elizabeth, b. 29 Jan., 1748-9. 

67. DANIEL, b. 1 May, 1719, Andover. 

68. SABAH, b. her (bp. 25 Sept.), 1720; d. 11 Feb., 1720-1. 

69. SABAH, b. 7 Feb., 1721-2. 

70. HANNAH, b. 5 April, 1724. 

71. PBISCILLA, b. 24 June, 1726. 

33. DEA. MARK HOWE was born 28 Mar., 1695, and 
died 17 Feb., 1770. He married, first, 20 Dec., 1722, 
Hephzibah Perkins, who died 30 Jan., 1759 ; married, 
second, 11 Oct., 1759, widow Margaret Perley, who died 
1 Sept., 1762 (See Perley History, p. 38) ; he married, 
third, 26 April, 1763, Elizabeth Bradstreet, who married, 
19 June, 1770, Dea. Caleb Pool of Gloucester. Dea. 
Mark joined the church 30 Aug., 1724 ; Hephzibah the 
week before. "Violet", a negro slave, was sold by 
Joseph Parker to Samuel Bradstreet, then to Deacon 
Howe, In June, 1766, she sued Mr. Howe for her liber- 
ty. The court came in July. 

" Sept. 10, 1766, then received of Mark Howe ye sum 
of twenty shillings in full of all debts, dues and demands 



48 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

of what name or nature soever from ye beginning of ye 
world to this day I say Received by me as witness my 
hand and seal in the presence of these witnesses : 

John Fowler her 

Benja. Bixby Vilet X (L. S.) 

mark 

For 8 visits and medicine in May and June, 1753, Dr. 
Jonathan Prince of Danvers charged Deacon Howe X2 
15*. U. 

Mark Howe, gentleman, was commissioned, 23 Sept., 
1749, by Wm. Shirley, Governor and Capt.-Gen., as 
Lieutenant of the First company of Foot in Line brook 
Parish, Ipswich, in the 2nd Regiment, Thomas Berry, 
Colonel. This interesting document was preserved by the 
late Wellington Pool, Esq., many years town clerk of 
Wenham. The Essex Institute has an excellent photo- 
graph of it. Lieut. Howe seems to have been a recruit- 
ing officer. He impressed, 15 Aug., 1757, John Smith's 
gun for Jacob Howe, jr., valued XI. 6s. Sd. The next 
day Daniel Kimball's gun was impressed for Francis 
"Setchel" (Shatswell), value 1. 14s. 8d., andNehemiah 
Abbott's for Jonathan Chapman, valued XI. 6s. Sd. 

An account of the soldiers tinder the command of Lt. 
Mark Howe that have enlisted into his Majesty's service, 
in defence of the North America : 

Michael Holgate and Mark Howe, Jr., a whole turn 
each for Capt. Herrick 15 Mch., 1755. 

In 1755, Mark Fisk, John Daniels, Ebenezer Davis, 
Jere. Setchel (Shatswell), for Crown Point, under Capt. 
Whipple, a half turn each. 

Sept. 15, 1755, Nehemiah Abbott, a whole turn, for 
Crown Point, under Capt. Isaac Smith, hired by Allen 
Perley. 

1756, Daniel Chapman, Jr., and Ebenezer Davis, Jere 
Satchel, a whole term each, for Capt. Israel Davis, to 
Crown Point. Setchel hired by Zecheriah Dunnels. Also 
Asa Holgate and two Hams[h]eir men,hired on the Parish's 
account for Crown Point. 

Anthony Potter and Samuel Potter, a whole turn each 
for Capt. Davis at Crown Point. 

(To be continued.) 




CAPT. SAMUEL LAMBERT 

1768-1832 
From the miniature in possession of the Essex Institute. 




JONATHAN LAMBERT 

I 772-1 814 
From the miniature in possession of the Essex Institute. 



THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 



The Lambert family appears in Salem records as early 
as 1637, and that portion identified later with Rowley and 
connected with the church of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers un- 
doubtedly spent the winter of 1637/8 in Salem, as they 
arrived late in the year, removing in the spring to Row- 
ley. 

MICHAEL LAMBERT OF LYNN. 

Of Michael, of Lynn in 1647, Savage says that he had 
a wife, Elizabeth, who died Oct., 1657, and he married in 
1659, Elinor, widow of Strong Furnell, and had two 
children, and, perhaps, by a third wife, Moses, born April 
27, 1673 ; and that Michael died Aug. 18, 1676. He also 
had, according to the vital records, twins, Mary and 
Michael, born Jan. 23, 1661. 

Isaac Allerton obtained a judgment against Mich : Lam- 
bert, Dec. 26, 1637, and he was a defendant in a slander 
suit brought by William Vincent, Jan. 26, 1638. 

A lot in Salem was granted, Feb. 21, 1637, to Michael 
Lambert " if he inhabite here ", but the Essex Antiqua- 
rian says that he probably failed to come. Also, there 
was granted, Nov. 26, 1638, " to henery harwood, halfe 
an acre lott wch was formerly granted Michaell Lambert 
nere Winter Island." 

Dec. 26, 1637, a case was presented in the Quarterly 
Court (vol. I, p. 53), of Lt. Howe v. Richard Chadwell, 
and June 27, 1643, is the item, " Henry Collins and 
Henry Walton, Lamberts witnesses." " Of Lieft Howe 
or his brother." June 26, 1638, " Tho : Chadwell being 
absent Court lett fall." There is also a case of " Henry 
Walton v. Michaell Lambert. Constable Henry Collins. 
Debt, Dec. 27, 1642, and another in which William Vin- 

(49) 



50 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

cent sued Michaell Lambert for slander. Michaell Lam- 
bert was in Court for being drunk in August, 1644. He 
was of " lin " and his wife " Eliz " (stc) was admonished 
for " brewing on the Lord's day," Mar. 1, 1647. 

The "Inventory of Micha: Lambert 9th mo., 1676, 
taken by Thomas Fairfax & William Bassett, 48:15:0 ; 
allowed 29 9mo 1676 and administration granted to Elli- 
nor the relict." He left children : Michaell, Abigail, 
Moses and Rebecca. Abigail married June 9, 1684, Sam- 
uell Hartt. 

RICHARD LAMBERT OF SALEM. 

Richard Lambert of Salem appears in the list of the 
land-holders in the town records in 1636 : "Ric d Lam- 
bert, Joyner, Receiued for an Inhabitant but to purchase 
his accomodcon Jan. 23, 1636." " Five acres granted 
him Derbys fort side, July 18, 1637." 

" This day also was con vented before this court for 
drunckness Richard Lambert & was fined tenne shillings 
& ordered to sitt in the stocks twoe publike dayes (ye 
times referred to Coin 1 Endicot to determin." Lambert 
was successfully sued for debt by " Willia Pester ", June 
26, 1638 ; but won a suit brought by John Fickeringe 
of Salem, June 25, 1639. He was defendant in an action 
for debt by John Symonds, Aug. 31, 1647. On June 16, 
1651, the selectmen of Salem granted Rich : Edwards 20 
acres in consideration of his resigning 20 acres 
below " mackerill Cove towards the Creek that he 
bought of mr Thornedick wch was formerly granted to 
Richard Lambert." He had land near Beckett's Lane in 
1655. 

Richard Lambert's wife was named Sarah, and as will 
be seen she was destined to be a great burden to the 
town for many years. In the town records, May 1, 1647, 
is an entry which it seems possible may refer to Sarah 
Lambert, although Richard was still alive, since he was 
fined, in November, 1655, for "smoking tobacco openly 
in the street " ; but he was spoken of as deceased in 
1659 : " Capt Hawthorne, mr Clarke, mr Corwin haue 
power giuen them to agree w th mr Emry about curinge 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 51 

Goody Lambert & for dyett & what they shall doe the 
Towne pmiseth to repay them by the first of the 9th 
month next." 

The only clue as to the date of death of Richard Lam- 
bert is afforded by the earliest mention of the care of his 
family which would set it as before December, 1657 ; for 
" it is agreed with Henry Hereck that he is to keep Rich- 
ard Lambert's Daughter from y e first of y e 10 th m 1657 
to the first of the 2 d m 1658 and he is to haue allowed 
him in Clothes & other waies the Just Sume of fiue pownd 
A year : : p d him 5 11 16 s 3 d : rest to him this 4 th 2 mo . 1659 
17 s l d accounted with Hen Herik for keepinge of Lam- 
berts daughter pd him the foil, p Roger Haskel 2" 3* l d 
& reamyne r p Ed Batter the whole is: 2 U 10 s ." 

" There being an agree nt with Ralf Elinwood in the 11 th 
m 1659 to keepe Sara Lambert two years " &c. (land was 
granted to him). 

Under date of Jan. 20, 1661, " Sarah Lambert is Com- 
itted to Jerimyah Butman for a yeare begin [n]g 20 Day 
of Nouber past vntill the twentyth Day of the moneth 
Nouember next 1662 & the towne men haue pmifed to 
pay him fixe pounds." Again, Apr. 26, 1662, " Its agreed 
and couenanted with the wife of William Lord Junio r 
that f he is to keepe and mainetaine Sarah Lambert seauen 
yeares if f he foe longe Hue ", &c. Apparently this agree- 
ment did not last long, for, Dec. 17, 1562, it is " Agreed 
with goodwife Cantleburie in the behalf of her hufband 
that he is to keepe and maintaine Sarah Lambert one 
yeare", &c. 

She continued to be passed around as the following en- 
tries show : " Jeremie Butman for Sarah Lambert 5:10: 
6," 1662. " Jeremie Boutman to be alowed for Sarah 
Lambert," 1663 ; and again in 1664, " To m r Will Browne 
for Lamberts dafter and for his expences at gerall Court : 
to the 11 th of 10 th 66 : tenn pounds I say 10:00:00." On 
Feb. 22, 1688, " Sarah Lambert to be difpoffed of by the 
Difcreacon of the felectmen for fome Convenient tyme to 
thofe they see meet for at the eafe of Towne Chardge." 
Jan. 16, 1670, "It. for keeping Sarah Lambert & Child 
1667, 11:00:00." Jan. 16, 1671, " To Jn Clifford : for 
Keeping Sarah Lambert 07:00:00." Mar. 1, 1671/2, 



52 THE LAMBERT FAMILT. OF SALEM, MASS. 

" discourfe w th John Clifford to See whether he would 
Abate anything of the Seauen pounds p. year he An- 
fwered that he would not Abate anything and that for the 
time to come he would haue more of the towne or elce 
he would not keep her any longer. Agreed w th ffrancis 
Skery to keep her for one yere for fiue pownds." Evi- 
dently the charge of Sarah was no sinecure. 

On Apr. 30, 1672, ' Its ord r d by y e Selectmen that 
forty Shillings be disburfed on the Townes accont for the 
Cloathing of Sarah Lambert and m r Batter is def ired to 
doe it." " To ffrancis Skerey for Keeping Sarah Lam- 
berts Child to haue fiue pounds also the same for Sarah 
Lambert ", 1673. " Tho : greenslits wife to keep Sarah 
Lambert", 1673. "Nich maning for keeping Sarah Lam- 
berts child," 1673. " Thomas Greenslut to keep Sarah 
Lamberts Child till it be 18 years old " (this last makes 
it evident that the child was less than six years old when 
Sarah was first provided for in 1661). 

At last the town officers seem to have become desperate 
over the case, for, Sept. 22, 1674, " Capt Corwine & m r 
Bartholomer are def ired to Inq r wt vefTels are bound for 
Ver Genia & to Agree with any mafter for ye Carring 
away of Sarah Lambert for w ch they have whole power." 
Feb. 27, 1674/5, " 1/2 Acre of land laid out to John 
Corwin pr ye Selectmen at ye Northeast end of ye now 
fence of ye land Sold pr Richard Hollingworth to philip 
Cromwel for ye use of ye sd Corwin wch land is Sold 
him pr the Towne Consideration Twelve pounds pr him 
pd to the Widow Greenslat allowed her for keeping Sarah 
Lamberts child." Evidently the plan to transport Sarah 
was not a success, as her keeping still figures on the rec- 
ords in 1675 and until 1679. The name of the daughter 
does not appear. 

In Conant's list of marsh and meadow land-holders is 
found (*4*) 3 Rich : Lambt (*3*) 2", i.e. 3 in family, 2 
acres in a later hand ; the starred figures probably are 
corrections. His land is mentioned in 1655 and he had 
Daniel Webb's house. Savage says the daughter, Hester, 
married, Oct. 8, 1659, Jeremiah Bootman, and they had 
Mary, born July 4, 1660 ; Jeremy, born Nov. 4, 1662 ; 
Mathew, born Sept. 11, 1665. " Oct. 26, 1679, Samuell 



BY HENBY W. BBLKNAP. 58 

ye son of Jeremiah Bootman (by his wife Hester Lam- 
bert) Baptized as his wife was a member of the Salem 
church." Beverly First Church Records. 

Savage also suggests that Richard Lambert, killed by 
the Indians, Sept. 18, 1675, at Bloody Brook, was a son 
of the first Richard. 

JOHN LAMBERT OF LYNN. 

In the Records of the Quarterly Courts of Essex 
County the earliest references to the name of Lambert, 
Dec. 27, 1642, with others later, refer, apparently or di- 
rectly, to Michael Lambert or his wife, but in September, 
1653, there appears a John Lambert . " ye acco of The- 
ophilus Bagley & Jno Lamberte there severall voyages 
with ye Companyes Boate to Boston, Waymouth, Bran- 
treye & Hingham, 28 li." in a list of accounts concerning 
the Iron Works at Hammersmith (Hammersmith was a 
part of Lynn). 

Several suits appear: "November, 1654, John Hath- 
orne assignee to John Lambarte v. John Breks & Com- 
pany and Mr John Gefford, &c. Debt." (Jefford or Gef- 
ford was connected with the Iron Works.) June, 1655, 
" Joseph Armytage (of Lynn) v. John Lambert ". Con- 
cerning a shallop. Nonsuited. " John Lambett owed 
the estate of Joshua Foote of Boston & Brain tree in 
1655 ". N. E. H. $ #. Register, vol. 9, p. 137.) 

What connection, if any, there was between Michael 
and John and Richard of Lynn, and John of Salem, and 
between them all with Francis of Rowley, it has been 
impossible to find. Savage says, " John Lambert, Lynn, 
a fisherman, a. 1644, Salem, 1663, at Lynn again till d. 
Oct. 28, 1676." This death appears in the town records 
of Lynn, and it is the opinion of the writer that Savage 
erred in connecting him with Salem, since, from the will 
of John of Salem, it is evident that he died in November, 
1684, between the 14th, when it was dated, and the 25th, 
when the inventory was presented. 

JOHN LAMBERT OF SALEM. 

1. JOHN LAMBERT of Salem, fisherman, had left his 
wife and a daughter in England, but had brought with 



54 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

him his son John, who, assuming his age to have been 
correctly stated in his deposition in 1677, was born about 
1629. The only child, not recorded, so far as discovered, 
was his son John, mentioned in his grandfather's will in 
1684 and executor of the will, therefore of full age at 
that time, and with a daughter Sarah, who receives a be- 
quest from her great-grandfather. Also mentioned in the 
will is a grandchild Mary. It must be assumed that he 
had no other children than John and the daughter in 
England. 

That he had vainly tried to get his wife and daughter 
across is proved by his being presented in the Quarterly 
Court, Jan. 26, 1668, as follows : " John Lambert of 
Beverly, for living from his wife, was dismissed after 
satisfying the court that he had endeavored to send for 
her and expected her shortly." And again, June 27, 
1671 : " John Lambert was presented for absence from 
his wife. The action was dismissed, he having used his 
utmost endeavors to have her come over to him." Nicho- 
las Bartlett (who was of Kennebunk in 1651, and living 
in Salem in 1700) was in court, charged with breach of 
the peace, in striking John Lambert in April, 1665. 

" Jo : Lambert and others petitioninge for libertie of 
fom lande to plant on moultons meferie their def ire is not 
granted," Oct. 8, 1663. Salem Town Records. 

The marriage of Elizabeth Lambert is found in the 
Salem Court Records, October, 1657, to William Cash, 
but it is not clear where she belongs in the family. Sav- 
age thinks she may have been a daughter of Richard's, 
and the name of the last child lends probability to this. 
They had children : William, born Feb. 23, 1668 ; John, 
born July 10, 1671, died about July 24, 1671 ; John 
(twin), born July 10, 1672, died Aug. 26, 1674 ; Eliza- 
beth, born July 10, 1672 (twin) ; Ann (twin), born April 
29,1675; Mary (twin), born Apr. 29, 1675; Hester, 
born Mar. 9, 1679. 

John Lambert of Salem was a signer of a petition against 
imposts in 1668, and in November, 1670, he testified upon 
oath that when he went away and left his house on a Fri- 
day morning, it was fast nailed up with a board against 
it, and when he returned, his window was open, in which 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 55 

time William Barnes broke into his house at the window, 
as he confessed. Barnes was sentenced to be branded and 
to pay the charges. (Barnes was a servant of Paul Thorn- 
dike of Beverly.) 

Walter Price of Salem, in his will, May 21, 1674, 
proved June, 1674, leaves to his son John " the now 
dwelling house of John Lambert in Salem, or the debt 
due to me from him." The deeds show that John Lam- 
bert, in 1667, bought a house of Nathaniel Masters, tay- 
lor, on the Basse River side, which district was set off to 
the town of Beverly the following year. In 1670 he 
bought five acres more of William Hoare in the same 
locality. In 1683 he gave his grandson, John, of Salem, 
his house and some land. 

He died in 1684, between Nov. 14 and 25, and his wife 
and daughter were still living, so far as he knew, in Eng- 
land. His will, dated Nov. 14, 1684, proved Nov. 24, 
1684, provides for the following bequests : 

"To my loving wife and to my daughter in old England 
ten pounds, to my fone John Lambert five shillings, to my 
grandfone John Lamberts Daughter Sarah one of my 
feather-beds and all the furniture there vnto belonging, to 
my grandchild mary Lambert one pewter platter & one 
poringer. All the rest of my perfonal eftate to my grand- 
child John Lambert whom I doe make full executor. I 
defire my two Loveing friends Samuel Corning fenr and 
John Bennet to be overfeers." 

The inventory of the estate was made by Samuel 
Corning fen r and Joseph Morgan, Nov. 25,1684: 17: 
18:6, and presented by his fon John Lambert fen r , Nov. 
24, 1685. 

Children : 

2. A DAUGHTER, who remained in England. 

3. JOHN, b. perhaps abt. 1629; d. 1710/11. 

3. JOHN LAMBERT, if his deposition in November, 
1677, correctly states his age, was born about 1629. Like 
his father, he was a fisherman, but we find very few 
items to inform us of his doings. In the Records of the 
Court of Assistants of Massachusetts Bay (vol. 1, p. 
241), under date of Nov. 12, 1683, William Johnson 



56 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OP SALEM, MASS. 

being presented by the Grand Jury was brought to the 
barr holding vp his hand at the barr was Indicted by the 
name of Willjam Johnston for that he not haueing the 
feare of God before his eyes but Instigated by the divil 
Confoederating himselfe w th one John Graham & other 
Sea Rouers his Accomplices did together with them some- 
times in the month of June in this present yeare 1683 on 
the high sea & neere the Coast of (Can)ady w th force of 
Armes pirattically assault, seize & take seuerall vessels 
& the Companyes belonging to them i e a certain Catch 
belonging to the Port of Salem John Lambert master &c 
after the euidences produced ag* him were read Comitted 
to the Jury the Jury brought in their virdict they found 
the prisone r W m Johnson at the barr not guilty according 
to Indictment ", &c. 

He was administrator of Elias Wiett, lately deceased 
at sea, and brought in an inventory Nov. 27, 1666. 

Essex deeds show that in or before 1660 his father-in- 
law, Edward Gaskill of Salem, ship-carpenter, had con- 
veyed land to John Lambert of Salem, seaman, and Lam- 
bert conveyed a part to John Loomis Jan. 28, 1660, and for 
25 conveyed back the remainder to Gaskill or Gaskoyne 
the same day, delivery to be made April 8 following, until 
which time he was ** to stand y c adventure of said house 
in case of any casualty by fire." Oct. 7, 1664, for " six 
quintals of marchantable dry codfish," he bought of John 
Ruck, vintner, part of Ruck's land at the back side of 
Lambert's lot. He also bought, Oct. 14, 1690, of Thomas 
Maule, merchant, a tract of land in the South Field, 
about two acres. 

His deposition in 1695 is interesting as illustrating the 
early method of giving physical possession of a piece of 
land, by plucking a twig and taking up a piece of turf, 
and, in some cases, by giving the door-latch to the 
grantee. " Deposition of John Lambert Sen 1 & of Simon 
Willard both of full age that September 21 1695 wee 
were both defired by M r John Ruck of Salem to goe 
with him & his sonn Thomas Ruck to the homestead of 
Jn Alf ord as wee ufually caled it & there M r Ruck Said 
this land has Indeed been in said Jn Alfords pofsef ion 



BY HENBY W. BELKNAP. 57 

indeed but sd he sd Alford neuer paid me for it nor I 
neuer gaue him a deed of it therefore sd M r Ruck to vs 
bear witnefs that I doe giue this Land to my son Thomas 
Ruck by Turffe & Twigg & sd M r Ruck did then Stoop 
downe and toake hold of a twigg in y e Garden of sd 
homestead & said here son Thomas I doe before thefe two 
men giue you pofesf ion of this Land by Turffe & Twigg 
& wee doe remember it to be y e same day that M r Ruck 
gaue his sd Son Thomas an Instrument of sd Land," 
Acknowledged Dec. 27, 1698. 

He married, probably in Salem, Preserved, baptized 
Aug. 7, 1639, daughter of Edward and Sarah Gaskoyne 
(or, as the name soon became, Gaskon, Gaskill, &c.). 
July 29, 1690, "Edward Gaskin Sen' of Salem, being 
very sick and weake in consideration of fatherly love to 
son-in-law John Lambert in Salem, senior, [deeds] all my 
now dwelling house in Salem, money, plates, Jewells, 
rings, debts, household stuff, apparell, &c " and " In con- 
sideration of above written deed of gift I said John Lam- 
bert engage to maintaine my father and mother in law 
Edward and Sarah Gaskin during life and to bury them 
credibly." 

He died about 1710, when, at his widow's request, ad- 
ministration was granted to his son Ebenezer, Mar. 10. 
The inventory was taken Apr. 14, 1712, by Elizur Keysur 
and George Locke, and presented by Ebenezer Lambert, 
admr., amounting to 65:17:0. The " 3 d Tuesday May 
1715 Ebenezer Lambert admin' to Estate of John Lam- 
bert Late of Salem dec d is Authorized to Sell Reall Estate 
to pay his Debts ", and on June 27, 1715, he sells, for 
X50, to William Luscombe of Salem, the late homestead, 
formerly in possession of John Alford. 

Children, born in Salem : 

4. JOHN, prob. eldest child; d. June 30, 1704. 

5. ELIZABETH, m. Oct. 16, 1678, Joseph (bapt. Sept. 12, 1653), s. 

of Joseph and Mary Swasey of Salem. He lived in what is 
now English St. in 1680, and later on the present Beckford 
St., and d. before 1709. She d. after 1711. Chn., b. in 
Salem: (1) Samuel, bapt. July 14, 1682, d. 1739; (2) Eliza- 
beth, b. May 2, 1684, d. July 3, 1703; (3) Joseph, b. Aug. 
10, 1685, d. May 26, 1770. 



58 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

6. DANIEL, b. Oct. 3, 1658 ; d. 1695. 

7. SABA, b. Feb. 7, 1660. 

8. EZEKIEL, b. Mar. 3, 1661. 

9. SAMUEL, b. Mar. 16, 1664. 

10. MARY, b. Apr. 26, 1667. 

11. JONATHAN, b. Dec. 23, 1669. 

12. HANNA, b. Dec., 1671; d. Dec., 1671. 

13. EBENEZEB, b. Apr. 2, 1674; d. bef. 1739. 

4. JOHN LAMBERT, whose birth and baptism are not 
recorded in Salem, was probably the oldest child. From 
a deed made in 1686, of the land left him by his grand- 
father, we find that he had then a wife Sarah, while from 
a deed made in 1695, unless there is an error in the re- 
corded copy, it would appear that he had a wife Marga- 
ret. Nothing is found regarding him in the land or pro- 
bate records, except two deeds, and the only child whose 
name is found is the daughter Sarah, mentioned in her 
grandfather's will, but Sewall mentions a son. He is 
called a shipwright in the deeds. 

May 7, 1686, John Lambert sold to William Swetland, 
tailor, his grandfather's house in Beverly, next the old 
meeting house and the burying place, which he had re- 
ceived from John Lambert, the first, and a parcel of land 
on Bass river, and took in return for it Swetland's house, 
and Mar. 2, 1695/6, he sold to Daniel Bacon of Salem, 
fisherman, the piece of land in the South Field which his 
father had bought of Thomas Maule. 

The lack of information about him in Salem records is 
abundantly made good, however, upon reference to the 
Acts and Resolves of the Province of Massachusetts Bay 
(vol. 8, pp. 386-398). From 1700 for some years there 
was more or less controversy and confusion in practice as 
to the question of jurisdiction in the matter of trials for 
piracy on the high seas. Kidd and his fellows were sent 
to London by Bellomont, notwithstanding Judge Sewall's 
objection. This delay and the difficulty over that case 
induced Parliament to confer upon the Crown authority 
to issue commissions for the trial of pirates by Courts of 
Admiralty, out of the realm. This act was dated Nov. 
23, 1700. 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 69 

A number of leading citizens of Boston fitted out as a 
privateer, in 1703, a brigantine of eighty tons the 
*' Charles " for an expedition against the French ene- 
mies of England in Acadia and Newfoundland. She was 
to be commanded by Capt. Daniel Plowman, and as late 
as Aug. 1st the *' Charles ", manned and equipped, was 
riding off Marblehead, when Plowman wrote the owners 
that, owing to severe illness, he was unable to take her 
to sea and urging their speedy coming to take care of the 
ship. They accordingly went to Marblehead, and though 
Plowman was too ill to see them, he wrote begging that 
the vessel be sent to Boston and her equipment removed, 
and that they should not send her to sea under a new 
commander, declaring " it will not do with these peo- 
ple " (meaning her crew). Before measures could be 
taken, the crew locked the commander into the cabin; 
where he lay sick, and, under the command of one John 
Quelch, made for the South Atlantic. At some time the 
captain, alive or dead, was thrown overboard. Off the 
coast of Brazil they captured, between Nov. 15, 1703, and 
Feb. 17, 1703/4, nine vessels of various descriptions, ap- 
parently all the property of subjects of the King of Por- 
tugal, an ally of England, from which they took food, 
fabrics, gold-dust, and two negro boys, together with guns, 
ammunition, &c., of about 1,700 value. 

Nothing was heard of the ship until May, 1704, when 
the Boston News-Letter reported her arrival at Marblehead. 
The crew seem to have landed or at once dispersed to 
various points, but very soon many circumstances arose 
to throw suspicion upon their story of the recovery of 
great treasure from a wreck. Two of the owners, William 
Clark and Charles Colman, laid information against them, 
and on May 23 the attorney-general, Paul Dudley, set out 
to capture them, for on that day Judge Sewall met Dud- 
ley at the tavern in Lynn, " in egre pursuit of the Pirats" 
and with one of them already in hand, whom he turned 
over to Sewall. Energetic action resulted in the seizing 
of a number of the men at various places, and among the 
number was John Lambert of Salem, then about forty- 
nine years of age. 



60 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

On June 20, 1704, Lambert and four others were tried,. 
Quelch having been convicted of the felony, piracy and 
murder, and sentence of death pronounced upon him the 
previous day, when they pleaded '* not guilty," but were 
sentenced to " Dy in like manner." Twenty-two in all 
were tried and but two at that time acquitted, one having 
been sick on the voyage and the other a servant fourteen 
years of age. June 30, 1704, Quelch, Lambert and five 
more were executed, except one, Francis King, who had 
a reprieve. 

Judge Sewall records in his Diary : " After Diner,, 
about 3. p. m. I went to see the Execution. Many were 
the people that saw upon Broughton's Hill. But when I 
came to see how the River was cover'd with People I was 
amazed : Some say there were 100 Boats. 150 Boats 
and Canoes saith Cousin Moody of York. He told them.. 
. . . the place of Execution about the midway between 
Hanson's point and Broughton's Warehouse. When the 
scaffold was hoisted to a due height, the seven Malefac- 
tors went up ; Mr Mather pray'd for them standing upon 
the Boat. Ropes were all fasten'd to the Gallows (save 
King, who was Reprieved). When the Scaffold was let 
to sink, there was such a Screech of the Women that my 
wife heard it sitting in our Entry next the Orchard, and 
was much surprised at it ; yet the wind was sou-west. 
Our house is a full mile from the place." Sewall contin- 
ues his account on July 2 : "By my Order, the diggers 
of M m Paiges Tomb dugg a Grave for Lambert, where he 
was laid in the Old burying place Friday night about 
midnight near some of his Relations : Body was given 
to his Widow. Son and others made Suit to me." The 
editors suggest that the reason John Lambert was thus 
allowed special burial was that he may have had respecta- 
ble connections. In his last speech Lambert " pleaded 
much on his innocency " and " desired all men to beware 
of bad company." 

Some time later a number of the remaining pirates re- 
ceived the Queen's pardon, and Sewall and some others 
seem to have had misgivings as to the legality of the 
trials, and certainly not all the men could have been proved 



BY HBNBY W. BELKNAP. 61 

guilty as principals in the acts of piracy or murder, and 
they were evidently entitled to a jury trial, but they did 
not have even the benefit of a doubt. It is called a clear 
case of judicial murder. 
Children : 

14. SARAH, b. bef. 1684. 

14a. A SON, only known through the reference in Sewall's Diary. 

6. DANIEL LAMBERT, born Oct. 3, 1658, was also a 
shipwright, and there was an unidentified Daniel of 
Sweet's Cove, Salem, engaged in the same trade about 
1663. He bought a lot' of Jonathan Neale of Salem, 
cord winder, for 10 : 15, and built a house upon it, in 
1682, and in 1686 he had also bought a wharf, when he 
bought more land adjoining from John Ruck. In 1691 
he bought a small plot of Samuel Woodwell of Salem, 
glover, and the next year still more of John Ruck, ad- 
joining his own land, ' next ye King's High Way." That 
same year he and William Smith, tailor, exchanged houses, 
" the exchange whereof one with the other will be Ac- 
comodable & Advantagious to them in there respective 
Occupacns." Dec. 31, 1692, he sold to Capt. John Legg, 
Mr. William Hirstt, Mr. John Turner and Stephen Sew- 
all, one-fourth part " in ye Hull or body of ye Barke 
Olliue branch with all her Masts yards boat and Carpenter 
worke." The next year he bought more land of John 
Ruck and also sold some adjoining his own to James Rix. 

He married, first, June 5, 1682, Mary, born Apr. 3, 
1661, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Graye of Salem 
and later of Andover ; she died before 1693, and he 
married, second, Elizabeth Crouder (Croade), widow of 
Edmund Bridges, who survived him, as administration on 
his estate was granted her Dec. 22, 1695. She was still 
a widow in 1710, and was living as late as 1724. 

The inventory of his estate, Nov. 4, 1695, includes 
" putting the child out to nurse, Daniel Lambert's school- 
ing, keeping four children and Samuel Lambert's school- 
ing, and the net real and personal estate was XI 87: 16:1 7. 
The division was made, 1/3 to the widow for life and to 
revert to the children, Daniel, eldest son, Samuel, Joseph, 
Mary, Elizabeth, Rachel and Abiah. Samuel was to make 



62 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

certain payments and was awarded the house and home- 
stead in Salem. Ebenezer Lambert was made guardian 
of the son Daniel : John Lambert, sr., of the son Samuel, 
and Mary and Rachel were placed under guardianship of 
Thomas Waller of Charlestown. 

In 1710, Daniel, the eldest son, " purchased by the act 
of Redemption", for X81:10, the house and homestead 
of his father from Samuel Swasey of Salem and sold it 
to him by the same instrument. One of the bounds was 
the highway to Marblehead, and the widow Elizabeth sold 
Swasey her rights and those of her daughter Abiah. The 
daughters Mary and Elizabeth had conveyed their own 
rights to Swasey the previous year and were then unmar- 
ried and living in Boston. 

Elizabeth, the widow, married (intention) June 6, 
1713, Moses Oilman of Exeter, N. H., yeoman, and they 
sold land in Salem, on the main street, to Joseph Neale of 
Salem, cordwainer, Sept. 26, 1724. 

Children, born in Salem* : 

15. MABY, b. Feb. 20, 1683. 

16. ELIZABETH, b. Apr. 9, 1684. 

17. DANIEL, b. Dec. 7, 1686. 

18. SAMUEL, b. Feb. 5, 1688; d. young. 

19. SAMUEL, b. Apr. 7, 1689; d. 1742. 

20. PBESEBVKD, b. Apr. 21, 1691; d. Sept. 24, 1698. 

21. JOSEPH, bapt. Apr. 12, 1692. 

22. RACHEL, bapt. Sept., 1694. 

Child, by second wife : 

23. ABIAH. 

*In the files of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County 
appears the following: 

Boston, Sept. 6, 1720 

Cornall John Appleton Sir I would Desior you for to Impouer 
M r Samuell Swasey so as to get the Estate that Is Left for me at 
Salem which was my mother Mary Lambert which was left for me 
the orphan Jonathan Lambert and In so doing yon will oblidge me 
your humble Servant 

Jonathan Lambert 
Witnisis 

Nathaniel Ayres 
Nathaniel Ayres Jnm 

The above would seem to indicate a son Jonathan; but as he does 
not appear among the heirs to whom the estate was distributed it 
cannot be definitely stated. 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 63 

7. SARAH LAMBERT, born Feb. 7, 1660 ; married, first, 
Henry or James Frood, or Frude, probably of Marble- 
head, and second, Sept. 7, 1688, Daniel Bacon, jr., 
who is called son-in-law in a deed by John Lambert in 
1696. Daniel Bacon was born Oct. 14, 1665, and died 
after 1750. They had eight children. He bought some 
land of the executors of John Ruck, Feb. 6, 1698/9, on 
which he built a house where he lived till his death. 

8. EZEKIEL LAMBERT was born Mar. 3, 1661. His 
house is mentioned Nov. 23, 1688, in the will of George 
Deane or Dane, of Salem. Ezekiel was probably occupy- 
ing Deane's house at that time, and as no record of his 
marriage appears, it suggests itself that he may have 
married Deane's daughter. Savage says that Deane's 
daughter Elizabeth married Jonathan Lambert, but in the 
division of the Thomas Deane estate among the children 
appears the only son of Jonathan Lambert, and it would 
appear that Thomas Deane, who was a son of George 
Deane and married for his second wife Elizabeth Beedle, 
had a daughter Elizabeth who married Jonathan Lambert. 
George Deane had daughter Sarah and a daughter Hannah, 
who married in 1701 John Cook. Nothing more has been 
found relating to Ezekiel or to his family; no settlement of 
his estate, nor any recorded deeds. 

9. SAMUEL LAMBERT was born Mar. 16, 1664. His 
house appears in Salem Commoner's records as standing 
in 1661 and also in 1702, and in the list of Proprietors 
of Common Lands he had one right. Samuel was a 
mariner and evidently made a voyage in 1711, for there 
is record of a draft dated "London, October 15, 1709. 
20 days sight draft of Samuel Lambert (signed by mark) 
on Margaret Lambert, wife of Samuel Lambert in Salem, 
to John Kitchen for 5:1 2:6." The draft was protested 
Apr. 28, 1711, "as her husband was come home."* 

*It was probably this Samuel Lambert whose name appears in a 
list of names of those summoned to eppear before the Governor as 
pilots in the expedition to Nova Scotia, 5 May, 1707, and sent on 
board the Speedwell for transportation to Nantasket: SAMUEL 
LAMBERT " Good Pylot for y e Coast of Cape Sables alias Nova 
Scotia & off y e Cape." Mass. Province Laws, vol. 8, p. 693. 



64 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

Mary, the widow of John Warner, as administratrix of 
Jonathan Prince, for 35:10, conveyed to Samuel Lam- 
bert of Salem a house and land next to the creek, July 
23 1694, and there he lived and died and was succeeded 
by his son Jonathan Lambert, who died possessed of the 
estate. Administration was granted Aug. 1, 1774, the 
house and land then valued at .80. The house was 
taken down in 1789, according to Rev. William Bentley's 
Diary. 

Samuel married before 1690, Margaret, born Apr. 23, 
1671, who died after 1732, daughter of John and 
Hannah (Collins) Browne, and John and Mary Collins, 
for .14, conveyed to Samuel Lambert of Salem, mariner, 
about an acre on the main street, under a mortgage pay- 
able in 1717. John Collins of Salem, shoreman, sold a 
common right to Samuel Lambert Apr. 27, 1721. 

The children of John Browne, including Samuel Lam- 
bert and Margaret his wife, Nov. 22, 1728, conveyed their 
rights in the estate of their mother Hannah Browne, alias 
Culbert (sac, an evident error for Collins), to their brother 
Joseph Browne of Salem, for X99. 

Samuel died between Jan. 17 and Apr. 3, 1732, the date 
and probate of his will, which provided as follows : "I 
Samuel Lambert of Salem, Shoreman, Weak in Body, To 
Margaret my beloved Wife fifty pounds in money : like- 
wise the use and Improvement of the Whole of my Es- 
tate dureing her Natural Life or so Long as f he Remian 
my Widow, but if she marry two hundred pounds. To 
my son in law Joshua Tyler and Margaret his wife one 
hundred pounds in money after my Wifes decease. To 
my son in law Thomas Mafon and Preferved his wife five 
shillings. To my Son in Law Benj a Manning & Hannah 
his wife one hundred pounds at my Wife's decease. To 
my Grandfon Thomas Mafon Twenty Pounds and to my 
Grandaughters Margaret & Abigail Mafon fifteen Pounds 
a peice at my Wifes Deceafe Except my Wife shall see 
caufe to give them any part thereof in her Life time. To 
my two Sons Joseph Lambert and Jonath a Lambert Re- 
mainder of my Estate real Perfonal or mixt, Equally Di- 
vided at my Wifes Decease. Margaret my Wife sole 
Executrix." 



BY HENEY W. BELKNAP. 65 

Children, born in Salem : 

24. MARGARET, b. Jan. 14, 1690 ; d. June, 1775. 

25. PRESERVED, b. Apr. 30, 1692. 

(Dr. Bentley remarks that these two daughters lived to a great 
age.) 

26. SAMUEL, b. Jan. 1, 1693/4. 

27. HANNAH, b. Nov. 17, 1696. 

28. JOSEPH, b. Aug. 1, 1702; d. 1764. 

29. JONATHAN, d. July 19, 1774. 

11. JONATHAN LAMBERT was born Dec. 23, 1669. 
He was a ship-master in Boston, and married, it would 
seem, Elizabeth, said to have been the daughter of George 
Deane of Salem and his wife Elizabeth, but as stated 
above in notes on Ezekiel Lambert, it appears ,more 
likely that she was the daughter of Thomas Deane. 
Elizabeth Lambert, probably the widow of Jonathan Lam- 
bert, married Dec. 5, 1710, in Boston, John Bucanan. 

May 15, 1711, Daniel Bacon, jr., of Salem, shipwright, 
gave bond for the guardianship of Daniel Bacon's kins- 
man, Jonathan Lambert, a minor, upwards of four years, 
.son of Jonathan Lambert, mariner, of Boston, and Jan. 
12, 1718/19, being then aged 22, Jonathan releases him. 

The inventory of Capt. Jonathan Lambert, mariner, 
was presented Jan. 30, 1710, at Boston, by Elizabeth, his 
widow and administratrix, who in an account Oct. 31, 
1717, is called Elizabeth Bucanan, late Lambert. Jona- 
than therefore died about 1710. 

In the Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 12, 
p. 281, it is stated that probably Jonathan and Benjamin 
Lambert of Boston were children of Jonathan and Eliza- 
beth Lambert, though there is contradictory evidence, as 
among the heirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Deane in 1706, Eliza- 
beth Lambert's name does not appear ; but her son Jona- 
than seems to have inherited her portion. Nevertheless, 
in the Boston vital records, the births of the two sons are 
given as the children of Jonathan and Elizabeth Lam- 
bert. 

Children, born in Boston : 

50. JONATHAN, b. Mar. 30, 1696/7. 

81. BENJAMIN, b. June 1, 1699; d. young. 



66 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OP SALEM, MASS. 

13. EBENEZER LAMBERT, born April 2, 1674 ; married 
before 1696, Mary, baptized Aug. 24, 1701, First Church, 
daughter of Joseph Hardy, jr., of Salem. He was a ship- 
wright, and in 1705 he bought of James Rix a house and 
wharf. He died before Apr. 5, 1728, and his administra- 
tor conveyed 2/3 of this purchase to Samuel Swasey. 
The other third was the widow's dower and was con- 
veyed by the administrator to the widow Annie Swasey 
of Salem, July 21, 1742, the widow Lambert probably 
being dead. Ebenezer had conveyed this Rix property for 
,100 to Joseph Hardy of Salem, shipwright, Mar. 5, 
1706, and Hardy, being then of Boston, for the same 
consideration, reconveyed it to Ebenezer, June 29, 1713, 
and in each case there was also a small plot that had been 
bought of Thomas Ruck. 

The heirs of Joseph Hardy, jr., including Ebenezer 
Lambert and his wife, conveyed May 27, 1706, for 10, 
to John Higginson, jr., land on the north side of the Mer- 
rimack river, near Haverhill, 240 acres which Hardy had 
bought of Jeremiah Belcher of Ipswich, in 1680. 

Ebenezer sold to Benjamin Marston of Salem, on Dec. 
29, 1712, the sloop Betty, about 80 tons, and her appur- 
tenances, for 240, and Marston sold her to Benjamin 
Woodbridge for 1000, which was a very pretty stroke 
of business for Woodbridge. 

Ebenezer mortgaged his house for 25:10, to Samuel 
Browne of Salem, Dec. 27, 1715, and bought of John 
Ruck of Salem, blacksmith, a small lot adjoining his own, 
Dec. 9, 1717, for which he paid 34, and which he sold 
the next day to Samuel Swasey of Salem, shipwright, for 
20, which would not seem to have been a profitable 
transaction. 

Swasey bought, July 24, 1729, of Samuel Lambert, 
shoreman, and Daniel Bacon of Salem, shipwright, ad- 
ministrators of Ebenezer's estate, his house and land and 
the wharf adjoining for seventy pounds, reserving for the 
widow a part of the house. 

The inventory of his estate was presented by the ad- 
ministrators, Apr. 5, 1728, and division was made July 
12, 1729, the estate being insolvent. (Daniel Bacon, one 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 67 

of the administrators, had married as her second husband, 
Sarah, the sister of Ebenezer Lambert.) 

Children, baptized in First Church, Salem : 

32. MARGARET, b. July 26, 1696. 

33. MARY, bapt. Aug. 24, 1701; d. young. 

34. MARY, b. Mar. 26, 1702/3. 

35. EUNICE, b. Apr. 3, 1706. 

36. BENJAMIN, bapt. July 3, 1709. 

37. SARAH, bapt. June 24, 1711. 
88. SEETH, bapt. Sept. 6, 1713. 

39. EZEKIEL, bapt. June 9, 1717. 

40. EBENEZER, bapt. June 9, 1717. 

41. JEHOADEN, bapt. Oct. 25, 1719. 

17. DANIEL LAMBERT was born Dec. 7, 1686. He 
married May 6, 1708, Margaret, born Nov. 22, 1687, 
daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Home or Orne of 
Salem, who died before 1735, probably before Feb. 2, 
1733/4. After the death of his wife he removed to New- 
port, R. I., whence he conveyed his wife's interest in the 
estate of Benjamin Orne, late of Salem, taylor, ' which 
belonged to Margaret my wife," to his daughter Sarah, 
wife of John Mathews of Boston. Sarah Orne, the widow^ 
and her children, including Margaret Lambert, deeded, 
Feb. 7, 1721/2, a common right in Salem, " accrued to us 
by virtue of the dwelling houfe that was formerly Long- 
staff," and Daniel Lambert and Margaret his wife, Dec., 
22, 1712, conveyed their house and land to Sarah Orne, 
widow, for 30, with Daniel's personal estate. 

In Salem Notarial Records, under date of Jan. 28, 
1713/14, is found the following " Protest, Whereas by a 
charterparty dated Nov. 26, 1713, between Edward Cox 
of Salem and Daniel Lambert of Salem, ship carpenter, 
on the one part, and Richard Oakes of Salem, merchant, 
whereby the said Cox and Lambert agree to build a shal- 
lop for the said Oakes under condition that he furnish the 
planks which he failed to do." 

Child, born in Salem : 

42. SARAH, b. May, 1714, for " Ebenezer Felton testified his wife 

was present at ye birth of Sarah, May, 1714, and died in 
1714." " Deposition of Benja Orne of Salem, aged 41 years,, 
saith that Sarah ye Daughter of his late Sister Margaret 



68 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

Lambert is now more than 21 years of age. August 19, 
1736. Essex Deeds, vol. 68, p. 187. 

19. SAMCTEL LAMBERT was born Apr. 7, 1689, in 
Salem. He was only six years old when his father died, 
and was under the guardianship of his uncle, John Lam- 
bert, sr. There is nothing to indicate that he was married 
and there is little on record about him. He was a weaver 
by trade, one of the few in the family who did not follow 
the sea. May 1, 1710, he sold to Samuel Swasey of 
Salem, shipwright, his share in his father's land, which 
was then in possession of the widow, for 8:12, and 
Apr. 22, 1722, he bought, for 3, a small "gusset" of 
land in Salem of Edward Fuller, husbandman and black- 
smith, of Salem. He died in 1742, and administration on 
his estate was granted to Joseph and Jonathan Lambert, 
May 20 of that year. 

21. JOSEPH LAMBERT was baptized April 12, 1692, 
in the First Church, Salem. He was a tailor and lived 
in Marblehead and Salem, his children, so far as found, 
having been born in the former town. He probably re- 
moved there soon after his marriage, Dec. 30, 1736, to 
Lydia, born Oct. 24, 1713, daughter of Benjamin and 
Anne (Green) Ropes. He and his wife sold, for 58, to 
Miles Ward, jr., of Salem, joiner, the land set out in the 
division of the estate of her father Benjamin Ropes, late 
of Salem, March 22, 1738, also the same day, for 12, 
their rights in one-fifth part of the real estate, including 
the dwelling, set off to the widow Anna Ropes. He died 
in 1754, and his inventory amounted to 16:5:9, and was 
.assigned to his widow for bringing up her children. 

Children, born in Marblehead : 

43. ANN, bapt. Aug. 12, 1789. 

44. ELIZABETH, bapt. Apr. 1, 1744. 

45. JOSEPH, bapt. Nov. 2, 1746. 

24. MARGARET LAMBERT was bora Jan. 14, 1690, 
and married Nov. 13, 1712, Joshua, born July 4, 1688, 
son of Moses and Prudence (Blake) Tyler of Rowley 
Village (Boxford). He was a mariner. Joshua died be- 
fore May 14, 1735, and Margaret died June, 1775. 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 



Children : 



JOSHUA, b. Jan. 1, 1714. 
BENJAMIN, b. Mar. 3, 1716. 
JOSEPH, b. June 23, 1719. 
MARGABET, b. June 18, 1723. 

25. PRESERVED LAMBERT was bora Apr. 30, 1692, 
and married Oct. 8, 1719, Thomas, born June 2, 1699, 
son of Thomas and Abigail (Greenslit) Mason. 

Children, born in Salem : 

THOMAS, b. July 9, 1723. 
SAMUEL, b. July 5, 1726. 

26. SAMUEL LAMBERT was born Jan. 1, 1693. From 
a deed in 1710, when he disposed of his share of his 
father's estate, we find that he was then called "of Salem" 
and a weaver, but evidently he removed the same month 
to Middleton, upon his marriage, and there his children 
were born. He married May 4, 1710, Mary Squier. (A 
Mary Squiers was born Mar. 10, 1686, at Newbury, but 
it is not known if she was the Mary above.) Nothing 
has been found about the Squier family except a few mar- 
riages in the Salem vital records. 

In the Middleton Minister's Rates, Dec. 24, 1729, ap- 
pears the name of Samuel Lambert, and in the Town 
Book, May 10, 1739, " the house which was Samuel Lam- 
bard's on y e way that comes from the homestead of Sam- 
uel & Ebenezer Berry into Andover road." 

In the Essex County Registry there is an unrecorded 
deed under date of Mar. 6, 1739/40, in which his widow 
Mary and his children, for <110, deed to Stephen Wil- 
kins of Middleton, husbandman, several pieces of land in 
Middleton. Among the children named in this deed is 
Samuel Lambert (^or, as this family seem to have spelled 
the name, " Lambartt "), and no such son appears among 
those born in Middleton, while Sarah, the youngest child 
recorded, does not appear. It may be that the Sarah of 
the vital records should really be Samuel, as it seems un- 
likely that there would be an error in an original deed. 

Samuel was, as is shown by the above deed, dead in 
1739/40, but the date is not found in the Middleton 
records. 



70 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OP SALEM, MASS. 

Children, born in Middleton : 

46. PATIENCE, b. Feb. 25, 1710. 

47. EUNICE, b. Oct. 23, 1712. 

48. JOSEPH, b. May 7, 1714. 

49. MABY, b. Mar. 11, 1718. 

60. SARAH, b. Sept. 28, 1721; m. May 5, 1742, in Salem, Francis, son 
of Nathaniel Carroll. 

27. HANNAH LAMBERT was born Nov. 17, 1696, and 
married Dec. 25, 1718, Benjamin Manning, whose birth 
and parents have not been found. 

Children, born in Salem : 

RICHARD, b. June 21, 1720; d. June 22, 1720. 

ELIZABETH, b. July 18, 1721; d. July 20, 1726. 

HANNAH, b. Sept. 7, 1723. 

MARY, b. July 24, 1725. 

BENJAMIN, b. June 12, 1727. 

ELIZABETH, b. July 12, 1729. 

MABGARET, b. July 22, 1733; d. Feb. 10, 1733/4. 

JACOB, b. Feb. 4, 1736/7. 

28. JOSEPH LAMBEKT was born Aug. 1, 1702, and 
was a merchant and shoreman in Salem. He married Feb. 
2, 1726/7, Mary, born May 8, 1706, died Dec. 30, 1795, 
daughter of John and Sarah (Manning) Williams. They, 
with the other heirs of John Williams, bought of the 
widow Ruth Purchase, for forty shillings, a right which 
had belonged to her brother Ebenezer Williams, cooper, 
July 30, 1750, and they sold, Apr. 5, 1753, for 11:8:8, 
to Enos Pope of Salem, clothier, a common right, called 
the Green Pasture, in Salem, which had belonged to their 
father Samuel Lambert. They also conveyed, Aug. 5, 
1763, for ,11, to their son Joseph, jr., of Salem, mari- 
ner, a lot on the road leading to the Neck in Salem, which 
had belonged to Joseph's uncle Joseph Browne. 

Joseph Lambert died in 1764, and his widow conveyed, 
Jan. 4, 1770, for X 10: 13:4, to her son Joseph Lambert of 
Salem, mariner, a common right in the Great or Cow Pas- 
ture in Salern and Danvers, which had belonged to her 
father John Williams. She also mortgaged, Dec. 1, 1791, 
for 40, to Thomas Mason of Salem, merchant, the west- 
erly end of her dwelling house and land in Salem. 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 71 

The inventory of Joseph Lambert's estate was taken 
Nov. 26, 1764, and included half a house called "the 
Block House " and land near the Neck Gate in Salem 
and half a pew in Mr. Diman's meeting house. The 
amount of the inventory was .107:18:11. Administra- 
tion had been granted to the widow Nov. 19. 

The will of Mary Lambert of Salem, widow, dated 
Nov. 30, 1793, and probated Apr. 15, 1796, provided : 
"My Executors shall consider a debt due the estate of my 
late son Joseph Lambert, deceased, although the statute 
of Limitation would debarr such claim inasmuch as my 
grandson Joseph Lambert administrator of the Estate of 
his father Joseph Lambert deceased, has not put such 
claim in suit. To my grandchildren namely Joseph Lam- 
bert, Mary Crowninshield, Hannah Rice, Lydia Townsend 
& Priscilla Lambert, 1/6 part of real and personal estate. 
To my five daughters Margaret White, Mary Preson, 
Priscilla Ropes, Elizabeth Phillips, the residue of my es- 
tate. Andrew Prefson executor." 

Bentley's Diary contains a number of allusions to the 
widow Mary Lambert, recording the deaths of different 
members of her family, and in almost every case alludes 
to her children or grandchildren at sea. 

Children, born in Salem ; 

51. MABGABET, b. abt. 1729; d. Nov. 16, 1803. 

52. JOSEPH, b. abt. 1731; d. Aug. 17, 1790. 

53. MABT, " JB.", b. Feb. 2, 1732; d. Nov. 18, 1810. 

54. SAB AH, b. abt. 1735; d. Sept. 11, 1802. 

55. LYDIA, bapt. Sept. 25, 1737. 

56. PBISCILLA, b. Feb. 26, 1739; d. Sept. 22, 1808. 

57. HANNAH, b. abt. 1740; d. Oct. 14, 1773. 

58. ELIZABETH, b. abt. 1741 ; m. May 28, 1771, Henry Phillips, who 

d. bef. 1796. No chn. 

29. JONATHAN LAMBERT, whose birth date is not 
recorded, married Oct. 14, 1742, Lydia, baptized Jan. 22, 
1709/10, daughter of Christopher, jr. and Ruth (Bab- 
bidge) Randall, Jan. 4. 1765, Jonathan Lambert of 
Salem, mariner, and Lydia his wife conveyed, for X10: 
13:4, to Thomas Mason of Salem, merchant, one-half part 
of two common rights in Salem, first division, in the Great 



72 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

Pasture, which were given by his father's will to his de- 
ceased brother Joseph and himself. He bought a house 
and land in Salem of the heirs of Joseph Lambert in 
1765. 

The Diary of Benjamin Lynde, jr. records, July 18, 
1774, "Capt Jona. Lambert moved for small pox & died 
next day." 

Administration on his estate was granted to his son 
Jonathan, Aug. 1, 1774, and the inventory was taken the 
next day. It included half a pew in the lower meeting 
house, a house, barn, &c. 

Children, born in Salem : 

59. JONATHAN, b. Aug. 9, 1748; d. Nov. 9, 1804. 

60. LYDIA. 

61. MABGABET; m. Dec. 6, 1767, Adam Wellman, and d. bef. 1796. 

30. JONATHAN LAMBERT was born Mar. 20, 1696/7, 
and it was probably he who was master of the " Sea 
Flower, sloop," owned by Timothy Orne, jr., of Salem, 
which sailed December, 1747, on a voyage to North Caro- 
lina with a cargo of New England rum, molasses and 
oznabriggs. It was likewise probably he who was cast 
away Oct. 24, 1759, as Bentley records. He removed to 
Boston, for he was married there Mar. 4, 1717/18, to Mary 
Buchanan, and his children's births are there recorded. 

In a deed, May 5, 1737, Jonathan Lambert, of Boston, 
shipwright, with the consent of Mary his wife, sells for 
5, to Samuel Swasey of Salem, shipwright, one sixty- 
third part of a tract of land called " A Canada Town- 
ship,"* lately granted by the General Court of Massachu- 
setts Bay "to Samuel King & others Heirs and represent- 
atives of Such as were in the Canada Expedition [in the 
year 1690], it being y e Right allowed Said Swasey for one 
Jon a Lambert (Dec'd)." 

Children, born in Boston: 

82. JOHN, b. Oct. 16, 1719. 

63. JONATHAN, b. June 9, 1722. 

64. MABY, b. Sept. 8, 1724. 

65. ELIZABETH, b. July 1, 1730. 
06. THOMAS, b. Jan. 28, 1735. 

*This township was laid out 19 June, 1735, six miles square lying 
west of the Narraganset town. Mass. Province Laws. 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 78 

35. EUNICE LAMBERT was born Apr. 3, 1706, and 
married June 9, 1733/4, William Steward, whose parents 
have not been found. 

Child : 
EUNICE, bapt. Nov. 17, 1734. 

36. BENJAMIN LAMBERT was baptized July 3, 1709, 
and married (intention) Oct. 25, 1732, Mercy, baptized 
May 10, 1719; daughter of Thomas and Mercy (Vealy) 
Cole. He died before June, 1754, when his widow sold, 
for .1:6, to James Peirce, jr., of Salem, laborer, a third 
part of house and land then occupied by the said Peirce. 

Child, baptized First Church, Salem : 

67. MERCY, bapt. Apr. 29, 1733. " Marfie Lambord of Salem 
Spinster " sold, Nov., 1752, for*40, to Philemon Sanders of 
Salem, trader, a third part of a house " Soteueat in Salem" 
She m. Jan. 18, 1756, Peter Smith. 

37. SARAH LAMBERT, baptized in Salem, June 24, 
1711, was probably the Sarah who married John Ewellin 
Boston, Sept. 10, 1733. A son John was born July 19, 
1734. 

38. SEETH LAMBERT, baptized in Salem, Sept.6, 1713, 
would seem to have been married Oct. 21, 1736, in Bos- 
ton, to George Ingraham, but there is also a record of an 
intention Jan. 4, 1737, to Joseph Beith, and the marriage, 
at King's Chapel, Feb. 19, 1737, of a Seeth Lambert to 
Joseph Beith or Bathe. No children are recorded, and it 
cannot be determined about the two marriages. 

41. JEHOADAN LAMBERT, baptized Oct. 25, 1719, was 
married, in Boston, Dec. 30, 1736, to Joseph Mountfort. 
He was probably the son of John and Mary (Cock) 
Mountfort, born April 12, 1713, in Boston. No children 
are recorded in Boston. 

42. SARAH LAMBERT was born May, 1714, and was 
married, in Boston, Dec. 6, 1733, to John, born June 6, 
1713, in Boston, son of John and Sarah Matthews. No 
children are recorded in Boston. 

43. ANN LAMBERT was baptized Aug. 12, 1739, in 
Marblehead, and married July 23, 1761, in Marblehead, 
John Bridges. 



74 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OP SALEM, MASS. 

Child, born in Marblehead : 
ANN, bapt. Feb. 14, 1762. 

44. ELIZABETH LAMBERT, baptized Apr. 1, 1744, in 
Marblehead, married Jan. 21, 1762, William, probably 
baptized in Marblehead, Sept. 24, 1738, son of Samuel 
and Elizabeth Pederick. 

Children, baptized Marblehead : 

ELIZABETH, bapt. June 19, 1763 ; prob. d. young. 
ELIZABETH, bapt. Oct. 6, 1765. 
WILLIAM, bapt. Sept. 27, 1767. 
LYDIA, bapt. Sept. 27, 1767. 

46. PATIENCE LAMBERT, born Feb. 25, 1710, in Mid- 
dleton; married Oct. 29, 1730, in Middleton, Solomon 
Wilkins. He died Jan. 7, 1765, " by a fall under ye 
wheel of ye corn mill, whether Drowned or Killed by ye 
fall is uncertain." She died Apr. 15, 1705. 

Children, born in Middleton : 

LYDIA, b. Aug. 22, 1731. 
SARAH, b. July 16, 1739. 
SAMUEL, b. Aug. 11, 1742. 
BETTY, b. Apr. 1, 1744. 
MARY, b. Feb. 21, 1752. 

47. EUNICE LAMBERT, born Oct. 23, 1712, in Middle- 
ton, married Dec. 2, 1731, in Middleton, Richard, born 
Nov. 18, 1712, son of Rouland and Margit Thomas. 

Children, born Middleton : 

OTHNIEL, b. Aug. 15, 1732; prob. d. young. 
JETHRO, b. Feb. 12, 1738. 
OTHNIEL, b. Nov. 9, 1736. 
EUNICE, b. July 5, 1740. 
PHILIP, b. Nov. 11, 1748. 

49. MARY LAMBERT, born Mar. 11, 1718, in Middle- 
ton, married Jan. 18, 1737/8, William, born Apr. 25, 1715, 
in Beverly, son of William and Grace (Elliot) Bradford. 
He lived in Boxford until about 1741, when he removed 
to Middleton, where he lived until about 1744, when he 
settled in Soughegan-west (Amherst), N. H. Mary died 
Feb. 18, 1770, and he married, second, Rachel Small, who 
died in 1802. He died in 1791. 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 75 

Children : 

SAMUEL, b. Dec. 22, 1738, in Boxford. 
PATIENCE, b. Sept. 25, 1740, in Boxford. 
MARY, bapt. 1742, in Middleton. 

51. MARGARET LAMBERT, born about 1729, married 
May 22, 1754, William White, an Englishman and mari- 
ner, who died within the year. Bentley says she died 
Nov. 16, 1803, aged 74; that she was married at 23, and 
left no children. 

52. JOSEPH LAMBERT, if his age is correctly stated 
on his gravestone as 59, was born about 1731. He was 
a mariner and sea-captain. A list of vessels insured by 
Timothy Orne contains, under date of Apr. 30, 1758, the 
"Brigg Maria Theresa, Jo s Lambert, Jr., owner, Jn 
Gardner, For Eustacia was Taken & Re-Taken." Also 
Nov. 3, 1758, " Brigg Mary & Sarah, Jo 8 Lambert, Jr., 
Owner R d Darby, For Medara & Gibralter." In the 
Salem Notarial Records, under date of Sept. 1, 1759, ap- 
pears the following protest : Joseph Lambert, master of 
the brigantine " Mary & Sarah " of Salem, 70 tons, 
made declaration that on August 6, he sailed from Monte 
Cristo, with 6 hands bound up the straits of Gibralter, 
" but said Vessel proving very leaky and her sayles Bad 
and being unfit to proceed s d Voyage they put away for 
Salem and on the 26th of August they got on Shore 
upon the back of the Vineyard and laid there about four 
hours, that they arrived at Salem last night." 

In 1777, 1778 and 1779, he was agent for a number of 
privateers, and sold a quantity of stores and cargo as 
well as shipping. 

He owned a part of the schooner " Sea Flower " in 
1778, in partnership with Miles Greenwood and Henry 
White, the former a brother-in-law of his second wife, 
the latter her brother. 

Aug. 29, 1780, he bought the sloop ' Providence ", 75 
tons, for X14,000, of the agents of the ship "Jack". 

The " Otter ", brigantine, Edward Smith, jr., master, 
Salem to Guadeloupe, cargo : fish and lumber, owned by 
Joseph Lambert of Salem, about 120 tons, no guns, nine 
men, was libelled by the private ship of war " Lord Corn- 



76 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

wallis ", Nov. 28, 1781, having been captured in Boston 
Bay. 

He owned the schooner " Polly & Betsey ", of which 
his son Joseph was master, at the time of his death. 

Miles Greenwood, his partner, was assessor in Salem 
in 1785, and the names of Joseph Lambert and Joseph, 
jr., as well as that of Mary, the mother of Joseph, sr., 
appear in the tax lists. 

The Salem Marine Society, founded in 1766, has on its 
membership three Lamberts, one of these, Joseph Lam- 
bert, a founder and charter member. The East India 
Marine Society, founded in 1799, had a Lambert for the 
first signer of its rolls, Jonathan (No. 59), Joseph, jr. 
(No. 68), and Jonathan, who was one of the three mem- 
bers of its governing board for its first six years. 

June 10, 1760, Joseph Lambert bought of Samuel Fisk 
of Salem, clerk, and Anna his wife, for 48:6:10, land in 
the East Parish in Salem, on Becket's Lane. He gave a 
mortgage on this property June 19, 1760. Dec. 12 of 
the same year he took of Fisk, as collateral on a sum of 
money, some more land in the same locality, and Nov. 18, 
1761, Fisk sold it to him for 53:14. Mar. 15, 1771, he 
sold, for 56s. 2 far., to Nathaniel Sparhawk of Salem, 
gentleman, a small tract on Sparhawk's rope walk. In 
1779 he bought more land adjoining his own of Benjamin 
Browne of Salem, joiner, and Mar. 10, 1779, he sold, for 
400, to Edmund Kimball of Salem, mariner, some of 
this land, and Apr. 14, 1784, for 30, he sold to Jona- 
than Twiss of Salem, husbandman, land on the road lead- 
ing to the Neck, which his father had conveyed to him 
Aug. 5, 1763. 

Joseph Lambert married, first, Jan. 9, 1755, as her sec- 
ond husband, Mary, baptized Aug. 24, 1729, daughter of 
Samuel and Elizabeth Foot, who died Oct. 10, 1773, in 
the same epidemic of small-pox in which Joseph's uncle 
Jonathan (No. 29) died. He married, second, pub. June 
4, 1774, Mary, born about 1734, daughter of John and 
Mary White, and widow of John Scollay of Boston, who 
died Nov. 5, 1802, at Wenham. 

He and Joseph, jr. are in a list of house-holders in 
1787. His estate was on the northerly side of Essex street, 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 77 

nearly opposite English street. His house was on the 
lower corner of Essex and Beckford streets, the garden 
formerly extending far down the latter street. Bentley 
says under date of Mar. 18, 1789 : " A Building, the 
property of the family of Lambert, having one room upon 
& floor, and the entrance in a range with the chimney at 
the eastern end, the whole building facing the western 
end of English's Lane nearly, taken down." He also 
gives this family in a " List of such Persons, who have 
been so frequently visited that their families can be recol- 
lected." Aug. 18, 1790, he says : " Last evening Capt. 
Joseph Lambert departed this life very suddenly. He 
drank Tea in the family & went to bed as usual, tho' un- 
der infirmities of long continuance. He was heard to 
rise from bed, but upon his friends entering the chamber 
he laid down & expired at 1/2 past nine o'clock. He was 
a man of great virtues & great vices. He was the best 
of sons, the most kind of fathers, the most tender rela- 
tion, & charitable to all who applied in their distress. He 
has left an aged Mother about 80 aet. A widow, his sec- 
ond wife. One son & five daughters, all married but one. 
He has many Grandchildren. He has left five sisters 
behind him. He will be sincerely regretted by a numer- 
ous train of dependent relations." 

There are two deeds on record, one made in 1765 and 
one after the death of Joseph Lambert, in 1796, which 
are too long to quote here, but they make clear many re- 
lationships in this family and may be briefly stated to 
cover land bought in 1694 by Samuel, the grandfather of 
Joseph, of John Warner's widow. His son Jonathan 
{No. 29), who died in 1773, lived in the house, having 
with his brother Joseph (No. 28) inherited it as residuary 
legatees of their father. Joseph died intestate, in 1764, 
and his share was inherited by his widow Mary and her 
children, who, in 1765, sell their interest to their uncle 
Jonathan, mariner. In 1796 some of the children again 
sell another part of the property which their mother had 
inherited, the daughter Sarah having, since the former 
deed, married her second husband, George or John Un- 
derwood, who had also died, and the daughter Elizabeth 



78 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

having likewise married and lost her husband, Henry 
Phillips. 

Administration of the estate of Captain Joseph Lam- 
bert was granted to his son Joseph, Mar. 18, 1791. The 
inventory, which included the mansion valued at X395, a 
pew and a half in the Eastern Meeting House, and one- 
half of the schooner "Betsy & Polly," amounted ta 
1,461:6:3, with about 633 in United States loans, and 
was taken Apr. 8, 1791. In an account, among the items r 
are " articles of mourning supplied to Mrs. Lambert 
mother of the deceased by desire of the widow & heirs. 
Ditto for Mrs. White sister of the deceased." 

The estate was divided Nov. 14, 1794, but the division 
was disapproved and finally settled by giving Joseph the 
house and land on Essex street ; Lydia Townsend, the 
land on Cromwell street and a pew in the meeting house ; 
Hannah Rice, land on Cromwell street ; Mary Crownin- 
shield, land on Cromwell street ; and Priscilla Lambert, 
two Common Rights in the Great Pasture. Joseph waa 
to pay various sums and also a payment to the legal rep- 
resentatives of Elizabeth Wellcome, deceased. 

His widow Mary, by will dated Jan. 27, 1776 (appar- 
ently an error for 1796, as she was not a widow in 
1776,) and probated January 10, 1803, bequeathed 
unto my sister Elizabeth Greenwood (Elisabeth, daugh- 
ter of John and Mary White married Jan. 12, 1772, 
as the widow of Thomas Elkins, Miles Greenwood), all 
my estate, real or personal, my friend Mr. Thomas Saun- 
ders, son-in-law to my sister Greenwood, to be executor. 
The widow is called " Late of Wenham formerly of 
Salem." 

Since the dates of birth of the children cannot be found, 
they cannot be definitely assigned to the two wives, but 
as Priscilla, the youngest, was married almost 19 years 
after the death of the first wife, it is probable that all 
were the result of the first marriage. 

Children, born in Salem : 

68. JOSEPH, b. abt. 1759; d. Jan. 16, 1830. 

69. MART, b. Nov., 1760; d. 14 Jan., 1851. 

70. ELIZABETH, b. abt. 1764; d. Oct. 15, 1793. 

71. LYDIA, b. June 27, 1767; d. Sept. 7, 1838. 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 79 

72. HANNAH, d. after 1801. 

73. PBISOILLA, b. July 13, 1770; d. Dec. 10, 1852; m. Aug. 30, 1792, 

Samuel Lambert (No. 75). 

53. MARY LAMBERT was born Feb. 2, 1732, and mar- 
ried Feb. 4, 1753, Andrew, born May 8, 1729, son of 
Randall and Susanna (Stone) Presson or Preston. He 
was a mariner and was the executor of her mother's estate. 
Bentley records the death July 8, 1802, of Susanna, a 
daughter of Susanna Preston, and says that Andrew and 
his wife lived on Essex street, opposite Pleasant. He also 
notes the death of Capt. Andrew Preston, Feb. 20, 1800, 
leaving one son and three daughters, two married, and 
that Andrew was born in Beverly and was Inspector of 
Customs. July 17, 1816, he gives the death of the daugh- 
ter Mary, widow of Robert Rantoul, who had been twice 
married, the first time at the age of 19. He says a child 
died February, 1788, that a son was abroad in 1794, and 
another son was lost at sea, at Wood Island, off Saco, 
Maine, in February, 1799. Mary died Nov. 18, 1810. 

Children, born in Salem : 

MABT, b. Sept. 17, 1755 ; d. July 17, 1816. 

WILLIAM, b. Apr. 29, 1757. 

ANDREW, b. Mar. 24, 1760. 

SAMUEL, b. Sept. 3, 1761; d. prob. young. 

SUSANNA, b. Sept. 3, 1761. 

SAMUEL, b. Mar. 6, 1763. 

ELIZABETH, b. Mar. 11, 1766; d. prob. young. 

JOHN, b. Mar. 24, 1769. 

ELIZABETH, b. Apr. 12, 1771. 

54. SARAH LAMBERT was bora about 1735, and mar- 
ried, first, Jan. 1, 1755, Matthew, probably born Sept. 30, 
1727, died about 1764, son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth 
(Whitredge) Butman of Beverly ; and, second, before 
1768, John Underwood. (Bentley calls him George in 
one place, but this seems to be an error, as he is called 
John in the Salem vital records.) They lived on Essex 
street, corner of Becket, and her second husband died 
abroad about 1786, as Bentley says she lived with him 
eight years. " Sarah (Lambert) wife of Matthew But- 
man, was baptized May 25, 1755." Beverly First Church 
records. 



80 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

Children : * 

SARAH, bapt. May 2, 1756, in Beverly. 
ISRAEL, bapt. Oct. 1, 1758, in Beverly. 
GEORGE, bapt. July 9, 1769 (Salem); d. young. 
PHILLIP, bapt. Mar. 16, 1773 (Salem); d. bef. 1786. 
GEORGE, bapt. Nov. 23, 1779 (Salem) ; d. after 1786. 

56. PRISCILLA LAMBERT was born Feb. 26, 1739, and 
married Nov. 19, 1761, Daniel, born June 19, 1737, son 
of Joseph and Elizabeth (Purchase) Ropes. He died 
Oct. 6, 1821, and she died Sept., 1808. 

Children, born in Salem : 

ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 28, 1763; d. Sept. 19 or Oct. 20, 1798. 

PRISOILLA, b. Jan. 4, 1765; d. Apr. 24, 1843. 

DANIEL, b. Jan. 1, 1767; d. Jan. 11 or 12, 1808, London. 

RUTH, b. Dec. 20, 1768; d. Mar. 5, 1844. 

MARY, b. Nov. 2, 1770. 

GEORGE, b. Jan. 22, 1773; d. Nov. 17, 1803. 

JOSEPH, b. Oct. 29, 1774. 

SARAH, b. Oct. 5, 1776; d. Nov. 26, 1776. 

ABRAHAM, b. Oct. 5, 1778; d. Sept. 16, 1777. 

SALLE, b. May 6, 1778; d. prob. young. 

A SON, d. Aug. 22, 1780. 

SALLY, b. Aug. 13, 1781; d. Feb. 9, 1787. 

59. JONATHAN LAMBERT was born Aug. 9, 1743, and 
was a sea captain and a member of the Salem Marine 
Society. His name was No. 1 in the East India Marine 
Society, organized in 1799. It was probably he who 
owned the brigantine " Hope " in 1790, which Joseph 
Lambert owned in 1791 and 1792. Jonathan owned the 
schooner " Fox " in 1793, and was master of the brig 
"Laurel " in 1804. Jonathan was owner and Jonathan, 
jr. was master of the schooner " Ruth " in 1795, and 
Jonathan was owner and master of the brigantine " Olive 
Branch " in 1796. 

He married before 1768, Mary, baptized Jan. 8, 1748/9, 
daughter of Richard and Susanna (Hannah in vital rec- 
ords) (Hibbard) Lee of Manchester and Salem. 

Jonathan Lambert and his wife Mary, with his sister 
Lydia and her husband Samuel Wood kind and his sister's 

*Bentley also says there was a son John who survived his mother, 
but does not say by which marriage. 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 81 

husband Adam Wellman, and Rebecca Wellman his 
daughter, sold, for $135, to David Murphy of Salem, rope- 
maker, a piece of land on Essex street, which Samuel 
Lambert (No. 8) had owned and which Joseph (No. 28) 
and Jonathan (No. 29) had inherited. Rebecca Wellman 
was then living in Boston, though her father was of Salem 
(Mar. 19,1796). 

Jonathan Lambert died Nov. 9, 1804, and his wife 
probably before 1804. He lived on Court street. 

The will of Jonathan Lambert of Salem, gentleman, 
dated Oct. 30, 1804, and probated Dec. 3, 1804, bequeaths 
to daughter Mary the southerly half of my house and the 
land and the southerly half of my barn and out house (on 
Court street, Salem), the front stairs, &c., in common 
with my sons, to said Mary my furniture, books & per- 
sonal estate. To sons Samuel Lambert, Harry Lambert, 
& Nat Lambert, the northern half of above house, &c. 
2/10 to Samuel, 4/10 to Harry, 4/10 to Nat. To son 
Jonathan Lambert $200, one-half to be paid by daughter 
Mary and the other half by Samuel. Mary to pay all 
debts, residue to my daughter Mary and she executrix. 

The inventory included the house on Court street at 
$4300, a floor pew in the south meeting house, and was 
presented by " Mrs." Mary Lambert, Jan. 14, 1805. 

Oct. 29, 1819, Jonathan's son Samuel, Samuel's son 
Henry, then of the city of New York, mariner, together 
with a number of other heirs of the Lees of Manchester, 
sold, for $25, to Joanna Goodridge of Manchester, their 
right in land called " Dowing Lees " in that town. Sam- 
uel's daughter Mary, unmarried, also joins in the deed. 

Children, born in Salem : 

74. SAMUEL, b. May 29, 1768; d. Jan. 24, 1832. 

75. RICHABD, b. Jan. 9, 1770. 

76. JONATHAN, b. Feb. 11, 1772; d. about 1820. 

77. JOHN, b. 1773; d. Oct. 19, 1813. 

78. SARAH, b. Feb. 11, 1774. 

79. MART (POLLY), b. Oct. 5, 1778; d. Mar. 1, 1837. 

80. HENRY, b. June 29, 1780; d. about 1830. 

81. NATHANIEL, b. June 21, 1788; d. July, 1813, at Stockholm, 

Sweden. 

82. CHRISTOPHER, bapt. June 3, 1792. 

83. LYDIA, b. June 25, 1794; d. Jan. 1, 1796. 



82 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

60. LYDIA LAMBERT married, first, Nov. 2, 1762, 
Richard Palfray, and had one son. She married, second, 
before 1784, Samuel Woodkind, from Berkshire. 

Child : 

LYDIA, b. abt. 1784; d. Nov. 8, 1798. 

68. JOSEPH LAMBERT was born about 1759, and like 
most of his relatives, was a sea captain. Either he or 
his father owned the brigantine " Sea Otter " in 1781, 
and in 1790 he was master of his father's schooner "Polly 
& Betsy ". He was master of the schooner " Maria " in 
1795, of the " Helen " in 1800 ; was owner, in company 
with Benjamin Crowninshield and Moses Townsend, of 
the schooner " Union " in 1802 ; master of the brigan- 
tine " Good Hope " in 1802, of the brig " Edwin " in 
1804, and was a member of the Marine Society. His 
name does not appear in the list of the East India Marine 
Society. 

He was at sea when his daughter Sarah died in July, 
1785, and did not return home until Sept. 4 following. 

Bentley records various events in his family. Jan. 8, 
1791. " Day before yesterday a Capt. Lambert's family 
moved into the Eastern end of Crowninshield's house 
next door." Jan. 14, 1791. " News of Capt. Lambert, 
who has long been missing. The news by a Southern 
Oazette. Several valuable families interested in his fate." 
Apr. 10, 1792. Lambert J r missing yet." Mar. 13, 1791. 
" Prayers were asked for Joseph Lambert returned from 
sea, death of his Father in his absence." It would seem 
that, from the date in 1792, he returned in 1791 and 
was again missing the next year. 

He is in the list of church members in 1792, and it 
seems probable that it was he who was in a Volunteer 
Company in the Rhode Island Expedition in August, 
1778, and in Captain Samuel Flagg's Company, of which 
Miles Greenwood was First Lieutenant in 1779. 

Bentley further records : Nov. 10, 1796. "News of the 
death of Jos. of Jos. Lambert. Fever, abroad, aet. 14. 
One son & 3 daus. left. Died from vessell of his father 
who was with him at Aux Cayes." Also in June, 1811, 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 83 

the death of his wife's mother Abigail Obear (Ober), at 
the age of 75. "She had been a Widow for 38 years & 
was of the Archer family." 

He married Apr. 24, 1782, Abigail, daughter of Israel 
and Abigail (Archer) Obear or Ober of Salem, who was 
living in 1831. 

Oct. 10, 1794, he pledged as collateral for payment of 
a bond, to Moses Townsend of Salem, mariner, the land 
and house on Essex street and Cromwell street, assigned 
him as his part of the estate of his father. He mort- 
gaged land and the end of a house on Brown street to 
Isaac Very of Salem, mariner, Dec. 2, 1799, and conveyed 
it to Very, for $600, June 2, 1796. In January, 1812, he 
mortgaged his house and land on Essex street to the Ma- 

^ O 

rine Sociey, it being the house that had belonged to his 
father. 

The will of Joseph Lambert of Salem, mariner, dated 
Dec. 27, 1805, and probated 3d Monday in Feb., 1830, 
bequeaths unto my wife Abigail all my real estate during 
her widowhood. Residue unto her four children, Ruth, 
Samuel, Mary & Abigail. The inventory, which included 
the house, land and a pew in Dr. Flint's meeting house, 
amounted to $2647.37. 

Sept, 16, 1831, Abigail, the widow, Ruth Lambert, sin- 
glewoman, Mary Goodridge, widow, Joshua Chase, Esq., 
and Abigail, his wife, conveyed, for $1300, to Leverett 
Saltonstall of Salem, Esquire, the land in Salem which 
had belonged to Joseph Lambert, on a mortgage. 

Children, born in Salem : 

84. JOSEPH, b. abt. 1782 ; d. 1796. 

85. SARAH, b. Nov., 1784; d. July 30, 1785. 

86. SAMUEL, bapt. July 3 or 8, 1787. 

87. MARY, bapt. Apr. 19, 1789; m. July 18, 1826, John Goodrich. 

She was living, his widow, in 1835. 

88. ABIGAIL, bapt. Feb. 2, 1793; m. Nov. 16, 1812, Joshua Chase. 

89. RUTH, unm. in 1830. 

69. MARY LAMBERT, who was born in Nov., 1760, and 
died June 19, 1850, in Charlestown, Mass., married Nov. 9, 
1780, Benjamin, born Feb. 16, 1758, died Nov. 22, 1836, 
in Charlestown, son of Jacob and Hannah (Carlton) 
Crowninshield of Salem. 



84 THE LAMBEBT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

He was a ship-master and collector of customs for 
Marblehead, and lived on Essex street in Salem, opposite 
the head of Union street. He and his son Benjamin, as 
captain and passenger respectively, went on the famous 
voyage of the yacht " Cleopatra's Barge," to Europe. 

He commanded many celebrated ships, and his portrait 
hangs in the Peabody Museum in Salem. 

Children, born in Salem : 

BENJAMIN, b. abt. 1782; d. Dec., 1864, s. p. He was known as 

" Philosopher Ben ". 
A SON, b. Apr., 1786; d. Apr. 23, 1786. 
MABIA, b. abt. 1787; bapt. June 28, 1789; d. Sept. 15, 1870; m. 

Apr. 4, 1814, John Crowninshield. 
HANNAH, bapt. June 28, 1789; d. Sept. 15, 1870; m. Mar. 29, 

1819, Lieut. James Armstrong, afterwards Commodore. 
ELIZABETH, bapt. Nov. 16, 1794. 
JACOB, b. abt. 1796; bapt. Mar. 10, 1799; d. June 15, 1849, at 

sea, near Panama ; m. June 9, 1825, Harriet Wallack. 
ELIZABETH BOARDMAN, bapt. Nov. 18, 1804; d. Mar. 17, 1870; 

m. Nov., 1836, Commodore James Armstrong, widower of 

her sister. 

70. ELIZABETH LAMBERT was born about 1764, and 
married Sept. 16, 1782, Thomas, baptized Jan. 25, 1758, 
son of Stephen and Sarah (Beadle) Welcome of Salem. 
He had previously married, Sept. 26, 1776, Priscilla 
Webb, born about 1758, died Jan. 11, 1781. 

Children, born in Salem : 

SARAH, b. abt. 1778; d. Mar. 28, 1859; m. Aug. 12, 1799, Capt. 

George Southard. 
MARY (POLLY), b. Dec. 12, 1780; d. Aug. 19, 1864; m. Feb. 3, 

1805, Robert Deland; d. Aug. 20, 1869. 
THOMAS, bapt. Mar. 2, 1783; d. Feb. 4, 1805, at Guadeloupe. 

Bentley says: " Thomas Welcome was the only son of T. 

W. by a Lambert. He was an amiable, industrious & well 

informed young man & the public hopes were indulgent to 

him." 
BETSEY, b. Feb. 29, 1788; d. 1871, at North Andover; m. Dec. 

13, 1812, George Hodges. Beutley records the death of 

their son George, Sept. 25, 1818, ae. 8 mo.; they then had 

one child left. 

71. LYDIA LAMBERT was born June 27, 1767, and 
married Apr. 7, 1785, Moses Townsend, born May 17, 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 85 

1760, died Feb. 14, 1843. Moses Townsend's father was 
present at the siege of Boston and at the capitulation of 
Fort Washington. They were both captured by the Brit- 
ish, and Moses, sr., died of disease while a prisoner-of-war 
in Mill prison, near Plymouth, England, in 1777. Moses, 
jr., probably was buried at Wallingford, Conn. 

Bentley notes the death of their daughter Mary and 
says they lived on Derby street, below Turner ; he also 
records the death of the son Joseph Lambert, whose father 
was then at sea. He likewise states, "Capt. Townsend 
preparing to remove his house in Derby street upon his 
Lambert lot in Becket street, to build upon his present 
lot." Lydia died Sept. 7, 1833. 

Children, born in Salem : 

LYDIA, b. Dec. 16, 1787; m. Nov. 18, 1810, William Bice. 

PRISCILLA, b. Nov. 1, 1790. 

MARY, bapt. Apr. 14, 1793 ; d. Oct. 19, 1801. 

ELIZABETH, b. Dec. 11, 1798. 

JOSEPH LAMBERT, bapt. May 3, 1801 ; d. Sept. 19, 1802. 

WILLIAM, b. Mar. 22, 1806. 

JOSEPH, b. May 3, 1809. 

GEORGE, b. July 20, 1812. 

72. HANNAH LAMBERT, whose birth does not appear, 
married June 3, 1784 (Dec. 28, 1783, church records), 
Matthias Rice. Bentley visited Saco, where they lived, 
June 6, 1787, and on Sept. 19, 1802, records the death of 
their daughter, Priscilla Lambert, in which note he says 
that Matthias Rice was a physician of Saco, who removed 
to Blackpoint, Maine, and that he died several years be- 
fore, leaving three sons, the children born at Scarborough, 
and the widow having returned to Saco the previous 
year. 

Rea's Journal, under date of June 4, 1807, notes "News 
of death of Hy Rice drowned at sea, 22 years, father 
Matthias Rice, physician, Saco, she dau. of Capt. Joseph 
Lambert." 

Children : 

HENRY, b. abt. 1785; d. June 4, 1807, at sea. 
WILLIAM, bapt. Aug. 18, 1793. 
GEORGE, bapt. Aug. 18, 1793. 
ELIZA FOSTER, bapt. May 22, 1797. 



86 THE LAMBBET FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

MARIA, bapt. Nov. 3, 1801. 

MARY ANN AUGUSTA, bapt. Nov. 3, 1801. 

PRISOILLA LAMBERT, bapt. Nov. 3, 1801; d. Sept. 19, 1802. 

74. SAMUEL LAMBERT was born May 29, 1768, and he 
married Aug. 30, 1792, Priscilla, born July 13, 1700, died 
Dec. 10, 1852, daughter of Joseph (No. 52) and Mary 
(Foot) Lambert. He was a mariner and a member of the 
East India Marine Society in 1800, his number in the so- 
ciety being 39. 

Bentley refers to the family several times, and on Nov. 
14, 1813, he notes : " Samuel Lambert & wife, d. of his 
youngest brother, aet. 23, of Stockholm, Sweden." (This 
was John, No. 78.) " This family has one son settled on 
Islands in the South Sea in a very excentric manner." 
(This was John, No. 77.) "The whole are endowed with 
talents. Capt. Lambert is an able teacher of Mathemat- 
ics." Jan. 16, 1816. " Capt. S. Lambert is continually 
employed in copying such maps as are in demand for our 
seamen in Salem with his pen." 

From the log-books preserved by the East India Marine 
Society, and now in possession of the Essex Institute, it 
is found that Samuel Lambert kept journals of some of 
his voyages. The first one found is headed '* Samuel 
Lambert's Journal From Salem to Copenhagen & Calcutta 
in the Ship Adventure, James JBarr Jun r Master, from 
May 4 1800 to August 6 1801." By the 3d of June they 
were in latitude 60:18 and longitude 17:12, and he records 
" It's not dark any part of the 24 Hours in these Latta's." 
The next day he "Saw a great number of herrings & 
whales in plenty after them." The 7th of June they saw 
one of the Orkney Islands, and on the 12th the coast of 
Norway, and on the 16th they "Came to Anchor at El- 
siener," where they stayed a few hours, and on the after- 
noon of the 16th they came to anchor at Copenhagen. 
Remaining here until Aug. llth, they sailed for Elsiener, 
arriving the next afternoon and staying two hours. The 
night of 23rd Oct. was "cold & Woollen stockings come 
in play." The 27th Oct. "Saw a penguin, these birds do 
not go far from land." The 29th, " By not seeing the 
Tristan Islands we must have pafsed them on Night of 
the 26th. it being very Thick Weather. Consequent y 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 8T 

we must be as much as five degrees to the Eastward of 
our Reckg." Nov. 2nd, " Spake with C. Donnefon from 
Rhode Island bound to Batavia." Nov. 17th, " Came to 
Allowance Beef 1 Ib. p r man p r Cabbin 1 1/4 Ib p r Man 
for the Stearage." On June llth, "At 9 (A. M.)-fell in 
with Capt. Romain of the Company's Armed ship the 
Cornwallis from a Cruse bound to Calcutta, he took us 
under convoy presented us with a Sheep & 1/2 doz. Ducks 
were very acceptable as we had not seen a fowl these 4 
mouths Much more tasted one." The next day two 
Pilot schooners hove in sight. " At 10 (A. M.) a Pilot 
came on board to Carry us to Calcutta." There they 
stayed till the 13th of January, when they set sail and 
had an uneventful voyage. July 17th, in lat. 12:59, long. 
42:03, " I never experienced so many currents about here 
before this the 13 Voyage to India." July 28th, " Spake 
with a schooner from Portland, toold as it was peace be- 
tween France & America." Aug. 6th, " At 2 P. M. Saw 
Cape Ann bear 8 West distance about 8 leagues." The 
next day, " At 1 P. M. Saw the light house on Bakers 
Island. At 4 P. M. pafsed Bakers Island. At 5 came to 
Anchor at Quarantine Roads in Salem." 

The next log records a voyage "From N. Y. to Isle 
France & Bourbon in the Brigantine Reward, John Wil- 
liams, J r Master." He sailed on the return voyage from 
Bourbon, 13th October, in company with Capt. Elkins* 
ship "Margaret." Dec. 28th, 1804, ''Hard Gales. At 
5 P. M. hove to Block Island bar 8 W. S. W. At 5 P. M. 
blowing a mere hurricane hove too a Hull at 8 P. M. Sett 
reef Fore Sail, At Day light saw Land bar 8 from W. S. 
W. to N. E. took it to be the Main Land and bore away. 
At 10 A. M. to our great disappointment saw the Wind- 
mills on Nantucket Island, barring N. E. distance about 3 
leagues, spake the Almira of Portland a ship in distrefs 
but it blowing a gale we could not aisist her, hauld to the 
Wind southward." Dec. 30th, " At 7 A. M. the Weather 
cleared up saw the Land bar g from N. b. E. to N. W. wore 
ship saw Breakers under the Lee at one mile distant 
breaking mast high, we had 11 fathoms coarse sand, sup- 
posed the Land we saw to be the Main Land and the 



88 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

shoal to be the rocks laying of Seakonet Point, but we 
were again deceived, the Land was the Vineyard and the 
breakers Skifts Island reef, at 9 A. M. had 22 fathoms 
at 10 again saw the Windmills on Nantucket with the 
Wind to y e Westward, we again hauled to the Wind, to 
the southward and stood of till 12 at night the 1st Janu- 
ary when we wore ship to the northward." Jan. 5th, 
1805, " At one P. M. came to Anchor in Holmes Hole in 
three fathoms we run in by Blunts direction, no pilot 
showed his nose, we are a compleat cake of Ice. It never 
was colder, almost perished with the cold, most of the 
crew froze, only two of all Hands escaped be g visited by 
the Frost." 

The third log is " From Salem to Mocha & back in the 
Brig Reward,Jn Williams f Master." March 22nd, 1805, 
" At 3 P. M. Cape Ann bore N. N. W. dist. 3 leag 5 from 
which we take our Departure." May llth, "At 4 P, M. 
an English armed Whaler brought us too with a shot, he 
was from London bound round Cape Horn." June 28th, 
" At 4 P. M. saw a ship to North d At 6 P.M. was boarded 
by a boat from the English Frigate Pitt, detained about 2 
hours treated very Politely. At 4 A. M. saw the Isle 
Bourbon bar 8 N. W. 3 leag 5 dist." They remained till 
Aug. 1st, when at 6 P.M. they took their departure. Aug. 
8th, "Millions of birds about us I never saw the like be- 
fore. At 4 A. M. no ground with 75 fath." Aug. 10th, 
"At 10 A. M. came to Anchor in 13 fath. in the harbour 
of Sychelles (Called Main) about 1 1/2 miles N. b. W. 
from St. Ann, soon after got under way and stood over 
towards the Town and Anchored in 10 fath 5 in the Great 
Ravine about 1 1/4 from the Government buildings." 
Sept. 2nd, " At 9 A. M. got under way and made sail for 
the Isle of Praslin on the 3rd. came to Anchor in the 
Harbor of Praslin in 12 fath 5 water. At this Island grows 
the double Cocoa Nut, the Island is almost covered with 
the trees that produces them, I have seen a number of three 
and some of four which they asked twelve dollars for. 
Feb. 21st, ' We found we had Anchored in the fog of 
Falmouth further down than we expected. At 2 P. M. 
got under way, and at 5 P. M. Anchored of the East Chop 
of Holmes Hole." 



BY HENRY W- BELKNAP. 89 

June 6, 1799, Samuel and Priscilla Lambert and the 
other heirs of Samuel Foot convey, for nominal consider- 
ation, to Joseph Fogg of Salem, housewright, a quarter 
acre of land in Salem that Foot had bought of Robert 
Turner in 1698. Jan. 8, 1807, Samuel Lambert conveyed, 
for $100, to Mary Lambert of Salem, single woman, a part 
of the northern half of the house of Jonathan Lambert. 
On Apr. 6, 1 807, James Dalrymple of Salem, watchmaker, 
recovered judgment and attached the house of Samuel 
Lambert, trader. May 14, 1808, Samuel and his wife sell, 
for $200, to Samuel Putnam of Salem, Esquire, two rights 
in the Great Pasture in Salem. Samuel Lambert died 
Jan. 24, 1832. 

Children, baptized in Salem : 

90. ABIGAIL, bapt. Feb. 2, 1793. 

91. LAURA, b. 1795; d. prob. young. 

92. SAMUEL MORTIMER, bapt. May 22, 1797; d. Aug. 31, 1798. 

93. SAMUEL, bapt. Nov. 3, 1801. 

94. MARY LEE, bapt. July 3, 1803; d. Aug. 31, 1804. 

95. LAURA LEB, b. Jan. 6, 1810; d. Apr. 5, 1894. 

93. ABIGAIL ROGERS, bapt. Aug. 19, 1810; d. Jan. 19, 1811. 

96a. HENRY L., b. abt. 1812; d. Feb. 28, 1859; m. Abbie W. Moore. 

76. JONATHAN LAMBERT was born Feb. 11, 1772, and 
married (date unknown) Mary Smith (whose mother was 
also named Mary), who died in 1814 and was buried Apr. 
5. The indications are that after Jonathan embarked 
upon his voyage to the south Atlantic, referred to below, 
his wife lacked means of support, and, as they do not 
seem to have had any children, she was taken care of by 
the overseers of the poor. 

Jonathan lived on Court street, in Salem, and was a 
mariner. In Bentley's Diary we find prayers were asked, 
Sept. 11, 1814, for Samuel Lambert and wife, on the 
death of brother Jonathan. " This is the bold adventurer 
that seized upon an Island in the Great Ocean & collected 
a few companions to inhabit it, & gave notice that he 
should supply all circumnavigators. He perished when 
fishing in his boat with some of his Companions. He was 
a man of real genius & intrepidity. Nothing common 
would satisfy him & he had acquired all that general 
knowledge which observation in Men & manners could 



90 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

supply. He had a ready tongue & good pen, an enquir- 
ing mind & a power to know& possess what circumstances 
could give him, at the instant they appeared. I knew 
him intimately well." 

In Mass. Historical Collections, series 2, vol. II, page 
125, is printed a letter from Benjamin F. Seaver, agent 
for the proprietors of the islands of Tristan d'Acunha, to 
his Excellency, Earl Caledon, Governor, &c., of the Cape 
of Good Hope, &c. 

" Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, 

March 1st, 1811. 
" My Lord, 

" In compliance with j r our Lordship's request, I take 
the liberty of describing the situation and extent of the 
islands of Tristan d'Acunha, as well as what may be done 
towards the settlement of the large island. 

" In December last, when on the coast of Brazil, having 
fallen in with an American ship, I understood that there 
was a man on board by the name of Jonathan Lambert, a 
native of America, who had resolved to establish himself 
on the large island of Tristan d'Acunha, for the purpose 
of cultivating the soil and breeding poultry, with other 
stock, expecting it would be an inducement for vessels 
passing in that tract to touch for refreshments, whenever 
it might be known. On the 28th January, ultimo, being 
in sight of the Islands ... I determined on despatching 
the Charles' boat . . . for the purpose of taking some 
fresh water ; when Mr. Lambert with two other men were 
found, and reported that they had been landed twenty 
days . . . there was a spot of ground Lambert had cleared 
for a garden ; full two acres were laid out in neat beds, 
with radish and cabbage plants growing in great luxuri- 
ance, and more than one inch above the surface, Indian 
corn, potatoes, and the pumpkin vine, with the water and 
musk-melon were also above ground. . . . Mr. Lambert 
expressed to me his desire that I would communicate to 
your Lordship that he set out with views which he trust- 
ed would be considered by the British Government and 
the honourable East India Company laudable, and deserv- 
ing their protection and assistance. . . . And whenever 



BY HENRY W. BELKNAP. 91 

the sanction of the British Government, he then would 
most solemnly declare himself allied to that government ; 
and by permission display the British flag on the island, 
reserving to himself always the governorship, provided an 
equivalent could not be agreed upon." (He desires as- 
sistance and a small vessel to carry some colonists from 
Cape of Good Hope with cattle, &c.) 

Benjamin F. Seaver. 

Jonathan Lambert died Oct. 19, 1813. 

An administration of the estate of Mary Lambert of 
Salem, " singlewomaii ", intestate, was granted April 20, 
1814, to James Odell of Salem, gentleman. It is to be 
noted that she is called " singlewoman ", whether through 
error or because she had been separated or deserted by 
her husband is not clear. The inventory, dated Marble- 
head, Apr. 21, 1814, included 2/3 of an old dwelling 
house and 4 poles of land, 1/3 set off to Doctor Fuller of 
Middleton, $136.50. Capt. James Odell presented the 
inventory. Among the debts is " town of Salem's de- 
mands, $417." 

77. JOHN LAMBERT, born in 1773, was drowned in 
Salem harbor Oct. 19, 1813. He married Oct. 9, 1792, 
Betsy (perhaps the daughter Elizabeth), born Feb. 1, 1773, 
of Charles and Elizabeth Leach. He was of Salem in 
1800, a mariner, and was admitted to the Essex Lodge of 
Freemasons, July 7, 1808. His widow married, second, 
(int.) Dec. 23, 1815, Isaac Hacker. 

John Lambert, supposed to have been this John, was 
master of the following vessels : " Roboreus ", " Spring 
Bird", dates unknown, schooner "Success", 1806, 
" Mary & Allen ", brigantine, 1807, " Thomas ", schooner, 
1809, Anna ", brig, 1806, John ", schooner, 1809. He 
bought, Mar. 20, 1804, of John Francis of Beverly, ad- 
ministrator of the estate of Jonathan Hartshorne of Salem, 
land and house on Lynn [sic] street, for $1201, which 
Hartshorne had bought of William Purbeck. 

Administration of his estate was granted to John Pun- 
chard, July 19, 1814. The inventory, which included a 



92 THE LAMBERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 

house and land valued at $1200 and a pew in Dr. Worces- 
ter's meeting house, was taken Oct. 17, 1814. 

It seems possible that John and his wife may have lived 
in Manchester for a time, as there is recorded there the 
birth of John, the son of John and Elizabeth Lambert, 
and the Leach family were numerous there. 

Children : 

97. JOHN(?), b. Feb. 8, 1793. 

98. HENRY, Dec., 1805. 

79. MARY LAMBERT, who was unmarried, died in 
1837. Her will, dated Dec. 26, 1836, probated Apr. 4, 
1837, provides bequests for religious objects and to friends 
and also $30 to the children of late brother Samuel Lam- 
bert, deceased, and $30 to children of brother Harry Lam- 
bert, deceased, of Haverstraw, N. Y. The inventory in- 
cluded house arid land on Court street, the same estate 
lately occupied by said Mary Lambert given her by will 
of her father Jonathan Lambert, adjoining the Tabernacle 
Society. She had bought 4/10 of the northerly half of 
this house, formerly the estate of Nat. Lambert, late of 
Salem, mariner, which he had bought, Aug. 29, 1814, at a 
vendue of his father's estate, from James Odell of Salem, 
gentleman. 

80. HENRY LAMBERT died in or before 1837. He 

married, first, before 1820, Elizabeth , who seems to 

have married, second, before Dec. 5, 1837, a Macdonald. 

John Glen King of Salem, Esquire, Nov. 17, 1837, prays 
for appointment as guardian of Mary Lambert, ae. 17 ; 
Anne Elizabeth Lambert, ae. 12; and Jonathan Lee Lam- 
bert, ae. 9, minor children of Harry Lambert, late of 
Haverstraw, N. Y., formerly of Salem. 

Dec. 5, 1837, the children sell, for $426, to Samuel 
Cook of Salem, merchant, 2/3 of 4/10 parts of the north- 
ern end of a house on Court St., Salem, after the decease 
of Elizabeth Macdonald, mother of said minors. 

Children : 

99. MABY, b. abt. 1820. 

100. ANN ELIZABETH, b. abt. 1825. 

101. JONATHAN LEE, b. abt. 1826. 



BY HENRY W. BBLKNAP. 98 

98. HENRY LAMBERT died Dec., 1805, having married 
Nov. 6, 1803, Betsy Hendly, who married, second, Jan. 
11, 1807, Capt. Robert Leach, jr. Lambert was impressed 
by the British about 1800. 

Administration of estate of Henry Lambert of Salem, 
mariner, was granted Oct. 14, 1806, to Mrs. Betsy Lam- 
bert. 

Child : 

102. RUTH, b. abt. 1804 ; m. (int.) Dec. 15, 1826, John Davis. 



THE WIFE OF THOMAS LORD OF HARTFORD. 



BY HENRY W. BEEKNAP. 



The clearing of the mystery heretofore existing as to the 
identity of the wife of Thomas Lord of Hartford, Conn., 
and the final setting at rest of the idea that she was Doro- 
thy, a sister of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, appears to be accom- 
plished. Ever since the Essex Institute acquired the 
papers of the late Lothrop Withingtou it has been ap- 
parent that Mr. Withington had obtained proof that she 
was Dorothy Bird, since he referred to it in a number of 
letters, but nothing was found that gave the facts until 
the final sorting of a few last odds and ends. Among 
these was found a chart which supplied the needed facts, 
and it is a great satisfaction to be able to put these before 
her many descendants. 

First, it will be of interest to give the will of Richard 
Lord, the father of Dorothy's husband, Thomas, which is 
as follows : 

In the name of God Amen 30th Daye of Maye in the 
Yeare of our Lord God 1610 I Richard Lorde of Towces- 
ter in Co of Northton, husbandman of whole mynde doe make 
this my last will and testament my soull vnto All mighty 
God and my bodie to be buried in the Churchyard of Tow- 
cester 1st I give towards the repare of the said parish church 
of Towcester xij d. Item I give to Elizabeth my Daughter x li. 
of currat money of England Item I give and bequeath to 
Ellen my Daughter xxx li. of currant money of England to 
be paid vnto her by my Executor hereafter named in manner 
and forme following viz. the one half thereof att her dale 
of marrige and the other half within twelve moneths after 
her said daie of marrige Yf she shall then be livinge And 
yf it shall happen that she shall marry with one Robert Mar- 
riot of Calcot yeom then my will is that the saide sume of 
xxx li. be made vpp xl li. and to be paid her at the said daies 
before married by equall porcons But if she happen not to 

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THE WIFE OF THOMAS LORD OF HABTFORD. 95 

marrye then my will is that she shall have xxx li. oneli for 
her porcon to be paid to her within three yeares after my 
Decease. Item I give and bequeath to Alice my Daughter 
30 li. to be paid vnto her by my executor the one half thereof 
at her daye of marrige and the other half within twelve 
moneths after her said daie of marrige yf she shall then be 
livinge But if she the said Alice happen not to marrye then 
my will is that her said Legacye be paid to her within five 
yeares next after my decease Item I give & bequeath to 
Joan my wife the one half of all my goods and chattels 
whatsoever moveable except the long Table in my hall and 
the seelinge and benches about my house and my will is that 
she shall haue & enioye During her naturall lyfe (yf so long 
she keepe herself my widdowe) the chamber ou r the kitchen 
where she and I due lodge and third pt of the apples & 
onle w ch shall growe yearely in the orchard belonging to the 
house wherein 1 now dwell in Towcester Item I give & be- 
queath moreou r to my said wief during her naturall lyfe (& 
yf so longe she keepe herself my widowe) out of my Land & 
tenem* 8 & hereditam* 8 in Towcester aforesaid the Yearlie 
sume and annuitie of fyve pounde of currant money of Eng- 
lond to be paide vnto her by my Executor hereafter named 
his heires or Assignes yearly quarterlie by equall and even 
porcons Provided allwaies that she my said wyfe shall not 
laym any Dower orthirde out of my said lands ten ts or he- 
reditenaments. Item I give and bequeath to Thomas my 
sonne and to his heires and assignes for eu r all my Lands 
ten* 8 & hereditaments whatsoeu r in Towcester and w th in this 
Realm of England . . . that he shall instly and trulie 
p r forme this my last will & testem* w th out fraude or deceipt 
And all the rest of ray goods and cattells my Detts and Lega- 
cies paid & my funerall expenses p'formed I give and be- 
queath to my said sonne Thomas whom I Doe make & ordaine 
my sole Execute 1 of this my Last will and testam* but vt- 
terly Denye all other former wills heretofore by me made 
giueii or bequeathed Provyded allwaies that if anie one of 
my said children Ellen Alice or Thomas Doe Decease their 
lyves before they are to receive their saide Legacies, That 
then the Legacie of the one of them soe Deceasinge shall 
remayne & be Due to the other two of them onely then 
survivinge But if any tow of them shall happen to Decease 
as aforesaide that then my saide Daughter Elizabeth shall 
haue fifteen pounde of their Legacies proportionablye to be 
paid vnto her yf she the said Elizabeth shall then be livinge 



96 THE WIFE OF THOMAS LORD OF HARTFORD. 

My Legacie guift bequest, thinge or things els whatsoeu r 
herein expressed to the contrarie hereof in any wise notwith- 
standing And fynally Doe earnestlie Desyre my wellbeloed 
freinds M r Henry Pedder and Thomas Pedder of East Purye 
in the Counte of Northton gent 8 and Paul Boughton of the 
same Toune clerk to be my supervisors of this my last will 
and testament And L Doe give and bequeath to each of 
them for their paynes to be taken ij s. vj d. of currant Eng- 
lish money. In witnes whereof I have herevnto put my hand 
& Seale the daye and yeare first aboue wrytten. 

Signed : Bici Lord* 
Sealed & Subscribed in the 
p'sence of vs Thomas Pedder 

Paul Boughton 

Richard Abbot 
Arch. Northants, P Series, Reg. XY'Z, folio ?4> 

Accordingly we see that Richard Lord of Towcester 
died early in 1610/11, leaving a wife Joan and three chil- 
dren, Thomas, Elizabeth, probably contracted in marriage 
to Robert Marriot of Calcot, and Alice. 

In the marriage license book of Peterborough, page 25, 
appears a license issued to Thomas Lord of Towcester, 
Feb. 20, 1610/11, to marry Dorothy, daughter of Robert 
Bird of Towcester. Mr. Withington makes a note that 
Thomas was born in 1585 and Dorothy Bird in 1589, but 
does not give the authority. He also gives a list of the 
following children, but again does not state where thej r 
were baptized: Richard, b. 1612; Thomas, b. 1619; 
Anne, b. 1621 ; William, b. 1623 ; John, b. 1625 ; Robert, 
b. 1626; ? Anne, b. 1629 ; Dorothy, b. 1631. It may be 
that he took the ages as given when the whole family, 
except Richard, who had come over three years before, 
emigrated in the "Elizabeth and Ann" in 1635. At all 
events they correspond exactly to the ages there stated. 
Towcester is a few miles southwest of the city of North- 
ampton, and it will perhaps be possible to get other dates 
from the parish registers there. 

*Tbe original will, signed " Richard Lord " and probated Feb. 7, 
1610-11, is filed Arch. Northants, Second Series, Second Volume V, 
folio S8. The inventory, amounting to 90 : 16 : 2, is in the hand- 
writing of Paul Boughton, 




NATHAN READ 




MODEL OF NAIL CUTTING MACHINE 
Invented in I 798 



HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 

OF THE 

ESSEX INSTITUTE 

VOL. LIV. APRIL, 1918. No. 2 

THE SALEM IRON FACTORY. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 



THE first iron works in the United States that existed 
long enough to take a permanent place in the history of 
industry were established at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 
1643, and the first iron pot made in New England was 
cast in that foundry in the same year. A forge shop 
equipped with a trip hammer was established in 1652 at 
Raynham, Mass., by James and Henry Leonard, who 
afterwards managed the iron works at Rowley Village 
(Boxford) near Topsfield. 

Except for nail making, the manufactures of iron in 
colonial times were entirely a workshop craft. Almost 
any of the early iron works could have been run by a 
country blacksmith. The iron used was smelted from the 
bog ore found in the meadows of eastern Massachusetts. 
About 1720 a trip hammer was used in the manufacture 
of scythes and other edged tools, and in 1750 the first 
regular iron rolling mill in America was built at Middle- 
boro, Mass. At the outbreak of the Revolution over 500 
muskets for the Continental Army were made there. At 
Bridgewater cannon were cast solid and the caliber bored, 
by Hugh Orr, a Scotchman. Copper bolts and nail rods 
were made at Two Mile River, Taunton, in 1777, and in 
1825 the plant was altered to an anchor forge. 

In the early days wrought nails were made in Massa- 
chusetts by hand forging, as it is believed they still are 

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98 THE SALEM IKON FACTORY. 

so made today in England. Nails were exported until 
Alexander Hamilton's tariff bill was adopted. Tacks also 
were made at a very early time from strips of sheet iron. 

The Danvers iron works and rolling mill were founded 
by Nathan Read of Salem, who was the inventor of one 
of the first machines, and perhaps the earliest, for cutting 
and heading nails at one operation. He was born July 2, 
1759, at Warren, Worcester County, Mass. The follow- 
ing short account of his life, condensed from " The life 
of Nathan Read by his nephew, David Read ", New York, 
1870, will be found of interest. 

Read's ancestors originally came from Newcastle-on- 
Tyne, and about 1632 emigrated to America and settled 
near Boston. His father, Major Reuben Read, was an 
officer in the Revolutionary army, and his mother, Tami- 
son Eastman, was a first cousin of Major General Nathan- 
iel Greene of Rhode Island. Nathan Reed graduated 
from Harvard College in 1781 and was early distin- 
guished as a scholar. Soon after his graduation he was 
elected a tutor at Harvard, which position he filled for 
several years. He afterwards studied medicine with Dr. 
Edward Augustus Holyoke of Salem, but gave that up and 
opened an apothecary store in the same place. 

In April, 1795, Read removed to his farm in Danvers 
and built a permanent structure across Waters river, 
which served the double purpose of a dam and bridge. 
The next year he and his associates erected and put into 
operation what was known as the " Salem Iron Factory", 
for the manufacture of chain cables, anchors, and other 
materials of iron for ship building, he having the chief 
superintendence of the work. While thus engaged, he 
invented and put into operation in the factory a nail ma- 
chine, which was extensively used for cutting and heading 
nails at one operation. A patent, dated Jan. 8, 1798, 
signed by President John Adams and now in the posses- 
sion of the Essex Institute, was issued to him by the 
United States Government as the original inventor. 

In October, 1800, Read was appointed a member of 
Congress for the Essex South District to fill the vacancy 
caused by the death of Judge Sewall. He was subse- 
quently elected to that office. In 1802 he was appointed 



Cftt 2Jmtrt States of America. 



To ;ill to \vhom thcfe Letters Patent 'hall come : 




part uf UKk ,,r 



tl>e prrOMnr, 



THE ORIGINAL PATENT OF NAIL MACHINE 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLEE. 99 

by Governor Strong a .special Justice of the Court of 
Common Pleas for the County of Essex ; and after his 
removal from Danvers to Belfast, Maine, in 1807, he was 
made Chief Justice of Hancock County, a position he 
filled for many years. Judge Read died at his residence 
at Belfast, Jan. 20, 1849, in the ninetieth year of his age, 
in the full possession of his intellectual powers and uni- 
versally respected by everyone. 

Besides his nail machine, Judge Read is to be credited 
with several other new inventions in the mechanic arts, 
and some of these were patented. Among them may be 
mentioned his Multi-tubular Boiler and his Improved 
Steam Cylinder for use in either steamboats or land car- 
riages. He also is generally credited with inventing an 
experimental steamboat which was demonstrated on the 
Danvers river in 1789. The experiment was made as 
claimed, but a close examination of Judge Read's papers 
reveals the fact that the paddle wheel shafts of the small 
boat were turned by Read himself, and that no steam en- 
gine was used in connection therewith. 

On March 30, 1792, Nathan Read bought for 370, 
from Joseph Endicott of Danvers, a house, barn, etc., and 
34 acres of land bordering on Waters river and in that 
part of the town of Danvers called " the Neck of Land." 
When he erected the large house this older house was 
moved by Read to the street where it now stands. Origi- 
nally this estate had formed part of a large tract of land 
deeded to Governor Endecott in 1632 by the General 
Court. (See the article by Sidney Perley on the Ende- 
cott Lands : Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. LI, 
page 361.*) Undoubtedly Read already had in mind the 
building of the bridge across Waters river, the erection 
of an iron factory, and in connection with it a wharf, 
mill dam, etc., for in December, 1794, he bought for !. 
4*., of Ruth Dole (the daughter of Samuel Endicott), 1/2 
acre of flats on the road north from Waters river. This 
is where the rolling mill now stands. In February, 1795, 
Read acquired from Lydia Waters of Danvers, for X37. 
13., the flats and uplands on the south side of the chan- 
nel of Waters river, the present site of the wharf on the 
Hussey side of the river. 



100 THE SALEM IKON FACTORY. 

Waters river bridge itself was built during the early 
part of 1795. In the original specification it is stated: 

" That the top of the said Bridge shall be thirty feet wide 
at the least. . . . That the highth of the bridge be at least 
one foot higher than the cap piece. . . . That there be 
three water courses through said Bridge, that the center one 
be thirty feet wide at the least at the Top. . . . That th.e 
other two water courses shall be at least twenty feet wide at 
the Top and distant from each other not less than 180 feet. 
. . . That the two piers between said water courses shall be 
cased with large and other suitable rocks. . . . That the 
said rock work shall be made so high as that three pieces of 
Timber on top thereof shall be the highth of said bridge. 
. . . That the sides of that part of said Bridge lying be- 
tween either shore and the next arch or water course shall be 
of rock work. . . . That the Bridge be railed on each side 
with good substantial railing . . . equal to that on the North 
Bridge in Salem . . . and that the whole of said Bridge be 
finished ... on or before the first day of december next. 
March 12, 1795." 

The whole cost of construction came to X 1,110. 9s., of 
which Mr. Read received 120. for " personal services ". 

In February, 1795, Read had petitioned the assessors 
"of that part of the town of Danvers called the Neck 
... to call a legal meeting of the inhabitants . . . To 
know if they will grant me . . . the privilege of making 
use of Waters Bridge or a mill dam, and of constructing 
a lock and flood gates . . . and of building mills, and of 
erecting piers and wharves anywhere adjoining the bridge, 
in consideration of my paying them a reasonable sum of 
money towards repairing the bridge." 

As a result of this meeting an agreement was made 
April 4, 1795, between the town of Danvers and Nathan 
Read, concerning the repair of the bridge over Waters 
river. In return for the privilege of erecting mills, build- 
ing dams, wharves, etc., Read agreed to accept the report 
of the town committee dated March 12, 1795, and to 
furnish all materials except rocks, and to have the work 
completed by Dec. 1, 1795, next, at his own expense, the 
town paying 210 and allowing him the rocks and other 
material in the old bridge. The middle arch was not to 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 101 

exceed 45 feet in width. At the expiration of five years 
the bridge was to be maintained by the town. 

Among the Read papers is a long memorandum in his 
own handwriting describing the advantages and profits to 
be expected from an iron mill situated on Waters river. 
In modern parlance this might be described as a circular 
designed to " float a stock company." The memorandum 
bears no date, but it is safe to assume it was written in 
the early part of 1795. It throws so much light on the 
early methods of manufacturing iron that it will be not 
uninteresting to quote liberally from it. 

" An Estimate of the Profits that might reasonably he ex- 
pected to arise from a capital of fifteen thousand dollars 
employed in establishing & carrying on the Manufacture of 
Anchors at Waters' Bridge. 

" From the best information I can collect it is generally 
agreed by the Anchor smiths that from three-quarters to a 
Chaldron of Coal & a Ton of Spanish iron, or twenty one 
hundred of Kussia iron, & twenty days labour, will be amply 
sufficient to make a Ton of Anchors. And as the greater 
part of the labourers employed are apprentices & common 
hands, a dollar a day upon an average to each workman, or 
Twenty dollars a Ton, will probably be sufficient to allow for 
this part of the expence. 

" But to compensate for any supposed inconveniences that 
may attend a tide stream, I shall estimate labour at thirty 
dollars a Ton, or at thirty days work, which is fifty per cent 
more than is allowed at Petuxet [Pawtucket] & three times 
as much as it actually requires at the Anchor works at 
Canaan in Connecticut, where I am informed that Twelve 
Tons of Anchors were made with less than one hundred & 
twenty days labour. 

" But it ought to be observed that from the excellent con- 
struction of these works they are said to require far less 
manual labour than any others of the kind in New-england. 

" In my estimate of the expence of establishing Anchor 
works on Waters' River, I have included two hammers, a 
large one for heavy Anchors & a smaller one for lighter work, 
& four forges, with bellowes fixed to be worked by hand or 
water, as occasion requires. 

" And as there is so great a profusion of water in the Pond 
that ten large water wheels would not probably lower it two 
feet in six hours, the hammer wheel without any inconven- 



102 THE SALEM IRON FACTORY. 

ience may be set so high as to work at least seven hours in a 
tide, and the bellows wheels which require very little power 
to move them, may be so fixed as to go the greater part of 
the time ; and with proper management very little time, if 
any, need be lost ; for it will require about an hour to take a 
heat upon a large Anchor before the hammer can be used. 

" And if the forge be set to work in season, as it always 
might be with a little attention, there would be eight hours 
out of twelve in which the business might go on without in- 
terruption : and the remainder of the time may be advan- 
tageously employed in shutting up Anchors, fixing the palms, 
making the rings, preparing and bundling up iron for the 
shafts & arms, & in such operations as are usually performed 
by hand. 

" Proceeding in this way I have the fullest confidence that 
eight hands, with two trip hammers & four forges, construct- 
ed in the most approved manner, can easily make one hun- 
dred Ton of Anchors in a year. 

" And for this purpose a capital of fifteen thousand dollars 
is sufficient, provided the stock be turned once in nine 
months, as there is good reason to expect it might be, from 
the increasing demand for Anchors to ship to India. 

" But to remove as far as possible every degree of uncer- 
tainty with respect to the profits of the business, I will sup- 
pose the stock to be turned but once a year, & therefore shall 
restrict my calculation to eighty tons per annum. And as 
Russia iron is most commonly used for large anchors, I have 
formed my estimate upon that kind in preference to any 
other. 

" It is also proper to observe that in fixing upon the capi- 
tal which I supposed might be profitably employed in this 
business, I have estimated the cost of the dam, stream, etc., 
and anchor works complete, at five thousand dollars. I have 
also calculated to advance the labourers one half their wages 
at the beginning of the year, which is nearly the same thing 
as to pay them monthly as their wages become due. 

" The following estimate of the cost of the materials & 
labour necessary to make eighty tons of anchors, deducted 
from the value of the anchors when finished, will shew the 
neat profits arising from the whole capital employed. 

To 84 tons of Russia iron at 93 dollars per ton, $7,812 

" To 80 chaldrons of coal at 12 dollars per chaldron, 960 
" To labour for 80 tons of Anchors at '30 days or 30 

dollars per ton, 2,400 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLBE. 103 

" To incidental expenses & repairs, estimated at 328 



" Whole cost of the material & labour for 80 tons 

of Anchors, $11,500 

" Value of 80 tons of Anchors at 10 cents per pound, 16,000 



Neat profit, $4,500 

which is 30 per cent upon the whole capital. 

" If labour be estimated at 20 dollars per month & Russia 
iron at 75 dollars per ton. & coal at 9 dollars a chaldron, 
which I am informed is a high estimate for time of peace, 
the first cost of a ton of anchors, allowing one month's 
labour to a ton, will be 104 dollars : & a capital of 15,000 
dollars will be sufficient to make 102 tons of anchors annu- 
ally. 

" The actual cost of 102 tons of anchors at $104 

per ton is 3182 8s 

" Value of 102 tons of anchors at 5d per pound, 4250 Os 

" Neat profit in time of peace, 1067 12s 

which is upward of 30 per cent turning the stock once a 
year. 

" On the whole, this branch of business which is plain & 
simple in its nature, & which can be carried on with, per- 
haps, equal advantage in peace or war, appears to be a very 
safe & eligible one. 

"To the anchor works may be annexed with very little 
expence, a suitable apparatus for making shovels, scythes, 
hoes, axes, etc., which is a less extensive, but not less profit- 
able kind of business than the former in proportion to the 
capital employed. 

" These articles may be as easily wrought with a tide mill 
as with any other ; for about half the work is done by hand. 

" From a particular inquiry into the business it appears 
also that a mill to roll & slit iron into sheets, hoops, saw 
plates, nail rods, etc., is very productive, & can be erected 
upon a tide stream where there is a sufficiency of water with- 
out any real inconvenienee, for the mill goes but about six 
hours in a day ; & there is no difficulty in adjusting the 
diameter of the water wheel & the length of the floats in 
such a manner as to produce the power required. 

" The cost of a good rolling and slitting mill two years ago 
was about twenty-five hundred dollars. Five men can easily 
slit three Ton of nail rods in a day & bundle them up. 



104 THE SALEM IRON FACTORY. 

" The quantity of fuel consumed in slitting a Ton of iron 
is about half a cord of pine wood & a bushel of sea coal. 

" The customary price for slitting is a dollar a hundred. 
The loss upon a quantity of iron slit into nail rods is eight 
per cent. 

" From these data the profits of the business may be easily 
calculated. A bark mill, a corn mill, & several others that 
require water carriage, may also be erected to advantage on 
this stream, which, from its magnitude & local situation, 
opens a fine field for the improvement of some part of that 
surplus capital which the merchant at the close of the pres- 
ent European war will find for his interest to withdraw from 
commerce & employ in such manufactures as are principally 
carried on by machinery. 

" From this consideration, as well as from the natural 
growth of the country, every mill seat, situate as this is, on 
a navigable river, & affording an easy communication by 
water with the Capital & other large towns, must necessarily 
rise in value & attract the attention of the Artist & Manu- 
facturer." 

Mr. Read's ideas of the profits to be made from an 
iron mill were so convincing that he was speedily able to 
enlist the support of several prominent citizens of Salem, 
and with their help organized a stock company, the ab- 
breviated description of which is taken from the original 
agreement in the Read papers. 

"The Subscriber, Nathan Read, being Proprietor of a Mill 
Seat on Waterses River, & of a piece of Land convenient for 
a Mill Yard, Wharves, etc., on the Eastern side of Waterses 
Bridge in Danvers ... & having expended considerable 
money & labour in constructing & building said Bridge in 
such manner that the Dam across said River may now be 
completed at small expence ... & that in order thereto (to 
establish the iron mill) it would be necessary to raise a Capi- 
tal of fifteen thousand Dollars, which have been already 
expended by him ... & it not being convenient for him to 
find the whole Capital, he proposes forming a company or 
association for the purpose upon the following principles. 

" That the Capital Stock, including what Read hath al- 
ready expended . . . shall consist of fifteen thousand Dol- 
lars & be divided into fifty shares of three hundred dollars 
each. . . . 

" That the Company shall allow . . . Read the reasonable 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BKADLEB. 105 

expence & charge of building said Bridge, after deducting the 
allowances . . . which were made him by the Proprietors of 
the Neck . . . 

" That the said Eead is to be on the same footing with the 
rest of the Company & to have no other rights or privileges 
than his number of shares may entitle him to. ... 

" That if the whole number, to wit, fifty shares, be not 
subscribed, neither said Read, nor those who have subscribed, 
are to be holden, but these proposals & their subscription are 
to be null & of no effect." 

Danvers, Feb. 18, 1796. 

..." We the subscribers ... do severally agree to be- 
come members of a Company for establishing & carrying on 
the manufacture of Anchors at the place & in the way & 
manner therein proposed." . . . 

Joseph Sprague eight shares 

Benj* Hodges two shares 

Sam Putnam one share 

William Stearns six shares 

E. A. Holyoke four shares 

Joshua Ward two shares 

Jacob Ashton two shares 

W m Prescott one share 

Jerath. Peirce two shares 

Aaron Wait two shares 

Nathan Peirce one share 

John Appleton one share 

Joseph Peabody two shares 

Ichabod Nichols two shares 

Jno. Norris two shares 

W m Gray Jr. five shares 

Sam 1 Gray two shares 

Jno. Osgood two shares 

Nathan Eead three shares 

On May 5, 1796, the official "Articles of Agreement" 
establishing the Salem Iron Factory wore signed by the 
shareholders before mentioned. The " Agreement " is a 
legal document of great length, but a few quotations from 
it will be of interest, as showing the organization of one 
of the early stock companies. 

"They [the co-partners] have agreed to form themselves 
into a Company, or, Co-partnership, for the purpose of erect- 
ing Mills, etc. . . . 



106 THE SALEM IRON FACTORY. 

" That a Treasurer shall also be chosen by Ballot at the 
Annual Meeting . . . that the Treasurer shall never pay out 
of the Treasury at any one time a greater sum than One 
Thousand Dollars, without an order in writing signed by at 
least two Directors. . . . 

" That there shall every year be elected by written Votes 
three Directors, whose duty it shall be to Superintend the 
building & constructing of the Mills & other buildings . . . 
they shall have full power ... to make any contracts in the 
course of business ... to sign any promissory notes, Drafts, 
or Bills of Exchange . . . and to buy & sell . . . the mate- 
rial proper for carrying on the business. 

" That the Directors . . . shall appoint ... an Agent . . . 
who shall personally & constantly attend to ... and with 
the advice of the Directors . . . direct the whole business of 
said Com pan y. . . . 

" That the aforesaid Capital stock ($30,000) shall never 
hereafter be Increased without the consent of the proprietor 
of forty shares thereof. . . . 

" That this Copartnership shall continue for the Term of 
five years, unless the holders of forty shares shall . . . de- 
termine to dissolve it within that term . . . and that at least 
six months before the Expiration of said five years a special 
meeting of the partners shall be called to determine whether 
they will further continue said partnership." . . . 

Samuel Putnam was elected clerk, John Appleton, 
treasurer, and John Osgood, Jerathmeel Pierce and Joseph 
Peabody, directors. 

On May 10, 1796, Mr. Read sold to the Directors of 
the Salem Iron Factory the mill at Waters river and all 
his rights in the bridge, dams, etc., for the sum of 
$3,383.33. 

John Appleton only filled the position of treasurer for 
a short time, as on April 26, 1797, the directors appointed 
Mr. Read to act in the double capacity of treasurer and 
agent, he giving bonds for $10,000. for the faithful per- 
formance of his duties. The directors agreed to pay Mr. 
Read $550. per annum for his services Che also probably 
had the free use of a dwelling house), " and to pay htm 
for all his reasonable expenses and horse hire, when on 
journeys for the service of the Company, excepting al- 
ways his expences and horse hire from Danvers to Salem, 
and while there." 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 107 

A few days before this, April 5, 1797, Jonathan Allen 
of Taunton had been engaged as foreman of the mill, and 
his agreement with the directors sounds so quaint to-day 
that it is worth while to quote the whole of it : 

Danvers, 5 April, 1797. 

" Agreed with Mr. Jona. Allen to work in the Silting Mill 
to keep the Cutters Rolers etc in Repair at eight shillings pr. 
Ton pr. Cutting every Kind of Rods & dubble for Iron 
Hoops or Nail plates, & at any Time that the works should 
not go he is to have thirteen shillings & six pence pr. day 
while em ploy d in making Cutters or any other imployment 
for the Company, it is agree that Mr. Allen finds himself 
every thing save board, drink etc 

Mr. Allen agrees to pay forty dollars pr. year for Rent for 
the House belonging to the Company or twenty dollars if he 
should improve only one half of the house, he or his family 
have their choice of the 3 Rooms below or in the Chambers, 
to have a good convenient Garden Room, the present Agree- 
ment is consider* to Exist twelve months from the date ex- 
cept some dissatisfaction should occur between the parties or 
either of them." 

Jonathan Allen 
Jno. Osgood 

, Nothing, perhaps, can better illustrate the entirely 
changed attitude of the public in the last century towards 
the liquor question than the following bill for ardent 
spirits bought by Mr. Read and undoubtedly furnished 
by him to the workmen at the mill. It was then quite a 
common practice : 

Doctor Nathan Read Dr. to Andrew Full : 
1797 

April 27 To 1 qt. Brandy 019 

May 6 To 1 qt. Rum 1 11 

ditto 12 To 12 qt. Rum 13 11 



17 7 

Frequent bills for liquor furnished Mr. Read at the 
Iron Mill are to be found among his papers. These grad- 
ually increase in size as a larger amount of abor was em- 
ployed. 



108 



THE SALEM IRON FACTORY. 



A good idea may be gained of the financial working and 
output of the Salem Iron Factory in its early years by the 
annual report for April 30, 1799, which follows. The 
original is entirely in Mr. Read's handwriting : 



Dr. 



BALANCE. 



1799 


T. Cwt. Qr. 


Apr. 31 


} To 121 ' 2 ' Spike & Nail Rods at 6$ Dolls., $ 789.75 


ii 


To 155 '3 '0 Nail Plates at 7 " 1168.12$ 


it 


To 6 ' ' Iron Hoops at 8 " 48. 


ii 


To 3 ' Sleigh Shoes at 8 " 24. 


ii 


To 78 ' ' Strips for Nail 




Plates at6} " 507. 


ii 


To 225 '0 '0 Russia Iron at b\ " 1181.25 


ii 


To 160 '0 ' Spanish Iron at 5$ " 880. 


u 


To 7 ' Broken Iron at 3 " 21. 


M 


To 10 ' ' Scrap Iron at If " 16.66 


(1 


To 3 ' 2 ' Twinders, at 3 " 10.50 


U 


To 959 Ibs. Spikes at 10 cents 95.90 


II 


To 154 Ibs. Deck Nails at 10 cents 15.40 





To 83 1-6 Doz. Shovels at 10 Dolls, 873.25 


l 


To 150 Refuse Shovel Plates at 20 cents 30. 


11 


To 13 Refuse Scythes at 75 " 9.75 


(I 


To 12 Scythes unfinished at 75 " 9. 


11 


To 4 Axes at Ii Doll 11. 


<c 


To 12 Cords Pine Wood at 3$ " 42. 


(( 


To 7 Chaldrons pit Coal at 11 " 77. 


1 


To 200 Bushels charcoal at 14 cents 28. 


1 


To 30 Anchors w* 15277 Ibs. at 10 " 1527.70 


( 


To 10 Ditto unfinished, 8000 Ibs. at 8 " 640. 


i 


To 20 " " Anchor Palms at 7| Dolls. 150. 


1 


To Sundries, in the hands of Martin Perry, Ports- 




mouth, 1069.75 


It 1 


' To Ditto, in the hands of James Prince, New- 




buryport, 2911.60 


II 


' To Ditto, in the hands of Capt. Blackley, Mar- 




blehead, 276.10 


t( 


' To Ditto, in the hands of Daniel Carney & Co., 




Boston, 4857. 


II 


' To Ditto, in the hands of Albert Newhall, Port- 




land, 1425. 


(< 1 


' To Ditto, in the hands of J. & T. Stephens, Bev- 




erly, 239.96 


1C 1 


' To Ditto, in the hands of Jos. Osgood, Jr., Salem, 1217.24 


11 


' To Outstanding Debts, 4728.21 


II 


To Cash remaining in the Treasury, 981.55 


11 


1 To Works, tools & utensils, Dwelling House & 




lands, etc., 22485.79 



1799 $48348.09 

Apr. 30 To balance, the Neat of Company's Estate, Stock, 38543.20 



BY FRANCIS B. 0. BRADLBB. 109 

CONTRA. Cr. 

1799 

Apr. 30 By Ebenezer Beckford, Esqr, due to him, 91565.73 

By Capt. George Dodge Ditto 2023.33 

By Essex Bank " 4000. 

By Nathl Goodwin Esqr about 112. 

By Nathan Read 1743.83 
By Commifsion, Freight, etc. on Sundries not sold, 360. 

By Stock, the Neat of the Company's Estate, 38543.20 

$48348.09 
CONTRA. Cr. 

1798 
Apr. 20 By amount of Company's Estate, $37222.22 

1799 
Apr. 30 By profit gained the year past, 1320.98 

$38543.20 

During the early part of Mr. Read's connection with 
the Iron Factory he was at work on his machine for cut- 
ting and heading nails, probably the best known of his 
many inventions. The working model and the original 
patent dated and signed by John Adams, are now in the 
possession of the Essex Institute. Among the Read pa- 
pers are receipts aggregating hundreds of dollars paid 
various mechanics for work done on the nail machine.* 

Like all other successful inventions, the priority of Mr. 
Read's nail machine was disputed by others, which evi- 
dently and quite naturally gave him great concern, as is 
evidenced by his letter to Hon. Timothy Pickering, then 
Secretary of State, not long before the patent was granted. 
The letter also gives a good idea of the practical working 
of the machine : 

" Danvers, August 21, 1797. 
" Sir, 

" I am informed that an application has been made or will 
soon be made to you by the Eev d Mr. Newell of Stow (Mass.) 

*From the Read MSS. : 

" How to Soften Iron. 

" Take of allum, salt, Armoniac, Tartar, a like quantity of either, 
put them into good vinegar, & set them on the fire; heat your Iron, 
& quench it therein." 

" To Make Iron have the Colour of Brass. 

" First polish it well, rub it after with aqua fortis, wherein filings 
of Brafs have been difsolved: the like may be done with roman 
vitriol, difsolved in Vinegar, & fair water of each a like quantity." 



110 THE SALEM IRON FACTORY. 

& a Mr. Ellis of Boston for a Patent for a nail machine con 
structed upon similar principles with one of my inventions, 
which at the expense of four hundred dollars I have had 
made at the Salem Iron Factory, where, for some time past, 
it has been in complete operation. If my information be 
correct I have good grounds to apprehend that some undue 
advantage has been taken by Messrs. Newell or Ellis of the 
principle of my Machine. 

" It certainly has been in their power to take advantage, 
for both of them have had a verbal description of the princi- 
ples of its operation. . . . This was in May last, if I recol- 
lect right. 

" About the same time a Mechanick by the name of Burt, 
who afterwards acknowledged to me that he had been applied 
to by Mr. Ellis to do the iron work of his nail Machine, ob- 
tained in a clandestine manner access to the apartment where 
I had concealed the model of my machine & examined every 
part of it, & had its principles fully explained to him. 

" Furthermore, I have been repeatedly informed & have 
every reason to believe that that which Messrs. Newell & 
Ellis had constructed before their workmen obtained informa- 
tion of mine was totally different from mine, & on trial upon 
a large scale, the principle of their machine failed, having 
never been able to make any nails but leaden ones. 

" To enable you to determine whether there is a similarity 
between the two machines, you will permit me to give you a 
consise account of the principles & operation of mine, as I 
have had too many avocations to compile a drawing & partic- 
ular description of it. 

" My Nail Machine consists of a cutting lever of the com- 
mon form, which vibrates to cut, head, & pound, of two vices 
& two hammers, & a stage upon which the Nail plate is 
placed & forced into the jaws of the cutters by a pair of rip- 
pers & a small pulley. 

" Directly under the cutting tool is a small trough on which 
the nail drops. The machine is so constructed as to make a 
certainty of throwing one nail into one vice & the next nail 
that is cut into the other vice, the nails drop head fore- 
most into the vices, of which one is inverted. Under each 
vice is a sliding gage, which prevents the nail from dropping 
too far & conveys it by a secondary movement directly under 
the fixed jaw of the vice, where it is held till the vice gripes 
it, then the sliding gage moves back & the hammer, which 
strikes upward, heads the nail at two strokes, the vice then 
opens & the nail drops, the other vice, hammer & sliding 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. Ill 

gage in turn perform the same operations, & so on alternate- 
ly, two nails being cut & headed at every revolution of the 
wheel, which gives a regular & equable movement to the 
whole machine, which feeds itself & cuts & heads the nails 
without any other manual labour than what is required to 
place one nail plate upon the stage where the machine is 
fed. . . . 

" The capacity of the machine is about ten thousand nails 
daily. With the same machine nails of any size from a 4 d 
to a 20* naii can be made by adjusting the weights which 
move the hammers to the size of the nail. 

"As it is about five years since I have had the principles 
of my machine in contemplation & have spent a deal of time 
& money to perfect the machine, of which I had a complete 
model in wood several months before I knew that Mr. Ellis 
or any other person had attempted anything of the kind, I 
must solicit you as a friend to justice, if it should appear 
upon examination that there is a sameness in the principles 
of our machinery, to use your influence to defer granting a 
patent to Mr. Newell till I have time to assert my rights & 
come forward upon equal ground ; but if I have been wrong- 
ly informed & it should appear that there is no interfer- 
ence in our claims, I most sincerely wish Mr. Newell & his 
partners may meet with every encouragement that the gov- 
ernment can give. 

" A sense of justice to myself and family is the only apol- 
ogy I can make for the trouble I make you. 

" I am, Sir, with the profound sentiments of respect & 
esteem, your most obedient Servant, 

"Nathan Read." 

" P. S. As soon as possible I shall construct a small model 
& complete the drawing & description of my machine & for- 
ward them to you with a petition for a Patent." 

Mr. Reed's claims to priority of invention were evident- 
ly considered good, for very soon after the above letter 
was written a patent was granted him (Jan. 8, 1798), and 
acknowledged as follows in a letter written by Mr. Read 
to Benjamin Goodhue, M. C. : 

" Danvers, Feb. 1, 1798. 
Dear Sir, 

" I have received yours of the 13 th of Jany. with my patent 
enclosed. I thank you for your obliging services & benevo- 
lent wishes ; and sincerely hope our Country may eventually 



112 THE SALEM IRON FACTORY. 

derive such advantages from new & useful improvements as 
will amply reward their patrons & benefactors. 

" With the sinuerest respect & esteem, I am your friend & 
obedient servant, 

" N. Bead." 

In May, 1801, Mr. Read sold to Hatch Dent of Balti- 
more, for the sum of 1500, all his rights and privileges in 
the nail machine in the State of Maryland for the term of 
fourteen years, beginning in December, 1797. Methods 
of transportation were then so uncertain and slow that 
the nails made at the Salem Iron Factory had practically 
only a local sale. 

In the Articles of Agreement made May 5, 1796, it was 
provided that the partnership should continue for five 
years, unless the holders of forty shares should determine 
to dissolve within that time. This for some reason was 
renewed by an agreement dated Sept. 17, 1800. Mean- 
while the partners had become incorporated by the Gen- 
eral Court by the name of " The Salem Iron Factory Com- 
pany," by an Act passed Mar. 4, 1800. The shareholders 
at that time were : Ebenezer Beckford, William Gray, 
junr., Joseph Sprague, Benjamin Hodges, William Stearns, 
Edward Augustus Holyoke, Joshua Ward, Jacob Ashton, 
Abel Lawrence, Jerathmeel Pierce, Aaron Wait, Nathan 
Peirce, John Appleton, Joseph Peabody, Ichabod Nichols, 
George Dodge, John Osgood, Benjamin Carpenter, Sam- 
uel Putnam, all of Salem, and Nathan Read of Danvers.* 

After Mr. Read was appointed to Congress, in October, 
1800, he resigned as agent of the Salem Iron Factory, al- 
though it is believed he retained his financial interest 
therein. 

The Rev. William Bentley of Salem, a keen observer, 
thus describes the Iron Factory : 

" Feb. 14, 1810. f Dined with Mr. Osgood at the Factory, 
Waters Bridge. ... At Waters Bridge Factory everything 

*From "An Act for Incorporating the Salem Iron Factory Com- 
pany," Salem, 1804, 12 mo., pp. 40. [A copy is in the Library of the 
Essex Institute.] 

tDiary of Rev. William Bentley, Vol. Ill, pp. 497-8. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB. 113 

is upon a larger scale [than the Beverly iron mill] & sup- 
ported upon a considerable capital. The rollers for the Iron 
slitting mills are powerful. The cutting machines are of 
different sizes with different motions. The larger machine 
is fed by tongs led by a pulley. The smaller is fed by hand 
& can give 1400 strokes in a minute. The machine for head- 
ing is not used since the first experiments, as it is found 
heading is done better by hand than by any machine as yet 
invented both as to time & goodness of execution. Board 
for the workmen can be had at 15/ a week, & the men who 
head have about the average of 5/ pr. hundred weight & can 
earn from 6 to 9/ a day. Josselyn, the director at the Anchor 
Smith business, is from Plymouth Colony & a descendant of 
John Josselyn's Brother who came to N. E. in 1674." 

" Oct. 21, 1816.* I returned to the Mills ... at Waters 
Bridge. There I saw the furnace & rolling Mills. In the 
southern house the nail machines were at work which cast & 
head at one operation. Four kinds I saw, the Double tens, 
the single tens, clap board & shingle nails." 

" December 11, 1816. Yesterday I spent with Mr. John 
Osgood & family at the Iron Factory at Danvers. The ma- 
chines for nails were all at work from nails of one inch to 
six. The sale however is not so ready in this quarter from 
the multitude of such establishments. The Anchor making 
is still continued from 4 hundred to 2 tons. Between 20 & 
30 men are in the employment of this establishment & the 
best order obtains among the workmen. . . . The bars for 
plates pass from the furnace through three pair of rollers 
before complete for cutting. A furnace with Rhode Island 
coal heated the plates for the cutting machines, of which 
four were at work upon the larger nails for sheathing, deck- 
ing & ship work. The largest Anchor among the Stock which 
I saw was 15 hundred. Many of less weight were made not 
by order." 

" September 2, 1818.f This day I dined at Mr. J. Osgood's, 
Overseer of the Iron Works at Waters' Bridge, Danvers. . . . 
We visited the works which we found in good order. The 
general statement as I make it is that in the mean of a few 
past years they work 18 tons of Iron, now at 100 D. pr. Ton. 
They sell nails at 10 cents a pound. The expences of the 
establishment I know not." 

" May 5, 1819. . . . Mr. Archelaus Ray, who married D. 
Woodbridge, succeeds Mr. Osgood this year in the charge of 
the Iron Factory at Waters' Bridge & its dependencies at the 

Diary of Rev. William Bentley, Vol. IV, pp. 416, 490. 
tDiary of Rev. William Bentley, Vol. IV, pp. 544, 590. 



114 THE SALEM IRON FACTORY. 

north of Porter's bridge. Mr. A. Kay had the direction last 
year at the Amesbury Mills when I visited them, but from 
his wishes to accommodate his family he has requested the 
changed situations." 

After this date the nature of the work done at the 
Salem Iron Factory gradually changed, anchor and nail 
making were given up, and iron rods and sheet iron were 
almost exclusively rolled and manufactured. 

On May 25, 1843, Joseph Peabody, William Pickman 
and Archelaus Ray, trustees of the proprietors of the 
Salem Iron Factory Co., sold to Matthew Hooper, carpen- 
ter, of Danvers, for $8,065, all the interest in the factory, 
together with all the buildings, including the dwelling 
houses, nail factory, shops, mills, etc. Hooper carried 
on the business until 1854, when, on August 14 of that 
year, he sold out the mill, which was then called the 
" Danvers Iron Works," to William P. Fisk, James C. 
Fisk, trustee, both of Cambridge, Eben H. Balch of Bos- 
ton, and Francis E. Smith of Danvers, for $25,000. The 
property was mortgaged to Mr. Hooper, who foreclosed 
on Sept. 3, 1857. 

John Sylvester of Somerville bought the Iron Works 
in 1858. It probably was a company at that time, but it 
has not been possible to make a connection between Mat- 
thew Hooper and this corporation. Hooper died in 1858, 
and it appears that he disposed of the Iron Works before 
his demise, but no deeds can be found from him or his 
wife, who was executrix. 

The Danvers Iron Works are now carried on by Her- 
bert Sylvester, who succeeded Benjamin F., the son of 
John Sylvester. The business is a close corporation, of 
which the Sylvester family are the largest stockholders. 
Iron rods, nuts, bolts, etc., rolled from scrap iron, are now 
the principal manufactures. 

When Nathan Read removed to Maine in 1807, he sold 
his dwelling house near the iron works, Aug. 12, 1807, 
to Benjamin Crowninshield, master mariner, of Salem, for 
$11,250. Benjamin Merrill, administrator of the estate 
of Benjamin Crowninshield, sold the estate to Benjamin 
Porter of Marblehead, on Oct. 2, 1837, and the property 
has since remained in the Porter family, and is now 
owned by Helen and Benjamin Porter, the grandchildren 
of the above named Benjamin. 




HATHORNE: PART OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700. No. 2 



HATHORNE: PART OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700. 

NO. 2. 



BY SIDNEY PEKLEY. 



THIS plat, which includes what is now a part of Mid- 
dleton, extends from about the Hathorne railroad station 
northerly two and a half miles to the Ipswich river, and 
from the river easterly to Nichols brook, having an aver- 
age width of about a mile. The line between Middleton 
and Danvers is shown by the long dashes. This part of 
Middleton was a part of Topsfield until the incorporation 
of Middleton in 1728. That part of the tract lying 
southerly of this line was a part of Salem until 1752, 
when it was incorporated as a part of Danvers. 

There are four or more large hills within this section, 
Bare hill being the highest, and Dale's hill next. Bare 
hill was so called as early as 1685, and Bear hill in 1731 ; 
and Dale's hill was called Misty hill in 1680 ; and later 
Dale's hill, from the Dale family that lived upon it. 

Ipswich river was so called as early as 1696 ; and in 
1700 it was called " y e River y* Leads to Ipswich." . 

Nichols brook was so called in 1700. It was known as 
the great brook in 1787 ; and as the line brook between 
Middleton and Topsfield in 1848. 

Maple street near the Agricultural school was called 
the country highway in 1677 ; the old highway that was 
laid out for Andover men, in 1696 ; and in the same year, 
" ye old highway which was the highway from Salem to 
Andover." A change in its location was made at the 
Middleton line in 1783. In 1841, it was called the county 
road leading from Danvers Plains to Middleton. meeting 
house. That part of Maple street running southerly from 
its junction with Preston street was laid out about 1808, 
and was called the new road in 1816 ; the county road in 
1822 ; and was called Maple street its entire length line 
to Middleton line as early as 1882. 

(115; 



116 HATHORNE : PART OP SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

The way leading from the Middleton line, near the 
Agricultural school, to Indian bridge over Ipswich river, 
being the continuation of Maple street, was laid out 
' for Andover men " before 1685, when it was called 
Andover highway. It was called the highway that was 
laid out for Andover men, in 1722 ; and the county road 
in 1822. 

The bridge over Ipswich river, known as Indian bridge, 
was built at about the time the road was laid out before 
1685. The road must have been a way before the bridge 
was constructed, as this was an ancient ford. The town 
of Topsfield voted March 2, 1724-5, that " John Nicholes 
& and John Burton are Chosen to rebuild Topsfields part 
of the Bridge over y e River Near to Edward Putnams 
between Topsfield and Boxford and to bring their account 
to the Town when sd Work is Done and they shall be 
reasonably allowed by y e Town for sd service." This was 
called the Indian bridge as early as 1754. 

Preston street is an ancient way, and was called ye 
highway in 1733 ; the county road, in 1806 ; Preston 
street as early as 1882 ; and the old county road leading 
from Danvers Plains to Middleton, in 1896. 

The road leading to Topsfield over Nichols brook was 
a path in 1668 and was laid out in 1669. The town of 
Topsfield voted March 2, 1668-9, that "the Towne hath 
exceppected William Nicklas and John Nicklas and Wil- 
liam Hobes from hie Way worke in ye Towne apon Con- 
sidration thay Liue remoate : and apon Condition thay 
mak there one hie wayes to Topsfeid Bridge nere to 
Joseph Towns his house." The town of Topsfield voted 
Nov. 15, 1669, that Jacob Townes and Joseph Townes be 
" Chosen to Lay out a highway ffrom ye Bridge ouer ye 
Riuer by William Townes of one pole wide to William 
Nicklas ffarme Which he Liue apon and also to William 
Hobes Land " ; and they reported that they had " don it." 
This was called the highway that leads to Topsfield, in 
1696 ; the highway or "causy" which is made over the 
brook, in 1698 ; and the highway that leads from Tops- 
field to Middleton, in 1767. March 5, 1705-6, the town 
of Topsfield voted " to free all y e Inhabitants on y e South- 
west Side of Nicholls Brook from highway worke on ye 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 117 

North East Side of said Brook for this year provided they 
Maintain the Bridge over s d Nichollses Brook: and the 
rest of the highways and Bridges on that side of s d Nich- 
ollses Brook." The path from John Nichols' (now known 
as Fern croft) westerly, connecting with the ancient road 
to the Indian bridge over Ipswich river, had been a cart- 
way for many years ; but was not laid out until 1708, ac- 
cording to the following record : 

Wee whose Names are under writen being appointed by y e Select- 
men to lay out a highway from the Bridg over y e River by Edward 
Putnams to John Nickolsis and from thence to Thomas Robinsons; 
accordingly we have lay'd out y e said way from: Thomas Robinsons 
as the Cart way now goes to John Nickolsis house; and from John 
Nickolsis House as y e way now goes along by John Burtons House; 
and so along as the Cartway now goes : half the way to be vpon the 
Land of Mr Cheeversis: and halfe s d way upon y e Land of Thomas 
Robinsons till it comes so far as the way goes upon their Land : and 
so along as the way now goes to Phillip Knights House; and so on 
as the Cartway now goes till it comes to y c River by or beyond Ed- 
ward Putnam's House. 

SAMUEL STANLEY 
JOSEPH TOWN 

Dat 3 March 1707 or 8 

This was called the highway in 1757 ; the road that 
leads to one Foster's house, in 1789 ; and the road that 
leads to the dwelling house of Philip Knight, in 1789 ; 
the town road, in 1805 ; a town way, in 1809 ; and the 
lane, in 1837. 

Nichols street was called the highway, in 1708 ; the 
road, in 1748 ; the king's highway, in 1766 ; the old coun- 
ty road, in 1808; the county road, in 1842 ; and Nichols 
street as early as 1882. 

The road leading from William Hobbs' house northerly 
to Ipswich river was a path before March 12, 1716-7, 
when it was laid out as a town road. The following is 
the record of its laying out : 

We whose Names are under writen being Chosen and Impowered 
by the Select Men to lay out a Highway from Paul Averells Land to 
the Road by Ebenezer Nickolses House, accordingly haue done it, 
begining at Paul Averells Land; and have layd it out two Rods wide 
all the way keeping the olde plain Path till we come a Cross the 
Plane in John Cumings Land: and then turning to the right Hand 
as the Way is now lay'd out, till we come to Corp Joseph Towns 
Land and from the uper Side of the Way in CorpU Joseph Towns 
Land; the two Rods being allow'd on the North & North East Side 
of the Way, till we come to Mr Peabodys Land : and as the Road is 



118 HATHORNE: PART OP SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

lay'd out, till we come to William Hobses Land; and as the Road is 
lay'd out till we come to Thomas Robinsons Land; and as the Road 
is till we come in to the olde Road. 

THOMAS ROBINSON 
JOSEPH KNIGHT 
ELISHA PERKINS 
Dated y e 12 h of march 171$ 

This road was called the highway, in 1731 ; Salem road, 
in 1736 ; a road that leads to Paul Averill's, in 1739, 
road by Benjamin Peabody's house, in 1790 ; the county 
road from Boxford, in 1798 ; and the road leading from 
Middleton to Boxford, in 1848. 

What is now East street was an early path. In 1724, 
it was described as the path that goeth over the run ; the 
highway, in 1758; and the county road, in 1817. 

The Newburyport and Boston turnpike is shown on 
the plan by parallel dotted lines. It was located in 1803 
and constructed in 1804. It was called the Newburyport 
turnpike, in 1804 ; the turnpike, in 1806 ; and Newbury 
street as early as 1882. 

That part of this territory lying between the Endecott 
lot on the north and the Putnam and Hobbs lots on the 
south, and Ipswich river on the west, and near Nichols 
brook on the east, was the second division of common 
lands in Topsfield. The town of Topsfield, Nov. 13, 1668, 
voted that "ffrances pebody John Gould John Wilds 
Thomas Baker and Edmon Townes are Chosen thay or ye 
Maior part of them to Lay out and deuide the Common 
on Salam side of the Riuer all that Which is to be de- 
uided notwithstanding any former Chouse or Towne order 
according to the Towne order made in the yeare 1664." 
This land was in two parcels, one of which, known as the 
second division, was this tract, " bounded with Mr En- 
dickat Land Two wards ye North and Two wards ye West 
with ye Riuer Commonly Caled Ipswich Riuer and Two- 
wards ye south with Land that Lliut Thomas Putnam 
Layes Clame to & Land of William Hobes and easterly 
with y 9 Land of ffarmer porter & William Hobes his 
Land." The first four named on the committee reported 
in March, 1668-9, that "The seckond deuistion being that 
wee Gale Stickey medoe beging mr endickat ffarme vp 
to that Land as Lliut Thomas putnam Layes Clame the 



BY SIDNEY PEBLEY. 119 

Lotts butting apon farmer porter Land and soe ruing to 
ye Biuer Caled Ipswich Riuer wesword there is ffiutey fiue 
of these Lots Laid out fiue rod and a halfe broad these 
ffiutey fiue Lots but one ffarmer porter Land being at fiue 
rod and a halfe broad at that end and at y e Kiuer fouer 
rod an a halfe broad is fouer Lots more that dos but apon 
William Hobes is Land and at Will: Hobes Land thay are 
seuenteene rod an a halfe broad so Ruiing vp to Lliut 
Thomas putnam line." 

John Dale House. This land and the John Martin lot 
belonged to Job Swinnerton in 1660. He died April 11, 
1689 ; and this land probably descended to his son Dr. 
John Swinnerton of Salem, who died in the spring of 
1691. His widow and executrix, Hannah Swinnerton, 
conveyed it to John Martin and John Deale, both of 
Salem, March 20, 1693.* These grantees divided the 
land, John Dale receiving this part, Dec. 23, 1695.f Mr. 
Dale built a house upon the lot ; and lived there. For 
love, he conveyed to his son John Deal the house, barn 
and land adjoining June 22, 17304 The title then de- 
scended to the latter's son Archelaus Dale of Danvers, 
gentleman. The house was apparently gone when Arche- 
laus Dale conveyed the land to George Wyatt in 
1766. 

John Martin House. This land and the John Dale lot 
belonged to Job Swinnerton in 1660. He died April 11, 
1689, at the age of eighty-eight ; and this lot probably de- 
scended to his son Dr. John Swinnerton of Salem, who 
died in the spring of 1691. His widow and executrix of 
his will, Hannah Swinnerton, conveyed it to John Martin 
and John Deale, both of Salem, yeomen, March 20, 1693.* 
These grantees divided the land, John Martin receiving 
this part, Dec. 23, 1695.f Mr. Martin built a house on 
his portion and owned it until Feb. 10, 1708-9, when he 
conveyed the dwelling house, barn and the southern por- 
tion of the land to Thomas Kennev of Salem, weaver. II 

V f 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 195. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 82. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 53, leaf 274. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 121, leaf 255. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 23, leaf 188. 



120 HATHOBNB: PART OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

Mr. Kenney apparently sold the estate to John Dale a few 
years later. John Dale of Salem, housewright, for love, 
conveyed one-fourth of the dwelling house, barn and farm 
to his son Archelaus Dale of Salem Oct. 20, 1742.* The 
other three-fourths he conveyed, for love, to Elijah Porter 
of Topsfield, yeoman, for the use of the grantor during 
his life and then absolutely to his son Ebenezer Dale, Dec. 
25, 1754.f Ebenezer Dale of Danvers, yeoman, conveyed 
the three-fourths interest in the place to John Dale of 
Danvers, yeoman, Oct. 11, 1758 ;J and the next day John 
Dale conveyed it to Archelaus Dale of Danvers, yeoman, 
,vho owned the other fourth interest. John Dale died 
April 13, 1763, at the age of seventy-seven; and Arche- 
laus Dale died Feb. 27, 1797, aged seventy-seven. ,The 
house disappeared at about the latter date. 

Henry Kenney House. This lot of sixty acres of land 
consisted of three twenty-acre lots, which were granted by 
the town of Salem to Thomas Rootes, sr., of Salem, to his 
mother widow Mason and to his brother Richard, respec- 
tively. In consideration of love, Thomas Roots con- 
veyed the sixty acres, with the house and barn thereon, 
to Thomas Roots, son of his brother Josiah, June 20, 
1655. || Without appreciating the fact that this estate 
was conveyed to his son instead of himself, Josiah Roots 
of Salem, planter, conveyed it to Henry Keny of Salem, 
planter, Feb. 26, 1660-1.^[ Thomas Rootes claimed that 

* Essex Registry of Deeds, book 84, leaf 151. 

t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 103, leaf 110. 

JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 110, leaf 85. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 110, leaf 86. 

|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 90. 

1 Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 23. 

Robert Prince of Salem conveyed to Henry Keny, sr., of Salem 
six acres of meadow in Salem amongst the farms, bounded " upon 
y e northeast bordering upon y e upland, & bounded with a great old 
tree upon y e southwest, with an iland having an old tree upon it 
being betweene y e land of y e sd Henry Kenny & Corporall John Put- 
nam, being bounded alsoe upon the southwest with a brooke run- 
inge betweene y e land of y e sd Henry Kenny & John Putnam's 
meddow, & lastly being bounded upon y e southeast with y e med- 
dow of y e sd Robert Prince, & upon the northwest with y e up- 
land," Nov. 19, 1668. Essex, Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 55. 

Henry Keney of Salem, husbandman, for love, conveyed to his 
son Thomas Keney ten acres of land adjoining to the grantee's 
" house, to begin from Swinertons bounds, & soe upon a straite 
line through the middle of my fower acres of land below my barne, 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 121 

Mr. Kenney had no title to twenty acres of the land in- 
cluded in the deed from his father Josiah Rootes to Mr. 
Kenney, being the eastern side of the lot, because the 
deed from his uncle Thomas Rootes ran to himself and 
not to his father ; and he recovered it of Mr. Kenney on 
execution Oct. 17, 1683.* Thomas Rootes subsequently 
released it to Mr. Kenney. f 

The house was burned in the summer of 1696, as ap- 
pears by the following extract from the Topsfield church 
records : 

Septr 6, 1696. There was a Contribution for goodman Kenney 
yt lost his house & goods by fire. There was gathered 2 16 06. 

He built another house, and conveyed the estate, for 
love, to his son Henry Kenney, jr., of Salem, yeoman, 
Feb. 10, 1696-7.$ The father continued to dwell there, 
however. The place came into the possession of Samuel 
Cheever, who died before April 13, 1750, when his daugh- 
ter Mary Cheever of Salem, spinster, conveyed her inter- 
est in his estate to Israel Cheever of Salem, cordwainer. 
For four hundred dollars, he conveyed the buildings and 
ten acres of land to his son Israel Cheever, jr., of Dan- 
vers, husbandman, Jan. 30, 1798 ;|| and this grantee con- 
veyed the same property to Andrew Nichols of Danvers, 
esquire, Feb. 13, 1801.^[ 

The Newburyport and Boston turnpike road was lo- 
cated here in 1803, and this house was within the loca- 
tion. In the summer of 1804 it was removed westerly, 
just without the location of the turnpike. 

Mr. Nichols conveyed the house and land to John 
Nichols of Danvers, husbandman, July 29, 1806 ;** and 

& soe to a falen tree on y e other side of y e sd feild, & soe from 
thence to a mark't white oake tree, betwixt my sd sonn Thomas & 
me Henry Keney, & from that white oake on a straite line to y e 
abouesd Swinertons bounds "; if he leave no children by the name 
of Kenney then it was to go to his nearest of kin of that name, in 
which it is to continue, Sept. 25, 1679. Essex Registry of Deeds, 
book 5, leaf 67. 

Ipswich Registry of Deeds, book 5, page 217. 

t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 1. 

JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 158. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 95, leaf 140. 

|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 164, leaf 133. 

lEssex Registry of Deeds, book 168, leaf 188. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 198, leaf 283. 



122 HATHORNE: PART OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

this grantee, for four hundred and fifty dollars, conveyed 
the land and buildings thereon to Albert W. Quimby of 
Danvers, yeoman, Oct. 19, 1849.* Mr. Quimby recon- 
veyed it to Mr. Nichols, for six hundred dollars, Jan. 27, 
1851 ;f and Mr. Nichols conveyed it to John Daily of 
Danvers, laborer, July 16, 18524 After living in the 
old house two or three years, Mr. Daily took it down. 

Eleazer Putnam House. This lot of land belonged to 
John Putnam in 1660 ; and the house and land to Capt. 
John Putnam, sr., Jan. 26 , 1695-6, when, for love, he 
conveyed to his son Eleazer Putnam of Salem the land 
and "our house where Eleazer now d wells." The son, 
Dea. Eleazer Putnam of Salem, yeoman, died here in the 
spring of 1733, having devised his real estate to his sons 
Samuel and Henry. The housing and lands, containing 
in all about one hundred and thirty acres, were then val- 
ued at two thousand pounds. The son Henry Putnam of 
Danvers, gentleman, became the owner of the buildings 
and fifty-nine acres and thirty rods of land adjoining ; and 
conveyed the same, for five hundred and five pounds, to 
Stephen Putnam of Danvers, yeoman, April 24, 1753. || 
Mr. Putnam died in the spring of 1772, having devised 
his real estate to his sons Phineas, Aaron and Stephen. 
The son Stephen Putnam of Danvers, yeoman, became 
the owner of the estate, and conveyed to his son Joseph 
Putnam, 3d, of Danvers, yeoman, a part of " the home 
farm, where I now live, with the buildings thereon " ; and 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 428, leaf 164. 

tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 440, leaf 190. 

JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 463, leaf 291. 

There is a large oak tree standing by the side of Preston street, 
at the southwesterly corner of its junction with Newbury street 
(formerly the Newburyport and Boston turnpike), which is more 
than a century old. One Michael Martin, about 1825, was convicted 
of highway robbery in Chelsea, and sentenced to be executed there- 
for. While in the prison, awaiting execution, he confessed to a 
robbery in Portsmouth, N. H., and stated that he had buried the 
silver he had stolen under a small oak tree on the turnpike halfway 
between Newburyport and Boston, marking the tree with his ini- 
tials. Officers went to this spot, found this tree with Martin's 
initials cut in it. They dug up the earth beneath it, but found 
nothing. For years afterward, occasionally, the neighbors heard 
people digging there in the nighttime. Andrew Nichols. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 159. 

IIEssex Registry of Deeds, book 115, leaf 271. 



BY SIDNEY PEBLEY. 123 

the remainder of it to him Jan. 17, 1816.* Joseph Put- 
nam died Nov. 8, 1853, having devised his real estate to 
his grandsons Charles Putnam Preston and Joseph Augus- 
tus Preston, after the decease of the testator's wife Fanny 
and their daughter Clarissa P. Preston, mother of said 
grandsons. Clarissa P. Preston was the wife of John 
Preston, and about 1855 they took the old house down. 

Ezekiel Cheever House. The selectmen of Salem grant- 
ed this lot to John Putnam, jr., Feb. 26, 1654-5 ; and Lt. 
John Putnam of Salem, yeoman, conveyed it to Capt. 
Thomas Lathrop of Salem June 22, 1669. f Captain 
Lathrop removed to Beverly, and was ambushed and mas- 
sacred by the Indians, with his military company, '* The 
Flower of Essex," at South Deerfield, Sept. 18, 1675. He 
died childless, and his only heir was his sister Ellen (or 
Eleanor), wife of Ezekiel Cheever of Boston, the famous 
schoolmaster. By the general court, the real estate was 
assigned to Captain Lathrop's widow Bethiah for her life, 
and at her death to his sister, Mrs. Cheever, May 19, 
1680 ; and, Nov. 30, 1680, Mrs. Lathrop, who had mar- 
ried Joseph Grafton of Salem, mariner, released her in- 
terest in the estate to Mrs. Cheever and her children.:}: 
Mr. Ezekiel Cheever of Boston, schoolmaster, and his 
wife Ellen, conveyed the land to their eldest son Ezekiel 
Cheever of Salem, tailor, May 31, 1697 ; and the grantee 
erected a dwelling house thereon. He lived here, and 
died in the autumn of 1731, having devised the land and 
buildings to his sons Samuel, Ebenezer and Benjamin. 
Ebenezer Cheever, cooper, and Benjamin Cheever, weaver, 
both of Salem, released their interest in the house and 
six acres of land around it to their brother Samuel 
Cheever of Salem, weaver, June 10, 1733.|| 

John Nichols owned this estate in 1788, and his son-in- 
law Levi Preston in 1805. The latter's son William Pres- 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 209, leaf 40. 

tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 113. 

JCopies of several papers in the settlement of the estate of Capt. 
Thomas Lathrop on file in the Massachusetts State Archives, in the 
State House at Boston, are printed in the Historical Collections of 
the Essex Institute, volume 2, pages 131 and 177, and volume 3, 
page 65. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 18, leaf 106. 

|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 63, leaf 119. 



124 HATHORNE: PART OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

ton of Danvers, yeoman, next owned it and died about 
1850. Sylvanus B. Swan of Danvers, yeoman, adminis- 
trator of his estate, conveyed it to Benjamin Newhall of 
Salem, gentleman, at auction, April 29, 1852 ;* and Mr. 
Newhall conveyed it to Lucretia D. Massey (wife of 
Stephen D. Massey ") of Boston, merchant, July 11, 
1864.f Mr. Massey took the old house down. 

Thomas Cheever Lot. This lot of forty acres of land 
was granted to Bichard Greaves by the selectmen of Salem 
Feb. 26, 1654-5 ; and he conveyed it to Lt. John Putnam 
of Salem, yeoman, May 12, 16554 Mr. Putnam con- 
veyed it to Thomas Cheever of Maiden Nov. 29, 1682 ; 
and it belonged to Mr. Cheever in 1700. 

Thomas Cummings House. This lot of land was the 
southern end of the farm that belonged to John Ruck of 
Salem in 1644, and conveyed by him to his sons John 
Ruck and Thomas Ruck, in consideration of love, Dec. 8, 
1660.|| John Ruck conveyed it to Thomas Cave "of or 
near Salem," husbandman, and Philip Knight. 

" Thomas Cave, living neere the outside of the bounds 
of Salem, neere to y e outside bounds of Topsfield, plant- 
er," for seventeen pounds, conveyed that part of this lot 
lying southwesterly of the road to Peter Prescott of 
Salem, planter (this deed was not dated, but was ac- 
knowledged March 20, 1677-8) fl[ and Mr. Prescott built 
a house thereon, in which he lived. 

That part of the lot lying northeasterly of the road be- 
longed to Philip Knight in 1678 ; and was conveyed by 
him to Ruth Knight, widow and administratrix of the es- 
tate of Jonathan Knight, deceased, March 19, 1684.** 
Jonathan Knight of Concord, carpenter, conveyed it to 
Isaac Burton of Topsfield, 3 r eoman, Sept. 11, 1693 ;ff and 
Mr. Burton, for four pounds, conveyed it to Mr. Prescott 
April 3, 1696.^ 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 460, leaf 37. 

t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 671, leaf 85. 

J Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 27. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 112. 

|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 4. 

f Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 60. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 114. 
+tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 207. 
JjEssex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 192. 



BY SIDNEY PEBLBY. 125 

For fifty-three pounds, Mr. Prescott conveyed the land 
and " house I now live in " to Thomas Cummings of 
Topsfield, weaver, Jan. 21, 1696-7.* The house was 
probably gone before 1722, as Mr. Cummings had re- 
moved to Boxford before 1713, and conveyed the land, 
no buildings being mentioned in the deed, in 1722.f 

Jonathan Knight Lot. This lot of land was part of the 
land of John Ruck, who owned it as early as 1644, and 
conveyed it to Philip Knight and Thomas Cave *' of or 
near to Salem," husbandmen. The latter conveyed it to 
Jonathan Knight of Salem, husbandman, Dec. 3, 1673.$ 
Jonathan Knight died Jan. 17, 1683, intestate ; and at the 
desire of the widow and administratrix of the deceased, 
Ruth Knight, the court assigned this lot to his son Jona- 
than Knight June 24, 1684. Jonathan Knight lived in 
Salem Village ; and owned the lot in 1700. 

Isaac Burton Lot. This was part of the lot of John 
Ruck of Salem, which he owned as early as 1644, and 
conveyed to his sons John and Thomas Ruck Dec. 8, 
1660. John Ruck conveyed it to Thomas Cave and 
Philip Knight before Dec. 3, 1673 ; and Philip Knight of 
Topsfield, husbandman, conveyed it to Ruth Knight, 
widow and administratrix of the estate of Jonathan Knight 
of Salem Village, deceased, March 19, 1684. || Jonathan 
Knight of Concord, carpenter, probably son of the de- 
ceased, conveyed it to Isaac Burton of Topsfield, joiner, 
Sept. 11, 1693 fl[ and Mr. Burton owned it in 1700. 

Thomas Cave Souse. This land was part of the farm 
of John Ruck, which he owned as early as 1644, and 
sold to Thomas Cave and Philip Knight in or before 1673. 
Mr. Cave became its sole owner, and died possessed of it 
in the summer of 1708. In his will, he devised all his 
land, house and barn to his son Thomas Cave, except that 
his widow was to have " that end of the house that John 
Putnam built" before 1704. The son Thomas Cave 
possessed the estate as long as he lived. It then went to 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 193. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 40, leaf 262. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 115. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 4. 
IIEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 114. 
f Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 207. 



126 HATHORNE: PART OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

his son Thomas Cave, who lived here, being a yeoman. 
He died in the summer of 1789, having devised the place 
to his son Amos Cave. The home farm of about one 
hundred acres of land, with the buildings thereon, were 
then valued at four hundred pounds. Amos Cave was a 
yeoman, and lived here. He probably removed the old 
house about 1804. 

Philip Knight House. This land belonged to John Ruck 
as early as 1644, and he conveyed it to his sons John and 
Thomas Ruck Dec. 8, 1660.* John Ruck conveyed it to 
Thomas Cave and Philip Knight about 1673. Mr. Knight 
built a house upon this lot at about that time and lived in 
it. Nov. 4, 1692, he conveyed to his son Philip Knight 
one-half of his new orchard east of his house ;f and it 
belonged to the estate of the son Philip in 1700. Philip 
Knight, the father, lived here as late as 1722 ; and died 
before 1751. The estate descended to his sons Joseph 
and Benjamin Knight. Thej T made a division of the prop- 
erty May 21, 1751, and this part was assigned to Joseph 
Knight. : Lt. Joseph Knight died of old age March 9, 
1767. Philip Knight of Middleton, yeoman, probably son 
of Joseph, owned this house, barn and ninety acres of 
land in 1788 ; and conveyed the land with the house and 
barn thereon to William Goodale of Danvers, gentleman, 
July 3, 1789. Mr. Goodale conveyed the same property 
to Amos Felton of Danvers, yeoman, Nov. 12, 1789. | 
Mr. Felton removed to this farm, where he lived until 
April 10, 1805, when he conveyed the house, barn and 
land to Samuel Gould of Boxford, yeoman.^f Mr. Gould 
removed to this farm, and probably removed the old house 
a few years later. 

Estate of Philip Knight Souse. John Ruck owned this 
lot as early as 1644, and conveyed it to his sons John and 
Thomas Ruck Dec. 8, 1660.* John Ruck conveyed it to 
Thomas Cave and Philip Knight about 1673. Philip 

"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 4. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 36, leaf 156. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 158, leaf 280. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 150, leaf 114. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 152, leaf 87. 
ITEssex Registry of Deeds, book 176, leaf 51. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 127 

Knight built a large two-story house on this lot apparent- 
ly for his son Philip Knight upon the latter's marriage in 
1692 ; and conveyed the land and house and one-half of 
the barn to him Nov. 4, 1692.* Philip Knight, the son, 
lived here ; and died Aug. 19, 1696. The house and land 
descended to his daughters Rebecca and Elizabeth, both 
minors at that time. Rebecca married Nicholas Bay ley 
in 1711, and lived in Middleton. Elizabeth Knight of 
Topsfield, singlewoman, conveyed her one-half interest in 
the estate, for twenty-five pounds, to her uncles Joseph 
and Benjamin Knight May 6, 1725.f Benjamin Knight 
probably lived here in 1723. They divided the estate 
May 21, 1751, and this part was assigned to Benjamin 
Knight4 Mr. Knight died June 31 (we), 1781. Jona- 
than Knight of Middleton, yeoman, probably son of Ben- 
jamin Knight, owned the estate in 1788 ; and conveyed it 
to Solomon Gould of Boxford, yeoman, Jan. 19, 1796. 
Solomon Gould removed to this farm ; and later conveyed 
one-half interest in it to Nathaniel Gould of Middleton, 
yeoman. They made a division of it March 9, 1807, 
Solomon being assigned the easterly part of the land and 
house and Nathaniel the western half.|| A kitchen had 
been added to the old house. Solomon Gould removed 
to Salem, and conveyed to Nathaniel Gould of Middleton, 
yeoman, the eastern half of the house and land June 8, 
1809.^[ Thus Nathaniel Gould became the sole owner 
of the estate. Mr. Gould died May 27, 1817. At this 
time the house had a porch in front in the middle of the 
house. The homestead farm of seventy-five acres of 
land with the buildings thereon was then valued at twen- 
ty-two hundred and fifty dollars. His heirs were his two 
children, Betsey P. Gould and Henry L. Gould. Betsey 
married Amos Batchelder of Middleton, esquire, and she 
and her husband released to her brother her one-half in- 
terest in the land and buildings March 23, 1822.** Henry 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 36, leaf 156. 
i Essex Registry of Deeds, book 45, leaf 160. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 158, leaf 280. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 160, leaf 208. 
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 181, leaf 85. 
TTEssex Registry of Deeds, book 186, leaf 152. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 209, leaf 162. 



128 HATHOENE: PART OP SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

L. Gould of Middleton, yeoman, conveyed the same to 
Asa How of Middleton, esquire, Dec. 11, 1824 ;* and Mr. 
How died Feb. 13, 1826, having devised the place to his 
sons Benjamin and Mark. There was a division of the 
real estate, and Mark How became the owner of this 
part. Mr. How, then of Danvers, yeoman, for twenty- 
four hundred dollars, conveyed the farm of about one 
hundred acres and the buildings to Jonathan Perry of 
Middleton, yeoman, April 1, 1837.f Mr. Perry lived here 
until 1872, when the house was destroyed by fire. 

Edward Putnam Lot. This lot was included in the 
grants by the selectmen of Salem of one hundred acres 
to Walter Price May 30, 1649, and of forty acres to 
Thomas Cole Dec. 17, 1649. Both of the grantees lived 
in Salem, Mr. Price being a merchant, and sold their 
grants to Thomas Putnam and Nathaniel Putnam, both of 
Salem, March 3, 165 2-3. J A deed of the same was not 
given until Feb. 7, 16 58-9. These grantees divided the 
property, Thomas receiving this portion. For love, Thomas 
Putnam, sr., of Salem, conveyed it to his son Edward 
Putnam Jan. 2, 1685 ;|| and the grantee owned it in 
1700. 

Eleazer Putnam Lot. This lot was included in the grants 
by the selectmen of Salem of one hundred acres to Wal- 
ter Price May 30, 1649, and of forty acres to Thomas 
Cole Dec. 17, 1649. Both of these grantees lived in 
Salem, Mr. Price being a merchant, and sold their grants 
to Thomas Putnam and Nathaniel Putnam, both of Salem, 
March 3, 1652-34 A deed of the same was not given 
until Feb. 7, 1658-9. These grantees divided the prop- 
erty, Thomas receiving this portion, which he conveyed to 
his son Thomas Putnam, jr., Jan. 2, 1685;^[ and Thomas 
Putnam of Salem Village, yeoman, for eighteen pounds, 
conveyed it to Eleazer Putnam of ye Village, yeoman, 
May 1, 1696.** It belonged to Eleazer Putnam in 1700. 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 236, leaf 168. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 300, leaf 114. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 17. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 54. 
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 80. 
1[Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 68. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 158. 



BY SIDNEY PEELEY. 129 

Estate of Thomas Putnam Lot. This lot was included 
in the grants made by the selectmen of Salem of one 
hundred acres to Walter Price May 30, 1649, and of forty 
acres to Thomas Cole Dec. 17, 1649. Both of the 
grantees lived in Salem, Mr. Price being a merchant, and 
sold their grants to Thomas Putnam and Nathaniel Put- 
nam, both of Salem, March 3, 1652-3.* A deed of the 
same was not given until Feb. 7, 1658-9.f These grantees 
divided the property, Thomas receiving this portion, and 
Thomas Putnam, sr., of Salem, conveyed it to his son 
Thomas Putnam, jr., Jan. 2, 1685. J The grantee died in 
1697, and his estate owned the lot in 1700. 

Humphrey Case House. This was a part of the land 
granted to Henry Bartholomew by the town of Salem 
Aug. 10, 1642, and conveyed by him to William 
Nichols in 1651. Mr. Nichols conveyed it to his son John 
Nichols Jan. 6, 1678 ; and John Nichols conveyed it to 
his son-in-law Humphrey Case about the time of his mar- 
riage, which occurred Jan. 11, 1698-9. Mr. Case built a 
house upon it .which faced to the south, and lived here. 
He died in 1742, and his son Ebenezer Case of Salem, 
yeoman, for three hundred and twenty pounds, conveyed 
his interest in his father's real estate to his (Ebenezer's) 
brother John Case of Salem, husbandman, alias black- 
smith, April 20, 1742. John Case lived here and pur- 
sued his trade of a blacksmith until his death in the winter 
of 1766-7. The house and lot were assigned by the court 
to his son Amos Case of Sutton, housewright, Aug. 30, 
1768 ; and Amos Case conveyed the same estate to Joseph 
Brown of Danvers, yeoman, for seventy-eight pounds and 
six shillings, Sept. 1, 1768. jj How much longer the house 
stood is unknown to the writer. 

John Nichols House. This tract of land included the 
hundred acres of upland and ten acres of meadow which 
were granted by the town of Salem to Henry Bartholo- 
mew Aug. 10, 1642, to be laid out " a little beyond Mr. 
Bishops land." In 1651, Mr. Bartholomew conveyed it 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 17. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 54. 
{Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 68. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 117, leaf 240. 
, Essex Registry of Deeds, book 134, leaf 210. 



130 HATHORNE: PART OP SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

to William Nichols, who built a house thereon. He lived 
here, being a husbandman, and died in the winter of 
1695-6, at the age of ninety-six. He had conveyed to 
his son John Nichols and the latter's wife Lydia his farm 
*' I now live on," Jan. 6, 1678.* In this deed the father 
reserved a life estate to himself. The relations between 
father and son during the eighteen years that the father 
lived after the deed was made are referred to in a protest 
to the court, by the husbands of the daughters of the de- 
ceased, against appointing the son as administrator of the 
father's estate, as follows : " wee pray that our Brother 
John Nickolls may haue nothing to do with our estate : 
haueing proued so Deceitf ull all along to his own ffather 
and also to us, who by fair pretences and solem premisses 
gott his {fathers estate away from him : But when once 
he had gott it he did most ill Requit him in his old age : 
performeing non of the promiffes he had mad unto him 
that had it not been for some of his good neighbors that 
came to vissitt him he would haue dyed Long before now 
for want of sucker and when by their means he againe 
Renewed promises to him in writing under his hand : 
yett by one means or other he had gotten the same againe 
into his own hands all which has made his Agged ffather 
to ffill the Heavens with his cries and part of the earth 
with his Lamentations : that he should be such a fool to 
giue away his estate to such a disingenious son that did 
so il Requite him : that so att Last brought down the gray 
hairs of his and our father with sorow to his grave." 
John Nichols died in the autumn of 1700, having in his 
will devised the estate to his four sons William, John, 
Thomas and Ebenezer. The son Ebenezer Nichols ap- 
parently lived here in 1716 and for a number of years 
afterward. He probably built the addition to the eastern 
end of the house and lived therein. The son William 
Nichols became possessed of the place ; and died in the 
summer of 1757. The estate then consisted of forty- 
three acres of land and the buildings, which were valued 
at one hundred and ninety-six pounds and thirteen shil- 
lings. The estate was divided March 26, 1759 ; the east 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 5, leaf 56. 




JOHN NICHOLS HOUSE 
(Ferncroft) 



BY SIDNEY PBBLBY. 131 

half of the then house was assigned to the representatives 
of the deceased son John Nichols and the western part of 
the house and land about it to the son James Nichols. 
The western end was the old part of the house, probably. 
The eastern end was in existence in 1765. James Nich- 
ols of Middleton conveyed to Bimsley Peabody of Mid- 
dleton, husbandman, the western part of the house and 
land March 29, 1759 ;* and this part of the house was 
apparently gone in 1765, when Mr. Peabody conveyed the 
land on which it had stood, f 

John Nichols House. This tract of land included a part 
of the one hundred acres of upland and ten acres of 
meadow which were granted by the town of Salem to 
Henry Bartholmew Aug. 10, 1642, and conveyed by him 
to William Nichols in 1651. Mr. Nichols conveyed it, 
including this lot, to his son John Nichols and the latter's 
wife Lydia Jan. 6, 16784 John Nichols conveyed this 
lot to his son John Nichols and the latter's wife Constant, 
jointly and in entail, Jan. 28, 1696 ; and died four years 
later. Upon it Mr. Nichols built a house, in which he 
lived. The wife Constant died first and the husband died 
in the spring of 1757, leaving three children, Edward, 
John and Samuel. Edward Nichols became the owner 
of the estate ; and he died about 1760. His children, 
Stephen Nichols, Benjamin Nichols, and Hannah, wife of 
Amos Curtis, all of Middleton, conveyed their interest in 
the estate to Samuel Nichols of Middleton Dec. 17, 1762. 
Samuel Nichols conveyed the land with the house to 
Capt. Israel Foster of Beverly, merchant, May 17, 1777; | 
and Mr. Foster removed to Marblehead, where he was 
also a merchant. In 1788 and in 1805 the farm was oc- 
cupied by Isaac Giddings. Captain Foster conveyed the 
house, barn and land to Daniel Porter of Topsfield, tan- 
ner, Dec. 30, 1805.|| Mr. Porter subsequently became a 
yeoman, but probably never lived here, and at the time 
of his death his son Allen Porter was living here and 
probably had been for several years. Daniel Porter died 

"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 105, leaf 269. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 113, leaf 122. 
{Norfolk Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 93. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 115, leaf 224. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 177, leaf 116. 



132 HATHOENB : PART OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

Jan. 28, 1831 ; and his sons Allen Porter of Middleton, 
yeoman, and Ira Porter of Topsfield, yeoman, as the ex- 
ecutors of his will, conveyed the estate to George Towne 
of Danvers, yeoman, April 26, 1831 ;* and on the same 
day Mr. Towne reconveyed the estate to Allen Porter and 
his wife Pamela.* The farm then contained one hundred 
and forty- three acres. Allen Porter continued to dwell 
in this house until Nov. 30, 1838, when he conveyed the 
farm to Jeremiah Augustus Estey of Middleton, yeoman.f 
Mr. Estey lived upon the premises until he conveyed them 
to Jonathan Perry of Danvers, gentleman, April 15, 
18414 Mr. Perry died Nov. 16, 1845 ; and the estate 
was released, March 24, 1847, to his son Edward A. Perry 
of Danvers, yeoman, by the other heirs of Mr. Perry, 
viz : Jonathan Perry of Middleton, yeoman, Mary H., 
wife of Warren Sheldon of Danvers, Benjamin W. Perry 
of Danvers, yeoman, Rebecca, wife of David Stiles, jr., 
of Middleton, Horatio Perry, James M. Perry and Henry 
Per-ry, all of Danvers, yeomen, and Harriet Perry of 
Danvers, singlewoman. Mr. Perry conveyed the estate 
to Daniel Peabody of Danvers, yeoman, April 1, 1847. || 
Mr. Peabody removed to this farm, and lived in the north- 
western part of the house. 

Mr. Peabody conveyed the southeastern part of the 
house and land to Andrew Verry of Middleton, yeoman, 
June 26, 1849.^[ Mr. Verry removed to Danvers, and 
conveyed that part of the house and land to Aaron Jen- 
kins of Middleton, husbandman, April 1, 1862.** Mr. 
Jenkins removed to Salem, and convej'ed his part of the 
house and land to George M. Harris and Walter L. Har- 
ris, both of Salem, Feb. 6, ISSO.ff Walter L. Harris 
conveyed his half interest to George M. Harris May 2, 



Essex Registry of Deeds, book 259, leaf 187. 

tKssex Registry of Deeds, book 310, leaf 126. 

JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 324, leaf 164. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 381, leaf 44. 

HEssex Registry of Deeds, book 381, leaf 46. 

lEssex Registry of Deeds, book 413, leaf 248. 
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 637, leaf 9. 
ttEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1032, leaf 22. 
Registry of Deeds, book 1096, leaf 263. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 133 

Daniel Peabody, the owner of the northwestern part 
of the house and land, removed to Stoneham ; and his 
part was sold on execution to James M. Perry of Dan- 
vers Aug. 2, 1870.* Mr. Perry reconveyed it to Mr. 
Peabody May 10, 1872 ;f and Mr. Peabody conveyed 
that part of the house and land to Sidney C. Bancroft, 
esquire, of Peabody, May 10, 1882. f Twelve days later, 
Mr. Bancroft conveyed the same portion to George M. 
Harris and Walter L. Harris, who owned the other part 
of the house and land.J George M. Harris conveyed his 
interest in the entire estate to Charlotte C. Harris of 
Salem, widow, Jan. 25, 1886 ; and she died April 27, 
1900, intestate, leaving three children, Alphonso S. Har- 
ris, George M. Harris and Walter L. Harris. Alphonso 
lived in Boston and the others in Salem ; and Alphonso 
and George released their interest in the estate to Walter 
Oct. 22, 1901. || Walter L. Harris conveyed an undi- 
vided half interest in the estate to Henry K. Mansfield of 
Middleton June 16, 1905 ;T and while they owned it, 
May 11, 1906, the house was wholly destroyed by fire. 

In 1892, Walter L. Harris transformed the house into 
a place of public entertainment, naming it " Ferncroft," 
and it was used as such at the time of the fire. 

Isaac Burton House. This was a part of the land 
granted to Henry Bartholmew by the town of Salem 
August 10, 1642, and convej'ed by him to William Nich- 
ols in 1651. Mr. Nichols of Topsfield, husbandman, con- 
veyed that part of the lot lying northerly of the road to 
his " adopted son " Isaac Burton Jan. 4, 1678 ;** and the 
rest of the lot May 4, 1696.ff Mr. Burton erected a 
house upon the land, in which he lived, being a husband- 
man. He died May 3, 1706 ; and in his will he devised 
this estate to his sons John, Jacob and Henry, " or those 
that may survive." This house and barn were then ap- 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 806, leaf 264. 

tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1081, leaf 253. 

JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1081, leaf 254. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1166, leaf 152. 

::Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1664, page 47. 

ITEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1793, page 568. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 115. 
ttEssex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 160. 



134 HATHORNE: PART OP SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

praised at thirty pounds, and the thirty acres of land at 
seventy-five pounds. The son Jacob Burton of Topsfield, 
singleman, for thirty-five pounds, released to his brother 
John Burton of Topsfield his interest in the estate Nov. 
16, 1709 ;* and their brother Henry Burton of Topsfield, 
mason, released to his brother John Burton of Topsfield, 
carpenter, all rights he had by the will of his father, April 
8, 1714.f John Burton lived in this house, being a yeo- 
man ; and died in the winter of 1752, having devised to 
his sons John and Samuel that part of the house that the 
deceased died seized of and the barn and land. The 
buildings and land were then valued at two hundred and 
five pounds. The house, probably, had an addition built 
by one of his children. Samuel Burton of Middleton, 
yeoman, conveyed to Samuel Nichols of Middleton, yeo- 
man, the house, barn and land adjoining, May 3, 1757 ;$ 
and Mr. Nichols conveyed it to Capt. Israel Foster of 
Beverly, merchant, May 17, 1777. The house was ap- 
parently gone before 1805, when Mr. Foster sold the 
place. || 

John Nichols Lot. This lot was a part of the homestead 
of William Nichols of Topsfield, husbandman, who, for 
love, conveyed it to his " adopted " son Isaac Burton, 
providing that if the grantee die without issue the title 
should revert to the grantor's son John and his heirs, Jan. 
4, 1678-9.1" Mr. Burton, then of Topsfield, husbandman, 
released it to John Nichols of Topsfield, carpenter, son of 
William Nichols' son John Nichols, but the deed being 
lost a new deed was given Jan. 24, 1696-7.** John Nichols, 
the father, of Topsfield, yeoman, and wife Lydia, for love, 
released it to their son John Nichols of Topsfield, carpen- 
ter, May 30, 1698.ff It belonged to the son John Nichols 
in 1700. 

John RoUnson Lot. This lot of land was probably a 
portion of the lot which William Robinson, tailor, con- 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 146. 
fEssex Registry of Deeds, book 28, leaf 12. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 110, leaf 65. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 135, leaf 68. 
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 177, leaf 116. 
IfEssex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 115. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 17, leaf 128. 
ttEssex Registry of Deeds, book 44, leaf 24. 



BY SIDNEY PBELBY. 136 

veyed to Richard Richards of Salem and William Hobbs 
of Lynn Jan. 1, 1660.* Mr. Richards died in the spring 
of 1678. This was the property of John Robinson in 
1678 and 1700. 

William Hobbs House. This lot was the property of 
Thomas Putnam in 1660, and of William Hobbs, with 
the house thereon, in 1668. For love, Mr. Hobbs made 
a will in which he devised to his son William his home- 
stead, with the house, bam and orchard, and before the 
death of Mr. Hobbs his son William made a will the day 
before he died, devising it to his son Joseph. William 
Hobbs, sr., then revoked his will, and conveyed the home- 
stead by deed to his grandson William Hobbs, in Joseph's 
stead, March 11, 1717-8. The grantee was underage, and 
his mother Mary was given possession of the estate until 
the boy became of age, the income to be for their support 
and the support of the grantor, f The house was gone 
before 1743, when William Hobbs had removed to Sow- 
hegan-west, in New Hampshire. 

Edward Putnam Lot. This lot probably included a part 
of the one hundred and forty acres of land that was grant- 
ed by the selectmen of Salem to Walter Price and Thomas 
Cole in 1649. The selectmen of Salem " Granted to John 
Swasey 40 acres of land to be laid out near Henrie Bar- 
tholmew his ffarme " Feb. 13, 1651-2 ; and this was the 
northern portion of this lot. Mr. Swasey sold it to Jeffrie 
Massy of Salem, planter, June 30, 1653 ; and Mr. Massey 
conveyed it to Thomas Putnam of Salem, husbandman, 
Jan. 31, 16584 Mr. Putnam died May 5, 1686, and the 
title descended to his son Edward Putnam, who owned it 
in 1700. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 8. 

tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 36, leaf 94. 

JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 50. 

At the angle in the northern line of this lot were three ash trees, 
concerning which Capt. John Putnam, sr., of Salem, aged about 
eighty-two, and William Hobbs, sr., of Topsfield, aged about sixty- 
six, testified "that wee were present with Lieu* Thomas Put- 
nam Sen of Salem and Lieu* ffrancis Peabody of Topsfield about 
y e year 1676 & wee Saw & heard them on three af h Trees growing 
near together as out of one stump or root to be be a bound between 
them the Trees are Standing in a Swamp near a runne that runneth 
toward Ipswich riner on y e East Side of y* riuer y e Trees Stand not 



HATHOBNE: PART OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

William Richards Lot. This lot of land was a part of 
the grants made by the town of Salem to Walter Price 
May 30, 1649, to Thomas Cole Dec. 17, 1649, and to John 
Swasey Feb. 13, 1651-2. It was sold to Jeffrie Massey 
of Salem, planter, June 30, 1653 ; and Mr. Massey con- 
veyed it to Thomas Putnam of Salem, husbandman, Jan. 
81, 1658.* Mr. Putnam died May 5, 1686, and it be- 
longed to William Richards in 1696 and 1700. 

Mill Lot. This lot was a part of the forty acres of 
land granted by the selectmen of Salem to John Swasey 
Feb. 13, 1651-2. Mr. Swasey sold it to Jeffrie Massey of 
Salem, planter, June 30, 1653 ; and Mr. Massey conveyed 
it to Thomas Putnam of Salem, husbandman, Jan. 31, 
1658.* Mr. Putnam died May 5, 1686 ; and the title de- 
scended to his son Thomas Putnam. Thomas Putnam of 
Salem Village, yeoman, for fifteen pounds, conveyed to 
Samuel Symonds, sr., of Boxford, John Town, Jacob 
Towne, jr., John Averill, Nathaniel Averilland Job Aver- 
ill, all of Topsfield, owners of the new mill on Ipswich 
river, eight acres of upland, swamp and meadow on both 
sides of the river above the mill, June 4, 1696. f The land 
belonged to the same proprietors in 1700. 

Isaac Pedbody Lot. Lt. Francis Peabody owned this 
lot in 1685 ; and he died Feb. 19, 1697-8, having devised 
it to his son Isaac Peabody. It belonged to Isaac Peabody 
in 1700. 

far off where y e riuer Turns to y e vpland near to y Cart way where 
Hobbs goes ouer y e riuer to his meadow & So from the three afhcs 
they haue another bound Eaftward vpon the Top of an hill not far 
from Hobs houfe where had been a Tree marked but now fallen 
downe which they the Said putnam s d Peabody then agreed & 
made an heap of Stones for a bound between them together with 
y e three Af h Trees." Nathaniel Ingersoll of Salem, aged about 
seventy-six, and William Hobbs, sr., of Topsfield, aged about sixty- 
six, testified " that about y e year 1652 or 53 that Leiu* Thomas 
Putnam Senr of Salem did fence & mow and Improve a meadow as 
his owne on both Sides of Ipswich riuer Commonly called by y 
name of Bare Hill meadow the meadow lyeth vp the riuer aboue 
y meadow formerly John Putnams senr at Salem but now in the 
hands of William Hobs of Topsfield," etc. Both depositions were 
sworn to by the deponents Aug. 3, 1709, before John Higginson and 
Stephen Sewall, justices of y e peace quorum unus. Essex Registry 
of Deeds, book 1, leaf 106. 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 50. 

tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 33, leaf 174. 



BY SIDNEY PEELEY. 137 

Joseph Towne Lot. This lot belonged to Joseph Towne, 
sr., in 1697. Twenty acres of it, being "a parcel of land 
in y e furder division of lots on ye south side of Ipswich 
river in Topsfield," was conveyed to him (2d, of Tops- 
field) by John Nichols, sr., William Nichols and John 
Nichols, jr., all of Topsfield, for seventeen pounds, Jan. 
28, 1696-7.* Mr. Towne owned the whole lot in 1700. 

Daniel Redington Lot. This lot belonged to Daniel 
Redington, living in Topsfield," in 1700. 

John Cwnmings Lot. This lot belonged to John Cum- 
mings in 1700. 

John Nichols Lot. This lot apparently belonged to 
John Nichols in 1700. 

Zerubabel Endecott Lot. This lot of land was the south- 
westerly portion of the five hundred and fifty acres which 
was granted to Gov. John Endecott by the general court 
Nov. 5, 1639 ; and he died possessed of it March 15, 1665, 
having devised it in his will to his son Zerubabel Ende- 
cott. Dr. Zerubabel Endecott died in the winter of 1683- 
4, having devised it to his sons Zerubabel, Benjamin and 
Joseph. It belonged to Zerubabel Endecott of Topsfield, 
yeoman, in 1700. 

*Essez Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 286. 



A GENEALOGICAL -HISTORICAL VISITATION 
OF ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 



BY ALFRED POORE, M. D. 



(Continued from Volume LIII, page 192.') 

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Hastings : 
Theodore Kern, b. May, 1829, lives in California; Joseph 
Warren, b. 1830, died unmarried soon after returning 
from California; Martha Eliza and Henry Bacon, died 
unmarried ; Frank Jennings, clerk for the New England 
Glass Co., and was in the 44th Mass. Regiment; Rebecca, 
b. about 1838, mar. Thomas Newcomb of Sandwich, and 
has daughter, Theodora ; Andrew, clerk in a coal office, 
lives in Cambridge ; Charles, died young. 

Next comes the house of Thomas Clark, with two large 
elm trees in front. He came here from South Andover in 
1849, and is a painter, the son of Ezra and Hannah 
(Chandler) Clark, born in West Andover June 27, 1807. 
His wife Sarah Ann is daughter of Samuel and Lydia 
(Noyes) Osgood, and was born in South Andover Nov. 
14, 1811. Her grandfather was Samuel Osgood and his 
wife was Hannah Phelps. Mrs. Clark's mother was sister 
to Wadley Noyes on the Jacob Osgood place. Children : 
Thomas Henry, b. 1832, died young ; Eliza A., died young ; 
Abby Ann, b. 1837 ; Henry Newton, died young ; Sarah 
Francis, b. 1842 ; Jesse, b. 1844 ; Elizabeth O., died 
young ; Joseph O.. b. 1848 ; Fred O., died young ; Emma 
Lizzie, b. 1855. Mr. Clark bought the place of John Ezra 
Abbott. Mr. Clark's grandfather was Thomas, who mar- 
ried widow Swan ; the latter's daughter married John 
Trow. Mr. Clark's father had Ezra, who resided in North 
Andover, and Zebadiah Chandler, who lived in Methuen, 
and after his father died, his mother married John Barnard 
and had John, lived in Bristol, R. I., Gilbert, who died in 
Andover, and Hannah, who lives with Gilbert's widow. 
(138) 



ANDOVEK, MASS., IN THE TEAR 1863. 139 

The James Abbott place was owned by Mr. Abbott's 
grandfather, James Holt, whose daughter Sarah married 
Barachias Abbott, and James married Mary, daughter of 
Isaac Foster of Greenfield, N. H. Children : Mary, died 
at home, unmarried ; James, died in Tennessee, unmar- 
ried ; Sarah, mar. Joshua, son of Solomon Holt, as his 
third wife ; Hartwell Barachias, b. 1816, who resides east 
of her father's house ; Dorcas, resides on the homestead ; 
Phebe Elizabeth, unmarried, at home; Timothy, mar. 
Sarah Louisa, daughter of Capt. Samuel Endicott of Bev- 
erly, who died in 1862 ; Hannah, lives at home, unmarried. 
Timothy Abbott who lives here now, is the seventh of the 
name to occupy it. A part of the house is the original 
and is about two hundred years old. The house where 
Hartwell Barachias resides was built in 1855. There has 
been a gate about half a mile from this old house toward 
Abbott village since 1810. 

After Abiel Abbott died, Charles Ballard, Horace 
Lewis, an Irishman named Cusick, Henry Symonds, and 
an Irishman named Moore have lived in his house. Hart- 
well Barachias' wife is Sarah Abbott, daughter of Jewett 
and Susan (Lovejoy) Jones, who was born in Andover 
south of the Seminary in 1817. Children : Lizzie Pun- 
chard, b. 1856 ; James Jewett, b, 1858 ; Mary Alice, b. 
1860. Mrs. Abbott's grandfather Lovejoy's children were 
Mary Ann, married Benjamin Clement, whose son Moses 
resides on Abbott street, Andover, and a daughter who 
married Amos Gray. Dea. Eben Jones is brother to Mrs. 
Abbott's father, Jewett Jones. 

Saw at Draper's, S. V. Spaulding, who says that Dea. 
Amos Spaulding of Centre Billerica and Rev. Mr. Spauld- 
ing of Newburyport are interested in a genealogy of the 
family. The road that passes B. Dane's was not travelled 
until about 1825. The gates were taken from Curve 
street about 1805, the first one being near the grindstone. 

Jacob and Aaron Osgood probably were not near rela- 
tion. Eben Lovejoy's house was built on Blanchard's 
Plain and Joshua Osgood lived in it and made nails there 
until about 1800, when he removed to Reading. Then 
Jeremiah Lovejoy, grandfather of Eben, bought it and 
moved it down here about 1803 for his son John. Others 



140 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF 

who have lived here are Foster, Wiggins, Davis from 
Woburn, Jonathan Gleason, Silas Burns, and Capt. John 
Chase. Then Josiah, brother to Mr. Lovejoy, bought it 
and lived on it from 1829-32, and in January, 1832, Eben 
Lovejoy came here. He is son of Eben and Phebe (Rus- 
sell) Lovejoy, born Feb., 1795, and married, first, Delina 
Lynch of Greenfield, an orphan, whose father was lost at 
sea and whose mother died when she was very young, and 
who died Sept., 1856, aged fifty-seven years ; married, 
second, Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Trussell) 
Wardwell, who was born in Frye village in 1803, and 
whose first husband was Jeremiah Farnham. Mr. Love- 
joy's children : Eben Francis, b. in his grandfather's 
house in 1819, andd. Boston, 1854, mar. Fanny McCallam 
of Nova Scotia, by whom he had Francis Worth, died 
young, Henry Jackson, b. Boston, 1846, Francis A., b. 
Dec., 1848, and a daughter, who died from accidentally 
taking laudanum ; Delina Ann, b. 1821, mar. William 
Jones of Exeter, and lives at Ballardvale, having chil- 
dren, Francis, Emily, Etta and Ann Eliza ; Mary E., died 
unmarried; Alfred Warren, b. 1825, mar. Emily Little- 
field from Kennebunk, and lives in Chelsea, and has chil- 
dren, Albert Warren, b. Chelsea, 1851, Rosetta, b. 1853, 
Ella, b. 1856, and a daughter born May, 1863 ; Dorcas J., 
died young ; Maria Jane, b. 1829, mar. Foster Wilson 
from Hudson and resides in Lowell, with children, Fos- 
ter, b. 1854, Julia, b. 1858, Page W., died young, Stephen 
Albert, b. 1831, mar. Jane Fisher of Boston, and lives in 
Chelsea, with children, Jennie, b. 1858, and Minnie, b. 
1860 ; Phebe A., d. unmarried; Dorcas B., died young; 
Sarah Emeline, b. 1838, mar. Aaron Noyes, 1860 ; Joseph 
Thompson, b. 1840, was in Co. H, 43d Mass. Regiment, 
and since 1 861 has been in the file shop ; Burella Esther, 
b. 1845. 

Mrs. Lovejoy married, first, Jeremiah, son of Timothy 
and Susanna (Berry) Farnham, who was born in 1797 and 
died in 1848. He was blind sixteen years, having had his 
eye put out by blasting stone on the Lowell & Boston 
railroad. Children : Sarah Jane, b. 1828, mar. David 
Jameson on Curve street ; Charles, b. 1829, mar. Emeline, 
daughter of Daniel and Martha (Gunn) Mason of Frye 



ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAB 1863. 141 

village, a machinist, and resides in Lawrence ; Lydia A., 
b. 1831, d. 1852, mar. William, son of William Peabody, 
b. West Cambridge, a butcher, and has children, Fanny 
and Willie ; Orren Lewis, b. 1835, who is in Co. H, 14th 
Mass. Regiment; Susan B., d. unmarried, aged twenty- 
one years ; Harriet, b. 1838, mar. George, son of Oliver 
Russell of Belmont, a painter, and lives in South Andover, 
and has son, George Oliver, b. May, 1862. 

George Stone once resided in the first house on the old 
county road, who had children, Clarissa, Hubbard, Emily, 
Margaret, John. 

Seth Chase says the place where he has been since No- 
vember, 1862, is owned by the heirs of Richard Saun- 
ders, who died April, 1862, and his wife died three or 
four years before they came from Cambridgeport, in 1832. 
Mr. Saunders was an Englishman and eighty-eight years 
old. Mrs. Saunders was Sally Kneeland, cousin to John 
Kneeland, Esq., of Andover. Old Samuel Abbott proba- 
bly bought the place of Joseph Dane, who removed to 
Wilton, N. H. John Kneeland, whose mother was sister 
to old Samuel Abbott, was in possession of this farm for 
about thirty or forty years and leased it, and Moses Dane 
took it on shares. Mr. Chase is grandson of Enoch and 
son of John and Anna (Cochran) Chase. She was a 
daughter of James Cochran, and was born in Andover, 
where Jameson, the butcher, now resides, in 1809. This 
place was owned by a Ballard in 1710, and Daniel Town, 
the carpenter, later owned it. He built the first bridge 
about 1800, but it was blown down before quite finished. 
Town sold it to Mr. Chase's grandfather Enoch about 
1800. Enoch was born in West Newbury, where a Mr. 
Carr now lives, and married Sarah Sawyer of Belleville, 
Newburyport, and lived near Billerica mills, where he 
went to make shoes for the workmen on the Middlesex 
canal. Enoch and Sarah (Sawyer) Chase had : Sarah, 
who married John Carleton of Chelmsford ; Rebecca, 
mar. Parker Noyes of West Newbury, and have children, 
Jacob, Parker, and Elizabeth ; Seth, a seaman, died, un- 
married, at Danvers ; Jacob, a seaman, was probably taken 
in the Algerine war and has not been heard from since ; 
Elizabeth, mar. Stephen C. Moore of Medford, and died 



142 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OF 

in Andover, leaving children, Eliza and Joshua ; John, 
Mr. Chase's father, b. 1780 ; Joshua, a carpenter, settled 
in Boston, where he died, leaving one daughter, Anna ; 
Eunice, mar. Henry, son of James Cochran, brother to 
John's wife, settled in Tewksbury, and had Henry, Elmira 
and Justin. John, Mr. Chase's father, was born in Leo- 
minster, but lived in Andover. Seth Chase married, first. 
Charlotte, daughter of Richard Saunders, who died in 
1846 ; married, second, Mary, daughter of James and 
Helen (Moore) Spellman, born in Stoneham in 1824. 
Their children : Charlotte, b. Albany, N. Y., 1843 ; Su- 
san Rebecca, died young ; Marcus Morton, b. Williams- 
burg, N. Y., 1854 ; Georgianna, b. Newburg, N. Y., 1856 ; 
Thirza Brown, b. 1858 ; Lillie Frances, b. 1860. 

Nathan Kimball Holt has lived in his house since Sept. r 
1860. The house WHS built by Hinckley, who formerly 
resided with Master William Foster, and formed an ell to 
the Saunders house, which was built about 1851. Mr. 
Hinckley bought it and removed it down on to the pres- 
ent spot. Mr. Holt is son of Darius and Chloe (Holt) 
Holt, and was born in Norway, Me., in 1810, and his wife 
Tryphena is daughter of Thatcher and Eliza (Greenough) 
Matthews, who was born in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1808. 
Children : Mary Jane, b. Scotland district in 1835, mar. 
Robert M. Carter, a cooper, and resides in Portland ; 
George Franklin, b. Norway, Me., 1838, mar. Olive Jane, 
daughter of William and Eliza (Randall) Pettengill, who 
was born in Portland in 1840, and discharged from the 
United States Navy Sept. 14, 1863, and have child, Ella 
L., born Providence, R. I., 1860. They also have an 
adopted child named Robert Washington Holt, who was 
born in Norway in 1848, the son of Freeman Holt, Kim- 
ball's brother. Mr. Holt's grandfather was David Holt, 
and his mother was a daughter of Abiel Holt. Mrs* 
Holt's mother was daughter of James Greenough, born 
about 1790 in Portsmouth, N. H. 

Next below on the same side of the street, northeast, is 
the residence of Chandler, son of Henry and Elizabeth 
(Dane) Dane, who was born in 1804 in the house where 
Clark resides and where all but one or two of the first 



ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 143 

of his father's children were born. Mr. Dane's grand- 
father was Philemon Dane, who resided where Stratton 
lives. Chandler Dane's wife is Susan, daughter of Sam- 
uel and Abigail (Russell) Wallace, who was born in Bos- 
ton in 1817, and they built this house in 1848. Children : 
George, b. in the Abiel Abbott house in 1840, where they 
lived from 1838 to '48, who is in Co. H, 14th Mass. Reg- 
iment; Herman, b. 1842, mar. Mary Jennie, b. Lowell, 
1844, daughter of Charles H. and Mary M. Dane, the 
latter being a daughter of Henry Dane. 

Next is where Miss Elizabeth Dane has resided since 
1833, when the house was built. Here her father died 
in 1842 and her mother in 1832. Her father Moses Dane 
lived at the Saunders place from 1796 to 1832, with the 
exception of five years, when he resided in an old house 
on the site of her present one. Francis Dane probably 
owned the old Saunders house, and then Joseph, brother 
to Dea. John, owned it, but Amos Gilchrist was the last 
to occupy it. Dea. John Dane of the South Church re- 
sided where Stratton now does, and was great-grandfather 
to Miss Dane. Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Clark and 
Lydia Dane, her niece, has lived with her since 1845. She 
was born in West Andover in 1844. 

Henry Goff has resided in his house since Sept. 17, 
1861. James Davis built the house before 1833 on 
land that he had of James Abbott, but he died in 1829. 
His widow had a daughter Lucy Abbott, who married 
Henry Goff. Martha, daughter of Mark and Hannah 
(Reid) Pettigrew, b. Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, 
England, 1836, came to America with her parents when 
eight years old. Her father died in Andover, and her 
mother married George Roth well, but she returned to 
Leeds in 1862. Mr. Goff is a painter. Henry and Lucy 
A. (Davis) Goff had : Henry, b. 1826 ; Lucinda, mar. 
first, Oliver Lyford, and second, William S. Chapman of 
Rutland, Vt., an engineer, and has a daughter Lucy Debo- 
rah, b. Rutland, Feb., 1862 ; Mary Ann, mar. John Am- 
brose, resides in Rutland, and has Ann Eliza and Lydia ; 
Mercy Maria, b. 1832. 

Dr. Symonds Baker, b. Topsfield, mar. Susan, daughter 
of Rev. Mr. Sargent's daughter, in Methuen; mar. second, 



144 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION 

Lydia Gray, whose brother came home from the army 
with the small pox and died. She was an only heir of 
her father's estate, and Dr. Baker settled a little below 
Henry Gray's, where George Abbott now resides, and 
where their children were born. They bought the house 
where this David Baker and his mother now reside of 
Thomas Abbott's widow Lydia in 1797, which was for- 
merly the mansion of Thomas' father. Sept. 30, 1798, 
Dr. Baker paid to William Farnham, Collector of Reve- 
nue, three dollars as a tax on a two-wheel carriage called 
a chaise, for that year. Dorcas Dane kept a school seven- 
teen weeks for .4. 15. 6, in 1791, and the following 
sent their children : Symonds Baker, Henry G. Baker, 
Caleb Abbott, David Cummings, Dana Holt, Joseph 
Lovejoy, Abiel Holt, Asa Holt, William Holt, Moses 
Abbott, Thomas Gray, Jr., Peter Holt, Timothy Holt, 
Eben Jones, George Smith, Abner Wilkins. 

Children of Dr. Symonds Baker, who died July 3, 
1815, aged seventy-nine, and of his wife, who died Feb. 
23, 1821, aged seventy-four ; Henry, mar. Deborah Ames 
from Groton, who, after his death, married Caleb Abbott, 
settled on the old Gray place, and had Thomas, whose 
widow married Peter Webster in Salem, she having child 
Nancy Maria, Priscilla, who married Henry Frye, and 
Deborah, who married Daniel Poor; Susanna, mar. a 
Frye ; Symonds, Eps, who died Mar. 22, 1819, aged forty 
years, mar. Sarah, daughter of David and Hannah (Mar- 
tin) Holt, born where John Harndon now resides, Dec., 
1775, and have one son, David, who was born Mar. 12, 
1803. The latter married Lucy Frost, daughter of Eben, 
a ship builder, and Sarah (Buffington) Mann, who was 
born in Salem in 1803. Children : George Frost, b. 
1830, mar. Charlotte Abbott, daughter of Dr. Joshua 
and Eliza Jane (Hay wood) Blanchard ; Sarah Elizabeth, 
b. 1834, mar. Edward Payson, son of Henry and Lucy 
(Floyd) Abbott, who is in Co. H, 14th Mass. Regiment, 
and has child, Lucy Evelyn, b. 1857 ; Irving Mann, b. 
1858 ; Sarah Baker, b. 1861 ; Edward Lincoln, b. 1862 ; 
Lucy Caroline, b. 1839, mar. Alonzo P., son of Israel 
Berry, and was in Co. H, 14th Mass. Regiment. 

(To be continued.) 



JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH AND SOME OF HIS 
DESCENDANTS. 



BY M. V. B. PERLEY. 



( Continued from Volume LIV, page 



1757, Mar. 12. Samuel Smith, Richard Estey, Jr., half 
turn each, for present expedition. 

1757, May 11, Mark Howe, Jr., enlisted. 

1757, Aug. 15, Isaac Davis, Jacob Howe, Jr., Jonathan 
Chapman, Jabez Ross, did a turn ; Abraham Howe, by 
hiring John Daniels ; and Jonathan Foster by hiring 
Francis Setchel, did each a turn in re-enforcing the army 
against the French at Albany. 

Deacon Howe's will, drawn 6 Mar., 1767, was proved 
27 Feb., 1770. The inventory amounted to 333. 18*. 

Children of Mark and Hephzibah Howe : 

72. HANNAH, b. 28 Nov., 1723; d. 18 Nov., 1736.* 

73. LOVE, b. 20 Dec., 1724; d. 28 Nov., 1736.* 

74. Mosss, b. 14 May, 1726; d. 28 Nov., 1736. 

75. LUOT, b. 30 Oct., 1728; d. 5 Nov., 1736. 

76. MABY, b. 23 April, 1729; d. 16 Nov., 1736.* 

77. AABON, b. 36 April, 1731; d. 18 Nov., 1736.* 

78. MARK, b. 8 Mar., 1733; d. 24 Nov., 1736. 

79. ABU AH, b. 26 Jan., 1735; d. 21 Nov., 1736.* 

80. MABK, b. 41 Nov., 1737. 

81. NATHANIEL, bp. 16 Sept., 1739. 

82. PHILEMON, b. 23 June, 1741 ; d. 16 June, 1759, of " violent 

fever, in the army, at Lonisbnrg. 

83. HEPHZIBAH, b. 16 Jan., 1743-4; m. 9 Feb., 1764, Daniel Chap- 

man, in Linebrook Parish. 

36. DBA. JAMES HOWE was born in the Farms, 
Ipswich, 29 Mar., 1694-5, and died in Methuen, 22 Dec., 

These children died of the merciless epidemic, " throat-distem- 
per". 

(145) 



146 JAMBS HOWE OF IPSWICH 

1771. He was a yeoman. When of Haverhill, he mar- 
ried, first, 8 Jan., 1722-3, Hannah Faulkner of Anjdover, 
who, mother of all his children, died 7 Dec., 1759, in her 
61st year. He married, second, 28 Aug., 1760, Elizabeth 
(Farnum) Swan, widow of Robert. She died 5 Dec., 
1780, aged 68 years. 

Children of James and Hannah Howe : 

84. JAMBS, b. 27 Oct., 1723, in Haverhill. 

85. JOHN, b. 16 June, 1726, in Haverhill. 

86. HANNAH, b. 19 Sept., 1728; d. 1 Oct., 1728. 

87. DANIEL, b. 19 July, 1730; d. 8 June, 1761. 

88. HANNAH, b. 2 Apr., 1732 ; d., unm., 26 Mar., 1806. 

89. ABIAL, b. 16 April, 1734. 

90. JOSEPH, b. 18 Mar., 1736 ; d. 16 May, 1803. 

91. S AK AH, b. 22 Feb., 1738; m. 1 June, 1758, Samuel Messer. 

92. TIMOTHY, b. 26 Feb., 1741; was a deacon. 

37. MARK HOWE was born in Middlefeon, 18 April, 
1701. He was a yeoman. Perhaps he married at Salem, 
20 Dec., 1725, Lydia Wilkins of Salem. He married 
Dorothy , who died 23 Nov., 1739. He again mar- 
ried, in Andover, 22 April, 1740, Mary Stevens of An- 
dover, who died 9 Mar., 1752, aged 44. He married 
lastly, 4 June, 1752, Eunice Kinney, who died, his widow, 
2 Dec., 1803, aged 84 yrs. 29 dys. His will, dated 21 
April, 1768, was proved 2 Nov., 1778. 

Children of Mark, Dorothy, Mary and Eunice Howe : 

93. MARK, b. 13 June, 1732; d. 20 Nov., 1739. 

94. ASA, b. 13 Jan., 1734-5; d. 11 Nov., 1739. 

95. LYDIA, b. 19 Sept., 1787; d. 28 Nov., 1739. 

96. DOBOTHY, b. 8 Aug., 1739; d. 19 Nov., 1739. 

97. LYDIA, b. 30 Mar., 1742. 

98. MARK, b. 30 Aug., 1743; d. 21 July, 1746. 

99. MABY, b. 28 April, 1746; m. 20 Jan., 1768, John Stiles. 

100. DOBOTHY, b. 23 Dec., 1748. 

101. EUNICE, b. 12 May, 1753; m. 25 Aug., 1774, John Berry, who 

was b. in Andover, 13 Jan., 1755-6; d. 25 Oct., 1832. Shed. 
22 Jan., 1838. 

102. SARAH, b. 15 Jan., 1755. 

103. ASA, b. 26 Nov., 1756. 

40. JOHN HOWE, JR., was born 6 Mar., 1708-9. He 
married in Salem, 6 May, 1736, Mary Daggett of Salem. 



AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 147 

Children of John and Mary Howe : 

104. JEBKMIAH, b. 4 May, 1737; d. 17 Dec., 1739. 

105. MARY, b. 7 May, 1739; d. 6 May, 1771, in Methuen; m. 25 May, 

1763, in Middleton, Reuben Austin, b. in Methuen, 3 Feb., 
1734-5, yeoman, lived in Methuen. Had: Ruth, Mary, John, 
and Joel. 

106. JOHN, b. 30 Oct., 1741. 

107. ASSE (son), b. 26 Dec., 1744; d. 11 Oct., 1751. 

108. JOHN, b. 19 Oct., 1745; d. 21 Oct., 1751. 

109. JEREMIAH, b. 6 June, 1747; d. 15 Oct., 1751. 

110. MARK, b. 24 May, 1750; m. in Methuen, 18 April, 1776, Anna 

Dodge, of Boxford. 

42. JOSEPH HOWE of Middleton was born 7 Oct., 
1719. He married 16 Feb., 1743-4, Sarah Sheldon of 
Salem. 

Children of Joseph and Sarah Howe : 

111. SARAH, b. 9 Oct., 1744. 

112. LYDIA, b. 13 June, 1748. 

113. ASIBAL, b. 11 Sept., 1750. 

114. EPHBAIM, b. 18 May, 1753. 

115. JOSEPH, b. 26 Aug., 1754. 

116. JOHN, b. 11 Dec., 1755. 

117. LYDIA, b. 27 Jan., 1759. 

55. REV. PERLEY HOWE was born in Killingly, Ct. 
(now Thompson), in 1711. He graduated at Harvard 
College in 1731, and was settled the first minister of 
Dudley, Mass., in 1735, and dismissed in 1743. He then 
returned to Killingly and was installed pastor of the new 
Killingly church about 1745, and held the pastorate until 
his death, of consumption, 10 Mai., 1753, in his 53d year. 
He married in Dudley, 27 Sept., 1735, Damaris Cady, 
daughter of Capt. Joseph Cady of Killingly. She mar- 
ried, second, in Cornwall, Ct., 21 Nov., 1754, Rev. Aaron 
Brown, born 31 May, 1725, to Cornelius, of Windsor, 
Ct Mr. Brown was installed Rev. Perley Howe's suc- 
cessor, 9 Jan., 1754, and upon his marriage occupied the 
old parsonage, the pleasant homestead purchased by Mr. 
Howe of Capt. Joseph Cady in 1746. Mr. Brown died 
on his way home from the funeral of his son-in-law, Rev. 
Joseph Howe, and Mrs. Brown survived but a few 
months. 



148 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

Children of Perley and Damaris Howe : 

118. REBECCA, b. 27 Aug., 1736, in Dudley. 

119. ALICE, b. 21 Jan., 1737-8; d. 22 July, 1741. 

120. ELIZABETH, b. 1 May, 1739; d. 21 July, 1741. 

121. ELIZABETH, b. 27 Feb., 1741. 

122. ISAAC CADY, b. 27 Feb., 1741. 

123. PEBLEY, b. 3 Feb., 1742-3. 

124. DAMARIS, b. 9 Feb., 1744-5; m. in Cornwall, Ct., 11 Feb., 1768, 

Timothy Houghton. 

125. JOSEPH, b. 14 Jan., 1746-7, in Killingly. 

126. REBECCA, b. 30 May, 1749, in Killingly. 

127. SAMSON, b. 26 July, 1751, in Killingly. 

57. SAMSON HOWE was bora in Thompson parish, 
that part of Killingly, Conn., now the town of Thomp- 
son, in 1716, and died 26 March, 1797, aged 81 years. 
He was bred a farmer, and sold his patrimony and all his 
agricultural interests in Thompson to his nephew Samson, 
and between 1745 and 1748 located in Middletown, East 
Society, now the town of Portland. In some half dozen 
years a large number of families from an adjoining town 
and others from towns contiguous became the first set- 
tlers of West Hoosac, now Williamstown, Mass., Samson 
Howe among the number. He and his wife were among 
the first members of the church enrolled at Williamstown, 
Mass., and the very first on the list of names at Williams- 
town, Vt., when the church was organized, 13 Aug., 1795, 
where they went, in decrepid age, with their son Perley. 

Samson Howe's homestead included the site of the "old 
West Hoosac block-house fort." Prof. Perry's " Origins 
in Williamstown " says : " Lt. Samson Howe in his own 
qualities and personal influence was much more than a 
common man." He was also a direct ancestor of Gen. 
Alfred H. Terry of distinguished Civil War fame. 

Samson Howe married, first, in Thompson, Conn., 29 
Dec., 1737, Sarah Sabin, who died 10 Aug., 1752, in Port- 
land, in her 35th year. He married, second, 5 April, 
1753, Hannah Foot, who died in Williamstown, Vt, 12 
July, 1817, aged 97 years. 

Children of Samson, Sarah and Hannah Howe : 

128. SAMSON, b. 12 Oct., 1739, in Thompson, Conn. 

129. HEZEKIAH, b. 28 Aug., 1741, in Thompson, Conn. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 149 

130. SABAH, b. 12 Sept., 1743, in Thompson, Conn. 

131. ALICE, b. 29 June, 1745, in Thompson, Conn. 

132. ALACIA, b. 2 July, 1753, Portland, Conn. 

133. HANNAH, or ANN, b. and d. young, Portland, Conn. 

134. PEBLEY, b. 16 June, 1755, Portland, Conn. 

135. DAMABIS, b. 7 July, 1757, Portland, Conn. 

63. DEA. ABRAHAM HOWE was born in the Farms, 
Ipswich, 2 Jan., 1724-5, and died 5 Nov., 1797. He mar- 
ried (int.) 14 Dec.,* 1752, Lucy Appleton, daughter of 
John, 3d, and Lucy. She was baptized 19 Mar., 1731-2, 
and died in Hopkinton, at her son's home, 22 Oct., 1824, 
in her 93d year. 

Deacon Howe's will, dated 3 Mar.,1797 ; proved 4 Dec., 
1797 ; names two grandsons, Abraham and Abel, and their 
sister Eleanor, who had $100 and woodlot in Boxford ; son 
Nathaniel, $133.33 ; daughter Lucy, $166.66 ; son Joseph, 
the farm. Joseph was executor. Asa and Eleanor (Howe) 
Bixby received her share of Jabez Farley, one of Joseph 
Howe's bondsmen. The inventory mentions 90 acres, 
with buildings, $2000 ; pew in Linebrook meeting house, 
$20 ; real estate, $2870 ; personal, $963.06 ; total estate, 
$3833. On his tombstone is engraved the whole of the 
hymn, " When I can read my title clear," and he is called 
" Deacon " ; but the tombstones of Mark, Elizabeth and 
John read " Capt." He was at Bunker Hill with his 
son, as Sergt. Howe. 

Children of Abraham and Lucy Howe :f 

136. ABRAHAM, b. 18 Sept., 1754. 

137. JOHN, b. 8 Oct., 1756; d. 13 Jan., 1781. 

138. LUCY, b. 29 Dec., 1760; m. (int.) 3 Aug., 1786, Moses Boynton, 

housewright, of Rowley, b. 22 Nov., 1752, and d. there 19 
Jan., 1823. She d. 4 Feb., 1848. 6 children. 
189. NATHANIEL, b. 6 Oct., 1764. 

140. ELIZABETH, b. 17 April, 1767; d. 24 Aug., 1796. 

141. JOSEPH, b. 18 Jan., 1771. 

142. MABK, b. 1 May, 1773; d. 13 July, 1776. 

143. SAMUEL, bp. 19 and d. 20 May, 1776. 

*Mr. Fitch says his grandmother Lucy Howe was born Mar. 20th 
and married Nov. 5th. He also savs Abraham, Sr. and Jr., were at 
the Bunker Hill fight. 

tLucy Mary Howe, daughter of Joseph, says her grandfather 
Abraham had nine children, one dying in infancy. 



150 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

67. DANIEL HOWE, M. D., was born in Andover, 1 
May, 1719, and died there, 1 Nov., 1797. He married, 
13 Dec., 1739, in Andover, Sarah Widger, resident of 
Andover. He was "famous for crazy people." Dr. 
Daniel married, second, 5 Mar., 1780, at Abington, Su- 
sannah Tirrell of Abington(?). 

Children of Daniel and Sarah Howe : 

144. DANIEL, b. 80 April, 1740. 

145. ISRAEL, b. 6 Oct., 1741; d. 13 Nov., 1741. 

146. SAB AH, b. 15 Jan., 1742-3. 

147. MEROT, b. 1 Nov., 1744. 

148. MARTHA, b. 2 Aug., 1746; m. 25 July, 1765, Kliakim Darling. 

149. ISRAEL, b. 19 Sept., 1749. 

150. MARY, b. 12 May, 1752. 

151. WILLIAM, b. 5 Mar., 1754; d. 14 Mar., 1754. 

152. PRISOILLA, b. 2 April, 1755. 

153. WILLIAM, b. 29 Mar., 1757. 

154. PHEBE, b. 4 April, 1762. 

80. DR. MARK HOWE was born 31 Dec., 1737. He 
studied in Rev. George Lesslie's home school and became 
a physician in Rowley. He married, 6 Mar., 1760, Mary 
Payson, daughter of Eliphalet and granddaughter of Rev. 
Edward Payson. 

Children of Dr. Mark and Mary Howe : 

155. MOLLY, b. 16 Jan., 1761. 

156. MARK, bp. 18 Jan., 1761. 

157. , d. unbp. 19 Jan., 1765. 

158. CATHERINE, m. John Shepard, of Deerfield, N. H., and had 

Sarah, who m. 30 May, 1829, Nathan Dane Dodge, of Line- 
brook, Ipswich. 

159. JANE, m. 16 July, 1795, James Smith, taverner, of Rowley. 

160. ELIPHALET, became a practicing physician and an army sur- 

geon. 

81. NATHANIEL HOWE was born in The Farms, 15 
Sept., 1739, and died there 27 Mar., 1809. He married, 
15 Nov., 1764, Hannah Emerson, born 16 May, 1745, to 
Rev. John and Elizabeth (Pratt) Emerson, of Topsfield. 
She died 7 Feb., 1828. He was a farmer on the old 
homestead, and served several terms as parish collector 
and treasurer, 1770-1785. 

Sewells point, Dec. 21, 1775. To Mr. Nathaniel How 



AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 151 

of Ipswiob. Sir : " Ive enlisted Benjamin Emerson of 
Ipswich to serve in the Continental army for you, and he 
has reseived security for his services over and above his 
wages from Moses How in your behalf. Thomas Mighill, 
Capt." 

Children of Nathaniel and Hannah Howe : 

161. NATHANIEL, b. 19 Feb., 1766; sea captain; no children; d. 12 

Jan., 1840. 

162. AARON, b. 8 April, 1768. 

163. HANNAH, b. 4 Nov., 1770; d. 3 Mar., 1860; m. (int.) 6 Jnne, 

1795, Aaron Kinsman, b. 6 July, 1754, to Pelatiah and Jane 
(Farley) Kinsman, and d. 13 Oct., 1836. He was an Ipswich 
farmer. Had : (1) Nathaniel, b. 17 Oct., 1795; d. 18 July, 
1864; m. 16 Dec., 1828, Joanna Brown. (2) Hannah, b. 31 
Dee., 1796; d. 14 Dec., 1869. (3) Jane, b. 19 July, 1799; d. 
22 Sept., 1890; m. 31 Dec., 1834, her cousin, Moses Kins- 
man, jr. (4) Charlotte, b. 27 Mar., 1801; (Bible rd.) 29 Mar., 
1800; m. 2 July, 1840, Elisha Brown; (5) Clarissa, b. 27 
Mar., 1801; d. 4 Feb., 1896. (6) Aaron, b. 26 June, 1804; d. 
29 Jan., 1903. 

164. MABK, b. 5 July, 1777; m. (int.) 18 Nov., 1809, Lucy Foster. 

84. DBA. JAMES HOWE was born in Haverhill, 27 Oct., 
1723,* and died in Methuen 14 Jan., 1806. He married, 16 
Feb., 1753, at Andover, Jemima Farnum, of Andover, who 
was born 21 Mar., 1729-30, to David and Dorothy, and died 
16 June, 1802. Deacon Howe was a farmer and culti- 
vated extensive acres. His son Jonathan of Methuen 
settled his estate, giving bond for $4000 with David Howe 
and Isaac Howe, both merchants of Haverhill. 

These were concerned in the final settlement : David 
Howe, Hannah Howe, guardian for Jacob Howe's chil- 
dren ; George W. and Olive Hill ; Ebenezer, Jr., and 
Dorcas Carlton ; Isaac Howe ; Moses, Jr., and Sarah Em- 
erson ; Joseph Howe, attorney for James Howe ; Jona- 
than Howe ; David Howe, guardian for Lydia Howe ; 
Farnum Howe. 

Children of James and Jemima Howe : 

165. JONATHAN, b. 13 Aug., 1753. 

166. JAMES, b. 23 Mar., 1755. 

167. JAMBS, b. 16 Oct., 1756. 

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162 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

168. DAVID, b. 16 Oct., 1756. 

169. JACOB, b. 9 April, 1758. 

170. ISAAC, b. 29 Mar., 1760. 

171. FABNUM, b. 10 Nov., 1762. 

172. SABAH, b. 19 April, 1765; m. 9 Dec., 1783, Moses Emerson, Jr., 

of Haverhill. 

173. DOBCAB, b. 2 Nov., 1767; m. 29 May, 1788, Ebenezer Carlton. 

174. LYDIA, b. 22 Sept., 1771; was mentally weak, and Jonathan, 

David and Isaac asked a guardian for her 3 Feb., 1806. 
David Howe, merchant of Haverhill, was appointed. 

175. OLIVE, b. 17 Feb., 1776; m. in Methuen, 12 April, 1796, George 

Washington Hill. Fanny Howe, alias Asten, daughter of 
Olive, was b. in Methuen, 17 July, 1791. 

85. JOHN HOWE was born in Haverhill, 15 June, 
1726, and died 13 May, 1807. He was a farmer and oc- 
cupied the paternal home. His wife, Sarah *, died 

in Methuen, 2 Jan., 1817, aged 86 years. She declined 
administration of his estate, and nominated her son-in-law, 
Capt. John Currier of Salem, N. H., who, with sureties 
Abial Howe,blacksmith, Methuen, and Jesse Saville, Glou- 
cester, yeoman, was appointed 1 June, 1807. The total 
valuation was $3844.65; real, $3218. The estate was 
divided into seven lots and set off to his seven heirs : 
Timothy Howe ; Sarah Ayers, wife of Joseph ; Hannah 
Perkins, wife of Nathaniel ; Persis Howe ; Ebenezer 
Howe ; Susannah Currier, wife of John ; Mary Kelley. 
Besides these signers to the setoff were William Somes 
Kelley, John Currier, Philip Howe, David Howe for T. 
Howe and Joseph Ayer, Isaiah for Nathaniel Perkins, 
and Hannah and Nathaniel Perkins. 

Children of John and Sarah Howe, born in Methuen : 

176. TIMOTHY, b. 25 Feb., 1751 ; d. 30 Sept., 1753. 

177. SUSANNAH, b. 10 Aug., 1752; d. 7 Oct., 1753. 

178. TIMOTHY, b. 3 Feb., 1754. 

179. SUSANNAH, b. 24 Sept., 1756; m. in Methuen, 9 Oct., 1776, John 

Currier. 

180. SABAH, bp. 3 Dec., 1758. 

Sarah Howe went 25 miles for a surety on her son's probate 
bond. He probably was a relative. Jesse Saville, born in 1740, was 
ten years her jnnior and the son of Thomas and Mary. She may 
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181. SARAH, b. 27 Nov., 1759; m. 26 Nov., 1778, Joseph Ayer of 

Haverhill, b. to Perley Ayer 19 May, 1755, in Methuen. 

182. HANNAH, b. 11 July, 1760; m. (int.) 15 Feb., 1796, Nathaniel 

Perkins. 

183. EBENEZEB, b. 8 Sept., 1762; m. 8 Jan., 1782, Hannah Mellon. 

184. ELIZABETH (twin), b. 23 May, 1764; d. 23 July, 1764. 

185. MART (twin), b. 23 May, 1764; m. William Somes Kelley. 

186. ELIZABETH, b. 9 Nov., 1765. 

187. JOHN, b. 9 Feb., 1767; d. 30 Mar., 1792; m. (int.) 21 Mar., 1790, 

Page of Salem, N. H. 

188. PEBSIS, b. 26 Nov., 1769; d., insanity, 18 Sept., 1846. 

89. ABIEL HOWE was born in Methuen, 16 April, 
1734, and married 2 Dec., 1762, Eunice Perkins. Abiel 
and Robinson Howe, blacksmiths, both of Methuen, were 
appointed administrators of the estate of Abiel Howe, 
yeoman, who deceased 21 April, 1807. 

Children of Abiel and Eunice Howe : 

189. ABIEL, b. 30 July, 1765. 

190. MEBCY, b. 25 Aug., 1767. 
101. RUTH, b. 17 Jan., 1770. 

192. THOMAS, b. 24 April, 1771. 

193. ROBINSON, b. 26 Mar., 1774. 

90. JOSEPH HOWE was born 18 Mar., 1736, and died 
in Methuen in 1803. He married, 1 Nov., 1759, Hannah 
Carlton, daughter of Ebenezer Carlton of Metbuen. She 
died 13 May, 1822, aged 84 years. He was a yeoman. 
His son Joseph, " gentleman ", settled his estate, valued 
at $3409.91, of which were the homestead, 65 acres, and 
half a house worth $2275. 

Mrs. Hannah Howe, widow, made her will 9 May, 1814. 
The witnesses were Christopher and Phinehas How and 
[Rev.] Humphrey C. Perley. Will proved 2 July, 1822. 
Her son Joseph was executor. The will mentions " my 
son-in-law, Capt. Jonathan Merrill." 

Children of Joseph and Hannah Howe : 

194. JOSEPH, b. 10 Aug., 1760. 

195. DANIEL, b. 8 June, 1762. 

196. ANNE, b. 3 May, 1764; m. 6 Nov., 1783, in Methnen, Jeremiah 

Bradley of Haverhill, b. 7 May, 1762, d. 1799. 

197. REBEOKA, b. 12 Sept., 1766; m. 6 Oct., 1789, Jonathan Merrill. 

198. JOANNA, b. 1 Jan., 1769; m. (int.) 25 Sept., 1786, Isaac Frye 

Williams. 



154 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

199. MABOY, b. 27 Jan., 1771; d. " Mary " 15 May, 1772, ae. 2 y. 

200. CHBISTOPHEB, b. 12 Oct., 1772. 

201. MOLLEY (MABY), b. 15 May, 1775; m. 17 Dec., 1795, Joseph 

Bodwell of Methuen, b. 2 Nov., 1771. 4 chn. 

103. ASA HOWE, ESQ., was born in Middleton, 26 
Nov., 1756, and died there 13 Feb., 1826. He married, 
first, Elizabeth Fuller, born 24 Aug., 1756, to Timothy 
and Sarah (Smith), and married, second, 12 Dec., 1793, 
Hephzibah Peabody, who was born 6 July, 1766, and died 
18 Jan., 1836, daughter of Col. Benjamin and Hannah 
(Clark) of Medford. He was made guardian of his own 
children, 6 Mar., 1797 : Asa, aged 15; Betsey, 14 ; Sarah, 
12; Abijah, 8. His will, dated 2 Oct., 1824, proved 4 
April, 1826, mentions wife Hepsibeth; Abijah had $200 
and the farm 1 now live on, and also the Norwich (Vt.) 
farm, during his natural life, then to be Asa's ; Hannah, 
the west chamber while single ; Benjamin and Mark, the 
remainder. Jeremiah and Betsey Estey, Ezra Nichols, 
guardian, Benjamin and Mark Howe petition for a divis- 
ion of the Gould farm, so called, which was not men- 
tioned in the will. 

Children of Asa, Elizabeth and Hepezibah Howe : 

202. ASA, b. 8 Dec., 1781; d. 14 Dec., 1814. 

203. ELIZABETH, b. 23 Feb., 1783; m. 18 Sept., 1804, Jeremiah 

Estey. 

204. SABAH, b. 6 Feb., 1785, m. 10 May, 1808, Allen Knight, of 

Methuen. 

205. ABIJAH, b. 29 Mar., 1789. 

206. TIMOTHY FULLEB, d. Oct., 1790, age 11 mos. 

207. BENJAMIN, b. 26 Oct., 1794; d. 14 Sept., 1830. 

208. MABK, b. 15 Dec., 1796; d. 12 July, 1801. 

209. LYDIA, b. 30 Oct., 1798, in Middleton; d. 26 June, 1879, in 

Peabody ; m. 12 April, 1822, Henry Lawrence Gould, b. 
Middleton, 29 Sept., 1798, to Nathaniel, of Middleton, and 
Lydia (Porter) of Danvers, and d. 19 Feb., 1865. Children, 
born in Middleton ; (1) Julia,Ann Howe, b. 21 Feb., 1823, 
d. Peabody, June, 1904, m. 26 Sept., 18, James Wilkins; 
(2) Caroline Elizabeth, b. 3 Sept., 1825, m. 12 May, 1847, 
Cyrus Wilkins, and went to Minneapolis, Minn.; (3) Lidia 
Loretta, b. 17 Dec., 1827, d. 11 May, 1882, at Georgetown; 
(4) William Henry, b. 24 Nov., 1829, d. 9 Mar., 1830, at Mid- 
dleton; (5) Martha Hichborn, b. 27 Jan., 1832, d. 18 Oct., 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 155 

1875, at Middleton; (6) Eliza Lawrence, b. 1 Dec., 1835, d. 
23 Jan., 1835, at Middleton. 

210. HANNAH, b. 1 Mar., 1801; d. Danvers, 16 Jan., 1881; m. Mid- 

dleton, 27 April, 1831, Charles Peabody, b. in Ilaverhill, 4 
May, 1798, to Joseph, of Bozford, and Sally (Upton) of 
North Reading, and d. 8 Jnne, 1875. Children, born in 
Danvers: (1) Sarah Jane, b. 4 Aug., 1832, went to Peter- 
borough, N. H.; (2) Charles Horace, b. 6 April, 1834; d. 

Danvers, 29 Jan., 1890, m. 16 Oct., 1877, ; (8), George 

Howe, b. Sept., 1836, m. 11 Oct., 1875, ; (4) Hannah 

Prescott, b. 18 Feb., 1839, d. Danvers, 16 May, 1881; (5) 
Mary Maria, b. 30 Dec., 1841, m. 4 July, 1881, went to Pe- 
terborough, N. H.; (6) Benjamin Augustus, b. 4 May, 1843, 
m. 28 Nov., 1872, went to Fargo, N. Dakota. 

211. MABK, b. 25 Dec., 1803. 

212. GEORGE, b. 5 Sept., 1806; d. 2 May, 1807. 

122. ISAAC CADY HOWE was born in Dudley, Mass., 
27 Feb., 1741. He married, 12 Sept., 1765, in Cornwall, 
Conn., Damaris Burch. Upon a dissension in the East 
Woodstock church, Isaac Cady Howe, S. H. Torry and 
Jacob Leavens, collectors, resigned. Isaac was on a com- 
mittee to lay out school districts, and was admitted to 
Killingly church, 21 Feb., 1773. 

Children of Isaac C. and Damaris Howe : 

218. ALICE, b. 12 April, 1766; int. 3 Sept., Thompson, Conn.; m. 
19 Oct., 1785, in Cornwall, Conn., Perley Phillips. 

214. ORENDA, b. 3 June, 1768. 

215. AARON, b. 22 Dec., 1770. 

216. ISAAC, b. 16 Aug., 1773. 

123. PERLEY HOWE was born in Dudley, Mass., 8 
Feb., 1742-3. He married, first, 12 Jan., 1764, Tamar 
Davis, who died 31 Dec., 1771. He married, second, in 
Cornwall, 29 Jan., 1775, Abigail DeWolf. He signed 
with others to meet the conflict, 1774; was cornet in Kil- 
lingly ; signed for a public common ; was captain of Light 
Horse, Killingly, 1777. He and his wife Tamar joined 
the Killingly church, Jan., 1765. 

Children of Perley, Tamar and Abigail Howe : 

217. SABAH, b. 9 Nov., 1764. 

218. JOSEPH, b. 10 Sept., 1766. 

219. PERLEY, b. 14 May, 1768; left Killingly, it is said, about 1802. 



166 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

220. KEBECOA, b. 15 June, 1770; m. (int.) 13 Mar., 1794, Manson 

Warren. 

221. SARAH D., b. 20 Dec., 1771. 

222. ABIGAIL, b. 17 Oct., 1775. 

223. MABK A. DEWOLF, b. 29 April, 1777. 

224. WILLIAM, b. 4 Nov., 1778. 

225. JAMES, b. 2 May, 1781. 

226. JOHN, b. 6 July, 1783. 

124. REV. JOSEPH HOWE was born in Killingly, now 
Putnam, Conn., 14 Jan., 1746-7. He was fitted for col- 
lege by his father-in-law, Rev. Aaron Brown, and entered 
Yale in 1761, when only fourteen, " manifesting uncom- 
mon force and maturity of mind." He graduated in 1765, 
" the first scholar in a class which had its full share of 
distinguished men." He had an appointment as Berkley 
scholar; but instead of continuing at college, he took 
charge of the public grammar school in Hartford, the 
while studying theology with Rev. Elnathan Whitman 
and residing in his family. Miss Elizabeth Whitman, 
Rev. Elnathan's daughter, was handsome, scholarly and 
accomplished. Mr. Howe "was tall and well made, but 
rather slim. His complexion was very fair ; the features 
of his face in a degree irregular and not singularly agree- 
able." There were admiration in towering mentality, 
pride in scholastic fame, beauty in grace of manners and 
nobility of character and sweetness in intelligent converse 
and social amenities. The two persons were in happy 
accord, and a period was set wherein were placed their 
nuptial vows. 

He pronounced his Master's oration and received the 
degree at Yale in 1768. The production was very grati- 
fying to President Stiles. He was tutor there for three 
years, from 1769, a period following his grammar school 
service in Hartford. He joined the Killingly church in 
1770. He was licensed to preach 17 May, 1769, by the 
Windham County Association of Ministers, and exercised 
his license in the leading pulpits of Norwich, Weathers- 
field and Hartford, to their great acceptance. About 
1772. when he visited Boston for his health, he had three 
calls to settle under consideration. He was ordained and 
installed over the New South Church (now " Old South ") 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 157 

Boston, 17 May, 1773. At the next Commencement of 
Harvard he was given the degree of M. A. In his Bos- 
ton pulpit he was singularly successful till the Revolu- 
tionary War, early in 1775, dispersed his church and 
congregation and forced him from the pulpit. He retired 
to Norwich with the family wherein he lived in Boston. 
In August of that year, 1775, he repaired to his old home 
in Hartford, the home of the gifted daughter, Miss Whit- 
man,* to claim her as his own. Suddenly he was taken 
seriously ill, made a nuncupative will the 15th, and died 
the 25th, in his 29th year. Dexter' 8 Yale Biog., Vol. 3. 

" Mr. Howe preached twice in the New Old South, and 
received a call to settle, * the character which he had re- 
ceived from the voice of mankind ' explaining such un- 
wonted precipitance. 

" Never had Windham County given to the world a 
son of greater, or perhaps of equal, promise. 

" His remarkable powers of elocution, not less than his 
fine social and moral qualities, rendered him a general 
favorite. 

The standard of polite literature, and especially of 
public speaking in Yale about that time, was very consid- 
erably elevated, it was said, through his influence. 

" Wonderful to relate, except a part of a commonplace, 
friendly letter, there are no literary remains of that great, 
good, gifted, learned man, apt teacher and eloquent pul- 
pit orator." Lamed 1 s History of Windham County, Conn. 

127. CAPT. SAMSON HOWE was born in Killingly, 26 
July, 1751. He married, 31 Mar., 1774, Huldah Davis. 
He and Rev. Aaron Brown sold land for a training-field, 
or " public common forever ", and Samson subscribed to 
pay for three acres. In the East Woodstock church dis- 
sension, Capt. Howe, clerk, resigned; Samson was one of 
three to confer with the pastor. He was town clerk and 
treasurer, 1795, and town clerk till 1804 ; one of three 
representatives for three years ; frequently moderator ; 
Howe tavern is mentioned, 1817, 1818 ; he was interested 

*This Miss Whitman was the subject of that first of moOern tales, 
" The Coquette, or The History of Eliza Wharton," who died at 
the " Bell Tavern," Dauvers (now Peabody), Mass. Mr. Howe is 
said to be the model character of the story. 



158 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

in a county turnpike in 1796, and another through Pom- 
fret in 1800 ; was road surveyor, collector of road taxes, 
lister, bell-ringer at 20s. per year, opened a store at Kil- 
lingly Hill in 1782, and was a member of the Killingly 
church. 

Children of Samson and Huldah Howe : 

227. ABELENA, b. 25 Mar., 1775; m. in Cornwall, 25 June, 1795, Dr. 

Grosvenor. 

228. AARON B., b. 2 Dec., 1776; m. 17 Jan., 1798, Mary Copp. Chil- 

dren, b. in Thompson: (1) David, b. 13 Jan., 1800; (2) Hul- 
dah, b. 22 Feb., 1801; (3) George, b. 19 Oct., 1802. 

232. SAMSON, b. 21 Feb., 1779; d. 9 May, 1780. 

233. ERASTUS, b. 17 June, 1781. 

234. HEZEKIAH, b. 9 July, 1783; constable in 1815. 

235. ELIZABETH, b. 19 May, 1785; m. in the winter of 1806-7, Smith 

Wilkinson, who was on the office force in the mill. 

236. ELISHA, b. 3 Sept., 1787; d. in Providence, R. I., leaving a son 

Henry, the father of Wm. Read Howe, lawyer, of Orange, 
N. J. ; Henry of North Providence; and Elisha of Killingly. 
Built the Killingly Mfg. Co.'s mill, 1814, which was called 
by their name. 

237. AUGUSTUS, b. 11 Feb., 1790; in 1827 began the manufacture of 

woolen goods. 

238. SAMSON, b. 3 Aug., 1792. 

239. POLLY, b. 14 Jan., 1795. 

134. PEKLEY HOWE was born in a parish of Middle- 
town,Conn., now the town of Portland, 17 June, 1755, and 
died in Williamstown, Vt., 7 Nov., 1839. He married, 
1782 or 3, Sarah D *, who was born 1 May, 1758, 

*The name is Doming or Dunning. The records fail us. The pro 
and contra below are helpful : 1. Sarah's son Enoch died, and his 
family doctor, a neighbor, the attending physician, filled in on the 
legal blank for data of death, all the ten answers required, and filed 
it with the town clerk. He wrote that Enoch's mother's maiden 
name was Sarah Deming. Ordinarily that would be sufficient, but 
Sarah apparently named her fifth son John Dunning. From the 
above we may reasonably conclude that the name given (orally, of 
course) was Deming, but understood to be Dunning, and so record- 
ed. 2. The Deming and Howe families went from Middletown, 
Ct., to Williamstown, Mass., about 1769. The Dunning family went 
there from Newtown, Ct., about the same time. 3. A Deming 
family was neighbor to Perley Howe in his youth. The Dunning 
families located in the south part of the town. Penuel Deming was 
an earnest promoter of a new meeting house in Thompson, Ct., 
when and where Perley Howe was twelve years old. 4. Penuel 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 159 

and died in Williamstown, Vt., 23 Aug., 1840. Three of 
her children were born in Massachusetts and the rest in 
Vermont. 

In 1781, after the dispute between New York and New 
Hampshire was settled, so that Vermont could give good 
land titles, Gov. Thomas Chittenden offered grants of his 
domain to settlers, and a good sized colony enrolled in 
Williamstown, among whom were David Bixby, Stephen 
Dunning and Perley Howe. They began in 1784, and 
organized in 1787, naming the territory Williamstown, 
after their old home in Massachusetts. Prof. Perry's 
history says, " The most prominent of the settlers was 
Perley Howe." 

He was one of the surveyors of Williamstown, Vt., 
and received a large tract of land on the west side in 
payment. He built a log-house just west of the present 
village, and in course of time four or five framed houses, 
that his sons might settle near him. He and four others 
were the only ones of the proprietors to settle in the town. 
The name of Dunning is not among them. The next 
February, 1785, Penuel Deming, a Revolutionary patriot, 
settled there. Perley was a Revolutionary patriot and 
pensioner. He served as corporal from 16 Dec., 1776, 96 
days, at Ticonderoga ; from 20 May, 1778, till 7 Feb., 
1779, 8 months 19 days, at North River, as private ; from 
12 Oct., 1780, 11 days, 80 miles home. He received a 
kick from a horse which ever after occasioned a stiff 
knee. Refusing to leave his regiment, he was employed 
as teamster and cook. He was town clerk in 1798. 

Children of Perley and Sarah Howe : 

240. PKELKY, b. 30 April, 1784. 

241. HEZEKIAII, b. 8 April, 1786. 

242. ANNA, b. 21 May, 1788 ; m. 21 Feb., 1805, Samuel Abbott (both 

of Williamstown), an uncle to the wives of Enoch and Asa, 
who were sisters. 

Deming settled in Vermont the next February after the proprietors. 
Stephen Dunning signed to settle, but probably sold his interest to 
another, thus keeping the quota full. 5. The genealogies of these 
families have ample natural space for the data we require, but not 
the data. The authors of these genealogies have been very earnest 
in their assistance and deserve our hearty thanks. 



160 JAMES HOWE OP IPSWICH 

243. SARAH, b. 15 May, 1790; d. 8 Mar., 1796. 

244. ENOCH, b. 19 May, 1792. 

245. ASA, b. 24 June, 1794. 

246. HANNAH, b. 15 Feb., 1796; d. 28 Oct., 1802. 

247. JOHN DUNNING, b. 11 Feb., 1798. 

248. SARAH, b. 29 July, 1801; d. 19 Oct., 1802. 

136. CAPT. ABRAHAM HOWE, JR., was born in Line- 
brook Parish, 18 Sept., 1754, and died there 8 Jan., 1795. 
He married, 5 Feb., 1784, Eleanor Spofford, of George- 
town, born 9 Oct., 1763, to Abel and Eleanor (Poor) 
Spofford, and died 15 Aug., 1809. Captain Howe was 
born in the " 1711 " house and made his home hard by 
the Howe brook, just north of Baker's pond. He was a 
housewright, and was building a barn for Caleb Jackson 
at (now) Millwood, Rowley, when the alarm of 19 April 
rang out. He was captain of the local company of min- 
ute men whose service was approved 3 April, 1776. The 
following Howes were in the company : Captain Abra- 
ham, Corporal Howe, and private Abraham, ye 3d. There 
was a parole of exchange of prisoners, Ensign Howe for 
Lt. Arche. McLain, on 7 Nov., 1777, and 24 Feb., 1778, 
another parole of the same men. Abraham Howe, pri- 
vate (probably another Abraham), was stationed at Bald 
Eagle Creek, 22 Jan., 1778. 

Captain Howe's commission as ensign of a company of 
foot, at York Co., Pa., dated 24 Aug,, 1776, and signed 
by Benjamin Franklin, is yet preserved in the family. 

There is a legend concerning him which the reader may 
amplify. He was engaged to a lady of his parish. His 
long absence in the army, without writing to his home or 
to her, led all to conclude that he had died. When he 
returned, his affianced had married and was a mother. He 
related his disappointment to his sister Boynton, who told 
him if he would go with her to church the next Sabbath 
she would introduce him to a lady who would make full 
amends for his loss. 'Twas Eleanor Spofford. 

His widow Eleanor settled his estate, which was valued 
at $ 2847.52, including the homestead, 150 acres, and the 
buildings, and a pew in the Linebrook meeting-house. In 
1794, the widow was guardian of Abraham, aged over 
10 ; Abel, 8, and Eleanor, 6. 




REV. NATHANIEL HOW 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 161 

Children of Abraham and Eleanor Howe : 

249. ABRAHAM, b. 5 Nov., 1784. 

250. ABEL, b. 3 Sept., 1786. 

251. ELBANOB, b. 10 Oct., 1788; d. 20 Dec., 1868; m. 30 May, 1810, 

Capt. Asa Bixby of Topsfield, b. 24 July, 1786, d. 13 June, 
1858, and had 8 children. The family lived in the house 
with Abel, till he purchased his Topsfield estate the old 
Dorman farm 25 June, 1822. He was captain in the mili- 
tia. Only the children b. after 1821 were b. in Topsfield. 

139. REV. NATHANIEL HOWE was born in the "1711" 
house, 6 Oct., 1764, and died 15 Feb., 1837, in Hopkin- 
ton, Mass. He married, 2 Jan., 1792, in Hopkinton, 
Olive Jones, who was born 28 April, 1764, to Col. John 
and Mary (Mellen) Jones. Col. Jones, who died 13 Dec., 
1843, was a captain of minute men, ninety of whom 
camped at Roxbury the night of 19 April, 1775. Mr. 
Elijah Fitch said that two Howes were at Bunker Hill, 
father and son. Mr. Howe was ordained and installed 
pastor of the Hopkinton church, 5 Oct., 1791. He suc- 
ceeded Rev. Elijah Fitch, author of " Beauties of Re- 
ligion." 

Mr. Howe was an original thinker ; his " Century Ser- 
mon ", delivered 24 Dec., 1815, is remarkable for " its 
caustic satire " ; it was noticed by the North American 
Review, passed through several editions, and was trans- 
lated into foreign languages. He was the original of the 
Rev. Mr. Pendexter of Longfellow's " Kavanaugh ". 

Children of Rev. Nathaniel and Olive Howe: 

252. APPLE-TON, b. 26 Dec., 1792; H. C., 1815; M. D. in South Wey- 

mouth; State senator, two terms; Ma j. -Gen. of 1st Division 
of the State militia; d. 10 Oct., 1870; m. 12 Dec., 1821, Har- 
riet Loud, b. 8 Feb., 1795, to Eliphalet and Anna, and d. 16 
Nov., 1848. They had one daughter, who d. without issue 

253. ELIZABETH, b. 4 June, 1794; d. 27 Dec., 1815, *. j. 

254. MABY JONES, b. 2 Feb., 1802; m. 27 Feb., 1827, Rev. Samuel 

Russell of Boylston; d. 26 Nov., 1836, a. p. 

255. LUCY ANN, b. 27 Aug., 1805; m. 19 Mar., 1829, Dea. John Au- 

gustus Fitch; d. Sept., 1891. He d. 1 July, 1883. He 
was a J. P. more than 30 years; was Trial Justice, P. M., 
and Trustee of the Reform and Industrial School for Girls 
at Lancaster. Their children were : (1) Appleton Howe, 
b. 1830, A. M., Evanston, 111.; (2) Edward Payson, b. 1832, 



162 JAMES HOWE OP IPSWICH 

d. in Quantrell's raid on Lawrence, Kan., 1863; (3) John 
Weatherspoon, b. 1834, C. E., Kalamazoo, Mich.; (4) Elijah, 
b. 1841, prominent in the church and a town official at Hop- 
kinton, Mass.; (5), Calvin Webster, Esq., b. 1843, St. Louis, 
Mo. 

141. JOSEPH HOWE was born 18 Jan., 1771, in Line- 
brook Parish, and died in Ipswich, 26 Nov., 1850. He 
married, 7 Feb., 1793, Mehetabel Stickney, who was born 
27 July, 1768, to Benjamin* and his second wife, Eliza- 
beth (Stickney) Stickney, and died in Topsfield, 5 Oct., 
1818, " in a state of insanity ", aged 49 years. Joseph 
inherited his father's farm, a good prospect, a fine phy- 
sique, a good name, and made an excellent marital choice, 
but he died a foreigner to it all. 

Children of Joseph and Mehetabel Howe : 

256. JOHN, b. 10 Nov., 1793. 

257. MEHITABLE, b. 6 Oct., 1795; d. 1 Mar., 1883. 

258. ELIZABETH, b. 2 July, 1797. 

269. MOSES, b. 27 July, 1799; m. Hannah Hoyt of Stamford, Ct.; 
was sea captain ; sailed the " Castor " her maiden voyage, 
23 Sept., 1855, Branco & Bartholomew, owners, from New 
York for Balize, Honduras. Her fate was never known. 
Their children were : Emily, m. a Hazard of New York; 
Harriet Atwood, m. ; and a baby that d. y. 

260. PBISOILLA, b. 11 July, 1801. 

261. SAMUEL, b. 28 June, 1803 ; d. in Byfield Parish, 28 Dec., 1869; 

m. 3 Feb., 1837, Susan Stickney, b. 13 Aug., 1800, to Moses 
and Sarah (Pike) Stickney. Had Sophia Stickney, b. 3 Feb., 
1842, and m. 11 Feb., 1863, Daniel Dawkins of Georgetown, 
and had one child, Susie. 

262. JOSHUA, b. 9 Sept., 1805. 

263. BENJAMIN, b. 4 Nov., 1807. 

264. LUCY MABY, b. 16 Aug., 1810; d. 29 Sept., 1900, in Hudson, 

N. H., and was bur. in Georgetown, Mass. She was in the 
fancy goods business in Nashua many years, then In Ip- 
swieh till about 1880; then retired to Hudson. During her 
last years her intellectual powers were unusually strong. 

*Benjamin Stickney was a Revolutionary veteran minuteman, 
2nd Lieut., 1st Lieut., fifer and fifer-major, in 1775-76-77-78-81. 
Mass. Rev. Soldiers and Sailors, Vol. XV, p. 5. He was bp. 6 
Mar., 1736-7. His first wife was Sarah Metcalf of Linebrook parish 
(int. 3 Jan., 1758), who d. suddenly 5 Sept., 1764, aged 27 y. His 
second wife (m. 15 May, 1765), was bp. 1 Feb., 1735-6, the dau. of 
Joseph and Elizabeth Stickney, and bur. 12 Sept., 1810, aged 75 y. 



AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 163 

She read widely and took a keen interest in many things. 
She left a considerable manuscript of her father's family, 
which has been very helpful in this compilation. 

265. AMOS, b. 9 Sept., 1813; was a '49er in California. It is said 

he has descendants there. 

144. DANIEL HOWE, JB., was born 30 April, 1740. 
He married, 19 April, 1764, in Reading, Sarah Bancroft 
of Reading. 

Children of Daniel and Sarah Howe : 

266. SAB AH, b. 28 Mar., 1766. 

267. PBISOILLA, b. 10 April, 1768. 

268. ACHSA, b. 29 Dec., 1769. 

162. AARON HOWE was bom 8 April, 1768, in Line- 
brook Parish, and died there 11 Nov., 1855. Remarried, 
28 June, 1818, Eliza Perley, born 12 April, 1799, to 
Allen and Esther (Burpee) Perley, and died 27 April, 
1882. Her record, written by her daughter, reads : 
' Faithful in all the relations of life, seeking others' good 
rather than her own, she always made home happy." 

Mr. Howe purchased of John Howe, son of Joseph, the 
Joseph Howe homestead, 17 Mar., 1818, and occupied the 
" 1711 " house. During his later years he suffered with 
rheumatism, and could only move about the house on 
crutches. When on parish committees they consulted at 
his house. 

Child of Aaron and Eliza Howe : 

269. ELIZA, b. 15 May, 1819; d. 5 May, 1915; m. 28 Nov., 1839, Wil- 

liam Perkins Perley, b. 7 Jan., 1814, to Jaeob and Mary, 
and d. 27 Dec., 1886. Mr. Perley built his residence on his 
father-in-law's farm, and succeeded to its cultivation. Both 
were members of the Linebrook church. Their only child 
(adopted) was Lyman Howe, b. 20 July, 1862, in St. Johns- 
bury, Vt. He is now owner of the ancient Howe home- 
stead. 

164. MARK HOWE was born 5 July, 1777, on the an- 
cestral estate, which he inherited, and died 13 Jan., 1853. 
He was a farmer. He lived in the old house, built in 
168 , and supplanted by the present one, which was 
raised 9 May, 1840. He married (published 18 Nov.),. 
1809, Lucy Foster, baptized 7 Mar., 1779, daughter of 



164 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

Jonathan Foster, jr., of the same parish. She died 16 
Nov., 1841. He was quiet and unassuming, and made a 
good home. 

Children of Mark and Lucy Howe : 

270. EMEBSON, b. 23 Nov., 1818. 

271. HANNAH, b. 25 April, 1815; m. 1st, 29 Nov., 1836, Calvin Oo- 

nant, b. 21 Feb., 1809, to William and Elizabeth (Foster) 
Conant, a man of excellent character, who d. 27 July, 1843. 
Hannah m. 2d, 1 June, 1848, Phinehas D. Merrill, widower, 
age 38, of Georgetown, son of Benjamin and Eunice. 

272. NATHANIEL, b. 23 July, 1826. 

165. JONATHAN HOWE was born in Methuen, 13 Aug., 
1753, and died there 26 April, 1841. He married in 
Haverhill, 23 Jan., 1783, Hannah Webster of Haverhill, 
born there 15 May, 1753, and died in Methuen, 17 Sept., 
1812, daughter of Thomas and Ruth (Heseltine) Web- 
ster. Jonathan Howe of Methuen married, 13 Oct., 
1814, Mary Herrick. 

Child of Jonathan and Hannah W. Howe : 

273. THOMAS, b. 6 Feb., 1784, in Methuen. 

168. DAVID HOWE was born in Methuen, 16 Oct., 
1756, and died 10 Jan.,* 1842. He married, first, in 
Haverhrll, 18 May, 1780, Persis Whittier, who died 8 
July, 1787, aged 27 years. He married, second, 9 Dec., 
1787, Betsey Redington, who died 14 Feb., 1803, age 42 
years. He married, third, 15 Nov., 1803, Sarah White, 
who died 13 Aug., 1831, age 74 years. He was a Revo- 
lutionary pensioner, private, minuteman, etc. Charles 
White was executor of his estate. His children men- 
tioned in his will were : Elizabeth H. Garland, Littleton, 
Mass. ; David Howe of New York ; Isaac R. Howe of 
Haverhill ; James M. Howe, " not been heard from for the 
last ten years " ;and granddaughter Mary Fisk, daughter of 
my daughter Abiah Lapish. David received $5000 ; " my 
friends Calvin W. and Fisher Howe, both of New York," 
were the trustees. 

Children of David, Persis and Betsey Howe, born in 
Haverhill: 

274. ABIAH, b. 7 Sept., 1781; m. Haverhill, 11 Mar., 1802, Robert 

Lapish of Bangor. 

*His pension papers read February. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 165 

275. BETSEY, b. 5 July, 1783; d. 28 Feb., 1784. 

276. BETSEY, b. 20 Feb., 1785; m. 8 Jnly, 1806, William Garland of 

Portsmouth. 

277. PEBSIS, b. 19 April, 1787; d. 3 Oct., 1787. 

278. DAVID, b. 22 Mar., 1789. 

279. ISAAC REDINGTON, b. 13 Mar., 1791. 

280. JAMES MABSH, b. April, 1794; d. 27 Dec., 1795, aged 20 m. 

281. JAMES MABSH, b. 17 June, 1796. 

169. JACOB HOWE was born 9 April, 1758, and died 
1 Sept., 1799. He married, 8 Feb., 1788, Hannah John- 
son of Salem, N. H. His widow settled his estate. She 
married (int. 28 Aug., 1814), David Rollins of Orford, 
N. H. 

Children of Jacob and Hannah Howe, born in Methuen: 

282. JAMES, b. 2 Sept., 1789. 

283. SAMUEL, b. 12 Feb., 1791; d. 11 May, 1809. 

284. ABIAH, b. 19 July, 1793. 

285. JACOB, b. 23 June, 1795. 

286. CHABLOTTE, b. 12 Feb., 1799. 

170. CAPT. ISAAC HOWE was born in Haverhill, 29 
May, 1760, and died 17 Jan., 1829. He married, 30 
Aug., 1784, Mrs. Lois Ayer, widow of Samuel Ayer of 
Haverhill. She died 9 Jan., 1837, aged 81 years. Captain 
Howe served in the Revolution, from Andover, and was 
in the Rhode Island expedition 2 months and 9 days, from 
27 April, 1777. His will was proved 3 Feb., 1829. Moses 
Howe* of Portsmouth, clerk (clergyman), was executor, 
with Isaac Howe, gentleman, and Phineas Howe, hatmaker, 
both of Haverhill, as sureties. The estate was invento- 
ried at $18,457.94, and the heirs-at-law were : Elsa Mer- 
rill ; Phebe Howe ; Moses Howe ; Isaac Howe ; Phineas 
Howe ; Lois Howe, by her guardian, William Merrill ; 
Moses Howe Whittier, Manson, Mich. ; Persis Howe 
Whittier, Winthrop, Me.; Nathaniel Whittier, Atkinson, 
N. H. ; Lois Anna Whittier, Salem, N. H. ; four children 
of Persis Whittier, wife of Ebenezer, by their guardian, 
William Merrill. 

Mrs. Lois Howe, the widow, made her will, and her 
son Moses was the executor. The heirs of her personal 

*Letter postage to Portsmouth then was ten cents. A stage ride 
was $1.95. 



166 JAMES HOWE OP IPSWICH 

estate were : Elsa Merrill ; Lois Ann Whittier, by her 
guardian, William Merrill; Phebe, Isaac and Phineas 
Howe ; Nathaniel Whittier ; Sarah Olmstead. Eliza 
Ayer wrote : " I hereby certify that I am a lawful at- 
torney for Eliza Dodge and Laura Fulson, both of Mon- 
treal. Canada, my children by my late husband, William 
Ayer ; also I am a lawful attorney for George Williams, 
Hartland, Vt., and he is the guardian of Francis W. Ayer, 
Elias C. Ayer, Charlotte Ayer and Christiana Ayer, all 
of said Hartland, also my children." 
Children of Isaac and Lois Howe : 

287. ELSA, b. 28 Mar., 1785; m. 25 Nov., 1802, William Merrill. 

288. PHEBE, b. 10 Mar., 1787; m. 29 Nov., 1810, Thomas Howe. 

289. MOSES, b. 22 Aug., 1789; minister. May have had a son, 

Moses A., who, with wife Olive, had a stillborn child in 
Salisbury, 23 Jan., 1848. 

290. PEBSIS, b. 26 Oct., 1791 ; m. 28 Mar., 1810, Ebenezer Whittier 

of Methuen. 

291. ISAAC, b. 20 July, 1794. 

292. PUINEHAS, b. 6 July, 1796. 

293. Lois, b. 21 Mar., 1799; d. unm., non compos mentis, 1 July, 

1829. 

171. FARNUM HOWE was born in Methuen, 10 Nov., 
1762, and died 3 Sept., 1852. He married, in Newbury, 
8 May, 1791, Ednah Hale, born 19 Dec., 1768, and died 
20 Dec., 1849. They owned property in Newburyport in 
1794 and pasture land in Newbury. 

Farnum entered the Revolutionary War 7 July, 1780, 
to reinforce the army for six months. He was of a light 
complexion, 5 ft. 3 in. tall, and 18 years old. 

He left grandchildren : Moses Little, Rufus H., Sarah 

Elizabeth (who married Cotton before 29 March, 

1853), and Caroline Ednah Wigglesworth, children of Wil- 
liam and "my deceased daughter Sarah," and granddaugh- 
ter Charlotte H. Bartlett, wife of Israel, jr., and one 
daughter, Charlotte, wife of William Mace. 

Children of Farnum and Ednah Howe : 

294. SABAH, b. 27 Oct., 1792; m. 29 Sept., 1814, William Wiggles- 

worth. 

295. CHABLOTTE, b. 4 Dec., 1795; m. 17 Dec., 1889, William Mace. 

296. RUPHUS, b. 3 July, 1798. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 167 

178. TIMOTHY HOWE was born in Methuen, 3 Feb., 
1754. He married, 23 Jan., 1783, Lydia Currier, who 
was mother of his four children. 

These records are found : Timothy Howe and Nancy 
Dow of Hopkinton, Mass., int. 12 Oct., 1795 ; Anna 
Howe, widow of Timothy, died 20 Sept., 1848, aged 90 
yrs. ; Timothy Howe was born to Dea. James and Han- 
nah, 26 Feb., 1741. Should Nancy (above) read Anna? 
Stephen was born to Timothy and Ede, 22 July, 1798. 

Aug. 3, 1807, Timothy Howe was presented to the 
Judge of Probate as a person incapable of caring for 
himself, his family, or his estate, and his son Daniel was 
commended by friends and relatives, John Currier and 
Abiel Howe, as guardian, and duly appointed. An ac- 
count was rendered as late as 3 Feb., 1812. Isaiah and 
Daniel Howe sold about three acres of land in Methuen 
to Persis Howe, 23 April, 1817. 

Children of Timothy and Lydia Howe : 

297. ISAIAH, b. 1 Aug., 1783. 

298. DANIEL, b. 4 Dec., 1786. 

299. SALLY, b. 17 July, 1788. 

300. LYDIA, b. 17 April, 1790; m. 3 Mar., 1811, Nathan Parsons, a 

resident of Andover. 

186. ELIZABETH HOWE was born in Methuen, 9 
Nov.., 1765, where she died 28 Dec., 1792. She seems to 
have been employed as an apprenticed housekeeper dur- 
ing her teens, with a home in Salem, N. H. There her 
only child was born, as the records read to " Elizabeth, 
daughter of John " : 

301. PHILIP, b. 20 Dec., 1785, in Salem, N. H. 

189. ABIEL HOWE was born in Methuen, 30 July, 
1765, and died there 5 July, 1850. He was a druggist. 
He married, first (int. 18 July, 1791), Polly Wilson. He 
married, second, when 81 years old, 12 Dec., 1846, Mary 
Jane Symonds of Lowell, who was 33 years old. 

Children of Abiel and Polly Howe : 

302. BELINDA, b. 15 Jan., 1792; m. 5 Sept., 1833, at Andover, John 

Goodwin, jr., of Beading. 

303. ALICE, b. 24 July, 1793; m. 15 Oct., 1812, Merrill Pettingill of 

Methuen. 



168 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

304. RUTH, b. 18 Aug., 1797; m. 8 Nov., 1829, at Andover, Stephen 

W. Hoyt. 

305. RUFUS, b. 1 Jan., 1804. 

193. CAPT. ROBINSON HOWE was born 26 Mar., 1774. 
He married, first, 19 Mar., 1801, Huldah Messer, who 
died 8 July, 1805. He married, second, 16 Oct., 1808, 
Catherine Currier. He was by trade a blacksmith. 

Children of Robinson and Catherine Howe, born in 
Methuen : 

306. HULDAH, bp. 31 May, 1812; m. (int. 3 May, 1829), Hazen Bod- 

well of Andover. 

307. CATHERINE, b. 4 April, 1812; d. 23 May, 1862, in Salem; bur. 

in Methuen. 

808. SOPHIA CUBBIES, b. 22 Dec., 1818; m. 9 May, 1837, in Methu- 
en, Stephen Bodwell. 

309. MABY BBOOKS, b. 19 May, 1822; m. 4 April, 1848, Rer. Willard 

Spalding, a Universalist minister, b. 26 Jan., 1823, in Wash- 
ington, N. H., and d. 22 Dec., 1872. They had Willard, b. 
22 Dec., 1851. Lived in Peabody. 

194. CAPT. JOSEPH HOWE was born 10 Aug., 1760, 
and died 17 April, 1829. He married, first, 29 May, 

1787, Jemima Merrill, daughter of Enoch Merrill. She 
was born 14 July, 1764, and died 4 Mar., 1788. He 
married, second, 8 July, 1790, Lydia Eaton of Haverhill, 
who died 23 Feb., 1831, age 72 years. 

Children of Joseph, Jemima and Lydia Howe : 

310. JEMIMA MEBBILL, b. 24 Feb., 1788. 

311. CHBISTOPHEB, b. 31 Mar., 3791. 

312. JEMIMA MEBBILL, bp. 17 June, 1792; m. 24 Feb., 1814, John 

Tyler. 

313. FBEDEBIOK, b. 18 Oct., 1793. 

314. PHINEAS, b. 15 May, 1797. 

315. JOSEPH, b. 12 Aug., 1800. 

316. MABY, b. 18 Mar., 1804; m. 14 Feb., 1827, Daniel Carlton. 

317. SABAH, bp. 4 June, 1804. 

205. ABIJAH HOWE was born in Middleton, 24 Mar., 

1788, and died 16 Sept., 1871. He married, 29 Oct., 
1811, Martha Bridgeman, born in Hanover, N. H., 23 
Dec., 1789, to Isaac and Theoda (Parks) Bridgeman. 
She died in Northfield, Vt., 5 June, 1855. Mr. Howe 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 169 

was a farmer, and probably was led into Norwich, Vt., by 
a provision of his father's will. 

Children of Abijah and Martha Howe : 

318. THBODA PARKS, b. 20 Nov., 1813, in Cambridge; d. 29 April, 

1845, in Northfield, Vt.; m. Mar., 1836, William Rice 
. ... Tncker, b. in Claremont, N. H., 10 Nov., 1812, son of Sam- 
uel and Alma (Rice) Tucker of Northfield, Vt., where he d. 
21 Nov., 1880. Children: (1) Malverd Clarence, b. 16 Dec., 
1837, m. 28 Oct., 1871, d. 17 Oct., 1907, Washington, D. C.; 
Had : Ann, Alice, and Frank. The latter's home is in 
Berkeley, Cal. (2), Jane Sophia, b. 12 Nov., 1842. 

319. ASA, b. 25 May, 1816, in Middleton. 

320. MABTHA ANN MABION, b. 27 Oct., 1819, in Norwich, Vt.; d. 

14 Dec., 1899, in Northfield, Vt. She m. 6 Dec., 1839, Wil- 
liam Jones, b. 1814, to William and Sally (Babbitt) Jones of 
Northfield, where he d. April, 1889, leaving child, Adelaide 
Frances, b. in Williamstown, Vt., 21 Jan., 1844, m. 21 Jan., 
1863, d. 25 Dec., 1891, Northfield. 

321. SOPHIA BBIDGEMAN, b. 12 Dec., 1821, in Norwich, Vt. ; d. 28 

April, 1893, in Bozford, Mass. She m. 25 Jan., 1848, Thomas 
Sawyer, b. in Boxford, 28 Mar., 1811, to George W. and 
Polly (Killam, of Middleton) Sawyer of Boxford. where 
Thomas died 22 April, 1895. Children, all b. in Box- 
ford: (1) Thomas Killam, b. 5 April, 1849; m. 25 Jan., 
1873; living in Newton, Kan. ; (2) James Bridgeman, b. 12 
Dec., 1850, m.; (3) Evie Sophia, b. 23 Nov., 1853, m. 28 Jan., 
1873, living in Orange, Mass.; (4) Snsan Maria, b. 27 Oct., 
1855, m.: (5) Isaac Howe, b. 3 April, 1858, m. 15 Jan., 1895, 
living in Boxford; (6) Martha, b. 22 Feb., 1862, d. 28 April, 
1869; (7) Annette, b. 12 Dec., 1863, m. 23 June, 1904, Frank 
Addson Massey, living in New York, N. Y. ; (8) John Her- 
bert, b. 11 Nov., 1865, d. 21 June, 1872, in Boxford. 

322. HANNAH SAMANTHA, b. 9 Nov., 1823, in Norwich, Vt., and d. 

25 May, 1908, in Clinton, Iowa. She m. 1st, 26 Nov., 1846, 
Thomas J. McGregor, b. 20 Jan., 1823, son of Alexander 
McGregor of Keith, Scotland, and d. in San Francisco, Cal., 
4 Aug., 1850. Children: (1) Cora Evelyn, b. in Lower Hor- 
ton, N. S., 17 April, 1848; m. 24 Oct., 1866; d. in Minneap- 
olis, Minn., 14 Jun, 1883. (2) Martha Elizabeth, b. Boxford, 
21 Jan., 1850; m. 18 Nov., 1869; living in Clinton, Iowa. 
Hannah S., m. 2d, 20 Aug., 1859, Roys, or Royce Jones, b. 
in Northfield, 21 Aug., 1810, d. 23 Mar., 1876, in Clinton. 
Children: (3) Minnehaha, b. Hastings, Minn., 27 July, 1861, 
d. Austin, 111., 14 May, 1878; (4) Walter Howe, b. Hastings, 



170 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

8 Oct., 1862, living in Champaign, 111.; (5) Marion Sophia, 
b. Clinton, Iowa, 31Jan., 1865, d. 13 Jan., 1875, Clinton; 
(6) Herbert Bridgeman, b. 26 Dec., 1867, in Clinton, and 
living there. 

323. ISAAC BRIDGEMAN, b. 27 June, 1827, in Norwich, Vt. 

324. MYBAETTE WILHELMINA, b. 27 Nov., 1830; d. 11 June, 1892, 

at Clinton. She m. 2 April, 1861, at Carlisle, Ind., George 
Washington Scott, farmer, b. 10 Mar., 1822, in New Leba- 
non, Ind., son of Charles and Sarah (Widener) Scott, and 
d. 10 June, 1903, in Clinton, Iowa. Had: (1) Charles Howe, 
b. 6 Sept., 1862, in Macon, 111.; m. Danville, 27 June, 1884, 
Angeline Mead, and lives in New Rayner, Colo. Had: Har- 
old Mead, b. 21 May, 1895. 

207. BENJAMIN HOWE was born in Middleton, 26 
Oct., 1794, and died there 14 Sept., 1830. He married, 
13 June, 1822, Hannah Hutchinson Berry, born 25 Nov., 
1799, daughter of Andrew and Phebe (Hutchinson) 
Berry, and died 18 Nov., 1890. 

Children of Benjamin and Hannah H., born in Middle- 
ton : 

325. CAROLINE, b. 31 July, 1823; d. 23 Sept., 1825. 

326. GEORGE, b. 4 Oct., 1826; shoemaker; d. 11 April, 1899; m. 26 

May, 1852, Eliza Ann Perkins, b. Wenham, 20 June, 1825, 
daughter of Nehemiah and Eliza (Edwards) Perkins. No 
children. 

327. BENJAMIN, b. 8 Aug., 1828. 

328. ASA, b. 18 June, 1830. 

211. MARK HOWE was born in Middleton, 25 Dec., 
1803, and died in Danvers, 17 Dec., 1861. He married, 
20 October, 1836, Emeline Perkins, born in Danvers 14 
Jan., 1816, daughter of Moses and Lucy (Wilkins) Per- 
kins, and died 16 Dec., 1856, in Danvers. 

Children of Mark and Emeline Howe : 

329. HARRIET AUGUSTA, b. 16 Nov., 1837, in South Danvers; d. 4 

June, 1882, in Peabody; m. 12 June, 1866, Oliver H. Cool- 
idge. 

330. CYNTHIA JANE, b. 29 Sept., 1840, in Danvers; m. 13 April, 

1870, Ebenezer P. Trask. She also m. again. 

240. PERLEY HOWE was born in Williamstown, Mass., 
30 April, 1784, and died in Williamstown, Vt., 20 May, 
1848. He married, 2 Dec., 1813, Martha Kingsley of 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 171 

Williamstown, who was born 26 Nov., 1784, and died 20 
Dec., 1825. 

Children of Perley and Martha Howe; born in Wil- 
liamstown 

331. OBAMEL, b. 22 Nov., 1814; m. Charlotte Barber. Had: Lizzie. 

332. MABTHA MARIA, b. 21 Sept., 1816; m. Levi Graves. Had : 

George, Julia, Harriet, Harvey, Sarah. 

333. LAURA LUCINDA, b. 28 Feb., 1819; m. 15 May, 1842, James R. 

Stone. Had: Merrill Howe, Ella Martha (who m. Hon. M. 
P. Perley* of Emosburg Tails), Don C., Laura Annette, 
Julia C., Belle C. 

334. CLARISSA, b. 14 May, 1822; m. Abel Dufur. Had: Martha, 

Alpha, John, George. 

335. HANNAH, b. 18 Dec., 1823; m. James Stiles. Had: Frances, 

Rawson, Dora, Ella. 

241. HEZEKIAH HOWE was born in Williamstown, 
Mass., 8 April, 1786. He married, 30 Dec., 1807, Betsey 
Abbott, daughter of John Abbott of Holden, Mass. Some- 
time after 1816 he removed to Bloomfield, Ohio, where 
he died in his 98th year. 

Children of Hezekiah and Betsey Howe, born in Wil- 
liamstown, Vt. : 

336. HEZEKIAH ABBOTT, b. 13 Aug., 1808; d. 5 Feb., 1809. 

337. EVALINE, b. 26 Mar., 1810. 

338. EGBEBT, b. 1 Feb., 1812; d. 3 Mar., 1813. 

339. CAROLINE SAMANTHA, b. 12 Feb., 1814. 

340. ASA DUNNING, b. 7 Feb., 1816; he went to Bloomfield with his 

parents, and was there when (about 1849) his uncle Enoch 
visited them. 

244. ENOCH HOWE was born in Williamstown, Vt., 
19 May, 1792, and died there of heart disease, 2 Dec., 
1890. He married, 18 Sept., 1823, in Barre, Vt., Polly 
Abbott, born iu Barre, 12 Oct., 1801, daughter of Abijah 
and Abigail (Cutting) Abbott, and died, of paralysis, in 
Williamstowu, 19 Mar., 1890. Abijah Abbott, while a 
young man, lived in Holden. Enoch Howe was a black- 
smith till 1870. He was State representative, selectman, 
town treasurer, and held many other town offices. 

*Mrs. Perley died 9 Jan., 1917, a woman of amiable qualities of 
heart and mind, and eminently helpful in church and social life. 
See Perley Family Hist, and Geneal., p. 625. 



172 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH . 

Children of Enoch and Polly Howe : 

341. ANNA, b. 6 July, 1825; d. 23 Sept., 1856; m. 27 Dec., 1846, 

John Adams, jr., of Williamstown, Vt. Had: John Howe, 
George Enoch, Wilber Fisk, Carlos Samuel. 

342. ABIGAIL, b. 5 Mar., 1830; d. 31 July, 1896; m. Lewis Pierce 

of Chicago. Had: Albert Howe. 

348. AURORA M., b. 8 Mar., 1841; m. 1st, Ezra D. Benedict of Wil- 
liamstown. Had : Anna M., Mary A., Alma P., Frank 
Howe, Cynthia Ethel; m. 2d, James Burnham. Had : Lula 
F., S. Geneva, Mattie A. 

Mrs. Burnham has the true genealogical taste. She alone 
has furnished the earliest dates of the Vermont branch and 
many other facts that she, years ago, jotted down from 
gravestones and older members of the family. She merits 
the cordial thanks of the Howe family. 

245. ASA HOWE was born in Williamstown, Vt., 24 
June, 1794. He married in Barre, Dec., 1820, Harriet 
Abbott, sister to Enoch's wife and niece to Anna's hus^ 
band. He was state representative in 1843. After he 
sold his estate to his brother Enoch, he went to Chicago, 
and after the big fire there, to Waukegon, where he died. 
They left three daughters, no son. 

247. JOHN DUNNING HOWE was born in Williams- 
town, 11 Feb., 1798. He married there, 9 May, 1822, 
Sarah F. Cutler, and settled in Alden, N. Y. 

Children of John D. and Sarah F. Howe : 

344. Ev ALINE, b. 24 Feb., 1823. 

345. ORLANDO CUTLER, b. 19 Dec., 1824; m. ; left no son. 

249. ABRAHAM HOWE was born in Linebrook Parish, 
5 Nov., 1784, and died there 24 April, 1832, of liver 
complaint. He married (int. 24 Mar., 1811), Sarah Bixby, 
born 19 Aug., 1771, daughter of Benjamin and Peggy 
Bixby of Topsfield, and died 12 July, 1861. He was a 
farmer. His home was afterwards occupied by his brother 
Abel. 

Child of Abraham and Sarah Howe : 

346. ABRAHAM PEABODY, b. 25 June, 1816. 

250. ABEL HOWE was born in Linebrook Parish, 3 
Sept., 1786, and died there 24 Sept., 1855. He married, 
30 May, 1810, Margaret Bixby, born 30 May, 1783, in 



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Salem, N. H., daughter of Benjamin Bixby, and died in 
Ipswich, 21 July, 1868. A large cottage monument marks 
their graves. Mrs. Howe was born Peggy, and she so 
signed a deed after her marriage. Mr. Howe was a 
drummer in the War of 1812 and adjutant in the militia, 
where his brother-in-law Bixby was a captain. He was a 
well-to-do farmer and a great reader of biography and 
history and statecraft. 

Children of Abel and Margaret Howe, born in Line- 
brook : 

347. WILLIAM APPLETON, b. 22 Oct., 1810. 

348. ADELINE, b. 5 June, 1813; cared for her parents, and then 

lived with her sister Margaret until her death, 29 Dec., 
1894. 

349. MARGARET, b. 6 Nov., 1815; m. 30 Dec., 1831, Isaac Hale of 

Boxford, a farmer and man of official station in the town. 
She d. Sept., 1902. 

350. EDWARD EVERETT, b. 15 Oct., 1817. 

351. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, b. 15 Oct., 1819. 

352. ABEL SPOFFORD, b. 18 Jan., 1822. 

353. WILLARD PEEL, b. 22 July, 1824; d. 14 Oct., 1903. He was a 

shoemaker by trade. He entered the Civil War when 38, 
and after three years' service returned a veteran with ru- 
ined health. He was a natural scholar, an extensive and 
judicious reader, a ready speaker, and eminently entertain- 
ing in conversation. He never married. 

256. CAPT. JOHN HOWE was born in Linebrook, 10 
Nov., 1793, and died in Galveston, Texas, 16 April, 1850. 
He may have been a sea captain, though if he followed 
the habit of his wife's father or uncle, the title may have 
been military ; it may have been both. 

He was taxed in Topsfield in 1816-18-19, where he 
was a " cordwainer " or shoemaker. When his father, 
in 1816, would sell the last of his extensive patrimony, 
his son John, with $1200, bought it 48 acres, with build- 
ings. John sold the northern part of the purchase to 
Allen and Joseph Perley, and 17 Mar., 1818, for $550, to 
Aaron Howe, the remainder some eight or more acres, 
with the buildings, the present homestead of Lyman Howe 
Perley. John's mother lived with him in Topsfield, 
and upon her death. 5 Oct., 1818, he removed from the 
town. 



174 JAMBS HOWE OF IPSWICH 

He appears next in New York City, where at least two 
of his children were born (1834, 1839). His wife's 
maiden name is believed to have been Rosanna Geddes, 
and a niece of Gov. John Geddes of Charleston, S. C., 
who later was General in the militia. The New York 
directories covering the years 1825 to 1842 show four or 
five John Howes. One John was at first an expressman, 
then a carpenter, and from 1838 to 1842 a grocer. The 
only Geddes there was James S., a carpenter. In 1837 
he became a grocer, and ere the next year died. Caroline 
S. A. Geddes was his widow. Did John Howe take his 
wife there and then take over the grocery trade ? Captain 
Howe spent his later years in Galveston, Texas. 

Children of John and Rosanna Howe, all born presum- 
ably in New York City : 

354. WILLIAM DAYTON, " lost in the Rebellion". 

355. GEOBGE WASHINGTON, b. 1 Jan., 1834, in N. T. City. 

856. ROSANNA (ROSE N.), m. 1869, Dr. Francis Spalding of Colusa, 
Gal., b. 26 Mar., 1824, son of Simeon Spalding. He was 
physician, surgeon, college professor, judge of Colusa coun- 
ty> graduate of Missouri State University, and held ad 
enndem degree of Tolland Medical College. 

357. MABIA LOUISA, b. in N. Y. City; d. of congestion of the 

brain, in Marysville, Cal., 14 July, 1880, age 41 yrs. 6 mos. 
19 days; m. Joseph Johnstone of Marysville; had 8 children 
four living : Rosa M., Carrie M., Effie, and Joseph. 

257. HERITABLE HOWE was born 6 Oct., 1795, and 
died 1 Mar., 1883, in Nashua, N. H. She married, 1 
Jan., 1818, Joseph Cogswell of Derry, N. H., born in 
Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, now the town of Essex, 1& 
Nov., 1791, and died, a farmer, in Nashua, 28 July, 1855. 

Children of Joseph and Mehitable (Howe) Cogswell, 
all born in Derry : * 

358. JOHN CLEAVELAND, b. 2 Feb., 1819; d. 20 Jan., 1912, in Rox- 

bury, Mass.; m. 1 Oct., 1849, Mary Brown, b. in Rye, N. H. ^ 
had 5 chn., all b. in Boston. 

359. GEOBGE HENBT, b. 28 Sept., 1821; d. 25 July, 1900, in Austin, 

Minn.; m. 16 Mar., 1845, Sarah Jane Wells, b. in Peru, O.; 
variously located in Wis. and Minn.; 8 children. 

360. JOSEPH, b. 10 Feb., 1825; d. 20 Feb., 1825. 

361. MABY ABIGAIL, b. 13 May, 1828; d. Cleveland, O., 2 Jan., 

1905; m. in Nashua, 23 June, 1853, Samuel K. Wellman of 



AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS 175 

Wilton, Me., b. Farmington, Me., 22 June, 1822. He was 
many years superintendent for the Nashua, N. H., Iron and 
Steel Co.; a man of inventive genius, with whom they in- 
stalled a new type of steel furnace, the first of its kind in 
this country. He was a 32d degree Mason, and deacon in the 
Pilgrim Cong. Church till 1876, upon his removal to East 
Wilton, Me., where he d. 11 Sept., 1891, when Mrs. Well- 
man went to live with her children, seven in number, who 
all were b. in Nashua. 

362. EMELINE MHITABLE, b. 7 Aug., 1833; m. 7 Mar., 1872, in 

Nashua, George Turner, b. 15 Jan., 1826, in Bridgewater, 
Mass., son of Joseph and Abigail (Ripley) Turner. Had 
two children, Hattie Almira, b. and d. 24 July, 1873, and 
Abby Howe, 21 Feb., 1875; a professor of physiology in Mt. 
Holyoke College; has been very helpful in this work. 

258. ELIZABETH HOWE was born in Linebrook, 2 
July, 1797, and died in Boston, 28 Sept., 1870. In 1828 
she married Johnson Colby, an employee for many years 
in the record department, City Hall, Boston. He died 8 
Aug., 1856 ; was buried in Mt. Auburn. 

Children of Johnson and Elizabeth Colby : 

363. JOHN HOWE, b. 10 May, 1830; d. unm. 10 Nov., 1905; succeed- 

ed his father at Boston City Hall. 

364. HENBY JOHNSON, b. 10 Aug., 1832; d. 29 Dec., 1905, in Bos- 

ton. 

260. PRISCILLA HOWE was born in Linebrook, 11 
July, 1801 ; and married (int. 17 Jan., 1821), Capt. John 
Bradstreet, cordwainer, of Topsfield, born there 9 Dec., 
1771. His first wife was Mehitable Balch, who died 9 
Jan., 1793; he died in Topsfield, 4 April, 1825. Pris- 
cilla married, second, 18 Oct., 1834, Samuel Conant. She 
removed from her Bradstreet home in Topsfield to Wen- 
ham upon her second marriage ; there they died he 10 
July, 1861 ; she, 28 April, 1889. 

Child of John and Priscilla Bradstreet : 

365. ELIZABETH DAY, b. 30 July, 1833; d. 22 Feb., 1835. 
Children of Samuel and Priscilla Conant : 

366. GASOLINE ELIZABETH, b. 24 May, 1836 ; m. 8 April, 1857, Wm. 

Porter Eimball, son of Capt. Edmund Kimball of Wenham; 
no children. 



176 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

867. LYDIA ANN, b. 2 Dec., 1838; m. 17 Oct., 1859, Calvin Blake 
Dodge, son of Ira Blake Dodge of Wenham; 5 children. 

368. BENJAMIN HOWE, b. 22 Mar., 1840; d. 12 Aug., 1841. 

369. BENJAMIN HOWE, b. 11 April, 1843; living, unmarried, in 

Wenham. He has contributed valuable data for this com- 
pilation. 

262. CAPT. JOSHUA HOWE was born in Linebrook, 9 
Sept., 1805, and died in Georgetown, 25 Dec., 1903. He 
married, 6 April, 1826, Charity Bailey of Ipswich, born 
there 28 Sept., 1806, daughter of Peirce and Salome 
Bailey. She died in Georgetown, 16 May, 1876. Mr. 
Howe was seen mowing in his field when 98 ; read 
during his latter years without glasses ; was grandson of 
Capt. Abraham, " a soldier of the French War " ; settled 
in Georgetown, 1823, where he learned and practiced 
shoemaking ; was militia captain, commissioned 14 June, 
1834, by Gov. John Davis, and served till, at his own 
request, he was discharged, 11 June, 1838. His company 
was called " The Lafayette Guards ".* 

Children of Joshua and Charity Howe : 

370. MARY LUOY, b. 17 Aug., 1827; m. 3 Feb., 1846, James H. Ry- 

der; and d. 8 Aug., 1863. Had: (1) Frank, who m. and 
had child; (2) Charles, who m. and had 4 chn. 

371. BENJAMIN SCOTT, b. 7 Dec., 1835; m. 1858, Elma G. Felch; d. 

10 May, 1912; shoemaker. Had: (1) Augusta; (2) Grace, 
lived in Haverhill. 

372. WILLIAM HENBY, b. 20 May, 1839; m. 1858, Martha Felch; 

shoemaker; d. in Lynn; one child, d. y. 

373. HARRIET AMELIA, b. 4 June, 1845; d. 13 June, 1905, in the 

Worcester Asylum. She took devoted care of her aged 
father till his death in 1903. 

*Naming militia companies then was very popular. Ipswich had 
" The Washington Blues "; Topsfleld, " The Warren Blues ". The 
writer has the banner of " The Washington Huzzas," a troop of 
horse. 

(20 be continued.) 



THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF THE STRATTON 

FAMILY. 



Lechford's Note Book makes mention of Anne Stratton 
of Salem, widow of John Stratton of Shotley, county 
Suffolk. The following pedigree of the family has been 
found among the notes of the late J. Henry Lea, who 
states that it was compiled from an original manuscript 
by "J. R. H.". 

1. EDMUND STKATTON of Shotley, Eng., whose will 
was dated 30 Sept., 1474, died 11 Oct., 1476, and was 
buried in Shotley Church. Inquest post mortem 31 Oct., 
1476. His wife Margaret received, under his will, the 
manor of Thorkalton for life. 

Children : 

i. AUGUSTINE, who received, under his father's will, the 
manor of Thorkalton for life, after his mother's 
death. He was aged 40y. in 1477, and d. before 1498. 

2. II. GEORGE, d. 1498. 
m. JOHN. 

2. GEORGE STRATTON of Shotley, who received, under 
his father's will, the manor of Lerington, and, after the 
death of his mother and brother Augustine, the manor of 
Thorkalton. He entailed the manor of Kirkton by deed 
and the manor of Thorkalton by will. He died the Friday 
after the Feast of Pentacost, 1498. Inquisition post 
mortem 28 Oct., 1498. His wife's name was Elizabeth. 

Children : 

3. i. GEOBGE, b. 1490. 

ii. ELIZABETH, devisee under her brother's will of a tene- 
ment in Shotley. She m. a Hawys. 

3. GEORGE STRATTON of Shotley, gent., born 1490. 
He inherited the manors of Kirkton and Thorkalton. His 
will, dated 24 Aug., 1547, was proved 12 June, 1548 

(177) 



178 THE ENGLISH ANCESTEr 

(P. 0. C., 9 PopulwelT), and he was buried in Shotley 
Church. His wife was dead in 1548. 
Children : 

4. I. JOHN, d. 16 Sept., 1560. 

ii. ANTHONY, received a bequest under his father's will 
and was probably of age 1547. He was to receive 
a bequest under the will of his brother John (1559) 
if alive. 

in. EGBERT, under his father's will was to receive 20, to 
be paid in 1550. 

iv. MABGABET, bur. at Shotley, 28 Apr., 1574. She re- 
ceived 30 under her father's will, to be paid in 
1552, and also a legacy under the will of her brother 
John (1559), being then unmarried. 

v. PHILIP, received 20, to be paid in 1554, under his 
father's will, and a legacy under that of his brother 
John in 1559. 

vi. KATHEBINE, was a legatee under her father's will. 
She m. Fras. Harman and had 4 chn. 

4. JOHN STRATTON of Shotley, Esq., inherited the 
manors of Kirkton and Thurkulton. His will, dated 8 
Dec., 1559, was proved 16 June, 1561 (<7. C. Norwich*), 
and he died 16 Sept., 1560. Inquisition post mortem 23 
Sept., 1560. He married Cicily, daughter of Thomas 
Felton, Esq., and of Cicily his wife, former wife of Mich : 
Sampson, Esq. Marriage settlement dated 24 Aug., 25 
Hen. VIII (1534). She proved his will in 1561. 

Children : 

5. i. THOMAS, b. 1546; d. 29 May, 1596. 

ii. MABY, received a bequest under her father's will, 
in. ELIZABETH, received a bequest under her brother's 
will (1596). She m. a Hankyn and had 3 chn. 

5. THOMAS STRATTON of Shotley, Suffolk and Ded- 
ham, Essex, gent., was born in 1546. He inherited the 
manors of Kirkton and Thurkulton. His will was dated 
15 Apr., 1596, and he died at Dedham 29 May, 1596, was 
buried at Shotley 1 June, 1596. Inquisition post mortem 
19 Jan., 1596/7, and his will was proved 4 Nov., 1596 
(P. C. C. 84 Drake). He left lands, in trust during his 
minority, to his cousin John Morgan of Ipswich, gent. 
He married before 18 Aug., 15, Elizabeth (1573), 



OF THE STRATTON FAMILY 179 

Dorothy , who was executrix of his will. She later 

married a Linton, and administration of her estate was 
granted to her son John, 4 Mar., 1616/17, at Ipswich. 
Children : 

6. i. JOHN, b. about 1581. 

ii. BENJAMIN, who had an annuity of 10 under his 
father's will and was a legatee of his brother John 
in 1621, was bnr. at Shotley 23 May, 1627. 

in. MAKY, who was a legatee under her father's will in 
1596 and was then m. to a Harrison. 

iv. ELIZABETH, also a legatee under her father's will. 

v. JOSEPH, d. about 1641. 

vi. SARAH, who m. a Beriff and had a dau. Sarah. 

6. JOHN STRATTON of Shotley, Suffolk, and of Ard- 
leigh, Essex, gent., was aged 15 years and 99 days 19 
Jan., 1596/7. He inherited the manors of Kirkton and 
Thurculton at 21. His will was dated 24 Sept., 1621, 
and he died at Ardleigh and was buried at Shotley 4 May, 
1627. The will was proved 19 May, 1627 (P. O. O. 52 
Skynner^). He married Anne, probably Derehaugh, a 
daughter of Mrs. Mary Dearhaugh of Barrington, Suf- 
folk. She was still living and was plaintiff in a suit 
against William Pester at Ipswich, Mass., in 1642 (Rec- 
ords of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, vol. I, p. 41). 
She lived in Salem, and was aged 50 in 1640. 

Children : 

i. JOHN, a minor in 1621, was a legatee under his father's 
will of the manor of Thurculton, after his mother's 
death. He had a grant of 2000 acres of land in 
New England 1 Dec., 1631, having then resided 
there for three years. He was of Salem in 1631, 
took the Freeman's oath 21 May, 1663. A fine levied 
in the General Court was ordered to be remitted 19 
Sept., 1637, if he go to Merrimack. (Pope's Pio- 
neers of Massachusetts.) He was a proprietor of 
Charlestown in 1638. (Wyman's Genealogies & 
Estates, Charlestown.) 

ii. WILLIAM, a legatee under his father's will of 100 at 
21. He was to come to New England in 1628, but 
was left behind by his uncle Joseph as his executor 
deposed in 1640, William being then deceased. 



180 THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF THE STRATTON FAMILY 

in. ANTHONY, a legatee under his father's will of 100 

at 21. 
iv. ANN, a legatee under her father's will of 100 at 18. 

It may have been she who m., about the 6mo., 1661, 

William Lake at Salem (Salem Court Records.). 
v. MABY, also a legatee under her father's will of 100. 
vi. ELIZABETH, who likewise received 100 at 18, under 

her father's will, was b. about 1616, and came to 

New England in the "Increase", 15 April, 1635, ae. 

19. She m. John Thorndike of Salem, gent, 
vii. DOBOTHY, received 100 at 18 under her father's will. 

She was of Salem, unm. in 1641 (Pope's Pioneers)- 

1. JOSEPH STRATTON, was a legatee under his father's 
will of XI 00 at 21, and also received a bequest under his 
brother John's will. He d. at James City, Va, and adm. 
was granted to his relict Joan, 2 June, 1641 (P. 0. (7.). 

Henry W. Belknap. 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, 

MASS. 



( Continued from Volume LIV. page 32.} 



To the Constable of Marblehead 

These Require you in his Majestys name forthwith to 
sumon & require the Comittee of Militia in the Towne 
Left Ward & Ensigne Norman & others to make their 
Appearance before the Council sitting in Boston on the 
7th day of the Instant to Answer for thier neglect in not 
Impressing Six able persons according to the Major Gen- 
erall last warrant for the eastern service, so as the Coun- 
trys was wholly neglected making their returne at or 
before the time heereof fayle not Dated in Boston the 
6th of September 1676. 

By order of the Council Edward Rawson Secretary 
Mass. Archives, vol. 69, p. 50a. 

Robert Roules of Marblehead marriner Aged 30 years 
or thereabouts belonging to the Catch William & Sarah 
of Salem saith that Joseph Boovey going out Master of 
hir in a fishing voyage having Caught & being about half 
loaden with ffish riding at an anchor at port Latour nere 
Cape Sable on the Easterly side on the 7th of this Instant 
July being Saturday purposing & taking wood & water 
on the second day following intending to goe on in their 
fishing designe but on the Lords day being the eighth 
instant in the Dawning of the day Came on board them 
on Cannoo of Indians as were as he Cann Guesse Nine 
or tenn with their Armes ready fixt loaded & Cockt Your 
deponent first espying of them stopt doune to save him- 
self from the shott which the Indian lett fly & fell against 
the winlase & so did no hurt the deponent Called to them 
what you kill English men he Answered if English men 
shoot we kill, if not we no kill & bid us come up & Go- 

(181) 



182 DOCUMENTS DELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

ing up they bound him & the other 4 English marriners 
with lins, the master being on : one after another strip- 
ping them of all their cloathes only left him a gresy shirt 
wescut & draws they used to fish in with their stockings 
& shoes which were in there Cabyn : giving us liberty to 
sitt upon Deck bound as they were till about two of the 
clock in the Afternoone & then loosened them and Comand- 
ed them to sayle towards Penobscot which they endeav- 
ouring to doe the winde shorthing they Came to an Anchor 
lying there till the second day in which time they told us 
they intended to kill us & all the Englishmen aboard the 
five Catches being 26 men & boyes except three on the 
2d day they Comanded us & the other Catches to sett 
saile together for Penobscutt the Indians being in all the 
Catches Disperst about seventy or eighty, wee espying 
a barque Gave hir chase & tooke hir She was Mr Wats 
vessell wee haling & he telling us he was from Boston on 
a fishing voyagr wee having to prevent murder advised 
the Indians to lye close tho cockt & the English would 
deliver accordingly Came up with said Watts told him 
that he & his vessell was taken at which they laught but 
telling him & his Crew if they did not strike imediately 
by lord they were all dead men on which they lourd & 
yeilded on which the Indians all to foure went & boarded 
them having Devided the Englishmen & mixt them send- 
ing our master Boudy & one more of their Company 
aboard another Catch, & left the deponent as Master of 
sayd Catch they wholy dislikeing the said Bovey & another 
old man aboard to be Master which the deponent desired 
& being with the said Watts as they sent two of theires 
away so they tooke two of Wats men whereof one was 
William Buswell & presently after they Came on boarde 
espying a Saile wee were Comande to saile for them 
which wee did till it grew dusky & then the Indian Saga- 
mores on board Comanded them to bear up on the helme 
but the Deponent being at the helme refused to bear up 
at which the Old Sagamore grew Angry whereupon Wil- 
liam Buswell tooke him by the throat tript up his heiles 
& kneeld on him stopt his mouth with his hatt & kept 
him downe with his knee & Richard Downing striving 
with another Indian getting him downe endeavoering to 



DOCUMENTS EBLATING TO MARBLBHEAD, MASS. 183 

throw him overboard the Indians leg being entangled 
about said Buswell he said Buswell took his legg & helpt 
to throw him overboard & spying the other Sagamore in 
the C[ ] in the foreCastle they called to some of 

their Company to shut the scutle downe on him & keep 
him fast which they did hi the meane time the Company 
layd hold of another Indian & threw him overboard, & 
then tooke & bound the two Sagamores the old yung & 
& so made all the Sayle they Could & steered away east 
south east about 36 leagues or 40 & so through mercy 
came safe to Marble head on the 15th day a little before 
sun doune where Coming to an ankor a Rumour being 
gon out that wee were killed, many people came to the 
water side & haling us & coming on board us : askt us 
why wee kept them Indians alive & had not killed them 
they Answered they had lost all their cloaths & hoped by 
this meanes to Gett somewhat towards there losses by 
these Indians, but the people seemed Angry, but they 
told them they would Carry them on shoure to the Con- 
stable to secure them their so they might be carried to 
the Court at Boston & came on shoare with them bound 
with their hands behind them : but being on shoare the 
whole Towne flocking about them : especially the women 
layd holt on the Indians hair at which the Indians laugh t 
but the weomen by thrusting of your deponent & throing 
stones at them, Gott the Indians into there hands & with 
stones & billets & what else they know not they made an 
end of the Indians which they saw not till they saw them 
lye dead & all there heads bones & flesh pulld & they 
further say that the tumultation was such by the weomen 
that for their lives they Could not acertain or tell any 
particular woman, it was so Generall the weomen Crying 
out if they had bin Carried to Boston they would hare 
lived but if there had bin forty of the best Indians in the 
Country they would kill them all though they were hanged 
for it neither Constable Mr. Mavericke nor any suffered 
to come nere them. 

taken upon oath this 17th of July 1677 : 

Edward Rawson Secretary 
Mass. Archives, vol. 69, p. 158. 



184 DOCUMENTS BELATING TO MABBLEHEAD, MASS. 

To the Honoured Generall Court now sitting in Boston 
the humble Petition of Thomas Very of Marblehead hum- 
bly shewes.* 

Whereas your Petitioner in the late Indian warre under 
the command of Capt. Thomas Louthrop being impressed 
from this place was there sorely wounded, having his 
great thigh bone broken in peices by a shot, and thereby 
after his coming hither disabled for nine months to get 
his livelyhood by which means he was for his diett in the 
said time indebted nine pounds, which summe though in 
part it hath bin defrayed & discharged by the said Towne, 
yet a good part of it is yet behind for no part of which 
summe there hath bin any allowance att all from the 
Countrey. Your Petitioner being therefore indebted still 
for part of the aforesaid summe, and a lame man, not 
thoroughly cured of his wound, not without pain & diffi- 
culty especially att sometimes earning what little he can, 
humbly requests his case might be so farr considered, as 
att least to pass some order for clearing him of the afore- 
said summe, and he shall humbly pray &c remaining 
Your infirme and cripled Servant, 

Thomas 
Thomas Vary 

The majestrates referr the petitioner 
to the Comitee for wounded souldiers 
their consideration ther brethren 
the Deputyes hereto consenting 

llth February 1679 Edward Rawson Secretary 

The Deputys Consent not hereto, but Judge meete to 
allow the petitioner six pounds in money to be payd by 
the Country Treasurer desireing the Consent of our hon- 
oured magistrates hereto 

William Torrey Cleric 

Consented to by the Majistrates 

Edward Rawson Secretary 

*See Mass. Bay Records, vol. 5, p. 264. 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MAEBLEHEAD, MASS. 185 

In Answer to the petition of Thomas Vary of Marble- 
head a wounded souldier in the late warre not perfectly 
cured of his wounds &c the Court Judgeth it meet to 
grant the petitioner sixe pounds to be paid by the Treas- 
urer in mony. 

per E R S 
Mass. Archives, vol. 69, p. 260a. 

To the Honoured Generall Court sitting in Boston the 
humble Address of the Committee of Militia of Marble- 
head most humbly sheweth* 

Whereas sometime since in the year 1676, in the late 
Indian Warre, the honoured Councill of this Colony was 
pleased to lay a mulct of ten pounds on the said Commit- 
tee for not sending such a number of impressed souldiers 
as by warrant from the Major Generall they were injoyned 
to doe, which fine though never yet actually paid, yet was 
entred on file, and is payable to the then Countrey Treas- 
urer ; These are to informe your Honours, that in obedi- 
ence to the said warrant we used our utmost endeavour 
for raising the said souldiers, and impressed the full num- 
ber required, but the order for their sending away coming 
att such a juncture of time, wherein most of our men 
were at Sea, and the persons impressed refusing to make 
their appearance att the time appointed, and some to this 
day not to be found, could not att that instant answer the 
expectation of the Countrey, but did the more carefully 
afterward sett our selves by all ways & means to comply 
with all after orders. Your petitioners therefore being 
not able to charge themselves with the neglect or con- 
tempt of Authority (which att that instant and att all 
times we are ready to yeild willing subjection) though 
not clear of the guilt of indiscretion in not impressing 
more than our number and men of estates, and hoping the 
present censure was mostly in order to the strengthning 
of our hands in any such after service, humbly request 
your candid interpretation of the said action and that 
your clemency may be extended so farre towards us as to 
remit and take of the said mulct. And we shall ever as 
in duty bound pray for your welfare being ever 

Mass. Bay Records, 5/307. 



186 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MABBLEHEAD, MASS. 

Your most humble Servants Moses Mavericke 

This petition granted by the Samuell Ward 

Deputies our honoured majestrats Richard Norman 

Consenting hereunto : John Legg 

17th : March 80/81 per order : 
Andrew Mansfield 

Not Consented unto by the Majistrates but the majority 
have voted an Abatement of halfe the fine there brethren 
the Deputyes hereto Consenting 

Edward Rawson Secretary 
In margin, Consented to by the Deputy s 

William Torrey Cleric 
Mass. Archives, vol. 70, p. 21. 

(To be continued) 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO THE LAM- 
BERT FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS. 



Attention is called to the following corrections of the 
genealogy of the Lambert family as contained in the 
issue for January, 1918. 

Under 25 : Preserved Lambert died Apr. 20, 1782, 
and the estate of Captain Thomas Mason was adminis- 
tered May 18, 1747. He was a master (as were Captain 
Jonathan Mason and Captain Jonathan Peele, his son 
and son-in-law,) in the West India trade, before the Rev- 
olution, and an important man in the commercial life of 
Salem. The son Samuel probably died young, and in 
addition to the children given there were two daughters, 
Margaret, born Dec. 24, 1728, who married Aug. 30, 
1750, Capt. Jonathan Peele, and Abigail, who died un- 
married Oct. 30, 1801. A son Jonathan, born 1733, 
married Susannah Babbidge, intention Jan. 22, 1756. 

Under 69: Mary Lambert. The daughter Hannah, 
died May 4, 1834. 

Under 70 : Elizabeth Lambert. A daughter Betsey 
was baptized Oct. 30, 1785, who doubtless died young. 
The birth of the second daughter of that name was 
taken from the Hodges Genealogy, but according to a 
member of the family she celebrated March 4th as her 
birthday and not February 29th. 



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NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX 
COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. 



(Continued from Volume LIU, page 



We hear from Haverhill, that some time since, one 
Mrs. Smith, spun, wove and hem'd a towel after she en- 
ter'd her 98th year, which she made a Present of to the 
Parson of the West Parish's Wife, as a token of her es- 
teem, to perpetuate her memory. 

Boston Evening Post, February 29, 1768. 

BANKRUPTS. 

Joseph Remick, of Newbury-Port, Ship-Carpenter. 
William Alford, of Newbury-Port, Victualler. 
Dr. John Newman, of Newbury-Port, Physician. 

Boston Evening Post, February 22, 1768. 

Jacob Treadwell, of Ipswich, Innholder. 
Ebenezer Lowell, of Newbury-Port, Hatter. 
John Geer, of Newbury-Port, Stay maker. 
Benjamin Ingalh, of Neivbury-Port, Gentleman. 

Boston Evening Post, February 29, 1768. 

Richard Skinner, of Marblehead, Merchant. 
Sawuel Bradley, of Haverhill, Trader. 
Daniel Conant, of Beverly, Husbandman. 

Boston Evening Post, March 14, 1768. 

We hear from Ipswich, that on Saturday 7-Nights a 
sorrowful Accident happened there viz. an Apprentice 
Lad of Mr. Joseph Edwards, of this town, Bookseller, 
named John Wainwright, being on a Visit to his Friends 
there, with another Lad an Apprentice to Mr. John 
Choate, of that Town, went down the River to gun, and 
being almost calm, they put some Sand in the Canoe, be- 
ing very light Loaded, and set off to come up at half 
Flood, there was but one Place they had to pass that the 
(188) 



NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 189 

Water was more than 4 or 5 Feet deep, and that but a few 
Rods, where it is supposed they were overset and drowned : 
The Bodies were found the next Day and decently interred 
on Monday. 

Boston Evening Post, April 4, 1768. 

On the 30th ult. after a tedious Illness, died at Salem, 
in the 22d Year of her Age, Miss Anna Cabot, eldest 
Daughter of Mr. Francis Cabot, a noted Merchant of 
that Town. 

Boston Evening Post, April 11, 1768. 

We hear that Mr. William Clark, Son of the Rev. Mr. 
Peter Clark, of Danvers, intends for England to obtain 
episcopal Ordination, but for what Parish we do not learn. 
Boston Evening Post, April 18, 1768. 

THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED [Price Eight Pence] 
And sold by T. & J. Fleet, in Boston ; Sold also by Bulke- 
ley Emerson & Daniel Balch, in Newbury. 

Boston Evening Post, May 2, 1768. 

Capt. Gilford from Green-Island, at the Northside of 
Jamaica, left there a Brig from Salem, whose Captain 
died a few days before he failed. 

Boston Evening Post, May 2, 1768. 

Last Friday se'night died at Danvers, after a languish- 
ing Confinement, in the 76th Year of his Age and 51st of 
bis Ministry, the Rev. Mr. Peter Clark, Pastor of the 
first Church in that Town. 

We hear from Beverly, that Yesterday se'night, after 
Divine Service in the Afternoon, the House of Mr. Osman 
Trask, jun. of that Place, was struck by Lightning and 
very much shattered : Mr. Trask fitting in one of the 
Rooms with a Child in his arms, was struck down & 
stunn'd, and the Child thrown accross the Room but not 
hurt ; several others of the Family were present, but re- 
ceived no Damage. 

Boston Evening Post, June 20, 1768. 

Last Week, a Boat crossing the Ferry at Almsbury was 
overset, by which Accident one man and a Horse were 
drowned. 

Boston Evening Post, June 27, 1768. 



190 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 

Haverhill, West Parish, June 7,1768. About 7 o'clock, 
P. M. there appeared a very remarkable Phaenomenon ; 
the air being clear, a ball of Fire or Meteor was seen in 
the horizon, with a motion from north to south, for some 
distance, leaving a regular tail of fire behind it, which 
presently became irregular and appeared in a curvilineal 
or mix'd angular form, or like crinkling lightning ; soon 
after was heard an explosion, exactly like the breaking 
of a Bomb in the air, and appeared not to be much high- 
er ; after which followed a rumbling noise like thunder, 
for about 20 or 30 seconds of time, then another explo- 
sion like the former was heard, but not quite so loud ; 
after which a different noise was heard like crackling 
thunder or beating of drums, which lasted about two min- 
utes ; some persons say they heard a regular beat like the 
beating of a drum : At the same time a Ball of Matter 
fell to the earth, which entered into it some feet ; and it 
appears by the place the Matter made in the earth, that 
it burst therein as the dirt and stones were scattered round 
some rods, and the report was heard 20 or 30 miles round. 
Boston Evening Post, July 4, 1768. 

About 7000 Ounces of Silver collected in Salem from 
the new Duties, it's said, were last Week bro't to this 
Town for Exportation or Consumption. 

Boston Evening Post, July 11, 1768. 

Falmouth, Casco-Bay, July 5, 1768. "Last week, dur- 
ing the sitting of the Superior Court here, John Chipman, 
of Marblehead, Esq ; Barrifter at Law (a Gentleman of 
a peculiar benevolent Disposition, who was much respect- 
ed and beloved) was suddenly seized in Court with an 
Apoplectic Fit, and in a few Hours died. He had for 
some time been in an ill state of Health. His Remains 
were decently interred, being attended by the Judges, the 
Gentlemen of the Bar, of the Town, and many People of 
the Neighborhood. 

Boston Evening Post, July 11, 1768. 

BOSTON July 18, 1768. Last Saturday at a very full 
Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the 
Town of Marblehead, legally assembled, the following 



NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 191 

Vote of Thanks to the 92 Members of the late House of 
Representatives, who were against "Rescinding," was 
passed and ordered to be published : 

To the Hon. James Otis, Esq ; Hon. Thomas ^Gushing, 
Esq ; Mr. Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Esq ; Joseph 
Williams, Esq ; and 87 others. 
Gentlemen, 

When a Lawful Attempt to unite a considerable part 
of the subjects in dutifully petitioning to the Throne, and 
decently remonstrating to the British Parliament for a 
redress of grievances is called a measure of an inflamma- 
tory nature, and evidently tending to create unwarranta- 
ble combinations, and to excite an unjustifiable opposition 
to the constitutional authority of Parliament, and to re- 
vive the unhappy divisions between Great Britain and 
her Colonies ; and when it is industriously endeavored to 
throw the odium of the whole upon a few individuals, 
and artfully insinuated to be only the attempt of a des- 
perate faction, and no ways agreeable to the sentiments 
of the people in general : When this is the case, it is 
most certainly the duty and interest of every people who 
would not tamely part with their rights and liberties, to 
interfere, and let the world know their sentiments in such 
a case. 

Wherefore the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of 
the Town of Marblehead, at a meeting legally held for the 
purpose, have unanimously voted to return, in this public 
manner, their sincerest and hearty Thanks to you, Gen- 
tlemen, the worthy Members of the late honorable House 
of Representatives of this Province, for your steady res- 
olution in adhering to the just rights and liberties of the 
subjects, when it was required of you to rescind the Re- 
solves of a former House relating to the circular letter 
sent to the other Provinces in February last, desiring 
them to join in a dutiful petition to his Majesty ; and to 
assure you of their inviolable regard and respect for you, 
and all others animated by a spirit of such true Patriot- 
ism. 

Per Order, Benjamin Boden, Town-Cierk, Marblehead, 
July 16, 1768. 



192 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 

N. B. The afore-mentioned Town-Meeting was convened 
upon the Petition of NINETY-TWO of the Freeholders of 
said Town, and said Meeting was fuller than ever known. 
Boston Evening Post, July 18, 1768. 

"We hear from Salem, that a Meeting of the Inhabitants 
of that Town was held there on Monday last, when, it is 
said, they passed Votes of the following Import. 1st, 
That the Town of Salem approves of the Proceedings of 

the late House of Representatives in not Rescinding. 

And 2d, That the Thanks of the Town be given the Gen- 
tlemen of the late House for their Firmness in defending 
the Liberties of the People. 

We are informed, that about 30 of the principal In- 
habitants of Salem, immediately upon passing the above 
votes, signed a Protest against the Proceedings of the 
Meeting, as they thought the Town had no legal Right to 
call Meetings of that sort ; that it was imprudent at this 
time to pass any Vote about the Matter ; and that it was 
absurd to thank an Assembly not now existing. But we 
have not, as yet, received any authentic Account from 
thence to publish. 

Boston Evening Post, July 25, 1768. 

Last Thursday died at Salem, Mrs. Lydia Hill, who for 
many years kept the Post-Office. 

Boston Evening Post, August 1, 1768. 

Newlury-Port, August 2, 1768. On the 30th of last 
Month died, of a short Fever, Mr. Ebenezer Little, in the 
53d year of his Age. He was a wealthy Merchant, and 
a worthy Elder of the Presbyterian Church here. His 
eminent Piety towards God, and Beneficence to Men, es- 
pecially to the poor and distressed ; his high Esteem of 
the Ministers of Christ, and the great Pleasure he took 
in entertaining them at his House, have rendered our Loss 
so much the greater, and his Death the more lamented. 
Boston Evening Post, August 8, 1768. 

(To be continued) 



HISTOKICAL COLLECTIONS 

OF THE 

ESSEX INSTITUTE 



VOL. LIV. JULY, 1918. No. 3 

THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD, 
THE NASHUA AND LOWELL RAILROAD, 

AND 

THE SALEM AND LOWELL RAILROAD. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 



It is not easy for the ordinary person to realize the 
growth of our country or to call up in imagination the 
past as it was, say eighty or ninety years ago. At that 
time there were only twelve houses standing on the ter- 
ritory that now comprises the city of Lowell, which same 
territory now houses nearly one hundred thousand popu- 
lation ; Lawrence was then only swamps and pastures. 
But the development of transportation facilities is more 
surprising. 

In 1821 there were, as before noted, only a dozen 
houses where the great " cotton city " now stands. 

In 1822, under the lead of Messrs. William Appleton, 
Patrick T. Jackson and Kirk Boott of Boston the latter 
an energetic Englishman who had come from the cotton 
manufacturing districts of England it was determined 
to use the water power at Pawtucket Falls, and a com- 
pany called the " Locks and Canal Company on Merri- 
mack River " and corporations for cotton manufacturing 
were organized, buildings undertaken, and on Sept. 1, 

(193) 



194 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

1823, the first wheel of the Merrimack Company started. 

During the next six or seven years the growth of the 
business was so great, population so increased, and trans- 
portation of raw materials to Lowell and of manufactured 
goods therefrom was so great an item, that the same 
enterprising men who had started the mills saw that, for 
the proper development of their investments, there must 
be better carrying facilities between Lowell and Boston. 
A few years before this date a canal had been dug around 
Pawtucket Falls for boats, and these ascended the Merri- 
mack through other canals and locks at Wicassee, Amos- 
keag and Hooksett Falls and Bow Canal to the upper 
landing in Concord, N. H., 85 miles from Boston. 

Thus boats went through the Middlesex Canal from 
Boston harbor, passing through Woburn and Wilmington. 
The line of this canal may still be seen at many points 
south on the line of the railroad from Boston to Lowell. 

It is interesting to note that before any steamboats had 
made trips in Boston harbor (1817), a steam canal boat, 
the " Merrimack ", had plied between Boston and Lowell 
on the Middlesex canal. 

Besides this canal, there were "six stage coaches, drawn 
by four or six horses each, which passed daily from Bos- 
ton to Lowell and back, making in all 39 passages weekly 
in each direction. . . . The stages were usually fully 
loaded, and it was computed that they conveyed from 100 
to 120 passengers daily from one town to another." 
(Committee Report to the Massachusetts legislature of 
1830.) 

It was found there were sixteen tons of freight daily 
passing between Boston and Lowell from the manufacto- 
ries, and eight tons of other merchandise, making in all 
twenty-four tons of freight daily, all of which could now 
be easily transported in two box railroad cars going to 
and from Lowell. 

But it was then found that the Middlesex Canal, 
closed by ice in the winter, the highways, sandy in the 
summer, muddy in early spring and winter, and often 
blocked by snow in mid-winter, were not sufficient for the 
growing needs of Factory village. 

In 1826 the first railroad in America was completed, 




PATRICK T. JACKSON 
Treasurer Boston & Lowell R. R., 1830-1847 



BT FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB. 195 

three miles in length, extending from the Quincy granite 
quarries in Massachusetts to the Neponset river, for the 
movement of granite. Horses were used as the motive 
power. Thomas Handyside Perkins, a merchant of Boston, 
was the builder and president of this pioneer road. The la- 
borers who worked on the construction of it were paid 
only $12 per month and board, with long days at that, and 
it is of interest to repeat here a description of the road- 
bed published at the time. " The road is constructed in 
the most substantial manner. It rests on a foundation of 
stone, laid so deep in the ground as to be beyond reach of 
the frost . . . the rails are laid on stones eight feet in 
length . . . at a distance six or eight feet from each other 
. . . the rails are of pine timber, on the top of which is 
placed a bar of iron. . . . The carriage wheels are of a 
size considerably larger than a common cart wheel. . . ." 
The same year (1826) another railroad, nine miles in 
length, was opened among the coal mines of the Lehigh 
region in Pennsylvania. 

These and other experiments moved the owners of the 
Lowell investments to agitate for the construction of a 
railroad between Boston and Lowell. The owners of the 
Middlesex canal strenuously opposed it, saying in their 
remonstrance to the Massachusetts legislature : " We be- 
lieve there never can be a sufficient inducement to extend 
a railroad from Lowell westwardly and northwestwardly 
to the Connecticut river, so as to make it the great avenue 
to and from the interior, but that its termination must be 
at Lowell, and consequently that it is to be a substitute 
for the modes of transportation now in use between that 
place and Boston, and cannot deserve patronage from the 
supposition that it is to be more extensively useful." 

This amuses us now, when the relative value of canals 
and railroads and the great through lines which extend 
beyond Lowell are considered. 

Disregarding all remonstrances, the legislature of 1829 
ordered a survey between the points, and Mr. James 
Hayward made and presented it, GOT. Levi Lincoln 
transmitting it on January 7 to the legislature of 1830. 
This survey showed that the building of such a road was 
feasible. The " Records of the Directors of the Propri- 



196 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

etors of the Locks and Canals on the Merrimack River " 
show that on January 18, 1830, Patrick T. Jackson, Esq., 
of Boston (to whom more than any one else belongs the 
credit of successfully building the road in the face of 
every kind of discouragement and ridicule), addressed a 
request to Kirk Boott, Esq., agent, asking him " to call a 
meeting of the Directors ... at which I shall propose 
... a meeting of the Proprietors of that stock to the 
project for building a railroad from this place (Boston) 
to Lowell." The directors met on the 22d and the pro- 
prietors on the 27th, at the house of Mr. Jackson, where 
the first organized action was taken to secure a charter 
for such a road. It was granted, and the act of legisla- 
ture bears the date June 5, 1830. The charter was a per- 
petual one, giving the company for thirty years the exclu- 
sive right to supply railroad facilities between Boston and 
Lowell, which the State courts afterwards sustained them 
in asserting. 

Several routes had been surveyed and considered, but 
finally to avoid the steeper grades the one running be- 
tween Charlestown and Cambridge, through Medford, 
West Cambridge, Stoneham, Woburn, Wilmington, Bur- 
lington, Tewksbury and Billerica to Lowell, a distance of 
26 miles, was chosen. 

The construction of the road began at once, Irish labor- 
ers being principally employed to do the heavy work. 

To lessen the expense, only a single track was at first 
laid, but Mr. Jackson reported to the directors that " it is 
expedient to purchase land and lay out the road contem- 
plating a double track." It was determined that the con- 
struction should be of the most solid character, and the 
road was built accordingly. The track to be substantial 
and require little repair, was laid on ties of split granite. 
Beneath each rail of the outward track (which was the 
first one built) was laid a wall of stone, about four feet 
in height for the entire length of the road. After the 
road was opened, however, the stone sleepers were soon 
given up, as they were found to make the track too rigid. 
The rails of that day were not the now universal T pat- 
tern, but were what were called " fish bellies ", because 
perpendicularly they were widest in the middle and 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BKADLEE. 197 

tapered off at the ends where they entered the chairs. 
Those on the Boston and Lowell Railroad were of iron 
and weighed only 35 pounds to the yard. 

The " cut " through the ledge at Lowell and the build- 
ing of the Chelmsf ord street bridge at the same place, 
were, in 1834, considered wonderful feats of engineering. 
On many early American railroads the rails were of strap 
iron spiked on wooden rails, the effect of the rolling 
wheels on the top side of the iron was to curve the same 
and loosen it also ; and an unpleasant feature of primitive 
railroad travel was the " snake's head " or end of a 
loosened rail punching through the floor of the car, to the 
passenger's discomfort, not to say danger. 

The old Boston and Lowell was originally so well lo- 
cated that there was no grade over ten feet to the mile, 
and the same is now true between Boston and Lowell, 
except at the overhead crossing of the Fitchburg division 
of the Boston and Maine at Somerville. And this fact, 
with wide easy curves, good equipment and careful man- 
agement, goes far to account for the remarkable fact that 
for many years no passenger was ever fatally injured while 
within its cars. 

The original estimate for building the road with a sin- 
gle track (exclusive of the cost of depots, engines, cars, 
etc.), was $469,296.79, but, according to the annual report 
for 1835 (issued just before the road was opened), it was 
stated that " the cost will not be much less than a million 
dollars. . . ." 

At first the capital of the Boston and Lowell Railroad 
consisted of $1,200,000 in paid up shares of a par value 
of $500 each, probably the only railroad corporation in 
the country with a par of over $100 ; to which it was 
changed in January, 1885, by dividing each share into 
five. In March, 1837, the legislature authorized the com- 
pany to increase its capital stock by $240,000. Until 
1854 the Massachusetts railroads were not allowed to fund 
their floating debts by means of bond issues, improve- 
ments and new construction had to be paid for by new 
issues of stock, or notes signed by the directors or prin- 
cipal stockholders. The original board of directors of the 



THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

Lowell road were : George W. Lyman, Kirk Boott, Patrick 
T. Jackson, William Appleton and J. F. Loring. 

While the road was under construction it was not yet 
decided what sort of propelling power should be used ; 
whether horses drawing the cars or working in them as a 
tread mill, or even sails, all of which experiments were 
made on the Baltimore and Ohio and the South Carolina 
Railroads in 1830. Were horses to be adopted as the 
motive power, it was considered probable that small par- 
ties of passengers could hire cars and go and come at 
their pleasure on the road, thus carrying out the old idea 
of a turnpike the use of which was free to all. But the 
successful experiment of George Stephenson in October, 
1829, on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, with his 
steam locomotive engine " Rocket ", attaining a speed of 
30 miles an hour, with a loaded carriage attached, soon 
decided the question of propulsion. 

The "New Hampshire Telegraph" of Nov. 17, 1832, 
published at Nashua, N. H., says : " The ship Choctaw ', 
at Boston from Liverpool, has on board a Locomotive 
engine, with apparatus complete, intended for the Lowell 
Railroad. She has also brought for the same purpose 
about 2000 bars of railroad iron ". 

At length the great day arrived, and on June 24, 1835, 
the Boston and Lowell Railroad was opened for travel. 
The notices in the newspapers of this historic event are 
meagre and unsatisfactory, far less mention is made of 
this pioneer line than of later and less important railroads. 
The Boston Advertiser of June 24 says : " It will be 
perceived by the advertisement of the company, that the 
cars are to commence their regular trips on this route for 
the accommodation of passengers to-day." 

The Boston Mercantile Journal makes the following 
mentions in its issues of June 25 and 26 respectively : 
" Boston and Lowell Railroad The cars commenced 
running to-day, making two trips each way during the 
day, leaving Lowell at 6 A. M. and 2 1-2 P. M., and Bos- 
ton at 9 1-2 A. M. and 5 1-2 P. M. After this week the 
Company will run two engines and make as many trips as 
the public convenience may require, giving due notice of 
the future arrangement," and : " The cars on the Lowell 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB. 199 

Railroad commenced running Wednesday morning. The 
cars came to Boston yesterday with the mail in 1 1-4 
hours." 

The earliest time tables were as follows : (in the Boston 
Mercantile Journal for June 25, 1835.) "Boston and 
Lowell Eail-Road. The cars will continue to run till fur- 
ther notice as at present, viz : 

Leave Lowell at 6 A. M. and 2 1-2 P. M. 

Leave Boston at 9 A. M. and 5 1-2 P. M. 

No baggage can be taken except what belongs to pas- 
sengers. Allowance to each, 40 Ibs. As soon as Burthen 
(freight) cars can be provided, notice will be given for 
the transportation of merchandize. 

Tickets may be had at the Depot, corner of Leverett 
and Brighton streets. Price $1. 

George M. Dexter, Agent." 

Mr. Dexter was what we should now call the superin- 
tendent, but in those early days the directors designated 
him " agent ", as in the mills. This title did not long 
survive. 

Another early advertisement is interesting to repro- 
duce, showing as it does the earliest connection for through 
travel : 

(New-England Palladium for June 27, 1835.) "Low- 
ell R. R. and Steamboat Lines for New-Hampshire and 
Vermont. 

The cars for these Lines will leave the Depot in Boston 
at 9 o'clock A. M. on and after Monday, June 29th. On 
the arrival at Lowell carriages will take the passengers 
free of charge immediately on board the steamer which 
will convey them to Nashua, N. H., where stages in con- 
nexion with the Concord, N. H., and Amherst and Fran- 
cistown lines will be in readiness to take them forward. 
The passengers will dine on board the steamer while she 
is passing up the River. 

Thomas Lewis, 

Captain of the steamboat ' Herald '. 

Lowell, June 27, 1835." 

At this time there were many small stern-wheeled, flat- 
bottomed steamboats that navigated the upper Merrimack 



200 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL BAILROAD 

and Connecticut rivers. They did not long survive the 
coming of the railroads. 

The first station in Boston was a small one-story brick 
building situated, as before noted, on the corner of Lever- 
ett and Brighton streets. At first the cars did not run 
into it, but stopped at East Cambridge until the bridge 
(afterwards used for freight purposes) was built. The 
present Lowell depot, now part of the North Union sta- 
tion, was the third terminus erected in Boston by the 
company. Another wooden building, with a facade of 
pillars, on Merrimack street, constituted the first station 
in Lowell. A bell was rung by the conductor a few min- 
utes before the departure of each train in Boston or 
Lowell. 

In the " Merchants and Traders Guide " for 1836 there 
is also this interesting announcement in the advertisement 
of the road : " Before the starting of the cars, stages 
leave Nos. 9 and 11 Elm Street, and City Tavern, Brattle 
Street (Boston), and call at almost any part of the city 
for passengers and take them to the depot free of charge" 

Also : " Arrangements have not yet been made, 
though they are in progress, for the conveyance of mer- 
chandize, but there is a private car attached to the line 
for the purpose of conveying small quantities of mer- 
chandize." This was the embryo of the present express 
company cars. 

The original locomotive on the road was built at New- 
castle-on-Tyne, England, by Robert Stephenson, in 1832. 
From a government return (House of Representatives 
No. 21, Session 1838), in the author's possession, which 
gives particulars of all the locomotives and steamboats 
then in the country, it is learned that this engine was of 
of the high pressure type of 30 horse power, with four 
large wheels, and weighed seven tons. It was named 
after its famous builder, " Stephenson ", but was always 
better known by its nickname of " John Bull ". Accord- 
ing to Mr. Herbert C. Taft, in his interesting pamphlet, 
" The Early Days of Railroading ", this locomotive when 
landed in Boston was sent to Lowell via the Middlesex 
canal, and there put together and the trial trip made from 
that end of the road. The reason for this is uncertain,unless 




FIRST LOWELL STATION IN BOSTON, 1835 




MIDDLESEX STREET OR NORTHERN STATION, LOWELL, 1848 







COMBINED CITY HALL and MERRIMAC STREET 
STATION, LOWELL, 1853 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 201 

it was because many of the promoters of the railroad lived 
in Lowell. Other early locomotives built by the Lowell 
Machine Shops in 1835-36, were the " Patrick " (named 
for Mr. Patrick T. Jackson), " Lowell '', " Boston ", 
" Merrimack ", " Concord " and " Nashua ", all practi- 
cally of the same type as the " Stephenson ". All these 
engines burnt wood, mostly pine. The " Patrick ", 
" Lowell " and " Boston " had brass driving wheels, and 
the " Merrimack " had wooden ones, but on the latter 
engine these were soon changed to iron. All these loco- 
motives were of the same general style, weighing about 
nine tons, with five feet drivers, eleven inch cylinders, and 
fourteen inch stroke. When the first engine was built in 
Lowell its naming caused quite a controversy. The in- 
tention had been to name it " Jackson ", after Mr. Patrick 
T. Jackson, the treasurer, but it being at the time of 
President Jackson's political supremacy, the prevailing 
Whig element in the management refused to allow the 
name on political grounds, so that the, to them, grave 
and important question was compromised and the locomo- 
tive was named " Patrick ". 

The early engineers, firemen and trainmen had a life of 
much hardship in cold or stormy weather. There were 
no such things as cabs on locomotives until about 1848, 
and there were no cabooses on freight trains. The pas- 
senger crews rode on top of the cars and freight men on 
the locomotives. Mr. John B. Winslow, for many years 
the superintendent of the Boston and Lowell Railroad 
and one of its early engineers, remembered to have stood 
over twelve hours on the foot board of his engine, ex- 
posed to the weather, with the thermometer below zero. 
The first engineer on the road was an Englishman named 
Robinson, imported at the same time as the engine. We 
are indebted to Mr. Taft for the following amusing anec- 
dote regarding him. Robinson was referred to as an 
" English dandy," and " he lost no opportunity to impose 
upon the patience and credulity of the Yankees. He was 
not very particular about train time, would saunter up to 
the depot an hour after his train was due to start, care- 
lessly look around upon the waiting passengers, deliber- 
ately look over his engine, mount the platform, put on his 



202 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

kid gloves, and in his own good time and pleasure start 
his train towards Boston. He would also suddenly stop 
his engine when he got nearly to a station, jump down, 
look over the engine anxiously, crawl under it, remove a 
nut from some bolt, look it over and put it back again. 
The next day the papers would announce how the engine 
had broken down on the way, etc., but had been skilfully 
repaired by engineer Robinson. It was not long, how- 
ever, before the management caught on, and he was re- 
placed by a skilled mechanic from the Locks and Canals 
Works, from which source the engineers required were 
obtained for many years. 

Another early engineer was J. C. Poor. The first 
fireman was Waterman Brown. He lost a hand by an 
accident soon after the opening of the road, but was em- 
ployed for many years after as crossing tender at Woburn. 

The first conductors were John Barrett, Williards, 

J. E. Short and Calvin Stevens (the latter ran the freight 
train). Perhaps they were former stage drivers, as most 
of the early New England railroads were glad to employ 
these men in that capacity as they were used to the trav- 
elling public and their ways. The first type of passenger 
car on the Lowell road resembled the ordinary stage coach 
mounted on a frame, with wheels adapted to the rails. 
They were divided into three compartments each, with 
doors on the side, the passengers sitting back to back, as 
they do still in England. Very soon each car was pro- 
vided with a seat on the roof, covered with a chaise top. 
In these the conductor and brakeman sat, and the former, 
by means of a whistle, gave the signal for applying the 
hand brakes, which were operated by means of long levers. 
The picture of the early train does not show this arrange- 
ment. A short chain of three links coupled the cars to- 
gether, and the latter were neither heated nor lighted. 

The first freight cars were open, and it is said the very 
earliest ones had no brakes at all. Salaries were propor- 
tioned as follows : the superintendent received $1,500 
per annum, conductors and engineers $2 per day, brake- 
men and firemen $1 per day. The early tickets sold on 
the Lowell road were a curiosity. They were made of 
stout cardboard of various colors ; on one side was print- 




TYPE OF PASSENGER CAR USED ON THE NEW ENGLAND 
RAILROADS ABOUT 1840 




LOCOMOTIVE " LION" NASHUA & LOWELL R. R. 1844 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 203 

ed the name of the station, on the other a series of hiero- 
glyphics resembling Chinese characters. This last was 
the brilliant idea of one of the railroad officials to prevent 
their being counterfeited. As was the custom on all the 
early New England railroads, the tickets were not punched 
or cancelled, but after collection by the conductor were 
handed back to the ticket offices and used over and over 
again until worn out. The conductor was supposed to 
know everybody and discriminate between transients and 
season ticket holders. 

Season tickets were not used until after the road had 
been opened for some time, and when they were issued 
the holders were allowed one passage each way daily, 
but this rule was far from rigidly enforced. The present 
Boston and Maine Railroad (Western division) was origi- 
nally called the Wilmington, Andover and Haverhill 
Railroad, and opened between Wilmington and Andover 
on Sept. 1, 1836. They had an agreement with the Bos- 
ton and Lowell by which they used the latter's track 
from Wilmington to Boston and also the station at the 
latter place. 

To accommodate this increase in travel the Lowell road 
at once began the construction of another track. In the 
annual report for 1838 the estimate for laying a second 
track all the way to Lowell was given as $155,266.71 ; to 
Wilmington only, $30,000. 

Owing to the expected opening of the Nashua and 
Lowell road (of which more will be said later on), Mr. 
Jackson, the treasurer, laid great stress on the impor- 
tance of a double track all the way to Lowell, and said 
in the report : " We can do this without any increase in 
capital, by taking from our reserved profits whatever sum 
may be found necessary to meet the expense." 

Disputes soon arose between the Boston and Lowell 
and Boston and Maine roads as to each other's cars and 
engines occupying certain tracks at Wilmington, and the 
public was often inconvenienced as a result of trivial 
quarrels of this kind. In 1844, the Boston and Maine 
built what was known as its " extension " from Wilming- 
ton to the well known station so long in use in Haymar- 
ket Square, Boston, and first opened July 1, 1845. Dur- 
ing 1844 the Lowell road built what was known as the 



204 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

Woburn branch (now extended as the Woburn loop), 
running from Woburn on the main line to Woburn Cen- 
tre, a distance of two miles. This branch was opened 
for travel Dec. 30, 1844, with two trains daily. The 
annual report for 1844 says the cost of construction was 
$35,440.68, " the new road having a single track with a 
heavy T rail of 56 Ibs. to the yard, upon chestnut sleepers 
7 feet long and 6 inches in depth, 2 feet 7 inches apart, 
resting upon a bed of clear gravel at least 2 feet deep. 
The rails are in lengths of 18 feet, and the joints are 
secured by a clasp chair of 20 Ibs. weight." For many 
years this was the only branch indulged in by the Lowell 
road, as the management were extremely conservative and 
thought that branches were financially detrimental to the 
main line. 

They preferred to do a strictly local passenger and 
freight business between Boston and Lowell, but con- 
nected with many other railroads entering that city, and 
from them received large sums for carrying through pas- 
sengers and goods. The capital had been increased in 
1840 to $1,800,000, at which figure it remained for many 
years. Dividends were paid at the rate of 3 3-4 per cent 
in 1835, 2 per cent in 1836, 4 per cent in 1837, 6 per cent 
in 1838, 8 per cent in 1839, and at that rate for a long 
period thereafter ; the stock (par $500) reached 660 in 
1844, and was never quoted below 430 (in 1836). Dur- 
ing this period freight was carried " generally at $1.50 
per ton ; if in cargoes landed on our wharves, $1.25 per 
ton, without any charge for wharfage. Coal, lime, flour, 
plaster, lumber, wheat, pig iron, salt, are taken in this 
way in considerable quantities. With the Lowell facto- 
ries we have a special bargain. They furnish their own 
depots in Boston and at Lowell, and either load and un- 
load the cars themselves or pay us extra for so doing. 
We therefore charge them $1.25 for all cotton or wool . . . 
and $1.00 per ton for all other articles." (Annual report 
for 1844.) Soon after the opening of the Lowell railroad 
a strong sentiment manifested itself to build a railroad 
between the latter city and Nashua, N. H., then a small 
but rapidly growing manufacturing town. In the Report 
of the Committee of Grantors and the Engineer of the 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BEADLE K. 205 

Nashua and Lowell Railroad (Nashua, 20 pp., 1836), they 
say : . . . " the Nashua and Lowell Railroad is the second 
link (of which the Boston and Lowell is the first), in a 
great chain of communication connecting the Seaboard 
and the Lakes passing through the interior of New 
Hampshire and Vermont in one direction to Albany, and 
in the other to Burlington and Ogdensburg. . . . These 
routes traverse an extensive and fertile region containing 
at least 400,000 inhabitants the distance of which from 
a Market now renders it of comparatively little value. ..." 
The engineer, Joshua Barney (who it may be interest- 
ing to note originally surveyed the route for the Boston 
and Maine Railroad), estimated the cost of building the 
road, which was to run from Nashua in a generally south- 
erly direction to Lowell, a distance of 14 1-4 miles, at 
$220,000. This figure included all bridging, masonry, 
grading, rights of way, fences, two locomotives, and a 
suitable number of passenger and freight cars. Owing to 
the different State laws, there were originally two distinct 
corporations forming this short railroad ; one in New 
Hampshire chartered on June 26, 1835, and the other in 
Massachusetts which was incorporated on April 16, 1836. 
The Nashua and Lowell was the first railroad built in the 
State of New Hampshire ; its original capital was $300, 
000, divided into shares of $100 each, most of the stock 
was held in Boston, but it would have been impossible to 
finish the road but for a loan of $50,000 from the State 
of New Hampshire, which took some of the company's 
stock as collateral. On Oct. 8, 1838, the road was finally 
opened for passenger trains to within three-quarters of a 
mile of Nashua, and on Dec. 23 the bridge across the 
Nashua river and the depot near Main street, in that town, 
was completed. Its entire equipment consisted of three 
10-ton, 6-wheeled locomotives, the " Mars ", " Jehu " and 
" Roebuck ", three 8-wheeled passenger cars, and twenty- 
four 4-wheeled freight cars. Three passenger trains were 
run each way daily, fare from Lowell to Nashua 50 cents. 
The Lowell terminus was the Boston and Lowell depot 
on Merrimack street, but at first the Nashua and Lowell 
trains did not directly connect there. Their engines were 
cut off the trains above Market street, the cars switched 



206 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

into the depot, then the Boston and Lowell engine backed 
on to the train and hauled it to Boston. As this reversed 
the train, the passengers were obliged to get up and turn 
their seats or ride to Boston backwards. On the return 
trip from Boston the same operation had to be gone 
through. Soon after the Nashua and Lowell was opened 
a strong effort was made by some of its stockholders to 
secure a union of their road with the Boston and Lowell, 
but failed, because, as before stated, those controlling the 
latter corporation were not inclined to make any exten- 
sions of their road. 

The first officers of the Nashua and Lowell were as 
follows : President, Daniel Abbot ; directors, Jesse 
Bowers, Peter Clark, Charles H. Atherton, Joseph Gree- 
ley, Henry Upham, and Adin Holbrook ; clerk, Peter 
Clark, Jr.; superintendent, Onslow Stearns. 

On July 5, 1841, a disastrous collision occurred on the 
road, the causes for which may be found in the almost 
ridiculously crude way in which railroad trains were then 
operated. 

In that year the 4th of July came on a Sunday, so that 
the holiday was celebrated on the next day, Monday. 
Several extra trains were run to accommodate the large 
increase in travel. So great was it that the company was 
forced to use freight cars to make room for their passen- 
gers. An extra train from Lowell, composed of several 
of these improvised passenger cars (luckily returning 
empty), was run into on a curve by the regular down 
train from Nashua, with the result that several persons 
were badly injured. Owing to the general confusion of 
the day, the locomotive of the regular train appears to 
have been placed in charge of a stage driver, per- 
haps on the supposition that " iron horses " and those 
made of flesh and blood could be controlled in much 
the same manner. On the extra train, also, the 
engine was not run by a regular engineer, but by a me- 
chanic taken from the road's repair shop. A mistake in 
the orders was given as the cause for the accident, but it 
must be remembered that at that time and for many years 
after the invention of the telegraph, railroad trains in 
New England were run on what was known as time-table 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 207 

rules (differing on every road), supplemented by written 
and verbal orders from the superintendent, and also by 
the watchful intelligence of the various conductors and 
engineers. 

It was quite within possibilities that when a train was 
waiting on a siding for another train then due, if the lat- 
ter's whistle was not heard or smoke seen, the crew of the 
former would go ahead on their own responsibility. 

In spite of this accident, the Nashua and Lowell in its 
early days seems to have been a highly prosperous road ; 
it never paid a smaller dividend than seven and a half per 
cent in 1840, and for a long time until 1850 its dividends 
were at the rate of ten per cent. To protect itself the 
road agreed to operate the Wilton Railroad, opened to 8 
miles above Nashville (as part of Nashua was then called) 
on Nov. 23, 1848. The Wilton Railroad (now part of 
the Keene branch of the Boston and Maine system) was 
to pay the Nashua and Lowell $21 per day when three 
trips each way were run, and that rate for a lesser num- 
ber of trips. A twelve year lease was also entered into 
between the Nashua and Lowell and Stony Brook Rail- 
roads (the latter is now the Stony Brook branch of the 
Boston and Maine), by which the former was to operate 
the latter's road (which extended from North Chelmsford 
to Groton, a distance of 14 miles), and to pay therefor 
six per cent on the Stony Brook stock ($275,000), one- 
half the net income over and above such payments, and 
to keep the road in repair, etc. 

The Stony Brook Railroad was opened for travel 
on July 6, 1848. In order to lay a double track 
between Nashua and Lowell and to provide for new 
bridges and buildings, the road issued new stock to the 
amount of $120,000 in 1845 and $100,000 in 1848. In 
spite of the company's apparent prosperity, there was 
much dissatisfaction and dissension among its stockhold- 
ers. The laws of New Hampshire then prohibited voting 
by proxy, except in case of illness, at the annual meetings 
of railroad companies. As was to be expected, some of 
the shareholders could not always attend, and the small 
stockholders asserted that the practical result was that the 



208 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILBOAD 

Boston stockholders, although in the minority, really ran 
the road. 

It was alleged that they had mismanaged its affairs ; 
that the contracts with the Wilton and Stony Brook roads 
were bad financially for the N. & L. ; the new Nashville 
(Nashua) depot was unnecessary and extravagantly built, 
that the repair shops were run wastefully. But on the 
other hand, complaints were made that the bridges had 
not been properly built and were then (1850) in such con- 
dition as to be positively unsafe. The rolling stock, too, 
was thought not to have been kept up, the freight cars 
especially were in a dangerous condition. This condition 
of affairs led to the appointment from among the stock- 
holders of an investigating committee, who made a long 
report the following year (1851), but with comparatively 
little result, except the resignation of President Abbot. 

It must be remembered that the annual meetings of the 
old-time New England railroads were not the stilted affairs 
they are to-day. The companies were small, the list of 
shareholders not too large, and the holdings much more 
evenly distributed than at present. Many of the stock- 
holders lived along the line of the road, and thus took a 
personal interest in " their road " ; it was not unusual, 
too, for the employees to be stockholders. N. G. Paul, 
one of the original engineers on the old Boston and Maine, 
was a heavy stockholder and freely expressed his opinion 
as to the proper way of running the corporation's busi- 
ness. The annual meeting was an affair to be looked 
forward to, all the stockholders were passed free over the 
road as a matter of course. During the meeting opinions 
were expressed with entire frankness, the small stockhold- 
ers having just as much to say (and sometimes more) 
than the large ones. When in 1845 the directors of the 
Boston and Lowell had constructed at East Cambridge a 
roundhouse with room for eight locomotives, they were 
severely criticised for their extravagance at the annual 
meeting that followed. From the before mentioned re- 
port of the investigating committee much of interest can 
be learned regarding the management of railroads three- 
quarters of a century ago. The following table of sala- 
ries and wages is well worth reproducing : 



B FRANCIS B. C. BKADLEE. 209 

NASHUA AND LOWELL R. R. 
Salaries and Wages, 1850 ^ at Nashville (Nashua}. 

C. F. Gove, Superintendent, per annum, $1,500. 

Geo. Stark. Treasurer, per annum, 1,500. 

Win. P. Ainsworth, Treasurer's Clerk, per month, 40. 

A. Mitchell, Supt's Clerk, per annum, 800. 

C. H. Kerrick, Ticket Master, per annum, 500. 

L. H. Clement, Assistant, per annum, 400. 

H. Hobson, Master of Transportation, per annum, 800. 

C. E. Paige, Clerk, per annum, 400. 

J. M. Jack man, Station Master, per month, 34. 

John Jackman, Baggage Master, per day, 1. 

Wm. M. Barrett, Road Master, per annum, 700. 

S. P. Brown, Passenger Conductor, per annum, 600. 

F. Lovejoy, Passenger Conductor, per annum, 600. 

N. L. Whitman, Freight Conductor, per annum, 540. 

J. McQueston, Engineer, per annum, 720. 

C. F. G. McQueston, Engineer, per annum, 660. 
H. E. Woods, Engineer, per annum, 600. 

D. Dempsey, Engineer, per annum, 420. 

Firemen were paid $1.25 per day, brakemen the same, 
section hands $1.00 per day, and crossing tenders 67 
cents per day 

Some idea of the multifarious duties undertaken by 
minor railroad officials in those days may be gained by 
those performed by Abraham Mitchell, superintendent's 
clerk on the Nashua and Lowell. He kept all the office 
accounts, paid all bills, made monthly settlements with 
other roads and with the freight master, settled with the 
passenger conductors and with the Lowell ticket master 
once a week, settled with the stage drivers and kept the 
stage account. He also copied (of course in long hand) 
all the superintendent's correspondence, made up the 
half-yearly accounts, ran the train as conductor in the 
absence of either of the regular conductors (sometimes 
one or two weeks at a time), made up the monthly ac- 
count of receipts and payments for settlement with the 
treasurer, and occasionally wrote the contracts for wood. 

During this period the Boston and Lowell road had 



210 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILKOAD 

continued the even tenor of its way. In 1844 the fare 
between Boston and Lowell was reduced to seventy-five 
cents, in 1845 to sixty-five cents (corresponding changes 
being at the same time made to and from way stations), 
and in 1848 to fifty cents, but the next year the directors 
thought that rate too low and accordingly raised it to 
sixty cents. The four daily trains with which the com- 
pany had begun operations in 1835 had increased to 
fifteen daily trains each way in 1851. 

One of the trains was advertised as follows : " Through 
in one day from Boston to Ogdensburg or Montreal, via 
Great Northern and Western British and U. S. Mail 
Route (Vermont Central and Ogdensburg R. Rds.), leav- 
ing Lowell depot in Boston daily at 7.15 A. M." 

The old station in Lowell was deemed insufficient for 
the proper accommodation of passenger traffic, and so a 
new building was erected on Merrimack street in 1852. 
It was built in conjunction with the city authorities, so 
that part of the depot could be used as a City Hall, the 
railroad's share of its cost was $37,350. 

Previous to this, in 1848, a new station owned by the 
Nashua and Lowell and Lawrence and Lowell Railroads 
had been built in Middlesex street, and was generally 
known as the " Northern depot ", and was a great con- 
venience to all travellers from the north, as it did away 
with the "backing " arrangement previously referred to. 
In 1852, also, the wooden pile bridge across the Medford 
river was replaced by a stone arch. Although the Boston 
and Lowell was but a short road, its importance as the 
first and principal link in what was known as the " Great 
Northern Route " may be measured by extracts from 
" The Boston Railroad Jubilee ", a book published in 
Boston in 1851 to commemorate the establishment of 
direct rail communication between Boston and Canada. 
" This is the shortest line in the State of the Railroads 
proceeding from Boston ; but it has a large extension be- 
yond the limits of the State by Railroads built in great 
part by proprietors residing within the State, and which 
sustain important lines of travel terminating in Boston. 
. . . From Lowell, the line is continued by the Nashua 
and Lowell Road to Nashville (Nashua). To this point 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLEB. 211 

the line consists of a double track. The line is thence 
extended by the Concord Railroad along the valley of the 
Merrimack river, 35 miles, to Concord, the Capital of 
New Hampshire, and thence by the Northern Railroad, 82 
miles, to the Connecticut river in Lebanon. It there 
crosses the Connecticut and unites with the Vermont 
Central Railroad at the mouth of White river. This 
road, which begins at Windsor, on the Connecticut river, 
14 miles below this point of junction, and at the terminus 
of the Sullivan Railroad, continues the line along the 
valley of the White river, by way of Royalton, to the 
summit of the Green Mountains, and thence by North- 
field to Montpelier, the Capital of Vermont. Thence it 
pursues the valley of the Onion, or Winoosky river, to 
Burlington, 245 miles from Boston. From Burlington, 
or rather from Essex, 7 miles east from Burlington, the 
Vermont Central Road is met by the Vermont and Can- 
ada Railroad, by which the line is extended to Rouse's 
Point, where it crosses Lake Champlain, near its outlet. 
It is thence extended by the Champlain and Montreal 
Railroad to the St. Lawrence, near Montreal, which city 
it reaches in a distance of 326 miles from Boston. It is 
continued also from Rouse's Point, over the Northern 
Railroad of New York, to the city of Ogdensburg, at the 
foot of navigation on Lake Ontario, a distance of 403 
miles from Boston. In addition to these extensive lines 
of Railroad, all connected with the Boston and Lowell as 
the main trunk, there are several other diverging lines of 
importance. Among these are the Boston, Concord and 
Montreal. This road, destined as its name imports, to 
reach the city of Montreal, but by a very different route 
from either of those already described, proceeds from 
Concord, N. H., along the eastern branch of the Merri- 
mack river, and by the outlet of Winnipiseogee Lake, to 
Meredith, and thence by Plymouth to Warren, a distance 
of 71 miles. It will be in a short time farther extended, 
and probably united with the Atlantic and St. Lawrence 
(now the Grand Trunk), now in progress from Portland 
to Montreal. Another branch of this general route di- 
verges from the main line at the mouth of White river, 
and passes over the Connecticut and Passumpsic River 



212 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

Railroad, which follows the course, first of the Connecti- 
cut, and then of the Passumpsic, to St. Johnsbury, a dis- 
tance of 61 miles. It is intended to extend it thence to 
the Canada line, near Lake Memphremagog, and thence 
to some point of junction with the Atlantic and St. Law- 
rence Railroad in Canada. 

There are two other Railroads connected with this gen- 
eral line, leading westwardly from Concord, N. H., which 
are yet unfinished, viz: the Concord and Claremont, which 
is opened to a distance of 25 miles to Bradford, and the 
Contoocook Valley Railroad, which is opened to an equal 
distance through Henniker to Hillsborough Bridge. These 
several Railroads, together with the Nashua and Milford, 
already opened, form an aggregate length of 632 miles, 
of which the Boston and Lowell is the main trunk and 
principal link." 

To-day the traveller is conveyed from Boston to Mon- 
treal in a Pullman parlor car, without change, and over 
two lines of railroad only. In 1851 he performed the 
same journey in stuffy, uncomfortable passenger cars, with 
several changes on the way and over the lines of seven 
independent railroads. By this time (the middle 50's), a 
more modern type of rolling stock, slightly resembling 
that now in use, had been adopted by the Lowell road. 
The passenger cars had almost flat roofs, just high enough 
for a tall man to stand upright in, the windows were small 
and divided into several small panes of glass that rattled 
incessantly. The seats were arranged in the present man- 
ner and upholstered in black haircloth. Air tight sheet 
iron stoves, one in the middle of each car, heated the 
portion near them, while the more remote parts partook 
of the outside temperature. When night came a sem- 
blance of illumination was supplied by two small, evil- 
smelling, whale-oil lamps, one at each end of the car. So 
dark was it in the trains that the conductor was obliged 
to take tickets with a lighted lantern on his arm ; many 
of these lanterns were highly ornate, the gifts of friends 
and season ticket passengers along the road. There were 
also second class cars, entered through doors at the sides ; 
in them the seats were fixed back to back, fares were half 
price, and these cars had also a compartment for baggage 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB. 213 

like the present combination cars. Some of the cars on 
the Lowell road were named, one, second class, particu- 
larly, being called " Belvidere ", considered a doubtful 
compliment to a very poverty stricken portion of Lowell. 
The brakes, of a type known as the " Hodge wheel " 
variety, were applied by the baggage master on the bag- 
gage car, by the brakeman on the rear car, and the fireman 
on the tender. The conductor very rarely touched the 
brakes. The brakemen were also required to clean the 
cars and wheels of the same, take care of the stoves and 
split and carry wood for them. Communication between 
the train and the locomotive was had (by law) by means 
of the old-fashioned bell cord which extended through the 
whole train and was tied down on the brake wheel of the 
last car. On long trains the united strength of two or 
three men was required to pull in the " slack " of the 
bell cord and ring the gong on the engine. Automatic 
couplings were then undreamed of, the cars were shackled 
together by means of the link and pin, with wrought iron 
draw bars. At this period some of the locomotives were 
named for prominent men of the corporation, "Whistler", 
" McNeill ", " Jesse Bowers ", Wm. Sturgis ", " Daniel 
Abbot", "Higginson", and "Storrow" and they shared 
honors with the Indian chiefs, " Paugus " and " Penni- 
chuck ". Sentiment found expression in "Factory Girl", 
"Sailor Boy", and "Leader". The counties of "Suf- 
folk ", " Essex " and " Middlesex ", all the towns along 
the line, as well as the terminal cities, were each repre- 
sented. The Bible furnished the names of " Goliath " 
and " Samson ", and heathen mythology was laid under 
tribute, furnishing " Hector ", " Ajax ", " Vulcan ", 
" Mercury ", " Mars ", " Vesta " and * Hercules ". Count 
Rumford had a namesake, also the Peruvian hero "Holla". 
The bird of freedom was not forgotten, for there was an 
"Eagle", also a "Lion", "Tiger" and "Leopard". 
Some of these engines came from the Nashua and Lowell 
and Salem and Lowell railroads when they were taken 
over by the Boston and Lowell, others were added as 
years passed and business increased. Many were of a 
type now obsolete, called " insiders ", i. e., the cylinders 
were close together under the forward end of the boiler, 



214 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

and these required a cranked axle for the forward pair of 
driving wheels. All were resplendent with a wealth of 
brass and paint work, which it was the fireman's duty to 
polish and clean, keeping him busy for, sometimes, two or 
three hours a day. The engineer's position was entirely 
different from that occupied by him to-day. He was 
master of his engine, looked after it, his word was law as 
to its repairs, which he superintended. The work of an 
engineer comprised not only the entire care of a locomo- 
tive as to its running, but he also cared for all the jour- 
nals, renewed boxes, bolts, nuts, in fact any worn parts 
that two men (the fireman assisted) could attend to at 
the end of the run. 

Very few of the " runs " were of less duration than 
twelve to sixteen hours daily, and this applied to train- as 
well as engine-crews. Each engine was then furnished 
with a complete set of tools, to-day all that is supplied is 
a hammer, monkey wrench, cold chisel, set (a form of 
chisel), and a spanner. By 1850 the engines were all 
provided with cabs for their occupants' shelter from 
storm. The method of water supply was by a force pump 
that derived its power from the motion of the engine, and 
this method was in use as late as 1875. Until the use of 
coal for fuel began, all the locomotives had immense con- 
ical smokestacks, some four feet in diameter at the top, 
and nearly all of them had an iron rail extending from 
the cab around the entire machine, so that in passing 
around the enginemen might not fall overboard. When 
wood was burned as fuel the tender and water tank, al- 
though piled high and filled full at the start, had to be 
replenished on the way with both wood and water. For 
many years the station now called Walnut Hill was known 
as Woburn Watering Station. Large sheds on either side 
of the road were filled with cord wood, sawed by horse 
power machines ; while on the hill above was a ^reat cis- 
tern from which the water was supplied to the engine 
tank. Coal was not used as fuel until about 1858, the 
resultant saving being about one-third ; it did not come 
into exclusive use on the Boston and Lowell until ten 
years later, and with its adoption the smokestacks were 
changed in form and decreased in size. Until the Civil 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 215 

War three dollars a day for an engineer and a dollar and 
a quarter for a fireman (one road only paid 60 to 90 cents 
to the latter) was considered high pay, but during the 
Rebellion wages, like everything else, went up. The 
rivalry of the early New England railroads as to speed 
and the possession of locomotives capable of making fast 
time culminated in a famous locomotive race, which took 
place on Oct. 1 and 2, 1851, on the tracks of the Boston 
and Lowell Railroad, over a course a little short of nine 
miles long between Wilmington station and Lowell. The 
affair was well advertised and took place in the presence 
of thousands of people. Under the contest conditions, 
each engine was to go over the course drawing a load of 
70 tons, using a particular kind of wood for fuel and 
maintaining the same steam pressure. There were six 
entries, all being the finest locomotives the several roads 
could produce, and the results were as follows : " Addison 
Gilmore ", Western Railroad (now Boston and Albany), 
time llm. 29s. ; " Nathan Hale ", Boston and Worcester 
Railroad, 12m. 56s. ; " Addison Gilmore ", Passumpsic 
Railroad, 13m. 26s. ; " Union ", Fitchburg Railroad, 14m. 
7s. ; " Neponset ", Boston and Providence Railroad, 14m. 
35s. ; " Essex ", Boston and Lowell Railroad, 14m. 48s. 
The winner, the "Addison Gilmore", one of the most noted 
of the early engines of the Western Railroad, was built 
in the Springfield shops after the plans of the late Wilson 
Eddy. The " Gilmore " was considered a big engine in 
those days, as it weighed 26 tons, and had a single pair 
of driving wheels six feet nine inches in diameter. It 
will be noted there were two engines named " Addison 
Gilmore " in the race. As Mr. Gilmore was a prominent 
railroad man of the day and interested in several roads, 
it was not strange his name was given to engines of more 
than one company. Another instance of early high speed 
was on the evening of March 27, 1850, when the locomo- 
tive " Whistler ", drawing twelve passenger cars and run 
by engineer Isaac Hall, covered the distance from Lowell 
to Boston, 26 miles, in 28 minutes. Among the early 
engineers on the Boston and Lowell were Eben T. Sumner, 
who entered the service in 1846 and afterwards became 
master mechanic, a position he filled for a great many 



216 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

years ; Isaac R. Chase, E. R. King, Alden I. Gifford, who 
became an employee in 1851 and at one time ran the orig- 
inal locomotive, the " Patrick " ; Solon S. Robie, and 
Wilton F. Bucknam. The two latter ran for many years 
on the Salem and Lowell road. Mr. or rather Dr. Robie 
afterwards studied medicine and became a physician in 
Boston, and Mr. Bucknam gained note as the historian of 
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Luckily the 
Boston and Lowell, by careful management and reliable 
employees, escaped serious accident ; for a long time it 
was their boast that no passenger was injured while within 
their cars. In February, 1868, the locomotive " Wm. 
Sturgis " exploded in the Middlesex street station in 
Lowell and killed its engineer, George P. Spaulding. 

While the following accident did not occur on the 
Lowell Railroad and so does not lie strictly within the 
scope of the present article, yet it caused so much stir at 
the time and took place on part of the present Boston and 
Maine system, that it seems interesting to give an account 
of it. 

On Thursday afternoon, January 6, 1 853, Benjamin 
Pierce, the young son and only surviving child of Frank- 
lin Pierce, then President-elect of the United States, was 
killed in a terrible railroad accident on the line of the old 
Boston and Maine road in Andover, Mass. The boy's 
parents were on the train with him at the time, the whole 
party having boarded the cars at Andover, where they 
had passed the night with relatives, and were on their 
way to their home in Concord, N. H. When between 
two and three miles from Andover, the train was derailed 
by the breaking of the forward axle of the tender on the 
left side. By the shock the cars were thrown from the 
track, and some of them went down a high embankment. 
The President and his wife were substantially unhurt, but 
the son, who was standing up looking out of the window, 
was instantly killed. Some half a dozen others were 
killed and many were wounded. Mrs. Pierce, who was 
an invalid, never recovered from the shock and grief, 
which is said to have hastened her death a few years 
later. Naturally the railroad company was sued by many 
of those injured, but Mrs. Pierce, who was very pious, 




HON. FRANCIS B. CROWNINSHIELD 

President of the Boston & Lowell and Lowell & Nashua R. R., I 855-1 877, 
and of the Salem & Lowell R. R., 1858-1877 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 217 

believed the accident to have been a visitation of Provi- 
dence to take away from the President his son that he 
might be better prepared to devote himself wholly to the 
duties of his great office. Not only did she decline to 
sue, but induced her husband to have General Benjamin 
F. Butler, then at the height of his legal fame, retained 
to defend the railroad. This was done, and after much 
trouble and eloquence on the part of the latter, the jury 
decided the accident was not caused by any negligence on 
the part of the Boston and Maine. The case was con- 
sidered for many years a celebrated one. 

In the late 40's, when the city of Lawrence became 
built up, the road-bed of the Boston and Maine was 
changed from Andover so as to pass through the south 
side of the new city. Shortly after this, the Boston and 
Maine thought to tap some of the Boston and Lowell 
business by building from the present Lowell Junction to 
Lowell. The Lowell management promptly (in 1852) 
sued the Boston and Maine for infringement of the special 
rights secured by their charter, but in spite of the elo- 
quence of Ruf us Choate, they got very little satisfaction, 
as public sentiment was then strongly in favor of as much 
railroad competition as possible. The Boston and Lowell 
retaliated by building into Lawrence, over the old aban- 
doned Andover branch road-bed from Wilmington to 
Wilmington Junction, thence over the Salem and Lowell 
Railroad (which by this time they controlled) into Tewks- 
bury, thence into Lawrence. Competition was carried 
on fiercely at times, in fare and freight, but mostly in 
train service, but the Boston and Lowell always felt they 
had the advantage. By 1855 the stock of the Lowell 
road had reached a point as low as 53 per cent, of its par 
value, and the directors had for some time been forced to 
reduce dividends. The equipment of the road had be- 
come worn down and in a condition scarcely safe or suffi- 
cient for the public accommodation. A change of man- 
agement was felt to be necessary, and accordingly the 
directors elected Hon. Francis B. Crowninshield (grand- 
father of the author) to the presidency. Mr. Crownin- 
shield was also treasurer of the Merrimack Manufactur- 
ing Co. in Lowell, and had had much railroad experience 



218 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL KAILBOAD 

previously with the Old Colony road, which, as its presi- 
dent, he had succeeded in building up from a very run 
down condition to one of prosperity. At this time, as 
has been seen, the Boston and Lowell and Lowell and 
Nashua were operated as independent roads. As they were 
both short lines (but formed an important link in the 
through route to the North and West), it was thought 
that by combining them the public and the stockholders 
could be much benefited and at the same time a very great 
and unnecessary expense avoided. 

This Mr. Crowninshield succeeded in accomplishing in 
1857, and a provisional agreement for one year was en- 
tered into between the two roads, the principal points of 
which were that while each should retain its own identity, 
they should be run as one road, thus doing away with the 
expensive separate staffs, repair shops, freight houses, etc. 
The expenses and profits were to be pooled pro rata. In 
1858 the agreement was renewed for twenty years. The 
two roads were called the " Boston, Lowell and Nashua 
Railroad," a title that was kept up and the rolling stock 
so lettered until the companies were again separated in 
1878. 

Mr. George Stark, the superintendent of the Nashua 
and Lowell, was made manager of both roads, a position 
he filled for twenty years, while Mr. John B. Winslow 
was made superintendent. Gen. Stark was a civil engineer 
by profession, and had originally assisted in building and 
surveying the Wilton Railroad in New Hampshire. In 
1857, also, a new brick passenger station was built in 
Boston on Causeway street, the total cost, including fill- 
ing in the flats at East Cambridge, bridging across the 
Charles river and extending the tracks into Causeway 
street, was $399,750. 

During the 1840's the maritime commerce of Salem 
had sensibly declined, overshadowed as it was by Boston 
and New York. Various projects were set on foot to 
revive it, and one of the strongest and best known at- 
tempts was the Salem and Lowell railroad. The con- 
struction of this road was largely due to the untiring 
efforts of Hon. Stephen C. Phillips, a well known Salem 
merchant and ship-owner, and the proprietor of the wharf 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB. 219 

in Salem bearing his name. Mr. Phillips thought that 
by means of a railroad to Lowell raw cotton and coal for 
the mills could be brought by water to Salem, and 
finished manufactured products shipped back at much less 
expense thau through Boston. There was then a large 
lumber trade from the British Maritime Provinces to 
Lowell and other places of the interior carried on through 
Boston, and it was thought this could be brought to 
Salem at a saving of nearly one-half. Two plans were 
put forward for a Salem and Lowell railroad. One 
known as the " Cabot route ", petitioned for by Joseph 
S. Cabot, Stephen C. Phillips and others ; the other des- 
ignated as the " Wakefield route ", which was asked for 
by Horace P. Wakefield, David Pingree, and others. The 
Wakefield plan contemplated building a line starting from 
the Essex Railroad (Lawrence branch) at South Danvers 
(Peabody), connecting with the Boston and Maine at 
West Reading, thence to Wilmington, and from there 
using the Boston and Lowell road to Lowell. This pro- 
ject was bitterly opposed by both the Eastern and Boston 
and Lowell interests, as each was afraid that by means of 
connections their main lines might be tapped. The legis- 
lature finally decided in favor of the " Cabot route," and 
on April 25, 1848, the Salem and Lowell Railroad Co. 
was incorporated with a capital of $400,000. The "Cabot 
route " also contemplated using the Lawrence branch 
from Salem to South Danvers (Peabody). From there 
the road ran along the valley of Proctor's Brook, to a 
point near the Hosiery Factory, thence on a curve across 
Ropes' Brook to the Paper Mill in Middleton, thence 
along the valley of the Ipswich river through the centre 
of North Reading and a part of Wilmington, and after- 
wards in a straight course across a plain, to a point of 
junction with the Lowell and Lawrence railroad in Tewks- 
bury. The total length of new road was 16 1-2 miles, 
and the whole distance from Salem to Lowell 24 1-2 
miles. 

On no part of the road was there a grade of more than 
25 feet per mile, and the construction was thought to be 
simple and easy, there being but little rock excavation, 
and no expensive bridging or masonry. Great expecta- 



220 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

tions were entertained, that were not subsequently real- 
ized, as regards passenger traffic, which may be seen from 
the following quotations taken from a prospectus of the 
new company. 

" Passengers from Salem in the morning train will be 
in season to proceed from Lowell to all the Northern rail- 
roads in New Hampshire and Vermont . . . and still 
further, over the Worcester and Nashua railroad to Wor- 
cester, and thence over the Western (now the Boston and 
Albany), Norwich, and Providence railroads. The noon 
and afternoon trains from Salem will afford a repetition 
of the same accommodation without obstruction or delay ; 
and the latter will furnish what must prove the most 
convenient conveyance from Salem for New York, whether 
by the steamboat from Norwich, or by the land route 
through Springfield and New Haven. The late evening 
train from Salem will take all passengers who wish to 
proceed at the close of the day to Lowell and Lawrence, 
and will bring to Salem all who reach those two places 
in the latest trains from the West, North and East. It is 
proposed to run daily one Freight Train between Salem 
and Tewksbury. . . . The train between Lowell and Law- 
rence will bring to Tewksbury all the freight for Salem 
from each of those places, and will take from Tewksbury 
all the freight brought for both of them from Salem. 
This train may be run with an engine attached to one of 
the Passenger Trains, which, thus used, will only run 100 
miles per day." Owing to depressed financial conditions 
existing in 1848-49 and consequent difficulty of raising 
capital, work on the Salem and Lowell Railroad pro- 
gressed but slowly, and the road was not opened for travel 
until August 1, 1850. The track was laid directly to 
Phillips wharf in Salem ; there were also stations at 
North street and Carltonville, and some years later a sta- 
tion was built at Bridge street (the building is now used 
as a Chinese laundry). A terminal depot was built at 
the north end of the tunnel in Salem and used as such for 
many years, and finally torn down in 1892. Until its 
completion the trains started from Phillips wharf, and for 
a short time, also, from the Eastern Railroad stone depot. 
At Lowell the Salem cars ran into the southerly end of 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 221 

the Middlesex street station. The opening of the road is 
best described by an article in the Salem Gazette of Aug. 
2, 1850. 

" Opening of the Salem and Lowell Railroad. This 
event, important and auspicious, as we hope, to the pros- 
perity of our city, took place yesterday. 

*' The train started from Phillips wharf at 7 o'clock, and, 
after stopping at North street and Frye's mills, proceeded, 
with several hundred passengers, to the Grove-street sta- 
tion in Danvers. Here, unfortunately, on attempting to 
start, some flue gave way in the engine, which caused a 
detention of more than an hour, until another engine was 
procured from Salem. 

" We noticed, at Dauvers, the first specimen that we had 
ever seen of the newly invented switches, which are so 
constructed that trains cannot run off the track, even 
when the switches are misplaced, which is one of the most 
frequent causes of disaster on the common switch. B. P. 
Tyler is the patentee. 

" Beyond Danvers, the way stations on the line of the 
road were decorated with flags, evergreens, and inscrip- 
tions. In passing over the line no person could fail to be 
struck with its remarkably low and equal grade and free- 
dom from ledges. In passing through North Reading we 
went over one of those singular quagmires which have 
been encountered on most railroad routes. The filling-in 
sank forty feet, and for several weeks the work of each 
day sank out of sight during the night. In passing 
through Wilmington we went near the place where Pear- 
son, with fearful cruelty, murdered his wife and innocent 
twin children. 

" A large part of the ride up was performed under a 
drenching rain, which, however, had ceased before the 
train arrived in Lowell, at about 10 o'clock. This road 
is the only one in New England that has been built not 
only within the original estimate of the cost (8250,000), 
but also several months within the time contracted for. 
It runs into the station of the Lowell and Lawrence Rail- 
road, where also the Nashua and Lowell and Stony Brook 
Railroads converge, thus forming a connection with the 
whole interior web of railroads, and with the south, by 



222 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

way of Norwich, which cannot fail to be of great con- 
venience to travellers. As was stated by the President 
at North Reading, a car starting from Salem could now 
convey its freight, without transhipment, to Lake Cham- 
plain or Lake Erie. 

" The train left Lowell, after a brief stop, with twenty- 
four cars, filled with passengers, drawn by one engine and 
pushed by another. On arriving at North Reading the 
company were received by Rev. Mr. Lamson, with a very 
neat and appropriate address of welcome, in which the 
grave and the gay were happily mingled. The reply of 
Mr. Phillips, as President of the corporation, was exceed- 
ingly appropriate to the topics suggested in Mr. Lamson's 
address. A procession was then formed, under the direc- 
tion of Maj. Daniel Flint as Chief Marshal, and, at the 
signal of a salute of artillery, proceeded to a spacious 
pavilion erected for the purpose, where a liberal and hand- 
some collation had been provided by the ladies of North 
Reading. Deacon Addison Flint presided at the table. 
A blessing was invoked by Rev. Mr. Allen of North Read- 
ing, and after a plentiful repast, the company enjoyed the 
pleasure of hearing some excellent music from the Salem 
Glee Club, which sang the following song, composed by 
one of its honorary members, Edwin Jocelyn, Esq. : 



THE FIRST TRIP. 

"'Twas seven o'clock on Thursday morn, 

And things were ready all, 
We step'd on board the Railway cars, 

On neighbors just to call ; 
The steam was up the iron horse 

Was proud to bear his load ; 
Away we shot, on this first trip, 

Upon the Lowell Road ! 

Chorus O, the Railroad ! 

You're the way for me ! 
No other mode is half so sweet, 
So jolly, fleet and free ! 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 223 

"We flew across old Danvers town, 

And made the people stare ; 
And then we pounced on Middleton, 

And found a welcome there ; 
And, next, we call'd on Reading folks, 

But only left our card ; 
That we should make so short a stop 

They thought it very hard. 

Chorus O, the Railroad, &c. 

"At Tewksb'ry, next, we found ourselves, 

And found the people glad, 
For who, the jolly, flying cars 

Could view with feelings sad ? 
Away to Lowell's busy spot 

The speeding train now whirls, 
And soon we hail the blessed sight 

Of Fact'ries, Men and Girls ! 

Chorus -O, the Railroad, &c. 

"Now, here's a note to Phillips' name ! 

A noble work he's done, 
The int'rests of two cities fair 

Has mingled into one ! 
He's built a wharf for Lowell's trade, 

Old ocean's wealth to bear, 
To ancient Salem 's western bound 

Annex'd a city fair ! 

Chorus O, the Railroad, &c. 

"Hurrah ! the track is ready now ! 

And we will have you know 
The transport, to and fro, shall be 

A caution to the slow ! 
Upon our borders, fresh and fair 

The Merrimac shall glide ; 
And to its favorite city's view 

The ocean open wide. 



224 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

Chorus O, the Railroad ! 

You're the way for me ; 
No other mode is half so sweet, 
So jolly, fleet and free !" 

Rev. Dr. Flint, a native of North Reading, interested 
the company very much by the relation of some of his 
early reminiscences, one of which was the fact that per- 
haps the first subject of his recollection was being lifted 
to a window to hear a cannon fired, on the celebration of 
peace, in 1783. The next time that he had heard a can- 
non fired at this place was on the present occasion, 67 
years afterward. 

After three cheers, which were given for the ladies of 
North Reading, the procession was partially re-formed 
and marched to the cars, to the excellent music of the 
Lowell Brass Band (the leader of which carries a golden 
bugle, which was presented to him by subscription, and 
costing a thousand dollars). 

We left the cars at the North street crossing, with 
many others of the Salem passengers, and were not able 
to repair to the dining hall until two or three hours after- 
ward. On landing from the cars a procession of the pas- 
sengers was formed, on Derby street, and, preceded by the 
Lowell Brass Band, proceeded on to Phillips wharf, to 
the " Grain store," in the third story of which the tables 
for the dinner were spread, at which the whole company, 
consisting probably of near 1500 persons, were amply ac- 
commodated. The dinner was a very handsome one, a 
credit to the caterer, Mr. Shearman, as well as to the hos- 
pitable liberality of the Railroad Company. The dining 
room afforded to our friends from the interior a perfect 
view of our safe and excellent harbor, as well as of the 
facilities for transacting a large business which have been 
provided at that terminus of the railroad. 

(To be continued.) 




CENTER OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700 



CENTER OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 



THIS section of Salem Village is somewhat irregular in 
shape, and measures about a mile and a quarter in length 
north and south, and nearly a mile in width at the widest 
part east and west. It runs from a short distance south- 
erly of Holten street to Beaver brook, and from Dayton 
street to the eastern slope of Whipple's hill. 

Salem Village was called New Salem in 1685. 

Whipple's hill was first known as Thorndick hill, be- 
cause John Thorndick owned a part or the whole of it ; 
and, later, after the Whipple family came to live on its 
eastern side, it became known as Whipple's hill. The 
latter name has clung to it ever since, although the Whip- 
pies have been gone from the old homestead for a cen- 
tury. 

Beaver brook was called Beaver dam brook in 1761, 
but has been and is more generally known as Beaver 
brook. 

Holten street was laid out before 1674 by John Porter, 
sr., and Thomas Putnam, who deposed in the Salem quar- 
terly court June 80, 1674, that they were appointed to 
lay out some highways at the Farms, and " they Com to 
Ingesels brouk & began neare a marked tree that standes 
by nathanel Putnams fence on the north sid the brouk & 
laid out a way as neare as they Could betwixt the farmes 
of Mr. Endecotes on the south : & hedloks & Joseph hoi- 
tones on the north."* It was called ye country highway 
in 1697; the highway leading to Salem in 1701 ; and 
Holten street in 1864. The easterly part of Holten street 
now runs as shown by the parallel dotted lines. 

Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 
volume V, page 323. 

(225) 



226 CENTER OP SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

Center street, southerly from the meeting house, was a 
highway in 1692, and was so called in that year ; the 
highway leading to Salem in 1701 ; the country road in 
1703 ; the county road in 1819 ; Village street in 1847 ; 
and Center street as early as 1863. In 1868, a deed 
calls it Holten street. That part of Center street leading 
northwesterly from the meeting house was a highway 
many years before the witchcraft period (probably laid 
out in 1674) ; and was called the country road in 1708 ; 
ye country road from Salem to Andover in 1716 ; An- 
dover road in 1731; Andover road to Salem in 1788 ; 
the road leading to Middleton in 1842 ; the Middleton 
road in 1847 ; and Center street as early as 1864. 

Pine street is an ancient road. It was called ye coun- 
try highway in 1674 ; highway leading to Salem in 1748; 
the highway leading from the north part of Middleton to 
Salem in 1788 ; and Pine street as early as 1872. 

Hobart street was laid out in 1674, when the meeting 
house was built ; and was called ye highway in 1700 ; ye 
country highway in 1709 ; ye old meeting house road in 
1731 ; road to the meeting house in 1748 ; highway lead- 
ing from the house of James Smith to the North meeting 
house in Danvers in 1788 ; and Hobart street as early as 
1864. 

Forest street was an old way to the meeting house, be- 
ing laid out in 1675, " for ye Inhabitants ye farmers to 
Come to ye meeting howfe ;"* and was called ye highway 
in 1708 ; the way laid out into the common road to Salem 
in 1723; ye old meeting house way in 1731 ; the high- 
way that leads up to Hathorne's hill in 1744 ; a way to go 
to the meeting way in 1750 ; ye way leading to Thomas 
Andrews' in 1751 ; the road leading from the North meet- 
ins: house in 1849 ; and Forest street in 1864. 

o 

Ingersoll street was begun to be used as a way about 
the time of the Revolution. It was called the way laid 
out by the selectmen of Danvers to accommodate Captain 
Ingersoll in 1800 ; a road leading by the Peabody farm 
so called to the Newburyport turnpike in 1874 ; and In- 
gersoll street in 1882. 

Ganson's lane was created as a way, four rods wide, 

*Town Kecords of Salem, volume II, pages 207 and 221. 



BY SIDNEY PEELEY. 227 

from the highway to the house and land of Samuel Sibley 
in 1686.* The Ganson family afterwards lived there, 
and it came to be called the lane to Ganson's land in 
1787 ; and Ganson's lane in 1801. 

Brown street was so called in 1864. 

Benjamin Hutchinson Lot. This was the northwestern 
corner of the tract of land which was granted by the 
town of Salem to Francis Weston in 1636. Mr. Weston 
followed Roger Williams to Rhode Island, and this part 
of the grant became the property of John Pease, who 
conveyed it to Richard Ingersoll June 13, 1644. | Mr. 
Ingersoll died in the winter of 1644-5, having devised it 
to his son Nathaniel Ingersoll. Nathaniel Ingersoll of 
Salem, yeoman, conveyed it to " my adopted son " Ben- 
jamin Hutchinson, who had been given to him by Benja- 
min's parents, Mr. Ingersoll having no children that lived 
to maturity. Benjamin Hutchinson owned it in 1700. 

Nathaniel Putnam Lot. This was perhaps a part of 
the fifty acres granted by the town of Salem to Nathaniel 
Putnam " lying beyond Elias Stilemans ffarrae bounding 
upon mr Thorndicke & soe vpon Captaine Hathornes 
ffarmes " Nov. 26, 1649 ; and it belonged to Nathaniel 
Putnam in 1700. 

Joseph Hutchinson Lot. The northerly part of this lot 
was probably part of the farm of John Thorndike in 
1641 ; and the southerly part was a portion of the farm 
of Elias Stileman, the elder, which was granted to him 
by the town of Salem before 1641 . Mr. Stileman con- 
veyed it to Richard Hutchinson June 6, 16484 Richard 
Hutchinson of Salem, husbandman, for love, conveyed 
this tract of land to his son Joseph Hutchinson of Salem 
May 16, 1666 ; and Joseph Hutchinson owned it in 
1700. 

Upon the southerly end of this lot the first meeting 
house of Salem village was built in 1673. It is said to 
have been a plain two-story building, and it remained in 
use until 1701, when a new meeting house was erected 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 115. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 1. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 4. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 18. 



228 CENTEB OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

upon the site of the present church. The old meeting 
house was taken down and reconstructed as a barn on the 
opposite side of the road, where it remained until about 
1800, when it rotted and fell and its ruins allowed to 
decay. 

Estate of Jonathan Walcott House. This lot belonged 
to Richard Jngersoll, who died in 1644, having devised it 
to his son Nathaniel Ingersoll. Nathaniel Ingersoll of 
Salem and his wife Hannah conveyed to Jonathan Wall- 
cut of Salem that part of the lot lying northerly of the 
dashes July 1, 1669 ;* and that part of the lot lying 
southerly of the dashes Nov. 24, 1685.* Captain Wal- 
cott died Dec. 16, 1699, having devised "my now man- 
tion house/' barn and land belonging thereunto to his 
wife Deliverance for her life and at her decease the abso- 
lute estate to his four youngest sons, Thomas, William, 
Ebenezer and Benjamin. The last three named sons 
agreed to support the widow, and with her consent they 
made a division of the estate among themselves Feb. 24, 
1722, the house, barn and land adjoining them being 
assigned to Ebenezer Walcott. f Ebenezer Walcott of 
Reading, planter, for one hundred and seventy pounds, 
conveyed the house, barn and land to his brother Benja- 
min Walcot of Salem, blacksmith, April 29, 17234 Ben- 
jamin Walcott removed to Boston, where he continued 
his business of a blacksmith, and, for two hundred and 
ten pounds, conveyed the land and buildings to Ebenezer 
Hutchinson of Salem, yeoman, June 6, 1726. For forty 
pounds, Mr. Hutchinson conveyed to Samuel Ingersoll 
of Marblehead, cooper, the dwelling house, barn and land 
under and adjoining the same May 29, 1728.|| Mary 
Cox and Ruth Fowles, widows, both of Salem, John In- 
gersoll of Lynn, husbandman, Elizabeth Knights, .widow, 
John Ingersoll and Richard Ingersoll, mariners, and Dan- 
iel Cresey, cordwainer, and wife Sarah, Ruth Hibbert, 
widow, and Sarah Ropes, widow, all of Salem, descend- 
ants and heirs of John Ingersoll, formerly of Salem, yeo- 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 57. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 40, leaf 217. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 41, leaf 164. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 47, leaf 166. 
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 51, leaf 86. 



BY SIDNEY PEBLEY. 229 

man, deceased, Mathew Pettingal of Salisbury, husband- 
man, Nicholas Jackman, husbandman, and wife Abigail, 
Daniel Lunt, husbandman, and wife Mary, Hannah Pet- 
tingal, guardian of Benjamin Pettingal and Humphrey 
Pettingall, minors, and Samuel Pettingall, husbandman, 
all of New bury, descendants and heirs of Richard Pet- 
tingall, formerly of Newbury, yeoman, deceased, Thomas 
Haines of Haverhill, husbandman, Moses Aborn of Salem, 
husbandman, and George Flint of Salem, husbandman, 
and wife Sarah, descendants and heirs of William Haines, 
formerly of Salem, yeoman, for one hundred and ninety 
pounds, conveyed to Samuel Ingersoll, sr., of Marblehead, 
cooper, their interest in the premises Feb. 3, 1728-9.* 
Mr. Ingersoll removed to Salem, and pursued his trade of 
a cooper. He conveyed one-sixth of the estate to Thomas 
Haynes of Haverhill, husbandman, and his brothers and 
sisters, Jonathan Haynes and Joseph Haynes, now at 
Canada, William Corbet of Lebanon, Conn., and wife 
Sarah, John Heath of Norwich, Conn., and wife Hannah, 
Thomas Kingsbery of Windham, Conn., and wife Marga- 
ret, John Preston of Windham and wife Mary, John Cor- 
lis of Haverhill and wife Ruth, to the heirs of Jacob 
Warren and wife Abigail, since deceased, and' to Isaac 
Spalden of Plainfield, Conn., and wife Elizabeth, Sept. 17, 
1731.-J- Benjamin Haynes of Salem, Salem county, in 
West New Jersey, weaver, for himself and as attorney of 
Joseph Haynes, jr., and Thomas Haynes, plantation man, 
and Daniel Haynes, carpenter, all of Maning town, in 
said county, and Roger Hugings of Pilsgrove and wife 
Sarah, descendants of John Ingersoll, Richard Pettengell 
and William Haynes, conveyed the estate to Samuel In- 
gersoll of Salem, cooper, Nov. 6, 17314 George Flint 
of Salem, husbandman, and wife Sarah (daughter of 
Sarah Haines, who was daughter of William Haynes, 
who was son-in-law of Richard Ingersoll, formerly of 
Salem, deceased), conveyed to Samuel Ingersoll of Salem 
their interest in this lot and buildings thereon July 11, 
1733. Mr. Ingersoll conveyed the buildings and land 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 63, leaf 197. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 59, leaf 59. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 59, leaf 269. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 63, leaf 187. 



230 CENTER OP SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

to Ebenezer Hawks of Marblehead and Samuel Pope of 
Salem, blacksmiths, Oct. 22, 1735;* and these grantees 
conveyed the same estate to William Hutchinson of Salem, 
husbandman, and wife Joanna March 23, 1735.f The 
house was probably gone soon afterward. 

Nathaniel Ingersoll House. This lot of land was a part 
of the tract granted by the town of Salem to Francis 
Weston. John Pease conveyed this part of it, with a 
house thereon, to Richard Ingersoll, June 13, 1644.$ Mr. 
Ingersoll had already moved into the house, which was 
still unfinished, and died there in that 3 r ear, having in his 
will, devised the land, and " a little frame " thereon, to 
his son Nathaniel Ingersoll. Captain Ingersoll finished 
the house and lived in it. Nathaniel Ingersoll of Salem 
Village, husbandman, and his wife Hannah, " for love for 
the public worship of God, and encouragement of their 
pastor," Rev. Samuel Parris, ' who hath lately taken that 
office amongst them," etc., conveyed to him and his wife 
Elizabeth for their joint lives that part of the lot lying 
between the dashes Jan. 2, 1689 ; and Mr. Parris, for- 
eign teen pounds, reconveyed it to Mr. Ingersoll Aug. , 
1697.11 Deacon Ingersoll died Jan. 27, 1718-9, having 
devised the income of his estate to his wife Hannah dur- 
ing her life, and subject to her life estate he devised to 
" Benjamin Hutchinson (my adopted son) who was very 
dutyfull to me while he lived with me & helpful to me 
since he has gone from me " all his real estate, except 
two acres at the western end of this lot, " whh I give to 
the inhabitants of Salem Village for a training place for 
ever." Benjamin Hutchinson and Nathaniel Hutchinson, 
both of Salem, husbandmen, conveyed to Samuel Inger- 
soll of Salem, cooper, that part of the lot lying easterly 
of the dashes, with "an old dwelling house standing 
thereon," Sept. 17, 1731.^[ But as Nathaniel Ingersoll 
died leaving no issue releases from his heirs-at-law were 
secured. Samuel Ingersoll of Salem, cooper, released his 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 68, leaf 225. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 71, leaf 79. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 1. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 71. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 172. 
lEssex Registry of Deeds, book 59, leaf 31. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 231 

one-fifth interest in the old house, barn and homestead 
land to Thomas Haynes of Haverhill, husbandman, Jona- 
than Haynes and Joseph Haynes, " now at Canada," Wil- 
liam Corbet of Lebanon, Conn., and wife Sarah, John 
Heath of Norwich, Conn., and wife Hannah, Thomas 
Kingsberry of Windham, Conn., and wife Margaret, John 
Preston of Windham and wife Mary, John Corlis of 
Haverhill and wife Ruth, heirs of Jacob Warren and wife 
Abigail, now deceased, Isaac Spalden and wife Elizabeth 
of JPlainfield, Conn., all brothers and sisters of said 
Thomas Haynes, Sept. 17, 1731.* Benjamin Haynes of 
Salem, Salem county, in West New Jersey, weaver, for 
himself and as attorney of Joseph Haynes, jr., and Thomas 
Haynes, plantation men, and Daniel Haynes, carpenter, 
all of Maning town, in said county, and Roger Hugings 
of Pilsgrove and wife Sarah release their interests in this 
homestead to Samuel Ingersoll, sr., of Salem, cooper, 
Nov. 6, 1731.f Sarah Ropes of Salem, widow, released 
her interest in the estate to Samuel Ingersoll June 8, 
1732 $ and George Flint of Salem, husbandman, and 
wife Sarah (daughter of Sarah Haines, who was daughter 
of William Haynes, who was son-in-law of Richard Inger- 
soll, formerly of Salem, deceased) released her interest 
July 11, 1733. Samuel Ingersoll conveyed the land 
and buildings to Ebeuezer Hawks of Marblehead and 
Samuel Pope of Salem, blacksmiths, Oct. 22, 1735.|| 
Messrs. Hawks and Pope conveyed the same to Joseph 
Cross of Salem, mariner, Jan. 31, 1736 ;T and Mr. Cross 
removed the old house and erected a new one in its stead 
before 1762. 

Parsonage. That part of this lot lying southerly of 
the dashes, upon which the parsonage was built in or be- 
fore 1681, was probably donated by Nathaniel Ingersoll 
for that purpose at that time. 

That part of the lot lying northeasterly of the dashes 
was conveyed, for six pounds and ten shillings, by Joseph 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 59, leaf 59. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 59, leaf 269. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 59, leaf 270. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 63, leaf 187. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 68, leaf 225. 
IfEssex Registry of Deeds, book 71, leaf 277. 



282 CENTER OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

Hutchinson of Salem, husbandman, to the " inhabitants 
of y e farmes of Salem Village " April 13, 1681.* 

That part of the lot lying southwesterly of the dashes 
was conveyed by Joseph Holton, sr., of Salem, husband- 
man, to " the inhabitants of the farmes of Salem Village" 
April 15, 1681. f This was a part of the tract of land 
conveyed by John Pease to Richard Ingersoll June 13 r 
16444 

Upon the severance of the relation of Rev. Samuel 
Parris to the church and parish, the question of title to 
the parsonage property and ministry land arose, and it was 
submitted to arbitration by Mr. Parris and Nathaniel 
Putnam, Daniel Andrew, Joseph Herrick, Thomas Put- 
nam and Joseph Putnam, all of Salem, on behalf of the 
inhabitants of Salem Village, and, Aug. 30, 1697, an 
award was made, by which Mr. Parris should release his 
interest in the messuage known as the ministry house and 
land and in the copper in the leanto of the house, and, 
also, in all land bought by the Village of Joseph Holton, 
and he accordingly released the same Sept. 24, 1697. 

The parsonage house, which was built for the minister, 
was forty-two feet long, twenty feet wide, and of eleven 
feet post. It had four chimneys, and no gables. In 
1734, it was repaired for the occupancy of Rev. Peter 
Clark, and an addition to it was made twenty-three feet 
long, eighteen feet wide, and fifteen feet post. This old 
parsonage house was demolished by Rev. Benjamin Wads- 
worth in 1784. 

The parish disposed of the land in 1864 and 1866. 

Samuel Sibley House. This lot of land early belonged 
to Benjamin Hutchinson of Salem, husbandman, and he 
conveyed it to his son Joseph Hutchinson of Salem, yeo- 
man, May 16, 1666. || Joseph Hutchinson conveyed it, 
with the road (four rods wide) to the street, to Samuel 
Sibley of Salem, cooper, Sept. 2, 1686 ;^[ and Mr. Sibley 
built a house and barn and planted an orchard upon the 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 40. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 40; book 11, leaf 139. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 1. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 245. 
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 18. 
lEssex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 115. 



BY SIDNEY PEKLEY. 233 

lot. For twenty-five pounds, he conveyed the estate to 
Samuel Lane of Salem, blacksmith, June 6, 1696 ;* and, 
for thirty-three pounds, Mr. Lane conveyed to John Gan- 
son of Salem, weaver, " my now dwelling house," barns, 
orchards and land, April 2, 1707. f He died in January, 
1723-4, and his widow Abigail married, secondly, Capt. 
Thomas Flint of Salem, and disposed of this estate to 
her children, under the power and direction in his will, 
Feb. 19, 1734-5.J Lois Ganson of Salem, singlewoman, 
released one-ninth of the " mansion house," barn and 
land to her brother Benjamin Ganson of Salem, weaver, 
Feb. 21, 1734-5. John Ganson of Salem, housewright, 
released one-fifth of it to his brother Benjamin Ganson, 
who was then living in the house, Oct. 7, 1740 ;|| and on 
the same day Jonathan Hutchinson of Salem, husband- 
man, and wife Elizabeth released her interest in it to her 
brother Benjamin Ganson. ^[ Nathan Ganson of Salem, 
housewright, released his one-fifth interest in the house, 
barn and land to his brother Benjamin Ganson April 4, 
1744.** Benjamin Ganson died in the spring of 1749, 
when his twelve acres of land and the buildings were ap- 
praised at one hundred and fifty pounds. The house 
was gone before 1788, when the lane was described as "a 
lane leading from the highway leading to the meeting 
house to the cellar where Ganson's house formerly 
stood."ft 

James Bayley House. That part of this lot lying west- 
erly of the dashes next the highway early belonged to 
Richard Hutchinson of Salem, husbandman, and he con- 
veyed it to his son Joseph Hutchinson of Salem May 16, 
1666. JJ Joseph Hutchinson conveyed it to Rev. James 
Bayley of Salem March 25, 1681. Mr. Bayley had 
preached here from 1672 to 1680. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 86. 

tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 19, leaf 160. 

JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 81, leaf 91. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book'81, leaf 83. 

HEssex Registry of Deeds, book^Sl, leaf 84. 

ITEssex Registry of Deeds, book 81, leaf 104. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 86, leaf 44. 
ttEssex Registry of Deeds, book 147, leaf ;95. 
JtEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 18. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 79. 



234 CENTER OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

That part of the lot lying northerly of the northern- 
most dashes was a part of the estate of Richard Hutchin- 
son and conveyed by him to his son Joseph as above 
stated. Joseph Hutchinson of Salem Village, for thir- 
teen pounds and six shillings, conveyed it to James Bay- 
ley of Roxbury, physician, May 2, 1693.* 

That part of this lot lying between the dashes was also 
a part of the estate of Richard Hutchinson, and conveyed 
by him to his son Joseph as above stated. Joseph Hutch- 
inson, sr., of Salem, yeoman, conveyed it to Rev. James 
Bayley of Salem Village, who " hath bene in y e exercise 
of his gifts by preaching amongst us several years, having 
had a call thereunto by y e inhabitants of y* place, and att 
y e sd Mr. Baylee's first coming amonst us, . . for his 
more comfortable subsistence amonge us ; but the 
Providence of God having so ordered it, y* y e sd Mr. 
Bayley doth not continue amongst us in y e worke of y e 
ministry, yet considering y c premisses, & as a testimonie 
of our good affection to y e sd Mr. Bayley," May 6, 
1680.f 

The rest of the lot probably early belonged to Richard 
Hutchinson, and later to his son-in-law Nathaniel Putnam 
of Salem, husband of his daughter Elizabeth. Nathaniel 
Putnam conveyed to Mr. Bayley the lot, " whereon y e 
said Mr. Bayley's now dwelling house now standeth," 
May 6, 1680,f Mr. Hutchinson and Mr. Putnam joining 
in one deed. 

Thus the whole lot became the property of Mr. Bayley 
in 1700. He removed to Roxbury, where he continued 
the practice of a physician, and, for one hundred pounds, 
conveyed the dwelling house, orchard and land to Nicho- 
las Hayward of Salem May 23, 1700.J Mr. Hayward 
died in the spring of 1748 ; and in the division of his 
estate his homestead land and buildings were assigned to 
his son Paul Hayward. Paul Hayward of Salem, cord- 
wainer, for forty-two pounds, six shillings and eight pence, 
conveyed to James Smith, jr., this house, barn and land 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 279. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 79. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book'21, leaf 24. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 235 

around them Feb. 27, 1750.* In 1788 it was called "the 
house where Israel Smith lives." The house was proba- 
bly gone a few years later. 

John Shepard House. This lot of land was a part of 
the great lot of Richard Hutchinson ; and it came into 
the ownership of Nathaniel Putnam very early. Mr. 
Putnam sold or gave it to his father before 1680 ; but no 
deed of it was given until Feb. 19, 1682-3, when it legally 
passed to his father John Putnam, sr., of Salern. f Capt. 
John Putnam gave it to John Shepard to be disposed of 
to his children before 1680, and before he had acquired a 
deed of it. Mr. Shepard built a house thereon immedi- 
ately ; and, when of Rowley, tailor, for love, he con- 
veyed the " mansion house " and land to his children, 
John Shepard and Hannah (Shepard) Clark, both of 
Haverhill, William Shepard of Hampton, N. H., and 
Eleazer Shepard of Salem (who was then at sea) Feb. 23, 
1710-14 Mr. Shepard died July 8, 1726, and his heirs 
sold it to James Ross of Salem, shoemaker. Mr. Ross 
conveyed the buildings and land to Samuel Hayward, jr., 
of Salem, weaver, June 14, 1742. It next belonged to 
Nicholas Hayward of Salem, who died in 174-. The 
next owner was his son Paul Hayward of Salem, yeoman, 
who conveyed this homestead to Nathaniel Browne of 
Salem, gentleman, March 10, 1748. || For one hundred 
pounds, Mr. Browne conveyed the dwelling house, barn 
and land to James Smith, jr., of Salem, cooper, April 10, 
1749 ;^[ and the buildings were apparently gone before 
1788, when the land was still owned by Mr. Smith. 

iSamuel P arris Lot. This lot early belonged to James 
Hadlock of Salem Village, and he sold it to John Shepard 
of Salem Village, tailor, Oct. 30, 1688. Mr. Shepard 
had his orchard here. He removed to Rowley, and, for 
ten pounds, conveyed the lot and some buildings thereon 
to Samuel Parris of Salem Village Feb. 15, 1691.** Rev. 

Essex Kegistry of Deeds, book 96, leaf 118. 
(Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 77. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 24, leaf 2. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 84, leaf 197. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 93, leaf 155. 
TEssex Registry of Deeds, book 93, leaf 149. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 70. 



236 CENTER OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

Mr. Parris removed to Newton, and owned the lot in 
1700. 

Joseph Hutchinson House. This was part of the farm 
of Elias Stileman, the elder, which was granted to him 
by the town of Salem before 1641. Mr. Stileman 
conveyed it to Richard Hutchinson June 6, 1648.* Mr. 
Hutchinson was of Salem, husbandman, and, for love, 
conveyed to his son Joseph Hutchinson of Salem this 
tract of land, with the house and barn thereon, May 16, 
1666. f Richard Hutchinson apparently continued to live 
in this house with Joseph until his death in 1682, and his 
widow also until her marriage with Thomas Roots of 

O 

Manchester a few months after his death. Joseph Hutch- 
inson conveyed to his son Robert " my mansion house," 
barn and land, June 3, 1708.J The house was apparently 
gone before 1729, when the land was sold. 

Nathaniel Ingersoll Lot. This lot of land belonged to 
Richard Ingersoll, who died in 1644, possessed of it, hav- 
ing devised it to his wife Ann. She married, secondly, 
John Knight, sr., and died in the summer of 1670. It 
came into the hands of her son Nathaniel Ingersoll, who 
owned it in 1700. 

The watchhouse of King Philip's war time stood on the 
western end of this lot ; and, in 1701, the second meeting 
house of Salem Village was built upon the same site, 
and there it and its successors have since stood. 

Thomas Haines House. This lot of land belonged to 
Richard Ingersoll, who died in 1644, having devised it to 
his wife Ann. She married, secondly, John Knight, sr., 
and died in 1670. It came into the possession of her 
daughter Sarah, who married, first, "William Haines, and, 
second, Joseph Houlton. Joseph Houlton was a husband- 
man, and lived just below on the same side of the street. 
He released this lot to his step-son Thomas Haines of 
Salem Aug. 9, 1681. Mr. Haines built a house upon 
this lot and became an innholder. He removed to Salem, 
in New West Jersey, and conveyed the house arid land 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 4. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 18. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 30, leaf 179. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 13. 




THOMAS HAINES HOUSE 




JOHN HDULTCN HOUSE 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 237 

to John Allen of Salem, gunsmith, March 23, 1703-4.* 
Mr. Allen removed to Marblehead, and conveyed the land 
and house, " in which I formerly dwelt," to Ebenezer 
Buxton of Salem, cooper, June 12, 1731.f Mr. Buxton 
conve} r ed the land and buildings to John Putnam, jr., of 
Salem, husbandman, June 13, 17364 an< ^ Mr. Putnam 
conveyed the dwelling house and land to Benjamin Chase 
of Danvers, weaver, Sept. 20, 1754. Mr. Chase died, 
in old age, in the winter of 1813-4, having devised his 
estate to his friend and housekeeper widow Elizabeth 
Flint of Danvers. She conveyed the land and buildings 
to Salmon Phinney of Danvers, yeoman, Feb. 1, 1816 ;|| 
and Mr. Phinne}' conveyed the same to Daniel King of 
Danvers, gentleman, April 1, 1817.^[ For eight hundred 
dollars, Mr. King conveyed the house and land around it 
to Elijah Pope, jr., of Danvers, cordwainer, March 9, 
1833 ;** and Mr. Pope mortgaged the estate to widow 
Elizabeth Wyman of Salem April 23, 1840.ff Mrs. 
Wyman removed to Marblehead, and died in August, 
1856 ; having devised her estate (except a few small 
bequests) to her son Isaac C. Wyman of Salem, attorney- 
at-law, who as her executor foreclosed this mortgage by 
taking possession of the premises June 2, 18684| Mr. 
Wyman conveyed the estate to Alvira T. Martin, wife of 
George B. Martin of Dauvers, manufacturer, May 1, 
1868. Mrs. Martin died Aug. 14, 1878, intestate, and 
their children, Walter T. Martin, Caroline M. Martin and 
Alice B. Martin, all of Danvers, released their interest in 
the " Pope place " to their father George B. Martin of 
Danvers March 20, 1886. || || Mr. Martin died April 26, 
1889, intestate ; and Gilbert A. Tapley and another, ad- 
ministrators of his estate, conveyed this property to Wil- 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 95, leaf 268. 

1-Essex Registry of Deeds, book 62, leaf 12. 

JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 74, leaf 120. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 101, leaf 88. 

I! Essex Registry of Deeds, book 210, leaf 2. 

lEssex Registry of Deeds, book 215, leaf 125. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 270, leaf 45. 
ttEssex Registry of Deeds, book 318, leaf 133. 
tJEssex Registry of Deeds, book 750, leaf 240. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 752, leaf 244. 
HIIEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1180, leaf 132. 



238 CENTER OP SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

liam H. Hood of Danvers Sept. , 1891.* For nine 
hundred and fifty dollars, Mr. Hood conveyed it to Eliza- 
beth R. Roberts, wife of Daniel C. Roberts of Danvers, 
Jan. 1, 1892 ;f and Mr. and Mrs. Roberts conveyed the 
land and buildings to Everett L. Wentworth of Danvers 
March 10, 19084 Mr. Wentworth conveyed the same 
estate to Bertha L. Durkee, wife of Wendell U. Durkee 
of Danvers, Aug. 5, 1912 ; and Mrs. Durkee now owns 
the place. 

Henry Houlton Lot. This lot of land belonged to 
Richard Ingersoll, who died in 1644, having devised it to 
his wife Ann. She married, secondly, John Knight, sr., 
and died in 1670. It came into the possession of her 
daughter Sarah, who married, secondly, Joseph Houlton. 
Joseph Houlton lived in Salem, and was a husbandman. 
He and his wife Sarah conveyed to their son Henry Houl- 
ton this lot, which contained one acre and was planted to 
an orchard, Sept. 22, 1694 ;|| and Henry Houlton owned 
it in 1700. 

John Houlton House. This lot of land belonged to 
Richard Ingersoll, who died in 1644, having devised it to 
his wife Ann. She married, secondly, John Knight, sr., 
and died in 1670. It came into the possession of her 
daughter Sarah, who married, secondly, Joseph Houlton. 
Joseph lived in Salem, and was a husbandman. He con- 
veyed to their son John Houlton this lot " on which the 
dwelling house of the grantee stands" Jan. 21, 1692. ^[ 
John Ilolton lived here, and was a cooper. He died in 
the winter of 1721, having devised the use of his housing, 
barn and land to his wife Mary for her life, and then ab- 
solutely to Joseph Buxton, son of his sister Elizabeth 
Buxton. Joseph Buxton died in the summer of 1750, 
having devised this house and land to his wife Abigail 
for her life, and then absolutely to his son Joseph Buxton. 
The son Joseph Buxton of Danvers, cooper, for one hun- 
dred pounds, conveyed the house, barn and land to his 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1411, page 136. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1339, page 342. 
{Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1908, page 540. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2164, page 522. 
HEssex Registry of Deeds, book 24, leaf 187. 
ITEssex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 206. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 239 

son Anthony Buxton of Danvers April 22, 1754 ;* and 
Anthony Buxton, then a cooper, conveyed the same estate 
to widow Miriam Giffards of Marblehead Aug. 18, 1777.f 
John Cross of Danvers, housewright, owned the house, 
barn and land as early as 1801 ; and, Feb. 26, 1805, when 
it was conveyed to Elijah Hutchinson of Middleton, house- 
wright, by Daniel Dutch of Ipswich, a deputy sheriff, on 
an execution issued on a judgment recovered by Mr. 
Hutchinson in a suit against Mr. Cross.J Mr. Cross re- 
leased the title to the estate to Mr. Hutchinson two days 
later. Mr. Hutchison removed to this place, and contin- 
ued his trade of a housewright. He died Sept. 9, 1818 ; 
and, as administrator of his estate, Joseph Hutchinson 
conveyed the land and buildings to David Wilkins of 
Danvers, blacksmith, May 7, 18i9.|| Mr. Wilkins' shop 
stood southerly from his house on land of Samuel Small. 
Mr. Wilkins conveyed the house, barn, shop and land to 
Solomon Wilkins of Middleton, esquire, Dec. 30, 1823 ;^| 
and Solomon Wilkins conveyed the same estate to David 
S, Wilkins of Danvers, laborer, April 22, 1833.** David 
S. Wilkins, who had become a yeoman, for seven hun- 
dred dollars, conveyed the same property to Frederick A. 
Wilkins and Reuben Wilkins of Danvers, shoemakers, 
July 14, 1842.fl Reuben Wilkins released his interest 
in the estate to Frederick A. Wilkins May 18, 1863. $J 
Frederick A. Wilkins died Sept. 23, 1895, having devised 
this house and lot to his sou George A. Wilkins of Dan- 
vers. George A. Wilkins conveyed the estate to William 
A. Donnell of Danvers Jan. 13, 1911 ; and on the same 
day Mr. Donnell conveyed it to Laura A. Wilkins, wife 
of George A. Wilkins. || || Mrs. Wilkins still owns and 
resides upon the old homestead. 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 123, leaf 255. 

tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 136, leaf 80. 

t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 174, leaf 298. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 174, leaf 299. 

II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 223, leaf 10. 

ITEssex Registry of Deeds, book 234, leaf 86. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 271, leaf 44. 
ttEssex Registry of Deeds, book 344, leaf 286. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 652, leaf 18. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2065, page 9. 
II II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2065, page 10. 



240 CENTER OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700. 

Joseph Houlton House. This lot of land belonged to 
Richard Ingersoll, who died in 1644, having devised it to 
his wife Ann. She married, secondly, John Knight, sr., 
and died in 1670. It came into the possession of her 
daughter Sarah, who married, secondly, Joseph Houlton 
of Salem. Mr. Houlton built a house on this lot and 
lived in it. He conveyed "my dwelling house" and this 
lot of land to his son James Houlton Aug. 19, 1701.* 
James Houlton lived in Salem, and died in the autumn of 
1722, having devised to his wife Mary the income of his 
real estate for her life, and then to their son Joseph " all 
my land and housing in Salem Village that I had of my 
father," etc. Joseph Holton was only eleven years old 
at the time of his father's decease. His mother married, 
secondly, William Stacey of Marblehead Aug. 22, 1723, 
and they removed to Boston about five years later. He 
was a cordwainer, and married Rebecca Felton in 1731. 
He conveyed the estate to Bartholomew Rea of Salem, 
tailor, April 4, 1732 ;f and removed to Hopkinton. Mr. 
Rea became a yeoman, and lived here. He died in the 
spring of 1784, having devised to his wife the use of the 
lower room in the west end of the house for ten years, 
and to his son John Rea of Danvers, yeoman, his home- 
stead land, with the buildings thereon, subject to the in- 
terest of the wife as above stated. John Rea died April 
20, 1797. Daniel Rea of Andover, yeoman, a distant 
relative, owned the dwelling house, barn and land Nov. 
29, 1805, when he conveyed the estate to Ebenezer Good- 
ale of Danvers, esquire 4 and Mr. Goodale conveyed the 
same estate on the same day to Samuel Small of Middle- 
ton, housewright4 Mr. Small lived here, becoming a 
yeoman ; and conveyed the house, shop, barn and land to 
Moses Gould of Danvers, victualer, May 5, 1826. Mr. 
Gould was sued by Ebenezer Goodale of Danvers, esquire, 
and on the execution which issued upon the judgment 
recovered in the action Daniel Dutch of Salem, a deputy 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 222. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 60, leaf 151. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 178, leaf 36. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 240, leaf 213. 



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JOSEPH HOULTON HOUSE 




BENJAMIN HOULTON HOUSE 



BY SIDNEY PERLBY. 241 

sheriff, sold the same to Mr. Goodale Feb. 19, 1828.* Mr. 
Goodale conveyed the land and buildings to Gilbert Tap- 
ley of Danvers, esquire, April 1, 1828 ;* and Mr. Tapley 
conveyed the estate to Isaac Dempsey, jr., of Danvers, 
cordwainer, Feb. 24, 1832.f Mr. Demsey died Jan. 10, 
1862 ; and the real estate was divided among the heirs 
Oct. 17, 1892, the old house and land around it being 
assigned to Mary L. Demsey, Alden A. Demsey and 
Althea L. Demsey. Mary L. Dcmsey had bought the 
interest of Sally H. Morrison, wife of Joseph Morrison 
of Peabody, a daughter of the deceased, Oct. 23, 1889.J 
Alden A. Demsey of Danvers, son of the deceased, had 
conveyed his interest to Herbert A. Denison of Danvers 
Sept. 13, 1887 ; and Herbert A. Demsey conveyed it to 
Alathea L. Demsey, wife of Alden A. Demsey, on the 
same day. || Alden A. Demsey of Danvers conveyed his 
one-third interest to Mrs. Mary T. Hawkes Dec. 11, 
1890.*[[ Mary L. Demsey mortgaged two-thirds of the 
house and lot Dec. 23, 1893 ;** and the mortgage was 
foreclosed by Mrs. Mary T. Hawkes, wife of Thorndike 
P. Hawkes, the then holder, by sale to Herbert A. Dem- 
sey Dec. 11, 1911.ff Mr. Demsey reconveyed it to Mrs. 
Hawkes on the same day ; and Mrs. Hawkes conveyed 
the estate to James H. Perry of Danvers Sept. 26, 19144^: 
Allie Gertrude Killam (daughter of Alden A. Demsey 
and Alathea L. Demsey) of Reading released her interest 
in the estate as the heir of her parents to Mr. Perry March 
20, 1915. Mr. Perry conveyed it to Lillian G. Kennison, 
wife of Joseph L. Kennison of Salem, March 22, 1915 ;|||| 
and Mr. and Mrs. Kennison conveyed the house and land 
to Edwin Dutcher of Danvers Oct. 21, 1916.^[ Mr. 
Dutcher now owns the property. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 248, leaf 182. 

tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 267, leaf 30. 

{Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1264, page 196. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1205, page 340. 

II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1205, page 341. 

ITEssex Registry of Deeds, book 2116, page 556. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1399, page 293. 
tt Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2116, page 552. 
t tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 2277, page 492. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2291, page 144. 
HIIEssex Registry of Deeds, book 2291, page 145. 
TEssex Registry of Deeds, book 2346, page 367. 



242 CENTER OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

Benjamin Houlton House. This lot of land belonged to 
Richard Ingersoll, who died in 1644, having devised it to 
his wife Ann. She married, secondly, John Knight, sr., 
and died in 1670. The land came into the possession of 
his daughter Sarah, who married, secondly, Joseph Houl- 
ton of Salem Village, yeoman, For love, he gave this 
lot to his son Benjamin Houlton, who lived thereon, prob- 
ably in a house built by him or his father. He died Sept. 
17, 1689; and in his will he devised the house and land 
to his wife Sarah for her lifetime, with the power of dis- 
posal by will to his brothers or sisters or their children. 
His will was made the day before he died, and he as- 
sumed that he would die childless. A posthumous child, 
Benjamin, was born, however, Jan. 14, 1689-90 (about 
four months after his death). Joseph Houlton had made 
no legal conveyance of the estate apparently, and, after 
the death of his son Benjamin, he gave a deed of the 
estate to the latter's widow for her life and then to her 
son Benjamin Houlton in 1701 (the deed being acknowl- 
edged Dec. 23, 1701).* The latter lived here, and was a 
yeoman. Captain Houlton died in the autumn of 1744, 
having devised his real estate to his son John, who was 
then eighteen years of age, but providing that if John 
should decease before he became twenty-one the estate 
should go to John's brothers Israel and James. The ex- 
ecutor was Samuel Houlton of Salem, gentleman, the 
" trusty friend " and cousin of the testator, and the estate 
next belonged to Samuel Holton. He died Jan. 18, 1777. 
The title to this place descended to Hon. Samuel Holton 
of Danvers, son of the deceased, who lived here and died 
Jan. 2, 1816, possessed of the house and land. In his 
will he devised one-third of his estate to his daughter 
Mary Putnam, wife of Jethro Putnam, and one-third to 
his granddaughter Mary Ann Putnam, daughter of his 
son-in-law Ezekiel Putnam, esquire. The estate was di- 
vided among the devisees May 2, 1823 ; and the eastern 
half of the house and land was assigned to Mary Putnam, 
and the western half to Mary Ann Putnam. Mary Ann 
Putnam apparently released her interest in the estate to 
Mrs. Mary Putnam ; and Mrs. Putnam died April 29, 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 18, leaf 218. 



BY SIDNEY PEBLEY. 243 

1840. Her sons, Hiram Putnam of Syracuse, N. Y., and 
Philemon Putnam of Franconia, N. H., gentlemen, con- 
veyed their interest in the property to their sister Har- 
riet's husband, Israel Adams of Danvers, gentleman, Jan. 
1, 1842.* Mr. Adams lived here, and died Feb. 28, 1857. 
Philemon Putnam of Danvers, executor of his will, sold 
the estate at auction, for fifteen hundred and thirty-five 
dollars, to Thomas Palmer of Danvers, April 30, 1864.f 
Mr. Palmer still owns the old house and land. The house 
is now a tenement house. 

Joseph Houlton Lot. This lot of land belonged to 
Richard Ingersoll, who died in 1644, having devised it to 
his wife Ann. She married, secondly, John Knight, sr., 
and died in 1670. It came into the possession of her 
daughter Sarah, who married, secondly, Joseph Holtoii of 
Salem, husbandman ; and they owned the lot in 1700. 

John Giles House. Richard Hutchinson early owned 
this lot of land, which was a part of the Stileman grant ; 
and allowed his daughter Rebecca and her husband James 
Hadlock of Salem Village, yeoman, to live upon it from 
the time of their marriage, in May, 1658. Mr. Hutchin- 
son conveyed it to them and their children March 11, 
16804 John Hadlock of Salem Village, husbandman, 
for forty shillings, conveyed that part of this lot lying 
easterly of the dashes to Henry Coombs of Lynn, tailor, 
March 9, 1692-3. On it, at that time, was y e house 
that was Caled John Coombs house." Henry Coombs 
apparently never came here to live, and the house was 
occupied in 1694 by Samuel Rea. For ten pounds, Mr. 
Coombs conveyed the dwelling house and land to John 
Gyles, jr., of Beverly, cordwainer, April 26, 1695 ; | and 
Mr. Giles built a barn upon the northwestern corner of 
this part of the lot in or before 1697. 

That part of the lot lying westerly of the dashes was 
conveyed by John Hadlock of Salem, yeoman, and his 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 329, leaf 34. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 668, leaf 123. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 101. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 97. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 10, leaf 162. 



244 CENTER OF SALEM VILLAGE IN 1700, 

wife Sarah, to Mr. Giles, who had come here to live, June 
24, 1697.* 

Mr. Giles conveyed "my now dwelling house" and 
the land to Solomon Putnam of Salem, blacksmith, March 
31, 1746.f Mr. Putnam's blacksmith shop was situated 
diagonally across the ways, northeasterly from his house. 
Mr. Putnam died in 17 ; and in the division of his real 
estate in 1757 this house and land was assigned to his 
brother Gideon Putnam. Elizabeth Putnam of Danvers, 
widow of Tarrant Putnam of Salem (probably father of 
Solomon Putnam), deceased, and their children, Tarrant 
Putnam of Sutton, gentleman, Gideon Putnam, house- 
wright, Samuel Putnam, yeoman, and his wife Elizabeth, 
both of Danvers, and Joseph Flint of Salem, housewright, 
and his wife Sarah, conveyed to Israel Putnam of Dan- 
vers, blacksmith, son of said Tarrant and Elizabeth, five- 
sevenths of this house and land around it, the grantee 
then living in the house, May 9, 1754.$ Samuel Ende- 
cott, jr., of Danvers, husbandman, and wife Mary, re- 
leased her one-seventh interest in the buildings and land 
to Israel Putnam, who owned the other six-sevenths, July 
13, 1756. The house was apparently gone a few years 
later. 

John Hadlock House. Richard Hutchinson early owned 
this lot of land, which was a part of the Stileman grant ; 
and allowed his daughter Rebecca and her husband James 
Hadlock of Salem Village, yeoman, to live upon it from 
the time of their marriage, in May, 1658. Mr. Hutchin- 
son conveyed it ;to them and their children March 11, 
1680.|| Their son(?) John Hadlock of Salem, husband- 
man, for seventy-eight pounds, conveyed to David Judd 
of Salem, cordwainer, the dwelling house, barn and land, 
" being ye homestead where I now dwell," Oct. 20, 1709 fl[ 
and Mr. Judd, still of Salem, cordwainer, for love, con- 
veyed the house, barn and lot, after his wife's decease, to 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 12, leaf 9. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 88, leaf 99. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 104, leaf 60. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 103, leaf 178. 
||Essex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 101. 
lEssex Registry of Deeds, book 35, leaf 223. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 245 

his daughters Rebecca and Mary Judd June 12, 1745.* 
The estate belonged to James Smith of Danvers, cooper, 
March 8, 1765, when he conveyed it, including the dwell- 
ing house, which was then called the David Judd house, 
to his son Nathaniel Smith of Danvers, cooper.f Nathan- 
iel Smith built a new house just south of the old one 
soon afterward, and probably removed the old house at 
that time. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 87, leaf 193. 
i tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 135, leaf 5. 



A GENEALOGICAL -HISTORICAL VISITATION 
OF ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 



BY ALFRED POORE, M. D. 



( Continued from Volume LIV, page lift},. ) 



Robert, son of Robert Henry Fuller of Cambridge, has 
been with Mr. Baker from May, 1863. Nehemiah Abbott 
once kept tavern where Charles Shattuck's house now 
stands. Baker's Brook rises between Jameson's and Low- 
ell St., and formerly many trout were caught in it. Among 
the early musicians from 1840 to 1855 were Daniel Fox, 
Zebediah Abbott, who went to Woburn, Nathan Bailey, 
Jr., John Tuck, 3d, J. Sydney Phelps, Joshua Boynton, 
Samuel Charles Frye. Saw a paper dated " Andover, 
Apr. 22, 1756. Rec'd of Mr. Eben Lovejoy 8. 13. 4. 
to procure a man to serve in the present expedition 
towards Crown Point, which sum is to serve for said 
Lovejoy's sons Turn. John Foster, Captain." 

The county road from Andover to Billerica was laid 
out Oct. 1, 1712, by the selectmen. Jan., 1799, Zebediah 
Abbott was keeping tavern in the white house where 
Artemas Brown now resides, near West Parish church. 
At whose inn court was held in a dispute concerning the 
common lands. Capt. Zebediah Abbott, who was referee, 
resided where Morgan now lives. 

Peter Martin married probably a sister to Lt. Moses 
Bailey's wife and lived where John Goldsmith did, and 
where the latter's grandson George Goldsmith now re- 
sides. Eben Lovejoy has a cradle for grain that Tim 
Mooar made about 1800. Old Mr. Foster, who lived 
where Charles Shattuck does, had Gideon, who settled 
where Ballard Lovejoy lives ; Isaac, who settled in 
Tewksbury, when he was eighty years of age ; John, who 

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ANDOVER, MASS., IN THE YEAR 1863. 247 

died before 1800 ; Obadiah, who settled where Mrs. 
Joshua Lovejoy now resides ; William, who lived where 
his grandson William Philip Foster now resides. Tim 
Mooar's father lived in a house that stood near the lane 
nearly in front of Carruth's, and his sister was wife of 
Lt. Moses Bailey. They had a brother who settled in 
Wilton, N. H., and a sister who married William Harris. 

Richard Galen Dane has resided in this house since 
August, 1862, coming from Lowell. He was born in 
West Andover in 1825, and his wife Lydia, daughter of 
Amos and Hannah (Dane) Gilchrist, was born in August, 
1824. Children: Ida Luella, b. June 16, 1855 ; Lydia 
Ann, b. 1857 ; Moses, died young. Mrs. Dane's father 
Amos was son of John and Polly (Downing) Gilchrist, 
born in Dracut, near Methuen, where his first child, Han- 
nah Elizabeth, was born. He then came to West An- 
dover, residing in the Bixby Abbott house, the Goodell 
house, and the Ballard Lovejoy place. 

Mary Nourse has lived here since Nov. 16, 1844, com- 
ing from Salem. She has had in her house Amos Ridley, 
1858-61, and William Tuck, 1861. John Ingalls Nourse, 
her husband, died Sept. 1, 1857, aged forty-eight years. 
He was son of John and Elizabeth (Ingalls) Nourse, and 
born in Lynn. Mrs. Nourse is daughter of John and 
Elsie (Leavitt) Thurston, and was born in 1804, in 
Stratham, N. H., where her father and grandfather Dea. 
John Thurstou were born. Children : Nathaniel Thurs- 
ton, b. Salem, mar. Phebe Augusta, daughter of Josiah 
Lovejoy, and died in Carlisle, May 4, 1855 ; Mary Susan, 
b. 1843, teacher in the Punchard school; Sarah Elizabeth, 
died young. Almira, daughter of Theophilus and Dolly 
(Nourse) Jones, her niece, has been with her since she 
was three years old. She was born in Exeter in 1838. 
Sally, her sister, who was born in Stratham May 17, 1789, 
has been with Mrs. Nourse since 1856. 

Elizabeth Hunt has always resided in the house in 
which she was born in 1789, and her cousin Elizabeth, 
who was born in Otisfield, Me., in 1800, has lived with 
her since she was about four years old. Nathan, son of 
David and Priscilla (Chandler) Abbott, who was born 
in West Andover in 1799, has been boarding with Miss 



248 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION OP 

Hunt since about 1832. Her father, Paul Hunt, was in 
the Revolutionary army and was engaged in making pow- 
der in Marland Village. He was born in Tewksbury in 
1753, where his father John and grandfather John lived, 
and he died in 1831. He married Elizabeth, daughter of 
Joseph Shattuck, who was born in 1760 in West Andover 
and died in 1836. Paul Hunt lived in Frye Village seven 
years before he came here. This house was commenced 
by Chandler, and Mr. Hunt finished it and resided here 
from 1787. Children : Elizabeth, died young ; Paul, 
who died where Comptors reside, in 1826, mar. Mary, 
daughter of Amos Durant, and have two children, Mary 
Ballard and Hannah Jane ; John, died unmarried in Pitts- 
field ; Elizabeth. 

Mr. Nathan Abbott, 2d, says that the place where the 
widow of Joshua Lovejoy lives and owned by him was 
owned by Obadiah Foster about 1765. Mr. Abbott re- 
paired the place in 1855, moved it back eleven feet, and 
let it to Mr. Lovejoy since 1859. William Tuck hired a 
part of it in 1860, and Patrick Murphy in 1862. Mr. 
Abbott is son of David and Priscilla (Chandler) Abbott, 
and grandson of Jonathan. David and Priscilla lived on 
a farm that his father gave him, where he built a house 
for him and where all the children were born. His son 
David now occupies it. Mr. Abbott's grandfather, Jona- 
than Abbott, had five sons, and to each of them he gave 
eighty acres of land, all within about two miles of each 
other. His mother's father was Nathan Chandler, who 
married Phebe Abbott, and resided where Artemas Brown 
now resides. Mr. Abbott came to the West Parish in 
June, 1829, built a store there which he kept about three 
years, then sold out to A. Holt, and later removed to 
South Andover village. The building has since been oc- 
cupied as a dwelling. Then others occupied it at various 
times, widow Wheeler, Nathan Holt, who bought it, and 
Osgood Barnard, who resided in it until he converted 
his barn into a house. George Russell, who married Mr. 
Barnard's daughter, occupies it at present. 

Mr. Abbott bought the house which Mrs. Nourse now 
owns and in which she resides about 1832, and repaired 
it and sold it to Mr. Nourse in 1844. He "tended store" 



ANDOVEB, MASS.. IN THE YEAR 1863. 249 

for Dea. Amos Abbott about five years before he began 
business on his own account. 

Paul Hunt, sr., built the house where Mrs. Nourse re- 
sides for his son Paul about 1817. A portion of the 
frame was blown down in the September gale, and the 
large oak just across the street was laid low at the time. 
Since that time it has been mowing land. Paul Hunt, 
Jr., lived there a number of years, and it was afterwards 
occupied by Jacob Barnard. Samuel Flint resided there 
when Mr. Abbott bought it of Edward Dike. 

Deacon Zebediah and Herman Abbott were in business 
here, and the building in which the store was kept is the 
woodhouse and entry part of the house where Benjamin 
Boynton and widow Kendall reside. The latter now 
owns the property. This store was in operation from 
about 1800 to 1820. 

Next beyond the cemetery on the south side of the 
street is John Tuck, whose house, built in the fifties, was 
struck by lightning in August, 1860. The stone house 
was built in 1846 by Herman Phelps, who still owns and 
resides in it. 

Rebecca King Goldsmith has resided in the upper part 
of this house since May, 1862. She came from Frye 
Village, where John Kay now lives, where she resided 
two years. She is daughter of Samuel and Rebecca 
(Parkhurst) King, who was born in Wilton, N. H., in 
1817. Chandler Phelps' wife was aunt to Mrs. Gold- 
smith's mother, and she at one time resided in West An- 
dover. She married, first, Daniel Pollard, son of Jabez 
and Lucinda (Pollard) Goldsmith of Wilton, born in 
1814, and died in 1844, by whom she had : A son, who 
died young; Eldesta Coburn, b. 1838, mar. Joshua Her- 
bert, son of Capt. Joshua Chandler, and resided near the 
West parish church ; Granville Wheaton, b. 1840, died 
young ; Sanford King, b. 1842, unmarried, member of 
Co. C, 13th Mass. Regiment ; Amanda Eleanor, b. 1844, 
died young. She married, second, Benjamin Goldsmith, 
relative of her first husband, and son of John Goldsmith, 
born in Andover in 1800, by whom she had Benjamin 
Franklin, born in Roxbury in 1847. 

Mary Ann Burnham, whose husband, Henry O. Burn- 



250 A GENEALOGICAL-HISTORICAL VISITATION. 

ham, is in Co. H, 14th Mass. Regiment, has been in this 
house since 1862, occupying the lower part. He was a 
shoemaker, and moved from the tenement where George 
Russell resides. Children : Nellie Woodbury, b. 1858 ; 
Mary Kate, b. Nov., 1861. Mrs. Burnham was a Wood- 
bury, and was born in Methuen. 

Called on Deacon Solomon Holt, who says his grand- 
father Joshua Holt settled on this place and his children 
were all born here. Joshua's wife was Phebe Farnham, 
who died Jan. 26, 1806. Children : Joshua, who 
settled in Greenfield, N. H. ; John, also settled in 
Greenfield ; Timothy ; Peter, a clergyman, who preached 
in Epping and Peterboro, and spent the last of his years 
in Greenfield ; Solomon, settled on the homestead ; 
Stephen, settled in Greenfield ; Abiah, mar. Daniel Kirn- 
ball and settled in Hancock, N. H., mar. Isaac Foster and 
lived in Greenfield, and mar. Joseph Bachelder of Green- 
field ; Hannah, mar. Ephraim Holt of Greenfield ; Cloe, 
mar. Francis Bowers and settled in Greenfield. Solomon 
Holt, Mr. Holt's father, died in 1830, aged sixty-one 
years. He married Mary Cummings, from the south part 
of Andover, who had brothers, Jonathan, Stephen, a physi- 
cian in Portland, Amos, Daniel and Abiatha, who died un- 
married. Mrs. Solomon Holt died about 1848, aged about 
sixty-seven years. Children : Solomon, b. 1799 ; Mary, 
died young; Joshua, b. 1805, and resides in Bradford; 
Mary, b. 1806, mar. Samuel R. Hall, and lives now in 
Brownington, Vt. ; Nathan, b. 1808, mar. Abigail Coch- 
ran, and now lives in Lawrence ; Phebe, b. 1810, mar. 
Rev. Timothy D. P. Stone of Connecticut, who was 
brought up with Dr. Porter of the Andover Theological 
Seminary, and is now teaching in the West ; Abiatha, b. 
1813, mar. Elizabeth Plunkett of Andover, and died in 
Lowell ; Stephen, b. 1816, mar. Jeannette Smith, daugh- 
ter of Dea. Peter Smith, and died in Frye Village. 

(To be continued.') 



NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX 
COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. 



{Continued from Volume LIV, page 192.') 

Ran away from Samuel Lee, of Manchester, on the 4th 
of August, a likely Negro Fellow about 20 Years old, 
short and pretty thick sett and spry; understands Farming 
Business, and is something Bovv-Leg'd and born in New 
England. Had on when he went away a check Woolen 
Shirt, and a strip'd cotton and wool Jacket, and blue Yarn 
Stockings and also had with him a red Camblet Jacket, 
trim'd with Silver. Whoever shall take up said Negro 
and confine him in any of his Majesty's Goals, or send 
him to the Subscriber, shall have FIVE DOLLARS Re- 
ward & all necessary Charges paid by 

SAMUEL LEE. 
Boston Evening Post, August 8, 1768. 

Salem, August 13, 1768. Messrs. Fleets. A Few Weeks 
since some of the respectable Inhabitants of this town 
being uneasy at the reflection cast upon it (perhaps 
justly) for their supine and lifeless behavior at this time, 
when so many of our invaluable rights were about to be 
taken from us ; & at the same time beholding with ab- 
horrence the unaccountable behavior of our two R s 

in the last session of the General Court, who not only 
refused to assist in warding off the dangers that seemed 
to be coming upon us, but were content to confess them- 
selves guilty, in a matter wherein they had not in the 
least offended : And as the publick no doubt would take 
the sentiments of their constituents. I say, for these 
reasons, a large number of the inhabitants of this town 
joined in petitioning the Select Men to call a meeting of 
the freeholders of it, purely to let the public know that 
the minds of the people in this place were not fimilar 
(251) 



252 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 

with those of their Representatives ; and in drawing up 
said petition care was taken that nothing should be in- 
serted that should tend in the least to injure or hurt the 
character of the two Gentlemen, the late Representatives 
of this town. Notwithstanding which a small party arose 
to oppose said meeting, endeavoring to set forth the im- 
propriety, the illegality, and bad tendency thereof ; how- 
ever a meeting was called, and the inhabitants met on 
Monday, the 18th day of July last, at the court-house in 
this town, & was the fullest meeting perhaps ever known 
in this place, the proceedings whereof are sufficiently 
known, and therefore I shall say the less about it. After 
the meeting was over, the Moderator, with 29 others 
(some in and some out of the meeting) protested against 
the proceedings of the town at that time. The behavior 
of some people, more especially that of the Moderator, 
was truly unaccountable, & such as I feel ashamed even 
to think of. The inhabitants thought after the meeting 
was over that all the temper and heat then made its ap- 
pearance would subside ; but I am very sorry to see so 
much of it remaining in some of those who signed the 
protest. It has been often said that the petition for said 
meeting was drawn up in so bad a stile as to be scarcely 
legible, and in many places was quite inconsistent. We 
readily acknowledged they did not employ a lawyer for 
that purpose, but wrote it in haste and in such language 
as came first in their minds ; however we apprehend it to 
be as well, and as properly done as the protest, tho' 'tis 
reported that was in agitation some days before the meet- 
ing, and that one lawyer at least, and how many hon. 
judges had a hand in it, I cannot tell : However they are 
both before the public, who are able to determine which is 
most proper. It has been hinted that all the principal 
people in the town protested against said meeting and that 
the petitioners for said meeting were only of the lower 

sort of people. Now we acknowledge that B n 

P n pays a large tax in the town of Salem, but one 

of the petitioners pays considerably more than he does 
in said town. F s C tt, who also signed the pro- 
test, pays a considerable tax : Now taking out B. P. and 
F. C., R d D y pays more tax for his estate than 



NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 253 

about one half the other Gentlemen who signed the pro- 
test pay their estates. Further, there are as many as ten 
of the petitioners, each of which pay more tax than any 
one who signed the protest, the above two persons ex- 
cepted. And what other reason they have for calling 
themselves the principal people we cannot tell, it is certain 
they never lived in better credit, nor were they ever more 
beloved or respected than the petitioners, nor do we think 
they are like to be for the future ; we are sure their con- 
duct does not deserve it. One of those who signed the 
protest has intimated that he should not chuse to credit 
any of the petitioners with any part of his interest ; now 
be that as it will, it is strongly suspected that he and 
some others who signed the protest could not have credit 
for any large sum, and were their debts paid, we believe 
little would remain with them. Others of the protesters 
are continually saying they hope the meeting and the 
behavior of some people at it will be overlooked and for- 
got. We really wish it could ; but can people who know 
their characters stand as fair as their neighbors, I say can 
they be easy, when they hear themselves thus abused and 
ill treated by people, in some respects, as despicable as 
any among us. I did not intend to say anything further 
respecting the late town-meeting, but seeing a piece in the 
Essex Gazette for the 9th of August of what the Old 
Wife says upon it. She seems to be greatly concerned 
for the peace of this place, & says she would go as far to 
maintain our rights as any of us. For my part I never 
believe a lie even when I tell it myself ; for whatever this 
writer may think of herself, she is well known to be a 
rank tory, and at present her performance does not in the 
least influence or alter the sentiments of the good people 
of this place, and her peice is no more regarded than an 
Old Wife's fable which a noted apostle tells us we must 
refuse. She seems to be quite unacquainted with what 
calmness people in general went to that meeting, and had 
the few suffered it to have gone on as it first began, there 
would have been no ill blood stirred up by it ; and it is 
observed that People in general look on each other as 

pleasant as before. It is true P F has not 

since looked well pleased, and I believe but few regard it. 



254 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 

Further, can she suppose that people will be easy when 
they are treated with language fit only for Bull-Dogs, and 
to see a Gentleman come into the meeting & suffer him- 
self to be M d r, and to open the meeting, and as soon 
as he and some others found the meeting was not going 
on as they would have it, then to fall into the greatest 
heat and passion, treating the town with great indecency 
at least, and the town of Boston with the most scurrilous 
language, and at the same time the M d r pulling out 
of his pocket a protest ready cut & dried, saying he 
should protest against the meeting in general, &c. I be- 
lieve this is the first of the kind ever heard of, and I be- 
lieve it is highly likely 'tis an example that will not be 
followed by many. The conduct of another honorable 
Gentleman was almost as unaccountable, he insisted that 
we had no right to approve or disapprove of our Repre- 
sentatives ; for, said he, if they are to be call'd to an ac- 
count for any part of their conduct in the D 1 Aff y it 
does entirely destroy the freedom of that House. So 
that according to his doctrine, if our Representatives 
(creatures of our own making) were to pass a vote that 
all their constituents should be slaves to them, we had no 
right to disapprove of it. It is but a few years since this 
very Gentleman was chose by the people to represent this 
town, and at that time he appeared to be much obliged to 
them for it, but notwithstanding he has arrived to the 
posts he now holds purely thro' the means of this people's 
chusing him their Representative, yet if he would once 

consider, if he had never been sent to the G 1 C 1 

by them, he no doubt would have remained in his native 
obscurity, but has no sooner rose a little above the com- 
mon level but he despises his best friends, the people, 
scarcely taking notice of his former most intimate ac- 
quaintances how ungrateful ! The strange behavior of 
some of those who signed the protest had caused me, who 
am no writer by profession, to give the public this infor- 
mation through the channel of your paper. I wish it 
may have the good effect desired by 

Yours, &c., 

A Native of Salem. 
Boston Evening Post, August 15, 1768. 



NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 255 

Boston, August 15, 1768. The inhabitants of Ipswich 
being informed that reports were spread in the Metropo- 
lis and other towns that the principal of its inhabitants 
were of the same mind that one of their late Representa- 
tives was of, in rescinding the Resolves of a former House 
of Representatives of this Province, apprehended them- 
selves greatly injured by such Reports, as it is well known 
that they and their Ancestors were always hearty in the 
Cause of Liberty, both Civil and Religious, and were for 
maintaining their Rights and Privileges inviolate ; there- 
fore that the truth of facts might appear to the public, a 
considerable Number applied to the Selectmen to have a 
Meeting called to know the Minds of the Town concern- 
ing this Matter, and pass such Votes relative thereto as 
they thought proper : Accordingly a Meeting was called, 
and the Proceedings of the Town appear by the following 
Copy from their Clerk, viz. 

At a legal and full Meeting of the Freeholders and 
Others, the Inhabitants of the Town of Ipsivich, assem- 
bled August 11, 1768, AARON POTTER, Esq ; Moder- 
ator. 

Unanimously Voted, That the Town of Ipswich highly 
approves of the Conduct of the late House of Represent- 
atives who were for maintaining the Rights and liberties 
of their Constituents, and were against rescinding the re- 
solves of a former House. 

Voted, That the Thanks of this Town be given to the 
worthy Ninety-two Gentlemen of the late Honorable 
House of Represantatives, for their Firmness and Steadi- 
iness in standing up for and adhering to the just Rights 
and liberties of the Subject when it was required of them 
(at the Peril of their political Existence) to Rescind the 
Resolves of the former House of Representatives. 

Voted, That this Meeting be dissolved. 

Attest, Samuel Rogers, Town-Clerk. 

Boston Evening Post, August 15, 1768. 

SALEM, August 16, 1768. 

Yesterday died at Ipswich, in an advanced Age, Mrs. 
Mary Turner, Relect of John Turner, Esq ; late of this 
Town. 



256 NEWSPAPER ITEMS RELATING TO ESSEX COUNTY. 

One day last Week, a Child about 7 years old, Son of 
Mr. Abbot of Andover, playing about a Cart, was 
crushed, by one part of the Cart's falling, in such a 
Manner as put an end to his Life. 

Last Saturday Capt. Holman arrived here in 20 Days 
from Guadaloupe. It was reported there that the Trade 
was stopped at Martineco. 

Last Lord's Day there was a Collection in the Rev. Mr. 
Bernard's Society, for the Sufferers at Montreal, which 
amounted to Twenty one Pounds Ten Shillings Sterling. 
Boston Evening Post, August 22, 1768. 

Ran away from Samuel Lee, of Manchester, on the 4th 
of August, a likely Negro Fellow about 20 Years old, 
short and pretty thick sett and spry ; understands Farm- 
ing Business, and is something Bow-Leg'd, and born in 
New England. Had on when he went away a check 
Woollen Shirt, and a strip'd cotton and wool Jacket, and 
blue Yarn Stockings, and also had with him a red Gambler 
Jacket, trim'd with Silver. Whoever shall take up said 
Negro and confine him in any of his Majesty's Goals, or 
send him to the Subscriber, shall have FIVE DOLLARS 
Reward, & all necessary Charges paid by 

SAMUEL LEE. 

(Supp.) 
Boston Evening Post, August 22, 1768. 

[The Essex Gazette began publication in Salem on 
August 2, 1768, and covered the local territory well for 
the times.] 




REV. BENJAMIN HOWE 



JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH AND SOME OF HIS 
DESCENDANTS. 



BY M. V. B. PEKLEY. 



(Continued from Volume LIV, page 176.} 



263. *REV. BENJAMIN HOWE was born in Linebrook, 

4 Nov., 1807, and married in Brooklyn, Ct, 31 May, 
1842, Miss Waty Williams Tyler, born in that town, 27 
Aug., 1814, to William and Waty (Williams) Tyler. She 
was an excellent woman, a gentle and godly spirit, a 
clergyman's worthy helpmeet. She died in Hudson, N. H., 
at their home farm, 25 May, 1895, where he died 18 Oct., 
1883. 

Rev. Benjamin Howe could exclaim with St. Paul : 
" These hands have ministered to my necessities." He 
began his life work in early boyhood. He fitted for col- 
lege at different academies, only because each succeeding 
one offered more remuneration for daily after-school toil. 
He studied Latin grammar at Topsfield Academy a year, 
under Prof. Vose, before he began translating. He was 
a good Latin and Hebrew scholar. I have heard him say 
he would like to see a better translation of the Old Tes- 
tament ; the New was efficiently good. He graduated at 
Amherst College, 1838; at Hartford (Ct.) Theological 
Seminary, 1841. He joined the Topsfield church 7 Nov., 
1830. He was acting pastor, Coventry, R. I., 1843-4 ; 
Wells, Me., till ordained there, 5 Nov., 1845 ; dismissed 

5 Nov., 1849 ; teacher and preacher at Brooklyn, Ct., 

*' Ipswich ", in Lewis' History of Essex Co. (1888), p. 596, sajs 
of him: " His walk was exemplary; his service for the Master 
sincere; his faith exalted and abiding; his love for his work earnest; 
frowning upon sin as such, while charitable to the erring, a man of 
noble and generous impulses." 

The Salem Gazette concludes: " He stands before us a massive 
character, a grand and noble manhood, commanding our respect and 
winning our love." 

(257) 



258 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

1850-55 ; acting pastor, Meredith, N. Y., 1855-60; in N. H., 
without charge, 1860-66 ; acting pastor, Hudson, N. H., 
1866-7 ; Lemster, N. H., 1867-70 ; installed at Linebrook, 
his native parish, 3 May, 1871, and continued till his 
death. 

Children of Rev. Benjamin and Waty W. Howe: 

374. HOMER, b. 16 Aug., 1848; d. 24 Jan., 1904, at the State insti- 
tution, Grasmore, near Manchester, N. H. He was temper- 
ate, intelligent, a lover of Shakespeare and good society, 
and only unable to provide for himself. 

376. CECIL PUTNAM, b. 8 NOT., 1857; d. 13 Feb., 1866. 

270. EMERSON HOWE was born in Linebrook, 23 
Nov., 1813, and died 1 Sept., 1885. He married, 2 Dec., 
1840, Ruth Conant, born 10 Dec., 1814, to William, 3d, 
and Elizabeth (Foster) Conant, and died in Rowley, 16 
Sept., 1902, at the home of her daughter. Mr. Howe 
followed his father upon the farm. He was a most exem- 
plary man, a devoted member of the church, and several 
times refused the use of his name in the election of a 
deacon, on the plea that he did not desire to be official, 
but useful. He died in the 37th year of his parish clerk- 
ship. He was habitually in his place in Sunday school 
and the church choir ; of the former he was many years 
assistant superintendent. The local newspaper closed an 
article on Mr. Howe's death : " Mark the perfect man 
and behold the upright, for the end of that man is 
peace ". 

Child of Emerson and Ruth Howe 

376. CELIA AUGUSTA, b. 27 Aug., 1843; studied in Topsfield Acad- 
emy; m. 5 Nov., 1862, George Prescott of Rowley, age 25 y., 
son of George K. Prescott. They, father and son, were 
largely engaged in the wood, lumber and timber trade. 

272. NATHANIEL HOWE was born in Linebrook, 23 
July, 1826, and died in Georgetown, 23 Dec., 1897. He 
was a shoemaker in Linebrook, a farmer in Georgetown. 
He married, 4 Nov., 1839, Susan Chapman, born 2 June, 
1820, to Joseph and Mary (Lumas, daughter of William) 
Chapman of Rowley, and died 21 Feb., 1912, in George- 
town. His home in Linebrook was the present home of 
Dea. O. M. Hills. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 259 

Children of Nathaniel and Susan Howe : 

377. LEONARD, b. 4 Aug., 1840; was a soldier in the Civil War. 

"Enrolled 11 May, 1861, in Boston, entered into service 25 
May, 1861, Co. H, 2nd Mass. Inft., as a private, to serve for 
three years; promoted to corporal, Sept. or Oct., 1861; d. at 
camp near Seneca, Md., 28 Nov., 1861." Official Records. 

378. CALVIN EMERY, b. 10 May, 1847, in Ipswich. 

379. CELESTIA ELIZA, b. 10 May, 1847, in Ipswich; m. in George- 

town, Chase Proctor Brown of Sanbornton, now living in 
Melrose. He is a salesman. They have one child: Lewis 
Alfred, b. 15 July, 1875. 

380. MARY ISABELL, b. 18 Dec., 1849; housekeeper in George- 

town. Did a good work in collecting data for this family. 

381. ALFRED ALDEK, b. 14 Nov., 1854; m. 14 Oct., 1879, and had 

two boys: George Allen, b. 21 Dec., 1881, and Warren New- 
ell, b. 12 Jan., 1884. His wife was Elizabeth A. Sly, daugh- 
ter of Amos Abbott and Frances Maria (Stocker) Sly. She 
d. iu Tunbridge, Vt., 29 Aug., 1915. 

273. THOMAS HOWE was born in Methuen, 6 Feb., 
1784, and died 21 Dec., 1831. He married, 29 Nov., 
1810, in Methuen, Phebe Howe, his cousin, born 10 Mar., 
1787, to Isaac and Lois, and died 5 Feb., 1882. 

Children of Thomas and Phebe Howe, all born in Me- 
thuen : 

382. JONATHAN, b. 19 Dec., 1811; d. 20 Dec., 1811. 

383. JONATHAN F., b. 11 Jan., 1814; d. 14 Mar., 1814. 

384. HANNAH WEBSTER, b. 11 Oct., 1815; d. 1893. 

385. GEORGE HERRIOK, b. 18 May, 1817; d. 15 Sept., 1836. 

386. MOSES, b. 24 June, 1819; d. 12 Jan., 1896. 

387. PEBSIS, b. 28 May, 1821; d. 15 Jan., 1824. 

388. MARY HERBICK, b. 8 Oct., 1823; d. 12 Feb., 1903; m. Dr. Sam- 

uel Gale of Newburyport after the death of her sister, 
Phebe Jane. 

389. PHEBE JANE, b. 30 Dec., 1826; d. 7 May, 1860; m. Dr. Samuel 

Gale, and had one child: G. Howe. 

278. DAVID HOWE was born in Methuen, 22 Mar., 
1789, and died 10 Jan., 1842. He married, 1 Sept., 1814, 
Mary Ann White, born in Haverhill, 16 May, 1795, to 
Hon. Leonard and Mary (Dalton) White. David and his 
son Daniel W. were stock brokers in New York City 
around 1840. 



260 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

Children of David and Mary Howe : 

390. DAVID W., b. 16 July, 1815; d. young. 

391. DANIEL W. 

392. SARAH DALTON, b. Dec., 1822. 

279. ISAAC REDINGTON HOWE was born in Haver- 
hill, 13 Mar., 1791, and married, 16 July or 8 Aug., 
1816, Sarah Saltonstall. 

Children : 

393. NATHANIEL SALTONSTALL, b. 24 April, 1817. 

394. MABY COOK, b. 25 Mar., 1819. 

395. CABOLINE MATILDA, b. 17 Sept., 1821; d. unm., of bleeding 

of lungs, 9 Aug., 1844. 

396. ANN ELIZABETH, b, 14 Nov., 1823; d. 7 July, 1845, of con- 

sumption. 

397. FBANCES, b. 8 Oct., 1827; d. 5 Sept., 1828. 

898. WILLIAM OAKLAND, b. 28 June, 1828; d. 26 Aug., 1828. 

399. WILLIAM OAKLAND, b. 1 Aug., 1829. Mary McK. Howe, wife 

of William G. and only heir, of Haverhill, d. 15 Nov., 1867. 
Her will, made 16 Oct., 1867, mentions my son Henry K. 
Howe, an uncle Henry Willis of Boston, and sister Louisa 
H. Kinsman. 

400. FRANCIS, b. 8 Nov., 1831. 

282. JAMES HOWE was born 2 Sept., 1789, and mar- 
ried, 24 Mar., 1814, Elizabeth B. Willis. 
Children : 

401. ELIZABETH WILLIS, b. 20 Feb., 1815; d. 19 or 28 Aug., 1818. 

402. MABY FISHER, b. 11 June, 1816. 

403. JAMES, b. 30 June, 1818. 

404. BENJAMIN WILLIS, b. 10 Nov., 1821. 

285. COL. JACOB HOWE was born 23 June, 1795, and 
died 30 Sept., 1873, in Haverhill. He married (int. 1 
May), 1830, Mary Cranch Norton of Sharon, daughter of 
Rev. Jacob Norton. She died 6 or 3 Nov., 1841, aged 37 
years. He married, second, 27 April, 1842, Mrs. Maria 
Hastings, both being of Haverhill. He left real estate, 
$4,500 ; personal, $558.88 ; farm of 40 acres and build- 
ings, and widow Sally. 

Children : 

405. RICHARD CBANCH, b. 4 Aug., 1831. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 261 

406. JAMES, b. 22 Sept., 1833. 

407. ELIZABETH NOBTON, b. 17 Aug., 1836; m. C. R. Mason of 

Lawrence. 

408. MABY SMITH, or WOOD, b. 25 Jane, 1839; m. Nathaniel Brook- 

house Mansfield of Boston. 

409. CHARLOTTE ANN, b. 24 Oct., 1841; m. R. C. Davis of San Fran- 

cisco. 

291. CAPT. ISAAC HOWE was born 20 July, 1794, and 
married, first, in Nov., 1817 (12 Nov., 1816 church rec- 
ords), Hannah Sawyer, who died 19 July, 1828, aged 39 
years. He married, second, 27 Nov., 1828, Abigail Mer- 
rill, who died of consumption, 4 or 5 April, 1836, aged 
40 vears 7 months. He married, third, 21 Sept., 1837, 
Sarah Hall. 

Children : 

410. WILLIAM S., b. 2 Mar., 1818. 

411. BETHIAH W., b. 1824; m. 14 Nov., 1844, George W. Kinney of 

Lowell, a. 20 y., machinist, son of Jonathan. 

292. PHINEAS HOWE was born in Haverhill 6 July, 
1796, and died 29 Mar., 1879. He married, in Methuen, 
17 Oct., 1819, Tryphena Wheeler. Phineas Howe of 
Concord married, in Methuen, 19 Feb., 1822, Martha 
Cynthia Currier. 

Children : 

412. PHINEAS BUBKLEY, b. 28 July, 1820; d. Feb., 1887. 

413. HABBIBT FBANCES, b. 8 Feb., 1823; m. 8 Feb., 1843, in Methu- 

en, Jared S. Howe of Methuen. 

414. HAZEN WHEELEB, b. 16 June, 1826; hatmaker; lived in Ha- 

verhill; d. 29 Oct., 1854. In the settlement of his estate 
($7390), his father was the only heir. 

415. SABAH HELEN, b. 17 Feb., 1828; d. 10 Jan., 1841. 

416. MABGABET, b. Mar., 1830; d. 17 Aug., 1831. 

297. ISAIAH HOWE was born 1 Aug., 1783, and mar- 
ried (int. 27 Oct., 1811), Esther Merrill of Salem, N. H., 
who died 14 Feb., 1865. 

Children of Isaiah and Esther Howe, born in Methuen : 

417. JOHN, b. 4 July, 1813 ; d. 19 July, 1817. 

418. JOHN, b. 12 Sept., 1819; yeoman; m. 15 Feb., 1849, Sarah 

Whitehouse, ae. 29 y., dau. of Joseph and Abigail, and had: 
Abbie Jane, b. 6 Dec., 1849. 



262 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

419. MABANDA, b. 30 Jan., 1822; m. 2 July, 1846, John Sleeper, 

ae. 25 y., son of Stephen and Ruth Sleeper of Lowell. 

420. ESTHER, b. 25 Dec., 1825; m. 20 Nov., 1845, James M. More- 

land, ae. 25 y., shoemaker, son of William. 

421. ISABELL LADD, b. 12 Dec., 1828; m. 5 Oct., 1848, William 

Moreland, ae. 25 y., shoemaker, son of William and Abigail. 

422. LTDIA JANE, b. 26 Sept., 1838; m. Amos B. Poor of Haver- 

hill. 

298. DANIEL HOWE was born 4 Dec., 1786, and died 
3 July, 1839. He married, in Methuen, 22 Oct., 1818, 
Sally Haseltine of Salem, N. H; 

Children of Daniel and Sally Howe, born in Methuen : 

423. ABIGAIL, b. 20 April, 1819; m. 30 May, 1841, George Mills. 

424. CHABLES, b. 10 Jan., 1822. 

425. SARAH ANN, b. 5 Jan., 1825; d. 5 Feb., 1826. 

426. SABAH ANN, b. 15 Jan., 1827; m. 18 Feb., 1845, David Worth- 

en, ae. 24 y., carpenter. 

301. PHILIP HOWE, son of Elizabeth, daughter of 
John, was born 20 Dec., 1785. He was a housewright, 
and died of rupture, 23 May, 1847. He married, 24 
Sept., 1809, Elizabeth Howe. 

Children of Philip and Elizabeth Howe, born in Me- 
thuen : 

427. NILES MASON, b. 17 April, 1810. 

428. ELIZABETH, b. 20 July, 1812; m. Zebediah Clark. 

429. AARON PABKEB, b. 19 May, 1817; shoemaker; m. (int. 7 May, 

1843), Elvira Page of Lowell. Had 2 children, that d. of 
dysentery, George W., b. 25 Mar., 1845, d. 7 Oct., 1846, and 
Emma A., 25 Dec., 1847, d. 26 July, 1849. 

430. PEBSIS BLANOHABD, b. 1 Jan., 1825; m. 25 Dec., 1845, Rufus 

L. Page of Lowell. 

431. CHABLES K., b. April, 1831; d. 7 June, 1836. 

305. RUFUS HOWE was born 1 Jan., 1804, and mar- 
ried in Methuen, 25 June, 1827, Eliza Ann Neal. 
Children, born in Methuen : 

482. WILLIAM MESSER, b. 27 Dec., 1827. 

433. JOHN NEAL, b. 11 June, 1830. 

434. MABY ANN, b. 6 June, 1834; d. 18 July, 1840. 

435. SUEL LEBOY, b. 3 Jan., 1843; d. 1 Aug., 1844. 

311. CHRISTOPHER HOWE was born 31 Mar., 1791, 
and died 13 April, 1876. He married, first, 17 June, 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 263 

1819, Abiah Whittier. He married, second, 24 Dec., 
1833, Mary Foster of Boxford. He intended marriage, 
22 Aug., 18 , with Annie Gage of Pelham, N. H. 
Children : 

436. RICHARD WHITTIER, b. 22 Aug., 1821; d. 9 April, 1875. He 

was a saloon-keeper in Lawrence, and left an interesting 
estate to his creditors. Probate, 4^,9S3. 

437. ABIAH JANE, b. 2 May, 1823. 

438. MART JANE, b. 23 Nov., 1835. 

439. CAROLINE AUGUSTA, b. 19 Aug., 1837; m. Rogers. 

440. ALBIANNA HENRIETTA, b. 30 Jan., 1842. 

441. ALBION, b. 30 Jan., 1842. 

313. DBA. FREDERICK HOWE was born in Methuen, 
18 Oct., 1793. He married, 13 April, 1820, Lydia Put- 
nam, who died 1 June, 1821. He married, second, 25 
Dec., 1821, Betsey Dale, who died 30 Sept., 1825. He 
married, third, 12 Feb., 1827, Catherine Wilkins, who 
was born 6 June, 1807, and died 1 Jan., 1834. He mar- 
ried, fourth, 26 or 25 Nov., 1834, Mary Wilkins. 

Children : 

442. LYDIA EATON, b. 23 May, 1821 ; m. (as Lydia E. P., of Dan- 

vers), 12 Dec., 1844, Henry A. Wilkins, farmer and shoe- 
dealer, b. in Middleton to Elias and Rebecca. 

443. FREDERICK WEBSTER, b. 28 Aug., 1822; m. in Windsor, Vt., 

machinist, 16 Dec., 1847, Sarah A. Claflin of North Chelms- 
ford, ae. 18 y., dan. of Alfred. Lived in Providence, R. I. 

444. JOSEPH, b. 13 Mar., 1828; d. 13 Feb., 1829. 

445. JESSE, bp. 30 Mar., 1828. 

446. JOSEPH, b. 24 Oct., 1829. 

447. JOSEPH WILKINS, bp. 29 April, 1832; lived in N. T. 

448. ELIAS WILKINS, b. 12 July, 1835; d. 11 April, 1840. 

315. JOSEPH HOWE was born 12 Aug., 1800, and mar- 
ried in Methuen, 7 Nov., 1831, Caroline Hamlet of Pel- 
ham, N. H., who died 19 April, 1837. Joseph (Esq., of 
Methuen) married (int. 6 Nov.), 1842, Sarah Carl ton of 
Haverhill, who died 14 Aug., 1804. 

Children, born in Methuen : 

449. JOSEPH SIDNEY, b. 15 Oct., 1832; lived in Methuen, where he 

has been town clerk for many years. 

450. MILTON GROSVENOR, b. 16 Aug., 1834; served in 26th Texas 



264 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

Cav., Confed. Army, and was captain in Engineers' Corps ; 
d. 19 June, 1902, Houston, Texas. 

451. HENRY MARTIN, b. 12 Mar., 1837; d. 5 Sept., 1838. 

319. ASA HOWE was born in Middleton, 25 May 
1816, and died in Northtield, Vt., 23 Sept., 1894. 
He married, 7 Mar., 1844, Lucy Ann Frances Cummings, 
born 15 Oct., 1822, to John and Portia (Huntoon) Cum- 
mings of Claremont, N. H. Asa graduated, 1843, Nor- 
wich University, and was elected to its chair of civil en- 
gineering. 

Children : 

452. HENRY JOHN SKINNER, b. 2 Jan,, 1848, Sharon, Vt.; is a 

banker and President of the Marshalltown Fidelity Savings 
Bank; m. 31 May, 1876, Anna L. Belknap, b. in Kandolph, 
Vt., 14 May, 1849, to Lorenzo and Betsey L. (Austin) Belk- 
nap. No children. 

453. ELLA THKODA, b. 18 June, 1852, Northfield; m. 6 May, 1886, 

William Clayton Claggett, b. in Northfield, 21 Sept., 1850, 
to Dr. Clifton and Catherine (Emerson) Claggett. Live in 
Northfield. 

454. JOSEPHINE CUMMINGS, b. 17 Nov., 1856, in West Burk, Vt.; d. 

23 Oct., 1864, in Northfield. 

455. MALVERD ABIJAH, b. 9 Dec., 1863, Northfield; B. S., Norwich 

University, 1882; also M. S., member Am. Soc. Civ. En- 
gineers; Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. ; Prof. Civ. Engr. Rose Poly- 
tec. Inst., Terre Haute, Ind., 1887; also Vice Pres., 1909; 
Jan., 1916, Emeritus Prof, of Civil Engr., and removed his 
residence to Northfield, Vt. ; m. 25 June, 1888, at Emporia, 
Kan., Jessie White, b. Meriden, Tex., 27 Jan., 1867, to 
Homer Heaton and Georgie ; Virginia (Steadham) White. 
Child: Homer Asa, b. 31 July, 1889. 

323. ISAAC BEIDGMAN HOWE was born in Norwich, 
Vt., 27 June, 1827, and died in Danvers, 23 April, 
1880. He married, 20 Sept., 1859, Hannah Rebecca 
Gould, born in Gouldville, Vt., 11 June, 1836, to James 
and Rebecca (Morrill) Gould. She died 2 Nov., 1907. 

Children, all but the first born in Clinton : 

456. REUBEN SHERBURN, b. and d. in Northfield, 27 Nov., 1860, and 

6 Feb., 1861. 

457. JAMES ABIJAH, b. 12 Jan., 1863; d. 27 Aug., 1863. 

458. LILY, b. 8 Dec., 1863; d. 10 Aug., 1864. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 265 

459. MART, b. 9 Mar., 1865; d. 5 Aug., 1885, in Danvers. She m. 

18 June, 1884, Alden Perley White. See Perley F&mily 
Hist, and Geneal., page 359. He was a leading attorney in 
Salem until sworn in Judge of Probate Court for Essex 
County, 3 Jan., 1918. Had : Alden Eaton, b. 25 May, 1885, 
in Danvers; d. 17 Feb., 1892, in Salem. 

460. ODA, b. 29 Aug., 1867; m. 20 Oct., 1902, John Holyoke Nich- 

ols, M. D., Danvers. 

461. MARGARET, b. 3 Aug., 1870. Name changed from Daisy. 

She occupies the parental homestead, a few rods from the 
Peabody Institute. 

462. GEORGE ALONZO, b. 18 Nov. ,1872; engaged in real estate loans; 

m. 19 Dec., 1907, in Marshalltown, Iowa, Alice Harriet 
Howard, b. 17 June, 1877, at Magnolia, Wis., to Warren 
and Elizabeth (Budlong) Howard. Had: (1) Robert How- 
ard, b. 1 Sept., 1908 ; (2) William Gould, b. 17 Oct., 1910. 

32T. BENJAMIN HOWE was born 8 Aug., 1828, and 
died 24 Mar., 1889. He married, 25 Dec., 1856, Ann 
Jane Richardson, born in Middleton, 24 Feb., 1837, to 
Daniel and Olive Berry (Perkins) Richardson. 

Children : 

463. ANNIE JOHNSON, b. 18 April, 1858. 

464. NELLIE COLBURN, b. 3 May, 1864. 

465. GALEN BENJAMIN, b. 16 Oct., 1868; m. 27 June, 1900, Ruth 

Cheever Conant, b. in Topsfield, 26 Jan., 1875, to Benjamin 
and Margaret Starrett, of N. S., and died 27 Feb., 1901. 
Child (stillborn), 27 Feb., 1901. He is chairman of Trustees 
of Flint Public Library, Middleton, and was a salesman. 

328. ASA HOWE was born in Middleton, 18 Jan., 
1830, and died there 6 Dec., 1912. He married, 27 May, 
1857, Olive Maria Richardson, sister to Ann (family 327), 
born 26 Aug., 1834, and died 16 June, 1914. 

Children : 

466. CAROLINE MARIA, b. 20 Feb., 1858; m. 18 June, 1888, George 

Morton Deny, b. Salisbury, N. B., 20 April, 1865, to Joseph 
and Mary (Miner) Deny of Danvers. Child : Miriam Ers- 
kine, b. 19 Mar., 1890, in Middleton. 

467. HENRY ERSKINE, b. 1860. ; m. 3 Oct., 1902, in Salem, N. H., 

Mary Ella Griffin, ae. 25 y., dau. of Benjamin F. aud Ella 
F. (Knight), b. in Salem. Child : Ruth Louise, b. 4 Oct., 
1902. Mr. Howe is a farmer, a selectman and otherwise oflr 
cially connected with the town of Middleton. 



266 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

346. ABRAHAM PEABODY HOWE was born in Ipswich, 
25 June, 1816, and died in Boxford, 15 Dec., 1876. He 
married, first, in Topsfield, 16 Oct., 1849, Olive Jane Pin- 
gree, born in Danbury, N. H., 30 Dec., 1816, to Daniel 
and Elizabeth (Bixby) Pingree, and died in Linebrook, 30 
Aug., 1867. He married, second, 22 June, 1871, Eunice 
Andrews, born in Boxford, to Nathan, jr., and Eunice, 13 
Mar., 1803, and died there, 24 May, 1894. He was a 
shoemaker and later a farmer. He was called " Little 
Abraham " by the home folk, to distinguish him from 
other Abrahams. He was good company and quick in 
repartee. One day his boss, in fine wrath, exclaimed to 
the little man, " I'm a mind to kick you into the middle 
of next week," " All right, boss, my wages will be due 
then," was the quick reply. 

Children : 

467a. SAKAH ELIZABETH, b. 22 July, 1850, in Topsfield; m. 16 June, 
1876, Samuel Perkins Foster, b. 5 June, 1886, to Samuel 
and Lydia B. Perkins, and d. a Civil War veteran, 15 Oct., 
1906; 2 years in service. 

468. ASA PINGBEE, b. 4 Mar., 1852, in Topsfield. 

469. MABY CATHERINE, b. 2 Mar., 1854, in Topsfield; m. in Box- 

ford, 27 Nov., 1872, Jeremiah Mighill Todd, b. in Rowley, 
24 Dec., 1846, to Thomas Mighill and Joanna Howe (Chap- 
man) Todd, and d. in Rowley, 11 May, 1916. He was a store- 
keeper in Rowley, and Mrs. Todd continues the businsss. 
Had: Jeremiah Mighill, b. 3 Oct., 1873; drowned 3 Aug., 
1891. 

470. MABGABET ADELINE, b. 19 May, 1855, in Rowley, where, 

iimn., she now resides. 

471. DANIEL ABBAHAM, b. 17 Dec., 1858, in Rowley; m. in Rox- 

bury, 8 Dec., 1881, Laura Jane Welch, b. abt. 1861, to Wil- 
liam and Louisa Jane (Kimball) Welch; one child, stillborn, 
14 Dec., 1889. 

472. OLIVE ANGELINE, b. 19 Feb., 1861, in Rowley, where, unm., 

she now resides. 

347. WILLIAM APPLETON HOWE was born in Ipswich, 
22 Oct., 1810, and died in Boxford, 2 Mar., 1895. He 
married in Hill, N. H., 5 Aug., 1838, Ruth Gile Bartlett, 
born there 26 Dec., 1810, to Daniel and Ruth (Gile) 
Bartlett, and died in Boxford, 3 Mar., 1895. He was a 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 267 

farmer in Boxford and a deacon in the Congregational 
church. 

Children : 

473. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, b. 27 May, 1841, in Boxford. 

474. EMILY, b. 5 Feb., 1849; d. 26 Dec., 1849, effusion of the 

lungs. 

475. WILLIAM BARTLETT, b. 14 Nov., 1845; m. 26 May, 1880, in 

Boxford, Martha Jane Gould, b. in Boxford, 5 June, 1840> 
to Daniel and Lydia (Batchelder) Gould. They live in Box- 
ford. 

476. MARGARET, b. 31 Mar., 1853, in Boxford. 

350. EDWARD EVERETT HOWE was born in Ipswich, 
15 Oct., 1817, and died in Boxford, 22 Oct., 1895. He 
married, 28 Dec., 1841, Mary Ann Lowe, who was born 
in Boxford, 16 June, 1815, to Brig.-Gen. Solomon and 
Dolly (Wood) Lowe, and died 5 Nov., 1842. He mar- 
ried, second, 18 Nov., 1844, Lydia Sanborn Leavitt, born 
in Sanbornton, N. H., 1 June, 1822, to Nathaniel and 
Nancy (Colby) Leavitt, and died in Boxford, 1 May, 1902. 
Mr. Howe was a shoe manufacturer. 

Children, all born in Boxford : 

477. SOLOMON WASHINGTON, b. 5 Nov., 1842; m. 16 Feb., 1870, 

Emily Augusta Andrews, b. 25 July, 1845, to Dean and Har- 
riet Augusta (Perley) Andrews of Boxford. Engaged in 
grist and saw milling and lumber business. Lives in Box- 
ford. 

478. EDWARD LEAVITT, b. 12 June, 1847; m. in Lowell, 2 May, 

1874, Mary E. Wentworth, b. in Jackson, N. H., 17 Nov., 
1847, to Andrew and Lydia (Dearborn) Wentworth, and d. 
in South Omaha, Neb., 19 Nov., 1906. He m., second, in S. 
Omaha, 21 Oct., 1908, Mrs. Delia M. Hyatt, b. 18 July, 1860, 
in Ashland, Ohio, to Mesech and Sarah Montgomery. Her 
first husband was an attorney -at-law. Mr. Howe was for 
many years manager of the Hammond Packing Co. of 
Omaha, City Treasurer, Postmaster four years, and real 
estate and loans. They are now retired, living at Long 
Beach, Cal. 

479. MARY ANN, b. 11 Mar., 1849; written Annie Howe since her 

marriage; m. 9 Nov., 1871, in Boxford, Solomon Warren 
Lowe, b. in Boxford, 4 April, 1839, to Maj. William and 
Lncinda (Warren) Lowe. He was a musician. He d. 15 
Dec., 1917, in Haverhill. 



268 JAMBS HOWE OF IPSWICH 

480. THOMAS HORACE, b. 29 Oct., 1850; m. in Haverhill, 24 Oct., 

1888, Delia M. George, b. 15 Feb., 1866, to Henry and Lucy 
Ann (Boynton) George. They reside in Winthrop. He is 
a bookkeeper in Boston. 

481. WILLIAM WALLACE, b. 14 Nov., 1852; d. 22 Feb., 1898; m. 20 

Sept., 1888, Helen Maria Hale, b. 14 Nov., 1855, to Matthew 
and Sarah (Jones) Hale. Her home is now with her sister 
Sawyer in Bradford. Mr. Howe was a shoe manufacturer 
and a deacon in the Boxford church. 

482. JAMES HAMILTON, b. 14 Nov., 1856; m. in 1902, in San Jose, 

Cal., Lily Eliza Cramphorn, b. in England; divorced, 1912. 
He is a pianist and organist of note, a composer and lec- 
turer. His musical ability is natural in the Howe family. 
He is a grad. of N. E. Conservatory of Music and Coll. of 
Music, Boston University; taught in the former many 
years; Dean of De Pauw Univ. 10 years, elected 1884; prom- 
inent in 1000 concerts, and directed the largest on the Pa- 
cific coast, with choruses of 1600 and commensurate orches- 
tras; author of a " Pianoforte Instructor and Technique," 
and the "Juggernaut and Dragon of Financial Specula- 
tion." Lives in Seattle, Wash. 
488. SARAH EASTMAN, b. 8 Aug., 1859. 

484. ELIZA ESTHER, b. 8 Sept., 1861. 

351. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL HOWE was born in 
Ipswich, 15 Oct., 1819, and died in Cambridge, 24 April, 
1902. He was by trade a shoemaker. He married, in 
Sanbornton, N. H., 28 Aug., 1848, Hannah Eastman 
Leavitt, born 10 Aug., 1824, in Sanbornton, to Nathaniel 
and Nancy (Eastman) Leavitt. Mrs. Howe and her 
daughter were burned to death in Cambridge, 9 March, 
1906, and were buried in Boxford. 

Children, born in Boxford : 

485. NATHANIEL LEAVITT, b. 20 June, 1849 ; d. 25 Sept., 1849. 

486. NATHANIEL LEAVITT, b. 26 May, 1851 ; m. 30 June, 1881, Su- 

sie M. Sawyer, sister to James D. Sawyer. No ohildren. 
Live in New York. 

487. NANCY ELLEN, b. 6 Mar., 1853; d. in Cambridge. 

488. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, b. 15 July, 1858; d. 6 Aug., 1859. 

352. ABEL SPOFFORD HOWE was born 18 Jan., 1822, 
in Linebrook, and died there 8 Dec., 1908. He married 
in Sanbornton, N. H., 27 Nov., 1853, Mary Jane Leavitt, 
born in Sanbornton, 5 Mar., 1828, to Nathaniel and Nancy 



AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS 269 

(Eastman) Leavitt, and died in Linebrook, 16 Feb., 1909. 
Mr. Howe built his home just opposite his birthplace, and 
succeeded to the parental farm. He extracted wealth 
from soil and woodland ; he was a good singer, and his 
fine bass voice was a valuable acquisition in the parish 
choir. 

Children : 

489. JOHN LEAVITT, b. 29 Dec., 1855; d. 18 Dec., 1902; train ex- 

pressman for the Union Pacific R. R. 22 years; accidentally 
shot while on duty. 

490. LEWIS SPOFFOBD, b. 19 July, 1858. 

491. CLABENCE EASTMAN, b. 14 June, 1862; left home for the mid- 

dle West 26 Dec., 1909, and began farming and stock-rais- 
ing. His address is Niabrara, Neb. 

355. GEORGE WASHINGTON HOWE was born in New 
York city, 1 Jan., 1834, and died in San Francisco, Cal., 
28 April, 1892. He married, in Boston, 25 Nov., 1857, 
Martha Jane Fern, who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 
31 Mar., 1831, to William and Martha (Cole) Fern, and 
who died 28 Mar., 1889, in San Francisco, Cal. He was 
manager of the printing department of the Morning Call, 
New York, for 32 years ; removed to California in 1859 ; 
joined California Lodge of Masons, No. 1,'29 June, 1871 ; 
was a wholesale merchant in that city, and proved a 
formidable candidate for mayor. 

Children : 

492. JOHN COLBY, b. 15 Oct., 1859, in San Francisco; m. there, 13 

June, 1883, Ida Sarah Mead, b. in Batavia, N. Y., 10 Jan., 
1863, to Cornelius Slingerland and Sarah (Peterson) Mead. 
He is manager of the printing department of E. C. McCnl- 
lough & Co., printers, etc., in Manila, P. I., his home since 
1899. Their only child, Mildred, b. and d. in 1884, lived 
only 9 months. 

483. LUCY FEBN, b. 25 April, 1862, in San Francisco. 

494. BENJAMIN SHELDON, b. and d. in 1865, in San Francisco. 

378. CALVIN EMERY HOWE was born in Ipswich, 10 
May, 1847. He was a traveling salesman, and died in 
Georgetown 17 Mar., 1912, where he married, 13 Dec., 
1871, Lucy Kimball Palmer, born in Georgetown, 12 



270 

Sept., 1850, to John and Hannah (Kimball) Palmer, and 
died in Georgetown, 26 Nov., 1910. 
Child : 

495. LEONARD BURTON, b. 7 Nov., 1872, in Georgetown; m. in 

Georgetown, 29 Aug., 1906, Emma Lois Herrick, b. in Som- 
erville, Mass., 21 Sept., 1878, to Samuel Killam and Emma 
Frances (Welch) Herrick. Mr. Howe is a civil engineer, 
and lives in Georgetown. Had : Richard Herrick, b. 25 
Oct., 1913. 

386. MOSES HOWE was born in Methuen, 24 June, 
1819, and died in Haverhill, 12 Jan., 1896. He married, 

11 Dec., 1842, Harriet Newell Gale, born 4 June, 1821, 
to Samuel Appleton and Mary (Foster) Gale, and died 

12 Aug., 1856. 
Children : 

496. GEORGE CALVIN, b. 13 July, 1846. 

497. SARAH GALE, b. 15 Nov., 1848. 

498. CARRIE T., b. 14 Sept., 1858. 

499. CHARLES MOSES, b. 28 Dec., 1859. 

500. CARLETON, b. 20 April, 1863. 

393. NATHANIEL SALTONSTALL HOWE was born in 
Haverhill, 28 April, 1817, and married, first, Anna Maria 
, who died 24 Sept., 1843, aged 23 years. He mar- 
ried, second, 26 May, 1846, Sarah A. Bradley, at Rox- 
bury. 

Children : 

601. SUSAN BRADLEY, b. 25 June, 1847, in Haverhill. 

502. HENRY SALTONSTALL, b. 12 Aug., 1848, in Newburyport. 

424. CHARLES HOWE was born 10 Jan., 1822, and 
died 24 April, 1879. By trade he was a blacksmith. He 
married, 1 or 8 Oct., 1849, Mary C. Currier, aged 20 
years, daughter of James Currier. His estate was set- 
tled by his will in probate. Each child had $5,844.87. 
His children then (1904) were Daniel, of Salem, N. H. ; 
Charles W., James E., Frank M., and Arthur L., of Me- 
thuen ; Fred W., of Lawrence. 

Children : 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 271 

503. DANIEL. 

504. CHARLES W. 

505. JAMES C. 

506. FRANK M. 

507. ARTHUR L. 
608. FRED W. 

427. NILES MASON HOWE was born in Methuen, 17 
April, 1810, and married (int. 18 Dec.), 1842, Sarah Jane 
Pearson of Wilmington. 

Children, born in Methuen : 

509. SARAH FRANCES, b. 4 Mar., 1844. 

510. CHARLES HENRY, b. 6 Sept., 1846. 

511. LYDIA ANN, b. 18 June, 1848. 

468. ASA PINGREE HOWE was born in Topsfield, 4 
Mar., 1852. He worked for the railroad and afterwards 
kept a stable in Ipswich, where he now resides. He mar- 
ried, 16 Jane, 1875, Clara L. Lord of Ipswich. 

Children : 

512. MABEL WILSON, b. 28 Nov., 1875, in Ipswich; m. 4 Sept., 1909, 

Harold H. Twichell of Lynn. She has one son, Percy Ev- 
erett Howe, b. in Ipswich, 6 May, 1895, and m. 28 Nov., 
1915, Suzon Schneider of Boston, who have a son Robert 
W., b. 2 July, 1S16. 

514. SAMUEL ANDREWS, b. 22 June, 1879, in Boxford; d. 18 Aug., 

1904. 

515. LIZZIE FRANCES, b. 14 Feb., 1884, in Boxford. 

516. JESSIE MAY, b. 29 April, 1887, in Boxford; m. 81 Aug., 1909, 

Harvey E. Hodgkius of Peabody. Had : (1) Clara M., b. 4 
April, 1910, d. 17 Feb., 1912; (2) Olive A., b. 9 Aug., 1912; 
(3) Eleanor F., b. 26 Feb., 1915. 

473. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS HOWE was born in Box- 
ford, 27 May, 1841, and died 30 Oct., 1917. He mar- 
ried, 3 Oct., 1866, Ellen Augusta Matthews, born in 
Algiers, opposite New Orleans, La., 11 Mar., 1847, to 
Thomas and Angetina (Killain) Matthews, and died 16 
July, 1914, in Boxford. Mr. Howe conducted a general 
store in Boxford many years, and was several terms post- 
master. He was now (1917) the oldest descendant of Capt. 
Abraham Howe of Bunker Hill fame. He d. 30 Oct., 
1917. 



272 JAMBS HOWE OF IPSWICH 

Children : 

617. ISIDOBA ELEANOR, b. 9 Oct., 1867 ; m. 1st, in Boxford, 16 
June, 1891, Frank Hibbard Messer of Stoneham, Mass., who 
d. 4 June, 1913. He was an undertaker in Andover. She 
m. 2d, in Reading, 3 Sept., 1916, Rev. George Benjamin 
Frost, b. 2 Oct., 1854, in Durham, N. H., to John Simpson 
and Sarah (Chesley) Frost. Mr. Frost is a Congregational 
clergyman in Andover. 

518. EDITH HULDAH, b. 11 Aug., 1869; m. in Andover, 30 Oct., 

1901, William Caswell Greene, b. 26 Jan., 1868, in Stone- 
ham, to Chester Williams and Caroline Caswell (Tweed) 
Greene. They reside in Laconia, N. H., where Mi. Greene 
is a jeweler. 

519. ANDREW JOHNSON, b. 28 Sept., 1871; d. 25 Jan., 1898. 

520. ELVIN AUGUSTUS, b. 1 April, 1874. 

521. OLIVER MILO, b. 20 Mar., 1876. 

522. WINDSOR HERBERT, b. 15 Aug., 1877; m. in Reading, 14 Feb., 

1905, James Fuller Vinall, b. 5 Dec., 1861, in Andover, to 
Dr. George Alfred Winslow and Harriette Bennett (Meri 
am) Vinall. Mr. Howe is trainman for the Boston & Maine 
R. R., with home in Reading. 

523. MEHTON RIVES, b. 30 April, 1879; d. 28 Mar., 1880. 

476. MARGARET HOWE was born in Boxford, 31 Mar., 
1853. She was a school teacher, and married there, 27 
April, 1876, John Monroe Perley, born in Rowley, 12 
Jan., 1844, to David Eri and Abigail Jewett (Cressey) 
Perley, and died in Wakefield. Mr. Perley was exten- 
sively engaged in the wood and coal business. 

Children : 

524. ETHEL How, b. 4 Feb., 1877. 

525. ALICE CRESSET, b. 13 Nov., 1881. 

483. SARAH EASTMAN HOWE was born in Boxford, 8 
Aug.. 1859, and married there 1 Dec., 1881, James Bridge- 
man Sawyer, born 12 Dec., 1850, to Thomas and Sophia 
Bridgeman (Howe) Sawyer. They live in Bradford, 
where he owns a large farm and milk route. 

Children : 

626. GEORGE EDWARD, b. 12 Mar., 1883; m. in Everett, Wash., 30 
Mar., 1912, Fern Leone Hinton, b. in Des Moines, la., 13 
Feb., 1892, to Charles Evard and Clara B. Hinton. Mrs. 
Sawyer is a teacher in Dilereton, Wash. Mr. Sawyer is 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 273 

U. S. Forest Ranger, with office in Robe, Wash. Their only 
child is Margorie Jean, b. 20 Dec., 1913. 

527. THOMAS HORACE, b. 26 Oct., 1884; d. 22 Mar., 1880. 

528. ESTHEB HOWE, b. 9 July, 1891; d. 3 June, 1902. 

529. EAMES EABLE, b. 30 Sept., 1893; d. 8 Oct., 1894. 

530. ROBEBT HAMILTON, b. 27 July, 1895. 

484. ELIZA ESTHER HOWE was born 8 Sept., 1861 
and married in Reading, 10 Oct., 1899, E. Horace Perley, 
born in Linebrook, 18 May, 1861, to M. V. B. and Lydia 
Maria (Pearson) Perley. As his second wife, she came 
to the care and culture of several small children, who 
now, eminently useful citizens, are proud to honor her : 
Miss R. Olive Perley, a N. H. school teacher, now taking 
a post-course in Keene Normal for higher service ; Mrs. 
Helen H. Tilton, wife of Edward C., in service of Bay 
State Railway Co., 2 sons ; Mrs. Ada I. Chadwick, wife 
of Chester J., a N. H. farmer and lumberman, 1 dau., 2 
sons ; Robert R., studying in the undertaking business in 
Brockton ; Albert E., graduate of the Mass. Nautical 
Training School, as marine engineer, was in U. S. light- 
house service, now linotype machinist on an Omaha (Neb.) 
newspaper ; Reuben N., graduate of Annapolis Naval 
Academy, Colonel (1918) in the Coast Artillery Corps 
U. S. A. 2 sons. See Perley Family History, p. 618. 

Mr. Perley is now and has been for many years a proof- 
reader on the Boston Globe. 

Child : 

531. DOBOTHY DUDLEY, b. 21 May, 1901, in Reading; Wakefield 

High School, class '19. 

490. LEWIS SPOFFORD HOWE was born in Ipswich, 19 
July, 1858, and is engaged in railroading in the West. 
He married, 28 Oct., 1886, in Fairmont, Neb., Margaret 
Anna Foulon, born in Georgetown, Ohio, 13 Feb., 1856, 
to Ferdinand Farmer and Margaret (Belander) Foulon. 
They reside in Council Bluffs. 

Children : 

532. MART ADELINE, b. 29 Sept., 1887; unm.; lives at Council 

Bluffs. 

533. JOHN LEAVITT, b. 27 Nov., 1888; is a farmer in Sionz City, 

Neb., unm. 



274 JAMES HOWE OP IPSWICH 

584. NELLIE WENTWORTH, b. 22 Feb., 1891; m. 10 Jan., 1915, Carl 
Bebensee, a farmer, son of Fred, and Johannah (Witt) 
Bebensee. Lives at Council Bluffs. 

493. LUCY FERN HOWE was born in San Francisco, 
Cal., 25 April, 1862, and died, Sunday, 18 July, 1916. 
She married there, 21 June, 1888, George Kennedy Frink, 
M. D., who was born in San Francisco, 27 June, 1860, to 
George Washington and Minerva (Kennedy) Frink. He 
is a physician and surgeon. 

Children : 

535. FERN, b. 25 Jan., 1891; d. 11 Jan., 1892. 

536. GEORGE KENNEDY, b. 14 Aug., 1892; d. 21 Feb., 1893. 

537. LUCY HOWE, b. 7 Feb., 1894; d. 5 June, 1894. 

538. LUCY HOWE, b. 29 Oct., 1895. 

539. Avis FERN, b. 12 Mar., 1899. 

540. GUERNSEY KENNETH, b. 4 May, 1904i 

496. GEORGE CALVIN HOWE was born 13 July, 1846, 
and died 14 Dec., 1912. He married in Haverhill, 14 
Oct., 1868, Frances Hooker Seeley, who was born in 
Farmington, Ct., 31 Aug., 1846, to Raymond Hoyt and 
Catherine L. (Cowles) Seeley, and died in Haverhill, 1 
Jan., 1913. Mr. Howe was a shoe manufacturer in Ha- 
verhill. 

Children : 

541. KATHERINE H., b. 20 Nov.. 1869 ; d. 1 Aug., 1870. 

542. GRACE FRANCES, b. 18 July, 1871. 
542a. NEWELL, b. 2 July, 1877; d.'l Nov., 1898. 

543. PAULINE R. I., b. 24 Jan., 1887; m., and lives in Avon, S. C. 

524. ETHEL HOWE PERLEY was born in Boxford, 4 
Feb., 1877, and graduated at Abbot Academy, Andover, 
1898. She married in Wakefield, 22 Oct., 1900, Selden 
Williams Tyler, born in Haddam, Ct., 27 Aug., 1873, to 
Williams and Melissa (Usher) Tyler. Mr. Tyler is a 
graduate of Yale, class of '95. He is department man- 
ager in manufacture in Boston, with a home in Wakefield. 

Children : 

544. WARREN PERLEY, b. 22 Oct., 1907. 

545. RUTH HOWE, b. 22 Dec., 1918. 



AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 275 

525. ALICE CRESSEY PERLET was born in George- 
town, 13 Nov., 1881. She was a student three years in 
Wellesley College, and married in Wakefield, 18 June, 
1910, William Frederick Thoman, born in New York city, 
5 Mar., 1883, to Jacob R. and Anna Elizabeth (Dorr) 
Thoman. Mr. Thoman is a graduate of Columbia College 
and also of Columbia Scientific School. He is a con- 
struction engineer, and resides at Yonkers, N. Y. 

Children : 

546. JEAN PEBLEY, b. 13 Nov., 1911. 

547. MABOABET, b. 9 Oct., 1914. 

542. GRACE FRANCES HOWE was born in Haverhill, 
18 July, 1871, and married there 14 June, 1898, Freder- 
ick Huston, M. D., who was born in Omaha, Neb., 22 
Jan., 1870, to Charles Bradley and Mary S. (Wilkins), 
and died there 2 Sept., 1908. He was a physician and 
surgeon. Mrs. Rustin resides in Concord, Mass. 

Children: 

548. How, b. 9 Aug., 1899. 

549. MABY WILKINS, b. 6 Mar., 1901. 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, 

MASS. 



( Continued from Volume LIV, page 186.} 



[Sept. 1677.] 

Ordered that for prevention of infection by any of the 
passengers in Mr. Legg's ship : that hath by the hand of 
God bin visited with the smale pox* that no passenger or 
seamen presume to Come ashoare to Boston or any 
neighboring Town till they have bin ashoare on some of 
the Islands as Deare Island Ayring themselves and 
cloathes for eight dayes on penalty of the forfeiting of 
fivety pounds apeece for any so doing untill the Council 
take further order only the woman that is neere hir time 
is at liberty to Goe on shoare on any Island or to provide 
for hirself where she best may Accomodate hir self as to 
hir condition past E R S : 

Mass. Archives, vol. 61, p. 166. 

To the Honourable Governour, Deputy Governour with 
the Worshipfull Assistants and the Deputies now Assem- 
bled in Generall Court at Boston : llth May 1681. 

The Petition of Thomas West, John Sibly and John 
Ellitrop Agents for the Town of Manchester Humbly 
Sheweth. 

That upon our Petition to the Honourable Generall 
Court in the yeare 1640 wee obtained Favour to have a 
grant of Country Land which joined to our propriety 
which Land wee injoyed and made use of by mowing the 
marsh and cutting wood on the upland as our own till 
the year 1651, and then our Town divided the Marsh by 
Lott to our Inhabitants which they then fenced in and 
have improved it every yeare by mowing and kept it 

See Sewall Diary, vol. 1, p. 48, Sept. 12, 1677, " Legg appulit." 
(276) 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 277 

within fence ever since, and also we have made use of 
the upland as our own during the space of Forty years . 
without any molestation until about two yeares since that 
Robert Knight of Marblehead laid claim to the said Land 
both Marsh & upland as being a part of Mr. Blinman's 
Farme ; your Petitioners have been Sued severall times 
by the said Knight as trespassers upon said Lands but 
have formerly cast him ; onely at the Honourable Court 
of Assistants in March last hee obteined Judgement 
against us, by meanes whereof our Land is taken away 
which is worth more than One hundred pounds, and wee 
have paid about ten pounds for costs ; which Lands be- 
sides the grant of the Generall Court hath been deter- 
mined by two Comittees appointed by the Generall Court 
to lye within our Town, upon the Setling of the bounds 
betwixt us and Glocester. 

Our humble Request to this Honourable Court is that 
yee please to grant us a hearing of our case that so we 
may finde such Releife as Equity and Justice doth call 
for in the case, and we shall humbly submit our Selves to 
what divine providence doth allot us, and pray that this 
Honourable Court may be under divine guidance and 
Assistance in all the weighty Affaires that lye before you 
Subscribing our Selves 

Your humble Suppliants and Servants 

Thomas West 
John Sibly 
John Elathorpe 

[In margin] The Deputyes Judge meete to grant a 
hearing of this Case the next 6th day at 9 of the Clock 
& that al Persons Concernd have legall notice to attend 
the same, our honoured Majistrates hereto Consenting &c. 

William Torrey Cleric 

16, May 1681 

The Magistrates consent not to hear this case any more 

John Hull per order 
May 16, 1681. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 112, p. 



278 DOCUMENTS BELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

William Bartol to Robert Bartlett 

Bounded as followeth on the Southwest with goodman 
Peach his land and on the Northeast with land of him 
the said Robert Bartlett on the Northeast fronting or 
abutting with the old high Way on the Southeast with the 
Sea it being a long Narrow slip of land of about four 
poles and halfe or five poles Broad* 
Copia vera Extracted 
dated 11 Day December 

1682 per Stephen Sewall Cleric 

In Liber 16, folio 153 [Essex Deeds.] 

Mass. Archives, vol. 40, p. 831. 

To the Honoured Generall Court sitting in Boston 
May 16, 1683.f These are to certify your Honours that 
these following persons, vizt Mr John Deveroux, Thomas 
Pitman Senior John Peach Junior Joseph Dallabar Senior 
Erasmus James Nicholas Andrews, and Robert Bartlett 
are according to our best observation and knowledge Or- 
thodox in Religion, and not vicious in their lives, and 
being Freeholders are for their owne proper estate ratea- 
ble to the Country in a single Country Rate to the value 
of ten shillings. 

Marblehead : Given under hands the 14th of May : 
1683. 

Samuell Cheever : Minister. 
19 May Admitted all per E. R. S. 

Selectmen I Samuell Ward 

for -J John Legg 

Marblehead ( Nathaniel Walton 

Our other two Selectmen vizt Thomas Pitman Senior 
and Erastus James are two of the seven above, and there- 
fore judge itt not so convenient for them to signe. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 106, p. 505. 

*See 7 Sept., 1704, Erastus James versus Proprietors of the Plain 
Farme. 
tSee Mass. Bay Records, vol. 5, p. 542. 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 279 

To the Honoured Governour with the rest of the 
Honoured Assistants The humble petition of Joseph 
Gatchell* 

Humbly Sheweth 

That whereas your petitioner stands committed a 
prisoner Charged for blasphemous words grounded from 
the Spirit of envy, against your peticioner your petitioner 
is bold humbly to begg that favour to consider of his es- 
tate and condition, his being f orct from his habitation and 
family and his wife being in that condition as expecting 
every dayes falling into travell, knows not how God may be 
pleased to dispose and order things, Beggs of your honours 
that he may not be exposed to a prisond life, to waite the 
Course of the court of Assistants comeing, but that he 
may be called forth this Court to answer what anye hath 
to charge against him, who is willing to Submitt to what 
God in his wisedome shall order. And as desirous to be 
faithfull to that charge imposed on him to Serve his 
King and country to which he is obliged, Craves that he 
may forthwith have the benefitt of Law and justice to be 
done him that is required in his majestys etc. Courts of 
Judicature. 

And your petitioner as in duty bound shall pray 

Joseph Gatchell. 

May 9th 84. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 11, p. 33. 

To his Excellencie Sir Edmund Andros Knight Cap- 
tain Generall and Governour in Chief in and over his 
Majesties Territory and Dominion of New England in 
America and the rest of the Honourable members of His 
Majesties Council now sitting in Boston the 11 of April 
1689 The humble Petition of John Marston of Salem 

Humbly Sheweth 

That whereas Collonell Gidney by order from His Excel- 
lencie did employ me to make carriages and wheeles for 
the gunns being seven for Salem and three for Marblehead 
which cost me thirty six pounds six shillings and five 
pence as will appear by my account Your Petitioner hum- 
bly requesteth Your Honours to give order to the treas- 

*See Records of the Court of Assistants, vol. 1, pp. 253-4. 



280 

urer for the imbursing him the said sum the work having 
been done about five months and there being arrears in 
the Constables hand of Salem to pay it which your Hon- 
ours shall be pleased to do. Your Petitioner shall ever- 
more pray as in duty bound etc. 

Your Honours most hum- 
ble servant John Marston 

Mass. Archives, vol. 129, p. 366. 

At a Towne Meeting at Marblehead warned May the 
20th, 1689, in pursuance of the Last Order from the 
Gouncill of Safftie, the Inhabitants off the Town off 
Marblehead doe signifie by Mr. Nathaniell Norden their 
representative, That under these present circumstances, 
finding a necessitie of Civill Government They desyre, 
and requeist, That the Governor and Assistants chosen 
and sworne in May 1686, doe reassume the exercise of 
their Government according to our former Charter Rights; 
All regard being had to securing of the prisoners in cus- 
tody, And all due thankfulnes to those gentelmen who 
interposed in that Affair that they may be Exposed to no 
inconveniencie theirby, Engaging our selves to submyt to 
such regulations and orders as they shall see meet to 
emitt. And give all needf ull assistance with our persons 
and estates, untill their can be a more orderly settlement 
of Government. 

Veri copia taken out of towne book of Marblehead 
Attest Archibald Ferguson Recorder 
John Legg 
Erasmus James. 
Mass. Archives, vol. 107, p. 4^ a ' 

[1689?] 

To the Honoured Governour and Councill and Repre- 
sentatives Sitting in Boston* 

The humble Address of the Select men of Marblehead 
most humbly shews 

Wheras under our present constitution, noe person 
hitherto hath been deputed by your honours to Solemnize 
marriages betwixt persons Lawfully published, where by 

*See Council, Court and Town Records. 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 281 

many inconveniencies, great expences, and greater disor- 
ders may arise [by] riding abroad to weddings, we re- 
queist your honours would be pleased to authorize our 
present minister of the place or such other meet person 
among us as you see meet to [cojnsummate manages 
Lawfully published, and we shall be the more obliged to 
Approve ourselves 

Your Honours humble Servants 

Archibald Ferguson Recorder 

in behalfe of the Towne. 
Mass. Archives, vol. 107, p. 158. 

Marble-head 9th of July 1689 

To the Honoured Governour and Councill and repre- 
sentatives of the Massachusetts Colony sitting in Boston 
In pursuance of an order to the Answer of a petition 
of Robert Bartlett and others of Marble-head ; we the 
underscribers have Listed our selves as Troopers, And 
giving your Honours many thanks for our dismission from 
Lynn Troop, And being a Competent Number to make a 
Troop heir of our selves ; According to your Honours 
grant and Allowance, have nominated Mr. Nathaniell 
Norden Captain, Robert Bartlett Lieftenant, Andrew 
Tucker Coronet, and Robert Goodwin quartermaster, as 
our cheif officers And earnestly desyres your Honours 
Concurrence therein, and Rests your humble Servants to 
serve our King and our Country : Mr. Nathaniell Walton 
and Elizer Ingols was chosen to bring this returne. 

Robert Bartlett Philip Parson 

Andrew Tucker Senr. Jacob Knight 

Robert Goodwin Michall Bouden 

Nathaniell Walton Eliezar Ingols 

William Peach Ambrose Gall Junr. 

William Bartlett Benjamin James 

John Pederick John Reed 

John Ridding Thomas Pennie 

Samuel Reed Joseph Swett 

Thomas Roads William Walton 

John Bartlett Senr. Benjamin Reed 

John Bartlett Junr. John Hooper Senr. 



282 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

Timothie Goodwin John Tarring? 

John Rowland John Homan 

John Deverixe Junr. Andrew Tucker Junr. 

Robert Deverixe James Hakins 

Joseph Deverixe John Norman 

John Oakes Thomas Heiskett 

John Bleanner ? Ephraim Sandir ? 

Daniel King Samuell Russell 

The persons abovesaid are allowed and Confirmed to be 
A Troop And the above Nomination of Captain & Lieu- 
tenant & Cornet and quarter master, they are also allowed 
& Confirmed by the Representatives in their Respective 
offices Attests 

July llth 1689 Ebenezer Prout : Clerk 

Consented to by the Councill 

Isa : Addington~ Secry. 
Mass. Archives, vol. 107, p. 188. 

To the Honoured Governour & Councill and Repre- 
sentatives of the Massachusetts Colony 

In pursuance of the Order for the present Stating of 
the Militia, the Inferior Officers of the Foot company of 
Marblehead finding by the removall of Capt. Ward a 
necessity of that Vacancy to be filled up, accordingly 
nominated Mr. John Legg for our Captain, Mr. James 
Dennis our Leiutenant, and Mr. Ambrose Gale Junior 
our Ensigne, present them to your Honours for your Al- 
lowance and confirmation, requesting your approbation 
thereof, and we shall remain your Honours humble Ser- 
vants 

Marble :head June : 10 : 1689 

William Woods ) Sergeants 
Nicholas Andrews \ in 1686 
in behalf of the said Company. 

The respective Officers above nominated are allowed 
and confirmed by the Governour and Councill in their 
severall offices. 

Isaac Addington Secretary 

Boston 12th July 1689 

The above mentioned officers are allowed and confirmed 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 283 

by the Representatives in there respective offices. 
July 13th 1689 Ebenezer Prout Clerk. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 107, p. 19$.. 

Att a Generall Court Holden at Boston Feb. 7th 
1689/90 whereas Severall Complaints have bin presented 
to This Court against Andover, Haverall, Amesbury, 
Wenham and Marblehead for withholding the one halfe of 
their proportion in A Single Contrey Rate (or mor) com- 
pared with other Townes of the like quantytie and quali- 
ty which amounts to neer four Hundred pounds in The 
Seaven rates and halfe 

itt is therefore ordered by this Court that the Commis- 
ioners and two of the Select Men of each of Said Townes 
be Sent for to Answer Said complaint before this Court 
to be proceeded with according to the merit of their 
Cause, allso that they have warning to bring with them 
A Copy of the List which was returned from their Se- 
lectmen by their Commissioners to their Sheir Town with 
the number of male Persons and Assessments of Estates 
as the Law Directs. 

February 7th 1689/90 

Consented unto by the 
deputies desiring the 

Consented to by the consent of our honored 

Magistrates and Thursday magestrates per order 

next the 13th of February instant Joseph Lynde 

to be the day for hearing the said Complaint 
and warrants accordingly to issue forth. 

Isaac Addington Secretary 
Mats. Archives, vol. 35, p. 



Marblehead Country Rates 

taken by the Select men and 

Commissioner the 7th of October 1689. 

The Rate of heads Amounts to ... 13:01:08 

The Rate of houses and Lands Amounts to 02:02:06 

The Rate of Estates Amounts to . . 01:09:09 

16:13:11 



284 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLBHEAD, MASS. 

Nathaniel Norden ^ 

William Woods c , n 

T> n i > Delect men 

Benjamin Gale 

Archibald Ferguson J 

Richard Reith 

Commissioner 

This is a true Copie taken this 
20th of February 1689/90 

Atest Archibald Ferguson Recorder. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 35, p. 232a. 

Whereas severall Townes have beene Complained of, 
for being short in their lists and assessments given in in 
October last, being Andover, Haverhill, Wenham, Aimes- 
bury, Marblehead, which Townes have beene ordered to 
apeare before this Court and apearing by persons by them 
sent and having beene heard what they had to say In the 
Case for themselves this Court doth order that the pen- 
alty apointed by the law title publique Charges section 
the third be taken off the severall Comissioners and 
select men of the said Townes that are defective as above 
for every ofeneder. 

Past in the affirmative by the Deputies 

Ebenezer Prout Clerk 

February 21: 1689/90. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 35, p. 2521. 

To the Much Honourable The Governour, Deputy Gov- 
ernour, Assistants and Representatives, now sitting in 
Charlestowne 

The Humble requeist of the Select men in behalf of 
the Towne of Marblehead That your honours would be 
pleased to grant two publick Houses of Entertainment to 
our said towne which we find wil be very needfull and 
shall remaine your Humble petitioners 
Nathaniell Norden 
Marble-head William Woods 



4th of March Robert Bartlett 
1689/90 Benjamin Gale 

Archibald Ferguson 



Select men 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 285 

The above Request is Granted by 
the Deputies 

Ebenezer Prout Clerk 
14th March 1689/90 

Mass. Archives, vol. 35, p. SOIb. 

The Address of Sundry well disposed persons of Marble- 
head 
To the Honourable Generall Court now Setting att 

Charlestowne 

This present information from Sundry of the Inhab- 
itants of Marble-head Loyall Subjects to their Majesties 
King William and Queen Mary, and true and faithfull 
Subjects to this present Government established : whose 
Authority we desire to Maintaine, both with our persons 
and estates, and wishing prosperity and settlement and 
that wee amongst other Townes of this Collony may en- 
joy dayes of peace Tranquility and safety under the con- 
duct of soe faithfull and good a Government. Being 
sensible of the distractions and confusions and animosi- 
tyes of Spirit that are att this time among us when we 
have such unspeakable reason to be most Afectionately 
United and to Joyn as one for the preservation of the 
peace att home and for the defence of our selves our 
Familyes and estates from Invasion of foreign French 
Enemies that may assault us, which our Town in aspeciall 
manner is most obnoxious unto, and it being notorious 
and evident that there is not that care and prudence taken 
for the Marshalling ovr souldery and to see that every 
man respectively is furnished with armes and ammunition 
as the Law directs and the Towne soe supplied that we 
may be in a posture of defence when their may be any 
suddain Invasion or inroads by our Enemies : These 
mighty considerations embolden us to acquaint this hon- 
oured Court our Fathers and conservators of our peace 
thatt there may be a speedy enquirey into the state of our 
affaires that soe care might be taken for our Redress that 
soe we might nott goe in and out with fear and distrac- 
tion. In the name and with the Consent of Sundry of 
our neighbours and Inhabitants 



286 DOCUMENTS KELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

per Nathaniel Norden 
Robert Bartlett 
Nathan Walton 
Erastus James 
March the 14th 1689/90 

Mass. Archives, vol. 35, p. 303. 

This Court being informed that it will be for their 
Majesties Service It is therefore Ordered that the Soul- 
diers in Salem now under the Command of Captain John 
Price and Captain Stephen Sewall, be equally laid into 
Four Companies, by the Militia of said Town 

And the Trained Souldiers in Marblehead are to be 
equally divided to make Two Companies, by Major Ged- 
ney, and the Militia of said Marblehead. And Marble- 
head-Troop is hereby dismissed. And the said Two Com- 
panies are to be under the Command of Captain John 
Legg and Captain Nathanael Norden. 

Voted by the Magistrates in the Affirmative 

Isaac Addington Secretary. 
15th March, 1689. 

Consented to by the Deputies 

Penn Townsend per order. 
Mass. Arehives, vol. 35, p. 314b. 

Captaine John Alden making return that pursuant to 
an Order of the Governour and Council he repaired un to 
Marblehead to Impress and bring about to Boston the 
Guns belonging to Captaine Cratys Ship for their Majes- 
ties Service, And demanding the same was opposed by 
sundry of the People of said Town of Marblehead being 
gathered together in a riotous and tumultuous manner 
haveing A Drum amongst them to the high contempt of 
their Majesties Authority and tending to mutiny and se- 
dition 

These are in their Majesties names to will and require 
you to warn Captaine John Legg Captaine Nathaniell 
Norden and the Others the Common Officers Selectmen 
and Drummers of the said Town of Marblehead to ap- 
pear before the Generall Court Sitting in Boston on 
Wensday the morrow the 16th instant at one oclock to 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 287 

answer what ghalbe objected against them on their Majes- 
ties behalfe respecting the premises, hereof make return 
and faile not 

Dated in Boston the 15th day of July 1690 Anno-R- 
et Regina Gulielmi et Maria Angliae etc. Secundo. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 36, p. 162a. 

Whereas Marblehead have opposed the Officer Captain 
John Aldin sent by the Councill to fetch the Great Guns 
for their Majesties service to Canada 

Voted, that Captain Leg and Captain Norden be forth- 
with sent for to answer their suffering the drums being 
beat, and not suppressing the Insurrection of the people 
whereby the Officer was obstructed in their Majesties 
business In the designed Expedition for Canada past in 
the Affirmative be the Deputies 

Nehemiah Jewett per Order 

15th July 1690. C 

Mass. Archives, vol. 36, p. 163. 

To the Honoured the Governour and Councill sitting 
in Boston The humble Address of the Selectmen of 
Marblehead in behalfe of the Towne 
Most humbly offers 

Whereas the Honoured Generall Court (as we have 
understood) was pleased, as to other Seaport Towns in 
our Circumstances so to grant to us likewise upon our 
Request, two single Rates out of the ten Rates which we 
were assessed with last Summer, towards reimbursing of 
us for our Charges upon our Fort, which by our bill of 
sundry es, though not the whole will appear considerable ; 
And our Constables notwithstanding being not able to 
procure and order from the Countrey Treasurer to make 
payment of the same when collected to the Selectmen, 
We are therefore necessitated to make our humble Appli- 
cation to your Honours, that you would be pleased to 
consider of our case, and pass your order to the Treas- 
urer, that as much may by him be signified to our Consta- 
bles, that our Credit which by reason of our miserable 
poverty runs so exceeding low with merchants and work- 
men to whom we still stand much endebted for the bill of 



288 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

Parcells annexed hereto may not be absolutely lost and 
ourselves ruined ; Your releaf in this matter, shall the 
more oblige us, as in duty bound to pray etc. 

Your Honours most humble Servants 
Marble-head March : 3 : John Pittman 

1690/1 : Ambrose Gale 

John Stasey 
Samuell Russell 

Selecktt men 
[Backed] Marblehead Selectmen Motion and Accompt 

1690 
To the Worshipfull 

Isaac Addington Esq. 

Secretary for the Countrey 
Mass. Archives, vol. 36, p. 



[3 March 1690/1] 

To Sundrey Disbursements by the Town of Marblehead: 
To plank and Boards for the forte 05:02:00 

To Iron Work to John Weldron 03:09:00 

To the frayte of 2 grate guns from Boston 01:00:00 

To timber for the forte and Hous to put arno- 

nishon in 10:10:00 

To four Barrells of Powder aytt-pound per Barell 32:16:00 
To Careges for 2 grate guns and other metarels 

for the guns 07:00:00 

To Shott for the guns 02:08:00 

62:05:00 
Per order of the Selecktt men by me 

Ambrose Gale Junior Clerk. 
Mass. Archives, vol. 36, p. 

(To be continued.) 




THE PLAINS: PART OF SALEM IN 1700 



HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 

OF THE 

ESSEX INSTITUTE 

VOL. LIV. OCTOBER, 1918. No. 4 

THE PLAINS: PART OF SALEM IN 1700. 

BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 



THIS section of Salem in 1700 is now the central part 
of Danvers. It extends from Waters' river on the south 
to the Topsfield line on the north, a distance of about four 
miles, and from Whipple's hill on the west to the Frost 
Fish stream on the east, a distance of about two miles, 
and comprises an area of about seven square miles. 

This is the eastern end or side of the district of Dan- 
vers as it was bounded in 1752. 

The Ipswich road was the southern boundary of the 
Salem Village parish. 

Smith's hill, over which runs the line between Danvers 
and Topsfield, was so called very early, because it was 
included within the grant of Thomas Smith in 1639. 

Solomon's hill, near Blind hole, was so called as early 
as 1716. Blind hole is mentioned by that name in 1660. 

Davenport's hill was so called very early because it 
was included within the grant to Capt. Richard Daven- 
port, afterwards Putnam's hill when it belonged to the 
Putnams. 

Porter's river was so called because John Porter owned 
all the land on its western side from 1646. Above Conant 
street, the stream was known from a very early date as 
Frost Fish brook or river, from the fact, it is said, that 

(2S9) 



290 THE PLAINS: PART OF SALEM IN 1700, 

frost fish were very abundant in its waters. It was so 
called as early as 1637. 

Crane river was called Duck river in 1632, and Crane 
river as early as 1650. Beaver brook, which is one of 
the sources of Crane river, was so called very early in the 
settlement of Salem Village, and was called the great 
brook in 1800. 

The most ancient highway through this region was the 
old Ipswich road so called, running from Boston to 
Ipswich, having been laid out in 1643. It is now known, 
in its several parts, as Ash, Elm and Conant streets. The 
Ash street section was called the country road in 1741 ; 
Ipswich road in 1759 ; the country road on Porter's 
plains in 1783 ; the highway leading from Putnam's tav- 
ern to Leech's tavern in 1806 ; the old road leading from 
Danvers to Salem in 1850 ; and Ash street in 1854. Elm 
street was called ye country road in 1741 ; Ipswich road 
in 1782 ; and Elm street in 1872. Conant street was 
called Ipswich road in 1715; Willow street in 1872; and 
Conant street in 1882. The bridge over Crane river at 
Ash street was probably constructed about 1685. In the 
county court, under date of Feb. 25, 1650-1, is the record : 
" Town of Salem, presented for want of a foot bridge at 
Crane river, ordered to make it, on penalty of X5."* 
Nothing was done about its construction immediately, so 
far as the records of the town show. The bridge is men- 
tioned in 1692. 

High street was laid out before 1780 ; and was called 
the road leading to the new mills in 1783 ; the county 
road in 1784 ; the highway leading to Salem in 1794 ; the 
road from Gideon Putnam's tavern to Salem by the neck 
so called in 1794 ; the road leading from Putnam's tavern 
to the neck so called in 1796 ; the road leading from Salem 
to Topsfield in 1810 ; the Salem road in 1815 ; the road 
leading from New mills to Topsfield in 1849; and High 
street in 1850. 

Water street was called the highway running by the 
new mills in 1780 ; and Water street in 1872. 

Purchase street was so called in 1854. 

Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, vol" 
ume I, page 208. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 291 

Park street was so called in 1850. 

Sylvan street was so called in 1854. 

That part of Maple street between the Square and Lo- 
cust street and Locust street comprised the highway to 
Topsfield laid out by the county court Oct. 22, 1657, 
as follows : 

the 22. 8. 57 

We hose names ar under written being apointed by the too 
Tonnes to lay out a cuntrie way betwine the too Townes Salem & 
Topsfeld we began vpon John Porters farrue accordinge as the 
trees ar marked and so alonge vpon Daniell Rayes farme too pole brod 
and so thoroh the woods to a farme of John Porters wich was for- 
merly mr Kenistones and so thoroh the woods to a farme of John 
Porters wich was formerly mr Donnings and so thoroh the woods to 
the Rever against Gudman Tonnes house and this we have done 
accordinge to our best descresion 

JOHN PORTER 
WILLIAM DODGE 
THOMAS BORMAN 
FRANCES PABODT 

This was alowed of by the court (as it is layd out) held at Salem 
29th of June 1658 

ROBERT LORD cleric* 

Its course was practically the same as now, except at 
two places. At Porter's hill it went around a part of the 
hill to the west, and just northerly of the point where the 
new Valley road, so called, connects with it it made a 
slight detour to the right. In each of these two places 
the road has been straightened, the former place before 
1810, and the other before 1869. Jt was called the Tops- 
field road in 1720 ; the country highway in 1722; the 
highway leading from Salem to Topsfield in 1774 ; the 
country road leading from Haverhill to Salem in 1807 ; 
the main road in 1841 ; the road leading from Danvers 
Plains so called to Topsfield in 1850 ; and that part now 
Locust street was so called in 1857. 

Wenham street was in existence as early as 1646, when 
it was called a way from John Porter's farm to Wenham, 
being called the Wenham road in 1815 ; and Wenham 
street in 1882. 

North street was in existence in 1683. It was called 
the highway leading to Topsfield in 1772 ; the county road 

""Original on file in the office of the clerk of courts, at Salem, and 
printed in the Quarterly Court Records and Files of Essex County, 
volume II, page 105. 



292 THE PLAINS : PART OF SALEM IN 1700, 

leading from Salem toTopsfield in 1813 ; the road leading 
from the Newburyport turnpike to the brick schoolhouse 
in 1862 ; and North street in 1865. 

Summer street is an ancient way. It was called the 
highway in 1714 ; the way called Blind Hole road in 1780 ; 
the country road leading to Topsfield in 1829 ; and Sum- 
mer street in 1866. 

The Newburyport and Boston turnpike, indicated upon 
the map by parallel lines of dashes, was laid out in 1803. 
It was called the county road in 1867 ; and Newbury 
street in 1875. 

Nichols and Pine streets and that part of Maple street 
which connects them probably constituted the highway 
that was laid out under the order of the selectmen of 
Salem, dated July 10, 1650, viz.: 

william Dodg Jacob Barney and Nathanell Putnam are apoynted 
to lay out the hie way ffrom the fEurther syde of that ffarme that 
was mr Bishops now in the hands of John Porter vnto Crane 
Riuer.* 

The selectmen of Salem, June 8, 1657, 

Ordered that John Porter and Thomas Putnam shall forthwi th 
make such repayre of a highway leading from mr John Endicots his 
farnie to goodman huchissons house as in their discressions they 
shall Judg meete & to be paid by the towne.t 

The selectmen of Salem, June 10, 1668, 

Ordered that a highway shalbe layd out beginginge at Rich Huch- 
enfons feild and foe to run to the beauer dame neare to Serg Porters 
meadow & fo to the extend of the bounds and w m flint & ferg Rich 
Leech ar Impowrd to lay it out, and to make a return to the felect 
men.t 

Oct. 22, 1668, Messrs. Flint and Leech made the fol- 
lowing return of the laying out of this new way : 

By an order of the selectmen dated the 10 4 mo 68 Sergant lech & 
Willum flint were to laye out a hiewaye from Richard Ilutchsones 
f eeld to the extent of the boundes the way is layed out as f oleth : 
from a great whit oak stump be twixt the said hutchsons feld where 
the waye turnes to beuer dam we apoynt the waye to Rune where it 
is to the top of the hill neare where free mens hous was & so by 

Salem Town Records, volume I, page 165 (printed). 
tSalem Town Records, volume I, page 200 (printed). 
JSalem Town Records, volume II, page 103. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 293 

the side of the fil to two trees at beuer dam : the trees be one on 
one sid the brouk & the other on the other sid neare the bound tree 
betwixt Tho Putnam & Robert Prince & from there to the uper end 
of Thomas Putnams feld two pole with ont the fenc to a bound tree 
that be longes to Tho Putnam Robert Princ Jo Putnam & henry 
keney the stump to be in the midel of the hieway & the way to Run 
straight from thenc betwixt two walennt trees marked entring in to 
a ualea on the East sid of Tho Putnams bound tree : & from the 
north end of the ualea to a rock neare mr Rnkes boundes that is in 
the way with a litel tre marked on the south East sid the waye neare 
the Rock from thenc Gros mr Ruckes land as the waye Runes to a 
Red oake marked neare to a great whit oake burned at the bottom 
that stands neare about the line be twixt nath Putnam & mr. Ruck 
& this hiway to be tow pole wid from one end to the other witnes 
our handes 22th Smo 68 

WILLIAM FLINT 
the mak of RICHARD LEACH.* 

Dec. 1, 1670, John Porter, sr., agreed with John and 
Joseph Hutchinson that the latter two have liberty to 
set up a saw mill on the dam, " pvided that they dam not 
upp the water until! the first of Novemb* and that they 
lett it out on the tenth of the second m followinge that 
by longer stoppinge the water the sd Porters meadow doe 
not suffer damage unless the sd Porter shall consent to 
any longer time. That soe longe as the sd Hutchinsons 
doe continue a mill on that dam they doe consent and 
agree to maintaine and preserue the sd dam and sluce at 
theire owne charge," etc.f Lt. Thomas Putnam complained 
that the Hutchinsons allowed the highway at Beaver dam 
to be unsafe and impassable for travelers by reason of 
the mill and dam ; and, after hearing, March 26, 1672, 
the Ipswich court ordered that the dam be pulled down, 
so as to make the way passable, or else sufficiently repair 
it. In his complaint, Lieutenant Putnam declared that 
as he was riding over the causeway and bridge here at 
Beaver dam the water had so washed away the gravel on 
the causeway that his horse fell in with his hind legs ; that 
" Allso I haue no cart way ouer : the bridg is part of 
it Careyed out the Place : there is no fout way ouer but 
by wadding : the Cunstebel nath Ingrson Com to my house 
& said he was faint to put ofe his shoues & stockinges to 

Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, rol- 
nme V, page 26. 

"Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, vol- 
ume V, page 27. 



294 THE PLAINS : PART OF SALEM IN 1700, 

Com ouer : I was greatly depriued of my neborhod ; I 
am also depriued of the benefit of my on land where 1 
formerly liued hauing Eight or tenn akers fenced in that 
hath much Inglish gras for sheep & lames & nether sheep 
nor lames Can pase in the hieway with safty at beuer 
dam : I was faint to Carey my goodes to toune on horse 
bake that went with mr grafton wich is a great damag to 
me to go so often : & if I should be shut up wich I shall 
if they Can for ther Counant with John Porter senor is 
from a bout the first of nouember to the tenth of apriel : 
to be this long kept Prisnor will be the way to Ruene me 
& mine for euer, hauing no other way laid out to my 
farme but that : & they that spoyle the way Is Joseph 
huchinson & John huchinson by stoping the water with 
there dam at there saw mill from time to time before the 
mill went & sine," etc.* 

William Nichols and John Nichols, both of Topsfield, 
and Zachery Curtis of Rowley (Boxford) also complained 
of " want of the hiewaye at beuer dam wich is there waye 
to salam to the in Joyeing godes ordenences to the mill & 
to the market : the bridg being part of it Careyed out of 
the Place the water being Rased neare a foote aboue the 
timber that is left : the water being Rased in the hiewaye 
neare twelue fete together except upone on banke wich 
is a verey great damag unto them in there busines & 
might be a great damag to there Cattel & there one per- 
sones if they should venter ouer wich they dare not do : 
there fore they humbly sue for relefe it being both a 
toune & Cuntry hiewaye."f 

William Nichols deposed that " he was Riding to Mr. 
Endecottes & henry keney told him he Could not get ouer 
at beuer dam : but I Road to se & when I Came there the 
water was Rased so hie with the dam stoping of it at the 
sae mill : . . . I durst not Rid ouer the bridg but went 
about by John Putnams : & sine I was Riding to mill 
with a grist & durst not Rid ouer but went with my grist 
by John Putnams : I haue Corne to Carey to Salem with 

*Kecords and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, vol- 
ume V, page 25. 

tRecords and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, vol- 
ume V, page 26. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 295 

my Cart the bridge at beuer dam is so spoyled that I Can 
not go ouer with my cart : & haue no other way but that 
exept I go a great way about where is wores way for me 
& my oxen than that was : the time that I have bin put 
by at this bridg hath bine this mo. of March 71-72."* 

This mill was probably removed down stream about 
thirty rods at this time or soon after. 

Nichols street was called a county road in 1854 ; and 
Nichols street in 1882. 

Pine street was called the highway in 1718 ; ye path in 
1734 ; ye country road in 1758 ; a road leading to Salem 
in 1785 ; road leading to Middleton in 1842 ; and Pine 
street in 1855. Giles bridge on Pine street was so called 
in 1718. 

Maple street was called the highway (near Forest 
street) in 1709 ; the Topsfield road (near the Square) in 
1754 ; a road leading to Beverly in 1785 ; the county 
road leading to Middleton in 1853 ; the Middleton road 
in 1866 ; and Maple street in the same year. The bridge 
over the brook near Vineyard street was built before 
1763. Vineyard street was there as early as 1734; and 
was so called in 1879. 

Forest street was laid out in 1675 as a way to the Vil- 
lage meeting house. It was called ye highway laid out 
from Beaver dam to ye meeting house in 1705 ; and For- 
est street in 1882. 

Hobart street was so called in 1858. 

Holten street was called the road leading from the 
Holten place to the Plains in 1836 ; Village street in 
1844 ; and Holten street in 1872. 

Cherry street was so called in 1844. 

Essex street was called Ropes street in 1845. 

Putnam street was called a new street in 1859 ; and 
Putnam street in 1882. 

The Burial Place. This is probably the oldest burial 
place in Danvers. Probably the earlier Porters and Put- 
nams were buried here. The oldest stones now standing 
in it are of the family of Jonathan Putnam, and bear 
dates of 1682. 

Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, vol- 
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296 THE PLAINS: PART OP SALEM IN 1700, 

Estate of John Porter Lot. This tract of land was the 
grant made to Rev. Samuel Skelton, pastor of the church 
in Salem, by the general court, July 3, 1632, being de- 
scribed in the record of the grant as a ' necke of land, 
lyeing aboute 3 myles fro Salem, cont aboute 200 ac., . . 
called by the Indeans Wahquack, bounded on the south 
vpon a little ryv r called by the Indeans Conamabsqnoon- 
cant ; vpon the north abutting on another ryver, called 
by the Indeans Pouomeneuhcant; & on the east, on the 
same ryv r ."* 

A caveat of the sale of one neck of land in Salem, lying 
between Crane river and Woolastons river, by Samuel 
Skelton, for forty-one pounds, to John Porter of Salem, 
reserving to said Samuel Skelton sixty acres of said neck 
lying further west, is recorded, dated March 8, 1649.f 

John Porter died Sept. 6, 1676, possessed of the tract, 
which was then appraised at four hundred pounds. He 
gave in his will sixty acres, that had been received of Mr. 
Skelton's daughter, to his son Israel Porter ; and the re- 
maining one hundred and fifty acres to his sons Joseph, 
Benjamin and Israel. This neck remained undivided 
until 1716, when a division occurred according to a plan 
on file in the office of the probate court at Salem, which 
plan is herewith reproduced. 

Upon Crane river, at the old Ipswich road, was erected 
a saw mill by John Porter and Mr. Endecott before 1673. 
In John Porter's will, proved in 1676, his interest in it 
was devised to his son Israel Porter, who probably owned 
it in 1700. 

Israel Porter House. This tract of land was the three 
hundred acres granted by the town of Salem to Elder 
Samuel Sharp Jan. 23, 1636-7 ; and was conveyed by him 
to John Porter of Salem, yeoman, for one hundred and 
ten pounds, Sept. 12, 16464 Mr. Porter built a house 
thereon, and died Sept. 6, 1676, having in his will devised 
the land and buildings to his son Israel Porter. The 
dwelling house, barn and land were then appraised at six 

Records of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, volume I, 
page 97. 

fEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 8. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 3. 




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BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 297 

hundred pounds. Israel Porter lived here, and died Nov. 
, 1706, having devised his housing and lands to his son 
Benjamin, subject to the life estate of his wife in one-half 
of the same. Benjamin Porter died Dec. , 1726, having 
in his will devised this real estate to his sons John and 
Benjamin Porter, both of Salem, yeomen. John Porter 
released the buildings and land to his brother Benjamin 
Porter April 8, 1741.* Benjamin Porter lived here, and 
died June 10, 1794, possessed of the house and land. The 
real estate was divided April 2, 1796; and the western 
half of the house and land around it was assigned to his 
daughter Huldah Kimball, wife of Thomas Kimball of 
Wenham, and the other half of the house to her brother 
James Porter. Mrs. Kimball and her husband conveyed 
her part of the house and land to Caleb Oakes of Dan- 
vers, cordwainer, Feb. 29, 1796. f Mr. Oakes fell from 
his barn window Sept. 19, 1831, and died in an hour or 
two, leaving children, William, Nancy and Mehitable. 
His widow Mehitable died in 1837. William Oakes of 
Ipswich, esquire, conveyed his one-third interest in the 
house and land to his sister Nancy Oakes of Danvers, sin- 
glewoman, Feb. 8, 18384 Nancy Oakes became insane, 
and her guardian, John G. King, conveyed her two-thirds 
interest in the estate to Alfred Trask of Danvers, drover, 
July 6, 1849 ; and on the same day her sister, Mehitable 
O. Williams of Salem, widow of John S. Williams, re- 
leased her interest to Mr. Trask. || Mr. Trask owned the 
house when it was destroyed by fire Sept. 19, 1865, the 
anniversary of Mr. Oakes' fatality. The following ac- 
count of the fire was given in the South Danvers Wizard, 
in its issue of Sept. 27, 1865 : 

FIRE IK DANVERS. About eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, of 
last week, there -was an alarm of fire, caused by the burning of the 
old Jacobs 1 house, long unoccupied, near the Universalist church, 
Danvers. 

The house faced toward the south, and was two stories in 
height, with a lean to. The front door was midway of the 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 81, leaf 154. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 160, leaf 189. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 310, leaf 242. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 413, leaf 289. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 413, leaf 290. 



298 THE PLAINS : PART OF SALEM IN 1700, 

house, with large rooms on either side in both stories, and 
each of these rooms had two windows in front. There 
was a window over the front door, in the upper hall. The 
chimney was of immense size, and furnished large fire- 
places in each of the chambers and the front rooms down 
stairs. The kitchen fireplace was also great. There were 
doors in each end of the house, and on the eastern end a 
small entry. Each gable contained a small window, and 
each room in the main part of the house had one window 
in either end. The kitchen also had a window at each end 
of the leanto. The walls of the front and ends of the 
house were lined with brick its full height. 

The well was located near the northeastern corner of 
the house. 

Nathaniel Putnam House. The southwestern portion of 
this lot of land was conveyed by Richard Hutchinson to 
Nathaniel Putnam in 1651.* The remainder of the lot is 
the hundred acres of land which was granted by the town 
of Salem to John Putnam of Salem, yeoman, Jan. 20, 
1640-1, it being described as "one hundred acres of land 
at the head of Mr. Skelton's ffarme betweene it & Elias 
Stileman the elder his ffarme, if there be an hundred 
acres of it." Mr. Putnam conveyed one-half of the lot 
to his son Nathaniel Putnam of Salem March 2, 1653- 4,f 
and the other half was conveyed to Nathaniel by his 
brothers Thomas and John Putnam of Salem, farmers, 
with their father's consent, April 17, 1662.$ Nathaniel 
Putnam built a dwelling house upon the lot, in which he 
lived. He died July 23, 1700, having devised "the farm 
where I now dwell " to his son Benjamin Putnam. Capt. 
Benjamin Putnam died in 1715(?), having devised to his 
sons Nathaniel and Tar rant Putnam *' the ffarm I now 
dwell upon." Tarrant Putnam had the buildings and 
land, and he died in 1732. The buildings and seventy 
acres of laud were then appraised at eight hundred and 
seventy-five pounds. The northern part of the house, 
which was two stories in height and large, was assigned 
to his widow Elizabeth as a part of her dower July 18, 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 17. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 57. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 56. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 299 

1757 ; and the southern part to his son Gideon Putnam. 
Gideon Putnam became the sole owner of the house and 
land around it; and he died May 17, 1811. The estate 
then descended to his son Judge Samuel Putnam, who 
removed the old house in 1818. 

The lot marked " Pease's meadow " was conveyed by 
John Pease to Richard Hutchinson of Salem, husband- 
man, who conveyed it to his son Joseph Hutchinson of 
Salem, yeoman, in 1666.* Joseph Hutchinson owned it 
in 1700. 

Sarah Whipple House. Richard Hutchinson of Salem, 
husbandman, for love, conveyed to his son John Hutchin- 
son of Salem " my now dwelling house," barn and land, 
May 16, 1666.f John Hutchinson was dead in the sum- 
mer of 1676, at the age of thirty-three, and the estate 
descended to his only child Sarah, who was then only 
three years of age. She married Joseph Whipple in 1691 ; 
and lived in this house. She and her husband, for love, 
conveyed to their son Joseph Whipple of Salem, yeoman, 
the western half of the house and land on its western 
side Dec. 31, 1726;:}: and the rest of the house, barn and 
land " where I now live " Dec. 2, 1734. Dea. Joseph 
Whipple died in the summer of 1740. The house faced 
the south, was two-storied, and then called a small house. 
His wife survived him, and married, secondly, Solomon 
Martain of Andover. The real estate was assigned to 
their eldest son Matthew Whipple April 20, 1752. The 
house was then described as " an Old Houfe Eflemeed 
Uninhabitable." Matthew Whipple lived here, and died 
June 26, 1756. His widow Sarah married, secondly, Sam- 
uel Herrick of Reading Oct. 13, 1761. In the appraisal 
of Mr. Whipple's estate, the dwelling is called " an old 
house." The title descended to his son Matthew Whip- 
pie, who died in 1783. His widow and administratrix, 
Mercy Whipple, conveyed four-sixths of the house and 
land assigned as dower to her husband's mother to James 
Smith of Danvers, yeoman, Nov. 29, 1785. || The house 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 18. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 120. 
{Essex Registry of Deeds, book 67, leaf 231. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 67, leaf 232. 
'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 147, leaf 284. 



300 THE PLAINS : PART OP SALEM IN 1700, 

was standing in 1798,* and is said to have been removed 
about 1808, when the highway was straightened. It 
stood in the course of the new road, as it now runs, about 
two hundred feet westerly of the present railroad bridge 
on Maple street. 

Benjamin Porter Lot. This lot was probably the one 
hundred acres granted by the town of Salem to John 
Stratton of Salem March 31, 1638. f But he went away, 
and the grant was made over to Daniel Denison of Ipswich, 
esquire, and afterwards conveyed to Simon Bradstreet of 
Boston, esquire. Nov. 27, 1656, the selectmen of Salem 
laid it out " as conveniently as may be for Serg. Jn 
Porter.''^ Sergeant Porter had already bought this land 
of Mr. Bradstreet, but no deed was passed until Feb. 11, 
1679. 

The one and a half acres of meadow land on the west- 
erly side of the brook was conveyed by John Hutchinson 
of Salem to John Porter, sr., of Salem, farmer, Nov. 30, 
1670. || It had been a part of the grantor's " father Rich- 
ard Huchessons fence, that was given to him by the Towne 
of Salem." 

Sergeant Porter died Sept. 6, 1676, having devised the 
entire lot to his son Benjamin Porter, who owned it in 
1700. 

James Prince House. This was the eastern part of the 
one hundred and fifty acres granted to William Pester by 
the town of Salem July 16, 1638. It belonged to Wil- 
liam Trask of Salem Dec. 20, 1655, when he conveyed it 
to Robert Prince of Salem.^f Mr. Prince built a house 
upon the lot and lived in it. He died June 4, 1674, 
having devised to his sons James and Joseph Prince " all 
my houses and fences and land." They were both under 
age, and the land was to be divided when they became of 
age. His widow Sarah was to " have the hous and land 
untille my sons Come unto age," etc. Mrs. Prince mar- 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 164, leaf 87. 
tSalem Town Records, volume I, page 68 (printed). 
{Salem Town Records, volume I, page 194 (printed). 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 7, leaf 16. 
IIEssex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 78. 
TTEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 51. 



BY SIDNEY PERLBY. 301 

ried, secondly, Alexander Os borne, an Irishman, who 
vainly attempted to hold the property after the boys were 
of age. She was bedridden, and convicted as a witch. 
She died in Boston jail May 10, 1692. The sons divided 
the estate May 21, 1696, this part, with the house there- 
on, being assigned to James Prince.* Jaines Prince lived 
here, being a yeoman, and died in 1724, having devised 
the estate to his sons James and David, both of Salem, 
yeomen. These brothers made a division of the estate 
April 5, 1727, and the buildings and land around them 
were released to James Prince, f James Prince lived 
here, and died in 1775. In his will he devised the estate 
to his sons David and John. The buildings and one hun- 
dred and ten acres of land were then appraised at eleven 
hundred pounds. David Prince of Danvers, cordwainer, 
died Jan. 28, 1797, having in his will devised his interest 
in the place to his brother John Prince of Danvers. John 
Prince of Danvers, yeoman, conveyed the farm and build- 
ings to Nathan Peirce of Salem Jan. 6, 1800 ;:{: and thus 
the old homestead went out of the possession of the fam- 
ily. Mr. Peirce never lived here probably, and died pos- 
sessed of the place in 1812. He left a will which had 
but two witnesses, and was therefore not allowed by the 
court ; but as the heirs-at-law requested in writing that it 
be allowed it was recorded. In it, this farm was devised 
to his son George Peirce of Salem, merchant. June 1, 
1812, Rebecca Peirce, widow of the deceased, and Sarah 
Needham, widow, Nathan Peirce, merchant, Stephen Phil- 
lips, merchant, and wife Elizabeth, and Samuel Upton, 
merchant, and wife Rebecca, in a division of the estate, 
released this farm to George Prince, in compliance with 
the terms of the will. George Peirce died in 1822, 
probably never having lived here. In his will, he devised 
all his estate to his wife Elizabeth. She died in March, 
1826, intestate, and the property descended to her chil- 
dren, George, William Putnam, Elizabeth Phillips, Sarah 
Rebecca and Susan Clark, all minors. Their guardian, 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 38, leaf 54. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 51, leaf 213. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 166, leaf 133. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 197, leaf 32. 



802 THE PLAINS: PART OF SALEM IN 1700, 

Michael Shepard of Salem, merchant, conveyed the farm, 
with the dwelling house thereon, to Stephen Phillips of 
Salem, merchant, July 7, 1826.* Mr. Phillips never 
lived here probably, and conveyed it to Charles Law- 
rence and George W. Endicott, both of Salem, mer- 
chants, July 7, 1838.f These grantees conveyed 
three-fourths of their interest in the estate to Abby 
P. Lawrence, Eliza C. Lawrence and Mary N. Lawrence, 
all of Salem, singlewomen, Sept. 17, 1838 ;J and the re- 
maining quarter to Abigail Lawrence of Salem, widow, 
Sept. 7, 1838. Charles Lawrence, Eliza C. Lawrence 
and Mary N. Lawrence, all of Danvers, Abel Lawrence, 
Abel L. Peirson and wife Harriet,Mary W. Lawrence, Car- 
oline W. Lawrence, Elizabeth C. Lawrence, Edward B. 
Lawrence, Abel L. Pierson, jr., Abby L. Peirson and 
Harriet L. Peirson, all of Salem, Benjamin Perkins and 
wife Jane L., Charles L. Perkins, Benjamin Perkins, jr., 
Mary L. Perkins, Jane L. Perkins, jr., Francis B. Perkins 
and George E. Perkins, all of Roxbury, conveyed the 
estate to George Nichols, jr., of Salem, tanner, April 5, 
1853. || Mr. Nichols removed to this farm and became a 
farmer ; and, for eighty-five hundred dollars, conveyed 
the land and buildings to Stephen Driver of Salem, shoe 
manufacturer, Nov. 18, 1854.*|~ To this date, the second 
story of the house projected over the first story the cus- 
tomary distance, and Mr. Driver built out the first story 
to make it even with the second, except for a slight dis- 
tance a few inches were left overhanging at the western 
end. The rooms were not enlarged, however, the inside 
of the wall not being changed. Mr. Driver died Sept. 16, 
1868, intestate, leaving widow Susan P. Driver and chil- 
dren Helen E. Brooks, wife of David Brainard Brooks, 
and Stephen P. Driver, all of Salem, Susan S. Driver of 
Danvers, George H. S. Driver and Samuel Driver, both 
of Lynn, and William P. Fuller and Helen E. Fuller, 
children of a deceased daughter M. B. Fuller. The farm 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 242, leaf 36. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 307, leaf 64. 
| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 308, leaf 155. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 308, leaf 156. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 476, leaf 95. 
TfEssex Registry of Deeds, book 503, leaf 169. 



BY SIDNEY PEELEY. 308 

then consisted of the house, etc., and one hundred and 
twelve acres of land, and was appraised at twelve thousand 
dollars. Susan P. Driver, widow, Stephen P. Driver, 
David Brainard Brooks and wife Helen E. Brooks, Susan 
S. Driver, singlewoman, and William P. Fuller, the 
younger, all of Salem, and George H. S. Driver and Sam- 
uel Driver, both of Lynn, for twelve thousand and five 
hundred dollars, conveyed the estate to George M. Under- 
wood of Pawtucket, R. I., April 28, 1869.* Mr. Under- 
wood removed to Danvevs, and conveyed the estate to 
Jacob E. Spring of Brownfield, Me., Feb. 7, 1872.f Mr. 
Spring removed to Danvers, and mortgaged the property 
to the Chelsea Savings Bank Feb. 26, 18874 The mort- 
gage was foreclosed by auction sale to Eben Hutchinson 
of Chelsea June 14, 1890 ; and Mr. Hutchinson recon- 
veyed the estate to the bank June 21, 1890.^T The bank 
conveyed it to John B. Van der Wee and John B. Ridder, 
both of Baltimore, Md., and John Griffin of Lowell Aug. 
3, 1891 ;|| and John B. Van der Wee of Boston, John G. 
Ridder of Baltimore, Md., and John Griffin of Richmond, 
Va., conveyed it to the St. John's Normal College of Dan- 
vers (a Massachusetts corporation) Oct. 9, 1891.** The 
corporation continued to own the house until about 1915, 
when it was sold to Daniel Cahill, who removed it to 
Maple street, where it is still used for its original pur- 
pose. 

John Putnam, sr., and Nathaniel Ingersoll deposed that 
Lt. Thomas Putnam, sr., deceased, possessed and planted 
two or three acres of land at the northeast corner of this 
lot from 1652 to 1662, and afterwards as long as he lived, 
and that now Joseph Putnam is in possession of it, and 
Thomas Putnam often said that he had bought it of Capt. 
William Trask and that Captain Trask said that he had 
sold it to Thomas Putnam. Sworn to June 25, 1700.ft 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 771, leaf 184. 

t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 847, leaf 91. 

JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1191, leaf 265. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1284, page 208. 

I! Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1284, page 2] 6. 

fEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1319, page 541. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1324, page 409. 
ttEssex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 301. 



304 THE PLAINS; PART OF SALEM IN 1700. 

Joseph Prince House. This was the western portion of 
the one hundred and sixty-five acres granted by the town 
of Salem to William Pester July 16, 1638. It belonged 
to William Trask of Salem Dec. 20, 1655, when he con- 
veyed it to Robert Prince of Salem.* Mr. Prince died 
June 4, 1674, having devised the estate to his sons James 
and Joseph. These brothers made a division of the estate 
May 21, 1696, and this part was assigned to Joseph 
Prince, who built a house thereon. f Mr. Prince was a 
yeoman, and lived here. He died in 1744, and the estate 
descended to his son Timothy Prince of Danvers, hus- 
bandman. Timothy Prince conveyed the land and build- 
ings to John Nichols of Danvers, yeoman, March 23, 
17614 Mr. Nichols died in the winter of 1792-3, having 
in his will devised the land and buildings " where I now 
live " to his daughter Eunice, wife of Andrew Nichols. 
The one hundred and two acres of land and the buildings 
were then appraised at six hundred and sixty-one pounds 
and ten shillings. Eunice Nichols of Danvers, widow, 
for one thousand dollars, conveyed the house and land 
around it to her son Abel Nichols of Danvers, yeoman, 
May 27, 1836. Abel Nichols died April 23, 1846, in- 
testate, leaving widow Sally and children Abel Nichols 
and Sarah P. Page, wife of Charles Page. Sally Nichols 
of Danvers, widow, and Charles Page of Lawrence, yeo- 
man, and wife Sarah P. Page, for twenty-five hundred 
dollars, released the estate to Abel Nichols of Danvers, 
artist, Jan. 1, 1850 ;|| and Abel Nichols of Danvers, now 
cormorant in Italy, artist, for fifty-five hundred dollars, 
conveyed the house, barn and land to Susan S. Kimball, 
wife of Edward D. Kimball of Salem, Sept. 25, 1855.^[ 
The house was removed in 1857 by Mrs. Kimball. 

Benjamin Porter and Israel Porter Lot. This was the 
seventy-five acres early granted by the town of Salem to 
Charles Gott of Salem ; and he conveyed it to John Por- 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 51. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 38, leaf 54. 
{Essex Registry of Deeds, book 156, leaf 66. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 289, leaf 131. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 421, leaf 290. 
"lEssex Registry of Deeds, book 521, leaf 21. 



BY SIDNEY PEELEY. 305 

ter of Salem, yeoman, March 4, 1653-4.* Mr. Porter 
died Sept. 6, 1676, having devised it to his son Benjamin 
Porter of Salem, husbandman, who conveyed one-half of 
it to his brother Israel Porter Jan. 29, 16 76-7. f The lot 
belonged to Benjamin Porter and Israel Porter in 1700. 

Daniel Rea House. The town of Salem granted this 
tract of land to Daniel Rea about 1637. He died in 1662 ; 
and he stated orally just before his death that he wished 
his son Joshua Rea to have the improvement of the whole 
farm " where he lives " until the latter's son Daniel shall 
become of age, when Daniel shall have the farm, subject 
to a life estate of Joshua in one-half of it. Joshua Rea 
died in the autumn of 1710 ; and his son Daniel Rea died 
in the winter of 1714-5. In his will he gave to his son 
Daniel land he had " given him by deed of gift," and 
the rest of this farm to his son Zerubabel Rea ; but 
" Some Small time before his Death did Declare that his 
mind was altered relating to this farme and had Declared 
his mind to severall of his friends, but had not an oppor- 
tunity to make an alteration of his will in writing . . . 
being that farm he did Dwell upon." Therefore they 
amicably divided the farm, as their father wished, March 
8, 1714-54 In this division, Zerubabel Rea received the 
buildings and land around them. Zerubabel Rea died in 
the winter of 1739-40, intestate. In the division of his 
real estate, made among his children Nov. 3, 1752, the 
buildings and land around them were assigned to his 
daughter Sarah Brown. The title is not clear for some 
years after this time. Later in the century the owner 
was Edmund Putnam. Edmund Putnam of Danvers, 
gentleman, and his wife Anna conveyed to Israel Putnam, 
3d, of Danvers, yeoman, these buildings and land Jan. 
10, 1800. This was called the south farm." Israel 
Putnam died in 1820 ; and his son Elias Putnam, yeoman, 
and wife Eunice, and Nathaniel Boardman, cordwainer, 
and wife Nancy, daughter of the deceased, conveyed their 
interest in the buildings and land to their sister Polly Put- 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 22; book 16, leaf 106. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 178. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 27, leaf 112. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 166, leaf 136. 



306 THE PLAINS: PART OF SALEM IN 1700, 

nam, minor, Jan. 24, 1823.* Polly Putnam married 
Israel Endicott, jr., mariner ; and she and her husband 
conveyed the house, barn and land to Elias Putnam of 
Danvers, yeoman, Dec. 25, 1827. f Hon. Elias Putnam 
died July 8, 1847. The " old house " and land were then 
appraised at sixteen hundred dollars. His real estate was 
divided Jan. 10, 1850 ; and this part of the land, with 
the dwelling house and barn thereon, was released to Rev. 
Clarence Fowler and Albert A. Fowler, both of Danvers, 
children of Emily Fowler, deceased, who was daughter 
of the deceased.:}: These brothers released the property 
to their father Augustus Fowler of Danvers, farmer, May 
10, 1866. Mr. Fowler died Feb. 12, 1894 ; and under a 
compromise of his will this estate was transferred to his 
grandchildren, the children of his son Clarence, namely, 
Mary Bigelow, wife of P. Challis Bartlett, Emily Fowler 
and Albert Brown Fowler, all of Danvers. They still 
own " the old mansion house " and land. 

Daniel Andrew Houses. The principal part of that part 
of this lot lying easterly of the dashes was the two hun- 
dred acres granted by the town of Salem to Allen Kenis- 
ton of Salem Feb. 4, 1638-9. || He died late in the 
autumn of 1648, having devised his estate to his wife 
Dorothy. She married, secondly, Philip Cromwell of 
Salem, butcher, and they conveyed the farm to John Por- 
ter of Salem, yeoman, Oct. 22, 1653.^[ Mr. Porter died 
Sept. 6, 1676, having devised this tract to his daughters 
Mary, wife of Thomas Gardner, and Sarah, wife of Dan- 
iel Andrew of Salem, mason. Mr. Gardner conveyed 
his wife's half of it to Mr. Andrew Dec. 17, 
1677.** Mr. Andrew erected a house upon the prem- 
ises, and died of small pox Dec. 8, 1702. In his 
will he had devised the estate to his sons Daniel 
and Thomas Andrew. Thomas Andrew, cooper, John 
Andrew, tailor, and Samuel Andrew, tanner, all of 

'Essex Registry of Deeds, book 242, leaf 30. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 247, leaf 240. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 422, leaf 252. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 731, leaf 81. 
HSalem Town Records, volume I, page 81 (printed). 
<[Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 20. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 119. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 307 

Salem, released their interest in the dwelling house, barn 
and land to their brother Daniel Andrew' of Salem, hus- 
bandman, May 3, 1737.* The next owner appears to be 
Samuel Andrew. Samuel Andrew of Darivers, tailorf for 
eight hundred and twenty-five pounds, conveyed the land 
and buildings to John Lee of Marblehead March 23, 
1778 ;f and,for two hundred and twenty-five pounds, Mr. 
Lee conveyed the same to John Shelden of Danvers, hus- 
bandman, April 13, 17844 Mr. Shelden, for three hun- 
dred and nine pounds, conveyed the land and buildings to 
Zadoc Wilkins of Danvers, husbandman, May 28, 1788. 
Mr. Wilkins died March 22, 1832; and his son Joel Wil- 
kins came into the possession of the estate, and lived here. 
He conveyed to his sister Betsey Sears for her life and to 
her daughter Mary Ann Sears, while she remained un- 
married, the east lower room and west chamber " in my 
house occupied by me," etc., March 12, 1838 ;|| and Mrs. 
Sears released the above interests to Mr. Wilkins, the 
house being " the late house of my father Zadoc Wil- 
kins," May 23, 1851.^[ Mr. Wilkins removed the old 
house, and erected a new one in its place soon after. 

That part 'of this lot lying westerly of the dashes was 
conveyed by Daniel Andrew to Peter Cloyce of Salem 
Village, yeoman, before 1682. Mr. Cloyce probably 
built a house thereon in which he lived, and from which 
his wife Sarah was taken to prison as a witch in 1692. 
She was a sister of Rebecca Nurse. Mrs. Cloyce was 
convicted, but escaped execution. For eighty pounds, 
Mr. Cloyce conveyed this house and land to Mr. Andrew 
Oct. 23, 1693.** Mr. Andrew died possessed of the same 
Dec. 3, 1702, having devised the estate to his daughter 
Sarah Andrew. She married Francis Dodge, yeoman. 
The house was gone before 1737, apparently. 

Jonathan Putnam House. That part of this lot lying 
easterly of the northeasterly dashes was probably the 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 75, leaf 79. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 137, leaf 31. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 137, leaf 208. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 151, leaf 133, 
|| Essex Registry of Deeds, book 305, leaf 38. 
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 445, leaf 121. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 200. 



308 THE PLAINS: PART OF SALEM IN 1700, 

thirty acres of land granted by the town of Salem to the 
widow Scarlett about 1636. It came into the hands of 
Thomas Rix of Salem, barber, who conveyed it to John 
Putnam, jr., of Salem Jan. 1 4, 1660.* 

That part of the lot lying between the dashes was prob- 
ably the eighty acres of land which was granted by the 
town of Salem to Richard Waterman in 1637. He " de- 
serted it," and the town granted it to Lieutenant Daven- 
port and Thomas Lathrop Nov. 29, 1642.f Nathaniel 
Putnam of Salem, yeoman, conveyed to John Putnam, 
sr., of Salem, yeoman, his interest in the Waterman grant 
Feb. 19, 1682-34 

That part of the lot lying westerly of the westerly 
dashes was granted by the town of Salem to Ralph Fogg 
of Salem very early ; and he conveyed it to John Putnam 
April 14, 1652. 

For love, John Putnam conveyed the entire lot to his 
son Jonathan Putnam Jan. 23, 1690 ;|| and Jonathan Put- 
nam probably built a house thereon. He conveyed to 
James Bound of Salem, tailor, three-quarters of an acre 
of his lot on the highway Feb. 15, 1715-6 ;^[ and to his 
son Jonathan Putnam, jr., of Salem, husbandman, the 
dwelling house " the grantee now dwells in " and one- 
third of the farm the grantor then lived upon June 10, 
1718.** Apparently the son Jonathan sold his house to 
Mr. Bound, who removed it to his lot, and Mr. Putnam 
erected a new house on his own lot. Mr. Bound recon- 
veyed to Mr. Putnam his land with the dwelling house 
thereon, for seventy pounds^Jan. 29, 1725-6 ;ff and Mr. 
Putnam died Jan. 17, 1732, possessed of the two houses 
and farm. In the division of his real estate, Oct. 12, 
1741, there was assigned to his son David Putnam apiece 
of land with " an old dwelling house standing thereon 
called Bound's house," the house and barn being valued 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 9. 
tSalem Town Records, volume I, page 114 (printed). 
{Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 77. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 22; book 6, leaf 77. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 42. 
lEssex Registry of Deeds, book 33, leaf 232. 
*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 43, leaf 200. 
ttEssex Registry of Deeds, book 45, leaf 190. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 309 

at twenty-five pounds and the fifty-five acres of land at 
seven pounds. The old house probably existed only a 
short time longer. 

James Putnam House. That part of this lot of land 
lying northerly of the dashes was a part of the grant 
made by the town of Salem to Lt. Richard Davenport 
Nov. 26, 1638 ;* and Captain Davenport conveyed the 
entire grant to John Putnam, sr., Richard Huchinson and 
Daniel Ray of Salem and Mr. John Hathorne of Lynn 
Oct. 31, 1661. f Apparently, the house upon the Daven- 
port farm was situated on this portion of it, and was oc- 
cupied for two years about 1647 by Thomas Hobbs, who 
hired a part of the farm. The house was probably the 
home of the original John Putnam from that time until 
his death. 

That part of the lot lying southerly of the dashes was 
granted to Ralph Fogg of Salem very early ; and he con- 
veyed it to John Putnam April 14, 16524 In this deed, 
the land is located as " betweene old father Putnam's 
farm & Daniel Raies." 

John Putnam died Dec. 30, 1662, possessed of the en- 
tire lot. The estate descended to his son Capt. John 
Putnam of Salem, who, for love, conveyed the house and 
land to his son Lt. James Putnam of Salem, husbandman, 
Jan. 25, 1690. Lieutenant Putnam conveyed the estate 
to his son Jethro Putnam of Salem, yeoman, Jan. 5, 
1721-2.|| Jethro Putnam probably removed the old 
house. 

The road from this house out to Beaver dam (a part of 
which is now Spring street) was a private way and so 
called ever since as late as 1869. 

Benjamin Putnam Lot. This lot of land was a portion 
of the grant of the town of Salem to Lt. Richard Daven- 
port Nov. 26, 1638 ;* and Captain Davenport conveyed 
the whole of his grant to John Putnam, sr., Richard 
Huchesson and Daniel Ray of Salem and Mr. John 

*Salem Town Records, volume I, page 75 (printed). 
f Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 55. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 1, leaf 22; book 6, leaf 77. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 13, leaf 30. 
I! Essex Registry of Deeds, book 38, leaf 234. 



310 THE PLAINS: PART OP SALEM IN 1700, 

Hathorne of Lynn Oct. 31, 1661.* Mr. Putnam, the 
elder, of Salem, yeoman, conveyed this part of the farm 
to his son Nathaniel Putnam of Salem March 2, 1653-4 ;f 
and Richard Huchenson of Salem, yeoman, in considera- 
tion of the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to Nathan- 
iel Putnam of Salem, yeoman, conveyed to Elizabeth and 
her husband the grantor's fourth part of the Davenport 
farm Aug. 10, 1656.$ Nathaniel Putnam, for love, con- 
veyed it to his son Benjamin Putnam of Salem Dec. 8, 
1695. Benjamin Putnam owned the lot in 1700. 

Joseph Putnam Lot. This lot was a part of the Daven- 
port farm, and it belonged to Jonathan Putnam in 1662 
and to Joseph Putnam in 1693 and 1700. 

The northerly end of it was meadow land, and known 
as Peter's meadow. The northern lot belonged to Ralph 
Fogg; and John Putnam, sr., of Salem, conveyed the 
northerly half of it to his son Jonathan Putnam Jan. 23, 
1690-1. || John Bullock of Salem, innkeeper, conveyed 
ten acres on the northerly part of Peter's meadow to Mr. 
Samuel Parris, minister, Jonathan Putnam, husbandman, 
and John Putnam, 3d, husbandman, all of Salem, " bound- 
ed on the Est & on the north w th the upland & on the 
weft w th the meadow of Joseph Putnam & on the South 
w th the meadow of Henry Browne & the meadow of Joseph 
Putnam," Aug. 13, 1693,^]" John Putnam, sr., of Salem 
and wife Elizabeth, for love, conveyed to his son John 
Putnam, jr., ten acres in this meadow next to the meadow 
of James Prince Dec. 26, 1696.** 

John Putnam House. This lot of land was a portion of 
the grant of the town of Salem to Lt. Richard Davenport 
Nov. 26, 1638;ff an< ^ i* became the estate of Capt. Thomas 
Lathrop of Salem. Captain Lathrop removed to Beverly, 
and was ambushed and massacred by the Indians, with his 
military company, " The Flower of Essex," at South 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 55. 

t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 57. 

tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 158. 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 133. 

I! Essex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 42. 

lEssex Registry of Deeds, book 9, leaf 127. 
**Essex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 123. 
ttSalem Town Records, volume I, page 75 (printed). 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 311 

Deerfield, Sept. 18, 1675. He died, childless, and his 
only heir was his sister Ellen, wife of Ezekiel Cheever of 
Boston, schoolmaster. By the general court, the real es- 
tate of the deceased was assigned to Captain Lathrop's 
widow Bethiah for her life, and at her death to his sister, 
Mrs. Cheever, May 19, 1680. Mr. and Mrs. Cheever, by 
their attorney Thomas Cheever of Maiden, gentleman, 
conveyed this lot, being one-third of Davenport's farm, 
except the meadows on the western side, to Lt. John Put- 
nam of Salem Nov. 29, 1682.* Mr. Putnam built upon 
the lot a house for his son John Putnam before 1694, 
when the son was living there ; and conveyed to him the 
house, barn and land, for love, Dec. 26, 1695. f The house 
was destroyed by fire April 1, 1709. 

On the western side of this lot along the brook were 
grants of meadow land. That one furtherest south was a 
grant of ten acres to Gov. John Endecott made by the 
town of Salem July 18, 16374 

Benjamin Porter Lot. That portion of this lot lying 
westerly of the dashes was the southern part of the tract 
of land which was granted by the town of Salem to Mr. 
Townsend Bishop of Salem, gentleman, Feb. 26, 1638-9. 
It was the property of William Haynes and Richard 
Haynes of Salem, husbandmen, in 1648. They sold one- 
third of it to Abraham Page of Boston, tailor. Mr. Page 
sold it to Simon Bradstreet of Andover, gentleman ; and, 
for fifteen pounds, Mr. Bradstreet conveyed it, with the 
house thereon, to John Porter, sr., of Salem, yeoman, 
June 29, 1648. || On the same day, for thirty pounds, 
Mr. Porter bought the remaining two-thirds of 
William Haynes and Richard Haynes."f 

That part of the lot lying easterly of the dashes was 
the two hundred acres of " feeding ground " known as 
Blind hole since 1660 at least, granted by the town of 
Salem to Serg. John Porter, for " pasture for his Cattell," 
Sept. 30, 1647.** 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 292. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 11, leaf 123. 
tSalem Town Records, volume I, page 53 (printed). 
Salem Town Records, volume I, page 85 (printed). 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 14, leaf 253. 
ITEssex Registry of Deeds, book 15, leaf 52. 
**Salem Town Records, volume I, page 150 (printed). 



312 THE PLAINS: PART OP SALEM IN 1700, 

Mr. Porter died possessed of both tracts Sept. 6, 1676, 
having devised them in his will to his son Benjamin Por- 
ter, who owned them in 1700. 

At the northwesterly part of this tract of land is five 
acres of upland and three acres of meadow which was 
originally included in this grant of Mr. Bishop. These 
eight acres came into the hands of William Nichols of 
Topsfield before Feb. 4, 1667, when he conveyed the 
same to John Porter, sr., of Salem, yeoman, who then 
owned the Bishop farm.* 

At the southeasterly corner of this lot (easterly of the 
dashes) were the Putnam, Rea and Cromwell meadows, 
in Blind Hole meadow. At the southern end, running 
from the Bishop farm to the Downing grant, was the 
meadow of Thomas Putnam of Salem, from 1685 to 1702. 
Next northerly was that of Jonathan Putnam, from 1685 
to 1702. 

Daniel Andrew and Sarah Andrew Lot. This tract of 
eighty acres of land was early called Smith's farm, and 
was probably the eighty acres granted to Thomas Smith 
by the town of Salem May 15, 1639. It belonged to 
John Porter in 1673, and he died possessed of it Sept. 6, 
1676, having devised it to his daughter Mary, wife of 
Thomas Gardner, and Sarah, wife of Daniel Andrew. Mr. 
and Mrs. Andrew conveyed their interest in it to their 
brother-in-law Daniel Andrew Dec. 17, 1677.f 

Joseph Porter Souse. This tract of land was the five 
hundred acres of land granted to Emanuel Downing of 
Salem by the town of Salem July 16, 1638. Mr. Down- 
ing conveyed it to John Porter of Salem, yeoman, April 
15, 1650 ;J and Sergeant Porter conveyed it, Jan. 2, 1664, 
to his son Joseph Porter, as a part of his portion upon 
the latter's marriage with Anna, daughter of Maj. William 
Hathorne. Joseph Porter erected a house thereon, in 
which he lived (the northern house shown on the map). 
Porter died in 1714, having in his will devised the north- 
ern part of his homestead to his son Joseph Porter, who 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 36. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 119. 
t Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 161. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 139. 



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B SIDNEY PBBLET. 313 

had died in 1713, leaving widow Mary and children, Jo- 
seph, Priscilla and Mary, who died soon after her father. 
The widow married George Bixby Aug. 6, 1718; and 
they continued to live upon the farm. The son Joseph 
died Feb. , 1747, owning the place, and leaving widow 
Mary, who married, secondly, Joseph Perkins of Maiden, 
and the only child that survived him was Joseph Porter. 
This Joseph Porter died Feb. 12, 1805, having devised 
the estate in his will to his sons Joseph and Jonathan. 
The one hundred and eighty-five acres of land and build- 
ings were then appraised at seven thousand dollars. Maj. 
Jonathan Porter died soon after his father, and his broth- 
er and sister were his heirs. The other children of their 
father were Polly, wife of Capt. Dudley Bradstreet of 
Topsfield, Sarah, wife of Daniel Putnam, Elizabeth, 
Phebe, wife of Cornelius Gould, Lydia, wife of Nathaniel 
Gould, and Ruth, wife of Joseph Gould. Joseph Porter 
of Danvers, yeoman, conveyed his interest in the place to 
his brother-in-law Captain Bradstreet of Topsfield, yeoman, 
April 13, 1810 ;* and Cornelius Gould of Boxford, gen- 
tleman, and wife Phebe, and Joseph Gould of Topsfield, 
yeoman, and wife Kuth released their interest in the place 
on the same day to Captain Bradstreet. f Sarah Putnam 
of Newbury, Vt, widow, released her interest to him April 
26, 1810 ;f and Nathaniel Gould of Middleton, yeoman, 
as guardian of Betsey Porter Gould and Henry Lawrence 
Gould, minor children of his wife Lydia, released their 
interest to Captain Bradstreet Jan. 30, 18114 Captain 
Bradstreet removed to this farm, and lived here until his 
death April 23, 1833. In his will he devised the estate 
to his son John Bradstreet of Danvers, yeoman. John 
Bradstreet lived here, and died Feb. 22, 1869, having de- 
vised the estate to his son Harrison P. Bradstreet of Dan- 
vers, yeoman. Mr. Bradstreet conveyed the property, for 
eleven thousand and nine hundred dollars, to Elizabeth 
Lawton Ellis, wife of George Ellis of Bridgewater, Oct. 
21, 1869. Mrs. Ellis mortgaged the place to William 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 191, leaf 24. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 191, leaf 23. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 194, leaf 282. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 786, leaf 216. 



314 THE PLAINS : PART OF SALEM IN 1700, 

B. Morgan of Wenham and Calvin Putnam of Danvers 
March 25, 1871 ;* and the mortgage was foreclosed by 
public sale to Calvin Putnam of Danvers, for nine thou- 
sand and three hundred dollars, April 5, 1872.f Mr. 
Putnam died Nov. 14, 1904 ; and Charles P. Searle of 
Boston, the executor of Mr. Putnam's will, for eight 
thousand dollars, conveyed the farm and buildings to 
Daniel J. Connors of Danvers Dec. 26, 19064 Mr. Con- 
nors now owns and resides upon the place. 

The original house is still standing in excellent condi- 
tion, and apparently able to weather the storms of several 
centuries more. It is fifty feet in length and twenty-odd 
feet in width, two stories in height and faces the south. 
The chimney is large, and the rooms on both floors are 
twenty feet square. The original barn is now adjoining 
the house, and its frame is like that of the house. The 
posts and beams are hewn of white oak and are a foot 
square. 

About fifty rods northeasterly from the house is the 
family burial place, near a swamp. Some half a dozen 
graves are there, marked with as many field rocks. Some 
of them lie in the ground and the others lie upon the 
surface. They are surrounded or overgrown with briars 
and bushes, and during the past winter apparently wood 
has been sledded from the swamp by or over the graves. 
Two of the stones, lying loosely upon the ground, are 
each about two feet in length and a foot and a half in 
breadth, and thin at the edges. Probably they were orig- 
inally set upright in the ground. They seem to be of trap 
rock, and cleft from a large round boulder or ledge. One 
side is even and flat and the other side is convex. On one 
of them are inscribed the letters "A. P." and above them 
is at least a figure " 2 ". The only early member of the 
family that lived on the farm whose initials these would 
be is the wife of Joseph Porter, the original occupant of 
the farm. She was Anna, daughter of Maj. William 
Hathorne. It is not known when she died, but she was 
not alive when Mr. Porter made his will in 1713, and it 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 826, leaf 214. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 850, leaf 193. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 1853, page 353. 



BY SIDNEY PERLEY. 315 

may be that the figure " 2 " on this stone is a part of the 
date "1712". Passing over or near these stones no one 
would ever suspect that this was a sacred place, and that 
here have reposed for more than two centuries the remains 
of a daughter of Major Hathorne. Standing at the spot, 
these lines of Whittier are bound to be remembered : 

The dreariest spot in all the land 

To death they set apart; 
With scanty grace from nature's hand, 

And none from that of art. 

Upon the marriage of his son Samuel Porter, in 1696, 
apparently Joseph Porter built for him the house on the 
southern part of the homestead as shown on the plan, and 
also gave into his possession a large tract of land around 
it. Joseph Porter died Dec. 12, 1714, having devised in 
his will to his son Samuel " ye land which he now lives 
upon and hath improved, together with the dwelling house 
or housing standing on said land where he how dwells, 
together with an hundred acres of land adjoining to ye 
land he now lives upon, it being ye southerly part of my 
farm." Samuel Porter, sr., of Salem, yeoman, for love, 
conveyed to his sons Eleazer Porter and Samuel Porter, 
both of Salem, one-half of the house and land " that I 
now dwell upon," Nov. 10, 1722 ;* and Samuel Porter, 
jr., released his interest in the same property to his brother 
Eleazer Porter Aug. 20, 1737.f (Their father apparent- 
ly built a new house about fifty rods southerly of the old 
one, and lived in it, Sept. 8, 1737, when he conveyed it 
and that part of the lot to his son Samuel Porter, jr., hus- 
bandman.^: Samuel Porter, jr., released his interest in that 
house and barn and land " which I now live upon," to his 
brother Eleazer Porter of Salem, husbandman, May 8, 
1738). Samuel Porter, the father, of Salem, yeoman, 
for love, conveyed to his son Eleazer Porter of Salem, 
husbandman, the old house and that part of the lot grantee 
' now dwells upon," June 8, 1738. || Eleazer Porter died 

Essex Registry of Deeds, book 48, leaf 90. 
tEssex Registry of Deeds, book 77, leaf 20. 
JEssex Registry of Deeds, book 75, leaf 227. 
Essex Registry of Deeds, book 77, leaf 21. 
II Essex Registry of Deeds, book 75, leaf 268. 



316 THE PLAINS : PART OF SALEM IN 1700. 

in the autumn of 1756 ; and in the division of the real 
estate,"May 12, 1760, the old house was assigned to his 
son Samuel Porter. Samuel Porter graduated at Harvard 
College and became a lawyer in Ipswich. Ths house was 
burned before April 28, 1769, when Mr. Porter conveyed 
its site, " it being the land where his late dwelling houfe 
ftood that was burnt down with fire," to his brother-in- 
law Tarrant Putnam of Danvers, yeoman.* 

Cornelius Baker Lot. This lot of land belonged to Cor- 
nelius Baker in 1700. 

*Essex Registry of Deeds, book 150, leaf 61. 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, 

MASS. 



( Continued from Volume LIV, page 988.) 



To his Excellency Sir William Phips and the Honoura- 
ble the Council and Representatives of the Province of 
the Massachusetts Bay in New England now convened in 
a Generall Court Sitting at the Town house in Boston. 

The humble Peticion of Eleazer Ingolls and Richard 
Skinner, late Constables in the Towne of Marble-head. 

Humbly Sheweth 

That in the year 1690 your Peticioners were chosen 
Constables with Philip Brumblecombe since deceased for 
the Towne of Marblehead aforesaid in the Province afore- 
said in which the Tax upon said Towne amounted to 220 
pounds being proportioned to Ten Single Countrey Rates 
Whereupon was directed to each Constable one distinct 
and Several Bill of Assessment for 73-06-08 Assessed 
by the Select men of the Said Towne for every Division, 
Each Assessment belonging to the Division of your Peti- 
cioners is collected and gathered by your Peticioners and 
they are ready to Account with Mr. Treasurer of the 
Province and to ballance the Account for the same But 

May it please Your Excellency and this honoured 
Councel and Assembly the said Brimblecombe did in his 
life time receive and gather a good Part of his Said As- 
sessment for his Division and paid into the Treasury the 
first payment, and Some Short time after deceased where- 
by the Bill of Assessment for his Division could not be 
fully by him collected, although some further considera- 
ble part of the same he did not collect and receive before 
the day of his Death the rest remaining yet uncollected 
The Inhabitants of the said Town not knowing how to 
Effect the Same until the late Law made by this Hon- 

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318 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MABBLEHEAD, MASS. 

oured Court afforded some Direction which was Attended 
by the Select men of Said Towne who did appoint David 
Fumes of the said Towne who married the Widdow of 
the said Brimblecombe and did authorize him to collect 
and Satisfy the said Bill of Assessment unto the Treas- 
urer of this Province as by an Order under their hands 
may fully appear and the said David Furnes is actually 
in prosecution of the said Order and hath received in part 
of the said Assessment Yet notwithstanding Mr. Treas- 
urer hath Ordered Execucion to be issued forth to the 
Sheriff of the County of Essex for the Attaching of your 
Peticioners for the same Dividend which your Peticioners 
humbly conceive they have not any Obligacon in Law 
Reason or Equity to Answer and Your Peticioners have 
prevailed with the said Sheriff for a few days to desist 
Execucion of said Warrant which if not obstructed will 
prove exceeding prejudiciall to your Peticioners if not 
their utter Ruine. 

Therefore Your Peticioners humbly and earnestly im- 
plore the favour of this great and Honorable Court to 
take the premises into their Serious and Juditious Con- 
sideration, to Order that upon our Accounting with Mr, 
Treasurer for each of our Perticular Dividends, we may 
be discharged from the said Execution and that the said 
David Furnes may (as in Equity he ought) to Answer for 
and account with Mr. Treasurer for Brimblecombes Divi- 
dend And Your Peticioners and their familys shall As in 
duty bound continually pray for the 

Prosperity of this Government etc. 

Eleazer Ingolls 

[In margin] In Answer to the within written peti- 
tion of the Marblehead Constables it is thought meet 
that these Two Constables who have Collected their pro- 
portion of the Rates, upon their accounting with and 
paying the Treasurer their respective Sums, that they be 
discharged, and that David Furnes who married The 
within mentioned Phillip Brimblecombes widow, who was 
appointed by the Selectmen to gather in the said Arrears, 
may be hereby Impowered and required perfect the Col- 
lection of said Brimblecombes Lists, and pay and make 
up accounts with the Treasurer, and that three moneths 



DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MAEBLEHEAD, MASS. 319 

time be allowed him for the same, he being Sworn to the 
faithfull discharge thereof. 

February 17th 1692/3 : Read orderly and voted passed 
in the Affirmative in this House of Representatives and 
sent into His Excellency the Governor and Councill for 
Consideration. 

Nehemiah Jewet 

Speaker 
Mass. Archives, vol. 100, p. 



To His Excellency Sir William Phips Knight, Gover- 
nour of the Province of the Massachusetts, and Captain 
Generall of their Majestys subjects in the said Province 
and his honourable Councill now sitting in Boston the 
humble Address of the Principall Inhabitants of the 
Towne of Marble-head in behalfe of the Towne Most 
humbly Sheweth 

Whereas our selves, since the unhappy war betwixt the 
heathen, French, and this Land have bin att a very con- 
sederable charge by the advanceing of the summe of 
eighty pounds or more, for erecting, keeping and main- 
taineing Fortifications upon the Sea in purchasing, tim- 
ber, plank, iron worke, carriages for great guns, powder 
and ball suitable thereto, and gunners yearly salary for 
inspecting the same, for defence of their Majesties sub- 
jects here, in all which charge we have had no releef out 
of any publick stock, saving our proportionable part in 
two single Countrey Rates, amounting to the summe of 
twenty nine pounds some years since, and Finding an 
extream need of a Stock for the necessaty upholding and 
maintaining the same, being disabled by our owne poverty 
from making any further progress in the same, We are 
necessitated to make our application to your Honours, 
humbly requesting your assistance in the said affair, that 
you would be pleased to order our reembursement with 
such moneys as have bin advanced, and that for the fvture, 
as we understand in other Frontier Land att least, if not 
Sea port places, the present fortifications amongst us may 
be furnished with suitable powder and ball, and the whole 
upheld and maintained on the Publick charge, for the 



320 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 

Security etc. of their Majestyes subjects here, so of them 
elsewhere, and we shall ever pray as in duty bound etc. 
Dated att Marblehead this 13th of November 1693. 
Ambrose Gale Senior Robert Bartlett 

John Brintnall William Beale 

John Browne James Smith 

John Legg George Jackson 

Nathaniell Norden Eleazar Ingolls 

James Dennes Richard Trevet. 

Mass. Archives, vol. 70, p. 201. 

Upon reading the Petition of sundry of the Inhab- 
itants of Marble-head on behalf of said Town, Praying 
that they may be eased of the duty of Tunnage for their 
Fishing Shallops and that they may onely be considered 
and taken in as other ratable Estate Voted That all open 
Fishing Boats be abated of the said duty of Tunage and 
that they pay onely to the Publick as other ratable Estate, 
according to the valuation set by the Act or Acts of this 
Court for the granting of Publick Taxes and no other- 
wise. 

November 2d, 1694, Past in the affirmative by the 
house of Representatives & sent up to his Excellency and 
Council for Consent 

Nehemiah Jewet 

Speaker 

November 3d 1694 Voted in concurrence with the 
.Representatives in Council 

Isaac Addington Secretary 

Mass. Archives, vol. 61, p. 5Jfl. 
(To be continued.*) 



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THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD, 
THE NASHUA AND LOWELL RAILROAD, 

AND 

THE SALEM AND LOWELL RAILROAD. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 



( Continued from Volume LI V, page 224*} 

After due attention had been paid to the creature com- 
forts, several gentlemen spoke, and much was said that 
was both interesting and important, to a degree beyond 
the hackneyed meaning of that phrase, although no at- 
tempts were made to exhibit the flowers of rhetoric. Hon. 
S. C. Phillips presided, as President of the corporation, 
and read a letter from N. Silsbee, Esq., Mayor of our 
city, ending with the following toast : 

" Success to this, and all honorable undertakings which 
tend to draw more closely together the fair towns and 
cities of New England." 

Mr. Burnap, of Lowell, made an interesting address, 
and Mr. Norcross, of Lowell (the "lumber-king"), hit 
the audience " between wind and water " with a highly 
valuable array of facts. 

Mr. Phillips spoke in very strong terms of the liberal 
and public spirited manner in which the inhabitants of 
North Reading had gone into this enterprise. Mr. J. A. 
Knowles, of Lowell, referring to the importance of the 
fare to the success of railroads, and to the cheers which 

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322 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILBOAD 

had been given at North Reading in honor of the ladies 
of that place, proposed three cheers for the ladies of 
Salem, which were accordingly given, " with a will." as 
the sailors say. Rev. Mr. Lamson responded to the 
complimentary remarks in reference to North Reading, 
concluding with the following invocation, quoted from an 
old resident of Salem ; 

" Health and peace and ready rhino 

" To all the friends that you and I know." 

Mr. Phillips also communicated a great many interest- 
ing facts in relation to the capacities of our city for an 
extension of its business, which had been suggested to 
him by the experience of the last two or three years. 
Such speeches as were made on this occasion should be 
reported in full or not at all. Mere sketches afford no 
adequate idea of a congeries of facts and statistics. We 
were particularly surprised with the fact stated by Mr. 
Phillips, that orders had already been received for lumber 
from Springfield and for coal from some other place in 
the valley of the Connecticut. On Monday next, not 
only will our chain of communication be opened to the 
whole interior, but passengers for New York, by the way 
of Norwich, leaving Salem at half past ten o'clock, can 
be at the great metropolis at eleven the same evening, at 
an expense probably not exceeding the price of a passage 
from Boston, and without the expense and inconvenience 
of hack hire. 

Mr. Norcross brought together some interesting facts 
in relation to railroad progress within the last ten years, 
in order to illustrate his position, humorously advanced, 
that an important part of the European travel, passing 
from the west of Ireland, in five days, to the railroad 
now contemplated from Bangor to the eastern extremity 
of Nova Scotia, could come through Salem to the city of 
Lowell, without passing through the " village " of Bos- 
ton. 

The Glee Club, whose music had afforded most pleas- 
ing interludes to the graver matters of the day, wound up 
the services with some of their best glees ; the return 




THE LOWELL STATION IN SALEM 
1850-1892 




THE LOWELL, EASTERN 8t FITCHBURG STATIONS 
On Ctueway Stret, Boston, about 1870 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLBB. 323 

cars started for Lowell ; and thus ended a celebration 
which we are inclined to esteem among the most impor- 
tant in our history as a business community. Time may 
disappoint all our expectations and calculations ; but until 
that great trier of truth has proved their fallacy, we shall 
believe that our business men have a new field opened 
before them, wide enough to stimulate all their activity 
and to reward all their exertions. 

The road will be regularly open, for passengers and 
traffic, on Monday next." 



The first time table was as follows : 

" SALEM AND LOWELL RAILROAD. 

"On and after Monday, August 5th, 1850, Trains will 
run daily (Sundays excepted) as follows : 

Leave Salem for Lowell, at 6.45, 10.30 A. M., and 
3.45P.M. 

Leave Lowell for Salem at 8.05* A. M., 12.10* and 
6.30f P. M. 

Or upon arrival of Upper Railroad Trains. 

fOr upon arrival of Stony Brook Railroad Trains. 

Trains will stop to receive and deliver passengers at 
South Danvers, at Proctor's corner and Phelp's Mill in 
West Danvers, Oak Dale in Middleton, North Reading, 
Wilmington, Burtt's Mill and Tewksbury. 

All the outward and inward trains connect at Lowell 
with trains proceeding over the Nashua and Lowell, Wil- 
ton, Concord, New Hampshire Central, Northern, Ver- 
mont Central, Concord and Claremont, Contoocook Val- 
ley, Boston, Concord and Montreal, and Connecticut and 
Passumpsic Rivers Railroads. 

The second and third outward and inward trains con- 
nect at Lowell with trains proceeding over the Stony 
Brook Railroad to Groton, and thence in one direction 
over the Peterboro' and Shirley Railroad, in another over 
the Fitchburg (up and down), Vermont and Massachu- 
setts, Cheshire, Sullivan, Rutland and Burlington Rail- 



324 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

roads, and in another direction over the Worcester and 
Nashua, Western, Norwich and Worcester, and Providence 
and Worcester Railroads. 

Passengers leaving Salem at 10 1-2 A. M. may proceed 
to New York by the land route from Worcester. Pas- 
sengers leaving Salem at 4 P. M. may proceed to New 
York by the steamboat route from Norwich. 

For the present, Passenger Trains will proceed to and 
from Phillips wharf in Salem, stopping at Forrester street 
and Carlton Bridge. The time of leaving Salem as an- 
nounced above will be the time of leaving Forrester street. 
The time of leaving Phillips wharf will be Ten Minutes 
in Advance. 

At Lowell the Train will proceed to and from the Gen- 
eral Railroad Station in Middlesex street. 

All Express Business in Lowell and Salem will be 
faithfully and promptly attended to by Agents of the 
Company." 



The fare from Salem to Lowell was 60 cents. In 
passing it may be interesting to note that the service 
outlined above was far better and three times as much as 
is given a long suffering public by the Boston and Maine 
Railroad in the year of grace 1918. 

Quite a few of the twenty-four passenger cars that 
formed the opening train must have been borrowed from 
other roads, as the annual report of the Salem and Lowell 
Railroad for 1857 gives the entire rolling stock as con- 
sisting of three locomotives, three passenger cars, one 
baggage car, and one hundred and ninety .seven freight 
cars. It is interesting to recall the names of these loco- 
motives, the " Sailor Boy ", " Factory Girl " and " Trans- 
port ". The original board of directors were : Stephen 
C. Phillips (president), William Livingston, Sidney 
Spalding, Josiah B. French, J. Willard Peele, Jacob 
Coggin, Charles F. Flint. Stephen H. Phillips was clerk, 
Nathaniel B. Perkins treasurer, and Francis H. Nourse 
superintendent. James W. Cheever was station-master 
in Salem, and David Marston and George W. Barker 
filled the same positions in South Danvers (Peabody) 




THE SAILOR BOY 

First Locomotive of the Salem* & Lowell R. R. 
1850 




THE EAGLE (2nd) 
Boston, Lowell & Nashua'R. R. 
1870 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BKADLEE. 325 

and Lowell respectively. The names of the original 
conductors and engineers are not now obtainable. At 
this period the railroads of Massachusetts had, as a rule, 
enjoyed a rather exceptional freedom from accidents, and 
there is every reason to suppose that their regulations 
were as exact and their system as good as those in use in 
other parts of the country. Yet it appears that up to 
1858 no Massachusetts railroad had any provision, even 
of the simplest character, as to the effect of telegraphic 
orders, or the course to be pursued by employees in 
charge of trains on their receipt. The appliances for 
securing intervals between following trains were marked 
by a quaint simplicity and nearly all rules varied on the 
different roads. They were, indeed, " singularly primi- 
tive," as the railroad commissioners on a subsequent oc- 
casion described them, when it appeared that on one of 
the principal railroads of the State the interval between 
two closely following trains was signalled to the engineer 
of the second train by a station master's holding up to 
him as he passed a number of fingers corresponding to 
the number of minutes since the first train had gone by. 
Examination reveals as the nearest approach to a block 
system in those days, a queer collection of dials, sand- 
glasses, green flags, colored lanterns and hand targets. A 
few of the old rules taken from a Salem and Lowell 
Railroad time table for employees, dated June 30, 1856, 
are well worth reproducing : 

" 1. Rule keep out of the way, means 10 minutes. . . . 

18. Trains approaching Lowell must be kept under 
control of the Brakeman of the train. They must see 
that the switches are right before entering upon the Bos- 
ton and Lowell Railroad. A lantern in the night placed 
on the switch frame shows the switch is wrong. Absence 
of lantern signifies the switch to be right. . . . 

21. Absence of balls or red lantern at South Danvers. 
allows trains to pass from Salem. . . . 

22. All trains after dark must carry a red light on 
rear end of rear car. . . . 

27. The Conductor has entire charge of the train and 
all persons employed on it, and is responsible for its 
management while on the road. . . . 



326 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL BAILROAD 

35. In stopping at way stations it is the duty of the 
engineer to see that either by their brakes or by reversing 
their engines, the buffers between the tenders and the 
baggage cars are at least kept in contact, so that the brake- 
men have no more to do than to stop their cars. The 
engineer will be responsible that the signals of starting 
and stopping made by the conductor are attended to. ... 

37. No person in the employ of the Company will be 
allowed to carry packages, letters or bundles, receiving 
presents or pay for same. . . . 

Special Rules. 

8. No Engines will be taken out on Sundays, except 
by permission of the Superintendent. 

The Superintendent respectfully begs leave to remind 
gentlemen passengers who SPIT, that the car floors can- 
not be washed while the train is in motion. 

Soon after the opening of the Salem and Lowell road, 
Cat Island, at the mouth of Marblehead harbor, was ac- 
quired by Lowell interests and a large hotel erected on it 
by them. As the island was principally patronized by 
Lowell people as a summer vacation ground, it was re- 
christened in their honor. The trains of the Salem and 
Lowell road connected directly at Phillips wharf with the 
boats for the island. These were in 1851-52 the "Merri- 
mack " and after that the " Argo," both of them side- 
wheel steamboats. As was to be expected, a great com- 
petition arose between the Boston and Lowell and Salem 
and Lowell roads for the carrying of raw cotton. The 
mill agents played one company against another, and 
when a satisfactory figure had been received from the 
lowest bidder word was telegraphed to Mobile directing 
the cotton ships to proceed either to Boston or Salem, as 
the case might be, to unload. The outcome to the rail- 
roads was not only a great falling off in earnings, but in 
some cases actual loss resulted. As the Boston and Low- 
ell Railroad was by far the stronger corporation financial- 
ly, it stood the strain better, and so it was not hard for 
its president, Mr. Crowninshield, to negotiate a lease of 
the Salem and Lowell road in 1 858. The lease was to 
run for twenty years, beginning Oct. 1 of that year, the 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEB. 327 

Boston and Lowell agreed to run the road, assume all 
responsibilities of the same, and to pay the interest of the 
Salem and Lowell bonds, 6 per cent, on $200,000, their 
stock at this time was practically worthless. During the 
same year (1858) the Boston and Lowell leased the Law- 
rence and Lowell road on the same terms. Long before 
this date, in fact as early as 1820, had appeared the first 
signs of a serious decline of agriculture in New Eng- 
land. With the opening of the Erie and other important 
interior canals, which favored New York city to the 
detriment of Boston, the doom of farming in this section 
had been sealed. Against the loss of enterprise and of 
initiative force which New England may be conceived to 
have suffered in this way, there were also important com- 
pensations. Manufactures were booming, capital was 
situate here in good supply, the organization of industry 
advanced by leaps and bounds, and the stage was set for 
the course of development which was to be New England's 
particular and most prosperous destiny. 

One fatal weakness, however, lay in the disunion of 
the New England and more particularly the Massachu- 
setts railroad system. This is illustrated in a speech of 
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., chairman of the Massachu- 
setts Railroad Commissioners, delivered before the Com- 
mercial Club of Boston, as late as March 22d, 1879, in 
which he said : " We of Massachusetts have been dis- 
tanced in our railroad policy by all the leading States, 
when we should have carried out the magnificent ideas of 
our fathers. Half the cost of the Hoosac Tunnel would 
have bought up the entire New York Central road and 
given us a through line to Chicago. To-day other blun- 
ders are being committed by our numerous competing 
lines. Three roads on the northern side of Boston, the 
Eastern, Boston and Maine, Boston and Lowell, all run- 
ning in the same direction, by consolidating into one cor- 
poration, would secure a fair dividend to its stockholders, 
while saving to the community two-thirds of the cost now 
required to maintain their triplicate equipment and boards 
of officers. We should look at these things as practical 
business men, and, applying a remedy, increase our local 
power and prosperity." 



328 



THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 



Not until ten years after this date was a policy of con- 
solidation carried out, and then in only a clumsy and ill- 
digested fashion, which was partially responsible for the 
recent financial disasters of the Boston and Maine system. 
During the Civil War the Boston, Lowell and Nashua, 
like other railroads in the country, partook of the general 
although feverish prosperity. Dividends averaging 6 per 
cent were paid at this period, the rate rose to 8 per cent 
in 1866, and finally in 1867 a scrip dividend of 20 per 
cent was declared payable Oct. 1, 1873. 

In 1865 the price of a single ticket between Boston 
and Lowell was one dollar, and season tickets were thirty- 
five dollars per quarter. In 1866 a reduction was made 
to ninety cents for a single ticket and thirty-two dollars 
per quarter. In 1868 a further reduction was made to 
eighty cents single and thirty dollars per quarter. Pack- 
age tickets were sold at the rate of ten for seven dollars 
and a half, thus actually reducing the fare to seventy-five 
cents. In 1870 the fare was further reduced by the sale 
of a mileage ticket good to the purchaser for one thou- 
sand miles of travel, for twenty dollars, or two cents per 
mile. These mileage tickets were among the first used on 
any New England railroad. Some idea of the increase of 
passengers on the Boston and Lowell, especially from 
connecting roads, may be gained by the following state- 
ment, which appeared in the annual report for 1869. 

BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD. 
PASSENGERS CABBIED IN THE CABS FOB TWELVE MONTHS 

ENDING DEC. 31, 1868. 
To and from Boston 
Nashua and Lowell R. R., 
Wilton R. R. 
Stony Brook R. R., 
Concord R. R., 

Boston, C. and Montreal R. R., 
Northern R. R., 

Vermont Central R. R. and beyond, 
Conn, and Pass. River R. R., 
Concord and Claremont R. R., 
Manchester and No. Weare R. R., 
Contoocook River R. R., 
All stations on B. and L. R. R., 



1859 


1868 


Increase 


20,588 


41,907 


21,319 


8,824 


18,585 


9,711 


1,111 


1,922 


811 


9,124 


47,229 


38,105 


2,602 


11,041 


8,439 


4,710 


8,697 


3,987 


12,004 


19,784 


7,780 


3,241 


6,973 


3,732 


1,147 


1,695 


548 


786 


1,361 


575 


954 


2,475 


1,521 


437,521 


934,211 


496,690 



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TICKETS AND PASSES 
In use 40 years ago 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 329 

At this time the rate of freight on coal to Lowell was 
reduced 16 2-3 per cent., and on iron and other articles 
of heavy merchandise 10 per cent. 

In 1865 the property on Lowell and Minot streets, in 
Boston, known as the Mill Pond Wharf Estate, was pur- 
chased for the purpose of enlarging the freighting facili- 
ties of the Boston and Lowell Railroad. This property 
consisted of about four acres of land and wharf, with 
twenty-two brick stores and extensive brick sheds stand- 
ing upon it. 

The buildings were enlarged and converted into freight 
houses, and a grain elevator built, the first in Boston. The 
Boston and Lowell Railroad has today (1918) the title to an 
undivided sixty-nine one-hundredths of this property, and 
the Nashua and Lowell Railroad has a title to an undi- 
vided thirty-one one-hundredths. Still this purchase was 
not found to be sufficient to accommodate the tremendous 
increase in freight and passenger business, and in 1869 
the directors of the Boston and Lowell Railroad and the 
Eastern Railroad (whose Boston station was next to that 
of the Lowell road) applied to the Legislature for permis- 
sion to take all the land lying between Andover and Low- 
ell streets and Causeway and Minot streets. Its assessed 
valuation for taxes in 1868 was about $700,000. The 
proposed arrangement with the Eastern Railroad contem- 
plated a sale to them of the then Lowell station and bridge 
and about four acres of land in Cambridge. After the 
Legislature had passed the required act the Eastern Rail- 
road at the last minute refused to avail themselves of it, 
and the whole project came to nothing. Accordingly, to 
increase its own freight facilities, the Boston and Lowell 
Railroad obtained permission from the Legislature to pur- 
chase about thirty acres of wharf and flats at the mouth 
of the Mystic river for a harbor terminus. This purchase 
fronted on Boston harbor, below all bridges, and connected 
on three sides with broad docks. Upon its completion 
and the erection of suitable structures upon the wharf, 
President Crowninshield, in a circular to the stockhold- 
ers, said that : '* Our facilities for the reception and de- 
livery and transportation of water-borne freight will not 
be excelled by those of any road in New England." 



330 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

The Mystic River branch railroad was constructed in 
1873 from the main line of the Lowell road at Somerville 
to the new Mystic docks. 

During the years that immediately followed the close of 
the Civil War the foreign commerce of Boston declined 

O 

sensibly, due to the lack of through western railroad 
connections and poor deep water terminals. In 1867 an 
attempt to operate an American line of steamers between 
Boston and Liverpool failed disastrously, and in the next 
year the Cunard line suspended its sailings from Boston 
altogether, their steamers arrived in Boston, but found 
their outward freights in New York. The want of a 
direct through railroad between Boston and Chicago, 
controlled by New England capital, was severely felt. In 
1869, through the untiring efforts of President Crownin- 
shield and Mr. John H. George, the counsel of the Boston 
and Lowell Railroad, an act was passed by the Massachu- 
setts Legislature to incorporate the Great Northern Rail- 
road Company. That bill provided that the Boston and 
Lowell, the Nashua and Lowell, the Concord and the 
Northern Railroads, all dividend paying and free from 
debt, and extending from Boston to White River Junc- 
tion, might unite, either all or any two of them, and form 
a corporation under the name of the " *reat Northern 
Railroad Company " ; that, having united and formed 
such a corporation, they then, by purchase or lease, or 
by union upon terms specified in the bill, might absorb 
the roads extending from Boston to Ogdensburg, N. Y. ; 
and with further authority to purchase and maintain 
a line of steam navigation upon the great lakes, thus 
forming, under one management and one corporation, 
an efficient line from Boston to Chicago, a line of rail 
405 miles in length to the lake, there connecting with 
steamboats, which, under all the arrangements then exist- 
ing, had divided equally at Ogdensburg with the railroads, 
thus making Ogdensburg half the distance, so far as 
price was concerned, from Boston to Chicago, and, col- 
lated with that view, making the distance from Boston to 
Chicago, 810 miles. 

After a severe struggle the bill had received the sanc- 
tion of the Massachusetts Legislature, with scarcely any 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 331 

final opposition, but the New Hampshire Legislature re- 
fused permission to unite the various roads under this 
bill. The cry was raised throughout the whole State of 
New Hampshire that this was a Massachusetts project 
and that should it succeed New Hampshire would be 
placed under the control of Boston capital. Nobody 
could or would see that the proposed railroad consolida- 
tion would prove of vital importance to all the New 
England States, and so the whole scheme came to naught. 

Another plan to consolidate the Lowell and Fitchburg 
roads WHS tried in 1873 and also failed, which stopped 
for some time any further attempts to unionize the Mas- 
sachusetts railroad system. During 1871-72 an attempt 
was made to make use of Salem's water facilities, and a 
line of propeller steamers, the " Wm. Tibbets '', " Nor- 
wich ", " Alliance " and " Zodiac ", was started between 
that port and New York, running in connection with the 
Salem and Lowell Railroad. Large expectations were 
entertained of freight traffic, which, unfortunately, were 
not realized, and after about a year the line was given 
up. 

A more successful experiment was when the Boston 
and Lowell Railroad took, in 1872, a twenty year lease 
of Phillips wharf in Salem and made arrangements with 
the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Philadelphia 
and Reading Railway whereby large cargoes of coal were 
brought to Salem in steamers belonging to the two before 
mentioned companies and then transported to Lowell via 
the Salem and Lowell road. 

This was the beginning of a very successful business 
which was carried on for many years and has only been 
given up quite recently. In the meantime the Boston and 
Lowell had not neglected to expand its local business ; it 
must be remembered that there were then no trolley cars, 
and the suburban travel meant much more to the rail- 
roads than it does to-day. The Stoneham branch, extend- 
ing from East Woburn to Stoneham, and opened in 1862, 
was at first leased, and later, in 1870, bought by the Low- 
ell road. The same year saw the purchase of the Lexing- 
ton and Arlington Railroad, 10 miles long, which had 
been opened in 1864 and at first operated by the Fitch- 



332 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

burg road. To protect themselves, the directors of the 
Boston and Lowell thought the purchase of this line highly 
desirable. This road was later extended eight miles to 

~ 

Concord under the name of the Middlesex Central Rail- 
road, but was leased before it was completed, in 1872, to 
the Boston and Lowell road, at six per cent upon an 
agreed cost. In 1872, also, the Massachusetts Legisla- 
ture had chartered the ill-starred Massachusetts Central 
Railroad, with authority to construct a line from Boston 
to Northampton, Mass., a distance of about 100 miles. 
The Massachusetts Central contracted with the Boston 
and Lowell for the use of their terminal facilities and 
service in Boston for twenty years, and they were also 
to have the use of a track to be built on land owned by 
the Lowell road between Boston and Arlington. The 
compensation was to be fixed for five years, and thereafter 
subject to periodical revision as business should increase. 
Unfortunately the Massachusetts Central soon became 
involved in a quagmire of financial difficulties, work on 
the road was temporarily given up, and the agreement 
was later the cause of much trouble to the Lowell man- 
agement. To meet these and other financial requirements 
the capital of the Boston and Lowell Railroad had been 
raised in 1870 from $2,215,000 to $3,000,000. At this 
time the rolling stock of the joint roads consisted of 46 
locomotives, 57 passenger cars, 26 baggage cars, and 1130 
freight cars. The need of a new passenger station in 
Boston was now imperatively felt, and in 1872 Messrs. 
Francis B. Crowninshield and George Stark, the president 
and general manager, were appointed a committee to 
superintend the construction of the new terminus. It 
was built on Causeway street, over and around the station 
of 1857, which was torn down when the new building 
was completed, in December, 1873. This building is 
still in use and now forms the southerly end of the pres- 
ent Union Station. While it was in the process of con- 
struction Messrs. Crowninshield and Stark were both 
much ridiculed for building such a large station (the 
largest then in Boston, its train shed covered just short 
of two acres), for the wiseacres asserted that no railroad 
could ever, by any possible chance, need such large ac- 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BEADLEE. 333 

commodations. It covered a total area of three and one- 
fourth acres, the head house had a frontage of 205 feet 
on Causeway street and a depth of about 130 feet. The 
general offices of the company were housed within this 
building. The roads then operated by the Boston and 
Lowell consisted of : 

Main line, Boston to Nashua, 40 miles 

Mystic River Branch, 2 

Lexington Branch, 16 

Woburn Branch, 2 

Stoneham Branch, 3 

Lowell and Lawrence R. R., 13 

Salem and Lowell R. R., 20 

Stony Brook R. R., 13 

Wilton R. R. as extended, 26 



Total, 135 miles 

In 1873 fifty passenger trains daily departed and ar- 
rived in the Lowell station in Boston ; through trains, 
" with Pullman palace cars attached," for northern New 
Hampshire, Vermont, Canada, Ogdensburg and the West, 
left at 7 and 8 A. M. and 5 and 6 P. M. A theatre train 
for Lowell and Nashua was run on Wednesdays only at 
11.15 P. M. ; a Sunday train (then a great innovation) 
was also provided, leaving Nashua at 7.45 A. M. and re- 
turning from Boston at 4 P. M. The severe panic of 
1873 proved a complete "crusher" to railroad interests, the 
storm swept away millions upon millions of railroad invest- 
ments,and the country from Maine to California was strewn 
with these monetary wrecks. Owing to its strong finan- 
cial position, the Lowell road faced the commercial de- 
pression, which lasted for several years, as well if not 
better than any other transportation line in the country, 
dividends were cut, but never passed entirely, salaries 
and wages were reduced ten per cent, and some trains 
were taken off, but this was nothing compared to what 
happened to many other railroads. 

During 18 73, also, a rival line known as the Nashua,Acton 
and Boston Railroad, was built and opened for the avowed 
purpose of diverting from the Lowell road the local and 



334 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

through business of Nashua and the various Northern 
roads. The distance from Boston to Nashua by that line 
was six miles longer than by the old road, but the new 
trains were expressed through, and their local fares re- 
duced fifteen per cent below those on the Lowell. Not- 
withstanding these inducements, the attempted rivalry 
only resulted in disaster to its projectors. The next few 
years saw the adoption by the Boston and Lowell and the 
other New England railroads of many safety devices 
which, until the Revere disaster on the Eastern Railroad, 
had been little thought of. 

These were the system of running trains by telegraph, 
the use of steel instead of iron rails, electric signals, the 
Miller platform and coupler, etc. The " vacuum safety 
brake " was then thought by many railroad managers to 
be superior to the Westinghouse air brake (patented in 
1869), and was adopted by the Lowell management. 
Their road had always been operated with the utmost 
care, which resulted in a remarkable freedom from acci- 
dent. In 1874 a new iron bridge across the Pawtucket 
canal, at Lowell, was completed, at a cost of $ 25, 000. 
The next year Mr, Stark, who had been for many years 
the general manager, resigned, owing to a difference of 
opinion with the directors as to the future management 
of the company. His place was temporarily taken by 
Mr. John B. Winslow, the superintendent, and afterwards 
permanently filled by Hon. Hocurn Hosford, a large dry 
goods merchant of Lowell, who had been a director for 
many years. 

On August 29, 1877, on the Pennsylvania wharf in 
Salem, took place the worst accident that ever befell the 
Boston and Lowell Railroad. The steamboat " Plymouth 
Rock " had made an excursion trip from Salem to the Isles 
of Shoals and return, and among the three thousand persons 
on board was a large delegation from Lowell, for whose 
benefit an extra train was to be run on the steamer's re- 
turn.. This took place at about 8 P. M., and while the 
crow d was coming up the wharf the long train of cars 
was drawn down (not backed) by the shifting engine in 
charge of engineer John Goodspeed. It was said the 
looo motive's headlight was not lighted, although the con- 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLBE. 385 

ductor testified he went in front of the engine waving a 
lantern. At any rate several persons were caught between 
the cars and the eastern side of the track, along the en- 
tire length of which ran a boxed-in water pipe, so that, 
were a train passing, there would be not more than seven 
inches of space. Mr. Joseph W. Swasey, his wife, son, 
and Mrs. Swasey's sister, Miss Gifford, were crushed to 
death, and several others injured, luckily but slightly. 
This accident caused a great stir at the time. A short 
time before, on May 8, 1877, Hon. Francis B. Crownin- 
shield, who for twenty-two years had been the president 
of the united roads, died very suddenly at his home in 
Marblehead. The directors elected Hon. Thomas Talbot 
to take his place, and soon thereafter the storm which had 
been for some time brewing, burst. For several years 
past the directors and stockholders of the Nashua and 
Lowell road had complained that their proportionate share 
of the earnings, 81 per cent, was not enough, while on 
the other hand the Boston and Lowell management 
thought it too much. In 1872 a new method had been 
adopted of computing the share of each partner in the 
net earnings, and this increased the dissatisfaction of the 
Nashua and Lowell interests. The man who for years 
had managed to keep the peace between the various roads 
was no longer there, and, after a series of acrimonious 
meetings, offers and counter offers between the directors 
of the Boston arid Lowell and Nashua and Lowell roads, 
the twenty year agreement between them was not renewed 
when it expired in 1878, and the two properties were 
again separated. A division of the rolling stock took 
place, in which the Boston and Lowell retained 44 loco- 
motives, 64 passenger cars, 22 baggage and smoking cars, 
and 1152 freight cars. The engines and cars of the latter 
road were re-lettered " Boston and Lowell ", a title which 
was hereafter adhered to until the lease to the Boston and 
Maine. 

Charles E. Paige, for many years the station-master at 
Lowell, was elected superintendent of the Nashua and 
Lowell, and C. V. Dearborn treasurer. The inconvenience 
and extravagance of having these two short lines operated 
independently soon manifested itself. Train and engine 



336 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL EAILROAD 

crews had to be changed at Lowell, thus necessitating an 
extra number of men. The locomotives of the Nashua 
and Lowell road had to be so arranged as to run six 
times a day, back and forth, to make a day's work. It 
was found extreme!}' difficult to get the connecting roads 
at Nashua to so schedule their trains that that amount of 
work could be done, and both companies found their run- 
ning expenses mounting higher than other railroads doing 
a fair business. The situation was further complicated 
by endless quarrels as to the joint use of the Lowell pas- 
senger station, the Nashua and Lowell Railroad having 
their general offices in the second story of this building. 
Finally mutual friends interfered, and on Oct. 28, 1880, 
the Boston and Lowell road leased the Nashua and Lowell 
for ninety-nine years. By the terms of the agreement 
the Boston and Lowell were to pay nine per cent annually 
on the Nashua stock, to buy their interest in the Boston 
freight and wharf terminals, and to assume its other 
leases and investments. At this time Judge Josiah G. 
Abbott had succeeded Mr. Talbot in the presidency of the 
Lowell road. The increase of trains and the frequency 
of their movement across the street near the Middlesex 
street station in Lowell, had by 1878 become a source of 
great annoyance to the business of that thoroughfare. 
To obviate this the directors of the Boston and Lowell, 
acting in concert with the Lowell cit} T government, re- 
solved to cut out and widen the ledge, so as to admit of 
the construction of a long and commodious train house 
within its walls, leaving the station as a head house. This 
work was performed by Messrs. Ward and Gray, and 
considered quite a feat of engineering. The next year 
(1879) the old arch bridge at Chelmsford street, Lowell, 
was removed and a new one built. In 1880, also, an 
agreement was entered into between the Boston and 
Lowell and Massachusetts Central Railroads which pro- 
vided for the operation of the latter property (when 
completed and accepted) by the former. It was believed 
that the new road would afford to central and western 
Massachusetts new and convenient railroad facilities, and 
give the Boston and Lowell a permanent western line, 



Lowell Island, 




On Mini :ifrvr FRIDAY, the 15th day of -4i<s;us. the Steamer 

MERRIMAGK 

lenvc Phillips M harf for Lowell Island at 7 . 9, A.M., 21, I . P.M. 
leave Lowell Island for Phillips Wharf at 8, A.M., I . :* . 7. P.M. 



During the intervals between the above-named honr, the 

ill niaki- excursion* in On- Hay, ami l adjoining: ports, ill may bo >perUlly rontraclril for. 

Passage between Phillips Whaifand Lowell Island, ! each way I 15 cent*. 

Tic-kui- for alr on board Ilie boat, or to be bought during the passage. 

Heals are furnished ut the Island at 2A cents. Sailboats, fishing lines 

angeme may be made for the transportation of Parties over the several Railroads, upon 
fHicatioP to 



I. D. SHEPARD, 

34 FRONT STREET, SALEM, MASS, 



Augusr. 14. 



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BY FRANCIS B. C. BBADLEE. 337 

with mileage sufficient to enable it to more profitably de- 
velop its terminal facilities. 

During August, 1880, the directors of the Lowell road 
entered into a contract with the directors of the Concord 
Railroad of New Hampshire by which the two proper- 
ties were to be managed as one. The agreement was to 
begin Sept. 1, 1880, and to last five years, the Concord 
road receiving forty per cent and the Lowell road sixty 
per cent of the net earnings. Unfortunately disagree- 
ments soon arose which prevented the hoped for result, a 
large reduction in expenses, and the contract was termi- 
nated by mutual consent on March 1, 1883. 

Mr. Hosford, the general manager, died in 1880, and 
the directors elected Henry C. Sherburne, superintendent 
of the Concord Railroad, to fill the position, and at the 
same time Mr. Charles E. A. Bartlett was made treasurer. 
To Mr. Hosford must be credited the introduction of the 
Westinghouse air brake (at first only used on the through 
trains), and the switch tower and system of interlocking 
switches used at the southerly end of the Lowell depot. 
Mr. Herbert C. Taft, former station agent at Lowell and 
the author of an interesting pamphlet, " Early Days of 
Railroading ", informs the author that this switch tower 
was the first successful one opened in the United States, 
and the prejudice was so strong against it among railroad 
men and officials that, although completed in 1881 and 
used to some extent, it was not officially opened until 
Dec. 26, 1882. The tower operated about thirty switches 
and its advantage over hand switches was very soon 
demonstrated, and today every large railroad yard in the 
country is equipped with tower switches and signals. 

James P. Ramsey, who had previously had experience 
with towers in England, where they were first introduced, 
assisted in installing the one in Lowell, and for twenty 
years was its foreman after it was put in operation. 

Early in May, 1883, the unfortunate Massachusetts 
Central Railroad was surrendered by its stockholders into 
the hands of the trustees of the first mortgage bondhold- 
ers. The directors of the Boston and Lowell made every 
effort to keep the line in operation, but without success. 
Later on, in 1885, a contract was entered into with the 



838 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

trustees of the Massachusetts Central for the operation 
and completion of the road between North Cambridge 
and Jefferson's. During the 1880's the Boston and Low- 
ell Railroad Corporation, by lease and purchase, gradually 
expanded from a small road 26 miles long into one of the 
largest railway systems in New England. In fact, about 
this time it came to be generally known as the " Lowell 
System." On Jnne 1, 1884, it assumed control by lease 
of the Northern of New Hampshire and Boston, Concord 
and Montreal Railroads, thus giving it (with the excep- 
tion of the Concord Railroad) a through line to Canada. 
Great opposition to these leases was manifested in New 
Hampshire and litigation was begun in connection there- 
with which had far reaching results on the future of the 
Boston and Lowell. In the meantime the road had ac- 
quired so much mileage that it had become unwieldy to 
manage as a unit, and it was accordingly divided into di- 
visions, each with its own superintendent. 

The Southern division comprised the Boston and Low- 
ell proper, the Nashua and Lowell, Manchester and 
Keene (that extended from Greenfield, N. H., to Keene, 
and a half interest in which had been bought in 1883), 
and Nashua, Acton and Boston roads. The Northern 
division was formed of the Northern and Boston, Con- 
cord and Montreal roads. Later on two more divisions 
were made ; one known as the Vermont division, which 
was composed of the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain 
Railroad and a White Mountain division which extended 
from Woodsville to Fabyans, N. H. On April 30, 1885, 
the new Bedford and Billerica branch was opened, which 
practically furnished a third track between Boston and 
Lowell. During 1884, Messrs. Edwin Morey and Charles 
S. Mellen had been elected respectively president and 
general superintendent. 

The lease of the Boston and Lowell and allied roads 
to the Boston and Maine in 1887, although rather a sud- 
den step at the time, was largely because of the necessity 
of combining and holding together the various properties, 
too small in themselves for successful separate operation. 
This had been admitted by all parties for many years, but 
the question had also become inextricably mixed up with 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 339 

Massachusetts and New Hampshire politics, some of it of 
a not very high order, and the political ambitions of cer- 
tain prominent men, chief among whom was the late 
Frank Jones, also figured largely. 

In March, 1887, after a suit brought by the minority 
stockholders of the Northern Kailroad of New Hamp- 
shire, the Supreme Court of that State rendered a decision 
in which they declared the lease of that road to the Bos- 
ton and Lowell invalid. 

This precipitated a serious situation, for the latter 
company especially, as regards the Boston and Montreal 
through line. 

The directors of the Boston and Lowell accordingly 
proposed a lease of their system to the directors of the 
Boston and Maine, as they thought the management of 
the latter road, by means of their already existing leases 
and contracts with other companies, would be better able 
than they to affect a consolidation of the " upper " roads. 
The lease was ratified by the stockholders of both lines, 
and took effect in June, 1887, but dated back to the pre- 
vious April. It was to run for 99 years, the Boston and 
Lowell stockholders were guaranteed dividends at the 
rate of 7 per cent yearly until 1897, and after that at the 
rate of 8 per cent. The Boston and Lowell corporation 
were to assume the responsibility of their own leases. 
At this time the Lowell stock stood at 174 and the bonds 
(7's) at 114 ; the par value of the stock which had been 
$500 per share had been reduced to $100 in 1885, by 
dividing each share into five. The lease was not viewed 
with delight by many of the stockholders, especially those 
of the Nashua and Lowell Railroad. In the annual re- 
port for 1887 of the latter company the directors say to 
the stockholders : "... the directors of the latter Co. 
(the Boston and Lowell) entered into an arrangement 
with the Boston and Maine by which it retires from the 
active management of its own property and turns over 
the same to the Boston and Maine. . . . This arrange- 
ment, if consummated, will have an important bearing 
upon your rights and interests. . . . Your directors have 
not been consulted on this matter by the directors of these 
corporations, and are informed and believe that they do 



340 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

not deem it necessary to obtain your consent to this very 
radical change in the situation of your property. ... If 
the Boston and Maine sees fit to trust to the ability of the 
Lowell to turn over your road and earnings to them, and 
should this attempt fail ... to benefit your road, and it 
falls back into your possession and control, you will have 
little occasion for grief." 

On May 25, 1887, just before the Lowell lease took 
effect, the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad 
was leased to the Boston and Lowell for 99 years at 5 
per cent per annum. The entire situation as regards the 
northern New England railroads, complicated as it was 
and soon to be only a dim memory of the past, is best 
summed up in an editorial which appeared in the Boston 
Daily Advertiser for June 4, 1887. 

' A GREAT RAILROAD PROBLEM. 

Years ago, when railroad communication was first 
opened between Boston and Montreal, the event was 
deemed so interesting that the President came on from 
Washington to be present at the celebration. Since then 
roads from Boston to the north have been under warring 
managements, and have labored under difficulties which 
have stood in the way of the development to which they 
were entitled. In New Hampshire and Vermont a suc- 
cession of legal difficulties have prevented their united 
working. Of late the Boston & Lowell road has endeav- 
ored to obtain possession by lease of a complete line be- 
tween this city and Montreal, a project which, in its main 
features, seemed likely to succeed until the New Hamp- 
shire Supreme Court broke it up. Now the Boston & 
Maine road is believed to have practically acquired the 
Lowell and is attempting to consolidate the upper roads. 
By means of leases and traffic contracts, it has a line 
extending from Montreal down to White River Junction, 
and from Boston by one route to Lowell, and by another 
to Manchester, N. H. It will now ask the New Hamp- 
shire Legislature to allow by statute the Northern road 
from White River Junction to Concord to be leased to it, 
so that it will thus control all the direct communications 
between Boston and the north, save the compact and val 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BEADLEB. 341 

uable system of the Concord road, extending from Nashua 
to Concord. 

It is the current belief that the lease of the Northern 
to the Maine will be authorized. It has been in effect 
twice made, and only broken because a minority of the 
Northern stockholders fought it. A provision of law 
whereby such dissentient stockholders may be bought out 
will doubtless be passed. Such a provision was inserted 
in the Colby bill, which became law in New Hampshire in 
1883, but was stricken out at the instance of the Maine 
people, who were just then planning to acquire the East- 
ern, and did not wish to be made to buy the minority 
stock of that road, though now they may wish that they 
had done so. But what they did not want in 1883 for the 
Eastern road, they do want now for the Northern, and 
they will probably get it. 

The control of the Northern has long been desired by 
the Concord, and its managers might now be in possession 
had they been on the alert. When the court declared the 
lease to the Lowell invalid, the Concord road endeavored 
to secure a lease. Terms were made on a 5 per cent 
basis, but, thinking they had the matter perfectly in hand, 
the Concord managers stipulated that the 4000 shares of 
Concord stock now in the treasury of the Northern road 
should be sold at $100 a share to parties in the Concord 
interest. To this the Northern managers would not agree, 
as the market price was some 25 per cent higher, and the 
affair was stopped. Later the Passumpsic road was leased 
to the Lowell on a 5 per cent basis for 10 years and 6 per 
cent basis thereafter. Their ideas of the value of their 
property increased by this transaction, the Northern 
managers asked the same terms of the Concord people, 
were hastily refused, and then made another lease with 
the Lowell on the same terms, which is likely to be ratified 
by the Legislature. 

If this proves true, the Boston & Maine and its allies 
will reach from Boston to Montreal, unchecked save by 
the 32 miles of Concord track between Nashua and Con- 
cord, and a war to the knife will follow. To all outward 
appearances, only one result can follow. The Concord 
is a locally owned road. All its directors are New Hamp- 



342 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

shire men, who boast of its success as a matter for state 
pride. With its trifling capital of $1,500,000, and no 
debt, it pays 10 per cent dividends and finds difficulty in 
disposing of its surplus so that it will not have to be 
paid into the State treasury. Out of this overflowing 
surplus side roads were acquired, like those to Lawrence 
and to Portsmouth from Manchester, on whose stock 10 
per cent also has been paid. But the managers have not 
apparently roused to the sagacity of the Boston & Maine, 
which within a few weeks has bought away the Lawrence 
road from the Concord's control, thus giving the Maine 
an entrance into Manchester, and also entitling them, un- 
der their claim on behalf of the Lawrence road, to two- 
fifths of all the property of the Concord road, built or 
purchased from the joint profits of the Concord and Law- 
rence roads, and embracing valuable rights at Concord 
and Manchester. In the loss of the Northern and Law- 
rence roads to the Maine, the Concord seems to have made 
an irreparable mistake ; and while it has secured the 
ownership of the Boston, Concord & Montreal road, now 
under a contested lease to the Lowell, that is not an es- 
pecially valuable property to the Boston & Maine combi- 
nation, providing the Northern road, which furnishes a 
more feasible route to Montreal, is given over to it. 

So it appears that by a series of stratagems the Maine 
road controls both the northern and southern connections 
of the Concord. On the other hand, the Concord is the 
only link between the separated lines of the Maine system, 
but the lines can be united by an 18-mile track from 
Concord to Manchester, which, with the permission of the 
Legislature, the Maine people could easily build, and then 
the Concord road would be quite at its mercy. 

So thorough a proceeding, however, is not likely to be 
necessary. The Concord road, even at its present high 
price, is only worth in the market some 13,450,000, a 
considerable part of which is already in Boston & Maine 
hands, while the 4000 shares in the Northern treasury 
cannot be voted while the present Concord managers con- 
trol the majority of its stock, still it could probably be 
bought if enough money was paid. It would be high, 



3v 




THE THIRD BOSTON STATION 

Built in Causeway Street 

1873 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 343 

but the Boston & Maine even then could better afford to 
buy the Concord than to parallel it. 

But the appeal to State pride and to local interest is 
made upon the New Hampshire Legislature in order to 
allow nothing to be done that will destroy the independ- 
ence of the Concord road and throw it into the hands of 
the Boston & Maine. This appeal may do once, but it 
will not avail permanently. Something more tangible 
must be offered, or the whole northern system between 
here and Montreal will fall into the hands of the Maine. 
We are not now discussing the advisability of that. The 
fact however is patent. What then can prevent it ? To 
our minds only one thing. The State owns a reversionary 
interest in the Concord road at its cost. Last year it 
earned over 30 per cent upon its capital stock. Suppose 
the State should pay its owners the $1,500,000 to buy 
their stock, with possibly the 36 per cent of unpaid divi- 
dends to which it is claimed the stockholders have a right, 
amounting to $2,040,000. It would acquire a property 
which netted last year $480,000. The money could be 
borrowed at 3 per cent, and the road would pay the State 
a yearly profit of $400,000. If ever a State was justified 
in running a railroad, this is the case. It would be a 
source of great profit, and, in addition, the State would 
control forever the great traffic of the Merrimac valley. 

This, and the ultimate control of the Boston & Maine 
system, are the alternatives for our great rail routes to 
Montreal ; routes which have always been controlled in 
New Hampshire by virtue of legislation and courts, 
though Massachusetts largely furnished the money to 
build them, and the great terminal facilities at Boston. 
Now, for the last time, Massachusetts is trying again to 
get possession of these roads, and New Hampshire to 
retain her control apparently must sooner or later go to 
an extreme of legislation, that of State ownership, which 
she has heretofore avoided, or the heaviest capital and the 
control of the terminals will finally effect their logical re- 
sult in railroading, and a Boston corporation for the first 
time control the railroad lines 'twixt here and Montreal." 

For some years after the lease of the Boston and Low- 
ell Railroad the Boston and Maine ran it under the name 



344 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 

of the " Lowell System," but about 1892 this title was 
dropped and that of " Southern Division " adopted in its 
stead, which is still retained. During the recent financial 
troubles of the Boston and Maine and consequent doubt 
as to their abitity to pay the Lowell rental, there was 
much talk about the latter road once more becoming in- 
dependent. In fact, the Boston and Lowell, with its 
leases of a through line to Canada, its ownership of 40 
per cent of the Boston Union Station, the East Cambridge 
freight terminals and the Mystic wharf property, was 
rather considered to have been the " tail which wagged 
the dog." 

A few words regarding the older employees whose 
faces were familiar to travellers of a generation or more 
ago may not be out of place. 

Bartlett, James Locke, Joseph Piper, General 

Michael T. Donohoe, Emery Thayer, and L. S. Bean were 
the old-time station agents in Boston. General Donohoe 
had had a very gallant record with the 3rd New Hamp- 
shire Infantry during the Civil War, retiring with the 
rank of brevet brigadier general. He was then employed 
as conductor and afterwards as Boston station-master by 
the Boston and Lowell. Charles E. Page was long em- 
ployed in the same capacity in Lowell, afterwards becom- 
ing superintendent of the Nashua and Lowell when it 
was run independently in 1878. 

Among the well known conductors of years ago were : 

Emery Thayer, Carter, on the main line, Jonathan 

Gould and Thomas Young on the Woburn branch. 
Alexander and James Colby ran through between Boston 
and Concord, N. H. Conductor Emery Graves ran a trip 
from Salem to Lowell in the morning, from thence to 
Ayer Junction and back during the day, returning to 
Salem at night. From the point of view of consecutive 
service conductor W. G. Trumbull is now the oldest em- 
ployee of the Boston and Lowell still running trains, he 
having entered the road's employ in 1869. The present 
Boston and Maine locomotives numbered 830 and 831 are 
the old " Pegasus " and " -lEolus " respectively of the old 
Boston and Lowell. Quite a few of their passenger cars 
are also in active service. 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLBB. 345 

The equipment of the Boston and Lowell was always 
superior to that of the Boston and Maine, and the man- 
agement in the hands of men of larger calibre. At the 
time of the lease of the Boston and Lowell to the Boston 
and Maine the old employees of the former, it is said, 
felt very badly, as they thought they were making a poor 
swap of employers from the progressives of the Boston 
and Lowell to the hitherto picayunes of the Boston and 
Maine. Even in the late 80's the Boston and Maine had 
light rails with wooden fish plates (tie bars) on their main 
line, and their express locomotives were mostly of the 35 
ton class and were not equipped with the Westinghouse 
brake. Block signals were almost unknown. At that time 
the Boston and Lowell had several 60 to 80 ton express 
locomotives, Hall and Union block signals, and the West- 
inghouse brake on all passenger equipment. The Boston 
and Lowell still maintains separate officers and offices, 
principally for the transaction of its financial business. 



346 THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 



APPENDIX 1. 

LOCOMOTIVES OF THE NASHUA AND LOWELL RAILROAD 
COMPANY IN 1850. 



Number and 
Name 


Weight 
in 
Tons 


No. of 
Wheels 


Dia. of 

Cylin- 
ders 


Length 
of 
Stroke 


No. of 
Drivers 


Builders and 
Cost 


Mars, No. 1 


10 


6 


11-in 


18-in 


2 


R. H. Dunham 
& Co. 
$6,000, 1838 


Jehu, No. 2 


10 


6 


11-in 


18-in 


2 


R. H. Dunham 
& Co. 
$6,000, 1838 


Roebuck, No. 3 


10 


6 


11-in 


18-in 


2 


Locks & Canal Co. 
Lowell, 
$6,500, 1839 


Lion, No. 4 


18 


8 


15-in 


18-in 


4 


Hinkley & Drury, 
$6,450, 1844 


Nashville, No. 5 


18 


8 


14-in 


18-in 


4 


Hinkley & Drury, 
$7,000, 1847 


Indian Head, 
No. 6 


18 


8 


14-in 


18-in 


4 


Hinkley & Drury, 
$7,000, 1847 


Wilton, No. 7 


19 


8 


14-in 


18-in 


4 


Taunton Loco. Co. 
$7,524, 1848 


Paugus, No. 8 


23 


8 


16-in 


20-in 


4 


Boston Loco. Co. 
$8,000, 1848 


Rolla, No. 9 


18 


8 


14 in 


18-in 


4 


Boston Loco. Co. 
$6,965, 1849 


Logan, No. 10 


23 


8 


16-in 


20-in 


4 


Boston Loco. Co. 
$7,240, 1850 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BRADLEE. 



347 



APPENDIX 2. 

PASSENGER CABS OF THE NASHUA AND LOWELL RAILBOAD 
COMPANY IN 1350. 



Year 


Num- 
ber 


Kind 


Builders 


Cost 


Present 
Value 
(1850) 


1838 


3 


8-wheeled 


Myers & Bliss 


$4,041 


$360 


1839 
1840 


4 
1 


Baggage, 24 
seats 


Built by the Co. 
Built by the Co. 


6,984 
1 616 


275 
1,100 


1845 


1 


8-wheeled 


Bradley & Rice 


1,800 


1,150 


1847 


1 


8-wheeled 


Davenport & 
Bridges 


1,858 


1,350 


1848 


2 


8-wheeled 
64 seats each 


Davenport & 
Bridges 


3,990 


3,385 


1849 


2 


8-wheeled 
64 seats each 


Davenport & 
Bridges 


3,940 


3,600 


1850 


4 


Express and 
Baggage 


Built by the Co. 


3,200 


2,865 



348 



THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD 



APPENDIX 3. 

MASSACHUSETTS RAILROAD SYSTEM IN 1851. EACH OF THE 
ROADS ENUMERATED BELOW WAS RUN INDEPEND- 
ENTLY UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. 



Name of Road 



Miles operated 
including 

branches 



Cost 



Berkshire 21 

Boston and Lowell 28 

Boston and Maine 83 

Boston and Providence 53 

Boston and Worcester 69 

Cape Cod 29 

Connecticut River 52 

Eastern 75 

Essex (operated by the Eastern) 21 

Fitchburg 66 

Fitchburg and Worcester 14 

Grand Junction 6 

Lexington and West Cambridge(oper- 

ated by the Fitchburg) 7 

Lowell and Lawrence 12 

Nashua and Lowell 15 

New Bedford and Taunton 21 

Newburyport. 9 

Old Colony 45 

Fall River (oper. by the Old Colony) 42 

Peterboro' and Shirley 14 

Pittsfield and North Adams 18 

Providence and Worcester 43 

Salem and Lowell 17 

South Reading Branch 8 

South Shore 11 

Stockbridge and Pittsfield 22 

Stoney Brook (operated by Nashua 

and Lowell 13 

Stoughton Branch (operated by Bos- 
ton and Providence) 4 

Taunton Branch 12 

Troy and Greenfield 

Vermont and Massachusetts 77 

Western (now Boston and Albany). . . 156 

Worcester and Nashua 46 



$ 600,000 
1,945,647 
4,021,607 
3,416,233 
4,882,648 

626,543 
1,798,825 
3,624,152 

537,869 
3,552,283 

259,074 

763,844 

242,161 

333,254 

621,215 

498,752 

106,825 

2,293,535 

1,068,167 

272,647 

443,678 

1,824,797 

316,943 

231,601 

420,434 

448,700 

265,527 

93,483 
307,136 

3,406,244 
9,963,709 
1,410,198 



BY FRANCIS B. C. BKADLEE. 



349 



APPENDIX 4. 

LOCOMOTIVES OF THE BOSTON, LOWELL AND NASHUA 
RAILBOAD IN 1860. 



Name 


Date of 

Construc- 
tion 


Builders 


Remarks 


Boardman 


1857 


Wm. Mason 


First coal burner 


Boston 


.... 


Mason Machine 




Cloud 


.... 


Lowell Machine 


Inside connections 


Eagle 


.... 


u tc 




Essex 




l< l< 


Inside connections 


Factory Girl 


1850 


Hinekley 


i .< 


Higginson 


1856 







Jesse Bowers 


.... 


Amoskeag 


Inside connections 


Lion 


1844 


Hinekley 




Logan 


1850 


ii 


Inside connections 


Lowell 


.... 


Blood, Manchester 




McNeil 


1847 


Hinekley 


Inside connections 


Middlesex 


.... 


Amoskeag 


I " 


Milford 


.... 


Lowell Machine 





Muzzey 




Hinekley 




Nashville 


1847 


14 


Inside connections 


Paugus 


1848 


M 


<i >< 


Pennichuek 




Taunton 




Rolla 


1848 


Hinekley 


Inside connections 


Rumford 










Sailor Boy 


1850 


it 


Inside connections 


Storrow 


1853 


< 




Tiger 


.... 


(i 




Vesta 


.... 


Baldwin Loco. Works 




Wilton 




Mason Machine 


Inside connections 


Woburn 


.... 


Hinekley 


(i n 


Wm. Sturgis 


.... 


Lowell Machine 




Transport 


1850 


Hinekley 


Inside connections 



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351 



APPENDIX 6. 

COMPONENT PARTS FORMING THE PRESENT BOSTON AND MAINE 

SYSTEM. 

Old Boston and Maine Railroad. 



Boston and Maine 
Boston and Portland 
Andover aud Haverhill 
Andover and Wilmington 
Boston and Maine extension 
Danvers Railroad 
Dover and Winnipesaukee 



Lowell and Andorer 
Manchester and Lawrence 
Medford Branch 
Methnen Branch 
Newbnryport Railroad 
Georgetown Branch 
Orchard Beach Railroad 



Kennebunk and Kennebankport Portland and Rochester 
York and Cumberland 

Eastern Railroad. 



Portland, Saco and Portsmouth 
Portsmouth and Dover 
Portsmouth, Great Falls and 

Conway 
Great Falls and South Berwick 

Branch 
Rockport Railroad 

Worcester and Nashua 
Nashua and Rochester 
Worcester, Nashua and Portland 

Boston and Lowell System. 



South Reading Branch 
Marblehead and Lynn 
Wolfboro Railroad 
Essex Branch 

Newburyport City Railroa d 
Eastern Railroad proper 



Boston and Lowell 
Nashua and Lowell 
Salem and Lowell 
Central Massachusetts 
Connecticut and Passumpsic 

River 

Lexington and Abington 
Lowell and Lawrence 
Manchester and Keene 
Massawippi Valley 
Middlesex Central 
Peterboro Railroad 



Stanstead Branch 

Stoneham Branch 

Stony Brook Railroad 

Wilton Railroad 

Boston, Concord and Montreal 

Concord Railroad 

Concord and Portsmouth 

Nashua, Acton and Boston 

Mystic River Railroad 

Northend Railroad, N. H. 

St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain 

Yermont Valley Railroad 



362 



THE BOSTON AND LOWELL RAILROAD. 



Fitchburg System. 



Boston, Barre and Gardner 
Boston, Iloosac Tunnel and 

Western 

Brookline and Milford 
Brookline and Pepperell 
Cheshire Railroad 
Fitchburg Railroad proper 
Hoosac Tunnel and Saratoga 
Monadnock Railroad 
Peter boro and Shirley 



Southern Vermont Railway 

Trey and Bennington 

Troy and Boston 

Troy and Greenfield and Hoosac 

Tunnel 

Vermont and Massachusetts 
Winchendon Railroad 
White Mountains Railroad 
New Boston Railroad 
Pemigewasset Valley 



Connecticut River Railroad 
Mount Washington Railway 
Sullivan County Railroad 
York Harbor and Beach Railroad 
Mechanicsville and Fort Edward 



ADDITIONAL NOTES TO THE JAMES 
HOWE BRANCH. 

BY M. V. B. PEBLBY. 



183. EBENEZER HOWE was born in Methuen, 8 Sept., 
1762, and died at his residence in Holderness, N. H., 15 
April, 1829. I have no doubt his mother's maiden name 
was Sarah Saville, born in 1830, according to her grave- 
stone, to Thomas and Mary (Harraden) Saville, Glou- 
cester. 

He married, 8 Jan., 1782, Hannah Mallon, born 11 
May, 1764, to Capt. James and Hannah (Parker) Mallon, 
probably daughter of Timothy and Priscilla (Carlton) 
Parker of Reading, and died 15 April, 1844, in Holder- 
ness, N. H. 

Ebenezer was a pensioner. His first enlistment was 25 
Sept., 1778, as private, under Capt. John Davis and Col. 
Jonathan Cogswell, for 3 months and 9 days, when he 
was 18 (16) years old, 5 feet and 8 inches tall, and of 
light complexion. 

Children of Ebenezer and Hannah Howe : 

l. EBENEZER, b. 18 Feb., 1782. 

2. PAKKEB, b. 29 Mar., 1784; d. 16 April, 1867. 

8.* JAMES, b. 19 Feb., 1786. 

4. , b. . 

5. KENDALL, b. ; m. Mary , and died in Baltimore. 

6. BETSEY, b. in 1791 ; m. 24 Sept., 1809. 

7. ABIGAIL, b. , and m. Phineas Holmes. 

8. HANNAH, b. ; m. Newell Barry. 

9. NANCY, b 8 Aug., 1797, New Hampton; m., Holderness, 6 

Dec., 1854, Jonathan Barry. 

10. ASENATH, b. ; m. John Frederick Barry(?). 

11. JOHN, b. , 1800; m. Lucinda Sanborn of Guilford, N. H. 

*A child's number with an asterisk sign() is a family number also. 

(353) 



354 JAMES HOWE OP IPSWICH 

12. PEBSIS, b. , m. Samuel Blanchard. 

13. SUSAN, b. ; m. James Shaw. 

14. SALLY, b. ; m. Thomas Eastman. 

1. EBENEZER HOWE was born 14 Feb., 1782, and 
married 21 April, 1810, Sally Foster of Boxford. 

Children of Ebenezer and Sally Howe, born in Me- 
thuen : 

15. SALLY, b. 12 June, 1811. 

16. JOHN FOSTER, b. 13 Mar., 1812. 

17. RUBY FOSTER, b. 16 Dec., 1813; m. 27 Sept., 1831, Asa Harris. 

18. MEHITABLE FULLER, b. 31 May, 1816. 

19. LUCY, b. 9 April, 1818; m. 19 Feb., 1843, Aaron G. Bodwell. 

20. EBENEZEB, b. 18 Feb., 1821. 

21. ALBERT, b. 8 Mar., 1826. 

3. JAMES HOWE was born in Methuen, 19 Feb., 1786, 
and died in New Hampton, N. H., 6 Jan., 1862. His 
first wife was Martha Drake, born 3 Dec., 1785, and died 
25 May, 1816. His second wife was Mrs. Rebecca (Wy- 
att) Wilson, widow of Jonathan Wilson of Campton, N.H. 
born 22 June, 1787, and died 6 Aug., 1876, at Laco- 
nia, N. H. Her children by Wilson were : Elmira, b. 14 
Feb., 1806; Hannah, b. 11 Oct., 1807; David, b. 14 
July, 1809 ; Daniel, b. 19 June, 1811. 

Children of James and Martha and Rebecca Howe : 

22.* LORENZO GILMAN, b. 26 Feb., 1810. 

23.* JAMES MADISON, b. 22 Nov., 1811. 

24.* HENRY DBAKE, b. 10 Mar., 1814. 

25. NANCY DRAKE, b. 15 May, 1816; d. 8 May, 1873, Salem, 111. 

26.* HORACE FABNSWORTH, b. 16 April, 1817. 

27. JOSIAH SANBORN, b. 2 Nov., 1818; m. Betsey Langley; chil- 
dren: Charles Langley, b. Lowell, 11 Feb., 1843, living; 
Silas Curtis, b. Lowell, 25 Oct., 1845, d. New Hampton, 6 
Sept., 1850. 

28.* AARON MALLON, b. 25 Dec., 1820. 

29. HARRIET SIMPSON, b. 9 Oct., 1822; m. 1st, 19 Aug., 1845, Capt. 
Warren Michael, who was b. 8 Aug., 1821, to Michael H. 
and Rachel A. Kelley of New Hampton, N. H. ; m. 2d, 16 
May, 1871, Abraham L. Morrison, and had: Wyatt Warren 
and Park Herbert. 

SO. MARTHA DRAKE, b. 11 April, 1824; d. 18 Mar., 1876. 

31. WILLIARD GIDDINGS, b. 16 Aug., 1826; d. Lowell, 20 Nov., 
1906. 



AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 355 

32.* GEORGE WALTER, b. 6 April, 1828. 

33. ELIZABETH (dim. Betsey), b. 9 June, 1832; m. 10 April, 1850, 

Charles P. Stephens, and had Wyatt Mallon, b. Lake Vil- 
lage, N. H., 13 July, 1853, and Nellie Mattie, b. Lake Vil- 
lage, 6 Aug., 1860, who m. 1st, 3 Oct., 1880, Ebenezer Hoyt, 
and had Alice Louise and Louis Walter; and m. 2d, George 
Burnham Cox. 

22. LORENZO OILMAN HOWE was born 26 Feb., 1810, 
and died in Lowell, 12 Nov., 1881. He married, 13 Mar., 
1831, Dorcas Mallon, born 27 Aug., 1810, in Methuen, 
and died in Lowell, 1 July, 1896. 

Children of Lorenzo G. and Dorcas Howe : 

34. LORENZO HARRISON, b. Boston, 22 Nov. ,1831; d. Lowell, 21 

Mar., 1894. 

35. GEORGE WILSON, b. 5 Jan., 1833. 
36.* JAMES ALBERT, b. Dracut, Mass., 10 Oct., 1834. 
87. LEONARD THURSTON, b. 16 July, 1840; d. Dracnt, 22 Sept., 

1841. 

38. SYLVESTER, b. 10 Aug., 1842; d. Dracut, 13 Jan., 1843. 

39. RUBY FRANCES, b. Dracut, a part now Lowell, 8 May, 1844; 

m. 8 May, 1870, John Whittemore Farwell, b. Waltham, 
Mass., 17 April, 1842; living in Cohasset, Mass.; no issue. 
Mrs. Farwell made diligent search in the records and fur- 
nished very material aid on these pages. 

40. EMILY ANNE, b. 18 June, 1848; d. Lowell, 29 July, 1875. 

41. MARY IDA, b. 15 May, 1850; d. unm., 7 Feb., 1918. 

42. LORENZO GILMAN, b. 18 Mar., 1853; d. Lowell, 29 July, 1879. 

23. JAMES MADISON HOWE was born 22 Mar., 1811, 
and died 20 Mar., 1887. He married, 9 Aug., 1835, 
Sarah Kilburn Fowler, who died in Lowell, 7 June, 1902. 

Children of James M. and Sarah K. Howe, all born in 
New Hampton, N. H. : 

43. SARAH ELIZABETH, b. 31 July, 1838; d. there 20 Mar., 1869; 

m. 31 Mar., 1867, Rev. J. K. Waite, who d. 29 Nov., 1872, 
and was buried in Mt. Auburn. 

44. HENRY WARREN, b. 12 Jan., 1841; d. Lowell, 12 Feb., 1900; m. 

14 May, 1868, Sarah Maria Haley. No children. 

45. HARRIET FRANCENA, b. 5 May, 1842; d. 15 Oct., 1917; m. 10 

Jan., 1866, Greenleaf C. Brock, and had Willie Warren, b. 
Ayer, Mass., 26 Oct., 1866, d. 27 Feb., 1867. 

46. MARBIETTA FELEOIA, b. 15 Sept., 1845; d. New Hampton, 3 

Feb., 1847. 



356 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

47. CELESTA E., b. 12 Nov., 1848; d. New Hampton, 11 Sept., 1850. 

24. HENRY DRAKE HOWE was born 10 Mar., 1814, 
and died 20 June, 1899, in Lanark, 111. He married, 2 
Feb., 1836, Eliza A. Johnson, born 10 Sept., 1810, and 
died 1887. 

Children of Henry D. and Eliza A. Howe : 

48. ISAIAH JOHNSON, b. Sandwich, N. H., 31 Jan., 1839; d. 25 

Jane, 1863. 

49. ORLANDO B., b. 27 Feb., 1844. 

50. ELMIBA W., b. Sandwich, 14 Oct., 1850; d. Fairhaven, 111., 12 

May, 1863. 

51. REBECCA H., b. 22 Jan., 1853; d. 7 or 14 June, 1863. 

26. HORACE FARNSWORTH HOWE was born in New 
Hampton, N. H., 16 April, 1817, and died in Lowell, 30 
Dec., 1879. He married, 14 July, 1842, Caroline Smith, 
born in Marlboro, Vt, 18 Dec., 1821, to Joshua Smith of 
Rutland, Mass., and Isabel Smith of Oakham, Mass., and 
died in Lowell, 15 June, 1904. 

Children of Horace F. and Caroline Howe : 

52. MART JANE, b. 6 July, 1845; d. Lowell, 7 Mar., 1847. 

53. ELLEN MARIA, b. 8 Oct., 1848; d. Lowell, 4 Jan., 1855. 

54. CLARA AMANDA, b. 19 April, 1851; d. Lowell, 24 Aug., 1852. 

55. ANNA CAROLINE, b. Lowell, 13 Dec., 1853; m. 21 Jan., 1880, 

Joseph Auld, Cove Head, P. E. 1.; children : (a) George Per- 
cival, b. Rutland, Vt., 28 Jan., 1881, paymaster, rank of Lt. 
Com., Washington, D. C.; m. Madeline Swift, daughter of 
Rear Admiral Swift, Richfield Springs, N. Y. ; child : Eliza- 
beth; (b) Lillian May, b. Burlington, Vt., 8 May, 1883, d. 
1907; (c) Helen Margueritte, b. 7 June, 1885. 
56.* ELLA AUGUSTA, b. Lowell, 17 July, 1856. 

57. FRANKLIN SUMNER, b. 21 Dec., 1858; d. Lowell, 27 May, 1859. 

58. NELLIE ETTA, b. Lowell, 31 Dec., 1861; m. Samuel Elliott Wil- 

son of Haverhill; no children. 

59. ALICE EDITH, b. Lowell, 2 May, 1865; m. 9 May, 1893, George 

Louis Schubarth, now of Providence; children, born in 
Winthrop, Mass. : Howard Linnaeus, b. 3 Dec., 1893, and d. 
1904; Louis, b. 9 July, 1897; Lorenzo, b. 1899, d. Somer- 
ville at 9 mos. ; Eleanor Howe, b. 6 April, 1901. 

28. AARON MALLON HOWE was born in Sandwich, 
N. H., 25 Dec., 1820, and died in Rockford, 111., 26 June, 



AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 357 

1889. He married, 31 July, 1846, E. L. Bean, of Sand- 
wich, N. H. 

Children of Aaron M. and E. L. Howe : 

60. WTATT M., b. Sandwich, 1 Jan., 1849; m. 5 Jan., 1871, Sarah 

M. Weir. 

61. CELESTA E., b. 21 Oct., 1850; d. 29 Jan., 1863. 

62. HARRIET K., b. 28 May, 1854; m. 31 Aug., 1871, James L. Weir. 

63. MABIA M., b. Salem, 111., 21 May, 1856; ra. 2 Jan., 1877, Wil- 

liard S. Bur-well. 

64. ROGER B., b. 12 Aug., 1862; d. Salem, 111., 14 Jan., 1863. 

65. FRANK P., b. 8 June, 1868; d. 8 Sept., 1868. 

32. GEORGE WALTER HOWE was born 6 April, 1828, 
and died in Laconia, N. H., 22 April, 1912. He married, 

1st, Joanna B -, born 12 Jan., 1825, and died 28 Mar., 

1859. He married, 2d, Francena E. Morrison, Clare- 
mont, N. H., born 2 Mar., 1840, and died 1 Mar., 1907. 

Child of George W. and Francena E. Howe : 

66. DEWITT CLINTON, b. Claremont, 21 Sept., or 11 Oct., 1872; 

now of Concord, N. H.; 3d wife, Katharine B. , b. 29 

Dec., 1888; children by 1st and 3d wives: Daniel W., b. 21 
Sept., 1901, d. 6 Sept., 1912; Constance, b. Concord, N. H., 
29 Nov., 1915; and another later. 

35. GEORGE WILSON HOWE was born 5 Jan., 1833. 
He married, 1st, in Sandwich, N. H., 20 Aug., 1862, Ann 
Eliza Bean, who died in West Buxton, Me., 7 Jan., 1865. 
He married, 2d, at Portsmouth, 12 Sept, 1866, Emily 
Roby Hobson, of West Buxton, who died in Lowell, 17 
Mar., 1906. 

Child of George W. and Ann E. Howe : 

67.* WILLIABD BEAN, b. West Buxton, 7 Dec., 1864. 

36. JAMES ALBERT HOWE was born 10 Oct., 1834. 
He was Dean of Bates College, Lewiston, Me. He mar- 
ried, first, at Oldtown, Me., 17 Sept., 1863, Rachel Eliza- 
beth Rogers. He married, 2d, Julia R. Woodman, who 
was born in Minot, Me., 22 Oct., 1840, and died, without 
issue, 5 Jan., 1902. He is living in Belmont, Mass. 

Children of James A. and Rachel E. Howe : 
68.* PEROT ROGERS, b. N. Providence, R. I., 30 Sept., 1864. 



358 JAMES HOWE OF IPSWICH 

69. BLANCHE, b. Johnson, R. I., 26 Jan. ,1868; m., Lewiston, 9 

Aug., 1900, Charles Jenny; children, b. in Belmont: Eliza- 
beth, b. 2 Sept., 1901; Warren, b. 26 June, 1904; Charles, b. 
3 Sept., 1905. 

51. ORLANDO B. HOWE, born 27 Feb., 1844 ; mar- 
ried, 24 Nov., 1867, Elmira Green, born 18 Sept., 1851. 
Children of Orlando B. and Elmira Howe : 

70. ELMIRA W., b. 16 Sept., 1868; m. 25 Dec., 1894, Henry S. 

Marks. 

71. CORA B., b. 6 Aug., 1870; m. 12 Sept., 1893, Harry B. Mc- 

Laughlin; child: C. Harold, b. 5 Sept., 1894. 

72. REBECCA H., b. 12 Sept., 1873; m. 18 Sept., 1895, Frank Buf- 

flngton; child: Lorenzo Packard, b. 4 Jan., 1897. 

73. WILLIAM H., b. 31 Oct., 1875; d. 2 May, 1881. 

74. FRANK O., b. 9 Oct., 1888. 

56. ELLA AUGUSTA HOWE was born in Lowell, 17 
July, 1856, and married there, 25 Oct., 1876, George 
Henry Hobson, who died in Brookline, Mass., 23 Aug., 
1913. 

Children of George H. and Ella A. Hobson, now living : 

75. ALICE ELEANOR, b. Dorchester, 5 July, 1877; and m. there 5 

Jan., 1907, Thomas Coggeshall Eayrs; now of Detroit; chil- 
dren: Thomas Coggeshall, b. Chicago, 13 Jan., 1908; Elea- 
nor Hobson, b. Dorchester, 27 May, 1909; Louise Knowles, 
b. Cincinnati, 26 Mar., 1911; Caroline Howe, b. Detroit, 21 
Jan., 1917. 

76. SARAH, b. Lowell, 14 Mar., 1879; m., Dorchester, 28 Oct., 1909, 

Thomas Groom; two sons, b. 2 July, 1910, and 17 Oct., 1916, 
d. at births. Mrs. Groom has generously helped in this 
compilation, and her research has furnished another clue 
to the " Nathaniel Browne of Haverhill " of John's family, 
No. 12. 

77. DOROTHY LANGLEY, b. Dorchester, 7 May, 1885; m., Dorches- 

ter, 2 June, 1911, Harlan Trimble Piedmont; children: Har- 
lan Trimble, b. Dorchester, April, 1912; Dorothy Langley, 
b. Worcester, 16 July, 1913; Barbara Howe, b. Worces- 
ter, 12 Dec., 1915; John Hobson, b. April, 1917. 

67. WILLIARD BEAN HOWE was born 7 Dec., 1864. 
He married his " half cousin ", Annie Howe Bean of 
Stamford, Ct, born 3 Feb., 1865, in South Maiden, now 
Everett, Mass. 



AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 359 

Children of Williard B. and Annie H. Howe : 

78. DAVID WILLIARD, b. Burlington, Vt., 22 June, 1892; 1st lieut. 

aviation, now in France. 

79. RUBY F., b. Burlington, 2 Mar., 1894. 

80. KATHARINE E., b. 14 Feb., 1896. 

81. ELIZABETH, b. 11 July, 1898. 

82. GEORGE FREDERICK, b. 1 July, 1901; summer house, Cedar 

Beach, Vt. 

83. EDWARD GILMAN, b. Burlington, 19 Jan., 1903. 

84. LAWRENCE PRESCOTT, b. 25 Nov., 1905. 

68. PERCY ROGERS HOWE, born N. Providence, R. I., 
30 Sept., 1864,and married, 21 Dec., 1891, Rose Alma Hil- 
ton, born Canaan, Me., 9 Sept., 1864. 

Children of Percy R. and Rose A. Howe : 

85. JAMES ALBERT, b. Lewiston, Me., 16 Nov., 1892. 

86. JOHN FARWELL, b. Lewiston. 3 Jan., 1897. These two sons 

are in the World War James, in the American army, John 
in the French. 



Haverhill record : " Married May 27, 1812, Mrs. Han- 
nah Gay to John Howe." We have no knowledge of 
her but that revealed in our fruitless search for him. 
In the proceedings against her for guardianship, no 
mention is made of a husband, but she is called the 
daughter of Samuel Barber several times. 

James Gay married Abigail Pell, who died 8 Dec., 
1796, aged 33, and 13 Jan., 1803, Hannah Barber, daugh- 
ter of Samuel and Rebecca (Harris) Barber, who were 
married 28 Dec., 1764, and died he 29 Dec., 1818, aged 
84, and she 13 Sept., 1802, aged 71. 

Hannah Howe was petitioned under guardianship by 
the selectmen of Haverhill, the Judge advising, for in- 
temperance, debauching and idleness, 12 June, 1816. 
Hannah Howe, widow, died in a fit, 31 Mar., 1847, aged 
81 yrs. 6 mos., born then in Sept., 1765. Probate 14044. 



INDEX. 



Abbott, Abbot, , 

256. 

Abiel, 139, 143. 
Abigail (Cutting), 

171. 

Abijah, 171. 
Amos, 249. 
Barachias, 139. 
Betsey, 171. 
Caleb, 144. 
Daniel, 206, 208. 
David, 247, 24S. 
Dorcas, 139. 
Edward Lincoln, 144 
EdwardPayson,144. 
George, 87, 144. 
Hannah, 139. 
Harriet, 172. 
Hartwell Barachias, 

139. 

Henry, 144. 
Herman, 249. 
Irving Mann, 144. 
James, 139, 143. 
James Jewett, 139. 
John, 41, 171. 
John Ezra, 138. 
Jonathan, 248. 
Josiah G., 336. 
Lizzie Punchard, 

139. 

Lucy, 143, 144. 
Lucy Caroline, 144. 
Lucy Evelyn, 144. 
Mary, 36, 139. 
Mary Alice, 139. 
Mary Foster, 139. 
Moses, 144. 
Nathan, 2d, 248. 
Nehemiah, 36, 37, 

41, 48, 246. 
Priscilla Chandler, 

247, 248. 
Phebe, 248. 
Phebe Elizabeth, 

139. 

Polly, 171. 
Richard, 96. 



Abbott, Samuel, 141, 

159. 

Sarah, 139. 
Sarah Baker, 144. 
Thomas, 144. 
Timothy, 139. 
Zebediah, 246, 249. 
Aborn, Moses, 229. 

Adams, , 12 

Carlos Samuel, 172. 
CharlesFrancis,327. 
George Enoch, 172. 
Israel, 243. 
Jacob, 39, 40. 
John, 98, 109. 
John, jr., 172. 
John Howe, 172. 
Samuel, 191. 
Wilber Fiske, 172. 
Addington, Isaac, 282, 
283, 286, 288, 320. 
Ainsworth, William 

P., 209. 
Alden, Aldin, John, 

286, 287. 
Alford, Alfords, Jno., 

56 57. 

William', 188. 
Allen, Allin, Rev., 

222, 224. 
Ethan, 16. 
John, 27, 237. 
Jona., 106. 
Allerton, Isaac, 49. 
Ambrose, Ann Eliza, 

143. 

John,' 143. 
Lydia, 143. 
Mary Ann, 143. 
Mercy Maria, 143. 
Amesbury, Mass. ,189. 
Andover, Mass., 138, 

246. 

Andrews, Andrew, 
Andrewes, Dan- 
iel, 232, 306, 307, 
312. 
Dean, 267. 



Andrews, Emily Au- 
gusta, 267. 
Eunice, 266. 
Harriet Augusta 

(Perley), 267. 
Hephzibah, 46. 
John, 306. 
Nathan, jr., 266. 
Nicholas, 27, 278, 

282. 

Samuel, 306, 307. 
Sarah, 306, 307, 312. 
Thomas, 226, 306. 
Appleton, John, 32, 
62, 105, 106, 112. 
John, 3d, 149. 
Lucy, 149. 
William, 193, 198. 
Armstrong, James,84. 
Armytage, Joseph,53. 
Ashton, Jacob, 105, 

112. 

Asten, see Austin. 
Atherton, Charles II., 

206. 

Auld, Elizabeth, 356. 
GeorgePercival,356. 
Helen Marguerette, 

356. 

Joseph, 356. 
Lillian May, 356. 
Austin, Astin, Fanny, 

152. 

Joel, 147. 
John, 147. 
Mary, 147. 
Reuben, 147. 
Ruth, 147. 
Averill, Averell, Job, 

136. 

John, 136. 
Nathaniel, 136. 
Paul, 43, 117, 118. 
Ayers, Ayer, Ayres, 
Eayrs, Caroline 
Howe, 358. 
Charlotte, 166. 
Christiana, 166. 

(361) 



362 



INDEX. 



Ayers, Dorothy Lang- 
ley, 358. 

Eleanor Hobson, 
858. 

Elias C., 166. 

Eliza, 166. 

Francis W., 166. 

Joseph, 152, 153. 

Lois, 165. 

Louise Knowles, 
358. 

Nathaniel, 62. 

Perley, 153. 

Samuel, 165. 

Sarah, 152, 153. 

ThomasCoggeshall, 
358 

William, 166. 

Babbidge, Susannah, 

187. 

Bachelder, see Batch- 
elder. 

Bacon, Daniel, 58, 63, 
65, 66. 

Henry, 138. 

Martha Eliza, 138. 

Sarah, 67. 
Bagley, Theophilus, 

53. 

Bailey, Bayley, Char- 
ity, 176. 

James, 233, 234. 

Moses, 246. 

Nathan, jr., 246. 

Nicholas, 127. 

Pierce, 176. 

Salome, 176. 
Baker, , 246. 

Cornelius, 316. 

David, 144. 

Deborah (Ames), 
144. 

George Frost, 144. 

Henry G., 144. 

Sarah Elizabeth, 
144. 

Susan, 143. 

Symonds, 143, 144. 

Symonds Eps, 144. 

Thomas, 38, 118. 
Balch, Daniel, 189. 

David, 40. 

Eben H., 114. 

Mehitable, 175. 



Ballard, , 141. 

Charles, 139. 
Bancroft, Sarah, 163. 

Sidney C., 133. 
Barber, Charlotte, 171. 

Hannah, 359. 

Rebecca (Harris), 
359. 

Samuel, 359. 

William, 23. 
Barker, George W., 

324. 
Barnard, , 37. 

Gilbert, 138. 

Hannah, 37, 138. 

Jacob, 249. 

James, 37. 

John, 37, 138. 

Nathaniel, 37. 

Osgood, 248. 

Rebecca, 36, 37. 

Robert, 37. 

Stephen, 36, 37. 
Barnes, William, 55. 
Barney, Jacob, 292. 

Joshua, 205. 
Barr, James, jr., 86. 
Barrett, John, 202. 

William M., 209. 
Barrington, Francis, 

33. 

Barry, John Freder- 
ick, 353. 

Jonathan, 353. 

Newell, 353. 
Bartholomew, Bar- 

tholomer, , 

52, 162. 

Henry, 129, 131, 

133, 135. 

Bartholomew & Bran- 
co, 162. 

Bartlett, Bartlet, , 

344. 

Charles E. A., 337. 

Charlotte H., 166. 

Daniel, 266. 

Israel, jr., 166. 

John, 281. 

Mary Bigelow, 306. 

Nicholas, 54. 

P. Challis, 306. 

Robert, 27, 278, 281, 
284, 286, 320. 

Ruth Gile, 266. 



Bartoll, Bartol, John, 

23. 

William, 278. 
Bassett, William, 50. 
Batchelder. Bachel- 
der, Amos, 127. 
Henry, 33. 
Joseph, 250. 
Batter, Ed., 51, 52. 
Baxter, James, 27. 
Beale, William, 26, 

320. 

Bean, Ann Eliza, 357. 
Annie Howe, 358, 

359. 

E. L., 357. 
L. S., 344. 
Beattie, Rev. Dr., 

,13. 

Bebensee, Carl, 274. 
Fred, 274. 
Johannah (Witt), 

274. 
Beckford, Ebenezer, 

109, 112. 

Beedle, Elizabeth, 63. 
Beith, Joseph, 73. 
Belcher, Jeremiah,66. 
Belinger, Leonard,29. 
Belknap, Anna L., 

264. 
Betsey L. (Austin), 

264 

Henry W., 48, 94. 
Lorenzo, 264. 
Belleinde, Leonard, 

28. 

Bellriner, Lenord, 28. 
Benedict, Alma P., 

172. 

Anna M., 172. 
Cynthia Ethel, 172. 
Ezra, 172. 
Frank Howe, 172. 
Mary A., 172. 
Bennet, John, 55. 
Bentley, William, 1, 
3-16, 18-21, 64,112, 
113. 

Beriff, , 179. 

Sarah, 179. 
Bernard, Rev., 256. 
Berry, AlonzoP., 144. 
Andrew, 170. 
Ebenezer, 69. 



INDEX. 



363 



Berry, Elizabeth, 44. 
Hannah Hutchin- 

son, 170. 
Israel, 144. 
John, 146. 
Phebe (Hutchin- 

son), 170. 
Samuel, 69. 
Thomas, 44, 48. 
Bird, Dorothy, 94, 96. 

Robert, 96. 
Bishop, Townsend, 

311, 312. 

Bixby, Asa, 161. 
Benjamin, 45, 46,48, 

172, 173. 
David, 159. 
Eleanor (Howe), 

149. 

George, 313. 
Jacob, 46. 
Margaret, 172. 
Peggy, 172. 
Sarah, 172. 
Blanchard, Charlotte 

Abbott, 144. 
Eliza Jane, 144. 
Joshua, 144. 
Samuel, 354. 
Bleanner, John, 282. 
Bliss, Myers &, 347. 
Boardman, Captain, 

12. 

Nancy, 305. 
Nathaniel, 305. 
Thomas, 44. 
Boden, Benjamin, 191. 

Thomas, 26. 
Bodwell, Aaron G., 

354. 

Hazen, 168. 
Joseph, 154. 
Stephen, 168. 
Boobyar, Joseph, 27. 
Bootman, Boutman, 

Hester, 52. 
Jeremiah, 52, 53. 
Jeremie, 51. 
Jeremy, 52. 
Mary, 52. 
Matthew, 52. 
Samuell, 52. 
Bootman, see also 
Butman. 



Boott, Kirk, 193, 196, 

198. 
Boovey, Joseph, 181, 

182. 

Borman, Thomas,291. 
Boude, Joseph, 26. 
Bouden, Michall, 281. 
Boughton, Paul, 96. 
Bound, James, 308. 

William, 27. 
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 

9, 10. 

Bowers, Jesse, 206. 
Boxford, Mass., 97. 

Boynton, , 160. 

Joshua, 246. 
Moses, 149. 
Bradford, Grace (El- 
liot), 74. 
Mary, 75. 
Patience, 75. 
Samuel, 75. 
William, 74. 
Bradlee, Francis B.C., 

97, 193, 321. 
Bradley, Jeremiah* 

153. 

Samuel, 188. 
Sarah A., 270. 
Bradley & Rice, 347. 
Bradstreet, Dudley, 

313. 

Elizabeth, 47. 
Elizabeth Day, 175. 
Harrison P., 313. 
John, 175, 313. 
Priscilla, 175. 
Samuel, 47. 
Simon, J.OO, 311. 
Brainerd, David, 1. 
Branco & Bartholo- 
mew, 162. 
Breks, John, 53. 
Bridgeman, Isaac, 168. 
Martha, 168. 
Theoda(Parks),168. 
Bridges, Alice, 43. 
Edmund, 61. 
John, 37, 73. 
Sarah, 36, 37. 
Bridges, Davenport 

&, 347. 

Bridgewater, Mass., 
97. 



Brimblecomb, Brim- 
belcombe, Brim- 
blecome, Brum- 
blecombe, John, 
27. 

Phillip, 27, 317, 318. 
Brintnall, John, 320. 
Brock, Greenleaf C., 

355. 

Philip, 29. 
Willie Warren, 355. 
Brooks, Brook, David 

Brainard, 303. 
Helen E., 302, 303. 
Nicholls, 116, 117. 
Brown, Browne, Aa- 
ron, 147, 156, 157. 
Artemas, 246, 248. 
Benjamin, 76. 
Chase Proctor, 259. 
Cornelius, 147. 
Elisha, 151. 
Hannah, 41. 
Hannah (Collins), 

64. 

Henry, 310. 
Jacob, 44. 
John, 64, 320. 
Joseph, 64, 71, 129. 
Josiah, 27. 
Lewis Alfred, 259. 
Margaret, 64. 
Mary, 42, 174. 
Nathaniel, 42, 46, 

235, 358. 
S. P., 209. 
Samuel, 66. 
Sarah, 305. 
Waterman, 202. 
William, 26, 51. 
Bubier, see Boobyar. 
Buchanan, Bucanan, 

Elizabeth, 65. 
John, 65. 
Mary, 72. 
Buckminster, J. S., 

10. 
Bncknam, Wilton F., 

216. 

Buffington,Frank,358. 
Lorenzo Packard, 

358. 
Bulkeley, Dorothy,94. 

Peter, 94. 
Bullock, John, 310. 



364 



INDEX. 



Burch, Damaris, 155. 

Burnap, , 321. 

Burnham, Henry O., 

249. 

James, 172. 
Lulu F., 172. 
Mary Ann, 249. 
Mary Kate, 250. 
Mattie A., 172. 
Nellie Woodbury, 

250. 

S. Geneva, 172. 
Burns, Silas, 140. 
Burton, Henry, 183, 

134. 
Isaac, 124, 125, 133, 

134. 

Jacob, 133, 134. 
John, 116, 117, 133, 

134. 

Samuel, 134. 
Burwell, Williard S., 

357. 
Buswell, William,182, 

183. 
Butler, Benjamin F., 

216. 
Bntman, Elizabeth 

(Whitredge), 79. 
George, 80. 
Israel, 80. 
Jeremiah, 51, 79. 
Matthew, 79. 
Phillip, 80. 
Sarah (Lambert),79. 
Butman, see also 

Bootman. 

Buxton,Anthony,239. 
Ebenezer, 237. 
Elizabeth, 238. 
Joseph, 238. 

Cabot, Anna, 189. 

Francis, 189. 

Joseph S., 219. 

Marston, 45. 
Cady, Damaris, 147. 

Joseph, 147. 
Cahill, Daniel, 303. 

Cantleburie, , 51. 

Carey. Carrey, Carry, 

Fetter, 28, 29. 
Carleton, Carlton, 
Daniel, 168. 

Dorcas, 151, 152. 



Carleton, Ebenezer, 
jr., 151, 152, 153. 

Hannah, 153. 

John, 141. 

Sarah, 141, 263. 
Carpenter, Benjamin, 
112. 

Carr, , 141. 

Carroll, Francis, 70. 

Nathaniel, 70. 
Carter, , 344. 

Robert M., 142. 

William, 26. 
Carwethen, David,23. 
Case, Amos, 129. 

Ebenezer, 129. 

Humphrey, 129. 

John, 129. 
Cash, William, 54. 
Cauke, William, 26. 
Causey, Sam., 27. 
Cave, Amos, 126. 

Sarah, 43. 

Thomas, 124-126. 
Chadwell, Richard, 

49. 
Chadwick, Ada L., 

273 
Chandler, , 248. 

Elizabeth, 47. 

John, 47. 

Joshua, 249. 

Joshua Herbert, 
249. 

Nathan, 248. 

Philemon, 47. 

Thomas, 32. 

Zebadiah, 138. 

Channing, , 17. 

Chapman, Daniel, 48, 
145. 

Jonathan, 48, 145. 

Joseph, 258. 

Lucy Deborah, 143. 

Mary (Lumas), 258. 

Susan, 258. 

William S., 143. 
Charles, William, 23, 

26. 
Chase, Anna, 141, 142. 

Benjamin, 237. 

Enoch, 141. 

Isaac R., 216. 

Jacob, 141. 

John, 140-142. 



Chase, Joshua, 83, 142. 
Seth, 141, 142. 

Cheever, , 117. 

Benjamin, 123. 
Ebenezer, 123. 
Ellen, 128, 311. 
Ezekiel, 123, 311. 
Israel, 121. 
James W., 324. 
Mary, 121. 
Samuel, 26, 121,123, 

278. 

Thomas, 124, 311. 
Chilson, Walsingham, 

23. 

Chipman, John, 190. 
Chittendon, Thomas, 

159. 
Choate, John, 188. 

Rufus, 217. 
Christie, Francis A.,1. 
Claflin, Alfred, 263. 

Sarah A., 263. 
Claggett, Catherine 

(Emerson), 264. 
Clifton, 264. 
William Clayton, 
264. 

Clark, Clarke, , 

50, 142. 

Abby Ann, 138. 
Eliza A., 138. 
Elizabeth O., 138. 
Emma Lizzie, 138. 
Ezra, 138. 
Fred O., 138. 
Hannah, 138. 
Hannah (Shepard), 

235. 

Henry Newton, 138. 
Jesse, 138. 
Joseph O., 138. 
Matthew, 26. 
Peter, 189, 206, 232. 
Peter, jr., 206. 
Sarah Ann, 138. 
Sarah Frances, 138. 
Thomas, 138. 
Thomas Henry,138. 
William, 59, 189. 
Zebediah, 262. 
Clattary, Richard, 27. 
Clement, Benjamin, 

139. 
L. H., 209. 



INDEX. 



365 



Clement, Mary Ann, 
139. 

Moses, 139. 
Clifford, Jno., 51, 52. 
Cloyce, Peter, 307. 

Sarah, 307. 
Cochran, Abigail, 250. 

Elmira, 142. 

Eunice, 142. 

Henry, 142. 

James, 141, 142. 

Justin, 142. 
Cocks, see Cox. 
Codner,Codnor, Greg- 
ory, 26. 

Henry, 28, 29. 

Jon., 26. 

Josias, 26, 27. 
Coggin, Jacob, 324. 
Cogswell, Emeline 
Mehitable, 175. 

George Henry, 174. 

John Cleaveland, 
174. 

Jonathan, 3. 

Joseph, 174. 

Mary Abigail, 174. 

Mehitable, 174. 
Colby,Alexander, 344. 

Elizabeth, 175. 

Henry Johnson, 175. 

James, 344. 

John Howe, 175. 

Johnson, 175. 
Cole, Coll, Colle, 
Mercy (Vealy),73. 

Teter, 28, 29. 

Thomas, 73, 128, 

129, 135, 136. 
Collins, Henry, 49. 

John, 64. 

Mary, 64. 
Coleman, Charles, 59. 

Comptor, , 248. 

Conant, Benjamin, 265. 

BenjaminHowe,176. 

Calvin, 164. 

Caroline Elizabeth, 
175. 

Daniel, 188. 
, Elizabeth (Conant), 
164. 

Elizabeth (Foster), 
258. 

Lydia Ann, 176. 



Conant, Margaret 

Starrett, 265. 
Priscilla, 175. 
Ruth, 258. 
Ruth Cheever, 265. 
Samuel, 175. 
William, 164. 
William, 3d, 258. 
Condy, Samuell, 26. 
Connors, Daniel J., 

314. 
Cook, Cooks, John, 

63. 

Robert, 29. 
Samuel, 92. 
Coolidge, Oliver H., 

170. 
Coombs, Coomes, 

Henry, 27, 243. 
John, 243. 
Cooper, Mary, 39. 
Copp, Mary, 158. 
Corbet, Sarah, 229, 

231. 

William, 229, 231. 
Corlis, John, 229, 231. 
Ruth, 229, 231. 

Come, , 11. 

Corning, Samuel, 55. 

Corwin,Corwine, , 

50, 52. 
John, 52. 

Cotton, , 166. 

Cox, Cocke, Cockes, 
Cocks, Edward, 
67. 
George Burnham, 

355. 

Mary, 228. 
Robert, 28, 29. 
Cramphorn, Lily Eli- 
za, 268. 

Cratys, Captain, 286. 
Cresey, Daniel, 228. 

Sarah, 228. 
Croade, Elizabetb.,61. 
Cromwell, Cromwel, 

Philip, 52, 306. 
Cross, John, 239. 

Joseph, 231. 
Crouder, Elizabeth, 
61. 

Crowninshield, ,9. 

Benjamin,82-84,114. 
Elizabeth, 84. 



Crowninshield, Fran- 
cis B., 217, 218. 

George, 6. 

Hannah, 3, 11, 83, 
84. 

Jacob, 83, 84. 

John, 84. 

Maria, 84. 

Mary, 71, 78. 
Cruff, John, 27. 
Cummings, Abiatha, 
250. 

Amos, 250. 

Daniel, 250. 

David, 144. 

Isaac, 40. 

John, 137, 264. 

Jonathan, 250. 

Lucy Ann Frances, 
264. 

Mary, 250. 

Portia (Huntoon), 
264. 

Stephen, 250. 

Thomas, 124, 125. 
Currier, Catherine, 
168. 

Cynthia, 261. 

James, 270. 

John, 152, 167. 

Lydia, 167. 

Mary C., 270. 

Susan, 152. 
Curtis, Amos, 131. 

Hannah, 131. 

Mary, 40. 

Silas, 354. 

Zachery, 294. 
Cushing, Thomas,191. 

Cusick, , 139. 

Cutler, Sarah F., 172. 

Daggett, Mary, 146. 
Daily, John, 122. 
Dale, Archelaus, 119, 
120. 

Betsey, 263. 

Ebenezer, 120. 

John, 119, 120. 
Dallabar, Joseph, 26, 

278. 

Dalrymple, James, 89. 
Dane, B., 139. 

Chandler, 142, 143. 

Charles, 143. 



366 



INDEX. 



Dane, Clark, 143. 

Dorcas, 144. 

Elizabeth, 36, 142, 
143. 

Frances, 37. 

Francis, 143. 

George, 143. 

Henry, 142, 143. 

Herman, 143. 

Ida Luella, 247. 

John, 36. 

Joseph, 141, 143. 

Lydia, 143, 247. 

Lydia Ann, 247. 

Mary, 143. 

Mary Elizabeth,143. 

Mary Jennie, 143. 

Moses, 143, 247. 

Philemon, 143. 

Richard Galen, 247. 

Susan (Wallace), 

143. 

Dane, see also Deane. 
Daniels, John, 48,145. 
Danvers, Mass., 98, 

115, 221, 289. 
Darling, Ellakim, 150. 
Davenport, , 308. 

Richard, 289, 309, 

310. 
Davenport & Bridges, 

347. 
Davis, , 140. 

Ebenezer, 48. 

Huldah, 157. 

Isaac, 145. 

Israel, 48. 

James, 143. 

John, 93, 176, 353. 

R. C., 261. 

Tamar,155. 

Will, 27. 
Dawkins, Daniel, 162. 

Susie, 162. 
Deal, Deale, John, 

119. 

Deane, Elizabeth, 63, 
65. 

George, 63, 65. 

Hannah, 63. 
Sarah, 63. 

Thomas, 63, 65. 
Deane, see also Dane. 
Dearborn, C. V., 335. 



Dearhaugh, Dere- 
haugh, Anne, 179. 
Mary, 179. 
Deland, Robert, 84. 
Doming, Penuel, 158, 

159. 

Sarah, 158. 
Dempsey, Demsey, 

Alden A., 241. 
Althea L., 241. 
D., 209. 

Herbert A., 241. 
Isaac, jr., 241. 
Mary L., 241. 
Denison, Daniel, 300. 

Herbert A., 241. 
Dennis, Denis, Dennes, 
James, 27, 282, 
320. 

Sarah, 39. 
Dent, Hatch, 112. 
Deny, George Morton, 

265. 

Joseph, 264. 
Mary (Miner), 265. 
MiriamErskine,265. 

Derby, Darby, , 

10. 

E. H., 11. 
Elias Haskett, 6. 
Richard, 6, 75. 
Devereaux, Deverixe, 
Deveroux, Devo- 
rex, John, 26,278, 
282. 

Joseph, 282. 
Robert, 282. 
De Wolf, Abigail,155. 
Dexter, George M., 

199. 

Dike, Edward, 249. 
Dixie, Thomas, 27. 
Dodge, Dodg, Anna, 

147. 

Calvin Blake, 176. 
Eliza, 166. 
Francis, 307. 
George, 109, 112. 
Ira Blake, 176. 
Nathan Dane, 150. 
Sarah, 150. 
William,291, 292 . 
Dole, Ruth, 99. 
Donnell, William A., 
239. 



Donneson, C., 87. 
Donohoe, Michael T., 

344. 

Dood, Thomas, 27. 
Dow, Hannah, 41. 

Nancy, 167. 

Susannah, 41. 

Thomas, 41. 
Downing, Douning, 
, 291. 

Emanuel, 312. 

Richard, 27, 182. 
Drake, Martha, 354. 
Dresser, Jacob, 46. 

Richard, 46. 
Driver, George H., 8, 
302, 303. 

Samuel, 302, 303. 

Stephen, 302. 

Stephen P., 303. 

Susan P., 302, 303. 

Susan S.,303. 
Drury, Hinkley &, 346. 
Dudley, Paul, 59. 
Dufur, Abel, 171. 

Alpha, 171. 

George, 171. 

John,.171. 

Martha, 171. 
Dunham, R. H., 346. 
Dunnels, Zecheriah, 

48. 
Dunning, Sarah, 158. 

Stephen, 159. 
Durant, Amos, 248. 

Mary, 248. 

Durkee, Bertha L., 
238. 

Wendell U., 238. 
Dutch, Daniel, 239, 

240. 
Dutcher, Edwin, 241. 

Eastman, Thomas, 

354. 
Eaton, Eliezer, 32. 

Lydia, 168. 
Eayrs, see Ayers. 
Edmunds, John H., 

22. 
Edwards, , 17, 20. 

James, 27. 

Joseph, 188. 

Richard, 50. 

Will., 26. 



INDEX. 



367 



Elinwood, Ralf, 51. 
Elkins, Capt., 87. 
Thomas, 78. 

Ellis, Ellus, , 110. 

Elizabeth Lawton, 

313. 

George, 313. 
Tho., 26. 

Ellitrop, Elathorpo, 
John, 276, 277. 

Emerson, , 10. 

Benjamin, 151. 
Bulkeley, 189. 
Elizabeth (Pratt), 

150. 

Hannah, 150. 
John, 150. 
Moses, jr., 151, 152. 
Sarah, 151, 152. 

Emry, , 50. 

Endicott, Endecotes, 
Endecott, Ende- 
cotte, Endickat, 

Endicot, ,118, 

225, 294, 296. 
Benjamin, 137. 
George W., 302. 
Israel, jr., 306. 
John, 137, 292, 311. 
Joseph, 99, 137. 
Mary, 244. 
Samuel, 99, 139. 
Samuel, jr., 244. 
Sarah Louisa, 139. 
Zerubabel, 187. 
Essex County, Mass., 

188, 251. 

Estey, Betsy, 154. 
Jeremiah, 154. 
Jeremiah Augusta, 

132. 

Richard, 145. 
Everett, Edward, 10. 
Elwell, John, 73. 

Fairfax, Thomas, 50. 
Farley, Jabez, 49. 
Farnham, Farnum, 
Charles, 140. 

David, 151. 

David Jameson, 140. 

Dorothy, 151. 

Harriet, 141. 

Jemima, 151. 

Jeremiah, 140. 



Farnham, Lydia, 141. 

Phoebe, 250. 

Orren Lewis, 141. 

Samuel, 43. 

Sarah Jane, 140. 

Susan B., 141. 

Susannah, 140. 

Timothy, 140. 

William, 144. 
Farwell, John Whiti- 

more, 355. 
Faulkner, Hannah, 

146. 
Felch, Augusta, 176. 

Elma, 176. 

Grace, 176. 

Martha, 176. 
Felton, Amos, 126. 

Cicily, 178. 

Rebecca, 240. 

Thomas, 178. 
Ferguson, Archibald, 

280, 281, 284. 
Ferker, Firker, Au- 

guster, 28, 29. 
Fern, Martha (Cole), 
269. 

Martha Jane, 269. 

William, 269. 
Firkwell, Augustus, 

28. 

Firnes, see Fumes. 
Fisher, Jane, 140. 
Fisk, Anna, 76. 

James C., 114. 

Mark, 48. 

Mary, 164. 

Samuel, 76. 

William P., 114. 
Fitch, AppletonHowe, 
161. 

Calvin Webster,162. 

Edward Payson,161. 

Elijah, 161, 162. 

John Augustus, 161. 

John Weather- 
spoon, 162. 
Flagg, Samuel, 82. 

Fleet, Fleets, , 

251. 

J., 189. 

T., 189. 
Flint, , 292. 

Dr., 83. 

Addison, 222. 



Flint, Charles F., 324. 

Daniel, 222. 

Elizabeth, 237. 

George, 229, 231. 

Joseph, 244. 

Samuel, 249. 

Sarah, 229, 231, 244. 

Thomas, 233. 

William, 293. 
Fogg, Joseph, 89. 

Ralph, 308, 309, 310. 
Foot, Foote, Eliza- 
beth, 76. 

Hannah, 148. 

Joshua, 53. 

Samuel, 76, 89. 
Forrester, Capt., 6. 

Foster, Forster, , 

117, 140. 

Abraham, 33, 41. 

Caleb, 41. 

Daniel, 41. 

Ed., 27. 

Gideon, 246. 

Isaac, 41, 139, 246, 
250. 

Israel, 131, 134. 

Jacob, 41. 

John, 246. 

Jonathan, 145. 

Jonathan, jr., 163. 

Lucy, 151, 163. 

Lydia (Perkins), 
266. 

Mary, 263. 

Obadiah, 247, 248. 

Sally, 354. 

Samnel, 266. 

SamuelPerkins,266. 

William, 142, 247. 

William Philip, 247. 
Foulon, Ferdinand 
Farmer, 273. 

Margaret Anna, 273. 

Margaret (Belan- 

der), 273. 

Fowler, Albert A., 
306. 

Albert Brown, 306. 

Augustus, 306. 

Clarence, 306. 

Emily, 306. 

John, 41, 46, 48. 

Sarah Kilburn, 355. 
Fowles, Ruth, 228. 



INDEX. 



Fox, Daniel, 246. 
Francis, John, 91. 
Franklin, Benjamin, 

160. 

Freeman, James, 16. 
French, Josiah B., 

324. 
Frink, Avis Fern, 274. 

Fern, 274. 

George Kennedy, 
274. 

George Washington, 
274. 

Guernsey Kenneth, 
274. 

Lucy Howe, 274. 

Minerva (Kennedy), 

274. 

Frood, Frude, Henry, 
63. 

James, 63. 
Frost, Eben, 144. 

George Benjamin, 
272. 

John Simpson, 272. 

Lucy, 144. 

Sarah (Chesley), 

272. 
Frye, , 144. 

Henry, 144. 

Priscilla, 144. 

SamuelCharles,246. 

Susannah, 144. 
Full, Andrew, 107. 
Fuller, Dr., 91. 

Edward, 68. 

Elisabeth, 154. 

Helen E., 302. 

M. B., 302. 

Robert, 246. 

Robert Henry, 246. 

Sarah Smith, 154. 

Timothy, 154. 

William P., 802,303. 
Fulson, Laura, 166. 
Furbush, Jno., 27. 
Furnell, Elinor, 49. 

Strong, 49. 

Furnes.Firnes, David, 
318. 

La re nee, 27. 

Gage, Annie, 263. 
Gale, Gall, Ambrose, 

26, 281, 282, 288, 

820. 



Gale, Benjamin, 284. 
Edmund, 27. 
G. Howe, 259. 
Harriet Newell,270. 
Mary (Foster), 270. 
Samuel, 259. 
Samuel Appleton, 

270. 

Ganson, Abigail, 283. 
Benjamin, 233. 
John, 233. 
Lois, 233. 
Nathan, 233. 
Gardner, Gardeners, 
Gardiner, Cap- 
tain, 28. 
Joseph, 29. 
Mary, 306, 312. 
Thomas, 306, 312. 
Garland, Elizabeth 

H., 164. 
William, 165. 
Gaskin, Gaskill, Gas- 
kon, Gaskoyne, 

, 56. 

Edward, 56, 57. 
Sarah, 57. 
Gatchell, Gachell, 

Jeremiah, 27. 
Jno., jr., 27. 
Jo., 26. 
Joseph, 279. 
Gay, Frederick L., 

22. 

Hannah, 359. 
James, 359. 
Geddes, Caroline S. 

A M 174. 
James S., 174. 
John, 174. 
Rosanna, 174. 
Gedney, Gidney.Maj., 

279, 286. 
Geer, John, 188. 
George, Delia M., 268. 
Henry, 268. 
John H., 830. 
Lucy Ann (Boyn- 

ton), 268. 

Getchel, Francis, 145. 
Gibault, Captain, 9. 
Gifford, Gefford, Gif- 

fards, , 335. 

Alden I., 216. 
John, 53. 
Miriam, 239. 



Gilchrist, Amos, 143, 

247. 

Hannah (Dane), 247. 
Hannah Elizabeth, 

247. 

John, 247. 
Polly Downing, 247. 
Giles, Gyles, John, 

243, 244. 
John, jr., 243. 
Gilford, Capt., 189. 
Gilman, Moses, 62. 
Gilmore,Addison,215. 
Gleason, Jonathan, 

140. 

Godfreie, George, 26. 
Goff, Henry, 143. 
Lucy (Davis), 143. 
Mary Ann, 143. 
Goldsmith, Amanda 

Eleanor, 249. 
Benjamin, 249. 
Benjamin Franklin, 

249. 

Daniel Pollard, 249. 
EldestaCoburn,249. 
George, 246. 
Granville Wheaton, 

249. 

Jabez, 249. 
John, 246, 247, 249. 
Lucinda (Pollard), 

249. 

Rebecca King, 249. 
Sanford King, 249. 
Goodale, Ebenezer, 

240, 241. 
William, 126. 
Goodhall, Phebe, 40. 
Goodhue, Benjamin, 

111. 

Goodrich, John, 83. 
Goodridge, Joanna, 

81. 

Mary, 83. 

Goodspeed, John,334. 
Goodwin, John, jr., 

167. 

Nathl., 109. 
Robert, 281. 
Timothie, 282. 
Goss, Edward, 26. 
Gould, Betsey P., 127. 
Betsey Porter, 313. 
Caroline Elizabeth, 
154. 



INDEX. 



3G9 



Gould, Cornelius, 313. 
Daniel, 267. 
ElizaLawrence,155. 
Elizabeth Phebe, 

313. 
Hannah Rebecca, 

264. 

Henry L., 127, 128. 
Henry Lawrence, 

154, 313. 
James, 264. 
John, 118. 
Jonathan, 344. 
Joseph, 313. 
Julia Ann Howe, 

154. 

Lidia Loretta, 154. 
Lydia, 313. 
Lydia (Batchelder), 

267. 

Lydia (Porter), 154. 
Martha Hichborn, 

154. 

Martha Jane, 267. 
Moses, 240. 
Nathaniel, 127, 154, 

313. 
Eebecca (Morrill), 

264. 

Ruth, 313. 
Samuel, 126. 
Solomon, 127. 
William Henry, 154. 
Gove, C. F., 209. 
Grafton, Joseph, 123. 
Graham, John, 56. 
Graves, Greaves, Em- 
ery, 344. 
George, 171. 
Harriet, 171. 
Harvey, 171. 
Julia, 171. 
Levi, 171. 
Richard, 124. 
Sarah, 171. 
Gray, Graye, , 

336. 

Amos, 139. 
Elizabeth, 61. 
Henry, 144. 
Lydia, 144. 
Mary, 61. 
Robert, 61. 
Samuel, 105. 
Thomas, jr., 144. 



Gray, William,6, 7, 112. 

William, jr., 105. 
Greeley, Joseph, 206. 
Green, Greene, Gren, 
Caroline Caswell 
(Tweed), 272. 
Charles, 26, 28. 
Chester Williams, 

272. 

Elmira, 358. 
Nathaniel, 98. 
William Caswell, 

272. 

Greenfield, Peter, 26. 
Greenough, James, 

142. 
Greenslut, Thomas, 

52. 

Greenwood, Eliza- 
beth, 78. 

Miles, 75, 76, 78, 82. 
Griffin, Benjamin F., 

265. 

Ella F.(Knight),265. 
John, 303. 
Mary Ella, 265. 
Griswold, A. V., 8. 
Groom, Thomas, 358. 
Grosvenor, Dr., 158. 

Hacker, Isaac, 91. 
Hadlock, James, 235, 
243, 244. 

John, 243, 244. 

Rebecca, 243, 244. 

Sarah, 244. 

Haines, Haynes, Ben- 
jamin, 229, 231. 

Daniel, 229, 231. 

Jonathan, 229, 231. 

Joseph, 229, 231. 

Richard, 311. 

Sarah, 229, 231. 

Thomas, 229, 231, 
236. 

William, 229, 231, 

236, 311. 

Hakins, James, 282. 
Hale, Ednah, 166. 

Helen Maria, 268. 

Isaac, 173. 

Matthew, 268. 

Sarah (Jones), 268. 
Haley, Sarah Maria, 
355. 



Hall, Isaac, 215. 

Mary, 250. 

Samuel K., 250. 

Sarah, 261. 
Hamilton, Alexander, 

98. 

Hamlet, Caroline,263. 
Hancock, John, 191. 

Hankyn, , 178. 

Hardy, Hardee, Jo- 
seph, jr., 66. 

Philip, 27. 
Harmon, Fras., 178. 
Harndon, John, 144. 
Harris, Alphonsus S., 
133. 

Asa, 354. 

Charlotte C., 133. 

George M., 132, 133. 

Jno., 26. 

Walter L., 132, 133. 

William, 247. 

Harrison, , 179. 

Hart, Hartt, John, 
23, 26. 

Samuel, 50. 
Hartshorne, Jona- 
than, 91. 

Haseltine, Sally, 262. 
Haskel, Roger, 51. 
Hastings, Joseph, 138. 

Maria, 260. 
Hathorne, Captain, 
227. 

Anna, 312, 314. 

John, 53, 309, 310. 

William, 312, 314, 

315. 
Hathorne, see also 

Hawthorne. 

Hathorne, Mass., 115. 

Haverhill, Mass., 190. 

Hawkes, Hawks, 

Ebenezer.230,231. 

Mary T., 241. 

Thorndike P., 241. 
Hawthorne, Nathan. 

iel, 1. 

Hawthorne, see also 
Hathorne. 

Hawys, . 177. 

Haynes, see Haines. 
Hayward, James, 195. 

Nicholas. 234, 235. 

Paul, 234, 235. 



870 



INDEX. 



Hayward, Samuel, r jr., 
235 

Hazard, , 162. 

Hazlitt, , 16. 

Heath, Hannah, 229, 

231. 

John,' 229, 231. 
Heiskett, Thomas, 

282. 

Hendly, Betsey, 93. 
Hendricks, Dorothie, 

42. 

Hendry, Owen, 26. 
Henlee, Elias, 27. 
Herrick, Hereck, 
Herik,Captain,48. 
48. 
Emma Frances 

(Welch), 270. 
Emma Lois, 270. 
Henry, 51. 
Joseph, 232. 
Mary, 164. 
Samuel, 299. 
Samuel Killam, 270. 
Hewett, William, 26. 
Hibbert, Kuth, 228. 
Higginson, John, 136. 

John, jr., 66. 
Hill, George W., 151, 

152. 

Lydia, 192. 
Olive, 151, 152. 
Hills, O. M., 258. 
Hilton, Rose Alma, 
359. 

Hinckley, , 142. 

Hinnes, Heinne, , 

10. 

Robt., 28. 

Hinton, Charles Ed- 
ward, 272. 
Clara B., 272. 
Fern Leone, 272. 
Hinckley & Drury, 

346. 

Hirstt, William, 61. 
Hoare, William, 55. 
Hobbs, Hobes, Jo- 
seph, 135, 136. 
Mary, 135. 
Thomas, 309. 
William, 116-119, 
135, 136. 



Hobson, Alice Elea- 
nor, 358. 

Emily Roby, 357. 
George Henry, 358. 
H., 209. 
Sarah, 358. 

Hodges, , 16. 

Benjamin, 3, 105, 

112. 

George, 84. 
Hodgkins, Clara M., 

271. 

Eleanor F., 271. 
Harvey E., 271. 
Olive A., 271. 
Holbrook, Adin, 206. 
Holgate, Asa, 48. 

Michael, 48. 
Hollingworth, Rich- 
ard, 52. 
Holman, Captain, 256. 

Gabrill, 27. 
Holmes, Phineas, 353. 
Holt, A., 248. 
Abiah, 250. 
Abiel, 142, 144. 
Asa, 144. 
Chloe (Holt), 142. 
Cloe, 250. 
Dana, 144. 
Darius, 142. 
David, 142, 144. 
Ella, 142. 
Ephraim, 250. 
Freeman, 142. 
George Franklin, 

142. 

Hannah, 250. 
Hannah (Martin), 

144. 

James, 139. 
Joshua, 139, 250. 
Kimball, 142. 
Mary, 250. 
Mary Jane, 142. 
Nathan, 248, 250. 
Nathan Kimball, 

142. 

Peter, 144, 250. 
RobertWash i ngton, 

142. 

Sarah, 139, 144. 
Solomon, 139, 250. 
Stephen, 250. 
Timothy, 144, 250. 



Holt, Tryphena, 142. 
William, 144. 

Holyoke, , 11, 13. 

Edward Augustus, 

98, 105, 112. 
Homan, John, 282. 
Hood, William H., 

238. 

Hooper, John, 281. 
Matthew, 114. 

Hopkins, , 20, 21. 

Hore, Thomas, 26. 
Home, Benjamin, 67. 
Sarah, 67. 

Hosford, , 337. 

Hocum, 334. 
Houghton, Timothy, 

148. 

Holton, Houlton, Ben- 
jamin, 242. 
Henry, 238. 
Israel, 242. 
James, 240, 242. 
John, 238, 242, 243. 
Joseph, 225, 232, 
236, 238, 240, 242, 
243. 

Mary, 240. 
Samuel, 242. 
Sarah, 238, 240, 242, 

243. 

Hovey, Daniel, 38. 
Howard, Alice Harri- 
et, 265. 
Elizabeth( B udlong) 

265. 

Warren, 265. 
Howe, Hoo, How, 

, 33, 150. 

Corporal, 160. 
Lieut., 49. 
Aaron, 35, 145, 151, 
155, 158, 163, 173. 
Aaron Mallon, 354, 

356 

Aaron Parker, 262. 
Abbie Jane, 261. 
Abel, 149, 160, 161, 

172, 173. 
Abel Spofford, 173, 

268. 

Abelena, 158. 
Abiah, 165. 
Abiah Jane, 263. 
Abial, 146, 152. 



INDEX. 



371 



Howe, Abiel, 153, 167. 
Abigail, 37, 38, 40, 

155, 156, 172, 262, 

353. 
Abijah, 41, 145, 154, 

168, 169. 
Abraham, 33, 37,38, 

41, 43, 45-47, 145, 

149, 160, 161, 172, 

176, 271. 
Abraham, jr., 35, 

36, 38, 160. 
Abraham, 3d, 160. 
Abraham Peabody, 

172, 266. 
Achsa, 163. 
Adeline, 173. 
Alacia, 149. 
Albert, 354. 
Albianna Henriet- 
ta, 263. 
Albion, 263. 
Alfred Alden, 259. 
Alice, 43, 44, 46, 

148, 149, 167. 
Alice Edith, 356. 
Amos, 163. 
Andrew Johnson, 

272. 

Ann E., 357. 
Ann Elizabeth, 260. 
Anna, 159, 167, 172. 
Anna Caroline, 356. 
Anna Maria, 270. 
Anne, 39, 40, 153. 
Annie, 267. 
Annie Johnson,265. 
Appleton, 161. 
Arthur L., 270, 271. 
Asa, 128, 146, 149, 
154, 159, 160, 169, 
170, 172, 264, 265. 
Asa Dunning, 171. 
Asa Pingree, 266, 

271. 

Asenath, 353. 
Asibal, 147. 
Asse, 147. 
Augustus, 158. 
Aurora M., 172. 
Benjamin, 39, 40, 
43, 128, 154, 162, 
170, 257, 265. 
Benjamin Scott, 176. 



Howe, Benjamin Shel- 
don, 269. 
Benjamin Willis, 

260. 

Belinda, 167. 
Bethiah W., 261. 
Betsey, 164, 165, 

171, 353. 
Blanche, 358. 
Calvin Emery, 259, 

269. 

Calvin W., 164. 
Carleton, 270. 
Caroline, 170, 356. 
Caroline Augusta, 

263. 

Caroline Maria, 265. 
Caroline Matilda, 

260. 
Caroline Samantha, 

171. 

Carrie T., 270. 
Catharine, 150. 
Catherine, 168. 
Cecil Putnam, 258. 
Celesta E., 356,357. 
Celestia Eliza, 259. 
Celia Augusta, 258. 
Charity, 176. 
Charles, 262, 270. 
Charles Henry, 271. 
Charles K., 262. 
Charles Moses, 270. 
Charles W., 270, 

271. 

Charlotte, 165. 
Charlotte Ann, 261. 
Christopher, 153, 

154, 168, 262. 
Clara Amanda, 356. 
Clarence Eastman, 

269. 

Clarissa, 171. 
Constance, 357. 
Cora B., 358. 
Cynthia Jane, 170. 
Daniaris, 148, 149, 

155. 

Daniel, 47, 146, 150, 
153, 167, 259, 262, 
270, 271. 
Daniel, jr., 163. 
Daniel Abraham, 

266. 
Daniel W., 260, 357. 



Howe, David, 151, 152, 

168,164, 165, 259, 

260. 

David W., 260. 
David Williard,358. 
DeWitt Clinton,367. 
Deborah, 37, 38. 
Dorothy, 146. 
Ebenezer, 152, 153, 

363, 354. 
Ede, 167. 

Edith Huldah, 272. 
Ed nah, 166. 
Edward Everett, 

173,267. 
Edward Oilman, 

359. 

EdwardLeavitt,267. 
Eleanor, 149, 160, 

161. 

Eliphalet, 150. 
Elisha, 158. 
Eliza, 163. 
Eliza A., 356. 
Eliza Esther, 268, 

273. 

Eliza (Perley), 163. 
Elizabeth, 35, 37, 

38, 40, 44, 47, 148, 

149, 153, 154, 168, 

161, 162, 167, 176, 

262, 355, 359. 
Elizabeth Norton, 

261. 
Elizabeth Willis, 

260. 
Ella Augusta, 356, 

358. 

Ella Theoda, 264. 
Ellen Maria, 356. 
Elmira, 358. 
Elmira W., 356,858. 
Elsa, 166. 

Elvin Augustus, 272. 
Emeline, 170. 
Emerson, 35, 164, 

258. 

Emily, 162, 267. 
Emily Anne, 355. 
Emma A., 262. 
Enoch, 158-160, 171, 

172. 

Ensign, 160. 
Ephraim, 147. 
Erastus, 158. 



3T2 



INDEX. 



Howe, Esther, 262. 
Eunice, 146. 
Evaline, 171, 172. 
Fanny, 152. 
Farnum, 151, 152, 

166. 

Fisher, 164. 
Francena E., 357. 
Francis, 260. 
Frank M., 270, 271. 
Frank O., 358. 
Frank P., 357. 
Franklin Sumner, 

356. 

Fred W., 270, 271. 
Frederick, 168, 268. 
Frederick Augus- 
tus, 267, 271. 
Frederick Webster, 

263. 
Galen Benjamin, 

265. 

George, 155,158,170. 
George Allen, 259. 
George Alonzo, 265. 
George Calvin, 270, 

274. 
George Frederick, 

359. 

GeorgeHerrick,259. 
George W., 262. 
George Washington, 

174, 269. 
George Watter, 355, 

357. 
George Wilson, 355, 

857. 
Grace Frances, 274, 

275 
Hannah. 40, 42, 43, 

47, 145, 146, 148, 

149, 151, 153, 154, 

160, 164, 165, 167, 

170, 171, 353, 359. 
Hannah (Mellon), 

153. 
Hannah Samantha, 

169. 
Hannah Webster, 

259. 

Harriet Amelia, 176. 
Harriet Atwood, 

162. 
Harriet Augusta, 

170. 



Howe, Harriet Fran- 
cena, 355. 

HarrietFrances,261. 
Harriet K., 357. 
Harriet Simpson, 

354. 

Hazen Wheeler,261. 
Henry, 158. 
Henry Drake, 354, 

856. 

Henry Erskine, 265. 
Henry John Skin- 
ner, 264. 
Henry K., 260. 
Henry Martin, 264. 
Henry Saltonstall, 

270. 

Henry Warren, 355. 
Hephzibah, 46, 145. 
Hepsibeth, 154. 
Hezekiah, 148, 158, 

159, 171. 
Hezekiah Abbott, 

171. 

Homer, 258. 
Homer Asa, 264. 
HoraceFarnsworth, 

354, 356. 
Huldah, 158. 
Increase, 41 , 44. 
Isaac, 38, 151, 152, 

155, 165, 166, 259, 

261. 
Isaac Bridgeman, 

170, 264. 
Isaac Cady, 148, 

155. 
Isaac Redington, 

165, 260. 

Isabell Ladd, 262. 
Isaiah, 152, 167,261. 
Isaiah Johnson,356. 
Isidora Eleanor,272. 
Israel, 41, 47, 150. 
Jacob, 48, 151, 152, 

165, 260. 
Jacob, jr., 145. 
James, 33, 34, 37, 

38, 42, 43, 145, 

146, 151, 156, 164, 

165, 167, 260, 261, 

353, 354. 
James, jr., 34. 
James, sr., 35, 36, 

37. 



Howe, James Abijah, 

264. 
James Albert, 355, 

357, 359. 
James 0., 271. 
James E., 270. 
James Hamilton. 

268. 

James M., 355. 
James Madison,354, 

355. 

James Marsh, 165. 
Jared S., 261. 
Jemima, 46, 151. 
Jemima Merrill, 

168. 

Jeremiah, 147. 
Jesse, 263. 
Jesse May, 271. 
Joanna, 153. 
Joanna B., 857. 
John, 36-41, 43, 44, 

146, 147, 149, 152, 

15?,, 156, 162, 163, 

167, 173, 174, 261, 

262, 353, 359. 
John Colby, 269. 
John Dunning, 158, 

160, 172. 

John Farwell, 359. 
John Foster, 354. 
John Leavitt, 269, 

273. 

John Neal, 262. 
Jonathan, 151, 152, 

164, 259. 
Joseph, 39, 40, 43, 

44, 146-149, 151, 

153, 155-157, 162, 

163, 168, 263. 
Joseph Sidney. 263. 
Josephine Cum- 

mings, 264. 
Joshua, 162, 176. 
JosiahSanborn,354. 
Katharine B., 357. 
Katharine E., 359. 
Katherine H., 274. 
Kendall, 353. 
Keturah, 47. 
Laura Lucinda, 171. 
Lawrence Prescott, 

359. 
Leonard, 259. 



INDEX. 



373 



Howe, Leonard Bur- 
ton, 270. 
Leonard Thurston, 

355. 
Leverett Salton- 

stall, 173, 268. 
Lewis Spofford,269, 

273. 

Lily, 264. 
Lizzie, 171. 
Lizzie Frances, 271. 
Lois, 165, 166, 259. 
Lorenzo Oilman, 

354, 355. 
Lorenzo Harrison, 

355. 

Love, 41, 145. 
Lncy, 145, 149, 164, 

854. 

Lucy Ann, 161. 
Lucy Fern, 269, 274. 
Lucy Mary, 162. 
Lydia, 39, 40, 48, 

146, 147, 151, 152, 

154, 167, 168. 
Lydia Ann, 271. 
Lydia Eaton, 263. 
Lydia Jane, 262. 
Mabel Wilson, 271. 
Malverd Abijah, 

264. 

Maranda, 262. 
Margaret, 178, 261, 

265, 267, 272. 
Margaret Adeline. 

266. 

Maria Louisa, 174. 
Maria M., 357. 
Mark, 40, 41, 43, 

47, 48, 128, 145- 

147, 149, 150, 154, 

155, 163, 164, 170. 
Mark, jr., 145. 
Mark A. DeWolf, 

156. 

Marrietta Felecia, 
355. 

Martha, 37, 42, 43, 
150, 169, 171, 354. 

Martha Ann Mari- 
on, 169. 

Martha Drake, 354. 

Martha Maria, 171. 

Mary, 35, 37-40, 43, 
44, 145-147, 150, 
168, 260, 265. 



Howe, Mary Adeline, 

273. 

Mary Ann, 262, 267. 
Mary Brooks, 168. 
Mary Catherine, 

266. 

Mary Cook, 260. 
Mary Fisher, 260. 
Mary Herrick, 259. 
Mary Ida, 355. 
Mary Isabell, 259. 
Mary Jane, 263,356. 
Mary Jones, 161. 
Mary Lucy, 176. 
Mary McK., 260. 
Mary Smith, 261. 
Mehetable, 162. 
Mehitable, 174. 
Mehitable Fuller, 

354. 
Mercy, 46, 47, 150, 

168, 154. 

Merton Rives, 272. 
Mildred, 269. 
Milton Grosvenor, 

263. 

Molly, 150, 154. 
Moses, 145, 151,162, 

165, 166, 259, 270. 
Moses A., 166. 
Moses Little, 166. 
Myraette Wilhelmi- 

na, 170. 
Nancy, 353. 
Nancy Drake, 354. 
Nancy Ellen, 268. 
Nathaniel, 45, 145, 

149-151, 161, 164, 

258, 259. 
Nathaniel Leavitt, 

268. 
Nathaniel Salton- 

stall, 260, 270. 
Nehemiah, 37. 
Nellie Colburn, 265. 
Nellie Etta, 356. 
Nellie Wentworth, 

274. 

Newell, 274. 
Niles Mason, 262, 

271. 

Oda, 265. 
Oramel, 171. 
Orenda, 155. 
Orlando B., 356, 

358. 



Howe, Orlando Cut- 
ler, 172. 

Olive, 161, 166. 

Olive Angeline, 266. 

Oliver Milo, 272. 

Parker, 353. 

Pauline R., 274. 

Percy Everett, 271. 

Percy Rogers, 357, 
359. 

Perley, 46, 147-149, 
155, 158, 159, 170, 
171. 

Persis. 152, 153, 164, 

165, 167, 259, 354. 
Persis Blanchard' 

262. 
Phebe, 150, 165, 

166, 259. 

Phebe Jane, 259. 
Philemon, 145. 
Philip, 152, 167,262. 
Phineas, 153, 166, 

168, 261. 
Phineas Burkley, 

261. 

Polly, 158, 167, 172. 
Priscilla,44, 47, 150. 

162, 163, 175. 
Rachel E. f 357. 
Rebecca, 148, 156, 

354. 
Rebecca II., 356. 

358. 
Reuben Sherburn, 

264. 

RichardCrancb.,260. 
Richard Herrick, 

270. 
Richard Whittier, 

263. 

Robert, 33, 171. 
RobertHoward,265. 
Robinson, 153, 168. 
Roger B., 357. 
Rosanna, 174. 
Rose A., 359. 
Ruby F., 359. 
Ruby Foster, 354. 
Ruby Frances, 355. 
Rufus, 166, 168, 262. 
Rufus H., 166. 
Ruth, 47, 153, 168, 

258. 

Ruth Louise, 265. 
Sally, 167, 260,354. 



374 



INDEX. 



Howe, Samuel, 40, 43, 

162, 165. 
Samuel Andrews, 

271. 
Samson, 41, 44-46, 

148, 157, 158. 
Sarah, 37, 39, 43, 44, 

47, 146, 147, 149, 

150, 152-156, 159, 

160, 163, 168. 
Sarah Ann, 262. 
Sarah Dalton, 260. 
Sarah Eastman, 208, 

272. 
Sarah Elizabeth, 

166, 266, 355. 
Sarah F., 172. 
Sarah Frances, 271. 
Sarah Gale, 270. 
Sarah Helen, 261. 
Sarah K., 355. 
Sarah Sabin, 148. 
Solomon Washing- 
ton, 267. 
Sophia Bridgeman, 

169. 

Sophia Currier, 168. 
Sophia Stickney, 

162. 

Stephen, 167. 
Suel Leroy, 262. 
Susan, 259, 354. 
Susan Bradley, 270. 
Susannah, 44, 152. 
Sylvester, 355. 
T., 152. 
Tamar, 155. 
Theoda (Parks),169. 
Thomas, 153, 164, 

166, 259. 

ThomasHorace,268. 
Timothy, 146, 152, 

167. 

Timothy Fuller,154. 
Warren Newell,259. 
Waty W., 258. 
Willard Bean, 357- 

359 

Willard Peel, 173. 
William, 150, 156. 
William Appleton, 

173, 266. 
William Bartlett, 

267. 
William Dayton, 

174. 



Howe, William Gar- 
land, 260. 
William Giddings, 

354. 

William Gould, 265. 
William H., 358. 
William Henry,176. 
WilliamMesser,262. 
William Read, 158. 
William S., 261. 
William Wallace, 

268. 
Windsor Herbert, 

272. 

Wyatt M., 357. 
Zeruiah, 43. 
Howlett, Thomas, 40. 
Hoyt, Alice Louise, 

355. 

Ebenezer, 355. 
Hannah. 162. 
Louis Walter, 355. 
Stephen W., 168. 
Hudson, Richard, 27. 

Samuel, 27. 
Hugings, Roger, 229, 

231. 

Sarah, 229, 231. 
Hull, John, 277. 
Hunt, Elizabeth, 247, 

248. 

Hannah Jane, 248. 
John, 248. 
Mary Hal lard, 248. 
Paul, 248, 249. 
Hutchinson, Huchen- 
son, Huchesson, 
Huchinson, 
Hutchson, Benja- 
min, 227, 230, 232. 
Eben, 303. 
Ebenezer, 228. 
Elijah, 239. 
Elizabeth, 233. 
Joanna, 230. 
John, 293, 294, 299, 

300. 

Jonathan, 233. 
Joseph, 227,232-234, 
236, 239, 293, 294, 
299. 

Nathaniel, 230. 
Richard, 227, 233- 
236, 243, 244, 292, 
298-300, 309, 310. 
Robert, 236. 



Hutchinson, Sarah* 

299. 

William, 230. 
Huxtable, Cris, 27. 
Hyatt, Delia M., 267. 

Ingalls, Ingolls, In- 

gols, Benjamin, 

188. 
Eleazor, 281, 817, 

318, 320. 
Ingersoll, Captain, 

226. 

Ann, 236, 238, 242. 
Hannah, 228. 
John, 228, 229. 
Nathaniel, 136, 227, 

228, 230, 231, 236, 

293, 303. 
Richard, 227-229, 

231, 232, 236, 238, 

240, 242, 243. 
Samuel, 228, 229, 

231. 

Ingraham, George,73. 
Ipswich, Mass., 188. 

Jackman, Abigail, 229. 

J. M., 209. 

John, 209. 

Nicholas, 229. 
Jackson, , 203. 

Caleb, 38, 160. 

Charles, 8. 

Elizabeth, 37, 38. 

George, 320. 

Joanna, 37. 

Nicholas, 38. 

Patrick T., 193, 196, 
198, 200. 

William, 37. 
James, Benjamin, 281. 

Erasmus, 26, 278, 
280. 

Erastus, 278, 286. 

Jameson, , 141. 

Jefferson, , 19. 

Jenkins, Aaron, 132. 
Jennings, Frank, 138. 
Jenny, Charles, 358. 

Elizabeth, 358. 

Warren, 358. 
Jewett, Jewet, Isaac, 
46. 

Nehemiah, 287, 319, 
320. 



INDEX. 



375 



Jocelyn, see Josselyn. 
Johnson, Eliza A., 
356. 

Francis, 23. 

Hannah, 165. 

William, 55. 
Johnston, William,56. 
Johnstone, Carrie M., 
174. 

Effie, 174. 

Joseph, 174. 

Rosa M., 174. 
Jones, Adelaide Fran- 
ces, 169. 

Albert Warren, 140. 

Alfred Warren, 140. 

Almira, 247. 

Ann Eliza, 140. 

Dolly (Nourse), 247. 

Dorcas J., 140. 

Eben, 139, 144. 

Ella, 140. 

Emily, 140. 

Ephraim, 28, 29. 

Etta, 140. 

Francis, 140. 

HerbertBridgeman, 
170. 

Jewett, 139. 

John, 161. 

Maria Jane, 140. 

Marion Sophia, 170. 

Mary E., 140. 

Mary Mellen, 161. 

Minnebaha, 169. 

Olive, 161. 

Rosetta, 140. 

Eoyce, 169. 

Sally, 247. 

Sally (Babbitt), 169. 

Susan (Lovejoy), 
139. 

Theophilus, 247. 

Walter Howe, 169. 

William, 140, 169. 
Josselyn, Jocelyn,Ed- 
win, 222. 

John, 113. 
Judd, David, 244. 

Mary, 245. 

Rebecca. 245. 

Kelley, Mary, 152,153. 
Michael H., 354. 
Rachel A., 354. 



Kelley, Warren Mich- 
ael, 354. 

William Somes,152. 
Kendall, Mrs., 249. 

Keniston, , 291. 

Allen, 306. 
Dorothy, 306. 
Kenney, Keney, Kin- 
ney, Eunice, 146. 
George W.,261. 
Henry, 120, 121,293, 

294. 
Thomas, 119, 120, 

121. 
Kennison, Joseph L., 

241. 

Lillian G., 241. 
Kern, Theodore, 138. 
Kerrick, C. H., 209. 
Keysur, Elizur, 57. 
Killam, Allie Ger- 
trude, 241. 
Kimball, Daniel, 46, 

48, 250. 

Edmund, 76, 175. 
Edward D M 304. 
Huldah, 297. 
Susan S., 304. 
Thomas, 297. 
William Porter,175. 
King, Daniel, 237, 282. 
E. R., 216. 
Francis, 60. 
John G., 297. 
John Glen, 92. 
Rebecca (Park- 
hurst), 249. 
Samuel, 72, 249. 
Kingsbury, Kingsber- 
ry, Kingsbery, 
Margaret,229,231. 
Thomas, 229, 231. 
Kingsley, Martha,170. 
Kinney, Jonathan, 

261. 

Kinsman, Aaron, 151. 
Charlotte, 151. 
Clarissa, 151. 
Hannah, 151. 
Jane, 151. 
Jane (Farley), 151. 
Joanna (Brown), 

151. 

Louisa H., 260. 
Mark, 151. 



Kinsman, Moses, jr., 

151. 

Nathaniel, 151. 
Pelatiah, 151. 
Sarah, 44, 
Kitchen, John, 63. 

Kneeland, , 33. 

John, 141. 

Knight, Knights, Al- 
len, 154. 

Benjamin, 126, 127. 
Edmund Andros, 

279. 

Elizabeth, 127, 228. 
Jacob, 281. 
John, sr., 236, 238, 

240, 242, 243. 
Jonathan, 124, 125, 

127. 
Joseph, 118, 126, 

127. 

Philip, 117, 124-127. 
Rebecca, 127. 
Robert, 27, 277. 
Ruth, 124, 125. 

Knowles, Knolls, , 

33. 

J. A., 321. 

Knowlton, Joseph, 42. 
Knox, , 33. 

Lake, William, 180. 
Lambert, Lambarte, 
Lambord, Cap- 
tain, 82. 

,78. 

Abiah, 61, 62. 

Abigail, 50, 83, 89. 

Ann, 54, 68, 73, 74. 

Ann Elizabeth, 92. 

Benjamin, 65, 67,72. 

Betsy, 93, 187. 

Christopher, 81. 

Daniel, 58, 61, 62, 
67. 

Ebenezer, 58, 62, 66, 
67. 

Elizabeth, 49, 50, 
54, 57, 61, 62, 65, 
68, 71, 72, 74, 78, 
84, 92, 187. 

Eunice, 67, 70, 72, 
74. 

Ezekiel, 58, 63, 65, 
67. 



376 



INDEX. 



Lambert, Francis, 53. 
Goody, 51. 
Hannah, 58, 65, 70, 

71, 79, 85. 
Harry, 81, 92. 
Henry, 81, 92, 93. 
Henry L., 89. 
Hester, 53, 54. 
Jehoaden, 67, 73. 
John, 53-60, 62, 63, 

68,72, 81, 86, 91, 
92. 
Jonathan, 58, 62-65, 

68, 71, 72, 75-77, 

80, 81, 89, 90, 92. 
Jonathan Lee, 92. 
Joseph, 61, 62, 64, 

65, 68, 70-72, 75- 
78, 80-83, 85, 86. 

Laura, 89. 

Lydia, 68, 71, 72, 78, 

81, 82, 84, 85. 
Margaret, 58, 63-65, 

67, 68, 71, 72, 75. 
Marie, 73. 
Mary, 49, 54, 58, 61, 

62, 66, 67, 69, 71, 

72, 74-81, 83, 89, 
91, 92, 187. 

Mary (Foot), 86. 
Michael, 49, 50, 53. 
Moses, 49, 50. 
Nat, 81, 92. 
Nathaniel, 81. 
Patience, 70, 74. 
Preserved, 62, 65, 

69, 187. 
Priscilla, 71, 78, 79, 

80, 85, 86, 89. 
Rachel, 61, 62. 
Rebecca, 50. 
Richard, 50-53, 81. 
Ruth, 83, 93. 
Samuel, 58, 61-66, 

68-70, 77, 81, 83, 

86, 89, 92. 
Sarah, 50-52, 54, 55, 

58, 61, 63, 67, 69, 

70, 71, 73, 77, 79, 
81-83. 

Seeth, 67, 73. 
Thomas, 72. 
William, 54. 

Lamson, , 322. 

Rev., 222. 



Lane, Samuel, 233. 
Langley, Betsey, 354. 

Charles, 354. 
Lapish, Abiab, 164. 

Robert, 164. 
Lathrop, Louthrop, 
Bethiah, 123, 311. 

Thomas, 123, 184, 

308, 310, 311. 
Lattemer, Latemore, 
Latterme, Chris- 
topher, 26. 

John, 28, 32. 
Lawrence, Alby P., 
302. 

Abel, 112, 302. 

Abigail, 302. 

Caroline W., 302. 

Charles, 302. 

Edward B., 302. 

Eliza C., 302. 

Elizabeth C., 302. 

Mary N., 302. 

Mary W., 302. 
Lawrence, Mass., 193. 

Leach, Leech, , 

292. 

Betsy, 91. 

Charles, 91. 

Elizabeth, 91. 

Rich., 292, 293. 

Roger, jr., 93. 

Samuel, 26. 
Leavens, Jacob, 155. 
Leavitt, Hannah East- 
man, 268. 

Lydia Sanborn, 267. 

Mary Jane, 268. 

Nancy (Colby), 267. 

Nancy (Eastman), 
268, 269. 

Nathaniel, 267, 268. 

Lechford, , 177. 

Lee, Lea, , 81. 

J. Henry, 177. 

John, 307. 

Mary, 80. 

Richard, 80. 

Samuel, 251, 256. 

Susanna, 80. 
Legg, Leg, Legge, 
, 276. 

Captain, 287. 

John, 23, 82, t51,186, 
278, 280, 282, 286, 
320. 



Legg, John, jr., 26. 
Leonard, Henry, 97. 

James, 97. 

Leslie, Less lie, 
George, 34, 41, 
150. 
Lewis, Horace, 139. 

Thomas, 199. 
Lightfoot, William, 

27. 

Lincoln, Levi, 195. 
Little, Ebenezer, 192. 
Littlefield, Emily,140. 
Livingston, William, 

324. 
Locke, George, 57. 

James, 344. 
Loomis, John, 56. 
Lord, Alice, 95, 96. 

Anne, 96. 

Clara L., 271. 

Dorothy, 96. 

Elizabeth, 94-96. 

Ellen, 94, 95. 

Joan, 95, 96. 

John, 96. 

Richard, 94, 96. 

Robert, 96, 291. 

Thomas, 94-96. 

William, 51, 96. 
Loring, J. F., 198. 
Loud, Harriet, 161. 
Louthrop, see Lath- 
rop. 
Love joy, , 140. 

Ballard, 246. 

Delina Ann, 140. 

Eben, 139, 140, 246. 

P., 209. 

Francis A., 140. 

Francis Worth, 140. 

Henry Jackson, 140. 

Jeremiah, 139. 

John, 139. 

Joseph, 144. 

Joshua, 247, 248. 

Josiah, 140, 247. 

Phebe Russell, 140. 
Lowe, Dolly (Wood), 
267. 

Lucinda (Warren), 
267. 

Mary Ann, 267. 

Solomon, 267. 

Solomon Warren, 
267. 



INDEX. 



37: 



Lowe, William, 267. 
Lowell, Ebenezer,188. 
Lowell, Mass., 193. 
Lumas, William, 258. 
Lunt, Daniel, 229. 

Mary, 229. 
Luscornbe, William, 

57. 
Lyford, Lucinda, 143. 

Oliver, 143. 
Lyman, George W., 

198. 

Lynch, Delina, 140. 
Lynde, Benjamin, jr., 
72. 

Joseph, 283. 
Lynn, Mass., 97. 
Lyon, John, 23. 

McCallam, Fanny,140. 

McDonald, , 92. 

Elizabeth, 92. 
Mace, Charlotte, 166. 

William, 166. 
McGregor, Alexan- 
der, 169. 

Cora Evelyn, 169. 
Martha Elizabeth, 

169. 

Thomas J., 169. 
McLain, Arche., 160. 
McLaughlin, C. Har- 
old, 358. 
Harry B., 358. 
McQueston, C. F. G., 

209. 
J., 209. 

Mallon, Dorcas, 355. 
Hannah, 353. 
Hannah (Parker), 

353. 

James, 353. 
Mann, Sarah (Buffing- 
ton), 144. 
Manning, Benjamin, 

64, 70. 

Elizabeth, 70. 
Hannah, 64, 70. 
Jacob, 70. 
Margaret, 70. 
Mary, 70. 
Richard, 70. 
Mansfield, Andrew, 

186. 
Henry K., 133. 



Mansfield, Nathaniel, 

261. 
Marblehead, Mass., 

22, 181, 276, 317. 
Marks, Henry S., 358. 
Marriot, Robert, 94, 

96. 
Marston, Benjamin, 

66. 

David, 324. 
John, 279, 280. 
Martin, Martain, Alice 

B., 237. 
Alvira T., 237. 
Caroline M., 237. 
George B., 237. 
John, 119. 
Michael, 122. 
Peter, 246. 
Solomon, 299. 
Walter T., 237. 

Mason, , 120. 

Abigail, 64, 187. 
Abigail (Greenslit), 

69. 

C. R., 261. 
Daniel, 140. 
Emeline, 140. 
Jonathan, 187. 
Margaret, 64. 
Martha, 140. 
Preserved, 64. 
Samuel, 69, 187. 
Thomas, 64, 69-71, 

187. 
Massey, Frank Add- 

son, 169. 
Jeffrie, 135, 136. 
Lucretia D., 124. 
Stephen D., 124. 
Masters, Nathaniel, 
55. 

Mather, , 60. 

Mathews, see Mat- 
thews. 

Matignon, Frances, 4. 

Matthews, Mathews, 

Angetina (Kil- 

lam), 271. 

Eliza Greenough, 

142. 

Ellen Augusta, 271. 
John, 67, 73. 
Sarah, 67, 73. 
Thatcher, 142. 



Matthews, Thomas, 

271. 

Maule, Thomas,56,58. 
Mavericke, , 183. 

Moses, 22, 23, 26,32, 
186. 

Samuel, 26. 
Mead, Angeline, 170. 

Cornelius Singer- 
land, 269. 

Ida Sarah, 269. 

Sarah (Peterson), 

269. 

Meek, Meeck, Rich- 
ard, 26. 
Mellen, Charles S., 

338. 

Meret, Samuel, 26. 
Meriot, Nicholas, 26. 
Merrike, James, 26. 
Merrill, Abigail, 261. 

Benjamin, 114, 164. 

Elsa, 165, 166. 

Enoch, 168. 

Esther, 261. 

Eunice, 164. 

Jemima, 168. 

Jonathan, 153. 

Phinehas D., 164. 

Rebecka, 153. 

William, 165, 166. 
Merritt, see Meret. 
Messer, Frank Ilib- 
bard, 272. 

Huldah, 168. 
Metcalf, Sarah, 162. 
Mighil), Thomas, 151. 
Miskell, George, 28. 
Mitchell, Mitchel, A., 
209. 

Abraham, 209. 

George, 28. 
Middleboro, Mass., 97. 
Middleton.Mass., 115. 
Montgomery, Mesech, 
267. 

Sarah, 267. 

Moody, , 60. 

Moore, Mooar, , 

32, 139. 

Eliza, 142. 

Elizabeth, 141. 

Joshua, 142. 

Stephen C., 141. 

Tim., 247. 



378 



INDEX. 



Moreland, Abigail, 
262. 

James M., 262. 

William, 262. 
Morey, Edwin, 838. 
Morgan, , 246. 

George B., 313, 314. 

John, 178. 

Joseph, 55. 

Sam., 26. 

Morrison, Abraham 
L., 354. 

Francena E., 357. 

Joseph, 241. 

Park Herbert, 354. 

Sally H., 241. 

Wyatt Warren, 354. 
Morse, Jedediah, 17, 

20, 21. 
Monntfort, John, 73. 

Joseph, 73. 

Mary (Cock), 73. 
Munjoy, Walter, 27. 
Murphy, David, 81. 

Patrick, 248. 
Murray, John, 18. 
Myers & Bliss, 347. 

Neal, Neale, Eliza 
Ann, 262. 

Jonathan, 61. 

Joseph, 62. 
Necke, Christover,27. 
Needham, Sarah, 301. 
Newcornb, Andrew, 
138. 

Charles, 138. 

Rebecca, 138. 

Theodora, 138. 

Thomas, 138. 
Newell, Rev., 109,110. 

Thomas, 46. 
Newhall, Benjamin, 

124. 
Newman, Dr. John, 

188. 
Nichols, , 122. 

Abel, 304. 

Andrew, 121, 122, 
304. 

Benjamin, 131. 

Constant, 131. 

Ebenezer, 117, 130. 

Edward, 131. 

Eunice, 304. 

Ezra, 154. 



Nichols, George, jr., 

302. 

Ichabod, 105, 112. 
James, 131. 
John, 116, 117, 121, 
123, 129-131, 134, 
137, 294, 304. 
John Holyoke, 265. 
Lydia, 130, 131, 134. 
Sally, 304. 
Samuel, 131, 134. 
Stephen, 131. 
Thomas, 130. 
William, 129-131, 
133, 134, 137, 294, 
312. 
Nicholson, Joseph,27. 

Sam., 26. 
Nicklas, John, 116. 

William, 116. 
Nik, William, 26. 
Noerte, John, 26. 

Norcross, , 321, 

322. 

Norden, Nordon, Na- 
thaniel, 280, 281, 
284, 286, 287, 320. 
Norman, John, 282. 
Richard, 26, 28, 32, 

186. 
Norris, Jno., 105. 

Norton, , 33. 

Jacob, 260. 
John, 33. 

Mary Cranch, 260. 
William, 33. 
Noyes, Elizabeth, 141. 
Jacob, 141. 
Parker, 141. 
Rebecca, 141. 
Wadley, 138. 
Nurse, Nourse, Eliza- 
beth (Ingalls), 
247, 248. 
Francis H., 824. 
John, 247, 248. 
John Ingalls, 247. 
Mary, 247. 
Rebecca, 307. 

Oakes, Caleb, 297. 
John, 282. 
Mehitable, 297. 
Nancy, 297. 
Richard, 67. 
William, 297. 



Ober, Obear, Abigail, 
83. 

Israel, 83. 

Odell, James, 91, 92. 
Olmstead, Sarah, 166. 
Orne, Benjamin, 67. 

Margaret, 67. 

Sajrah, 67. 

Timothy, 75. 

Timothy, jr., 72. 
Osborne, Alexander, 

301. 
Osgood, Aaron, 139. 

Jacob, 138, 139. 

John, 105-107, 112, 
113. 

Joshua, 139. 

Lydia, 138. 

Samuel, 138. 
Otis, James, 191. 

Page, Paige, , 153. 

Abraham, 311. 

C. E., 209. 

Charles, 304. 

Charles E., 335, 344. 

Elvira, 262. 

Rufus L., 262. 

Sarah P., 304. 
Paine, Thomas, 16. 
Palfray, Richard, 82. 
Palmer,Hannah (Kim- 
ball), 270. 

John, 270. 

Lucy Kimball, 269. 

Thomas, 243. 
Parker, Joseph, 47. 

Priscilla (Carlton), 
353. 

Timothy, 353. 
Parris, Samuel, 232, 

235, 236, 310. 
Parsons, Parson, Na- 
than, 167. 

Philip, 281. 
Paul, N. G., 208. 
Paw, William, 26. 
Payson, Edward, 150. 

Eliphalet, 150. 

Mary, 150. 

Peabody, Pabody, 
, 117. 

Benjamin, 118, 154. 

Benjamin Augus- 
tus, 155. 

Bimsley, 131. 



INDEX. 



379 



Peabody,Charles, 155. 

Charles Horace,155. 

Daniel, 132, 133. 

Fannie, 141. 

Frances, 118, 291. 

Francis, 44, 135,136. 

George Howe, 155. 

Hannah(Clark),154, 

Hannah Prescott, 
155. 

Hephzibah, 154. 

Isaac, 136. 

Joseph, 105, 106, 
112, 114, 155. 

Mary, 46. 

Mary Maria, 155. 

Sally Upton, 155. 

Sarah, 41. 

Sarah Jane, 155. 

William, 141. 
Peach, , 278. 

John, 23, 26, 32, 
278. 

John, jr., 23, 26. 

William, 27, 281. 
Pearson, Sarah Jane, 

271. 
Pease, John, 227, 230, 

232, 299. 

Pecket, Neckles, 26. 
Pedder, Henry, 96. 

Thomas, 96. 
Pederick, Pedericke, 
Elizabeth, 74. 

John, 27, 281. 

Lydia, 74. 

Samuel, 74. 

William, 74. 
Peele, J. Willard,324. 

Jonathan, 187. 

Margaret, 187. 
Peirce, Elizabetb.,301. 

Elizabeth Phillips, 
301. 

George, 301. 

James, jr., 73. 

Nathan, 105, 112, 
301. 

Rebecca, 301. 

Sarah Rebecca, 301. 

Susan Clark, 301. 

William Putnam, 

301. 

Peirson, Abby L., 
302. 



Peirson, Abel L., 302. 

Harriet, 302. 
Pell, Abigail, 359. 
Pendexter, Reverend, 

161. 

Pennie, Thomas, 281. 
Perkins, Benjamin, 

302. 

Benjamin, jr., 302. 
Elisha, 118. 
Eliza Ann, 170. 
Eliza(Edwards),170. 
Emeline, 170. 
Eunice, 153. 
Francis B., 302. 
George E., 302. 
Hannah, 152, 153. 
Hephzibah, 47. 
Jane L., 302. 
Joseph, 313. 
Lucy (Wilkins),170. 
Mary L., 302. 
Moses, 170. 
Nathaniel, 152, 153. 
Nathaniel B., 324. 
Nehemiah, 170. 
Thomas, 40. 
Thomas Handyside, 

195. 

Zaccheus, 40. 
Perley, Abigail Jew- 

ett (Cressey), 272. 
Albert E., 273. 
Alice, 45. 
Alice Cressey, 272, 

275. 

Alice (Howe), 155. 
Allen, 48, 163, 173. 
David Eri, 272. 
Dorothy Dudley, 

273. 

E. Horace, 273. 
Eliza Howe, 35. 
Esther (Burpee), 

163. 
Ethel Howe, 272, 

274. 

Humphrey C., 153. 
Jacob, 163. 
John, 34, 41, 45. 
John Munroe, 272. 
Joseph, 173. 
Lydia Maria (Pear- 
son), 273. 



Perley, Lyman Howe* 
163, 173. 

M. P., 171. 

M. V. B., 33, 145, 
257, 273. 

Margaret, 47. 

Mary, 163. 

Mary (Hewlett), 45. 

R. Olive, 273. 

Reuben N., 273. 

Robert R., 273. 

Samuel, 41, 47. 

Sidney, 99, 115, 225, 
289. 

Stephen, 41. 

Thomas, 44. 

Timothy, 36, 41. 

William Perkins, 

163. 
Perry, Prof., 148, 159. 

Benjamin, 132. 

Edward A., 132. 

Harriet, 132. 

Henry, 132. 

Horatio, 132. 

James, 132, 133. 

James H., 241. 

Jonathan, 128, 132. 
Pester, William, 50, 

179, 300, 304. 
Pettigrew, Hannah, 
143. 

Mark, 143. 

Martha, 143. 
Pettingell, Pettengel, 
Pettengill, Pet- 
tingal, Pettingall, 
Pettlngill, Benja- 
min, 229. 

Eliza Randall, 142. 

Hannah, 229. 

Humphrey, 229. 

Matthew, 229. 

Merrill, 167. 

Olive Jane, 142. 

Richard, 229. 

Samuel, 229. 

William, 142. 
Phelps, Chandler,249. 

Hannah, 138. 

Herman, 249. 

J. Sydney, 246. 

William, 29, 32. 
Phillips, Elizabeth, 
71, 301. 



380 



INDEX. 



Phillips, Henry, 78. 
Perley, 155. 
S. 0., 321, 322, 324. 
Stephen, 301, 302. 
Stephen C., 218,219, 

222. 

Phinney, Salmon, 237. 
Phips, William, 317, 

319. 
Pickering, Picker- 

inge, , 9, 10. 

John, 50. 
Timothy, 109. 
Pickman, William, 

114. 
Piedmont, Barbara 

Howe, 358. 
Dorothy Langley, 

358. 

HarlanTrimble,358. 
John Hobson, 358. 
Pierce, Albert Howe, 

172. 

Benjamin, 210. 
Franklin, 216. 
Jerath, 105, 106,112. 
Lewis, 172. 
Pierson, Abel L., jr., 

302. 
Pike, George, 27. 

Robert, 42. 
Pingree, Daniel, 266. 
David, 219. 
Elizabeth (Bixby), 

266. 

Olive Jane, 266. 
Piper, Joseph, 344. 
Pitman, Pittman, 

John, 27, 288. 
Mark, 26. 
Thomas, 26, 27, 82, 

278. 

Plowman, Daniel, 59. 
Plunkett, Elizabeth, 

250. 

Poat, William, 27. 
Pope, Elijah, jr., 237. 
Enos, 70. 
Samuel, 230, 231. 
Pool, Caleb, 47. 

Wellington, 48. 
Poor, Poore, Alfred, 

138, 246. 
Amos B., 262. 
Daniel, 144. 



Poor, Deborah, 144. 

J. C., 202. 
Porter, , 292, 295. 

Dr., 250. 

Allen, 131, 132. 

Benjamin, 114, 296, 
297, 300, 304, 305, 
311, 312. 

Daniel, 181. 

Eleazor, 315. 

Elijah, 120. 

Helen, 114. 

Ira, 132. 

Israel, 296, 297, 304, 
305. 

James, 297. 

John, 225, 289, 291- 
294, 296, 297, 300, 
304, 306, 311, 312. 

Jonathan, 313. 

Joseph, 296,312-315. 

Mary, 313. 

Pamela, 132. 

Polly, 313. 

Priscilla, 313. 

Samuel, 41, 315,316. 

Samuel, jr., 315. 
Potter, Aaron, 255. 

Anthony, 48. 

Samuel, 41, 48. 

Thomas, 41. 
Prescott, George, 258. 

George K., 258. 

Peter, 124, 125. 

William, 105. 
Preston, Preson, Pros- 
son, , 37. 

Andrew, 71,79. 

Charles Putnam, 
123 

Clarissa P., 123. 

Elizabeth, 79. 

John, 79, 123, 229, 
231. 

Joseph Augustus, 
123. 

Levi, 123. 

Mary, 71, 79, 229, 
231. 

Randall, 79. 

Samuel, 79. 

Sarah, 36, 37. 

Susannah, 79. 

William, 79, 123. 
Price, John, 286. 



Price, Walter, 55, 128, 

129, 135, 136. 
Priest, Emman, 26. 

Priestly, , 16. 

Prince, Princ, David, 

301. 

George, 301. 
James, 300, 301,304, 

310. 

John, 301. 
Jonathan, 48, 64. 
Joseph, 300, 304. 
Robert, 120, 293, 

300, 304. 
Sarah, 300. 
Timothy, 304. 
Prout, Ebenezer, 282- 

285. 

Prust, Jno., 26. 
Punchard, John, 91. 
Punchion, Punshin, 

William, 29, 32. 
Purbeck, William, 91. 
Putnam, Aaron, 122. 
Anna, 305. 
Benjamin, 298, 809, 

310. 

Calvin, 314. 
Daniel, 313. 
David, 308. 
Edmund, 305. 
Edward, 117, 128, 

135. 

Eleazor, 122, 128. 
Elias, 805, 306. 
Elizabeth, 234, 244, 

298, 310. 
Eunice, 305. 
Ezekiel, 242. 
Gideon, 244,290,299. 
Henry, 122. 
Hiram, 243. 
Israel, 244, 305. 
James, 309. 
Jethro, 242, 809. 
Jo., 293. 

John, 22, 120, 122- 
125, 135, 235, 294, 
298, 303, 308-311. 
John, jr., 123, 237, 

308. 
Jonathan, 295, 307, 

308, 310, 312. 
Jonathan, jr., 308. 
Joseph, 232,303,310. 



INDEX. 



381 



Patnam, Joseph, 3d, 

122, 123. 
Lydia, 263. 
Mary, 242. 
Mary Ann, 242. 
Nathaniel, 128, 129, 

227, 232, 234, 235, 

292, 298, 308, 310. 
Philemon, 243. 
Phineas, 122. 
Polly, 305, 306. 
Samuel, 89, 105,106, 

112, 122, 244, 299. 
Sarah, 313. 
Solomon, 244. 
Stephen, 122. 
Tarrant, 244, 298, 

316. 
Thomas, 118, 119, 

128, 129, 135, 225, 

232, 292, 293, 298, 

303, 312. 

Quelch, , 60. 

Quimby, Albert, 122. 

Ramsey, James P., 

337. 
Randall, Christopher, 

jr., 71. 
Lydia, 71. 
Ruth (Babbidge), 

71. 
Rantoul, Mary, 79. 

Robert, 79. 
Rawson, Edward, 29- 

31, 181, 183-186. 
Raynham, Mass., 97. 
Rea, Raies, Ray, 
Archelaus, 113, 
114. 

Bartholomew, 240. 
Daniel, 240, 291, 

305, 309. 
John, 240, 249. 
Joshua, 305. 
Samuel, 243. 
Zerubabel, 305. 
Read, Reed, Red, Ben- 
jamin, 281. 
David, 98. 
Edward, 26. 
John, 281. 
Nathan, 98-100, 104- 
112, 114. 



Read, Reuben, 98. 

Richard, 27. 

Samuel, 281. 
Redington, Betsey, 
164. 

Daniel, 137. 
Reith, Richard, 284. 
Remick, Joseph, 188. 
Rice, Eliza Foster, 85. 

George, 85. 

Hannah, 71, 78. 

Henry, 85. 

Hy., 85. 

Maria, 86. 

Mary Ann Augusta, 
86. 

Matthias, 85. 

Priscilla Lambert, 
86. 

William, 85. 
Rice, Bradley &, 347. 
Richards, Richard, 
Henery, 32. 

Richard, 135. 

William, 136. 
Richardson, Ann 

Jane, 265. 

Daniel, 265. 

Olive Berry (Per- 
kins), 265. 

Olive Maria, 265. 
Ridder, John B., 303. 
Ridding, John, 281. 
Ridley, Amos, 247. 
Rix, James, 66. 

Thomas, 308. 
Roads, John, 27. 

Thomas, 281. 
Roberts, Daniel C., 
238. 

Elizabeth R., 238. 

Ephraim, 42, 43. 

John, 27. 

Mary, 42. 

Patience, 42. 

Robert, 42. 

Susanna, 42. 

Timothy, 26. 
Robie, Solon S., 216. 

Robinson, , 201, 

202. 

John, 134, 135. 

Thomas, 117, 118. 

William, 134. 
Rogers, , 263. 



Rogers, Ezekiel, 49. 
Rachel Elizabeth, 

357. 

Samuel, 255. 
Rollins, David, 165. 
Romain, Capt., 87. 
Roots, Rootes, Josiah, 

120, 121. 

Thomas, 120, 121. 
236. 

Ropes, , 80. 

Abraham, 80. 
Anna, 68. 
Anne (Green), 68. 
Benjamin, 68. 
Daniel, 80. 
Elizabeth, 80. 
Elizabeth (Pur- 
chase), 80. 
George, 80. 
Joseph, 80. 
Mary, 80. 
Priscilla, 71, 80. 
Ruth, 80. 
Salle, 80. 

Sarah, 80, 228, 231. 
Rose, Thomas, 27. 
Ross, Jabez, 145. 

James, 235. 
Rothwell, George, 143. 
Rowland, John, 282. 

Richard, 26, 32. 
Rowles, Routes, Rob, 

26, 181. 

Rowley Village (Box- 
ford), Mass., 97. 

Ruck, , 293. 

John, 56, 61, 63, 66, 

124-126. 
Thomas, 56, 57, 66, 

124-126. 
Rnmmery, Thomas, 

32. 

Russell, Rousell, Rus- 
ell, George, 141, 
248, 250. 
Henrie, 26. 
Oliver, 141. 
Samuell, 26, 32, 161, 

282, 288. 
Thomas, 28, 29. 
Ruston, Rustin, 

Charles Bradley, 
275. 
Frederick, 275. 



382 



INDEX. 



Ruston, How, 275. 

Mary Wilkins, 275. 

Mary S. (Wilkins), 

275. 
Ryder, Charles, 176. 

Frank, 176. 

James H., 176. 

Salem, Mass., 5-7,224, 

289. 
Salem Tillage, Mass., 

115, 225. 
Saltonstall, Leverett, 

83. 

Sarah, 260. 
Sam, Thomas, 23. 
Sampson, Mich., 178. 
Sanborn, Lucinda, 

353. 

Sandee, Samuel, 27. 
Sanders, Philemon, 

73. 

Sandin, Arthur, 23. 
Sandir, Ephraim, 282. 
Sargent, Rev., 142. 
Saunders, Charlotte, 

142. 

Richard, 141, 142. 
Sally (Kneeland), 

141. 

Thomas, 78. 
Saville, Jesse, 152. 
Mary, 152. 
Mary (Harraden), 

353. 

Sarah, 353. 
Thomas, 152, 353. 
Sawyer, Annette, 169. 
Eames Earle, 273. 
Esther Howe, 273. 
Evie Sophia, 169. 
George Edward, 

272. 

George W., 169. 
Hannah, 261. 
Isaac Howe, 169. 
James Bridgeman, 

169, 272. 
James D., 268. 
John Herbert, 169. 
Marjorie Jean, 273. 
Martha, 169. 
Polly (Killam), 169. 
Robert Hamilton, 
273. 



Sawyer, Sarah, 141. 
Sophia Bridgeman 

(Howe), 272. 
Susan Maria, 169. 
Susie M., 268. 
Thomas, 169, 272. 
Thomas Horace, 

273. 

Thomas Killam, 169. 
Scarlett, Mrs., 308. 
Schneider.Robert W., 

271. 

Luzon, 271. 
Schubarth, Eleanor 

Howe, 356. 
George Louis, 356. 
Howard Linnaeus, 

356. 

Lorenzo, 356. 
Louis, 356. 
Scollay, John, 76. 
Scott, Charles, 170. 
Charles Howe, 170. 
George Washing- 
ton, 170. 

Harold Mead, 170. 
Sarah (Widener), 

170. 

Seabury, Bishop, 3. 
Searle, Charles P., 

314. 

Sears, Betsey, 307. 
Mary Ann, 307. 
Seaver, Benjamin F., 

90, 91. 
Seeley, Catherine S., 

(Cowles), 274. 
Frances Hooker, 

274. 

Raymond Hoyt,274. 
Setchel, Francis, 48. 

Jeremiah, 48. 
Severy, Edward, 28, 

29, 38. 
Sewall, Judge, 36, 68, 

60, 98. 
Stephen, 61, 136, 

278, 286. 
Shaplee, Shapligh, 

David, 28, 29. 
Sharp, Samuel, 296. 
Shatswell,see Setchel. 
Shattuck,Charles,246. 
Elizabeth, 248. 
Joseph, 248. 



Shaw, James, 354. 

Shearman, , 224. 

Sheldon, Sheldon, 
John, 307. 

Mary H., 132. 

Sarah, 147. 

Warren, 132. 
Shepard, Eleazor,235. 

John, 150, 235. 

Michael, 302. 

William, 235. 
Sherburne, Henry C., 

337. 
Ships, 

Adventure (ship), 
86. 

Almira (ship), 87. 

Anna (brig), 91. 

Betsy & Polly 
(schooner), 78. 

Betty (sloop), 66. 

Castor (ship), 162. 

Cleopatra's Barge 
(yacht), 84. 

Cornwallis (armed 
ship), 87. 

Edwin (brig), 82. 

Fox (schooner), 80. 

Good Hope (brigan- 
tine), 82. 

Helen (ship), 82. 

Hope (brigantine), 
80. 

Jack (ship), 75. 

John (schooner), 91. 

Laurel (brig), 80. 

Lord Cornwallis 
(ship of war), 75. 

Margaret (ship), 87. 

Maria (schooner), 
82. 

Maria Theresa 

(brig), 75. 

Mary & Allen (brig- 
antine), 91. 

Mary & Sarah (brig- 
antine), 75. 

Olive Branch (brig- 
antine). 80. 

Olivebranch (bark), 
61. 

Otter (brigantine), 
75. 

Pitt (frigate), 88. 



INDEX. 



383 



Ships, 

Polly & Betsey, 

(schooner), 76,82. 

Providence (sloop), 

75. 

Reward (brig), 88. 
Reward (brigan- 

tine), 87. 

Roboreus (ship),91. 
Ruth (schooner), 80. 
Sea Flower(schoon- 

er), 75. 
Sea Otter (brigan- 

tine), 82. 
Spring Bird (ship), 

91. 
Success (schooner), 

91. 
Thomas (schooner), 

91. 
Union (schooner), 

82. 
William & Sarah 

(ketch), 181. 
Shirley, William, 48. 
Short, J. E., 202. 
Sibley, Sibly, John, 

276, 277. 

Samuel, 227, 232. 
Silsbee, N., 321. 

Skelton, , 298. 

Samuel, 296. 
Skerry, Skerey, Fran- 
cis, 52. 
Skinner, Richard,188, 

317. 

Sleeper, John, 262. 
Ruth, 262. 
Stephen, 262. 
Sly, Amos Abbott, 

259. 

Elizabeth A., 259. 
Frances Maria 

(Stocker), 269. 
Small, Rachel, 74. 

Samuel, 240. 
Smith, Smyth, Mrs., 

188. 

Caroline, 356. 
Francis E., 114. 
George, 144. 
Hannah, 46. 
Isaac, 48. 
Isabel, 356. 
Israel, 235. 



Smith, James, 26, 
150, 226, 245, 250, 
299, 320. 

James, jr., 234, 235. 

Jane (Howe), 150. 

Jeremiah, 46. 

John, 27, 46, 48. 

Joseph, 39. 

Joshua, 356. 

Mary, 89. 

Nathaniel, 245. 

Peter, 73, 250. 

Samuel, 145. 

Thomas, 27, 32,289, 
312. 

William, 61. 
Solomon, Mrs., 14. 
Souden, Thomas, 26. 
Southard, George, 84. 
Spaulding, Spalden, 
Spalding, , 3. 

Rev., 139. 

Amos, 139. 

Elizabeth, 229, 231. 

Francis, 174. 

George P., 216. 

Isaac, 229, 231. 

S. V., 139. 

Sidney, 324. 

Simeon, 174. 

Willard, 168. 
Sparhawk, Nathaniel, 

76. 

Spellman, Charlotte, 
142. 

Georgianna, 142. 

Helen (Moore), 142. 

James, 142. 

Marcus Morton, 142. 

Mary, 142. 

Lillie Frances, 142. 

Susan Rebecca, 142. 

Thirza Brown, 142. 
Spofford, Abel, 160. 

Eleanor, 160. 
Sprague, Joseph, 105, 

112. 

Spring, Jacob E., 303. 
Squier, Mary, 69. 
Stacey, Stasea, Stas- 
sy, Stasie, Henry, 
27. 

John, 27, 288. 

Nimphas, 47. 

William, 240. 



Stark, George, 209, 

218, 332, 334. 
Starr, Comfort, 46. 
Stearns, Onslow, 206. 

William, 105, 112. 
Stephenson, George, 
198. 

Robert, 200. 
Stevens, Stephens, 
Stevenes, Calvin, 
202. 

Charles P., 355. 

John, 27. 

Mary, 146. 

Nellie Mattie, 355. 

William, 26, 32. 

Wyatt Mallon, 355. 
Steward, William, 72. 
Stickey, Cale, 118. 
Stickney, Benjamin, 
162. 

Elizabeth, 162. 

Joseph. 162. 

Mehetabel, 162. 

Moses, 162. 

Sarah (Pike), 162. 

Susan, 162. 
Stileman, Elias, 227, 

236, 298. 
Stiles, David, 132. 

Dora, 171. 

Ebenezer, 43. 

Ella, 171. 

Ezra, 156. 

Frances, 171. 

James, 171. 

John, 146. 

Rawson, 171. 

Rebecca, 132. 
Stilson, Vincen, 27. 

Vincen, jr., 27. 
Stone, Abiatba, 250. 

Belle C., 171. 

Clarissa, 141. 

Don C., 171. 

Ella Martha, 171. 

Emily, 141. 

George, 141. 

Hubbard, 141. 

James R., 171. 

John, 141. 

Julia C., 171. 

Laura Annette, 171. 

Margaret, 141. 

Merrill Howe, 171. 



384 



INDEX. 



Stone, Phebe (Holt), 
250. 

Stephen, 250. 

Timothy D. P., 250. 
Story, Judge, 9. 
Stratton, , 143. 

Ann, 180. 

Anne, 177. 

Anthony, 177, 180. 

Augustine, 177. 

Benjamin, 179. 

Dorothy, 179, 180. 

Edmund, 177. 

Elizabeth, 177-180. 

George, 177. 

John, 177-179, 300. 

Joseph, 179, 180. 

Katherine, 178. 

Margaret, 177, 178. 

Mary, 178-180. 

Philip, 178. 

Robert, 178. 

Sarah, 179. 

Thomas, 178. 

William, 179. 
Sumner, Eben T., 215. 
Swan, Mrs., 138. 

Elizabeth(Farnum), 
146. 

Robert, 146. 

Sylvannus, 124. 
Swasey, Swazey, An- 
nie, 66. 

Elizabeth, 57. 

John, 135, 136. 

Joseph, 57. 

Joseph W., 335. 

Mary, 57. 

Samuel, 44, 57, 62, 

66, 68, 72. 

Swetland,William, 58. 
Swett, Joseph, 281. 
Swift, Rear Admiral, 
356. 

Madeline, 356. 
Swinnerton, , 121. 

Hannah, 119. 

Job, 119. 

John, 119. 
Switchell, Abraham. 

29. 
Sylvester, Benjamin 

F., 114. 
Herbert, 114. 
John, 114. 



Symonds, , 34. 

Henry, 139. 
John, 50. 
Mary Jane, 167. 
Samuel, 136. 

Taft, Herbert C., 200, 

201, 337. 
Talbot, Thomas, 335, 

336. 
Taner, Tayner, 

Thomas, 26, 27. 
Tapley, Gilbert, 241. 

Gilbert A., 237. 
Tarring, John, 282. 
Taunton, Mass., 97. 
Terry, Alfred H., 148. 

Thatcher, , 17. 

Thayer, Emery, 344. 

John, 4. 

Thissell, Jeffrey, 27. 
Thoman, Ann Eliza- 
beth (Dorr), 275. 
Jacob R., 275. 
Jean Perley, 275. 
Margaret, 275. 
William Frederick, 

275. 

Thomas, Eunice, 74. 
Jethro, 74. 
Margit,74. 
Othniel, 74. 
Philip, 74. 
Richard, 74. 
Rouland, 74. 
Thorndike, Thorn- 
dick, Thorndicke, 

Thornedike, , 

80, 227. 

John, 180, 225, 227. 
Paul, 55. 
Thurley, Francis, 39, 

40. 

Thurlow, Anne, 40. 
Anne (Morse), 40. 
Bethia, 40. 
Francis, 40. 
Hannah, 40. 
John, 40. 
Lydia, 40. 
Martha, 40. 
Mary, 40. 
Sarah, 40. 

Thurston, Elsie 

(Leavitt), 247. 



Thurston, John, 247. 
Mary Susan, 247. 
Nathaniel, 247. 
Phebe Augusta,247. 
Sarah Elizabeth, 

247. 

Ticknor, George, 10. 
Tilton, Edward C., 

273 

Helen H., 273. 
Tirrell,Susannah,150. 
Todd, Jeremiah Mig- 

hill. 266. 
JoannaHowe(Chap- 

man), 266. 
Thomas Mighill, 

266. 
Topsfield, Mass., 97, 

115. 
Torry, Torrey, S. H., 

155. 
William, 184, 186, 

277. 
Towne,Town,Townes 

Towns, , 291. 

Daniel, 141. 
Edmon, 118. 
Edmund, 39. 
George, 132. 
Jacob, 116. 
Jacob, jr., 136. 
John, 136. 
Joseph, 116,117,137. 
Mary (Browning), 

39. 

Sarah, 39. 
William, 116. 
Townsend, Elizabeth, 

85. 

George, 85. 
Joseph, 85. 
Lydia, 71, 78, 85. 
Mary, 85. 
Moses, 82-85. 
Penn, 286. 
Priscilla, 85. 
William, 85. 
Trask, Alfred, 297. 
Ebenezer P., 170. 
Osman, 189. 
William, 300, 303, 

304. 

Treadwell, Jacob,188. 
Treby, Trebe, John, 
27. 



INDEX. 



385 



Trevet, Henrey, 26. 

Richard, 320. 
Trow, John, 138. 
Trumbull, W., 9, 344. 
Tuck, John, 249. 

John, 3d, 246. 

William, 247, 248. 
Tucker, Alice, 169. 

Alma (Rice), 169. 

Andrew, 27, 281, 
282. 

Ann, 169. 

Frank, 169. 

Jane Sophia, 169. 

Malverd Clarence, 
169. 

Samuel, 169. 

William Rice, 169. 
Turner, , 13. 

Abby Howe, 175. 

Abigail (Ripley), 
175. 

George, 175. 

Hattie Almira, 175. 

John, 61, 255. 

Joseph, 175. 

Mary, 255. 

Robert, 89. 
Twiss, Jonathan, 76. 
Twitchell, Harold H., 

271. 
Tyler, Benjamin, 69. 

John, 168. 

Joseph, 69. 

Joshua, 64, 68, 69. 

Margaret, 64, 69. 

Melissa(Usher),274. 

Moses, 68. 

Prudence (Blake), 
68. 

Ruth Howe, 274. 

Selden Williams, 
274. 

Warren Perley, 274. 

Waty Williams, 257. 

William, 257. 

Williams, 274. 

Underwood, Eliza- 
beth, 77. 

George, 77. 

George M., 303. 

John, 77, 79. 
Upham, Henry, 206. 
Upton, Rebecca, 301. 

Samuel, 301. 



Van der Wee, John 

B M 303. 
Very, Vary, Verry, 

Andrew, 132. 

Thomas, 184, 185. 

Vinall, George Alfred 

Winslow, 272. 
Harriette Bennett 

(Meriam), 272. 

James Fuller, 272. 

Vincent. William, 49, 

50. 
Vose, Prof., 257. 

Wadsworth, Benja- 
min, 232. 
Wainwright, John, 

188. 
Waite, Wait, Aaron, 

105, 112. 
J. K., 355. 
Wakefield, Horace P., 

219. 
Walcott, Benjamin, 

228. 
Deliverance, 228, 

230. 

Ebenezer, 228. 
Jonathan, 228. 
Thomas, 228. 
William, 228. 
Waldron, Weldron, 

John, 26, 288. 
Wallace, Abigail, 143. 

Samuel, 143. 
Wallack, Harriet, 84. 
Waller, Thomas, 62. 
Walton, Henry, 49. 
Josiah, 26. 
Nathan, 26, 286. 
Nathaniel, 278, 281. 
Samuel, 26. 
William, 22,28,281. 

Ward, , 336. 

Capt., 282. 
Joshua, 105, 112. 
Miles, jr., 68. 
Samuel, 26, 32, 186, 

278. 
Wardwell, John, 140. 

Sarah, 140. 
Warner, John, 64, 77. 
Mary, 64. 
Mercy, 47. 

Warren, Abigail, 229, 
231. 



Warren, Jacob, 229, 

231. 

Joseph, 138. 
Manson, 156. 
Washington, George, 

7,12. 
Waterman, Richard, 

308. 

Waters, Lydia, 99. 
Watts, Watt, Wattes, 

, 182. 

James, 27, 28. 
John, 27. 
Webb, Daniel, 52. 

Priscilla, 84. 
Webster,Hannah,164. 
Nancy Maria, 144. 
Peter, 144. 
Ruth (Hesseltine), 

164. 

Thomas, 164. 
Weir, James L. f 357. 

Sarah M., 357. 
Welch, Laura Jane, 

266. 

Louisa Jane (Kim- 
ball), 266. 
William, 266. 
Welcome, Wellcome, 

Betsey, 84. 
Elizabeth, 78. 
Mary, 84. 
Sarah, 84. 
Stephen, 84. 
Thomas, 84. 
Weldron, see Waldron. 
Wellman, Adam, 81. 
Rebecca, 81. 
Samuel K., 174, 175. 

Wells, Welles, , 9. 

Sarah Jane, 174. 
Wentworth, Andrew, 

267. 

Everett L., 238. 
Lydia (Dearborn), 

267. 

Mary E., 267. 
West, Nathaniel, 13. 
Thomas, 276, 277. 
Weston, Francis, 227, 

230. 
Weymouth, Thomas, 

29. 
Wharton, Eliza, 157. 

Wheeler, , 248. 

Tryphena, 261. 



386 



INDEX. 



Whipple, Capt., 48. 

Joseph, 299. 

Mary, 44. 

Matthew, 299. 

Mercy, 299. 

Sarah, 299. 

White, Alden Eaton, 
265. 

Alden Perley, 265. 

Elias, 26. 

Elizabeth, 78. 

Georgie Virginia 
(Steadham), 264. 

Henry, 75. 

Homer Heaton, 264. 

Jessie, 264. 

John, 76, 78. 

Leonard, 259. 

Margaret, 71. 

Mary, 76, 78. 

Mary Ann, 259. 

Mary (Dalton), 259. 

Sarah, 164. 

William, 75. 
Whiteheare, Abra- 
ham, 23. 
Whiteheare, see also 

Whittier. 

Whitehouse, Abigail, 
261. 

Joseph, 261. 

Sarah, 261. 

Whitfleld, Tobias, 27. 
Whitman, Elizabeth, 
156, 157. 

Elnathan, 156. 

N. L., 209. 
Whittier, Abiah, 263. 

Ebenezer, 165. 

Lois Anna, 165, 166. 

Moses Howe, 165. 

Nathaniel, 165, 166. 

Persis, 164. 

Persis Howe, 165, 

166. 
Whittier, see also 

Whiteheare. 
Widger, Sarah, 150. 
Wiett, Elias, 56. 



Wiggins, , 140. 

Wigglesworth, Caro- 
line Ednah, 166. 

Sarah, 166. 

William, 166. 
Wilds, John, 118. 
Wilkins, Abner, 144. 

Betty, 74. 

Catherine, 263. 

Cyrus, 154. 

David, 239. 

Elias, 263. 

Frederick A., 239. 

George A., 239. 

Henry A., 263. 

James, 154. 

Joel, 307. 

Laura A., 239. 

Lydia, 74, 146. 

Mary, 74, 263. 

Rebecca, 263. 

Reuben, 239. 

Samuel, 74. 

Sarah, 74. 

Solomon, 74, 239. 

Zadoc, 307. 
Wilkinson.Smith, 158. 
Willard, Simon, 56,57. 
Williams, Ebenezer, 
70. 

George, 166. 

Isaac Frye, 153. 

John, 70. 

John, jr., 87, 88. 

John S., 297. 

Joseph, 191. 

Mary, 70. 

Mehitable O., 297. 

Roger, 227. 

Sarah(Manning),70. 

Williards, , 202. 

Willis, Elizabeth B., 
260. 

Henry, 260. 
Wilson, Aaron Noyes, 
140. 

Burilla Esther, 140. 

Daniel, 354. 

David, 354. 



Wilson, Dorcas B., 140 

Elmira, 354. 

Foster, 140. 

Hannah, 354. 

Jennie, 140. 

Jonathan, 354. 

Joseph Thompson, 
140. 

Joshua, 44. 

Minnie, 140. 

Page W., 140. 

Phebe A., 140. 

Polly, 167. 

Rebecca (Wyatt), 
354. 

Samuel Elliott, 356. 

Sarah Emeline, 140. 

Stephen Albert, 140. 
Winslow, John, 201. 

John B., 218, 334. 
Winter, Edw., 27. 

Winthrop, , 34,36. 

Withington, Lothrop, 

94, 96. 

Walcott, John, 32. 
Woodbridge, Benja- 
min, 66. 

D., 113. 
Woodkind, Lydia, 80. 

Samuel, 80, 82. 
Woodman, Julia R., 

357. 

Woods, Wood, H. E., 
209. 

Richard, 27. 

Thomas, 43. 

William, 26,282,284. 

William, jr., 27. 
Woodwell, Samuel,61. 
Worcester, Dr., 92. 
Worthen, David, 262. 
Wyatt, George, 119. 
Wyman, Elizabeth, 
237. 

Isaac C., 237. 

Young, Thomas, 344. 
Younglove, John, 46. 




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